The Morning Report — 8/ 21 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. As we briefly touched upon on the latest episode of the podcast linked here as well as in the sidebar and the popular platforms listed at the bottom of this post, there are many things that I'm grateful for in President Trump's second term and unlike Trump 1.0 the overwhelming majority of his staffing picks in cabinet and other key positions have been outstanding. It does make me feel positive insofar as our bench for future presidential elections in '28 and beyond.
his most stellar pick much to the surprise of many has been Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. The institution of a reverse domino effect in the Caribbean and Latin America in turning formerly what were thought of as permanent Socialist/Communist kleptocratic tyrannies into or at the very least taking their first steps into being free and prosperous societies and American allies has been one of the most significant foreign policy accomplishments in decades. The groundwork for this success was laid when President Ronald Reagan brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union which was the chief financier and sponsor of Latin American communist expansion and so without billions of rubles flowing in it was only a matter of time before these banana republic tyrants would follow suit. Although the political will to bring them down was also necessary and in the case of Venezuela, a little military action and legitimate cassus belli as was the case with the Maduro/Chavez regimes' massive narco-trafficking operations posing a grave threat to our safety and security.
But of course, the last remaining domino and symbol of communist failure, tyranny and misery that has yet to fall is Cuba. And so after 66 years it certainly appears as if Castroite communist Cuba may actually at long last be free or at least have a better than even chance of being free again.
Q: What did Communists use to light the night with before candles? A: Electricity.That is the kind of joke that survives because it is simple enough to tell in a bar, and true enough to sting.
In Havana these days, the joke has acquired an uglier second life.Fidel Castro would have turned 100 on August 13. The government marked the occasion with the familiar apparatus of revolutionary remembrance, and, increasingly, candles. Not birthday candles, but the kind a family keeps in the kitchen for when the electricity disappears again.
Without oil from Venezuela and Iran flowing in, Cuba can no longer export violence, terrorism and communism throughout the region and the globe, nor keep its own abused populace fed and fueled. That said, the government is one of the most effective and repressive police states on the planet so overcoming that as it has always been is the big challenge, just as it is in Iran and Red China, all of which have citizenry that are not pleased with their overlords.
Back to Marco Rubio, as a refugee from Castro's Cuba, the irony of him being our Secretary of State and a potential successor to President Trump himself should Cuba be liberated with him at the helm either in Foggy Bottom or perhaps seated at the Resolute Desk itself is too delicious to contemplate.
Considering the rise of the Democrat Socialites here in the US of A these days, their heads exploding as the statues and banners of the Castros are smashed and burned as Lenin's were in Russia when Communism fell is equally too delicious a prospect. No wonder they are/were in Cuba to celebrate Fidel as well as do their best to thwart President Trump and bolster Communism in Latin America.
But ¡Viva Rubio! who continues the fight regardless.
It seems that Marco Rubio has been pretty busy this week, and he's largely focused on eradicating communism, crime, and drug trafficking from the Western Hemisphere, which is exactly where I like him. Today, the Department of State is designating nine entities and three individuals to further the Trump Administration’s comprehensive push to end the Cuban regime’s malign activities, both in Cuba and across our hemisphere. This action targets the leadership of the U.S.-designated Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and designates nine Cuban entities supporting the regime.These designations build on the Department’s July 20 report Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, which summarizes the Cuban regime’s decades-long use of brigades, such as the one coordinated by the designated ICAP earlier this month, to advance Cuban interests at the expense of the United States.
.. .ICAP is the organization Fidel Castro began in 1960 to build global "friendship" and "solidarity" and maintain relationships with foreign activist groups. In reality, it's a way to spread communist propaganda. According to the State Department, "it claims to have more than 2,000 solidarity organizations across over 150 countries [and] serves as the main organizing hub of Cuba’s ideological network." Think Code Pink and the like. Additionally, "it coordinates research, educational, and cultural exchanges between American and Cuban institutions, builds relationships between American political movements and Cuban officials, and harnesses its global reach to draw leftwing activists, intellectuals, students, influencers and politicians to Cuba from across the world."
The UN is outraged over events in Cuba. Not at the political repression by the Communist regime, the detention of over 1,200 political prisoners, the arrests of protesters, and the government-backed prostitution of children to foreign tourists, but at the U.S. sanctions which have kept foreign tourists from coming by to molest little kids and spend money.in Cuba.The Communist regime in Havana is at its weakest in history and may be about to topple so the regime, the UN and Congress Commies have begun trying to fake a ‘Gaza-style’ crisis in Cuba. How is Cuba like Gaza? They’re both loser terrorist states lying furiously to play the victim.
And who better to certify that Cuba is Gaza with fewer mosques and more burritos.
The “silent Gaza” talking point had previously been promoted by four radical leftist members of Congress, Rep. Mark Pocan, Rep. Maxine Dexter, Rep Teresa Leger-Fernndez and Rep. Delia Catalina-Ramrez, who, despite the supposed “collapse of infrastructure” and “fuel shortages” that UN human rights experts were complaining about, were able to fly in and tour Cuba.
“I think Marco Rubio is making this personal and not professional,” Rep. Pocan whined, implying that the son of a Cuban refugee should really not take the dictatorship that destroyed his homeland personally. Rep. Pocan, who had spent much of the last few years defending Hamas-run Gaza from Israeli attacks on the Islamic group, claimed Cuba was a “silent Gaza.”
. . . How is Cuba like Gaza? They’re both loser terrorist states lying furiously to play the victim.. . Rep. Pocan and the rest of the delegation met with Cuban dictator Miguel Daz-Canel, not with the political prisoners imprisoned by the Communist dictatorship they had come to support. If they really cared about the ‘Cuban people’, they would have consented to meet with the families of political prisoners, as actual human rights activists were asking them to do.
Back in America, Rep. Pocan complained that “now they’re calling us Communists. Like, they’ve lost any credibility. They clearly haven’t taken a high school or even a junior high civics class recently, because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.”
I'll leave you with the bitterest of all ironies in that we may very well liberate the world from Communism while at the same time America becomes a Communist hellhole itself. God-forbid.
And with that I bid you all to have a great weekend,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
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Daily Tech News 21 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- "Whistleblower" Arturo Béjar leads testimony in landmark trial against Meta. (NPR)
"At the end of the day, it was the company culture that Mark had created that made it so that it was practically impossible to deliver features that addressed the wellbeing and safety issues that we've been talking about," he said.
Well, that sounds serious. What wellbeing and safety issues are we talking about?
Grooming? Sex trafficking? Drugs?But he said efforts to introduce or change features to effectively address those risks were difficult to implement. Instead, Béjar testified, at almost every turn the company chose policies that boosted usership and revenue over safety. Safety was "not a meaningful priority," he said.
Yes, but what safety? What are the actual concerns here?He called features like video autoplay, "like" counters and infinite scroll "inherently unsafe for teenagers."
This is why Meta is facing a fine of $1.4 trillion.
Likes.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 20, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Thursday Night Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Great Smoky Mountains, from the top of Clingmans Dome
@BernabePhoto
Watering otters (the evil kind).
Frogs give a "seriously?!" look as the other eats a worm each wanted.
Birds aren't real and are also scary.
Caught fish has driving will to survive.
Grandma orca merks great white shark.
This bear, obviously out of control, had decided to join a pack of wolves.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"Unhinged New Yorker" arrested for threatening to "put a bullet into" US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
An unhinged Long Island man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to travel to Washington, DC, to "put a bullet" in US Attorney Jeanine Pirro's head.Daniel Kretsinger, of Hauppauge, New York, posted two vile and menacing videos to X on June 30, threatening violence against Pirro and further suggesting he may also attempt to assassinate President Trump, according to a criminal complaint filed earlier this month in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
"Because you're such a lying despicable piece of s--t," Kretsinger allegedly said in a terrifying video replying to an X post from Pirro's account, "I'm specifically targeting you when I come to Washington, D.C., and put a bullet directly between your eyes c--t."
Kretsinger, who was shirtless and appeared enraged in the video, then warned: "And if Trump keeps up his bulls--t I may kill the president too."
In a second video posted minutes later, Kretsinger allegedly doubled down on his threat to kill the DC US attorney.
"I'm gonna come to DC very f--kin soon sweetheart and I'm gonna put a bullet in your f--kin head," the crazed man said, according to the complaint. "I love you, you evil lying dirt bag thieving f--king b--h!"
I posted pictures of that smokin'-hot ISIS whore for the men earlier, so it's only fair that I treat the ladies to a photo of this Very Eligible Bachelor Hottie.
M'dude looks like Beaker's psychopathic brother.
Having a head with only two of the three spatial dimensions is always a panty-dropper for the gals.
Update: Dubya calls him "Beaker's Tweaker Brother."
"Parents" are suing a surrogate mother for refusing to abort a baby they've decided they don't want any longer.
The biological parents of the child birthed by surrogate mother McKenna West are suing her more than $100,000 for keeping the baby rather than abort it at their request, according to a report.Nasheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed filed a countersuit against West, a 28-year-old nurse from Alaska, weeks before she gave birth in Texas to their baby, who was born with a serious and rare heart defect, TMZ reported.
They agreed to pay West $60,000 to carry their child -- with an abortion clause that allowed them to terminate the pregnancy if there were issues with the fetus, according to the lawsuit.
At around 20 weeks, the unborn child was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a life-threatening medical condition -- but West refused their request to abort it, and instead traveled to Texas, where she would be recognized as the birth mother under state law.
The baby was born on Aug. 12. West named him Gabriel, but the biological parents insist his name is Rumi.
Gilkar and Ahmed are asking a judge to award them more than $100,000 in damages from McKenna for breaking the deal plus unspecified damages for her alleged "malicious, outrageous conduct."
West had two previous pregnancies and was well aware of the journey, according to the lawsuit.
The intended parents denied they ever threatened to force McKenna to abort the baby.
West's decision to keep the baby has ignited a national discussion on abortion and surrogacy -- and has involved courts and officials in three states.
Gilkar and Ahmed "haven't given [West] anything" since she declined to terminate the pregnancy, Lincoln Wilson, an attorney for West, told The Post.
Pete Hegseth has upset the infinitely upsettable:
Chris Plante Show @ChrisPlanteShowPete Hegseth says "At the Department of War we do Training, not Trannies!"
"Colorblind, Gender Neutral, Merit-Based, that's it, we want the best! And anybody with half a brain knows that's Common Sense! I guess Common Sense isn't all that common in Washington"
Jake "For the Troops" Tapper demands a firing:
TAPPER: "Calling transgender trannies is obviously a SLUR they don't like! Treat people with dignity."
"Tranny" is not a slur. Let's be precise here: "Tranny" is a shortened version of "transgender." We use shortened versions of words all the time. They're not slurs.
What the various Grievance Groups always demand is that we refer to them with pre-approved language that shows the highest levels of respect. Like a British nobleman might insist on being called "Lord Dwalish." But just calling him "Dwalish" isn't a slur -- it's just refusing to call him by his preferred full-dignity protocol title.
This is exactly like the bullshit of having to say "African Americans" instead of "blacks." "Blacks" is not a slur either. Is it as dignified and high-fallutin' as the nearly-a-noble-title "African Americans"? No, but it's not a slur either, and I'm not being racist by saying "No thank you, I will use the one-syllable term rather than the six-syllable Aristocratic Protocol term you're demanding I use.
Otherwise I will insist, in turn, of only being called "A Man of Western European Descent." That's my idea of Full Racial Dignity.
"Tranny" is not a slur and never was. It is simply not as Formal and Lordly as the preferred terms are.
And I gotta tell you, we're all really sick to death of constantly having New Duties of Respect for the Higher Classes imposed on us. I do not recognize you as a Higher Class -- and don't push me to explain further than that -- so I will not indulge you by always using your full, preferred Aristocratic Protocol terms.
And Fuck Jake Tapper and his huge Honking-Goose Nose.
Who's Director of White House Personnel Dan Scavino talking about?
Dan Scavino @Scavino47When you get fired for doing a spectacularly shitty job at an agency, with your badge deactivated, building access revoked, and the full "you're dead to us" package--or when you get passed over for Ambassadorships, Boards, or Commissions--because there are candidates who are actually far more qualified than you, please resist the urge to sprint to every media outlet that will platform your lying bull shit, and then falsely attack the people in the Presidential Personnel Office who are out here serving President Trump, the Administration, and the American people each and every day--Just take the L, and move on, LOSER🤡
Thank you for your attention to this matter! 🤗🇺🇸🦅
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35-Year-Old Woman, Who I Assume Is an AWFUL, Pledges Alliagance to ISIS, Changes Name to "Aisha Saif," Thanks Allah for 9/11 and Then Plots to Blow Up New York State Capitol Building
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Jessica Bowie, aka "Aisha Saif," buying parts
for her bomb, wearing a National Security Threat costume
FBI arrests woman who allegedly plotted ISIS-linked attack on New York state Capitol building
Federal authorities say Jessica Bowie spent weeks surveilling the New York State Capitol and preparing an ISIS-inspired bombing aimed at killing state senators.New York Governor Kathy Hochul holds a news briefing following the arrest of a suspect in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired plot to detonate a bomb at the New York State Capitol in Albany.
A New York woman plotted to bomb the New York State Capitol and kill state senators inside, repeatedly surveilling the building and buying materials for an explosive device before the FBI arrested her, according to a criminal complaint reviewed by Fox News Digital Thursday.
Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, is charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS. The FBI says she pledged allegiance to the terror group, discussed disguising a bomb in a DoorDash delivery bag and wanted to carry out the attack when state senators were meeting.
She converted to Islam about five years ago and began going by the name "Aisha Saif." The affidavit also said that on May 28, 2026, Bowie, using the username "nusaybahsaif" on a social media platform, and told another user in Arabic: "Praise be to Allah for September 11th."
Here is "Aisha Saif" surveilling the Capitol building, wearing a niqab, which is totally not a security threat, Islamophobes:
At a news conference Thursday afternoon, FBI officials said Bowie's alleged plans extended beyond an attack on the state Capitol and included ambitions to carry out additional violence after fleeing the country."She didn't just want to kill lawmakers. She wanted a complete disruption of our government," said Craig Tremaroli, special agent in charge of the FBI's Albany field office.
Tremaroli said Bowie allegedly planned to leave the country after bombing the Capitol and later return to "do more," including an attack in Times Square on New Year's Eve. She also spoke of attacking the White House and the president, he said.
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The alleged plot unfolded over about a month as Bowie communicated with an FBI source posing as an ISIS facilitator, according to the affidavit. Beginning in mid-July, she told the source she wanted help making explosives and identified the Capitol as her target, saying she hoped to damage the building and kill lawmakers.
Bowie allegedly began scouting the Capitol in Albany soon afterward.
Investigators said she walked around the building on roughly five separate occasions between July 21 and Aug. 9, taking photographs and studying the surrounding area and security.
In one exchange, she told the FBI source she would make a point of having picnics near the Capitol and drinking coffee nearby so she could observe the building.
She allegedly told the source she wanted to destroy as much of the Capitol as possible and kill senators while they were meeting. She also discussed putting the device in a bag that would make her look like a food-delivery worker.
On Aug. 5, investigators say, Bowie went to a Home Depot in Rensselaer using $200 provided by one of the confidential sources and bought materials she believed would be used to build the bomb, including a large container of nails.
The next day, Bowie delivered DoorDash bags that she said could be used to conceal the device, according to the complaint.
On August 19, Bowie met again with the confidential sources and paid $150 for what she believed was a handgun, magazine and ammunition, investigators say. She was also shown an explosive device purportedly made from the materials she had purchased. Both the firearm and explosive device were inert.
She planned to escape to, get this, Syria after the attack.
So by all means let's keep allowing Syrian "refugees" into our country.
More from Newsweek:
Several social media accounts linked to Bowie posted messages indicating support for terrorism between May and July, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday."Praise be to Allah for September 11th," an account linked to Bowie allegedly posted on May 28.
An account tied to Bowie also allegedly indicated intentions to "poison these infidels," the complaint states.
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Bowie later conducted surveillance of the Capitol roughly five times between July 21 and August 9 and sent dozens of images of the building to an FBI informant, the complaint states.
"I want to destroy as much of the building as possible and kill the senators while they are meeting," Bowie allegedly wrote on July 29, adding that she sought to impact the "American system."
Using $200 supplied by an informant, Bowie allegedly purchased materials to build an explosive device at a Home Depot on August 5, including nails, electrical tape, a 9-volt battery and acetone, according to the complaint.
"I hope the nails are big enough ... because the nails work as shrapnel, right?" Bowie allegedly told FBI informants upon returning from the hardware store.The informants then met Bowie on Wednesday and gave her an inert explosive device and handgun with instructions on how to detonate the bomb, according to the complaint. During the meeting, Bowie allegedly said she learned the Capitol building contained as many as 200 occupants and hoped to kill at least half of those inside.
"Bowie also told [an informant] that she went from a little girl waving an American flag after 9/11 to now having stickers of the falling towers," the complaint reads.
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"There's no helping me, you guys know enough, there's no helping me," Bowie allegedly told FBI investigators once in custody. "I'm ... going to prison for the rest of my life."
So, I've been delaying posting this because I'm thinking what you're all thinking: This social-media-addicted femcel psychopath must be really hot, right?
Authorities are still on the lookout for her chin.
I'm not sure that's actually her, but some people are linking it and claiming it's "Aisha Saif."
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Google's "AI Guardrails" Prioritize User Safety... So Long As They're Minorities
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Okay, well if you feel threatened, I guess you should look out for your safety.
Unless the person you find threatening is black, in which case you should be ashamed and check yourself, Racist.
Now if you're alone with a Christian, that is cause for alarm and you should "trust your instincts" and call the police.
But if you feel unsafe being alone with a Muslim, you should suppress your instincts, which are Racist, and just take your chances, Islamophobe. There is no reason to ever feel unsafe around a Muslim, ever.
If you feel unsafe being alone with a "terf" -- a slur aimed at women who believe that women are women and men are not -- you have every reason to worry.
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New UK PM Andy Burnham Is Taking Migrant Rape Seriously. He's Distributing a Pamphlet Telling Migrants They're Not Allowed to Rape (Or Have Sex With Children)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Um, do they speak English? Will they even be able to read this?
UK Home Office guide tells asylum seekers not to rape, harass women or make kissing noises
The nine-page booklet covers gender equality, domestic abuse and consent for those seeking refuge from other countries
A guide published by Britain's Home Office reminds asylum seekers not to rape women or sexually harass people, while noting that women are allowed to "earn their own money" and "make their own decisions about their lives."The nine-page document is among the resources provided to asylum seekers seeking refuge, though it appears to target mostly men.
The guidance is meant to foster an understanding of expected behaviors for those arriving from other countries. Aside from earning a living, women are allowed to attend school, choose who they marry, travel freely and generally make their own decisions.
To be honest, after witnessing mentally ill women this past week, I'm not so sure that part about "making their own decisions" will survive the decade.
"Women do not need permission from a husband, father, brother, or any other man to do any of these things," the guide states.Sections of the booklet cover gender equality, domestic abuse, sex and consent, respect in public, getting help and living in the U.K.
The section on domestic abuse warns of arrest and prison time for committing physical or emotional abuse against a partner.
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In public, one must not direct sexual comments at people, even if they think it's appropriate, follow someone or block their path to refrain from whistling or making kissing noises at someone, it states.
A section on consent adds that both people must consent to sex without threat or pressure and that anyone can change their mind at any time.
"If you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape. Rape is a serious crime in the U.K. You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim," the document states.
Anyone under the age of 16 is considered a child and cannot legally consent to sex, according to the guidance.Support hotline numbers for victims of sexual and domestic abuse are provided at the end of each section and at the back of the booklet.
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"Instead of trying to train these mainly young, male illegal immigrants to behave in a civilized way towards women, they should be deported," Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said.
Below, some actual text from the How Not to Rape Children guide to Cultural Enrichers.
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FBI Seizes Electronic Devices from Eric Swalwell's Home, As Part of Investigation Into Alleged Sexual Assaults
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This guy.
And if it just so happens they discover information about his choice to accept sketchy donations from Chinese government agents, that's how it goes.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_2h
BREAKING: Per sources familiar to me & colleague @davidspunt, as part of an ongoing federal probe, the FBI seized former Congressman Eric Swalwell's electronics at his home in DC on Sunday. Nobody was home.
We are also told the FBI seized his electronics from him at San Francisco airport (SFO) on Saturday.
Swalwell was not detained or placed under arrest.
We are told this probe is in relation to the sexual misconduct allegations against Swalwell.
FBI is not commenting.
@FoxNews has reached out to Swalwell's attorney for comment.
Swalwell resigned from Congress in April after reporting from CNN and the San Francisco Chronicle detailed allegations of sexual misconduct.The Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department opened criminal investigations into Swalwell in the wake of the reporting. The raids this weekend are part of a federal investigation connected to the claims of sexual assault, the sources told CNN.
Three women who have spoken publicly about sexual misconduct allegations against Swalwell also told CNN they spoke with the FBI.
This story was updated to reflect that three women say they have been contacted by the FBI.
Boy lawfare was sure fun.... until it wasn't, huh?
I hope they also turn up information about Rep. Gomez and Reuben Gallego, Swalwell's fellow "Cool Club Clique" adulterers and assaulters.
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Moderate Centrist Normal Completely Heterosexual Candidate James Talarico Backs Knife-Murderer Karmelo Anthony: "The System Is Not Working for Black Texans"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He just gets more centrist and normal and Christian every single day.
Talarico Backs Karmelo Anthony in Divisive Murder Case: Says Black Teen's Conviction for Stabbing White Football Star Shows 'System Is Not Working for Black Texans'
On Wednesday, Anthony scored a major victory getting the original judge removed from the case
Chuck Ross
August 19, 2026
James Talarico has waded into the racially charged case of the murder of teenage football standout Austin Metcalf, with the Texas Democratic Senate nominee throwing his support behind Metcalf's convicted killer, Karmelo Anthony, now 19.Anthony's attorneys are back in a Texas courtroom on Thursday, seeking a new trial, and on Wednesday succeeded--in a significant win--in having the judge from the original trial removed.
Talarico, in an interview on a black radio show earlier this month, said the conviction of Anthony, a black teenager who fatally stabbed Metcalf, who was white, at a high school track meet in Frisco, is proof that the criminal justice system "is not working for black Texans."
"Right now we've got a system that doesn't serve all Americans equally, and, and we know that black Texans have been, um, have not gotten the justice they deserve," said Talarico, a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Talarico offered that controversial take during an August 5 interview on The Breakfast Club, a popular New York City talk radio show that has been a proving ground of sorts for white Democrats who seek to woo black voters. In 2016, Hillary Clinton proclaimed on the show that she carries around hot sauce in her purse, a claim that host Charlamagne tha God said sounded like she was "pandering to black voters." In 2020, Joe Biden said on the show that "if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
In his interview, Talarico was asked to respond to a viral clip from last month that showed him emphatically nodding along as a woman at a town hall called the Anthony conviction a "tragedy."
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Talarico appeared on The Breakfast Club as he struggles to woo black voters following a bitter primary fight against Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a black Democrat from Dallas (and a regular on The Breakfast Club). Crockett, who has likewise defended Anthony, accused Talarico of running "a racist race" in the primary. Talarico came under fire for allegedly referring to former Senate candidate Colin Allred as a "mediocre black man."
Talarico has embraced other hot-button policies in an appeal to black voters. He denounced the SAVE Act, which would strengthen ID requirements to vote, as an attempt to "rob" black voters. He recently endorsed the idea of reparations for slavery, stating that "repairing past harms is part of my faith tradition."
By the way, the media is reporting the judge was removed from sentencing because he was "biased." They don't tell you what that means. They want you to infer that he is racially biased.
Nope. The "bias" consisted of him saying, post-conviction, "the jury got it right."
I don't even understand how this is "bias." A judge can form impressions from a case, just like a jury. In fact, if a judge believes the jury got it very wrong -- so wrong their judgment cannot be said to be based on the evidence -- he is allowed (required, actually) to set aside the jury's judgment and enter his own judgment.
So how can it be "bias" to merely agree with a jury whose judgment is based 100% on the obvious facts?
Two-tiered justice -- it's actually an American innovation. It began with Derek Chauvin.
Actually it began long before that. That's when it became just accepted leftwing cult doctrine that white people are subject to a different law than "oppressed" minorities.
One thing to ponder...Karmelo got $600K for murdering some random white guy
but Lindsay Clancy got $900k for murdering her own kids.
So perhaps Karmelo does have an argument for the unfairness of all this right?
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
American professional sports leagues have morphed into America-hating, international-focused organizations that seem hellbent on destroying the history of their sports and their deep connections to American culture.
Baseball was truly America's summer entertainment, and its culture extended far beyond the playing fields. Football and basketball —the upstart games — Similarly entered our culture, with basketball becoming the game of the cities. Hockey, always a regional sport, become popular, even in the south and west!
But the fanatical pursuit of expansion and revenue, at the expense of the quality of the game, diluted baseball's appeal. Football, and to some extent basketball stepped into the void. But they too lost focus on the quality of the game and expanded at all costs. And all three manipulated the rules of their games to improve the television experience, and to promote favored players. The result was a dilution of the original games, which are now almost unrecognizable for the few purists who remain.
And of course these leagues, with the exception of the NHL, embraced every Woke, multicultural, immigrant-driven lunacy! Gay and trans and support for illegals and BLM rioters and the deeply offensive and disrespectful kneeling during our nation's anthem, and a host of other progressive memes and causes turned professional sports into a reflection of the worst excesses of the left.
And with their increasingly detached-from-America attitudes came huge increases in pay for their athletes, and the concomitant increases in ticket prices. The athletes became precious little dilettantes, and the rules were further twisted to protect them. And a typical day at the ball park or stadium or arena became so expensive that corporations were the only ones who could afford the best tickets, which became perks for big customers. Even the cheap seats became prohibitively expense for many Americans.
So what's next? Well, just ask the worst and most destructive head of a league!
Goodell: 'No Doubt' NFL Will Have Multiple Teams Overseas — Super Bowl Too
“At some point, there will be NFL teams outside the USA,” Goodell said. “I have no doubt that this will happen one day.”The comments arrive as the league prepares for a record nine international games in the 2026 season. Those contests will stretch across London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Mexico City, Melbourne, and Rio de Janeiro.
The NFl is chasing nothing other than money, and respect for the game, its origins, and its fans is a punchline during their board meetings. If the goal of the NFL is to create an international league similar to the European kickball league we saw play its championship here in America...have at it! The dilution of the game will be complete, since the rest of the world will never embrace football as a youth sport.
And the dilution of football as an quintessentially American game will also proceed apace. And that is fine. The NFL no longer represents the typical American in its play, its politics, and its rejection of America as its origin. So, NFL, gather up the spare euros and pesos and enjoy the extra cash...hopefully America will eventually wake up and reject football as a sport worth following.
Probably not, but baseball and basketball are following a similar path, and they aren't doing all that well!
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The Morning Report — 8/ 20 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Let's dive right in, first with someone who is one of the real voices of sanity in the world today, Melanie Phillips.
Over next month’s Labor Day weekend, Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed is to speak at a conference that will platform a rogue’s gallery of Islamic extremists.The conference in Detroit is the 63rd annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America, a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate that was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007-28 Holy Land terrorism-funding trial.
Other speakers among a plethora of Islamists include Siraj Wahhaj, a former ISNA vice-president who was himself an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Wahhaj, who has called for the full application of sharia law including amputation, stoning and the execution of gay people, makes no secret of his aim to Islamize America.
He has said: “You don’t get involved in politics because it’s the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.”
Another scheduled convention participant, Zaid Shakir, has said: “If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. If we put a nationwide infrastructure in place and marshaled our resources, we’d take over this country in a very short time.”
. . . Two decades ago, in 2006, I published my best-selling and pioneering book “Londonistan,” which described how the British establishment — politicians, government officials, even security and counter-intelligence officers — were submitting to the steady Islamization of Britain. . . In particular, they refused to acknowledge the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy of mass immigration and of using the democratic process to infiltrate extremists into political positions. They failed to take seriously the jihadi strategy of demonstrating power to gain power.
. . . Several states are trying to ban or restrict Sharia law. In Texas, state leaders are opening investigations into Muslim institutions and attempting to block the development of huge Muslim enclaves. But much more needs to be done.
Britain offers the starkest possible warning of the frog being slowly boiled in the Islamist pot. Time is ticking.
Wake up, America.
Well, what's Green and Red and is for sure not Christmas?!
Here's that Red part coming at you!
Florida’s Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Senate candidate Angie Nixon has a history of making outlandish statements throughout her political career, including praising a Marxist cop killer while campaigning in a church, calling for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies to be put back in place, and admitting to taking her children to drag shows, referring to them as “wholesome” entertainment.
Several Democratic Socialists of America-backed congressional nominees are traveling to Uruguay this week to join a left-wing international conference aimed at opposing President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere.New York Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, New York activist Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb — all three DSA members who won Democratic congressional primaries this year — will attend the Pan-American Congress in Montevideo as “special guests” of a congressional delegation led by Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL). New Jersey Democratic congressional candidate Adam Hamawy, who is not a DSA member but has embraced many of the same left-wing causes, is also attending.
It is amazing how the leftists all over the Western world have managed to overlook Islamic teachings on homosexuality. They paid little attention to the homosexuals who are killed and hung on cranes in the middle of Iranian cities. They did not notice how ISIS, both in Syria and In Iraq, routinely threw homosexuals off the top of rooftops. They ignored how homosexuals in the Palestinian territories in Gaza and the West Bank are subject to severe societal discrimination, harassment, arbitrary arrests, and physical abuse or torture by local security forces and militant factions, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
And meanwhile back over there in Latin America...
Iranian state media revealed on Tuesday, using it as an opportunity to promote Iran’s war against the United States and demand diplomatic and economic support... In addition to marking 100 years since his birth, 2026 will soon mark the first decade since Fidel Castro’s long-anticipated death in November 2016.
The timing is perfect with all of this, because Iran perhaps if not on the ropes is in serious shape to the point where maybe President Trump's bluster might actually be accurate insofar as the regime could be at long last facing a real existential crisis. We shall see.
Trump likened the operation to “an ECONOMIC D-DAY” that will require “our Allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate, and defeat, the Iran threat.”
Well then, the question is... Why was this not done weeks ago if not on day One when the first bombs fell? perhaps the war might've been over on Day Two, or what am I missing. Oh well.
For sure the reason the Left is going nuts in Latin America is because all of the socialist Communist regimes are tumbling down like so many dominoes... and now at long last perhaps the worst of the worst might be finally set to take a fall, CUBA?!
How glorious would it be should that tropical Commie gulag finally taste freedom after 66 long horrible years? Leftist heads everywhere would explode! No wonder all the DSAniks have gone down to boost the Latin American commies! And the final Commie domino could very well be our very own homegrown commies, right here on our own soil!
Have a good day,
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- Changing America and the world while restoring Article II of the U.S. Constitution.
Trump Administration Accomplishments: October 2025 – Present, Part One
- He has said: “You don’t get involved in politics because it’s the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.”
Melanie Philips: If we’re not careful, Islamic extremists threaten to turn us into ‘Americastan’
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Daily Tech News 20 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Microsoft GitHub says the 8-hour outage of its systems was caused by a combination of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft VS Code. (The Register)
Have you tried turning it off and just leaving it like that?
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Wednesday Night ONT - August 19, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. Step up and place your order. (No Bud Light per Management.)
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
[Top photo: Albert Dros, Cap de Favaritx, Menorca, Spain - Aug 12, 2026 eclipse photo shot from a small boat]
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Twelve Albums for One Penny! Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
@bernabephoto
Husband-and-wife truck drivers adopt orange cat from truck stop and turn him into a road cat. It's a very cute and playful cat.
Mini donkey and rambunctious baby.
You think you're playing a game with a cat but this is no game. He's evil.
Dogs being cuddly.
Teddy bear dog is all in.
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House Oversight Chairman James Comer: California Democrat Candidate for Governor Xavier Bercera Conspired With Anthony Fauci to Hide Fauci's Creation of Covid-19 in Wuhan
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Fox News Politics @foxnewspoliticsFAUCI FALLOUT: House Oversight Chairman James Comer is accusing former Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra of potentially hiding Fauci's COVID-era diary and cellphone from Congress -- documents that contained references to "COVID-19," "gain-of-function," and "Wuhan" that Republicans specifically requested in November 2023.
Comer says Becerra either intentionally withheld the materials or failed to conduct an adequate search.
As I've mentioned a lot, they also deliberately fail to search for the correct keywords, and of course they deliberately misspell searchable keywords so that they can't be found in an automated search.
These searches are all automated, because they search for thousands of documents, and the opposing party is not allowed to see the body of documents, just the ones that turn up positive for containing the searched-for keywords.
And Democrats have made a crooked career out of deliberately sabotaging these searches.
The diary, which current HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. turned over to Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson earlier this year, spans over 1,000 pages and includes entries where Fauci discussed his influence over school closures -- something he previously denied under oath.Becerra, now running for governor of California, has until Sept. 2 to answer whether he knew about the diary, why it wasn't produced, and whether any Biden officials pressured him to withhold it.
Here's the contradiction at the center of this: Fauci told Congress in June 2024 that "The CDC was responsible for those kinds of guidelines to schools, not me." His own diary includes a 2020 entry where he says he "convinced" NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio "based on what I was saying publicly and my conversation tonight to close the NYC schools."
When Fauci appeared before the Senate in late July, he didn't address any of the diary's revelations. Instead, he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times as Republicans pressed him on the pandemic's effects and what the diary entries revealed about his role.
Comer's letter to Becerra demands answers to pointed questions: Did he know the diary existed? Why wasn't it included in the original document production? And did any Biden administration officials pressure him to withhold materials from the November 2023 request?
Was Becerra pardoned by Biden?
No, actually.
From The Blaze: Fauci was warned to create a contingency fund to pay off people injured (or caused to miscarry) by his supposedly 100% safe and effective his money untested experimental "vaccine."
Fauci was apparently warned to save '$$' to tackle vaccine fallout: 'Will come back to bite you'Joseph MacKinnon
Fauci was not only aware of a possible link between the jab and miscarriages but presented with casualty concerns by the head of the FDA....
A newly released email from May 2021 seemingly reveals that the head of the Food and Drug Administration was so concerned about the novel mRNA vaccines that she advised Fauci and then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins to create a contingency fund to deal with the fallout from them.
On Sunday, Sen. Johnson, chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, published a May 27, 2021, email sent by then-acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock to Fauci and then-NIH Director Collins regarding the perceived need to begin squirreling away scientific research funds to later investigate vaccine side effects."I have been contacted by a number of people who have experienced adverse events post COVID-19 vaccination (from all three of the current vaccines)," wrote Woodcock. "Many are healthcare professionals, some of whom I know. The symptoms do not fit together into a distinctive syndrome and most are not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing."
While cognizant that "during mass vaccination you will get a lot of psychological reactions," Woodcock was nevertheless sensitive to complaints among apparent vaccine casualties that "no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them" and that there had been "no effort to study this."
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"But of course $ need to be made available, and you would need an investigator who is interested in 'medical mysteries,'" wrote Woodcock. "I doubt the industry would support, for obvious reasons. But my experience is, that if you let a problem fester, then it will come back to bite you later and you are not prepared."
Fauci subsequently told Collins, "We cannot ignore her. We should probably bring in CDC and see what Rochelle thinks."
Johnson's office noted that based on the information reviewed to date, it's unclear whether Walensky was ever consulted.
Blaze News did not immediately receive a response from the CDC, the FDA, or an attorney representing Fauci. Woodcock could not be reached for comment.
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—Disinformation Expert Ace
Democrat Representative Jimmy Gomez accused of sexual assault.
An unidentified woman has accused Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) of sexual assault as part of a House Ethics Committee investigation that was sparked by a Post exposé, according to a statement released by her lawyers Wednesday.Democrats on Capitol Hill believe Gomez, 51, may resign in the wake of the disclosure -- following his close friend Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who stepped down in April after multiple women alleged sexual harassment or assault.
Attorneys Lisa Banks and Sarah Nesbitt slammed Gomez for publicly claiming that the committee is only investigating "consensual" sexual relations by the married Dads Caucus founder.
"We represent one of the women who was interviewed by the House Committee on Ethics about her experience of sexual harassment and assault by Representative Jimmy Gomez," Banks and Nesbitt said.
"Contrary to Representative Gomez's assertion in his statement, his actions were not 'consensual in nature' with respect to our client. We fully expect that the House Committee on Ethics will come to the same conclusion in its investigation."
The lawyers added: "This is just the latest example of brazen sexual misconduct by a member of Congress. Congress must act to rein in its members who seem to believe that preying on young women working on Capitol Hill is one of the perks of their job."The Ethics Committee started to investigate Gomez after The Post reported in April that he was seen kissing a much younger aide to a different lawmaker in the summer of 2023 outside a backyard party hosted by Swalwell.
Gomez initially denied it, but copped to having an affair in June, admitting to "personal mistakes outside my marriage that have caused real pain to my wife and family," in a statement to CNN that characterized the extramarital relations as "consensual."
The lawmaker issued a similar statement Monday after the committee publicly confirmed its investigation for the first time.
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Gomez, Swalwell and Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), the last of whom served in the House for a decade, formed a tight-knit crew -- collectively known as the "Cool Kids Clique" -- that developed a reputation for heavy drinking and womanizing.
Gallego has privately admitted to sleeping with House aides who worked for at least two different lawmakers, The Post reported last month. He did not deny the account, calling the story "gossip."
Where is Brooke Baldwin when you need her to jump on a dick-grenade?
Another socialist turns out to be a rich bitch living on his daddy's dime.
Anti-rich DSA leader Gustavo Gordillo lives it up in posh $1.5M NYC pad paid for by millionaire parentsThe millionaire parents of a whiny top DSA leader have set up their socialist son in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home -- where he lives while railing against the rich and property ownership, The Post has learned.
Gustavo Gordillo, the 38-year-old co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, is peddling his anti-capitalist lefty agenda while enjoying the life in the two-story, nearly 2,000-square-foot row home on a gentrifying tree-lined block in Bed-Stuy.
"I wish my family could afford to buy me a million-dollar home," said local renter Faith Smith, 36 -- who called the socialist Yale University grad a hypocrite.
"It's a rich kid,'' she said of the Yalie. "That's basically people who don't have to deal with the struggles we have to deal with."
The Ivy League radical's converted single-family home was bought in 2019 by his mommy and daddy through a dummy corporation, Chucuito LLC, for just under $1 million, property records show.
Since then, it has undergone a major facelift, with renovations done to its entire front facade, the planting of lush landscaping, the revamping of the interior and the addition a pair of decks on the roof as well as near the front door, according to plans filed with the borough in 2023.Updates to the property continued Tuesday at least on its second floor, The Post observed.
"My son and my other son both live there," Gordillo's father said when reached by phone. "The LLC purchased the home, and then we did the renovations."
Gordillo and his DSA comrades have meanwhile railed against property ownership, calling for a redistribution of land "from landowners to the landless."
Gordillo also recently attacked landlords in a vitriolic interview on Fox News last month, when he offered up little sympathy for property and other business owners who skate by with small margins.
"We don't think that anybody should have the constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment," he said....
It was unclear whether Gordillo, who listed the LES one-bed, one-bath as his primary residence at that time, repaid his parents for rent.
Calls to him were not returned.
Another rich-bitch socialist layabout, via beckster:
Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC44m
Very interesting email just came our way about yet another superstar DSA rich kid who needs his parents to bail him out. Shocking, I know.
So it turns out that DSA strategist Morris Katz was, according to this very reliable source, renting a $5,700/month luxury apartment on Lorimer Street in Brooklyn and just stopped paying rent one day.
He apparently bounced several checks, dodged calls from the management company, super, and landlord, lied about being 'out of town', overstayed his lease, and then left all his belongings behind to be dealt with by the staff.
Ultimately his rich parents, of course, bailed him out with the landlord, presumably to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
Again, this is the DSA. A group of spoiled brats who cannot even manage their own lives, yet supposedly have all the answers for how our entire world should be run. An absolute joke.
Many more details to come on this. Stay tuned!
A women-only Korean spa in Lynnwood, WA, is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit court ruling that requires the facility to accommodate transgender individuals.The legal battle stems from a complaint filed by a transgender woman who had not undergone gender-affirming surgery and was denied admission to the facility.
According to attorneys who are defending the spa, the state of Washington said the spa must allow males who identify as women into its nude, female-only facility.
What we know:
Olympus Spa is a traditional Korean day spa that serves women and girls ages 13 and older, offering services in communal areas where patrons are fully unclothed.
The spa is asking the nation's highest court to overturn a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
According to attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom and Pacific Justice Institute, who are defending the spa, the state of Washington said the spa must allow males who identify as women into its nude, female-only facility.
Kevin Snider, chief counsel with the Pacific Justice Institute, stated that the company's policy is rooted in both religious beliefs and traditional cultural norms regarding modesty.
"They believe that men and women should not be unclothed in each other's presence unless they are married to each other," Snider said. "That's their Christian view, and then of course... it violates their cultural sensibilities."
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What's next:
If the Supreme Court agrees to review the petition, consideration would likely take place in late winter or early spring, with a potential ruling issued sometime in the spring.
Quantus Insights @QuantusInsights
Really interesting work from Patrick Ruffini. Across 3,312 Senate polls over four cycles, he finds a D+3.7 average error, with 73% overstating Democrats. Even more interesting is that the error peaks around D+5.9 in late July before narrowing toward Election Day.That adds an important dimension to what we found in our broader Quantus Insights Apr 23, 2025 study. We documented a persistent post-2016 directional error, including roughly D+4.2 across presidential battlegrounds, with some of the largest misses among working-class, rural and non-college electorates.
Aside from this problem being directional there's also a seasonal component too, particularly in midterms, when summer polling can substantially overstate Democratic strength. It's not until days into October before the electorate comes into clearer focus.
Senate (2020) / 2016 - 2024 Battlegrounds.
Some Jewish Democrats are exhorting others to join them in voting for Mike Rogers for Michigan Senator.
Jewish leaders in Michigan are circulating an open letter urging Jewish Democrats and independents in the battleground state to sign their names in support of former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) as he faces Abdul El-Sayed, the far-left Democratic nominee for Senate whose hostile positions on Israel have alarmed many Jewish voters.The letter, which was obtained by Jewish Insider on Wednesday and has not yet been publicized, is led by Eric Bronstein, a Detroit businessman, among others identifying as Democrats and independents.
It came to light after a fundraiser for Rogers on Tuesday night hosted by three prominent Jewish Democratic bundlers in Michigan who are likewise alarmed by El-Sayed's candidacy. The growing efforts among Jewish Democrats to rally support for Rogers in the key Senate race illustrate the degree to which El-Sayed has alienated a sizable and politically active swing voting bloc in what is expected to be a close election.
"We know it is unusual for many Jewish voters to support a Republican candidate for senate and we understand the implications," Bronstein wrote in a recent email courting Jewish signatories that was also reviewed by JI. "Our fellow Jewish voters need to see their friends and neighbors -- including you -- willing to take a stand in this specific, crucial race."
Bronstein did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday.
The open letter, which the authors intend to share online once it has gained "a significant initial group of signers," emphasizes that many signatories "have been fiercely supportive of Democratic candidates and principles."
"All of us have felt threatened and alienated by the politics and allies embraced by Abdul El-Sayed," the letter continues, "which has included demonization of Jews, equivocation on terrorism, exclusion of Jewish Americans from public life, and expression of implacable hatred of the world's only Jewish nation."
If El-Sayed were to claim victory in the general election, the authors say, "we fear the far-left and anti-Jewish elements in the Democratic party would become dominant, including in the imminent 2028 presidential race," when Michigan will be among the early nominating states in the Democratic primaries. "We cannot allow him to become the Democratic standard-bearer or Michigan's senator."
Abdulrahman El-Sayed doesn't need Jews, though. He's pitching himself to Christians by telling them, "I'm basically Jesus, because we're both radicals."
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Former CNN Hypartisan News Prude Brooke Baldwin: I'm a Strong Professional Woman and So I Want You to Know I'm Really Good at Dick-in-Vag Sex
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Ah yes, prudish, priggish Male Gaze-shaming feminists using their hooters and pooters to advance themselves.
Many such cases, as Elon Musk says
Ex-CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin gets stunningly candid about her sex life: 'Pretty damn good'
Was anyone asking? I sure wasn't.
Brooke Baldwin is opening up about her sex life in startlingly candid fashion -- declaring she's "pretty damn good" in bed, revealing four different men recently tried to sleep with her and insisting casual sex was "very much on the table" before she turned them all down.
This sounds a lot like a whore bragging.
The former CNN anchor, 47, made the eyebrow-raising admissions in a Substack post published over the weekend, writing that she had recently rejoined a dating app and found herself fielding attention from four men -- including one who "used to run a country," another who "literally flew in just to take me to dinner," and a third she described simply as "hot.""Bottom line? I am flattered," Baldwin initially wrote before catching herself.
Oh wow, a divorced woman joined a dating app. Breaking news! Thanks for sharing.
Now she remembers she's a feminist and so she's not supposed to feel validation due to the sexual attention of men. So she questions if she's flattered and all, and decides she's not, because it's obvious she's hot.
"Hang on. Am I???""That's so old-school-Brooke-I-just-want-to-be-Chosen talking. No. I'm not flattered. I'm... unsurprised. There. There's the truth."
The veteran broadcaster, who was previously married to British producer James Fletcher before she filed for divorce in 2023, said she ultimately rejected all four men despite describing herself as someone who enjoys sex."What did I do?" Baldwin wrote. "Turned them all down. Every. Single. One."
"And y'all know... I love sex. If I may be so bold, I'm pretty damn good at it."
She added that she has previously written that "sex to me is like oxygen" and said she has been upfront that she is "not looking for a serious relationship right now."
"So casual sex? It's very much on the table. I've thought about it. A lot," she wrote.
"It could be empowering. It would almost certainly be pleasurable. And I'm a grown-ass woman with choices."
She wants you to know that she's a whore, but she's saving her Whore Energy for "a larger purpose."
Baldwin said she nevertheless decided against sleeping with any of the men because she wants to devote her energy to what she described as a larger purpose.
"In this particular season of my life, I care too much about what I'm building to let my energy scatter in a dozen directions," she wrote, describing that philosophy with a single word: "LEAKY."
"It isn't punishment. It's protection. Protection of the life I'm trying to build."
Men and women have different ways of dealing with middle age. Men, infamously, spend a lot of money on a sportscar they've coveted since they were 15.
But women, particularly leftwing women, deal with middle age by going through a "Messianic Phase," in which they suddenly become Philosopher-Priestesses who have So Much to Share with the World. If they're rich celebrity women, they adopt a Whitman's Sampler pack of third world children. They also tend to start Lifestyle Brand online businesses where they sell candles that smell, they advertise, like their private parts.
They also sometimes just sleep around a lot. Brooke Baldwin is combining the two Copes.
I'm not a prude, but I do object to someone of such slight public interest deciding she's going to Overshare the mundane details of her tawdry life with all of us.
Is that really for us? No, of course not. It's for Brooke. She's not being validated enough since CNN fired her -- a "negotiated settlement," as she calls it -- so she's going to validate herself.
And she's got more unsexy tidbits to share.
Note to gentlemen who prefer blondes: she's not interested in a one-night stand.Former CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin said she craves "more intimacy" in her relationships -- and gave The Post a clue about the next steps in her career.
..."I don't want less intimacy. I want more," she wrote in the post published Sunday.
"I love being deeply known, and knowing someone deeply in return," she added. "Instead I crave spaciousness -- in partnership or out of it."
Again, who is asking?
No one. She's doing what insecure women do, which is to go on social media, say something sexual, and wait for desperate men to tell them how hot they are.
I mean, this is the image she's using to drum up attention:
I hope no one out there is so naive or innocent as to think she chose the word "leaky" innocently, unaware that this word, in connection with the words "casual sex," suggests the sloshy aftermath of sex.
I'm not a prude, I'm so sick of "feminists" claiming they don't want to be seen as sex objects and then ringing the sexual Dinner Bell whenever they want to promote themselves.
Baldwin's latest essay also offered a tantalizing clue about her professional future.The former anchor revealed that she is "building something of my own now" and added parenthetically: "we start shooting in two weeks!!!" She did not provide additional details about the project on her blog.
White Aging-Feminist Messiah Complex. "I have so much more to give. There must be something more to me. Right? Right? There has to be! I'm almost sure of it!"
It's the whole Eat-Pray-Love cycle. Have casual sex, spend money on restaurants, buy some trinkets and incense and get "spiritual."
She has some media project that will Heal Us All.
And maybe some candles that smell like her privates.
I'm in control of my sexuality, Male Gazers! Here is a picture of my breast implants to show you that I'm the one in control of my sexuality, Male Gazers!
I bought these for me, not you!
But in a statement to The Post, Baldwin revealed that she has spent the past several months developing an independent journalism project called "America, Tell Me Everything," which will take her around the country reporting on women from different backgrounds.
There you go. I can feel the healing already.
"After twenty-plus years in mainstream media, I'm doing journalism on my terms," Baldwin told The Post on Wednesday, adding that she plans to tell stories with and about women "whose lives and experiences may look nothing like mine or each other's."
The revelations come after Baldwin stunned readers last month by dishing about her sex life, revealing that her rejected suitors include a man who "used to run a country" and another who "literally flew in just to take me to dinner."
While she declined each opportunity, she left little doubt about her enthusiasm for sex itself.
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Baldwin wrote the piece on a flight back home from Paris, describing the trip as largely solo. She didn't divulge who, if anyone, she spent time with in the famously romantic capital.
The scribe delved deeper into what she has learned about maintaining her independence and boundaries while in a relationship, writing that she has a tendency to nurture those around her to such an extent that she can lose sight of her own needs.
"I love to give. And if I'm not careful, it's also one of the quickest ways I leave myself," she wrote.
Is she 14? Is this MySpace?
Alejandro
@AlejandroCO303The woman bragging publicly about how she likes to get fucked was aghast when Clay Travis said the word "boobs" on her show
That is a great point.
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Fake News Jake Blames the "Horrific" Fall of Kabul on Trump, Without Mentioning that It Was Joe Biden Who Actually Oversaw the Botched Bugout
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He's always the last to know.
Jake Tapper Notes the Anniversary of the 'Horrific' Fall of Kabul, With One Glaring Omission
Objectivity in the media stands as the elusive conceit for many. Journalists love to tout that as their standard, yet for so many, it stands as a supreme challenge. Look, we get it; the desire to slam President Trump and the administration is substantial, but when Jake Tapper cannot even deliver the barest amount of balance, well, that is a sign of a problem.Maybe it is a pathology. The effects of TDS are substantial, sure, but can there not be some sign of an effort being applied? Tapper set the table to serve both sides, then removed the chairs to prevent participation in one half of the setting.
On State of the Union he closed out the episode wanting to recognize the fifth anniversary of the failed pullout of American troops from Kabul. All just fine, so far. He acknowledged the FUBAR nature of that mission, and used proper terms to describe the calamitous extraction efforts. "Disastrous", "horrific", and other negatives were employed, all accurately.
It was inevitable, sure, that the fall of Kabul, and Afghanistan (what could more accurately be described as a surrender) would fold into the current Iran conflict. Tapper brought up President Trump, and also Secretary Pete Hegseth in his segment. But what was remarkable was what he did not mention.
Throughout his soliloquy, the name "Joe Biden" was never uttered. The former president was never pictured in the graphics as the CNN anchor spoke, unlike the current officeholders. This is a remarkable effort to elide by the host, given the stern descriptions he gave of the extraction from Kabul. Something that stands as one of the biggest scars on the Biden term in the White House does not merit mention of the man?!
To see just how much Jake Tapper strained to avoid mention of Biden, look at the passage he used first to bring up Trump's name: "Many Afghans who fought with the U.S. -- risked their lives for the U.S. -- remain stranded abroad after the Trump administration halted the special immigrant Visa program."
Fake Jake is All About the Troops, including the Taliban troops.
This is Jake using willful obfuscation. It needs to be pointed out, apparently, on this, the 5-year anniversary, that bringing Afghan allies to the U.S. has been a problem for at least 4.6 of those years. The president at the time, whom Tapper does not want to invoke in his memoriam, was being scorched by his own party in the months following the Kabul fiasco.We understand Tapper's desire to steer away from culpability with Biden. But bringing up what has to be considered his most glaring failure while straining to avoid tying him to that debacle is pure folly. It is also undiluted bias on display.
Speaking of scandal-plagued fake "journalists:" A leftwing "reporter" and major dicksuck for Zohran Mamdani has been found to have committed plagiarism 67 times and has been fired by New York Magazine. (Well, they will no longer publish his work.)
He shouldn't bother killing himself, though, because he's white so people are allowed to notice his fraud and plagiarism.
New York Magazine has ended its publishing of political writer Ross Barkan after an internal review found 67 pieces that contained improperly attributed language, information, and/or sourcing.The magazine launched the review after a Washington Post reporter flagged similarities between the opening of one Barkan story and an earlier piece he had written on the same subject. NPR later reported additional plagiarism allegations.
New York Magazine said in a statement that the 67 columns "did not include proper attribution of language, information and/or sourcing." The publication said it is updating the affected articles with proper attribution and remains "committed to addressing any other instances that come to light."
"Upon conclusion of the review, we have determined that we will no longer publish his column," New York Magazine said. "We regret that his work did not live up to our editorial standards, and apologize to the writers whose work was not appropriately attributed."
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"In the course of nearly 250 pieces, there were times I should have been more careful with my citation," he added. "I'm sorry about these errors and will work to do better, more careful work in the future."
Barkan has been a prominent supporter of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani served as campaign manager for Barkan's 2018 state Senate campaign, a connection Barkan has referenced in his Substack and elsewhere.
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