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"Two people familiar with the case said the search was related to an investigation opened during the Biden administration that has continued, examining possible corruption and bribery related to marijuana dispensary businesses."
I wonder if JackStraw knows her. He enjoys the Wacky Weed so he is probably best friends with the so-called "420 Grandma." All these Potties have each other on speed-dial.
FBI agents--armed with multiple federal search warrants signed by a judge--are raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, the Democratic powerhouse, first Black woman in that role, Finance Committee chair, and architect of the state's aggressive 10-1 redistricting map. Federal sources tie it to a major corruption investigation. The warrants extend next door... to the Cannabis Outlet she co-owns--the very dispensary this self-proclaimed "420 Grandma" championed while co-sponsoring legalization and blurring the lines between legislator and cannabis entrepreneur.
Lucas, a close ally of CIA plant Gov. Abigail Spanberger and a force in Virginia politics since 1992, once dismissed U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner as "cucks in the corner" while engineering her party's electoral firewall. Irony doesn't get more poetic. Power's intoxicating brew--redistricting dominance, business interests in cannabis (with past reports of mislabeled high-THC products), and care facilities--now meets the cold scrutiny of federal law enforcement.
"Care facilities"? Oh no-- isn't that Democrats' favorite vehicle for pillaging the public funds?
And she just happens to be in charge of regulating her own easily-abused business.
And, get this, she proposed and then voted for a special payment bump for her own business.
But Lucas presents the Senate with an issue. The close alignment of her private business and her public obligations and authorities raises issues of public perception and Senate integrity.
For 28 years, she has operated a business, Lucas Lodge LLC, that provides Medicaid-funded services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
She serves and has served for years on two committees that are completely intertwined with her business:
The Senate Committee on Education and Healthcare (since 1994) oversees the regulator of her business, the Department of Behavioral Health and Disability Services (DBHDS), and the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS), also known as Virginia Medicaid, and writes the laws with which Lucas Lodge must comply.
The Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations (since 2008), of which she is now chair, funds the operations of both agencies and Virginia Medicaid, which, as indicated earlier, pays Lucas Lodge for services.
The situation remains, at best, awkward for the Senate. It just got worse.
This year, Sen. Lucas is the patron of the Senate Budget Bill (SB-30), which amended the baseline budget submitted by Gov. Youngkin. Item 291 #4s in that bill, Developmental Disability Waiver Rates for Selected Services, will specifically increase Lucas Lodge's Medicaid payments above the baseline. Sen. Lucas's budget bill passed her committee and the Senate floor.
SB 30 will be the starting point for the Senate in the upcoming Special Session negotiations that she will lead.
We'll see what happens.
Although people are talking mostly about her pot business, I bet the more serious corruption charges will involve pilfering Medicaid money. It's the Democrats' main business at this point.
MSNBC is already trying to spin the FBI raid on powerful Virginia Democrat Senator Louise Lucas (Senate President Pro Tempore) as Trump revenge:
They even admit the investigation has been going on for 3 years, long before Trump’s current term, over evidence she solicited or… pic.twitter.com/CbPg8w3ECP
Justin Baldoni Settles With Amber Heard 2.0, Claims He Paid Her Zero Dollars and Is Very "Pleased" With the Outcome
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Subhed: Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?
Before getting to that, I wanted to mention a story that broke a few weeks ago, but I didn't figure you'd care all that much.
But I think it's semi-important in that it seems to indicate that Hollywood bitches and bastards routinely employ "crisis PR firms" to plant and spread disgraceful, wholly invented defamations against people they're trying to wheedle money (or credit, or power) out of.
AI Summary:
Rebel Wilson's crisis PR team, specifically identified as The Agency Group (TAG), has been deeply involved in legal controversies surrounding the production of her 2024 film The Deb.
Rebel Wilson played "Fat Amy" in the Pitch Perfect movies, and was also in Bridesmaids as the weird roommate. She went on Ozempic and lost some weight, and I guess is now trying to move from supporting comic relief actress to leading lady.
Leaked audio and court documents from March and April 2026 revealed that team members allegedly planned a "heavy" smear campaign against producer Amanda Ghost.
Key Details Regarding the PR Team (as of April/May 2026):
The Agency Group (TAG): This crisis firm, which has worked with other high-profile figures, was allegedly hired by Wilson in 2024 to manage disputes with The Deb producers.
Key Individuals: Leaked audio allegedly captured digital fixer Jed Wallace instructing publicist Melissa Nathan to paint producer Amanda Ghost as a "madame" and "sex trafficker" to ruin her reputation.
"Digital fixer"? I take that to mean someone employed to smear people online.
Internal Communication: In a revealing, court-referenced text message, a TAG employee described Rebel Wilson as "f---ing nuts," as reported in People.
Yeah I got that sense.
Allegations of Smear Sites: Court documents in Sydney and California allege that Wilson directed her team to launch malicious websites (e.g., "AmandaGhostSucks.com") that claimed producer Amanda Ghost preyed on young women.
All these people know is making up defamations about pedophilia about their enemies to gain power or extract wealth.
Denial of Involvement: While these leaked recordings and messages have surfaced, Rebel Wilson has denied in court that she authorized the smear campaign against her colleagues.
Previous Legal Representation: The team was previously associated with high-profile Hollywood lawyer Bryan Freedman, who has represented other celebrities in crisis cases.
Coincidentally, I'm sure, Bryan Freedman's clients include Tucker Carlson and Me-Again Kelly. Apparently he's now representing Justin Baldoni against Blake Lively.
The scandal is part of a larger, ongoing Australian defamation lawsuit (April/May 2026) brought against Wilson by actress Charlotte MacInnes regarding these same disputes.
So, is this just Hollywood SOP? And did the Democrats' symbiotic relationship with Hollywood normalize the idea of just making up the Pee-Pee Dossier? Did Obama's palling around with Hollywood cocksuckers convince him it was okay to weaponize the obviously-fake dossier, because that's just how the game is played?
As you might know -- or might also have completely tuned out -- fading low/mid-level TV actress Blake Lively decided that she wanted ownership over a would-be romance movie franchise. The movie made good money for a romance, and there are other books to adapt, so it's a valuable bit of IP.
So she made up a raft of apparently-false defamations against the franchise's producer/director/owner (well, he owns the film rights to the book series it's based on) accusing him of sexual harassment. The object of this seemingly-fabricated defamation campaign was to pressure him to turn over control of the series to her.
She filed a (seemingly false) lawsuit against him, leaked news of that lawsuit to friendly media outlets, and got her fancy Hollywood friends like Taylor Swift and her douchebag husband Ryan Reynolds to join the crusade against this man. He filed retaliatory lawsuits in return, alleging defamation.
A judge dismissed most of the counts against Baldoni, but three survived.
And now all lawsuits have been dismissed, with Baldoni apparently winning the settlement.
Blake Lively Received Zero Compensation in Justin Baldoni Settlement: Report
Lively still has a pending motion for attorneys' fees and damages stemming from Baldoni's failed defamation lawsuit
No monetary compensation was reportedly exchanged in the lawsuit settlement between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. TMZ, Variety, and other outlets confirmed the news. Lively still has a pending motion for attorneys' fees and damages stemming from Baldoni's dismissed defamation suit against her.
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The news arrives a day after Lively and Baldoni settled their legal battle tied to their film, It Ends With Us, avoiding a trial that was scheduled to begin on May 18 and expected to last six to eight weeks. At the time, Rolling Stone learned that Baldoni was especially pleased with the outcome.
The contentious legal fight dates back to Lively's 2024 claims that Baldoni and Wayfarer fostered a toxic, sexually charged work environment that discriminated against women on the set of It Ends With Us. Lively also accused Baldoni and the film's producers of engaging in a campaign to smear her reputation.
Baldoni countersued Lively for $400 million, accusing her of defamation, though the suit was later dismissed. He also sued The New York Times for defamation over their story that broke the news of Lively's original sexual harassment complaint against Baldoni -- that suit was also tossed out.
Earlier this month, a judge dismissed 10 of Lively's 13 claims -- including allegations of sexual harassment -- meaning the trial was set to center on retaliation and breach of contract. Prior to the settlement on Monday, lawyers for both sides argued over the admissibility of expert witness testimony, with a focus on those tied to Lively's claims that she suffered between $39 million and $143 million in losses from the dispute surrounding the film. Baldoni's lawyers countered, arguing Lively's work history didn't support such estimates, and that the four films she'd appeared in over the past eight years had brought her earnings of roughly $21 million.
And now... Blake Lively's career as a low to mid level actress is almost certainly over. She'll be doing guest spots on TV shows, or maybe "star" in Hallmark movies.
She has badly damaged the household's breadwinner Ryan Reynolds, who no longer has the reputation of being a semi-relatable cool brah actor, but now just seems like another mercenary douchebag who has escaped consequences all of his life because of the accident of charm.
All because she craved ownership of something that just didn't belong to her.
I wonder what firms Candace Owens is employing to cause so much emotional distress to Erika Krik that she hands over the organization her husband founded and nutured to that black Nazi grifter and psychopath.
Withered Aryan Hooker Me-Again Kelly: Tuq'r and I May Be Losing Our Old Audience, But We're Gaining an "International" Audience of "Young" Muslims and That's Even Better!
—Disinformation Expert Ace
She's so stupid she doesn't realize she wasn't supposed to admit that her audience is hemorrhaging Americans and gaining Young Muslim Bots from Clickfarms in Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt.
Me-Again doesn't realize that most advertisers covet wealthy (generally) western audiences, and could give f***-all about Bot Farmers in Lahore.
Look at how much Vaseline Me-Again is spreading over the camera lens to make it gauzy and soft-focus so that her wrinkles are less visible. Bitch is spreading more Vaseline over delicate apertures than David French.
Compare her current enthusiasm for Islam -- now that she's "gotten clear about Israel," as she says -- with the position she took just four months ago.
Megyn Kelly’s INEXPLICABLE BACKFLIP on Islam: In the past four months, she’s gone from saying, “It’s your duty as a Christian to stand up and fight against it,” VS. NOW celebrating Tucker Carlson’s growing Muslim audience - seemingly… pic.twitter.com/ktLkI5liZs
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) May 6, 2026
Me-Again claimed at the TPUSA event shortly after Charlie's murder that she felt a powerful, overwhelming instinct to "protect" Erika Kirk.
That instinct lasted two months, until Candace Owens begin insinuating that Erika Kirk was part of the conspiracy to murder her own husband (and also was a lesbian pedophile child sex trafficker). At that point, Me-Again bravely declared that the only criticism being directed at Owens was "about Israel," and therefore she would never, ever honor her "powerful overwhelming instinct" to "protect Erika."
After supporting the public Mau-Mauing of a grieving widow -- who is now surrounded by expensive security because Candace Owens' cultists threaten her and her children's lives -- Me-Again now complains about the many "bots" that are flooding her twitter threads.
It happened to Candace, Megyn says.
Candace- the woman siccing her hordes on Erika.
I can’t.
We ALL have bots in our replies.
Most of mine are praising Candace and Hitler simultaneously, for what it’s worth.
Tuq'r also believes that Trump is casting a "spell" on his followers, to make them comply with his sorcerous commands. "Probably literally a spell" that puts people into a "dream-land like you're smoking hash or something" and "there may be a supernatural component to it, I'm not a theologian."
Then shut the fuck up you brain-damaged retard.
Tucker tells the NYT that President Trump puts a literal “spell” on people to “weaken them and make them compliant” and it might be “supernatural.” 🤡 pic.twitter.com/ihh4R6uYXu
The Long-Awaited Defenestration of the Philosopher Kings
—Disinformation Expert Ace
JJ mentioned this but I really wanted to post about it.
I've seen some establishment-oriented "conservatives" using Tuq'r Qarlson and Nick Fuentes and Withered Aryan Hooker Me-Again Kelly as proof that we should never have aligned with "the populists."
Nonsense. There are bad apples in every bunch. And in case the establishment pussies didn't notice, it was the populists -- not the establishment c**ts whom no one trusts or respects -- who drove the bad-actor Nazis and Islamists out of the party.
Jonah Goldberg and David French and the Bulwark Krue did not exorcise Candace Owens and Ian Carroll from the movement. We did.
I mention this because the establishment and populists disagree sharply on one fundamental point of representational governance.
The establishment types, like the "journalists" whose good opinion they so desperately crave, falsely believe that they are some really smart customers. No one believes they are smart, except for they themselves. But they are absolutely convinced on this point. They have argued with themselves about how genius they are and they won that argument with themselves, because they're so wise and persuasive.
This leads to their theory of respresentational governance: We, the stupid people who are incapable of higher-level, abstract, future-oriented thought, have elected these Sages and Philosophers to do our thinking for us.
When we elect these c**ts, that is the end of our involvement in the political process. Our further thoughts are not welcome because we are so gosh-darn bad at thinking we would just exhaust the lucid minds of Philosopher Kings with our retarded ramblings. The establishment does not seek our counsel, it only seeks our grant of power to it, One Time, after which they will literally never again check in with us.
And I say "One Time" because of the fact -- which may be changing (Spoiler Alert) -- that once an establishment c**t has Conned the Rubes into granting them perpetual unchecked power, they essentially have it for life, or until they're found balls-deep inside a 15-year-old boy, because it's very hard to boot an incumbent out of office, particularly in a district or state that is strong for one party.
Contrasting with this theory of governance in which the brain-damaged troglodytes of the dirty masses grant power to establishment Philosopher Kings a single time and then let them do what their massively-powerful brains and consciences compel them to do, the brain-damaged troglodytes have a different theory altogether.
We don't think we elect these pissant mediocrities to do our thinking for us. We think we've done the thinking ourselves. We think we've done the thinking, and we elect these no-talent, no-accomplishment Student Council Vice Treasurers and Disappointed Theater Kids to heed our thinking and merely do our voting in legislative bodies for us.
Now I realize we probably "think" this because our Retard-Brains are glitching and misfiring as usual, but still, we would like to be heard on this point.
But, because it's almost impossible to get voters animated enough to vote these self-declared Philosopher Kings out of office in one-party states or districts, the establishment types who believe we've elected them to do our thinking for us been permitted to carry on acting as if we elected them to do our thinking for us, and we have not had any practical, repeatable method of correction and punishment for this grievously false conception of their role in government.
The Philosopher Kings serving as state representatives and senators in Indiana, which, let's face it, is the government equivalent of a job as Arby's Night Manager, decided that comity with the Democrats and the good opinion of the leftwing media was far, far more important that the voters' decision that redrawing congressional districts was imperative as we close in on the most important midterms in a century.
The voters finally got their say. We won't get those lines redrawn, but we will have no representation going forward.
President Trump proved to be a kingmaker in Tuesday night's Indiana and Ohio Republican primaries, where his seal of approval propelled several GOP candidates to landslide victories.
In Indiana, Trump's revenge campaign against incumbent state senators who torpedoed his push last year to redraw the Hoosier State's congressional boundaries was largely successful -- with the president's preferred candidates winning five of six contests.
"Everyone in Indiana politics should have learned an important lesson today: President Trump is the single most popular Republican among Hoosier voters," Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) said in a statement.
I'm not so big on praising Trump here, because I didn't really elect him to do my thinking for me, either. But he's right on this issue and extremely right on the question of disciplining and ejecting arrogant, defiant "representatives."
"Indiana is a conservative state, and we deserve conservatives in our State Senate who have a pulse on Republican voters," he added.
That, on the other hand, I agree with 100%.
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The victories by Trump-backed candidates were decisive.
Trevor De Vries topped Indiana state Sen. Dan Dernulc by a 75%-24% margin; Tracey Powell beat state Sen. Jim Buck in a 65%-35% race; and Brian Schmutzler and Michelle Davis defeated state Sens. Linda Rogers and Greg Walker, respectively, by 18-point margins.
The first incumbent taken out by Trump was longtime Indiana state Sen. Travis Holdman, who has been in office since 2008 and is a member of Indiana Senate leadership.
Holdman was bested by Blake Fiechter by a 61%-39% margin.
At press time, Indiana state Sen. Greg Goode was the only incumbent opposed to redistricting who was able to fend off a Trump-backed primary challenge.
Goode defeated Brenda Wilson in the state's District 38 primary, where a third Republican candidate in the race, Alexandra Wilson, received about 10% of the vote.
The White House had pressured Alexandra Wilson to get out of the race ahead of Tuesday's primary, reportedly over concerns her candidacy would confuse voters attempting to cast ballots for Brenda Wilson.
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The base isn't stupid. Rule #1 of being a Republican officeholder: do not weaken your own voters' electoral power.
Some Indiana State Senators thought they were clever and didn't have to obey this rule. They will be private citizens shortly.
No Murkowskis:
Indiana has a sore loser law.
They can't run after losing a primary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
This mewling sissy says it's "unchristian" to vote him out of office for refusing to do what the voters demand of him but also adds that he's "not bitter."
Soon-to-be former Indiana State Senator Travis Holdman, who was one of the deciding Republican votes that blocked redistricting in the state, says he only lost because he was “retaliated against.”
No, you lost because when we tell you to jump, you should be asking how high. pic.twitter.com/c3eTE68G6v
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) May 6, 2026
Go to hell, Fake Christian Narcissist. Christ did not mandate your re-election.
Go finger your buddy David French up the ass and whine about how the swine-men of the GOP just don't appreciate your brilliance enough.
You have that in common with Barack Hussein Obama. In fact, you've got a few things in common with Barack Hussein Obama.
Like the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, we're having an outsized impact. In the case of climate, we are not the dinosaurs. We are the meteor. We are not only in danger. We are the danger. But we are also the solution.
-- Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations; June 5, 2024
Like most "world leaders" - and all of the globalist and large NGO leaders - Guterres aspires to be a Bond villain. The arrogance and histrionics aside, Guterres and those like him are in essence very easy to understand: they are tyrants. The hubris and hysteria are an act in the service of increasing their power and control. They do not do it themselves. Their fortunes are delivered by the small-time locals who move the ball when commanded. Large or small, they believe everyone and everything must be brought to heel to build their utopia. Free expression, free action, individual prerogatives and everything else must not be permitted if they interfere with immanentizing the eschaton.
n the same speech as the one quoted above, Guterres went further and called for the outright destruction of free speech:
I urge every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies ... I urge news media and tech companies to stop taking fossil fuel advertising
This is all just so much noise - at least directly - as the BBC points out. The BBC also, however, points out the real purpose of such statements:
Mr Guterres' call for an outright ban on all fossil fuel advertising goes further - but it has no legal standing, and the UN has no means of enforcing the idea.
However, it will be seen as a boost for campaigners who have fought against sponsorship and advertising from coal, oil and gas companies.
Indeed. These were marching orders, and it is why, two years later, the frothing, hysterical shrieking from a faceless and interchangeable UN bigwig is suddenly relevant. Allies and conspirators in the campaign to destroy the fuel of human life never sleep. Every rabid outburst from the front men and every dry, scientifically bankrupt research paper from its academic organs all serve to provide direction to the local apparatchik. Every action helps set the stage for the local operators.
We can find an example just this week. The city of Amsterdam is, as the New York Times puts it, "permissive" - but "permissiveness" goes only so far. There are some things Amsterdam frowns upon, so it will protect you from the real menaces of the world: the menaces of meat and oil.
On May 1, Amsterdam became the world's first capital city to ban ads for fossil fuel products and meat. It's part of the city's efforts to discourage consumption of goods linked with high carbon emissions.
Ads for airlines, cruises, and faraway destinations are no longer allowed because they implicitly promote the burning of fossil fuels. Ads for beef, chicken, pork and fish are also banned because of the environmental harms caused by animal agriculture.
On May Day. Of course. A fitting new law for the day of communist self-aggrandizement. But don't worry - dairy is still protected speech, for now:
... the advertising prohibition was initially written to include all food derived from animals, including dairy. But a compromise was struck to limit the ban to meat products, and it helped secure a majority vote.
The very essence of democracy in action! It is not, of course, merely a ban on advertising nefarious products, there is also the requisite propaganda in the opposite direction:
Amsterdam is also pushing its citizens to eat less meat, and has set a goal for residents to get 60 percent of their protein from plant-based sources by 2030. "Because of climate reasons, because of health reasons," said Anke Bakker, a city councilor with Party for the Animals.
Amsterdam is not the first. The leading light in this fight was The Hague, which banned energy advertising in 2024, shortly after Guterres' speech. The inevitable lawsuit followed in 2025, and the Dutch travel trade association and various travel agents sued the city. Predictably, they lost - and the judge's reasoning should send chills down the spine of any reader:
It is not up to the municipality to refrain from taking measures to promote the health of its residents in order to strengthen the future position of travel providers.
It is not the municipality's role to refrain from censorship. It is not their place to refrain from oppression. Not when it comes to "health" or similar, however tortured to justify the action. And this rationale is particularly ironic in Amsterdam's case. The head goblin who pushed for the new ban, from a party called "GreenLeft," apparently said the following with a straight face:
Ms. Veenhoff likened high carbon lifestyles to an addiction. "If you're trying to get rid of an addiction, it's not very handy to see it everywhere," she said.
In the city known the world over for its easy access to drugs and whores, the real risks to health and the true drivers of addiction are meat and energy. The mind fairly boggles.
Beware the hysterical hyperbole and absurd demands of the global tyrants. They beat the drum and frame the argument to set the stage for the real villains: petty little communists like Veenhoff, who methodically, one district at a time, implement the schemes to destroy their people's rights - which means, of course, to destroy their people.
President Trump proved to be a kingmaker in the Indiana and Ohio Republican primaries Tuesday night, where his seal of approval propelled several GOP candidates to landslide victories.
In Indiana, Trump’s revenge campaign against incumbent state senators who torpedoed his push last year to redraw the Hoosier state’s congressional boundaries was largely successful – with the president’s preferred candidates winning five of six contests.
A potential sixth victory for a Trump-endorsed candidate was still too close to call late Tuesday.
While this is certainly good news for both the President and the people of Indiana and Ohio, both of those states' Republican parties, have done precious little if anything to move the MAGA agenda forward.
Establishment Republicans have for more than a month stalled their half-hearted effort to keep their focus on the bill in hopes of convincing enough Democrats to vote for it. Of course, it’s hard to make liberals defend their unpopular stance if you don’t make them defend their unpopular stance.
The Federalist reached out to Thune’s office on Monday. No answer on the status of the SAVE America act, which would amend the flawed National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo identification to cast a ballot in a federal election. Majority Republicans could push for an end to the bill-killing filibuster to pass the legislation. Several senators and President Donald Trump have urged Senate leadership to do just that. But they won’t, apparently trusting that Democrats wouldn’t do the same when they control the upper House again.
. . . there is the landmark redistricting case that the U.S. Supreme Court just decided this week. In Louisiana v. Callais, the court held that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits states and localities from imposing any voting “qualification or prerequisite” that “results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen … to vote on account of race or color,” cannot be invoked to create race-conscious congressional maps — a dubious practice lawmakers had been blithely engaging in for decades. The court correctly held that such race-conscious mapmaking, including the devising of so-called majority-minority districts across many Southern states, runs afoul of the 14th Amendment’s sweeping equal protection guarantee.
Now I'll single out Ohio insofar as Governor DeSwine and the state GOP have not done a damn thing to take advantage of the ruling as for example Florida and Texas. And that goes for all the other Republican states that have done nothing to reverse the Democrats' abuse of the VRA that artificially gives them the advantage in the House.
Meh, we've been pissing and moaning about the GOP for years, and for the past three national election cycles, for the first time in my life (Ronald Reagan notwithstanding) with Donald Trump at long last we had a candidate that we actually wanted to vote FOR, as opposed to merely showing up to vote Against a Democrat knowing full well that whether Bush, McCain or Romney that they would do nothing to halt let alone reverse the trajectory off the cliff that America has been on for decades.
As both CBD and I pondered, is someone like the youthful and driven Nick Shirley merely a one-off or is he reflective of a broader wave of disaffection of the younger generations at the Democrat/leftist/globalist enterprise that is making their future and the future of the nation one of misery and limited possibilities. Of course the academia/media/cultural propaganda complex will cast the blame on Trump, conservatives and America as founded and far too many Americans have been brainwashed into believing it. Somehow despite all that, Trump and the MAGA message broke through and in spite of the pushback, and some setbacks, it is succeeding and has gained a foothold on the road back from the long march through the institutions that have turned the American experiment on its head.
Of course Trump cannot restore America on his own and not in just two terms. the road back like the road to hell that got us here will be a generational journey. Only time will tell if we and our progeny can stay the course for the long haul.
The United States overtook Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest exporter of crude oil over the past nine weeks, as Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz choked off Middle Eastern oil shipments. Bloomberg News reported Sunday that the United States shipped more than 250 million barrels of crude oil from its wells and storage tanks to overseas buyers over the past nine weeks, becoming a “lifeline for global consumers.”
In the immortal words of J.D. Clampett WELL DOGGIES!!!!
Hegseth made the statement two days after President Donald Trump launched “Project Freedom” on Sunday. Adm, Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, said Monday that the U.S. destroyed multiple Iranian ships that posed a danger to commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran promptly struck several nearby targets, including attacking the United Arab Emirates, a U.S. ally, for the first time since the ceasefire went into effect on April 8. Iran also reportedly hit a South Korean ship. Hegseth Insists Iran War Ceasefire Remains Intact Despite Ongoing Attacks
Graham’s proposal demonstrates that he remains set on trying to topple the Iranian regime, despite evidence that, internally, the country is not as divided as previously thought. While weapons flows could destabilize the country, it remains unclear if it could lead to a successful popular uprising, or merely descend the country into years of bloody civil war, similar to Libya and Syria. Graham Urges Trump to Arm Iranian Opposition Forces.
A ceasefire may quiet missiles, but cyberwar rarely pauses; long after diplomats declare peace, hostile actors remain embedded in networks, waiting for the right moment to strike. Diplomats Can Call a Truce but Hackers Don’t Have to Listen.
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The findings suggest a growing skepticism about America’s role on the global stage, particularly among Democrats, potentially influencing future foreign policy and international relations. The data also highlights the deepening partisan divide in perceptions of international institutions like the UN. Plurality of Democrats Say U.S. Is a Force for Evil.
Will ICE officially become NICE? Probably not anytime soon. But the mere suggestion has Democrats tying themselves in knots, and that alone is worth it. Sometimes the point of a move isn't to execute it — it's to watch your opponents trip over themselves reacting to it. On that score, this one is already a win. Trump Dropped an ICE Rebrand — and Democrats Are Absolutely Losing It
The funding provides critical financial support to law enforcement agencies, enabling them to invest in equipment and personnel without relying solely on local taxpayer dollars. This should allow local police to conduct immigration enforcement and prevent large build-ups of ICE and other federal agents that attract pro-illegal immigrant agitators, as at the protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last year. ICE Funds Local Police to Enhance Immigration Enforcement Operations.
The slope becomes slippery when people trade freedom for promises of greater safety and security -- promises that fall short while shrinking our rights. Republicans are Kill Switching Our Rights
Spirit Airlines crashed under the weight of its own failures—and Washington’s instinct to meddle only proves that free markets work best when politicians keep their hands off the controls. Free Enterprise Could Have Resurrected Spirit Airlines
Bloomberg News reported Sunday that the United States shipped more than 250 million barrels of crude oil from its wells and storage tanks to overseas buyers over the past nine weeks, becoming a “lifeline for global consumers.” U.S. Becomes World’s Biggest Oil Producer During Strait of Hormuz Crisis
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The National Association for Gun Rights pointed out that SF 4067 will ban some of the most commonly owned semiautomatic rifles in America, as well as “ban magazines over 17 rounds … expand ‘Red Flag’ gun confiscation, ban privately manufactured firearms, and ban binary triggers,” among other things. Minnesota Senate Democrats Pass Semiautomatic Rifle, Magazine Ban
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it was suing Denver, Colorado, over a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms, citing its inclusion of the AR-15. Trump Admin Drops Hammer On Denver Over Gun Ban
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The subpoena is part of a broad investigation into allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, particularly regarding Fulton County, which saw many irregularities on election night, including the county admitting that it counted over 315,000 uncertified votes in the election. Fulton County Fights DOJ Subpoena of 2020 Election Workers’ Details.
The lack of verification safeguards in Minnesota’s vouching system raises concerns about election integrity, and the lack of data exposes major gaps in election oversight. This is not the only vulnerability to fraud exposed in Minnesota. After major allegations of welfare fraud were made in December of last year, Vice President J.D. Vance, who was appointed the Trump administration’s “fraud czar” in early April, has been leading an investigation into state officials and other individuals. Minnesota Lacks Verification Records for Tens of Thousands of Voter Registrations.
The poll also measured candidate favorability. Among likely voters, 50 percent view Paxton favorably and 43 percent unfavorably, with 7 percent indicating they do not know enough about him to form an opinion. Cornyn’s ratings show 47 percent favorable and 49 percent unfavorable, with 4 percent unsure. Poll: Ken Paxton Leads John Cornyn in Texas Senate Runoff
The question is not whether those who can vote in the mayoral race have seen the deterioration (it’s undeniable), but whether they will finally hold leftist leadership responsible. Or, as The Free Press asks in a video, “Have L.A. Voters Finally Had Enough?” Are L.A. Voters Finally Waking Up — Or Headed for the Same Mistake Again?
“Somali and Houthi-linked groups are teaming up — using skiffs and new tech to strike ships with coordination not seen in a decade — while Saudi crude rerouted from the Strait of Hormuz has created a target-rich environment for them,” RTCOM Defense CEO Ido Shalev told Fox News Digital. Report: Somali Pirates Team Up with Houthi Terrorists to Attack Key Oil Trade Route
The alleged driver of a car that was ploughed through crowds on a busy shopping street and a historic market square appeared before a court on Tuesday after being arrested at the scene on Monday afternoon. The suspect, a 33-year-old German citizen, is said to be a local amateur boxing coach. (is his name Mohammed Ali...akbar? - jjs Number of Casualties in Leipzig Car Ramming May be as High as 80
The German government is now one year old, the coalition agreement was signed on April 5th 2025, and the first day of government commenced on the 6th. While the so-called ‘grand coalition’ between the legacy establishment left and right-wing parties never scored especially highly in the opinion polls, it has now plunged to new depths, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz deeply unpopular even by European standards. Trump Critic German Chancellor Merz Plunges to Least Popular Leader in Europe
The celebration comes soon after Sinaloa’s cartel-connected Governor Ruben Rocha Moya announced he was stepping down from his post to deal with a series of federal charges filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which accused him of having aligned himself with the Sinaloa Cartel in exchange for money and political power. People Cheer Mexican Governor’s Resignation After Being Charged by USDOJ as Narco
A vast majority of Americans believe the federal government should do more to address its funding of the experiments that keep breeding facilities like Ridglan and Marshall in business. The NIH can send a clear message to those taxpayers by cutting off money to Wayne State’s dead-end experiments. The NIH Has a Chance to End a 35-Year Taxpayer-Funded Failure
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The vagueness in the language above is to my instincts somewhat concerning. Did they find something in that testing that needsmodification prior to launch? If so, getting this lander off the ground before the end of the year is going to be questionable, as those fixes will have to be incorporated and then tested again. Blue Origin’s 1st unmanned lunar lander completes ground testing
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“Underlying this account is a strong concern with self-distinction...Ultimately, a sex change is not sufficient to satisfy Morris’s quest...Morris’ symbolic world is narrower and more private.” Jan Morris and the Limits of Gender Fantasy
On Monday, in a Truth Social post, President Donald J. Trump described Giuliani as a “True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR” in response to the news of his hospitalization. Rudy Giuliani Hailed as ‘Ultimate Fighter,’ Poised for Full Recovery.
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That's with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, which is not expandable.
I have the 3rd generation model with the same memory and storage capacity and a slightly lower display resolution. It cost me around $450, making the new model not a bargain I am in a hurry to pick up.
In the Russian Federation, the LGBT movement is recognized as extremist and banned, so any sort of association or promotion can have serious legal consequences. A young migrant from Uzbekistan found this out the hard way after reviewing a women’s leather skirt on the Wildberries online marketplace.
In September 2025, the young man, known only as Islomjon, left a written review for a women’s leather skirt, along with a photo of himself wearing the garment. In the review, he wrote: “Great skirt! It conceals not only my figure flaws but even the fact that I’m a guy.”
The photo of Islomjon wearing a skirt did not, in fact, conceal his gender and was most likely posted as a joke, but Russian authorities did not find it very funny. Despite deleting his review and accompanying photo, the young migrant was apprehended and charged with “propaganda of non-traditional sexual preferences by disseminating (posting) information aimed at fostering non-traditional sexual attitudes and the attractiveness of non-traditional sexual relations.”
The offender reportedly admitted his guilt in court, but asked only to be fined for his mistake, and not deported, according to Russian law. Unfortunately for him, a court of law found no mitigating circumstances, and last month, he was sentenced to five days of administrative arrest, after which he was forcibly deported from the Russian Federation.
I'm not saying we should consider deporting people because of what they say or post online. But I'm also not NOT saying it.
Of all the risks associated with using insulated food and beverage containers, permanent vision loss would probably rank pretty low on most people’s list, but according to a series of consumer reports, it’s a real possibility. At least 27 people have filed complaints claiming to have suffered laceration injuries when the caps violently ejected from the containers upon opening them.
Several models from Thermos’ Stainless King Food Jar and Sportsman Beverage Bottle lines reportedly feature a design flaw that can have dramatic consequences for users. The danger stems from the stoppers designed to prevent leaks and retain heat. If perishable food or beverages are stored for an extended period, pressure builds up and can cause the cap to violently eject when the container is opened.
Unlike other insulated containers, these faulty models don’t have a pressure release valve, which can cause the stoppers to pop out at high velocity, hitting and injuring users. Of the 27 complaints from people claiming to have suffered lacerations as a result of using Thermos containers, three have reported “permanent vision loss”.
News video segment at the link.
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Play stupid games...
“I made a stupid video about the president, the far right found it and posted it on Twitter, and then got me fired from my job”
-Liberal very upset that her actions have consequences
An entrepreneur cuts up whiskey bottles collected from the trash to make luxury glasses, which he sells — almost at zero cost. pic.twitter.com/1dLhMrWBeQ
State and federal officials made a joint announcement last week that the current contract with Kiewit would not move forward to finish the Key Bridge rebuild, citing concerns with the timeline and cost. U.S. Rep. Andy Harris said he heard the number for the Kiewit-built Key Bridge may have been between $8 and $9 billion.
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“That is going to show just gross mismanagement,” he said during the radio interview.
Pointing to rising material costs, Harris also said Maryland’s minority business program for contractors may have played a role in the rising cost, but he also cited union agreements.
“The state chose a project labor agreement which can increase the cost from 20-25%,” Harris added.
State leaders announced in November 2025 the latest estimate for the Key Bridge rebuild effort would cost between $4.3 billion and $5.2 billion, with a target completion date of the end of 2030. That estimate came after the original price tag was set at around $2 billion.
After announcing the news to move away from Kiewit, state leaders have yet to provide many details about why the decision was specifically made.
“If the cost overrun was so great, let’s talk about it,” Harris said. “There’s a feeling in Congress that this was bait and switch.”
Check out the whole thing.
I live in Andy's district. For now. There is, of course, a redistricting plan underway in Maryland. Most of the red areas in Maryland (yes, there are red areas in MD -- lots of them) have already been Gerrymandered into blue districts. Have I mentioned lately that I can't wait to move out of MD?
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The latest White House shooter has been named. Michael Marx. Seems well-named.
The authorities seem to be slow-rolling information about this person, only telling us he is 45 and has a Texas drivers license. I'm sure that means he's totally not a leftwing murder cultist.
Democrats are currently arguing about whether people who said America deserved 9/11 (Piker), has a Nazi tattoo (Platner), and someone who says he's sad the Ayatollah was killed (El-Sayed) should be welcomed in their "big tent.
Tim Miller and Co supposedly left the GOP bc of principles.
Tucker Carlson and William Kristol, Together Again? It's only a matter of time.
And money. Don't forget the money. Because the grifters all like money. A lot. Like strangely a lot.
The assistant district attorney who filed completely fabricated AI material in a murder case and then lied about it has been suspended by the Georgia Supreme Court for six months. That seems lenient given the dishonesty involved, and the fact that it went undetected for so long.
I say "of course" because the Democrat Party has dictated that black people are almost entirely immune from law or professional requirements and boy oh boy, is that policy working out for everyone with zero negative consequences!
Three high-ranking D.C. police officials are reportedly facing termination or other disciplinary measures, following an internal affairs probe into alleged manipulation of crime statistics.
The possible terminations were reported Tuesday by The Washington Post, citing unnamed sources.
The Justice Department, Republicans in Congress and the District of Columbia have been looking into the allegations.
The city's Metropolitan Police Department's disciplinary process will give any officials accused of misconduct the opportunity to defend themselves. The process can take years and involve arbitration.
A spokesperson for the department said an assistant chief and a district commander were placed on administrative leave, though he didn't disclose the reasons. The third officer reportedly facing termination, also a district commander, is already on administrative leave and was previously the subject of an investigation related to crime statistics, according to the Post.
Cops committing crimes is perfectly acceptable if it helps us sell the Democrat Socialist's Decarceration Agenda.
News report here. These cops were deliberately misreporting shootings as simple assaults and robberies and break-ins as "trespassing" because people don't get alarmed about increases in those categories.
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They told you the culture war is organic--real disagreements between real people with real passions. Nothing to see here.
But what if JD Vance and Erika Kirk are siblings, created by the CIA to deceive and divide us?
Here's what the mainstream media, the political pundits, and the gatekeepers don't want you to understand:
✅ "Same playbook, different faces." You've seen this before. Two people on opposite sides of the political aisle, arguing passionately, generating clicks, outrage, and donations. But what if they're not enemies? What if they're coworkers? The intelligence community has a long history of manufacturing opposition to control the Overton window. Left vs. Right is the oldest trick in the book.
✅ "Follow the connections." Both rose to prominence suspiciously fast. Both say exactly what their respective bases want to hear. Both never cross certain lines that would actually threaten the system. And both refuse to debate each other in any unscripted, uncontrolled environment. When two "enemies" won't meet face to face without handlers, you have to ask: what are they hiding?
✅ "Divide and conquer works when you don't know you're being divided." You think you chose your side. You think your anger is authentic. But what if every talking point, every controversy, every "outrageous statement" was workshopped in a Langley conference room? The goal isn't to win the argument--it's to make sure you're always arguing.
💬 Comment "SIBLINGS" and I'll send you the full breakdown--the connections, the timelines, the intelligence community's history of creating fake opposition, and why they need you to stay angry at each other.
I follow zero political accounts on Instagram so this was definitely pushed to me courtesy of an op. There was probably a money payment to spread this absurd post.
🚨 HOLY CRAP. A Fox reporter just went NICK SHIRLEY mode, CONFRONTING an alleged hospice fraudster in Gavin Newsom's California — they shut the door and begged Fox to leave
🚨 JUST IN: Ilhan Omar is flat out REFUSING to turn over documents to a Minnesota committee investigating the $250 MILLION Somali “Feeding Our Future” fraud
She is KNEE DEEP in this scandal, and DOJ needs to go after her HARD.
WDW_Pro discussed this disclosure. "Andor" is number one, but mostly because it has 18 episodes over two seasons -- so there is something like 12 hours of Andor to watch, as opposed to two hours of Star Wars: A New Hope.
And these ratings were complied while the show was running in 2025. Tales of the Underworld was also fresh in 2025.
One Disney movie, Rogue One, made the top ten. None of the Daisy Ridley Force is Female saga sequels.
Further proof that the Disney sequels are absolute failures: When Disney's Star Wars Land was being designed, the imagineers were planning it to heavily reference original movies. But mid-design, Kaffeine Kennedy called them and ordered them to abandon all references to the original movies and make it firmly set in the Kaffeine Kennedy era, with "her" characters. She femspained that she wasn't interested in appeasing the 50+ year old fans who actually like Star Wars, but the Modern, Diverse Audience she was sure would celebrate her Stunning and Brave retcon of Star Wars into yet another female-centric Disney Princess Brand.
It did not work. Galaxy's Edge has been a perennial disappointment as far as attendance.
The WDW_Pro panel pointed out that when one corporate regime replaces another, the incoming regime has no strong incentive to cover up for the last one. In fact, the new regime has an incentive to release the bad news that the old regime long suppressed, so they can show they're improving on the old regime's failures.
It does seem strange that months after Kaffeine Kennedy was booted out of Lucasfilm, the long-hidden ratings -- once held in the same warehouse where they stored the Ark of the Covenant -- are suddenly being published.
And the rumor is -- and I'd say this is a fact -- that Disney will re-cast Han, Luke, and Leia and start making movies about their adventures immediately after the fall of the Empire. The Timothy Zahn Thrawn trilogy, for example.*
RUMOR: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy From Timeline to Resume Focus on Original Characters
"If true, this would be one of the most dramatic franchise shifts in modern Hollywood history." pic.twitter.com/tqB5V8uo9x
And you have to imagine the new films will have exactly as much respect for the old timeline, the "Rey/Finn" timeline, as the Rey/Finn movies had for the original timeline -- none at all. Even if they don't explicitly say that the sequels are now retconned and no longer exist, it will become obvious when events happen that are inconsistent with Kaffeine Kennedy's movies.
For example: Luke Skywalker will almost certainly court and marry Mara Jade, as he did in the books, which would be incompatible with the Kaffeine Kennedy content. They're not going to avoid a crowd-pleasing romance just to keep kosher with the Kaffeine Kennedy disasters.
As the WDW_Pro panel speculated: The ideological people failed badly, so now the soulless money-grubbing investor people are calling the shots.
And frankly they cannot be any worse than the ideological zealots.
BP
@everyonebpup
May 4
> be Disney executive
> pay $4B for Lucasfilm in 2012
> greenlight a new trilogy to print money
> Force Awakens hits $2B. you are a god
> Last Jedi splits the fanbase
> Rise of Skywalker barely clears a billion
> teens now call Star Wars "out of order"
> Mandalorian and Grogu tracks franchise-low
> can't admit trilogy failed. shareholders watching
> tell Filoni the sequels need to be "branched off"
> cast members at parks start citing a time portal
> May the 4th merch quietly drops the sequels
> rumor leaks: Ahsoka finale severs the timeline
$4B of canon about to get filed under "alternate universe" because nobody can say the word "mistake"
But I don't think returning to Han, Luke and Leia will help. Once you fall completely out of love, you don't usually fall back in love. The bubble is burst, the magic is gone. The Force is dead.
It's really incredible. The biggest IPs in the history of the world destroyed themselves because The Mary Sue claimed that girls liked boys' action-adventure movies just as much as boys and it was #Sexist to not let girls See Themselves in boys adventure/war stories and these fucking idiots believed them and bet $40 billion dollars on what "Princess Weeks" from The Mary Sue told them.
Below, proof that the supposedly "good" sequel film was just an embarrassing rip-off of the original trilogy movies, as if you need it.
I hear that this was a mandate from Creative Genius Bob Iger, who issued the very creative corporate mandate that the "new" movies should just be remakes of the old ones. So I don't think that choice can be blamed on Kaffeine.
She can be blamed for everything else, though.
If you have four minutes to spare, this video comparing The Force Awakens to Star Wars explains better than a million words ever could why the sequel trilogy was doomed to fail, and from the start. If you've never seen it, it's an absolute must. https://t.co/kZIErDv1uZ
Coconut Kamala Harris Endorses Communist Revolutionary and Epic Incompetent Karen Bass for LA Mayor; Claims Bass Has Reduced Crime and Homelessness
—Disinformation Expert Ace
What? Did you say she reduced crime and homelessness?
This is the same nonsense they claimed with Biden. Crime exploded under Biden, but it cannot remain at all-time record levels year after year, so some years it will "decline," but from a historically elevated high, to another historically elevated high (but not a record high).
And then they said: Biden reduced crime, bigots. Look it up. DC murders fell 8%.
Yes down from historic murder levels not seen since the 80s -- yes, it fell off slightly from that grim bloody pace.
Bass, a Democrat, is facing a challenge from Spencer Pratt, a Republican reality television star, as well as several other candidates from her own party. Harris announced her support for Bass on Monday. Polls show Bass with less than the required 50 percent support to avoid a runoff, with a significant portion of the electorate remaining undecided, so Harris' endorsement could carry weight among undecided Democrats.
Harris praised Bass as the "leader Los Angeles needs right now," touting a decline in homelessness and crime.
"Mayor Karen Bass is the leader Los Angeles needs right now. She has done what so many said couldn't be done -- the first ever two-year decline in homelessness, reducing crime to levels this city hasn't seen since the 1960s, and refusing to back down when the federal government came after our neighbors," Harris said in a statement. "She has my full support for re-election."
Pratt is climbing in the polls. Adam Carolla said of him something like: "Yes, he's inexperienced, inexperienced at destroying Los Angeles, and I'll pick that inexperience over Karen Bass's tremendous experience at destroying Los Angeles."
I'm glad Coconut Kamala endorsed Bass because the other alternative is a communist City Council retard named Nithya Raman who routinely blames the widespread theft of catalytic converters on auto companies for deliberately making them "too easy to steal." LA thieves are now drilling into people's gas tanks to steal their gas and I think I read she also blamed auto companies for not armoring their gas tanks.
Any excuse she needs to avoiding blaming crime on, erm, criminals.
Nithya Raman is at 9%. 40% are undecided.
I like Coconut Kamala's endorsement because I want Bass to remain in the race. I fear that if she drops out, the insane communist Nithya Raman will win.
I do not believe Bass has much of a chance to win. She is so hopelessly incompetent that even Democrats realize it. An incumbent Democrat who can only attract a quarter of the vote in LA is a disaster, obviously.
Pratt claims that when you run as a "Democratic Socialist," as the retarded communist Nithya Raman is doing, you are required to sign a kind of loyalty oath "contract" with the DSA promising to "co-govern" with the DSA itself.
Below, some ads from the former reality TV star. I don't believe the last ad is his, just an AI thing a supporter cooked up.
How dare Spencer Pratt blame Karen Bass for burning down his house. Why she had nothing to do with it! She was in Africa treating with communist warlords while the fires were raging!!!
The last California-bound oil tanker to pass through the Strait of Hormuz since war erupted is at the Port of Long Beach offloading its valuable cargo -- 2 million barrels of crude destined to be transformed into gasoline, jet fuel and diesel.
The New Corolla loaded up in Iraq on Feb. 24 -- just days before U.S. and Israeli forces launched attacks on Iran, plunging the region into turmoil and sparking a double blockade of commercial shipping.
In two weeks, the Hong Kong-flagged tanker will have fully unloaded at the Marathon Petroleum terminal and departed again for distant waters. After that, California must figure out how to replace some 200,000 barrels of oil a day that will no longer be arriving from the Persian Gulf.
Senator Suzette Valladares
@SenValladares
California's last major oil shipment is here. After this, we're short about 200,000 barrels a day--and no one has explained the plan to replace it.
@CAProblemSolver asked two weeks ago.
Still nothing.
You can't run the fifth-largest economy on "we'll figure it out."
A former state trooper who ran fraud investigations inside Minnesota's Department of Human Services told state lawmakers Tuesday that senior officials ordered him to delete findings, harassed his unit, and tried to shut down probes into what he now calls an organized criminal enterprise looting the state's public-benefit system. His testimony landed the same day federal agents raided more than 20 businesses in Minneapolis as part of a widening crackdown on suspected fraud in publicly funded childcare and nutrition programs.
Jay Swanson, who led a DHS fraud investigations unit from 2014 to 2018, appeared before the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee with a blunt account of institutional failure. He described a pattern in which investigators flagged large-scale fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program, only to be met with hostility from the very officials who should have acted on the evidence.
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Swanson told the committee that his unit's work quickly put it on a collision course with DHS leadership. As the Daily Mail reported, Swanson said a senior DHS official confronted him directly over a document his team had prepared, and demanded that portions of it be removed.
"I soon had a senior DHS official in my office, angry, red-faced, and almost yelling. The senior DHS official told me to delete a number of paragraphs of the document. I then advised this official that I believed what they were telling me to do was illegal."
Swanson did not name the official in the quoted testimony. But he made clear the pressure was not an isolated incident. He described a broader campaign against his investigators that went beyond bureaucratic friction.
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The former investigator also offered a broader assessment of what his team had uncovered, framing it as the beginning of something far larger than a few bad actors gaming a single program.
"As I look back with the benefit of 2020 hindsight, I realized that what our team saw was the early stages of a somewhat loosely organized criminal enterprise beginning to pillage Minnesota's public benefit system."
One of Swanson's most striking claims concerned how widely known Minnesota's vulnerability had become. He told lawmakers that suspects his unit investigated said they had first learned about the fraud opportunity while still living abroad.
As the New York Post reported, Swanson said investigators found it was common knowledge in Somali refugee camps in Kenya that Minnesota was the place to go.
"They had heard you could run the scam in a number of different states, but it was easiest, and you could make the most money doing it in Minnesota."
That testimony aligns with separate sworn claims from another former DHS investigator, Scott Dexter. As Just the News reported, Dexter said his unit found evidence of large-scale fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program involving Somali-run daycare centers, but that investigations were narrowed or converted from law-enforcement cases to internal administrative matters because of political pressure and accusations of bias.
And we haven't even begun to dig into the greatest Fraud State in the world, California. A 2020 report warned Newsom in no uncertain terms that the state was left wide-open to hospice fraud, and Newsom did nothing, because, of course, the Party of Plunder exists solely to plunder and pillage from the hardworking normies.
“The 2022 document that I am holding is an 87-page report from the then-acting state auditor in California addressed directly to the governor of California, warning in no uncertain terms that the state's weak oversight of hospice agencies… pic.twitter.com/GgajGSYlXt
Woke Reich Lefties Ian Carroll, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Tuq'r Qarlson Join Coordinated Op to Merge the Far Left with the Woke Right
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Their new op is decrying the artificial schism between communists and "the right" -- by which they mean national socialists -- and calling for communists and "the right" to merge and defeat the "real enemies," who are capitalists, normies, Christian Zionists, and, obviously, Jews.
This has been the op for two years. It is now so undeniable they're no longer denying it. It's now their open political ambition.
The far left knows it cannot command a majority. After trying, and failing, to take over the conservative movement through psyops and subterfuge -- good old communist subversion, inversion, and demorailzation -- the Woke Reich now knows there is no path to power in the GOP or conservative movement.
So they've decided to unite. Or, rather: they're now announcing their plan they've always been set on, uniting the most disgusting elements of the left and the pseudoright.
Cavernous Nostrils called for "fixing the fracture" between the left and "right," and Nazi fan Ian Carroll immediately jumped on board. (Well, actually, this had been gamed out behind the scenes. They're trying to make the new op appear "organic.")
Gal Sharpton was always on the left. She briefly pretended to "convert" to the right when she realized that a black female "right wing" grifter could make much, much more money than a been-there, done-than black female left-wing grifter.
The same logic explains why full-left liberals like David French continue pretending they're "on the right." The money is better pretending to be on the right while agreeing with every single policy imperative of the far left.
And now Gal Sharpton's campaigning for rightists (or people who falsely believe they're on the right) to join her in uniting with the left:
You and Cavernous Nostrils are the most diabolical part of the parties, Nazi John Waters.
Green Beret Nap Time
@GBNT1952
Have you noticed how the Halal Right has shifted its messaging to push "coming together" with the left? In this clip they are talking about a new party.
There won't be a new party. They are all full blown leftists and are uniting with the left and our enemies.
Candace said it yesterday. So did the gay pizza delivery guy.
Nick Fuentes has been saying it for a while.
Shawn [Ryan] glizzed fat Cenk and literally didn't disagree with him once on his show because he's now also a gay race communist.
If you don't see the op it's because you don't want to see it.
"Glizzed"? I've heard "glazed." I guess "glizzed" is the more sexually suggestive version of "glazed." I will use that.
Oh, look y'all ... the memo is out ... the most divisive, destructive, dividing, gaslighting, doomer grifters on the planet are now going to bring us all together through love and harmony - 😂
Seriously, how low does your IQ have to be to fall for these ridiculous, laughable… pic.twitter.com/oIpbaWRENE
"We have to Impeach the Orange. It's time to put this nigga in a peach."
"No Vance, no Rubio, we have to burn down the whole party."
Nick Fuentes confirms he is a now a moderate Democrat, calls for President Trump to be impeached, and wants the GOP to be destroyed.
Fuentes has been attacking Trump since 2016 and has admitted he never cared about immigration, and his sole litmus test is hatred of Israel. pic.twitter.com/e1cuuLaCEl
I've been relatively quiet on the subject of right-wing influencers who defected from MAGA.
But if they are actually proposing unity with left wing populist movements, then they are proposing unity with Communists.
That is the red line for me.
Almost as if this is all part of some pre-arranged coordinated op!
“The New York Times is so funny,” says @MarkHalperin, remarking on the Times’ big interview with Tucker Carlson. “Their heroes now are people who used to support Donald Trump, but no longer do. If you supported Donald Trump, like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Tucker, and now now… pic.twitter.com/AKuK3Go7QE
Supreme Court Grants Motion to Immediately Finalize Gerrymander Decision, Allowing Lousiana to Implement It Now
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I guess there's some period of time that usually passes after a decision is announced until it is considered implementable law -- thirty two days before it is "reported" to the lower court.
But this is just a general practice, not a firm rule. The Court has adjusted this clock before when justice demanded it.
The Supreme Court on Monday night granted a request to immediately finalize its opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, in which it struck down that state's congressional map, to allow Louisiana to draw a new map in time for the 2026 elections. That map is expected to favor Republicans, who currently hold four of the state's six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives but could pick up one or even two more under a revised map.
Was it justified to speed up the clock? Yes, for two reasons.
1, the racially discriminatory maps are unconstitutional right now. Not in two years, right now. The citizens of Louisiana are living under racist congressional maps right now. And what's the left's favorite propaganda slogan...? "Justice delayed is justice denied."
2, we now have almost complete confirmation of the rumor that Obama hack Kagan deliberately dragged her heels on submitting her dissent not because she needed seven months to perfectly craft it, but specifically to avoid the ruling taking effect a half year ago, giving southern states plenty of time to adjust without having to scramble right before voting began.
Because it's now revealed that the Supreme Court "conferenced" the case seven months ago -- meaning they debated and voted on the decision.
But Kagan needed Moar Time to craft her perfect dissent.
The first Alito footnote is notable: he says the original case was conferenced 7 months ago. That says there’s more than a little smoke to the rumors the liberal justices drug their feel to impact the midterms, and now Jackson is throwing a fit the majority is fixing that delay https://t.co/HIa4creaiD
Unqualified DEI Fake Justice Ketanji-Brown through another one of her racialist hissy-fits. She is appalled that the Court will not allow the leftwing Justice's deliberate seven-month delay to stand. She has no good reason for this -- she says that granting this motion would show "partisanship" but, as Alito says, she does not explain why not granting it would equally show partisanship, but in favor of the Always Racist Democrat Party.
🚨 HOLY CRAP!! Justices Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas just PUMMELED Ketanji Jackson's dissent, calling it "trivial at best, and the other is baseless and INSULTING"
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Jackson basically ATTACKED the majority, and argued Louisiana should be required to use an *unconstitutional* racially gerrymandered map in the 2026 midterms -- directly against the majority ruling.
Alito didn't take too kindly to that:
"The dissent goes on to claim that our decision represents an unprincipled use of power...that is a groundless and utterly irresponsible charge."
"What principle has the Court violated? The principle that Rule 45.3's 32-day default period should never be shortened even when there is good reason to do so? The principle that we should never take any action that might unjustifiably be criticized as partisan?"
"The dissent accuses the Court of 'unshackl[ing] itself from 'constraints...' It is the DISSENT'S rhetoric that lacks restraint."
"The dissent in this suit levels charges that cannot go unanswered. The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional."
"The dissent does not claim that it is now too late for the state legislature or the District Court to adopt a new map that complies with the Constitution."
"Nor does the dissent assert that it is not feasible for the elections to be held under such a map. Instead, the dissent offers two reasons for its proposed course of action."
"One is trivial at best, and the other is baseless and insulting."
Gorsuch signed onto this as well.
Once again, not a single other leftwing justice was willing to sign her name to Ketanji-Brown's pig-ignorant doctrine of "the law must constantly shape-shift to guarantee that blacks, women, gays and Democrats always win" bullshit:
Hans Mahncke
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There was a routine Supreme Court procedural order today not to delay fixing Louisiana's unconstitutional gerrymander. Normally these things are handled quietly without revealing who thought what but this time was different because Jackson insisted on writing a bizarre diatribe, which prompted Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch to respond. And they did not hold back. They described her claims as "baseless and insulting" and "groundless and utterly irresponsible." They really, really cannot stand her.
What really says it all is that the other liberals would not touch it, let alone join Jackson or defend her. She is simply too embarrassing even for them to sign onto. Also interesting, but not surprising, that Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett sat this one out, as usual, because they are too timid to call out someone who, by any sane standard, should not be anywhere near a judge's chambers, especially not this one.
KBJ is single-handedly discrediting progressive jurisprudence for a generation
May she stay on the court for as long as she wants, writing lone, angry dissents https://t.co/3xJRDI6qgv
Hello! Good afternoon to all. Except those on the west coast or further west. Good morning!
Crow update: I am getting one crow visitor. (I think it's one.) He comes most days now. I didn't tell you before because I wanted to post a good photo of him, but my photos are terrible. Also, they're not improving.
When he sees me he flies off, so I've only got a second to grab the picture.
When supposedly conservative organizations reach a certain size, they begin that sad journey into wishy-washy bullsh*t language, so as not to attract the attention of the legal departments of their competition, or the libel attorneys working for the Democrat opposition.
Of course there is a different interpretation, and that is they are protecting their carefully cultivated access to the movers and shakers of the Corporate GOP apparatus, and the excellent cocktail parties they throw with the superb passed hors d'œuvres (especially the scallop with bacon!) and top-shelf bourbon.
Why else would The Federalist bury the obvious lead until the penultimate paragraph? They are minimizing the glaringly obvious conclusion that the Democrat talking points about lack of access to citizenship documents being a horror on par with genocide and puppy rape are absolute unmitigated lies, and the real issue is that the reason so many of their voters can't prove they are citizens is BECAUSE THEY AREN'T!
Ayres and Slaughter estimate that Democrats are 13 percentage points “less likely than Republicans to hold qualifying registration documents” in New Mexico. And while Ayres and Slaughter estimate the passage of the SAVE America Act would only have “modest” consequences for the midterms because those currently registered to vote would be “unaffected,” “as more people would need to register after moving, changing their names or reaching voting age, this document shortfall could flip New Mexico to an electorate where Republicans have a 3.3-percentage-point advantage.”
They are buying into the nonsense that poor people and people of color and non-binary trans-women and downtrodden housewives simply can't get the vital documents to prove they are citizens. No...not "buying into," but purposefully obfuscating so their donors in the GOPe don't get too frustrated by the threats to their labor force...wetbacks and non-citizen guest workers, many of whom vote.
The correct headline should read:
WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Are Not Citizens
Everybody with a pulse and a few functioning neurons knows that's the case, but Conservative Inc. can't seem to admit it.
Rushing out articles debunking the Democrat lies about the difficulty of access to basic documentation is allowing the Democrat/Progressive cabal to control the narrative. The issue is not documentation access...it is that illegals are voting.
That's it. Nothing else matters.
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Gunshots were fired near the White House complex and the Washington Monument Monday, prompting the Secret Service to lock down nearby locations.
United States Secret Service confirmed that law enforcement shot one individual at 15th Street and Independence Avenue during the incident, and a bystander was struck; both are alive, authorities confirmed at a press briefing Monday. Agents reportedly engaged in a heated confrontation with an armed man near the White House and National Mall before President Donald Trump’s event in the East Room of the White House began, RealClearPolitics national correspondent Susan Crabtree first reported... The suspect is currently in custody and no Secret Service agents were harmed. He is reportedly recovering from his gunshot wounds at George Washington Hospital, and Secret Service agents recovered his firearm.
You may well ask, given the fact that President Trump and his entire cabinet and really all of us who support and voted for him have a big fat (literal, not Mark Kelly imaginary) target painted on them, how could something like this happen, yet again?! Well how about this for starters?
Secret Service Agent Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation in Miami. John Spillman, age 33, had been in Miami to work exterior security for President Donald Trump’s appearance at the PGA Tour’s Cadillac Championship on Sunday, per CNBC: The incident involving Spillman occurred at the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport & Convention Center on Sunday night, according to WSVN-7 News Miami, which cited an arrest report by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
Joe Biden, the last Democrat to occupy the White House, said it was “time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” Five days later, Thomas Matthew Crooks evaded the Secret Service and fired seven shots, one wounding candidate Trump in the ear. Jump ahead to April 25, 2026.
By all indications, Joe Biden issued no post after Cole Thomas Allen aimed to assassinate Trump. Take Obama’s post as another admission that, as David Samuels acknowledged in “The Obama Factor” in 2023, the hapless Biden was a puppet and the “fictional character” created in Dreams from My Father was still running the country and “responsible for the disaster that we are living through now.”
For all but the willfully blind, leading Democrats are now all-in on political violence. Obama serves as a pro-bono attorney for assassins like Cole Thomas Allen and jihadists like Nidal Hasan. The mass murderer was sentenced to death in 2013 but remains alive at this writing.
Trump Goes All In On Regime Change In Cuba: The Trump administration just slammed the door on an effort by Cuba’s communist government to secure an economic lifeline while appearing to embrace reform. A May 1 executive order expands and sharpens longstanding American sanctions on Cuba, and appears to deliberately target a recent gesture at partially opening the Cuban economy. “All property and interests in property that are in the United States,” the order says, are barred from operating “in the energy, defense and related materiel, metals and mining, financial services, or security sector of the Cuban economy, or any other sector of the Cuban economy,” under the penalty of economic sanctions.
If you'll remember, in March, a group of far-leftist folks from the U.S. and Europe — including members of Code Pink, commie activist Hasan Piker, and Ilhan Omar's daughter — flew into the crumblingly communist country and stayed in five-star hotels, enjoyed fancy meals, held concerts, and recorded podcasts, all while the Cuban people starve and live without electricity or water much of the time. They took photos with "president" Miguel Díaz-Canel and came back declaring that all was well on the island.
This crew spent some of their time riding around the city and viewing the Cubans as if they were on some sort of poverty safari, and Piker said the people just had an "island mindset" and that's why they just hung around in the streets all day. They came back reporting that things were just groovy down there and would be even better if Trump and Rubio would stop bullying them.
Well, independent journalist Nick Shirley recently visited Cuba and attempted to do the same thing... but he wanted to tell the real story of what's happening after decades of failed and corrupt communist rule. As you can imagine, he didn't get quite the welcome the others did. Not only that, but according to him, his equipment was seized, "spies" followed him around, and he barely escaped without being "kidnapped."
It is my fervent hope and prayer that Nick Shirley is not a one-off and that there are growing numbers of millennials and the younger generations that while not perhaps as open and brave as to put themselves in direct danger at least will become the next literal "Silent Majority" that will reject the insanity of Democrat/Leftism and once again secure America's future as the shining city on a hill.
Shirley has put himself in some precarious situations in the past, but this one may have been the most dangerous. Thankfully, he did make it out alive, but here's exactly what happened, according to him. . . Nick Shirley Went to Cuba. He Almost Didn't Make It Home
Victor Davis Hanson: The Iran war didn’t just break Tehran—it shattered old alliances, exposed Europe’s weakness, checked China and Russia, and accelerated an American-led geopolitical realignment. The Global Ripples from the Iran War
Central Command (CENTCOM), the U.S. military formation responsible for operations in the Middle East, moved to dispel a claim by Iran that it had landed a blow on one of its warships on Monday morning. The unequivocal response from CENTCOM noted the assertion of a successful attack on a U.S. warship and stated: “No U.S. Navy ships have been struck. U.S. forces are supporting Project Freedom and enforcing the naval blockade on Iranian ports.” Iran Claims Two-Missile Strike on U.S. Warship, CENTCOM Denies
Belmont Club/Richard Fernandez: If Project Freedom succeeds, the Strait will essentially be controlled not by Iran, but the United States.The USN will essentially turn Iran’s ultimate weapon, a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, against it. This is a feat that both Britain and France have long declared as physically impossible. The Horns of Hormuz
Daily Caller that the U.S. has cleared an “effective pathway” through the strait. Two U.S. ships have passed through the strait in the last 24 hours. Following the exchange of fire, Cooper declined to speak about whether the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was now over. US Destroys Six Iranian Ships In Straight Of Hormuz During ‘Project Freedom’
Iran’s shifting peace proposals, escalating Strait confrontations, and nuclear defiance point to a crisis diplomacy cannot contain and only force can resolve. Iran Proposes Peace but Provokes War
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
United States Secret Service confirmed that law enforcement shot one individual at 15th Street and Independence Avenue during the incident. Agents reportedly engaged in a heated confrontation with an armed man at the White House before President Donald Trump’s upcoming event began and wound up shooting him, RealClearPolitics national correspondent Susan Crabtree first reported. Gunshots Fired Near White House
The shooting led to heightened security measures in the area, including a White House lockdown, underscoring the ongoing challenges of maintaining security in the nation’s capital. Notably, an event involving President Donald J. Trump and small business owners took place as planned, although journalists at the White House were taken to a briefing room for safety. Secret Service Shoots Man Near Washington Monument, White House Locked Down.
Grace Carol Brown was arrested Jan. 22 by the New Braunfels Police Department on suspicion of arson and burglary after employees at the Comal County Republican Party headquarters discovered the building had been broken into and a small fire had been set on Jan. 14, according to a Jan. 23 release. A Comal County grand jury added the terrorism charge on April 15, the San Antonio News-Express reported. Woman Charged With Terrorism For Allegedly Setting Fire To Texas GOP Office
This coincides with the reality that President Donald Trump has one of his highest approval ratings on the issue of immigration, clocking in at 47 percent. For greater comparison, former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden’s approval on immigration stood at 34 percent in January 2025, prior to Trump beginning his second term. Poll: Most Americans Believe Democrats Are for Open Borders
When a toddler threatens to scream and cry while out to dinner, it’s easier to throw a phone or tablet at them to stop the chaos. However, all you are teaching them is that they’ll get their way if they make a big enough scene. Now, every time you are out in public, and they don’t get what they want, they will resort to the behavior that gets them the reward. Children need structure and clearly defined rules. If you allow them to be disruptive, you’ve relinquished your control and ability to take care of the family. DHS Should Use Age-Old Parenting Tactic While Conducting Deportations
John Spillman, age 33, had been in Miami to work exterior security for President Donald Trump’s appearance at the PGA Tour’s Cadillac Championship on Sunday, per CNBC: The incident involving Spillman occurred at the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport & Convention Center on Sunday night, according to WSVN-7 News Miami, which cited an arrest report by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. Secret Service Agent Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation in Miami
“Our investigation found that State Farm delayed, underpaid, and buried policyholders in red tape at the worst moment of their lives,” Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said in a statement. “That is unacceptable, and we are taking decisive action to hold them accountable.” ( California Regulators Seek to Suspend State Farm License for Mishandling Los Angeles Wildfire Claims (Suspend Bass and Newsom from a lamp post first - jjs)
Patel: “The FBI uses all tools to do our mission.” The bureau is buying detailed profiles of American citizens from their movements, habits, and associations from commercial data brokers. No warrant necessary, no judge, no probable cause—just a purchase order made by some low-level staffer. What seems to be a clear violation of the 4th Amendment is a Washington problem, one that has been festering for years across administrations on both sides of the aisle. Our Data Is For Sale To An Unexpected Buyer
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Affordability is just the Democrats’ latest excuse for giving out free stuff to their supporters, paid for by you and me. Now I Get It: Affordability is a Con
“A third of the crime doesn’t happen here, so we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out. Every state is getting a plus up,” Patel said. FBI Shifts Agents Out of DC in Major Overhaul
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Public schools survive what no business could: monopoly protection, union entrenchment, and taxpayer bailouts—proof that education works best when government gets out of the way. It’s Time to Abolish Public Schools
Leftism forces us to look at things only from the woman’s viewpoint, but the baby’s life is equally important, no matter the circumstances of its conception. I Was Not Really Pro-Life (And What Changed My Mind)
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Not a single Democrat in the Senate is willing to support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, and a new op-ed from The Washington Post might just explain why. WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Can’t Prove They’re Citizens
The charges highlight the Trump administration’s focus on voter fraud, particularly involving noncitizens, which undermines election integrity. The penalties for such offenses can be severe, including up to 10 years in prison for false statements leading to citizenship. Election integrity proponents say such cases prove the need for voter identification laws, such as the SAVE America Act. Multiple Immigrants Charged with Voting Illegally.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Democrat Illinois Gov. and billionaire JB Pritzker has been quietly throwing his political weight and checkbook around, bankrolling major campaign committees, senior leaders, and 2026 congressional election challengers viewed as critical to the Democrat Party. Meet The Heavy Hitter Quietly Bankrolling Democrats Ahead Of Possible Presidential Run
Seattle used to be a place where the arts were bigger than Antifa, food culture was bigger than fentanyl, and where hardworking citizens were prized above homeless addicts. With every utterance or move she makes, however, the humorless, public school teacher–like scold telegraphs her communist priorities for what once was a great American city. These priorities boil down to more homeless, more crime, and fewer jobs. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson: A Dumber and More Unlikeable Version of Commie Mamdani
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
One report suggested that Rubio, who is a Cuban-American Catholic, will also address the dire situation that the Caribbean island is facing after nearly 70 years of communist devastation. Vatican Confirms Marco Rubio Will Meet Pope Leo XIV on May 7
The Trump administration just slammed the door on an effort by Cuba’s communist government to secure an economic lifeline while appearing to embrace reform. A May 1 executive order expands and sharpens longstanding American sanctions on Cuba, and appears to deliberately target a recent gesture at partially opening the Cuban economy. Trump Goes All In On Regime Change In Cuba
This is not the first time Amsterdam has served as a site for far-left social engineering programs. In early January, an investigation revealed that students living with asylum seekers as part of an integration experiment in Amsterdam reported years of sexual assaults, violence, and harassment. European Capital Outlaws Ads for Burgers, Gas Cars, and Cruises.
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS
Horrors! The latest atrocity in Gaza, reports Al Jazeera, is a wave of “luxurious” cafes and restaurants that have sprung up, “revealing a new genocidal reality.” (Table for two, right here by the mass grave! - jjs) Luxurious Gaza cafes poke quite the hole in the ‘genocide’ narrative
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
...the President ordered the withdrawal of 12,000 troops from Germany, citing the country’s insufficient NATO contributions. The new withdrawal allows the U.S. to shift its military resources to other zones of interest. Trump Plans Further Troop Reductions in Europe.
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
“Trouble reached my door...“I would also not be able to say that I was in the program...“‘Sex worker’ is what you have to say now...“Writers have no problem censoring other writers. The Wrong Kind of Black
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Where by audio industry they mean, basically, Spotify.
The problem is a company called Inception Point, that is spewing out 3000 podcasts a week using AI-generated voices.
Does anyone listen to them?
Well, the number is probably not zero. I listened to an AI-generated science fiction story that was tolerable if not particularly original. But when I was automatically forwarded to the next story on the channel it was exactly the same with a few names and details changed.
The site racked up 245 million visits over 25 years... Which is not remotely enough for a business to survive on. Which makes me wonder a little how they did.
Counterpoint: No it fucking doesn't. Are you stupid or what?
The analyst adds that not only is jumping from a 90% yield to a 98% yield significantly more difficult than achieving 90% from 0%, but also that the 90% yield is a validation figure instead of a production figure. As a result, he believes cautious optimism is the better approach when following the packaging technology.
Getting from 0% to 90% yield is taking a process that simply doesn't work and making it into a reliable production line. Getting it to 98% is nice, but irrelevant on the broader scale.
Musical Interlude
And since the audio on that version is a little muddy:
Podcast: Starting a new season, CBD and Sefton discuss their personal journeys to conservative principles, is Nick Shirley the beginning of a trend?, Iran trying to reignite the war, the Left attacks itself, even on "Best Guitarist" lists, and more!
Podcast: CBD and Sefton Charge the Democrats with fomenting violence against the nation with their rhetoric, Virginia redistricting going down the tubes? Trump's bully pulpit is not censorship, Lee Zeldin is a star, J.B. Pritzker is an idiot, and more!
ANOTHER LEFT WING ASSASSIN ATTEMPTS TO KILL TRUMP If I understand this, the left-wing Democrat assassin attempted to get into the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and was stopped at the magnetometers, which detected his gun. I guess he pulled out the gun and was shot by Secret Service agents. Erika Kirk was present.
Forgotten 70s Mystery Click You made me cry when you said good-bye 70s, not 50s Now that is a motherflipping intro
Podcast: Sefton and CBD wonder about the Chaos that Trump is creating in the minds of the Iranian junta, Virginia redistricting is pure power grab, Ilhan Omar is many things ...and stupid too! Amazon censoring conservative thought again, and the UK...put a fork in it!
The people in charge [Jews, of course -- ace] don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.
Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity.
Trump's trolling tweet was ill-advised, but Tucker is just lying when he claims the Christianity-hating President of Iran was "offended" by this. He's one step away from announcing his official conversion to Islam. He literally never stops praising Islam. Well, he suddenly became Christian two years ago, there's not much stopping him from converting again.
You can track Tuq'r's official conversion to Islam with this Bingo card.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton talk Orban losing, but is it the end of Hungary? The Irish start a brawl, but is it enough, Pope Leo wades into politics, Trump calls Iran's bluff and blockades Hormuz, Artemis II! Swallwell is scum, and more!
People say that the bearded man in the video of Fartwell molesting a hooker looks like Democrat Arizona Senator Rueben Gallego, said to be Swalwell's "best friend" and known to take vacations with him.
