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Scroll down in the thread for more exacting information about color sensitivities in various species. But this gives you an idea why hunters often wear orange.
Very long time lurker from Australia here.
Here are my two Frenchies, Peggy and her little brother Louis. Louis is the guy with the beer and he, sadly, really is a moron. They love cuddling up together when it's cold down here in Australia.
Peggy and Louis are wonderful.
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These two are ying and yang. Tory, the white one is a pure breed husky. Chill and calm. Moon, the black one is a 4 time returned to a shelter adoption because he's kind of a lot to handle. Loves to eat drywall. Best buddies and no class envy here.
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Wow. Great to hear about buddies with different personalities getting along so well with each other. About the drywall eating: could there be an iron deficiency?
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Here are some recent RtC pics in case folks are starving for images. I know his fans are this close to being infected with rabies. So I do my part.
1. Here he is looking imperial.
2. Here he is looking tired of all this.
3. Here is where I discovered that, behind my back, he decided to go into business as a contractor. I've blurred the phone number in case some naughty types wanted to do mischief.
4. Here he is Giving the Look.
Last summer I tore out all of the coneflowers and roses from our front garden bed, and replaced them with 40 different varieties of daylillies, about 50 plants in all.
The new bed is simply beautiful! Daylily flowers each last only for 24 hours, but each plant sports multiple stems with multiple flowers on each stem. The result is a riot of colors, with a different set of flowers blooming every morning. Something nice to get me out of bed in the morning!
I love these! There are more if we can get them formatted to present to The Horde! The one at the top is an unknown variety, and the bottom one is 'Autumn Red'.
Hoping for more photos! What a lot of work, though.
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Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
From By-Tor:
Rib eye, homegrown tomatoes, and esquites (Mexican corn) for lunch after tennis practice.
Looks great! The quality of those tomatoes makes a difference, and go with the corn!
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Ah, Nature
Intrepid Liaison/Admiral Ackbar Island update
As a 100% pureblooded cracker, let me offer everyone a friendly, culturally-appropriated "aloha" now that I'm fully moved and integrated on these conquered isles.
I have curated a veritable smorgasbord of photos highlighting both notable flora and fauna I have encountered thus far. Of particular note are the trees...not the ubiquitous palm trees most associate with these tropical climes, but instead a curious and impressive type that spreads a wide canopy, with very few lower branches, which reminds me more of something from an African savanna documentary. They come with a variety of different colored flowers, which I presume delineate different species.
Impressive! Which are your favorites? We may get more later.
Tired of discussions about a certain person in our health care bureaucracy? One person I encountered on social media who supports this individual also stated that Thomas Sowell "always lies".
The Hoover Institution has decided to concentrate on discussions of Thomas Sowell. Surprisingly, they started with his role as a historian rather than as an economist. Can you think of any individuals who could benefit from learning more history?
One of the guys participating in the Hoover Institution conversation is Coleman Hughes, who decided to read a book by Sowell because people seemed to find his name to be polarizing. That book transformed his thinking.
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Thomas Sowell is known as an economist. But is he one of America's greatest historians?
Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson), Niall Ferguson (@NFergus), and Coleman Hughes (@Coldxman) explore Sowell's sweeping view of history, his enduring ideas, and why a new generation is… pic.twitter.com/y5CsZhpAkV
“Fauci” apparently means “jaws” or “throat” in Italian, though apparently it means “sickle” in the Sicilian dialect, and certainly Anthony Fauci behaved liked a hopped-up wiseguy capo of the Branch Covidian crime family back in 2020 and 2021, but today is reduced to chomping on his remaining dignity with his gums, his jaws having shattered on his monumental narcissism.
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Lake Tomahawk.)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Don't be a Fauci.
3) Running with sharp objects once again has been banned.
4) Other than 3) have a great weekend!!!!
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of amass on his prostate.
6/23 Update – The latest update is that he has stage 2, “unfavorable intermediate”, which he notes is an awful name, but what it means is, it is in the middle, but bad enough that they want to treat it. It’s
more aggressive than previously thought. He is at the point where he has to decide on treatment options, which means choosing which set of pretty unfortunate side effects he prefers.
7/6 Update – He has gotten a second opinion, and selected the option for treatment, which should begin next week.
7/18 Update – He has started radiation treatment. No side effects thus far.
6/18 – buzzion asked for prayers for a friend named Christina, who has struggled with drug addiction and is in jail again. Buzzion prays that this really is rock bottom and a true wake-up call for her – even if it requires her to stay in jail.
6/29 Update – Christina’s family bonded her out of jail and she has checked into a rehab facility. Please
pray that she gets the help she needs.
7/11 Update – Thank you to everyone for your prayers. Christina is doing well in rehab. Please pray
that she continues through this and keeps working through it even after getting out of her program.
6/20 – bluebell gave an update on grammie Winger. Grammie had some major surgery related to hercancer in March and is pretty much housebound. She said she isn’t keeping up on news since her
diagnosis; she doesn’t have the energy. She said she thinks of her grey-box friends often with fondness.
Please keep praying for her. Your prayers are a source of great comfort to her.
6/27 Update – grammie winger requested bluebell to let the Horde know that she is hospitalizedagain, with sepsis, and cannot eat or walk. She is very tired and cannot speak for long. She is being fedby tube. They don’t know how long she will be hospitalized or where she will go after (rehab, hospice,
etc.). Bluebell has a mailing address for grammie, so please contact bluebell to send a card or note togrammie winger. Please pray for her, that her suffering will be eased, and pray for her family, who are
suffering along with her.
7/25 – grammie winger popped in to say thank you for all the cards, letters, and encouraging words. You are a treasure.
6/27 – “A” sent thanks for the prayers for a family friend, who is at home recovering with the family anddoing much better. “A” has an additional request for long-time friends (J and S) who are in the midst of
intense family problems and requesting healing, peace, repentance, and restoration in the family.
7/18 Update – “A” sends his thanks to all the prayer warriors for all the personal concerns listed here.The requests above are all doing better. Prayer really works. Sometimes the results are not what we expected but end up being what we really needed for other reasons. Thank you all!
7/2 – Publius asked for prayers for his 96 year old mother, who had emergency surgery when a massive hematoma on her leg ruptured, and they couldn’t stop the bleeding due to her being on blood thinners.
Things were not looking good, but Publius posted later she received blood thinner reverser medication,
and was fully conscious and alert after surgery.
7/10 Update – Publius’ mother was moved to a nursing home for post-acute therapy. At this point, sheis very weak but is coming back physically. But her mind is in La La Land.
7/13 Update – Publius’ mother has experienced an absolute miracle. She has come back, fully conscious and cogent. The Lord Almighty has decided her time is not complete.
7/3 – San Franpsycho posted that Mrs. F. was admitted to the hospital from the ER visit, and asks forprayers for a complete and immediate recovery for her. She was conscious enough to phone him late
last night, and it was a great relief that she was awake even for a short period. She continues with IV fluids and atb. Further steps and hopefully improvement await the results of lab tests. The caring concern shown by so many morons has been a great relief. Thank you.
7/5 Update – Mrs. F. remains hospitalized while being treated for salmonella poisoning. She has had some improvement, but is on Day 5 of not being able to keep down any nourishment.
7/11 Update – Mrs. F. came home on 7/7, and has finished her oral antibiotics. They are very grateful for the prayers for healing.
7/7 – Weak Geek asked for prayers for the survivors of RG and KG, a couple in their 90s who were pillars of their church for decades. They were knifed to death on 7/3 by their grandson. The entire congregation is stunned. Please pray for them too, and the pastor, trying to help deal with the tragedy.
7/11 – Mis Hum asked for prayers for Some Rat. He has some serious health issues at this time.
7/11 – Fen requested prayers for comfort and strength for “C” and her mother. “C” is in her 30s and her
father died after a several months long struggle with cancer.
7/11 – P, a long time lurker would appreciate prayers. He says he should have asked for prayers last year, when his stage 4 prostate cancer was first diagnosed, but he was too busy freaking out. A year andnine months later, he is still on hormone therapy and his PSA spiked recently. It’s back up to 92. He is
supposed to start a drug trial soon. He knows from experience that prayer helps, and would greatly appreciate if anyone could include him in their prayers.
7/13 – Captain Obvious posted that he could use some prayers, as he was experiencing some kind of cardiac arrhythmia.
7/15 – Captain JS’ daughter needs prayers for his/her daughter. Early on 7/15, she experienced complete heart failure. She is in the ICU on a heart/lung machine. They will operate to see what is happening. Captain JS sends thanks in advance for the prayers and has faith in their power.
7/15 Update – Thanks to all who responded to Captain JS’ request for prayers. The daughter is still unconscious but is still alive. The doctors suspect a blockage to the left side of her heart. They are planning to take pictures and then insert a stent.
7/18 Update – Captain JS’ daughter passed away. Her heart, brain, and other organs were too damaged to regain function. Captain JS sends his thanks to the Horde for all the prayers.
7/25 – Matthew Kant Cipher humbly asks for prayers for Marshall, a long-time friend and HS classmate of Mrs. MKC, who is currently hospitalized with heart failure.
7/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She is still doing fine. Her chemo pump seems to beworking and everything appears stable for now. She says she is incredibly blessed! She is working on astocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild. She would appreciate prayers for a successful IVF procedure
and pregnancy for her daughter and hubby. Next week, Teresa and her husband will be going to California to visit their daughter who lives there and her family.
7/29 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for Billy Ray’s mother, who was just admitted to the hospital
with pneumonia. She is a cancer survivor and chemo destroyed her immune system, so this is a big worry.
7/29 – TecumsehTea wrote that MrTea’s diagnosis is colon cancer stage 4. They are praying for guidance for how to proceed.
7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated forcancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are
only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.
7/30 - Isophorone Blog requested prayers for his mother. His father passed this past Sunday. His mother had been in the hospital for an entire month previous to that, so they never got to see each other at the end. His mother is out of the hospital, but in declining health.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted ina thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with
the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Assuming you're not using integrated graphics. If you are, it works exactly as you would think.
But if you have a graphics card, and the graphics card has enough memory of its own, and your single DIMM has enough memory, and you have an AMD X3D CPU, the performance loss is only around 3% on average.
And given that I have a 128GB kit (2x64GB) and a 96GB kit (2x48GB) I could run four systems rather than two if they all had X3D processors. Not that I need four systems, but I could.
Friday Overnight Open Thread - July 31, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Hola! Friday night meme time. Where is Weird Dave, you may be wondering. Well, he's tending to some some health related stuff tonight - so you are stuck with the fill-in meme team from Doof Enterprises, LLC. Prepare to be whelmed!
Disability reveal parties are the new gender reveal -- and they're even more unhinged.
Simone fell down the rabbit hole after an autism reveal cake-cutting video went viral on X. What started as one awkward TikTok turned into a full cultural phenomenon: color-coded diagnosis guessing games, AuDHD parties, autism cupcake toppers at Walmart, Oriental Trading disability party favors, and people treating their mental health diagnoses like a baby to nurture and celebrate.
We watch the videos (including the "my brain is bad" one and the completely unhinged joke-diagnosis party that ends in pure Adderall cheers), dig into the Reddit posts from people who actually have autism and hate the idea, talk about why so many people suddenly want disabilities they don't have, and connect it to identity collapse, tax-advantaged ABLE accounts, and the pure Darwinian spectacle of watching people turn their diagnoses into their entire personality.
Malcolm makes the point that people want to feel proud of something, but Current Year Norms say you can't be proud of your race (obviously), your culture (that's almost race), your country (so racist), your religion (race-adjacent) or your accomplishments (which you only have due to your race).
So what are people allowed to be -- nay, encouraged to be -- proud of?
Obviously: Their sexuality -- as long as it's Not Straight! -- and their mental illnesses.
I missed this earlier: DSA candidate for WI governor said she had an anxiety attack because there were too many "old white people" near her.
Francesca Hong For Governor
@FrancescaHongWI
I ate two bites of my kid's cheeseburger at a Culver's in black river falls and told him they ran out of ice cream. Mostly just wanted to leave bc I was on the verge of a anxiety attack...to many old white people who didn't think we spoke english
Well, your proficiency with written English is extremely low, so....
Every single individual who has entered the West illegally should be deported. Every person who has entered legally and who is loyal to an ideology that is antithetical to the West's foundational values should also be deported. This is a battle for the soul of humanity. Wake up. Grow a pair.
Do we really need more of these hateful, ignorant, backwards monsters?
And the jobs they have are all e-mail type fake jobs at NGOs or political organizations.
Mamdani & Champagne Socialist Allies Masquerade as Working-Class Heroes
The Democratic Socialists of America presents itself as a diverse, working-class movement, but its own membership surveys tell a different story. According to internal data, 85 percent of DSA members are white, and 58 percent hold professional or managerial jobs--while just four percent are blue-collar workers.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organization is making a serious play for control of the Democrat Party, advertising itself as a racially diverse, working-class movement. But a closer look at who actually makes up the DSA reveals not the workers it claims to represent, but affluent, mostly white professionals.
Superficially, the DSA's diversity talking points seem to be borne out by the most conspicuous DSA politicians--Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, et al. But according to its own internal membership surveys, 85 percent of the DSA's members are white, nine percent are Hispanic, five percent are Asian American, and four percent are Black.
What about the claim that the DSA is a working-class movement? Those same surveys find that fully 58 percent of DSA members are employed in the professional/managerial class. Only a paltry four percent are blue-collar workers. The rest of them are disabled, unemployed, or students.
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As Ruy Teixeira of the American Enterprise Institute describes the DSA: "Its rhetoric and program uses the phrase 'working class' over and over again, as if repeating that phrase magically makes its members working class. But it doesn't, and they aren't."
Woman's death at Boston home owned by Rep. Ayanna Pressley's husband ruled a homicide: officials
Pressley said she is 'devastated' by the death, and her office confirmed neither she nor her family were involved
The death of a woman found at a home owned by the husband of Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., has been ruled a homicide, authorities said.
Boston Police officers responded to a report of a shooting in the city's Mattapan neighborhood on July 18 at about 1:52 p.m. and found Yoseliani Ann Marte Ocasio, 18, with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
Her death was ruled a homicide on Thursday by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, authorities said in a statement.
Property records show the home where she was found dead is owned by Conan Harris, Pressley's husband.
Michigan's AG cannot attend the state Democrat convention, she says, because she's "not safe." She's Jewish in a Hamas Party.
She's 'not safe' because she's also Jewish.
Holy schamoly.
That's what the Hamas wing has brought the Democratic Party to in this day and age. That a senior member and one of the highest-ranking elected officials in the state - in fact, the chief law enforcement officer of Michigan - cannot attend her own party's convention because of the viciousness of the anti-Semites they have enabled.
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Dana Nessel would seem to tick off all the prescribed woke boxes, but then there's that teensy problem of 'Jew' and Israel.'
It didn't use to be a problem, and I guess it wasn't when the people of Michigan elected her.
But now the woman is afraid to even show her face at her own party's convention because of the howling and uncontrolled mobs of radicals who have taken over the party?
In case you're wondering, "Wait, am I still the 'Nazi' for objecting to the Democrats' anti-Jewish pogroms?" -- why yes, yes you still are the "Nazi." Silly racist!
Welcome to a public park in California: - Taken over by drug addicts and dealers - Cartels control the surrounding area - People using fentanyl in the open - No police anywhere
A student at the Oxford Union tells Tommy Robinson he is lucky they've put security on for him otherwise their Pro-Islam supporters outside would beat him to death
This is the Oxford Union, how far it has fallen as an institution when this is the sort of argument made pic.twitter.com/pMpdw4NatT
She's threatening a pogrom... against the majority population of the UK. She's literally bragging about her fellow Muslims "rioting" and being eager to murder someone they disagree with -- and demanding she be praised for not giving them permission to kill their enemies.
And this, she thinks, is an advertisement in favor of Muslim migrants.
It's also a brazen declaration: You are colonized. Bow to your colonial masters or we will literally kill you.
What does this cunt think would happen to her baby-raping cousins if not for the generosity and indulgence of the British people?
🚨MY GOD!!!!!
The Muslim invaders from Morocco are now SMASHING THE GRAVES of the people of Cueta and THROWING THE PIECES AT THE CITIZENS OF SPAIN.
Citizens are now FIGHTING BACK against the invaders with anything they can find.
The Media Is Joining Fauci In Pleading the Fifth About Their Covid Lies
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
Dr. Anthony Fauci was not the only one taking the Fifth this week. The media effectively invoked the same privilege to avoid self-incrimination for their years of deifying the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
...The media has also effectively taken the Fifth on these subjects, declining to publish many of these contradictions. Media outlets have the same reason as Fauci: There is no spin that would reconcile their own prior coverage and gushing reviews of Fauci.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
Jeffrey Tucker founded an institute devoted to studying the COVID lockdowns and mandates.
He just spent four days reading Fauci's private diary.
He says nothing could have prepared him for the "cold terror" he felt trying to figure out what demonic force was possessing this man.
TUCKER: "I've spent four days reading that diary... It's a massive treatise, but it's utterly fascinating and introducing me to a side of Fauci... I just... no matter how many bad thoughts I've had about Fauci in the past, nothing could have prepared me for what I read in that diary."
"It's a little bit like if you read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and just take out the Dr. Jekyll part and just read the Mr. Hyde part. That's what it's like."
"2020 is disgusting enough, but 2021 is where it gets really evil."
"This is where you just can't... your disgust turns to something else. Actually, a kind of A terror. Cold heart. Cold terror. What is possessing this man? I mean, what demonic force has inhabited his spirit that would cause him to do this?"
"I've never seen anything quite like it. And there's nothing that could have prepared me for that diary. Nothing."
All the focus on Fauci is burying the more important story, which is that scientists enforcing a common narrative to the detriment of truth has become extremely common. It's a strong case of in-group behavior in academia that, I believe, most of them are not fully aware of.
As @LocasaleLab put it so aptly "the academic system punishes honesty".
And this is the real story: This isn't just about Fauci. Fauci is just an extreme and very visible example in a case that has attracted a lot of public attention. But misleading the public about the status of scientific research has become extremely widespread.
Peter Navarro
@RealPNavarro
I had over a million hydroxychloroquine tablets sitting in warehouses, ready to be distributed to doctors and patients across America.
Fauci's own diary from March 2020 shows he viewed the drug as safe and supported making it available.
But when President Trump endorsed hydroxychloroquine and the media erupted, Fauci flipped.
Former CBS News journalist Brittney Hopper claimed Thursday that she got into trouble after questioning Dr. Anthony Fauci, former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hopper appeared on News24 in Australia to discuss Fauci's decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment right more than 100 times during his congressional hearing Wednesday, refusing to answer any questions.
Before reacting to Fauci's hearing, the independent journalist, who previously worked for CBS News Los Angeles until 2022, gave her own history reporting on Fauci and how he was deified by the mainstream media.
"I have so much to say because this was during the time when I was on CBS News. I was reporting extensively on COVID," Hopper said. "I was out there on the front lines. And I remember after a couple of years of dealing with hearing this man and interviewing this man and having to wear masks and having our kids out of school for years, I remember questioning what he was doing. And I got in trouble and pulled off air for a couple of days because I started questioning him.
"You weren't supposed to question the agenda and the narrative at that point. And I apologized, and I went back on air covering what I was supposed to do as I've mentioned before on here. I was their puppet on mainstream media for so many years. Hopefully, more and more people are waking up to, you know, really, the lack of journalistic integrity that we're seeing."
Jeffrey A Tucker
@jeffreytucker
Jul 30
People should STOP saying that this is Fauci's "private diary." It was a daily log prepared by Fauci with the assistance of aides, as should be obvious to anyone who looks at it. It was property of the NIH, an official document. It was not "leaked." It was legally released.
"Journalists" who haven't sat in a science class since 11th grade declared themselves to be top experts in the field, and knew that any suggestion that the Wuhan novel bat coronavirus might have come from the Wuhan novel bat coronavirus laboratory was racism.
Good Lord. Abby Phillip is a disgrace. Fauci lied about:
1) the origin of the virus 2) how deadly it was (or wasn't) 3) the efficacy of masks and other treatments 4) his involvement in pushing for shutdowns 5) his smearing of other world-renowned epidemiologists
Check this out: Fauci admitted that the Wuhan lab, which he funded, was in fact performing illegal gain-of-function research.
As this commenter says, Fauci changed the definition of "gain of function" so he could claim that gain of function wasn't gain of function according to the new definition he literally just wrote.
But here he just calls it what it is: gain of function.
wait, I thought his whole defense was that they redefined gain-of-function to let him get away with his funding, but here he actually calls it gain-of-function.
Someday historians are going to look back and be astonished at the amount of absurd bullshit Americans took pride in believing during this era https://t.co/SmdTiCxVFF
I think the answer is that Fauci, and Faucism, represented the apotheosis of what the managerial/academic/journo class desires: An excuse for sweeping power, based on (alleged) expertise, in which they could ride roughshod over those stupid proles and flyover people while preening about the allegedly superior moral and intellectual qualities that justify their rule.
Then it turned out that they were wrong about nearly everything and -- as Fauci's diaries demonstrate -- knew it at the time, at least at the top. And their overreach is one of the things that gave us Trump 47.
CNN's "expert" tells us that even questioning whether Anthony Fauci lied is an "assault on Science."
That's not from 2021 -- that's from Wednesday night.
They've been completely wrong about everything for a decade -- "RussiaGate," Joe Biden's competency, Hunter Biden's laptop, Fauci, covid, etc. -- but just keep doubling down.
They have been wrong about everything and so can never admit a single error, because that admission would just be a prelude to the next admission, and that a prelude to the next.
They are deeply stupid people who believe they are geniuses whose words should be accepted without question and are literally going insane from the cognitive dissonance of their belief in their own superiority running into the reality of their deep inferiority and incompetency.
Again: Cambridge "Professor," a "Poster Boy for Diversity," Found To Have Plagiarized His Ph.D. Thesis and Claimed to Have Personally Interviewed Subjects When He Actually Just Lifted the Interviews from Other Sources
And once again, the defense isn't "this isn't plagiarism."
The defense is, as it always is: "You're racist for noticing."
Cambridge's diversity poster boy in plagiarism row
Youngest black professor in university's history is subject of bitter argument between academics
The "argument" is the same one we saw when Claudine Gay, then Harvard President, was found to be a serial plagiarist. The argument is, basically: "Yeah but they're DEI anyway, do we really expect them to abide the same rules that apply to real hires?"
And once again the left gives the game away by arguing, "No, they're not required to abide the same rules that apply to real hires, because they're not real hires and everyone knows it."
When Jason Arday became a Cambridge professor at the age of 37, he was lionised by the academic world and became a poster boy for the university's diversity drive.
He had beaten almost impossible odds to get there. Diagnosed with autism, and non-verbal until the age of 11, he had only learnt to read and write at 18 but obtained a degree and a doctorate before forging a career in teaching.
Now, on the eve of the publication of his autobiography, the University of Cambridge's professor of sociology of education has become the subject of a bitter row over plagiarism that has pitted his peers against each other.
On one side of the argument are professors at other universities who believe Prof Arday's published works, including his PhD thesis, contain passages that are remarkably similar -- and in some cases identical -- to other academic papers, without proper attribution.
There are more than one hundred such plagiarisms.
On the other side of the argument are friends and close colleagues of Prof Arday, the youngest black professor in the university's history, who believe he is the victim of a racist smear campaign and have tried to make it an issue for the Government.
What started as a row between academics is now lapping at the shore of politics.
Both Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores University -- which awarded Prof Arday his PhD -- are on his side, insisting that he has done nothing wrong and the allegations are unfounded smears.
Cambridge said he had been the victim of a "vile campaign to undermine his credibility".
The stakes could hardly be higher, as accusations of plagiarism can be career-ending for academics, and accusations that later prove to be false can be equally damaging to those who make them.
Until now, the row had been happening away from public view -- but the publication of a blog this week, which features a side-by-side comparison of Prof Arday's thesis with that of another student, has brought it out into the open.
An analysis of Prof Arday's PhD thesis for The Telegraph identified more than 100 passages that are identical or nearly identical to a 2009 PhD thesis by Paula Zwozdiak-Myers, a Brunel University student.
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Fellow academics began to raise concerns about the legitimacy of his published work when they carried out due diligence before inviting him to contribute to other academic papers.
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One professor of education at a Russell Group university, who has asked to remain anonymous, said they noticed "inconsistencies" in his published research when they carried out checks before asking him to contribute a chapter on a book about decolonisation.
When they looked at his doctoral thesis, they "identified extensive textual overlap with an earlier PhD thesis submitted by another academic at a different university".
Their assessment was that "the similarities were not confined to isolated passages but formed an extensive pattern of close paraphrasing", which would not necessarily be detected by computer programs designed to detect verbatim copying of text.
'Evidence should be rigorously examined'
Robert Dingwall, emeritus professor of social sciences at both the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University and a government adviser during the Covid pandemic, said: "In the current climate, it is difficult to comment on allegations of plagiarism against a prominent minority scholar without seeming to take sides on EDI [equality, diversity and inclusion].
"Plagiarism is, however, rightly treated as a serious academic offence, at any level. We have a collective duty to call it out where there is robust evidence.
"From what I have seen, there certainly appears to be a prima facie case here. It may be difficult to find a suitably impartial adjudicator but, as a matter of fairness to all parties, the evidence should be rigorously examined and the subject invited to provide a detailed response, rather than being the victim of continuing smears and innuendos.
"This is a moment when universities in general, and sociologists in particular, must be willing to show that they are capable of living by their own standards of professional integrity."
'Potential public attack on Jason'
Supporters of Prof Arday became aware last year of questions about his academic legitimacy, and responded with furious accusations of racism.
In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thesis and several journal articles. In one of the articles, the borrowed text appeared in quotes from subjects the professor, Jason Arday, claimed to have interviewed himself.
But after Arday enlisted Carter-Ruck, one of the United Kingdom's leading defamation law firms, to send Times Higher Education a letter, the publication spiked the story, according to three sources who spoke to Retraction Watch.
One of the sources was David Sanders, a biochemist at Purdue University in Indiana, and a sleuth who contributes to the Times Higher Education on topics related to academic misconduct. He reviewed a 63-page dossier of text comparisons prepared by the publication last year and came back with his own findings. "There is no question that there is extensive plagiarism," Sanders told us.
The allegations against Arday finally emerged last week following a Substack post from Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher at the University of Ghent in Belgium. Cofnas, who is known for his controversial writings on racial differences, independently identified dozens of passages in Arday's 2015 dissertation that were taken nearly verbatim from the 2009 dissertation of Paula Zwozdiak-Myers, a reader at Brunel University of London. Cofnas says he learned about the unpublished Times Higher Education story only after he began working on his own piece about Arday.
Arday is known for his work on topics related to race, inequality and education. His interest was more than scholarly: From humble beginnings as a nonverbal autistic kid in South London, he became, at age 37, the youngest Black person appointed to a professorship at Cambridge.
That achievement was covered by the BBC, CBS News, and Good Morning America. He is listed as a collaborator on more than $10 million in recent grants from two U.K. funding agencies, U.K. Research and Innovation and the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
Arday's achievements have not been limited to academia. He has said he has raised more than $8 million for charity and performed impressive athletic feats, including running 30 marathons in 35 days. His forthcoming memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, is slated to be published next month by Simon & Schuster.
Oh, he also lies about stupid things, like his record as an ultra-marathoner. He claimed to have run 600 miles in 6 days -- 100 miles a day. Then that claim disappeared from his website and was replaced by the claim he ran 600 miles in 12 days.
He did this with a bunch of claims about his running.
The reality (if we now know the reality, which we might not) about his running is impressive, but still he lies about it to puff himself up.
The Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row is facing questions over claims he has made about his athletic prowess and charity fundraising.
Prof Jason Arday says he once ran 600 miles in six days for charity, 300 miles in three days, and 30 marathons in 35 days, partly with a broken leg.
But experts in ultra-distance running have cast doubt on his claims, expressing surprise that he is not known in the ultra-distance community despite achievements that would put him among the world's top athletes.
Prof Arday also claims to have been a professional footballer and snooker player, and to have raised £5.5m for more than 70 charities.
Some of the country's most respected academics have called for an independent investigation into allegations of plagiarism surrounding Prof Arday after The Telegraph reported last week on striking similarities between his PhD thesis and another student's.
The University of Cambridge insists there is no case to answer, and that he is the victim of a "vile campaign to undermine his credibility". Liverpool John Moores University, which awarded his doctorate, has also said his work had been checked and cleared.
Running 600 miles in six days
In 2023, Prof Arday became the youngest black professor in Cambridge's history at the age of 37. His memoir, titled Great and Unfortunate Things, will be published next month, in which he recounts being non-verbal until shortly before his 12th birthday and only learning to read and write at the age of 18.
Questions about Prof Arday's autobiographical details have been swirling in the academic world for years, and those questions have intensified during the ongoing plagiarism row.
On several occasions, he has described running 600 miles in six days from Edinburgh to London for charity, but on one occasion, he said the distance was 500 miles.
Experts in ultra-distance running cast doubt on whether this was possible for an unknown amateur athlete, given that the world record for a six-day run is 650 miles, which was achieved on a flat circuit with a large support team and medical help on standby, as opposed to an undulating road route with little or no backup.
Prof Arday has also said that he fell and suffered a hairline fracture on the 21st day of his 30-marathon challenge, causing his leg to swell to twice its normal size, but managed to carry on and run another nine marathons.
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"Running 100 miles in 24 hours is also perfectly possible, but it's very hard to keep that going for two more days, without good breaks for sleep. Not impossible but pretty unlikely.
"The 600 miles in six days is, again, not impossible, but would be remarkable, akin to the very best record-breaking ultra-runners. It seems odd that there appears to be no evidence of that. Usually runners are very keen to share news of runs like that on places such as Strava. If you're claiming to have done runs as impressive as those, you should provide evidence, which is very easy via GPS sports-watches."
It's been reported that there are no reports of these feats of endurance, except for his varying and changeable claims.
Liberal Appeals Courts Reverse Lower Rogue Judges' Injunctions Against Ending Temporary Protective Status
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Oh, these liberal appeals courts panels haven't started doing their jobs willingly. But these lawless Biden and Obama DEI appointees are routinely ignoring Supreme Court rulings and substituting their own District Judge-Made Law, and the appeals courrts can't go that far.
Liberal court stuns with ruling that hands Trump major immigration win
The panel of two Biden appointees and one Trump appointee ruled on TPS for migrants from South Sudan and Ethiopia
DHS lawyer says public needs to know which judges are in 'open defiance' of SCOTUS on immigration
DHS Chief Counsel James Percival said a group of federal district judges--not the judiciary as a whole--are repeatedly blocking deportations and Temporary Protected Status rollbacks despite SCOTUS rulings, calling it "naked political activism."
A liberal-led federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump two immigration victories Wednesday, reversing separate district court orders that had delayed the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for migrants from South Sudan and Ethiopia.
The judgments from the First Circuit Court of Appeals come after U.S. District Judges Brian Murphy and Patti Saris issued back-to-back orders temporarily blocking the Trump administration's termination of TPS for Ethiopia and South Sudan, respectively, late last week. The rulings drew sharp criticism from legal experts and Trump administration officials, who called the judges "rogue" and argued their decisions defied the Supreme Court.
The three-judge First Circuit panel consisted of Judges Julie Rikelman and Seth Aframe, both appointed by President Joe Biden, and Judge Joshua Dunlap, who was appointed by President Donald Trump.
In nearly identical rulings, the majority liberal panel found that the lower court judges' orders conflicted with the Supreme Court's decision in Mullin v. Doe, which held that courts cannot block TPS terminations based on non-constitutional claims.
"Mullin held that 'the TPS statute's judicial-review bar applies to all non-constitutional claims' challenging the Secretary of Homeland Security's determination with respect to the termination of a TPS designation," the judges wrote.
Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan told Fox News Digital that the First Circuit correctly applied the precedent established by the Supreme Court.
"These are clear wins for President Trump following his big win at the U.S. Supreme Court, explaining that district courts are not supposed to second guess TPS terminations, and even as this plays out, we're moving towards the end of this litigation because district courts should not be hearing these disputes, and that's what the Supreme Court said," Wessan told Fox News Digital.
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson welcomed the rulings as "a win for the rule of law and common sense."
"Temporary Protected Status is exactly that--temporary," the spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "For too long, TPS has been allowed to function as a de facto amnesty program despite Congress never intending it to be permanent."
The lawsuits were brought by African Communities Together, a New York-based immigrant advocacy organization that serves as the lead plaintiff in both cases, alongside individual TPS recipients from Ethiopia and South Sudan. The plaintiffs argue DHS unlawfully ended the protections in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution, alleging the agency failed to properly assess conditions in the two countries and that the decisions were motivated by racial discrimination.
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While the Supreme Court's decision in Mullin v. Doe foreclosed most statutory challenges to TPS terminations, it left open the possibility that courts could consider claims alleging constitutional violations.
However, Wessan said the district judges were operating outside the "legal bounds" by blocking the TPS terminations before any constitutional claims had been established.
"If they want to let the plaintiffs amend their complaint, they're allowed to do that, but in the meantime, TPS is over," Wessan told Fox News Digital.
"[Americans] have got to vote Democrat." Here are several examples of ABC's The View engaging in electioneering by encouraging people to vote for Democrats and suggesting anyone who doesn't is "voting for a cult." 📽️ by @Banned_Billpic.twitter.com/BhB5Zkkfny
Today this film that has lived in my head for over 30 years comes to life in front of my eyes. 'The March' is a 1990 film shaped after 'Camp of the Saints' - A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We are poor because you are rich."
Why do I remember it? I was a child when I saw it. But some of the images were haunting in a way I cannot describe. For over 30 years - THIRTY YEARS - I have thought of this scene...the migrants slowly moving into quaint British towns, peering through windows at unsuspecting families, invading homes, demanding what those fat, rich Westerners have. When I tell you not a week goes by where I haven't thought of it, I mean it.
Not. One. Week.
Watching those Muslim men pouring into Cueta brought it to mind, although I had no idea what it was called. The magic of modern AI led me back to it and I have chills watching this again. Listen to the tv host as he says, "It's a publicly stated attempt to come into our streets, our homes, and shame us into helping them. Or, as they say...WATCH US DIE."
They always tell you what their intentions are. They always tell you what they're going to do. And look at the studio audience in this film. Completely white. Is there anywhere in the UK you can see that anymore? From 1990 to today...that's how long it took to bring the magic of the movies to life. But it's here now.
Yes, they always tell you. In 1990 I would have been 15 years old. 15yo me was hardly conservative. Still, this scene in particular stuck with me and has been locked away in my brain since that moment. Frankly, it's almost a relief to spill it out onto the page finally. I think this flag planted in 15yo me because that little girl was way more intuitive then I've ever given her credit for. 15yo me knew there was something ominous in the presentation, and she filed it away for a time when she wasn't completely submerged in a socialist household. 15yo me saw something dastardly, a warning. I couldn't articulate that at the time. I probably even felt an affinity for the migrants at the time. And yet, this scene has never left me.
Today, I understand. Today I finally see. This was a projection...an announcement. 36 years...
These globalists are patient. They don't mind moving slowly. They've been executing the reality of this film for that long, and now they have arrived. A full scale invasion, much like the premise of this film.
They always tell you.
We need to recognize the long game, and understand that the incremental changes are not to be ignored. They are part of the plan. It may be too late for Spain, for Europe. They did not heed the warnings given by the globalist elites themselves. They are overwhelmed and disarmed.
America: I believe the Lord tattooed my heart with that movie and this scene for this very day - for me to tell you - THIS IS US. WE ARE NEXT. The invasion is coming and it will look exactly as they planned and exactly as they told us.
We have already experienced a bit of this during Biden, but that was a fraction of what is to come. Heed these warnings. It is time to close ranks and protect what is ours. They have already announced themselves. We can no longer be so foolish as to believe they didn't really mean it.
They always tell you.
On the invasion in Cueta: THEY ALWAYS TELL YOU Today this film that has lived in my head for over 30 years comes to life in front of my eyes. 'The March' is a 1990 film shaped after 'Camp of the Saints' - A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern… pic.twitter.com/2tkYSnOXkx
Members of Mamdani's DSA pledge to 'support' and 'defend' China: 'Survival of Chinese socialism is a crucial matter'
About a dozen Democratic Socialists of America activists have publicly pledged to "support" and "defend" China amid an apparent push by the communist nation to court members of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's party.
Friends of Socialist China, a London-based group, touts 952 signatories on its pledge to "support the People's Republic of China and to promote understanding of Chinese socialism."
Eleven self-described DSA or DSA International Committee members are among those that "resolve to support, defend and build understanding of Chinese socialism," The Post found.
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The pledge argues that "the global advance to socialism is indispensable if humanity is to survive and to flourish," while decrying capitalism as "totally incapable of solving the problems of poverty and inequality" and being " inextricably linked with war, empire, racism, misogyny, alienation, and environmental destruction."
"Why China?" the pledge continues. "We support all states building or aspiring to socialism, and we favour the highest level of unity and friendship between them. We foreground China in particular because its size and level of development give it an objectively critical role in the global transition to socialism."
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The document lauds China as "the most prominent force pushing for the establishment of a multipolar system of international relations and a new international economic order" and "a global leader in the struggle to avoid climate breakdown.
Speaking of foreign Chinese communists subverting the American way of life, Francesca Hong is now the presumptive Democrat candidate for Wisconsin governor.
Her main rival, Mandela Barnes, quit the race, stating that it's obvious who the candidate will be.
Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes has ended his campaign for governor.
The decision by Barnes came amid reporting by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel into allegations that Barnes was taking advantage of his role in the party to have sexual encounters with young adult women.
They're literally all terrorists, communists, and sex criminals.
Hong is an anchor baby granted birthright citizenship because her Chinese parents gave birth to her as "students" and, one might speculate, Chinese agents.
Megan Basham
@megbasham
Francesca Hong was born to non-citizen immigrants. In other words, she has citizenship in the U.S. because she was born here when her parents were on student visas. And now she is running as a socialist in order to dismantle the American way of life.
The one plank she says she never signed up for is abolishing the Senate.
But guess what? She's a foreign communist and therefore a liar. She has and continues to support abolishing the Senate:
Democratic Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong's campaign told Fox News Digital Tuesday that she does not recall posting on social media in favor of abolishing the Senate in 2021 and said that was not her current position.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) co-chair Megan Romer went viral Sunday for confirming that the DSA supported abolishing the Senate, eliminating national borders and prisons, replacing the presidency and the Supreme Court, and more during an interview with Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday."
Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor Tom Tiffany said in a post to X that Hong believed in all the ideas mentioned in the viral video.
"This sounds a lot like DSA-backed @FrancescaHongWI. Does she want to abolish the police? Yep. Does she want to abolish prisons? Absolutely. Did she call for abolishing the U.S. Senate? Yes. Socialism is knocking on Wisconsin's door. This November, we slam it shut," Tiffany wrote.
DEM SOCIALIST RUNNING FOR WISCONSIN GOVERNOR PUSHED 'ABOLISHING THE POLICE'
Francesca Hong speaks on stage at the Wisconsin Democrats 2026 Convention.
Gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong speaks on stage during the Wisconsin Democrats Convention on June 14, 2026, in Madison. (Getty Images for WisDems)
When reached for comment, Hong's campaign said Tiffany was lying and said she never supported abolishing the Senate.
"Tom Tiffany is once again telling lies and inventing quotes, because he can't run on his record," Hong communications director Allison Geyer told Fox News Digital. "Rep. Hong has never called for abolishing the U.S. Senate. Tiffany cannot produce a single statement where she did, because it doesn't exist."
"She has spoken about police and prison abolition in the past as an aspirational goal, but it is not her current position, and it's not something she will pursue as governor," she continued. "She does not support replacing the presidency with the Supreme Court. Eliminating national borders isn't her position either, and it's not even part of the official DSA platform."
"DSA is a membership organization, not a political party. Rep. Hong is not endorsed by DSA national, and doesn't agree with everything in its national program," Geyer added.
Tiffany's campaign pointed Fox News Digital to a post on social media from February 2021, in which she wrote on X, "Abolish the Senate."
Here she was speaking to the foreign also-anchor-baby America hating terrorist Hasan Piker, supporting each and every goal of the communists, including seizing corporations and installing socialist puppets to run them "for the public."
🚨 Francesca Hong’s DSA Wishlist for Wisconsin
Hasan Piker’s stream with DSA-backed Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong had another revealing moment.
Hasan ran through a rapid-fire socialist policy menu: repeal Act 10, universal childcare, free school meals,… pic.twitter.com/7TaSIUctCK
🚨 Hasan Piker's Producer Says "The Whole Squad" Knows Roy Singham, Admits Singham Is "Friends With a Lot" of Chinese Communist Party Members
This is Eric Hovagim, a producer and researcher for Hasan Piker, discussing his personal friendship with billionaire activist funder Roy Singham and Singham's wife, Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans.
"I'm friends with Roy Singham. He's dope."
Hovagim laughs off the idea that Singham has secret ties to the Communist Party of China, before immediately acknowledging that Singham "is friends with a lot of them."
He says he also personally knows Evans and texted her when the Treasury subpoenas arrived. According to Hovagim, she told him not to worry because "they do this shit to us literally all the time."
He then makes clear that these relationships extend beyond him to other Americans in his China-based social circle, including Dana "Showtyme" Burton and Dante Muñoz.
"The whole squad out here, we all know him."
Hovagim also praises Evans as "the real deal," citing her relationships with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Nicolás Maduro's son.
The most revealing part may be how ordinary all of this appears within Hovagim's social and political world. Singham is not described as a distant donor or shadowy figure. He is a friend whom "the whole squad" knows, while Evans is someone Hovagim can text directly when subpoenas arrive.
🚨 Hasan Piker’s Producer Says “The Whole Squad” Knows Roy Singham, Admits Singham Is “Friends With a Lot” of Chinese Communist Party Members
This is Eric Hovagim, a producer and researcher for Hasan Piker, discussing his personal friendship with billionaire activist funder Roy… pic.twitter.com/S312gpMpei
Being a foreign terrorist, he enjoys lying. Called out for praising Mao while wearing a Mao suit, he claims this was all a made-up "Fox News story" and that he was merely wearing a "Chinese suit."
Just a total coincidence it was the suit popularized by Mao, as he embarks on a campaign to rehabilitate the murderous communist Mao, you Racists.
Hasan Piker calls on his followers to kill capitalists:
“Yeah kill them! KiII those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the streets. Let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist blood, dude.”
"Apocalypse:" Invasion of Africans, Some Prisoners Wanted for Murder, Set Fire to Cars, Loot Stores, and Use the Streets as an Open-Air Shithouse as the Left Executs Its Plan to Replace Native Populations with Pro-Communist Third Worlders
An unprecedented wave of nearly 50,000 illegal migrants from Africa has flooded the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, prompting Spain to deploy its military -- as locals liken the invasion to an "apocalypse."
Harrowing local media reports reveal residents and business owners in Ceuta -- a Spanish territory located on the north African coast -- are terrified to open their doors amid the rush of migrants, many of whom arrived wearing nothing but swimwear without a penny or possession to their name.
"Businesses closed. Shops shut because if you open a business, it gets overrun ... We're scared. The streets are packed. There are no measures in place. It's every man for himself. They're not giving us any help," a terrified downtown restaurant owner who didn't want to give their name told state-owned Spanish media outlet RTVE.
This invasion was engineered by the socialist Spain Supreme Court, which ruled that if invaders cross into Ceuta, they get to stay:
The shocking surge comes after a ruling by Spain's Supreme Court earlier this month, which said migrants intercepted at sea while attempting to reach Ceuta or Melilla, another Spanish autonomous city in northern Morocco, cannot be kicked out under the enclaves' special border-rejection regime.
"It has been a slow trickle since the Supreme Court's ruling, but today has been an explosion," a spokesperson for Spain's Guardia Civil police told Reuters on Thursday.
Spain's Interior Ministry estimated Friday that around 49,000 people had crossed by sea and land from Morocco over the past 24 hours -- a sea of humanity representing nearly 60% of Ceuta's population of 85,000.
RTVE broadcast images of burned cars on the Moroccan side of the border after reported clashes.
Meanwhile, the socialist Spanish government -- which just months ago launched a program to give legal status to some 500,000 illegal immigrants in the country -- said it deployed 200 specialized police officers and 60 troops from the mainland to assist Ceuta's own forces.
260 men to stop 60,000? Absurd. This is the Biden Maneuver, where he deploys workers not to stop the invasion but to "process" their fake asylum claims and fix them up with the paperwork to stay for ten years.
However, the reinforcements were powerless in the face of such a massive migrant deluge, which consisted mostly of military-age men.
"It's like an apocalypse. Waves of people everywhere. You can see as many people wandering around as you want," José Carlos Lara, owner of a sign-making business just over the border, told RTVE.
He said local authorities have "no capacity" to deal with the chaos, and that the new arrivals are already sleeping in the streets and washing themselves in public fountains.
A video shared on X by David Santos, director of right-leaning Spanish media outlet La Bandera, shows a migrant defecating on the side of a building in broad daylight.
Lara added that other business owners -- particularly food stores -- have shut their doors in a panic, fearing widespread looting.
Two days ago, the King of Morocco released 1,789 prisoners.
King Mohammed VI granted a royal pardon to 1,788 people to mark the July 2026 Throne Day celebrations, with the Ministry of Justice releasing 1,679 inmates through sentence remissions, term reductions, or commutations.
Throne Day Royal Pardons
Total beneficiaries: 1,788 individuals were pardoned, including 1,679 current inmates and 109 people who were not in detention.
Releases and reductions: 9 inmates received full pardons for the remainder of their sentences, while 1,668 had their prison terms reduced....
Non-detention cases: For individuals not behind bars, pardons covered outstanding fines, prison terms, or both. Details are reported by Middle East Online.
This "migrant," fleeing Morocco because he's accused of murder, seems to have decided Spain will be his new home:
🇲🇦🇪🇸 One of the Moroccan migrants who illegally crossed the Spanish border today fled Morocco because he is accused of murder.
“I have problems with people, with a colleague who died. I can’t stay there because they say things that are not good for me. A person can die, and I am… pic.twitter.com/yXSxahmQfW
"Spain's socialist Prime Minister announced he would be giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. Now, his country is being invaded by hordes of military aged men from Africa," Gill posted on X. "Because that's what happens every single time a politician offers amnesty."
Once in you're in Europe, you can go anywhere in Europe, because the Schengen treaty dissolves all borders within Europe.
This means that the Spanish socialists will not just turn their own country into a third-world shithole, but all of Europe.
Some European leaders want to suspend Spain's membership in the Schengen agreement, at least until they stop trying to flood Europe with third-worlders:
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
🇫🇮🇪🇸 Ministers in Finland's government are backing Italian PM Giorgia Meloni's threat to SUSPEND the Schengen Agreement with Spain.
It comes after the unprecedented wave of migrants that poured into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, yesterday.
Mari Rantanen and Riikka Purra said member states that do not adequately guard the external border to the EU should lose their place in the passport-free zone.
Meloni says stronger measures are needed, as arrivals in Spain continue to rise, and its government JUST granted legal status and work permits to around 500,000 undocumented migrants...
Other EU countries are fearful of "secondary movement" (migrants informally overstaying in other EU countries).
Source: Brussels Signal / Writer: Michael
I do not envision that happening. The EU bureaucracy is as globalist/socialist/third-worldist as any collection of criminals and sex-pests on the planet.
Don't worry, though: Spain's socialist president will put up some buoys.
🇪🇸🇲🇦 Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez’s “response” to the migrant invasion in Ceuta:
“We’ll deploy buoys at the pier as a temporary measure… while we see what legal changes we need to make, if any.”
49,000 migrants just FLOODED the enclave, leaving at least 18 dead and forcing a…
THE MORNING RANT: Google and Outlook’s Search Functionality, Another Technology that Apparently Doesn’t Exist Any More
—Buck Throckmorton
There’s a meme about technical capabilities that we once had, such as landing humans on the moon, that are unreproducible in modern times. It always ends with a somber, “That technology doesn’t exist any more.”
Fifteen years ago I never would have believed that the ability to search for work emails would be lost to progress, but that has happened. If you use Outlook at work, then you know what I’m talking about.
Let’s say I’m looking for an email between me and Acme Oil Company regarding a Power of Attorney. There was a time when I could click on the folder where I move emails involving Acme Oil, and then simply search that folder for “power of attorney.” I would then be presented all emails in that folder with the three-word sequence “power of attorney,” in sequential order, starting with most recent email.
For some inexplicable reason, Microsoft decided to improveenshittify Outlook such that the search feature has become almost completely useless. Now if I search for “power of attorney” in the Acme Oil file to find an email from last month, it will provide me a long list of emails, but probably not the one I’m looking for. It will also present me emails from other clients that are not even part of my search containing the words “power of attorney.” It will also provide me every email that ever contained the words “power,” “attorney,” and most importantly, the word “of.” Comically, it also prominently displays “Top Results,” which tend to be heirloom emails from a long time ago, and unrelated to my current search.
It’s not just Microsoft that has destroyed its search capabilities. Google has also sabotaged its product for some reason, perhaps political, or maybe to entice more clicks. Whatever the reason, Google now seems determined to not let you find what you are searching for, or at a minimum, they are now making it a quest.
Someone should invent a version of Outlook that can search for emails and find them.
— Habeas Corpus Linguistics (@HabCorpLinguist) July 10, 2026
Responses to this tweet are pretty funny. A few are below the fold, along with a further exposition on Google.
Never forget that the Artemis II crew that flew by the moon last April had to call Tech Support back on Earth, because both of their Outlook versions were inoperable.
Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth
And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working
There were stories when I was younger that American auto manufacturers intentionally degraded the quality of their vehicles in the 1970s. The alleged reason was the hope that planned obsolescence would increase the sales frequency of buyers. While this is likely an apocryphal story, the American automakers lost their dominant market share because they seemed indifferent to quality while others started focusing on quality.
Something similar is happening with Google. It came to dominate online search by having the far superior product. Back in the day it could find something I was looking for better than any other search engine. In fact, Google seemed to know intuitively what I was seeking even if my query was poorly worded. But now, Google has degraded its product so badly that it frequently refuses to produce the result of an easy search. As Jesse Singal notes below, you can give it direct quotes from a piece you are searching for, but Google will often still refuse to produce the article (which Grok quickly retrieves.)
Sabotaging your own product, as Google and Outlook have appeared to do, is an amazing business strategy to grow a business.
The degradation of basic Google Search is *really* alarming. I can't think of any web tool I've been using longer -- three decades at this point? You can paste in a unique string of text, in quotes, and it will sometimes still fail to find what you're looking for.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) torched Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in an impromptu interview with CNN’s Manu Raju, and boy, Sanders didn't take it well. The blowup is over Michigan's Senate primary, where Democrat voters look poised to hand their nomination to Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Socialist who has spent months running to the left of nearly everyone else in the race. His chief rival, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), is clearly the more electable option, but El-Sayed looks like he’s going to win. A recent poll shows Republican Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) beating El-Sayed by 10 points in a general election matchup. Swap in Stevens against Rogers, and the race is a dead heat, within the margin of error. Sanders, of course, has thrown his weight behind El-Sayed, and Fetterman thinks that is a mistake. In fact, he said so bluntly to Raju in a rather scathing attack on Sanders. He brought up Sanders' lack of regret for propping up Graham Platner, even after he was accused of rape and abuse by multiple ex-girlfriends, who also drew fire for comments many read as disparaging a fallen American hero.
Well, sadly this is Michigan, no longer the land of Henry Ford but thanks to places like Dearbornistan and Hamastramck well on its way to transmogrification into an Islamic shitole.
His argument was straightforward: the Democrat Party has drifted so far from ordinary voters that its own candidates no longer resemble what the country is asking for.
"Because the American people are not being ambiguous at all about what they want," Ford said. "They want lower prices; they want not-forever wars. They want their kids to have better futures and an opportunity to achieve the American dream.", and even one of their own on Fox News's The Five isn't pretending otherwise. On Thursday, Harold Ford Jr., who is far and away smarter than Jessica Tarlov, ripped into his party for propping up socialist candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan.
Host Erin Burnett said, “So, let me ask you about this poll that just came in here while we were talking in the past few minutes from Fox, Larry. The Republican Senate candidate, Ken Paxton, is now trailing the Democrat, James Talarico, in Texas. Ok, Texas. This is the first public poll where either candidate has hit the 50% mark. Ok. It’s Texas. It’s an incredible thing to see this. It’s also the end of July. Where do you see that race going?”
Sabato said, “I’ve been around a long time. And since 1994, I’ve gotten call after call virtually every day from Texans in politics on the Democratic side, saying, ‘This is the year. We’re finally gonna do it.’ But you know what? I’m starting to believe it’s actually possible this year, not just because James Talarico is a great candidate, which he is, but Paxton is so awful. And I’m sorry to use that word. But, you know, we used to have a word, a flaunter, meaning he’s a sinner who flaunts the sin. And that pretty much has been the way Paxton has conducted his public career. A lot of these donors won’t touch him. Notice, he’s not doing well at all raising money. It’s because they have family and friends and businesses to protect, and they really don’t want to identify themselves publicly with a candidate who has Paxton’s record.”
So okay, taken together Harold Ford although a decent fellow, isn't exactly a rock-ribbed conservative and Larry Sabato is a pollster who's been around the block for a long time and his record of prognostication let alone on the temperament of the electorate are not exactly stellar or even reliable unless I'm missing something.
But seriously, does this abject freak have a shot at taking a senate seat in Texas, regardless of Paxton's appeal or lack thereof? I mean Texas rejected Abortion Barbie and she makes Talarico look like Chairman Mao in comparison, or at least from my perspective as an ex-New York Yid living in the sticks of southern Wisconsin.
So if Socialism is such a big winner why are the Democrats seemingly all freaked out about it as several links in the Politics section seem to be driving at? The contradictions about this are maddening.
What I guess I'm driving at beyond these individual races is what does all this say about the nation as a whole and the trajectory we're on?
As the song goes . . . "Will our story shine like a light, or end in the dark?!!!!"
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
This lawsuit adds to the mounting controversies surrounding Benson, who has previously faced accusations of election misconduct and racial discrimination during her tenure as Michigan’s Secretary of State. In 2024, she attempted to bar President Donald J. Trump from appearing on Michigan ballots, in a move that was eventually quashed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Cox’s legal action raises questions about her knowledge of the SPLC’s activities and whether her role on the board conflicts with her public duties as a state official. Dem Secretary of State Served for Allegedly Funding Extremists at SPLC.
Bradley Green’s latest book, ‘What is Critical Theory,’ offers valuable insight into how Marxism threatens to undermine the family and subvert Christian morality. How Critical Theory Redefines Good As Evil
This is the first time that the court has been activated, having been dormant since its creation in 1996. The outcome of the case could determine whether the court becomes a regular device in deportation operations, particularly when dealing with foreign-born extremists who are permanent residents. The activation of the court means that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts must form a panel to assess Haji Zada’s case. Against the backdrop of author Salman Rushdie’s would-be assassin being found guilty of attempting to carry out a fatwa and supporting Hezbollah in federal court, this move represents a broader pivot towards tackling Islamic terrorism on U.S. soil. Trump Activates Dormant ‘Alien Terrorist Removal Court’ to Deport ISIS Supporter.
Lozano-Flores’s arrest underscores the ongoing threat to public safety posed by the huge number of illegal immigrants at large in the United States. It also highlights the importance of cooperation between local and federal authorities, with the Mexican being unlikely to be released by state authorities instead of handed over to ICE under sanctuary-style laws. Mexican Illegal Charged With Kidnapping and Sexual Assault of Minor Teen in Public Park.
The deal was reportedly arranged through Hong Kong-based Zhongqing Baoshang International Investment, with initial shipments expected to depart from Urumqi in western China and transit through Pakistan before reaching Iran. However, Pakistan has denied any involvement, with the country’s military calling reports linking it to the transfer “absolutely concocted and false.” China also rejected the claims, with a Foreign Ministry spokesman describing the reports as “completely groundless” and claiming that Beijing has sought to promote peace and end the conflict. REPORT: Iran Secures Hundreds of Chinese Missiles to Use Against U.S.
The principal weakness of Western policy has been not an excess of diplomacy or pressure, but a misunderstanding of what keeps the Islamic Republic in power. The Strategic Blind Spot
“The president has been very clear that he wants a deal done sooner rather than later. But if the Iranians are going to keep attacking ships, attacking US bases, attacking Gulf allies, then there will be a price to pay for that,” the US official said. While the US waits for Iran to show its willingness to stand down militarily, talks continue on both sides via technical teams and international mediators. Cease-fire Trump wants must begin with Iran — and there will be ‘price to pay’ for any attacks, US official warns
The Multicultural Business Coalition’s board voted this week to pursue legal action against the city over Mamdani’s proposal to open five taxpayer-funded grocery stores that would sell food at prices up to 30% below traditional retailers, according to the New York Post, which first reported the vote Tuesday. Immigrant Business Owners Prepare Lawsuit Against Mamdani Over City-Run Grocery Stores
Victor Davis Hanson: What happened to the nation’s most richly naturally endowed, and once best-governed, state? The left took total control — after millions of the embattled middle class fled. Millions more impoverished immigrants, legal and illegal, took their place. Left-wing Silicon Valley spawned some of the wealthiest elite liberal enclaves in the world. How California’s self-sabotage by the left made it a national disgrace
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Matar faces a maximum of life in prison. He will be sentenced on November 3. The case underscores the enduring influence of Islamic fatwas issued decades ago, as well as the role of Iran-backed terror groups like Hezbollah in enabling global terrorism. This story underscores the longstanding tension between freedom of speech and Islam in the West. Salman Rushdie Attacker Found Guilty of Iran-Linked Islamic Terrorism.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Carr has flatly denied that characterization. “I don’t view the FCC as the speech police,” he told Politico this week for an episode of the podcast “The Conversation.” The chairman has said the license review grew out of an ongoing investigation into ABC’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies, not a reaction to the network’s news coverage. FCC Chair Carr Defends License Review as ABC Cries Censorship
X had filed a lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) in 2024, accusing the organization of orchestrating what it described as a systematic illegal boycott of the platform. The lawsuit came after X experienced a significant decline in advertising revenue following Musk’s acquisition of the social network for $44 billion in 2022. Elon Musk’s X Settles Lawsuit with Advertisers over Ads Boycott
The relationship could carry consequences for how Jackson reports his finances. Under Senate rules, candidates and members must file detailed disclosures covering their own income, assets, and liabilities, along with those of a spouse. Because Jackson and Pelletier never wed, it is not clear whether his disclosures would have to account for her finances the way Collins’ filings account for her husband. Report: Maine Democrat Troy Jackson, Longtime Partner Are Second Cousins with 2 Children(just like Bro-Fo or Eleanor and Franklin?! - jjs)
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I’m starting to believe it’s actually possible this year, not just because James Talarico is a great candidate, which he is, but Paxton is so awful. And I’m sorry to use that word. But, you know, we used to have a word, a flaunter, meaning he’s a sinner who flaunts the sin. And that pretty much has been the way Paxton has conducted his public career Larry Sabato: Talarico Could Actually Flip Senate Seat in Texas
Democrats have a socialism problem, and even one of their own on Fox News's The Five isn't pretending otherwise. On Thursday, Harold Ford Jr., who is far and away smarter than Jessica Tarlov, ripped into his party for propping up socialist candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan. This Liberal Says Democrats Will ‘Deserve to Lose’ in November. Here's Why.
This is a big problem for an increasingly radicalized Democrat Party that continues to move further and further to the left and far out of mainstream thinking on issues like abolishing prisons, abolishing the U.S. Senate, sexualizing and queering little kids, defunding the police, open borders, socialized medicine, annihilating Israel, and outright property confiscation. One-Third of Democrats Identify as Democrat Socialists
“The Real Food Show” premiered July 30 on YouTube and the HHS website, offering recipes built around whole, minimally processed ingredients such as protein, full-fat dairy, fruits, vegetables and whole grains, the standards set out in the 2026 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The show promises meals priced under $5 per serving whenever possible, along with simple techniques meant to save families time and money. RFK Jr. Debuts Cooking Show to Prove Healthy Eating Beats Fast Food on Cost
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You'd be entirely justified in asking Wut? at this point, but this is a great technology landing at precisely the wrong time.
MRDIMMs are registered memory taken to the next level. Since the memory modules have interface chips - the registers - on them, you can have multiple banks of memory on each module, allowing 256GB DIMMs instead of just 64GB.
What the M part stands for is multiplexed, meaning that when you access the memory it interleaves data from two banks at once, so that transfers are twice as fast.
The new multiplexers run at 16GHz.
Which means you get user upgradable high-capacity memory modules that run at the sort of speed normally associated with the memory on video cards.
Which would be amazing and allow for some seriously powerful integrated graphics except that memory is so expensive right now that there is absolutely no point to it.
We've touched on this before. Computers have separate areas in memory reserved for instructions and data respectively, with strict controls over which is which. When those controls break down, you get a common class of security vulnerabilities - buffer overflows and the like.
LLMs don't have that. Worse, they pass benchmarks running tests for that problem with flying colours - typically blocking 100% of attacks - but when faced with a real human attacker they fail 100% of the time.
Supposedly they are already in production but have been hidden away because nobody knows how to price them.
Also, I bought an RX 6400 today. The least powerful recent AMD graphics card and by a good margin, but also the least power hungry, and physically the smallest. It's not much slower than the RX 580 (I have a couple of those) but is a tiny low profile card that only uses 50W of power.
Also a lot cheaper and smaller than, say, an RTX 3050, while not being that much slower. Not something you'd buy unless you need to fit the card in a low-profile slot, but the Hyte / Hololive limited edition cases (of which I now have five) only allow for a single full-height card, so I do.
From the "Wait - she wasn't already dead??" files --
It is with profound sorrow that we bid farewell to Jeanne Gibson, our beloved Rosie the Riveter, has passed away today, July 29, 2026, at the remarkable age of 100. With her passing, we don't simply mourn the loss of a beloved friend, we honor the life of an American hero whose courage, dedication, and unwavering spirit helped shape history, and will continue to inspire generations to come.
At just 18 years old, Jeanne left her home in Minnesota in the summer of 1944 and answered her nation's call, becoming a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle. With determination and grit, she helped build destroyers that strengthened the Allied war effort during World War II. She later continued her service with the Army Transportation Corps in Juneau, Alaska, embodying the resilience and patriotism of the Greatest Generation.
A South Florida couple who has opened their home to dozens of children is being recognized by the Savannah Bananas through the team's Bananas Foster initiative.
John and Tammy McGuire were honored during a recent Florida game for their commitment to foster care and adoption, causes that have long been part of their family history.
"My grandmother and grandfather ran an orphanage, and John's mother adopted a relative placement," Tammy McGuire said.
The McGuires had children of their own when they decided to become foster parents, believing they could make a difference in the lives of children in need. Over the years, 61 children have stayed in their home.
Bravo to the McGuires for making a difference for all of those children!
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Not all heroes wear capes
Apparently if you are messing with Flock cameras, You can just tell the cops you are doing an update.
Federal regulators are clearing the way for robotaxis to operate without manual controls like steering wheels or eventually even brake pedals as the rules start to catch up to the evolving technology.
Amazon’s fully autonomous Zoox vehicles got approval Thursday to begin charging customers for rides in the specially designed cars that feature four inward-facing seats once they secure state and local approval. Zoox has already been offering free rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco since last year. At least a couple people were waiting at most stops Thursday afternoon for rides up and down the Vegas strip aboard one of the distinctive boxy-shaped vehicles.
“It’s kind of scary at first, but when I just got used to it, it’s really cool and chilling. I really liked the music and how you can adjust the temperature,” Chloe Huu from Ann Arbor, Michigan, said after taking a ride in a Zoox Thursday. But the projected wait time for the ride kept changing, which made it hard to plan.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also proposed a rule last month to allow robotaxis to operate without brake pedals, but that proposal is still pending. Administrator Jonathan Morrison said his agency wants to update the regulations to fit these fully autonomous vehicles while still acting as the “cop on the beat to make sure that this is being done right.”
Long article. Check out the whole thing.
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Although I can’t quote the exact verse, I’m pretty sure it says in the Bible that if you make a Spaghetti-O’s gelatin dish you go straight to hell. pic.twitter.com/sGKcJxlLYU
U.S. company Satyress is developing threehalves, a centaur-style robot designed for dangerous environments such as wildfires, rubble searches, toxic areas and confined spaces. The system combines a humanoid upper body with a quadruped mobility platform. #USA#Robotics#UGV#AIpic.twitter.com/ViPprQ1lrZ
Fauci's journal: the people criticizing my performance are only doing so because they want to "destroy democracy."
You see, he's not just Science, he's also Democracy.
Attacks on Anthony Fauci were part of a right-wing plot to "destroy democracy," former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Anthony Fauci mused in his personal diary released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
When Fauci was not marveling over his rise to global fame or desperately reaching out to former President Barack Obama for PR help as his reputation sank to new depths, Fauci convinced himself that attacks against him were all part of an elaborate plot of the political right to "destroy democracy."
In an October 3, 2021 entry, Fauci wrote that the country "is headed to or might already be in a constitutional crisis with the far right clearly indicating that they're going to try and disrupt elections and essentially destroy the democracy."
"The attacks on me I believe are all a tangential part of that process," Fauci surmised, flattering himself in the process.
"I speak of the big lie of which I unfortunately have been drawn into being a target of the far right because I represent something that is antithetical to them, namely, the truth," he continued.
Prosecutors release more admissions by Tyler Robinson that he murdered Charlie Kirk, provoking Candace Owens to ask the question, when did the Jews get to Tyler Robinson?
The left claims "Not all Muslims are terrorists." But the left's pussyfooting around calling out terrorism, for fear of offending their Muslim supporters, suggests the left does in fact believe that all Muslims are terrorists. Or at least, they support terrorism.
Not every Muslim is an Islamist, but every Islamist is a Muslim. The vast majority of ordinary British Muslims want nothing to do with their terrorist-supporting co-religionists; in many cases it is the tyranny and cruelty of Islamism that forced them to seek a new life here in the first place.
And yet despite this clear distinction, despite the unambiguous motivations of a religiously inspired psychopath who thought he was doing God's will by attacking a Pride march, there are few politicians -- especially Labour ones -- with the courage to call it what it is.
The X platform is awash with the usual boilerplate, box-ticking condolences you get on such (frequent) occasions. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, posted: "London stands in solidarity with Berlin's LGBTQ+ community. This is why Pride matters. Those who seek to spread hatred and division will never win."
Those who seek to spread hatred and division? Anyone particular in mind, Lord Khan? How odd that the mayor of a city that has suffered more than its fair share of Islamist atrocities can't bring himself to name the poisonous ideology that provokes such inhuman acts.
Sadly, there were plenty of others who followed the same craven pattern. Catherine West MP predicted that "hope will triumph over hate". But whose hate? Simon Lightwood MP's thoughts were with "everyone affected, their loved ones and the wider LGBT+ community". Everyone affected by what, though? Why did the attack even take place? Any thoughts. Simon?
Ludicrously, Kate Osborne, Labour MP for Jarrow, actually compared the Islamist attack in Berlin to the rise of Reform UK, which would be funny were the implications not so chilling.
I fear the answer to Labour's reticence to call a spade a spade lies purely in electoral considerations. While Andy Burnham's second coming has reassured his party that Reform can be beaten back and its electoral appeal blunted, there remains the headache over what to do about the haemorrhaging of votes to the party's Left, specifically to the Greens. Zack Polanski's party has exploited Muslim anger at Israel's response to the Hamas attacks of October 2023 and has effectively painted Labour as a supporter of Israel and as an apologist for events in Gaza.
Having already lost four previously safe Labour seats to "Gaza independents" at the 2024 election, and with similarly motivated independents gearing up to fight vulnerable Labour-held seats at the next election, Labour is known to be extremely nervous about further offending or alienating Muslim voters. And while most Muslims reject the tenets of Islamism, hyper-sensitive, politically-correct Labour MPs can't help but notice that "Islamist" looks awfully similar to "Islam". Stupid as that sounds, it might explain the cowardice of so many MPs in refusing to name the real cause of so many terrorist acts in recent years.
A DHS official put out a list of the worst activist judges. The media shrieked that he was endangering the lives of judges by naming them.
But the media attacks people they don't like all the time. Are they confessing they are putting their enemies' lives in danger -- and either don't care or affirmatively desire that outcome?
A high-ranking Trump Department of Homeland Security official called out the "liberal media" for what he referred to as the "absolute absurdity" of its response to his series criticizing activist judges.
James Percival, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, posted a series on X last week, "Worst of the Worst, District Judge Edition."
In his posts, Percival pointed to the risks that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents face while enforcing the law, saying some judges are working to "sabotage" those operations and put officers "at risk."
After his posts, Percival said DHS was contacted by a Chicago Sun-Times reporter about whether "a social media post like this risk[s] additional threats" in the context of "ongoing threats to federal judges."
In response, Percival blasted the outlet in an X post in which he told followers, "Witness the absolute absurdity of the liberal media response to my new series, Worst of the Worst, District Judges."
Percival emphasized that "legitimate fact based critiques of judges and their rulings is fair game in a free society." He also noted that "the media has no issue with it if the judge is conservative."
Notably, conservative judges, including Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, have been the target of intense criticism from the left and, in some cases, violence. In 2022, Kavanaugh was the target of an assassination plot after an armed California man traveled to his home with a pistol, ammunition, zip ties, pepper spray, duct tape and burglary tools. Further, Barrett testified in a recent congressional hearing that she has had to wear a bulletproof vest in response to threats.
What is gain-of-function research? Put simply, it includes any efforts by scientists to make a virus or other pathogen more deadly or more transmissable, to better understand ways said virus could mutate to become more dangerous. Doing so, proponents say, helps better inform efforts to develop vaccines and other defenses in the future. But even proponents admit that doing so carries with it serious risks. A virus made more dangerous to study it is still a more dangerous virus; its exposure to humans no less a threat because it was turbocharged for "good" reasons; its likelihood of escaping containment not mitigated by "good" intentions.
In May 2025, President Trump decided such research was too risky, pausing it in the U.S., and making funding of foreign gain-of-function research illegal. Such research had previously been paused under President Obama as part of a new risk assessment in 2014 but resumed in 2017. Dr. Fauci has long been a vocal advocate of gain-of-function research, despite these considerable risks.
Given short shrift in the melee around the facts (by the media, to be clear, not by Sen. Paul and his team) is that this alleged funding of virus-enhancing research wasn't just given to a lab in any nation, but to one run by the Chinese Communist Party, our chief geopolitical nemesis, and by any accounts a malignant communist regime opposed to truth and transparency of any kind. Why would we trust them with anything, none the less to conduct above-board research into a deadly pathogen, particularly when they had displayed a long history of safety lapses?
As I argued on The Hill's Rising podcast with Emily Jashinsky and Ryan Grim back in 2021, Fauci was arguing semantics about what a new rule he himself inserted into funding guidelines said about what constituted gain-of-function research. That sleight-of-hand covered for what was really going on: the U.S. government was sending taxpayer dollars to research, in Wuhan, to make bat-based coronaviruses more transmissible and more deadly. This was happening at a lab doing cutting-edge research on these types of viruses and which had a reputation for flouting biosafety regulations -- a lab just a couple miles from where newly transmissible and deadlier cases of bat-based coronaviruses first appeared.
It should be the story of the century. Could America's top doctor have partnered with the Chinese Communist Party to help to unleash a global pandemic that killed millions? Why, ahead of said doctor's public testimony aren't outlets scrambling to understand what happened, given all this directional evidence?
I think it's because of the legacy media's love affair with Dr. Fauci as America's supposed COVID-savior.
I worry we're already forgetting just how enamored the legacy press -- the institution constitutionally responsible for holding government to account -- was with Dr. Fauci, certainly before but particularly in the early days of COVID.
To the press, Fauci was a hero, battling dangerous forces who refused to take COVID as seriously as The Science did.
Do you remember how preposterous these headlines were?
BREAKING: The identity of the man that berated the two teenage female Sophie Cunningham supporters at the Seattle Storm vs Indiana Fever game is Marco Esquivel.
Esquivel is a Nordstrom corporate employee in Seattle.
High-T Heterosexual and super-Christian James Talarico: I've learned as much about "my religion" from Islam as from the actual Bible.
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James Talarico — who said he "hates Christianity" — praised Islam for inspiring his religious beliefs:
"I’ve learned as much about my faith from Salman’s tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors..." pic.twitter.com/2UeksY9Hko
On the campaign trail, Democrat candidate James Talarico often describes his faith as "biblical Christianity." But the Senate hopeful once credited Islamic mystics with shaping his faith just as much as Christian writers, audio unearthed by The Daily Wire reveals.
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Talarico asserted that his faith was rooted in "biblical Christianity." During an appearance on The State of Belief podcast in April 2024 alongside Muslim state Rep. Salman Bhojani, Talarico praised Islam for shaping his religious beliefs. Those comments could come into play as debate heats up in Texas about Islam's growing presence in the state.
"I know personally that I've learned as much about my faith from Salman's tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers," he said. "This kind of interfaith dialogue, it doesn't water down your tradition, in fact it strengthens it, it brings out new flavors and new colors."
The Short Unhappy Life of a Russian Soldier: Why recruits die in 20-30 minutes Interesting video. Some key parts: drones were responsible for 70-80% of all battlefield deaths in mid-2025, and I bet it's higher now. The Russian army is incredibly corrupt. Men get assigned to the most dangerous frontline units, the "Storm" units, unless they pay a superior $2,000 to be assigned to a different unit. Furthermore, there is often no real training for recruits -- commanders pocket the money that would have gone towards fuel and ammo costs incurred during training. Much "training" consists just of taking a single picture of soldiers doing something soldier-y, like fording a river, and publishing that as proof that the training was done. Even when it is done, training is only two weeks long.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton discuss the Berlin attack, Iran...Again! Sefton's mini Odyssey review, Data Republican's blockbuster reveal about the DNC, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click She's totally committed to major independence
She's a lady through and through
She gives them quite a battle, all that they can handle
She'll bruise some, she'll hurt some too
Podcast: Illegals registered and voted in NJ! Leftist violence is baked into the Democrat cake, Iran's capabilities are being degraded, Londonistan? And...come on SC...no senate dynasties!
FDA is providing an update regarding the sample of lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico which was reported positive on July 18, 2026. Due to the complexity in detection of Cyclospora, FDA laboratory experts re-reviewed the sample results and have concluded that the finding does not represent true amplification and should be considered a false positive. Information about the sample has been removed from the July 18, 2026, update below. FDA has notified Taylor Farms and continues working with the firm to ensure product implicated in this outbreak has been removed from the market. FDA and state partners continue to collect and analyze product samples. As of July 19, 2026, there are no confirmed positive sample results for product testing for Cyclospora.
Podcast: Trump Slaps Mullin down; he wants the auto stops to continue, we need employment enforcement at our big corporations, The gerontocracy in the Senate, the Iranian junta is true to form, but Trump responds forcefully, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Northern Lights Division
Our topic today is music That's right, like
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CNBC ranks Tennessee as dead last in its “Worst States to Live” analysis. The specific reason is that cross-dressing men in TN are denied access to children and women’s private spaces. Texas finished 49th. The “worst” states were all red states. [Buck]
