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September 16, 2026

Hollywood Is Fake and Gay: Wolverine Is Gay, Green Lantern Only Got the Ring Because of White Privilege

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I haven't bothered covering HBO's Lanterns show because, at this point, who cares.

The show is being run by woke clown no-talent Damon Lindeloff, who previously turned HBO's Watchmen series into hardcore racial agitprop with a pronounced black-cuck fetish. And the other show-runner is an extremely woke DEI black woman.

If you're not a comics fan, I'll explain the Green Lantern: Hal Jordan, a fearless test pilot, was chosen as the bearer of a Green Lantern ring, which confers incredible power on the user and makes the user a member of the intergalactic super-police, the Green Lantern Corps. Basically Jedis in spandex.

The Corps had previously never considered giving barbarous earthlings a power ring, but Hal Jordan was such a standout -- eventually acknowledged as the greatest Green Lantern -- that rings were given to additional earth-men, including John Stewart, a black architect.

In the new woke hard-core black supremacist version of the show, John Stewart's father was considered for the ring before Hal Jordan, but was rejected from the program. They showed him something scary and asked "Are you afraid?" He answered "Yes," and they moved on to the next candidate (Hal Jordan), because it is critical that a Lantern be fearless.

Later, the people who give out the rings, the Guardians, paid a visit to the Stewart family to make sure they were doing okay. John Stewart's mother launched into a Proud Black Woman lecture -- everyone take heed, a Black Woman is speaking and we are listening. She said to the intergalactic super-being, "How dare you ask a black man if he is afraid," because black people are permanently terrified in America, and then asserted, without contradiction, that Hal Jordan, having "white privilege," would of course not be afraid of anything so the whole game was rigged, as usual, against The Black Man.

The writers and show-runners confirmed that this was supposed to be an accurate statement about race in America. They say the want to "start conversations," but if you tell them this is nasty racialist propaganda, they'll cancel you for your racism.

Damon Lindeloff has previously shown he has some kind of gay black cuck fetish, and again shows that here. He makes a point to show John Stewart having sex with the wife of a literal white supremacist leader. And then, bizarrely, the white supremacist leader strips off his clothes and demands that John Stewart -- here an artist instead of an architect -- draw him and his naked dong. Just like the "dram me like your French girls" scene from Titanic, except gay and weird.

Oh, and the show also includes a "surprising amount of naked penises." No boobs, just dicks. Showing naked women is exploitative and low-brow, showing naked dicks every half-hour is Elevated and Artistic.

These are Prestige Dicks.

OUT: The Male Gaze

IN: The Male Gays

This is a DC superhero show.

Oh, and in this version of the story, John Stewart is not a colleague of Hal Jordan, but his Superior Replacement -- let's not be subtle about this, let's make it clear that black men are superior in every way-- and John Stewart beats the crap out of the man formerly considered the greatest Green Lantern in history and takes his ring from him.

Oh, and in the first episode, Hal Jordan is shown to be dead and murdered later in the season. White erasure, I think they would call it.

Sorry to bore you but that background is needed for this next story: the incoming regime is reportedly having "crisis" meetings to deal with the backlash over this toxic race grifting propaganda, as well as their decision to cast black actors to replace white actors in their unnecessary Harry Potter cash-grab retelling.

Paramount is holding internal meetings about the growing backlash to HBO's shows, sources tell Cosmic Book News.

"I heard 'meetings' are taking place to address the growing backlash to the shows," a source said. "They've spent ungodly amounts of money on Harry Potter and they plan to spend much more to promote it."

The shows drawing the fire: Lanterns, HBO's Harry Potter, House of the Dragon, and now The People v. Gorilla Grodd.

Paramount is in the middle of closing its $111 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, the deal that hands the Ellisons HBO and HBO Max.

"Keep it in mind when you see bots swarming your posts and everyone else dunking on HBO slop," the source said, referring to the bot accounts that swarm Cosmic Book News' own posts and social media whenever these shows come up. "The growing backlash to Lanterns, Potter, House of Dragon, and now Grodd got them worried."

Some of that backlash still shows up as viewership. People tune in to see the trainwreck.

The source says the studio knows that kind of watching doesn't pay.

"Negative engagement might pad the ratings a bit but wrecks ancillary income channels," the source said. "Hate watching does not translate into merch sales, DVD sales, book sales, etc."

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"One thing many are missing: HBO is supposed to be 'appointment television, the home of The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, etc.,'" the source continued. "Having Grodd and Lantern Dicks be the new face of HBO is irking a lot of people."

That's the network that just greenlit a mockumentary where Jimmy Tatro plays Gorilla Grodd in a practical gorilla suit.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone premieres this Christmas on HBO. Asked what the studio can do about the show at this point, the source said the window has closed.

"Potter season 1 is done or very close to done," the source said. "Nothing they can do except hype up the good elements and ignore the bad casting choices."

...

"It's a brand problem. And the Ellisons are paying $$$$$ for that brand," the source said. "They need that brand to be Peak TV, Emmy magnets, the home of great directors and producers. Not the brand that normies associate with whatever Lanterns is."

You may remember a story from a couple of weeks ago: Comic Boon News reported, accurately, that Hal Jordan was shown dead with a bullet wound in his head in the first episode, and HBO filed a false copyright claim to suppress the story. They claimed they had a copyright over someone repeating a plot point from the show.

Meanwhile, there's a Wolverine videogame that's about to be released, and yes, it is lame and gay.

It's lame because it's not really a game. There are parts of the game that are supposed to be "Quick Time Events," a game mechanic which is ancient and considered lame already, but it's lamer still here, because the game will not let you fail these quick-time events. If you fail to push the buttons the game tells you to push, it just pushes them for you.

It's one of those "Push W to win" games, people say -- if you just hold down the "W" button to walk forward, you automatically win, because the "game" is mostly just a movie made with CGI that you watch rather than play.

And it's gay because the game's creators have decided that Wolverine's deadliest and most brutal foe, Sabertooth, is in some kind of gay chaste romance with him.

They "yearn" for each other's touch.

Sure, Sabertooth has been trying to murder Wolverine for 50 years, but beneath that, there is a tender longing and suppressed homosexual love.

Sabretooth Yearns For Wolverine In Insomniac's Game: "Hate And Love Are So Hand In Hand"

By Patrick Scanlon

The Washington Post's Marvel's Wolverine review landed at three stars, but the part getting passed around isn't the score. It's Sabretooth.

Reviewer Gene Park describes a scene during an assault on a military base where Sabretooth grabs the back of Logan's head, and Park reads the moment as longing, not menace.

Insomniac says that's exactly what it is.

"Hate And Love Are So Hand In Hand"

Narrative director Walt Williams told the Post the beat is written that way on purpose.


Logan feels the pull, gets scared, and backs off. Sabretooth feels the same pull, it hurts him, and he lashes out to push that hurt onto Logan.

"Hate and love are so hand in hand," Williams said.

He framed the rivalry as a loop: each one wounds the other, and the shared pain is what keeps them bound together.

Williams is the writer behind Spec Ops: The Line, the 2012 shooter that doubled as a psychological thriller.

Park's takeaway is that Insomniac left room for love inside Logan's most violent relationship.

By the way, the studio that produced this employed the services of Woke Compliance Officers "Sweet Baby Inc.," who have inserted gayness and Muh Representation into dozens of games, most of which subsequently failed. I don't know if this is their handiwork, but even if it is, it is Insomniac studios who implemented it and now proudly boast of it.

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Report: ActBlue Raised Illegal Foreign Money for Democrats and Then Covered It Up

—Disinformation Expert Ace

In before the guy who says "nothing will happen" says "nothing will happen."

Alas, I agree. We've been watching this story for years and like all other stories about Democrat Party corruption and treasonous partnership with hostile foreign actors, nothing ever happens.

Dem fundraising giant ActBlue accused of fraudulent donation 'cover-up' in explosive report





ActBlue, which is used by a litany of high-profile Dems, is accused of accepting foreign donations

By Elizabeth Elkind

FIRST ON FOX: A Democrat fundraising giant used by the biggest players on the left is being accused of covering up the acceptance of fraudulent political donations and lying to Congress about its security standards.

Congressional Republicans are providing an update on their investigation of ActBlue -- a platform for campaigns to raise money that's used by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, among others -- that alleges the company potentially accepted foreign contributions and concealed the evidence from the GOP's probe.

ActBlue has previously denied any wrongdoing.

"The Committees' oversight has found that ActBlue, in its own words, decided to take 'a more lenient approach' to fraud prevention in 2024, weakening its fraud-prevention policies at least twice even though internal assessments showed that these changes would result in a measurable increase in fraudulent contributions," the report said, citing an ActBlue staff report.

"Similarly, internal trainings directed ActBlue's fraud prevention team to 'look for reasons to accept contributions' rather than to examine them closely for indicators of fraud -- as required by federal regulation. ActBlue took this lax approach to fraud prevention even though it had detected at least 22 significant fraud campaigns on the platform in recent years, including several from foreign sources."

Republicans accused ActBlue of accepting "illegal foreign political donations" and the "subsequent cover-up" of that information.


If you remember, ActBlue deliberately disabled its billing software's zip code check, so that foreigners could donate to Barack Obama without the system flagging these illegal donations.

They're now running a similar gain. Federal law requires a passport number be included by people donating from overseas.

ActBlue deliberately crippled its own system. Instead of actually checking if these were valid passport numbers belonging to US citizens entitled to donate to American politicians, ActBlue's system only checked if the string of numbers had the right number of numbers in it.

As an example,Mb< the report cited a letter by ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones to Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., which maintained that donations on the platform made by people with addresses outside the U.S. required a passport number for verification.

But Republicans alleged that the verification "only ensures that the entered passport number contains a certain number of characters, not that it is a valid U.S. passport number," rendering it an essentially meaningless step.

They consider it a minor detail not worth looking into when an online donation comes from communist China:

The report also included excerpts purporting to show ActBlue supervisors green-lighting donations despite "red flags," including a memo lauding a donation as a "great accept" but noting, "Donor sometimes has an IP in Hong Kong, but none of their other signals raise any eyebrows."

Another communication appears to show an ActBlue supervisor maintaining that a denied contribution "should have been accepted." The rest of the memo stated, "It is a foreign contribution, but the name/email match, the IP/billing match, a full address with the correct country code, and there were previously accepted and successful contributions."

"The donor uses an Arkansas state code, which isn't great, but [the] system can be wonky with requiring state codes for foreign donors," the rest of the message stated.


An ActBlue supervisor also allegedly said a contribution "set off a lot of" alarms, but argued the donor should be given the "benefit of the doubt."

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New Zohran Mamdani Top Advisor Literally Wrote the Book on "Gay Communism"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Okay, it wasn't a book, it was a magazine, and she didn't write it, she edited it.

So, more accurately: She literally edited the magazine by and for Gay Communists.

The magazine's name?

See if you can guess. What name would appeal to both left-wing gays and communists?

That's right -- "Pinko" magazine, the magazine for gay communists.

Jon Levine:

EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani Taps 'Gay Communist' for Senior Government Role: New Adviser Called for 'Abolition of Police' and 'Undoing Capitalism,' Condemned Gandhi as 'Anti-Black Misogynist'

Lena Afridi, who makes $185,000 a year at City Hall, is also an editor at Pinko magazine, 'a collective for thinking gay communism'

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani named a self-proclaimed "gay communist" who has called for abolishing the police and "undoing capitalism" to a top post in his administration, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.

Lena Afridi--who uses "they/them pronouns"--deleted much of her social media history shortly before arriving at City Hall, but the Free Beacon recovered her postings. She was quietly named to a senior adviser position in the mayor's office in April 2026, drawing a hefty salary of $185,000 a year, records show.

...

Multiple people in the Mamdani administration who knew Afridi told the Free Beacon they could not say what she did day to day, with one calling her a "strange person." Her portfolio appears to include supporting the city's opposition to ICE and other federal efforts to rein in so-called sanctuary cities.

Her? You mean "their," transphobes!

Before joining the administration, Afridi spent three years working as chief of staff for PowerSwitch Action, a nonprofit organization dedicated to "forging multiracial feminist democracy" and "grounded in breaking the interlocking chains of oppression."

The group openly bragged about their involvement in violent anti-ICE riots in Minnesota in a March 2026 blog post.

In addition to her government and advocacy work, Afridi is currently listed as an editor at Pinko, a magazine which describes itself as "a collective for thinking gay communism." On the masthead, she went by "L. Israh Afridi." Israh is an Arabic word for "night journey" that is sacred in Islam.

Earlier website iterations of Pinko touted the magazine as "communism for fags."

All communism is communism for fags.

And yes, if they can say it, I can say it too. I am not a slave and these degenerates are not my masters.

"What do we mean by communism? Something like the freedom not to have to seek our lives on the market, attained through the abolition of all forms of private property, family and the state," Pinko clarified in a 2019 blog post.

On X, Afridi posted multiple times about her support for "communism" and "gay communism."

Like many Mamdani staffers, Afridi quietly deleted her X account, @lpafridi,​ in the days leading up to her appointment--but in old posts uncovered by the Free Beacon, she offered a militant and uncompromising far-left agenda.

"On a personal note, outside of work: while I believe that defunding the NYPD is absolutely necessary in order to get much needed resources to the people, I *also* believe that the only way to achieve true liberation is not through reform but abolition of the police," she declared in June 2020.

Afridi has not been shy about leaning into her communist bona fides, posting in September 2021 that "undoing capitalism" was the only way to stop climate change.

Afridi is a close friend of Cea Weaver, the notorious top Mamdani housing official who's called home ownership "a weapon of white supremacy" and expressed a desire to "impoverish the white middle class."

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Day-Old Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

This was intended as yesterday's quick hits, but news of Larry Kramer's potential criminal charges for perjury and obstruction of justice bumped it.

Although these Quick Hits were baked yesterday, they are still edible. Just put them under a wet paper towel and microwave them for 10 seconds.

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno

Our crazy orange president needs to announce a plan to pack the court, just like Dems keep advocating.

He'll have Dems shouting that court packing is fascism, which will make for useful video clips down the road.

Just post it on Truth Social. Sit back and watch heads explode, with backflips.

I agree. I had intended to say so in the earlier post. The left keeps threatening to pack the court 1, to make the public accept it when they do it, and 2, to in the meantime pressure the "conservative" majority to sell out to the left to forestall them from packing the court.

I say we leverage the court's fear of popular backlash in our own favor. We should campaign to pack the court with six hard-core based conservatives.

And then let Kavanaugh and Roberts and Coney-Barret write decisions to appease us.

And look, the left is going to pack the court. This isn't just bluffing.

Do we have to play the faintheart sucker forever? Can we not act decisively in our own interests, ever?


Kash Patel is working with Congress on legislation to ban birth tourism.

FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday confirmed that the Trump administration was working to create legislation to target "birth tourism," the practice of traveling to the U.S. to give birth and secure citizenship for newborns.

Patel made the remarks during an appearance before Senate lawmakers of the Judiciary Committee.

"We are following the federal statutes that we have on the books right now, and we're working with our partners in Congress to draft new legislation to give us new authorities to make sure that we can combat the threat," he said, according to Politico.

Better act quick. Chinese billionaires are basically filling up America with their clones.

A woman has discovered she is carrying a baby for reclusive Chinese gaming billionaire Xu Bo, who has allegedly fathered hundreds of children.

"The agency should've been very transparent from before getting matched ... about who it is that you're having a baby for and what the family is," she told CBS News.

He's creating his own horde of descendants in, as John Kerry would say, in a manner reminiscent of Jengis Khan.

The woman, whom CBS identified as "Judy" to protect her identity, made the comments in one of the first public accounts from a surrogate carrying a child for Xu.


Judy told the station she has repeatedly tried to meet the man for whom she is carrying the baby, but none have taken place. "It leaves me wondering: do I even have a right to know?" she said.

Her involvement with surrogacy began after she came across an AD on Instagram. It offered $120,000 to become a surrogate.

Judy, a single mom raising a seven-year-old, saw it as an opportunity to earn enough money to move into a home of her own.

"I wanted to build a better life for me and my daughter," she said.

Judy eventually signed an agreement with Patriot Conceptions. She said the agency described the intended parent as a single father who wanted to grow his family.

The California Post reached out to Patriot Conceptions about Judy's claims.

In a statement, Patriot Conceptions confirmed that they were the agency for Xu's surrogate Judy. They also clarified that they had "zero affiliation" with a separate Arcadia case featured in CBS's story.

"Conflating our agency with those unrelated arrangements is materially misleading," they said.

Moreover, the agency said that Xu presented himself as a "single father seeking to build a family" and that when revelations over his activities became public, they "recommended terminating the contract" with him.


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On Weibo, Xu has posted fantasies of his offspring one day marrying Musk's children, according to the Journal.

This superfecudity strategy is insane and should be criminalized. It's dangerous -- when you secret sire a literal Mongolian horde of children, the odds become pretty good that sons will begin marrying sisters, having no idea that they're direct blood relatives.

Spain's socialist bitch Pedro Sanchez wants the cameras to see him shaking hands with an African migrant. He was probably not happy to see the cameras caught him vigorously wiping off his hand after "welcoming" the immigrant.

Karl Rove signals his virtue.

Karl Rove, former adviser to President George W. Bush and longtime Texas GOP political consultant, said he is planning to vote for Democrat Jon Rosenthal, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state's oil and gas production.

The statements come after Republican candidate Bo French published comments on X that critics called racist. The post showed a photo of students celebrating the University of Texas football game on Sunday, many of which appear non-White.

I'm done with this crew.

Speaking of: Super-Conservative (TM) Tom Massie, who is definitely not a flaky closet case, has filed articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

He's vag-mad that the Secretary of War sometimes orders men into, um, war.

The Pentagon came out swinging on Tuesday after Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., read articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over the prosecution of the Iran war.

Massie's articles focused on the continued involvement of U.S. forces in active fighting past the 60-day maximum, after which the White House must seek authorization from Congress. The Iran war began in late February and was subject to a nominal ceasefire for several weeks. The Trump administration previously argued that the official pause in fighting reset the clock.

After Massie's remarks on the House floor, however, the Pentagon embraced a defiant tone, with press secretary Kingsley Wilson telling reporters that "Secretary Hegseth has been a transformative leader for the Department of War. Standards and merit are back, our arsenal is stronger than ever before, and morale and recruitment across every service are at all-time highs."


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Fake News "NHL Reporter" Blasts Sydney Sweeney for Using Her Body to Sell Merch... But Of Course Previously Posted a Booby Bikini Photo to Sell "Hot Girls for Hockey" Merch

—Disinformation Expert Ace

That's only the first part of this embarrassing hypocrisy.

The second part is this "reporter" doubling down and insisting that because she showed her boobies to sell merch to women, that's totes different than Sydney Sweeny using boobies to sell a gambling service to men.

Emma Lingan @emma_lingan

Sep 15

Nobody cares that Sydney Sweeney got naked. The issue is the implication that women's only value in sports is to be decoration for male consumption.

Also, body shaming a hypothetical woman while pretending to defend women's choices is a pretty spectacular way to miss the point.

Colin Dunlap @colin_dunlap

Sep 15

It is genuinely exhausting how Sydney Sweeney is criticized for a photo yet if a woman 60 pounds overweight with hair 11 different colors took the same photo, the same women criticizing Sweeney would be tweeting, "YASSSSSS QUEEN!!!!!!!" x.com/emma_lingan/st...

Emma Lingan @emma_lingan

Sep 15

Pointing out that a sports betting company is leaning on the same tired "hot woman = male attention" formula is not telling Sweeney what to do with her body.

You can support a woman's bodily autonomy and criticize how a corporation markets that body at the same time.

Now someone steps in to post her own boobie sex-for-clicks photo:

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Sander van Dam
@Sandervandam2

You mean like this?

She tells this Racist that it's okay for a woman to exploit herself because it's empowering but not if she's exploiting herself to appeal to the (spit) Male Gaze.

Emma Lingan
@emma_lingan

That post is me, a woman, advertising women's apparel to other women -- apparel literally marketed around women being hockey fans. My body isn't being used as a decorative prop to sell an unrelated product to men.

Sander van Dam @Sandervandam2

Stop making a fool of yourself. She's half-naked and wearing a 'Hot girls like Hockey' cap to draw attention to the brand.

Emma Lingan @emma_lingan

21h

The fact that I've posted a bikini photo doesn't mean I forfeited the right to criticize how women are sexualized in sports marketing. If anything, dragging up a two-year-old photo of my body instead of addressing the argument is proving the point all over again.

Proving I'm a liar and a hypocrite is just proving her point that women are sexualized in sports marketing. Including of course her own sexualization of herself in sports marketing.

Do you "get it" now, Racists?

Do better, anti-woman racists. #DoBetter.

This racist still needs insturction:


Derek Hunter
@derekahunter

No, this was you with a promo code that probably paid you 50 percent of sales that used it. It was a money grab, plain and simple. You were the "decorative prop" for your bank account. Spin it however you like, reality isn't dependent upon your comfort level with it.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

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A Hollow Justification

Over time - and over the past several years in particular - a common theme has arisen on these pages and in the wider world: the loss of trust. The loss of trust, be it institutional or personal, is easy to identify and straightforward to describe, but it can be difficult to internalize. It is hard, as Heinlein might put it, to grok it. Even if one acknowledges a loss of trust and intellectually understands that it has happened, nothing will prevent him from appealing to a trust that no longer exists. The concept of trust, and especially institutional trust, is deeply ingrained.

This phenomenon is what leads to baffling thinkpieces about how, despite the risks involved, an institution (usually a government) should be permitted to do X, Y or Z because the benefits are so great and the risks are small unless there are are dishonest operators. Such thinkpieces should be impossible to produce with any amount of seriousness in Current Year, yet they still come, sometimes from unlikely quarters. On Monday, JJ's Morning Report linked to just such a thinkpiece, published in the American Thinker.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas
Julian Onderdonk

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The Morning Report — 9/ 16 /26

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids.

So, yesterday I railed about jury nullification and the abuse of our legal system and judiciary as a means of political repression and the general advancement of Democrat/Leftist ideology and the attainment of absolute political power. Left unmentioned is the most egregious and most dangerous form of nullification: that which emanates from the bench itself, and yet again the greatest example comes from the highest court in the land, the one that's supposed to set the gold standard for justice and the advancement of the rule of a just and stable law, but in recent years, not coincidentally coinciding with the appearance of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement not the scene, SCOTUS has seen some outrageous examples of just the opposite, DObbs and Bruen notwithstanding.

SCOTUS Denies Stay on Ruling Blocking Trump Mail-In Ballot Restrictions: Alito and Thomas dissented: “Some of the plaintiffs lack standing, while the remainder are pursuing a claim that this Court has recently called a ‘Hail Mary pass’ that ‘rarely succeeds.’”

Further, Alito all but declared j'accuse...

Did the Supreme Court’s liberal justices slow-walk their dissents in litigation over President Trump’s mail-in voting order to run out the clock on its implementation for the 2026 midterms? That seems to be what Justice Samuel Alito subtly suggested in the court’s most recent ruling on the subject

And so on the one hand, the Leftists want to pack the court with their political allies who will subvert the Constitution and the guiding principles of American and western jurisprudence to advance their Sharia-esque goal o absolute power and control via the advancement and forcing of their preferred insane policies on our society and people. Most recently and vociferously from Mayor Buttplug, who potentially may announce a run for the presidency in 2028.

And of course, if they can't achieve that goal then they are simply calling for SCOTUS and the Constitution itself to be utterly demolished, along with the Presidency, the Senate and the Electoral College.

Considering the surge in popularity of the Democrat Socialites, this fringe madness could be mainstreamed faster than we imagine. Certainly if SCOTUS continues to abrogate its duty to defend the Republic and the rule of law, we are going to wake up in a nightmare.

And speaking of nightmare scenarios, we have this to contend with.

The basis for Muslim political donations in the United States, is preventing non-Muslims from “coalescing amongst themselves and uniting” to defend themselves. This isn’t civic participation: it’s the tribal divide and conquer politics of the origins of Islamic colonialism and imperialism. . . Muslim PACs previously claimed that they were just people representing their communities. The Fiqh system pulls back the curtain to show a central body of Islamic scholars trying to use money to control the outcome of American elections for “benefitting the Ummah” (meaning the global Muslim community’s local or foreign interests) “either in one’s own country or locality (such as countering a clearly anti-Muslim politician with an agenda of harm) or internationally.”

Any politician taking money routed through this method would be acting as a puppet for an Islamic theocracy which would be using them to covertly exert its control over Americans.
It’s hard to think of anything more un-American than a foreign theocracy hijacking our elections.

Yeah, that's crazy talk right there, you conspiracy nutters! So let's all lose our heads (pun intended) over this, But AI! Oh no, it's Armageddon...

Have a good day.

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Daily Tech News 16 September 2026

—Pixy Misa

Top Story



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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - September 15, 2026

—Doof

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Mystery click courtesy of Cow Demon


Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT has arrived. On time, as always. Open thread, as always. Ready to be whelmed?


[Top photo: Lake Matheson, New Zealand]

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Tuesday Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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Williams Fork, northwest Colorado, 1899
via Chronicles of History/@makehistorycool


Il Paw-drino.

Puppy with giant ears.

Bobcat rescued from the sea.

Cats "helping."

Mysterious dogs who are about to send you on a perilous quest.

Baby elephant photobomb.

Baby bunny feeding time.

Modern art more like moldy fart amirite

World Cup puppy.

Dude Posting his L's.

A "perfect" 0.0 dive. That seems harsh. He got about 30% of it right.

Sometimes you just have a giant spider on your house.

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Philadelphia Soros DA Larry Krasner May Have Committed Perjury to the Court to Get a Convicted, Guilty Murderer Off

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Larry Krasner and his "prosecutors" have been questioned and accused by judges of deliberately misstating evidence to contrive reasons to free guilty murders from jail.

Two of his "prosecutors" have been disbarred over their flagrant crimes before the court-- all to support meritless appeals so that guilty murders could go free.

Krasner is a full supporter of the left's "decarceration" agenda and believes no one should be in prison -- not rapists, not killers, not child sex abusers -- and he's not shy about saying so and he's not shy about putting his communist believes into practice.

Krasner hasn't said a word about a growing exoneration controversy -- but his own court filing does

The 47-page filing paints a picture of a district attorney unbowed by the controversy that has roiled his office.

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Despite admitting "serious errors" in the original motion that said Dennis Johnson was entitled to a new trial, the filing contains no contrition or introspection by Philadelphia's DA.

In the world according to Krasner, he's right and everyone else is wrong.

Krasner's worldview is hardened by his decades as a public defender and criminal defense attorney before getting elected district attorney in 2017. In the second paragraph of the filing, Krasner's office blames prior district attorneys for violating "their constitutional duties" to secure convictions.

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The reversal came after U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond ordered an evidentiary hearing in May. That prompted supervisors in Krasner's office to take a closer look at the case, where they discovered "material omissions" in their initial concession claim.

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Here's the bigger problem: That appears to be the way Krasner's office has handled other post-conviction cases. Under Krasner, more than 60 people convicted -- mainly of murder -- have been set free or had their sentences reduced following concessions despite no incontrovertible proof of the person's innocence.

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Regardless of the outcome, Krasner appears determined to keep conceding cases.

Krasner's main technique of freeing killers is lying about the DAs who secured the conviction withholding evidence from the killer. He simply makes these "Brady violations" up.

And for a long time, no one challenged him on his lies.

In recent months, supervisors in Krasner's office have been disbarred and suspended for lying in federal court while seeking to overturn the death sentence of a man convicted of killing a couple in their home in East Mount Airy.

In June, the state Supreme Court ordered judges to ask the state attorney general's office to review any cases where Krasner's office wants to alter a sentence or overturn a past conviction.

That unprecedented ruling came after the high court found prosecutors in Krasner's office misled judges in several post-conviction cases. The court said it could no longer trust the word of Krasner's prosecutors.


Now a federal judge says that Larry Krasner might face criminal perjury charges.

Apparently one of his lawyers began to get very worried about Krasner's perjuries and obstructions, and suggested it was time to turn over the case to the state attorney's general's office so that an unbiased office could handle the case.

Krasner ordered him to not talk to anyone about the corrupt workings of his communist office.

A federal judge believes DA Larry Krasner may have broken the law, and he referred the case to the U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond said he believed Krasner and one of his top supervisors, Matthew Stiegler, may have committed perjury, conspiracy, or obstruction of justice.

A federal judge said Tuesday that District Attorney Larry Krasner may have broken the law while overseeing a contentious post-conviction case, and he said he referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate whether Krasner should be charged with crimes including conspiracy or obstruction of justice.

U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond made those stunning statements in a memorandum in which he also ruled that Krasner and one of his top supervisors, Matthew Stiegler, could no longer participate in the case -- a matter in which a man is seeking to have his murder conviction overturned.

Diamond wrote that over the last several months, as he conducted hearings to learn more about how attorneys in the district attorney's office handled that case, testimony from some of Krasner's staffers revealed actions by Krasner and Stiegler that Diamond called "troubling," "disturbing" -- and potentially illegal.

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Those actions, he wrote, included pressuring other staffers to take steps to protect Stiegler and blame one of his subordinates, urging staffers to lie to Diamond in court, and threatening "consequences" for those who did not follow Krasner's orders.

"I have thus reluctantly concluded that Philadelphia's highest law enforcement official and one of his top assistants may have violated the law," Diamond wrote. "In these circumstances, with the issuance of this Memorandum, I refer the DAO, Mr. Krasner, and Stiegler to this District's United States Attorney's Office for investigation and other appropriate action."

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[I]n recent months, the case has led to a series of unusual revelations about the inner workings of the district attorney's office as various lawyers have worked on aspects of the case. And it comes as Krasner's office has faced increasing scrutiny over the way it has acted in other murder appeals -- including a forceful opinion from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which said Krasner's office had misled judges so frequently and flagrantly in such matters that state prosecutors must now review instances when his office says a conviction should be overturned.

Diamond, in his filing Tuesday, said the assertions in his courtroom -- made primarily by members of Krasner's staff -- were not only proof of significant internal disagreements about Johnson's case, but also "evidence of possible criminal wrongdoing by Mr. Krasner and Stiegler."

Some of Krasner's underlings wanted to refer the contentious case to the state's attorney's office -- but Krasner didn't want them to talking about him to outsiders.

But Krasner, they testified, was vehemently opposed -- in part because of his disdain for people who worked in the attorney general's office. And during some meetings, they said, Krasner said he wanted to "protect the office"; expressed opposition to telling Diamond about the referral deliberations; and said they would face "consequences" if they did so, which they took to mean being fired.

Diamond, in his memorandum, said such a threat "could amount to obstruction of justice." And he said the efforts by Krasner and Stiegler to present a false narrative to the court "might amount to conspiracy."

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"Rogue" Juror's Family: We're Being Subjected to Constant Harassment and Menace by "Crazy" People

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Before that: One of the Lindsay Clancy cultists killed her baby while singing a song from the Wizard of Oz.

"Follow the Yellow Brick Road," supposedly.

Is this real or just part of her cynical attempt to contrive an insanity plea before becoming a big-time influencer after her acquittal?

The Lindsay Clancy-obsessed mom who allegedly hanged her 2-year-old son chillingly crooned a tune from the "Wizard of Oz" during police questioning about the harrowing murder, investigators stunningly revealed.

Instead of answering Illinois detectives' queries about how her toddler son's lifeless body had ended up dangling from a rafter, crazed mom Corie Walsh responded by breaking out in her own rendition of "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," according to court documents reviewed by The Sun.

Walsh, 40, is facing first-degree murder charges after her two school-aged children discovered their sibling, Barrett Walsh, with a rope around his neck and his feet off the ground at the family's home in Frankfprt, a suburb about 30 miles southwest of Chicago, and ran to a neighbor's house for help, the doc states.

The frantic neighbor called 911 and tried fruitlessly to perform CPR on little Barrett, who didn't have a pulse and was cold to the touch. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy later confirmed that the boy, who was called "Bear" by his family, died of "asphyxia due to ligature compression of the neck," according to court records.


Between haunting harmonizations, Walsh allegedly confessed to killing the boy, claiming he was the "anti-Christ" and "devil," according to prosecutors.

The mom -- whom cops had discovered fully clothed, soaking in a bathtub full of bloodied water at the house -- tried to take her own life by slashing her wrists and thighs with a knife.

By the time police showed up, Walsh was reportedly so out of it that she believed she had killed all four of her children, including an 8-month-old infant who was discovered unsupervised at the house.

The mom later confessed that she had also planned on "poisoning [her husband] with a drink" and had multiple prescriptions at the time, according to court docs and prosecutors.


The harrowing series of events unfolded just a few hours after Walsh allegedly sent friends "confusing" and "out of character" text messages about Lindsay Clancy's murder trial, saying she believed that Clancy's husband killed the children -- not their mother, the outlet reported.

Prosecutors have since claimed that Walsh was infatuated with Clancy, whose high-profile trial captivated the nation over the defense team's argument that she was legally insane due to postpartum psychosis when she fatally strangled her three children with exercise bands.

"It was manslaughter, please I'm really freaking out," Walsh reportedly wrote in a text to a friend on Sept. 1, as jury deliberations were still ongoing in Clancy's case.

I would desperately urge RFKJr. to begin a crash review of the SSRIs and hundred other psychoactive drugs that American left-wing women have faked their way into getting prescriptions for.


Now, on to the "rogue" juror, which of course means "a black man who did not submit to the bullying of old white liberal Karens."

The left realized that smearing a Proud and Strong Black Man was a political loser and gross hypocrisy aside, so now they've gone to an angle they're more comfortable with, smearing him for being a Religious Zealot Weirdo who does not believe in a Woman's Right to Slaughter Her Children.

His family says he did not allow his Catholic faith to override his judgment.

The holdout juror who sparked a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder case did not allow his Catholic faith to override his judgment that the former nurse was guilty of murder, his brother revealed to The Post -- as he said the family's life has been turned upside down.

"I don't think religion had anything to do with it," the brother said, disputing claims online.

The bombshell Clancy trial turned national attention to the juror, whom The Post is choosing not to name -- with some labeling him a hero for refusing to find Clancy not guilty, and other jurors claiming he refused to follow the judge's instructions about "reasonable doubt."

"He looked at the case, and he made the call," the brother said. "For me, that's how I would do it. I would just listen to the case with all the evidence, and go from there."

He added: "His choice was good for some people, but not good for other people."

But the attention has also raised questions about the juror's troubling criminal record following a 2021 arrest for allegedly battering his then-wife over the couple's crying infant.

Those charges were dismissed, but in 2025 he was accused of beating the teenage nephew who called police on him during the alleged domestic violence attack, according to court records.

The juror had a restraining order against him from the nephew at the time he was picked for the Clancy jury -- and it expired during the trial, court documents reveal.

Well, lefties, if you didn't let this immigrant stay, he wouldn't have hung your jury.

The brother also said that the devoutly Catholic Haitian immigrant clan has been relentlessly hounded by true-crime gawkers and reporters since the juror refused to agree with the 11 others and find Clancy not guilty of murder by reason of insanity after she killed her three kids.

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"My family cannot leave the house," the brother said.

"They are leaving notes at my mother's house. They won't leave us alone and we don't know anything," he added.


"People have been calling me like crazy. It's crazy."

RFKJr. please look into SSRIs and the other psycho-making drugs women are doped up to the gills on.

A supporter launched a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the juror on Monday, which brought in nearly $190,000 in a matter of hours.

Law-vlogger Nate the Lawyer called GiveSendGo about the account and GiveSendGo told him it was legit, and the money would only be released to the "rogue" juror, not to the supporter who started it.

More on the hounding of the slave escaped from the Karen Plantation, I mean, rogue juror:

From doxing to death threats to a six-figure fundraiser, jurors in high-profile cases face intense public scrutiny in a social-media-driven world.

The judge in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder case impounded the names of the jurors earlier this month, citing their safety. But that didn't stop online leaks.

"Jury service can often be traumatic. We have people that have to make very difficult decisions that impact people's lives," said Pierre Bergeron, retired judge on the Ohio First District Court of Appeals and professor at Centre College. "A lot of people already are reticent to do their civic duty because sometimes it's inconvenient, sometimes they don't get paid very much. And ultimately, the more the jurors are targeted, the less willing people are going to be to serve as jurors."

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An online fundraiser on GiveSendGo (Stand With the Juror | GiveSendGo) called "Stand with the Juror" had raised more than $150,000 Monday night for the lone juror whose apparent identity has been leaked by bloggers, some calling the juror a hero.

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For other intensely public cases, like that of Karen Read, who was acquitted of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe, Bergeron says jurors must avoid news updates on their phones and the influence of a sea of pink shirts outside court in support of the defendant.

The judge extended the period of secrecy of jurors' personnel information -- but only after the inconvenient black man was doxxed so he could be threatened and harassed into suicide.

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Feminists and Media Scolds Continue Melting Down Over Sydney Sweeney

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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Oh no! The Karens are angry again.

It must be a day that ends in "day."

Thousands of Instagram users have smashed the "unfollow" button on Sydney Sweeney's profile after the actress was featured in and promoted a controversial sports-betting app in which she appears nude with sports equipment obscuring parts of her anatomy.

Last Wednesday, Sweeney shared the ad promoting sports-prediction market app Novig on Instagram -- where it has racked up 1.1 million likes so far. In the 60-second ad, the "Euphoria" star appears fully or partially nude, posing with a variety of sports equipment like footballs, basketballs, a soccer ball and a hockey net.


Since hitting the internet, the ad has triggered a negative reaction among those objecting to its sexualization of women in sports. Several women Olympic athletes have weighed in on the Sweeney ad, including Ariarne Titmus, a four-time Olympic gold medal swimmer from Australia, who wrote in a post: "I can't describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this. ... How do we live in a world where monetising a woman's body and sexualising women's sport is still a thing?"


In the three days after the ad dropped, Sweeney's Instagram followers ticked up by 50,000. But on Sunday, she lost 136,848 -- and on Monday, another 68,000 have unfollowed her, according to data from social-media analytics firm Social Blade. That said, the more than 200,000 IG followers Sweeney lost in that time frame is a drop in the bucket, representing less than 1% of her more than 25 million followers.


Amid the backlash, Sweeney on Sunday posted a series of photos and videos from the Novig ad on Instagram, with the caption, "it's gamedayyy @novig 
#novigpartner." Sweeney also appeared to respond to the negative commentary by posting a series of covers from the ESPN Body Issue, which features multiple naked athletes, on Instagram Stories.

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A new advertisement featuring a mostly nude Sydney Sweeney posing with various pieces of sporting equipment sparks outrage with female athletes, who say it markets sports through the sexualization of women and the "male gaze."

So yes, let's look at the covers from the Sports Illustrated "Body Issues," which have always been celebrated by left-wing feminist AWFULs as "empowering" to female athletes.

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Comer to DHS: Release the Evidence of Ilhan Omar's Immigration Fraud So That We Can Decide Whether to Expel Her from Congress

—Disinformation Expert Ace

That could be good.

But I don't think it will happen, not yet anyway.

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is vowing to pursue a contempt vote against financier Leon Black for refusing testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein probe and calling on the Trump administration to release any evidence showing whether Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar broke immigration laws and should be expelled from Congress.

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., made the comments Monday night after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and White House border czar Tom Homan indicated such evidence involving Omar exists and is under investigation.

"I think they should make it public. Absolutely, make it public," Comer said during an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show. "The evidence that I've seen would show that they would be privy to a lot more evidence than I would have. Most of the evidence I have is public already, anyway. So I think it should be made public, and I think the members of Congress should be the judge and the jury in this.

"Let us vote as to whether or not she needs to remain in Congress. If you violated the laws to become a citizen, should that make you ineligible to be a member of Congress? I think so. But put it up for a vote in Congress and let the American people see how their member of Congress would vote on that."

Mullin revealed Thursday there is evidence that Omar, D-Minn., "married her brother" as part of an alleged immigration scheme and there is an "ongoing" investigation.

"We know that she married her brother to try to bring him to the United States," Mullin told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, adding that Omar's ex-husband lives in London.

Mullin explained that lying about certain things on an immigration application can result in deportation, and there's no expiration for that.

The investigation may turn up "illegal activity," which could result in Omar being deported, Mullin suggested. He cautioned that the case is still being investigated and insisted it's not politically motivated.

I don't think DHS will comply until it has made a decision itself whether to denaturalize her or not. I think that's usually their rule, that they will not release information while an investigation is active. You'd have to subpoena them and get a judge to agree that Congress's need for information outweighs the Executive's need for confidentiality during investigations.

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Gavin Newsom Lies to Placate the Black Vote, Claiming He Won't Run if Kamala Harris Does

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Well, Kamala Harris is running at the moment. I can't say she'll stay in all the way but as of now, she's running.

Gavin Newsom is also running.

So he's lying.

I see a lot of non-stunned faces in the comments.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told CNN he will not run for president in 2028 if former Vice President Kamala Harris enters the race.

Newsom made the comment during a fly-fishing outing in Montana with CNN's Jake Tapper, as part of an ongoing series that was announced on Monday in which the anchor joins politicians in their favorite places to discuss their careers. Tapper pressed Newsom on the crowded Democrat field, noting he was not even the only potential candidate from California before naming Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Harris.

"I don't know if she runs, but we'll see," Newsom said. When Tapper noted Harris had "called around," the governor added, "But I wouldn't run if she ran."

Tapper asked him to confirm the line.

"Of course not. Why would I? I wouldn't do that to her," Newsom said. "I wouldn't waste everyone's time. Who needs that?"

Newsom argued a primary between the two Californians would only benefit the rest of the field, describing the scenario as "mutually assured destruction."

"Electorally, it's a gift from God for everybody else," he said. "It services no greater good."

Kamala Harris has the biggest share of the black vote in polls, ranging between 34% and 49%. Newsom has only 14%.

He has another problem: Black Democrats are serious about DEI, by which I mean, they demand that jobs go to them, and that includes nominee slots. James Clyburn infamously insisted that Biden choose a black female for Vice President. He did. Black Democrats insisted Biden appoint a black female non-biologist to the Supreme Court. He did.

And we're seeing black Democrats in Texas reject the gay white kid James Talarico for "stealing" the nomination that belongs (due to DEI assumptions) Jasmine Ratchet.

Gavin Newsom can't win a majority of the black vote against the DEI-privileged candidate Kamala Harris. He doesn't need to. But, if he defeats Kamala Harris, to whom the 2028 nomination "belongs" to by DEI illogic, he will have to bring bitter DEI-zealot black Democrats on board for the general.

So he's making this empty promise now that he will step aside and give Kamala Harris the nomination that "belongs" to her if she wants it.

But what will he do when she runs? That is a problem, I'm sure he's thinking, for Future Gavin Newsom, which Future Gavin Newsom will just have to deal with when it comes up.

For now, he's letting black Democrats know he will not "steal" a nomination from the Stronk Empowered Black (and Indian) Woman it "belongs" too. So if she decides not to run because she finally gets a DUI arrest, he's positioned himself right for James Clyburn.

Note that Jake Tapper is now deliberately "humanizing" inhuman Democrat politicians by interviewing them in contrived campaign-commercial scenarios. I'm including a very smart rebuttal to my point:

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Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Trump to Procede with Post Office Scanning of Mail-In Ballots, Claiming (Say It With Me) It's Now Too Late to Implement This Rule and It Would "Cause Chaos"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

They did exactly what I said they'd do -- Democrats launched lawsuits to delay things and then the courts slow-played it so they could just say, "Whoops, there wouldn't be enough time to implement these changes now that we've dicked around for weeks and weeks, you lose."

This is intolerable.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's emergency bid to enforce new U.S. Postal Service (USPS) restrictions on mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, leaving a lower court's nationwide block in place.

In a brief order, the court said the government was "unlikely to succeed on the merits" for purposes of obtaining emergency relief and had not shown that the legal and practical considerations warranted a stay.

The rules would require federal ballot mail to be sent in envelopes bearing an election-mail logo, capable of being scanned by high-speed equipment and carrying a barcode unique to each voter.

State and local election officials would also be required to submit envelope designs to the Postal Service for review and upload basic voter information to an online USPS portal.

Under the USPS rule, mailings that failed to comply would not be accepted and would instead be returned to election officials to correct and resubmit.

A federal judge previously blocked the USPS from implementing the rules, including the online portal that could be used to track millions of mail ballots.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with the Supreme Court's decision but indicated the USPS may ultimately have the authority to impose the requirements.


"In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority," Kavanaugh wrote.

However, he said attempting to apply the rules during the 2026 elections would be "arbitrary and capricious" under the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have enough time to reasonably implement them.


Justice Samuel Alito dissented from the decision, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.

Alito argued that some of the plaintiffs lacked legal standing and that the remaining challengers were pursuing what the court has previously called a "Hail Mary pass" that "rarely succeeds."

"The Government has made the showings necessary for a stay, so I respectfully dissent," Alito wrote.

Alito said the USPS has broad authority to regulate the collection, handling, transportation and delivery of mail. He also argued that the government would suffer irreparable harm because any reversal of the lower court's injunction would come too late for the midterms.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office helped lead the legal challenge, celebrated the decision as a victory for voters.

"Today, the Supreme Court protected one of our most fundamental, inalienable rights -- the right to make your voice heard at the ballot box," James said. "This last-minute change could have thrown our elections into chaos, and I am truly relieved the Court granted this reprieve."

See, we delayed and delayed until we could claim that implementing the order would come too late and cause "chaos" so we win, you lose.

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Sorry I'm way behind today.

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The Morning Rant

—CBD

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Oh good! Another plan to pass voter ID laws! This time it's going to work! Really...promise! Just send $25 to the RNC to keep the Republican Party fighting against the Democrats!

The problem is glaringly obvious, and one that the corporate wing of the GOP is unwilling to admit...because it is part of the problem.

The fight isn't against the Democrats. The fight is against the anti-Trump, pro-business faction within the Republican party that is perfectly content to continue on the current road to ruin by allowing farcically corrupt elections in America. As long as our elections keep electing pro-illegal-immigrant Democrats (and Republicans) the Chamber of Commerce money will continue to flow, the Bourbon and lobster will continue at the best cocktail parties, and America will keep sliding into third-world hell. But that's fine with them, because all of that sweet cheap illegal labor will be available to their big donors!

Inside House Republicans' plan to end run Dem opposition and pass Trump-backed voter ID

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is now pushing Republicans to pass the bill's main mandates via the budget reconciliation process, which allows the party in power to pass sweeping fiscal policy without input from the minority due to its sidelining of the Senate filibuster. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., chairman of the Committee on House Administration, is tasked with overseeing how that part of the bill gets done.

"I'd rather pass the SAVE America Act. But recognizing that the Senate might not be able to get that done with the 60-vote threshold, let's leverage the parliamentary procedure, bring that threshold down to 50, and get some really commonsense reforms done," Steil told Fox News Digital in an interview. "I've been having great conversations with my colleagues in the administration as well as the Senate."

Thune and the other corporatist whores are the problem, and they are embedded into the Republican Party far too deeply for them to be sidelined by a procedural play. That they are rejecting a bill that has the support of the vast majority of Americans is shocking in and of itself, but the fact that they are unrepentant makes it worse. They are pissing on us and gleefully telling us that it is raining!

What can be done about this? Obviously Thune and anyone who supports him must go. At the very least, he must be challenged for Majority Leader. Senator Rick Scott has already announced that he has not committed to voting for Thune again, so there are cracks in the collegiality of the Senate. And that's a good start, but an aggressive campaign against Thune is overdue. Perhaps President Trump should announce that if Thune doesn't support voting security that he will actively campaign against him in 2028. Marginalize him, mock him, ridicule him for subverting the will of the American people...but do not allow the status quo to continue. This is too important to be held up by a corporate hack in a nice suit, and that's all Thune is!

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