John Solomon: The Same Media Who Proclaimed That China's Theft of 40 Million Voter Records from the UK Was a Major Breach Now Says That China's Hacking of 220 Million American Voter Files is NBD
—Disinformation Expert Ace
And it's not just that. A few days ago I linked an email in which an American intel officer complained about the inconsistent -- and corrupt -- treatment of the two cases. In the case of the UK voter files hacking, the American (liberal) intelligence Regime declared it to be what it was -- election interference.
But they refused to apply that same term to the theft of five and a half times as many US voter files. In fact, they "scrubbed" the language to remove any references to Chinese election interference in the US.
I didn't report what that whistleblower was complaining about when I mentioned it last time, only that he complained of inconsistent treatment of the same facts. This
report from John Solomon clarifies that the intelligence officer (and presumably whistleblower) was complaining that his higher-ups were protecting China (and the Democrat Party) by refusing to call a spade a spade.
When the Biden Justice Department announced that Chinese hackers had gotten their hands on Great Britain's publicly available voter files in 2024, American news media clamored with stories claiming it was a "dangerous" breach. The same, too, when U.S. officials announced Russia and Iran had hacked small numbers of U.S. voter files in 2020 and 2021.The reason was simple: U.S. intelligence agencies believe the targeting and acquisition of voter registration files is an act of election interference. "Election interference is a subset of election influence targeted at the technical aspects of the election, including voter registration, casting and counting of ballots and reporting of results," an October 2020 National intelligence Council report on election interference explains.
In other words, the compromising of election voter registration data, is, by the definition of intelligence agencies, an act of election interference.
Nothing to see here, move along, legacy media now saysWhen President Donald Trump presented confirmed evidence last Thursday night that China had compromised and obtained 220 million American voter registration files, the news media swung 180 degrees in the opposite direction. They argued it was old news (it was not) and not a big deal because you can buy limited data in America related to voter registration commercially. According to security experts, that limited data accessibility is not the same thing.
The intelligence agencies in the very documents that Trump declassified and made public for his announcement show the voting integrity and security concerns.
In 2022, the National Security Agency became especially concerned that China had escalated its exploitation of voter data by assigning a "CNE." That's a person or unit who are hackers and cyberthieves. Legacy news media have ignored this fact, while center-right-leaning publications were not as quick to dismiss the accuracy or impact of the data breach.
The Washington Times reported that "Trump said during his primetime address on Thursday that the People's Republic of China acquired 220 million U.S. voter files containing names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive information. Shortly after the speech, the White House released to the public dozens of declassified documents containing partially redacted findings, including data showing nearly 278,000 noncitizens who are registered to vote in federal elections and details over a "slow-walked" 2020 FBI investigation in Michigan."
Great Britain's voter files are commercially available in limited form like America's. But China got versions of the British that caused the Biden administration to indict China for hacking 40 million British voter files. According to the BBC, the British government called it "malicious" interference in their election.
In 2021, the Biden Justice Department indicted two Iranian hackers for accessing just 100,000 voter files from a single state where it is also commercially available. They were charged with criminally interfering in the 2020 election even though voter files are commercially available in limited form.
If China's acquisition of 40 million files in Great Britain and Iran's acquisition of 100,000 files in America were both charged as criminal election interference, it would seem the acquisition of 220 million voter files almost certainly would be considered by the intelligence community to be an act of interference.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Whether the data breach would have or could have flipped the election is beside the point. Experts interviewed by Just the News agreed. Former CIA operations officer Rick de la Torre called the news media's dismissal of Trump's claims "absurd."
"Of course, this is election interference," he added. "With that information, with that data, you know the Chinese government can exploit it. They can target specific individuals. They can do all kinds of things. They could request ballots. They could change people's identifications. They know now how they vote. They know what their political parties are. They know how often they vote."
"Imagine if China hacked into the Pentagon and stole every military service member's personnel file," he told Just the News. "You know, you wouldn't say, 'Oh well, that's not really a big deal. That's not a threat from a national security standpoint.' You know, that's absurd.
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The suppression by intelligence officials for years of the voter file breaches and other Chinese malign actions is captured in documents showing FBI officials boasting they created a "shadow government" and NSA officials "massaged" the president's intelligence briefing to hide the evidence.
By 2021, after Trump left office, intelligence community officials marveled at the complete 180-degree pivot the Biden spy agencies did by suddenly suggesting China might be interfering in elections.
Nothing had changed. The voter data was known by frontline analysts to have been compromised the year before and was continuing. But all of a sudden, the language changed, a dynamic captured in this gem of an email from a top intelligence expert on election cyberactivities.
"Take a minute a read through this report," an intelligence officer wrote on Dec. 23, 2021. "It cites some of the same intel and logic used in 2020 to say that these same units were not engaged in election influence but were instead only issue focused, to now argue that China IS influencing the [redacted election."]
The intelligence community knew in 2020 that China had illicitly obtained voter files. They knew such an act met the definition of "election interference." They just suppressed it.
In case you missed it: an email admits the IC is "massaging" reports -- falsifying them, in so many words -- to avoid letting Trump know China is influencing US elections (in the Democrats' favor).
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BLM Organizer Harrangues Hapless Homosexual James Talarico at Campaign Stop, Threatening "Consequences" If She is Not Racially Appeased
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Last month, unqualified DEI-charity case and uneducated moron Jasmine Crockett said she didn't know if she'd campaign for likely closeted white homosexual James Talarico. She said the entire race -- all of it -- was "racist," and she demonstrated Ghetto Entitlement by strongly implying that she wasn't just guaranteed the right to fairly compete for political office, but was guaranteed a win based on her race, sex, and DEI. And that anyone who interferes with that Guaranteed DEI Outcome is a racist.
Crockett argued that racism, not politics, was the deciding factor in her Democrat primary loss to James Talarico."The reality is that there was a lot of races, not a lot, it was racist. It was a racist race. It is what it is, right? But we live in America as y'all are celebrating 250, okay? We know what this country is," Crockett said.
Crockett rejected criticism that she should have spent more time campaigning alongside Talarico. Instead, she said her strategy was to help down-ballot candidates, pointing to five black men she endorsed in Texas runoff races who all advanced to the November election.
"The best thing that I can do for James Talarico isn't me standing on a stage with him," Crockett said. "It is the fact that I endorsed five candidates in the runoff who all happen to be black men in the state of Texas and every single one of them won."
She pushed back on criticism that she should have campaigned more directly for Talarico, saying giving voters multiple candidates to support is a more effective strategy for boosting turnout.
"People keep trying to say, 'Well, Jasmine has to go and hold his hand.' No, I don't," she said. "If you can give people more than one thing to vote for, then you have a better chance of getting them out to the polls."
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Crockett previously said she does not believe black voters have fully united behind Talarico's Senate campaign and confirmed she will skip next week's Texas Democrat Party convention.
There is no "I" in team, but there is definitely an "I" in DEI.
As Talarico's supporters criticized Crockett for having promised to campaign for Talarico, if he should win, before her loss, and now refuses to do so, Talarico attempted to calm down the woman who has gotten her way her whole life precisely by not being calm about anything, telling his gay supporters to show the unrespectable Ratchett "respect."
James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, is speaking out against his supporters who have continuously disparaged his former opponent in the race, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett."If you claim to be my supporter, if you claim to be a part of this movement that we are building, please keep Congresswoman Crockett's name out of your mouth," Talarico demanded on Sunday during a town hall in Houston.
The remarks were significant as the residue of Talarico and Crockett's primary contest had continued to stain the Democratic nominee's campaign as he worked to win over Black voters, most of whom backed Crockett. Talarico was joined by U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee, who represents Texas's 18th Congressional District, and other Democratic leaders in Houston, an area that Crockett won over Talarico.
For months, both during and after the primary election, Crockett and her supporters have called out the racism and sexism she faced from those who claimed to support Talarico's campaign. However, Talarico said on Sunday that anyone who backs him should give Crockett the respect she deserves and has earned.
"She's a leader in this country, and she deserves the utmost respect," said Talarico, who described Crockett as a "friend" with whom he worked when they served together in the Texas State House of Representatives.
Well, the kind of voter Ratchet bases her whole appeal on doesn't want "respect." They want Guaranteed DEI Outcomes.
So they, like Ratchet herself, are shouting angrily. I can't stress this enough -- this is their whole plan to get people to give them things, shouting and making unreasonable demands and calling people "racist."
At a campaign stop, Ratchet's Strategically Unreasonable supporters shouted down the dweebishly gay Talarico and told him there would be "consequences" for not giving them more respect, which means what it always means in BLMese, which is privileges and outcomes not earned by coerced by racial bullying.
Obviously, I'm happy that Jasmine Ratchet is putting out the word to her fellow race-based Democrats that they should boycott the senate election to teach whitey a lesson.
But I am getting tired of this whole BLM act:
Washington Free Beacon
@FreeBeaconTexas Democrat James Talarico appears to have a black voter problem.
As Talarico attempted to wind down a campaign stop in southwest Houston on Sunday, a black woman who was waiting to ask a question interjected to yell, "Black people don't trust you for this reason. And you cannot win without us. So you stay here, you answer our questions, or you suffer the consequences."
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Michigan Appeals Court Reverses Two More Convictions in Fake-News Gretchen Whitmer "Fednapping" Prosecutions
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Regime wants to prove that "right wingers" commit as much terrorism as left wingers.
But they don't.
So they have to manufacture offenses.
A Michigan appeals court on Monday overturned two more convictions related to the 2020 kidnapping plot of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, ruling that it was obligated to overturn the convictions based on precedent.Pete Musico and Paul Bellar were previously convicted of providing material support for an act of terrorism in the plot, alongside Joseph Morrison, whose conviction was overturned by a different appeals panel last month.
The new appeals court ruled that it was obligated to apply that ruling to Musico and Bellar as well and overturn the convictions, according to the Associated Press.
None of the three men were accused of playing a direct role in the plot to kidnap the governor and the courts said kidnapping does not qualify as a "violent felony" under Michigan's anti-terrorism law.
Although none of the men had a direct role in the plot, they were part of a paramilitary group that trained with Adam Fox, who was convicted of leading the plot and is serving 16 years in prison for the crime. A total of nine people were convicted in relation to the plot.
Meanwhile, in the UK, the Regime denied that there was any political or terroristic motive in the murder of a Reform Party official by a deranged communist.
The Crown Prosecution Service announced on Monday afternoon that it has charged a man with one count of murder in connection with the death of Brexit heroine Ann Widdecombe.Joshua Kerry, 28, of Byrley Road in Rotherham, is set to appear on Tuesday before the Westminster Magistrates' Court, where he will answer the charge of murdering former government minister Ann Widdecombe, who was killed in her Dartmoor home earlier this month at the age of 78.
While initial comments by the Devon and Cornwall Police claimed that there was no evidence for a political motive for the alleged murder, this was later overturned, and Counter Terror Policing South East took over the investigation.Kerry's charge on Monday was authorised by the Counter Terrorism Division of the Crown Prosecution Service, the CPS said in a statement.
The chief prosecutor for the Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, Frank Ferguson, said: "We have decided to prosecute Joshua Kerry for murder following a police investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe in Haytor, Dartmoor.
"Police enquiries into the defendant's motives are ongoing, including a potential political or terrorist connection."
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Widdecombe, a strident free speech advocate and devout Christian, had been a mainstay of British public life for decades, serving as a Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 2010, during which time she served as a government minister in the John Major government.
On CNN, the incompetent partisan DEI guest host subbing in for incompetent DEI regular host Abby Philips suggests that ICE was responsible for their own firebombing yesterday:
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Border Patrol Wanted to Question Fauci's Catspaw Peter Daszak When He Returned from the Wuhan Lab in China.
The FBI Blocked Them from Asking Fauci's Pal Any Questions.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Senate Homeland Security Chairman Rand Paul released new documents Monday that he said revealed the FBI stopped Customs and Border Patrol from searching and questioning Peter Daszak upon his return to the United States from China...
Paul said that CBP was prepared to stop Daszak, who was the president of EcoHealth Alliance at the time, when he landed in New York in February 2021, but was told by the FBI days before Daszak landed not to question him and the inspection never took place.
CBP was reportedly expected to ask Daszak about his contacts at the Wuhan lab, whether he collected or transported biological samples, and what happened during his trip to China.
Fauci refused to appear before Congress voluntarily to answer questions about his previous perjuries and obstructions of Congress, and is now facing a subpoena.
Anthony Fauci will face a subpoena to testify publicly in July, a lawmaker said Monday.According to a social media post from Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been issued a subpoena to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The development comes as Fauci said he would not voluntarily testify after previously agreeing to do so, Paul said.
"Today, I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month," Paul said in the post.
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Conservative commentator Michael Knowles said Fauci committed "clear perjury" in 2024 congressional testimony during an appearance on NewsNation's "CUOMO," claiming the former public health official lied under oath about his contacts with the U.S. intelligence community over COVID-19's origins.
The accusation came on the heels of outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard releasing a tranche of documents on her final day in office, which she said proved Fauci worked to suppress the truth about the coronavirus's lab-leak origins and U.S. funding of related research.
Knowles pointed to CIA memoranda and whistleblower accounts he said show Fauci did discuss COVID's origins with intelligence officials -- directly contradicting his 2024 sworn testimony.
"That was clear perjury, and that's within the statute of limitations," Knowles said. "We know that from CIA briefings. We know that from whistleblowers."
Note that if he lies again, he can be prosecuted.
But he will almost certainly plead the Fifth and answer no questions.
Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone's cool and in the shade.
The Morning Rant
—CBD
After a generation of barely paying lip service to any conservative principles, the British Conservative Party got thrown out on its collective wide, flaccid ass. They were the UK equivalent of the worst of the GOPe, pandering to their supposed base while rushing headlong into EU-style globalist nonsense, caving to the left, and insulting their base by lying about the UK's uncontrolled legal and illegal immigration. The voters finally noticed, and the party lost 244 seats in the 2024 election...the worst beating in their history.
Four months after that curb-stomp, the Conservative Party elected Kemi Badenoch as their leader, it was one of the few wise decisions they have made in a very long time, even if they didn't realize what they had done.
She appeals to the base, understands that the party drifted away from classic conservative principles, and isn't a bullsh*t artist..she actually told the truth about the defeat in 2024.
And now she seems to be purging the squishes from the party, and that is a fine thing! Will she be able to reinvigorate the Conservative Party? Yes, but reclaiming its losses will be a very long slog. Nigel Farage's recent legal difficulties notwithstanding, his support will almost certainly go mainly to Restore Britain, but Badenoch is charging ahead with her reinvention of the Conservative Party into a...conservative party!
In what looks like the start of a purge of the Tory 'wets', Gavin Barwell has been told he will not get the Tory whip back following a leave of absence from the House of Lords.The move comes just days after Mrs Badenoch warned that former Tory MPs would not be reselected as candidates if they refused to back her stance on issues like leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and taking a more pragmatic approach to Net Zero.
She is playing for keeps, and it is clear that she understands that a party that tries to be all things to all people will fail.
Here is a columnist from one of Britain's socialist newspapers, predictably frantic that the twin shibboleths of the left: climate and "human rights," will be put on the back burner in favor of actual English people!
Kemi declares war on net zero - and what remains of her party
So as of last week, Kemi has put anyone who believes the UK should be meeting its net zero targets by 2050 on the proscribed list for prospective candidates for the Conservative party. Former Tory MPs with dangerously woke views like ... er ... thinking that it might already be too late to combat climate change are no longer welcome. And the same thing applies to any Conservative who still believes the UK should be signed up to the European court of human rights. From now on, anyone who falls into either of these camps is dead to Kemi.
More power to her! Any time the rabid, spittle-flecked left is in an uproar, it means that someone is over the target!
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The Morning Report — 7/ 21 /26
—J.J. Sefton
So, was it terrorism or merely tourism that was a bit too enthusiastic. I mean, really now...
A suspected anti-ICE terrorist has been taken into custody after allegedly carrying out an attack on a federal facility in Lower Manhattan, New York City. . . In a press conference following the attack, Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Barnacle claimed that Arrabaca was “looking to injure people and harm people“ and described the incident as an “anti-government attack,” citing materials found on Arrabaca, including a sign that read “ICE Off Our Streets.” “An FPS Protective Security Officer swiftly tackled and detained the agitator, sustaining minor injuries during the incident. Officers quickly recovered the suspect’s bag, which contained what appeared to be two pellet guns and a manifesto,” said the Department of Homeland Security in a public statement following the attack.
Wait, Arrabaca. Is that a Muslim or a coffee bean? To his credit Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading an effort to identify and combat the threat of "Left Wing Terrorism" which although is a redundancy is indeed and remains a threat to our national security coming as it historically has done from Central and South America.
But as is illustrated by what happened in Lower Manhattan as merely the latest in a very long string of Leftist terrorist acts over not just the past few years but over the course of decades, our nation and society are in mortal danger and perhaps on the verge of being snuffed out for good unless the Left is utterly eradicated from every corner of our society especially from our schools which is where this cancer originated and from where it continues to metastasize.
The latest annual National Education Association convention, as usual, focused on the union's radical political and social agenda...The education of children in the three Rs was nowhere to be found at the convention. No one expressed concern that the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed that reading scores are declining nationwide among fourth- and eighth-grade students. No state recorded gains in reading for either grade compared with 2022.
That the DSA and let's face it full on communism has a receptive and growing audience not just among the fringes of society but a growing number of supposedly ordinary Americans who will reflexively vote for the candidate who has the "D" after his/her name regardless of what they espouse or worse, because they have been brainwashed into believing that America, the free market and the principles that built this nation into the greatest in human history are evil failures that are making them and the rest of humanity miserable.
The Democratic Socialists of America, buoyed by a slew of recent victories, have unveiled a new platform they insist “isn’t extreme” despite calling for fully disbanding the U.S. Senate and the presidency, replacing the Supreme Court, and defunding the U.S. military.The DSA’s “program” was drafted by elected representatives between April and June of 2026, and is titled “Workers Deserve More.” The project, once completed, was voted on and approved by the DSA’s National Political Committee (NPC).
Oh there are going to be mass graves, gentle reader. The question is whose corpses will be in them, theirs or ours?
Have a good day,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The suspect is currently in custody, and an investigation is ongoing. The investigation is being conducted by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. The building houses agencies including ICE and the FBI. As such, this potentially represents another anti-ICE attack comparable to other incidents, such as the sniper ambush at the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas, a federal immigration facility.
Suspected Anti-ICE Bomb Thrower Was Armed With Machete, Axes, Knives: Feds. - Storm conditions will extend from the Florida Panhandle to the west near Louisiana by Tuesday, the National Weather Service in New Orleans predicted. Flash flooding is expected to ravage areas from western Florida to central Texas through Friday, with rainfall possibly reaching up to 5 inches along the Louisiana coast, forecasters said.
‘Life-threatening’ tropical storm expected to batter Florida, Texas, Louisiana: forecasters
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Daily Tech News 21 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- And you thought you had problems: The combined debts of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle has spiked to $1.65 trillion. (SE Dailing)
Or as the linked article puts it, 2455 trillion won.
It's not often that you read financial news with numbers in the quadrillions.
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Summer Reruns Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The sun through a portal at Glastonbury Tor
Michelle Cowbourne/@Glastomichelle
I don't know why, but YouTube started serving me up a lot of animal videos I either linked in the past or at least intended to link.
So expect some re-runs here. Though, if you missed them the first time, they're New to You (TM).
Bunny enforces screentime limit.
Dog is so grateful to be adopted.
Dog adopts an orphaned deer.
Beaver goes crazy for banana.
The Russian army isn't bringing their best.
Squirrel thinks he's JCVD or something.
Puppy and baby grow up together.
The black pit bull "Tubbs" wanted to greet the neighbors but everyone was too afraid of him to approach. So the owners put up a sign announcing that Tubbs was very friendly and would like a nice petting.
Adopted dog attempts to speak English. He's at a level just below Scooby Doo.
Baby elephant tries to shoo away a pigeon but the pigeon isn't afraid of him.
A couple of weeks ago I posted a video of some Australians using goats to clear out an overgrown lawn. Here's another one. I assumed the last time that bringing in goats to eat grass in an overgrown lawn was just a stunt for the internet. But in this video, the goats' owner confirms that this is actually his full-time job and that it's pretty common to call up your local goat-herder to clear out a lawn disaster. He says he does this every working day.
Crow knocks on the window every day to play with his favorite baby boy.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Kamala Harris is running for president. She claims she "should have won" in 2024:
"She walks in as the front-runner. It is fairly obvious she is followed wherever she goes," said one former aide. "And I don't want to upset any narratives that any of the other candidates are pushing, but she comes in with 99 percent name ID and everyone else is going to have to raise money and buy it."It remains an article of faith among Harris's tight-knit group of advisers that the 2024 race wasn't winnable. Her polling lead was a mirage and did not square with what the campaign's internal polls were showing. The compressed timeline after Biden dropped out of the race left her without enough time to appear as her own person, a particularly big problem when much of the public had tired of the president. And multiple former campaign staffers brought up the two assassination attempts against Trump as evidence that Harris's loss was all but preordained.
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"She is looking for where the wave is going and is determined to ride it," said one supporter who had recently spoken with her and came away convinced that Harris is running in 2028. "Her mindset is that I should have won, and I am going to do it my way because my way would have won, and it was all these consultants that were telling me to take this position or that position, and it was their fault."
I encourage this. Jazz-snaps.
The Minnesota (Red) Star Tribune praises Walz for pardoning the rapist of a 10-year-old child:
A conservative woman has a job so she's a hypocrite and a liar:
Don Lemon wants some attention.
Former CNN host-turned-podcaster Don Lemon outrageously argued President Trump's MAGA movement is "America's version" of the Nazi Party -- just "without the Holocaust and all that stuff."...
"MAGA is the closest thing to the modern version of the Nazi Party. This is America's version," Lemon raved. "It's the closest thing, without the Holocaust and all that stuff."
Lemon -- who also revealed he is considering a presidential run in the 2028 election, saying he'd be a "really good" commander-in-chief -- argued MAGA supporters have stuck by the movement in an effort to promote white supremacy.
"Most intelligent people or logical people, when they get new information and that information is negative or not factual, then they change their minds and go, 'Oh, well I wish I'd known better, and now that I have this information, then I can readjust,'" Lemon said.
"No matter how many facts and how much information you give them about this presidency, about the policies, they don't change their minds," he continued. "Because they're really not voting for the price of eggs -- they're voting for white supremacy, they're voting for power, they're voting to have a preeminent voice."
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As host Dhanraj started to ask another question, noting that it was Lemon's view that the administration has gone "off the rails," Lemon interjected, saying: "It's not off the rails. We've careened into facism. The president is a fascist."
He then jammed his hand down his pants, rubbed it on his testicles, and wiped his fingers in the host's face.
I added the last sentence. But it's true in spirit.
NYC has spent $2.6 billion in welfare and just 860,000 residents... in one year.
More than $2.6 billion was handed out to 864,999 New York City residents in 2025, the news coming as people are fleeing the state due to high taxes and a socialist mayor who has made it his mission to "tax the rich."Data from city records Fox News reviewed showed the billion dollar number was a 71 percent increase since 2022 when it was $1.57 billion, the outlet reported Saturday.
"When coupled with payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the city paid out more than $7 billion in welfare to residents in 2024, according to a Fox News analysis of data from the city's Human Resources Administration (HRA)," the outlet said, adding, "The rise in welfare payments comes as some of New York City's wealthiest contemplate a Big Apple exodus due to what many have described as a policy environment unfriendly to businesses and moneymakers."
Indeed, Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in April said there would be an annual tax on high-value properties owned by those who did not live in the area full-time, Breitbart News reported.
"When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich. Well, today, we're taxing the rich. I'm thrilled to announce we've secured a pied-à-terre tax, the first in New York's history. This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million whose owners do not live full time in the city, like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million," he stated.
To offset the political damage from the murder of a Restore party official by a deranged communist, the leftwing, Muslim Home Secretary of the UK began talking up a vague "plot" by "white supremacists" to do... something in relation to a Muslim gathering.
It was all made-up. Just a straight lie.
What is really angering patriotic Brits is that the UK government will fine them or even jail them for spreading "speculation" about violence or terrorism, but leftwing politicians -- Muslim ones, especially -- are free to invent fake "white supremacist" attacks on Muslims as they wish.
Because they're the conquerors. There are different rules for the conquerors.
Ben Graham @BenGrahamUKJul 19
Heres a prime example of politicians speculating whilst the British public is told not to speculate.
Shabana Mahmood said "undoubtedly saved lives".
Humza Youaf used the words of the Home Secretary to push the narrative that this could have been a "terrorist attack of unimaginable scale".
7 days later and all 12 people arrested have been released with no terror charges.
One man is 82 years old.
They deserve a public apology. https://x.com/HumzaYousaf/st
The trans candidate for Maine Senate isn't promoting transgenderism the way he thinks he is.
Defiant L's @DefiantLsTrans Democrat Maine Senate candidate Webb: "I also leak, like, a mucus, which they can't really explain."
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US Pounds Iran Military Sites for Ninth Straight Night; Trump Announces Next Big Target?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The United States broadened the scale and scope of its strikes against Iran on Monday, hitting a variety of targets including military bases, air defense systems and a city hosting a nuclear power plant.
The ninth consecutive night of U.S. strikes came on the back of the totalitarian Islamic regime delivering attacks in the region with strikes in Syria, Jordan and Kuwait overnight.
AFP reports in Bushehr, home to the country's only operational civilian nuclear power plant, governor Mohammad Mozaffari told state news agency IRNA: "A few minutes ago, several locations in Bushehr city were hit by American enemy's projectiles."
In East Azerbaijan province in the north, the head of the local crisis management unit Majid Farshi told IRNA that "one person was martyred and several others injured" in an attack there.
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As Breitbart News reported, President Donald Trump said Sunday the U.S. had earlier struck Iran "very hard" in honor of three American servicemembers killed in recent days.
As mentioned, three servicemen were killed when Iran attacked US bases in Jordan.
Two U.S. service members were killed and one remains missing after Iran struck American forces in Jordan, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Saturday.The command said the two troops were killed in action Friday while defending against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks, and confirmed four other service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and have since been discharged.
Trump ordered the military to "open the gates of hell" to avenge their deaths.
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Pimps and Professors at "HustlerU.," Andrew and Tristan Tate, Arrested by US Marshals After Extradition Request by UK for Rape Charges
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I didn't jump to condemn these guys three years ago when the entire leftwing social media ecosystem acted with lightning speed to cancel them. We've all seen a lot of good people canceled by the left.
On the other hand, I didn't defend them, because: I don't know anything about them and considering that their business seems to be, openly, pimping and prostitution, I didn't really think they deserved much of my time or mental exertion, nor much of yours.
I still don't know much about them, apart from them bragging they con women (and girls) into the exciting life of online prostitution by using the "loverboy" tactic of making them emotionally dependent on their pimps, then pimping them out. Which is a standard pimp tactic. These guys didn't invent it. It was created at a laboratory at "Hustler U."
And now Trump is honoring a UK request for extradition on rape/child exploitation charges.
Trump isn't always right, of course.
But these guys sound like any other douchebag criminal: Everyone is just conspiring against me (and my pimp business and pimp school).
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@sentdefenderBoth Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by U.S. Marshals outside of a private event in Miami, Florida, following an extradition request by the UK Government against the brothers on over fifty charges related to rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, as well as additional charges relating to illegal child images and pornography.
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@yasharJul 18
BREAKINGAndrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami by the U.S. Marshals Service.
Statement below from the U.K.'s Crown Prosecution Service about additional charges being filed against the brothers.
The Tate brothers are now facing a total of 59 charges:
42 against Andrew Tate
17 against Tristan Tate"Andrew Tate, 39, is being charged with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
Tristan Tate, 38, is being charged with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation."
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Former DSA Member: We Started This Moderate, Wholesome Socialist Group But It Got Taken Over by Extremist Communists, Somehow
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Former Democratic Socialists of America member Jake Altman offered an inside look Saturday at the organization he says has been overtaken by communists -- warning the same playbook is now being used to push the Democratic Party further to the left."Their organization has been captured..." Altman told Fox News.
"One of my real concerns is that we see a lot of resistance to anti-communism within the DSA, even from the moderate wing of the DSA, and I think this is very, very dangerous."
Speaking on "Saturday in America," Altman warned the organization is anything but "harmless," claiming its members are "perfectly willing to cohabitate with Maoists, with Trotskyists, with Leninists" -- groups he said are intent on dismantling American institutions.
"People who want to pull down American institutions and are very clear about it. People who have this thrill to violence. That is just profoundly troubling at a time when our country is already facing many, many problems," he said.
Altman also said some aspects of the group raised his eyebrows nearly 10 years ago when, while participating in a debate on the organization's behalf, he questioned whether he was the best person to represent its trajectory.
At the time, he claimed, he was reassured that the organization's increasingly radical direction was being driven by only a small faction clustered around "Jacobin" magazine.
"I was debating with Leninists who were saying Bernie Sanders isn't a socialist, and now we're hearing that from DSA, right? Bernie Sanders, AOC, they're not real socialists," he recalled.
"So I think this is just the level of extremism and radicalism we're seeing. People in DSA will try to minimize it and say it's just a few people... they're a small minority. But... look at the executive board. It's full of this alphabet soup of extremist caucuses."
Altman urged Democrats to stand up against a "radicalized base," as far-left DSA candidates secure wins nationwide.
"These people are not operating in good faith," he said. "DSA members are not in the Democratic Party to operate in good faith."
Even Arch-Race-Lefty Van Jones is alarmed about his totally-not-communist Democrat Party being taken over by communists.
Again, how can these non-communist moderate leftist organizations keep becoming communist revolutionary groups?! Make it make sense!
Longtime CNN political commentator and Democrat Van Jones rebuked far-left activists Saturday, warning that their positions on Hamas, prisons and immigration are regressive and threatened to steer the Democratic Party in the wrong direction as socialist-backed candidates celebrated recent primary victories.
That is the Democrat Party's direction, which you approve of.
You just don't like the communists shouting it when they're supposed to just whisper it and imply it, as you do.
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"But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. 'No police, no prisons, no borders' is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE," Jones said.
...The ex-administration advisor to former President Barack Obama also rejected the argument that the far-left was merely advocating the type of social democracy practiced in Nordic countries.
"Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them," Jones said. "I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter. And these are terrible ideas."
Communist nepo baby and Islamist Party-Boy Zohran Mamdani claims he's just fighting for the working class but has no definition of "working class."
When pressed, he claims the "working class" is anyone being paid a salary, and includes his rich donors making up to one million dollars per year.
Mayor Mamdani struggles to define who the 'working class' is in a word salad interview
New York City's socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, struggled to define who the "working class" is in a word salad response to a question about the people he vows to fight for.Mamdani, in a lengthy interview with the New York Times published over the weekend, was asked point-blank by journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro, "How do you define the working class?"
"I think if you have to work to pay your bills, I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class," he vaguely responded.
When pushed whether he would consider those who make $250,000 per year as working class, he said, "I haven't asked myself where it starts and stops."What I would say is those who are working to try and afford the basic dignities of life and aren't able to do so, I think that that is also working class. Oftentimes we're asked how we divide this country. I think there's only one majority in this country -- it's the working class," he then rambled.
Confused by the convoluted reponse, Garcia-Navarro admitted that Hizzoner's description didn't seem to "ring true," to her.
"It just seems a very easy answer to what is a complicated question," the reporter fought back. "Because politically, if you're saying everyone is the working class, or anyone that gets a salary is the working class, yes, that opens up your tent. But practically speaking, we are divided by income -- and especially if you want to tax people, where you draw those lines matter."
Mamdani then said he would draw the line at around $1 million per year -- which Garcia-Navarro pointed out could alienate potential voters such as a janitor who he's lumped in the same "working class" category as a successful lawyer.
I can't believe we're still fighting the leftists on whether or not communism works.
Dead Body Found at Home Belonging to Criminal Husband of Bald-Headed Freak Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Black Uncle Fester's thug husband:
The felony-convicted husband of progressive "squad" lawmaker Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., slapped a phone out of a reporter's hands Monday inside a city hall building after they attempted to approach the congresswoman to ask her a question about alleged childcare fraud in Minnesota."Congresswoman Pressley, do you support --" the interviewer could be heard asking as he approached Pressley with his phone camera on record before Conan Harris, Pressley's husband who spent 10 years in prison on felony drug trafficking charges, smacked the phone out of the questioner's hand.
"Sir, you cannot take my phone out of my hand," the questioner could be heard saying, before the phone was picked back up and returned to focus. Harris spent 10 years in prison on a drug trafficking charge before marrying Pressley, who said she draws from his experience of reintegrating into regular society after leaving prison to help inform how she advocates for incarcerated, or previously incarcerated, individuals.
Massachusetts' leftwing grifter governor gave this guy $600 million to restore a courthouse.
That's not even the worst part. The worst part is that Massachusetts won't even own the courthouse they're giving this guy $600 million for -- instead, they've signed a 40 year lease to rent the building from him, bringing the total value of this grift to two fucking billion fucking dollars.
Two billion dollars of DEI and incestuous graft among political pals:
A company where the husband of Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is a partner was selected for a nearly $2 billion deal to build a new courthouse in Springfield, Massachusetts -- a decision now being challenged in court by rejected bidders who allege conflicts of interest tainted the process.Conan Harris, who has been married to the Massachusetts Democrat for more than a decade, is a partner with John Barros in CoJo Real Estate, which is part of the Liberty Junction team selected in early July for the 40-year courthouse lease, according to the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs allege Barros' role as interim executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) created a conflict of interest because several members of that agency's board also serve on the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, the state agency that selected Liberty Junction.
Pressley, a member of the "Squad," was not accused of any wrongdoing by the plaintiffs, and there is no evidence she was involved in the bidding process to rebuild the aging Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse.
Records show the bidding process formally began June 30, 2025, when DCAMM released its request for proposals for the Springfield courthouse project.
The plaintiffs argued that when Barros became the head of the MCCA on Jan. 14, 2026, he did not disclose his participation in the courthouse bidding process to the State Ethics Commission.
The lawsuit also said the Liberty Junction proposal was not updated to indicate that Barros had been appointed to a leading role on the MCCA.
Massachusetts law generally bars state employees from having a direct or indirect financial interest in state contracts, unless they qualify for an exemption, such as by making required disclosures to the State Ethics Commission and not participating in the contracting agency's work.
Fox News Digital reached out to Barros and Harris for comment.
And now, a dead body is found at this guy's property.
Crime scene tape cordoned off a home owned by the husband of Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA) Saturday night as Boston homicide detectives investigated a dead body police found at the property.A police spokesman told CBS News that officers were called to the house on Malta Street in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood at 1:52 p.m. "for a report to investigate a person."
When they arrived, they found the person deceased, the spokesman said.
Police have released no further details such as the cause or manner of death, but the homicide unit is now investigating the incident.
CBS reported late Saturday:
The two-story, seven bedroom house was built in 1910. Pressley and Harris do not live at the home. It's a rental property that's currently for sale. The asking price is $1.15 million.
Is this something? I doubt it. The criminal doesn't live at this address.
But these Power Communists sure do seem to own a lot of million-dollar properties, don't they?
THE MORNING RANT: “Yes” to Data Centers that Are Privately Funded, Without Taxpayer Subsidization
—Buck Throckmorton
I support the construction of privately funded data centers whose utilities are not taxpayer-subsidized. Investors in data center projects are welcome to bring to my state and county all the economic activity that comes with their construction and operation. I’m also excited that the data center era has finally caused tech bros to abandon their green-energy obsession. They understand, finally, that they can’t have energy-hungry plants without the abundant, reliable electricity that comes from natural gas.
But I do not support the construction of data centers for which tax abatements, incentive payments, and subsidized utilities must be paid by taxpayers.
In the raging battle between pro-data center and anti-data center forces, the two sides may not even be talking about the same thing. It is understandable that many of those who oppose data centers are skeptical, given the horrendous track record of corporate welfare, corporate cronyism, and taxpayer-funded industrial boondoggles they’ve been forced to pay for.
In my part of the country, the Republican governors of Tennessee and Georgia have repeatedly gambled taxpayer money on “venture communism” projects, redistributing money from taxpayers to favored industrial developers, especially when it’s for the next big thing (usually EVs and battery manufacturers.) As I’ve frequently documented, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has flushed away billions and billions of taxpayer dollars on failed EV-related endeavors. Republicans of the Chamber of Commerce persuasion applaud Governor Kemp’s naïve profligacy as being “pro-business.”
Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee is also addicted to wasting taxpayer money. This includes Ford’s mothballed, never-used EV plant near Memphis, for which Tennessee taxpayers contributed a billion dollars. Just a few weeks ago, Governor Lee announced a $30 million payment to Starbucks for relocating from Seattle to Nashville. Starbucks was fleeing Seattle anyhow, and would have come to Tennessee for nothing, but Governor Lee felt it very important to take a boatload of taxpayer money and give it to a left-wing corporation as a “thank you.” Starbucks sneers at Tennessee values. Now its executives (they/them) can also sneer at us for being easy marks.
Data centers are the new “next big thing,” and it is rational for exhausted taxpayers to expect they’ll again be asked to subsidize the capex and utility costs for these projects.
There shouldn’t be a binary choice between either banning economic progress, like New York has done with data centers, or subsidizing it, like Republican governors reflexively do.
My understanding is that most data centers are building their own natural gas power plants, with diesel generator backup. Millions of dollars are flowing to local contractors doing the grading, construction, electrical, etc. The data center buildout, combined with Trump’s reshoring efforts, are creating an industrial explosion in this country. It is similar to what politicians would call “stimulus spending,” but it’s privately funded.
However, those of us supporting data center construction need to be careful about insulting opponents as being anti-progress. Taxpayers have a legitimate fear of their elected officials betraying them in favor of promoters hustling the next big thing.
And finally, because much of the data center buildout is to support growing AI use, it doesn’t help for AI promoters to crow about all the people AI will put out of work. I genuinely believe that AI will be disruptive, eliminating some jobs while creating many more. But if AI is being sold as a way to eliminate labor expense and put people out of work, that will motivate people to oppose the data centers that fuel AI.
The blue-collar jobs and industrial development resulting from data center construction are what MAGA Republicans have been fighting for. Let’s take the win – so long as the developers are not being subsidized by local taxpayers.
[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
Mid-Morning Art Thread
—CBD
The Yacht America
Charles S. Raleigh
From the Smithsonian Museum:
The original yacht America was built in 1851 to compete in the Hundred Guinea Cup, the only American entry against fourteen British vessels. When the race was over, Queen Victoria asked, "Who is in first place?" and was told that America had won. When she asked, "Then who is in second?" the American boat had such a strong lead that the reply was: "Madam, there is no second." After this, the race became known as the America's Cup.
The Morning Report — 7/ 20 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Well we seem to be picking up from where we left off last week. Then again why is this Monday different from any other Monday in this day and age?!
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appears to have let out a ghastly flatulence this week on the floor of the chamber while criticizing President Donald Trump over the war in Iran.
Meh, every time Chuck Schumer opens his mouth to imitate human speech he emits the noise and stench of flatus, but continuing on a more serious yet schatological note.
The lettuce now being recalled by Taylor Farms in California has also hatched a number of lawsuits filed in federal court against Taco Bell, which allegedly used the shredded lettuce contaminated with a parasite called cyclospora.No deaths have been reported from the outbreak.
Of course, like most any negative condition that makes headlines and impacts Americans, the problem was caused by Trump, according to a Democrat lawmaker and another who is running for Congress.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) posted a video Saturday on social media claiming the “worst outbreak in U.S. history” was caused by the president “taking a wrecking ball” to “our public health infrastructure,” even though the actual source of the outbreak has been traced to Mexico.
And speaking of projection and projectile diarrhea. . .
Mamdani’s belief that, as a minor municipal functionary, he wields some imaginary international power to subvert American sovereignty just shows the delusions of his ideology.His authority extends to fixing potholes and collecting garbage, neither of which he does competently. But his delusions of grandeur are shared by the misfits, ignoramuses, and foreign interlopers who make up his rancid branch of the Democrat Party — the DSA.
The Democratic Socialists of America know nothing, have built nothing and don’t understand the country they live in, yet they imagine they have the moral authority to tear it down.
Their aim is to import foreign conflicts and alien ideologies that are the antithesis of America’s founding principles. . . Leftists are motivated by envy and a “poisonous resentment” that makes them hostile to everything that has made America successful, as Rubio said last week when opening a State Department conference on combating left-wing violence, something his Cuban emigre family knows a thing or two about. . . But that is the mission of the DSA. To use the Democratic Party as their Trojan horse to foment a communist revolution in America.
Does Mamdani really think that any NYC police officer is really going to attempt to lay a finger on Benjamin Netanyahu? There sure is no way in hell any Mossad agent and there are likely a half dozen or so surrounding Bibi everywhere he goes, will ever allow that to happen and they're probably itching to ventilate or otherwise break Mamdani's bones if they get half a chance.
That said, sic transit gloria Democrats because of Sick Bastards like Mamdani.
Democratic Senate contenders are dramatically out-raising their Republican peers, according to Federal Election Commission data — with Georgia’s Jon Ossoff and James Talarico in Texas leading the pack. Eight of the top 10 Senate candidate fundraiser this year are Democrats, whose top contestants have raked in $574 million, compared to the Republicans’ $336 million, per the FEC. Incumbent Sen. Ossoff (D-Ga.) is the biggest fundraiser on both sides, having raked in a jaw-dropping $77 million as of June 30, and has a staggering $42.5 million in cash on hand. . . . Democrats are considered likely to retake the House in the Nov. 3 elections, due to polls and the historical trend of the party in power in the White House losing seats in the midterms. But the Senate is a tougher call. Based on polls and incumbents, Republicans have an easier path to hold the upper chamber, but Democrats are running neck and neck with them in key races. Democrats are generally eying Maine, Ohio, North Carolina and Alaska in particular as their easiest path to retaking the Senate. But to win the upper chamber, they have to defend vulnerable incumbents, including Ossoff, who has proven to be a financial juggernaut.
Well at least I can delude myself with the likes of John Fetterman.
Have a good day,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Miranda Devine: This is not just politics as usual. It is a communist insurgency aimed at destroying America. It is intolerable.
Mamdani and his DSA comrades have one goal — a communist revolution in America
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Daily Tech News 20 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- OpenAI has rushed to reassure users that the brand new GPT 5.6 still has all the same features they know and love. (InfoWorld)
Like accidentally deleting all your files but being really sorry about it afterwards.
- Alibaba's AI tool Qwen 3.8 is launching and will soon be open-weight - that is, you can't create your own version but you can download and run it yourself. (Twitter)
One small problem is that is has 2.4 trillion parameters, meaning you'll need a graphics card with 4.8 terabytes of VRAM to run it efficiently, and not many end users have the necessary hardware.
- Meanwhile Apple just hired the original team behind Qwen. (WCCFTech)
Who Alibaba had fired in a quiet reminder that grotesque ineptitude is not solely a gift of the western world.
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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - July 19, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse - From Rusted Spoke Brewing
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Glad you could stop by! Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. Anything exciting in your world tonight?
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