Two Churches Firebombed In Mamdani's New York City By, Get This, Illegal Alien

—Disinformation Expert Ace

He's yet another foreign scumbag mental patient, or, as the leftwing communist media calls him: "Queens man."

NYPost:

Crazed maniac hurls Molotov cocktails at two NYC churches -- then goes on profane rant in shocking courtroom outburst

A twisted Queens firebug was busted for allegedly hurling Molotov cocktails at two Queens churches late Wednesday -- part of what prosecutors believe was a disturbing seven-incident spree.

Yogesh Sayrange, 36, -- who ranted like a madman in federal court on Thursday -- admitted to tossing fiery projectiles at the Iglesia Bautista El Mesias church in Ozone Park, and the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on in Woodhaven, along with other locations, according to cops and the feds.

"Yea, I f--king firebombed them," Sayrange allegedly told investigators about a separate bombing of a deli, adding with out explaination: "They're Muslims, scum and terrorists."

They were churches not mosques.

He he continued his manic, nonsensical rantings as he was hauled into Brooklyn federal court Thursday for arraignment on charges of allegedly tossing another makeshift device at a smoke shop on Fulton Street while wearing a distinct Guy Fawkes mask last week, prosecutors said.

"You're protecting them, you dumb c--t," Sayrange seethed at prosecutor Ashlyn Miranda. "I'm saying it to this retard here."

"The government is a criminal syndicate," he added as the marshal's handcuffs clicked behind him.

By Thursday, he only faced official charges in the smoke shop crime -- but prosecutors say they suspect that he is involved in seven total arsons dating back to June.

Sayrange also allegedly confessed to the June 25 deli arson, identifying himself both with and without the eerie face covering, according to the feds, who are still probing him for all the alleged firebomb attacks.

But the accused arsonist vehemently proclaimed his innocence in court -- snapping at Magistrate Judge Lara K. Eshkenazi, who simply asked him if he understood his rights.

"I don't stand under you, you stand under me," Sayrange barked. "You're making false accusations and asking 'do I agree with you?" No I don't."

Sayrange -- a Guyanese citizen who is considered "unauthorized" in the US because his childhood arrival protection expired -- was ordered held without bail.

"It's all fake," he snapped when prosecutors explained the risks he poses if not held.

"They're not members of the community, they're criminal cartels," Sayrange ranted. "They're foreign enemies."

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The suspect was located by police -- who found two additional Molotov cocktails in his bag, prosecutors said.

"I had two more in my bag -- I was going to finish the job," he confessed, according to the feds.

He was taken into custody around 12:10 a.m. Thursday, according to police.

Investigators believe Sayrange mostly targeted houses of worship during his spree that began last month -- but commercial locations were also hit, according to law enforcement sources.

New York will fight like a tiger to keep this Cultural Enrichment Officer in the US.

Service Businesses with Little or No Staffing; Waymo's Problems Are at the Intersection of the War on Labor Expense and the EV Follies

—Buck Throckmorton

As I have documented several times, I am not a fan of self-driving cars. I am skeptical that it is possible to fully program the necessary combination of sound recognition, peripheral vision, pattern behavior, human instinct, and intuition that is necessary to safely power a multi-ton machine through uncommon perils.

Google’s Waymo operation seems to be going through a lot of growing pains. Unfortunately, those growing pains are occurring while there are passengers on board but without a person at the wheel.

It’s also becoming evident that a major part of the push for driverless vehicles is related to the War on Labor Expense that has normalized abhorrent business practices to reduce the cost of labor. The good news is that Waymo is not putting off-the-books or slave labor behind the wheel. The bad news is that there is no human involved whatsoever in the operation of its troubled vehicles.

The complete removal of customer-facing employees may save money, but it also results in unstaffed chaos when something goes wrong. For some reason, the self-driving taxi services all seem to use EVs too. Perhaps there is still an aura of gee-whiz futurism about EVs that has appeal, but a vehicle that cannot quickly be refueled seems like a bad choice for a taxi.

Before I discuss the latest round of Waymo problems, it was just two months ago that I wrote a piece about the many recent failures which put Waymo customers in serious peril. These included:

• A Waymo in Austin crossed a double-yellow line to use the oncoming traffic lane as a left-turn lane.

• Also in Austin, a Waymo drove into a flooded roadway, then once it was caught in the water, it stopped rather than drive away.

• A Waymo in Dallas was videotaped slowing at a red light, then just slowly creeping through the intersection, making other cars dodge it.

• A Waymo in San Antonio drove into a flooded roadway, and was then washed away!

July 4th was a very bad day for Waymo, especially in San Francisco, where one self-driving taxi with a passenger aboard drove into and directly over fireworks that were going off. Another Waymo drove into fireworks and the vehicle actually caught fire.

Elsewhere in San Francisco, stalled/bricked/discharged electric Waymos were blocking intersections and causing ire among actual humans who couldn’t get through the intersections. Neither could they talk to a live human driver about removing the abandoned Waymos that were obstructing roads.

“Waymo cars stranded on San Francisco streets as Fourth of July gridlock drains batteries” [NBC]

Dave Guingona told the [TV station] he spent nearly two hours in standstill traffic until a number of Waymo vehicles were cleared from a roadway.

Did I mention that these ridiculous vehicles are EVs?

Several Waymo vehicles had to be towed away after the company said their batteries died while they were stuck in heavy San Francisco traffic amid Fourth of July celebrations.

I also mentioned that there is a serious downside to putting customers in complicated products without having any employees present who can work with those customers to deal with problems that arise.

“We realized people were getting out of their cars, yelling and screaming at these Waymos because there were no drivers,” he said.

A Waymo spokesman blamed his cars’ malfunctioning on “severe traffic congestion”, adding that "Our team is always evaluating ways to strengthen Waymo's resilience in major traffic disruptions."

Human drivers do not freeze up and stop operating in gridlock traffic. We may get mad, but we don’t just abandon our cars in the roadway. Waymo cannot say the same. This is clearly a technology that is not ready to be turned loose on city streets if something as common as traffic congestion causes the cars to just stop working in the middle of already crowded roads. In addition, it took several hours for Waymo to scrape together some actual humans that could assist in removing their vehicles from the road, making it the city’s problem to clear the streets.

It should be noted that Uber, Lyft, and traditional taxicabs did not abandon their vehicles in busy roadways like Waymo did, nor did they drive over exploding fireworks. Cities should rethink whether a company like Waymo that is habitually derelict in its conduct on public roads should be given access to those roads.

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Related to this topic of unmanned service businesses:

I recently found myself trapped in a parking garage which had a system failure that caused the entrance and exit arms not to rise despite its scanner being presented a valid passcard. There were several of us trapped, and we all tried our cards, none of which worked on either the exit or the entrance gates. So, we called the posted “If there is a problem” phone number and a gentleman in India answered. He inquired of the problem and then started reading his script for “Gate won’t open.” He asked for the faulty passcard number. We explained that the problem wasn’t a faulty passcard, because there were many passcards among us, none of which worked. He returned to his script, asking for a passcard number. So we gave him one of the numbers. He told us the gate should now open. It didn’t open, which we advised him. So, he hung up on us. We called back and he said “Please hold,” then he hung up again. We called a third time and now the phone just rang without being answered.

Suffice it to say we were quite frustrated, and members of our party now felt justified in taking whatever actions were necessary to remove the barrier creating our false arrest. The arm would not budge as we tried to push it straight up. However, by pushing the arm out and up at the same time, we a few of the guys were able to bend the arm and bypass whatever mechanism was blocking it from being raised. We Those guys left a bent arm that needed to be repaired or replaced by the owner, but there was now clearance for everyone to exit.

That resolution was not ideal, but there was not a better one, since the garage operator did not offer us a human option to escape our entrapment (unless you count an outsourced screen-reader in India who hung up on us when he couldn’t resolve the problem.)

If zero-staffing is the future of customer service, then businesses are going to be dealing with “customer resolutions” they don’t like when there are problems to resolve.

I was at Aldi recently and my steak wouldn’t scan at the self-check register, nor would it recognize the SKU number I typed in. Aldi’s war on labor expense means that it has decided that one lone employee can apparently handle all upfront roles, with his/her primary focus being to serve as the cashier at the sole checkout lane that is staffed. That same person is somehow supposed to check IDs for alcohol purchases at the self-check lines, and also attend to scanning and payment problems at self-check stations. It was clear that I was not going to get assistance for my problem, so in frustration I just left the steak sitting there and I left. I felt bad about it later, not so much because “I’m better than that,” but because I hated to see that steak go to waste. I felt remorse for the cow, not for Aldi.

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Other Stuff I’m Writing About

My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “Two Roads to the Same Communism” discusses how Net-Zero climate communism is just as big a threat as DSA-style communism, yet the former is feted while the latter suddenly has people scared.

Democrats also demand that the use of fossil fuels be abolished. Doing so would impoverish people in a way that makes Cuba look prosperous. It would also be a form of mass murder. Before air conditioning, tens of thousands of Americans died from summer heat, especially during the prolonged heat waves of the 1930s. As Energy Secretary Chris Wright noted in a tweet on the morning of July 2, just 9 percent of the energy powering the 13-state Mid-Atlantic region was coming from “renewable” sources. Ninety-one percent was coming from natural gas, coal, and nuclear.

In Europe, there is also a war on farming, because it is a belief of the climate cult that the petroleum used in agriculture, especially to make fertilizer, is destroying the planet. The “intellectual” class pursuing Net Zero in Europe seems to believe that food comes from grocery stores, not farms; therefore, they see no harm in effectively outlawing farming. Nothing that the DSA is proposing is as radical as the climate cultists effectively seeking to abolish food production, yet Democrats in the U.S. stand in solidarity with the European Net Zero agenda. Starvation is a predictable outcome of communism, yet that is on the agenda of the climate crowd.

This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

My latest piece at The American Spectator: “Two Roads to the Same Communism; Net-Zero Climate Communism Is Just as Much a Threat as DSA-Style Communism”https://t.co/jJDgcKeVEu

— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) July 9, 2026

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

[Hat Tip: Pete Bog]

The Morning Report — 7/ 10 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. With the Iranian conflict still unresolved and the alleged ceasefire all but vaporized along with a few more ships in the Strait of Hormuz and ground targets in Iran itself, the Mullahs nevertheless remain in power, and as such a threat not just to the stability and peace of the region but an existential threat to civilization itself.

. . .the Twelvers want Apocalypse Now, and if they must nuke Jerusalem or Paris, so be it. That’s their ticket to Paradise. It’s their religion, and who are you to question it? Just because fulfilling the Twelvers’ goal might involve eradicating the human race is no reason for you to get all het up about it, as we say here in Texas. . . What’s that? You say you don’t believe they would serenely blow themselves up along with the rest of the world, that they are just bluffing? Do you think that the hijackers of 9/11 weren’t serious?

Whether President Trump understands this he for sure understood the madness of ignoring and worse the Obama/Biden aiding and abetting of allowing Iran to obtain a nuclear weapons arsenal, the pornographic fiction and propaganda of the JCPOA notwithstanding, and so we along with Israel at least for the time being have put a halt if not an end to that.

With that in mind, this story from last week makes zero sense:

Reuters reported that the Trump administration has already notified Congress of its intention to approve the sale of US engines worth €613 million for KAAN, Turkey’s fifth-generation fighter aircraft, which is currently under development. The bigger question, however, is whether Washington will also pave the way for Turkey to acquire F-35 fighter jets. Ankara was removed from the F-35 programme in 2019 after purchasing the Russian S-400 air defence system, which Washington argued posed a threat to the aircraft’s sensitive technology by potentially collecting radar data on the F-35. . . Turkey has been described as “the new Iran,” and for good reason. Its reputation has aligned with that depiction...

First of all, while Turkey and Erdogan are Sunni and not Shiite, the salient point here is that they are first and foremost Muslim. Regardless of the internecine and eternal struggle between those two factions, the ultimate goal of both is for Islam to conquer the world. Erdogan and his cohorts have completely eviscerated a century of progress and westernization brought about by Kemal Ataturk in service of that goal. Erdogan is content, much like Blofeld wringing his hands at the Soviets and Americans duking it out like Siamese fighting fish so that he can ultimately come out on top as the de facto leader of the entire Islamic world and ultimately usher in the age of Islam ruling the world as his legacy. That Turkey is still in NATO is the height of insanity. Unless and until Erdogan and his party are removed from power they will be an existential threat to the security of the region perhaps as serious as Iran. And while they'll hold onto those F-35s the risk of him selling one off to the Red Chinese cannot be discounted. And yet for the President to go forward with this deal is madness. He's either clueless or being ill-advised.

I would hope folks like Hegseth and Rubio have his ear and are not the ones encouraging this. As for Rubio, on the plus side, there's this:

. . . Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited the foreign ministers and other senior officials from over 60 countries to Washington, D.C. next week for a summit. The goal? To combat the "resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism," according to Washington Post reporters who say they saw documents related to the matter. ..
Unlike the highly structured far-left groups of the past, modern far-left and anarchist extremism relies heavily on decentralized, cross-border networking that is often organized online. Both U.S. and European intelligence agencies have pointed to growing coordination between decentralized Antifa and Antifa-like networks and European autonomous groups, especially surrounding major global events. This often leads to riots, arson, attacks on law enforcement, attacks on infrastructure and symbols of capitalism, and destruction of public and private property. 

The aforementioned potential F-35 madness notwithstanding, Marco Rubio is a champ, and I think he may very well become President in the coming years if not in 2028 then perhaps 2032. That is if we can outlast and defeat the Leftist menace here at home.

A recent Cato poll shows that more members of Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, have a positive view of Communism than those who have a negative view with around a third splitting each way. Some of this can be attributed to social media propaganda, the educational system and popular culture and helps explain the young activists flocking to the DSA.

43% of ‘students’ rate Communism favorably and only 29% rate it unfavorably making it clear that the higher educational system isn’t just broken, it’s actively recruiting the next generation into extremism, domestic terrorism and totalitarian ideologies of the most terrible kind. This tracks with other polls showing campus support for violence and suppression of free speech.

This is not good, my friends.

Less than half of Americans think capitalism is working as patriotism, support for democracy tanks . . They’re seeing red. Fewer than half of Americans think capitalism is working — and support for democracy and patriotism has tanked in the last decade thanks to the nation’s pessimistic youth, according to a sobering new poll. As the nation turned 250 years old, only 48% of Americans believe that capitalism is working well in the US, compared to 60% who said so a decade ago, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal and the National Opinion Research Center. Just over half (51%) of those surveyed said American capitalism was working not too well or not at all well, the study showed. The same study found just 12% of Americans believe democracy is working extremely or very well in the US, compared to a staggering 56% who said it is working not very well or not at all well. Many of those who answered also felt that the American Dream, tying together democracy and capitalism, is further out of reach than ever before. Just over a third (35%) of respondents said that the American Dream — that if you work hard, you’ll get ahead — still holds true, down from 53% in 2012.

So, forget combatting Leftists abroad — the question is, how do we combat Leftism at home if as I fear we cannot rely on the institutions that are supposed to safeguard our liberties have been utterly corrupted, weaponized and turned against us.

It's going to get very ugly, I fear.

Have a great weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• 43% of ‘students’ rate Communism favorably.
  25 Million Communists in America

Daily Tech News 10 July 2026

—Pixy Misa

• Nvidia's share price is down by 15% - from a recent peak of $117 squintillion - as it succumbs to the memory price hikes it caused for everybody else. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Good work, Jensen.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile new ULL - ultra-low latency - memory for AMD systems offers up to a 4% speed boost. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  For only double the price.
  
  
  
• Turns out you can upgrade the RAM in your PlayStation - and it's not even expensive. (Notebook Check)
  
  That only gets from from 2MB to 16MB.
  
  Yes, of course we're talking about the PlayStation One.

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - July 9, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Open thread, as always. Content supplied for those who are interested. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Let's learn all of these stats and figures and quiz Weasel on Sunday night

Just under 3 min of US Gun Facts

Show this to libs and watch their heads spin pic.twitter.com/GgWEejNR4w

— Dangerous Thoughts (@DangerousThinkg) July 9, 2026

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Strangely satisfying to watch!

Anything you put in there is gone once pic.twitter.com/LCvKpSsF9m

— ��Mide�� (@HaYoMiDe_) July 9, 2026

What would you want to throw in there?

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Who doesn't like a good origin story?

The origin of the General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard pic.twitter.com/RfCZwkMAKK

— 80s Kidz (@80s_Kidz) July 8, 2026

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Go big or go home!

World’s largest paper airplane has a 65-foot wingspan

It’s easy to craft a paper airplane capable of soaring across a classroom, but one that can travel 200 feet is a bit harder. A group of students from Italy’s University of Pisa not only managed to reach that distance on a single glide—they did so with the Guinness World Record holder for the largest paper airplane ever assembled.

Built using only paper and some glue, the team’s nearly 23-foot-long creation and its over 65-foot wingspan cruised through a warehouse at Italy’s annual We Make Future expo on June 25. According to the university’s announcement, the students broke a record previously held since 2013 by Germany’s Braunschweig Institute of Technology.

Video segment at the link. Foreign language narration but still kewl.

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Ever wonder to yourself "How long do squirrels typically live?" No? OK, feel free to skip this one, then.

Squirrel Lifespan: How Long Do Squirrels Live?

You see them often, but how long are you seeing the same squirrels? Find out how long squirrels live, and what affects a squirrel's lifespan.

Look outside at your yard or in a public park for even just a minute or two, and you’re likely to see squirrels. These bushy-tailed critters are as adorable as they are wily, with their scavenging ways and problem-solving skills. If you’ve ever seen a baby squirrel or adult, you might wonder about a squirrel’s lifespan. How long do squirrels live? The answer is more complex than you might think.

Go ahead - check out the whole thing.

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Tin foil hats? Yup - I'll try on whatever ya got!

Trump:- “Biden died and they replaced him with an Actor Clone”

Also the Clones… pic.twitter.com/br3oO0zTc6

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) July 9, 2026

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 07-05-2026

AoSHQ Commenter Statistics:
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Number of comments: 19828
Number of unique hashes: 1599

Top 10 commenters:
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Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
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Old News Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Out of control!

Wild fox is very curious about a nature photographer and would like to begin a modeling career.

Old: An influencer tries to get a selfie with a goat.

Also old: Buddy's birthday party.

Old and goth: Vampire bat dance party.

This is about how fast I read.

Rescued dog's first beach day.

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Taco Bell removes ingredients from its menu because of "explosive diarrhea" concerns.

Write your own joke here.

Taco Bell restaurants are pulling fresh ingredients from the menu as a fast-growing parasite outbreak linked to explosive diarrhea spreads across multiple states.

Locations, including some in Metro Detroit, have posted signs telling customers they are temporarily unable to serve several produce items while health officials respond to a spike in cyclosporiasis cases, WWJ reported on Tuesday.

"We are currently unable to sell Lettuce, Cilantro Onion, Pico de Gallo and Guacamole due to a nationwide recall," the notices say.

"We apologize for the inconvenience. Any items ordered that normally come with these items WILL NOT contain them."

The missing ingredients are staples in several Taco Bell favorites, including tacos, the Crunchwrap Supreme and Cantina Chicken menu items.

It is not clear whether any Taco Bell customers have been sickened by the parasite, according to the report.

The menu shake-up comes as health officials investigate a surge in cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness caused by the Cyclospora parasite that has sickened nearly 2,000 people across the US.

Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford

Exclusive:

Pakistan is expected to refuse to take back the Rochdale grooming gang leader despite plans to change the law so he can be deported

On Monday Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, is expected to announce changes to the 1971 Immigration Act, which prevents Shabir Ahmed from being removed

Ahmed, 73, was released from prison last week after serving 14 years of a 22 year sentence for 30 child rape offences

A loophole in the Immigration Act means that he cannot be returned to Pakistan, despite the fact he has been stripped of his citizenship. The act exempts people from deportation if they came to the UK before 1973 and have lived in the UK for at least five years

Mahmood is expected to confirm that officials have found a way to close the loophole without putting the right to remain of Commonwealth citizens at risk, including Windrush migrants from the Caribbean

However, Whitehall sources confirmed that despite the change in the law they did not expect Pakistan to accept Ahmed. It is demanding the extradition of two political dissidents from the UK in exchange for accepting the return of Ahmed

A senior government source said that Britain would not extradite any of the political dissidents, leaving discussions at an effective stalemate

Can we stop pretending these people bring such Great Cultural Enrichment with them that it cancels out all the child rape, murder, and terrorism?

Muslim pro-terrorism communist Democrat senate candidate "Doctor" Abdul El-Sayed was grilled about why he insists on being called a "doctor" and even a "physician" despite having no license to practice medicine.

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed got a grilling from a lefty anchor Wednesday about whether he lied by describing himself as a physician despite lacking a current medical license.

El-Sayed's LinkedIn page describes him as a physician, and he claimed to be "a physician and epidemiologist" during an April debate.

"You got attacked by your rivals for calling yourself a physician, not just a doctor, even though you don't have a valid state medical license in New York or Michigan, which apparently is what you need legally to call yourself a physician," Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan pressed El-Sayed, questioning whether the candidate should have just called himself a doctor to avoid the drama.

"At the end of the day, it's not about whether or not I'm a physician or a doctor," El-Sayed replied. "It's not about my education. It's about whether or not your kid gets a good education."

Hasan called out the attempted dodge and stressed that people will question whether "you tell the truth."

That prompted El-Sayed to pivot to touting his time in public health, including as the director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services in Wayne County, Mich.

"Well, I would say that I was the health director for the city of Detroit, and I've done more to provide more people healthcare or eliminate their medical debt than most doctors have done in their practice career," he countered. "So, I'm proud of the work that I did."

The Democratic front-runner also noted that he graduated from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.

El-Sayed is the former host of a healthcare podcast titled "America Dissected," where he leveraged his credentials as a doctor and hawked questionable health and wellness products.

Ironically, he had called out others, such as current Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, for trying to "sell people s-- they didn't need."

Katie Couric, a dried up old leftwing prune, demands that John Fetterman agree that lowering the White House flag to half-staff and flying his body on Air Force Two (I think) was "over the top" because liberals didn't like him. Fetterman doesn't agree.

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24

Homeschooling is legal in Brazil but a judge has just sentenced two parents to 50 days in prison for "intellectual neglect" because their 11- and 15-year-old daughters, accomplished pianists and polyglots, received no classes on gender theory, sex education, tolerance, diversity and Afro-Brazilian culture.

The court argued that they would suffer in their personal lives and interactions with people of their own age from not knowing the Brazilian funk music style, which romantizes crime, life in favelas and is hyper-sexualized.

Apart from being accomplished pianists, the two girls speak Portuguese,
English and Latin. They also read 30+ classic books per year.

The judge was particularly worried when he heard that one of the daughters is particularly fond of Christian music and doesn't know what funk music is. The judge accused the parents of using their daughters as tools in an "ideological war"

NYP:

A Brazilian court has sentenced a couple to 50 days in prison for "intellectual neglect" after they homeschooled their two daughters without a state-approved curriculum.

A São Paulo criminal court ruled against Audato and Ieda Denardi, alleging they had failed to include programs on "gender and sex education" and "tolerance and diversity" in the curriculum for their daughters, aged 15 and 11, Alliance Defending Freedom ("ADF") International said.

According to the legal group, the court also ruled that the parents failed to properly integrate their children into Brazilian culture, citing the girls' preference for religious and classical music over popular trap or "sertanejo" (folk) music.

Isabel Monteiro, the defense attorney representing the family, said the judge made an "ideological decision to convict them" based largely on the older daughter's preference for sacred music over mainstream music that often features explicit lyrics.

The Denardis were sentenced to 50 days in prison by a lower court in April. They remain free while appealing the ruling, which is believed to be the first criminal prosecution of its kind in Brazil.

The Denardis told Fox News Digital they began homeschooling the girls in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic after realizing their schools were failing to give them a proper education. Ieda said the girls thrived in homeschooling, and so she decided to continue educating the girls at home.

The communists don't want much -- just your wealth, your children, and your soul.

And they do demand your soul.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman is accusing Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul of religious bigotry for enforcing a transgender rights law she approved that is forcing Catholic nuns who run a hospice program to choose between their beliefs or caring for indigent, terminally ill patients.

The controversy concerns the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne in Westchester County who run Rosary Hill Home -- a Catholic hospice for the poor.

The order filed a federal lawsuit accusing the state of violating their constitutional rights with a 2024 law that requires the facility to affirm patients' gender identity in regard to pronouns, room assignments and restroom usage.

The law bars nursing or long-term care facilities from discriminating against any resident based on the resident's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or HIV status.

But the Trump Justice Department recently intervened in the case on behalf of the Dominican Sisters, claiming New York is engaged in religious discrimination at the 42-bed hospice care facility.

"What Kathy Hochul is doing to the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne is an absolute disgrace. For over 120 years, these incredible women have done God's work, providing unconditional love, comfort, and dignity to people in their final days," Blakeman told The Post.

"They are saints walking among us, and they represent the absolute best of New York. Yet, Kathy Hochul is actually willing to shut them down, strip away their license, and throw terminal cancer patients out on the street--all to enforce her woke garbage."

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The Catholic nuns received three letters from the state Health Department informing them of their obligation to comply with the law, according to the suit.

State Attorney General Letitia James, whose office is defending the Hochul administration in court, asked that the case be thrown out and that Hochul's name be removed as a defendant.

Tyler Robinson Hearing: The Text Messages (Which Candace Owens Claimed Didn't Exist) In Which Robinson Confesses to Killing Charlie Kirk Are Shown In Court

—Disinformation Expert Ace

But don't worry -- Cavernous Nostrils has a back-up conspiracy theory. Sure, the texts exist -- but they're "fedslop" fakes.

Candace Owens @RealCandaceO

They police just took a pic of the Lance's phone, guys! Biggest assasination since JFK and they decided not to collect it and store it into evidence. Just trusted him and took a couple of cute pics for insta.

And now Lance has immunity.

And of course the judge ruled that the defense did not need to examine these messages for authenticity at this stage of the hearing.

It's just not necessary at this stage- got it?

Enjoy your Fed slop!

She's just spamming out one new covering conspiracy theory after another. She says these must be fake, because the FBI wouldn't have just photographed the messages, they would have seized the phone. Well, they did seize the phone. They seized it and downloaded everything in its memory.

Also, they couldn't present the phone in court unless they could show clear chain-of-custody, and the defense didn't object -- therefore, the phone has been in the possession of the authorities after being taken from Tyler Robinson.

She also insists that Tyler Robinson can't be the killer seen on video because the guy on video is 6'2". She knows this height exactly, somehow. Just by eyeballing a video, where he's not standing next to any other person nor anything whose height is known.

And she claims that Robinson himself is "just over 5'10."

Except no, the police photo shows he's 6'0" or just a touch under.

Seeing that this contradicts her claim, she crops the photo to remove the top of Robinson's head and make him appear shorter.

She literally cropped the police photo to stop his head at just over 5'10"... even though we know heads aren't flat and so he's an inch and a half taller than what she shows:

Are you fucking kidding me here Cavernous? Even with the cropping he's over 5'11", and we still haven't seen the top of his head!

Oh there it is -- right around 6'0".

She's a retard and a maniac -- and she gets away with it only because her viewers are even crazier and stupider than she is.

Natalie Jean Beisner
@NJBeisner

23h

"You can't even tell it's him in the video!"

Ok. They have his DNA.

"It was planted! They're lying to us!"

And round and round we go. Nothing will ever satisfy these people. Even video footage of Tyler Robinson taking the shot would not satisfy these people because they're untethered from reality and convinced everyone from Israel to Robinson's defense team is on this.

You can't fight that type of psychosis with facts.

By the way, photos of the bullets reveal that they're hollow-points, intended to expand upon contact with a target. These bullets are designed to blow up into flat plates so that all of their energy goes into a target, and none comes out. That is, the bullet is designed to expend all of its kinetic energy in the target, and not exit the target.

I say this because Cavernous Nostrils and her Legion of Tards have been claiming that it's impossible for a rifle bullet to not exit Charlie Kirk's neck (so we know a TPUSA official standing nearby him must have shot him with a pistol at the exact moment the rifle shooting decoy fired his rifle).

Tucker Carlson: Graham Platner Wasn't Booted Out Because He's a Nazi and a Rapist. He Was Pushed Out Because He Asked Questions The Jews Didn't Like.

—Disinformation Expert Ace

TCN @TCNetwork

Graham Platner's fall is not really about sex or tattoos.

Enjoy how he renders rape as "sex" and a Nazi SS Totenkopf tattoo as "tattoos."

The establishment cared so much about getting him canceled because he opposed their economic and foreign policy programs that serve the powerful and shaft average Americans.

Remember, Tucker Carlson is a "conservative"! If you criticize him, you're "splitting the party," "causing division," and "in-fighting"!

I mean sure he's full-blown socialist (or communist now-- he is extremely authoritarian and seeks a return to feudalism), but he hates gays and that's all you need to be conservative!

Except his Islamist friends also hate gays and I don't think that makes them conservatives. Hm, this is a puzzler. Why is he a "conservative" again?

Consider this a formal invitation to Graham Platner to appear on Tuq'r Qarlson's popular Egyptian/Pakistani/Qatari podcast.

Tuq'r's ally Donna Brazille says Platner needs "time to heal."

Ed Morrissey writes that Tuq'r's allies in the leftwing communist media are oscillating between two narratives:

1, We did our jobs perfectly (no notes!), or

2, We were duped by a liar and had no way to know we were being conned.

The Wall Street Journal is pushing the "duped" narrative.

Again, they blame their Democrat sources (and friends, and wives, and mistresses) for "misleading" them.

This is exactly the same narrative the media deployed when "Sharp as a Tack" Biden was found out. "We weren't in on it, we were fooled like everyone else!"

Except no one else was fooled. Only the Wise Men Truth Tellers of the media.

This entire article aims at Democrats for missing a parade of red flags in Platner's life while fraudulently promoting him as the "authentic voice of the working class." Democrats certainly deserve every bit of opprobrium possible for selling voters a whiny, entitled, upper-class mooch as a working-class stiff, just a couple of years after attempting to sell a senile old man as a Sharp As a Tack(TM) candidate who could totally handle another four years as president. Democrats are spending a lot of time growing candidates in vats, as long as they come out socialist blue once formed.

However, the WSJ does not include one single word about how the media helped sell that fraud to voters in Maine and to the entire country. Their article never admits -- as Axios at least did -- that the media repeated the Katz-Moraff narrative "without scrutiny" for months. It never mentions the New York Times "tamp and tame" effort last month in which they manipulated three women, including Lyndsey Fifield and Jenny Racicot, in an attempt to muddy allegations to the point that Platner, Moraff, and Katz could claim that it was a partisan smear campaign. And of course, the article never mentions that Racicot finally came forward with the rape allegation specifically due to the NYT's manipulation of Fifield.

And that's the important part about all of this. Not Nazi tattoo or the rape thing. https://t.co/tyG1hSZlc5 pic.twitter.com/PcOCm3invx

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 9, 2026

SUPERCUT!

Dems explain why Nazi tattoos & sexually aggressive behavior are fine actually pic.twitter.com/xeLPHh9fwN

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 8, 2026

MSNOW’s Molly Jong-Fast says she and other media types were "sold a character arc" by Platner and his team about how he’d changed.

The 'journos were duped’ defense here is rich.

The threaded post below shows the stuff that was being said on her podcast.

Really rich. https://t.co/nbU0pbyNtj pic.twitter.com/YZD8YBoHPT

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 8, 2026

Just as the media circled the wagons and blamed only the five innermost of Biden's inner circle for "duping" them about Biden, they're now claiming the only fault in the Platner debacle is found in a young gay Democrat hustlers named Morris Katz who hypnotized... the entire media, including the New York Times and the Conde Nast publishing empire, into giving glowing and entirely unskeptical coverage to a rando nobody who just announced he was running for Senate.

Not a single fact check of Katz's mythology.

And by the way, the gay hustler was Obviously Lying in his every claim about Platner.

How is this the gay hustler's fault? You're the ones who took their OBVIOUS LIES and published them as fact-checked "facts."

Follow the bouncing ball - The New York Times today publishes a Platner campaign autopsy, granting anonymity to 30 people inside his campaign.

As it turns out, two of these reporters were the same ones who published the Lindsay Fifield catch-and-kill accusations. Glueck and… pic.twitter.com/NEgX0uZx35

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 9, 2026

Close it up

Arsonist Cuts Off Penis and Uses It As Fuse to Light a Fire

—Disinformation Expert Ace

That burning sensation.

A firebug in Indiana cut off his own penis, dumped gasoline on it -- then used it to light a blaze inside a neighbor's garage, according to police.

Christopher Peden, 36, of Fort Wayne, allegedly copped to giving himself the shaft after first claiming he was stabbed, according to court documents.

Peden told cops he "harmed himself" inside the garage in Fort Wayne by "cutting off his penis" with a kitchen knife on May 6, FOX 59 reported.

Lance Baker begged his neighbors for helped after he was stabbed by his son, according to a neighbor.

During the totally nuts kindling plan, he poured gasoline on his severed genitals and "set it on fire on the floor of the garage just inside the door," according to court documents cited by the station.

When Peden later ran into police, he claimed he'd been slashed in the city's downtown area, according to the court documents.

Christopher Peden just became the top pick to replace Platner as Democrat candidate for Senate.

Federal Judge in Florida Overrules DC Judge, Orders the DHS to Turn Back on SAVE's Verification System for Determining Aliens' Eligibility for Benefits -- and Voting

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Remember foreign judge "Sparkle" Sooknanan? She claimed that it was unconstitution for Trump to check voter names against social security numbers to determine if they were eligible to vote.

She herself is a foreign citizen -- she has dual citizenship, and never renounced her foreign one, despite suggesting that she would if approved to be a judge -- so she's very invested in the idea that foreigners should rule United States citizens.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

Jun 22

BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, just BLOCKED the Trump admin from using a social security database system to verify voter eligibility.

We have foreign judges telling us we can't secure our elections

What are we even doing?

But not a Florida federal judge says "turn the machines back on."

He himself was the judge in a case where states sued the DHS to secure the elections, and the consent decree reached by the DHS and the states was that these safeguards were to be implemented.

So "Sparkle's" ruling contradicts a judge-approved settlement between the states and the federal government.

For that reason, he's "overruling" her.

Federal judge hands Trump big win, directs DHS to restore voter verification features of SAVE system

The SAVE system was enhanced under the Trump administration to better support state election integrity efforts, including maintenance of state voter rolls.

A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore some of the key features of its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, which states use to verify citizenship and immigration status for voter rolls.

The ruling overturns a D.C. judge's ruling, who determined that the SAVE system's features, including a feature that allowed workers to verify citizenship status through a resident's social security number, violated the Social Security Act and Privacy Act by improperly aggregating and using Americans' personal data.

The SAVE system was enhanced under the Trump administration to better support state election integrity efforts, including maintenance of state voter rolls.

U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II ruled that the DHS violated a settlement with states, including Florida, by disabling the features. Wetherell approved the settlement last year and has maintained jurisdiction to enforce the settlement.

"Defendants are plainly in violation of the settlement agreement because it is undisputed that they disabled the bulk-upload and SSN-search features that the agreement expressly required the SAVE system to have," he wrote in the order. "The fact that defendants disabled those features to comply with [the judge's] order does not change the fact that they violated the agreement."

Wetherell determined that the features did not violate federal law, concluding the SSN-search functions align with 8 U.S.C. §1373, which overrides other restrictions on sharing citizenship or immigration status information, according to Florida's Voice News.

I'm not sure how a Florida district judge can "overrule" a DC district judge, since both are equals. Appeals courts overrule district judges below them.

But this judge, overseeing the DHS/state settlement, might have some special authority to protect the settlement.

So is it over?

NOPE! Judge "Sparkle" says she doesn't care what another judge with direct responsibility to oversee this settlement says, she says she's a Cultural Enricher here to set us all straight!

Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker

BREAKING: Judge 'Sparkle' Flips Out, Rejects Federal Court Order Dismissing Her Ruling

Judge Sparkle Sooknanan has refused to pause her ruling that dismantled the Department of Homeland Security's expanded SAVE citizenship verification system, even after a federal judge in Florida ordered the exact same system to be restored.

The dispute centers on the Trump administration's expanded SAVE database, which allows states to use Social Security numbers and bulk searches to verify citizenship for voter rolls and other lawful government functions.

Last month, Judge Sooknanan blocked the upgrades, ruling they violated federal privacy laws.

But because Florida, Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio had already secured a court-approved settlement guaranteeing access to those same SAVE features, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II ordered DHS to immediately restore them.

Rather than pause her ruling while the conflict plays out, Judge Sooknanan rejected the Trump administration's request, accusing the government of "gamesmanship" and insisting the Florida court had "erred in significant ways."

The conflicting rulings now leave DHS in the position of being ordered by one federal judge to disable the system or to ignore her and follow the alternate judge's ruling.

Rep. Abe Hamadeh has introduced articles of impeachment against Judge Sooknanan.

Rep. Nancy Mace has proposed legislation requiring federal judges, members of Congress, and Senate-confirmed officials to be natural-born U.S. citizens.

Jasmine Ratchet: I Only Lost the Primary Because It Was a "Racist Race" Y'all, I Won't Be Campaigning with the Gay That Won

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I wonder if she's debuting her podcast, too.

Radical leftist Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said race played a major role in her Democrat primary loss to Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico (D).

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."

...

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.

She said she has not seen broad enthusiasm for Talarico or the rest of the party's statewide candidates, adding that many voters remain unconvinced despite several months remaining before the November election.

"I've not heard a bunch of kumbaya," Crockett said. "People don't seem to be convinced at this point, but there's a lot of time between now and November."

I credit the racial anger to Stephen Colbert, who broke FCC rules by interviewing the gay white kid and refusing to offer an interview to Ratchett. That was some straight racist shit from Colbert. Typical prog, using the blacks for power and then shutting them out of power themselves.

#BoycottTalarico

Graham Platner Officially Withdraws From Position as Sturmgruppefuhrer of the Maine Democrat Party

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I saw, I think, Chicks on the Right discussing Platner's plans from the future. They think -- and I think they're right -- that he's going to immediately cash in by starting a (get this) podcast, and he's chumming the water with antisemitic conspiracy theories to get the reliably unemployed-and-available-to-watch Tuq'r Qarlson/Candace Owens/Me-Again Kelly Nazi audience.

He blames unnamed "large forces" conspiring to drive him out of the race by spreading lies.

If it's a lie, why drop out? Maybe because he's been told the Racicot rape allegation will be the first, not the last, rape allegation coming. Bear in mind, Racicot is a leftist who agreed with Graham Platner politically. She had an incentive to make her allegation public before the deadline to withdrawal.

The Republican Party, on the other hand, has been sitting on its oppo until after the deadline.

More was coming. I hope it still all comes out. Because, seriously, I agree with the Woke Left: #PunchANazi.

SULLIVAN, Maine -- Accused rapist Graham Platner finally announced he is bowing out of the Maine Senate race Wednesday with a long-winded video statement, blaming everyone but himself for his campaign's implosion.

He called out "large forces," "corporate media" and the "political establishment" for trying to force him out of the race.

"We believe that for the movement to continue, it can't be me. And for that reason we are suspending campaign operations," Platner said in a video announcement posted on X.

...

"I just want to make it clear this is all false. The things that have been claimed did not happen. It's not real," he said in the X video.

And yet you're dropping out, as if they have you dead to rights.

Platner argued the Democratic establishment used the rape allegation "as an excuse to take away all of the things that we need to run a campaign."

...

"This was the last week to try to get me off of the ballot. And that's why this is occurring," Platner charged.

Platner went on to urge the public not to view his decision to withdraw from the race as "an admission of guilt."

There is no other way to view it, Herr Rapist.

"It most certainly is not. We're not doing it because of the allegations. We're doing it because of the structures that are being taken away from us by those in power," he said.

He means the Democrat's senate campaign slush fund announced it would spend zero dollars to support Platner's campaign.

But he still has a lot of supporters -- and anyway, the party committees actually don't spend very much on most candidates. That's why Mitch McConnell was always recruiting liberal millionaires to run for Senate, he wanted them to be self-financing (and also, liberal RINOs).

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman blasted Platner after his announcement.

"The trash took itself out tonight," he bluntly told Fox News.

"Now finally people in Maine have a chance to vote on someone that's not a total piece of trash."

Just hours after the latest rape claims, Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) issued a joint statement denouncing Platner.

"The allegations reported today are incredibly disturbing -- violence, abuse and sexual assault are absolutely unacceptable," it said.

"Graham Platner needs to immediately withdraw as the Democratic nominee for Senate and allow Maine Democrats the opportunity to choose a new candidate who can defeat Susan Collins. The DSCC [Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee] will not invest in the Maine Senate race if Platner remains on the ballot."

...

Platner lashed out at those who abandoned him and pulled his financial support.

"We are going to lose our ability to fundraise. We are going to lose our ability to access voter data. We are going to lose all of the things that any campaign needs on the basic level simply to function," he bemoaned.

"Larger organizations, the national level party, the bigger donor networks -- they have all committed to spending no money in this race if I'm in it," Platner continued.

"They would rather see Susan Collins win than have me be the next senator from Maine," he said.

People were unimpressed by this High-T Super-Male's whiny, self-pitying Twitter Flounce.

The failed candidate uploaded the "woe is me" clip announcing his withdrawal after a woman he previously dated, Jenny Racicot, publicly alleged that he drunkenly raped her at her Maine home in 2021 despite her repeated pleas to stop. He denied the allegation.

"This video is more embarrassing than the Nazi tattoo," Emily Zanotti, a friend of one Platner's exes accusing him of misconduct, tweeted.

"Graham Platner announces the real victim in all of this is Graham Platner," right-wing influencer Western Lensman posted on X. "Saved you 11 minutes."

"TLDR: Campaign suspended and a whole bunch of bluster," read a post from the Chicks on the Right X account.

...

The failed candidate's lack of self-awareness throughout the video, as well as his insistence that his ex-girlfriend was lying about being raped by him, left many stunned and puzzled.

"It is not the establishment's fault that your ex lover accused you of raping her," political consultant Micah Erfan noted.

"Narcissistic sociopath," conservative radio talk show host Larry O'Connor said in response to Platner's video.

The Morning Rant

—CBD

Surveillance cameras are becoming very common in America, and have been ubiquitous in other parts of the world for many years. Private cameras are very different from government-controlled surveillance, and government demands for privately-acquired data usually go through the courts.

But governments are increasingly relying on their own cameras, and those cameras are often owned and controlled by Flock Safety, a private company that specializes in Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems. They are sophisticated cameras that send data to an equally sophisticated system that can not only read plates, but also identify unique characteristics on vehicles: bumper stickers, roof racks, trailer hitches, accident damage, etc.

And that data are collected and collated and can develop a comprehensive picture of vehicle movement over days or years. Did I say "can?" Of course they do. Assuming benign intent on the part of any corporation is naive, and assuming it when that corporation partners with government is laughable.

The passive accumulation of data on our movements is disturbing even if it were to occur on a single day. Yes, the Fourth Amendment speaks to "persons, houses, papers, and effects," and is of less utility in public. But this surveillance is permanent, long term accumulation of information that in the aggregate is nobody's business...least of all government!

This isn't a cop parked on the side of the road who happens to notice something. This is surveillance in the absence of probable cause, and that violates the spirit of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The government parses our rights to diminish their impact on its fanatical desire to know everything about us, but routine surveillance without a court order seems to be a clear violation of our right to be safe from government observation.

And it isn't just government that uses Flock....HOAs are big users of their systems for their deeply disturbing Big Brother activities. Of course HOAs are the Devil, so that isn't surprising, but the constant intrusion into our private lives is maddening.

But Americans seem to be a bit irritated by these cameras and the attendant gathering of information, and the response has been heartening.

Air Force Engineer Accused of Cutting Down 13 Police Cameras Says They're Unconstitutional
2 Flock cameras 'intentionally cut down' in South Carolina town amid nationwide camera controversy
Young People Are Destroying 'Flock Safety Cameras' In Viral Trend

Far be it for me to suggest anything illegal, but I sure hope some freedom-loving patriotic American is on the jury for that Air Force engineer.

If you are curious about the locations of the these cameras, here is a website that tracks them. deflock.org seems like it works pretty well...I checked one in my area this morning, and yup! it was where they said it would be. Luckily not in my little village, but near enough to irritate!

Like the arguments against the Second Amendment...banning guns will make us all safer! I don't care. Even if that were true (and I do not believe that it is), freedom and liberty are inherently chaotic, and we must tolerate some level of law breaking as a consequence of our freedom.

That tradeoff is absolutely part of the social compact among free men, and to argue against it is to reject the concept of natural, God-given rights.

[Hat Tip: dhmosquito]
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Morning Report — 7/ 9 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Well, surprise surprise, Platner is out!They must've thrown a nice chunk of change to exit stage left. While he is truly one of the most vile pieces of human garbage in recent memory ever running for office, I suppose on a positive note it's a sign that the Democrat media/propaganda complex isn't nearly as powerful as it seems in protecting one of their own. Up and down the line every major and minor lefty in and out of government was praising this sick bastard to high Heaven, and you'd think they'd've kept their mouths shut if either they had known the extent of his record or otherwise felt they couldn't keep a tight enough lid on it.

Democrat Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner suspended his campaign Wednesday after a previous girlfriend accused him of sexual assault.

Platner announced his exit two days after 41-year-old Maine resident Jenny Racicot accused him of forcibly having sex with her in 2021. The Maine Democrat was embroiled in several controversies, including his Nazi tattoo, inappropriate social media posts and his mockery of a veteran.

“We are suspending our campaign operations,” Platner said in a video statement. “This is incredibly difficult because I know that some will think it’s an admission of guilt and it most certainly is not. We’re not doing it because of the allegations, we’re doing it because of the structures that are being taken away from us by those in power. And I also feel an immense amount of responsibility to everyone who has worked so hard to get us where we are. We went toe to toe with one of the most entrenched political systems in the history of the world and we won.”

On a down note, I will assume his departure regardless of who his replacement will be, if even he can be replaced on the ballot per Maine election laws, means that the hideous harridan backstabbing RINO Susan Collins will most likely win her bid for reelection and we'll be saddled with this RINO shitwhore for another six years of backstabbing Maine and America.

Oh well...

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The Things That Have Been Claimed, Did Not Happen. It’s Not Real."
  Graham Platner Suspends Maine Senate Campaign After Sexual Assault Allegations

Daily Tech News 9 July 2026

—Pixy Misa

• John Deere tractor owners and third party repair centers have been granted the same ability to repair the devices as the company's own service technicians under a 10 year agreement with the FTC. (AP News)
  
  Doesn't mean they're repairable, just means the company can't forbid you to try.
  
  
  
• Speaking of settling Elon Musk has done so with the SEC over his purchase of Twitter back in the late Bronze Age. (Tech Crunch)
  
  He was fined $1.5 million, which represents approximately thruppence in comparison to my own bank account.

Wednesday Night ONT - July 8, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

How do you do, fellow kids? Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open and freshly re-stocked. Free refills!

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

Will reading the content help the sun come up tomorrow? Don't know but why take chances. Read on.

[Top photo: no dogs, but fine art]

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Science News

Researchers Built a Scuba Suit for Cyborg Cockroaches

Scientists in Singapore and Japan have developed a tiny 3D-printed scuba suit for cyborg cockroaches, allowing them to survive and move underwater and other low-oxygen environments for up to three hours.

The suit can transform a regular cockroach, and potentially other insects, into "an amphibious cyborg robot capable of operation across land and water," according to a new research paper published this week in Nature Communications.

So, why do researchers want half-robot cockroaches to breathe underwater anyway?

Apparently, they hope to one day be able to use cyborg cockroaches in search and rescue missions, pipeline inspection, and other complex tasks.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Horde Shopping News

I know what you're thinking. "My plans for a 39 foot tall animatronic T-Rex dinosaur have not materialized. I'm interested in exploring alternative avenues. Any suggestions?"

Sotheby's is planning to sell one of the largest and most complete T-Rex skeletons ever found on July 14. It was found on private land in Harding County, South Dakota and took years to fully excavate and assemble. His name is Gus. He seems nice.

The auction estimate is $20 to $30 million, so better shake those couch cushions hard.

More background here:

If that's a little pricey for you, other items in the Natural History auction might be interesting. It is a fascinating mix of fossils, meteorites, petrified wood, minerals and precious metals in their natural form, prehistoric handaxes, and more.

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I know what you're thinking: "Cyborg cockroaches? T-Rex skeletons? How about some class and elegance?"

Sure. This isn't a fashion thread, but here you go:

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Where are the Iron Maiden fans?

Related: Fear of the Chickens

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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is Jason and his channel called Epic UpCycling. Jason takes scraps (think in terms of wood pallets) and makes things. He makes cabinets, chests, and even a globe. He mostly works with wood, but occasionally strays into metal. He shows each step and most of his project involve a huge number of simple cuts. He uses power tools but often prefers hand planes, chisels and saws. His channel has over 417,000 subscribers.

I know what you're thinking. Do people really watch 30 to 40 minute videos of a guy making stuff in his workshop by himself with no commentary, subtitles or music? Yes. His videos regularly attract several million views.

His videos are good examples of story telling. Simple camera work, angles and editing. No artificial drama. No highly polished graphics or editing. No clickbait.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!

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Never thought about it before, but I learned today that both alligators and crocodiles sneeze. Isn't this the type of life-enriching knowledge that makes reading the ONT worthwhile? Isn't it? You're welcome.

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They Might be Giants for the big ONT finish:

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T-Rex appreciates the groundswell of totally organic and genuine interest but is not currently a candidate in Maine for the US Senate. Media requests for comment can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where they will be promptly ignored. Are you lurking ????

Close it up

Beaver Shopping Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

It's a plane, by the way. You can see that if you zoom in.

The scale lies like the Devil.

Koala hugs the man who rescued it from the wildfires.

Big chungus horse.

Dog doesn't know why he's celebrating but he's just happy to be a part of it, whatever it is!

I should be an Australian women's volleyball coach. I bet the hours are good.

Learning front rolls, kip-ups, and front flips.

It's possible this is AI.

Fisherman jumps into the ocean to free a dolphin from his net.

Cool paper airplane.

This one's a tearjerker.

Drone fire hose.