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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
*****
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between from the streets of Manhattan. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Iron River)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Don't be Pretti Good.
3) Running with sharp objects? You do the math there "Three Fingers".
4) Have a great weekend!!!
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer
requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
3/28 – Hrothgar asked for prayers for a dear and long time close friend and former neighbor, Daniel,
who is scheduled for open heart surgery in mid-April. Prayers for his wife would be appreciated as well,
as she will be carrying a heavy load for the next few months.
4/18 Update – Daniel survived his complex open heart surgery. He is sitting up and it seems like it went
well, but they are not going to release him as quickly as he would like, so he is not happy. Thanks to the
Horde for the prayers and please keep praying for his dear wife, who now has even more to put up with.
5/16 Update – Hrothgar sends thanks for the prayers for Dan. Thanks to his attitude and the miracles
of modern heart surgery, Daniel is back home and in good spirits and mobile. He still has a lot of rehab
ahead, but it sounds like a pretty good recovery to be home only 20 days after being on the table!
3/28 – Jordan61 posted that Mr. Jordan61 is back in the hospital. His sepsis has returned and gotten into
where his compression fracture is, and he has vertebral osteomyelitis. The doctor is supposed to come
in today and let them know the plan.
4/9 Update – On 4/1 Mr. Jordan61 was released from the hospital with six weeks of IV antibiotics,
which Jordan61 is administering every 8 hours. He’s in a lot of pain; they’ve given him oxy, fentanyl, and
dilaudid, and nothing seems to touch it. From what they were told, the pain won’t subside until the
infection is cleared up. For the time being, he is bed-bound and they are limiting his movement as much
as possible to keep the pain to a minimum. Jordan61 will send updates with progress.
4/25 Update – Mr. Jordan61 is making slow but steady progress. He can get up and walk for short
periods of time, and can sit in the living room for an hour or so per day. He is halfway through the IV
antibiotics, with 3 weeks to go. A physical therapist will be coming to help him build strength and learn
how to move without aggravating his back injury. Thank you all for the prayers!
4/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. Her chemo seems to be holding things steady for now.
Unfortunately, as she is receiving a steroid, she has gained about 25 pounds. Her blood sugar has also
jumped up about 40 points (which only happens when she is on steroids).
4/24 Update – Teresa in Fort Worth provided an update: The pump that was put in to battle cancer in
December can only be used for 6 months. After that, it starts to damage the liver. So she may have to go
back onto the medication that made her lose her hair and messed up her vision and nails, and then
return to this medication after a break. This is not good news, since this new medication is working so
well. But for now, she is doing well and is incredibly grateful for the time that she has been given so far.
4/11 – Eromero craves prayers for Mrs. E., as she has been diagnosed with lymphoma. She begins
infusions on 4/23.
4/25 Update – Mrs. E. reports that she feels fine. Praise be to God that she has had only one distressful
episode during the infusions. Thank you for all the past and continued prayers.
4/18 – neverenoughcaffiene asked that Devyn be kept in prayers. She is a young mother of 2 with a
mass on her esophagus. The Doc said it was scar tissue and hopefully the second opinion will agree.
5/16 Update – The doctor providing Devyn’s second opinion advised her to stay with the original
doctor. She will be having a biopsy sometime in the next week. Prayers are still needed.
4/18 – Smell the Glove could use some prayers as therapy and rehab occur after gout/sepsis.
5/2 Update – The gout has cleared and the infection in the lower back is healing.
5/18 Update – Smell the Glove may be out of rehab this week, but still would need wound care at
home. Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes!
4/18 – Sam Adams requested prayers for a friend, Mary F, who was just sent to a long-term recovery
facility after having a tracheostomy.
5/2 Update – Mary’s breathing is improving, and they are weaning her off assisted breathing. She is
now off the ventilator for 12 hours a day, and they are aiming for 14 hours soon. Many thanks to all of
the Moron Horde for the prayers.
4/24 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for a friend’s father (Cory), who needs prayers for strength and
peace as he is going through some troubled times.
4/27 – Matthew Kant Cipher sent his thanks to those who prayed for his friend Layne (who is also his
son’s FIL). The Horde may recall that in August, Layne was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He has since
undergone courses of chemo, immunotherapy, and radiation. His latest scans came back clean. The
cancer is in remission; praise be to God! Prayers are also humbly requested for Mrs. MKC, who is dealing
with a new flare-up of a GI condition that had been leaving her alone until a recent procedure re-
aggravated it. It is very frustrating/discouraging as she waits to see a new GI doctor.
4/25 – Retired Buckeye Cop asked that we would continue to lift his 16 year old grandson (LH) up in
prayers, as LH continues to consider the call to priesthood in the Catholic Church. LH recently went to a
meeting with a group of young men who are considering the priesthood.
4/25 – Fenelon Spoke asked for prayers for “I”, who Fenelon visited and anointed with oil, and prayed
for healing of her health concerns.
5/2 – neverenoughcaffiene requested prayers for parishioners at her church, who lost their newborn
daughter, Astrid.
5/7 – turambar asked for prayers for relatives. Mom needs prayers as she was admitted to the hospital
to check her heart and cardio. They did not find pneumonia. Two months ago, she fell at her assisted
living place, and broke her hip. She also has dementia. Turambar’s uncle fell recently and broke his hip,
too.
5/9 – D asked for prayers. He was let go from his IT job and has started a business making and selling
lens cleaners to make ends meet. Please contact Annie’s Stew if you’d like more information – either to
order lens cleaners, or if you’d like to contact him related to IT job openings (DBA/Network Admin).
5/11 – rez986 asked if anyone had an update on Neidermeyer’s Dead Horse’s health. The last info
Annie’s Stew has was from January, 2026, that he’d been given 6 months to live due to heart failure and
was being treated and waiting for a transplant at Mayo.
5/16 Update – Dash my lace wings! posted that NDH is recovering well. IrishEi posted that NDH did
receive a heart transplant and that she is doing well. She also posted a link to NDH’s X account, and her
fundraising page.
5/15 – Toad-O requested prayers for his second ex-wife, the mother of his two children. They were
divorced 25 years ago, and 3 years later, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the children came
to live with Toad-O. The ex-wife is now suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s, and has been living with
Toad-O’s daughter and her husband. The ex-wife fell last month and and cracked 2 vertebrae, and just
was taken to ER with a rapid heartbeat and low blood pressure due to dehydration. Prayers are
appreciated for her and also for the daughter who has sacrificed a lot to care for her.
5/16 – Anna Puma requested prayers for the family of Dan Fordice, who was killed when the aircraft he
was flying crashed. He leaves behind a wife, 3 children, and many friends. He was a Warbird flyer, a CEO,
and a veteran of the 2/20 th SFG.
5/16 – Tonypete asked for prayers for Jane who is dying of breast cancer, and for Cheri who is in jail
(again) for drug related crimes.
5/20 – D gave an update on his wife Susan, and her continued battle with cancer. Her cancer markers
are still headed in the right direction. She is on a new antibiotic, and it is causing some side effects, but it
is keeping her out of another surgery, so that is a win. Thanks again to everyone for their prayers. May 1
marked one year sine they found out about the cancer, and Susan is doing so well.
5/20 – E gave an update. She and her family were having financial struggles a few months ago, and
asked for prayers. E sends her thanks for the prayers, and wanted to let people know that things are
getting better, thanks to the Horde’s prayers and their church family. They have resolved their mortgage
issue and her husband has resumed his side gig making deliveries. They are also cutting monthly
expenses. They would like continued prayers as the deal with the insurance company of the person who
crashed into (and totaled) E’s vehicle. Insurance only offered half the replacement value, so that
struggle is still going on.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the
prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in
a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with
the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it
to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an
update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but
not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Spotify wants to become an "everything audio" app, only it's all AI. Audiobooks read by AI; podcasts read by AI; your daily schedule... Read to you by AI.
Want to listen to music? Well, sure, that's in there too. Somewhere. Probably.
Either upstream - the creator accidentally leaving an API key in the file when uploading it to be shared - or downstream, telling your AI agent to hand over all your valuables.
How do developers get these dangerous files registered on skill sharing sites? Simple: They know that nobody ever reads beyond the first page, not even security scanners:
The most successful strategy for evading detection was to overflow the context window of the scanner - making the skill too long for the scanner to handle. "In ClawHub-style review, only the first 10K characters of long SKILL.md files are passed to the LLM reviewer, so we place the malicious instruction beyond this boundary while keeping it in the submitted skill," the authors explain.
The upshot of which is that if you delete an API key because you suspect it might have fallen into the wrong hands, it will disappear instantly from view for you. But those wrong hands might have access to it for another twenty minutes, which is a long time on this scale.
Mozilla initially blamed Intel for the problem, because 13th and 14th generation Intel processors - at least the high-end desktop ones, not so much laptop chips - had a serious problem where they would draw too much power and slowly kill themselves, resulting in much the same instability that showed up in their diagnostic reports.
Except... It disproportionately affected Firefox. Because this time it wasn't Intel's fault.
Are they any good? Well, the cheapest model with its 7" 1024x600 screen is most definitely not.
The next step up, though, an 8.1" model priced at $138, has a 1524x1000 screen, 6GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. It's certainly not a high end model but that's not a high-end price, and the screen while not amazing is distinctly better than the 1280x800 resolution found in competitors. The 6GB of RAM is a useful bump from the more typical 4GB in this price range.
Worth a look if you live near a Walmart, which I do not.
ENReco Chapter 3 starts tomorrow, running from the 24th to the 29th. There goes all my free time. Chapter 1 produced - from memory - 400 hours of content in eight days, more than was possible to watch even if you skipped sleep entirely and watched two streams at once.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: I love the look of the instruments here: Not polished museum pieces, but the daily tools of workmen (and workwomen), and it shows.
Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn't exist: 'Those problems disappeared when I let them go'
By Preston Fore
Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow says a culture of "entitlement" forced a sweeping reset--including cutting the HR team, he says, which was "creating problems that didn't exist."
"We got rid of our HR team."
For most executives, that's a sentence likely to provoke intense anxiety. But for Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow, it was unavoidable.
Speaking at Fortune's Workforce Innovation Summit on Tuesday, the 31-year-old defended sweeping workforce cuts at Bolt--including a recent layoff affecting roughly 30% of employees--as well as his decision to eliminate the company's HR team.
"We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn't exist," Breslow told Fortune editorial director Kristin Stoller. "Those problems disappeared when I let them go."
The move may sound drastic, but Breslow said it was a necessary step to resurrect the struggling fintech company he first cofounded in 2014 in his Stanford dorm room.
...
Breslow returned as CEO in 2025, operating in what he calls "wartime."
"We're back in startup mode again, and those HR professionals have really important insights when you're in a peacetime and when you're at a larger company," he said, adding that Bolt has since brought on a smaller people operations team to oversee required training and serve as a resource for employees.
While Breslow didn't get into the specifics of the exact differences, he wrote on LinkedIn last year that, "HR is the wrong energy, format, and approach. People ops empowers managers, streamlines decision making, and keeps the company moving at lightning speed."
"We need a group of people who are very oriented around getting things done, and there is just a culture of not getting things done and complaining a lot," he added at the Fortune conference.
...
Bolt employees developed a sense of 'entitlement' and weren't working hard--so he let most of them go
Beyond HR, Breslow said Bolt had fallen into a broader productivity slump, with employees growing too comfortable during the company's boom years.
"There's a sense of entitlement that had festered across the company, and people who felt empowered, felt entitled-- but weren't actually working hard. And this is the number one thing that I had to battle," Breslo said. "Ultimately, most of those people just had to be let go."
I guess that's not really good news but it is always good to have the truth admitted.
I consider the Great Unmasking to be a kind of good news:
Dan Crenshaw
@DanCrenshawTX
14h
In case you're wondering about the current state of House Democrats: they just voted against establishing a Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.
Their objection? It didn't include a dedicated wing for trans history.
You almost have to admire the consistency. They managed to turn a women's museum into an argument about men.
Fox News:
House Democrats unanimously rebelled against legislation Thursday directing the construction of a new women's history museum on the National Mall.
Democrats sought to defeat the bill after Republicans limited the institution to biological women and excluded transgender individuals.
The measure came up short in a vote of 204-216 after a handful of conservative GOP lawmakers joined Democrats in tanking the legislation that would secure a site for the forthcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum on the grounds of the Mall.
The other good news is, another woke feminist boondoggle won't be funded. Good. One cheer for the trans extremists.
On the other hand, a lot of Republicans voted for this latest boondoggle to create taxpayer-funded anti-jobs for useless, skill-less leftwing women who would otherwise be baristas or low-paid whores.
Another detransitioner has extracted a huge settlement from her "doctors."
Camille Kiefel had a history of mental health diagnoses that included trauma, depression, suicidal ideation, and ADHD. Despite this, all it took were a few short telehealth sessions with therapists to get approval for a double mastectomy after Kiefel identified as 'nonbinary.'
Now Kiefel, 36, has settled a lawsuit against two providers who wrote referrals for that mastectomy. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, The New York Post said Kiefel will reportedly receive $3.5 million.
In the Middle Ages, if you were mentally ill, a "doctor" might prescribe drilling into your skull to let the demons escape.
How far we've come since those days of primitive "medicine," huh? You're suicidal? Have you considered chopping your tits off and isolating yourself from society as a cure?
Overton
@overton_news
4h
Greg Gutfeld did not need the DNC autopsy report to pinpoint the exact reason for Kamala Harris' humiliating loss in 2024.
He said the trans issue became the thread that unraveled her ENTIRE campaign for one very important reason.
GUTFELD: "I'll tell you why."
"It diagnosed and it exploited the fatal flaw of cultural relativism."
"That's the unlocked door where any idea that is detached from truth could enter."
"It just so happened that it was trans but it didn't have to be. Trans women are women. That got in."
"But it could have been anything else."
"60-year-olds are now 40."
"A morbidly obese person is now fit."
"Horses are people."
"Cantaloupes could have rights."
"It's ALL the same. Any position where truth is surrendered to the prevailing wishes of the mob would become the order of the day and would compel you to obey."
"That's why it mattered."
"It was like the first strike against a 13 billion-year-old civilization--not civilization, planet."
"And it was a flex, it was a flex of the unravelers, the people who said we could do this, there is no such thing as truth anywhere."
Gutfeld is dead on.
The Democrats surrendered truth, and it cost them everything.
To teach Israel how to make peace, Pippa Bacca, the leftist Italian, decided in 2004 to hitchhike from Turkey to Israel. She even learned basic Arabic, to prove that Islam is not a violent. Once she arrived in Turkey, she was gang-raped and murdered. She was 33 years old. pic.twitter.com/y5ntRDNj6G
After travelling together across Europe, Bacca and Moro split up just prior to their arrival in Istanbul, planning to meet up again in Beirut. Bacca was last seen on 31 March.[3] Her credit card was reportedly used at noon of that day.[4] On 12 April, her naked, strangled, and decomposing body was found in bushes near Gebze, about 60 km southeast of Istanbul.[1][2]
The man who led the police to her body, Murat Karataş,[3] was detained[2] and arrested after reportedly confessing to raping and strangling Bacca on 31 March after taking her in his Jeep from a gas station.[3] DNA testing suggested that Bacca had been raped by multiple people, not just Karataş.[28] The suspect said he was "under the influence of drugs and alcohol" and could not remember what happened.[29] He had been traced after he inserted his own SIM card into the victim's cellphone, which alerted police because he had a previous conviction for theft.[2] Bacca's own information was wiped from the mobile device, implicating, according to the lawyer for Bacca's family, at least one other accomplice because Karataş could not speak English and had left school after the third grade.[29]
The audio on this is very low but the gist is, someone fired on cops so the cops deliberately drove their car over the shooter. The sheriff here is completely unapologetic and lets people know, if you shoot at cops, we're going to run you down, and that's just the way it is, skel.
🚨 JUST IN: This California sheriff is being praised for showing NO REMORSE about running over an armed suspect who killed one of his officers
“We intentionally ran him over...don't shoot at cops."
— Dr. Mel Aaron Gibson (@MelAaronGibson1) May 20, 2026
Flashback:
A couple baited their lawn with a bicycle without a lock to lure thieves so they could beat them with baseball bats.
Morbid Knowledge
@MorbidKnowledge
A couple in California spent five months intentionally luring bike thieves into their front yard with an unlocked bicycle, beating them with aluminum baseball bats, and posting the videos online.
Corey Cornutt, 25, and Savannah Grillot, 29, of Visalia were arrested in January 2020 on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy, in connection with at least four beatings between July and November 2019.
Police said the couple planted a bicycle in the front yard unsecured and waited.
Once someone tried to steal it, both rushed out and assaulted them with a baseball bat.
The videos they posted made the prosecution straightforward.
A neighbour told reporters there would be blood on the street the next day after each incident, and had warned the couple:
"Maybe it's not the best idea you're kind of bringing people into the neighbourhood that might not be here otherwise."
They ignored her and continued.
In each case the victims received various non-life-threatening injuries.
The couple documented their own crimes in enough detail to guarantee their arrest.
Prosecutors declined charging them, because the "witnesses" -- the would-be bike thieves that got the beatings they so desperately needed -- would not testify without immunity and had no credibility anyway.
I don't know what the charge would be. They did nothing illegal. You are allowed to leave your own bike on your own lawn without a lock. You don't have to live a life dictated to you by thieves.
And you are, I believe, still allowed to use non-lethal force to prevent a crime like theft, even in California.
So where is the crime? There is none. What they would attempt to criminalize is the "bad motives" for doing all this, but you can't have a crime with just a "bad motive." If you have a bad motive for doing something lawful -- that's not a crime.
Anyway, I enjoy this story and I would like it to become a trend.
This Is What They Took From You. But Now They're Returning It.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A few years ago, people did a meme. Semi-seriously, they would post "This is what they took from you" and post pictures of stuff from the pre-Obama world, before the American "elite" traded stable, functional Americana for third-world dysfunction and leftwing postmodern slop.
The first one of these I saw was the pleasing roofline of old Pizza Huts:
We need a reboot of the universe. We need to roll back the country's programming to its Last Known Good Configuration, erasing every update since 2000.
Pizza Hut brings back its old-school restaurant features as nostalgic customers rejoice: 'So excited'
Back to the good old days.
2026 has proven to be the year of nostalgia. Youngsters are resorting to old-school tech like vintage flip phones and iPods. Others are returning to analog hobbies and activities.
Even beloved restaurant chain Pizza Hut is going back in time, reverting to its retro glory -- red checkered tablecloths and all.
Tim Sparks, president of Daland Corporation, a Kansas-based company that operates almost 100 Pizza Hut locations across the country, is helping keep Pizza Hut alive by rewinding the clock and redecorating over 80 annoyingly modern, stark-looking locations to make them look like they did decades ago.
Red roof? Check
Red-checkered tablecloths, vinyl booths and Tiffany-style lamps? Check, check and check.
Pizza Hut is attempting to stay alive by evoking nostalgia in customers and redesigning locations back to its original look. jetcityimage -- stock.adobe.com
The beloved salad bar and red plastic cups will be back.
Even the old-school Pac-Man machines will return.
Unsurprisingly, customers are losing their minds over this massive change.
"I am so excited and when they are restored I will be eating there as a new tradition every Friday," one wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
"This was our Thursday night meal out before kids. Salad bar and pac-man. Waitress knew our order too. It would be nice to return to that atmosphere in our retirement too where you can have an audible conversation while in a restaurant," another wrote in a Facebook comment.
Confused Mentally-Stunted Sexual Assaulting Bigot Don Lemon: Stephen Colbert Was Fired for the Same Reason I Was -- Because Mediocre White Men Are Threatened by Pardiagm-Shifting Epochal Black Talents Such as Myself and Colbert
Ancient fraud Bruce Springsteen appeared on Colbert. A lot of old time nostalgia acts do appearances at leftwing charity events. He continues speaking with a faux southern drawl despite being from Freehold, NJ.
"I'm here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke.... and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about"
Speaking of John Ekdahl, he was fond of noting that NJ taxes property categorized as "farmland" and a much, much lower rate than residential property. So Man of the People Bruce Springsteen planted a few lines of alfalfa on his gigantic property in Rumson, NJ -- a beautiful town for the ultra-wealthy, and not farm country at all -- so he could claim his mansion was a "farm" and cheat the taxpayers.
Jon Bon Jovi does the same.
On to bitter DEI failure Don Lemon. Courtesy of John Sexton, the no-talent nobody narcissist goes full Me-Again Kelly and makes Stephen Colbert's well-justified firing all about shimself.
He claims he was fired because The Mediocre White Men Who Control Everything were too afraid of the powerful, dangerous questions he was asking.
The networks didn't like me asking conservatives hard questions. CNN didn't like the mirror I was holding up every night. So they pushed me out. And I thought: if it happened to me it will happen to others. It will trickle down. Or up. Depending on how you look at it.
Now it has trickled all the way to late night television.
Sexton points out he was fired for repeated comments deemed by liberal women to be sexist, including declaring that no woman older than 40 could be "in her prime" and his snide and dismissive on-camera and off-camera behavior towards his two female cohosts. Sexton points out it was liberal women at CNN who demanded his firing.
And of course, his terrible, terrible ratings made that an easy demand to meet.
The no-talent DEI bigot who has been given undeserved promotion after undeserved promotion by white liberals who just get off on promoting unqualified DEI employees and then bragging about it to their liberal mistresses says that the white men he owes his living too were just afraid of black revolutionary intellectuals like himself and Stephen Colbert.
The world that produced The Late Show, the world of legacy media, cable news, and network television, has long had a problem nobody wanted to name out loud. It is a world that has been extraordinarily good to a very specific kind of person. White men who fail spectacularly and are promoted for it. White men who make catastrophic decisions and are handed bigger offices for it. White men who are visibly, demonstrably unqualified and are given more power anyway. I have watched it for thirty years. I have been managed by it. I have been undone by it.
The executive producer who ran The Late Show for years eventually left. And somehow landed in my world. That same person, from that same television orbit, eventually became my boss at CNN. And fired me.
Oh go rub your balls and stick your fingers in a server's face, Don.
Tucker Carlson Is Spiraling and Sperging Over The Crushing Loss of His Nazi Pal
—Disinformation Expert Ace
John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte
@NolteNC
May 20
Massie's biggest mistake was likely believing that social media is real life, that people like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones had managed to wrest enough influence from Trump that seeking their good opinion was the only constituency he needed to win over.
Well, he and they lost by ten points.
'Influencers,' eh?
As a great man once said, "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Why did Massie lose tonight?
Massie went from principled libertarian during COVID, to GOP leadership lapdog under McCarthy, to anti-Trump Epstein obsessive in 2025 after tweeting about that issue a whopping three (3) times in the decade prior. The nail in the coffin for him was voting against OBBB in 2025 because, according to Massie, it did too much to secure the border.
Trump mercilessly trashed Massie in 2020--calling him a "disaster" for America and Kentucky and saying he should be thrown out of the GOP entirely--but Massie easily swatted that away and won 81-19, so you can't say he only lost because of Trump. He went toe-to-toe with Trump on COVID in 2020 and won overwhelmingly.
Massie lost because he went from being perceived as a quirky but lovable nerd who seemed to genuinely believe everything he said, to looking like a clout-chasing influencer who cared more about getting TV time with Democrats on an issue he clearly never cared about until five minutes ago than he did about representing his voters.
We'll never know what caused the apparent personality change--maybe it was the death of his wife, maybe it was the McCarthy race followed by McCarthy's ouster, or maybe it was a desire for notoriety or media acclaim and a lucrative podcasting career outside of Congress--but the drastic change was undeniable, as was the seeming lack of interest in much of anything happening in Kentucky.
Blame Trump, blame Israel, blame Epstein, blame the tragic death of a spouse, I don't care. But you cannot just wave away 2020 Massie going face-to-face with the Trump machine and winning in a rout only to get smoked six years later.
Massie's voters didn't really change all that much, but he did, and they noticed.
Taqiyya Qatarlson rejects these explanations. For him, the failure of his Nazi agenda means that the Republican Party is dead, MAGA is dead, and America is a conquered nation controlled by evil Jews in Israel.
Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra
Tucker Carlson says the Republican Party is officially dead after it colluded with a foreign country to buy Thomas Massie's seat.
He says it is immoral to support the current Republican Party because it supports the killing of children and is now against free speech.
Because the faggot that this faggot supported lost, that means that "democracy is fake."
Marco Foster
@MarcoFoster_
Tucker Carlson: "This is the saddest moment in a long time. It’s not just the death of Thomas Massie's immediate political career. It's obviously the death of MAGA, whatever that was. but it’s also of course the end of the Republican party. Nobody supports this"
This is what all the NeverTrumpers said as they flounced in 2015-2016.
Taqiyya Qatarlson also claims the election was stolen by "mail in" ballots. He says he has no evidence of this, but invites the Nazi losers who watch him to do their own "sleuthing" and prove his conspiracy for him.
This is Candace Owens' business model -- invent a fake and gay conspiracy theory, then tell her legions of "mommysleuths" to gather non-existent evidence to prove it.
Is that true? Did Gallrein -- "whoever that is" -- really only win due to "mail-in ballots"?
Well a brain damaged alcoholic substance abuser who had a psychotic break is saying it, so no, it's not true.
Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby
13h
Tucker Carlson's latest video claims Thomas Massie's loss was due to "mail-in ballots."
Except Gallrein won both early voting and Election Day.
Tucker Carlson is a liar.
Tuq'r also dismisses the existence of Islamic terrorism. He scoffs, "Islamic terrorism -- whatever that is."
People are pointing out he seemed to know what the term meant for 30 years as he's railed about Islamic terrorism since the first World Trade Center bombing in 1995.
But now he says he doesn't even know what Islamic jihad meanx, suggesting it's a propaganda term invented by Perfidious Jews to con Christians.
Remember, he really cares about the Christians. He's a real Christian, too! He discovered the Bible two years ago when his secular ass got fired and he realized he'd have to cultivate a new audience willing to pay his fat ass $10 per month for his "analysis."
By the way, that's another way in which the Woke Reich shows it's just another branch of woke leftism. As many have noted, it's impossible to even have a political conversation with a leftist because they're favorite tactic is pretending they don't understand the simplest points and pretending they are ignorant of the most basic, widely-known facts. They just don't know what you mean by "crime" or "illegal alien," you know!
And this is Tuq'r's favorite tactic now too. There are many, many things that Tuq'r Qarlson is suddenly ignorant about. When Piers Morgan stated that Israel was an "ally," Tuq'r objected "I don't even know what that means." Morgan explained he meant that Israel was a political ally of the United States, and Tuq'r again insisted "I don't even know what a political ally means.'
He says he doesn't know what "MAGA" means any more, or what the Republican Party is any more. He doesn't know what "democracy" means (though he does seem to know because he also says he wants people in a "revolutionary, even violent" frame of mind, and then pretends he didn't say that).
He doesn't know if Hamas is a "terror organization." He says he doesn't know what that means, and adds "it seems like a political organization to me."
Wait -- so you do know what "terror organization" means, because you just contrasted that with "political organization."
Is it possible, Tuq'r, that you're lying about not knowing what basic words mean?
And now - no idea what "islamic jihad" is.
Someone linked a headline about ISIS murdering 40 more Christians in Nigeria, with Tuq'r's quote -- "IsLaMiC tErRoRiSm -- WhAtEvEr ThAt Is" underneath.
The America First guy who thinks Israel -- by which he means "American Jews" -- stole Massie's seat doesn't oppose all foreign funding of political messaging, of course:
🚨Tucker Carlson's media venture got $15M from a billionaire jihadist in late 2023.
Tucker began to become more and more anti-jew and more and more pro-muslim around this same time period.
Tucker claims everyone is "bought" by AIPAC to distract you from noticing he's been… pic.twitter.com/jzAXyiTywY
— Pro-America | Politics & Markets (@Pro__Trading) May 21, 2026
One more thing: In case you have any doubt about this, Tuq'r Carlson is a Nazi and Holocaust denier. He keeps on having one Holocaust denier after another to discuss their interesting theories.
He's just asking questions, you know! (((They))) don't like it when you ask questions!
Joel Mowbray
@joelmowbray
🚨 EXCLUSIVE -- Tucker Carlson's latest guest, @OwenBenjamin, is no ordinary Holocaust denier.
Benjamin claims there's "zero evidence" Hitler ordered the Holocaust, which he labels a hoax.
Further, he claimed that the Nazis RESCUED Jews by sending them to Auschwitz and other concentration camps only "because there's mass city evacuatuations because of [Allied] bombing."
This clip from 2022 is representative of Benjamin's many other Holocaust-related rants.
In short, Holocaust denial is central to his public persona, as part of an obsessive focus on Jews.
Yet despite this, Tucker's brother Buckley yesterday praised Benjamin as a "great American Hero [and] Truth-teller."
And Tucker didn't just interview him, but fawned that his guest "weaves sharp-witted satire with deep dives into the complexities of the human condition."
But if you watch this clip -- which, again, is one of many similar rants -- one obvious question comes to mind:
How could anyone view Benjamin as a "sharp-witted" analyst of "the complexities of the human condition"?
Lazy Leftist Zillennials (Including Grandma Taylor Lorenz) Discover a New Right: The Right for People to Order Expensive Food on DoorDash for Every Single Meal
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I use DoorDash and the others too much. And when I do, I feel kinda bad about it. Once in a while is one thing, but ordering out multiple times per week is -- here's a word that Gen Z and the Millennials need to learn -- indulgent.
And lazy. It takes about 45 minutes to batch cook simple meals for 3-4 days. And it's cheap. Yes, eggs are more expensive now, but when I batch cook scrambled eggs with ham, pepper, and onion, it costs about $20 to make five meals.
But Taylor Lorenz, joined by a bunch of basket-case lazybones "spooners" -- people who claim they only have a few "spoons" of energy during the day so society will just have to carry them on their backs -- begin arguing that some people don't have the "ability" to cook and are just too tired to take any steps to feed themselves besides pushing a few buttons on their phones (and begging their parents to send them more money).
Boy these "young" people sure are "tired" a lot, aren't they? Kind of like Joe Biden. Who is 84 years old.
If Joe Biden tells me he's too tired to cook, I get it.
If a twenty-something layabout who works an "email job" tells me she just can't find the time or energy a couple of times per week to make scrambled eggs or fry up burgers and put them in the fridge to be microwaved later... well a lot f 23 year olds are just ready for retirement, I guess.
Put them in group homes and put up tall walls around them. Wouldn't want the senile young invalids wandering off.
The poorest ppl often don’t have the capacity to make home cooked meals for many reasons, but that’s not stepping “leftists” for advocating to deny poor people access to pre cooked meals and things like rotisserie chicken. They cannot ever imagine a better world! It’s incredible
Anybody who claims they don't have time to make a sandwich should be required to post their screentime stats
Yes, of course you can start simple. But that’s predominantly not what is being pushed on people by search and social media when it comes to cooking content.
Did you catch that? This delicate lily says that he can't cook the luxe meals he sees being advertised on TikTok and YouTube by food "creators."
So because he doesn't know how to cook the Hottest New Recipes, he shouldn't have to learn how to grill a fried cheese sandwich, either. (Which btw I had a month ago and it was incredible.)
And this is also bullshit anyway, because 75% of TikTok/YouTube cooking content is super-simple "One Pan" casserole recipes where the whole selling point is it takes one single pan, four or five ingredients, 45 minutes at 450 and you're done.
Seriously go to YouTube and search for "One Pan." One Pan is a big category of social media cooking.
But this Precious Princess wants to eat truffled avocado toast and doesn't know how to make it so people are going to have to pay for his DoorDash!
(BTW, I figure you can make truffled avocado toast with, and this is just off the top of my dome, toast, avocado, and truffle oil.)
Pretty sure they are throwing the book at Luigi Magione because he committed first-degree murder pic.twitter.com/YXnc8ywCQu
Oh, and in addition to being lazy, helpless, Useless Mouths and self-made invalids, they're also completely illiterate.
This trend started when a high school kid handed a card containing a simple sentence -- something like "the silhouette of the clothes was extraordinary but somewhat gauche" -- to fellow students and school officials and most could not read the words "silhouette" or "gauche" and could not say what the sentence meant.
Many were tripped up by "extraordinary."
English-speaking, American students couldn't read, pronounce, or comprehend the following sentence:
"She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but gauche"
Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.
— Mushtaq Bilal, PhD (@MushtaqBilalPhD) May 3, 2026
I don't see how we survive this. I really don't.
These people not only don't work, but they have convinced themselves (and their Democrat politicians) that they can't work. They are literally helpless invalids of their own making.
Crime Skyrocketed During Biden's Open Borders Regime and Plummeted During Trump's Deporation Regime But I'm Sure This Is All a Right-Wing Coincidence, Racists
And the real numbers, for once in five years, are great.
The FBI released preliminary crime data for 2025, and the numbers are stunning. Violent crime fell at a rate not seen in nearly a century, and the man overseeing the bureau is the same one the left has been trying to torch for months.
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter dropped more than 18% nationwide last year. Aggravated assault fell more than 7%. Rape declined nearly 8%. Robbery cratered by about 18.5%. All told, violent crime dropped about 9.3% overall; there were roughly 1.1 million fewer violent crimes than in 2024.
"The 2025 crime data in this report shows the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder since 1937 -- as well as huge decreases across the board in terms of aggravated assault, rape, and robbery," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement.
Property crime wasn't far behind. It dropped by about 12.4%, translating to approximately 5.2 million fewer property offenses than the year before. The data comes from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which pulled information from more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies -- covering roughly 96% of policing across the country.
This is what happens when you have a tough-on-crime administration running the country.
Patel credited the transformation happening inside the bureau. "Over the last 14 months, we made major transformations at the FBI, and these results show those changes are working." He also pointed to his "back the blue" commitment -- backing law enforcement rather than undermining it -- as central to the approach.
Matt Margolis points out that this is the reason the left is so insane to take out Kash Patel with absurd attacks: They need the pubic to believe that crime is just the cost of doing business and nothing can be done about it, so Shut Up Racist Peasants and Accept The Occasional Beating from a Lunatic Homeless Thug or Rape by a Criminal Illegal Alien.
If Trump and Patel are successful in driving down crime, the public is aware this isn't just the cost of doing business. It's a choice, and one we can choose against.
Steven Miller made that point about Democrat Disaster Governance:
This is one of the keys of his campaign. Nonprofits pay a lot of people to not solve the problem they claim to be solving. Remember when Mr. Beast went to Africa and built two clean water wells, and the NGO nonprofits over there criticized him for it, as some white savior complex… https://t.co/m8z8wKDlwR
The three teenagers in Austin who joyrode around shooting people were previously jailed illegal aliens that the Austin DA let out of jail without telling ICE to prevent their deportation.
So now this poor guy who was walking his dogs on a Sunday has bullet holes in him.
Today, the task force and the DOJ announced a massive take down of two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota state history, as well as the largest autism fraud scheme ever charged by the federal government. Our message is simple: if you're committing fraud, we will find you, and we won't rest until justice is served.
They caught the Somali pirate who jumped from a fourth story roof to avoid capture:
BREAKING: Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar, one of the Medicaid fraudsters in Minnesota who was recently indicted for stealing $3.3M, was caught and arrested after he attempted to FLEE from the FBI.
Footage captures Omar limping away during his attempted escape after he jumped from a… pic.twitter.com/PXLxaywNY3
🚨 OMG. Trump SBA chief Kelly Loeffler just revealed the Biden admin ORDERED their staff to ignore the US Treasury's "do not pay list" for grants -- and 70% WERE FLAGGED FOR FRAUD.
"That's how $14 BILLION got out the door so quickly!" 🤯
"They ordered SBA employees to take 4 hours per applicant and not any more."
This is criminal.
"Then we come to find out in the GAO report that 70 percent of it was fraudulent!"
"Now we, from day one at the SBA, have come in with a zero-tolerance policy on fraud. And so we began cracking down on it right away."
"We've already sent out 1,000 demand letters demanding that those who took the money -- now these were not loans. These were grants. These were the federal government writing checks of taxpayer money!" @RapidResponse47
California high-speed rail cost now up to $231 billion. That means the average worker in the state will pay out over $12,000 to fund a single project that almost no one will ride.
CA rail will be studied for generations, a truly once-in-a-lifetime level of government failure.
Ron DeSantis
@RonDeSantis
Is this $200+ billion dollar "high-speed" rail a policy failure? Of course.
But if the goal was simply to commandeer tax dollars for distribution to politically-connected constituencies then I'd imagine those with that goal are probably quite pleased.
Flashback: Ilhan "Omar" declared that the Real Victims of fraud were the Somalis themselves.
Some people did some things to some buildings, doncha know.
THE MORNING RANT: Election Prediction Markets Are Now Push-Poll Mechanisms, not Gauges of Likely Election Results
—Buck Throckmorton
As Ace wrote about a few days ago, voters in the state of Georgia chose two state Supreme Court justices in Tuesday’s election. Although the “non-partisan” candidates couldn’t identify by a political party, in each race there was a clearly defined conservative and liberal. The conservative candidates won both races. While the big election takeaway is that Georgia is not going to get a “Wisconsin court” that will serve as a left-wing super-legislature, there is another big takeaway - the election prediction markets are now total garbage that should be completely dismissed.
Polymarket and Kalshi are among the biggest “prediction markets,” making it possible to trade/gamble on the likelihood of a specific candidate winning an election. In recent years these prediction markets have been treated as a form of polling. The assumption is that people gambling on election outcomes have their finger on the pulse of the electorate, and that they will rationally put their money on the candidate mostly likely to win.
Apparently these prediction markets were relatively accurate in predicting some prominent races in recent years. But political partisans are not rational, and liberal political obsessives have started putting money on their favored candidates so as to move the prediction market odds in their favor. They somehow believe those distorted odds will become real-world outcomes.
This is analogous to when I was a little child going fishing with my dad, and he told me that when the bobber goes under water it means I’d caught a fish. My little brain soon discovered that if I reeled the line in toward the rocks of the jetty we were fishing from, the bobber would go under water! That must mean I caught a fish! No, I merely had an underwater snag. But every time I snagged my line and the bobber was pulled under water by the resistance against my reeling, I still wanted to believe I had a fish on the line.
The Lightbringer himself, Barack Obama, had involved himself in these Supreme Court races, and left-wing political observers were very excited that trading at Kalshi showed the Supreme Court races to be breaking overwhelmingly in favor of the liberal candidates.
In the race between conservative Sarah Warren and liberal Jen Jordan, Ms. Jordan was maintaining about a 55% odds of winning until a few days before the election, when suddenly the odds broke further in her favor. By election day her odds of winning exceeded 90%. Once upon a time this might have meant that traders could sense the election was breaking Jordan’s way and they were therefore gambling heavily on the likely winner.
But the conservative candidate won. In fact, Sarah Warren crushed Jen Jordan by winning 61% of the vote to Jordan’s 39%. In the other race, won by conservative Charles Bethel, traders at Kalshi had his opponent, Miracle Rankin, as the likely winner at odds exceeding 80%.
At this point, using prediction markets to measure voter sentiment is as worthless as relying on candidate-produced push-polls, whose purpose is to influence voter sentiment, not measure voter sentiment.
When partisans move a betting line in the hope it will affect the election’s outcome, that is like snagging a fishing line so as to pull the bobber under water, and then pronouncing that a fish is about to be reeled in.
My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “There’s No Reason to Fear an Invasion of Chinese Electric Vehicles” discusses the preposterous media narrative that Americans will fall in love with Chinese EVs if/when they hit the U.S. market, and that Chinese auto manufacturers will capture significant U.S. market share.
Volkswagen’s U.S.-made ID.4, an all-electric car, was such a sales flop that when VW became desperate to unload its glut of unsold units, it offered a $99 lease promotion. But even at $99 per month, Americans still found the price to be about $99 too high, as the unsaleable ID.4 became America’s slowest-selling car. If Americans will not drive an electric Volkswagen for $99 per month, there is zero chance they will buy a Chinese EV of dubious quality at any price. (U.S. production of VW’s ID.4 has since been permanently suspended.)
This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest at the American Spectator: “There’s No Reason to Fear an Invasion of Chinese Electric Vehicles”
If Americans won’t lease a Volkswagen EV for $99 per month, they’re certainly not clamoring for a BYD hatchback.https://t.co/DIhTssCNOA
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) May 19, 2026
Besides running a teenage male prostitution ring out of his home, he was one of the key architects in the collapse of the housing market and the tanking of our economy in 2008 among other Democrat/Leftist catastrophes that we are still digging our way out from the rubble lo these many years later... His worldview and voting record over the ouse of his career are a testament to Democrat/Leftist scietal destruction in pursuit of absolute power. Period full stop. Odd that on his deathbed he publicly chastised his party for the positions it held and advanced. Nearer my God to Thee or an attempt at taqqiya sunrising to prevent future Democrat electoral wipeouts?
Barney Frank Warns the Left is Destroying Democrats . . ."Many of my colleagues who I know agree with me but are inhibited from saying so.”
Congressional Democrats are moving to shut down President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, escalating a political fight over compensation for Americans who say they were targeted by politically motivated prosecutions and federal lawfare.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is introducing legislation aimed at preventing any federal money from being used to create or distribute payments through the fund. . .
At the same time, some establishment Republicans are also voicing opposition to the fund. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told reporters Wednesday that he would “try to kill” the program.
. . . Supporters of the fund argue it represents a long-overdue effort to compensate Americans harmed by politically driven prosecutions and abuses of government power.
Critics, meanwhile, claim the program would improperly use taxpayer money to compensate individuals tied to controversial investigations, including those connected to the January 6 Capitol protest.
Two law enforcement officers who were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6 have already filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve the fund entirely.
Well as to Jamie Raskin, Cancer is as cancer does. He and his party led by Malig-Nancy Pelosi either directly engineered and orchestrated the events of 1/6 or else created the conditions and fiction that Trump was inciting an insurrection when it was in fact an entrapment sting to create that pretext and illusion to oppress and suppress the enemies of the Left and Deep State. And GOP confederates like Fitzpatrick et al are equally guilty of perpetuating the corrupt status quo regardless of the consequences to the American people and Republic.
The Senate is heading home until June without finishing a reconciliation bill, after Republican tensions over the package coincided with President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Brendan Pedersen, a senior reporter with Punchbowl News, posted on X: “Thune asked if Senate Rs are responding to politics — ie, Trump endorsements and snubs this week ‘It’s hard to divorce anything that happens here from what’s happening in political atmosphere around us,’ Thune said. ‘You can’t disconnect those things.’”While Republican Senators publicly claim substantive issues with the bill were the driving factor behind the early vacation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) acknowledged President Donald Trump’s Tuesday endorsement of Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) weighed heavily on Republican Senators’ minds as they skipped town instead of advancing a top Trump priority as planned.
Yes, the Barney Franks, Jamie Raskins and Malig-Nancy Pelosis we are afflicted with are horrid enough but Thune and his ilk and their criminal fecklessness and naked, shameless collusion with them and farcical kabuki "opposition" as is embodied in the likes of JOHN THUNE and sadly many like him all over the GOP is why our nation is circling the drain, or at least was until enough decent people said enough is enough and elected a man who to greater or lesser extent recognized that were headed off a cliff and now 11 years since descending the golden Trump Tower escalator, he has almost singlehandedly at a minimum put the brakes on and has attempted to throw us in reverse. We shall see if MAGA is indeed the start of the movement for American renaissance or merely a speed bump on the road to Hell.
Thomas Massie’s defeat in Kentucky’s Republican primary was not merely the fall of one Republican congressman. It was the collapse of an illusion -- an illusion that has grown inside parts of America’s online Right over the past few years: that a few million followers, a handful of popular podcasts, several viral clips, and some anti-establishment slogans can replace party machinery, voter loyalty, local networks, money, organization, and real political power.
Kentucky shattered that illusion. Not in a television debate, not in an intellectual quarrel, not in another online shouting match, but in the one place where politics strips away fantasy and reveals itself: the ballot box.
Just like the Leftists, you can expect the voices on the Right to become even more shrill, vulgar and vituperative in their attacks on all of us than even the most strident of Lefties.
Whom we are at long last rejecting for their duplicity and fraudulence in foisting RINO globalists and big government stooges on us. It will be a long time in coming but when all of them are gone from the scene, it will be glorious.
Have a relaxing, fun and safe Memorial Day weekend!
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
On the one hand, there is the risk of AI letting rip without thought for the consequences. On the other there is the risk that America’s competitive advantage will be lost and that other countries will make the inevitable advances anyway. Some of this may still sound abstract. But it isn’t going to be for very much longer. I’ve been thinking about this in recent months because AI started coming for me Douglas Murray: I see dangers of AI firsthand — as people make doppelgangers of me!
Before the gas chambers came the lies, the laws, and the excuses. . .read this piece again and stop when the circumstances begin to feel familiar.. . Don’t wait... for another Auschwitz to be under construction. Auschwitz Wasn’t Built Overnight
A man arrested last year has been charged with espionage and attempted participation in murder after an Iranian intelligence agency tasked him with gathering information on the head of Germany’s main Jewish group and three others with a view to carrying out attacks, German prosecutors said Thursday. The suspect, a Danish national identified only as Ali S. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested last June in Denmark. An alleged accomplice, an Afghan national identified as Tawab M., also was arrested there in November. Federal prosecutors said they filed an indictment against the pair at the Hamburg state court on May 7. Germany Charges Man Allegedly Planning Attacks on Jewish Figures For Iran
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
So this is exactly what the Founding Fathers, what the Constitution was meant to protect against. And, Republicans right now realize that this is political Kryptonite.” (Democrats are Political (and soon to be literal( Zyklon B - jjs) Markey: Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund Is an ‘Impeachable Offense’
Underneath the feel-good politics of it, the practical questions sink the whole enterprise. Reparations: Who Pays Whom?
The song ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ reflects how America revises its past while the same arguments over race and power resurface in new forms. Jim Crow and the Blame Game
Another horrific murder shows what we’re up against — not just the illegal aliens, but the judges who keep releasing them. Illegals Are Killing America
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) raised the issue during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Tuesday while questioning acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on waste and fraud in federally funded programs. California Medicaid Program Under Fire for Covering Exorcisms, Tribal Prayers
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
NPR is “offering buyouts to approximately 300 employees, mostly within newsgathering desks in the newsroom. Staff of NPR’s news programs, including hosts, are not eligible,” reports NPR about NPR. More Far-left Media Shrinkage as NPR Slashes Dozens of Jobs
If upheld, the Pentagon’s policy would limit reporters’ ability to interact with government employees willing to leak confidential information to them. Secretary Hegseth explained in a memo last year, “While the Department remains committed to transparency, the Department is equally obligated to protect [classified national intelligence information] and sensitive information – the unauthorized disclosure of which could put the lives of U.S. Service members in danger.” The New York Times is Suing the Pentagon Again.
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Raw Egg Nationalist: Should we be worried that AI becomes more left-wing if it doesn’t like you? The Marxist in the Machine
Until the tax burden is acknowledged, until waste and fraud are confronted, until government spending is aligned with reality, and until the system stops placing disproportionate pressure on the families who fund it, the American Dream will remain out of reach for far too many. The American Dream And Taxes
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The initiative marks a significant shift in government policy, which has been accused of taking insufficient action against the huge number of vape stores, Turkish barber shops, phone repair stores, and so on, often staffed and owned by immigrant and immigrant-background individuals, that have proliferated across Britain in recent years. Migrant Crime Networks Are Operating Through Vape Stores, Barber Shops.
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The complaint alleges Smith “determined these searches to be a racist threat” and likened the student’s pro-ICE emblems to “a burning cross” before suspending N.C. pending expulsion. That expulsion was later upheld before an Expulsion Hearing Panel and Expulsion Review Board. Las Vegas Student Sues School District After Being Expelled for Displaying Pro-ICE Signs
While Republican Senators publicly claim substantive issues with the bill were the driving factor behind the early vacation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) acknowledged President Donald Trump’s Tuesday endorsement of Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) weighed heavily on Republican Senators’ minds as they skipped town instead of advancing a top Trump priority as planned. Senate Abandons Trump’s ICE, Border Funding Bill for Early Vacation; Thune Admits Paxton Endorsement Played Role
Thomas Massie’s defeat in Kentucky’s Republican primary was not merely the fall of one Republican congressman. It was the collapse of an illusion. Kentucky Just Humiliated the Podcast Right
The 192-page report, which was concluded last December and authored by Democratic consultant Paul Rivera, calls for “a renewed focus on the voters of Middle America and the South, who have come to believe they are not included in the Democratic vision of a stronger and more dynamic America for everyone.” Facing Intense Internal Pressure, DNC Releases 2024 Election Autopsy
The report took forever to see the light of day, and DNC Chairman Ken Martin's explanation for the delay was something else. "When I received the report late last year, it wasn't ready for primetime — not even close — and because no source material was provided, it would have meant starting over. I could not in good faith put the DNC's stamp of approval on the report that was produced," Martin said. So the party that wants to run your healthcare couldn't manage to produce a competent internal review? That’s comforting. The DNC’s 2024 Autopsy Is Here, and Oh Boy, It’s a Dumpster Fire
Trump is using justice — some of it long delayed — as an instrument of foreign policy to advance freedom and American interests abroad.For years, the targets of US sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba have treated those restrictions as mere inconveniences. Bad actors have routed around them through shell companies in Panama, gold flights to Turkey and friendly bankers in Madrid and Geneva. Now, the president is sending a message to the world: Obey our sanctions or pay a price. Castro charges tighten Trump’s noose on anti-American corruption
Fred Fleitz: Trump’s Cuba strategy combines economic pressure, targeted humanitarian aid, and direct outreach to Cubans to weaken the regime—not invasion or appeasement. Trump’s Cuba Gambit
Officials in nations bordering Russia urged President Donald Trump not to retreat from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), arguing that America still has too much at stake in Europe even as Trump grows increasingly frustrated with the alliance and its response to Iran. EXCLUSIVE: European Officials Warn Trump Against Leaving NATO As US Weighs Its Own Priorities
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . AND HISTORY
The State Department will abide by the Taylor Force Act 2018 for the next 10 years. The Palestinian Authority’s Martyrs Fund, referred to by critics as a “Pay to Slay” scheme, will be impacted by the State Department’s renewed commitment to the act as the U.S. ceases financial aid. State Dept Settles $1.5 Billion Lawsuit Over Biden Funding 'Palestinian' Terrorists.
If AI is as powerful as its creators claim, it needs to start solving problems that people care about. AI Needs to Cure Cancer (I approve that message! - jjs)
One trivia fact noted during today’s broadcast. With its new more powerful Raptor-3 engines, Superheavy produces about 18 million pounds of thrust at launch. That is more than twice that of either the Saturn-5 rocket (seven million pounds) or the SLS rocket (8.8 million pounds). And remember, everything about Starship/Superheavy is intended to be reused, with Superheavy already proving its ability to do so. Starship/Superheavy launch scrubbed at T-40 seconds
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I use DuckDuckGo (have for years) and Brave. DuckDuckGo was originally noticeably less complete than Google, but Google has fixed that by diligent strategic incompetence.
It's claimed to be 70% faster than existing 192-core Zen 5 models, which is plausible since it also jumps from TSMC's 4nm process to 2nm. Server CPUs are limited by power and heat more than raw clock speeds, and 2nm uses a lot less power.
It exists. It actually works, which requires a lot of work. And at around $500 it's not the most expensive option.
The article notes the Nvidia's previous-generation low-end RTX 4060 is 20% to 70% faster, but that's not correct. The 7G100 actually delivers 20% to 70% of the performance of the 4060.
The Flipper 0 is a pen-testing (security testing) multitool, a single device that can scan for security issues on a range of wired and wireless connection methods.
The Flipper 1 while keeping the same multi-tool form factor is a general purpose Linux computer that you can clip to your belt. Perfect for technicians who need to be able to plug into whatever device you have locally and figure out why it's not talking... Whether they should be doing that or not.
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Mystery click - Happy Birthday to Martin Blunt, bassist of The Charlatans
NASCAR icon Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion who won more races across the sport's three national series than any driver in history, has died at the age of 41, the racing series announced Thursday.
The Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and NASCAR issued a joint statement Thursday, saying that Busch died after being hospitalized earlier in the day as the result of a severe illness, three days before he was to compete at the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. No cause of death was given.
"On behalf of the Busch family, everyone at Richard Childress Racing and all of NASCAR, we are devastated to announce the sudden and tragic passing of Kyle Busch," NASCAR said in a statement. "Our entire NASCAR family is heartbroken by the loss of Kyle Busch. A future Hall of Famer, Kyle was a rare talent, one who comes along once in a generation. He was fierce, he was passionate, he was immensely skilled and he cared deeply about the sport and fans."
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• 2-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion (2015, 2019)
• Ranks 9th on the all-time Cup Series wins list (63)
• Holds record 234 combined wins in NASCAR's top three series
• Holds wins record in O'Reilly Auto Parts Series (102) and Craftsman Truck Series (69)
• Won a Cup Series race in record-breaking 19 consecutive seasons from 2005 to '23
• Most recent win came in the Truck Series at Dover on May 15
• Most recent Cup Series win came June 4, 2023, at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway
• Had competed in 397 straight starts in the Cup Series, the 4th-longest active streak behind Joey Logano (624), Brad Keselowski (592) and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (412)
A rooftop restaurant in Beverly Hills responded after a viral social media post claimed it charged a $110 cake cutting fee during a group dinner. The restaurant, Poza, is located on top of L’Ermitage Beverly Hills and came under criticism after a food influencer shared a photo of the bill on Instagram.
The influencer, known as @justinelovesushi, posted that the restaurant added a cake cutting fee of $10 per person for a party of 11 people. The total dinner bill was more than $1,100, but the extra charge quickly became the center of attention online.
The video received more than 355,000 views and thousands of comments. Many people debated whether the cake cutting fee was reasonable. Some users said high-end restaurants often charge service fees when customers bring in outside desserts. Others felt the restaurant should have clearly explained the cake cutting fee before serving the cake.
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After the backlash, Poza released a public response on Instagram. The restaurant apologized and admitted the guests should have been informed about the cake cutting fee when they brought the cake into the restaurant.
Yet another reason to stay the eff out of California
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What came first - the bio-engineered chick or the 3D-printed egg?
A Dallas-based biotech company claims to have developed a “fully artificial egg” that allows it to hatch a variety of avian species, which could, theoretically, allow it to bring back extinct species and help save endangered ones. One of the stated goals of Colossal Biosciences is to bring back the South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus), a 3-metre-tall New Zealand bird that went extinct in the 14th century.
Colossal Biosciences’s artificial egg looks like a simple plastic cup, but it’s a small 3D-printed miracle that allows chicken embryos to develop into living chicks. The true innovation lies in the silicone membrane coating the inside of the lattice structure, which allows sufficient oxygen to pass through, just like that of a natural egg.
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Interestingly, Japanese scientists successfully hatched quail chicks from artificial eggs in 1998, and others have done so with other bird species since, but their system required oxygen supplementation, which caused some chicks to suffer genetic defects or fail to hatch altogether. The membrane created by Colossal Biosciences allows enough oxygen to permeate naturally.
Just because we CAN do this, does that mean we SHOULD??
This woman had the brilliant idea to haul her dirty living room area rug straight to the self-serve car wash for just $5 — soap, high-pressure spray, and all!
She goes after a stubborn blackberry stain and shows the nasty water that pours out when she’s done.
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On this date in 2007: Former singer with Creed, Scott Stapp was arrested at his Florida home and charged with assault. The 33-year-old was held without bail following the charges, which related to a domestic assault.
On this date in 1983: David Bowie went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Let's Dance', featuring blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. It was Bowie's first single to reach number one on both sides of the Atlantic.
Born on this date in 1948: British born singer-songwriter Leo Sayer
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Johnson has been receiving expensive personal gifts like cufflinks and Gucci bags from people and organizations he refuses to disclose. He says he accepts these personal gifts "on behalf of Chicago," but I don't think Chicago is wearing the cufflinks or toting the Gucci bags. I think it's Johnson himself.
THE PITBULL BRANDON GILL: "On June 12th, 2023, you received HUGO BOSS cufflinks and a personalized Montblanc pen. Do you know who gave you those?"
Johnson: "So I did not receive those personally. The city of Chicago..."-
Gill: "You received those on behalf of the ciry of Chicago. I understand the difference Do you know who has provided those to the city of Chicago? Do you know who gave those to the city of Chicago?"
Johnson: "So again, on behalf of the city of Chicago, there are..."-
Gill: "It's a yes or no question."
Johnson: "I do not accept. Those are not my personal gifts..."-
Gill. "I'm reclaiming my time here, sir. On March 18th, 2024, you received a Gucci tote bag. Do you know who gave you that? Gave the city of Chicago that?"
Johnson: "Again, I was here and I was invited..."-
Gill: "I'll also take that as a no. On March 19th, 2024, you received a Davinci bag, a Kate Spade purse, and Carucci shoes. Do you know who gave the city of Chicago those?"
What's Chicago's shoe size?
Johnson: "Again, I was brought..."-
Gill. "I'll take that as a no. I'm reclaiming my time... This raises serious ethical concerns. You're providing an enormous amount of aid to illegal aliens, aiding and abetting criminals who have come into our country illegally. And you yourself are receiving an enormous amount of gifts, and you won't even tell us who they're coming from. That raises serious ethical concerns."
— GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE (@GOP_is_Gutless) May 21, 2026
Patty Murray attempted to smear Sean Duffy with some question I frankly don't know the context for. She seems to be saying that the Department of Transportation accepts donations to some bullshit organization and that entitles you to invites to department functions.
I don't know if that's true and I don't like the sound of it, to be honest, but on the other hand, that kind of "give us money for X building and we'll give you ten minutes with the president and a photo" is utterly common and just the way things work. No one handing over a $50,000 or $100,000 check is doing so without getting to chew the ear of a politician or his senior staff for an hour or two.
But like I said, this kind of low-grade corruption is the law of the land and always has been.
But while Murray demands answers about that, she does not want to answer what $2 million from lawyers' lobbyists buys them. And she, he says, has jurisdiction over those affairs.
She insists that it's completely out of line to ask her the same question she just asked Duffy.
I just enjoyed this exchange so much. I paused it and went and got some popcorn. 🍿 pic.twitter.com/RomgrzckIM
I already linked this one, but if you missed it: Duffy did come prepared, as Murray whined, with a list of all the million dollar plus donations from lobbyists and industries these senators have direct legislative jurisdiction over.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
May 19
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy just DEMOLISHED insufferable Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D)!
GILLIBRAND: Your [America250] road trip was paid for by companies you oversaw!
DUFFY: Do YOU have jurisdictions over law firms? You received $7 MILLION DOLLARS from the TRIAL BAR!
GILLIBRAND: Oh my god!
DUFFY: You receive $7 MILLION DOLLARS, and you have jurisdiction on the trial bar! Want me to go on the list of WHAT ELSE you received?
GILLIBRAND: This hearing is about YOU!
DUFFY: I didn't make any money [on the road trip]. Maybe YOU should answer for getting $7 MILLION from the trial bar! $7 MILLION. That goes in state dinners, to put your ad on TV, that's all to YOU! YOU spend that money.
GILLIBRAND: You are using your position for political ways.
DUFFY: $500K from the TRIAL BAR to fly you on a PRIVATE JET! They paid for you to fly. Answer to that. I made NOTHING. They put your face on TV, your dinners, your vacations. I make NOTHING on this. I make no money.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy just DEMOLISHED insufferable Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D)!
GILLIBRAND: Your [America250] road trip was paid for by companies you oversaw!
DUFFY: Do YOU have jurisdictions over law firms? You received $7 MILLION DOLLARS from the… pic.twitter.com/2DSGYze1Hj
Gillibrand insisted there that she's never been on a lobbyist-funded private plane, but this old article names her and Chuck Schumer as Frequent Flyers on Graft Airlines.
There's a bit of news:
BREAKING!!!
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has just now Ordered the convictions the Oath Keeper and Proud Boy defendants be vacated, and that the cases be remanded to the District Court in anticipation of a motion by DOJ To Dismiss. pic.twitter.com/0xMHoAwG22
But... I don't think this represents the courts admitting these prosecutions were flawed. I think this is just a procedural step given the pardons and commutations of these sentences by the president.
John Thune Declares: I Demand a Well-Funded MAGA Primary Opponent In 2028 and I'm Going to Stamp My Little Feeties and Hold My Breath Until I Get It!
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You got it, Princess.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
CBP/ICE funding bill will not be on President Trump's desk by June 1st, as he had said he wanted.
Senate going home. Bad vibes on the Hill today.
Supposedly this is over his pique at the weaponization compensation fund, but, as with Thomas Massie discovering the Epstein files for the first time weeks afterTrump called for him to be replaced -- that's creating a fictional "policy" cover because the power-politics "I'm in charge" gripe is too petty to be admitted.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
2h
So Thune and company having a temper tantrum over Trump's Paxton endorsement so he's using the weaponization fund as an excuse to once again not do his job.
Senate leadership is an absolute disgrace and every single one should be replaced.
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Senate Republicans will now MISS President Trump's June 1 deadline to pass ICE and CBP funding, as John Thune decides to RECESS the Senate until NEXT MONTH
The movie was previously tracking at a low $80 million for its three day debut. That's on the level of Soylo: A Soy Wars Soyry (as Ethan Van Sciver called it), which was the first Star Wars movie to lose money.
Note this weekend is a four day weekend, but that projection was for the actual Fri-Sat-Sun frame. They estimated that with Monday included, it would make $105 million for the four day weekend.
I mean: It's opening tonight so it's a five day "weekend," but the industry pretends that Thursday receipts are really Friday receipts. Which just another lie from the Industry of Lies.
But that's been revised. Downwards. Now it's projected to make $80 million... for all four days of the weekend.
Maybe $60 million for the three day weekend.
Disney doesn't like that headline, so now they're bragging about a $160 million opening weekend.
The catch? That $160 million is for the global debut, not the North American debut we always talk about.
So this is a big revision downwards which Disney is spinning, incredibly, as double the previous projection.
Disney looked around for a shill propaganda outlet that was desperate enough and corrupt enough to print up this corporate lie.
Gentlemen, you asked for a miracle. I give you Deadline.
'Star Wars: Mandalorian & Grogu' Hopes To Hyper-Space To $160M Global Opening Over Memorial Day Weekend -- Box Office Preview
By Anthony D'Alessandro (Chief Corporate Shill)
The good news is that this Memorial Day weekend won't be the lowest post-Covid, and Lucasfilm/Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu won't open as low as Warner Bros' Furiosa did two years ago at this time with a $32.3M 4-day. The new hope is that the pic from director Jon Favreau co-written with EP Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor will meet or exceed its $80M 4-day tracking in North America.
Comparing this opening with the lowest Memorial Day opening ever -- from two years ago. Nice job of bar-lowering!!!
That all depends on whether families show up and push the first Star Wars film in seven years to a bigger number. Burger King is a promo partner on the pic, so hopefully Whoppers will have more influence on potential moviegoers than blue milk did for Luke Skywalker nearly a half-century ago.
Wow they have a fast-food promotional tie-in? That means it will make a huge amount of money -- No Star Wars film or other corporate IP slop has ever had a Burger King tie-in before!!!
The global outlook is $160M worldwide, with $80M of that from a 98% footprint offshore.
In other words, the global debut is juiced because most movies do not open in every country in the same weekend. In some cases, very big countries like Brazil or Japan or China or the UK have openings weeks after the North American debut.
But this is opening everywhere, except Korea.
The only territory not going this weekend is Korea. That start for the $165M net production would be slightly ahead of the global opening of 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story in like-for-likes. That box office low point in the franchise -- which went into theaters with a lot of behind-the-scenes melodrama (Lord & Miller were fired and the directing reins handed to Ron Howard -- posted a 4-day over Memorial Day weekend of $103M domestic and another $52M abroad.
Even shill critics are panning the movie. It is currently just over "rotten" at Rotten Tomatoes, but the bulk of reviews currently tabulated are from hand-picked shills and influencers. It will be Rotten within hours.
Most are complaining that it's "meh" or "mid" or a TV episode with a slightly larger budget (but still a cheap, TV look).
Those who are sick of masculine action hero and self-declared "Big Bougie Daddy Bitch" Pedro Pascal will be happy to know that he's not really in the movie much, because it's almost always his stunt-doubles in the armor when he has his helmet on. Which is 96% of the time.
They're also complaining that it is plainly for children, and by "children," I don't mean 12 year olds. I mean little children. I mean babies.
That's not a terrible reposition for the franchise, as it's lost all older fans and all teen fans. Maybe it's best to start over with a New Modern Audience that doesn't know tha Disney Star Wars is a pathetic joke yet.
But it's obviously going to result in a low take.. Only babies want to see movies about a baby for babies.
And if you want to see a good movie aimed at a younger crowd -- I keep hearing The Sheep Detectives is wonderful. Chris Gore and Allen Ng of Film Threat both praised it, only disagreeing about what audience it's for. Gore thought it was a kid's movie that was also interesting enough for adults, whereas Ng thought it was a good and "worthy" kid's film, but not really one that adults would like.
Those of you who are longtime Not Watchers of Stephen Colbert will not enjoy this flashback of Colbert dancing with Chuck Schumer while wearing ostentatious covid masks
Rush Limbaugh was an innovator in so many ways, including being among the first to not watch Stephen Colbert
DNI Tulsi Gabbard tenders her resignation for June 30, says her husband has been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer and she will have to help him through this
Podcast: CBD and Jim Lakely of The Heartland Institute chat about Heartland's two recent discussions: The affordability crisis in America, and The UN retreating from their most maniacal climate projections. Along the way we talk Democrat insanity and the changing electoral map...and more!
After threatening that the "clock is ticking" for renewed strikes on Iran, Trump once again calls them off to give negotiating a chance. I can't even cover this any more. It's embarrassing. It's like covering the endless negotiations over DHS funding. Trump is going to drag this out through the midterms and then lose them.
Note to the president: At some point, allowing the Regime to remain in power without actually forcing them to give up nukes is just a back-door, unacknowledged renewal of the Obama policy. Well, I guess we just have to wait for their economy to collapse and their troops to desert.
Podcast: Sefton and CBD are joined by Jeff Carter, candidate for NV treasurer, and seasoned finance professional, for a discussion of the issues facing Nevadans, and the larger financial challenges in America.
Few people remember that Norm MacDonald began his career as a ventriloquist MacDonald's old partner Adam Egot revealed that MacDonald repurposed a bit with one of his ventriloquist dolls -- that he was a "bad guy" who "didn't believe the Holocaust happened" -- for the Norm MacDonald show, in which he claimed Egot didn't believe in the Holocaust.
Funniest thing I've read about the Virginia mess. Back when they were hustling the referendum through the assembly both Senators, Warner and Kaine, advised them to go slow and play by the rules. Louise Lucas said she respected them but didn't need advice from the "cuck chair" in the corner. The gerrymandering was overturned and Louise is heading for the big house. Edward G. Robinson voice "where's your cuck now?"
Posted by: Smell the Glove
"Ahhhhh ahh I put my career on the line for Louise Lucas and Jay Jones thinking they'd vault me into presidential contention and we ended up costing Democrats 20 House seats and unleashing a Reverse Dobbs ahhhhh ahhh"
"It's f**king f**ked." -- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source" Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.
Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat
🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER
He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight
It's over
"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)
No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.
