Rubio Suspends All H-1B Visa Processing
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Rubio tried to ban visas for citizens of countries who tend to abuse our welfare system.
A Biden judge named Jeanette Vargas, get this, blocked this necessary measure.
federal judge in New York has vacated a Trump administration policy that suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration deemed likely to require public assistance in the United States.U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, set aside the policy Friday as "contrary to law and in excess of statutory authority."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio exceeded his authority by issuing the policy, which "runs afoul" of the Immigration and Nationality Act by mandating "the refusal of visas to eligible applicants without any basis in law," the judge ruled.
Judge says power lies with consular officersVargas said the policy also undermines the congressional requirement that puts consular officers at the forefront of any visa decision.
So the Trump Administration goes to Plan B: Stop all immigrant visas while they teach consular staff to vet the living hell out of applicants.
The Trump administration has paused immigrant visa appointments worldwide to carry out "in-depth training" for consular officers to screen out foreign applicants at risk of taking advantage of U.S. public assistance....
"A more prosperous American means ensuring that visa applicants are not likely to become a public charge, as defined under U.S. law and regulation, and not likely to become dependent on U.S. public benefits reserved for qualified Americans in need," a State Department spokesperson told The Hill in an email Wednesday.
The spokesperson said that a global, in-depth training initiative was launched in early August at all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide and that "appointments for visa and services will be adjusted."
"Whenever there are changes to visa interview appointments, embassies and consulates communicate any changes directly to visa applicants," the spokesperson said.
The pause on visa applications coincides with Trump's hard-line tack on immigration, where the administration has boasted about revoking more than 175,000 visas from individuals it said had violated the terms by committing criminal offenses, but that largely relied on encounters with law enforcement. The administration announced on Monday it was working to revoke short-term visas from individuals who used them to enter the U.S. and then file asylum claims, with some reports claiming the administration has a goal of canceling 200,000 visas.
The administration has also prioritized revoking visas and permanent residency, or green cards, from people who it deems are a threat to U.S. national security, but advocates say officials are targeting people over protected free speech like political opinions and attending pro-Palestinian protests.
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X Safety Team: We Have Uncovered 200,000 Bots and Fake Accounts Created by Chinese Intelligence to Propagandize Against Data Farms
—Disinformation Expert Ace
...so that China can win the AI race because the US just quit it.
Global Government Affairs
@GlobalAffairs
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.
These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense.
We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.
AG @AGHamilton29Keep this in mind when you see posts with tens of thousands of likes that happen to fit with the information war positions of certain adversaries.
You think this is the only CCP bot farm? Any idea how many Iranian/Pakistani/Russian active bot farms currently exist on here and other platforms?
ZitoSalena
@ZitoSalena
Done right this is an industry that won't just remake blue-collar workers lives, it will also remake communities that have been on their knees for 40 years.
Always be curious. Always be skeptical. If something does a 180 & politicians are suddenly demonizing it in a short period time you have to ask yourself why? As I said yesterday, there's always bad actors in everything we do. But an entire industry?
We have all seen this playbook before.
Yes, we saw Russia paying "environmental groups" in the US to block fracking so that the price of Russian crude would remain high. We never saw the left-wing media, so keen to discover connections between Trump and Russia, note that Democrats were embracing a RUSSIAN AGENT propaganda effort.
And of course, it's Democrats doing the bidding of the Chinese communist government, banning data farms and pushing legislation to limit them, but you will never -- NEVER -- see a single media story about Democrats being CHINESE AGENTS under the control of Xi.
Two of the propaganda posts below, posted by bots with American-sounding names.
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THE MORNING RANT: “Polite conservatism” didn’t put woke corporations on the defensive - conservative activists did; This time the target is the Big Four Accounting Firms
—Buck Throckmorton
There is more good news in the war on woke capital – this time it’s the Big Four accounting firms in the cross hairs of 16 red-state Attorney Generals: “16 state AGs call out Big Four accounting firms for prioritizing climate goals, ESG” [The Center Square – 8/25/2026]
Many of these same conservative AGs have also been involved in the battle against the giant investment banks’ ESG policies, in which those companies betrayed their fiduciary duty with customers’ securities entrusted to them. Vanguard has already capitulated, as I documented here, and BlackRock and State Street are now playing defense.
Robby Starbuck has famously made himself the most feared journalist among C-Suite denizens. Mr. Starbuck caused a management crisis at Tractor Supply when he revealed the depth and vulgarity of its DEI/ESG programs. Facing a Bud Light-level existential crisis, the company soon made a very public repudiation of those practices. By continuing to target corporate DEI/ESG at corporations with a broad, middle-American customer base, all it takes now is a call from Mr. Starbuck to get them to start backtracking. The companies who publicly repudiated their prior DEI/ESG policies thanks to Mr. Starbuck’s activism include McDonald’s, Walmart, Boeing, Lowe’s, John Deere, Ford, Jack Daniels, and many others.
Those companies never would have retreated from pushing the pathologies of the left under the legacy conservative mindset that was worshipful of corporations while also sniffing “we don’t do boycotts.” Well, the threat of consumer boycotts is what it took to make corporate CEOs more afraid of its regular consumers than of the radical left they were kowtowing to.
Circling back to the Attorney Generals’ lawsuit against The Big Four accounting firms, here is a link to the actual letter. It is long, but the Conclusion captures the essence of it:
The Big Four’s climate commitments…conflict with core professional accounting standards of materiality, neutrality, and error avoidance. These commitments create an appearance that the Big Four have agreed to compromise their independence in favor of pursuing climate-related goals external to the audit. The Big Four’s climate commitments also create potential conflicts of interest that may violate the duties of integrity and objectivity by imposing climate-related disclosure obligations that benefit the Big Four at the expense of their clients. Furthermore, the Big Four’s advertising about their independence, integrity, and objectivity, without disclosure of their climate-activist commitments and actions to impose additional regulatory burdens on their customers, may constitute deceptive and unfair acts and practices under state law.
For now, the process is the punishment by the AGs. Each of the four accounting firms must reply to 32 questions and requests, which will require massive documentation and retrieval of historical corporate records. Here are just a couple of examples of what the woke accountants must provide:
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
—CBD
St. Catherine and Mary Magdalene
Konrad Witz
Early Renaissance? Late Middle Ages? Who knows, but it is this sort of art that shows us the bridge between the two-dimensional art of the pre-Renaissance world and the glories of the Renaissance.
The Morning Report — 8/ 28 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Meh, I don't know why I'm so cheesed off about this.
Possibly because were it not for dumb luck I'd have been at Ground Zero just as the planes struck, or that I lost a schoolmate who was stuck on the 108th floor of the South Tower, or that my wife who at the time was barely a mile away and just recently was diagnosed with scar tissue on her lung due to asbestos exposure, or merely the fact that I'm just a sane, thinking, feeling rational human being?! In any case I rather expected a move like this to have come from the BBC, years ago already. But then again, after all, Canada has declared war on us, so what can you expect?!
Vive Lake Ontario America!!!
Of course the American — that is the ANTI-American Left and its epicenter in and of the Democrat Party have always been at war with America as founded. Just take a look at the links and you'll note a veritable Borgasmord or in this case morgue (to sort of quote my old friend and 1970s icon Mason Reese) of hypocrites, criminals, racists, antisemites, perverts, pedophiles and terrorists. So to hell with Canada we're up to our necks that the aforementioned's allies of convenience, the head chopping, brother-boffing/clitoris clipping Muslims are eager ready and able to chop off. Speaking of brother-boffers, is he his own uncle?!...
Police executed a search warrant Tuesday night at a Minneapolis apartment reportedly shared by Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s adult son and a man arrested earlier that day on a weapons charge, according to multiple law enforcement sources. . . The raid adds another unusual chapter to the political and personal controversies surrounding Omar and her family. Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, has become a prominent far-left activist. Hirsi was arrested and suspended from Barnard College in 2024 after participating in an anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University. Omar publicly praised her daughter after the arrest, saying she was “enormously proud” of Hirsi for standing up for her political beliefs.
The State Department on Wednesday announced that a foreign tech group provides online infrastructure to U.S. domestic terror groups to conduct violence across the country. The department formally recognized Italy-based Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group and subsequently sanctioned it.According to the State Department, Autistici/Inventati, or the A/I Collective, is a “hacker cell that provides far-left extremists with encrypted communications, calls, and web-hosting services — all concealed from law enforcement. The A/I Collective is a central node in the far-left’s war on our civilization.”
Yes, the State Dept. is for sure going after Leftists abroad who destabilize our allies, and are beside themselves as the Donroe Doctrine initiates a reverse Domino effect as one by one seemingly intractable and perpetual Socialist nations are rejecting socialism for freer and more truly little "d" democratic in the truest sense of the word governments, while we here at home seem to be embracing it. Well, if one pallet of bricks is prevented from being delivered to a center city business district in the middle of the night then bravo. Because you just know they're itching to recreate Firestorm 2 Dresden boogaloo!
As you know by this point, Minnesota has been showing absolute fury against ICE agents. Ever since President Donald Trump ordered agents to enter the state to arrest violent illegal immigrants, Mayor Jacob Frey has been pushing back, riling up his citizens to angrily protest their every move. . . arlier this year, an arrest warrant was issued for ICE officer Christian Castro by the state, who was taken into custody shortly thereafter in Cameron County, Texas. He was formally charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime after being accused of firing into a Minneapolis home and striking a Venezuelan national’s leg. Now, this is an incident that could’ve easily been put under investigation by the Department of Justice, but Minnesota decided to push the matter into overdrive. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had been demanding the extradition of Castro to the state, and even making such demands as public as possible to look good for his audience. . . “I don’t trust Tim Walz on anything,” Abbott noted last week, a statement I very much agree with. “While they’re making demands, I have a demand of my own: it’s time for Minnesota to step up and repay the United States of America and Americans for all the fraud that they’ve committed in their state through federal programs.”
Nothing like a good riot in Minnesota to push El-Sayed over the finish line one state away in Michigan (not that with Whitmer and Benson running the elections there, the fix isn't in already)
Or delude themselves into thinking Texas will go insane and elect that freakazoid Talarico!
But be all that as it may, I bid you all to have a great weekend.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The memo, first reported by an astonished Warren Kinsella at the Toronto Sun, used boldface type to emphasize the directive to CBC employees.
Canadian Broadcasting Corp Tells Staff Not to Refer to 9/11 as ‘Terrorist Attack’
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Daily Tech News 28 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Hugging Face has announced a new robot duck. (The Register)
$13 billion for this?
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 27, 2026
—Doof
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
[Top photo: Pilbara, Western Australia]
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Mouthy Puppies Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Interior of house looks like black and white sketch.
Rescued baby raven is a mischief-maker.
Rapid Tail Movement sleep.
It's not just that this bear is sitting in someone's deck furniture. It's that she also has her foot up on the table. Out of control.
Time for a walk?
Crow plays with a volleyball.
Peeping-tom peacock.
One groundhog is very upset seeing his friend's nails getting trimmed.
Neat: Romans used huge siphons in their aqueducts.
Cheetah just wants to cool off in your car, NBD.
The "King" of the Jungle? He's not even the "king" in his own home.
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Democrats Begin to Worry About Going All-In on the Great Male Hope Hasan Piker
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It wasn't just the Democrats. It was the Democrats of the media, that have spent a year pushing Hasan Piker as "the left's Joe Rogan," claiming he has a "progressive mind in a MAGA body" (true, he has a progressive mind, he's borderline mentally retarded) and running one glamour-shot thrist-trap picture of him after another.
And now the Democrats, and the Democrats of the media, are asking: Why won't you guys stop talking about the guy we heavily promoted for a year as the left's solution to the Male Voter Deficit?
The Bulwark's professional homosexual Tim Miller is scolding other leftwing politicos, pressuring them to stop talking about the Left's Joe Rogan, a progressive mind in a MAGA body.
Ludicrous grifter and male gold-digger Ro Khanna also commands you to stop talking about Hasan Piker and Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed:
Ro Khanna @RoKhannaToo many demotivated Democrats stayed home in 2016 and 2024. We can't repeat past mistakes. In this upcoming election, we need to:
Quit calling @BernieSanders an "antisemite."
Stop wasting time attacking Hasan Piker instead of Trump's robber baron corruption.
Don't put Israel hawks out of touch with our voters in charge of our Middle East policy.
It is time for a reckoning: are we a party that represents corporate interests and super PACs, or will we represent the American people?
Why is it a waste of time to talk about Hasan Piker? Is he not the Left's Joe Rogan? Is he not the male Twitch Influencer you guys promoted to lead young men to the DSA?
I have been reliably informed, again and again, that he has a progressive mind in a MAGA body. Was I misinformed? If so, who misinformed me, and will they be called to account for their misinformation?
David Hogg, who himself knows something about media overpromotion of a leftwing male influencer, also demands we all stop talking about the guy the media insisted we talk about until three minutes ago.
Activist David Hogg on Sunday said he finds recent media focus on left-wing streamer Hasan Piker "kind of weird.""To be honest with you, I find it kind of weird. Like he's a streamer. This guy is not an elected official, and there's a lot of elected officials out there that are saying incredibly horrible thing[s]," Hogg told left-wing media personality Jack Cocchiarella, discussing the recent national spotlight on Piker.
Hogg added later that he believed "that it's fascinating that people are so obsessed with a streamer that the median voter knows nothing about."
"You know, that's not to diss Hasan, I think he would probably agree with me, generally, that like they don't -- they don't know who he is," Hogg continued.
"And I think it speaks to the fact that a lot of moderates in our party don't have an actual vision that they are fighting for other than the center, because they're constantly repositioning themselves on the political spectrum to say, 'You know, I'm going to be in the middle,' but the middle is always changing," he said. "And instead, what people are looking for is somebody that actually offers a new vision."
Number of people who have said David Hogg has a progressive mind in a MAGA body: Zero. Zero point zero.
By the way: It turns out Abdulrahman El-Sayed's middle name is Mohamed, not Hussein. Sorry to lead you down a crooked path. I blame who I always blame, a commenter for telling me something which I did not then spend a single second checking.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is now saying he will no longer campaign with Hasan "the Left's Joe Rogan" Piker, after having repeatedly appeared with him, knowing full well he is a terrorist-supporting anchor baby who says "America deserved 9/11" and excusing Hamas's murder of babies by saying "There are baby settlers" and Jewish settlers, of course, should be massacred.
Even if they're babies.
And Jewish female "settlers," of course, deserve to be raped.
Michigan Senate Democratic nominee Abdul el Sayed on Wednesday indicated he would no longer campaign with Hasan Piker after stoking scrutiny for associating with him due to controversial positions the Twitch streamer holds.Throughout his campaign, el Sayed has repeatedly appeared with Piker, including during campus rallies at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan in April, and at a Detroit event earlier this month. Their relationship has raised eyebrows due to accusations that Piker employs antisemitic rhetoric.
After moving to distance himself from Piker following his primary win on Aug. 5, el Sayed told Semafor on Wednesday evening he has "no plans" to campaign with him. The shift comes roughly two months ahead of the general election, where the Senate hopeful must amass majority support in one of the country's tightest races to clinch a victory over former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers.
Meanwhile, a Soros fake media supporting Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed falsely claimed -- WITHOUT EVIDENCE -- that Abdulrahman Mohamded El-Sayed is a "veteran."
A left-wing dark money network funded by the Democratic megadonor George Soros sent voters in Michigan unsolicited mailers resembling a newspaper that falsely identified Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed as a "veteran."The mailer, from the Michigan Independent--part of a national left-wing organization founded by the Democratic operative David Brock, the American Independent--is designed to look like a nonpartisan local newspaper. Partisan content aimed at propping up Democrats is peppered amid recipes for "Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake" from "The Mitten Kitchen." The partisan content includes a piece on El-Sayed's primary win headlined, "El-Sayed -- veteran, doctor, and former health official -- is Democratic Senate pick." El-Sayed has never served in the military, and while he attended medical school and has described himself as a "physician," he has never been licensed to practice medicine, Politico reported.
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Joe Conason, the president of the Washington, D.C.-based American Independent Foundation, which founded the Michigan Independent and received $500,000 from Soros's Open Society Foundations in 2022, confirmed that the group sent the mailer calling El-Sayed a "veteran." He said the error was a typo rather than an attempt to deceive voters."The error occurred when a new headline was written for the print edition," Conason told the Free Beacon. "It was supposed to say that he was a 'veteran doctor and public health official,' ie, 'veteran' modifying those two terms." Asked whether it was accurate to call El-Sayed a "veteran doctor," Conason said, "Well he's been a physician for a long time." When the Free Beacon noted that El-Sayed has never been a licensed physician, Conason said, "Whether he's a physician or not, he's a doctor."
We didn't mean to tell that lie, we meant to tell this other lie.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has repeatedly, falsely called himself a doctor and a physician. He did get a medical degree, but seems to have gotten it only for purposes of entering the corrupt health bureaucracy. He was never licensed as an actual physician and never treated a patient.
As the official in charge of Michigan's highest-kill dog shelter, he did oversee the euthanasia of thousands of dogs, though. Does that count? Grok AI answer: No, that does not count.
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Police Raid Home of Ilhan Omar's Son, Seizing Guns from His Roommate
—Disinformation Expert Ace
America's Sweetheart strikes again.
Police raid home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son as guns and ammunition are seized
Police in Minneapolis reportedly raided the apartment of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son and seized firearms before arresting his roommate.Law enforcement sources told Alpha News that a search warrant was carried out at the home of Omar's son Adnan on Tuesday night.
According to the outlet, they recovered guns and ammunition from the home and arrested his roommate Abdulrahman Abdi, 22.
Earlier that day, the city's police department said in a statement to the Daily Mail that they conducted a traffic stop and cited Abdi for no proof of insurance and no license.
The department said that Abdi was released at the scene and the vehicle was in the process of being impounded when a firearm was found inside.
Officers later tracked Abdi to an address on Marquette Ave where they said they arrested him 'without incident.'
Abdi was later booked into Hennepin County Jail on a weapons charge before being released on Wednesday night, records show.
According to court records seen by the Daily Mail, Abdi has been convicted ten times in the past, most of the incidents have been misdemeanors.
"Most." But also, he's been convicted, not charged but convicted, of ten different offenses and he's only 22.
Last year he was found to have been speeding and driving despite having his license revoked for a previous offense.In 2024 he was convicted of a felony after officers reported him traveling at 108 miles per hour in St. Paul.
A statement of probable cause said he was behind the wheel of a Jeep Grand Cherokee and was speeding alongside a Dodge Durango.
He pleaded guilty to fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle and was sentenced to one day inside Dakota County Jail.
One day for fleeing a cop in a motor vehicle? Taking a cop on a high speed chase that could easily result in a kid being run down?
I feel very Culturally Enriched. Having this person in my country somehow increases the GDP and gives me a more complete and cosmopolitan life.
Ilhan Omar claims that everything is a Trump or Jewish plot to jam her up so I can't wait to see her fundraising over her son's close encounter with police.
Donald Trump's administration is facing questions over whether it is using Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to "surveil political opponents" after after an investigative agent was apparently stationed outside Democratic representative Ilhan Omar's monthly town hall meeting in Richfield, Minnesota.After the incident, Omar demanded the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) clarify whether Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents have been used to monitor "any other activity" involving "local, state, or federal officials" in the state.
In a letter to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), an arm of ICE, the congresswoman said an agent claiming to be conducting an undercover drug operation was parked outside the community center where she was holding an event last Thursday, without prior coordination with local law enforcement.
She's making these claims because she knows that ICE is actually investigating her for her various immigration offenses.
In case you missed this:
A federal agency's refusal to release records related to longstanding immigration fraud allegations involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is fueling new questions about whether federal enforcement proceedings could be underway.News organizations have sought records related to allegations surrounding Omar's 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Critics have long alleged the marriage was part of an immigration fraud scheme and have claimed Elmi was Omar's brother.
Omar has denied those allegations, which have not been proven.
According to the response discussed on The National News Desk, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to release requested records under the Freedom of Information Act, commonly known as FOIA, citing concerns that disclosure could interfere with "enforcement proceedings."
Washington insider Armstrong Williams said the language deserves attention but cautioned against treating the exemption itself as proof of wrongdoing.
Federal agencies can withhold certain law enforcement records under FOIA when releasing them could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. Such a response does not, by itself, establish that Omar is the subject of an investigation or that the underlying allegations are true.
Asked whether the response could indicate an active federal investigation involving a sitting member of Congress, Williams said those associated with the matters under scrutiny should take the situation seriously, while stopping short of drawing a definitive conclusion.
"I think Omar and anyone associated with her in these programs have cause for great concern," Williams said. "I'll leave it at that."
AGs from Iowa and Montana Petition Supreme Court to End California's Left-Wing Extortion of Skydance, as the Left Conspire to Force Them to Sell CNN and HBO So That the Left Can Keep Their Propganda Outlets
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Google AI digest:
Paramount Skydance is considering a potential sale of CNN as part of an effort to resolve an antitrust lawsuit led by California and 11 other states against its proposed $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
See, the left-wing AGs are suing to stop the Skydance (Paramount) purchase of Warner Discovery, because if they get their hands on a "news" cable channel, this would consolidate too much media power in the hands of an... apolitical media company, which is just slightly less left-wing than the left-wing demands.
See, if CNN were in the hands of a slightly less liberal media company, that would result in a loss of "diversity" in "news." One single left-wing channel in a sea of left-wing channels would result in less "diversity" in "news," rather than more diversity in news, as it would appear to anyone who's not insane.
So Skydance is offering to sell CNN.
Why isn't California satisfied?
Because no one would buy CNN. It's a money pit. It loses millions every year.
What Skydance would like to to do is make CNN more centrist and less of a ratings-disaster basket-case so that they could sell it to someone, but California and the leftiest don't want that. They want CNN to stay the same left-wing Animal House it has been for 20 years, and they want another leftwing company to buy it.
For what? What could Skydance charge for it, in its current form? A $10 nominal payment?
So really the lefties don't want Skydance to sell it to NBC, Disney, or MSNOW. They want Skydance to give it away to them, as the extortion payment demanded to bless the purchase of Warner Discovery.
CNN Sale and Antitrust BattleThe Proposal: Paramount's chief legal officer, Makan Delrahim, stated that selling CNN is "on the table" to help appease antitrust regulators.
The Lawsuit: A coalition of 12 state attorneys general, spearheaded by California's Rob Bonta, sued to block the massive media consolidation over concerns it would reduce competition in theatrical distribution and cable TV licensing.
They had no such concerns when left-wing Netflix attempted to purchase Warner Discovery.
And Netflix is now the biggest player in Hollywood, bigger than any individual studio.
Except maybe the Disney behemoth -- who, by the way, these left-wing AGs did not seek to block when they purchased the second-biggest studio, Twentieth Century Fox.
And before that, they'd also purchased Pixel, Marvel Studios, and LucasFilm -- again, with no concerns about a diminishment of "competition."
I think that Skydance would be willing to give away the basket-case propaganda channel CNN, if that's the cost of the extortion.
But I think the left-wing AGs have their eyes fixed on a bigger prize: HBO. Because the cable channel is an even bigger -- and definitely more profitable -- propaganda outlet than CNN.
And Skydance will definitely not give away HBO. Most of the value of Warner Discovery is in its streaming and cable channels.
Tensions with California: Tensions escalated after AG Bonta canceled a settlement meeting, accusing Paramount of breaching confidentiality and acting in bad faith, which Paramount denied.Relocation Threats: Paramount CEO David Ellison warned that if the state keeps stalling the merger, operations could potentially move out of California to states like Texas, Georgia, or Tennessee, drawing accusations of "blackmail" from state officials.
Yes, and they've set an October deadline for that. I think they will end up abandoning California -- and then the rush of all other media companies to leave California will be one. The first one to go will start an avalanche.
But California socialists keep saying what they've been saying, insanely and wrongly, for ten years: No business or citizen will ever, ever leave California, no matter how onerous we make it or how much we punish anyone making an honest living in the state.
Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
That is the background for this story; Iowa and Montana have petitioned the Supreme Court to declare that the supremacy clause should preclude California and the other communist states from blocking this purchase, because federal regulators have already cleared it as not a violation of anti-trust and not likely to cause a loss of competition.
As has the EU, by the way.
Iowa and Montana Ask Supreme Court to Block 'Politicized' Paramount-Warner Bros. Antitrust Suit Filed by California and 11 Other States
In a long-shot move, two Republican attorneys general are hoping the Supreme Court will intervene to stop the antitrust lawsuit brought by 12 Democratic state AGs seeking to block Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Montana AG Austin Knudsen filed a motion with the Supreme Court seeking to have the antitrust suit thrown out, naming California and the 11 other states party to the Paramount lawsuit as defendants. The suit was filed with the court on Tuesday, Aug. 25, according to Bird's office. "Plaintiffs, the State of Iowa and State of Montana, respectfully move this Court for leave to file the attached Bill of Complaint to stop a politicized enforcement action that seeks to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger," the filing says.
The development will test the Supreme Court's interpretation of its authority to settle inter-state disputes. The U.S. Supreme Court is the court of original jurisdiction for issues that arise among states for things like boundary disputes and water rights, and it's not clear the court will agree to hear the motion filed by Iowa and Montana regarding litigation that those states are not a party to.
This is the standing barrier, and I don't think they'll be able to overcome it. They have no particular direct interest in this case
Experts say the Iowa-Montana appeal is unlikely to go anywhere. "The Supreme Court is more likely to declare Donald Trump 'litigator of the year' than it is to block the states from enforcing their own antitrust rules," said Erik Gordon, professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. He called the Iowa-Montana action "political grandstanding.""There's no valid legal basis to do this," said Norm Eisen, an attorney who has helped lead the #BlocktheMerger campaign opposing the Paramount-WBD merger. "This new filing by Iowa turns the entire American legal system on its head. That's why the Supreme Court is going to reject it."
Oh, Norm Eisen, the architect of ten years of unethical lawfare against Trump. I'm glad the media looks for a "diversity" of "experts" when writing their propganda.
Can state AGs acquire standing to sue?
I think they could: If Skydance/Paramount names the city it will move to. Either Austin or Nashville, most think would be the likely places.
Then the states involved, Texas and Tennessee, would, I think, have standing to sue.
But I think the best move is just to leave California entirely. Doing so would save Skydance $500 million per year in taxes, experts estimate.
It's worth doing even without taking account of California's communist gangster extortion ploy.
Communist Candada's National Broadcaster CBC: Do Not Call the 9/11 Attack "Terrorism"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I am just about ready to begin treating Canada as an enemy state.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation instructed its staff not to refer to the killings on 9/11 as "terrorist attacks" ahead of its coverage of the 25th anniversary, according to an internal memo.The public broadcaster reaffirmed that it would avoid using words like "terrorist" and "terrorism" when describing events, directing its staffers to follow the longstanding company policy that previously landed them in hot water during their Oct. 7, 2023, coverage.
"Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks," the memo read. "The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center (WTC in second reference) was destroyed."
The memo was signed, "BB," which the Toronto Sun, which first published the letter, identified as Basem Boshra, senior director of journalistic standards and public Trust at CBC News.
Basem Boshra? Amish name, eh?
CBC defended the memo as a reminder to its journalists to adhere to the decades-old practice, claiming that using charged phrases like "terrorist attacks" would diminish their ability to remain impartial.
Strange that the CBC has no problems using judgmental language in "reporting on" the January 6th "attack."
"Our focus is to report the facts of such atrocities with accuracy, clarity and detail; to convey the scale and scope of violent acts wherever they occur; to quote the people affected, and to convey the views of officials and experts on these events. We bear witness," Kerry Kelly, a public affairs spokesperson for CBC, told The Post.
"But CBC News does not itself designate specific groups as terrorists, or specific acts as terrorism, regardless of the region or the events, because these words are so loaded with meaning, politics and emotion that they can end up being impediments to our journalism."
They will only call it "terror" when the word is used in an official statement, and then they put it in quotes to show that it's someone else's language.
The example they give is Osama bin Ladin calling it "blessed terror."
Even when the mastermind of the atrocity admits it's "terror," the CBC says no, our "experts" say maybe it's not.
Rachel Thomas, a Conservative MP, slammed the leaked memo as shameful, accusing the policy of downplaying the terror attacks."Refusing to call it an act of terrorism dishonours the victims, their families, the survivors, and the first responders who witnessed the horrors of that day," she wrote on X.
"Trying to sanitize or rewrite that history is deeply offensive and does a disservice to everyone who was affected by the attacks."
On the Fifth Anniversary of the Disasterous Biden Bug-Out of Kabul, Pete Hegseth Upgrades the Honors for Three Heroes of Abbey Gate
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He didn't just give them new medals.
He also said that the Biden Administration downplayed their heroism, because Biden, and his corrupt media allies, didn't want the public to know how very bad the terrorist attack at Abbey Gate really was.
Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics5 YEARS LATER: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth upgrades valor awards for three Marines who risked their lives during the Abbey Gate bombing, saying Pentagon leadership "inappropriately" downgraded their original submissions for half a decade.
Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan Eby took command after his platoon commander and half his platoon were killed or wounded. Lance Cpl. Jordan Houston was knocked unconscious 10 meters from the blast, woke up with shrapnel wounds, and stayed in the fight -- concealing his injuries so he wouldn't be pulled from the line. Cpl. Michael Gretzon applied his own tourniquet to a shrapnel wound, got bandaged, then immediately returned to his squad until his platoon sergeant physically ordered him to the casualty collection point.
Hegseth also revealed that a special review panel recently recovered "highly relevant classified documents" that were "stashed and hidden away in safes where they would not be found." A full report is expected by year's end.
Five years after a suicide bombing killed 13 U.S. service members and around 170 civilians at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, the Pentagon upgraded the awards of three Marines who survived the blast and then worked to save others in its immediate aftermath.The service members, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, were at the then-Hamid Karzai International Airport as America's decades-long war in Afghanistan drew to a tumultuous close. Outside of the gate, where enormous crowds had frantically gathered in hopes of a safe evacuation from the country, an Islamic State bomber detonated the explosives on his body.
During a Wednesday ceremony at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented the Bronze Star Medal with Valor to retired Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan Eby and retired Lance Cpl. Jordan Houston, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Valor to retired Cpl. Michael Gretzon.
Eby secured the area before helping to evacuate wounded Marines, Houston -- who was injured himself -- assisted others to safety despite gunfire and tear gas and Gretzon helped control the crowd from a vulnerable position after the blast, according to the department.
Hegseth used biblical language when describing the service members' actions. "These three Marines embody a timeless truth written in the book of Proverbs: 'The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.' On that chaotic day, you men were as bold as lions," he said, adding, "When the wicked sought to sow terror, these men stood as lions at the gate -- bold in their purpose, fierce in their resolve and unbreakable in their courage."
Videos of Hegseth stating that these Marines' valor awards were downgraded to spare the Biden Administration the pain of admitting what a hellish nightmare they created, below the jump.
If you're pretending everything went swell, you can't decorate heroes who stood up when things didn't go swell at all.
Sean Parnell, charged with investigating the Abbey Gate bombing, says that -- sit down, you're not going to believe this -- Biden officials hid key documents in safes to keep anyone from discovering the truth.
A Pentagon official on Wednesday claimed to have discovered classified documents that concern the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan five years ago, but the official declined to offer further details.Sean Parnell, who leads the Pentagon's special review panel examining the 2021 withdrawal, said in a video statement that his team recovered "highly relevant classified documents" that were "stashed and hidden away in safes where they would not be found."
He has not said what the documents actually say, yet. But I assume that is coming:
"You deserve the truth of what happened about what happened in Afghanistan, told fully and told straight," Parnell said.
This might be some of what has been kept hidden: CIA-trained Afghan units executed civilians during Joe Biden's catastrophe.
This may not have been out of malice, but just due to the extreme chaos Biden created.
Afghan special forces units trained by the CIA mowed down civilians with their cars and shot innocent people to clear the Kabul airport during the Biden administration's chaotic U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, according to first-person accounts in a new documentary.Eyewitnesses in the documentary for The Wall Street Journal, titled "The Path to Zero," say atrocities were also perpetrated against U.S. military members at Kabul International Airport -- in the closing hours of the administration's final withdrawal of U.S. forces.
Multiple people say in the documentary that they witnessed the Afghan special forces, known as Zero Units, murder members of the crowd in a CIA-directed mission to clear the airport. Those who committed the murders were then rewarded with evacuation, courtesy of the U.S.
"They straight up executed people, ran them over," retired U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Edward Gonzalez says in the film, telling the documentarians that he witnessed these atrocities firsthand. "I literally saw trucks running over people," he said when told that some people have denied that such events occurred.
Josephy Laude, a retired sergeant with the U.S. Marine Corp, also described what the Zero Units did to clear out the airport.
"They would use vehicles, they would run people over, they would execute people," Laude says in the film. "They'd shoot them, shoot into the crowds bearing witness to atrocities, to war crimes."
The US commander claims that he's heard no such reports:
Peter Vasely, a retired rear admiral with the U.S. Navy who served as the commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan Forward at the time of the withdrawal, claimed in the documentary that "no reports" of the Zero Unit's actions ever made it to him. He said he did not doubt what the Marines on the ground said, just that he never received any official reports of the conduct.
But you know, documents you'd rather not acknowledge sometimes get "lost," like buried in unmarked safes for years and years, you know?
This is why I say the "executions" and "murders" might not have been perpetrated with malice: Suppose you're a Secret Service driver. The presidential limo comes under serious attack. There are crowds of people in your way.
What do you do? I don't know what the Secret Service is trained to do, but I imagine that if the president's life is in danger and there are civilians inadvertently blocking you from carrying him to safety, you hit the gas and hope they get out of the way in time.
I don't know that. I can imagine such a terrible choice, though.
That's what one witness says the choice during the chaotic bug-out was:
Gonzalez also said that had the Zero Units not taken the steps they took to clear the airport, he and his fellow Marines would not be alive today. Kenneth F. McKenzie, a retired Marine Corps general, also said that not only would the U.S. not have been able to clear the airport without the Zero Units, but they wouldn't have been able to hold it either."They were vital to the success of our mission," McKenzie said in the film.
The documentary alleges that to get the Zero Units to open fire on their own countrymen, the CIA had to promise that they and their entire families would be evacuated from Afghanistan.
...Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., best known for his congressional investigations into Obama-era scandals such as Operation Fast and Furious and the IRS' targeting of conservative organizations, said during an interview on "Just the News, No Noise," Wednesday night that the cover-up of the withdrawal will soon be revealed. U.S. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Sean Parnell, who is chairing the Afghanistan Withdrawal Review Panel, is working to release that information.
Darrel Issa says that many "Afghan allies" were never vetted before being given free passes to the US, and that's all part of this "cover-up."
"I mean, the two great cover-ups in Abbey Gate obviously was the lead-up to that tragic loss of our military personnel and many other civilians around them, and then the incredibly inept withdrawal of bringing into our country people who shouldn't be, or leaving behind many who should be here, and the Trump administration is still cleaning up for that by finding people around the world who are entitled and who really have earned a right," Issa said.
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Former Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of War, Darin Selnick, said on the same program that criminal referrals could be coming for those responsible for the withdrawal.
"But I think we have to be patient because it's going to maybe take another year to really dig these things out, do the right interviews, find the right people, get collaborative statements, and really find out, you know, with the criminal referrals, what was done that was done illegally, what was done that was immoral, and what's criminally referable," Selnick said.
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Remember the Afghani who shot two National Guard troops in Washington, DC?He was in a Zero Unit in Afghanistan before we idiotically brought him and others here. Ticking time bombs. They are trained assassins and from what I've read about them they love to kill. I doubt there was anything accidental about the killings they did in Afghanistan.
Posted by: JackStraw
Cite?, Fake Tapper asks.
Jack Straw delivers:
WASHINGTON – The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House last week served with CIA-backed "zero units" in Afghanistan, paramilitary groups that carried out secret raids against suspected terrorists and U.S. enemies as part of the CIA's counterterrorism program.
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Exclusive Hamptons Club Cancels Restaurant Service After Illegal Immigrant Staff is Deported
ICE Deports a Record Number of Illegals Over the Summer
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I saw this story cited on Instapundit, with the comment: We used to hire American teenagers for these jobs.
An ultra-exclusive Hamptons yacht club catering to the wealthy and well-connected was forced to suspend its members-only restaurant service for multiple days after several of its kitchen staff were booted from the country over visa issues, The Post has learned.The swanky oceanfront Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett -- which reportedly charges around $100,000 in initiation fees -- canceled its Wednesday night dinner service after it lost its foreign cooks, according to a letter sent to members the same day.
I think you can afford to increase wages to hire a legal staff.
And if you can't, you can't. A business that has to commit crimes to stay in business maybe isn't run competently enough, or attractive enough to customers, to stay in business.
Food service was also canceled Thursday and is not expected to be back up and running until Friday's lunch service, the club informed its deep-pocketed members -- a group that once included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's parents.
Oh, so this is an easily solved "problem."
The club claims this is just a paperwork snafu involving H2B visas (temporary, seasonal visas for supposedly necessary foreign workers) and suggests maybe the problem is with the Trump Administration's DHS.
I don't know. The rest of the article talks about the "choppy waters" this club as been in for years.
Deportations continue:
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_NEW: I'm told by federal source that ICE has arrested roughly 300 Haitian nationals in the state of Ohio alone in recent days, as the agency is now considering transitioning into a find & arrest approach after giving Haitians several weeks to turn themselves in to ICE offices since TPS officially ended on July 27th.
I'm told to expect arrests of Haitians to begin to significantly ramp up soon as ICE starts to prioritize tracking down those who never checked in.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_Aug 24
BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE: DHS tells @FoxNews that ICE has quietly carried out one of its most successful operations in agency history, resulting in the arrests of 1,328 illegal aliens in just a 14-day span in the states of Virginia & Maryland. Nearly 400 of the aliens had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, including a Salvadoran illegal alien wanted by police in Richmond, VA on a murder warrant. (Eygner Wilfredo Huezo-Moran's mugshot below).
Other targets included aliens with rap sheets for attempted murder and rape, as well as convictions for sexual battery, kidnapping, robbery and DWI.
The operation primarily targeted the sanctuary jurisdiction suburbs in VA & MD around Washington DC, and ICE arrested anyone in the U.S. illegally, regardless of any criminal history.
The leftwing media is pushing the newest op, which is that ICE has arrested a record number of illegals "without criminal records"... apart from violating the country's immigration rules, and, I'm sure, committing either identity theft to hold a job or welfare fraud to become dependents on a country they are not citizens of.
First: Whether or not they have "criminal records," they are still illegal and not permitted to stay. There is no law saying "illegals may live in the US as long as they like so long as Soros DAs refuse to prosecute them for crimes."
Second: Trump and Tom Homan have said over and over they would not have to go into illegal immigrant areas and arrest any illegals they find if leftwing sanctuary jurisdictions would just turn over the criminal illegal aliens they seek as their highest priority. If you just turned over the illegal criminals at the jail, this would be an easy job for ICE with no need of going into "the communities."
But we're all supposed to take from this that Undocumented Criminals have a right to remain forever, so long as only some of their crimes are documented.
By the way: this article admits, at the very end, that ICE has reduced "going into the communities" to make arrests and is now arresting people stopped at routine traffic stops and found to be illegal and less-invasive situations like that.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a record high of more than 800 people without criminal records a day in July on average, new federal data shows. The surge in arrests comes as the White House pushes the agency to hit a target of 2,000 per day.July is the first month in President Trump's second term when people with only civil immigration violations -- rather than pending criminal charges or convictions -- made up more than half of those arrested. An average of more than 1,580 people were arrested each day in July, also a new high for the current administration.
Enforcement ramped up this summer after a drop following public backlash to the Department of Homeland Security's operation in Minneapolis, a funding standoff and a shake-up in DHS leadership. But, as has been the case with ICE's previous big city crackdowns, rising arrest totals come with spikes in community arrests of people without criminal records.
Administration officials have repeatedly claimed that their enforcement efforts are focused on "the worst of the worst" and often tout arrests of immigrants with violent criminal convictions. Those with convictions for violent crimes as defined by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics make up about 6% of all those booked into ICE detention under the current administration, and about 4% of those taken into custody in July, the data show.
"ICE enforces the law as written. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is whether or not they are illegally in the U.S.-- full stop," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News. "Many of the individuals that are counted as 'non-criminals' are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gangsters and more; they just don't have a rap sheet in the U.S."The data, obtained from ICE by the Deportation Data Project run by the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA, does not provide information about immigrants' alleged crimes in other countries. CBS News asked DHS to provide that data.
So 1, this data comes from a leftwing Open Borders group, and 2, deliberately excludes foreign criminal records or open arrest warrants.
White House border czar Tom Homan has said that sanctuary policies that prevent local law enforcement from turning over people held in jails and prisons to ICE force them to "flood the zone" and deploy more resources to such cities to find and arrest their targets and anyone else they encounter living in the U.S. illegally. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has made similar claims.
"Claims," you see. They're liars, CBS "News" wants you to know.
But June and July data suggests that ICE agents making arrests in communities are not focusing their efforts solely on areas the administration deems to be sanctuary jurisdictions. Those cities and states saw a 27% increase in street arrests during those months compared to the previous six, compared with a 50% increase everywhere else, CBS News' analysis of the data found.
Wow, what an important bit of news: ICE is able to arrest more illegals in areas where the police cooperate with them.
Here's the very, very late admission that ICE has reduced the controversial program of making mass arrests in sanctuary zones:
...The uptick in arrests has been without highly publicized city-focused crackdowns, with agents instead turning to traffic stops, airport arrests and arrests at immigration check-ins. The killing of two immigrants by federal agents in Maine and Texas during attempted traffic stops reignited outcry.
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The Morning Rant: Cultural Suicide
—CBD
Cultural suicide is all the rage in Europe these days, with the UK and Germany busily destroying themselves, and France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Spain not far behind, all fighting for primacy in the race to surrender to the left and to Islam. They have also run full-tilt towards a "carbonless future," even though the world economy runs on oil and gas, and it is an impossibility to shift away from them without a massive degradation in standards of living.
But never mind the facts! They are closing nuclear plants and coal mines and trying to shut down oil and gas production and exploration, while pushing for an all-electric economy.
So it is a pleasure to see a European country doing something right for a change. Norway has correctly identified the illogic in cutting petroleum production and use while simultaneously cutting nuclear. The numbers just don't work, and apparently somebody in Norway knows how to add.
Norway Plans More Oil, Gas Exploration in Arctic, Bucks EU Push for Moratorium
Norway will ignore the European Union’s demands for a moratorium on hydrocarbon exploration in the Arctic Circle and continue drilling for oil and gas in the Barents Sea, the country’s energy minister said.Speaking before Norway’s biannual energy conference, which began in Stavanger on Aug. 24, Norwegian Energy Minister Terje Aasland said Oslo had a right to develop its own sovereign resources.
“In today’s geopolitical and security environment, and given the resource situation, I believe continued activity in the Barents Sea serves both Norwegian and European interests,” Aasland said.
Without exploration and bringing new wells on-line, their current production would decrease until...wait for it...they won't have enough oil and gas for their customers (Europe) and themselves. And all of that sweet foreign money that flows to Norway to fund their soft socialism would slow, and Norwegians might have to work harder to support their 200,000 Muslims.
Reality is smacking Europe in the face! Green insanity can never provide enough power to run even the most basic services, and the dirty little secret of the bien pensants is that they still need oil and gas...and lots of it. When tens of thousands of Europeans die every summer because they can't afford air conditioning, and their governments won't allow them even if they could, something is broken. And it is the cradle-to-grave welfare state that so many crave.
Economics is a cold-hearted bitch, and it says that when too much productive work is captured by government, growth slows, innovation slows, and wealth creation slows. That is what has happened to Europe, and its Green insanity is just accelerating its plunge into 3rd world status.
That is a direct result of the policies of the EU and its member states. They are driving their populations into poverty, all in service to their ultimate goal of a socialist/Green nirvana. It doesn't exist, and will never exist, but they keep trying!
Oceans of power, from petroleum, nuclear, coal, hydro-electric, and natural gas is what drives wealth. Our great industrial awakening of the 19th century was powered by coal, and even our new technological revolution in AI will be powered by traditional sources. As the United States cautiously embraces nuclear, and returns to petroleum as an inexpensive and simple power source, we will continue to outpace the sclerotic EU.
Make no mistake...the "Green New Deal" and all of the other fantastical and impossible plans for a carbonless America have one goal, and that is the centralization of power in service of socialism. A country that provides endless opportunity for its citizens is a poor candidate for socialism. But a country sinking into an existential malaise of worsening standards of living, onerous regulation, and restricted travel is a fine candidate for that socialist nirvana that is always just over the horizon.
[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 Virgin and Child with St Julian and St Nicholas of Myra
Lorenzo di Credi
The Morning Report — 8/ 27 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. And so President Trump made this move yesterday.
President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order on Wednesday declaring a national emergency to protect the United States’ bulk-power system from foreign threats. The order prohibits the purchase or installation of certain foreign-produced electric equipment that poses cybersecurity risks or operational vulnerabilities. . . By addressing vulnerabilities in the supply chain, the order aims to secure the reliability of the U.S. electric grid, reduce dependency on foreign components, and mitigate risks to national security. It also aims to protect critical infrastructure that supports defense, emergency services, and the broader economy.
Considering we are in a state of war, no not with Canada, despite the idiocy farted out by their yammering potato headed PM Carney, that we discussed yesterday. I mean Iran and behind the scenes the Chi-Coms. And Iran still has a very dangerous and operational Cyber Warfare capability most recently demonstrated by their sabotaging of a major British power plant for several days.
So, the President's move is for sure understandable. That said we had this totally avoidable madness happen right here in Gary, In...
Gary, Indiana, just wrapped up week two with no power, and the left-wing narrative on the extended blackout is (unsurprisingly), “It’s racism!” As someone who lived in Gary for a decade, I can tell you it is anything but that. Gary made me a conservative. In 1999, I married a man from Gary and moved to his home on the west side. That marked the beginning of a 10-year journey in one of the most dangerous cities in America. I was a default Democrat at the time, like most black Americans. Still, as a Christian woman, I dove into community service right away, helping launch and direct an afterschool program.
Yes, it wasn't cyber-warfare nor racism, but the evils of the absolute incompetence of Leftist/Democrat longterm control of a city that caused this deterioration. Suffering and misery of the citizenry is all because said Democrats/Leftists are interested in is the accrual and maintenance of absolute power at all costs.
“It is bigger than Trump,” Pressley said. “Because whenever we do the work of ousting the occupant of the Oval Office, the Confederacy is still alive and well. That’s all MAGA is.”
Funny, the confederacy and the slavery, Jim Crow and big government genocide of Black America was created and fomented by the DEMOCRAT Party, as it is until this very day.
All they have left is a tattered and shit-stained race card to play as more and more black Americans are abandoning them en masse. Not enough in terms of numbers and speed necessarily to satisfy me but I think the trend is there. If it weren't then we wouldn't be seeing the reactions to Gary, or Flint Michigan or anywhere else their incompetence causes misery, dislocation and death, or just the knee-jerk blood-libeling like this repulsive piece of shit and everyone like her.
When do we declare a national emergency because of the continued assault on the nation and society by the Democrat/Left. They will be our undoing if the Muslim's don't finish us off first. If that is the case it will be because their allies on the Left will have greased their wheels. My only satisfaction is knowing their pinheads will be lopped off as Islam seizes control of everything.
Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- By addressing vulnerabilities in the supply chain, the order aims to secure the reliability of the U.S. electric grid, reduce dependency on foreign components, and mitigate risks to national security. It also aims to protect critical infrastructure that supports defense, emergency services, and the broader economy.
President Trump Declares National Emergency to Protect U.S. Power Grid.
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Daily Tech News 27 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Nvidia is in talks to acquire Hugging Face for $13 billion. (Business Insider)
Why?
- Amazon is acquiring DuckLabs, maker of DuckDB. (GeekWire)
Hey, Amazon! (Waves.) I wrote a database! Acquire me!
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Wednesday Night ONT - August 26, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. Step up and place your order.
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. If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
[Top photo: Sevierville, Tennessee]
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Wednesday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Burial for a suspected "vampire."
This had better not awaken anything in me.
Stop Touching Me: A game all species can enjoy.
Two babies.
Guy gets a text alert telling him his team has won, but he doesn't want to spoil it for his friends.
Martial arts demo. (Which game was this? I remember it, but not the name of it.)
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