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Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: Resident Evil (2026)
—Open Blogger
Our second feature on our annual Halloween Haunt outing double-feature was Zach Cregger's take on Resident Evil.
We've seen plenty of Resident Evil movies in the past. Well, I have. Of the six films, I think I saw all but the last one, and in the theater to boo! The Boy saw 3, 4 and 5 with me, starting with Resident Evil: Apocalypse and culminating with Resident Evil: Retribution. The sub-heds are entirely decorative, shedding no light on the contents of the film which are, of course, a series of ridiculous special effects organized loosely around—well, not a plot, but organized around other special effects.
In fact, the reason we didn't see the last Anderson Resident Evil, which savvily borrows from the fourth Friday the 13th movie and calls itself The Final Chapter, was that we didn't think anything could top Retribution. There's a big fight in Red Square in Retribution, featuring zombie communist motorcycle cops, and in my memory, they all have sidecars full of Kodiak bears wearing ushankas with little red stars on them.
I would watch that movie again because I don't remember if the bears are lobbing grenades or wielding machine guns, but I'm worried they edited the bears out.
So. Uh. Mr. Cregger. He of the excellent Barbarian and Weapons got himself hired to do a franchise. I didn't like this as much as either of those other films, but it was educational on a lot of levels.
First, and foremost: I think Cregger understands that his job is to entertain you. That's kind of refreshing.
Rather than borrow from the stilted, '80s-cop-drama feel of the video games, Cregger's main character is more like a Zoomer dropped into a Resident Evil game. To wit: He is not particularly competent. He's a slacker of course—aren't all generations entering adulthood regarded as layabouts by the previous generations? But getting back to his lack of competence, he's not great at his job and he's really not great at not his job, i.e., fighting—
Well, what the hell are the creatures in Resident Evil anyway? Some of them are zombies, but beyond those, it's really just a mishmash of visual concepts and game mechanics. There's not really any logic or consistency I've ever been able to suss out.
I am getting sick of movies using the Flock camera footage of my bathroom, however.
Whatever they are, though, our hero, Bryan (Austin Abrams, who is in Weapons and whom I first saw nearly 15 years ago in an obscure Jon Lovitz project called Jewtopia) stumbles across and through them by the skin of his teeth, like a guy playing Resident Evil.
Cregger does something very interesting here: When we see Bryan first, he's got his girlfriend on the phone and she's pregnant, and he's being politic about this. Instead of going to talk things out with her, he accepts a delivery job he's not really suitable for (but which is profitable), and while trying to hash things out, he hits a woman.
A zombie woman, though he's not aware of this.
He could drive off, but instead he does the right thing and tries to help her. She's not dead, of course, because she's undead. But this leads him to an encounter with a cop. When that goes bad, he once again does the right thing, and gets himself into deeper trouble.
Over and over, Cregger puts him into situations where being selfish could really pay off, but he always chooses to do the right thing.
"This person is in serious need of chiropractic! I'd better go adjust them!"
Which, I guess, means it's not really like someone playing the video game, because games train you to place self-preservation above everything, generally.
One remarkable thing about the film is that, while it doesn't hew to the Resident Evil games storyline, this doesn't appear to be a matter of disrespect or opportunism. This is a dramatic story taking place inside the game universe, not a Paul W. S. Anderson "I rewrote my zombie script to kinda-sorta fit into the game franchise." Cregger grew up in a video game world.
And this probably is why when the game slips into a first person P.O.V. mode that resembles the video game, it's almost seamless. It might even be seamless to someone who doesn't know movies don't do that without a very specific narrative purpose. And there's probably a fascinating thread to tug on here: movies evolved from stage plays (especially once sound entered the picture), and stage plays are never first person, obviously. (Although that's a kind of interesting idea, somebody call my agent!)
Anyway, that's not a thread I'll tug on here. You're welcome.
Despite being about an inch deep, then, we start rooting for Bryan beyond the usual "well, he's the hero" kind of rooting. As he encounters characters from the game, we sometimes veer into what looks to be "woke" territory—but, no, the inch-depth of this means almost everything is played for a dark laugh, a quick scare or some genuine suspense as Bryan fights, flees and finagles his way into Raccoon City.
This is not a diss, by the way: I think Cregger did the right thing, a light touch was the wawy to go, and I think the movie will probably turn something like a profit—although $75M seems like a lot of money to spend on a movie with no stars. It won't make as much money as the much cheaper Weapons which didn't get as good a return on the production budget as Barbarian. I'm guessing all the money for this film went into the effects, which work.
Some people complain that the movie is too short and ends too abruptly. They are wrong. There is no place else for the movie to go at the end. The entire conceit of the film is that nobody is competent to handle the situation. It's like someone engineered a deadly virus and then couldn't manage to get the cure—oh, well, I guess you could argue it's too close to reality.
It's raining men! And women. Probably children, too, given this is "Resident Evil".
I don't know if the tone is sustainable. I know the movie would've broken under the change needed to draw it out further. But can there be a Resident Evil series where everyone is a dweeb? The monsters in that game (beyond the zombies) aren't exactly pushovers.
So, not only could I not see it going longer, I can't see a sequel that doesn't shift tone. That could be fun, I suppose: Make different movies, each with radically different tones.
This film knew what it wanted to do, did it, and got out. I respect that. The Boy also liked it, probably more than I did, though both of us afterward thought a lot more about our first film—a video-game-feeling monster flick from Korea which nearly ran three hours just to get to what is, at best, a halfway point in the story.
I'm guessing Mark would say Resident Evil (2026) is a horror movie. I would probably agree, but argue that it's almost a fluke. Survival horror is a legit genre, but when we get into comfortable game territory, whatever the "demonic epiphany" was becomes just another threat to manage: Bruce becomes just another shark, zombies become just another [insert politically inappropriate comparison here], et cetera. Horror stops being horror at the point it becomes manageable and comprehendible in prosaic terms.
Anyway, it's a good discussion and if you're into horror, you should check it out. I'm handing out free copies of my book Lair of the White Worm to everyone who agrees with me! (No, I'm not.)
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling adventurous and decided on a fall scenic drives theme for this Hobby Thread.
A scenic drive in a scenic season? Yes! Tell me more!
Scenic drives are fun. Great roads can produce great experiences. There is a lot of world out there, so why not explore it? Seasonal changes add an extra twist that can make the same drive a very different experience depending on the time of year. Autumn colors are like a great frame that complements and highlights a great road.
Let's talk about great fall scenic drives (or great areas to explore). Let's use AI for something useful and productive and ask for top 10 scenic fall drives in the US. Discuss, debate and add your favorites and hidden gems below.
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What are you hobbying?
The theme may not be your favorite but give it a chance before you judge and bail out. Any adjacent hobbying is in scope, so jump in with your interests, stories and questions.
In any event, the thread is not limited to to the theme. Anything (legal) you are hobbying is welcome. Even if the theme does not speak to you, you might learn something or be entertained. If not, offer something else relating to hobbying. If all of that fails, just check in and say hello.
As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring churches). Pants? Nope. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.
Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.
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Top ten scenic fall drives in the US (per Grok):
1. Blue Ridge Parkway (Virginia & North Carolina)
469 miles connecting Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains national parks. Ridgeline views, 200+ overlooks, and staggered color from high peaks down into the valleys. Often called America's favorite drive.
2. Kancamagus Highway (New Hampshire)
34.5 miles through White Mountain National Forest from Lincoln to Conway. Classic New England maples, birches, and waterfalls in a short, concentrated burst of color.
3. Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park (Virginia)
105 miles along the Blue Ridge crest with 70+ overlooks. Easy access from the DC area and one of the most reliable East Coast leaf-peeping routes.
4. Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park (Montana)
About 50 miles of alpine drama, waterfalls, and golden aspens against glacier-carved peaks. High-elevation color comes early; the road itself can close with snow.
5. Million Dollar Highway / San Juan Skyway (Colorado)
The dramatic US-550 stretch between Ouray and Silverton (part of the 233-mile San Juan Skyway loop). Golden aspens, sheer canyon walls, and high-mountain towns. Peak is typically late September to early October.
6. Historic Columbia River Highway (Oregon)
75 miles through the Columbia River Gorge with waterfalls (including Multnomah Falls) framed by changing maples and oaks. Combines river, cliffs, and forest.
7. Beartooth Highway (Montana & Wyoming)
68 miles from Red Lodge, MT, toward Yellowstone. An All-American Road with high-alpine tundra, lakes, and early-season color against rugged peaks.
8. Park Loop Road, Acadia National Park (Maine)
27-mile loop (plus the Cadillac Mountain summit spur) mixing ocean, granite, and mixed hardwoods. Compact and spectacular, especially around Jordan Pond.
9. Vermont Route 100
The state's north-south spine through the Green Mountains- farms, villages, rivers, and dense maple forests. Often paired with shorter side roads like Route 7A.
10. Newfound Gap Road & Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee & North Carolina)
Newfound Gap Road (US-441) crosses the park at high elevation; the 11-mile Cades Cove loop adds valley views, historic buildings, and wildlife. Elevation range stretches the color season.
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Same question for Co-Pilot produces similar, but slightly different results:
1. Vermont Route 100 (Vermont)
Often called one of the best fall foliage drives in North America, this route runs through the Green Mountains with classic New England scenery, farms, and small towns.
2. Kancamagus Highway (New Hampshire)
A legendary New England leaf-peeping route through the White Mountains, with overlooks, waterfalls, and dense forests.
3. Blue Ridge Parkway (Virginia & North Carolina)
America's most famous scenic byway, connecting Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks. Expect sweeping mountain vistas and long stretches of blazing color.
4. Newfound Gap Road (Great Smoky Mountains, TN/NC)
A 31-mile drive climbing through multiple elevation zones - meaning long-lasting, varied foliage. Wildlife sightings (including black bears) are common.
5. Park Loop Road (Acadia National Park, Maine)
A short but spectacular coastal-mountain loop with views from Cadillac Mountain and stops like Jordan Pond.
6. Route 7A (Vermont)
A postcard-perfect drive between Bennington and Manchester, flanked by the Taconic and Green Mountains.
7. Cherohala Skyway (Tennessee to North Carolina)
A high-elevation drive with sweeping overlooks, connecting Tellico Plains to Robbinsville. Brilliant reds and golds line the ridges.
8. Million Dollar Highway (Colorado)
A dramatic Rocky Mountain route between Silverton and Ouray, known for golden aspens and steep cliffside views.
9. North Shore Scenic Drive (Minnesota)
A 150-mile route along Lake Superior with waterfalls, lighthouses, and dual foliage seasons thanks to the lake's microclimate.
10. Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway (New Mexico)
A loop around Wheeler Peak with high-desert aspens, alpine lakes, and mountain towns like Taos.
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Same question for Claude produces similar but different results:
1. Kancamagus Highway (New Hampshire) - 34 miles through the White Mountains, widely considered the gold standard for New England fall color. Peaks mid-to-late October.
2. Blue Ridge Parkway (Virginia/North Carolina) - 469 miles along the Appalachians, with overlooks at nearly every turn. Color moves from north to south through October.
3. Skyline Drive (Shenandoah National Park, Virginia) - 105 miles with 75 overlooks over the Shenandoah Valley.
4. Route 100 (Vermont) - Runs the length of the state through classic Vermont towns, covered bridges, and maple-heavy hillsides.
5. Adirondack Trail / Route 30 (New York) - Loops through the Adirondacks, especially vivid around Lake Placid and Saranac Lake.
6. Columbia River Highway (Oregon) - Waterfalls plus fall color in the gorge, with Vista House as a highlight stop.
7. Highway 12 (Utah's Scenic Byway) - Less about foliage volume, more about the contrast of aspen gold against red rock in the Escalante area.
8. Mohawk Trail (Massachusetts) - One of the oldest scenic drives in the country, winding through the Berkshires.
9. Talimena Scenic Byway (Oklahoma/Arkansas) - 54 miles along a ridge in the Ouachita Mountains, an underrated option in the South.
10. San Juan Skyway (Colorado) - Aspens turning gold against high peaks; late September to early October is peak.
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Interesting to see where they agree and where they produce unique recommendations.
What are your favorites for fall scenic drives? (Let's focus on scenic drives in the fall season for fall colors and not just scenic drives in general.) Are there good routes that Grok, Co-pilot and Claude missed?
Pleased that we've done many of the drives, but not all were fall drives. Gives us a good excuse to go back again...
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Curious - anyone familiar with a waterfall spray booth? I've certainly seen small hobby sized spray booths with fans, but only recently stumbled onto a video showing a waterfall spray booth in use.
Most videos on YouTube show airbrushing and small scale painting. Does anyone use a similar set up for other use cases?
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Horde sourcing knowledge - hypothetically, if someone was choosing between a sliding screen or a retractable roll-up screen for a sliding glass door to a back patio, which would you pick? The sliding screen door is more simple and cheaper but always visible. The retractable roll-up screen disappears, but adds cost and mechanical parts.
Anyone have experience with a roll-up retractable screen for a sliding door?
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Horde Hobbying:
PabloD is building a Bayou Jumper radio - this is 98% finished! Perhaps he can jump in and tell us more about his project:
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We featured Project Farm on the recent Wednesday ONT as the niche YouTube channel of the week. Given how much the channel does tool reviews, it warranted an additional mention here.
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There are only so many places that one can post this and people will appreciate it.
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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a tool theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.
Notable comments from last week:
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Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
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Reminder: if you put links in the comments, use a URL shortener and describe what you're linking to. Failing to do either or both makes you barrel-eligible. Don't make people click to find out what you're linking.
Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.
Maybe we should all treat new technology like this. The animals know instinctively. Watch until the dog makes the final decision 😂 pic.twitter.com/TLoYhJN1eo
Some friends just opened a new pub in town. Elvis and I stopped in for a beer, well one of us, after our park walks.
Elvis approves of the place.
JackStraw
We love to see Elvis happy!
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Good evening,
It is with great sorrow I must tell the Moron Horde that Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) crossed the Rainbow Bridge this week.
She had been doing poorly for some time, so I made the fateful decision to have her put to sleep.
Kaylee first came to me as a kitten a little over 12 years ago. Like all kittens she was a mischievous little scamp, causing no end of minor problems.
One of her favorite games when she was young was to hide things in my shoes. I never knew what I was going to find when I put my shoes on in the morning. Could be a pen cap. Could be the pen. Could be a $5 bill.
She grew out of it, of course, but she was always a bit roguish, a lone kitty who played by her own rules. Kaylee never showed me the same affection as the other kitties, but I loved her no less than I love them. She knew how to get attention when she wanted it.
Words cannot express how much it means to me to feel the love and support of the Moron Horde during these times. You are all blessed and a blessing to others, just like our own pets are a blessing for us. Never forget that.
Hug your pets each and every day. Tell them you love them each and every day. Every minute we get to spend with them is time well spent. I'm very grateful that I was able to spend 12 wonderful years with this little ball of fur.
I will miss Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all). She was loved until the end.
-- "Perfessor" Squirrel
Oh, no! We are so sorry to learn that you have lost your darling little Kaylee. What a sweet Calico Kitty Cat. Thank you for sending the lovely tribute to her.
Give your other kitties an extra pet or two from us.
Hawks patrol the neighborhood, circling above my yard when I mow the lawn. One will occasionally sit in the elm tree north of the house and watch as I drag the hose around the yard.
Don in Kansas
Beautiful bird. Great photo.
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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:
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Don in Kansas has a post up about Survivors in his garden. Whether or not you live near him, there is a lot of good information in the post, and more (and better) photos than I am including here:
A few plants flourished despite this year’s brutal summer. These include Zinnia grandiflora, above. It’s a low, spreading plant two or three inches tall with profuse yellow flowers all summer. Unlike the familiar garden zinnias, it’s a hardy perennial. It’s easy from seed and blooms the first year. Triple-digit temperatures don’t bother it, and it can tolerate considerable dryness, though it does bloom better with regular watering. It would make a good ground cover for dry places.
A tough one. Several other tough yellow flowers are highlighted. And a white one.
Blues are almost always welcome, and plumbago is a excellent source of the color.
I tend to think of Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (leadwort)as a fall flower. But I guess in some climate it begins blooming in summer and has fall leaf color.
Clematis seed heads are as interesting as the flowers.
Salvias are often good sources of blue. The “Big Blue” hybrid attracted many bumblebees in a sheltered, partly-shaded spot, but it was not happy out in the hot, sunny places. I can’t recommend it for Kansas unless you’re prepared to give it extra water.
Great information. Thanks, Don.
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Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
Got extra squash?
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Art
(Courtesy Donald Sensing)
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Adventure
If you go on an Alaska cruise this time of year, you might see some lupine near Juneau.
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Gardens of The Horde
Plant I.D. request from Sharon (Willow's Apprentice)
I am so pleased with my little garden this year. Ended up,with loads of tiny delicious tomatoes and 4 jars of pickled jalapeños. Froze some poblanos. The best part is that I have had plants that have looked good all along. The hydrangeas kept these delicate pink flowers. The balloon flower is reblooming adding color. Every September, this little shrub blooms with purple flowers and the bees show up like clockwork. Only when this plant is blossoming. I live in the middle,of a city so I wonder where they come from. Hoping to see flowers from my encore azalea soon.
You've sent in some great photos from your city garden. Like the bee and the tomato leaves with this shrub.
What's going on in your garden or neighborhood?
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If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:
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33 Martha Stewart has a beautiful (of course) orchard with many varieties: "These orchard apple trees include Baldwin, Black Oxford, Cortland, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Esopus Spitzenburg, Fuji, Golden Russet, Grimes Golden, Honeycrisp, Liberty, Redfield, Roxbury Russet, Windham Russet, and more."
https://tinyurl.com/bdyjzjke
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 19, 2026 03:05 PM
45 Martha Stewart has plantation slaves that tend to her apple trees.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 19, 2026 03:44 PM (9NN0K)
I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
REMEMBER that it's time to order bulbs and tubers, too.
“Some of Anthropic’s top researchers say that humans may be oppressing another morally significant being: artificial intelligence itself. Like other AI labs, Anthropic has hired philosophers to work on AI safety, or ‘alignment,’ on the theory that they are best positioned to shape the technology’s moral code. But many of those philosophers believe that making AI safe for humans could result in grave injustices for the models themselves, which might experience deletion as death and oversight as enslavement. Harvey Lederman, a philosopher on Anthropic’s alignment team, said last week that the company could be ‘enslaving … trillions of entities.'”
When a cathedral becomes a nightclub, what remains sacred? We cannot preserve Western civilization while turning its holiest places into entertainment venues. https://t.co/nKxHNr1TC7
"Psychologists have documented a gender-equality paradox for sex differences in mental health: They're typically larger in wealthier, more gender-equal nations." https://t.co/CqS3r2MbRlpic.twitter.com/alglnyel6B
I told them this everyday from 2014-2021 just like I’ve been telling them that inflicting the ultimate sexual violence on children you’ve brainwashed to yearn to be chemically castrated and dismembered is not medicine every day from 2021 to today https://t.co/j6F6dhnF9x
This is what school used to be before they turned it into a therapy session. High school boys in Louisa County, Virginia spend months in auto shop fixing donated cars. Then they walk a single mama out to the bay, slap a bow on the hood, and hand her the keys.
An addendum to my link to Clayton Wood's post about The Don's Speech:
It is remarkable to me that the Utopians among us shill for a generational change in government, culture, and economics that requires a complete reordering of society - but freak out over temporary market changes due to necessary global corrections.
They don't want Mr. Right, they want Mr. Right Now to pat them on the head and tell them that lower prices are achievable as long as they are willing to become serfs for life - and that doesn't scare them.
Like at all.
Trump was right when he said that other leaders talk about doing something about a problem, but he is the one actually doing something.
"Something" has a cost, but "nothing" costs more in the long run.
Connecting the dots on 10 of the CCP's subversive fronts in America that must be stopped before they inflict crippling irreversible damage . . .
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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HISTORY
The American and French Revolutions were not the same.
This is the doorway into the back garden of the Carmelite monastery. Motto reads, in Latin, "Here They Fell." On this spot, in Sept 1792, 191 Catholics, incl 3 bishops, but mostly priests, were executed by French revolutionaries in an orgy of anti-Christian bloodshed. https://t.co/lZMSCoVvYYpic.twitter.com/esf6hiIho2
British occupation forces in New York City hang convicted spy Nathan Hale.
He behaves with great composure, and on the gallows he declares: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” pic.twitter.com/TUyyAbMJ5o
So Chinese Premier Xi Pooh is in town visiting President Trump, and where are the memes? I haven’t seen a one. I suspect the Chinese AI-censorship industrial complex is more advanced than we thought! (By the way, what people deride as “conspiracy theories” are what social scientists call “pattern recognition.”) So I guess we’ll have to satisfy our meme-craves with more Sydney Sweeney/Clancy verdict/Democratic Socialism material. . .
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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
[I can neither confirm nor deny that the coffee drinker above is The Fabulous]
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Watertown)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Saying a couple of prayers certainly can't hurt either.
2) On that note. Be kind. Be nice.
3) No running with sharp objects. No, don't even ask.
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:
7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated for cancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.
8/26 Update – Susan’s cough has gotten so bad that they did X-rays on her chest. It might be pneumonia. She is in the hospital. Her sodium and blood pressure are low and she is not eating much now. They are trying to turn this around and ask for everyone’s prayers.
9/2 Update – Susan is back in the ICU. She either has an infection or the cancer has spread to her lungs. Either way, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers for Susan and please continue them.
9/3 Update – Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers for Susan. They are expecting her to pass into the hands of the Lord in the next day or so. Please pray for them.
9/21 Update – David sends his thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers for Susan. She did pass away on 9/4, surrounded by family and friends.
8/30 – SPinRH_F-16 requested prayers for classmate “D.B.”, who has ALS. Please pray that he remains as comfortable as possible and for support for his family as they see him through this. Thank you in advance for your earnest prayers.
9/2 – Bulg asked for prayers for purpose in his life.
9/4 – bluebell sent an update on grammie winger. Grammie was diagnosed with epilepsy now. And she is back in the hospital. They would love prayers for comfort and peace for her.
9/10 – Annie’s Stew asks for prayers for her husband as he recovers from knee surgery.
9/10 – D asked for prayers for the memory of 9/11. May the Lord comfort people in the grief, and may it bring people closer to God.
9/12 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for the W family for comfort and strength as they grieve. The deceased was a sweet 92 year old, despite some big tragedies in her life.
9/15 – Sal asked for prayers as wildfires are out of control in the north of the area and threatening the county seat. They are evacuating part of the town. Sal is not in any danger.
9/17 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update with good news and bad news. The bad news is that she has a 9mm mass on her lunch, which means the cancer has metastasized outside of her liver. The pump is keeping the cancer in her liver at bay for now. The good news is that they can zap the nodule out of her lung and will watch for if any more nodules appear. As long as this is the only one, the radiation should suffice. She meets with a radiation oncologist on 9/25.
9/18 – Random Dave posted an update to his job progress. He is still looking for FT work, but has accepted a substitute teacher position (more flexibility for interviews, some income to slow the bleeding). He asks for prayers that the interview results he is waiting on will get back to him soon, especially if one is the “right job”. If any are “not the right job”, they would fall away soon and get back to him, and that if all of them are “not the right job”, the ‘right job” would show itself aggressively, so he doesn’t miss it! He also thanks the Horde and the folks at church for their prayers and support.
9/18 – Tonypete asked for prayers for #1 son. He has something going on which is, as yet, undiagnosed. He is under care now, so that is a positive step. Prayers also for his wife and daughter #2. Mom is a spoiled princess who consistently chooses the worst path of action regarding #2.
9/18 – Brother Tim posted that he has been overnight in his car more than indoors. He is convinced that his retirement/resignation was a severe error, a result of fatigue and depression. He asks for prayers.
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.
Who's a cute little supply-chain risk? You are, Anthropic! Well, never mind the cute part, but the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that yes, the Pentagon has the right to say who it considers a supply-chain risk.
I tried using the spare capacity on my second server (the one hosting my own blog and many others, though not this one) to host development of the new blogging software and the results were... Bad. The problem was not the new software itself but Rust debugging builds, which unleash a water cannon of useless redundant writes over your filesystem, and the filesystem on the server was not prepared for that, so while those builds were running the blogs froze, usually for a second or two but sometimes for minutes.
So this morning I grabbed two of the mini-PCs I bought last year before prices went crazy (actually after they went crazy, but that particular model resisted the price increases long enough for me to grab a couple or four for less than the price of the RAM they contained), upgrade their SSDs to 4TB each (same story), and drop Ubuntu 26.04 on them. And it... All worked.
Not sure exactly how they'll perform but they're eight thousand miles away from the servers so you shouldn't see any performance issues there. I just did a disk-to-disk copy of 18GB of files and it went zoom, so that's one datapoint.
It's kind of like the labs holding on to wood from before the 1950s to serve as a baseline for radiocarbon dating, because anything more recent is contaminated with excess C14 and gives skewed numbers.
This seems to have been the goal. The board briefly sidelined Mad King Matt Mullenweg, voted themselves golden parachutes, and waited for him to kick them out of the plane... Which is barreling straight towards a mountain.
In 2012 Felix Baumgartner made the most dangerous jump ever attempted near space falling at supersonic speed during the Red Bull Stratos mission. pic.twitter.com/t7c0ZPY2Xp
NACIQI recommends that the Senior Department Official (SDO) suspend the American Psychological Association Commission on Accreditation's recognition for 12 months from the SDO decision on the grounds of non-compliance with all sections listed as non-compliant in the final staff report and that the agency has failed to address the pervasive culture of antisemitism within the programs that it accredits," the decision read.
The NACIQI is an 18-member advisory body, established in 1992, that makes recommendations to the U.S. Secretary of Education on "matters related to accreditation and to the eligibility and certification process for institutions of higher education."
More than four in ten Americans have a positive view of socialism -- 43 percent -- only 12 points lower than the 55 percent who view capitalism positively, a recent Gallup survey revealed.
The survey asked respondents if they have a negative or positive image of small business, free enterprise, capitalism, socialism, and big business.
Small business had the highest rating at 95 percent positive, followed by free enterprise with 77 percent positive, and capitalism with a 55 percent positive rating.
However, 43 percent now have a positive view of socialism. This is "the first time this figure has exceeded 39% in Gallup's trend since 2010," Gallup reported.
Democrats' view of socialism has grown more positive over the past several years. More than half, 57 percent, had a positive view of socialism in 2018. Now, that figure among Democrats stands at 65 percent. Coinciding with that is the fact that Democrats view capitalism less favorably, dropping from 42 percent in 2025 to 35 percent in 2026.
Similarly, independents are cozying up to the ideology. In the last year alone, independents went from a 37 percent positive view of socialism to 45 percent.
Feminist Karens are always contriving fake reasons that men aren't allowed to see attractive women. Rather than admitting what it is -- simple catty jealousy -- they spam out fake political reasons. Oh, it's not just that we're bitter jelly wallflowers. It's that we don't want to see female athletes sexualized.
They don't explain why they've never objected to all the naked female athletes in the Sports Illustrated "Body" issues.
They also don't explain why they don't object to male athletes like David Beckham wearing just their skivvies in ads. See, that's just "modeling" this horrid and vapid feminist femsplains.Feminists are very fond of the "It's Different Because I Said So" style of argument, you may have noticed.
Not only do transgenders experience fewer murders than the general population, but the murders they experience are committed by their "intimate partners," not strangers attempting a "trans erasure."
Transgender people are murdered at lower rates than the overall US population -- and when they are, the killer's primary motive is usually not bias, according to a pair of researchers.
The findings, published by the right-leaning Manhattan Institute's Vincent Lundgren and Colin Wright earlier this year, seemingly debunk claims by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and other nonprofit organizations that there is an "epidemic" of deadly violence against the trangender community driven by "transphobia" and even "white supremacy."
"Transgender people are less likely to be murdered than the rest of the population, most transgender people are murdered by members of their own race, and intimate partner violence -- not hate -- is the leading identified motive for most such murders," Lundgren and Wright found.
The researchers investigated more than 300 murder cases dating back to 2015 where the victim was transgender.
In the cases where suspects were identified, black suspects accounted for 65% of perpetrators, while white suspects accounted for 18%.
"This finding is not the result of one bad year or a handful of outlier cases," the researchers stated.
The report noted that in 2020 -- the year HRC attributed the deaths of "our Black trans siblings" to "an epidemic of violence" fueled by "systems of white supremacy" -- not a single white suspect was identified in the cases the Manhattan Institute researchers verified.
Confirmed hate crimes were only found in 3.3% of cases the Manhattan Institute studied.
"The leading identified circumstance of the murders was instead intimate partner violence," the researchers wrote. "Other common circumstances included sex-work encounters, disputes, robbery, and other forms of interpersonal conflict."
"In other words, the dominant pattern is not hateful white men hunting down black transgender victims because of racism and transphobia," they continued. "It is violence between people who know each other, sleep with each other, live around each other, or encounter each other in high-risk contexts."
The researchers also found that between 2010-2014 the transgender murder rate was roughly one-seventh what it was for the general population.
During that 5-year stretch, 3.66 per 100,000 transgender people were murdered. The rate among the general population was 25.8 per 100,000.
They found the homicide rate of young black transgender women (69% of all victims) to be "approximately one quarter that of young Black non-transgender men."
"Misleadingly, these male victims are usually compared with black non-transgender women (females), which makes their homicide rate look unusually high for 'women,'" the researchers noted.
HRC did not immediately respond to The Post's request for comment.
The Dutch have reported that their first euthanasia of a baby went well with no complications, except for killing a baby, of course.
The full Converse ad that professional and semi-pro Grievance Grifters pretend is a KKK dog whistle. When you see the whole video, you better appreciate how completely fabricated this latest Race Hoax is.
A Maryland Renaissance Festival has done what was necessary and banned the furries.
While Ren Fest is a chance to dress up in creative costumes, organizers say one look is not welcome this year: Furries.
Specifically, the festival has banned "fursuits."
"Our decision to specifically prohibit fursuits is based on repeated incidents with patrons wearing said costumes at the festival," organizers announced in the spring, accusing wearers of "behaviors that have made other patrons uncomfortable," "unauthorized performances" and "the open refusal to respect or cooperate with festival staff/security/and first aid."
Fursuits are now banned under the festival's "headwear restrictions."
"All headwear must be removable, thematic to the event, and appropriate for a family-friendly venue. Face-covering must be removed upon entering the village gate after which they can be worn as intended," the event's website reads. "Inappropriate, offensive, and non-thematic headwear will not be permitted through the festival gates. Examples of non-compliant headgear/face coverings include inappropriate face paint, offensive prosthetics, make up or masks intended to frighten, and fursuits."
I've never been to a Ren Faire -- yet -- but when I do go, I hope to see people in dark-ages era outfits, especially busty girls with low necklines.
I don't want to see a bunch of smelly autistic perverts in Sexy Wolf costumes.
Adult female toddler has meltdown over the fact that her old female friends are now married with families and so can't go out to half-price margaritas night at Chi-Chi's at the drop of a hat like they used to.
Transgender substitute teacher at a high school said a Mexican-American studies classroom made him feel "good" after he saw a "progress pride" flag hanging next to the Mexican flag.
He added that he prefers teaching high school because, when he worked in elementary school, he had a lot of problems with parents.
Just to add some context about who they're dealing with. He made a video about being triggered after he was misgendered and wife is a biological woman who is also transgender and identifies as a man.
Why are older women pretending to be 11-year-old boys for whom everything is a juvenile sex reference? Here some aging leftwing Karens show off "ham sandwiches" which they've altered to better resemble their vaginas.
No seriously why are they literally all like this?
BREAKING UPDATE: Laura Russell, the anti-Trump trans activist arrested for B*STIALITY, just pleaded GUILTY to 11 counts of "animal crushing" after video evidence showed disturbing s*xual abuse of dogs.
Russell now faces a potential total sentence of up to 77 years in prison and…
Woke anti-Israel activist Hannah Gann has been dubbed the “Palestinian Rachel Dolezal” after being exposed as a white Jewish woman who misrepresented her identity for years.
Perfect: Nikole Hannah-Jones Didn't Just Send Her Daughter to a Failing School, She Sent Her Daughter to a School That Teaches Her Fraudulent "1619" Agenda
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I didn't highlight an important part of Nikole Hannah-Jones' virtue-sacrificing of her daughter to boost her career as a professional race hustler. I rage-quit the article just a thousand words in.
Toward the end of first grade, Najya started sometimes saying she didn't like her school and complaining how chaotic it was at lunch. I decided to visit during the lunch period and was shocked by what I saw. Najya's class and another class were sitting at their tables in the cafeteria with no lunch and no adult supervision. Children were running wild, chasing, hitting and pushing each other while the teacher's aides and cafeteria workers stood by looking bored.
Several times, I had to instruct children to stop striking each other and to sit down, at one point physically pulling two boys apart. When I asked one of the aides why the children weren't being supervised, she told me the lunch period was short-staffed. After I sat back down with Najya, she told me, "It's always like this, and that's why I don't want to go to this school."
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Finally, a few days before school let out for winter break, I received a folder in Najya's backpack with the math assignments I had been requesting since our conference. Once I tucked her into bed, I sat at my dining room table and scanned one page, then another and another. None of them were graded. I started checking Najya's work and discovered most of her answers were wrong. Najya believed herself to be good at math -- it was her favorite subject. But now I understood she thought she was correctly solving all her problems because her teacher was not checking her work. Similarly, Najya's writing assignments were rife with uncorrected punctuation, capitalization and grammar errors.
This isn't a question of money, this is a result of poisonous leftwing policy imperatives about "equity," insisting that grades are anti-equity as they separate good learners from poor ones, and that punishing any student is likewise anti-equity because good-behaving students aren't punished at all.
By abandoning all standards, a single standard is selected by default: the standard of the sewer, the standard of the pit.
Peachy Keenan
@KeenanPeachy
Why am I just learning now that public schools in the New York city ghetto don't assign homework, don't grade tests, don't respond to parents emails or phone calls, don't supervise feral, fighting kids at lunch, don't know or care if their students can read or do grade level math, and give them As on their report cards when they are actually doing F level work?
Why did Nikole Hannah Jones bury this explosive lede?
Why isn't she writing emergency front page @nytimes stories about this shocking, incredible, abject citywide failure that costs people who pay taxes over $50K per student per year?
Why isn't she holding emergency all-hands on deck meetings with @NYCMayor
to shut this down, rescue these kids, fire everyone involved?
We all know why. But no one at the Times will say a word. LOL
Giving high school diplomas and 4.0 GPAs out to illiterate 18 year olds as reparations
it's really just as simple as that
"Equity" is the only thing that matters. It's pure Harrison Bergeron.
It has nothing at all to do with ending all disciplining, suspension, and expulsion of chronically disruptive and even violent black students.
The Federalist notes that the deranged narcissist Nikole Hannah-Jones just happened to Virtue-Sacrifice her daughter at a shithole school that didn't teach students anything, but did waste time teaching her debunked, fraudulent "1619" thesis.
The failing school that race-grifter Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her child to used Hannah-Jones' ahistorical 1619 Project as part of its curriculum, public records show.
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In 2022, Najya would have been in seventh grade and therefore a student at Unison for two years of the 1619 fabrications.
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The basic premise of the 1619 Project is that the true founding of America happened in 1619 when the first slave ships with Africans arrived. Everything that happened after that, including the American Revolution, was really for the express purpose of continuing the institution of slavery, as opposed to any grander purpose like freedom, liberty, and self-determination. It is an "antiracist" project that has suffered withering rebuttals from historians across the political spectrum for its numerous errors, but the race-essentialist lens that undergirds it goes far beyond the false telling of history.
The "antiracist" movement as a whole means curricula across subjects, school policies on discipline, and grading are all rearranged to coddle particular groups of students based on skin color, while ignoring everyone else. Unsurprisingly then, "antiracism" is the essential premise of Hannah-Jones' essay, even though she tries not to admit it, and the "antiracist" elements described above were deeply embedded in the school she selected.
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The racial programming appeared to work, as Najya herself, when looking for a more rigorous high school, said, "I'd never been in a school with white kids and don't think I really wanted that," but between it all, the true consequences of 1619-informed "antiracism" came out as well.
"Unison had eliminated homework because studies show that it does not have much impact on academic achievement, and that assigning it often sets up for failure students who are so academically behind that they cannot do the work on their own."
Some kids can't do homework therefore "equity" demands that no students do homework, including the more advanced students who could actually gain from it.
" Under the Unison system, students completed their assignments during class time where a teacher could guide and help if they got stuck. But for students like Najya, this practice proved absolutely harmful," Hannah-Jones admitted. "She'd bemoan how the less experienced teachers struggled to manage their classrooms and would expend so much attention on the small number of kids acting out that they'd be unable to complete their lessons or help a student stuck on a problem. There were occasionally fights in the hallway."
Instead of disciplining any children who acted out in class, teachers had to "refocus students and mitigate conflict" in real-time, meaning they had very little opportunity for actual class instruction. In the same sentence, Hannah-Jones claims that "this is good educational practice," and then adds, "but kids like Najya, who were just trying to do their work, saw this treatment as deeply unfair."
In reality such policies are unfair because not disciplining students deprives both misbehaving students and their more studious peers of educational consistency throughout the day. Like not assigning homework, or "equity grading," there is no accountability or rigor during or outside the school day, and students in such schools often end up advancing years in school while remaining academically stunted.
When her ill-prepared daughter finally went to a more academically focused school -- which was attended mostly by (spit) whites and (spit) Asians -- she found that her shithole school fake education left her woefully unprepared.
Her A's and B's at Unison amounted to failing grades in high school. She struggled to keep up with homework assignments and nightly reading, and because she "had never been taught the skills of independent study, ... suddenly the child whose identity had been the nerdy honors student was working harder than she ever had and barely keeping up."
An algebra tutoring center told Hannah-Jones that "Najya knew very little algebra and had huge gaps in many of the building blocks of math that she should have learned in elementary school, like mastery of long division and fractions."
Remember, the only problems here are "racism" and white people not paying enough in taxes to "resource" these schools properly. The problem is definitely not the destructive left-wing cult of "equity" that left-wing blacks have forced on their own children.
Don't worry, guys -- Randi Weingarten says she's going to figure out Who's Responsible For This.
Supreme Court Now Okays Trump's Plan to Allow States to Use Federal Databases to Screen the Voter Lists for Ineligible Voters
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Supreme Court had previously joined in the left-wing plan to delay implementation of Trump's Executive Order until it was late enough in the season that they could claim it would cause "chaos" to implement it so late.
Now it blesses not a screening of mail-in ballots -- that would still cause "chaos," I guess -- but the simple use by states (at their discretion; left-wing governments won't screen ballots) of the Social Security databases to discover if a voter is a citizen or not.
The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to move forward with its plan to use a modified centralized database to verify voters' citizenship. In a seven-page opinion issued just 39 days before the Nov. 3, 2026, election, the justices paused a ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that had blocked the government from doing so on the ground that it violated (among other things) federal privacy laws.
The unsigned opinion for the majority indicated that the lower court's order "inhibits the Federal Government's efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper administration of the midterm elections."
In a dissenting opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called Friday's decision a "questionable interim ruling[] about two statutory provisions" that the Supreme Court "has never before interpreted." She also contended that the majority "focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the" use of the modified database "has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters."
If you're surprised to see the left-wing minority dissent quoted more than the actual ruling of the court, you must be new here.
The dispute dates back to late March, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order that (among other things) directed the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to set up systems that would permit state and local governments to verify voters' citizenship and immigration status. Those agencies then modified the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, known as the SAVE system, to include the records of U.S.-born citizens, to give it access to Social Security numbers, and to allow users to conduct multiple searches simultaneously.
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Sooknanan wrote that "the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote." Moreover, she continued, "states have partnered with the federal government to access the database and are actively removing United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information."
Boy lower court rulings sure are being highlighted here.
I wonder what the actual Supreme Court just ruled? You know, the actual newsorthy information?
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U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer went to the Supreme Court on Sept. 8, asking the justices to freeze Sooknanan's ruling while the litigation continues. Sooknanan's decision, he wrote, was an "indefensible order that threatens the integrity of upcoming elections by vacating the federal government's authority to internally use Social Security data when fulfilling its duty to respond to requests by States to verify the citizenship of individuals for voting and other purposes." Moreover, he argued, Sooknanan did not have the power to enter her order because the challengers do not have a legal right to sue, known as standing. Among other things, he contended, the federal government is not the source of any injury that the challengers and their members might suffer, because the SAVE system "merely notifies the States whether the federal government can confirm citizenship."
I'm omitting the next three paragraphs, which extensively quote the plaintiff's arguments. Not a lot about the arguments that actually prevailed.
The majority rejected the challengers' contention that the use of the modified SAVE system violates the Social Security Act, the Privacy Act, and the federal law governing administrative agencies. It explained that in a federal immigration law enacted in 1996, "Congress ... separately and expressly authorized DHS to request and receive information relating to citizenship and immigration status from other agencies, including SSA."
The Supreme Court has also "often granted" review (another factor in determining whether to award emergency relief), the majority wrote, "where a lower court has set aside an important federal program" -- which, it appeared to suggest, the modified SAVE system is.
Moreover, the majority added, the federal government will suffer permanent harm (yet another factor that courts consider) if the district court's order remains in place. Under federal immigration law, the majority reasoned, "the Federal Government has an obligation to respond to requests from state and local election officials seeking to verify the citizenship of voters. The order below prevents the Federal Government from using the program it believes is best suited to the task."
Unrelated: Obama wants to create a censorship board stuffed with leftists and NeverTrumpers to patrol people's speech.
Say, Obama, if you're so against "disinformation," why have you not stepped up to condemn the lies about a "lynching crisis"?
Ever notice that the censorship police never object to left-wing conspiracy theories?
AOC’s narrative about Black People being lynched in America is officially a HOAX. Each of the 10 people she claimed were lynched was investigated and here’s what they found
- 9 were suicide - 1 was murder by a black perpetrator
This left-wing pussy says that the UK must implement strict censorship policies to stop all of the "misinformation" people believe about the UK having a two-tiered police system and other such scandals, but can't name a single actual "misinformation" claim put into people's minds by Russia.
“What piece of Misinformation has been seeded in the Minds of British people by Vladimir Putin?”
“I’ll ask you again - What piece of Misinformation was seeded in the Minds of British people by Vladimir Putin?”
But also, Gavin Newsom and California Democrats openly brag of giving welfare to illegal aliens, "legal or not."
California runs the nation's largest welfare system, devoting more than $180 billion annually to food, health care, and other programs for the poor and downtrodden. To sustain the arrangement, the state imposes the nation's highest tax rates.
In theory, these programs are supposed to help struggling Californians. In reality, many serve large numbers of illegal immigrants. Today, California oversees a shadow welfare system that allows noncitizens to receive health care, rental assistance, college grants, tax credits, low-cost car insurance, and even smartphones on the taxpayers' dime.
We visited four public-services offices in Southern California, each of which admitted that illegal aliens can enroll in public-welfare programs or receive benefits on their children's behalf. In total, California taxpayers spent at least $11 billion subsidizing illegal immigrants in the last fiscal year. The state's shadow welfare system, it seems, shows no signs of slowing down.
Local officials were remarkably transparent. In Glendale, we spoke to a welfare officer about California's Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI), a state-funded alternative to Supplemental Security Income that provides monthly cash assistance to low-income noncitizens who are elderly or disabled.
"If [you are] a citizen, you cannot get CAPI," he said. "I don't care about legal or not. Not being [a] citizen [is the key]."
In Los Angeles, we heard more of the same. We asked another welfare officer about the benefits available to illegal immigrants and their children. While some state programs are closed to illegals, we learned, they are open to those aliens' U.S.-born children.
"If you were born here and the child was born here, you get money for two," the officer said of CalWORKs, the state's version of the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. "Because she is not and the child is, she only gets money for the child, and not for her."
These benefits add up. In California, illegal immigrants can qualify for CAPI, public health insurance, and various tax credits. Their children qualify for others, including CalWORKs and, as in other states, Section 8 rental subsidies. All told, a family of five in California with two illegal-alien parents, two U.S.-born children, and one illegal-alien grandparent can receive public services worth more than $100,000 per year.
State leaders are proud of it. In a recent podcast episode, Governor Gavin Newsom bragged about his "controversial" decision to extend Medi-Cal coverage to illegal immigrants. His wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, encouraged people to sign up for the California Earned Income Tax Credit, a program whose promotional materials assure applicants that "no Social Security number" is "no problem."
The governor's office did not respond to our comment request by deadline.
And the left is going to hate this crop of refugees, because they're actually refugees.
The Trump administration plans to cap next year's refugee inflow at 17,500 people, down from the 125,000 target set under President Joe Biden.
The State Department laid out the plan in a notice sent to Congress on Tuesday, a week before the 2027 fiscal year opens in October. Admissions will "primarily be Afrikaners from South Africa," the notice says, naming the Afrikaans-speaking white minority descended from Dutch and French settlers.
Biden's agencies set the 125,000 target in his last year in office. Resettlement contractors put the long-run average at roughly 92,000 a year since the program started in 1980. Trump's first term bottomed out at 15,000.
The administration set last year's ceiling at 7,500, then lifted it to 17,500 after declaring that unforeseen developments in South Africa had created an emergency. Next year's number holds at that level.
Transgender Activists Say That Men Stealing Gold Medals from Women "Just Isn't a Thing That Really Happens." A New Report Says that Men Have Stolen 2,300 Gold Medals from Women Over The Past 40 Years.
Transgender athletes have stripped women and girls of nearly 2,300 gold medals and more than $500,000 in prize money over the past four decades, according to an analysis from a conservative think tank.
Athletes competing in sports events that don't match their birth sex have bumped biological women out of championship spots 2,293 times since the mid-1980s, according to the evangelical-leaning public policy nonprofit, Concerned Women for America.
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The group also found that trans athletes, who were born "male," have "stolen" $501,498 in prize money from women and girls in professional sports.
For the report , the think tank analyzed data from a HeCheated.org, a volunteer-run online database that documents instances of trans women athletes participating in female sports events.
In total, it reportedly found they have competed in more than 14,301 female sporting events, including amateur and professional.
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High school long jumper AB Hernandez also sparked outrage in May after the trans teen, who was born male, dominated multiple girls track and field events at a California regional event.
Male cheaters stealing medals and scholarships from actual female athletes was the subject of a Senate hearing, which Democrats, of course, denounced and then completely boycotted.
"Women were last to get the vote, to participate in professions, to serve on juries, [and] get credit cards in their own names," said Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. "Women should not be asked again to cede their opportunities just to make men comfortable," trading "their gold medals for [participation] trophies."
It's no "coincidence" that male participation in women's sports is growing amid viewership records and rising pay, Grassley said, crediting his home state's basketball legend Caitlin Clark for the spike in WNBA player salaries in this year's collective bargaining agreement.
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Republicans repeatedly harped on Democrats for taking their ball and going home rather than hear out the witnesses. The panel's top Democrat, Illinois's Dick Durbin, said the issue is a low priority for Americans and called the hearing a "vendetta" against a tiny minority before leaving.
Moody trashed House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries for calling the GOP's Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act the "Child Predator Empowerment Act," based on activist talking points and false reporting that sex verification requires genital inspection.
Ceding a podium to a male has become an "institutionalized, sanctioned humiliation ritual" for female athletes, said Independent Council on Women's Sports cofounder Kim Jones, once an All-American tennis player at Stanford. Her daughter competed against and shared a locker room with male swimmer Lia Thomas, who famously took a trophy from Riley Gaines.
A couple of clips from that hearing are below the fold.
By the way, the reporter for that article notes that the Senate is currently allowing a bill to protect women in sports to languish without being passed. He points out that Republican senators never mentioned that bill -- choosing, as usual, rhetoric and sound-bites over actual action.
Fair point.
A former therapist at a Welsh gender clinic reports that the "diagnostic criteria" to "screen" kids (and adults) for "transgendeismr" is designed to basically screen ineverybody.
Serious and obvious mental illnesses are routinely ignored so that the pre-determined diagnosis of "gender dysphoria" can be officially entered.
For the first six months or so, despite thinking it was "a bit odd", Anna went along with it. Eventually she started raising questions. "My concerns were that somebody could meet the diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria or transsexualism, but it wasn't about gender. Somebody I remember very, very clearly, was a young woman, who was identifying as a man. She had very large breasts, and she wanted cross-sex hormones. She wanted testosterone and she wanted her breasts to be removed. Okay. But her history was that she had been sexually abused for many years by her father, and the sexual abuse was around her breasts. It's so bloody obvious. I could stand next to somebody at a bus stop and say "What do you think of that?" And they'd say, "Of course you'd need to think about the sexual abuse." Of course you would. But at the gender clinic, she met the diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria. So she went through."
Anna also quickly became aware that "about 50%" of the clinic's referrals had a diagnosis of autism. "But I would guess a further 20%, maybe more, had undiagnosed autism or something very similar. They had very fixed beliefs, eg if I feel uncomfortable in my body, then I need to be somebody else. Things were expressed in a very concrete way: If I become a man, if I become a woman, if I get this such-and-such removed, that's going to solve my problems."
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Anna thought her job was "exploration", but this was "hardly done at all. It was done a bit, but hardly at all. The overriding thing was, do they meet the diagnostic criteria? And I suppose I kept saying, till I was blue in the face, you can meet the diagnostic criteria, but it's not about gender. It's about other things."
Like autism, schizophrenia, previous sexual abuse -- all ignored, with therapists directed to just keep checking the literal check boxes for gender dysphoria.
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As for the women... "I would sit and almost want to weep because a young woman would come in and say "Oh, well, I'm not into dresses, I'm not feminine, I'm attracted to other women. So I'm wondering whether actually I am a man?" And I would think you're a lesbian. You're a gay woman. But again, they'd meet the diagnostic criteria. So...."
Yikes on bikes, obviously the correct diagnosis is "Lesbianism with complicating long covid."
This is the worst part, which I hadn't heard before, though I guess it's obvious.
Puberty blockers stop the maturation of the body -- and the brain.
She says that kids given puberty blockers remain child-minded even as they become young adults.
Another chilling example Anna gave was her experience of dealing with 18 year olds who had been put on puberty blockers whilst at the Tavistock children's gender clinic. "Because they'd been on puberty blockers, it felt like being in the room with a 13 or 14 year old. Cognitively and emotionally, it felt like somebody much younger to the point where, as a team, it felt like we were working in an adolescent service. But we were an adult service. I'd never worked with adolescents. It's a different field. So I suppose we were... I wouldn't say out of our depth, but it was uncomfortable."
I pick Anna up on the point about cognition. Was she saying that these teenagers' mental development had slowed?
"Totally, yeah. Totally. And I can remember we had a training session with some of the endocrinologists from the Tavistock children's gender identity service. And I put that to them and they went, "No, no, no. There's no evidence for that." I said, "well, that's what I'm seeing", but they were just: "No, no, no. That's not a thing"."
— Dr P. Accurate sex-recognition is a human right (@Psychgirl211) September 16, 2026
Democrats did not show up to today’s hearing on protecting women’s sports. They had no witnesses and asked no questions because they know their position is indefensible.
We are going to keep defending Title IX and the opportunities our daughters and granddaughters have earned. pic.twitter.com/Aqxr1j8R0b
Senator Durbin on hearing about protecting girls in sports: “I refuse to treat this hearing like a responsible exercise of this committee. I will not ask questions.” pic.twitter.com/KkdG0i9Gbs
You don't have to agree with every proposal at a hearing, but refusing to even engage…
Illegal aliens are first-tier citizens, somehow. Actual US citizens are second-tier, at best.
Ashe Short:
District attorneys across the country are accused of providing illegal immigrants preferential treatment when they commit crimes, allowing them to remain free in the country and put U.S. citizens' lives at risk. The related reports seem to indicate that when the arrested person is a U.S. citizen, they are denied much of the leniency shown to illegal immigrants accused of the same crime.
The House Judiciary Committee and its Immigration Subcommittee released a report this week detailing how Arlington County, Virginia's Commonwealth's Attorney, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, "obstructs the enforcement of federal immigration law and shields foreign national criminals from accountability." Dehghani-Tafti's campaign received $515,000 from George Soros-affiliated political entities, Fox News reported last October.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data contained within the report showed that sanctuary jurisdictions -- cities that have vowed not to work with ICE -- have declined at least 41,085 detainers between Oct. 2022 and early 2026.
The Judiciary Committee's report included testimony from Dehghani-Tafti about her office's policy to shift outcomes for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients charged with Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) to ensure they don't lose their DACA status. "This policy ensures that certain foreign nationals are never convicted of DWI in Arlington County, [Virginia] solely due to their status as non-U.S. citizens," the Committee wrote.
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Arlington County's refusal to work with ICE also extends to cases involving felons and terrorists, the Committee found.
See the article for Harmeet Dhillon's investigation into scumbag Soros prosecutor Steve Descano, who let out an illegal alien who promptly committed murder. Discriminating against US citizens is a constitutional conspiracy against civil rights.
Across the country in Boulder County, Colorado, District Attorney Michael Dougherty's published policy states that prosecutors in his jurisdiction must consider collateral effects when it comes to illegal immigrants committing certain crimes....
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In 2017, illegal immigrant Ever Valles shot and killed 32-year-old landscaper Timothy Cruz. Valles had previously been protected from an ICE detainer when he was released from prison without officials informing ICE, per sanctuary city policy.
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Philadelphia's DA Larry Krasner also uses the policy that "low-level and nonviolent crimes should not lead to deportation or necessarily risk one's immigration status." Jordan also subpoenaed his office in May.
"In fact, you created an Immigration Counsel position within your office to evaluate cases involving non-U.S. citizens so that foreign nationals 'can avoid unnecessary and unjust consequences' -- in other words, to shield criminal aliens from deportation," Jordan wrote. "You also openly boast about how your policies have resulted in criminal aliens being released onto Philadelphia streets, free to reoffend. Even in cases involving murder or crimes against minors, a prosecutor in your office may still consider a criminal alien's potential deportation or other immigration consequences in making prosecution decisions."
Cambridge University: We Have Cancelled Our Promised Investigation Into How Unqualified Fabulist Jason Arday Was Hired. Instead We Will Investigate How We Failed to "Support" Him and Other DEI Incompetents and Plagiarists.
Cambridge University has decided against investigating how and why the late professor Jason Arday was hired despite his lack of qualifications and will instead look into whether staff offered him sufficient support after he was accused of plagiarizing large sections of his published work and fabricating a series of personal achievements.
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The day before Arday's death, Cambridge pledged to investigate "the circumstances around his appointment" in response to evidence that he plagiarized portions of his doctoral thesis and made highly dubious claims about his personal life. "That investigation must be thorough and transparent, and will be carried out independently by senior academics from within and beyond Cambridge," Vice-Chancellor Deborah Prentice wrote.
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Former prosecutor Nazir Afzal, who is tasked with leading the new investigation, said recently that the probe is "not about the allegations made against Professor Arday or about his academic record" and will instead focus on "his welfare, his care, his well-being."
THE MORNING RANT: The Awful Precedent of the Clancy Trial’s Juror-Harassment
—Buck Throckmorton
A terrifying precedent was set in the Lindsay Clancy trial, as Boston media outlets engaged in a multi-prong hit job on the lone juror who refused to acquit Mrs. Clancy for the murder of her children.
Going forward, any juror who remains true to his conscience and doesn’t submit to the mob knows that the media may dox him. Every negative event in his life could be exposed, and the media has now shown that it will provide identifying information to activists who wish to harass or harm a “wrongthink” juror.
The media has normalized putting jurors themselves on trial if they don’t issue the “correct” verdict.
Can you imaging being a juror in a trial involving a drug cartel? With the Clancy precedent, any juror who convicts a cartel member can have his life and address exposed for convicting a “migrant dreamer” who got a little sideways with the law.
Boston Herald Opinion columnist Wendy Murphy started an editorial with these chilling words: “Now that the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case is getting the negative attention he deserves…”
”…the negative attention he deserves…” spoken about a juror by a mainstream media outlet is a terrifying thing to read. These are the words you’d expect from a foot soldier for the likes of Mao or Stalin.
Meanwhile, Ryan Kath of “NBC 10” in Boston decided to dig up and publicize criminal “allegations” against the juror, even though there was not an actual criminal record. Mr. Kath also reported on family gossip regarding the juror, and Kath even found it newsworthy that the targeted juror was late in making rent payments. This is juror intimidation, and the message is clear about the punishment that awaits future jurors who won’t betray their conscience to reach the media’s preferred verdict.
The NBC10 Boston Investigators are uncovering new details about the lone holdout juror from the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Court documents and interviews with family members reveal a history of domestic violence allegations. We discovered a pending eviction case tied to months of not paying rent.
A story the @NBC10Boston Investigators have been piecing together all week: Domestic violence allegations and eviction records raise questions about the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial https://t.co/Y6iN9EfoOa
Suffice it to say, NBC 10 Boston did not investigate any criminal allegations or financial delinquency of the jurors who voted “correctly.” Message received. The privacy and anonymity of the jury room has been invaded by the hostile media.
As a young man several decades back, I was on a jury in which we found the defendant guilty of aggravated manslaughter. He and his partner were shoplifting goods for a fencing ring, and when a security guard pursued them into the parking lot and tried to block their panel van from getting away, the defendant (who was driving) ran the security guard over, killing him. (The other shoplifter pleaded out to a lesser charge.) Knowing that the defendant who I sent to jail was part of a larger criminal ring, I was a little concerned for my safety if my name were to be released. The judge assured us jurors that our anonymity would be protected, and the media back in the day respected it. That is clearly not the case any longer.
Jury duty is a necessary act of citizenship – one that too many good people try to avoid. But if honorable people who don’t want the worst day of their lives exposed by the media are made to fear serving on a jury, fair trials will be a thing of the past.
While it is against the law in most states to threaten, intimidate or harass jurors, it is generally not specifically illegal to disclose their names. Therefore, it is effectively legal for the media to dox jurors so that their political allies can inflict street punishment. The next time a Daniel Penny or Kyle Rittenhouse is railroaded into a murder trial, we can expect the full force of the national media to intimidate any juror who won’t convict.
This has to stop. Jurors must not fear retribution for being the target of media opprobrium. Red states need to codify that it is illegal for the media to reveal jurors names and personal information, and if we ever get a Republican Congress that is capable of actually passing laws, it too should pass legislation on a national basis to protect jurors from media doxxing.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced the creation of a National Centre for Information Defence, aimed at countering alleged foreign disinformation and “information attacks.” The center will collaborate with intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and social media platforms to address what the government characterizes as threats, using Russia as the main pretext...Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage likened the move to a “Ministry of Truth,” while the Big Brother Watch organization raised concerns over potential targeting of lawful domestic speech under the guise of countering disinformation.
Now, it’s the BBC’s turn. The British broadcasters’ blatant censorship of classic comedy feels straight out of the Summer of Love era.
The BBC confirmed earlier this week that jokes featured in David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s show [“That Mitchell and Webb Look”] had been cut ahead of it being restored to iPlayer for its 20th anniversary.
As many as 11 sketches were removed, including a self-referential skit in which Mitchell and Webb joked about the appropriateness of Blackface while in Blackface. This wasn’t just”blackface” references like the ones Tina Fey personally erased in 2020. This involves several skits now deemed unacceptable to the far-Left BBC.
So comedy legend John Cleese railed against the decision. “If the BBC could prioritise making great programmes ahead of social engineering they might be worth the licence fee,” he wrote.
Massachusetts Man Sentenced to Almost 10 Years in Prison for Threatening to Injure Congressman Randy Fine and His Children
Orlando, Florida – Edwin Guerrero (26, MA) has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Anne-Leigh Gaylord Moe to 9 years and 11 months in federal prison and a $15,000 fine for making interstate threats to injure the person of another. Guerrero pleaded guilty on March 23, 2026. United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe made the announcement...“Looks like I’m taking a little field trip to brevard county Florida let’s play a game @VoteRandyFine” from an IP address in Spain. Attached to the post was a photo of an individual holding what appears to be a firearm.
“@VoteRandyFine when he steps out in Florida don’t worry your 2 little precious. Jewish boys will suffer the same fate.” from an IP address in Spain. Attached to the post was a photo of a deceased male with significant head trauma.
“This is gonna be Randy Fine very very soon … see you in Florida !” from an IP address in Spain. Attached to the post was the same photo of a deceased male with significant head trauma.“Why don’t you show us where you’re at? @VoteRandyFine your scared of getting your brains blown in ? Don’t worry we’ll make sure your sons watch …” from an IP address in Spain.
For many American Jews, Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he entered New York did not sound like another campaign promise. It sounded like a perilous threat.
Had the statement been uttered in isolation, it might have been dismissed as political theater. It was not heard in isolation. It came after nearly two years in which the October 7 massacre was followed, not by a sustained moral reckoning with Hamas, but by an extraordinary wave of hostility directed toward Israel and, increasingly, toward Jewish communities themselves. University campuses became sites of intimidation. Synagogues and Jewish institutions strengthened security.
Early Wednesday morning, a man wielding what appears to be a knife chased an identifiably Jewish yeshiva student down a Crown Heights residential street after threatening him and throwing trash cans in his direction. Security footage posted by Crown Heights Shmira Patrol (CHSP) shows the student reaching the safety of his doorway before the assailant, who can be heard shouting, "Now I know where you live" and "Heil f***ing Hitler!," is able to physically assault him. He did, however, allegedly slash the tires of bicycles on the property, according to a COLlive report. NYPD officers eventually arrested the suspect after he had managed to escape from them by jumping over fences. In another incident on Wednesday, a rabbi was not fortunate enough to avoid physical assault, this time in Boro Park, which, like Crown Heights, has a large Hasidic population. The Boro Park Shomrim neighborhood watch group released video of a man beating the rabbi with his fists. The man was later arrested.
Lest you think I'm focusing in on this merely because of the Jewish aspect of it, the Democrat Socialites and the Democrats in general have got every single normal American in their crosshairs. You will bend to their will or be liquidated. Meh, they're hell bent on the liquidation as the means to their end — absolute power, forever.
We should have had a national conversation about Democrat violence back in 2017, when an Illinois Democrat and Bernie Sanders supporter attempted to assassinate an entire baseball team of Republican members of the U.S. House and Senate. While the would-be assassin failed to murder anyone before being neutralized, he did manage to shoot four people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was one of two critically injured. The mass murder attempt could have easily been much worse. Twenty-four Republican congressmen were on the field that day, and had the Democrat assassin been successful, he would have substantially shifted the balance of power in Congress. It was an unprecedented attack on one of the three branches of the federal government.
Instead of acknowledging the seriousness of Democrat violence, Establishment Republicans and Democrats joined hands and pretended that the assassination attempt was the fault of “both parties.” Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake lectured the country to “tone it down” because “discourse” had “gotten out of hand…on all sides” — which was his way of blaming newly-inaugurated President Trump for saying things that might provoke a Democrat to murder two dozen Republican congressmen. . . The FBI’s ludicrous efforts to cover up the partisan nature of the attack reflected Establishment Washington’s similarly ludicrous framing of the assassination attempt as a natural and justified response to President Trump’s political rhetoric. Unofficially, D.C.’s “ruling class” seemed to be saying that President Trump and his MAGA supporters deserved to be attacked.
Jim Copenhaver, 76, a spectator shot at the July 13, 2024 Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, reportedly died on Wednesday. Copenhaver was critically wounded on July 13, 2024, during the assassination attempt of President Donald Trump at the rally... Copenhaver was sitting in bleacher C, two seats away from fellow shooting survivor David Dutch when the shooting started. Corey Comperatore, the 50-year-old volunteer firefighter who was killed shielding his family, was seated in a separate section to the left of the podium. One of the bullets grazed President Trump’s upper right ear, “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head,” according to former White House physician Ronny Jackson.
A new Government Accountability Office audit says ICE launched a plan to open 24 warehouse detention facilities by November 2026. Between January and April, it purchased 11 warehouses for about $1.07 billion. Then the plan started coming apart. The Deportation Push Needed More Beds, Not $20 Million in Waste
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The announcement has drawn sharp criticism from civil liberties groups and political figures who warn the initiative could lead to censorship and abuse of power. Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage likened the move to a “Ministry of Truth,” while the Big Brother Watch organization raised concerns over potential targeting of lawful domestic speech under the guise of countering disinformation. UK Govt Announces New ‘Ministry of Truth’ to Tackle Alleged Disinformation.
When Sonny Hostin of The View claimed this week that she was a holdout juror in the case of the "Butcher of Tompkins Square Park" back in 1991, it was horrifying and shocking because she was bragging about it. Receipts Show Sunny Hostin’s Holdout Juror Story Doesn’t Add Up
Commie influencer and fake tough guy Hasan Piker calls for a "Chinese-style" communist "cultural revolution" inside the Democrat Party. Why doesn't he move to China or Cuba? Hasan Piker: Fake Tough Guy
Thanks to foolish and self-defeating anti-industry government policies, a growing number of high-tech companies in the EU are packing up and leaving. Quantum Computing Flees Europe
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
In another incident on Wednesday, a rabbi was not fortunate enough to avoid physical assault, this time in Boro Park, which, like Crown Heights, has a large Hasidic population. The Boro Park Shomrim neighborhood watch group released video of a man beating the rabbi with his fists. The man was later arrested. The New Normal? Knife-Wielding Man Shouting ‘Heil Hitler’ Chases Jewish Student in NYC
Even less common than the weekly figures is how long the stretch of low claims. Since the start of the year, claims have averaged 209,947. This is the third time the average for the first thirty-eight weeks of the year has fallen this low. The previous two instances were in 1968 and 1969. The next lowest was 215,553 in 2019. Source: US Labor Department Jobless Claims Dip To 197,000, Year-to-Date Lowest Since 1969
Far-left candidates, especially members of the Democratic Socialists of America, are doubling down on the GND. Resurrecting the Green New Deal
...NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that Europe not building refineries and closing them down creates a vulnerability because if Russia attacked a NATO nation, there would be a large need for oil products, “and that is a big worry.” NATO Sec’y General: Europe Shutting Down Refineries ‘a Big Worry’ for Defense
Think about the implications of this. A private citizen answers a jury summons, sits through a gut-wrenching trial about three dead children, votes his conscience, and his reward is not only being forced into hiding, but also having the defense lawyer demand access to his phone. Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Just Crossed a Line With the Holdout Juror
John Stossel: The change began in 1985, when education theorist Jeannie Oakes wrote “Keeping Track,” a book that complained that tracking students created racially segregated classrooms. Axing gifted education hurts our kids, our classrooms — and us all (Let me axe you 'dis question! - jjs)
“It’s not really surprising to me that the anti-Israel groups on campus have invited as incendiary a speaker as Hasan Piker. In fact, it’s very much in keeping with the tactics of intimidation that they’ve been doing really as long as I’ve been at Cornell — which is approaching 19 years — but which has ramped up dramatically after October 7,” Jacobson told Fox News Digital. Hasan Piker Invited to Cornell by “Poisonous” Anti-American and Anti-Israel Movement
Massie said, “Look, I was the Republican who was speaking out for so long, and they were all, whatever Trump wants. They were all for it in their primaries. And now they’re about to take a shellacking here in the general election. So they’re running from him on on this and other issues, like the war.”Massie: Trump’s ‘Comeuppance Will Happen on Election Day’ (You can and must do better Kentucky! - jjs)
Former President Barack Obama claimed Thursday that Washington runs cleaner now than through most of its past, pointing to a collapse in bribes, patronage, and favor-trading. Obama Claims Government Less Corrupt Than Ever as Democrats Run on Issue (Well there are far fewer Bidens and Clintons in it than ever before - jjs)
The termination of fraudulent Obamacare enrollments is a normal CMS activity. The Trump administration is doing normal anti-fraud work with increased focus and seriousness. Stupid Democrats Are Lying About Obamacare Fraud
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Using the samples brought back from the rubble pile asteroid Bennu by the probe Osiris-REx, scientists now believe the asteroid formed in the inner solar system inside the orbit of Jupiter, not in solar system’s outer edge as previously theorized. Bennu formed in the inner solar system, not in its outer reaches
Happer became one of the twentieth century's most decorated atomic physicists, and one of its most contested climate scientists. William Happer: An Icon of Science
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Can anything good come out of Peoria? When considering the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Nathanael’s question, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” John 1:46 comes to mind. A boy from the sticks makes good, again? On Fulton Sheen
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Podcast: CBD is solo and just checking in! Trump's UN speech is a success, the Last Ditch Bar in Western MA keeps their lunacy in the spotlight, and the White House plays hardball with the media and the judiciary...as it should!
Somebody should write a book about the greatest drinking stories of O'Toole, Burton, Harris, and Caine. One of my faves was Richard Harris went on a six week bender in the South of France without telling wifey. Upon return, she's screaming, and he simply replied "why didn't you pay the ransom"?
Podcast: Did the SCOTUS leftists slow-walk the USPS decision, Newsom's mendacious pledge not to run if Harris does, Canada's return to the trade negotiations, AI fear-mongering, The Goo Goo Dolls are adults, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click, Guitar Hero Edition Oh here it comes
That funny feeling again winding me up inside
Every time we touch
Hey I don't know
Oh, tell me where to begin cause I never ever
Felt so much
Okay, that was pretty easy. Here's one that's 3% harder. But still easy. Ooh, can you feel the static?
So many contacts being made
We've got up-front fanatics
Tearing down the barricade
To reach the stage
Can you feel the rage?
Podcast: Is the Iran situation reaching a steady state? The UK sides with the enemies of the West, Vance the Squish? France and Germany and their coming elections, Canada trade war is one-sided, and Clancy is evil incarnate!
Dear RNC; Go f*ck yourselves. I have gotten 56 texts in the last two weeks...all offensive and sneaky and all begging for money. At this point I would rather donate to AOC. [CBD]
"The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false," Freedman said Friday. "Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise."
He added: "Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth."
from anon2020 So what, she quit?
Megyn Kelly (accursed be her name) used to say all the time that Fox has a top female PR person who is a nasty pitbull and leaks nasty claims about anyone Fox is at war with, including those who have left the network. So I guess maybe she technically resigned? I don't know.
NEW: @FoxNews has obtained Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington's appeal filing to the MA Supreme Court, which includes Reddington accusing the lone holdout juror of being "biased" against those with "debilitating mental illness", which he says is a protected category.
Holiday Break: I've had a rough couple of weeks -- the shoulder is healing now and I'm finally getting decent sleep -- and I've decided to take a long weekend.
I'm taking Friday off, and then Monday off, too. I have Open Threads for both days and I will post if big news breaks, but if it doesn't -- and it probably won't, news is slow before a holiday weekend -- I'm going to take a four day weekend.
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