Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A man who was gravely injured in the Butler Assassination attack has just died, two years after his wounding.
"We are deeply saddened by the passing of Jim Copenhaver, who was gravely wounded in the horrific shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania," House Republicans posted on X. "Jim endured unimaginable hardship with strength and perseverance."We join his family and loved ones in mourning his loss and praying for them during this difficult time," the post continued. "May he rest in peace."
Copenhaver, who was 76-years-old at the time of his death, was shot in the triceps. Another bullet was lodged in his body after it took chunks of his colon, leaving him with nerve damage, according to CBS News.
The so-called "Reality Based Community" continues to hint or flat-out assert that this assassination was fake.
The feds have arrested an illegal alien for voting in both the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. I assume he's innocent, because the communist media tells me this never happens.
Agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a legal immigrant in New Jersey last week for allegedly voting in multiple federal elections, including the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, Breitbart News has learned.
Sanata Coulibaly, a legal immigrant from Senegal, was arrested on September 17 and charged with procurement of citizenship or naturalization unlawfully and voting by an alien.According to prosecutors, Coulibaly first entered the United States in September 1993 and was given a green card by the Obama administration in November 2009. In 2018, 2020, and 2024, Coulibaly allegedly voted illegally in each of the elections.
"This alien from Senegal has been charged with procurement of citizenship or naturalization unlawfully and voting by an alien after allegedly voting in three general elections in New Jersey," Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said.
Leading Report @LeadingReportKamala Harris says Republicans are cheating by removing ineligible voters from the rolls.
Yes, she pretty much says that, saying "Republicans are cheating by purging the voter rolls." She also slurs a word because, as usual, she drank her lunch.
I never heard this-- or if I did, my almost-29 year old brain forgot it.
Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson18h
I'm just gonna put it out there: Colin Kaepernick sat on the bench for the national anthem--not kneeling, sitting on the bench, away from his teammates--at the exact time his teammates hated him (a recently demoted backup QB) for dating his teammate's (Aldon Smith's) ex-girlfriend.
It was only after one reporter asked--after his third straight game sitting by himself on the bench during the anthem --why he was doing that, that he came up with the answer about taking a stand against America's "racism."
That transformed him overnight from a spiraling backup QB whose teammates hated him to a left-wing icon.
This is all true you can look it up.
MSNOW president says her propaganda outlet has a "broad range of views" because they pay former Republican Michael Steele to attack conservatives with every breath.
If you're an actual citizen, you're a second-class citizen:
Tim Anderson @AssocAndersonArlington's Commonwealth's Attorney testified that her office has a DUI policy specifically for DACA recipients. In a small number of cases, prosecutors have considered changing a DUI to a different first-degree misdemeanor so the defendant can renew DACA status. (We don't have first-degree misdemeanors - they are called Class 1 misdemeanors - surprised an elected prosecutor doesn't know that).
She says the defendant is still held accountable and the original DUI charge remains visible. But DACA status is a factor in the plea resolution, one that an American citizen charged with the same offense cannot invoke.
Should immigration status affect which crime appears on a defendant's record?
Source: Dehghani-Tafti deposition, p. 89, lines 6--22.
Or, of course, to ask his wingman Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed about it.
Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt"I will throw you in prison. I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the democratic party right now. I want to do cultural revolution shit."
Hamas Piker just flat out admits he wants to imprison and kill democrats in a literal communist revolution. These are animals.
On Tumblr.
Pennsylvania Democrat state Sen. James Malone has written lesbian fan fiction set in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) universe, according to documentation provided to Breitbart News. Malone was elected in a special election in 2025 after serving as Mayor of East Petersburg since 2017.Malone won by approximately 500 votes in the district despite President Donald Trump winning by 15 points in the 2024 general election.
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Since at least October 2023, Malone has been writing and publishing on Tumblr a sexually charged lesbian romance story set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons. He has since deleted the account once Breitbart News began investigating.
In October 2023, Malone posted a "D&D story" on Tumblr featuring lesbian lovers Brylint and Zamkk sleeping together.
Brylint work cuddled up in Zamkk's arms, content and warm. After their time at the Tavern, they had a bath and more, working out there tenuous partnership. *This will work out well, for now.*, Brylint thought to herself. With the light filtering in from the window, she could see her surroundings with clarity. The relatively large area of the room was taken up by the pillows she and her red haired companion were cuddled in....As she rose, Zamkk grabbed her arm. "It's early.", she said groggily. "I must use the chamber pot and perform my devotions.", Brylint said not unkindly. Zamkk nodded, gently rubbed Brylint's arm then settled back to snoozing. Brylint did her business and cleaned up. She performed her rituals of devotion and stretched a bit.
In November 2023, Malone posted another "D&D story" on Tumblr featuring lesbian lovers Brylint and Zamkk experiencing "no small amount of arousal" from "a firm wack on the rear."...Brylint smirked briefly under her hood, "Perhaps, I will need more lessons."That gained her a firm wack on the rear which evoked a hiss and no small amount of arousal. "Do you understand.", Zamkk asked in Ghukliak. "I will listen and learn."
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In November 2023, Malone posted another "D&D story" on Tumblr featuring lesbian lovers Brylint and Zamkk "nibbling" each other's ears.
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In November 2023, Malone posted another "D&D story" on Tumblr featuring lesbian lovers Brylint and Zamkk engaged in "a rather exuberant session" of "intimate time."
...Shapiro harbors presidential ambitions in 2028 after being considered to run with Kamala Harris in 2024. He also received backing from Democrat National Committee Chairman Ken Martin and socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Malone also stated his disappointment with a "Drag Queen Story Hour" event's cancellation in 2024, stating, "It is sad that this event got negative presentation on it," he said. "This kind of come-if-you-want event can provide kids with a broader experience of life in general."
The event was set to take place at a public library in Lancaster County for an all-ages audience.
Yikes on bikes, that's awful.
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New York Times Reveals that Democrat Senate Candidate Mary Peltola Abuses Staff, Cursing Them and Calling them "F*ggots"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
LOL. She explodes at her staffers and calls them "faggots" and "retards" and calls Planned Parentood harpies "BITCHES."
Points for honesty, but that's forbidden by Mao's Little Red Book of Speechcrimes.
Breitbart, quoting from a New York Times profile:
Alaska Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola was the subject of a devastating New York Times profile on Wednesday, September 23 which described a pattern of angry outbursts, physical abuse, and slurs for years while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.Peltola is now running against Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in November in a contest polling shows continues to be close.
According to the explosive story, former aides describe "angry and profane outbursts." In one instance she is said to have shoved an aide according to a former staffer who was present and two others who were told about it at the time. Additionally, four former staff members said they directly heard her use the word "faggot" over the years, even about her own staff members, which her campaign has denied. She also used the word "retarded," according to former aides and text messages viewed by the newspaper.
The report talked to a total of nine former staffers who were granted anonymity.Her office amassed one of the highest turnover rates in Congress during her term, and she has missed hundreds of votes throughout her time in elected office.
The campaign issued a statement in response to the story, attributing her behavior to personal tragedy. Peltola's mother and husband died in 2023...
So she's admitting it, with the excuse Muh Hormones and Feelings.
The report states Peltola shoved a male staffer in her office over a missing meeting memo, "causing him to stumble backward, according to a person who was there and two others who heard about the incident soon after, as well as text messages sent at the time." The unnamed aide departed the office soon after.
In another instance, Peltola wrote, "FUCK THOSE BITCHES" about Planned Parenthood after her vote on a defense bill. "I hope Planned Parenthood knows that if we don't win it's more their loss than ours," she added.She also wrote in a text referring to a woman serving on the board of a local Planned Parenthood chapter, "I hope she dies of a botched abortion." The pro-abortion organization has not endorsed her 2026 campaign.
Peltola additionally texted, "Fuck that retard" after a selfie photo was posted by a commercial fisheries executive with the former representative. She has attempted to make local fishing interests a key part of her campaign despite not sponsoring a single bill related to fishing during her one term in Congress.
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Senate Leadership Fund Executive Director Alex Latcham said in a statement on the story, "Mary Peltola's closest aides describe a routine history of physical violence, explosive anger, and utter disdain for Alaskans, which makes her entirely unfit for the U.S. Senate. Peltola's deeply offensive and disturbing comments do not represent the Alaska way and she must publicly apologize to her staff and the people of Alaska."
Susan Collins' opponent in the Maine Senate race, Troy Jackson, also has a history of abusing staffers. And banging his second cousin.
A new poll says she's up three.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) leads Democrat Troy Jackson by 3 points in her bid for a sixth term, according to a new poll.
The New York Times/Siena University survey found Collins leading Jackson, the former president of the Maine Senate, with 49 percent support to the Democrat's 46 percent.
The incumbent's edge was within the roughly 5 point margin of error, while another 5 percent of the 619 respondents were undecided, the results show.
Eric Swalwell's Hotel Prostitute Wingman Reuben Gallego has also been accused of abusing staffers. And banging them. He says the Peltola accusations are no big deal.
Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu12Asked Sen. Gallego about the NYT Peltola story on staff mistreatment, who tells reporters: "when I was 25, I had a really bad boss. He made me run across an open fucking field of raking machine gun fire to breach a door. So, yeah, life's tough sometimes"
In more news of Democrats unmasking, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed refused to condemn the IRGC, even when asked by a refugee who says his family was hunted and murdered by that terrorist-designated group.
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Dozens of Muslim Delegates Walk Out as Netanyahu Addresses UN
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Dozens of United Nations delegates walked out of the hall Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to deliver a speech in.Addressing the UN's General Assembly in New York, Netanyahu described those walking out as "moral cowards". Those who remained and felt similarly should leave, he said.
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The war was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
Israel responded by launching a military campaign in Gaza, during which more than 73,920 people have been killed, according to the territory's health ministry.
They say "according to the territory's health ministry" to avoid saying "according to the Hamas health ministry."
Netanyahu said that many of those walking out are liars -- behind the scenes, they applaud Israel's attack on Iranian nukes.
"You want to hear the ultimate irony? In defending itself, Israel is also defending many of the countries whose delegates just left this hall. In fact...many of their leaders even thank us privately for taking out Iran's nukes! It's hard to imagine more mind-blowing hypocrisy."
Netanyahu roasted the Communist Jihadi Theater Kid Zorhan Mamdani, who had previously promised to arrest him if he set foot in NYC:
Mamdani has FAILED to block Netayahu from NYC"Mr. Mamdani, you tried to STOP ME from coming here. You tried to silence me. Well, you CAN'T silence me! You can't silence the truth!" *Applause*
"Mr. Mamdani...it's no wonder, you praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas, you count as friends people like Hasan Piker who said America deserve 9/11!"
"And here's the simple truth -- Israel didn't commit genoc*de. Israel prevented genoc*de! That's what Mamdani's Hamas buddies would've done to us had we not stopped them. They would've k*lled every last one of us."
This comes after Mamdani CAVED on his arrest warrant push for Netanyahu.
Mamdani never had any authority WHATSOEVER to block any foreign leader from New York City, NOR to arrest them. That authority rests entirely with President Trump and Marco Rubio
Which Marco DID do by blocking the "Palestinian" delegation
LOL.
He roasted the UK and France for accusing Israel of "colonialism."
"They accuse Israel -- little Israel -- of colonialism. And who is doing the accusing?Among others, people in Britain and France.
For goodness sake, they are the ones who invented this concept -- their colonies stretched across the entire world.
Colonialism? Please, give us a break!"
He noted the op launched by unnamed countries:
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Did Sonny Hostin Lie About Being the Holdout Juror in the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park Case?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Earlier this week, Sonny Hostin bragged that she was the lone holdout that allowed the literal cannibal killer called "The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park" -- a man who murdered someone and then cut up the body and gave it to homeless people to eat to dispose of the evidence -- to beat a murder rap.
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Did Candace Owens Take $1.75 Million from Harvey Weinstein to Defend Him and Taint the Jury Pool So That He'd Be Acquitted?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein groveled for "mercy" during his sentencing in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday -- where prosecutors revealed his alleged plot to pay a podcaster $1.75 million to "instill fear" in his victims.The decrepit 74-year-old ex-Miramax mogul had no visible reaction as Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Curtis Farber slapped him with 15 years behind bars, calling Weinstein a "sexual predator" who took advantage of his "insatiable appetite for sexual dominance."
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Weinstein hired private investigators to track her [the victim he was imprisoned fro raping] after she came forward with her allegations, causing her to live with constant paranoia and "questioning every encounter I have," she added.
Prosecutors alleged during the hearing that they had recordings of Weinstein offering a podcaster $1.75 million in a jailhouse phone call to release videos to help his defense by "contaminating the jury pool and reaching the seated jurors before and after the trials."
Weinstein engaged in a "scheme to disrupt the trial and instill fear in his victims," Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg alleged.
Blumberg did not identify the podcaster, but Candace Owens released a podcast series in 2025 called "Harvey Speaks," which featured videos of Weinstein at the notorious city lockup.
Efforts to reach Owens directly Wednesday were unsuccessful. A spokesperson for Owens, Mitchell Jackson, said Wednesday that she was never paid by Weinstein.
Well, that's enough for me. Cavernous Nostrils has never lied or grifted or race-hustled in her entire life.
A Weinstein spokesman denies he paid a podcaster to tamper with a jury -- but does not deny that he paid a podcaster to get his side of the story out to the public.
Weinstein spokesperson Juda Engelmayer denied the jury tampering allegations."That characterization is patently untrue. Harvey never offered or paid anyone $1.75 million to influence a jury, and there was no such agreement," Engelmayer said.
"Talking with friends about media coverage or expressing frustration is a very different thing from paying someone to contaminate a jury pool or intimidate witnesses. No money was paid, no such deal was made, and portraying these conversations as a criminal-style 'scheme' is inflammatory and misleading," he said.
Is Candace Owens a "friend," then?
Guys, she really wants to take down the "Epstein Class."
Once she gets done shilling for Harvey Weinstein.
She'll have explosive evidence about Epstein, you guys, in tomorrow's big show. Stay tuned, dum-dums!
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Of Course: Liberal Judge Rushes in to Save CNN and MSNOW
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump early Thursday to restore White House access to CNN, MSNOW and Politico, temporarily blocking his bid to ban them from accessing the executive mansion.U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, said the news outlets had met the "high bar" for a preliminary injunction and that White House must "immediately return, reinstate, and restore" their access.
The legacy media outlets, including Fox, protested Trump by refusing to carry the White House pool reporting and footage that all other media rely on. I actually can understand Fox joining the embargo, because -- and strangely the leftwing media has forgotten all about this for some reason -- Obama repeatedly threatened to ban Fox from the White House. Fox thinks, probably wrongly, that if they join with the liberal media in solidarity in boycotting Trump, then they will rush in and boycott a Democrat president when he bans Fox.
I wouldn't count on that. Very much 2003 thinking. These are communists and the only thing that matters to them is the revolution and then the sweet, sweet purges thereafter.
But I understand their thinking.
Real America's Voice and Just the News have been undermining this boycott by doing the pool coverage themselves.
President Donald Trump's ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds last week did more than pick a fight with three newsrooms. It exposed how easily the country's main picture of the presidency can go dark.
...After the White House blocked CNN from its assigned turn in the five-network television pool, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News declined in solidarity to fill the slot.
As a result, there was no shared network video of Trump boarding Air Force One.
Additionally, at a South Lawn ribbon-cutting for a new Marine One helipad, helicopter noise swallowed his remarks on the White House livestream.
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But one conservative network, Real America's Voice, a partner of Just the News, is stepping into the void to create competition and a backup plan.
The White House listed RAV as secondary TV crew for the New York trip to the United Nations General Assembly gathering and on Wednesday, RAV said it would offer its pool camera as a free, unbranded feed to any outlet.
"When the traditional television pool chose to stand down, somebody still had to show up, turn the cameras on, and make sure the American public had access to the President," Parker Sigg, RAV's vice president, told Just the News. "RAV was ready to do exactly that. We have the crews, the infrastructure, and the ability to distribute this coverage far beyond our own network.
Hello. Looks like a slow news day.
Yikes on bikes what I wouldn't give for a juicy Lesbian Long Covid story today.
The Morning Rant
—CBD
The latest lunacy in western Massachusetts sounded like a parody of the worst excesses of the self-absorbed LGTBBQ activist set that takes literally every human interaction and views it through their own, deeply disturbed lens.
But it was real, and it was spectacular! They couldn't help themselves! They dialed it to 11 and signaled to the rest of the country that the woke left is still around, still bat-shit crazy, and still dangerous.
It is actually important that these disturbed and strange people continue to voice their post-modern blather enough that it goes public. It's the quiet ones working behind the scenes who are dangerous, but their useful idiots like the patrons of this bar simply can't shut the f*ck up about their psychoses, and it keeps the danger in the spotlight.
Lesbian bar mask madness shows ‘woke 1.0’ never really died — and ‘woke 2.0’ is even worse
Remember when everyone wrote woke’s eulogy?“It’s a vibe shift,” they said.
“Woke 1.0 was craaaazy,” AOC said, laughing off teens getting destroyed for smirking.
For a brief minute it looked like the normies had wrested control of the culture back from the crazies.
I regret to inform you, we did not.
If you thought Woke 1.0 was crazy, Woke 2.0 is psychotic.
I think we ARE wresting control back from the crazies, but they aren't going to give up without a fight, because they are part and parcel of the left, and they never, ever give up.
Their quiet work in the schools was exposed during the Covid debacle, when parents across the country finally got a glimpse of what was really being taught to their kids. And the wannabe Mengeles in our medical establishment became a little too vocal about what they were doing to our children, and what they wanted to do, and they got caught!
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis said, "Sunlight is the best disinfectant," And continuing to expose these anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-Western-culture fiends is vitally important. The worst thing that can happen is if they shut up and continue their work to dismantle our culture, destroy our families, and usher in the supposed nirvana of the progressives.
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The Morning Report — 9/ 24 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids.
A federal judge ordered US President Donald Trump on Thursday to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, saying his ban on the three media outlets was likely unconstitutional. In a major setback for Trump in one of his biggest battles with the media, US District Judge Tim Kelly issued his order in a lawsuit that the news organizations filed contesting the ban that the Republican president announced on Sept. 18. Kelly ordered the Trump administration to immediately return the outlets’ press passes and blocked officials from enforcing the ban for 14 days.
Judge Buch M. Danno shall not be disobeyed!
“The President concluded that [the banned outlets] have failed to maintain basic minimum ‘standards of professionalism and decorum expected of those given access to the White House Complex, including’ by ‘publishing sensitive or classified information… In response, the President has preliminarily revoked their continued access to White House grounds… After all, access to the White House is a privilege—not a right.” – DOJ filing
Yeah, that'll really show 'em! To borrow a quote from Democrat Socialist Numero Uno Joe Stalin How many divisions does the Judiciary have?! If only President Trump and indeed all of us took that to heart and made it our slogan.
Especially in an instance such as this which is making my blood simmer...
A Florida history teacher allegedly tried to “cancel” an eighth-grader enrolled at one of the state’s elite schools for his conservative beliefs – and now she’s facing calls to be fired.Liz Ballard, a teacher at Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., is accused of singling out the boy as the “conservative perspective” in her classes before describing him as a “misogynist” and spreading the slur around the school, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a letter on Monday.
Ballard allegedly “harassed, disparaged and deliberately tried to ‘cancel’ an eighth-grade student for his conservative views” during her debates — even though he had previously warned her “his parents expressly forbid him to take part,” according to Uthmeier’s letter. She “singled out this student and in defiance of his parents’ express instructions, pressured him to defend political positions… in front of his classmates,” the pol said, engaging in what he described as the “reputational destruction of a child.” Ballard has been the subject of “multiple” HR investigations and at the center of parents’ complaints, according to Uthmeier, who has called for her to be dismissed if the claims are legitimate.
The investigation into the teacher has spanned several months, Jason Means, the President of the Sarasota Classified Teachers Association, said, according to WFLA. . . In 2023, the school was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the Department of Education — an award that recognizes excellence or schools that close achievement gaps among students.
Blue RIbbon? Meh this degenerate slag and everyone like her deserves a noose and the nearest lamp post rhetorically speaking of course wink-wink...
And that goes most especially for Randy Weingarten and the evil unions.
So, what are these unions doing with all that money they collect if not fighting to fulfill their stated missions?Turns out, they are far more interested in getting Democrats elected and pushing far-left causes. Add it all up, and you have organizations that extort money from taxpayers to finance a protection racket for themselves, their Democratic patrons, and various far-left causes (which few taxpayers would support), while engaging in fraud by pretending to be looking out for the interests of public-school students
We’re not lawyers, but we’d say that classifies as a criminal racket under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
I know I had this a day or so ago but evil like cancer never rests. We cut it out or we die.
Elsewhere the red carpet was rolled out for Xi Jinping and the Chi-Coms.
Trump, on the other hand, has cost China dearly. He has radically reduced China’s inroads into the Western Hemisphere, ousting its agents from Venezuela and the Panama Canal. With the Cuban dictatorship apparently unable to keep the lights on, and China now permanently shut out of Greenland, Beijing’s losses in the Americas appear certain to keep piling up. Add to this Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “Economic D-Day” sanctions on Iran. These are disrupting China’s financial ties with the Islamist regime, even as Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and its threat of tolls hammer Beijing’s energy imports: China already pays $25 a barrel more for oil than the rest of the world. China’s leader also has major headaches back home — anemic consumer spending, a collapsing real-estate market, rising unemployment levels, an aging population and a national debt three times larger than our own (thanks, in part, to Trump’s tariffs).
Well, with a different perspective . . .
Negotiating with Communists and terrorists (but I repeat myself) only ends one way. As the Xi meeting is being hyped, the People’s Republic of China is taking great care not to offend the United States of America by taking any drastic steps like… openly stealing our military hardware. Chinese authorities are reportedly in possession of F-35 stealth fighter parts after components of the aircraft were “inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong.”Shipping giant UPS was sending a cockpit canopy and weapons bay door to the U.S. from Australia in late May when it was diverted, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing sources Both parts were coated with a radar absorbing material that enhances their stealth capabilities, the sources said, and it was not clear why the shipment was diverted to Hong Kong. Inexplicably! Were there any Mainland Chinese citizens in the decision loop working at UPS?
This is the problem with having normal commercial relations with a bandit state that takes every possible opportunity to rob everyone else. Looping them into a global commercial system just allows them to do things like this.
The case underlines concerns about the handling and security of mail-in ballots, particularly when large numbers of ballots are entrusted to individual postal workers. With investigators still determining whether affected voters were able to cast replacement ballots, the incident could fuel broader scrutiny of election-related mail procedures and ballot safeguards ahead of future elections.
On all this repulsiveness I nevertheless bid you all to
Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- A federal judge ordered US President Donald Trump on Thursday to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, saying his ban on the three media outlets was likely unconstitutional.
Judge blocks Trump’s White House media ban, orders access to be restored
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Daily Tech News 24 September 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Nothing happened. Then, after a while, nothing continued to happen.
- Communist stooges are upset that the feds know what they are. (Ken Klippenstein)
They can't deny it, but they are very upset.
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Wednesday Night ONT - September 23, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please. The monkey doesn't want to hear it.
Top photo: Hear no evil. Speak no evil and see no evil were unavailable at the time of the photo]
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Inception Farm Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Sci-Fi Archives
@SciFiArchivesPhotography by Aydın Büyüktaş. A surreal landscape created by stitching multiple aerial photographs into a single impossible perspective.
Flashback: "Raygun's" iconic Olympic breakdancing routine, along with braggadocious entrance.
Some dogs have their own agendas.
A 275 foot tall tree, 2,200 years young.
Diving in a flooded forest in Europe.
Wolves welcome a long-lost member back into the pack.
The muntjac, or "vampire deer."
A dog's Hunger Operating System slowly boots up.
Lizard enjoys his emotional comfort ball.
Sharing a drink with a monkey-friend.
Woman attempts to use a cat as a bug zapper. Experiment failed, alas.
Uber for a stray dog.
The maned wolf of South America is apparently the kind of wildlife that Jack Straw would enjoy.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
These are reportedly the founders of The Last Ditch lesbian/covid panic bar. And yes, this is real. Reportedly. I didn't take the picture myself so I can't be 100% certain.
Yikes on bikes! These are Suburu Service Center 1's.
I don't even know if they deserve a 1-10 rating. What rating would I give to a bushbaby? Or a lawn rake?
But apparently this is what the one on the left looked like in the 2000s. Leftism is progressive mental and physical disease.
Is this Pride-colored UFO over Iran some kind of previously-unknown B-1B variant? The Gay Lancer?
Marco Rubio remains tight-lipped.
The feds are cracking down on that thing that never happens.
Feds arrest, indict hundreds in Trump voter fraud crackdown: 'Catching it all over the country'The Justice Department says its crackdown on noncitizen voting and election fraud has already produced more than 200 arrests and indictments, with that number possibly doubling soon and state election officials themselves now facing potential charges for looking the other way.
Since the Trump Justice Department warned state and local election officials that they could be charged with allowing fraudulent voting activities, more than 200 arrests and indictments have been secured in a crackdown on election fraud and noncitizen voting, and that number could double soon, a top official revealed to Just the News."I think there are a lot of nervous election officials because I think some of them know that they've been looking the other way when this is happening, and we're catching it all over the country," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said Monday night in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show.
Dhillon also hinted at further developments in the coming weeks, suggesting her department has developed evidence calling into question New Jersey's claim that a computer glitch allowed thousands of foreigners to register to vote in that state and about 400 to actually cast ballots in violation of law.
"I'm not sure we have the correct numbers from New Jersey. They're not really cooperating with us, and so we will get to the bottom of what happened there. And you know, New Jersey tried to blame a vendor for a mistake or a glitch, quote unquote. But you know, I think there'll be another side to that story," she said.
The software vendor Dhillon referred to is IDEMIA, which told Just the News in July that it was the responsibility of New Jersey officials to verify voter registration.
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Dhillon further stated that in the past several weeks, her office has indicted or convicted 67 individuals for election-related crimes, while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made more than 160 arrests.
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Left-wing organizations, including the Brookings Institution, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the American Immigration Council, among others, have all claimed that noncitizen voting is either not happening or is incredibly rare.
Recent data suggests otherwise.
Over the weekend, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News that his agency is investigating 1,620 cases of voter fraud involving noncitizens and has made 151 arrests. He said his department is also looking into an additional 300,000 cases based on states' voter rolls.
"We're scrubbing them. We're comparing them to those that are in the country illegally, those that are legal permanent residents and those that are citizens" Mullin told Fox News contributor and former White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany.
Much more at the link.
I shan't believe it. All I know is that America has the most secure elections in history, at least when Democrats win. When they don't win, Jake Tapper writes books titled: Down & Dirty: The Stealing of the Presidency.
And I know nothing about Swedish election procedures, but I know it must be the case that this is the Most Secure Election in History because someone from the Global South/Red-Green Alliance won.
PeterSweden @PeterSweden7
Swedish election update.There's now the possibility of a NEW ELECTION in the affected area after authorities are investigating possible ELECTION FRAUD.
A man from Somalia who got Swedish citizenship 7 months ago was elected to parliament for the Left.
It's reported that people were given money and pre filled ballots and were driven to voting location.
The constituency of Dalarna could see a rerun of the election take place with around 223,000 eligible voters.
With the confirmation that former CIA Director John Brennan received a subpoena to testify in the ongoing "grand conspiracy" weaponization probe based in Florida, prosecutors appear to be zeroing in on how the ex-spy was at the beginning, middle, and aftermath of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative....
According to the filing, government prosecutor Kurt Olsen told Brennan's counsel the probe is "far-reaching" and includes "issues at Mar-a-Lago and beyond." It is aimed at assessing whether Trump's civil rights were violated. The prosecutor reportedly told Brennan's lawyer he was also the "subject" of a separate investigation for alleged false statements to Congress.
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Brennan's fingerprints were on the opening of the federal probe that became the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump and his campaign. Brennan previously testified to Congress in 2017 that the U.S. Intelligence Community had gathered evidence of contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russian government by July 2016 to initiate an investigation. It was at that point, he told lawmakers, that the CIA set up a special group with both the FBI and the NSA to probe alleged Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
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What Brennan did not tell congressional investigators at the time was that he was personally made aware of intelligence that same month that then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton personally approved a project to gin up a bogus Russia scandal against her GOP opponent, according to Special Counsel John Durham. Durham had probed the handling of the Trump-Russia investigation. Brennan even briefed President Barack Obama and senior administration officials on Clinton's plan, but, not only did Obama's team fail to stop it, it allowed the FBI to push the investigation into the same allegations raised by the campaign, Durham noted.
Durham ultimately concluded in his final report that the FBI had no verified intelligence or evidence when it opened the Crossfire Hurricane probe of President Donald Trump's campaign in the summer of 2016. Durham also found the FBI and Justice Department failed to follow their own standards and allowed the probe to persist with a questionable basis under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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Oh no, Converse and Nike have lost a celebrated athlete and major consumer of sportswear with their not-racist-at-all Korean pop star ad.
Another one of those Doctor/Engineer/Space Biologists that western civilization will just collapse without.
James Talarico's pastor says, on Easter of all days, that Jesus did not literally come back from the dead, which essentially nullifies all of Christianity. Except for the part about having to accept unlimited immigration because Joseph and Mary were Illegal Immigrants, didn't you know that, Bigot?
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For 20 Years, Climate Alarmists Have Been Claiming That "Global Warming" Made Hurricanes More Numerous and More Severe.
For the First Time in Over 100 Years, We've Had a Hurricane-Free Summer.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
For the first time in more than a century, there has been not one single hurricane by September 21st.
Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWXSep 22
For the first time in 112 years, there have been ZERO Atlantic hurricanes by this point in the calendar year.
The last time this happened was in 1914, two years after the R.M.S. Titanic sank. 1914 was the year that my great-grandmother was born. It was also the year World War I broke out, and when the Panama Canal officially opened to traffic. Charlie Chaplin directed his first film, Caught in a Cabaret, that year too.
Year-to-date accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), an integrated metric that accounts for tropical cyclone frequency, intensity, and duration, is lowest on record in the satellite era (since 1966) with 6.3 units generated. Overall since 1851, North Atlantic ACE is lowest year-to-date since 1929 (although pre-satellite era data should be taken with a grain of salt).
To have a TOP FIVE end-of-year total overall, Atlantic ACE must remain below 18.1 units. To have a TOP FIVE satellite-era end-of-year total, ACE must remain below 34.4 units. The latter is almost certainly doable I think. A top five finish since 1851 is going to be hard to accomplish, but is possible. October will ultimately decide our ranking.
Interestingly and perhaps unsurprisingly, of the top ten lowest year-to-date ACE totals, all were either El Niño or ENSO netural.
You'd think the media would be talking about this, because they love stories about weather anomalies, but no, it's mostly just Fox and conservative outlets reporting the story.
The climate mongers are of course absolutely silent about this.
Michael Shellenberger @shellenbergerClimate change makes hurricanes more frequent and intense, they said. But for the first time in 112 years, the Atlantic hasn't produced a single one. On storms, sea level, and droughts, manipulated models can show, under equally valid assumptions, the exact opposite trends.
For two decades, scientists have said that human emissions have made hurricanes stronger, seas rise faster, and droughts more severe.
"This combined PDI has nearly doubled over the past 30 yr," said the 2005 Nature paper by Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with PDI being his index of storm power. Warming raised the odds that a storm reached major hurricane strength by "about 8% per decade," said the 2020 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by James Kossin of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Climate change made a storm like Hurricane Melissa more frequent "by a factor of about 5," said the Nov. 6, 2025 report by World Weather Attribution (WWA).
The seas would rise "0.5 to 1.4 meters above the 1990 level" by 2100, said the 2007 Science paper by Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
The atmosphere's thirst had "made droughts 40% more severe across the globe," the University of Oxford said in June 2025 of a paper in Nature, which the journal retracted on Sept. 2. "It is likely that the global proportion of major (Category 3-5) tropical cyclone occurrence has increased over the last four decades," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in 2021.
But in every case, the instruments directly measuring the phenomenon in question (storm strength, tide gauges, and rain gauges) show no trend, or no acceleration, beyond natural variability.
Atlantic hurricane counts rose across the 20th century only because ships and satellites found storms that earlier detection methods had missed, and the recorded increases "are consistent with changes in observing practices and not likely a true climate trend," concluded the 2021 Nature Communications paper by Gabriel Vecchi of Princeton and Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center.
Meanwhile, 2026 is the first year since 1914 that the Atlantic has produced six named storms and no hurricanes.
In terms of sea level rise, "There is no evidence for an apparent acceleration in the past 100+ years that is significant either statistically, or in comparison to values associated with global warming," found a 1992 study by Bruce Douglas.
That remains the case today. "In both datasets, approximately 95% of the suitable locations show no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise," said an August 2025 paper by Hessel Voortman and Rob De Vos, which ran the test at 204 stations in one global network and 39 in another.
"Meteorological droughts do not show any substantial changes at the global scale in at least the last 120 years," concluded a 2022 review by Sergio Vicente-Serrano of the Spanish National Research Council, who co-wrote the Oxford paper. "We find no significant acceleration of drought trends across ~99% of quasi-global land area under either PET type," said a September 2026 paper in Communications Earth & Environment by Jiameng Xu, Kaighin McColl of Harvard and seven co-authors, PET being the atmosphere's potential to evaporate water.
Know-nothing Democrat propagandist Jake Tapper, as non-expert as a non-expert can be in all matters, has been pushing the climate hoax all his life.
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I Voted for This: Trump Administration Set to Remove 760,000 Fraudulent Enrollees in ObamaCare
—Disinformation Expert Ace
All medical fraud requires a "patient" whose name can be used to bill the government for fake services rendered.
Cleaning up the rolls of fake enrollees who are easily used as "Straw Patients" will save billions more in addition to the $2.2 billion which will be saved directly by ending these fraudulent accounts.
And deporting the illegal aliens signed up for the fraudulent Obamacare accounts will save even more money.
Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist.
Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for hundreds of thousands of people from the exchanges, part of an administration-wide crackdown on fraud, would result in $2.2 billion in cost savings.
"We're actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them," said Vance, who leads a government task force to eliminate fraud. He was flanked by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, and other administration officials.
Vance said the cancellation of approximately 315,000 enrollments covering 760,000 people was done in part because the government was not checking whether people enrolled were eligible. Vance said another 419,000 enrollments will get additional verification to make sure they are eligible for the benefit.
The Trump administration also announced a six-month suspension on new agents or brokers who sign up enrollees for healthcare coverage, who officials say commit a disproportionate amount of the fraud they uncovered.
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Premiums doubled or tripled for many enrollees, prompting millions to downgrade their plans or exit the program entirely after the Republican-led Congress allowed the subsidies to expire this year.
The Government Accountability Office suggests fraud risks in the advance premium tax credit do exist - however it's unclear at what scale. The GAO conducted covert testing using fictitious ACA applicants enrolled in 2024 and 2025. A report released in December showed that the federal marketplace approved subsidized coverage for almost all of the GAO's 24 fake enrollees.
Democrats immediately demanded Trump reinstate the fraudulent accounts -- proving that they're all about the fraud as a means of paying off their (often illegal) voters and then later receiving kickbacks from them.
Democratic lawmakers criticized the move to remove enrollees from ACA coverage.Richard E. Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat and ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, said "Republicans have already created the worst healthcare crisis ever, but every decision by the Trump Administration is designed to keep making it worse."
"As if making coverage harder to access through skyrocketing premiums and more red tape wasn't painful enough, they're doubling down to take it away entirely," Neal said.
From fraudulent enrollees, who are illegal aliens, who you claim aren't eligible for Obamacare and aren't on it.
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Boston Globe Op-Ed: The "Trans Genocide" Is a Lie
—Disinformation Expert Ace
And a deadly one, I'd add, because the vicious propaganda of a "trans genocide" is used to rile up the mentally ill to commit murder, as we have seen in the case of the "Ziz" transgender murder cult and, despite what simpleton narcissist Candace Owens says, the assassination of a Charlie Kirk by a gay trans-loving furry avenger.
The media attacks every "right wing conspiracy theory" they claim might lead to violence, while affirmatively pushing left-wing conspiracy theories like the "lynching" trend that does not exist.
But so what if some normies get murdered. The important thing is that we jack up Democrat voting enthusiasm.
It's a bit unexpected to see the liberal David Mastio writing about the "trans genocide" fiction in the ultra-lib Boston Globe, so I'll award Hufflepuff one credit.
Note, however, Mastio and the Globe cannot admit the truth -- that in fact transgenders experience violence at lower rates than normal people, which is pretty amazing considering they tend to work in dangerous fields like prostitution -- and still pretend that this is a big problem.
In Trump's America, violence against transgender people isn't going up -- it's going down The data contradicts the popular narrative.The notion that transgender people face soaring levels of violence is so ingrained in the public discourse, it gets little scrutiny even in the reddest and most trans-rights skeptical areas of the country -- like my hometown.
In a front page story this summer on the local Pride march, the Omaha World-Herald uncritically quoted a trans rights activist claiming that a proposed state ballot measure that would restrict transgender girls' and women's participation in school sports "won't actually protect" biological women and girls and "will increase violence" against LGBTQ people.
Stigmatizing transgender people, the argument goes, leads to attacks.
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But despite a hostile Trump administration and a barrage of anti-trans legislation across the country, the number of violent deaths the group documents has fallen nearly 50 percent from 53 in 2023 to 27 in 2025.
Advocacy groups insist the data is incomplete and shouldn't be used to draw any conclusions about the prevalence of anti-trans violence. That's due, they say, to the bigotry of families and authorities who misname and misgender the victims, making it hard to discern from public records how many transgender people are dying.
"The numbers show that trans people are not killed in higher rates than other groups, but for Reasons We're Making Up Right Now we should be allowed the 'real' number to be much higher."
Still it's hard to imagine that as awareness about the transgender community has grown, misgendering and pronoun-swapping have become more common in police reports and news accounts than they were a decade ago, when another prominent LGBTQ organization, the Human Rights Campaign, began publishing its own numbers on violence against transgender people. The HRC tallies, too, find a declining number of violent transgender deaths to mourn. The group found a peak in 2021 of 47 deaths falling to 27 last year. HRC described that 40 percent drop as an "ongoing onslaught of violence."Federal FBI hate crimes data also shows a decline in the abuse of trans people between 2024 and 2025.
One hate crime is one too many, but for all the backlash against transgender people, an analysis by the conservative Manhattan Institute shows they actually have a lower murder rate than does the population as a whole.
Oh they do admit it late in the article. That's something, I guess.
I offered the Human Rights Campaign's key researcher, the transgender woman Charleigh Flohr, or anyone else with the organization an opportunity to rebut the Manhattan Institute finding, but they didn't reply to me. And I can find no evidence that they have disputed the report in the months since its publication.
Meanwhile: Here's the reality.
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Congressional Report Accuses Jack Smith of Knowingly Violating the Constitution to Try to "Sway" the Election in the Democrats' Favor
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The House Judiciary Committee concluded in a report released Wednesday that the Biden-Harris administration wielded the Justice Department as a weapon and "ran roughshod" over constitutional protections and the separation of powers in order to spy on Republican members of Congress.The report, which the committee released on Wednesday, summarizes several years worth of investigation conducted by the committee into the tenure of Special Counsel Jack Smith, his investigations into President Donald Trump, and how he used those investigations to obtain privileged phone records from lawmakers.
"The Biden-Harris Administration, including Special Counsel Smith, ran roughshod over key constitutional protections to spy on Republican Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate," the lawmakers concluded.
"Contemporaneous documents and testimony to the Committee reveal a deliberate assault by the Biden-Harris DOJ on fundamental separation of powers between the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch," the committee later added.
In all, the committee found evidence that the FBI and Smith's team got phone toll records from 17 GOP members of Congress and text messages from as many as 44, some including information privileged to Congress, the report said. Among those targeted were former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan.
The report concluded the DOJ "disregarded the separation of powers to spy on their political opposition."
In obtaining the phone records, without notice and ability to challenge in a court of law, "the Biden-Harris Administration violated the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause, a core provision that protects the official actions and communications of Members of Congress and immunizes them from prosecution for legislative acts," the committee said in the report.
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The committee later found that more than 160 Republicans were targeted by Smith's probe, codenamed Arctic Frost. These included individuals like former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, Rep. Scott Perry, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, former Trump attorney John Eastman, and former Rep. Mark Meadows, who later served as Trump's chief of staff.
At the time, it was believed that Smith accessed toll records, which do not include the content of messages sent. However, new documents the committee published in July show that, in fact, Smith's team did access content by apparently bypassing the established Filter Team, which is responsible for evaluating and segregating privileged information.
This revelation has exposed Smith to possible perjury charges. During his prior testimony to Congress, the prosecutor told lawmakers emphatically, "no," that his team did not request the content of messages, only the toll records.
Before releasing the report on Wednesday, the Judiciary Committee made public the testimonies of five former prosecutors on Smith's team and a Justice Department agent during the Arctic Frost investigation.
One agent testified that Jack Smith had hid from him the fact that they accounts they were surveilling belonged to Congressmen.
Almost as if he knew what he was doing was illegal and wanted to limit the number of witnesses.
Retired Justice Department Inspector General Special Agent Brian Burnett was quoted in the transcript as saying that during his decades working at the DOJ's watchdog, he never once was asked to collect congressional phone data and did not learn until after he retired in late 2024 that he had unwittingly done so as part of his work for Smith's team prosecuting Trump in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation code-named Arctic Frost.
They also accused Smith of acting as a Democrat Party election-rigging operative.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is accusing former special counsel Jack Smith and the former Biden administration of trying to "sway" the 2024 election with the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into President Donald Trump and his allies....
"The Special Counsel's prosecutors tried to silence President Trump with unlawful gag orders, threatened defense attorneys, mishandled key documents, and broke protocol to release a massive trove of alleged evidence just weeks before the presidential election to sway public opinion," the report said.
This is something special: Biden's/Garland's Public Integrity Section realized that this was all illegal and unconstitutional but decided it was no big deal because, owing to the illegal gag orders they would get liberal judges to impose to keep the victims from knowing their rights had been abused, there was little chance of actually getting sued over any of it.
"Internal documents show that Arctic Frost investigators, and later Smith's team, had only limited, perfunctory discussions with subject-matter experts in DOJ's Public Integrity Section (PIN) about the constitutionality of these seizures," the report said. "Although PIN cautioned that the subpoenas could be unconstitutional, PIN approved them nonetheless, asserting there was little 'litigation risk' because the gag orders that accompanied the subpoenas would prevent Members from ever discovering the seizures. As a result, Members of Congress were unaware of the Biden-Harris DOJ's spying for more than two years."
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2
NEW: Transcripts released by @JudiciaryGOP once again confirm collaboration between Biden DOJ/Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden White House.Here is JP Cooney--who pushed for investigations into Trump and his circle immediately after Jan 6 then detailed to Jack Smith's team after his appointment in Nov 2022--admitting he communicated with Biden's WH counsel.
This aligns with my reporting a few years ago disclosing how Biden DOJ interacted with Biden WH Counsel Jonathan Su in late 2021 and into 2022 before he stepped down in Oct. 2022.
More evidence debunking media claims that the Biden DOJ acted independently of the Biden White House--and that somehow President Trump's engagement in DOJ matter is "unprecedented."
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Sonny Hostin is Beaming With Pride About Being the Holdout Juror That Got a Literal Cannibal Killer Off
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A literal cannibal killer killed and then butchered victims and served their meat to the homeless.
That's not a pitch for an A24 horror movie. That really happened in New York City in the 1990s. The killer was called "the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park." I used to live around there (but I have an alibi).
Bursting with what David Strom calls "main character syndrome" -- the belief of narcissists that they are the star of the show called "reality" and that everything they do is justified and good because they're the main character of the show and therefore the hero -- Sonny Hostin glowed as she Karensplained that she was the lone holdout juror during the Butcher's trial and spared him a murder conviction.
Oh, she also says that Lindsay Clancy is not guilty because of course she does.
Hostin left no doubt about where she stood. "The insanity defense has been around in Massachusetts for 182 years, so I think it's well established," she said. "And I thought, absolutely, she was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity."Then Hostin explained where her conviction came from.
Before she went to law school, Hostin sat on the jury in the early 1990s murder trial of Daniel Rakowitz, better known as "The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park." Rakowitz killed his roommate, a Swiss dancer named Monika Beerle, and cut up her body in a bathtub. He then cooked her remains into a soup, ate some of it, and handed it out to homeless people in the New York City park.
A New York Times article on the case described a lone holdout who "was principally responsible ... for preventing them from returning a guilty verdict."
"That was me," Hostin said. "And it was because I saw clearly that he was psychotic."
Then she offered her own version of the killing, and it sounded more like a closing argument for the defense than a confession of regret.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin couldn't let her finish. "And you got this guy off?!" she asked, clearly horrified.
"That's how much I believe in the insanity defense," Hostin said before wrapping up her account: "And he fed her body parts to the unhoused."
And she's proud he got him a not guilty verdict.
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Variety: CNN Mood "Like a Funeral" After Paramount/Skydance Takeover
—Disinformation Expert Ace
But their ratings are so good, why should they worry?
CNN Mood 'Like a Funeral' as Paramount's Warner Bros. Win Casts New Haze on Next Steps
Just when staffers at CNN thought the news giant's path to the future was becoming more clear, new fog has set in.In recent weeks, the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet appeared to have found its groove. Yes, its linear ratings are down noticeably from the era when it won notice for its aggressive coverage of President Trump's first term, and there are serious questions about whether they will ever come back. But the company appeared to be making some gains with digital audiences with its recently launched "CNN All Access" subscription service, where CNN has been testing new programming formats.
LOL. Their ratings are in the crapper but they're making "some gains" with digital.
Like CNN Plus. You remember CNN Plus, right?
On the traditional side, despite the viewership challenges, CNN has seen personnel like Abby Phillip and Harry Enten gain some traction.
"Some" traction.
This propagandist is really straining to find ways to claim that CNN is performing well in "some" ways. They say that Warner Bros. claims that CNN will post a profit this year, but I've heard Disney's Bob Iger claiming everything is going great at the Groomer Network, so I don't put much stock in corporate predictions of plenty.
Now for the truth:
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The mood at CNN is "like a funeral," says one person familiar with the operation.CNN personnel have reason to worry. Paramount's management of CBS News has been controversial, and has not been good for the business of the news unit. Changes made under Bari Weiss, installed last year as editor in chief, have brought unnecessary scrutiny to news reports, and anchors have made public entreaties on Instagram when people post notes suggesting that Weiss' background as a digital entrepreneur and provocative opinion writer have muddied the newsgathering at the network.
The right has brought "scrutiny" to left-wing media reporting for 40+ years but this was never before seen as a problem. Now that lefties are complaining about editorial decisions, it's a National Concern.
...But staffers are also concerned about the company's business plans being changed -- yet again. "What an enormous loss and disruption it would be to shuffle leadership for the umpteenth time in the midst -- finally -- of reshaping the business," says one CNN staffer.
Expert opinion: Companies that are performing well are not subject to frequent leadership changes, just as winning teams aren't frequently subjected to new coaching staffs.
CNN employees have reason to wring their hands....Without a boost from new digital revenue, CNN's business will likely decline, according to projections from Kagan, a market-research unit of S&P Global Intelligence. CNN's cash flow is seen falling to $735.3 million in 2027, according to Kagan, down nearly 10% from $815.9 million in 2025. A projected spike in 2026 is due to midterm election coverage, which typically draws broader audiences. Advertising is projected to fall about 6.6% to $457.6 million in 2027, according to Kagan, compared with $489.8 million in 2025. Cash from distribution, however, is expected to keep rising.
CNN must also grapple with how much independence it will have under Paramount. Paramount Skydance CEO has put CBS News into unorthodox situations by holding a private dinner with personnel from the news division and the Trump administration and by hiring a factotum ombudsman to monitor CBS who has staunch partisan ties.
It's not unusual for "news" personnel to meet with politicians, as Jake Tapper could tell you of his fly-fishing with Gavin Newsom or freindship-building dinners with Anthony Fauci.
But what is unacceptable is meeting with conservative politicians.
News rivals wonder why CBS News seems so eager to put U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth into so many of its programs -- he was a big "get" interview during Tony Dokoupil's first "CBS Evening News" telecast and appeared on last week's season premiere of "60 Minutes" -- when Hegseth's Pentagon has been so hostile to traditional press outlets.
Yeah why would a "news" organization want to interview the Secretary of War during a war? Inconceivable!
Now on to the deal struck with the left-wing AGs -- which they admit is largely just a paper notion on a press release.
The solution -- for now -- is to be found in the formation of a board designed to govern both CNN and CBS News. Under the terms of an agreement unveiled Monday between Paramount and a set of attorneys general who were blocking the merger, this board is expected to set up guiding principles for "accuracy, independence, fairness and journalistic integrity."
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Such bodies have proven largely ineffectual in the past.
More: CNN staffers are in "a panic."
"People are very nervous," one CNN staffer told the outlet. "It's dark. It's like when you do hurricane coverage. You see the storm spinning off the coast of Haiti and moving towards Florida and you're just waiting and you're like, 'Oh, s--t'.""Bloodbath coming, including at CNN," a TV executive confided. "That's the next big step -- slashing and burning," while others also drew death-by-takeover comparisons.
The outbreak of fear and loathing at CNN goes back as far as June this year when, as Breitbart News reported, many CNN employees were so worried over the evolving merger they turned their boss's office into a makeshift "psychiatrist's couch," according to a report.
CNN staffers were worried over Paramount boss David Ellison's connections to Trump -- as well as that of Ellison's father, Larry, who is a huge Trump donor.
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Now their worst nightmares have been realised.
Hello! Happy Midweek!
Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
At the personal scale, the destruction of a relationship is emotionally disturbing and painful. Whether it is some formal means of destruction like a divorce or something informal like just gradually or suddenly severing contact, the relationship is wrecked and there are bound to be hard feelings on both sides. Both sides will feel wronged, and neither side is likely to accept responsibility for whatever caused the failure. That's not fun for anyone involved, but it is rare that there is a big blast radius when an interpersonal relationship is destroyed.
That is not true when the scale increases and the relationship at risk is not inter-personal but inter-national. That failure of relationships between nation-states are usually complex phenomena and require careful management to avoid courting real harm as the relationship unwinds or - even worse - shifts into actual policy-backed animosity. The worst kind of adjustment is from "friendly" to "unfriendly," skipping the much more manageable condition of "neutral but sometimes cooperative." The conversion into unfriendliness or even hostility is particularly bad when the countries involved are geographical neighbors, and so managing the end of the prior era is even more important. That is the point we are now reaching with the country that has long been one of our most important allies: our neighbor to the north.
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