FBI Cracking Down on "764" Child Exploitation Group
—Ace
The pedophiles won't stop until they are made to stop.
The FBI has intensified its effort across the U.S. to take down the online child-exploitation group, "764" network, with two recent examples highlighted by FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
In a post shared on X on Wednesday, Bongino revealed how the dangerous network has infiltrated online spaces popular with minors and said how aggressively federal authorities are moving to shut it down.
"For those who may not know, the 764 Network is a heinous child-exploitation ring that often targets children online and coerces them into acts of violence, self-harm, animal abuse, suicide, and sexual abuse," Bongino warned.
"At the beginning of the year, our teams redoubled efforts to go after these networks and eliminate them. We have more than 300 investigations connected to this network nationwide, and that number is growing. It is a top priority for us," he added.
Among the latest cases, Bongino said agents from FBI Baltimore arrested an individual on charges of targeting five minors, including a 13-year-old.
He said the suspect is now in federal custody, and additional details are expected as the investigation develops.
Meanwhile, in Arizona, an indictment revealed an individual in federal custody had been found allegedly targeting kids as an affiliate of "764.""The nine victims involved were between 11 and 15 years old," Bongino explained, "Some of the allegations include distributing child pornography, cyberstalking, animal crushing, and even conspiring to provide material support to terrorists," Bongino said.
The "764" network traces back to 2021, when it was founded by Bradley "Felix" Cadenhead, a Texas teenager who operated a group called CVLT.
Named after the ZIP code of Cadenhead's hometown, "764" now exists within a broader ecosystem of violent online communities known as "The COM."
Members allegedly use popular online preteen and teen platforms such as Discord, Telegram and Roblox to recruit and manipulate minors.
"I cannot emphasize this enough, this is a major issue in America that not enough people know about," Bongino warned.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the rash of trans mass murders.
ICE is meanwhile arresting foreign criminal child sex offenders.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday touted its arrest of the "worst of the worst" illegal aliens, which included child sex offenders and gang members."Every town is a border town because of 4 years of mass illegal migration into our country. Our ICE law enforcement officers are arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in American communities," said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. "Just yesterday, ICE arrested child pornographers, MS-13 gang members, and murderers. We are thankful for our law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line to remove these heinous criminals from our neighborhoods."
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Topping the list was Francisco Luna-Tristan of Mexico, who was previously convicted of indecency with a child sexual contact.
Hsa Mu Na of Thailand was previously convicted of producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography.
David Diaz-Alvaredo of El Salvador was previously convicted of murder in aid of racketeering and is a member of MS-13.
Kevin Damian Duhaney of Jamaica was previously convicted of criminal possession of a firearm and attempted assault.
Leonel Longoria-Aquirino of Mexico was previously convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
More Cultural Enrichers sadly deported.
A husband and wife duo accused of running a sophisticated sex ring in Louisiana are previously deported illegal migrants with lengthy rap sheets.Murillo Lazano-Vargas and Zabdi Danea Guzman-Diaz were apprehended by the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office earlier in November on charges related to the promotion of prostitution, human trafficking by force and pandering, according to local outlet WAFB. The married couple are Mexican nationals who are not only living in the U.S. unlawfully, but had already been deported from the country before returning to allegedly launch their illicit brothel enterprise, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
"On November 6, ICE Homeland Security Investigations executed a search and arrest warrant for a human trafficking and sexual exploitation investigation," a DHS spokesperson stated to the Daily Caller News Foundation. "HSI Law enforcement rescued three victims of these barbaric criminals."
"Thanks to the brave men and women of ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], these human traffickers and predators are off the streets," the DHS spokesperson continued. "President Trump and Secretary Noem are dismantling transnational criminal networks."
Local law enforcement received a tip in January that an individual going by the moniker "Primo," later identified as Lazcano-Vargas, was overseeing a home in the Baton Rouge area where prostitution and human trafficking were allegedly taking place, according to WAFB. The Mexican national allegedly used WhatsApp to send explicit images of females to arrange meetings with clients, with investigators later determining that his wife was a co-conspirator in the scheme.
Lazcano-Vargas was previously convicted for domestic abuse, child abuse and aggravated assault, and Guzman-Diaz was previously convicted of illegal entry, according to DHS.
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The couple's arrest marks the second sex ring bust by immigration and local law enforcement in the Baton Rouge area. Working in coordination with ICE agents, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office announced earlier in November the arrest of three Honduran nationals accused of exploiting numerous women through a similarly-run prostitution operation between May 2023 and October 2025.
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The back-to-back sex ring busts follow GOP Gov. Jeff Landry's signing of a partnership agreement with ICE earlier this year that empowers Louisiana law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws. Dubbed "Operation Geaux," the order is intended to help local police better identify and remove criminal illegal migrants from their communities.
LOL.
UK Government Is Hiding Excess Covid Vaccine Deaths
Plus: Ozempic Has Killed the "Body Positivity" Movement with an Assist from Unfunny Comic Amy Schumer
—Ace
I shan't believe it, I simply shannot.
Government 'withholding data that may link Covid jab to excess deaths'UKHSA argued that releasing figures would lead to 'distress or anger' of bereaved relatives if connection were discovered
The public health watchdog has been accused of a "cover-up" after refusing to publish data that could link the Covid vaccine to excess deaths.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) argued that releasing the data would lead to the "distress or anger" of bereaved relatives if a link were to be discovered.
Public health officials also argued that publishing the data risked damaging the well-being and mental health of the families and friends of people who died.
Last year, a cross-party group expressed alarm about "growing public and professional concerns" over the UK's rates of excess deaths since 2020.
In a letter to UKHSA and Department for Health, the MPs and peers said that potentially critical data -- which map the date of people's Covid vaccine doses to the date of their deaths -- had been released to pharmaceutical companies but not put into the public domain.
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UsForThem, a campaign group, requested that UKHSA release the data under freedom of information laws. But the agency refused, making a number of different arguments including that publishing the data "could lead to misinformation" that would "have an adverse impact on vaccine uptake" in the public.
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Reform UK has committed to a public inquiry into excess deaths and alleged Covid vaccine harms.
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Ben Kingsley, the legal director of UsForThem, said the way the UKHSA had handled the case "reveals a desperation that this data should not, in any form, see the light of day".
He added: "It is perverse for UKHSA to argue that this data should not be released because the public could feel distressed or angry if patterns or correlations were to be identified.
"You have to ask yourself why it is that the public are considered incapable of handling this data. It reveals a patronising mindset, which also characterised the pandemic response -- 'do what we say, don't ask any questions, we know what is best for you'."
The demand is for a release of anonymized data -- names stripped out.
But this agency covering up the vaccine deaths keeps lying, claiming that an anonymized list would still, somehow, reveal the identity of people killed by the clot-shot.
In more health cover-up news -- or this time, the end of a long cover-up: RFKJr. and his sexy brain-worm have updated the CDC website to clarify that claims that vaccines don't cause autism are not based in science.
The website doesn't say that vaccines do cause autism, just that the prior claims that they had been proven not to cause autism were based on bureaucratic fiat, not evidence.
CDC updates website, says claims about vaccines not causing autism are not 'evidence-based'"HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links," HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website, saying that claims about vaccines not causing autism are not "evidence-based."A previous version of the agency's webpage stated "there is no link" between receiving vaccines and developing autism, citing a 2012 National Academy of Medicine review of scientific papers and a 2013 CDC study, The Hill news outlet reported.
Late Wednesday, the website was updated and now says that the statement that vaccines do not cause autism "is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."
The CDC also states that "studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities."
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has repeatedly linked vaccines and autism.
HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said the website was updated "to reflect gold standard, evidence-based science."
In more health hoax news, Jennifer Sey notes that, now that medications can end obesity -- at least for those wealthy enough to afford it-- celebrities are no longer championing "body positivity" and "Healthy At Any Size."
Unfunny formerly-fat "comedian" Amy Schumer has deleted all of her previous Instagram photos showing her as overweight, and now only shows pictures of her being, well, skinny. Over-skinny if you ask me.
But she insists that this has nothing, nothing to do with wanting to eliminate her fat pictures. It just kinda worked out thsi way.
Comedian Amy Schumer has deleted all of her old Instagram photos and all that remains are these post weight loss pics:
Schumer captioned the post as follows: "Back on my staircase bullshit again. Who's proud? I'm feeling good and happy. Deleted my old pics for no reason!"
Right, no reason. Because that's what people do. They go back and delete all posts from the last decade. Hundreds if not thousands of posts. Totally normal and no reason at all to do that!
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Though the pics are all gone, the comments live on (in the New York Post)!
In response to the pic on the left above, Schumer's comedian friends wrote:
Chelsea Handler: "Yes!!!!! Look at this pic!!!!"
Lee Daniels chimed in: "Skinnnnnnnny mommmmma."
Kathy Griffen added: "I'm so pissed about your legs, I can barely talk to you."
Amy Sedaris complimented her fellow Amy: "You look incredible. Look at those pins!!!"
And Schumer basked: "Loving the love. My legs thank you!"
Not only does Amy like being skinny, her friends like skinny Amy too.
Schumer has had her share of weight gain woes. She wasn't obese but certainly chubby. Relatable! Fine. She's not a super model, she's a comedian. Round cheeks, a little belly, who cares! (Schumer, apparently.)
Her jam has been all about body positivity, up until dropping 40 pounds or so.
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Here's the thing: No one wants to be fat. No one.
All the body positivity bullshit was just that: bullshit.
No one wants to be obese. No one even wants to be chubby with arm dangles. No one wants their belly hanging over their pants. No one wants to have trouble chasing their kids around. No one wants to have 3 chins. And I can assure you -- no one in Hollywood who has to spend all day around size 0s who eat nothing but lettuce leaves wants to be fat next to those people. No one.
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But erasing every photo she ever put up on Instagram is just a bridge too far.
Now she's mad that the internet caught on to her shenanigans -- that she's trying to erase fat Amy -- and she's big mad. She posted this on Instagram in response to the internet calling it the end of body positivity:
"Hey media outlets I didn't delete my old photos because they were pre me losing weight. That's a narrative you created. I'm proud of how I've looked always. I have been working to be pain free and I finally am. My endometriosis is better. My back is healing. I no longer have Cushing syndrome so my face went back to normal. I am grateful to be strong and healthy especially for my son. But your Instagram is not your identity it's a curation of what you want the world to see and I feel great strong and beautiful and it's been fun sharing that. I didn't purposely go on a 'weight loss journey' that's a fine thing to go on. But my focus has been on health. I'm sure my weight will always fluctuate. I'm a perimenopausal woman on hrt meds. Wishing you strength and self love on whatever path you're on as long as it's kind and respectful to all people. No matter their weight race or religion peace!"
See, it's not about deleting the photos of herself when she was fat. It's about deleting the photos of herself when she was unhealthy.
It just turns out, you know, that despite her Healthy At Any Size claims, she was less healthy when she was obese.
And of course she very deliberately went on a "weight loss journey." She stuck herself in the belly with a shot every week for a year, didn't she? What did she think was in the shot, vitamins? Midol?
I don't mind the "Healthy at Any Size"/"Fat Positivity" thing as an internal cope. We all have copes. We all have little lies we have to tell ourselves to keep the bad thoughts at bay. It's a survival mechanism and there's nothing wrong with surviving.
What got really annoying was the demand that everyone repeat, out loud, other people's copes and affirm those copes as 100% true. What got insufferable was pressuring every corporation to proclaim what should have been an internal, just you-and-your-reflection-talking-in-the-mirror cope as a Truth we must all recognize and Affirm.
We've seen a lot of this lately, with sad or even mentally-sick people demanding we all affirm their mentally-ill copes as the Revealed Truth of God Shimself.
Enough. Enough of the bullshit. Enough parroting the scripts that mentally-unwell, physically-sick people demanding we profess as God's Truth.
Anecdotally, I think this is true: eating earlier at night results in better sleep and better health. Real Clear Science:
For instance, one study found that healthy adults who ate dinner at 10pm experienced 20% higher blood sugar peaks and burned 10% less fat compared to those who ate dinner at 6pm. This was despite both groups eating identical meals and having similar bedtimes.Broader analyses support the same trends, with a meta-analysis of 29 trials reporting that earlier eating windows, fewer meals and eating the bulk of one's calories earlier in the day were linked to greater weight loss and improved metabolic markers (such as better blood pressure and lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels).
Other research links consistent late-night eating -- especially close to bedtime -- with poorer health outcomes and a greater risk of obesity and metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes.
Earlier dinners may better align with the body's natural metabolic rhythms, particularly when the last meal occurs well before the body enters its "rest" phase. This might explain why eating earlier has health benefits.Many chronobiologists conclude that aligning food intake with circadian biology represents a promising, low-cost method of improving metabolic outcomes -- especially when combined with other lifestyle factors such as physical activity and healthy eating.
In winter, especially in northern latitudes, shorter days and longer nights can disrupt circadian rhythms.
Reduced sunlight can lower serotonin levels, contributing to low mood or seasonal affective disorder (SAD). When paired with longer evenings indoors, it's common for people to snack more often or delay eating dinner until later at night.
But digestion, hormone release (including those that help with sleep and digestion) and even the amount of calories you burn throughout the day all follow circadian rhythms. When meals are pushed too close to sleep, these processes overlap in ways that can affect both metabolism and rest -- potentially increasing risks of poor sleep and metabolic ill health.
So this is a GAINZZZ post now. Got any GAINZZZ? In my own Weight Loss Journey, I expended 25 unnecessary calories thinking about Amy Schumer for the first time in a year. Every little bit helps!
I keep finding that trying to get in 20 grams of creatine a day is giving me GI problems so I'm thinking about switching from creatine monohydride (the common, cheap version you're probably familiar with) to creatine HCl. The latter supposedly doesn't cause GI issues, but, here's the fun part, it's way more expensive than creatine monohydride. Anyone else having this problem, or seeing GAINZZZ in their BRAINZZZ from creatine?
Paul Sperry: Trump's Seditious Appointees Schemed to Advance the RussiaGate Hoax Alive
—Ace
Including John Durham, Sperry writes.
When Obama administration officials manufactured U.S. intelligence tying Donald Trump to Moscow following his stunning 2016 victory, they had no idea Trump's own political appointees would help them undermine Trump's presidency -- and his chances of reelection in 2020.RCI's review of recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with former Trump officials reveals for the first time how key members of Trump's cabinet and other appointees during his first term shrouded the previous administration's machinations and either deliberately or inadvertently misled the public into thinking the fake Russiagate intelligence was real.
Former Special Counsel John Durham, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former CIA Director Gina Haspel dismissed or buried evidence that cast doubt on a foundational document of the Russigate hoax -- the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) prepared in the waning days of the Obama administration.
Durham, who was appointed by Attorney General William Barr, stopped the declassification and release of key exculpatory evidence debunking the ICA on the eve of the 2020 election, which has not been reported previously.
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While these Trump-appointed officials may not have initiated the weaponization of the CIA against Trump, they facilitated it by hiding evidence that exposed the claims that Russia tried to help Trump as a fraud. By obscuring Joe Biden's own role in perpetrating the hoax, they may have helped Obama's vice president win the close race for the presidency in 2020.
"The Russiagate betrayal continued in plain sight," said former Trump national security adviser J.D. Gordon, with some in Trump's own cabinet letting him twist in the wind instead of daylighting secreted material that would have cleared the clouds of suspicion hanging over his head before the 2020 election.
John Bolton
The suppression can be traced back at least until mid-2018. That's when Fred Fleitz, who was National Security Adviser John Bolton's chief of staff, heard that investigators at his former employer, the House Intelligence Committee, were probing the raw intelligence in the ICA supporting the assessment's key judgments.
A one-time CIA analyst himself, Fleitz was curious to learn what they had found during the previous year, interviewing CIA analysts and reviewing secret documents at Langley. So, he traveled to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and read a draft of the highly classified report in a secure room of the U.S. Capitol.
Fleitz told RealClearInvestigations that he was startled to learn that the investigators discovered numerous intelligence documents showing the ICA's key conclusion -- that Russia "developed a clear preference" for Trump and "aspired to help" him win the election -- was based on shoddy and fabricated intelligence. House investigators found those assessments were supported in part by the Steele dossier, a series of Clinton campaign-funded reports containing baseless accusations linking Trump to the Kremlin compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
"The ICA misrepresented both the significance and credibility of the dossier reports," which were "either proven false or unsubstantiated," the top-secret congressional analysis noted. "The ICA referred to the dossier as 'Russian plans and intentions,' falsely implying that the dossier had intelligence value for understanding Moscow's influence operations."
Fleitz thought Bolton should be briefed on the unpublished House report, which undermined the prevailing narrative that Trump and Moscow had colluded during the 2016 election campaign. When he returned to his West Wing office, Fleitz sat down at his classified computer and wrote a synopsis of the review and gave it to his boss.
But Bolton did not, in turn, brief the president. "He didn't do anything with it. He never told Trump, and I never heard anything about it again," Fleitz told RCI.If Trump had known about the shocking revelations from the classified report, Fleitz said, he could have used them to remove the cloud of suspicion hanging over his presidency concerning Russia.
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Gina Haspel
Pompeo's deputy at the time was Gina Haspel, who appears to have played a much more active role in drawing a veil over the information. A veteran CIA official whom Pompeo had put in charge of most of the day-to-day operations of the agency, she apparently didn't appreciate congressional staffers investigating the agency's spycraft that went into the highly classified and restricted version of the ICA.
Sources told RCI she made sure the investigators' on-site examination, which spanned from 2017 to 2020, was closely monitored and tightly controlled. The House investigators had to be cleared into a "read room" at Langley each day to examine the records the CIA used to support the ICA. And they were forced to lock up their laptops and materials there when they left at night.
"Haspel didn't allow them to take even their notes out of their workspace there," Harvey said. "They couldn't take anything out of the building."
Another House Intelligence Committee source familiar with the operation said the investigators suspected the CIA "was spying on [committee] computers" back on Capitol Hill. They reported back to then-committee chairman Devin Nunes that the CIA had tampered with the computers the agency forced them to use to draft their report inside headquarters -- and this was only after they were denied access to any computers in the first four months of their oversight investigation.
"Deliberate technical modifications to the [CIA-issued] computers made the machines unstable and unreliable," which slowed down investigators' work, according to a committee report documenting the CIA's efforts to "obstruct" their probe.
The report, which was obtained by RCI, added: "Peculiar machine glitches caused lines of text to appear fuzzy, forcing restarts to correct and sometimes resulting in lost text or footnotes."
The investigators repeatedly requested "proper computers" to support the review, but were never provided with them. They were also denied software tools that would have allowed them to efficiently search large volumes of classified and unclassified reporting at the agency. Thousands of pages of intelligence reports relevant to the ICA were available only in paper form. The staffers had to comb through thick binders with broken rings and missing tab dividers, further hamstringing their audit.
Pompeo and Haspel also placed restrictions on their access to Brennan's five hand-picked authors of the ICA, who initially were kept at arm's length.
"It took nearly five months for committee staff to be allowed to in
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After she took over the CIA, she locked up all drafts of the House Intelligence Committee report in a gun safe inside a vault in a highly secure room at CIA headquarters until she left office in January 2021. She also impounded all the examiners' notes and other work materials."Gina Haspel buried the report," Harvey said.
Knowledgeable sources say that before Haspel left, she demanded that both Barr and Durham keep the report classified and not release any part of it before the 2020 election.
"In 2020, Gina Haspel was running around with her hair on fire saying it should never see the light of day," a former senior official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said. "I still cannot believe that she was President Trump's CIA director. It's totally insane."
Read the whole thing.
Related: Obama's and Biden's henchmen in the FBI spied on GOP House leader Jim Jordan's phones and emails for... two years.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Thursday revealed that the Biden administration subpoenaed his phone records for a two-year period as part of the Arctic Frost investigation, making his records more expansive than other lawmakers.The announcement comes after recent revelations claimed the Biden FBI snooped on the phone records of Republican members of Congress, including eight senators, during its January 6 investigation.
Jordan said his phone records were requested by Justice Department prosecutor Timothy Duree, who worked with Thomas Windom, one of Jack Smith's top prosecutors, in April 2022. The request sought his phone records from Jan. 1, 2020, through April 2022.
The toll records did not include the contents of Jordan's phone calls or messages but did include details about inbound and outbound calls, text messages, direct-connect communications and voicemail messages.
The subpoena was also accompanied by a nondisclosure order that claimed notifying Jordan of the subpoena could "result in flight from prosecution, destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation."
Somewhat related, sort of?
Where the suspect... kneeled.
The footage contains a previously nonpublic segment showing the alleged pipe bomber approaching the Congressional Black Caucus Institute building near Capitol Hill and kneeling down near a bush on the property, Loudermilk told Just the News.Just the News reviewed the footage and confirmed the lawmaker's description.
"We've tracked that path with security camera footage that we have access to, but they missed one key aspect...they made a stop as they walked past the Congressional Black Caucus, turned, and went on to the property and knelt down by a bush. Now this is the first real stop that the pipe bomber made," Loudermilk told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Thursday.
"Now this is before they actually placed the bomb at the DNC. So, what were they doing there at the Congressional Black Caucus? No bomb was found there," Loudermilk said.
The clue is in the bamboo.
Nasty White Karen Running to Take a Nashville House Seat from Republicans Admits On Tape That She Hates All of Nashville, Especially Its People
—Ace
Black Phone for Karen...
Black Phone for Karen...
The special election will be held on December 5th 2nd. [It's the first Tuesday in December.] You'd think this would sink her, but, as David Strom notes, Virginia liberals just voted for a top prosecutor who openly lusts to murder his opponents and see their children die in the arms of their mother, so this is no gimme.
Do not underestimate the AWFL vote. It is huge and angry and hypermedicated and healthy at any size and determined to teach its ex-husbands a lessons. Many lessons.
Fox News:
Democratic congressional hopeful Aftyn Behn did not hold back when describing how she really feels about Nashville -- the city she's now running to represent -- in a 2020 podcast that's resurfaced just days before the Dec. 2 special election."I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville apparently an 'it' city to the rest of the country. But I hate it," she said in the podcast.
Behn, a Democratic state representative and former healthcare community organizer, is running against Republican nominee Matt Van Epps to represent Tennessee's 7th Congressional District. The winner will succeed former GOP Rep. Mark Green, who resigned from office in June to take a private sector job.
The district, which is located in central and western Tennessee and stretches from Kentucky to Alabama, is solidly red. President Donald Trump carried the district by 22 points in his 2024 White House victory.
But the district includes parts of the Democratic stronghold of Nashville, Tennessee's capital and its most populous city, and a major national center for the country music industry. The district encompasses parts of north and west Nashville, including the downtown area which has long been a very popular tourist destination.
"The Democrat running in a special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, Aftyn Behn, is running on the message: 'I hate this place, elect me!' Tennessee deserves better," the Republican National Committee (RNC) argued in a social media post on Thursday.
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NYC Will Imprison Senior Citizen for Defending Himself Against a Mugger
—Ace
A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver -- as his lawyer ripped the city's "draconian" gun laws.
Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home.
The Queens District Attorney's Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez's killing after he told cops that he'd defended himself from a mugger who lunged at him late at night holding what looked like a knife -- but which turned out to be a pen.
But prosecutors slapped Foehner with a slew of weapons raps for the unlicensed handgun and for an arsenal of illicit handguns, revolvers and rifles inside his home in the quiet neighborhood.
Foehner took the plea deal to avoid a trial, where he faced 25 years in prison on gun charges that are not hard to prove, said his attorney Thomas Kenniff after Thursday's hearing in Queens Supreme Court.
Kenniff called Foehner a "hero" who was put in an "impossible position" by what he called "draconian" Big Apple gun laws that make it difficult for "law abiding citizens" to obtain permits to carry firearms.
"If this was a state and a city that had its affairs in order, Mr Foehner would be getting a plaque, not a prison sentence," Kenniff told reporters on the courthouse steps.
A term that's enjoying new popularity -- because it describes the hell that the left is imposing on us -- is "anarchotyranny."
The idea is that we live in a tyranny filled with lawlessness (anarchy). Those seem to be opposites, which would make anarchotyranny a contradiction in terms, but you have to remember that only some get tyranny while others get anarchy.
If you're a rapist, a mugger, a killer, a drug-dealer, an illegal alien, you get anarchy, with the government staying out of your business and letting you harm your fellow citizens and ply your criminal trade with little government interference.
But if you're among the working population with a family and a mortgage and commitments you just can't walk away from, you get the tyranny, the endless laws, the endless demands for you to get a permit to do every single thing that free men used to do freely, and strict and brutal punishment from the state when you ignore a law here and there. Don't you know that only the hardcore criminals get to ignore the laws with impunity?
Adam Carolla has been ranting about this for years, although I don't think he used the word "anarchotyranny." (If you know where these clips are, let me know.)
He points out that you will be permitted to death if you dare try to add an extension to your house, and it will cost you $50,000 just to get that permit.
Meanwhile, illegal aliens can set up shantytown food carts on the street with no inspections and no authorization to block the sidewalks, and the cops will just walk on by.
If you want to expand your business, the state wants to stop you.
But if homeless people want to block traffic selling flowers car to car, that's fine. No problem.
The left wants to control people, and so they focus on the group of people who actually will obey all (or most) of the laws they pass: the naturally, inherently law-abiding. The people who can't afford to spend six months or a year in jail.
Meanwhile, for the criminal class: complete freedom to do whatever they want to do.
In the UK, they outlawed guns ages ago, and then outlawed swords and machetes and common knives.
For the law-abiding people, at least.
For the privileged classes: Anarchy.
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Economy Adds 119,000 Jobs Even When Deliberately Sabotaged by Democrats, Doubling Expectations
—Ace
This report is from September. The Democrats hadn't yet shut the government down -- that started October 1 -- but everyone understood they were going to shut it down. The Democrats created uncertainty and fear, which is always bad for economic growth. People don't like to take out loans and take chances on new businesses or new construction when the future looks dicey.
The U.S. economy added 119,000 jobs in September, according to a Labor Department report released Thursday.The release of the report was delayed by the roughly 40-day government shutdown that shuttered federal agencies.
The number of jobs exceeded Wall Street expectations, according to CNBC.
In fact, the eXpErTs had predicted less than half that.
Employers across the U.S. added 119,000 jobs in September, marking a pickup after previous employment data had shown a slowdown in hiring. The report marks the first official job tally since the government shutdown ended last week, ending a six-week blackout on labor data.
Economists had forecast payroll gains of 50,000 jobs in September, according to a poll by FactSet.The unemployment rate rose 4.4% in September, up from 4.3% in August and the highest level since Oct. 2021. With robust job growth in September, that suggests more people are re-entering the workforce to search for a job, economists said.
119,000 jobs in a month still isn't good, but given the strains the Democrats are putting on the economy, it's okay.
And also, I should admit, Trump is putting strains on the economy, too, with an uncertain trade environment due to frequent tariff saber-rattling and an uncertain labor environment with millions of illegals -- who took jobs from Americans -- being deported. Both of these moves will have long-term payoffs but in the short term they're weighing the economy down, and I'm starting to get worried about how much time we have left before the midterms to have a good economy the public actually acknowledges as good.
Some good news:
Townhall.com @townhallcomECONOMIC GAINS:
--119,000 NEW JOBS jobs added in Sept. (Double expectations)
--19,000 Construction jobs added in Sept.
--Nearly ALL Jobs going to AMERICANS not Foreign Born Workers.
--Wages UP 3.8%"This is a REVERSAL of the failed Biden Era."
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Eric Daugherty @EricLDaughBREAKING: In a jaw-dropping win, 2.57 MILLION native-born Americans gained jobs since President Trump assumed office...
...and over 1 million migrants LOST employment.
In total, 1.23 million foreigners left the labor force.
Nature is healing, folks. Big time.
There are some numbers that hint that the economy may experience its second Trump Boom:
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Behind the Restaurant Meal Delivery Industry, there is a Black Market Exploiting Illegal Foreign Labor
—Buck Throckmorton
If you are having restaurant food “dashed” to your residence, there is a very good chance that the person delivering your meal is part of a black market of non-citizen labor, illegally subcontracted by the actual “independent contractor” of Door Dash, Uber Eats, and the like.
Two years ago, the New York Times published a highly sympathetic article about this industry, focusing on the awful plight of illegal immigrants dumped in Ney York City but not eligible to work, and how sub-contracted food delivery provides a source of income. All the same, the Times did acknowledge the exploitation of this illegal workforce, documenting the financial arrangement under which Venezuelan “migrant” Mayco Milano operated. Specifically, the business model under which Mr. Milano delivers food is:
• An unlicensed moped is rented for $400 per week from a black-market moped broker.
• Login access to an Uber Eats account is rented for $150 per week from “Jessica.”
• Mr. Milano works long hours, 7 days a week, delivering food throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The commission before tip is about $4 per delivery.
• At $550 per week for the combined rent of the moped and Uber Eats login, divided by the $4 commission per delivery, it takes about 135 food deliveries per week before Mr. Milano breaks even.
• “Jessica” is the one getting paid by Uber Eats. She then pays Mr. Milano and her other subs in cash, after taking her administrative fee for subcontracting her Uber Eats login to them. Not every “Jessica” reliably pays their subs, however, and the subs obviously have no recourse when Jessica pockets their earnings.
A few weeks ago, Pirate Wires published a sobering article by Sagnik Basu that details the extent of the exploitation of people such as Mayco Milano, while also shaming the smug consumers who believe they are the good guys for providing a living to off-the-books food dashers. This article was subsequently re-published by The Free Press, but the Pirate Wires version is not behind a paywall:
This is one of those “read every word” articles, which I encourage you to do, but here are a few pull quotes:
Walk through Midtown at night and the story writes itself. Gas-powered mopeds idle in clusters outside the Roosevelt Hotel, their headlights cutting through steam from the street vents. Riders sit slumped over paper cups of coffee, helmets at their feet. Upstairs, people in $4,000/month apartments track their Uber Eats orders on their phones: “Your Thai curry is six minutes away.” Everyone in this city knows what’s going on. We just don’t say it out loud.
Outside the Roosevelt Hotel or shelters in Queens, you can buy a complete starter kit: moped, helmet, insulated bag, and Uber Eats login — “todo junto,” all together. Ads circulate through WhatsApp groups and Facebook Marketplace targeting Venezuelan and Guinean migrants. It’s an informal franchise system that works because everyone involved is desperate enough to honor it.
Most riders are paid in cash. There are no 1099s, no payroll records, no worker’s comp when they crash on wet pavement. The city forfeits tax revenue; the companies forfeit liability; the riders forfeit everything.
What we call the “gig economy” is, in practice, a debt-and-fear economy — one that goes unchallenged in hyper-progressive places like NYC precisely because liberals have redefined “compassion” as ignoring the law.
The young professional who tweets “abolish ICE” orders pad thai at 11 p.m. from a rider whose entire existence depends on ICE looking the other way. They think guilt-tipping 35 percent makes them virtuous. But it’s just exploitation offset by sentiment.
If Uber Eats or DoorDash can build billion-dollar machine-learning models to predict delivery times, they can build one to verify who’s actually delivering.
This will come with costs. When you close the pipeline of illegal labor, prices will rise. Fewer $10 burritos at 11 p.m. More delivery fees. More friction. Good. Because that’s the real price of legality. If we want a humane system, it has to be lawful first. You have to enforce the border, punish exploitation, and end the moral outsourcing that lets you feel good while someone else breaks the law for you.
If compassion means preserving a shadow economy of fear, debt, and exhaustion, then it’s not compassion at all. It’s exploitation wrapped in virtue.
Coincidentally, just a few days after publication of the Pirate Wire piece, Culper Research issued a devastating research opinion to investors about Door Dash’s business model, while also advising that Culper was taking a short position in Door Dash stock (meaning they expect the stock price to drop). Per Culper Research’s website, Culper is a watchdog that seeks “to expose companies which have misrepresented their operations, failed to disclose significant risks, misused capital, possess accounting irregularities, or otherwise deceived investors.”
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The Morning Report — 11/21/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Here we are barely two weeks after New Yorkers went to the polls and elected a Muslim/Socialist mayor of the world's most Jewish city by population though certainly not in spirit or character. To add the most horrific insult to injury, that abomination came just a few days shy of the 87th anniversary of Kristalnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass where Synagogues and Jewish owned businesses were burned to the ground and ransacked with the full knowledge and approval of the Hitlerite Nazi German regime in reaction to the shooting death of a German diplomat in France by a distraught young Polish Jew. And by the next day thousands of Jews were rounded up and sent off and imprisoned. It marked what is recognized as the start of what became known as the Holocaust, a genocide which by the end of the Second World war claimed the lives of at least 6 million of Europe's Jews.
As kind of an aside, The Leftists are shrieking about ICE separating families and deporting illegal aliens and likening it to Nazis rounding up Jews, then using that as a justification to assault ICE and other law enforcement agents while amplifying the trope of President Trump as literally Hitler and all of us who support him as Nazis, fascists and white supremacists who must be resisted by any means necessary!
So, despite my clunky introduction, here we are a few weeks and 87 years after the aforementioned and this happened in New York City:
Columbia University student groups promoted a protest at which an anti-Semitic mob threw bottles and sticks at a Jewish group, which included at least two Holocaust survivors, outside a historic Manhattan synagogue.Roughly 200 keffiyeh-clad agitators gathered outside the Park East Synagogue on Wednesday to protest an event hosted by Nefesh B’Nefesh, a nonprofit group that facilitates Jewish immigration to Israel, the synagogue’s cantor, Benny Rogosnitzky, told the Washington Free Beacon. The sticks and bottles they threw at a group of Jewish counter-protesters of about the same size injured at least one member of the synagogue, he said. . . The protest was organized by PAL-Awda NY/NJ, which has honored Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar as a "hero" and a "legend." Columbia University Apartheid Divest and the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society promoted the event on social media, sharing a flyer that read "NO SETTLERS ON STOLEN LAND." It also accused Nefesh B’Nefesh of holding a "settler recruiting fair" and listed the address of Park East Synagogue, which is led by Rabbi Arthur Schneier, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor. . . In response to Wednesday night’s protest, Mamdani, through a spokeswoman, suggested that Nefesh B’Nefesh’s mission of bringing Jews to Israel violates international law.
Wait! Students For A Democratic Society I thought that that group disintegrated decades ago. Its members have got to be well into their 80s by now, if not rotting in hell. Meh, the friggin' Berlin Wall came down in 1990 and evidently it landed right on top of us. . .
This week, he reiterated his intention to honor the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest, should the Israeli leader ever visit New York City under his leadership. This is a position that he has maintained since his campaign, which was quite popular among the anti-Israel leftists in New York.
The salient point though is this is not about Netanyahu or Israel per se. This is about Islam and its unending crusade (pun absolutely intended) to conquer the world. In doing so its goals are first and foremost the death of every Jew and the subjugation, forced conversion or death of every other infidel or anyone who resists. It is self-evident in that staging a violent assault on a synagogue and those inside be they Jew or Gentile, that is thousands of miles from Israel (or the mythical land of "Palestine") has nothing to do with anything other than an act of terrorism.
And Zohran Mamdani hasn't even been sworn in. Maybe Jeremiah Wright can brush up on his Arabic and declare his famous words of G-damn America with Mamdani's reptilian claw on that accursed Koran.
And speaking of my hometown, there's this item that has ramifications for everyone who is forced to remain in that besieged city:
A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver — as his lawyer ripped the city’s “draconian” gun laws.Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home.
The Queens District Attorney’s Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez’s killing after he told cops that he’d defended himself from a mugger who lunged at him late at night holding what looked like a knife — but which turned out to be a pen.
You better believe that no one will be safe from mere criminals to organized terrorists hunting Jews and infidels. In the wake of the Al Sharpton fomented Crown Heights pogrom of 1981, a number of Jewish safety patrols were formed in the orthodox and Hassidic neighborhoods, supported by the NYPD as an official arm of the Auxiliary police. it's a fair bet that Mamdani will have them disbanded as soon as he gets the chance.
And if anyone dares to effectively engage in self defense, every juror unlucky enough to pull jury duty will never vote to acquit lest they endanger themselves and their families.
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest jungle . . .
Consider Dearborn, Michigan, population just north of 100,000. If you were ranking American cities by population, Dearborn wouldn’t even crack the top 300. But the population that Dearborn does have is highly significant. Dearborn currently has a larger proportion of Muslims than any other city in the United States, and it recently became the first Arab-majority city in the country. Fully 55% of Dearborn’s residents say they have Middle Eastern or North African ancestry — which explains why Dearborn boasts the largest mosque in the entire continent of North America. Dearborn, as I’ve said before, is an Islamic capital at this point. It’s not an American city in any way. Dearborn has been conquered. And the few remaining Americans in Dearborn are now finding themselves surrounded by mobs of Muslims chanting Allahu Akbar, and telling them to leave the city.This is footage that was taken by Nick Shirley, one of the few journalists who’s willing to travel to Dearborn. The footage shows Shirley attempting to interview an activist named Jake Lang — who was one of the pardoned January 6 defendants. But the interview doesn’t go anywhere, because at this point, Dearborn resembles Fallujah. . .
. . . To be clear about what we just saw: If you’re an American citizen, and the mob of Muslims that controls Dearborn believes that you’re a “racist,” then you’re not welcome in the city any longer. Your constitutional rights to freedom of expression are suspended. You will be surrounded and hounded. And indeed, that’s the official position of the government of Dearborn. It was just a few weeks ago, you may remember, that the mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hammoud, publicly berated a Christian pastor, telling him that he’s not “welcome” in the city because of his views. (This is the same mayor who, as we discussed yesterday, said he “disavows” the concept of assimilation.) So this tactic of driving out Americans who disagree with the Islamization of the city extends not just to the mob but to government officials in the city as well. That’s what makes this, among other things, a constitutional crisis.
For those who think that this madness will remain in NYC or Dearborn, or wherever else, and ultimately burn itself out, think again because you're whistling past a gate to hell — with the words "Arbeit Macht Frei" on them.
The Democrat Party, even in your neck of the woods is fully on board with this, if not publicly than for sure behind closed doors. And it matters not that you might be in a very dark and deep Red city or state. This cancer is still there. And most dangerously, it's in our schools.
And a mere molotov cocktail's throw from Dearbornistan, we have Mogadishu on the Mississippi:
Report: MN Somali Medicaid Fraud Investigation Reveals Terrorist Link — ‘Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota Taxpayer’ . . .But the fraud is far more widespread with far more money involved than was previously reported — all of which has been presided over by former Democrat Party vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz. The money paid out by Minnesota’s scandal-plagued welfare schemes is monumental. The state’s failed Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program, for instance, was kicked off in 2021 with expenses expected to ring in at $2.6 million. But instead, the program paid out $21 million its first year. In each subsequent year the program ballooned to $42 million, then $74, and then $104 million, respectively. During the first half of 2025, costs had already reached $61 million, according to City Journal. Fraud is also endemic in many of Minnesota’s other welfare programs. City Journal noted that a Somali woman named Asha Farhan Hassan has been charged with defrauding the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program of $14 million over fake diagnoses of autism in children of Somali migrants. Prosecutors now say that Hassan and her cohorts approached Somali families and promised them kickbacks of between $300 to $1500 a month per child if they enrolled in the state’s autism treatment programs.
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- Rejecting the role of “Uncle Sucker”. The Genius of Trump’s Tariffs
- Hundreds of pro-'Palestinian'
activistsTerrorists besieged Manhattan’s prestigious Park East Synagogue on Wednesday night, chanting, “Globalize the intifada,” “Death to the IDF,” and “take another settler out,” in what critics warned is “just the beginning” of a radicalized climate under socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. (Uh, it's the Islam not the socialism at work here, though you'll never hear a peep of outrage about this from the socialists - jjs)
Pro-'Palestinian' Activists Besiege NYC Synagogue: ‘Mamdani Era Has Already Begun’
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Daily Tech News 21 November 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- High King Mustafa, Lord of Microsoft's AI division, is angered by your insufficient displays of appreciation for his bountiful distribution of AI slop. (PC Magazine)
"Remember the days," he asked, "when all you had to eat was bread and cheese, and meat, and vegetables, and fruit in season, and pasta, and rice, and beans, and fish, and eggs, and chocolate cake? Why aren't you properly grateful for the disgusting slop we are forcing down your miserable gullets? Don't you know how lucky you are to live in an age where slop like this is available?"
He then reportedly threw a chair at an intern.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - November 20, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Hope your Thursday has been good. The ONT is here to help you close out your day. Come on in!
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Baby Rhino Hero Cafe
—Ace
Bavarian Alps in autumn
Kilian Schonberger/@Schoenberger_K
Mama chimp whoops her rambunctious son.
Wild dog-- or wolf? -- plays the I'm-touching-you-game with his brother, who spergs out about it.
Compilation of ducks being awesome.
Birds being helpful and/or copycats.
You don't want no trouble from this feisty kitten.
And you don't want no smoke with this one, either.
Beaver carrying a baby. No, I mean the rodent.
The bird is in. Now they're invincible.
Mother horse runs with her baby.
Oldie but a goodie: Polite penguin waits for the road to clear.
Come along little doggie!
Good shanks on this filly.
A wolf problem, you say? Nay, a wolf opportunity.
Perpetual motion meow-chine. That was terrible. Kill me now.
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The World's Most Ostentatious "True Conservative" Republican -- George Conway -- Might Run for Jerry Nadler's NYC House Seat... as a Democrat
—Ace
As a Democrat? That makes no sense! George Conway is always boasting that he is the truest of all true conservatives!
Wait a sec -- could it be... and I'm just spitballing here... could it be that the liberal grifters grifting as "The True Conservatives for the Leftwing Antifa Democrat Agenda" are actually all limousine liberal Democrats and in fact have been all along?
Nah, that's crazy. They couldn't all just be lying to us.
Or... could they?
While I figure this puzzle out, peruse Just the News.
George Conway, a conservative lawyer but vocal critic of President Donald Trump, is considering jumping into the race to replace New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler next year, according to the New York Times.Conway, who divorced his wife and former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway in 2023, told donors at a private virtual event for paid members of the liberal media outlet Democracy Docket on Tuesday that he was inspired to consider a campaign after eight Senate Democrats voted to reopen the government without a deal to extend expiring health care subsidies.
I call him a "literal cuck" but I don't know that for a fact. I can say that there is a widely-known rumor that when George Conway went crazy with Trump Derangement making a public spectacle of himself while his wife continued to work for Trump, the couple enjoyed a "Catholic divorce," which means they remained "married" for the sake of their daughter and appearances while living entirely separate lives, including dating.
And I do hear that Kellyanne was more successful in dating-while-married than Georgy Porgy.
Do I know that's true? No.
Do I guess that's true? Oh yeah, you betcha. I've got a bonus tweet after the jump that I think... let's say, it "paints a picture."
The former conservative said he would run as a Democrat if he jumped into the race, but admitted that the party swap could confuse some voters and "put some people off."
It will confuse literally zero voters. Everyone knows you're a butthurt liberal cuck.
"This is the time for a lawyer who has never been in politics to go into politics," Conway said.
This pussy has lived and breathed nothing but politics his whole life. His "legal" work is mostly political crap.
...Conway also noted that he would serve as a "wingman" to other attorneys in politics, like Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin and New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman.
Perfect phrasing. No notes.
The attorney supported Trump when he won in 2016, but he broke with the president in his first term when he fired former FBI Director James Comey. He has since claimed Trump is a narcissist who is unfit for office.
He threw away his marriage and betrayed his wife over the firing of James Comey?
Oh I get it now -- he's insane.
Or... maybe I don't believe this tale. Maybe I believe something more along the lines of, one of the grifters of the NeverTrump movement made a cash-money offer to this lifelong political opportunist.
The below tweet was shared around political types last week. A friend showed it to me in a Chinese restaurant.
In the tweet, George Conway whines that his wife didn't "stick up for" him when he was betraying her by attacking her employer, Donald Trump.
She had a steady job. He didn't. And instead of just shutting up, he attempted to suddenly become a NeverTrump Political Celebrity, despite mostly being a behind-the-scenes operator his whole life. On account of him being uglier than James Carville's less-attractive testicle.
Kellyanne was the one who appeared on TV. Conway was the one who leaked to allies who then spoke on TV.
But suddenly, just in time for a mid-life crisis, Conway is beating down the doors at MSNBC to get a live-shot on TV.
And making everyone wonder: What is going on with their marriage, that this guy is savaging his wife's boss, and by extension, her, every other night on TV?
And he could not stop making his wife's life difficult for her... but then he demanded she "stick up for him" in making life difficult for her.
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The Deposed Regime Gathers to Pretend to Honor Dick Cheney While Actually Making Petty Attacks to Advance Their Dying Political Careers
—Ace
GRIM SPECTERS OF DEATH:
Rachel Maddow sits beside Anthony Fuckin' Fauci at the Cheney Funeral Show
Neither Trump nor Vance were invited.
The Obamas didn't come, because they are beyond pretending they're interested in anything that doesn't pay them seven figures for a quickie appearance.
The Clintons were too busy dodging subpoeans to make an appearance.
But George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris, her Punchy Cuck of a husband, Anthony Fauci and Rachel Maddow all made the scene.
Pretending to eulogize her father and speak of the legacy he leaves for posterity, Liz Cheney hijacks the funeral to turn into another McCain funeral, focused on petty attacks against transitory political figures.
Reuters @Reuters38m
Addressing mourners who had gathered in Washington, DC, Liz Cheney said her father, the former US Vice President Dick Cheney, always prioritized defending the Constitution over party loyalty
That has nothing to do with Dick Cheney. He is not known for "defending the Constitution over party loyalty." He is known -- to put it in a positive way -- for defending America no matter what the costs or which applecarts were overturned.
But "defending the Constitution over party loyalty" was empahtically not Dick Cheney's fight. McCain could claim that for fighting "torture," but Cheney was all about torture.
"Putting the Constitution over party loyalty" was Liz Cheney's fight (or, at least, that's how she would tell the tale).
So she's not eulogizing her father, she's just elevating herself. She's standing on her father's corpse to give some height to her toad-like frame.
Typical, and what we've come to expect from Regime funeral shows.
Her big praise of her father was about him backing her quixotic cause.
In recent years, Dick Cheney, who also served as secretary of Defense and represented Wyoming in Congress, publicly backed his daughter as she fought to push back on false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, eventually losing her seat in Congress after turning against President Trump."Though he was inspired to service by President Kennedy, Dick Cheney became a Republican," Liz Cheney said. "But he knew that bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans."
"For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all," she added.
So let's ignore all the things Dick Cheney actually did when he was in office to focus on what really matters, him saying "You go girl" to his daughter as a retired and weary old man, sitting on the sidelines, weakly shaking the pom-poms.
I thought at least she would try to hide that she was talking entirely about herself by talking about Cheney, I don't know, standing up to Nixon during impeachment (if he did that, I dunno). Then she could say "he stood up for the Constitution over party loyalty" and while you would suspect she was talking about herself again, you couldn't be sure. She would have plausible deniability.
But no, she doesn't bother dressing it up, she goes just goes straight for the naked self-praise: "What made my father great was him recognizing how righteous and brave I was in my prune-faced heterosexual lesbian act."
I don't know, is this how the Regime does funerals? When I've spoken at funerals I've tended to focus on the actual deceased person. I didn't say, "You know what grandma loved? My 'Johnny Coldcuts' character. That and the Money for Anal Wonkette Skankathon. She quilted me a blanket with 'pooter' written on it."
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Somalis in Minnesota are Defrauding the Government By Claming Autism, and Then Sending American Tax Dollars to the Somali Terror Group Al-Shabaab
—Ace
The biggest funder of the Al-Shabbab terror organization is the American taxpayer.
These are foreign terrorist invaders, and criminals, and conquerors.
It is time to send them back.
And of course the Somalis' partner in funding terrorism with US taxpayer dollars is Tim Walz.
"The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer"
How some of the state's welfare funds ended up in the hands of a terror groupMinnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch.
And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.
In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota's sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source put it: "The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer."
Our investigation shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding-heart bureaucracy, when imported clan loyalties collide with a political class too timid to offend, and when accusations of racism are cynically deployed to shield criminal behavior. The predictable result is graft, with taxpayers left to foot the bill.
If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota's Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program. The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with "low barriers to entry" and "minimal requirements for reimbursement."Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.
Costs quickly spiraled out of control. In 2021, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims. In the following years, annual costs shot up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million. During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.
On August 1, Minnesota's Department of Human Services moved to scrap the HSS program, noting that payment to 77 housing-stabilization providers had been terminated this year due to "credible allegations of fraud." Joe Thompson, then the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, went even further, stating that the "vast majority" of the HSS program was fraudulent.
On September 18, Thompson announced criminal indictments for HSS fraud against Moktar Hassan Aden, Mustafa Dayib Ali, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, Christopher Adesoji Falade, Emmanuel Oluwademilade Falade, Asad Ahmed Adow, and Anwar Ahmed Adow--six of whom, according a U.S. Attorney's Office spokesperson, are members of Minnesota's Somali community. Thompson made clear that this is just the first round of charges for HSS fraud that his office will be prosecuting.
"Most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud cases nationally, aren't just overbilling," Thompson said at a press conference announcing the indictments. "These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system, and that's unique in the extent to which we have that here in Minnesota."
..."What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources meant for those in need. It feels never ending," Thompson said. "I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away."
On September 18, the same day that the HSS fraud charges were announced, the U.S. Attorney's Office reported that a man named Abdullahe Nur Jesow had become the 56th defendant to plead guilty in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme....
In 2019, Feeding Our Future received $3.4 million in federal funding disbursed by the state. In the months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, however, the nonprofit rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites. Using fake meal counts, doctored attendance records, and fabricated invoices, the perpetrators of the fraud ring claimed to be serving thousands of meals a day, seven days a week, to underprivileged children. In 2021, Feeding Our Future received nearly $200 million in funding.
In reality, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya. In 2020, Minnesota officials raised concerns about the nonprofit's rapid expansion. In response, the group filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination related to outstanding site applications, noting that Feeding Our Future "caters to . . . foreign nationals."
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The fraudsters have leveraged their growing political influence to cultivate close ties with Minnesota's elected officials. Several individuals involved in the Feeding Our Future scheme donated to, or appeared publicly with, Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman from Minneapolis. Omar's deputy district director, Ali Isse, advocated on behalf of Feeding Our Future. Omar Fateh, a former state senator who recently ran for Minneapolis mayor, lobbied Governor Tim Walz in support of the program. And one of the accused, Abdi Nur Salah, served as a senior aide to Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey.
Just days later, on September 24, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson announced his office's first indictment in yet another fraud case. This time, the scheme involved federally funded autism services for children.
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Hassan and her co-conspirators "approached parents in the Somali community" and recruited their children into autism therapy services. It didn't matter, prosecutors suggested, if a child did not have an autism diagnosis: Hassan would facilitate a fraudulent one.
When gnarled raiders clamber over America's gunwhales, the idiots of the communist left cry "They're here to help us row the ship!"
No. They are pirates. They are here to kill, despoil, and plunder.
Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury and Democrat Party Wise-Man Larry Summers Is Booted from Harvard's Classrooms as the Leftwing School Examines His Relationsip with Pedophile Financier and "Wing Man" Jeffrey Epstein
—Ace
And when I say he was a wing man of Jeffrey Epstein, I do in fact mean the Jeffrey Epstein, not a Jeffrey Epstein.
Larry Summers, the former Harvard University president who served as treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, is stepping back from teaching and resigning from the board of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, as Harvard looks into his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Harvard is reviewing information of people associated with the university -- including Summers, its president from 2001 to 2006 -- that were featured in the Epstein documents to "evaluate what actions may be warranted," spokesperson Jason Newton said on Wednesday. Congress released documents last week showing the men remained in close contact after Epstein pleaded guilty to solicitation of prostitution in 2008.
Summers's spokesperson also said on Wednesday that his co-teachers will complete the remaining three class sessions of the courses he has been teaching this semester. "Summers is not scheduled to teach next semester," the spokesperson added. He will keep his tenure.
Summers said in a statement on the same day that he has resigned from the board of OpenAI -- one day after he announced that he would step back from his public commitments.
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On Nov. 12, the House Oversight Committee released a trove of documents that included emails illuminating Epstein's ties to a network of world leaders, business tycoons and American politicians from both parties -- connections that continued long after Epstein pleaded guilty to charges of solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution with a minor in 2008.
...After the files were released, a series of boards and think tanks severed their relationships with Summers, including the Yale Budget Lab, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, the Center for Global Development and the Center for American Progress.
CAP, a left-leaning think tank, said in a statement that it had paused the launch of a working group focused on economic proposals, which Summers was supposed to help lead. For decades, Summers has been a key player on economic policy in Washington.
The Democrat Party protects its own:
Tosca Austen
@ToscaAusten💀EPSTEIN'S Ghost Claws Out
Of A Long-Sealed Vault.LARRY SUMMERS --former U.S. Treasury Secretary For Bill Clinton falls first, steps down from the Board of Open AI.
Let's talk about privilege.
Imagine being so powerful that even after texting Jeffrey Epstein--the day before his arrest, bragging about canoodling with the daughter of a top CCP banker--and getting caught red-handed in the Epstein Estate files...
And after all that, you STILL get to keep your Harvard office.
You STILL get to shape the next Democratic administration.
You STILL get to walk FREE. That's Larry Summers in 2025. Insulated from the inside.
And Nobody is canceling him Yet.
For 30 years Summer WAS the Democratic Party's brain:
-->Clinton's Treasury Secretary who deregulated Wall Street and opened the door for China's WTO entry.
-->Obama's economic czar who ran the recovery
-->Biden's inflation prophet and quiet advisor
-->The guy Socialists love to hate but centrists can't live withoutLife was good for Larry Summers.
Until the House dropped the Epstein emails this week and the mask slipped off completely.
Hundreds of messages:
-->Summers whining to Epstein that his 20-something "mentee" Keyu Jin (daughter of Jin Liqun, the godfather of China's Belt & Road) won't sleep with him unless he keeps mentoring her
-->She can't have it without sex" -- direct quote to Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker
-->Epstein replying "she's doomed to be with you" like it's locker-room banter
-->Summers texting Epstein literally 24 hours BEFORE the 2019 raid
-->Summers wife Elisa hitting Epstein up for poetry-project cash and inviting him to dinnerAll while Summers, as HARVARD president, took Epstein's millions and let him roam campus like a VIP.👀
And the CCP angle? Keyu Jin's dad isn't just some banker -- he's the founding head of the AIIB, Xi's answer to the World Bank.
Beneath our noses, Summers was chasing the princess while selling America on "strategic interdependence" with Beijing.
He's been radioactive for days and the silence from the big Dem accounts is deafening.
Why is that?
Because Larry Summers is the living bridge between Wall Street, the CCP, and the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail network -- and for decades that made him untouchable instead of unemployable.
This guy literally heaped praise on a Red Chinese official charged with expanding the Red China Empire's tentacles across the world in order to induce his daughter to fuck him.
Even without him asking his "wing man" Jeffrey Epstein for advice on how to seduce a much-younger woman, this is a firing offense. And I mean "firing from all positions of public and especially governmental trust."
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Jasmine Ratchet Demonstrates Again Why Her Nickname Isn't "Jasmine Sentient"
—Ace
Defending her fellow Strong Black Woman Who Takes Orders from White Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein -- Stacey Plaskett, I mean -- Jasmine Ratchet took the difficult action of standing on the floor of the House (difficult for the floor of the House, I mean) and declared that many Republicans had taken money from "a Jeffrey Epstein," including Mitt Romney, George Bush, and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
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Democrats Urge the Military to Stage a Coup, Trump Gently Cautions Them That the Punishment for Sedition is "DEATH!"
—Ace
A group of Democrats did another coordinated propaganda session, this time all repeating the seditious demand that the military resist "illegal orders" -- by which they mean policy decisions the duly-elected Commander in Chief makes, like using the National Guard to quell insurrections -- and promises that the Democrats will make sure they're all pardoned and taken care after the coup.
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Democrat House Member Charged With Stealing $5 Million in FEMA Funds for Her Own Benefit
—Ace
She used the stolen money partly to fund her congressional campaign, so that she was in a position to steal more money.
Nick Sortor @nicksortor🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ has just charged Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL) with stealing $5 MILLION in FEMA funds meant for disaster relief
If convicted, she faces 53 YEARS in federal prison.
FINALLY! Time to EXPEL her as well, @SpeakerJohnson.
Sheila also is alleged to have used a lot of that stolen FEMA money to fund her Congressional campaign.
What a piece of trash. Lock her up.
More from Bill Melugin:
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_BREAKING: DOJ charges Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) with stealing $5 million in FEMA funds, laundering the proceeds, and then using the money to support her 2021 Congressional campaign. She faces up to 53 years in prison if convicted.
According to the indictment, DOJ says:
"Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and her brother Edwin Cherfilus, 51, both of Miramar, worked through their family health-care company on a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021. In July 2021, the company received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds.
Of course covid was part of this, as well as the Biden Money Spigot for his left-wing frenz.
The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source. Prosecutors allege that a substantial portion of the misappropriated funds was used as candidate contributions to Cherfilus-McCormick's 2021 congressional campaign and for the personal benefit of the defendants.
The indictment further alleges that Cherfilus-McCormick and Nadege Leblanc, 46, of Miramar, arranged additional contributions using straw donors, funneling other monies from the FEMA-funded Covid-19 contract to friends and relatives who then donated to the campaign as if using their own money.
The indictment also charges Cherfilus-McCormick and her 2021 tax preparer David K. Spencer, 41, of Davie, with conspiring to file a false federal tax return. According to the indictment, they falsely claimed political spending and other personal expenses as business deductions and inflated charitable contributions in order to reduce her tax obligations."
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The Morning Rant: AI...Is It A Bubble?
—CBD
So...is AI a financial bubble, or is it an evolution in computing, customer service, data management, and research of all kinds?
Yes.
40% of the S&P500 market cap is directly or indirectly involved with AI, which is a disturbing concentration. But whatever one thinks of AI, and to be honest, I don't think much of it, it has penetrated American and world business very quickly as tangible products and tools. And unlike the typical bubble, we do not (yet) have overcapacity. In fact, RAM prices are skyrocketing because of undercapacity. Is there cheap and abundant credit available to build overcapacity? Not as much as before the Global Financial Crisis, or the oil boom and bust. Will that change? Absolutely. Are the financial markets going to create complex instruments to increase credit availability? You betcha! It is already issuing debt collateralized by GPUs!
The real question is: What will happen to demand for AI products for the foreseeable future? As it becomes more sophisticated, it will gradually replace rote tasks and, increasingly, low-level customer interaction. That is already occurring, and it is occasionally useful, but often extremely irritating. It is also cheaper, or at least has the promise of saving labor costs, so regardless of its quality, it will be implemented by many companies.
But one limitation is power. Everyone knows that AI requires oceans of power, and not the fake, sometimes-on-sometimes-off green crap. It requires nice reliable natural gas, or oil, or coal, or nuclear power to run the vast server farms that it needs. And that is a very good thing. It will provide a stable demand for domestic energy production, and drive the new generation of nuclear. There is nothing like the promise of profit to end American corporation's fixation on green energy.
And if AI is a bubble, and it bursts? What happens to all of that now-excess power generation? Some will get mothballed, but some will be repurposed for the mundane but vital powering of the rest of the economy.
I doubt that AI is revolutionary. For the casual user, it is a bit more than a toy, but not yet an integral part of life. For the dedicated user it is a very useful tool to speed up tasks that are easily doable, but take time. Can it innovate? No. Can it invent? Well, yes, but those are appropriately called "hallucinations," and is the AI industry's dirty little secret!
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