Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Why are drug stores closing locations in blue cities and turning them into "medicine deserts" where old people must travels miles and miles to get prescriptions filled? I don't know why. It makes no sense. It must be Because Racism.
@EYakobyBREAKING: USAID confirms that over 100 UNWRA staff directly participated in the October 7th attacks or have affiliation with Hamas.
Exactly what we've said for three years.
Blue on Blue Violence. I sure hope no one gets hurt.
A trio of vocally pro-Israel House Democrats were given powerful posts on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, with one taking the reins of the subcommittee that oversees U.S.-Middle East policy.Why it matters: It is a substantial win for the party's pro-Israel wing despite growing pro-Palestinian sentiment among the party's grassroots.
And it could have global ramifications, with Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) indicating that, if he becomes chair of the Middle East and North Africa subcommittee next year, he will use the position to shore up U.S. support for Israel.
"If Democrats take control of the House, I'll be in a position to help steer U.S. policy on Israel and the Middle East," he told Axios.
Driving the news: In addition to Moskowitz leading Democrats on the MENA subcommittee, pro-Israel Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Wesley Bell (D-Mo.) were appointed to the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.), a pro-Palestinian progressive and prolific critic of the pro-Israel group AIPAC, was also appointed to the panel.
Moskowitz, Wasserman Schultz and Bell all dispatched left-wing primary challengers this election cycle who went after their support of Israel.
Mamdani discovers another religion he must make submit.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Tuesday he did not support an upcoming event in his city featuring the leader of the Hindu nationalist group that is the ideological parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is scheduled to speak at a Manhattan event on Saturday, according to the event's website.
"I don't support the rally, but I don't know if the city has any jurisdiction to cancel a private event," Mamdani, who is the first Muslim and Indian American mayor of New York City, said when asked if the event should be canceled.
"The vision of India that I was taught by my family and one that I grew up being very familiar with was of a pluralistic society of a secular Republic that believed in the belonging of each and every person who was from India. And it has been incredibly troubling to see the rise of a movement that is predicated on an exclusionary vision."
Oh he demands India be an "inclusive" government?
Does he make the same demand of Muslim governments, I do wonder?
No I don't wonder that at all.
Woman parodies the darkest of all social media "trends," "Mothers" proudly telling the world they hate their children and would do the "Same" as Lindsay.
Note that is a parody. I wouldn't say she's undermining the seriousness of this situation. I myself have found it difficult to even talk about it, because it's so dark and disgusting and speaks poorly for the future of mankind. And I mean the short-term future -- what will happen in 10-15 years? How many Child-Murdering Feminist "Heroes" will we live to see?
For me, the only way I can even begin to address this horror is through parodies like this.
THEN: Chris Cuomo says that covid "misinformation" is the greatest threat to this country and must be suppressed through censorship.
LATER: Chris Cuomo says he never advocated for censorship and is stridently a free speech warrior.
Woke 1 was crazyyyy, man.
Is Michigan okay?
Abdulrahman Hussein Al-Sayed: Why do people keep asking me about my most prominent surrogate who I've campaigned with for a year?
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Court Rulings: Rogue Woke Biden Judge Lifts Her Stay on Trump's Reasonable Order to Check Mail-In Ballot Addressees Against the Citizenship Rolls; Monica McIver Loses In Her Bid for Immunity When She Physically Assaults Federal Officers
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Supreme Court recently lifted the stay on Trump's executive order to the Post Office to check mail-in ballot names against a list of US citizens.
The rogue woke judge who initially issued that stay came up with a Brand New Reason to defy the Supreme Court: She said that because the Post Office had continued making plans for the eventuality that her order was reversed, they had defied her original, lawless and now reversed order, and so she ordered her stay back into effect, the Supreme Court be damned:
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh ·🚨 HOLY CRAP SHE'S GOING ROGUE.
Leftist Judge Indira Talwani spits in the face of the Supreme Court and just ruled that Trump's U.S. Postal Service has hereby VIOLATED her block on the mail-in ballot security rules
She's going off, aggressively accusing Trump's team of "complete noncompliance"
This comes after SCOTUS UPHELD -- for now -- Trump's EO and rules to secure mail-in ballots...
IT'S TIME.
IMPEACH JUDGE TALWANI. Or it won't stop.
Her initial stay was unlawful and wrongheaded, but she believes that the Post Office planning for the likely outcome of it being revered constituted "complete noncompliance" so she reinstates the stay the Supreme Court just lifted.
As that guy says -- she must be impeached, and if the GOP wants its voters to bother voting for them, they must impeach her.
The last time the Supreme Court overruled her, she said she would abide by their ruling, "reluctantly," while writing an order re-asserting all of the bullshit reasons she cited for issuing it in the first place.
Now, once again reluctantly, she again removes the stay she seems absolutely demon-possessed to issue:
Nick Sortor @nicksortor9m
🚨 BREAKING -- IT'S OFFICIAL: Activist Obama Judge Indira Talwani has reluctantly LIFTED her injunction that blocked President Trump's mail-in ballot restriction order from going into effect
USPS can now ONLY mail ballots to LEGAL voters verified by DHS and SSA🔥
Thanks, SCOTUS!
From Crusader: The fat sack of racist-grievance crap Monica McIver attacked workers at the Newark DHS processing station, for which she was arrested.
She claimed immunity under the Constitution's Speech and Debate Clause, which, as you might guess from the perfectly clear English words, immunizes Congressmen from lawsuit based on their speech in Congress. (And bad judicial rulings have extended this to speech made outside of Congress, too, so long as it's supposedly "in furtherance of their duties" as Congressman.)
This High-Calorie, Low-IQ woman decided that she's also immune to criminal process for punching cops.
Rep. LaMonica McIver is not immune from prosecution for her contact with ICE officials during a heated scrum at New Jersey's Delaney Hall detention facility, even though it occurred during a legislative investigation, a federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday."The charged conduct ... is unambiguously non-legislative," 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Cindy Chung, a Biden appointee, wrote in a 2-1 opinion joined by Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump appointee.
McIver is facing three federal charges related to alleged assaults on ICE officials and interference with them during a May 2025 oversight visit to Delaney Hall. McIver and two other Democratic lawmakers were present when federal officials moved into a small crowd to arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who joined them on the oversight visit. The confrontation escalated and became physical, and McIver was ultimately charged with making physical contact with the officials.
The 3rd Circuit ruling sustains the bulk of the criminal case against the Democratic lawmaker despite her protestation that the charges were brought for political purposes. McIver pointed to commentary by Trump, his allies and the former federal prosecutor who brought the case at the time: Alina Habba, a former Trump personal lawyer and current White House aide.
McIver had argued that she could not be prosecuted because the Constitution's "speech or debate" clause grants lawmakers immunity for their legislative actions.
Of course a Clinton appointee dissented, stating that while he would not necessarily throw the charges out, he would like to see if Trump's supposed "retaliation" against her grants her the immunity for punching cops she craves.
Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics2h
A Biden-appointed federal judge just sided with the Trump administration against a House Democrat accused of assaulting ICE officers -- rejecting her claim that slamming her forearm into a federal agent was protected legislative activity.
Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., tried to get the case thrown out by arguing legislative immunity. The Third Circuit wasn't buying it. The 2-1 ruling found that physically striking federal officers is "unambiguously non-legislative" and "not integral to the legislative process." Two of her three counts survive.
McIver fired back, calling the decision wrong and vowing she will "not fold to this administration." The charges stem from a chaotic May 2025 confrontation at Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, where Democratic officials showed up unannounced and the situation devolved into a physical standoff with ICE agents.
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Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed Hoovers Up Donations from Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Hamas-Supporting Donors to Nazi Troll Dan Blizerian (While Claiming Jewish Safety Will be a Priority for Him)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Weird that his donors don't believe him.
What do they know that we don't?
Egyptian sentenced to life for funding Muslim Brotherhood giving money to Abdul El-Sayed's U.S. Senate campaign
Mohamed Soltan was sentenced by an Egyptian court to life in prison in 2015 after spending two years behind bars alongside his father, Salah Soltan, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood
An Egyptian American activist sentenced to life in prison in absentia by a Cairo court for his support of the Muslim Brotherhood is pumping cash into Abdul El-Sayed's campaign for U.S. Senate.Mohamed Soltan, the 38-year-old president of the American Committee for Middle East Rights, is funneling funds to El-Sayed's Abdul for U.S. Senate candidate committee as ACMER contributes to Fighting for Michigan PAC, the super PAC backing the former Wayne County health official.
Soltan was sentenced by an Egyptian court to life in prison in 2015 after spending two years behind bars alongside his father, Salah Soltan, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood who served as deputy minister of endowments for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
Mohamed Soltan faced charges for aiding protests against the military coup that ousted Morsi, including funding for and membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, before launching a hunger strike that convinced former President Barack Obama's administration to demand his release in 2015.
Another gift from Obama.
In April 2015, an Egyptian court senenced the then 27-year-old to life in prison following what Soltan described as an unjust trial, according to NBC News.He was released in May 2015 at Obama's request and returned to the U.S., where he works as an international investment advisor and human rights activist.
Salah Soltan [his father, whom he worked with -- ace] was sentenced to death and life in prison in separate trials for inciting murder as one of more than 50 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood who set up a "control room" to direct "violence and chaos" amid the 2013 military coup.
Federal Election Commission reports show ACMER sent Fighting for Michigan PAC $25,000 on June 12, following two contributions from Mohamed Soltan to Abdul for U.S. Senate on April 15.
The individual contribution constitutes the maximum permitted by federal election law.
Other ACMER officials also contributed to El-Sayed's effort to become the first Muslim Senator in U.S. history.
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The donations follow a documented history of El-Sayed supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
In January 2011, El-Sayed penned a column for the Huffington Post titled "Why the U.S. Should Support the Protestors in Egypt," suggesting Americans should back the uprising that led to Muslim Brotherhood control and Morsi's presidency.
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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned just weeks after El-Sayed's column, laying the groundwork for the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi, who became president in June 2012.
After arguing to the West that the Muslim Brotherhood would not be authoritarian like the Iranian regime, Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed signed a statement calling for a "purge" of the "media and police."
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The statement called on Morsi to "purge the media and the police as soon as possible," and "strongly reject these voices that appeal to America and Europe to take a position against the Egyptian regime."
The donors to Dan Blizerian, an actual Nazi who claims to be a "conservative," is also a big fan of the Islamist.
Gee I wonder what they might have in common?
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple Abdul El-Sayed Donors Also Gave Thousands to Hitler-Praising, Jew-Hating Dan Bilzerian's Congressional Run
The far-left El-Sayed and right-wing, antisemitic troll Bilzerian have absolutely no political views in common except for a strong opposition to Israel
More than a dozen donors to the Hitler-praising, neo-Nazi congressional campaign of Dan Bilzerian have also contributed to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed--in many cases spreading thousands of dollars between the two candidates, the Washington Free Beacon found.Bilzerian, a far-right social media influencer with a trust fund, and El-Sayed, a far-left epidemiologist, have no policy overlap except strong opposition to AIPAC and Israel, but their donors include a man who has equated Zionism to Nazism and a Texas subprime auto loan entrepreneur who also threw his weight behind Israel-bashing Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie.
The overlapping donor list suggests that El-Sayed's virulently anti-Israel rhetoric appeals to the kind of Muslim-American donors who also buy into Bilzerian's hateful Jew-baiting and offensive trolling.
The most significant Bilzerian and El-Sayed donor is Ibrahim Awad, who has given more than $19,500 between both candidates, Federal Election Commission records show. That haul included a $12,651.88 jumbo gift to the Bilzerian Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee. The figure is above the legal limit and potentially a campaign finance violation if passed along to Bilzerian's campaign committee.
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"Zionism is Nazism. And history will remember every single person who calls themselves a 'Proud Zionist' as a Proud Racist, Genocide Enabler," Awad said in an X post from March 2025....
None of these dual donors other than Awad responded to requests for comment.
While Bilzerian's political career is over for now, El-Sayed is ascendant. The progressive will face Republican Mike Rogers in the November general election, with polls showing a tight race.
Neither El-Sayed nor Bilzerian responded to requests for comment.
Meanwhile, Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed is now claiming that he doesn't support the Green New Deal. I guess it's not popular in Michigan.
Although he's deleted many of his tweets and old YouTube rants, people saved many of them.
Below, Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed states his emphatic ALL-CAPS support of the Green New Deal he says he doesn't support.
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In Leaked Court Transcript, Gay Furry Assassin Tyler Robinson's Lawyers Denounce Online "Conspiracy Theorists" and "Crazies" Pushing Insane Claims
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He objects to some mention in the prosecution's motions about conspiracy theories. I guess the prosecution was drawing a negative inference about the defense, based on the insanity of Tyler Robinson's defenders.
The Gay Furry Assassin's lawyers say "we're not talking to the crazies."
"There's a reference to, you know, unstable people coming to the courthouse, to conspiracy theorists saying things online. We're all aware of that. I mean, I don't know what the court has read. It's none of my business. I've received some wacky phone calls and emails, people telling me what they think happened here. It's noise. We're not litigating this case in the press. We're not talking to crazies," the transcript read.
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Marco Rubio Sanctions Italy-Based Tech "Collective" Making Tools for Hamas; Also Reveals Portland Antifa Shops There Too
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Dude's balls are so big he could play for the WNBA.
EXCLUSIVE: A State Department memo reveals that an international technology collective, now under a U.S. global terrorism designation, provided services to overseas terrorist groups and violent far-left agitators causing chaos in American cities, according to a copy obtained by Fox News Digital."Far-left terrorism poses a profound threat to the United States and the broader West," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Today, the United States sanctioned Autistici/Inventati -- a major far-left tech collective whose services are used by the most active and violent Antifa cells in the United States and across the world."
Autistici/Inventati, called the A/I Collective by the State Department, is an Italy-based group that builds highly sophisticated digital infrastructure used by violent left-wing organizations in the United States and Europe, along with Islamic terrorists, according to the State Department. The collective's services include encrypted chats and email, web hosting, secure video conferencing and streaming and anonymity shields, according to the memo.
"These tools are specifically designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks, built to enable them to organize, recruit, communicate, disseminate propaganda, share target information and tactics, and carry out violent attacks -- all while remaining anonymous, untraceable, and beyond the reach of the law," says the State Department's memo.
A/I Collective has officially been deemed a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The designation bars Americans and U.S. financial institutions from doing business with the group and freezes any assets it has under U.S. jurisdiction. Violators can face civil or criminal penalties.The memo identifies Portland-based Rose City Antifa, known for its violent rioting and destruction, as one of the U.S. groups that relied on A/I Collective tools and services.
Rose City Antifa is listed in the memo alongside a media organization that the State Department says uses A/I Collective tools to disseminate information to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is proliferating inside the United States, Hamas, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hezbollah and others.The memo also accuses the militant abortion-rights group "Jane's Revenge" -- which declared "open season" on pro-life organizations and threatened escalating attacks after the leaked Supreme Court draft signaling Roe v. Wade would be overturned -- of using the collective's services.
The State Department memo says the collective provides its services exclusively to left-wing extremists, screening users for ideological alignment before allowing them access to its tools.
Abdulrahman El-Sayed Defends His Support for Surgical Mutilations of Children By Asking Jesse Watters, "Are You Circumcised?"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I missed this horrorshow yesterday.
Woke 1.0 was Socialist Radical Islamism.
Woke 2.0 is Socialist Radical Gay Islamism.
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed got extremely personal with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday -- asking if he is circumcised -- during a bizarre defense of sex change surgery for minors."Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?" El-Sayed bluntly asked the "Jesse Watters Primetime" host, after arguing that the government shouldn't get involved in transgender medical procedures for children.
Watters was floored by the question.
"Jesse, are you?" El-Sayed pressed.
"Yeah, yeah, but I mean, that's a personal question -- doctor," Watters responded.
El-Sayed, seemingly convinced that he ended the debate with Watters, suggested: "You probably should want to move on."
"Circumcision is different than castration!" Watters fired back.
Undeterred, El-Sayed argued that it's a "problem" that Watters believes the government should step in to outlaw sex change surgeries for minors but not circumcisions.
"I'm just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's ding-a-ling," the former public health official told Watters. "So if you really want to bring that up, you can ... I just think you guys are really selective about these things."
Watters described El-Sayed's position as "wacky" and "sick."
"Abdul, Michigan's not going for that. That is sick stuff," he said.
The Fox host followed up by asking El-Sayed if he was in favor of "boys playing in girls' sports," which irritated the Senate hopeful.
"You have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually care about in Michigan," he said.
"You can play this game if you want," El-Sayed fumed. "I just want to understand what you're getting at here."
"I'm getting at whether you think men should play in women's sports ... it's a big issue," Watters asked again.
El-Sayed dodged the question, arguing: "At the end of the day, the decision of who gets to play what sports ought to be decided by the people who govern sports."
He then called it "insane" that Watters would pose him such a question.
"I'm running for US Senate," he said. "Jesse, this is insane."
Earlier in the interview, El-Sayed refused to say how much his proposal to socialize the healthcare system would cost; would not answer a question about the size of the US budget; and declined to explain why he allegedly suggested the "NFL was racist."
Abdulrahman also stuck to his call to abolish ICE. His new hustle, to reassure less radical gay Islamists, is that INS would handle deportations, but obviously he wants to abolish ICE to stop all deportations so no, INS would not be allowed to continue ICE's deportations.
First, INS no longer exists. It was combined with US Customs and became ICE. ICE does everything INS used to do, except with an actual budgetPosted by: UGAdawg
Does the Radical Gay Islamist Abudlrahman even hear himself? The NY Post's editorial board says he's so deep in the "weird zone" he has no idea he's weird at all.
El-Sayed and his advisers thought they'd come up with a great way to answer questions about surgically removing children's private parts: Explain that it's just like circumcision.Seriously: Fox News host Jesse Watters brought up outlawing sex-change surgery for kids, and El-Sayed replied, "Are you circumcised?"
He then airily advised, "You probably should want to move on," proceeding to declare that anyone refusing to see that both are simply "surgery on a kid's ding-a-ling" is just being "really selective about these things."
Nobody not totally blinded by ideology would equate circumcision, a procedure recommended by most medical professionals because of its health benefits, with removal of male sexual organs -- a procedure utterly lacking any medical justification. (The supposed scientific support for treating juvenile gender dysphoria with transitions was purely an insider con game.)
Yet El-Sayed is so deep in the weird zone that he thinks this is a winning argument: Nobody should trust his judgment on anything.
Of course, the health policy he most wants to talk about is also divorced from reality: His campaign centers on pushing Medicare for All -- a scheme to impose the socialized medicine disasters of Britain and Canada on the United States, which would not only kick everyone off their current insurance but also require roughly doubling US taxation.
A sane party would run screaming from a candidate like this.
Especially, of course, since (as the bizarre take on circumcision suggests) he also brings antisemitism to the table.
El-Sayed's hatred of Jews has been blatant all campaign long, including his comment on the attempted mass murder of Jewish kids in his own state: "Hurt people hurt people" -- rationalizing the Lebanese perp's attempted atrocity by waving at Israeli fighting in Lebanon.
Plus his refusal to disavow his regular campaign surrogate, streamer Hasan Piker -- even after Piker just threatened American Jews that if they support Israel "someone will come around and take action" against them.
El-Sayed only issued a statement saying he disagrees with that comment, and didn't even name Piker.
The Radical Gay Islamist Abdulrahman's dodge is to constantly say, "Why aren't we talking about gas prices?"
Well, Radical Gay Islamist Abdulrahman, the left spent all of Biden's term pushing transgenderism and forcing schools to trans children behind their parents' backs. Why did you focus on this instead of talking about "gas prices" under Biden?
The left is constantly pulling this "Why is this so important to you?!" hustle. They burn down all social norms in order to implement their bizarre, degenerate sexual gnostic view of the world. The subordinate all notions of governance and democratic consent to force these lunatic ideas on the public.
But then, when the public is finally alarmed enough to begin to push back against the insane changes the left is foisting on them, they say the same thing every single time:
"What's the big deal? Why is this so important to you? Why are you so obsessed by our decade-long obsession with transing your children? What are you, a weirdo for focusing on these issues which we are insisting on but which we would like to win without a single word of dissent?"
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
Data breaches are so common that most of the time, they become background noise. This is for a variety of reasons including the frequency of breaches and the lack of any meaningful liability when they occur, but also because of why breaches happen and how they usually go. Breaches usually take one of two forms: smash-and-grab jobs for information which is then sold on to various nefarious operators or used privately by industrial or national rivals, and extortion jobs where data or systems are held hostage in exchange for money (or crypto, or whatever).
What is unusual is for a data breach to be executed specifically to harm the target for what might be described as illegal "activism." There was such a breach recently and it is directed widely at an industry. The breach was in essence a hostage/ransom job, but the demand is industrial change. The specific targets of this breach were Take-Two Interactive and its subsidiary Rock Star Games. They are known for "Triple-A" games - major, expensive video games from major studios - and especially for the "Grand Theft Auto" game series.
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The Morning Report — 8/ 26 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. So, this blithering Commie stooge blurted this out the other day:
Leftist Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Saturday that his country is “at war” with the United States after trade talks collapsed.
Well, maybe this fool is actually on to something, perhaps not quite in the way he thinks.
A new report is warning that Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks have embedded themselves across the Canadian government, charities, and universities, raising concerns about the influence of Islamist organizations within the country’s democratic institutions. . . The findings come as the Muslim Brotherhood itself has faced increasing scrutiny from the U.S. government. In January, the Treasury Department designated the Egyptian and Jordanian branches of the organization as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. In July, the administration sanctioned a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official whom Treasury accused of helping finance Hamas’ military wing.
And so as our government has correctly identified the MB and its allies as a threat to our own domestic security, and as it is aligned if not partially or substantially funded by Iran, well the response, at least from my own perspective, is obvious, especially considering that Carney himself loudly and openly declared Canada to be at war with the United States.
I believe there are still a number of active airbases located at or very near our northern border. I'm not saying we should turn Ottawa into a glass parking lot, but an overflight of a few B2's or B52's might raise a few pulses, so to speak. At the very least maybe it would teach this yammering schmuck to choose his words carefully. What a putz, but the danger posed by Islam especially now at home is as plain as day.
One group, more than any other, has cashed in on this arrangement: California’s public-sector unions. For them, higher taxes are good business. More taxes means more state workers, which means more union members, more dues, and more power for union bosses. The union bosses, in turn, keep the dollars flowing, agitating for more tax hikes, more spending, and more state workers.
It seems that California has commenced on yet another end run around the Constitution with the “Stop Nick Shirley” act . . . Never a state to allow anything to get in the way of the exploitation of taxpayers, California has taken a different tack. Instead of busting the fraudsters, the Cali state government targeted the man who was attempting to expose them. The mental gymnastics necessary to justify this presented no challenge: California Democrats simply recast the fraudsters as victims.
California Creates A Black Market For Tires . . . There are state lines, though, and Californians will cross them to buy the tires they want and the tires they can afford. Enterprising off-the-books merchants will buy contraband tires in Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and elsewhere and sell them in California outside the normal channels to avoid the regulators. Who knows, some might feel the rule is the straw that finally breaks their backs and sends them fleeing the state as so many others already have because policymakers continue to make living in California an intolerable burden.
Meanwhile, several thousand miles across the Pacific...
But can an already free society really travel backward? Can people who have known liberty be persuaded, intimidated, or exhausted into surrendering it?We do not have to speculate. We are staring at the answer in Hong Kong.
For decades under British rule, Hong Kong was one of the freest societies in Asia. The Heritage Foundation consistently ranked it at or near the top of its Index of Economic Freedom. It had independent newspapers, outspoken political magazines, vigorous labor unions, public demonstrations, and courts widely respected for their professionalism. In a territory of only several million people, an extraordinary variety of Chinese-language publications competed for readers. Hongkongers could criticize their government, denounce the Chinese Communist Party, and commemorate events that Beijing had erased from public memory.
With all due respect to the author of this fine essay, the three examples above indicate that California began its degeneration into a thugocratic Leftist dictatorship decades before Hong Kong. The Golden State was at one point the 6th largest economy in the world, gaining that status due to the hard work and innovation of a hard-working industrious populace that took the American work ethic to heart and built what was a real paradise on earth that attracted people from all over the nation and the world to flock there to both chase and more crucially build their dreams to make them real. Alas, no more...
Have a good day.
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Daily Tech News 26 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Apple has announced new Mac Mini models based on the M5 Pro and M6 CPUs. (MacRumors)
The M6 is a marked upgrade over the M4 - the M5 never showed up on the Mac Mini - but there is no M6 Pro, so the higher-end models of the Mac Mini, anything with more than 32GB of RAM, steps back to the M5 Pro.
But if you don't need that the M6 should run a lot faster. Apple says up to 40%, and that's actually believable, because it not only increases the core count from 10 to 12, it adds two high-end "super" cores, not just two low-end efficiency cores.
Oh, and 2.5 Gbit Ethernet is standard, not the ancient 1 Gbit.
Not cheap - the 64GB model costs five times as much as I paid for a 64GB mini-PC last December, but the same mini-PC at the same price now only has 32GB, so it has gotten closer.
- If you need more than that, Apple also announced M5 Max and M5 Ultra Mac Studios with up to 512G of RAM. (Mac Rumors)
That's a big jump as well, because the high-end Studio model was limited to the old M3 Ultra, and even then maxed out at... I think 96GB of RAM, with anything faster sold out. Now you can get those high-end models again, and they come with 1.2TB of bandwidth, suitable for pretty serious tasks.
Yes, they're wildly expensive, but right now so is everything, so Apple looks, if not more affordable, less unaffordable.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - August 25, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
From ArmyBrat68
Howdy Hordelings! Tuesday night ONT is here. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Tuesday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
@apodDec 25, 2023
Cathedral, Mountain, Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Valerio MinatoExplanation: Single shots like this require planning. The first step is to realize that such an amazing triple-alignment actually takes place. The second step is to find the best location to photograph it. But it was the third step: being there at exactly the right time -- and when the sky was clear -- that was the hardest. Five times over six years the photographer tried and found bad weather. Finally, just ten days ago, the weather was perfect, and a photographic dream was realized. Taken in Piemonte, Italy, the cathedral in the foreground is the Basilica of Superga, the mountain in the middle is Monviso, and, well, you know which moon is in the background. Here, even though the setting Moon was captured in a crescent phase, the exposure was long enough for doubly reflected Earthlight, called the da Vinci glow, to illuminate the entire top of the Moon.
Sheep knocks on the door every day to play with cat friend.
Cats will always let you know that your attempts to please them are hopelessly inadequate.
Cat decides to change the decor.
Double tornado touchdown.
Senior dog is adopted after spending 700 days in the shelter.
Soaking your baby elephant, if you know what I mean.
Japanese zoo wants the lions to know what will happen if they try to escape.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The United Nations reported Tuesday that at least 47 people were killed and 50 others were kidnapped in a violent gang attack near Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince this week.The incident took place Sunday in Kenscoff, a commune located near the nation's capital. The massacre included the execution of 22 people who were found in a church compound. It is believed to be one of the deadliest attacks in Haiti in recent years.
"The relentless gang attacks on communities and the loss of lives underscore the alarming security conditions in Haiti and reinforce the urgent need to intensify Haitian and international security efforts to counter gangs," a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres said in a statement.
WWII did something to Germany that can't be fixed.
A randy German councilmember known as the country's "craziest councilor" has proposed throwing sex parties at city hall as part of an effort to turn the burg into a "swingers' paradise."Julian Ferrat, 35, who holds office in the industrial city of Mannheim as part of the liberal Die Mannheimer party, wants to see the city transformed into a haven for indiscriminate group sex.
Ferrat, who has been known to frequent nudist resorts and pose for bizarre photoshoots while barely covered, unveiled the X-rated scheme at a recent meeting of the governing body, which is ruled by the conservative Christian Democratic Union.
"Group sex with city council members would be the ultimate in closeness with the citizens," he said, noting there are no laws on the books prohibiting swingers' parties at city hall.
"Ja!" posted a commenter calling himself Sweric Alwell.
Here's a pic of this German swinger. This is for The Ladies:
New Nathan Fielder series drops, Nathan for Sex.
They claim they're women now, you see.
One guy complains that he's not allowed to use a private room for hair removal, but can only use the hair removal equipment in his cell, which allows people to see his "maturing female body."
Three depraved criminals housed in a Washington state prison are suing the Department of Corrections for human rights violations after they say they were deprived of adequate "gender affirming" care and treatment. Reduxx can name the inmates involved in the suit as Michael R. Caldwell, who raped two children, Hunter S. Christian, who raped multiple dogs, and Andrew S. Kennedy, who murdered an infant.In the men's original 324-page complaint, which was filed in December of 2025, the three men separately outline their grievances against the state's Department of Corrections, and attempt to leverage the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to make their case that the denial of "gender affirming" care and treatment is unlawful, using a recent precedent set by Autumn Cordellione, another transgender inmate convicted of murdering a baby who successfully argued that the state of Indiana should have to pay for his "gender affirming" care.
The complaint, obtained by Reduxx, is opened by Caldwell, who now goes by the name Skeggi Hildof Katrinssonr or "Hildi." Caldwell was convicted in 2014 of raping two young girls trusted to his care, and was handed a 26.5 year sentence for the crimes. During the trial, it was revealed that he had initially blamed one of the children for seducing him and provoking the sexual abuse.
In his list of complaints, Caldwell reveals that his facility has a personal laser hair removal device for transgender inmates to use, and that the inmates were allowed to use the device in a private room within the medical clinic once or twice per week. But in 2024, the clinic discontinued access to the private room, and told transgender inmates they would have to use the device in their own cell. Caldwell deems this unacceptable, writing: "My cell door has a 34×34 [inch] window where any male inmate or officer can see inside my cell and watch me use the device on my maturing female body."
Caldwell refers to this lack of privacy as "sex discrimination," and says his proposed remedy -- which was to use the device in the shower area -- was rejected or ignored.
Caldwell goes on to claim that not being able to use the device in a private area constitutes the Department of Corrections delaying or depriving him of "prescribed medical treatment," emphasizing that his "gender dysphoria" is impacting his mental health and ability to perform his daily errands.
"I seclude myself from having to associate with anyone," Caldwell complains. "My mental health has regressed, elevating anxiety, depression, skipping meal times, no appetite, becoming overwhelmed in my daily activities where I at times cry ... The Defendants expect me to consent to relinquish my right to privacy. I will not consent to any relinquishment of my Fundamental Rights."
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The complaint continues with the declaration of Hunter S. Christian, who changed his name to Szeth Aslan Magnus. Christian identifies as "non-binary" and "intersex," and declares he/him and they/them pronouns in the document.
Christian was arrested in 2018 on charges related to bestiality and possessing child sexual abuse material. Christian raped at least three dogs, including a Rottweiler, an older Chihuahua mix, and a black Labrador. He filmed the sexual acts and was found in possession of the videos, along with depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. In 2019, he was convicted on multiple felony charges, including 1st Degree Animal Cruelty With Sexual Motivation.
This guy's complaint? He says he wants Minoxidil to grow his hair back, which he needs as a "non-binary person," and not just as a bald dude who wants taxpayers to pay for cosmetic treatments.
Oh and he also wants testosterone, paid for by taxpayers.
Join the club.
Weird that a "non-binary" is claiming his "non-binary" status to demand two things that regular ol' heterosexual men would also like.
In his grievances, Christian claims that he was denied access to Minoxidil treatments for head hair growth because he had no diagnosis for gender dysphoria and no desire to start feminizing hormone therapy. Christian also claims he was denied access to low-dose testosterone, which he wanted to begin to address his shrinking testicle size.Like with Caldwell, Christian also notes he was eventually given access to a personal laser hair removal device for his body, but refused to use it due to a lack of privacy in his cell.
"I have suffered not only setbacks in my prescribed treatment plan, but reversal of effects of the prior treatments, mental anguish, exacerbation of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and a loss of the forward momentum in maintaining the delicate balance between my masculine and feminine sides ..." Christian wrote in his declaration.
The baby-killer complains that doctors are treating him as a "cisgender man" -- which he is -- and also won't pay for an expensive test to determine if he's "intersex," which he isn't.
Kennedy ends his declaration with an appeal to his "divine rights."
"I see my curves and hips as a gift from the Goddesses and my masculine traits as a gift from the Gods. I was, from birth, granted the boon of seeing feminine and masculine within myself, yet too blind and misled to truly see them," Kennedy writes.
From Kennedy's declaration.
I think a visit from 6-10 good old boys armed with sacks filled with soda cans can render these monsters the "gender-affirming care" they deserve.
Noted "conservative" Tuq'r Qarlson joins the left in elevating "fairness" and "equality" -- everyone getting an equal reward no matter what their contributions -- as the highest of all political imperatives.
Tuq'r Qarlson knows that actual conservatives are rejecting him so there is no hope for his Nazification project except if he can make a deal with the Socialist-Islamist coalition. So he's adjusting all of his previous positions to accommodate his new political allies.
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Poll Claims That Le Pen Would Win the Second Round of the Presidential Election Against All Likely Opponents
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The French vote in two "tours," or turns, the first featuring all qualified candidates, the second being a runoff of the top two vote finishers (and sometimes three, I don't know what the cutoff is, maybe if you get more than 25% you go to the runoff).
The bane of National Rally has been this second tour. In the second tour, everyone, including the supposedly right-leaning Republicains, votes for whoever is running against the NR candidate, even if it's a communist.
So we've seen repeated cases of NR candidates being in first place in the first tour and then being defeated in the second.
A new poll claims that Marine Le Pen would actually command a majority of votes in a second tour run-off against her likely opponents.
According to a survey by Toluna-Harris, a market research firm, Le Pen is projected to win the second round of the 2027 presidential election against all likely opponents....
According to the survey, Le Pen is favored over the far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon (68 percent versus 32 percent). Le Pen is also favored over so-called centrists Édouard Philippe (55 percent versus 45 percent) and Gabriel Attal (57 percent versus 43 percent).
The poll finds she would be the top vote-getter in the first tour, which isn't surprising, as NR candidates often are. It's the second tour that gets them.
This seems to confirm a poll from June, which also sees Le Pen winning the second tour -- although just barely so, if she's competing against a "centrist" candidate.
Back in July, a survey conducted by the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) showed Le Pen beating Attal (54 percent vs 46 percent), Philippe (55 percent vs 45 percent), and Mélenchon (70 percent vs 30 percent) in the second round. The same survey also showed that Le Pen would receive roughly a third of the vote (36 percent). If she faces a centrist candidate in the second round, the survey projected that Le Pen would unite 50 percent of the right-leaning vote. If up against Mélenchon, Le Pen would unite 90 percent of the right-leaning vote.
I don't understand why they're saying she would "unite 50 percent of the right-leaning vote." I'm assuming that is mis-worded and they mean she would unite enough of the right-leaning vote to secure 50% of all votes.
Correction: No I guess I'm wrong, because they say she'd get 90% of the "right-leaning vote" against the communist Melanchon. But then I don't know why this is worth mentioning: Getting 50% of the "right leaning" vote is 1, not all that hard, and 2, something that happens as you lose the election, because getting 50% of the right-leaning vote would mean that you're getting around 20-30% of the total vote.
I guess she is getting a fair amount of left-leaning voters, too. Yes, I keep forgetting, Le Pen is attempting to forge an anti-immigrant/socialist alliance. She's not really "right" by any standard, except as far as sovereignty.
Meanwhile, the Socialists of Spain are demanding that the EU give it welfare money to pay for the 70,000 invaders they let into Ceuta.
Spain has formally requested emergency funding from the European Union to address the migration situation in its North African enclave of Ceuta, weeks after tens of thousands of people surged across the border from Morocco.The European Commission said on Tuesday that it is closely monitoring the situation and remained "fully engaged at all levels" to ensure the security of the EU's external borders.
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Country Music Star and Actress Dolly Parton Dies at Age 80
—Disinformation Expert Ace
What did someone say of FDR? He had a third-rate mind but a first-rate temperament.
Dolly Parton could be said to have been a first-rate talent with a first-rate temperament. Every time you saw her, she was was happy and cheerful and grateful and even humble.
Washington Nearsider posted this quote:
"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap." - Dolly Parton
She was also pretty funny.
Her nephew and head of her personal security had been asked to handle the public side of her death years ago, and so makes that announcement now.
Country music legend Dolly Parton has died at 80.Her family announced the devastating news in a video posted to Instagram Tuesday.
"I am representing the Parton and Owens family today, announcing the passing of my Aunt Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean," a statement read by Dolly's nephew Bryan Seaver said.
"The sadness lays with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus," Seaver continued.
"Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians and dreamers from every walk of life," he added. "By her example we believed that anything was possible. She never saw a door she couldn't open, and the doors she opened made and changed history."
"My family and I have shared a lifetime of beautiful memories with Dolly, but so have you. She has always been on your television, your record player, you CD, and on your phone playlist, becoming an extended part of your family, whether you liked it or not."
It remains unclear exactly what the country crooner died from, but last year she confided to fans that she had been suffering from health complications since the death of her husband Carl Dean earlier in the year.
She had also cancelled a series of appearances and performances in the last year.
Known as the queen of country music, Dolly was famous for a huge voice which belted out hits like "Jolene," "Joshua," and "9 to 5."
She was also famous for her over-the-top looks, equally huge personality, charitable causes, and Dollywood theme park in her home state of Tennessee.
What do you think? Post a comment.
The superstar died over a year after her beloved husband, Carl Dean, who passed on March 3, 2025.
Dolly was born in 1946 into a rural household with 10 siblings and no running water, saying over the years that she grew up "dirt poor" and had to scrape by with her family.
But despite those struggles Dolly's mother encouraged her apparent musical talents -- by 5 she'd written her first song, by 10 she was singing on local radio shows and at just 13 years old she made her first appearance on the legendary live Grand Ole Opry radio performance in Nashville.
I did not know that.
That's where she met the likes of Johnny Cash and Porter Wagoner, two stars who she would work with throughout her career as she shot to super stardom.
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Despite those successes Dolly drove herself hard -- sometimes sleeping in cars and bathing in gas station sinks as she raced across the country from gig to gig for growing fanbase.
"My bedroom was the backseat and [my Uncle Bill Owens'] was the front seat," Dolly said during a 2018 appearance on "Shine On With Reese." "I'd wash my hair in the filling station bathrooms and put makeup on in the side mirror of the car, and that was just how you did it."
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Supreme Court Blesses Trump's Mail-In Ballot Executive Orders by Vote of 6 to 3
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Standing, baby.
The procedural bar of standing -- the requirement that a litigant have an actual and particular legal interest in a case before allowing him to press sue -- giveth.
And it also taketh away.
Here, it giveth. It giveth good and hard.
One America News @OANNSupreme Court Sides With Trump Admin on Mail-In Ballot Restrictions
The Supreme Court has lifted an injunction blocking President Trump's election integrity order in 23 states, clearing the way for new restrictions on mail-in ballots ahead of the midterms.
Under the order, USPS can check its distribution of mail-in ballots against a DHS-maintained list of citizens. The DOJ and USPS say they will move to implement the changes immediately.
Trump scores Supreme Court win on mail-in voting restrictions before midterms
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump admin to enforce revised mail-ballot restrictions
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a victory on Monday, allowing it to enforce President Donald Trump's "election integrity" executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms.The high court lifted an injunction that had blocked the order in 23 states that challenged it after the administration appealed in July.
The U.S. Postal Service and Justice Department said they would immediately implement the revised mail-ballot restrictions after the ruling.
Most immediately, the ruling clears the path for the U.S. Postal Service to check its distribution of mail-in ballots against a list of citizens maintained by the Department of Homeland Security. But it's also a significant political victory for the Trump administration as it has advocated against the widespread use of mail-in-voting, citing what it believes is a heightened vulnerability to tampering and voter fraud.
Most recently, Trump slammed what he called a suspiciously high volume of mail-in-ballots cast for [Nythia] Raman in the 2026 LA mayoral race primaries.
"You know, they don't have voting booths; everything's by mail. I don't think a Republican can win in California unless you pass the Save America Act," Trump told Fox News, referring to GOP legislation to narrow the scope of mail-in voting and voter-ID requirements.
"They're going to have to get rid of mail-in voting."
Like many onlooking conservatives, Trump pointed out that, after election night, the vast majority of Democratic votes had been for Nithya Raman, creating a delayed outpouring of support.
Fox News Digital has not reviewed any particular case of election fraud tied to the LA mayoral race.
Even so, Trump's original executive order looked to eliminate any ambiguity. Titled "Preserving and protecting the integrity of American elections," it directed federal agencies to compile citizenship-based lists of eligible voters and ordered the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail-in ballots only to people appearing on those approved lists."Several Federal laws, including 18 U.S.C. 1015 and 611, prohibit foreign nationals from registering to vote or voting in Federal elections. Yet States fail adequately to vet voters' citizenship, and, in recent years, the Department of Justice has failed to prioritize and devote sufficient resources for enforcement of these provisions," the executive order reads.
Where critics of the order saw a federal effort to dictate the terms of state-run elections, the court on Monday sided with the administration, stating that the way the executive order was made put requirements only on federal agencies.
In essence, the order didn't put any new requirements on the states themselves.
"[It] directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take appropriate action to create and distribute State Citizenship Lists. This provision is an internal directive from the President to a subordinate. It imposes no obligations on the States, so they 'suffer no concrete harm from' it, and without concrete harm, there is no standing," the court wrote.
Obviously the three braindead woke women dissented.
AP's story is full of bias, obviously:
The decision leaves room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump's order, and other similar cases have already been filed. The U.S. Postal Service laid out how it would implement the order last week, but time is running short to impose major changes. North Carolina is sending out ballots Sept. 4 overseas and to military voters, and other states will quickly follow suit in just a few weeks....
While the emergency order is not final, it does have the potential to create chaos around voting across the country, with Trump often questioning the integrity of elections and the nation's highest court again the possible arbiter of a political controversy.
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The three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing that the rule "lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs who seek to bring election-related challenges."
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Mail balloting has long been a favorite target for Trump, who has claimed that it breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary and his own use of the voting method.
Which "experts" did you consult? The same leftwing "experts" you always consult, right? Did you consult a single expert who believes that mail-in voting increases fraud, as it obviously does?
The leftwing media always claims that "experts" support its own leftwing biases. And yet the media never consults any other "experts" but the hand-picked lefties whose opinions they know in advance. That's why they call them. They know what they're going to say.
This is a racket that we need to address: The media is itself non-expert, but claims it can render expert opinions because it has consulted "experts" and is just relaying their opinion.
And yet, there are of course many experts who disagree.
But these are not cited.
Because the media has decided these experts are wrong.
But dinky-brained "journalists" went to three years of journalism school and have absolutely zero subject-matter expertise in any discipline. They are experts in nothing. This means, that in a dispute between experts, they are absolutely unqualified to determine the winner and loser. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about.
But in case after case, the media -- which tells you you must always rely on "experts" and must not "do your own research" -- does its own research and decides which experts are right and which are Lying Racists, despite the experts themselves having failed to make that conclusion.
They obviously did this with covid, in all disputes involving it, from masking to vaccine injury to the covid origin to the need to lock ourselves in our homes for a year. Some experts gave them the leftwing version of the story, and other experts disputed it -- but these know-nothing uneducated non-expert simpletons and fools decided Who the Real Experts Here Are and ruled -- WITHOUT EVIDENCE -- that all dissenters from this media-fabricated "consensus" were conspiracy theorists, frauds, and liars.
I'd really like to see more people challenging the non-experts of the media about their qualifications, or lack thereof, to settle disputes between actual experts. It's a very big question, especially today, as the media's favorite tactic for deciding the "truth" is to claim they know who The Real Experts Here Are and declare them to be in the right, based on nothing but their dinky, pathetic J-school degree.
Trump Links a Just the News Report Suggesting That Ilhan Omar is Being Investigated by ICE for Immigration Crimes
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As JJ mentioned in the morning briefing, Trump seemingly confirmed that there is an active probe into Ilhan "Omar's" immigration crimes.
Specifically, he shared this report from Just the News, which noted that ICE had refused a FOIA request for information about Ilhan Omar's immigration status, citing "enforcement proceedings."
That is: We do not discuss pending investigations.
ICE refuses to disclose records on Ilhan Omar fraud probe, cites ongoing 'enforcement proceedings'
It's All in the Family: The agency claims that releasing documents related to an investigation into the lawmaker's alleged immigration fraud would, under the law, interfere with "enforcement proceedings."
The federal government is refusing to turn over records related to an investigation conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement into allegations of immigration fraud by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., citing a legal exemption for ongoing investigations.Just the News filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the records in January, seeking the records pertaining to any investigations conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement into the allegations that Rep. Omar, who represents Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, married a relative in order to help him remain in the country.
Omar has denied the allegations. No court records, DNA evidence, or other documentary proof has ever substantiated that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, Omar's legal husband from 2009--2017, was her biological brother.
"ICE has determined that the information you requested is being withheld in full pursuant to Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(A). Disclosure of any responsive records at this time could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings," ICE told Just the News in response to the FOIA in May.
The FOIA exemption cited by the agency "applies to records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes when their release could disrupt such proceedings," the reply reads.
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Earlier this year, Vice President JD Vance confirmed that the Justice Department was reviewing the allegations.
"I don't want to prejudge an investigation," Vance said. "It certainly seems like something fishy is there. If we think that there's a crime, we're going to prosecute that crime, and that's something the Department of Justice is looking at right now."
The allegation that Omar's second husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is related to her, or even her brother, first surfaced during her 2016 election campaign for a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. At the same time, allegations emerged that when she married her second husband she was still married to her first.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked the claim that Omar "married her brother" in order to get him into the country, accusing her of committing immigration fraud.
"She married her brother in order to get in, right? She married her brother. Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister?" He also called for her removal, saying, "We ought to get her the hell out," Trump said at a December 2025 rally.
The National Pulse suggests there may be other grounds to denaturalize her:
The records may concern longstanding allegations that Omar's 2009 marriage, to a Somali man claimed by some to be her brother, was fraudulent and arranged to benefit his immigration status. It may also relate to the fact that she may have failed to disclose her family's role in allegedly committing war crimes in Somalia.
Hasan Piker: By Only Caring About Israel, Jews Are Increasing Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence, and They Deserve It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Remember the very well-promoted "Islamic backlash"? We were told that the worst possible thing that could possibly be would be for people to take their anger about Islamic terrorism -- and Muslim support for Islamic terrorism -- out on Muslim civilians.
Norm MacDonald parodied this insane claim by telling us all what really terrifies him:
He told this joke to Margaret Cho, who, being an idiot, thought he was serious and virtuously agreed.
Leftists actually echoed MacDonald's dark sarcasm in earnest. After the mass slaughter of Jews by Muslims at Bondi Beach in Australia, lefties worried about the real horror -- but what if people retaliate against Muslims?
Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinsonThe news from Bondi beach is grim.
For many it will have terrible echoes of the massacres on October 7th.
For Jews living here it will feel painfully close to the murders at a synagogue in Manchester.
It is a reminder - if one was needed - that Jews all over the world now live in fear.
If you struggle to understand that fear - you may not have any Jewish family or friends as it is a very small community - I urge you to think of the impact on the Muslim and, indeed, the wider community of the Christchurch mosque attack in New Zealand.
Tonight Jews everywhere will light candles to mark the start of the festival of lights - Hanukkah. Few will feel able to celebrate. Many will be worrying about what might happen next.
After the murder of Charlie Kirk, lefties worried about the real crime, which would be the hypothetical, possible postulated retaliation by rightwingers against leftwingers:
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
A college education used to be a useful thing. At its most basic, it confirmed that the holder of a degree was minimally capable of some complex thinking, and had a basic understanding of history and literature and science and mathematics. It also indicated some skill at planning and prioritizing and communication, in particular in writing.
Fast forward a few generations and the college education of many Americans has become a sad and cruel joke. Academia has morphed into a miasma of Woke leftism that indoctrinates its students into a progressive bubble of post-modern thought. The world is viewed as a capitalist, colonial, patriarchal zero-sum game, and the goal is to destroy it. Education has become the tool to reach that objective, and real learning has been discarded in favor of that indoctrination.
So students emerge with nothing more than massive debt and a skill-set that is useless in the real world. Add in Artificial Intelligence, which can do some of the basic tasks that new employees are often given, and a college education may be going the way of the dodo.
But wiring a new house can't be done with AI, and a degree in Low Country Lesbian Verse of the 17th Century doesn't help much when installing a 200 Amp service.
American students ditch college for trade school as enrollment rises 20% since 2020
Over the next 15 years, the enrollment rates in traditional higher education are set to decline by 15 percent, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education has predicted. Some of that has to do with falling birth rates, as fewer Americans will be turning 18 in the coming years. Some have decided to go into the trades as the costs of higher education have increased more and more over the last several decades.
You don't need a college degree to run an excavator, but you do need real skill. Fixing HVAC is a real skill that is in demand, and that demand will never go away! Plumbing a new office park is a non-starter for AI, but not for 20-year-old apprentices with no debt. Making a double espresso with a cute pattern in the foam is a luxury that as labor costs rise will be replaced by automation.
Real education can be had with some curiosity and a library card. Indoctrination and huge debt can be had at any number of failing universities across the country, but more and more people are figuring out that it is nothing more than a scam. When graduates leave campus unable to compose a readable email or balance a check book, but are still on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars for their useless degrees, something has to change!
If I had a high school senior about to go out into the real world, the last thing on earth I would suggest is college, unless he is dead-set on medicine or engineering or one of the few professions that require higher education. Learning to weld may sound like a step down, but when he is debt-free and making $75k right out of trade school, while his friends are scrambling for entry-level jobs that don't even pay enough for their student loans, that step down might be the smartest thing he ever did!
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