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With Trump's fairly blunt threat to start aggressively targeting Iranian power and transit infrastructure (at the time of writing, anyway - by the time this goes live, it might have started or been obviated with a "deal" of some kind), Iran is doing everything in its power to try to make Trump and Hegseth blink. As Ace covered and various Hordelings expanded yesterday, Iran appears to be leaning heavily on it's fifth column in this country. Such strikes would be evil, or war crimes, or inappropriate, or whatever else. These fifth columnists are always happy to help, but they - much to the chagrin of their masters - appear to have relatively little real influence at the moment.
But Iran is not resting on its laurels and putting all of its chips on its fifth column in isolation. They apparently hope to significantly amplify its Stateside allies and deal a PR blow to the Trump administration in the same way that Islamists always do: by putting people in harm's way. Unable to defend against the American-Israeli attacks due to the latter's air superiority, they will settle for making infrastructure attacks as bloody and graphic as possible. Islamists love human shields because the enemy is usually squeamish about slaughtering civilians, and various sources are awash with claims that Iran is gearing up to burn through a lot of them.
Iranian citizens gathered on the White Bridge in Ahvaz, forming a human chain to protect key infrastructure amid US-Israel threats, stressing that attacks on civilian facilities are widely regarded as violations of international law.
A video shared by the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mumbai highlighted the civilian-led effort, underscoring that ordinary Iranians do not want to see their country’s infrastructure damaged in the escalating conflict.
Iranian officials on Tuesday urged their people to form human chains around power plants as the country faces a deadline set by President Trump to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or risk major strikes on civilian and energy infrastructure.
The regime called on "all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors" to protect power plants threatened by Trump, according to The Associated Press.
"Power plants that are our national assets and capital," Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state television as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, reportedly said in a video statement.
Go collect your winnings. I guess the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents isn't the IRGC and so is "civilian" but this ain't exactly the grassroots movement that Consulate General implied. That video, assuming it's real, is available on X. This is an altogether typical play by what's left of the Iranian government to slaughter young people in order to then cry crocodile tears in the "international community" while their fifth column calls Trump and our soldiers, sailors and airmen a bunch of diabolical baby-killers. They always do this.
That isn't all Iran is threatening and staging. Per the Jerusalem Post, Iran is also threatening retaliation:
Iran has also signaled that any attack on its energy network could trigger retaliation against civilian infrastructure elsewhere in the region. Previous reports said Iranian and IRGC officials had warned that if Iran’s fuel and energy facilities were hit, Tehran could target Israeli power plants, gas rigs, desalination systems, and other strategic civilian sites.
They will surely try, though Iran's recent efficacy has not been particularly great and hopefully will remain that way. But that is beside the point. Even if Iran has the capability to effectively retaliate, the state-sponsored sacrifice of Iranians would still happen. This is what Islamists do. They do it by choice even in the face of alternatives. It is the preferred tactic, not a desperation move.
There is a reason they store and manufacture arms in hospitals and mosques and schools, and use the same as operational bases. They love ensuring that their own will die during their glorious jihad. There is much in it for them, after all. Dead kids rile people up and so long as they can successfully blame the enemy for the death and deflect away from their own culpability, it's a powerful tool on the homefront. It also, crucially, is a powerful tool for their fifth columns to use. You can be sure the pre-printed signs about Trump and Hegseth's war crimes for targeting civilians are already staged and ready to go, and countless column-inches about their evil are already written. It's as predictable as the sunrise.
The blame for the coming civilian casualties will almost entirely rest with the regime, just as it does for Hamas and Hezbollah and the Taliban and all the rest - but the propaganda blitz to come will likely be a thing to behold. It's the real point. It's why, despicable and cynical as it is, the Islamists' love of human shields is entirely predictable and wholly typical.
President Trump expressed optimism Wednesday that the Iran war cease-fire agreement will usher in a “Golden Age” in the Middle East.
“A big day for World Peace!” Trump wrote on Truth Social following the two-week cease-fire announcement. “Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else!”
The commander in chief said the US “will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz” and “loading up with supplies of all kinds, just ‘hangin’ around’ in order to make sure that everything goes well.”
Trump indicated he felt “confident” the reopening of the key waterway, through which 20% of the world’s oil passes daily, would go well.
“There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process,” he said. “Just like we are experiencing in the US, this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!!”
Trump branded Operation Epic Fury a “total and complete victory” — more than a month after the first US strikes in a joint operation alongside Israeli forces on Feb. 28.
“100 percent,” he told Agence France Presse. “No question about it.”
Trump didn’t rule out strikes on power plants if the ceasefire collapsed.
“You’re going to have to see,” he said when probed.The exact terms of the cease-fire framework have not been released, but Trump described the proposal as “workable” and the temporary pause has been welcomed by Washington’s allies.
Iran’s embassy in India has since claimed the US is “fundamentally committed” to lifting all sanctions against the Islamic Republic, accepting enrichment and agreeing to Tehran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz.
“You started the war, but Iran will set the conditions for its end,” the embassy warned. ..
This came after Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif claimed the US, Iran and their allies agreed to a cease-fire everywhere, including Lebanon.. .
“In accordance with directives from the political echelon, the IDF has ceased fire in the operation against Iran, and is highly
prepared to respond defensively against any violation,”
IDFofficials said Wednesday. “Overnight, the IDF conducted a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting missile launch sites and
launchers across Iran, in order to significantly degrade its
launching capabilities. “Simultaneously, in Lebanon, the IDF is continuing to conduct targeted
ground operations against Hezbollah... Hezbollah chiefs are set to release a statement outlining their position on the ceasefire...
And so here we are weeks after the first bombs were dropped comment on the heels of the first wave of attacks that were designed to take out Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities.and collaterally hopefully take out the Mullahs and their evil regime and replace it with some minimally benign government that would no longer export global terrorism and persecute its own citizenry.
while Iran's nuclear and missile capacities have surely been degraded, considering that the same Armageddon-seeking Islamic ideologues are still in power and that they are whom we via their Islamic brothers in arms in Pakistan are who have been negotiating with and that Pakistan is a close ally of Red China, Can President Trump truly declare not only"Mission Accomplished" but that a new golden age is about to be ushered into the Middle East?!
Mr. President with all due respect that's not going to happen until Islam itself disappears either via a mass cultural shift among its over one billion adherents or some black swan event that brings about its utter defeat and dismantling and defanging.
U.S. stock futures jumped higher and oil prices plunged after President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire and a potential longer peace deal with Iran on Tuesday night.
Futures indicated a two percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. S&P futures were up 2.3 percent and Nasdaq futures were up nearly three percent.
Oil prices fell sharply. Brent crude futures fell by around 13.5 percent to $94.50 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate futures dropped 14.7 percent to $96.40 a barrel. U.S. natural gas prices dropped by 3.6 percent. U.S. home heating oil futures dropped by more than 18 percent.
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Trump, writing on Truth Social less than two hours before his 8 p.m. deadline, said he would halt the planned strikes following direct talks with Pakistani leadership. “Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan… and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks,” Trump wrote, adding, “This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!.” Deadline Delayed — Trump Approves 2‑Week Iran Ceasefire After ‘Civilization’ Threat, Conditional on Hormuz Reopening
The operation has strained U.S. military resources, damaged key assets, and raised concerns about broader strategic vulnerabilities. DATA: Iran War Costs $500 Million Daily.
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The “war crime” outcry is simply another collaboration between America’s enemies, the media, and the Democrat Party. Donald Trump, War Criminal?
Responding to Trump’s deadline — and his warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” — Democrats quickly lined up to claim that the president was either not in full possession of his mental faculties or about to issue illegal orders to the United States military, if not both. Trump’s Iran Clock Is Ticking As Democrats Try To Make Moves Behind His Back
Democrats and their media allies have worked overtime to paint President Donald Trump as reckless, unstable, and dangerously unfit to lead. The latest excuse for their hysteria came after Trump put pressure on Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which has been effectively closed since February, cutting off roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply. They’ve been daring the United States to respond ever since, and Trump did respond. And that’s when the left completely lost it. Democrats Called Trump Crazy — Then He Got a Ceasefire with Iran
In response to a question on Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his role in negotiations, Van Hollen said, “Secretary Rubio was part of the classified briefings that were provided early on to members of Congress. We’ve been calling for public hearings, because we want the public to be able to see how bad the answers we’re getting from administration officials are. Bad, meaning, they keep switching their statements regarding the goals of the war, they have no endgame. But, as to Secretary Rubio’s current role, I don’t know exactly what it is.” Van Hollen: ‘Hard for the Iranians to Be Able to Trust’ U.S. Negotiators Because We Bombed Them During Talks
The KTVU headline was “Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot someone in Patterson, Calif., leading to the partial closure of the I-5 freeway in Stanislaus County, the sheriff announced on Tuesday.” Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin quickly clarified that someone with a bullet in him did everything he could to deserve that bullet. Illegal Alien Terrorist Weaponizes Vehicle on ICE, Gets Shot
Rolbert Joachim, 40, is charged with second-degree murder and criminal damage to property, according to Lee County Sheriff’s Office jail records.Surveillance footage appeared to show Joachim smashing the woman’s car windshield, approaching her, and repeatedly hitting her in the head with a hammer — killing her in broad daylight, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Haitian illegal immigrant bludgeons mother-of-two to death with hammer outside Florida gas station in broad daylight
Freshly confirmed DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has wasted no time making his presence felt. Just days into the job, he sat down with Fox News host Bret Baier Monday night and floated an idea so simple and so devastating that it's a wonder nobody tried it sooner: Pull Customs and Border Protection officers out of international airports in sanctuary cities. Mullin Drops a Bombshell on Sanctuary Cities, and Dems Are Going to Lose Their Minds
Professor Jonathan A. C. Brown, chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown, posted the dismissive remark twice on X in response to users discussing a link between Islam and an escalating crisis of rape gangs in the United Kingdom, archived versions of the now-deleted posts show. (RELATED: ‘Catholic’ University’s Heretical Queer Profs Are Teaching Porn Classes And More) Professor Of Islamic Civilization Says ‘Get Over It’ To Concerns About Rape Gang Crisis
Futures indicated a two percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. S&P futures were up 2.3 percent and Nasdaq futures were up nearly three percent. Oil prices fell sharply. Brent crude futures fell by around 13.5 percent to $94.50 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate futures dropped 14.7 percent to $96.40 a barrel. U.S. natural gas prices dropped by 3.6 percent. U.S. home heating oil futures dropped by more than 18 percent. Peace Dividend: U.S. Futures Surge, Asia Stocks Jump, Oil Plunges After Trump Announces Cease Fire With Iran
Since 2019, base hourly wages at the Greeley plant have increased by approximately 46%, outpacing Northern Colorado/Front Range inflation of roughly 25% over the same period. This represents a real wage growth of about 16% for team members. Trump’s Migration Rules Force Wage Gains in Meatpacking CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“My 8-year-old son and I were not physically harmed, but we were awakened by the sound of gunfire. Like any parent, I immediately ran to him and reassured him that he was safe,” Ron Gibson, who is serving his third term in the Indianapolis City Council, said, reporting that someone fired 13 shots at his front door after midnight and left a note inside a zip-locked bag on the doorstep that read, “NO DATA CENTERS.” b>Indianapolis Official Says His Home Was Shot 13 Times with ‘No Data Centers’ Note Left Behind<
Echoing the state motto, Dean founded the "Freedom and Unity Party" along with his running mate, fellow Stowe High School student Charles D. Bass. Dean claims it's the fastest-growing party in Vermont. He's Got My Vote: 14-Year-Old Running for Governor of Vermont
Turkey’s interior minister stated that one suspect had “ties to an organization that exploits religion.” The attack comes amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, which has seen several retaliatory terrorist attacks primarily against Jewish targets primarily in Europe and the United States. Police Kill Three Gunmen Outside Israeli Consulate.
The lawmakers’ visit follows a flashy tour of Havana by a contingent of celebrities and international Marxist agitators known as the “Nuestra America” convoy which brought personalities such as British Labor parliament member Jeremy Corbyn, leftist video game streamer Hasan Piker, and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)’s daughter Isra Hirsi to Cuba. The convoy members produced online propaganda defending the Castro regime, blaming the longstanding poverty and suffering on the island on President Donald Trump. In reality, Cuba has endured torturous communist repression for 67 years as a result of the Castro family hoarding the nation’s wealth, leaving millions in the country to struggle. Congressional Democrats Follow Hasan Piker to Cuba, Lending Support to the Communist Regime
The Cuban regime is continuing down its path of proving how desperate it has become in the wake of Donald Trump putting a stop to the flow of free and cheap oil into the country. In its latest move, the handpicked face of the regime, "president" Miguel Díaz-Canel, sat down for an exclusive interview with Newsweek on Friday, which the outlet published on Tuesday. Cuba Threatens ‘Guerrilla-Style’ Fight — Rubio Can’t Keep a Straight Face
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a key European ally of the Trump administration, faces a tough set of parliamentary elections this weekend but he now has one supporter firmly on his side after U.S. Vice-President JD Vance landed in Budapest on Tuesday to offer his support. JD Vance Lands in Hungary to Back Orbán’s re-Election Push
Oregon was the first state to pass an assisted suicide law in the United States, but is now one of a dozen states, plus Washington, DC, that allow physicians to assist in the suicides of terminally ill patients. In Oregon, patients must be at least 18, be able to make their own medical decision, and have a prognosis of six months or less to live. Report: Assisted Suicide Prescriptions in Oregon Increased in 2025
Sleeping doesn’t count as cardio, but it is good for your heart. And the time you conk out each night could be the difference between a high and a low risk of heart attack or stroke. Two bedtime mistakes are increasing your risk of heart attack
NASA might claim the astronauts are doing science, but most of it is minor and not very significant. When you get down to it, this is simply a very expensive tourist trip for four government employees, paid for at an ungodly cost by the American taxpayer. Orion completes short 15-second burn to refine its return-to-Earth
The material that makes up the layers appears very sandy and delicate, so it breaks away it very small pieces, just like sand on a beach. The result is this feathery look. Feathery eroding layers on Mars FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
A niche identity is returning to its niche, and the California legislature is tacitly acknowledging that even the niche dies without regular infusions of free government money.
The skull was found in the area of DeForest Park and Wetlands during an event set up for children on Easter Sunday, CBS News reported, citing police. Reports suggested the skull could have been from an infant, according to KTLA5. The skull was reportedly found laying “right out in the open,” Fox11 Los Angeles reported. Family Stumbles Upon Human Skull During Local Easter Egg Hunt, Police Say
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Finally, some good Arm hardware that isn't from Apple. It's an 18 core CPU, so while still a little slower on single-threaded tasks than Apples M5 CPU, it's a lot faster in multi-threaded work.
An Ivy League graduate and the owner of a PR firm revealed why she spends $12,000 (over ₹11 lakh) a year on beauty treatments and clothes, especially after moving from New York to Utah. In a conversation with Business Insider, she revealed that she undergoes the pricey procedures to keep up with beauty standards.
“Utah has a slower pace, less diversity, and a more conservative culture, but one of the biggest challenges is the pressure to maintain a youthful, fresh appearance. Even though NYC is very focused on appearance, it's not as bad as Utah,” Hilary Reiter Azzaretti told the outlet, adding that she felt Utah was very “beauty-centric and that a lot of people here cared about longevity, wellness, and appearance.”
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She explained, “Half the pressure is self-induced. Outsiders might perceive younger PR people as more on top of trends, especially with social media. That's not always true, since PR is a relationship-driven business, but because it feels that way, trying to hide your age soothes your ego,” adding, “The other half comes from what you see on the job. There are a lot of influencers in Utah, so I'm inundated with images of beautiful people every day. It feels inevitable that you'll place greater emphasis on your appearance based on what you're seeing.”
A Dutch city councillor has been kicked out of her political party after editing her publicity photo so heavily that she became unrecognisable.
Looking at her publicity photo, you’d be tempted to think that Patricia Reichman is the youngest-looking 59-year-old woman in the world. We’ve featured our share of “ladies of eternal youth” on Oddity Central over the years, but Reichman definitely takes the cake. Only, in reality, she looks very different; some would say she is a totally different person.
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The Dutch councilwoman faced a lot of criticism after photos of her next to the one she obviously edited went viral online, but she continued claiming that she genuinely looks a lot younger than 59.
“When I’m out and about with my son, people often assume I’m his girlfriend,” she said. “I hear it all the time, that I look remarkably young for my age.”
So you're telling me there are fake photos of people online? As Ace sometimes says, I shan't believe it. I shannot.
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Happy Anniversary to The Bad News Bears!
The Bad News Bears turns 50 today. This movie zigged where most kid-sports films zag: cynical, un-Disneyfied, a gritty 1970s antidote to the usual underdog uplift. And Walter Matthau never once feels like he’s “acting with kids.” pic.twitter.com/lE8wmga6VY
Younger son of Doof was big into baseball for many years. We watched that movie when he was maybe 10 or 11. There's a scene with Walter Matthau driving while several beer cans roll around the front seat. My son noticed the beer cans and said "Oh I didn't realize you were allowed to drink and drive back in the 70s." I just laughed.
When a Southern client trash-talks Western hunting to his Wyoming antelope guide, all hell breaks loose
The story, “The Sheriff’s Pronghorn,” originally ran in the April 1953 issue of Outdoor Life.
“There’s one reason, mister,” the Georgia sheriff said stoutly, “why I don’t like your Wyoming country.”
Max Wilde bristled like a stallion in a brush corral. “And what’s that?” he barked.
“Everything’s too easy. You get on a horse, ride for a day, camp, walk out to the edge of a grassy park, and bang! You’ve got an elk. Or you sit for a couple of afternoons over a rotten carcass of some kind until a grizzly walks out of the shadows. You put your sights on his neck and squeeze off the trigger. Blooie! He folds. These buck deer tiptoe right up to you and chew the buttons off your coat. Antelope? I’d just as soon shoot a yearling calf in the feed lot.”
I glanced at Max. His mouth was twisted into an ominous angle. “It ain’t as exciting as a quail hunt clown in Georgia, is it?” he asked mildly.
“Not by a damsite!” Sheriff Henry Mosely said flatly.
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The sheriff finished his stirrup adjustments and we followed Max at a fast walk through the sage and along the rim of a canyon. At the head of the mesa, where it broke abruptly into a ragged, rocky point, we flushed a herd of six antelope. They ran for a startled moment, then stopped to look back. Five were does, with nervous legs and huge ears alerted toward us. The sixth was a buck with sweeping horns that branched above his eyes and curved back on slender tips. Max studied them for a moment through his glasses.
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The sheriff was an old hand now. He boiled out of the saddle, pulling his gun as he went. He seated his shell in the chamber and swung on the running buck. He held his fire so long that I got a little panicky, thinking he had frozen at the controls. I was so tight that I jumped when the rifle barked. The flying buck went end over end, sprawled in the sage, made a feeble attempt to rise and went down again, shot behind the heart. For a moment the sheriff looked as though he did not believe it himself, then he whooped and threw his hat into the air. Mine went with it. Max just grinned.
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OK, maybe AI isn't asshoe. At least for the first 22 seconds!
Trump Accepts Deal for Two Week Ceasefire, Saying Sides Are Very Close to a Permanent Deal
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Ach.
Sorry I had to get out and do the sanding and varnishing before I lost the light.
I think this is Trump looking for an easy exit but it's possible he's just biding time.
The price of oil moves partly on information but mostly on speculation. Traders bid up the price of oil in anticipation of a shortage later, at which point they can sell for a big profit.
Trump has been playing games with oil traders letting them know: Do not get too far over your skis selling and buying oil for too high a price or I will claim that we are very close a deal or otherwise inject news into the headlines that will cause the price of oil to fall and you to lose money.
So... did he do this to send a shock to oil traders?
I don't know but Clay Travis says oil prices are plunging.
Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
1h
Trump and Iran agree to a two week ceasefire subject to the Strait of Hormuz being immediately opened. The price of oil and gas is plummeting. Yet again all the people losing their minds on Twitter today saying nuclear war was going to happen look like complete morons.
Iran began launching drones and missiles at both UAE and Israel.
Israel, of course, is permitted to fire back. So is UAE.
Tuq'r will find that "disgusting, actually," and will also attack Trump for abusing the poor oil traders.
Orla Minihane has just exposed a number that should end any pretence:
Seventy-nine.
Seventy-nine Labour MPs and councillors with convictions or formal findings for rape, sexual assault, grooming, child sexual exploitation, possession and distribution of child pornography, and other vile sexual misconduct.
Not a handful of bad apples.
Not unfortunate mistakes.
This is a pattern.
This is a culture.
While Labour lectures the nation about protecting women and girls, they have quietly built one of the most predator-friendly environments in British politics.
The question is no longer how these men kept slipping in.
The question is why Labour feels like home to them.
A rotten ecosystem, thriving in plain sight.
Britain First. No Surrender.
That post here, linking another post containing the list of Labour MPs and councilmen who have raped or abused women.
Tim Soret
@timsoret
As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side.
You save your pilots no matter the cost.
You send humans to the moon.
You fight authoritarianism head-on.
It's truly inspiring.
We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.
Tim Soret
@timsoret
Apr 5
Frankly I hope I can join your ranks one day.
I'm done with the morally smug, economically illiterate, declinist mindset here. We think we're so cultured & so smart, but it's mostly masturbatory.
Americans keep demonstrating their uniquely actionable & pragmatic intelligence.
Mark Penn
@Mark_Penn
War crimes?
Senator Merkley from Oregon said that taking out mixed use infrastructure like bridges and power plants would be war crimes and suggested as well that soldiers in the US Army need not follow orders such as that.
The Iranians have sent hundreds of missiles targeted at civilian centers in Tel Aviv and throughout Israel as well as towards hotels, plants and airports of UAE and other countries. The civilians are not collateral damage -- they are the primary target of hundreds and missiles and drones. And they massacred tens of thousands of their own people -- just machine gunned them down. By rulers who have no legitimacy whatsoever.
So where is his outrage at the real war crimes? Where is the urgency at stopping Iran from these illegal attacks and mass executions? Where are his threats of action to right these wrongs? We know where they are -- no where because he is too busy attacking his own country.
Jim Acosta says that now that his every deranged claim about Trump is proven true (cite?), he feels that maybe he "wasn't opiniated enough" when he had a real job in the real media.
Nigeria Christians experienced another bloody Easter.
The country experienced three separate attacks on Christians on Sunday as Christians celebrated Jesus's resurrection.
The Nigerian military announced it has rescued 31 civilians kidnapped on Sunday morning during an attack on a church:
The attack occurred on Sunday morning in Ariko village, located in the Kachia area of Kaduna state.
Gunmen opened fire on congregants celebrating the religious holiday, leaving five people dead at the scene.
However, Caleb Maaji, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria for Kaduna state, reported a higher toll, stating that two churches in the village were targeted and seven worshippers lost their lives.
"Findings are still ongoing," Mr Maaji told Reuters, noting that the precise number of those initially seized remained unclear.
"Regrettably, the remains of five victims already killed by the terrorists were also recovered at the scene," the army stated, as reported by The Washington Post. "The fleeing terrorists are believed to have sustained significant casualties, as evidenced by blood trails along their escape routes."
The residents said the terrorists operated "in the area for an extended period before encountering any resistance from security forces."
In another attack, the Mbalom community's residents told officials that terrorists slaughtered 17 people.
Remember, Tuq'r Qarlson says the Trump tried to "eradicate" Christianity by mounting a desperate now-or-never rescue operation to save a downed pilot on Easter Sunday.
Update: I listened to this Islamist asshole -- his objection was that Trump tweeted "open the fucking Strait" on Easter, which Tuq'r says in an assault on Jesus and an attempt to destroy Christianity. He was also offended that Trump would bully Iran into not attempting to sink trading ships as they peacefully sailed through the strait.
It's all the most despicable Communist inversion of reality. Iran attacking shipping is just their right, Trump's demand that they stop is a gross assault that Tuq'r cannot abide.
And meanwhile Tuq'r has said nothing about this demonic Muslim attack on a church on Easter. Trump using the f-word on Easter is an attack on Christianity, but his Islamist allies' literally massacring Christians at an Easter service is not an attack on Christianity.
Because he's a scumbag woke Islamist propagandist.
For people asking about the rest of the page, here it is. No, guys, they didn't just pick some chart from a blog to use in a freaking AP textbook unless it confirmed their priors, stop it. https://t.co/ejtIhqZsVs
Sure, community note. Can you point to an example the book provided showing liberals as authoritarians and asking students to write whether they agree or not?
By the way: Just to prove how non-authoritarian leftwing Democrats are, let me link this AWFUL running as Democrat for Georgia State House who says that all Trump voters should lose access to the internet for four years, so that, I guess, we are forced to rely on CNN and NPR and the NYT for "the truth."
"Best mentoring I ever had!" -- Steven Christopher Kenwell, age 17, Eric Swalwell intern
🚨 HOLY CRAP. Iranian state TV is now calling on Iranian children to surge to power plants so they can be HUMAN SHIELDS against President Trump
Students, youth, and almost everyone is invited to shield key infrastructure tomorrow
Gavin Newsom Directs $19 Million in California Taxpayer Money to Madison Avenue to Improve California's Reputation -- Just as Gavin Newsom Is Running for President and Personally Needs California's Image to be Remade
I gotta tell you guys, I did not see this one coming. It just snuck up on me.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is hoping to to boost California's tarnished image on the national stage -- so he's throwing millions in taxpayer money at a high-powered New York public relations firm to do it for him.
The governor's Office of Business and Economic Development awarded PR powerhouse Edelman a contract worth up to $19 million to burnish the Golden State's reputation, KCRA reported.
Edelman -- which also does work on behalf of mega-companies like Dove, Starbucks, eBay and Heineken -- will be tasked with combating "negative narratives amplified online and in partisan media" about California while promoting the state's economy and tourism.
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The contract begins on April 6 and will run through then end of the year, which nearly coincides with end of the governor's term in early 2027.
Oh you mean January 2027, as the official primary season begins in earnest. How convenient.
The state agency previously told the outlet that the campaign wouldn't be about Newsom himself, but California.
"The campaign will tell the California story, not the Gavin Newsom story," the agency said. "The effort is about California's success, not about politics."
Uh-huh. You're just rebutting "partisan narratives" but not for any partisan purpose. Sure.
A Newsom spokesperson previously told the Los Angeles Times that California's business climatehas been "falsely and maliciously maligned for years," and that the "state has a right to tell the true story."
Weird that he didn't want to tell this "true story" in years when he wasn't running for president. People and businesses have been fleeing California for six years, you know.
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News of the contract drew ample criticism.
"Gavin Newsom is giving 19 million California taxpayer dollars to a New York PR firm to promote California in a better light to the nation. Which does not at all sound like Gavin Newsom is making a presidential campaign ad for himself," Kevin Dalton, who ran for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, wrote on X.
"Californians aren't being asked, they're being billed," added Republican congressional candidate Christine Bish.
Speaking of California politicians raiding the public fisc for their own benefit and to pay off their donors: Gavin Newsom's Obama-Biden boondoggle to spend tens of billions of dollars on a "high speed train" from LA to San Francisco -- when that route is well-serviced by planes and, well, a nice car ride if you have half a day to spare -- that even 60 Minutes noticed.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom is the very avatar of Democrat Woman.
Haughty, hectoring and pleased with herself, she is single-handedly wrecking her henpecked husband Gavin's lofty political ambitions.
No wonder he's taken to moping around and crying at press conferences.
As the California governor's presidential aspirations head south and his state's woes become impossible to ignore, he's tried in vain to reset his ailing brand -- and now his 51-year-old actress-turned-activist wife is taking over.
Over the weekend, she inserted herself into the news again with an Instagram video pontificating that the departure of Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem from President Trump's cabinet is proof that the commander-in-chief is waging a "war on all women."
"I need to call out that it's no surprise to me that the first two prominent people pushed out of this administration were women," she opined in a mint green jacket, with her long, blond tresses cascading fetchingly over one shoulder.
As she enunciated every bad word she could think of for Trump's "sexism and misogyny," she bizarrely smiled: "Devalued" -- smile. "Degraded" -- smile. "Diminished" -- smile.
"No woman is safe in Trump's Republican Party." Smile, smile, smile.
The title she posted on the screen was: "Some thoughts on the patriarchy."
Mrs. Newsom has "thoughts" -- and boy, does she want you to hear them.
Her assertiveness was on full display a few weeks ago when she elbowed her husband away from the podium and took over his press conference to scold the assembled reporters for not being sufficiently admiring of some abortion funding announcement the governor had just made.
"We just find it incredulous that we have Planned Parenthood here, and women are 51% of the population," she said. "And the majority of the questions -- all of these questions -- have really been about other issues. So, it's just fascinating."
She was greeted by "incredulous" silence.
Not only had she publicly emasculated the governor with the sort of first-spouse effrontery we haven't seen since Hillary Clinton entered the White House, but she showed herself to be incapable of using basic English.
Maybe she thinks "incredulous" is an intellectual version of "incredible."
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, said she actively works to challenge gender norms with her sons, telling an interviewer:
"I've given our boys dolls... if I'm reading a book and the protagonist is a male, I just change the he to a she."
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, said she actively works to challenge gender norms with her sons, telling an interviewer:
"I've given our boys dolls… if I'm reading a book and the protagonist is a male, I just change the he to a she." pic.twitter.com/KnDH6lp2GF
This link to Jesse Kelly contains a montage of her many ultrawoke preachings.
This one's incredible: Apparently she killed her own sister by running her over with... a golf cart. Nepo baby bitch.
But she tells prisoners that she understands their plight because she, too, killed someone "by accident" and she's very sure that's what all the people in prison did too.
Gavin Newsom's wife recalls telling prisoners at San Quentin about running over and killing her sister with a golf cart.
She said that she wasn't punished because it was an accident but that the prisoners are doing life even though theirs was "probably an accident too." pic.twitter.com/24HqCHXSZh
Libs keep asking Grok if these videos are real and recent. Grok keeps telling them they are.
Don't forget, she's also stealing taxpayer money, diverted to her by her husband and his cronies, to push DEI and transgenderism to California schoolchildren.
Sons and Nieces of High-Ranking Islamic Occupation Army of Iran Officials Have Been Living High on the Hog In the US -- But Are Now Getting Their Satanic Asses Deported Back to Their Homeland Hellhole
The son of a notorious Iranian regime leader is enjoying an affluent lifestyle in Los Angeles, the California Post can reveal.
Campaigners are calling for Eissa Hashemi, 43, to be investigated and deported for defiantly refusing to denounce his mother's sickening past.
On Monday, he appeared unfazed by the controversy and defiantly brushed off a reporter's questions, declining to speak after a workout at his fancy gym.
The college psychology lecturer is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as "Screaming Mary," who acted as spokesperson for violent militants who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
She was infamous worldwide for firing off twisted propaganda during the crisis, even encouraging captives to describe the punishing ordeal in glowing terms.
Ebtekar was later promoted to Vice President for Women and Family Affairs by regime leaders -- becoming the country's first female VP and one of the highest-ranking women in the Muslim world today.
In January, protestors gathered at the $20,000 a year Chicago School in in Claremont, east LA, and other teaching institutions in the area with links to Hashemi, for rallies calling for him to be deported.
Organizers of Change.org petitions want Hashemi to be kicked out of the country.
One wrote: "While the mother has no regret of occupying the US embassy in Tehran, many Iranians have been affected by this action while her own son has taken advantage of living in the US.
"We want Issa Hashemi and his wife, Maryam Tahmasebi to be fired from the US as soon as possible."
A poster on Instagram said: "Mr. Hashemi has never publicly distanced himself from his mother's actions or legacy."
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Another said: "47 years ago, Masoumeh Ebtekar took U.S. diplomats hostage for 444 days and threatened to kill them.
"Today, her son, Isa [sic] Hashemi works for Chicago School of Professional Psychology and lives freely in Los Angeles."
And one more added: "His father was also one of the core group of leaders of the Muslim Students Followers of the Imam's Line and several of the former hostages, including my father, positively identified him as being present during their torture and interrogation.
"His mother was perhaps even crueler than some of the other captors. This guy has no business being in this country. I've been dogging him since 2015."
Okay, he's not being deported. Yet.
But the pampered niece and grand-niece of Iran's top terror commander and Austere Religious Scholar Qasem Soleimani -- assassinated by airstrike by Trump in his first term -- were just arrested by ICE and scheduled for deportation.
The niece of slain Iranian terror mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani -- who showcased her luxe LA lifestyle on Instagram while bashing the US as the "Great Satan" -- and her daughter have been arrested by ICE agents, the State Department announced Saturday.
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, who allegedly celebrated attacks on US soldiers and military bases, and her daughter Sarinasadat Hosseiny, have had their green cards revoked over their ties to the Iranian regime.
"While living in the United States, she promoted Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against American soldiers and military facilities in the Middle East, praised the new Iranian Supreme Leader, denounced America as the 'Great Satan,' and voiced her unflinching support for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated terror organization," according to a State Department letter confirming the Friday arrests.
Afshar, 47, entered the US in 2015 on a tourist visa, was granted asylum in 2019 and secured a green card in 2021 from the Biden administration.
She made at least four trips back to Iran since receiving her green card, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Hosseniy, 25, also entered the US in 2015 on a student visa. She became a green card holder in 2023.
Her online persona was at odds with the Shia Islam her mother espoused.
Photos on her since-deleted social media reveal the bikini-clad babe showing off stomach tattoos and lounging on a jetski in barely-there swimsuit.
Other Instagram posts show Hosseiny clubbing in Miami, vacationing in Alaska, and partying down in Las Vegas.
"It is a privilege to be granted a green card to live in the United States of America. If we have reason to believe a green card holder poses a threat to the US, the green card will be revoked," Lauren Bis, a DHS spokesperson, told The Post.
The State Department also referenced Afshar's extravagant life in Los Angeles, which she allegedly frequently documented on her Instagram account, which has also apparently been deleted.
This is what the Iranian regime does to women who show their hair.
Arezoo Badri was shot, put in a coma and left paralyzed for showing her hair.
Meanwhile, this is the niece of former IRGC leader Qasem Soleimani- free to flaunt her body because she is part of the regime. pic.twitter.com/JtakU96JwL
Iran on Monday hanged a man convicted in connection with nationwide protests in January. Early morning executions have become near-daily events under the cover of the war against Israel and the United States.
Most of those executed are young men, including teens, alleged to have been either involved in the protests that were brutally suppressed by the regime -- with thousands shot dead in the streets -- or members of banned opposition groups.
Undeterred by the war, the Islamic Republic continues to exact its revenge, and exiled opposition groups and rights organizations said they feared that hundreds more could be executed in the coming days.
Ali Fahim, 23, was hanged Monday after being found guilty of involvement in an attack on a Tehran base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Basij militia during the protests, according to rights groups who have followed the case.
The judiciary's Mizan Online website described him as "one of the enemy elements in the terrorist riots," and said he was hanged after the supreme court approved the original verdict.
It sounds like they accused him of messaging the checkpoint's location to Israel or the US.
For two straight years we had leftist protestors going nuts over non-existent genocide and war crimes in Gaza.
But for Iran’s butchers that slaughter protestors? NOTHING. Why is that? Where are these beacons of moral clarity now? pic.twitter.com/YCG9JoAXgf
The office of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., offers internships "for college students to gain valuable work experience ... [and] absorb the many functions of a Congressional office." If the growing harassment allegations against the leftist lawmaker and leading Democrat candidate for California governor are true, Congress may want to put the kibosh on Swalwell's tutelage program for young women.
It seems the accomplice media has been too busy falling all over themselves in their absurd attempt to make Swalwell a martyr of President Donald Trump's "weaponization of law enforcement" to pay much attention to the women coming forward accusing the swamp rat of inappropriate sexual conduct.
Swalwell's flacks are furiously trying to explain away why the smarmy Democrat's campaign spent north of $300,000 on "private attorneys who specialize in white-collar criminal defense and employment law." They told KCRA 3 in Sacramento the payments were for legal guidance to fend off Trump's "retaliatory investigations" into Swalwell that have "put his family and staff at risk." After all, If you can't trust a morally corrupt congressman who fervently peddled the Russia collusion hoax, who can you trust?
'Pattern of Manipulation and Abuse of Power'
Cheyenne Hunt, a Democrat who in 2024 ran unsuccessfully for California's 45th Congressional District seat, posted on her social media sites that she has been "working with a number of women who are in the process of coming forward and sharing their stories of sexual harassment and even alleged abuse at the hands of Eric Swalwell." Hunt, who serves as executive director of the liberal organization Gen-Z for Change, claims a "major news outlet" is preparing to publish a story on the allegations.
"So let me be as clear and transparent about that as I safely can be," she said in a video posted to her Facebook page. "I am personally working with a group of women who want to come forward and share their stories. I am also aware of a much larger group that is also in this process that I am not personally working with."
Hunt says the group has pro bono legal representation to protect the victims' "legal and physical safety" as they share their experiences about Swalwell, adding that a number of women have come forward since a previous post last month. In that post she accused Swalwell of having a "predatory history toward women."
Meanwhile, Trump appears to have made a major mistake in California. He endorsed Republican Steve Hilton for governor. The problem is that this is a jungle primary and there was no need to endorse either Republican yet -- both can win the jungle primary and then face each other mano a mano -- no Democrat candidate! -- in the general. But this means it's likely that Hilton will cannibalize a big chunk of his Republican rival's support, and easily win the jungle primary -- along with a Democrat, who will then go on to easily beat him.
This is Mark Halperin's analysis but I don't see any fault with it. The only way a Republican can win in California -- unless Californians are finally so sick of Democrats they'll go against 50 years of voting history for a change -- is to run against another Republican. This increases the odds that Hilton will lose the governor's race.
2018. Eric Swalwell says that if Brett Kavanaugh is innocent of sexual assault, he should bring into his hearing all the people who have accused him so they can speak freely.
Swalwell also said that multiple accusers means Kavanaugh is most likely guilty.
Yes, they're ahead -- but only barely. Given historical precedent and the current political environment, they should be running away with it.
But they're not.
"This lead is historically low for Democrats at this point with a Republican president," Enten said. "On average, their lead's actually slightly less. It's five points. That's less than it was back in 2018 when it was eight points and way less than it was during the 2006 cycle when it was 11 points."
Five points.
Now, I don't exactly trust the approval rating polls showing that President Donald Trump at -20 or -30, but still, with numbers like that, Democrats should be crushing the GOP in the general congressional ballot, but they're not.
"You'd make the argument, Democrats should be way ahead, and they're just only sort of slightly ahead," Enten pointed out.
In Virginia, Abigail Spannberger, a woke Deep State traitor, ran as a "moderate centrist."
Just two months into her term of office, Gov. Spanberger's approval polling is barely above water. Her win last year was supposed to be the victory of pragmatic moderation over the voices of the far left, but since then Virginia voters seem to have realized she's a left-wing partisan, not a moderate. Today the Washington Post has a story about this sudden turnaround.
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's approval rating stands at 47 percent two months into the Democrat's term, with 46 percent of voters disapproving and 7 percent expressing no opinion in a Washington Post-Schar School poll.
Spanberger won in a 15-point landslide last year after touting her reputation for bipartisanship built on three terms representing a conservative-leaning district in Congress. But her current ratings reflect sharp polarization among Virginia voters in their views of the state's first female governor.
The approval mark for Spanberger is 13 percentage points lower than the average for Virginia governors in Post polling since the 1990s. Her near-even split between approval and disapproval is a worse net approval rating than the early-term scores of her predecessors in previous Post polls. It is also slightly weaker than ratings of her immediate predecessor, Glenn Youngkin (R), in a Post-Schar School poll last fall, showing he ended his term with 50 percent approval and 46 percent disapproval.
So where is the "sharp polarization" coming from? It's coming from Spanberger herself who hasn't been content to focus on affordability and is instead focused on issues like making sure police don't cooperate with ICE.
The Democrats, of course, intend to lie their way into office this year. They will almost all claim to be moderate, except for the designated woke warrior bomb-throwers in safe districts who will be allowed to preach the True Democrat Religion.
It's important to really push the Spannberger story and show that she lied and therefore all the other Democrats running the Spannberger Playbook are lying as well.
The left is pushing the 25th Amendment for Trump again, after assuring us for four years that Biden was a highly engaged "super-ager" who ran circles around his 30-year-old staffers.
All the way into July 2024 Gupta was defending Biden as “quite robust” and “high functioning."
Tellingly in this clip, immediately after glazing Biden, he goes after Trump, even though he wasn’t even asked about Trump.
By the way, they really freaked out when Trump called a lid on Saturday and did not interact with the press for 24 hours. They were certain he was incapacitated.
In fact, he was locked in the Situation Room monitoring the rescue effort he'd ordered.
Tuq'r Qarlson Attacks Trump: "No President Should Mock Islam" Also Trots Out His New Demented Theory That Trump Might Be the Actual Literal Antichrist of the Book of Revelations
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Let me just get this out of the way since the trolls are already here. (Is it funny, by the way, that we leave them in peace while they cannot stop attempting to annoy us into submission and threatening us that By God I'll Vote for Kamala Harris Just Like Nick Fuentes Told Me To If You Don't Obey My Tantrum!)
Below, in 2006, Tuq'r Qarlson said that he would vote for someone who declared "I'm a bigot, I don't like Islam, call me a racist, call me whatever you want."
And now? "A president should not mock Islam."
I assume that this is in reference to Trump ending some Truth social posts with "Peace be to Allah" or that kind of thing, which I'm not even sure is mockery. He might mean it in the George W. Bush kind of way.
Tucker Carlson in 2006: “I’m a bigot. If you’re really into Islam, I don’t care for you. I don’t care what that sounds like - you can call me a racist. I’d vote for you if you said that.” VS. Tucker Carlson in 2026: “No president… pic.twitter.com/j5ziSlpcVb
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) April 7, 2026
Tuq'r is claiming Trump attacked Christianity itself and defiled Jesus by launching the rescue effort on Easter Sunday... ignoring the fact that the guy was about to be found and it wouldn't wait until start-of-business on Monday.
No, he says this was a deliberate attempt to "eradicate" Christianity itself.
Desecrating Easter was the first step toward nuclear war. Christians need to understand where Trump is taking us.
0:00 Monologue 43:23 Paula White’s Strange Easter Sunday Service 51:17 Who Really Is Paula White? 57:24 How Did Paula Become Trump’s Spiritual Advisor? 1:00:03 The… pic.twitter.com/LurDKGg8WS
And who would try to eradicate Christianity? Well, the Antichrist of course -- and Tuq'r Qarlson now asserts that Trump may be the literal Antichrist.
Tuq'r's new Conspiracy Theory is that Trump's war is not just on Iran, but on the Christian faith itself, a "stealthy but effective attack... on faith in Jesus."
He thinks that Trump might be looking for a more elevated position than the mere president of the United States: He's saying Trump wants to be Leader of the World, like the Antichrist will become.
In fairness, he believes that Jews are tricking him because he's stupid so that maybe Trump doesn't know he's the Antichrist yet.
What a stupid Antichrist stupid Drumpf is!!!
🚨 Tucker Carlson insinuates that President Trump might be the Antichrist:
"Is it possible that what you're watching is a very stealthy, yet incredibly effective attack on what, from a Christian perspective, is the true faith, belief in Jesus? ...
Tucker never stopped being the man who called Trump a "demonic force," a "destroyer," and in 2021 texts wrote: "I hate him passionately. I can't handle much more of this."
And "We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can't wait."
Tucker just lied to get close to Trump so he could undermine him.
And almost as if this is a planned op spearheaded by the foreign-government paid podcast brahs Tuq'r and Cavernous Nostrils, Cavernous just happens to drop her new conspiracy theory to day, that Trump is literally running a "satanic administration."
Wow, it's such a coincidence that Tuq'r accuses Trump of being the literal Antichrist on the same day Cavernous debuts her "satanic administration under the control of zionists" op!
And she says that Trump thinks he's a "Messiah!"
What kind of "Messiah," Cavernous Nostrils? A false one, presumably...?
Like the Antichrist will present himself as, yes?
Oh no, whatever I do, I mustn't accuse these very sensible and sane Patriots of being Traitors! That would be a wrongful slur, whine the cloying faggots who accuse everyone who is not a Paulite of being a "Neocon who just wants Bill Kristol to be president."
And what does Trump think of Tuq'r's and Cavernous's new theory that he is the literal son of Satan himself?
Caitlin Doornbos
@CaitlinDoornbos
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President Trump went off on Carlson when I asked him about this nonsense this morning.
"Tucker's a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what's going on. He calls me all the time; I don't respond to his calls. I don't deal with him. I like dealing with smart people, not fools."
Boy I sure think Trump is making a huge mistake running down his loyal allies like that! We all have to unite behind Tuq'r, Cavernous, and of course !!RoNpAuL!!!!
Iran Media Celebrates the Great Islamic Victory in Rescue of F-15 WSO; Joe Kent Spreads Iran Propaganda Lie That US Was Attempting to Kill the Weapons Officer Rather Than Rescue Him
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Who put forward Joe Kent's name? Whoever did should be fired. I'm guessing it was Tulsi Gabbard but I don't know that.
He's a traitor and don't give me that jazz that servicemembers can't be traitors. Benedict Arnold was a capable commander until he turned over West Point to England.
He posted a dishonest message that PJs (pararescue men, who I thought were Pararescue Jumpers, but no one seems to call them that) are "the best" while posting Iranian propaganda funneled through Iran's American agents at DropSite news that the US was attempting to murder its own man.
Ex-Trump counterterror honcho Joe Kent promotes disturbing Iranian propaganda claiming US tried to kill stranded soldier
By Emily Crane
Published April 6, 2026, 4:29 p.m. ET
Conspiracy theorist and ex-National Counterterrorism Center boss Joe Kent has been called out for promoting wild Iranian propaganda that suggested the United States was actually trying to kill a downed American airman -- just hours before he was dramatically rescued.
Kent, who abruptly resigned from his Trump administration position last month in protest over Iran, got into a war of words with CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday after the former counterterror honcho was called out for peddling the false claims.
He had shared an article from Iranian state media over the weekend that claimed the US was actively bombing the same area where the missing airman was believed to be.
Oh I'm getting to that, below. American warplanes and drones released, a former pararescue man reports based on his insider knowledge, "violence of Biblical proportions" in the "FAFO box" around the downed airmen.
No, Tokyo Joe, it wasn't to kill the wizzo. It was to eradicate hundreds of Islamic Occupation Army thugs hunting him and rushing to his position.
The pro-regime outlet was reporting that the Trump administration had "lost hope" of finding the American soldier and was now trying to kill him before he could be captured by Iranian forces.
Kent shared the post before President Trump revealed hours later that the crewman had finally been rescued in a daring operation behind enemy lines.
Tapper, for his part, was quick to ridicule Kent "nonsense" post -- arguing his theory hadn't aged well.
"Former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent sharing Iranian state-linked outlet nonsense claiming, falsely, that the US was trying to kill the then-lost US pilot," Tapper posted on X.
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A defensive Kent quickly fired back, accusing Tapper and other media outlets of trying to "promote this foolish war & attack anyone who points out how this war isn't in our nation's interest."
You know, most traitors believe they're doing the right thing by championing a foreign country over their own. Plus, traitors tend to be enormous egotists, narcissists really, who always know better than everyone else.
The media in Iran is parading the treasure trove of intelligence it collected. Underwear is only the beginning: our preferences in toothpaste, sunscreen, & preserved meats were also revealed. I regret the loss of secrets. But I gained respect for our soldiers’ dental hygiene. pic.twitter.com/r17KRZpSpO
One of the pictures shows the Islamic Occupation Army thug showing off a high-tech teriyaki beef stick. Another shows classified toothpaste.
Outstanding work, guys. Give yourselves all a bonus.
The bitter communists are celebrating the loss of the planes and helos as a big Win for Iran:
Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time. pic.twitter.com/EB36KGNxC5
— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@Arrogance_0024) April 5, 2026
The bitter communist Peter Baker of the Bitter Communist NYT insists that Trump is "committing war crimes" by striking roads and bridges and power plants. This is bizarre. We always do that. They're key infrastructure used by the military. They say he must be prosecuted and jailed after he's out of office:
Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt
No other modern president has talked so openly about committing potential war crimes. Wartime presidents and their aides have usually insisted they were trying to follow international and US military law, even if they violated it in some cases. @ewong
This bitter communist professor says the US committed war crimes by targeting "military aged males" rushing to capture the downed pilot. He claims they might have just been civilians racing up the mountain towards the pilot so they're all war criminals.
"Age and gender," he intones, are not enough under International Law to establish that someone is a combatant.
How about context? Seems to me the only people racing up a mountain where a downed pilot is hidden are going to be people trying to capture him, not Recreational Armed Speed Hikers.
The only circumstance in which a civilian may be targeted is while they are directly participating in hostilities.
Being in a particular area does not entail direct participation in hostilities.
1) The little bird helicopters were carried aboard the C-130s, which have been modified to land anywhere. Unfortunately both C-130s got stuck in the ground and could not take off, so they and the helicopters were blown up. The helicopters did not have the range to get out of Iran and aren't capable of mid-air refueling.
2) He said there was an intense firefight -- "violence of Biblical proportions" -- between ground Basij and IRGC forces and lots of American planes and drones sent to protect the area where the downed pilot was hiding. The American forces created an "FAFO box" around the pilot's position and anyone coming with in it got the FO. Planes and drones were bombing open road just to slow down the approaching Islamic Occupation Army forces. (Which the left tells me is a war crime. But then, so was targeting the Occupation forces rushing to capture and torture the pilot.)
3) Unfortunately some of the rescuers were wounded by bullets and shrapnel in the firefight. I expect this will be the subject of intense press curiosity over the next months. They will turn this Anti-Benghazi, where we actually committed all the forces necessary to achieve a rescue, into "Trump's Benghazi."
4) He does not estimate the number of Islamic Occupational Army thugs killed by from context it sounds like it could be in the hundreds.
5) Because the C-130s were stuck, they had to send in more C-130s to pick up the special forces operators now out in the open in Iran and surrounded by Islamic Occupation Army forces.
6) He says he was leaked the information -- actually he pretends he's speaking "hypothetically allegedly" -- that some of the joint chiefs did not want to mount the rescue at all, considering it too dangerous, but someone with the handle "SecWar" overruled them.
For Muslims, negotiation is a form of warfare, conducted by other means, and is subject to the same rules.
In the traditional Islamic view, the world is divided into the House of Islam and the House of War. The latter is assumed to be at war with Islam until it submits... weakness invites attack, strength commands respect.
Westerners, and particularly Western governments often make the ridiculous assumption that Muslims are part of the empirical, logic-driven philosophy of the West. And even more laughable...they assume that honor, and simply doing what one says one will do is a bedrock of Muslim culture, just as it is in the West.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Lies, subterfuge, propaganda...all are accepted methods of negotiation in the Muslim world. The idea that there is some sort of code of honor between people is laughable. Strength is lauded; weakness is mocked and taken advantage of. And following through with commitments is simply unheard of. Behavior is based on what is best for Family, Clan, Country. If that agrees with an agreement, then wonderful. If not...it is also wonderful.
President Donald Trump on Monday indicated that the U.S. had attempted to send guns to the Iranian people to help them fight the Islamic Republic's armed forces, but that the intermediary that was supposed to distribute the weapons merely kept them instead.
"We sent some guns," he said. "They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against these thugs. You know what happened? The people that we sent them to kept them."
"So, I am very upset with a certain group of people and they're gonna pay a big price for that," he added.
President Trump is understandably frustrated by what is a common behavior in the Muslim world. Cheating and stealing? Yeah...so? But unlike his predecessors, President Trump may very well punish that behavior, which would be a novel response in the Western world. The Muslim world has come to expect the West to negotiate from a position of weakness, because they simply do not understand the Muslim mindset. While it is unclear that President Trump understands it, it is abundantly clear that he doesn't like it.
Iran expected a typical Western military campaign...a few bombs, a few missiles, and they could then get back to their strategy of obfuscation and delay while working to create a missile force that would be unstoppable.
That President Trump turned that on its head is a testament to his resolve, and his understanding of the geopolitical reality of a nuclear Iran. But most of all it is obvious that he does not trust the Iranian hierarchy, and that is a sea change in Western dealings with the Muslim world!
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“You’ve made history and made all America really proud, incredibly proud,” Trump told the four astronauts just hours after they emerged from the far side of the moon. “Humans have really never seen anything quite like what you’re doing in a manned spacecraft,” Trump marveled. “It’s really special.” The commander in chief was introduced to the crew by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who noted the president “wanted to be the first person to greet you after your return from the far side of the moon.”
U.S. special operations forces rescued the second crew member from a downed F-15E fighter jet in Iran after a “heavy firefight,” successfully extracting both airmen and all rescue personnel from the country, according to multiple reports.
U.S. officials told Axios and Fox News the high-risk combat search-and-rescue mission recovered the weapon systems officer more than a day after the aircraft was shot down, concluding a complex operation that unfolded behind enemy lines. The weapon systems officer had evaded capture after ejecting alongside the pilot, using Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training to move away from the wreckage and take cover on elevated terrain while activating an emergency beacon, according to reporting cited by Fox News.
“The CIA executed a deception campaign to confuse the Iranians, who were desperately hunting for our airman. On Saturday morning, we achieved our primary objective by finding and providing confirmation that one of America’s best and bravest was alive and concealed in a mountain crevice, still invisible to the enemy but not to the CIA,” Ratcliffe said. (RELATED: Israeli Airstrike Takes Out Top Iranian Intel Chief, Officials Say)
hopefully now we can finish the job or at long last the Persian people can rise up and finish off the Mullahs.
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United States attempted to supply Iranian protesters with weapons this year so they could defend themselves against another massacre, but the effort was not successful because Kurdish intermediaries decided to keep some of the guns for themselves.
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United States attempted to supply Iranian protesters with weapons this year so they could defend themselves against another massacre, but the effort was not successful because Kurdish intermediaries decided to keep some of the guns for themselves. Report: Trump Says U.S. Tried to Send Guns to Iranian Protesters, Suggesting Kurds Kept Them
Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed the operation. Israel had “just carried out a powerful strike on the largest petrochemical facility in Iran, located in Asaluyeh, a central target responsible for about 50% of the country’s petrochemical production,” Katz said in a video statement, Arab News reported. Israel Strikes Critical Iranian Petrochemical Plant, Officials Say
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar who is also a hypocrite,” wrote American playwright Tennessee Williams. I thought of Williams’ scathing quote when news broke this weekend that two Iranian women, 47-year-old Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Sarina Sadat Hosseiny, 25, had been arrested by US immigration officials in Los Angeles. Iran’s elites escape regime’s brutal rules — with traitorous hypocrisy
What do fat, blue-haired tundra wookiess, women with weeners, and your grandma in her frog costume have in common? They are all Democrats, and they are nuttier than elephant patties. Forecast: gonzo, with a chance of explosive violence and/or a stupid costume. Despotic, Neurotic, and Likely Psychotic: Liberals Have Become the Insane Clown Stasi
Some of the bluest blue states in the country are collectively flirting with disaster as they weigh new tax policies to address their respective budget crises and keep the entitlement gravy train chugging to nowhere. Blue States Turbocharging Their Own Collapses With New Tax Gambits
Until the U.K.’s political and cultural elite can defend confidently what it means to be British, the nation will sacrifice women’s safety, Jewish security, and core liberal principles such as free speech. The Islamification of Britain
The poll, conducted by Lake Research Partners from March 26-30 among 800 likely 2026 general election voters, found that 52 percent support impeaching Trump, while 40 percent oppose it. 46 percent said they strongly support impeachment, compared with 37 percent who strongly oppose it, while 8 percent said they were unsure or had no opinion.
“Domestic politics had become another theater of hybrid warfare...Both of these prior episodes ended in ignominy.” The Information State Isn’t Going Away
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
There's lots of Americans who decide not to go to college or take advanced degrees because they don't want to be in hock. They shouldn't be forced to cover the cost of irresponsible, regretful borrowers.Colleges should cover the cost when student borrowers default
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
If “Election Day” means anything, it must mean one day—no extensions, no ballot harvesting, and no ambiguity—just a clear, final, and verifiable expression of the people’s will. Election Day and Election Reforms (Not Week, Month, Season)
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
“Death by torture is rampant” for Falun Gong practitioners in communist China, Levi Browde, the executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center – which raises awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China – said during a discussion on Breitbart News Saturday, detailing the “largest civil disobedience movement in Chinese history” to expose the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Exclusive: Levi Browde Details ‘Largest Civil Disobedience Movement in Chinese History’
In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump said the airman “was never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fellow Warfighters were monitoring his location 24 hours a day, and diligently planning for his rescue.” Iranian Rescue Mission Underscores Hegseth’s Predecessors’ Incompetence
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The lunar fly-by is scheduled for this evening. As the capsule swings around behind the Moon, there will be a communications black-out from 6:44 pm (Eastern) to 7:25 pm (Eastern). NASA is making a concerted PR effort to compare this to the Apollo 8 mission around the Moon, but the differences are gigantic. Apollo 8 went into orbit around the Moon. There was considerable risk it could get stuck there if its engine failed to fire properly when behind the Moon on its last orbit. Thus, that Apollo 8 blackout was quite tension-filled. Orion completes small mid-course-correction engine burn as it prepares to swing around behind the Moon
The focus of the picture was a strange crater in the floor of Mawrth Vallis, a channel that drains northward from Mars’ cratered southern highlands to its northern lowland plains. You can see the crater in the full image if you click on the picture. It is intriguing because its rim is strangely abrupt and flat on all sides, something that is not seen with impact craters, which have a raised rim of material plowed out by the impact. Cracked bedrock on Mars?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Rapinoe also scoffed at the IOC’s claim that it followed scientific evidence showing the male body has distinct and real physical advantages over the female form, and that it based its decision on that evidence to ensure fairness in women’s sports. Megan Rapinoe Slams Olympics Over Trans Athlete Ban, Claims They Did Not Follow the ‘Science’(just what Dr. Mengele said-JJS)
Allen—a television producer and founder of the Allen Media Group, turned comedian—sued the McDonald’s fast food chain for $10 billion in 2021, alleging the company engaged in discrimination against black-owned media companies when making decisions regarding itsadvertising budget. CBS Replaces Colbert With ‘Woke’ Comedian Who Sued McDonald’s for ‘Racism.’
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If you've used Claude Code, you've noticed that it loves running shell commands to examine your codebase, rather than, say, reading it. Or having simple fixed-function code built into the software to do it on your computer.
And it also loves to ask you for permission to run those shell commands.
The vulnerability comes into play when a very long string of shell commands are run together. For the first fifty commands it will check - manually if needed, and in its history of permitted and denied commands if it's in there already.
And on the fifty-first command, it rests. And executes it regardless.
So if someone triggers a long string of commands and the first fifty are innocuous, after that they can take full control of your computer - because Claude Code runs on your computer, and just communicates with the Claude AI service as needed.
The particularly lovely thing here is that Anthropic already fixed this.
But both versions are present inside Claude Code and it using the broken one.
Bartlett Lake has up to 12 performance cores, the most of any mainstream Intel processor. Except that while it runs on common Socket 1700 motherboards, it's not a mainstream processor and only sells to industrial users, and is not supported by common Socket 1700 motherboard BIOSes.
Except it turns out that by changing one digit in the BIOS and reflashing it, it works fine.
The rescue was an Easter miracle. The enemy was large and violent. The rescuers were brilliant, strong, decisive and as cool as anyone can be.
-- President Donald Trump
Bravery never goes out of fashion
-- William Makepeace Thackery
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
-- Thucydides
Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.
-- Sir Roger Casement
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
I love America. American Exceptionalism...all 250 years of it... is a power that is unrivaled in the world. But I cannot remember a time during which I was more proud of my country and being an American than right now. Our magnificent armed forces, made up entirely of the American people, morphed from a pathetic, woke, mess of a force just a few years ago, into a cohesive group that is entirely focused on one thing: destroying our enemies in defense of our nation. They are magnificent, and represent the highest ideals of our great country.
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And here's the other side!
Chloe woke up at 6:45am and immediately felt proud of herself.
She had, after all, not eaten a single animal product in four years. The planet was healing. She could feel it.
6:52am - Applied her morning SPF. The SPF contains beeswax. Chloe does not know this. Moving on.… pic.twitter.com/2OckmKzAiM
We aren't the only culture that loves its pets! This is in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Great place, and absolutely huge. Wear walking shoes! Although there is a great pub about a five minute walk down the street, so all will be rewarded with a pint of a delicious English cask ale.
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Classic Rock Mystery Click This is super-obscure and I only barely remember it. Given that, I'll give you the hint that it's by the Red Rocker. And I guess you think you've got it made
Oh, but then, you never were afraid
Of anything that you've left behind
Oh, but it's alright with me now
'Cause I'll get back up somehow
And with a little luck, yes, I'm bound to win Now twenty people will tell me it's not obscure, it was huge in their hometown and played at their prom. That's how it usually goes. When I linked Donnie Iris's "Love is Like a Rock," everyone said they knew that one and that his other song (which I didn't know at all) Ah Leah! was huge in their area.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton talk birthright citizenship, the 14th Amendment and SCOTUS, no boots in Iran, Artemis II and refocusing NASA, the NBA's hatred of everything non-woke, and more!
In more marketing for Project Hail Mary, scientists say they've found the biosigns indicating life growing on an alien planet. It's not proof, just signatures of chemicals that are produced by biological metabolism, and it could be nothing, but scientists think it's a strong sign that this planet is inhabited by something.
In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of scientists announced the detection of dimethyl sulfide (along with a similar detection of dimethyl disulfide) in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called K2-18b. This is actually the second detection of dimethyl sulfide made on this planet, following a tentative detection in 2023.
Tons of chemicals are detected in the atmospheres of celestial objects every day. But dimethyl sulfide is different, because on Earth, it's only produced by living organisms.
"It is a shock to the system," Nikku Madhusudhan, first author on the paper, told the New York Times. "We spent an enormous amount of time just trying to get rid of the signal."
He means they tried to prove the signal was caused by things other than dimethyl sulfide but they could not.
What? Skeleton of the most famous Musketeer, D'Artagnan, possibly discovered in Dutch church closet. Dumas picked four names of real musketeers out of a history book, D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. So there was an actual D'Artagnan, though he made most of the story up. (Or, you know, all of it.)*
Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known as d'Artagnan, the famous musketeer of Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, spent his life in the service of the French crown.
The Gascon nobleman inspired Alexandre Dumas's hero in "The Three Musketeers" in the 19th century, a character now known worldwide thanks to the novel and numerous film adaptations.
D'Artagnan was killed during the siege of Maastricht in 1673, and there is a statue honoring the musketeer in the city. His final resting place has remained a mystery ever since.
A lot of Dumas's stories are based on bits of real history. The plot of the >Three Musketeers, about trying to recover lost diamonds from the queen's necklace, was cribbed from the then-almost-contemporaneous Affair of the Queen's Necklace. And the Man in the Iron Mask is based on real accounts of a prisoner forced to wear a mask (though I think it was a velvet mask).
* Oh, I should mention, Dumas says all this, about finding the names in an old book, in the prologue to his novel. But authors lie a lot. They frequently present fictions as based on historic fact. The twist is, he was actually telling the truth here. At least about these four musketeers having actually existed and served under Louis XIV. Fun fact: You know the beginning of A Fistful of Dollars where the local gunslingers make fun of Clint Eastwood's donkey and Eastwood demands they apologize to the donkey? That's lifted from The Three Musketeers. Rochefort mocks D'Artagnan's old, brokedown farm horse and D'Artagnan is incensed.
A commenter asked which should be read first, The Hobbit of LOTR? Easy, no question -- read The Hobbit first. It's actually the start of the story and comes first chronologically. It sets up some major characters and major pieces in play in LOTR. Also, the Hobbit is Beginner-Friendly, which LOTR isn't. The Hobbit really is a delightful book, and a fast read. It's chatty, it's casual, it's exciting, and it's funny. In that dry cheeky British humor way. I love that the narrator is constantly making little asides and commentary, like he's just sitting next to you telling you this story as it occurs to him.
LOTR is a very long story. Fifteen hundred pages or so. The Hobbit is relatively short and very punchy and easy to read. If you don't like The Hobbit, you can skip out on LOTR. If you do like it, you'll be primed to read LOTR.
Oh, I should say: The Hobbit is written as if it's for children, but one of those smart children's stories that are also for adults. Don't worry, there's also real fighting and violence and horror in it, too. LOTR is written for adults. (It's said that Tolkien wrote both for his children, but LOTR was written 17 years later, when his children were adults.) Some might not like The Hobbit due to its sometimes frivolous tone. Me, I love it. I find it constantly amusing. Both are really good but there is a starkly different tone to both. LOTR is epic, grand, and serious, about a world war, The Hobbit is light and breezy, and about a heist. Though a heist that culminates in a war for the spoils.
The Hobbit Challenge: Read two more chapters. I didn't have much time. Bilbo got the ring.
I noticed a continuity problem. Maybe. Now, as of the time of The Hobbit, it was unknown that this magic ring was in fact a Ring of Power, and it was doubly unknown that it was the Ring of Power, the Master Ring that controlled the others.
But the narrator -- who we will learn in LOTR was none of than Bilbo himself, who wrote the book as "There and Back Again" -- says this about Gollum's ring:
"But who knows how Gollum had come by that present [the Ring], ages ago in the old days when such rings were still at large in the world? Perhaps even the Master who ruled them could not have said."
In another passage, the ring is identified as a "ring of power."
I don't know, I always thought there was a distinction between mere magic rings and the Rings of Power created by Sauron. But this suggests that Bilbo knew this was a ring of power created by Sauron.
Now I don't remember when Bilbo wrote the Hobbit. In the movie, he shows Frodo the book in Rivendell, and I guess he wrote it after he left the Shire. I guess he might have added in the part about the ring being a ring of power created by "the Master" after Gandalf appraised him of his research into the ring. I never noticed this before. I know Tolkien re-wrote this chapter while he was writing LOTR to make the ring important from the start. And also to make Gollum more sinister and evil, and also to remove the part where Gollum actually offers Bilbo the ring as a "present" -- Bilbo had already found it on his own, but Gollum was wiling to give it away, which obviously is not something the rewritten Gollum would ever do. But I had no memory of the ring being suggested to be The Ring so early in the tale.
Finish the job, Mr. President! Melanie Phillips lays out the case for the total destruction of the Iranian government and armed forces. [CBD]
