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A different cut showing how Airplane! was just the movie Zero Hour!but with jokes. I can see how they wrote Airplane -- I see them sitting around watching this old, lame movie, making wise-cracks like "And please don't call me Shirley" while watching it, and then deciding to write it as a script. And they had to pay for the Zero Hour! script because all of their best wise-cracks were in response to that particular movie.
FCC Demands Eight ABC Stations Re-Apply for Certification Early, Citing the Stations' Brazen Racial Discrimination Based on Illegal "DEI" Criteria Plus: Comey May Be Forced to Give Up Profits on His Stupid Book?
[T]he Federal Communications Commission (FCC)... announced on April 28 that it is moving up its review of the ABC network's eight local broadcasting licenses over the network's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.
On March 27, 2025, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr initially sent a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger notifying him that the FCC was investigating the company (Disney and ABC) to determine if it was in violation of the FCC's own equal employment opportunity regulations. Common sense will tell you that when you replace "equal" with "equity" you will have problems, and that's what they're looking at.
Keep in mind that this was months before the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September and the Jimmy Kimmel drama that followed.
Now, just recently, David J. Brown, the chief of the video division at the Federal Communications Commission's media bureau, sent a notification memo to The Walt Disney Company that said: "Specifically, FCC rules provide that whenever the FCC regards an application for a renewal of a license as essential to the proper conduct of an investigation, the FCC has the authority to call the broadcaster's licenses in for early renewal. Doing so both allows the FCC to conduct its ongoing investigation and enables the FCC to ensure that the broadcaster has been meeting its public interest obligations more broadly...The FCC determines that calling in Disney's ABC licenses for early renewal, at this time, under the Communications Act's public interest standard is essential within the meaning of agency regulations."
The ABC stations in question were on the schedule for license renewal in the 2028-2031 window. The FCC's decision now requires the ABC stations to file for renewal by May 28 of this year.
It's important to understand that the Federal Communications Commission doesn't regulate networks directly; their content is carried by third-party local broadcasters that use the public airwaves, which the FCC does regulate. American Broadcasting Company owns eight local television stations that are within the FCC's jurisdiction: WABC-TV New York, KABC-TV Los Angeles, WLS-TV Chicago, WPVI-TV Philadelphia, KTRK-TV Houston, KGO-TV San Francisco, WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham, and KFSN-TV Fresno.
Those are among ABC's biggest stations. Only two -- Raleigh-Durham and Fresno -- are second-tier.
On to James Comey.
James Comey posted his "8647" threat to boost sales of his piece-of-shit homo book.
But that means he profited from a crime, and may be forced to disgorge those profits.
Though, to be honest, I can't imagine she made much money off this "book."
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: DOJ sources tell me prosecutors are pursuing a "forfeiture action" in relation to James Comey's alleged felonies because they believe Comey posted the "86" Trump threat to also help drum up sales of a forthcoming book. Comey posted the image five (5) days before the May 20, 2025, release of his new crime novel. Controversy over the posting thrust Comey back into the headlines and drew potential book buyers to his Instagram and X accounts where he heavily promoted the book.
According to the Comey indictment, "Upon conviction, the defendant shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to the said offense."
Viva Frei explains that the case against Comey isn't just about the "8647" tweet-- he posted a series of tweets to promote his gay book, which spoke of... encouraging people to kill political enemies.
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Viva Frei
@thevivafrei
Too many people are either ignorant of the facts, or being obtuse as relates to Comey's "8647" (in shells!) Instagram post.
It was not a simple "one-off" post. Faulty premise and factually incorrect.
So everyone comparing it to Jack Posobiec's 2022 tweet of "8646" is not comparing comparables.
Also, not an irrelevant factor - Jack is not the former Director of the FBI!
Posobiec's tweet was stupid. And I would expect to be investigated and possibly charged if I were to ever post anything so stupid.
That says, now back to it not being a "one-off" possibly ambiguous tweet:
People are either unaware of, or ignoring the context of Comey's Instagram post. It was not a "one-off". It was actually the second in a series of three posts, all of which were connected, self-referential, and clearly deliberately so.
Post 1: Comey at the beach, reading his new book, FDR Drive (image attached).
Post 2: 8647 in shells.
Post 3: The summary of his new book which he is reading in Post 1. That summary:
"Garcia believes Buchanan went far beyond the protection of the first amendment when *he singled out his enemies by name* and *suggested "something should be done" about them*. His fans have obliged, killing or grievously, injuring some of his foes."
Comey is telling you exactly what he is doing.
Reading his book.
Singling out his enemies by name (as close as he can get) - 47 for Trump.
Suggesting "something should be done about them" - 86 for kill or eliminate.
And "his fans have obliged" from his book description that he posted.
All of the elements are there to eliminate any ambiguity as to what common meant - sandwiching his 8647 in shells in between a picture of him reading his book, and a summary of his book - which has to do with calling out enemies by name, suggesting something should be done to them, and his fans obliging.
He quibbles about whether the indictment should contain all of this evidence. I don't think it does. An indictment is not a presentation of evidence. That's what a trial is. An indictment is just a listing of charges that a grand jury has said there is evidence enough to support a conviction thereupon.
LOL -- J6 defense attorneys had similar complaints, mostly early in the 3 year period following the riot when DOJ aggressively sought to detain defendants.
The DOJ response???
"Your Honor, DOC is run by the District of Columbia, not DOJ. We are also captive to their… https://t.co/oTwpIUgP5Q
Oh, and Andrew McCarthy is defending his butt-buddy Comey from prosecution, as usual, even after he defended Comey's prosecutions of Trump and the J6 defendants.
The Family of Democrat Thugs Who Assaulted Savanah Hernandez Have All be Indicted by a Federal Grand Jury
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Acting AG Todd Blanche
@DAGToddBlanche
Today, Christopher, Deyanna, and Paige Ostrouchko were indicted by a grand jury for allegedly assaulting journalist and Turning Point USA contributor Savannah Hernandez, while she was lawfully reporting on anti-ICE protests outside a federal building in St. Paul.
Hernandez was allegedly surrounded, physically assaulted, and shoved to the ground -- simply because she was identified by the defendants as a conservative journalist. That is NOT "peaceful protest." These deplorable actions as charged in the indictment will not be tolerated in America, and this Department of Justice will always punish unhinged acts of political violence.
The whole family -- the thug 250 pound father who brutally knocked the 110 pound girl in the back, the psychopathic daughter who repeated assaulted her by blowing a very loud whistle directly into her ear (yes that's assault, and the attack can have serious long-term consequences), and the mother too.
🚨HUGE UPDATE: Turns out that Chris, Paige and Deyanna Ostroushko will ALL be facing federal charges for assaulting me.
It was initially reported that only 2 of the 3 would be facing charges, however, Acting AG Todd Blanche, has just announced that ALL THREE were indicted and… https://t.co/vONQWO0SSepic.twitter.com/uOfC4gGJTR
Say, remember when the left -- especially the odious Wormtongue Jake Tapper -- kept pushing the idea of "stochastic terrorism," claiming that if we said "CNN Sucks," or that they were liberal as fuck, that was the same as loading a bullet into a rifle for an anti-media assassin?
And now Jake Tapper claims that there's no such thing? At least as far as him and his leftwing propagandists urging violence against Trump and Republicans?
After Paul Pelosi was attacked in 2022, Jake Tapper did an entire show on the dangers of stochastic terrorism and of systematically demonizing a person.
Tapper blamed the right and QAnon for inciting the attack. He said calling someone a pedophile or claiming that someone is out… pic.twitter.com/kc9G2xrHX3
A few years back, left-wing media began popularizing the phrase "stochastic terrorism," so they could blame mainstream conservative rhetoric for random violent acts. When a white supremacist goes on a shooting spree, legacy media demand that every Republican official in the country take ownership and denounce the act as if their rhetoric led to the violence.
Yet, when a left-winger such as Cole Allen allegedly tries to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, leaving a manifesto that's virtually indistinguishable from the rhetoric used by the average liberal podcaster or politician, the same people act as if the two things are completely unrelated. There's not a hint of self-reflection.
Politics, of course, has always been hyperbolic. Both Democrats and Republicans say terrible things about opposition presidents. But there's probably never been anything approaching the unhinged hysteria aimed at Trump.
For years, it was broadly accepted by the Left that Trump was an asset of a foreign adversary. And when the president wasn't operating "concentration camps" or stealing votes from minority groups, he was instituting fascism. And this wasn't the usual vague pejorative synonym for "conservativism."
"Yes, it's okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don't let me stop you," one Washington Post op-ed argued. Though to be fair, another Washington Post op-ed disagreed: "Don't compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler."
Trump is now regularly accused of being a rapist and pedophile and a puppet of the Jews who are plunging us into endless war for personal gain.
"And," wrote Allen, who'd been marinating in this panic for about a decade, "I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes."
There have now been three major attempts to murder the Republican president. Not long ago, Charlie Kirk, one of the most popular conservative voices in the nation, was assassinated. Before that, Brian Thompson, the CEO of the largest insurance company in the country, was murdered on the street. Before that, a leftist showed up with a Glock, zip ties, and duct tape to assassinate a Supreme Court justice. Before that, a Bernie Sanders fan attempted to eliminate the entire Republican House leadership on a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia.
That's not even to mention the "free Palestine" activists who show up at protests with firebombs or murder Israeli Embassy workers on the streets of Washington. Or the fire-bombings of Tesla dealerships. Or the antifa fire-bombings and attacks on police stations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. Or the attacks on pregnancy centers after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision. Or the Black Lives Matter riots, the most destructive in American history.
When a would-be terrorist shows up at the Capitol with Molotov cocktails to kill Republican officials, we barely even talk about it.
That's a pattern. That's a big problem.
Marxist violence has always been with us. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a communist in Dallas. The only other president assassinated in the 20th century, William McKinley, was killed by the bullets of radical leftist Leon Czolgosz. A slew of communist and anarchist terrorist bombings culminated in the deaths of 30 people on Wall Street in 1920.
Most cultural depictions of the '60s and '70s offer us genteel, peace-loving hippies. The reality was an unprecedented rise in left-wing terrorism, led by groups such as the Weather Underground, which were setting off bombs at the Capitol, police stations, the Pentagon, and the offices of attorneys general. In an 18-month span between 1971 and 1972, there were 2,500 bombings in the United States by leftist groups.
It seems to me that things could easily go back in that direction, or worse, because the contemporary Left is increasingly and openly comfortable with violence.
Greg Gutfeld just delivered the single most succinct and cutting indictment of the leftwing media's complicity in Saturday's WHCD attack:
"This guy did hear voices. They were Ted Lieu's, they were Brandon Johnson's, they were CNN's, they were The View, they were MS NOW."
At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt--this time in full view of the Washington press corps.
The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump. After 11 years of avoiding the predominantly left-wing media event, he decided to revisit the dinner. He anticipated that he would be the object of ridicule inside the hall--and that he might see possible violence outside it.
Indeed, protesters ringed the hotel. In grimly prescient fashion, the usual sort of crowd that night was channeling John Wilkes Booth--sic semper tyrannis--with placards reading "Death to Tyrants."
They again almost got their wish.
All three of the would-be Trump shooters--along with Charlie Kirk's murderer--fit the predictable profile of arrested-development, deranged leftists. They apparently sought to reify the popular Democrat hatred of Trump and his supporters, thereby imagining themselves entering the pantheon of revolutionary heroes.
So too, not long ago, did the would-be killer of Trump, Austin Tucker Martin, storm Mar-a-Lago in search of the absent president.
This time, the latest assassin, Cole Tomas Allen, left a manifesto repeating the old saw of Trump as "Hitler" and sought to kill the president and his cabinet members. Indeed, his incoherent screed read like a Petri dish of all the supposed sins of Trump, drawing on left-wing conspiracies about Russian collusion, lawfare myths, and the Epstein files.
Allen's attempt was another fantasy of mass murdering, not unlike that of former Bernie Sanders campaign aide James T. Hodgkinson. He tried to take out Republican congressional leaders--wounding four, including House Republican Majority Whip Steve Scalise--in a baseball game in Washington.
Other than the fact that the shooter nearly reached the doors to the auditorium, the Secret Service performed brilliantly--despite the Democratic effort to shut down the Department of Homeland Security.
Apparently, the Left's mindset is that the security of elected officials--Trump especially--and of American citizens is not nearly as important as ensuring that foreign nationals who entered the country illegally are not legally returned to their countries of origin.
Assassins are motivated by all sorts of impulses, but certainly they do not act in a void.
From the trickle-down world of social media, the internet, and street theater, would-be killers absorb elite signals. This messaging becomes especially baleful when celebrities, governors, senators, and politicos amplify the claim that Trump is a fascist, a Nazi, a monster who is destroying the country and who must be stopped "by any means necessary." Late-night comedians joke about past assassinations or assassination attempts; others have even claimed that Trump staged his first assassination attempt--and this one too!
So deep runs their hatred.
For over a decade, the Left has escalated its rhetoric of violence against Trump. Each politico, actor, celebrity, or billionaire seems to vie with the next in imagining new ways to kill or assault him.
Had that sort of rhetoric been directed at Obama or Biden, it would likely have put many of them in jail.
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The hardcore left-wing establishment believes this sort of Hitler/Trump rhetoric, combined with the normalization of street violence, generates ever more protests, fuels anti-ICE fury, unites Congressional Democrats, and--most importantly--drives down Trump poll numbers. In their view, it is a lot more effective than merely outlining an alternative agenda.
So expect far more, not less, of this left-wing violent madness to come.
See, what they're not realizing is that yes, they are making political violence acceptable on the left, but they're also making it acceptable among the right.
I hope they're ready for the fire they've set.
This is what incitement of violence sounds like. These are not insults or ridicule. These are incitements of violence.
This type of rhetoric is meant to make people believe that Trump and his supporters are a direct threat to them, their families, and the country.
Florida lawmakers have approved a new Congressional map that could position Republicans to win four additional U.S. House seats in the midterm elections in November.
The 21 to 17 vote for final passage in the Senate came just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act in a decision on a Louisiana congressional district Wednesday morning.
Both developments will assist President Trump's national push to help the GOP in the midterm elections. With the Florida redistricting, the GOP likely gains an advantage of two or three new seats as Republican-led states have followed Trump's call and Democratic-led states have countered it.
However, control of the House will depend on the votes in November. Democrats have said the redraw in Florida makes several GOP seats more competitive, potentially leading to smaller seat gains if strong Democratic performances seen in recent special elections continue.
The bill now goes for expected signing by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He has argued that the state's rapid population growth requires redistricting. And he's urged the redrawing of districts that were drawn with consideration for preserving the voting power of minority communities.
🚨 JUST IN: The Florida House has OVERWHELMINGLY PASSED Governor Ron DeSantis’ new Congressional maps, which would add up to 4 new Republican US House seats, 83-28
Democrats literally started SCREAMING when it passed 🤣
🚨 BREAKING — IT'S OFFICIAL: Ron DeSantis' new Congressional map for Florida, which positions Republicans to win an extra FOUR seats in the US House, has FULLY PASSED the Senate, 21-17
🚨 OMG. Deranged Democrat Florida House member STORMS THE AISLE with a BULLHORN while the chamber passes Gov. Ron DeSantis' 2026 Congressional map, which stands to add +4 red seats
She's MELTING DOWN as Republicans STEAMROLL the map through! 😂
Alito mocked Kagan for pretending that she cares about stare decisis (precedents). He points out she only cites stare decisis to uphold leftwing doctrines:
Justice Alito has clearly lost patience with Justice Kagan's cynical stare-decisis schtick. She has never relied on stare decisis to reach a result she disfavors in a case where her vote would impact the outcome. So when she sings its praises, take it with a grain of salt. pic.twitter.com/aQkHQ20k0y
Apparently this dissent took a long, long time to write.
Not because it's well-reasoned.
But because Kagan delayed it so that the opinion would not be announced until now.
Former US Attorney "Shipwrecked Crew" says it is clear that Justice Kagan withheld her dissent for as long as possible to make it too late for most states to update their maps for this cycle:
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
So Justice Kagan is reported in Molly Hemingway's new book on Justice Alito as having urged liberal members of the Court to slow-walk their dissents in the Dobbs case for months after Justice Alito had finished his majority decision, presumably with the "hope" that the composition of the Court would change and the 5-4 outcome striking down Roe would turn into a 4-4 deadlock that left the lower court's decision in place - affirming Roe.
NOW, it is clear that it was Justice Kagan -- and not Justices Jackson and Sotomayor -- who has held up her dissent in the Louisiana redistricting case, as she has written the only dissent -- with the whispered-about motivation being to push the decision back far enough into the calendar back such that some states don't have time to engage in redistricting before the Nov. elections -- redistricting that might eliminate minority-majority districts and cost Democrats seats.
If both these two anecdotal accounts about Kagan gain traction, it will forever stain her legacy on SCOTUS.
I love how cucky institutionalists still think that these monsters care about the "stain" that their integrity will suffer.
But some states are scrambling to redistrict:
🚨 NOW: US Sen. Marsha Blackburn has PROPOSED a 9R-0D redistricting map for Tennessee to redraw, thanks to the Supreme Court ruling against racial gerrymandering under the VRA
Al Gore: All of My Predictions from An Inconvenient Truth About Greenland and the Arctic Completely Losing Their Ice Were "Proven Dead Right;" and BTW, Now I'm Warning About a Coming Ice Age (Which Will Also Not Happen)
A lot of these rich nepo babies like Al Gore and Tuq'r Qarlson aren't nearly as rich as I'd assumed. They're still shilling and huckstering into their elder years.
Former Vice President Al Gore is still making climate doom predictions, 20 years after his warnings from An Inconvenient Truth proved false -- this time invoking the science fiction film The Day After Tomorrow for a rapt Hollywood audience.
Gore joined the first-ever Sustainability in Entertainment Honors event Thursday, organized by The Hollywood Reporter and the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance, for a keynote conversation with The West Wing star Bradley Whitford.
This idiot cuck again. I hate this guy. He's a dweeb so he plays "smart" characters -- by which I mean another dweeb, Aaron Sorkin, uses him as his puppet to ventriloquize his own personal stupid dweeb political propaganda -- and so he believes he's smart in real life.
Pretty sure Hugh Jackman doesn't think he's actually Wolverine in real life.
The pair reminisced about the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, conspicuously omitting its failed prophecy that Earth's ecosystems would reach a "tipping point" of no return, thanks to human industrial activity, in only ten years. That deadline that came and went a full decade ago.
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In response to this doomsday warning, Whitford sets a more drastic timeline -- that if Gore's energy policies are not enacted, "we're in an ice age in, like, 10 years." However, Gore punts the prophecy's deadline much farther into the future, dodging any chance of accountability.
So note it is this actor dweeb who spent his grade school years getting stuffed inside lockers who advanced the ice age prediction-- but Al Gore then endorses it, while avoiding making a prediction about when this will come to pass.
Like all Doomsayers, his previous specific predictions have been proven dead wrong, so now he wants to keep things vague.
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WHITFORD: And if there is a tipping point here where the gradual threat of climate change becomes immediate, where -- if that happens and the Gulf Stream ceases to exist as we know it, we're in an ice age in, like, 10 years.
GORE: No, no, no. It would take longer -- it, I mean, I'm not the expert-
WHITFORD: [Crosstalk] I wear makeup, Al.
GORE: But I've spent a lot of time with them. But it would be bad. It would be very bad and would be bad on a scale that is beyond our, anything we can compare it to today.
The ultimate authority on all questions involving life on earth, Al Gore, is now declaring that global warming is out, and global freezing is in. Safe bet that he found a whole new angle to line his pockets off the climate grift. pic.twitter.com/oQ5CtY9laS
Dan Bongino Flushed Deep State Leakers Out of the FBI By Using the "Canary Trap" Technique
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I don't know if it's really called the "canary trap." I just know that's what Tom Clancy called it. One finds a leaker by leaking particularlized misinformation to different people. Then you sit back and see what version of the misinformation winds up in the press.
Then you fire the person you told that piece of individualized misinformation to.
Bongino said he was repeatedly assured certain individuals were trustworthy, only to suspect them of leaking shortly afterward.
"It happened a couple times where they'd say, 'Oh, you can trust John Smith.' And you trust John Smith, and then a week later you see a leak in the media and you'd be like, 'I'm pretty sure that came from John Smith,'" he said.
At that point, most bureaucrats would shrug and complain. Bongino did something smarter.
He set a trap.
To flush out leakers, Bongino began planting harmless, fake details--like an "innocuous" schedule item--and sharing them selectively with specific individuals. Then he watched. If that exact detail showed up in the press, he had his answer.
"It was like we would play this little game," he said.
Call it a game if you want. It was actually a classic counterintelligence tactic, and it worked. When the planted information surfaced publicly, Bongino confronted the source directly. No guesswork. No plausible deniability. Done.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) didn't waste any time pointing the finger after Saturday's assassination attempt on President Donald Trump -- and he aimed it squarely at Trump himself.
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Coates played a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who called out what she described as years of escalating demonization of the president. "This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators, yes, by elected members of the Democrat Party, and even some in the media," she said. "This hateful and constant and violent rhetoric directed at President Trump day after day after day for 11 years has helped to legitimize this violence and bring us to this dark moment."
Goldman, who sits on the House Judiciary and Homeland Security committees and is a former federal prosecutor, of course, doesn't blame his party for the shooting.
When asked about the White House's response, Goldman didn't even pause. "I mean, it's pretty rich given that Donald Trump's rhetoric led to January 6," he said. "And we know what Donald Trump's rhetoric leads to because we know many times over how his followers use violence in -- when they follow him."
Yes, he literally blamed President Trump for the assassination attempt against him.
Meanwhile: Comey will be arrested by federal marshals.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
19h
BREAKING: An arrest warrant has been issued for former FBI Director James Comey for multiple federal grand jury charges in North Carolina related to an Instagram image he posted last summer allegedly threatening the president. US Marshals will execute the arrest. Comey publicly claimed at the time that he did not create the threatening "86 47" image but merely stumbled on it while walking on the beach and photographed it. It's not clear what he told federal agents who interviewed him about it.
I know this will shock you, but it turns out those "studies" claiming that there is more political violence from the right than from the left are lies.
They -- hold on to your seats -- excluded obvious cases of left-wing violence from the tallies but include drug dealers shooting each other if they happen to be white nationalists. The supposedly "libertarian" -- really corporate left-wing liberal -- CATO institute does not include 9/11 victims in the count.
The ADL just flatly defines antisemitism as "right-wing" -- even when left-wing Palestinians kill Jews, they claim that the Palestinians as "ethnonationalism" which is then defined as "right-wing."
One of the major sources is the Prosecution Project, an initiative of the University of Cincinnati, which analyzes felony criminal cases involving political violence and sorts them by ideology. "The project examines criminal complaints, indictments and court records, looking for crimes that seek 'a socio-political change or to communicate' to outside audiences," per The Economist. "Its data show that extremists on both left and right commit violence, although more incidents appear to come from right-leaning attackers."
Yet if you pull up the data center yourself, you can see immediately that it is deeply flawed.
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The data set doesn't include either of the previous two assassination attempts on President Trump's life, as far as I can tell; a search for the time frame and the names of the would-be assassins turns up zero hits. Nor does it include the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The data set is based on prosecutions, which might explain the absence of Thomas Crooks, who died at Butler. But what explains the absence of Trump's other would-be assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, or Tyler Robinson, who killed Charlie Kirk? I couldn't find Elias Rodriguez on the list either, who shot and killed two people outside the Jewish Museum in D.C. in May of 2025 to protest the war in Gaza.
It's pretty easy to say that the violence is coming overwhelmingly from the Right if you overwhelmingly edit out any political violence from the Left.
The editing goes deep. During the summer of 2020, the George Floyd riots were in full swing. Political violence claimed the lives of dozens of Americans and caused $2 billion in property damage. Yet the data set from the Prosecution Project lists a grand total of five incidents "left wing" incidents that summer, two of them "eco-animal focused," meaning it counts just three incidents of left-wing violence during that time.
Compare this to a list compiled by Forbes of 19 people who lost their lives during the first 14 days of George Floyd riots. Why don't these people merit a mention in the Prosecution Project? They were killed during a politically motivated explosion of violence and rioting. These were, to cite the Project's own criteria, "crimes that seek 'a socio-political change or to communicate' to outside audiences." Yet they do not appear in the dataset.
Surely we can all agree that their omission massively skews the data.
Maybe you think that people murdered during political riots shouldn't count as victims of political violence. But what about a meth dealer who happens to belong to the Aryan Brotherhood? Should their meth dealing count as political violence?
The Prosecution Project thinks so! Among the Right-wing examples it makes sure to include, you'll find an Aryan Brotherhood meth gang that merited 10 entries for drug-related crimes. I'm no fan of the Aryan Brotherhood, but can you honestly say this is an example of Right-wing political violence? In what world does producing meth constitute "crimes that seek 'a socio-political change or to communicate' to outside audiences"?
You can also find people on the list who did things like vandalize an LGBTQ crosswalk--though not people who vandalized entire neighborhoods in 2020 in the name of racial justice.
Is vandalism political violence? I guess only if you're conservative.
No, both sides aren't equally responsible for political violence. The media loves sharing graphs and "data" showing the Right is more violent than the Left, but the organizations producing that data are cooking the books so they can smear the Right with the Left's crimes. pic.twitter.com/nqidqSOcTu
Straight from the Comey playbook. What feds have always done. If anyone deserves it, it's this treasonous douchebag. He and all the others who pushed that Russia bullshit at Obama's behest, plus all of you in the media who regurgitated it, deserve more than that. https://t.co/ujPTQ1fmOb
IN EPOCHAL RULING, SUPREME COURT HOLDS, 6-3, THAT RACIAL GERRYMANDERS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL -- MUCH LESS REQUIRED BY THE CONSTITUTION
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I don't know if the southern states affected like this can impose an emergency redistricting double-quick for the midterms, but some analysts believe that this ruling will eventually flip 19 Democrat seats to Republican.
The Supreme Court just handed down one of the most consequential redistricting decisions in a generation -- and Democrats are not going to like it one bit.
In a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, the majority held that Louisiana's congressional map -- redrawn to include a second majority-black district -- constitutes an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Fifteenth Amendment. The Court stopped short of striking down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act entirely, but it dramatically narrowed the ways in which states may use race when drawing congressional maps.
Zachary Donnini
@ZacharyDonnini
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Kagan seems to be pretty damn sure that Section 2 is gutted in her dissent:
"The new Callais requirements will effectively insulate any practice, including any districting scheme, said by a State to have any race-neutral justification. That justification can sound in traditional redistricting criteria, or else can sound in politics and partisanship. As to the latter, the State need do nothing more than announce a partisan gerrymander."
This is the key passage in Louisiana v. Callais. While not overturning section 2 of the VRA, it construes it into near-irrelevance. All minority voters are entitled to is that the map drawers NOT use race as a metric in drawing their maps.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Liberal Justice Kagan is CONVINCED that the majority 6-3 opinion — authored by SAM ALITO — totally GUTS race-based VRA Democrat Congressional districts in the long term
There is a problem with high-stakes and costly agreements among many parties, whether those agreements are secret or open. They can hold up only so long as everyone involved is willing to hold the line and do what they agreed to do with the other parties. In order to accomplish this, there must be both incentives and long-term gain - and all of the parties have to participate and not fight each other. If the incentives change or become irrelevant, or if the playing field suddenly shifts and throws the old assumptions out the window, or there is major infighting, it creates a major stability problem.
This is a basic problem for cartels. In order for a cartel to work, it has to be able to fix price, and fixing price requires rigid control of supply. This can increase profits for the cartel's members, but it is a dangerous game unless there is absolute control (or, at least, near-absolute control) of supply, adequate incentive to not cheat and for members to not work against each-other. If any of this breaks down, cartel members will cheat or leave the game because it is no longer in the member's best interest to play by the rules or remain in the game. On a long enough timeline, this will always happen and it appears that it just happened with everyone's favorite cartel.
Yesterday, the UAE announced that it was leaving OPEC, and is doing so more or less immediately. The country is withdrawing from the cartel on Friday. OPEC will survive and still represents a significant amount of global oil production - especially if one considers "OPEC+" psuedo-members like Russia - but the loss of its third-largest member is going to have major consequences for the organization. Its ability to control price is going to be even more sorely tested - and seriously questioned - than it already is. Especially because unlike many OPEC members, the UAE has spare capacity - and spare capacity is a major control mechanism. The loss of the UAE is probably a very big deal.
It is also the consequence of two things that have moved rapidly against the cartel's stability. The first is the Iran war. Iran is an OPEC member that has spent more than a month hurling missiles at its fellow cartel members in direct attack and now is interfering with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz - something that has direct negative effects on its fellow members and particularly on the UAE. Iran broke the most basic rule of cartels, which is that you don't attack your fellow conspirators. But it is not just Iran. Iran may have been the final straw, but there are bigger structural problems facing OPEC, namely supply and politics.
OPEC+ ostensibly controls about 80% of global supply, but there are some big asterisks next to that. First, most producers in OPEC aren't all that big and don't have much slack in their production capacity and need to keep pumping to keep their petrostates from collapsing. A lot of the supply is in OPEC, but much of it is in the "must produce" column. Another is policy competition. For a long time, the cartel has had a monopoly in oil-as-policy-tool. There were major non-OPEC members like Russia, but they also didn't usually use oil as a policy tool. That was OPEC's game - until Trump. Trump does use energy as policy, and he has worked to make the US as productive as possible. There is now another party playing policy with energy, and it is a very big party indeed.
OPEC cuts supply? We can raise it and blunt the effect to some degree - and the market will take care of it all on its own. OPEC gives a sweetheart deal we don't like? We'll sanction the country on the receiving end, install tariffs or do other trade-as-policy-tool things to interfere with it. The US is not a petrostate. Oil here is an industry - a hugely important one, but still just one of many. We have flexibility that petrostates do not, and Trump has been using that flexibility. Someone blinking was inevitable, and the UAE clearly sees first-mover advantage in doing so.
The UAE sugar-coated its departure as best it could:
"This has nothing to do with any of our brothers or friends within the group," Al Mazrouei said. "We've been working together for years and years. We have the highest respect for the Saudis for leading OPEC."
The UAE remains committed to market stability and will continue to cooperate with producers and consumers to that end, the Energy Ministry said in its written statement. Its departure from OPEC will give the UAE more flexibility to respond to market dynamics, the ministry added.
"We reaffirm our appreciation for the efforts of both OPEC and the OPEC+ alliance and wish them success," the Energy Ministry said.
"Good luck in your future endeavors." The Saudis want to cut supply given the long erosion in oil price (Iran war notwithstanding), but the UAE does not.
The UAE has the ambition to achieve 5 million barrels per day of capacity by 2027 and wants more freedom of action to pursue that goal, the energy minister added. The decision to leave OPEC is not a response to years of production cuts led by Saudi Arabia, he said.
"We want to increase production and you want us to cut it, but we promise that's not why we're leaving" is such a boldly contradictory statement that one can only laugh.
Some, of course, keep whistling past the graveyard. The Guardian, desperate to maintain the party line, has blamed UAE's departure on ... so-called "decarbonization:"
The shift to low-carbon energy is also likely to have played a role in the UAE's exit. Producers that are able to pump more crude, and can tolerate lower oil prices, are expected to abandon any limits on crude production in favour of monetising their remaining reserves before demand for fossil fuels begin to decline.
The Guardian's Jillian Ambrose missed her true calling as a comedienne. You don't have to go grasping for straws to see what happened here, and it isn't a consequence of the energy-hating envirocommunists. The ground simply shifted, all at once. The global oil market has been changing for years, Iran is shooting missiles at its putative partners, too many OPEC members can't cut production and at least one of the few who meaningfully can no longer wants to help carry the rest at the expense of its own ambitions.
The world changed and it was only a matter of time before someone blinked.
“As President Trump observed during his state visit to Britain last autumn, ‘the bond of kinship and identity between America is priceless and eternal, it is irreplacable and unbreakable,” he added to a standing ovation from the Congress.
“The alliance that our two nations have built over the centuries, and for which we are profoundly grateful to the American people, is truly unique, and that alliance is what Henry Kissinger described as Kennedy’s ‘soaring vision’ of an Atlantic relationship based on twin pillars, Europe and America. That partnership, I believe, Mr Speaker, is more important today than it has ever been.”
When Westminster Abbey becomes the next Hagia Sophia, then tell me about that "eternal alliance" as your head gets lopped off with a rusty meat cleaver on Al JazBBC-zira.
President Donald Trump’s declaration that, for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, “the party is over” was treated like a barbarian shout in the salon. Yet his statement has the impolite virtue of being true. For 75 years, Europe has hosted the most expensive open bar in history, all of it paid for by the United States, and called this dependency an “alliance.” Now, when the bill is presented and the host suggests perhaps the guests might behave as if they own something besides opinions, they are scandalized.
Nothing has exposed this charade more clearly than the recent confrontation with Iran. The most revealing actor was NATO Europe, which, at the precise moment when it had the strongest interest in American protection, chose instead to lecture, obstruct, and deny access to bases that exist only thanks to American power and American money.
No Kings indeed!!! If NATO can miraculously embrace a new mission of "No Emirs, Imams, Sultans along with Socialist Apparatchiks and Chi-Com Mandarins," I might reconsider my attitude provided they, EUROPE, foot at least 60% of the bill, permanently.
OPEC’s stranglehold on the global economy is finally coming apart at the seams — thanks in large part to President Donald Trump’s efforts at home and abroad — and the result will be freer markets, long-term lower energy price and less debt slavery for developing nations. On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates, long frustrated with OPEC’s limits on its oil production, declared its intent to leave the consortium within days to be free to meet consumer demand for energy on its own terms.
Meanwhile here at home in the wake of the latest leftist Democrat attempt to overthrow the American Republic by assassinating our President and his cabinet, it certainly seems as if the tone of the response by actual conservative pundits has taken a very distinct turn. Here are but two.
The American Left Is In Thrall To Political Violence. It Has To Be Destroyed. . . Left-wing political violence won’t end unless it’s actively stopped. We are not going to argue our way to peace.
Very True John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist. He doesn't mince words. Am I correct in reading that as a call for a violent response to their violence and/or a preemptive move to take them down with extreme prejudice?
Leftist Political Violence is an Existential Threat to the Republic
While he's not as overt perhaps nor directly calling for a violent response/preemption as Mr. Davidson does, nevertheless makes the very same point. Declaring the Left an "Existential threat" is not an allegory. So boys as I have asked numerous times in the past, what is to be done?
I too am at the end of my rope, and one day either us or them will be on the wrong end of an actual, not rhetorical rope!
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
Glenn Reynolds: Republicans may soon need to write a thank-you note to Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy. By convincing American business that a Democrat-controlled government is an existential threat, Murphy could be the guy who wins the midterms for the GOP.But Murphy’s problem isn’t really that these industries are too concentrated — it’s that he and his party don’t entirely control them. . . Well, I may not be a billionaire, but when somebody says he plans to destroy me if he wins back power, I’m going to do my best to make sure he never gets the chance. Let’s see if the actual billionaires are equally smart. Democrats’ rants confirm their enemies list is serious business
Everything Barack Obama interjects into public discourse always appears neutral on its face, but in truth is delivered within a systemic context or tone. Violent Barack Obama Rejects the Idea of Violence
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) reported the government grants in its latest tax filing covering July 2024 through June 2025, the month that Los Angeles, California, was set ablaze by anti-deportation rioters. The chaos kicked off in June 2025 after CHIRLA created an anti-ICE network that led to a union leader’s arrest and encouraged supporters to arrive at a federal building for a rally that turned violent, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported. CHIRLA defended the mob as rioting against deportations spread across central California for days and caused damages somewhere between $32 million and $1 billion. . . Anti-ICE Group Received Millions From Taxpayers In A Year — Here’s What We Got In Return
Local officials bid furiously to attract games, apparently without understanding the costs. Fans and taxpayers are paying the price. Will U.S. Cities Regret Hosting World Cup?
Fox News reported that this indictment may be in relation to an Instagram photo he posted of an “8647” shell formation on a beach. He later deleted the post and claimed that he did not mean to associate the message with a threat against Donald Trump. Report: Justice Department Indicts Former FBI Director James Comey for Second Time
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
...In reality, this Salon piece is a superb example of how the establishment media lies. . . but if Salon told its hapless leftist readers what they really did say, they might end up agreeing and becoming MAGA Republicans. Lying to them ensures that they’ll stay on the reservation, but it’s telling. A political party or faction that has to lie to its supporters to make sure that they remain supporters is not likely to have a bright future: reality will win out in the end. Salon Mag: ‘Under Trump, It’s Become Acceptable to Hate All Muslims’
If the American Dream goes away, both in practice and in collective memory, we will be a fundamentally different, unrecognizable nation, and a poorer one for it, both materially and in spirit. Without the American Dream, There Would be no America
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Climate eschatology is so pervasive an ideology that opponents of it, like me, must be judicious in choosing which battles to focus on, lest our efforts be diluted; but one such battle of importance is being waged at present. Judiciary guidelines on science vs. pseudoscience
California is strangling its own energy base—then blaming oil companies for the predictable fallout of shortages, wildfires, and policies built on ideology instead of economics. California’s Climate Overreach
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Prosecutors claim Morens, co-conspirator #1, and others “conspired to defraud and commit several offenses against” America after NHI terminated a grant, Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence, for co-conspirator #1 during the pandemic Former Top Fauci Advisor Indicted for Concealing COVID Records.
. . .if they can restrict the opportunity to buy firearms from the legal dealers, then that means less people will be able to buy firearms and what this really does is it doesn’t really attack the major manufacturers and distributors, it really goes after these mom-and-pop stores that don’t have a team of lawyers to go through this insane amount of paperwork.” Democrat Devises Another Trojan Horse To Strangle Gun Store Owners
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The Virginia Supreme Court’s decision delays the implementation of the Democrats’ redistricting plan, creating uncertainty ahead of the midterm elections in November. The decision by Virginia’s Supreme Court comes at a time when multiple states, such as California, Texas, and Florida, are scrambling to redraw their congressional maps before the midterms. Virginia Supreme Court Maintains Block on Certifying Redistricting Referendum
“While we expected to find some cases, this is higher than we anticipated,” Hayes said in a statement. “The benefit of entering into cross-state and federal database checks is that it allows us to uncover issues like this. Our goal is to use every available and legal tool at our disposal to achieve the most accurate voter rolls possible.” North Carolina Finds 34K Dead People on State Voter Rolls
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Trone Garriott, an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) running in Iowa’s 3rd congressional district, made the remarks during the Iowa Secular Summit in July 2023, where she appeared to be presenting to a group of attendees using a PowerPoint. EXCLUSIVE: ‘Who’s Paying Me’ — Iowa Dem Candidate Admits To Morphing Persona
POLITICS
Republican Jeannie LaCroix, 64, won a special election for a Prince William County Board of Supervisors seat defeating Democratic nominee Muhammed Sufiyan Casim, 36, a Muslim Pakistani immigrant, who in the 2010s made a series of online posts containing racist, misogynist and antisemitic content. . . Republican Wins Upset In Deep-Blue Seat After Muslim Democrat Busted For Racist Tweets
The deadlock in voter preference underscores the competitive nature of the upcoming midterms and highlights the potential influence of independent voters. The poll also suggests that geopolitical tensions and domestic issues like cost of living and military actions could sway voter sentiment. DATA: Midterms Deadlocked Between Dems and GOP.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“Speaking in this renowned chamber of debate and deliberation, I cannot help but think of my late mother Elizabeth, who in 1991 was also afforded this single honour and similarly spoke under the watchful eye of the statue of freedom above us. Today I am here to express the highest regard and friendship of the British people to the people of the United States.” King Charles III Hails ‘Eternal’ Alliance Between Britain and America in Historic Address to Congress
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist group unleashed a deadly wave of 31 different terrorist attacks over the weekend — including a deadly highway bomb blast on Saturday that killed 21 civilians in what is now being described as the worst terrorist attack Colombia has suffered in decades. Colombia: Marxist FARC Kills 21 in Worst Terrorist Attack in Decades
OPEC’s stranglehold on the global economy is finally coming apart at the seams — thanks in large part to President Donald Trump’s efforts at home and abroad — and the result will be freer markets, long-term lower energy price and less debt slavery for developing nations. On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates, long frustrated with OPEC’s limits on its oil production, declared its intent to leave the consortium within days to be free to meet consumer demand for energy on its own terms. OPEC’s end will be a win for humanity and America — another Trump miracle
the 3,100-foot-wide unnamed crater is located smack dab in the middle of the candidate landing zone on Mars for SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, as shown by the overview map above. A cool crater in Starship’s prime candidate zone on Mars
...this new tax is expected to provide ample funds to allow the FAA to
expand its licensing operations to meet the growing launch industry. The
real challenge will be whether the bureaucracy can stay focused on its
main task of serving the public, or use the money to build a new
bureaucratic empire aimed at garnering power over the private sector.
History suggests we should be pessimistic, and expect the latter. FAA to begin taxing launches by payload weight
We don't need to try and nudge Kimmel and his moribund talk show off the air — he's nudging himself. He's also getting a generous assist from the inevitable death of broadcast late-night shows. A favorite line of mine recently is that Jimmy Kimmel is unwittingly determined to become the final nail in the broadcast network late-night coffin. All we have to do is ignore him and let him do just that. Here's an Idea — Just Let Jimmy Kimmel Continue to Cancel Himself
A generation that forgot history is flirting with repeating it. (They didn't FORGET history so much as they were lied to and deceived and brainwashed about it. But still - jjs) Communism’s Comeback – and America’s Amnesia
HITHER & YON
Seventy years ago this month, a New York City gangster paid a hoodlum $1,175 to splash six ounces of sulfuric acid in Riesel’s face. Naturally, that event would be the climax of any retelling of Riesel’s life. But it is neither the beginning nor the end of the story. (New Yorkers of a certain age may recall Riesel's nightly vituperative point/counterpoint debates with Dr. Martin Abend on the Channel 5 Ten O'Clock news, in which Abend demolished Riesel's leftist idiocy - jjs) Victor Riesel’s Trial By Acid
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The town of Archbald is an unremarkable former coal-mining town that just happens to lie right on a main power line from the Susquehanna nuclear power complex.
But you gotta build those datacenters. They're the hot new thing and you can't miss out.
And can't be fixed without breaking a lot of stuff because it's baked into the design. But given that the design is breaking more things worser, a little breaking now might be better than a lot of breaking later.
It costs twice as much as the desktop card. And is also slower; Nvidia's current laptop models are all one step lower in spec than the desktop cards. The laptop 5090 is really a 5080 with more RAM, and the 5070 is a 5060 Ti.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: The possums in the park are free. You can take them home. I have 572,968 possums.
Maryland’s plan to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge hit a major setback Tuesday, as state officials abruptly canceled a key construction contract, undercutting Gov. Wes Moore’s repeated claim that the project was the nation’s “fastest-moving” large infrastructure effort.
The decision to off-ramp contractor Kiewit Infrastructure Co. from the project’s critical second phase came after its proposals “far exceeded” state estimates, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
The move forces Maryland back into the market for a new builder at a pivotal moment, as project costs have surged from roughly $1.8 billion to more than $5.2 billion. It transforms what Moore has framed as a model of speed into a high-stakes test of the administration’s ability to manage one of the most expensive and politically scrutinized infrastructure projects in the country.
I imagine if this was in a state with a Republican governor and legislature, the new bridge would be open already. This is just shameful.
After cost overruns and delays pushed back the project by at least a year, the world’s largest wildlife bridge finally has a ribbon-cutting date.
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills, north of Los Angeles, is expected to open on Dec. 2, four-and-a-half years after work began, project leaders announced Wednesday during an Earth Day news conference.
“What a journey this has been! And we cannot wait to celebrate with you all,” managers said.
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The project has been an emotional journey for those involved. Its goal is to reinvigorate Southern California’s iconic mountain lion population by restoring genetic diversity. Other animals that frequently get hit by cars on the 101 also stand to benefit, including bears, bobcats, foxes, coyotes, and deer.
Video segment at the link. Looks kinda cool, I think. What say you?
Saying that a beer provides 15% of your daily vitamin B6 sounds impressive, but it ignores the wider dietary picture.
Most people in the UK are not deficient in vitamin B6. And the same amount, or more, can easily be obtained from a standard healthy diet. A number of foods, such as potatoes, chickpeas, fortified cereals, grains, meat, and vegetables, provide vitamin B6 without the need for alcohol.
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The paper also links vitamin B6 to important neurological functions, but does not provide evidence that beer consumption meaningfully improves brain health.
It correctly states that vitamin B6 is involved in making the brain chemicals serotonin and dopamine, and confirms that beer contains measurable amounts of B6.
However, the interpretation that beer is therefore "brain boosting" is problematic.
DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Edition
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On this date in 2023: Canadian guitarist and vocalist Tim Bachman died age 71 after battling cancer. He was best known as a member of Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO)
On this date in 1999: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
On this date in 1980: Marshall Tucker Band bass player Tommy Caldwell died of injuries from a car accident aged 30 in his hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Caldwell was the original frontman for the Marshall Tucker Band between 1973 and 1980.
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Guy "mines" the streets of NYC, digging up the dirt in the cracks in the pavement outside jewelry shops, looking for dropped gems and precious metals. He made $800 one month so he's like a millionaire.
America's Sweetheart and Noted World War Eleven History Buff has called Americans dumb. Has she seen the figures for Somali IQ? Who knows, maybe they're faked to defraud the US government by declaring their kids mentally retarded. We know they claim that a lot of kids are "autistic" to defraud the taxpayers into paying mothers and family friends to be "caretakers" for the fake-austistic children.
Pfizer's COVID antiviral, bankrolled by Biden administration, doesn't help high-risk adults: study
New England Journal of Medicine lets Anthony Fauci and his onetime deputy play down results in editorial alongside study from U.K., Canada trials. Critics suspect profit motive played role in long-delayed publication.
By Greg Piper
The Biden administration threw its weight and reportedly more than $12 billion in taxpayer money behind Pfizer's Paxlovid despite the COVID-19 antiviral's penchant for rebound infections -- including in the First Couple and then-directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
A long-awaited study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests the nirmatrelvir-ritonavir combination marketed as Paxlovid, with nearly 24 million courses federally purchased at $530 each, is no better at protecting vaccinated adults at elevated risk than it is at mitigating so-called long COVID, as Pfizer's own research found two years ago.
The "two open-label platform trials," known as PANORAMIC in the U.K. and CanTreatCOVID in Canada, found Paxlovid "did not reduce the incidence of hospitalization or death among vaccinated higher-risk participants" -- 50 and older and 18-50 with "coexisting conditions" -- who tested positive for COVID and "had been unwell for 5 days or less."
"We found no evidence that early treatment" reduced their "already-low incidence of hospitalization or death in either trial and were unable to identify any prespecified subgroup with compelling evidence of treatment effect," the authors said.
It's just the latest black eye for Pfizer, which canceled a trial for its new COVID vaccine for healthy 50-64 year-olds this month due to lack of interest and did not answer a Just the News query for its response to the peer-reviewed study. The Canada Paxlovid trial similarly ended early "because of slow recruitment" and its supply being discontinued, the study said.
To play down the new results, NEJM published a same-day editorial by former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and his then-deputy director for clinical research, Cliff Lane.
The new trials show the findings from Pfizer's EPIC-HR trial, the initial basis for the feds going all-in on Paxlovid, don't apply "to the current circumstances, in which most adults have varying degrees of preexisting immunity and the circulating variants are different," they wrote.
"However, one should be cautious not to overinterpret the new data and conclude that nirmatrelvir--ritonavir is not of current value," they said.
Even CNN isn't buying child-death-wishing Virginia AG's non-arguments about the inarguable illegality of the Virginia gerrymander referendum. The state constitution requires 90 days between the introduction of a referendum and the vote, and they just didn't even bother to follow this rule. (They also ignored the constitution's requirement that an amendment must be first passed in one state assembly and then, only after an intervening election, re-passed by another state assembly.)
Even CNN's fat-faced partisan plumper dismisses his whining about an "activist state judge" and points out that this isn't about a judge, this is about a simple on-its-face "math problem."
Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was… pic.twitter.com/6HTgVjQCiE
Queer Stammer Survives Parliamentary Vote; "No Kings" Democrats Wildly Applaud Literal King of Post-Christian England
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As you probably remember, Queer Stammer has repeatedly lied to the country about whether or not he was warned that the "Prince of Darkness" Peter Mandelson was on Jeffrey Epstein's payroll and gave Epstein sensitive UK economic data before it was public in exchange for monetary "gifts" from Epstein. Queer fought to get the Epstein Payroll Grifter made Ambassador to the US, where he would have access to almost every top secret diplomatic cable the UK produces.
At various points Stammer has denied being told this, and has fired most of his senior staff, blaming them for "not informing" him. Other times he accidentally admitted he knew about this, but then claimed he didn't know the "texture" and "extent" of Mandelson's relationship with Epstein. Because, see, Mandelson told him it wasn't true.
All patriotic Brits wanted Queer Starmer referred to a government body for official investigation into his corruption and lies, but Queer Starmer broke enough arms of his own party -- which controls Parliament by a huge majority, thanks to the Tories' constant lies about opposing unending foreign invasion -- to spare him that reckoning.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will not face a parliamentary investigation over claims he misled MPs about the process to appoint Lord Mandelson as US ambassador.
The government won the vote by 335 to 223 - with 14 Labour MPs rebelling.
Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch accused the majority of Labour MPs of being "complicit" in a "cover up". Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said Starmer had "ducked" scrutiny over the issue, saying it was a "cowardly way to govern".
Starmer has denied misleading MPs. A No 10 spokesperson called the vote a "desperate political stunt" ahead of next week's elections, and said the government will continue to engage "with the two parliamentary processes that are running on Peter Mandelson's appointment with full transparency".
Even Cathy "So What You're Saying Is I'm a Lobster" Newman pointed out that while Queer Starmer calls the vote to force an investigation a "desperate political stunt," Queer Starmer forced the same vote on the last Tory PM.
Earlier in the day, former top civil servant in the Foreign Office, Philip Barton, said No 10 was "uninterested" in his concerns over Mandelson's links to Epstein.
And former top aide to Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, said he made a "serious mistake" in advising the PM to appoint the former ambassador, but said Mandelson hadn't been "open enough".
I hear Queer Starmer is "open enough" to gay Ukrainian models.
Speaking of sexually-bent Islamic UK leaders: Shah Charles addressed Congress and took a lot of shots at the American president, to the delight of Objective Journalist Jake Tapper.
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WATCH: CNN was giddy over King Charles III's speech and the instances when he took veiled shots at Donald Trump and MAGA...
CNN's Jake Tapper: "There were some items in that speech that I think it's fair to say were included that, you know, are I wouldn't call them zingers against President Trump, but points of disagreement."
David Chalian: "And did not hide from them at all. I mean, I think a speech that was putting democratic values, the rule of law, the power of alliances, even a specific on the support of Ukraine's defense, these -- these stand in complete opposition. And in fact, some of them are the very things that Donald Trump sort of rails against when he's complaining about Europe or the U.K., specifically. Now, King Charles doesn't come in here itching for a fight on it. He comes in with his position to be above it a bit and in his you know, very British, stiff upper lip kind of way. It's not that he was trying to get in a fight with President trump, but he couldn't have seized the opportunity more to really stand clear on the importance of these things with a value system underneath it that is in contrast to a lot of what Donald Trump has been presenting on the world stage as it comes to these alliances."
🔥🚨 RED COATS ON THE SOUTH LAWN! The British military is currently performing on the White House grounds during the state visit.
This marks the first time this many British troops have been on the White House lawn since the War of 1812, when they famously burned the White… pic.twitter.com/ceaqfo3pcn
Authorities In Britain Are Trying To Criminalize Christian Street Preaching
As Christianity declines in the West, we should expect Christians to be persecuted. It's already happening in Britain.
John Daniel Davidson
A church in Britain is facing criminal charges for preaching Christianity in public. The United Kingdom has made a habit in recent years of criminalizing Christian preaching and prayer on public streets (including silent prayer near abortion clinics), but this might be the first time the authorities have targeted an entire church and not just an individual.
Bread of Life Community Church in Essex this week was issued something called a Community Protection Notice, which could criminalize its pastor, a man named Stephen Clayden, as well as church members for preaching in public--something the church has done without incident for six years. A hearing is set for May 1, but in the meantime breaching the notice is a criminal offense, which means Clayden and his congregation could face prosecution if they continue their street ministry.
The notice was served following months of escalating pressure from local authorities in Essex, which at first cited amplification (despite no prohibitions on amplified sound in the area where the church members were preaching) but eventually accused the church of using "religious messaging" that mentions "hell," causing "harassment, alarm and distress" to local residents.
"The notice continues by saying that wardens have 'tried to educate' the preachers, but the preaching is 'unreasonable' and having a 'detrimental effect on the community," according to a statement about the case from Christian Concern, an organization that advocates for the rights of Christians in Britain.
Clayden, the pastor, was quoted in news reports saying that his congregation has "preached the Bible lawfully and peacefully in Colchester for six years. We have harmed no one. We cannot and will not stop preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. No council has the authority to silence the church."
A lawyer for the church said that "public order powers designed to address genuine antisocial behavior are now being used to clamp down on Christian preaching. Today it is amplification, tomorrow it is the content of the message itself. We are seeing a slippery slope from managing noise to policing theology."
All of this is as obvious as can be. In a healthy, functioning Western society, no one would question the right of Christians to preach on public streets and share the gospel, nor would local authorities arrogate to themselves the right to "educate" preachers on what Christian teachings are or are not "unreasonable."
But Britain is not a healthy Western society. It is a rapidly de-Christianizing society, which means it is becoming increasingly hostile toward the Christians who still call it home. Note how the British authorities never use these police powers to target Muslims praying in the streets or deliberately gathering to pray outside churches. Public noise complaints are never issued for amplified Muslim calls to prayer. The law is applied only to Christians--and in this case, specifically to suppress orthodox Christian teaching about sin, judgment, and hell.
CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali tacitly admits the U.K. is on it's way to no longer being an "English civilization," but rather an "evolving nation":
BLITZER: Well, on that front, Tim, how do you think President Trump and for that matter, King Charles are both going to… pic.twitter.com/Excxc4tgPe
CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali tacitly admits the U.K. is on it's way to no longer being an "English civilization," but rather an "evolving nation":
BLITZER: Well, on that front, Tim, how do you think President Trump and for that matter, King Charles are both going to handle some of the tension that developed between the Trump administration and the British government, between President Trump and Keir Starmer, the prime minister. How is that going to fall over this entire historic arrival ceremony?
NAFTALI: Well, uh, traditionally, the way the royals have is by seeking to talk in generalities and talk about shared values. Um, our President is very much committed to what he sees as English civilization. Um, and king Charles represents, I mean, England is a diverse, evolving nation. But but in a sense, King Charles represents that civilization to which Donald Trump tightly adheres.
House Passes Bill to Deport Foreign Pirates who Defraud the American Taxpayer; 186 Democrats Vote to Keep the Pirates In the Country
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Before that: The FBI raided 22 Pirate Plunder Learing Centers in Minneapolis.
And Tim Walz said: You're welcome.
Governor Tim Walz
@GovTimWalz
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Today's raids by state and federal law enforcement happened because our state agencies caught irregular behavior and reported it. That's how the system is supposed to work, and our agencies will keep at it as long as there are fraudsters around to put behind bars.
FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
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Come again? This FBI and DOJ drafted and executed every search warrant today. But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship.
Note that Stephen Miller does not, in fact, call the Somali Pirate Plunder Operation the "Gddmn Ilhan Omar fraud operation," as this tweet misquotes him.
However, he is quite direct in painting this as the greatest plunder of American wealth in all of history.
Here it is:
Stephen Miller 🔥🔥 drops the single largest robbery in United States history.@StephenM: “We believe that the Gddmn Ilhan Omar fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history.”
Ana Paulina Luna doesn't just want "migrants" deported -- which should be automatic -- but naturalized US "citizen" pirates.
Hallelujah … FINALLY someone in Congress stepping forward and acting like the adult in the room!
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: “Today I referred any and every criminal found guilty of fraud regarding Minnesota fraud scheme to be denaturalized and sent for detainment in El Salvador’s… pic.twitter.com/grjHezOw7t
"Objective" "Journalists" Chuck Todd & Chris Cilizza: It's Donald Trump's Fault That Our Friends Keep Trying to Kill Him, "Chaos Follows Him" and it Makes Us Unsafe If We're "In His Orbit" When the Next Leftist We Programmed to Kill Takes a shot
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The sheer narcissism, offered without an atom of self-awareness.
They keep sending their fellow shitlibs to shoot rifles at Trump, and then whine that they're in danger when shitlib bullets start flying, and it's Trump's fault because the Secret Service focuses on protecting the President of the United States rather than shitlib "journalists" who might be in the vicinity (and egging on the assassin).
He also claims that Trump never provided him with protection when Trump said mean things about the press, which he claims caused people to "come after him."
Number of assassination attempts on Chris Cilizza and Chuck Todd, combined: Zero
Number of assassination attempts on anyone in the antifa press corps: Zero, though antifa routinely beats conservative reporters hard enough to give them bleeding concussions
It's weird, no one's in any danger at a Barack Obama speech. Because people on the right aren't trying to kill him, and no one on the right is instructing assassins to kill him.
I'm watching this clip again and it is so far off the rails of reality that I almost can't believe it.
To summarize, a would be assassin attempted to murder the President in a ballroom. Chuck Todd makes it about himself and moans that Trump would not protect him, in such… https://t.co/SSkjzqTXMt
Virginia Supreme Court Denies Democrat Motion to Impose Gerrymandered Map During the Hearings Over Its Legality Comey Indicted for Threating Trump's Life with "8645" Post?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is not a final order. But the Democrats wanted to implement the illegal map during the period when the Virginia Supreme Court is considering it, and the Virginia Supreme Court refused.
A court's refusal to grant these interlocutory and injunctive motions often, but not always, tips the way the court imagines the ultimate ruling will go.
Let's do a two-in-one: Reports say that James Comey has been re-indicted -- a leftwing judge quashed the last one -- for his "8645" Instagram post, which seems to be an incitement to murder Trump.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: @FoxNews colleague @davidspunt reports that former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted again in relation to his "8647" seashell post on Instagram last year.
I don't know if anyone really gets arrested or imprisoned for inciting a murder of Trump -- Obama, sure, but not Trump. The leftwing media spends all day inciting murder.
The odds of conviction are better, I think, if they can cast this as a threat to kill Trump, but I don't know if that argument would win. If I say that someone should take out James Comey, that's not me actually threatening him.
And by the way, I never would have said something like that, even as a hypothetical, before this week, but as the left is now engaged in open incitement of violence I'm done being super-careful about my own language.
Comey’s second indictment is in connection with this photo, which he claims he took in North Carolina. Hopefully that is also the jurisdiction where the case was brought, because if so, it will be a far less favorable setting for him than in D.C. pic.twitter.com/w5xPe2wRPp
🚨 JUST IN: The Virginia Supreme Court has OFFICIALLY DENIED Democrats’ move to reinstate the 10D-1R Congressional map — refusing to pause the lower court order, which BLOCKS certification
Fauci Advisor David Morens -- Whom Biden Forgot to Pardon -- Arrested and Charged for Conspiracy and Destruction of Federal Records Related to Fauci's COVID Cover-Up Update! Is Peter Daszak Next?!
Dr. David M. Morens, a former top adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, was arrested and charged Tuesday with conspiracy and destruction of federal records in one of the first cases to allege a cover-up in the COVID-19 pandemic.
The charges -- brought by the FBI, Justice Department and the U.S. Health and Human Services inspector general -- allege the former senior scientific adviser at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which Fauci led for 38 years, committed conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting.
Morens, 78, of Chester, Md., served as a senior advisor in NIAID's Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022, the year Fauci retired.
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The filing of the charges was immediately praised by two powerful investigative chairmen in Congress who had alleged Morens was destroying records and using private email to keep information about the coronavirus and its origins from Congress.
"More than two years ago, my PSI staff discovered and made public emails in which Dr. David Morens bragged to colleagues about his efforts to avoid transparency by destroying federal records and using his personal email to communicate on 'sensitive issues,'" said Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
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"The House Oversight Committee's Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic uncovered evidence revealing Dr. Morens -- a top advisor to Dr. Fauci -- intentionally took action to conceal and falsify records about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic," Comer said. "We caught Dr. Morens red-handed as he boasted in emails about how the 'FOIA lady' coached him on how to hide records and cover-up information. I applaud the Trump Justice Department for taking action to hold this public official accountable for hiding information from the American people. No one is above the law and under the Trump Administration, overdue accountability is finally here."
I believe Morens bragged about deliberately misspelling key words in emails so that when his records were subpoenaed -- and remember, when records are subpoenaed, only those records containing keywords approved by a judge are actually searched for, so if you deliberately misspell "COVID" as "CVOID" it won't be found -- his nefarious schemes to bury evidence that COVID was created by his pals at the Wuhan lab wouldn't be found.
The indictment alleges that Morens:
Conspired with two others during the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud and commit several offenses against the United States after NIH terminated a grant called Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence based on allegations that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, China.
Conspired with others to restore the termination of the bat coronavirus grant and counter the narrative that COVID-19 leaked from a lab.
Agreed in writing to intentionally hide from public view their communications by corresponding using Morens's personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account.
Received a gratuity in the form of wine for his "behind-the-scenes shenanigans," and identified an official act that he could perform to "deserve" the gift, which was a scientific commentary in a prominent medical journal advocating that COVID-19 had natural origins.
Update!: Fauci's butt-buddy in corruption, Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth who was used as a cut-out to illegally fund the Wuhan lab, is almost certainly the man the indictment calls "CO-CONSPIRATOR," and should be the next to be arrested and charged.
Daszak is the co-conspirator here. His indictment should be next. I didn’t think we’d ever see it, but accountability for the Covid origin cover up has finally arrived. Incredible. https://t.co/uWYIe1tX6Opic.twitter.com/lX7O6WdTCD
Fauci advisor David Morens admits in an email that he "learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after i am foia'd but before the search starts" https://t.co/sn6hvwDF7Rpic.twitter.com/1MroXRWNQO
Podcast: CBD and Sefton Charge the Democrats with fomenting violence against the nation with their rhetoric, Virginia redistricting going down the tubes? Trump's bully pulpit is not censorship, Lee Zeldin is a star, J.B. Pritzker is an idiot, and more!
ANOTHER LEFT WING ASSASSIN ATTEMPTS TO KILL TRUMP If I understand this, the left-wing Democrat assassin attempted to get into the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and was stopped at the magnetometers, which detected his gun. I guess he pulled out the gun and was shot by Secret Service agents. Erika Kirk was present.
Forgotten 70s Mystery Click You made me cry when you said good-bye 70s, not 50s Now that is a motherflipping intro
Podcast: Sefton and CBD wonder about the Chaos that Trump is creating in the minds of the Iranian junta, Virginia redistricting is pure power grab, Ilhan Omar is many things ...and stupid too! Amazon censoring conservative thought again, and the UK...put a fork in it!
The people in charge [Jews, of course -- ace] don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.
Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity.
Trump's trolling tweet was ill-advised, but Tucker is just lying when he claims the Christianity-hating President of Iran was "offended" by this. He's one step away from announcing his official conversion to Islam. He literally never stops praising Islam. Well, he suddenly became Christian two years ago, there's not much stopping him from converting again.
You can track Tuq'r's official conversion to Islam with this Bingo card.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton talk Orban losing, but is it the end of Hungary? The Irish start a brawl, but is it enough, Pope Leo wades into politics, Trump calls Iran's bluff and blockades Hormuz, Artemis II! Swallwell is scum, and more!
People say that the bearded man in the video of Fartwell molesting a hooker looks like Democrat Arizona Senator Rueben Gallego, said to be Swalwell's "best friend" and known to take vacations with him.
Politico is reporting that multiple people have abruptly resigned from Eric Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign: "Members of senior leadership have departed the campaign, including Courtni Pugh, a strategic adviser who served as Swalwell's top liaison to organized labor groups."
So the campaign is collapsing due to the truth of the sexual harassment allegations.
That hissing sound you hear is the air going out of the Swalwell campaign. UPDATE: No it wasn't, it was just Swalwell one-cheek-sneaking out a fart on camera
Eric Swalwell more like Eric Farewell amirite
thanks to weft-cut loop.
This is the dumbest AI bullslop I've seen in a while: the CIA can use "quantum magnetometry" to track an individual man's heartbeat from twelve miles away I wouldn't click on it, it's not interesting, it's just stupid clickslop. I just want to share my annoyance with you.
