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Not a particularly good example of Collier's work (his execution of the female form is often superb), but there are a few interesting things going on, and the idea is amusing...
Anyway, today it's all about priorities. Over the years I've come to the sobering realization that the chant of "Death to America" was not invented in Tehran, but the Mullhas stole it from the Democrats!
There are only so many ways Democrats can spell out, in the most explicit possible terms, what they plan to do if and when they retake control of the federal government. They’ve spent the last year celebrating the murder of conservatives, raising hell over the most basic voter-ID laws imaginable, and most recently, sabotaging the nation’s airports in order to prevent ICE from doing its job — a plan that may very well work, given that Republicans seem interested in caving at the moment, once again. In short, Democrats are preparing a government that would treat Americans as foreigners in their own country. But just in case their plan somehow wasn’t obvious, here’s Senator Chris Murphy, the Democrat from Connecticut, to spell it out.
It’s the “undocumented Americans” that Democrats “care about most,” according to Chris Murphy. Yes, “undocumented Americans.” Simply by virtue of entering this country — illegally, in almost every case — these people become Americans, according to one of the leaders of the Democrat Party. And more than that — they become the most important Americans of all. Democrats will prioritize their interests over the interests of you and your family. And they won’t even pretend otherwise.
That interview aired in the final months of Joe Biden’s presidency. It’s only recently surfaced on social media, and for good reason. Democrats are now clearly preparing to wage an all-out war on Americans if they retake Congress and the White House. They’re planning a campaign of retribution against conservatives that will make the Biden years look tame by comparison.
This isn’t a guess. They’re saying it openly, in a variety of different contexts. In some cases, they’re rewriting history to justify the purge that they’re planning. Now, it probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone to hear that I believe it’s very important to study history — not the propaganda you’re taught in public schools, but actual history. We talk about various historical topics on the show all the time. . . So here’s a very transparent example of what this means, in practice. Late last week, The New Republic — which is one of those outlets on the Left that claims to be highly intellectual, like the Atlantic — outlined an elaborate plan to harass and imprison Donald Trump and his advisers, once Trump leaves office. This is the Left’s new-and-improved game plan for a new wave of lawfare against Donald Trump. Instead of talking about ways to improve the lives of American citizens, they’re still fixated on retribution. . .
. . . What we’re witnessing here is the launch of what Democrats are calling “Project 2029,” after the infamous Project 2025 that became an instant obsession on the Left. . . after losing the presidency in large part because of their lawfare — they’re not simply doubling down. They’re openly admitting that, in their next campaign of retribution, they aren’t even going to use a pretext. They’re just going to throw people in prison — or worse.
House Republican leaders pushed a vote on extending FISA warrantless surveillance to April after many Republicans spoke up against it.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) expires on April 20. It allows the government to spy on a foreign national suspected of having ties to terrorism.
The government can spy on a foreign national even if an American citizen is on the other end of the communications without a warrant (emphasis mine):
Although the law requires the government to direct this surveillance at people outside the United States, in practice, it routinely ensnares Americans.
If Obamacare Passed via Reconciliation, Why Can’t the SAVE America Act? . . .
There's always a double standard at the heart of Washington, and Republicans never seem to benefit from it, just Democrats. I can’t seem to understand why. DHS has now been shut down for over a month, and a deal is supposedly taking shape. Senate Democrats, after weeks of obstruction, reportedly appear willing to accept funding for most of the department, so long as ICE's migrant removal operations get carved out. Republicans are eyeing a two-step strategy: fund most of DHS through a bipartisan deal, then use a separate reconciliation bill to backfill ICE enforcement funding and advance key provisions of the SAVE America Act — voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements to register to vote.
Gov. JB Pritzker’s office offered “thoughts” — no prayers — for the Gorman family, friends, and the “Loyola University community grieving the senseless murder of Sheridan Gorman.”
. . . The “heinous tragedies” are piling up thanks to the rotund leftist governor’s political resistance to federal immigration law enforcement.
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FRSO proclaims that “we are organizing the united front against monopoly capitalism — with the strategic alliance of the multinational working class and oppressed nationality movements at its core. This is our general strategy for revolution in the U.S.” Reading this stuff is like traveling back in time, not to 1975 when Vietnam fell, but to 1935, when Communism could still seem plausible. The FRSO’s rhetoric sounds as if the Stalinist purges, the gulags, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Khmer Rouge killing fields had never existed. America-Hating U.S. Leftists Are Rooting Hard for the Islamic Republic of Iran
Illegal immigrants have long used last-minute asylum claims to stall deportation, but a new court ruling could make that strategy much harder to pull off. The decision, from the Fifth Circuit in Buenrostro Mendez v. Bondi, broadens who can be treated as an “arriving alien” under immigration law. That may sound technical, but the real-world effects are not. A Key Immigration Ruling Is Flying Under The Radar
Jose Medina-Medina, a Venezuelan who was released into America under former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden after being arrested by Border Patrol, allegedly shot and killed Gorman on Thursday near her Loyola University campus as she attempted to flee, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Fetterman suggested on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” that Democrats were not properly mourning the killing or accepting accountability for it. John Fetterman Blasts Democrats Over Response To College Freshman Allegedly Killed By Illegal Alien
First of all, that money really won’t go to this conflict. It won’t be timely for this conflict to procure material. What it will be used for is, essentially, [to] try to replenish stocks later. But I’m not going to support a — essentially an Iran funding bill, if that’s how this is being sold and packaged. This is a war we should not have gotten into, and it’s a war that, every day, puts our servicemembers at risk. And given there was no imminent threat from Iran, I just don’t think it’s justified.” Schiff-for-brains: I’ll Vote Against Supplemental, Even if It’s Just to Replenish Stocks and Not for Iran War
What could go wrong? (“The Night Chicago Died” was supposed to be a gooey 70’s one-hit-bubblegum wonder, not an instruction manual! - jjs) Chicago Raises Tourism Tax to Promote Tourism
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Australian prime minister Albanese is harassed on Eid. Melee in a Mosque
Smith’s team subpoenaed records of phone calls and text messages — which did not include their content — as well as Patel’s mailing, residential and email addresses, according to documents released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley ahead of a hearing Tuesday. Jack Smith Secretly Sought Nearly Two Years Of Kash Patel’s Phone Records, Subpoenas Show
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Imagine my surprise on Tuesday morning when I came across a Times Op-Ed titled, "Why Are So Many Democratic Politicians So Far Out of Touch?" An even bigger shock was that it was written by Thomas B. Edsall, a wordy, biased leftist apologist of the first order. In late 2023 or early 2024, I briefly wrote a recurring column called the "Trump Derangement Syndrome Meltdown of the Week." Edsall was the subject of the very first one of those and made a couple more appearances later. Too Little, Too Late? NY Times Now Worried About 'Out of Touch' Democrats.
The Economy That Never Came in from the Cold: Four score years ago, the United States brought forth a new economic system, dedicated to the proposition that we would rebuild the world from the wreckage of the Second World War and stand athwart communism. For 40 years, that system worked. Germany and Japan, economically devastated, got rebuilt. In return, the United States accepted persistent trade deficits and the gradual hollowing out of our manufacturing base. . . The Great American Economic Mistake and Why Trump Is the Necessary Correction
As our nation nears its 250th anniversary, there is some good news regarding the teaching of traditional civics, but many troubling signs remain. Civics War
Graduation podiums have become political soapboxes — and New York University has a terrible solution. For the class of 2026’s big day, the school is having students pre-record their commencement addresses to prevent anyone from using the commencement podium as a platform for controversial political beliefs — a common occurrence at colleges around the country in recent years. Speakers will sit quietly on the stage as their pre-taped remarks play on a screen. It’s a sad reflection of how divisive campuses have become — and an ever sadder moment for free speech. NYU has a terrible new solution to curb speakers getting political at commencement
Furthermore, a majority, 60 percent, of likely voters agree that mail-in ballots received after polls close on Election Day should not be counted. A majority of Republicans and independents – 80 percent and 59 percent, respectively – agree with that sentiment, but just 42 percent of Democrats join them. Poll: Vast Majority Agree Ballots Should Be Received by Election Day
The survey further indicates a relatively firm electorate: 88.1 percent of respondents say they are certain to vote, while 78.7 percent describe their choice as definite. Among respondents Paxton’s supporters appear slightly more locked in, with 88 percent saying their vote is definite compared to 86 percent of Cornyn supporters. Poll: Paxton Holds Edge over Cornyn in Texas Senate Runoff
2026 will decide whether Trump’s agenda is locked into law—or erased overnight by a hostile Congress and the next president. Can Republicans Defy History in 2026
California’s top-two primary system allows the two highest vote-getters to advance, regardless of party, and Republicans Steve Hilton and Sheriff Chad Bianco have emerged as the top contenders in the race. Unless one of the Democrat candidates break out, the two Republicans could face each other in the final runoff in November. Two Republicans Currently Lead California Governor’s Race and Could Lock Out Dems in General Election
The Associated Press reports that Democrat Emily Gregory defeated Republican Jon Maples in a special election in Florida’s House District 87, in the race to fill the seat left vacant last August, when GOP state Rep. Mike Caruso resigned to become Palm Beach County clerk and comptroller. Democrat Emily Gregory flips long-held Florida GOP House seat that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
As we struggle to understand dysfunctional globalism, we must ask why Bush Republicans and the Democrats have joined to protect past presidents. Presidents Behaving Badly
“We are all watching each other, and being watched by each other, all the time... These dynamics accelerated as more social life moved online.” How Technology Re-Tribalized Us
Ida Huddleston and her daughter, Delsia Bare, have rejected a combined offer of about $26 million to sell part of their family’s farmland for a proposed data center. Huddleston turned down $60,000 per acre for her 71-acre property in Mason County, Kentucky, from an anonymous Fortune 100 company widely understood to be a major player in artificial intelligence (AI), according to LEX18. Huddleston would have received roughly $4.26 million had she accepted. Bare declined $48,000 per acre for her 463-acre portion, amounting to more than $22 million. The offers dwarfed local farmland values, which hover around $6,000 per acre. Heroic Farmers Reject $26 Million Offer From Massive Company To Preserve American Legacy
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It has 136 Arm Neoverse N3 cores running at 3.7GHz, 96 lanes of PCIe Gen 6 - yes, 6, and support for DDR5-8800 memory, which is pretty fast for a server.
That's all nice, but you might be wondering where the AGI comes into it.
This follows an unending series of massive exploits of consumer networking equipment in recent years.
Companies can apply to a conditional approval program to continue to sell products to the United States, but that comes with certain caveats, like upgrading device security to be "not total shit".
Security experts that are usually critical of government inaction in this area appear stunlocked at seeing all their recommendations enacted in one fell swoop.
As March 20—National Alien Abduction Day—rolls around again, a fresh wave of data is stirring up conversation, curiosity… and maybe a little unease. Across the United States and Canada, thousands of reported UFO sightings are painting a strange, flickering map of where the unexplained seems to linger most.
And honestly, the numbers feel less like trivia and more like something you might glance at twice before heading outside at night.
According to Casino.ca’s reporting on newly analyzed reports sourced from the National UFO Reporting Center and social media discussions, UFO sightings continue to cluster in unexpected places. Delaware, surprisingly, has emerged as America’s top hotspot. With one reported sighting for every 928 residents, the small state has logged over 1,000 encounters since 1974—many involving glowing cylinders and hovering lights that don’t quite behave like anything… familiar.
Up north, Canada tells a slightly different story, and it’s arguably more intense. Alberta now claims the title of the country’s UFO capital, with one sighting for every 568 residents. Wide open skies, fewer city lights—perfect conditions, depending on how you look at it.
Interesting stuff! Any of you willing to admit you've seen a UFO?
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Hochul learns that FAFO applies to her tax and spend schemes
🚨 LMFAO! New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is being mocked nationwide after she BEGGED people to move back from Florida
4 years ago, she was GLOATING, saying Republicans should "jump on a bus and head down to Florida"
The Breakfast Club seems to bring out big opinions among the Horde. As a Gen X'er who watched the film more times than I can count, I still hold it in high regard - quoting it regularly. Some of you either didn't get it, or you might think it's overrated. As was said in a different 80s movie, "opinions vary".
What say you? Like it, love it, hate it? Favorite scenes or lines?
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Remember big league pitcher Randy Johnson - aka "The Big Unit"? He played for a lot of teams during his career. The first was the old Montreal Expos. He wasn't there long.
Throw a ball through a bird?? Yup - that happened 25 years ago today.
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Rock and Roll in the Great White North and also Down Under
One of these is probably a slam dunk guess for most of you. The second one is another one of my all time favorite bands, so I'm glad they made the list. Think you can figure them all out?
Curious as to your thoughts on both lists!
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These artists didn't make the lists linked in the last segment. Should any of them have made it over one who did?
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Democrats Can't Decide Yet Whether Vicious Murderer of Sheridan Gorman Should be Deported or Welcomed to Stay in Our Country Forever
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
New info in the case against Jose Medina-Medina reveals that he was reportedly hiding in the park and shot Sheridan Gorman in the back of the neck as she began RUNNING AWAY.
Medina was then identified by CBP using facial recognition software, a technology that Democrat Illinois State Rep. Kelly Cassidy wants to ban.
Because of course.
The decision to grant permanent refuge to illegal alien foreign murderers and rapists is a political one. It is a political choice. It is so insane that it seems less like a political choice than a psychotic break, but it is a political choice.
And when parties and politicians make political choices, we are allowed to discuss them. We are allowed to point out when those political choices have bad or even deadly consequences.
Via Beege Wellborn, J.B. Pritzker is proud to host the Venezuelan murderer and keep him in Illinois and he wants you to stop "politicizing" his elevation of a murderer's comfort over US citizens' safety.
J.B. Pritzker's office just broke their silence on the murder of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman in Chicago by a previously arrested illegal alien in which they condemn the Trump admin for "politicizing heinous tragedies."
See the article for a special bonus: His arraignment had to be delayed so that he could be treated for tuberculosis.
American citizens have to be vaccinated against everything, but illegal alien murderers? They can saunter through our cities spreading disease and shooting people without the government saying boo.
Run ads about this for the next six months. They are making the political choice to murder and rape us and I think the public should be made aware of that.
Here you are in the same place Sheridan was murdered by an illegal alien you're saying ICE "it wouldn't be good for anyone"
In real life, it turns out that you can't stalk officials, dox their innocent families, or try to run them over with your car without getting into hot water.
What a difference a real DOJ makes! On Monday, the Maine District U.S. Attorney's Office released the most delightful news brief:
A Thomaston resident pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Portland to assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent engaged in his official duties.
According to court records, in August 2025, a United States Border Patrol agent responded to a one-vehicle crash in Washington, Maine. As law enforcement conducted a roadside investigation, Olivia Wilkins, 24, came upon the scene in an automobile and parked close to officers. Wilkins voiced concerns regarding Border Patrol's presence in the area, but was permitted to move the vehicle further back from the crash to continue observing law enforcement. As the Border Patrol agent took an individual on scene into custody and began moving the individual to a nearby Border Patrol vehicle, Wilkins quickly accelerated toward the agent, who pulled the individual off the roadside away from the oncoming vehicle. Wilkins stopped the vehicle without striking either the agent or the individual in custody before swerving back into the lane of travel and fleeing the scene. Maine State Police troopers were able to arrest Wilkins a short distance away.
The statement also notes that the FBI investigated the case. Hallelujah! What a giant upgrade from the days when they investigated Catholics and schoolkids' parents! It's also an ice touch -- er, I mean a nice touch that the two illegal aliens who crashed the truck were taken into custody and off the road.
Believe it or not, she's a Woke White Woman who supports BLM.
Luke Skywalker emailed me:
"No... That's not true! That's impossible!"
Sorry, Luke, it is very true. Also, the paternity test came in and yes, Darth Vader, you are the father!
Also see the article for two antifa thugs convicted of stalking federal employees.
According to evidence presented at a four-day trial, on August 28, 2025, the defendants -- while dressed in black and concealing their faces with black masks -- followed the victim from a federal building in downtown Los Angeles to his personal residence. The victim was heading home to his family for an outing that included a surprise for his sons, ages three and seven.
The defendants livestreamed on their Instagram accounts their pursuit of the victim and provided directions as they followed the victim home, encouraging their viewers to share the livestream.
Variety attempted to smear Chuck Norris for his politics. When lefties die, their politics either go unmentioned in favor of their achievements, or are actively praised. But Christian conservatives? Smeared.
Variety claims that his politics "overshadowed" his career in martial arts and movie-making.
The greatest Community Note of all time put lie to that.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spent nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on a shrink who specializes in controversial ketamine therapy.
The socialist lawmaker hired Boston-based Dr. Brian Boyle, the chief psychiatric officer at Stella, a chain of mental health clinics focusing on "novel" therapies popular with Hollywood and Wall Street.
Her campaign paid Boyle $11,550 in March 2025, another $2,800 in May, and $4,375 in October for a total of $18,725, Federal Election Commission records show.
The expenses were marked as "leadership training and consulting."
It's unclear what the sessions consisted of or who participated. Ocasio-Cortez's campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Boyle, a Harvard-trained doctor, calls himself an "interventional psychiatrist" and specializes in unorthodox methods for treatment-resistant depression, PTSD and anxiety.
He's considered a "leading authority" on ketamine, the controversial horse tranquilizer given to "Friends" star Matthew Perry in the month leading up to his tragic death.
"I just saw the incredible power of what these treatments could do," Boyle said during a podcast appearance last year about getting into the mind-blowing biz. "It's a ton of fun helping patients get better."
Boyle's clinic also offers other treatments popular with the 1 Percent, like stellate ganglion block, an anesthetic injected into a nerve cluster in the neck to calm the body's fight-or-flight response. Billionaires like Bob Parsons, who's battled PTSD since returning from the Vietnam War, have raved about the treatment.
"Celebrities tend to be more inclined to be on the hunt for highly effective solutions across beauty, health, mental health, nutrition and so on," Boyle said in an interview last year about the treatment.
AOC herself is no stranger to touting the benefits of hallucinogenic drugs for therapy.
The "Squad" rep, who campaigned to end the federal prohibition of marijuana in 2018, has three times proposed legislation to make it easier to study magic mushrooms and other psychedelics.
As a freshman congresswoman in 2019, she introduced an amendment to allow the feds to spend taxpayer money on studying the medical potential of psilocybin, ecstasy and other drugs to treat mental illnesses, calling the early research "promising."
"It's well past time we take drug use out of criminal consideration and into medical consideration," she tweeted at the time.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Senator Cruz CONFIRMED that Biden’s FBI wiretapped Susie Wiles during a PRIVILEGED CALL with her lawyer without the consent of EITHER party.
To make it HORRENDOUSLY worse, they then tried to HIDE evidence of their actions by marking the file “prohibited.”
Revealed: Joe Kent Kicked Off the Entire Candace Owens Project to Attack Erika Kirk and Claim the Jews Killed Charlie Kirk
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Lunatics. Vicious psychopathic lunatics.
So here's the story as alleged:
A TPUSA employee named Andrew Kolvet says he wanted to leave no stone unturned in the search for Charlie Kirk's killer. This was in the early hours after the murder, before police discovered the rifle with Tyler Robinson's fingerprints on it, and his texts telling his gay furry lover he was going to do something wonderful.
Kolvet knew Joe Kent. He passed to Kent some private DMs of Charlie Kirk -- if I have this right -- complaining that one Jewish donor had stopped funding TPUSA because he didn't like the organization platforming confirmed antisemitic monsters Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Kovet's idea -- stupid from the start -- was apparently that maybe this Jewish donor might have killed Charlie Kirk.
Kolvet claims he never believed this, but that he wanted to make sure every possible avenue of investigation was open. It's silly, but I'm sure he wasn't thinking quite straight in the hours after his friend was murdered.
He trusted that Joe Kent would act like a responsible government official in handling the texts in a responsible, official way.
Instead, antisemtic Nazi conspiracy theorist Joe Kent began demanding that Kolvet make the chats public. Kent wasn't investigating the texts; he was trying to create a podcaster "investigation" and public witch-hunt.
Even after the assassin's identity was known to everyone who isn't a Jew-hating psychotic.
Kolvett refused to make the chats public, because he says he didn't want innocent parties baselessly accused.
Especially given that the killer was now known and was not a disappointed Jewish donor but a radical left-wing gay furry sodomite.
And then just a week or two later, Candace Owens starts talking about the chats and Tucker Carlson can't stop talking about them, either. Later, Owens actually publishes them.
Kovett's conclusion is -- and it seems hard to doubt -- that Joe Kent was a determined conspiracy theorist who could not let go of the idea that Jews Killed Charlie Kirk, even after the proof emerged that the killer was a non-Jewish furry-fucker. And after Kolvett repeatedly refused to make the chats public, Kent gave them to Candace Owens (and probably Tucker Carlson too, although Owens could have given them to Carlson).
Note that Joe Kent was a government official and ostensibly a high-ranking counter-terrorism official, but decided to leak private DMs he had been given in his capacity as government official to an extremely unreliable and toxic internet personality.
That might be a crime. I don't know. The texts weren't classified but they were sensitive personal information given to a public official for purposes of an official government investigation -- not to leak to a hair-on-fire lunatic podcaster.
It is definitely a fireable offense, whether or not a criminal one.
And I wonder if it might be the subject of a lawsuit by TPUSA and Erika Kirk, who have been absolutely brutalized due to Joe Kent's leaking to the maniacal conspiracy theorist and defamer Candace Owens.
And now Joe Kent announces that he will testify on behalf of Charlie Kirk's actual murderer Tyler Robinson and tell the jury that no, the Jews did it, let this innocent patsy-of-the-Jews free.
Here are the facts: Yes, I shared the screen grab with Joe Kent because I was told I could trust him and I wanted EVERY possible lead pursued. We've done this quietly behind the scenes with countless items.
Shortly after Robinson’s arrest, the prosecutors released a probable cause affidavit detailing the evidence gathered immediately after Charlie’s assassination.
The evidence presented at that time was overwhelming.
The news about Joe Kent testifying for Tyler Robinson broke just minutes before today's show. I did not hold back in my feelings about it. pic.twitter.com/lCnzPcFKp3
And because of this psychotic Nazi, Erika Kirk and TPUSA officials have now had their lives threatened almost daily by internet lunatics convinced they murdered Charlie Kirk and then covered it up.
Gee I sure hope that no harm comes to Joe Kent, Candace Owens, or Tucker Carlson. I sure hope that no one ever suffers the consequences of their own actions.
Despite Hurting Miniature Senator Rand Paul's Fragile Feelings, Markwaye Mullin is Confirmed as Secretary of DHS Democrats Preparing Failure Theater on Their DHS Shutdown?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I don't know much about this guy except that I have vague memories of him standing on the open borders/"Comprehensive Amnesty Reform" side of things a few times.
But if Trump thinks he can be browbeaten into being useful, fine, I'll defer to Trump.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: The Senate just voted 54-45 to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) as DHS Secretary.
Applause & cheers break out.
The only Republican no vote was Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
The only two Democrats to vote yes were Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) & Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM).
The Senate on Monday night confirmed Sen. Markwayne Mullin as the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, handing President Trump another key cabinet win as his administration moves to tighten its grip on immigration enforcement and national security.
Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican and close Trump ally, was approved in a 54-45 vote, with a largely party-line split that still saw a few notable defections. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was the lone Republican to vote against the nomination, while Democrat Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico crossed the aisle to support it.
When Paul was questioning a vote of Mullins', which I think showed Mullins as weak on the border, Mullins said something like "I can see why Rand Paul's neighbor beat him up." Paul made this his primary case against Mullins -- not the vote, the comment about Paul being very punchable. He told Mullins to tell him that to his face, as if he were some kind of tough-guy. This is like a dweeby fourth grader saying "Say that to my face" when in the presence of three teachers and the Vice Principle.
Rand Paul is an unserious pansy bitch and I can't wait to primary xim.
The confirmation caps a swift rise for Mullin, who Trump tapped earlier this month to replace Kristi Noem. In announcing the move on Truth Social, Trump said Noem would transition to a new role as "Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas," while praising Mullin's record in Congress, noting his decade in the House and three years in the Senate and calling his performance "tremendous."
Mullin, a former mixed martial arts fighter turned lawmaker, quickly embraced the nomination, signaling alignment with Trump's agenda at a department that has become central to the administration's immigration crackdown and broader homeland security posture.
"I am grateful to President Trump for nominating me to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security," Mullin wrote on X following the announcement. "I look forward to earning the support of my colleagues in the Senate and carrying out President Trump's mission alongside the department's many capable agencies and the thousands of patriots who keep us safe every day."
For over a month, Democrats have shut down the Department of Homeland Security -- inflicting pain on over 100,000 American families missing paychecks and causing widespread disruption to millions of travelers across the country.
Democrats have misrepresented negotiations in the press, been unresponsive, prolonged the suffering of hardworking Americans, boasted that they are "very serene" about this dangerous shutdown and are now openly admitting they are "making people hurt."
The Trump Administration has negotiated in good faith from day one to fully fund DHS and avoid this dangerous shutdown, but instead of working towards a solution, Democrats have responded with a list of unserious, extreme demands that would seek to reinstitute Biden's failed open-border agenda, protect criminal illegal aliens, and put American citizens -- and the law enforcement officers who defend them -- in danger.
Let's be clear: these attempts to defund our federal law enforcement agents and border security are unacceptable to the American people.
Trump's Nefarious Scheme to use ICE agents, whose salaries are fully funded, to serve as emergency TSA agents as Democrats ruthlessly attempt to shut down the country is actually working, says CNN.
I don't know if the following arrest was planned in advance or just occurred because Trump had assigned ICE agents to perform TSA duties:
BREAKING: DHS tells @FoxNews that this viral incident at SFO airport last night involved ICE arrests of a family Guatemalan illegal immigrants who have had a deportation order since 2019, and one of the females tried to flee while being escorted for processing. Happened before… https://t.co/dn0p5saJbN
I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country
Allegedly, Democrats are ready to make a deal, though I suspect they're offering a "deal" in the same way Iran's mullahs routinely offer "deals."
Ed Morrissey, quoting Punchbowl DC:
Suddenly, Senate Democrats want to play Monty Hall on the stalled funding package for the Department of Homeland Security. Multiple outlets report that a new deal will fund DHS, except for a slice of ICE's migrant-removal operations. However, Republicans have a plan for that, and that may cost Democrats more than just a little face:
For the first time in more than a month, there's optimism that the Senate and the White House can finally find a path to reopening the Department of Homeland Security. Key Senate Republicans returned from the White House late Monday with a noticeably upbeat demeanor over the state of the talks with President Donald Trump, who had just rebuffed a GOP-backed off-ramp.
The framework under discussion would fund all of DHS except for ICE's migrant removal operations, and could eventually include some reforms that Democrats have been demanding.
Republicans would then try to fund the rest of ICE via a party-line reconciliation bill.
That strategy opens up another option, however:
GOP leaders would also try to use reconciliation to enact elements of the SAVE America Act, which mandates photo IDs and citizenship verification for federal elections. Trump has called this bill his top legislative priority.
Maybe this did it:
BREAKING - Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian is receiving nationwide applause after stripping members of Congress of their special priority privileges in response to the Democrat led shutdown, calling it an “inexcusable” use of TSA agents as political chips. pic.twitter.com/d8Gx0QsBiE
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) March 24, 2026
Diversity Is Our Strength: Woke Australian PM Goes to Mosque to Curry Favor With His Country's Rulers, Is Chased Out of the Conquerors' Temple and Sent Running for His Bodyguards
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is from last week, but due to the unfortunate Hamster Walk-Out on Friday, I never got to it.
Australian PM, Anthony Albanese, is exactly what you would expect from a left-leaning Western leader in these fraught times.
A big fan of the mass migration, "diversity is our strength," soft totalitarianism that has been so popular within the Anglosphere and the EU, he has bent over backwards to welcome in hostile Muslim immigrants, reassure them that Australia was fertile ground for radicalization, and a critic of any and everybody who questions whether that is such a smart move.
He went to Sydney suburb to beg for the support of his colonial masters. The suburb used to be white working class, but is now majority Muslim.
He was called a "genocidal pig" and chased out of the mosque with some threat of violence.
BREAKING: Australian Prime Minister Albanese went to a Sydney mosque for Eid prayers to stand against Islamophobia, only to end up being threatened, with everyone screaming “Allahu Akbar” at him.
He just sits there terrified, not knowing what to do.
The leftist Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, who has repeatedly expressed harsh positions against Israel in light of the war in Gaza and is an enthusiastic supporter of the establishment of a "palestinian" state, came to visit the largest mosque in Australia on the… pic.twitter.com/SrANKwc3DU
This is the level of security that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese needed to walk through the heavily Muslim Sydney suburb of Lakemba this morning.
Islamist extremists straight up tried to mob him and lynch him. If he didn’t have twenty bodyguards and AFP agents… pic.twitter.com/ADKBCDmHkw
Albanese says that the reception at Lakemba mosque was 'incredibly positive'.
The man is devious and a liar. The entire world saw what happened in that mosque, yet he'll have us believe he was warmly received. pic.twitter.com/97pVw0AHke
Kermit Gosnell, the former Philadelphia abortionist convicted of first-degree murder in the brutal killings of three infants born alive during illegal late-term abortions at his notorious "house of horrors" clinic, has died in prison. He was 85.
Gosnell, who was serving three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole plus an additional 30 years on federal drug charges, died at SCI Huntingdon, according to sources familiar with the matter.
His cause of death was not immediately released, though he had reportedly been in declining health in recent years.
The news emerged publicly via pro-life journalist Ann McElhinney, who extensively covered his 2013 trial, interviewed him in prison, and co-authored a book on the case.
In her announcement, McElhinney described Gosnell as "the abortion doctor who is thought to have murdered thousands of babies in a 30 year killing spree" and called him "a chilling monster who could sometimes come across as charming."
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A Philadelphia grand jury, in its investigation of Gosnell's Women's Medical Society abortion center, labeled it a "house of horrors" and initially sought charges for hundreds of murders of babies born alive and then killed.
Charges were ultimately limited to seven murder counts "after pressure from senior political and law enforcement officials," according to accounts from those covering the case
If you remember, a twat pro-child-murder feminist progressive explained away the media's complete refusal to cover the grisly serial murders because, she sniffed, it was a "local crime story."
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Reminder that the mainstream media had to essentially be cyberbullied into covering the 2013 Kermit Gosnell trial after refusing to do so for weeks to protect the abortion industry.
His crimes were so shockingly evil, but the only thing that finally got the media to cover it was the backlash after a Philly blogger posted this picture of the coutroom's empty press gallery.
Reminder that the mainstream media had to essentially be cyberbullied into covering the 2013 Kermit Gosnell trial after refusing to do so for weeks to protect the abortion industry.
Anonymity is vital for the proper functioning of a free society, regardless of legal protections afforded by the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights for free speech, unencumbered by government influence or interference.
But as the current social-media-obsessed culture demonstrates, anonymity from the majority is also vital. Doxxing and deplatforming and worse are now a staple of public discourse.
From: McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995)
Under our Constitution, anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. See generally J. Mill, On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government 1, 3-4 (R. McCallum ed. 1947). It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation-and their ideas from suppression-at the hand of an intolerant society. The right to remain anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. But political speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to the dangers of its misuse.
It is relatively simple for political and social elites to speak freely; they have walls, both figurative and literal, built around them by dint of their wealth or their government connection. It is exactly those people against whom anonymity is a powerful weapon, because their reach is far more powerful than the mere citizen.
Entrance into the public sphere as a politician (or the quaint term: public servant), or commentator, or pundit, or as an entertainment figure immediately expands one's megaphone far beyond that of the citizen, and it also affords one the protection of the organized media, the state and, sadly, in many cases, the long arm of the state or media that reaches out to punish one's interlocutors.
Against this we have one tool: anonymity. And who are the enemies of anonymity? Those who have other protections!
Here is a comment from a purported 1st Amendment lawyer, who thinks that anonymous speech should be held to a different standard. He was responding to some "famous" person whose name I barely know, but whose attack on anonymity is self serving and intellectually weak. I cited one obvious need for anonymity...The United Kingdom, which is busily imprisoning people for their speech! But there are countless others here in America that are powerful defenses of anonymity as one of the pillars of our free discourse in ideas. For example; "Whistleblowers" are sometimes self-serving and craven, but there are numerous examples of their importance in exposing government malfeasance.
And our current legal and political structure was debated in The Federalist Papers by "Publius," (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay), and rebutted by "Federal Farmer," whose identity is still not certain after almost 240 years!
If anonymity was an appropriate right to be exercised by those men, then it is certainly something worth defending.
In spite of the technological advances since 1787, instant communication via the internet has changed nothing...we are all still pamphleteers!
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Good morning kids. With the United States heavily engaged in military operations against the Iranian regime, and Cardboard Cutouts notwithstanding, that regime still capable of hurling missiles at Israel and other nations in the region, is this something?!
A massive explosion ripped through the Valero refinery in Port Arthur on Monday, sending a towering column of black smoke over the city and triggering an emergency response across Jefferson County. The cause of the explosion is under investigation. . . The Valero refinery in Port Arthur is ranked as one of the ten largest refineries in the United States. Valero reported the refinery produces 435,000 barrels of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel per day.
In the wake of Israel's recent strike on a key Iranian/Qatari oil facility and President Trump's threat to obliterate Iran's energy infrastructure if the regime does not capitulate or accede to his demands for a cessation of hostilities, is there a link to Iran or was this some freak accident. Given the our props borders and joke of an immigration enforcement system prior to the Trump era, sabotage not only can't be ruled out but IMHO it most likely was the cause. Perhaps this brainwave might be pushing things but our own homegrown traitors in the form of Antifa and the red-green-climate change maniacs could have used the war as cover to pull off an attack or are in league with Iranian/Islamic terror cells? And then this happened:
Barksdale Air Force Base (BAFB), a major U.S. strategic bomber installation in northwest Louisiana, has just experienced an unusually serious series of unauthorized drone incursions over its most sensitive areas.
More than a dozen unsanctioned drones repeatedly swarmed a US Air Force base that is home to a nuclear bomber fleet — and were able to resist efforts to bring them down via jamming technology, according to military officials.
A Chicago alderwoman appeared to blame an 18-year-old woman for her own fatal shooting last week, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien.
Chicago police announced Sunday that Jose Medina-Medina had been arrested for the murder of Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University. Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden speculated that Gorman was in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
Democrat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker refuses to say whether he will honor an ICE detainer request for an illegal alien accused of killing an 18-year-old college student.
Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman was walking in a park on Thursday morning around 1:00 a.m., to “catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights” when Medina-Medina allegedly approached her. Gorman “attempted to flee,” but Medina-Medina allegedly shot her in the head. Gorman was pronounced dead at the scene, according to local reports and the Department of Homeland Security.
Fuck that noise. Send in the Green Berets to storm the jail and take the scumbag out by force - and Arrest Fatzker for insurrection or obstruction of justice. He needs to swing if he dares interfere, but there isn't a construction crane sturdy enough to hoist him up by his brontosaurus neck.
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The blast erupted inside the sprawling Gulf Coast facility shortly after midday, shaking nearby neighborhoods and prompting officials to warn residents to stay indoors as fire crews and industrial‑hazmat teams rushed to contain the incident. The explosion produced a thick plume visible for miles across Southeast Texas, adding new scrutiny to one of the nation’s largest refining corridors as authorities worked to determine the cause of the blast and assess potential hazards. Massive Explosion at Texas Oil Refinery, Cause Unknown — Residents Told to Shelter in Place
“We’re looking for all of the things that we’ve been talking about,” Trump told reporters. “We want to see no nuclear bomb, no nuclear weapon, not even close to it, low-key on the missiles. We want to see peace in the Middle East. We want the nuclear dust, we’re going to want that, and I think we’re going to get that.” Trump Lays Out Terms For End To Iran War
Two of the suspects are sisters, Samaneh Ghandali, 41, and Sorvoor Ghandali, 32. They were charged alongside Mohammadjavad Khosravi,40, who is Samaneh’s husband, with allegedly using their employment at unidentified technology companies to “obtain access to confidential and sensitive information,” according to the Department of Justice. Alleged Iranian spies are already in the US — and infiltrating Silicon Valley
Instead of gutting immigration enforcement, he’s sent ICE into more than a dozen of the nation’s busiest airports to make up for TSA’s missing manpower. Democrats, predictably, are furious — and fearmongering to the nth degree. “The last thing the American people need is for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports across the country, potentially to brutalize or to kill them,” House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries frothed on CNN’s “State of the Union.” What about the Americans brutalized and killed by illegal-alien criminals? How Trump’s ingenious TSA fix calls the Democrats’ bluff
Mass immigration, driven by elites, has fractured national cohesion—only deliberate reversal, not drift, can restore sovereignty and social trust in the West. Hispanic Mass Migration and Remigration (Part 1)
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Anar Rustamov, 39, “who appears to have entered the United States illegally,” has been indicted on 14 counts of allegedly orchestrating a scheme to file thousands of false claims for medical equipment with the Medicare Advantage program, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. Feds Charge Azerbaijan Migrant with $90M Healthcare Fraud
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
ICE was deployed Saturday to assist Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers amid a nationwide airport crisis, as the partial government shutdown left TSA officers without pay and suspended their “nonessential privileges and courtesies,” according to DHS. President Donald Trump had threatened in a Saturday Truth Social post to deploy ICE agents to airports if the “Radical Left Democrats” failed to agree on a funding bill — hours after a fifth vote to end the shutdown failed 47-37. ICE Agents Arrive At US Airports Amid TSA Shortage As Democrats Keep DHS Shutdown Going
The effects of the TSA shutdown have been mixed, but major airports have seen massive security lines at peak travel times. Unpaid for the second time in recent months, TSA officers are quitting or calling in sick at growing rates. Democrat Party messaging is deadly simple . . . Democrats Have Nothing To Offer But Fear And Misery
When governments increase taxes, it's expected to happen slowly and gently enough to not be too destructive. Chicago did not choose that path. Checking Out Chicago's Checkout Bag Tax
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, posted a video through networks tied to Tehran’s Axis of Resistance proxies asserting it had targeted the Machzike Hadath synagogue in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green, the Daily Wire reported. The actual damage, however, fell on ambulances belonging to Hatzola, a Jewish volunteer emergency service parked in the synagogue’s lot. Iran-Tied Islamists Claim Jewish Ambulance Service Attack As Their Responsibility: REPORT
Robert Mueller is dead, but his toxic legacy lives on in the destroyed lives of the innocent victims targeted by the Russia collusion probe that bears his name. To understand why President Trump had no kind words for the former FBI director when he died over the weekend at age 81, you have to understand the human toll on the president and dozens of his friends and allies. Who knows whether Mueller, who had Parkinson’s, was in command of all his faculties when he was appointed special counsel at age 72? But the deep state evildoers on his team knew exactly what they were doing when they used his formerly prestigious reputation to pervert the course of justice for their “Get Trump” frolic. Miranda Devine: We’re still learning the full rot of the Russiagate scandal
The Russia-collusion saga ranks among the boldest political deceptions in modern American memory -- not for the facts it revealed, but for the damning realities it worked so hard to obscure. The Deep State’s Biggest Lie
It isn’t the job of a special counsel to exonerate anyone. It’s also not his job to convict anyone. That gratuitous line in the conclusion of his money pit of an investigation served as nothing more than a lifeline for Democrats and the rabidly anti-American, anti-Trump media to maintain that they had every reason to continue calling the president a Russian agent, though they had none. Robert Mueller’s Legacy Is Self-Destruction Because He Failed To Stay In His Lane
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“For too long, outdated regulations have forced providers to keep consumers on antiquated networks,” said FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. “We will cut through that red tape with this decision. This FCC vote will finally allow those Americans to benefit from an upgrade to next-gen infrastructure.” America Doesn’t Need Copper Phone Lines In 2026
One of the locations in the area officers responded to following the stabbing was a restaurant called Zaya, according to the New York Post which cited early reports that said the stabbing occurred during a fight between the women. Police: Multiple Women Injured in Downtown Los Angeles Stabbing
He said the crime levels were a product of “years of local politicians, judges, and prosecutors who sided with violent criminals over law-abiding citizens.” Trump: We Have Fixed the Memphis Crime Problem
The Supreme Court seemed open Monday to cracking down on states’ ability to accept mail-in ballots that arrive late. Several justices seemed concerned about the “slippery slope” of counting ballots received after Election Day, raising questions about who can receive ballots and how to address perceptions of fraud. Supreme Court Seems Open To Taking Away Key Election Rule Beloved By Dems
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Victor Davis Hanson: The canonized legacy of Cesar Chavez is collapsing under revelations that recast a sainted activist as a deeply flawed—and possibly predatory—man the Left can no longer easily defend. Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become?
POLITICS
Trump’s potential absence would mark a significant shift for CPAC, eroding its reputation as a major platform for his political messaging and influence within the Republican Party. Trump Set to Miss CPAC, Breaking Decade-Long Streak.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The video, was initially shared by the anti-communist Twitter account@JaviXCubaLibre and widely circulated by Venezuelan journalist Emmanuel Rincón and shared by Cuban-American journalists. Breitbart News could not independently confirm the authenticity of the video, but it surfaced in the context of a visit by the “Nuestra America” group to Havana. Report: Video Claims to Show VIP Leftists Making Starving Cuban Children Dance for Cookies
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have obtained a new high resolution image of the Crab Nebula, and by comparing it with earlier Hubble images taken in 1999/2000 have been able to track the continuing expansion and evolution of this supernova remnant over a period now covering almost a quarter century. Changes to the Crab Nebula after a quarter century
Early in the history of SpaceX Musk learned that being dependent on outside contractors was crippling. Too often those contractors saw SpaceX has a competitor and acted to sabotage it. He soon decided his companies must be vertically integrated, doing as much work as possible in-house. He is now applying that policy in chip production as well. SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to build large-scale computer chip factory in Texas
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
despite the efforts of psychopathic teachers and professionals, and despite celebrities parading their transgender/homosexual children as a status symbol in Hollywood, we can expect the continued decline of transgender surgeries. The Twilight of the Transgenders
It's the production crews who suffer most from Tinseltown's downfall, and by and large, they aren't woke Hollywood progressives. They're workingmen and women who tend to be far more centrist or even conservative than the stars and studios they work for. Who Killed Hollywood? Or Did it Kill Itself?
Once again, it is essential if you want to understand the past to read the perspective the people who lived it. Sadly our modern universities no longer demand this, and so we now have several generations of college-educated students who really only know the past through the cartoon ideologies of their teachers and the academics these teachers admire. Wheeler’s book is a great way to counter that shallow education, and to get that more humane perspective of our country’s past. The battle of Gettysburg as seen by those who lived it
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Are they fast? Yes. They close in on the regular AMD parts for gaming, and the 270K competes with the 9950X for heavy desktop workloads.
Are they power-efficient? Not especially, but they are a big improvement over Intel's notoriously power-hungry 13th and 14th generation chips.
Are they good value? Definitely. $200 for the 250K with 6P and 12E cores, and $300 for the 270K with 8P and 16E cores would make them hard to resist if you could buy the rest of the components for a system.
Should you buy one? Probably not. These run in Intel's Socket 1851 platform and that will be retired within a year for Nova Lake and its Socket 1954.
If that's not a concern - and particularly if you already have DDR5 memory sitting around - then yes, these look worth considering.
That is a bar in West Yellowstone, Montana. Not quite as impressive as the bar from Saturday night's ONT, but what it lacks in aesthetics, it more than makes up for in food and booze quality. The elk chop is superb, but the bourbon list is incredible, especially considering the location, or maybe it is exactly why the bourbon list is so impressive!
It also has a bear spray rental kiosk in the lobby, and that might make it the best bar in America!
It's easy to ignore places like this, but this is America, where appearances can be deceiving. There is great...everything...to be had across our wonderful country, and to the disgust of the elites in the cities, a lot of that greatness is far outside of NYC and Chicago and Los Angeles.
Not just food -- although I would argue that the best American food is found outside of the cities -- but tradesmen and teachers and contractors and dentists and clerks in stores and...
It is 100% real. Click on the graphic for the Union Pacific Railroad website.
[Hat Tip: dhmosquito]
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There was this poor, pious old guy who hears that the Pope is going on tour and will be parading through his city. He was very excited that he might get a chance to meet the Pope, shake his hand, and maybe even receive a blessing from the Holy Father! So he decided to make a plan: perhaps the Pope would want to meet the richest man in town! Figuring that if he were somehow able to appear wealthy, and stand by the road, the Pope would see him, be impressed, stop, and he would get to shake the Pope‘s hand.
So this poor old fella went out and bought a nice new expensive suit that he couldn’t really afford, a sharp fedora and wingtips, and on the appointed day, got up early, put on his new clothes, hit the barber shop and got a neat comb-over haircut, then made his way to the edge of the street where the Pope would soon be passing by in the vaunted Popemobile.
After what seemed like an eternity, our newly-outfitted guy finally spots the approaching motorcade, and he begins to get all tingly with anticipation. As the Popemobile gets closer and closer, it suddenly stops right in front of him. The Pope climbs down, out of his vehicle, walks toward him, but without even looking at him, walks past toward a scruffy little dude nearby, sitting obliviously and leaning against a wall. The little guy is wearing nasty, dirty clothes and is obviously stinking drunk. The Pope, arms folded, stands silently over the drunk, who finally looks up. The Pope unfolds his arms, slowly leans down and whispers something to the drunk that nobody can hear. Then smiling stupidly, this drunk gets up and hobbles down the street as the Pope makes his way back to his Popemobile, to the roar of the nearby crowd.
Our friend is momentarily confused, but then it dawns on him: Of course! The Pope doesn’t want to meet rich people; he wants to meet downtrodden, poor people! So he goes to “Plan-B” and runs after the drunk guy. When he catches up to him, he offers to swap clothes (and shoes!) with him. Of course, the man immediately agrees. So they go behind a couple of bushes and proceed with their transaction. While he’s momentarily overcome by the stench of his new clothes, he tells himself that sacrifices must be made to get a blessing of the Holy Father, and off he runs after the slowly moving Papal motorcade.
He runs and runs, and finally catches up to the motorcade. He goes a little ways ahead, then stops and sits down just like the drunk guy did, to wait for the Popemobile to pass by. Sure enough, as it gets to him, it stops! He’s beyond excited as the Pope climbs down and walks straight over towards him. Just as before, with arms crossed and with a stern, pious expression, the Pope stands over him. After a few seconds, the Pope leans down in his face and quietly says,
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[Hat Tip: dhmosquito]
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That movie still holds up after 50 years.
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I have no idea whether this guy is a thug, or an angel, or a stone-cold killer. And I don't care. We have an inalienable right to talk shit about public officials, and they have to smile and say, "Thank you sir, may I have another."
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Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home.
They traveled around 17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners..🐶🐾🥺❤️ pic.twitter.com/H5VB9BQkGB
A group of seven dogs bravely returned home to their owners in a near-ten-mile trek after being stolen, Dextero reports.
A viral video shows the pack, which includes Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds and Corgis, walking along the Changchun Highway in the province of Changchun, Jilin in China. According to South China Morning Post, the video has been viewed more than 230 million times, and shows the dogs fleeing along the busy road. The pets were allegedly stolen by thieves working at a dog meat shop.
On March 16, a witness, named Lu, recorded the pack and tried to lead them to safety, but was ignored. The dogs, including one who had an injured leg, were shown following a Corgi, who occasionally looked back to ensure that no one went astray.
"They resemble a band of little brothers in distress, moving in unison -- nothing like stray dogs," Lu told Dahe Daily.
Sounds cute, but in addition to AI slop, one kind of fake story I see on Twitter is where they take real video but just completely invent a fake but poignant narrative to go along with it. Like a video will say "He saved this baby turtle, and later, it saved his life," and then they just assemble bits and pieces of different videos about different turtles culminating with the turtle calling 911. And they don't show the turtle dialing 911. They just tell you this happened.
Do I believe this viral story from a foreign outlet I've never heard of? Let's just say that around the holidays I allow myself to entertain the possibility of Santa.
Single Whoopi Goldberg reveals she goes bar-hopping to fulfill her sexual needs
Whoopi Goldberg cheerfully confessed she bar hops as a way to fulfill her sexual needs.
On Wednesday's episode of "The View," Goldberg noted, "A woman wrote an article in Cosmopolitan, admitting that she fantasizes about being single even though she's in a very happy longterm relationship."
"She writes that sometimes, she finds herself missing the days of casual flings and bar-hopping," Goldberg continued as the audience giggled.
The "Ghost" actress then turned to her co-hosts for a reaction, to which Joy Behar responded, "Do you miss those days?"
Goldberg quipped, "I am single," adding, "Yeah, I bar hop, I go hang! And I do hit and runs when I need it."
I envision her working off her crusty undies with e Dremel tool and a chain-cutter.
Why post something from last month? Gen Z has been annoying me too.
The generation born between 1997 and 2010 is the very first generation who did worse in school than the generation before them, according to a top neuroscientist.
And shockingly, they are proud of it.
"They're the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized academic tests than the one before it," Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, 43, told The Post. "And to make matters worse, most of these young people are overconfident about how smart they are. The smarter people think they are, the dumber they actually are.
No way!
"They underperformed on basically every cognitive measure, from basic attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function and general IQ."
Horvath recently testified to the sad facts before Congress, telling a panel of lawmakers that Generation Zers, who followed the Millenial generation, blew up humanity's proud academic record -- the wrong way.
So what happened that caused an entire age group to bomb test scores?
What caused them to become a generation of retards?
Well, the left's covid school shutdowns was part of it.
The other part of it is what's making us all stupid: Constant low-cognitive-demand/high-domamine-spiking scrolling on phones.
Horvath, who studied reams of data from standardized academic tests, told Congress that Z's struggles stem from the fact that they're the first generation to grow up with constant screen time. And it's no substitute for real learning.
"More than half of the time a teenager is awake, half of it is spent staring at a screen," said Horvath, who's taught at universities around the world, including Harvard and the University of Melbourne in Australia. "Humans are biologically programmed to learn from other humans and from deep study, not flipping through screens for bullet point summaries."
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And it's not just happening in the US.
"Across 80 countries, if you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly," said Horvath, who is also founder of LME Global, a Arizona-based group that bridges research and classroom practices to improve academic outcomes.
The Failure of the Sussex: Meghan Markle will soon be unemployed.
So, the same as she is now. Only now she won't be getting megamillion dollar paychecks from Netflix to be unemployed.
From State of the Day, which uses this fact as a jumping off point to discuss how AI is going to put a lot of people out of work, but especially women in corporate make-work jobs.
State records show 89 hospice companies at one Los Angeles office plaza. We went to look for ourselves.
The Merabi Professional Medical Plaza, a three-story, 32,000 square foot stucco and glass office building in Los Angeles, is home to a salon, a law office, a modeling agency, a realty corporation and, also, 89 licensed hospice companies.
Patient advocate Sheila Clark, who has worked to expose allegations of widespread Medicare fraud in the hospice industry, calls this building "ground zero" for the issue.
"This particular building I noticed, I'm like, 'dang, how can there be that many licensed and certified hospices in this tiny little building?,'" Clark said.
The building is among the most extreme cases of what's known as "clustering" to turn up in a sweeping CBS News investigation -- a grouping of large numbers of hospice offices that state auditors consider a major red flag for potential fraud.
The Van Nuys address for Merabi Plaza appears dozens of times in state records for licensed hospice companies. Inside the building's entry hall, a directory lists numerous hospice agencies that line the long tiled hallways, although the building's owner claims many are no longer there.
Clark said it makes "no sense" to find so many licensed and certified hospice company offices operating inside a single building. Auditors said the clustering of so many firms raised concerns because it suggests that "the number of agencies in these areas likely exceeds the number of patients who need services."
Concerns about clustering appear in a 2022 California State Auditor's report, which found that Los Angeles County had experienced a 1,500% increase in hospice companies countywide since 2010. That's six times more hospice providers than the national average, relative to the county's elderly population.
Auditors said other warning signs for potential fraud included multiple hospices in one building, geographic clustering, low patient counts, high rates of terminally ill patients later discharged alive, excessive billing and staff shared across multiple companies.
CBS News found that 72 of the 89 registered hospices in Merabi Plaza have at least three of those six potential warning signs.
15 hospices incorporated in a single day, in a single suite in Van Nuys
'It's not normal. None of this is normal,' said the CEO of a hospice trade association who has warned of fraud risks in LA for years
A group operating out of a Friar Street office building in Van Nuys that advertises "virtual offices" incorporated 22 hospices and home care agencies in one year, including 15 hospices registered in one day to a single suite, according to an investigation by the Southern California News Group.
The 15 hospices, all formed in "Suite 205" at 14545 Friar St., later collected $12.3 million from Medicare and Medi-Cal billings in 2023 and 2024, records showed.
Each had the equivalent of one full-time employee at the time.
While operating out of the same building is permitted, hospices cannot use the same office, according to Sheila Clark, the president and CEO of California Hospice and Palliative Care Association.
"You cannot co-locate with another provider," she said.
However, these hospices seemingly bypassed that limitation by appending letters from "A" to "P" onto the suite number in official documentation. Suites in the building, however, have only one to three rooms and leases specifically prohibit subdivision of those spaces, according to the property owner, Kambiz Merabi.
Yet Merabi's website advertises "virtual offices" that give you a "physical business address and office number for your business cards, website, email and registering a new company." Mentions of that service were scrubbed from his Instagram page as of Friday, but remained on other accounts.
One post specifically advertised to industries needing an address to "obtain licenses."
"For just $99 per month, you receive 2 hours of private office or conference room usage each month; a professional office address with an actual suite number -- not a P.O. Box; mail and package reception; your business listed on our digital directory and within the building's directory," the post read. "For industries needing a California or Los Angeles presence to obtain licenses, a suite at the prestigious Merabi Professional Medical Plaza Building provides more than just an address -- it offers a full-service business center hub with many perks and services for businesses like yours."
This is how the daycare fraud works: - “You watch my kid, I’ll watch yours” - Enroll these kids into “daycares” - Collect money from the government - You and your family then get to live off government subsidies
Here's a little good news: A foreign pirate who was imprudently granted citizenship, and then defrauded the people of the US for millions, has been denaturalized.
Let him be the first of millions.
Oh, I had not heard about this at all. It happened a couple of days ago, and what a development.
This began as a COVID-era fraud case, but what it ended up as should strike fear in the heart of every Somali Learing Center hustler and every Armenian hospice provider.
That naturalized citizenship is not the shield of steel one might have thought it was, or that it used to be back when no one paid attention to such things.
For the year between April 2020 and the next May, 25-year-old Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint of Fort Lauderdale, FL, had himself a schweet little scheme going with COVID loan applications and all the various businesses he had registered in his name.
He and his partners in crime came into some serious cha-ching, courtesy of those very forgiving loan programs.
This is where it gets really interesting. Thanks to a quirk in immigration law, if you are in the middle of criminal activity when you apply for your citizenship, you can also be charged with submitting a fraudulent application.
ANYONE COME IMMEDIATELY TO MIND?
Haitian-born Philossaint was definitely up to no good in 2020 when he dropped his citizenship application papers, and, when the feds collared him in 2022 for the loans conspiracy charges, guess what else they hung on him?
Philossaint pled out on the conspiracy charges, and a federal jury nailed him on the fraudulent citizenship application.
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That would have been the end of the story in most administrations, but not in this one. In February of this year, the Justice Department petitioned the court for an order revoking Philossaint's citizenship, and it was formally stripped yesterday.
The Supreme Court 's conservative majority on Monday sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.
A ruling, likely to come by late June, that bars counting ballots arriving after Election Day would send officials scrambling in 14 states and the District of Columbia, just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections to change their ballot rules.
An additional 15 states that have more forgiving deadlines for ballots from military and overseas voters also could be affected.
The legal challenge is part of Trump's broader attack on most mail balloting, which he has said breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary and years of experience in numerous states.
Unbelievable bias. This is the AP, of course.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 resulted from fraud even though more than 60 court decisions and his own attorney general said that argument had no merit.
1, that's all false, and 2, this has nothing to do with the actual legal question at hand, which is: When the Constitution speaks of an (singular) Election Day, do they mean it or were they just joshing?
It's amazing how leftwing communists routinely invent words and penumbras that don't appear in the Constitution, but, when faced with the Constitution's actual words, claim "Oh that doesn't matter, that's like 100 years old, man."
The court heard arguments in a case from Mississippi pitting the state against Trump's Republican administration and the Republican and Libertarian parties. At issue is whether federal law sets a single Election Day that requires ballots to be both cast by voters and received by state officials.
While there was no explicit reference to the 2020 election, several conservative justices gave voice to some of Trump's complaints. Justice Samuel Alito wondered about the appearance of fraud in situations where "a big stash of ballots" that arrive late "radically flipped" an election.
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The court's liberal justices indicated they would uphold state laws with post-Election Day deadlines.
Of course the AP doesn't think that's at all politically motivated.
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Paul Clement, representing the political parties, played on fears of fraud by invoking Democrat-dominated Chicago, infamous for election shenanigans. Voting ends at 8 p.m. in Chicago, Clement said, but state law allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received later.
A voter paying close attention to the election returns could in theory try to swing the election by submitting a mailed ballot to the post office after the polls were closed, he said.
"I am not here to say there could ever be voting fraud in Chicago," Clement said to laughter in the courtroom.
🚨 BREAKING: SCOTUS Justice Sam Alito just DROPPED THE MIC on liberals who want us to receive endless mail-in ballots after election *day*
"We have LOTS of phrases that involve two words, the last of which, the second of which is DAY. Labor DAY, Memorial DAY, George Washington's… pic.twitter.com/rA7gKMPafz
Laughter erupts in the Supreme Court when the attorney arguing against mail-in balloting suggests there could NEVER be voter fraud in Chicago. pic.twitter.com/7lCN8JZDSQ
Sonia Sotomayor thinks she's got a real zinger, telling a @GOP lawyer: "Maybe we should have another president now" because Florida's military ballots came after election day in the 2000 Bush v. Gore fight
They're really all retards. They pretend they don't see any difference between a US servicemember, forced to serve overseas by the government itself and reliant upon the military's postal service, and some jackass left-winger who stuffs the mailboxes with fake ballots after the election.
This is all perfectly normal and legal:
WOAH 🚨 38,000 ballots arrived at 3:45 a.m. after Election Day in Michigan during the 2020 election
- OVER 100% VOTER TURNOUT - 40,000 voters registered to vote 2 DAYS BEFORE the election - Over 100,000 votes “mismatched” in poll books - NONE of the names on processed ballots… pic.twitter.com/v05cMKNpaV
Surprise! "Objective Journalist" Who Assails Bari Weiss's Normie Liberalism as Being Far Right Wing Quits CBS to Join a... Left-Wing Pro-Biden Propaganda PAC
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's weird how these people who all swore for years that they were nonpartisan straight shooters keep joining hard-left organizations.
He's joining a left-wing propaganda twitter account called "MeidasTouch." (You can tell it's a first-rate journalistic operation by the "punny" name.) I wish I could tell you more about them. They just post clickbait/ragebait headlines all day. I had no idea had any pretensions of being an actual news site. They just re-state whatever the cult meme of the day is.
McFarlane was "disillusioned" by the editorial direction Bari Weiss was taking CBS but he's very happy now to be working for Temu Jezebel.
CBS Alum Scott McFarlane Joining Left-Wing MediasTouch as Chief Washington Correspondent
Former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane joins left-leaning outlet MeidasTouch as Chief Washington Correspondent and will anchor a daily program, Scott McFarlane Reports.
Former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane revealed Monday that he will join the left-leaning outlet MeidasTouch, just weeks after abrupt exit from the network amid reports he had grown "disillusioned" under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss's leadership.
In a video posted Monday to X, MacFarlane confirmed the "good news" that MeidasTouch had brought him onto the platform as chief Washington correspondent and added that he will soon anchor a daily program, Scott McFarlane Reports, positioning himself at the center of the network's political coverage.
MacFarlane framed the move as a shift toward stripped-back reporting, saying MeidasTouch shares his approach of delivering news "straight to the point" and avoiding "production theater and the useless bells and whistles."
Yes, "straight to the point."
It's explicitly a propaganda organ of the Democrat Party, formed by allies of Joe Biden to pump out regime propaganda.
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No, you don't get it. I'm not saying Meidas Touch is openly partisan -- it is literally a PAC. It was founded as a political operation during COVID to help Joe Biden.
Back to the article:
He stressed: "I'm not an opinionist, I'm an editorialist, I'm far from a politician. I'm an enterprise reporter and have been for a quarter of a century."
"This moment of unique political toxicity and unique political danger," MacFarlane continued, adding that he and the network share a commitment that "you don't platform lies, you don't platform conspiracy theories, and you don't allow for the whitewashing of history."
CNN is letting Tapper doing his show live from his office today and it is truly one of the weirdest live news broadcasts I’ve seen in a long time pic.twitter.com/5YekegUcIN
Anderson Cooper indulged his greatest passion -- home makeovers!!! -- and redecorated his set to look like a podcaster's basement studio, using the oversized standing mics popular with podcasters.
This is so sad and desperate it's making my hormones go crazy. My breasts feel full and on the verge of "expressing."
They're really desperate to capture Candace Owens' and Tucker Carlson's "audience."
Police just uncovered a YouTube 'view farm' after a sting operation, phones mounted to the ceiling running nonstop for fake views. pic.twitter.com/MiFwOPRUkv
Meanwhile: Another sob story from a hard-left "journalist."
Former Reuters bureau chief who lost his job and is now struggling to survive as a taxi driver:
"In my previous jobs, I interviewed prime ministers and CEOs (...) We are all improvising, all one broken transmission or missed paycheck away from something even worse (...) in the… https://t.co/JbTqGde8Ji
The fact this former journalist is publishing this lament in the hard-left Nation magazine helps explain the role he himself may have played in destroying the industry that once employed him. https://t.co/9xIt4FuRu0
Tomorrow is March 25th, "Tolkien Reading Day," because March 25th is the day when the Ring is destroyed in the book. I think I'm going to start the Hobbit tomorrow and read all four books this time. The only bad part of the trilogy are the Frodo/Sam chapters in The Two Towers. They're repetitive, slow, and mostly about the weather and terrain. But most everything else is good. Weirdly, the Frodo-Sam chapters in Return of the King are exciting and action-packed and among the best in the trilogy. (Though the chapters with everyone else in Return of the King get pretty slow again. Mostly people talking about marching towards war, and then marching towards war.)
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click
One day I'm gonna write a poem in a letter
One day I'm gonna get that faculty together
Remember that everybody has to wait in line
Oh, [Song Title], look out world, oh, you know I've got mine
“robert mueller just died,” trump wrote in a truth social post on march 21. “good, i’m glad he’s dead. he can no longer hurt innocent people! president donald j. trump.”
[A]n asshole is somebody who looks at a painting of two toddlers doing something totally normal for toddlers and decides that it represents homosexuality and then thinks that publicly saying that is somehow edgy and clever. Instead it is doing what we accuse the Left of, that is sexualizing young children. If that describes you, own it.
Reports: The A-10 Thunderbolt, better known as The Warthog, has been unleashed on Iran It's a heavily armored (the pilot sits in a titanim bathtub) slow-and-low loitering plane with a massive minigun firing depleted uranium rounds. The capability it brings is the ability to just fly big circles over the country waiting for a target to present itself. This is a weapons platform for eliminating vehicles and personnel. Its first task might be strafing the seas, clearing out any remaining attack boats and minelayers.
Update: My ballpark estimate for a reasonable cost for a wildlife overpass (suitably padded to sate the thirst of Democrat grifters) was $15 million. Turns out, that was a good estimate. That's how much it cost Denver to build one.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton discuss the obvious incompatibility of Islam with free societies, John Bolton is a disloyal sleaze, The SAVE Act is in the muck of Senate RINOs, the crappy quality of anti-American propaganda, and more!
Some people liked Candace Owens because she was a black woman who told hard truths about BLM and black criminality. But this was always a grift. She started out as a race hustler for a grift, then hustled race the other way to grift conservatives, and now she's back to being a race-hustler for the left again. Specifically, she is now claiming that people pointing out that she is legitimately low-IQ and can't pronounce half the words her AI-generated teleprompter script points out to her is racist and just Ben Shapiro's way of saying the n-word without quite saying it. You see, you can only say that black people are smart, and if you see a dumb one that doesn't know how to pronounce simple words while she poses as an investigatory journalist, you have to pretend she's actually smart or you're a racist. Weird, that doesn't sound very conservative, let alone "#Based," to me. To prove how much she hates racism, she then says that Ben Shapiro's Jew ancestors were masters of the slave trade.
