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April 23, 2026

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—Disinformation Expert Ace

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Salmon given cocaine work harder than those without cocaine, according to researchers at the University of No Fuckin' Duh, Chester.

Salmon exposed to cocaine swim almost twice as far as those without, study shows

Salmon exposed to cocaine in the water swim longer distances than those that go without, according to a study released this week.

I love you, Science.

Cocaine use is on the rise worldwide, with the U.N. reporting an estimated 25 million people used the stimulant in 2023 and the drug being increasingly found in waterways.

Joint research released Monday by scientists at Australia's Griffith University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences studied how the drug affected the movements of wild fish in their natural habitats.

Researchers took 105 wild Atlantic salmon in Sweden's Lake Vattern and exposed them to both cocaine and benzoylecgonine -- a metabolite created by the drug in the liver -- and then tracked their movements.

They found the river-dwellers exposed to the drugs traveled 1.9 times farther per week than their clean-living control cousins.

Those exposed to the by-product also swam 7.6 miles farther, the study found.

How much medical-grade cocaine do you think is "naturally" lost in experiments like this? Is a 20% unexplained loss of cocaine a reasonable figure?

Steven Greene had a good headline at Instapundit: THEY ALSO WON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT THEIR NEW IDEA FOR A TECH STARTUP.

Thanks to Chuck Martel.

Also in from the University of No Fuckin' Duh, Chester: Germany's back-to-back abandonment of both coal and then nuclear was a "huge mistake," leading authorities say.

German energy minister calls nuclear phase-out 'huge mistake'

Katherina Reiche, Germany's economy and energy minister, discussed the likely impact on the country's economy if the Iran conflict continues - as well as the need for a "correction" to energy policies in Europe, at a conference in the USA.

Speaking at the CERAweek international energy event in Houston, Texas, she said that prices of petrol, diesel and jet fuels in Germany were spiking "but we don't see any scarcities in terms of volume - but if the conflict doesn't end we [will] see this probably later in April or May".

She added that the longer the crisis continues the more stress will be put on the "fragile recovery of Germany's economy".

Please please please Trump keep the conflict going at least through June. (So close to Pride Month!)

Remember when people used to respect Germans as sober-minded and good at things? Ye Olden Times.

Neat idea about how to gerrymander Virginia from the federal level: Cancel the old, Racist separation of Northern Virginia from DC because they wanted to keep our Black Brothers in chains.

Here's the history. In 1790, both Virginia and Maryland ceded territory to create the new national capital. Virginia's portion -- what is now Arlington County and the city of Alexandria -- remained part of the District of Columbia until 1847, when Congress returned it to Virginia. The reason? To protect slavery. The District had abolished it, and Virginia slaveholders didn't want to give up their slaves. Democrats love to talk about the legacy of slavery to justify tearing down statues, renaming buildings, etc. -- to be consistent, they should give that piece of land back to the District.

The legal questions over this retrocession have never gone away. President William Howard Taft and others argued that it was unconstitutional and pushed to reclaim the land for D.C. However, the Supreme Court has never definitively settled the matter.

Mizelle's proposal is for Trump to issue an executive order declaring that slavery-motivated retrocession unconstitutional. That order wouldn't need to resolve everything on its own -- it would immediately trigger litigation and force federal courts to finally answer the question: Do Arlington and Alexandria legally belong to Virginia or to the District of Columbia?

The legal footing here is rock solid, but the cultural argument is just as strong.

Obviously, with Alexandria and Arlington re-added to DC -- as it should be -- Virginia would be permanently red again. Oh, it would lose a couple of seats in the next redistricting, but worth it.

But wouldn't DC pick up a couple of electoral votes? No, not necessarily. DC's electoral votes are established by legislative fiat, not by a count of DC's population.

Storied men's haberdasher (did I use that right?) Brooks Brothers has gone bankrupt because, as Stephen Green says, "American men now insist on dressing like 14 year olds into their dotage."

So they're trying something new.

But as the 55-year-olds dressing like 14-year-olds say: This ain't it, Chief.

Remember in the late eighties when we thought, for literally five minutes, that two-tone jeans -- half blue, half white or half blue, half black -- were rilly rilly cool? I remember owning a pair just because they went out of fashion so quickly that stores were choked with unsalable jeans and I picked up a pair for like six buck.

And then I didn't wear them, because they're stupid. And what the hell, it was only six buck.

Well Brooks Brothers remembers.

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Brooks Brothers, you better Swatch yourself!!!

Old Brooks Brothers: Not exciting but never actually unfashionable

New Brooks Brothers: Will you be a hon and stir my Amaretto Zima with your dick?

Like eight years ago I wanted to buy some new togs so I went into J. Crew, figuring, well, J. Crew will always be J. Crew. Good stuff, overpriced but good.

Nope. It was like Freddy Mercury came all over Richard Gere's hamster and then they pumped Rod Stewart's stomach and found it was literally made of cum-cells.

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China Made a Ton of Risky Loans to Third-World Nations to Bring Them Under Its Sphere of Influence. Now Those Loans are Turning Bad.
China Wants the US to Bail It Out.

—Disinformation Expert Ace

This is such a disgusting demand to even make that I'm 90% sure that the "US" Congress will agree to to it.

Why Trump is doing this, I have no idea. I saw someone saying that he inherited this position from Biden's Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, but that doesn't seem like a good reason to keep it.

President Trump is scheduled to visit Beijing in May for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and he will come bearing at least one surprising gift: A budget request to Congress to hand more money to Mr. Xi's friends at the International Monetary Fund.

We told you recently about the Trump Administration's fiscal 2026 request that Congress endorse a U.S. quota increase of 50%, equivalent to about $55 billion. The quota is a country's contribution to the fund. Congress didn't pass the White House request, but the Administration includes it again in its recent fiscal 2027 proposal.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen initiated the request in the Biden era, and it's hard to understand why the Trump Treasury would endorse it. It's true, as Treasury says, that the U.S. receives an "interest-bearing claim on the IMF" for those assets. But it's not a wash because the interest rate doesn't compensate for the cost of funds or the risk.

More harmful is the cost to U.S. control over IMF resources, which Treasury conceals... What Treasury doesn't disclose is the hit to U.S. power when the IMF gets more of its resources from equity than debt.

The fund's use of debt via New Arrangements to Borrow requires 85% approval of voting shares. Since the U.S. has almost 16% of those shares, it has a veto over the use of those resources. It also has an effective veto over Bilateral Borrowing Agreements. But it has no veto power over use of equity--that is, the quota resources.

I think this means that the money we pour into the IMF through this "quota" will be used according to how the multinational organization IMF decides -- and we'll have no say.

And whose power over the use of those funds will increase? Well, China's, of course.

Mr. Xi wants a greater role for China in all multilateral institutions at the expense of U.S. influence. Shifting total fund resources toward quotas would shrink U.S. veto power over IMF resources to 38% from about 60%. IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said recently she's optimistic Congress will pass the increase this year that will bolster the fund's $1 trillion in lending capacity from its own resources, rather than from borrowing over which the U.S. has more influence.

That will be welcome news in Beijing, which wants to use the fund to rescue the array of distressed Chinese loans around the world. Let's hope Congress says no again.

I don't know if Trump made this promise to get China to agree to something else. But China's sending dual-use materials to Iran after having vowed that they would not, so I don't see the value of a CCP promise.

Bonchie @bonchieredstate

5h

China went around Africa and South America making predatory loans in an attempt to make money and seize infrastructure for the most useful part of its lifespan.

And now it wants others to pay for its bad bets.

We hold 16% of the vote over the IMF. The answer should be no.


Ted Cruz
@tedcruz

Apr 22

This is a terrible idea.

Congress should say hell NO, to bailing out China.

Related: I give Trump a knock, now I'll give him a plaudit.

Marco Rubio is reportedly about to announce a permanent cut-off of all aid to the Pirate Collective of Somalia after the pirates there demolished a warehouse containing 76 tons of American food aid.

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Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:52 PM Comments



In Utah, Democrat Women Allege That the Latina Lesbian Running for Congress Sexually Molested Them, Forcing One Up Against the Wall and Demanding She "F***" Her Like a Man: Plus, More Democrat Female Predators

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Democrat feminist and Latina lesbian accused of sexual harassment of women, including one woman she forced against the wall while gripping the victim's throat.

" " " Allegedly. " " " (Touches finger to nose.)

What the **** is going on in Utah?

Four people from Utah political circles -- three of them elected officials -- accuse Eva Lopez Chavez, a Salt Lake City Council member and Democratic congressional candidate, of restraining them during what they considered unwanted sexual advances.

Victoria Petro, who is Lopez Chavez's fellow City Council member; Maggie Regier, who worked on Stan Penfold's mayoral campaign in 2019; Hoang Nguyen, who is now a state representative; and Jen Plumb, now a state senator, described their allegations in interviews with The Salt Lake Tribune. Each person said their allegations arose in social settings before Lopez Chavez joined the City Council in 2023.

Petro, Regier and Nguyen said they told others at the time, which The Tribune confirmed.

None of the four reported the interactions to police or spoke about them publicly until now. They said they decided to come forward, in part, because of Lopez Chavez's candidacy for Congress in Utah's new 1st District and after her reaction to newly disclosed online posts that fellow candidate Nate Blouin made between 2009 and 2015, including statements that minimized sexual assault.

...

In September 2022, Petro said, she and other council members went to a party after the wedding of a former council member.

At the event, Petro alleges, Lopez Chavez grabbed her by the throat, "pushed me back against a pillar so that my back was against the wall and told me, 'The only reason I still f--- men is because a woman hasn't shown me what I really want.'"


Petro said she froze, but remembers pushing Lopez Chavez's hand away and walking away. She said she told Puy about what she considered to be an assault. Puy confirmed she talked to him shortly after the party, and, he said, Petro "was kind of shocked at what had happened."

In her interview with The Tribune, Petro asked, "If a man had done that to me, would there be a question if it was assault or not?"

When Lopez Chavez ran for City Council in 2023, Petro said, she told a few of Lopez Chavez's supporters about what she alleges occurred. Once Lopez Chavez won her council race, the two women met for lunch and Lopez Chavez, Petro said, told her to stop telling people her story.

"At that point, I said, 'You shouldn't have given me a story to tell,'" Petro said. "It's my story."

...

State Sen. Jen Plumb, D-Salt Lake City, alleges Lopez Chavez pushed her against a wall at a friend's birthday party in November 2022.

"It absolutely was a sexual advance. She leaned into me, grabbed onto my a--, got up in my face and said in my ear, 'You're sure you're straight?'" Plumb said. "I just pushed her away. Come on. Knock it off."

Plumb said she mostly dismissed it at the time, but now sees it differently.

"I've got to do some work on why I saw it that way, but I would not be comfortable with someone doing that to my daughter, to my mom, my best friends," Plumb said, "and I'm not comfortable with it being brushed away anymore."

...

Plumb provided The Tribune with what she said were her most recent text messages from Lopez Chavez. One was an invitation to an event in June 2025, which Plumb said she declined.


She received the second one in February, she said, when Lopez Chavez wrote she had "heard some feedback regarding how you express our professional relationship that doesn't align with my experience" and wanted to meet to discuss it. Plumb, according to the messages she shared, did not respond.

I seem to remember a lot of male sexual assailants contacting their victims later and using the same kind of language -- "hey, I heard you remember things differently than I do, let's meet so I can convince you you're insane."

Nguyen, who is now a state representative, said Lopez Chavez attended a campaign event for Plumb in the Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City in 2022. As Nguyen was leaving the party, she said, Lopez Chavez asked for a ride to her car.

After she drove a few blocks, Nguyen said, Lopez Chavez told her to pull over -- which she did, believing they had arrived at her car. "Next thing I know she has leaned over and she's on top of me, holding my shoulders down," Nguyen said in an interview.

"I said, 'What are you doing?' And she said, 'Kiss me,'" Nguyen said. "She said, 'I'm not going to get off you until you kiss me.' I gave her a peck and she got off."

The next day Nguyen told a mutual friend. The person, a prominent Salt Lake City business owner and community volunteer, confirmed the version of events to The Tribune, which agreed not to name the business owner because they fear retribution.

That one might not be all that serious, compared to the others, but it does demonstrate a consistent pattern of aggressive sexual assault.

She even goes after they/thems.

Regier, who uses they/them pronouns, was working on Stan Penfold's mayoral campaign in 2019 when they went to a Human Rights Campaign fundraising event that Lopez Chavez was also attending, they said. Regier said Lopez Chavez was being "flirty" and led them around the room by the wrist.

Regier tried to deflect Lopez Chavez's attention and excuse herself from the situation, they said, but Lopez Chavez pulled Regier "into a literal corner in the hallway" and pinned them against the wall, refusing to let them leave. A friend of Regier's stepped in and separated them, they said.

Later, Regier was with a friend on the dance floor, they said, "and [Lopez Chavez] was kind of trying to grab on to me and another friend physically stepped between us and pushed her off of me and was like, 'Leave Maggie alone.'"

So close to Pride Month?!?!

SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH, EVA?!!

She denies these allegations -- um, facts -- through her lawyer. Her lawyer, without an ounce of shame, peddles the same "I have other emails in which the victims do NOT accuse her of sexual assault, so that means no sexual assault must have occurred" line that has not worked for male offenders for a decade.

She's Average-Plus looking, a Chipolte 5.25 (they use metric), which I do not think is much consolation to the straight women she sexually assaulted.

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The Democrat Party, AKA The Party of Plunder, Is Now All-In on Shoplifting, Celebrating Rich White Bitches' "Microlooting" Expensive Food from Whole Foods

—Disinformation Expert Ace

We wouldn't want Princess to have to scale back on her lifestyle, so we should overlook Princess' sticky fingers in grocery stores.

Communist jihadist assassination-cheerleader -- and now fully accredited and accepted Democrat Party influencer -- Hasan Piker couldn't wait to endorse more communist looting of the capitalists.

A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker known for bashing capitalism bragged that she has stolen from her local Whole Foods "on several occasions" in a New York Times podcast.

Jia Tolentino, 37, made the shocking admission while joining left-wing streamer Hasan Piker and Times' opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman for a Wednesday episode about so-called "microlooting" from mega-corporations.

She looks Asian despite the Italian last name but I'm going to apply Ivy League Admissions rules: You're white enough, bitch.

Besides, in the next article I'll link, rich white bitches are talking up how great shoplifting is.

Examples tossed around by the trio ranged from everyday consumers sharing passwords for streaming services to brazen criminals pilfering paintings from the Louvre Museum.

When Spiegelman suggested pocketing produce from Whole Foods, Tolentino confessed she already had "on several occasions."

The scribe said one of her duties as a member of her ritzy Brooklyn neighborhood's mutual aid group was to buy groceries for one of her neighbors, Miss Nancy.

"And so I'd be getting Miss Nancy all of her groceries, and then I would finish, and I'd be like, oh my God, four lemons, I forgot four lemons. And on several occasions I was like, I'm just going to go back in, grab those four lemons and get the hell out," Tolentino said.

"At the time I was like, I had not been to Whole Foods. I had a bit more consumer discipline about where I was spending my money then, and I already felt like I was in the hole, even by shopping there. And it certainly felt, in a utilitarian sense, I was like, this is not a big deal," she added.

...

Piker then brushed aside her apparent shoplifting, saying that mega-corporations like Whole Foods have already "factored in" the loss of simple produce so that it won't impact their bottom line.

Ah, the Ghetto Democrat line that it's okay to rob stores during riots because "they're insured." (No, they're not. Almost no one insures their stock. Stealing it is just taking money out of their pockets. And even if it were insured, you'd be forcing them to pay higher insurance rates.)



Piker, a self-proclaimed Communist, also endorsed "full chaos" of shoppers "stealing wantonly" and wholly bypassing the self-checkout machines.

When pressed on stealing from government-run grocery stores, like one planned by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Piker and Tolentino faltered.

"No, I would not, because I feel like that's taxpayer-funded, it's union labor, and the prices are also adjusted regardless," Piker said.

From Instapundit, which also links this article from Hot Air about New York magazine celebrating shoplifting as Empowering for Princess.


At Whole Foods, you are apparently being monitored by a swarm of security officers, some of whom wander the aisles in plain clothes, and the company's surveillance tech is improving. When security officers catch you, they will take you to Whole Foods Jail. Sometimes with glee.

The Union Square Whole Foods jail is a windowless storage closet near the entrance, says Astrid, a photographer. She mostly remembers the wallpaper: "Layers and layers of grainy faces," she tells Nora Deligter. "All the thieves that had come before me."

A sculptor we'll call Gina found herself in the Bowery Whole Foods Jail. She was late to an Alex G concert at Bowery Ballroom and had decided to slip into Whole Foods for a quick spicy-tuna-roll walk-and-dine. She had a system: Approach the item with confidence, grab it, then head upstairs to the dining area and surreptitiously place it into her bag. But this time, she headed straight for the exit. "A rookie mistake," Gina says.

Gina remembers keeping her head bowed and her eyes low as she was escorted back to Whole Foods Jail. The windowless office was almost too bland to recall, she says, except for a rudimentary banner, that read: ALL SHOPLIFTERS ARE BANNED FROM WHOLE FOODS FOR LIFE. A few weeks later, Gina says her parents received a $90 ticket in the mail from the company.

New York Magazine gives a glowing profile of one such shoplifter, and decries the fact that Whole Foods seems to have a problem with people stealing its food.

How cruel! She was made late to a concert. She paid a lot for those tickets!

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California Officials Licensed and Approved a "Hospice" Located In a... FUCKING BURRITO STAND

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Victoria Taft:

In testimony before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, Sheila Clark, didn't want to bust the chops of California officials, but said there are too few checks and balances over the alleged businesses claiming to run hospice organizations.

She told the gape-mouthed crowd, "You'd be amazed at how many hospices -- the door you can walk up to in California -- and nobody's there."

...

But Clark wasn't done with her observations about those empty "hospice" offices.

There is five months worth of mail that you can see stacked up from CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] and nobody's there. And that passed a survey! How did that happen?

How do you put a hospice in a burrito stand in California? How do you put a hospice in a tire store in California? That all had to be vetted through licensure and certification and accreditation.


Who's minding the burrito stand, anyhoo? Not California, though Gavin Newsom keeps touting how he cut off 280 licensees but failed to notice that "hospice" centers have exploded by 1,500% in recent years in his state. Newsom also missed how most of the nation's hospice centers are in L.A. County. He also missed that building in L.A. County with 89 hospice centers, most of which are unattended.

California is acting decisively to end the problem. And when I say "the problem," I do not of course mean the problem of Democrat voters bilking the US taxpayers out of hundreds of billions in plunder.

I mean the problem of people noticing that Democrat voters have leared to bilk the US taxpayers out of hundreds of billions in plunder.

Nick shirley @nickshirleyy

Apr 18

Exposing California's corrupt "Stop Nick Shirley Act", instead of going after the fraudsters California is now going after the people exposing the fraud.

This bill AB 2624 will:

- Criminalize journalists with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown

- Let immigrant based NGOs' funding be confidential

- Take away freedom of the press from journalists

- Protect any "immigration support services" information from being public (healthcare, legal services, etc)

This bill was created by the Attorney General's WIFE Mia Bonta to stop fraud from being exposed. Please like and share this video everywhere! By trying to silence and intimidate journalists, they are trying to hide the truth from you. EXPOSE ALL THE FRAUD.

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Some of RFKJr.'s testimony to the House and Senate:

He straight-up accused Frank Pallone of flipping from being a champion of people suffering vaccine injuries to someone who claims they don't exist after Big Pharma paid him off.

Grifter Raphael Warnock accused RFKJr. of cutting the office watching rabies cases. RFKJr. responded: There are one to three rabies cases per year, I think one person manning that office is adequate.

You mean previously we had multiple people in the office monitoring for the ONE TO THREE RABIES CASES PER YEAR?!?!

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Democrat California Gubernatorial Candidates: Enforcing the Law That CDL Drivers Must be Proficient In English Is Racist and Trump is a Racist for Enforcing the Law and We Will Enforce the Law by Not Enforcing It

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Before getting to those clips: domestic abuser and truly gross swamphag Katie Porter was asked what grade she'd give Newsom on homelessness. She responded she's a "tough grader" -- she keeps bringing up her profession as a teacher, because wow that is so impressive -- and so would only give Newsom a "B."

Front-running Republican Steve Hilton could not believe the crap pouring out of Katie Porter's shitmouth.

Overton @overton_news

14h

Democrat Katie Porter told the debate moderator she's a "notoriously tough grader" -- then proceeded to give Gavin Newsom a 'B' on homelessness.

Republican Steve Hilton could not believe what he just heard and he ROASTED her on the spot.

MODERATOR: "What grade would you give him on homelessness? And what, if anything, would you do differently?"

PORTER: "I'm a notoriously tough grader, but I would probably give a him a 'B' on homelessness."

"I don't think this has been an easy problem to solve, but I do give him a lot of credit for calling attention to the problem."

"When he campaigned 8 years ago, he was talking about housing when nobody else was."

HILTON: "Wow!"

"By the way, I'd love to be in your class, Katie, if you get a 'B' for what Gavin Newsom's done on homelessness!"

"MY GOODNESS!"

Oh of course -- Newsom talked about housing. Democrats, infamously, consider it to be real progress if you talk endlessly about a claimed problem and never make a single step towards improving the situation.

A B. Homelessness has not only exploded under Newsom, but the homeless are dying by the dozens because Newsom allows them to openly shoot up heroin and fentanyl on the streets and carve out Homeless Drug-Addict Enclaves in formerly-thriving neighborhoods.

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But a "B." She's a tough grader, you know. If she catches you passing notes in class, she'll dump a boiling pot of mashed potatoes on your head.

And Katie Porter was in fact a "tough grader" compared to the other Democrats, who all gave him B's -- or A's.

Susan Crabtree @susancrabtree

14h

⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️All the Dem candidates for Calif. governor give Gavin Newsom an A or a B on his effort to reduce homelessness.

Matt Mahan gives him a B- for effort but a D for implementation.

And wow -- Becerra says he would give $$$ to people who lose their jobs so they can maintain rent or their mortgage.

The debate host questions where is the money going to come from. ???

Becerra says it won't cost much compared to the money we've spent fighting homelessness.

HUH?

"How can I help you keep your home? Because it costs me so much more money to pick you off the streets, provide you with the assistance and the shelter..."

Does he mean he's going to stop spending recklessly on homelessness and concentrate on throwing money at people who lose their jobs?

Hilton gives Newsom an "F" and rightfully says homelessness is a mental health and addiction problem, and he would stop all the billions of $$$ going to homelessness nonprofits that get ripped off.


Katie Pavlich
@KatiePavlich

14h

Democrats wanting to be governor in California won’t say whether truck drivers should be able to speak English and read road signs to get a CDL. Instead, Steyer and Becerra say they are focused on prosecuting those who "engage in racial profiling"

Katie Porter lectured Chad Bianco, who is Hispanic, about his distressing hatred of Brown People.

Susan Crabtree @susancrabtree

14h

Katie Porter gives a man named Chad Bianco a lecture on racism because he supports giving truck drivers language proficiency and knowledge tests when it comes to basic road signs to avoid fatal and near-fatal road crashes.

"I am stunned that Mr. Bianco would say to black and brown Californians and immigrants who are being terrorized and racially profiled that you have to get over racism."

"It's not something that you get over. It's something that you fight. And if he doesn't understand the importance of that. He has no business representing a state with the diversity [that California has]."

Bianco says that's not even close to what he's saying.

"Californians are absolutely sick and tired of our politicians making race the basis of everything. It is not, and this racial divide that they are pushing between law enforcement and the public or Democrat and Republican, absolutely has to stop."

"And I'm telling you, we are sick of it."


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Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:27 PM Comments

Two Afghan Asylum Seekers Imprisoned in UK for Rape of 15-Year-Old Girl; State Is Suppressing the Audio Recording She Made Begging and Crying for Help, Because It Would Spark Riots Nationwide if the Public Heard It

—Disinformation Expert Ace

These Cultural Enrichment Colonizers got rather tame sentences of 8 and 9 years each for the brazen, out-in-the-open rape of a 15 year old child.

She begged passers-by for help. One woman stopped and asked "Are you all right?" She answered "No, help me, please help me, so many people have passed me by, please help me, I want to go home, please help me, they're going to rape me."

We don't know what the woman did -- but the rape was completed. She may have just walked away, knowing for a stone-cold fact that if she intervened and took action against these VIP Invader Rapists she would be the one arrested.

Two teenage asylum seekers from Afghanistan have been jailed after admitting to the rape of a 15-year-old girl in a U.K. park, officials have confirmed.

According to police, the victim had been in Leamington in Warwickshire with friends on May 10 when they met Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal.

The teenage girl began talking with them before they asked her to join them on a walk.

They then led her to a park area known as Newbold Comyn, where they raped her, Warwickshire police confirmed in a statement released online.

Two teenagers admit rape charges in UK court proceedings after a park attack.

Following the attack, the teenager managed to flag down a passerby, who contacted local police.

Detectives launched an investigation using CCTV footage and photographs the victim had taken on her phone earlier in the day.

Officers were able to identify and arrest the two 17-year-old suspects.

Jahanzeb and Niazal were charged with rape and later appeared before the youth court in Coventry, where they admitted the offense.

It's extraordinary that even at this late date, news of immigrant rape has been so forcefully suppressed by the Quisling government that 15 year olds don't even know that Muslim asylum seekers have sky-high rates of rape and sexual assault offenses.

Lawyers are blocking release of the audiotape of the rape victim's terrified pleas for help and mercy -- because it would cause riots were the public to hear it.

johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr

13h

This is all on Keir Starmer, a Disgusting POS! A British girl screams "HELP ME! THEY'RE GOING TO RAPE ME" as two Afghan asylum seekers drag her, which she recorded on her phone.

Lawyers are Blocking the footage because "It would cause RIOTS across Britain"

Gee I wonder why they would Riot? Maybe because they are Fed up!

Release it. At some point, there must be riots. As the government of Queer Starmer refuses to stop the mass importation of foreign rapists due to the threat of the rapists already present rioting (as well as a desire to court the Foreign Rape Vote), the general public needs to communicate it the only way the cowardly UK government understands, and that is to riot themselves.

Here's another story about the Rape Colonizers. Oh wait, my mistake, this is story about a completely different migrant Cultural Enforcement Officer.

This is from March 27:

An asylum seeker who abducted and raped a 12-year-old girl has been given a 16-year sentence.

The attack by Afghan national Ahmad Mulakhil last summer led to protests in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

Jurors last month found the 23-year-old guilty of rape, abduction, sexual assault and taking an indecent video.

He also pleaded guilty to a count of rape of a child under 13 ahead of the hearing at Warwick Crown Court in February.

Mulakhil was told he would serve 15 years in prison and an extra 12 months on licence.

Even left-liberal saps are outraged by this and suggesting that "Trumpian" responses may be required:

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The Morning Rant

—CBD

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"The world's greatest deliberative body?" My ass.

The Grown in America Act of 2025 (H.R. 1707) is legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in early 2025. Sponsored by Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN) along with Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) and others, the bill's goal is to strengthen American agriculture by encouraging businesses to buy more of their agricultural raw materials domestically rather than from foreign countries. This bill, which is a rational response to outsourcing of agricultural products to foreign players that might very well be our adversaries, is a market-driven answer to a national security imperative...we must produce our own food, and if it costs us a bit more than buying it from foreign countries? So be it. Countries worldwide understand this and subsidize their food production in many ways: with direct subsidies, with tax advantages, with estate tax carve-outs for farms, etc. In fact, we do some of that already, with an insanely complex support system that often pays farmers not to produce!

But subsidizing their domestic customers with a tax credit is far cheaper, and it neatly avoids the geopolitical cudgel that other countries can use against America. China is a big fan of threatening to stop buying our soybeans or pork or...whatever...to bolster their negotiating stance in other areas. This decreases the power of that tactic, and also smooths the boom-and-bust cycle of agricultural commodities.

So what's the problem?

Congress is the problem, even though this bill was presented by a bipartisan (vile word, that!) group of congressmen from agricultural states. First, it is quite obviously a MAGA talking point, which makes it unappetizing to the rabid TDS sufferers in the Democrat Party. Second, it will hurt China, and one can be confident that its agents in America are working hard to blunt its support. Fang Fang anyone? And third, it is simply lost in the miasma of a completely dysfunctional Congress. They can do nothing but interfere and obstruct. Just look at the deeply offensive game that John Thune plays in the Senate to prevent recess appointments by the administration for a sense of their obstruction. And the SAVE Act is most probably dead, even though it is supported by huge majorities of Americans!

The financial effect of this bill is modest, especially in comparison to the massive fraud being perpetrated against the American taxpayer by the welfare apparatus. A small fraction of those fraudulent transfer payments would pay for the tax credits being proposed in this bill, and the funds would remain in America, rather than being funneled to Somalia and Venezuela and Guatemala and China and...

But our legislatures are profoundly broken, and driven by motivations so antithetical to the well being of Americans that it is difficult to recognize what exactly they work toward. Is it self aggrandizement? Is it wealth? Is it power? Is it the success of foreign actors at the expense of the American people?

All yes.

In ancient Rome through Victorian England, actors were considered on par with prostitutes. It is time to embrace that social standing for politicians, and relieve the acting profession of their burden as the lowest of the low.


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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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Zonnebeke
Sir William Orpen

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The Morning Report — 4/ 23/26

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids, Here's a bit of good news to start things off for a change. In the wake of the nightmarish redistricting vote in Virginia, sanity has quickly prevailed in the OldDominion:


The decision halts the certification process, potentially blocking changes to Virginia’s congressional map, pending the outcome of the appeal. The new map, authorized in a close referendum on Tuesday, heavily favors the Democrats, likely handing the party another four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

At least in the near term, I don't expect this to be resolved before the midterms which was certainly why the evil commie bastards rammed this abomination through when they did. It's not just about Virginia, this vote had and might yet have national implications first of all to completely derail President Trump's remaining two years and then wipe out any national GOP aspirations going forward. Absolute power by every means at their disposal is the Left's ultimate goal, same as it ever was since time immemorial.

Given the vicissitudes of a top down corrupted judiciary, this situation may yet go in the Democrats favor, but at least for now we may have dodged a pretty significant electoral/political bullet.

All of that said, there has been much anger aimed at the GOP for being woefully unprepared for this vote, and rightfully so. For sure the party is at best useless and feckless and at worst collaborating with the Democrats on every level and on every issue. This in spite of the fact that Virginia and America in general is still a distinctly if not overwhelmingly conservative or non-crazy-leftist nation (or is it?). And for sure millions of dollars from the DNC and the usual Soros and other Leftist front groups were poured in to buy the victory.

Yes the Virginia and National GOP have much to answer for but at the end of the day, despite all of the aforementioned, we can bitch and moan about the Grifting Oleaginous Parasites until the cows come home, but the reality is is that it's the voters who don't show up that bear the responsibility for yesterday's abomination. Surely Virginians were not clueless about the ramifications of losing this vote and yet how is it that this was able to pass? 'nuff said.

Naturally the criminals who foisted this on us are warning us not to do unto them what they have done to us because that would be un"Democratic" shall we say. It is to vomit:


In a statement to PunchBowl News founder Jake Sherman, Hakeem Jeffries said that Republicans in Florida will suffer further losses if they move forward with redistricting.
 “If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas,” he said.
“We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win.” Jeffries added, “Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

Aside from Democrats, speaking of invasive parasitic worms that destroy everything in their path:

A destructive, fast-moving invader is wriggling its way into yards across the US, and officials say Californians should be on alert. Agriculture authorities are sounding the alarm over the Asian jumping worm, a highly invasive species that’s already been spotted in multiple states, including the Golden State. . . The worms are easy to spot, and hard to forget.

They’re smooth, dark gray or brown, with a distinctive flat, milky-white band circling their bodies near the head. Bridging the gap between a gardener’s nightmare and a Klingon’s dream, reports indicate that the invasive Asian jumping worm can flip its body a foot into the air, a violent thrashing behavior that perfectly mirrors the legendary Star Trek delicacy, Gagh.
. ..With no reliable way to eliminate them once established, officials are urging residents to focus on prevention.

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Wednesday Night ONT - April 22, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

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Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. Now that the sweet, sweet flow of SPLC "research" money has dried up, the ONT no longer has the budget for totally organic grassroots protests. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers in this difficult time. The bar is open.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace and Megyn free zone. Please.

[Top photo: 1956 and 1958 John Deere 520 tractors, Paul Schmitt, Fort Atkinson, Iowa]

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These Racist Puppy Videos Brought to You By Secret Funding by the SPLC Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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This dog was paid $130,000 by the SPLC
to steal equipment from the Midnight Tennis league in Baltimore


This dog spent all day posting racist memes on Gab, under the direction of the SPLC, and boy are his arms tired.


These innocent-looking capybaras just took off their matching blue button-downs and tan khakis and are sore from marching around all day carrying tiki-torches (furnished to them by the SPLC).

This dog is grinning because he just cashed a check for $30,000 for barking extra hard at black mailmen.

This cat was returned home after spending six months as an SPLC "researcher" (which means he posted child porn on conservative message boards).

This white dog fought off 13 coyotes and was denounced by the SPLC as a "racist ICE hound."

The SPLC has secretly formed an airborne battalion of Flying Racists.

This albino sea turtle complained about the forty remoras free-riding on him and was immediately put on the SPLC "hate map." He was shot and killed shortly thereafter.

This white cerval was paid to infiltrate this rotweiler neighborhood and stir up trouble.

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Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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Hmmmm...

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The media is pumping out SPLC propaganda, claiming they're being sued for "paying informants," while hiding the actual indictment so that their stupid NPC readers can't see what they're really charged with:

Robby Soave @robbysoave

I'm always flummoxed when mainstream news sources describe a lawsuit, indictment, or pertinent document without actually linking to it. The SPLC indictment isn't linked in New York Times, AP, BBC, The Guardian, or any of first 10 sources I checked. Just have to take their word for it.

Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi

Making readers jump through hoops to find the full quote or original source document is a gross new propaganda technique.

Only "very fine people" do it, you know.

The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole

"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as racists."

-- Thomas Sowell

The "virtual winery" owned by Ilhan Omar and her "husband," claimed to be worth millions, has been legally dissolved days after she amended her financial disclosures to say she's not a millionaire and it was just a big whoopsie to inflate her personal fortune.

Didn't they prosecute Trump for that?

Here, America's Sweetheart (TM) snaps at a reporter asking about the "revision" to her financials: "I don't have to tell you jack shit."

BTW, what is a "virtual winery"? I don't know, but it's not a real winery, or else they would just say "winery." What I imagine is that it's a "winery" with no actual vinyard -- that is, it's just a label. They buy wine from others -- cheap wine, I'd bet -- slap a label on it, and sell it.

You know what's interesting about wine? No one can say with legal precision how much a bottle of wine is worth. Much like Hunter Biden's watercolors, doncha know. Political sympathizers could maybe possibly "buy" cases and cases of greatly over-priced cheapo-beapo "virtual wine" to funnel bribes and illegal campaign contributions to a politician with a level of plausible deniability.

Is that what happened here? I'm not saying. And neither is Ilhan Omar. She doesn't have to tell you jack shit.

MSNOW's full-spectrum failure Alex Wagner -- they have repeatedly pushed her as a "star" influencer with millions of dollars of push, and she's failed every time -- forgives Tuq'r Qarlson and welcomes him as an ally in the Democrat War on America.

'This Is Hard For Me To Say': MS NOW's Alex Wagner Says Tucker Carlson's Trump Apology 'Feels' Genuine


MS NOW's Alex Wagner admitted Tucker Carlson's apology for helping to elect President Donald Trump "feels" genuine, though she remains skeptical of how much help he could actually be to Democrats.

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"I do think it's like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. You know, we'll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I'm sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional. That's all I'll say," Carlson said.

Wagner first said she was "cynical" about Carlson's declaration, though she eventually conceded that she feels the "tortured" Carlson was "genuine" in expressing remorse for throwing support behind Trump.

She said:

I guess it's welcome if overdue. Pardon me for being a little cynical about the mea culpa. Ari, this is someone who witnessed Trump stage and foment an insurrection at the Capitol and still went and campaigned for the man. Like, did you not think his narcissism was malignant in early January of 2021? Because I sure did. Like, here was a man that clearly was going to stop at nothing, including tearing down our own democracy, to regain power. So the idea that it's just dawned on him that this man's moral compass may not be pointing in the right direction, and he may not be operating with the most strategic manual is like maybe a little bit late and maybe a little bit not as genuine as I wish it was.

She ultimately concluded the public break from Trump for Carlson was a purposeful move that he can't easily go back on.

"This is hard for me to say, but it feels like the apology is genuine. And I also don't know that you can find your way back to supporting Trump once you've had that sort of emotional, sort of almost therapy-like session," Wagner said, adding, "I don't think it should be making Democrats think that Tucker Carlson is going to go out on the campaign trail for them just yet."

But it will. He will follow his leader Nick Fuentes in actively campaigning for the Nazi Right to vote for Kamala Harris.

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Virginia Democrats Barely Get Their Gerrymander Referendum Passed, but a Virginia Judge Just Ruled it Unconstitutional

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The referendum passed 51% to 49% in blue-as-ice Virginia. That doesn't sound like a coming Blue Wave to me.

But it did pass. And Democrats will use this power to increase their congressional delegation from six to five to 10 to one.

But a judge says hold on -- this was all unconstitutional.

Former Virginia attorney general and Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli II posted on X Wednesday about the gerrymandered map, "UPDATE on referendum lawsuits: The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional. The Judge entered an injunction blocking certification of the election & denied a motion to stay pending appeal. A final order will be entered once drafted, & it will be immediately appealed."


The new map would almost certainly hand ten out of eleven congressional districts to Democrat control. This would impact not only Virginia, therefore, but the Republican-Democrat balance of power in the U.S. Congress.

Cuccinelli had already predicted that the election results last night were not the final say on Virginia Democrats' gerrymandering. He noted that the "[f]irst passage was invalid," as the "amendment was taken up during a special session convened in 2024 for budget purposes. The General Assembly's own call to the Governor (under Art. IV, §6 and Art. V, §5) and its governing resolution (HJR 6001) limited the session's scope. Expanding it to include a constitutional amendment on redistricting required a two-thirds vote that never occurred." In light of this, a Tazewell County judge ruled that this action was "void, ab initio."

So to even vote this into a referendum, they needed a two-thirds majority vote, which they never even tried to get, so the referendum was never legally before the public.

There are additional procedural defects, which have to do with timing and so bore me, but you can click the link to read about those.

And finally, as a challenge to the proposed map, "Art. II, §6 requires that 'every electoral district shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory.' The proposed congressional maps violate this contiguity requirement (rather badly)," Cuccinelli wrote.

The Democrats created a giant lobster-shaped district to mix their ultra-blue northeatern voters with red voters in the south and west of the state. It's barely "contiguous" and not "compact" at all, sprawling, as it does, across half the state, a three hour drive from one end to the other.

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The SPLC Paid "Unite the Right" -- AKA Boost the Left -- $250,000 and Reaped Over $50 Million in Fundraising Off Its Investment In Manufactured "White Supremacy"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Rate of Return on "racism" is incredible. "Racism" should be in everybody's investment portfolio!

And the political benefits -- incalculable!

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Disinformation Expert Lizzy
@StarChamberMaid

Not a bad investment: $270K--->$81.6M

If only the left were that good with taxpayer money.

SPLC should be dissolved and the officers thrown in jail.

I mentioned that the SPLC funded the fake "Unite the Right" rally that serves the Democrat-Media Complex's main op during the 2020 election.

But I didn't know how deep SPLC's stage-managing of a "white supremacist rally" went.

We already knew that the "fine people" hoax was based on the lie that Trump called white supremacists "fine people," instead of, as he did, condemning them. But until yesterday, we didn't know that the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville and whose protest led to the death of one person were bused there on the Southern Poverty Law Center's dime, and were organized to be there by an SPLC "informer."

They funded the riot, organized the riot, bused the marchers to the riot -- and then fundraised off of liberals, promising to stop the very organization that was their paid-for pet!

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Wow: The Hit on Kash Patel Was a Pre-Emptive Strike Arranged by the SPLC to Dirty Up His Image Before News of the Indictment Came Out?

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Of course. Of course.

I can't wait for Kash Patel's discovery of communications between the Atlantic, owner/Democrat lunatic Lauren Powell Jobs, and the SPLC.

Now it becomes a bit clearer. The Atlantic published a vile and unsubstantiated hit piece on FBI Director Kash Patel right before he revealed an indictment of the SPLC for committing fraud by anonymously funding hate groups that organized "right-wing" rallies, one of which ended in the death of a bystander. Advertisement

You know, the infamous Charlottesville rally upon which the "fine people" hoax was based.

The Democrats and Pravda media, which have collaborated with the SPLC to smear conservatives for decades, are scrambling to defend the SPLC's illegal activities and, once again, smear Republicans for pointing out their perfidy.

The Atlantic's hit piece on Patel, based entirely on anonymous sources and having no evidence to back them up, is obviously intended to "pre-bunk" anything Patel says.

The claims in The Atlantic's story were bizarre. Kash Patel got blackout drunk. He was locked out of his computers. FBI agents considered using breaching equipment to force open his door, according to the report. He was unable to perform his duties because he was hungover. Etc. Etc.

Does Lauren Powell Jobs have some kind of many-years-old, pre-existing relationship with the SPLC?

Coincidentally enough, she does!

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New York Times: A Year After Their Very Deserved Mass-Firing, USAID Propagandists, Grifters, and Hangers-On Are Still Looking for New Jobs, and, Get This, Not Finding Many Employers Interested in Their Skill Set of Nothing At All

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The New York Times' attempt to wring sympathy out of us for people who should have had these fake "jobs" in the first place, and are now actually forced to work for a living instead of just relying on their Democrat contacts to give them well-paid, no-work political sinecures, is absurd.

These people were making almost $200,000 per year -- and then dishing out fat government contracts to their family members who just happened to be in the USAID grant check-cashing business themselves.

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.'s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss People have plowed through savings, cashed out retirement funds and moved in with relatives. Former U.S.A.I.D. workers estimate that less than half have found full-time work.

She was fired by email while on maternity leave, given 24 hours to clear out her desk and left with three days of health insurance and no severance pay. She had worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development or related groups for more than two decades. She made $175,000 a year.

That was Jan. 28, 2025. Today Amy Uccello and her husband, who also lost his job when U.S.A.I.D. funding for his nonprofit dried up, rely on food stamps, Medicaid and a supplemental nutrition program for women and children that helps with their now 19-month-old daughter.

The mortgage on their home in Washington was until recently in forbearance, meaning they negotiated to pay less than they owed each month. But the bank has now cut them off and suggested they apply for a low-income mortgage program. "We don't know if we'll qualify," Ms. Uccello said. She and her husband have applied for more than 100 jobs with no luck. Most of their friends don't have jobs either.

$175,000 per year as a tick on the belly of the taxpayer while the husband was himself grifting off the grants shoveled to left-wing groups by USAID.

And they want you feel their pain.

I do feel their pain -- and it is exquisite.


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"I have such sights to show you....
Here is a Walmart application."

Nights are the hardest.

"I can't sleep because of our own situation," Ms. Uccello, 49, said over coffee on a recent afternoon. "I can't sleep because of what I know what's happening around the world. I can't sleep because my former colleagues and friends are also suffering."

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"Your suffering will be legendary, even in Hell!
BTW, Learn to Code."

When the Trump administration dismantled the sprawling global aid agency last year, it wiped out virtually an entire industry -- international development -- that had been based in Washington since U.S.A.I.D.'s creation in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy. Nearly all of the agency's 16,000 employees were laid off. An estimated 280,000 contractors, partners and local hires worldwide lost their jobs as well.

A year later, people have plowed through savings, cashed out retirement funds and moved in with friends and relatives. Former U.S.A.I.D. workers who have done informal surveys estimate that less than half have found full-time work, with many making less than before. An estimated third are unemployed. Others are in part-time work. The District of Columbia currently has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, at 6.7 percent, in large part because of major reductions in the federal work force, including U.S.A.I.D., and cuts to government grants and contracts.

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Jobs are also gone at the many nonprofits and partner agencies once funded by U.S.A.I.D. "Everyone I know is also up the creek, all my bosses, my mentors, the people you would normally go to, the people providing me references," said Catherine Baker, 36, who, as a contractor, made $127,000 a year recruiting staff and helping to start up U.S.A.I.D. projects. Ms. Baker now volunteers as a manager for OneAid, which helps former U.S.A.I.D. workers, and works nine hours a week as a companion for two elderly women.


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Come upon me so I may show you The Way...
Here is The Way: Bed Bath and Beyond.
I recommend "Beyond."
That's where I got my start.


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Trump to Iran: I'm Giving You Primitive Screwheads "Three to Five Days" to Come Up With a United Government Position, Or Else It's Bombs Away

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I guess it's something.

As you probably know, parts of the Iran "government," such as it is, are making conciliatory noises while others are crying Death to America and ordering attacks on ships.

I think this is typical Muslim hudna bullshit -- "negotiating" just to regroup before the next unbroken-for-1300-years war on the world -- but hopefully Trump has reached the end of his patience for this rope-a-dope.

Axios:

U.S. officials first began to see the divisions after the first round of Islamabad talks, when it became clear IRGC commander Gen. Ahmad Vahidi and his deputies had rejected much of what Iran's own negotiators had discussed.

The split broke into the open last Friday. When Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the IRGC refused to implement it -- and began publicly attacking him.


Someone must have put the Democrats in charge of Iran's finances because they're not paying Homeland Security.

Or... so Trump says. I don't know. The mullahs will make sure the first and last pennies they have left are used to pay their secret police and terrorists.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent

As @POTUS has made clear, the United States Navy will continue the blockade of Iranian ports. In a matter of days, Kharg Island storage will be full and the fragile Iranian oil wells will be shut in. Constraining Iran's maritime trade directly targets the regime's primary revenue lifelines.

The @USTreasury will continue to apply maximum pressure through Economic Fury to systematically degrade Tehran's ability to generate, move, and repatriate funds.

Any person or vessel facilitating these flows--through covert trade and finance--risks exposure to U.S. sanctions.

We continue to freeze the funds stolen by the corrupt leadership on behalf of the people of Iran.


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The SPLC Paid Off the "Unite the Right" Marchers in Charlottesville -- Which the Democrat-Media Party Then Used as the Centerpiece of the 2020 Election Campaign

—Disinformation Expert Ace

They didn't just pour money into "Unite the Right." They poured donor money into dozens of "far right"/"white supremacist" groups.

They claim they were "infiltrating" them. I say, they were creating the fake enemies they then fundraised off of. By pouring a few million into "far right"/"white supremacist" groups, they could in turn grift tens of millions from panicky pissbaby liberals terrified of the monsters the SPLC was itself funding and supporting.

I know JJ covered this but I gotta!

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🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.

Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs


BREAKING: A federal grand jury in Alabama charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with 11 counts of wire and bank fraud-related charges, the Justice Department announced, accusing the group of paying members of extremist groups as part of its efforts to investigate them.

My guess that this was about embezzlement/misuse of funds was, I guess, borderline correct, but boy oh boy is the reality so much better than my guess. The SPLC is literally funding the white dragons they claim they're protecting us from!

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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.
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