An Otter Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"My parents went to France without me!!!"
Bowling trick shot-- hitting the 3-7 spare and then knocking over the 10 in the neighboring lane.
Criminals are amateurs at violence. Marines are professionals.
Fighter pilot unimpressed by amusement park rides.
Poor dog spends his days in a hospital staffed by babies.
Swimming with a juvenile jaguar.
Basically a cloned cat.
Confirmed: The ship that Moby Dick was based on, the Essex, was sunk by a sperm whale's head butt.
A "Moby Dick" Shipwreck Survivor Had a Theory About How a Whale Sank His Ship. 200 Years Later, He's Been Proven Right "This wasn't originally our hypothesis, it was Owen Chase's," one evolutionary biologist said of the whaler who first called the animal's forehead a weapon
* Researchers confirmed sperm whales can use their massive foreheads as weapons, validating a theory from the 1800s* Drone footage captured sperm whales headbutting, systematically documenting the behavior for the first time
* A sperm whale's head can deliver a blow with the force of a bus traveling 40 mph
More than two centuries ago, a teenage boy watched a sperm whale sink his ship. Now, the theory that grew out of that disaster has been confirmed as accurate.
On Nov. 20, 1820, 15-year-old Thomas Nickerson was aboard the whaleship Essex, a specialized vessel designed for hunting and processing whales, when a massive sperm whale sped toward the vessel and struck it head-on. According to BBC Future, the whale swam roughly 900 feet away, turned and charged again, striking the bow. The Essex sank, stranding 20 men some 1,300 miles from land in what became one of the most infamous survival ordeals in maritime history and the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Now, 175 years after the novel's publication, researchers have confirmed how a sperm whale can take down a ship several times its size. The answer, it turns out, was predicted by Owen Chase, the Essex's first mate, who argued that the whale's enormous forehead was a weapon.
"This wasn't originally our hypothesis; it was Owen Chase's," retired evolutionary biologist Dave Carrier told the outlet. "An 18th-Century whaler argued that the forehead was a weapon, and we set out to test that." For two centuries, Carrier said, biologists had largely dismissed the whaler's account, but "the whaler's intuition and experience were probably correct."
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"Whales are mammals, closely related to animals like deer and rams, where males compete by ramming," he said.
Well, and dolphins and orcas ram things too, and they're first cousins of whales.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Seattle passes bill to make polyamorous fruitcakes and whores a protected class.
Of course.
So the law will stop landowners from refusing to rent to sleazy smelly polycules with rotating homeless bang-bums.
Seattle passed a measure on Tuesday to extend civil rights protections to non-monogamous people and multigenerational households, and recognize additional sexual orientations and gender identities as protected classes under local law. The city council voted unanimously in favor of the bill.As the largest city yet to pass such a law, Seattle joins a growing group of local governments acknowledging non-monogamous and polyamorous people as frequent subjects of housing and workplace discrimination, and in need of commensurate protection. Boston suburbs Cambridge and Somerville, and Berkeley and Oakland in California's Bay Area, have previously passed similar policies; Seattle is the 10th city to do so. Advocates say the efforts help local governments serve the many family structures that actually exist, not just the ones that are easy to define.
Research cited by the city council suggests that 10-20% of North Americans have engaged in consensual non-monogamy during their lives, while 5% are currently non-monogamous. More than 50% of respondents to a 2018 academic survey reported experiencing discrimination due to their consensual non-monogamous practices, including in medical settings, workplaces and family court.
Local advocate Jessa Davis helped spearhead the grassroots movement to enact a bill in Seattle after her partner experienced job discrimination in August 2024 due to her non-monogamy. Davis said the experience exposed which forms of discrimination were still "not illegal" in Seattle, even as targeting her partner "based on her sexual orientation or her gender identity or political ideology" would have been "covered in Seattle".
Following engagement with advocates, Seattle's Human Rights Commission penned an open letter in December 2025 in favor of a bill to address discrimination "on the basis of family and relationship structure" and to close "loopholes that currently allow exclusion, harassment, and denial of opportunity to persist unchecked".
"Decarceration" comes to Main Street USA.
EDGEWOOD, Pennsylvania -- The Evans family threw a Halloween party every year in their backyard on Linden Avenue. Neighbor Jeannine Fisher, who lives a few doors down, told WPXI, the local NBC affiliate, that she remembers "tons of people and kids" there. She also remembers the first time she met Idris Evans: He helped carry her groceries from down the street to her house.It's the kind of street where that still happens. It's also the kind of street where people don't think much about whether the kitchen window is open on a warm September night.
Just after midnight on Thursday, police say someone came through that window.
AdvertisementEvans, 46, and his wife, Gina, woke up in their third-floor bedroom to find a man in his underwear attacking them with a kitchen knife. Gina Evans later told police, according to the criminal complaint, that the man was "psychotic" and kept talking about God and being God. She yelled for their boys, 8 and 12, to run to a neighbor's house, and they did. Then, badly wounded, she ran to another neighbor's house herself.
Her husband died in the hospital. He was a pediatric critical care physician at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh; co-medical director of its pediatric transport team, the doctors who go get the sickest children by helicopter and ambulance; and an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Police found the suspect hiding in the overgrown part of neighbor Sandra Trappen's garden, bleeding from deep cuts on his hands.
Advertisement"This is not a place, you know, where you would generally feel fearful," Trappen said.
His name is Elijah Hemingway. He is 32 and from Pittsburgh's Hazelwood neighborhood. He is charged with criminal homicide, attempted homicide, burglary, and aggravated assault. He is presumed innocent.
What has unsettled people well beyond this block is what came out over the next 72 hours. Hemingway had been arrested in Allegheny County in July on a felony burglary charge and released without posting a dime. He had spent most of 2025 in a Florida jail and a court-ordered mental-health commitment after allegedly beating a girlfriend and fighting sheriff's deputies. And on Saturday, county police charged him with raping a woman on a footpath in Wilkinsburg, a working-class borough bordering Pittsburgh, about 14 hours before the Evans family was attacked.
Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her cross-dressing "bimbofication" husband. If you forgot that scandal, he would dress like a girl while wearing ludicrously oversized prosthetic breasts.
Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her husband Bryon, citing irreconcilable differences months after a bombshell report detailed his affinity for "bimbofication" fetish models.The former South Dakota governor and Homeland Security secretary filed Monday in Hamlin County Court in her home state.
The couple have been married since 1992 and have three children: daughters Kassidy, 31, Kennedy, 29, and son Booker, 23. Kassidy and Kennedy both have children of their own.
In late March, days after Noem was fired as DHS chief by President Trump, the Daily Mail reported that Bryon Noem regularly chatted up women from the so-called "bimbofication" scene, in which adult performers augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve a "Barbie doll"-like appearance.
Citing "hundreds" of messages sent to three models, the Mail reported that Byron Noem said he coveted "huge, huge ridiculous boobs" -- and even shared a photo of himself wearing pink hot pants and a flesh-colored, well-endowed bodysuit.
A rep for Noem told The Post at the time that she was "devastated" by the revelation, adding: "The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time."
Nancy French reportedly sighed and said, "What I would do to have a manly husband like that."
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The Venezuelan Shot by ICE Has Been Charged With Assaulting an Officer
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The violent illegal alien attacked ICE agents as they were serving him a final deportation order.
The media are demonic liars, and keep repeating "he had a valid work permit" as if this is the same as permission to be in the country. It's not. I think this is screwed up, but because we're allowing illegals to come to the country and stay here for years while their fake asylum claims work through the system, we give out work permits in the meantime.
This is not the same as permission to stay. For proof of that, observe this case, where an ICE agent was delivering a final deportation order.
But the media keep repeating "work permit, work permit, work permit."
The complaint accuses Garces-Perez of sideswiping an officer with his driver's-side car mirror and later attempting to hit an officer with his car, according to the Associated Press.He was pulled over after a judge issued a final removal order, according to US Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas.
Garces-Perez provided his driver's license but ignored agents' requests to get out of his car, the complaint alleges. He discussed with an agent in Spanish moving the car and parking it, according to court documents, which say the conversation wasn't aggressive.
About a minute later, Garces-Perez allegedly "abruptly" closed the window and drove off. One of the officers was struck in his torso with the driver's side-view mirror.
Garces-Perez, who was reportedly shot in the back, then released from a hospital hours later, was an asylum seeker with a valid work permit, according to immigration lawyer Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.
Meanwhile, the media keeps appeasing the Black Lives Matter revolutionaries by suggesting that a black woman was lynched by whites.
They always report the race of the hanged woman -- but refuse to mention the three men charged with killing her are black, too.
That's because the "Pro-Blacks," as Black Conservative Perspective calls racist black agitators, are pushing the conspiracy theory that whites must have done it because "blacks don't hang other blacks."
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Lindsay Clancy's Scumbag Lawyer Kevin Reddington Contradicts His Earlier Defense, Now Insists That There's No Evidence Lindsay Clancy Murdered Her Children at All
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He's in court to ask that the judge just declare Lindsay Clancy innocent.
During the trial, he accepted that Lindsay Clancy killed her children-- she admitted it three times, and there was overwhelming physical evidence besides -- but now, during this motion hearing, joins the Lindsay Clancy Conspiracy Cultists in wondering if someone else killed the kids.
He doesn't say it, but the Conspiracy Cultists claim that Patrick Clancy killed his children, then "hypnotized" Lindsay into believing she did it and confessing to it.
And this is where Kevin Reddington is now. Repeating the Cultist's conspiracies, ignoring his own client's admissions of guilt.
"Where's the evidence she did this?!" he now lie-asks.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued that prosecutors simply haven't produced enough evidence to prove his client killed her children. Prosecutors quickly fired back, publicly dismissing Reddington's assertion as a "laughable theory".Despite the exchanges inside the courtroom, major rulings remain on hold.
Judge William Sullivan indicated that no substantial decisions are expected until at least November 2, leaving several key motions unresolved for the coming weeks.
Planning for a potential retrial also appears to be stalled. Both the prosecution and Reddington acknowledged that they are not yet ready to engage in formal discussions regarding a new trial date.
Reddington noted that he is unavailable to take the case to trial again until next June, though Judge Sullivan made it clear he has no intention of needlessly kicking the case down the road.
Outside of the core trial logistics, new legal representations have emerged. The holdout juror from the previous proceedings has officially retained new local counsel, bringing attorney Heather O'Connor on board, she announced in a press conference after the hearing.
Good. Sue him. Get him disbarred.
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NYT Tech Editor Gunned Down by In-Laws -- Because His Trans Lifestyle Wound Up Influencing His Son to Wear His Sister's Dresses
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Accused killer grandma attacked trans NYT exec when his son started wearing sister's dresses: explosive court docs
A grandmother who allegedly gunned down her transgender New York Times executive son-in-law accused him of inspiring her grandson to wear his sister's dresses, court documents show.Jonathan McKinsey, the newspaper's head of engineering for games player experience, was allegedly killed by his elderly in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, on Saturday. They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.
Chen visited McKinsey and his wife, Candice Jang, to watch their children in 2023, a restraining order filed by McKinsey against Jang said.
Chen noticed McKinsey's son Wyatt had begun asking to wear his sister Alexis' dresses, a "phase" he was going through, McKinsey said, according to the records.
She then began allegedly berating him for the behavior, calling the young child a "disgusting queer" and a "pervert." Chen also allegedly hit McKinsey's young son in the back of the head when he asked.
When McKinsey begged her to stop, Chen turned her ire to the New York Times employee, who was transgender and transitioned from female to male in 2010, according to the documents.
She then called McKinsey the same names, the restraining order alleged.
The "trans" NYT "game journalist" reportedly physically abused his wife and child. And he says she told him to kill himself.
McKinsey also accused his wife of abuse in their relationship, including an episode where she pushed him to try to commit suicide, the documents say.
McKinsey claimed Jang told him he should kill himself because "no one would want to be with someone as f--ked up and transgender like me."
Jang first filed a restraining order against McKinsey last year, alleging he "threatened to kill me and my parents."
Alameda County prosecutors also charged him with two counts of misdemeanor child abuse after an incident where he allegedly hit their six-year-old son in the face with an open hand.
Jang also told investigators about a 2018 domestic violence incident, where McKinsey bruised her left arm, the charging documents say.
Who knows. Who knows.
Fauci Infected African Monkeys with Aerosolized Ebola.
His Primary Fear? Not an Ebola Outbreak. Just That the Public Would Find Out About His Faucistein Experimentations.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Deb Heine at American Greatness:
Newly Released Fauci Files Reveal Dangerous NIAID-Funded Aerosolized Ebola ResearchSenator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released documents from Dr. Fauci's diary and emails Monday detailing his dangerous NIAID-funded research during the Obama Administration, including a 2015 experiment that exposed vaccinated monkeys to aerosolized Ebola.
The risky research was conducted at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick under a NIAID task order. The NIAID study compared four vaccines in groups of four monkeys exposed to aerosolized Ebola. The exposure was engineered to drive the virus deep into the lungs in a way natural infection would not, the records show.
The vaccinated primates reportedly developed necrosis, inflammation, and fibrin in the lungs, while the unvaccinated controls did not, indicating that the vaccine itself was making the disease worse. The experiments left 80 percent of vaccinated monkeys dead.
Fauci was mostly concerned with keeping the experiment secret so that the public wouldn't know about his failures:
"What idiots those guys at USAMRIID are," Fauci wrote on March 7, 2016. The work "should have been a classified experiment that never should have been done in the first place," he added. Two days later, however, then-NIAID director wrote that the experiments were "important for bio defense."
Fauci was outraged that the failed vaccine research was shared with U.S. embassy officials in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
"This should have been a classified experiment," he wrote in his diary. "The foolish DOD people send the data to the FDA and then circulated as FYI to various embassies including those in West Africa where we are about to engage on a much larger DSD vaccine trial for Ebola."
According to Fauci, the embassy officials "went bonkers" because it looked like the U.S. wanted to vaccinate people with a dangerous vaccine.
He also said such experiments should have been classified because they "could indicate a vulnerability."
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Following this disclosure, NIAID officials discussed "damage control" in an email chain. "We may need to a bit of damage control here," NIAID's biodefense director wrote.
The problem for Fauci wasn't the dangerous experiments, but the possibility the public could find out about the dangerous experiments. So he took immediate steps to have the research classified.
"The DoD folks said that they wanted to publish the data. I said that I thought that it should be classified and the NSC people blew them out of the water and said that they agreed with me," he said.
More at the link.
Thanks to Comrade Arthur.
Meanwhile, MAHA is exploding over the CDC's recommendation to use covid vaccines "off-label."
"Off-label" refers to a use of a drug for reasons other than the recommended use. For example, trazadone is, per its label, intended as an anti-depressive drug, but it's also great for curing insomnia, so it is often prescribed off-label for that purpose.
In the case of covid vaccines, they are now recommended only for the frail or sick.
So the CDC is telling people to ignore that recommendation, and telling people to inject their healthy babies (at no risk for covid infection) with the covid "vaccine" off-label.
'Staggering surrender': CDC pushes COVID vaccines for healthy people 'off-label,' infuriating MAHAReturn of one-size-fits-all recommendations from Biden administration, after FDA issued limited approvals for elderly and high-risk, may hurt midterm turnout for GOP beyond spat with pro-lifers over lax abortion pill rules.
The second Trump administration increasingly resembles the Biden administration on two issues that played a major role in President Donald Trump's 2024 victory, raising the question of how many foot soldiers Republicans can turn out in November midterms.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blew past its sibling Food and Drug Administration's targeted approvals of updated COVID-19 vaccines for elderly and high-risk Americans, quietly issuing recommendations last week that all healthy adults and children starting at 6 months old take the non-sterilizing mRNA products off-label.
The expansion is even more surprising because the FDA approved Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines without direct human evidence for the efficacy of the new formulations compared to a placebo, putting tens of millions of Americans who still get COVID vaccines for themselves or their children at risk of becoming guinea pigs.
The CDC cryptically cited "legal uncertainties and inquiries" for its one-size-fits-all jab recommendations, which simply reinstate its recommendations from the July 2025 immunization schedule for the upcoming "respiratory illness season."
Heidi Overton, nominee for FDA commissioner, pointedly affirmed at her confirmation hearing last week that the agency has deemed "all" approved vaccines on the market "safe and effective," giving the CDC cover for its off-label push.
Neither the CDC nor Department of Health and Human Services answered Just the News queries to explain the recommendations in light of the FDA's targeted approvals.
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In 2027, Trump's Department of Education Will Begin Limiting Government Loans for "Students" In No-Hope Majors
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I voted for this.
Sounds good, but it's a very limited first step.
The new rule will mostly go after for-profit private "schools" teaching skills like cosmetology. Supposedly non-profit colleges and universities, where the bulk of educational fraud occurs, will mostly be untouched.
But one can hope.
If your degree doesn't pay enough, you can't borrow. Federal loans cut for low-wage programsCollege students pursuing majors, advanced degrees or certifications in fields that consistently earn low incomes will no longer be able to take out federal loans to pay for their schooling under new Trump administration rules.
Many of the degree programs that educate social workers, artists, teacher aides and especially certification programs for barbers and nail technicians are likely to fail a new federal litmus test: Will they make more money upon graduation than if they never enrolled in the first place?
I can't believe this is even controversial.
The new federal rule, finalized this month by the Education Department, comes amid a national crisis in student loan defaults -- and is part of a larger effort to ensure a college degree or professional certification serves as an avenue for economic advancement rather than a debt trap.It has also provoked debate over whether the mission of higher education -- and help paying for it -- should be tied to a paycheck after graduation.
But unlike other aspects of the administration's education actions, the new policy has relatively broad support, with some student advocates saying it should be tougher.
The Education Department hasn't yet calculated the final data against which institutions will be judged, leaving uncertainty on exactly what programs will face consequences.
The vast majority of bachelor's and advanced degree programs at public and nonprofit colleges and universities are expected to be safe, with about 3% expected to fail, according to the department's estimates.
Those are rookie numbers. We need to get that up to 50%.
But maybe this is the "foot in the door" to achieve a more sane policy.
However, about 33% of programs at for-profit schools are expected to fail.Overall, 4.2% of students who receive federal loans or grants are enrolled in programs expected to fail the new benchmark, according to the Education Department. An estimated 5.2% of programs overall may fail, but not all students take out federal loans.
"For the first time in a very long time ... institutions and college leaders are going to be held accountable," said Michael Itzkowitz, president of the education research organization HEA Group. "They are going to start looking and paying more attention to economic outcomes than they ever have before."
We need to greatly expand the rule to cover the Fake Majors at "real" colleges.
These students will never be able to pay their loans back, because the "fields" they're "studying" have no economic use and therefore they will get a degree to become a low-paid barista. Then the taxpayer will have to absorb the loss of the never-repaid loan.
They write it off, Jerry. They just write it off.
Another benefit is that many of these "majors" are actually just training to become bitter revolutionaries. Many "subjects" taught in college now are just Marxist agitation towards chaos and tumult. Far from being a benefit to society, these fields train "students" to undermine and attack society.
And these Fake Majors contribute to the growing problem of what is called "the overproduction of elites," though I reject the word "elites" here. Scholars have noted that societies become unstable and violent when universities produce too many "elites" -- I would call them "aspirants to the elite," because they're failed would-be elites, not actual elites. People get degrees with the belief that they're tickets to an upper-class lifestyle and find out that they're not qualified for any job with an upper-class salary, or even a middle-class salary. They become savagely bitter and attack society itself, animated not only by the ideological tenets of Marxism but overpowering rage at a system that has "failed" them.
Maybe it was designed to do just this. The system is rigged to produce millions of useless-but-entitled, bitter, angry Democrat Socialists.
Medical schools strictly limit how many students are allowed into an actually necessary field which really is a ticket to the upper levels of the upper class. Medical schools make sure there is no overproduction of doctors. (Though many believe that they have become an unreasonably restrictive cartel, under-producing doctors to make sure that every doctor, no matter how unskilled, becomes wealthy.)
If medical schools do this, why don't colleges also limit how many students enroll in African America Experiences In Media? Why do they not try to limit how many very-important Feminist Critiques of Macho Culture in Gay Communities "scholars" are produced?
Since they won't limit the number of "elites" going into these fields, the government will just have to limit how much public money is loaned out to students in these no-hope, Barista Prep fields.
The Morning Rant: CAFE Is Neutered, But Not Dead Yet!
—CBD
The pathetic and impossible manipulations of the automobile market perpetrated by a series of ignorant administrations came to a head with the drooling imbecile figurehead named Joe Biden. Mandating an impossible 50 miles/gallon for 2031 was wishcasting on a grand scale. It is impossible to achieve without destroying the market for large automobiles and shifting America to tiny econo-boxes with ridiculous technology designed without attention to what consumers actually want.
But...that's what they want! The idea of sacrificing another American industry on the altar of ClimateChangeTM was (and is) the Democrat Party's wet dream! Imagine all of the people who would sign up for government assistance! All the new programs to retrain workers for the new green economy!
Thankfully, the current administration realized that CAFE was just another tool to destroy our economy, and gutted the future standard.
Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump's New, Realistic Automobile Efficiency Standards
President Trump’s decision to rescind the Biden administration’s deadly, costly, EV diktat is long-overdue. Government shouldn’t be in the business of deciding what types of cars and trucks people drive, nor be telling automakers, in the face of consumer demand as indicated through sales, that fuel economy is what they should care about the most. A fetishistic fear of climate change should not dictate American transportation policies. Thank you, President Trump, for putting average American drivers first.-- H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. The Heartland Institute
Just not enough! They have allowed an increase from the current 30 miles/gallon to 35 miles/gallon by 2031. Instead of allowing consumer demand to drive technological improvement, the government did what all governments everywhere throughout history have done...tell us what to do. So the car companies will build shitty little cars that get good mileage so their average fuel economy will satisfy the government edict. That's not how markets work!
Anyone who has ever driven a modern car understands how ridiculous some of the solutions have been. That maddening auto-shut-off that kills the engine at seemingly random times when the car is stopped? Does anybody like that? Does anyone believe that adding thousands of additional starting cycles to a starter and engine is a good idea? Or the disappearance of spare tires because their weight cuts into fuel economy? What about the millions of people who get stranded and have to spend time and money for a tow to a tire shop instead of spending 15 minutes to change the tire themselves?
All of these "innovations" have opportunity costs that are borne by the consumer, but are not calculated into the decision. The auto companies are fixated on meeting CAFE, not improving the total cost of owning and operating an automobile. And that is government's fault!
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The Morning Report — 9/ 29 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good Morning Kids. Let's start off with a couple of blood pressure-raising items and then ask a simple question. First off we have this rancid, repugnant despicable skank from Beantown...
. . . Registration documents tell enrollees that no legal status is required to earn a grant. “Classes cover organizing, public narrative, city government, immigration history, racism, and equity,” according to the New Bedford Guide. The program is also sponsored by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, which funds deportation-defense lawyers and opposes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Wu’s administration is paying migrants $575 to enroll in a ten-week civic-engagement and community-organizing course to help migrants grow their political power to replace Americans.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a $1.4 billion U.S.-based charity with funding from the Rockefeller family and other donors, has forged a "dangerous partnership with Communist China" and is pouring millions of dollars into China-based nonprofits that are advancing the Chinese Communist Party's foreign policy goals.That's one of the findings in a new report, "The Rockefeller Network: How the Rockefeller Family Turned Their Oil Fortune into Extreme Climate Activism," out today from Americans for Public Trust, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative watchdog organization.
Johnson revealed his thoughts about AI data centers during an appearance on Fox Business when host Cheryl Casone suggested that China has been stoking the opposition. “This is what Democrats do. Every election cycle they find something to glom onto and say that this is doom and gloom and everyone will die if we don’t win,” Johnson said. “Don’t buy it. This is a Chinese psyop. I really believe that. That’s not a conspiracy theory.”
I don't disagree, but certainly our own homegrown Luddite Communist scum are stoking the fears on their own, of course the Chi-Coms have the cash and wherewithal to fuel the propaganda campaigns against AI and for the insane Communists now running the Democrat Party in the hopes of derailing and hastening the destruction of America post November of this year and two years from now.
To this I ask of you all, where are our death squads?! Of course contrary to the Leftist blood-libels we are not racist Nazi white supremacists — we are tolerant to a fault, way too tolerant given that the wolves are now quite literally at our throats.
At the barest of bare minimums why are Wu the Rockefellers and all the other ne'er-do-well miscreant scions who commit treason by throwing billions of their forbears' wealth to those who seek our destruction, not in orange jumpsuits facing a life of pounding big boulders into pebbles.
A candidate seeking the State Senate District 47 seat in the November General Election was convicted recently of felony charges and sentenced on Thursday to seven years with two years to serve in a state prison. Or the Georgia State Senate. Justin Grant Gillespie, 41, of Hull, was convicted in a bench trial before Madison County Superior Court Judge Chris NeSmith, who found him guilty of cruelty to children and battery.
Meh, considering the past 200 years of our history, this is a nothing-burger from the Democrats.
If only we the people of We The People were the tiniest scintilla of the anti-(small d)-democratic fiends they accuse us of being, WOW! Where is our Meir Kahane/Simon Bolivar?!
Just axing the question, as the bromides from my old Brooklyn neighborhood might say. On these and all the other repulsiveness in the linkapalooza, I bid you all to,
Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Victor Davis Hanson: Republicans risk repeating 1992 by failing to counter economic pessimism with the facts about strong growth, falling inflation, rising incomes, and a recovering economy. Remembering the False Gloom and Doom of the 1992 Elections—and the Upcoming Midterms
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Daily Tech News 29 September 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all its rogue AI activity. (Tech Crunch)
Because they are idiots.
- Nvidia has launched a new platform for reining in rogue AI activity. (Tech Crunch)
A profitable market because people are idiots.
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Monday Overnight Open Thread (9/28/26)
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
[16" x 20" acrylic unnamed at this time by Mis. Hum]
Quote I“Go back to Somalia, go live in Somalia then, if America is so bad,” he said. “And it’s not just Ilhan. It’s Ilhan. It’s Mamdani. It’s Sayed.” Former NBA player Royce White.
Quote II“It’s not people like you, I would love to have you on,” Maher said. “I talk about Islam. It’s never personal, and it’s never about race. It’s about ideas. Religion is an opinion; that’s all religion is.” Bill Maher
Quote IIIRevenues often come from activities that those with discretionary funding can afford like golf, the marina, and beer gardens. These activities are traditionally and predominately supported by white users. This racial inequity is born from a history of systemic racism & injustice. Wisconsin Communist Candidate for Gov, David Crowley
Sorry your kind sits on the front porch slugging down malt liquor and not congregating with us high fa-looting pilsner drinkers.
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Noah's Recreational Ark Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The maned wolf has long legs
Little girl missed her older brother, who's now going to Big Kid School. (Elementary school.)
Golden retriever is treated as a threat by kittens, until their mama vouches for him.
A very cute rescued baby elephant.
Corgi helps.
Cat hostess.
Covid hoarding affected dogs, too.
Contagious yawning in cats. I could have told them all about this. I used to fake-yawn to cause a cat to yawn in reply.
The "sky train," a hanging elevated train with windows in the floor.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The farmer who did the UK government's job for it and spotted the terrorists casing the Fairfield air force base says the government, get this, is covering the incident up.
Darren Grimes @darrengrimes
The farmer who called in the RAF Fairford incident has spoken. And she's not having Wes Streeting's spin.There were "definitely more than five," she says. Eight to ten. Faces covered. All dressed the same, "almost you'd have thought perhaps it was what they'd been told to wear."
Five were arrested. All five are now out on bail.
Streeting went on the telly to say she only had a "partial picture." Her reply? Nobody in any official capacity has even been in touch with her.
So: a declared major incident. The one witness from that night says more men were there than were ever arrested. Not one official has picked up the phone to her.
But the Defence Secretary found time to go on the BBC and mark down her account.
Something doesn't add up.
"Well this completely surprises me!" said a baby who was born seven seconds ago.
Report: Google and Microsoft used politically-biased algorithms to block GOP fundraising messages, blocking an estimated $117 in funding for Republican candidates.
I'm sure no one minds such beggary being blocked. But they didn't block so many Democrat begs for money.
A newly published study estimates that Republican fundraisers lost $117 million last year after email providers, chiefly Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, inappropriately flagged GOP fundraising messages as spam while allowing Democrat fundraising emails through.The New York Post reports that the study, authored by Dr. Cameron Ellis of the University of Iowa and Dr. Lars Powell of the University of Alabama, uses itemized Federal Election Commission (FEC) donation records to seperate first-time donors from repeat donors across the Republican platform WinRed and its Democratic counterpart ActBlue, then tracked how donations moved during two stretches of spam filtering last year.
The first stretch ran from June 30, 2025, when the GOP consulting firm Targeted Victory told Google that WinRed fundraising emails were landing in spam, through September 15, 2025, when Google dropped a spam blacklist called SURBL that the researchers say had been improperly flagging the messages. During that window, spam filtering cut first-time WinRed donations by 75 percent across Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo. The second stretch, affecting only Outlook, ran from February through April of last year, and saw first-time WinRed donations drop 83 percent. Together, the two periods cost Republicans 142,126 expected first-time donations, which the researchers converted into $117 million using FEC data.
"It's a pretty big number," Powell told the Post. He said the loss doubled as a gift to the other side. "You can really think of that as an in-kind gift to ActBlue recipients."
EXCLUSIVE: Former WPATH President Linked to Multiple Pro-Pedophilia Academics and Activists Over Several Decades, Previously Advocated for Sex Offender RightsReduxx can reveal that a leading figure behind the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization which promotes the medical 'transitioning' of children, has a long history of working with pro-pedophile academics. Eli Coleman, a former WPATH president who oversaw and influenced the Standards of Care for transgender medical protocols for decades, has professional ties to multiple academics who either defended or advocated favorably for adult-child sexual relations, and had himself previously drafted Standards of Care for sex offenders.
Coleman is an American sexologist, professor emeritus, and former director of the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (previously the Program in Human Sexuality) in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota -- where WPATH was previously based for several years. Coleman was an instrumental figure in the development of WPATH Standards of Care (SOC), specifically contributing to the three most recent iterations: the sixth, seventh, and eighth editions.
Significantly, Coleman served as the Chair and Lead Author for the development of the Standards of Care 8, which recommended the validation of a "eunuch gender identity", and would later be revised to remove specific age limitations on the prescription of puberty-halting drugs to children.
He crusaded to see "eunuch" enshrined as a protected "gender identiy."
Through a series of investigative reports, Reduxx revealed that the Eunuch Archive, the forum sourced by WPATH, was co-founded by a man who would be convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in a pedophile ring. Thomas Pidel was linked to over a dozen individuals who had subscriptions with a Belarus-based child pornography enterprise which sold thousands of paid memberships internationally to access child sexual abuse content.Pidel, who described himself as a "boy lover," was active in multiple Usenet groups dedicated to pedophilia activism and castration fetishism in the years just before his arrest in 2004. Some of the groups Pidel was active in during this time were alt.support.boy-lovers, alt.fan.prettyboy, and alt.eunuchs.questions, the latter of which would become the Eunuch Archive.
The most popular stories in the Eunuch Archive depict the forcible castration of children, and, as previously revealed by Reduxx, of the approximately 10,000 pornographic stories on the site, over one-third involved minors.
Three academics identified exclusively by Reduxx as having played a foundational role in the Eunuch Archive gathered opinions from anonymous forum members which were published as research. The leading figure behind this work, Professor Emeritus Thomas W. Johnson, presented research they co-authored together at a 2009 conference in Oslo held by WPATH.
The collapse of "higher education:"
Companies Are Skeptical of New Graduates. Cornell Has Ideas to Fix That.The authors of Cornell University's new report on "The Future of the American University" asked employers what they thought of America's new graduates, and the results were not flattering.
Companies have a "jarring" skepticism of higher ed, the authors found, thanks to a new generation of degree holders who lack key skills like handling uncertainty, compromising, and absorbing feedback.
That's because they've been taught that they're always right and challenging them is racist, even when -- especially when -- they know absolutely nothing about the topic.
The sprawling, 238-page report -- the latest in a series of self-interrogations by elite universities -- lays out a plan to once again instill essential skills by the time students walk across the commencement stage.The report recommends a series of pedagogical "principles" that Cornell should implement or re-implement. "Sound judgment develops through practice, not transmission," the report says. That is, it's not just important what discipline-specific knowledge students learn, but how they learn it. For the report's authors, the road to "essential capacities needed to thrive in the professional, adult world" runs through the liberal arts.
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To understand newer graduates' preparedness or lack thereof for the workplace, the committee spoke to a variety of organizations and alumni, Phoebe Sengers, one of the co-chairs, told The Chronicle.
One such organization was the Albany-area Chamber of Commerce, in N.Y., where an employee told the committee that companies had reported a greater need for conflict-resolution training, said Ariel Avgar, another co-chair. That squared with reports from the campus: Even graduate-level faculty say that incoming students, despite four years of undergraduate education, are found to be "underdeveloped" in relational skills, said Avgar, a professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
They just completely pretend they can't identify the real problem causing this: Uneducated know-nothings who have been brainwashed into thinking they have the answer to everything, and that answer is Muh Racism. And Muh Sexism, and Muh Transphobia.
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The first commitment, toward "cultivating sound judgment," most directly addresses new graduates' lack of personal development. The report recommends a series of pedagogical fixes, including tightening Cornell's rules on late assignments so that students practice making tough decisions about competing priorities. And the university should anticipate that students will have moments of serious self-doubt, such as when they receive a bad grade in an important course, and "intentionally teach how to respond to negative feedback."
Their big fix? "Group projects." Terrific.
Let's just ignore all of the real problems:
Wesley Yang @wesyang
While she was an undergraduate, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a letter to her college newspaper that included a reference to a completely fabricated claim that Africans visited the Americas long before Columbus and helped the Aztecs build their pyramids.Many prominent black folx in media and politics have similar publication histories from their youth -- Kristen Clarke, who headed the Civil Rights Division of Biden's DOJ, wrote a letter to the Harvard Crimson endorsing the theory that "melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities." Ibram X. Kendi, then writing under his birth name "Henry Rogers", wrote in the Florida A&M student newspaper that wypipo invented AIDS as a biological weapon against non-whites.
One way to look at the 1619 Project was as a kind of gentrification of Black Nationalist cod history (referencing scholarship convergent with such critiques of American history that have proliferated in the last two decades) once typically espoused by a bowtied street preacher outside Brooklyn subway stations.
Pro America Politics @proamericapol🚨JUST IN: The migrant caravan from Honduras barreling towards the United States of America is showing no signs of slowing down.
Reports are coming out that it's GAINING IN NUMBERS.
Their plan is to overwhelm border patrol and force their way into the interior of the United States, where they know Democrats will protect them.
This is a national security threat that we are watching approach in real time.
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Claim: Candace Owens is a Lesbian Who Cheated on Her "Husband" with a Woman, Keeps Multiple Gay Dating Profiles
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Is any of this true? Well, rumors of Candace Owens' preference for ladies have swirled for years.
I guess we can say, like Candace Owens says of ever batty claim she invents, "We don't know-know, but we know."
Esoteric Shaggyism @EsoShaggyCandace Owens is a lesbian who cheated on her husband George Farmer in 2022 with a woman.
4 data leaks from 2007/2008 gay dating profiles connect to her emails, including a University of Rhode Island one.
The "Christian tradwife" lied to her audience about everything. The data leaks are from 2011 & 2016, respectively, before her rise to fame.
The accounts themselves date back nearly 20 years. This was before Candace was known, let alone before her birthday, location, and emails were public. Multiple have not been logged into for over 10-15 years and they were utilized for years.
One account was logged into on January 12th, 2022, while she was married and had kids.
"Candamo" is short for "Candace Amber Owens". The 429 in her usernames and emails stands for her birthday, April 29th.
Candamo429 is incredibly specific. The only instance of it being used is for Candace Owens' 2008 YouTube channel, which features a video with her face, voice, and name in the credits for a URI video.
Only 1 Candace Amber Owens attended the University of Rhode Island from 2007-2010. One dating profile is named "Cdot429", which matches Candace's mid 2015 Cdotamber Flickr page and her email Cdotamber429. Cdotamber, Cdot429 and Cdotamber429 are specific.
Every single one of the profiles is solely oriented towards women, with multiple identifying as lesbian and even the bi ones only expressing an interest in women. The way these websites work is if you select "interested in women," only women show up, listing as bi wouldn't make men appear.
Getting into the profiles, 3 were on one site. One, Fling, was on another but is only visible via a 2011 data leak.
Profile 1 - LickyouinRI: Candace Owens describes her sexuality as bi, but only lists an interest in seeking out women. Candace's bio has a savant-like tone.
This account details Candace's desire and passion for the female anatomy. She considers herself an expert at this.
The email attached to this account is an EDU email for the University of Rhode Island and links to her MySpace page. That MySpace page has her name and features a previously unknown photo of Candace in Young Steff's music video.
Profile 2 - collegefuck5: Candace states her intentions in her name. Candace exclusively shows interest in women and licking them.
It also requests a group session with a female couple! No men allowed by the author of "Make Him a Sandwich". That's despite listing herself as bi.
This profile is important because it was last logged into on January 12th, 2022, years after her marriage and first child.
There's no reason to log in again and not delete your gay dating account as a married woman with children. That is, unless you're cheating on your husband with a woman.
I tested it, and it takes about 4 clicks to delete your account on this site. You don't even need access to your email. Even if Candace lost access to her email, she could delete her account easily. Yet she logged in and didn't!
Candace hilariously lists her race as "East Indian" because her grandfather who came from St. Thomas.
This dating profile mentions being a college student from Kingston, Rhode Island, where the University of Rhode Island has its main campus.
Profile 3 - cdot429: Candace Owens lists herself as "lesbian" and states her location is Stamford, Connecticut, her hometown. This profile solicits a discreet encounter with "no strings attached." Candace last used this profile in 2013, confirming she identifies as a lesbian.
The height matches Candace Owens. The email is linked to a Candace Owens from Stamford, CT, who goes by "Candamo429".
Profile 4 - letmelickyou13. This profile is accessible via leaks. All that is shown is that it's exclusively interested in women.
This profile continues the licking theme.
More at the link, including further arguments about the obviously-dishonest woman lying about everything at the link.
He emphasizes that Candace Owens is one of the many pseudoright grifters pretending to be super-religious and "trad," despite being nothing of the sort.
He wrote up these findings at his blog.
Some screenshots of the suspected "Candace Amber Owens" dating profiles below.
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Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Netflix appointed feminist DEI director Greta Gerwig to direct its new Narnia series -- based, of course, on the very clear Christian allegory book by C.S. Lewis. An allegory so obvious that even fellow Christian J.R.R. Tolkien thought it was a bit much.
The feminist did exactly what you'd guess she would do -- she has gender-flipped Aslan, the clear Christ figure in the story.
Meryl Streep is officially Aslan in Barbie Director Greta Gerwig's Netflix adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia.After more than a year of reports and speculation surrounding Greta Gerwig's upcoming adaptation of The Magician's Nephew, Streep has now been confirmed as the voice of C.S. Lewis' Great Lion -- one of the most explicitly Christian figures in modern fantasy literature.
But that's only the beginning.
Gerwig has also revealed that her interpretation of Narnia draws heavily from 1960s and 1970s British rock, that she approached the movie with the idea of making a "rock opera," and that her new version of Aslan has been visually inspired by David Bowie.
For longtime Narnia readers -- and particularly the generations of Christians for whom Lewis' books carry enormous spiritual significance -- there's a lot to unpack here.
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The available material continues to describe Aslan as male, so this doesn't appear to be a straightforward gender swap in which Aslan has been rewritten as a lioness or female deity. Rather, Gerwig has cast a woman to provide the voice of the male Aslan.
I think they're just calling him a "he" for the moment, to tamp down on backlash.
They only have three tricks -- deconstruct; rewrite to propagandize about Current Day Isssues; race- and gender-flip -- and they just do these same three tricks over and over, and then demand praise.
Groomer Network Disney will enable ads on its channel -- even for subscribers who are paying extra to not see ads at all.
Disney has updated its subscriber agreement in parts of Europe to expressly permit advertising before or after content across every Disney+ plan, including tiers marketed as ad-free.
Disney's U.S. agreement already allows limited promotions, sponsorship messages, product integrations, and certain other exceptions on ad-free plans. However, the newly reported European language more explicitly permits "advertisements before/after playback" on all tiers.
Sony's new Gay Wolverine game -- which features a homosexual yearning between Wolverine and his nemesis, and half-brother, Sabertooth -- is being censored in Middle East countries do to its "Pride" content.
Players in parts of the Middle East say regional copies of Marvel's Wolverine have been altered so that Mystique's marriage to Tyger is hard to see and, in some scenes, hard to hear. The reports began circulating days after the PlayStation 5 launch and have since been repeated across gaming sites, including coverage that collected player screenshots, a letter with the text blocked out, and a compilation clip from Reddit.Insomniac Games' story treats Mystique and Tyger as wives. In versions players describe as Middle East copies, that framing does not survive intact. A framed wedding photograph can still be picked up, but the image itself is blank or fully blurred. A letter tied to the couple is likewise unreadable. Spoken lines that mention "wife" drop out while the rest of the scene's audio keeps going. Subtitles in those moments replace the word with asterisks. One player wrote that the cuts first looked like a glitch, then repeated often enough that they no longer did. Another post aimed at Insomniac asked why Mystique's relationship had been removed in Lebanon.
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The pattern is not new for this studio's Marvel games. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was previously changed for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, including pride flags and a side quest built around a same-sex couple.
The game, by the way, is bad. Skill Up says it's one of the worst Triple A releases he's played. In addition to being repetitive, it's also low-skill to a fault. The game's levels are the typical single-path linear tracks, but the game assumes you are stupid and points out the way to go, using Wolverine's "scent" ability to draw a glowing bright blue trail for you to follow, and won't let you lose Quick Time Events.
This itself seems to be a political choice. If you're not a gamer, you probably don't know that there's an argument in the gaming world about whether games should require skill and should be difficult to beat, or if they should be "for everyone" and hand you a win just for pushing the top arrow button. I'm a very casual gamer myself so I appreciate games having an easy or moderate mode, but this game seems to take that to extremes, and doesn't offer a harder difficulty for those who want to actually beat a game using skill.
Skill is racist and discriminatory.
It's going to bomb, terribly. And it cost over $300 million. (Yes, Triple A titles cost as much to produce as big spectacular blockbuster movies.)
This guy says his estimates show that while the game sold okay for its first three days, word of mouth has collapsed sales since then:
JayViper @JayViperTV
🚨 WOLVERINE SALES HAVE PLUMMETED.According to Alinea Analytics, Wolverine made $130 million from Tuesday to early Friday morning, last week. That was a reported 1.9 million copies.
Since that time, it has only made approximately $18 million. This includes the weekend! This represents about 2.3 million copies, so 400K have moved since Friday morning until today, Tuesday.
Wolverine's falloff has been historic, if these numbers are correct, so I checked my own which were close to Alinea's.
My data shows that when I had it at ~1.4M units on Thursday, that now accounts for about 66% of all sales, so my estimate puts total sales at 2.1 million (as of YESTERDAY; my data lags by 1 day).
So yes, it does look like the Wolverine sales have stalled, hard.
Zach Snyder is in director jail -- where they put directors who've had a run of poor-performing films -- after the very divisive results with the DC movies and then the much-mocked Rebel Moon Star Wars copy-pastes he did for Netflix.
So, to get himself out of director jail, he's refuting his rumored conservative leanings and telling everyone he loves The Gays.
Despite having a loyal fanbase and several blockbusters under his belt, Zack Snyder may be finding that Hollywood's doors no longer open as quickly as they once did.During a lengthy interview with Variety promoting his new film, The Last Photograph, at the Toronto International Film Festival, the director addressed several assumptions frequently made by his critics. He also attempted to distance himself from the perception that he is somehow "right wing."
His comments come as Snyder searches for a distributor for his latest effort, which appears far more grounded than his action epics. During the same interview, Snyder called himself "pro-gay" and described 300 as "the gayest movie ever made." There is no indication that these remarks represent a coordinated effort to make The Last Photograph more appealing to a left-leaning industry, but the timing is difficult to ignore.
During the interview, Snyder argued that his films are frequently dismissed simply because he made them.
"With me, it's more clickable to say, 'I hate Zack Snyder! He's a fascist!' than it is to say, 'I saw the movie and it was cool,'" Snyder said. "Nobody gives a f-- about that. And obviously, I'm not a fascist."
The Last Photograph, an independently produced film from Snyder, is already receiving harsh reviews. Major outlets have described it as "pretentious," "superficial," "miserable," and "undercooked." Until general audiences can see the film for themselves, however, it remains unclear whether those criticisms will reflect the broader reception.
Still, Snyder appears optimistic and is already looking ahead to future projects. That is where the conversation becomes particularly interesting.
The Variety interviewer asked Snyder whether there were any other films he was "just dying to make."
The director admitted that he still wants to make a Rick and Morty movie.
"It would be fun," Snyder said. He then added, "For the longest time, I've been trying to make The Fountainhead into a movie or into TV show because it's too long. I've written it.
When Variety pointed out that adapting the famous Ayn Rand novel was unlikely to "help with the right-wing allegations," Snyder quickly agreed.
"I was going to say! That's not going to help," Snyder said. "But it's an undeniably great book. What people don't realize is that The Fountainhead in the 1950s was like Harry Potter now in terms of popularity. It was off the charts. Even just the why of that is worth it. And The Fountainhead is an insane melodrama. That'll probably be my magnum opus. I'll probably die on that one."
He's also pitching himself as the right director for a Dark Knight Returns live action production, though he stole much of the plot of that for his poorly-received Batman v. Superman movie.
I don't hate the guy for trying to ingratiate himself to his Leftist Masters. He's in steep career decline and can't afford the industry being against him just because his politics are slightly right of center (maybe?).
But I don't think this is going to work. SJWs never forgive. They don't even forgive imaginary sins.
Mark Ruffalo actually wind up helping Paramount/Skydance win in its effort to buy Warner/Discovery? Maybe -- the communist imbecile was a loud and angry agitator against the merger, but he may have blown up his side by attempting his own merger, merging the fake "anti-trust" concerns with open antisemtism.
Mark Ruffalo spent months fighting to stop Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, in a remarkable twist, a new report claims the actor's crusade may have actually helped Paramount get the deal across the finish line.The New York Post reports that California Attorney General Rob Bonta faced mounting political pressure to settle his antitrust lawsuit against Paramount, with Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and others pushing toward a resolution as concerns grew about the potential economic consequences of continuing the fight.
But according to people cited by the Post, Ruffalo's increasingly vocal involvement became another problem for Bonta.
The report describes Ruffalo as a "constant opponent" of a settlement and says the actor made what sources characterized as a damaging mistake when he connected his opposition to the Ellison family with Oracle's contracts involving Israel.
One person familiar with the situation told the Post that Ruffalo's comments "hurt Bonta's effort" and created political problems for the attorney general among fellow Democrats.
Ruffalo had become one of Hollywood's most visible opponents of David Ellison's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
The actor helped spearhead an opposition campaign that collected signatures from thousands of entertainment industry workers. Earlier in the fight, Bonta even publicly acknowledged Ruffalo's concerns, writing in February, "Mark, I hear you," while saying he was speaking with fellow attorneys general about the transaction.
But Ruffalo's campaign eventually expanded beyond traditional antitrust concerns.
In August, Paramount accused Ruffalo of employing antisemitic tropes after he criticized the Ellisons and Oracle's business relationship with Israel.
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The controversy nevertheless became entangled with the merger fight, with National Jewish Advocacy Center head Mark Goldfeder publicly questioning Bonta about Ruffalo's influence on the case.
The Post now reports that the episode proved politically damaging to Bonta's efforts.
Tasty.
What's even tastier is that the Ellisons are seeking Elon Musk's investment in the company.
Paramount executives reportedly have discussed asking billionaire Elon Musk to take an equity stake in its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery -- a move that could fuel the burgeoning panic among CNN staffers.Hollywood mogul David Ellison is looking to build up his media empire's finances ahead of the mega merger, and has been mulling over several wealthy individuals who could back the deal, according to a Semafor report. The size of the investment that Paramount is seeking is unclear.
His father, Oracle founder and Trump ally Larry Ellison, is currently on the hook for more than $40 billion of the equity financing supporting the acquisition, and a contribution from Musk -- a close friend -- could help reduce the burden, the report said.
An investment from Musk could incite uproar at left-leaning CNN, where staffers are already in a panic about potential layoffs and who will be in charge of the network once David Ellison takes over, sources told The Post.
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Layoffs weren't addressed in detail by the California settlement -- and employees at both companies fear a bloodbath in the months ahead.
"When it rains...[it pours]," one CNN source said of the Musk news. "It's really scary given what he did at X and DOGE."
Love it.
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Three Years After a Gang of Immigrants Stabbed Innocent People While Declaring "We Are Here to Stab White People," French Judges Finally Charge the Killers with Murder -- and Anti-White Racism
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The attack occurred three years ago.
I do not know why the decision to finally charge them with murder comes three years after the crime.
Nine members of a gang that descended upon a small French village to "stab white people" have been arrested after leaving one dead and 16 injured.
During a village winter ball in Crépol on Saturday evening, a gang of "outsiders" descended on the French village and went on a rampage that left a sixteen-year-old boy named Thomas dead and 16 others aged between 16 and 65 injured. The dance had seen around 300 of the 532 members of the village attend.On Tuesday, the government announced per Le Figaro that it had arrested nine individuals in connection to the horrific attack on the. Reports have claimed that the band of young male attackers came from the La Monnaie neighborhood of Romans-sur-Crépol. The area has been associated with rampant issues involving drug trafficking and was the site of widespread unrest during the racially-inspired riots across France in July following the police shooting of an Algerian heritage teenager.
While police have yet to disclose any information about the backgrounds of the alleged attackers, Le Dauphiné Libéré newspaper reported that a young local man who was stabbed during the spree claimed that the knifemen pronounced their intent to specifically kill white people.
"We were having fun, we were among friends, having a good time together and a little towards the end, some people arrived. I heard that there was commotion outside, there was a crowd, I went out, I was stabbed in the shoulder and back, I saw my friend Thomas being stabbed, I was scared, I went back into the room," he said.
"I saw another friend of mine get stuck in the back, I compressed his wound to make a tourniquet, he was hit in the kidney. It was horror. For me, it was clearly an attack. The attackers said: 'We are here to stab white people'."
Now, three years later,
judges have finally charged them not just with murder but with anti-white, anti-France murders.
This is France, so judges actually bring the charges. I don't understand this whole system.
Nearly three years after the mob stabbings allegedly carried out by a group of youths at a dance party in the small French village of Crépol, judges have determined to charge 12 defendants with murder and attempted murder with the aggravating circumstance of "racism against white people and the French nation".
"Indeed, both the analysis of certain cell phones and wiretaps demonstrated that some of them possessed information about the events or the perpetrators, information they took care to conceal."The decision by the judges to charge the defendants with crimes aggravated by anti-white racism came despite the local Valence public prosecutor's office saying that while there were "racist insults" made by both parties during the incident, they could not determine a racial motive behind the attack.
This desire to cover-up, yet again, for violent foreign terrorists could be what has caused the three year delay.
Le Figaro reported that the ruling came after the judges were presented with evidence from the General Alliance Against Racism and for Respect for French and Christian Identity (AGRIF), which has become a civil party involved in the case and is representing two young men who were present at the Crépol dance on the night of the attack.However, three defence lawyers involved in the case have appealed the aggravating circumstance of racism and filed a motion calling for the recusal of the investigating judges who made the ruling.
Commenting on the decision to include charges of anti-white racism, the Mayor of Romans-sur-Isère, Marie-Hélène Thoraval, said that she welcomed the news.
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Due to French privacy laws, the defendants have not been publicly named. Contemporaneous reports claimed that at least one of the alleged attackers was "of North African origin" while another was said to have had "a historically French first and last name".
Update to Fairfield Terror Bombing story:
If you're worried the UK government is being too hard on these future doctors and engineers and space wizards, don't worry, they've already released the flight-risk terrorists on bail.
British Counter Terrorism Police officials said on Monday that the suspects in the alleged terror plot on the Royal Air Force base at Fairford on Sunday have been released on bail, while only being identified publicly as "British nationals".Amid a growing chorus for more information, UK authorities released a limited description of the five men alleged to have attempted to use explosives to attack RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, which is a defacto U.S. Air Force base, including during Operation Epic Fury against the Islamist regime in Iran earlier this year.
According to the BBC, citing counter-terror officials, all five suspects are "British nationals", meaning that they have British citizenship. It is currently unclear whether all men were born in Britain, migrated to the country and were later granted passports, or have British ancestry.
The disclosure, which also omitted the suspects' names, stated only that they were London residents, including a 24-year-old from Camden, a 24-year-old from Willesden, and three men aged 23, 24, and 25 from Westminster. Due to recent demographic changes as a result of mass migration, all three areas of the British capital are now multicultural hubs, where the white British population has been relegated to minorities.
Speaking outside of Scotland Yard on Monday, the head of Counterterrorism Police, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, said that the five suspects have been released on bail after "extensive interviews". He cautioned that their release does not mean the investigation is over.
Yes it is. It's over.
Liberal Media Hack Terry Moran: I Tried to Report on Biden's Mental Decline, Which I Saw First-Hand, but the Disney Groomer Network "Shut Down Very Hard" My Pitch
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is a six-day old story but I don't know if I covered it.
Moran got fired from the Disney Groomer Network last year. He's now free to tell tales out of school.
Former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran says network brass "shut down very hard" his attempt to report on former President Joe Biden's health in late 2023 or early 2024 -- after he had grown concerned about the the commander-in-chief's condition while traveling with him months earlier."I tried to do the story of Biden's health before anybody else did in network, because I'd seen it and I got shut down very hard," Moran said during an appearance on The Daily Beast Podcast.
Moran, who left ABC amid a spat over one of his social media posts, said he traveled with Biden to Japan in the spring of 2023 and closely watched the then-80-year-old president.
"I thought, okay, he's still functioning, but man, he's frail," said Moran.
"He looked like he'd blow away in a stiff wind and his voice was getting lower and lower."
By late 2023 or early 2024, Moran said he believed Biden's condition had become a legitimate story -- and pitched his ABC colleagues and news bosses in an email.
"I wrote an email to everybody as gently and as respectfully as I could," Moran said. "I think I still have it."Moran said he stressed that he was not attempting to make a medical diagnosis, but argued that Biden's apparent condition was a legitimate concern for voters.
"I'm not a doctor. I'm not diagnosing," the journo said.
"But we all know what we know when we see people fading. We all have had grandparents. We're all getting old ourselves. And so there's no doubt about it, this is a legitimate concern for the voters of America," he said.
But Moran said ABC effectively told him to back off.
"This is the medical unit's business. It's not yours, basically," Moran said he was told. "And that was that."
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Possible Suspect in 1982 Tylenol Cyanide Poisoning Named
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This article recalls the 1982 Tylenol killings and the national panic it caused.
It turns out tomorrow is the 44th anniversary of the first death:
On Sept. 29, 1982, seventh-grader Mary Ann Kellerman complained to her parents of a sore throat. In turn, she took an Extra-Strength Tylenol to ease her symptoms. However, her condition became much worse. Adam Janus, a postal worker, similarly took Tylenol and was unable to wake up from his nap. He was taken to the emergency room in critical condition and unfortunately passed away in the hospital.
A California chemist who had worked with Lockheed Martin killed himself months after the Chicago-area Tylenol poisonings.
He killed himself in an Idaho church. At the time, his identity was unknown. Police called him the "Unknown Wanderer." He had $1900 in cash in his pocket with instructions to use the money to pay for his cremation. The note was signed "Wm. L. Toomey," but no man of that name was found to exist.
His method of suicide was taking cyanide. But it was a different form of cyanide than that used to poison the Tylenol capsules. That can be explained away by wanting to hide his identity as the killer (if he is the killer).
Reportedly, he told coworkers that he thought cyanide would be an effective way to kill people without being caught.
But maybe not.
A man found dead in a church halfway across the country may have suddenly unlocked the key -- quite literally -- to one of America's most famous unsolved crimes.
On Dec. 4, 1982, a parishioner at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Boise found a man collapsed under a pew. She had worked as a nurse, so she quickly recognized the man was either dying or already dead. A priest was summoned to give his last rites, and police came not long after. In the dead man's pockets were a typed suicide note and $1,900. The note said the money was enough to cover his cremation and any additional funds should be donated to the church. It was signed Wm. L. Toomey.
No such man existed. His fingerprints came up empty for matches, and it seemed like his sandy-colored hair might have been a dye job to conceal his appearance. Even a feature on "Unsolved Mysteries" in 1990 did nothing to uncover the identity of the man dubbed the Unknown Wanderer. All that was known for sure was that he had used cyanide to kill himself.The case went cold, but in 2019 Ada County Sheriff's Office cold case investigator Tim Cooper took a fresh look at the evidence. Among the items preserved since 1982 was an engraved key found in the man's possession. Cooper traced it to a neighborhood in Jacksonville, Fla. He learned a homeowner there disappeared in 1982, and he was eventually declared dead in absentia. His name was Dr. Mathew Betkouski.
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But although he had a successful career, working at one point for Lockheed Martin on a NASA-related project in New Mexico, Betkouski had a reputation for making unsettling comments. Former coworkers told Cooper that Betkouski spoke of how to commit a "perfect crime," had a "history of volatility" and referenced cyanide as an ideal way to kill without detection. He also mentioned putting poison in over-the-counter medication, an especially worrisome comment coming from someone who had worked in multiple drugstores.
"It was said that Dr. Betkouski attempted to obtain some type of pills or capsules from a pharmacy in the Las Cruces area," Cooper said at a press conference last week. "He said this would be for an experiment. For reasons not fully understood, Dr. Betkouski created a disturbance at the location and the police were summoned."
Less than three months before Betkouski killed himself, a national terror was unfolding in Chicago. In late September 1982, seven people took over-the-counter Tylenol for their usual aches and pains. The capsules had been opened and filled with potassium cyanide, killing the people who took them. The crimes sent widespread panic throughout the country. At the time, tamper-proof seals were not standard, and investigators believed someone had swapped in the poison after the bottles were placed on shelves. Johnson & Johnson issued one of the largest pharmaceutical recalls in American history as investigators tried to find the culprit.
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Now, Ada County detectives think Betkouski may be a compelling suspect. He and his wife divorced the year before the Tylenol murders, and he killed himself in the months after the Chicago cases.
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Five Middle Eastern "UK Nationals" Arrested In Plot to Bomb Fairfield, UK Air Force Base Used by B-1 Bombers
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Five Middle Eastern and, for some reason, shirtless men were spotted by farmers acting suspiciously near the Fairfield, UK air force base.
Five men who were arrested on suspicion of explosive and terrorism offences after a major incident was declared at an RAF airbase in the west of England are due to be released on police bail.Three vans were spotted near RAF Fairford in the early hours of Sunday morning and the police were called, before a huge police operation in Gloucestershire saw the area put under cordon.
Head of Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said on Monday that officers were exploring "multiple lines of inquiry", including whether proxies or individuals knowingly or unknowingly working on behalf of a foreign state were involved.
The five men are all UK nationals in their 20s from London.
...Gloucestershire Police said it received a call about "three suspicious vehicles" travelling towards RAF Fairford at 00:45 BST on Sunday.
Five men were later arrested by its officers near Whelford, a village which lies directly east of the base.
A bomb disposal team was also deployed to the village to examine a number of vehicles, police said, around which a 400m (1,312ft) cordon is in place.
Aerial pictures showed a remote-controlled robot approaching two stationary white vans in a wooded area, though its use has not been confirmed by police.
CTP is leading the investigation into the incident. The BBC understands the operation was not intelligence led.
A cordon remains in place around the scene as counter-terrorism investigators continue their work.
Supposedly the terrorists are "UK Nationals."
That is, immigrants granted citizenship.
Sophy Ridge
@SophyRidgeSkyBREAK: Five men arrested over RAF Fairford are all UK nationals, all from London, all in their early twenties
The media always high-fives each other at the "victory" of discovering that Muslim terrorists are technically citizens. They get to say "it wasn't an immigrant, racist!" without noting that they are almost all immigrants granted citizenship, or the offspring of immigrants.
They don't understand that it hurts their deranged ideological position that these are technically "citizens." It shows that that the naturalization process does not work and that people from Muslim countries retain their culture including the cultural approval of jihadi violence.
Just Saying. @Baz704Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale who beheaded Lee rigby were UK nationals as was:
Salman Abedi: M/C bomber: 22 dead
Khurram Shazad Butt: 2017 London Bridge: 8 dead
Usman Khan: 2019 London Bridge stabbings: 2 dead
Mohammed Siddique Khan, Shazad Tanweer, Jermaine Lindsay, and Hasib Hussain. 7/7/05 London bombings: 52 dead
I could go on.
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