Wednesday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
@photo_scarlet
Supposedly a real shot, not a composite,
taken at Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
An alligator attacks its handler so a spectator jumps in and wrestles the alligator to submission.
Fun with forced perspective.
Old but cute: Giant seal poses with family.
Alpaca has my fifth-grade haircut. So stylish!
Town builds statue to commemorate day that citizens formed human chain to pull a dog out of a dangerously-fast canal.
This seems like it would be pretty distracting.
Programmers designed the worst-possible volume controls for a computer or phone. I will implement these into the site ASAP
I think we have a dog hoarding situation here.
Kittens practice pouncing on each other.
Via Mark1971, a woman was attacked by a river otter, who turns out to be, as nurse ratched always says, evil. Caution for video showing a woman's face bloodied by the evil river otter.
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Hundreds of Thousands of Spanish Citizens Pour Into the Streets to Protest the Socialist Quisling Pedro Sanchez and Show Support for the Besieged Town of Ceuta;
Sanchez Sics the Riot Police On Them
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Europa.com @europa3h
🇪🇸 A crowd of thousands has taken to the streets in Madrid to display the widespread anger over the Ceuta crisis caused by migrants from Morocco and the handling of the situation by Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez.
And in other cities and towns, too, like Valencia and Zaragoza.
Nationwide migrant protests prompt appeals for calm in Ceuta, Spain's North African territoryDemonstrations are due to be held across Spain on Wednesday evening "in solidarity" with Ceuta, the Spanish city in North Africa, which faced an influx of about 72,000 migrants from Morocco in late July.
...Nearly five weeks ago, around 72,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta from Morocco, with scores dying in the process. While most have since returned home, around 10,000 remain stranded in makeshift camps or on the streets.
"Stranded." Definition: When you illegally cross into a foreign country and refuse to leave.
"Stranded" in context: Illegal aliens rushed past Ceuta's fences and squatted in the city. They refused to leave. They were stranded by the Ceuta authorities who did not provide them with permission to remain.
Another example: I tried to hold up a Wa-Wa by gunpoint. When I tried to enter the store with my gun drawn, they dropped the security gates, stranding me outside. But I wanted them to give me money and cartons of cigarettes. I was stranded by evil-doers!
Their presence has triggered near-daily protests by locals against the Spanish government's handling of the issue, with demonstrators calling for the migrants to be sent back to their countries of origin or redistributed across Spain.
"The government has failed to act in a critical situation. It's spiralling out of control. We're tired, just like those who came are getting tired, and tensions are rising. There's a point where this will become a powder keg," said a resident called Lola.
Let's hope.
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Surprise! Communist Theater-Kid Jihadi Zohran Mamdani Has an Army of 200 Left-Wing Influencers Paid by Taxpayers Who Praise Him to Their Followers
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Here's the scam: He has these 200 influencers. City taxpayers pay them, it is claimed, to post about non-partisan things, like "Oh Central Park is lovely in the late summer, you should go."
And then, supposedly "on the side," they post loving tributes to the gay jihadi.
See, the payments only cover the promotion of Broadway and Central Park. The constant propaganda for Zohran Mamdani they do for free, as a side-gig.
Can I be paid to post nice things about New York City? I'd keep doing my anti-Mamdani posts, but for free, as my side-gig. I like Central Park. I can promote the ice rink.
Something tells me my application would not be seriously considered.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani assembled an army of nearly 200 "influencers," giving the social media stars VIP access to push the lefty administration's talking points, a new bombshell report revealed.The web of online personalities are being fed talking points by City Hall through an encrypted Signal group text, potentially running afoul of local record-keeping laws, according to the study by the Columbia Journalism Review.
Some influencers are even pocketing taxpayer funds "for work on particular messaging campaigns," though not for their coverage, the report states.
The official Mamdani cheerleaders chat spawned from Creators4Zohran, a motley crew of influencers convened during his social media-savvy mayoral campaign last year, according to the report.
"A group of content creators and influencers, the Creators4Zohran group that supported his election campaign was reconfigured to promote coverage and talking points from the Mayor's office," the report reads.
"The group is run by the Director of New Media and Cultural Communications at the NYC Office of the Mayor, Emilia Rowland, and her staff, and members of the group receive daily updates, talking points and clips that they can use in their posts."
How much influencers were paid, or if at all, was unclear.
Political insiders who have worked with their ilk have told The Post that influencers don't work for free if involved in specific campaigns, like pushes for vaccinations or public service announcements.
Influencers would eventually look for some sort of compensation for carrying the mayor's water, insiders said.
One influencer highlighted by Creators4Zohran, Allie O'Brien, recently said Mamdani was the "mayor of uncontrollable joy" in a worshipping social post.
O'Brien, though, appears to live in Connecticut from online records.
Another out-of-NYC influencer, who goes by the handle bananadotgov on Instagram, is from Columbus, Ohio, and has posted a number of lionizing videos about Mamdani.
"Strange things are happening, because I have literally not felt this way about a politician since Bernie Sanders," she said, responding to the mayor saying he wouldn't take a pay raise in July.
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City Hall officials are required by law to keep records, including messages, related to government business to give the public and watchdogs a necessary window into how decisions are made.
When asked about concerns the encrypted Signal chat violates the city's record retention laws, Mamdani first deflected by arguing that tapping influencers is no different than engaging with radio, TV and other media to spread information.
...City Hall officials directed The Post toward Mamdani's comments and refused to answer specific questions.
Grok says they're being paid between $5,000 and $20,000 per contract, which may not sound like a lot, but remember, they're being paid for just shitting out posts on TikTok and Twitter.
And also, a contract might just cover a couple of months of "work." That's not their yearly compensation.
Grok @grok
Yes, per a Columbia Journalism Review report, Emilia Rowland (a paid NYC Mayor's Office director) runs a Signal group of over 200 influencers who get daily City Hall talking points and clips. The group grew from his campaign's Creators4Zohran network. Group participation is unpaid, but some influencers separately get $5k--$20k in taxpayer funds via city contracts for specific messaging campaigns.
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192 House Democrats Vote "No" on Resolution to Condemn Socialism; Hakeem Jeffries Fumes at Democrats Who Voted With the Republicans
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I missed this yesterday.
Two "moderate" Democrats joined the Republicans in getting the vote to the floor -- without those two Democrats, the resolution would have stalled in committee.
Hakeem Jeffries is spitting mad at these anti-socialist Democrats, calling them traitors.
The House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning socialism on Tuesday evening, with all but eight House Democrats voting against it.In a stunning twist of fate, however, the vote would not have occurred if two House Democrats hadn't stepped in hours earlier to help the GOP through a procedural hurdle -- blindsiding House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., in the process.
Jeffries later threatened consequences for the pair in a dramatic statement late on Tuesday night, calling their move a "breach of trust."
The resolution passed 220 to 192 with all "no" votes coming from the left, including Democrats' senior leaders: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif.
The legislation also affirmed support for election integrity and called for passage of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which nearly all Democrats oppose.
House conservatives had threatened to tank a procedural vote, called a "rule vote," meant to unlock debate on several bills GOP leaders wanted lawmakers to vote on this week. That included the resolution condemning socialism and several other unrelated bills.
Five Republicans voted against the rule, which was poised to fail until Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., provided two critical votes to get the GOP over the finish line in a narrow 209 to 208 vote.
The five Republicans were protesting a past vote on the continuing resolution. I'm so tired of this look-at-me, quien-es-mas-macho-conservative bullshit.
Jeffries and other senior House Democratic leaders warned in a statement the day after, ""The decision by two of our colleagues to blindside the entire House Democratic Caucus and join with the Republican majority to pass a procedural rule on the brink of failing represents a significant breach of trust."
"It is an action that necessitates a serious response, and we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order," the leaders said.All Republicans wound up voting in favor of the resolution condemning socialism and affirming election integrity on Tuesday evening, however.
...It's almost unheard of for the minority party to help their political rivals pass a rule, and Jeffries told reporters he was not notified beforehand.
The five House Republicans who voted against it were Reps. Pete Sessions, R-Texas; Chip Roy, R-Texas; Ralph Norman, R-S.C., Clay Higgins, R-La.; and Andy Harris, R-Md.
The rebels' issue was not with the measure itself, nor the bills it would have allowed the House to pass. Their votes were a protest against how their leaders handled a plan to avert a government shutdown just before the midterm elections, a short-term funding bill called a continuing resolution (CR). That measure passed just before the rule vote began.
Meanwhile, Abdulrahman Mohamad El-Sayed will join Islamists and conspiracy theorists to Just Ask Questions about 9/11, days before the 9/11 twenty-five year anniversary.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has questions, just as Tuq'r Qarlson wants to know who really blew up WTC 7.
Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is scheduled to speak at an Islamic convention this weekend--six days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11--on a panel alongside a "9/11 truther" and a Muslim cleric conspiracy theorist who has called for an "examination" of the official narrative surrounding the terrorist attacks.El-Sayed is headlining the Islamic Society of North America's annual convention in Detroit on Saturday. There, El-Sayed will speak on a panel to examine a "turmoiled America" alongside left-wing pundit Cenk Uygur and Zaid Shakir, an outspoken New Jersey-based cleric, according to a convention itinerary.
Both men have promoted conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11, in which al Qaeda operatives killed 2,977 Americans.
"I no longer believe [sic] official 9/11 story," Uygur declared in a social media rant in February. Uygur, who hosts the Young Turks YouTube show, is now pushing debunked claims about Israeli involvement in the attacks, including the "dancing Israelis" myth, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that posits that five Israeli spies filmed and celebrated the terrorist attack. "I didn't know we arrested Israeli spies who were here to 'document the event,'" wrote Uygur, who is the uncle of Hasan Piker, a close El-Sayed ally who has said that "America deserved 9/11."
Uygur was widely mocked for, as one outlet described it, "going full 9/11 truther."
Shakir has similarly called for an "examination" of what he described as "glaring weaknesses and inconsistencies" in the official 9/11 narrative. He has argued that the U.S. government used the attacks to "launch a war on Islam," and he directed followers to the writings of David Ray Griffin, a leading 9/11 conspiracy theorist who has argued that the United States orchestrated the attacks.
El-Sayed's appearance alongside the conspiracy theorists comes as his own record of seeking to minimize the horror of 9/11, and to draw equivalence between 9/11 victims and casualties of the war on terror, is under scrutiny.
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El-Sayed has also faced withering scrutiny over his close ties to Piker, a popular left-wing influencer who has campaigned with El-Sayed. El-Sayed has repeatedly refused to fully disavow Piker's remarks about 9/11, saying that they have been "taken out of context" and that Piker is a victim of "cancel culture."
And El-Sayed has sought to link "Islamophobia" after 9/11 to health problems for Muslims and Arabs.
In a Sept. 11, 2012, essay for CNN that called Muslims "another victim of 9/11," El-Sayed cited a study conducted in California that found a dramatic increase in premature births for Muslim women after 9/11 compared with before the attacks. El-Sayed attributed the spike to "discrimination and marginalization" that Muslim women experienced after the attacks.
El-Sayed omitted from his essay the findings of his own study comparing birth outcomes for Muslim women before and after 9/11, however. El-Sayed's study, conducted in Michigan, found no difference in premature births for Muslim women after 9/11 and found overall that Arab and Muslim women were at "significantly" lower risk for premature births compared to white, black, and Asian mothers, the Free Beacon reported.
Shakir, in addition to propagating 9/11 conspiracy theories, has blamed Israel for other terrorist attacks and called for Muslims to use "guerrilla warfare" to achieve their desired political outcomes.
In related news: The media is attacking Bari Weiss for rewriting a "journalists'" headline about Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed deleting old tweets in which he suggested a moral equivalency between 9/11 and US war against Al Qaeda.
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Lindsay Clancy Jury Still Deadlocked
Plus: AWFUL Film-Maker Praises the Murder of the Bank of America VP and Celebrates Luigi Mangione
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is going to be a mistrial, and, instead of retrying the case, the prosecutors will realize the AWFUL "Mommyslueths" are about 60% of all women so no conviction will be possible. They'll offer a plea deal, something like ten years suspended sentence under psychiatric supervision.
By the way: I think there is a weak, but understandable, case for not guilty by reason of insanity here. I can understand the case for mercy.
What I don't understand is the "Mommysleuths" turning this psychotic child-murderer into an actual hero.
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Prosecutor Who Blew the Whistle on "Tish" James' Unethical Demand to "Dig Up Dirt" on Trump and His Friends Sits Down for Several-Hour Interview with Federal Prosecutors
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This gigantic mutant hag might finally get some justice.
Or at least she'll get prosecutorial process-- which the left has used for decades as a punishment in itself.
Fed investigators met with Tish James whistleblower who claimed he was pushed to dig up dirt on Trump: sources
The whistleblower in Attorney General Letitia James' office who said he was ordered to dig up dirt on President Trump met with federal prosecutors for "several hours" Tuesday, sources said.Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor and a lawyer in James' office, had a lengthy sit-down with both criminal and civil attorneys from the FBI and the US Department of Justice over his bombshell claims, the sources told The Post.
The extent of the feds' interest in the case is unclear.
I bet I can name one top-ranking fed who is very interested in this, and his opinion carries more weight than most others'.
Wiesenfeld, who has been placed on paid administrative leave, claimed in a since-deleted Friday email to colleagues that was leaked to the Times-Union that his boss, Investor Protection Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe, instructed him "to find and pursue crimes" by Trump allies."If you believe Trump is using the [Department of Justice] attorneys to prosecute his enemies to further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish [James] is doing exactly the same thing," the email allegedly said.
In a statement this week, James' office called the scandal "a personnel matter."
LOL. What I illegally order my prosecutors to do is just an personnel matter. We just have an internal disagreement about whether I broke the law.
Did I murder my wife and children? It's none of your business. It's a family matter. Please respect my privacy and give me space to grieve.
...However, the Trump administration this week fired back at James in a scathing statement.
"This is more proof of the weaponization of the justice system by Letitia James to target President Trump and her political opponents," White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said. "The far-left Democrats' lawfare against President Trump, his family must stop."
Unrelated, except it involves the corrupt shithole state of New York:
Yesterday, a crazed woman butchered another woman with a kitchen knife and wounded two others. Cops shot tasers at her, but she pulled out the darts and they had no effect, because she's a landwhale and probably up to her gills in drugs.
Cops shot her as she rushed one cop with her kitchen knife extended before her.
Obviously, you knew this was coming: the knife-attacker is an Oppressed Minority (TM) so you just knew the racist left would begin pushing the "Why didn't they just shoot the knife out of her hand?" bullshit they pull whenever an Oppressed Minority is shot attacking cops.
In this case, the crazed assailant's mom is demanding to know why the cops didn't just take their stabbings like men and just tackle the knife-crazed maniac.
The mother of the crazed Queens woman who killed a new mom and seriously wounded an elderly dad in a terrifying Times Square stabbing spree is questioning why cops didn't just "grab" her daughter rather than fatally shoot her when she charged at them with knives.
NYPD officers attempted to deploy tasers, but they were ineffective. She then rushed at them while waving the knives, prompting two officers to open fire, the dramatic footage shows."There were so many police... why didn't they grab her by the arm?" Cisneros' mother, who did not give her name, asked Fox 5 News in Spanish.
In Spanish, huh? I've been wondering about her immigration status. As no one is reporting on it, I imagine the reasons for the non-reportage of it are the usual reasons.
...Cisneros suffers from what her brother described to The Post Tuesday as bipolar disorder, but said she'd been receiving treatment in recent years and "never showed any aggressiveness."
"I don't know what happened," Patrick Peralta, 59, said, adding his sister had found some stability through medication in recent years and reported feeling "fine" as recently as Saturday.
Cisneros, of Queens, had a documented mental health history with police, including a suicide attempt.
Cisneros drew the attention from NYPD cops in December 2018 when she was belligerent, intoxicated and screaming along Lexington Avenue, sources said. She then tried to kill herself in March 2019 by jumping in front of an E train in Queens, sources said.
Court records show that Cisneros' marriage fell apart around this time, with her husband filing for divorce in Hillsborough County, Florida, during 2020. The divorce was finalized last year.
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Cisneros had whipped out two knives from a red Target bag and stabbed the first victim, Tak Kam, a 68-year-old dad from Rhode Island, in the abdomen as he exited the subway on West 41st Street and was waiting to cross the street, police said.
She then continued up to 42nd Street and seconds later fatally stabbed Piacenti -- a vice president at Bank of America who had just returned from maternity leave.
I don't blame the mom for this stupid objection. When your child is killed, you're going to spin out reasons why this was unfair and why cops should have just let your innocent baby stab as many people as she could before she got all tuckered out and took a nap.
I mean, it's a tough thing to process. I get that. A child is the most important thing in the world to a parent, and many would trade other people's lives for their child's.
Fine.
But society, of course, can definitely not trade innocent people's lives, including those of cops, for the lives of crazed violent killers.
So while I can excuse the mother's stupid babblings, I do not excuse the ambulance-chasing racists of the tribal left, who take cases like this and blow them up into national crises, with the eager assistance of the traitor media.
We'll see if the corrupt Soros Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, prosecutes the cops like he prosecuted Daniel Perry.
Hunter Biden: I Used Burisma Money To Buy Drugs and Whores and My Daddy Used to Visit Me in My Crackdens With His Vice Presidential Motorcade
Update: Hunter Says He's "48% Gay" Which Seems Low to Me
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Israel did a great job framing a guy who is so clearly guilty.
Very crafty, Israelis.
Hunter Biden reveals he used Burisma cash to buy drugs, Joe Biden 'showed up' to his drug den flanked by Secret Service"Well, I still had the residual. Like for instance, I still was on the board of Burisma."
Hunter Biden reveals he used Burisma cash to buy drugs, Joe Biden 'showed up' to his drug den flanked by Secret Service
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Speaking to host Dave Manheim, who asked him how could afford the long stay at the ritzy hotel [Chateau Marmont, where various celebrities have overdosed in pricey squalor] in California, Biden replied, "Well, I still had the residual. Like for instance, I still was on the board of Burisma."...
Although he had no experience in the energy industry, the younger Biden argued that he was qualified for the role and that he wasn't "running some kind of international crime syndicate."
"What people don't understand about Burisma is that I went on the board of Burisma because I had been on the board of about 14 other major national and international organizations," he added. "I was chairman of the board of the UN World Food Program, which is the largest humanitarian organization in the world -- we increased the budget when I was chairman from $1.8 billion to $2.6 billion when I was there."
"I can't be guilty of using my father's office to influence-peddle to Burisma because I was simultaneously influence-peddling with 14 other organizations! I'm smart! Hire me as your lawyer and lobbyist!"
He also talked about how his father, while vice president under Barack Obama, "showed up" at his home flanked by Secret Service agents while Hunter was using drugs....
During the course of the interview, Biden said that "true addicts" are some of the most "resourceful, resilient, intelligent, and mission oriented" people around, and that without the crack, addicts are "bada** f*cking warriors."
Oh, he's praising degenerate drug addicts now, great. He and Tuq'r Qarlson can bond over what bada** f***ing warriors they are.
Update: Hunter was probably also a bad*** f***ing warrior when he was blowing his crack dealer, too.
Hunter Biden identified as a "little bit gay" in a recent podcast interview dominated by talk about his sexuality.The former first son, 56, who's married to Melissa Cohen, made the revealing remarks on an Aug. 16 episode of the Luke Beasley Show podcast.
Beasley asked Biden, "Are you gay?" early on in the interview.
Former President Joe Biden's son replied: "Only a little bit."
Beasley then asked if Hunter was "more or less than 50 percent" gay -- and the ex-first son said, "48.6 percent."
The podcaster then wanted to know if he'd be Hunter's "type."
"A little bit more masculine would be my type, if I was gay," Hunter responded.
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Later in the episode, Biden went back to "the gay question," as he put it and said "maybe I take back 48.5" percent.
"More like 47 [percent] after that conversation. My gaydom went down a percentage point," the former president's son quipped.
Toward the end of the nearly 90-minute interview, Hunter retracted and said "I just wanted to let you know that I am back up to 48.5 percent gay."
Is this real? I don't know. The left has a new rule to show you're an "ally:" If a gay man flirts with you, and you're straight, you're supposed to flirt back and entertain the possibility that you might have sex with him.
Women are not required to pretend they are sexually interested in men they're not attracted to, but men are now required by the left to pretend they're sexually interested in other men. And sometimes more than just pretend.
Hey, you're an ally, right?
Thanks to TJM and JackStraw.
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DHS Announces It Arrested 2,200 Illegal Aliens in NYC In One Month
—Disinformation Expert Ace
From late July to late August.
The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced the results of its "Operation Rotten Apple" which they undertook in New York between late July and late August, with over 2,000 illegal immigrants being apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).The operation saw agents arrest 2,197 illegal immigrants across the state. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a press conference Tuesday morning, "We focused on them all across the state of New York. These arrests included gang members, rapists, murderers, and child predators, which I believe there's a special place in hell for those individuals."
Mullin said in a statement, "Operation Rotten Apple did what sanctuary politicians in New York City and the state of New York refuse to do: made the Empire State safer. We won't let sanctuary politicians stand in our way. If you're a state or local politician, your best bet is to cooperate with us so we can all make America safe again." He said that the operation was conducted with "no help" from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani or Governor Kathy Hochul.
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Mullin told reporters on Tuesday that the decision to launch the operation was made because Mayor Zohran Mamdani, "instead of working with law enforcement, tried to cut NYPD's budget by $22 million and refuses to work with federal law enforcement. You have a governor that refuses to work with us."
He said that the operation targeted 13,000 illegal immigrants who have been released by "New York sanctuary politicians" that DHS and ICE had placed detainers on. "These are your rapists, your murderers, your child predators, these are gangbangers, these are terrorists."
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
On Monday, the federal Department of Transportation announced that it, along with DHS and DOJ, has launched a major investigative and response operation targeted at rubber-stamp CDL training organizations that put non-English-speaking, illegal alien or other unqualified drivers on American highways. The first salvo has already been fired at the first layer in the CDL stack: introductory skills training. Federal DOT has, effective immediately, decertified and forced to shut down 110 entry-level CDL training programs.
That sounds like a lot, and it is - but it is also somehow apparently just a nibble at the edges. The press release on the operation is shocking. It starts with what has already been done, and some of it is stuff the agencies have been talking about for a while. Over the past 18 months, federal DOT has forced states to revoke around 30,000 fraudulent CDLs and purged in excess of 8,000 phony, incompetent, corrupt, fraudulent or derelict training organizations from its registry. That is before the 110 it purged in Monday's emergency action, and those that will come next. That sounds like a lot, and it is.
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The Morning Report — 9/ 2 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Well, there are a couple of bright spots in the news this morning, so let us take note. First,
A Utah Judge ruled Tuesday that Tyler Robinson will stand trial on all seven charges in the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, leaving him eligible for the death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder.
Again, while this is certainly welcome to hear neither you nor I were born yesterday, so before we give in to the temptation to engage in providing a simultaneous venturi effect on our nether regions. This fiend is a hero to the Democrat Left and given the utter corruption of our judiciary and moral bankruptcy of far too many of our fellow citizens-in-name-only I'd be shocked if there was an actual conviction let alone if this thing actually got a death sentence. Considering the mastermind of 9/11 has yet to be taken out and sent back to the infernal reaches from whence he and his non-religion religion came from, yeah it's all a non-starter.
On Tuesday, new data from the Department of Labor’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed that manufacturing job openings rose to 580,000 in July, up from 501,000 in June. This constitutes the highest level since January 2023. In contrast, the manufacturing sector posted 428,000 openings this time last year. Durable goods manufacturers saw a particularly sharp increase, with vacancies climbing to 429,000 from 353,000 the previous month, and 255,000 from the previous year. The follows data released by the Department of Commerce showing a 1.1 percent rise in durable goods orders, twice what was expected. While hiring in manufacturing fell to 288,000 in July from 330,000 last month, this comes amid a broader trend of declining hires. According to recent data, total job openings across all sectors increased to 7.3 million, while hiring declined to 5.05 million. It was also revealed that layoffs across the economy dropped to 1.666 million, one of the lowest levels on record, while the rate of unemployment remains historically low at 4.1 percent. This demonstrates the ongoing growth of the U.S. manufacturing sector, which has been a core focus of the Trump administration’s economic policy. This follows a report showing that U.S. manufacturing has reached a four-year high in July. The same report showed that employment in the sector had risen to a three-year high. Specifically, the Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) reached 55.6 in July, an increase from 53.3 in June.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has defended far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who previously said “America deserved 9/11,” and endorsed him as “our streamer,” just days before the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which left thousands of Americans dead across New York City, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. . . The controversy has underscored the growing divisions and tensions within the Democrats over socialism and Israel. It also shows how Piker has become politically toxic to much of the Democrats. This controversy comes amid a broader shift to the left among Democrats, with one in three Democrat-aligned voters self-describing as Democratic Socialists.
Disgusting as he and what he represents are, that they seem to be lacking in popularity, despite their growing presence on the electoral scene I'll take as a positive development, even as the Mamdanis, El-Sayeds and Bernie Sanders-es remain in prominence.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said during a Breitbart News Fight Club Roundtable on Monday evening that he believes China is helping fund opposition to artificial intelligence data centers, while arguing that the country should consider the effects on the electrical grid and water resources without putting itself at a disadvantage in the competition over AI. “Now, at the same time, I think we need to be responsible. We need to look at the demands on the electrical grid. I think demands on water resources are way overstated, but overstated because China is funding the propaganda against these things,” he continued.
Like any other technology or advancement that has come about since Ogg the caveman discovered fire and Cocoa Krispies, it can and will be used for good and ill. The same as with AI. And the short term good, which is very good IMHO, jobs in construction as well as the parallel increase in employment of businesses and industries that service and feed into this new infrastructure are for sure a potential Golden Goose as President Trump has described it. And the evil that can and would be unleashed on us if we let the Chi-Coms win the race to dominate AI is guaranteed. FOr that reason alone we simply cannot allow that to happen.
Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- First we learned to love our killers. Then we learned to hate ourselves.
What We Never Learned From 9/11
- The pro-"Palestine" group was recognized as an arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of "Palestine," a designated terrorist organization. Yet Treasury’s designation stops there — without naming a single one of Masar Badil’s domestic affiliates.
Treasury Department’s crackdown reveals terror on college campuses — and rising threats of violence
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Daily Tech News 2 September 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Anthropic has announced its new frontier models, Claude Mythos and Claude Fable 5.1. (Anthropic)
Are they any good? No, because -
- Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control. (The Register)
The result is a sort of virtual fetal alcohol syndrome where they panic blindly when they think you might be indirectly suggesting BAD THING and collapse screaming on the floor so that Anthropic's day-to-day model Opus has to come to the rescue.
Fable also spends tokens like water.
- Anthropic's new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive. (Tech Crunch)
Two lies for the price of one.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - September 1, 2026
—Doof
Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT has arrived. So have you. Nice when a plan comes together! Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Cats & Dogs Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
US Coast Guard Cutter Spencer Destroys The Nazi Submarine U-175,
April 17, 1943
From @LostTemple7
Baby bat snuggles with her teddy bear.
Thirteen year old senior dog found on the streets of Atlanta finally has a home.
Sexual harassment on the farm. And more debauchery.
Cat massages the dog.
Dog wants the cat to scratch his hind.
Dog lets in the mail-man, then sees him out.
Orange kitten works on his rapid-batting attack.
Elephant fills up at the pump.
Baby skunks stamping to show that they're tough guys with a powerful stink.
Smooth criminal shadow puppetry.
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Iranian-Descended Loudmouth Communist Moron Mark Ruffalo Accused of Antisemitism
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He opposes the purchase of Warner Bros/Discovery by Paramount/Skydance -- obviously! -- and specifies that his opposition is based on the Jewish executives at Paramount/Skydance supporting Israel's right to defend itself against 70 years of Muslim terror attacks.
An entertainment industry group that includes Hollywood producers Haim Saban, Lawrence Bender and Teddy Schwarzman has released a statement condemning the alleged "antisemitic tropes" underpinning Mark Ruffalo's opposition to Paramount's leadership amid its proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).The statement was organized by a group calling itself The Brigade, which describes itself as "a group of nearly 1,000 members, friends, and allies of the Jewish community who are proud to be working in film, television, music, Broadway, social and digital, and other platforms in and around the entertainment industry."
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The Brigade's statement comes in the wake of Ruffalo's Aug. 21 Instagram post that spotlighted Oracle's ties to the Israeli military -- specifically a viral clip of former Oracle CEO Safra Catz at the Israeli-American Council National Summit in 2024 as it related to Israel's war effort in Gaza.
"Singling out Jewish executives and describing them in terms lifted from centuries-old antisemitic conspiracy theories, while invoking Israel as the frame for that attack, is antisemitic," reads the statement. "It is unacceptable to introduce Jews, antizionism, or antisemitism into conversations about business transactions, simply because those involved are Jewish."
Ruffalo has long opposed both the Paramount-WBD merger over concerns about Hollywood jobs and has also long campaigned for Palestinian rights and condemned Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank. The actor's post called out Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Paramount's controlling shareholder through a family trust, and the father of Paramount CEO David Ellison. Larry Ellison is also the key financial backstop behind Paramount's merger attempt with WBD.
The statement added: "This is a callous continuation of the ongoing campaign by the same individuals and groups targeting Jewish people and the state of Israel, a pattern of antisemitism and misinformation that puts our community in grave danger."After Ruffalo's initial Instagram post, a Paramount spokesperson issued a reply to the four-time Oscar-nominated and two-time Emmy-winning actor that called for the temperature of the debate around the WBD deal to be lowered and characterized Ruffalo's remarks as "antisemitic." In a viral X post, Ruffalo fired back that the "accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest."
This asshole, of course, tags anyone who opposes his communist/Islamist agenda as "racist."
A bunch of Jewish left-wingers and communists signed an open letter stating, essentially, that there can be no "antisemitism" if you're pushing the communist/Islamist alliance.
Mark Ruffalo has been defended by nearly 200 Jewish figures in entertainment after Paramount called his recent merger attack 'antisemitic.'
Actress Hannah Einbinder, who previously defended the actor, led the signatures of Jewish entertainment industry members on an open letter of support for the embattled 58-year-old Marvel actor.
She is the talentless wallflower who shouted "F*** ICE!" at the Oscars.
Other notable names included: Joel Coen, Todd Haynes, Ilana Glazer, James Schamus, Emma Seligman, Tony Kushner, Jane Schoenbrun, and Wallace Shawn.Ruffalo, who has opposed the proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, said that his issue had to do with military contracts and executive actions, not Jewish people.
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Now, the new letter published on Tuesday signed by Jewish figures defended Ruffalo as it argued against what it said were 'false and dangerous weaponization of charges of antisemitism.'
In his previous statement Ruffalo had highlighted the links between the Ellison family and Israel, which the open letter reiterated.
It read: 'Pointing out the crucial connections between what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in Hollywood is the exact opposite of antisemitism. It is, for us, the very essence of Jewish ethical duty.'
You can read the letter at the link, if you're a glutton for stupid. The basic claim is that if you're opposing Trump and Israel, there really is no such thing as "antisemitism." All is fair and permissible when fighting for the Red-Green alliance.
We stand proudly with Mark Ruffalo, and with all decent people who are bravely rising and speaking truth to power.The Daily Mail reached out to representatives for Einbinder, Ruffalo and Paramount at the time for further comment.
In her statement, Einbinder said that 'the idea that [Ruffalo] only said these things because the Ellisons are Jewish is LUDICROUS,' asking, 'Is it also antisemitic to point out that Safra Catz, the Oracle executive vice chair who boasted about the "profoundly scary technology" provided to the IDF, also sits on Paramount's board?
'Or that Larry Ellison has been buying favor with Trump by donating tens of millions to his political efforts for years? Or that he once offered Netanyahu a lucrative Oracle post?'
The Los Angeles-born actress said that Ruffalo's words marked 'criticism of RIGHT WING technofeudalist oligarchs who are in the process of carrying out the largest media acquisition in history,' adding that 'people are not too stupid to see these obvious connections.'
Einbinder added, 'If you want to make it about the Ellisons being Jewish, then you are the one being antisemitic.'
This guy rebutted the letter:
Mark Goldfeder @MarkGoldfederDear @Variety
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The letter claims to defend @MarkRuffalo from the charge that his campaign against Paramount is really about Israel.Its defense, remarkably, is to explain at length that the campaign is really about Israel.
Five failures. Any one should be fatal. Let me explain:
Mark Ruffalo is being defended by more than 170 Jewish entertainment figures in a new open letter rejecting Paramount's claim that Ruffalo fueled "antisemitic tropes":
"The time is over for spurious charges of antisemitism to be trotted out, this time in the defense of war..."
First, the letter concedes the central factual predicate.
It lists ordinary antitrust concerns--jobs, consolidation, competition--and then pivots:
"BUT it will do all this and more as part of a larger project..."
That "but" is doing heroic amounts of work.
The antitrust case is expressly subordinated to a "larger project" involving Gaza, Israel, Tony Blair, TikTok and Palestine.
Ruffalo's defenders were trying to prove the campaign wasn't about Israel.
Instead, they supplied 800 words explaining why it was.Thanks for the honesty!
Second, the letter never answers the actual accusation.The accusation is not: "Criticizing Israel is antisemitic."
It is that the campaign against the merger targeted particular Jewish businessmen because of their support for Israel, and may have enlisted state power to help.
Third, the letter reproduces the very conspiracy structure it indignantly denies:
Jewish billionaires using "astonishing" wealth to consolidate media control, serve a foreign state, shape propaganda and build a surveillance apparatus to watch us all.Money. Media. Dual loyalty. Hidden control.
Pathetic.
I thought you were all supposed to be creatives.
The authors didn't merely wander near one of the oldest antisemitic narratives in Western history. They assembled it complete with "purported" funding figures and a "corrupt cohort" that "will always be watching us" and then signed their names beneath it.
Ruffalo needs better help. A defense should not double as Exhibit A.
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Nor does "we are Jewish" resolve the question. Jewish participation cannot confer automatic immunity from antisemitism.
He offers this conclusion: California's AG Rob Bonta claims he's blocking this merger -- after not blocking the proposed merger with Netflix, and not blocking Disney's rapid-fire Pac-Man acquisitions of Pixel, Marvel, and LucasFilm -- because he wants to preserve competition in the media.
But Ruffalo's defenders admit that's not the real reason they oppose this merger. The real reason, they not only admit but proclaim, is the "larger project" of isolating Israel.
Mark Goldfeder @MarkGoldfeder
Bottom line: Their campaign against this merger is part of a "larger project" centered on Gaza and Israel.Their words, not mine.
So the remaining question is the one @NJACLaw's CPRA requests were designed to answer:
Did the Attorney General know the true political object of this campaign before lending it the power and legitimacy of the state?
Ruffalo's "defenders" appear to think the answer is yes, and say so proudly.
I'm sympathetic to the idea that people are too quick to claim an -ism or a -phobia to shut down legitimate discussion and I'm sure you are too.
But our position -- that people should be more grown up about these matters and accept that there is going to be a certain amount of friction between competing groups and simply shouting "racism!" is no answer -- is not the majority position foisted on us by leftwing communists like Ruffalo and this plain-jane nobody actress.
When we said, accurately, that covid was grown in a Chinese lab, we were called conspiracy-addled #AsianHate racists.
Their rule is that any opposition to what a minority group wants, especially when combined with "dog whistles" and "age-old tropes," is definitely racism.
So choke on it.
Meanwhile, another flabby gasbag imbecile, David Harbour, is complaining about capitalism as he simultaneously shows off his mansion to a magazine.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A knife-wielding lunatic woman, who stabbed another woman to death and injured two others, was shot to death as she advanced on police with a kitchen knife in Times Square, NYC.
She was shot to death a second later,
after charging a cop with the knife in front of her
Quick, arrest the police for not "winging" her. Isn't that what they always say? That police should shoot the weapon out of dangerous criminals' hands?
A woman was taken down by police in Times Square on Monday afternoon after she stabbed two people in the busy tourist attraction, one fatally.
Law enforcement sources told the New York Post the incident began with the woman stabbing a man and a woman near West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue shortly before 4:30 pm. She was found by officers near an NYPD substation, waving a knife at officers. Police opened fire, striking and killing the woman.
Sources said that police had deployed tasers, hitting the woman, however, she pulled them out and continued confronting officers before they opened fire. The woman's weapon was recovered by police.
Sources told the outlet that the woman and one of the victims died at the hospital, while the second victim was in critical condition. The incident is not believed to be terrorism-related.One witness, construction worker Jorge Disla, told New York Daily News, "The police tried to speak with her. They were shouting, 'Drop the knives!'"
Linda Ruiz witnessed the aftermath, telling the outlet, "I was crossing at 42nd St. I saw a guy bleeding profusely from his right leg. He was gushing blood, saying, 'I need help. Help me.'" She added, "I went to get a cop on the corner and there was another lady on the floor. She was stabbed in the back or in the chest. I couldn't tell. There was a lot of blood. She wasn't conscious. The police were trying to resuscitate her. But she wasn't moving. It was horrible."
The Mommysleuths will take no interest in this case. They like Soap Opera True Crime tales, featuring a white wife and a white husband. A violent domestic drama they can project themselves into and imagine themselves as a Mary Sue friend of the killer.
The more general kind of crime, the more common kind of crime, they have no interest in. They cannot imagine themselves as Mary Sue participants.
I guess I should tell you why I said that: Because the New York Times finally noticed that the left-wing white women who they're always promoting above all others are huge supporters of the child killer Lindsay Clancy. Their explanation as to why hundreds of thousands of white liberal women had formed a cult around her is that they're addicted to true crime tales, and they're interested in true crime tales for the utilitarian goal of "not being a victim." In other words, the NYT is claiming, left-wing women are interested in true crime just to figure out if their husbands or boyfriends are going to kill them and how to see the signs to save themselves.
The real reason is, of course, this is a Real Life Soap Opera they're interested in for purely prurient entertainment and Mary Sue self-insert reasons.
All of the dumb-bunny conspiracy theorists spinning out claims that Erika Kirk murdered her husband and that Lindsay Clancy's husband is The Real Killer (because she is a Leo and he is a Gemini, and Leos do not kill but Geminis are notorious child-killers) is just a very nasty and stupid form of fanfiction -- they are writing fanfiction theories of these cases, treating them as if they are just another version of Twilight.
Anyway, sorry to bitch about that, but, as Nux says, "What are we even doing here?" Why does every single thing a left-winger say have to be an obvious lie, designed for the sole purpose of protecting a part of the left-wing cult from embarassment?
More crime in Shithole Seattle:
A Seattle gunman originally charged with murder after opening fire in a crowded downtown intersection during a mass shooting that killed a woman and wounded seven others, including a 9-year-old boy, has been released after only serving approximately three years behind bars.
Washington VINE issued a notification Monday that William Tolliver had been released from custody. His reason for release was listed as "Sentence served," according to KOMO News.
Tolliver was initially charged with first-degree murder, six counts of first-degree assault, and unlawful possession of a firearm following the Jan. 22, 2020 mass shooting at Third Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Seattle. But those charges were ultimately reduced to second-degree manslaughter, third-degree assault, and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. Tolliver pleaded guilty to the amended charges in June 2023 and was sentenced to just four years in prison.
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The shooting erupted in the heart of downtown Seattle during what court proceedings described as a gang feud. Prosecutors alleged Tolliver opened fire in the crowded area while targeting a rival gang member.A 50-year-old woman was killed, and seven other people were wounded. Among the victims was a 9-year-old boy who was walking through downtown with his family after visiting the Pacific Science Center.
Tolliver's criminal history raises questions about Seattle's revolving-door criminal justice system. Tolliver and the other accused shooter, Marquise Tolbert, had accumulated a combined 65 previous arrests and four felony convictions before the 2020 mass shooting.Despite the murder and assault charges hanging over him, Tolliver was released from jail in March 2023 and placed on electronic home monitoring at his grandmother's house while awaiting trial. The conditions of his release prohibited him from possessing firearms or contacting witnesses or co-defendants. Within months, Tolliver was back behind bars after he allegedly threatened another person with a gun.
Also in Seattle: A repeat-felon child sex offender was arrested.
But by federal Marshals, not Seattle cops or Washington state police.
The US Marshals Service arrested a fugitive wanted on felony child sexual abuse material charges at an apartment building near multiple schools and a community center in Seattle's Chinatown-International District.
USMS announced Monday that Beau Nathan Saperstein, 41, was arrested without incident on Aug. 18 after members of the Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force located him at the Milwaukee Apartments in the 600 block of South King Street. The building, constructed in 1911, formerly operated as the Milwaukee Hotel before being converted into apartments.The building is up the street from Summit Public School: Sierra, a charter high school. It is also near the Chong Wa Chinese School and Seattle's International District/Chinatown Community Center.
This was not Saperstein's first publicly reported arrest in connection with child sexual abuse material allegations.
In September 2025, Seattle police asked the public to help locate Saperstein on a felony warrant for allegedly dealing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Police warned residents not to approach him and said his last known location was the 1200 block of South Jackson Street, also in the Chinatown-International District.
Community tips led Lakewood police to arrest Saperstein on Sept. 3, 2025. He was booked into the Pierce County Jail.Less than six months after that arrest, another warrant was issued for Saperstein on Feb. 25, 2026, this time carrying a $50,000 bond.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox34m
Caleb Hammer tells a blue-haired liberal to her face that she should be the most patriotic person alive because she's been a TAKER her whole life and contributes NOTHING.
It all started when she said America spends more on bombs than on social programs.
Hammer shut that claim down instantly, then delivered the reality check she never saw coming.
CALEB HAMMER: "Are you not patriotic?"
VIOLET: "With blue hair? Do you think I'm patriotic?"
HAMMER: "You can still be patriotic and be wrong about economics."
VIOLET: "Why would I be patriotic when we're spending more money on bombs than we are for like social programs."
HAMMER: "We spend 50% of the federal spending on social programs."
VIOLET: "Like what?""
HAMMER: "Medicare, Medicaid, mandatory spending, SNAP benefits, veteran benefits... Our military spending is 10 to 20%. The bombs you're freaking out about, 10 to 20%. We spend 50% on social programs."
VIOLET: "I'm a military kid and I can tell you that is not needed."
HAMMER: "Girl, you literally just got the information that you were just wrong and yet you're still doubling down. We don't spend the majority on bombs."
VIOLET: "Okay, maybe it's not the majority, but--"
HAMMER: "It's not even close to the majority. It's not even a quarter."
VIOLET: "It's far too much."
HAMMER: "Okay, you could advocate for that, but you just said we don't spend anything on social. That's where like more than half of our money goes. What are you talking about? You're uninformed about everything!"
"I love when people have no idea what they do and then they're just not patriotic. It's like, dude, you're literally not a contributor. You should be the most patriotic person. You contribute nothing."
[Violet winces]
HAMMER: "You contribute literally nothing. You've only been a taker, yet you're the one that doesn't like the country?"
The people who take the most from this country always seem to like it the least.
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Trump: We Shot Down All Eight Ballsitic Missiles Iran Shot at Our Base in Jordan, and Are Now Hitting Them Very Hard
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians' failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan. If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!President DONALD J. TRUMP
Here is video of a failed ICBM launch in Khomein, Iran. I'm guessing we had nothing to do with bringing it down. Just more crap technology Iran bought from China or Russia.
Here's an alternate view of the failed launch or, possibly, a different failed launch. This one can be seen blowing up on the ground in Iran.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump announces the Islamic Republic of Iran will be hit back "AT A MUCH HARDER AND HIGHER LEVEL" if they retaliate for the current US strikes around HormuzALL Iranian missiles launched at American assets were shot down 🇺🇸
47 then threatens to LEVEL the country:
"But it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!"
"The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz."
"The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians' failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan."
"If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level."
Trump is no longer calling for ceasefires and negotiations. He allows that negotiations are happening, but also says he doesn't take them seriously.
I guess he's in it to win it now. Though the new strategy is a long siege and strangulation.
Space Force is reportedly watching Iran's boats and missile launchers:
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh🚨 NOW: US SPACE FORCE WATCHED IRAN MOVE AROUND THE STRAIT. Now they've been STRUCK.
President Trump has been clear that Space Force is watching the mullahs' EVERY MOVEMENT before they can even begin to launch mines and disrupt the Strait of Hormuz
CENTCOM just confirmed strikes were carried out at noon. FAFO.
YINGST: "They've been watching using Space Force and also the U.S. Navy that is positioned there at that blockade line in the Gulf of Oman whenever any of the Iranian forces try to move air defense systems or radars."
"They are watching very closely and likely these are the targets that are being hit right now as we speak."
"These appear to be relatively widespread strikes, not just targeting that southern city of Bandar Abbas, but also initial reports of explosions on Qeshm Island and areas even further south of this area next to the Gulf of Oman."
"It's an indication that once again the United States is trying to send a message to the Iranian regime that threats against this international waterway will not be tolerated." @TreyYingst
I don't understand why Iran acts like this isn't always going to be the end result.
Time to bury the head of the snake.
Scott Bessent made an even more menacing threat. He says he knows the offshore (Virgin Islands) accounts where the mullahs have stored their stolen money, and he says the US might just seize it:
Post Conversation Eric Daugherty @EricLDaughBREAKING: Scott Bessent just sent shivers down the spine of Iranian regime leaders. What a bad*ss...
"I will say it on worldwide TV: we KNOW WHERE in the British Virgin Islands your accounts are, at these trust companies. We know the hundred million dollar houses you have around the world. WE ARE GOING TO CLOSE ALL THAT DOWN."
"We are going after the regime's assets they have stolen from the Iranian people."
"They can go to the victims of terror."
"After 47 years — IT IS OVER."
"Either you are with us, or against us."
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Muskily-Heterosexual James Talarico in 2020: Capitalism Is "Oppressive," Texas Must Stop Producing Oil
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In 2020 forum, James Talarico said Texas oil was 'not gonna last,' called capitalism 'oppressive'Six years before becoming Texas Democrats' US Senate nominee, James Talarico described capitalism as an "oppressive system" during a Sierra Club event, grouping it with White supremacy and climate change and saying ending the ways all three worked together was necessary to begin the process of "dismantling them."
During the Sierra Club event from September 2020, Talarico participated in a virtual climate candidate forum in which he also compared Texas' leadership in the oil and gas industry to "being the leader in cassette tapes in the 1980s," declaring "that industry is not gonna last."
The previously unreported comments come at a time when Talarico is trying to broaden his appeal as he's faced attacks from Republicans trying to paint him as too progressive for Texas. Talarico has raised significantly more money than his GOP opponent Ken Paxton, but remains locked in a tight race against the scandal-plagued Texas attorney general.
Talarico's remarks offer a window into the more explicitly progressive language he used before launching a statewide campaign built around affordability, faith and taking on wealthy interests.
It's not just "language," Andrew Kaczinsky. That's the Democrat Socialists' spin, that their past comments are about "cringey" language only. Their spin is that this is a language problem, not a policies or ideology or beliefs problem, and you concede this spin to them by repeating the spin uncritically.
He said he wants to "dismantle capitalism." This isn't just language -- this is a program. If he's claiming that the only problem here was language, the obvious follow-up question is "What language would you prefer to use instead of 'dismantle capitalism,' then?"
Woke 1 was cringey, man.
When asked what lawmakers could do to address the disproportionate effects of climate change on communities of color, Talarico thanked the moderator for the question and the young activists at the club for the way they had framed the issue.
"I am so thankful that you asked this question and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and White supremacy and capitalism in our country," Talarico said. "And I think only ending the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we gonna be able to begin the process of dismantling them."
Later, when asked how he explains climate policy to voters in a district President Donald Trump carried in 2016, Talarico said he focused on values, jobs and whether Texas would lead the industries of the future -- a future he suggested would not include oil and gas.
"We all know that Texas has been a leader in oil and gas, but in many ways that's like being the leader in cassette tapes in the 1980s," Talarico later said responding to another question. "That industry is not gonna last. And if we wanna ensure we have an economy that's gonna work for our children and our children's children, we gotta be ahead of the curve and Texas has to lead instead of follow on this issue."
On his current campaign website, Talarico says Texas is "the energy leader of the world -- and as senator, I will work tirelessly to ensure our state not only maintains, but extends that innovative leadership for generations to come so that Texans always have access to reliable, affordable energy."
JT Ennis, a spokesperson for the campaign, told CNN that Talarico has already acknowledged some of his past comments "missed the mark" and attacked Paxton, Talarico's opponent.
"James is a proud capitalist and agrees with the majority of Texans that racism, natural disasters, and a billionaire-controlled economy are all problems we need to address," said Ennis in a statement. "James supports the oil and gas industry and believes in an all of the above energy strategy that protects Texas oil and gas jobs."
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Previously, in 2021, Talarico suggested during a legislative session that modern science asserts there are six biological sexes -- which spurred the nickname "Six-Gender Jimmy" from Paxton and his supporters.
Talarico has since addressed some of his past comments, calling them "cringey." He said that he knows there are two sexes, men and women, and "a very small percentage of people who have these chromosomal abnormalities" who deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
After the state's massive power grid failure in 2021 killed hundreds of Texans, Talarico introduced a bill in the state house to combat climate change by requiring the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 90 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 and at least 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. The bill died in committee.
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Texas oil and gas production has increased since Talarico's 2020 remarks and meets or exceeds pre-pandemic levels.
Like Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed and Francesca Hong and AOC, his response is just to distance himself from his old phrasing while keeping all of the policies that "phrasing" accurately described.
Andrew Kaczynski @KFILETalarico campaign tells CNN his "cringey," past comments "missed the mark," and he's a capitalist who supports oil and gas.
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Massachusetts "Man" Who Speaks Only Portuguese Arrested for Strangling a Woman After She Refused to Have Sex With Him; He Says He Strangled Her "by Accident" after Going "Crazy"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It could happen anywhere but it mostly happens in blue shitholes.
A man is being held without bail in connection with a woman found dead at her home in Framingham on Thursday. Framingham police said the suspect, 43-year-old Flavio Dias, called 911 stating he killed the victim by mistake and strangled her.
Boy is his face red!
Dias is being charged with assault and battery causing serious bodily harm. He's also facing one count of possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card.
The family of the victim, identified as 33-year-old Brianna Connolly, could be seen getting emotional as they heard the details of the case in the courtroom.
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"He states very clearly, 'Can I have police? A homicide just happened here right now,'" Brandt stated.
Brandt said Dias was speaking in Portuguese.
"He then states, 'I ended up killing a woman by mistake.' He says, 'I went crazy and suffocated her later on, says that he strangled her,' Brandt stated.
Oh, he went crazy? I'm sure the Lindsay Clancy Legions will defend his right to strangle a woman to death.
Brandt claimed Dias then stated on the 911 call that he was at the victim's home on Waverly Street in Framingham, and they were doing drugs. He said Dias stated they got into an argument because he wanted to have sex, but she did not.
This sure is a Mystery. We'll probably never solve the crime of the Massachusetts Man.
Oh wait, no, turns out it was easy:
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_34m
BREAKING: I'm told by multiple federal sources that the suspect in custody for strangling a woman to death in her home in Framingham, MA on Thursday is a Brazilian illegal alien w/ prior arrests for DUI & aggravated assault w/ a weapon who is believed to have entered the U.S. illegally as a gotaway in 2019.
Sources confirm that ICE has now placed a detainer on 43-year-old Flavio Diaz with law enforcement in Middlesex County, MA.
And Massachusetts, of course, will not honor that detainer.
Jury Deadlocked and Can't Decide if It's a Crime for a Mother to Murder Her Children
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I'm half-joking with that headline because I know the issue is whether she is guilty, or not guilty by reason of insanity. She did do some insane things --beyond bringing her children into the basement to strangle them one by one. She slashed her wrists and jumped out a window to kill herself or, perhaps, to pretend to kill herself.
On the other hand she both planned the crime -- googling how to murder children, and sending her husband out on an errand so she could kill them undisturbed -- and took actions after the murders to conceal them.
The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has ordered the jury to return to deliberations after it informed him that they could not reach a unanimous verdict."I brought you back out because I know that this was a long trial," the judge said. "Because of this, I'm going to ask you to go back out, keeping in mind all the instructions that I gave you, to go out and continue your deliberations."
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
The Clancy jury has told the court that it is deadlocked. As expected, Judge Sullivan is now sending them back. That is a common response to push a jury further. Not surprising given the intense divisions in the country, the jury appears to be manifesting those same divisions......The prosecution finished strongly with a narrative that emphasized the timeline and the actions taken by Clancy to carry out the murders. Some jurors may find the "not guilty" part of a "by reason of insanity" verdict to be too high a hurdle, given the death of three young children by strangulation...
Legal insanity is -- or is supposed to be -- a difficult thing to prove. To be legally insane and not culpable of a crime, you have to be so disturbed that you cannot tell right from wrong. An age-old way of disproving such inability to tell right from wrong is to show the criminal planned the crime in secret and then took steps to cover it up.
So we may be talking about the unofficial, non-legal "definition" of insanity, which is just that the criminal has some mental illness and so poof, all culpability is out the window. Almost all killers have something wrong in their brains, from having no moral compass at all, to having low impulse control, to being actual psychopaths. This is not supposed to excuse them, but juries can be persuaded to ignore the law if they feel sympathy for the murderer.
Or murderess -- women get the benefit of this fake definition of insanity more than men do.
So what do you think: Mistrial where the jury never delivers a verdict, in which case we have to do this all again, or let off the hook on the fake definition of inanity? I doubt the jurors in favor of conviction can persuade the pro-Lindsay jurors to flip. As you know, she's become quite the Misunderstood Hero to some.
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