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April 30, 2026

The Morning Rant

—CBD

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They lie. They manipulate. They fake numbers. They fake data. They have their cronies in the various administrative departments massage the numbers and delay the release of the actual...real...data for political ends.

And their fellow travelers in the media are 100% in lockstep with them. And not just lockstep...they actively tilt their message with deeply biased "reporting," They commission studies that are intended to bolster a political narrative that is at odds with reality, then amplify the false message so that it appears to be the accepted orthodoxy.

In this case it is the widely assumed but absolutely incorrect assumption that political violence is the domain of the right. But it's easy to claim that when the data themselves are manipulated with fake definitions that protect the privileged: Arab terrorists, Antifa street thugs, BLM murderers are curiously absent from the data, or redefined into oblivion.

And hilariously...the sources for much of the data are themselves evil political organizations that have not a shred of credibility in the real world. Gentlemen, I give you the SPLC and the ADL! Otherwise known as friends of the KKK and Judaism-hating pseudo-Jews.

So don't believe anything they say until you confirm it with your independent examination of the data, and even then, be deeply suspicious!

Debunking the Data That Claims to Show Most Political Violence Comes From the Right

On the Left, people point to January 6 as well as data purporting to show that most political violence comes from the Right. After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, The Economist ran a piece claiming to explain “what the data show,” which suggested that most political violence was a Right-wing phenomenon. Other publications cited studies from the Center for Strategic & International Studies or the CATO Institute.

The problem is, the “data” that these outlets have been relying on is deeply flawed.

One of the major sources is the Prosecution Project, an initiative of the University of Cincinnati, which analyzes felony criminal cases involving political violence and sorts them by ideology. “The project examines criminal complaints, indictments and court records, looking for crimes that seek ‘a socio-political change or to communicate’ to outside audiences,” per The Economist. “Its data show that extremists on both left and right commit violence, although more incidents appear to come from right-leaning attackers.”

Yet if you pull up the data center yourself, you can see immediately that it is deeply flawed.

Read the entire thing, and check her work! Because that is what sane people do. This is a vitally important analysis, for the obvious reasons, but also because it proves that what we all suspected was in fact the truth...we cannot believe anything the left says...and the left is everywhere.

[Yeah...Ace beat me to this. I figured his shelving accident would give me enough lead time, but I was wrong.]


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—CBD

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The Morning Report — 4/ 30/26

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids. Unfortunately, my dear wonderful wife is addicted to listening to the inbred mouth-breathing credibly-accused intern-murderer Joe Scarborough and his blonde bimbo concubine Mitzi Baryshnikov on MSNSDAP, who almost daily give a platform to deranged scumbag racial arsonist Al Sharpton. While I do my very best to tune all of them out today the wailing and moaning of feces-to-the-face bootblack Sharpton are music to my ears as he flips his sewer-lid medallion over yesterday's glorious victory of America and civilization over his and his ilk's multigenerational strangulation of them.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday sharply limited the ability of states to consider race when drawing congressional maps, a decision that could reshape the balance of power in Washington and intensify redistricting battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, which included two majority-black districts, as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

In the court’s 36-page opinion, Alito emphasized that “the Constitution almost never permits the Federal Government or a State to discriminate on the basis of race,” framing the central question as whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act justifies such actions.

For the court’s conservative wing, the answer was no.

Alito and the five other justices were absolutely correct, moral and courageous in upholding the ideals of our Constitution and the ideals behind the concept that undergirds our society, "American Exceptionalism": that is that our founding and society are the exception to every other society in history, which was based on tyranny and oppression of the citizenry.

No doubt this is a big victory but I have a niggling (racist?) feeling that SCOTUS threw us a bone with this insofar as they've already made up their minds that they are going to preserve, protect and defend the bastardization of the 14th Amendment that allows foreigners to spawn on our shores to proclaim the babies as American citizens and then magically transmogrify the parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and others born elsewhere as Americans and ship them all in to become Democrat voters and welfare recipients.

For sure the win yesterday is a gut punch for the Democrat/Leftists, but losing birthright citizenship would potentially be catastrophic for them.

Unfortunately, Dobbs, Bruen and this ruling aside, SCOTUS and every court in the land cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Especially given what President Trump and many decent ordinary Americans have had to endure in the wake of J/6, School board and Pro-life protests that saw them persecuted by judges and prosecutors at the behest of Biden/Obama and their minions.

With the clock running down on the Trump miracle administration, there is also talk about Alito and or Clarence Thomas retiring, who can the President turn to or trust to advise him as to replacements?

On Wednesday, the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the president had raised his arguments too late.

I'll complete the thought for the hack-in-black..."If only he didn't survive that assassination attempt, we'd hear the case... And then rule against him after they shoved the orangeman casket into the ground."

And of course we have this that undergirds my fears about Birthright Citizenship:

The three liberal judges — all of whom usually support pro-migration claims — suggested they might block Trump’s actions on the claim that Trump may be partially motivated by racially discriminatory “animus.”

Finally there's this insanity. And note who the judge is.

Brnovich,Judge Susan Brnovich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on Tuesday said that the state’s voter registration list is not subject to requests from the U.S. Attorney General.

Brnovich, a Trump appointed-judge, dismissed the case with prejudice because an amended complaint would be “legally futile.”

The dismissal follows after after judges have ruled against the Justice Department’s attempted to obtain at least 30 states and the District of Columbia’s constituents date of birth, address, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers.

The Trump administration seeks the data to ensure states are complying with federal election laws and to check the citizenship status of individuals on the voter rolls.

Gevalt. Alito and Thomas cannot and will not hang on forever, despite Thomas knowing full well where this nation is headed. God bless him for hanging on. Every second he lasts gives us a fighting chance, however brief.
Have a great day!

One final totally random musing...

Color me jaded but let's say that if I were a late night host and quipped "The Meathead got a meat cleaver" about Rob Reiner, I don't think I'd get the guffaws or invocation of the First Amendment that homunculus Kimmel got.

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Wednesday Night ONT - April 29, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

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Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open.

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

Will you be smarter after reading this ONT? Will you be better looking? Will you be more fun at parties? Will you lose weight? Will you be wealthier? Will you be more fashionable?

Maybe you should just settle for being whelmed.

[Top photo: Somewhere unknown in Ireland that reminds me of Stonehenge but doesn't look anything like Stonehenge, Jenny Rose photo]

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Ice Cream Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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Enjoying a pup cup.

Ice cream factory.

Babies eating ice cream for the first time. Number Four will SHOCK YOU!!!

LIFE HACK!!! HOW TO EAT AN ICE CREAM CONE LIKE A PRO!!! YOUR LIFE BEEN HACKED!

I'm the cock of the walk.

The sheriff breaks up the fight.

Computer-generated walking tour of Ancient Rome.

A different cut showing how Airplane! was just the movie Zero Hour! but with jokes. I can see how they wrote Airplane -- I see them sitting around watching this old, lame movie, making wise-cracks like "And please don't call me Shirley" while watching it, and then deciding to write it as a script. And they had to pay for the Zero Hour! script because all of their best wise-cracks were in response to that particular movie.

This boulder kinda looks like a scoop of ice cream, kinda.

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FCC Demands Eight ABC Stations Re-Apply for Certification Early, Citing the Stations' Brazen Racial Discrimination Based on Illegal "DEI" Criteria
Plus: Comey May Be Forced to Give Up Profits on His Stupid Book?

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Bad news for the Disney Groomer Network.

Tim O'Brien:

[T]he Federal Communications Commission (FCC)... announced on April 28 that it is moving up its review of the ABC network's eight local broadcasting licenses over the network's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.

On March 27, 2025, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr initially sent a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger notifying him that the FCC was investigating the company (Disney and ABC) to determine if it was in violation of the FCC's own equal employment opportunity regulations. Common sense will tell you that when you replace "equal" with "equity" you will have problems, and that's what they're looking at.

Keep in mind that this was months before the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September and the Jimmy Kimmel drama that followed.

Now, just recently, David J. Brown, the chief of the video division at the Federal Communications Commission's media bureau, sent a notification memo to The Walt Disney Company that said: "Specifically, FCC rules provide that whenever the FCC regards an application for a renewal of a license as essential to the proper conduct of an investigation, the FCC has the authority to call the broadcaster's licenses in for early renewal. Doing so both allows the FCC to conduct its ongoing investigation and enables the FCC to ensure that the broadcaster has been meeting its public interest obligations more broadly...The FCC determines that calling in Disney's ABC licenses for early renewal, at this time, under the Communications Act's public interest standard is essential within the meaning of agency regulations."

The ABC stations in question were on the schedule for license renewal in the 2028-2031 window. The FCC's decision now requires the ABC stations to file for renewal by May 28 of this year.

It's important to understand that the Federal Communications Commission doesn't regulate networks directly; their content is carried by third-party local broadcasters that use the public airwaves, which the FCC does regulate. American Broadcasting Company owns eight local television stations that are within the FCC's jurisdiction: WABC-TV New York, KABC-TV Los Angeles, WLS-TV Chicago, WPVI-TV Philadelphia, KTRK-TV Houston, KGO-TV San Francisco, WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham, and KFSN-TV Fresno.

Those are among ABC's biggest stations. Only two -- Raleigh-Durham and Fresno -- are second-tier.

On to James Comey.

James Comey posted his "8647" threat to boost sales of his piece-of-shit homo book.

But that means he profited from a crime, and may be forced to disgorge those profits.

Though, to be honest, I can't imagine she made much money off this "book."

Paul Sperry @paulsperry_

BREAKING: DOJ sources tell me prosecutors are pursuing a "forfeiture action" in relation to James Comey's alleged felonies because they believe Comey posted the "86" Trump threat to also help drum up sales of a forthcoming book. Comey posted the image five (5) days before the May 20, 2025, release of his new crime novel. Controversy over the posting thrust Comey back into the headlines and drew potential book buyers to his Instagram and X accounts where he heavily promoted the book.

According to the Comey indictment, "Upon conviction, the defendant shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to the said offense."

Viva Frei explains that the case against Comey isn't just about the "8647" tweet-- he posted a series of tweets to promote his gay book, which spoke of... encouraging people to kill political enemies.

Conversation Viva Frei @thevivafrei

Too many people are either ignorant of the facts, or being obtuse as relates to Comey's "8647" (in shells!) Instagram post.

It was not a simple "one-off" post. Faulty premise and factually incorrect.

So everyone comparing it to Jack Posobiec's 2022 tweet of "8646" is not comparing comparables.

Also, not an irrelevant factor - Jack is not the former Director of the FBI!

Posobiec's tweet was stupid. And I would expect to be investigated and possibly charged if I were to ever post anything so stupid.

That says, now back to it not being a "one-off" possibly ambiguous tweet:

People are either unaware of, or ignoring the context of Comey's Instagram post. It was not a "one-off". It was actually the second in a series of three posts, all of which were connected, self-referential, and clearly deliberately so.

Post 1: Comey at the beach, reading his new book, FDR Drive (image attached).

Post 2: 8647 in shells.

Post 3: The summary of his new book which he is reading in Post 1. That summary:

"Garcia believes Buchanan went far beyond the protection of the first amendment when *he singled out his enemies by name* and *suggested "something should be done" about them*. His fans have obliged, killing or grievously, injuring some of his foes."

Comey is telling you exactly what he is doing.

Reading his book.

Singling out his enemies by name (as close as he can get) - 47 for Trump.

Suggesting "something should be done about them" - 86 for kill or eliminate.

And "his fans have obliged" from his book description that he posted.

All of the elements are there to eliminate any ambiguity as to what common meant - sandwiching his 8647 in shells in between a picture of him reading his book, and a summary of his book - which has to do with calling out enemies by name, suggesting something should be done to them, and his fans obliging.

He quibbles about whether the indictment should contain all of this evidence. I don't think it does. An indictment is not a presentation of evidence. That's what a trial is. An indictment is just a listing of charges that a grand jury has said there is evidence enough to support a conviction thereupon.

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The Family of Democrat Thugs Who Assaulted Savanah Hernandez Have All be Indicted by a Federal Grand Jury

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Acting AG Todd Blanche @DAGToddBlanche

Today, Christopher, Deyanna, and Paige Ostrouchko were indicted by a grand jury for allegedly assaulting journalist and Turning Point USA contributor Savannah Hernandez, while she was lawfully reporting on anti-ICE protests outside a federal building in St. Paul.

Hernandez was allegedly surrounded, physically assaulted, and shoved to the ground -- simply because she was identified by the defendants as a conservative journalist. That is NOT "peaceful protest." These deplorable actions as charged in the indictment will not be tolerated in America, and this Department of Justice will always punish unhinged acts of political violence.

The whole family -- the thug 250 pound father who brutally knocked the 110 pound girl in the back, the psychopathic daughter who repeated assaulted her by blowing a very loud whistle directly into her ear (yes that's assault, and the attack can have serious long-term consequences), and the mother too.

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Lunatic Leftwing Fascists Melt Down as Florida's Assembly Speedruns the New Congressional Map Through Both Houses

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Cry Moar NPR:

Florida lawmakers have approved a new Congressional map that could position Republicans to win four additional U.S. House seats in the midterm elections in November.

The 21 to 17 vote for final passage in the Senate came just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act in a decision on a Louisiana congressional district Wednesday morning.

Both developments will assist President Trump's national push to help the GOP in the midterm elections. With the Florida redistricting, the GOP likely gains an advantage of two or three new seats as Republican-led states have followed Trump's call and Democratic-led states have countered it.

However, control of the House will depend on the votes in November. Democrats have said the redraw in Florida makes several GOP seats more competitive, potentially leading to smaller seat gains if strong Democratic performances seen in recent special elections continue.

The bill now goes for expected signing by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He has argued that the state's rapid population growth requires redistricting. And he's urged the redrawing of districts that were drawn with consideration for preserving the voting power of minority communities.

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Al Gore: All of My Predictions from An Inconvenient Truth About Greenland and the Arctic Completely Losing Their Ice Were "Proven Dead Right;" and BTW, Now I'm Warning About a Coming Ice Age (Which Will Also Not Happen)

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Everything he predicted twenty years ago were "proven dead right," except for everything he predicted.

And he's got a new grift: Global Freezing.

A lot of these rich nepo babies like Al Gore and Tuq'r Qarlson aren't nearly as rich as I'd assumed. They're still shilling and huckstering into their elder years.

Former Vice President Al Gore is still making climate doom predictions, 20 years after his warnings from An Inconvenient Truth proved false -- this time invoking the science fiction film The Day After Tomorrow for a rapt Hollywood audience.

Gore joined the first-ever Sustainability in Entertainment Honors event Thursday, organized by The Hollywood Reporter and the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance, for a keynote conversation with The West Wing star Bradley Whitford.

This idiot cuck again. I hate this guy. He's a dweeb so he plays "smart" characters -- by which I mean another dweeb, Aaron Sorkin, uses him as his puppet to ventriloquize his own personal stupid dweeb political propaganda -- and so he believes he's smart in real life.

Pretty sure Hugh Jackman doesn't think he's actually Wolverine in real life.

The pair reminisced about the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, conspicuously omitting its failed prophecy that Earth's ecosystems would reach a "tipping point" of no return, thanks to human industrial activity, in only ten years. That deadline that came and went a full decade ago.

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In response to this doomsday warning, Whitford sets a more drastic timeline -- that if Gore's energy policies are not enacted, "we're in an ice age in, like, 10 years." However, Gore punts the prophecy's deadline much farther into the future, dodging any chance of accountability.

So note it is this actor dweeb who spent his grade school years getting stuffed inside lockers who advanced the ice age prediction-- but Al Gore then endorses it, while avoiding making a prediction about when this will come to pass.

Like all Doomsayers, his previous specific predictions have been proven dead wrong, so now he wants to keep things vague.

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WHITFORD: And if there is a tipping point here where the gradual threat of climate change becomes immediate, where -- if that happens and the Gulf Stream ceases to exist as we know it, we're in an ice age in, like, 10 years.

GORE: No, no, no. It would take longer -- it, I mean, I'm not the expert-

WHITFORD: [Crosstalk] I wear makeup, Al.

GORE: But I've spent a lot of time with them. But it would be bad. It would be very bad and would be bad on a scale that is beyond our, anything we can compare it to today.


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Dan Bongino Flushed Deep State Leakers Out of the FBI By Using the "Canary Trap" Technique

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I don't know if it's really called the "canary trap." I just know that's what Tom Clancy called it. One finds a leaker by leaking particularlized misinformation to different people. Then you sit back and see what version of the misinformation winds up in the press.

Then you fire the person you told that piece of individualized misinformation to.

Tyrian Lanister used it in Game of Thrones, too.

Bongino used the same technique to separate real FBI agents interested in actaully doing their jobs from the treasonous Democrat "snakes" who infest American government to tunnel through it and collapse it.

Bongino said he was repeatedly assured certain individuals were trustworthy, only to suspect them of leaking shortly afterward.

"It happened a couple times where they'd say, 'Oh, you can trust John Smith.' And you trust John Smith, and then a week later you see a leak in the media and you'd be like, 'I'm pretty sure that came from John Smith,'" he said.

At that point, most bureaucrats would shrug and complain. Bongino did something smarter.

He set a trap.

To flush out leakers, Bongino began planting harmless, fake details--like an "innocuous" schedule item--and sharing them selectively with specific individuals. Then he watched. If that exact detail showed up in the press, he had his answer.

"It was like we would play this little game," he said.

Call it a game if you want. It was actually a classic counterintelligence tactic, and it worked. When the planted information surfaced publicly, Bongino confronted the source directly. No guesswork. No plausible deniability. Done.

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Assassination-Prep Specialist Congressman Dan Goldman: The Person Responsible for Trump's Third Assassination Trump is Trump Himself

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Do you want to take this kinetic? Because this is how you take this kinetic.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) didn't waste any time pointing the finger after Saturday's assassination attempt on President Donald Trump -- and he aimed it squarely at Trump himself.

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Coates played a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who called out what she described as years of escalating demonization of the president. "This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators, yes, by elected members of the Democrat Party, and even some in the media," she said. "This hateful and constant and violent rhetoric directed at President Trump day after day after day for 11 years has helped to legitimize this violence and bring us to this dark moment."

Goldman, who sits on the House Judiciary and Homeland Security committees and is a former federal prosecutor, of course, doesn't blame his party for the shooting.

When asked about the White House's response, Goldman didn't even pause. "I mean, it's pretty rich given that Donald Trump's rhetoric led to January 6," he said. "And we know what Donald Trump's rhetoric leads to because we know many times over how his followers use violence in -- when they follow him."


Yes, he literally blamed President Trump for the assassination attempt against him.

Meanwhile: Comey will be arrested by federal marshals.

Paul Sperry @paulsperry_

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BREAKING: An arrest warrant has been issued for former FBI Director James Comey for multiple federal grand jury charges in North Carolina related to an Instagram image he posted last summer allegedly threatening the president. US Marshals will execute the arrest. Comey publicly claimed at the time that he did not create the threatening "86 47" image but merely stumbled on it while walking on the beach and photographed it. It's not clear what he told federal agents who interviewed him about it.

I know this will shock you, but it turns out those "studies" claiming that there is more political violence from the right than from the left are lies.

They -- hold on to your seats -- excluded obvious cases of left-wing violence from the tallies but include drug dealers shooting each other if they happen to be white nationalists. The supposedly "libertarian" -- really corporate left-wing liberal -- CATO institute does not include 9/11 victims in the count.

The ADL just flatly defines antisemitism as "right-wing" -- even when left-wing Palestinians kill Jews, they claim that the Palestinians as "ethnonationalism" which is then defined as "right-wing."

Batya-Ungar Sargon's >analysis is here.

One of the major sources is the Prosecution Project, an initiative of the University of Cincinnati, which analyzes felony criminal cases involving political violence and sorts them by ideology. "The project examines criminal complaints, indictments and court records, looking for crimes that seek 'a socio-political change or to communicate' to outside audiences," per The Economist. "Its data show that extremists on both left and right commit violence, although more incidents appear to come from right-leaning attackers."

Yet if you pull up the data center yourself, you can see immediately that it is deeply flawed.

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The data set doesn't include either of the previous two assassination attempts on President Trump's life, as far as I can tell; a search for the time frame and the names of the would-be assassins turns up zero hits. Nor does it include the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The data set is based on prosecutions, which might explain the absence of Thomas Crooks, who died at Butler. But what explains the absence of Trump's other would-be assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, or Tyler Robinson, who killed Charlie Kirk? I couldn't find Elias Rodriguez on the list either, who shot and killed two people outside the Jewish Museum in D.C. in May of 2025 to protest the war in Gaza.

It's pretty easy to say that the violence is coming overwhelmingly from the Right if you overwhelmingly edit out any political violence from the Left.

The editing goes deep. During the summer of 2020, the George Floyd riots were in full swing. Political violence claimed the lives of dozens of Americans and caused $2 billion in property damage. Yet the data set from the Prosecution Project lists a grand total of five incidents "left wing" incidents that summer, two of them "eco-animal focused," meaning it counts just three incidents of left-wing violence during that time.

Compare this to a list compiled by Forbes of 19 people who lost their lives during the first 14 days of George Floyd riots. Why don't these people merit a mention in the Prosecution Project? They were killed during a politically motivated explosion of violence and rioting. These were, to cite the Project's own criteria, "crimes that seek 'a socio-political change or to communicate' to outside audiences." Yet they do not appear in the dataset.

Surely we can all agree that their omission massively skews the data.

Maybe you think that people murdered during political riots shouldn't count as victims of political violence. But what about a meth dealer who happens to belong to the Aryan Brotherhood? Should their meth dealing count as political violence?

The Prosecution Project thinks so! Among the Right-wing examples it makes sure to include, you'll find an Aryan Brotherhood meth gang that merited 10 entries for drug-related crimes. I'm no fan of the Aryan Brotherhood, but can you honestly say this is an example of Right-wing political violence? In what world does producing meth constitute "crimes that seek 'a socio-political change or to communicate' to outside audiences"?

You can also find people on the list who did things like vandalize an LGBTQ crosswalk--though not people who vandalized entire neighborhoods in 2020 in the name of racial justice.

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IN EPOCHAL RULING, SUPREME COURT HOLDS, 6-3, THAT RACIAL GERRYMANDERS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL -- MUCH LESS REQUIRED BY THE CONSTITUTION

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I don't know if the southern states affected like this can impose an emergency redistricting double-quick for the midterms, but some analysts believe that this ruling will eventually flip 19 Democrat seats to Republican.



Huge. Just huge.

The Supreme Court just handed down one of the most consequential redistricting decisions in a generation -- and Democrats are not going to like it one bit.

In a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, the majority held that Louisiana's congressional map -- redrawn to include a second majority-black district -- constitutes an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Fifteenth Amendment. The Court stopped short of striking down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act entirely, but it dramatically narrowed the ways in which states may use race when drawing congressional maps.

Zachary Donnini @ZacharyDonnini

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Kagan seems to be pretty damn sure that Section 2 is gutted in her dissent:

"The new Callais requirements will effectively insulate any practice, including any districting scheme, said by a State to have any race-neutral justification. That justification can sound in traditional redistricting criteria, or else can sound in politics and partisanship. As to the latter, the State need do nothing more than announce a partisan gerrymander."

Full decision here.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

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There is a problem with high-stakes and costly agreements among many parties, whether those agreements are secret or open. They can hold up only so long as everyone involved is willing to hold the line and do what they agreed to do with the other parties. In order to accomplish this, there must be both incentives and long-term gain - and all of the parties have to participate and not fight each other. If the incentives change or become irrelevant, or if the playing field suddenly shifts and throws the old assumptions out the window, or there is major infighting, it creates a major stability problem.

This is a basic problem for cartels. In order for a cartel to work, it has to be able to fix price, and fixing price requires rigid control of supply. This can increase profits for the cartel's members, but it is a dangerous game unless there is absolute control (or, at least, near-absolute control) of supply, adequate incentive to not cheat and for members to not work against each-other. If any of this breaks down, cartel members will cheat or leave the game because it is no longer in the member's best interest to play by the rules or remain in the game. On a long enough timeline, this will always happen and it appears that it just happened with everyone's favorite cartel.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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Mary Magdalene before Christ's Tomb
Francisco Ribalta

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The Morning Report — 4/ 29/26

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids, Here we are after a third Democrat/Leftist assassination attempt on President Trump which comes close on the heels of low-rent astroturfed Nuremberg Rallies known as "No Kings". and yet where were these anti-imperialists yesterday when the inbred Saxe-Coburg spawn KING (formerly known as Prince) Charles spoke before Congress?


“As President Trump observed during his state visit to Britain last autumn, ‘the bond of kinship and identity between America is priceless and eternal, it is irreplacable and unbreakable,” he added to a standing ovation from the Congress.

“The alliance that our two nations have built over the centuries, and for which we are profoundly grateful to the American people, is truly unique, and that alliance is what Henry Kissinger described as Kennedy’s ‘soaring vision’ of an Atlantic relationship based on twin pillars, Europe and America. That partnership, I believe, Mr Speaker, is more important today than it has ever been.”

Blah blah blah blah blah... Britain is gone. It has been all but subsumed into a Zombie hellscape of a Socialist/Islamic republic, with much of Europe well on its way to suffering that same fate even within my shrinking day-by-day lifespan (and I hope I'm dead and gone before it happens).
And NATO should've been dismantled years ago. It serves zero purpose but to prop up failed Western European welfare states...

When Westminster Abbey becomes the next Hagia Sophia, then tell me about that "eternal alliance" as your head gets lopped off with a rusty meat cleaver on Al JazBBC-zira.

President Donald Trump’s declaration that, for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, “the party is over” was treated like a barbarian shout in the salon. Yet his statement has the impolite virtue of being true. For 75 years, Europe has hosted the most expensive open bar in history, all of it paid for by the United States, and called this dependency an “alliance.” Now, when the bill is presented and the host suggests perhaps the guests might behave as if they own something besides opinions, they are scandalized.

Nothing has exposed this charade more clearly than the recent confrontation with Iran. The most revealing actor was NATO Europe, which, at the precise moment when it had the strongest interest in American protection, chose instead to lecture, obstruct, and deny access to bases that exist only thanks to American power and American money.

No Kings indeed!!! If NATO can miraculously embrace a new mission of "No Emirs, Imams, Sultans along with Socialist Apparatchiks and Chi-Com Mandarins," I might reconsider my attitude provided they, EUROPE, foot at least 60% of the bill, permanently.

On a more positive note, whatever one thinks of our conflict with Iran, and how it will ultimately play out, President Donald Trump's actions caused this happened and will no doubt have positive reverberations economically and geopolitically for years to come.


OPEC’s stranglehold on the global economy is finally coming apart at the seams — thanks in large part to President Donald Trump’s efforts at home and abroad — and the result will be freer markets, long-term lower energy price and less debt slavery for developing nations. On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates, long frustrated with OPEC’s limits on its oil production, declared its intent to leave the consortium within days to be free to meet consumer demand for energy on its own terms.

Meanwhile here at home in the wake of the latest leftist Democrat attempt to overthrow the American Republic by assassinating our President and his cabinet, it certainly seems as if the tone of the response by actual conservative pundits has taken a very distinct turn. Here are but two.

The American Left Is In Thrall To Political Violence. It Has To Be Destroyed. . . Left-wing political violence won’t end unless it’s actively stopped. We are not going to argue our way to peace.

Very True John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist. He doesn't mince words. Am I correct in reading that as a call for a violent response to their violence and/or a preemptive move to take them down with extreme prejudice?

And this from FrontPage Mag's Josh Hammer

Leftist Political Violence is an Existential Threat to the Republic

While he's not as overt perhaps nor directly calling for a violent response/preemption as Mr. Davidson does, nevertheless makes the very same point. Declaring the Left an "Existential threat" is not an allegory. So boys as I have asked numerous times in the past, what is to be done?

I too am at the end of my rope, and one day either us or them will be on the wrong end of an actual, not rhetorical rope!

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  • Glenn Reynolds: Republicans may soon need to write a thank-you note to Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy. By convincing American business that a Democrat-controlled government is an existential threat, Murphy could be the guy who wins the midterms for the GOP.But Murphy’s problem isn’t really that these industries are too concentrated — it’s that he and his party don’t entirely control them. . . Well, I may not be a billionaire, but when somebody says he plans to destroy me if he wins back power, I’m going to do my best to make sure he never gets the chance. Let’s see if the actual billionaires are equally smart.
    Democrats’ rants confirm their enemies list is serious business

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - April 28, 2026 [Doof]

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Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday night ONT has arrived. Thanks for stopping by! Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Rainy Season Cafe

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Doggo adds to the precipitation.

Rain and storms.

Death Valley is experiencing a "superbloom" after record rainfall.

He thought it was a honeypot.

Doggo is excited to be adopted from the shelter.

Welcome company.

Rain in the Grand Canyon causes temporary waterfalls.

Rain in Glencoe, Scotland. Rain in Edinburgh.

Wet ducklings.

Guy "mines" the streets of NYC, digging up the dirt in the cracks in the pavement outside jewelry shops, looking for dropped gems and precious metals. He made $800 one month so he's like a millionaire.


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America's Sweetheart and Noted World War Eleven History Buff has called Americans dumb. Has she seen the figures for Somali IQ? Who knows, maybe they're faked to defraud the US government by declaring their kids mentally retarded. We know they claim that a lot of kids are "autistic" to defraud the taxpayers into paying mothers and family friends to be "caretakers" for the fake-austistic children.


More Biden COVID fraud.

Pfizer's COVID antiviral, bankrolled by Biden administration, doesn't help high-risk adults: study


New England Journal of Medicine lets Anthony Fauci and his onetime deputy play down results in editorial alongside study from U.K., Canada trials. Critics suspect profit motive played role in long-delayed publication.


By Greg Piper

The Biden administration threw its weight and reportedly more than $12 billion in taxpayer money behind Pfizer's Paxlovid despite the COVID-19 antiviral's penchant for rebound infections -- including in the First Couple and then-directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

A long-awaited study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests the nirmatrelvir-ritonavir combination marketed as Paxlovid, with nearly 24 million courses federally purchased at $530 each, is no better at protecting vaccinated adults at elevated risk than it is at mitigating so-called long COVID, as Pfizer's own research found two years ago.

The "two open-label platform trials," known as PANORAMIC in the U.K. and CanTreatCOVID in Canada, found Paxlovid "did not reduce the incidence of hospitalization or death among vaccinated higher-risk participants" -- 50 and older and 18-50 with "coexisting conditions" -- who tested positive for COVID and "had been unwell for 5 days or less."

"We found no evidence that early treatment" reduced their "already-low incidence of hospitalization or death in either trial and were unable to identify any prespecified subgroup with compelling evidence of treatment effect," the authors said.

It's just the latest black eye for Pfizer, which canceled a trial for its new COVID vaccine for healthy 50-64 year-olds this month due to lack of interest and did not answer a Just the News query for its response to the peer-reviewed study. The Canada Paxlovid trial similarly ended early "because of slow recruitment" and its supply being discontinued, the study said.

To play down the new results, NEJM published a same-day editorial by former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and his then-deputy director for clinical research, Cliff Lane.

The new trials show the findings from Pfizer's EPIC-HR trial, the initial basis for the feds going all-in on Paxlovid, don't apply "to the current circumstances, in which most adults have varying degrees of preexisting immunity and the circulating variants are different," they wrote.

"However, one should be cautious not to overinterpret the new data and conclude that nirmatrelvir--ritonavir is not of current value," they said.

The Supreme Court has overturned a leftwing judge's injunction, okaying the Texas redistricting map.

Even CNN isn't buying child-death-wishing Virginia AG's non-arguments about the inarguable illegality of the Virginia gerrymander referendum. The state constitution requires 90 days between the introduction of a referendum and the vote, and they just didn't even bother to follow this rule. (They also ignored the constitution's requirement that an amendment must be first passed in one state assembly and then, only after an intervening election, re-passed by another state assembly.)

Even CNN's fat-faced partisan plumper dismisses his whining about an "activist state judge" and points out that this isn't about a judge, this is about a simple on-its-face "math problem."

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