Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 24, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
From Abby
Greetings to you, ONT conversationalists all across the fruited plain! {typo corrected}
So glad you are here. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Tuesday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
by Ken James
A white stoat climbs a narrow crevice to
Dogs, like ladies, love to be patted on the chest and the rump. I read that dogs really like this because they're the parts of their body they can't easily scratch. Cats are never not up to something. Pig greets garbage-men, whom they consider to be part of the same team of refuge-disposal workers. Punch the Monkey update: He has a girlfriend now and he protects her from mashers. Bear update: still out of control. I have suspicions that this one is AI but I'll throw it open for discussion. The Trivial Dodecacathalon is the Sport of the Future, and will make cornholing look like curling. I don't even know what that means! Nice kitty. Horse: lemme give you a little boost-toss. Baby and dog fail to have a game of fetch. This kitten is the opposite of the runt. Continue reading
Democrats Can't Decide Yet Whether Vicious Murderer of Sheridan Gorman Should be Deported or Welcomed to Stay in Our Country Forever
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktokNew info in the case against Jose Medina-Medina reveals that he was reportedly hiding in the park and shot Sheridan Gorman in the back of the neck as she began RUNNING AWAY.
Medina was then identified by CBP using facial recognition software, a technology that Democrat Illinois State Rep. Kelly Cassidy wants to ban.
Because of course.
The decision to grant permanent refuge to illegal alien foreign murderers and rapists is a political one. It is a political choice. It is so insane that it seems less like a political choice than a psychotic break, but it is a political choice.
And when parties and politicians make political choices, we are allowed to discuss them. We are allowed to point out when those political choices have bad or even deadly consequences.
Via Beege Wellborn, J.B. Pritzker is proud to host the Venezuelan murderer and keep him in Illinois and he wants you to stop "politicizing" his elevation of a murderer's comfort over US citizens' safety.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Variety attempted to smear Chuck Norris for his politics. When lefties die, their politics either go unmentioned in favor of their achievements, or are actively praised. But Christian conservatives? Smeared.
Variety claims that his politics "overshadowed" his career in martial arts and movie-making.
The greatest Community Note of all time put lie to that.
AOC's campaign spent $19,000 for unspecified medical treatments by a doctor known to use ketamine in treating woke women with bad cases of the grumpies.
She's trippin'.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spent nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on a shrink who specializes in controversial ketamine therapy.
The socialist lawmaker hired Boston-based Dr. Brian Boyle, the chief psychiatric officer at Stella, a chain of mental health clinics focusing on "novel" therapies popular with Hollywood and Wall Street.
Her campaign paid Boyle $11,550 in March 2025, another $2,800 in May, and $4,375 in October for a total of $18,725, Federal Election Commission records show.
The expenses were marked as "leadership training and consulting."
It's unclear what the sessions consisted of or who participated. Ocasio-Cortez's campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Boyle, a Harvard-trained doctor, calls himself an "interventional psychiatrist" and specializes in unorthodox methods for treatment-resistant depression, PTSD and anxiety.
He's considered a "leading authority" on ketamine, the controversial horse tranquilizer given to "Friends" star Matthew Perry in the month leading up to his tragic death.
"I just saw the incredible power of what these treatments could do," Boyle said during a podcast appearance last year about getting into the mind-blowing biz. "It's a ton of fun helping patients get better."
Boyle's clinic also offers other treatments popular with the 1 Percent, like stellate ganglion block, an anesthetic injected into a nerve cluster in the neck to calm the body's fight-or-flight response. Billionaires like Bob Parsons, who's battled PTSD since returning from the Vietnam War, have raved about the treatment.
"Celebrities tend to be more inclined to be on the hunt for highly effective solutions across beauty, health, mental health, nutrition and so on," Boyle said in an interview last year about the treatment.
AOC herself is no stranger to touting the benefits of hallucinogenic drugs for therapy.
The "Squad" rep, who campaigned to end the federal prohibition of marijuana in 2018, has three times proposed legislation to make it easier to study magic mushrooms and other psychedelics.
As a freshman congresswoman in 2019, she introduced an amendment to allow the feds to spend taxpayer money on studying the medical potential of psilocybin, ecstasy and other drugs to treat mental illnesses, calling the early research "promising."
"It's well past time we take drug use out of criminal consideration and into medical consideration," she tweeted at the time.
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Revealed: Joe Kent Kicked Off the Entire Candace Owens Project to Attack Erika Kirk and Claim the Jews Killed Charlie Kirk
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Lunatics. Vicious psychopathic lunatics.
So here's the story as alleged:
A TPUSA employee named Andrew Kolvet says he wanted to leave no stone unturned in the search for Charlie Kirk's killer. This was in the early hours after the murder, before police discovered the rifle with Tyler Robinson's fingerprints on it, and his texts telling his gay furry lover he was going to do something wonderful.
Kolvet knew Joe Kent. He passed to Kent some private DMs of Charlie Kirk -- if I have this right -- complaining that one Jewish donor had stopped funding TPUSA because he didn't like the organization platforming confirmed antisemitic monsters Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Kovet's idea -- stupid from the start -- was apparently that maybe this Jewish donor might have killed Charlie Kirk.
Kolvet claims he never believed this, but that he wanted to make sure every possible avenue of investigation was open. It's silly, but I'm sure he wasn't thinking quite straight in the hours after his friend was murdered.
He trusted that Joe Kent would act like a responsible government official in handling the texts in a responsible, official way.
Instead, antisemtic Nazi conspiracy theorist Joe Kent began demanding that Kolvet make the chats public. Kent wasn't investigating the texts; he was trying to create a podcaster "investigation" and public witch-hunt.
Even after the assassin's identity was known to everyone who isn't a Jew-hating psychotic.
Kolvett refused to make the chats public, because he says he didn't want innocent parties baselessly accused.
Especially given that the killer was now known and was not a disappointed Jewish donor but a radical left-wing gay furry sodomite.
And then just a week or two later, Candace Owens starts talking about the chats and Tucker Carlson can't stop talking about them, either. Later, Owens actually publishes them.
Kovett's conclusion is -- and it seems hard to doubt -- that Joe Kent was a determined conspiracy theorist who could not let go of the idea that Jews Killed Charlie Kirk, even after the proof emerged that the killer was a non-Jewish furry-fucker. And after Kolvett repeatedly refused to make the chats public, Kent gave them to Candace Owens (and probably Tucker Carlson too, although Owens could have given them to Carlson).
Note that Joe Kent was a government official and ostensibly a high-ranking counter-terrorism official, but decided to leak private DMs he had been given in his capacity as government official to an extremely unreliable and toxic internet personality.
That might be a crime. I don't know. The texts weren't classified but they were sensitive personal information given to a public official for purposes of an official government investigation -- not to leak to a hair-on-fire lunatic podcaster.
It is definitely a fireable offense, whether or not a criminal one.
And I wonder if it might be the subject of a lawsuit by TPUSA and Erika Kirk, who have been absolutely brutalized due to Joe Kent's leaking to the maniacal conspiracy theorist and defamer Candace Owens.
And now Joe Kent announces that he will testify on behalf of Charlie Kirk's actual murderer Tyler Robinson and tell the jury that no, the Jews did it, let this innocent patsy-of-the-Jews free.
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Despite Hurting Miniature Senator Rand Paul's Fragile Feelings, Markwaye Mullin is Confirmed as Secretary of DHS
Democrats Preparing Failure Theater on Their DHS Shutdown?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I don't know much about this guy except that I have vague memories of him standing on the open borders/"Comprehensive Amnesty Reform" side of things a few times.
But if Trump thinks he can be browbeaten into being useful, fine, I'll defer to Trump.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_BREAKING: The Senate just voted 54-45 to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) as DHS Secretary.
Applause & cheers break out.
The only Republican no vote was Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
The only two Democrats to vote yes were Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) & Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM).
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) didn't vote.
The Senate on Monday night confirmed Sen. Markwayne Mullin as the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, handing President Trump another key cabinet win as his administration moves to tighten its grip on immigration enforcement and national security.Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican and close Trump ally, was approved in a 54-45 vote, with a largely party-line split that still saw a few notable defections. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was the lone Republican to vote against the nomination, while Democrat Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico crossed the aisle to support it.
When Paul was questioning a vote of Mullins', which I think showed Mullins as weak on the border, Mullins said something like "I can see why Rand Paul's neighbor beat him up." Paul made this his primary case against Mullins -- not the vote, the comment about Paul being very punchable. He told Mullins to tell him that to his face, as if he were some kind of tough-guy. This is like a dweeby fourth grader saying "Say that to my face" when in the presence of three teachers and the Vice Principle.
Rand Paul is an unserious pansy bitch and I can't wait to primary xim.
The confirmation caps a swift rise for Mullin, who Trump tapped earlier this month to replace Kristi Noem. In announcing the move on Truth Social, Trump said Noem would transition to a new role as "Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas," while praising Mullin's record in Congress, noting his decade in the House and three years in the Senate and calling his performance "tremendous."
Mullin, a former mixed martial arts fighter turned lawmaker, quickly embraced the nomination, signaling alignment with Trump's agenda at a department that has become central to the administration's immigration crackdown and broader homeland security posture.
"I am grateful to President Trump for nominating me to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security," Mullin wrote on X following the announcement. "I look forward to earning the support of my colleagues in the Senate and carrying out President Trump's mission alongside the department's many capable agencies and the thousands of patriots who keep us safe every day."
Democrats have admitted that they have shut down the DHS to inflict pain and inconvenience on the public, so that their media allies can claim it's all Trump's fault.
For over a month, Democrats have shut down the Department of Homeland Security -- inflicting pain on over 100,000 American families missing paychecks and causing widespread disruption to millions of travelers across the country.Democrats have misrepresented negotiations in the press, been unresponsive, prolonged the suffering of hardworking Americans, boasted that they are "very serene" about this dangerous shutdown and are now openly admitting they are "making people hurt."
The Trump Administration has negotiated in good faith from day one to fully fund DHS and avoid this dangerous shutdown, but instead of working towards a solution, Democrats have responded with a list of unserious, extreme demands that would seek to reinstitute Biden's failed open-border agenda, protect criminal illegal aliens, and put American citizens -- and the law enforcement officers who defend them -- in danger.
Let's be clear: these attempts to defund our federal law enforcement agents and border security are unacceptable to the American people.
Trump's Nefarious Scheme to use ICE agents, whose salaries are fully funded, to serve as emergency TSA agents as Democrats ruthlessly attempt to shut down the country is actually working, says CNN.
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Diversity Is Our Strength: Woke Australian PM Goes to Mosque to Curry Favor With His Country's Rulers, Is Chased Out of the Conquerors' Temple and Sent Running for His Bodyguards
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is from last week, but due to the unfortunate Hamster Walk-Out on Friday, I never got to it.
David Strom was likewise late on the story and wrote about it yesterday.
Australian PM, Anthony Albanese, is exactly what you would expect from a left-leaning Western leader in these fraught times.A big fan of the mass migration, "diversity is our strength," soft totalitarianism that has been so popular within the Anglosphere and the EU, he has bent over backwards to welcome in hostile Muslim immigrants, reassure them that Australia was fertile ground for radicalization, and a critic of any and everybody who questions whether that is such a smart move.
He went to Sydney suburb to beg for the support of his colonial masters. The suburb used to be white working class, but is now majority Muslim.
He was called a "genocidal pig" and chased out of the mosque with some threat of violence.
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Local Crime Story Update: Crazed Abortionist Who Routinely Murdered Children After They Were Born Dies in Prison
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As a wise president once said, "Good, I'm glad he's dead."
Kermit Gosnell, the former Philadelphia abortionist convicted of first-degree murder in the brutal killings of three infants born alive during illegal late-term abortions at his notorious "house of horrors" clinic, has died in prison. He was 85.Gosnell, who was serving three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole plus an additional 30 years on federal drug charges, died at SCI Huntingdon, according to sources familiar with the matter.
His cause of death was not immediately released, though he had reportedly been in declining health in recent years.
The news emerged publicly via pro-life journalist Ann McElhinney, who extensively covered his 2013 trial, interviewed him in prison, and co-authored a book on the case.
In her announcement, McElhinney described Gosnell as "the abortion doctor who is thought to have murdered thousands of babies in a 30 year killing spree" and called him "a chilling monster who could sometimes come across as charming."
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A Philadelphia grand jury, in its investigation of Gosnell's Women's Medical Society abortion center, labeled it a "house of horrors" and initially sought charges for hundreds of murders of babies born alive and then killed.
Charges were ultimately limited to seven murder counts "after pressure from senior political and law enforcement officials," according to accounts from those covering the case
If you remember, a twat pro-child-murder feminist progressive explained away the media's complete refusal to cover the grisly serial murders because, she sniffed, it was a "local crime story."
Greg Price @greg_price1116h
Reminder that the mainstream media had to essentially be cyberbullied into covering the 2013 Kermit Gosnell trial after refusing to do so for weeks to protect the abortion industry.
His crimes were so shockingly evil, but the only thing that finally got the media to cover it was the backlash after a Philly blogger posted this picture of the coutroom's empty press gallery.
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The Morning Rant: Anonymity
—CBD
Anonymity is vital for the proper functioning of a free society, regardless of legal protections afforded by the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights for free speech, unencumbered by government influence or interference.
But as the current social-media-obsessed culture demonstrates, anonymity from the majority is also vital. Doxxing and deplatforming and worse are now a staple of public discourse.
From: McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995)
Under our Constitution, anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. See generally J. Mill, On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government 1, 3-4 (R. McCallum ed. 1947). It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation-and their ideas from suppression-at the hand of an intolerant society. The right to remain anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. But political speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to the dangers of its misuse.
It is relatively simple for political and social elites to speak freely; they have walls, both figurative and literal, built around them by dint of their wealth or their government connection. It is exactly those people against whom anonymity is a powerful weapon, because their reach is far more powerful than the mere citizen.
Entrance into the public sphere as a politician (or the quaint term: public servant), or commentator, or pundit, or as an entertainment figure immediately expands one's megaphone far beyond that of the citizen, and it also affords one the protection of the organized media, the state and, sadly, in many cases, the long arm of the state or media that reaches out to punish one's interlocutors.
Against this we have one tool: anonymity. And who are the enemies of anonymity? Those who have other protections!
Here is a comment from a purported 1st Amendment lawyer, who thinks that anonymous speech should be held to a different standard. He was responding to some "famous" person whose name I barely know, but whose attack on anonymity is self serving and intellectually weak. I cited one obvious need for anonymity...The United Kingdom, which is busily imprisoning people for their speech! But there are countless others here in America that are powerful defenses of anonymity as one of the pillars of our free discourse in ideas. For example; "Whistleblowers" are sometimes self-serving and craven, but there are numerous examples of their importance in exposing government malfeasance.
And our current legal and political structure was debated in The Federalist Papers by "Publius," (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay), and rebutted by "Federal Farmer," whose identity is still not certain after almost 240 years!
If anonymity was an appropriate right to be exercised by those men, then it is certainly something worth defending.
In spite of the technological advances since 1787, instant communication via the internet has changed nothing...we are all still pamphleteers!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
The Morning Report — 3/24/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. With the United States heavily engaged in military operations against the Iranian regime, and Cardboard Cutouts notwithstanding, that regime still capable of hurling missiles at Israel and other nations in the region, is this something?!
A massive explosion ripped through the Valero refinery in Port Arthur on Monday, sending a towering column of black smoke over the city and triggering an emergency response across Jefferson County. The cause of the explosion is under investigation. . . The Valero refinery in Port Arthur is ranked as one of the ten largest refineries in the United States. Valero reported the refinery produces 435,000 barrels of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel per day.
In the wake of Israel's recent strike on a key Iranian/Qatari oil facility and President Trump's threat to obliterate Iran's energy infrastructure if the regime does not capitulate or accede to his demands for a cessation of hostilities, is there a link to Iran or was this some freak accident. Given the our props borders and joke of an immigration enforcement system prior to the Trump era, sabotage not only can't be ruled out but IMHO it most likely was the cause. Perhaps this brainwave might be pushing things but our own homegrown traitors in the form of Antifa and the red-green-climate change maniacs could have used the war as cover to pull off an attack or are in league with Iranian/Islamic terror cells? And then this happened:
Barksdale Air Force Base (BAFB), a major U.S. strategic bomber installation in northwest Louisiana, has just experienced an unusually serious series of unauthorized drone incursions over its most sensitive areas.More than a dozen unsanctioned drones repeatedly swarmed a US Air Force base that is home to a nuclear bomber fleet — and were able to resist efforts to bring them down via jamming technology, according to military officials.
And speaking of the common denominator of "Death to America"
A Chicago alderwoman appeared to blame an 18-year-old woman for her own fatal shooting last week, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien.Chicago police announced Sunday that Jose Medina-Medina had been arrested for the murder of Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University. Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden speculated that Gorman was in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
I guess we are all in the wrong place at the wrong time! We are Americans in a nation that has been subsumed by a cancerous evil malign force known as the Democrat Party that seeks our domination via the destruction of our society and culture.
Democrat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker refuses to say whether he will honor an ICE detainer request for an illegal alien accused of killing an 18-year-old college student.Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman was walking in a park on Thursday morning around 1:00 a.m., to “catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights” when Medina-Medina allegedly approached her. Gorman “attempted to flee,” but Medina-Medina allegedly shot her in the head. Gorman was pronounced dead at the scene, according to local reports and the Department of Homeland Security.
Fuck that noise. Send in the Green Berets to storm the jail and take the scumbag out by force - and Arrest Fatzker for insurrection or obstruction of justice. He needs to swing if he dares interfere, but there isn't a construction crane sturdy enough to hoist him up by his brontosaurus neck.
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- The blast erupted inside the sprawling Gulf Coast facility shortly after midday, shaking nearby neighborhoods and prompting officials to warn residents to stay indoors as fire crews and industrial‑hazmat teams rushed to contain the incident. The explosion produced a thick plume visible for miles across Southeast Texas, adding new scrutiny to one of the nation’s largest refining corridors as authorities worked to determine the cause of the blast and assess potential hazards.
Massive Explosion at Texas Oil Refinery, Cause Unknown — Residents Told to Shelter in Place
- The drones appeared to be custom built and required “advanced knowledge” of signal operations.
Drones Swarm Nuclear Bomber Base, Exposing Potential Threat to U.S. Aircrews
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Daily Tech News 24 March 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh desktop CPUs are here - the 250K and 270K Plus. (Tom's Hardware)
Are they fast? Yes. They close in on the regular AMD parts for gaming, and the 270K competes with the 9950X for heavy desktop workloads.
Are they power-efficient? Not especially, but they are a big improvement over Intel's notoriously power-hungry 13th and 14th generation chips.
Are they good value? Definitely. $200 for the 250K with 6P and 12E cores, and $300 for the 270K with 8P and 16E cores would make them hard to resist if you could buy the rest of the components for a system.
Should you buy one? Probably not. These run in Intel's Socket 1851 platform and that will be retired within a year for Nova Lake and its Socket 1954.
If that's not a concern - and particularly if you already have DDR5 memory sitting around - then yes, these look worth considering.
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Overnight Open Thread [03/23/2026]
—CBD
That is a bar in West Yellowstone, Montana. Not quite as impressive as the bar from Saturday night's ONT, but what it lacks in aesthetics, it more than makes up for in food and booze quality. The elk chop is superb, but the bourbon list is incredible, especially considering the location, or maybe it is exactly why the bourbon list is so impressive!
It also has a bear spray rental kiosk in the lobby, and that might make it the best bar in America!
It's easy to ignore places like this, but this is America, where appearances can be deceiving. There is great...everything...to be had across our wonderful country, and to the disgust of the elites in the cities, a lot of that greatness is far outside of NYC and Chicago and Los Angeles.
Not just food -- although I would argue that the best American food is found outside of the cities -- but tradesmen and teachers and contractors and dentists and clerks in stores and...
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Monday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Forensics search border collie activates the super-sniffer.
TSA dog's retirement day.
Flashdance (turtle version).
Kitten twiddles its masters thumb.
Reportedly, seven dogs were stolen from their owners but escaped and made the ten mile journey back home.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Some of you have been annoying me so this is what you get.
Single Whoopi Goldberg reveals she goes bar-hopping to fulfill her sexual needs
Whoopi Goldberg cheerfully confessed she bar hops as a way to fulfill her sexual needs.On Wednesday's episode of "The View," Goldberg noted, "A woman wrote an article in Cosmopolitan, admitting that she fantasizes about being single even though she's in a very happy longterm relationship."
"She writes that sometimes, she finds herself missing the days of casual flings and bar-hopping," Goldberg continued as the audience giggled.
The "Ghost" actress then turned to her co-hosts for a reaction, to which Joy Behar responded, "Do you miss those days?"
Goldberg quipped, "I am single," adding, "Yeah, I bar hop, I go hang! And I do hit and runs when I need it."
I envision her working off her crusty undies with e Dremel tool and a chain-cutter.
From last month: Gen Z is officially the first generation in American history to be dumber than the last.
Why post something from last month? Gen Z has been annoying me too.
The generation born between 1997 and 2010 is the very first generation who did worse in school than the generation before them, according to a top neuroscientist.And shockingly, they are proud of it.
"They're the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized academic tests than the one before it," Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, 43, told The Post. "And to make matters worse, most of these young people are overconfident about how smart they are. The smarter people think they are, the dumber they actually are.
No way!
"They underperformed on basically every cognitive measure, from basic attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function and general IQ."Horvath recently testified to the sad facts before Congress, telling a panel of lawmakers that Generation Zers, who followed the Millenial generation, blew up humanity's proud academic record -- the wrong way.
So what happened that caused an entire age group to bomb test scores?
What caused them to become a generation of retards?
Well, the left's covid school shutdowns was part of it.
The other part of it is what's making us all stupid: Constant low-cognitive-demand/high-domamine-spiking scrolling on phones.
Horvath, who studied reams of data from standardized academic tests, told Congress that Z's struggles stem from the fact that they're the first generation to grow up with constant screen time. And it's no substitute for real learning."More than half of the time a teenager is awake, half of it is spent staring at a screen," said Horvath, who's taught at universities around the world, including Harvard and the University of Melbourne in Australia. "Humans are biologically programmed to learn from other humans and from deep study, not flipping through screens for bullet point summaries."
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And it's not just happening in the US.
"Across 80 countries, if you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly," said Horvath, who is also founder of LME Global, a Arizona-based group that bridges research and classroom practices to improve academic outcomes.
The Failure of the Sussex: Meghan Markle will soon be unemployed.
So, the same as she is now. Only now she won't be getting megamillion dollar paychecks from Netflix to be unemployed.
From State of the Day, which uses this fact as a jumping off point to discuss how AI is going to put a lot of people out of work, but especially women in corporate make-work jobs.
Far-right Trump News Channel CBS (according to nonpartisan Scott McFarlane of "MeidasTouch"):
State records show 89 hospice companies at one Los Angeles office plaza. We went to look for ourselves.The Merabi Professional Medical Plaza, a three-story, 32,000 square foot stucco and glass office building in Los Angeles, is home to a salon, a law office, a modeling agency, a realty corporation and, also, 89 licensed hospice companies.
Patient advocate Sheila Clark, who has worked to expose allegations of widespread Medicare fraud in the hospice industry, calls this building "ground zero" for the issue.
"This particular building I noticed, I'm like, 'dang, how can there be that many licensed and certified hospices in this tiny little building?,'" Clark said.
The building is among the most extreme cases of what's known as "clustering" to turn up in a sweeping CBS News investigation -- a grouping of large numbers of hospice offices that state auditors consider a major red flag for potential fraud.
The Van Nuys address for Merabi Plaza appears dozens of times in state records for licensed hospice companies. Inside the building's entry hall, a directory lists numerous hospice agencies that line the long tiled hallways, although the building's owner claims many are no longer there.
Clark said it makes "no sense" to find so many licensed and certified hospice company offices operating inside a single building. Auditors said the clustering of so many firms raised concerns because it suggests that "the number of agencies in these areas likely exceeds the number of patients who need services."
Concerns about clustering appear in a 2022 California State Auditor's report, which found that Los Angeles County had experienced a 1,500% increase in hospice companies countywide since 2010. That's six times more hospice providers than the national average, relative to the county's elderly population.
Auditors said other warning signs for potential fraud included multiple hospices in one building, geographic clustering, low patient counts, high rates of terminally ill patients later discharged alive, excessive billing and staff shared across multiple companies.
CBS News found that 72 of the 89 registered hospices in Merabi Plaza have at least three of those six potential warning signs.
15 hospices incorporated in a single day, in a single suite in Van Nuys
'It's not normal. None of this is normal,' said the CEO of a hospice trade association who has warned of fraud risks in LA for yearsA group operating out of a Friar Street office building in Van Nuys that advertises "virtual offices" incorporated 22 hospices and home care agencies in one year, including 15 hospices registered in one day to a single suite, according to an investigation by the Southern California News Group.
The 15 hospices, all formed in "Suite 205" at 14545 Friar St., later collected $12.3 million from Medicare and Medi-Cal billings in 2023 and 2024, records showed.
Each had the equivalent of one full-time employee at the time.
While operating out of the same building is permitted, hospices cannot use the same office, according to Sheila Clark, the president and CEO of California Hospice and Palliative Care Association.
"You cannot co-locate with another provider," she said.
However, these hospices seemingly bypassed that limitation by appending letters from "A" to "P" onto the suite number in official documentation. Suites in the building, however, have only one to three rooms and leases specifically prohibit subdivision of those spaces, according to the property owner, Kambiz Merabi.Yet Merabi's website advertises "virtual offices" that give you a "physical business address and office number for your business cards, website, email and registering a new company." Mentions of that service were scrubbed from his Instagram page as of Friday, but remained on other accounts.
One post specifically advertised to industries needing an address to "obtain licenses.""For just $99 per month, you receive 2 hours of private office or conference room usage each month; a professional office address with an actual suite number -- not a P.O. Box; mail and package reception; your business listed on our digital directory and within the building's directory," the post read. "For industries needing a California or Los Angeles presence to obtain licenses, a suite at the prestigious Merabi Professional Medical Plaza Building provides more than just an address -- it offers a full-service business center hub with many perks and services for businesses like yours."
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Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Laws Permitting Blue States to Count Ballots That Arrive Days After the Actual Election
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's obviously just farming fake votes to steal elections in the unconstitutional overtime period.
The Supreme Court 's conservative majority on Monday sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.A ruling, likely to come by late June, that bars counting ballots arriving after Election Day would send officials scrambling in 14 states and the District of Columbia, just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections to change their ballot rules.
An additional 15 states that have more forgiving deadlines for ballots from military and overseas voters also could be affected.
The legal challenge is part of Trump's broader attack on most mail balloting, which he has said breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary and years of experience in numerous states.
Unbelievable bias. This is the AP, of course.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 resulted from fraud even though more than 60 court decisions and his own attorney general said that argument had no merit.
1, that's all false, and 2, this has nothing to do with the actual legal question at hand, which is: When the Constitution speaks of an (singular) Election Day, do they mean it or were they just joshing?
It's amazing how leftwing communists routinely invent words and penumbras that don't appear in the Constitution, but, when faced with the Constitution's actual words, claim "Oh that doesn't matter, that's like 100 years old, man."
The court heard arguments in a case from Mississippi pitting the state against Trump's Republican administration and the Republican and Libertarian parties. At issue is whether federal law sets a single Election Day that requires ballots to be both cast by voters and received by state officials.While there was no explicit reference to the 2020 election, several conservative justices gave voice to some of Trump's complaints. Justice Samuel Alito wondered about the appearance of fraud in situations where "a big stash of ballots" that arrive late "radically flipped" an election.
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The court's liberal justices indicated they would uphold state laws with post-Election Day deadlines.
Of course the AP doesn't think that's at all politically motivated.
...Paul Clement, representing the political parties, played on fears of fraud by invoking Democrat-dominated Chicago, infamous for election shenanigans. Voting ends at 8 p.m. in Chicago, Clement said, but state law allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received later.
A voter paying close attention to the election returns could in theory try to swing the election by submitting a mailed ballot to the post office after the polls were closed, he said.
"I am not here to say there could ever be voting fraud in Chicago," Clement said to laughter in the courtroom.
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Surprise! "Objective Journalist" Who Assails Bari Weiss's Normie Liberalism as Being Far Right Wing Quits CBS to Join a... Left-Wing Pro-Biden Propaganda PAC
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's weird how these people who all swore for years that they were nonpartisan straight shooters keep joining hard-left organizations.
Ex-CBS sissy Scott McFarlane is the latest.
He's joining a left-wing propaganda twitter account called "MeidasTouch." (You can tell it's a first-rate journalistic operation by the "punny" name.) I wish I could tell you more about them. They just post clickbait/ragebait headlines all day. I had no idea had any pretensions of being an actual news site. They just re-state whatever the cult meme of the day is.
McFarlane was "disillusioned" by the editorial direction Bari Weiss was taking CBS but he's very happy now to be working for Temu Jezebel.
CBS Alum Scott McFarlane Joining Left-Wing MediasTouch as Chief Washington CorrespondentFormer CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane joins left-leaning outlet MeidasTouch as Chief Washington Correspondent and will anchor a daily program, Scott McFarlane Reports.
Former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane revealed Monday that he will join the left-leaning outlet MeidasTouch, just weeks after abrupt exit from the network amid reports he had grown "disillusioned" under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss's leadership.
In a video posted Monday to X, MacFarlane confirmed the "good news" that MeidasTouch had brought him onto the platform as chief Washington correspondent and added that he will soon anchor a daily program, Scott McFarlane Reports, positioning himself at the center of the network's political coverage.
MacFarlane framed the move as a shift toward stripped-back reporting, saying MeidasTouch shares his approach of delivering news "straight to the point" and avoiding "production theater and the useless bells and whistles."
Yes, "straight to the point."
It's explicitly a propaganda organ of the Democrat Party, formed by allies of Joe Biden to pump out regime propaganda.
Brent Scher @BrentScherNo, you don't get it. I'm not saying Meidas Touch is openly partisan -- it is literally a PAC. It was founded as a political operation during COVID to help Joe Biden.
Back to the article:
He stressed: "I'm not an opinionist, I'm an editorialist, I'm far from a politician. I'm an enterprise reporter and have been for a quarter of a century.""This moment of unique political toxicity and unique political danger," MacFarlane continued, adding that he and the network share a commitment that "you don't platform lies, you don't platform conspiracy theories, and you don't allow for the whitewashing of history."
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America's Oldest Skankbeast Taylor Lorenz: Lefties Traveling to Cuba to Boost the Failing Communist Tyranny Are Not Serious People
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Yes she said that but... well, you'll see. Hang on, we'll get there.
Lefties are taking "revolutionary vacations," living like kings in the dying communist tyranny while the people go without fuel and electricity.
Marjorie Taylor-Greene's bestie Medea Benjamin of Code Pink organized the support-the-tyrants tour.
Far-left activists stay in 5-star Cuban hotel as island suffers total blackoutCuba suffered mass power outages throughout the weekend as activists filmed for social media
Far-left activist groups and personalities flocked to Havana, Cuba, this week in an effort to protest the economic sanctions imposed on the country by President Donald Trump's administration.The far-left group CodePink sponsored flights to the communist-led island, and the group was joined by Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, an ally of democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The group has faced heavy backlash for staying in expensive hotels to meet with government officials even as Cuban residents go without electricity.
Some delegates in the "Nuestra America Convoy," including Piker, were staying at the 5-star Gran Hotel Bristol Meliá Collection and similar resorts. Piker defended the move on social media, saying U.S. law required that they stay at the ritzy hotels.
LOL, sure.
"The American government makes it illegal for Americans to stay wherever they want when they're in Cuba," Piker told his followers. "They have to stay in what they've declared as 5-star hotels."
The claim received swift pushback on social media, with an X Community Note saying that U.S. law only prevents Americans from staying at venues owned by the Cuban government or its officials.
CodePink says it delivered thousands of pounds of aid to Cuba as part of the trip, which was organized by Cuban politician Mariela Castro and a nonprofit called Progressive International, according to the New York Post.
"Thousands of pounds of aid" = thousands of pounds of water and rice with a total value of a couple thousand dollars.
The group's arrival to Cuba, and subsequent flood of social media videos, came the same weekend that The Cuban Electric Union announced a total blackout across the island on Saturday.
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The Party of Illegal Alien Gangsters and Third World Pirates Claims Another Innocent Life
—Disinformation Expert Ace
An illegal alien who was repeatedly let out of jail for crimes by Democrats, and who was never deported due to Obama-Biden open borders policies, murdered an innocent 18-year-old college student.
Bill Melugin
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BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect in custody for murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman in Chicago is a Venezuelan illegal alien who was caught & released at the border by the Biden administration in May 2023. DHS says he was also released from local custody after a shoplifting arrest in the sanctuary city of Chicago on June 19, 2023.
DHS identifies the suspect as Venezuelan national Jose Medina-Medina. Medina-Medina is accused of approaching Gorman while she was walking in a park with friends early Thursday morning.
DHS says Medina-Medina came up to her while wearing a mask and armed with a gun. As she attempted to flee, he fired his gun and shot her. Gorman was shot and pronounced dead at the scene.
DHS statement:
"Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder," said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. "We are calling on Governor Pritzker and Chicago's sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods."
Chicago's mayor and Illinois' governor have not agreed to turn him over to ICE this time.
Homeland Security @DHSgov20h
We have lodged an arrest detainer requesting sanctuary politicians NOT release Jose Medina-Medina, a Venezuelan criminal illegal alien arrested for killing 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman in Chicago, Illinois.
Medina-Medina shot and killed Gorman Thursday morning while she was walking in a park with friends. Medina-Medina approached her while wearing a mask and armed with a gun. As she attempted to flee, he fired his gun and shot her. Gorman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Medina-Medina should have never been in our country, but was RELEASED into our communities by the Biden administration. He was then released AGAIN following an arrest for shoplifting in Chicago, Illinois.
Illinois sanctuary politicians and Governor Pritzker must work with us to ensure this public safety threat is NEVER released back into our neighborhoods again.
End Wokeness
@EndWokenessSheridan Gorman was kiIIed 4 days ago by a Venezuelan illegal in Chicago
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Revolutionary Guard Sponsored Terrorist Groups Firebombs Synagogue and Ambulances in London
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Cultural Enrichment is, mwah, delicioso.
Even though this is a terrorist attack plotted and executed by a cell of the terrorist organization the Revolutionary Guards, pants-pissing cowardly British government officials are refusing, as usual, to call terror what it is, euphemizing the terror attack as an "incident," a "fire-bombing" or a "hate" attack.
A conquered people must learn the language of its conquerors. The British learned French, now they'll learn Arabic and Islamese.
Counter-terror police are leading the investigation into an anti-Semitic firebomb attack feared to have been orchestrated by Iran.Scotland Yard confirmed that officers with "specialist expertise" were investigating the arson, in which four ambulances were set on fire outside a synagogue in Golders Green, London, on Monday morning.
Israeli embassy sources told The Telegraph that the firebombing had the hallmarks of an Iran-backed attack.
A video claiming responsibility for the firebombing has emerged on social media and is believed to be by a group linked to Tehran.
The arson, which is being treated as a hate crime, will raise concerns that Iran is mounting a concerted campaign of attacks across Europe following similar incidents in recent weeks.
Similar "incidents."
Two Iranian immigrants were charged last week with spying on Jews in London for Tehran. A separate Iranian man will appear in court on Monday after he and an accomplice allegedly tried to enter Britain's most important nuclear base.Det Ch Supt Luke Williams, of the Metropolitan Police, said the force was looking into three suspects seen approaching the ambulances on Highfield Road at around 1.45am on Monday.
He said: "CCTV footage appears to show three people in hoods pouring an accelerant on to the vehicles before igniting them and fleeing.
"While this has not been declared a terrorist incident at this stage, the investigation is now being led by counter-terrorism policing with all the specialist expertise they bring, and all lines of enquiry remain open.
"We are aware of an online claim from a group taking responsibility for this attack. Establishing the authenticity and accuracy of this claim will be a priority for the investigation team, but it is not something we can confirm at this point."
A Shi'ite group linked to Iranian terror networks has allegedly claimed responsibility for the attack online. The video, apparently shared by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiaf on Telegram, showed footage of the arson along with a statement in English, Hebrew and Arabic.
It described the Machzike Hadath synagogue, near where the attack took place, as "one of the most important centres of Orthodox Judaism" and "one of the main bastions of support for Israel in Britain".
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