Congressional Report Accuses Jack Smith of Knowingly Violating the Constitution to Try to "Sway" the Election in the Democrats' Favor
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The House Judiciary Committee concluded in a report released Wednesday that the Biden-Harris administration wielded the Justice Department as a weapon and "ran roughshod" over constitutional protections and the separation of powers in order to spy on Republican members of Congress.The report, which the committee released on Wednesday, summarizes several years worth of investigation conducted by the committee into the tenure of Special Counsel Jack Smith, his investigations into President Donald Trump, and how he used those investigations to obtain privileged phone records from lawmakers.
"The Biden-Harris Administration, including Special Counsel Smith, ran roughshod over key constitutional protections to spy on Republican Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate," the lawmakers concluded.
"Contemporaneous documents and testimony to the Committee reveal a deliberate assault by the Biden-Harris DOJ on fundamental separation of powers between the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch," the committee later added.
In all, the committee found evidence that the FBI and Smith's team got phone toll records from 17 GOP members of Congress and text messages from as many as 44, some including information privileged to Congress, the report said. Among those targeted were former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan.
The report concluded the DOJ "disregarded the separation of powers to spy on their political opposition."
In obtaining the phone records, without notice and ability to challenge in a court of law, "the Biden-Harris Administration violated the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause, a core provision that protects the official actions and communications of Members of Congress and immunizes them from prosecution for legislative acts," the committee said in the report.
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The committee later found that more than 160 Republicans were targeted by Smith's probe, codenamed Arctic Frost. These included individuals like former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, Rep. Scott Perry, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, former Trump attorney John Eastman, and former Rep. Mark Meadows, who later served as Trump's chief of staff.
At the time, it was believed that Smith accessed toll records, which do not include the content of messages sent. However, new documents the committee published in July show that, in fact, Smith's team did access content by apparently bypassing the established Filter Team, which is responsible for evaluating and segregating privileged information.
This revelation has exposed Smith to possible perjury charges. During his prior testimony to Congress, the prosecutor told lawmakers emphatically, "no," that his team did not request the content of messages, only the toll records.
Before releasing the report on Wednesday, the Judiciary Committee made public the testimonies of five former prosecutors on Smith's team and a Justice Department agent during the Arctic Frost investigation.
One agent testified that Jack Smith had hid from him the fact that they accounts they were surveilling belonged to Congressmen.
Almost as if he knew what he was doing was illegal and wanted to limit the number of witnesses.
Retired Justice Department Inspector General Special Agent Brian Burnett was quoted in the transcript as saying that during his decades working at the DOJ's watchdog, he never once was asked to collect congressional phone data and did not learn until after he retired in late 2024 that he had unwittingly done so as part of his work for Smith's team prosecuting Trump in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation code-named Arctic Frost.
They also accused Smith of acting as a Democrat Party election-rigging operative.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is accusing former special counsel Jack Smith and the former Biden administration of trying to "sway" the 2024 election with the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into President Donald Trump and his allies....
"The Special Counsel's prosecutors tried to silence President Trump with unlawful gag orders, threatened defense attorneys, mishandled key documents, and broke protocol to release a massive trove of alleged evidence just weeks before the presidential election to sway public opinion," the report said.
This is something special: Biden's/Garland's Public Integrity Section realized that this was all illegal and unconstitutional but decided it was no big deal because, owing to the illegal gag orders they would get liberal judges to impose to keep the victims from knowing their rights had been abused, there was little chance of actually getting sued over any of it.
"Internal documents show that Arctic Frost investigators, and later Smith's team, had only limited, perfunctory discussions with subject-matter experts in DOJ's Public Integrity Section (PIN) about the constitutionality of these seizures," the report said. "Although PIN cautioned that the subpoenas could be unconstitutional, PIN approved them nonetheless, asserting there was little 'litigation risk' because the gag orders that accompanied the subpoenas would prevent Members from ever discovering the seizures. As a result, Members of Congress were unaware of the Biden-Harris DOJ's spying for more than two years."
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2
NEW: Transcripts released by @JudiciaryGOP once again confirm collaboration between Biden DOJ/Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden White House.Here is JP Cooney--who pushed for investigations into Trump and his circle immediately after Jan 6 then detailed to Jack Smith's team after his appointment in Nov 2022--admitting he communicated with Biden's WH counsel.
This aligns with my reporting a few years ago disclosing how Biden DOJ interacted with Biden WH Counsel Jonathan Su in late 2021 and into 2022 before he stepped down in Oct. 2022.
More evidence debunking media claims that the Biden DOJ acted independently of the Biden White House--and that somehow President Trump's engagement in DOJ matter is "unprecedented."
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Sonny Hostin is Beaming With Pride About Being the Holdout Juror That Got a Literal Cannibal Killer Off
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A literal cannibal killer killed and then butchered victims and served their meat to the homeless.
That's not a pitch for an A24 horror movie. That really happened in New York City in the 1990s. The killer was called "the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park." I used to live around there (but I have an alibi).
Bursting with what David Strom calls "main character syndrome" -- the belief of narcissists that they are the star of the show called "reality" and that everything they do is justified and good because they're the main character of the show and therefore the hero -- Sonny Hostin glowed as she Karensplained that she was the lone holdout juror during the Butcher's trial and spared him a murder conviction.
Oh, she also says that Lindsay Clancy is not guilty because of course she does.
Hostin left no doubt about where she stood. "The insanity defense has been around in Massachusetts for 182 years, so I think it's well established," she said. "And I thought, absolutely, she was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity."Then Hostin explained where her conviction came from.
Before she went to law school, Hostin sat on the jury in the early 1990s murder trial of Daniel Rakowitz, better known as "The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park." Rakowitz killed his roommate, a Swiss dancer named Monika Beerle, and cut up her body in a bathtub. He then cooked her remains into a soup, ate some of it, and handed it out to homeless people in the New York City park.
A New York Times article on the case described a lone holdout who "was principally responsible ... for preventing them from returning a guilty verdict."
"That was me," Hostin said. "And it was because I saw clearly that he was psychotic."
Then she offered her own version of the killing, and it sounded more like a closing argument for the defense than a confession of regret.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin couldn't let her finish. "And you got this guy off?!" she asked, clearly horrified.
"That's how much I believe in the insanity defense," Hostin said before wrapping up her account: "And he fed her body parts to the unhoused."
And she's proud he got him a not guilty verdict.
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Variety: CNN Mood "Like a Funeral" After Paramount/Skydance Takeover
—Disinformation Expert Ace
But their ratings are so good, why should they worry?
CNN Mood 'Like a Funeral' as Paramount's Warner Bros. Win Casts New Haze on Next Steps
Just when staffers at CNN thought the news giant's path to the future was becoming more clear, new fog has set in.In recent weeks, the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet appeared to have found its groove. Yes, its linear ratings are down noticeably from the era when it won notice for its aggressive coverage of President Trump's first term, and there are serious questions about whether they will ever come back. But the company appeared to be making some gains with digital audiences with its recently launched "CNN All Access" subscription service, where CNN has been testing new programming formats.
LOL. Their ratings are in the crapper but they're making "some gains" with digital.
Like CNN Plus. You remember CNN Plus, right?
On the traditional side, despite the viewership challenges, CNN has seen personnel like Abby Phillip and Harry Enten gain some traction.
"Some" traction.
This propagandist is really straining to find ways to claim that CNN is performing well in "some" ways. They say that Warner Bros. claims that CNN will post a profit this year, but I've heard Disney's Bob Iger claiming everything is going great at the Groomer Network, so I don't put much stock in corporate predictions of plenty.
Now for the truth:
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The mood at CNN is "like a funeral," says one person familiar with the operation.CNN personnel have reason to worry. Paramount's management of CBS News has been controversial, and has not been good for the business of the news unit. Changes made under Bari Weiss, installed last year as editor in chief, have brought unnecessary scrutiny to news reports, and anchors have made public entreaties on Instagram when people post notes suggesting that Weiss' background as a digital entrepreneur and provocative opinion writer have muddied the newsgathering at the network.
The right has brought "scrutiny" to left-wing media reporting for 40+ years but this was never before seen as a problem. Now that lefties are complaining about editorial decisions, it's a National Concern.
...But staffers are also concerned about the company's business plans being changed -- yet again. "What an enormous loss and disruption it would be to shuffle leadership for the umpteenth time in the midst -- finally -- of reshaping the business," says one CNN staffer.
Expert opinion: Companies that are performing well are not subject to frequent leadership changes, just as winning teams aren't frequently subjected to new coaching staffs.
CNN employees have reason to wring their hands....Without a boost from new digital revenue, CNN's business will likely decline, according to projections from Kagan, a market-research unit of S&P Global Intelligence. CNN's cash flow is seen falling to $735.3 million in 2027, according to Kagan, down nearly 10% from $815.9 million in 2025. A projected spike in 2026 is due to midterm election coverage, which typically draws broader audiences. Advertising is projected to fall about 6.6% to $457.6 million in 2027, according to Kagan, compared with $489.8 million in 2025. Cash from distribution, however, is expected to keep rising.
CNN must also grapple with how much independence it will have under Paramount. Paramount Skydance CEO has put CBS News into unorthodox situations by holding a private dinner with personnel from the news division and the Trump administration and by hiring a factotum ombudsman to monitor CBS who has staunch partisan ties.
It's not unusual for "news" personnel to meet with politicians, as Jake Tapper could tell you of his fly-fishing with Gavin Newsom or freindship-building dinners with Anthony Fauci.
But what is unacceptable is meeting with conservative politicians.
News rivals wonder why CBS News seems so eager to put U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth into so many of its programs -- he was a big "get" interview during Tony Dokoupil's first "CBS Evening News" telecast and appeared on last week's season premiere of "60 Minutes" -- when Hegseth's Pentagon has been so hostile to traditional press outlets.
Yeah why would a "news" organization want to interview the Secretary of War during a war? Inconceivable!
Now on to the deal struck with the left-wing AGs -- which they admit is largely just a paper notion on a press release.
The solution -- for now -- is to be found in the formation of a board designed to govern both CNN and CBS News. Under the terms of an agreement unveiled Monday between Paramount and a set of attorneys general who were blocking the merger, this board is expected to set up guiding principles for "accuracy, independence, fairness and journalistic integrity."
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Such bodies have proven largely ineffectual in the past.
More: CNN staffers are in "a panic."
"People are very nervous," one CNN staffer told the outlet. "It's dark. It's like when you do hurricane coverage. You see the storm spinning off the coast of Haiti and moving towards Florida and you're just waiting and you're like, 'Oh, s--t'.""Bloodbath coming, including at CNN," a TV executive confided. "That's the next big step -- slashing and burning," while others also drew death-by-takeover comparisons.
The outbreak of fear and loathing at CNN goes back as far as June this year when, as Breitbart News reported, many CNN employees were so worried over the evolving merger they turned their boss's office into a makeshift "psychiatrist's couch," according to a report.
CNN staffers were worried over Paramount boss David Ellison's connections to Trump -- as well as that of Ellison's father, Larry, who is a huge Trump donor.
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Now their worst nightmares have been realised.
Hello! Happy Midweek!
Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
At the personal scale, the destruction of a relationship is emotionally disturbing and painful. Whether it is some formal means of destruction like a divorce or something informal like just gradually or suddenly severing contact, the relationship is wrecked and there are bound to be hard feelings on both sides. Both sides will feel wronged, and neither side is likely to accept responsibility for whatever caused the failure. That's not fun for anyone involved, but it is rare that there is a big blast radius when an interpersonal relationship is destroyed.
That is not true when the scale increases and the relationship at risk is not inter-personal but inter-national. That failure of relationships between nation-states are usually complex phenomena and require careful management to avoid courting real harm as the relationship unwinds or - even worse - shifts into actual policy-backed animosity. The worst kind of adjustment is from "friendly" to "unfriendly," skipping the much more manageable condition of "neutral but sometimes cooperative." The conversion into unfriendliness or even hostility is particularly bad when the countries involved are geographical neighbors, and so managing the end of the prior era is even more important. That is the point we are now reaching with the country that has long been one of our most important allies: our neighbor to the north.
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The Morning Report — 9/ 23 /26
—J.J. Sefton
good morning Kids. Well, John Oliver is essentially a talentless, tedious, unappealing yammering coprolite, and yet he has a microphone/megaphone.
Left-wing HBO late-night host John Oliver is justifying the outrageous love leftists have for admitted murderer Luigi Mangione, saying anger over UnitedHealthcare’s policies might excuse the devotion liberals show for the killer... “The very fact that one company controls so much of America’s healthcare is what makes it so infuriating when you see just how bad people’s experiences with it can be,” he added, noting that “telling UnitedHealthcare to go fuck itself has become an entire genre of internet video,” Oliver continued in his efforts to wave away any moral concern over the shocking murder.
now do England, asshole! Perhaps anger at the government's absolute near 80-year-long stranglehold on its failing healthcare system is the reason we have Muslim rape gangs rampaging all over! No, obviously it's something else entirely. And yet, wouldn't it be a laugh riot if Oliver took one in the back as he exited the HBO studios. After all, by Oliver's logic there is one party and political movement in this country that controls so much if not virtually all of America's media and cultural industry is what makes it so infuriating when you see just how bad people’s experiences with it can be.
The very people and society that he and his ilk have mocked and attacked as evil, racist and an existential threat to democracy and the planet have thus far done nothing, except vote for Donald Trump three times. He should count himself lucky to have not wound up like United Healthcare's CEO, slaughtered on the pavement. They all should!
In its latest edition, Liberal Currents asks, “What Are Democrats Thinking?” A lot of them are thinking about a dead President Donald Trump, according to a new poll featured in the left-wing digital magazine.The poll, conducted in partnership with the Center for Strategic Politics, finds about one out of every three Democrats responding would like to see Trump assassinated while speaking at a rally. The survey of 683 Dem voters found 23 percent would feel “very positive” about the violent scenario posed. Another 8 percent would feel “somewhat positive.”
. . .So much for the peace-loving left. . . But apparently military coups are an acceptable way of restoring said democracy and upholding the Constitution, according to a majority of respondents. To “safeguard the Constitution,” . . . “These attitudes are not fringe — they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse,” states the report, titled, “Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence.”
Elsewhere, President Trump spoke at the UN and ripped Turtle Bay a new one!
And while Trump unabashedly puts America’s interests first, his emphasis on action is a clear indictment of the United Nations’ failure to carry out its primary mission: to confront threats to world peace, such as Iran. The president was even more explicit about his disdain for Turtle Bay’s efforts to impose a “far-left agenda” and for its “globalists,” “rogue” International Criminal Court, Human Rights Council and UNESCO. Yes, “the United Nations has great, great potential,” Trump allowed; his criticisms aim to save it. But that requires a massive shift in UN culture — and leadership.
Have a good day.
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Daily Tech News 23 September 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Claude Opus 5.5 is here. (Anthropic)
It is supposedly better on coding tasks on high settings than Claude Fable on max settings while working out to about one fifth the cost.
I'll try it and see. I had some really bad results with Opus 5 on a non-coding task today which was a strong reminder not to do that.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - September 22, 2026
—Doof
Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT has arrived. On time, as always. Open thread, as always. Ready to be whelmed?
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Cats and Dogs Living Together Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Zermatt, Switzerland
Master Blaster runs Barkertown.
Bull moose chases off any male that comes within 40 yards of his harem.
Dogs are good eggs.
Cat has so little fear of a good-sized snake that he decides to f*** with it.
Caracal kitten meows like a ray gun.
Watch-Kitten chases off all of the vagrant pigeons moping around the storefront.
If you lie down with dogs you get kisses.
A baby goat imprinted on a German shepherd and now acts like a dog.
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Trump to the UN: S My D and L My Bs
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Nick Sortor @nicksortor
🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just called out the UN globalists for attempting to FORCE mass migration to the west"With your CEASELESS promotion of mass migration, these globalists are actively DESTROYING the greatest cultures and most extraordinary heritage in all of history."
"They want the worst people to come in from the WORST places on earth and we don't do it anymore."
"There is NO HUMAN RIGHT to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a SOVEREIGN NATION."
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh🚨 BREAKING: President Trump's FULL blockbuster UN speech is getting rave reviews -- where he RAILED against the globalist ICC, called out the persecution of Christians, REFUSED to apologize for America First and more
The whole thing was 10/10! 🔥
TRUMP DID THE FOLLOWING:
- Called out the UN for ignoring Christian persecution worldwide while obsessing over America
- Demanded every ICC member resign immediately from that rogue anti-American tribunal
- Called Communist Cuba a failed state that will fall, then watched officials storm out
- Declared there is no human right to illegal immigration, only the right to stay a sovereign nation
- Scorched UNESCO globalists for pushing mass migration that destroys Western cultures
- Said there is NO global government and there will be NO global taxes while he is president
- Bragged that America cut the UN budget 15% and killed over 4,000 bureaucracy jobs
- Boasted of the most secure border in American history with ZERO illegal aliens admitted
- Declared America is BACK, stronger than ever, and in a GOLDEN AGE after Biden's dark age
- Mic-dropped failed globalist leaders: while others talked peace, he MADE peace
- Vowed Iran will NEVER get a nuclear weapon and said the Middle East bully is finished
- Teased a huge post-election decision: strike a deal, or annihilate the Islamic Republic
- Exposed Iran as weak and desperate, not strong, and predicted Iranian terror's end
- Slammed cowards and traitors leaking fake "low munitions" claims mid-conflict
- Took a victory lap over capturing Maduro and signing the largest oil deal in history
- Laid down the Donroe Doctrine: no threats get a foothold in the Western Hemisphere
- Refused to apologize for crushing drug cartels, calling them the ISIS of the hemisphere
- Locked in permanent Greenland security rights that shut out China, Russia, and adversary investment
- Renamed Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence and vowed America stays #1 over China
Well he didn't coin that. People routinely speak of "AGI" -- "Artificial General Intelligence" -- and "ASI" -- "Artificial Super-Intelligence." Neither one has been achieved yet.
- Closed with a nationalist call to strengthen nations, grow economies, and God bless America
And that's just a non-exhaustive list.
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Five Years After Covid, a Lesbian Bar Finally Relaxed Its Covid Mask Policy, Which Required Wearing a KN-95 Mask at All Times.
The Backlash Is, Get This, Unhinged.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Five years after covid.
Five years after covid.
I just want to make it clear that this is five years after covid.
Five years after covid, and they're still shrieking and shrilling over a bar relaxing a requirement to wear KN-95 masks.
Not banning the masks. Just not requiring them. Now, they're only suggested.
Oh -- and the requirement is only relaxed one night per week. On Saturday.
All other days of the week -- mask up. Covid will kill you.
Five years later, and the left-wing lesbian Karens are having a meltdown.
A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose.The August 31 Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup. But partway down the rainbow-hued post labeled "UPDATES!" was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley city and beyond.
"It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional," wrote Last Ditch.Previously, patrons were required to wear a well-fitted KN-95 mask "or better" at all times.
The new policy was not received with love.
"Just say you're being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with," wrote one commenter.
"people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience," posted another.
This is almost as spicy as the Intercepted Reddit Messages.
"I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic]," wrote a third.
The thread grew to 442 comments, some supportive, but many furious.
Leftists furious about something they think they're "owed" but aren't getting?!
This. Changes. Everything.
The people running the bar were accused of being ableist -- eugenicist, even -- for relaxing their signature policy in the face of what commenters consider an ongoing pandemic (Greenfield hasn't reported any COVID cases in more than two months).Two days later, Last Ditch posted an apology. "We are sorry for our passive and dismissive tone of our change to the norms and schedule impacting the most intersectional of us," management wrote on Instagram. "We understand everyone faces different intersections and we are always working to consider all needs fully."
Now, you're not going to believe this, but it turns out that apologizing to an SJW does not appease them, but encourages them to become even more shrill and hateful in demanding further concessions.
Instead of defusing the situation, the apology seemed to make things worse. The bar had erred: it posted an Instagram card without providing alt-text for the visually impaired. This set off a fresh round of accusations of ableism."This is not an accessible post," wrote one user. "It indicates the lack of care or interest in Disability intersectionality."
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Quaint, crunchy Greenfield (population 17,700) isn't a bad place for a COVID-cautious lesbian bar in 2026, all things considered. Rainbow flags deck store windows downtown. On a recent weekend, a community theater was advertising a workshop for masked performers, down the street from a bookstore with a "medical masks required" sign in the window. Men in ponytails and N-95s were ordering hibiscus tea from the coffee shop off the main square.
Greenfield is close, both physically and spiritually, to Northampton, sometimes referred to as "Lesbianville, U.S.A." In the Pioneer Valley, "every bar is a lesbian bar," a friend who lives there told me.
Nevertheless, Last Ditch, which opened last year as a bar for "dykes, transsexuals, gender freaks, workers, and their friends," is struggling.
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"Our mission is to create systems of care and action and aid," says Jackie Matellian, one of the founders.
When it first opened, Last Ditch did fairly well. Customers fondly remember a raucous opening night with a (clothed) simulation of a lesbian sex act -- masks in place -- on the dance floor.
How dare Sydney Sweeney sexualize women.
But over time, foot traffic to the bar slowed. More and more visitors said they didn't have the cover fee; the bar let them in anyway. The owners fell behind on bills and couldn't pay themselves or the people who worked there. So, after consulting with the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce, they came up with a plan to bend one of their rules -- and hopefully attract more customers.
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One of Last Ditch's most vocal critics, the head of another queer COVID-conscious collective in Western Massachusetts, a performer and artist who goes by Soe Noire, has been posting complaints about Last Ditch for days. Now, Noire joins the meeting on Zoom. He and other critics begin to flood the Zoom chat with irate messages, which are dutifully read aloud to the group.
"He"? Is this a trans "man" by any chance?
"Noire" is the feminine form of "Noir." Does "he" know that?
...When it comes time for one of the mediators, a licensed therapist, to speak, she takes a conciliatory tone.
"I love that you are here online," she says. But "these platforms alienate us from each other. I'm talking about social media." She asks whether participants can try to remove themselves from "places of righteousness."
"I would love to get to a place where we all know each other's face, where we all know each other's name," she continues.
"It's messed up that the mediator is dismissing those attending virtually. That's not accessibility," someone responds in the chat.<
"A lot of people are calling for an acknowledgment of harm and I'm hearing a WHITE therapist ... center[ing] the feelings of a majority white and white adjacent staff," writes Noire, who is Black.
No shit really?
The owner tried to femsplain that she was losing money and deeply in debt and felt she had to do something to increase patronage -- or matronage -- or else she'd have to close it down.
Showing weakness to an SJW is never a good move.
"I never really wanted to do this," Matellian says, beginning to cry under her mask. "I don't think I'm doing a very good job."Matellian tells the group her credit score is trashed. For six months, she lived in her truck because she was pouring money into the bar. She is working four different jobs. She is responsible for paying off the $50,000 loan the three took out to launch the business.
The online critics are unmoved. "[Y]ou chose to use your time to spill tears and center your feelings," Noire posts in the chat. "This is incredibly racist and deflecting behavior."
...Last Ditch's landlord wants $3,900 in back rent by Monday.
Noire spends the hours after the meeting posting furious Instagram stories about Matellian and Last Ditch. Matellian (who uses she/they pronouns) had been shedding "WHITE THEY THEM TEARS," he writes. The bar was not "a safe environment nor interested in revolutionary praxis."
Oh, a business is not primarily a vehicle for revolutionary communist praxis?
Praxis is a bullshit term that just means "practice" -- there is theory, and then there is praxis, putting theory into practice. Stupid uneducated communists use an obscure Latin word that means "practice" to make their stupid ideas sound smart.
Why not just say "practice"? Because that wouldn't sound -- how many quotation marks do I have to use to express my sneering revulsion -- " " " " " " smart " " " " " " like "praxis" does.
Now we delve into the mystery of Noire's many-layered sexual identity, and it's as fake and gay and stupid as you were expecting.
I reach Noire, who identifies as a gender-expansive lesbian and uses he/him pronouns, by Zoom a few days later. I ask whether he has any sympathy for those running Last Ditch, given the profound financial strain they are under. "No," he replies. (Noire asked to be referred to by his stage name because he says he has been stalked and fears for his safety.) "I'm not going to give grace" when someone is "spreading rhetoric that can and will get people hurt," he says, referring to the fact that the bar's account had "liked" a few comments supporting the relaxed rule.Noire, who lives about 50 minutes south of Greenfield, estimates he has visited the bar seven or eight times. But he won't return unless there is new leadership. "You can't repair a house that's on fire," he says.
"He's" been there eight fucking times and "he" acts like he owns the place.
I remember a comment on Last Ditch's original announcement, after the pile-on had begun: @scream_guy_wazzzuuuuuuup asked, "i'm sorry, all 400 of these crazy people live in GREENFIELD MASSACHUSETTS????"I ask whether the people behind the angriest posts have genuine connections to the bar -- are they real customers?
Young and Matellian say yes, they know many of the detractors.
"There are people that are close to us and love us who are really disappointed in our decision, and that is completely understandable," says Young, who says her sister is one of the vocal critics online. "Like, it's so understandable why they feel hurt by the way we did it and the fact that we did it."
"They have passion for the space," Matellian adds.
Just one more glimpse of the seething hormonal insanity:
Just after midnight, one patron is left at the bar, a regular who works at the Mexican restaurant next door. She wonders aloud about holding a Lady Gaga themed night, but Mixxy demurs. "Gaga is canceled," she says. "Gaga is Zionist."
The Boston Globe ran a graphic showing some of the unhinged comments:
Here are some of them. Different messages are separated by line breaks.
the lack of masks in spaces literally kills people & stops disabled people from participating in society.
I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists
Like was this deliberately written to be alienating, rude, and ableist??
enjoy contributing to national covid spikes and potentially catching covid on mask optional nights then
just say you don't want to be around queer disabled people and be done with it. 🙏🏼
I love the use of "prayer hands" in a hateful message.
YOU'VE just decided that disabled peoples lives are debatable. And that's fine, it's pretty typical of white leftists.It feels wildly insensitive and dismissive :(
Being in community requires tolerating discomfort. The cost of not masking for many is lifelong disability via long covid
Oh, she's on disability. You and I are paying for her to sit on her couch and scream hate into the internet every day.
seeing these people whine about masks being a little inconvenient for them is INFURIATING.how could we consider you "community" if you act in a way that is killing us.
if youre only concerned with protecting yourself at the cost of DEATH for others, you are no better than a fascist.
What is truly being WILD is announcing a change of this magnitude in a cavalier, callous fashion.
if you spread diseases that disable and kill, you do not "love me".
Does COVlD not disable people on Saturday nights? Very confused by the disregard for community care
A venue wouldn't run a "hatred and discrimination night" to ensure that prejudiced people have a night where they feel included. Inclusivity is about setting basic standards for human dignitity.
people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience.
if this were the AIDS epidemic, youd be on the side of people who were against prophylactics and who believed AIDS patients should be hidden from the public, left to die alone.shut up, ablism apologist. Gods, I'd bet money you are even more horrible to black queer people if you can't even sit your ability privileged ass down and listen to disabled queers.
As others have shared, my family is also withdrawing financial support due to the decision and its truly heartless presentation to the community. It's not too late to reverse this decision and apologize
If u wanna pander to capitalism and white supremacy go right ahead, you wouldn't be the first white and white adjacent people in history to do so.
How performative and grotesque.
Classic white and white aligned people and their "nice" culture it's so backhanded!!!
spreading deadly and disabling disease IS violent and YOU should educate YOURself.just bc the vast majority of humans in this society don't care about killing or disabling others, that doesn't make it okay
Not having a mask requirement on Saturdays IS going to spread disease, it IS going to cause re infection, and trans and black folks (who are high risk to long Covid and complications) CAN and WILL die from this.
What a complete joke. Of course you and LD think it's "silly" because black and disabled peoples collective health are disposable to yall.
I'm seeing a lot of "deserving" talk here. A lot of entitlement.
The "with love" also lands really hollow since it's followed by a "but we decided to not care about protecting you on Saturdays". Shameful misalignment of values to praxis, and disappointing to see.
"anti-profit" bar but they cater to capital within a year lol
some people cannot afford to get sick. These people deserve to have a space that is safe for them to socialize because they cannot go anywhere else.i am hurt and upset by your glib and flippant attitude around it ESPECIALLY given your entire mission and foundation was based on creating a masked space for the immunocompromised community
Just say you're being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with
i will continue to navigate feeling excluded by a large portion of the wmass queer community as i have been for many years now
disabled folks don't have other spaces we can frequent, largely because of people like you who've accepted the culture of ableism and don't want to mask to keep their communities safe.Everyone is at risk of Long COVID. Everyone can and will experience multiply disabling impacts from repeat infections
masking isn't just for disabled folks. everyone is at risk. masking is community care. this establishment, apparently, is not
what a massive bummer.
Yikes on bikes.
Yikes on bikes indeed.
Communists, mentally-ill dregs, and bitter entitled invalids on disability are not the kind of customer base that results in a prosperous business.
Meanwhile: Why are people turning on the "queer community"? I can't figure it out.
Usually ugly bullies and nasty mentally-ill people are so popular and beloved!
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Bloomberg Was Paying -- Bribing, We Sometimes Call It -- Democrat State AGs to Push "Environmentalism" Lawsuits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
But that's okay, because the law doesn't apply to leftists.
Being a leftist is playing life on Easy Mode with all cheat codes enabled.
Bloomberg-Backed Climate Group Paying Salaries of Democratic State AG Officials Quietly Shuts Down Amid Congressional, Legal Scrutiny The initiative's website states that it is 'historical material,' and its leaders no longer list it as their employer on their LinkedIn pagesA group housed at the New York University School of Law and backed by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg quietly closed its doors in late August amid congressional scrutiny into its funding and operations. The so-called State Energy and Environmental Impact Center's signature initiative involved placing paid, climate-focused "fellows" in Democrat-controlled state attorney general offices nationwide as those offices sued the oil industry and other energy providers.
The center's sudden closure comes as a surprise: It continued to update its public database tracking state attorney general actions relevant to its climate priorities until Aug. 31, the date of its apparent closure. It also released an episode of its in-house podcast, Recharged with the State Impact Center, less than three weeks prior to that date. And in its 2025 "year in review" report released last December, the center indicated that it would continue operating throughout 2026.
But prior to its closure, the center was coming under increased pressure for effectively paying the salaries of state law enforcement agencies that were pursuing lawsuits in line with the center's priority of going after energy providers.
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The disappearance of the center comes as it faced multiple congressional and state-level investigations over alleged ethics issues related to its funding and its practice of paying the salaries of officials it placed in state attorney general offices. Media reports and lawmakers often referred colloquially to those officials as "Bloomberg fellows" because Bloomberg helped found the center in 2017 with two seed grants worth $2.8 million each. Tax filings show that Bloomberg provided the grants through his eponymous charity, the Bloomberg Family Foundation--one of the country's most influential charities--that focuses on climate activism.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened an investigation into the center last year, stating that its activities "raise questions as to whether participating state attorneys general are acting on independent judgement to best serve the interests of their states' citizens."
"The Bloomberg-NYU program effectively offers states partisan money from a billionaire to carry out official functions of their offices," the panel wrote at the time. Bloomberg, it continued, "disguises his donations as 'philanthropy'" and uses the impact center as a mechanism "to skirt legislative bodies and effect partisan policy."
In a statement to the Free Beacon, the Oversight Committee's chairman Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.) said he remained concerned that the center "undermined public integrity and pushed radical Democrat policies that increase energy costs for Americans, despite billing itself as 'nonpartisan.'"
"The Committee is glad to see that this center will no longer be in operation," he added.
Another example: Being a leftist is playing life on easy mode with all cheat codes enabled.
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Grand Jury: There Was No Murder In the Drowning Death of Nolan Wells
—Disinformation Expert Ace
For some reason, what Black Conservative Perspective calls "The Pro Blacks" are angry that a black kid was not murdered.
The Disney Groomer Network is probably all busted up about it, too.
The grand jury reviewing the evidence in the death of Nolan Wells has found that no criminal charges are warranted at this point, according to the Jackson County Grand Jury Report released late Monday night.The report says that the "position of, condition of, time of discovery, and location" of the 18-year-old's body off the coast of Mississippi this July is "consistent with drowning."
Wells vanished after he and friends had gone out celebrating the Fourth of July holiday on barrier islands off the Gulf Coast. His body was recovered in the waters off Horn Island two days later.
Authorities have previously said they believe the college football player drowned, but the final determination would go to a grand jury that would review all the case materials, including the state medical examiner's completed autopsy report, to decide whether Wells' death involved a crime.
The grand jury of 23 people, convened last week, found "no credible evidence to support the public allegations" that anyone riding to or from the island that day surrounding Wells "engaged in any criminal conduct related to" his death.
The panel was comprised of what the report called a "cross section of citizens" from the area: 13 men and ten women, including "12 Caucasians, five African Americans, one Asian, two Hispanics, two Native Americans, and one individual who preferred 'other.'" Their ages ranged from 27 years old to 68 years old.
The grand jury heard from 43 witnesses and reviewed materials including physical evidence collected at the scene, digital evidence, police reports and interviews, videos, images and maps collected during the investigation.
That Wells drowned is a conclusion by the process of elimination, the grand jury report said, adding that the condition of the body made it harder to figure out. The long-awaited toxicology report was "not particularly informative as decomposition fluid is an unreliable source for evaluating substance levels within a body."
The panel found, however, that Wells had no cocaine in his system and no evidence he'd ever used it. The panel did find that Wells bought alcohol with a fake ID, and no adults of alcohol-buying age provided any to him on the island that day.
There was bruising on the back of Wells' head, which was "not a fatal injury," the report said. The grand jury "found no evidence of any fatal injury or organic disease to Mr. Wells' body."
The media refuses to report on black crimes against whites -- there is still no national reporting on the white girls dragged into the bushes by their hair to be beaten on by black "youths" during a Mostly Peaceful "Teen Takeover" -- on the theory that reporting black on white crimes would incense whites who would then start attacking blacks.
On the other hand, they are determined to report fake White on Black Hate Crimes, despite there being proof that whites were not involved.
Leftist politicians like Ayanna Presley and the media keep claiming that a black student was "lynched," despite there being videotape of him walking into the woods where he was found hanged carrying a rope.
He brought a rope for his own lynching? Or was he just walking around randomly with a rope and coincidentally ran into a Lynching Party who thought "wow, the guy brought his own lynchin' rope, must be our day!"
Meanwhile, the AP keeps reporting that a black woman found hanged is triggering black people, reminding them of whites lynching blacks.
They fail to report that there was a man arrested in the crime -- a black man who knew the victim personally.
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Angry Lesbian Karen Tries to Cancel Football Coach for Laughing at a Meme and Then Cries As She's Cancelled from TV
Plus: Colin Kaepernick Persists
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Pictured: Lesbian Sports-Scold Jana Shortal,
aka Gender Ambiguous Max Headroom
First: There was some AI fake of a football coach slapping a female reporter for asking an impudent question.
This Angry Lesbian Karen demanded he apologize for merely chuckling at the silly AI video. She was trying to cancel a (spit) man for laughing at a joke.
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After Supreme Court Declines to Overrule State Supreme Court, Federal District Court Steps In to Allow Missouri to Use Its New Congressional Map for Midterm Elections
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is good for us. The "new" map, created in 2025, has been in use for over a year but was recently disallowed by the Missouri Supreme Court, which ordered the state to suddenly toss out the map that had been in use in favor of the previous 2022 map.
Isn't it strange that courts don't worry about the "chaos" of overturning established election procedures when doing so would help Democrats? And that this "chaos" factor is only used to overrule Republican initiatives, like Trump's EO to the Post Office to scan mail-in ballots for actual voter eligibility?
Well, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals apparently does think that the "chaos" factor should help Republicans just as other courts use it to help Democrats. He overruled the Missouri Supreme Court, pointing out that the "new" 2025 map has been the one candidates have been operating under for over a year and it would cause chaos to suddenly revert to the 2022 map, which has different district maps than the ones which have voted for the current candidates.
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Missouri must use its Republican-favored 2025 redistricting map in November, despite the Supreme Court declining twice this month to intervene in the dispute.The Supreme Court allowed a decision from the Missouri Supreme Court to take effect earlier this month, which ordered Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to use the 2022 map that favored Republicans in a 6-2 split.
The new 2025 map, which was used in the state primaries last month, favors Republicans in a 7-1 split by erasing Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City-based district, according to Politico.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the new map causes the least amount of confusion for voters this year because they have already used the map this year, but it allowed redistricting opponents one week to get relief from the Supreme Court.
"For approximately one year, Missouri operated under the 2025 map," the panel majority wrote. "During that time, Missourians filed to run for Congress, met candidates, watched campaign advertisements, received campaign mail and voted under the 2025 map.
"Any confusion stems from the last-minute decision by a state court to switch the congressional map," it added.
That's a little bit of good news to start this rainy day.
Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Asks Judge to Investigate the "Rogue" Juror
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Boy, Gentry Leftists really don't believe any of the bullshit they say about Respeccing Black People's Lived Experience and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, do they?
Lindsay Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, is asking the court to allow for a thorough investigation of the holdout juror ... including access to his phone records and a review of his 2021 criminal charge for allegedly assaulting his wife.The attorney filed a document in court recently asking the judge to let his team see the confidential juror questionnaire and "Juror Doe's record from the statewide domestic violence registry."
Reddington is asking for the juror's mobile phone records -- calls, texts, and data from August 27 through September 4.
The time period covers the dates the jury was deliberating over whether Lindsay should be found guilty of murdering her three kids.
The request also asks the court to preserve all the jury notes and the court's responses.
The black man disagreed with white liberal women! THROW THE UPPITY DARKIE IN JAIL!
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The Morning Rant: Chris Murphy...Retard!
—CBD
Look up the term "Useful Idiot" in the dictionary, and it is illustrated with a photograph of Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
Normally I would assume malign motives when a politician is so doctrinaire and so willing to spout the tedious and predictable progressive cant that can be summarized in a few sentences by any college sophomore, bong in hand, on a Saturday night in the dorms.
And I have no doubt that Chris Murphy is indeed an evil prick, but he is also in the running for the United States Senate Booby Prize for dumbest senator. How he plans to achieve the goal that even Cuba, China, and the UK struggle with is beyond me, but that doesn't stop him from babbling this incoherent nonsense!
"That's why regulating the internet so that you're spending less time alone on Instagram should be an important government project," he said. "And if people are feeling more powerful and less lonely, then they are going to be less likely to fall for a bulls--- demagogue like Donald Trump. And what I say in the book is that if you really think about the things that make you more connected and make you more powerful, they're not actually super partisan."
"...they're not actually super partisan." Obviously the transcript left off the "dude" at the end of the sentence. What exactly is Senator Retard proposing? AI monitoring of everyone's social media usage, with preprogrammed cutoffs in the event anybody reaches a predetermined number of views of right-of-center videos or reels or TikToks or whatever?
Why...Yes! That's exactly what he is proposing! And of course he and his other knuckle-dragging, booger-eating retard buddies in the Senate would pass "sensible" legislation mandating this.
That's not authoritarian...that is full-blown dictatorship, and little Chrissy of the small brain is all for it. These are the people who love FLOCK cameras and shouting down speakers on university campuses and dropping the charges against arsonists because they were "mostly peaceful" and cheering on the maniacs who saw Charlie Kirk's murder and shouted, "MORE!"
Our rights protecting us from government overreach are not negotiable, and pushing back against the constant encroachment by all government entities is a noble and necessary activity. Freedom and liberty are, by definition, messy in comparison to the locked-down society that these little Stalins crave.
As the saying goes..."The 1st Amendment is protected by the 2nd Amendment." That's not hyperbole...that is reality!
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The Morning Report — 9/ 22 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Welcome to the first day of Fall . . .
So let's start off with the end result and work our way backwards, just like our society!
On Sept. 10, 2026, one year from the date that Charlie Kirk was horrifically assassinated on the nearby Utah Valley University campus, Utah student Sara Larsen approached members of the campus College Republicans chapter while they were tabling on campus and attempted to hand them a cake celebrating Kirk’s annihilation. The white cake was decorated with blood red icing reading “Happy Kirkiversary.” In the eyes of the university, the public blowback Sara Larsen received over her “Happy Kirkiversary” cake was the fault of the College Republicans—because they posted a picture of it. The university was attempting punish the College Republicans for exposing Larsen’s public celebration of Charlie Kirk’s death.
Again, this is like blaming the Jews incinerated in the crematoria for the smoke conditions over Southern Poland.
And we get vermin like Sara Larsen from breeding grounds like UV U and now starting in pre-school!
More than half of US college students say controversial speakers should be banned from their campuses, with a record-high number adding that violence is acceptable to stop them, a disturbing study shows.The results provide a dangerous and “sobering picture” of cancel culture on US campuses, according to the expansive six-year study of almost 300,000 college undergraduates nationwide by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
“The atmosphere isn’t just cautious — it’s hostile,” the study’s authors wrote. “Students continue to show low tolerance for controversial speakers, and troublingly, more believe it’s acceptable to shout down a speaker, block access to events, or even resort to violence to silence campus speech than ever before.”
The percentage of students who supported disruptive or even violent tactics to suppress controversial speakers meanwhile went up between 2021 and 2025.
An astonishing 34% of students nationally believe violence is acceptable to stop a campus speech, up from 20% in 2022.
More than half of students, or 54%, support blocking others from attending a campus speech, while almost three-quarters, 71%, call for shouting down a speaker they don’t like.
The top 10 most intolerant campuses were predominantly in one state: Massachusetts, the survey added.
Conservative views are most under attack on college campuses, according to an interpretation of the data by the Missing Data Depot.
the immortal lyrics of Rogers and Hammerstein really hit home, don't they?!
You've got to be taught
To hate and fear
You've got to be taught
From year to year
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be carefully taught alright!
If you want evidence that teachers’ unions are nothing more than taxpayer-funded left-wing rackets, look no further than the evidence dug up by the Progressive Policy Institute — a group founded by centrist Democrats...So, what are these unions doing with all that money they collect if not fighting to fulfill their stated missions? Turns out, they are far more interested in getting Democrats elected and pushing far-left causes... This includes more than $2.4 million to the far-left Center for American Progress, $7 million to the Democratic Governors Association, nearly $26 million to the Democrats’ House Majority PAC and $32 million to the Senate Majority PAC. And, maybe because they figure it will cut down on class sizes, more than $400,000 to pro-abortion groups...Add it all up, and you have organizations that extort money from taxpayers to finance a protection racket for themselves, their Democratic patrons, and various far-left causes (which few taxpayers would support), while engaging in fraud by pretending to be looking out for the interests of public-school students. We’re not lawyers, but we’d say that classifies as a criminal racket under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
RICO Act and firing squads.
Yes we're at war but only one side seems to be taking all the casualties, our side!
Welcome to the new America; these are all socialist operations, diametrically opposed to the reconciling virtues of our nation’s founding as a constitutional republic. The “party” name Democratic no longer applies. We are at war, and our nation has become a thousand battlegrounds.
On all these uplifting notes, I bid you all to have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Victor Davis Hanson: America has endured decades of politicized doomsday warnings. Today’s AI panic follows a familiar script. AI and the Same Old Politicized Hysteria
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Daily Tech News 22 September 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Google's new Googlebooks are here, powered by Googlebook OS, with models starting at $899 from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, and here are all the hardware specs which I know are the only thing you'll be interested in. (WCCFTech)
Wait. Powered by what?
- Powered by the all new Googlebook OS, which they didn't bother to cover at all because Google announced it yesterday. On Reddit. (Reddit)
There's also a home page on Google itself which contains less than no information.
Except for Australian prices - it's region-sensitive - which are fuck-off-expensive.
Anyway, Googlebook OS is Android which is Linux, in this case Debian under the hood, updated with a user interface that doesn't look like a Subaru that hasn't been washed for forty years.
- Here's the Acer model which is the cheapest of the bunch and doesn't get a mention on the Australian version of the Googlebook home page. (Notebook Check)
Pretty good hardware specs especially the 2880x1600 120Hz 14" OLED panel. But I got a laptop with one of those six months ago, with twice the memory and storage, and cheaper too.
- Can you just download - or even buy - and install Googlebook OS on your own hardware?
What?! No. Eww, gross. Get away.
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