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August 08, 2026

Hobby Thread - August 8, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling lucky and decided on a random car theme for this Hobby Thread.

A what? A random car theme?

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 8

—K.T.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

Posted by K.T. at 03:45 PM Comments

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Aug. 8

—K.T.

FARMER'S MARKETS - Do you like them?

Ready for some peaches and cream?

Posted by K.T. at 01:41 PM Comments

The times that try men's souls

—K.T.

Founding Father of the Week - Thomas Paine

The Paine monument in Thetford, England, the birthplace of Paine, with a quill pen in his right hand and an inverted copy of The Rights of Man in his left. It was sculpted by Sir Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy, and erected in 1964

The Thomas Paine Historical Association's Gallery of Monuments:
Here you can follow Paine’s life journey through images of the different monuments, historical markers, landmarks and homes that form part of his amazing legacy. From his birth in Thetford, UK to his death in New York City, Paine lived a life of amazing action and profound impact. Enjoy!

Here are a few more of them, but some of them look more impressive if you click over to the historical Association gallery:

The statue of Paine in Morristown, New Jersey sculpted in 1950 by Georg J. Lober. It shows a seated Paine with a musket using a drum-head as a makeshift table.

There is a side view of this monument at the main page of the Historical Association's gallery, which also includes other photos, images and history.

The Thomas Paine statue in the Parc Montsouris, in Paris, France. It was dedicated in 1948 and created by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, It depicts Paine standing before the French National Convention to plead for the life of King Louis XVI

Did you know about this?

Paine’s New Rochelle Monument is a 12-foot marble column marking his burial site. Paine’s New Rochelle In 1837, Gilbert Vale, editor of the New York Beacon, started a subscription for the purpose of erecting the monument that was dedicated on May 30th, 1881. Sculptor William Macdonald created the bronze bust that was placed upon the monument on May 30th, 1899

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More on the statue above from Statues: The People They Salute

Thomas Paine published 16 pamphlets from 1776 to 1783 known as The American Crisis. The works inspired the colonists during the fight for freedom from tyranny. Paine signed his pamphlets with the pseudonym, "Common Sense". You are most likely familiar with this passage from the first pamphlet published at the start of the Revolution. . .
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

This passage from Pamphlet III you may not be familiar with. It addresses the importance of knowing the past. . .

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; every thing about him would seem a chaos: he would have even his own history to ask from every one; and by not knowing how the world went in his absence, he would be at a loss to know how it ought to go on when he recovered, or rather, returned to it again. In like manner, though in a less degree, a too great inattention to past occurrences retards and bewilders our judgment in everything; while, on the contrary, by comparing what is past with what is present, we frequently hit on the true character of both, and become wise with very little trouble. It is a kind of counter-march, by which we get into the rear of time, and mark the movements and meaning of things as we make our return. There are certain circumstances, which, at the time of their happening, are a kind of riddles, and as every riddle is to be followed by its answer, so those kind of circumstances will be followed by their events, and those events are always the true solution.”

That sounds like the common sense idea that we must know our history, so we can learn from it and not repeat the same mistakes.

The monument pictured is the oldest memorial to Thomas Paine that still exists. The original monument erected in 1839 consisted of just a tapered marble pedestal and decorative cap. A bronze bust of Paine was later added in 1899. It is located in New Rochelle, New York near the cottage Paine lived from 1802 until 1806.

There is apparently still not a statue of Paine in Washington D.C. even though there is a statue in Paris and a Paine obelisk in London.

Funds are being solicited for a statue in the capital of the USA. There is a link at the affiliated Thomas Paine Historical Association page.

Thomas Paine was a man with nine lives and then some! He was a great humanitarian, a supreme statesman, and a bold visionary. He was also a staymaker, privateer, excise collector, magazine editor, pamphleteer, inventor, war correspondent, and poet. Paine was a man who belonged to three different worlds—England, the newborn United States, and revolutionary France—a man who went from being showered with praise to being reviled for his brave beliefs in what freedom and equality truly meant.

George Washington promoted some of his ideas, but Paine later criticized Washington and also Christianity. He was something of a radical. How does he fit in with the legacy of our other Founding Fathers?

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Thomas Paine Political Cartoons

The following gallery contains almost 150 political cartoons of Thomas Paine in chronological order. Some positive and many negative, the cartoons, paintings, sketches and more are a vivid example of how Paine’s enemies attacked him in America and in England, where the British monarchy funded a ruthless and well funded campaign of slander. Supporters also fought back with some of their own, as you will see.

How do these cartoons compare to the slander and libel in politics these days? .

1780’s anonymous cartoon titled “Le Fameux Empyrique Anglois American” (The Famous English American Empiric/Quack) shows Paine, as medicine man, standing on a podium in front of an audience and promoting his bottle labeled “Union” to a crowd of on-lookers – American Philosophical Society

“Contrasted Opinions of Paine’s Pamphlet” is a 1791 intaglio by Frederick George Byron. Eight public figures are depicted reading excerpts from Rights of Man and reacting to them. Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Mary Wollstonecraft are the three supporters of Paine’s writings while the rest deplore them – American Philosophical Society

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Cambridge hits the skids

Ace posted a great piece yesterday on the state of play concerning the resignation of Jason Arday from Cambridge, the expected upcoming release of his (co-authored) book, etc. Read it if you missed it. Might be worth reading again even if you read it yesterday.

Ed Driscoll has an update on some additional consequences for Cambridge University. They were not thinking of their students when they hired and promoted this guy.

The university intends to investigate. Colin Wright says he can save them some money - It's DEI. Though he recognizes some other quality problems in academe. CHECK THIS OUT . . . "final solution?"

Michael Nayna:

DEI is a boil on the back of the Grievance Studies beast with many heads; Critical Race Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory & their younger spawns (inc Disability Studies). When the public catches on & pushes back against one head, it pulls it back, letting another lead.

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Richard Fernandez kind of predicted worse for Cambridge a few days ago. I think he may be right about this being an important event in academic history:

Jason Arday understood with the clarity of a software developer that the DEI design constraints would block any attempt to question his claims. He had stumbled upon an invariant: a condition, property, or relation that must always remain true throughout the execution of a…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 5, 2026

The real scandal isn't in what Arday did, but in what he showed could be done. He objectively demonstrated a fatal flaw in a supposedly secure instution. Cambridge University, which produced Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Alan Rutherford, Watson and Crick, John Milton and Lord Byron had crashed and burned.
Whatever his motives we owe Jason a debt of gratitude that we can hardly repay.

To understand just how irredeemably messed up academia is, compare the differences in how Cambridge treated Jason Arday and how Harvard treated Roland Fryer.

One is a black sociologist; the other is a black economist.

At this point, we are all very well acquainted with Jason… pic.twitter.com/wCMNC03YG2
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) August 7, 2026

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Weekend

The Week In Pictures: Winner and Still Champion Edition

Anthony Fauci is shaping up as the Choosin’ Texas of meme subjects–holding down the #1 spot week after week. He was our prime meme target again this week. Apart from Fauci, the WNBA was on the receiving end of a lot of ridicule, and something happened with regard to burritos, I don’t know what. But you will see some burrito memes. And unfortunately, anti-Communism is once again necessary. Who would have predicted that, circa 1991?

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, Thomas Sowell Weekend

Update for those not familiar with Norm MacDonald

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Close it up

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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I have no argument with this morning's opener.

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Sedona)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice, be adventurous, but don't be Pretti Good.
3) No. I don't care if the other blog lets you, no running with sharp objects.
4) Have a great weekend!

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.

Prayer Requests:

5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/23 Update – The latest update is that he has stage 2, “unfavorable intermediate”, which he notes is an awful name, but what it means is, it is in the middle, but bad enough that they want to treat it. It’s more aggressive than previously thought. He is at the point where he has to decide on treatment options, which means choosing which set of pretty unfortunate side effects he prefers.
7/31 Update – He has reached the halfway point in treatment. He’s had some side effects, that are “just annoying”.

6/18 – buzzion asked for prayers for a friend named Christina, who has struggled with drug addiction and is in jail again. Buzzion prays that this really is rock bottom and a true wake-up call for her – even if it requires her to stay in jail.
6/29 Update – Christina’s family bonded her out of jail and she has checked into a rehab facility. Please pray that she gets the help she needs.
7/11 Update – Thank you to everyone for your prayers. Christina is doing well in rehab. Please pray that she continues through this and keeps working through it even after getting out of her program.

6/20 – bluebell gave an update on grammie Winger. Grammie had some major surgery related to her cancer in March and is pretty much housebound. She said she isn’t keeping up on news since her diagnosis; she doesn’t have the energy. She said she thinks of her grey-box friends often with fondness. Please keep praying for her. Your prayers are a source of great comfort to her.
6/27 Update – grammie winger requested bluebell to let the Horde know that she is hospitalized again, with sepsis, and cannot eat or walk. She is very tired and cannot speak for long. She is being fed by tube. They don’t know how long she will be hospitalized or where she will go after (rehab, hospice, etc.). Bluebell has a mailing address for grammie, so please contact bluebell to send a card or note to grammie winger. Please pray for her, that her suffering will be eased, and pray for her family, who are suffering along with her.
7/25 – grammie winger popped in to say thank you for all the cards, letters, and encouraging words. You are a treasure.

6/27 – “A” sent thanks for the prayers for a family friend, who is at home recovering with the family and doing much better. “A” has an additional request for long-time friends (J and S) who are in the midst of intense family problems and requesting healing, peace, repentance, and restoration in the family.
7/18 Update – “A” sends his thanks to all the prayer warriors for all the personal concerns listed here. The requests above are all doing better. Prayer really works. Sometimes the results are not what we expected but end up being what we really needed for other reasons. Thank you all!

7/2 – Publius asked for prayers for his 96 year old mother, who had emergency surgery when a massive hematoma on her leg ruptured, and they couldn’t stop the bleeding due to her being on blood thinners. Things were not looking good, but Publius posted later she received blood thinner reverser medication, and was fully conscious and alert after surgery.
7/10 Update – Publius’ mother was moved to a nursing home for post-acute therapy. At this point, she is very weak but is coming back physically. But her mind is in La La Land.
7/13 Update – Publius’ mother has experienced an absolute miracle. She has come back, fully conscious and cogent. The Lord Almighty has decided her time is not complete.

7/11 – Mis Hum asked for prayers for Some Rat. He has some serious health issues at this time.

7/11 – Fen requested prayers for comfort and strength for “C” and her mother. “C” is in her 30s and her father died after a several months long struggle with cancer.

7/11 – P, a long time lurker, would appreciate prayers. He says he should have asked for prayers last year, when his stage 4 prostate cancer was first diagnosed, but he was too busy freaking out. A year and nine months later, he is still on hormone therapy and his PSA spiked recently. It’s back up to 92. He is supposed to start a drug trial soon. He knows from experience that prayer helps, and would greatly appreciate if anyone could include him in their prayers.

7/13 – Captain Obvious posted that he could use some prayers, as he was experiencing some kind of cardiac arrhythmia.

7/15 – Captain JS’ daughter needs prayers for his/her daughter. Early on 7/15, she experienced complete heart failure. She is in the ICU on a heart/lung machine. They will operate to see what is happening. Captain JS sends thanks in advance for the prayers and has faith in their power.
7/15 Update – Thanks to all who responded to Captain JS’ request for prayers. The daughter is still unconscious but is still alive. The doctors suspect a blockage to the left side of her heart. They are planning to take pictures and then insert a stent.
7/18 Update – Captain JS’ daughter passed away. Her heart, brain, and other organs were too damaged to regain function. Captain JS sends his thanks to the Horde for all the prayers.

7/25 – Matthew Kant Cipher humbly asks for prayers for Marshall, a long-time friend and HS classmate of Mrs. MKC, who is currently hospitalized with heart failure.

7/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She is still doing fine. Her chemo pump seems to be working and everything appears stable for now. She says she is incredibly blessed! She is working on a stocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild. She would appreciate prayers for a successful IVF procedure and pregnancy for her daughter and hubby. Next week, Teresa and her husband will be going to California to visit their daughter who lives there and her family.
8/4 Update – Teresa was admitted to the hospital while on vacation in California. She has a bad infection – cellulitis - not due to the cancer. She is being treated with antibiotics and hopefully it will be cleared up in a couple of days.

7/29 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for Billy Ray’s mother, who was just admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. She is a cancer survivor and chemo destroyed her immune system, so this is a big worry.
8/2 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is feeling better, on oxygen and medication. She is not out of the woods, but has stabilized. She appreciates the prayers from around the globe and says thank you very much.

7/29 – TecumsehTea wrote that MrTea’s diagnosis is colon cancer stage 4. They are praying for guidance for how to proceed.

7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated for cancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.

8/1 – Isophorone Blog requested prayers for his mother. His father passed this past Sunday. His mother had been in the hospital for an entire month previous to that, so they never got to see each other at the end. His mother is out of the hospital, but in declining health.
Update 8/2 Isophorone Blog’s mother passed, he requested you keep his sister and himself in your prayers for comfort.

8/1 – Tonypete asked for prayers for his BIL, who is a developmentally disabled adult and has been living independently (sort of) for decades but the time has come for them to make some changes in his living arrangements and personal finances. This will not go well as he has VERY poor impulse control and anger issues. His dear wife has POA but that is limited in its reach and it is probably time for her to be granted guardianship.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

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Posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:01 AM Comments

Daily Tech News 8 August 2026

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

The entire planned DRAM production for 2027 from Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix has already sold out. (IGN)

I was reporting on the growing crisis last year but didn't take it personally until I watched a YouTube video advising people that there was no need to panic buy, and that prices would level out in 2027.

I promptly panic-bought.
Memory is now selling at prices last seen in 2007. (Tom's Hardware)

Though the memory price crash of 2007 was one of the reasons why there are only three big memory manufacturers today.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:45 AM Comments

In The Kingdom Of The Blind, The ONT Is King

—WeirdDave

Happy Friday everyone! Let's take a closer look at America

Posted by WeirdDave at 10:00 PM Comments

Another Friday Night Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Lysebotn, Rogaland, Norway

Baby elephant plays with his "toy," which looks like a small bicycle innertube.

Where's your trunk?

Sky-puppy squeaks as he's petted.

I'll take Things Which are Orange, Trebek, and your mother's a whore.

Fawn vs. lamb.

Old but fun: A guy set up cameras to catch the groundhog eating all of his vegetables and found the groundhog was a camera-hog who was proud to be filmed stealing carrots.

AI video of a cliff city on another planet.

An albatross has her chick returned to her (after a medical check-up). I'm posting this because I didn't really know what an albatross looked like. Kinda cute. Definitely don't kill one while at sea.

Vertigo simulator.

Sibling slapfight.

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:20 PM Comments

Trump Offers Cities "BIDEN" Grants to Defray Costs Accrued Due to Biden's Open Borders, With One Iron Requirement: Recipients Must Comply Fully With ICE and Trump's Deportation Program

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I don't expect any of the truly obnoxious blue cities will go for this, but I appreciate the troll.

The Department of Justice is now offering $3 billion in "BIDEN" grants to help local municipalities recoup their losses incurred by Joe Biden's destructive immigration policies.
The grants, being called the Bridging Immigration-related Deficits Experienced Nationwide (BIDEN) program, is one of the biggest grant programs the DOJ has ever offered and is aimed at helping cities hire more police officers, upgrade technology, and build temporary detention facilities for illegal migrants, the Washington Post reported.

But there is one provision that is non-negotiable. The municipalities that apply for the grants must pledge to work with federal immigration authorities as they carry out federal immigration policies. The jurisdictions that apply must agree to "fully participate" in the ICE 287(g) partnership that links local law enforcement to ICE and other federal immigration enforcement agencies.

"This Department of Justice is committed to ensuring Biden-era border disasters never happen again," said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward. "We are proud to once again champion law and order."

The description of the program explains that the grant dollars are intended for "locating and apprehending aliens who have committed a crime under federal, state, or local law, in addition to being unlawfully present in the United States."

The DOJ also notes that some of the money may be expected to come back to the federal government as reimbursement for "the costs associated with federal law enforcement intervention" should federal resources have to be spent "to reduce crime or public disorder" related to immigration enforcement actions.

There are no other catches other than participation in the 287(g) program, and municipalities may spend the grant money however they wish.

The DOJ reported that 181 cities have already applied for the grants.

Unrelated: Tuq'r has previously strongly hinted he believes that the US government or Israel -- and aren't they really the same thing, am i rite? -- blew up the World Trade Center.

Now, he makes it explicit, saying WTC 7 collapsed for "no explicable reason."

No, none at all. Ignore the 747s collapsing buildings all around it.

Tucker Carlson lies to his viewers: WTC 7 "collapsed for still no explicable reason" and the documents are hidden.

The documents are on screen, since they've been public for decades and were never classified.

Carlson lies to his viewers in order to break their trust in the US… pic.twitter.com/aZQr5jnjex
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) August 7, 2026

Tuq'r Qarlson also embraces the Islamic ban on lending money -- finding that the normal capitalist practice of loaning money for interest is "usury."

Weird how every one of his thoughts is pro-Muslim and anti-Jew, huh?

Tucker Carlson preaches that debt is slavery, that lending at interest is the sin of usury, and that a society organized around debt "enslaves people."

He then reads an ad for a mortgage lender and personally endorses it: "We recommend American Financing. They're called… pic.twitter.com/fDaepsUCAC
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) August 6, 2026

How long before El-Sayed is on Tuq'r's show?

The NRSC debuts first attack ad in the US Senate Michigan race against Abdul El-Sayed pic.twitter.com/d3N3RB3CGT
— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) August 5, 2026

🚨 BOOM — SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN: "I don't really think [Abdul El Sayed] is interested in MY endorsement! He called me an a*shole, he's called me an ogre, and that I belong on a PIKE. He has a real little man syndrome!"

"Maybe if he wins and he's here, he'll be a TOUGH GUY!"… pic.twitter.com/jFYIAfGNqs
— ASHLEYMOODY (MAGA) (@ASHLEYMOODYMAGA) August 6, 2026

This should be a watershed moment for the Democratic Party.

Senator John Fetterman — one of the last sane voices left in the party — just cut 84-year-old career socialist Bernie Sanders down to the bone for helping to destroy the Democrats from within.

Listen to the full… pic.twitter.com/7wdygGSuVm
— Overton (@overton_news) August 6, 2026

Close it up

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:10 PM Comments

Of Course: Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir," Which Was, Of Course, Ghostwritten by a White Woman;
Comparing His Initial Proposal and the Book Itself, The Atlantic Finds More Cases of Fabulism and Lying

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Before that: the Metropolitan Police said "oops, ooopsie" about investigating a reporter for four whole months because a black fraudster and scamster said that it was "distressing" him and harming his mental health to be questioned at all.

And I do want to emphasize that this is an "oops, oopsie" non-apology. The head of the Met is completely frivolous and unserious about his organization acting as a Gestapo for a foreign scammer:

The head of the Metropolitan Police has said his force should not have investigated a journalist who was looking into plagiarism claims about a University of Cambridge professor.

Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said officers "dropped the ball" when they looked into a complaint made against journalist Jack Grove over his attempts to contact Prof Jason Arday.

Sir Mark told broadcaster LBC the complaint should have been "screened out earlier on as not requiring investigation".

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Times Higher Education (THE) reporter Grove said he had been investigating allegations Arday had plagiarised parts of his PhD, and contacted him in 2025 to offer him the right of reply.

"In early February I received a call from a Met police officer saying that a complaint had been raised against me by someone and Professor Arday was very distressed and I shouldn't contact him again," Grove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"It was a complete shock. Apparently it was for harassment but I hadn't contacted him for four months and then maybe I think I've only sent three or four emails to him in total."

The Met closed its inquiries into the case.

Sir Mark told LBC: "We dropped the ball on that one, let's not beat around the bush.

"A report came in of harassment or some crime like that, it should have been screened out as not requiring investigation...

"We shouldn't have made that call to him [Grove] and said that."

To see how off-handed, flippant, and non-apologetic this "oops, oopsie" is, see this video.

They'll do it again tomorrow. And then they'll just say "garsh we dropped the ball on that one, boy is our face red" the next time.

For his part, Arday is blaming the university that gave him a Ph.D. for his fake and plagiarized paper, saying they hadn't given his autistic grifting ass enough "supervision."

The Telegraph published three excerpts from Arday's dissertation alongside the original sources from which he is alleged to have plagiarized. In some instances, the passages are virtually identical; in others, only minor wording changes distinguish them.
The controversy centers on allegations that, while Arday cited the original author elsewhere in his dissertation, he failed to properly attribute the passages in question. Arday has maintained that the omission was attributable to his autism.

The BBC reported last week, "Arday did not dispute the allegations of plagiarism, but defended himself by arguing that he had not received adequate supervision during his PhD given his autism and learning disabilities."

Now I know why that white girl in the last post pretends to be disabled and riddled with Tourettes: It's an amazingly lucrative grift.

So Simon & Schuster paid this "superstar" nobody $1.4 million in a fake advance. (Fake because it's not a real "advance" -- they had no hope of every recouping this from sales. They just wanted to be in the DEI Superstar Jason Arday Business.)

To get this DEI Jackpot, Arday submitted a proposal, telling Simon & Schuster the Amazing Tales they would get in exchange for their money.

The Atlantic has a copy of that proposal, as well as the book itself which will be released next week.

They find that Jason Arday further confabulated the lies already present in the proposal:

Paul Embery @PaulEmbery
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This is wild. The Atlantic has obtained a copy of Jason Arday's book proposal. In it, he claims to have:

- Experienced 'locked-in' syndrome for several months after being hit by a car. Doctors advised his family to have the life support machine turned off, but he awakened 'miraculously'

- Been struck down by testicular cancer (though this changes in the book to brain cancer)

- Been beaten up by a group of kids and then, in court, pleaded with the judge not to jail them. Coincidentally, two of the kids later became his students, and Arday became godfather to the child of one of them

- Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

I'm thinking "Desperado."

- Been awarded several accolades - of which no proof exists online.

- Been told by a 'shaman woman' in Brazil that he would suffer greatly but also do great thing. 'Every event she described has since come to pass,' he wrote.

The book is due for publication next week by @simonschuster. Surely they have to pull it.

LOL, of course they won't. Don't be a dope.

Here are excerpts from The Atlantic, comparing the lies in the proposal to the lies in the actual book.

According to a cover letter that his agent sent to publishers at the time, Arday's book, to be titled Great and Unfortunate Things, would be "an awe-inspiring tale of near mythic proportions."
That now appears to be an understatement. Arday's story was indeed astonishing: As a toddler, he was diagnosed with autism and developmental delays; he didn't fully speak until the age of 11; he learned to read and write only as an adult. Arday's parents are Ghanaian immigrants; he grew up wearing homemade clothes and hustling for cash by playing snooker.

By the way, there's no evidence he ever played snooker for money.

Yet in spite of all these obstacles and many, many others he has recounted over the years, Arday found a way to go to university and then to graduate school. Eventually, he got his Ph.D., and then he became a star. "We are so lucky to have you," Cambridge's head of faculty for education, Hilary Cremin, told him in a clip shown on BBC shortly after his hiring was announced. "You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do."
But in the past two weeks, Arday's near-mythic (or perhaps purely mythic) tale has disintegrated. In July, a philosopher named Nathan Cofnas published a long Substack post reviewing apparent evidence of plagiarism in Arday's academic work. Cofnas posted 36 passages from Arday's 2015 dissertation, about student teaching, which reproduce or closely track text found in a 2009 dissertation from another scholar in the field, Paula Zwozdiak-Myers. Arday looks to have even copied from and rearranged Zwozdiak-Myers's title, and in doing so to have misused an apostrophe.

It's more embarrassing than that. His title uses the word "teachers," just the plural of teacher, but he puts an apostrophe after it to make it a possessive. And then he does that in the entire paper, too.

People have pointed out that is plagiarism is proven by the fact that typos and misspellings in the text he copied are perfectly reproduced in his "own" paper, which of course means he just cut and paste someone else's work.

But the "teachers'" type seems to be an Arday Original, at least.

Oh: As someone commented, just interviewing people and writing down their feelings is the "lowest-hanging fruit" of the (scam) research world. Most fake DEI papers, including "Doctor" Jill Biden's, consist of just interviewing your friends and fellow students and then "analyzing" their "lived experiences."

That's mostly what Arday's doctoral paper is -- but then he doesn't even do the lowest of low-hanging fruit of the fake research world.

He just cribs the interviews from the paper he's copying and claims he conducted the interviews himself!

Quotes from structured interviews that Arday claimed to have performed closely resembled those used by other researchers; parts of some interview responses also reappeared across different studies under Arday's name, attributed to different people. This duplication, if deliberate, would be something other than plagiarism--it would be academic fraud. (The website Retraction Watch reports that two of Arday's papers were quietly corrected.)

He's continuing to insist that all scrutiny of his lies and fraud is racist:

Arday did not respond to questions from The Atlantic, but he told The Times last week that he is not a "liar" or a "fantasist" and that he'd been given insufficient supervision as a graduate student, especially in light of his learning disabilities: "It's more likely that I've made a mistake, there's a clerical error. It's not that I've fabricated." He also seemed to address such allegations at a conference in April for the British Sociological Association, where he gave a talk about pervasive efforts to discredit Black scholars including himself. "These people are brilliant, perversely brilliant," he told his colleagues. "There are times when you look at what they're doing and you say to yourself, Well done, well played, very good. You've caught me [in] a thousand knots--how do I get myself out of this situation?"

Now, on to the comparison of Arday's claims in the proposal and the claims made in the book:

Great and Unfortunate Things, which Arday co-wrote with Eve Claxton, is still scheduled to come out next week from Simon & Schuster.

Co-wrote? You mean, she wrote it entirely, based on his verbal claims.

Aren't academics supposed to write their own books?

The story that it tells should not be taken at face value; it differs notably from other versions of his life that Arday has shared in public and in private, including in the original proposal he sent out with his agent. But the book is also, in a way, very honest and quite telling: It provides a vivid portrait of a man who was always manifestly ill-equipped for academia yet found a way to reach its upper levels. This is not someone else's cruel assessment of Arday's tragic and improbable career. It's his own.
The memoir begins with a prophecy. It's 2006, and Jason Arday, then 21 years old, is installing water pumps in the favelas of Brazil and showing children how to use them. A local aid worker--"a woman in her thirties with dark hair and eyes and a gentle, steady way about her"--touches his arm and softly tells him that he is destined to suffer in his life but also to do great things. "After the trip was over, I never saw the woman again, but her words stayed with me," Arday writes, "and, you might say, her prediction came true."

The rest of the book is an elaboration on this moment: Arday suffers; Arday overcomes. The doctors who assessed him as a toddler told his mother that "there's no one in there" and that he was "no better than a vegetable." Even his speech therapist wasn't optimistic that he'd ever learn to talk. (At one point, she also physically abused him, the memoir says.) As a boy, Arday rocked and hummed and banged his head until he bled; he slammed cupboard doors and smeared his feces on the walls. Yet still, eventually, he started to verbalize. Still, eventually, he made his way through school.

Tribulations piled up throughout his life. Arday is nearly deaf in one ear; he's dyslexic; he finds simple math befuddling; he has "marked difficulties" with memory, reading, and processing skills. As a teen, he was beaten so severely by a group of kids his age that he became an epileptic. To make his way through secondary school while--by his own account--illiterate, he needed ample help: support assistants who sat beside him in class and took notes on his behalf.

When Arday applied to university, his girlfriend, Debs--who had been teaching him to read--"wrote out" the application on his behalf, including the personal statement. In university, a friend who took the same courses sat beside him, sharing notes. (She's "the only reason I survived" university, he says.) By the time Arday started on his master's degree, he writes, he was reading at about the same level as his 3-year-old daughter. Still, he pressed onward. Still, somehow, he got a teaching job.

His obstacles were only multiplying, though. Money was tight, so after each day of teaching, Arday writes, he had to work an overnight shift in a supermarket, from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., and then a morning shift as a cleaner from 5:30 to 7:30. The only time he had left to write his dissertation was when he was commuting between London, where he lived, and Liverpool, where he taught. On those semiweekly five-hour rides, the book explains, he would open up his laptop on the plastic seat-back table and start typing out his thesis, hunt-and-peck style.

As his dissertation deadline approached, Arday started having blurry vision; medical scans revealed a brain tumor. After it was removed, he had a ministroke and lost his short-term memory.

This sounds like a collection of excuses he gave to teachers and professors to get them to give him a passing grade for failure-level work.

When you succeed against pretty much insurmountable odds," Arday writes in the book, "it weirdly makes people question your credibility." Is it weird? I don't think it's weird. When you keep succeeding against insurmountable odds, the facts of your surmounting will be bound to get a second look.

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But the most disturbing inconsistencies arise from Arday's book proposal, a copy of which was obtained by The Atlantic. That document, from 2024, cites several accolades of which no proof exists online. The proposal also lays out many of the same events as the memoir but with slightly different dates and details: The boys who beat him up were not his age but four years older; his suicide attempt happened before, not during, the pandemic. And whereas the book describes Arday as having survived two brain tumors, the proposal says he had a bout of testicular cancer. No reference to that illness appears in the memoir.

Nor does the book describe the time that Arday, then a teenager, was struck by a car and spent several months in a coma. According to the book proposal, the doctors told his parents that he would never recover, and suggested taking him off life support "as an act of mercy." Through all of this, he was aware of everything that was going on, because he had locked-in syndrome. "As I will describe to readers in the book," Arday wrote in the proposal, "these months afforded me another profoundly different way of perceiving the world."

The book doesn't describe any of this, nor that he awakened "miraculously" from the coma, nor the full year he spent "relearning everything--how to walk, to talk."

Instead, the memoir tells us only that he spent those months finishing his final year of secondary school and taking his exams. "I was relieved, beyond relieved," the memoir says, when those were done.

Then there is the prophecy--the revelation Arday was given in Brazil, that he would suffer greatly and also do great things. According to the proposal, this occurred in 2005, not 2006, and the message came not from a local aid worker in her 30s but from "an elder in the small town where I had been assigned, who was well-known in the area for predicting people's futures." (Later in the proposal, he calls this person a "shaman woman.") "Do you know the story of Spartacus, the escaped slave who led a rebellion against the Romans?" this town elder asks, before telling him his fate in minute detail. "Every event she described," Arday writes in the proposal, "has since come to pass."

Below: When asked why he told such tall tales without including any evidence to support them, he responds, "To be honest with you, I just thought you'd believe me."

Exactly.

"To be honest with you, I thought you'd just believe me" pic.twitter.com/ldsVvHjyuW
— S. I. Rubinstein (@si_rubinstein) August 1, 2026

One point I keep hearing is that people initially didn't care much about this because it's sociology and literally everyone knows sociology is entirely a bullshit field populated by dum-dums and grifters. One guy said that he checked Arday's plagiarism against the paper he plagiarized from: The plagiarized paper was also empty, stupid, banal, and worthless.

Here's evidence of that: All of these DEI "sociology" perfessers are low-IQ hustlers and bullshit artists.

This guy claims he want to school with Arday when Arday was, according to his Official Biographical Bullshit, entirely mute and non-verbal.

This guy says he was always "chatty" and running his mouth.

Tik Tok account says he was at Heathbrook Primary School with Jason Arday who was far from mute... pic.twitter.com/8SQLBnve4v
— Sidsy (@GrumpyOW) August 7, 2026

Very Obama-esque:

for more on jason arday's hallucinatory megalomania, check out this excerpt from his forthcoming @simonschustermemoir memoir: claims that a woman who gazed upon him received a "prophecy" that he was destined for "great things" & "sad and difficult things," like a hero of myth pic.twitter.com/xw6YavULQd
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) August 3, 2026

Ladies and gentlemen, the youngest ever black professor at Cambridge University. pic.twitter.com/eVnn7prdWO
— Will Kingston (@WillKingston) August 2, 2026

Apes eat figs in grottos.

It’s not like Jason Arday was was genius scam artist, articulate and able to fool the finest minds. No, he’s a literal moron that no one dared challenge due to DEI. You could find diverse yoof saying this in a Year 10 history class. pic.twitter.com/UM6DSgYLBl
— David (@merrieenglander) August 5, 2026

Professor Jason Arday in a rare behind-the-scenes photo of his first acting role as 1987's 'Predator' also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. https://t.co/976gcgjCn9 pic.twitter.com/oq7GnWnsnh
— 𝚝𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚎 (@tapedrone) August 6, 2026

Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke
20h

The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a Western system rotting under the weight of human deadwood. Not just academia, wokeness, welfare bureaucracies, "learing" centers, or the laptop manager class exposed during Covid, but an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness. The real work is left to a shrinking productive minority forced to carry everyone else.

"You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do."

Close it up

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The Week In Woke

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Tuq'r Qarlson, Marjorie Trailer-Queen, and Thomas Massie keep selling their agenda of Woke for White People (TM):

Surprise! Universities continue discriminating against white and Asian applicants despite the Supreme Court being emphatic that this is illegal racial discrimination.

The Department of Justice has concluded that Duke University School of Law intentionally discriminated against applicants based on race, finding that the school continued giving admissions preferences to black and Hispanic applicants even after the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious college admissions.
The DOJ's Civil Rights Division announced Thursday that Duke Law violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in admissions for its incoming classes of 2023, 2024 and 2025. The department said the practices also violated the Supreme Court's 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which restricted universities' use of race in admissions.

In an Aug. 6 findings letter, the DOJ said investigators reviewed Duke Law's internal documents and admissions data and determined the school continued "intentionally" granting and denying admission based on race following the Supreme Court decision.

"Duke Law School doesn't get a free pass to discriminate against white and Asian students simply because it thinks it has good intentions," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said. "Using 'diversity' essay questions to identify preferred races for admission is still illegal discrimination based on race, and this Department is committed to eliminating it everywhere we find it, including in our nation's law schools."

Sue them until they can't shit straight.

A Christian physician assistant who was fired after refusing to facilitate transgender procedures and use preferred pronouns won a $410,000 settlement from her former employers.
In May 2021, Valerie Kloosterman was a physician assistant at the University of Michigan Health-West. The hospital required Kloosterman to complete a diversity training module on LGBTQ+ issues, the Daily Signal reported.

According to Kloosterman's lawsuit, the module required her affirm statements concerning sexual orientation and gender identity that went against her Christian faith, which says God ordains a person's sex. To go against that, whether it be through surgery or the use of preferred pronouns, she believes, is going against God's will.

The lawsuit also argues that her Hippocratic oath to "do no harm" prevents her from facilitating procedures she believes do more harm than good.

In July 2021, Kloosterman met with the hospital's DEI program director, who was hostile toward her beliefs, told her she couldn't bring her religious beliefs into the workplace, and called her "evil," according to the lawsuit. He also claimed that a failure to use preferred pronouns would drive patients to commit suicide. The hospital fired her the following August.

In addition to the monetary settlement, the hospital has implemented a new policy that won't require employees to act in ways that violate their religious beliefs.

Meanwhile: a transgender "professor" says that having a normal gender/sex "isn't real" and that non-gay sex is "unnatural."

University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci published a book this year claiming "sex isn't real" and the gender "binary" is "incoherent."
Velocci is an assistant professor in history and the sociology of science who claims to be nonbinary and transgender. This identification has shaped the professor's questions and conclusions because "that is how knowledge works," Velocci wrote in the book titled "Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary."

In an interview with Duke University Press, which published the book, Velocci expressed joy that "any right wing or TERF detractor who wants to s***-talk the book is going to have to say or write the phrase 'Sex Isn't Real' in the process."

Velocci claims in the book that "cisness" is unnatural and that people fitting into their "assigned sex category" took a large amount of work to construct and maintain.

Sex science throughout the 19th and 20th centuries was a close ally to those invested in supporting white-supremacist governance and ejecting women from political life, Velocci claims.

"Science continues to be an anti-trans ally," the professor wrote, adding that sex has little to do with bodies, but is instead about categories and who controls them.

The professor also wrote that "current efforts to annihilate transness are couched in references to biology and science."

LOL. We're "couching" biology and science in "references to biology and science." How dare we.

Mother and her two trans pals arrested for murder of mentally handicapped 7-year-old boy.

Three people have been charged with the murder of a seven-year-old Ohio boy, with prosecutors saying that the young boy had suffered abuse at the hands of the defendants for months. Those arrested include the boy's mother as well as two trans-identified males.
Per WLWT5, Kaitlin Evans, 39, Nessa Keaney, 23, and Kirby Rankin, 33, were arraigned on charges of murder and child endangerment inside a Hamilton County courtroom Friday. Evans was identified as the mother of the boy, while Rankin and Keaney have been identified as being transgender.

A Portland, OR judge granted a "sweatheart deal" -- no jail time -- to a repeat antifa offender who admitted -- nay, boasted -- of punching and kicking cops and violently grabbing their genitals.

A violent Antifa-affiliated agitator has avoided jail time after admitting to assaulting several federal agents during a direct action outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon. The incident occurred on June 29, 2025.
August Dean Gordon, 32, of Beaverton, physically assaulted numerous federal officers, admitting to "kicking" and "headbutting" agents when they arrested him for damaging ICE facility property. This includes violently grabbing their genitals, according to court documents.

US District Court Judge Amy Baggio sentenced Gordon in late July to four months of home detention followed by five years of probation. The prosecutor sought a four-month prison term, while the defense asked for one year of supervised release.

The judge declined prison time, citing that it would be counterproductive for Gordon's mental health, his lack of a prior criminal history, and the lifelong burden of a felony conviction, per the Oregonian.

If I beat the shit out of an antifa thug in Portland, will I be excused jail time because it would be bad for my mental health? Or nah?

Nah, right?

Gordon, prosecutors continued, "boasted" about his "assaultive behavior," proudly declaring that he "kicked and headbutted officers," showing no "remorse" for his actions. US attorneys said that five officers were injured.

Savanah Hernandez @Savsays
I visited Seattle's $165 million dollar downtown library and it was OVERRUN with drug addicts.

Not only is this library filled with adults who are high on drugs, but they also offer FREE fentanyl test strips, syringes and injectable narcan that anyone, including children, can access.

Visitors have complained of "foul odors", unusable restrooms and harassment by the homeless and I experienced all of this while at this location.

Seattle residents just passed a tax increase to raise $480 million dollars for libraries just like this one and this is unfortunately the state that they're in.

Another Decarceration Success Story from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Convicted Killer Allegedly Shoots Man Dead Less Than 2 Hours After Release David Simpson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder

A man already convicted of manslaughter allegedly shot and wounded one man and killed a second in Charlotte, North Carolina less than two hours after being released last week on bond.

FOX News reported that 29-year-old David Simpson now faces charges that include first-degree murder and "possession of a firearm by a felon." He is in custody and being held without bond.

WCNC noted that Simpson "was released from Mecklenburg County jail around 12:20 a.m. on Wednesday," then allegedly carried out the fatal shooting at 1:45 p.m.
The shooting occurred at an apartment complex and is believed to have resulted from an argument over a parking space.

Simpson's girlfriend, Shakema Scott, is charged "with accessory after the fact."

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New Evidence Suggests That "The Most Secure Election in Earth History" Wasn't So Much

—Disinformation Expert Ace

You mean that incompetents and hyperpartisans in position of authority over their superiors have been lying to us?

I'm gonna need a minute on this one. My programming needs a big update.

New evidence further undermines claim that 2020 election was 'most secure' in history
Declassified documents, other evidence, reveal that despite official assurances of a secure 2020 election, government agencies possessed intelligence regarding significant security vulnerabilities, foreign data breaches, and potential manipulation risks.

After several batches of documents were recently declassified and released by the White House, the American people now have more evidence than ever that while officials claimed 2020 was a historically secure election, the government had plenty of evidence of security vulnerabilities, hacks and foreign interference.

Shortly after the election, senior government officials insisted that it was the "most secure" in American history, deflecting concerns about security, including about voting systems and mail-in-ballots.

...

However, after the new batches of documents were declassified and released this summer by the White House, Americans have more evidence than ever that those same officials knew about significant breaches of election data and internally raised concerns about how foreign actors could influence the election and the vulnerability of electronic voting machines.

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Maricopa exfiltration of voter registration data

The latest evidence released by the White House this week shows that the FBI investigated a breach of voter registration data in Arizona's largest county in the days before the 2020 election. In that incident, a self-described hacker foiled security and obtained 633,000 voter registration files, but the Biden Justice Department and local prosecutors declined to bring charges even after the FBI got the suspect to confess, Just the News reported on Thursday.

The scraping of Maricopa County's voter registration files was the most flagged security incident in a cyberintrusion log kept by U.S. spy agencies in the days surrounding the Nov. 3, 2020, election, showing that intelligence officials were monitoring the breach while voting was ongoing.

The article discusses China's hacking of the US voter databases. See the article for more on that.

This is the most alarming possibility: We know that Venezuela rigged its own elections to fake a "win" for Maduro.

And Maduro is a nasty communist enemy of the US.

Did he do the same thing to the US elections, to get a demented old socialist fool "elected"?

The declassified documents released by the White House also show that from 2004 to 2020, U.S. intelligence agencies monitored plans by the Venezuelan leadership to electronically manipulate their country's own voting machines, including the use of substituting false votes, to secure victory for the ruling socialists.
The plans raised alarm as early as 2006 among U.S. officials as a potential avenue for the Venezuelans to attempt to "undermine confidence in, or manipulate the electoral process in, the United States," according to a June 2026 CIA summary of prior intelligence reporting on Caracas' capabilities.

By 2020, the CIA had obtained reporting on Venezuelan plans to swing the country's election that year by manipulating electronic voting machines in a way that would make false votes appear legitimate and leave no trace of the changes. The intelligence raised questions about whether some U.S. voting machines could be vulnerable to similar types of manipulation, though agencies assessed that Venezuela did not have the capability to do so in the U.S.

What would we do without "agencies" to tell us that foreign threats aren't threats at all, but opportunities for us to be welcoming and open-minded.

And, of course:

Non-citizens on voter rolls

Additionally, an assessment by the Homeland Security Department found that hundreds-of-thousands of illegal aliens were on the voter rolls in four states -- and estimated the total across the whole country to be higher. A review conducted earlier this year using publicly available voter data in California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania found over 250,000 illegal voters on the rolls, Just the News reported.

Tangentially related: While Democrats whine about Trump firing disloyal subversive operatives, Hillary Clinton urges the next Democrat president, who will not be her, to fire every single Republican, no matter how minor or how far from any actual power.

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Red Cross Animated Propaganda Feature Lauds Sharif for His Brave (Illegal) Journey to Greece to Culturally Enrich That Nation, Then Deletes the Cartoon After Sharif Cultural-Enrichment-Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Red Cross should be prosecuted as a terrorist-adjacent organization.

The Red Cross has deleted a film tracking the journey of an Afghan migrant who is now accused of killing a British woman and hiding her body in a suitcase in Greece.
Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, was arrested on Monday over the murder of Scottish Christian Elisabeth-Jane Ross, in Athens.

Ahmadzai, a professional boxer who arrived in Greece on a small boat in 2016, is accused of killing Ms Ross before stuffing her body into a suitcase and ditching it in a derelict building.

The 38-year-old's body was found by a homeless man on July 18, three days after she is believed to have been killed.

It has now emerged the Afghan-national collaborated with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and a London artist to create a film following how he escaped Afghanistan and reached the Greek island of Lesbos aged 15.

The four-minute animated film, named Game of Life: The Story of Sharif, was first shown on YouTube in December 2016, and includes a narration of his six-week migrant crossing.

The sympathetic video follows how his father, who was a military commander, was killed in an ambush and his mother and siblings were killed by a suicide bomb attack in Kabul.

Ahmadzai, accompanied by friends, was then smuggled out of Afghanistan's capital and journeyed through Iran and Turkey, before he reached a refugee camp on Lesbos, named Moria.

The interview was conducted in Moria, and took place after Ahmadzai had been in the camp for six months.

The video opens with, 'each migrant has a story worthy of a Hollywood movie'.

Ahmadzai's journey from Afghanistan to Greece is said to have taken one-and-a-half months, with the smuggler quoted as calling it a 'game'.

During which time, Ahmadzai was arrested in Istanbul after his first attempt to cross into Greece, the video described, and was held in prison for three days.

The video also reveals Ahmadzai intended to reach the UK, where he claimed he had family who would look after him should he successfully cross from Greece.

Voiced by an actor, he says: 'She told me: "I can take full responsibility of you, if someone helps get you to the UK." But, if I can't get there, I don't know what will happen to me.'

Scott Craig, a spokesman for the charity, told the Daily Mail: 'Our thoughts remain with the family and friends of Elisabeth-Jane Ross at this extremely difficult time.

'The video is no longer publicly accessible. We took this decision out of consideration for Elisabeth's family while the legal proceedings continue.

'We cannot comment further while legal proceedings are ongoing.'

Oh you deleted the evidence out of respect for the victim's family, huh?

Fucking liars. The right must totally boycott this corrupt organization. Another charity, one that doesn't eagerly propagandize for terrorists or conspire with illegals to pass borders, will rise to replace it.

The Killer Migrant claims he discovered her dead and, "in a panic," decided it would be a good idea to stuff her body into a suitcase and hide it in an abandoned building.

"As you do," as people say online.

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM Comments

Liberal White Women Are Among the Most Fanatical Supporters of "Decarceration" and Also, Its Most Imperiled Victims

—Disinformation Expert Ace

North Carolina again.

Supposedly a red state. (Blue city of course -- Charlotte, where Iryna was butchered on video by a skel with a long list of previous arrests and indulgences.)

North Carolina career criminal arrested after attacking, chasing women in terrifying social media videos
By Nicholas McEntyre

A North Carolina career criminal is accused of randomly punching and hospitalizing a woman while chasing down another victim in a separate attack as he posted the disturbing footage across social media.

Di-Quan Schafar Hunt was arrested Thursday for committing the alleged assault in a residential neighborhood on the 400 block of East Boulevard in Charlotte, NC, on July 30, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said.

Police busted Hunt, 32, when the department was presented with several videos on his social media page, where the brute posted about his physical confrontations.

Hunt was recording himself talking about a "real issue" that happened on July 21st when he crossed paths with the unidentified woman holding a get-well balloon.

"Nah, don't wave to me," Hunt yelled at the defenseless woman, sending him into a fiery rage and punching his victim to the ground.

The 5-foot-9, 220-pound brute hovered over the motionless woman and screamed racial slurs at her as she lay on the pavement.

It's critical that all white people avoid racial slurs.

But all minorities can use them as they please, while beating innocent strangers into the pavement. Just some good ol' Street Reparations.

"You still talking? You still talking?" Hunt yelled. "July 21st. Say Elijah. Elijah my son, Motherf--ker you playing."
Hunt ripped the broken frames from the woman's sunglasses, kicked the balloon from the woman's hand and ran off.

In a separate, undated video, Hunt -- as he was ranting about McDonald's -- charged at another woman as she was walking on the sidewalk before chasing her around a car.

"You wanna run bitch, you wanna run motherf--ker, huh? I betcha run again motherf--ker," he yells in the video.

On Thursday morning, officers responded to an "attempt to locate" call in the heart of Charlotte, where they were shown the disturbing videos posted by Hunt.

Hunt was taken into custody on an arrest warrant at around 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

He immediately began spamming out excuses and complaints of "you're hurting me" (or the like) so they brought him to a medical center.

After his release from the center, he will be transported to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office and charged with Assault with a Deadly Weapon.

Hunt, a well-known vagrant in the city, has been arrested at least nine times over the last 34 months in Mecklenburg County, according to jail records viewed by The Post.

Those cases include simple assault, assault on a female, assault with a deadly weapon, trespassing, domestic violence protective order violation and probation violation.

Between December 2012 and June 2019, he was arrested three times for assault on a female, three times for domestic violence protective order violation, and once for discharging a firearm in the city and injury to personal property, according to WCNC.

All those cases had been dismissed.

Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol

🚨#BREAKING: I can confirm that the man arrested this week for violent street attacks on a woman in Charlotte was FREE BECAUSE OF A PLEA DEAL IN MARCH.

Diquan Shafar Hunt was arrested in December 2025 for Assault with a Deadly Weapon and three other charges.

On March 18, 2026, he took a plea from Judge Joseph Setzer Jr.

Guilty to two charges.

Two dismissed.

Sentence: just 89 days in prison

He walked out that same day.

Just 4 months later, he begins filming himself beating women on the streets of Charlotte NC.

Diquan had been arrested 14 previous times including for multiple assault on women charges, domestic violence charges, breaking and entering, and resisting arrest.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!

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THE MORNING RANT: PepsiCo (Frito Lay) Snack Sales Decline as SNAP Restrictions Kick In

—Buck Throckmorton

Thanks to President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., states have been empowered to restrict SNAP benefits (formerly known as “food stamps”) such that the benefits cannot be used to purchase junk food and sodas. As SNAP restrictions have rolled out, it has been a sucker-punch to the manufacturers of low-nutrition products.

PepsiCo has been hit especially hard, as its revenue is more reliant on snack products than is the case with Coca-Cola, which is weighted more toward beverage sales.

“PepsiCo’s Turnaround Stutters as Americans Rethink Snacking” [Reuters – 7/14/2026]

Sales in the Frito-Lay and Pepsi soda maker's North American food business slipped 2%, while volume was flat in the second quarter ended June 13, even after earlier price cuts of up to 15% on some of its biggest products including Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos and Tostitos.
For PepsiCo, whose food brands including Ruffles and PopCorners generate about 58% of its annual revenue, the shift threatens one of the key engines that has driven growth for decades.

Articles such as this Reuters piece linked above talk about diet drugs and shifts in consumer food choices as being primary reasons for the decline in snack food sales, but it doesn’t mention that the goal of making SNAP benefits be spent on healthier food is having an impact. Successfully weaning welfare recipients off of taxpayer-subsidized junk food is not a success story to Reuters and the left.

But that is what’s happening.

“SNAP restrictions could change what shoppers buy — and food giants are watching” [CNBC – 6/20/2026]

SNAP purchase restrictions are now approved in 23 states, affecting about one-third of recipients and potentially reducing food and beverage sales by up to $830 million this year.

That misleading statement from CNBC makes it sound like SNAP spending is being reduced by $830 million. That is not the case. There is a potential $830 million that won’t be flowing to PepsiCo and Coca Cola.

Companies including Hershey, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz are closely monitoring shopper behavior as limits on soda and candy purchases expand.

PepsiCo has already had to respond once to the SNAP changes by cutting prices. When low-income consumers were forced to start using their own money to buy potato chips, rather than taxpayer money, many stopped buying premium-priced Frito-Lay products.

I’ll take this opportunity to restate what I previously wrote about the market distortion of taxpayer-subsidized junk food, from a piece from last February titled, “Following SNAP Restrictions on Junk Food, Pepsico Cuts Prices Due to Softening Consumer Demand.”

Some basic economic truths are playing out in the junk food market – the market where Pepsico engages in commerce. Much of its revenue has been in the form of redistributed taxpayer money, which passes through government to the recipients of what was once called “food stamps.” The recipients of SNAP benefits (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) have historically spent considerable amounts of their federal food assistance on Doritos, Mountain Dew, and other low-nutrition foods sold by Pepsico.
It didn’t take long for Pepsico to feel the pinch. By early February, the company was finding itself needing to cut prices in response to slowing sales.

But a few months earlier when SNAP recipients were still spending government money, Pepsico was able to steadily increase prices. Now that those same consumers are forced to buy Fritos and Cheetos using their own money, they have suddenly become price conscious.

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When corporations and their executives made a hard-left political turn in the early 21st century it puzzled me, because the Democrats they allied with were not the party of free enterprise. But I’ve since come to realize that much of corporate America now rejects free enterprise too, and instead wants government to act on its behalf in redistributing money from taxpayers to corporations.

Be it SNAP benefits for junk food or EV credits for auto manufacturers, the Trump administration is putting an end to the corporatist business model and its parasitic attachment to taxpayer wallets.

With “affordability” such a visible political issue, and with the Pepsico case-study showing how consumer prices can be reduced, Republicans need to aggressively focus on cutting the government subsidies that result in higher consumer prices.

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Other Stuff I’m Writing About

My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “Natural Gas, AI, and the Industrial Boom Nobody Wants to Talk About” discusses the massive, ongoing industrial buildout going on in this country, focusing especially on the record orders and backlog for electricity-producing, natural gas turbines, and how this boom is cascading through the economy, resulting in an expansion of American manufacturing.

Posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM Comments

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Untitled (Cowboy On Horseback)
Elling William Gollings

Who becomes famous and who toils in obscurity -- and why -- is the question that most artists must ask themselves.

I had never heard of William Gollings until I had the opportunity to visit a lovely museum in Big Horn Wyoming (near Sheridan) called The Brinton Museum. And by "lovely," I don't mean just the collection. It is architecturally beautiful, and the setting is difficult to beat, with the Big Horn Mountains in the near distance.

There are several Western artists who are far more famous: Russell and Remington and Bierstadt come to mind, but even relatively obscure artists such as Gollings have gems scattered in their work that are rarely seen, and wonderful when discovered!

Posted by CBD at 09:30 AM Comments

The Morning Report — 8/ 7 /26

—J.J. Sefton

The former premier of the Soviet Union once stated "I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you."

And so here we are almost 70 years on and although the Soviet Union is also now the former Soviet Union, existing as it once did as Russia. regardless of the thuggery and corruption of its current leader Vladimir Putin, the question is, was Nikita Khrushchev right, or is the jury still out on his prediction.

Let's take a gander at a few things that might shed some light on the situation. First up, we have the Dairy State, to which I escaped from NYC merely 5 short years ago.

Francesca Hong is running to be the next governor of Wisconsin, but she can’t decide if she wants to be the Grinch who stole Thanksgiving, too. Thanksgiving? We’re talking about Thanksgiving in August? In 2020, she tweeted that we should stick a carving knife in the national holiday of gratitude because it was “celebrating colonialism.”

From that flaming pile of excrement we go south to Texas where you'd think, saner heads would for sure be prevailing. You'd think, until . . .

James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers' The Pride Month event also featured a drag queen with the provocative name 'Sedonya Face'

Of course, these are merely candidates for governor and senator. But would the party run them if they didn't think they had a shot at rallying their troops. And speaking of which, first up we have...

About a mile and a half from where Luigi Mangione (allegedly) murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and a schlep from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where the (alleged) assassin is being held as he awaits state and federal trials, Luigi: The Musical finished its six-night New York City run at The Green Room 42 in the YOTEL New York Times Square.

Springtime for Hitler was merely Mel Brooks being funny. At the time some thought even he went a bit too far with The Prodcuers but sadly it seems as if he was actually being prescient. Just as the late great Paddy Chayefsky was with Network

And here we have another one who will bury, er that is BURN us.

An upcoming criminal trial may reshape public opinion about the main cause of the 2025 Palisades Fire in Southern California, redefining it as a consequence not of climate change but of class warfare.

While all of the previous maniacs were all born and raised here, we still have Michiganistan and Islam to contend with...

The financial and ideological ties between El-Sayed and CAIR raise questions about his candidacy, given CAIR’s controversial history and alleged links to terrorist organizations. This could become a focal point in the Michigan Senate race as voters scrutinize the influence of such organizations on political candidates.

Well, it's nice to believe as some do that Mike Rogers will beat this fiend. But please remember that beyond the base, Michigan's elections are run by Governor Wretched Whitler and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson who were both, especially the latter, instrumental in the thievery that stole the state from Trump and gave it to Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden in 2020 in the middle of the night in Wayne County where election observers were ejected, the windows covered and 18-wheelers full of ballots hauled in.

So, as we close out the week, let's try to end on a much happier note:

Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House and especially since Trump’s Liberation Day tariff announcement, the economic press has reported that American manufacturing is struggling under President Trump’s tariffs. Even worse: stories have frequently claimed that manufacturing is struggling because of the tariffs. The Wall Street Journal declared manufacturing “in retreat.” The Associated Press said tariffs were “hurting American manufacturers instead of helping them.” Reuters reported that import duties had undercut manufacturing.
There’s just one problem: none of that is happening. If tariffs are hurting American manufacturing, someone forgot to tell the factories.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that manufacturing output rose at a 4.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter. Hours worked increased 2.6 percent. Productivity, which measures output per hour, rose 1.9 percent.

And on top of that, we have this bit of orgasmatronia!

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that end birth tourism and expand the definition of who does not qualify for birthright citizenship. . . The first Executive Order non-exhaustively identifies certain categories of children of aliens who are not entitled to birthright citizenship consistent with historical exceptions to birthright citizenship recognized by the Supreme Court in Barbara. The second Executive Order delegates presidential authorities to the Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security and directs them to halt the practice of birth tourism.

Well, I'm sure the lawsuits will start flying and the usual crackpot nutters will threaten SCOTUS justices and their families but who knows? If Roe v. Wade could be nixed, perhaps there's hope that the 14th Amendment could actually be read and upheld as written and intended. My concern isn't necessarily with the Leftists it's mostly the RINOs who will stab us in the back.

So we're in the mass grave or marching to it, but perhaps the first shovel-full of dirt has yet to be dropped on us?

How's that for optimism?! And with that I bid you all

Have a great weekend,

Posted by J.J. Sefton at 07:31 AM Comments

Daily Tech News 7 August 2026

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $942 million under a law that so far as I can tell is both unconstitutionally vague and entirely inapplicable. (WSJ / MSN)

Appeals lawyers making bank again.
Meanwhile OpenAI has fired back at Apple saying that if they were able to steal all of Apple's trade secrets then they weren't all that secret, were they? (Tech Crunch)

I'm not sure that is how it works, Sam.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:34 AM Comments

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 6, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

[Top photo: Loch Leven - Highlands of Scotland]

Posted by Open Blogger at 10:03 PM Comments

Fish-Herding Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Historic Vids
@historyinmemes

To appear headless while taking a photo, known as "horsemaning", was a popular way to pose in the 1920's.

Horsemaning, also known as "headless posing," is a photographic technique where the subject creates the illusion of being beheaded, with their head placed on the ground or another surface. This unique form of posing gained popularity during the 1920s and was considered a photography trend at the time.

To achieve the desired effect, two individuals are required for this pose. One person positions themselves with their head hidden or tilted backward, while the other conceals their body, revealing only their head in the photograph. The term "Horsemaning" originated from the Headless Horseman, a malevolent character depicted in Washington Irving's 1820 short story titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

In 2011, Horsemaning experienced a resurgence on Facebook, and numerous photos attempting to recreate the original trend started circulating on platforms like Buzzfeed. This revitalization brought renewed attention to the peculiar and imaginative art of Horsemaning.

ICYMI: Police cat.

The mountains of Pluto.

Stage V Clinger.

Baby goat wants to cuddle.

Duckling defiant disorder.

Puppy wants to help with engine repair.

Kids adopt a tick-ridden puppy off the street.

Puppy goes HAM on his new favorite duck-toy.

Tiger cub goes crazy on her toys.

Baby elephant makes a leaf "wig."

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM Comments

Hobby Thread - August 8, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 8

—K.T.

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Aug. 8

—K.T.

The times that try men's souls

—K.T.

The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Daily Tech News 8 August 2026

—Pixy Misa

In The Kingdom Of The Blind, The ONT Is King

—WeirdDave

Another Friday Night Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Trump Offers Cities "BIDEN" Grants to Defray Costs Accrued Due to Biden's Open Borders, With One Iron Requirement: Recipients Must Comply Fully With ICE and Trump's Deportation Program

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Of Course: Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir," Which Was, Of Course, Ghostwritten by a White Woman;Comparing His Initial Proposal and the Book Itself, The Atlantic Finds More Cases of Fabulism and Lying

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Week In Woke

—Disinformation Expert Ace

New Evidence Suggests That "The Most Secure Election in Earth History" Wasn't So Much

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Red Cross Animated Propaganda Feature Lauds Sharif for His Brave (Illegal) Journey to Greece to Culturally Enrich That Nation, Then Deletes the Cartoon After Sharif Cultural-Enrichment-Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Liberal White Women Are Among the Most Fanatical Supporters of "Decarceration" and Also, Its Most Imperiled Victims

—Disinformation Expert Ace

THE MORNING RANT: PepsiCo (Frito Lay) Snack Sales Decline as SNAP Restrictions Kick In

—Buck Throckmorton

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Morning Report — 8/ 7 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Daily Tech News 7 August 2026

—Pixy Misa

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 6, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Fish-Herding Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Of Course: Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir," Which Was, Of Course, Ghostwritten by a White Woman;
Comparing His Initial Proposal and the Book Itself, The Atlantic Finds More Cases of Fabulism and Lying