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In the wake of the US's audacious raid on Venezuela and it's successful capture of that country's dictator, many countries now face a difficult question: "what is our exposure to Venezuela?" For some countries, it's significant. Executing an American arrest warrant against Maduro for drug trafficking is the official purpose of the raid, but as many have pointed out, there is much more than that going on. Venezuela is much more than a drug nexus.
Venezuela is also an oil producer and sits in a geographically convenient place for coordinating trade amongst various enemies and rivals of the United States. There is a complex web of trade between these countries, and Venezuela is often involved. It sometimes finds itself in the trade system between Red China, Iran and Russia, and is a major supplier of oil to Red China. This oil moves in a "dark fleet" of tankers under US sanction, and they sometimes operate without flag or transponder on the high seas to run US blockades.
That oil has a common destination: Red China, and it serves a purpose beyond that country's endless need for energy. As everyone knows, Red China has numerous major projects throughout the world, using infrastructure and development deals in pursuit of its diplomatic objectives as its global reach continuous to expand. It has found a willing partner in Maduro's Venezuela, and Red Chinese investment has flooded into Venezuela over the years. Red China, however, doesn't usually extend credit for these projects willy-nilly and there is often security involved. In Venezuela's case, that security is oil.
So what happens now that this oil supply is threatened? Not only have the initial US actions against Venezuela's "dark fleet" threatened oil shipments to Red China, the US raid on Venezuela has caused them to essentially stop. Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA's primary external partner - Chevron - has resumed oil shipments, but per recent shipping data, none of those shipments are flowing to the Orient. PDVSA's production continues to fall and its exports to Asia - which is to say, its exports to Red China - are in free-fall.
This poses a problem for Red China, which has major investments in Venezuela backed by oil-for-loans deals between those two countries. Red China invests in Venezuela's infrastructure (and gains an important foothold in this hemisphere and a means to coordinate and enable trade with major partners), and protects its capital exposure by using oil as security. With the oil trade between the two countries now collapsing, risk is back in a big way. Red China has now demanded that its major lenders assess their exposure to Venezuela and determine their risks in the new environment:
The National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) also advised banks to strengthen risk monitoring of all Venezuela-related credit, seeking to assess potential dangers to China's lenders, the report added.
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The Bloomberg report said the NFRA's move highlights growing concerns among regulators over potential shocks to the banking sector as geopolitical risks mount. Billions in loans have been extended over the past decade by China to the South American country, primarily led by policy banks such as China Development, the report added.
I have no idea if any banks in Red China are going to collapse if (likely when) Venezuela defaults and PDVSA can't ship oil to cover the shortfall, but Red China's regulators are trying to find out. There is a ton of exposure to Venezuela and the odds of repayment - and of non-capital diplomatic and geopolitical power returns - on their major capital investment is now very much in question. So are other Chinese investments in other Latin American countries like Cuba, which may collapse on their own absent Venezuela as a backer.
All of Red China's investments in Venezuela and Cuba, and some of its investments elsewhere in Latin America, could end up being total losses for Red China's lenders, and that may be a major blow. Time will tell. No wonder Red China has been so loud about this action as, per Reuters, it "tests [the] limits of China's diplomatic push." That may be putting it mildly.
Many of America's rivals and enemies have capital or operational exposure to Venezuela, but Red China leads the pack. Red China's external noise masks its internal scrambling to determine just how much exposure it has to Venezuela - and underscores how big a blow toppling Maduro may have been.
Good morning kids. The removal of Maduro from Venezuela certainly has our enemies and rivals around the globe siting up and taking notice. I would hope that both the President and his national security and foreign policy team including Hegseth and Rubio would have gamed out the aftermath of who would step into the breach to fill the void once we had taken down Maduro. While it's great that the Venezuelan people are cheering his removal, there is still this to contend with
Plain-clothes gunmen deployed by Venezuela’s leaders are walking the streets and stopping vehicles as they crack down on dissent and pro-American sentiment in the wake of the capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces. The paramilitary members, known as Colectivos, were out in full force on Tuesday as the pro-Maduro regime seeks to maintain control of the country following the surprise U.S. strikes over the weekend, The Guardian reported. Men armed with rifles set up checkpoints in the capital city of Caracas, where they stopped drivers to search their vehicles, phones, and personal belongings, looking for any evidence of support for the United States capturing Maduro, according to The Telegraph. Police, meanwhile, were instructed to “immediately begin the national search and capture of everyone involved in the promotion or support for the armed attack by the United States.”
A classified U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that top figures within Nicolás Maduro’s regime would be best positioned to maintain short-term stability in Venezuela in the immediate aftermath of the dictator’s removal, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analysis, which was briefed to President Donald Trump and shared with a small circle of senior administration officials, reportedly shaped Trump’s decision to back Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, rather than opposition leader María Corina Machado as an interim leader, WSJ reported. “I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader if she doesn’t have the support within, or the respect within the country,” Trump said during a Saturday press conference after U.S. forces captured Maduro to face federal narco-terrorism charges in New York. “She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect.” (RELATED: Venezuelan Oil Could Make America ‘Master Of The Hemisphere’ If Trump’s Domination Continues)
Trump concluded that Venezuela’s short-term stability would depend on whether the next leader retained the loyalty of the country’s military and ruling elites, according to people familiar with the intelligence review cited by the outlet. Senior administration officials commissioned the CIA to analyze day-after scenarios amid internal debates over how Venezuela might be governed if Maduro were removed. While the report did not recommend regime change or speculate on how Maduro might lose power, it evaluated who could maintain order if that outcome occurred, WSJ reported.
So, if all we did here was a little bit of Titanic deck chair rearrangement on the Lido Deck, then have we really accomplished anything? If we're concerned about maintaining the support of the military and ruling elites then I fear the question is rhetorical. Rodriguez has made some very nice pronouncements of looking forward to working with President Trump and forging a new relationship, for whatever that's worth.
Meanwhile, halfway across the globe this is happening to one of Maduro's biggest backers and boosters, Iran. While the usual thugs in the IRGC and others are cracking down on the protesters and there have been reports of the Mullahs getting set to take it on the lam to Russia, here's a little bit of encouraging news:
The Iranian Police in Ilam have now joined the revolution. People are seen celebrating as police officers have put down their weapons and are cheering on the protestors.
While the combined Israeli and USAF strike that took out the Iranian nuclear weapons sites as well as the collapsing Iranian currency and a catastrophic water crisis among the dissatisfaction with the regime that has been brewing for years might at long last bring it down. Of course considering the power of Iran's IRGC and that since 1979 it has become among the most repressive security states on the planet, to expect them to just give up power, especially to any non-Islamic forces of moderation, modernity and more western/secular oriented parties is wish-casting in the extreme.
I hope and pray that the Persian and the Venezuelan people can somehow wrest control of their respective governments and prevent a collapsing of their societies back into tyranny and despotism. I certainly also hope we have a plan to help them that does not include the kind of intervention and adventurism that were the hallmarks of the disastrous globalist fever dream of Democracy Projects and nation-building.
The Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funds from being used for abortion. Trump told GOP House members during the retreat at the Trump-Kennedy Center that they should work to take the issue of health care away from Democrats. “We don’t have that as one of our issues. It’s the only thing they have. They’re lousy at it. They came up with Obamacare. We tried to fight it. We almost had it won, but we didn’t get three votes,” he said.
Well, since when is infanticide "healthcare?" Yeah, I get it, healthcare and this "affordability" madness is an albatross being hung around the GOP's neck by the Dems and their propagandist cheerleaders. And I do agree about Obamacare, but certainly the Hyde Amendment and abortion in general must be be non-starters, or am I missing something?
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With all due respect to the 20% of eligible New York voters who cast their ballots for Mamdani, the adults need to step in and remove him. The Case For Stripping Mamdani’s Citizenship
A Venezuela-linked oil tanker operating in the so-called “dark fleet” painted a Russian flag on its hull, changed its name, and reflagged to Russia in an apparent bid to evade the US Coast Guard, according to reports. The vessel has since been spotted off Ireland, with the US, UK, France and Ireland reportedly conducting aerial surveillance after it escaped US interception in December, The Times reported. Venezuelan ‘dark fleet’ tanker evades US Coast Guard as Russia sends submarine to escort vessel: reports
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analysis, which was briefed to President Donald Trump and shared with a small circle of senior administration officials, reportedly shaped Trump’s decision to back Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, rather than opposition leader María Corina Machado as an interim leader, WSJ reported. Trump Kept Venezuela Under Maduro Loyalists After CIA Flagged Opposition Risks: REPORT
China is not a random foe whose front row seat to the Maduro Disappearing Act, feeling the loin-quaking rotor wash of the 160th SOAR's MH-47G Chinooks, is simply a convenient bonus for us, although that would be enough. Trump's removal of Maduro is a major blow to China
With the arrest of Venezuela's dictator Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. positions itself as a decisive player in the global energy market. With Maduro Arrest, U.S. Lands a Heavy Blow
So, here is what I can tell you about what's next for Venezuela: No one outside the White House knows. I don't know. You don't know. The loudest reporters, anchors, and pundits in the rest of the media don’t know — even the ones with the fancy anonymous sources who claim to be insiders, even the ones with the big names who get all the attention. None of them know. I'd also be willing to bet that inside the White House, they don't know exactly because extracting a complex and corrupt authoritarian regime that's been embedded for nearly three decades isn't a predictable operation and certainly not something that happens overnight. I'm sure there's an action for every predictable reaction planned, and Donald Trump is bold enough and Rubio is smart enough to execute it. What's REALLY Next for Venezuela and What the MSM Gets Wrong
Abukar Dahir Osman, the permanent representative of Somalia to the United Nations, is linked to a home healthcare agency in Cincinnati, Ohio, that was prosecuted for Medicaid fraud, officials with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have confirmed. Feds: Somalia’s Ambassador to United Nations Linked to Medicaid Fraud in Ohio
. . . the only reason government executives ever let go of power that could easily be retained, if holding on to it is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, more likely to lead to personal, financial, reputational ruin. Perhaps even jail — who knows how exposed he and his administration are. There’s Only One Reason Government Executives Abruptly Give Up Power
As tax season nears, scandals from Minnesota to California expose a “Theft Industrial Complex” where billions meant for families instead enrich political allies and insiders. Three Examples of the “Theft Industrial Complex” in 2025
Free markets are Nature’s way of satisfying both buyers and sellers. Artificial economics happens when politicians and bureaucrats screw around with this process in order to initiate behavior that would not normally happen. Welcome to Artificial Economics 101
America’s schools won’t recover through more spending or slogans, but through a return to proven basics—clear instruction, firm discipline, accountable teaching, and classrooms focused on learning. Six Ways to Improve Schools
The Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funds from being used for abortion. Trump told GOP House members during the retreat at the Trump-Kennedy Center that they should work to take the issue of health care away from Democrats. “We don’t have that as one of our issues. It’s the only thing they have. They’re lousy at it. They came up with Obamacare. We tried to fight it. We almost had it won, but we didn’t get three votes,” he said. Trump Tells House Republicans ‘to Be a Little Flexible’ on Hyde Amendment in Healthcare Reform Pitch (since when is infanticide healthcare, Mr. President?! - jjs)
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Office of Tenant Protection Director Cea Weaver’s mom, Celia Applegate, teaches German studies at Vanderbilt University and owns a pricey classic Craftsman home just south of the main strip in Nashville, Tennessee. Mom of Zohran Mamdani aide who said owning a home fuels ‘white supremacy’ has $1.6M house in Tennessee (Pfft, self gassing Commie corpse Bernie Sanders owns 6 multi-million dollar ski lodges in Vermont! - jjs)
Following a meeting in Paris of American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, European leaders, and top Ukrainian officials, British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a declaration of intent to deploy a multinational military force in Ukraine to enforce a potential ceasefire with Russia. UK and France Sign Declaration of Intent to Deploy Troops to Ukraine in Event of Ceasefire
This is one of the curses that astronomers live with. Things take a loooong time to unfold, often several generations. Thus Kepler might see this supernova when it erupts, but the explosion continues for many centuries. The growing X-ray shell of the 1604 Kepler supernova
The uncertainty of science: Using the Webb Space Telescope, scientists now believe that the mysterious little red dots that Webb had previously detected in the early universe are actually supermassive stars, the predicted first stars to form after the Big Bang that also might produce the universe’s first black holes. Scientists: We think the little red dots in the early universe are supermassive stars
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Socket AM4 runs on DDR4 memory, where AM5 is DDR5 only. And DDR4 memory hasn't increased in price as much as DDR5, but more importantly, people already have it.
Several AM4 chips are still in production, but some of AMD's most popular CPUs like the 5700X3D and 5800X3D were cancelled because the competed too well with newer models, while others like the 5600X3D and 5700G were never widely available in retail channels.
Don't expect anything actually new, but a return of the 5800X3D would be welcome.
They accidentally made the code public for a short ehile, which quickly led to experimental backports that supported RDNA3 and even RDNA2 graphics cards.
It's... Okay, I guess. It has the Four Essential Keys but that's no great achievement in a desktop keyboard. It has a "programmable touchbar" but that just means you can change what it does; you can't change the display.
It's ten-keyless, which is to say, it has no numeric keypad.
But in its place it as twelve fully programmable keys - with LCD keycaps, the aforementioned 1280x720 display (I'm not sure it's really 1280x720 because the article also says it's a 5" screen and it's definitely not that big) and two small rotary dials. A mini Stream Deck built right into your keyboard.
At $350 it is very not cheap though. You can get 16GB of RAM for that. Or a Corsair TKL keyboard like the K70 and a Stream Deck.
These are identical to existing Zen 5 desktop and laptop chips - including embedded version of the Strix Halo AI processer - but the family includes models rated for industrial and automotive conditions (-40C to 105C) and for operating 24/7 for ten years.
Epiphany is a Christian feast celebrating the revelation of Jesus Christ to the world. It is connected to the Magi’s visit from the East. Christians use the day to celebrate how Jesus came not just for Israel but for all nations.
The Three Wise Men, also known as the Magi or the Three Kings, are figures mentioned in the Bible in the Gospel of Matthew. They are said to have visited the newborn Jesus in Bethlehem, bringing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. The Bible does not specify the number of Wise Men; the idea of three Wise Men likely comes from the fact that three gifts are mentioned.
Any mention of the Wise Men reminds me of this gem from Gary Larson
Thousands of Americans paid the price for political failures they did not create.
Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent over 3 years and nearly $20 million in taxpayer funds on her partisan Select Committee, producing a scripted TV spectacle to fabricate an “insurrection” narrative and pin all blame on President Trump.
Video and audio recordings, including unaired HBO footage from her own daughter, show Nancy Pelosi repeatedly acknowledging responsibility for the catastrophic security failures - admitting “We have totally failed” and “I take full responsibility” for not having the National Guard pre-deployed, despite intelligence warnings and President Trump’s offers of troops that were ignored under her leadership as Speaker.
The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as “insurrectionists” and framing the event as a violent coup attempt orchestrated by Trump - despite no evidence of armed rebellion or intent to overthrow the government. In truth, it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election, ignoring widespread irregularities, and weaponizing federal agencies to hunt down dissenters, all while Pelosi’s own security lapses invited the chaos they later exploited to seize and consolidate power. This gaslighting narrative allowed them to persecute innocent Americans, silence opposition, and distract from their own role in undermining democracy.
We here at AOSHQ know Nancy Pelosi was responsible
Please do NOT retweet Nancy Pelosi admitting full responsibility for not calling the National Guard on January 6th. 5 years ago TODAY
Timely reminder that Alec Baldwin alone has killed more people by himself than all Trump supporters combined did on January 6th at the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/oO4kOMbxk4
How did Joe Biden receive the MOST VOTES IN AMERICAN HISTORY with 81 million, all while losing 18 of 19 bellwether counties and winning only 16% of counties overall? Here is the answer 👇🏼@realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/C89Of95k5r
3. Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
Carefully framed photos make Plymouth Rock seem historically grand, but visitors are often surprised by how small and anticlimactic it is in person. Set below street level and behind a railing, the site feels more symbolic than impressive, with the surrounding urban setting dampening the sense of historic awe.
Can confirm. Underwhelming.
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acing up to five years in prison for helping a violent illegal immigrant escape ICE officers, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan is resigning. But even with the felony conviction on her record, Dugan will receive a generous taxpayer-funded retirement no matter what happens next.
A federal jury last month found Dugan guilty on the obstruction charge for the April 18 incident in which the leftist judge escorted Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his attorney to the "jury door," allowing the illegal alien to briefly flee from Department of Homeland Security agents.
On Saturday, Dugan submitted her resignation letter to Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers. In it, she attempted to play both the martyr card and the social-justice hero as she decried the "unprecedented" charges against her. The Milwaukee County judge is appealing her conviction. She awaits a sentencing date, although it is unlikely Dugan will see much, if any, time behind bars for her first offense.
"I am the subject of unprecedented federal legal proceedings, which are far from concluded but which present immense and complex challenges that threaten the independence of our judiciary," Dugan asserts in the resignation letter. As The Federalist has reported, a Massachusetts judge faced criminal proceedings in 2019 following a nearly identical incident.
"I am pursuing this fight for myself and for our independent judiciary," the felon judge bloviated. "However, the Wisconsin citizens that I cherish deserve to start the year with a judge on the bench in Milwaukee County Branch 31 rather than have the fate of that Court rest in a partisan fight in the state legislature."
As a felon, Dugan really has no other choice but to resign. The Wisconsin constitution makes clear that those convicted of a felony are barred from holding "any office of trust, profit or honor in this state" -- unless they have been pardoned.
After Reducing the Value of the Star Wars IP Somewhat Lower Than the Value of the Stretch Armstrong IP, Kaffeine Kennedy Might Finally Be Fired?
—Ace
Well, they say she might "retire." But she has reportedly refused to retire previously because she was determined to only go out after a big success, and she's a horrible ditzy incompetent, so that's just never going to happen.
I don't think it matters any longer. Not to be like the millionth person to say this, but Star Wars is dead. Even people like me who used to talk about Star Wars being dead don't talk about it any longer, because there is no point telling people that a corpse that has been dead for so long that it doesn't even stink any longer is dead.
Puck's Matthew Belloni reports today (paywall, sorry) that 2026 will finally be Kennedy's last as president of Lucasfilm. "In the next week or two, Disney will finally confirm what we've all known for months: Kathleen Kennedy is indeed stepping down as Lucasfilm president, and Dave Filoni, currently the chief creative officer of the Star Wars unit, will be elevated into the top job."
He's a ball-less wonder who is as woke as she is and almost as untalented. If you think he's going to be a game-changer, he gave us Ashoka.
God bless you!
Dave Filoni looks at Rion Johnson and shivers at how toxically masculine Rion Johnson is.
Ten years ago, I would have jumped up and down at the news that Filoni was taking over, but after squandering The Mandalorian and completely wasting Rosario Dawson in whatever the hell Ahsoka was supposed to be, these days I'm less excited.
But back to Kennedy.
She took over Lucasfilm after Disney bought the company from founder George Lucas in 2012, and her performance can be described in just six words: She couldn't make money on Star Wars.
Emphasis added. Because HOLY SHI'ITE.
I ran the numbers last year, and this is what I found: "My back-of-the-envelope math indicates that Disney has spent $7.35 billion acquiring and producing Star Wars entertainment and generated $6.41 billion in revenues we can see." Disney+ streaming revenues can't be attributed to any particular show or property, but except for the little-watched Andor and the first two seasons of Mando, Disney's live-action Star Wars TV shows haven't scored well with critics or audiences.
And you can forget about all that fabulous toy revenue. Nine-year-old boys aren't exactly clamoring for Rose Tico or Admiral Holdo action figures.
"If Disney has realized an actual profit on its $4.05 billion Lucasfilm investment, I'd be shocked," I concluded then, and that was before we learned that Kennedy spent nearly a quarter of a billion dollars (!!!) producing and marketing The Acolyte for Disney+.
Steven Green has more, including a run-down of all the cancelled projects and fired directors we saw under the chaotic, emotional rule of Kaffeine Kennedy.
Coincidentally, while I was laid up with a spasming back over the weekend, I watched this video which did not subvert my expectations, because I had been on this train since 2015: It's not that the Star Wars sequels went bad from The Last Jedi. It's not that Rion Johnson took the promising start of The Force Awakens and threw it away for the sake of Subverting Your Expectations and Social Identity Politics.
No, The Force Awakens sucked right out of the gate.
At least these terrorists are terrorizing us to move in the right direction.
Right?
A fire was deliberately set to destroy the massive electrical cables that are part of a 'heat and electrical power station' near Berlin. As ghastly an act as it was, there has been little public press about it because it wasn't Islamic terrorists or those vile 'right-wing' types at long last unleashing the supposed hell the Left has been warning about.
None of the above.
It was a Leftist eco-terrorist group trying deliberately to murder people in the depths of an unforgiving winter by 'cutting the juice to the ruling class.'
Oh. Well, it seems the German authorities think that's cool, then.
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According to Stromnetz Berlin, the operator of Berlin's electricity network, power was cut to as many as 45,000 households and more than 2,000 businesses across four districts in south Berlin.
The power outage also meant many homes lost heating and hot water as temperatures dropped well below freezing in Berlin.
...In a lengthy statement circulated online and called credible by police, the Vulkangruppe said it had deliberately targeted affluent neighborhoods, to "cut the juice to the ruling class."
If this had been a far-right terrorist attack it would be the number one news story in the world. But it’s the far-left, which the BBC don’t even mention in their headline https://t.co/KJrFMU9yelpic.twitter.com/o9usRxFRBJ
Correct. The Antifa-linked group cut off power to tens of thousands of homes as temperatures drop below freezing in Berlin. These stories running cover for the violent far-left are similar to how the "Turtle Island" trans, antifa terrorist suspects in CA were called "activists." They;re accused of planning bombings over New Year's Eve.
BTW, "Turtle Island" is apparently left-wing code for "America." I think it's like an old Indian name or something. They say "Turtle Island" to dispute that a country called "America" exists, or should be allowed to exist.
Speaking of: There's a trollish notion going around that because Canada keeps "acknowledging" that they stole the land from the "First Nations" Indians so the Indians really own it, Trump is going to offer the "First Nations" a cash payment for all of Canada, so we'll just own it.
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‼️‼️🚨🚨BREAKING: SOURCES SAY AFTER LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND COURT RULINGS THE TRUMP ADMIN IS WORKING ON A PURCHASE AGREEMENT AND REPARATIONS PACKAGE TO PURCHASE CANADA FROM FIRST NATIONS.
Unrelated: As Trump rolls up the world's tyrannies, Marco Rubio finds out that he is now King of Iran, El Jefe of Venezuela, Governor of Minnesota, CEO of Hilton, and now, Top Landlord of Canada.
"A recent Washington Post poll finds Americans pretty evenly split on the operation over the weekend, 40 percent approve, 42 percent disapprove, 18 percent are unsure," a CNN host read. "When it comes to who should decide the future leadership of Venezuela, 94 percent say the Venezuelan people, six percent say the United States. One thing I have to say is like, this was a very successful military operation. The idea that 42 percent disapprove is a higher number than I would think, it says to be me that the American people are thinking not just about this operation, but also maybe more about well, what comes next."
"Well, also, it's Trump," Jennings replied. "I mean, 42 percent of the American people would oppose it if he cured cancer, personally, in the Oval Office, tonight. I mean, there's a reflexive opposition to Trump. It is the entire platform of the Democratic Party to the extent that that's how their leadership tells them to act. That's how the Democratic grassroots are going to see it."
Below: The poll numbers change completely, and Harry Enten has more bad news for butthurt mentally-ill anti-Trump obsessives: There is no "rift" in the Republican Party. Trump continues to have 85% support from his fellow Republicans.
Tom Massie is now denying that Venezuela nationalized the oil companies and stole oil that was contractually granted to US oil companies. And they stole all the drilling equipment -- rigs, pipes, trucks, all of it -- when they did so.
But when you're an anti-American Blame America Firster -- when you're a Ron Paul peace-at-any-price pacifag -- you have to lie to make your case.
And then there's Maude.
Me-Again Kelly, whom Dave Rubin calls "Grandma Groyper" for her late-in-life turn towards Naziism to remain relevant, continues hosting a parade of hard-left communists and anti-American pacifists to attack America for acting in her interests.
I guess her days of LARPing as Ultimate Trump Super-Fan #1 are over.
Below, she admits that Roger Ailes used to tell her to rah-rah every American military action to pander to the pro-Bush conservative base, and she dutifully put on her pom-poms.
But now, you see, she's an "Independent Journalist," and she no longer does what Roger Ailes tells her to do. Now she does what Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Glenn Greenwald tell her to do, and she panders to the hard left pacifag part of the audience.
Dan Bongino reads the riot act to the "black-pillers" and "grifters," announcing that, while he was required to remain silent on them Deputy Director of the FBI, he is now free to blast them as a private citizen podcaster.
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Three million views on the post below this one.
Here's why:
The support for the Trump administration in the working world is strong. And people are tired of the endless bullshit from the black-piller, chicken-little grifters. Watch their tactics, and once you see them, you'll never unsee them. They use a couple of different tactics to bullshit you.
-First, they overload you with information but they underwhelm you with evidence. Here's an example of what I mean - they'll try to convince you that John Smith robbed a bank, so they'll data download on you and lose you in the chaos. They'll tell you things that might be true, but aren't evidence of anything. They'll tell you John was in the bank that day. That John knew someone who worked there. That John was arrested ten years ago for a misdemeanor. But they won't tell you that the fingerprints, video and DNA of the thief matches someone else. Solid investigators sift through chaotic information and mine the evidence gems. Charlatans and morons do the opposite.
He means Candace Owens.
-Second, black-pillers will rarely take on the President directly. They know they'll get destroyed by the boss, and wind up in the political graveyard of egomaniacs who thought they could take the President on with bullshit. As a proxy fight, they try to pick off his allies, knowing many of them are limited in the ways they can fight back. Well, I'm back now, and I'm putting this bullshit to a stop.
He means Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson, who infamously DMd someone about "hating" Trump with a passion and longing for the day he lost his re-election so that he was banished from American politics, still attempts to pretend to be a Trump supporter, to appease his falling fan base of Trump-Tucker crossover supporters.
But Tucker Carlson plainly loathes Trump and embraces a leftwing, Ron Paul style of antisemitic, conspiratorial pacifism-at-any-cost. Which Trump does not -- Trump says we will act only in America's interest, not that we will let communist shitbags send drugs and gangsters to our country and we can never touch a hair on their heads because we're so devoted to "peace."
So Tucker Carlson pretends his arguments aren't with Trump himself, but with Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham, who he pretends are the people directing Trump's foreign policy. He's too cowardly to name Trump as his enemy, so he pretends Trump is an empty-headed demented clown like Biden was, and that all decisions are being made by his "neocon," Jew-loving underlings.
Bongino calls this out above, though he does not name Tucker Carlson.
Yet.
Everyone inside the administration I crossed paths with is busting their asses to move the needle on real change. You can do things fast, or you can do things correctly. You can rarely do both in government. Even with those constraints, the administration's accomplishments are breathtaking. I want to be clear on this point, intra-party/movement policy disagreements are healthy and natural. But endless pessimism meant to strategically attack a movement from the inside, is not about policy, it's political cannibalism. And many of these grifters are hiding their real agendas from you. And that leads me to my next point.
-Third, the black-pillers are infamous for telling you an administration policy or action is going to lead to the end of the world, before the policy has even been given time to demonstrate results. You're seeing it now with regard to Venezuela. Will it work out? Maybe. We will all see. But maybe give it a minute before you attack from inside the tent while pretending you're an ally.
That's another shot at Tucker Carlson, who has predicted five of the last zero "WORLD WAR III's," always proclaiming that Trump -- I mean, Marco Rubio -- is going to send "our boys" in to conquer and occupy Iran, Gaza, wherever in the next forever war.
His (insincere) predictions of doom keep not coming to pass, but that doesn't bother his left-wing pacifag fanbase.
Black-pillers and grifters asked for this fight, not us. But I'm absolutely down to fight it. ABSOLUTELY down.
Good. I'm tired of being polite. I want a purge.
And I think I'm going to get one. People are sick of the Nazis and pacifags. I didn't join the GOP so that I could carry placards for ANSWER, Code Pink, and Iran.
NEW: Records show US Capitol Police Capt. Michael Byrd, who fatally shot unarmed J6 protester Ashli Babbitt w/o warning, has been running an unaccredited day-care center w/ wife Kaleska from their MD. home since 2008. MD. rec's $190m in HHS day-care funds.https://t.co/Ly2JCVx966
Update: Commenters have convinced me this is a badly-written sentence. The $190 per year is the amount of federal taxpayer dollars sent to Maryland for its entire network of fraudulent daycares, not just Michael Byrd's wife's fraudulent daycare.
Well I don't know if this one is fraudulent. Going by the statistics, it's about 70% likely to be fraudulent and used as a front for funding Al Shabaab.
OMG
Capitol police officer Michael Byrd who shot unarmed Ashli Babbitt on January 6th, reportedly has a taxpayer funded daycare in his home run by his wife…
‼️ NEW: Maryland records indicate that U.S. Capitol Police Capt. Michael Byrd and his wife, Kaleska, have run a unaccredited home daycare (license #255727) since 2008.
A June 2025 inspection showed four children enrolled. The daycare operates in a high-income area while… pic.twitter.com/YkQLX8Q71j
Reportedly. This claim is based on a FaceBook photo of the home invader, with the (fake) name "Julia."
Man arrested for attempted break-in of JD Vance's Ohio home identifies as trans, father is Dem donor: report
A Facebook profile shows a picture of DeFoor, but with the name "Julia."
William DeFoor, the man arrested for smashing several windows at Vice President JD Vance's home in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a trans-identified male who goes by the name "Julia DeFoor." This comes after DeFoor was identified as the suspect in that incident on Monday.
He identifies as transgender and his father, a surgeon, is a Democrat donor, states the Daily Mail. DeFoor was previously arrested for other crimes related to vandalism in April and was sentenced to treatment at a mental health facility for two years in addition to paying $5,500 in restitution.
A Facebook profile shows a picture of DeFoor, but with the name "Julia." Additionally, an Instagram profile bearing the same name and likeness says "Julia DeFoor" goes by "she/her" pronouns.
The Facebook account with the name "Julia DeFoor" has multiple liked pages, one of them including "Heartland Trans Wellness."
Leftwingers routinely kill their children and the ones they don't kill they derange into monsters.
The violent man arrested over a hammer attack at the family home of Vice President JD Vance in Ohio is a trans leftist. William "Julia" DaFoor comes from a well-to-do liberal family whose parents are doctors and donors to Democrats. The attack has echoes of the trans militant who…
They seemed unhappy and mentally ill before the "transition," and they seem unhappy and mentally ill after the "transition." At best, it's a lateral move. It's a sidegrade.
But with a lifetime of expensive pills, powerful brain-bending exogenous hormones, and Maintenance Surgeries.
Update: Not "we" but I take your point.
We brainwashed hundreds of thousands of unstable young people to believe that chemically castrating and dismembering themselves is their only way to become their true selves and avoid suicide and that anyone preventing them from inflicting the ultimate sexual violence on… https://t.co/hJG9p0RCYD
After Hilton Franchisee Lies About Its No-Service-for-ICE Policy, Hilton Hotels Announces It Has Cancelled the Franchise Agreement
—Ace
I don't know how hotel franchise operations work. Based on what I see here, I guess that independently-owned hotels sign a franchise agreement to be part of the Hilton chain, so long as they maintain certain contractual standards?
After the Minnesota hotel owned by "Everpeak Hospitality" was exposed for terminating service for DHS for ideological, open-borders reasons, Everpeak claimed that they were scrambling to rectify the "error" and were reaching out to DHS to offer them rooms.
Everpeak Hospitality has moved swiftly to address this matter as it was inconsistent with our policy of being a welcoming place for all. We are in touch with the impacted guests to ensure they are accommodated. We do not discriminate against any individuals or agencies and apologize to those impacted.
This claim made by Minnesota immigrants was, get this, fraudulent.
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: I went into the Minnesota Hilton who "apologized" for banning DHS agents, and EXPOSED them for CONTINUING to ban DHS agents
@HiltonHotels has decided they want the FULL BUDLIGHT treatment at this point.
Hilton's operator, Everpeak, STRAIGHT UP LIED in their statement yesterday which said they were "in touch" with DHS to accommodate impacted agents, and "do not discriminate against any individuals or agencies."
NONE of that was true. There was NO attempt to reach DHS agents to make it right, per Asst. DHS Sec. @TriciaOhio
Even the FRONT DESK manager said he had spoken with the owner shortly before I walked in around 10:50pm, and confirmed the ANTI-DHS POLICY REMAINED IN EFFECT.
REVOKE THEIR LICENSE, HILTON, OR IT'S GOING TO COST YOU DEARLY. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.
🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: I went into the Minnesota Hilton who “apologized” for banning DHS agents, and EXPOSED them for CONTINUING to ban DHS agents@HiltonHotels has decided they want the FULL BUDLIGHT treatment at this point.
Should Hilton be boycotted? I say "no." They had a contract with an independent company creating a franchise arrangement. That company violated the franchise arrangement. After attempting to resolve the matter amicably -- and after being lied to by the franchisee about the "error" and their attempts to correct the "error" -- they saw that the franchisee is just more Foreign Fraud and nullified the contract.
Hilton seems to have acted as we'd've wished them to. And they did so in under 24 hours, so that's not too shabby.
Was it because they were pressured to do the right thing? Of course. If there had been no hue and cry about this, one imagines they would have just let the franchisee continue with its open borders aggression.
But so what? We know all of these corporations react to public pressure. We saw them all dancing to the left's tune from 2009 to 2024, the year that the Woke Empire began to collapse. Hilton reacted to our pressure, and that's all I personally need from a soulless corporation. I don't need them to be "good corporate citizens." I don't need them to fight "evil," as Google used to pretend to do before they went into the Evil Business.
I just need them to make amends when they piss me off.
Assuming they want to keep my business.
And they did. And just like these c***sucker corporations need to be punished when they get out of line, pour encourger les autres, so too do they need to be rewarded when they snap back into line. Again, pour encourager les autres.
The left made itself toxic by its position of complete unappeasability. No matter what you did, no matter how hard you pandered to the left, no matter how much of your clientele your offended and alienated in order to obey the demands of AWFLs and unemployable communist bums, they scorpion left would always pierce you through the gut as you were ferrying them across the stream.
This was a major reason that people got sick of woke lunatics. It wasn't just that their demands were unreasonable and motivated by mental illness -- it was also that even if you obeyed their commands, they would still cancel you in a year or two.
The right shouldn't follow the left in this madness. We should establish that rule that if you do work to appease us and right the wrongs you committed against us, we will honor our side of the implicit contract and grant you forgiveness. That makes appeasing the right a much better deal than attempting to appease the unappeasable left.
Of course, all of this is predicated on the assumption that Hilton has really cut relations with these foreign aggressors and will not seek to remake their franchise arrangement the moment we're not watching them.
Which I hope is a good assumption, because if Hilton does join the foreign fraud and trick us, they've just signed their Bud Light Suicide Letter.
Happy Tuesday! I had a terrible long weekend due to my back going into terrible spasms on Friday and then even worse on Sunday. But I iced it down and am now mobile again. Once ever muscle along my spine stopped spasming and seizing and bending me over like a crooked old man, I could walk again.
Mobility is something you take for granted, until it's gone.
So now I'm able to move around pain-free and I got a really good night of sleep so I'm doing great. I hope you are too.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-- John Adams
He had an excellent point, and the collapse of recruiting for the United States military was indicative of a loss of moral clarity on the part of our government. So why should good patriotic Americans enlist to serve our country when its government is behaving in ways that are obviously antithetical to the concept of American Exceptionalism, which is, at its core, moral and religious?
And yet in a span of one year, America has seen the change in its government and has decided that serving the country is once again an honorable thing!
It's amazing that the media report "massive" and constant demonstrations against ICE, yet the rest of America outside of NYC, Portland, and a few other blue city shitholes is happy to work for a government department that pays well and is doing real, quantifiable work to get our country back on track.
And the armed forces are doing just as well, with all branches reporting solid recruiting that is better than planned. The immediate and public pivot away from struggle sessions and race-baiting and transsexual worship, in conjunction with the head of the Department of War being an unabashed patriot and a man who doesn't wear three masks while looking like a weeble, has yielded instant rewards.
Add in two stunning military successes over the skies of Iran and on the ground in Venezuela, and the unequivocal message is that the American military has returned to form, and has shed the lunacy of the Biden/Obama junta, and is well on its way to purging the officer class of Obama-era apparatchiks and post-modern America haters.
We are a martial country. The 2nd Amendment wasn't written as a lark to push Americans to take up arms in defense of their freedoms; it was a response to and a defense of a well developed political and moral philosophy. That we are returning to the status quo ante Obama/Biden is a testament to the resiliency of the American body politic, and our cultural memory of exactly how we emerged from the malaise of a sclerotic Europe, and created the greatest country in the history of the world!
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Good morning kids. So between the takedown of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela as well as the continuing exposure of the great Somalian multi-billion dollar Samolian Swindle, it's only appropriate to pause and take a moment to note the date on the calendar. Today is January 6th and is the fifth anniversary of a major turning point in American history. In the wake of what was so obviously a stolen national election, thousands of ordinary Americans, exercising their right of free speech and to petition their government for the redress of grievances gathered at or near the Capitol in an attempt to persuade Congress to not certify the Electoral College's decision to install Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants unless and until a thorough forensic investigation could be conducted, especially in the 6 swing states that overnight on election day that by the next morning saw tens of thousands of votes in the Trump column disappear and wind up in Biden's.
Happy Anniversary, Patriotic Americans! It was five years ago today when red-blooded Americans walked peacefully and patriotically from President Donald Trump's speech in Washington, D.C., to the Capitol to let Congress know that stealing an election was not tolerable. Then, the Biden (-fronted junta) turned its Gestapo knob to 14.
What happened next was anything but Constitutional. MAGA meemaws had their homes surrounded by FBI agents with machine guns, and were dragged off to federal courthouses. The FBI decided that historically patriotic symbols, like the Betsy Ross flag, were signs of "domestic extremism." Kaki-clad Special Agents knocked on the doors of people who had never been arrested and began with the ubiquitous lie, "You aren't in any trouble, but we'd like to talk to you about what you may have seen on January 6." . . Today, things are different. Almost all the J6ers have been pardoned. Kash Patel is giving the FBI the enema it sorely needs. My J6er fiancée, Jessica, and I can sleep. Trump is hilariously turning the commies upside down, and real Americans no longer fear tyranny, for now anyway.
And here we are five years later. Many here and elsewhere have observed and I wholeheartedly concur, Perhaps President Trump's greatest accomplishment, especially in the wake of his first term where he set out to "drain the swamp" was by his mere presence exposing the corruption in the system, or as has been observed that Corruption perhaps was and remains the system itself.
And, despite the nightmare of Election DAY SEASON 2020 perhaps the most brazen act of political corruption in American history, the overt in-your-face theft of a national presidential election which no doubt in my mind denied Donald Trump of a clear mandate and re-election on that infamous day was a blessing in disguise, in that it underscored to those who had eyes to see and an open mind to consider that everything he claimed about the swamp was absolutely true.
I think the irony is that had the Democrat/Left/Deep State cabal let him win, he likely would have been handcuffed in atempting to advance the MAGA agenda as effectively and thoroughly as he planned. That would have left none other than MIKE PENCE, the GOP standard-bearer for 2024, and there is no way he'd have had a snowball's chance in hell in winning the presidency. There'd have probably been a primary fight as nasty if not nastier in a way than 2016, and The GOP establishment was certainly not going to stand for another potential outsider and/or self-proclaimed reformer be it Rubio, DeSantis,Cruz or whoever regardless of their bona fides real or imagined in that category.
In the event, Donald J. Trump survived the slings and arrows as well as actual bullets fired at him to win a miraculous victory in 2024 which has thus far in just its first year led to him and his cabinet taking an almighty fire axe to the bureaucracy, as well as his enemies exposing who and what they are in their attempts to thwart him and the will of the American people. Beyond that, the foreign policy victories and exposure of the Somalian grift, the takedown of Maduro, and perhaps the coming liberation of Iran as well as socialism ebbing in Latin America could not and likely might not have happened at all had Trump overcame the 2020 theft and been sworn in for his second term five years ago instead of last November.
Many questions are circulating about how the communist protests were so well organized within hours of Maduro’s capture . . . Thanks to the Democrats, the red-green axis gained momentum globally, and its exponents are still trying to advance their agenda inside America, as they strive toward anarchy and the imposition of their own authoritarian rule. The new mayor of New York City is the representative of both elements of this alliance. Right after his inauguration came Muslim street prayers that dominated Times Square, and now the communist protests have come as well.
Yes it is amazing how hundreds of these drones each with professionally printed protest signs manage to show up just at the right time. And as we saw elsewhere how pallets of bricks magically appear on city streets and wind up being used as weapons to destroy businesses and be hurled at police.
Considering America itself is within our hemisphere, I should think the Monroe Doctrine applies with just as much if not more force within our own borders. Over to you President Donald Bolivar Trump!
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Happy Anniversary, Patriotic Americans! It was five years ago today when red-blooded Americans walked peacefully and patriotically from President Donald Trump's speech in Washington, D.C., to the Capitol to let Congress know that stealing an election was not tolerable. Then, the Biden junta turned its Gestapo knob to 14. We Didn't Start the Fire, But We Rocked the Casbah! Happy 5th J6 Anniversary!
Once again, progressive and Marxist activists are using words as bludgeons to say things those words do not mean. I’ve been seeing activists online insisting that President Trump’s move to arrest Nicolás Maduro and his wife was illegal under both American law and international law, and it’s really irking me. International Law Is a Fantasy: How Activists Use 'Legal' Language to Shut Down Debate
Democrats spent years accurately describing Maduro as a narco-terrorist dictator, claiming that removing him would benefit the United States, and offering millions of dollars for his arrest. Now that Trump has actually done what they asked for, they feign outrage. Outrage From Dems Who Once Demanded Trump Target Maduro Is Completely Fake
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
William DeFoor, a male-to-female transgender who goes by Julia DeFoor, was charged early January 5 with multiple offenses, including vandalism, after authorities said he smashed four windows at Vice President J.D. Vance’s Ohio home. The East Walnut Hills property serves as a secondary residence for Vance, his wife Usha, and their three children. Vance Home Attacker Is a Transgender from a Democrat Family.
“Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly — and five other members of Congress — released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline,” Hegseth wrote. “As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice. And the Department of War — and the American people — expect justice.” Pete Hegseth Moves to Strip Mark Kelly’s Retired Rank over ‘Seditious’ Video Urging Military Disobedience (Maduro is a paragon of honor and virtue compared to Kelly - jjs)
“ICE ended 2025 with a surge operation in California targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens,” the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Tricia McLaughlin told Breitbart News. “One hundred and eighteen illegal aliens were arrested, including pedophiles, registered sex offenders, burglars, domestic abusers, and serial drunk drivers.” Exclusive: ICE Arrests 118 Illegal Aliens in Sanctuary California, Including Sex Offenders, Drunk Drivers
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a civil complaint Monday to revoke the citizenship of a man facing a war crimes arrest in Bosnia. Sead Miljkovic allegedly gave false information to immigration authorities upon receiving his U.S. citizenship in 2007, according to a DOJ press release. (NOW DO GEORGE SOROS! - jjs) Trump Admin Moves To Strip Alleged Foreign War Criminal Of Citizenship
Walz announced Monday he would not run for a third term as Minnesota’s governor. The former Democrat vice presidential nominee is drowning under a deluge of reports of fraud that has flourished during his administration — fraud which he either did not properly oversee or perhaps colluded to facilitate. Corrupt Amy Klobuchar Kickback: Possible Scheme to Appoint Tim Walz to Senate Exposed Early
Amtrak has recorded a strong rebound in passenger numbers, serving 34.5 million riders in fiscal year 2025, compared to 32.8 million the previous year. That marks a 5.1 percent rise from 2024. The railroad also reported $2.7 billion in adjusted ticket revenue, reflecting a 10.4 percent gain, alongside total operating revenue of $3.9 billion, which grew by 9.1 percent. Amtrak Ridership Is Hitting Record Highs, Here’s Why
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“When the Administration and Congress rescinded federal funding,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison, “our Board faced a profound responsibility: CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks.” Corporation for Public Broadcasting Cancels Itself: Votes to Dissolve to ‘Protect the Future of Public Media’
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
After $20 trillion spent to cut hydrocarbons just 2%, the choice is stark: repeat a ruinous green experiment—or seize Trump’s Marshall-scale plan to reindustrialize America and restore affordability. The $20 Trillion Question: How to Spend It and How Not To
When a failing school system claims it knows children better than parents, homeschooling’s rise isn’t radical—it’s a rational response to an education and mental health crisis. Homeschool Is In: The New Education Movement
The now-departed ships had been docked in Venezuelan ports for weeks, the New York Times (NYT) reported Monday. Tankers in the group used techniques employed by the modern “ghost fleet” of sanction skirting ships, including painting names of decommissioned vessels on ships’ hulls, misrepresenting their positions, and leaving in coordinated fashion to escape the blockade. Sanctioned Oil Tankers Try Mass Run At US Blockade Of Venezuela
Lee Jae-myung is twisting this shield provided by law into a sword. By effectively claiming that organized political expression by religious groups is “unconstitutional,” he is reversing the very purpose of religious freedom. He is attempting to forge a legal weapon that would allow the state to brand any church criticizing the regime’s policies as a “political criminal organization” subject to immediate dissolution. These are legitimate criticisms, everything from economic populism to submission to North Korea. A Holy War Declared: The Grave Threat To South Korea’s Constitutional Liberty
The government claims the policy will prevent 20,000 cases of childhood obesity, with food manufacturers being encouraged to develop healthier products. National Ban on Junk Food Ads Comes Into Force.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Betelgeuse is essentially a giant blob that undulates like a blob of water floating in weightlessness on ISS. Knowing the location and orbit of this companion will help astronomers better understand the central star’s periodic inexplicable changes. Detection of the wake of Betelgeuse’s companion star
Today’s cool image could also be entered into my “What the heck?!” category of strange Martian geology. “Round Deposits” in Martian crater
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
If you've been on Twitter the last couple of days, you've witnessed the mental roller-coaster ride of one character named Seth Harp. Seth, you see, is a veteran and the author of a book that's soon to be made into an HBO show. Seth is also not just a leftist but seemingly one of those unhinged ones. Either that or he got high sniffing his own farts and made some bad choices. The Curious Case of Seth Harp
A celebrated clarinetist says he won a blind audition—only to lose the job over past resistance to DEI, exposing how ideology is reshaping America’s symphonies. Blacklisted: Classical music’s DEI crisis
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Only four performance cores on even the fastest models, but up to eight efficiency cores and eight low power cores. Plus up to twelve graphics cores - but only if you sacrifice expandable memory.
"Like many Minnesotans, I have to tell you I was glad to turn the page on 2025. It was an extraordinarily difficult year for our state, and it ended on a particularly sour note,"Soon to be former Gov. Tim Walz (D-MNSomalia)
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“But I refuse to let the American people pay the price for the Democrats’ incompetence. I am willing to work with anyone to finally bring down costs for all Americans and hope my colleagues across the aisle will commit to doing the same.” Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH)
Perhaps CBD will disagree with me. But, I don't think Europe is salvageable unless the people take up arms and start throwing politicians and bureaucrats out windows. Guess I'll be facing some stern lecturing by some Limey wienie.
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Tonight is the official planned debut of the new CBS Evening News, though they actually moved up the debut to two days ago to cover the capture of Maduro. Is it worth watching? I have no idea.
A leftist revenged-doxxed a man who he claimed was Delta Force's (secret) commander.
Apparently he doxxed the wrong man. Leftist media had already gotten into bed with him; maybe he'll lose his HBO show.
He's rabidly anti-american and anti-military:
Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Recap for those who missed it: Seth Harp is a prior Army Reservist with an Iraq deployment to his credit, who parlayed his civ law career into a political "world conflict journalism" gig. Has a bestseller and swanky mag bylines to his credit. Claims SOF is full of murderous coke-heads. Hates Israel. Decided to doxx what he thought was a Delta Force senior officer. Doxxed literally the wrong man. Promptly went into digital hiding as a result. Will his swanky mag bylines keep his HBO option intact, or will they scuttle him due to the bad optics?
Guess who just had this Solid Citizen on his podcast to spread his lies about drug- and murder-crazy soldiers? That's right, of course, unregistered foreign agent Tucker Carlson.
One of those totally-legitimate taxpayer-funded daycare services made so much money from babysitting -- you know, like a 13 year old girl's job -- that they bought a $93,250 Porsche, paid in full with a single check.
Some Democrats, including the Democrat activists at the Politico knock-off Axios, aren't sure Democrats should support tyrannical narcoterrorists just to reflexively oppose Trump.
Some Democrats are grumbling at their party's largely oppositional stance to President Trump's raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, saying privately that their colleagues should be celebrating.
Why it matters: These lawmakers argue it could be a major political miscalculation if the party fails to applaud the downfall of a brutal dictator with sufficient volume, even given grave concerns about the operation's legality and longer-term ramifications.
Party leaders have raged at Trump for bypassing Congress and leaving them in the dark about the operation to capture Maduro, which involved striking several military targets in Venezuela's capital city.
And many rank-and-file lawmakers, buoyed by polling that shows Americans largely oppose a protracted intervention in Venezuela, have also seized on Trump's comments that the U.S. will temporarily "run" the country.
Some centrists and battleground-district members -- who spoke to Axios on the condition of anonymity to offer candid criticisms of their party's messaging -- have a different view.
What we're hearing: One swing-district House Democrat told Axios in a text message on Saturday, "Nuance is dead in politics."
"Maduro is bad, glad he is gone ... You can't have it both ways," the lawmaker said, venting that "everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base."
Another vulnerable House Democrat told Axios in a phone interview: "As Democrats we can't just condemn what happened ... I wish the Democratic Party would be a little bit more measured on this."
"I think it looks weak," a third centrist House Democrat said. "If you don't acknowledge when there is a win for our country, then you lose all credibility."
Between the lines: It's not just about politics. The second lawmaker who spoke to Axios noted that Democrats widely condemned Venezuela's sham elections last year and have long advocated for democracy abroad.
"What happened to when they had the election and Maduro stole the election? There were Democrats condemning that," the House Democrat said.
"Have we forgotten what's happened ... in that country?"
The third House Democrat told Axios they were surprised "how negative the response has been" from their colleagues.
DOJ requests delay of court deadline to return deported Venezuelans to US after Maduro arrest
The DOJ said that the extension is necessary because the military operation over the weekend has led to "substantial changes" in the country
The Justice Department requested a week-long delay of a court deadline to return deported Venezuelans to the United States after the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a U.S. military operation.
The DOJ is facing a Monday deadline from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to either "facilitate the return" of the deported Venezuelan nationals to the U.S. or "otherwise provide them with hearings that satisfy the requirements of due process," the Washington Examiner reported.
A Venezuelan says that 'international law' didn't care when Maduro imprisoned him and tortured him, so he doesn't think 'international law" should protect his torturer, Maduro, either.
The entire Democrat Party is "forgetting" that Biden and Harris offered a $25 million bounty for information leading to Maduro's arrest, or that Chris Murphy attacked Trump in 2019 for failing to depose Maduro.
The Biden-Harris administration made available a $25,000,000 reward for information that would have lead to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro.
Now you're saying capturing him was unlawful? Did you just entirely forget your administration's policy? pic.twitter.com/fbXSDzPZ68
New Yorkers are shocked after footage goes viral of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Tenant Director stating that white people will be HEAVILY impacted after they transition property "as an individual good to a collective good" [CBD]
Podcast: The Somali grift might be the biggest financial scandal in American history, will the Mullahs finally fall? CFPB gets a lifeline from a corrupt judge, Brigitte Bardot...RIP, and more!
This isn't Christmas Eve fare, and I thought about waiting until the 26th to post it, but supposedly an amateur detective has solved the Zodiac killer mystery. And the horrific Black Dahlia killing. He says it's the same person! I always thought of them as very far apart in time but I think Black Dahlia was mid-fifties (nope, 1947) mid and the Zodiac murders began in 1968 so it's possible it's the same killer.
The killer, if it's the same man, would have been in his 20s when he killed the Black Dahlia and his 40s when he did the Zodiac murders. Possible.
A little caveat: I saw someone snark on Reddit, "The Zodiac case gets solved more often than Wordle." There are a ton of coincidences here, supposedly, like a Zodiac cipher being solved by the name "Elizabeth." Elizabeth Short was the name of the so-called Black Dahlia.
If you don't know about the Black Dahlia, don't look it up. Just accept that it's grisly on the level of Jack the Ripper.
Yes, the named suspect resembles the police sketch of Zodiac.
Podcast: Will Ukraine be a flashpoint for a Korean conflict, Trump's intemperate Reiner comments, it's the economy stupid! the Monroe/Trump Doctrine, Bondi, Brown, MIT, and more!
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