Exclusive Hamptons Club Cancels Restaurant Service After Illegal Immigrant Staff is Deported
ICE Deports a Record Number of Illegals Over the Summer

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I saw this story cited on Instapundit, with the comment: We used to hire American teenagers for these jobs.

So, try that.

An ultra-exclusive Hamptons yacht club catering to the wealthy and well-connected was forced to suspend its members-only restaurant service for multiple days after several of its kitchen staff were booted from the country over visa issues, The Post has learned.

The swanky oceanfront Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett -- which reportedly charges around $100,000 in initiation fees -- canceled its Wednesday night dinner service after it lost its foreign cooks, according to a letter sent to members the same day.

I think you can afford to increase wages to hire a legal staff.

And if you can't, you can't. A business that has to commit crimes to stay in business maybe isn't run competently enough, or attractive enough to customers, to stay in business.

Food service was also canceled Thursday and is not expected to be back up and running until Friday's lunch service, the club informed its deep-pocketed members -- a group that once included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's parents.

Oh, so this is an easily solved "problem."

The club claims this is just a paperwork snafu involving H2B visas (temporary, seasonal visas for supposedly necessary foreign workers) and suggests maybe the problem is with the Trump Administration's DHS.

I don't know. The rest of the article talks about the "choppy waters" this club as been in for years.

Deportations continue:

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

NEW: I'm told by federal source that ICE has arrested roughly 300 Haitian nationals in the state of Ohio alone in recent days, as the agency is now considering transitioning into a find & arrest approach after giving Haitians several weeks to turn themselves in to ICE offices since TPS officially ended on July 27th.

I'm told to expect arrests of Haitians to begin to significantly ramp up soon as ICE starts to prioritize tracking down those who never checked in.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

Aug 24

BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE: DHS tells @FoxNews that ICE has quietly carried out one of its most successful operations in agency history, resulting in the arrests of 1,328 illegal aliens in just a 14-day span in the states of Virginia & Maryland. Nearly 400 of the aliens had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, including a Salvadoran illegal alien wanted by police in Richmond, VA on a murder warrant. (Eygner Wilfredo Huezo-Moran's mugshot below).

Other targets included aliens with rap sheets for attempted murder and rape, as well as convictions for sexual battery, kidnapping, robbery and DWI.

The operation primarily targeted the sanctuary jurisdiction suburbs in VA & MD around Washington DC, and ICE arrested anyone in the U.S. illegally, regardless of any criminal history.

The leftwing media is pushing the newest op, which is that ICE has arrested a record number of illegals "without criminal records"... apart from violating the country's immigration rules, and, I'm sure, committing either identity theft to hold a job or welfare fraud to become dependents on a country they are not citizens of.

First: Whether or not they have "criminal records," they are still illegal and not permitted to stay. There is no law saying "illegals may live in the US as long as they like so long as Soros DAs refuse to prosecute them for crimes."

Second: Trump and Tom Homan have said over and over they would not have to go into illegal immigrant areas and arrest any illegals they find if leftwing sanctuary jurisdictions would just turn over the criminal illegal aliens they seek as their highest priority. If you just turned over the illegal criminals at the jail, this would be an easy job for ICE with no need of going into "the communities."

But we're all supposed to take from this that Undocumented Criminals have a right to remain forever, so long as only some of their crimes are documented.

By the way: this article admits, at the very end, that ICE has reduced "going into the communities" to make arrests and is now arresting people stopped at routine traffic stops and found to be illegal and less-invasive situations like that.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a record high of more than 800 people without criminal records a day in July on average, new federal data shows. The surge in arrests comes as the White House pushes the agency to hit a target of 2,000 per day.

July is the first month in President Trump's second term when people with only civil immigration violations -- rather than pending criminal charges or convictions -- made up more than half of those arrested. An average of more than 1,580 people were arrested each day in July, also a new high for the current administration.

Enforcement ramped up this summer after a drop following public backlash to the Department of Homeland Security's operation in Minneapolis, a funding standoff and a shake-up in DHS leadership. But, as has been the case with ICE's previous big city crackdowns, rising arrest totals come with spikes in community arrests of people without criminal records.

Administration officials have repeatedly claimed that their enforcement efforts are focused on "the worst of the worst" and often tout arrests of immigrants with violent criminal convictions. Those with convictions for violent crimes as defined by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics make up about 6% of all those booked into ICE detention under the current administration, and about 4% of those taken into custody in July, the data show.

"ICE enforces the law as written. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is whether or not they are illegally in the U.S.-- full stop," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News. "Many of the individuals that are counted as 'non-criminals' are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gangsters and more; they just don't have a rap sheet in the U.S."

The data, obtained from ICE by the Deportation Data Project run by the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA, does not provide information about immigrants' alleged crimes in other countries. CBS News asked DHS to provide that data.

So 1, this data comes from a leftwing Open Borders group, and 2, deliberately excludes foreign criminal records or open arrest warrants.

White House border czar Tom Homan has said that sanctuary policies that prevent local law enforcement from turning over people held in jails and prisons to ICE force them to "flood the zone" and deploy more resources to such cities to find and arrest their targets and anyone else they encounter living in the U.S. illegally. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has made similar claims.

"Claims," you see. They're liars, CBS "News" wants you to know.

But June and July data suggests that ICE agents making arrests in communities are not focusing their efforts solely on areas the administration deems to be sanctuary jurisdictions. Those cities and states saw a 27% increase in street arrests during those months compared to the previous six, compared with a 50% increase everywhere else, CBS News' analysis of the data found.

Wow, what an important bit of news: ICE is able to arrest more illegals in areas where the police cooperate with them.

Here's the very, very late admission that ICE has reduced the controversial program of making mass arrests in sanctuary zones:

...

The uptick in arrests has been without highly publicized city-focused crackdowns, with agents instead turning to traffic stops, airport arrests and arrests at immigration check-ins. The killing of two immigrants by federal agents in Maine and Texas during attempted traffic stops reignited outcry.

The Morning Rant: Cultural Suicide

—CBD

Cultural suicide is all the rage in Europe these days, with the UK and Germany busily destroying themselves, and France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Spain not far behind, all fighting for primacy in the race to surrender to the left and to Islam. They have also run full-tilt towards a "carbonless future," even though the world economy runs on oil and gas, and it is an impossibility to shift away from them without a massive degradation in standards of living.

But never mind the facts! They are closing nuclear plants and coal mines and trying to shut down oil and gas production and exploration, while pushing for an all-electric economy.

So it is a pleasure to see a European country doing something right for a change. Norway has correctly identified the illogic in cutting petroleum production and use while simultaneously cutting nuclear. The numbers just don't work, and apparently somebody in Norway knows how to add.

Norway Plans More Oil, Gas Exploration in Arctic, Bucks EU Push for Moratorium

Norway will ignore the European Union’s demands for a moratorium on hydrocarbon exploration in the Arctic Circle and continue drilling for oil and gas in the Barents Sea, the country’s energy minister said.

Speaking before Norway’s biannual energy conference, which began in Stavanger on Aug. 24, Norwegian Energy Minister Terje Aasland said Oslo had a right to develop its own sovereign resources.

“In today’s geopolitical and ​security environment, and given the resource situation, I believe continued activity in the Barents Sea serves both Norwegian and European interests,” Aasland said.

Reality is smacking Europe in the face! Green insanity can never provide enough power to run even the most basic services, and the dirty little secret of the bien pensants is that they still need oil and gas...and lots of it. When tens of thousands of Europeans die every summer because they can't afford air conditioning, and their governments won't allow them even if they could, something is broken. And it is the cradle-to-grave welfare state that so many crave.

Economics is a cold-hearted bitch, and it says that when too much productive work is captured by government, growth slows, innovation slows, and wealth creation slows. That is what has happened to Europe, and its Green insanity is just accelerating its plunge into 3rd world status.

That is a direct result of the policies of the EU and its member states. They are driving their populations into poverty, all in service to their ultimate goal of a socialist/Green nirvana. It doesn't exist, and will never exist, but they keep trying!

Oceans of power, from petroleum, nuclear, coal, hydro-electric, and natural gas is what drives wealth. Our great industrial awakening of the 19th century was powered by coal, and even our new technological revolution in AI will be powered by traditional sources. As the United States cautiously embraces nuclear, and returns to petroleum as an inexpensive and simple power source, we will continue to outpace the sclerotic EU.

Make no mistake...the "Green New Deal" and all of the other fantastical and impossible plans for a carbonless America have one goal, and that is the centralization of power in service of socialism. A country that provides endless opportunity for its citizens is a poor candidate for socialism. But a country sinking into an existential malaise of worsening standards of living, onerous regulation, and restricted travel is a fine candidate for that socialist nirvana that is always just over the horizon.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Virgin and Child with St Julian and St Nicholas of Myra
Lorenzo di Credi

The Morning Report — 8/ 27 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. And so President Trump made this move yesterday.

President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order on Wednesday declaring a national emergency to protect the United States’ bulk-power system from foreign threats. The order prohibits the purchase or installation of certain foreign-produced electric equipment that poses cybersecurity risks or operational vulnerabilities. . . By addressing vulnerabilities in the supply chain, the order aims to secure the reliability of the U.S. electric grid, reduce dependency on foreign components, and mitigate risks to national security. It also aims to protect critical infrastructure that supports defense, emergency services, and the broader economy.

Considering we are in a state of war, no not with Canada, despite the idiocy farted out by their yammering potato headed PM Carney, that we discussed yesterday. I mean Iran and behind the scenes the Chi-Coms. And Iran still has a very dangerous and operational Cyber Warfare capability most recently demonstrated by their sabotaging of a major British power plant for several days.
So, the President's move is for sure understandable. That said we had this totally avoidable madness happen right here in Gary, In...

Gary, Indiana, just wrapped up week two with no power, and the left-wing narrative on the extended blackout is (unsurprisingly), “It’s racism!” As someone who lived in Gary for a decade, I can tell you it is anything but that. Gary made me a conservative. In 1999, I married a man from Gary and moved to his home on the west side. That marked the beginning of a 10-year journey in one of the most dangerous cities in America. I was a default Democrat at the time, like most black Americans. Still, as a Christian woman, I dove into community service right away, helping launch and direct an afterschool program.

Yes, it wasn't cyber-warfare nor racism, but the evils of the absolute incompetence of Leftist/Democrat longterm control of a city that caused this deterioration. Suffering and misery of the citizenry is all because said Democrats/Leftists are interested in is the accrual and maintenance of absolute power at all costs.

Speaking of which, I give you the diametric opposite of the sane, erudite woman who wrote that piece; the bald-headed, brain damaged, vile, twisted Lopecia Pressley.

“It is bigger than Trump,” Pressley said. “Because whenever we do the work of ousting the occupant of the Oval Office, the Confederacy is still alive and well. That’s all MAGA is.”

Funny, the confederacy and the slavery, Jim Crow and big government genocide of Black America was created and fomented by the DEMOCRAT Party, as it is until this very day.

All they have left is a tattered and shit-stained race card to play as more and more black Americans are abandoning them en masse. Not enough in terms of numbers and speed necessarily to satisfy me but I think the trend is there. If it weren't then we wouldn't be seeing the reactions to Gary, or Flint Michigan or anywhere else their incompetence causes misery, dislocation and death, or just the knee-jerk blood-libeling like this repulsive piece of shit and everyone like her.

When do we declare a national emergency because of the continued assault on the nation and society by the Democrat/Left. They will be our undoing if the Muslim's don't finish us off first. If that is the case it will be because their allies on the Left will have greased their wheels. My only satisfaction is knowing their pinheads will be lopped off as Islam seizes control of everything.

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• By addressing vulnerabilities in the supply chain, the order aims to secure the reliability of the U.S. electric grid, reduce dependency on foreign components, and mitigate risks to national security. It also aims to protect critical infrastructure that supports defense, emergency services, and the broader economy.
  President Trump Declares National Emergency to Protect U.S. Power Grid.

Daily Tech News 27 August 2026

—Pixy Misa

• Nvidia is in talks to acquire Hugging Face for $13 billion. (Business Insider)
  
  Why?
  
  
  
• Amazon is acquiring DuckLabs, maker of DuckDB. (GeekWire)
  
  Hey, Amazon! (Waves.) I wrote a database! Acquire me!
  
  
  

Wednesday Night ONT - August 26, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. Step up and place your order.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

[Top photo: Sevierville, Tennessee]

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Sevierville is in east Tennessee, about a 40 minute drive south and east from Knoxville. Sevierville is considered the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains and places like Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. It is not a large town. It has no airport with regularly scheduled commercial service. It has no main boulevard with bustling honky tonk bars playing live music like Nashville, but it is considered the hometown of Dolly Parton. She grew up in a small cabin about 13 miles away, deeper into the hills and forest.

In these parts, Dolly is considered family regardless of blood relation. The news of her death came as a shock, but a much different and deeper shock than the passing of a celebrity. She was a rare link to old school country music but she was much more than that. Dolly was both Tennessee royalty and the life-long friend next door. In Appalachian terms, they were proud of her and she never forgot where she came from. They looked up to her while she remained one of them.

A statue of Dolly was installed in 1987 in front of the small courthouse in Sevierville. It depicts a barefoot Dolly sitting on a rock with a guitar. In ordinary times, the statue is a frequent and familiar stop for many. Today, it is a gathering point for her broader family to pay their respects. We made our own visit.

A steady stream of people brought flowers and other mementos - many wore Dolly shirts. Visitors spanned gender and age. Some paused at the growing memorial. Others wanted their photo taken with Dolly's statue. They will all remember where and when they heard the news.

Like a wake, hushed comments and murmurs gave voice to emotions and memories. Nobody expected her to be immortal but she was a fixture and a source of strength for years. As an 80 year old that started show biz young, she was always there for most people's lives. Everybody in east Tennessee has a personal Dolly story. Many across the south view Dolly as their patron saint.

Words will be written and said about Dolly. Many will come from people that don't fundamentally understand what made Dolly special or unique why she was so important to her Tennessee family. (Hint: it wasn't just flashy outfits and huge tracts of land.) She wasn't famous for being famous (or infamous). She got the joke but ensured everyone laughed together.

For a musician, sometimes a song says it best. The Carter family reworked a Christian hymn into a funeral hymn that has become a staple of the country music anthology:

I was standin' by the window
On one cold and cloudy day
And I saw the hearse come rollin'
For to carry my mother away

Oh, can the circle be unbroken?
By and by, Lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky, Lord, in the sky

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Back to our usual programming...

Department of TP History

Splinter-free toilet paper didn't exist until the 1930's

Paper has been utilized for purposes of hygiene since the 6th Century, in China. It became a mass-produced product in the 14th Century.

Modern toilet paper, for commercial use, started in the 19th Century and a patent for dispensers, that could hold rolls, was made in 1883.

The rolled toilet paper that we use today, which is perforated, was created in the 1880's. Toilet paper varies immensely; size, roughness, weight, resistance, residues, water-absorption, etc.

The bigger companies invest time and money in surveys to figure out which requirements sell best. This can lead to the adding of aloe in the paper, for a softer feeling paper.

Northern Issue, in 1935, began to advertise toilet paper that was "splinter free." Up until this point, it was common to have splinters in toilet roll, due to the production techniques used. St. Andrew's Paper Mill, in the UK, launched 2-ply paper in 1942.

Ouch.

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NJ Transit Toilet News

Ring flushed down New Jersey train toilet returned to owner

A New Jersey woman who accidentally flushed her wedding ring down a train toilet was reunited with the precious object thanks to NJ Transit employees.

Julie Angelicola said she had just left the bathroom aboard an NJ Transit train when she realized her wedding ring was missing.

"So I'm kind of meticulously getting all of this soap off of my hands with toilet paper and literally going finger by finger, and crumpling it all up, trying to do it quickly - threw it in the toilet, flushed the toilet, went back to my seat," Angelicola told WPVI-TV.

She reported the ring's loss to NJ Transit, which took the train out of service.

Employees put the train up on jacks, removed the toilet tank and opened it up to discover Angelicola's ring on top.

The ring was returned to Angelicola on Monday at a NJ Transit Customer Service Center.

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Random Ikea website of the week

Ever wonder how complicated a particular Ikea product is to build? Check out the "Ikea Complexity Index"

ikea complexity index ~20k ikea products, ranked by how long they take to build "complexity" = steps x total parts "est. time" = "complexity" x empirical factor (based on self-reported build times) "ease rating" = average ease-of-assembly rating (1-5, higher = easier) left by reviewers on ikea.com. "~" ratings are averaged across combo products. not affiliated with ikea

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Tune those church bells!

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Mandatory Maiden

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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Millennial Farmer. Zach Johnson is a 5th generation family farmer from West Central Minnesota. He promotes agriculture by sharing his day-to-day experiences on the family farm. At its core, the channel shows where our food comes from and what it takes to produce it.

He's been posting videos on YouTube for 10 years and has accumulated 1.15 million subscribers. His channel shows the work of the farm as the seasons change, from planting through harvest. They primarily grow soybeans and corn.

The channel provides a first-person insight to running a farm.

The channel shows new equipment, repairs and getting stuck in the field. It shows the push of the harvest, including the challenges of weather and darkness. It also is unafraid to tackle business and regulatory factors - or anything else that impacts running a farm. It isn't hysterical but rather pragmatic and descriptive. They primarily run John Deere equipment.

Lots of problem solving.

The channel also shows the family involvement and raising kids on a working farm. It restores your faith in the heartland and is a window to what it takes to be a farmer.

Videos routinely get several hundred thousand views and periodically get millions. Lots of interweb farming interest out there!

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Pittsburgh Scanner

The Pittsburgh police scanner has the night off in light of the unplanned Dolly content. There are a few giggles that will be included in next week's batch, so you won't miss anything.

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Dexy's Midnight Runners in pop-up video form for the big ONT finish:

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Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly transferred to an undetermined department for processing. Are you lurking ????

Close it up

Wednesday Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Burial for a suspected "vampire."

Stable-paw.

This had better not awaken anything in me.

The Secret Cache.

Stop Touching Me: A game all species can enjoy.

Two babies.

Happy pupper.

Baby elephant plays soccer.

Guardian dog.

Guy gets a text alert telling him his team has won, but he doesn't want to spoil it for his friends.

Martial arts demo. (Which game was this? I remember it, but not the name of it.)

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Why are drug stores closing locations in blue cities and turning them into "medicine deserts" where old people must travels miles and miles to get prescriptions filled? I don't know why. It makes no sense. It must be Because Racism.

@EYakoby

BREAKING: USAID confirms that over 100 UNWRA staff directly participated in the October 7th attacks or have affiliation with Hamas.

Exactly what we've said for three years.

Blue on Blue Violence. I sure hope no one gets hurt.

A trio of vocally pro-Israel House Democrats were given powerful posts on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, with one taking the reins of the subcommittee that oversees U.S.-Middle East policy.

Why it matters: It is a substantial win for the party's pro-Israel wing despite growing pro-Palestinian sentiment among the party's grassroots.

And it could have global ramifications, with Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) indicating that, if he becomes chair of the Middle East and North Africa subcommittee next year, he will use the position to shore up U.S. support for Israel.

"If Democrats take control of the House, I'll be in a position to help steer U.S. policy on Israel and the Middle East," he told Axios.

Driving the news: In addition to Moskowitz leading Democrats on the MENA subcommittee, pro-Israel Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Wesley Bell (D-Mo.) were appointed to the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.), a pro-Palestinian progressive and prolific critic of the pro-Israel group AIPAC, was also appointed to the panel.

Moskowitz, Wasserman Schultz and Bell all dispatched left-wing primary challengers this election cycle who went after their support of Israel.

Mamdani discovers another religion he must make submit.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Tuesday he did not support an upcoming event in his city featuring the leader of the Hindu nationalist group that is the ideological parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is scheduled to speak at a Manhattan event on Saturday, according to the event's website.

"I don't support the rally, but I don't know if the city has any jurisdiction to cancel a private event," Mamdani, who is the first Muslim and Indian American mayor of New York City, said when asked if the event should be canceled.

"The vision of India that I was taught by my family and one that I grew up being very familiar with was of a pluralistic society of a secular Republic that believed in the belonging of each and every person who was from India. And it has been incredibly troubling to see the rise of a movement that is predicated on an exclusionary vision."

Oh he demands India be an "inclusive" government?

Does he make the same demand of Muslim governments, I do wonder?

No I don't wonder that at all.

Woman parodies the darkest of all social media "trends," "Mothers" proudly telling the world they hate their children and would do the "Same" as Lindsay.

Note that is a parody. I wouldn't say she's undermining the seriousness of this situation. I myself have found it difficult to even talk about it, because it's so dark and disgusting and speaks poorly for the future of mankind. And I mean the short-term future -- what will happen in 10-15 years? How many Child-Murdering Feminist "Heroes" will we live to see?

For me, the only way I can even begin to address this horror is through parodies like this.

THEN: Chris Cuomo says that covid "misinformation" is the greatest threat to this country and must be suppressed through censorship.

LATER: Chris Cuomo says he never advocated for censorship and is stridently a free speech warrior.

Woke 1 was crazyyyy, man.

Is Michigan okay?

Abdulrahman Hussein Al-Sayed: Why do people keep asking me about my most prominent surrogate who I've campaigned with for a year?

https://t.co/9PosK39Me9 pic.twitter.com/3wjEJ3kVKM

— RBe (@RBPundit) August 26, 2026

And why do we have to talk about my embrace of cutting off the dicks and tits of confused children? Can't we just talk about "gas prices," which I never mentioned through four years of Biden?

Completely unrelated video.

Chunk has thoughts:

It's worth mentioning that Cenk is speaking at the conferences of two unindicted coconspirators of the Holy Land Foundation, CAIR and ISNA.

He's speaking alongside El-Sayed at ISNA, and alongside CAIR's Nihad Awad, who said he was "happy to see" Oct. 7.https://t.co/TW3nN0tOgY pic.twitter.com/5BwDbt76sJ

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) August 26, 2026

By the way: Hunter Biden supports Hasan Piker. And so does Super-Conservative THE Rick Wilson, who says that Piker's call for actual violence against American Jews is just "shit-talking."

And also by the way: Rick Wilson is such a non-entity that account doesn't even mention his name. (May it be accursed forever, and may his shame follow his children forever like flies follow the droppings of an ass.)

Transgender woman, by which I mean low-T man, "Sarah" McBride: It's "cruel" and "inhumane" to deport foreign criminals, including terrorists, murderers, and child murderers.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

Holy smokes YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP.

Democrats are rallying behind this illegal alien saying he was wrongfully arrested by ICE, because he's a "father"

It turns out -- he's a convicted CHILD ABUSER, has been charged for criminal s*xual PENETRATION, child abuse, domestic violence, and child abandonment, per @AliBradleyTV

THIS IS WHO THEY DEFEND

They didn't stop to wait for the facts to come out because they don't actually care.

In fact, they want him to vote in our elections, not just NOT be deported.

🚨 Holy smokes YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP.

Democrats are rallying behind this illegal alien saying he was wrongfully arrested by ICE, because he’s a “father”

It turns out — he’s a convicted CHILD ABUSER, has been charged for criminal s*xual PENETRATION, child abuse, domestic… pic.twitter.com/PO0bpiD1d3

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 26, 2026

https://t.co/Cc0SxcOvyc pic.twitter.com/PQGSOzWPzn

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) August 26, 2026

Okay, that one is actually fake.

For the moment. We'll see.

Rubio's work is never done:

Then there’s this…🤭 pic.twitter.com/CKUpc9MoNz

— Snarknado ⚓️ 🇺🇸 (@ZannSuz) August 26, 2026

Close it up

Court Rulings: Rogue Woke Biden Judge Lifts Her Stay on Trump's Reasonable Order to Check Mail-In Ballot Addressees Against the Citizenship Rolls; Monica McIver Loses In Her Bid for Immunity When She Physically Assaults Federal Officers

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Supreme Court recently lifted the stay on Trump's executive order to the Post Office to check mail-in ballot names against a list of US citizens.

The rogue woke judge who initially issued that stay came up with a Brand New Reason to defy the Supreme Court: She said that because the Post Office had continued making plans for the eventuality that her order was reversed, they had defied her original, lawless and now reversed order, and so she ordered her stay back into effect, the Supreme Court be damned:

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh ·

🚨 HOLY CRAP SHE'S GOING ROGUE.

Leftist Judge Indira Talwani spits in the face of the Supreme Court and just ruled that Trump's U.S. Postal Service has hereby VIOLATED her block on the mail-in ballot security rules

She's going off, aggressively accusing Trump's team of "complete noncompliance"

This comes after SCOTUS UPHELD -- for now -- Trump's EO and rules to secure mail-in ballots...

IT'S TIME.

IMPEACH JUDGE TALWANI. Or it won't stop.

Her initial stay was unlawful and wrongheaded, but she believes that the Post Office planning for the likely outcome of it being revered constituted "complete noncompliance" so she reinstates the stay the Supreme Court just lifted.

As that guy says -- she must be impeached, and if the GOP wants its voters to bother voting for them, they must impeach her.

The last time the Supreme Court overruled her, she said she would abide by their ruling, "reluctantly," while writing an order re-asserting all of the bullshit reasons she cited for issuing it in the first place.

Now, once again reluctantly, she again removes the stay she seems absolutely demon-possessed to issue:

Nick Sortor @nicksortor

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🚨 BREAKING -- IT'S OFFICIAL: Activist Obama Judge Indira Talwani has reluctantly LIFTED her injunction that blocked President Trump's mail-in ballot restriction order from going into effect

USPS can now ONLY mail ballots to LEGAL voters verified by DHS and SSA🔥

Thanks, SCOTUS!

From Crusader: The fat sack of racist-grievance crap Monica McIver attacked workers at the Newark DHS processing station, for which she was arrested.

She claimed immunity under the Constitution's Speech and Debate Clause, which, as you might guess from the perfectly clear English words, immunizes Congressmen from lawsuit based on their speech in Congress. (And bad judicial rulings have extended this to speech made outside of Congress, too, so long as it's supposedly "in furtherance of their duties" as Congressman.)

This High-Calorie, Low-IQ woman decided that she's also immune to criminal process for punching cops.

A federal judge denied her motion to grant her Star Chamber powers to attack anyone she disagrees with.

Rep. LaMonica McIver is not immune from prosecution for her contact with ICE officials during a heated scrum at New Jersey's Delaney Hall detention facility, even though it occurred during a legislative investigation, a federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday.

"The charged conduct ... is unambiguously non-legislative," 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Cindy Chung, a Biden appointee, wrote in a 2-1 opinion joined by Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump appointee.

McIver is facing three federal charges related to alleged assaults on ICE officials and interference with them during a May 2025 oversight visit to Delaney Hall. McIver and two other Democratic lawmakers were present when federal officials moved into a small crowd to arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who joined them on the oversight visit. The confrontation escalated and became physical, and McIver was ultimately charged with making physical contact with the officials.

The 3rd Circuit ruling sustains the bulk of the criminal case against the Democratic lawmaker despite her protestation that the charges were brought for political purposes. McIver pointed to commentary by Trump, his allies and the former federal prosecutor who brought the case at the time: Alina Habba, a former Trump personal lawyer and current White House aide.

McIver had argued that she could not be prosecuted because the Constitution's "speech or debate" clause grants lawmakers immunity for their legislative actions.

Of course a Clinton appointee dissented, stating that while he would not necessarily throw the charges out, he would like to see if Trump's supposed "retaliation" against her grants her the immunity for punching cops she craves.

Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics

2h

A Biden-appointed federal judge just sided with the Trump administration against a House Democrat accused of assaulting ICE officers -- rejecting her claim that slamming her forearm into a federal agent was protected legislative activity.

Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., tried to get the case thrown out by arguing legislative immunity. The Third Circuit wasn't buying it. The 2-1 ruling found that physically striking federal officers is "unambiguously non-legislative" and "not integral to the legislative process." Two of her three counts survive.

McIver fired back, calling the decision wrong and vowing she will "not fold to this administration." The charges stem from a chaotic May 2025 confrontation at Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, where Democratic officials showed up unannounced and the situation devolved into a physical standoff with ICE agents.

Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed Hoovers Up Donations from Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Hamas-Supporting Donors to Nazi Troll Dan Blizerian (While Claiming Jewish Safety Will be a Priority for Him)

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Weird that his donors don't believe him.

What do they know that we don't?

Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed collects donations from a terrorist member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a man so extreme Egypt sentenced him to life in prison:

Egyptian sentenced to life for funding Muslim Brotherhood giving money to Abdul El-Sayed's U.S. Senate campaign

Mohamed Soltan was sentenced by an Egyptian court to life in prison in 2015 after spending two years behind bars alongside his father, Salah Soltan, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood

An Egyptian American activist sentenced to life in prison in absentia by a Cairo court for his support of the Muslim Brotherhood is pumping cash into Abdul El-Sayed's campaign for U.S. Senate.

Mohamed Soltan, the 38-year-old president of the American Committee for Middle East Rights, is funneling funds to El-Sayed's Abdul for U.S. Senate candidate committee as ACMER contributes to Fighting for Michigan PAC, the super PAC backing the former Wayne County health official.

Soltan was sentenced by an Egyptian court to life in prison in 2015 after spending two years behind bars alongside his father, Salah Soltan, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood who served as deputy minister of endowments for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

Mohamed Soltan faced charges for aiding protests against the military coup that ousted Morsi, including funding for and membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, before launching a hunger strike that convinced former President Barack Obama's administration to demand his release in 2015.

Another gift from Obama.

In April 2015, an Egyptian court senenced the then 27-year-old to life in prison following what Soltan described as an unjust trial, according to NBC News.

He was released in May 2015 at Obama's request and returned to the U.S., where he works as an international investment advisor and human rights activist.

Salah Soltan [his father, whom he worked with -- ace] was sentenced to death and life in prison in separate trials for inciting murder as one of more than 50 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood who set up a "control room" to direct "violence and chaos" amid the 2013 military coup.

Federal Election Commission reports show ACMER sent Fighting for Michigan PAC $25,000 on June 12, following two contributions from Mohamed Soltan to Abdul for U.S. Senate on April 15.

The individual contribution constitutes the maximum permitted by federal election law.

Other ACMER officials also contributed to El-Sayed's effort to become the first Muslim Senator in U.S. history.

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The donations follow a documented history of El-Sayed supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

In January 2011, El-Sayed penned a column for the Huffington Post titled "Why the U.S. Should Support the Protestors in Egypt," suggesting Americans should back the uprising that led to Muslim Brotherhood control and Morsi's presidency.

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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned just weeks after El-Sayed's column, laying the groundwork for the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi, who became president in June 2012.

After arguing to the West that the Muslim Brotherhood would not be authoritarian like the Iranian regime, Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed signed a statement calling for a "purge" of the "media and police."

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The statement called on Morsi to "purge the media and the police as soon as possible," and "strongly reject these voices that appeal to America and Europe to take a position against the Egyptian regime."

The donors to Dan Blizerian, an actual Nazi who claims to be a "conservative," is also a big fan of the Islamist.

Gee I wonder what they might have in common?

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple Abdul El-Sayed Donors Also Gave Thousands to Hitler-Praising, Jew-Hating Dan Bilzerian's Congressional Run

The far-left El-Sayed and right-wing, antisemitic troll Bilzerian have absolutely no political views in common except for a strong opposition to Israel

More than a dozen donors to the Hitler-praising, neo-Nazi congressional campaign of Dan Bilzerian have also contributed to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed--in many cases spreading thousands of dollars between the two candidates, the Washington Free Beacon found.

Bilzerian, a far-right social media influencer with a trust fund, and El-Sayed, a far-left epidemiologist, have no policy overlap except strong opposition to AIPAC and Israel, but their donors include a man who has equated Zionism to Nazism and a Texas subprime auto loan entrepreneur who also threw his weight behind Israel-bashing Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie.

The overlapping donor list suggests that El-Sayed's virulently anti-Israel rhetoric appeals to the kind of Muslim-American donors who also buy into Bilzerian's hateful Jew-baiting and offensive trolling.

The most significant Bilzerian and El-Sayed donor is Ibrahim Awad, who has given more than $19,500 between both candidates, Federal Election Commission records show. That haul included a $12,651.88 jumbo gift to the Bilzerian Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee. The figure is above the legal limit and potentially a campaign finance violation if passed along to Bilzerian's campaign committee.

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"Zionism is Nazism. And history will remember every single person who calls themselves a 'Proud Zionist' as a Proud Racist, Genocide Enabler," Awad said in an X post from March 2025.

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None of these dual donors other than Awad responded to requests for comment.

While Bilzerian's political career is over for now, El-Sayed is ascendant. The progressive will face Republican Mike Rogers in the November general election, with polls showing a tight race.

Neither El-Sayed nor Bilzerian responded to requests for comment.

Meanwhile, Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed is now claiming that he doesn't support the Green New Deal. I guess it's not popular in Michigan.

Although he's deleted many of his tweets and old YouTube rants, people saved many of them.

Below, Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed states his emphatic ALL-CAPS support of the Green New Deal he says he doesn't support.

In Leaked Court Transcript, Gay Furry Assassin Tyler Robinson's Lawyers Denounce Online "Conspiracy Theorists" and "Crazies" Pushing Insane Claims

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Cavernous Nostrils is going to add another couple of names to the conspiracy to kill "my best friend."

He objects to some mention in the prosecution's motions about conspiracy theories. I guess the prosecution was drawing a negative inference about the defense, based on the insanity of Tyler Robinson's defenders.

The Gay Furry Assassin's lawyers say "we're not talking to the crazies."

"There's a reference to, you know, unstable people coming to the courthouse, to conspiracy theorists saying things online. We're all aware of that. I mean, I don't know what the court has read. It's none of my business. I've received some wacky phone calls and emails, people telling me what they think happened here. It's noise. We're not litigating this case in the press. We're not talking to crazies," the transcript read.

Marco Rubio Sanctions Italy-Based Tech "Collective" Making Tools for Hamas; Also Reveals Portland Antifa Shops There Too

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Dude's balls are so big he could play for the WNBA.

EXCLUSIVE: A State Department memo reveals that an international technology collective, now under a U.S. global terrorism designation, provided services to overseas terrorist groups and violent far-left agitators causing chaos in American cities, according to a copy obtained by Fox News Digital.

"Far-left terrorism poses a profound threat to the United States and the broader West," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Today, the United States sanctioned Autistici/Inventati -- a major far-left tech collective whose services are used by the most active and violent Antifa cells in the United States and across the world."

Autistici/Inventati, called the A/I Collective by the State Department, is an Italy-based group that builds highly sophisticated digital infrastructure used by violent left-wing organizations in the United States and Europe, along with Islamic terrorists, according to the State Department. The collective's services include encrypted chats and email, web hosting, secure video conferencing and streaming and anonymity shields, according to the memo.

"These tools are specifically designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks, built to enable them to organize, recruit, communicate, disseminate propaganda, share target information and tactics, and carry out violent attacks -- all while remaining anonymous, untraceable, and beyond the reach of the law," says the State Department's memo.

A/I Collective has officially been deemed a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The designation bars Americans and U.S. financial institutions from doing business with the group and freezes any assets it has under U.S. jurisdiction. Violators can face civil or criminal penalties.

The memo identifies Portland-based Rose City Antifa, known for its violent rioting and destruction, as one of the U.S. groups that relied on A/I Collective tools and services.

Rose City Antifa is listed in the memo alongside a media organization that the State Department says uses A/I Collective tools to disseminate information to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is proliferating inside the United States, Hamas, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hezbollah and others.

The memo also accuses the militant abortion-rights group "Jane's Revenge" -- which declared "open season" on pro-life organizations and threatened escalating attacks after the leaked Supreme Court draft signaling Roe v. Wade would be overturned -- of using the collective's services.

The State Department memo says the collective provides its services exclusively to left-wing extremists, screening users for ideological alignment before allowing them access to its tools.

Abdulrahman El-Sayed Defends His Support for Surgical Mutilations of Children By Asking Jesse Watters, "Are You Circumcised?"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I missed this horrorshow yesterday.

Woke 1.0 was Socialist Radical Islamism.

Woke 2.0 is Socialist Radical Gay Islamism.

NY Post:

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed got extremely personal with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday -- asking if he is circumcised -- during a bizarre defense of sex change surgery for minors.

"Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?" El-Sayed bluntly asked the "Jesse Watters Primetime" host, after arguing that the government shouldn't get involved in transgender medical procedures for children.

Watters was floored by the question.

"Jesse, are you?" El-Sayed pressed.

"Yeah, yeah, but I mean, that's a personal question -- doctor," Watters responded.

El-Sayed, seemingly convinced that he ended the debate with Watters, suggested: "You probably should want to move on."

"Circumcision is different than castration!" Watters fired back.

Undeterred, El-Sayed argued that it's a "problem" that Watters believes the government should step in to outlaw sex change surgeries for minors but not circumcisions.

"I'm just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's ding-a-ling," the former public health official told Watters. "So if you really want to bring that up, you can ... I just think you guys are really selective about these things."

Watters described El-Sayed's position as "wacky" and "sick."

"Abdul, Michigan's not going for that. That is sick stuff," he said.

The Fox host followed up by asking El-Sayed if he was in favor of "boys playing in girls' sports," which irritated the Senate hopeful.

"You have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually care about in Michigan," he said.

"You can play this game if you want," El-Sayed fumed. "I just want to understand what you're getting at here."

"I'm getting at whether you think men should play in women's sports ... it's a big issue," Watters asked again.

El-Sayed dodged the question, arguing: "At the end of the day, the decision of who gets to play what sports ought to be decided by the people who govern sports."

He then called it "insane" that Watters would pose him such a question.

"I'm running for US Senate," he said. "Jesse, this is insane."

Earlier in the interview, El-Sayed refused to say how much his proposal to socialize the healthcare system would cost; would not answer a question about the size of the US budget; and declined to explain why he allegedly suggested the "NFL was racist."

Abdulrahman also stuck to his call to abolish ICE. His new hustle, to reassure less radical gay Islamists, is that INS would handle deportations, but obviously he wants to abolish ICE to stop all deportations so no, INS would not be allowed to continue ICE's deportations.

First, INS no longer exists. It was combined with US Customs and became ICE. ICE does everything INS used to do, except with an actual budget

Posted by: UGAdawg

Does the Radical Gay Islamist Abudlrahman even hear himself? The NY Post's editorial board says he's so deep in the "weird zone" he has no idea he's weird at all.

El-Sayed and his advisers thought they'd come up with a great way to answer questions about surgically removing children's private parts: Explain that it's just like circumcision.

Seriously: Fox News host Jesse Watters brought up outlawing sex-change surgery for kids, and El-Sayed replied, "Are you circumcised?"

He then airily advised, "You probably should want to move on," proceeding to declare that anyone refusing to see that both are simply "surgery on a kid's ding-a-ling" is just being "really selective about these things."

Nobody not totally blinded by ideology would equate circumcision, a procedure recommended by most medical professionals because of its health benefits, with removal of male sexual organs -- a procedure utterly lacking any medical justification. (The supposed scientific support for treating juvenile gender dysphoria with transitions was purely an insider con game.)

Yet El-Sayed is so deep in the weird zone that he thinks this is a winning argument: Nobody should trust his judgment on anything.

Of course, the health policy he most wants to talk about is also divorced from reality: His campaign centers on pushing Medicare for All -- a scheme to impose the socialized medicine disasters of Britain and Canada on the United States, which would not only kick everyone off their current insurance but also require roughly doubling US taxation.

A sane party would run screaming from a candidate like this.

Especially, of course, since (as the bizarre take on circumcision suggests) he also brings antisemitism to the table.

El-Sayed's hatred of Jews has been blatant all campaign long, including his comment on the attempted mass murder of Jewish kids in his own state: "Hurt people hurt people" -- rationalizing the Lebanese perp's attempted atrocity by waving at Israeli fighting in Lebanon.

Plus his refusal to disavow his regular campaign surrogate, streamer Hasan Piker -- even after Piker just threatened American Jews that if they support Israel "someone will come around and take action" against them.

El-Sayed only issued a statement saying he disagrees with that comment, and didn't even name Piker.

The Radical Gay Islamist Abdulrahman's dodge is to constantly say, "Why aren't we talking about gas prices?"

Well, Radical Gay Islamist Abdulrahman, the left spent all of Biden's term pushing transgenderism and forcing schools to trans children behind their parents' backs. Why did you focus on this instead of talking about "gas prices" under Biden?

The left is constantly pulling this "Why is this so important to you?!" hustle. They burn down all social norms in order to implement their bizarre, degenerate sexual gnostic view of the world. The subordinate all notions of governance and democratic consent to force these lunatic ideas on the public.

But then, when the public is finally alarmed enough to begin to push back against the insane changes the left is foisting on them, they say the same thing every single time:

"What's the big deal? Why is this so important to you? Why are you so obsessed by our decade-long obsession with transing your children? What are you, a weirdo for focusing on these issues which we are insisting on but which we would like to win without a single word of dissent?"

Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed asks Fox News host Jesse Watters if he is circumcised on live TV.

Watters: "S*x changes for minors. Do you support that?..."

El-Sayed: "... Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?" pic.twitter.com/ZSFm4z9rlk

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 25, 2026

🚨 WTF?! Abdul El- Sayed says CIRCUMCISION is the same thing as SEX CHANGES FOR MINORS

JESSE: "So you think it's okay for a parent to SLASH his kids dingaling off?! You think that's okay?!"

ABDUL: "Are you circumcised, Jesse?"

JESSE: "Uhh yeah, that's a PERSONAL QUESTION,… pic.twitter.com/Znb3ix0ToD

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 25, 2026

The absolute arrogance. And I just don't mean this guy. I mean all the "princes of Islam."

Mehdi Hasan: "Imagine if a leftist pundit blamed all Jews in America for Gaza."

Me: "They don't?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Woke 1 was crazy, man.

Watters: I guess everyone now knows I’m circumcised. Usually when you look at the headlines and if the headline is all about your penis, you've done something very wrong pic.twitter.com/blqy2vuSdL

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 25, 2026

Close it up

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

Data breaches are so common that most of the time, they become background noise. This is for a variety of reasons including the frequency of breaches and the lack of any meaningful liability when they occur, but also because of why breaches happen and how they usually go. Breaches usually take one of two forms: smash-and-grab jobs for information which is then sold on to various nefarious operators or used privately by industrial or national rivals, and extortion jobs where data or systems are held hostage in exchange for money (or crypto, or whatever).

What is unusual is for a data breach to be executed specifically to harm the target for what might be described as illegal "activism." There was such a breach recently and it is directed widely at an industry. The breach was in essence a hostage/ransom job, but the demand is industrial change. The specific targets of this breach were Take-Two Interactive and its subsidiary Rock Star Games. They are known for "Triple-A" games - major, expensive video games from major studios - and especially for the "Grand Theft Auto" game series.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Seven Acts of Mercy
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

The Morning Report — 8/ 26 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. So, this blithering Commie stooge blurted this out the other day:

Leftist Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Saturday that his country is “at war” with the United States after trade talks collapsed.

Well, maybe this fool is actually on to something, perhaps not quite in the way he thinks.

A new report is warning that Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks have embedded themselves across the Canadian government, charities, and universities, raising concerns about the influence of Islamist organizations within the country’s democratic institutions. . . The findings come as the Muslim Brotherhood itself has faced increasing scrutiny from the U.S. government. In January, the Treasury Department designated the Egyptian and Jordanian branches of the organization as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. In July, the administration sanctioned a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official whom Treasury accused of helping finance Hamas’ military wing.

And so as our government has correctly identified the MB and its allies as a threat to our own domestic security, and as it is aligned if not partially or substantially funded by Iran, well the response, at least from my own perspective, is obvious, especially considering that Carney himself loudly and openly declared Canada to be at war with the United States.

I believe there are still a number of active airbases located at or very near our northern border. I'm not saying we should turn Ottawa into a glass parking lot, but an overflight of a few B2's or B52's might raise a few pulses, so to speak. At the very least maybe it would teach this yammering schmuck to choose his words carefully. What a putz, but the danger posed by Islam especially now at home is as plain as day.

Closer to home there's still California that is a concrete albatross around the neck of America, and will drown us if the Muslims don't behead us first.

One group, more than any other, has cashed in on this arrangement: California’s public-sector unions. For them, higher taxes are good business. More taxes means more state workers, which means more union members, more dues, and more power for union bosses. The union bosses, in turn, keep the dollars flowing, agitating for more tax hikes, more spending, and more state workers.

Example number two...

It seems that California has commenced on yet another end run around the Constitution with the “Stop Nick Shirley” act . . . Never a state to allow anything to get in the way of the exploitation of taxpayers, California has taken a different tack. Instead of busting the fraudsters, the Cali state government targeted the man who was attempting to expose them. The mental gymnastics necessary to justify this presented no challenge: California Democrats simply recast the fraudsters as victims.

And finally, in the sense of this post but certainly not the actions of the thugs in Sacramento that will endlessly move to persecute whatever working citizenry remain in that failed state.

California Creates A Black Market For Tires . . . There are state lines, though, and Californians will cross them to buy the tires they want and the tires they can afford. Enterprising off-the-books merchants will buy contraband tires in Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and elsewhere and sell them in California outside the normal channels to avoid the regulators. Who knows, some might feel the rule is the straw that finally breaks their backs and sends them fleeing the state as so many others already have because policymakers continue to make living in California an intolerable burden.

Meanwhile, several thousand miles across the Pacific...

But can an already free society really travel backward? Can people who have known liberty be persuaded, intimidated, or exhausted into surrendering it?

We do not have to speculate. We are staring at the answer in Hong Kong.

For decades under British rule, Hong Kong was one of the freest societies in Asia. The Heritage Foundation consistently ranked it at or near the top of its Index of Economic Freedom. It had independent newspapers, outspoken political magazines, vigorous labor unions, public demonstrations, and courts widely respected for their professionalism. In a territory of only several million people, an extraordinary variety of Chinese-language publications competed for readers. Hongkongers could criticize their government, denounce the Chinese Communist Party, and commemorate events that Beijing had erased from public memory.

With all due respect to the author of this fine essay, the three examples above indicate that California began its degeneration into a thugocratic Leftist dictatorship decades before Hong Kong. The Golden State was at one point the 6th largest economy in the world, gaining that status due to the hard work and innovation of a hard-working industrious populace that took the American work ethic to heart and built what was a real paradise on earth that attracted people from all over the nation and the world to flock there to both chase and more crucially build their dreams to make them real. Alas, no more...

Have a good day.

Daily Tech News 26 August 2026

—Pixy Misa

• Apple has announced new Mac Mini models based on the M5 Pro and M6 CPUs. (MacRumors)
  
  The M6 is a marked upgrade over the M4 - the M5 never showed up on the Mac Mini - but there is no M6 Pro, so the higher-end models of the Mac Mini, anything with more than 32GB of RAM, steps back to the M5 Pro.
  
  But if you don't need that the M6 should run a lot faster. Apple says up to 40%, and that's actually believable, because it not only increases the core count from 10 to 12, it adds two high-end "super" cores, not just two low-end efficiency cores.
  
  Oh, and 2.5 Gbit Ethernet is standard, not the ancient 1 Gbit.
  
  Not cheap - the 64GB model costs five times as much as I paid for a 64GB mini-PC last December, but the same mini-PC at the same price now only has 32GB, so it has gotten closer.
  
  
  
• If you need more than that, Apple also announced M5 Max and M5 Ultra Mac Studios with up to 512G of RAM. (Mac Rumors)
  
  That's a big jump as well, because the high-end Studio model was limited to the old M3 Ultra, and even then maxed out at... I think 96GB of RAM, with anything faster sold out. Now you can get those high-end models again, and they come with 1.2TB of bandwidth, suitable for pretty serious tasks.
  
  Yes, they're wildly expensive, but right now so is everything, so Apple looks, if not more affordable, less unaffordable.

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - August 25, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

From ArmyBrat68

Howdy Hordelings! Tuesday night ONT is here. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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RIP Dolly Parton

A message from the family of Dolly Parton. pic.twitter.com/9DNRgRx0uH

— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) August 25, 2026

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Flock is asshoe. The Flock CEO is big time asshoe!

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley says Americans can’t outright ban Flock cameras because they are ‘for our safety’

“I value my privacy, my family values their privacy, my employees value their privacy, but what we're talking about is safety as well”

“So I think when people talk… pic.twitter.com/TEBmEhbdcd

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) August 23, 2026

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley says Americans can’t outright ban Flock cameras because they are ‘for our safety’

“I value my privacy, my family values their privacy, my employees value their privacy, but what we're talking about is safety as well”

“So I think when people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they're prioritizing the wrong thing. And what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise — when I think about legislation that calls for an outright ban, that's like banning vehicles”

Actually no, it’s nothing like banning vehicles. This is banning a mass surveillance network that extends far beyond license plate readers. Flock is putting up people tracking AI powered cameras in parks, playgrounds, trails and many other places

Flock is mass surveillance without a warrant

This guy is not asshoe

Anybody really can be a journalist, this guy is reporting on a very important issue pic.twitter.com/N4JPsmcvlH

— 🪶Native Patriot 🇺🇸 (@LaNativePatriot) August 23, 2026

Might try this one day

From Dangerous Thoughts

Bravo for these towns in deep blue Massachusetts
2 more Mass. towns join growing list of communities ending use of Flock

Two more Massachusetts communities are cutting ties with Flock Safety, adding East Bridgewater and Grafton to a growing list of cities and towns reconsidering the use of the company’s automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology.

The East Bridgewater and Grafton police departments announced Friday that they would discontinue using Flock cameras, citing concerns raised by residents.

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Many residents took the opportunity to express their opposition to the technology at the forum.

“Technology is really problematic when it comes to law enforcement,” resident Katie McMullen said to Jenkins. “You feel like you’ve looked at every angle, but you’re looking at it through the lens of law enforcement.”

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“As Chief, I will always place the safety, privacy, constitutional rights, and confidence of the people of East Bridgewater at the center of our decisions … While we may not always agree on every issue, I believe that an open and respectful dialogue makes our community stronger,” Jenkins said.

Another (sorta kinda) win in a deep blue state

Man sued local governments in WA over Flock records. He’s won $300K

Washington cities and counties have paid more than $300,000 since 2025 in public records settlements for failing to release images from Flock Safety cameras. They were filed by one man who recently told Cascadia Daily News he wanted people in the communities to better understand the AI-powered, roadside surveillance technology some law enforcement agencies use to document every passing vehicle.

Between September 2024 and October 2025, Jose Rodriguez filed 53 records requests to local governments in Washington. Roughly one-third of them did not comply. The records, at the time, presented hurdles for record custodians because they were hosted by Flock rather than internally, and subject to a rolling 30-day deletion policy and download limits. In other words, the records could be gone before a custodian accessed them to fulfill a request.

Last week, Sedro-Woolley City Council approved a settlement for $40,000 for failing to release the camera data and images. But, that was only half the money, according to the settlement agreement. Stanwood was also on the hook for $40,000. A vote by the city council to authorize Mayor Sid Roberts to sign the settlement agreement passed the next day.

The settlement agreement did not include release of the records, which representatives from the cities said they no longer possess. Rodriguez was adamant the goal of the lawsuits was not financial gain; he said cities were given enough time to be able to respond before Flock’s rolling deletions destroyed the records he requested.

“Had the cities processed Mr. [Jose] Rodriguez’s records request correctly, there never would have been a need for litigation,” attorney Tim Hall wrote in an email to CDN. “The untold story of the $80,000 settlement is how much taxpayer money was wasted in defense of the unlawful destruction of public records.”

So not a complete win. The cameras are probably still there, and lots of taxpayer money was spent defending these cases and making the payout. But at least there's sunlight being shone.

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Is Buc-ee's asshoe?

This article would favor a "yes" response.

Buc-ee’s chain draws outcry in Ohio for launching fight over a mini mart's beaver logo

It’s yet another Buc-ee’s Ltd. trademark infringement lawsuit. Supporters of Beaver’s Mini Mart have attacked Buc-ee’s online and boycotted the stores, and the mini mart’s home city passed a resolution making the beaver an official part of its history.

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The Buc-ee’s beaver logo features the face of a beaver with prominent buck teeth wearing a red ball cap against a yellow backdrop. The Beaver’s Mini Mart mascot is a full beaver, unclothed, waving and smiling against a white background.

Customers have been critical of Buc-ee’s decision to target the much smaller store.

“I love Buc-ee’s, but I don’t plan on going back until they start making better business decisions,” Austin Collins, 32, a project manager from Fairborn, said outside Beaver’s, where he was making his first visit to protest the lawsuit.

C'mon Buc-ee's - you don't own ALL of the beaver!

Avoiding blue states? Maybe Buc-ee's isn't asshoe!

Buc-ee’s CEO signals expansion shift away from blue states that ‘don’t appreciate’ chain

Buc-ee’s CEO suggested recently that the Texas-based travel center chain may be done looking into blue districts, saying some communities do not appreciate what the company brings while conservative states offer business-friendly and family-oriented values.

Arch "Beaver" Aplin III, the company’s president and co-founder, made the comments during the grand opening of Buc-ee’s newest location in Benton, Arkansas on August 17. The chain is known for its expansive gas stations, famously clean restrooms and in-house food offerings.

"We have a lot of opportunities. We're growing. We're building in a lot of places. But when you find a conservative business-friendly state with a phenomenal workforce, it makes a difference," Aplin said.

Aplin criticized states that he said do not appreciate what Buc-ee’s brings to their communities, suggesting the company would rather focus its expansion efforts elsewhere.

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Dec 25, 2023

Cathedral, Mountain, Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Valerio Minato

Explanation: Single shots like this require planning. The first step is to realize that such an amazing triple-alignment actually takes place. The second step is to find the best location to photograph it. But it was the third step: being there at exactly the right time -- and when the sky was clear -- that was the hardest. Five times over six years the photographer tried and found bad weather. Finally, just ten days ago, the weather was perfect, and a photographic dream was realized. Taken in Piemonte, Italy, the cathedral in the foreground is the Basilica of Superga, the mountain in the middle is Monviso, and, well, you know which moon is in the background. Here, even though the setting Moon was captured in a crescent phase, the exposure was long enough for doubly reflected Earthlight, called the da Vinci glow, to illuminate the entire top of the Moon.

King of the Alpaca.

Sheep knocks on the door every day to play with cat friend.

Cats will always let you know that your attempts to please them are hopelessly inadequate.

Cat decides to change the decor.

Double tornado touchdown.

The Storm Warden.

Monkey shines.

Senior dog is adopted after spending 700 days in the shelter.

Wazzzuppp

Soaking your baby elephant, if you know what I mean.

Japanese zoo wants the lions to know what will happen if they try to escape.

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Haiti Has Always Been Great:

The United Nations reported Tuesday that at least 47 people were killed and 50 others were kidnapped in a violent gang attack near Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince this week.

The incident took place Sunday in Kenscoff, a commune located near the nation's capital. The massacre included the execution of 22 people who were found in a church compound. It is believed to be one of the deadliest attacks in Haiti in recent years.

"The relentless gang attacks on communities and the loss of lives underscore the alarming security conditions in Haiti and reinforce the urgent need to intensify Haitian and international security efforts to counter gangs," a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres said in a statement.

WWII did something to Germany that can't be fixed.

A randy German councilmember known as the country's "craziest councilor" has proposed throwing sex parties at city hall as part of an effort to turn the burg into a "swingers' paradise."

Julian Ferrat, 35, who holds office in the industrial city of Mannheim as part of the liberal Die Mannheimer party, wants to see the city transformed into a haven for indiscriminate group sex.

Ferrat, who has been known to frequent nudist resorts and pose for bizarre photoshoots while barely covered, unveiled the X-rated scheme at a recent meeting of the governing body, which is ruled by the conservative Christian Democratic Union.

"Group sex with city council members would be the ultimate in closeness with the citizens," he said, noting there are no laws on the books prohibiting swingers' parties at city hall.

"Ja!" posted a commenter calling himself Sweric Alwell.

Here's a pic of this German swinger. This is for The Ladies:

New Nathan Fielder series drops, Nathan for Sex.

A child rapist, a baby murder, and a dog rapist are suing the state of Washington for restricting access to "gender-affirming care."

They claim they're women now, you see.

One guy complains that he's not allowed to use a private room for hair removal, but can only use the hair removal equipment in his cell, which allows people to see his "maturing female body."

Three depraved criminals housed in a Washington state prison are suing the Department of Corrections for human rights violations after they say they were deprived of adequate "gender affirming" care and treatment. Reduxx can name the inmates involved in the suit as Michael R. Caldwell, who raped two children, Hunter S. Christian, who raped multiple dogs, and Andrew S. Kennedy, who murdered an infant.

In the men's original 324-page complaint, which was filed in December of 2025, the three men separately outline their grievances against the state's Department of Corrections, and attempt to leverage the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to make their case that the denial of "gender affirming" care and treatment is unlawful, using a recent precedent set by Autumn Cordellione, another transgender inmate convicted of murdering a baby who successfully argued that the state of Indiana should have to pay for his "gender affirming" care.

The complaint, obtained by Reduxx, is opened by Caldwell, who now goes by the name Skeggi Hildof Katrinssonr or "Hildi." Caldwell was convicted in 2014 of raping two young girls trusted to his care, and was handed a 26.5 year sentence for the crimes. During the trial, it was revealed that he had initially blamed one of the children for seducing him and provoking the sexual abuse.

In his list of complaints, Caldwell reveals that his facility has a personal laser hair removal device for transgender inmates to use, and that the inmates were allowed to use the device in a private room within the medical clinic once or twice per week. But in 2024, the clinic discontinued access to the private room, and told transgender inmates they would have to use the device in their own cell. Caldwell deems this unacceptable, writing: "My cell door has a 34×34 [inch] window where any male inmate or officer can see inside my cell and watch me use the device on my maturing female body."

Caldwell refers to this lack of privacy as "sex discrimination," and says his proposed remedy -- which was to use the device in the shower area -- was rejected or ignored.

Caldwell goes on to claim that not being able to use the device in a private area constitutes the Department of Corrections delaying or depriving him of "prescribed medical treatment," emphasizing that his "gender dysphoria" is impacting his mental health and ability to perform his daily errands.

"I seclude myself from having to associate with anyone," Caldwell complains. "My mental health has regressed, elevating anxiety, depression, skipping meal times, no appetite, becoming overwhelmed in my daily activities where I at times cry ... The Defendants expect me to consent to relinquish my right to privacy. I will not consent to any relinquishment of my Fundamental Rights."

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The complaint continues with the declaration of Hunter S. Christian, who changed his name to Szeth Aslan Magnus. Christian identifies as "non-binary" and "intersex," and declares he/him and they/them pronouns in the document.

Christian was arrested in 2018 on charges related to bestiality and possessing child sexual abuse material. Christian raped at least three dogs, including a Rottweiler, an older Chihuahua mix, and a black Labrador. He filmed the sexual acts and was found in possession of the videos, along with depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. In 2019, he was convicted on multiple felony charges, including 1st Degree Animal Cruelty With Sexual Motivation.

This guy's complaint? He says he wants Minoxidil to grow his hair back, which he needs as a "non-binary person," and not just as a bald dude who wants taxpayers to pay for cosmetic treatments.

Oh and he also wants testosterone, paid for by taxpayers.

Join the club.

Weird that a "non-binary" is claiming his "non-binary" status to demand two things that regular ol' heterosexual men would also like.

In his grievances, Christian claims that he was denied access to Minoxidil treatments for head hair growth because he had no diagnosis for gender dysphoria and no desire to start feminizing hormone therapy. Christian also claims he was denied access to low-dose testosterone, which he wanted to begin to address his shrinking testicle size.

Like with Caldwell, Christian also notes he was eventually given access to a personal laser hair removal device for his body, but refused to use it due to a lack of privacy in his cell.

"I have suffered not only setbacks in my prescribed treatment plan, but reversal of effects of the prior treatments, mental anguish, exacerbation of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and a loss of the forward momentum in maintaining the delicate balance between my masculine and feminine sides ..." Christian wrote in his declaration.

The baby-killer complains that doctors are treating him as a "cisgender man" -- which he is -- and also won't pay for an expensive test to determine if he's "intersex," which he isn't.

Kennedy ends his declaration with an appeal to his "divine rights."

"I see my curves and hips as a gift from the Goddesses and my masculine traits as a gift from the Gods. I was, from birth, granted the boon of seeing feminine and masculine within myself, yet too blind and misled to truly see them," Kennedy writes.
From Kennedy's declaration.

I think a visit from 6-10 good old boys armed with sacks filled with soda cans can render these monsters the "gender-affirming care" they deserve.

Noted "conservative" Tuq'r Qarlson joins the left in elevating "fairness" and "equality" -- everyone getting an equal reward no matter what their contributions -- as the highest of all political imperatives.

Tuq'r Qarlson knows that actual conservatives are rejecting him so there is no hope for his Nazification project except if he can make a deal with the Socialist-Islamist coalition. So he's adjusting all of his previous positions to accommodate his new political allies.