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July 11, 2026

Hobby Thread - July 11, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

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

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, July 11

—K.T.

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

Would you like a treat?

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

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, July 11

—K.T.

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Mrs. BD went nursery shopping today to fill in the blanks in our northern Israel vacation home's garden. Except for the basil in the lower right corner, don't ask me what everything else is. That's not my department.

Biden's Dog

Lovely.

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Can we afford utopian education?

—K.T.

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The Thinker, Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands

Public Education

Yesterday, I ran across a somewhat too-hagiographic piece on social media attributing the beginning of publicly funded education in the USA to Robert Dale Owen, a guy who had been involved in some failed utopian projects:


Robert Dale Owen (born Nov. 9, 1801, Glasgow, Scot.—died June 24, 1877, Lake George, N.Y., U.S.) was an American social reformer and politician. The son of the English reformer Robert Owen, Robert Dale Owen was steeped in his father’s socialist philosophy while growing up at New Lanark in Scotland—the elder Owen’s model industrial community. In 1825, father and son immigrated to the United States to set up another self-sufficient socialist community at New Harmony, Ind.

Robert Dale Owen edited the community’s newspaper, the New Harmony Gazette, until 1827, when he became associated with the controversial reformer Fanny Wright. They traveled together to Wright’s experimental community of Nashoba, Tenn., which was dedicated to the education and gradual emancipation of slaves, and from there went on to Europe.

Upon returning to the United States, Owen and Wright revisited the Nashoba and New Harmony communities, then in a state of decay. They settled in New York, where Owen edited the Free Enquirer. The paper opposed evangelical religion and advocated more liberal divorce laws, more equal distribution of wealth, and widespread industrial education; it was at the centre of radical free thought in New York. For two years, Owen, with Wright and other radicals, sought to turn the New York Workingmen’s Party away from Thomas Skidmore’s belief in an equal division of property. They successfully ousted Skidmore, but later their own program of social reform through public education was also repudiated.

After a brief trip to England in 1832, Owen returned to New Harmony. He served three terms in the Indiana legislature (1836–1838), where he advocated the allocation of government funds for public schools, and two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he introduced the bill creating the Smithsonian Institution. . .

He didn't stop there in his efforts to reform society, but concerning his involvement in how the Smithsonian was set up:

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Hopefully everyone here today still has all of their digits, eyes, ears and hair after the Big Birthday Bash Fireworks.

Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Spokane)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) At this point in time, what is the rule about running with sharp objects?
4) Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 11 July 2026

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • Commies to the left of me, commies also to the left of me: Meta faces fines in the trillions of dollars from Europe and a cartel of US states unless they make their platform worse. (Ars Technica)

    These people need meteor strikes. Now:
    That figure is likely uncomfortably "close to Meta's market capitalization of around $1.5 trillion," Reuters noted. But California Attorney General Rob Bonta seems to agree it's appropriate, alleging in a statement to Reuters that "Meta has prioritized profits over the safety of kids and fueled the mental health crisis we see impacting a generation of American children."
    What generation of American children? The ones you didn't manage to murder or mutilate?
    As Meta seemingly continues treading water - pointing to screen-time notifications that kids can easily dismiss or default settings that may be changed - the financial pressure to do more to protect kids could threaten its AI ambitions at a crucial time.
    Everything not forbidden is forbidden. Everything not compulsory is compulsory.


  • Don't you tilt your head at me! (The Register)

    We see you! Don't think we don't just because we're passed out in the gutter blitzed on fentanyl!


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One More Such ONT And We Are Undone

—WeirdDave

Greetings, fellow Hordians! What say we have an ONT, shall we? Let's start with this greentext which is funny AF.

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You Want Fries With That Shake? Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Last night I posted a photo that was clearly AI but somehow I missed it. Lemme try again:

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Black Hole @konstructivizm

It seems incredible, but this is a real photograph!

It was taken on July 24, 2024, just seconds before Saturn disappeared completely behind the lunar disk. The image creates the illusion that Saturn is hovering right above Glushko Crater--a young, 43-kilometer-wide crater near the Moon's western limb. Of course, the Moon is 400,000 kilometers away, whereas Saturn is 1.4 billion kilometers away.

The photo was taken by amateur astronomer Chengcheng Xu in China.

Poor little herding puppy is disrespected by the goats who chase him off, but then he remembers he is the descendant of wolves and asserts his authoritah.

Two paddleboarders save a weakening wallaby who somehow got herself swept out into the open ocean.

Oh my goodness -- a tiny tree kangaroo has an even tinier joey in her pouch.

Hippos sleep underwater but raise their heads and take a breath automatically, without waking up. Or so the fedslop would have you believe.

He knows what he did.

These babies are hungry!

These baby deer are also hungry!


Painting a mural to merge with the foliage.

This will make you misty. Poor shelter dog.

The cat is unimpressed and he's right to be unimpressed.

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Video of Tyler Robinson Executing Charlie Kirk Is Shown at Preliminary Hearing

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Whoops-- accidentally posted the Cafe.

Before getting to the headline news: Unfortunately, the Nazi Rapist has spoiled my lols by actually dropping out:

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Not only is there video of Robinson "stalking" the campus the day of the murder, but apparently... there's actually video of him taking the shot.

No Israeli Rabbinical Assassins, French Intelligence Hit-Men, or maroon-shirted Mormon Bee Cultists were seen in the video. Robinson did not form a "Satanic Pentagram" around Charlie Kirk as xhe shot him.

Now this is video, I guess, that the judge refused to play for the public. But those actually present in court saw it.


Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

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🚨 WOW. Bombshell high quality footage just played in court of Tyler Robinson SHOOTING Charlie Kirk

IT'S OVER FOR ROBINSON.

Jack Posobiec visibly shaken after watching:

"You see him take the shot."

"It's the most damning thing all week I've seen for Tyler Robinson. It's a COMPLETELY different video."

"I'm just gonna say what it was. You see him shooting Charlie. You see him executing Charlie."

"It was like watching Charlie die all over again seeing this video...with the zoom in, it changes everything."

"They have the timestamp [in the footage]. It's 12-21, 12-22 when he gets there. I'm sitting there like: stop the clock. Trying to will time to stop. Don't get to 12-23. He gets to 12-23 -- and you see him take the shot. He gets back up, and he runs across."

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The Week In Woke

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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Effeminate cuck Jonathan V. Last relentlessly promoted Graham Platner, even calling for him to be the President after winning in 2028.

Now he says that no one on the left, and surely no one in leftwing media, is responsible for Graham Platner besides Graham Platner.

As the Church Lady wisely observed: "Welllllll, isn't that conVENient."

The Democrat operative and Nepo Baby who foisted Graham Platner on the country speaks with an incredibly strange "vocal fry" and "uptalk," like he's a Valley girl. I saw someone speculate that "men" with high-pitched voices affect the vocal fry to try to make their voices sound deeper and more masculine. It doesn't work.

Anyway, here's this nepo baby communist freak denying that his "minimal vetting" turned up the Nazi tattoo and they only found "some" of his Reddit posts.

And what about Morris Katz, the openly-bisexual freak who wanted to put a picture of his own penis in a book for 10-year-olds about puberty?

He's lying:

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Jake Tapper's doing what he does best: Pretending to have Breaking News about what was reported long ago:

Jake Tapper @jaketapper

As soon as we asked the campaign about what Jenny Racicot told us on the record and on camera Monday, the campaign said that her assertion he had raped her was false.

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Remember Kristi Noem's pervert husband and his "bimbofication" fetish? And his huge prosethetic "breasts"?

Well, Noem is wisely divorcing the Bimbo.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has begun the process of divorcing her husband Bryon following bombshell revelations earlier this year that he engaged in a lurid secret life of cross-dressing and chatting online with fetish models, the former South Dakota governor's mother has claimed.

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The outlet reported in late March that Bryon Noem chatted up women from the so-called "bimbofication" fetish scene, in which adult performers augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve a "Barbie doll"-like appearance -- and even indulged in the trend himself."

I still believe that Noem refused to ban trannies from girls' sports because she knew this blackmail material was out there. So, to hell with her.

LOL: Guess which female Democrat politician turns out to be a Karen From Hell, disparaging businesses in her Yelp reviews?

[Regarding a massage joing:] "If you want consistent good service, and want to patronize a place that treats employees with respect, I would never recommend this," she wrote.

"I cannot continue in good conscience to be a patron, even though it is a very convenient location and a nice facility."

She alleged the business had serious management problems, claiming employees who left the spa were treated unfairly and customers were left scrambling when therapists departed.

"Note that almost 1/3 of reviews written are 'not recommended.' Management is hiding a serious problem. I was a member here for over six years, so consider my depth of experience with this place in how you judge this review," she continued.

Two other places she reviewed -- Tony Pepperoni Pizzeria and Irvine Yellow Cab, which has since permanently closed -- also suffered, receiving two-star and one-star ratings.

On the pizza shop she visited in July 2013, Porter posted: "Horrible service on delivery. I ordered at 4:39. I am told 35-40 min. I call to check at 40 min. Driver on way. I call again at 5:31--52 minutes later.

"He says driver will call me. He doesn't. I have 20 angry hungry kids! Pizza was decent when it arrived. But allow ample ample time."

It's voluminous spouse-abuser Katie Porter. There's more at the link.


The girl who was victimized by a "trans" athlete says she was repeatedly invited to suck the alleged trans "girl's" dick.

Girls are always saying stuff like that.



For Adaleia Cross, the Supreme Court's ruling in the West Virginia women's sports case was not just a legal victory.

It was personal.

Cross, a Bridgeport High School student in West Virginia, said the ruling gave her a "sense of peace" after years of speaking out about the transgender athlete at the center of the case.

Cross has alleged the athlete made comments to her in the girls' locker room that amounted to sexual harassment when both were students at Bridgeport Middle School.

Fox News Digital is not naming the trans athlete because the athlete is a minor.

Well why not report his fake name? Everyone knows it. It's " " " Becky " " " Pepper-Johnson.

And the ACLU, representing "Becky," uses "Becky's" name.

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"I definitely have a sense of peace about all of it," Cross told Fox News Digital after the ruling. "Although I had to go through all of that, and it doesn't make up for what I had to go through, I know that other girls can be protected, like my sister and my friends who are still on the team."

Cross also sent a message to the athlete in the wake of the ruling.

"Jesus Christ loves [the athlete] and has a place for [the athlete] if they want to be there," she said.

Cross and her parents previously told Fox News Digital the alleged sexual harassment occurred in the girls' locker room during the 2022-23 school year. Cross was in eighth grade, and the trans athlete was in seventh.

"When Adaleia first told us, she told us that [the trans athlete] was telling her and other girls 'suck my d--k,'" Cross's mother, Abby Cross, alleged in December. "[The trans athlete] was saying to her, coming up and saying to her, 'I'm going to stick my d--k in your p--y and also in your ass.' At different times [the trans athlete] was saying these things to her."

But Adaleia said Wednesday that the entire locker room changed after the athlete joined the girls' team.

"A lot of girls, after [the athlete] came into our locker room, started going to the bathroom," Cross said. "They started changing in stalls, which was not really normal."


"You would have kids separated to try to not be around [the athlete], but it was still hard because during track meets, you had to be around [the athlete]," she added. "Girls were just uncomfortable."

"They didn't want to be around [the athlete]," Cross said.

Cross said the discomfort even spread beyond her own team.

"I know other teams started canceling coming to track meets, so their girls didn't have to put up with it," Cross said. "It's just really sad to see all that happening."

"Girls deserve to have that space," she added. "And it's just been taken away."

The ACLU previously denied the allegations.

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Unshocking: The Biden Prosecutor who "Resigned" From the Federal Government to Prosecute the Fake "Hush Money" Case Against Trump Had His Fingers In All the Lawfare Pies

—Disinformation Expert Ace

You don't say.

Trump hush money prosecutor played larger role in federal cases against prez than known, logs show


WASHINGTON -- The Manhattan prosecutor who led the "hush money" case against President Trump, in which the 45th and 47th president was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records, played a larger role in the federal cases against the commander in chief than previously known.

Matthew Colangelo joined Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's team in December 2022 after resigning as principal deputy associate attorney general. Colangelo previously served as acting associate attorney general, the third-ranked post in the Biden Justice Department.

Defenders of Colangelo tried to distance him from Trump-related activities at the DOJ, but calendar records obtained by conservative watchdog America First Legal and shared with The Post show that he sat in on key meetings about the once and future president.


At least three of those meetings related to the dispute over national security records held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort that led to his indictment by special counsel Jack Smith.

Colangelo also joined a December 2021 meeting concerning the DOJ's position in advice columnist E. Jean Carroll's civil case against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation.

Another 12 items on Colangelo's calendar dealt with meetings regarding a subpoena of former Trump White House Counsel Don McGahn for testimony on obstruction of justice findings in former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on claims Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.


"These records show that the man who delivered the opening statement prosecuting President Trump while working in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office was more involved in Trump-related litigation preparation at DOJ than the American people were led to believe," AFL's Will Scolinos said in a statement.

Unrelated: Nick Shirley uncovers millions more in blue state benefits fraud, this time in New York. Fraudsters are billing taxpayers for some kind of "elder care." It's another scam.

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Marco Rubio Laughs at Tim Walz's Attempt to Shield a Child Rapist from Deportation by Pardoning Him For Raping Children

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Homeland Security @DHSgov

.@GovTimWalz and Minnesota sanctuary politicians PARDONED an illegal alien who REPEATEDLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED A 10-YEAR-OLD.

On June 10, the Minnesota Board of Pardons voted to grant Tou Lue Vang, from Laos, a pardon for his 2006 convictions for sexual assault--strongarm sodomy and procuring a child for prostitution. This pardon came just a week before Vang was set to be REMOVED from our nation.

During his interviews with police, Vang tried to justify his actions by saying "it is a cultural thing...to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12."

Governor Walz's pardon shielded this CHILD RAPIST from removal from our nation. This is the type of DISGUSTING criminal sanctuary politicians are shamelessly protecting.


As Norm MacDonald would say: "I mean this guy is a real jerk."

Court files reveal disturbing details of child sex offender pardoned by Walz, Ellison before deportation

Tou Lue Vang sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl for years and told police it was a "cultural thing." Ron Schutz, the GOP candidate for attorney general, said he was "shocked" that incumbent Keith Ellison voted to pardon Vang.

Oh the Muslim child-marriage-supporting Keith Ellison was involved? What a surprise.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Chief Justice Natalie Hudson unanimously voted to pardon a Hmong man from Laos who repeatedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl over a two-and-a-half-year period.

In his clemency application, Tou Lue Vang argued that a pardon could protect him from immigration consequences, writing: "Without the protection a pardon can provide, I face the very real risk of detention and deportation."

So the pardon was granted precisely to keep this child rapist in the country with access to American children.

A review by Alpha News of court files and clemency records reveals disturbing details about Vang's crimes and the statements he made to investigators -- raising a question many Minnesotans are asking: Did the state's top elected officials vote to erase Vang's criminal record so the Trump administration couldn't deport him?

Content warning for the next section, which you might want to skip:

Criminal complaint details repeated abuse

According to the 2005 criminal complaint, the girl told investigators that when she was in fourth grade, Vang -- who later married her sister -- entered her bedroom.

The complaint states: "[Victim] said that Vang sat down beside her, reached his hand into her pants and touched her vagina ... She said that he put his fingers inside of her vagina and then pulled down his own pants and asked her to touch his penis, which she did. He then penetrated her vagina with his penis."

The girl told police the assaults occurred at least "four or five times."

The complaint also notes: "She recalled one incident when he came into her bedroom, put his penis into her mouth and ejaculated."

Read the whole article, if you can bear it.

DHS says "Fuck you, Walz and Ellison, we're deporting all of your foreign invader rapist pals."


Homeland Security
@DHSgov

.@ICEgov has DEPORTED Tou Vang, the illegal alien CHILD RAPIST @GovTimWalz pardoned in an attempt to allow him to remain in our country.

While Walz and his fellow sanctuary politicians fight to protect heinous criminals like this, we will continue putting the safety of the American people FIRST.

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Supposedly, the Nazi Rapist With Officially Withdraw His Candidacy on Monday -- the Very Deadline for Withdrawing

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Monday? The very last day possible?

Is he for real?

I mean, he might just say on Monday: I didn't get the "reassurances" I wanted so I'm in it to win it.

Graham Platner privately told staff that he is planning to officially file paperwork to end his Senate campaign on Monday -- the drop-dead deadline for him to exit the race.

Halperin said no special "paperwork" is needed -- a simple email to the Secretary of State, announcing a withdrawal, will do it.

So why does he need the weekend to compose an email?

Why it matters: Though Democrats largely appear to think Platner is done with his bid, his last-minute timing is likely to cause a final pang of anxiety within the party. Driving the news: Platner made the comments to his team Wednesday night shortly before he announced publicly he was suspending his campaign.

"On Monday, I entire -- I intend to file the requisite paperwork with the Secretary of State to remove my name from the ballot," he said, according to a person on the call.

Under state law, Platner has until Monday at 5 p.m. to drop out of the race in time for the party to replace him with a new nominee.

As of about 1 p.m. Thursday, Platner had not officially withdrawn from the race, according to the Maine Secretary of State.

"No official withdrawal notice has yet been received from Mr. Platner," said Jana Spaulding, deputy secretary of state for communications. "A public declaration is not an official withdrawal, and a candidate must formally withdraw to the elections office in writing, including signature."

LOL. If he stays in the race, I might just support him. What a troll that would be.

Stay strong, stay brave, King.

Platner was recruited and promoted by two Democrat operatives: Morris Katz, a bisexual who proposed including a picture of his penis in a book intended for children to explain puberty to them, and Daneil Moraff, a nepo baby heir to the Toys-R-Us fortune who did what most nepo babies do and decided communism was a great idea.

By the way, rich bitch nepo babies admire socialism and communism because they know, first hand, that some very wealthy people did not work a single minute for that money and do not deserve it.

Of course, they universalize from their own narrow experience and construct fantasies that no one else earned their money, either, which is a Comforting Cope for them because it lets them believe that their own experience of doing nothing, creating nothing, contributing nothing yet being massively rich is a common thing.

Now, if they feel guilty about being undeservedly rich, they could give their money away to charity.

But they never do -- they want to continue enjoying the benefits of immense, unearned wealth.

So what they do instead is push for socialism and communism, while continuing to enjoy the fruits of capitalism. They get to "do penance" for their massively-unearned massive wealth by agitating for socialism while actually giving up precisely nothing.

Win-win, huh? Except for everyone else.


Anyway.

Democrats are pissed at this pair of political hustlers for foisting the Humble Oysterrapist on them, and they're opening all their dirt files on the two.

This report suggests a reason for Daniel Moraff not being too distressed about Graham Platner's history of rape and sexual violence.

PA. - Yesterday, Payday Report learned that Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Moraff from her 2022 congressional campaign after receiving at least three complaints of sexual misconduct against Moraff.

Now, Moraff, who recruited Graham Platner to run for Senate in Maine, is at the center of a massive controversy after he admitted that he spent only a few days vetting Platner, who just withdrew from the Senate race after he was accused of rape.

Given the fact that both Congresswoman Lee and Justice Democrats stopped working with Moraff following these accusations, questions have been raised about why so many on the left trusted him to give a thorough vetting and assessment of Platner.

"Birds of a feather, flock together and Moraff and Platner were predators," said one woman, who says she was sexually harassed while working to elect Congresswoman Lee.


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Oh No! Trump's DOJ is Prosecuting the Frankencientists Who Created Covid, Shut Down the Earth, and Killed Tens of Millions

—Disinformation Expert Ace

And The Atlantic is alarmed by this justice-seeking behavior.

Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun Indictments, subpoenas, and debarments are hitting American scientists embroiled in the controversy over COVID's origins.

"Payback"? Oh right, because any time a liberal is prosecuted for his notorious crimes it's just "political payback" from Trump. The endless prosecutions of Trump, on the other hand, were Just Some Good Prosecutin'.

By Daniel Engber

The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete. But pundits, activists, and members of the Trump administration have long insisted that the case is closed, and that the virus slipped out from a lab in China. They've maintained the view that U.S. scientists were involved and later tried to hide the facts. They've said that justice must be served.

You mean the same way that Fauci and his paid shills insisted the case was closed and it was a conspiracy theory and "racist" to question him?

He was Science, after all.

Now the reckoning they want appears to have arrived. An expert on the flu got hauled off by the FBI. A coronavirus researcher was indicted in Detroit. Two prominent virologists stepped down or were removed from senior roles. And a fifth infectious-disease researcher--Anthony Fauci, the central figure in an alleged "lab-leak" cover-up--was recently subpoenaed to appear before the U.S. Senate.

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The first case was Ralph Baric, a 72-year-old virologist and bat-coronavirus expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Baric worked closely with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which many adherents to the lab-leak theory posit as the source of the pandemic; one contingent thinks that Baric might have been the creator of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. On April 15, the NIH, which has in the past provided Baric's lab with hundreds of millions of dollars in research funds, referred him for debarment from all federal contracts for at least three years. The claims against him focus on some inconsistencies in paperwork and a series of decade-old experiments that the agency says were carried out in violation of a pause of a "gain-of-fuction" research. Baric told Science magazine's Jon Cohen that he's fighting the debarment, and that he'd been targeted on account of the furor over COVID origins; he appears to have retired from UNC on June 1. (Neither Baric nor the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees NIH, responded to requests for comment.)


The day after the government kicked off Baric's debarment proceedings, David Morens, a 78-year-old influenza specialist and one of Fauci's close advisers at NIAID, was indicted for conspiring to hide or falsify discussions of coronavirus research grants. "We have to keep all communications like this on private email so that it can't be retrieved via a FOIA," he wrote in one message from 2021. On April 27, per Cohen's reporting, armed federal agents in bulletproof vests arrived at Morens's home in Chester, Maryland, and handcuffed him in his underwear. Morens pleaded not guilty to the charges. (The FBI told Science that this description of the arrest was "inaccurate"; Morens's attorney declined to comment for this story.)

Just a few weeks later, news came out that the acting head of NIAID--the virologist Jeffrey Taubenberger, a very close colleague of Morens's--had either stepped down or been fired from his role. He and Morens had worked together on more than 60 academic papers, including 13 that also list Fauci as an author--and both had been on the radar of the lab-leak hard-liners. (Taubenberger did not respond to a request for comment.)

News also broke in May that the FBI was investigating another NIAID virologist, Vincent Munster, who had been called out for collaborating with Baric and the scientists in Wuhan. Since then, prosecutors have filed an indictment charging Munster and another researcher from his lab with a conspiracy to smuggle mpox into the U.S. and with making false statements to federal agents. The government claims that on January 25, Munster and that colleague arrived at an airport in Detroit from the Republic of the Congo with a black plastic case containing samples of the mpox virus, seemingly deactivated and noninfectious, and that they both lacked proper documentation for these materials and misled the customs agents who questioned them. The two virologists have pleaded not guilty. (Munster's attorney did not respond to a request for comment.)

The strongest argument for connecting all of these cases is that lab-leak activists themselves have done the same. Anthony Bellotti, the founder and president of the White Coat Waste Project, an animal-activist group that has leveraged the lab-leak theory in pursuit of its goal of ending all taxpayer-funded animal testing, declared that "Morens' indictment should be the beginning--not the end--of long-overdue lab leak accountability at NIH." Just two weeks before Munster was indicted on charges that seem to have no connection with the pandemic, Bellotti's group joined the right-wing activist Laura Loomer in hawking what they called a "whistleblower report" about the virologist's alleged misdeeds. That document describes Munster as a "Fauci acolyte and all around egotistical, arrogant foreigner that joined his research project (to aerosolize covid virus) to Ralph Baric's project (to weaponize it)." I could find no evidence that Munster, who is a Dutch citizen, ever worked on a project to "aerosolize" SARS-CoV-2. In the meantime, Senator Rand Paul has linked Munster's name to an early draft of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant application, with Baric listed as a principal investigator, that proposed to gauge the spillover risk associated with bat coronaviruses. The project's ultimate goal was to limit that threat but involved altering the viruses in ways that might have made them more infectious--and more like SARS-CoV-2. (The final version of that proposal does not mention Munster, and the extent to which he knew its details are unclear.)

If you believe, as Paul and others do, that this unfunded DARPA project may have been a blueprint for generating the pandemic virus--and that, one way or another, virologists' disregard for biosafety helped cause the deaths of millions--then seeking justice would be natural. If you're also sure that COVID got its start in studies funded by the U.S. government, and specifically through NIAID, then there is no greater villain in this story than Fauci. Just last week, Paul announced that he'd subpoenaed the lab-leak theory's final boss to testify in Congress at the end of this month. "He has not really gotten his just deserts," Paul said in a weekend interview on Fox. He later added: "There needs to be repercussions." A hearing is one of the clearest avenues to pursue such measures: The blanket pardon that Fauci received from President Biden wouldn't cover any charges of lying to Congress that arose from new sworn testimony. (Neither Fauci nor Paul responded to requests for comment.)

Good stuff, this "payback."

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Two Churches Firebombed In Mamdani's New York City By, Get This, Illegal Alien

—Disinformation Expert Ace

He's yet another foreign scumbag mental patient, or, as the leftwing communist media calls him: "Queens man."

NYPost:

Crazed maniac hurls Molotov cocktails at two NYC churches -- then goes on profane rant in shocking courtroom outburst


A twisted Queens firebug was busted for allegedly hurling Molotov cocktails at two Queens churches late Wednesday -- part of what prosecutors believe was a disturbing seven-incident spree.

Yogesh Sayrange, 36, -- who ranted like a madman in federal court on Thursday -- admitted to tossing fiery projectiles at the Iglesia Bautista El Mesias church in Ozone Park, and the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on in Woodhaven, along with other locations, according to cops and the feds.

"Yea, I f--king firebombed them," Sayrange allegedly told investigators about a separate bombing of a deli, adding with out explaination: "They're Muslims, scum and terrorists."

They were churches not mosques.

He he continued his manic, nonsensical rantings as he was hauled into Brooklyn federal court Thursday for arraignment on charges of allegedly tossing another makeshift device at a smoke shop on Fulton Street while wearing a distinct Guy Fawkes mask last week, prosecutors said.

"You're protecting them, you dumb c--t," Sayrange seethed at prosecutor Ashlyn Miranda. "I'm saying it to this retard here."

"The government is a criminal syndicate," he added as the marshal's handcuffs clicked behind him.

By Thursday, he only faced official charges in the smoke shop crime -- but prosecutors say they suspect that he is involved in seven total arsons dating back to June.

Sayrange also allegedly confessed to the June 25 deli arson, identifying himself both with and without the eerie face covering, according to the feds, who are still probing him for all the alleged firebomb attacks.

But the accused arsonist vehemently proclaimed his innocence in court -- snapping at Magistrate Judge Lara K. Eshkenazi, who simply asked him if he understood his rights.

"I don't stand under you, you stand under me," Sayrange barked. "You're making false accusations and asking 'do I agree with you?" No I don't."

Sayrange -- a Guyanese citizen who is considered "unauthorized" in the US because his childhood arrival protection expired -- was ordered held without bail.

"It's all fake," he snapped when prosecutors explained the risks he poses if not held.

"They're not members of the community, they're criminal cartels," Sayrange ranted. "They're foreign enemies."

...

The suspect was located by police -- who found two additional Molotov cocktails in his bag, prosecutors said.

"I had two more in my bag -- I was going to finish the job," he confessed, according to the feds.

He was taken into custody around 12:10 a.m. Thursday, according to police.

Investigators believe Sayrange mostly targeted houses of worship during his spree that began last month -- but commercial locations were also hit, according to law enforcement sources.

New York will fight like a tiger to keep this Cultural Enrichment Officer in the US.

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Service Businesses with Little or No Staffing; Waymo's Problems Are at the Intersection of the War on Labor Expense and the EV Follies

—Buck Throckmorton

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As I have documented several times, I am not a fan of self-driving cars. I am skeptical that it is possible to fully program the necessary combination of sound recognition, peripheral vision, pattern behavior, human instinct, and intuition that is necessary to safely power a multi-ton machine through uncommon perils.

Google’s Waymo operation seems to be going through a lot of growing pains. Unfortunately, those growing pains are occurring while there are passengers on board but without a person at the wheel.

It’s also becoming evident that a major part of the push for driverless vehicles is related to the War on Labor Expense that has normalized abhorrent business practices to reduce the cost of labor. The good news is that Waymo is not putting off-the-books or slave labor behind the wheel. The bad news is that there is no human involved whatsoever in the operation of its troubled vehicles.

The complete removal of customer-facing employees may save money, but it also results in unstaffed chaos when something goes wrong. For some reason, the self-driving taxi services all seem to use EVs too. Perhaps there is still an aura of gee-whiz futurism about EVs that has appeal, but a vehicle that cannot quickly be refueled seems like a bad choice for a taxi.

Before I discuss the latest round of Waymo problems, it was just two months ago that I wrote a piece about the many recent failures which put Waymo customers in serious peril. These included:

• A Waymo in Austin crossed a double-yellow line to use the oncoming traffic lane as a left-turn lane.

• Also in Austin, a Waymo drove into a flooded roadway, then once it was caught in the water, it stopped rather than drive away.

• A Waymo in Dallas was videotaped slowing at a red light, then just slowly creeping through the intersection, making other cars dodge it.

• A Waymo in San Antonio drove into a flooded roadway, and was then washed away!

July 4th was a very bad day for Waymo, especially in San Francisco, where one self-driving taxi with a passenger aboard drove into and directly over fireworks that were going off. Another Waymo drove into fireworks and the vehicle actually caught fire.

Elsewhere in San Francisco, stalled/bricked/discharged electric Waymos were blocking intersections and causing ire among actual humans who couldn’t get through the intersections. Neither could they talk to a live human driver about removing the abandoned Waymos that were obstructing roads.

“Waymo cars stranded on San Francisco streets as Fourth of July gridlock drains batteries” [NBC]

Dave Guingona told the [TV station] he spent nearly two hours in standstill traffic until a number of Waymo vehicles were cleared from a roadway.

Did I mention that these ridiculous vehicles are EVs?

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Fight on the Little Big Horn

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[Hat Tip: Pete Bog]

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The Morning Report — 7/ 10 /26

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids. With the Iranian conflict still unresolved and the alleged ceasefire all but vaporized along with a few more ships in the Strait of Hormuz and ground targets in Iran itself, the Mullahs nevertheless remain in power, and as such a threat not just to the stability and peace of the region but an existential threat to civilization itself.

. . .the Twelvers want Apocalypse Now, and if they must nuke Jerusalem or Paris, so be it. That’s their ticket to Paradise. It’s their religion, and who are you to question it? Just because fulfilling the Twelvers’ goal might involve eradicating the human race is no reason for you to get all het up about it, as we say here in Texas. . . What’s that? You say you don’t believe they would serenely blow themselves up along with the rest of the world, that they are just bluffing? Do you think that the hijackers of 9/11 weren’t serious?

Whether President Trump understands this he for sure understood the madness of ignoring and worse the Obama/Biden aiding and abetting of allowing Iran to obtain a nuclear weapons arsenal, the pornographic fiction and propaganda of the JCPOA notwithstanding, and so we along with Israel at least for the time being have put a halt if not an end to that.

With that in mind, this story from last week makes zero sense:

Reuters reported that the Trump administration has already notified Congress of its intention to approve the sale of US engines worth €613 million for KAAN, Turkey’s fifth-generation fighter aircraft, which is currently under development. The bigger question, however, is whether Washington will also pave the way for Turkey to acquire F-35 fighter jets. Ankara was removed from the F-35 programme in 2019 after purchasing the Russian S-400 air defence system, which Washington argued posed a threat to the aircraft’s sensitive technology by potentially collecting radar data on the F-35. . . Turkey has been described as “the new Iran,” and for good reason. Its reputation has aligned with that depiction...

First of all, while Turkey and Erdogan are Sunni and not Shiite, the salient point here is that they are first and foremost Muslim. Regardless of the internecine and eternal struggle between those two factions, the ultimate goal of both is for Islam to conquer the world. Erdogan and his cohorts have completely eviscerated a century of progress and westernization brought about by Kemal Ataturk in service of that goal. Erdogan is content, much like Blofeld wringing his hands at the Soviets and Americans duking it out like Siamese fighting fish so that he can ultimately come out on top as the de facto leader of the entire Islamic world and ultimately usher in the age of Islam ruling the world as his legacy. That Turkey is still in NATO is the height of insanity. Unless and until Erdogan and his party are removed from power they will be an existential threat to the security of the region perhaps as serious as Iran. And while they'll hold onto those F-35s the risk of him selling one off to the Red Chinese cannot be discounted. And yet for the President to go forward with this deal is madness. He's either clueless or being ill-advised.

I would hope folks like Hegseth and Rubio have his ear and are not the ones encouraging this. As for Rubio, on the plus side, there's this:


. . . Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited the foreign ministers and other senior officials from over 60 countries to Washington, D.C. next week for a summit. The goal? To combat the "resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism," according to Washington Post reporters who say they saw documents related to the matter. ..
Unlike the highly structured far-left groups of the past, modern far-left and anarchist extremism relies heavily on decentralized, cross-border networking that is often organized online. Both U.S. and European intelligence agencies have pointed to growing coordination between decentralized Antifa and Antifa-like networks and European autonomous groups, especially surrounding major global events. This often leads to riots, arson, attacks on law enforcement, attacks on infrastructure and symbols of capitalism, and destruction of public and private property. 

The aforementioned potential F-35 madness notwithstanding, Marco Rubio is a champ, and I think he may very well become President in the coming years if not in 2028 then perhaps 2032. That is if we can outlast and defeat the Leftist menace here at home.

A recent Cato poll shows that more members of Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, have a positive view of Communism than those who have a negative view with around a third splitting each way. Some of this can be attributed to social media propaganda, the educational system and popular culture and helps explain the young activists flocking to the DSA.

43% of ‘students’ rate Communism favorably and only 29% rate it unfavorably making it clear that the higher educational system isn’t just broken, it’s actively recruiting the next generation into extremism, domestic terrorism and totalitarian ideologies of the most terrible kind. This tracks with other polls showing campus support for violence and suppression of free speech.

This is not good, my friends.

Less than half of Americans think capitalism is working as patriotism, support for democracy tanks . . They’re seeing red. Fewer than half of Americans think capitalism is working — and support for democracy and patriotism has tanked in the last decade thanks to the nation’s pessimistic youth, according to a sobering new poll. As the nation turned 250 years old, only 48% of Americans believe that capitalism is working well in the US, compared to 60% who said so a decade ago, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal and the National Opinion Research Center. Just over half (51%) of those surveyed said American capitalism was working not too well or not at all well, the study showed. The same study found just 12% of Americans believe democracy is working extremely or very well in the US, compared to a staggering 56% who said it is working not very well or not at all well. Many of those who answered also felt that the American Dream, tying together democracy and capitalism, is further out of reach than ever before. Just over a third (35%) of respondents said that the American Dream — that if you work hard, you’ll get ahead — still holds true, down from 53% in 2012.

So, forget combatting Leftists abroad — the question is, how do we combat Leftism at home if as I fear we cannot rely on the institutions that are supposed to safeguard our liberties have been utterly corrupted, weaponized and turned against us.

It's going to get very ugly, I fear.

Have a great weekend.


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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - July 9, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

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Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Open thread, as always. Content supplied for those who are interested. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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In response to someone asking why the video tape doesn't show Tyler Robinson's face (PS, it does, but it's crappy video so it's blurry):

Candace Owens
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Because as I demonstrated on my show, there were MANY young men that all woke up and decided to dress in Maroon shirts and light shorts on the day of the Charlie's assassination.

The footage can be any one of these young men and in my opinion is likely multiple of them.

If Tyler Robinson's defense would like to contact me-- I'd be happy to supply them the folder of the maroon boys that I began archiving when I noticed the bizarre fashion trend.

I have thus far ID'd two of them, but will focus on IDing the rest of them when I am back on air.

I have maintained that the Feds had multiple decoy maroon boys on the ground that day. Without a clear image, they certainly cannot declare it is Tyler Robinson which is why all the Zionist influencers are hoping they can simply hypnotize the public into trusting blurry images and videos.
For such an "open and shut case" they have thus far provided ZERO evidence of anything outside of a criminal government conspiracy, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the JFK assassination.
More "fedslop" that Cavernous Nostrils is too smart to be taken in by:

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BREAKING: Lance Twiggs says that Robinson admitted to him in-person on Sept. 11 that the message he had sent the night before (presumably, messages sent while he was trying to retrieve his rifle the night of Sept 10) was true. He says Robinson told him "He wishes he hadn't done it."
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Photos of the ammunition recovered from Tyler Robinson.

Remington headstamp on the case and despite the somewhat low resolution on the photo you can see the somewhat blunted nature of the projectile's tip.

This is a Remington Cor-Lokt soft point round. It's SPECIFICALLY designed to deform, slow down, and prevent an exit wound. Available at literally every single gun store and sporting goods store that sells ammunition.

In fact, 16 out of the 17 .30-06 varieties manufactured by Remington use some type of expanding, deforming, or fragmenting bullet. Only ONE of their products uses a full metal jacket projectile that could/would be expected to leave an exit wound.

Here's a clip of them sitting in my desk.

This has been the most easily debunked claim of their entire web of lies and it's really mind blowing considering this is exactly what you would choose for an assassination.

But yeah, definitely keep getting all your information from the DEI hire and the Portland pizza boy. I'm sure they know more about this than I do.

Post here, showing Tyler Robinson's ammunition, matching this guy's own box. And it is an expanding-tip hollow-point round.

Boy these Internet Experts (TM) sure do get a lot of things wrong.
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