The Badman Open Thread
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I didn't like Pete Holmes superhero parody stuff because I'm a self-hating nerd who hates when people pander to me with nerdy shit I'm supposed to like.
But then I watched his great impression of Bale Batman and was won over.
Here are his original "Badman" sketches. Most of them are so-so, but there are two must watches. The one at the beginning of that series shows Batman trying out a lot of bad voices, including celebrity impressions, as his "Bat-Voice."
The other great one I linked a few months ago -- it's the climax of The Dark Knight Rises, and Talia al-Ghul wants to explain her evil plot to him, but Batman just wants to keep bragging that he banged her.
A more recent Batman series is called "Bat-Canned," where Batman fires various members of the Justice League, as well as the Robert Pattinson "The Batman" and the Joachin Phoenix Joker. There are also videos of the outtakes for each.
The best ones are Cyborg (despite how lame that character is), "the Batman," and Superman. The Joker one is okay. The Aquaman one is lame, as is the Wonder Woman one.
But for the outtakes, the Wonder Woman one is the best. They really left all their best jokes on the cutting room floor, maybe because they kept laughing at them. Other good outtakes ones include Cyborg again (which has a joke I guess they considered too dark and disturbing for the official video), Superman, and "The Batman."
You might want to watch the Wonder Woman video, as lame as it is, just as a set-up for the very funny outtakes video. Batman is #Based. "It's amazing I haven't gotten canceled yet," he says.
THE MORNING RANT: Independence Day and (Repeatedly) Stolen Lands
—Buck Throckmorton
It’s sad that Independence Day is a national day of mourning for the American left. This year it’s especially tough for them, since the celebration is even grander due to this being the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
My local paper is honoring the semiquincentennial by running a different story every day which highlight reasons for their shame about being American. In the past week, the featured stories have included slavery, lynchings, the slave trade, the KKK, and segregation. There is no triumph in those stories about what was overcome under the stars and stripes either, just pure venom at what a sinister country this is.
But it’s long been this way. For decades it’s made me sad that the left couldn’t stop hating on America for even one day of the year, but they can’t. I recall listening to the NPR station back in the late ‘90s, and it’s Independence Day coverage was heavily focused on injustices and land theft committed against Native Americans and Mexicans. I fully understood that NPR was providing emotional support to its listeners on a very difficult day. Those of us patriotically celebrating the USA have always caused emotional distress to the left.
Because Democrats are desperately fixated on this country being built on stolen land, they’ll never accept the U.S. as being a legitimate country to take pride in. At this point, all we on the right can do is laugh at them and hope their fervent anti-patriotism propels their party into further disrepute.
At the recent Texas Democratic Convention, it opened with, what else, a land acknowledgement to the native Karankawa Indians. This is what attendees heard: “I would also like to acknowledge that we gather on the traditional homelands of the indigenous peoples of the coastal bend and the area known as Corpus Christi. The Karankawa were the people of Corpus Christi Bay.”
Now listen, I’m a guy who believes it’s imperative to celebrate the good and de-emphasize the bad in those who came before us and helped shape this country, but the Karankawa were so rough that even the “civilized tribes” kept their distance.
The Texas Democrat Convention kicks off with, what else, but a land acknowledgement…for cannibals!
— Brandon Waltens (@bwaltens) June 26, 2026
Oh brother. pic.twitter.com/HZK5AAggXX
The Tonkawas of Central Texas allied with and fought alongside white settlers because the Tonkawas were sandwiched between the Karankawas to the southeast and the Comanches to the northwest. History is complicated, but land acknowledgements aren’t. They are simple, no-cost outlets for white guilt.
But speaking of stolen land - in the great 19th century battles on the Texas frontier between white settlers and Comanches, both sides were fighting over stolen land that neither were native to. The Comanches had been a small, weak Shoshone tribe in the Mountain West until they acquired horses and moved east, creating the powerful “Comancheria empire in the southern plains by displacing the Apaches. The indispensable Traces of Texas provides an account from “Comanche Empire” on the Comanche colonization of the plains:
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Mid-Morning Art Thread: Happy Independence Day!*
—CBD
Three Flags
Jasper Johns
*The 4th of July is a date. Independence Day is our national holiday. And yes, this will be on the quiz!
The Morning Report — 7/ 3 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Considering tomorrow is not only Independence Day but the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, I'll try to keep things light, but considering the how, why and what of our nation's founding and the pedal to the metal headlong rush by a sizable percentage of our fellow citizens (at least on paper) to utterly eradicate it by the embracing of political philosophies and principles that are wholly antithetical to the founding and its bedrock core of several thousand years of human development based on Judeo/Christianity and our overcoming of evil, tyranny and the baser instincts of men to deprive their fellow men of life and liberty.
On her social media, Chevalier had bragged about being a Communist and praised Stalin. Now she’ll be a full-time government employee while wielding power over the lives of millions, but it would not have happened without the intersection of pro-terrorist activism and socialism. . . Democrats welcoming their first “Death to America” congresswoman is certainly a trend of sorts.After Mamdani’s three endorsed candidates, including Chevalier, who oppose Israel and support Islamic terrorism, won, former VP Kamala Harris called to congratulate the Islamic politician and ask him for tips about breathing some life into her own flailing 2028 presidential campaign. . . Oct 7, like Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matter, had become a social contagion and a hysterical cause that could be used to recruit a new army of political foot soldiers for the far Left. Riots and clashes blooded them, social media confrontations indoctrinated them and now they’re moving into higher office on behalf of the DSA. . .What is happening is that the Democrats are disintegrating into a radical party even while losing more of the country. The DSA isn’t becoming popular so much as Democrats are becoming so hollowed out that even small groups of pro-Hamas activists can take over the party.
That’s bad news for America, but it’s even worse news for the Democratic Party.
this is not merely about Jews and Israel. In the view of this freak and really everyone like her is that Israel is the little Satan but America is the Great Satan! That was is and always will be the central motivating factor not merely of the DSA but of the Democrat Party as a whole, as it has always been ever since Aaron Burr slaughtered Alexander Hamilton in 1804 and ever since. It cannot be said enough but everything wrong with this country, all the pain, suffering, misery, dislocation and the wastage of blood treasure and human potential is directly the fault of or has been exacerbated by the will to power of the Democrat/Left, period full stop. Since losing the Civil War which they initiated in order to perpetuate slavery, they have done everything they could to seize power even if it meant glomming onto Satan himself to bring this nation down. No evil, perversion or lie was too horrendous to embrace if it got them a fraction of an inch closer to their goals. Even to this day is is evidenced by who and what is the driving force of what once supposedly was one of the two mainstream political parties of the USA. I still marvel how a Gus Hall/Angela Davis boosting card-carrying communist could ever have become a CIA agent let alone rise to head that agency itself. Meh, look who hired him, a dog-eating anti-American Muslim Commie whose principal booster was William Ayers, a man who fantasized about wiping out 25 million people who refused to accept a Weather/Underground run America once he and his cohorts seized power. That might have been back in 1968 but it was only a week or so ago where we had a story about a Democrat candidate who supported the mass roundup of ICE agents and Zionists and their forced castration.
Nearly one-third of Democrats favor political leaders who identify as democratic socialists, according to a new poll, as recent primary victories by self-described democratic socialists have drawn renewed attention to the Democratic Party’s ideological direction. The Pew Research Center survey comes after democratic socialist candidates scored a series of high-profile Democratic primary victories in recent weeks, including last week’s victories in New York City and Tuesday’s upset of 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) by Democratic Socialist candidate Melat Kiros in Colorado, highlighting the movement’s recent electoral momentum.
On that very sour note, we're still standing. But for how much longer? Was the election of President Trump a harbinger or was it merely a speed bump on the road to Hell? And what of the coming of the DSA? Was that a speed bump on our way back on the road to American renewal or is that GOD FORBID a harbinger?
We'll have to wait and see, I suppose and with that I bid you all...
Have a wonderful July 4th Independence Day weekend.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Democrats welcome their first “Death to America” congresswoman.
Hamas Rioters Get Their Own Members of Congress
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Daily Tech News 3 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- SK Hynix - the third of the Big Three memory manufacturers after Micron and Samsung - is planning to invest $712.5 billion to expand production. (Tom's Hardware)
Which I am pretty sure is still a lot.
The article says the total amount involved is 1.1 trillion won (KRW), but that's a mistake; it's actually 1.1 quadrillion won.
$64 billion goes to expanding the company's existing facilities at Cheongju for producing NAND flash and packaging chips. $389 billion goes to the new campus at Yongin with initial production planned for next year and meaningful scale in 2028. The site was originally planned for completion in 2045, but that's been accelerated to 2033 - still a fair way out, but factories will come online in stages throughout those years.
And $259 billion to a brand new campus that they have not even settled on a location for just yet.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - July 2, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Thanks for stopping by the Thursday ONT. Lots of folks off tomorrow since the 4th falls on a Saturday. Probably a lot of holiday shenanigans already underway. Turnout may be low this evening. That's OK - those of you who ARE here are my favorites anyway!
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The Ocho Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Crazy Red Bull race down the mesas and ridges of a Utah desert.
Urban bike run in Valparaiso, Chile.
Skateboarding down a mountain.
Female chess boxing. They're both kind of cute, so they're both terrible at boxing.
Drone agility race: Human controller vs. AI.
Rudy the bulldog SLAYS the agility course. I mean, I guess he slays. Honestly I have no idea if this is good for a bulldog or not. He is cute, though.
From Jackass 4.5: Down the Clown.
Wingsuiters enter a cargo plane through the cargo door.
Skydiving without a parachute. Don't worry, he has friends with him who have parachutes.
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The Week In Woke
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon80% of DSA members have a college degree.
60% work professional jobs.
Just 4% are blue-collar.
85% are white.This isn't a working-class movement but an elite one, for whom "Free Palestine" and "Abolish ICE" operate as a smokescreen for class privilege--just like climate and trans activism and identity politics once did.
"DECOLONIZE THE STACKS!," say woke librarians, determined to "queer the libraries" and insisting that neutrality in the culture wars is racist.
Critical race theory scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw was the keynote speaker for the American Library Association's annual Conference and Exhibition, she writes. Sessions reflected "a mishmash of critical theory argle-bargle," including "Charting Queer Visibility," "Read Trans Books," "Queer Kidlit Joy," "Decolonizing the Stacks," and "Cultivating Radical Empathy."The ALA has enormous influence over K-12 libraries through its school library division, which sets standards, guidance, and so-called "best practices," Sanzi writes. It "shapes what books are purchased, displayed, and promoted," and fights "efforts to place age-appropriate limits on sexually explicit or heavily ideological materials."
The ALA explicitly rejected viewpoint neutrality in 2021, she writes. A resolution claims libraries have contributed to white supremacy and fascism through a "misplaced emphasis on neutrality."
Libraries are no longer positioned as open forums for ideas where texts from different viewpoints are celebrated. Instead, they are tightly curated spaces, dedicated to advancing a particular set of revolutionary values....
Librarians are expected to celebrate "queer visibility" and "trans books," promoting "a specific (and not especially widely held) perspective on gender and sexuality."
Localities should mass-fire these woke librarians. They should pass ordinances forbidding woke ideology in librarian jobs. I don't even want to hear that's not viewpoint-neutral -- they explicitly reject viewpoint neutrality themselves.
Clay Travis @ClayTravisThe Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states can keep boys from competing in girls sports. That's a no brainer decision. But 23 states still allow boys to compete in girls sports. This decision doesn't change that. And all three liberals said boys should be able to compete as girls.
All three votes to allow men to play women's sports were from women, by the way. The biggest obstacle to sanity in women's sports doesn't come from men, it comes from left wing women.
Stephen L. Miller @redsteezeWe've been saying this for years, ever since this whole idea started to become mainstream, that liberal women and feminists were going to have to speak out and stop the erasure of their accomplishments, but they are too scared of the political mafia to do so. Hostages in their own tribe. Lot of that going on over on that side these days.
Flashback, April 2025: A "trans woman" says he feels "unsafe" and is about to have a "panic attack" when told that trans women are not actually women. Then he flounces off the show.
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley
Before reporting on the transgender case, NBC actually gave an effective trigger warning that it would be quoting the court in the use of terms like "biological male" and "biological female." https://tinyurl.com/fezze98u
This is how the press becomes a parody of itself.
J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling
A man (Samantha Tempest, here abbreviated to ST) is arguing in court that he belongs in a group for menopausal women. It is pointed out to him that menopause is the cessation of ovulation and that, being a man who never started, let alone ceased, ovulating he does not belong in such a group. He disagrees. He says he's had 'menopausal symptoms' like hot flushes and brain fog. This is like me claiming to have been in the army because I once shot an air rifle and quite like khaki.
I'm very concerned about Trans Violence:
I Meme Therefore I Am @ImMeme0SHOCKING: Wisconsin trans Democratic staffer Teha Delaruelle is openly calling on leftists to "Kill Your Local Republican."
"We're going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin, but I need your help."
Carnival Cruises has banned a dozen of its classiest passengers.
More than a dozen travelers were banned from sailing with Carnival Cruise Line after fighting at the port in Miami.The altercation took place in the Customs and Border Protection debarkation area, according to the company. The June 22 fight occurred between two families and police responded, the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office (MDSO) said.
"The incident was deemed a mutual combatant incident," MDSO told USA TODAY in an email. Police documented the fight, but the parties declined to press charges.
"We are appreciative of law enforcement's swift response and handling of the matter," Carnival said in an emailed statement. "We do not tolerate such behavior, and 16 people have been placed on our Do Not Sail List."
A video posted on Instagram shows a group of people shoving and throwing punches at one another in the terminal, with at least two people knocked to the ground and luggage strewn around the space. Police and the cruise line did not identify the people involved or the ship they were sailing on.
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Chris Rufo: In the Name of "Racial Equity," LA Stopped Charging Fares to Get Into Their Subway System.
Now It's a Filthy, Crime-Ridden, Feces-Filled Hellscape Where Lunatics Are Free to Rape Innocent Women.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Los Angeles refuses to release videos showing the attacks made by criminals on citizens in their transit system. Chris Rufo got one video leaked to him, showing a man dragging a woman off the subway car to rape her.
More from Rufo: LA Metro is a Crime-Ridden Hellscape.
Every day, thousands of Los Angelenos take a deep breath, step out of their houses, and plunge themselves into a transit experience straight out of Mad Max. The city's buses have become rolling homeless shelters, replete with drugs and feces. Its trains are home to murder and mayhem. As Daquan, a daily rider who works near the North Hollywood station told us, "You could kill somebody down there and just get away with it."The transformation has been swift and stark. Between 2020 and 2025, crime in the system more than doubled. What drove the change? L.A. Metro's dedication to creating an equitable transit system, where all Angelenos--drug-addicted, homicidal maniacs included--can effectively ride free, without consequences.
In other words, Angelenos have been condemned to die underground, all in the name of racial justice.
Activists and their allies in city government have spent years laser-focused on driving cops from the L.A. Metro's buses and trains. Their argument: making people pay to use the trains is racist.
Helming this effort was the Labor Community Strategy Center, its offshoot the Bus Riders Union, and a wider coalition of activists. The center believed that, at root, Metro's fare-enforcement policies were designed to create a "sterile lily white rail experience," as its black indigenous and "[q]ueer" co-director, Channing Martinez, put it. Martinez hoped to pressure Metro, a "South African Apartheid pass system," to institute free fares, abolish the transit court system, and nullify the L.A. Sheriff's long-held ability to enforce fares aboard the trains.
In November 2016, the Labor Community Strategy Center filed a civil rights complaint claiming that L.A. Metro was "systematically targeting Black riders." Black riders, they alleged, made up less than 20 percent of riders but received at least half of all citations. As a remedy, the center proposed (emphasis removed) that Metro remove all police and fare-collection staff, institute "[p]olicies of reparation" for black riders, and put an "immediate end to all fare collection."
I have an alternate theory, which just happens to be consistent with FBI crime statistics broken down by race.
Less than a month later, L.A. Metro's Board of Advisors unanimously demanded that Metro create a plan that would "completely decriminalize fare evasion amongst youth transit users" and ensure that youth fare evaders not be "required to interact with law enforcement." Board members specifically singled out "[y]outh of color" who, they said, were "disproportionately cited for fare evasion." Founding Metro board member Mark Ridley-Thomas, one of the members who proposed the idea, said the motion would address the "long-standing problem of criminalizing this segment of the population."...
Today, Metro hardly enforces fares....
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Free fares inevitably mean one thing: crime. The system is a hellscape drenched in human feces, where riders are subject to verbal or physical threats, open needles, and screaming homeless people. One million people must contend with the system every day--including some who have been brutalized on buses, trains, and platforms.
Take, for example, Mirna Soza Arauz, a 67-year-old grandmother who was fatally stabbed in the throat by a deranged homeless man named Elliot Nowden. Soza was on her way home from an overnight shift at a local burger restaurant when Nowden attacked her from behind. She managed to exit the train at the Universal City Station with blood gushing from her neck. Nowden stole Soza's bag and ran.
It wasn't Nowden's first Metro offense. He was banned from riding Metro trains in 2019 after stabbing a college student in the chest on the Expo Line--a ban evidently not enforced. In February 2024, he was arrested for an assault at the same Red Line station where he would stab Soza two months later.
If you're not enforcing fares -- if you're just letting the homeless enter the trains at will -- how could you ever force a specific ban on a person? That requires cops at the turnstiles looking at people as they enter.
Months ago, we submitted a records request with L.A. Metro demanding surveillance footage of Soza's murder. Metro delayed the request for weeks before ultimately determining that releasing the footage was not in the "public interest." Soza's family disagrees. Her three children signed a consent letter allowing Metro to release the video of their mother's stabbing--which would allow the public to see what Metro tries to hide. L.A. Metro has still not provided the video, against the Soza family's wishes.
Lizzo Loses Weight and the Fat Fans She Cultivated as an Identity Group Drop Her Like a Bad Habit
Plus, Health Nonsense
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Via John Sexton: When you sell yourself as the avatar of an identity cult, you'd better retain that identity if you want to remain its avatar.
Have you heard? Lizzo just put out a new album and, well, it seems no one bought it. The album, titled "Bitch," was meant to be a comeback for Lizzo but it looks like no one wants her back.[CNN:] After reaching eye-watering success with hits like "Truth Hurts" and "About Damn Time," the four-time Grammy winner's latest effort has dropped with a thud, reportedly streaming under a million times on Spotify within the first 24 hours of its release, selling fewer than 3,000 copies in its first week according to Rolling Stone and failing to crack the Billboard 200 in the first two weeks.Once ubiquitous in the culture -- as much for her full-on embrace of self-love and body positivity as for her infectious anthems -- Lizzo is now relegated to "what happened to her?" status.
What happened to her was Ozempic, which is considered Unholy by Fat Acceptance Movement Cultists.
She tried to explain her weight loss to her cultists:
I started losing weight in the fall of 2023. I was severely depressed...I'd decided that winter to sit and record a video saying I wanted to intentionally lose weight. Why? I guess I felt like I had lost everything, and I wanted to change. After talking to a few therapists I discovered that my weight had been a protective shield, a joyful comfort zone, and even sometimes a super hero suit to protect me through life...
I was sick and tired of my identity being overshadowed by my fatness. People could not see my talent as a musician because they were too busy accusing me of making "being fat" my whole personality...
It kinda was, though.
Here she tries to spin: "fit" is "the new fat" and the body positivity movement has to evolve to accept less fat bodies as Also Positive.
They're not buying it.
I want us to allow the body positive movement to expand and grow far away from the commercial slop its become. Because movements move.
"What's complicated about Lizzo is Lizzo did make her body size part of her brand," said Tigress Osborn, executive director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). There's also the fact that Lizzo is a Black woman, the activist said...
I mean, whatever. But yeah, if you sell yourself as Your Identity then you are trapped in that identity. Or at least you have to sell a new identity to new fans.
I didn't like her when she was fat and I don't like her now that she's slightly less fat. Either way, she's a low-talent skank.
Speaking of Ozempic: RFKJr. was glad to announce that for the first time in fifty years, obesity rates have dropped in America, but I'm guessing that has little to do with changing nutritional guidelines to something more sane.
The United States' obesity rate has dropped for the first time in 50 years under President Donald Trump's administration, Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this week."Since President Trump came into office, obesity rates in this country have dropped by 2.5 percent," Kennedy announced during an event in Charlotte. "That's the first drop in 50 years."
Kennedy said that drop will have "significant impacts on health care costs in this country," noting that obesity drives the vast majority of chronic disease.
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"When my uncle was president, three percent of children were obese. Now it's 20 percent... 77 percent of our kids cannot qualify for military service because of chronic disease, mainly obesity. This has national security implications. It is absolutely destroying our country economically. It's the biggest cause," he said.
Kennedy also said that obesity rates shot up in the U.S. because of ultra-processed foods and misinformation about proper nutrition -- not sudden laziness on the part of the American people.
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The majority of calories consumed by Americans, he continued, come from ultra-processed foods.
"It's poisonous. It destroys your metabolic system. It makes you obese, and you know, people, diabetes, for example, is driven by ultra-processed food. When I was a kid, a typical pediatrician would see one case of type two diabetes over a 40 or 50 year career. Today 38 percent of American teens are diabetic or pre diabetic," he said, deeming it a "terrible crisis."
A study confirms that fasting actually boosts focus and brainpower, rather than reducing them, as people fear it will.
I mean sure, when you get pangs of hunger you're distracted. No denying that. But what people think is that the pangs of hunger are always present. They're not. They come for about fifteen or twenty minutes every couple of hours.
The rest of the time energy is high and the mind is clearer than normal.
As effective as fasting can be for weight loss, it's often thought that depriving the body of sustenance might have a negative impact on brainpower.But is an impact on cognitive performance really an inevitable part of the fasting experience?
According to a huge, recently published review, it's not always the case.
Based on an analysis of 63 scientific articles representing 71 independent studies, and covering a total of 3,484 participants, the review found that there was no meaningful difference in cognitive performance between people who were fasting and people who were having regular meals.
It's a comprehensive counter to the idea that moderate, short-term restrictions on eating will deplete mental reserves in healthy people, an idea found everywhere from snack adverts ("you're not you when you're hungry") to the mantra that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
On average, the data from the studies (each represented by a blue dot) showed similar test scores between people fasting and not fasting -- a straight line along 0 would be identical scores. Positive values indicate higher performance by satiated participants, relative to fasted participants, and negative values imply higher performance of fasted participants. (Bamberg & Moreau, Psychol. Bull., 2026)
The researchers behind the analysis -- psychologist Christoph Bamberg from Paris Lodron University in Austria, and cognitive neuroscientist David Moreau from the University of Auckland in New Zealand -- don't want people who could benefit from fasting to be put off by worrying that it'll lead to foggy thinking.
"For most healthy adults, the findings offer reassurance," Moreau explained in a commentary for The Conversation.
"You can explore intermittent fasting or other fasting protocols without worrying that your mental sharpness will vanish."
There's a famous scene in Sleeper where a future scientist notes that the hero came from a time when doctors told the populace that red meat, eggs, alcohol, cigarette smoking and utter were unhealthy -- "all of which we now know to be untrue."
I don't think that cigarettes or booze will be deemed healthy, but just about everything they told you would kill you for 40 years is now admitted to be healthy.
New Research Suggests Moderate Egg Consumption Is Linked to a Longer Life, Doctor Breaks It Down A 2025 study tracking adults over 70 found that eating eggs one to six times per week was linked to a 29% lower risk of cardiovascular death and a 17% lower risk of dying from any cause.
A 2025 study tracking adults over 70 found that eating eggs one to six times per week was linked to a 29% lower risk of cardiovascular death and a 17% lower risk of dying from any cause.Few foods have been as unfairly villainized as the egg. For decades, dietary guidelines warned against them, citing concerns about cholesterol and heart disease. But the science has been quietly shifting, and a new 2025 study out of Melbourne's School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine may be the most compelling evidence yet that moderate egg consumption is not just safe -- it may actually support a longer life.
What the Research Found
Researchers tracked adults aged 70 and older and monitored their egg consumption over time. Those who ate eggs one to six times per week saw meaningful reductions in mortality risk compared to those who ate them rarely or not at all.
The numbers are striking. Moderate egg eaters had a 29% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a 17% lower risk of dying from any cause. Importantly, those benefits plateaued at higher intake levels. Eating eggs seven or more times per week did not appear to provide additional protection, suggesting that moderation is the sweet spot.
I know that some commenters warn against low-calorie sweeteners. A study finds that one sugar alcohol, sorbitol, causes fatty liver disease just like fructose does.
Researchers have uncovered evidence that a common "sugar-free" sweetener may mimic some of fructose's harmful effects in the body.That "sugar-free" snack in your kitchen may not be as harmless as it looks.
Scientists are raising new concerns about sorbitol, a common sweetener used in products marketed as low-calorie or diabetic friendly. New research suggests the sugar alcohol can trigger processes linked to fatty liver disease, especially when gut bacteria fail to break it down properly.
The study, published in Science Signaling, found that sorbitol can ultimately behave much like fructose inside the body.
Fructose, which is heavily used in soft drinks and processed foods, has already been strongly linked to metabolic dysfunction--associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), a condition formerly known as fatty liver disease. MASLD now affects an estimated 30% of adults worldwide and is increasingly being diagnosed in younger people.
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The team found that after glucose is consumed, intestinal cells can convert some of it into sorbitol. Under healthy conditions, gut bacteria normally destroy much of that sorbitol before it causes problems. But when those microbes are missing or overwhelmed, sorbitol travels to the liver, where it is transformed into fructose-related compounds that drive fat buildup.
In effect, the body may be quietly producing its own fructose pathway even without consuming fructose directly.
Huh. I avoid sorbitol anyway because it's one of the sugar alcohols that causes GI problems. Your body might not be able to digest it, but gut bacteria can -- and they go crazy when they are fed raw carbohydrates.
I don't know why this is is new news, but low frequency subsonic sounds may cause fear and anxiety.
People exposed to infrasound may not consciously hear it, but they can show higher cortisol levels and increased irritability, which may help explain reports of "haunted" locations.Infrasound refers to sound at very low frequencies, below 20 Hertz (Hz), a range that people usually cannot hear. It can be produced by natural events such as storms, as well as human made sources such as traffic. Some animals use infrasound for communication, while others move away from it. In a new study of whether people can sense infrasound, scientists found that although humans do not consciously detect it, their bodies still react, with exposure linked to greater irritability and higher cortisol levels.
"Infrasound is pervasive in everyday environments, appearing near ventilation systems, traffic, and industrial machinery," said Prof. Rodney Schmaltz of MacEwan University, senior author of the article in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. "Many people are exposed to it without knowing it. Our findings suggest that even a brief exposure may shift mood and raise cortisol, which highlights the importance of understanding how infrasound affects people in real-world settings.
"Consider visiting a supposedly haunted building. Your mood shifts, you feel agitated, but you can't see or hear anything unusual. In an old building, there is a good chance that infrasound is present, particularly in basements where aging pipes and ventilation systems produce low-frequency vibrations. If you were told the building was haunted, you might attribute that agitation to something supernatural. In reality, you may simply have been exposed to infrasound."
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Participants who had been exposed to infrasound showed higher salivary cortisol levels. They also reported feeling more irritable, less interested, and more likely to perceive the music as sad. Even so, they could not reliably tell whether infrasound had been playing.
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"Increased cortisol levels help the body respond to immediate stressors by inducing a state of vigilance," said Prof Trevor Hamilton of MacEwan University, corresponding author. "This is an evolutionarily-adapted response that helps us in many situations. However, prolonged cortisol release is not a good thing. It can lead to a variety of physiological conditions and alter mental health."
Maybe cities are causing people to be mentally ill by flooding them with subsonic noise.
Bad news: Jack Straw's sperm is retarded.
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DOJ Now Investigating China's Agent and Tech Billionaire Neville Roy Singham, Who Uses His Fortune to Fund Just About Every Hard-Left Antifa-Adjacent Group in America
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Literally. He married the founder of Code Pink.
Congress is wading into a federal grand jury investigation into alleged financial crimes committed by China-based businessman Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. citizen, and his connections to left-wing activist groups.The Department of Justice, authorized by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, launched a federal grand jury probe into the tech tycoon to investigate alleged wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering within his financial network.
Prosecutors are examining the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars that Mr. Singham allegedly funneled from Shanghai into the U.S. through defunct shell corporations and a Goldman Sachs philanthropy fund.
The funds were allegedly distributed to a constellation of nonprofits, media operations and activist groups, such as CodePink, co-founded by Mr. Singham's wife, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, that lawmakers and critics accuse of pushing Chinese Communist Party propaganda and sectarian division.
"Neville Singham is a traitor to our country. He has ties to the CCP," Sen. Jim Banks, Indiana Republican, told Fox News Digital. "He is an American citizen, but all of his loyalties lie with the Chinese Communist Party. And when you begin to untangle the web of his massive fortune and his philanthropic activities, the money that he sends to left-wing groups in America, and not just groups that espouse ideologies, but espouse violence."
Mr. Singham has said that he does not work for the CCP, but numerous investigations have tied his funding to organizations that support the party.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent previously traveled to New York City for a meeting with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, who reportedly received a warning from Mr. Bessent that his bank could face scrutiny for alleged conspiracy by funneling Mr. Singham's money.
Mr. Solomon reportedly agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department's probe.
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He is funneling millions of dollars to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, according to a report by the Bitcoin Policy Institute made public Tuesday -- the second in a series on Chinese influence against data centers.
Because China wants to dominate AI, Singham is paying far-left groups to agitate against AI. Now I don't love AI myself, but this is exactly like Vladimir Putin funding left-wing groups to protest fracking. The leftists paid to oppose these things are doing so as pawns of a malign foreign intelligence operation.
..."For years, Roy Singham has abused the generous tax status awarded to tax exempt organizations to fund left wing chaos and violence in our country," the Missouri Republican said on social media Monday.
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"Far-left NGOs are the means by which U.S. adversaries like communist China work to undermine our country," the Texas Republican told Fox News Digital. "Groups like CodePink, which Singham has funded, openly spew CCP propaganda. Their objective is to spark division, resentment and unrest."
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More Antifa Terrorists Sentenced, From 22 Months to 50 Years
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Most of these reached plea bargains involving testifying against their fellow terrorists.
Except the one who got 50 years.
BREAKING: North Texas Antifa Members Who Turned on Their Comrades Receive Years in Federal Prison Ahead of sentencing, one of the convicts tried to kill herself.
I'm not sure if that's one of the many trans terrorists, once again playing the "do what I want or I'll kill myself" card.
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Seven more convicted members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell were sentenced Wednesday in federal court, less than two weeks after one of the convicts allegedly attempted to kill herself while in custody.
U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman and Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor handed down the sentences in Fort Worth following last week's 450-year prison sentence, a historic punishment of the Antifa group's first batch of trial defendants.
With the exception of Ines Soto, all of Wednesday's defendants had accepted plea agreements before trial. They received the following sentences in federal prison:
Ines Houston Soto -- 50 years
John Philip Thomas -- 9 years
Rebecca Deyalyn Morgan -- 15 years
Nathan Josiah Baumann -- 22 months
Lynette Read Sharp -- 9 years
Joy Abigail Gibson (trans nonbinary female who goes by "Rowan") -- 15 years
Seth Edison Sikes -- six years and 10 months
Other than Nathan Baumann, all of them will also have two years of supervised release after serving their sentences. Baumann will have one year of supervised release.
Susan Elaine Kent was supposed to be sentenced, but her court date was moved to next week.
Ahead of sentencing, Ngo Comment can exclusively report that Rebecca Morgan had allegedly attempted to harm or kill herself while in custody in Wichita County, Texas. According to a source not authorized to speak on record, Morgan had consumed pills. It's unclear how she was able to obtain the pills. Wichita County officials told Ngo Comment they had no records or information to provide.
Joy Gibson is the female romantic partner of the cell's ringleader, Benjamin Hanil "Champagne" Song. They both identify as trans nonbinary. At least a quarter of the 16 convicts identify as trans. They are all being housed in the facility matching their biological sex.
In front of Judge Pittman, Baumann's attorney told the court that his client fears violent reprisal for cooperating with the prosecution. This journalist's reporting was cited. Many Antifa-aligned accounts on social media have been threatening violence against some of the defendants for months for testifying at trial.
Baumann cried and apologized in his statement to the court. It is assumed that he received the lightest prison sentence, only 22 months, because of his strong cooperation in providing extensive evidence of the conspiracy to the prosecution.
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Ines Soto was convicted at trial in March of providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use and carry an explosive, using and carrying an explosive and rioting. He is the spouse of Elizabeth Soto, who was also sentenced to 50 years in prison last week.
The other six each pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists, admitting in signed factual stipulations that they organized behind an Antifa ideology and participated in supporting the July 4, 2025 attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.
Tim Walz Pardons an Illegal Alien for Raping a 10-Year-Old Girl to Attempt to Defeat Trump's Effort to Deport Him
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Absolute demons.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_NEW: DHS is accusing MN Gov. Tim Walz of trying to shield a Laotian illegal alien pedophile from being deported after Walz pardoned him for a 2006 conviction in which he repeatedly raped a 10-year-old girl in MN. DHS says Tou Lue Vang was issued a deportation order immediately after that conviction and was set to be imminently deported, but the pardon has now removed his deportable offenses and given him a clean record, which may thwart his removal and give him an avenue to fight deportation.
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According to Vang's conviction documents from the state of Minnesota, in 2004, he repeatedly had penetrative sex with the 10-year-old girl on multiple occasions and forced oral sex upon her in which he ejaculated into her mouth. He told police "I made a mistake, but this is a minor thing...it's a cultural thing to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12." He also said the child should be arrested and she was also at fault.
Vang ultimately took a plea deal to plead guilty to the offense of first degree criminal sexual conduct. NYT reports he served no prison time as part of the deal.
Vang was pardoned for the offense last month by the Minnesota Board of Pardons, which is made up of the MN Governor, MN Attorney General, and Chief Justice of the MN Supreme Court. All pardons must be approved by the MN Governor.
DHS is now blasting the decision:
"Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting," said Acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. "These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting. Tou Lue Vang lost his legal status following his conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. Following the conviction, he was placed in removal proceedings and issued a final order of removal by a judge. This pardon will take away this child rapist's qualifying convictions that made him removable from the United States."
Vang was set to be deported to Laos, according to the DHS. However, his pardon was issued on June 10, 2026, a week before he was supposed to be deported. Now, the pardon could reportedly "thwart his removal from the United States.""Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting," said acting assistant DHS Secretary Lauren Bis. "These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting."
Vang entered the country in 1994 and was "granted legal status" by the Clinton administration, according to DHS. Court records revealed that he "repeatedly sexually assaulted a girl between 2002 and 2004. He also offered the girl he abused "$10 to keep quiet about the sexual assaults." During interviews with law enforcement at the time, Vang shifted blame of the abuse on his culture, claiming it was permissible to "marry and have sex with girls as young as 12." The DHS also claimed Vang said the girl he abused was equally as guilty as him and "should be arrested too."Court records show that Vang pleaded guilty to "penetration or contact with a person under 13 years old by an actor more than 36 months older" on October 31, 2005, and was sentenced in February 2006 to 12 years, "with the sentence stayed." He was also issued 30 years of supervised probation. His legal status was revoked after his conviction, and he was issued a final order of removal in 2006.
"The Minnesota Board of Pardons made a unanimous decision to grant Tou Vang this pardon after an exhaustive process which included a statement of support for the pardon from the victim, a recommendation to grant the pardon from the Clemency Review Commission, and a large number of community support letters," Ellison's office said in a statement to the New York Times.
More cultural enrichment:
An illegal alien has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for his involvement in an $89 million fraudulent payroll scheme that saw illegal alien construction workers and their employers evade taxes."Today, we held an illegal alien from Honduras accountable for a brazen scheme that stole more than $38 million from American taxpayers to facilitate the employment of illegal aliens," Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said.
"This case exposes how unchecked illegal immigration fuels widespread payroll tax fraud and underground economies that harm American workers and taxpayers," McDonald said. "This sentence sends a strong message: Those who exploit our open borders, cheat the U.S. Treasury, and violate federal laws will face justice."
The mother of the Loyola student murdered by an illegal in Chicago attempted to testify about the actual cost of sanctuary policies. Democrats murder-splained to the mother that gosh they sure were sorry that her daughter was shot in the back of the head by an illegal alien criminal who should have been deported years ago, buttt she needs to understand all the Good Things that illegal alien criminals bring to this country, and she'll just have to remind herself not to be so selfish.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
The 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution is a very interesting thing. Many people misinterpret it, in particular the so-called "Establishment Clause," which prevents the establishment of a state religion, rather than the more popular assumption that it prevents all government involvement.
The third clause, "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech," is perhaps even more widely confused with a blanket prohibition against penalizing speech in any context by any person or organization. And that is simply wrong.
The government cannot control my speech. That is clear. But there are many circumstances that allow government interference with speech, including threats of violence, incitement to violence, slander and libel (tough to prove though), and others. And one of those circumstances is in the military, which has a broad prohibition against political speech when service members are in uniform. That is a very good thing, because the bright line between the military and politics is one of the bulwarks against tyranny that our republic has developed over the years. The military should be...must be...apolitical. It is axiomatic in a free society, and the many examples in world history of militaries being political tools for one party, or the ruling power, rarely ended well.
US Air Force Officer Calls for Trump Impeachment, Demands JD Vance's Removal Before Arrest
Air Force Maj. Jason Watson joined a protest organized by the Removal Coalition and was taken into custody by Capitol Police for demonstrating in a restricted area.The arrest followed a press conference where Watson, in uniform, accused the administration of multiple constitutional violations.
“Our Constitution binds us all together as Americans,” Watson said. “Like countless veterans before me, military members serving now, I’ve devoted my life in service to our Democratic Republic.”
First of all, Major Watson is a dumbass, because we do not live in a "Democratic Republic." If he doesn't understand the structure of our government, then maybe he doesn't deserve his rank. Second, this turd must know exactly what he is doing...there is no plea of ignorance in this issue. He wore his uniform while being overtly political, in public, making very serious charges against his commander in chief. The repercussions should be swift and significant, and completely unsurprising.
Long-time commenter and contributor "Diogenes" had some thoughts...
Violation of the following:
Article 88: Contempt toward officials
Article 94: Mutiny or sedition
Article 133: Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman
Article 134: General article.94 may be a stretch, but in my opinion, not impossible. It is important because it carries the death penalty.
I wonder if any of his fellow officers knew he was going to do this, particularly his immediate commander?
A very good question, and one that I hope is answered during Major Watson's Court-Martial.
This is an example of the post-modern conceit that everyone's opinion is valuable, and should be widely disseminated without any responsibility. I am fully supportive of Major Watson's freedom to say anything he wants about our government, its conduct, and its officials, as long as he does it as a private citizen. If he were so exercised by the President, then perhaps he should have done the honorable thing and resigned his commission, and then spoken out about what he saw as unacceptable.
By acting in such a disrespectful manner, he dishonored his uniform, he dishonored the armed forces, and he dishonored the Constitution.
It is incumbent upon his superiors to take his actions seriously, both to maintain the rule of law within the armed forces, and even more important, to maintain the independence of the armed forces from political involvement!
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The Morning Report — 7/ 2 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Even in the wake of the end of the Vietnam War, Watergate and the turbulence of the countercultural revolution, the American Bicentennial, at least as I can recall it now 50 years on through the lens of a 16-year-old kid from Brooklyn, everyone was united in their pride to be an American. The commies, hippies and crackpots for sure did not disappear. but were for the most part marginalized and ignored. As my dear mother of blessed memory always warned me, evil never rests. here we are on the eve of our semisesquentennial, and all I can do is just shake my head and wonder what the hell happened?!
Here's a chicken and egg example to illustrate the pickle we're in...
Julie had told police that Allison was allegedly making threats, including “suicide by cop,” and claimed Allison had stolen her car. She also “alleged that Howlett would frequently put on body armor, grab a rifle, and tell her partner to take her to a homeless shelter, alluding to the idea of shooting homeless people.”
And now the other part of my parable...
A Wisconsin transgender activist has released a run of videos telling people to “kill your local Republican” and vowing a “trans jihad” against MAGA.Conservative commentator Dustin Grage posted the footage to X on July 1. In one clip, Teha Delaruelle speaks against a background displaying the words “Kill Your Local Republican,” then points to the message. “We’re going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin,” Delaruelle says, giving followers a one-month window to act.
Is it hormones gone crazy or do they just want us dead? Yeah, they want us dead.
Who are the so-called Democratic Socialists of America and their fellow travelers? While it is difficult to generalize, many current and would-be socialist officeholders share several common traits. . . In sum, Democratic socialism is a top-down movement run by insulated elites who have little understanding of—or genuine interest in—the lives of millions of ordinary Americans living outside the walls of their parochial cloisters.
The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been waiting and preparing for this for a long time. It’s easy to be a Communist -- All you have to do is say, “I’ll give you everything,” but that means you’re taking it away from others that have earned it. Over thousands of years, that Ideology has not worked once. The game is on. Enjoy watching! President DONALD J. TRUMP I disagree with the president in one respect. This isn’t a spectator sport. We all have skin in the game. Our mission is to rally voters and contain and defeat yet another run at turning America into a socialist “paradise.”
And we're going to have to do something and fast lest our skin be turned into lampshades, like what was done 80 years ago by Democrat role models from the National SOCIALISTS of Germany. That or be gunned down by some transexual Frankenstein monster with an AR-15
It really is us or them, so happy 250th America!
Have a good day,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- A Wisconsin transgender activist has released a run of videos telling people to “kill your local Republican” and vowing a “trans jihad” against MAGA.
Transgender Democrat Activist Urges Followers To ‘Kill Your Local Republican’ - Victor Davis Hanson: The new socialist movement claims to speak for ordinary Americans, but its leaders often come from the very elite institutions they criticize.
Who Really Are These New Democratic Socialists and Their Fellow Travelers?
- Robert Spencer: Which is a sign of the health of the union as the big day draws near.
As America’s 250th Anniversary Approaches, Columbus, Ohio Celebrates… Somalia
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Daily Tech News 2 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Sony has announced it will stop releasing PlayStation games on disc in 2028. (BBC)
But that's okay. Sony doesn't have a habit of abruptly cancelling access to content you've already bought and refusing to offer refunds.
Oh.
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