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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - January 28, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional, but only if you are in very warm surroundings. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
[Top photo: Winter in Yosemite. Photo credit unknown.]
Many people know Porsches as the sportscar in Risky Business or Weird Science. Charlie drove a Porsche speedster in Top Gun and Will Smith drove a 911 Turbo in Bad Boys. Maybe you knew a local doctor that had a red one or an uncle with something that vaguely looked like a sporty VW.
Before Porsches became more broadly known in the 1980s, it was a much different company. The company was only born in 1948 and was smaller than other manufacturers. In the mid 1960s, the 911 succeeded the 356 which was the company's first model. The 911 was simple and sporty with a timeless shape where form followed function. It was not a luxury car.
Porsche believed that motorsport improved the breed. The 911 was a road car but it was raced by the factory and customers alike.
Porsche engineer Peter Falk joined the company in 1959 and rose quickly to head various testing programs, including the first road going and racing 911 cars. He served as navigator in the first international race for the 911, the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally. Racing was competitive R&D and run out of the passenger car business.
In the 1960s, Falk managed the racing program. In the mid-1960s and 1970s, the factory built pure racers like the 917 to challenge for wins at the biggest races. In 1981, the racing program was formally moved from under the passenger car business and Falk became Porsche's racing director.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Porsche moved from chasing others to having everyone else chase Porsche. Porsche did not just win - it dominated. Falk lead an amazing group of people that accomplished amazing things. It was a right place, right time, right people scenario. The engineers were not flashy and let the cars and drivers take the spotlight. It was a time before everything became electronic and driven by computers. Trial and error, intelligence, willpower, and on-the-fly engineering pushed progress.
Porsche claimed motorsport success in the 1980s across many forms of motorsport (including LeMans and Dakar), remarkable for a racing department that was tiny by modern standards.
Most people have never heard of Peter Falk or the people in his orbit but Porsche as a company and motorsport in general would not be the same without their involvement and Herr Falk's leadership.
Peter Falk's earthy race saw the checkered flag on January 23. He was 93.
No, Porsche Peter Falk is not the same as the Columbo Peter Falk.
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Hat tip: Iris
I await the Horde's theological explanation for why Luke is sugar free.
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Two unrelated but random time-related facts:
The Dutch tulip bubble only lasted six months:
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Science!
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Knowledge:
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Sure this has been posted before but think we need some zoomie winter content:
Diving in cramped and flooded caves, without air tanks, hits several of my top phobias at once. Now if the diver was also naked and just realized he has to take a crucial high school final exam he didn't even know was on the schedule, it would hit all of them.
Mickey Kaus: Now that illegals are being deported, wages are going up, and rents are coming down.
Mickey Kaus
@kausmickey
17h
"Leisure and hospitality" Biden '24 = down 0.81%; Trump '25 = up 1.13%.
"Grocery & convenience" Biden '24 = down 0.17 %; Trump '25 = up 1.05 %
"Landscaping services" Biden = up 1.42 %; Trump '25 = up 2.41 %
"Retail" [big category] Biden '24 = down .15 %; Trump '25 = up 1.32 %
Some categories went down and "construction" only went up a bit (+1.65 percent to +1.71 percent). Still. Overall seems evidence that illegal workers do bid down wages and when they leave wages rise.
Mickey Kaus
@kausmickey
Do we still need housing Abundance in Los Angeles if illegal immigrants leave? I assume yes, but am having doubts! Walked up the block--three "For Lease" signs, and at the end of the block is a big new apartment house with vacancies.
Murders are also down, he points out. "What a nightmare," he comments.
Shoe
@samosaur
Jan 26
Pramila Jayapal, Congresswoman for WA-07, is training citizens to "resist authoritarianism."
This is the "pressure from below" aspect of the color revolution. Mobilizing the grassroots.
She'll apply the "pressure from above" phase of the revolution as an elected official when these citizens she trains protest and riot on the ground.
He provides a description of the "color revolution" tactics being used to destabilize and conquer the US, which I'm grateful for, because while I had a vague sense of what color revolution meant, I didn't really understand it.
Shoe
@samosaur
I think we're in a hybrid between a color revolution playbook and an insurgency fueled by oppressor/oppressed sentiments.
The overall goal is the same: enable a minority to gain and consolidate total control "legally" without major bloodshed by convincing the majority they're hopelessly outnumbered and overwhelmed.
"The concept of "pressure from above and below" (sometimes described as the "revolutionary use of pliers") originates from a 1957 analysis by Jan Kozák, a theoretician and member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party's Central Committee."
Without delving into the entire post WWII scenario, Czechoslovakian communists conducted a soft coup in 1948 by exerting "pressure from below" through the use of rioters, strikers and protesters. They created the illusion of widespread chaos at the grassroots levels.
Communists in the government, who held democratically elected seats, came over top and applied "pressure from above" by creating laws to appease the protesters, even though it was the same group of people.
They would use "positions already held within government, parliament, ministries, courts, police, and media to enact legal changes, pass laws, appoint loyalists, and shift power incrementally toward the party."
The idea was to squeeze the majority populace into "apathy and despair" and allow the lawmakers to make concessions to appease the rioters. This ultimately lead to communist overthrow through democratic means.
Though the precursor to the modern color revolution was rooted in communist seizure of power, post USSR color revolutions employed many of the same tactics by demonstrating against authoritarianism and fraudulent elections (see Serbia 2000, Georgia 2003 and Ukraine 2004).
While NGOs have been linked to the revolutions, "proponents of color revolutions counter that they were driven by domestic grievances and civil society, with any external aid limited to democracy promotion (e.g., election monitoring, civic education) rather than engineered takeovers."
Modern color revolutions became popular due to the themes they used such as specific colors, flowers and "peaceful" means of government overthrow, but the concept behind them is one of a disenfranchised people who seek to throw off the reins of authoritarianism.
What we're currently seeing in the U.S. is more akin to the "pressure from above and below" model from 1948 Czechoslovakia, as elected, sympathetic members of the government provide legitimacy to the riots and demonstrations carried out in the streets. Media cements the narrative by amplifying the messaging while often carrying scripted narratives that are repeated on every outlet by every anchor.
Many are hesitant to call it a full blown insurgency, though insurgency like methods are heavily involved in the "pressure from below" as autonomous zones are created and "protesters" take over legitimacy and sideline law enforcement, medical care, journalists and anyone else not sympathetic to their cause.
An insurgency is generally defined by a long period of time where terrorist tactics are employed such as assassinations and sabotage, and I think a valid argument can be made that many of these tactics have been employed across a national space for a decade or more.
The color revolution aspect of the resistance is employed through organizations such as BLM and No Kings, based in the oppressor/oppressed framework I mentioned earlier.
While these definitions are important and give context, there is one key factor missing from every other color revolution/coup previously mentioned: illegal immigration.
The number one priority of the Biden Administration was to flood the interior with as many foreigners as possible. By absorbing 20+ illegal immigrants, communists and progressives (working in parallel with converging interests), shored up their voting demographic for the foreseeable future. They will fight to the death to preserve it.
While grassroots AND paid actors demonstrate in the color revolution space for either their belief that Trump is an illegitimate authoritarian figure, illegal immigrants being allowed to stay, or simply because they're paid to demonstrate, the communist NGOs and support networks creating the infrastructure and networks, plus the funding streams, are focused on government overthrow.
They've been working in both peaceful and violent spaces for over a decade, and communist rule is their focus. They leverage the media, their people in government and law enforcement, and the emotional ideology of their "grassroots" movements apply "pressure from above and below" with the sole purpose of overthrowing the Government of the United States.
December 2025: Candace Owens attacks Erika Kirk for being too emotional, says that she needs to either step down from TPUSA or "comparamentalize" her emotions
Just this week: Candace Owens attacks Erika Kirk for not being emotional enough over her husband's murder
THIS is how DISGUSTINGLY EVIL Candace Owens is: LAST MONTH, she attacked Erika Kirk for being too emotional as a grieving widow to be CEO of @TPUSA - TODAY, she’s attacking Erika Kirk for not being emotional enough as a widow during a phone call in her role as CEO!
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) January 28, 2026
She fixates on accusing Erika Kirk of faking her grief over Charlie's murder, or showing no grief about Charlie's murder, because her grift consists of claiming -- well, insinuating -- that Erika Kirk was part of the plot to kill her husband.
Oh, and also, because she was fired by, and romantically rejected by, Charlie Kirk, and she's crusading to destroy TPUSA so that they're forced to make her the head of it.
I've never seen someone as psychotically scorned as this woman. She really was in love with him. https://t.co/J8mXq9mIFQ
1, find ICE agents on dating apps and then poison them with laxatives
2, threaten ICE agents with needles -- filled with saline, she says -- so that protesters can scare them by thinking they'll be infected with a disease or harmed by a poison
The Jackson County Sheriff's Department in West Virginia announced Sunday evening that a librarian was under arrest after she posted videos seeking to recruit assassins targeting President Donald Trump.
Morgan L. Morrow of Ripley, West Virginia, was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat, the agency posted on its Facebook page. The arrest was announced at 9:31 p.m. Eastern time, hours after Libs of TikTok posted the videos on X earlier Sunday evening.
"Following a detailed evening investigation by deputies and the Jackson County [Bureau] of Investigations, Morgan L. Morrow, age 39 of Ripley, has been detained, arrested, and transported to [South Central Regional Jail] following a social media recruitment of individuals to pursue and assassinate President Trump," the agency's post, signed by Jackson County Sheriff RH Mellinger, said. "Further details will be released as we continue to compile facts and further the investigation. Morrow is charged with one count of TERRORISTIC THREATS."
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The video, which featured a caption saying, "Surely a sniper with a terminal illness cannot be a big ask out of 343 million," apparently was posted on Morrow's Instagram, and comments showed others proposing the assassinations of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller as well as tech CEO Larry Ellison and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel.
The ob/gyn nurse who wished for Karoline Leavitt to be torn open while giving birth has had her nursing license cancelled by Florida:
Remember the inbred Somali woman who spat at ICE agents and then began making false claims about being beaten and "kidnapped" by ICE to avoid prosecution for assault?
Well, this inbred retard did not avoid prosecution.
BREAKING: Bananas and rice Somali girl arrested for allegedly assaulting law enforcement pic.twitter.com/V7kcZrHggj
Note that the program they afforded allowed them to either allow the US government to verify the claims made, or else California could opt out of this federal verification and do the verification themselves.
California chose to do its own verification.
And then provided phone and internet service for almost 100,000 dead people.
California obtained millions in federal funds to cover phone and internet service for 94,000 dead people, a new report from the Federal Communications Commission has revealed.
The state took in $3.8 million between 2020 and 2025 through the federal Lifeline program, which spends nearly $1 billion annually to subsidize phone and internet service for low-income Americans, according to the FCC's inspector general.
Of the three states named in the report, California collected the most money by a long shot -- accounting for more than 80% of the payments, the report said.
"Gavin Newsom's California was by far the worst offender of these opt-out states," FCC Chair Brendan Carr wrote on X, referencing states that oversaw the program's verification process for recipients. He said that the FCC has revoked the state's authority to manage verification.
Newsom's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Of the 116,808 deceased individuals in opt-out states, roughly two-thirds (77,446) were enrolled after their deaths, the report stated.
It's almost as if the Democrat Party no longer votes for billion-dollar boondoggles for the poor, but billion dollar boondoggles to personally enrich themselves and their billionaire donors.
🚨 OUCH: Gov. Shapiro Throws the Biden-Harris Admin Under the Bus
“They got that infrastructure bill passed to provide the BILLIONS of dollars that were needed to … connect everybody in Pennsylvania. Do you know how many people have been connected to high speed, affordable… pic.twitter.com/Zj4RQ53woD
Trump: "A massive Armada is heading to Iran," Ready to Strike "with speed and violence"
—Ace
Iran requested talks with the US to avert a possible military strike. Iran denies they did this, but the government is just a collection of filthy primitive Satanic liars.
Trump transmitted his demands, in exchange for "talks," and Iran rejected them. Among the demands: A completely nuclear-free Iran.
Now Trump warns Iran: Don't make me do to you what I did to Venezuela.
A massive Armada is heading to Iran. It is moving quickly, with great power, enthusiasm, and purpose. It is a larger fleet, headed by the great Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln, than that sent to Venezuela.
Like with Venezuela, it is, ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary. Hopefully Iran will quickly "Come to the Table" and negotiate a fair and equitable deal - NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS - one that is good for all parties. Time is running out, it is truly of the essence! As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL! They didn't, and there was "Operation Midnight Hammer," a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse! Don't make that happen again.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
President DONALD J. TRUMP
Iran has responded, per the NYT:
Iran responded defiantly to President Trump's demand from earlier this morning to "Come to the Table" or face possible military action. The Iranian mission to the United Nations said in its own social media post that Iran was "ready for dialogue based on mutual respect and interests." But it added that "IF PUSHED," Iran would "DEFEND ITSELF AND RESPOND LIKE NEVER BEFORE!"
Marco Rubio was asked about Iran in his Senate appearance today.
The reason why their economy is in collapse is because they spend all their money and all their resources building weapons and sponsoring terrorist groups around the world instead of reinvesting it back into their society.
The problem for Iran -- and for us -- is simple: Their economy is a basket-case due to their using all of their money to fund terrorism and nuclear bombs, and the sanctions we have imposed in response to that. The people are protesting not just because the regime is repressive and evil, but because common citizens are just broke and wondering where they'll get the money to eat.
But we can't help their economy or loosen up the sanctions as they continue to build nukes and fund terrorism.
So there's really only one way to end this. Well, two ways: Either the Ayatollah agrees to stop building nukes and funding terrorism, or we take him out.
They refuse to agree to the former.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: That regime is probably weaker than it has ever been. The core problem they face, unlike the protests you saw in the past on some other topics, is that they don't have a way to address the core complaints of the protesters, which is that… pic.twitter.com/ewespeUKpy
Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson continues attacking Americans for even speaking about foreign policy. If you object to Iran killing 30-35,000 of its own citizens, he says you're a monster and a neocon for not talking about American fentanyl deaths.
But meanwhile, he can't stop taking trips to Qatar and Saudi Arabia and praising Islam.
You know, for a guy who bashes people for supposedly not focusing on American-centric issues enough, he sure spends a lot of time in Islamic countries fluffing Islamists. https://t.co/QSbt6s4PRE
"I'm very comfortable being in the seat of Islam."
Because he's such a patriotic American and such a strong Christian! I mean, did you know that Christian support for Israel was heretical?! Tucker Carlson says so. In fact, he says he "hates" "Christian Zionists."
But he's a SuperFan of Islam. And that endorsement should count for a lot, for, as he always tells you when he's endorsing leftwing propaganda, he is a Christian. Or at least he became one two years ago.
Ryan Saavedra
@RyanSaavedra
Ambassador Mike Huckabee suggests that Tucker Carlson's rapid ideological shift is driven by money:
"Let's just take Tucker Carlson. That a man in his mid 50s, who I've known since 1991 when his first job out of college was in Little Rock, Arkansas, working for a newspaper. I worked with him for 6.5 years at Fox News in New York.
Suddenly, in a very short period of time, a switch is split, and he has a completely different worldview, and his ideological base has completely changed. That's not normal for someone in his 50s. It just isn't.
What happened? I don't know. Is it that it is more profitable for him to do what he's doing now than what he was doing when he was at Fox News?
He wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't. There's got to be, on all of our part, a willingness to push back, stand up, speak up. But to do it with facts, but to do it not with a sense of anger and hostility, I think that's a huge mistake.
If all we do is engage in the same level of temperature, then we're not going to be able to be successful. We need to calmly, but with a sense of assurance and confidence, push back on some of the more outrageous things."
FBI Raids Fulton County, GA, Election Headquarters As Part of Probe Related to 2020 Election
—Ace
Remember, it was revealed a few weeks ago that a huge count of supposed "early votes" were submitted without any signatures and without the "tapes" recording these votes. Just poof, 315,000 votes out of literally nowhere.
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
1h
BREAKING: The FBI has just executed a SEARCH WARRANT at the Fulton County, GA Election HQ, pretty much GROUND ZERO for voter fraud in the 2020 election
Per Fox News, this raid is related to the 2020 election
This is gonna get interesting!
bluestein
@bluestein
23m
I'm at the site of a Fulton County elections office where FBI officials confirmed they are conducting "court authorized activity" but declined further comment for now. Trump has repeatedly threatened to open an investigation into his 2020 defeat in Georgia. #gapol
FBI agents were seen Wednesday carrying out a search at an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia, a location that became ground zero for concerns and complaints about voter fraud beginning in 2020.
Agents were seen entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, a new facility that state officials opened in 2023 that was designed to streamline their election processes.
It was not immediately clear what the FBI agents were investigating, but Fox News Digital is told the probe is related to the 2020 election.
The bureau said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that FBI Atlanta was executing a "court authorized law enforcement action at 5600 [Campbellton] Fairburn Rd. Our investigation into this matter is ongoing so there are no details that we can provide at the moment."
The Department of Justice did not immediately provide comment.
As Media Convulses Over Ilhan Omar Being Sprayed Like a Misbehaving Kitten, Tim Walz Says He'd "Beat the Shit Out of JD Vance If I Could," and a Democrat Attorney General Candidate Threatens to "Kill" Trump
The fawning interview was conducted by professional homosexual grifter Tim Miller for the professional homosexual grifter blog The Bulwark.
In an interview with the always infuriating Tim Miller of The Bulwark, Walz went on a classic Tim Walz rant, lying his way through a rambling discussion in which he portrays himself as a defender of truth, justice, and the Somali way, with Miller treating him as if he were a genuine leader instead of a bumbling mafia boss who has pillaged Minnesota, incited riots, and turned this state into a net exporter of taxpayers and net importer of fraudsters.
[I] want to point out that Walz perfectly exemplifies what he means by "peaceful protest" in that clip, and the irony that Tim Miller and the Bulwark are so proud to put it out as exemplifying the approach they admire so much in Walz.
What do they choose as their teaser?
"I would beat the s*!t out of him now if I could."
Through a, wink-wink, state prosecution that somehow ends up in the death penalty.
See, he's totally not threatening to assassinate the president. Wink-wink.
A Democrat candidate for Ohio attorney general is under fire after posting a video in which he explicitly said he intends to "kill Donald Trump" by pursuing a criminal conviction that would end in capital punishment.
In the now-viral clip, Elliot Forhan, who launched his attorney general campaign in February 2025, attempted to frame the statement as a legal hypothetical, declaring, "I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump," before adding that he would seek a jury conviction "beyond a reasonable doubt" followed by a sentence "duly executed" by the state.
"That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump," Forhan concluded.
The remarks immediately sparked backlash with Republicans arguing that invoking the execution of a sitting president--Donald Trump--crosses a line at a moment when political violence remains a live national concern.
Forhan's history has only intensified scrutiny. During a single term in the Ohio House of Representatives, he was stripped of committee assignments and office access following reported altercations with colleagues.
In September 2025--days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA--Forhan posted "F*** Charlie Kirk" on Facebook. He later defended that post despite opening with "Violence is wrong," saying, "I chose my words carefully, and I chose them to communicate my message forcefully."
In my book on our age of rage I explore how rage is addictive and contagious. What people do not want to admit in places like Minneapolis is that they like it, they need it. Politicians know that. Even after Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones was shown to have threatened to kill his political opponents and their children, other Democratic leaders continued to support him and he was elected to the highest law enforcement position in the state. Now, Ohio Democratic Attorney General candidate Elliot Forhan appears to be attempting to ride the same rage wave in a video in which he says, "...I am going to kill Donald Trump."
A video is making rounds on X in which Forhan says, "I am going to obtain conviction, rendered by a jury of his peers, at a standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt, based on evidence, presented at trial, conducted in accordance with due process, resulting in a sentence, duly executed, of capital punishment."
Forhan continued, "That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump."
The video shows the thrill of saying (or hearing others declare) that you are going to kill your political enemies. After the thrill-kill statement, Forhan then adds the legal rationale, like a fast-talking commercial warning of product risks. He knows, as with those warnings, people will tune out the perfunctory verbiage. Indeed, like a commercial, he immediately returns to the marketing pitch in saying, "I am going to kill Donald Trump."
This is protected speech under the First Amendment, but it is also reprehensible rhetoric at a time of increasing social unrest. Forhan is trafficking in rage in the hope that it will secure him a political office.
This pledge to hunt a single individual has worked for other Democratic Attorney General candidates like Letitia James.
I don't know if it's protected political speech. A threat against the president's life isn't legal because you wink-wink it.
🚨 BREAKING: Americans are demanding the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Ohio Attorney General candidate Elliot Forhan (D) for saying he will KILL DONALD TRUMP through capital punishment
Or, at least, he jokes that she "probably" sprayed herself, while also not caring if she did nor not.
Rachel Scott
@rachelvscott
Just spoke to Pres. Trump. I asked him if he had seen the video of Rep. Omar being attacked and sprayed by a substance.
"No. I don't think about her. I think she's a fraud. I really don't think about that. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her," the president said.
I asked again if he had seen the video.
"I haven't seen it. No, no. I hope I don't have to bother."
I doubt it was staged. I think it's more of, what do you call it, a nothingburger.
Let me react as the left reacted to Trump being shot: It looks staged to me. I don't see any proof she was actually hit.
Ilhan Omar looked directly at the guy and nodded before he sprayed that stuff on her. Staged.
He also sprayed her on her torso rather than directly between the eyes which is where most actual lunatic people would hit you pic.twitter.com/1RnAjbBhiw
— Anthony Brian Logan (ABL) 🇺🇸 (@ANTHONYBLOGAN) January 28, 2026
She doesn't rush to the hospital, because she recognizes the liquid as harmless. Probably just water.
So Trump faces two assassins and the left refuses to stop calling him an Existential Hitler Who Must be Removed by Any Means Necessary, and Ilhan Omar gets sprayed with -- apparently -- plain water which poses no threat whatsoever but we're all supposed to stop accusing her of the crimes she's plainly guilty of.
The Minneapolis police finally managed to arrest a protester:
🚨 BREAKING: The man who sprayed Ilhan Omar was some sort of liquid has been identified as 55-year-old Anthony J. Kazmierczak, per Minneapolis PD
If the below is true, he wasn't politically motivated. He was just angry at his ex-wife, a big Ilhan Omar supporter.
Anthony Kazmierczak was arrested last night for attacking Ilhan Omar. He was once married to a Patrice Kazmierczak. They divorced a few years ago. His ex-wife Patrice is a political activist & a big supporter of Ilhan Omar & AOC. pic.twitter.com/f1YcHyMWuA
There is no more sure-fire way to never face meaningful punishment than to be a major, well-connected American corporation. Even politicians sometimes go down for Party defense purposes, but the powerful corporation never does. Even "landmark" punishments are mere slaps on the wrist, and they laugh all the way to the bank. There is a prime example of this in the news now, courtesy of everyone's favorite big tech hypercorp: Alphabet.
Alphabet - which Google renamed itself when that company decided its original name wasn't quite sinister enough - has settled a class-action lawsuit for recording people's conversations and using them for advertising. The thing everyone assumed Alphabet was doing, and that Alphabet insisted up and down it was not doing, turned out to be something Alphabet was doing. Shocker of the century there. Alphabet is settling its privacy case and paying a penalty.
The issue is simple. Alphabet would - they claim by accident - record information picked up by its "assistant" system (the "Hey Google ..." thing) even when it wasn't activated or was ostensibly in standby. That was then recorded and used for advertising purposes. This is a fatal flaw in all voice-activated systems - it can't hear you if it isn't listening - but Alphabet and the rest all uniformly claim that there is no recording unless activated. That turned out, against all odds, to be untrue.
This is on the heels of a prior settlement for the same thing from Apple last year. Apple would illegitimately record information through its "Siri" assistant. Unlike Alphabet, Apple claims they never sold the data or used it for marketing, but who knows. Nothing is off limits for Big Tech. I am just waiting for Amazon's turn.
So what was the punishment? Nothing. Alphabet is settling for $68 million. Apple settled for $95 million a year ago. How much a penalty is that? Well, let's see.
In the first quarter of 2025, Alphabet racked up $66.885 billion in advertising revenue - not counting YouTube. The overall company net profit that quarter was $34.54 billion. So they spied on their customers - and lied about it - for almost a decade and the penalty amounts to 0.2% of the company's first-quarter profits last year. By comparison, Apple got positively screwed. In the quarter before its settlement, it earned a paltry $36.33 billion in net profit, so its settlement was a staggering 2.6% of the quarterly profit!
It's nothing new. Remember in 2009 when Pfizer paid record-setting penalties for lying about drugs, paying kickbacks and various other frauds for years? That one was a big penalty. It was record-setting at the time, at $2.3 billion including criminal penalties. That amounted to just over a quarter of its 2009 profits. For years and years of misbehavior. That will dent the margins, but isn't much more than a shrug in the grand scheme of things. These aren't punishments, these are merely the "cost of doing business." Do whatever you want, commit whatever crimes you please, lie about it for years, and settle it for a couple of points off one quarter's profits unless you're really unlucky. In that worst-case scenario, the penalty might be an entire quarter's profits.
Lie. Cheat. Steal. Spy. Bribe. Kill. Abuse your customers. Buy politicians. Whatever. Just be a well-connected mega-corp and you'll get the corporate equivalent of a night in the drunk tank. Must be nice.
Good morning kids. And the word of the day is "deescalation." And it makes my head explode for reasons that should be all too obvious to anyone with eyes to see. Those who are using this word are the same ones who objected to Israel going after Hamas after its mass-wave pogrom that slaughtered scores of innocent people and kidnapped/tortured hundreds more, the remains of the last one at long last recovered and returned home only a day or so ago.
What ICE and law enforcement are doing in Minneapolis and elsewhere in the nation is merely their duty in rounding up illegal aliens be they merely border-jumpers or violent thugs on top of it. Anyone who objects to this, let alone attempts to impede them carrying out their mission either via direct violent confrontation or political sabotage is engaging in the most severe of felonious acts which come right up to and perhaps cross the line into actual Insurrection.
And so, what is needed is a massive ESCALATION in response to this attack on our government, the rule of law and the safety and security of the citizenry so that those engaging in this insurrection are mercilessly crushed, so as to send an unmistakable message that lawlessness in all its forms will not be tolerated.
Washington Governor Bob Ferguson (D) stated Monday that the state government aims to “partner” with the anti-ICE groups illegally tracking and hounding federal law enforcement agents.
The governor expressed support for the anti-ICE insurgency in his state just one day before the FBI launched an investigation into the Signal chat groups organizing the the anti-ICE insurgency in Minnesota.
Ferguson held a press conference alongside Washington’s Attorney General Nick Brown (D.) to condemn ICE after two agitators in Minnesota were fatally shot by federal agents. Brown was widely criticized last month after he warned independent journalists to stop investigating alleged fraudulent Somali daycare centers in the state or they could be charged with a hate crime.
The governor told reporters that what is happening in Minnesota and Washington is “community, individuals, and grass roots organizations doing their part to stand up for their fellow residents.”
. . . In a long and sobering post on X, reacting to the new information, former Special Forces Warrant Officer, Eric Schwalm compared the anti-ICE effort in Minneapolis to the insurgencies he fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“With multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close,” Schwalm stated. “From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest.’ It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.”
Andy Ngo, a citizen journalist known for his unmasking of Antifa activists and their violent tactics, infiltrated some radical left Signal groups in Minnesota and discovered the rampant paranoia among the activists who didn't trust anyone, especially other activists.
The tactics being used, Ngo observed, "are an evolution of methods tested during the deadly 2020 BLM–Antifa riots, which were centered largely in the Twin Cities."
"In recent weeks, numerous Antifa-linked revolutionary anarchist collectives have promoted organizing guides that explicitly instruct extremists on how to carry out obstructionist campaigns," says Ngo. The guides recommend using the Signal messaging app to maintain operational security.
It's the operations that are problematic. "Signal has become the preferred platform for mass coordination — used to share real-time locations, vehicle descriptions, and individual targets, as well as tips for minimizing legal accountability," writes Ngo. This is how the activists are able to show up at ICE enforcement actions almost as soon as agents start arriving on the scene. . . I'm familiar with messaging among some radical groups in Europe during the 1970s. Baader-Meinhof Group, a far-left West German Communist terrorist group active in the 1970s, communicated almost exclusively using intelligence agency methods such as drop boxes and "cut-outs."
Baader-Meinhof and other radical leftists of the time were paranoid about security, but they still managed to have a small circle where trust was an absolute necessity.
Obviously, the radicals today are sacrificing security for instant communications, but this has bred hysterical fear and, almost certainly, hindered their efforts to organize and obstruct ICE operations.
While it's encouraging that as Ngo notes their paranoia may be hampering their efforts, at the same time they have a truly frightenng level of political and legal cover afforded them by elected officials and perhaps allies in local law enforcement itself. Not to put too fine a point on it but this Bob Ferguson as well as Walz, Frey and everyone else engaging in this needs to swing from a gallows.
Democrat Ohio Attorney General candidate Elliot Forhan announced a plan to execute President Donald Trump, following a hypothetical trial and guilty verdict, in a video posted to X on Tuesday. In the viral video Forhan stated that he would pursue the president’s conviction, resulting in capital punishment. . . “I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump,” Forhan stated. “I mean I’m going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence, presented at a trial conducted in accordance with the requirements of due process, resulting in a sentence, duly executed, of capital punishment.”
“That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump,” he ended.
He may be a low rent Roland Freisler but I'll take him at his word.
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST TERRORISM, PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"In recent weeks, numerous Antifa-linked revolutionary anarchist collectives have promoted organizing guides that explicitly instruct extremists on how to carry out obstructionist campaigns," says Ngo. The guides recommend using the Signal messaging app to maintain operational security. It's the operations that are problematic. "Signal has become the preferred platform for mass coordination — used to share real-time locations, vehicle descriptions, and individual targets, as well as tips for minimizing legal accountability," writes Ngo. This is how the activists are able to show up at ICE enforcement actions almost as soon as agents start arriving on the scene. Andy Ngo: Here's What I Saw When I Got Inside the Signal Chats Used by Extremists in Minnesota
Grace Carol Brown, 21, was arrested Thursday by the New Braunfels Police Department on suspicion of arson and burglary after employees at the Comal County Republican Party headquarters discovered the building had been broken into and a small fire had been set, according to a Friday release. Texas Republican Party Chairman Abraham George told the Daily Caller News Foundation the incident was “troubling” and praised authorities for their “swift response.” (RELATED: Don Lemon Labels Parishioners Of Church Stormed By Anti-ICE Rioters ‘Entitled White Supremacists') Woman Charged With Torching GOP Headquarters In Texas
Democrat Ohio Attorney General candidate Elliot Forhan announced a plan to execute President Donald Trump, following a hypothetical trial and guilty verdict, in a video posted to X on Tuesday. Democrat AG Candidate Announces Plan To Execute Trump
Amid political chaos over immigration enforcement, the death of Alex Pretti shows how emotion, misinformation, and despair are pushing ordinary Americans into tragedy. The Tragedy of Alex Pretti
A suspect has been identified in the spray liquid assault on Rep. Bro-F0 Fraudster Omar of Minnesota on Tuesday night. He’s Anthony Kazmierczak, 55. Additional information on him has not been made available. Suspect Identified in Ihan Omar Assault
Even if parts of the federal government shut down at the end of the week, ICE and CBP operations in Minneapolis and across the country are expected to continue uninterrupted. ICE agents are classified as “excepted” workers, allowing them to remain on duty during a funding lapse, and the agency still has substantial carryover funds from last year’s Trump-backed appropriations. Democrats Plan To Shutdown ICE Funding Has Already Been Foiled
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “American Agenda,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that “about two-thirds of those ICE is deporting are” criminals, but a lot of the tactics the agency is using need to be changed.
Fetterman said, “I don’t agree with many of those tactics” used by ICE and stated that ICE should “stand down” in Minneapolis.Fetterman: ‘About Two-Thirds’ of Those Deported by ICE Are Criminals (Lumpy thinks he can shout "Splunge!" and please everyone - jjs)
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
The Awood Center, named after the Somali word for “power,” released a job posting on Facebook Jan. 14 seeking an employee to assist in “rapid response,” a term activists use to describe following or recording suspected Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions in-person. The group’s rapid response program will “reach hundreds of Somali residents within days,” “prevent unlawful or coercive detentions” and conduct outreach at relevant facilities such as mosques, the job posting says. Minnesota Somali Activists Hiring ICE Tracker To Manage ‘Mosque Networks,’ ‘Prevent’ Arrests
Police are funded and staffed on the premise that they’re chasing small numbers of bad guys in a population of honest citizens. If that cultural premise fails, we don’t have the cops to fix it. The Fraud Scandal Is A Bigger Problem Than Cops Can Fix
The ruling, while still subject to reversal by the state’s Supreme Court, is a significant blow to Virginia Democrats who have sought to implement a very Democrat-friendly congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Court Delivers MAJOR Blow to Democrat Gerrymander Efforts.
Today the dull scions of the Progressive movement are all desperate, dying men, demanding that their physicians give them a whiff of oxygen to stay alive for one more day. Democrats: Affordability, Abyss, or Vigilantism?
Immediate restitution would be a welcome sign that the old and bankrupt socialist order is at an end, and property rights will be respected from this day forward. It’s time for a new approach that rejects government thuggery and embraces freedom. With Maduro Out, Venezuela’s Victims Deserve Justice
Godongwana said he was confident South Africa’s views would be represented at the 2026 G20 summit by the African Union and that Britain would invite South Africa back into the fold when it assumed the rotating presidency in 2027. South Africa Boycotts G20 over American Leadership
The Greenlandic rejection suggests tensions remain over the future of Greenland, although the use of the words “for now” suggests the Greenlanders could still be persuaded by the right offer. Greenland’s Latest Statement Leaves the Door Open for Sale.
The upcoming parliamentary elections in Hungary in April will be a test for both current leader Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump. Trump’s Political Message: Urbi et Orbán
The low volume fraction, small size and shallow depth of the scatterers indicate that the fracture interfaces observed at Europa’s surface are alone unlikely to be capable of carrying nutrients between the surface and the ocean. Scientists produce new estimate of the thickness of Europa’s icy crust
This is the kind of grunt work that AI is ideally made for. It can quickly review the data and identify objects that don’t fit normal expectations. Humans then can do the real work, finding the most interesting of these strange objects, such as the top left galaxy, and devote human creativity to studying it. Astronomers use AI to discover hundreds of weird galaxies in Hubble archive
ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day.
Supplies are still very constrained, but people are buying less RAM - either avoiding upgrades entirely or building smaller systems - so prices are stalling in the ionosphere rather than continuing on an intergalactic cruise.
When it launched it cost twice as much as the AMD systems, leaving plenty of room for the two to compete. But the AMD systems seem to have been hit badly by the DRAM Apocalypse while the Nvidia systems have somehow come down in price.
So if all you want to do is run local AI models, the DGX Spark is a better bet. If you want to do anything else with it - certainly if you want to run Windows - you may be better of sticking with AMD.
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - January 27, 2026 [Doof]
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His truck was the vehicle equivalent of Frankenstein, a green mish-mash of dents and dings and disjointed panels.
The 2000 Chevy Silverado became something of a famous eyesore in South Bend, Indiana, earning sideways glances and second looks wherever Mo Riles went.
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Sure, Mo heard the jokes and saw the sideways glances—but the truck ran just fine. The state of Indiana doesn’t require inspections. And Mo, who worked at a Dollar Tree store, wasn’t in a financial position to upgrade, especially since facing recent health struggles.
So the truck rolled on… at least until Colin Crowel saw the photo. Colin, who owns Carguys Auto Detailing, wanted to do more than joke about the unsightly relic. He figured that whoever was driving it likely needed a pick-me-up, instead of another internet pun.
“I just thought there’s gotta be something more to why this truck looks like this,” Colin said. “I just put two and two together.”
He started a crowdfunding campaign, hoping to raise money for Riles and betting that community support would produce more than social media memes.
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The results arrived quickly. Donations poured in from people all over northwest Indiana and beyond. More than 500 people pitched in to raise over $26,000 for Mo.
Video at the link. Hopefully the truck found a loving new owner. Maybe Rancher Bob could add it to his collection on his ranch!
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Opposite end of the spectrum as far as the condition of a vehicle. Need one of you smart car nerds to weigh in here. I've seen several of these types of stories lately, but some are obviously fake. I can't find anything overtly fishy about this one. What say you?
Out of the 2.38 million Chevys sold in 1965, the Impala claimed some 40%. The US domestic automobile production rose to a staggering 8.96 million vehicles that year – and the African gazelle was representing one out every nine of those cars. But the numbers dive drastically when we factor in the 409 powerhouse. With just 2,828 motors made for passenger cars, we’re talking “unicorn eggs” level of rarity.
And that’s just for starters: for the sake of piston-centric fun, let’s add one more bottleneck. Like, say, body style – and I insist that we chose my favorite full-size dress code, the station wagon. Chevrolet didn’t bother fitting people haulers with big-block muscle like it was an all-you-can-eat buffet, so just 82 Impala wagons came with a 409.
I won’t even bother to do the math, it’s more than self-explanatory by now, but I’m not done bringing more rarity into this talk just yet. Of those 82, how many stayed with one family for nearly six decades?
Please check out the link and let us know what you think.
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Which one of you did this?
People are now making videos trolling anti-ICE protesters
Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold.
Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no amount of chemistry can turn one into the other.
But our modern knowledge tells us the basic difference between an atom of lead and an atom of gold: the lead atom contains exactly three more protons. So can we create a gold atom by simply pulling three protons out of a lead atom?
As it turns out, we can. But it’s not easy.
Who's up for this challenge?
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Cute little video I saw in an X comment (click on the top right bubble for the source). I'd imagine it's quite accurate. Probably the way blue states stay blue. The music is easily recognizable. One month emerald membership to the first one of you to identify the song name and what TV show it is most often linked to.
What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?
(It's probably a 1 out of 5 difficulty, but I'm calling it a 2 to make you feel better about solving it).
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San Francisco in the 1920s. Skip ahead about 30 seconds to see the cars.
A little bird saw a cat being held by its owner, and as if saying "I want to be held too," flew straight into the cat's arms..😺🐾🕊️😍 pic.twitter.com/ON1XpXgaWn
President Trump is sidestepping thumb-twiddling California Democrats with an executive order aimed at fast-tracking the rebuilding of Los Angeles a year after devastating wildfires torched entire city blocks and left thousands homeless.
"I want to see if we can take over the city and state and just give the people their permits they want to build," Trump told the California Post Friday in an exclusive Oval Office interview when he signed the seven-page order.
Trump pointed the finger at California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for the painfully slow rebuilding of homes ravaged by the January 2025 Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires, two of the most destructive blazes in LA history.
Wildfires destroyed an estimated 16,000 structures, but Los Angeles city and county officials have only issued 2,600 permits to rebuild so far.
In all, less than 15% of all homes destroyed by the fires have received necessary approvals to move forward, according to the Trump administration.
Trump's order is designed to "preempt" the building permit process -- and empower the federal government to maneuver around the needless obstacles imposed by Democratic leaders.
The order calls out the "nightmare" of delays and "bureaucratic malaise" at the California state and local levels -- and it will almost certainly be challenged by Democrats in power in the Golden State, despite displaced residents literally crying out to be made whole again.
Jessica Rogers, a Pacific Palisades resident who lost everything in the wildfires, burst into tears of joy when she learned the federal government was stepping in to pick up the slack.
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Trump, a former real estate developer, said he was compelled to step in after touring the fire damage a year ago with first lady Melania Trump and seeing the devastation firsthand. He said he was shocked to see that even a year later, "there's nobody building."
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Under the order, the heads of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) will issue regulations to preempt state and local permitting requirements and allow builders to self-certify to a federal agency that they have complied with health, safety and building standards.
Like I said, I can't imagine Trump has any power like this. The feds can't just set aside state laws. Even if the state in question is a basket-case run by lunatics.
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Newsom spokeswoman Tara Gallegos hit back at Trump, calling the president "an old clueless idiot who believes that the state and federal governments can issue local rebuilding permits and LA gets its water from the Pacific Northwest."
Gallegos said Trump has "demonstrated a complete lack of leadership or compassion for this community." She charged Trump is concerned with "picking out gaudy gold décor and new flooring for his unnecessary remodel" as the community is "still waiting for him to grant disaster recovery funding.
"He should keep LA out of his mouth unless he is planning to grant them the federal disaster funding they need."
The Justice Department under the Biden administration opened an investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, in 2024 to scrutinize her finances, campaign spending and interactions with a foreign citizen, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The inquiry, initiated by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington and the department's public integrity unit in June of that year, appears to have stalled for lack of evidence, according to one of the people who requested anonymity to discuss internal department matters.
Uh-huh.
The investigation appeared to be thrust into the public spotlight on Monday, when President Trump blindsided department officials by posting about it on Truth Social, singling out Ms. Omar. It was part of a rambling statement announcing a shake-up of the team overseeing immigration raids in Ms. Omar's Minneapolis district that misspelled her name.
"The DOJ and Congress are looking at 'Congresswoman' Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars," he wrote. "Time will tell all."
It was not clear whether Mr. Trump was referring to another investigation altogether or how he arrived at the $44 million figure.
Ms. Omar, a Somali-born refugee who emigrated to the United States when she was 12, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
"Sorry, Trump, your support is collapsing and you're panicking," she wrote on social media on Monday. "Right on cue, you're deflecting from your failures with lies and conspiracy theories about me. Years of 'investigations' have found nothing."
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Ugly personal attacks against Ms. Omar have been a staple of Mr. Trump's speeches since her election to Congress in 2018, when she and Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, made history as the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
Ms. Omar's sharp criticism of Israel, her repetition of antisemitic tropes and her comparison of U.S. actions to those of Hamas have elicited bipartisan criticism.
But few people have demonized her more than Mr. Trump, who has veered into racist and xenophobic vitriol, in the view of Ms. Omar and other critics of the president.
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In recent weeks, House Republicans have threatened to open their own investigation into Ms. Omar, an apparent effort to tie her to the Minnesota fraud scandal that has revealed evidence that some members of the Somali community set up companies that billed state agencies for social services that were never provided.
Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has vowed to subpoena Ms. Omar's husband. His venture capital firm made millions over the past few years, according to Ms. Omar's financial disclosures.
No evidence has yet been produced showing that Ms. Omar was connected to the fraud scheme. A spokeswoman for Ms. Omar said her office had received no official inquiries from the Oversight Committee or the Justice Department.
Mr. Comer is still seeking to raise ethical questions about how Ms. Omar's husband has been able to accumulate his wealth and he has promised an update on a potential investigation soon.
It's a "virtual winery." I don't know what that means. I would guess it means he just buys other people's wines and puts it into his own bottles, maybe?
Adam Housley
@adamhousley
So after doing a quick dive. This was a virtual winery with basically one wine that nobody in wine country had ever heard of. There is absolutely zero chance the valuation on this went from $20,000 to $ 5 million in one year.
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband accused of swindling investor in their California winery
Tim Mynett and his business partner Will Hailer deny defrauding the investor, while another company they started owes $1.2 million to cannabis growers in South Dakota
In fall 2021, D.C.-area restaurant owner Naeem Mohd was presented with an unbelievable investment opportunity.
Two political operatives turned venture capitalists would triple Mohd's money in just 18 months if he invested $300,000 in their new California winery.
The pair had been paid in grapes by a former client and had hired a well-respected Sonoma winemaker to turn those grapes into profit.
I guess that's why it's a "virtual winery." They literally just took grapes given to them by a "client" and put them into barrels.
And somehow this turned into a $40 million business in a year.
They promised if they didn't pay Mohd the full $900,000 on time, they would tack on 10% monthly interest on any outstanding balance, according to the contract shared with the Minnesota Reformer.
The offer might have seemed suspicious if not for the person making it: Tim Mynett, a well-connected political consultant and husband to U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, whom he married in 2020.
Mynett came recommended by Mohd's attorney, Faisal Gill, a former Democratic operative himself who knew Mynett from his days working on Keith Ellison's congressional campaigns. Mynett and Gill had been friends since. Omar endorsed Gill in his unsuccessful bid for L.A. County Attorney, and Gill donated $1,000 to Omar's campaign in 2021.
"I trusted Tim," Gill said in an interview. "If it was not for Tim, the deal would have never happened."
Mohd wired the $300,000 to Mynett and his long-time business partner Will Hailer, with whom he founded a political consultancy called E Street Group in 2018.
But 18 months came and went without Mohd receiving the 200% return he was promised from the winery, eStCru.
Mynett and Hailer only returned Mohd's $300,000 -- about a month late -- according to a lawsuit Gill filed on behalf of Mohd in California last fall seeking at least $780,000.
The complaint, which has not been previously reported, claims the pair "fraudulently misrepresented ... that estCru, LLC was a legitimate company."
Hailer and Mynett deny they defrauded Mohd. Rather, they say they simply struggled to build a successful business in a challenging industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"ESTCRU LLC like many wineries is living invoice to invoice, sale to sale to stay afloat given the economic conditions of the industry," Hailer wrote in response to a list of questions from the Reformer. Hailer declined requests for an interview on the phone.
The winery's struggling finances represent a significant change in fortune for Mynett and Hailer since Omar announced she would no longer use their firm E Street Group on her campaigns after paying them around $3 million in the 2020 election.
Still, Hailer defended the potential for large returns in the wine business, writing, "If any investor put $X dollars in to allow the company to purchase grapes and we turned those grapes into bottles of wine that we sold you would see a 3 or 4x return."
This sounds like a scam. Actual wineries struggle to make this much of a return. Heck, they struggle to save into business. So this "business's" big innovation is to just not bother growing the grapes yourself?
Before getting to that: Although the media keeps referring to this terrorist as an "ICU nurse," the truth is he was an unemployed bum who quit his job to be a full-time paid agitator.
And he's a violent agitator:
Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
NEW: CNN reporting that Alex Pretti broke a rib during a separate altercation with federal officers a week before he was fatally shot attempting to obstruct an immigration operation.
According to sources, Pretti was already known to federal authorities for his involvement in obstructing raids and targeting officers.
CNN: "The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.
Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back -- an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene. Pretti was later given medication consistent with treating a broken rib, according to records reviewed by CNN."
OH.
Here's Pretti.
"State law requires me to inform you I have moved into your neighborhood"
Below, the real photo of the dead "protester" and his "Alpha Chad" AI Deepfake.
The AI photo makes him look like he hoists tankards of magical mead after fighting side-by-side with Thor.
The real photo shows a cashew-headed dweeb who has his penis nice and tucked for a night out cruising at the local playground.
Tim Walz: ICE Arresting Illegal Alien Killers and Rapists Is Just Like the Nazis Hunting Anne Frank; CNN Guest: ICE Is Going to Start Putting People "In Ovens"
Tim Walz stunned reporters Sunday by comparing illegal aliens facing ICE enforcement in Minnesota to Anne Frank hiding from the Nazis, reaching for a Holocaust analogy as he attacked President Trump's immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.
Standing before reporters, Walz claimed that children across Minnesota are now afraid to leave their homes because of the administration's expanded ICE presence. "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside," he said, invoking Anne Frank's diary as a parallel. "Many of us grew up reading that story. Somebody's going to write that children's story about Minnesota."
Walz again compares enforcing our nation's immigration laws to Nazi Germany: "Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody's going to write that children's story about Minnesota."
The Holocaust Museum had to explain that Anne Frank was not an illegal alien gang member who had been issued a final order of deportation years ago.
US Holocaust Museum
@HolocaustMuseum
Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.
Fat gay retard communist embarrasses himself. Breaking news.
Meanwhile, on CNN, the Jewish Jake Tapper was informed that DHS illegal alien detention facilities are "concentration camps" and that ICE hasn't started putting people into ovens... "yet."
Jake Tapper seems to squirm a little but I'm quite sure he wasn't rude to his leftwing pal.
This Nobel Prize Laureate runs a joint called "Moon Palace Books."
Luke Thompson
@ltthompso
Jan 26
It's a choice to put the owner of "Moon Palace Books" on tv as a representative of the Minnesota business community. That the CNN producers thought it was a good choice is telling.
FIRE ALL AWFLs: Virginia Nurse Says She'll Use Drugs to Paralyze and Poison ICE Agents
—Ace
She works for VCU Health -- which says that her calls to paralyze and poison people are "inappropriate" and under investigation, but they have not fired her.
She's currently suspended and not in a position to poison patients -- but no firing.
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.
Any comment @VCUHealth
? How can you have such a vile person working with patients? How can anyone feel safe at your facilities if you employ such people?
Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.
BREAKING UPDATE: Malinda just SCRUBBED her tiktok account
Still no word from @VCUHealth
They're taking a Wait and See Attitude about the Angel of Death nurse:
She also seems to work for Duke University Hospital. When the hospital was asked about this Angel of Death nurse, instead of responding, they... just deleted people's texts asking questions about this likely future murderess.
And she's not the only nurse urging others to do harm to patients. The below creature, who is more filter than human being, not only wished severe birth-related complications on Karoline Leavitt, but also tells nurses to discriminate against ICE agents.
The nurse who was fired for wishing a severe injury on Karoline Leavitt during childbirth, also apparently urged nurses to discriminate against ICE
Thank goodness she’s no longer in the medical field.
We have "red flag" laws for guns. We need red flag laws for health care workers -- if someone informs the authorities that you are an ideologically-twisted sociopath or borderline personality disorder bitch, you need to have your licenses pulled until you can demonstrate to a panel that you have completed 6-12 months of psychological counseling and testing.
Podcast:Jim Lakely of The Heartland Institute joins us for a wide-ranging discussion of Heartland's recent Anti-Davos initiative: The World Prosperity Forum. We also discuss MN's all-encompassing graft, free markets as an antidote to misery, the truth behind the Ice riots in Minneapolis, and more!
Podcast: CBD and Sefton talk about insurrection in MN coming to NYC? Trump's Greenland rhetoric was over the top, the Gaza Peace Panel is anything but, Minnesota churchgoers need to step up, and is it possible that if the Persian people toss out the Mullahs they will begin a Muslim reformation?
Long-time Coblogger and commenter "Niedermeyer's Dead Horse" is having significant health issues, and would appreciate the thoughts and prayers of The Horde. If you wish to reach out, use @NiedsG on X/Twitter. [CBD]
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
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JUST IN - DOJ investigating Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for conspiracy to impede immigration agents -- CBS
Podcast: CBD and Sefton chat about the end game in Iran, what to do about the Fed, its supposed "independence," and its hyper-politicized chairman, the housing crunch, and Trump's harebrained suggestion to decrease credit card interest!
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, and an always interesting observer of the human and political condition, has died. RIP. [CBD]
Tousi TV: France closes embassy in Tehran, US Department of State advises all US citizens to get out of Iran He's been saying that Tuesday will be a decisive day. Other reports say that Trump is in the last stages of planning an action against the mullahs. (And other reports say that Tucker Carlson Simp JD Vance is attempting to get Trump to agree to "negotiations" with Iran -- for fucking what? What do we get out of saving the fucking mullahs and letting them kill and torture their own people? Apart from Tucker Carlson getting to pretend he's a Big Man Influencer and that he's worth all the Qatari money he's receiving.)
Asmongold predicted that AWFLs would turn on immigration the moment we started importing hot women into the country, and he was right via garrett
