Daily Tech News 17 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm fabs in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware)
I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona apart from the fact that China is unlikely to successfully invade, but that seems like a good enough reason.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - July 16, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Open thread. That's it. That's the content. Whelm yourselves!
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Secret Passages and Doodle Mansions Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"Manhattanhenge" sunset this past weekend,
when the path of the sun lines up over NYC's streets
A micro-drone that hunts... mosquitos.
Fun short film about the practical drawbacks of time travel. If you know the Rick and Morty "Vat of Acid" episode, this will be familiar. Very familiar. Rick and Morty seem to have swiped the basic idea.
This cat is aura-maxxing and mogging me with all his rizz. I don't understand what I just said either.
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US Will Withdraw All Forces from Iraq by September
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Is this good? I don't know.
WASHINGTON -- All remaining US military forces will be out of Iraq by the end of September, the nation's new prime minister Ali al-Zaidi said during a Tuesday visit to the White House."On the 30th of September, the US forces will be out of Iraq, while these companies will be inside Iraq," al-Zaidi said through a translator when speaking to reporters alongside President Trump in the Oval Office.
About 2,000 US troops currently are stationed in Iraq, mostly at the Harir Air Base in Erbil in the northern Kurdistan region.
Washington and Baghdad agreed in September 2024 to a phased withdrawal of US forces who had remained to support counter-Islamic State (ISIS) operations at the request of the Kurdish regional government.
Trump withdrew US troops in April from Syria, where they also helped crush the jihadist caliphate, which once claimed vast territories in the two countries.
...The current withdrawal reflects a shift in US focus after Trump forged a partnership with Syria's ex-al Qaeda president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, whom he has credited with imposing stability over his nation.
...Trump showered al-Zaidi with praise during his visit, announcing the men would have an unplanned lunch and predicting the "handsome" new leader, 41, would serve as a long-term leader with significant influence in the region.
And the blockade.
U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM53m
U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a verification boarding aboard M/T Wen Yao in the Gulf of Oman, July 16.
As of today, American forces have redirected 3 commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled 1 that didn’t comply, and boarded 1 to ensure full compliance with the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz and the surrounding waters remain free and open, except for vessels attempting to violate America’s steel wall blockade.
Trump's long-promised campaign to take out the bridges has begun:
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The networks haven't yet agreed to carry Trump's speech tonight, which means it's a "no." AOC told them not to cover it and they obeyed her orders.
LA spent $60 million on a "housing program" for bums... that $60 million bought three units, total.
This is the woman who "beat" Spencer Pratt to get into the runoff for mayor.
Just three out of a promised 2,000 apartments have been used to relocate the homeless in Nithya Raman's failed $60 million project to get people off the streets.Councilmember Raman, the chair of the Los Angeles City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee, introduced the Time Limited Subsidy program back in September as a cheaper alternative to Mayor Karen Bass' Inside Safe Program -- meant to get homeless people into an established residence.
Raman's plan was to lease and move homeless people into 2,000 apartments and subsidize their rent, rather than pay for them to stay in motels or shelters.However, nearly a year after that plan was launched -- with $62.6 million in taxpayer funds behind it -- only three apartments are occupied.
The City Council first approved investing in the subsidy model last September as part of its strategy for complying with a court settlement with the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights.Four months later, on January 28, the council approved resources for a redesigned program targeting 2,000 households.
The full rollout began March 1.
However, only three units had occupants by June 25, according to a July 1 presentation to Raman's powerful homeless committee -- a damning result for a program Raman has campaigned to take citywide if elected Mayor.
Fetterman: I'll quit the Democrat Party if it becomes, "officially," the anti-Israel party.
Well, for one thing, it already is the anti-Israel party. There was no official declaration but everyone understands it is now the Hamas Party. Even Rahm Emmanuel, who is Jewish, but running for president in a pro-Hamas party, announced that it's time for the US to stop funding Israel.
So Fetterman is okay with all of this, as long as they give him plausible deniability and not make it "official."
And more importantly: While I appreciate the support for Israel, there's another country the Democrats are trying to destroy that I support even more. That country is the United States of America. No problem with that, huh?
Who says The Today Show doesn't know how to party?
An unhinged heckler slipped past security at NBC's "Today" show early Thursday, lunging at host Craig Melvin and hurling a racial slur as he stormed the set, according to cops and sources.The scary scene played out around 9 a.m. when the 41-year-old intruder barged into an unauthorized area in a vestibule near Studio 1A at the Rockefeller Plaza studio.
He demanded face time with Al Roker and got close enough to confront Melvin, calling him the N-word, according to sources.
Some bonus Cultural Enrichment for you: the Canadian whore who slapped the child for wearing pro-Trump sweatpants is in the US illegally on a visa overstay.
Her husband, who should be deported with this c***, celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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Gaza Family of 18 Wins "Right" to Settle In England Despite Speaking No English and Being Determined to be a Net Detriment to Society
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The judge agreed the family of welfare ticks would be a net negative to British society, but commanded them all to be settled in England anyway, because... because the family would be missing out if they weren't allowed to jump on the UK welfare train.
Family of 18 from Gaza wins human rights challenge to allow them to come to Britain in major blow for Labour
Yes, even the Great Replacement Labour Party wanted to keep this gang of pirates out of the country.
A judge overruled them, citing Europe's pernicious, civilization-destroying European Commission on Human Rights -- basically the Enabling Act for the Great Replacement.
A family of 18 from Gaza has won the right to come to Britain after launching a human rights challenge in the British courts.The landmark case was brought after a Gazan-born mother-of-three - who came to the UK as a refugee and is now a British citizen -- was refused permission to bring her extended family into this country.
Her relatives -- both parents; a brother, his wife and four children; a sister and four children; and another sister, her husband and three children -- won a legal challenge on human rights grounds.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood then attempted to have that decision overturned -- but this week lost the case.
The case exposes yet again how human rights laws undermine Britain's border controls by overturning decisions made by the Home Secretary.
The Conservatives said the 'shameful' ruling risked 'opening the floodgates to thousands of Palestinians claiming asylum here due to Labour's pitiful adherence to flawed human rights laws'.
The Home Office refused permission for the Palestinians' application to come to Britain under refugee family reunification rules.
Their original application was lodged in late November 2023, about a month after Israeli forces entered Gaza in the wake of Hamas' October 7 surprise attacks which killed nearly 1,200 people.
It has now emerged for the first time that the family won a human rights appeal in the lower immigration court in April last year.
That decision led to an appeal by the Home Secretary in the upper immigration tribunal.
But Upper Tribunal Judge Gemma Loughran threw out Ms Mahmood's case, agreeing that denying the family permission to come to the UK breached Labour's Human Rights Act.
The Palestinians argued they had a 'right to family life' under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and won their case under Section 6 of the Act which sets out how it is 'unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right'.
The woman suing to bring this cart of invalids over to the UK admitted she could only provide for her parents -- the rest are going straight to permanent welfare.
..The ruling showed most of the adult applicants could not speak English and that the UK-based sister would only be able to accommodate her parents.
The lower tribunal judge 'concluded that the applicants would require access to public funds', the ruling added.
The UK-based daughter and her three children had suffered 'mental health problems' caused by their relatives' 'situation in Gaza', the judge said.
Referring to the lower court's decision, Judge Loughran said: 'The judge concluded that the applicants' refusal of entry clearance would give rise to consequences of such gravity for the sponsor and her children as to be unjustifiably harsh such that the public interest was outweighed.
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Surprise! Eric Swalwell's Adultery Wingman, Rueben Gallego, Banged At Least Two House Aides
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Not the guy who handed his nine-months-pregnant wife divorce papers so he could bang his side-piece openly (while claiming it's a "new relationship").
I shan't believe it.
Take your filthy lies, NY Post, and hit the road, Jack!!!
Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, engaged in sexual relationships with at least two House staffers and his "very flirtatious" habits with others may come back to haunt him, The Post has learned.The 46-year-old lawmaker admitted to the two relationships -- both with aides to Texas Democrats -- to one source while a second person said they had recently learned of the romantic entanglements.
A third source confirmed one of the dalliances, both of which are said to have been consensual and occurred during Gallego's decade representing Phoenix in the House.
The relationships are part of a broader "pattern of mistakes and missteps and judgment calls," one source said, noting the imbalanced power dynamics of an elected official dating staffers. One of the women was in her 20s and much younger than Gallego at the time."What else could there be out there?" this person asked.
Last month, the Senate Ethics Committee dismissed a complaint brought against Gallego by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) that alleged campaign finance violations and sexual misconduct against the Democrat, who was elected to the Senate in 2024.
The panel, chaired by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), "didn't ask" about Gallego's relationships with the staffers -- likely because it was unaware -- and instead "focused squarely on what Luna presented to them," an insider said this week.
"Ethics looked in the wrong place," this person summed up the congressional probe.
It could also be that Lankford, who is a stone-cold liberal saboteur, deliberately went easy on Gallego because he doesn't want Senators being outed for secret sex.
When asked if The Post's reporting was accurate, Gallego again said, "I'm not going to engage in gossip."
Sources said it's believed both relationships occurred while Gallego was unmarried.
Uh-huh. You mean in between the pregnant wife he divorced and the side-piece he married later
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"If the Ethics Committee comes back and says, 'We are opening an investigation,' question one [for Gallego] is: 'Did you ever have relationships with any staff member during your time in Congress?'" a source said."I wouldn't be surprised if there are more that he has to list, and he can't lie about that because, you know, it's a sworn [statement]."
A Democratic operative who has interacted with Gallego said she found news of the staffer relationships "not surprising."
"I have witnessed firsthand his very flirtatious nature after a couple of drinks," she said. "Maybe he thinks he's being charming? I don't know. Guy gives me the creeps. I've always steered clear."
Gallego married his second wife, Sydney, in June 2021. He filed for divorce from his first wife, Katie, 10 days before Christmas in 2016 when she was nine months pregnant.In addition to the senator's personal life, Gallego faces another headache in the form of a Justice Department investigation into his alleged misuse of campaign funds to attend the Super Bowl in 2023 as well as to take vacations to St. Barts, Disney World and Disneyland. Gallego said the Trump DOJ was "targeting" him for political reasons.
The Post notes that Gallego -- hilariously -- thinks he can be president one day.
Of America, I mean. Not of Hooters, Inc.
The Illegal Alien Truck Driver Who Killed Three People Last Year Gets Less Than Five Years in Prison
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Yeah, a little more than four years sounds right for a Family Annihilator.
If you remember this guy from last October--
-- he plowed into slowed traffic without slowing killing three people and injuring four more.
Speaks no English. Got a Washington state trucking license anyway.
Biden gave him a work permit. He claimed he "feared for his life" in India, so he had to come over here to make American citizens fear for their lives.
Oh, he was also on drugs when he murdered three people.
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Tim Walz on His Pardon of the Rapist of 10-Year-Old Children: "We Can't All be Judged by Our Worst Day"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Leftwing Propaganda Found In Home of Suspected Murderer of Pro-Brexit Former Conservative MP -- Despite UK Cops Previously Claiming There Was No Political Motive
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is the woman whose murder leftists, and trannies in particular, were celebrating.
The police lied again, claiming that the motive may never be known.
The suspect in the alleged murder of Brexit warrior and former government minister Ann Widdecombe reportedly had far-left literature in his home, as police have been forced to belatedly admit that there may have been a political motive in last week's killing.We're getting a little more detail from police now from a statement given on the steps of Scotland Yard, with Counter Terrorism Police saying of the killing of Brexiteer Ann Widdecombe: "It is clear this was a targeted attack. We are still working to understand the extent of any planning or preparation, and the motivation that sits behind that attack."
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Searches of the so-far publicly unidentified 28-year-old "white" male suspect reportedly revealed that he owned "Russian communist literature" and "items of political ideology" in his home.
The Lotus Eaters podcast pointed out the UK cops now routinely hide the race of a suspect -- unless he's white, in which case they repeat it endlessly, as they did here.
According to a report from the Daily Mail, the discovery was followed by counter terror police taking over the investigation into the alleged murder of Widdecombe, a strident conservative who, unlike many on the so-called British right-wing, publicly opposed abortion, gay marriage, mass migration, and who stood as one of the nation's leading Brexiteers and political allies of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.The admission of a political motive behind the killing came after the local Devon and Cornwall Police were quick to attempt to downplay the possibility that it was either a terrorism-related incident or was politically motivated.
Assistant Chief Constable Matt Longman went on to urge the public to refrain from "speculation" over the motive behind the killing, describing it as "unhelpful" to the investigation and claimed that it was "distressing to the family and friends of Ms Widdecombe."
The police response has come under heavy criticism, with many claiming that it appears the messaging surrounding the investigation was intended to manipulate public opinion rather than relay the truth.
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"I don't understand why Devon and Cornwall Police were steering the public away from the idea that this was a terrorist case and I don't know why they didn't simply say they had an open mind as to the motivation," he said.
Similar sentiments were shared by Reform UK board member Gawain Towler, who said of the police response: "In the past, they'd have said all avenues of investigation are open, but this time they tried to close out avenues of the investigation. In a time when trust in the police is at an all-time low, this just plays into that they are trying to massage public opinion."
They have little interest in stopping crime, but a great interest in stopping tweets.
The suspect had communist propaganda in his home -- and specifically, Russian propaganda.
The brutal murder of Ann Widdecombe was last night being treated as a suspected politically motivated terrorist attack.In a dramatic escalation, counter terrorism officers yesterday took over the investigation into the killing of the former Tory minister. It came after the discovery of Russian communist literature and other items of political ideology at the home of the suspected killer.
And it marked a U-turn after the local force, Devon and Cornwall Police, spent days insisting that there was no link to terrorism. Officers, it is understood, are probing whether the 78-year-old may have been bludgeoned to death in a premeditated attack on Reform UK.
They are looking at whether a self-radicalised loner may have considered the pensioner an 'easy target' in comparison to more prominent party figures, such as Nigel Farage, who have security.
Last night, Reform accused Devon and Cornwall police of misleading the public in the initial stages of the investigation.
Senior officers were under pressure to explain why they so publicly ruled out terror or a political motivation.
Two days after the murder, detectives arrested a local labourer in error, before later detaining a 28-year-old man 270 miles away in Rotherham on Saturday night. The Mail has learnt that items of varying political ideology, including Russian material, have been found at the suspect's home and on electronic devices.
But investigators do not believe there is any evidence of hostile state involvement.
Counter terrorism police are investigating whether the 'lone wolf' targeted Ms Widdecombe due to her political views, which she frequently expressed during regular appearances on TV and radio defending Reform as the party's immigration and justice spokesman. The former Strictly contestant was well known for her beliefs, including opposition to abortion and gay rights.
They still haven't admitted the motive, but they're certain it's a "lone wolf" killing.
They can't do anything about crime and terrorism, so they'll just focus on manipulating public opinion through the leftwing media.
Of course you've seen this a dozen times in the US -- as evidence mounts that this was yet another leftwing psychopath obeying the implicit commands to kill fed to him by the political left, the left attempts to claim it wasn't leftist Assassination Prep that motivated the latest act of terrorist murder, but just generic "online hate."
Left-wing British politicians have already begun to seize upon the killing of Brexit hero Ann Widdecombe to push for more censorship on social media to combat "hate", despite police having made no public indication that the suspected killer was radicalised online.The political, media, and law enforcement establishments were quick to condemn British citizens for "speculation" over the potential motives behind the killing of former Conservative government minister and Brexit Party Member of European Parliament Ann Widdecombe, while accusing her long-time allies, like Nigel Farage, of seeking to exploit her death for political purposes.
However, contrary to Widdecombe's long career in public life, in which she stood as a strident defender of free speech, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Lucy Powell, took to the floor of the House of Commons to give a speech concerning Widdecombe's death to advocate for more government speech restrictions.
"We do need to tackle some of the online algorithms and business models which heighten this kind of polarisation and hate towards those in public life, and we must do more to tackle this with urgency," she said.
One transgender former Labour candidate was in fact charged with "online hate."
A transgender former Labour candidate has been charged over online posts about Ann Widdecombe's death.The former Tory minister and TV star, 78, was found dead at her cottage in Haytor, Devon, last Thursday after sustaining serious injuries.
Only hours after Ms Widdecombe's death was announced, a post appeared on trans rights activist Heather Herbert's social media.
Writing on Bluesky, she said: 'And some good news for once. I hope it was an extremely painful death.'
In another post, Ms Herbert said: 'And I hope she was handcuffed to the bed as she screamed in agony.'
The posts were published before detectives announced they were treating Ms Widdecombe's death as murder.
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The Morning Rant: Go After The Big Employers Of Illegals First!
—CBD
ICE's efforts to rid America of the scourge of violent illegal criminals who prey on our citizens is laudable, and in fact should be expanded. Contrary to the media's portrayal of a country that is upset that violent criminals who try to run down law enforcement get ventilated, most Americans understand that trying to kill cops is a good way to get shot, and aren't troubled by it.
The FBI and other data suggest about 1.25 million violent crimes in 2024, and that's just the reported ones. Law enforcement shot/killed about 1,000 that year, so it certainly isn't some insane number of violent criminals being killed extrajudicially! The number that ICE shoots is a rounding error in the total, so the panty-bunched soi-boys in the corporate GOP and the Democrat Party (but I repeat myself) can shut the f*ck up and sit the f*ck down. And that goes for Markwayne Mullin too, but President Trump already took care of that! [Sefton and I talked a bit about that on our podcast]
But there is another vast reservoir of illegals that seems to have been put on the back burner by the Trump administration. And that is the millions that are employed by our largest companies. The open secret of widespread use of illegal labor in many industries is an obscene dismissal of the Americans who would like to work, but can't. Or the Americans whose wages are depressed because of the millions of additional workers in America who are paid less than the prevailing wage because of their illegal status.
Here are the heavy hitters.
CONSTRUCTION
1. D. R. Horton2. Lennar
3. Kiewit Corporation
4. Bechtel Corporation
5. Turner Construction
6. PulteGroup
7. EMCOR Group
8. Fluor Corporation
9. MasTec
10. Jacobs Solutions
FOOD PRODUCTION
1. Cargill2. Tyson Foods
3. JBS USA
4. Pilgrim's Pride
5. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
6. Kraft Heinz
7. Smithfield Foods
8. General Mills
9. Hormel Foods
10. Conagra Brands
HOSPITALITY
1. Marriott International2. Compass Group
3. Sodexo
4. Aramark
5. Hilton Worldwide
6. Hyatt Hotels
7. MGM Resorts International
8. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
9. Choice Hotels International
10. Las Vegas Sands
Notice that Joe's Landscaping, and Quality Painting, and ABC Roofing, are nowhere to be found on those lists. And that is because the enforcement that I suggest should start at the very top, and target our largest corporations that knowingly, in direct violation of The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, employee illegals. Leave the little guys alone for now, and focus on the companies that are public, with boards of directors and CEOs and presidents who can be held criminally liable for the lawbreaking of their companies.
A few videos of the CEOs of Hormel and Bechtel and Hyatt being cuffed and thrown into the back of a police car would do wonders to focus the minds of the remaining executives!
And enforcement would be easier, since these large corporations keep meticulous records, and any halfway decent forensic accountant would be able to find the illegals. And yes, the pathetic government systems that give these companies an out by being able to say, "Well, we checked through E-Verify," need to be improved. They are not the only ones who are complicit...our government is its own worst enemy.
Concurrent with that enforcement should be an increase in the fines for employing illegals. Today it is a paltry $3,000/worker and imprisonment for up to six months. Those fines should be per worker, per day, and imprisonment should be more significant. And that imprisonment should be reserved for the highest corporate executive, not the clerk in the hiring office. And perhaps rewards for whistleblowers who rat out their CEOs! That would be a delicious way to energize the country and show our workers that they are not the targets...their bosses are.
Yes...that is rank populist sleaze, but it would work, and we do not have the luxury of taking the high road any more. Ronald Reagan took the high road in 1986, and the Democrats mugged him and left him on the side of that road with no pants.
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
The Morning Report — 7/ 16 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. As we discussed on the latest episode of the podcast linked here
as well as in the sidebar and available on the popular outlets noted at the end of this post, the usual suspects on the Left as well as shockingly from DHS chief Markwayne Mullin are in an uproar about ICE agents not only doing their duty in rounding up illegal aliens but in using lethal force to defend their lives from being snuffed out by their quarry. Despite the disgusting naked propaganda campaign to turn not merely lettuce-picking border jumpers but the most violent criminal rapists, murderers, human and drug-traffickers among them into the second coming of Anne Frank resisting the Gestapo.
Federal authorities found three bags of what they believe to be meth inside the van driven by the Mexican man who was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston last week. An FBI search warrant said investigators found bags containing a “white crystal-like substance” that “is consistent with methamphetamine” inside the vehicle driven by Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
But of course law enforcement officers stopping this bastard was a crime against humanity, eh Democrats? So they've now got a wetback George Floyd to try and shove in our faces.
And speaking of Minnesota with the aforementioned in mind:
WASHINGTON – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement confirming that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested and deported an illegal alien from Laos who had been pardoned by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and his fellow sanctuary politicians despite a prior conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl.Tou Lue Vang, an illegal alien from Laos, had been convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after he repeatedly assaulted a girl between 2002 and 2004, starting when she was just 10 years old. He once offered his victim $10 to keep quiet about the sexual assaults. When interviewed by police, he tried to justify his actions as “a cultural thing,” and even said that his victim was just as guilty as him and should also be arrested.
Following his conviction, a Department of Justice (DOJ) Immigration Judge issued Vang a final order of removal on October 31, 2006.
Tim Walz who is a credibly suspected P3do himself pardoned this Laotion louse to prevent his ejection from our country. Thank goodness that heinous abuse of power was rejected but how many more of these bastards must we be forced to endure. It would be better that the administration not attempt to kowtow and pander to the Left by accepting their premises about ICE and other law enforcement officers doing their duty and unfortunately having to on occasion use lethal force to defend their lives from vermin foreign and domestic who are tearing us apart from within.
So, okay, body cams on ICE agents. Is that going to prevent any future incidents caught on tape from being completely misrepresented by the Dems and their media whore propagandists? Of course not. Just look at what they did with the George Floyd evidence. An autopsy that clearly proved the decomposing Son of the Great Society died not because of what officer Derek Chauvin did in restraining him but because of a weak heart and the ingestion of his drug stash.
This garbage has to end because if it doesn't one day it will end us. And on that note, I give you this revolting development:
We’re not too surprised that 51% of liberals say they’re “willing to pay higher taxes to support more social programs.” (Although the number should be 100%.)But why do 30% of Republicans feel this way? And why in the world would more than one in five “conservatives” say they’d pay higher taxes for more services?
It gets worse.
The poll also asked whether respondents “believe the government should own key industries such as healthcare and energy.”
Incredibly, 43% of Republicans agree, as do 41% of conservatives. That’s barely higher than the share of liberals who want government ownership of key industries.
Yeah, I get it polls schmolls and poles are for strippers. But still. Maybe Markwayne Mullin's behavior is reflected here or perhaps it's something else. In any case, it's not good news.
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Daily Tech News 16 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- The latest scandal of a fatal failure of Tesla's FSD (full self-driving) system turns out to have been another case of PTTMCDISEH-STTW. (Tech Crunch)
Pedal-to-the-metal controlled driving into someone else's house - straight through the wall.
Funny how often things turn out that way.
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Wednesday Night ONT - July 15, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
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How do you do, fellow kids? Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open and freshly re-stocked. Free refills!
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are discouraged due to the heat. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're here for an argument, please go through the second door on the right and then close the door behind you. This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
Will reading the content protect you from Taco Bell lettuce explosive diarrhea? Couldn't hurt, right? The ONT is not a miracle worker, so keep your expectations low.
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Throwback Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Helen Warlow
Holy Island (Lindisfarne), Northumberland
I posted a picture of that castle before:
Holy Island, Northumberland
by Jim Scott
Poor dog depressed about the passing of his dog-sister smiles again when he meets his new rescue-dog brother.
Raven steals the cat's food to give it to the dog.
Stella the stray dog is rescued -- and it's discovered she has something lodged in her stomach she can't digest, so she can't eat and can't poop. She would have died within days, but for one concerned man's intervention.
When a dog is caught chewing on a family picture, the two cats swarm in to cover up the crime. The cats have nothing to gain from this. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Baby bear found alone on the road.
Clumsy baby elephant wakes up from a nap. This might be his first or second time on his feet.
Baby and husky puppy grow up together.
"Great Space Coaster" intro. Plus: "Gary Gnu" with the Gnus.
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"MASCULINITY IS BACK," Says Gay Liberal Media, In Transparent Attempt to Win Back Male Voters Who Aren't Gay or "Trans"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Via Beege Wellborne: Steve Jobs' widow's Vanity Magazine The Atlantic announces "MASCULINITY IS BACK," but only for Democrats pretending to be masculine.
Actually-masculine Republican men, those who aren't just pretending as they run for office, are still Toxic and Ick.
Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland when he delivered a message that, coming from a Democratic House candidate in the year 2026, sounded almost provocative. "There's nothing wrong with being masculine," Poindexter told me. It's okay, he said, to be "a manly man."Poindexter's own manliness credentials are fully in order.
Yeah I'm sure to a gay media writer he seems super-manly.
...Now Poindexter is running for Congress, trying to flip a Republican-held seat in Ohio with a pitch aimed at a constituency that has abandoned the Democratic Party over the past two decades: men.
You can tell this guy is really an advocate for men when he declares there's nothing wrong with the Democrat agenda: They just need to "message" to men better.
The party-wide reckoning that Trump's win spawned has centered in part on why Democrats lost working-class men whose life experiences resemble Poindexter's--and how the party can win them back. In Poindexter's view, Democrats' struggles with men like him owe less to policy than to culture. "It's all vibes," he said.
"Vibes" is something leftwing women like Kamala Harris talk about. Men talk about actual policies and results.
You are kinda gay, dude. You are very effeminate. And you're claiming that the Democrats' Pink Agenda just needs a splash of blue paint to cover it up and it will be "For the Men."
You're not proposing actual changes -- just "bluewashing" the Democrat anti-male agenda.
...Critiques such as Poindexter's have gelled into a consensus over the past two years, repeated ad nauseam by starchy senators and governors with an eye toward running for president in 2028. Closing the gender gap now seems to be an official electoral strategy for Democrats. A couple of months ago, I got a call from a party operative who pitched a story on the Democrats' effort to "win back the manosphere."
Democrat Party operatives call you to pitch you propaganda stories would be helpful to them?
No shit. I never would have guessed.
The operative ran through a list of a half dozen candidates in key House districts who "are engaging culturally in male spaces"--a bit of gobbledygook that I took to mean "manly men," or perhaps "guy's guys," but that also reflects the sort of anthropological distance that points to the depth of the party's problem. After all, an ironworker probably wouldn't describe himself as "engaging culturally in male spaces."
No, the whole idea of "spaces" is, get this, something leftwing women babble about.
In case you weren't already certain enough of it: The piece admits this is all a political con-job by having their "Masculine Manly-Man" declare that the Democrat Party doesn't need any actual ideas from men to support men and in fact nothing in the Democrat Party agenda is anti-male.
It's just perception, man.
Like your sex. It's all a construct.
For the most part, Poindexter and the other men Democrats are running this year aren't offering up any new male-centric ideas. That's not what's needed, Poindexter told me. Within the party's agenda, he said, "I can't think of a single piece of legislation that's bad for men." But, he argued, Democrats have hemorrhaged support from men like him--the ones who sweat more than type for a living--because the party has relegated them to the periphery.
This is the left-wing, extremely feminine idea of "centering." It's not that men are actually being harmed by anti-male policies, this faggot is arguing -- it's just that we don't feel "centered" and "included" in Democrat Party group-photos.
But the propagandist finishes on The Big Takeaway s/he was ordered to really pound home for the masses:
If nothing else, Democrats are embracing their masculinity again, and they'll soon find out whether that's enough to win men back.
Oh yeah, they're so masculine now I can't even take it.
What is really creepy here is how top-down this disgusting leftwing hive mind operates. Their political commissars say "We have to do something to attract some straight men" and within months, all of their media organs are pumping out the same message.
It's like an alien cult. All of their brains are connected by invisible amoeba-tentacles.
Meanwhile, at the New York Times, a woman wonders: Why don't men at my workplace hit on me any longer?
Go On, Date Your Co-Workers
July 6, 2026
This is how they describe the picture running with the article:
A strangely-shaped paper clip reminiscent of Mickey Mouse's head holds down a piece of metal, studded at its sides; a photo, almost like a postage stamp in shape and resting upon the piece of metal, shows two birds fornicating. A brass, more standard paper clip sits upon the metal, as does, above and off the metal, another. The birds are blue and yellow, the hazy background green fading into orange. All is a metaphor for corporate drudgery interrupted by the subtle eroticism of nature.
Karens are lonely and horny and so they're announcing that men should brave lawsuits and #cancellation to f*** them again.
Don't bother, they're bad at sex. They're bad at pretty much everything.
Last year I developed an office crush. My friends warned me against doing anything about it, typically using a crude metaphor about keeping your eating space clean. Dating people you work with just seems like too much trouble these days. It's not that people aren't attracted to Jack in client relations with the smile lines and overzealous David Lynch obsession; it's that it feels as if the risk outweighs the reward.But a return to office romance could be the solution to the sense many people have that modern dating is broken. Dating apps ask us to consider potential romantic partners not as full human beings with a caffeine addiction and tension-defusing sense of humor but as a set of optimized digital parameters.
Only 16 percent of U.S. workers went on a date with a colleague last year, down from about 40 percent in 2009.
Gee, why do you think that is, NYT? Can you offer any kind of explanation?
Maybe something to do with a all-consuming moral panic you stoked and profited from?
Workplace crushes -- a surefire way to inject excitement into office mundanity -- have waned, too, with the share of workers reporting one collapsing from 49 percent in 2024 to just 22 percent in 2025, according to a human resources industry group survey. The decline has been decades in the making. While about one-fifth of adults over 50 said they met their partners at work, just 13 percent of those 18 to 29 said the same.Of course, workplace romance was always fraught, with its legacy of predatory bosses, favoritism and, when things went wrong, career retaliation. Years of sexual harassment training and more watchful human resources departments taught us not to go there. (About a quarter of workers now fear harassment allegations, one industry survey found.)
But where else in adulthood except the office would you bond with a potential paramour you share so much of everyday life with?
Below, the Masculine Manly-Man running for office as a Democrat that The Atlantic is ordering its readers to get behind.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Mallory's all grown up now. She turned into Alex.
Justine Bateman @JustineBateman
- First comedy and satire was targeted. The elements that keep a society largely in check.- Next was masculinity. Men were shamed as "toxic" for being manly.
- Then it was women who complain, and they were labeled "Karens."
So if appropriate mockery is out, the most ridiculous concepts actually see the light of day.
If men aren't permitted to defend what they know they should, the most harmful and dangerous concepts see the light of day.
And when older women are shamed for speak against what they see as wrong, the most outrageous behavior sees the light of day.
Comedy, satire, mockery, masculinity, and female wisdom.
Restore it all now.
Via Instapundit, Kurt Schlichter calls a spade a spade.
I don't know what that blasphemous little imp's secret is, but he's got one. Don't be fooled by that creepy smile on his creepy face; there's something wrong with James Talarico. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I don't ever want to see his browser history, and I'd sooner have somebody from The Lincoln Project babysit my kid. It's just a vibe, but there are rumors out there, and unfortunately, no one has shared the specifics with me. I don't know exactly what they are, but we have no moral obligation to default to a presumption of normality regarding Democrat Senate candidates this cycle. After all, we just lived through Der Platnerdämmerung.Is it related to his gender ambiguity? He's already famous for apologizing for his white male identity. Well, let's just say we can be pretty confident that Talarico has never beaten up or assaulted one of the many ex-girlfriends he's tried to convince us were his girlfriends. This is because, to the extent they actually ever were his girlfriends, they all look like they can kick his butt. And he looks like he might dig that.
Let's call out the pink donkey in the room. There's widespread speculation that the guy is in the closet, and anybody who's lived a few years has known guys in the closet, and well, this dude gives off vibes like he's in the closet. I don't know if he's in the closet. I do know that if he is in the closet, he should have come out and been honest about who he was. If he's lying about that, what else is he lying about?
All of my concerns about mentally-ill men obsessed with possessing women's bodies hanging out in women's rooms are instantly dispelled!
Keith Ellison claims straight people use 'gender-affirming care,' calls tax-funded police 'socialism'"Cisgender heterosexual people like myself use gender-affirming care every day and all the time," Ellison said.
You can tell he doesn't mean it because Islamist clerics haven't issued a fatwa against him.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has come under a flurry of criticism in recent days after a pair of comments about socialism and so-called "gender-affirming care." In both cases, Ellison was attempting to stretch the meaning of both words.During a June 29 appearance on an LGBT talk show, Ellison discussed "gender-affirming care" and claimed that it is not exclusive to transgender people, saying that "cisgender heterosexual people like myself use gender-affirming care every day and all the time."
Ellison explained that he believes a man using erectile dysfunction medication, a woman receiving reconstructive surgery after a double mastectomy, or a woman with hair loss wearing a wig are all practicing "gender-affirming care."
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Speaking to the talk show hosts, the attorney general argued that a double standard exists which penalizes transgender people for seeking out methods to change their appearance. Ellison said he believes this double standard is "bigotry."
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"You call the cops, guess who pays them? Your tax dollars," Ellison said. "Guess what that is? That's socialism, pal! Sorry. You don't contract for your own private police department or fire department or water inspection or public works."
Joy Reid is a nasty racist clownwhore.
Alex Christy
@alexchristy17Former MSNBC crazy person Joy Reid is now a podcasting crazy person, "I hope you guys had a fabulous weekend where you definitely had a better week then the Republican Caucus in the United States Senate because hell opened its doors for at least one more... there is a thing that happens when people die who are not good people and who've done a lot of bad, but the media reacts to them in a very specific sort of fuck-up-ish kind of way, particularly when they're conservatives."
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UK "Equalities and Human Rights Commission:" People Must Use The Single-Sex Bathrooms for the Gender They Were "Assigned at Birth." Trannies Should Use Gender-Neutral Bathrooms.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This may seem pretty obvious but the left is losing its mind.
Single-sex spaces - such as changing rooms and toilets - must be used on the basis of biological sex, new guidance from the equalities watchdog has confirmed.This means, for instance, that a trans woman - a biological male who identifies as a woman - should not use female toilets or changing rooms, according to the code of practice.
The guidance, produced by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and now approved by ministers, makes it clear that transgender people should instead be offered a third or a gender-neutral space.
The code states that leaving a trans person without access to any services or facilities would be unlikely to be proportionate and could be discriminatory.
The guidance was published on Thursday following the landmark Supreme Court ruling last year that the definition of a woman under the Equality Act should be based on biological sex.
The code of practice sets out how associations, businesses and services open to the public should organise their facilities. It covers a wide range of settings from shopping centres and gyms to hospitals and restaurants. The EHRC is planning to publish guidance for employers and staff facilities at a later date.
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