Daily Tech News 7 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $942 million under a law that so far as I can tell is both unconstitutionally vague and entirely inapplicable. (WSJ / MSN)
Appeals lawyers making bank again.
- Meanwhile OpenAI has fired back at Apple saying that if they were able to steal all of Apple's trade secrets then they weren't all that secret, were they? (Tech Crunch)
I'm not sure that is how it works, Sam.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 6, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
[Top photo: Loch Leven - Highlands of Scotland]
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Fish-Herding Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Historic Vids
@historyinmemesTo appear headless while taking a photo, known as "horsemaning", was a popular way to pose in the 1920's.
Horsemaning, also known as "headless posing," is a photographic technique where the subject creates the illusion of being beheaded, with their head placed on the ground or another surface. This unique form of posing gained popularity during the 1920s and was considered a photography trend at the time.
To achieve the desired effect, two individuals are required for this pose. One person positions themselves with their head hidden or tilted backward, while the other conceals their body, revealing only their head in the photograph. The term "Horsemaning" originated from the Headless Horseman, a malevolent character depicted in Washington Irving's 1820 short story titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
In 2011, Horsemaning experienced a resurgence on Facebook, and numerous photos attempting to recreate the original trend started circulating on platforms like Buzzfeed. This revitalization brought renewed attention to the peculiar and imaginative art of Horsemaning.
ICYMI: Police cat.
The mountains of Pluto.
Baby goat wants to cuddle.
Duckling defiant disorder.
Puppy wants to help with engine repair.
Kids adopt a tick-ridden puppy off the street.
Puppy goes HAM on his new favorite duck-toy.
Tiger cub goes crazy on her toys.
Baby elephant makes a leaf "wig."
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
James Talarico is so normal and masculine!
James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers'The Pride Month event also featured a drag queen with the provocative name 'Sedonya Face'
Sit-on-your-face, GET IT??!!! I love all of drag queens' joke (singular).
James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate from Texas, headlined an LGBTQ festival that featured "the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers," an 11-year-old boy "drag queen" who goes by the stage name Kween Kee Kee.Taylor PRIDE, a group in the town of Taylor, Texas, held the June 26, 2021, event to raise money to help "rural LGBTQ communities." The Pride Month festivities included a series of pro-LGBTQ speakers, live music, a "drag story hour," and adult drag performers such as Brianna Brinxx and the provocatively named Sedonya Face.
Talarico and Kween Kee Kee, a local preteen named Keegan, were the biggest attraction for Taylor PRIDE organizers. "[Taylor PRIDE] will be hosting numerous speakers such as State Rep. James Talarico, talented musical guests such as Venus Loves Mars, the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers Kween Kee Kee," the group wrote in promotional materials.
"Not only ... will this amazing pre-teen be performing a number at Texas Beer Company but they will also host Kee Kee Storytime ... where children will find lots of PRIDE inspired craft activities," Taylor PRIDE wrote of Kween Kee Kee in a post publicizing the event.
Talarico, running against Texas attorney general Ken Paxton (R.), is seen in photos speaking to the audience and posing with attendees at Texas Beer Company, which hosted the festival. Kween Kee Kee, sporting a shimmery blue dress, heavy eye makeup, and a platinum blonde wig, performed a drag routine as part of the group's "Youth Drag Show," event photos show.
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." CNN's Abby Phillip corrected a guest: "I will say El-Sayed didn't -- does not support defunding the police." When she was confronted by CNN's own reporting that he called for defunding the police, Phillip offered a curious response...
..."I think the question that I'm fundamentally asking is, by dredging up the sort of wedge issues of 2020, are you missing the point?" Well, the point is that he called for defunding the police. It may be a wedge issue when a candidate wants to return to the state of nature......This is the same reporter who "dredged up" an attack line against Bernie Sanders in the presidential debates and made Sanders repeat his outright denial of the allegation by Elizabeth Warren that he told her that no woman could be president.
Migrant NGOs are handing out leaflets instructing illegal aliens how to illegally cross the Channel from France to UK and how to call for the British navy to save you when you want to be brought ashore.
The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri27h
Walking down the average UK high street now is one of the most blackpilling experiences imaginable. Barely any local businesses left, just endless vape shops, tacky nail salons, dodgy phone retailers and the obligatory Turkish barbers, most of which never see a single customer and barely even bother to maintain the pretence of being legit anymore.
A palpable atmosphere of quiet despair and resignation amongst the trickle of shoppers wandering aimlessly around. Its like living in a country that just lost a war without firing a single shot. Never seen anything like it in my lifetime.
The hero who knocked out the Democrat congressional candidate weakling says "I didn't even know who he was." Of course you didn't. He's another nobody soyboy who thinks he can bully the world into saying he's special.
Hasan Piker is proof that we must not only end birthright citizenship but end it retroactively.
Trump must have seen this Terror Cuck's ugly mug and decided to act.
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that attempt to restrict birthright citizenship and end the practice of "birth tourism," in hopes of circumventing a recent Supreme Court decision....
The order restricting birthright citizenship expands the definition of what children born in the United States would be ineligible for automatic citizenship, including children of "alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments."
The other order directs the State Department to issue rules and guidance to stop birth tourism, according to Axios, even as U.S. law already bans tourists from obtaining visas "for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States."
Francesca Hong won't have any of that awful "proximity to whiteness" when we deport her.
Megan Basham @megbashamAug 5
I've said this before. Francesca Hong was born to non-citizen immigrants. In other words, she has citizenship in the U.S. because she was born here when her parents were on student visas.
Birthright citizenship candidates like her are FAR more likely to be extreme leftwing than to be the kind of pro American patriot that we are promised when we grant this kind of citizenship.
And now she is running as a socialist in order to dismantle the American way of life.
Tell me more about how this isn't a problem.
In case you missed it: evil America-hating anchor baby Francesca Hong got a call from her pollster and discovered she actually loves Thanksgiving, rather than hating it as "painful" for foreigners like herself.
Unfunnyman Stephen Colbert warned his audience of brain-damaged clapping seals to not take a vaccine created by Big Pharma... when Trump was president.
Then Biden was fake-elected, and you know what happened next.
Stephen Colbert's nepo baby daughter works at, get this, 60 Minutes.
Or at least she did. She's resigned as CBS gets ready to purge its " " " news talent. " " "
Stephen Colbert's daughter has resigned from "60 Minutes," becoming the latest behind-the-scenes producer to leave the venerable newsmagazine as it grapples with a talent exodus, a reportedly unaired Jeffrey Epstein investigation and mounting scrutiny of its future ownership.Madeleine Carlisle, a well-regarded associate producer who joined "60 Minutes" after reporting stints at Time and The Atlantic, resigned from the broadcast in recent days, according to Status.
The exit creates an awkward family bookend for CBS.
Carlisle left just months after the network pulled the plug on her father's top-rated "Late Show," ending Stephen Colbert's 11-season run on May 21 after CBS called the cancellation a "purely financial decision."
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Natalie Winters: Top American Generals and Democrat Politicians (Including Hillary Clinton) Joined Chinese Intelllgence's Backchannel Efforts to Distort American Policy
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Rich Higgins, RIP, told me long ago that generals and admirals are frequently recruited as agents of influence for foreign powers.
The usual scam is that a foreign government hires them, post-retirement, for "security consulting." For a couple of weeks' "work," they get a million dollars.
But the scam is, they're not being paid for their "security consulting." They're being paid to have a friendly relationship with that foreign government. So that when the foreign power needs a favor, they can ask their Pet General to contact high-ranking politicians or current Pentagon staffers and pitch them the foreign power's agenda.
Democrats have had a long history of treasonous liaisons with China. You all remember Red China pouring money into the Clinton re-election campaign through Chinese "nuns" who deposited Chinese money on behalf of the Chinese government.
Chinese "nuns" who'd taken a vow of poverty poured tens of thousands into the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, and Al Gore and Hillary and Bill Clinton said "Yes please and thank you, no further questions. We await your orders, Comrades."
Natalie Winters says it's only gotten worse.
REVEALED: Top American Generals Joined a CCP Spy Front's Backchannel Pushing China's Military Agenda in Washington. Some Ended Up on China's Payroll.
From Hillary Clinton to former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it's treason at the highest levels.Aug 04, 2026
For more than a decade, former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, combatant commanders, Cabinet officials and members of Congress participated in a military dialogue organized with a Chinese group identified by congressional investigators as a front engaged in "intelligence collection" and "propaganda and perception management." Some ended up on China's payroll shortly after.
The Chinese Communist Party did not need to penetrate the Pentagon to gain access to America's military leadership.
It built a private network around it.
For more than a decade, some of the most powerful retired officers in the United States participated in closed-door meetings with senior Chinese military leaders. The discussions covered Taiwan, the South China Sea, missile defense, cybersecurity and the future of relations between the two militaries.
The American participants included:
Gen. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm. William "Bill" Owens, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of U.S. Central Command
Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, former Chief of Naval Operations
Adm. Timothy Keating, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. Dennis Reimer, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Joseph Prueher, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
Gen. Walter Sharp, former commander of U.S. Forces Korea
Gen. Charles Jacoby, former commander of U.S. Northern Command
Gen. Charles Wilhelm, former commander of U.S. Southern Command
The program was called the Sanya Initiative.
Its glossy brochures framed it as a peaceful exchange between retired American and Chinese generals. Photographs showed senior officers chatting in Hawaiian shirts, touring military institutions and sitting across from Chinese commanders in ornate meeting rooms.
But the initiative was not organized with an ordinary veterans' association.
It was funded by the China-United States Exchange Foundation, or CUSEF, and conducted with the China Association for International Friendly Contact, or CAIFC.
Congressional investigators have described CAIFC as "a front organization" for the People's Liberation Army's former General Political Department.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission found that the group performed the dual roles of "intelligence collection" and "conducting propaganda and perception management campaigns."
The commission specifically cited CAIFC's work through the Sanya Initiative.
Put simply -- America's most senior former military leaders spent years collaborating through a program organized with a Chinese military front that U.S. government investigators linked to intelligence gathering and foreign influence operations.
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The CPPCC is a central part of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front system.
U.S. government reports describe the United Front as an influence apparatus designed to build relationships with foreign elites, suppress opposition to Beijing and induce influential outsiders to advance Chinese Communist Party objectives.
One congressional report described its mission as seeking to:
"Co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition."
CUSEF heavily relies on the foreign influence tactic of "pay-for-play" trips, including paying and subsidizing journalists to travel to China in exchange for "favorable coverage."
From Retired Generals To The State Department
The first Sanya Initiative gathering took place in China in 2008.
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The following year, the initiative moved beyond meetings among retired officers.
CUSEF brought the combined American and Chinese delegations through Hawaii, Washington, D.C., and New York.
According to the foundation's own brochure, they met:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen
Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell
Rep. Rick Larsen
Rep. Mark Kirk
Adm. Timothy Keating
Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle
China #hacked our elections and all of these people need to be investigated for years and years by the FBI, NSA, and CIA.
Outrageous! Dwarfish Democrat Troll Roland Martin Says That People Are Circulating Rumors About Him Being Videotaped In "Compromising Positions" and Threatens to Sue Anyone Publishing The Videos
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Boy this is a day of Internet Pests come to grief.
Roland Martin, if you've forgotten, is a racial supremacist. His race is Troll. He is a literal troll-man. He's got the body of a potato and a head of a potato, but a different potato.*
This Troll pretends to be black and attacks white people and Republicans incessantly.
He was involved in that matter of giving Hillary Clinton the questions before her fake CNN "debate" with Bernie Sanders.
And now some people are making claims of a sexual nature about him. Roland Martin says these claims are part of an "extortion" plot and is suing anyone who posts images or the video.
Because he's threatening to sue everyone, I'll say that I totally believe him and I believe that he will be vindicated in court in his battle with these internet smear-merchants and blackmailers.
Google AI:
Social media and gossip commentators, including Tasha K and Wack 100, circulated unverified rumors and claims regarding alleged leaked compromising photos and private footage involving journalist Roland Martin.Martin and his team characterized the online claims as an extortion and blackmail plot, addressing the rumors through legal threats against the distribution of such material.
Background and Context
Gossip platforms and digital creators spread rumors claiming that compromising media involving Martin had been obtained.
Online commentators alleged an extortion or blackmail attempt tied to the unverified materials.Martin's side and related digital reports noted threats of legal action against individuals attempting to distribute or monetize the purported content.
Black Conservative Perspective is forced to mention this but wants it to be known that he has no opinion on these completely-fake allegations at all, which by the way he mentions might involve the prostitute vigorously penetrating him.
Allegedly -- and remember, these false rumors are being pushed by blackmailers and smear merchants. Do not be misled, these are all LIES which you must disbelieve!
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The Budget Is 90% Fraud by Foreign Pirates: A Continuing Series
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaughAug 3
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Jaw-dropping fraud report just found that 9.2 million people -- including ILLEGAL ALIENS -- do NOT meet the federal requirements to qualify for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion program...that's nearly HALF of those enrolled
50% FRAUD 🤯
The problems are the worst in CA and NY. IMAGINE THAT.
"The study says New York and California have some of the biggest problems, finding up to 62% of people enrolled in California are not eligible. And the states might not even be incentivized to fix the issue."
"This study says some of those people actually make too much money to qualify for this Medicaid expansion program and others are getting these benefits, even though they're here in the country illegally!"
The entire system has to be gutted! Purge the rolls!
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh4h
🚨 WOW! JD Vance just confirmed it with Stephen Miller at his side: "We have been able to identify $230 BILLION DOLLARS of fraud just since the fraud task force was set up!"
"And that's frankly by conservatively estimating it!" 🤯
"We've been able to stop $56 BILLION in fraudulent payments that would have otherwise gone to fraudsters rather than to the people who need them."
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Senate Panel Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt, as Democrats Attempt to Stop The Vote Through Endless Delay
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Senate Republicans moved to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress in their pursuit of forcing the former architect of the nation's COVID-19 response to go on record about his actions leading up to and during the pandemic.The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted on sharp party lines to charge Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the president, with contempt after he refused to answer questions from both sides of the aisle over fear of self-incrimination.
The move follows Fauci's decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights more than 100 times during his hearing last week, which prompted the panel's chair, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to vow that he would face "repercussions" for not testifying, or at least how Paul envisioned.
Fox is implying that Fauci did testify, just "not as Paul envisioned."
Fox News is as liberal as CNN. I despise them.
Typically, once a contempt resolution passes by committee, it heads to the Senate floor for a full vote. However, Paul's resolution allows that step to be skipped altogether and allows him to send the referral directly to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.But Paul wants the Department of Justice (DOJ) involved as soon as possible. There's also the question whether Fauci's pardon from former President Joe Biden protected him during the hearing, which Paul hopes to find answers to.
"It's a good legal discussion, and we will make those legal points to DOJ in sending the referral over," Paul told Fox News Digital ahead of the hearing.
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Meanwhile, across the marble expanse of the Capitol, Republican investigators in the House are cooking up their own probe into Fauci.
...After the longtime public health official pleaded the Fifth Amendment during his Senate hearing, Comer questioned the validity of his preemptive pardon granted by President Joe Biden. He also said his committee would be questioning Fauci further, though he did not elaborate.
"If former President Biden's blanket autopen pardon is valid, then Dr. Fauci has no right to refuse to answer questions," Comer said, noting his committee had done extensive work probing the autopen pardons. "Based on the release of Dr. Fauci's diary, which should have been provided to the House Oversight Committee last Congress...we'll be asking Dr. Fauci whether he stands by his previous testimony to our Committee."
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Former Internet Celebrity Perez Hilton Hospitalized After Repeatedly Cutting Himself During a Livestream, Screaming "I'm Doing This for My Children!"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You probably have cleared your organic hard-drive of this nasty buffoon. He's the guy who ruined Miss America aspirant's chances by demanding she say that transgenders should be allowed to compete in Miss America. When she -- rather stunned by the question -- babbled out a careful answer that ultimately ended in "no," Hilton declared her answer "ugly."
His whole career, if you can call it that, consisted of spreading gossip and attacking people posting pictures of his enemies after having crudely drawn semen on their faces.
He then paid a surrogate to give him a couple of Fashion Accessory Children and disappeared into a well-earned obscurity.
Apparently he's not handling that obscurity well.
Perez Hilton Is Hospitalized After Appearing to Harm Himself on LivestreamLaw enforcement and emergency workers responded to Mr. Hilton's house after he appeared to hurt himself on a TikTok stream Tuesday.
Perez Hilton, the celebrity blogger, was hospitalized after he appeared to harm himself on camera during a TikTok livestream on Tuesday, the authorities said.The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office said Wednesday morning that Mr. Hilton had been transported from his home in Miami to a hospital, where he was receiving medical attention after "livestreaming acts of self-harm on social media."
Video clips and screenshots from the livestream circulated widely online, appearing to show Mr. Hilton, 48, in distress and injuring himself on camera.
Cutting himself with a kitchen knife, they mean.
A representative for Mr. Hilton, Dante Rusciolelli, wrote in an email on Wednesday that he had no additional information on Mr. Hilton's condition. "Our focus remains on Perez's health, recovery, and the privacy of both him and his family during this incredibly difficult time," he said.
Later on Wednesday, a statement on Mr. Hilton's website said, "We can confirm that Perez is receiving medical care, and our family's focus right now is on his well-being."
"Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.
There is a disturbing clip of his Tik Tok Cutting Sesh on X. I wouldn't watch it. It shows him covered in his own blood screaming "I'm doing this for my children!"
What he can do for his children is not contest Florida's likely move to take his children away and place them in the home of a non-lunatic.
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WSJ: The Senate Has Fauci's iPhone As Well as Thousands of Additional Records
—Disinformation Expert Ace
We don't know yet what's contained on the iPhone or in those records. But given Fauci's arrogance and sense if invulnerability, there's probably more to come.
A Senate panel investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci has obtained a copy of the doctor's iPhone, potentially securing even more records related to the doctor's actions during the Covid-19 pandemic....
The phone could be part of more public document dumps on the way: Paul and Johnson have received millions of additional Fauci-related pages from government servers, people familiar with the matter said, and are still pressing for more. And at least four Republican-led states have meanwhile launched their own investigations into Fauci.
More at the link.
From a couple of weeks ago: Deborah Birx was never pardoned.
Birx is Dr. Fauci's accomplice, and while far less evil than Fauci, because there is little indication that she actually conspired to create the COVID virus that wiped out tens of millions of people, she participated in the subsequent destruction that destroyed lives and split this country apart. She lied repeatedly, causing enormous damage, and decided that she and Fauci could run a shadow government and do an end run around the political leadership elected by the American people.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
Crime, housing, and employment are recurrent issues in America. Any politician who addresses them and has a rational plan to ease America's crime rate, soaring housing costs, and tortured employment opportunity will have a solid foundation for success.
For 60 years, our politicians, in league with consumers of cheap labor, have imported millions of people...some legally, but many illegally. Those millions have distorted the employment market by markedly decreasing the cost of labor, mostly by being willing to work for cash at below-market rates, in substandard conditions, and without legal protections. They also consume housing, driving up the cost at the low end in particular. And as most people are beginning to realize, those millions of illegals are often the dregs of society in their home countries, and bring vast quantities of crime to our shores.
One political issue -- illegal immigration -- has had profound effects on America, yet for 60 years our political masters have dithered and obfuscated and lied and ignored and, frankly, enjoyed the financial and political fruits of this invasion. The Democrats loved it because of the ample opportunity for voter fraud to consolidate their power in the cities. The Republicans loved it because of cheap labor; those Chamber Of Commerce parties and campaign contributions have to come from somewhere! Corporations gobbled up the illegal labor and pushed Americans out of the employment picture, and on the way de-skilled many jobs to take advantage of the cheap but mediocre skills of the new workers.
According to our political elites, there is no solution, other than making these oceans of foreigners legal workers! But along came Donald Trump, who had the apparently revolutionary idea simply to enforce existing law, and throw the bums out!
One decision -- to deal with the illegal problem -- has profound salutary consequences for Americans. Deporting illegals, whether legally or just changing the tone in America so that many leave on their own, will decrease the oversupply of labor, decrease demand for housing, and eliminate a criminal class that is responsible for huge amounts of crime!
Crime, housing, and employment! The three most important issues for Americans, and President Trump has a workable plan to improve all three. So the next time some pierced and tatted 20-something complains about not being able to afford a house or get a good job or live without fear of violent crime, tell him that Donald Trump has his back!
[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 — 8/ 6 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. With all the insanity going on here and abroad these days, hell every day, let's start off with some good news and considering who's involved rather surprising. Good for Justice Sotomayor.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied an appeal from the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority to halt a $656 million judgment.The ruling means the victims and their families are now one step closer to being paid damages, following years of legal battles over terrorism attacks.
“The lawsuit was filed by victims of attacks in Jerusalem in the early 2000s that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more,” the Associated Press reported. “Families brought their lawsuit under the Anti-Terrorism Act, a law aimed at opening U.S. courts to victims of international terror attacks.”
A significant legal victory for American victims of Palestinian terrorism.
Barring some wholly unforeseen development, such as Republicans actually mounting an effective challenge somewhere, the 120th Congress will convene on January 3, 2027 with a record seven Muslim members, six representatives and, for the first time in American history, one senator. And for Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations in the U.S., the future looks bright.Before 2007, there were no Muslim in the House of Representatives or Senate at all. The seven Muslim legislators who will be sworn in (on the Qur’an, no doubt) in January will include the four representatives in the 119th Congress: Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.); Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.); Andre Carson (D-Ind.), and Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.). Joining them will be the nation’s first Muslim senator, Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.), as well as Reps. Darializa Avila Chevalier (D-N.Y.) and Adam Hamawy (D-N.J.).
My only consolation in an Islamized Ameriqqqa is that should I God-forbid still be alive to witness that nightmare I will at least have the pleasure of watching the Democrats and Leftists get their heads lopped off first, having sold us down the river and thus rendering their political alliance with Islam no longer necessary and its own preternatural lust for absolute power, that led to this alliance of convenience, a potential threat to our new Mullahocratic overlords.
Elsewhere, and as CBD and I have discussed with disgust for the umpteenth friggin' time on the latest episode of the podcast linked here as well as in the sidebar and on all the popular platforms listed at the bottom of the post, We are fed up with President Trump's constant yammering about how Iran is going to get it good and hard if they don't sign on to some bullshit ceasefire accord.
The Long View of Iran: The headlines focus on negotiations, but the war’s real story is this: Iran is steadily being broken by sanctions, isolation, and relentless military pressure. . . Bottom line? Iran is losing whether it is being bombed, sanctioned, or embargoed—or all three. Its ultimate fate now rests with the Trump administration, which apparently has not yet decided what, exactly, that fate will be.
Read the whole thing as he goes point by point.
Well, at least CBD and I shockingly over the course of the last several episodes have completely ignored the Fauci revelations. Wow, how did we miss that? Others seem to think that Senator Rand Paul is going to come down hard on the Mass-murdering fiend. Considering his victim count, between the virus cum bio-weapon he created for the Chi-Coms with our own money as well as the toxic vaccines from Big Pharma, is up there with Pol Pot if not Mao or Stalin, a gallows would be appropriate if not too good for this rodent-like bastard.
When Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth over 100 times during a Senate hearing last week, many Americans were pleased that the face of the Biden administration’s coronavirus response was forced to face his critics. But many other Americans were left wondering: would Fauci face anything worse than an embarrassing viral hearing? He will if Senator Rand Paul has anything to say about it. The Kentucky Republican is determined to bring the former head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases to justice. Speaking to The Daily Wire Wednesday, Paul explained why he’s confident that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold the embattled doctor in contempt — and what he thinks could happen next.
Well, as our wonderful president (and I mean that in all sincerity) is wont to say, we'll just have to wait and see. And that said, Forget Greasy Kid Stuff Newsom, Mayor Buttplug or Chlamydia Harris, I think the Democrats might at long last have their ideal candidate for 2028 — Mini-Mengele Fauci!
Have a good day, and on a personal note, thank you for all your good wishes yesterday. And thank goodness for the A-Bomb that ended World War Two 81 years ago today. Nod of thanks to an uncle who worked as a tool and die maker for Enrico Fermi!
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Daily Tech News 6 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Cloudflare has announced its new open-source operating system, Cloudflare OS. (Phoronix)
It is not an operating system.
It's an application.
Written in JavaScript.
That depends on Cloudflare services to function.
So... Thanks, I guess?
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Wednesday Night ONT - August 5, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. We're overstocked on RC Cola at the moment though so don't be shy about asking for refills. Only the best for the Horde...
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
[Top photo: State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]
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Wednesday Night Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Ben Wolf
Pelican tries to eat a capybara. But he's a pelican't.
Cat has good precision-jumping skills.
A weird glow-headed fish.
ICYMI: This yappy little dog loves the stairs.
Kitten is a selfie queen.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A sports writer who choked out his own wife is attacking Sophie Cunningham for caring about women's safety -- he's not a fan of women's safety -- and decides it's also "anti-black" to look out for girls in girls sports.
This has nothing to do with race, obviously, except that Sophie Cunningham is white and black racists will take any opportunity to spit racial hatred at whites while complaining about all the racisms in society.
Writer arrested for allegedly beating wife calls Sophie Cunningham 'anti-trans, anti-black' in wild op-ed
The Guardian op-ed accused the Indiana Fever guard of being the right's 'anti-Black, anti-transgender culture war ambassador'By Bobby Burack
"She is every bit as political as Colin Kaepernick."That's how sportswriter Howard Bryant described WNBA star Sophie Cunningham in a Guardian op-ed.
Bryant argued that Cunningham embraced right-wing politics by saying young girls should not have to compete against biological males in sports.
...Most of the country agrees with Cunningham. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 79% of Americans oppose allowing individuals who were male at birth to compete in female sports categories.
Still, the loud, radical minority pushing to erase sex-based competition makes up much of the sports media. That's why the usual suspects -- Jemele Hill, Katie Nolan, Sarah Spain and now Bryant -- have reacted so angrily to Cunningham's comments.
Later in the piece, Bryant also accused Cunningham of engaging in "anti-blackism."
"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is now in the act, accepting the role as the right's anti-Black, anti-transgender culture war ambassador, the role originally intended for Caitlin Clark."
At this point, you are likely wondering what wanting to protect girls' sports has to do with race. Unfortunately, Bryant never explained that to us. However, we suspect he realized, early in his op-ed, that arguing boys and girls should share locker rooms is a losing argument.
Either that or he reflexively labeled her "anti-Black" out of instinct. Hard to say.
The left keeps saying they refuse to condemn terrorism or communism because they reject "cancel culture." Bernie Sanders just said this about Hasan Piker's statement that "America deserved 9/11" -- he said we have to "get over this cancel culture."
Um, not in politics. In politics, your words are your policies. Bernie Sanders just doesn't want to take a position on whether America deserved 9/11.
We do "cancel" people in politics for their words. We shouldn't cancel truck drivers or pizza restaurant owners for their politics -- but we sure as shit should "cancel" political candidates for their politics.
It's called "holding elections." It's the whole fucking point of elections.
But of course the left doesn't want to end cancel culture at all. They love it.
They just want to make it okay for Democrat Socialists to call for terrorism and murder.
Geno Segers was a widely acclaimed actor who starred in the Broadway production Hadestown. That came to an end this month when Segers expressed the view of the vast majority of Americans: women's sports should be confined to biological women. He has now been fired, even after an attempt to apologize for expressing his own views on the subject. Other actors have expressed support for transgender players without any response other than praise in the latest example of the rising McCarthyism on the left.This is only the latest termination over the political views of artists in New York. As the song states in Hadestown, "It's an old song. It's a sad song. But we're gonna sing it anyway."
We have previously discussed how private companies can fire employees for public conduct or statements that bring controversy to their business or products. However, even though the First Amendment does not govern such controversies, there remains a free speech issue. Free speech goes beyond the confines of the First Amendment and private companies can engage in censorship that curtails this human right.
The question often comes down to consistency in companies enforcing content-based standards. I did not like some of the comments of Segers, but there is little question that equally strong comments against "cisgender" athletes or for transgender athletes would not result in such termination.
Segers posted statements critical of transgender athletes playing in women's sports as well as the posting of preferred pronouns. The comments were certainly mocking and insulting at points: "If you asked me what my preferred pronouns are and it's not obvious to you that I'm a he/him, that I'm good with he/him -- Surely you don't need any help. I'm not wearing a dress."
One can understand why transgender advocates would be upset with the content and tenor of these comments, including "I don't see transgender people becoming oppressed or being oppressed ... life is unfair."
However, Segers also wrote: "I'm not against anyone living out their lives the way they want, but I am against their rights superseding the rights of other people. That's a little bit foul."
Segers attempted to apologize for his comments after the cancel campaign picked up steam:
I wish to extend my most sincere apologies to everyone impacted by my words. While I never intended to inflict harm, I recognize that the impact of my statements is what matters most. I am fully committed to listening, educating myself, and elevating my standards. I will work tirelessly to earn the opportunity to make things right.
Actors, athletes, and academics routinely offer equally strident and insulting comments about the issue as well as radical comments on cisgender citizens and culture. Those comments generally do not trigger cancel campaigns.
As Lenin said, the important questions are always "Who? Whom?"
You decide whether something is permissible based upon who is doing it, and to whom.
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Perfesser, Now Ex-Perfesser, Jason Arday Resigns After Being Caught In Yet Another Lie
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The newest lie was about publishing a book.
The book was called Trust Me, Bro.
Okay that's a lie.
The truth is, there was no book. No such book exists.
Allegedly, he did propose a book to a publisher... but he never wrote it and never published anything.
Nevertheless, on his website and official bios, he claims the book was actually published and is a real thing that exists.
He also entered the fake book's title in the university's research system so that if you looked it up, you would see that Trust Me, Bro -- or whatever -- exists.
But it doesn't. It was always yet another fiction in his fictional life.
Must be that autism acting up again.
Jason Arday resigns after Telegraph reveals his false book claimsProfessor announces he is quitting Cambridge 'with immediate' effect after university launched investigation
Prof Jason Arday has resigned from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph revealed he falsely claimed to have published a book.
In a statement on Wednesday evening, Prof Arday said he was stepping down "with immediate effect" from his position at the university and at Jesus College citing the "unrelenting level of public scrutiny".
It came hours after the university announced it was investigating him following new information regarding his "academic qualifications and honorary appointments".
Prof Arday, who was a professor of sociology of education, has been at the centre of a plagiarism row after The Telegraph reported accusations he had copied parts of his PhD thesis from another student.
Earlier on Wednesday, The Telegraph also revealed that Prof Arday had repeatedly claimed that he was the author of a book called Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse.
The book was listed in his biography description in published essays as well as in promotional material for speaking events, and was attributed to the Palgrave Macmillan publishing house.
There is no evidence that any book was written or published.
I mean... it's just hilarious. It's just one lie after another, and literally no one had the guts to ask him about any of these lies because they feared he'd call them a racist.
Which he did in fact do. In fact, he complained to the police about racists asking him questions.
The revelation raised questions over Prof Arday's employment at the University of Cambridge. To apply for a professorship at Cambridge, applicants need to submit an extensive portfolio of work, which includes a complete bibliography of essays, journals and book chapters.
Jesus College, where Prof Arday was a fellow, had also said it was investigating him, adding that it was "a very difficult time for him and his family".
Announcing his resignation on the Good Law Project's website, Prof Arday said: "While criticism is an inevitable part of academic life, what I have experienced has gone far beyond scholarly disagreement. The relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound toll on me and on those I love."
He added: "This decision should not be interpreted as a loss of faith in scholarship or in the values that first brought me to Cambridge. Nor should it be mistaken for an acceptance of the narratives that have surrounded me. It is simply the decision of someone who has reached the limits of what any person should reasonably be expected to endure."
The Telegraph revealed last month that Prof Arday had been accused of plagiarism after analysis of his PhD thesis showed more than 180 separate passages were identical or near-identical to another student's thesis.
In recent days, Prof Arday has put his apparent plagiarism down to autism, saying he absorbs information through mimicry.
He has faced questions over other claims. Last week he admitted that a story about him running 600 miles in six days for charity was wrong, saying that it had taken 12 days. He also accepted that he did not raise £5.5m for charity alone -- as he had said in the past -- but had instead been part of a syndicate of about 100 people, none of whom he could name because of non-disclosure agreements.
Have I ever told you about my super-hot model girlfriend? You wouldn't know her, she goes to school in Canada. I can't say where because of the NDA I have with her.
The Telegraph can also reveal that he falsely claimed to hold a master's degree in psychodynamic counselling from Birkbeck University. Durham University also contradicted his claim to be an "honorary professor" in its sociology department.Cambridge previously said Prof Arday was the victim of a "vile campaign to undermine his credibility", but faced a staff revolt over its refusal to re-examine his academic credentials.
Its investigation came hours after The Telegraph revealed Prof Arday's false claim to have published a book.
...While he was working at Durham University in 2020, he uploaded the title of the book to the university's repository, an archive to which academics can upload their research and other work.
However, he did not upload any files or content from the book. The entry said "manuscript in preparation", suggesting the work had not yet been completed.
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The title was included in his list of published works in Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain alongside the Being Young, Black and Male book.
It was also listed on his staff profile on Durham University's website as being published in 2019 by Routledge publishing company.
He was still claiming the book was published when he took up the post as Cambridge's youngest black professor in March 2023.
I co-wrote a book with.... my wife, Morgan Fairchild! Yeah, that's the ticket!
This guy compiles what he says are the Perfesser's many, many lies.
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>be Jason Arday
>get diagnosed autistic at 3
>claim non-verbal until 11
>claim partial deafness in one ear & being taught to sign
>claim you couldn't read until 18, but still leave school w/ two GCSEs
>claim joining pro snooker tour at 10, one year before you could speak
>claim you came out of a football academy & played professionally
>claim you were on Seven Up, a series that tracked a group of seven year olds as they grew up, airing first 21 years before you were born
>have the BBC confirm you weren't on the show because not time traveller
>claim 30 marathons in 35 days, the last 9 on a broken leg swollen to twice its size
>claim to have run 600 miles in six days, when the men's record is 650
>have no recorded race time anywhere because why bother
>have nobody in the ultra community ever hear of you
>say £5.5m raised for 70+ charities by 2024
>tell a funeral directors' convention in New Orleans the ultras (no record again) raised £5m
>submit a 401-page PhD on reflective practice w/ 100+ passages matching another student's 2009 thesis
>have 188 sentences come back identical or near identical, odds
>carry over her copy-editing errors
>get the PhD anyway
>lift quotes into papers & present them as interviews you conducted yourself
>get a full chair at Glasgow by 2021
>get Cambridge at 37, youngest black professor in 900 years
>guest edit the Today programme
>collect honorary degrees from Solent, Anglia Ruskin & St Mary's
>have a Cambridge autism professor circulate "URGENT PLEASE SIGN ANTI RACISM LETTER"
>write to a minister claiming knife threats, assault, spitting, rape & death l threats, bananas, bullets in the post, corrosive substances & mutilated animals
>photograph none of it
>claim a masked man w/ a knife cornered you in the faculty twice
>appear on no CCTV either time
>tell nobody AT THE TIME
>claim a severed pig's head arrived at your parents' house
>claim police traced it to a butcher who sold a "whole hog" that morning
>have the butcher say no officer ever came in
>have the Met say the whole account is categorically incorrect
>call it "a modern day lynching" on a podcast in Sept 2025
>give a keynote in April 2026 about a playbook conservatives use to hunt black academics
>get cleared in March 2026 by a panel you asked to weigh the "war on critical race theory"
>blame the copied text on autistic mimicry & on a supervisor who left & one you never even met
>turn 600 miles in six days into twelve days
>get Solent to delete the running claims
>get 13,000 signatures & three Cambridge college heads to vouch for text they never read
>have Cambridge call it a "vile smear campaign"
>have a ghostwritten memoir to be released August 27
>watch people still stan for you because you're black
Now the only thing that could possibly make this story any funnier is if he did not even bother to write his resignation letter, but instead cheated and used AI to draft a resignation letter.
But what are the chances of that?!?!
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Pro-Hamas, Pro-Terrorist Communist Abdul El-Sayed Wins Nomination for Michigan Senate as Expected -- But By a Very Thin Margin
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Recent polls had predicted the latest Red-Green Fusion Candidate to win by double digits.
But Transgender Matt Foley, Haley Stephens, came within 1% of beating him.
That means the Democrat primary did not unify the party. It divided it. Furthermore, it shows that as the race closed, millions in ads alerting voters to this Muslim anchor-baby's extremist support for Hamas and Muslim terrorism generally had a real effect.
People learned, for example, that:
* El-Sayed's father is a Muslim Brotherhood operative
* El-Sayed wants to ban not only all aid to Israel, but all arms sales
* El-Sayed refused to say anything about the killing of Iran's Ayatollah because, he said, many of his voters were "sad" about it
* El-Sayed thinks that Hasan Piker -- who says America deserved 9/11, and that someone should assassinate Republican senators, and that people should murder "capitalists" until the streets run red with blood -- should be welcomed into the Big Muslim-Communist Tent that is today's Democrat Party.
Oh, he also wants to ban ICE, of course.
Fox:
A former Wayne County Health Department director, El-Sayed, if elected in November, would make history as the nation's first Muslim senator. He is an epidemiologist who unsuccessfully ran for governor as an insurgent candidate in 2018. He has made support for "Medicare-for-all" a major component of his campaign.He has also called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and is a vocal critic of Israel amid its war with Hamas -- even characterizing Israel's actions in Gaza as "genocide" against Palestinians. El-Sayed, who served as a top surrogate on Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, has also vowed not to accept PAC donations.
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Noting growing opposition among Democrats nationwide to Israel's ongoing military operations against Hamas in Gaza, and the massive amounts of outside money spent in the historically expensive Senate primary by groups aligned with pro-Israel interests to help Stevens and target El-Sayed, Grossman added "this was a terrible year to be running the most pro-Israel candidate available."
More than $80 million was spent on the primary, making it the most expensive Democratic Senate nomination contest in history. Much of the money came from outside groups supporting Stevens or opposing El-Sayed. The largest spender was United Democracy Project, a political action committee aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is best known by its acronym AIPAC.
"Great news for the Republican Party. El-Sayed, a Communist loser who hates Jews and Israel, is the projected winner in his race with the Socialist," he posted on Truth Social. "As usual, the Polls were way off on this one. She was not expected to do nearly as well as she did. Now, the Dumocrats crazy policies will only get worse!"Rogers, for his part, has seized on El-Sayed's win, saying it made the race a choice between "common sense" and "complete insanity."
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Did the Democrat-Media Party Program Another Assassin to Kill Trump?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
But it seems like they did.
An armed man, said to be creeping around and monitoring "security-planning activities," was arrested Sunday with a pistol and ammunition outside Trump National Golf Course Los Angeles -- just two days before the president's visit to the very same location.Jeanine John Taele, 38, from Downey, Calif., was taken into custody outside the Rancho Palos Verdes site by sheriff's deputies after federal agents first spotted him lurking in the area, taking photos and videos, and monitoring security-planning activities, law enforcement said.
Jeanine? Is this a transgender?
Someone claimed "Jeanine" is a French form of "John." But it's not. "Jean" is the French form of John. "Jeanine" is the feminine form. BTW 93% of nouns or names ending in -e in French are female. Blond/blonde. Francois/Francoise.
So I don't know what's going on here.
When deputies assigned to the Lomita Sheriff's Station first made contact with Taele, they determined he was being investigated for a 2025 robbery by the El Segundo Police Department -- he was then detained.During a pat-down, deputies recovered a 16-round magazine containing hollow-point ammunition from Taele's pants pocket, according to a release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
A subsequent search of his vehicle in the golf course parking lot revealed a loaded pistol with a round chambered, along with an additional loaded magazine with hollow-point rounds.Taele was arrested for carrying a concealed firearm and possession of prohibited ammunition.
The Sheriff's Department Major Crimes Bureau assigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) obtained and executed a search warrant at Taele's home in Downey Monday.
Deputies discovered an illegally modified AR platform rifle, two radio signal devices, a 1911 .45 caliber pistol, an AR platform upper receiver, body armor, high-capacity magazines, bulk pistol and rifle ammunition, and multiple notebooks containing concerning statements during the search of his home.
He was charged with the following crimes Tuesday:
Manufacturing, importing, keeping for sale, giving or receiving a large-capacity magazine
Carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle
Possession of a short-barreled rifle or shotgun
Second degree robbery, in connection to the 2025 robbery.Taele entered a not guilty plea, and bail was set at $250,000.
The Post was first to break the news of Trump's scheduled visit to Southern California.
Taele, who describes himself as a USMC veteran, had been spotted around the golf course several times since June, but there was no indication he was aware of Trump's upcoming visit, a law enforcement source told The Post.
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Officials confirmed that while the investigation remains active, law enforcement has identified no current credible threat to the surrounding communities.
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