Peak Cultural Enrichment: Muslim-Dominated City Council of Hamtramck, Michigan, Votes to Permit Animal Sacrifice in People's Backyards, Over Objections of Non-Muslim Minority
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Hamtramck City Council votes to allow animal sacrifice for religious purposes in the cityAfter months of debate, the city council has voted to allow the practice of animal sacrifice, for religious purposes, in Hamtramck.
The decision ultimately came down to a more than 30-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says cities cannot infringe on religious freedom under the first amendment.
This is the media, so they're lying to you (of course). The case they're talking about is the Santaria animal sacrifice case.
The court did not find that people had a right to sacrifice animals. It found only that a law specifically passed to block a religious minority (Santaria) from sacrificing animals was a violation of the right to free exercise of religion.
In other words, it is perfectly legal to generally ban animal sacrifice, or the slaughter of animals outside of a slaughterhouse and apply that law to religious minorities. The Supreme Court only said you cannot ban something specifically to thwart the practice of a religion.
Presumably, slaughtering animals is already illegal in Michigan (except in licensed slaughterhouses) or else they wouldn't have had to pass an ordnance permitting it.
So they're lying to you, as usual, giving it the "what's the big deal, the Supreme Court decided this in 1993 already" treatment.
But it's a lie. And either these "expert journalists" can't be bothered to look up a major Supreme Court case, or did look it up, and chose to consciously lie to readers to convince them this is No Big Deal.
The act of animal sacrifice is often practiced among Muslims during Eid."Our city is dirty enough. We don't want to make it more dirty," a Hamtramck resident said during a city hall meeting.
"Really ridiculous catastrophic resolution," another one said. "If it's not passed then we are ready to take it to courts for religious rights because it is constitution."
English speaker fluency level: Beyond native.
In fact, there's already work-around for Muslims: They can just pay a butcher to slaughter an animal at the bucher-shop.
But they're whining that that's not good enough.
They want the Caliphate to exist here in America:
Many Muslims pay a butcher to perform the religious sacrifice but for some families, it's just not practical."A lot of families will typically do it in the confines of their property like in their backyard or their garage and dispose of the animal accordingly," Director of Safe Spaces at Cair Michigan Nour Ali said.
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El-Sayed Also Hates Thanksgiving, Wants the Day to be for the Remembrance of the "Slaughter" of "Indigenous Peoples"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's weird how these foreign anchor-babies keep turning out to be so thoroughly anti-American, isn't it?
You'd almost think they were foreign sleeper agents placed inside an enemy country they planned to subvert and harm from within.
Before getting to Thanksgiving: It also turns out that this son-of-a-bitch oversaw a high-kill shelter where animals were kept in appalling conditions before being slaughtered.
Clown World
@ClownWorldMichigan Democrats just nominated Abdul El-Sayed for Senate. He oversaw Detroit's animal shelter where the kill rate hit 74%, whistleblowers called it a slaughterhouse, and the city paid $63,000 to settle a lawsuit over the conditions. Feces backed up into kennels. Rats and cockroaches everywhere.
This is the guy they want representing Michigan. He can't even take care of dogs. And he's supposed to represent you.
Michigan deserves better.
The love of dogs is a Western thing. Many Muslims regard dogs as "unclean" and in fact propose banning dogs from public streets so that Muslims aren't forced to encounter these filthy animals.
The most basic and wholesome bits of American culture are anathema to him and must be destroyed:
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WNBA: We Tried to Figure Out What a Woman Is But The Task Is Beyond Our Capabilities.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In fairness -- they're not biologists.
Collin Rugg @CollinRugg6h
NEW: The Women's National Basketball Association was unable to determine what a woman is during a meeting on Wednesday.
A WNBA task force met to talk about transgender athletes, according to ESPN.
"Today's meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes..." the WNBA said in a statement.
"We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months."
"We will approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league. There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA."
Remarkable. The Women's National Basketball Association needs months to figure out what a woman is.
Amusing video of Enes Kanter working out, with her breasts censored.
EssentiallySports @ES_sportsnews The WNBA has officially responded following a virtual task force meeting led by Commissioner Cathy Engelbert.Addressing both ongoing discussions around transgender athlete eligibility and online harassment directed at players, the league released a statement clarifying its stance:
Key Takeaways From the WNBA Statement:
- No Immediate Changes:
The league confirmed that "there are no immediate
eligibility matters affecting the WNBA," reiterating that current policy (Article XIII) simply states "only players who are women are eligible to play."- Denouncing Online Abuse:
The WNBA strongly condemned the "continued hate and vitriol directed at players online" and called out "bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others." - a direct response to recent announcements by former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declaring their intention to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft
Wesley Yang pointed out, correctly, that you cannot separate "good faith efforts" to say that intact men can play women's sports from "bad faith efforts" to say intact men can play women's sports because both claims are the exact same claims. There is no difference between a good-faith argument that 2+2=4 and a bad-faith argument that 2+2=4. It's the same claim. The "faith" of the claim doesn't enter into it.
These ugly low-IQ cows say that they won't define a woman, or a trans woman, because that would make them "political pawns."
Of course, WNBA coaches are eager to be political pawns for the trans extremists, wearing t-shirts demanding that "trans" men be allowed to play in girls sports.
They're scrambling to find a way to say both "all transwomen are women and welcome" and also "these motherf***rs ain't welcome here" but that's a task for genuises and these bitches ain't no geniuses.
Royce White, the Stunning and Brave Trans Woman* (*for purposes of playing in the WNBA), impresses me as the most courageous and funny woman I have ever seen.
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The Left's Dreamboat Assassin Luigi Mangione Close to Pleading Guilty In Execution of United Healthcare CEO and Father Brian Thompson
—Disinformation Expert Ace
These are federal charges, so they plea deal is being negotiated by "Trump's" DOJ. But we all know about the Southern District of NY, where Comey's foul daughter worked.
If this is a sweetheart deal -- if it's anything less than life in prison without parole -- then every single corporation should immediately evacuate New York City, as this communist shithole has been determined to be a place where a jury won't convict a leftwing killer.
And if Trump doesn't like the deal, he should overrule "his" lawyers and yank it off the table.
I fear that's exactly the plan.
Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday to federal charges in connection with the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, according to sources familiar with the matter.The expected plea change comes less than a month before Mangione, 28, is scheduled to go to trial in a state murder case in connection with the fatal shooting of Thompson, 50, a father of two.
Luigi Mangione was meeting with his lawyers this morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in advance of tomorrow's federal court hearing in Manhattan, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Lawyers for Mangione declined to comment. The Justice Department and a court spokesperson also declined to comment.
It is unclear if Mangione will plead guilty to one or both of the two stalking-related charges in his federal case. While details of Mangione's plea are not immediately clear, he could reverse his decision at any time, even during the hearing.
Sources familiar with the matter stressed that plea negotiations are ongoing and that nothing is final until Mangione himself accepts or enters into a plea deal.
If he is convicted, he could face a life sentence.
"Could"?
Karoline Leavitt Will Leave Her Job as WH Spokeswoman at the End of the Month
—Disinformation Expert Ace
She says she wants to mother her new baby, and for once I believe the "spend more time with my family" line.
Karoline Leavitt
@karolineleavitt
Serving as the White House Press Secretary over the past year and a half has been the honor and adventure of a lifetime. I am incredibly grateful to President Trump for granting me so many extraordinary opportunities, such as working in the West Wing and spending countless hours in the Oval Office, flying around the world and meeting foreign leaders, and traveling across our beautiful country and meeting Americans from all walks of life.Most of all, I am thankful to the President for entrusting me with the distinct privilege of speaking on his behalf at the White House podium. I have spoken with great pride about the many historic accomplishments of this Administration, and I have relished holding the liberal media accountable and ensuring the American people hear the truth about President Trump's successes.
Being a mother and welcoming a new baby while working in one of the most demanding jobs in the world has been the most rewarding yet challenging season of my life, to say the least. The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary -- and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the White House and embark on a new chapter in my life.
President Trump has asked me to continue serving as a top advisor to him on the outside, and I will always remain a vocal advocate for MAGA and the Republican Party.
Our country is facing an existential threat from an increasingly extremist Democrat Party that seeks to destroy everything great about America, and I believe it is incumbent upon all of us who care about this country to fight back against that threat. My fight is entering a new phase, but it is far from over.
Thank you again to the President, the First Lady, and the entire Trump family for your kindness and generosity over the years. Thank you to our amazing Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for empowering me since the day she hired me on the campaign, and to the President's cabinet, my staff, colleagues, and friends at the White House who work so hard on behalf of our nation. It has been a privilege to serve alongside so many accomplished and impressive people, and I look forward to cheering them on over the next two and a half years.
And of course, thank you most especially to my loving and supportive husband and family for the sacrifices they made for me to serve in this role.
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Grossly Ugly SPLC AWFL Who Funneled Money to Her KKK Boyfriend So He Would Give Her a Pity Nazi-Bang Arrested for Money Laundering
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Former SPLC official arrested as feds expand case over alleged $4M scheme involving extremist groups
Federal indictment alleges donor funds were secretly funneled to groups like the Ku Klux Klan
A former top Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) official was arrested on charges Wednesday as federal prosecutors unveiled sweeping new allegations that donated money was allegedly secretly funneled to extremists and used for activities including recruiting members, staging rallies and buying materials for Ku Klux Klan robes and cross burnings.Heidi Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs, California, was charged alongside the SPLC with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank.
The second superseding indictment also charges Beirich with a conspiracy to commit concealed money laundering. Beirich was served with an arrest warrant Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama.
Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the arrest during a news conference Wednesday in Washington, D.C., and said the federal investigation remains ongoing.
"I think, as alleged in the indictment, this individual participated in the scheme as alleged," Blanche said. "I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts and complete fictitious companies names and make payments that to individuals for reasons that were not, that were not accurate as described."'
FBI Director Kash Patel also weighed in on the news via X, writing that Beirich was at the "center" of the bureau's ongoing investigation.
"As alleged, Heidi Beirich was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC and their previously alleged criminal activity - where SPLC knowingly misled donors, who believed their money was being used to dismantle violent extremist organizations - when in fact, part of those donations were instead being used to pay senior leadership within those extremist groups," Patel wrote.
The 26-page indictment obtained by Fox News Digital alleges the SPLC secretly funneled at least $4.1 million in tax-exempt donor funds between 2007 and 2023 through bank accounts supposedly belonging to businesses unaffiliated with the organization. Prosecutors allege the money paid "field sources" who were leading or affiliated with violent extremist organizations.
Prosecutors allege donor money was used to attend and host extremist rallies, recruit members, grow and create extremist chapters, publish extremist literature and buy materials for KKK robes, hoods and cross burnings. The indictment also alleges two KKK members who wanted out of the movement were encouraged by the SPLC to remain and offered monthly payments and expenses.
One of the most explosive allegations centers on a source identified as "F-9," whom prosecutors say infiltrated the neo-Nazi National Alliance and received more than $1.2 million from the SPLC during the period covered by the indictment. Prosecutors allege Beirich oversaw payments to F-9 while also having a romantic relationship with him, with the pair sharing a home and two bank accounts.
Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donor money flowed from the SPLC's operating account through a "Tech Writers" account and ultimately into joint bank accounts held by Beirich and F-9, prosecutors allege. The indictment says the money accounted for approximately 66% of all funds deposited into their joint accounts and alleges Beirich used donor money to pay the couple's personal living expenses.
She's the White Fani Willis. I wonder who her Darius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., is.
FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKashFollowing an FBI investigation with our DOJ partners: today we are announcing a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center's Director of Intelligence, Heidi Beirich.
As alleged, Heidi Beirich was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC and their previously alleged criminal activity - where SPLC knowingly misled donors, who believed their money was being used to dismantle violent extremist organizations - when in fact, part of those donations were instead being used to pay senior leadership within those extremist groups.
According to the indictment and our investigation, Beirich played a primary role in this scheme. From at least 2007-2023, Beirich allegedly helped orchestrate this fraudulent activity worth approximately $4.2 million, conspiring with SPLC to defraud donors, obtaining money through these materially false and fraudulent pretenses and omissions to pay leadership of the very violent organizations SPLC claimed to oppose.
Beirich was arrested today - charged with crimes including wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
This is an ongoing investigation. This FBI will find anyone who exploits the trust of the American people and our financial system.
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The Morning Rant: When Capital Is Mobile, Socialism Will Fail
—CBD
The Soviet Union had a captive audience...nobody could leave with their money or their infrastructure unless the party allowed it. Communist China is the same way, as is Cuba, and North Korea, and Venezuela, and...
And leaving Krasnoyarsk for Tomsk, in the hope of more opportunity didn't work either...the laws under which the subjects of a socialist country operate made that change a triviality, even if one could get a permit to move.
But in free market economies, capital is mobile! And even more important; people are mobile. No permits required! No permission from the local People's Committee is needed...just a moving company and a funds transfer to the new city. So if you want to move your widget company to another city, have at it! And if you can convince your employees to go with you? All the better!
Why is this important? Because in the United States Of America, the deeply deluded flirtation with the out-and-proud socialism of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has exploded in the last few years. Whether it is organic growth of socialist principles, or a careful manipulation of the news cycle combined with excellent grassroots planning remains to be seen.
But one thing is certain; socialism has arrived in a few of our cities, including the biggest one! NYC is firmly in the grip of a socialist/Islamist mayor, and he is gleefully implementing public programs, increasing the tax rates wherever possible. and in all other respects bringing the soul-crushing policies of socialism to the people and businesses of New York City.
But this ain't the Soviet Union, and people and companies are leaving. And that is a very big problem for a city that has as its tax base a large number of highly paid people in finance and the employees in corporate offices whose presence in NYC is a business imperative...or at least it used to be!
And how do they do it? It's easy! Just leave. Our Constitutional Republic is specifically designed to give the states broad discretion over their governance, and that includes the business climate. So the draw of Texas and Tennessee and Florida -- all states with no income tax and a business friendly regulatory structure -- is easy to understand.
JP Morgan Chase has reduced head count by 6,000 people, and has expanded operations in Florida and Texas. Goldman Sachs has unveiled an explicit program (Project Voyage) of relocation to Dallas and Salt Lake City. Citadel's global headquarters is now in Miami. Apollo Global Management is expanding in Austin. Blackstone is expanding in Dallas, and Miami. AllianceBernstein is moving several thousand employees to Nashville. And these are peole whose salaries are not $50k/year for clerical work or running a cash register. These are in many cases highly compensated employees who make $250k...or many multiples of that. The decrease in tax revenue from just a few of these people leaving is substantial, and it is not going to end anytime soon. The top 1% of earners in NYC pays 40% of the personal income tax! That is huge and unsustainable.
And that's just finance. Other large corporations whose executives can see the never-ending increases in corporate and personal taxes, coupled with the vast improvement in data movement no longer have to be in NYC. The internet may very well be the death knell of NYC! Walmart, Amazon, even tiny little Foot Locker are relocating employees or flat out getting the hell out of NYC.
And lest one assume that the state of NY is more sane... it isn't. New York State taxes are among the highest in the country, and the state is losing corporations and highly compensated people at an outrageous rate too!
And all of this is because of the wisdom and genius of the founders of our great country. Each state is largely free to experiment. And the flow of capital from the socialist experiment in New York City to the free states is huge, and growing. California and Illinois and Minnesota and New Jersey are also suffering from the same disease, and the low tax states are very happy to cultivate an atmosphere of freedom from regulation and taxation that makes them an attractive alternative to the sclerotic blue states.
[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/ 13 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Republicans, however, suspected that the winning tactic was that Democrats in states in which they controlled elections legalized election fraud with mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, and the abandonment of voter ID. In addition, Trump supporters looked at data from the six states in which, for the first time in election history, vote counting stopped for hours, only to resume with Trump’s lead destroyed and Biden suddenly winning. The data look suspicious.Wisconsin was one of those swing states. Looking at how Francesca Hong lost yesterday, there’s an eerie similarity between her loss and Trump’s in 2020.
David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive who pulled off a stunning upset over the summer’s socialist surge, has blamed systemic racism for police shootings, opposed legislation to protect law enforcement, and declared Wisconsin the worst place in America to raise a black child.In August 2020, Crowley went all-in on the Black Lives Matter narrative surrounding the domestic disturbance call that ended with the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake. The then-29-year-old, who had a felony warrant out for his arrest, was armed with a knife and was attempting to get into the driver’s seat of an SUV when he was shot seven times, triggering widespread unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and setting the stage for the later acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. . . Before the so-called “summer of love” in 2020, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee also opposed “Blue Lives Matter“ legislation that would’ve added law enforcement officers to the state’s hate crime protected categories, saying the proposal “only furthers the divide between the urban communities and police that serve them.”
Okay, either the electorate legitimately or the Democrat Party leaders swapped out the candidate who advocated abolishing Thanksgiving and the 4th of July for someone who insists the nation is a racist white-supremacist police state intent on the genocide of colored people of color.
However you slice it, all the Democrats succeeded in doing was changing their name from Hyman to Seymour. In the last analysis is Crowley really any less toxic/palatable to the general public (if that is the Democrats' actual concern) than Hong?
Their quest for the seeming holy grail of being perceived as moderate continues...
The ‘moderate Democrat’ is a campaign myth meant to deceive voters into electing leftists.. . Crowley may be less radical than Hong, but being less radical than a racist, anti-American Marxist doesn’t make you a moderate. On unions, wages, abortion, and immigration, Crowley’s positions are decidedly left-wing. The only real big distinction is he hasn’t said he hates Thanksgiving or called for abolishing the Senate.But what the press and even regular people are doing is allowing Democrats to redefine “moderate” to mean basically anyone standing even half a step to the right of their most extreme member. Once the standard is set, the entire “moderate” claim becomes merely a campaign myth meant to deceive voters into electing an actual leftist who cosplays as a moderate but will still deliver Democrats’ overall left-wing policy goals.
Moderates would be the Nazis who favored Gas chambers and crematoria over the mass shootings into mass graves by the Einsatzgruppen.
Speaking of a prolonged and festering stench from Wisconsin...
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) responded to fears that Democrats are moving too far to the left by saying that “Republicans have loved to use democratic socialist over and over, and now they’re calling us Communists.” And “they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.” . . . “I think the Republicans have loved to use democratic socialist over and over, and now they’re calling us Communists. Like, they’ve lost any credibility. They clearly haven’t taken a high school or even a junior high civics class recently, because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us. But what people do know is they’re paying more out of pocket for goods, because of actions of Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress.”
We understand very well, you degenerate lying scumbag. Your own mentors/precursors in Marx and Engels defined Socialism as merely the precursor to full on Communism. Democrat/socialism is the precancerous stage to full on Stage Four Terminal Cancer. So the question is, are we as a nation and society in that precancerous stage or what the hell is going on?
Beyond Hong and Crowley, Leftists/Democrats at every level have been shrieking their lungs out about packing the Supreme Court, abolishing the Second and every other amendment and the Constitution itself for years now. Hell, the dead and moldering Ruth Bader Meinhoff Ginsberg proclaimed the South African Constitution as superior to our own, despite the fact of supposedly swearing a sacred oath to uphold the latter in her tenure on the Supreme Court.
The Democrat Party has had a lust for absolute power for over 200 years, to the point of seeking the destruction of this nation as founded in order to acquire and hold onto that power forever.
Furious Hasan Piker melts down over Francesca Hong’s loss: ‘Outlaw Thanksgiving and outlaw boomers’
So, to sum it all up, I ask what does all this mean? is the Democrat Party really scared that most of America still is sane and repulsed by the views of more and more of their base? Hong, Crowley, Piker et al are bad enough but the Schemers, Bidens, Pelosis, Clintons and all the rest via the things they have supported over the years have no problem with the former, at least until they train their rhetorical and ultimately literal guns on them for not delivering the keys to the kingdom and the head of America as founded to them on a silver platter.
Have a good day,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Victor Davis Hanson: The Left spent years destroying the norms it now invokes against Trump—and is outraged that Republicans learned the same playbook.
Who’s Been Destroying Norms?
- Yesterday, Hong was winning until, magically, she was losing. It was a familiar story.
Did Francesca Hong get the 2020 Donald Trump treatment?
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Daily News Stuff 13 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest risk to AI is students losing the desire learn. (Tech Spot)
Don't know how to tell you this, Fei-Fei...
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Wednesday Night ONT - August 12, 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 with Tab. 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 from NASA: Shock waves are visible around a T-38 trainer aircraft during NASA's Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren flights in 2019. Schlieren imaging makes normally invisible changes in air density visible, giving researchers a way to see the same shock waves that can create sonic booms on the ground.]
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Supercell Eclipse Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Edinburgh (?)
Pete Wands
@wandspja
This is one big chungus baby tiger.
Old but good: Dressing your dog up in a giant spider costume and terrorizing the neighbors.
I could do this but I don't feel like it right now.
Deer and bunny are friends.
Hand-feeding a wild hawk.
This starling's mimicry is eerie.
Cat saves a chicken from a fox. They're not all evil.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Women are broken. Men aren't doing great either, but holy mackerel, are women cooked.
"Gender is an artificial social construct and can be completely changed with a mere thought" says the barren woman whose childlessness compels her to find a substitute to mother, and settles on... wasps.
Mamdani, who ran on defunding the police, volunteers the NYPD to escort his whore wife to the Middle East for her rabble-rousing terror-trip, and the NYPD says go f*** yourself, Sparky.
A seemingly red-faced Mayor Zohran Mamdani blamed a "miscommunication" Tuesday after an awkward public clash between City Hall and NYPD officials over whether the department would provide security for his wife Rama Duwaji's upcoming Middle East trip.The high-profile back-and-forth appeared to end when Hizzoner asserted that Duwaji would not receive a taxpayer-funded police escort on her jaunt to Syria and Lebanon next month -- despite his own senior spokesperson claiming she would the day prior.
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"Upon the strong recommendation of the NYPD, the first lady's security detail will be joining her when she travels to visit family in Syria and Lebanon," Mamdani's spokeswoman Dora Pekec said.
But City Hall's assertion drew a stunning response from the NYPD Tuesday morning."The NYPD does not send officers to countries with level four travel advisories for discretionary reasons not linked to investigative work," a department spokesperson insisted.
"This is not an investigative trip, and therefore, NYPD personnel will not be traveling there for it."
The statement not only undercut Pekec's assertion, but effectively amounted to NYPD officials publicly breaking with their boss: Mamdani.
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Both countries are on the US State Department's "Do Not Travel" list due to security concerns.The prospect of sending NYPD cops to countries on the "Do Not Travel" list struck former police commissioner Bill Bratton as "ill-advised."
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Duwaji, a 29-year-old Syrian-American artist, traveled overseas just last month without police protection.
She co-hosted in July a pro-Palestinian all-female spiritual retreat on the French island of Corsica, and was also the "artist-in-residence" at a sold-out "Plants Of The Quran" workshop on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Both were organized by the Women Sanctuary, a Muslim-and-women-focused travel group run by Parisian designer Rym Nur.
These socialists and radical egalitarians sure do expect to be treated like Royals, don't they?
Dana Loesch @DLoeschThe terror-loving nepo baby who VERBATIM demanded the NYPD be defunded NOW demands that the same officers risk their lives by traveling with his selfie-obsessed wife so she can make a personal visit to a country for which the US maintains a Level 4: do not travel advisory.
Sophie Cunningham's coach explains why she took the side of the thug who almost took her own player's head off. Oh wait, she doesn't explain, she just says she lives with "grace and humility" and everyone else can "go to hell."
"Go to hell," one of the top markers of grace and humility. I think it's Ephesians.
David Axelrod says it's okay that Barack Obama used fake signatures to get himself on the Democrat primary ballot because that's not exactly the same as falsifying votes in an election.
A "butch, non-binary teacher" says "their" first day of the new school year will consist of bullying students into calling zem "they/them."
What kind of videos has Cavernous Nostrils been watching?
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Tyler Robinson's Defense Team: Yes, Our Client Shot and Killed Charlie Kirk, But "The Shooter Hit the Intended Target," So No One Else Was In Danger and So the Death Penalty Should Be Off the Table
—Disinformation Expert Ace
To get the death penalty, there must be an enhancement to "mere" murder. I would think that premeditated murder is enhancement enough, but in Utah, mistakenly regarded as a red state, you need to murder someone in a bad way.
Those "bad ways" of committing murder include putting additional people in danger or killing someone for a political motive.
Robinson's team concedes that he murdered Charlie Kirk -- I mean, he admitted it eleven times in texts and verbal admission to his parents.
But they say his shot was well-aimed and did not put anyone else in danger, so he should not be executed for his murder.
NBC "News:"
Lawyers for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk say he shouldn't be eligible for the death penalty because the shooter "hit the intended target" during the assassination last year at a Utah event attended by thousands of people.Defendant Tyler Robinson's attorneys say prosecutors have not proven that others who attended Kirk's event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 were endangered by the shooting -- a potentially aggravating factor under state law that would make it a capital crime.
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Utah law states that if a defendant "knowingly created a great risk of death to another individual" other than the victim who was killed, it can be used as an aggravating factor. But Robinson's defense team notes that the state needs to show there was a "high probability" that Robinson put the thousands of people gathered at the Turning Point USA rally where Kirk was speaking at risk for death, and not just a "possibility" of that happening.
"The state has failed to show that the actual conduct created a 'high probability' that someone other than Mr. Kirk would be killed and, thus, this theory fails as a matter of law," according to their briefing. "Where no other person was injured in a manner creating a great risk of death, and no other shots were fired, the allegation of ... (an) aggravator cannot be sustained."
Defense attorneys contend there was no one else in the "line of fire" when the fatal shot was fired. Furthermore, "the firing of a single shot at an intended victim that hit only the intended victim" is not an aggravating factor "merely because other people were in the vicinity."...
"The bullet that struck and killed Mr. Kirk was not fired in an enclosed bedroom or space but rather, an open-air arena with what the state's witnesses termed, 'a clear line of sight.' There were no threats to others in the course of conduct. There was no one 'directly' next to Mr. Kirk when he was shot, and there was no one under the tent on the side that Mr. Kirk was struck or behind him in the breezeway. Multiple shots were not fired. There were no ricocheting bullets."
They also claim there is no evidence that Robinson murdered Charlie Kirk for political reasons... despite Robinson marking his bullets with slogans indicating this was a Trans Vengeance Execution.
Now, it may occur to you that this is rather bad news for the world's stupidest narcissist Candace Owens.
But if you believe that, then you have kept admirably clean of information about Candace Owens.
This retard says the defense's admission that Robinson murdered her "best friend" Charlie Kirk hardly puts a scratch in her Grand Theory That Erika Kirk, French Intelligence, Egyptian Planes, Mormon Bee-People and of course The Jews Killed Charlie Kirk.
Candace Owens @RealCandaceO
Ugh... I've barely had my coffee and I can already tell that the "overwhelming evidence" crowd is lying about the recent case filings in the hope that no one will actually read them or understand them.How are they not tired of running the exact same strategy and losing every time?
"Pay a bunch of influencers to make emotive claims, and hope people don't actually read through the filings"
It is exactly as they did with the ATF report and every other element of this case.
Lie quickly, repeatedly, and hope no one will take notice.
I will report on what's actually in the filings later today.
As the announcer said of one of the candidates for Twit of the Year: "He doesn't know the meaning of 'losing.' He doesn't know the meaning of 'winning,' either, he has no sensory apparatus of any kind..."
Blake Neff @BlakeSNeff
Candace is having her latest blowup because the defense's new 41-page filing in the Tyler Robinson case uses exactly none of the wild claims she's spent the last 11 months pushing. Rather than make the case that Robinson is not guilty, the filing focuses almost exclusively on trying to spare him from the death penalty.-The filing spends only one page contesting the actual murder evidence, by arguing that Lance Twiggs's testimony was improper hearsay. ALL the rest of the filing concerns aggravating factors or secondary charges.
-The filing admits that Charlie was killed by a rifle shot from the Losee Center -- it explicitly describes the person captured on camera on the Losee rooftop as "the shooter." There is absolutely no effort to talk about exploding microphones, either directly or indirectly by contesting the idea Charlie was killed by a rifle round.
-The filing never argues that Robinson was not at UVU -- in fact, on page 22, it says "the evidence shows Mr. Robinson walking up and down stairs at UVU" and calls it a "reasonable inference" that his impaired gait was caused by a "fully-assembled rifle."
-The filing admits that Robinson was texting with Lance Twiggs, telling him "Im gonna turn myself in willingly." When Lance asks if there's any way he avoid prison, he replies "I highly doubt it."
Professional lawyers, unlike dishonest podcasters, have ethical obligations that bar them from saying things they know are untrue. So, unsurprisingly, their defense bears absolutely no resemblance to the one Candace has spent months shilling to her audience.
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Paramount Warns California: Stop Blocking Our Purchase of Warner Bros. Through Endless Lawfare Or We're Moving The Entire Multibillion Dollar Corporation to a Different State
—Disinformation Expert Ace
California's taxation alone would make the move a good one -- Paramount pays an extra $500 million in taxes every year solely due to the excessive taxes California levies on them.
They have the idea they can tax and bully as much as they like because hey, what are you going to do, leave California?
They don't seem to have noticed that a ton of tax-rich corporations have already done just that.
David Ellison Reportedly Sets October 1 Deadline to Move Paramount Out of California Over Warner Bros. LawsuitThe escalating battle over Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery may now threaten something much larger than the merger itself: Hollywood's century-old position as the center of the American entertainment industry. Paramount CEO David Ellison has reportedly told his top executives that he is prepared to move the company out of California if the state's attorney general, Rob Bonta, refuses to negotiate a settlement in the lawsuit seeking to block Paramount's roughly $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition.
And according to a bombshell new report from Puck's Matthew Belloni, Ellison has put an actual date on the threat.
October 1.
Belloni reports that Ellison recently gathered Paramount's 12-member Executive Leadership Team for a meeting on the Paramount lot, where the CEO laid out what could become one of the most consequential corporate relocations in Hollywood history.
Paramount would be the first mover here. Many other entertainment companies have surely considered leaving California, but they are stopped by fears that "it simply isn't done." Once Paramount proves it can be done, there would be a rush of companies leaving.
According to two people Belloni says have direct knowledge of the meeting, Ellison told the executives that Paramount Skydance would relocate to Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, or potentially another state if Bonta does not come to the negotiating table.Even more significantly, Ellison reportedly said Paramount's board has already signed off on the move.
That transforms what previously sounded like political pressure into something considerably more concrete.
Ellison reportedly remains confident that Paramount will ultimately prevail against the lawsuit brought by California and 11 other states attempting to stop the Warner Bros. transaction.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta officially led the coalition of 12 Democrat attorneys general in filing the antitrust lawsuit last month, arguing that the transaction would reduce competition in the entertainment industry. The federal Justice Department, meanwhile, had already cleared the merger.
But Ellison reportedly told Paramount leadership that if the dispute is not resolved by October 1, the company will begin the process of leaving California.
The significance of that date isn't arbitrary.
Beginning after September 30, Paramount is expected to owe Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders approximately $650 million per quarter, commonly described as roughly $7 million per day, while the deal remains unfinished. A federal judge recently scheduled the antitrust trial to begin March 2, 2027, potentially leaving Paramount responsible for more than $1 billion in additional payments before the case is resolved.
And if the Warner Bros. transaction ultimately collapses, Paramount could face a staggering $7 billion termination fee.
Those numbers dramatically change the economics of the standoff.
According to Belloni, Ellison told executives that rather than responding to those costs by slashing content spending or restructuring the company, relocation represents another option.
This wouldn't simply mean changing the address on Paramount's corporate headquarters.
Belloni reports that Ellison is developing a five-year plan under which the company's headquarters would move first, followed eventually by most studio jobs.
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For decades, states including Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee have attempted to take pieces of Hollywood away from California. California may now be giving one of Hollywood's most powerful executives a reason to hand them something much bigger.
October 1 suddenly looks like one of the most important dates on Hollywood's calendar.
In other Failures of Hollywood news, Jessica Gao, the woke incompetent who was made the showrunner of "She-Hulk" as a pure DEI move, hasn't worked much since she spent $200 million on what ultimately turned out to be the World's Most Expensive Twitter Diss on the CHUDs.
She probably won't be given such power again.
She-Hulk Reportedly Had "Catastrophic" Test Screenings -- Then Jessica Gao Threatened to Quit Over Kevin Feige's Hat
While She-Hulk: Attorney at Law> was canceled after one season, the story behind its troubled production is becoming a cautionary tale for the ages.Tatiana Maslany's short-lived run as Jennifer Walters received renewed attention after X user QQ shared an amusing observation about the series.
"The funniest story was how the creators originally conceived of She-Hulk as a case of the week type lawyer show," QQ wrote, "but then they got to the writer's room and they all said they don't know how to do that as if it was lost knowledge like the Roman aqueducts."
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Edgar Award-winning author Daniel Friedman used the post as a launching point to summarize She-Hulk's behind-the-scenes drama, from reportedly "catastrophic" test screenings to the showrunner threatening to quit over Kevin Feige's hat.
How Jessica Gao Landed She-Hulk
In his post, which quickly went viral, Friedman explained that She-Hulk showrunner Jessica Gao wrote the famous "Pickle Rick" episode of the animated series Rick and Morty. However, she reportedly clashed with the show's co-creator, Dan Harmon, over the decision to cast Susan Sarandon as a character Gao had written as Asian.
I'm not sure she "wrote" the episode as most people would think of "writing" something. TV shows have a showrunner, who acts as the main writer, and a writers room, all of whom contribute jokes and "beats" to a story. A specific person is assigned to "write" it but they're largely compiling what came out of the writers room.
Who knows, maybe this was her idea and maybe she did write the episode mostly by herself.
But I don't think that's how TV writing actually works.
That's why they say she's the "credited writer." She got the credit, yeah, but we don't know how much she was responsible for.
Harmon subsequently agreed to host a podcast with Gao titled Whiting Wongs. Friedman described it as "40 hours of him apologizing and learning about racism."
The writing credit on the popular episode and the podcast appear to have raised Gao's profile. She subsequently landed the showrunner position on the upcoming She-Hulk, but Friedman wrote that "the production was extremely troubled.""In addition to not staffing lawyers or legal-drama writers on the show who could deliver on the Ally McBeal in the MCU' pitch, the She-Hulk show required -- as described by Gao in interviews -- an extraordinary level of direct personal involvement and micromanagement from Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige," Friedman said.
Feige's attempts to course-correct throughout the process may not have been well received, although Gao reportedly described their professional relationship as supportive and collaborative. According to Friedman, test audience reactions to the series were "catastrophic," prompting Feige to intervene repeatedly and reshape the Disney+ series.
Any tensions surrounding the show's overall direction were mild compared to the bizarre dispute that reportedly erupted over the season finale.Jennifer concludes the series by breaking through the Disney+ interface and confronting K.E.V.I.N., an artificial intelligence responsible for controlling the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The robot was an unmistakable parody of Feige, whose trademark wardrobe includes a baseball cap.
Gao wanted K.E.V.I.N. to wear a small black cap. Feige rejected the idea because he believed that placing a hat on a robot made no logical sense.
This is and always was a dumb idea and it's what makes me think she wasn't really the main writer on "Pickle Rick." This is the kind of thing a n00b thinks is funny.
Not only did she think this Basic Bitch idea was super-funny, she was actually willing to die on that hill. She actually quit the show to get this "joke" included.
"I was incensed, and in this big meeting, in front of like 20 people, I said, 'Kevin, if you don't let me put a hat on that robot, then I quit,'" Gao told The Hollywood Reporter.
Rather than backing down, Feige immediately appeared to accept her resignation.
"Thank you very much, Jessica," he replied. "You've done some great work for us, and we really appreciate everything."
Unfortunately a producer worked out a compromise where the stupid robot would have a mechanical brim over its eyes that looked sort of hat-like and she got to stay on the show.
The FBI and "Intelligence" Agencies Had Intel From 14 Different Sources About the Biden Family's Corruption. Wray Covered It Up and Claimed It Was All "Disinformation"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Christopher Wray was recommended to Trump by Super-Republican Chris Christie.
So you know he's a straight shooter.
The FBI and U.S. spy agencies received derogatory evidence about Joe Biden from 14 different informants but embarked on a secret operation to tamp down a Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing his family during the 2020 election by formally designating Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, key members of Congress and journalists as Russian disinformation "conduits," according to explosive intelligence community documents declassified by the White House.A spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files and made public Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force shows that spy agencies and the FBI created a list of more than six dozen prominent organizations, Americans or foreigners who became figures in the Biden family Ukraine scandal and the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
The spreadsheet neatly divided figures along political lines, with Democrats like the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama and George Soros listed as victimized "targets" of Russian disinformation and conservatives like Fox News, One America News, filmmaker Michael Caputo and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as "conduits" for disinformation.
The FBI also labeled two of President Donald Trump's first-term Cabinet secretaries, Pompeo and Barr, as well as Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham and House GOP committee chairmen Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan as "conduits" even while they all investigated whether the allegations of corruption against the Biden family were true.
The designations were part of a secret counterintelligence operation codenamed "Round River" that was launched during the 2020 election by a task force of FBI analysts claiming to be fighting "malign foreign influence" in the 2020 election, according to an administration official.
The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), based in FBI headquarters, concurred with each of the assessments in the spreadsheet with a "no objection" designation, the documents state.
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In some ways, the Round River operation is a mirror opposite of the Russia collusion probe known as Crossfire Hurricane in which the FBI pursued unsubstantiated allegations spread by Democrats that Trump and his allies conspired with Vladimir Putin to hijack the 2016 election. In Round River, FBI analysts sought to dismiss significant evidence in the bureau's possession, including Hunter Biden's own laptop, pointing to possible corruption by the Bidens.
Documents released by the White House earlier this month exposed an investigation in 2017 codenamed "Oxferd Comma" alleging the newly elected president Trump may have been acting as a Russian asset when he fired then-Director James Comey even though the bureau's own evidence overwhelmingly showed at the time there was no collusion with the Kremlin.
By the way: 0xferd Comma was spelled that way -- with an "e" instead of an "o" and a zero instead of a capital "O" so that investigators could not find references to it in emails and government servers. It was deliberately misspelled so that no evidence of the crime could be discovered through normal investigatory means.
Remarkably, the effort to portray the Biden scandal as Russian disinformation came even though confidential human sources working for the FBI and other agencies began reporting a steady stream of concerns starting in 2015 that Ukraine was possibly targeting the future first family for influence, the memos show. The FBI has identified at least 14 informants who were providing derogatory information on the Bidens, according to an FBI letter made public Wednesday.In that letter to the White House Government Transparency Task Force, FBI Director Kash Patel said the Foreign Influence Task Force was terminated on his watch and its activities are now under investigation.
That Task Force was run by the leftwing woman who admitted she was running a "shadow government" inside the one that the American people think is the real government.
He said he shared concerns cited in a 2025 Director of National Intelligence memo declassified on Wednesday that Round River was used as a political tool to neutralize an alleged corruption narrative about Biden, the Democrats' 2020 presidential nominee, rather than to address true national security threats."While our internal review of the FITF is not yet complete, we are investigating whether the FITF used information learned from the Round River assessment to undermine or influence ongoing investigations by only focusing on the subset of CHS's (Confidential Human Sources) involving the Bidens," Patel wrote, according to the letter reviewed by Just the News.
"We remain concerned that defensive briefings to Congress may have been overly focused on just Biden and Ukraine rather than the balanced picture of all foreign threats," he added.
Patel said the bureau is "firmly committed to identifying, investigating and holding accountable all abuses" that occurred during the Round River operation and to ensure "that future counterintelligence operations remain focused exclusively on legitimate foreign threats and are never used to advance political narratives."
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Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, and Johnson, the Senate Budget Committee chairman, have been investigating the Round River operation for years and have raised concerns the FBI may have used a 2020 defensive briefing to them as a way of thwarting their probe into Burisma and Biden family corruption allegations.
In essence, the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force operation treated Barr's investigation into the Biden controversy as a potential disinformation threat, closely aligning with the Biden presidential campaign's and legacy media's efforts to portray the Burisma allegations as "conspiracy theories."
That conspiracy theory storyline -- referred to in the documents as the "Ukraine narrative" -- persisted well beyond the 2020 election that put Biden into the White House until two IRS whistleblowers and some former Biden business partners came forward to Congress beginning in 2023 and shared evidence that Hunter Biden had committed crimes, including failing to pay taxes on monies he earned from Burisma, and sought to use his father's influence to help the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
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The intelligence review pinpointed the start of Round River to December 2019, just as Trump's Ukraine impeachment proceedings were raging, and gave a succinct description of its mission."Around December 2019, the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force -- Russia (FITF-R) unofficially formed a group of analysts who utilized internal systems to gather any/all derogatory information previously reported by confidential human sources (CHSs) on Joseph Biden corruption and other Ukraine-related topics (known as the Ukraine narrative) including Burisma, Hunter Biden, Mykola Zlochevsky, Ukraine interference in 2016 US presidential election to red flag the reporting as Russian disinformation," the DNI report said.
Remarkably, the DNI report alleges, the Round River team amended each of three informant files to portray their long-term reporting as false.
"The team of analysts had administrative accesses to all reporting and drafted intelligence products that were later added to each CHS file to show the reporting was deemed Russian disinformation," the DNI memo stated. "The FITF-R team also provided defensive briefings to any Congressional member who obtained reporting related to any aspect of the Ukraine narrative."
Paul Sperry says that the criminal Chris Wray was behind this corrupt effort:
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_BREAKING: Just-declassified FBI docs reveal Dir. Wray during the 2020 election classified Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Victoria Nuland and Amos Hochstein, along w/ George Soros, as "targets" of Russian "disinformation" in the Burisma scandal, while journalist John Solomon was branded a "conduit" of "disinformation"
Former Trump advisor and Deep State target Peter Navarro says we have to put all the conspirators under oath and compel them to admit the conspiracy or go to prison for perjury and obstruction.
On May 16, 2017, the FBI took one of the most extraordinary steps in its history: It opened a full investigation of the sitting American president.Newly declassified documents released by the White House say the bureau asked whether the president "is or was directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with" Vladimir Putin's Russia -- and whether he "obstructed and/or conspired to obstruct" the FBI's own investigation.
That the FBI had targeted President Trump was reported in 2019. What was missing was the paperwork -- the opening document, the names on it, the chain of command.
The May 16 "opening communication" lists FBI General Counsel James Baker and Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director E.W. "Bill" Priestap as the approving officials.The investigation was opened at Priestap's direction, in consultation with Baker's Office of General Counsel; and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe personally notified Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
The next day -- May 17 -- Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller special counsel, and the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax took flight.
James Comey figures in the hoax, too. He went from fired FBI director to a central witness.The FBI used Comey's account of his talks with Trump -- and Trump's firing of Comey -- to support the obstruction theory.
Another critical layer has now been exposed. The FBI says its predicate for the probe rested on "predetermined criteria established by the Crossfire Hurricane investigative team" based on an assessment of supposedly "reliable lead information."
Who built that predicate?Peter Strzok, a central figure in Crossfire Hurricane, and FBI lawyer Lisa Page were close to the investigation.
When Page asked whether Trump would become president, Strzok replied: "No. No he won't. We'll stop it."
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz later said that message was not merely indicative of a biased state of mind but implied a willingness to take official action to affect a candidate's electoral prospects.
Yet the actual drafter of the opening communication remains redacted. That name should be released.
So should the names of everyone who formulated, reviewed or supplied the "reliable lead information" used to put a sitting president under investigation -- along with the communications among Priestap, Baker, McCabe and the investigative team, McCabe's record of what he told Rosenstein, what Rosenstein knew before he appointed Mueller and what Mueller did, if anything, to independently validate the extraordinary allegation he was tasked to investigate.
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It's past time to put those who built and ran this Russia hoax under the microscope.Sen. Chuck Grassley's Senate Judiciary Committee and Chairman Jim Jordan's House Judiciary Committee hold the tools; Grassley has been a bulldog, Jordan far less so.
Subpoena Priestap, Baker, McCabe, Rosenstein and Comey for sworn, public testimony.
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The officials who set the Russia hoax in motion and carried it forward have names.
Now put them under oath. And do it before the November election.
Meanwhile, "Fusion Ken" Dilanian, a stenographer and PR manager for the leftwing conspiracy at the heart of the CIA, says that Trump is running the DOJ like "Russia and China" for investigating the people he works for.
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Massachusetts Becomes the Tenth Blue State to Authorize Abortions Up Until the Moment of Crowning
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Safe, legal, and rare you guys.
Democratic Gov. Maura Healey was met with applause and smiles as she signed away Massachusetts' gestational limits on abortion, making the deep-blue state the 10th to permit the procedure up to birth.Under the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, health care workers will have greater discretion in determining whether to perform an abortion later in pregnancy, without facing legal penalties under the state's previous restrictions.
Healey said the law is intended to ensure families facing medical complications late in pregnancy can abort their babies in Massachusetts rather than having to travel out of state. Those complications can include maternal health complications and fatal diagnoses.
During the bill signing, Healey pledged to keep abortion safe, legal and accessible in Massachusetts for as long as she remains governor.
Oh, they dropped the "rare" and replaced it with "accessible," meaning "convenient."
Which is the opposite of "rare." 7-Elevens are not rare.
"We believe that health care decisions should be made between women and families and their doctors, not politicians," Healey said. "Abortion will remain safe. It will remain legal, and it will remain accessible here in Massachusetts. That's my commitment to you."The bill is scheduled to take effect in 90 days. Previously, state law generally prohibited abortions after 24 weeks, with limited exceptions.
Massachusetts now joins Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont in removing gestational age limits on abortion, along with the District of Columbia.
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SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser condemned the signing of the "egregious" law in a statement Monday, arguing that late-term abortions can involve dismemberment of the fetus.
Fox News is so liberal. There is no "can" here. Late-term abortions must involve dismembering and decapitating the baby, because the baby is now too large to pass through the birth canal without an actual birth.
"It should shock the conscience that tens of thousands of unborn Americans are barbarically dismembered limb by limb and torn apart every single year," she said. "Sadly, that number will only increase with Gov. Healey's approval of the Abortion Up Until Birth Bill. The GOP must abandon the 'leave it to the states' position -- a stance that permits egregious late-term abortion laws like this one -- and advance national protections for unborn children."
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The other countries that allow such procedures include Australia, Canada, China, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, South Korea and Vietnam, according to SBA.
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Abdulrahman El-Sayed: My Obligation Is to Follow Sharia Law Until the Day I Die
—Disinformation Expert Ace
We may have lost Francesca, but we still have Abdulrahman.
Revealed: El-Sayed Proclaimed 'Obligation' To Follow Sharia Law Until the Day He Dies
'When I die and I stand before God ... I don't want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way,' El-Sayed told the New York Times in 2009Andrew Kerr and Jessica Schwalb
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed once declared his sacred "obligation" to follow Sharia law in every aspect of his life until he meets his maker on the day he dies, according to unearthed comments he made to the New York Times in 2009 as a young man buying his first home."Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don't want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way. Not because of fear but because of obligation," said El-Sayed, who the Times identified at the time as a 24-year-old medical student and Rhodes scholar who had just taken out a "Sharia-compliant" mortgage to purchase a $123,000 condominium in Ann Arbor.
Sharia, or Islamic religious law, sets strict rules for living that include harsh restrictions on women and gruesome, medieval-era forms of criminal justice. Sharia law also prohibits the paying or earning of interest, a restriction that has led some banks to offer special mortgages for devout Muslims, like El-Sayed, which tack onto the principal what a typical borrower would pay in interest across the life of the loan.
The young El-Sayed's expression of lifelong devotion to Sharia law takes new meaning following his narrow primary victory last week and raises the question of how much Sharia law continues to guide him.
El-Sayed has played a delicate balancing act on the campaign trail when it comes to his personal faith. While he has embraced his status as a Muslim man before voters, the progressive Democrat often frames his faith in broad brush strokes to avoid specifics. In October 2025, for example, El-Sayed told Religion News Service that his faith "orients me to try and be a better person" and to "treat people -- all people -- with dignity and humanity and respect."
But El-Sayed has bristled when pressed on the topic of Sharia law. During his failed 2018 campaign for Michigan governor, El-Sayed denied ever saying he was "Sharia-compliant" during an interview with the Jewish conservative journalist Laura Loomer--a strong critic of Islam--before cutting the interview short and scolding his staff for not stopping it sooner.
El-Sayed also rejected allegations that he intended to subvert the Constitution and implement Sharia law. A documentary about his 2018 gubernatorial bid shows him telling the filmmakers not to shoot a bookshelf in his home that contained the Quran and controversial works about Islam, including Cutting the Fuse, a 2010 book that argues that suicidal terrorism is driven by foreign military occupation, not Islamic extremism.
El-Sayed's private bookshelf also contained a copy of A Thematic Commentary on the Qur'an written by Muslim Brotherhood member Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghazali, who said "the refusal of implemenation [sic] of sharia is apostasy" as he testified in defense of 13 Islamic terrorists who had gunned down an Egyptian professor who called for the separation of church and state in Egypt. Al-Ghazali testified during the 1993 trial that the slain professor was "without doubt" an infidel and said most Islamic scholars would agree that such apostates should be killed, but that he personally believes the professor should have received a life sentence instead, the Washington Post reported.
"You're going to want to not get these things in the shot," El-Sayed said in the documentary, How To Fix A Primary, as he pointed to his bookshelf which contained al-Ghazali's writings. "We're trying to keep the shot secular."
It's all taqiyya all the time.
...El-Sayed is also heavily invested in so-called Sharia-compliant investment funds managed by Amana Mutual Funds, whose late cofounder and chairman, Yaqub Mirza, was identified in a 1988 FBI memo as one of several "members and leaders of the IKHWAN," which is shorthand for the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed reported in his latest financial disclosure that he and his wife own between $150,000 and $425,000 in Amana's funds, which excludes investments in companies that earn more than 5 percent of their revenue from "haram sources" including interest, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and pork.
In 2002, federal antiterrorism agents raided Mirza's home as part of a wider antiterror operation against the Safa Group, a cluster of Islamic entities based in Virginia, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reported. No charges were filed, and Amana Funds itself was spared serious scrutiny during the probe, according to a local report.
Scott Jennings notes something it's hard to miss: these foreign anchor-babies sure do seem to hate football and holidays and fireworks and all the little details of basic
normie American culture.
Why it's almost as if they seek to overthrow it and replace American culture with their own shithole country foreign "culture."
Overton @overton_news The CNN panel didn't like hearing it, but Scott Jennings went ahead and said it anyway.Jennings says the attacks on American holidays from socialist candidates like Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed are actually a window into something much deeper.
And when Kaitlan Collins tried to downplay El-Sayed's comments about July 4th, Jennings fired right back.
The communists can no longer hide their hatred of America and all of its traditions.
JENNINGS: "When you're so crazy that Bernie Sanders and AOC won't even endorse you, you're pretty far out there!"
"I think these holiday conversations are actually valuable."
"She hates Thanksgiving. Today, our own k-file here at CNN uncovered the fact that over in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed wants to get rid of the 4th of July."
"And I think the reason these things..."
COLLINS: "I think he said we should get rid of fireworks."
JENNINGS: "He was very critical of the 4th of July."
COLLINS: "Getting rid of fireworks is different than getting rid of the 4th of July."
JENNINGS: "I think you're downplaying the message..."
"I think these are windows into the souls of these anti-American, radical communists."
"If you hate Thanksgiving and you hate the 4th of July, what you're really saying is I hate some of the pillars that undergird American culture."
"And how are you going to have a conversation with a voter about affordability or public safety or anything else, if you're trying to get rid of Thanksgiving and the 4th of July?"
"I mean, if I was Christmas and Easter I wouldn't be feeling too comfortable right now if these people win!"
Abdulrahman's wing-man Hasan Piker sure doesn't seem to like anything about America:
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After Polls Predicted a 97% Chance of a Double-Digit Victory for Francesca Hong, Missing USB Drives and Late Ballot Shenanigans Hand the Establishment Candidate the "Win"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Did they steal it? I don't know, but the socialists have got to be wondering that.
And I encourage that speculation!
OSZ @OpenSourceZoneLast 5 Wisconsin Governor Democratic Primary Polls
State Navigate: 🔵 Hong +22
Public Policy Polling: 🔵 Hong +18
Marquette University: 🔵 Hong +25
State Navigate: 🔵 Hong +29
Public Policy Polling: 🔵 Hong +20Results (88% Reporting): 🟡Crowley +0.5
The also leftwing candidate, Crowley, actually abandoned the race but re-entered it after Establishment types insisted he get back in to stop Hong. He wound up "winning" by around 3000 votes out of more than half a million.
I keep clicking on articles to see if there's an update showing that Hong won.
Alas, it seems we've lost this one.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly upset Democratic socialist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial primary Tuesday night, despite polls showing Hong in front by double-digits in the final stretch before polling day.Crowley's campaign said the 37-year-old state legislator and member of the Democratic Socialists of America called Crowley early Wednesday to concede the race. Hong trailed her rival by more than 3,200 votes out of more than 787,000 ballots cast as of 6 a.m. ET., a margin of 0.41 percentage points.
Under Wisconsin law, Hong could have requested a recount since she trailed by under one percentage point, but would have had to pay for it since her deficit was greater than 0.25 percentage points. State law does not provide for automatic recounts in close races.
She chose not to. I think, in the end, she wanted to lose the primary, because that allows her to continue on as an agitator and podcast goon. Had she won the primary and then been blown out in the general, she'd be excluded by the whole rotten Democrat Party, including the socialists, who need to pretend they're #Winning.
Crowley, 40, was the late choice of Wisconsin's Democratic establishment after Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez and her predecessor Mandela Barnes dropped out of the race in recent weeks. Crowley had initially dropped out and endorsed Rodriguez last month, but re-entered the race in an effort to stop Hong after Barnes quit....
Crowley, who will face GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany in the November general election, would be the Badger State's first ever black governor.
Hong immediately endorsed the guy who cheated to beat her because she has a Coward's Heart.
But that doesn't stop us from crying #RiggedElection on her behalf.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
The AI bubble is a thing to behold, and its scale beggars belief. The question underlying the insane AI build-out is not whether AI is useful - it is, at least for some things - or whether AI is overhyped - it is - but whether AI can pay. Can these investments bring in enough money to payy off the bonds, in time for it to matter? The amounts of money being funneled into AI capacity is truly staggering, and all of it ultimately rests on the answer to the question of "can it pay" being a resounding yes. As the scale increases and the dollars fly, the risks grow in tandem and the odds of a bigger problem increase. While all of AI is bubbly, the behavior of the AI mega-players called hyperscalers is the easiest to examine.
The hyperscalers are the ones building the gigantic datacenters and spending trillions on huge AI capacity and training new models - and promising to spend trillions more. The idea is that they will sell this capacity on through services at a price high enough and at sufficient volume in time to make it pay enough to cover the bonds - and position the company properly before the next major refresh when they have to upgrade. This depends on demand, prices and nobody coming up with a way to do it cheaper. There are very real risks and the Big Five hyperscalers - Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle - are spending so much on this that it threatens not just the overall enterprise, but the wider economy. The amounts involved are so huge that they're playing accounting games to enable it to continue.
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