Daily Tech News 19 June 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Scammers are using Google ads to inject fake phone numbers directly into major websites' search bars. (Ars Technica)
Don't call the number in the search bar.
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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - June 18, 2025 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
This is the Wednesday night ONT.
No, the mystery click is not Stairway to Heaven. That would have been too easy. Besides, the DC Zoo is at the top. While a good zoo, it doesn't qualify as Heaven.
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Animal UFC Cafe
—Ace
Japan during cherry blossom season.
Chiropractor gives a giraffe a neck adjustment and she looks like she's in love.
Dog actor does a great job and gets his big-time Hollywood salary of one (1) ball.
Jaguar waits in tree and then 1, pounces, and 2, seizes an alligator.
When you're not around, dogs get up to all sorts of nonsense.
What is this odd, adorable little critter? Some kind of weasel?
This squirrel knows it's gonna take a montage to beat the bullies in the big skiing race.
Dog thinks all it takes to get ice cream from the ice cream truck is to queue up in line and today, he's right.
The cutest dog on your block. (Contains Australian accent.)
Cat has the up-and-at-'em work ethic of a postal worker.
I was told that someone likes otters.
Big dog is the cutest little baby.
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Quick Hits
—Ace
New York state is facing a massive deficit so of course Kathy Hochul directs $50 million to be spent on defending illegal aliens from deportation.
Sounds like New York has too much money. Cut their federal funds to zero.
Here's NYC's next mayor getting violent with cops as he attempts to menace Tom Homan.
Let it burn. Ship every damn illegal criminal who the ACLU blocks from deportation to NYC, Boston, LA, and SF. Let them choke on illegal alien murders and rapes.
They write it off, Jerry.
Trump is said to have blessed, privately, Israel's previous strikes but is asking them to hold off on a final round of decapitation strikes, in the hopes that madmen will finally find reason.
I doubt it, but, good luck.
Candace Owens @RealCandaceOThe same people say Iran can't have a nuke because they are religious fundamentalists are the same people who hold the heretical belief that we must support Israel's non-stop campaign of murder, blackmail, land theft bombing & starvation of the innocent because 'God will bless those who bless the 1948 created nation of Israel'.
Noted Philosopher Whoopie Goldberg -- real name, Karen Johnson -- says that people living under Iran's terror regime have it better than blacks in America.
THEN EMIGRATE THERE. If you believe it, act on it.
If you don't act on it, you don't believe it, and you should stop lying.
I wouldn't hold my breath.
During a heated exchange on The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed that the experience of black Americans in the United States is equivalent to the conditions faced by citizens under the authoritarian regime in Iran.The discussion began when co-host Alyssa Farah highlighted the severe human rights violations in Iran, noting that the regime will "literally throw gay people off buildings" and routinely suppresses basic freedoms. She argued that such conditions are vastly different from life in the United States.
Goldberg immediately rejected the comparison, responding that the US is known to "tie gay folks to the car." She then compared life in Iran to black Americans.
"I'm sorry, they used to just keep hanging black people," Goldberg said. "It is the same."
Farah pushed back, emphasizing that Iran in 2025 is nothing like the modern United States. She noted how if she were to walk the streets of Tehran wearing a skirt and her hair showing, she would be severely punished for it. "I think it's very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran," she explained.
Goldberg dismissed the distinction, replying, "Not if you're black," a remark that was met with applause from the audience.
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Republican Senators Open Hearings Into the "Massive Cover-Up" of Biden's Cognitive Decline
Democrats Boycott Hearings Entirely
—Ace
Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on Wednesday accused former Biden Cabinet officials, Democratic members of Congress and the media of participating in a massive "cover-up" to hide what they claim was former President Biden's obvious and alarming cognitive decline during his final two years in office."There was a conspiracy to hide the president's true condition by his family, by his staff, by the media, and many elected officials. This was a constitutional crisis bigger than President Biden, bigger than any single election, and one that cannot be absolved by the collective apology of the press and an election where the president's party lost," Cornyn said in his opening statement of a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Cornyn and Schmitt rolled out their accusations against the former president and his inner circle to a mostly empty room after most Democrats on the panel boycotted the hearing.
"Most"? Try "all."
Well, okay, one Democrat showed up for a short time.
Schmitt declared that Biden was "mentally unfit to carry out the responsibilities of the most powerful office in the world.""Given his mental incapacity, the American people deserve to know who was running the country the last four years," he said.
Schmitt called it "deeply disappointing" that most Democrats on the panel chose to "boycott" the meeting and decided not to call a single witness to testify.
Schmitt claimed that Biden's decline "did not suddenly begin in June of 2024," when he performed disastrously at the presidential debate against Trump.
"It was a persistent and obvious truth that was evident for years to anyone who was willing to see it," he said.
Note that Cornyn asked Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson to testify. They refused.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) revealed Thursday he sought congressional testimony from CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios's Alex Thompson for a hearing later this month on former President Joe Biden's mental acuity while in office.The pair are authors of Original Sin, a recently published book with revelations about the former president's alleged cognitive decline in the White House and the effort by those in Biden's orbit to orchestrate a "cover-up."
"We reached out to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, and they were otherwise occupied," Cornyn told reporters.
Neither reporter responded to a request for comment.
Why is this pussy asking for a voluntary appearance? Subpoena them. They claim they have inside information that can help Congress pass legislation to stop this from happening again.
Biden's nefarious doctor and Biden, Inc. business partner also refused to testify. They have subpoenaed him, but I imagine he will just refuse to answer, citing doctor-patient privilege.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued a subpoena to Dr. Kevin O'Connor, President Joe Biden's physician, to appear for a deposition on June 27, 2025, as part of the investigation into the cover-up of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline and potentially unauthorized issuance of sweeping pardons and other executive actions.Chairman Comer recently requested Dr. O'Connor appear voluntarily for a transcribed interview, but he refused. Last Congress, Chairman Comer also requested Dr. O'Connor appear for a transcribed interview to discuss his medical assessments and involvement in the Biden family's influence peddling racket, but the Biden White House blocked his testimony.
So why is Fake Jake Tapper getting a pass?
If Tapper and Thompson had written a book about Trump, and had been asked by Democrats to testify, you can be sure these straight-shootin' non-partisan Servants of the Truth would have been there with bells on.
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Maryland Man Arrested for Attempting to Stab a US Attorney
Plus: US Murder Rate Plummets, and Border Patrol Encounters Only 95 Illegals, The Lowest Single Day Number in History
—Ace
When I say "Maryland Man," I mean it like the Democrat-Media Regime means it.
I mean "illegal alien criminal."
This particular Maryland Man is from El Salvador and currently threatening to slit public servant's throats in the Albany, NY region, after fleeing from other jurisdictions due to a stack of warrants against him.
Oh, and he had just been deported, but snuck back in.
So these foreign army terrorists are trying to kill the US officials who are connected, in a very tenuous way, to their proper deportation.
An illegal immigrant in New York has been arrested for allegedly threatening a U.S. attorney with a knife.The incident occurred Tuesday in the state capital of Albany when Saul Morales-Garcia, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, allegedly approached John A. Sarcone III, a U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, with a knife at a Hilton hotel.
Morales-Garcia allegedly pulled out the knife and lunged toward the federal prosecutor, the Times Union newspaper reports. Sarcone retreated into the hotel.
Security camera footage reviewed by police showed Morales-Garcia wielding a knife and appearing to go after Sarcone as he ran toward the Hilton's lobby. Morales-Garcia was previously deported, then apparently reentered the U.S. recently without authorization.
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Prosecutors argued that Morales-Garcia is a flight risk, as he has criminal charges pending in Georgia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and federal court, including an active warrant seeking his arrest in Georgia.
Who's going to cure cancer while this scholar is tied up in court?
From the Federalist: Coincidentally with the deportation of thousands of foreign invader murderers and gang members, the US murder rate plunges to the lowest levels in history.
John Lott:
Murder rates are plummeting. While we still have more than half a year to go, Kash Patel, the FBI's director, says that the U.S. is on track to have the lowest murder rate ever. The current record low occurred in 2014 when the FBI reported a murder rate of 4.45 per 100,000.The question is: why? Law enforcement matters, but it is probably also that Trump is deporting criminal illegal aliens.
According to Patel, "Let good cops be cops," is the answer. "I'm gonna let you, the agents, the police officers, the sheriffs, go out there and do the work you so badly want to do. And I'm gonna give you the resources you need to do it. And I'm gonna take away the politicization and weaponization ... and that's what we've done."
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But there is another reason. Deporting criminal illegals may cause some illegals to lay low so that they don't risk getting caught. As the Wall Street Journal noted, "ICE operations have received so much attention, prompting migrants to be more cautious, according to agents and leaders."Since President Trump's Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration, the FBI has actively invested over 1 million hours collaborating with ICE, DEA, and local police to arrest more than 10,000 illegal aliens. They are targeting Biden-era border crossers.
A lot of these illegals have criminal backgrounds and if they cut back on the amount of time they are committing to reduce the risks of getting caught, it could have a noticeable impact on crime rates. If you believe the Biden administration, 9 percent of the so-called "non-detained" illegals who were released into the U.S. had criminal backgrounds (662,566 out of 7.4 million released). That is almost assuredly an underestimate as "non-detained" illegals were overwhelmingly those who had voluntarily turned themselves in at the border, presumably the ones we should be least concerned about. It doesn't count the 2 million "gotaways" we detected crossing the border but failed to apprehend during the Biden administration, nor the unknown millions we never saw coming across the borders. This also assumes the Biden administration didn't underreport criminal backgrounds. And many countries, such as Venezuela, wouldn't provide information on the criminal backgrounds of their citizens.
There is other evidence that Trump's deportation efforts are making a difference in causing illegal aliens to lay low. For example, illegals are leaving the labor force. From January 2021 to January 2025, under Biden's administration, foreign-born workers filled approximately 4.3 million of the new jobs created, based on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). However, in just the last four months, the immigrant workforce has plummeted by 773,000 -- a staggering 18 percent reversal of that growth in such a short period of time.
A March headline in the New York Times notes: "Fearing roundups, many immigrants are staying home."
Nick Sortor @nicksortorJUST IN: Tom Homan announces Border Patrol had only 95 encounters with illegals TOTAL yesterday, along the entire 2,000 mile southern border
This is the lowest number in HISTORY.
WAY TO GO, HOMAN, TRUMP, AND BORDER PATROL!
Three Iranian Planes Fly to Oman as Israel Reportedly Begins Attacking the Ayatollah's Bunkers
—Ace
Iran just threatened "a surprise that will be remembered for centuries." Then they released a video strongly hinting they were about to attack the US or Israel with a nuke.
But now the The Bee can exclusively report on what this "surprise" is:
There are claims on X that three Iranian planes have landed at Oman:
Nick Sortor @nicksortor#BREAKING: At least THREE Iranian military planes have just left Iran and landed in Oman, the country mediating U.S.-Iran nuclear talks
A deal may be back on the table!
LFG!
Trump himself does not seem interested in a deal. First he said to reporters, "I'm in no mood to negotiate." Then, later, he posted on Truth Social:
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!
I really do not know why people who identify as on the right are on such a jihad to save the Ayatollah. They have completely reversed their previous support for military intervention. They haven't just adjusted it. They've fully embraced the Code Pink/Blame America First position, without ever even bother to explain why they've made this dramatic complete reversal of all their past beliefs. It's like this group just radicalized each other on X, all based on emotion and groupthink, so no one is able to say why this change in fundamental beliefs occurred. They just suddenly adopt this extremist left-wing position and then act like you're the weird one for not having joined them in this inexplicable journey to the Blame America First side.
Do they likewise believe that Obama did right in knocking down the Iranian uprising and pledging fealty to the Ayatollah?
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A Return to Sanity: Supreme Court Upholds Bans on "Gender Affirming Surgery" for Children 6-3 in a Major Repudiation of the Extremist Transgender Cult
Update: Thomas Warns Against Deferring to Fake "Experts"
—Ace
Sean Davis @seanmdavBREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's law banning genital mutilation of minors under the guise of so-called "trans" surgery.
"The Court's role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of [the ban on surgically mutilating minors], but only to ensure that the law does not violate equal protection guarantees," the Supreme Court ruled. "It does not. Questions regarding the law's policy are thus appropriately left to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process."
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Tennessee law banning specific transgender medical treatments for adolescents in the state is not discriminatory, ruling 6-3 to uphold the law.At issue in the case, United States v. Skrmetti, was whether Tennessee's Senate Bill 1, which "prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow 'a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex' or to treat 'purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity,'" violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The ACLU claimed that because girls who experience "precocious puberty" at ages as young as nine are given hormone blockers to delay their puberty until 12 or 13, it's "discriminatory" to forbid girls from taking hormone blockers to stop their puberty altogether, and then flood them with testosterone to create weird and unconvincing fake "boys."
That's like saying the law should treat a doctor who cuts into you to remove a tumor the same as a thug who stabs you on the street.
That law prohibits states from allowing medical providers to deliver puberty blockers and hormones to facilitate a minor's transition to another sex.It also targets healthcare providers in the state who continue to provide such procedures to gender-dysphoric minors-- opening these providers up to fines, lawsuits and other liability.
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that the law question is not subject to heightened scrutiny "because it does not classify on any bases that warrant heightened review."
"This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field," he said. "The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound."
United States v. Skrmetti was one of the most closely watched cases of the Supreme Court's term, with potential ripple effects for ongoing legal battles over transgender rights -- including bathroom access and participation in school sports.
The ruling could also serve as a legal pretext in future cases involving LGBTQ+ protections, including whether sexual orientation qualifies as a "protected class" on par with race or national origin.
"The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it afford us license to decide them as we see best," he added. "Our role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of the law before us ... but only to ensure that it does not violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment. Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process."
All three liberal justices notably dissented in the case.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent that cited a long history of laws discriminating against others, noting that transgender persons in the U.S. make up less than 1% of the country's population. There are an estimated 1.3 million adults and 300,000 adolescents aged 13 to 17 who identify as transgender, according to the UCLA law school's Williams Institute.
She noted that SB1 "expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny."
"The majority contorts logic and precedent to say otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee's categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so long as 'any reasonably conceivable state of facts' might justify it," Sotomayor said, adding: "By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims."
"In sadness, I dissent," she said.
"Lifesaving medical treatment." Get f***ed you vile ugly swine.
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Justice Samuel Alito cited "hotly disputed" medical studies on the alleged benefits of such medical treatments, and told the government's attorney that those studies "found a complete lack of high-quality evidence showing that the benefits of the treatments in question here outweigh the risks."
"Do you dispute that?" Alito asked during oral arguments.
In his concurrence, Justice Thomas had this to say about fake phony Expertism:
This case carries a simple lesson: In politically contentious debates over matters shrouded in scientific uncertainty, courts should not assume that self-described experts are correct.Deference to legislatures, not experts, is particularly critical here. Many prominent medical professionals have declared a consensus around the efficacy of treating children's gender dysphoria with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. They have dismissed grave problems undercutting the assumption that young children can consent to irreversible treatments that may deprive them of their ability to eventually produce children of their own.
They have built their medical determinations on concededly weak evidence. And, they have surreptitiously compromised their medical recommendations to achieve political
ends.The Court today reserves "to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process" the power to decide how best to address an area of medical uncertainty and extraordinary importance. Ante, at 24. That sovereign pre-
rogative does not bow to "major medical organizations." Post, at 5, n. 5 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.). "[E]xperts and elites have been wrong before--and they may prove to be wrong again." Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.
That last part is Thomas citing himself, from a previous concurrence.
The full decision is here.
Meanwhile, another lowly district court judge, this one, get this, a Biden judge from Massachusetts, issues another insupportable nationwide ban.
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday broadened the scope of an earlier ruling that blocks the Trump administration from enforcing a controversial passport policy requiring Americans to list their sex "at conception," rather than their gender identity. The order now applies nationwide, protecting all transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans.U.S. District Judge Julia E. Kobick, a Biden appointee, wrote that the plaintiffs in the case--originally just six named individuals--share the same injury as the broader class: an inability to obtain passports that accurately reflect their gender identity. Kobick concluded that the administration's policy is likely unconstitutional and not tied to any "important governmental interest."
The initial lawsuit was filed in February by the ACLU, its Massachusetts affiliate, and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP. It alleges the policy is driven by "impermissible animus" toward gender-nonconforming individuals. Following that, attorneys asked the court to expand the ruling to cover all individuals impacted by the rule, a request Kobick granted Tuesday.
The ruling halts enforcement of a key portion of President Trump's executive order, signed in his first hours back in office, which directed federal agencies to base official documents--including passports and Global Entry cards--on an individual's sex assigned at birth, not their gender identity. The policy also suspended the State Department's prior option that allowed applicants to self-select their gender marker, including the nonbinary "X" option.
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Blue Collar Wages Rise 2% In Just the First Five Months of Trump's Second Term, the Most in 60 Years
—Ace
Blue-collar workers have seen real wage growth of almost two percent in the first five months of President Donald Trump's second term, the largest increase for any administration in nearly 60 years.The 1.7% pay bump is in stark contrast to negative growth under Joe Biden, according to new data from the US Department of the Treasury.
Since Richard Nixon in 1969, Trump has been the only president to record positive growth for blue-collar workers in his first five months. He also achieved 1.3% in his first term.
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The recovery from a 1.7% decline recorded in Biden's first five months, as inflation outpaced earnings, suggests a shift in economic conditions for this financially stressed segment of the workforce.
"The only other time it's been this high was... during President Trump's first term," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told me on the latest episode of the "Pod Force One" podcast, out Wednesday.
"We've seen real wages for hourly workers, non-supervisory workers, rise almost 2% in the first five months. ... No president has done that before."
Falling inflation has driven the significant improvement in blue-collar wages, lifting workers' take-home pay and living standards.
Bessent says wage growth is also fueled by the president's "emphasis on manufacturing" and commitment to remove illegal migrants from the workforce.
"Biden opened the border, and it was flooded," said Bessent. "And for working Americans, that's a disaster because it's pressure on their wages."
As soon as Trump took office, the percentage of voters saying the country was on the right track shot up from 26% to 42%. (It has now dropped to 41%, which is probably just statistical noise.)
Hello everybody, how is your Wednesday? Are you keeping your School Clothes neat and tidy?
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
Last week, Ace posted a column about a Congressional sideshow wherein Governor Hochul (D[emon], NY) claimed not to remember any of the particulars about an incident in New York City where an illegal alien decided to turn a citizen into a human torch on a subway train. (reminder: don't comment on old threads). While I don't believe for a minute that Hochul wasn't well aware of the details and used the typical "I don't recall" dodge, the wider point is important.
Mark Halperin has been talking about this for a while. Democrats don't know what the public knows, or what the public is thinking, because the left-wing media "wraps them in blue bubble-wrap" to protect Democrats from being confronted with the horrors caused by their policies. Democrat politicians never realize the public is getting sick of being set on fire by lunatic illegal aliens, or having their daughters kidnapped and raped by illegal aliens fleeing their home countries because of outstanding rape charges, because the Blue Bubble-Wrap Media refuses to report on these stories.All lefties wrap themselves snugly in this Blue Bubble-Wrap and go for years without ever realizing that their policies are causing rapes and murders.
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The Morning Report — 6/ 18 /25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. So with things really heating up over Iran as well as here at home, both situations put the sudden rushing to the hospital last night of Kristi Noem, the head of our Department of Homeland Security, into a new light. It could be just a freaky coincidence, but the timing could not be at a more crucial moment.
“Secretary Noem experienced an allergic reaction earlier today and was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and recovering,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement obtained by the Daily Caller. . . Noem was previously in Los Angeles, California, where Democratic Senator Alex Padilla interrupted a June 12 press conference she was conducting in response to the LA riots. Security forcibly removed the senator and reportedly handcuffed him. DHS accused Padilla of “disrespectful public theatre.”
Frankly, the fat filthy bastard is damned lucky to be alive. Because, given the flood of foreign criminals already in country as well as our own homegrown Leftist Schakowsky/Soros rent-a-mob cadres that always pop up in congressional hearings when they're not burnining looting and murdering in the name of peace love and understanding, If I were Noem, and likely carrying a firearm, I'd have not given a second thought to ventilating the fat bastard who was bull-rushing me.
And given what is happening now in Iran, with the potential for President Trump to deploy MOP ordnance to obliterate the last and perhaps most important Iranian nuclear facility inside and beneath the mountains at Fordow, The erased border courtesy of Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants that was already extremely porous prior to his installation as Obama's puppet in 2020, the potential for sleeper cells to cause murder and mayhem, on top of what the aforementioned native-born self-hating America-hating brainwashed Leftist droogs are already doing to us should scare the shit out of anyone who is even minimally aware of what's been going on at least since 9/11/01 or February of 1993 when we had the first World Trade Center truck bomb attack.
So now to square the circle of open borders and Islamic terrorism, With what's happening the name Padilla should set off some very loud alarm bells. Not Alex. But in this case one JOSE PADILLA who came to national prominence in the wake of 9/11/01.
Born in Brooklyn on October 18, 1970, Jose Padilla is an American citizen and a Muslim convert who was arrested in May 2002 and was thereafter detained by the U.S. government for three-and-a-half years as an “enemy combatant” who aspired to contribute to the worldwide Islamic jihad by killing large numbers of Americans.In his early teens, Padilla joined a mostly Puerto Rican gang called the Latin Disciples. He went on to compile a rap sheet of both juvenile and adult crimes — offenses ranging from aggravated assault to unlawful weapons possession to attempted theft. He was also involved in a violent assault and shooting where his victim later died from the injuries that Padilla helped inflict.
In the early 1990s, Padilla became a working member of the Benevolence International Foundation, a charity that had close financial ties to the al Qaeda terrorist network, the Abu Sayyaf Islamic rebels in the Philippines, and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
. . . After 9/11, Padilla spent some time living with Atef in the house where the latter was eventually killed by a U.S. air strike in November 2001. Seeking to avoid further danger, Padilla went to Pakistan, where he became acquainted with Osama bin Laden’s deputy Abu Zubaydah. Padilla approached Zubaydah with an idea: He wanted to follow Internet instructions for creating a nuclear bomb, and then detonate it somewhere in the United States. Skeptical about Padilla’s ability to carry out such an attack, Zubaydah suggested that wrapping explosives in uranium (to create a radiological “dirty bomb) might be more feasible...
. . . On January 22, 2008, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke sentenced Padilla to 17 years and four months in prison, as opposed to the life sentence the government was seeking. In explaining her decision, Judge Cooke underscored the serious nature of Mr. Padilla’s offenses, but added: “There is no evidence that these defendants personally maimed, kidnapped or killed anyone in the United States or elsewhere. There was never a plot to overthrow the United States government.”
And where is this wonderful humanitarian and bust out quintessential Democrat today??? (Per Wikipedia) Padilla is serving his sentence at ADX Florence prison in Florence, Colorado. Padilla's prisoner number is 20796-424; he is projected to be released in 2026.
So, With the Iranian regime apparently on the ropes, and threatening to unleash hell on Earth, Is that mere bluster of the Mad Mullahs in the bunker shrieking "Steiner will come" or the 12th Imam will QQM?!!!!
Remember, that Iran has been enriching Uranium for years. and with a non existent southern border and a very poorly watched northern border to say nothing of thousands of miles of Atlantic and Pacific coastline plus seaports where anything can be smuggled in or where corrupt LE and CBP agents can be bribed to look the other way, it is certainly a distinct possibility that quite a bit of radioactive material is already within our borders ready to be weaponized and used by who knows how many other Jose Padillas are walking our streets waiting for the Mullahs, to give the Go code, or who will just act on their own if Tehran should fall.
And, as for radioactive material for a dirty bomb, you don't necessarily need weapons-grade U-235 or Plutonium or Cobalt Thorium-G or whatever is used to detonate Atomic or thermonuclear devices. All you need is a not so very large amount of low level radioactive material such as is used in the medical profession. Strap a few pounds to some propane tanks and set it off in Times Square or near the Pentagon or wherever to create a toxic cloud of radioactive fallout. No, I'm not giving away any deep dark secrets that the evil Muslim savages haven't already figured out probably courtesy of Hose-B Padilla 25 years ago.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared “the battle begins” in an ominous post Tuesday, hours after President Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender.”“In the name of #Haider, the battle begins. Ali returns to #Khaybar with his Zulfiqar.” Khamenei wrote on X in Farsi, referring to Islam’s first imam, Ali, who won the Battle of Khaybar with the sword Zulfiqar.
Khamenei’s sinister message comes hours after the Islamic Republic’s state media also warned of a “surprise” on Tuesday night into Wednesday that the “world will remember for centuries.”
Remember that Shiite Islam is predicated on armageddon being the precursor to their mythological 12th Imam returning to earth from some magic wishing well in the holy city of Qom to then usher in an eternal paradise on earth in the form of the world becoming Islamic for all time.
Now, as I understand it, the true believers regard/venerate that well as a scared site that must be protected at all costs. If a "STRAY" Israeli bomb were to take it out, it would also take out the fantasies of tens of millions of Muslims around the world. The 12th imam could never emerge. Islamic experts like Robert Spencer and others have stated this and when we had him on a previous episode of the podcast he reiterated this.
Forget Fordow. We need the John C. Holmes mega Qom Shot of all time to Seek out that well and destroy it. The psychological shock alone of that well's obliteration might well be more powerful and effective than the combined military defeats of Islam in all its wars against Israel and Western Christendom.
Meh, there's also that space rock in Mecca, but that's another story.
FYI, a quick heads up to be on the lookout for a new episode of the the podcast with me and CBD that should be posting in the sidebar by this afternoon, as well as at CJN and via our usual outlets.
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- “Secretary Noem experienced an allergic reaction earlier today and was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and recovering,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement obtained by the Daily Caller.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Taken By Ambulance To Washington DC Hospital - Can you guess who the 'No Kings' protesters were recruited by?
Video: O’Keefe Undercover in L.A.
- Michael Walsh: The Iranian mullahs are no better at fighting than Darius was (way back in 331 BC - jjs). . . The Israelis have shredded their Islamic cloak of teleological inevitability and have left them naked, figures of ridicule in a land they have terrorized for too long, and in which they now cower in fear: impotent old men whose god has failed them.
In Praise of Instability
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Daily Tech News 18 June 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Why it has suddenly become difficult to buy a handheld gaming device. (The Verge) (archive site)
The popular models - the Switch 2 and Steam Deck OLED - are out of stock.
The less popular models suddenly had price increases.
The bad models are, well, bad.
And the recently announced Xbox-branded handhelds are potentially all of those, but most importantly aren't out yet.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 17, 2025 [scampydog]
—Open Blogger
Good evening and thank you for checking in on the Tuesday, ONT. Some random, a few parts science, and 100% why not. Comment section won't bite - probably.
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Ministry of Silly Dances Cafe
—Ace
Horses enjoy the beach.
Turtle takes on a dog. Winner: Dog. Flawless Victory.
This turtle thinks a lawnmower is just a big, loud turtle and wants to say hello.
It's not a trick, Michael -- it's an illusion.
ICYMI: Dog has a Major League swing.
ICYMI: Nosy dogs.
Baby elephant charges, but then embarrasses himself.
Dog tries to wake up his paw.
Cat misses her passed dog brother.
Golden retriever meets his new puppy brother.
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Iran Threatens a "Surprise the World Will Remember for Centuries" Tonight
—Ace
I don't want to be alarmist, but what they seem to be hinting at is dropping a nuke.
Breaking911 @Breaking911IRANIAN STATE MEDIA: "There is a surprise tonight that the world will remember for centuries."
They also posted a video of a hand stroking a nuclear warhead.
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The Obama-Biden Policy of "Catch and Release" Is Over as Trump Does Not Release a Single Illegal Alien in May
—Ace
There have been a couple of illegals released here and there, but you can count them on two hands.
And now: None.
Border Patrol agents didn't release a single migrant into the US last month -- a staggering drop after the Biden administration allowed 64,000 illegal crossers in the country in May 2024, The Post can exclusively reveal.Agents caught 8,725 migrants crossing illegally at the southern border last month.
That's a 93% decrease from May 2024, when 117,905 were nabbed, according to internal data obtained by The Post.
And acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Pete Flores said it's a result of the Trump administration's tough border policies.
One of the most monumental policy changes made by Trump was the reversal of President Joe Biden's catch-and-release scheme, which resulted in millions of illegal border jumpers being allowed into the US.
"Under the leadership of this administration, CBP has received historic support resulting in another 93% decrease in illegal crossings along the southwest border this month when compared with last year," Flores said in a statement shared with The Post.
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Border Patrol agents are nearing their goal of gaining full "operational control" of the southern border with the massive drop in illegal crossings, National Border Patrol Council president Paul Perez told The Post last week.
Perez complained that Biden had taken Border Patrol officers off the border, to have them sit at desks and fill out the paperwork for illegal aliens to get their free pass into America.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ZERO releases of illegal aliens into the US during the month of May by Border Patrol.
Why does this matter? I am not aware of a single illegal alien being arrested for an egregious crime against an American after being caught & released at the border under the new Trump admin in the last 5 months.Catch and release is over. A complete 180 from what we saw at the border during the Biden admin.
US Attorney Bill Essayli tells insurrectionits, "You spit, we hit."
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@RapidResponse47.@USAttyEssayli details charges against LA rioters, over attempted arson of a police vehicle and assaulting a federal agent:
"As our president said, if you spit, we hit -- and we will hit you with a felony."
He also said that the illegal alien terrorist who threw chunks of concrete down at cops from an overpass will face a minimum of five years in prison, and a maximum of 20.
Texas is taking care of the rioters and border-scoffers:
Hundreds of immigration charges were filed in the Southern District of Texas, including against a woman assaulting and threatening federal agents.In one week, 332 people were charged; 205 people were charged with illegal entry; 109 with felony illegal reentry after previously being deported. Most arrested have prior felony convictions and charges; 10 cases involve human smuggling.
Among those arrested was Mexican national Maria Isabel Cruz-Salas, living in the border town of San Benito in the Rio Grande Valley. While authorities conducted a worksite enforcement operation at Taqueria El Mante, an ICE Homeland Security Investigations agent attempted to detain her and she kicked him in the face, according to the charges. If convicted, she faces up to eight years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine.
In another case, a San Antonio woman, Michelle Lee Varela, was taken into custody after allegedly threatening an ICE-HSI agent while performing his duties. According to the charges, while authorities were conducting an immigration action and requested information from Varela about her husband's status in the U.S., she "allegedly used profanity and said if her husband was taken into custody, she would shoot them."
Wonderful.
And Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced a "You break it, you bought it" policy: No DOT funds for any state that doesn't cooperate with ICE, and no funds for repairing federal highways that lawless anarchist state governors allow their antifa street militias to destroy.
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Is This Something?
—Ace
Most of this will not be something.
I know what some of you are thinking: Hollywood may be so devoid of ideas that they're remaking every movie from the 80s and nineties, but there's no way they're now remaking "classics" from the early 2000s, and even if they are, they certainly won't be remaking I Know What You Did Last Summer, for the love of everything holy.
Well, guess what? You're wrong again. You're a black belt in Being Wrong About Everything.
Fox is determined to milk the Alien franchise, which started the same year as the Iranian revolution, forever. They now have a TV show about aliens coming to earth.
I don't get this. Yes, I liked Alien and I loved Aliens. But seriously, it's a limited concept. You can't just keep making movies and tv-shows and prequels about the same limited concept.
Or I guess you can. But I don't get it. I have no further questions about the Terminator, Alien, or Predator universes. Or the Robocop universe. I have enjoyed their early entries. I've loved many of them. But we need to move on. There is no more juice in these well-squeezed fruits.
Oh, and it turns out there is another Predator movie coming.
Great, Mr. Fabulous, the self-described "fifty-year-old Bougie Bitch" Pedro Pascal, is in yet another movie. It's about a brave and noble sheriff fighting disinformation and disobedience as he attempts to enforce covid lockdowns. There's a moment of someone watching a podcast on the internet, so you know that's about Dangerous and Divisive Medical Misinformation. The end of the clip shows someone firing a heavy machine gun so that's gotta be Radicalized Far-Right Extremists Incited Into Violence.
Now, I'm making a lot of assumptions. It could be that the movie is a more thoughtful look at the covid wars.
But I doubt it.
Nerdrotic says he has a Marvel source who says the new "Ironheart" Disney TV show is the worst thing that Marvel has ever done, and that includes their disastrous "Echo" show and "Secret Invasion" and "She-Hulk."
It's being dropped with three episodes on one night so that the show is finished and forgotten as soon as possible. They did something similar with Echo, though in that case they dropped all five episodes in one night. Like one of those poops where everything goes in one smooth uninterrupted motion and you can't even believe how efficient and accomplished you are at pooping.
The Superman movie continues to look over-stuffed with characters and plots but it also looks like it might be light and fun, like a comic book for kids.
Which is A-OK with me.
Let me get this off my chest:
I'm sick and tired of NERDS!!! demanding that superhero movies or any other juvenile fare be "dark" and "grim and gritty" and "realistic" and hyperviolent and filled with cursing.
This type of entertainment is -- or used to be, and should be -- kid-friendly.
I think a lot of NERDS!!! are a little embarrassed that they like entertainment which is made for kids or made to at least be kid-friendly because that would suggest they're immature. So they want these entertainments to be made more "adult," but by "adult," of course they don't mean thoughtful, contemplative, and nuanced. No, they mean they want to see Superman rip people's heads from their bodies and use his laser vision to shoot holes through people's chests.
And that he should say "f*ck" a lot.
I have to admit that when I was younger -- like, teens and early twenties -- I had the same kind of idea. That this kind of movie would be Even Betterer if it were "hardcore."
But as I've gotten older, and have approached, with increasing slowness, age 29, I've come to understand that I don't have to run away from my kid-self, or my teenaged self. My kid-self was right about a lot of things, and my teenaged self was too.
I don't need these kind of kid-friendly entertainments to be "aged up" just to validate me, so I don't feel like a stupid baby for going to see a Batman movie. It's perfectly fine for an adult to enjoy an entertainment whose primary audience is younger people and kids. Every adult, even one approaching age 29, still has his 5-year old self inside him, and his 13-year-old self, and his 18-year-old self.
Plus, a lot of children's entertainment can be pretty good. Disney cartoons from a bygone age often portrayed death in powerful and even traumatic way. Certainly Bambi portrays death much more realistically -- in that it has consequences -- than popcorn movies for "adults" that feature hundreds of people being killed with no one ever wondering if the dead enemies' wives and children will be looked after.
Kid-friendly entertainment doesn't have to be childish, either. The original Superman was kid-friendly, but it was very well done. The original Star Wars films as well. (Bit of trivia: They filmed the severed arm in the cantina sequence for the sole purpose of getting a PG rating rather than the G rating they would have gotten without it -- they felt that teenagers would not see a G-rated film because teenagers are always afraid to be mistaken for kids or little babies.)
The Indian Jones films are all basically kid-friendly, except for that one part in every Indiana Jones movie where someone gets his head chopped up by a propeller or something. Okay, maybe not for kids exactly, but a dad can watch that with his 12-year-old.
"Kid-friendly" doesn't mean "childish." You can avoid all the things that flag a movie as R-rated while also avoiding the stuff that makes a movie seem childish -- cornball kid humor, simple-minded plots, cartoony "bouncy" background music, unrealistic characters, etc. You can make a movie that avoids the tropes of actual child fare and presents semi-plausible characters with semi-realistic adult psychologies.
What Hollywood is doing is making very, very dumb movies with child-levels of nuance but throwing in R-rated violence to age it up.
I don't know if Superman will be any good. I kind of doubt it. I don't think I'll wind up seeing it.
But I do like the idea of making superhero movies and fantasy action movies with a younger audience in mind. I have fond memories of watching James Bond movies with my dad. Fathers need movies they can share with their kids. It can't all be about reassuring 25-year-old NERDS!!! that they're totally not babies because look, Superman just snapped this guy's neck. So hardcore!
(I think James Bond books are basically boy's adventure fiction too, except the boy in question "borrowed" his dad's credit card to subscribe to Playboy.)
I just don't get the idea that these Male Power Fantasy movies have to be "dark" and "mature." Having a Space Alien Cop snap the neck of a Space Alien Bad Guy isn't "mature." It's still children's entertainment with a veneer of graphic violence to seem mature.
And don't get me wrong-- I like graphic violence, too. But I don't think Batman movies should look like the last twenty minutes of Rambo. That kind of movie should be reserved for 17 year olds, or 15 year olds who borrow their older brother's ID.
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Democrat NYC Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate Arrested for Attempting to Physically Block ICE from Arresting a Criminal Illegal
Update: Poll Shows Massive Support for ICE
—Ace
The Democrats are claiming this was a Mostly Peaceful Violent Obstruction of Federal Officials.
The Democrats are engaging in a cynical, communist game of escalating violent confrontations with law enforcement. One of these days they're going to provoke one of their lunatics to kill ICE agents, or provoke ICE into beating the shit out of them.
New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court Tuesday after he linked arms with a person that authorities were attempting to detain.A reporter with The Associated Press witnessed Lander's arrest at a federal building in Manhattan. The person Lander was walking out of the courtroom was also arrested.
Lander had spent the morning observing immigration court hearings and told an AP reporter that he was there to "accompany" some immigrants out of the building.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)
In the moments before Lander was handcuffed, agents could be seen trying to physically separate him from the man they had come to detain. Lander briefly struggled to stay close to the detainee before he was pulled away. Video taken by journalists at the scene shows that agents struggled to separate Lander from the man he'd linked arms with for more than 40 seconds before wresting the two apart.
A video of the arrest captured by an AP reporter shows an agent telling Lander, "You're obstructing."
"I'm not obstructing, I'm standing right here in the hallway," Lander said as he was being handcuffed.
Didn't Do Nuffin. The Democrat/Antifa/BLM credo.
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Trump to Hyper-Isolationists: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
—Ace
But apparently when Trump said this over and over and over again, the hyper-isolationists all heard him saying, "I promise I will pursue Barack Obama's Iran policy and help Iran get a nuclear bomb. And also, again like Barack Obama, when Iran's regime is fatally threatened, I will step in to save it."
He ever said these things. You made them up. You wanted him to say them, but he never, ever did.
He said the opposite.
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