One Officer Resigns in Henry Nowak Police-Assisted Murder Scandal

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I heard this hours ago but could not find the story about it.

But now it's confirmed:

Sky News
@SkyNews
BREAKING: One of the police officers involved in the arrest of Henry Nowak has resigned, according to Hampshire Police

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Three of the other "police officers" participating in the police-assisted murder remain on staff, so this is obviously a cover-up.

People might say: "These cops were only doing what they were instructed by their higher-ups to do." That's right. But they're lower-level criminals in a greater criminal enterprise, and so we should do with them the same as we do with the small fish of a mafia or terrorist operation (which this actually resembles): Prosecute them until they agree to testify what the higher-ups told them to do.

I have no pity for them. If they're going to cover-up for the higher-ups, let justice be done without mercy.

In the prior post, I linked this MP stating that there was an official document instructing cops to treat blacks and Muslims more favorably than whites:

Is the UK in a State of Civil War Yet?
If Not, Why Not?

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Crowds gather outside the Hampshire Police Department,
aka Murder, Inc., to demand these Heroes stop lying about
their complicity in the murder of Henry Nowak

Gad Saad @GadSaad

May 31

The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.

And here's the inevitable: Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood warns that anyone talking about this case too honestly may be the next visited by the murderous police.

The problem is never the murder by a migrant (Digwa's parents are immigrants), the problem is your objection to murder by a migrant.

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has warned "misinformation and inflammatory commentary is making a dreadful situation even worse" as anger over the case of Henry Nowak was stoked further by Nigel Farage who urged the public to respond with "pure cold rage".

In a statement to the Commons, she revealed that a police officer wrongly identified as having arrested the dying teenager has received death threats and been forced into hiding amid a "dangerous undercurrent".

Chilling video footage from the night Mr Nowak was killed shows police handcuffed the 18-year-old student as he lay on the floor, despite his repeated pleas that he could not breathe. He died shortly after.

In body-worn camera footage of the incident in Southampton, Mr Nowak can be heard repeatedly saying: "I've been stabbed," to which an officer replies: "Don't think you have, mate."

Sir Keir Starmer described the video as "harrowing", adding: "I have to say, as a father of a 17-year-old boy, I felt sick watching it."

Hampshire Police Federation condemned calls for "vigilante justice" against officers; the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) watchdog is investigating the handling of the case.

Vickrum Digwa fatally stabbed Mr Nowak in December 2025 with a ceremonial knife with a 21cm blade after falsely accusing him of a racist attack. He was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years at Southampton Crown Court on Monday.

Mr Farage likened Mr Nowak's treatment to the killing of George Floyd and said it was evidence of a "two-tier culture".

In a video statement on Tuesday, the Reform UK leader called for a recognition that "white lives matter" as he referred to the Black Lives Matter movement which followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

Mr Farage said Mr Nowak was "actually treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder".

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

🚨 BREAKING: Slain 18YO white male Henry Nowak's father just WENT OFF, saying the killer stabbed his son and police did NOTHING despite his imminent death

"Henry told officers he could not breathe **9 times**." 😢

He says the police FAILED and refused to believe him. The killer is now jailed.

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?! BARBARIAN.

"Henry was pulled across the gravel his hands forced behind his back and he was placed in handcuffs. Instead of being treated as a dying victim the police formally arrested Henry for assault and read in his rights. That was the last thing he heard."

"Henry had been stabbed multiple times and as his chest filled with blood he tried to escape. He was chased, abused and filmed...when police arrived Henry was lying on the floor fairly able to sit up and plainly in severe medical distress. With his final words he told officers that he could not breathe. He told them he had been stabbed."

"The police have said they were misled by the murderers and that the scene when they arrived was complex."

"Unfortunately it seems to us the truth is much simpler. The police were told by our son himself and by a member of the public...but the police did not believe that."

"As a family we will not let this go. No other family should experience the heartbreak and horror of losing a child to knife crime."

"Finally, I want Henry to know. We are so proud of him and we love him."

His speech is here.

The Digwa family also released a statement, apparently in coordination with Sikh groups. The statement makes it sound, as Alex the Chick says, as this was just some accident, maybe a car accident.

I think it reads as if maybe Henry Nowak really was guilty of "racial abuse" and it just would have been better if the two people never met. Let's say both were at fault and call it a day.

Some people did some things, you know?

Digwa's mother spirited away the murder weapon and hid it. Digwa's brother placed a false emergency call to the cops to push the lie that the innocent student had "racially abused" Digwa, justifying stabbing him to death.

The father, apparently, "detained" the dying man.

"Detained." A man. Dying on the ground.

That sounds like he used physical force against a man his son had just stabbed to death (though he wasn't yet dead -- the cops would be needed to finish the job, egged on by Digwa and his father).

Oh -- and he concealed the fact that the man on the ground had been stabbed and was bleeding to death.

That's accessory to murder.

The mother was convicted of aiding in the crime.

Why aren't the brother and father under arrest?

Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick

I hope Hampshire Police and the CPS have a good explanation as to why Digwa's brother and father have not yet been charged.

His mother is being sentenced soon for removing the murder weapon from the crime scene.

If his brother and father knew Henry had been stabbed, are they not accessories too?

The brother called 999 to falsely report Henry for racially attacking the murderer.

The father physically detained a dying Henry until the police arrived.

None of them informed the police that Henry had been stabbed. All watched him die, handcuffed, on the ground.

Paul Weston
@PWestoff

3h

Officers in Nowak arrest did nothing wrong, police watchdog claims! From the DT:

"The Telegraph understands that five officers initially attended the incident. The IOPC began reviewing the arrest the day after Mr Nowak died and says that so far there is no evidence that any of them committed misconduct.... all the officers are being treated as witnesses, rather than investigated over potential misconduct."

"Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary did not respond when asked whether the officers involved had been suspended."

"However, after the sentencing Mr Nowak's family members said that they understood some of the officers involved in his case remained on duty, while others had resigned."

@HantsPolice had better come clean sharpish. Their past and present behaviour could - and should - spark national civil-unrest

"Sharpish" is a good word.

White House: Rioters Outside of NJ ICE Facility Will be Prosecuted to the Fullest Extent of the Law
NGO Admits It's Giving the Orders to Riot

—Disinformation Expert Ace

It's time to start getting rough with the terrorists.

The White House issued a stark warning Monday to rioters protesting a federal immigration detention center in Newark, stating that riots will not be tolerated and those who engage in such activity will be "arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

The protests escalated into riots over the weekend after some demonstrators threw projectiles, grabbed security barriers and set fires outside ICE's Delaney Hall facility. New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill even acknowledged early Sunday that some had engaged in "dangerous actions" against local police.

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka imposed an emergency curfew over the weekend in an attempt to quell the unrest. The curfew, which remains in effect, covers a half-mile radius around the ICE facility, outlawing civilians in the area from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Democrat politicians stoke up the rioters and then impose a curfew on everyone because the monsters they feed have gotten out of control.

Meanwhile, the NGO-paid antifa and BLM terrorists swarm in from all over the country to riot:

The Very Perceptive Ladies of The View: Gee This Graham Platner Guy Seems Like a Hot S.S. Mess Doesn't He?

—Disinformation Expert Ace

These subnormal-IQ chickenhead* women just don't miss a trick do they?

Jimmy Kimmel Cries That His Show Will End the Way Colbert's Did (And for the Same Reason)

—Disinformation Expert Ace

God save us from effeminate, histrionic men.

Yes, Jimmy, you will go the way that Colbert went, because you both are anti-talents losing the shareholders tens of millions per year.

The left is crowing that the replacement for Colbert's show is only drawing 878,000 viewers.

A bit better than it did when it was on at like 1:30 in the morning.

But it has a different business model: Byron Allen pays CBS for the hour, and collects the advertising revenue himself.

CBS lost $40 million per year to produce The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which attracted around 2.1 million viewers.

CBS is profiting $15 million per year to air Comics Unleashed, which attracted 878,000 in its debut.

Because Allen is paying CBS that $15 million.

Which is the better business decision? Losing $40 million per year, or profiting $15 million per year?

Are you still with me? This is about to get even more complicated...

After buying Colbert's former timeslot from CBS, Byron Allen will keep the proceeds from whatever advertising he sells. This means that whatever money he takes in above the $15 million license fee and the costs involved to produce Comics Unleashed (which must be a pittance) is pure profit.

"We're proud to partner with Byron Allen on a new business and programming model for late night that... was cost-prohibitive to continue," a statement from CBS read. "With this 'time buy' model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly $40 million annually to $15 million in profit -- a $55 million swing."

So Jimmy Kimmel is doing what weak manipulative narcissists do, and whining that people should pay attention to him and pity him.

Jimmy Kimmel has some thoughts on the purported death of late-night television.

The "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" host opened up in a new interview with Vulture about the future of the genre following the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" on CBS and his own run-ins with Trump, including his suspension following comments made about the death of Charlie Kirk.

"I feel a little bit defeated about it," Kimmel told Vulture after Colbert's final episode aired on May 21. "In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm looking at my own future."

Diabetes?

CBS canceled "The Late Show" in July 2025 -- a year before Colbert's three-year deal was set to end -- citing "purely financial reasons" despite much speculation that Colbert's anti-Trump views had something to do with it, especially with the Paramount-Skydance merger in the background. Though it was reported that Colbert's show was losing $40 million a year, Kimmel told Vulture he finds that hard to believe, pointing to a 2023 New York Times article that claims Colbert was offered a five-year contract but decided to go with three.

"Am I to believe that over the course of those two years, they suddenly started losing $40 million a year?" he said. "These are just made-up numbers."

Like a liberal, he makes up his own "facts" to justify and validate himself.

Kimmel said that ABC has told him "quite specifically" that his show is still profitable.

"There are far more people watching late-night TV than there ever were, if you look at the number of views me and my colleagues get online every day and add in our linear-television ratings," Kimmel asserted, adding: "We're not just dying of natural causes. We're being poisoned."

Are you actually insane?!?

Johnny Carson had 10-17 million viewers per night -- "only" 12 million per night in his last years.

Jimmy Kimmel's ratings range between 1.7 million and 2.2 million.

He's claiming that millions and millions and more uncounted millions watch him on YouTube. Whatever. Fat retard making shit up to make himself feel like a success.

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Asked if he has thought about retirement, Kimmel said he's still unsure when his time will come. "It's important to me to be responsible," he said. "I know I could go out in a blaze of glory and get a lot of applause for it, but it would be a very selfish thing to do."

LOL. He does this every night. Except it's not glorious. It's just self-pleasing and selfish.

That is, if he isn't ousted first. Trump has repeatedly called for Kimmel to be fired, most recently when he made a joke about Melania Trump having a "glow like an expectant widow." In that case and that of Kirk, Kimmel said he "had the truth on my side as a defense. What if I actually do do something wrong? I mean, that's inevitable."

Of the president, Kimmel said: "I don't love him. I don't hate him, either. I feel sorry for him. He obviously didn't get hugged a lot."

Uh-huh.

Meanwhile, ABC is suing the FCC to claim that The View really is a "bona fide news program" and therefore not required to follow "equal time" rules.

Bona fide news content. Shyah.

On May 7, 2026, ABC submitted a filing to the Federal Communications Commission arguing the FCC infringed on the network's First Amendment rights.

ABC submitted the filing after the FCC asked an ABC-owned broadcast station in March to file a formal request for the FCC to determine whether ABC's "The View" is exempt from the FCC's equal opportunities rule, even though the talk show has held an exemption from the rule since 2002.

The equal opportunities rule says that if a legally qualified candidate for office appears on a broadcast station, that station is required to give equal time to all other candidates who request it.

"The View" holds one of several exemptions from the rule, what's known as the "bona fide news interview" exemption.

In its May 7 filing, ABC makes the case that "The View" continues to meet the requirements for the exemption and raises First Amendment concerns about the FCC's request that the station ask the agency to reaffirm its exemption, as well as about the FCC's general application of the rule.

The FCC has not publicly released the March document but has made statements defending the decision and its interpretation of the equal opportunities rule.

The request came months after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said he didn't believe "The View," and similar daytime and late-night talk shows, should qualify, citing concerns about partisan bias on the shows.

The Morning Rant

—CBD

The current "negotiations" between The United States of America and the fundamentalists in charge of Iran are a thinly veiled joke. These are not two combatants roughly equal who have decided to work out their differences across a table rather than across a battlefield. This is the world's superpower offering a lifeline to a country whose armed forces and hierarchy have been thoroughly degraded by a month of hi-tech destruction that wasn't even an all-out effort. Iran's military-industrial base has been largely destroyed. They can no longer build missiles in any quantity, and their launchers are a prime target for American air power. They have to import Iraqi thugs to control the populace, and they are rapidly running out of money, and storage space for their oil.

However...The talks are progressing on a typical trajectory that has been successful for the past 47 years...ever since the Iranian revolution of 1979. And that trajectory is delay, obfuscation, manipulation of world media, and of course the outright lies that Iran has any interest in peace, or entry into the world of civilized nations. The seemingly petulant outburst from Iran a few days ago, ending the most recent discussions and laying out many new demands is part and parcel of this never-ending cycle.

But they are emboldened by their 1,400 year old history of Islamic Taqqiya, combined with their Persian sense of superiority and conviction that they are simply smarter and tougher and more clever than America. Of course it worked for many years!

President Trump is inordinately proud of his ability to make deals, and while he has had tremendous success both domestically and with foreign affairs, the IRGC and the Mullahs have no internal flexibility. They have one purpose, and that is survival to return to their typical ways, and their one goal, which is the destruction of Israel, the destruction of the West, the destruction of America, and the ushering in of a world-wide Caliphate. It is binary, and they have no interest in anything else.

Here is someone who understands that, and who is not fooled by the manipulations:

You cannot make a deal with a regime that uses lies as a strategic weapon

In 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini came to power on a wave of promises. Many Iranians, including university students and idealists of every stripe, believed him. They could not yet see the true nature of what they were welcoming. It did not take long. The bloodshed began almost immediately. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians who dared to protest were killed. I grew up in the shadow of that reality, and eventually I became one of its targets, imprisoned and sentenced to death for the crime of following Jesus.

What I learned inside those prison walls is the same thing the world keeps refusing to learn outside them: this regime does not negotiate in good faith. It negotiates for survival. Lying – taqiyya – is its religiously sanctioned strategic weapon.

Western leaders consistently make the same mistake. They look at Iran and see a government with factions, “reformists” and hardliners. They conclude that the “reformists” represent a genuine alternative. They do not. The “reformist” and hardliner structure is a performance, a deliberate good cop, bad cop strategy designed to give Westerners the illusion that progress is possible if only the right faction gains influence. In fact, both serve the same system and would sacrifice each other in an instant to preserve it.

Certainly we cannot count on the people of Iran to drive the IRGC out. 47 years of a comprehensive surveillance state combined with the brutality of the regime has made that a difficult proposition at best. But if a renewed military effort increased the pressure on the IRGC while further degrading their ability to disrupt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, then perhaps a general uprising is possible -- not probable though.

The surest bet is the destruction of the IRGC, and that will take time. The question is: Does President Trump have the political capital to see it through to the end, and does the American body politic have the fortitude to handle high energy prices until the IRGC is no more?

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Old Man and a Child
Gaspare Traversi

The Morning Report — 6/ 2 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. A little bit of history to start things off. In the former Soviet Union, political dissidents not only wound up in the gulags but in the post-Stalin years many were actually thrown into psychiatric wards. This was especially true for anyone who wanted to emigrate to the West. The rationale was because the Soviet Union was a paradise on earth, anyone who wanted to leave had to be insane.

The “abuse of psychiatry for political purposes” was widespread in the Soviet Union. When the release of political prisoners began in 1987 it became apparent that one third of their number were detained, often indefinitely, in psychiatric prison hospitals.

I reference this "ancient history" because as is all too painful history may not necessarily repeat itself but as is absolutely crystal clear by this disturbing story it often rhymes, as the saying goes.

When a transgender-identifying man flashed his prosthetic breasts on the White House lawn during the Biden administration’s penultimate Pride Month celebration, many thought we had seen the high water mark of the radical gender ideology that had captured the Democrat Party.

But internal documents unearthed by The Daily Wire reveal the shocking truth. In its waning days, the Biden administration was working behind the scenes to rip children from the homes of loving parents who refused to affirm a child’s transgender identity. Today, as a different president marks the first of June without any rainbow regalia, we’re proud to bring you the first in a four-part series exposing the Biden administration’s radical anti-family plot.

We begin with the story of Nicole, a loving mother whose refusal to indulge her daughter’s gender delusions put her at odds with her local school district, and later, the entire state of Oregon. The system that empowered the state to rip Nicole’s daughter from her home is precisely the kind of system the Biden administration was developing — and likely would have implemented had Vice President Kamala Harris defeated President Donald Trump. . .

. . . Nicole was shocked when the police turned up at her front door to take her 15-year-old daughter away.

In July 2024, the Oregon Department of Human Services took the teen — called Jane Doe in filings to protect her identity — into protective custody as they investigated whether Nicole was causing Jane a “mental injury,” a form of child abuse under Oregon state law.

The issue at hand? Nicole would not “affirm” Jane’s “gender identity.”

“I asked, ‘What if I don’t let her go’?” Nicole told The Daily Wire. “Then you can be arrested,” a police officer told her.

We're well on the road to psychiatric wards not for delusional transexuals, who need actual psychiatric help to cure them of their delusional psychoses, but for those who dare point this out and before long for anyone who is "crazy" enough to openly object to Democrats, Leftists and their agenda and before long this madness which before long will subsume us, as is the fate of Europe.

As Merrie England travels on its merrie way to becoming an Islamic state, there are inevitably a few bumps in the road, a few insignificant hiccups as the last bits of resistance are mopped up and everyone is made to understand that they have to accept their new overlords without complaint. One of these embarrassing manifestations of racism, “Islamophobia” and bigotry came just last week, when residents of the quaint town of Chadderton, which is about half an hour from Manchester and an hour from Liverpool, dared to suggest that the Islamic call to prayer might be a trifle too loud. Such effrontery was thwarted swiftly in Chadderton, and will not long be tolerated anywhere. . .

. . .The good people of Chadderton should have been out celebrating diversity, instead of huddling inside their homes muttering darkly about how they could barely hear themselves think over the din of the Call to Multiculturalism, that is, the Islamic Call to Prayer.

. . . And so that was that. The people of Chadderton better get used to it. It’s not going to get quieter, and things are not going to return to the way they were before the call to prayer began to be sounded over loudspeakers. Instead, what they remember of life in British society will grow ever more distant, as British society itself steadily erodes and gives way to the culture of the new Muslim overlords.

None of this had to happen, had it not been for craven, short-sighted, and self-serving British politicians who initiated the nation’s cultural and civilizational suicide in pursuit of electoral advantage. Both parties are guilty. The great criminals, the destroyers of Britain, range from Tony Blair to David Cameron to Theresa May and Keir Starmer. The same epitaph will be written of the United States as well, if leftists return to power in 2026 and 2028, reopen the borders, and roll back all of the Trump administration’s efforts to preserve our nation as a free society. If that happens, our slide toward becoming part of the socialist internationalist megastate will be as swift and decisive as Britain’s slide toward becoming a core member of the global caliphate.

Of course we have street terrorists attempting to overthrow the government by attacking ICE and other law enforcement officers

The New Jersey US Attorney’s Office charged Brendan John Geier, 26, with assaulting federal officers and causing bodily injury, for allegedly “kicking and biting” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)  officers outside the Newark detention center, leaving them with “horrific wounds,” according to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.  Geier, of Madison, NJ, was previously charged with sexual abuse of children related to the dissemination and possession of child pornography, the Justice Department confirmed to The Post.

Thankfully the Trump administration is cracking down on these terrorists, but it is long past time to cut off the sources of funding for this:

Jim “Fergie” Chambers, the Communist millionaire and heir to the Cox media fortune, has long bankrolled one of the nation’s most militant protest networks. But in recent weeks, he has turned his fire on a putative ally: Shanghai-based tech billionaire Neville Roy Singham, who himself funds a transnational web of far-left groups.

What’s going on? In a series of X posts, Chambers alleged that Singham’s network of nonprofits and activist groups has tried to redirect insurgent organizing into tightly controlled institutions linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a U.S.-based revolutionary Communist party. Chambers sees Singham’s operation as “turn[ing] their back on direct actionists”—implying that Singham prefers exercising control over the movement to enabling the sort of serious radicalism Chambers endorses.

Have a great day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "Because I won't say that she's a boy whatsoever, they won't let me have a relationship with my daughter."
  She Wouldn’t Call Her Daughter ‘Trans.’ The State Took Custody.

Daily Tech News 2 June 2026

—Pixy Misa

• Anthropic has submitted a draft filing for its IPO. (Tech Crunch)
  
  They are seeking a valuation close to $1 trillion.
  
  

Overnight Open Thread [06/01/2026]

—CBD

It is tempting to assume that the physical beauty of America is dominated by its magnificent mountains and deserts and coasts. But a trip through the heartland reveals the quiet beauty of our rich agricultural tradition, and the subtle glories of American farmland and prairie. Or the gentle rolling hills of Texas or the steeper ones of New Hampshire. Or the endless forests of the mid-Atlantic. It's all wonderful!

Before all else, be armed.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

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Here's Richie Havens playing Going Back To My Roots. Good music by an underrated singer.
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[HatTip: TC]

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Whistleblower claims CIA used DNA data from Ancestry and 23andMe customers in search for aliens

Jorjani claimed that he was alerted to this bug-hunting initiative by army veteran Lyn Buchanan, who claims he was a “psychic spy” with the CIA’s remote viewing program — which investigated whether individuals could use extrasensory perception to conduct recon on distant objects, events or people.
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“They live in like small towns in the [Colorado] Rockies, and they pass because they look like tall Scandinavian people,” remarked Jorjani (pictured). YouTube/@jessemichels

Jorjani said Buchanan had informed him that former CIA analyst and UAP specialist Christopher “Kit” Green had devised a backdoor way of accessing 23andMe and Ancestry — uber-popular sites that break down users’ family trees — to screen users for a specific “genetic variance” linked to nonhuman beings.

Green was notably part of the Remote Viewing Program in the 1970s, but left the intelligence agency long before the founding of the DNA detective sites.

Buchanan reportedly learned of this so-called campaign after being approached at a diner by three individuals claiming to be Nordics — tall, blue-eyed, blond visitors from beyond that are said to be living covertly among us.

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Great movie lines! There are thousands, and these popped into my head in a matter of seconds. Have at it with your own favorites, although be warned, YouTube doesn't have all of them neatly cut out of the movies. One of my favorites is nowhere to be found: "Words...just words!" Identify it first and you get a Balsa Membership with Troll-B-Gon add-on.
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How dare you show your back to me!
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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit
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Two days ago I saw a vehicle that'd haul that tanker
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It's just a flesh wound
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The French Note

Glen took a dream vacation to Paris. He saw the Eiffel Tower, toured the Louvre and took a boat ride down the Seine. He definitely wanted to have some haute French cuisine, so he picked out the nicest restaurant he could afford. He was waiting for his table at the bar when the beautiful bartender dropped a note in front of him. It was in French, which he couldn’t read. When he was seated, he asked his waiter if he could tell him what it said. The waiter said, “Yes, of course, let me see it.” Upon reading it, the waiter had Glen forcibly removed from the restaurant.

Now Glen was sitting on the curb outside the restaurant, trying to figure out what just happened. A police officer came by and asked what he was doing. Glen explained “Well, I came to take my dream vacation to Paris. I saw the Eiffel Tower, toured the Louvre and took a boat ride down the Seine. I definitely wanted to have some haute French cuisine, so I picked out the nicest restaurant I could afford. I was waiting for my table at the bar when a beautiful bartender dropped a note in front of me. It was in French, which I can’t read. When I was seated, I asked my waiter if he could tell me what it said. The waiter said of course, but upon reading it, the waiter had me forcibly removed from the restaurant.”

“Hhmmmm…” said the police officer “You better let me see this note.” So Glen gave note to the police officer. Upon reading the note the officer put Glen under arrest.

Glen was brought before a magistrate, where he protested “Your honor, I have done nothing wrong, I don’t know why I’m here. See I came to take my dream vacation to Paris. I saw the Eiffel Tower, toured the Louvre and took a boat ride down the Seine. I definitely wanted to have some haute French cuisine, so I picked out the nicest restaurant I could afford. I was waiting for my table at the bar when a beautiful bartender dropped a note in front of me. It was in French, which I can’t read. When I was seated, I asked my waiter if he could tell me what it said. The waiter said of course, but upon reading it, he had me forcibly removed from the restaurant. Then I was sitting on the curb outside the restaurant when a police officer came by, and after I let him see the note he put me under arrest.”

“Bring this note forward.” Ordered the judge. Glen gave the note to the judge. Upon reading the note the judge ordered Glen to be exiled from France.

Glen soon found himself on an airplane out of France back to America, which annoyed him as he still had several days left in his trip. A French businessman seated next Glen asked him, “So what’s your story?”

Glen took a deep breath and then said “It started when I came to take my dream vacation to Paris. I saw the Eiffel Tower, toured the Louvre and took a boat ride down the Seine. I definitely wanted to have some haute French cuisine, so I picked out the nicest restaurant I could afford. I was waiting for my table at the bar when a beautiful bartender dropped a note in front of me. It was in French, which I can’t read. When I was seated, I asked my waiter if he could tell me what it said. The waiter said of course, but upon reading it, the waiter had me forcibly removed from the restaurant. Then I was sitting on the curb outside the restaurant when a police officer came by, and after I let him see the note he put me under arrest. I was subsequently brought before a judge, and when he saw the note, he ordered me to be exiled from France. And I still don’t even know what it says.”

“That’s quite a tale.” Remarked the businessman. “Do you still have this note?” Glen did and he gave it to the businessman. Except, instead of telling Glen what it said, he paged a flight attendant over. The flight attendant read the note and then went to talk to the pilot. Upon reading the note, the pilot personally threw Glen out of the plane.

Now the pilot wasn’t completely heartless, he did give Glen a parachute first. Glen didn’t see that it mattered too much one way or the other, as they were over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. However, as it happened, a ship was passing by and Glen was able to land right on it. Naturally Glen was brought before the captain, who wanted to know how Glen came to be on his ship. Glen explained “My story starts with what I thought would be my dream vacation to Paris. I saw the Eiffel Tower, toured the Louvre and took a boat ride down the Seine. I definitely wanted to have some haute French cuisine, so I picked out the nicest restaurant I could afford. I was waiting for my table at the bar when a beautiful bartender dropped a note in front of me. It was in French, which I can’t read. When I was seated, I asked my waiter if he could tell me what it said. The waiter said of course, but upon reading it, the waiter had me forcibly removed from the restaurant. Then I was sitting on the curb outside the restaurant when a police officer came by, and after I let him see the note he put me under arrest. I was subsequently brought before a judge, and when he saw the note, he ordered me to be exiled from France. And I still couldn’t believe it when the pilot of my plane found out what the note said he had me thrown out of the plane.”

“Wow. That must be some note.” exclaimed the captain. “You must let me read it, I speak French.”

“No,” replied Glen “I don’t think it’s a good idea for me to show it to anyone else.” Everyone was disappointed, but Glen was firm that no one would get to see this note. They found a bunk for Glen to stay in for the week-long trip to America. It was a cargo ship, and everyone else was working, so Glen thought that he ought to work as well even though no one asked him to. He helped prep food, serve and clean up in the mess hall. Everyone agreed that they were better off having Glen make the coffee. He was even offered a permanent position upon the ship.

Of course people kept pestering Glen to see this famous note, but he kept it a secret. Towards the end of the journey, as he felt that he had gotten to know everyone and bonded with them, he decided that it would be ok to show the captain the note.

Glen was immediately thrown overboard.

He was close enough at this point that he could swim ashore to his home state of New Jersey. After getting home and cleaning himself up, Glen called his girlfriend.

“Glen!” She cried “You weren’t on your return flight, I made so many phone calls, I had no idea what had happened, I thought you were dead!”

Glen took a deep breath and began explaining. “As you know I went off on what I thought would be my dream vacation to Paris. I saw the Eiffel Tower, toured the Louvre and took a boat ride down the Seine. I definitely wanted to have some haute French cuisine, so I picked out the nicest restaurant I could afford. I was waiting for my table at the bar when a rather unattractive bartender dropped a note in front of me. It was in French, which I can’t read. When I was seated, I asked my waiter if he could tell me what it said. The waiter said of course, but upon reading it, the waiter had me forcibly removed from the restaurant. Then I was sitting on the curb outside the restaurant when a police officer came by, and after I let him see the note he put me under arrest. I was subsequently brought before a judge, and when he saw the note, he ordered me to be exiled from France. And I still couldn’t believe it when the pilot of my plane found out what the note said he had me thrown out of the plane. I wouldn’t have survived except I had the luck to land on a passing ship. I didn’t want to show them the note, you understand, but for a week they badgered me to see it, and I still had no idea what it said, so I eventually let them see it. Inevitably once they saw it they threw me overboard. I still have the damn note--the paper is very good quality--and the mystery is killing me.”

Glen’s girlfriend had some doubts about this story, but instead of directly calling Glen out about it, she offered “My uncle speaks French, we could ask him what it says.”

So the two of them met and headed over to the uncle’s house. Glen told his story to the uncle--which we will omit here in the interest of time--and checked that there were no firearms in the house before handing over the note.

The uncle said, “I can translate this for you, just let me get my reading glasses.” The uncle put the note down on the coffee table and went to get his glasses. Just then a gust of wind came through and blew the note out the window, and it was never to be seen again.

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—Disinformation Expert Ace

Eerie skies over Germany
via Unwetterfreaks

King Moose crosses the king's highway.

Deer snacks on cherry blossoms.

This poor dog.

A wombat re-enacts Graham Platner working his "job" and then having a well-earned rest. No wonder this guy's hero and mentor is Bernie Sanders, who was famously evicted from a commune for refusing to do the very light labor assigned to all members. Do you know how lazy you have to be to be expelled by layabout communists for not working?

Summer can't come quick enough.

Neighborhood watch.

My ancestors were wolves.

Baby seal learning to swim.

Hippos on holiday.

Bears are getting ready for Operation Ursus -- are you?!?

Time for bed.

Video Released of Cops Chatting Amiably with Sikh Murderer as the Victim Henry Nowak Bleeds to Death on the Ground

—Disinformation Expert Ace

One cop asks the killer, "Anyone injured besides 'im?" with disdain. Meaning, they knew damn well he was stabbed, and didn't care if he died or not.

Because he was a Racist. The nice Sikh person who stabbed him to death said so, and we must never, ever question the word of a brown person.

Suella Braverman is formerly a "Conservative" Member of Parliament who defected to Reform. (Maybe one day she'll defect again to Restore.)

Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman

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This body cam footage is extremely shocking.

You can hear Henry Nowak's pleas about being unable to breathe.

And you can hear how the police dismissed them and failed to take action to try to save his life.

This is not just about knife crime. This is about police failure, poor police training and anti- white racism.

Who is going to be held accountable for this scandal?

Reform UK's shadow councillor:

Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick

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WARNING: Incredibly distressing footage.

The bodycam footage has finally been released of Henry Nowak's last moments.

He was the victim, but treated like a criminal.

"I can't breathe" he says, over and over again.

Instead of helping him the police arrest him on false charges of racism.

Harrowing.

It's hard to escape the conclusion he was treated differently because he was white.

Listen to him scream in pain as they cuff him. Who cares what pain a Racist experiences after a justifiable stabbing by a minority properly punishing him for his Racism?

These cops are all still on the payroll. No offer of compensation has been made to Nowak's family for the murder they were co-conspirators in.

Caution on the videos below: You will see agents of the state callously, almost gleefully, killing a man.

And not a single American media outlet is covering it.

Another Migrant Who Can't Speak a Word of English Plows His Vehicle Into Americans, Killing a Family of Four, Another Woman, and Leaving Forty Injured
Plus: The Adulterous Nazi Communist Is Also a Cokehead

—Disinformation Expert Ace

He's a naturalized American citizen -- but he can't speak a word of English.

Gee, I wonder during which "president's" administration this murderous and illiterate migrant was permitted to become "an American"?

Any guesses?

I would guess Biden but I don't actually know that yet. The media doesn't seem too interested in asking questions about this killer.

As the cars slowed, came to a halt, and started creeping along again among the cones and flashing lights, doing that dreaded stop-and-go we're all so familiar with, a full-sized passenger bus carrying travelers on a trip from New York to North Carolina plowed into the line of cars at full speed.

The devastation and chaos were immediate and horrifying.

In the tangled, crushed wreckage of vehicles, five people lay dead, and forty-four were injured.

A mass casualty scene.

...

Jing S. Dong is technically a naturalized American citizen, but has only been one for a couple of years and cannot speak nor write a single word of the King's English.

Kathy Hochul's NY state gave this fraudulent migrant a CDL.

Here's the family he annihilated. All four burned to death in the wreckage after he fell asleep at the wheel and plowed into one car, killing the woman inside, and turned her car into a projectile that then smashed into this family:

"Doctor" Jill Biden Sticks to Her Lie That She "Never, Ever" Saw Biden Showing Signs of Cognitive Decline "Before or Since" the Debate

—Disinformation Expert Ace

This is why she took her husband, who she had never seen behave in such a confused, mentally-compromised manner and whose comportment was so "frightening" she feared he "must have been having a stroke," immediately put him on stage and praised him, "You answered every question!"

Jill Biden: "Well, Craig, look at it from my point of view. So, I'm watching, just like everybody else was, scared to death, like, what is going on. He gets off the stage, I see, he appears to be okay. He says to me, Jill, I really, in other words, messed up, didn't I? And I said, yes, you did. And so, we get off -- and I know we're going into another event, or we have two more to do. And my mind is racing. What do I say to him? What do I say to him? I'm his wife. I've got to lift him up. So, we go to the next event, and I'm thinking saying, what do I say that will lift him up that is true? I want to say things that are true. So, I said, you answered every question. My mind was racing."

Melvin: "That's a pretty low bar."

Biden: "Well -- so, I had to sort of lift him up. I'm his wife. I'm not going to get out on the stage there and say, Joe, you really screwed that up. I mean -- and we have all of our supporters, you know, so that's who we are. I had to support him. I couldn't come out and -- I mean, really, publicly, say, Joe, you did a terrible job in a debate?"

She pretends to not understand the question, and this NBC "reporter" allows her to pretend. The question isn't why she said "You answered every question."

The question is why, if he had "never, ever" shown this mental deficiency before and you were so "frightened" and "scared to death" to see these never-before-seen symptoms before that you thought "he must have been having a stroke" did you put him on the stage at all?

Why didn't you rush him to the hospital? Why didn't you at least keep him at home under a doctor's care, allowing him to rest and recover after these never-before-seen symptoms that appeared to be a stroke?

Stages are elevated platforms, and Biden is old. If he's experiencing never-before-seem symptoms, you do not have him climb stairs and stand on a platform seven feet above the ground.

We've seen Biden battle stairs before. The stairs won and not by a little.

Ever have a concussion? You know what you don't do hours after a concussion? Go out dancing and drinking.

This is transparently a lie. She wasn't worried, she wasn't "scared to death" or "frightened" -- she had seen this behavior every single day of the past five (or ten!) years of her rancid slut gold-digging life. She treated it like it was business as usual because it was business as usual.

This is so tedious. I know you all know this. You know this, I know this, even Jake the Fake Tapper knows this.

But they're leftists, so they keep on lying and keep putting us in the tedious position of having to explain over and over how we know for a fact that they're lying, but they keep lying anyway, until we give up from sheer exhaustion and say, "Whatever, have it your way, who can say what 'is' is, anyway?"

Clinton and Obama Judges Combine to Overrule the Military's Judgment about Good Military Order, Insist That No One Can Reject Transgenders In the Military for Any Proper Logical Reasons

—Disinformation Expert Ace

It can only be arbitrary and "based upon animus." There are no conceivable reasons why people with a history of mental illness and a dependency on constant medical interventions and mind-affecting artificial hormones would not make for good recruits.

None. Not a one.

Divided appeals court rules Trump administration's ban on transgender military service is unconstitutional

Washington -- A divided federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Trump administration's policy banning transgender individuals from serving in the military is likely unconstitutional.

A panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit split 2-1 in finding that the ban rolled out by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth last year was driven by animus toward transgender people.

Judges Judith Rogers and Robert Wilkins agreed that the Trump administration's policy targeting transgender service members likely violated the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

The two judges agreed to leave in place a preliminary injunction that prevented the Defense Department from removing transgender troops who are in the military. That order is narrow and only covers the active-duty plaintiffs in the case.

"The government's stated reason for issuing the Hegseth Policy as based solely upon gender dysphoria was pretextual, and that instead, the Hegseth Policy was premised, at least in part, on a non-legitimate state interest to harm the politically unpopular group of transgender persons," Wilkins wrote in an opinion, adding that President Trump "declared transgender people as categorically unfit for military service explicitly because of their gender identity."

In other words, we don't have to examine the reasons offered for the policy, because we know they're lies, and once you exclude the reasons offered -- which we know are lies -- there are no reasons left, and hence it's "arbitrary." Oh, and the lies are motivated by "animus."

Therefore, we pencilnecked DEI hires are in charge of the armed forces now. Ooooh-rah, bitches!

Wilkins and Judge Justin Walker, meanwhile, allowed the administration to enforce restrictions on transgender plaintiffs who sought to join the military but were prevented under the new policy from doing so.

Walker, who authored a dissenting opinion, was nominated to the federal bench by Mr. Trump in 2020. Wilkins was appointed to the D.C. Circuit by President Barack Obama, and Rogers was tapped for the appeals court by President Bill Clinton.

Mr. Trump signed an executive order in the opening days of his second term that targeted active-duty and prospective service members with gender dysphoria. The president's directive said that the military's "high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity and integrity" are inconsistent with the "medical, surgical and mental health constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria."

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"This is not a case where we are left to speculate why the government drafted such broad, undifferentiated classifications," Wilkins said. "Unless we are going to fall for the old Groucho Marx line -- 'who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?' -- we have direct evidence in this case that animus motivated the classifications in the Hegseth Policy."

The Obama and Clinton judges just pretend that being on a lifelong diet of hormones and surgeries won't disrupt readiness or result in so-called "military personnel" calling out sick for duty.

Note, however, that the policy isn't completely undone. Both the Clinton and Obama judge agree that the military may refuse to recruit transgenders going forward.

The Clinton judge would only permit the transgenders who sued to remain in the military. I assume that this is the actual holding, because it's what both the Clinton and Obama judges agree on. (The Obama judge would extend this to all transgenders currently serving.)

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein

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NEW: DC Cir. panel splinters on Trump ban on trans people in military. Wilkins (Obama) controls, protecting existing members but not future ones. Rogers (Clinton) would uphold injunction on policy but only for suers. Walker (Trump) would let policy stand.

Update:

Mark Hemingway @Heminator

This is insane. You can't serve if you have a nut allergy, but taking large amounts of mood altering exogenous cross-sex hormones around heavy weaponry is OK?

That's an arbitrary claim based on animus, bub. Watch it.

So close to Pride Month, too!

60 Minutes' Smelly Leftist Scott Pelley Knows He's About to be Fired, So He Stages a Tantrum-Flounce to Make It Seem Like He Was Fired in Retalliation for #FightingThePower

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Nick Bilton, an investigative journalist working for magazines and newspapers, was appointed producer for 60 Minutes, replacing an old liberal.

Scott Pelley knows he's next so he's picking up on the Leftist Guild's attack on Bilton for not having experience in television reporting.

In other words, he doesn't know enough about male make-up as Scott Pelley.

Dylan Byers @DylanByers

NEW: In @NickBilton's first all-hands meeting at 60 Minutes this morning, @ScottPelley told Nick he had "scant qualifications' for the job and pressed him to account for last week's firings.

Nick suggested conversation would be better held in private, Scott countered that he'd prefer to have them in front of his colleagues.

Nick told Scott, "they're my colleagues too," to which Scott replied: "that remains to be seen."

That podcast isn't going to promote itself.

More from media shill site Variety:

CBS News had hoped to keep Scott Pelley and the remaining correspondents tied to "60 Minutes" on the show, according to a person familiar with CBS News, before reports emerged of a blistering verbal donnybrook between the long-time journalist and Nick Bilton, who was named last week to lead the venerable newsmagzine.

Note the tense: Past perfect. They had hoped to keep him, previously.

It's not present tense. They do not currently hope to keep him.

Now I don't think they ever wanted to keep him. I think they always intended to fire him. I think they have not really attempted to re-sign him, which is why Scott Pelley is posing as Spartacus, as Curtis Houck says.

But now they can/will say "Gee we had hoped to keep him, but he seems so determined to leave! Aw filddlesticks! (kicks rock)."

In a meeting held Monday, Pelley lashed out at Bilton and current CBS News management, according to multiple press reports, alleging that Bari Weiss, the CBS News Editor in Chief who orchestrated an overhaul of the program last week, is "murdering '60 Minutes." Pelley also alleged that Weiss held "no qualifications for her job" and said Bilton that he has "slender qualifications for this job."

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Bilton is replacing Tanya Simon, a longtime senior steward of the show and a daughter of one of its former correspondents, Bob Simon.

Oh a nepo baby, perfect.

Her deputy, Draggan Mihailovich, was also ousted, along with two of the show's correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega.

Pelley also demanded to know why CBS News fired former Simon, Alfonsi and Vega, asking Bilton "why should we expect any of this is going to be any better?" Status reported that Bilton attempted to deflect the queries and wound up ending the meeting prematurely. Charles Forelle, a new CBS News senior editor, recently hired by Weiss from The Wall Street Journal, told Pelley several times he was being "rude," according to Status, which reported the remarks based on an audio transcript of the meeting it obtained.

CBS News was eager to keep Pelley at the show, according to a person familiar with the situation. This person says senior CBS News executives had reached out to Pelley, Bill Whitaker, Lesley Stahl and Jon Wertheim -- the "60 Minutes" correspondents who remain on staff -- several times since last week in hopes of convincing them to stick with the program.

Well, now I don't know -- that makes it sound like Pelley and these other losers are leaking it that CBS really, really wants to keep them but they're Spartacus and cannot be bought and will not compromise with a biased newswoman like Bari Weiss.

Either way, though: They're gone, I think.

Pelley, Whitaker and Stahl did not respond to queries last week asking for their comments on the show's next steps. Wertheim did not respond immediately to a query sent Monday.

I have a feeling they called you themselves to leak this and offer their Spartacus spin.

Pelley is going full histrionic Woke Woman, accusing Bari Weiss of "murdering" 60 Minutes.

When Bilton told staffers that Weiss, who was brought in as the first ever editor-in-chief at CBS News under the direction of new owner and billionaire son David Ellison--"loves this institution," Pelley reportedly interrupted to say, "She is murdering '60 Minutes.'"

He went on to say Weiss "does not love this place," condemned the changes she's made to the network's evening news broadcast and added of the news division, "She was brought in to kill it, and she's been doing exactly that."

Bilton reportedly told Pelley he was "not going to intimidate me in front of this group of people" and ended the meeting after 15 minutes.

I wasn't fired, I quit in a blaze of glory!

So yeah, he's done and he knows it.

Have security escort him out of the building.

Check back with this post -- it seems like new "Fire Me Now So I Can Claim Victimhood and Promote My Podcast" quotes are being released minute-by-minute in real time.

Update! This was supposed to be part of the original post, but didn't get posted. User Error and all that.

It's so bitchy and effeminiate! I keep referring to Mean Girls in the comments but you don't know what I'm talking about because I accidentally omitted this.

As Bilton tried to move the meeting along, Pelley pressed him on "what was wrong" with the correspondents recently let go, including Sharyn Alfonsi, who was at the center of one of Weiss' first scandals at the helm of CBS when she chose to abruptly pull a 60 Minutes segment on deportations to El Salvador's CECOT prison last year.

"As Bilton started to say he would 'defer,' Pelley interrupted: 'This is not the crowd to dodge,'" reported Darcy.

The Group demands Apologies!

When Charles Forelle, managing editor of CBS News and Weiss ally, Pelley hit back, invoking Thursday's firings, which he referred to as "Black Tuesday."

"I'm not being rude," he said. "You know what was rude? Black Thursday was rude. That was the absolute definition of rudeness."

"This is not actually productive," Forelle said at one point in their exchange. "This is not an interview."

"It's working for me," shot back Pelley. "Anybody came into our house--this is '60 Minutes.' I guess you wandered in expecting to read a statement off?"

Later in the meeting, Bilton responded to another staffer's claim that it "takes years" to train new correspondents for 60 Minutes by claiming that no new hires would lack experience. Laughter reportedly erupted at this remark. Pelley then continued to hammer Bilton, asking him bluntly why he would take the job in the first place.

"Here's a question: Were you aware of how Black Friday was going to play out?" he asked. "I find it odd that you would take this job knowing that you would never be welcomed here."

Pure 9th-grade estrogen: "We think it's weird you would even try to sit at our table when no one at our table likes you!!!"

YOU CAN'T SIT WITH US!

"I have no problem taking a job in a place that I am not welcome, OK? I don't believe that will be the case," said Bilton in response.

The meeting might be best summed up by one especially poignant exchange between the two.

While describing his plans for the show, Bilton claimed at one point: "I care so deeply about this institution."

"Oh, please," interrupted Pelley.

Goodbye, Smelley,
it's been nice
enjoy your new
substack paradise

The firings last week included the old producer, Democrat political operative Sheryl Alfonsi, and Celia Vega, who announced that Woke Women being fired from media jobs to which they are Entitled is "censorship."

Yeah because there aren't literally thousands of Woke White Women in the media. Not a single one can be fired, or it's "censorship:"

"60 Minutes" correspondent Cecilia Vega accused CBS News of "censorship," saying she fears for the future of the network, after she was fired by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss in a bloodbath of top producers and reporters.

Vega sounded off Thursday night on social media about her firing -- which came even though her contract was not set to expire until next March -- after three years with the storied newsmagazine.

Wow, three whole years. She's an institution.

"I have the utmost respect and admiration for my colleagues at '60 Minutes' and the stories that air every Sunday," the journo wrote on Instagram. "But I very much fear what comes next for and the future of the legendary broadcast."

How can they go on without me? the narcissist fretted.

Though her blistering note did not mention Weiss by name, Vega claimed that network leadership "in recent months" has attempted to "insert political bias into our stories" and erode editorial independence at "60 Minutes."

A CBS News spokesperson told The Post in a statement: "We respect Ms. Vega and her contributions, but her claims are not based in reality."

Neither is her sense of entitlement or her belief that she is highly accomplished.

An Illegal Alien Previously Deported Three Times was Blocked from a New Deportation by California's Sanctuary Law.
Now He's Murdered Two Women -- and an Infant Baby

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I don't know if Gavin Newsom is the big threat that Democrats are hoping he is.

A deranged illegal migrant, deported from the U.S. three times, is accused in the triple murder of an infant and two other women after California's controversial state sanctuary law obstructed federal authorities who sought to deport him, The California Post has learned.

Joaquin Escoto, 28 a Mexican national born in Jalisco, was deported from the U.S. three times and arrested for driving under the influence once before he was arrested again in June for another DUI, a senior law enforcement official told The Post.

On the day of Escoto's DUI arrest in June, which occurred in San Joaquin County, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials requested to be notified of the Modesto resident's release from jail so they could deport him again, according to the official.

But San Joaquin law enforcement officials hogtied by California's contested sanctuary law -- which limits how state and local law enforcement communicates with federal law enforcement -- failed to notify the feds, and Escoto was set free, the official said.

"Safe to say, California law prohibited the jail from complying," said the official, who shared police documents that substantiated his claims with The Post.

Now, less than one year after that request from ICE agents was ignored, Escoto is being held without bail on three counts of murder in the grisly knife slaying in Modesto of an infant and two women, including one with whom he allegedly had a child, according to police.

"Gavin Newsom has the blood of these women and this innocent little baby on his hands. Xavier Becerra is no better and Tom Steyer is even worse," candidate for governor Steve Hilton told The Post.

"These Democrats lecture us about "their values" and how "compassionate" they are while their sick sanctuary extremism sets monsters like this free to murder and terrorize our communities," Hilton said, "Enough is enough: this insanity must end, and it will on Day One when I am governor," he added.

Newsom has long championed the state's sanctuary laws, though he has opposed legislation that would further expand them.

Bonus: On TikTok -- "Amy.Pranks.22" set up an AI scam-call screener which replies to a foreign scammer trying to get her bank information with Trumpian bluster.

More: The Nazi Communist Stimulated by Poop Posted Lewd Photos on an App Used by Minors to Arrange Hook-Ups
The App Is Called a "Predator's Paradise" For Allowing Hook-Ups with Minors, and Platner Had An Active Account Until This Past Weekend

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Boy I am really a full 48 hours behind this story, as I'm sure many of you tried to tell me in the comments.

Embattled Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner finally addressed the infidelity scandal roiling his campaign after putting his wife forward to answer for him in a solo video that critics likened to a hostage film.

Platner, 41, and his wife, Amy Gertner, spoke briefly to News Center Maine Sunday after a campaign appearance in Portland, dismissing as "gossip" allegations that the horny oyster farmer exchanged sexually explicit messages with as many as a dozen women since the couple tied the knot in 2023.

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"Amy and I have a very loving and very happy marriage. They would very much like to try to rip that apart," he claimed before rehashing his stump speech about closing hospitals, low pay for teachers and nurses and Mainers' paychecks not going as far as they used to.

"But of course, the powers that be do not want us to talk about that, and so they're just going to do gossip instead," Platner concluded.

Oh I get it, I'm the bad guy. I'm the one who violated the sancticty of your sham welfare-moocher marriage.

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Gertner flagged to campaign staffers that her husband had been chatting up other women, including through private messaging app Kik, where it was revealed the Maine Senate hopeful's profile photo featured him wearing only a towel.

Platner's profile image on Kik was a bathroom mirror selfie featuring him wearing only a towel.

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In a bizarre twist to the story, Gertner was the one who tipped off campaign staffers about her husband's activities.

All of his screen names are variations of P-Hustle or P-Hustler, which of course stands for "Pussy Hustler."

Or, maybe, given his eroticization of the shit-house, it means Poop Hustler.

Ladies, don't respond to DMs from someone calling himself Pussy Hustler. Or Mish Hunter, or Cooze Shooter, or Slam Scammer, or really anything other than a normal name.

People are saying online that the app he used to send his dicpics is 60% used by young people, 13-24. I don't know if that really means much because Yutes use most hook-up apps, but he's a dirtbag and I bet this teeny-tiny trace of thin smoke might lead back to actual fire.

I mean, the app is called a "predator's paradise" due to the ease with which child predators can find victims.

And Platner still has an active account on it!

Platner still has active account on anonymous app dubbed 'predator's paradise' amid cheating scandal Platner's campaign says he deleted the app long ago, but Fox News Digital reviewed an active profile with a sexually suggestive image ...

Senate candidate Graham Platner has not deactivated his account on a private messaging app associated with casual sex and anonymous encounters -- despite facing mounting questions over infidelity and the platform's ties to sexual exploitation.

Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee in Maine's 2026 Senate race, has an active profile on Kik, an anonymous chatting platform notorious for lax identification methods that have enabled the proliferation of child sexual abuse material.

The profile, reviewed by Fox News Digital, contains a sexually suggestive picture of Platner showing the candidate's naked torso with a towel draped around his waist. It is unclear when the image was taken, but Platner created the account in 2016.

Platner's presence on Kik was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which reported that he sent sexually explicit messages to multiple women while married to his wife Amy Gertner, who wedded Platner in 2023. According to the outlet, Platner's wife first discovered the adulterous messages in the spring of 2025 and later divulged them to a since-departed campaign official.

Multiple child safety groups have criticized Kik due to its anonymous structure and public group chats that allow strangers to contact each other with little effort.

Users only need an email address to create an account, and there is no enforceable age-verification mechanism.

Roughly 70% of the platform's users are estimated to be between 13 and 24 years old, according to multiple industry reports.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation designated Kik as a "predator's paradise" in 2023 for being rampant with "predatory behavior and child sexual exploitation."

The watchdog also placed the platform on its "Dirty Dozen" list for facilitating and profiting from sexual exploitation.

In 2024, Kik was rated the worst app for severe sexual content, according to Bark, a parental control and online safety platform.

Between 2023 and 2025, at least four Maine men were sentenced for distributing child pornography or soliciting nude pictures from underage girls by posing as minors while using Kik.

It is unclear who Platner messaged on the clandestine platform, but there is no evidence he communicated with minors.

We'll see. We'll see.

The Platner campaign said over the weekend that he deleted the app from his phone.

Just like he only papered-over his SS Totenkopf tattoo after it was exposed.

Meanwhile, Democrats who claim to be Anti-Nazi and Anti-Toxic Masculinity can't stop making excuses for Platner.

As Instapundit has said so many times: The people who are always telling you how passionately they believe the things they claim to believe actually believe none of the things they claim to believe.

It's all psychopathic Cluster-B manipulation and status-farming.

Surprise: Nazi Communist Who Is Sexually Aroused by Feces Also Sexts Women Other Than His Wife

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Shane Goldmacher @ShaneGoldmacher

Ms. McDonald said Ms. Gertner told her that her husband had been exchanging sexual messages with as many as a dozen women.

A current Platner campaign official said Mr. Platner had been communicating with up to six women.

So this is what he meant by Oyster Farming.

Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate looking to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, exchanged sexual texts with several women after marrying his wife two years ago, according to a report.

Platner's campaign confirmed the text exchanges to Politico following a report from the Wall Street Journal that claimed his wife, Amy Gertner, told a campaign aide about the texts after he launched his senate bid as they began looking into potential political liabilities.

Gertner discovered the messages months after the couple married in 2024, the WSJ reported.

She made the private revelation before Platner held a campaign rally last year supported by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., but the aide decided the texts were a private matter for the couple, the campaign said, according to the newspaper.

Gertner said in a statement to the Journal: "I confided deeply personal details about my marriage to someone I considered a friend. In the months since, I have had to watch as she spread malicious gossip to anyone who would take her call. I trusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives -- the early days of our marriage before any campaign was on our mind -- and I am deeply hurt by her betrayal and the invasion of our privacy."

This report said she told a "campaign aide," so 1, this was well into the contemplation of a campaign and 2, the information wasn't shared "with a friend," but with a campaign aide for purposes of protecting the campaign.

Also -- what would it matter that he was unfaithful before any campaign was on his mind? Is this the Area Code theory of infidelity, applied to campaigns?

She added that she and her husband: "Did the hard work that marriage requires. We went to counseling. We were honest with each other in ways that weren't easy. And we came through it, not in spite of how much we've been through, but because of how much we love each other and the life we've built. Our marriage today is stronger than ever before."

He's a deadbeat living off you and your mother and, as many deadbeat men do, is trolling for sleazy women in a vain effort to boost his rightly-fragile ego.

Platner, an oyster farmer and veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, has also faced a number of controversies before this, including a since-removed tattoo that resembled a Nazi symbol, and past controversial comments on Reddit minimizing sexual assault and making crude remarks about masturbation and a deleted post where he claimed a wounded soldier "didn't deserve to live."

Hello, sorry for the lateness, went out too late for my walk and then went to the market. Not really an excuse.

Crow update: Yesterday the crows saw me getting coffee and squawked and cawed until I gave them some snacks. I think the whole pack of crows has been alerted because a lot more are flying around, although just the male and female couple are actually landing to eat.

When I was out at the market I got kettlecorn for the crows. A significant amount of my life now consists of guessing what crows might like to eat.

The main answer is "cheese." They love it.

THE MORNING RANT: Senators Cornyn & Cassidy Were My Fault, Because I Voted for Both of Them as the “Most Electable Candidate”; also, the Amazing Rhythm Ace of Spades

—Buck Throckmorton

Dear Texas and Louisiana voters: With a combination of gratitude and shame, I’d like to thank you for cleaning up the mess I helped create by putting Democrat-aligned RINOs in the Senate to represent your great states. I apologize for my role in putting duplicitous, faux-conservatives in a position to betray the actual conservatives who elected them, and I hope others will learn the lesson I learned – never, ever vote for the most “electable” candidate if it means empowering someone who may align with the left against conservatives.

Politics is not a sporting event where we simply cheer for whomever is wearing our team’s jersey. John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy were allegedly Team Republican, but they have spent the past nine years working with Democrats to undermine the man whom Republicans voted for in the past three presidential elections.

To my ever-lasting disgrace, while living in Texas I voted for John Cornyn in the 2002 Republican primary, because he was the “moderate” and “electable” Republican who was most likely to defeat the “popular” Dallas Mayor, Ron Kirk, in the general election. Cornyn won the primary and the general election, and he then proceeded to stab conservatives in the back for the next 24 years. The power of incumbency could no longer protect him this year, as disgusted Texas Republicans voted for Ken Paxton by a landslide in the Texas senate primary.

Even worse, while living in Louisiana in 2014, I voted for Bill Cassidy in the US Senate primary since he was the most “electable” Republican candidate running against the “moderate” and “popular” three-term Democrat incumbent, Mary Landrieu. Not only has Bill Cassidy been hostile to the MAGA agenda, he actually joined Senate Democrats in voting to convict President Trump in the farcical impeachment trial in early 2021. After Cassidy’s 12-year run of duplicity and betrayal against the Republicans who elected him, he too was just voted out of office, finishing third in the Republican primary.

These two senators who are routinely praised by Trump-haters for being men of high character are already making clear that they will finish out their term with middle fingers fully extended toward their constituents. They plan to represent national Democrats and the DC swamp for their final months in office, not the states that elected them to office. The “respectable Republicans” who advocated for Cornyn’s and Cassidy’s re-election are cheering on this score-settling, and blaming Donald Trump for the despicable character now on full display by Cornyn and Cassidy.

There are plenty of other Cornyns and Cassidys running in Republican senate primaries across the country. Down in Georgia, Derek Dooley has already gone off-script and revealed that he plans to go “full Lankford” once elected and oppose Trump’s border-control policies. But there is already a Democrat Senator from Georgia (Jon Ossoff) battling Trump’s successful closure of the border, so there is absolutely no reason for Georgia Republicans to elect a guy wearing our jersey to vote in Washington like Ossoff. (Mike Collins is apparently the Georgia Republican senate candidate who is most likely to authentically represent MAGA if elected.)

The Amazing Rhythm Ace of Spades

One of the fun things at the Ace of Spades blog is getting to know some of the unexpected people who are loyal readers. For me, one of them has been James Hooker, a founding member of the country-rock group The Amazing Rhythm Aces. After the Aces’ run had ended, Mr. Hooker spent two decades as the band leader for country-folk singer Nancy Griffith.