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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) doubled down on protecting illegal aliens, a week after 18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman was allegedly murdered by an illegal alien. During a press conference on Wednesday, where Johnson unveiled an “Abolish ICE” snowplow, Johnson was asked if he had reconsidered “rescheduling this event” after the death of Gorman. “This is a terrible tragedy, and what I’ve said from the very beginning, I’m going to continue to use every single tool that’s available to me to protect the residents of the city of Chicago,” Johnson said. “This tragedy is not going to deter us from our work. In fact, it’s going to challenge us all to double down on our efforts to ensure that we are protecting every single individual across neighborhoods.” The unveiling of the snowplow with “Abolish ICE” on it came after a “citywide contest to name six new salt trucks,” according to the Chicago Tribune.“Abolish ICE” was “submitted over 9,000 times,” according to the outlet.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (D) threatened to prosecute U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents deployed at the airport if they acted inappropriately. . . “I will put you in handcuffs and I will put you in a courtroom, and if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell…” Krasner has a long history of threatening federal immigration agents, comparing them to Nazis and stating that he will “hunt them down.”
The false narratives they peddle through their media handmaidens end up distorting reality and poisoning people’s minds.
Exhibit A is their rancid defamation campaign about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, which mirrors precisely their long-running lies about “systemically racist police” that led to the deadly riots of 2020 and Defund the Police policies that drove up the homicide rate and endangered communities across the country.
We see how it works this week as the mendacious trio of Connecticut Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate counterpart Chuck Schumer claimed in unison that ICE agents helping ease TSA lines at airports this week will “brutalize and kill” you and kidnap your children.
In fact, ICE agents are kindly giving stranded passengers bottles of water, helping with their luggage, and performing tasks that free up TSA workers who have just missed their third paycheck — thanks to the Democrats. . . The sole aim of Democrats is to punish Americans for voting Trump into office.
Dems get away with it by shameless lying and then pretending they are paragons of truthfulness.
They smear ICE agents as Gestapo, white supremacists, Nazis and “secret police” with the objective of turning the American public against them.
Trump’s gambit of placing ICE in airports to ease the pain of travelers is a challenge to the lies, because now people can see the agents are not the monsters they have been painted. . .
Democrat lawmakers like Jamie Raskin and Adam Schiff and their slavish legal minions use their silver tongues to tell the most corrosive lies and cover up Democrat crimes.
Whether it’s falsely accusing Trump of being a Russian agent and “inciting an insurrection,” or lying that Joe Biden was innocent despite slam-dunk evidence he was up to his neck in his family’s lucrative foreign-influence peddling, or pretending “the border is closed” and that the botched Afghanistan withdrawal was a “success,” or claiming that defunding the police will make communities safer — they always find a way to excuse the inexcusable, and flip the script. . . Then there are the little cheating, self-aggrandizing lies that Dems like Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren and Tim “Stolen Valor” Walz and Joe “Corn Pop” Biden indulge in.
Sheridan Gorman was walking with friends on the Chicago lake shore where Pritzker once filmed a video extolling the safety of his crime-ridden sanctuary city.
Hadden said Gorman and friends “might have unintentionally startled” a masked gun-toting Jose Medina-Medina into allegedly jumping out of the bushes and shooting Gorman in the back as she ran from him.
Don’t blame us!
Hadden later apologized but her point was clear.
Don’t blame the Democrats for sanctuary city policies.
It’s your own fault if you get killed.
. . . They don’t necessarily kill anyone but they add to the miasma of dishonesty we are drowning in.
At their worst, Democrat lies that are laundered for years through once-trusted media outlets are the cause of polarization and political violence tearing this country apart.
"It cannot be stated often and loudly enough. Everything wrong with this country, all the pain, misery, suffering, death, bloodshed, violence, discord, dissolution and wastage of life and human potential is the fault of Leftist Democrats and their policies. They have lain waste to America for over 200 years in their goal of seizing and maintaining absolute power.
Unless and until the Anti-American Left and its epicenter of political power the Democrat Party is utterly demolished, we and our children and grandchildren shall never know a moment's peace and will face an existential, generational threat to our lives and liberty for all time. Ditto Islam, of course.
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
Increasingly, automobiles, once tools to facilitate individual independence, have been repurposed into systems of monitoring and control. The Kill Switch Society
Iran’s Press-TV claimed a senior security official said Iran had decided against the American proposal delivered using an intermediary. The official said the U.S. has pursued a number of diplomatic approaches and presented terms the Iranian regime has labeled “excessive.” However, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on March 25 that there were still active talks between Iranian officials and Washington, according to CBS News. Iran Rejects Trump Admin’s Terms To End War, State Media Says
The scale of the attacks shows what's at stake. The United Arab Emirates absorbed roughly 1,400 rockets launched by Iran, and U.S. Patriot missile defense systems intercepted every one of them. Iran also fired over 100 missiles toward the USS Abraham Lincoln, and American defenses stopped them, too. NATO Stands Back as Trump Pushes for Real Action in the Gulf
But one of the things that differentiates President Trump from his predecessors is his outside-the-box thinking. More than any other president in the past 100 years, he’s willing to try new and novel ways to slice the Gordian knot. Both Bushes were creatures of the status quo, but the current president marches to his own drummer. From tariffs to Greenland to “Governor Trudeau” to the Gulf of America, he’s unusually gifted at weaponizing psychological PR tactics. Donald Trump’s Psychological Smackdown of Iran — and What Will Happen Next
Trump’s plan would reportedly restrict Iran’s use of missiles to “self defense.” Without a doubt, the regime will interpret that “self defense” phrasing as a license to continue producing its deadly offensive missiles. Trump’s 15-point Iran truce plan would let one terrifying threat slide
A strong historical precedent of limited unilateral presidential military action—coupled with nearly a half century of Iranian aggression—provides more than enough legal justification for Operation Epic Fury. In the Iran War Debate, “Legality” Is a Red Herring
President Trump was right to say that the U.S. and our allies faced an "imminent threat" from Iranian nuclear weapons. Trump was Right About Iran's Bomb
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Krasner has a long history of threatening federal immigration agents, comparing them to Nazis and stating that he will “hunt them down.” Philly DA Threatens ICE Agents.
The George Soros-backed prosecutor made his threats during a Tuesday press conference, directing his remarks to federal ICE agents who helping to patrol Philadelphia’s International Airport. Krasner invoked the two deadly clashes between anti-ICE protestors and immigration agents in Minneapolis in January to justify his issuing an ultimatum to ICE agents assisting TSA workers at the airport. Philadelphia DA Threatens ICE Agents Patrolling Philly Airport with Arrest, Prosecution
What you can expect to see: A mish-mash of causes: Leftist overlords coined the term “intersectionality” to make it easier to unite various radical causes into a single action. This clever move inflates numbers and ensures inter-group support. Your Field Guide to Observing the Seasonal 'No Kings' Display on Saturday
Officials announced the arrest of five illegal immigrants who have been found guilty serious offenses, including sexual abuse of a child, gang assault and incest, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) statement. The individuals were nationals of Mexico, Laos, China and Jamaica. EXCLUSIVE: ICE Arrests Multiple Illegal Alien Pedophiles In One Day, DHS Says
The White House scored a big win on Wednesday when a second appeals court barred lower judges from releasing illegal migrants after they are arrested by the Department of Homeland Security. Trump Wins as Judges Block Release of Migrants
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to call to abolish ICE and says the murder of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman will not deter him from protecting illegals: "This tragedy is not going to deter us from our work. In fact, it's going to challenge us all to double down." Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Doubles Down on Defending Illegal Aliens
Ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich shared a stunning theory about the illegal migrant accused of executing a Chicago area college student in cold blood — that it was part of some “gang initiation.” Blagojevich, a Democrat whose 14-year prison sentence for federal corruption charges was cut short after President Trump commuted his sentence in 2020, wrote on X that he believes Jose Medina-Medina murdered Sheridan Gorman in an effort to make an impression with a local gang. Ex-Illinois gov reveals this stunning theory about illegal migrant accused of murdering Loyola freshman Sheridan Gorman: ‘Bet I’m right’
Pritzker blamed the Trump administration for the killing on Tuesday, despite the suspect, Jose Medina-Medina, being a Venezuelan national released twice under former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden in 2023, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). On Fox News’ “America Reports,” Lopez said Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris’ junta bore responsibility for the killing due to poor vetting and the release of criminal migrants into the United States. Democrat Chicago Alderman Blasts JB Pritzker Over Blaming Trump For Murder By Illegal Alien
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
NBC News reports that in a precedent-setting verdict, jurors in the high profile social media addiction trial deliberated for more than 40 hours across nine days before determining that both Meta and YouTube were negligent in the design and operation of their platforms. The jury concluded that each company’s negligence was a substantial factor in causing harm to the plaintiff, a 20-year-old woman who testified that her childhood use of social media created an addiction to the technology and aggravated her mental health problems. Jury Finds Meta and Google Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Last July, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to repeal the Obama-era Endangerment Finding, which the agency has sued to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris administration’s electric vehicle mandate. Eliminating the Endangerment Finding would repeal many greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and give Americans more consumer choice. Former EPA Deep State Moves to Kill Repeal of ‘Holy Grail’ of Climate Change Religion
The Department of Education (ED) took a “historic” step of winding down its operations by shifting student lending to the Department of the Treasury. The move is part of the ED’s efforts to adhere to President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for department’s dismantling. Officially ending the department would take an act of Congress, as it was Congress that created it 45 years ago under President Jimmy Carter, but the agency has been looking for ways to decentralize its power and slash its workforce while waiting on GOP lawmakers to deliver on Trump’s campaign promise. Department of Education Takes ‘Historic Step’ Toward Shutting Down in Partnership with Treasury
The raid and document seizure appear tied to French diplomat Fabrice Aidan, who was named over 200 times in the Epstein Files and once worked for the Edmond de Rothschild Group. Cops Raid Rothschild Bank in Epstein Investigation.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Kentucky’s Senate debate drew a bright line: Nate Morris’ America First populism surged, while Andy Barr’s establishment playbook faltered under the lights. Morris Dominates as Barr Unravels Under the Lights
Hanson also criticized Newsom’s team over his press office’s March 16 X post containing a cartoon image of YouTuber Nick Shirley asking to see the children at a daycare. The post came shortly after Shirley published a video in which he claimed to document over $170 million in taxpayer fraud in California. ‘Foul, Vile, Mean, Stupid’: Victor Davis Hanson Unloads On Gavin Newsom
The FCC has announced a sweeping ban on foreign-made consumer routers, claiming these devices pose significant national security threats to the United States. The decision follows a similar December action when the FCC banned future drones manufactured in foreign countries from US import unless manufacturers secure special exemptions. FCC Bans Foreign-Made Consumer Routers Citing ‘Unacceptable Risk’ of China Hacking
It is possible that the eruptions have been driven by seasonal heating of very shallow subsurface deposits of volatiles, and the winds transporting particles similarly may be seasonal winds. The polar terrain, upon which the dark streaks have been deposited, is a region of bright materials mottled with irregular, somewhat dark patches. The pattern of irregular patches suggests that they may correspond to lag deposits of moderately dark material that cap the bright ice over the polar terrain. Triton: Neptune’s largest moon
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The “extraordinarily low” six-month sentence handed to a trans illegal immigrant who admitted to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in Manhattan sparked outrage Wednesday from a victims’ rights group and left even former prosecutors in shock. Legal eagles were baffled by the slap-on-the-wrist plea deal the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office struck with Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez, a 31-year-old transgender woman from Colombia, in the vicious 2025 assault of a 14-year-old boy in East Harlem. Outrage as trans illegal immigrant gets just 6-month sentence for sexual assault of NYC teen
Our mission is to cultivate swordsmanship of the pen as we train the next generation of jolly journalists, whose vision for society flows from a Chestertonian spirit of gratitude and wonder. G.K. Chesterton Blazed A Journalistic Trail Worth Following
The Oklahoma State House on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill that would make it legal to use the decomposed and ground-up remains of human corpses as soil fertilizer in the state. The legislation, HB 3660, seeks to include so-called “natural organic reduction” (NOR), a common euphemism for human composting, “as a form of cremation” under state law. Oklahoma’s lower chamber passed the bill 59-37, with both Republicans and Democrats voting in favor, prompting a harsh rebuke from one of the GOP lawmakers who opposes the legislation. Oklahoma Advances Bill To Turn Dead Humans Into Actual Fertilizer
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Most recently upheld by the Fourth Circuit, it finally reached the Supreme Court which just handed down its decision, saying, no you dumbasses, just because you don't make it impossible for someone to do something bad doesn't make you complicit.
You may wonder with such a divided court what the split was in this decision.
The split was 9-0.
Even the concurrence by the court's special needs justices Sotomayor and Jackson agreed with the majority opinion on this point of law and on the decision generally.
Instead we have the B65 Pro and B70 Pro, which both feature 32GB of RAM on a 256-bit bus. So they are definitely not targeting gamers looking for performance on a budget, but with MSRP for the B70 Pro starting at $949, it is the cheapest 32GB graphics card by a solid margin.
AMD's Radeon 9700 Pro has a list price of $1299, and while Nvidia's 5090 has an MSRP of $1999, even that is a complete fiction and you'll be be paying twice that if you can find one at all.
The B65 Pro still has 32GB of RAM but is reduced from 32 Xe cores to 20. It will presumably be cheaper but Intel hasn't announced exact pricing just yet.
Good evening Horde. The time has come for very random mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety. Did I mention the shenanigans were random? They are indeed random.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Leave Tucker, Megyn, Candace and anyone similar to threads elsewhere. Your reward is permission to periodically break into "Let's go Brandon" chants in the bar.
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The origin of OK is disputed. However, most modern reference works hold that it originated around Boston as part of a fad in the late 1830s of abbreviating misspellings - that it is an initialism of "oll korrect" as a misspelling of "all correct."
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True fact of history:
Ruth Handler is credited with inventing the Barbie doll in 1959, while her husband, Elliot Handler, invented Hot Wheels in 1968. They were high school sweethearts who met in 1929, dated on and off, and married in 1938. Together, they co-founded Mattel in 1945, initially starting in their garage. They even named the dolls after their real children: Barbie after their daughter Barbara, and Ken (Barbie's boyfriend) after their son Kenneth.
How many times can you put a balloon up your nose and pull it out your mouth? We bet not many of you have ever actually tried! But at Guinness World Records, we love celebrating unique talents just like this.
On 29 August 2025, Malte Dünser (Austria), broke the Guinness World Records title for most balloons passed through the nose and out the mouth in one minute. This wild record attempt took place on the set of Guinness World Records - Die große Show der Weltrekorde, in Munich, Germany, in front of an audience.
Malte managed to complete the trick 10 times, repeatedly threading the uninflated balloons through one nostril, and pulling them out through his mouth.
There are photos at the link if you want to see more. I won't post them here. I mourn for the days when a Guinness World Record meant something more significant than stuffing balloons up your nose (not that there's anything wrong with that...).
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Caterpillar D11 bulldozer overhauls - this is a good video if you're into that sort of thing (actually, it is a pretty good video even if you don't care):
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ONT Department of Politician and Media Oversight
Remember: no matter how much you distrust politicians and hate the media, it is not enough.
New data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) shows more people are having gambling problems, especially with sports betting.
Call to the state's Problem Gambling Helpline were up 121 percent in just a year, between 2022 and 2023, DPH announced Wednesday.
So why has there been an increase? DPH said it's a result of improving access to helplines with public awareness campaigns and education statewide.
"The increase in calls is a sign that people are feeling comfortable reaching out," Odessa Dwarika, the program director for the Massachusetts Council on Gaming and Health, told WBZ-TV. "If folks are experiencing harm but they don't know how to get resources or they don't feel comfortable getting resources, you're not going to see that bump in numbers."
Up 121 percent on one year? Heavens! Must be a sign of major gambling problems and a success story for the state's gambling help hotline, right? Well...
According to DPH's report, the helpline saw a surge in calls after sports betting was legalized. But of the 2,069 calls from February to June 2023, 1,043 were non-helpline calls, the report said. Those callers were "looking for technical support for their sports wagering mobile applications and platforms."
The Office of Problem Gambling Services attributed the confusion to an increase in sports wagering advertisements, which list the helpline.
The gambling help hotline became a tech support line for gamblers because online gaming companies were required to list the helpline in their ads?
No matter how much you distrust politicians and hate the media, it is not enough. Never believe anything you read in a media story without checking for yourself.
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I have questions. So many questions. Staring with "there are professional cornhole players?"
A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee has been formally charged with murder and multiple related offenses in connection with a deadly shooting that occurred in Charles County on March 22, 2026.
Dayton James Webber, 27, of La Plata, Md., was arraigned in the District Court of Maryland for Charles County after being located in Charlottesville, Virginia, and arrested following the fatal shooting of 27-year‑old Bradrick Michael Wells, according to court documents.
Police have not explained how Webber was able to drive a car or fire a weapon.
Webber underwent quadruple amputation as a baby after a blood infection, according to reports. He's a professional cornhole player in the American Cornhole League (ACL).
Armed and dangerous? No, but he won't have a leg to stand on in court.
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Disaster! Warner Bros. Hires New Writer for Lord of the Rings Mid-quel: Steven Colbert
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Good heavens, what an absolute disaster.
We have the Hunt for Gollum coming up, directed by Andy Serkis, who just remade Animal Farm as a pro-socialism, anti-capitalism message movie.
And now Warner Bros. has hired this absolute assclown to write a draft of what is being called "The Shadow of the Past." The concept of the movie is not terrible: A good part of Fellowship of the Ring was cut out of the Lord of the Rings movies because of time restrictions and also because it contains the character Tom Bombadil, who is just a big ball of plot questions. Like, given that he has godlike power that makes even Gandalf and Elrond envious, why doesn't he just take the ring? (Tolkien's lame answer: Because he's flighty and would eventually just forget about the ring and let it go back to Sauron.)
The reason this section of the book is worth possibly making a movie about is the creepy, scary encounter with the Barrow Wrights. If you know, you know.
So Colbert, I guess, pitched the idea of doing these four chapters of LOTR as a stand-alone mid-quel movie.
Couldn't they just have said "Yes that's an okay idea, here's $20,000 as a finder's fee, now fuck off"?
It's what I call "strip-mining the IP." New Line Cinema purchased the rights to The Lord of the Rings almost 30 years ago, and did them such glorious justice with the original movie trilogy. Inevitably, Jackson and New Line set about extracting every last bit of wealth until the original property looked like the Shire after the Scouring.
What's it called when the greedy mining company takes the tailings from its strip mine and runs them through the smelter one more time with all the reckless abandon of Gollum diving after the One Ring into Mount Doom?
Ah, yes -- it's called The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Past, and lame-duck late-night host Stephen Colbert will co-write it with his son, screenwriter Peter McGee, for Jackson and Warner Bros, which now owns New Line. Variety reported late Tuesday that Colbert, "a vocal Tolkien fanatic," and McGee will write a screenplay "from chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring that didn't make it into Jackson's 2001 adaptation."
I for one will not be seeing it, even when additional writers are hired to rewrite Colbert's shoddy script -- and again, I think the basic idea of doing these four overlooked chapters is a decent one.
Actually, it's half a decent idea: You can't do a whole movie about a single encounter with the forces of darkness, and one that is resolved without violence just because Tom Bomdadil sings. Yes, he's so powerful that his songs drive off the undead creatures stirred to unlife by the Witch King.*
That's not a movie. That's a long Tales from the Crypt episode.
They could instead do a two-part movie called, get this, "Lost Tales" (another Tolkien title), and do both the Barrow Downs encounter and the much-demanded "Scouring of the Shire" battle omitted from LOTR. Neither of these segments is long enough for its own movie, but packaged as a double feature, sure, why not.
But I don't care either way, because I will not support Steven Colbert nor anyone who wishes to inflict this hateful prog Gollum on me.
If anyone is doing the Hobbit/LOTR challenge with me -- starting the books today, "Tolkien Reading Day," so-called because the ring was destroyed on March 25th -- I will get in at least a couple of easy-breezy chapters of The Hobbit. I would read more, but I have to finish a Miss Marple novel, The Caribbean Mystery, and I have about 70 pages left of that. So I'll only be able to get a little bit into The Hobbit. (Don't worry, Agatha Christie is fast reading. It's no Hound of the Baskervilles.)
I think I'm going to do a post about The Hobbit for Friday -- did you know the book was partially rewritten and Tolkien did a major in-universe retcon of it to make it fit with LOTR?
Here's some better news in genre entertainment: The egregious woke Gay Klingon In a Skirt nightmare (and I'm not kidding about that detail) Starfleet: Chocolate Starfish Academy has been cancelled.
The show will end after season 2, and if you're wondering "Why give them a season 2?" -- it's their new way of doing things. Rather than commit to a 20 episode season, they now say we're committing two "two seasons of 10 episodes each," which is really just one season split into two release windows. So "season 2" -- really season 1b-- was already contracted for and paid for and I think they're even already shooting it.
EXCLUSIVE: “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will end with its upcoming second season.
The show failed to find a significant audience, not ranking on Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming viewership charts at any point during its 10-episode first season.https://t.co/fm9WDRNWzvpic.twitter.com/HnjBxysNqz
Right-wing haters killed something that was objectively amazing. Starfleet Academy had one of the best first seasons of any Trek show. Period.
These anti-woke losers would’ve had a stroke at Riker rizzing up non-binary aliens in TNG. Star Trek has always been progressive. https://t.co/63yPuXae75
See, the media knows this crap show was bought for a run of 20 episodes to be divided into two seasons, but when the studio wants to plant a story about how successful the show is, the media claims a second season has been greenlit based on the strength of the first -- but that's a lie, the original order was 20 episodes. No further episodes were ever greenlit, the show was not "renewed."
But they lie anyway:
'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1 https://t.co/jBC3qOvVPo
* One thing you notice when reading LOTR is that Tolkien doesn't like violence and doesn't enjoy writing battles or valorizing war. He does when he absolutely has to, but if he can get away with it, he completely phones in any narrative about how a battle went. For example, after Aragorn raises the Army of the Dead -- the army of ghosts -- we never actually see them in combat. Ever. We only hear of them second-hand when Gimli or Legolas (Gimli, I think) quickly sums up the ghost army's defeat of the Umbar Corsairs in conversation with other characters. After the battle of Minas Tirith is over.
Aragorn just shows up with a bunch of men for the fight with no ghosts. (The ghosts left his service after freeing captured men and sailors from the Umbar Corsairs, and it's these freed men who actually appear on the Pelennor Fields to fight the orc army.)
So after the Army of the Dead is raised and you're sitting there thinking "Oh man, this is gonna be good...!" What you actually get is "Fuck you, the ghosts are already gone. You missed them, fatty. Now go fuck yourself in the face, jerkoff."
He does this a lot. The fantastic end battle of Fellowship, where the Uruk Hai kill Boromir and kidnap Merry and Pippin? Also only told in retrospect by a dying Boromir. It's like three paragraphs told in retrospect by a dying man who doesn't exactly have a lot of breath in him to tell an exciting tale. A lot of the time, we don't see battles. We just hear about it later. Not gonna lie, it's pretty deflating.
I realize I'm not making a good case for reading these books.
They're good, seriously. Just... a lot lighter on actual action than you might be expecting.
As a father, I grieve for Sheridan's parents for this unspeakable tragedy.
This was a failure of not holding criminal migrants accountable and not protecting the public--and another tragic reason why I was the Dem lead on the Laken Riley law.
Because she hates him, and she wants to be the one to bring him down.
Elon Musk demands judge's recusal over 'support' of LinkedIn post that mocked him after $2B verdict
Elon Musk is demanding a Delaware judge step aside from a high-stakes Tesla case after she allegedly "supported" a LinkedIn post mocking a $2 billion verdict against him in a separate California case.
Lawyers for Musk and Tesla filed a motion in Delaware's Court of Chancery seeking the recusal of Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick from overseeing consolidated shareholder lawsuits, arguing her conduct "create[s] a perception of bias" that taints the proceedings.
The explosive filing centers on activity tied to McCormick's LinkedIn account following a federal jury verdict in California that found Musk liable over tweets he posted in 2022 about his $44 billion Twitter deal.
The complaint includes a screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Harry Plotkin, a Southern California-based jury consultant who worked with the legal team that sued Musk for securities fraud in San Francisco federal court.
"Sorry, Elon. Sorry, Quinn Emanuel," Plotkin wrote, referring to Musk and the law firm that represented him.
"Thanks $2 billion for your help in this trial. It was a pleasure working against you. Congratulations to the trial team at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP and Bottini Law for standing up for the little guy against the richest man in the world."
The filing alleges the post was promoted by McCormick's account, with a banner above it reading: "Katie McCormick supports this."
McCormick has denied intentionally endorsing the post, claiming she was unaware of the interaction until LinkedIn notified her she had used the heart-in-hand "support" icon, according to the Financial Times.
"I either did not click the 'support' icon at all, or I did so accidentally. I do not believe that I did it accidentally," she wrote in a letter to attorneys.
As alleged in the filing, LinkedIn's "Support" reaction -- shown as a heart cradled in an outstretched hand -- requires a deliberate selection from multiple options and is generally interpreted as a stronger endorsement than a standard "Like," which is the platform's default, one-click response.
A separate LinkedIn post criticizing Musk also drew engagement from the judge's chambers, with a staff account "liking" a message saying "so many people who should be so deeply ashamed of themselves seem incapable of being so," according to the filing.
In the filing, Musk's lawyers argue the LinkedIn activity strikes at the core of judicial impartiality, writing that the posts "are not simply negative criticism" but "inflammatory," mocking Musk and his attorneys while celebrating a multibillion-dollar verdict against them.
They refuse to recuse themselves even when their is blazing evidence of bias precisely because they are biased and emotionally invested in the outcome of the trials they rig.
The British Patriot
@TheBritLad
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🚨 BREAKING: Easter egg prices slashed by nearly half at supermarkets including Morrisons.
This comes after social media backlash over packaging missing the word "Easter".
The people refuse to let their culture be erased.
Widespread social media posts actively calling for a boycotts with comments like "No Easter on the box = no buy from me".
People are openly switching to alternatives (M&S, Aldi, Lindt,) where the word "Easter is openly displayed.
BREAKING: A senior member of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, Sayed Yahya Hamidi, responsible for "Israel Affairs" and accused of leading terrorist activities targeting Jews worldwide, has been killed in an Israeli strike in Tehran.
John Brennan, long rumored to be a covert Islamic convert, defends his now-debunked claim that Trump was lying about Iran reaching out for talks by saying he trusts Iran's terrorist tyrants more than the American president. He was promoted by Russia Today, which also tracks, because he was an admitted communist at one point.
'I TEND TO BELIEVE IRAN MORE THAN I DO DONALD TRUMP, because he could not acknowledge the truth even when he’s slapped in the face with it repeatedly' — fmr CIA Director John Brennan
'He's trying to figure out how he's going to get out of this debacle that he has created' pic.twitter.com/qfwzaVlrNE
After Treasonous RINO Cucks Sell Out Conservatives to Make a Deal with Democrats on DHS Funding, Democrats Reject The Deal They Proposed and Were Granted, Sensing Weaknes and Demanding Still Further Concessions
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's almost like negotiating with the Iranian Mullahs.
And it will also take shock and awe to defeat them.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
DHS funding deal is falling apart.
Senate GOP offered to fund all of DHS, except ICE's deportation wing (ERO).
Dems just countered and demanded additional concessions, they want major ICE reforms (unmasking, judicial warrants, etc).
GOP says why would we agree to reforms for an agency being defunded?
Dems had an offer on the table to carve out ICE's removal operations, and fund everything else within DHS, and they are saying no.
They are demanding ICE reforms for an agency they aren't going to fund.
GOP saying no.
And the shutdown continues - now on day 40.
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
"Dems had an offer on the table to carve out ICE's removal operations."
This is 100% about keeping illegal migrants in the country. Nothing more.
If you want to know why we can't just end the filibuster -- say hello to Utah Senator John Curtis, who is taking Adam Schiff's position on deportations, surprising the CNBC host who said he expected he'd be arguing with Schiff, not the Republican.
Curtis says the following:
1, We need "compassion" in handling illegal alien criminals
2, We need to grant amnesty for anyone who "merely" violated our immigration laws for 20 years (and he seems to think that identity theft should be considered an "oopsie" as well)
3, We never settled on what the punishment for illegal immigration is -- yes we did, it's deportation plus jail time for additional infractions, as Black Conservative Perspective points out -- so it's unfair to punish any of the illegals for committing crimes.
He refuses again and again to endorse deportations of any kind. He just keeps avoiding the question by talking about "compassion."
Here's some more "compassion" for you, you bent, compromised, corrupt blackmail target.
Sheridan Gorman's own student newspaper has issued an apology -- for calling the criminal foreigner who murdered her an "illegal immigrant" instead of a "resident."
"That language does not align with Associated Press style, nor does it align with the values of this newspaper. No… pic.twitter.com/ZDSlgcGILw
Note: The murderer of Sheridan Gorman "merely" had a couple of shoplifting charges before he shot a completely innocent woman, apparently -- maybe -- as part of a Tren de Aragua gang initiation murder-ritual.
I am starting to suspect that the story about Jose Medina is worse than what we've been told. The "tuberculosis" isolation keeping him out of court is suspicious--and this photo (if it's him) could raise the possibility Sheridan's execution was part of a gang initiation.
You Don't Hate the Media Enough: The Same Media That Claimed Biden Was Sharp as a Tack Now Claims That Trump's Aides Hide How Badly the War is Going From Him
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Flashback: Biden meets with his Secretary of Covert Egg Deployment
NBC "News," which totally has tip-top sources close to Donald Trump, claims that aides have to hide the actual state of the war from Trump and only show him a highlight reel of successful bombings/missile strikes to make him happy, because he's retarded at an atomic level. And he just doesn't understand why people don't understand how well the war is going -- because his aides hide the awful truth from this senile moron.
The public does not in fact know how well the war is going, because the media only reports false claims from Iran PR officers, because they know their audience consists entirely of Retarded At An Atomic Level shitlibs who would freak if they knew the war was going well.
Sooooo... I guess half-credit to NBC for getting the gist of the disconnect right?
Somehow, the president who did all of this in less than a month is being isolated and misled by his aides, according to NBC News:
Each day since the start of the war in Iran, U.S. military officials compile a video update for President Donald Trump that shows video of the biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours, three current U.S. officials and a former U.S. official said.
The daily montage typically runs for about two minutes, sometimes longer, the officials said. One described each daily video as a series of clips of "stuff blowing up."
The highlight reel of U.S. Central Command bombing Iranian equipment and military sites isn't the only briefing Trump gets about the war. He's also updated through conversations with top military and intelligence advisers, foreign leaders and news reports, the officials said.
But the video briefing is fueling concerns among some of Trump's allies that he may not be receiving -- or absorbing -- the complete picture of the war, now in its fourth week, two of the current officials and the former official said.
Note that the media just accepted the claims of Iran's PR ministers that they are not begging for a cease-fire and Trump is a big fat liar -- only to have to admit 48 hours later that they had been water-carriers for Iran yet again, and that Trump was telling the truth.
...
Trump made the Protection Racket Media look like a bunch of saps. Even worse, it exposed the US media industry as being invested in America's failure if it also carries an opportunity to damage Trump. Having been exposed as water-carriers for the IRGC, now NBC wants to deflect from that revelation by painting Trump as somehow disengaged, isolated, and uninformed, which might just be the biggest case of projection since Thomas Edison invented the motion-picture industry.
The most stunning part of this new narrative is its transplantation, root and branch, from the actual reality of Joe Biden's presidency and the media's role in covering it up.
Iran's totally winning you guys. That's why the family members of the Regime are fleeing to Russia and Afghanistan -- they're so beautiful this time of year -- and Basij "Morality" Police are refusing to man their checkpoints.
Meanwhile, NPR is shocked to discover that Iranians support the American/Israeli airstrikes and know far, far more people killed by Regime thugs than by the airstrikes.
Talking to Iranians who have fled to Armenia, I have heard largely the same. One a few days ago told me: "I don't know anyone who was killed in the strikes. I know 22 people who were killed by the regime in January." https://t.co/JqZz0LjcNk
Lebanon, a country which has been forced into endless war it does not want due to Syria's and Iran's sponsoring of terrorist armies in the Shi'a south, finally says: "Enough."
Iran isn't powerful enough to bully them any longer.
Lebanon declares Iran’s ambassador persona non grata and orders his departure within days—extraordinary break in a relationship long shaped by Iran’s influence inside Lebanon. https://t.co/KA4ftVw5Ox
This is an Iranian insider, openly warning: “Do not collaborate with the enemy. Do not assassinate Dr. Ghalibaf’s character.” The infighting has gotten so bad, regime officials accusing one another of betrayal, right after president Trump said they’re talking to someone inside… pic.twitter.com/OU8V7WP3O4
Surprise! Mitch McConnell's Groomed Punk John Thune Preparing Failure Theater Production of "We Tried to Pass the SAVE Act But Goshdarn It We Just Didn't Have Our Ducks in a Row"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
John Thune announced that he had a very smart masterplan for passing the SAVE Act. He would -- get this -- not pass it.
Brilliant!
Part 2 of the plan is that he promises -- pinky-swear -- he will then add it to a bill via reconciliation.
Except... you cannot add non-budgetary matters to a bill through reconciliation. See, the process is called Budget Reconciliation. Measures must have an impact on the budget (supposedly, to reduce the budget) to be added via Budget Reconciliation.
So his smart masterplan for passing SAVE by not passing it is doomed to fail, and in fact, is designed to fail. The Senate Parliamentarian will rule the SAVE Act is not germane to the budget -- as everyone knows in advance -- and John Thune will pretend he never thought of that and gee willickers guys, if only you send him more money he could hire better staff to tell him obvious things like this!
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
Hello Senator Thune,
Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."
You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.
Here's how we know:
Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.
Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:
Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.
Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.
Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.
Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.
You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.
Now let's talk donors:
• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants
Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."
Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.
We see the loop.
You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.
What we want:
1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.
YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.
You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.
Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.
If you remember, Mitch McConnell routinely tanked bills that the conservative voting base demanded, but he would tell us that he got us the next best thing to actual legislation -- he got the Democrats to vote "no" on the bill, which is worth more politically than actually winning.
Every senator will soon be on the record with an up-or-down vote so the American people can know exactly where they stand on voter ID. I don’t know how Democrats will be able to explain being against commonsense voter ID requirements, but I can’t wait to hear them try. pic.twitter.com/1P7tWIVYBK
Newly Discovered Records Suggest Fake Special Counsel Jack Smith Broke the Law in Wiretapping Biden's Political Opponents, Including Bugging Trump Associates' Lawyers
Fishing expedition: Docs expose expansive FBI surveillance of Trump allies, possible illegality
Newly-disclosed records show that the FBI twice subpoenaed future Director Kash Patel's personal data while he was a private citizen in a probe that swept up hundreds of Trump allies, including then-future Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
Newly released records in the Senate investigation into the weaponization of government raise questions about whether the FBI went on a fishing expedition targeting Trump advisors who were never charged with crimes and whether Special Counsel Jack Smith's prior testimony to Congress was truthful.
The documents were made public by Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, before a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing into alleged abuses by the Biden-era FBI and Justice Department in their investigations into then ex-president Donald Trump before and during the 2024 presidential election during its probe code-named "Arctic Frost." Just the News previously reported that Biden's FBI paid anti-Trump 'Sedition Hunters' as informants in the Arctic Frost probes.
"If Watergate taught us anything, it is that even a single abuse of power carried out by a handful of individuals can shake the foundations of our Republic," said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., Chairman of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights.
"What we confront today, the Biden administration's Arctic Frost scheme, is not a single act," he continued in his opening remarks. "It is a modern Watergate trading a break-in at one office for a digital sweep into approximately 100,000 private communications, more than a dozen senators and 1000s of individuals lives."
Cruz said that ultimately, "just like Watergate," the judges, FBI and Justice Department officials involved should be "investigated, tried, impeached, and brought to justice."
The FBI's requests for information included demands for highly personal data of Patel's, including Patel's addresses ("mailing addresses, residential addresses, business addresses, and e-mail addresses"), a "call detail record" which lists inbound and outbound calls, text messages and voicemail messages, as well as sources of payment for the phone service, including credit card and bank account numbers. The FBI also demanded expansive internet session data including exact IP addresses, the document shows.
The FBI also sought--and was granted--non-disclosure orders (NDOs) from federal judges, shielding the existence of the subpoenas from Patel and his lawyers on the grounds that revealing them could result in his "flight from prosecution, destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation."
Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's then campaign manager and future chief of staff, was also targeted in the probe. The Biden-era FBI reportedly even went so far as to record a private phone call between Wiles and her lawyer in 2023 while she was actively managing the campaign of President Joe Biden's chief political rival, according to Reuters.
The FBI reportedly maintains that the recording was justified on the pretense that her defense lawyer had consented to the recording. However, Wiles' lawyer issued a statement adamantly denying he ever consented to such monitoring, raising the possibility false representations were made to a court for phone monitoring and the now infamous stage-managed raid on Mar-a-Lago.
"If I ever pulled a stunt like that, I wouldn't -- and shouldn't -- have a license to practice law," an unidentified lawyer told Axios. "I'm as shocked as Susie."
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Senator Cruz CONFIRMED that Biden’s FBI wiretapped Susie Wiles during a PRIVILEGED CALL with her lawyer without the consent of EITHER party.
To make it HORRENDOUSLY worse, they then tried to HIDE evidence of their actions by marking the file “prohibited.”
Sen. Grassley also raised questions about Special Counsel Smith's prior testimony and claims about his investigation, indicating the possibility that he misled Congress. It has not been determined if Patel, Grassley, or anyone else has made a referral to the Department of Justice for criminal action.
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
The subpoena released this morning by Chuck Grassley in connection with the fraudulent Arctic Frost investigation is absolutely staggering. It didn't just ask for Kash Patel's phone records, it asked for everything he did from 2020 to 2023.
Just to name a few, they requested all usernames and screen names, every address and email, complete billing and payment details including credit card and bank account numbers, every device ID, and a full log of every call, text, and voicemail showing who was contacted, when, and for how long. They also obtained all internet session data, including the exact IP addresses.
So this wasn't just about who Kash called. It was basically a complete view of his entire life, mapping his daily routines, travel, relationships, finances, and even tracking the specific hardware he used. In short, they got a full digital shadow of his life.
To have come through all of this without so much as a scratch tells you just how clean he is.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
NEW: The FBI has found 1.9 million pages of missing records in a secret "hidden room" at headquarters that was maintained by former directors James Comey and Chris Wray, according to a Judicial Watch FOIA. The Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) contains several safes holding the docs, including ones generated from Special Counsel Mueller's investigation.
That chart is from Yahoo! Finance, for a major company many have never heard of. That company is called Supermicro, and it builds, among other things, servers for datacenters. It is a big player in server hardware. Unlike some of its competitors, however, it is not a household name. Supermicro is an American company based in San Jose, founded by Taiwanese entrepreneurs. Like most outfits in the datacenter hardware business, it has been going gangbusters in the current AI mania. Given the market environment, why that staggering price decline with surging trading volume on the 20th?
The decline has to do with the indictment and arrest of some of its executives due to allegations of smuggling and violating US export control laws regarding Red China. As you may recall, the US has - since the Biden administration - proscribed the export of certain high-end computer chips useful for AI processing to that country. Trump made that a bit more aggressive once he took office. In the presence of any ban, a black market inevitably forms and it appears that, per the indictment, certain SMCI executives allegedly operated in that black market. Supermicro is not named directly, nor is the Asian company that allegedly helped run the operation. But the people involved are Supermicro people, a "U.S. Manufacturer" is referenced, and the stock tanked as a result.
The scheme does not appear to have been particularly sophisticated. From the indictment:
Beginning in or about 2024, certain executives, employees, and third-party affiliates of a U.S.-based manufacturer that designs and builds high-performance computer servers for artificial intelligence and cloud computing applications (the "U.S. Manufacturer"), including YIH-SHYAN "Wally" LIAW, RUEI-TSANG "Steven" CHANG, and TING-WEI "Willy" SUN, the defendants, conspired to divert billions of dollars' worth of the U.S. Manufacturer's servers to China, many of which were assembled in the United States. The U.S. Manufacturer's flagship products - servers integrating graphics processing units ("GPUs") manufactured by Nvidia Corporation ("Nvidia") - are subject to strict U.S. export controls barring their sale to China without a license.
The defendants and their co-conspirators used a particular company ("Company-1") based in Southeast Asia as a pass-through entity to give the U.S. Manufacturer's transactions that they arranged the appearance of legitimate commercial activity and to obscure their China-based end customers. YIH-SHYAN "Wally" LIAW, RUEI-TSANG "Steven" CHANG, and TING-WEI "Willy" SUN, the defendants, worked with and directed executives of Company-1 to submit purchase orders to the U.S. Manufacturer to reserve and purchase large allocations of the servers from the U.S. Manufacturer containing Nvidia GPUs and coordinate their onward transshipment to China. To ensure that the allocations were approved internally at the U.S. Manufacturer, the defendants and executives at Company-1 prepared false documents and records, and transmitted false communications, purporting to show that Company-1 was the end user of the servers. Once Company-1 received the servers, at the direction of and in coordination with the defendants and others, including third-party brokers who worked closely with the defendants to order the U.S. Manufacturer's servers for customers in China, it shipped them to those customers in China. In furtherance of the scheme, Company-1, in consultation with the defendants, used a shipping and logistics company to repackage the U.S. Manufacturer's servers and place them in unmarked boxes to conceal their content prior to shipping them to their final destinations in China
For example, to deceive the U.S. Manufacturer's compliance team, which was responsible for conducting audits of Company-1's purchases of servers to ensure adherence to U.S. export control laws, the defendants staged "dummy" servers - non-working, physical replicas of the U.S. Manufacturer's servers - for inspection at the locations where Company-1 was purportedly storing the servers it had purchased from the U.S. Manufacturer. However, the actual servers from the U.S. Manufacturer had already been unlawfully shipped to China.
So that's pretty straightforward. Use "Company-1" as a cut-out, ship them the kit, have them rebox it and sell it on to the actual end purchaser and put on a little show to pretend that they actually have the equipment on hand in case anyone comes to look. Simple, but apparently effective for a while. For long enough to do the old switcharoo with around $2.5 billion in server hardware.
In the wake of his arrest and the subsequent dramatic drop in SMCI's stock price, Liaw resigned from Supermicro's board. The company also appointed a new Chief Compliance Officer. And that brings up the other point that is driving some of this price move, namely that Supermicro has had trouble in the past when it comes to internal controls and processes. Back in 2024, Ernst & Young resigned as Supermicro's auditor, touching off - this is becoming a trend - a major stock price fall. When it resigned, Ernst & Young said that it was "unwilling to be associated with the financial statements prepared by the management," along with asserting that the board was the plaything of the company's founder and some other executives and that the company lacked effective internal controls. Before that, in 2020, the company paid a small fine to the SEC over accounting practices.
Supermicro has had some ... problems. Now, it is possible that its executives Liaw and Chang will do some time but that is not the only consideration. If the indictment is accurate, SMCI moved $2.5 billion in product to Red China. In all of 2025 (fiscal year ending in June of that year), the company had around $22 billion in net sales. The timing doesn't line up exactly, but it's close enough. Somewhere from 5%-10% of the company's sales came from this alleged scheme to violate US export controls and send high-tech equipment to a sanctioned country. That is a lot of revenue, and too much to be missed. A single outfit sending you a big chunk of your total revenue could not have been a secret. Customers that big are well known. Vendors buy customers like that dinner at least, and often have teams dedicated to them. This fake company wouldn't have had a normal relationship with Supermicro, and people inside Supermicro would have known that. If these allegations are true, it is so unlikely that it borders on impossible that the scheme was not widely known among senior executives and probably within at least the sales and logistics groups.
There is a reason that SMCI saw its price fall so dramatically: investors know it, too, and a lot of them got out. All of this, however, invites a question: assuming that the allegations are true, what is an appropriate punishment for a corporation in this case? How does one punish a corporation with controls so bad that it might be intentional, that has played fast and loose with its accounting, and that raked in billions selling proscribed products to a country that is, depending on one's perspective, a rival or an enemy? Jailing its executives would be a welcome change, but is it enough? An organization as corrupt as Supermicro is alleged to be will simply continue as it was. What punishment actually fits the crime, and what punishment can encourage better behavior in the future? Ruinous fines, like "50% of revenues for the past five years, payable over the next ten years?" Nationalization followed by divestiture to new owners after firing everyone with executive authority?
Assuming that the allegations are accurate, what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?
Not a particularly good example of Collier's work (his execution of the female form is often superb), but there are a few interesting things going on, and the idea is amusing...
Anyway, today it's all about priorities. Over the years I've come to the sobering realization that the chant of "Death to America" was not invented in Tehran, but the Mullhas stole it from the Democrats!
There are only so many ways Democrats can spell out, in the most explicit possible terms, what they plan to do if and when they retake control of the federal government. They’ve spent the last year celebrating the murder of conservatives, raising hell over the most basic voter-ID laws imaginable, and most recently, sabotaging the nation’s airports in order to prevent ICE from doing its job — a plan that may very well work, given that Republicans seem interested in caving at the moment, once again. In short, Democrats are preparing a government that would treat Americans as foreigners in their own country. But just in case their plan somehow wasn’t obvious, here’s Senator Chris Murphy, the Democrat from Connecticut, to spell it out.
It’s the “undocumented Americans” that Democrats “care about most,” according to Chris Murphy. Yes, “undocumented Americans.” Simply by virtue of entering this country — illegally, in almost every case — these people become Americans, according to one of the leaders of the Democrat Party. And more than that — they become the most important Americans of all. Democrats will prioritize their interests over the interests of you and your family. And they won’t even pretend otherwise.
That interview aired in the final months of Joe Biden’s presidency. It’s only recently surfaced on social media, and for good reason. Democrats are now clearly preparing to wage an all-out war on Americans if they retake Congress and the White House. They’re planning a campaign of retribution against conservatives that will make the Biden years look tame by comparison.
This isn’t a guess. They’re saying it openly, in a variety of different contexts. In some cases, they’re rewriting history to justify the purge that they’re planning. Now, it probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone to hear that I believe it’s very important to study history — not the propaganda you’re taught in public schools, but actual history. We talk about various historical topics on the show all the time. . . So here’s a very transparent example of what this means, in practice. Late last week, The New Republic — which is one of those outlets on the Left that claims to be highly intellectual, like the Atlantic — outlined an elaborate plan to harass and imprison Donald Trump and his advisers, once Trump leaves office. This is the Left’s new-and-improved game plan for a new wave of lawfare against Donald Trump. Instead of talking about ways to improve the lives of American citizens, they’re still fixated on retribution. . .
. . . What we’re witnessing here is the launch of what Democrats are calling “Project 2029,” after the infamous Project 2025 that became an instant obsession on the Left. . . after losing the presidency in large part because of their lawfare — they’re not simply doubling down. They’re openly admitting that, in their next campaign of retribution, they aren’t even going to use a pretext. They’re just going to throw people in prison — or worse.
House Republican leaders pushed a vote on extending FISA warrantless surveillance to April after many Republicans spoke up against it.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) expires on April 20. It allows the government to spy on a foreign national suspected of having ties to terrorism.
The government can spy on a foreign national even if an American citizen is on the other end of the communications without a warrant (emphasis mine):
Although the law requires the government to direct this surveillance at people outside the United States, in practice, it routinely ensnares Americans.
If Obamacare Passed via Reconciliation, Why Can’t the SAVE America Act? . . .
There's always a double standard at the heart of Washington, and Republicans never seem to benefit from it, just Democrats. I can’t seem to understand why. DHS has now been shut down for over a month, and a deal is supposedly taking shape. Senate Democrats, after weeks of obstruction, reportedly appear willing to accept funding for most of the department, so long as ICE's migrant removal operations get carved out. Republicans are eyeing a two-step strategy: fund most of DHS through a bipartisan deal, then use a separate reconciliation bill to backfill ICE enforcement funding and advance key provisions of the SAVE America Act — voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements to register to vote.
Gov. JB Pritzker’s office offered “thoughts” — no prayers — for the Gorman family, friends, and the “Loyola University community grieving the senseless murder of Sheridan Gorman.”
. . . The “heinous tragedies” are piling up thanks to the rotund leftist governor’s political resistance to federal immigration law enforcement.
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FRSO proclaims that “we are organizing the united front against monopoly capitalism — with the strategic alliance of the multinational working class and oppressed nationality movements at its core. This is our general strategy for revolution in the U.S.” Reading this stuff is like traveling back in time, not to 1975 when Vietnam fell, but to 1935, when Communism could still seem plausible. The FRSO’s rhetoric sounds as if the Stalinist purges, the gulags, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Khmer Rouge killing fields had never existed. America-Hating U.S. Leftists Are Rooting Hard for the Islamic Republic of Iran
Illegal immigrants have long used last-minute asylum claims to stall deportation, but a new court ruling could make that strategy much harder to pull off. The decision, from the Fifth Circuit in Buenrostro Mendez v. Bondi, broadens who can be treated as an “arriving alien” under immigration law. That may sound technical, but the real-world effects are not. A Key Immigration Ruling Is Flying Under The Radar
Jose Medina-Medina, a Venezuelan who was released into America under former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden after being arrested by Border Patrol, allegedly shot and killed Gorman on Thursday near her Loyola University campus as she attempted to flee, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Fetterman suggested on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” that Democrats were not properly mourning the killing or accepting accountability for it. John Fetterman Blasts Democrats Over Response To College Freshman Allegedly Killed By Illegal Alien
First of all, that money really won’t go to this conflict. It won’t be timely for this conflict to procure material. What it will be used for is, essentially, [to] try to replenish stocks later. But I’m not going to support a — essentially an Iran funding bill, if that’s how this is being sold and packaged. This is a war we should not have gotten into, and it’s a war that, every day, puts our servicemembers at risk. And given there was no imminent threat from Iran, I just don’t think it’s justified.” Schiff-for-brains: I’ll Vote Against Supplemental, Even if It’s Just to Replenish Stocks and Not for Iran War
What could go wrong? (“The Night Chicago Died” was supposed to be a gooey 70’s one-hit-bubblegum wonder, not an instruction manual! - jjs) Chicago Raises Tourism Tax to Promote Tourism
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Australian prime minister Albanese is harassed on Eid. Melee in a Mosque
Smith’s team subpoenaed records of phone calls and text messages — which did not include their content — as well as Patel’s mailing, residential and email addresses, according to documents released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley ahead of a hearing Tuesday. Jack Smith Secretly Sought Nearly Two Years Of Kash Patel’s Phone Records, Subpoenas Show
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Imagine my surprise on Tuesday morning when I came across a Times Op-Ed titled, "Why Are So Many Democratic Politicians So Far Out of Touch?" An even bigger shock was that it was written by Thomas B. Edsall, a wordy, biased leftist apologist of the first order. In late 2023 or early 2024, I briefly wrote a recurring column called the "Trump Derangement Syndrome Meltdown of the Week." Edsall was the subject of the very first one of those and made a couple more appearances later. Too Little, Too Late? NY Times Now Worried About 'Out of Touch' Democrats.
The Economy That Never Came in from the Cold: Four score years ago, the United States brought forth a new economic system, dedicated to the proposition that we would rebuild the world from the wreckage of the Second World War and stand athwart communism. For 40 years, that system worked. Germany and Japan, economically devastated, got rebuilt. In return, the United States accepted persistent trade deficits and the gradual hollowing out of our manufacturing base. . . The Great American Economic Mistake and Why Trump Is the Necessary Correction
As our nation nears its 250th anniversary, there is some good news regarding the teaching of traditional civics, but many troubling signs remain. Civics War
Graduation podiums have become political soapboxes — and New York University has a terrible solution. For the class of 2026’s big day, the school is having students pre-record their commencement addresses to prevent anyone from using the commencement podium as a platform for controversial political beliefs — a common occurrence at colleges around the country in recent years. Speakers will sit quietly on the stage as their pre-taped remarks play on a screen. It’s a sad reflection of how divisive campuses have become — and an ever sadder moment for free speech. NYU has a terrible new solution to curb speakers getting political at commencement
Furthermore, a majority, 60 percent, of likely voters agree that mail-in ballots received after polls close on Election Day should not be counted. A majority of Republicans and independents – 80 percent and 59 percent, respectively – agree with that sentiment, but just 42 percent of Democrats join them. Poll: Vast Majority Agree Ballots Should Be Received by Election Day
The survey further indicates a relatively firm electorate: 88.1 percent of respondents say they are certain to vote, while 78.7 percent describe their choice as definite. Among respondents Paxton’s supporters appear slightly more locked in, with 88 percent saying their vote is definite compared to 86 percent of Cornyn supporters. Poll: Paxton Holds Edge over Cornyn in Texas Senate Runoff
2026 will decide whether Trump’s agenda is locked into law—or erased overnight by a hostile Congress and the next president. Can Republicans Defy History in 2026
California’s top-two primary system allows the two highest vote-getters to advance, regardless of party, and Republicans Steve Hilton and Sheriff Chad Bianco have emerged as the top contenders in the race. Unless one of the Democrat candidates break out, the two Republicans could face each other in the final runoff in November. Two Republicans Currently Lead California Governor’s Race and Could Lock Out Dems in General Election
The Associated Press reports that Democrat Emily Gregory defeated Republican Jon Maples in a special election in Florida’s House District 87, in the race to fill the seat left vacant last August, when GOP state Rep. Mike Caruso resigned to become Palm Beach County clerk and comptroller. Democrat Emily Gregory flips long-held Florida GOP House seat that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
As we struggle to understand dysfunctional globalism, we must ask why Bush Republicans and the Democrats have joined to protect past presidents. Presidents Behaving Badly
“We are all watching each other, and being watched by each other, all the time... These dynamics accelerated as more social life moved online.” How Technology Re-Tribalized Us
Ida Huddleston and her daughter, Delsia Bare, have rejected a combined offer of about $26 million to sell part of their family’s farmland for a proposed data center. Huddleston turned down $60,000 per acre for her 71-acre property in Mason County, Kentucky, from an anonymous Fortune 100 company widely understood to be a major player in artificial intelligence (AI), according to LEX18. Huddleston would have received roughly $4.26 million had she accepted. Bare declined $48,000 per acre for her 463-acre portion, amounting to more than $22 million. The offers dwarfed local farmland values, which hover around $6,000 per acre. Heroic Farmers Reject $26 Million Offer From Massive Company To Preserve American Legacy
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It has 136 Arm Neoverse N3 cores running at 3.7GHz, 96 lanes of PCIe Gen 6 - yes, 6, and support for DDR5-8800 memory, which is pretty fast for a server.
That's all nice, but you might be wondering where the AGI comes into it.
This follows an unending series of massive exploits of consumer networking equipment in recent years.
Companies can apply to a conditional approval program to continue to sell products to the United States, but that comes with certain caveats, like upgrading device security to be "not total shit".
Security experts that are usually critical of government inaction in this area appear stunlocked at seeing all their recommendations enacted in one fell swoop.
As March 20—National Alien Abduction Day—rolls around again, a fresh wave of data is stirring up conversation, curiosity… and maybe a little unease. Across the United States and Canada, thousands of reported UFO sightings are painting a strange, flickering map of where the unexplained seems to linger most.
And honestly, the numbers feel less like trivia and more like something you might glance at twice before heading outside at night.
According to Casino.ca’s reporting on newly analyzed reports sourced from the National UFO Reporting Center and social media discussions, UFO sightings continue to cluster in unexpected places. Delaware, surprisingly, has emerged as America’s top hotspot. With one reported sighting for every 928 residents, the small state has logged over 1,000 encounters since 1974—many involving glowing cylinders and hovering lights that don’t quite behave like anything… familiar.
Up north, Canada tells a slightly different story, and it’s arguably more intense. Alberta now claims the title of the country’s UFO capital, with one sighting for every 568 residents. Wide open skies, fewer city lights—perfect conditions, depending on how you look at it.
Interesting stuff! Any of you willing to admit you've seen a UFO?
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Hochul learns that FAFO applies to her tax and spend schemes
🚨 LMFAO! New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is being mocked nationwide after she BEGGED people to move back from Florida
4 years ago, she was GLOATING, saying Republicans should "jump on a bus and head down to Florida"
The Breakfast Club seems to bring out big opinions among the Horde. As a Gen X'er who watched the film more times than I can count, I still hold it in high regard - quoting it regularly. Some of you either didn't get it, or you might think it's overrated. As was said in a different 80s movie, "opinions vary".
What say you? Like it, love it, hate it? Favorite scenes or lines?
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Remember big league pitcher Randy Johnson - aka "The Big Unit"? He played for a lot of teams during his career. The first was the old Montreal Expos. He wasn't there long.
Throw a ball through a bird?? Yup - that happened 25 years ago today.
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Rock and Roll in the Great White North and also Down Under
One of these is probably a slam dunk guess for most of you. The second one is another one of my all time favorite bands, so I'm glad they made the list. Think you can figure them all out?
Curious as to your thoughts on both lists!
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These artists didn't make the lists linked in the last segment. Should any of them have made it over one who did?
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Democrats Can't Decide Yet Whether Vicious Murderer of Sheridan Gorman Should be Deported or Welcomed to Stay in Our Country Forever
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
New info in the case against Jose Medina-Medina reveals that he was reportedly hiding in the park and shot Sheridan Gorman in the back of the neck as she began RUNNING AWAY.
Medina was then identified by CBP using facial recognition software, a technology that Democrat Illinois State Rep. Kelly Cassidy wants to ban.
Because of course.
The decision to grant permanent refuge to illegal alien foreign murderers and rapists is a political one. It is a political choice. It is so insane that it seems less like a political choice than a psychotic break, but it is a political choice.
And when parties and politicians make political choices, we are allowed to discuss them. We are allowed to point out when those political choices have bad or even deadly consequences.
Via Beege Wellborn, J.B. Pritzker is proud to host the Venezuelan murderer and keep him in Illinois and he wants you to stop "politicizing" his elevation of a murderer's comfort over US citizens' safety.
J.B. Pritzker's office just broke their silence on the murder of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman in Chicago by a previously arrested illegal alien in which they condemn the Trump admin for "politicizing heinous tragedies."
See the article for a special bonus: His arraignment had to be delayed so that he could be treated for tuberculosis.
American citizens have to be vaccinated against everything, but illegal alien murderers? They can saunter through our cities spreading disease and shooting people without the government saying boo.
Run ads about this for the next six months. They are making the political choice to murder and rape us and I think the public should be made aware of that.
Here you are in the same place Sheridan was murdered by an illegal alien you're saying ICE "it wouldn't be good for anyone"
In real life, it turns out that you can't stalk officials, dox their innocent families, or try to run them over with your car without getting into hot water.
What a difference a real DOJ makes! On Monday, the Maine District U.S. Attorney's Office released the most delightful news brief:
A Thomaston resident pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Portland to assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent engaged in his official duties.
According to court records, in August 2025, a United States Border Patrol agent responded to a one-vehicle crash in Washington, Maine. As law enforcement conducted a roadside investigation, Olivia Wilkins, 24, came upon the scene in an automobile and parked close to officers. Wilkins voiced concerns regarding Border Patrol's presence in the area, but was permitted to move the vehicle further back from the crash to continue observing law enforcement. As the Border Patrol agent took an individual on scene into custody and began moving the individual to a nearby Border Patrol vehicle, Wilkins quickly accelerated toward the agent, who pulled the individual off the roadside away from the oncoming vehicle. Wilkins stopped the vehicle without striking either the agent or the individual in custody before swerving back into the lane of travel and fleeing the scene. Maine State Police troopers were able to arrest Wilkins a short distance away.
The statement also notes that the FBI investigated the case. Hallelujah! What a giant upgrade from the days when they investigated Catholics and schoolkids' parents! It's also an ice touch -- er, I mean a nice touch that the two illegal aliens who crashed the truck were taken into custody and off the road.
Believe it or not, she's a Woke White Woman who supports BLM.
Luke Skywalker emailed me:
"No... That's not true! That's impossible!"
Sorry, Luke, it is very true. Also, the paternity test came in and yes, Darth Vader, you are the father!
Also see the article for two antifa thugs convicted of stalking federal employees.
According to evidence presented at a four-day trial, on August 28, 2025, the defendants -- while dressed in black and concealing their faces with black masks -- followed the victim from a federal building in downtown Los Angeles to his personal residence. The victim was heading home to his family for an outing that included a surprise for his sons, ages three and seven.
The defendants livestreamed on their Instagram accounts their pursuit of the victim and provided directions as they followed the victim home, encouraging their viewers to share the livestream.
Variety attempted to smear Chuck Norris for his politics. When lefties die, their politics either go unmentioned in favor of their achievements, or are actively praised. But Christian conservatives? Smeared.
Variety claims that his politics "overshadowed" his career in martial arts and movie-making.
The greatest Community Note of all time put lie to that.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spent nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on a shrink who specializes in controversial ketamine therapy.
The socialist lawmaker hired Boston-based Dr. Brian Boyle, the chief psychiatric officer at Stella, a chain of mental health clinics focusing on "novel" therapies popular with Hollywood and Wall Street.
Her campaign paid Boyle $11,550 in March 2025, another $2,800 in May, and $4,375 in October for a total of $18,725, Federal Election Commission records show.
The expenses were marked as "leadership training and consulting."
It's unclear what the sessions consisted of or who participated. Ocasio-Cortez's campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Boyle, a Harvard-trained doctor, calls himself an "interventional psychiatrist" and specializes in unorthodox methods for treatment-resistant depression, PTSD and anxiety.
He's considered a "leading authority" on ketamine, the controversial horse tranquilizer given to "Friends" star Matthew Perry in the month leading up to his tragic death.
"I just saw the incredible power of what these treatments could do," Boyle said during a podcast appearance last year about getting into the mind-blowing biz. "It's a ton of fun helping patients get better."
Boyle's clinic also offers other treatments popular with the 1 Percent, like stellate ganglion block, an anesthetic injected into a nerve cluster in the neck to calm the body's fight-or-flight response. Billionaires like Bob Parsons, who's battled PTSD since returning from the Vietnam War, have raved about the treatment.
"Celebrities tend to be more inclined to be on the hunt for highly effective solutions across beauty, health, mental health, nutrition and so on," Boyle said in an interview last year about the treatment.
AOC herself is no stranger to touting the benefits of hallucinogenic drugs for therapy.
The "Squad" rep, who campaigned to end the federal prohibition of marijuana in 2018, has three times proposed legislation to make it easier to study magic mushrooms and other psychedelics.
As a freshman congresswoman in 2019, she introduced an amendment to allow the feds to spend taxpayer money on studying the medical potential of psilocybin, ecstasy and other drugs to treat mental illnesses, calling the early research "promising."
"It's well past time we take drug use out of criminal consideration and into medical consideration," she tweeted at the time.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Senator Cruz CONFIRMED that Biden’s FBI wiretapped Susie Wiles during a PRIVILEGED CALL with her lawyer without the consent of EITHER party.
To make it HORRENDOUSLY worse, they then tried to HIDE evidence of their actions by marking the file “prohibited.”
Revealed: Joe Kent Kicked Off the Entire Candace Owens Project to Attack Erika Kirk and Claim the Jews Killed Charlie Kirk
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Lunatics. Vicious psychopathic lunatics.
So here's the story as alleged:
A TPUSA employee named Andrew Kolvet says he wanted to leave no stone unturned in the search for Charlie Kirk's killer. This was in the early hours after the murder, before police discovered the rifle with Tyler Robinson's fingerprints on it, and his texts telling his gay furry lover he was going to do something wonderful.
Kolvet knew Joe Kent. He passed to Kent some private DMs of Charlie Kirk -- if I have this right -- complaining that one Jewish donor had stopped funding TPUSA because he didn't like the organization platforming confirmed antisemitic monsters Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Kovet's idea -- stupid from the start -- was apparently that maybe this Jewish donor might have killed Charlie Kirk.
Kolvet claims he never believed this, but that he wanted to make sure every possible avenue of investigation was open. It's silly, but I'm sure he wasn't thinking quite straight in the hours after his friend was murdered.
He trusted that Joe Kent would act like a responsible government official in handling the texts in a responsible, official way.
Instead, antisemtic Nazi conspiracy theorist Joe Kent began demanding that Kolvet make the chats public. Kent wasn't investigating the texts; he was trying to create a podcaster "investigation" and public witch-hunt.
Even after the assassin's identity was known to everyone who isn't a Jew-hating psychotic.
Kolvett refused to make the chats public, because he says he didn't want innocent parties baselessly accused.
Especially given that the killer was now known and was not a disappointed Jewish donor but a radical left-wing gay furry sodomite.
And then just a week or two later, Candace Owens starts talking about the chats and Tucker Carlson can't stop talking about them, either. Later, Owens actually publishes them.
Kovett's conclusion is -- and it seems hard to doubt -- that Joe Kent was a determined conspiracy theorist who could not let go of the idea that Jews Killed Charlie Kirk, even after the proof emerged that the killer was a non-Jewish furry-fucker. And after Kolvett repeatedly refused to make the chats public, Kent gave them to Candace Owens (and probably Tucker Carlson too, although Owens could have given them to Carlson).
Note that Joe Kent was a government official and ostensibly a high-ranking counter-terrorism official, but decided to leak private DMs he had been given in his capacity as government official to an extremely unreliable and toxic internet personality.
That might be a crime. I don't know. The texts weren't classified but they were sensitive personal information given to a public official for purposes of an official government investigation -- not to leak to a hair-on-fire lunatic podcaster.
It is definitely a fireable offense, whether or not a criminal one.
And I wonder if it might be the subject of a lawsuit by TPUSA and Erika Kirk, who have been absolutely brutalized due to Joe Kent's leaking to the maniacal conspiracy theorist and defamer Candace Owens.
And now Joe Kent announces that he will testify on behalf of Charlie Kirk's actual murderer Tyler Robinson and tell the jury that no, the Jews did it, let this innocent patsy-of-the-Jews free.
Here are the facts: Yes, I shared the screen grab with Joe Kent because I was told I could trust him and I wanted EVERY possible lead pursued. We've done this quietly behind the scenes with countless items.
Shortly after Robinson’s arrest, the prosecutors released a probable cause affidavit detailing the evidence gathered immediately after Charlie’s assassination.
The evidence presented at that time was overwhelming.
The news about Joe Kent testifying for Tyler Robinson broke just minutes before today's show. I did not hold back in my feelings about it. pic.twitter.com/lCnzPcFKp3
And because of this psychotic Nazi, Erika Kirk and TPUSA officials have now had their lives threatened almost daily by internet lunatics convinced they murdered Charlie Kirk and then covered it up.
Gee I sure hope that no harm comes to Joe Kent, Candace Owens, or Tucker Carlson. I sure hope that no one ever suffers the consequences of their own actions.
Despite Hurting Miniature Senator Rand Paul's Fragile Feelings, Markwaye Mullin is Confirmed as Secretary of DHS Democrats Preparing Failure Theater on Their DHS Shutdown?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I don't know much about this guy except that I have vague memories of him standing on the open borders/"Comprehensive Amnesty Reform" side of things a few times.
But if Trump thinks he can be browbeaten into being useful, fine, I'll defer to Trump.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: The Senate just voted 54-45 to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) as DHS Secretary.
Applause & cheers break out.
The only Republican no vote was Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
The only two Democrats to vote yes were Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) & Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM).
The Senate on Monday night confirmed Sen. Markwayne Mullin as the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, handing President Trump another key cabinet win as his administration moves to tighten its grip on immigration enforcement and national security.
Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican and close Trump ally, was approved in a 54-45 vote, with a largely party-line split that still saw a few notable defections. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was the lone Republican to vote against the nomination, while Democrat Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico crossed the aisle to support it.
When Paul was questioning a vote of Mullins', which I think showed Mullins as weak on the border, Mullins said something like "I can see why Rand Paul's neighbor beat him up." Paul made this his primary case against Mullins -- not the vote, the comment about Paul being very punchable. He told Mullins to tell him that to his face, as if he were some kind of tough-guy. This is like a dweeby fourth grader saying "Say that to my face" when in the presence of three teachers and the Vice Principle.
Rand Paul is an unserious pansy bitch and I can't wait to primary xim.
The confirmation caps a swift rise for Mullin, who Trump tapped earlier this month to replace Kristi Noem. In announcing the move on Truth Social, Trump said Noem would transition to a new role as "Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas," while praising Mullin's record in Congress, noting his decade in the House and three years in the Senate and calling his performance "tremendous."
Mullin, a former mixed martial arts fighter turned lawmaker, quickly embraced the nomination, signaling alignment with Trump's agenda at a department that has become central to the administration's immigration crackdown and broader homeland security posture.
"I am grateful to President Trump for nominating me to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security," Mullin wrote on X following the announcement. "I look forward to earning the support of my colleagues in the Senate and carrying out President Trump's mission alongside the department's many capable agencies and the thousands of patriots who keep us safe every day."
For over a month, Democrats have shut down the Department of Homeland Security -- inflicting pain on over 100,000 American families missing paychecks and causing widespread disruption to millions of travelers across the country.
Democrats have misrepresented negotiations in the press, been unresponsive, prolonged the suffering of hardworking Americans, boasted that they are "very serene" about this dangerous shutdown and are now openly admitting they are "making people hurt."
The Trump Administration has negotiated in good faith from day one to fully fund DHS and avoid this dangerous shutdown, but instead of working towards a solution, Democrats have responded with a list of unserious, extreme demands that would seek to reinstitute Biden's failed open-border agenda, protect criminal illegal aliens, and put American citizens -- and the law enforcement officers who defend them -- in danger.
Let's be clear: these attempts to defund our federal law enforcement agents and border security are unacceptable to the American people.
Trump's Nefarious Scheme to use ICE agents, whose salaries are fully funded, to serve as emergency TSA agents as Democrats ruthlessly attempt to shut down the country is actually working, says CNN.
I don't know if the following arrest was planned in advance or just occurred because Trump had assigned ICE agents to perform TSA duties:
BREAKING: DHS tells @FoxNews that this viral incident at SFO airport last night involved ICE arrests of a family Guatemalan illegal immigrants who have had a deportation order since 2019, and one of the females tried to flee while being escorted for processing. Happened before… https://t.co/dn0p5saJbN
I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country
Allegedly, Democrats are ready to make a deal, though I suspect they're offering a "deal" in the same way Iran's mullahs routinely offer "deals."
Ed Morrissey, quoting Punchbowl DC:
Suddenly, Senate Democrats want to play Monty Hall on the stalled funding package for the Department of Homeland Security. Multiple outlets report that a new deal will fund DHS, except for a slice of ICE's migrant-removal operations. However, Republicans have a plan for that, and that may cost Democrats more than just a little face:
For the first time in more than a month, there's optimism that the Senate and the White House can finally find a path to reopening the Department of Homeland Security. Key Senate Republicans returned from the White House late Monday with a noticeably upbeat demeanor over the state of the talks with President Donald Trump, who had just rebuffed a GOP-backed off-ramp.
The framework under discussion would fund all of DHS except for ICE's migrant removal operations, and could eventually include some reforms that Democrats have been demanding.
Republicans would then try to fund the rest of ICE via a party-line reconciliation bill.
That strategy opens up another option, however:
GOP leaders would also try to use reconciliation to enact elements of the SAVE America Act, which mandates photo IDs and citizenship verification for federal elections. Trump has called this bill his top legislative priority.
Maybe this did it:
BREAKING - Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian is receiving nationwide applause after stripping members of Congress of their special priority privileges in response to the Democrat led shutdown, calling it an “inexcusable” use of TSA agents as political chips. pic.twitter.com/d8Gx0QsBiE
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) March 24, 2026
Tomorrow is March 25th, "Tolkien Reading Day," because March 25th is the day when the Ring is destroyed in the book. I think I'm going to start the Hobbit tomorrow and read all four books this time. The only bad part of the trilogy are the Frodo/Sam chapters in The Two Towers. They're repetitive, slow, and mostly about the weather and terrain. But most everything else is good. Weirdly, the Frodo-Sam chapters in Return of the King are exciting and action-packed and among the best in the trilogy. (Though the chapters with everyone else in Return of the King get pretty slow again. Mostly people talking about marching towards war, and then marching towards war.)
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click
One day I'm gonna write a poem in a letter
One day I'm gonna get that faculty together
Remember that everybody has to wait in line
Oh, [Song Title], look out world, oh, you know I've got mine
“robert mueller just died,” trump wrote in a truth social post on march 21. “good, i’m glad he’s dead. he can no longer hurt innocent people! president donald j. trump.”
[A]n asshole is somebody who looks at a painting of two toddlers doing something totally normal for toddlers and decides that it represents homosexuality and then thinks that publicly saying that is somehow edgy and clever. Instead it is doing what we accuse the Left of, that is sexualizing young children. If that describes you, own it.
Reports: The A-10 Thunderbolt, better known as The Warthog, has been unleashed on Iran It's a heavily armored (the pilot sits in a titanim bathtub) slow-and-low loitering plane with a massive minigun firing depleted uranium rounds. The capability it brings is the ability to just fly big circles over the country waiting for a target to present itself. This is a weapons platform for eliminating vehicles and personnel. Its first task might be strafing the seas, clearing out any remaining attack boats and minelayers.
Update: My ballpark estimate for a reasonable cost for a wildlife overpass (suitably padded to sate the thirst of Democrat grifters) was $15 million. Turns out, that was a good estimate. That's how much it cost Denver to build one.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton discuss the obvious incompatibility of Islam with free societies, John Bolton is a disloyal sleaze, The SAVE Act is in the muck of Senate RINOs, the crappy quality of anti-American propaganda, and more!
