Trump: We Shot Down All Eight Ballsitic Missiles Iran Shot at Our Base in Jordan, and Are Now Hitting Them Very Hard
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians' failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan. If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!President DONALD J. TRUMP
Here is video of a failed ICBM launch in Khomein, Iran. I'm guessing we had nothing to do with bringing it down. Just more crap technology Iran bought from China or Russia.
Here's an alternate view of the failed launch or, possibly, a different failed launch. This one can be seen blowing up on the ground in Iran.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump announces the Islamic Republic of Iran will be hit back "AT A MUCH HARDER AND HIGHER LEVEL" if they retaliate for the current US strikes around HormuzALL Iranian missiles launched at American assets were shot down 🇺🇸
47 then threatens to LEVEL the country:
"But it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!"
"The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz."
"The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians' failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan."
"If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level."
Trump is no longer calling for ceasefires and negotiations. He allows that negotiations are happening, but also says he doesn't take them seriously.
I guess he's in it to win it now. Though the new strategy is a long siege and strangulation.
Space Force is reportedly watching Iran's boats and missile launchers:
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh🚨 NOW: US SPACE FORCE WATCHED IRAN MOVE AROUND THE STRAIT. Now they've been STRUCK.
President Trump has been clear that Space Force is watching the mullahs' EVERY MOVEMENT before they can even begin to launch mines and disrupt the Strait of Hormuz
CENTCOM just confirmed strikes were carried out at noon. FAFO.
YINGST: "They've been watching using Space Force and also the U.S. Navy that is positioned there at that blockade line in the Gulf of Oman whenever any of the Iranian forces try to move air defense systems or radars."
"They are watching very closely and likely these are the targets that are being hit right now as we speak."
"These appear to be relatively widespread strikes, not just targeting that southern city of Bandar Abbas, but also initial reports of explosions on Qeshm Island and areas even further south of this area next to the Gulf of Oman."
"It's an indication that once again the United States is trying to send a message to the Iranian regime that threats against this international waterway will not be tolerated." @TreyYingst
I don't understand why Iran acts like this isn't always going to be the end result.
Time to bury the head of the snake.
Scott Bessent made an even more menacing threat. He says he knows the offshore (Virgin Islands) accounts where the mullahs have stored their stolen money, and he says the US might just seize it:
Post Conversation Eric Daugherty @EricLDaughBREAKING: Scott Bessent just sent shivers down the spine of Iranian regime leaders. What a bad*ss...
"I will say it on worldwide TV: we KNOW WHERE in the British Virgin Islands your accounts are, at these trust companies. We know the hundred million dollar houses you have around the world. WE ARE GOING TO CLOSE ALL THAT DOWN."
"We are going after the regime's assets they have stolen from the Iranian people."
"They can go to the victims of terror."
"After 47 years — IT IS OVER."
"Either you are with us, or against us."
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Muskily-Heterosexual James Talarico in 2020: Capitalism Is "Oppressive," Texas Must Stop Producing Oil
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In 2020 forum, James Talarico said Texas oil was 'not gonna last,' called capitalism 'oppressive'Six years before becoming Texas Democrats' US Senate nominee, James Talarico described capitalism as an "oppressive system" during a Sierra Club event, grouping it with White supremacy and climate change and saying ending the ways all three worked together was necessary to begin the process of "dismantling them."
During the Sierra Club event from September 2020, Talarico participated in a virtual climate candidate forum in which he also compared Texas' leadership in the oil and gas industry to "being the leader in cassette tapes in the 1980s," declaring "that industry is not gonna last."
The previously unreported comments come at a time when Talarico is trying to broaden his appeal as he's faced attacks from Republicans trying to paint him as too progressive for Texas. Talarico has raised significantly more money than his GOP opponent Ken Paxton, but remains locked in a tight race against the scandal-plagued Texas attorney general.
Talarico's remarks offer a window into the more explicitly progressive language he used before launching a statewide campaign built around affordability, faith and taking on wealthy interests.
It's not just "language," Andrew Kaczinsky. That's the Democrat Socialists' spin, that their past comments are about "cringey" language only. Their spin is that this is a language problem, not a policies or ideology or beliefs problem, and you concede this spin to them by repeating the spin uncritically.
He said he wants to "dismantle capitalism." This isn't just language -- this is a program. If he's claiming that the only problem here was language, the obvious follow-up question is "What language would you prefer to use instead of 'dismantle capitalism,' then?"
Woke 1 was cringey, man.
When asked what lawmakers could do to address the disproportionate effects of climate change on communities of color, Talarico thanked the moderator for the question and the young activists at the club for the way they had framed the issue.
"I am so thankful that you asked this question and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and White supremacy and capitalism in our country," Talarico said. "And I think only ending the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we gonna be able to begin the process of dismantling them."
Later, when asked how he explains climate policy to voters in a district President Donald Trump carried in 2016, Talarico said he focused on values, jobs and whether Texas would lead the industries of the future -- a future he suggested would not include oil and gas.
"We all know that Texas has been a leader in oil and gas, but in many ways that's like being the leader in cassette tapes in the 1980s," Talarico later said responding to another question. "That industry is not gonna last. And if we wanna ensure we have an economy that's gonna work for our children and our children's children, we gotta be ahead of the curve and Texas has to lead instead of follow on this issue."
On his current campaign website, Talarico says Texas is "the energy leader of the world -- and as senator, I will work tirelessly to ensure our state not only maintains, but extends that innovative leadership for generations to come so that Texans always have access to reliable, affordable energy."
JT Ennis, a spokesperson for the campaign, told CNN that Talarico has already acknowledged some of his past comments "missed the mark" and attacked Paxton, Talarico's opponent.
"James is a proud capitalist and agrees with the majority of Texans that racism, natural disasters, and a billionaire-controlled economy are all problems we need to address," said Ennis in a statement. "James supports the oil and gas industry and believes in an all of the above energy strategy that protects Texas oil and gas jobs."
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Previously, in 2021, Talarico suggested during a legislative session that modern science asserts there are six biological sexes -- which spurred the nickname "Six-Gender Jimmy" from Paxton and his supporters.
Talarico has since addressed some of his past comments, calling them "cringey." He said that he knows there are two sexes, men and women, and "a very small percentage of people who have these chromosomal abnormalities" who deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
After the state's massive power grid failure in 2021 killed hundreds of Texans, Talarico introduced a bill in the state house to combat climate change by requiring the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 90 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 and at least 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. The bill died in committee.
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Texas oil and gas production has increased since Talarico's 2020 remarks and meets or exceeds pre-pandemic levels.
Like Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed and Francesca Hong and AOC, his response is just to distance himself from his old phrasing while keeping all of the policies that "phrasing" accurately described.
Andrew Kaczynski @KFILETalarico campaign tells CNN his "cringey," past comments "missed the mark," and he's a capitalist who supports oil and gas.
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Massachusetts "Man" Who Speaks Only Portuguese Arrested for Strangling a Woman After She Refused to Have Sex With Him; He Says He Strangled Her "by Accident" after Going "Crazy"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It could happen anywhere but it mostly happens in blue shitholes.
A man is being held without bail in connection with a woman found dead at her home in Framingham on Thursday. Framingham police said the suspect, 43-year-old Flavio Dias, called 911 stating he killed the victim by mistake and strangled her.
Boy is his face red!
Dias is being charged with assault and battery causing serious bodily harm. He's also facing one count of possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card.
The family of the victim, identified as 33-year-old Brianna Connolly, could be seen getting emotional as they heard the details of the case in the courtroom.
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"He states very clearly, 'Can I have police? A homicide just happened here right now,'" Brandt stated.
Brandt said Dias was speaking in Portuguese.
"He then states, 'I ended up killing a woman by mistake.' He says, 'I went crazy and suffocated her later on, says that he strangled her,' Brandt stated.
Oh, he went crazy? I'm sure the Lindsay Clancy Legions will defend his right to strangle a woman to death.
Brandt claimed Dias then stated on the 911 call that he was at the victim's home on Waverly Street in Framingham, and they were doing drugs. He said Dias stated they got into an argument because he wanted to have sex, but she did not.
This sure is a Mystery. We'll probably never solve the crime of the Massachusetts Man.
Oh wait, no, turns out it was easy:
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_34m
BREAKING: I'm told by multiple federal sources that the suspect in custody for strangling a woman to death in her home in Framingham, MA on Thursday is a Brazilian illegal alien w/ prior arrests for DUI & aggravated assault w/ a weapon who is believed to have entered the U.S. illegally as a gotaway in 2019.
Sources confirm that ICE has now placed a detainer on 43-year-old Flavio Diaz with law enforcement in Middlesex County, MA.
And Massachusetts, of course, will not honor that detainer.
Jury Deadlocked and Can't Decide if It's a Crime for a Mother to Murder Her Children
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I'm half-joking with that headline because I know the issue is whether she is guilty, or not guilty by reason of insanity. She did do some insane things --beyond bringing her children into the basement to strangle them one by one. She slashed her wrists and jumped out a window to kill herself or, perhaps, to pretend to kill herself.
On the other hand she both planned the crime -- googling how to murder children, and sending her husband out on an errand so she could kill them undisturbed -- and took actions after the murders to conceal them.
The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has ordered the jury to return to deliberations after it informed him that they could not reach a unanimous verdict."I brought you back out because I know that this was a long trial," the judge said. "Because of this, I'm going to ask you to go back out, keeping in mind all the instructions that I gave you, to go out and continue your deliberations."
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
The Clancy jury has told the court that it is deadlocked. As expected, Judge Sullivan is now sending them back. That is a common response to push a jury further. Not surprising given the intense divisions in the country, the jury appears to be manifesting those same divisions......The prosecution finished strongly with a narrative that emphasized the timeline and the actions taken by Clancy to carry out the murders. Some jurors may find the "not guilty" part of a "by reason of insanity" verdict to be too high a hurdle, given the death of three young children by strangulation...
Legal insanity is -- or is supposed to be -- a difficult thing to prove. To be legally insane and not culpable of a crime, you have to be so disturbed that you cannot tell right from wrong. An age-old way of disproving such inability to tell right from wrong is to show the criminal planned the crime in secret and then took steps to cover it up.
So we may be talking about the unofficial, non-legal "definition" of insanity, which is just that the criminal has some mental illness and so poof, all culpability is out the window. Almost all killers have something wrong in their brains, from having no moral compass at all, to having low impulse control, to being actual psychopaths. This is not supposed to excuse them, but juries can be persuaded to ignore the law if they feel sympathy for the murderer.
Or murderess -- women get the benefit of this fake definition of insanity more than men do.
So what do you think: Mistrial where the jury never delivers a verdict, in which case we have to do this all again, or let off the hook on the fake definition of inanity? I doubt the jurors in favor of conviction can persuade the pro-Lindsay jurors to flip. As you know, she's become quite the Misunderstood Hero to some.
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The Tuesday Morning Rant
—Doof
Selective outrage. We've seen it countless times. Difficult to predict, but very clear when it happens.
Often times results in "Whataboutism"
Whataboutism often serves to reduce the perceived plausibility or seriousness of the original accusation or question by suggesting that the person advancing it is hypocritical or that the responder’s misbehavior is not unique or unprecedented.
That is from britannica.com
A great recent example comes from the golf world. Well known equipment and apparel manufacturer Callaway found them selves in hot water over an ad produces by a partner company of theirs called Good Good Golf. The backlash was strong. The outrage seems -- selective.
Good Good Golf has taken the brunt of the immediate criticism and consequences. Callaway - for now at least - not so much.
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The Morning Report — 9/ 1 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Wow, welcome to September, but am I alone in being confused in that today is not Labor Day? Alas, for some bizarre reason it was moved to the second week in September. But be that as it may, there's lots of ground to cover, so Lez-be-on our way...
Well, I'm sure you'll all be relieved at this news:
A Las Vegas jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of first-degree murder on Monday in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, bringing an end to one of the most infamous unsolved murders in hip hop.
If only he had formed a band with Meatloaf, they could've been the Tupac Aday men. But, all seriousness aside, the now decomposing and Kaput Tupac was related to this evil, vile, degenerated fiend
Was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List in the early 1970, Murdered NJ State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973, Escaped from prison in 1979, Had been a fugitive in Cuba since 1984 * Icon of the Black Lives Matter movement. . .Shakur was the godmother and step-aunt of the famed rapper Tupac Shakur, who was killed in a 1996 drive-by shooting. Assata Shakur died on September 25, 2025 in Havana, Cuba. According to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, her death was due to “health conditions and advanced age.”
So why is this relevant today, well look what's running for the Senate in Florida1!
Angie Nixon, a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member who is vying to be the next senator of Florida, is still pulling quotes from Marxist cop killer Assata Shakur, although conveniently leaving out the origins of her words now that she secured her nomination and is trying to appeal to general election voters. . . “I’m gonna open this up for questions, but I’m gonna leave y’all with these words of a famous freedom fighter before we open it up: Assata Shakur,” Nixon said of the Marxist cop killer who at one time appeared on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s list of “most wanted” terrorists.“‘It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and protect one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains,’” Nixon continued.
And so are there enough spawn of Beelzebub and Pazuzu in Florida to actually drag this freak over the finish line?
But what of the rest of the nation?!
“The Democrat Party is becoming the party of socialism. Fifty-eight percent view socialism positively. 50 percent view capitalism negatively. I’m a proud free market capitalist. This is lunacy,” posted Senator Fetterman (D-PA) on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this month in reference to a similar poll, which revealed that Democrats have a more positive view of socialism than capitalism. . . However, while it is clear that support for socialism and communism has grown within the Democratic Party, far-left ideologies remain widely unpopular. For instance, despite New York City’s election of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is a member of the DSA, a poll published earlier this month found that only 30 percent of people in New York state support the organization.
There is something redolent here of the seeming takeover of the Democrat Party half a century ago by a younger generation of voters and activists opposed to the Vietnam War that resulted in the nomination of George McGovern in 1972 and had a continual influence on elected Democrats and policymakers through most of the 1970s and 1980s. That came from a protest movement incubated on college and university campuses, centered on Vietnam but also influenced by tomes such as Charles Reich’s 1970 “The Greening of America.”Similarly, the great motivating cause of DSA-adjacent Democrats seems to be statehood for Gaza, opposition to Israel, and, in very many cases, hostility toward Jews.
And speaking of "And yet" This Obama Advisor Just Denounced the DSA...
HE'S RUNNING: "They believe in defunding the police, letting prisoners out of prisons, opening the borders, eliminating the Pentagon," former Barack Obama advisor and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Fox News Sunday, denouncing his party's Democratic Socialist rivals. Emanuel continues testing the waters for a presumed 2028 presidential run.
For those unaware, not only is Rahm a Jew - by birth since his entire life is wholly unholy and antithetical to Judaism, America and civilization, but I believe his lineage is Israeli so you can multiply no shot in hell by orders of magnitude right there!
A maniac was shot dead by police in the heart of Times Square Monday after she stabbed two people, one fatally, and confronted cops while wildly waving two knives and threatening to kill them, the NYPD said. The caught-on-camera mayhem erupted in the Crossroads of the World after Pamela Cisneros, 49, randomly knifed a man and a woman in a 20-second span near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue just before 4:30 p.m., cops said. . . Cops spoke to the woman for four minutes and gave her “numerous commands” to drop the knives, but she refused, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference on Monday night. “I’m not dropping anything, I would rather kill both of you. I will kill you,” Cisneros told cops during the encounter, Tisch said. Officers discharged several tasers at Cisneros, but they “proved to be ineffective,” and she continued charging toward officers with the knives, according to Tisch. . . Two officers then opened fire, striking the Cisneros, who had a known history of mental illness with the department. She was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
Well, too bad that Rahm lost a potential voter!!! Not that being dead is a deterrent to ever casting a ballot for a Democrat, as we know all to well...But sadly and frighteningly there are thousands more just like this now mercifully ventilated psychopath who will go after any and all of us at the drop of a hat, because we're Trump voters, Jews or just normal Americans... And with that I bid you all to...
Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Victor Davis Hanson: The West has mastered the technology of civilization but embraced the politics of barbarism, creating a modern medieval world where progress and regression coexist.
Progressive Regression and the New Medievalism
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Daily Tech News 1 September 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- I'm an Amazon HR drone who hasn't coded in 25 years. Then I didn't code. (About Amazon)
If you count code generators, my LOC count is in the tens of billions. Shipped to production. And I wrote those code generators.
- Speaking of retarded people, California. (Linuxiac)
Just unanimously passed an age of consent law for keyboards.
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The Monday Over Night Thread (8/31/26) The Dental Plan Has Expired Edition (Short)
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
["Fog Shrouded Falls" - 24" x 30" Acrylic - Mis. Hum.]
Two weeks ago in the midst of writing my Monday ONT my old PC died. The admirable CBD filled in and completed my task. You owe him big time. Thanks CBD.
Quote I Voluntary ignorance is the American condition. In the form of a smartphone, a citizen carries in his pocket the complete Federalist, Madison’s notes on the Convention, every ratification debate, and all of Blackstone, and he uses the device to watch strangers dance. Cicero warned that to remain ignorant of what came before you were born is to remain forever a child. We have raised a nation of toddlers holding voter-registration cards. Joe Wolverton II, J.D.
Quote II "It's been two weeks since he showed me his junk. You shouldn't have to be afraid in your own neighborhood to walk a trail. ... That's what they built it for." Jeanne Wolverton
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Monday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Ben Wolf
What is going on here? Note the baby goat in background.
Cats have no boundaries, and their jurisdiction is infinite.
Another cute pair.
Helping a baby goat who got stuck in a canal.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
She's still living on stolen land, too.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaughAug 29
WOW! Elon Musk CALLS OUT socialist Billie Eilish as a massive hypocrite
"[She hates] on capitalism and 'stolen land' while selling PERFUME and living in LUXURY on that SAME LAND."
Speaking of stolen land, the Supreme Court has rebuked a lower court order to halt Trump's repair and remodeling of the East Wing of the White House.
Specifically, they issued a stay, putting the lawless rogue lower court's injunction against Trump on hold.
On April 17, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit stayed the district court's injunction, effectively allowing construction to proceed, while it considered the government's appeal. On August 7,
2026, the court of appeals resolved that appeal and upheld the district court's injunction. At the same time, the court indicated that its existing stay would expire on August 21, 2026, and the district court's injunction would thus take effect.Confronted with an imminent order requiring it to substantially halt its ongoing construction activities, the government filed a motion in this Court seeking a stay of the district court's injunction pending a forthcoming petition for a writ of certiorari and any further proceedings in this Court. THE CHIEF JUSTICE issued an administrative stay to facilitate review of the government's application and referred the matter to the Court.
We grant the requested stay. The government has established that it is likely to succeed on the merits of a significant legal question, that it would likely suffer irreparable harm without a stay, and that the balance of equities tips in its favor.
Essentially this is a full and final reversal -- by the time the full case is decided, the remodeling will be concluded, rendering this lawsuit moot.
Two points: The Supreme Court ruled that the National Trust, which brought the suit, has no standing to sue at all, and Chief Justice Roberts, of course, sided with the liberals, because he is one.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed tells his audience to fake their enthusiasm for his stump lines -- he actually tells them to "go nuts" -- so that his Advertising Jihadis can use the crowd's reaction in its political ads to "push back on AIPAC."
Mike Rogers makes the subtext into text in an anti-Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed ad: "ABDUL IS JUST WEIRD." Indeed.
Speaking of radical Muslims who hate America: Tuq'r Qarlson has on a "Missouri farmer" -- who he refuses to tell his audience is a former Democrat lieutenant governor -- to trash Trump for allowing the importation of Argentinian beef. (Was this ever not allowed? They make a lot of it.)
The Islam First agitator then explains who The Real Villain Here is: Can you guess?
@MaxNordau
Tucker Carlson brings on "Missouri farmer" Joe Maxwell to attack President Trump's decision to import Argentine beef.Carlson knows exact who the culprit is: Israel. "The president of Argentina is a close ally of the prime minister of Israel, unlike President Maduro, who was an opponent."
(Not mentioned: Maxwell is the Democrat former Lieutenant Governor of Missouri)
Benjamin Ryan
@benryanwriterThis Washington Post article claims that an NORC survey found 400,000 trans people have recently fled to another state.
As @kittypurrzog pointed out on @TheBARPod, the 400K figure was, with some faulty math, extrapolated by Erin Reed based on the NORC survey, which included just 10 trans people who said they'd fled a state. The survey did not provide a representative sample either. So this figure has been all but plucked out of the air and was not actually reached by NORC themselves. It is a figment of Erin Reed's work with a calculator.
This is not to say that trans people are not fleeing red states. But it is extremely unlikely that 400,000 of them have.
Even leftwing media hacks have to admit that X's user-produced community note system of corrections works. And I'd add it works 10,000% better than media hacks' tendentious, political-ax-grinding "corrections."
The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFoxMSNBC contributor reluctantly admits 𝕏 Community Notes actually works, even though it physically pains her to say so.
Rolling Stone called @ElonMusk
and 𝕏 "the biggest purveyors of online misinformation."Now liberals like Molly Jong-Fast are admitting that false information and missing context get kept in check "pretty well" by Community Notes.
MAHER: "In this current atmosphere we live in, I never believe anything I read just from that one thing I read."
JONG-FAST: "X has community notes, and I think community notes -- I don't want to compliment X here, but community notes works pretty well."
MAHER: "Well, then compliment them. Why can't you?"
JONG-FAST: "I'm doing it! I'm doing it. Yes, I'm doing it, but I don't want to."
Some things in life just aren't funny, and prominent among them is Bill Maher. So I don't find this funny, but it is an accurate point:
RedWave Press @RedWavePressHILARIOUS: Bill Maher: "Trump is so mad at Canada, he renamed Lake Ontario Lake America... Liberals are very pissed at this. They say you can't just go around renaming to suit your political agenda. Just ask any Latinx birthing person."
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Trump Announces Truly Huge Deal to... Take Over 65 Billion Barrels' Worth of Venezuela's Oil Reserves?!
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Why would they do this?
Because successive socialist governments have, get this, run the oil industry into the ground. They did not do basic maintenance and never bothered to upgrade and modernize their infrastructure. They have billions of barrels of oil they never invested any money in so the oil remains underground.
The socialists, if you can believe this, simply extracted oil (and embezzled the money) while doing nothing to safeguard the future health of the industry.
So Venezuela needs outside help to do the most basic things.
Let's elect socialists in America to work the same Economic Miracles!
I don't know if I like this. Venezuela has a nasty habit of repudiating past agreements and "nationalizing" -- stealing -- foreign investments in their oil industry.
But, who knows, if there's a Trumpian president, maybe they'll remember what happened to Maduro before nationalizing the newest capital improvements.
The US has struck a deal with Venezuela to control more than 65 billion barrels of its proven oil reserves, Donald Trump said.The US president wrote that the agreement would more than double American oil reserves and "substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans".
In a late-night address on Saturday, Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez hailed the deal as one that would help her nation's economic revival.
The media's stories all push the same attack line: The oil will not be extracted for years so Trump is a Big Orange Liar when he says that the deal will lower gas prices.
Try Googling it. Every single media story claims Trump is a liar about this reducing gas prices and he's doomed, doomed in the midterms.
They've managed 100% narrative coordination. Putin is envious.
But some analysts have reacted with scepticism, including questioning whether it would address long-running obstacles that have deterred investment in its oil industry.Trump has recently been under domestic pressure to tame petrol prices, which have spiked due to the Iran war.
He vowed to tap into Venezuela's reserves, the world's largest, after the US captured its then-President Nicolás Maduro in January, ostensibly to stand trial on drug charges in New York.
Rodriguez, who is Maduro's former vice-president and who the US backed following his capture, said on Saturday that the energy agreement with the US would remain in force for 25 years.
She said it would target an increase in crude output to 1.5 million barrels per day and preserve the country's sovereignty over its natural resources.
Rodriguez hailed the accord as a "historic" deal that would help revive the economy and boost government revenue, saying it would help shape the country's future.
Muslim Brotherhood Spawn Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Begins Deleting Old Tweets Making Light of 9/11, Claims That Anyone Who Wants to Judge a Senatorial Candidate Based on His Statements and Sympathies Is Engaging in "Cancel Culture"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Some people deleted some tweets about some people doing some things.
Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed an old tweet trashing America on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats to disavow far-left streamer Hasan Piker.In the now-deleted tweet, El-Sayed mourned the terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 and then noted that he planned to grieve the deaths he blamed on America over the wars that followed.
"Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith," El-Sayed wrote on Twitter, as it was then called.
"Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country."
That appears to be a reference to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the fighting that took place in Pakistan during the 2000s.It's not entirely clear when he scrubbed that tweet, which was first uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon, but has gained renewed attention as the country approaches the 25th anniversary of the attack.
A copy of the since-deleted tweet has been saved on the Wayback Machine.
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During his campaign, El-Sayed has faced scrutiny over his ties to Piker, with whom he stumped on the final day of his Democratic primary campaign.
Piker infamously said in 2019 that "America deserved 9/11," before later, very begrudgingly, sort of conceding it was an "inappropriate" comment. He was later spotted with a framed copy of a front-page newspaper showing the Twin Towers in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.
Piker, a multimillionaire socialist, also defended the US-designated terrorist group Hezbollah, gushed over the "brave mujahideen" who injured outgoing Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), and contended that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack was a "direct consequence" of Israeli actions. He also said that if Hamas engaged in rape, it "doesn't change the dynamic for me."
In the time since, Piker has tried to claim that he was joking and that critics don't understand streaming culture.
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"Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has so far refused to condemn the words of Hasan Piker, his friend and frequent campaign surrogate," Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) said in a statement.
"It is disingenuous for El-Sayed to try and distance himself from Piker without specifically condemning, refuting, or even just rejecting Piker's hateful rhetoric."
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El-Sayed has tried to downplay his ties to Piker, arguing the campaign is about his policies, not a streamer from California. But he repeatedly campaigned with Piker during the primary and has refused to disavow him.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed must know he's in trouble because he's apologizing to, get this, Jews, over his justification/minimization of a fellow Muslim's murder of Jewish children at a synagogue by saying "Hurt people hurt people."
In other words: Muslim get mad, Muslim kill Jews. Deal with it, and stop making Muslims mad.
Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, met individually with Jewish party leaders over the weekend to apologize for controversial statements he made in the past. The meetings are part of an effort to win over skeptical Jewish Democrats, CNN reported."I don't ever want my comments to hurt anybody's feelings. It's important to me that people understand that I take seriously the pain of all communities in this state," El-Sayed told CNN.
El-Sayed declined to discuss his relationship with Hasan Piker, a far-left Twitch streamer who campaigned with El-Sayed during the primary, saying it's "not a serious conversation." Piker had told his audience earlier this month that the issue of Israel has become so toxic that American Jews who support the country could be met with retaliation.
"If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews," Piker said earlier this month.
By the way: Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's white female liberal communications director hates, get this, white women.
No, she's not a self-hating white woman. Because her ideological religion makes her among The Elect and above the contempt that normal (spit) white women deserve.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's communications director Roxie Richner previously posted a series of messages targeting white people and white women, including one declaring that "all white women are policy failures."
The posts, made on X, then known as Twitter, date back to 2019 and 2020. Richner has worked with El-Sayed since at least his 2018 campaign for Michigan governor, according to previous social media posts. On May 26, 2020, the day after George Floyd died, Richner wrote: "I don't care if it's scary or makes you uncomfortable. Black people are being murdered by the police and white women are making shit up trying to get Black people killed. snap [the f---] out of it and start taking action."
She followed with another post saying, "all white women are policy failures."...
In another 2020 post, during violent unrest following Floyd's death, Richner responded to people questioning her comments about looting. "[I]f one more white ann arbor person dms me asking why i'm 'dEFeNdiNG LoOtiNG' i'm seriously gonna explode. your racism is showing. check yourselves. I'm not holding back on this s--- anymore, i'm dropping names if u keep it up," she wrote.
Following the 2020 presidential election, Richner also posted: ""!!! POC youth really carried us [purple heart emoji] and let's be very clear not ALL youth.. very disappointed in white youth and white women," according to the posts.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is a gleeful leftwing cancel culture asshole, but he says that, if you ask him about his prior statements or associations in judging his fitness to be one of only two federal senators from Michigan, You're doing cancel culture, you Soyboy Beta Cuck.
And he still refuses to say a single cross word about the man he has repeatedly invited to campaign with him.
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Released Emails Show Anthony Fauci Routinely Told "Scientists" To Delete His Emails (So That Congress and Other Investigators Couldn't See Them)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
No one is above the law, especially not a three-foot-seven malignant dwarf Bond villain.
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul has given the public another reason to doubt the efforts of COVID czar Anthony Fauci were benevolent, as the former director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases repeatedly told recipients of his emails to delete them after reading.In late July, Fauci appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which Paul chairs. Here, he repeatedly asserted his Fifth Amendment rights despite being a once-proud health official who loved the spotlight, making numerous media appearances.
While Fauci has been held in contempt of Congress, Just The News reported Sunday that Paul has released evidence showing the doctor told officials with whom he was in correspondence to delete emails on at least five occasions.
The emails date as far back as September 2009.
One email from Fauci concerning the AIDS vaccine research and smallpox vaccine told NIAID deputy Greg Folkers to "please delete this email after you had read it."
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In another email about a "doomsday virus," Dr. Cliff Lane was instructed to "please delete this email and then delete from the deleted file."
Perhaps less surprisingly, correspondence also showed Fauci trying to mislead the CIA and Director of National Intelligence's office, stressing that they should contract individuals associated with studies proving the virus occurred naturally.
That particular email is dated to July 2021.
Just The News noted that the Federal Records Act requires the preservation of documents relating to officials' work including emails.
Former President Joe Biden's pardon of Fauci dates to Jan. 1, 2014. In the case of the Folkers email, it was dated to 2009.
Could there be a way to prosecute Fauci for violating the Federal Records Act?
I did a quick search, and it appears that the statute of limitations for illegally deleting official federal records is just five years. So, no, not based on that email.
Despite the Biden pardon, states like Florida -- through the work of Attorney General James Uthmeier -- have subpoenaed Fauci over his diary entries released by Paul.
"Government officials have a certain level of immunity in their official capacities, but if Fauci personally profited off of the 'guidance' he issued, that very well could have broken Florida law," Uthmeier said.
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke41m
Over the weekend, Rand Paul released the latest batch of Fauci documents, this time concerning Fauci's efforts to delete federal records, his instructions to others to delete federal records, and his interactions with the CIA.
The most outrageous document in the batch, in my view, is the email below. It proves once and for all that Fauci himself unleashed the Proximal Origin fraudsters on the intelligence community. These were the very same scientists whose work he funded, whom he had enlisted to produce the fraudulent Proximal Origin paper to bury the Wuhan lab leak, and whom he later rewarded with enormous grants.
The depth of the cover up knows no bounds. It was not enough for Fauci to get the fraudulent paper published and use it to manufacture a false scientific consensus. He then also actively pushed his handpicked phony scientists into the intelligence community to sell the same deception there too.
And, of course, the intelligence community knew that these guys were total frauds. Yet rather than expose what was happening, it helped Fauci perpetuate the fake narrative.
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Grifter Narcissist Milo Yiannopolis Deported by Homeland Security for Illegally Overstaying His Visa
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He's to be deported. Good.
Not only is he a self-promoting grifter who tried to set Trump up by inviting the Nazi Nick Fuentes to a dinner with Trump, he's also a loud and proud degenerate.
And frankly, this is good counterpoint for when the left claims Trump is only deporting Black and Brown Folx.
Homeland Security @DHSgovOn August 27, ICE arrested Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, Louisiana. Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York. He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation's laws.
Yiannopoulos was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing. He will remain in ICE custody pending removal.
Being in detention is a choice. We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now. We encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right legal way to live the American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.
Yiannopolis is a loud, fake grifter advocate of deporting illegals. He champions whatever people will pay him money to champion.
Currently he's working to advance the "political" interests of mentally-ill moron Kanye West.
International Airport in Louisiana and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement."DHS reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country. Under President Trump, DHS will no longer tolerate this," the DHS spokesperson said in a statement. "This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport."
Reports indicated that Yiannopoulos was in New Orleans ahead of a concert by the formerly known as Kanye West. Yiannopoulos has done work for the political and corporate ambitions of West, who's now known as Ye.
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He has also been a supporter of ICE's immigration enforcement efforts in the past.
"California needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can't prove they are in the US legally," he posted on social media in June 2025.
He has now been deported back to the UK.
British right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the United States after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and one time political aide to rapper Kanye West, was deported on Friday, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Yiannopoulos, "an illegal alien from the United Kingdom" had been sent "back to his home country", a DHS spokesperson said in a statement given to the BBC.
A Biden judge just ruled that the US cannot deport foreigners who advocate for Islamism. Which in turn justifies terrorism and murder against Americans.
@EricLDaugh
🚨 UPDATE: ONE BIDEN JUDGE just stepped in and ruled AGAINST Sec. Marco Rubio having noncitizen students deported if they advocate for Islamism and other anti-American ideology
Judge Noël Wise just said those students have to stay here under the 1st Amendment.
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Whistleblower: NY AG and Gigantic Hag "Tish" James Commanded Her Underlings to Find (or Contrive) Criminal Charges Against Trump -- and His Friends and Allies
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is abuse of office. A prosecutor is supposed to investigate a crime and find the guilty party, not investigate a person to discover crimes (or, in this case, "crimes").
Before anyone can say it: Nothing will happen, of course.
Prosecutor in NY AG Letitia James' office says he was ordered to dig up dirt on Trump allies: reportA veteran prosecutor in state Attorney General Letitia James' office claims he was ordered to dig up dirt on people and groups "affiliated with Donald Trump," according to a bombshell report.
Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who now works in James' Investor Protection Bureau, said his boss instructed him "to find and pursue crimes" committed by Trump allies, according to a since-deleted email obtained by the Times-Union.
Wiesenfeld alleged in his email on Friday that Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe specifically directed him to target "Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)... without having a credible reason for targeting the organizations and individuals," the outlet reported.
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"If you believe Trump is using the [Department of Justice] attorneys to prosecute his enemies and further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish [James] is doing exactly the same thing," Wiesenfeld allegedly wrote in the message, which went to some 2,000 staffers before being yanked.
"I ask you that you not serve as Tish's personal attorneys by targeting her political enemies," he allegedly wrote. "Instead, I hope you choose to prosecute crimes and find the individuals accountable, rather than targeting individuals and then finding crimes."Weisenfeld asked that colleagues focus on prosecuting "rampant nonprofit homeless shelter fraud and antisemitic crimes in and around synagogues," and accused James of wasting "significant public taxpayer dollars to target convenient public enemies," Times-Union reported.
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During her 2018 campaign, James vowed to "prosecute the president for crimes committed in New York state" if she was elected -- and kept her word after taking over the office.
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Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former aide Melissa DeRosa ripped James on X Sunday.
"@TishJames has been abusing her office for political gain for years.
"Don't criticize Trump's use of DOJ if you're not going to call out hers -/ it's wrong when either side does it."
I don't think Trump is doing this at all. He's prosecuting the people who wrongfully prosecuted him -- and if, as they say, "no one is above the law," then they have endorsed their own prosecutions.
Remember, Trump talked about throwing Hillary in jail but as soon as he was elected he ditched that entirely, implicitly conceding it was just campaign fodder.
His first-hand knowledge doesn't directly implicate James: He alleges only that his direct superior, Investor Protection Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe, told him to target "Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)" without bothering to first find "a credible reason for targeting the organizations and individuals."
But he (understandably) believes Maswoswe was following orders from James, who after all ran for the office vowing to target Trump.The AG's office of course denies everything, immediately put Wiesenfeld on leave and no doubt will seek to crucify him.
After all, this is highly credible testimony that could easily be the final nail in tossing James' civil-case victory over Trump and quite possibly cost her this fall's election -- and even, should investigators find enough other testimony or hard evidence, put her in serious criminal jeopardy....
Tish James prefers to prosecute cops and her political enemies; let's hope she's soon out of government, if not in prison.
Is the bad ad gone? I only noticed it a couple of weeks ago and wrongly assumed that whatever company was paying for the ad would just stop paying for it and it would go away. I didn't expect them to camp on the site forever.
I think it's gone now. I hope.
Hampton Prescott on “The Curley Effect” – Municipal Mismanagement that Perpetuates Political Power by Driving Away Responsible Opposition
—Buck Throckmorton
[I needed backup for today’s Morning Rant, so friend-of-the-blog Hampton Prescott kindly offered up another of his excellent essays on the need for a revival of “municipal conservatism” to rescue failing cities. Specifically, I asked Hampton if he would discuss the subject of productive citizens fleeing cities - why it’s happening, the business community’s indifference to it, and what can be done to reverse the problem. I always assumed that the flight of law-abiding, tax-paying residents was a consequence of liberal mismanagement, but as Hampton explains, there is actually a term, “The Curley Effect,” for destructive municipal governance that benefits those in power by driving away responsible citizens who might otherwise vote incumbents out of office. Mr. Prescott’s essay is below the fold. – Buck]
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
—CBD
Landscape at Sunset
Aert van der Neer
At one of the great small museums of the world; Mauritshuis, in The Hague.
The Morning Report — 8/ 31 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good Morning kids.
More than 20 actors from the Marvel universe — including Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton — have joined a campaign calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. . . . This is what happens when Hollywood’s woke celebrity club substitutes ideology for facts. . . Barghouti, the convicted head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, is not in an Israeli prison because Israel disagrees with his politics or because he wrote an anti-Israel manifesto; he was charged with five murders, attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organization. He received a fair trial in an Israeli civilian court and was convicted, receiving five life sentences. . .. . . Perhaps that is the problem with the Marvel campaign. These are limousine liberals at their most comfortable: wealthy, privileged and insulated from the consequences of the causes they champion. They have spent their careers playing superheroes, but appear to know remarkably little about the history they are now trying to rewrite. They sit comfortably in their movie studio trailers and pronounce moral judgments on a bitter conflict in which they have no personal stake and, judging by this campaign, very little understanding. . . A man convicted of murdering five people, including an American citizen, cannot be transformed into a symbol of peace because the red carpet revolutionaries have decided to make him one.
Numbers from the following Brandeis report, American Undergraduates and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, show 18% support for Hamas among college students and 15% favorability for Israel.. . … this isn’t just about Israel. Or America. Colleges have normalized degrees of extremism on campus that reflect something like the Weathermen and Al Qaeda wrapped in a bow.
Yes, Ruffalo is the only American of the bunch that I can spot but along with the others perhaps it's a toxic mix of just innate Jew-hatred along with likely pandering to a receptive audience to their odious beliefs as a means to drive ticket sales. Either way these disgusting degenerates are the useful idiots of those who seek our destruction. Not just the Jews but All of us. Every last one of us who are collectively guilty of preventing them from creating their paradise on earth.
University campuses are notorious for promoting “safe spaces” where dissenting opinions are labeled as “violence.” Yet within the cushioned walls of the Ivory Tower, professors are increasingly using their lecterns to encourage literal violence in pursuit of radical agendas.
In 2025, Texas passed a law that mandated a financial literacy course requirement for students in grades 9 through 12: HB 27 modifies Section 28.025 of the Texas Education Code to expand and strengthen personal financial literacy instruction for high school students. Under the bill, students will be required to complete a dedicated one-half credit in personal financial literacy as part of their social studies coursework to graduate. This requirement separates financial literacy from the previously combined economics and financial literacy course structure, allowing for more focused and practical instruction in managing money, budgeting, savings, credit, loans, and other real-life financial concepts. . . .NGPF repeatedly champions the notion that people must be made equal through government action––a foundational premise of both socialism and woke ideology. Students taking this curriculum are explicitly asked to find a relationship between justice and reparations. In fact, NGPF utilizes an entire section to promote reparations through biased history lessons that assert that reparations are merely “one step on the path toward racial justice.”A curriculum being pushed on every Texas public high school — and maybe every state by 2030 — teaches students that equal treatment is unjust and equalized outcomes are "justice."
That is socialism.
You can bet your sweet ass that poison like this is happening as far back as kindergarten if not pre-school. Unless and until we utterly retake academia, we are finished as a nation and society. But never fear, our would-be Islamic overlords will one day be running our schools and they'll all be sharia-compliant.
Have a good day.
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Daily Tech News 31 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Google Maps has correctly marked Lake America and the crazies are being crazy. (Daily Beast)
Oh no.
- Speaking of crazies, they're upset that America's education system has stalled out 99% control by communist infiltrators. (LinkedIn)
Anyway.
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