Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Crime fell 18% last year, on its way to a historic low.
Crime rates are on the decline in U.S. cities with the national homicide rate falling by 18%, inching closer to a historic low, the Council on Criminal Justice said Thursday.The Council on Criminal Justice released its mid-year report examining patterns for 13 types of crime in 36 U.S. cities. It found that nine of the 13 crimes were on the decline through mid 2026.
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Lopez, a senior research specialist for the Council on Criminal Justice, and Boxerman, a research scientist for the Regional Justice Information Service based in Missouri, added in their report that there is not a single explanation for the current crime trends.
Of course. The "experts" always say the same thing after a tough-on-crime policy succeeds: "There are too many variables to say what has caused this."
The national homicide rate increased by 30% from 2019 to 2020.
Of the nine types of crime that declined in the first half of the year, carjacking had the greatest decrease, falling by 47%.
Drug offenses have continued to rise, marking the biggest upward trend at 12%.
The Council on Criminal Justice projected that the end of 2025 homicide rate would likely be the lowest since 1900. It says its mid-year data "suggest" the homicide rate in 2026 will fall even further, "reaching a new historic low."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and failed former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg now lead among Democrat presidential primary voters in New Hampshire.This poll of 648 primary voters released on July 22 shows AOC at the top with 22 percent support. Buttigieg is right below her with 21 percent. Everyone else is in single digits.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) earns nine percent support. Failed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is at eight percent. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) earns just six percent. Former Vice President Kamala Harris is at five percent.
But, John Nolte says, national polling puts Kamala Harris out front:
In the national polling, according to the RealClearPolitics poll of polls, Kamala is in first place, up by 11.3 points over second-place Newsom (27.9 percent to 16.6 percent)....
Democrats are also captured entirely by an obsession with identity, and Kamala ticks off three of those vital boxes: She's black, she's a woman, and although no one will say so, she's a useful idiot.
This means that South Carolina is most likely to come first because it has a large black population.
The Democrat Party simply cannot afford to alienate black voters in 2028, especially black women. You can ask James Talarico about that.
One might speculate that whites are looking at Kamala Harris' actual performance, while blacks and black women especially are looking at the Racial Injustice of not nominating a black woman.
Democrats: Let's make every single aspect of culture, society, and politics relentlessly about race and "racial identity." What's the worse that can happen?
Iowa had traditionally been at the front of the line in assigning delegates (in caucuses, not a primary), but the Democrats decided the state was too white and too conservative to have such a prominent role anymore.Technically, New Hampshire was the first primary in 2024, but it awarded zero delegates anyway. South Carolina, which saved Joe Biden's bacon in 2020, was the first real primary that mattered. And in South Carolina, the black vote is king in the Democratic Party.
For the 2028 primary season, the Democrats are having an internal battle over the first-in-the-nation status, and it has devolved into some nasty racial politics, because of course it has. This is what Democratic Party voters live, breathe, and fight about, because the only way to overcome racism is to think about race every second of the day, and have nightmares about microaggressions at night.
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House Passes "Stop Insider Trading" Bill to Forbid Congressmen from Trading Individual Stocks (Using Insider Information);
Noted Lifelong Inside-Trader Nancy Pelosi Votes Against It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The bill would allow congresmen to own stocks as part of money markets or indexes -- big groups of stocks traded by managers without input from the customer.
They, and their families, will just be barred from buying and selling individual stocks, where a congressman could make a killing based on insider knowledge of coming government action that could boost, or crush, a specific company's valuation.
But congressmen have been permitted to use their insider information -- either granted to them by their position on a committee or tipped to them as a straight-up bribe by company officials seeking official favor -- for decades. That's why every other congressman is a millionaire in six years.
Except for when Congress starts modifying the bill by adding exceptions.
House passes 'Stop Insider Trading Act' in bipartisan voteDemocrats who opposed the legislation argued that the bill does not go far enough because it prohibits members of Congress and their families from buying new individual stocks, but it doesn't prevent them from owning them.
The House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday passed the "Stop Insider Trading Act," which bans lawmakers and their families from trading individual stocks.
The bill passed in a 232-198 vote, with 13 Democrats supporting the legislation. A similar bill is in the Senate.
Democrats who opposed the bill argued that it does not go far enough because it prohibits members of Congress and their families from buying new individual stocks, but it doesn't prevent them from owning them.
"For too long, Americans struggling to make ends meet have watched as lawmakers have entered office just to leave as multi-millionaires," House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement. "This type of behavior is unacceptable and diminishes the American people's trust in this institution.
Nancy Pelosi has been a virulent opponent of such a ban in the past. That's because she's become one of the richest women of the country while "serving" in Congress.
The Democrats voted against this bill with the pretextual excuse "we want the bill to go farther" but one suspects they don't want the bill at all. Democrats have shown that they go into politics to plunder money from the public.
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Amazing: Female USA "Sports" Columnist and Woke Karen Argues That Caitlin Clark Should Accept Being Fouled by Black Lesbians Because If She Complains She's Putting Black LGBTs in Danger
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This nasty Karen claims that Caitlin Clark is "flopping" -- pretending to have been hurt when another player fouls her, or she wants a ref to call a foul on the player that collided with her.
And she says that Caitlin's flopping is a Matter of National Concern, because Caitlin Collins' alleged flopping is "putting the lives of blacks and queers in danger."
She doesn't mention, at all, Clark being the target of unnecessarily rough "you don't belong here white girl" fouls. She pretends those away. She just claims that Caitlin Clark's "flopping" is different from the flopping of all other women in the WNBA -- or the "men" playing in the World Cup, who flop on the ground and start twitching if you even breather in their direction -- because her white tears might, hypothetically, provoke a hypothetical white supremacist to avenge her.
Oh, and she brings up racial martyr Emmet Till, killed seventy years ago, as the reason that Caitlin Clark has to take her Physical Reparations like a good girl and shut up about it.
Otherwise, it's Selma all over again.
Here's a couple of passages from this Woke White Savoir Sermon:
USA Today writer invokes Emmett Till, says Caitlin Clark puts Black and queer players 'in danger' by flopping Nancy Armour's column argues Clark's reactions to officiating fuel racist harassment of opponentsBy Dan Zaksheske
USA Today columnist Nancy Armour wants Caitlin Clark to stop flopping and berating WNBA officials.
Plenty of people agree with that take, including OutKick's Dan Dakich.
Others would argue that Clark's frustration is understandable, given the physical treatment she has received and the WNBA's inconsistent officiating. Either way, Armour is well within her rights to criticize Clark's behavior on the court.
But Armour's latest column goes much further than that. Much, much further, as she invoked the murder of Emmett Till to try and make a point.
Armour argues that Clark's reactions to missed calls put "Black" and "queer" WNBA players "in danger," essentially blaming Clark for alleged racist messages sent by people she doesn't know and has publicly condemned.
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Armour is using disputed basketball plays to push a left-wing narrative about "Black and queer" women in the WNBA.
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And this isn't the first time Armour has worked backward to make Clark the problem.
After DiJonai Carrington poked Clark in the eye during the 2024 playoffs, leaving Clark with a black eye, Armour wrote that Clark needed to "call out the toxic segment of her fan base." Both Clark and Carrington said the contact was not intentional, but Clark was the player left with a black eye. Yet Armour decided Carrington was the victim and Clark was the perpetrator.
What Nancy Armour didn't write about
Now, let's contrast those incidents with what Armour didn't feel the need to write a column about.
Last month, Alyssa Thomas drove her fist to Clark's throat during a game between the Fever and Mercury. Officials didn't call a foul, but the WNBA reviewed the play afterward, assessed Thomas a Flagrant 2 and suspended her for one game for "recklessly making contact" with Clark's throat area.
Armour doesn't appear to have written a single word about that, at least not that I could find.
There was no demand from Armour that Thomas consider the wider consequences of her behavior. No lecture about how her actions might inflame an already toxic situation involving the league's most visible player.
But a troll sent Gray a nasty message after a different game, and Armour suddenly had enough concern about player safety to write an entire column blaming Clark.
There are people who treat words on the internet as equal to physical violence, if not worse. Armour's coverage certainly suggests she belongs in that group. Thomas struck Clark in the throat. Stokes kneed Clark in the quad. Carrington poked Clark in the eye. Chennedy Carter hip-checked Clark when her back was turned. The list goes on.
Yet, Armour casts Clark as the dangerous person.
Clark is the one constantly subjected to excessive physicality from other WNBA players, and Armour still finds a way to make the aftermath her responsibility. When someone else receives an ugly message online, Clark gets blamed for that, too.
No matter what happens, Armour arrives at the same conclusion: Caitlin Clark is the problem.
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But if you think Armour had already taken this argument too far, we've got some bad news.
She wasn't done.
Armour then invoked Emmett Till.
Again, not satire.
"The WNBA's All-Star Game this weekend is in Chicago, Emmett Till's hometown, and a local art gallery is currently hosting an exhibit imagining his life if he hadn't been lynched. While it's incumbent on the WNBA to do more to protect its players, there also should be an expectation on Clark to recognize the wider consequences of her actions," Armour wrote.
Wow.
By invoking Till, Armour invites readers to connect Clark complaining about disputed foul calls to the history of false accusations by white women leading to violence against Black people.
Clark didn't falsely accuse Gray or Stokes of committing a crime. She certainly didn't ask anyone to harm them.
She complained about the referees during a basketball game.
Not only that, Armour doesn't identify a single incident in which a Black or "queer" WNBA player was physically assaulted by a stranger because of something Caitlin Clark said or did.
Her alleged danger is entirely hypothetical.
...Meanwhile, some of the most serious, documented off-court safety incidents in women's basketball have involved Clark, Sophie Cunningham and Paige Bueckers. Men have been arrested and charged with stalking all three players.
Clark's stalker traveled to Indianapolis and sent her hundreds of threatening and sexually explicit messages. Paige Bueckers' stalker flew across the country with an engagement ring and lingerie because he believed he was going to marry her. Earlier this year, another man was charged with stalking Cunningham after allegedly sending threatening messages and delivering a package to Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
All three players are White.
Those cases don't prove that only white players face danger. They do show how backwards Armour's argument is. She has no documented example of Clark's behavior causing someone to physically attack a Black or "queer" player, yet she invokes Emmett Till while portraying Clark as a threat to their safety.
The actual arrests tell a very different story.
But Armour isn't following the evidence. She's forcing Clark into a racial and political narrative that has little to do with what actually happens on the court.
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That is exactly what NBA Commissioner Adam Silver recently criticized when he said it was "incredibly unfair" that Clark had become a political football when she simply wants to focus on basketball.
Armour's column proves his point.
A discussion about Clark flopping and mistreating officials turns into an argument about white nationalism, American racial violence, queer identity and Emmett Till. Talk about hitting every left-wing talking point and even throwing in a few extras.
...That is exactly what NBA Commissioner Adam Silver recently criticized when he said it was "incredibly unfair" that Clark had become a political football when she simply wants to focus on basketball.
Armour's column proves his point.
A discussion about Clark flopping and mistreating officials turns into an argument about white nationalism, American racial violence, queer identity and Emmett Till. Talk about hitting every left-wing talking point and even throwing in a few extras.
This woke white bitch got dragged online, and protected her tweets. (Which will become grist for her next "sports" column, When White Supremacy Came for Me.
Per TMZ, she's doubled down since then:
"In my recent column, I made an inartful comparison with the murder of Emmett Till," she wrote. "I intended to connect the issues the WNBA is currently facing with its All-Star Game being hosted in Till's hometown of Chicago. I obviously did not provide enough context for that."
Then she doubled down.
"However, this point stands: There is a history in this country of perceived threats to white women being weaponized against African-Americans, and the danger that poses to Black players in the league. Players have been abused online and have reported receiving death threats. That has to be taken more seriously."
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CIA Report: Air Power Alone Can't Win Wars
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I've been saying this since day one.
Since WWII, air power theorists have promised a victory from the skies alone. It's never happened. (You can say "Japan" but that was an atomic bomb, and there was an ongoing ground and sea war going on at the same time, and the promise of a land invasion of the home islands.)
Technology is always advancing so there is often a plausible argument for why a victory through the skies is possible now -- the B-52 can drop more bombs than any aircraft ever imagined, cruise missiles can hit a specific window of a building, etc. -- but it's never once panned out.
Ukraine is proving you can fight the Russian army and navy to a standstill -- or better -- with air power, specifically, drone power. But drones are fairly short-range. I'd love a drone invasion of Iran, but those drones would have to be launched and serviced from inside Iran, or at least right on the border.
So what is the endgame here? I don't think it's going to be an actual victory.
It might just be the unsatisfying situation after the Gulf War, when Saddam remained in power and remained belligerent but the US just kept up a regime of "maintenance bombing," as one guy put it, for years and years.
But an actual victory? Not likely.
Report: CIA Says Iran Won't Yield to US Strikes
The CIA are a bunch of paper-pushing failed-academic clowns but I think they're basically right.
A new CIA report indicates that U.S. military strikes are unlikely to change Iran's negotiating stance with the Trump administration.U.S. military strikes won't significantly alter Iran's negotiating stance, according to a new CIA report.
A new U.S. intelligence assessment, first reported by The Washington Post, concludes that despite days of sustained U.S. airstrikes, Tehran is unlikely to soften its position or make major concessions in negotiations with the Trump administration.
According to current and former U.S. officials cited by the newspaper, CIA analysts believe the United States and Iran remain locked in an uneasy cycle of conflict that falls somewhere between war and peace, with neither side showing signs of backing down.
The assessment has reportedly been briefed to the Trump administration as U.S. forces continue retaliatory operations following renewed Iranian attacks in the Middle East.
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Despite the military pressure, intelligence officials reportedly believe Iran's leadership remains focused on preserving the regime and is prepared to absorb significant losses rather than accept U.S. demands....
"They continue to send signals that they want to talk, that they want to negotiate, but their behavior is what we're responding to," Rubio recently said, noting Iran has continued launching missiles and drones at ships in the region.
But that's all nonsense. It's just the "Muslim way of war" -- attack attack attack, and then call for phony "peace talks" while you re-arm and plan your next attack. "Negotiations" just mean "give Iran time to procure new Chinese missiles and build more drones."
We could maybe kill enough Iranian regime thugs that eventually there are too few of them to control the country, but that will take years.
The likely path to victory -- excluding a ground invasion, which seems politically impossible -- will come after a year of bombing so devastating the economy completely collapses and the public is willing to wade into heavy machine-gun fire because they're starving and rip the Muslim conquerors to pieces.
And I don't know if we have any other choice than that grim endgame.
In very expected bad news, oil is over $100 per barrel again.
Global oil prices on Thursday crossed $100 a barrel for the first time since May, after Houthi militants in Yemen claimed to have struck two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea.The reported attack, which came alongside continued strikes between the United States and Iran, threatened to worsen an oil shock that had already amounted to one of the largest in history.
Trump threatens to attack Iran every time its proxy army in Yemen attacks ships, but I don't think that's much of a threat, because he's already attacking Iran.
The jihadists of Iran plan to fight until the last dead civilian.
Below: The US Marines rappelled down to the deck of an Iranian shadow tanker and seized it.
Everyone understand a machine-gun pointed right at your head.
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Ethiopian Migrant Culturally Enriches Three American Citizens In, Get This, Minnesota
—Disinformation Expert Ace
But I'm sure he was an engineer or doctor or scientist developing a cure for cancer. So the three senseless, barbaric murders he committed are balanced out.
This "migrant" could not convince the government to let him bring his family over from Ethiopia. He decided that he was being discriminated against because he was black and an immigrant, which is exactly the murderous grievance instilled in him by the American left.
Suspect charged with killing three people in St. Paul apartment leasing officeCharges filed against the man accused of fatally shooting three people in St. Paul on Monday allege he opened fire on the apartment management company employees after being told he could not cancel his garage parking contract.
Tsegaab Ademassu Binessu, 30, was charged Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court with three counts of second-degree murder.
He's accused of killing Nansi G. Fuentes Zambrano, 25, of Inver Grove Heights; Dena M. Silcox, 56, of St. Paul; and Adam J. Wilwerding, 43, of Oakdale. They were fatally shot inside an apartment complex leasing office on St. Paul Avenue on Monday afternoon.
The charges state that the shooting was captured on surveillance video and claim that Binessu also confessed to his roommate. Court documents allege that Binessu "executed" the three victims.
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Binessu's longtime roommate reportedly called police and said Binessu had confessed to the shooting. He said Binessu had quit his trucking job and planned on enlisting in the Navy -- and that he had just sold his vehicle.
"The roommate thought Binessu planned to speak with apartment management about cancelling his $65/month parking garage contract because he had sold his car," the complaint states. "The roommate spoke to Binessu hours later. Binessu said he had argued with apartment management and ended up killing three people."
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The shooting happened a short time later. The complaint alleges that surveillance video shows Binessu shooting each of the victims multiple times.
The complaint states that he was arrested Monday night on the Iron Range, driving the car of one of the victims.
Binessu allegedly told investigators "he hated the American system," the complaint states. "Binessu complained of unsuccessfully trying to bring his wife and children from Ethiopia for seven years. Binessu said the prolonged immigration process contributed to his divorce and separation from his children."
He also reportedly complained that apartment management would not help him, and that he believed he was "treated unfairly because he is Black and an immigrant."
As Black Conservative Perspective wonders: How long until Tim Walz pardons him?
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One of JD Vance's Secret Service Agents Is Under Investigation for Leaking "Sensitive" Information
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Just filled with rotten apples, one after another.
A member of Vice President JD Vance's Secret Service detail is under investigation for allegedly leaking sensitive information, the agency confirmed Thursday.The administrative investigation could become a criminal inquiry, Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service's chief of communications, said, according to CBS News.
"While we will not comment on the specifics of this matter, one principle is unequivocal: any conduct that potentially threatens the safety of a protectee will not be tolerated," Gugliemi said.
The allegations, according to Gugliemi, involve compromising operational and information security. Gugliemi didn't provide specific allegations, nor did he name the person under suspicion.
The agent is on administrative leave as the government conducts both administrative and criminal investigations.
This follows last week's story that the White House teleprompter operator had made $100,000 making political bets on Kalshi, based, assumedly, on inside information about what Trump would be talking about before he actually said it.
President Donald Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on more than a dozen of Trump's speeches on the prediction market Kalshi, federal investigators with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the president who has been operating Trump's teleprompter since 2016, is in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations he used his inside knowledge of the president's speeches to win more than $100,000, the sources said.
According to the sources, Kalshi alerted its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to the suspicious activity on its "Mentions" market, where users can bet on whether specific words, phrases or topics are uttered during a public speech.
"Our surveillance team promptly flagged and referred these trades to the CFTC, and we are cooperating and assisting regulators," Kalshi's head of enforcement, Bobby DeNault, said in a statement provided to ABC News.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday afternoon, following ABC News' report, that Perez has been put on unpaid administrative leave. Leavitt said she spoke with President Trump about it, and he thought it was a "disgrace" and made the decision himself to put Perez on unpaid.
Jim Jordan Makes a Criminal Referral to the DOJ For Jack Smith's Perjury; Melania Presses Sanctions Against Democrat Media Party Hatchet Man Michael Wolff
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I know, I know: file it in the "Nothing Will Happen" folder.
The criminal referral is for his perjury in denying that he and his team had read the contents of congressmen's texts.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued a criminal referral against former Special Counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday for allegedly making "willfully and intentionally false statements" when testifying before Congress last December."The Committee on the Judiciary writes to refer strong evidence that appears to show Jack Smith, former Special Counsel, knowingly made false statements during his December 17, 2025 deposition," Jordan wrote in a letter sent to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
In the letter, Jordan questioned what Smith said under oath about obtaining phone records of 44 lawmakers who communicated with President Donald Trump and other members of the White House related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
"This information calls into question the completeness and accuracy of statements that Mr. Smith made under oath to the Committee regarding his team's access to the content of Members' text messages," Jordan wrote.
Jordan stated that responses by Smith during congressional testimony "gave the impression that neither Mr. Smith nor his team had access to the content of members' privileged text messages."
"We now know this to be false," Jordan wrote.
"His conduct can only be understood as an effort to thwart the Committee's inquiry by intentionally making false statements and representations before Congress. We therefore believe that sufficient evidence exists for DOJ to examine whether Mr. Smith's actions warrant a charge," the letter added.
Melania is meanwhile seeking judicial sanctions against Michael Wolff, a persistently unethical and loathsome gay gossip columnist posturing as a journalist.
Melania Trump files for sanctions against Michael Wolff over Epstein-linked allegations he madeHer legal team argued the first lady should be granted the sanctions because Wolff allegedly manufactured a jurisdictional dispute in an attempt to keep the case in New York state court, used litigation for improper purposes and made a "frivolous" claim.
First lady Melania Trump filed a motion for sanctions Tuesday against journalist Michael Wolff, after he tried to sue her to prevent her from suing him over allegedly defamatory statements he made regarding her and Jeffrey Epstein.
The first lady is now looking to recover costs and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred in Wolff's lawsuit, along with other appropriate relief, saying the lawsuit was "a fundraising drive and a political spectacle," according to Fox News.
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"Plaintiff and his counsel asserted a legally frivolous claim, propped it up with factual contentions that lacked any evidentiary support, and used them to run a political and commercial campaign," her team said in the filing. "They should pay for Mrs. Trump's fees and expenses incurred for the process they abused."
The legal team argued Wolff wrongly claimed the first lady was heavily involved in the Epstein scandal, despite her denying a friendship with the late convicted sex-offender and his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
Hello!
The Morning Rant
—CBD
Yes, it is July 2026, and presidential nominee polls two+ years before the election are measures of whose name has been in the news, rather than the slightly more methodical decisions that Americans make closer to the election.
But a surging AOC is vastly amusing. As the public, social-media-driven Democrat Party is dominated by the young and stupid Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), they are sucking up all of the media coverage, which is a fantastic thing for the conservative movement in America. Exposing the DSA as just another garden variety socialist movement will energize the silent majority of Americans who aren't enamored of most of their policies.
And those policies are untethered to any sort of sane messaging. It has been the traditional technique of the Democrat/Progressive movement in America to hide their income redistribution and nationalization and wackadoodle foreign policy behind vague, faintly rational catch phrases and buzz-words. But the DSA is far too impatient for such niceties, and their full-throated championing of obvious socialist policy has attracted larger numbers of the young, disaffected, and ignorant. But there aren't enough angry and poor baristas with masters degrees in Lesbian poetry of The Low Countries to make much of a dent in the presidential race.
AOC surges past Buttigieg, leaves Harris in the dust in key 2028 battleground poll
Ocasio-Cortez has been coy about her 2028 plans and careful not to rule out either a White House run in the race to succeed term-limited President Donald Trump, or a bid for the Senate against longtime Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is up for re-election in two years. When asked about a run for higher office, Ocasio-Cortez recently said her goal is to "change the country."
Americans might complain about the direction the country is taking, as they have many times in the past. But they usually draw the line before supporting pie-in-the-sky progressives. Just take a look at Stevenson (twice!), Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, etc. Alexandra Donkey-Chompers might want to reevaluate her public pronouncements if she wants to be successful on the national stage.
As a comparison, look to the election of 1968, when the country was in the throes of a calculated campaign to split the country, drive us out of Vietnam, and catastrophically "change the country." The result was an unpopular Republican getting elected by a large margin (301 electoral votes) even with Wallace's third party splitting the vote!
Hopefully the DSA and their ilk will continue to drown out the traditional crypto-socialists like Buttigieg and Newsom, although the thought of Chlamydia Harris running another presidential campaign warms the cockles of my heart.
Just imagine the debates between AOC or Harris, and Vance or Rubio. If that doesn't make you smile, nothing will!
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The Morning Report — 7/ 23 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Say what you will about President Trump, and it is my opinion that he will be remembered in the fullness of time as among our greatest of President's primarily for reestablishing sane American foreign policy that both ensures our own national security but ultimately results in the true liberation of the oppressed masses suffering under the yoke of tyrannical communism/socalism especially here in our own hemisphere. As CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast linked here and in the sidebar as well as available on the popular platforms listed at the bottom of this post, led by for once by an intelligent, driven and unabashedly pro-American Secretary of State in the person of Marco Rubio, Latin America which for far too long had been relegated to basket case status is undergoing a reverse domino effect wherein socialist hellhole nations have rid themselves of socialism and are embracing liberty and freedom. Most notably Nayib Bukele in EL Salvador as well as Javier Milei in Argentina. Although Hugo Chavez and the Maduro-ista cancer has been excised from Venezuela the situation there is still in flux. But that said, I think America and Americanism are on the march here in our hemisphere for sure. And that said, there are rumblings in the air that the long imprisned Caribbean Island gulag of CUBA might before long breathe free for the first time in over 66 years. About the only people who would not be celebrating would be our fellow citizens in name only — the cadres and leadership of the Democrat/Left.
The secretary noted that the end goal would be to uproot the communists and have "Cuba where the people of Cuba can experience prosperity, safety, security and a better life moving forward." “We’re prepared to be realistic about how you do that and patient about the serious process that leads to that. We’ve engaged them from time to time in that regard and know where we stand on that issue. Hopefully that’s where it arrives.
That would be marvelous but how can we uproot the communists right here at home and ensure that America and the American experiment can survive and thrive for another 250 years. Despite the rise of the so-called Democratic Socialists who are neither of those things although Socialism is the cancer from which untold millions can will and have perished. It must be utterly smashed if we are to continue, and there seem to be positive signs. We reported on a recent poll indicating a broad swathe of the nation are genuinely terrified and revolted by the prospect of Communism,
Four in ten Americans view communists in the United States as posing a major or moderate threat, a recent weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found. The survey asked respondents, “How much of a threat, if any, do Communists in the United States pose today?” Across the board, 43 percent considered communists in the U.S. as at least a moderate threat. More specifically, 18 percent consider it a “major” threat, and 25 percent consider it a “moderate” threat. Another 23 percent consider it a “minor” threat, and 33 percent said communists in the U.S. pose no threat at all.
There’s little question that the Democratic Socialists of America are more influential than any time in recent history. Indeed, it’s perhaps the most influential arm of the Democratic Party today, wielding policy clout and winning local elections. But are DSA policies really so popular? July’s I&I/TIPP Poll asked voters to find out.The DSA’s recent “Workers Deserve More!” document outlined its main policy goals. For I&I/TIPP’s July Poll, taken by 1,473 Americans from June 29 through July 2, voters were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with five separate DSA proposals. The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.8 percentage points.
First, I&I/TIPP asked about DSA’s proposal for the “abolition of jails and prisons.”
Only 26% agreed either strongly (10%) or somewhat (16%) with this plan, while 62% disagreed strongly (47%) or somewhat (15%).
The other questions/DSA policy aims are equally revolting as I'm sure you can imagine.
I guess most people who are reportedly terrified of communism are unaware that its precursor is socialism. At some point you just throw up your arms at this mess.
We'll see if the two term presidency of Marco Rubio can deal with this. I look forward to that, Democrat election thievery notwithstanding.
Have a good day,
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Daily Tech News 23 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Across the social sciences, half of research doesn't replicate. (Science)
And only 34% of it is confirmed by multiple reviewers.
But it gets worse.
In political science and economics replicability rises to more than 60%.
For education, the number is... Zero.
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Wednesday Night ONT - July 22, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde! So pleased you have joined the fun. Always great to "see" so many in this little corner of the interweb. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. No Orange Crush. Sorry. Free refills otherwise!
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are discouraged due to the heat. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're here for an argument, please go through the second door on the right and then close the door behind you. This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
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You Can't Spell Humpday Without Cafe*
* You need the "a"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Matthew Paulson @MattPaulson28Kirkjufell is claimed to be the most photographed mountain in Iceland. It was high n my photography list. You may recognize it from Game of Thrones. I made sure one night we stayed in a nearby town. I returned to photograph it at sunset. this picture was taken at 12:14AM.
Baby muskoxes (muskoxen?) get the zoomies.
Sports mascot just won't give up on trying to impress a girl.
Puppy gives airplane smooches.
Goat v. Capybara. Butt against Butt.
Birthday party for a cat.
Golden retrievers look like goldfish in a river.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Supercut of Democrats claiming there is "no evidence" of illegal aliens voting.
Hillary Clinton: I can't believe Trump is still complaining that he really won the 2020 election/and also the 2016 election was stolen from me.
And Jake Tapper never -- never -- asks her about these contradictory claims. Nor should he -- he's guilty of the same hypocrisy.
I've told this story before, but here goes again: In January 2017, just after the election, I saw a clip on CNN showing Hillary Clinton claiming not just that Russia had vaguely "interfered" in the election, but had actually changed vote tallies in the voting machines. The "reporter" "reporting" this did not make any note about it or any negative remark -- he just reported Hillary making this allegation as it was a perfectly reasonable claim to make.
Now, I was, as I'm sure you were, sick of CNN's constant attacks on Trump for, prior to the election, saying that he didn't know if they would "rig" the election against him or not
I tweeted, "CNN, any comment about Hillary Clinton doing much, much more than what Trump did, which you found to be a threat to democracy itself?" Or words to that effect.
I hadn't tagged Jake Tapper in this because the fucker jumps into your DMs if you mention him. He's like a Red Diaper Baby Beetlejuice with unlimited time to patrol twitter for mentions of his name.
Nevertheless, he popped into my DMs immediate: "Cite?" he objected, claiming I was making it up.
I said, "it was just on your very own show. Aren't you watching your own [in-progress] show?"
That's right, Jake Tapper had just moments ago introduced that segment but had apparently not bothered watching the clip he ran on his own show.
Furthermore, he objected "Cite?" and then argued with me about it while his show was being broadcasted live. Rather than actually doing his job and paying attention to the news his fellow "journalists" were reporting on his own show, he apparently immediately jumps on his cellphone during pre-recorded packages and goes into Reputation Defense mode.
I asked him if he would ever actually cover this and editorialize about the Great Danger to the Republic that Hillary Clinton's WITHOUT EVIDENCE claims presented. I forget what he said-- usually he offers some noncommittal political response like "I'll keep an eye on it" -- but of course he never, ever called Hillary Clinton out for this nor, as far as I know, even highlighted the claim.
Frequent Democrat podcast partner Hasan Piker, who has claimed America "deserved 9/11" and doubled down on that since, has a framed photo of the NYT from 9/12 showing the Twin Towers in flames.
Oh, and the anchor baby Nepo Baby also says that Chinese communist butcher of literal tens of millions of people was a "great hero" of history.
And Democrats continue to fete him, because he's the only male Democrat they know who doesn't look like he spends Saturday night on all fours. (Though I have a feeling we'll find out that maybe he does, sometimes.)
Interesting...
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_
NEW: The FBI honcho who deep-sixed the China plot intel on the eve of 2020 election was Nikki "I'm Running A Shadow Govt" Floris who at the same time tried to sabotage Sens. Grassley+Johnson's probe of Biden family corruption (inclg $6 mil in Chinese payola) as "Russian disinformation." Floris is now working w/ Russiagate co-conspirator Lisa Monaco at Microsoft. Both are under active investigation in diGenova's criminal conspiracy case, DOJ sources tell me
Karen with a septum ring finds a new problematic group: lifeguards. Because "the little teenage lifeguards they have on the beach" are "cops in training."
Abby Philips: No illegal aliens are voting and the illegal aliens who are voting are just "confused" over whether they're allowed to vote.
Jim Acosta doesn't want you to call him a "hero," even though his life has been "in danger" plenty of times, like when Trump crowds would chant "CNN sucks" or call him a "traitor."
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Reports of a Republican Midterm Loss Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Rick Moran on the Republican fundraising advantage:
I did a double take when I saw the fundraising totals for the midterm elections in Politico. Republican party committees and super PACs have raised $657 million for the midterms, now just four and a half months away. That's nearly double the $337 million the Democrats have raised.
And it gets worse for the Democrats. The largest single financial entity raising money for the midterms, MAGA, Inc., reports $400 million in cash as of June 30.
That billion-dollar-plus war chest is three times as much as the Democrats' cash entering the final months of the campaign.
...And it has the potential to cost them if Republicans are smart about where they put all that cash.
Politico:
"What is putting the House majority and the Senate majority, nationally, in danger is the Republicans' massive stockpile of resources that they're putting together to push back," said Morgan Jackson, a longtime North Carolina Democratic strategist and an adviser to former Gov. Roy Cooper, who is running for Senate."If you get outspent five to six to eight to one, that can alleviate the environmental advantage that Democrats have this cycle of poor leadership from the White House, a dysfunctional Congress, a bad economy that they own," he added. "There's a lot of concern to that."
...The Republican National Committee has $129 million in cash on hand. The Democrats are still $2 million in debt. That bespeaks an organization that's floundering, unable to raise money to pay what it owes.
The House race is now basically a toss-up: Per Fox's count -- and remember, Fox's polling operation is super-liberal and run by a Hillary Clinton supporter -- Republicans have 208 seats in the bag, Democrats have 211, and there are 16 toss-ups.
Republicans would only have to grab ten of those 16 toss-ups to win a (super-thin) majority of 218. (But it would be a more solid majority than one depending on Majorie Trailer-Queen and Thomas Massie.)
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Trump: Every Time Iran Fires on a Ship, We Will Destroy One Bridge or Power Plant
—Disinformation Expert Ace
>Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
🚨 HOLY CRAP. President Trump just announced the US military will destroy "ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT" -- including in Tehran -- for each time Iran attacks a ship in the Strait of Hormuz47 is DONE with the BS.
"From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
However, he's also saying that "next week" he will hit all of their bridges and power plants, unless -- sigh -- they agree to negotiate.
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WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham: Keep Men Out of Girls Sports
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Sophie Cunningham is a teammate of Caitlin Clark on whatever team they play for, which I assume is the Iowa Cornholers. That's probably not right but no one's going to contradict me because no one wants to admit they know the teams of the WNBA.
She became a meme when she pointed out the thug who'd committed a flagrant foul on her teammate.
Like Caitlin Clark, she is hated and gets hard-fouled a lot because she's white, straight, and pretty in a league dominated by black lesbians.
This isn't going to endear her any further to the Rainbow Racists of the league: She says that girls sports should be reserved for -- this is going to sound a little convoluted but stick with me -- girls.
She says she has nothing against trannies and isn't even political. But, she says, along with showing love, she must also tell the truth.
The ongoing debate over trans athletes' participation in the sports category of their chosen gender has once again reached the WNBA, as Iowa Cornholers guard Sophie Cunningham has joined one side of the hot-button issue.
Oh, so it was the Iowa Cornholers.
In a wide-ranging profile from ESPN's Hallie Grossman, Cunningham, one of the league's most polarizing and recognized players, spoke on her perceived political beliefs because of "what she looks like and where she's from."Cunningham seemed to deny she is affiliated with the "MAGA" movement after her "MAGA Barbie" nickname went viral. She recently downplayed the White House specifically using her viral pointing meme in a social media post.
However, this latest controversy stems from Cunningham sharing her support in the ESPN profile for the idea that athletes should participate in the gendered sport of their birth, not the one they choose post-transition.
"She'll weigh in on how to 'protect women's sports,"' she says, because she's in that world and feels qualified to speak to that world," Grossman wrote in her profile.
Cunningham added in the profile, "I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,' ... I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men.
"I'm very much in the middle [politically]. I agree with things on both sides, disagree with things on both sides. And that's all I've ever said about my political beliefs. But people love to assume."
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Software Firm at Center of NJ's Illegal Alien Voting Scandal: There Was No "Glitch," Our Softward Did Exactly What NJ Wanted It To Do
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Mikie Sherill is lying. She is blaming the problem on a "glitch" in the software. The software, she lies, was supposed to block illegal aliens from registering to vote.
No, says the software company. Our software was designed, at NJ's insistence, to sign up anyone to vote who wanted to sign up. Verification of voter eligibility was supposed to be performed by the Democrat-owned state after we communicated the lists to them -- but the Democrat government never bothered to check citizenship status.
I'll give you a moment to recover from your shock.
Have you picked yourself up off the floor?
Good. Just the News:
Software vendor disputes NJ governor's 'glitch' claim, says state approves foreigners on voter rollThe NJ government and its vendor now publicly dispute who was supposed to catch an error that allowed thousands of noncitizens to register to vote, raising direct questions about the integrity of the safeguards voters are told they can trust.
Just hours after New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherril blamed a software glitch for thousands of non-citizens being registered to vote, the software company involved issued a statement disputing the claim.IDEMIA, the software vendor for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, issued a statement saying it was the responsibility of the state government, which is completely controlled by Democrats, to verify eligibility to vote.
"IDEMIA works with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, and has for more than 40 years, to support the process through which eligible individuals may indicate their interest in registering to vote when applying for or renewing a driver's license or state-issued identification card. IDEMIA's role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system," IDEMIA said in a statement to Just the News.
"The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote. Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections."
The communist propaganda media insisted for years that barely any illegals were registered to vote. Now we find out that 6,600 were enrolled to vote, and that's just the ones we can confirm. The Trump administration estimates that 35,000+ illegals are registered to vote in New Jersey alone.
So now the communist propaganda media wants to argue about how much illegal alien voting is too much, and how much is just right.
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RFKJr. Suspends $1 Billion in Medicaid Payments to California and Minnesota Because Both Failed States Continue to Permit and Encourage Massive Fraud
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Trump-Kennedy Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has paused over $1 billion in Medicaid funding for California and Minnesota, as the Democrats there have absolutely no intention of truly reforming their systems to root out the rampant fraud.HHS leadership held a press conference Tuesday regarding the suspension and how the Trump administration is combatting fraud. "If those states want that money, they need to provide documentations that these payments are legitimate," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at the press conference where Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), also appeared.
Oz explained why California in particular is raising so many questions. "Another $250 million, a quarter billion dollars, comes from claims tied to high-risk providers, as I explained earlier, those who are billing more than a year after the service is provided, those billing for four or more patients all at the same time -- hard to juggle that many patients."
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Referring to the Democrats in charge of California and Minnesota, "If Gov. Gavin Newsom or Gov. Tim Walz wants this funding released, all they have to do is provide basic documentation, showing that these services are legitimate and not fraudulent. And that's common sense. The Biden administration abandoned that kind of oversight. Instead of protecting your money, they open the floodgates to theft. They dismantled basic program integrity and oversight."
Biden's policy was to send out checks to the fraudsters and then, if someone noticed, fruitlessly attempt to "claw back" the money which was already spirited out of the country.
Blue states' economies run on fraud and plunder from red states.
Education fraud is just as bad.
Jeremy Portnoy at Real Clear Investigations:
Topline: Since 2019, school districts across 24 states and Puerto Rico have lost $225 million to fraud confirmed by the U.S. Department of Education inspector general's semiannual report to Congress. No more than $67 million has been recovered.Key facts: Open the Books and the State Financial Officers Foundation documented 74 instances of confirmed school fraud, averaging over $3 million each. There are far more that have gone unprosecuted or undetected.
Florida and Illinois schools each had the most instances of fraud with 11.
Indiana lost the most money -- $44 million -- due to inflated attendance numbers that increased state funding to two schools. The schools' founder then allegedly sent the money to companies he owned. The schools closed in 2019, and four alleged conspirators were charged in 2024.
At Broward County Public Schools in Florida, information officer Anthony Hunter allegedly used district funds to buy $17 million worth of school supplies from a friend's business, ignoring the competitive bidding process. In return, the friend hired Hunter and his son to work a security job and sold Hunter a house for $150,000 below market value, state prosecutors claim
Chicago Public Schools received $1 million of federal grants meant for Native American students, using an application that included more than 1,000 students of South Asian descent. The district was unable to verify how many students were actually in the program, and agreed to repay the money.
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Summary: The government loses hundreds of billions of dollars to fraud annually, but redirecting money away from children's education is especially egregious.
Watchdog says as much as 74% of federal grant spending in 2024 was untraceable to local levelsThe report released Tuesday revealed that many federal assistance programs didn't accurately track their spending, explain specific uses of funds or report location data in 2024.
A government watchdog group's new report on federal spending found that it's unclear where hundreds of billions of grant dollars go once they reach states.The Project On Government Oversight downloaded and analyzed data from USAspending.gov that the nonprofit group says in a report released on Tuesday shows over 74% -- $712.6 billion -- of $958.6 billion in domestic grant spending from fiscal 2024 couldn't be tracked to the local level.
The Trump administration confirmed with Just the News that the lack of accountability shown in the report's findings is why new rules have been proposed for federal grantmaking, and they comport with those at the Office of Management and Budget.
Finally, a judge has ruled that Harvard must face a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that scientists made false claims in their NIH grant applications -- and in fact never intended to do the "science" they claimed in the grant application. They just wanted the NIH to give them a pot of money, and decide later how to spend it.
It's just fraud from one end of the government to the other:
A federal judge allowed most of a whistleblower lawsuit against Harvard to proceed Tuesday, letting two claims advance in a case accusing the University and a Harvard Catalyst principal investigator of misusing National Institutes of Health grant funding.The suit, filed by David S. Zielinski, the former executive director of Harvard Catalyst -- formally the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center -- alleges that the University and the center's founder, Lee M. Nadler, collected $275 million in NIH grants while abandoning or repurposing promised research work in violation of the False Claims Act.
The lawsuit was filed in March 2024 and remained under seal while the Department of Justice reviewed the allegations until November 2025.
U.S. District Judge Myong J. Joun rejected most of the University's motion to dismiss in his 28-page order, tossing one count of "reverse false claims" while allowing two claims alleging false claims and false records to advance.
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The University had argued that the court should "be skeptical" that the NIH "somehow missed that two-thirds of the work contemplated was never done," arguing NIH would have been able to make that determination by reviewing the annual reports and choosing whether to renew the grants.
In other words: You can't say we committed fraud because the NIH was in on it and knew we were lying.
Which may well be true. More on that later.
Joun wrote that the University's arguments did not make the allegations "implausible" and that "the very purpose of those statements is to keep NIH in the dark" from the truth. He added that it would be a "futile effort" for the court to immediately compare all the reports with the allegations, noting that Nadler allegedly "used crafty grantsmanship to obscure their true usage of the funds."Zielinski's attorneys wrote in a statement that Joun's ruling made clear that Zielinski "sufficiently alleged with particularity that Harvard defrauded NIH."
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The suit alleges that Nadler and the University "repeatedly, year after year" submitted falsified reports attesting that progress was made in compliance with the terms of the NIH award.
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Zielinski, a former NIH official, alleged that Nadler told other colleagues in the center that he wrote grants to receive funding and then "decides what to do with the money." Zielinski further alleged that Nadler "was uninterested in modifying his behavior" despite warnings from Zielinski.
Zielinski wrote in the suit that Nadler stated "this is how he handled grants for decades" and "frequently made no effort to perform the work they had certified they would conduct" or change the scope of the grant.
Zielinski alleged that the center repeatedly had no intention to perform "much of the work for which he received hundreds of millions of dollars." He alleged that the center had falsely represented progress since annual reports in 2013. In one instance, he alleged that Harvard Catalyst failed to complete 41 of 56 objectives identified in a $93 million 2018-2023 grant application, 21 of which Zielinski alleged had no work completed.
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Several other whistleblower complaints and lawsuits have applied pressure on the University and its affiliates as of late. In November, the State Department began investigating the Harvard Cognitive Aesthetics Media Lab following a whistleblower complaint that the lab mishandled admissions for its visiting scholars.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute agreed to pay $15 million in December to settle allegations that a Harvard Medical School affiliate used NIH grant funding to publish studies with manipulated images, after a British biologist raised concerns in a whistleblower lawsuit.
Below: Sabine Hossenfelder says that the NIH doesn't detect this kind of fraud -- which is "common" and "normalized" -- because they're in on the con. They know these applications are fraudulent, they just don't care.
She also says that this might unleash dozens of new lawsuits. This lawsuits is brought under a federal provision that allows a litigant to retain 25% of the money that the government saves if the lawsuit exposes fraud.
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Appeals Court Rejects Biden's Second Attempt to Block the Release of His "Elderly Man with a Poor Memory" Interview Tapes
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You're not experiencing deja-vu. Yes, there was a story like this recently, but that was the district court judge rejecting Biden's plea for an injunction blocking the release of the tapes, supposedly to protect his "privacy" by keeping secret the tapes of his conversations with his ghostwriter, with whom he shared classified information.
These tapes were in turn subpoenaed by Robert Hur and were evidence -- proof, actually -- that Biden both shared classified information with someone not cleared to hear it and that he knew he was illegally retaining classified documents, because he explicitly says something like "I'm not supposed to still have these" in the tapes.
Hur didn't prosecute, of course, even though Biden was guilty by his own admission. Hur claiming that no jury would convict this hapless husk because his brains were plainly mush. (To which I say: Put me on the jury and I'll send this decrepit muppet to the fucking gulag.)
Biden rushed out an appeal, and the Appeals Court told him that the public's interest in the actual truth trumped his fake right to keep the truth from the public in the interest of "privacy."
One might say that presidents have a very low expectation of privacy -- particularly when the tapes sought to keep private include admissions of breaking serious federal laws.
- A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president.A divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suspended its decision until Aug. 3 to allow more time for Biden to consider another appeal.
The panel's 2-1 ruling late Monday found there is a "substantial" public interest in disclosing the material that Biden wants to keep under wraps. Redactions to the recordings would help protect Biden's privacy, the majority noted.
Redactions? What?
"We conclude that any remaining incursion on personal privacy from disclosure of the now-redacted materials likely does not outweigh the public interest in disclosure," the ruling says.
And whose appointee was the judge who rushed to defend this elderly man with a poor memory?
Judge Florence Pan, who was nominated by Biden, a Democrat, wrote a dissenting opinion in which she said Biden has shown a "substantial privacy interest" in keeping the material hidden.
"The conversations at issue took place in Biden's home, and the recordings of them were obtained by the government in the course of a criminal investigation that did not lead to an indictment," she wrote.
The "conversations" -- in which Biden confessed to knowingly retaining classified documents -- took place at his home and this is why the tapes of this questioning are "private"?
What?
This is the best this DEI Dina can do?
Your honor, I want the murder weapon suppressed, because it was found at my home, and that makes it "private."
The appeal also was heard by D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan and Judge Gregory Katsas. Srinivasan was nominated by President Barack Obama, a Democrat who chose Biden as his vice president. Katsas was nominated by President Donald Trump, a Republican who lost to Biden in 2020 but was elected again to the White House in 2024.
Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with Biden on two memoirs, 2007's "Promises to Keep" and 2017's "Promise Me, Dad," interviewed him at his home in 2016 and 2017. Biden's lawyers say the conversations were candid, personal and intended to remain private.
Yes, they were "candid, private conversations intended to remain private" except that they were also had in furtherance of writing a memoir for Biden, intended for public publication. (Hey, publication has the word "public" right in it.)
That doesn't scream "private" to me.
...Pan noted that the majority is effectively ruling in favor of immediately disclosing the material by denying Biden's request for an injunction pending appeal.
"That, of course, will moot this case," she wrote.
Ever hear the sound of documents as they rev up to be released? They go vrooom, vrooom. You gotta hear it, Jack!
