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Elling William Gollings
Who becomes famous and who toils in obscurity -- and why -- is the question that most artists must ask themselves.
I had never heard of William Gollings until I had the opportunity to visit a lovely museum in Big Horn Wyoming (near Sheridan) called The Brinton Museum. And by "lovely," I don't mean just the collection. It is architecturally beautiful, and the setting is difficult to beat, with the Big Horn Mountains in the near distance.
There are several Western artists who are far more famous: Russell and Remington and Bierstadt come to mind, but even relatively obscure artists such as Gollings have gems scattered in their work that are rarely seen, and wonderful when discovered!
The former premier of the Soviet Union once stated "I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you."
And so here we are almost 70 years on and although the Soviet Union is also now the former Soviet Union, existing as it once did as Russia. regardless of the thuggery and corruption of its current leader Vladimir Putin, the question is, was Nikita Khrushchev right, or is the jury still out on his prediction.
Francesca Hong is running to be the next governor of Wisconsin, but she can’t decide if she wants to be the Grinch who stole Thanksgiving, too. Thanksgiving? We’re talking about Thanksgiving in August? In 2020, she tweeted that we should stick a carving knife in the national holiday of gratitude because it was “celebrating colonialism.”
James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers' The Pride Month event also featured a drag queen with the provocative name 'Sedonya Face'
Of course, these are merely candidates for governor and senator. But would the party run them if they didn't think they had a shot at rallying their troops. And speaking of which, first up we have...
About a mile and a half from where Luigi Mangione (allegedly) murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and a schlep from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where the (alleged) assassin is being held as he awaits state and federal trials, Luigi: The Musical finished its six-night New York City run at The Green Room 42 in the YOTEL New York Times Square.
Springtime for Hitler was merely Mel Brooks being funny. At the time some thought even he went a bit too far with The Prodcuers but sadly it seems as if he was actually being prescient. Just as the late great Paddy Chayefsky was with Network
An upcoming criminal trial may reshape public opinion about the main cause of the 2025 Palisades Fire in Southern California, redefining it as a consequence not of climate change but of class warfare.
The financial and ideological ties between El-Sayed and CAIR raise questions about his candidacy, given CAIR’s controversial history and alleged links to terrorist organizations. This could become a focal point in the Michigan Senate race as voters scrutinize the influence of such organizations on political candidates.
Well, it's nice to believe as some do that Mike Rogers will beat this fiend. But please remember that beyond the base, Michigan's elections are run by Governor Wretched Whitler and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson who were both, especially the latter, instrumental in the thievery that stole the state from Trump and gave it to Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden in 2020 in the middle of the night in Wayne County where election observers were ejected, the windows covered and 18-wheelers full of ballots hauled in.
Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House and especially since Trump’s Liberation Day tariff announcement, the economic press has reported that American manufacturing is struggling under President Trump’s tariffs. Even worse: stories have frequently claimed that manufacturing is struggling because of the tariffs. The Wall Street Journal declared manufacturing “in retreat.” The Associated Press said tariffs were “hurting American manufacturers instead of helping them.” Reuters reported that import duties had undercut manufacturing.
There’s just one problem: none of that is happening. If tariffs are hurting American manufacturing, someone forgot to tell the factories.
The Labor Department reported Thursday that manufacturing output rose at a 4.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter. Hours worked increased 2.6 percent. Productivity, which measures output per hour, rose 1.9 percent.
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that end birth tourism and expand the definition of who does not qualify for birthright citizenship. . . The first Executive Order non-exhaustively identifies certain categories of children of aliens who are not entitled to birthright citizenship consistent with historical exceptions to birthright citizenship recognized by the Supreme Court in Barbara. The second Executive Order delegates presidential authorities to the Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security and directs them to halt the practice of birth tourism.
Well, I'm sure the lawsuits will start flying and the usual crackpot nutters will threaten SCOTUS justices and their families but who knows? If Roe v. Wade could be nixed, perhaps there's hope that the 14th Amendment could actually be read and upheld as written and intended. My concern isn't necessarily with the Leftists it's mostly the RINOs who will stab us in the back.
So we're in the mass grave or marching to it, but perhaps the first shovel-full of dirt has yet to be dropped on us?
How's that for optimism?! And with that I bid you all
Vance said that if people “want to make me own the effort to try to bring this war to a successful conclusion, I’m happy to let them make me own it. I am absolutely trying to do that. But, to your point, that sometimes requires one step forward, two steps back, then three steps forward and one step back. I can certainly understand the American people are maybe looking at this, and they say, well, it seems like we’re making progress, and then it seems like we’re not. Vance: Resolving Iran Situation ‘Going to Be Messy and It’s Going to Take Some Time’
Trump believes in American negotiation, which sees both sides winning a lot and losing a little; the mullahs believe in our complete destruction. The Art Of The Deal Is Doomed To Fail In Iran
In contemporary America, there are people who are far more interested in taking whatever they can get for themselves, even as it harms the community and the country, than in doing what's right. High-trust America has been undermined by imported corruption
The financial and ideological ties between El-Sayed and CAIR raise questions about his candidacy, given CAIR’s controversial history and alleged links to terrorist organizations. This could become a focal point in the Michigan Senate race as voters scrutinize the influence of such organizations on political candidates. Dem Candidate El-Sayed’s Campaign Funded by Members of Terror-Linked CAIR Organization.
In both Islam and communism, there is an “In” crowd and an “Out” crowd, and both ideologies have as their relentless goal destroying the “Out” crowd. The Mohammunist Manifesto—The World as a Binary
So much for the idea that tariffs would damage U.S. productivity and manufacturing... The Labor Department reported Thursday that manufacturing output rose at a 4.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter. Hours worked increased 2.6 percent. Productivity, which measures output per hour, rose 1.9 percent. Boosted by Tariffs, U.S. Manufacturing Enters a Renaissance
Tone-policing those trying to offer solutions isn’t the way. There are policy solutions that can address the high cost of food, but none of them come from an economic system that has failed every previous time it’s been tried. Socialism won’t actually give us free burritos. How ‘burritogate’ roiled the right — exposing a dangerous disconnect on affordability
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The DOJ’s actions aim to dismantle the CJNG’s operations, reduce drug-related deaths, and recover stolen funds for victims. Trump administration officials have noted a 22 percent drop in fentanyl overdose deaths, attributing it to increased enforcement. Rewards totaling $100 million have been offered for information leading to the arrest of cartel leaders, signaling a strong commitment to combating cartel violence and fraud. Trump DOJ Charges Five Mexican Cartel Leaders.
A free society depends upon the informed consent of the governed. That consent becomes impossible when the public is deceived into believing that a twenty-year sentence means twenty years of societal protection. The Sentencing Illusion
Documents released Thursday morning by the White House Government Transparency Task Force detail the massive data breach, an investigation by the FBI, a suspect who admitted to the crime, and a years-long attempt by the FBI to get someone to prosecute, only to close the case due to a lack of prosecutor interest. Four Prosecutors Refused To Pursue Hacker Behind 2020 Breach Of 633,000 Arizona Voters
The political left has developed a remarkably simple response to almost every proposed election safeguard: Call it voter suppression. Election Integrity Is Not Voter Suppression
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
“In counties where Black people made up at least 15 percent of the population, Stevens led El-Sayed by 8 points. Black voters in Detroit have historically been pivotal for Democrats to win statewide, pointing to a potential vulnerability for the party ahead of the general election,” the report continues. Report: Demographic Breakdown of El-Sayed’s Voters Worries Democrats About Strength of His Candidacy
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
There's a story making the rounds in the European press right now, and it's starting to gain real traction among YouTubers here in the States, too. It's worth your attention — not because it's fake, but because of what's conspicuously missing from it. A Mass Exodus of Muslims From France? Maybe.
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Officials have also said the most pressing shortage is that of Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors, which the country has used faster than manufacturers can replace them. Trump denies munitions shortage reports, calls leaks ‘treasonous’
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Dr. Schwartz’s appointment as Director of the CDC coincides with an outbreak of Cyclospora, a parasite that causes severe diarrhea. The spread of the parasite has been linked to contaminated lettuce. Her appointment also coincides with ongoing disputes over vaccine policy. The nature of her appointment demonstrates how even ostensibly apolitical roles can evoke deep partisan tensions, as exhibited by the fact that Dr. Schwartz did not receive a full confirmation vote. Dr. Schwartz is not the only person to be appointed to the role during this Congress. Her predecessor, Susan Monarez, served briefly as Director of the CDC before being removed following a reported disagreement with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senate Approves CDC Chief Amid Diarrhea Parasite Crisis.
This data provides more evidence that Pluto is active geologically, even though its location so far out in the solar system provides it very little heat or energy from the Sun. It is also further proof that the decision by a small group of scientists at an International Astronomical Union (IAU) meeting in Europe in 2006 to declare Pluto was not a planet was utterly stupid. Scientists: New Horizons’ images of Pluto suggest liquid nitrogen flows in the cracks of its frozen nitrogen ocean
In every way the Katalyst team has shined so far in this mission. It quickly reconfigured its original demo satellite rescue mission into a Swift rescue, won the contract in November 2025, got Link built and ready for launch by June, and now have successfully recovered the spacecraft. Katalyst engineers regain control of Link rescue spacecraft
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Florida joins Arkansas, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas in banning minors from adult live performances, setting a precedent for other states aiming to shield children from explicit content. The ruling reinforces the state’s ability to regulate obscenity while dismissing concerns that the law infringes on First Amendment rights. Court Upholds Florida Ban on ‘Lewd’ Drag Shows for Children.
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A Pareto Frontier is a line drawn on a chart through a set of solutions that are each the best at a different task, but there is no single winner.
An interesting point is that GPT 5.6 Luna - which I have never tried - is nearly as good as Claude Fable but much, much cheaper, with the total for the test suite coming to $0.61 vs. Fable's $21.63.
It's even more jarring when compared to Anthropic's supposedly cheapest model, Sonnet, which is weaker than Luna and cost $26.40 to run the suite.
While some 13-year-old boys spend their summer playing sports or swimming at pools, Zac Waters spent his time designing a 3D printed custom wheelchair for a 21-month old girl.
After watching a YouTube channel about 3D printing, Waters felt inspired to make a difference using his passion of 3D printing. He discovered MakeGood, a nonprofit organization that 3D prints assistive devices for people with disabilities around the world, and knew he needed to get involved.
Waters dedicated his summer to designing, 3D printing, testing, and assembling a custom wheelchair for a young girl. His favorite part of 3D printing is putting the pieces together, and this chair was no exception. The project took roughly 300 hours.
Waters is thrilled to be part of the 3D printing community that helped bring the wheelchair design to life. He hopes to continue developing his skills and one day reach the level of expertise demonstrated by the MakeGood team that designed the wheelchair he assembled.
The wheelchair has unique features in addition to its pink accents, the young girl’s favorite color. It has a removable cupholder and tray table, and the back of the chair has a space designed for heavier medical equipment. The adjustable straps are made with soft and bendable material for comfort. The footrest and headrest are adjustable for when the child gets older.
Check out the whole thing. Such an awesome idea and great execution!
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Dude has a smooth voice!
This guy won a Phillies charity auction to call an inning on the radio and sounded like a complete professional pic.twitter.com/fnBaPqKLvd
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) August 6, 2026
Radio play by play is awesome. He did a great job!
Nauru, a Pacific Island country, has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language.
According to The Associated Press, the country’s international code will change from NRU to NRO and its people will be known as dei-Naoero instead of Nauruan. Commonly known abroad by the pronunciation of Now-roo, the new name is pronounced as Now-ero.
The article is paywalled, but I told you everything you need to know.
What other name changes have occurred recently? Glad you asked!
According to Google AI:
Recent Country Name Changes
Nauru to Naoero (2026): Restored the traditional local spelling for the Pacific island.
Turkey to Türkiye (2022): Formally requested the United Nations use the Turkish spelling internationally.
North Macedonia (2019): Changed from Macedonia to resolve a long-standing political naming dispute with Greece.
Swaziland to Eswatini (2018 ): Reverted to its pre-independence Swazi name to mark 50 years of independence.
This graphic ranks the most educated U.S. cities in 2026, highlighting metropolitan areas with high levels of educational attainment and strong local education systems.
The data for this visualization comes from WalletHub. Cities were ranked using a weighted composite score based on educational attainment (80%) and education quality and equality (20%).
Go ahead and read it if you want. Let me know if you find it as useless as I did.
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Here's tonight's Flock segment - will likely be a regular feature
Why is everyone complaining about the Flock cameras?!
Here's a cool X account to follow - NOBUNAGA
"A samurai in the America he always dreamed of.
Bigger than the books said. Braver than the movies. Kinder than I dreamed.
Still bowing. Still learning."
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having...
Definitely check out the whole thing!
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To appear headless while taking a photo, known as "horsemaning", was a popular way to pose in the 1920's.
Horsemaning, also known as "headless posing," is a photographic technique where the subject creates the illusion of being beheaded, with their head placed on the ground or another surface. This unique form of posing gained popularity during the 1920s and was considered a photography trend at the time.
To achieve the desired effect, two individuals are required for this pose. One person positions themselves with their head hidden or tilted backward, while the other conceals their body, revealing only their head in the photograph. The term "Horsemaning" originated from the Headless Horseman, a malevolent character depicted in Washington Irving's 1820 short story titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
In 2011, Horsemaning experienced a resurgence on Facebook, and numerous photos attempting to recreate the original trend started circulating on platforms like Buzzfeed. This revitalization brought renewed attention to the peculiar and imaginative art of Horsemaning.
James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers'
The Pride Month event also featured a drag queen with the provocative name 'Sedonya Face'
Sit-on-your-face, GET IT??!!! I love all of drag queens' joke (singular).
James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate from Texas, headlined an LGBTQ festival that featured "the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers," an 11-year-old boy "drag queen" who goes by the stage name Kween Kee Kee.
Taylor PRIDE, a group in the town of Taylor, Texas, held the June 26, 2021, event to raise money to help "rural LGBTQ communities." The Pride Month festivities included a series of pro-LGBTQ speakers, live music, a "drag story hour," and adult drag performers such as Brianna Brinxx and the provocatively named Sedonya Face.
Talarico and Kween Kee Kee, a local preteen named Keegan, were the biggest attraction for Taylor PRIDE organizers. "[Taylor PRIDE] will be hosting numerous speakers such as State Rep. James Talarico, talented musical guests such as Venus Loves Mars, the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers Kween Kee Kee," the group wrote in promotional materials.
"Not only ... will this amazing pre-teen be performing a number at Texas Beer Company but they will also host Kee Kee Storytime ... where children will find lots of PRIDE inspired craft activities," Taylor PRIDE wrote of Kween Kee Kee in a post publicizing the event.
Talarico, running against Texas attorney general Ken Paxton (R.), is seen in photos speaking to the audience and posing with attendees at Texas Beer Company, which hosted the festival. Kween Kee Kee, sporting a shimmery blue dress, heavy eye makeup, and a platinum blonde wig, performed a drag routine as part of the group's "Youth Drag Show," event photos show.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." CNN's Abby Phillip corrected a guest: "I will say El-Sayed didn't -- does not support defunding the police." When she was confronted by CNN's own reporting that he called for defunding the police, Phillip offered a curious response...
..."I think the question that I'm fundamentally asking is, by dredging up the sort of wedge issues of 2020, are you missing the point?" Well, the point is that he called for defunding the police. It may be a wedge issue when a candidate wants to return to the state of nature...
...This is the same reporter who "dredged up" an attack line against Bernie Sanders in the presidential debates and made Sanders repeat his outright denial of the allegation by Elizabeth Warren that he told her that no woman could be president.
Walking down the average UK high street now is one of the most blackpilling experiences imaginable. Barely any local businesses left, just endless vape shops, tacky nail salons, dodgy phone retailers and the obligatory Turkish barbers, most of which never see a single customer and barely even bother to maintain the pretence of being legit anymore.
A palpable atmosphere of quiet despair and resignation amongst the trickle of shoppers wandering aimlessly around. Its like living in a country that just lost a war without firing a single shot. Never seen anything like it in my lifetime.
The hero who knocked out the Democrat congressional candidate weakling says "I didn't even know who he was." Of course you didn't. He's another nobody soyboy who thinks he can bully the world into saying he's special.
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that attempt to restrict birthright citizenship and end the practice of "birth tourism," in hopes of circumventing a recent Supreme Court decision.
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The order restricting birthright citizenship expands the definition of what children born in the United States would be ineligible for automatic citizenship, including children of "alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments."
The other order directs the State Department to issue rules and guidance to stop birth tourism, according to Axios, even as U.S. law already bans tourists from obtaining visas "for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States."
Francesca Hong won't have any of that awful "proximity to whiteness" when we deport her.
Megan Basham
@megbasham
Aug 5
I've said this before. Francesca Hong was born to non-citizen immigrants. In other words, she has citizenship in the U.S. because she was born here when her parents were on student visas.
Birthright citizenship candidates like her are FAR more likely to be extreme leftwing than to be the kind of pro American patriot that we are promised when we grant this kind of citizenship.
And now she is running as a socialist in order to dismantle the American way of life.
Unfunnyman Stephen Colbert warned his audience of brain-damaged clapping seals to not take a vaccine created by Big Pharma... when Trump was president.
Stephen Colbert's daughter has resigned from "60 Minutes," becoming the latest behind-the-scenes producer to leave the venerable newsmagazine as it grapples with a talent exodus, a reportedly unaired Jeffrey Epstein investigation and mounting scrutiny of its future ownership.
Madeleine Carlisle, a well-regarded associate producer who joined "60 Minutes" after reporting stints at Time and The Atlantic, resigned from the broadcast in recent days, according to Status.
The exit creates an awkward family bookend for CBS.
Carlisle left just months after the network pulled the plug on her father's top-rated "Late Show," ending Stephen Colbert's 11-season run on May 21 after CBS called the cancellation a "purely financial decision."
David Strom reckons this might be the worst AWFL monologue in a while.
An actual UK MP, lounging in her bikini in a Mediterranean garden, telling British survivors that they’re arseholes for wanting single sex support services, rapists should be in women’s prisons and that your daughter should get changed in front of men. Mad pic.twitter.com/zwursGZQD0
Natalie Winters: Top American Generals and Democrat Politicians (Including Hillary Clinton) Joined Chinese Intelllgence's Backchannel Efforts to Distort American Policy
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Rich Higgins, RIP, told me long ago that generals and admirals are frequently recruited as agents of influence for foreign powers.
The usual scam is that a foreign government hires them, post-retirement, for "security consulting." For a couple of weeks' "work," they get a million dollars.
But the scam is, they're not being paid for their "security consulting." They're being paid to have a friendly relationship with that foreign government. So that when the foreign power needs a favor, they can ask their Pet General to contact high-ranking politicians or current Pentagon staffers and pitch them the foreign power's agenda.
Democrats have had a long history of treasonous liaisons with China. You all remember Red China pouring money into the Clinton re-election campaign through Chinese "nuns" who deposited Chinese money on behalf of the Chinese government.
Chinese "nuns" who'd taken a vow of poverty poured tens of thousands into the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, and Al Gore and Hillary and Bill Clinton said "Yes please and thank you, no further questions. We await your orders, Comrades."
REVEALED: Top American Generals Joined a CCP Spy Front's Backchannel Pushing China's Military Agenda in Washington. Some Ended Up on China's Payroll.
From Hillary Clinton to former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it's treason at the highest levels.
Aug 04, 2026
For more than a decade, former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, combatant commanders, Cabinet officials and members of Congress participated in a military dialogue organized with a Chinese group identified by congressional investigators as a front engaged in "intelligence collection" and "propaganda and perception management." Some ended up on China's payroll shortly after.
The Chinese Communist Party did not need to penetrate the Pentagon to gain access to America's military leadership.
It built a private network around it.
For more than a decade, some of the most powerful retired officers in the United States participated in closed-door meetings with senior Chinese military leaders. The discussions covered Taiwan, the South China Sea, missile defense, cybersecurity and the future of relations between the two militaries.
The American participants included:
Gen. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm. William "Bill" Owens, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of U.S. Central Command
Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, former Chief of Naval Operations
Adm. Timothy Keating, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. Dennis Reimer, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Joseph Prueher, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
Gen. Walter Sharp, former commander of U.S. Forces Korea
Gen. Charles Jacoby, former commander of U.S. Northern Command
Gen. Charles Wilhelm, former commander of U.S. Southern Command
The program was called the Sanya Initiative.
Its glossy brochures framed it as a peaceful exchange between retired American and Chinese generals. Photographs showed senior officers chatting in Hawaiian shirts, touring military institutions and sitting across from Chinese commanders in ornate meeting rooms.
But the initiative was not organized with an ordinary veterans' association.
It was funded by the China-United States Exchange Foundation, or CUSEF, and conducted with the China Association for International Friendly Contact, or CAIFC.
Congressional investigators have described CAIFC as "a front organization" for the People's Liberation Army's former General Political Department.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission found that the group performed the dual roles of "intelligence collection" and "conducting propaganda and perception management campaigns."
The commission specifically cited CAIFC's work through the Sanya Initiative.
Put simply -- America's most senior former military leaders spent years collaborating through a program organized with a Chinese military front that U.S. government investigators linked to intelligence gathering and foreign influence operations.
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The CPPCC is a central part of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front system.
U.S. government reports describe the United Front as an influence apparatus designed to build relationships with foreign elites, suppress opposition to Beijing and induce influential outsiders to advance Chinese Communist Party objectives.
One congressional report described its mission as seeking to:
"Co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition."
CUSEF heavily relies on the foreign influence tactic of "pay-for-play" trips, including paying and subsidizing journalists to travel to China in exchange for "favorable coverage."
From Retired Generals To The State Department
The first Sanya Initiative gathering took place in China in 2008.
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The following year, the initiative moved beyond meetings among retired officers.
CUSEF brought the combined American and Chinese delegations through Hawaii, Washington, D.C., and New York.
According to the foundation's own brochure, they met:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen
Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell
Rep. Rick Larsen
Rep. Mark Kirk
Adm. Timothy Keating
Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle
China #hacked our elections and all of these people need to be investigated for years and years by the FBI, NSA, and CIA.
Outrageous! Dwarfish Democrat Troll Roland Martin Says That People Are Circulating Rumors About Him Being Videotaped In "Compromising Positions" and Threatens to Sue Anyone Publishing The Videos
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Boy this is a day of Internet Pests come to grief.
Roland Martin, if you've forgotten, is a racial supremacist. His race is Troll. He is a literal troll-man. He's got the body of a potato and a head of a potato, but a different potato.*
This Troll pretends to be black and attacks white people and Republicans incessantly.
And now some people are making claims of a sexual nature about him. Roland Martin says these claims are part of an "extortion" plot and is suing anyone who posts images or the video.
Because he's threatening to sue everyone, I'll say that I totally believe him and I believe that he will be vindicated in court in his battle with these internet smear-merchants and blackmailers.
Google AI:
Social media and gossip commentators, including Tasha K and Wack 100, circulated unverified rumors and claims regarding alleged leaked compromising photos and private footage involving journalist Roland Martin.
Martin and his team characterized the online claims as an extortion and blackmail plot, addressing the rumors through legal threats against the distribution of such material.
Background and Context
Gossip platforms and digital creators spread rumors claiming that compromising media involving Martin had been obtained.
Online commentators alleged an extortion or blackmail attempt tied to the unverified materials.Martin's side and related digital reports noted threats of legal action against individuals attempting to distribute or monetize the purported content.
Black Conservative Perspective is forced to mention this but wants it to be known that he has no opinion on these completely-fake allegations at all, which by the way he mentions might involve the prostitute vigorously penetrating him.
Allegedly -- and remember, these false rumors are being pushed by blackmailers and smear merchants. Do not be misled, these are all LIES which you must disbelieve!
The Budget Is 90% Fraud by Foreign Pirates: A Continuing Series
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
Aug 3
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Jaw-dropping fraud report just found that 9.2 million people -- including ILLEGAL ALIENS -- do NOT meet the federal requirements to qualify for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion program...that's nearly HALF of those enrolled
50% FRAUD 🤯
The problems are the worst in CA and NY. IMAGINE THAT.
"The study says New York and California have some of the biggest problems, finding up to 62% of people enrolled in California are not eligible. And the states might not even be incentivized to fix the issue."
"This study says some of those people actually make too much money to qualify for this Medicaid expansion program and others are getting these benefits, even though they're here in the country illegally!"
The entire system has to be gutted! Purge the rolls!
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
4h
🚨 WOW! JD Vance just confirmed it with Stephen Miller at his side: "We have been able to identify $230 BILLION DOLLARS of fraud just since the fraud task force was set up!"
"And that's frankly by conservatively estimating it!" 🤯
"We've been able to stop $56 BILLION in fraudulent payments that would have otherwise gone to fraudsters rather than to the people who need them."
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Jaw-dropping fraud report just found that 9.2 million people — including ILLEGAL ALIENS — do NOT meet the federal requirements to qualify for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion program...that's nearly HALF of those enrolled
🚨 WOW! JD Vance just confirmed it with Stephen Miller at his side: "We have been able to identify $230 BILLION DOLLARS of fraud just since the fraud task force was set up!"
"And that's frankly by conservatively estimating it!" 🤯
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump's Labor Department has just BANNED multiple employers from the H-1B visa program after they scammed the system to undercut Americans
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"If you’re screwing over American workers, we’re coming for you."
Partially related: As Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood, and CAIR buy elections in the US, AOC announces that American Jews have no right to participate in Democrat primaries.
I appreciate AIPAC proving it doesn’t belong in the Dem Party and especially our primaries.
From endorsing Jan 6th members to ensuring Congress remains in the hands of a 34-count felon, AIPAC is an org committed to undermining democracy at home and abroad.
Senate Republicans moved to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress in their pursuit of forcing the former architect of the nation's COVID-19 response to go on record about his actions leading up to and during the pandemic.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted on sharp party lines to charge Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the president, with contempt after he refused to answer questions from both sides of the aisle over fear of self-incrimination.
The move follows Fauci's decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights more than 100 times during his hearing last week, which prompted the panel's chair, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to vow that he would face "repercussions" for not testifying, or at least how Paul envisioned.
Fox is implying that Fauci did testify, just "not as Paul envisioned."
Fox News is as liberal as CNN. I despise them.
Typically, once a contempt resolution passes by committee, it heads to the Senate floor for a full vote. However, Paul's resolution allows that step to be skipped altogether and allows him to send the referral directly to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
But Paul wants the Department of Justice (DOJ) involved as soon as possible. There's also the question whether Fauci's pardon from former President Joe Biden protected him during the hearing, which Paul hopes to find answers to.
"It's a good legal discussion, and we will make those legal points to DOJ in sending the referral over," Paul told Fox News Digital ahead of the hearing.
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Meanwhile, across the marble expanse of the Capitol, Republican investigators in the House are cooking up their own probe into Fauci.
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After the longtime public health official pleaded the Fifth Amendment during his Senate hearing, Comer questioned the validity of his preemptive pardon granted by President Joe Biden. He also said his committee would be questioning Fauci further, though he did not elaborate.
"If former President Biden's blanket autopen pardon is valid, then Dr. Fauci has no right to refuse to answer questions," Comer said, noting his committee had done extensive work probing the autopen pardons. "Based on the release of Dr. Fauci's diary, which should have been provided to the House Oversight Committee last Congress...we'll be asking Dr. Fauci whether he stands by his previous testimony to our Committee."
Former Internet Celebrity Perez Hilton Hospitalized After Repeatedly Cutting Himself During a Livestream, Screaming "I'm Doing This for My Children!"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You probably have cleared your organic hard-drive of this nasty buffoon. He's the guy who ruined Miss America aspirant's chances by demanding she say that transgenders should be allowed to compete in Miss America. When she -- rather stunned by the question -- babbled out a careful answer that ultimately ended in "no," Hilton declared her answer "ugly."
His whole career, if you can call it that, consisted of spreading gossip and attacking people posting pictures of his enemies after having crudely drawn semen on their faces.
He then paid a surrogate to give him a couple of Fashion Accessory Children and disappeared into a well-earned obscurity.
Perez Hilton Is Hospitalized After Appearing to Harm Himself on Livestream
Law enforcement and emergency workers responded to Mr. Hilton's house after he appeared to hurt himself on a TikTok stream Tuesday.
Perez Hilton, the celebrity blogger, was hospitalized after he appeared to harm himself on camera during a TikTok livestream on Tuesday, the authorities said.
The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office said Wednesday morning that Mr. Hilton had been transported from his home in Miami to a hospital, where he was receiving medical attention after "livestreaming acts of self-harm on social media."
Video clips and screenshots from the livestream circulated widely online, appearing to show Mr. Hilton, 48, in distress and injuring himself on camera.
Cutting himself with a kitchen knife, they mean.
A representative for Mr. Hilton, Dante Rusciolelli, wrote in an email on Wednesday that he had no additional information on Mr. Hilton's condition. "Our focus remains on Perez's health, recovery, and the privacy of both him and his family during this incredibly difficult time," he said.
Later on Wednesday, a statement on Mr. Hilton's website said, "We can confirm that Perez is receiving medical care, and our family's focus right now is on his well-being."
"Perez Hilton is the most important blogger and gay icon of the Internet Age," declared AOS commenter "garrett." He then bragged about his fucking mountain bike.
There is a disturbing clip of his Tik Tok Cutting Sesh on X. I wouldn't watch it. It shows him covered in his own blood screaming "I'm doing this for my children!"
We don't know yet what's contained on the iPhone or in those records. But given Fauci's arrogance and sense if invulnerability, there's probably more to come.
A Senate panel investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci has obtained a copy of the doctor's iPhone, potentially securing even more records related to the doctor's actions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The phone could be part of more public document dumps on the way: Paul and Johnson have received millions of additional Fauci-related pages from government servers, people familiar with the matter said, and are still pressing for more. And at least four Republican-led states have meanwhile launched their own investigations into Fauci.
Birx is Dr. Fauci's accomplice, and while far less evil than Fauci, because there is little indication that she actually conspired to create the COVID virus that wiped out tens of millions of people, she participated in the subsequent destruction that destroyed lives and split this country apart. She lied repeatedly, causing enormous damage, and decided that she and Fauci could run a shadow government and do an end run around the political leadership elected by the American people.
Deborah Birx from her memoir, explaining how "two weeks to flatten the curve" was just marketing for harsh, months-long lockdowns that she was really planning:
"On Monday and Tuesday [March 9th and 10th, 2020]...we worked simultaneously to develop the flatten-the-curve guidance I hoped to present to the vice president at week's end. Getting buy-in on the simple mitigation measures every American could take was just the first step leading to longer and more aggressive interventions. We had to make these palatable to the administration by avoiding the obvious appearance of a full Italian lockdown. ... No sooner had we convinced the Trump administration to implement our version of a two-week shutdown than I was trying to figure out how to extend it. Fifteen Days to Slow the Spread was a start, but I knew it would be just that. I didn't have the numbers in front of me yet to make the case for extending it longer, but I had two weeks to get them."
Crime, housing, and employment are recurrent issues in America. Any politician who addresses them and has a rational plan to ease America's crime rate, soaring housing costs, and tortured employment opportunity will have a solid foundation for success.
For 60 years, our politicians, in league with consumers of cheap labor, have imported millions of people...some legally, but many illegally. Those millions have distorted the employment market by markedly decreasing the cost of labor, mostly by being willing to work for cash at below-market rates, in substandard conditions, and without legal protections. They also consume housing, driving up the cost at the low end in particular. And as most people are beginning to realize, those millions of illegals are often the dregs of society in their home countries, and bring vast quantities of crime to our shores.
One political issue -- illegal immigration -- has had profound effects on America, yet for 60 years our political masters have dithered and obfuscated and lied and ignored and, frankly, enjoyed the financial and political fruits of this invasion. The Democrats loved it because of the ample opportunity for voter fraud to consolidate their power in the cities. The Republicans loved it because of cheap labor; those Chamber Of Commerce parties and campaign contributions have to come from somewhere! Corporations gobbled up the illegal labor and pushed Americans out of the employment picture, and on the way de-skilled many jobs to take advantage of the cheap but mediocre skills of the new workers.
According to our political elites, there is no solution, other than making these oceans of foreigners legal workers! But along came Donald Trump, who had the apparently revolutionary idea simply to enforce existing law, and throw the bums out!
One decision -- to deal with the illegal problem -- has profound salutary consequences for Americans. Deporting illegals, whether legally or just changing the tone in America so that many leave on their own, will decrease the oversupply of labor, decrease demand for housing, and eliminate a criminal class that is responsible for huge amounts of crime!
Crime, housing, and employment! The three most important issues for Americans, and President Trump has a workable plan to improve all three. So the next time some pierced and tatted 20-something complains about not being able to afford a house or get a good job or live without fear of violent crime, tell him that Donald Trump has his back!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
Good morning kids. With all the insanity going on here and abroad these days, hell every day, let's start off with some good news and considering who's involved rather surprising. Good for Justice Sotomayor.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied an appeal from the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority to halt a $656 million judgment.
The ruling means the victims and their families are now one step closer to being paid damages, following years of legal battles over terrorism attacks.
“The lawsuit was filed by victims of attacks in Jerusalem in the early 2000s that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more,” the Associated Press reported. “Families brought their lawsuit under the Anti-Terrorism Act, a law aimed at opening U.S. courts to victims of international terror attacks.”
A significant legal victory for American victims of Palestinian terrorism.
Barring some wholly unforeseen development, such as Republicans actually mounting an effective challenge somewhere, the 120th Congress will convene on January 3, 2027 with a record seven Muslim members, six representatives and, for the first time in American history, one senator. And for Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations in the U.S., the future looks bright.
Before 2007, there were no Muslim in the House of Representatives or Senate at all. The seven Muslim legislators who will be sworn in (on the Qur’an, no doubt) in January will include the four representatives in the 119th Congress: Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.); Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.); Andre Carson (D-Ind.), and Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.). Joining them will be the nation’s first Muslim senator, Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.), as well as Reps. Darializa Avila Chevalier (D-N.Y.) and Adam Hamawy (D-N.J.).
My only consolation in an Islamized Ameriqqqa is that should I God-forbid still be alive to witness that nightmare I will at least have the pleasure of watching the Democrats and Leftists get their heads lopped off first, having sold us down the river and thus rendering their political alliance with Islam no longer necessary and its own preternatural lust for absolute power, that led to this alliance of convenience, a potential threat to our new Mullahocratic overlords.
Elsewhere, and as CBD and I have discussed with disgust for the umpteenth friggin' time on the latest episode of the podcast linked here as well as in the sidebar and on all the popular platforms listed at the bottom of the post, We are fed up with President Trump's constant yammering about how Iran is going to get it good and hard if they don't sign on to some bullshit ceasefire accord.
The Long View of Iran: The headlines focus on negotiations, but the war’s real story is this: Iran is steadily being broken by sanctions, isolation, and relentless military pressure. . . Bottom line? Iran is losing whether it is being bombed, sanctioned, or embargoed—or all three. Its ultimate fate now rests with the Trump administration, which apparently has not yet decided what, exactly, that fate will be.
When Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth over 100 times during a Senate hearing last week, many Americans were pleased that the face of the Biden administration’s coronavirus response was forced to face his critics. But many other Americans were left wondering: would Fauci face anything worse than an embarrassing viral hearing? He will if Senator Rand Paul has anything to say about it. The Kentucky Republican is determined to bring the former head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases to justice. Speaking to The Daily Wire Wednesday, Paul explained why he’s confident that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold the embattled doctor in contempt — and what he thinks could happen next.
Well, as our wonderful president (and I mean that in all sincerity) is wont to say, we'll just have to wait and see. And that said, Forget Greasy Kid Stuff Newsom, Mayor Buttplug or Chlamydia Harris, I think the Democrats might at long last have their ideal candidate for 2028 — Mini-Mengele Fauci!
Have a good day, and on a personal note, thank you for all your good wishes yesterday. And thank goodness for the A-Bomb that ended World War Two 81 years ago today. Nod of thanks to an uncle who worked as a tool and die maker for Enrico Fermi!
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
I have long wondered if those who lived in pre-Revolutionary America knew somehow that they were living in capital-R Revolutionary times, because I’m wondering if we’re there again. Anxiety, Fear, And Unanswered Treachery
Victor Davis Hanson: The headlines focus on negotiations, but the war’s real story is this: Iran is steadily being broken by sanctions, isolation, and relentless military pressure. The Long View of Iran
These declassified records suggest that the FBI was determined to conclude that President Trump was a Russian asset despite a lack of evidence and pushback from agency personnel. Significantly, the investigation into claims of collusion between the President and Russia heavily disrupted the early years of the first Trump administration. The investigation heightened partisan divisions and deepened distrust of the Intelligence Community. They show that perceptions of the Intelligence Community as excessively scrutinizing President Trump without a solid foundation to do so were warranted, raising concerns about the weaponization of the federal government and its agencies. Declassified Memos Reveal FBI Covertly Investigated Trump as Russian Asset After Comey Firing.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The service sector—restaurants, banks, hospitals, truckers, software firms and the rest of the roughly two-thirds of the economy that doesn’t make physical products—grew at its fastest pace in nine months, according to S&P Global. Its index of services activity rose to 54.6 from 51.2 in June. Any reading above 50 signals growth. U.S. Services Sector Optimism Rises as Sales and Activity Accelerate
While San Francisco’s tech community frets over AI-driven job displacement, we have more to fear from misguided government welfare policies. The Permanent Underclass Is Already Here
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
...an EPA representative said that the agency is “reviewing” a Tuesday decision by the en banc D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. That 6-4 ruling reinstated an April 2025 injunction by D.C. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan that barred the administration from terminating billions of dollars’ worth of grants given to NGOs pushing to reduce “greenhouse gas emissions.” EPA ‘Considering’ Possible SCOTUS Appeal In Battle To Ax Billions In ‘Climate’ Grants
A new study published in “Sustainable Development” asserts that we need to cut the population to 4 billion to save the planet, thereby treating humanity itself as a variable to be reduced. (If we could subtract Muslims and Socialists we're halfway there! - jjs) The Insidious Population Reduction Narrative Disguised as ‘Sustainability Science’
OK, the AAUP has been heading this way for years now: Its president, Todd Wolfson, called J.D. Vance a fascist in a 2024 statement; it opted to side with Hamas amid the Gaza war, abandoning its nearly two-decade-old opposition to academic boycotts. But embracing a guy whose comment on an attempted massacre at a Jewish day school was “Hurt people hurt people” — yikes. Professors’ union’s endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed is just more proof that the far left rules US academia (as it has for decades - jjs)
New York’s teachers’ unions are waging a vicious campaign against a federal program that would make education more affordable for low- and middle-income families. The reason? They don’t want any competition — even if it comes at zero cost to public schools. Teacher unions’ shady tactics aim to bully Hochul into hurting NY’s kids
The messy primary pitting their pick, Stevens, against progressives Abdul El-Sayed and Mallory McMorrow (before she abandoned her bid) saw a record amount of outside spending. AdImpact, which tracks campaign advertising, called the 2026 race the most expensive on the Democrat side in history. Establishment Democrats Wasted $63.9 Million Trying to Take Down Abdul El-Sayed
El-Sayed campaigned on things like Medicare for All, investing in “affordable” housing, and abolishing ICE. He previously called for defunding the police. His campaign website says he believes “in an economy built by and for working people.” The Average Man Rejected Socialism. White Affluent Liberals Chose It For Him
What really sticks in the craw of the base is Schumer's meddling in primaries. Critics argue that Schumer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) frequently attempt to handpick establishment candidates in Senate primaries over populist or progressive choices favored by local bases. Meanwhile, Jeffries supports all incumbents, angering many in the base who look for change. Tuesday Primaries Brought the Democrats No Closer to Figuring Out Who Will Lead Them
U.S. Republican Congressman Riley Moore (R-WV) called the proposal a “clear attack against Christians,” warning it could become a major issue in U.S.-India relations if enacted. Indian Government Moves to Seize Christian Churches.
Opponents of banning the AfD, including senior figures in the U.S. government, argue this move represents an attempt by the left to use lawfare to suppress the most popular political party in the country because they dislike its anti-mass migration politics, with particular criticism of leftists wanting to ban the party in the name of “democracy.” Left Push to Ban Germany’s Populist AfD.
While Germany's debt spiral is accelerating ever faster, Argentine President Javier Milei is steering his country in the opposite direction. Argentina's Milei Ends the Debt State
It was a political confession at its most revealing. There's the reference to Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's plan to regularize more than 500,000 illegal migrants, with the admission that they're seen as future leftist voters. There's the shameless call for replacing naturalized citizens with illegal migrants. There's the proud declaration that she views her political opponents as not merely wrong, but evil. And then there's the standing ovation at the end to remind you how effective the left can be at rallying the mob. (¡Sieg Heil en español! - jjs) Spanish Leftists' Push to Replace 'Right-Wingers and Racists' With Migrants: Is It Full Speed Ahead?
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The attack underscores Ukraine’s urgent need for more missile interceptors. President Zelensky emphasized the dire consequences of delays in receiving anti-ballistic systems from Western allies. However, the demand comes amid reports that U.S. missile stockpiles, including Patriot systems, are dangerously low. Ukraine Fails to Stop a Single Russian Missile in Overnight Barrage as Interceptors Run Low.
Blue Origin’s CEO David Limp today finally posted an update on the results of the company’s investigation into the cause of the New Glenn launchpad explosion on May 28, 2026... Note that the first person to comment at the link is Elon Musk: “Hope you get back to flight soon.” Blue Origin provides update on its investigation into the New Glenn launchpad explosion
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
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I have plenty of DDR5 (and DDR4) memory and DDR6 isn't expected to arrive meaningfully on the desktop until... Well, AMD's Zen 7 architecture has been confirmed to support DDR5 and that will arrive at the start of 2029, so a couple of years after that.
My old laptop was better in every way than this one except that it had 16GB of soldered RAM. Oh, and only 1TB of SSD. I never upgraded that. Which reminds me that I have four 1TB SSDs lying around that I can add to my... Five. Five 1TB SSDs.
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. We're overstocked on RC Cola at the moment though so don't be shy about asking for refills. Only the best for the Horde...
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 optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
[Top photo: State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]
A dog was rushed to an emergency veterinary clinic in Australia after eating 2.4 pounds of gummy worms.
Animal Emergency Service Jindalee said 3-year-old beagle Scooter was brought in by her panicked owners after consuming an entire bag of gummy worms - known in Australia as "jelly snakes."
Veterinary nurse manager Kate Wesche said the candies luckily did not contain xylitol, a chemical that can be toxic to dogs, but veterinarians made the decision to induce vomiting anyway due to concerns about the high sugar content.
Scooter ended up regurgitating 2.4 pounds of gummy worms.
Wesche told 1News Scooter had "clearly no regrets in her decision."
Please secure your gummy worms. There is a photo at the link if you're really, really curious to see the dog...and the aftermath.
For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on Doritos chips, sugary cereals and Oreos, too.
His premise: That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most - not the nutritional value of the food.
The premise held up: On his "convenience store diet," he shed 27 pounds in two months.
For a class project, Haub limited himself to less than 1,800 calories a day. A man of Haub's pre-dieting size usually consumes about 2,600 calories daily. So he followed a basic principle of weight loss: He consumed significantly fewer calories than he burned.
But you might expect other indicators of health would have suffered. Not so.
Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.
Science!
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German Priorities
Germans: These steep hills along the Rhine and Mosel Rivers are great places to grow Riesling but they are extremely steep and difficult to manage. The Riesling is delicious so we must impose our will on the landscape to grow grapes.
Also Germans: As long as we have these ridiculous hillside vineyards, we might as well race cars through them.
If you're wondering where the Rallye Mittelrhein is run, look for Piesport and Trittenheim on your map.
And yes, the local Riesling is wonderful. They keep the good (dry) stuff and export the sweet stuff.
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Mandatory Maiden
I will admit that I initially clicked on this video with low expectations. Expectations exceeded.
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ONT Movie Night
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Jeffery the Librarian. As you might guess, the channel is operated by a guy named Jeffery who is a professional librarian and historian. Jeffery primarily devotes his channel to telling stories of history with maps.
Always been interested in battles of the civil war, but just couldn't wrap your mind around who was where doing what, when and why? I have a much easier time reading about history when I have a map nearby. But static maps are a snapshot in time. They are not dynamic. Jeffery builds dynamic maps and drills down to specific historical events to tell the story.
For example, you may generally know about the Battle of Gettysburg, but have you ever seen a detailed illustration of each unit's positioning and involvement on Day One? Jeffery has a dozen or so videos that get into the detail. He shows topography to explain the presence and importance of high ground. He shows modern day maps and streets along with a sense of what the landscape looked like in period. If you have an ancestor that fought in any of the battles he covers, the videos will give you a sense of what they experienced.
No background music. No clickbait. Just simple and clear scripts delivered with simple and clear maps and labels. Just under 100k subscribers and videos with several hundred thousand views. Recommended.
Here's a great example of background, context, positioning and focus on Day One at the Battle of Gettysburg:
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The Pittsburgh police scanner in internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly be ignored on grounds of Fifth Amendment privilege. Are you lurking ????
When I launched Fascinating History, I wondered if a professional historian could compete with the daily scroll. Turns out, there's a massive hunger for the real, unvarnished truth of the past. Thank you for being here; I'm glad to meet… pic.twitter.com/M4eMoE5fYW
— Fascinating History (@Fascinate_Hist) June 30, 2026
A sports writer who choked out his own wife is attacking Sophie Cunningham for caring about women's safety -- he's not a fan of women's safety -- and decides it's also "anti-black" to look out for girls in girls sports.
This has nothing to do with race, obviously, except that Sophie Cunningham is white and black racists will take any opportunity to spit racial hatred at whites while complaining about all the racisms in society.
Writer arrested for allegedly beating wife calls Sophie Cunningham 'anti-trans, anti-black' in wild op-ed
The Guardian op-ed accused the Indiana Fever guard of being the right's 'anti-Black, anti-transgender culture war ambassador'
By Bobby Burack
"She is every bit as political as Colin Kaepernick."
That's how sportswriter Howard Bryant described WNBA star Sophie Cunningham in a Guardian op-ed.
Bryant argued that Cunningham embraced right-wing politics by saying young girls should not have to compete against biological males in sports.
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Most of the country agrees with Cunningham. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 79% of Americans oppose allowing individuals who were male at birth to compete in female sports categories.
Still, the loud, radical minority pushing to erase sex-based competition makes up much of the sports media. That's why the usual suspects -- Jemele Hill, Katie Nolan, Sarah Spain and now Bryant -- have reacted so angrily to Cunningham's comments.
Later in the piece, Bryant also accused Cunningham of engaging in "anti-blackism."
"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is now in the act, accepting the role as the right's anti-Black, anti-transgender culture war ambassador, the role originally intended for Caitlin Clark."
At this point, you are likely wondering what wanting to protect girls' sports has to do with race. Unfortunately, Bryant never explained that to us. However, we suspect he realized, early in his op-ed, that arguing boys and girls should share locker rooms is a losing argument.
Either that or he reflexively labeled her "anti-Black" out of instinct. Hard to say.
The left keeps saying they refuse to condemn terrorism or communism because they reject "cancel culture." Bernie Sanders just said this about Hasan Piker's statement that "America deserved 9/11" -- he said we have to "get over this cancel culture."
Um, not in politics. In politics, your words are your policies. Bernie Sanders just doesn't want to take a position on whether America deserved 9/11.
We do "cancel" people in politics for their words. We shouldn't cancel truck drivers or pizza restaurant owners for their politics -- but we sure as shit should "cancel" political candidates for their politics.
It's called "holding elections." It's the whole fucking point of elections.
But of course the left doesn't want to end cancel culture at all. They love it.
They just want to make it okay for Democrat Socialists to call for terrorism and murder.
Geno Segers was a widely acclaimed actor who starred in the Broadway production Hadestown. That came to an end this month when Segers expressed the view of the vast majority of Americans: women's sports should be confined to biological women. He has now been fired, even after an attempt to apologize for expressing his own views on the subject. Other actors have expressed support for transgender players without any response other than praise in the latest example of the rising McCarthyism on the left.
This is only the latest termination over the political views of artists in New York. As the song states in Hadestown, "It's an old song. It's a sad song. But we're gonna sing it anyway."
We have previously discussed how private companies can fire employees for public conduct or statements that bring controversy to their business or products. However, even though the First Amendment does not govern such controversies, there remains a free speech issue. Free speech goes beyond the confines of the First Amendment and private companies can engage in censorship that curtails this human right.
The question often comes down to consistency in companies enforcing content-based standards. I did not like some of the comments of Segers, but there is little question that equally strong comments against "cisgender" athletes or for transgender athletes would not result in such termination.
Segers posted statements critical of transgender athletes playing in women's sports as well as the posting of preferred pronouns. The comments were certainly mocking and insulting at points: "If you asked me what my preferred pronouns are and it's not obvious to you that I'm a he/him, that I'm good with he/him -- Surely you don't need any help. I'm not wearing a dress."
One can understand why transgender advocates would be upset with the content and tenor of these comments, including "I don't see transgender people becoming oppressed or being oppressed ... life is unfair."
However, Segers also wrote: "I'm not against anyone living out their lives the way they want, but I am against their rights superseding the rights of other people. That's a little bit foul."
Segers attempted to apologize for his comments after the cancel campaign picked up steam:
I wish to extend my most sincere apologies to everyone impacted by my words. While I never intended to inflict harm, I recognize that the impact of my statements is what matters most. I am fully committed to listening, educating myself, and elevating my standards. I will work tirelessly to earn the opportunity to make things right.
Actors, athletes, and academics routinely offer equally strident and insulting comments about the issue as well as radical comments on cisgender citizens and culture. Those comments generally do not trigger cancel campaigns.
As Lenin said, the important questions are always "Who? Whom?"
You decide whether something is permissible based upon who is doing it, and to whom.
Anchor baby Francesca Hong: Despite my previous claim that Thanksgiving should have been cancelled starting in 1621, I see now that I'm in a general election, so I'll claim that Thanksgiving, which I've repeatedly stated is a horror for people in "many communities," is my "favorite holiday."
So was she just pandering to leftwing nutjobs before?
Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter firebrand and grifter Cori Bush -- remember her? she led the BLM thugs through the yards of private citizens -- attempted to regain the seat she lost two years ago.
She was crushed again, this time by 45%.
🚨 BREAKING: Former squad member Cori Bush has ONCE AGAIN been defeated in her Democrat Congressional primary in MO
Bush’s “abolish ICE” platform was REJECTED.
That makes two elections in a row that she’s gotten absolutely TROUNCED 🤣
Perfesser, Now Ex-Perfesser, Jason Arday Resigns After Being Caught In Yet Another Lie
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The newest lie was about publishing a book.
The book was called Trust Me, Bro.
Okay that's a lie.
The truth is, there was no book. No such book exists.
Allegedly, he did propose a book to a publisher... but he never wrote it and never published anything.
Nevertheless, on his website and official bios, he claims the book was actually published and is a real thing that exists.
He also entered the fake book's title in the university's research system so that if you looked it up, you would see that Trust Me, Bro -- or whatever -- exists.
But it doesn't. It was always yet another fiction in his fictional life.
Must be that autism acting up again.
Jason Arday resigns after Telegraph reveals his false book claims
Professor announces he is quitting Cambridge 'with immediate' effect after university launched investigation
Prof Jason Arday has resigned from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph revealed he falsely claimed to have published a book.
In a statement on Wednesday evening, Prof Arday said he was stepping down "with immediate effect" from his position at the university and at Jesus College citing the "unrelenting level of public scrutiny".
It came hours after the university announced it was investigating him following new information regarding his "academic qualifications and honorary appointments".
Prof Arday, who was a professor of sociology of education, has been at the centre of a plagiarism row after The Telegraph reported accusations he had copied parts of his PhD thesis from another student.
Earlier on Wednesday, The Telegraph also revealed that Prof Arday had repeatedly claimed that he was the author of a book called Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse.
The book was listed in his biography description in published essays as well as in promotional material for speaking events, and was attributed to the Palgrave Macmillan publishing house.
There is no evidence that any book was written or published.
I mean... it's just hilarious. It's just one lie after another, and literally no one had the guts to ask him about any of these lies because they feared he'd call them a racist.
Which he did in fact do. In fact, he complained to the police about racists asking him questions.
The revelation raised questions over Prof Arday's employment at the University of Cambridge. To apply for a professorship at Cambridge, applicants need to submit an extensive portfolio of work, which includes a complete bibliography of essays, journals and book chapters.
Jesus College, where Prof Arday was a fellow, had also said it was investigating him, adding that it was "a very difficult time for him and his family".
Announcing his resignation on the Good Law Project's website, Prof Arday said: "While criticism is an inevitable part of academic life, what I have experienced has gone far beyond scholarly disagreement. The relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound toll on me and on those I love."
He added: "This decision should not be interpreted as a loss of faith in scholarship or in the values that first brought me to Cambridge. Nor should it be mistaken for an acceptance of the narratives that have surrounded me. It is simply the decision of someone who has reached the limits of what any person should reasonably be expected to endure."
The Telegraph revealed last month that Prof Arday had been accused of plagiarism after analysis of his PhD thesis showed more than 180 separate passages were identical or near-identical to another student's thesis.
In recent days, Prof Arday has put his apparent plagiarism down to autism, saying he absorbs information through mimicry.
He has faced questions over other claims. Last week he admitted that a story about him running 600 miles in six days for charity was wrong, saying that it had taken 12 days. He also accepted that he did not raise £5.5m for charity alone -- as he had said in the past -- but had instead been part of a syndicate of about 100 people, none of whom he could name because of non-disclosure agreements.
Have I ever told you about my super-hot model girlfriend? You wouldn't know her, she goes to school in Canada. I can't say where because of the NDA I have with her.
The Telegraph can also reveal that he falsely claimed to hold a master's degree in psychodynamic counselling from Birkbeck University. Durham University also contradicted his claim to be an "honorary professor" in its sociology department.
Cambridge previously said Prof Arday was the victim of a "vile campaign to undermine his credibility", but faced a staff revolt over its refusal to re-examine his academic credentials.
Its investigation came hours after The Telegraph revealed Prof Arday's false claim to have published a book.
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While he was working at Durham University in 2020, he uploaded the title of the book to the university's repository, an archive to which academics can upload their research and other work.
However, he did not upload any files or content from the book. The entry said "manuscript in preparation", suggesting the work had not yet been completed.
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The title was included in his list of published works in Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain alongside the Being Young, Black and Male book.
It was also listed on his staff profile on Durham University's website as being published in 2019 by Routledge publishing company.
He was still claiming the book was published when he took up the post as Cambridge's youngest black professor in March 2023.
I co-wrote a book with.... my wife, Morgan Fairchild! Yeah, that's the ticket!
This guy compiles what he says are the Perfesser's many, many lies.
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>be Jason Arday
>get diagnosed autistic at 3
>claim non-verbal until 11
>claim partial deafness in one ear & being taught to sign
>claim you couldn't read until 18, but still leave school w/ two GCSEs
>claim joining pro snooker tour at 10, one year before you could speak
>claim you came out of a football academy & played professionally
>claim you were on Seven Up, a series that tracked a group of seven year olds as they grew up, airing first 21 years before you were born
>have the BBC confirm you weren't on the show because not time traveller
>claim 30 marathons in 35 days, the last 9 on a broken leg swollen to twice its size
>claim to have run 600 miles in six days, when the men's record is 650
>have no recorded race time anywhere because why bother
>have nobody in the ultra community ever hear of you
>say £5.5m raised for 70+ charities by 2024
>tell a funeral directors' convention in New Orleans the ultras (no record again) raised £5m
>submit a 401-page PhD on reflective practice w/ 100+ passages matching another student's 2009 thesis
>have 188 sentences come back identical or near identical, odds
>carry over her copy-editing errors
>get the PhD anyway
>lift quotes into papers & present them as interviews you conducted yourself
>get a full chair at Glasgow by 2021
>get Cambridge at 37, youngest black professor in 900 years
>guest edit the Today programme
>collect honorary degrees from Solent, Anglia Ruskin & St Mary's
>have a Cambridge autism professor circulate "URGENT PLEASE SIGN ANTI RACISM LETTER"
>write to a minister claiming knife threats, assault, spitting, rape & death l threats, bananas, bullets in the post, corrosive substances & mutilated animals
>photograph none of it
>claim a masked man w/ a knife cornered you in the faculty twice
>appear on no CCTV either time
>tell nobody AT THE TIME
>claim a severed pig's head arrived at your parents' house
>claim police traced it to a butcher who sold a "whole hog" that morning
>have the butcher say no officer ever came in
>have the Met say the whole account is categorically incorrect
>call it "a modern day lynching" on a podcast in Sept 2025
>give a keynote in April 2026 about a playbook conservatives use to hunt black academics
>get cleared in March 2026 by a panel you asked to weigh the "war on critical race theory"
>blame the copied text on autistic mimicry & on a supervisor who left & one you never even met
>turn 600 miles in six days into twelve days
>get Solent to delete the running claims
>get 13,000 signatures & three Cambridge college heads to vouch for text they never read
>have Cambridge call it a "vile smear campaign"
>have a ghostwritten memoir to be released August 27
>watch people still stan for you because you're black
Now the only thing that could possibly make this story any funnier is if he did not even bother to write his resignation letter, but instead cheated and used AI to draft a resignation letter.
Jason Arday has resigned as Professor from Cambridge. He narrates the experience as one of relentless victimhood & persecution. If Pangram is correct, his letter of resignation is itself 100% AI generated. pic.twitter.com/eHggBXsszX
The Cambridge fantasist is proof that stupid intellectuals are poisoning Britain
Jason Arday's tall tales are a devastating case study of how woke ideology turns supposedly brilliant academics into credulous dupes
Most of them are mid-wits, at best.
Arday is, it appears, an Olympic-grade fantasist.
Indeed, the only surprise is Jason has not yet claimed to have won an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics, quite possibly, such are his skills in contortion and backward flips. Despite claims that he is the target of a "smear campaign by Right-wing newspapers", the plagiarism allegations against him have been extensively and convincingly documented. If he had stuck to ripping off entire passages from the dissertation of a female research student, he might well have got away with it. But Jason, born to immigrant parents on a council estate in south London, diagnosed with autism and who claims he was non-verbal until the age of 11 and couldn't read or write until he was 18, decided to branch out into what I can only call experimental fiction.
It is easy to imagine the magical-realism novel based on a list of his alleged achievements -- you could call the yarn Jason and the Golden Fleeced.
Take, for example, his claim to have run 30 marathons in 35 days, partly with a broken leg, to raise money for "charity".
Arday claims he had an epileptic seizure on the 20th day, causing a hairline fracture in his fibula. In his forthcoming memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, soon to be published by a (surely panic-stricken) Simon & Schuster, he describes the fracture causing his leg to swell to twice its normal size. Nonetheless, our plucky hero says he completed his feat of endurance running. There was also the small matter of him running 600 miles in six days and then 300 miles in three days too.
Experts in ultra-distance running have unsurprisingly cast doubt on these claims, pointing out that such achievements would mean Arday ranked among the world's top athletes.
But why did no one query this before now? What's wrong with the people who allowed Arday to rise as he did, unchecked by reality? His alleged endurance exploits alone are beyond improbable.
How can Cambridge dons, and other senior academics in universities across the country, supposedly some of the most brilliant minds on the planet, have nodded along as Jason told them even more -- perhaps about his supposed appearance on the TV show Seven Up, decades before he was born?
If Prof Arday had told such stories on a building site or a factory floor, the response would have been immediate and brutal: "Come off it, you lying toerag. Pull the other one!"
There is no one quite as stupid as an intellectual. A friend who taught at Cambridge before fleeing for the relative sanity of a Swiss professorship blames the Arday scandal on "a weak, woke administrative class" who have bought into the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) cult. "The disease began," he says, "when the colleges started to hire so-called senior tutors, many of whom are failed academics on an ideological mission to change the ethnic make-up of the Cambridge faculty. Their loyalty is with Left-wing politicians. Most academics are naïve, cowardly, sentimental, indifferent or gullible, so they just go along with it. It's a disaster."
Don't feel bad for this hustler: He gamed the system like a good little foreign grifter and even called the police to complain about a journalist asking questions.
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A professor I know who worked her way up the academic ladder is angry that women, in particular, and white Britons from working-class backgrounds are being sacrificed for the greater good of diversity. "It's got to the point now where if someone identifies as having a disability or is from a certain ethnic minority, they are guaranteed an interview. I've had to interview people for a post they were absolutely not qualified for and had no experience in. It's farcical."
Arday, for his part, presents himself as a kind, rather dreamy savant (he once told Krishnan Guru-Murthy that he'd like the world to "spin on an axis of love", and said: "I would take a thread and a needle and I'd interweave love into our society"), always emphasising his humility.
His mindthoughts and soulpatterns are next-level you guys.
But when Grove emailed Arday in the summer of 2025 to give him a formal right of reply to his investigation, the response was stern.
In September 2025, Times Higher Education received a letter from top law firm Carter-Ruck, which prompted them to pull their exposé (how Arday could afford such expensive lawyers is a mystery).
Then, in November 2025, the Metropolitan Police were contacted. It was claimed the reporter was "harassing" Arday, although Grove had never tried to call him or approach him or his family in person.
Two months later, in January of this year, Arday submitted a formal, 24-page complaint to Times Higher Education's chief executive. The dreamy savant was apparently playing hardball to protect his position.
In early February, Grove received a call from The Met, which explained it had investigated the complaint made against him but closed the case. "It was the first I knew about it," says Grove. He was badly shaken.
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