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!
Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
One constant motivation in the current Trump Administration has been pushing hard on defining - or redefining - who can be summarily fired by the executive. The Administration's stance is, essentially, "anyone, for any reason or no reason at all." This came to a head - in part - with Trump v Slaughter last month, where the Court did away with Humphrey's Executor. The win was not total, but it was a step in the right direction. Outside of court cases - though ironically not outside the courts entirely - the Administration is cracking down on external meddling in executive affairs.
This year, Trump has taken consistent and immediate action against one of the more pernicious forms of meddling, which is the appointment of US Attorneys. Federal prosecutors are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. If there is a vacant position, however, the Attorney General can appoint an interim prosecutor for a 120-day term. If that expires and there is no replacement, the district court judges for the district involved can appoint their own interim prosecutor. This looks like a cascading system to ensure continuity, but it has become a mechanism of subversion. Trump is cracking down on it.
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The Morning Report — 7/ 22 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Before diving in, here's a little omething to ponder. Given the constant insane drumbeat from the Left that President Trump is somehow going to steal the 2026 midterms, what if they now have to let fair elections take place and perhaps take a legitimate beating in a few or most key races in order to maintain their fiction and/or engineer mass leftist rioting and unrest? Just a passing thought. And with that in mind I give you the latest repulsive blathering out of the Garden state:
According to New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a software error at the Motor Vehicles Commission signed up over 6,600 noncitizens to vote. But only 400 of them voted, you guys. No biggie.
As Cob and New Jersey resident CBD can attest, Jersey is a completely rigged state, especially the northern Hudson and Bergen counties which are just across the river from NYC. Last year's election that saw this repulsive harridan Sherrill "win" stank to high heaven. Yes, much of the Garden State especially the areas bordering on NYC and Philly are solidly Democrat and so the chances of any kind of fair election that might allow a Republican to win a statewide election are essentially nil. And they along with the national , soon to be national socialist Democrat Party will never allow that to happen. And so scum like Andy Kim (no not the late 70's one-hit-wonder singer) fart this toxic poison out in unison with Sherrill et al:
Tuesday on MS NSDAP's "All In," Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said a serious software error in New Jersey's Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who were not U.S. citizens was "not this widespread systemic problem."
No it's not a systemic "problem" but it is a systemic Democrat policy everywhere in the USA that they can get away with it. Illegal aliens, dead people, counterfeit ballots singly and in multiple will be utilized as we all saw they were in 2020.
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.
Given all of the aforementioned, the Democrats have nothing to worry about.
A federal judge appointed by [so-called quote-unquote] President joe Biden, Sparkle Sooknanan, who was born in Trinidad adn Tobago and became a U.S. citizen in 2009, blocked former President Donald Trump's efforts to purge non-citizens from voter rolls. The case challenged the Trump governance's overhaul of the SAVE program, designed to verify immigration status and citizenship, claiming it led to the wrongful removal of eligible U.S.citizens and infringed on voters' privacy rights.Judge Sooknanan ruled that the overhaul unlawfully disenfranchises voters and breaches privacy protections.Her decision halted the use of a federal database intended for voter verification, a move praised by voting rights advocates but criticized by some officials, including Department of Homeland Security representatives, who argued it hindered efforts to prevent voter fraud. Critics have accused Sooknanan of being biased,citing her background representing illegal immigrants pro bono and her progressive stance. The ruling generated social media debate, with figures like Elon Musk criticizing it as problematic and others viewing it as a setback for election security. The controversy highlights ongoing partisan conflicts over voter integrity, immigration verification, and election security measures.
Election thievery, open borders and a corrupt Judiciary....Yeah, another 250 years are in the bag, America. Gevalt.
Have a good day,
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Daily Tech News 22 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- LLM company OpenAI says that LLM archive site Hugging Face was breached by hackers using OpenAI's LLMs to gain access to models hosted at Hugging Face in order to breach... I dunno. (Tech Crunch)
Seems legit.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - July 21, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
From ArmyBrat68
Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT has arrived - as so have you! Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Miniature World Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Joanna Turner/CougarMagic
I've read about "shiners" using being used to cheat at cards. Here's a demonstration.
Wolves welcome back a long-absent friend.
Road safety demonstration for Japanese kids.
Dog plays fetch with himself.
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Software "Glitch" in Democrat-Riddled NJ Allows That Thing the Media Democrat Party Says Never Happens to Happen 6600 Times
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A "glitch" permitted 6,600 illegal aliens to sign up to vote, and we know at least 400 did illegally vote.
Deb Heine at AmGreatness:
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D.) announced Tuesday that a "software error" in the state's Motor Vehicle Commission system registered 6,600 non-citizens to vote between June 2023 and June 2024 even though they had indicated they were not U.S. citizens on driver's license and ID applications.New Jersey is one of approximately 31 states that has refused to provide full, unredacted voter registration lists to the Department of Justice for the Civil Rights Division's ongoing review of U.S. voter rolls.
Sherrill emphasized that the error happened "under the previous administration" and alleged that a preliminary analysis showed that fewer than 400 of these individuals actually cast ballots in elections.
Sherill was preceded by Democrat Governor Phil Murphy, who appears to have concealed the issue after it was caught in 2024.
She told reporters during a news conference Tuesday that it was unacceptable that the "previous administration" didn't bring the system error to light and demand accountability.
..."I also ordered the removal of any residents from our voter rolls who were erroneously added between June 2023 and June 2024" she added. "The new MVC Administrator that I appointed has begun the process of replacing the vendor responsible for administering the system."
What about the other thousands of illegal aliens on your rolls?
She then pivoted to, get this: Trump.
...Sherrill also took the opportunity to bash President Trump's election integrity efforts and patted herself on the back for taking immediate action to fix the problem.
She stated that Trump has "zero credibility on the issue" due to his efforts to expose how the 2020 election was rigged.
DHS Secretary Mullin says she wants to close this file ASAP because NJ still has around 35,000 illegal aliens on the rolls, and they want to keep those illegal voters:
"This should've been done a LONG time ago," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin posted on X. Just ONE illegal vote cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen. As @DHSgov reported last week--New Jersey could have as many as 35,152 potential non-citizens registered to vote. Looking forward to working with you to secure your elections in the future."
I wouldn't hold your breath.
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BLM Activists Bully James Talarico Into Admitting How Extreme His Leftwing Politics Really Are
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I wrote about the fat BLM loudmouth bullying this Sensitive Sally earlier.
What I missed was how productive the BLM activist was, both for her own grifting career and for Republicans.
James Talarico has a history of taking the most extreme possible positions on issues. However, during this election cycle, he has tried to not talk about his positions. He isn't renouncing them or even "distancing himself" from them. He just doesn't want to say what he believes in, apart from "the working class."
This BLM grifter demanded he co-sign on to every extreme black-racist political agenda item and Talarico, being a sad cuck, couldn't help but obey her.
Team Cruz @TeamTedCruzIn one four-minute, off-the-cuff answer, Talarico managed to advocate for or say all of the following:
- Reparations are part of his faith tradition.
- Race-based tuition relief.
- Race-based homeownership grants.
- Race-based baby bonds.
- Slavery still defines modern Texas.
- Government must "repair" the past.
- When Democrats win the Senate they will enact reparations
- The George Floyd Act was "transformational."
- Washington must protect Americans "from police violence."
- Shows like 'Cops' promote violence
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Democrats Push Unhinged Racialist Propaganda as Republicans Probe the Smithsonian for Its Rampant Leftwing Bias
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"The museum does not take sides,' a Smithsonian official declared, perjuring herslef.
'The museum does not take sides': Smithsonian official defends institution amid Trump criticismA scathing White House report accused museum leaders of "radical" activism.
The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (MNAH) defended its work in a congressional hearing on Tuesday morning amid sharp criticism from the White House over the contents of the Washington, D.C. museum."Our work is governed by the Smithsonian standards of scholarship, accuracy, independence, and nonpartisanship," Anthea Hartig said. "The museum does not take sides in America's political debates. We preserve and document the evidence of American life in all of its breadth, so that the public can encounter the past and draw their own conclusions."
Hartig's comments came during her opening remarks to lawmakers in a House Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency hearing titled "Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past."
She is also expected to testify in a related hearing on Wednesday before the Committee on House Administration, a committee spokesperson confirmed to ABC News.
Hartig was named in a scathing White House Domestic Policy Council report released on July 4, accusing the MNAH and its leadership of engaging in "extreme political activism" and presenting "a radical view of American history."
She pushed back against the report's findings on Tuesday.
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Hartig's testimony this week marks the first time that a top leader at the Smithsonian gets grilled publicly by Congress after President Donald Trump targeted the institution in his March 27, 2025 executive order, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History."
The executive order directed Vice President J.D. Vance, in consultation with the president's advisers on domestic policy, "to remove improper ideology" from Smithsonian institutions, arguing that materials that cast America in a "negative light" have no place in federal cultural institutions.
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The report accuses the museum of "anti-White activism," "illegal alien activism," and "transgender activism." It also includes many photos of materials the White House has identified as problematic.
It also accused the museum's leaders of not loving America.
"The serious concerns raised in this report are not about a few exhibits or a few controversial labels," the report says. "As it stands today, it would benefit most Americans, especially parents bringing their children for a tour, if the Smithsonian's flagship history museum had a label at every entrance that reads: 'Warning: the exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don't want you to love your country.'"
Hartig pushed back against this claim on Tuesday and invited lawmakers to visit the museum to view its contents themselves.
"I believe what you will find, madams and sirs, is not an institution that has forgotten its country, but one that loves it enough to tell the full sweep of history, our triumphs and our struggles," she said. "I love the United States of America. I consider it the privilege of my career to help preserve its treasures and serve the American people."
Yes, the Democrats' "love" of America continues to be the same kind of "love" shown to Tina Turner by Ike Turner. Baby I love you so much, can't you see how much it hurts me when you make me abuse you?
The director of this DEI shitshow was grilled by Republican congressmen at today's hearing, with Democrats shrieking that it's "white supremacy" to demand neutral standards in a publicly-funded museum.
The director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Anthea M. Hartig, came under fire on Tuesday at a congressional hearing over a recent White House report that accused her of "radical activist ideology" and the museum of undermining "faith in American institutions."...
Representative Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, an arm of DOGE that held the hearing, focused on content in two recent exhibitions: "Entertainment Nation," which explores the history of entertainment and "Girlhood (It's complicated)," which discussed gender identity.
"You have pictures of bondage, you have some overtly sexual things up there, you have transgendered folks," he said. "In another exhibit, a 6-year-old girl asked why she doesn't have male genitalia. Do you really think that content is appropriate for children? I mean, do you think little girls have penises?"
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina asked Ms. Hartig to list how many genders there are and said, "When was your gender revealed to you?"
The museum director responded, "I don't really think that's relevant to the conversation" and generally answered in measured tones, explaining at one point that the "Girlhood" show "was not designed for children" and had a label informing parents about some of the topics.
Ms. Hartig contested the thrust of the recent White House report about the museum she leads.
"We unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the museum," Ms. Hartig said at the hearing, "Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past," while acknowledging that "there is always room for improvement."
"When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don't mean erasing it," she continued. "We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects that earlier tellings left out so that more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story.
Below, Democrats shaming themselves in public.
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John Solomon: The Same Media Who Proclaimed That China's Theft of 40 Million Voter Records from the UK Was a Major Breach Now Says That China's Hacking of 220 Million American Voter Files is NBD
—Disinformation Expert Ace
And it's not just that. A few days ago I linked an email in which an American intel officer complained about the inconsistent -- and corrupt -- treatment of the two cases. In the case of the UK voter files hacking, the American (liberal) intelligence Regime declared it to be what it was -- election interference.
But they refused to apply that same term to the theft of five and a half times as many US voter files. In fact, they "scrubbed" the language to remove any references to Chinese election interference in the US.
I didn't report what that whistleblower was complaining about when I mentioned it last time, only that he complained of inconsistent treatment of the same facts. This
report from John Solomon clarifies that the intelligence officer (and presumably whistleblower) was complaining that his higher-ups were protecting China (and the Democrat Party) by refusing to call a spade a spade.
When the Biden Justice Department announced that Chinese hackers had gotten their hands on Great Britain's publicly available voter files in 2024, American news media clamored with stories claiming it was a "dangerous" breach. The same, too, when U.S. officials announced Russia and Iran had hacked small numbers of U.S. voter files in 2020 and 2021.The reason was simple: U.S. intelligence agencies believe the targeting and acquisition of voter registration files is an act of election interference. "Election interference is a subset of election influence targeted at the technical aspects of the election, including voter registration, casting and counting of ballots and reporting of results," an October 2020 National intelligence Council report on election interference explains.
In other words, the compromising of election voter registration data, is, by the definition of intelligence agencies, an act of election interference.
Nothing to see here, move along, legacy media now saysWhen President Donald Trump presented confirmed evidence last Thursday night that China had compromised and obtained 220 million American voter registration files, the news media swung 180 degrees in the opposite direction. They argued it was old news (it was not) and not a big deal because you can buy limited data in America related to voter registration commercially. According to security experts, that limited data accessibility is not the same thing.
The intelligence agencies in the very documents that Trump declassified and made public for his announcement show the voting integrity and security concerns.
In 2022, the National Security Agency became especially concerned that China had escalated its exploitation of voter data by assigning a "CNE." That's a person or unit who are hackers and cyberthieves. Legacy news media have ignored this fact, while center-right-leaning publications were not as quick to dismiss the accuracy or impact of the data breach.
The Washington Times reported that "Trump said during his primetime address on Thursday that the People's Republic of China acquired 220 million U.S. voter files containing names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive information. Shortly after the speech, the White House released to the public dozens of declassified documents containing partially redacted findings, including data showing nearly 278,000 noncitizens who are registered to vote in federal elections and details over a "slow-walked" 2020 FBI investigation in Michigan."
Great Britain's voter files are commercially available in limited form like America's. But China got versions of the British that caused the Biden administration to indict China for hacking 40 million British voter files. According to the BBC, the British government called it "malicious" interference in their election.
In 2021, the Biden Justice Department indicted two Iranian hackers for accessing just 100,000 voter files from a single state where it is also commercially available. They were charged with criminally interfering in the 2020 election even though voter files are commercially available in limited form.
If China's acquisition of 40 million files in Great Britain and Iran's acquisition of 100,000 files in America were both charged as criminal election interference, it would seem the acquisition of 220 million voter files almost certainly would be considered by the intelligence community to be an act of interference.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Whether the data breach would have or could have flipped the election is beside the point. Experts interviewed by Just the News agreed. Former CIA operations officer Rick de la Torre called the news media's dismissal of Trump's claims "absurd."
"Of course, this is election interference," he added. "With that information, with that data, you know the Chinese government can exploit it. They can target specific individuals. They can do all kinds of things. They could request ballots. They could change people's identifications. They know now how they vote. They know what their political parties are. They know how often they vote."
"Imagine if China hacked into the Pentagon and stole every military service member's personnel file," he told Just the News. "You know, you wouldn't say, 'Oh well, that's not really a big deal. That's not a threat from a national security standpoint.' You know, that's absurd.
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The suppression by intelligence officials for years of the voter file breaches and other Chinese malign actions is captured in documents showing FBI officials boasting they created a "shadow government" and NSA officials "massaged" the president's intelligence briefing to hide the evidence.
By 2021, after Trump left office, intelligence community officials marveled at the complete 180-degree pivot the Biden spy agencies did by suddenly suggesting China might be interfering in elections.
Nothing had changed. The voter data was known by frontline analysts to have been compromised the year before and was continuing. But all of a sudden, the language changed, a dynamic captured in this gem of an email from a top intelligence expert on election cyberactivities.
"Take a minute a read through this report," an intelligence officer wrote on Dec. 23, 2021. "It cites some of the same intel and logic used in 2020 to say that these same units were not engaged in election influence but were instead only issue focused, to now argue that China IS influencing the [redacted election."]
The intelligence community knew in 2020 that China had illicitly obtained voter files. They knew such an act met the definition of "election interference." They just suppressed it.
In case you missed it: an email admits the IC is "massaging" reports -- falsifying them, in so many words -- to avoid letting Trump know China is influencing US elections (in the Democrats' favor).
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BLM Organizer Harrangues Hapless Homosexual James Talarico at Campaign Stop, Threatening "Consequences" If She is Not Racially Appeased
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Last month, unqualified DEI-charity case and uneducated moron Jasmine Crockett said she didn't know if she'd campaign for likely closeted white homosexual James Talarico. She said the entire race -- all of it -- was "racist," and she demonstrated Ghetto Entitlement by strongly implying that she wasn't just guaranteed the right to fairly compete for political office, but was guaranteed a win based on her race, sex, and DEI. And that anyone who interferes with that Guaranteed DEI Outcome is a racist.
Crockett argued that racism, not politics, was the deciding factor in her Democrat primary loss to James Talarico."The reality is that there was a lot of races, not a lot, it was racist. It was a racist race. It is what it is, right? But we live in America as y'all are celebrating 250, okay? We know what this country is," Crockett said.
Crockett rejected criticism that she should have spent more time campaigning alongside Talarico. Instead, she said her strategy was to help down-ballot candidates, pointing to five black men she endorsed in Texas runoff races who all advanced to the November election.
"The best thing that I can do for James Talarico isn't me standing on a stage with him," Crockett said. "It is the fact that I endorsed five candidates in the runoff who all happen to be black men in the state of Texas and every single one of them won."
She pushed back on criticism that she should have campaigned more directly for Talarico, saying giving voters multiple candidates to support is a more effective strategy for boosting turnout.
"People keep trying to say, 'Well, Jasmine has to go and hold his hand.' No, I don't," she said. "If you can give people more than one thing to vote for, then you have a better chance of getting them out to the polls."
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Crockett previously said she does not believe black voters have fully united behind Talarico's Senate campaign and confirmed she will skip next week's Texas Democrat Party convention.
There is no "I" in team, but there is definitely an "I" in DEI.
As Talarico's supporters criticized Crockett for having promised to campaign for Talarico, if he should win, before her loss, and now refuses to do so, Talarico attempted to calm down the woman who has gotten her way her whole life precisely by not being calm about anything, telling his gay supporters to show the unrespectable Ratchett "respect."
James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, is speaking out against his supporters who have continuously disparaged his former opponent in the race, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett."If you claim to be my supporter, if you claim to be a part of this movement that we are building, please keep Congresswoman Crockett's name out of your mouth," Talarico demanded on Sunday during a town hall in Houston.
The remarks were significant as the residue of Talarico and Crockett's primary contest had continued to stain the Democratic nominee's campaign as he worked to win over Black voters, most of whom backed Crockett. Talarico was joined by U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee, who represents Texas's 18th Congressional District, and other Democratic leaders in Houston, an area that Crockett won over Talarico.
For months, both during and after the primary election, Crockett and her supporters have called out the racism and sexism she faced from those who claimed to support Talarico's campaign. However, Talarico said on Sunday that anyone who backs him should give Crockett the respect she deserves and has earned.
"She's a leader in this country, and she deserves the utmost respect," said Talarico, who described Crockett as a "friend" with whom he worked when they served together in the Texas State House of Representatives.
Well, the kind of voter Ratchet bases her whole appeal on doesn't want "respect." They want Guaranteed DEI Outcomes.
So they, like Ratchet herself, are shouting angrily. I can't stress this enough -- this is their whole plan to get people to give them things, shouting and making unreasonable demands and calling people "racist."
At a campaign stop, Ratchet's Strategically Unreasonable supporters shouted down the dweebishly gay Talarico and told him there would be "consequences" for not giving them more respect, which means what it always means in BLMese, which is privileges and outcomes not earned by coerced by racial bullying.
Obviously, I'm happy that Jasmine Ratchet is putting out the word to her fellow race-based Democrats that they should boycott the senate election to teach whitey a lesson.
But I am getting tired of this whole BLM act:
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@FreeBeaconTexas Democrat James Talarico appears to have a black voter problem.
As Talarico attempted to wind down a campaign stop in southwest Houston on Sunday, a black woman who was waiting to ask a question interjected to yell, "Black people don't trust you for this reason. And you cannot win without us. So you stay here, you answer our questions, or you suffer the consequences."
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Michigan Appeals Court Reverses Two More Convictions in Fake-News Gretchen Whitmer "Fednapping" Prosecutions
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Regime wants to prove that "right wingers" commit as much terrorism as left wingers.
But they don't.
So they have to manufacture offenses.
A Michigan appeals court on Monday overturned two more convictions related to the 2020 kidnapping plot of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, ruling that it was obligated to overturn the convictions based on precedent.Pete Musico and Paul Bellar were previously convicted of providing material support for an act of terrorism in the plot, alongside Joseph Morrison, whose conviction was overturned by a different appeals panel last month.
The new appeals court ruled that it was obligated to apply that ruling to Musico and Bellar as well and overturn the convictions, according to the Associated Press.
None of the three men were accused of playing a direct role in the plot to kidnap the governor and the courts said kidnapping does not qualify as a "violent felony" under Michigan's anti-terrorism law.
Although none of the men had a direct role in the plot, they were part of a paramilitary group that trained with Adam Fox, who was convicted of leading the plot and is serving 16 years in prison for the crime. A total of nine people were convicted in relation to the plot.
Meanwhile, in the UK, the Regime denied that there was any political or terroristic motive in the murder of a Reform Party official by a deranged communist.
The Crown Prosecution Service announced on Monday afternoon that it has charged a man with one count of murder in connection with the death of Brexit heroine Ann Widdecombe.Joshua Kerry, 28, of Byrley Road in Rotherham, is set to appear on Tuesday before the Westminster Magistrates' Court, where he will answer the charge of murdering former government minister Ann Widdecombe, who was killed in her Dartmoor home earlier this month at the age of 78.
While initial comments by the Devon and Cornwall Police claimed that there was no evidence for a political motive for the alleged murder, this was later overturned, and Counter Terror Policing South East took over the investigation.Kerry's charge on Monday was authorised by the Counter Terrorism Division of the Crown Prosecution Service, the CPS said in a statement.
The chief prosecutor for the Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, Frank Ferguson, said: "We have decided to prosecute Joshua Kerry for murder following a police investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe in Haytor, Dartmoor.
"Police enquiries into the defendant's motives are ongoing, including a potential political or terrorist connection."
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Widdecombe, a strident free speech advocate and devout Christian, had been a mainstay of British public life for decades, serving as a Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 2010, during which time she served as a government minister in the John Major government.
On CNN, the incompetent partisan DEI guest host subbing in for incompetent DEI regular host Abby Philips suggests that ICE was responsible for their own firebombing yesterday:
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Border Patrol Wanted to Question Fauci's Catspaw Peter Daszak When He Returned from the Wuhan Lab in China.
The FBI Blocked Them from Asking Fauci's Pal Any Questions.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Senate Homeland Security Chairman Rand Paul released new documents Monday that he said revealed the FBI stopped Customs and Border Patrol from searching and questioning Peter Daszak upon his return to the United States from China...
Paul said that CBP was prepared to stop Daszak, who was the president of EcoHealth Alliance at the time, when he landed in New York in February 2021, but was told by the FBI days before Daszak landed not to question him and the inspection never took place.
CBP was reportedly expected to ask Daszak about his contacts at the Wuhan lab, whether he collected or transported biological samples, and what happened during his trip to China.
Fauci refused to appear before Congress voluntarily to answer questions about his previous perjuries and obstructions of Congress, and is now facing a subpoena.
Anthony Fauci will face a subpoena to testify publicly in July, a lawmaker said Monday.According to a social media post from Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been issued a subpoena to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The development comes as Fauci said he would not voluntarily testify after previously agreeing to do so, Paul said.
"Today, I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month," Paul said in the post.
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Conservative commentator Michael Knowles said Fauci committed "clear perjury" in 2024 congressional testimony during an appearance on NewsNation's "CUOMO," claiming the former public health official lied under oath about his contacts with the U.S. intelligence community over COVID-19's origins.
The accusation came on the heels of outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard releasing a tranche of documents on her final day in office, which she said proved Fauci worked to suppress the truth about the coronavirus's lab-leak origins and U.S. funding of related research.
Knowles pointed to CIA memoranda and whistleblower accounts he said show Fauci did discuss COVID's origins with intelligence officials -- directly contradicting his 2024 sworn testimony.
"That was clear perjury, and that's within the statute of limitations," Knowles said. "We know that from CIA briefings. We know that from whistleblowers."
Note that if he lies again, he can be prosecuted.
But he will almost certainly plead the Fifth and answer no questions.
Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone's cool and in the shade.
The Morning Rant
—CBD
After a generation of barely paying lip service to any conservative principles, the British Conservative Party got thrown out on its collective wide, flaccid ass. They were the UK equivalent of the worst of the GOPe, pandering to their supposed base while rushing headlong into EU-style globalist nonsense, caving to the left, and insulting their base by lying about the UK's uncontrolled legal and illegal immigration. The voters finally noticed, and the party lost 244 seats in the 2024 election...the worst beating in their history.
Four months after that curb-stomp, the Conservative Party elected Kemi Badenoch as their leader, it was one of the few wise decisions they have made in a very long time, even if they didn't realize what they had done.
She appeals to the base, understands that the party drifted away from classic conservative principles, and isn't a bullsh*t artist..she actually told the truth about the defeat in 2024.
And now she seems to be purging the squishes from the party, and that is a fine thing! Will she be able to reinvigorate the Conservative Party? Yes, but reclaiming its losses will be a very long slog. Nigel Farage's recent legal difficulties notwithstanding, his support will almost certainly go mainly to Restore Britain, but Badenoch is charging ahead with her reinvention of the Conservative Party into a...conservative party!
In what looks like the start of a purge of the Tory 'wets', Gavin Barwell has been told he will not get the Tory whip back following a leave of absence from the House of Lords.The move comes just days after Mrs Badenoch warned that former Tory MPs would not be reselected as candidates if they refused to back her stance on issues like leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and taking a more pragmatic approach to Net Zero.
She is playing for keeps, and it is clear that she understands that a party that tries to be all things to all people will fail.
Here is a columnist from one of Britain's socialist newspapers, predictably frantic that the twin shibboleths of the left: climate and "human rights," will be put on the back burner in favor of actual English people!
Kemi declares war on net zero - and what remains of her party
So as of last week, Kemi has put anyone who believes the UK should be meeting its net zero targets by 2050 on the proscribed list for prospective candidates for the Conservative party. Former Tory MPs with dangerously woke views like ... er ... thinking that it might already be too late to combat climate change are no longer welcome. And the same thing applies to any Conservative who still believes the UK should be signed up to the European court of human rights. From now on, anyone who falls into either of these camps is dead to Kemi.
More power to her! Any time the rabid, spittle-flecked left is in an uproar, it means that someone is over the target!
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