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Good morning kids. First we have reports of wildfires with near hurricane force winds spreading in the high plains. Prayers for the safety of all of those affected as well as for the firefighting crews and first responders who will hopefully be able to get the situation under control as rapidly as possible.
Elsewhere in the news, we have two separate shootings on two of the nation's top campuses, Brown University and at MIT.
At Brown, two students were slain, one of them was evidently a prominent conservative on campus. And that the Providence RI PD cannot or will not confirm that the shooter shouted that popular phrase that all the hep cats dig Hold that Tiger! Allah Akbar it means that he probably did and so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities and cause "backlash!" they have kept it dark.
Are these incidents all connected somehow. Given the assassination of Charlie Kirk and several failed attempts on President Trump as well as the violent rhetoric and actual violence and acts of terrorism by the Left cheered on and encouraged by the Democrat propagandist media and the Democrats themselves not just in the Trump era but virtually throughout our history. Well anything is possible, and maybe the MIT Professor had links to Academia's bête noire The State of Israel or was targeted by the Chi-Coms or other foreign state actors? Meh, just spit-ballin' here. Don't cost nuthin'. . .
A Jewish New Yorker described Tuesday how he was stabbed just centimeters from his heart by a hateful sicko — who made a chilling promise before lunging at him on a Brooklyn street.
“I’m going to kill a Jew today,” the knife-wielding goon seethed before launching the antisemitic attack, said victim Elias Rosner, 35, in an interview with The Post on Wednesday.
Rosner, a member of the Lubavitch Hasidic community in Crown Heights, had just left the temple on Tuesday afternoon when he came across the still-at-large attacker spewing antisemitic slurs.
“I was waiting in a crowd of Jewish people and this guy started spouting stuff,” Rosner recalled. “I’m going to kill Jewish people, I’m going to kill a Jew today, I don’t give a f–k … We wouldn’t be in this mess if the Holocaust had happened,” the unhinged man ranted, according to Rosner.
The man “looked very serious” — but Rosner refused to cower in the face of the ugly threats, he said. “I guess I was the one guy that had the bravery to look him in the eye,” he said.
“So, he was waiting. He set a trap up for me a block ahead. He came around the corner and it just started happening.”
Rosner was stabbed once in the chest, at the corner of Kingston Avenue and Lincoln Place around 4 p.m., by the madman, police said, adding the NYPD was investigating the attack as an antisemitic hate crime — on the third night of the Hanukkah Jewish holiday.
The Brooklynite only narrowly escaped with his life — miraculously saved by his sweater, he said.. . Rosner said the attack was part of the uptick in antisemitic sentiment following Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, with the anti-Jewish hate trickling down to Big Apple neighborhoods, including on college campuses and in the subways.
If the neighborhood of "Crown Heights" sounds somewhat familiar to some of you, it was the scene of a car accident back in 1991 involving a young black child who was hit by a car being driven by a Hassidic man. Sadly with tensions already (historically) running high between the long-standing Hassidic community and their black neighbors, Al Sharpton was on the scene faster than you can say "White Interlopers and Diamond Merchants" and a near full scale race riot and pogrom broke out resulting in the beating death, at the hands of a mob of black youths of one Yankel Rosenbaum, an orthodox Jewish student who was visiting the US from, of all places Australia!! For three straight days and nights Jewish homes and shops were attacked, and two weeks later, another man was killed by the mobs, who wasn't even Jewish but mistaken for one, having been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The Crown Heights pogrom and the sheer ineptitude of then mayor David Dinkins in allowing it to happen by handcuffing law enforcement, ultimately led to his ouster two years later and the temporary reprieve of the Big Apple from doom with the glory years of Rudy Giuliani. Yet, here we are 34 years on and the city has decided that a Muslim Communist is what NYC needs.
The attack has left Sydney’s Jewish community shaken, with some members now considering emigrating to Israel. Chavi, a 27-year-old mother who was at the event with her baby, described using her body as a shield to protect her child during the attack. “I love Australia, I was born here, and I know [Israel] is in the Middle East… but we were just sitting ducks here,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald.
And yet New York and far too many of its Jews by birth only just shoved a thermonuclear enema up its collective keister.
British authorities sentenced a Dorset man to 18 months in jail for inciting hate and violence on X in the heated aftermath of the 2024 Southport stabbings that left three children dead and another 10 people injured. . . There's no denying the nasty nature of Yarwood's posts, sent to X before the identity of the killer — 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana — was known, but was widely misreported to have been a Muslim immigrant. Rudakubana was born in Cardiff, but his parents were evangelical immigrants from Rwanda. . . Even a veteran of intemperate tweets like myself would never post anything like Yarwood did, but still, 33 views? This guy barely incited more racial hatred than Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh in all three Lethal Weapon movies combined. See, that's funny because one is black and the other is white and they're basically family and race hardly comes up. I miss movies like those.
But oh no, President Trump said nasty things about Rob Reiner. As CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast, linked here and in the sidebar and posted on the usual outlets listed below, there are far more crucial things the President can and should be communicating to the American people than his personal animus towards the late Mr. Reiner.
Contemporary Americans do not believe that our current civilization could self-destruct a third time in the West, followed by an impoverished and brutal Dark Age.
But what caused these prior returns to tribalism and loss of science, technology, and the rule of law?
Historians cite several causes of societal collapse—and today they are hauntingly familiar.Like people, societies age. Complacency sets in.
Meh, professor, in the immortal words of Nick Lowe, "You've got to be cruel to be kind!"
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Rapidly spreading wildfires have triggered evacuations in South Dakota and Wyoming, fueled by hurricane-force winds from a widespread storm system affecting the entire country.According to the FOX Forecast Center, wind gusts reaching as high as 70 mph have been recorded in the Pennington County region of South Dakota, driving the rapid expansion of the wildfire. South Dakota, Wyoming See Evacuations Due To Wildfires Erupting From Hurricane-Force Winds
Victor Davis Hanson: History suggests civilizations fall when complacency, debt, and tribalism replace unity, discipline, and reform—prompting fears the West may be nearing a familiar decline. Can the Dark Ages Return?
Amid the partisan polarization, there is a two-to-one plurality for less migration vs more migration. Just 18 percent of citizens want legalized migration to be increased, while 35 percent want it decreased or zeroed. Poll: Plurality Want Less or Zero Legal Migration
During a sermon delivered earlier this month at the North Miami Islamic Center in Miami, Florida, Islamic preacher Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi told congregants that the United States has committed so much injustice globally that it warrants divine punishment, arguing that the only reason such judgment has not occurred is due to the presence of righteous Muslims within the country. (High time Kablawi went Kablooee, IYKWIM - jjs) Miami Imam: U.S. Deserves Divine Punishment, Trump ‘Human Garbage’ — ‘The Foot of the Dirtiest Somali Is Cleaner Than Your Face’
Trump tells America: ‘I’m fixing’ Biden’s mess in chart-filled primetime address President Trump came out swinging against his predecessor in his address to the nation while touting the progress he’s made over the past year. FIXER-UPPER-IN-CHIEF
Democrats responded to President Donald Trump's year-end address by insisting he sounded panicky, defensive, and even scared. That claim spread quickly across the left, only to collapse under basic listening. President Trump spoke like a president reviewing progress, not a man searching for cover. Trump's Speech: Panic Is What the Left Wants to See
Trump’s capsule histories of his predecessors are a bracing reminder of how accustomed we have all become to leftists writing our history books, and would make a pointed and funny book. However, many who support Trump are saying that it’s time he cut out the endless carping at his leftist predecessors, and step up his efforts to undo the damage they left in their wake. Trump Adds Captions to Presidential Portraits and — Well, You Just Have to See Them
What Pennsylvania and the nation are being shown is not a strong candidate buoyed by organic support, but a carefully engineered projection. More Josh Shapiro: The Hologram Candidate
The protesters, much like current socialist President Xiomara Castro, claim that “fraud” was allegedly committed in the yet-to-be finalized results despite international observers stating that they found no evidence of fraud. The National Electoral Council (CNE) attributed new delays in the counting process to the protests, which have continued as of early Wednesday morning. Honduras: Leftist Riots Slow Presidential Vote Count Showing Socialists Out of Power (I smell Pelosorosi - jjs)
Four moderate House Republicans — Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Ryan Mackenzie and Rob Bresnahan of Pennsylvania and Mike Lawler of New York — signed a discharge petition to force a vote on a clean three-year extension of the Obamacare subsidies slated to expire at the year’s end. The petition was sponsored by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and is supported by every Democratic lawmaker. (RELATED: ‘Absolute Bulls–t’: GOP Moderate Nukes Party Leaders As Obamacare Cliff Nears) 4 Republicans Sign Democrat Obamacare Petition To Force House Vote On Subsidies
The Senate today finally confirmed Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA administrator, by a vote of 67 to 30. All of the opposition came from Democrats, who fear Isaacman will eliminate several NASA centers in their states, centers that for decades have accomplished little but be jobs programs sucking money from the American taxpayer. Jared Isaacman confirmed as NASA administrator
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The national broadcaster responsible for hosting the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest announced on Wednesday that audience members will be allowed to bring “all official flags,” presumably including the 'Palestinian' flag, and that booing will not be censored out of the live event, emboldening pro-Hamas protesters who have made the non-political event a major target. Eurovision Song Contest to Allow Booing, 'Palestinian' Flags After Refusing to Boot Israel
Melania covers the twenty days leading up to President Donald Trump’s second inauguration and will debut in theaters on January 30 2026. In coordination with the world-wide release, Amazon will release a documentary mini-series after the film’s debut. ‘Melania’: Amazon Releases Trailer for the Feature Documentary About the First Lady
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Micron has two factories under construction in Idaho due to come on line in 2027, and another planned in New York to be operational in 2030.
Even with those three new factories churning out chips they only expect to meet half to two thirds of demand.
In the meantime, though, the company posted a revenue increase of 57% over last year, so they don't really care about you and your money, as indicated by them shutting down their Crucial consumer brand after nearly 30 years.
And the second of my two new mini-PCs arrived today. I set up the first one last night - just plugged it in, turned it on, lied and told Windows I didn't have internet, and it works. It's pretty fast too, with none of the lag I get with my laptop.
Partly because the CPU is nearly twice as fast as the one in my laptop, partly because it's a clean install of Windows and doesn't have about 200 different applications installed yet. I'll fix that.
It really does have 64GB of RAM. 64GB of Crucial RAM, apparently, which is now a collectors item.
15GB per second and 3.3 million IOPS, the equivalent to a RAID array of 25,000 hard drives.
And it's not much more expensive than PCIe 4.0 models. Not because it's cheap, but because the price increases in flash memory have overwhelmed the price increment for the faster PCIe 5.0 controller.
In my experience, if you can precisely specify the requirements, and the AI can crib from public code in another programming language, and you can run the code in a sandbox where break-ins can't happen, and you're willing to do the testing, and the job is the sort of annoying boilerplate work of plugging two things together that don't really want to be plugged together, AI is useful.
In other words, the stuff that you would dump on a junior team member so that one day they would be a senior team member.
But this kind of work wasn't much fun back when we didn't have AI, so I'm not sure we've made things worse.
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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - December 17, 2025 [North Pole Rex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Santa knows who is naughty and who is nice.
ONT Department of Military Long Form Reading Material
Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere on Ace of Spades, but posting to make sure you see. Mandatory reading (since this is a semi-serious military blog at times).
And here's the truth no one outside the building understands: often Trump himself doesn't know the decision in advance - and that is by design.
In the old model, a policy chief like Colby - if he wasn't drowned out entirely by the bureaucratic circus - would brief the President only after the internal machinery had already decided which ideas were "viable." By the time anything reached the Oval Office, the cake was half-baked.
Colby doesn't play that game. He encourages his team to present the President with multiple strategic pathways that share one overarching objective: put America first. Not metaphorically-literally. Then Trump chooses.
And once the President selects a strategy, everything changes.
In previous administrations, the moment a plan left the Oval Office, think tanks, senators, lobbyists, foreign service officials, intel chiefs, and a whole menagerie of Beltway fauna would descend on the National Security Council to tug at the plan, dilute it, reshape it, or kill it entirely. Every actor demanded their piece, their clause, their carve-out, their exception. Strategy, once released into the wild, rarely survived the stampede.
That era is over.
Trump doesn't ignore these players - he's altered significant strategies to accommodate strong objections from Congress and foreign allies - but he no longer allows them to hijack the core plan. They may comment. They may object. They may warn. They may advise. But they are no longer permitted to quietly amputate or rewrite the strategic heart before it beats.
The wonks are in charge again - but not the conference-circuit wonks with PhDs, hotel per diems, and NATO summit panels funded by NGOs with agendas buried in their footnotes. Not the pseudo-experts who present PowerPoints about imaginary futures.
The wonks in charge now are the ones who can take the boundless complexity of geopolitics and distill it down to America's core interests - those who can see the world not as a chessboard or a cocktail party but as a dynamic system requiring clarity, courage, and constant recalibration.
And for the first time in decades, the Pentagon is beginning to operate according to that principle.
Anyone build their own Lego piece sorter? I didn't know this, but there is an entire sub-genre on YouTube of people making videos about making Lego piece sorters. I will admit, as a general rule, I am endlessly fascinated seeing many different solutions attempting to solve the same problem. (But I am also easily amused, so there is that...)
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ONT Department of Military History
Last Wednesday's ONT included the story of the Vietnam-era toilet bomb. But wait, there's more!
CWO3 Wayne Toth, a member of VFA-25, who shared his photos with us for this article, also gave us a little background on how the toilet-bomb was brought back to life:
"I am the Gunner in now VFA-25. We had a change of command and decided to replicate it. This time on a brand new BLOCK III Super Hornet.
One of my AO3s (AO3 Meagan Rickets) picked up a toilet from [the] marketplace, and I cut the steel, used Mk 76 lugs, made the tail assembly out of multiple dryer exhausts, and our Corrosion Control made the stickers."
The change of command ceremony occurred on September 16 at Naval Air Station Lemoore where the historic toilet recreation was so proudly displayed. During the ceremony, Commander Mark "IROC" Tedrow, a former Blue Angel, took over as skipper of VFA-25 from Commander Kristen Hansen. It was a perfect place for a fun callback to the proud history of the squadron.
Bonus answer to the question from last week: Why did the original toilet have an "E" on it?
Saturday's Hobby Thread requires Horde participation. On last Saturday's Hobby Thread, we honored the Christmas ornament. Many among the Horde sent photos of ornaments from their collections to the Hobby Thread email address. It seemed to go well, so we're doing it again this Saturday. That means if you missed it the first time or you have another ornament to submit, you get another chance.
Could be something sentimental, something you made as a child or an adult, something special given to you, something you picked up on your travels, something whimsical or fun, something particularly novel, something really old, something handmade, something intricate or fancy, something irreverent and cheeky, etc.
If there is a story behind your photo, send a brief description. I may edit or inappropriately embellish, so be warned.
If you don't have an ornament, but have some other favorite festive Christmas decoration, send it in. Ornaments get priority but will feature other decorations if there is space.
President Trump is set to address the nation in prime time Wednesday night, using a nationally televised speech to highlight major accomplishments over his first year back in office while offering a preview of the policy fights ahead as his administration presses deeper into America's "Golden Age."
The address is scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern, live from the White House. Trump announced the speech himself Tuesday in a post on Truth Social, writing, "My Fellow Americans: I will be giving an ADDRESS TO THE NATION tomorrow night, LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, at 9 P.M. EST." He added, "It has been a great year for our Country, and THE BEST IS YET TO COME!"
Ravens partner for life , they strengthen their pair bonds by performing what can be described as vocal "duets" or a soft, warbling "song" for one another.
After Months of Rumors and Speculation, Dan Bongino Announces He's Leaving the FBI
—Ace
Dan Bongino
@FBIDDBongino
31m
I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January.
I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose.
Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you.
God bless America, and all those who defend Her.
Trump says he wants to go back to his show. I figure that's probably right. He had a great job. He did a turn of service. He figures he's done enough and it's time to go back to his permanent job.
And he might have decided he doesn't like the constant denigration and the claims he's covering up for Epstein and now for the innocent patsy Tyler Robinson, and has decided, "Enough of this bullshit." Working for less money than you're used to is one thing, seeing your reputation permanently damaged by conspiracy-addled blowhards is another thing.
Shock: Somali Scammer Caught Perpetrating Another Somali Scam
—Ace
The moment that Tom Homan announced he was investigating Ilhan "Omar" Nur's lifetime of defrauding the US immigration system, she suddenly had an outrage to "bitch" about, as Trump said.
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons is flatly rejecting Rep. Ilhan Omar's claim that ICE agents pulled over her son after a routine trip to Target, calling the allegation baseless and unsupported by any agency record.
Omar, a Minnesota Democrat and longtime critic of federal immigration enforcement, said in a recent interview that her son was stopped by ICE and released only after producing his passport. When the interviewer pressed her on the unusual detail that her son allegedly had a passport on him while shopping, Omar doubled down on the story.
Lyons, however, told Fox News Digital that ICE has "absolutely zero record" of any officers or agents stopping Omar's son. He said it "speaks volumes" that the congresswoman is making the accusation without evidence and suggested the claim is part of a broader effort to vilify ICE as the Trump administration ramps up deportations.
Omar's office has refused to retreat. Spokeswoman Jacklyn Rogers said the congresswoman is standing by her account, alleging that Omar's son and others were racially profiled and forced to prove their citizenship. Rogers accused ICE of operating as a "rogue agency" and claimed it routinely fails to maintain accurate records, adding that Omar's office would welcome the chance to review any documentation ICE says it has.
The dispute comes as Omar continues to defend Somali migrants in Minnesota amid a series of massive fraud cases tied to state and federal aid programs. One of the most prominent cases involves Feeding Our Future, a Minneapolis-area nonprofit run by Somali migrants that prosecutors say siphoned roughly $250 million from child nutrition programs.
I'm talking about Omar's marriage to her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Trump may have garbled the specifics, but he got the upshot of the story right. Omar's family brought Elmi over from London around 2002 to try to extract him from a gay lifestyle, and that is the context in which the congresswoman tied the knot with him.
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A reader had directed me to a post on a message board called SomaliSpot, which has since been removed from the Internet. It asserted that Omar had married her husband, Ahmed Hirsi--the father of her children--in 2002, but that she had then married her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, in 2009. Her campaign website advertised Hirsi as her husband and made no mention of Elmi.
I checked out the SomaliSpot story online through the Minnesota Official Marriage System. Inputting Omar's name, I found that the two marriages cited in the SomaliSpot post checked out as indicated. The site reflected Omar's 2002 marriage to her advertised husband, Ahmed Aden (later Ahmed Hirsi), and her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi identified in the SomaliSpot post as Omar's brother. As it turned out, Omar and Hirsi had only applied for a marriage license in 2002 but never followed through with a legal marriage.
Citing the SomaliSpot post and online marriage information, I contacted Omar's campaign and got a response from criminal defense attorney Jean Brandl. I had seen her in court representing one of the six Somali defendants who pleaded guilty in the 2016 ISIS terrorism case. The attorney's message was a classic nonresponse response that called me a bigot and said I should direct further questions to her rather than the campaign spokesman I had called. She seemed to think she could scare me off. When I directed my further questions to her as she had instructed, she ignored me.
I wrote about all this on Power Line. My post slowly generated a huge controversy that the Minnesota Star Tribune eventually covered. I got a call from then-Star Tribune reporter Patrick Coolican, who told me that he was writing the story and that the campaign denied that Elmi is Omar's brother. I asked, "Who do they say he is?" He responded: "They won't tell me."
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Their story proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Omar married her brother for some fraudulent purpose. Coolican and Montemayor all but begged Omar for an interview and access to her family to discuss the issue. She repaid them with the same kind of treatment I had received in 2016. These left-wing reporters for a left-wing newspaper begged Omar for a response, but they got the same one I had in 2016. They were bigots, too.
"Whether by colluding with right-wing outlets to go after Muslim elected officials or hounding family members, legitimate media outlets have a responsibility not to fan the flames of hate," her spokesman told the paper. "Continuing to do so is not only demeaning to Ilhan, but to her entire family."
Between 2016 and 2019, reporters including Preya Samsundar at Minnesota's Alpha News and David Steinberg at PJ Media also added a trove of information supporting the proposition that Omar had married her brother in 2009. In 2019, I published Steinberg's illustrated summary, "Tying up loose threads in the curious case," on Power Line.
It lays out in meticulous detail what several Somali sources relayed both to him and to me, as well as social media posts that make it clear Elmi is Omar's brother. Omar entered the United States in 1995 as a fraudulent member of the Omar family, which was granted asylum in the United States and settled in Arlington, Va., along with her sister Sahra and her father Nur Said. The rest of Omar's genetic family, the Elmi family--a sister, Leila, and Mohamed and Ahmed--was granted asylum in the United Kingdom.
Social media posts throughout the years show Omar and her siblings in both the United States and the United Kingdom referring to each other, and to their father, as such. It is not difficult to track.
Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him.
The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, now her ex-husband, are siblings, according to an analysis by British company Endeavor DNA Laboratories. But before Lazarro could share the results with the media, he was arrested Thursday on underage sex-trafficking charges and jailed pending a court hearing Monday.
His website, IlhanOmarDNA.com, containing the DNA test results, was online briefly before it was taken down Wednesday.
Lazarro and a group of conservative donors had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on three continents hiring private investigators to track down Elmi Omar's ex-husband in the UK and procure his DNA from a drinking straw. Omar's DNA, Lazarro's website claimed, was extracted from saliva on a cigarette butt she was photographed smoking.
Omar previously has denied Elmi is her brother, calling the claim "absolutely false," "absurd" and "offensive."
Special Agent Joy Hess, from the FBI's Twin Cities field office, which investigated allegations that Omar married her brother Elmi to get around US immigration laws, says the "statute of limitations" had run out on the case. In a recorded conversation with an associate of Lazarro, posted on his website Wednesday, Hess also said the FBI could not pursue the case because Omar's ex-husband Elmi had moved overseas.
"The statute of limitations is over," she said. "According to the US Attorney's office The Statute of Limitations is not something we can overcome in that matter ... The individual in question left the country so there's nothing to [do]."
I guess maybe this guy could have had a better look at the obese terrorist, but... he would still have seen Chubbs McMurder wearing a mask, something the left has normalized and even sacralized. Now most criminals wear masks. It used to be illegal to wear a mask in public, now it's a sacrament.
The Providence Police Department has widened its search to include a person who was “in proximity” to the at-large Brown University gunman who murdered two students and wounded seven others on Saturday.
“Investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying and speaking to the individual shown in these photos who was in proximity of the person of interest,” the Rhode Island department wrote on X alongside several photos.
“Anyone with information is urged to contact the tip line at 401-272-3121.”
The individual featured in the newly released grainy surveillance camera captures is wearing a blue jacket with a green hood, dark pants and is holding what appears to be a light-colored satchel slung over their right shoulder.
It appears to be the same person spotted in surveillance footage previously released by FBI Boston, which also shows the unidentified suspect walking down a suburban Providence street less than two hours before the shooting.
In the footage, the suspect appears to look to his right and spot the backpack-wearing individual before breaking into a sprint down a side street at 2:16 p.m. Dec. 13.
So did something about the killer alarm him? Did he see a gun?
I don't know. I guess it's possible he's even a confederate but unless I'm reading this wrong they were never seen speaking together or interacting.
As you probably know, online people found a "they/them" queer Palestinian refugee who has the same basic body type as the suspect. (In fairness, a lot of young "men" now have this same body type, unfortunately.)
I wouldn't think much about that, but when I went searching for him, I found that every link I tried to click on had been deleted.
All references to Mustapha Kharbouch have been removed from Brown University’s website.
Archived profiles described Mustapha as a queer Palestinian activist and a third generation Palestinian refugee before they were taken down.
Although online "sleuths" have scored some real coups in identifying unknown persons, they've also struck out far more than they've hit. I'm interested to know if this guy has an alibi, and if he's been questioned and if his home has been searched, but I'm not even close to convinced. Even the deletion of his pages is suggestive, but not conclusive; the left lies about everything and is determined that no one but the left is allowed to have access to the internet. It would not surprise me if they went on a deleting mission just because it offended them that non-credentialed persons were trying to do their jobs for them.
But I sure would like to know if he has an alibi or not. The "refuse to even dignify that question with an answer" act they always put on is getting old. And it's always been a suspicious kind of act. If the facts are on your side, why do you hide them?
"Big Fani" Willis Takes the Stand in State Inquiry Into Her Corrupt Persecution of Trump
—Ace
The Georgia Senate is probing irregularities and possible corruption in the "Big Fani" Willis persecution of Trump and various Trump supporters and their lawyers.
One aspect they're probing is whether "Big Fani" ran the investigation for her personal benefit, paying a huge and hugely inappropriate salary to her secret boyfriend Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., who then used those taxpayer funds to take "Big Fani" around the world on luxury trips.
When asked about this, Big Fani did something that will SHOOK you. (Yes, I said "shook," it's a young people thing, you don't understand me or my generation. Six-seven!)
Big Fani, get this, covered up her embezzlement and self-dealing by playing -- brace yourselves for incoming Shook -- the race card.
Fani Willis loses her damn mind when presented with documents showing how much money her office paid her lover Nathan Wade during the witch hunt against President Trump:
You may think "He must be billing for his underlings' hours a well."
Well, no... because he's billing the 160 hours per week at his personal hourly rate, which is much, much higher than a secretary's or paralegal's rate would be. Sweetdick is claiming that he, personally, worked 160 hours per week, and Big Fani is insisting to the court that he really did work that much, because he showed up for work at 7:45 am instead of 8:30 am.
And that adds up to 160 hours per week?
Oh no. Oh no no no, it doesn't.
160 hours a week. That's how much he billed, and those are the hours Big Fani paid her boyfriend for.
160 hours a week.
80 hours a week is overworking.
160 hours per week? Can someone run the math? How many hours are left over for sleeping and eating when you're billing 160 hours per week?
Update: Apparently a week only has 168 hours in it. He had eight hours in the entire week for eating, sleeping, and eliminating waste.
And also for servicing Big Fani's monster box.
So he showed up at 7:45 am to work? That doesn't add up to 160 hours per week unless he worked until 6:15 am the previous day/night/morning, taking just an hour and a half off for sleep.
Press "X" to doubt. I have never gotten a High-Energy Type A Personality Ambitious vibe off this sleepy, languid gigolo.
Big Fani also keeps claiming she doesn't review the billing records and won't even say who does have responsibility for reviewing the billing records.
She sounds like she's lying. And not just lying, but lying about knowing who would be in a position to contradict her lies. Because she doesn't want to admit that any person in her office was the person who reviewed his billing records, because that person could say, "I brought it to her attention, and she told me to shut up and pay her boyfriend."
Her claims seem, as a judge said of her previous claims of secretly paying back Sweetdick for the trips using cash she stored in her house, to have the whiff of mendacity to them.
Which is the lest objectionable whiff emanating from Big Fani.
Fani Willis' behavior today was a disgrace -- and it showed exactly why she fought so hard to dodge accountability. That's why I led the Senate to create this committee and demand the truth.
She weaponized her office to attack President Trump and Georgia conservatives, burning MILLIONS in taxpayer dollars on a political hit job for headlines.
While our Attorney General and Secretary of State repeatedly failed to act, the Georgia Senate stepped up to demand answers and make sure this blatant abuse of power never happens again.
Trump Announces Total Blockade On All Sanctioned Venezuelan Oil Tankers; Demands Venezuela Return "All Lands, Oil, and all other Assets they previously stole from us"
Note that only some of Venezuela's tankers have been sanctioned for carrying banned Iranian oil. So this is not a blockade of all of their oil tankers.
It is nevertheless an escalation.
The Walls, CNN might say, are Closing In on Maduro.
Related: Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states.
Now it's at its lowest level not just since covid, but since Trump's pre-covid final year of term one.
Americans are heading into Christmas with a financial break at the pump that hasn't been seen in years, as gas prices are projected to hit their lowest Christmas Day average since 2020 -- the final full year of President Trump's first term. The White House credits Trump's renewed focus on domestic energy production and regulatory restraint for the drop, arguing the contrast with the Biden years could not be clearer. "Thanks to President Trump, gas prices have hit a five-year low and Christmas Day gas prices are projected to fall to the lowest level since 2020," White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Breitbart News, adding that driving down energy costs for families and businesses will remain a top priority as the administration looks ahead to the new year.
Data from GasBuddy suggests the relief will be tangible. The firm estimates Americans will save more than $500 million on fuel during Christmas week compared to last year alone, a meaningful reprieve after years of elevated prices that hammered household budgets. The historical comparison underscores the shift. On Christmas Day 2020, gas averaged about $2.26 per gallon nationwide while Trump was still in office. Just one year later, with Joe Biden less than a year into his presidency, that figure had jumped to roughly $3.26 per gallon. Prices stayed stubbornly above $3 on Christmas Day throughout Biden's term, averaging $3.05 in 2022 and $3.10 in 2023.
Those holiday figures came against the backdrop of a broader energy shock under Biden, who presided over the highest gas prices in U.S. history during the inflation surge that followed his policy reversals on drilling, pipelines, and energy investment. On June 14, 2022, the national average for regular unleaded hit $5.016 per gallon, according to AAA -- a number that became emblematic of the administration's broader economic troubles.
Industry analysts point to improving fundamentals now driving prices lower, but the White House is quick to frame those gains as policy-driven. GasBuddy head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan said refinery maintenance has wrapped up, supplies are increasing, and seasonal demand is down, all of which are keeping prices in check. "Provided there are no surprises, holiday travelers should see pump prices that come in a bit lower than last Christmas," De Haan said, adding that early indicators suggest lower prices could extend into next year as GasBuddy prepares to release its 2026 fuel outlook in January.
For the Trump administration, the timing matters. Lower gas prices during the holidays serve as a highly visible reminder of how energy policy ripples through the broader economy -- and a direct contrast to the Biden-era spikes that voters still remember. As millions of Americans hit the road to see family, the message from the White House is simple: energy dominance isn't an abstraction. It shows up on the receipt at the gas station.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Democrats are livid after local news in Las Vegas was just forced to show working class Americans CELEBRATE President Trump's plummeting gas prices
They've dropped 45 cents in ONE MONTH.
UBER DRIVER: "I can probably save roughly $60 a week!"
Below, Americans videotape their local gas prices. One guy celebrates $2.19/gallon gas, another guy in Texas shows gas at... $1.79/gallon.
Crazy!
The lowest gas prices I remember came after the first Iraq war. Gas prices had been high before and through the war, due to supply disruptions (and simple fear of possible supply disruptions).
After the war concluded, those fears ended, and the Saudis began pumping a lot as a favor to George Bush. Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.
Axios: Kamala Harris Is Leaning Towards Running Again in 2028; Unnamed Democrats Are Attacking Gavin Newsom to Deny Him His Coronation
—Ace
I'm a pessimist, so I never believe that the best possible outcome will come to pass just because I want it to. I never believed, for example, that Biden would wind up being the nominee in 2024, despite my intense desire that he be so.
Maybe this dingbat ding-a-ling really will run again -- and maybe the most important cohort in the Democrat Party, black women, will give her the win.
What, did you just fall out of the coconut tree?
LOS ANGELES -- Kamala Harris isn't planning to go gentle into that good night. This week the former vice president made clear to potential 2028 rivals that she's working to keep another White House campaign viable.
Why it matters: Despite worries from party leaders and donors that she can't win, Harris remains at or near the top of most 2028 Democratic primary polls. She also has strong support among Black voters -- the most critical voting bloc in most recent Democratic presidential primaries.
Driving the news: After lying low the first part of this year and then embarking on a 2024-focused book tour, Harris made several moves this week that many Democrats see as the beginnings of a 2028 campaign.
Her book tour expanded. Harris announced many more stops on her tour to promote "107 Days," her story of her short presidential campaign last year. Tour stops in early 2026 will include the historically critical primary state of South Carolina and cities with many Black voters, including Detroit, Jackson, Miss., Memphis, Tenn., and Montgomery, Ala.
She appeared before the Democratic National Committee. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, mingled with national party officials and state party chairs in Los Angeles this week during the DNC's winter meeting.
At a reception Wednesday evening, DNC chair Ken Martin introduced Emhoff as the former second gentleman and quipped that he could be the future first gentleman, people who heard the remarks told Axios.
Harris is rolling out new rhetoric.
She railed against both parties and the status quo in a speech Friday to Democratic officials. Many in the room told Axios they were struck by how different Harris' remarks were from her Biden-defending message on the campaign trail last year.
"Both parties have failed to hold the public's trust," Harris said. "Government is viewed as fundamentally unable to meet the needs of its people.... People are done with the status quo and they're ready to break things to force change."
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What they're saying: Harris spokesperson Kirsten Allen said Harris "will approach 2026 with the same commitment that anchored 2025 -- listening to the American people, reflecting where leadership has fallen short, and helping shape the path forward beyond this political moment."
Allen added that includes "supporting efforts to win back Democratic majorities in the House and Senate."
She'll be appearing on leftwing church elder Jimmy Kimmel's televangelist show next week.
Meanwhile, unnamed Democrats -- though we know with 100% confidence they're supporters and employees of the likely candidates Pritizker, Bootyjudge, Harris, and even the Fiercely Heterosexual Spartacus Booker -- are planting disparaging information about Gavin Newsom in their allied press.
Gavin Newsom's Democratic rivals are plotting how to take down the early 2028 frontrunner, with a heavy emphasis on how unpopular his left-leaning views are outside deep-blue California.
Driving the news: Our conversations with more than 20 Democratic operatives, including several working for 2028 hopefuls, reveal that they see the California governor as the guy to beat -- and a guy with a lot of personal baggage that's exploitable for a presidential primary.
The consensus themes to expect in attacks on Newsom:
The "too liberal, coastal elite" argument
If primary voters prioritize electability, Newsom -- a former San Francisco mayor -- could be seen as a risky choice, the operatives say.
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The wealthy Getty family has been a key backer of Newsom's political and business career, leading some of his foes in California to call him a slick "Davos Democrat."
2. The scandals
When he was San Francisco's mayor in early 2007, Newsom apologized for having an affair with his campaign manager's wife, who was also a subordinate in his mayoral office.
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During strict COVID lockdowns he imposed as governor, Newsom in November 2020 attended a birthday dinner for a lobbyist and adviser at the posh French Laundry in Napa.
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Zoom in: Some of Newsom's potential rivals and other Democratic leaders have begun going public with attacks.
California Rep. Ro Khanna, referring to Newsom's former chief of staff recently being charged with corruption, said the aide's indictment is a "toxic stain" on the state.
Kamala Harris: Tried and tested. Tanned, rested, and ready.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the early evidence is in: President Trump's renewed border enforcement and mass deportation campaign is easing pressure on the housing market, delivering tangible relief for renters who were hammered during the Biden years. Speaking on Fox Business Channel, Bessent pointed to fresh rent data showing apartment prices fell 1.1 percent compared to a year ago and are now down 5.2 percent from their 2022 peak, when housing costs were surging nationwide. Bessent argued the decline isn't accidental, but the predictable result of reversing what he called years of "unfettered immigration" that flooded local housing markets and forced working Americans to compete for limited supply.
Citing a recent Wharton School study, Bessent noted a near one-to-one relationship
between population growth and rent increases, saying the research found that "every one percent increase in population" translated into roughly a one percent rise in rents. "Rents are down," Bessent said, adding that the Biden administration refused to acknowledge how mass migration fueled the affordability crisis.
.@SecScottBessent: "There's a recent study out from Wharton School that shows every 1% increase in population, rents went up 1%. So, @POTUS, by enforcing the border, sending home more than 2 million illegals, we're now seeing [rents] coming down substantially." pic.twitter.com/VtzSj7SiFf
Trump's boasting about the job numbers released earlier this week, but they're not great. At least, not at first glance. I think 64,000 jobs were created last month, which is a bad number. You want to see a minimum of 100,000 per month and you wouldn't say the market is strong until it gets up over 200,000.
What makes them look better is that new American jobs are going to, get this, actual Americans.
I have nothing against Hondurans or Indians or Haitians but I could not give a fuck about whether they have jobs or not. In fact, as it relates to jobs in America, I would like them not to have jobs at all.
The White House touted fresh labor data Tuesday as evidence that President Trump's economic reset is taking hold, pointing to sustained private-sector hiring, shrinking federal payrolls, and rising wages as hallmarks of what the administration calls a restored "America First" economy.
In a statement accompanying the release, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the latest jobs report shows Trump "fixing the damage caused by Joe Biden" and redirecting growth back to where it belongs.
"Since President Trump took office, 100% of the job growth has come in the private sector and among native-born Americans -- exactly where it should be," Leavitt said, adding that wages are rising, prices are falling, and investment is pouring back into the country as the economy heads into 2026.
According to the White House, the private sector has added 121,000 jobs since September and 225,000 since August, even as the federal government has shed 168,000 positions during the same period.
Federal employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade, down 271,000 jobs since Trump returned to office, reflecting the administration's push to rein in what it describes as an overgrown bureaucracy.
Overall, Trump's second-term economy has produced 687,000 new private-sector jobs since January, with the gains concentrated among American workers.
Last week, the New York Post ran an article on an obviously predatory activity with a major online grocery ordering platform - and managed to seriously miss the real point. The article is about a recent study of Instacart, which exposed wildly different pricing for the same items at the same stores at the same time, depending on who did the ordering. Per the study, prices varied by an average of 13% and as much as 23%. That's a huge range.
Too bad the Post misses the problem entirely in its coverage of the story and misinterprets the underlying issue. As the paper put it:
It's the latest example of so-called "dynamic pricing" -- the hated practice introduced more than a decade ago by Uber and Lyft, hiking prices for rides during rainstorms -- that is nickel-and-diming consumers, even as relentless inflation has sparked an affordability crisis.
Not at all. These are entirely different things, and they should not be conflated.
"Dynamic pricing" - or "surge pricing" as it is sometimes called - is a response to suddenly increased demand. Rain? Ballpark emptying out? End of a concert? Enjoy a higher price for your ride. There is more demand for rides, and the price goes up. The crucial difference between "dynamic pricing" and what Instacart is allegedly doing is that "dynamic pricing" applies to everyone trying to get a ride in that area at that time. Two people standing next to each other ordering an Uber will both get the surge price in that scenario. One guy won't get socked with a surcharge while the other guy doesn't. That is not at all like what Instacart is doing.
Instacart is showing different prices for the same goods at the same store at the same time. That's "dynamic" all right, but it ain't the same. There is no reason for it (besides the obvious one), and it doesn't apply evenly. Arbitrary and opaque pricing differences are completely counter to the entire concept of prices - and per Instacart, it is arbitrary:
In response to a query by The Post, Instacart said its price "tests" are never based on the personal or behavioral characteristics of shoppers.
That's even worse if true, since there's no way to end-run its filtering. When prices change arbitrarily or are hidden, markets fail to function properly and people get rooked - which is why it's illegal. It breaks the market.
Like the Post however, Instacart also makes a false comparison - though unlike the Post, the company must know that it's false:
"Just as retailers have long tested prices in their physical stores to better understand consumer preferences, a subset of only 10 retail partners -- ones that already apply markups -- do the same online via Instacart," an Instacart spokesperson told The Post in a statement.
Except that the price in any given store applies equally to everyone in that store. The price doesn't randomly change for every person who walks in the door.
This is likely a violation of antitrust law. Goods must be offered to all competing customers on the same terms. If you offer a discount - say, for quantity purchase, or for paying cash instead of with a credit card, or for being a member of a club, etc. - that discount applies to anyone who meets the terms. Anyone buying 1000 units gets the 1000-unit discount, and anyone with the club card gets the club card price. That is not what is going on here if the study is accurate. Competing customers, purchasing the same items on the same terms from the same location and at the same time are charged different prices. The FTC ought to be very interested in this, but they aren't.
And why should they be? As we see time and time and time again, federal regulators and investigators aren't there to do their stated jobs, they're there to protect the anointed and punish the disfavored. If confirmed, Instacart's behavior would make for a prosecutorial lay-up.
Too bad there are more important things to do, like subverting the President, shielding the Clintons and defending Pfizer. Not even the low-hanging fruit is worth plucking if the only benefit is to Americans.
Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate, and the idea that America should provide some ironclad security in the event of another border clash is batshit crazy.
Communist dictator Kim Jong-un of North Korea held a welcome back ceremony for soldiers serving in the battlefield of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this weekend, acknowledging a regiment believed to have been helping clear landmines in which at least nine soldiers died.
So the Norks are clearing mines for Putin. And what would happen if suppose there was an encounter with US troops and a firefight broke out? Despite the armistice of 1953, the North Korean regimes under successive generations of the Kim dynasty still consider themselves in a state of war with the USA and have maintained their goal of retaking and absorbing South Korea. Yeah, batshit crazy but what if Ukraine somehow devolved into a second front of the ongoing Korean "conflict?" Considering the bizarre and often testy relationship between President Trump and "Rocket Man" Kim . . . again, batshit crazy indeed.
A US special operations team in the Indian Ocean raided a ship headed to Iran from China last month and seized military-related articles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing US officials.
The cargo consisted of components potentially useful for Iran’s conventional weapons, one official said, adding the shipment had been destroyed.
US forces boarded the ship several hundred miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, according to the newspaper, which added the vessel was later allowed to proceed….. The report cited an American official as saying US intelligence indicated the shipment was headed for Iranian companies known to be intermediaries for the country’s missile development efforts.
The action was part of a campaign by the US Defense Department to cut off Iran’s covert arms supply networks….The Iran-China relationship is a cause for concern, but is also unpredictable, since according to analysts across the board, China does not want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
The incident of American commandos raiding the ship that was heading from China to Iran was “part of a campaign by the US Defense Department to cut off Iran’s covert arms supply networks.”
Nonetheless, in the global arena, the red-green alliance is growing stronger and expanding strategically, which isn’t good news for American interests.
It should be noted that Iran and North Korea have also had and likely still have a very close relationship due to their mutual animosity and hatred of the USA and now more than ever with Trump as President. Over the years they have collaborated on both nuclear weapons and missile technology. Iran and China have made inroads in our own backyard, most especially in Venezuela first with Chavez and now Maduro, as well as some of the other Commie dictators in the region. It's why the recent elections in Chile and elsewhere installing more American aligned leaders and a rejection of the Leftists are most welcome and gratifying.
The most welcome IMHO and vocal and strident reassertion by this President of the Monroe doctrine could not come at a more crucial time in geopolitics both in this hemisphere and with repercussions that go far beyond it. That said, given the nature of the players in Beijing, Pyongyang, Tehran and Caracas as well as Moscow the word RISK takes on a meaning well beyond that of a mere old time kids' board game.
Yet with all this going on in the world, the greatest risk to America and of our way of life still remains the enemy within.
Do you know what a “neopronoun” or a “xeopronoun” is?
The teachers’ unions want to make sure your little kids do. . .Got it?
No?
But our kids are being force-fed this garbage in America’s public schools.
The NEA touts over 3 million members, many of them teachers in our schools.
The union steeps the teachers in this leftist brain rot, and the teachers spread it at schools across the country.
It’s not just the gender bunk that was presented at the conference, either.
The NEA is not entirely sure this whole “America” thing is going to stick, so they refer to it as “what we know as the United States of America” and “What we now call the United States of America” in multiple slides.
Apparently xeopronouns are rock-solid but a 249-year-old country might just be a fad.
Also, sorry gay people, but “homosexual” is a no-no term now, according to the NEA. . . Also, sorry gay people, but “homosexual” is a no-no term now, according to the NEA.
Why?
Because “this term comes across as clinical and dog whistle-y.”
Well, yes, it sounds clinical because it’s a biological term and not a word made up by some TikTok influencer to describe the gender identity of the moment.
How can the NEA still be prioritizing this foolishness in the year 2025?
And why does an openly political special interest group continue to have so much sway over our kids?
Why? How much longer can groups like this, pushing a crazy agenda, have access to our kids and their schools?
Parents need to remain on guard from this asininity oozing into their kids’ classrooms.
Unless and until we wrest control over the Education of our chlldren from the sick, twisted power-mad fiends, we as a nation and society are doomed. Well, there's batshit crazy and then there's the above.
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Since 1912 and the election of Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat Party has been America’s left-wing political party. Nonetheless, over the decades it has maintained tenuous ties to the basic tenets of the nation’s founding. In the 1930s, beginning with what was a de facto “cult of... More The Marxist Transformation of the Democrat Party
This week, Mills said she will allow LD 1971 to become law because she feels Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have engaged in “unacceptable actions,” though she still feels the law is “imperfect,” according to WMTW-TV. (when will this filthy criminal shit-whore be arrested and imprisoned?! - jjs) Maine Gov. Janet Mills Approves Law Preventing Police from Aiding Immigration Enforcement
Hanukkah is not a festival of vague illumination or seasonal warmth. It is not about universalism. Bondi should have taught us that. The story of Hanukkah is about Jews who refused — violently, unapologetically, and at great cost — to stop being Jews. Bondi Beach brings back the true meaning of Hanukkah: resistance
If signed into law, Republican Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman and Democrat Maine Rep. Rep. Jared Golden’s SPEED Act would reform the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a keystone federal environmental law that the White House recently targeted. Like many deregulatory proposals, environmental groups are fighting the SPEED Act, though some hardliner House Republicans have also been resisting the measure, arguing that it would pave the way for offshore wind projects President Donald Trump has staunchly opposed. Congress Nears Bipartisan Permitting Reform. Hardline Republicans Argue It Threatens Trump’s Agenda. (Bipartisan = Gang-Rape - jjs)
SECOND AMENDMENT
Democrat pederast Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota lashed out in an angry diatribe against the Second Amendment during a Tuesday press conference in which he signed executive orders he claims will reduce gun violence. ‘It’s All Bullsh*t’: Tim Walz Goes On Anti-Second Amendment Rant
Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate. Her mouth is her own biggest obstacle. In April, Crockett claimed she “had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country … The fact is, ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now.” Jasmine Crock(o'sh-)ett Backtracks On ‘Picking Cotton’ Comments
As Republicans seek to maintain control of Congress in 2026, several key races are poised to play a decisive role in determining whether the party can hold its majorities — and whether alignment with Trump is still enough to motivate GOP voters in midterm elections. Six Primaries That May Determine The Future Of The GOP After Trump
Musk, who attempted to launch a third party earlier this year, appears to have had a change of heart, as he is now cutting large checks to help the GOP secure congressional seats in next year’s midterm elections, two sources familiar with the matter told Axios. The amount Musk is donating to help Republicans stop Democrats from reclaiming a majority in Congress will not be revealed until next month, when campaign finance reports are released. Report: Elon Musk Is Funding Republican Campaigns in 2026 Midterms
Pelosi — who sounded more sober but perhaps less coherent than usual — gave a rambling response before getting a firm redirect from Page. "Just to make sure I understand you, [impeachment] should not be the agenda of Democrats for this last two years?" Wait, Malig-Nancy Pelosi Just Said WHAT?
There are two problems with Newsom's viability as a presidential candidate, and I've been highlighting both for a long time. The little miracle agreement I alluded to at the beginning of this column has to do with the first one: Newsom's brand of crazy leftism doesn't play well once it moves inward from the West Coast. This is from a recent Axios newsletter: "Gavin Newsom's Democratic rivals are plotting how to take down the early 2028 frontrunner, with a heavy emphasis on how unpopular his left-leaning views are outside deep-blue California." Even Some Democrats Are Starting to Side-Eye Gavin Newsom’s Coastal Lefty Elitism
After Jimmy Lai’s conviction under Hong Kong’s national security law, Trump and allies urge Xi Jinping to free the ailing pro-democracy publisher before it’s too late. Jimmy Lai’s Family Looks to Trump, World Leaders
Since it was discovered July 1 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, a telescope backed by NASA, scientists have been tracking the rare comet. (RELATED: Strange-Looking UFO Spotted Hovering Over Bogotá, Colombia In Hair-Raising Video) 3I/ATLAS: Here’s What To Know And How You Can See Rare Interstellar Comet
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“The world is not rooting for you—in fact, it’s deliberately rooting against you. . .The demographic shift reshaped not only who told the stories, but which stories got told...“Among sixteen tenured or tenure-track millennials, just one is a white man...“He has recurring fantasies of changing his name and moving to Thailand. . .The white men shut out of the culture industries didn’t surge into other high-status fields...That was the last time either of us saw the inside of a writer’s room.” The Lost Generation
The West is increasingly in the grips of a killing cult, whose champions mask terminating human life from prebirth to old age and everywhere in-between in the language of compassion and right. The West’s Growing Killing Cult
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It's an FPGA emulator rather than just software, so it's more precise, and it supports existing hardware like ROM cartridges and disk drives if you still have one in working order.
And it includes not a mere 64K of RAM but 128MB. (Of which you can attach 16MB as an expansion cartridge.)
And you can dial the speed up from 1MHz to 64MHz.
And it has modern niceties like HDMI, USB, Ethernet, and wifi.
And it has a high-quality mechanical keyboard.
$299, or $349 for the translucent Starlight edition, but that's about what a second-hand C64 will set you back these days once you get it working.
The company will be building a $6.6 billion facility to produce 540,000 tons of material per year, including gallium, germanium, and indium, none of which are rare earth elements.
Also, 540,000 tons of these metals would be a lot. Hundreds of times more than current global output. So someone is leaving something out somewhere.
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 16, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Tuesday night ONT time. Glad you're here. Single digit number of days left until Christmas. Have you bought your gifts for your favorite ONT host? There's still time!
A man who crashed a BMW convertible in Volusia County this week told deputies he didn’t steal the car—he was “teleported into” it, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.
The incident occurred Monday near the intersection of Old Dixie Highway and Plantation Oaks Boulevard. Authorities said 36-year-old Calvin Curtis Johnson crashed the vehicle after allegedly taking it from Bicentennial Park.
According to deputies, the BMW had been left unlocked with the keys inside a cupholder while its owner walked his dog. Moments later, the car was reported stolen.
Shortly after, the BMW crashed. Witnesses at the scene reportedly helped pull Johnson from the wrecked vehicle. When questioned by deputies, Johnson admitted to driving over 100 mph before the crash but claimed he didn’t steal the car—instead, he said he had been “teleported into” the driver’s seat.
Video segment at the link. Check it out.
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Aviation Monstrosity
We haven't seen occasional ONT host and flying fanatic Roger Ball in a while. Perhaps he's here tonight and maybe knows a thing or 2 about this wide winged bird.
Nicknamed ROC after the giant mythical bird capable of carrying off elephants in its talons, the Stratolaunch Model 351 is a one-of-a-kind engineering marvel. Originally designed to carry air-launch-to-orbit (ALTO) rockets, it was subsequently repurposed to offer air launch hypersonic flight testing following the death of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who had also co-founded Scaled Composites, the maker of the ROC.
Looking like two jets fused together, the Stratolaunch ROC is an impressive sight to behold. Each of its two fuselages is 238 ft (73 m) long and supported by 12 main landing gear wheels and two nose gear wheels, for a total of 28 wheels. The combined wingspan of these two fuselages adds up to 385 feet (117 m), making the ROC wider than a 300 ft (91 m) American football field.
Interestingly, the pilot, copilot, and flight engineer are located in the right fuselage cockpit, while the flight data systems are in the left fuselage, which is completely unmanned. This massive aircraft is powered by six massive Pratt & Whitney PW4056 engines capable of providing 56,750 lbf (252.4 kN) of thrust per engine.
Lots of numbers and stuff there that don't make much sense to me. But the thing looks kewl! Multiple video clips at the link.
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Hmmm. Is "Fred" available for the next Texas MoMe? I'll bring the paper plates!
Notice that the dropper was loaded with "neat" whiskey. Not on the rocks or mixed with Diet Coke. Just sayin'.
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Federal Investigators Believed the Clintons May Have Committed a Crime in Taking Money from Russia and Then Approving the Sale of a Uranium Company to Russia, But the DOJ and FBI Let the Statute of Limitations Run
Whoops, the statute of limitations ran out again. We just lost track of the dates!
If you don't remember the case: the Clinton's worldwide bribery and graft organization, the Clinton Funding Machine, I mean the Clinton Foundation, took money from a Russian-government controlled company. Then Hillary Clinton's State Department turned around and repaid the bribe by approving the sale of a uranium company to the same Russian-government controlled company.
The statute of limitations expired during Trump's first term, but Just the News reports that the DOJ and FBI gave investigators the run-around in arguing that the statute of limitations expired at the earliest possible time, rather than looking at arguments that the statute ran later (due to Clinton continuing the conspiracy).
Hillary Clinton's own Russia scandal: FBI memos detail how Uranium One probe thwarted
Running out the clock: The FBI and DOJ slow-walked their investigation into the Clinton Foundation and the sale of Uranium One to Russia-backed interests. As a result of roadblocks, the statute of limitations was allowed to lapse on any prosecution.
By Jerry Dunleavy
Federal investigators believed there was significant evidence worth pursuing related to possible criminality involving the Clinton Foundation and the State Department's approval of the sale of Uranium One to Russian state-owned interests, but delays by the Justice Department and FBI led the inquiry to whither and die because of statute of limitations issues.
The sale of the Canada-based Uranium One to the Russian state-owned Rosatom was the focus of great controversy and scrutiny from Republicans and others who argued that then-Secretary of State Clinton helped approve the deal and that the Clinton Foundation may have stood to benefit from it.
Career agents and line prosecutors at the FBI and DOJ also believed the saga may have been a criminal one, but orders from DOJ leaders such as then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe slow-walked and stonewalled the inquiry to the point where it could no longer be pursued.
FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors in Little Rock, Arkansas and elsewhere closely scrutinized the scandal -- but were largely blocked from serious investigative action due to leadership delays and, following those delays, arguments that the statute of limitations had run out.
Jonathan Ross, then the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, argued in a 2018 email that "there is no legal barrier in continuing the present investigation" into the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. Ross has served as U.S. Attorney in Arkansas since 2022, including during Trump's second term.
Then-U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland of Arkansas also sent a 2018 email to then-U.S. Attorney John Huber of Utah, largely summarizing Ross's arguments, stressing that "we do not believe the prosecution is time-barred by a statute of limitations" in part "because payments from the subjects of the investigation to the Foundation were made continuously from 2007 through 2014."
A newly-declassified internal FBI investigative timeline also argued that claims that the statute of limitations had run out on the Uranium One inquiry "failed to include whether Acts of Concealment such as deleting emails in 2015 and making additional statements and representations about those deletions would have extended the statute of limitations" and also pointed to possible federal criminal statutes such as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, major fraud against the United States, and bank fraud.
The timeline also argued that 18 U.S. Code § 3287 -- Wartime Suspension of Statute of Limitations Act -- should have extended the statute of limitations for this alleged criminality as well.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made the records produced to him by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi available to Just the News this past weekend.
Looks like they gave Trump the run-around, and then he dropped the ball. In fairness to Trump -- the entire Deep State had gotten his chosen AG to step down and the DOJ was being run by a Deep State plant, Ron Rosenstein. Maybe this was the whole point of the RussiaGate op, tying Trump down while the statute of limitations ran.
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Megyn Kelly finally calls out Candace Owens
Whoops, I meant she bravely attacks Sydney Sweeney for "bending the knee." (Sweeney put out a very empty PR statement saying "I'm against hate." Whoop-de-doo.)
Megyn Kelly claims she doesn't want to call people out on the right when asked about Candace Owens but then has no compunctions at all about calling people out on the right.
As long as they're not Candace Owens. Strangely, she seems blind and deaf to anything Candace Owens says. That's why this woman calls her "Megyn Keller."
She's now asking her pay-pigs in Pakistan how they think she should address the Candace Owens situation, and if they think this is really all about Israel and the Jews.
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I have happily forgotten what Milo Yiannopoulos sounds like, but I still enjoyed this impression from from Ami Kozak.
Well, bamboo is actually a type of grass, and underground, it's all connected in a sprawling network, just like the parts of this story I never wanted to tell. I wish I hadn't been put in this position, that I didn't have to write about any of this, that I didn't have to subject myself or my loved ones to embarrassment and further loss of privacy.
We're back to the fucking bamboo. Guys, I don't think I can pay for bamboo ruminations.
I think he added that because he was embarrassed about all the bamboo imagery from Part 1. He's justifying his twin obsessions: His ex, and bamboo. Which is not a tree but a kind of grass, he'll have you know.
On Tuesday, the book arrived in stores. At lunchtime, in the Midtown Manhattan nexus of media and publishing, interest in Nuzzi's story seemed more muted. The Barnes and Noble on Fifth Avenue had seven copies tucked into a "New & Notable" rack next to the escalator, below Malala Yousafzai's "Finding My Way." Not many had sold so far, a store employee said.
A few blocks uptown, at a branch of the local independent chain McNally Jackson Books, a few volumes lay on a table of new and noteworthy nonfiction near the front of the store. No one was lining up to get them, or even browsing. Bookseller Alex Howe told CNN around 3 p.m. that though the store had procured "several dozen" copies, not a single one had yet sold -- a figure he said was surprising, considering how many people in media and publishing work in the area.
"We ordered a lot and so far, people have not been beating down the door," Howe said. "I'm not sure where we're gonna put them because right now, supply is outpacing demand." (A manager at McNally Jackson noted that Howe was speaking only in a personal capacity, not as a representative of the store.)
She trashes Ryan Lizza for his "Revenge Porn" here. Emily Jashinsky says that when the Bulwark's gay grifter Tim Miller asked why she didn't report on the (alleged) use of ketamine by RFKJr., she broke down in tears and asked to end the interview.
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Incumbent Senator John Cornyn (RINO - TX) betrayed his party and his country by voting in favor Biden's Afghan resettlement bill in 2021. Cornyn voted to bring in the Afghan who shot two National Guard soldiers on US soil. A vote for Cornyn is an endorsement of importing unvetted, radicalized murderers. [Buck]
