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Hospitals Defraud the Federal Government, Disguising Costs of "Gender Affirming Care" as Something Else, Claiming It's For Something Else; Hospitals Referred to DOJ for Prosecution
This may shock you, but Planned Parenthood may be at the heart of the fraudulent billing.
Which is a nice way to say "theft."
A day after the Trump administration ended federal funding of "sex-rejecting procedures on children," otherwise known as gender affirming care, Vice President J.D. Vance and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. referred hospitals and gender clinics identified in a new HHS billing fraud report for prosecution and investigation.
Vance's letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche asks the Justice Department to investigate whether flagged providers violated the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, False Claims Act and federal fraud and conspiracy laws by "intentionally" miscoding treatment to "secure insurance coverage for gender-transitioning interventions that insurance would not otherwise cover." If so, "they should go to prison."
"More than just pushing these procedures on kids, hospitals and providers may have been defrauding Medicaid and private insurers by using misleading or fraudulent billing codes to get insurance to cover the costs," Vance said in an X thread on the report and criminal referral.
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The secretary's letter identifies four fishy cohorts: claims for puberty blockers with endocrine disorder diagnosis on the same claim with "no gender diagnosis" and "no precocious puberty" diagnosis, ages 9-17; claims for puberty blockers with precocious puberty diagnosis, 13-17; claims for "primary gender dysphoria" diagnosis with a cross-sex hormone prescription "written the same day" in a state where that's prohibited for minors, 17 and younger; and affiliates to whom prescribers billed at least 95% of their claims in a prescription year and are registered at one of their addresses, all of them Planned Parenthood clinics.
Kathy Hochul received $55,000 in campaign contributions from social adult daycare centers (SADCs) in fraud-plagued Flushing, Queens, records show.
Almost half of those donations can be linked to two men: local powerbroker Baoli Zhang, and Jiemin Shang -- who own two of Flushing's biggest daycare businesses, both of which were empty of patients when visited by The Post last week.
Zhang, 69, personally donated $10,000, as well as another $5,000 through his Bao Kang Adult Day Care, financial disclosures show. Zhang's various businesses have claimed at least $32 million from Medicaid since 2018, on behalf of tens of thousands of patients.
Shang runs Livingwell Day Care, which donated $5,000 to Hochul in 2022, the same year it billed $5.8M to Medicaid. Another $5,000 came from Finest Adult Day Care, which Shang also runs.
"In 2021, [social adult daycare centers] were dying due to COVID. Someone threw them a lifeline and must have said something like, 'Take care of me, I'll take care of you.' They're making more money than ever now," an industry source claimed to The Post.
Federal figures back this up. Business has exploded at Livingwell, which billed $114,000 in 2018, a number that increased to $8.05 million in 2024. Bao Kang went from claiming $1.5M in 2018 to $7.22M by 2024. Monthly revenue for daycares across Flushing overall has nearly doubled compared to pre-pandemic numbers.
Only nine of the city's nearly 400 SADCs made contributions over $5,000 to Hochul's first gubernatorial campaign in 2022. Those same nine businesses accounted for billing Medicaid for an eyepopping $49 million in 2022, The Post's investigation found.
THE MORNING RANT: Alberta Independence Is a Necessary Bulwark Against Canada’s Capitulation to the Enemies of Western Civilization
—Buck Throckmorton
Canada is gone. It cannot be saved nor restored to the polite, commonwealth country we knew in the 20th Century.
Alberta, however, and much of Canada outside of Ontario and the Vancouver-area can still be saved. They need to be saved.
The best-case scenario for Vancouver and Toronto is that they’ll end up demographically and economically like Singapore. The more likely scenario is that they’ll end up as balkanized hell-holes, like Brussels, Paris, and London have become.
The security of the United States and the perpetuation of western civilization in North America requires that the salvageable parts of Canada be set free from its cascading de-westernization.
There is reason for hope. The Alberta independence movement has gathered enough verified petition signatures to force a referendum in October. Albertans will cast a Yes/No vote for the following question. “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?”
While this vote is non-binding, if it passes and Prime Minister Carney does not allow the independence process to move forward, the United States and President Trump should support the people of Alberta with pre-emptive recognition of its independence. There are plenty of incentives - and disincentives - that the U.S. can employ to force Carney’s capitulation.
The situation involving Canada really is that dire, as reported by Will Thibeau in a recent article at The Blaze: “Canada Has Become America’s Northern Security Threat.” The sub-headline to that article reads: ”Mass migration, foreign interference, Chinese surveillance technology, and weak border controls have turned a trusted ally into a growing vulnerability.”
Canada is becoming one of America’s most underestimated national security vulnerabilities: a permissive northern platform through which mass migration, organized crime, and hostile foreign influence can reach the United States.
In the early 1960s, Canada’s population was 97% European, based on ethnic origin. That declined to just 52% by the 2020s, due to a mass-immigration regime that rejected Canada’s heritage and intentionally sought to alter the cultural makeup of Canada.
Canada embraced state-sponsored multiculturalism. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau even described the country as the world’s first “postnational state,” with “no core identity” and “no mainstream.” Canada has combined mass immigration with an increasingly vague idea of national belonging.
If Canada is “post-national” as Justin Trudeau boasts, then Alberta is entitled to be a country of its own, since Canada has ceased to be a nation.
The two greatest foreign threats to the United States, in my opinion, are:
1) The 21st century Chinese empire, which is trying to expand its influence into the western hemisphere.
2) A global Islamic caliphate, which is really just part of the ongoing 1,400-year war between the Christian West and Islam.
Both of these threats are establishing North American toeholds in Canada.
China presents the gravest strategic threat. Beijing does not need to turn Canada into an outright enemy of the United States. It needs only to use Canada as a gateway into the North American system.
Canada’s decision to allow Chinese electric vehicles into the country at reduced tariff rates shows the risk. Modern electric vehicles are not simply cars. Their cameras, microphones, sensors, software, and remote-update capabilities can collect enormous quantities of data.
That policy could put tens of thousands of Chinese surveillance platforms on American roads, gathering information near military bases, power plants, communications infrastructure, and other sensitive sites.
The United States also has a virtually unsecured border with Canada. When Canada was still a 1st-world, pro-western nation, we didn’t have to worry about it. That is no longer the case.
When the United States tightens its southern border while Canada maintains looser entry policies, the northern frontier becomes an escape valve for foreign nationals seeking unlawful entry. The danger extends beyond illegal immigration. Criminal organizations, foreign agents, and potentially terrorist-linked individuals can exploit a border designed around an older assumption of trust.
Getting back to the Islamification of Canada, even the prairie provinces are submitting to government-sponsored Islamic indoctrination. Authorities in Saskatchewan have acquiesced to a mosque’s demand to blast Islamic calls to prayer through downtown Regina, so as to “help introduce” Islamic rituals and obedience to the non-Muslims in Regina.
Canadians living in Regina’s downtown core were subjected to an outdoor Islamic call to prayer broadcast out loud from a mosque for the first time just steps from City Hall.
The Regina City Jamia Masjid used rooftop speakers at its McIntyre Street location to project the Adhan at 1 p.m., marking a trial run approved by police and set to run at least through mid-July.
Anisur Rahaman of the RCJM broadcast told CTV News it would “help introduce” the mosque to both Muslim and non-Muslim residents from its downtown location.
We cannot surrender any more North American ground to the enemies of western civilization. The salvageable parts of Canada must be saved, and it needs to start in Alberta.
One of the assumptions I make when searching for sources of the art I want to post is that the museum that possesses the work has the most interest in using an accurate version of the piece on the internet.
There are plenty of brighter and and more brightly colored versions of this Picasso all over the web, so if you like art that looks like a neon sign...have at it!
But The Art Institute of Chicago has this version, and I am going to trust them, even though they are probably filthy blue-city commies!
What does the loss, or more likely the theft by the Democrat Party of Francesca Hong in the Wisconsin last Tuesday's Wisconsin gubernatorial primary really indicate both there and really nationally?
Are there Republicans who’ve doctored their resumes? Sure. But faking your past, or your views, or the sound of your voice seems to be a job requirement for Democrat politicians these days.
The Talarico campaign distanced itself from these folks after their cover was blown. But everything about Talarico is as fake, from his Christianity to his barbecue photo op.
Around the same time, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, last seen trying out a fake southern accent at an event in Memphis, was trying to pretend that she’s not a crazy leftist despite being a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which wants to defund the military, close prisons, open the borders, eliminate the Senate, the presidency and the Supreme Court, and nationalize various industries.
When ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked about her past statements, she laughed that “woke 1 was crazy,” and blamed COVID because “I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.” . . .Our best guess is that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to do this because for most Democrats, their only interest is getting and keeping government power. They love government and want to control its every lever. And if that means pretending to be a normie for the rube voters, so be it.
But, shucks, whadda we know? We’re just a buncha gosh-darn banjo-pickin’ hillbillies from yonder flyover country.
Sure the Democrats either outright lie about their true intentions or else do their best to cover them up. To me it's another puzzler, do the Democrats really think they can bamboozle a significant portion of normal America into voting for them? But lest we forget, anyone with eyes to see and more than two functioning brain cells could plainly see the dangerous fraud that was Barack Obama and yet there he was in 2008 and then again in 2012 winning the presidency and the fuse was lit. As CBD noted on the podcast, horrid as the purple-lipped closet-queen America-hating thug was and still is, he was slick and polished enough to really fake it all the way. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens both this coming November and then two years after that to see if Trump and the MAGA movement are just speed bumps on our inevitable road to hell or if they are please God a real course correction back to American restoration.
The National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., was vandalized Thursday with red graffiti reading “Clean Hands Dirty $,” while soap dumped into its fountain filled the memorial with bubbles.
Authorities blocked off the fountain Thursday afternoon as U.S. Park Police investigated the vandalism. The Interior Department called the incident an “utter disgrace” and vowed to find whoever is responsible.
“The World War II Memorial is a sacred place to honor the service of our members of the Armed Forces and the over 400,000 Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice in WWII,” the department said. “The vandalism that occurred is an utter disgrace and will not be tolerated.”
Were I a betting man, I'd lay odds that the piece(s) of shit that did this are registered Democrats or full on DSA freakazoids. He/She/It deserves being bull-whipped on live television preferably by any WW2 veterans of which I'm sure there'd be volunteers out the wahzoo.
Curtis Sliwa on Thursday told relatives of 9/11 victims who want New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani kept away from this year’s Ground Zero commemoration to “stop being sore losers,” arguing that they should respect the office even if they disagree with the person holding it.
“He’s the mayor. Stop being sore losers!” Sliwa told reporters Thursday. “You knew this is Zohran Mamdani. He was never a fake, phony, fraudulent, fugazi like a lot of politicians. He told you who he was.”
Yes, asshole, he told us who he was and what he said and what he is utterly underscores justification of his being barred from within 10,000 light years of Ground Zero Forever.
Curtis Sliwa's logic would allow for a furlough from prison and a limousine ride to the 9/11 ceremony for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Sliwa should only die, be cremated and his ashes dumped in the Marianas Trench next to Bin Laden. Seems appropriate.
I lost an old schoolmate and was nearly a victim myself that day, you Scumbag.
On these and all the rest of it, I nevertheless bid you all to have a great weekend!
The Democrats will lose normal Americans unless they push back against the crazed communists in the DSA, but they can’t seem to make themselves do that. Democrats Need A ‘Sister Souljah Moment’
“A third activist told me that I need to read Huey P. Newton.”“By the end of the day, the street had been taken over by activists... The Truth About Corey Ruiz
Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX), whose 26th District saw a 217 percent rise in filings, remarked that the H-1B program is “an abomination that is suppressing American wages, taking American jobs, and culturally erasing American communities. It should be abolished.” Texas Districts See Huge Surge in H-1B Visa Filings.
The release of Iriarte-Valdez has reignited the debate over Democrat sanctuary policies and the role of liberal judicial discretion in cases involving illegal immigrants with criminal records. Federal officials have called for greater cooperation between local law enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to prevent such incidents from recurring. Illegal Immigrant Charged With Stabbing Retiree to Death One Day After California Judge Freed Him.
“The defendants allegedly threatened foreign workers with physical violence, deportation, and crippling debt; forced them to work lengthy shifts; and housed them in overcrowded and dirty residences,” said U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg. “My office will ensure that predators who traffic at-risk laborers and violate our immigration laws to enrich themselves are investigated, apprehended, and prosecuted.” U.S. Attorney Busts Chinese-Run Forced Labor Scheme in Georgia Factory
The invasion was apparently rather small, as the Ministry of Intelligence claimed only four people were arrested, and two more killed, in the course of dismantling two cells of a “Takfiri terrorist group.” Iran Claims to Repel Invasion from ‘American-Zionist Mercenaries’
This decision aligns with BRICS’ broader goal of reducing dependence on the U.S. dollar. Iran’s membership could provide the country with alternative financial channels as the country continues to operate under sanctions imposed by the United States amid the ongoing Iran war. Iran’s decision to join the NDB is part of a broader effort to shift towards a multipolar economic order. This move also shows how Iran has aligned with China and Russia economically, not just militarily and politically. Iran Set to Join BRICS Development Bank.
Kennedy’s allegations raise serious concerns about the state of fraud prevention and oversight during Becerra’s tenure, suggesting that his lax policies likely contributed to massive financial losses in critical healthcare programs. Biden, Becerra Gutted Fraud Prevention at HHS: RFK Jr.
However, the whole basis for SCOTUS integrity depends on whether the justices have backbones, and we have seen plenty of evidence in the recent past that many conservatives don’t have backbones. Packing The Supreme Court? Fuhgeddaboudit!
Democrats are undoing Virginia’s renaissance with a combination of tax hikes, pro-crime policies, an anti-business outlook, and egregious partisanship. How to Destroy a State, in Five Easy Steps
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is set to install privately-funded, dedicated Islamic foot washing stations in the facility, according to documents from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Dallas Airport Installing Foot Washing Stations for Muslim Travelers (Dog urinals! - jjs)
Sports betting is increasingly competing with traditional investing for younger Americans’ attention,” adds Bloomberg, “with more than a quarter of Gen Z investors saying they see gambling on sports as part of their long-term financial strategy.” Gambling as a “long-term strategy.” The stupid; it hurts. 52 Percent of Gen Z Morons Have Moved Money from Investments to Sports Betting
But when people have been getting away with exploiting a loophole for years, they are not likely to accept a change docilely. That, of course, is what inevitably happened in this case. Trump acknowledged, “The Importers sued. Today, THEY LOST. The Court ruled that the President had the Legal Authority to rescind this so-called ‘privilege.’” Trump Celebrates ’BIG WIN’ in Tariff Exemption Case
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
In California, the goal of high-density public and semi-public housing to “defeat” climate change is destroying one community after another. The ‘Wrenching Transformation’ Of Our Suburbs
Decades of relentless climate hysteria have not even convinced a majority of the public that humans are causing the Earth to warm. In 2016, only 45 percent believed that. Today, only 48 percent buy that nonsense. Polls Show No One Cares About Climate Change
Typically, there is only one execution scheduled per day in the US, sometimes maybe two — but three is “very unusual,” Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robin Maher said. US carries out first triple execution in 16 years
“As noted above, the Amended Complaint is devoid of any factual allegations plausibly establishing that any events that might be construed as evidence of noncompliance occurred after June 30, 2025.” Judge Dismisses Trump Admin’s Antisemitism Lawsuit Against Harvard
Subsequently, Gun Owners of America (GOA) announced its intention to transfer a suppressor without registration at 12:01 a.m. CDT on August 13, 2026. Silencer Shop, a plaintiff in the case decided by Judge Hendrix, responded to GOA’s announcement by posting to X, “Proud to be making history with you!” WATCH: NFA Registration Begins Slide into Oblivion Under Trump DOJ/ATF
In a letter addressed to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin dated August 7, Cornyn echoed constituents’ belief that dangerous terrain in the region acts as a “natural barrier that limits large-scale movements.” In the letter, Cornyn urges Secretary Mullin to consider meeting with stakeholders to reconsider proposed border security infrastructure projects in the region and pause construction until concerns have been addressed. Sen. Cornyn Joins Texas Senate Democrat Nominee Talarico, Locals in Opposition to Trump’s Big Bend Border Projects
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
The Bangor Daily News obtained a 1988 Fort Kent police report showing that Jackson kicked in a door, choked a man by the throat, and punched him in the face while a friend tried to hold him back. Jackson's longtime partner/cousin, Lana Pelletier, told the responding officer that he "pushed her around" too, according to the report. New Maine Dem Senate Nominee Hit With Domestic Violence Scandal
But even though Newsom's social media feed racked up "a million views of a 65-hour tour," Politico noted that "the posts may also be the latest sign that social media is not real life." Translation: It was a trip notable mostly for bad execution and embarrassing turnout. The Dems' Great White Hope Just Got Humiliated in Michigan
GOP efforts to brand Democrat candidates as politically extreme won’t overcome disillusionment with Trump’s agenda. Beware, Republicans, of Angry Voters
The arrest warrant adds strain to already tense U.S.-Russia relations, particularly as President Donald J. Trump has expressed frustration with Russia’s resistance to making a peace deal in Ukraine. Putin Puts RFK Jr’s Son on Most Wanted List.
John Stossel: Three cheers for Amazon, DoorDash Air, Wing, Zipline, DEXA and other drone delivery companies for taking risks to further this technology — and make our lives better.
So what are we looking at? My guess is that this canyon was somehow carved out of that plateau of volcanic ash, with the stippled canyon floor a series of exposed layers going downhill to the west. I also suspect the erosion was mostly from wind, considering the delicate The whittling away of Mars’ biggest volcanic ash field
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Instead, the WNBA task force will hold more meetings because it is just so difficult to define female! WNBA Still Cannot Define Female
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Today we’re announcing the changes that came from listening. A new standard for privacy, security, and accountability in public safety technology.
We're also asking state legislators to go further. Mandate real auditing on every law enforcement data system. Raise the penalties for misuse. And if your state wants help building it, we'll do it for free.
The post itself is heavily ratioed (more comments than likes). Comments are not friendly to him. There is a link at the post to a longer post on Flock's website - should that be something that interests you.
Nine PBS is afraid that it will lose over 70 years of archival materials and programming after its contracted cloud storage vendor has apparently gone out of business. According to Current, the channel used Open Source Storage, or OSS, for storing over 50TB of data — but it suddenly lost access to its data earlier this year. Nine PBS has been working with OSS and its predecessor since 2019 and intended to renew its contract on March 6 of this year. The company never responded and abruptly cut off the station’s data access even though it still had 30 days to retrieve its data after the contract ended.
The station dug a little bit deeper when it discovered that the OSS website no longer existed and was listed as delinquent under the Colorado Secretary of State. It also discovered that OSS utilized Iron Mountain’s services, so it sent a demand letter to the latter to preserve its data and to "pay any reasonable costs associated with its demand." At the time, Iron Mountain did not confirm or deny that it possessed Nine PBS’ data.
This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.
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DJ Doof - R.I.P. To My Local Classic Rock Radio Station Edition
100.7 "The Bay" - Classic Rock radio station in Baltimore went off the air last night, just before Midnight. The station was sold and the frequency is now a Christian Contemporary music station.
The folks at The Bay posted their playlist from their final hour on the air. Seems like they had fun taking a poke at the new format.
If you're interested, here are the final 2 hours of The Bay over the air broadcast. The segment starts with the 10pm "Get the Led out" block of Led Zeppelin songs -- something they've done for as long as I can remember. Although I think they used to call it "Zeppelin O'clock".
These are the last 3 songs they played. Put on an O's hat and pour out some Natty Boh in honor of The Bay, Hon!
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The "mommysleuths" are retarded women who like soap operas and 24/7 murder porn on the Discovery Channel, and they all believe that makes them Real Detectives:
Joshua Carr
@Joshua_the_car
I debated a Candace Owens fan last night.
I kid you not he opened with this:
"We all know this case is fishy because we've all watched CSI and Dexter and know how a crime scene works."
And if you thought "they'll next accuse Tyler Robinson's lawyers of being part of the conspiracy to frame him because they admitted he killed Charlie Kirk," step up to the cashier to collect your winnings.
Huh: Scott Bessent says that George Soros, who he used to work for -- on the financial side, not the civilization-destroying foundation side -- tried to tank the markets after Trump's 2016 win, selling off everything to move the markets down. Bessent said he seized on that as a buying opportunity and made a fortune.
This behavior is normalized, indulged, and encouraged. We have been demoralized to the point where our weaklings and cowards, which is most of us, especially those politically-attuned enough to rise in woke bureaucracies, are too afraid to say "this is wrong and will be punished."
Oh no, Hollywood wash-out "Lily" Wachowski, who now pretends to be a woman, cries that he can't get funding for a movie with an all-trans cast:
I saw someone mocking a leftwing female director for being just absolute crap. Then he pointed out, "It's funny that the 'Wachowski sibilings' haven't made a good movie since they became 'women.'"
I think that's actually true. When was the last time they made a good movie? To be honest, I never really gave a shit about The Matrix and I don't understand why people are so ga-ga for it. But fine, I'll count that. What since? The sequels were trash.
Didn't they do that terrible Stallone/Banderas dueling assassins movie? That was horrible.
Then they did Jupiter Ascending, an infamous bomb. I've heard Cloud Atlas is decent but here's the thing -- I never believed that.
Gavin Newsom visited early-primary-state Michigan to talk up how similar California and Michigan are.
That's the whole problem, says Justine Bateman.
Justine Bateman
@JustineBateman
LOL. Your comparison between these two cities is very significant.
Detroit's main industry of automotive production was destroyed and left the town hollowed out. The same thing is happening with Los Angeles.
The entertainment business has been steadily drained from this place for at least a decade. LA will soon be hollowed out just like Detroit.
It is becoming just sprawling city with no central industry at all.
And how did this little ponce's visit go?
Not well. His tour of Michigan was marked by cancellations and pitiful crowds.
Calling it Newsom's "swing (and miss) state tour," Politico reported on Wednesday that his "buzzy X posts and vertical videos" from Michigan "this week suggest a slam dunk trip to an early nominating state."
But even though Newsom's social media feed racked up "a million views of a 65-hour tour," Politico noted that "the posts may also be the latest sign that social media is not real life."
Translation: It was a trip notable mostly for bad execution and embarrassing turnout.
Some Michigander politicos pointed out that Newsom canceled a fundraiser with state AG nominee Eli Savit that included the controversial host Kelly Neumann, according to an invite obtained by POLITICO and circulated to some Democrats who didn't realize the event was canceled when Newsom's team was made aware of Neumann's background.
Newsom initially planned two competing fundraisers in Ann Arbor on Sunday, one for Savit and one for the state House Democrats. When the latter found out about the Savit fundraiser they pulled out, citing a small Ann Arbor donor base.
Saying Ann Arbor has a small Democrat donor base is like saying you couldn't spot any tech bros in Palo Alto.
"He had a lot of good meetings," Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel told Politico, adding Newsom was a big hit at a local barbecue.
Gavin Newsom pulling a massive crowd of 17 septuagenarians in Michigan. Yeah he's DEFINITELY gonna be the nominee for President. LMAO. pic.twitter.com/GrLf3Ebc2X
Corrupt billion-dollar grifter Stacey Abrams says that the south has lived under "soft authoritarianism" since 1776. Kamala Harris does not dispute her and smiles knowingly in agreement.
INSANE
Failed Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams tells Kamala Harris that the south has been under authoritarian rule since 1776.
"They want to understand what authoritarianism can look like in the US, I say look south. We’ve lived under soft authoritarianism…since 1776.” pic.twitter.com/jZoiwJHbHI
Commie anti-Israel fanatic Owen Jones: "I support a one-state solution with Arab majority rule after a right of return is exercised. Don't worry, the Jews will be fine." His X audience, as in the tweet below: "How dare you as a Westerner tell Palestinians that they can't murder… https://t.co/EdVmwNT8Mw
Peak Cultural Enrichment: Muslim-Dominated City Council of Hamtramck, Michigan, Votes to Permit Animal Sacrifice in People's Backyards, Over Objections of Non-Muslim Minority
Hamtramck City Council votes to allow animal sacrifice for religious purposes in the city
After months of debate, the city council has voted to allow the practice of animal sacrifice, for religious purposes, in Hamtramck.
The decision ultimately came down to a more than 30-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says cities cannot infringe on religious freedom under the first amendment.
The court did not find that people had a right to sacrifice animals. It found only that a law specifically passed to block a religious minority (Santaria) from sacrificing animals was a violation of the right to free exercise of religion.
In other words, it is perfectly legal to generally ban animal sacrifice, or the slaughter of animals outside of a slaughterhouse and apply that law to religious minorities. The Supreme Court only said you cannot ban something specifically to thwart the practice of a religion.
Presumably, slaughtering animals is already illegal in Michigan (except in licensed slaughterhouses) or else they wouldn't have had to pass an ordnance permitting it.
So they're lying to you, as usual, giving it the "what's the big deal, the Supreme Court decided this in 1993 already" treatment.
But it's a lie. And either these "expert journalists" can't be bothered to look up a major Supreme Court case, or did look it up, and chose to consciously lie to readers to convince them this is No Big Deal.
The act of animal sacrifice is often practiced among Muslims during Eid.
"Our city is dirty enough. We don't want to make it more dirty," a Hamtramck resident said during a city hall meeting.
"Really ridiculous catastrophic resolution," another one said. "If it's not passed then we are ready to take it to courts for religious rights because it is constitution."
English speaker fluency level: Beyond native.
In fact, there's already work-around for Muslims: They can just pay a butcher to slaughter an animal at the bucher-shop.
But they're whining that that's not good enough.
They want the Caliphate to exist here in America:
Many Muslims pay a butcher to perform the religious sacrifice but for some families, it's just not practical.
"A lot of families will typically do it in the confines of their property like in their backyard or their garage and dispose of the animal accordingly," Director of Safe Spaces at Cair Michigan Nour Ali said.
El-Sayed Also Hates Thanksgiving, Wants the Day to be for the Remembrance of the "Slaughter" of "Indigenous Peoples"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's weird how these foreign anchor-babies keep turning out to be so thoroughly anti-American, isn't it?
You'd almost think they were foreign sleeper agents placed inside an enemy country they planned to subvert and harm from within.
Before getting to Thanksgiving: It also turns out that this son-of-a-bitch oversaw a high-kill shelter where animals were kept in appalling conditions before being slaughtered.
Clown World
@ClownWorld
Michigan Democrats just nominated Abdul El-Sayed for Senate. He oversaw Detroit's animal shelter where the kill rate hit 74%, whistleblowers called it a slaughterhouse, and the city paid $63,000 to settle a lawsuit over the conditions. Feces backed up into kennels. Rats and cockroaches everywhere.
This is the guy they want representing Michigan. He can't even take care of dogs. And he's supposed to represent you.
Michigan deserves better.
The love of dogs is a Western thing. Many Muslims regard dogs as "unclean" and in fact propose banning dogs from public streets so that Muslims aren't forced to encounter these filthy animals.
The most basic and wholesome bits of American culture are anathema to him and must be destroyed:
Nah, he wants to take that money and give it to the Hamas-controlled UNRWA instead:
That's not America First. That's Islam First. As usual.
This is an interesting admission from El-Sayed's fellow pro-Hamas Muslim communist Mamdani: Mamdani admits that white people are more "ideological" in their politics, while the minorities Mamdani appeals to are mostly about "identity" -- the racial spoils system -- than ideology.
I just found this clip of Zohran Mamdani on an Arab podcast, admitting that he fooled white liberals
This is Soviet-style demoralization, as KGB defector Yuri Bezemenov warned us about. Convince the enemy that he is wrongheaded and worthless and that is country and culture are wicked and diseased, and you will be able to conquer that country with only the lightest physical resistance.
Demoralization efforts, of course, are first directed at the enemy children.
The internet has found a resurfaced Abdul El-Sayed campaign video, and the Blue’s Clues-inspired pitch is getting roasted.
El-Sayed dances through the one-minute parody while asking voters for their support, leaning hard into childhood nostalgia with exaggerated moves and a… pic.twitter.com/p5gSAzT2wF
WNBA: We Tried to Figure Out What a Woman Is But The Task Is Beyond Our Capabilities.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In fairness -- they're not biologists.
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
6h
NEW: The Women's National Basketball Association was unable to determine what a woman is during a meeting on Wednesday.
A WNBA task force met to talk about transgender athletes, according to ESPN.
"Today's meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes..." the WNBA said in a statement.
"We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months."
"We will approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league. There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA."
Remarkable. The Women's National Basketball Association needs months to figure out what a woman is.
EssentiallySports
@ES_sportsnews
The WNBA has officially responded following a virtual task force meeting led by Commissioner Cathy Engelbert.
Addressing both ongoing discussions around transgender athlete eligibility and online harassment directed at players, the league released a statement clarifying its stance:
Key Takeaways From the WNBA Statement:
- No Immediate Changes:
The league confirmed that "there are no immediate
eligibility matters affecting the WNBA," reiterating that current policy (Article XIII) simply states "only players who are women are eligible to play."
- Denouncing Online Abuse:
The WNBA strongly condemned the "continued hate and vitriol directed at players online" and called out "bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others." - a direct response to recent announcements by former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declaring their intention to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft
Wesley Yang pointed out, correctly, that you cannot separate "good faith efforts" to say that intact men can play women's sports from "bad faith efforts" to say intact men can play women's sports because both claims are the exact same claims. There is no difference between a good-faith argument that 2+2=4 and a bad-faith argument that 2+2=4. It's the same claim. The "faith" of the claim doesn't enter into it.
These ugly low-IQ cows say that they won't define a woman, or a trans woman, because that would make them "political pawns."
They're scrambling to find a way to say both "all transwomen are women and welcome" and also "these motherf***rs ain't welcome here" but that's a task for genuises and these bitches ain't no geniuses.
Royce White, the Stunning and Brave Trans Woman* (*for purposes of playing in the WNBA), impresses me as the most courageous and funny woman I have ever seen.
It came y'all... My 1st wig! Tomorrow I test it on the court. This is my feminine era glow up, did I slay? If y'all don't "yassss queen" you're transphobic. I really don't understand all the hatred, I just want to play some hoops with my fellow ladies. 💅🏽
You must've missed the memo... I talk about all of those topics everyday. Your post is bullying me, I'm a STRONG Black woman and you need to recognize your White cis gender privilege. Why can't you just be happy for me Ed?
The left is claiming that these trans women can't be real trans women because they haven't had trans surgery or chemical castration:
Walter Masterson
@waltermasterson
As a progressive, I fully support Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declaring themselves for the WNBA.
I only ask that they commit to the bit.
Medically transition. Take HRT, take blockers. Show us what your performance looks like when your body is at a deficit of both testosterone and estrogen.
Do this for 2-3 years. Then show up to open tryouts and show us all how well you perform after gaining 30% in fat mass and losing 5% muscle mass.
Go ahead Enes and Royce, chemically transition, or STFU.
The trouble is, of course, that the trannies have insisted that no such medical interventions are needed to "confirm" one's identity as a Proud Trans Kween.
Royce White 🇺🇸
@Highway_30
Genitalia doesn't determine gender. That's a cis normative fallacy. My trans-affirming doctor told me I can think of my genitalia as 9 inches of clitoris.
Royce White for President
WNBA #LetHerPlay
This is a great point: I see a lot of Yt men objecting to Kanter and Royce joining the league as the Proud Trans Women they are.
Is this just Racism Straight-Up?
Wesley Yang
@wesyang
4h
Michelle Goldberg wrote a piece in Slate more than a decade ago trying to alert the world to the fact that under the new rules governing gender identity, any man who declares himself to be a woman is entitled to recognition as a woman.
Since then, a few things have happened: 1.) the governing institutions of the Western world have all worked feverishly to inscribe this standard into law and policy, 2.) an army of hundreds of thousands of young people were memed into existence claiming cross-sex identities, only a small minority of whom have medicalized in any way, 3.) the state has promised this army a right to violate sex-based boundaries on the basis of a claim to a cross-sex identity, 4.) while the public somehow remains oblivious to this fact and cynical trans activists and allies lie and say that medicalization is required when it serves their interest to do so.
Wesley Yang
@wesyang
What did y'all think "gender identity" meant? It means that male rapists and murderers can sue the state for entrance to women's prisons and win. It means that the European Court of Human Rights can declare that requiring genital surgery for cross-sex recognition is a human rights violation.
It means that an unfalsifiable, unprovable, non-observable subjective inner state knowable only through self-report becomes the basis for conferring a right to recognition on anyone claiming it and a duty of affirmation of that claim on anyone interacting with anyone claiming that state.
It means that under NY state law, former NBA players who declare themselves to be women can declare themselves to be women and apply for entrance to the WNBA and sue under New York State Human Rights Law, which contains no provision requiring any medicalization or demonstration of "sincerity" on the part of the plaintiff to quality as a "woman," if they are denied entry.
If these Proud Trans Women aren't real Trans Women because they haven't had any medical "confirmation" of their perceived gender -- can we now say the 87-95% of trans "women" who also haven't had such medical "confirmation" are Just Dudes as well?
Because I'll take that deal. (As a first step.)
Great point -- they're trying to craft an air-tight definition of what a "trans woman" supposedly is in order to avoid creating a very basic, common sense definition for what an actual woman is.
Mark Hemingway
@Heminator
It's kind of amazing that they are now trying to create a specific definition of what a trans person is all in order to avoid having a specific definition of what a biological woman is.
The Left's Dreamboat Assassin Luigi Mangione Close to Pleading Guilty In Execution of United Healthcare CEO and Father Brian Thompson
—Disinformation Expert Ace
These are federal charges, so they plea deal is being negotiated by "Trump's" DOJ. But we all know about the Southern District of NY, where Comey's foul daughter worked.
If this is a sweetheart deal -- if it's anything less than life in prison without parole -- then every single corporation should immediately evacuate New York City, as this communist shithole has been determined to be a place where a jury won't convict a leftwing killer.
And if Trump doesn't like the deal, he should overrule "his" lawyers and yank it off the table.
Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday to federal charges in connection with the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The expected plea change comes less than a month before Mangione, 28, is scheduled to go to trial in a state murder case in connection with the fatal shooting of Thompson, 50, a father of two.
Luigi Mangione was meeting with his lawyers this morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in advance of tomorrow's federal court hearing in Manhattan, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Lawyers for Mangione declined to comment. The Justice Department and a court spokesperson also declined to comment.
It is unclear if Mangione will plead guilty to one or both of the two stalking-related charges in his federal case. While details of Mangione's plea are not immediately clear, he could reverse his decision at any time, even during the hearing.
Sources familiar with the matter stressed that plea negotiations are ongoing and that nothing is final until Mangione himself accepts or enters into a plea deal.
If he is convicted, he could face a life sentence.
Karoline Leavitt Will Leave Her Job as WH Spokeswoman at the End of the Month
—Disinformation Expert Ace
She says she wants to mother her new baby, and for once I believe the "spend more time with my family" line.
Karoline Leavitt
@karolineleavitt
Serving as the White House Press Secretary over the past year and a half has been the honor and adventure of a lifetime. I am incredibly grateful to President Trump for granting me so many extraordinary opportunities, such as working in the West Wing and spending countless hours in the Oval Office, flying around the world and meeting foreign leaders, and traveling across our beautiful country and meeting Americans from all walks of life.
Most of all, I am thankful to the President for entrusting me with the distinct privilege of speaking on his behalf at the White House podium. I have spoken with great pride about the many historic accomplishments of this Administration, and I have relished holding the liberal media accountable and ensuring the American people hear the truth about President Trump's successes.
Being a mother and welcoming a new baby while working in one of the most demanding jobs in the world has been the most rewarding yet challenging season of my life, to say the least. The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary -- and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the White House and embark on a new chapter in my life.
President Trump has asked me to continue serving as a top advisor to him on the outside, and I will always remain a vocal advocate for MAGA and the Republican Party.
Our country is facing an existential threat from an increasingly extremist Democrat Party that seeks to destroy everything great about America, and I believe it is incumbent upon all of us who care about this country to fight back against that threat. My fight is entering a new phase, but it is far from over.
Thank you again to the President, the First Lady, and the entire Trump family for your kindness and generosity over the years. Thank you to our amazing Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for empowering me since the day she hired me on the campaign, and to the President's cabinet, my staff, colleagues, and friends at the White House who work so hard on behalf of our nation. It has been a privilege to serve alongside so many accomplished and impressive people, and I look forward to cheering them on over the next two and a half years.
And of course, thank you most especially to my loving and supportive husband and family for the sacrifices they made for me to serve in this role.
Serving as the White House Press Secretary over the past year and a half has been the honor and adventure of a lifetime. I am incredibly grateful to President Trump for granting me so many extraordinary opportunities, such as working in the West Wing and spending countless hours… https://t.co/4jyW61DGGhpic.twitter.com/xny1yccuBn
I searched for "best of Karoline Leavitt" on YouTube. The first two hits were attacks on Karoline Leavitt by leftwingers. I'm so tired of Google and its constant election interference and reality distortion. I want it broken up into fifteen different companies.
That's my excuse for only being able to link this neutral/antagonisitic compilation of Leavitt battling the media. (If you know of a good one, one that Google is hiding, let me know.)
Former SPLC official arrested as feds expand case over alleged $4M scheme involving extremist groups
Federal indictment alleges donor funds were secretly funneled to groups like the Ku Klux Klan
A former top Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) official was arrested on charges Wednesday as federal prosecutors unveiled sweeping new allegations that donated money was allegedly secretly funneled to extremists and used for activities including recruiting members, staging rallies and buying materials for Ku Klux Klan robes and cross burnings.
Heidi Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs, California, was charged alongside the SPLC with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank.
The second superseding indictment also charges Beirich with a conspiracy to commit concealed money laundering. Beirich was served with an arrest warrant Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama.
Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the arrest during a news conference Wednesday in Washington, D.C., and said the federal investigation remains ongoing.
"I think, as alleged in the indictment, this individual participated in the scheme as alleged," Blanche said. "I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts and complete fictitious companies names and make payments that to individuals for reasons that were not, that were not accurate as described."'
FBI Director Kash Patel also weighed in on the news via X, writing that Beirich was at the "center" of the bureau's ongoing investigation.
"As alleged, Heidi Beirich was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC and their previously alleged criminal activity - where SPLC knowingly misled donors, who believed their money was being used to dismantle violent extremist organizations - when in fact, part of those donations were instead being used to pay senior leadership within those extremist groups," Patel wrote.
The 26-page indictment obtained by Fox News Digital alleges the SPLC secretly funneled at least $4.1 million in tax-exempt donor funds between 2007 and 2023 through bank accounts supposedly belonging to businesses unaffiliated with the organization. Prosecutors allege the money paid "field sources" who were leading or affiliated with violent extremist organizations.
Prosecutors allege donor money was used to attend and host extremist rallies, recruit members, grow and create extremist chapters, publish extremist literature and buy materials for KKK robes, hoods and cross burnings. The indictment also alleges two KKK members who wanted out of the movement were encouraged by the SPLC to remain and offered monthly payments and expenses.
One of the most explosive allegations centers on a source identified as "F-9," whom prosecutors say infiltrated the neo-Nazi National Alliance and received more than $1.2 million from the SPLC during the period covered by the indictment. Prosecutors allege Beirich oversaw payments to F-9 while also having a romantic relationship with him, with the pair sharing a home and two bank accounts.
Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donor money flowed from the SPLC's operating account through a "Tech Writers" account and ultimately into joint bank accounts held by Beirich and F-9, prosecutors allege. The indictment says the money accounted for approximately 66% of all funds deposited into their joint accounts and alleges Beirich used donor money to pay the couple's personal living expenses.
She's the White Fani Willis. I wonder who her Darius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., is.
FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
Following an FBI investigation with our DOJ partners: today we are announcing a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center's Director of Intelligence, Heidi Beirich.
As alleged, Heidi Beirich was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC and their previously alleged criminal activity - where SPLC knowingly misled donors, who believed their money was being used to dismantle violent extremist organizations - when in fact, part of those donations were instead being used to pay senior leadership within those extremist groups.
According to the indictment and our investigation, Beirich played a primary role in this scheme. From at least 2007-2023, Beirich allegedly helped orchestrate this fraudulent activity worth approximately $4.2 million, conspiring with SPLC to defraud donors, obtaining money through these materially false and fraudulent pretenses and omissions to pay leadership of the very violent organizations SPLC claimed to oppose.
Beirich was arrested today - charged with crimes including wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
This is an ongoing investigation. This FBI will find anyone who exploits the trust of the American people and our financial system.
Following an FBI investigation with our DOJ partners: today we are announcing a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Director of Intelligence, Heidi Beirich.
As alleged, Heidi Beirich was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC and their…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 12, 2026
"White supremacy is one of the worst things ever created by man" — Heidi Beirich, CFO SPLC
While Beulah Balbricker here was using donor money to "create and grow" extremist groups, she complained about how goshdarn fast extremist groups were being created and grown, and blamed it on.... DRUMPF!!!!
OMG This is just too damn good…
Heidi Beirich, CFO SPLC who was just arrested for secretly funding White Supremacy Nazi Groups complained a few years ago how fast these Nazi groups were exploding under Donald Trump
The Morning Rant: When Capital Is Mobile, Socialism Will Fail
—CBD
The Soviet Union had a captive audience...nobody could leave with their money or their infrastructure unless the party allowed it. Communist China is the same way, as is Cuba, and North Korea, and Venezuela, and...
And leaving Krasnoyarsk for Tomsk, in the hope of more opportunity didn't work either...the laws under which the subjects of a socialist country operate made that change a triviality, even if one could get a permit to move.
But in free market economies, capital is mobile! And even more important; people are mobile. No permits required! No permission from the local People's Committee is needed...just a moving company and a funds transfer to the new city. So if you want to move your widget company to another city, have at it! And if you can convince your employees to go with you? All the better!
Why is this important? Because in the United States Of America, the deeply deluded flirtation with the out-and-proud socialism of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has exploded in the last few years. Whether it is organic growth of socialist principles, or a careful manipulation of the news cycle combined with excellent grassroots planning remains to be seen.
But one thing is certain; socialism has arrived in a few of our cities, including the biggest one! NYC is firmly in the grip of a socialist/Islamist mayor, and he is gleefully implementing public programs, increasing the tax rates wherever possible. and in all other respects bringing the soul-crushing policies of socialism to the people and businesses of New York City.
But this ain't the Soviet Union, and people and companies are leaving. And that is a very big problem for a city that has as its tax base a large number of highly paid people in finance and the employees in corporate offices whose presence in NYC is a business imperative...or at least it used to be!
And how do they do it? It's easy! Just leave. Our Constitutional Republic is specifically designed to give the states broad discretion over their governance, and that includes the business climate. So the draw of Texas and Tennessee and Florida -- all states with no income tax and a business friendly regulatory structure -- is easy to understand.
JP Morgan Chase has reduced head count by 6,000 people, and has expanded operations in Florida and Texas. Goldman Sachs has unveiled an explicit program (Project Voyage) of relocation to Dallas and Salt Lake City. Citadel's global headquarters is now in Miami. Apollo Global Management is expanding in Austin. Blackstone is expanding in Dallas, and Miami. AllianceBernstein is moving several thousand employees to Nashville. And these are peole whose salaries are not $50k/year for clerical work or running a cash register. These are in many cases highly compensated employees who make $250k...or many multiples of that. The decrease in tax revenue from just a few of these people leaving is substantial, and it is not going to end anytime soon. The top 1% of earners in NYC pays 40% of the personal income tax! That is huge and unsustainable.
And that's just finance. Other large corporations whose executives can see the never-ending increases in corporate and personal taxes, coupled with the vast improvement in data movement no longer have to be in NYC. The internet may very well be the death knell of NYC! Walmart, Amazon, even tiny little Foot Locker are relocating employees or flat out getting the hell out of NYC.
And lest one assume that the state of NY is more sane... it isn't. New York State taxes are among the highest in the country, and the state is losing corporations and highly compensated people at an outrageous rate too!
And all of this is because of the wisdom and genius of the founders of our great country. Each state is largely free to experiment. And the flow of capital from the socialist experiment in New York City to the free states is huge, and growing. California and Illinois and Minnesota and New Jersey are also suffering from the same disease, and the low tax states are very happy to cultivate an atmosphere of freedom from regulation and taxation that makes them an attractive alternative to the sclerotic blue states.
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
Republicans, however, suspected that the winning tactic was that Democrats in states in which they controlled elections legalized election fraud with mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, and the abandonment of voter ID. In addition, Trump supporters looked at data from the six states in which, for the first time in election history, vote counting stopped for hours, only to resume with Trump’s lead destroyed and Biden suddenly winning. The data look suspicious.
Wisconsin was one of those swing states. Looking at how Francesca Hong lost yesterday, there’s an eerie similarity between her loss and Trump’s in 2020.
David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive who pulled off a stunning upset over the summer’s socialist surge, has blamed systemic racism for police shootings, opposed legislation to protect law enforcement, and declared Wisconsin the worst place in America to raise a black child.
In August 2020, Crowley went all-in on the Black Lives Matter narrative surrounding the domestic disturbance call that ended with the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake. The then-29-year-old, who had a felony warrant out for his arrest, was armed with a knife and was attempting to get into the driver’s seat of an SUV when he was shot seven times, triggering widespread unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and setting the stage for the later acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. . . Before the so-called “summer of love” in 2020, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee also opposed “Blue Lives Matter“ legislation that would’ve added law enforcement officers to the state’s hate crime protected categories, saying the proposal “only furthers the divide between the urban communities and police that serve them.”
Okay, either the electorate legitimately or the Democrat Party leaders swapped out the candidate who advocated abolishing Thanksgiving and the 4th of July for someone who insists the nation is a racist white-supremacist police state intent on the genocide of colored people of color.
However you slice it, all the Democrats succeeded in doing was changing their name from Hyman to Seymour. In the last analysis is Crowley really any less toxic/palatable to the general public (if that is the Democrats' actual concern) than Hong?
The ‘moderate Democrat’ is a campaign myth meant to deceive voters into electing leftists.. . Crowley may be less radical than Hong, but being less radical than a racist, anti-American Marxist doesn’t make you a moderate. On unions, wages, abortion, and immigration, Crowley’s positions are decidedly left-wing. The only real big distinction is he hasn’t said he hates Thanksgiving or called for abolishing the Senate.
But what the press and even regular people are doing is allowing Democrats to redefine “moderate” to mean basically anyone standing even half a step to the right of their most extreme member. Once the standard is set, the entire “moderate” claim becomes merely a campaign myth meant to deceive voters into electing an actual leftist who cosplays as a moderate but will still deliver Democrats’ overall left-wing policy goals.
Moderates would be the Nazis who favored Gas chambers and crematoria over the mass shootings into mass graves by the Einsatzgruppen.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) responded to fears that Democrats are moving too far to the left by saying that “Republicans have loved to use democratic socialist over and over, and now they’re calling us Communists.” And “they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.”
. . . “I think the Republicans have loved to use democratic socialist over and over, and now they’re calling us Communists. Like, they’ve lost any credibility. They clearly haven’t taken a high school or even a junior high civics class recently, because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us. But what people do know is they’re paying more out of pocket for goods, because of actions of Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress.”
We understand very well, you degenerate lying scumbag. Your own mentors/precursors in Marx and Engels defined Socialism as merely the precursor to full on Communism. Democrat/socialism is the precancerous stage to full on Stage Four Terminal Cancer. So the question is, are we as a nation and society in that precancerous stage or what the hell is going on?
Beyond Hong and Crowley, Leftists/Democrats at every level have been shrieking their lungs out about packing the Supreme Court, abolishing the Second and every other amendment and the Constitution itself for years now. Hell, the dead and moldering Ruth Bader Meinhoff Ginsberg proclaimed the South African Constitution as superior to our own, despite the fact of supposedly swearing a sacred oath to uphold the latter in her tenure on the Supreme Court.
The Democrat Party has had a lust for absolute power for over 200 years, to the point of seeking the destruction of this nation as founded in order to acquire and hold onto that power forever.
Furious Hasan Piker melts down over Francesca Hong’s loss: ‘Outlaw Thanksgiving and outlaw boomers’
So, to sum it all up, I ask what does all this mean? is the Democrat Party really scared that most of America still is sane and repulsed by the views of more and more of their base? Hong, Crowley, Piker et al are bad enough but the Schemers, Bidens, Pelosis, Clintons and all the rest via the things they have supported over the years have no problem with the former, at least until they train their rhetorical and ultimately literal guns on them for not delivering the keys to the kingdom and the head of America as founded to them on a silver platter.
Have a good day,
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left spent years destroying the norms it now invokes against Trump—and is outraged that Republicans learned the same playbook. Who’s Been Destroying Norms?
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
El-Sayed’s comments have seen him criticized for deflecting from the deliberate targeting of Christians in the Nashville attack. Reports indicate El-Sayed has hidden as many as 100 videos, including material in which he discussed abolishing the Second Amendment and scrapping Independence Day fireworks. Dem Candidate El-Sayed Blamed Transgender’s Mass Shooting at Christian School on Anti-Trans Legislation. (I blame the Islamo/Pervert axis of evil - jjs)
All the noise around Iran’s supposed stranglehold on oil supplies transiting through the Strait of Hormuz is missing the point. The reality is that the combination of Operations Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury upended the regime’s hopes of turning Hormuz into a permanent hostage. Tehran is losing its grip on Hormuz, and with it all its leverage
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
The agreement reduces the risk of Israeli military intervention and a broader regional conflict on top of the current war with Iran and its proxies. It also prevents the Syrian nuclear material from being weaponized or otherwise falling into the wrong hands. It also signals increased cooperation between the U.S. and Syria’s new regime under al-Qaeda alumnus Ahmed al-Sharaa, following the fall of the former Assad regime. Trump Strikes Deal to Remove Nuclear Material from Secret Syrian Storage Site.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) responded to a question on if Democrats like her should speak out against or embrace candidates who have advocated for Hamas and defunding the police by saying that “if I am talking to any candidate, or certainly anyone who might be running in Virginia, my priority is going to be that they understand the vital resources that are needed to keep our communities safe, to strengthen our schools, and to ultimately lower costs.” Spanberger Dodges on Denouncing Pro-Hamas Dems
The revelations raise significant concerns about the political weaponization of intelligence agencies, with critics arguing that the FBI’s actions undermined legitimate investigations into corruption while shielding the Biden family from scrutiny. The operation also aligned with liberal media narratives that dismissed the Burisma allegations as conspiracy theories. FBI Targeted Biden Critics as ‘Russian Disinformation Conduits’ in Secret 2020 Operation.
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
For Hunter and Joe Biden, lying becomes so habitual they eventually lose grip on reality. Joe had power so people were inclined to believe his fabrications. Hunter is a former crack addict, deadbeat dad and pardoned felon so the only people he can get to swallow his lies are podcasters hungry for views. Hence his newfound fame, this week courtesy of Tucker Carlson. Miranda Devine: Habitual liar Hunter Biden used Tucker Carlson’s platform to lie some more about his ‘laptop from hell’
The moderate monthly readings across all times and core inflation, along with the decline in the year-over-year inflation rate, will likely ease concerns among Fed officials. Prices of fed funds futures implied the odds of a rate hike at the Fed’s next meeting in September fell from nearly 50 percent to around 40 percent. Inflation Fell Further In July as Prescription Drugs, Gasoline, and Grocery Prices Decline
Seamus Bruner, who works with Peter Schweizer at the Government Accountability Institute, warned in a recent Hillsdale College speech that Arabella and its subgroups are taking point on a program to go after democratically elected sheriffs. He said it as a serious warning, but in a very short, almost offhand comment to a questioner. While I haven't been able to get an interview with Bruner again to flesh this out, I began an investigation in an attempt to find out about this campaign. The Left Is Coming for Your County Sheriff
The new law will relax abortion restrictions, allowing for abortions up until the moment of birth for so-called “complications”, rather than only issues that could affect the life of the mother or child. It is unclear if such “complications” could involve diagnoses of issues like Down syndrome or other non-life-threatening conditions. Democrats Celebrate New Law Allowing Abortion Up to Birth.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) responded to fears that Democrats are moving too far to the left by saying that “Republicans have loved to use democratic socialist over and over, and now they’re calling us Communists.” And “they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.” Dem Rep. Pocan: Republicans Calling Us Democratic Socialists Don’t Understand Definitions (true, you're all Evil Satanic Cancer - jjs)
This continued a pattern seen through most of this year. Prices have fallen in five of the last seven months and have not increased at all this year. Compared to one year ago, prescription drug prices are down 3.1 percent. Trump Effect: Prescription Drug Prices Fall At Record-Breaking Pace
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Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked with Tab. Only the best for the Horde...
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
[Top photo from NASA: Shock waves are visible around a T-38 trainer aircraft during NASA's Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren flights in 2019. Schlieren imaging makes normally invisible changes in air density visible, giving researchers a way to see the same shock waves that can create sonic booms on the ground.]
ICYMI - congratulations to the Blogfather for 25 years of InstaPundit.
Like many others, we found InstaPundit following 9/11. We read things we did not see elsewhere and found other writers and blogs we wouldn't have found otherwise. Maintaining staying power and relevance on the internet for over 25 years without burning out is impressive.
One of the big lessons of the past twenty five years is that the preening self-regard of the laptop class is largely unjustified. There's a lot of ignored wisdom out there.
Third, speaking of the laptop class, the press is much, much worse than I thought it was at the beginning of this exercise, and I was pretty skeptical about the press then.
Thijs de Buck, an MRI physicist based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, recently posted on Reddit that he built a speed and distance tracker for his hamster's wheel, with the data automatically uploaded to Mollie's own Strava account. Mollie, his 10-month-old hamster, is now committed to logging nightly runs with distance, pace, and time.
One recent activity showed 6.06 miles in 4 hours and 37 minutes. The next night, Mollie logged 5.55 miles in 3 hours and 56 minutes.
And the little guy's not exactly phoning it in. De Buck said Mollie is averaging almost 10 kilometers per night, with a current record of 10.8 kilometers after the first week of tracking.
"I really believe he'll be able to exceed that soon," he said.
Mollie also has a weirdly consistent schedule for a hamster. Over one seven-day stretch, he started within the same 10-minute window on five nights, between 9:54 and 10:04 p.m. He tends to run in short bursts, sometimes reaching about 4 to 5 kilometers per hour on the live monitor, then hops off for water.
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Anyone ever attend a vintage pyrex swap? Never knew such a thing existed:
Let's pause a bit and talk about the 'rules' for callsigns.
It's rumored that Air Force fighter jocks get to pick their own callsigns... which is where you get things like 'Ripper' and 'Ace' and 'Thor.'
Not in the Navy.
Callsigns are bequeathed for doing something stupid or memorable. The more you fight the more it sticks.
Usually a new guy in a squadron is given something like 'FNG' (Fucking New Guy) or 'New Jack' or 'Don't Speak.'
Eventually, someone does something noteworthy, and the King (or Queen) of the JOPA [Junior Officer Protection Agency] calls a kangaroo court known as a 'callsign review board.'
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Mandatory Maiden
Long documentary - save this one for later:
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Subaru News
For all the Subaru fans among the Horde - I held my breath a few times through this video. Impressive.
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Life Advice
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called The Slow Motion Guys. No, the channel is not about guys that move slowly. It is about two friends armed with camera equipment to show activities in super-super-super slow motion.
Some of it feels a little like a science class. Some of it feels a little like a technology class. Some of it feels like madness and giggles purely for the sake of having fun.
Over 45 million people have watched their video on how a TV works. Their video showing popcorn popping has over 24 million views. Spinning a record to pieces? Spinning a CD to destruction? Paint vibrating on a speaker? Airbag deploy? Camera shutter? They've got it all. When things happen so quickly, we miss what really happens.
They've been at it for 15 years and have over 15 million subscribers. This is a favorite:
Difficult to call it an unknown channel but it absolutely qualifies as a niche channel. It is exactly the type of content that could not survive elsewhere but thrives on a narrowcasting internet platform.
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Pittsburgh Scanner
The Pittsburgh police scanner in internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
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A Cooter tribute for the big ONT finish:
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There is no truth to the rumor that TRex is set to be announced as the new White House Press Secretary. Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly be ignored. Are you lurking ????
In Nola, Italy, over 100 men carry a 25-meter-tall, 2.5-ton (5,500-lb) tower through packed narrow streets, a centuries-old tradition honoring Saint Paulinus pic.twitter.com/uXXovbADEP
Podcast: In Wisconsin, the Dems steal an election from themselves, abortion is cheered in Massachusetts, Spain gets what it voted for, the economy is humming, and more!
Selections from H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter
Chocolate Cherry Cordial
You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon's true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate.
Caramel Chew
There is a dimension ruled by a blind caramel God-King who sits on a vast, cyclopean milk-chocolate throne while his mindless, gooey followers dance to the piping of crazed flutes. It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet. The delectable Caramel Chew may be one such portal.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click I haven't forgotten this one. I play it a couple of times a month. But I bet a lot of you forgot it:
Athletic (boogie down)
Hustle (turn back)
Feel pathetic (sugar town)
No muscle (soul hack)
I'm jumping (you move)
No dancer (beside me)
I'm thumping (you prove)
Don't get no answer
He was their living lawn jockey, period. They won't say that 'cause they're sensitive and down with his struggle and all. He was there to appease and flatter their sense of being uplifters of the oppressed. In truth, he served as their living lawn jockey -- no more, no less, and unworthy of even a second thought on their part. Tokenism, pure and simple.
Podcast: More Iran bluster from Trump? Enough! Deportations hit a record, and that is a good thing for all, Todd Blanche's nomination is out of committee, the DSA is on the march, and more!
The Short Unhappy Life of a Russian Soldier: Why recruits die in 20-30 minutes Interesting video. Some key parts: drones were responsible for 70-80% of all battlefield deaths in mid-2025, and I bet it's higher now. The Russian army is incredibly corrupt. Men get assigned to the most dangerous frontline units, the "Storm" units, unless they pay a superior $2,000 to be assigned to a different unit. Furthermore, there is often no real training for recruits -- commanders pocket the money that would have gone towards fuel and ammo costs incurred during training. Much "training" consists just of taking a single picture of soldiers doing something soldier-y, like fording a river, and publishing that as proof that the training was done. Even when it is done, training is only two weeks long.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton discuss the Berlin attack, Iran...Again! Sefton's mini Odyssey review, Data Republican's blockbuster reveal about the DNC, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click She's totally committed to major independence
She's a lady through and through
She gives them quite a battle, all that they can handle
She'll bruise some, she'll hurt some too
Podcast: Illegals registered and voted in NJ! Leftist violence is baked into the Democrat cake, Iran's capabilities are being degraded, Londonistan? And...come on SC...no senate dynasties!
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