Setting Up Your Dog's Email Account Cafe
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Caption:
Nature is Amazing @AMAZlNGNATUREThis is a stack of 32 shots by photographer Fendy Gan over 40 minutes during a lightning storm in Kuala Lampur. May, 2020.
All I can think of is "Puttin' on the Ritz."
Saving dogs trapped on top of roofs after a major flood.
Not sure what's going on here but it looks like someone's riding a dirt bike across a lake.
We've got a real Pepe LePeu situation here.
Cats are evil creatures who want to ruin everything in your life but sometimes their evil will mars their own evil actions.
The. Absolute. Sass. of these good boys.
The deadly wombat. Thanks to bonhomme.
A little budgie from day one after he hatches to day thirty. They grow up so quick!
A dog's favorite toy is a Gumby plushie, so his dad did this for his birthday.
A polite good boy.
A big bruiser is also a big softie.
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The Week In Woke
—Ace
This isn't a Week in Woke entry, really, but I'll post this here: Trump orders Bondi to declassify the entire Epstein grand jury record.
President Trump on Thursday directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue the release of grand jury records in the Epstein case, saying "this SCAM...should end, right now!" Bondi said she'll ask the court Friday to unseal the transcripts.Key Details:
Trump said on Truth Social he had asked AG Pam Bondi to release "any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony" tied to Epstein, pending court approval.
Bondi responded Thursday evening, posting, "President Trump -- we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts."
Trump's directive comes just hours after The Wall Street Journal published a report about a birthday card he allegedly wrote to Epstein--an allegation Trump has called "fake" and vowed to sue over.
Eric Schmitt reviews some of NPR's most deranged woke tweets.
The French newspaper Le Parisien reports on how awesome Trump is.
Just kidding, they're horrified. But this is awesome.
In New York, asylum seekers invited to court and then arrested after "trap" hearings
Masked and armed, they prowl courthouses in groups: US agents are arresting asylum seekers after "trap" hearings in New York, a sign that the Trump administration's anti-immigration campaign shows no sign of abating.The US president has made the fight against illegal immigration a top priority, referring to an "invasion" of the United States by "criminals from abroad" and speaking extensively about immigrant deportations. But his mass deportation program has been thwarted or slowed by multiple court decisions, notably on the grounds that the targeted individuals should be able to assert their rights.
In recent months, Homeland Security agents have adopted the tactic of waiting, often with masks on, outside immigration courtrooms and arresting migrants as they leave.
On Wednesday and Thursday, in a New York courtroom, armed agents with shields, employed by various federal agencies, including the Immigration and Border Protection (ICE), prowled outside the courtrooms, carrying documents on the targeted migrants. Nearly a dozen migrants from different countries were arrested in just a few hours on the 12th floor of a federal building in lower Manhattan.
Brad Lander, the city's financial controller and a leading figure in the local Democratic Party branch, who was briefly arrested and handcuffed last month for "obstructing" agents on the scene, called the hearings a "trap." "These appear to be judicial hearings, but they are actually traps to encourage (migrants) to come to the scene," he said on Wednesday, noting several arrests, including that of a Paraguayan man whose asylum application was, he said, under review.
The police have been running this sort of trap operation, sending out notices to wanted fugitives that they're due some money from the government or whatever, for ages. There's nothing illegal about it, never has been.
Translated by Google with light edits. I tried to translate it but was too lazy.
Meanwhile, the French government is now literally telling its "citizens:" You have the right to free speech, but not the right to say things which are illegal.
As the poster says: It's like a Soviet joke.
Robert Spencer: A specter is haunting the Democrat Party. The specter of communism.
This time it's real, and undeniable. The Democrats have for years denied, with varying degrees of scorn or anger, that they are Communists, despite hating both free enterprise and borders, which are just the sorts of things you'd expect socialist internationalists to hate. Now, however, the deniability is no longer even close to plausible. As the Democrat candidates move ever farther to the left, it's clear: A spectre is haunting the Democrats. The spectre of Communism....
Yet even as Marx and Engels claimed that they were unleashing a power that all the European elites were determined to destroy, they likewise immediately insisted that those elites were engaged in battle with an imaginary threat that they themselves had conjured up: "Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?"
That sounds quite similar to accusations Democrats have hurled at Republicans over the years: "How dare you question my patriotism," and all that. As the Democrats' policies grew progressively more anti-American, the gang of hacks, DEI hires, and grifters that once proudly styled itself as the Party of Jefferson and Jackson did everything it could to make people think pointing out that increasingly obvious fact was both ridiculous and offensive. And so, ever fewer people have dared to do so, even as it became even more obvious that hating America and having a taste for Marxism went with being a Democrat like arrogance and self-righteousness went with being Barack Obama.
Now, however, it's impossible to deny. The best and the brightest among young Democrats are all avowed socialists. The party would have chosen a socialist, Bernie Sanders, as its candidate for president in 2016 and likely also in 2020 if party top dogs hadn't stepped in and arranged for the candidacy of someone who was at least outwardly more mainstream.All the while, Democrats insisted their socialism was nothing to be worried about, but was of an extremely cuddly variety. One of the foremost among the party's up-and-coming new socialists, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Swizzle Stick), maintains that what she has in mind isn't the bad old socialism of the Soviet Union, Communist China, Pol Pot's Democratic Kampuchea and the rest, but a type involving more unicorns and moonbeams. "So when millennials talk about concepts like democratic socialism," she explained, "we're not talking about these kinds of 'Red Scare' bogeyman." Yeah, tell all the victims of Stalin and Mao that it was just a "scare." Those hysterical right-wingers were having the vapors over nothing.
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The Communists are clearly the future of the Democrat Party.
Well, the future, yes, and also the past and the present.
In Spain, "far right racist" groups started up trouble. Again.
And when I say these groups "started up trouble," I mean of course that roving gangs of immigrant invaders beat the living shit out of an old Spanish man for no reason and the actual citizenry of Spain got a bit bothered about it.
The disgusting state socialist media outlet the BBC:
Fourteen people arrested after anti-migrant riots in southern Spain
Just after "anti-migrant riots," huh? Was there no precipitating event before that?
A total of 14 people have been arrested and extra police have been deployed after an attack on a pensioner sparked anti-migrant unrest in a small town in southern Spain.
Ohhhh! So there was a precipitating incident.
By the way, for days the BBC denied that the vicious thugs were migrants, despite widespread local testimony that it was the Beloved Newcomers who had beaten this man nearly to death.
Three people of North African origin have been detained on suspicion of attacking the 68-year-old man in Torre Pacheco last Wednesday.The unrest began after a video circulated on social media, inflaming the town of 40,000 people which is home to a large immigrant population.
The pensioner and police later said the video was unrelated to the incident but social media calls to find and attack the perpetrators multiplied quickly.
By Friday groups armed with batons could be seen roaming the streets of Torre Pacheco.
One far-right group called "Deport Them Now" called for attacks on people of North African origin. Further messages on social media have called for renewed attacks on immigrants over three days this week.
A leading member of the extremist group was detained in the north-eastern town of Mataró on suspicion of spreading hate speech.
The 68-year-old victim of last Wednesday's attack, named locally as Domingo Tomás Domínguez, told Spanish media he was thrown to the ground and hit while taking his morning walk.
A photo circulating on social media showed his face bearing extensive bruising.
That is a foul lie. The man did not show "extensive bruising."
One of the man's eyes was blood-red from being punched and the other eye was black. I don't mean he had a black ring around the orbit of his eye, like a normal shiner, I mean his eyeball itself was completely black because it had been filled with blood after the attack. And that blood then went black.
I'm not going to embed the photo because it's upsetting but click here to see it.
"Extensive bruising." Filthy liars.
In Germany, nine underaged girls were sexually molested by Maryland Men, by which I mean Syrian terrorist migrants." The Christian Democratic Union mayor of the town said that global warming was really to blame, because it made the Syrian Newcomers irritable and therefore filled with the desire to rape children.
"You're not doomed yet, but..."
ICE raided a Home Depot for illegals.
California actually cooperated with ICE and turned over a criminal illegal alien being released from prison. It's unclear if this is Newsom easing off his insurrection, of if the facts about this criminal are so bad -- he killed children while drunk-driving -- that it would be politically toxic, and perhaps criminally chargeable, to help him escape.
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Bird-Hands Swarm: Flabby Fat Failure Jimmy Kimmel Flaps His Dick-Sucker and Shakes His Manboobs In Anger About His Own Impending Firing
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And we're not done. The firing of Stephen Colbert makes it more likely the fat sack of anger and erectile dysfunction Jimmy Kimmel also be fired. Iger can't keep telling shareholders he's losing $35 million per year (or whatever) just for the sake of anti-Trump propaganda.
And of course we've already heard that Kimmel's contract is up next year and no one at ABC is rushing to re-sign him.
Jimmy Kimmel cursed out CBS this week after the network cancelled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.The decision, described by the network as a "purely financial" one amid the ongoing Paramount-Skydance merger, has drawn sharp criticism from Kimmel, who didn't mince words in his public rebuke of CBS.
Kimmel, host of Disney ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, took to Instagram Stories shortly after Colbert's emotional on-air announcement, sharing a clip of his colleague breaking the news to viewers."Love you Stephen. F*** you and all your Sheldons CBS," Kimmel wrote, referencing the network's long-running sitcoms The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon as a jab at the network's programming priorities.
The blunt message quickly went viral, with celebrities like Adam Scott, Judd Apatow, and Katie Couric echoing support for Colbert while amplifying Kimmel's frustration.
Katie Couric is a celebrity?
What century was this article written in?
Paramount says the decision is "purely financial."
Boy they're not kidding.
CBS lost $40 million on Colbert's show this year alone.
Sources inside CBS have suddenly become much more forthcoming about the sobering economics of late-night television in 2025--go figure-- revealing that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has recently been running at an annual shortfall of $40 million.If that sounds unthinkable for the #1 rated show at 11:35pm, consider this: as Matt Belloni reports today in Puck, back in 2018, all of late-night television combined generated $438 million in advertising revenue. By 2023, that number had been cut in half, and it has continued to fall.
Given that The Late Show--with its handsomely paid host and a staff of roughly 200 employees--reportedly costs CBS $100 million per year to produce, that $40 million figure becomes easier to understand.
Belloni also reports that CBS executives had been discussing the future of its Late Show franchise for months, and that Colbert's team was informed around July Fourth that the show was in jeopardy.
Ah. As I suspected: Colbert "got brave" on July 7th and denounced his network only after the network told him they were cancelling his Regime "Comedy" propaganda hour.
("Regime Comedy" was used by Ed Morrissey in his post.)
$40 million lost in a single year. And yet the left is OUTRAGED that one of their money-losing propagandists is losing his job.
Simpering fembots like Chris L. Hayes (an Allahpundit fave) are crying that firing their shareholder-value-destroying, no-advertisers-want-to-touch-them TV clowns means that Democracy Is Dying In Darkness.
Oh?
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Treachery Afoot: "Republican" Congresswoman Maria Salazar and Ten Other "Republican" RINOs Are Pushing a New Amnesty Package That Would Even Make John McCain Blush In His Rotting Coffin
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Will Chamberlain has read the whole bill and says it's much worse than it seems at first glance.
Summing up: Effectively, it's amnesty for all illegal aliens present in the US, except for a small number of convicted criminals.
Will Chamberlain
@willchamberlainThe basic way to understand Maria Salazar's amnesty bill is this:
If you came in to the country before Biden was inaugurated, you get to stay.
If you were under 18 when you came into the country, for whatever reason - you get a 4-year path to citizenship.
If you were over 18, you get what is effectively permanent residency with no path to citizenship, and you don't have to pay payroll taxes.
Not joking. The only deportable aliens will be criminal aliens and aliens that came in under Biden. Everyone else gets to stay.
You were told that Dreamer status was for those unfortunate people brought to the United States as young children.
Not so. If you came on your own volition as a 17-year-old, you're a Dreamer under her bill.
Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11🚨WARNING -- There are a handful of Republicans in Congress pushing the so-called "Dignity Act of 2025" which would shield illegals from deportation if they've been in the US since before 2021.
Here's the trick: We do NOT know when many, or perhaps most, illegals entered the US. All they'd have to do is say the magic words and they'd be allowed to stay. At best their case would be bogged down in court for years. This is a ruse. Do not fall for it. This will grind President Trump's mass deportations to a halt.
This is worse than "soft amnesty." This de facto ends the mass deportations Americans just voted for.
Salazar claims she would not grant amnesty to MS-13 or Tren de Aragua gang members.
But that's a lie. While the bill does say that members of foreign criminal or terrorist gangs aren't eligible for amnesty, it then goes on to specifically forbid the government from searching its databases to discover if the applicant is a member of a foreign criminal gang or not:
Will Chamberlain @willchamberlainI want to focus on one particularly brazen provision in Maria Salazar's amnesty bill. She made a huge point of saying "gang members won't be admissible!" And, indeed, there is a provision that says if you "voluntarily participated in offenses committed by a criminal street gang" you will be ineligible for either the Dreamer path to citizenship or the adult path to permanent residency.
But in THE VERY NEXT PROVISION, the legislation bars DHS from using state and federal databases to prove that someone is a gang member. Apparently, they have to actually get convicted of a criminal gang offense - WHICH WOULD ALREADY MAKE THEM INADMISSIBLE BECAUSE FELONIES AND VIOLENT MISDEMEANORS DO SO ON THEIR OWN.
These people think you are stupid.
mmigration Accountability Project @I_A_ProjectRemember how Democrats say illegal aliens never vote in our elections? Well, apparently, @RepMariaSalazar doesn't agree with them, since her amnesty bill allows DHS to waive the provision of law that makes an alien inadmissible to the US if they have unlawfully voted. So, even illegal aliens who have illegally voted in our elections can qualify for her amnesty! It's on page 165 of her bill.
Chris Plante Show
@ChrisPlanteShowHere are the "Republicans" who support the give Kilmar Abrego Garcia U.S. citizenship bill:
@RepMariaSalazar
@RepMikeLawler
@RepDavidValadao
@RepNewhouse
@RepBrianFitz
@repgabeevans
@RepStutzman
@RepDonBacon
@RepYoungKim
Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirduskySeveral Republicans who are running for re-election in safe Trump districts have co-sponsored Salazar’s amnesty for over 10 million illegal aliens.
Here are their names and office numbers:
@RepNewhouse
(202) 225-5816
@MikeKellyPA
(202) 225-5406
@RepStutzman
(202) 225-4436
Will Chamberlain says that even "Maryland Man" -- and MS-13 human trafficker -- Albrego-Garcia is eligible for amnesty.
All he'd have to do is sign up for classes in a trade school, or be employed for three of four years.
Will Chamberlain @willchamberlainIf Kilmar got a technical degree, or was employed for three years out of a four-year period, he would get lawful permanent residence, and be eligible to apply for citizenship.
Will Chamberlain @willchamberlainYou might say -- well, wait, isn't he a member of MS-13? Shouldn't that bar him from entering the country.
Well, yeah, it should. The problem is that the bill actively bars law enforcement from using federal or state gang databases to determine whether someone is a gang member.
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TULSI GABBARD RELEASES REPORT: BARACK OBAMA ORDERED THE IC TO FALSIFY ITS RUSSIAGATE CONCLUSIONS TO FRAME TRUMP; SAYS THAT ALL CONSPIRATORS MUST BE PROSECUTED TO "FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW"
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She also promises that the ringleaders of the coup, no matter how high-ranking or powerful will be prosecuted.
She's hinting about prosecuting Obama, guys.
Lee Smith, a friend and author of The Hunting of the President, has for years been saying: While you guys talk about Comey and Brennan and Clapper, you're ignoring the man who actually ordered the coup against Trump:
Barack Hussein Obama.
Tulsi Gabbard just released a report proving him right.
See Tulsi Gabbard's thread here.
Catherine Herridge @C__HerridgeBreaking...
Newly declassified records from @DNIGabbard are additional, compelling evidence that the 2016 Russia Collusion narrative was not rooted in credible intelligence reporting, but manufactured to fit a preferred political narrative.
Gabbard has taken the rare and transparent step of declassifying a December 2016 draft of the President's Daily Brief or PDB.
This highly classified record, which is a daily national security analysis for the President, assessed that "Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against (election) infrastructure."
But after push back from the FBI, then led by James Comey, the PDB was spiked "based on new guidance."
After a White House Principals meeting, a new intelligence assessment was commissioned, and media leaks followed, reinforcing a new narrative that "Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system."
In other words: Obama ordered them to spike the report knocking down their coupist conspiracy theory and issued them "new guidance" to claim the exact opposite of the truth.
TIMELINE
December 8, 2016
Draft PDB - Russia "did not impact US election results"Hours later, FBI withdraws support
PDB is killed "based on new guidance"
December 9, 2016 Obama White House Gathers Top Cabinet Officials including Clapper, Brennan, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe and others.
New Intelligence Assessment is commissioned
January 6, 2017 New Intel Assessment : Russia interfered to help Trump
FULL READ👇@ODNIgov
More:
Catherine Herridge @C__HerridgeSPIKED - KEY DOCUMENT
Declassified and released via @DNIGabbard
Whistleblower is SPIKED after calling out Intelligence Community leadership for creating a new assessment about Russian election interference in December 2016 that was "contradicted" by multiple, existing reports.
Fast forward three years.
September 2019 Whistleblower was "shocked" the Steele Dossier was part of the January 2019 intelligence report because it was seen as "untrustworthy."
CONTEXT: Late 2016 is a critical period for the FBI under @Comey
who used the Steele Dossier to justify the FISA surveillance warrants for Trump campaign aide Carter Page.It would have gutted the 2016 FBI investigation if the intelligence community had reported, at that time, there was
Kyle Becker @kylenabeckerBREAKING.🚨
DNI @TulsiGabbard announces that she has "overwhelming evidence... that President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump."
The ODNI report lays out the following facts:
* In the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the Intelligence Community (IC) consistently assessed that Russia is "probably not trying ... to influence the election by using cyber means."
On December 7, 2016, after the election, talking points were prepared for DNI James Clapper stating, "Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome."
* On December 9, 2016, President Obama's White House gathered top National Security Council Principals for a meeting that included James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe and others, to discuss Russia.
After the meeting, DNI Clapper's Executive Assistant sent an email to IC leaders tasking them with creating a new IC assessment "per the President's request" that details the "tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election." It went on to say, "ODNI will lead this effort with participation from CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS."* Obama officials leaked false statements to media outlets, including The Washington Post, claiming, "Russia has attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election."
* On January 6, 2017, a new Intelligence Community Assessment was released that directly contradicted the IC assessments that were made throughout the previous six months.
* After months of investigation into this matter, the facts reveal this new assessment was based on information that was known by those involved to be manufactured i.e. the Steele Dossier or deemed as not credible. This was politicized intelligence that was used as the basis for countless smears seeking to delegitimize President Trump's victory, the years-long Mueller investigation, two Congressional impeachments, high level officials being investigated, arrested, and thrown in jail, heightened US-Russia tensions, and more.
DNI Tuls Gabbard issued the following statement:
"The issue I am raising is not a partisan issue. It is one that concerns every American. The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government. Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people," said DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
"Their egregious abuse of power and blatant rejection of our Constitution threatens the very foundation and integrity of our democratic republic. No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again. The American people's faith and trust in our democratic republic and therefore the future of our nation depends on it. As such, I am providing all documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve."
The Trump administration is serving notice to the American people: Justice is coming.
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CBS, Now Under New Ownership: We're Cancelling Stephen Colbert's Little-Watched Extremist Leftwing Propaganda Orgy and As a Matter of Fact We're Done With the Whole Late Night Talk Show Format
—Ace
Andrew Breitbart around 2011: "In five years, it's all gone! The networks, gone! CNN, gone! MSNBC, gone! It's all going down in five years!"
He was wrong.
But he was close.
Newsweek had just reported this was a possibility:
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are the liberal faces of their networks, Comedy Central and CBS, respectively. They've been fixtures on the television circuit for decades. But under the second Trump administration and ahead of Paramount's proposed merger with Skydance Media, their futures seem uncertain....
So why is the future specifically uncertain for the liberal faces of CBS and Comedy Central? It comes down, in part down to the Paramount-Skydance merger, and Paramount's recent settling of a lawsuit with Trump....
Skydance was founded by David Ellison in 2006, and his father, Larry Ellison, co-founder of the Oracle Corporation, is also involved in the operation of the company. Larry Ellison is investing $6 billion into the merger and is putting up a majority stake in the deal, according to a 2024 report from The Hill. Both men are Trump supporters.
Newsweek spoke with Matt Navarra, a news personality and social media consultant, about the shifting media landscape and the potential implications on Stewart and Colbert.
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Newsweek also spoke with Rodney Benson, a professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Sociology at New York University. He said that "In a future company controlled by Skydance, it's easy to imagine that Stewart's and Colbert's shows could be short-lived."
The old unfunny TV clowns may wind up... doing podcasts. Like all the rest of the Old Media Dinosaurs.
So, what could be an alternative to these old structures? "The thing to watch for is them signing first-look deals with Netflix, HBO or Audible, places that value strong, editorial voices," Navarra said.
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Navarra also pointed to "podcasts, streaming or independent media," where "permissionless speech will thrive."
Benson, meanwhile, said that, "It's possible to imagine that either show might find a home at Comcast's cable spinoff Versant, either as part of MSNBC or another channel. But Versant may not be particularly eager to be next in line to face the full-scale political wrath of this administration."
Ten days ago, Colbert -- probably already knowing his show was to be cancelled -- got "brave" and attacked his employer for settling with Trump. So that he can claim it was his decision to quit.
Stephen Colbert riffed Paramount Global's $16 million settlement of Donald Trump's lawsuit, calling the payment a "big fat bribe" and joking about the prospects that new owner Skydance will try pressure him to back off from humor directed at the president.In a clip from Monday's The Late Show posted on social media, Colbert joked in his monologue, "As someone who has always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended, and I don't know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company. But just taking a stab at it, I'd say $16 million would help."
That is Classic Colbert, by which I mean, it's not funny and sounds like it was written by a retard.
And now: CBS is canceling his show.
Don't get too exited -- he has ten months left before they boot him out.
Though I betcha they'll "mutually agree" to an earlier departure. All Stephen Colbert's decision, doncha know.
Incidentally: Late night "comedy" talk shows are now officially D E A D. CBS isn't just sh*tcanning Colbert, they're sh*tcanning the whole expensive, unpopular talk show format.
TV's ongoing problems with late night have come for Stephen Colbert, with CBS announcing Thursday that it plans to end his "Late Show" after the next TV season, citing a "financial decision."The decision -- which ends years of original late-night programming at CBS that started when the network lured David Letterman from NBC in 1993 -- comes as the economics of wee-hours TV have begun to accelerate, with media companies growing wary of the high price tags involved in producing the shows while the young viewers they try to attract watch more of them via digital video.
"We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire 'The Late Show' franchise" in May of 2026," CBS executives said in a statement. "We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television. This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount."
Can we say that Stephen Colbert's radioactive levels of unfunniness killed the entire late show format?
I think we can!
Jimmy Kimmel is already suspected of being on the chopping block -- no one's extending his contract. Jimmy Fallon is a phony bore. Seth Meyers -- you forgot about him, didn't you? -- has been delivering MSNBC/Maddow-style political lectures instead of comedy jokes for years.
They're all done. All of them.
Below, Black Conservative Perspective again, with Stephen Colbert boohoo whinin' and cryin' that his unfunny ratings-basement show is being cancelled.
Well he's not really crying. He's pretending it's all cool with him because he doesn't want to take the additional status hit of crying like a bitch on top of being told he's no longer needed.
He also has a clip of Colbert attacking Paramount on July 7th -- most likely, after he was told they were going to shut his shit-show down, so all of a sudden he felt like a big strong brave boy.
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NPR: House Passes $9 Billion Rescission Bill Clawing Back Already-Appropriated Billion Dollars for NPR and PBS
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I want to cite NPR for this. Might be one of their last stories.
Congress rolls back $9 billion in public media funding and foreign aid
Waaah. Scramble the Bird Hands.
The House has approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) -- a move that cuts all federal support for NPR, PBS and their member stations -- and about $7 billion in foreign aid.The vote of 216-to-213 included all but two Republicans in favor of the cuts. The bill goes next to President Trump for his signature.
Immediately after the vote, NPR CEO Katherine Maher issued a statement calling the cut an "irreversible loss" to the public radio system. She said the effect would be "an unwarranted dismantling of beloved local civic institutions, and an act of Congress that disregards the public will."
Bird Hands locked in attack position.
"Public funding has enabled the flourishing of a uniquely American system of unparalleled cultural, informational, and educational programming, and ensured access to vital emergency alerting and reporting in times of crisis -- all for about $1.60 per American, every year. Parents and children, senior citizens and students, tribal and rural communities -- all will bear the harm of this vote," Maher said.
North Carolina Rep. Alma Adams was among the Democrats who rose to defend public broadcasting. "When Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last year, public broadcasting was there when traditional communications failed," she said. "Widespread power, cellular and internet outages meant that for thousands of North Carolinians, public radio was how they received their news."The House move follows a "vote-a-rama" late Wednesday and into early Thursday in the Senate to consider a series of amendments to the rescission package -- all but one of which failed on largely party-line votes. Republicans repeatedly voted to block changes to President Trump's request, known as a rescission. The single amendment that passed was aimed at protecting PEPFAR, the U.S. AIDS relief initiative created under President George W. Bush.
The House vote on Thursday means CPB will lose $1.1 billion meant to fund it through the next two years, while the bill also cuts $7.9 billion in other programs. CPB acts as a conduit for federal money to NPR, PBS and their member stations. Although NPR, which produces news programs such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered, relies on direct federal funds for only a small portion of its budget, its approximately 1,000 member stations get a heftier portion of their operating revenue through CPB.
The network has warned that many of those stations -- especially those broadcasting to rural areas or to underserved audiences, such as Native Americans -- could be forced to shut down as a result of the funding rollback.
Weird that the Bird Hands People never mention the real audience served by NPR -- wealthy white women drinking boxed wine, ignoring their children, masturbating to Kamala Harris speeches, and casting spells to reunite the timeline.
You may wonder what I meant by that. Consider it foreshadowing for a later post.
South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds announced earlier this week that he had struck a deal to use money allocated during the Biden administration to continue funding 28 stations serving Native American listeners in nine states. However, Native Public Media President and CEO Loris Taylor called the compromise "structurally impractical," in a letter to Rounds.
You might remember that the Senate diverted some money earmarked for "climate change" to fund Native American radio stations. I guess this is what they're talking about.
It's gay and Mike Rounds has disqualified himself forever from any higher office. Fuck you. The GOP does not need any "male" Bird Hands People.
PBS CEO and President Paula Kerger said Thursday that the move to cut public broadcasting "goes against the will of the American people, the vast majority of whom trust PBS and believe we provide excellent value to their communities."
Just another completely fair-and-balanced report from NPR.
With its nightly PBS News Hour and children's programming, such as Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, PBS gets around 15% of their revenue through CPB.
"These cuts will significantly impact all of our stations, but will be especially devastating to smaller stations and those serving large rural areas," Kerger said. "Many of our stations which provide access to free unique local programming and emergency alerts will now be forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead."A Harris Poll last week found that 66% of Americans support federal funding for public radio, with the same share calling it a good value. Support included 58% of Republicans and 77% of Democrats. The online poll surveyed 2,089 U.S. adults with a 2.5 percentage point margin of error.
In recent years, NPR has landed increasingly in the crosshairs of conservatives, who have accused the network of left-wing political bias and "woke" programming. The publication last year of an essay authored by then-NPR business editor Uri Berliner critical of the network's coverage only reinforced the notion, providing ammunition to NPR's detractors.
In the piece published by The Free Press, an online site embraced by journalists who believe the mainstream media is too liberal, Berliner argued that an NPR drive for greater diversity in its workforce had actually narrowed the network's viewpoint.
Shortly after the piece was published, Berliner was suspended and later resigned and became a contributing editor for The Free Press. NPR's chief news executive, Edith Chapin responded to Berliner's essay by saying the network covers "a wide range of challenging stories" and that inclusion among its staff and sourcing "is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world."
...Democrats and Republicans alike have also raised concerns about the rescission process -- a rare move that hasn't been attempted in a quarter century. The lawmakers said rescission would make it harder for lawmakers to pass future appropriations bills to fund the government ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline.
"The only way we can fund the government is to get at least seven Democrats to vote with us at the end of Sept. 30, or we can go into a shutdown," Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said on the Senate floor Wednesday. "If I'm a Democrat, and you're trying to get me to vote and get to a 60-vote threshold to fund the government, and you've just betrayed a prior agreement and a prior appropriation -- what are the likelihood that they're going to do that?"
Can't wait until this asshole is out on the street begging for donations from George Soros.
Years back, my friend Mike Flynn -- the editor and Breitbart writer, not the general -- was part of a campaign called Defund the Left. The left, you see, constantly gets the government to pay for its own political operations to undermine the United States, capitalism, and the government themselves. The left is made up of communist revolutionaries, and communist revolutionaries, you may know, are not exactly in-demand as employees.
So what the left does is create thousands of make-work positions in the federal government to keep these communist revolutionaries paid by the loyal American taxpayers they wish to subvert, overthrow, and then enslave.
The left exists like a malignant parasite within the government and the major mediating institutions that serve a government-like purpose. This parasite will kill us, and in the meantime, it sucks us dry providing nothing in return but constant subversion and perversion.
We have to get serious about finally Defunding the Left.
This is a good first step, but it's only a first step, nothing more.
Below, some whining from the left about taxpayers no longer funding part of their political operations to enslave them.
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WSJ Releases Some Kind of "Birthday Book" For Jeffrey Epstein, With A Strange Drawing and Dialogue Supposedly Written by Trump
Trump Denies, Announces He's Suing the WSJ, NewsCorp, and Rupert Murdoch
—Ace
The Journal claims to have seen pages from a birthday album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003—three years before Epstein was first arrested and long before any criminal allegations became public. The album allegedly contains letters from various wealthy individuals who moved in Epstein's social circles.According to the Journal, one page contains Trump's signature on what they describe as a "bawdy" note with crude drawings. Trump categorically denies writing it.
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Here's what the Journal doesn't tell you: They provide no evidence that this letter was authenticated. No handwriting analysis. No chain of custody documentation. No forensic verification. Just their word that they "reviewed" it among Justice Department documents.
The paper admits they don't know "how the letter with Trump's signature was prepared," yet they're comfortable plastering it across their front page anyway. If you can't verify authenticity, why publish it at all?
It didn't stop them from running with Hillary Clinton's fabricated "dossier" now did it?
Yashar Ali @yasharBREAKING
The Wall Street Journal has reviewed a book put together for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, as part of that book a letter was submitted by Donald Trump.
Trump's letter features a drawing of a naked woman and this text which imagines a conversation between Trump and Epstein.
Uh-huh.
The letter bearing Trump's name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy--like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman's breasts, and the future president's signature is a squiggly "Donald" below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.The letter concludes: "Happy Birthday -- and may every day be another wonderful secret."
In an interview with the Journal on Tuesday evening, Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the picture. "This is not me. This is a fake thing. It's a fake Wall Street Journal story," he said.
"I never wrote a picture in my life. I don't draw pictures of women," he said. "It's not my language. It's not my words."He told the Journal he was preparing to file a lawsuit if it published an article. "I'm gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else," he said.
So if Jeffrey Epstein has a piece of art allegedly from a bigwig, that bigwig necessarily participated in it?
So Bill Clinton posed in drag for this painting on Epstein's Pedo Island, huh?
Trump posted this on Truth Social:
The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued. Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so. The Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn't want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway.President Trump will be suing The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly. The Press has to learn to be truthful, and not rely on sources that probably don't even exist. President Trump has already beaten George Stephanopoulos/ABC, 60 Minutes/CBS, and others, and looks forward to suing and holding accountable the once great Wall Street Journal. It has truly turned out to be a 'Disgusting and Filthy Rag' and, writing defamatory lies like this, shows their desperation to remain relevant.
If there were any truth at all on the Epstein Hoax, as it pertains to President Trump, this information would have been revealed by Comey, Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and other Radical Left Lunatics years ago. It certainly would not have sat in a file waiting for 'TRUMP' to have won three Elections. This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS!
People point out that this seems to be before Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, but that is hardly conclusive. No one can deny they knew of Epstein's reputation after his arrest. (So why did Matt Lauer and Katie Couric visit him post-arrest?)
But people also knew he was into shady stuff before the arrest. Trump can deny that he knew about Epstein, but it's not like no one knew until the arrest.
It is now impossible for Trump to contain this just by Jedi Mind Tricking MAGA that "these aren't the files you're looking for."
The media sharks have brushed against Trump and drawn a trickle of blood; they are about to go into a frenzy. It is impossible to stop them, so they only good response is just to release it all and let God separate the wicked from the innocent.
I am now a bit more suspicious that James Comey's wretched daughter, who prosecuted Epstein and then Ghislaine Maxwell, might have leaked this to a friendly media source to get a special counsel appointed. Like father, like daughter.
A contrary view:
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THE MORNING RANT: It’s Been a Tough Month for the Left-Wing Education Establishment
—Buck Throckmorton
The various bloated bureaucracies that incorporate the name “Education” into their organizations are having a bad couple of weeks.
After decades of broken promises from establishment Republicans to eliminate the Department of Education, President Trump is actually moving forward and doing so…with the Supreme Court’s blessing. About 1,300 public servants in the department are being let go, and this is just the start.
This is a beautiful headline I thought I’d never live to see. “Supreme Court says Trump's efforts to close the Education Department can continue” [NPR – 7/14/2025]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would allow the Trump administration to resume dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.
And once again, although we always heard Republicans such as Bush/Cheney/Ryan/Romney campaign on cutting the Department of Education, they never did a thing toward that goal while in office. But now it is Donald Trump who is actually doing it. Coincidentally, the “true conservatives” in legacy “Conservative, Inc” media outlets continue to slander Trump as being “not a conservative.” They continue to hold out hope for another Bush or Cheney to bring back their preferred version of polite conservatism, which is really just capitulation to the left.
Aside from the Department of Education, there is more good news. MAGA conservatives in Congress are introducing a bill to revoke the National Education Association’s charter. The NEA is the largest labor union in the U.S.
North Carolina Rep. Mark Harris and Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn revealed on Tuesday in The Daily Caller that they will each introduce the National Education Association Charter Repeal Act in their respective chambers. The bill aims to revoke the federal charter for the largest teachers’ union in the country.
Speaking of teacher’s unions, the president of the politically strident American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, took the opportunity on July 4th to showcase her inability to handle elementary-level spelling and grammar.
She first posted this amazing tweet, and apparently tried to edit it several times before finally giving up and deleting it. Her tweet read: “Hoping this 4rth of July the sun starts peaking thru again”
In just eleven words there were three misspellings, as well as an absence of any punctuation.
BREAKING: Randi Weingarten just deleted this post. pic.twitter.com/6WsOocoNFF
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) July 4, 2025
Ms. Weingarten eventually settled on this tweet, which as of now is still posted at Twitter, but she apparently gave up on trying to figure out how to spell “4th” correctly:
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
—CBD
Still Life (Vanitas)
N.L. Peschier
Still Lifes are sort of a generic topic that I assume were used by artists to hone their skills. This one is technically pleasing, and the addition of the music sheets is interesting, as is the smoldering...something...off to the left.
Of course the message is clear. Momento Mori; a reminder that death is always near. But I wonder whether most artists were less interested in the rote message and more interested in painting fun things like skulls!
The Morning Report — 7/18/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. There are a few things I'd like to hit on and you'll either be pleased or peeved that the Epstein situation is not among them. First and foremost, as the majority of the nation is rallying behind President Trump in his push to deport as many illegal aliens as possible and seal the border to try and stop the invasion, we have this insanity coming not from the Left but from behind our own lines, as it were:
America Is Not A ‘Nation Of Immigrants’ . . . This insidious slogan is once again being used by Republicans to justify another amnesty bill. . .. . . group of congressional Republicans have joined Democrats in an effort to push through an amnesty bill by performing two cheap tricks: repeat the tired trope that we’re a “nation of immigrants” and redefine “amnesty” as “dignity.”
The bipartisan bill, dubbed the DIGNITY Act, was introduced this week by Republican Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who has lately been on a media tour to promote what she calls, falsely, “a revolutionary bill that offers the solution to our immigration crisis.”
The solution to the immigration crisis and oddly enough this filthy backstabbing slag is correct, it goes beyond the obvious disaster of invading hordes of illegal migrant wetbacks but of those we allow in legally who a very large percentage of do not come here to become Americans and embrace our nation, society and culture, and that our politicians do not demand they do so as was done in years past. The solution is the mass deportation of every foreigner on our soil who is here illegally regardless of how long they've been here (as if every second evading arrest and removal is some sort of credit towards being awarded citzenship) as well as the severe and radical curtailment of legal immigration until those that are here already are assimilated. How that can come about is indeed a thorny issue. But here is a start that President Trump instituted and that should be spread far and wide to every corner of our society, not just the government:
DESIGNATING ENGLISH AS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating English as the official language of the United States.The Order rescinds a Clinton-era mandate that required agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide extensive language assistance to non-English speakers.
This designation specifically allows agencies to keep current policies and provide documents and services in other languages, but encourages new Americans to adopt a national language that opens doors to greater opportunities.
Agencies will have flexibility to decide how and when to offer services in languages other than English to best serve the American people and fulfill their agency mission.
UNIFYING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: It is long past time English is recognized as the official language of the United States.
Bilingualism should be ended in the schools and really everywhere. When my grandparents and mother came here, you best believe they had to learn English in order to not just survive but to thrive. Sure Hungarian, Yiddish, Polish, Russian and Lithuanian were spoken in the home, but they stressed English to the kids and grandkids.
Damn it all to hell, No More G-Damn Amnesty bullshit, by whatever name the GOP wants to call it. And that's why I'm cheering this story on, regardless of the chances of success given the goofiness of South Carolina's electoral system.
TAMPA, Florida — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a “puppet for the Democrats,” the senator’s primary challenger, former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer, told Breitbart News during an appearance at the Turning Point Student Action Summit over the weekend. . . . . .“We have a real opportunity tonight to knock off one of the vipers of the Senate,” he said. “It’s going to be unbelievable year for the president … because Thom Tillis is going to be gone, McConnell’s going to be gone…”“The biggest creature of them all in the swamp is Lindsey Graham. Let us not forget, he’s the one that said Joe Biden’s one of the finest men he ever met. He voted 70 percent of the time in ’22 with Biden — 70 percent he voted with the Democrats,” Bauer stressed. “This a guy that confirmed Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Sotomayor. He’s not looking out for our interests. He’s a puppet for the Democrats.”
Not mentioned is the fact that Lindsay Graham, aka Grahamnesty was the point man on the so-called Gang of 8 amnesty push from several years ago and no doubt will be cheerleading this House bill if it is given the oxygen to move forward, G-d forbid.
This is the reality of modern American immigration. Ungrateful third-worlders come here just “looking for a better life” while actively subverting the way of life that made America great in the first place. The vast majority of our legal migrants are bad houseguests.Every 9/11 hijacker was a legal immigrant, to put things in perspective. America simply needs fewer foreigners on our soil. We definitely don’t need an influx of naturalized citizens from the third world. It is simply insane that the children of illegal immigrants born in America are treated as if they are American citizens.
Birthright citizenship is an absurd policy that makes a mockery of the consent of the governed. American citizenship is valuable. It is a privilege. We should not give it away so easily. . .
. . . Many of the Hispanics flying Mexican flags during the LA anti-ICE rallies are technically American citizens, and yet they despise America. This is untenable. There is no place for hostile aliens and communist activists in America. These people need to go. The source of the problem is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, commonly known as Hart-Celler. This law got rid of the National Origins Formula that had previously restricted non-European immigration to the United States and allowed for the “chain migration” that currently allows a single immigrant to create a “foothold” by which dozens of their family members eventually come to America. . .
. . . The aim of Hart-Celler was not the good of the American people but rather concern for the migrants. It was oriented toward helping the “wretched refuse” of the earth find its way to America’s shores. This immigration policy has gone on for far too long. Today, 90% of our immigrants are from the third world. Moreover, there are 80+ million Americans who would not be here if it were not for legal mass immigration.
Let's see Lindsay Graham drop his drawers and defecate on Teddy Kennedy's grave by sponsoring this bill, despicable light-in-the-loafers crooked bastard. It's why I feel if Elon Musk really wanted to make a difference, instead of this ridiculous third party pipe dream, he should spend every dime he's got on primarying all the RINOs like Grahamnesty, Thune, Cornyn, Murkowski, Collins and all the rest in both chambers of Congress.
Make the GOP the Grand Old Party again and not the Grifting Oleaginous Parasites they are now.
Elsewhere, we have Communist fever breaking out on both coasts. In California, we have Newsom and Bass using the Pacific Palisades fire as cover to make up some bullshit excuse to confiscate the land from homeowners who want to rebuild and turn it all into low income housing.
In California, some radical far-left ideas don't seem to be drawing the applause they were expected to draw.Which brings us to one state Sen. Ben Allen, a Santa Monica statehouse senator who put out a proposed law so stinky, so stanky, so vile, he skedaddled backward as fast as his little legs would carry him.
At a time when the County of Los Angeles has witheld rebuilding permits for all but seven of the 17,000 homeowners who lost their homes in the fires they caused, Allen's SB 549 authorized the state to go around buying up burned properties in fire-ravaged areas, including Altadena and Pacific Palisades, and converting those lots into crime-box high-rise apartment projects for the benefit of the homeless and the "justice-involved individuals."
It made sense from a leftist point of view. Many leftists have gone into low-income housing construction -- and could potentially benefit from construction of crime-box apartments to house bums and criminals who belong in jail.
That would be quite a reward for the bums, given that they set so many of these fires, and an incentive to them to set more fires, given that the prize is now beachfront property.
And not to be outdone, we have this glittering nugget of strychnine encrusted plutonium:
Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat candidate for New York City mayor, faced a wave of backlash after a video clip of him advocating for “the abolition of private property” gained traction online. The footage was initially shared by the pro-MAGA Twitter account “End Wokeness” and subsequently amplified by prominent Republicans, including Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY). . . Other critics, including Amy Kremer and Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY), expressed alarm at Mamdani’s comments. Lawler described the proposal as “bat shit insane” and urged voters to reject Mamdani at the ballot box in November, while Kremer accused him of wanting to seize personal property, including homes and apartments. The New York Young Republican Club referred to Mamdani as a “thoroughbred Marxist” and a “discount Bolshevik.”Notably, Mamdani also supports the abolition of prisons and defunding the police. Born in Uganda, he is a member of Shia Islam’s extremist “Twelver” sect, and only became a U.S. citizen in 2018.
The phrase Islam's extremist sect is a complete misnomer. Islam itself as the past 1500 years have shown is extreme in and of itself, as its main tenets calling for the conquest of the world and conversion and/or death of all unbelieevers who do not submit. The word Islam itself (contrary to the propaganda does not mean peace, it means Submission.) Seal the border lest we be overrun by Momdanis. Unless it's too late. . .
Beyond that as you can see in the Civil War section we still have Leftists targeting their political rivals on the Right with violence and threats of violence as well as the urging on of violence against ICE and so on and so on and scooby dooby dooby. . .
And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
Have a great weekend!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- A video clip of the Democrats’ New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani endorsing “the abolition of private property” sparked controversy online.
NYC’s Zohran Mamdani Is Willing to Abolish Private Property.
- A plan to allow the state to buy up burned lots of people they refuse to issue rebuilding permits to, for low income housing, has been 'paused.'
In fire-ravaged Los Angeles, an idea so bad even its sponsor has now disowned it
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Daily Tech News 18 July 2027
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- AMD's latest Threadripper Pro 9000 WX series arrives July 23, starting at $1649 for 16 cores - actually a little cheaper than the previous generation - and going all the way up to $11,699 for 96 cores which is not cheap at all. (Tom's Hardware)
There's no 12 core model in this generation, which might explain the price cut on the 16 core model.
Also launching on the 23rd is the Radeon Pro 9700, a version of the 9070XT video card with 32GB of RAM instead of 16GB. That will only be available in prebuilt systems initially, with retail units available sometime in the Q3. Which is... Now.
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Buy One ONT, Get The Second One For Free!*
—WeirdDave
Good evening folks! Welcome to tonight's ONT. Let's start with tonight's question:
Explain your reasoning in the comments.
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Babies Babies Babies Cafe
—Ace
by Max Ellis
This deer is a forest-creature health and beauty influencer
He's up at 5am and right into 100 crunches and
20 minutes of gratitude meditation and vision board manifesting
Baby elephant who stole sugar cane tries to hide.
You've decided to cover your pool for the season. Your dogs disagree.
The dog in the airliner seats in front of you is bored and would like to be friends.
Chickens may have a robot infiltrator in their midst.
When a horse wants your apple, eventually the horse is gonna get your apple.
Pickles the orphaned wild duck loves his human sister.
Archival footage from The Dark Knight, before Heath Ledger replaced the original Joker, Kermit the Frog.
Dog helps a toddler take his first steps.
Some butts just need an scratching.
Girl on a rollercoaster might be a narcoleptic.
Some videos about little goo-goo babies, from The Patriarch Tree:
This baby is a natural-born leader with the blazing hypnotic eyes of a young Adolf Hitler.
Baby-care tip: If your baby is crying, hit him with an unexpected stimulus so that he's silently confused instead.
The reaction to fire tells me that this baby is a boy.
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Quick Hits
Updated With Cory Booker's Pathetic Feminine Whining
—Ace
Scott Jennings: I'll run for Mitch McConnell's old Senate seat in 2026 if Trump wants me to.
CNN political contributor Scott Jennings suggested that he may run for Sen. Mitch McConnell's seat if President Trump asks him.When asked on Real America's Voice on Wednesday if he was considering running for McConnell's Senate seat next year since the senator isn't seeking reelection, Jennings said, "Yeah, I haven't made any announcements about that," Mediaite reported.
"There's three people in the race, I know them all, like them all, I've been in and out of their lives in varying degrees over the years. I've supported them all in various endeavors, so I'm confident the seat will remain Republican."
Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and businessman Nate Morris are all running for McConnell's Senate seat.
"I do think politics is a team sport, and I think Trump's the head coach," also said Jennings, who has for months teased a run. "And eventually he's gonna weigh in on this, and my political advice would be to anybody, you know, if he calls a play, we're gonna have to run it. I wouldn't want to run against the president in Kentucky. So, I don't really have any announcement about it at the moment."
An immigrant admitted to attempting to have sex with an underaged (15 year old) girl.
This is a crime. Even in Canada, it's still a crime.
For some people.
Because a Canadian judge decided not to convict this statutory rapist because doing so might put his immigration status in jeopardy.
So come to Canada, foreign pedophiles! Canada will give you preferable treatment so you can keep on molesting children while working on that visa!
Collin Rugg @CollinRuggIndian man in Canada who tried paying for s*x from a 15-year-old gets a conditional discharge simply because he's an immigrant and a conviction would "delay his citizenship."
Utter insanity. Canada is a joke.
According to Justice Paul Thomas O'Marra, treating 30-year-old Akashkumar Khant like a Canadian citizen is unfair because the conviction would unfairly impact his life.
"Mr. Khant is a permanent resident seeking Canadian citizenship and professional licensing," said O'Marra.
"A conviction would not only delay his citizenship by four years but could also prevent him from sponsoring his wife and obtaining his engineering licence."
"These immigration and professional consequences are far more severe than those faced by (an offender in a similar previous case), who was a Canadian citizen with no such vulnerabilities."
"Courts have recognized that such consequences can justify a more lenient sentence, including a discharge."
"A conviction would lead to severe collateral consequences, such as jeopardizing his immigration status, delaying his citizenship, and preventing him from sponsoring his wife, which would likely result in their separation."
"These consequences would be disproportionate to the offence and would undermine his rehabilitative progress."
Communist pro-jihadism candidate for mayor Zohran Mamdani is responding to pressure about his support of "globalizing the intifada," meaning, bringing Muslims' endless wars on everyone to America (and everywhere else).
Here's his vow: He'll no longer say the words "globalize the intifada."
He also vows, however, to keep on supporting globalizing the intifada, just using slightly different words.
And he's only promising to stop using the words "globalize the intifada" through election season. After that, he's back to calling for the everlasting Islamic war on the world.
"It could have been a lot worse," said one attendee at a summit between Big Apple business leaders and Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. It could also have gone a lot better, it seems.
After an hour, though, the meeting did achieve one thing. Mamdani agreed to "discourage" the use of the phrase "globalize the intifada," at least through the election.
Trump couldn't get cuts for taxpayer spending on the genital mutilation of children included in the rescission package, but RFKJr. is pushing a rule that will end the use of Medicare and Medicaid funds for this barbarity.
From the National Review:
The Department of Health and Human Services will soon begin the rule-making process to prohibit the federal government from directly funding sex-trait modifications for minors through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), National Review has learned.The White House is in "the final stage of review for a new rule that would make it a condition of hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid that they not provide sex trait modifications to minors," according to an administration official. The prohibition will apply to hospitals that provide puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-transition surgeries to minors.
The groundbreaking decision by the White House to use the power of the executive to ban federally funded gender-transition services for minors follows an unsuccessful attempt by congressional Republicans to ban federal funding for such practices through the budget reconciliation process. The Senate parliamentarian ruled that the legislative language included in the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" did not clear the Byrd rule, prompting GOP lawmakers to spike the language from the final bill that passed earlier this month.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of Trump lawyer Emil Bove's appointment to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and also Jean Pirro for US Attorney for DC, as rabidly feminine Democrats walked out in fit of more girlish OnlyProgs attention-seeking.
Note these now to go to the full Senate for a vote. But a committee okay usually means the full Senate will vote in favor.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nominations of former Trump attorney Emil Bove to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and Jeanine Pirro to the U.S. attorney's office for Washington, D.C., as Democrats walked out.Bove, who is the U.S. principal associate deputy attorney general, was approved by the committee for the judgeship nomination amid 900 former and current Department of Justice lawyers urging lawmakers to reject the nomination, The Hill news outlet reported.
Among the concerns is a DOJ whistleblower allegation that Bove urged agency lawyers to defy a court order regarding the Trump administration's controversial decision in March to deport El Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The Fiercely Heterosexual Gay Man Cory "Thpartacush" Booker went full estogenic. (Or oestrogenic, for our British readers.)
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and the rest of his Democratic colleagues walked out after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley cut off requests for continued debate and didn't let all Democrats speak on the Bove nomination.
"You are a good man," Booker said to Grassley. "You are a decent man, why are you doing this? What is Donald Trump saying to you that are making you do something which is violating the decorum of this committee, the rules of this committee, the decency and the respect that we have each other to at least hear each other out?"
"This is unjust. This is wrong. It is the further deterioration of this committee's integrity with a person like this. What are you afraid of?"
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CBS Sissy "Reporter:" The Real Victims of the Butler Assassin Weren't Corey Campatore or Donald Trump, It Was the Media Because Trump Blamed Us
—Ace
The Democrats aren't going to win back male votes in the near future.
CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane told podcaster Chuck Todd on Wednesday about how traumatized he was by Trump rallygoers blaming the media for the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in 2024.Americans reeled in shock from the attempt on Trump's life during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, but MacFarlane said he had personal trauma from the crowd's immediate rage in response.
"For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America," MacFarlane told Todd on his podcast. "And it wasn't the shooting, Chuck. This was -- I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people."
"They were coming for us," he said in the clip flagged by The Daily Caller. "If [Trump] didn't jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us!"
CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane told podcaster Chuck Todd about his ongoing trauma from seeing the crowd's rage on the day of the Trump rally shooting. ("The Chuck ToddCast")
"I know," Todd agreed.
Later in the discussion, MacFarlane added that, "Many of us on press row, as we talked about this on our text chains for weeks after, were quite confident we'd be dead if he didn't get back up."
While it wasn't everyone in the crowd, MacFarlane claimed that dozens of people turned on them and said, "'You did this. This is your fault. You caused this. You killed him,' and they were going to beat us with their hands. I mean, they were going to kill us. And respectfully, the Secret Service had bigger issues [than] protecting us. When he jumped up triumphantly, it saved us."
Hmmm... I'm trying to figure out which outcome I'd've preferred.
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Trump and the GOP Look to Gain More Seats in the Midterms Through Redistricting
—Ace
They're doing this by "unpacking" red voters from red districts and moving some of the red voters into blue districts, in hopes that the new red voters can flip those districts.
There's always a danger to doing this: by making the red districts less red and more blue, you create the possibility that you'll lose red seats if there's a blue wave. When you spread out your voters into more districts, you have a better chance to gain more territory, but you also increase the risks that the enemy can seize your more-lightly defended bastions, too.
But the Democrats are so toxic and chaotic right now that it seems like a good time to make this bet.
The Democrats are crying, can you even get this, racism.
Texas Democrats in Congress sharply criticized President Donald Trump's plan to redraw their state's political map in the middle of the decade, labeling it a threat to democracy -- and warning their GOP counterparts that an aggressive gerrymander could come back to haunt them.The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature is poised to consider a new set of congressional maps during a special session that kicks off next week. With their party locked out of power in Austin, Democrats from the state's congressional delegation said they expect the new districts to continue Texas' history of violating the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the votes of racial minorities.
"The scheme of the Republicans has consistently been to make sure that they mute our voices so that they can go ahead and have an oversized say in this," Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, said at a news conference with House Democratic leadership and most Texas Democrats. "So I fully anticipate that's exactly where they're going with this map."
They're always boohoo whinin' and cryin', as Black Conservative Perspective accurately reports.
...Earlier Tuesday, Trump told Texas congressional Republicans that his political team is pursuing a map that would yield five new Republican seats, according to three people briefed on the call, which was first reported by Punchbowl News.
At the White House, Trump later told reporters that Republicans could get three to five more seats out of a new Texas map -- and that other states could follow.
"Texas would be the biggest one," he said. "Just a very simple redrawing, we pick up five seats."...
Democrats have very few tools at their disposal
Don't be modest, they have plenty of tools.
to stop or even mitigate the redistricting. Both chambers of the Legislature are under Republican control and overseen by leaders who are unlikely to stand in Trump's way.This leaves Democrats fearful they could lose their jobs without a clearly defined offensive playbook. Their limited options to hit back include convincing blue states to redistrict in favor of Democrats to offset GOP gains in Texas, a move they hope would dissuade Republicans from going ahead with the plan.
The Florida State Supreme Court just upheld Ron DeSantis's 2022 redistricting plan for that state, keeping the 20-8 GOP advantage. This doesn't add any potential pick-ups for the GOP, but it does end the Democrats' bid to undo the map.
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Outstanding: James Comey's Incompetent Daughter Maurene Fired from the DOJ
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Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired Wednesday from her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, a Justice Department official confirmed to Fox News.Comey was informed of her termination on Wednesday by the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, the official said.
She worked most recently on the prosecution of Sean "Diddy" Combs and previously prosecuted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
I wonder if they suspect her of leaking. See the sidebar for Mark Halperin's report that one of the "big three" newspapers (I assume this means the NYT, the WaPo, or WSJ) is about to drop a major article about Trump's relationship with Epstein.
I have no idea, of course. Just looking at two things happening at about the same time and wondering if they're connected.
The reason for her firing as senior trial counsel at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York was not immediately clear.The U.S. Attorney's Office did not immediately respond to a call from Fox News Digital.
Here's a reason: Her communist father launched a coup against the duly elected president of the United States and the treasonous apple doesn't fall far from the insurrectionist tree.
Polls Are Made for Strippers and Democrat Whores: Approval of Congressional Democrats Now at 19%
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Democrats are increasingly toxic to everyone, including their own pathetic insurrectionist voters.
How low can they go?The job approval rating for congressional Democrats has plunged to another all-time low, with fewer than 2 in 10 Americans happy with their work on Capitol Hill.
Only 19% of registered voters approve of the way Democrats in Congress are handling their job, a Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday found.
The dismal rating for congressional Dems is the lowest ever recorded by the pollster, which first began asking the question in 2009.
Even among Democratic voters, a majority (52%) disapprove of congressional Democrats, with only 39% satisfied.
"If the approval numbers for Republicans are bad ... then the approval numbers for Democrats can be characterized as flat out terrible," Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.
Overall, one-third of voters (33%) approve of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their job, while 62% disapprove.
Among Republican voters, 77% approve of the job GOP members have done in Congress, while only 20% disapprove.
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Confidence in Democratic congressional leadership plummeted to an all-time low of 25% in April, according to a Gallup poll.
Among younger Americans -- those under 30 -- just 23% approve of congressional Democrats, according to a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics survey from April.
According to Axios, braindead Democrat voters want are demanding that Democrat congressmen allow themselves to be shot to prove they're doing something.
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2026 Generic Congressional Ballot Poll🔴 Republicans: 48% (+1)
🔵 Democrats: 47%EchelonInsights (B+) | 7/10-14
Per CNN's polling: Democrats were at +7 on the congressional generic ballot in 2005 and 2017. The following years, they gained seats in the midterms.
But now they're only at +2 (per CNN's poll; RCP's average of all polls has it at 0.3%.
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Senate Passes Rescission Bill, But Only After Addind Spending Back In That May Make the House Balk
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The rescission bill slashes nearly $8 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds NPR and PBS. Senate Majority Leader John Thune credited Trump's Department of Government Efficiency for identifying "wasteful spending" and called the bill "a small but important step toward fiscal sanity." Just two Republicans--Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine--joined all Democrats in voting against the measure, which is slightly smaller than the House version after a carveout preserved funding for global HIV/AIDS programs.
These "conservative Republicans" sure like spending taxpayer money on pet projects.
Vance had to take a tiebreaking vote on a procedural hurdle when Mitch McConnell joined Collins and Murkowski to block the package. (McConnell voted to pass the final bill, however.) During the lengthy debate, Senate Republicans had to rewrite portions of the bill to curry votes from their own caucus, restoring some funding to PEPFAR (a good choice), shifting climate-change funds to Native American radio stations in the Dakotas (a better use, anyway), and some ag supports related to aid programs but more for the benefit of farmers (YMMV). Those and other marginal changes were enough to get the bill to the 51-48 finale.However, that means that the bill has to go back to the lower chamber now for passage on a short time schedule. The House barely passed its own version of this bill a month ago, 214/212. Four Republicans voted against the bill at that time, a margin that Mike Johnson can't afford this time around.
House members complained about the Senate changing the bill and adding spending back in. They said they had broken arms to get the thing passed by the slightest of margins, and that there was no guarantee at all that it would pass again when interfered with by big-spending liberal Senate Republicans.
The bill has to be passed by the House by midnight tonight according to the rules, or it fails. Then I guess we'd have to go through the whole process again.
