Daily Tech News 5 November 2025

—Pixy Misa

• DC-based tech startup Besxar has signed a deal with SpaceX for 12 launches of experimental chip fabrication hardware. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The idea being that on the ground, maintaining a hard vacuum is difficult and expensive but essential for chip production. In space, though, you can just open a window.
  
  The tricky part - and a key point in these experiments - is seeing if wafers can be launched into orbit and returned intact.
  
  
  
• You know what else has been launched into orbit? Memory prices. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's a good thing I bought my 128GB of DDR5 RAM when I did, because the price of those high-density high-speed modules has doubled.
  
  The price of low-density and low-speed modules has also doubled.
  
  The price of older DDR4 modules has - you guessed it - doubled.
  
  Or in some cases, more.
  
  Thanks, AI.

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - November 4, 2025 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

How are YOUR pumpkins holding up?

Tuesday night ONT time is here. Content? Yeah, there's content? Open thread? Yup - talk about whatever you want! Lurkers encouraged to de-lurk? Absolutely!

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Socialism for New York?

Socialist Zohran Mamdani is heavily favored to win New York City Mayoral election tomorrow.

“We have to be unapologetic about our socialism.” he says.

But he should apologize! Socialism ALWAYS fails.

Watch this to see what Mamdani would do to my city: pic.twitter.com/RDlIXuwZvf

— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) November 3, 2025

Meh. New York jumped the shark years ago, IMHO. FAFO, NY voters.

Here's Part 1 from Stossel. I had that on an ONT recently. I think.

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Weddings Are Expensive These Days!

Tech Entrepreneur Finances Wedding by Selling Advertisements on His Suit Jacket

A broke Frenchman was able to cover the cost of his wedding by selling advertisements on his tuxedo jacket to 26 startups and becoming a human billboard.

French salesman Dagobert Renouf had long been dreaming of marrying his then-fiancée, Anna Plynina, but he was too poor to afford a proper wedding. To put it plainly, he was completely broke and on the verge of homelessness. But that was no reason to deprive his beloved of the wedding she had been dreaming of. Back in July, he posted on X, announcing that he had decided to try and cover the expenses of his nuptials by becoming a human billboard. Any company willing to promote their products or services was willing to buy a slot on his suit jacket. His post went viral, and he ended up with 26 brand names on his jacket and a total of $10,000 in advertising fees.

Clever dude. Check out the whole thing.

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Alinsky Tactics

This guy is awesome

Confused liberal gets immigration lesson from transnative scholar 💪🏾🪶 pic.twitter.com/om9hi6KYpQ

— Josh Seiter (@josh_seiter) November 2, 2025

Another good one

This is a masterpiece.. 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/vm6MF8j2Yo

— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) November 2, 2025

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Illegal Border Crossing INTO Mexico?

Border Agents Seize Truck Carrying 163 Exotic Reptiles

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers made a major wildlife trafficking bust last week, seizing a truck carrying 163 animals, many of them exotic reptiles, at the Anzalduas International Bridge.

On October 22, CBP officers encountered a silver Toyota truck attempting to exit the U.S. into Mexico. A secondary inspection revealed dozens of reptiles, amphibians, and arachnids concealed within the vehicle. Officials say the animals were hidden in an apparent attempt to smuggle them across the border illegally.

Among the seized wildlife were 24 royal pythons, multiple species of milk snakes and king snakes, various lizards, tree frogs, tarantulas, and several rare python morphs. The driver was arrested, and both the vehicle and the animals were taken into custody. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now handling the investigation.

Not related, yet somehow related

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DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Edition
(from thisdayinmusic.com)

On this date in 1977: The Last Waltz, the movie of The Bands final concert premiered in New York. The Martin Scorsese movie also featured Joni Mitchell, Dr John, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton.

Born on this date in 1957: English rock guitarist, songwriter James Honeyman-Scott who was a founding member of the English-American rock band The Pretenders.

Born on this date in 1954: English singer, musician, songwriter Chris Difford, who was a founding member of Squeeze.

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Close it up

Election Day Cafe

—Ace

Riley Gaines, buried in doggos

I guess use this thread to talk about election results. Results, I fear, which are negative. I would stick around if I anticipated good news but I do not. Red Eagle Politics is covering it, if you want to watch someone as the results come in.

PJ Media is also covering the results, as DecisionDeskHQ (hey I remember those guys) tabulates the vote counts.

This kid did trick-or-treating like a boss.

Another pleasant ocean voyage.

More dogs racing to board the dog bus.

The Aurora Borealis Australius over Zongstan Station in Antarctica.

Adorable, but unsafe.

Sometimes you just want to kiss the piglet.

SR-71 "Blackbird" pilots had to wear spacesuits when flying the near-orbital plane.

Rescuing an orphaned lion cub.

Rescuing and raising an orphaned otter pup, who is then released into the nearby lake but who jumps into his rescuer's kayak every time he goes out on the lake. I believe this is an evil river otter, but, thanks to human influence, it has "transitioned" to be a sweet-natured sea otter.

Baby elephants are Stage IV Clingers.

Putting a bully in his place.

ICYMI: Turn of the century (the prior century) California, featuring roads trafficked by both street cars and horse-drawn carts.

Allegedly a real song from 1936, not one of those fake AI songs about sex.

Dog is very happy his friend is visiting.

Quick Hits

—Ace

Representative Brandon Gill has filed articles of impeachment against rogue communist "judge" Boasberg.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) will formally introduce articles of impeachment against radical left-wing U.S. District Judge James Boasberg for what he calls the judge's "corrupt and unethical" role in the so-called Arctic Frost investigation.

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The articles of impeachment accuses Boasberg of authorizing unconstitutional subpoenas and nondisclosure orders as part of the FBI's Arctic Frost probe, which, of course, was signed off by Special Counsel Jack Smith. These orders targeted Republican members of Congress--including Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Marsha Blackburn--while they were engaged in their official legislative duties, violating Article I protections.

Boasberg is also accused of allowing the DOJ to bar AT&T from informing Senator Cruz about a subpoena for his records for at least a year, citing baseless claims that Cruz might destroy evidence or intimidate witnesses. The resolution argues Boasberg's actions directly violated 2 U.S.C. sec. 6628, which protects Senate offices from such secret orders.

The resolution further alleges that Boasberg enabled politically motivated subpoenas against conservative organizations like the Conservative Partnership Institute and America First Policy Institute, as well as individuals such as Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Jenna Ellis--suggesting the court was weaponized to suppress political opponents.

The resolution concludes that Boasberg's conduct demonstrates a "pattern of impropriety" and a failure to uphold constitutional limits, making him unfit to serve and warranting removal from office. Amen!

Boasberg has faced mounting criticism for months over his blatantly partisan injunctions against the Trump administration--rulings that many legal experts say have no constitutional foundation. Previous attempts to rein in his judicial overreach and impeach Boasberg earlier this year fizzled out, but this latest effort has real momentum behind it.

Nothing will happen until Congress begins subpoenaing these courts to determine how the alleged "random assignment of judges" ALWAYS results in hard-left judges being assigned to the most politically-sensitive cases.

If they do so, they will find the courts and clerks are conspiring to very non-randomly assign the Democrats' most cherished lawsuits to their most reliable communist judges.

Feds prevented 6,525 suspected or known terrorists from entering the US this year.

In a few short months, the National Counterterrorism Center says it's helped prevent 6,525 known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) from entering the U.S.

This is after U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol officers apprehended a record more than 3,000 KSTs in the U.S. illegally in fiscal 2025, according to CBP data.

Until this year, the greatest number of KSTs CBP and Border Patrol agents were apprehended during the Biden administration: 1,903.

The majority, 64%, totaling 1,216, were apprehended at the northern border coming from Canada between fiscal years 2021-2024, according to CBP data, The Center Square first reported.

Huh, the Biden Administration barely stopped any terrorists from entering via the southern border. What a surprise. I am shock.

GOP Senators introduce legislation to codify Antifa as a terrorist organization.

The Stop ANTIFA Act has been introduced by U.S. Sens. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, which would direct the National Joint Terrorism Task Force to investigate Antifa.

The president's executive order designating Antifa a domestic terror organization came a week after The Center Square posed the question to Trump in the Oval Office, following a rise in left-wing violence, including the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.

The president's executive order describes the group as a "militarist, anarchist enterprise," which calls for the overthrow of the federal government, especially targeting law enforcement.

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Moody echoed the president's executive order, underscoring the group's continual targeting of law enforcement.

"Violent extremists who target our law enforcement officers and destroy our communities must be held accountable. It's far past time to designate Antifa a terrorist organization. The Stop ANTIFA Act makes it clear that organized violence has no place in America," Moody said in a news release.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

BREAKING: New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli says he will UNDO LGBTQ indoctrination in schools in favor of "reading, writing, math, civics, science"

"My opponent said not only will she keep [LGBTQ], she won't allow parents to opt out of that lesson! That's CRAZY."

"We're getting rid of other sensitive subject matter that I believe belongs at home at the kitchen table, which is parents of the kids."

Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_

Both Democrat candidates for governor in New Jersey and Virginia:
-- are women
-- have served their country
-- have daughters

Yet they consistently vote against measures that protect girl's & women's opportunities, privacy, and safety. Remarkable.

Commenters wondered about this:

Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke

The fact that highly incriminating documents, including Comey's handwritten notes showing he knew from the start that the Russia collusion story was a Clinton campaign hoax, were found in burn bags inside a locked, unused SCIF at FBI headquarters is deeply strange and has bothered me since it first came to light. There are a few possible explanations. One is that a quiet "whistleblower" deliberately preserved them, knowing they were too explosive to destroy. Another is a straightforward bureaucratic failure, where destruction was authorized but never actually carried out. Yet another possibility is that the "unused" SCIF was secretly serving as an off-the-books storage site to hide sensitive materials from oversight, allowing them to disappear without being formally destroyed, and that when the old guard left, the stash was simply forgotten. There may be other explanations too. My best guess is that this was a bureaucratic blunder of the same kind that once worked in their favor, like when they forgot to close the Gen. Flynn case, which allowed them to target Flynn in January 2017 without having to open a new one. This time, the mistake caught up with them.

Chip Roy @chiproytx

CAIR must be stripped of 501c3 status

Exclusive: Chip Roy introduces bill to strip 'absurd' tax-exempt status from CAIR, other groups with terrorist ties

As Roy says, I don't even know how they've kept their status as an American "charity" through all these years of funding terrorism.

'We should have ended this long ago.'

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is leading the charge to ensure Americans are no longer "inadvertently subsidizing" groups with terrorist links, Blaze News learned.

Roy introduced legislation Tuesday that would eliminate the tax-exempt status for extremist groups with close ties to terrorist organizations, according to bill text obtained exclusively by Blaze News. Roy is setting his sights on groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has been found to have ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and even Hamas.

'This must end.'

"It is absurd that the U.S. has provided organizations with ties to terrorism tax-exempt status in the U.S. -- resulting in the American people inadvertently subsidizing terror against themselves," Roy told Blaze News.

"It is ridiculous, and we should have ended this long ago," he continued.

Climate Change: CBS Fires Almost Its Entire "Climate Change" Unit

—Ace

LOLLLLLL

lolololol

This liberal is very Sad!

Americans who rely on broadcast networks for honest journalism suffered a painful loss this week, as CBS News -- fresh off its acquisition by Skydance Media and the installation of anti-woke opinion writer Bari Weiss as editor in chief -- fired most of the reporters who specialize in covering climate change.

CBS owner Paramount began laying off about 1,000 employees across the broader company Wednesday, delivering a big chunk of the cost savings that Skydance CEO David Ellison promised investors. The CBS climate team's decimation was confirmed to me by three people who requested anonymity. Not all of them work at Paramount.

Of the six-person team, four lost their jobs, effective Friday. A fifth person may yet be reassigned to non-climate stories, my sources believed. National environment correspondent David Schechter kept his job.

The layoffs are especially devastating because CBS was a climate leader among the national TV networks, becoming an early member of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now and producing vital work.

In June, for instance, CBS Evening News aired a segment on worsening heat-related health dangers for pregnant women.

Let me guess: Pregnant women people hardest hit?

AI Overview

Pregnancy heat risk days on the rise, new report finds ...

CBS reported in June 2025 that climate change is increasing the risks for pregnant women due to hotter temperatures, with a specific focus on a report that found climate change has nearly doubled the number of "pregnancy heat-risk days" in the U.S.. These risks include dehydration, heat stroke, and a higher chance of complications like preterm birth. The report highlighted that many states offer little to no guidance on heat safety for expectant mothers.

Key points from CBS reports

Increased heat-risk days: A Climate Central analysis discussed by CBS found that climate change has nearly doubled the number of days each year that pose a risk for pregnant women due to heat.

Specific risks: Extreme heat can increase the risk of dehydration, heat stroke, and heat exhaustion in pregnant women. It can also lead to more serious complications, such as preterm birth.

Why pregnant women are more vulnerable: Pregnancy puts added stress on the heart, increases blood volume, and makes women more prone to dehydration, which is exacerbated by high temperatures.

Lack of state guidance: A CBS News report noted that most states provide little to no specific heat safety guidance for pregnant women.

LOL. How did I guess that?

Just this month, the network partnered with KFF Health News to show how hospitals are facing increasingly severe flood risks.

Oh, they "partnered" with the left-wing organization Kaiser Family Foundation, which plants left-wing story in the "nonpartisan" media?

And was the story, by any chance -- Hospitals, sick people hardest hit?

Yup!

At least 170 U.S. hospitals face major flood risk. Experts say Trump is making it worse.

October 1, 2025 / 6:00 AM EDT / KFF Health News

Louisville, Tenn. -- When a big storm hits, Peninsula Hospital could be underwater.

At this decades-old psychiatric hospital on the edge of the Tennessee River, an intense storm could submerge the building in 11 feet of water, cutting off all roads around the facility, according to a sophisticated computer simulation of flood risk.

Aurora, a young woman who was committed to Peninsula as a teenager, said the hospital sits so close to the river that it felt like a moat keeping her and dozens of other patients inside. KFF Health News agreed not to publish her full name because she shared private medical history.

"My first feeling is doom," Aurora said as she watched the simulation of the river rising around the hospital. "These are probably some of the most vulnerable people."

Beautiful. Perfect.

No notes.

I guessed accurately again. I'm on fire!

Back to the sob story about the Climate Change Unit being fired.

The climate team also arranged training sessions for local CBS affiliates, hosting virtual seminars where CBS journalists across the country could learn to cover global warming. Mb>In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, the climate team worked with local CBS affiliates to produce a series of web stories and TV segments exploring why congressional Republicans had voted against clean energy investments, even as polling showed strong local support for climate action.

That kind of journalism matters -- in part because the people who watch broadcast news tend to be older and more likely to vote.

"CBS is one of the most important voices in the American media. If they're not going to be covering climate change, that's a problem," Hertsgaard said.

So the main point of the unit was... electioneering and propagandizing people to vote for Democrats?

Yes, I agree. Thank you for admitting it.

A Paramount spokesperson didn't respond to my request for comment about why the company gutted the network's climate team, and whether CBS will still prioritize climate coverage going forward.

Here is the Real Logo of the CBS Climate Change unit.

This is not a joke. I found this at "Heated," a left-wing climate catstrophism blog.

So this is "journalism," according to these unabashed political actors:

Women's Soccer League Player Says That the Women's Soccer League Should be Reserved for Women; Her PC Woke Beesh Teammates Attack Her
Plus: Actress Isn't Sure Her Deep Political Thoughs Sway Voters

—Ace

OK, so you don't want a league.

You can play with the men, in that case.

Just kidding, a local Dallas middle school boys' team -- 15 and under -- absolutely wrecked the women's national team in two straight games. You won't even be riding the bench, you'll be in the stands, watching, hoping that the cute boys notice you.

Keep the W in the National Women's Soccer League.

That was a simple ask from Angel City FC veteran Elizabeth Eddy in an op-ed for The Post last week.

The pro athlete argued, with both common sense and compassion, that her league needs to develop a standard -- as many other athletic governing bodies have -- to ensure the NWSL only fields biological women.

The issue of keeping female sports female has become an 80/20 issue in our country, so I don't think people understood just how ballsy it was for Eddy to enter the fray.

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And so Eddy's teammates quickly denounced her op-ed.

But did they debate her proposal by using reason and substance? Nah, they just accused Eddy of being transphobic and racist.

Angel City captains Sarah Gordon and Angelina Anderson both addressed the piece in a press conference -- and the team's X account shared the video from that, posting: "Our captains spoke with courage and clarity. No one in our community should be questioned, harassed or targeted because of their identity."

What identity has to do with keeping fairness in women's sports is beyond me. Are you a biological woman, or are you a biological man?

None of that mattered to Gordon, who said the team is "hurt."

"And they are harmed by the article. And also they are disgusted by some of the things that were said in the article ... We don't agree with the things written for a plethora of reasons," she said, adding that the "undertones come across as transphobic and racist."

As a person of mixed race, Gordon added, it particularly hurt her.

Um, why would being of a "mixed race" mean genetic testing for sex be particularly hurtful?

I think this idiot means that any genetic testing -- like, to determine your race -- is racist. But this isn't about testing for race.

Adam Carolla played a clip of these idiots talking. Amusingly -- before he viewed the clip -- Carolla predicted that she would say "speaking as a mixed race woman..." and then, boom, she did just that.

New Jersey Polling Places Evacuated Due to Bomb Threats; Communist Jihadist Zohran Mamdani Blames... Trump

—Ace

Republicans show up to vote on voting day. So left-wingers call in bomb threats, to stop us from voting.

The Blaze calls these hoax threats "swattings" -- and swattings have been a left-wing tactic for years.

Some polling locations were targeted by bomb threats on Election Day, but officials said that no voting was disrupted because of the incidents.

The New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said they were investigating an "elaborate swatting attempt" at some New York City polling locations.

County officials then said that the threats were all 'malicious, intimidation-driven acts intended to disrupt the democratic process.'

Police sources said that "terroristic" threats were sent via email about the polling locations at Washington Heights, the West Village, and Midtown.

At the same time, New Jersey police were responding to bomb threats in at least seven counties.

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way also serves as the state's highest election official and said there were "no credible threats" and encouraged voters to resist intimidation.

"We are doing everything in our power to protect voters and poll workers and coordinate closely with state, local and federal partners to ensure a smooth and safe election," she added. "We encourage every eligible voter to exercise their right to vote before 8:00 p.m. today."

Polling sites in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties all received the emailed bomb threat, according to N.J. Attorney General Matthew Platkin.

"Law enforcement officers have responded at each affected polling place, and they have worked swiftly to secure these polling locations and ensure the safety of every voter," Platkin added in a statement. "Some of these polling locations have already reopened to the public. At others, voters will be directed to a nearby polling location to cast their ballot."

Update: Trump fired back at the jihadist.

On Tuesday, as New Jerseyans went to cast their ballots, bomb threats forced voters out of multiple polling places. While the threats were found to be non-credible, they still caused a disruption to those looking to exercise their right to vote for the Garden State's next governor. When asked about the threats in his neighboring state, Mamdani made comments that raised eyebrows and rocked the West Wing.

Mamdani called the threats "incredibly concerning" and said that he believed they were "an illustration of the attacks we're seeing on our democracy."

"We have to understand this as part of the general approach the Trump administration has taken to trying to intimidate voters with baseless allegations of voter fraud as a means of trying to repress the voice of Americans across this country," Mamdani said.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Mamdani's remarks were "completely irresponsible" and not based in fact.

"I think they are completely irresponsible, and they are based on zero evidence. And I think this is just another example of how the Democrat Party unfortunately stands for nothing. All they stand against is President Donald Trump. And I think it's quite sad to see that we have someone at the top of the ticket on an Election Day today saying such things about the president, when he obviously had absolutely nothing to do with those threats," Leavitt said in response to a question from Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich.

Muslim Supporter of Zohran Mamdani: If Mamdani Wins, "They [Christians, Jews, Non-Muslims] Will Be At Our Feet"
Plus: Trump to Communist-Islamist New York City: Drop Dead

—Ace

Starmer Sycophant @sirwg202110

Muslim supporter of Zohran Mamdani at a New York voter mobilisation rally: "If 75% of Muslims vote, they'll be at our feet, asking what to do for us."

The power of the Muslim Vote. Going to be fun with the Mamdani and Sadiq Khan double act.

The people scrambling to board your ship don't necessarily want to join your crew.

Sometimes -- oftentimes -- they're just pirates who want to take it over and force you to be slaves manning the oars.

Sadiq Khan’s advice to Mamdani? A masterclass in ideological fraud. Khan didn’t “moderate”—he hid his radicalism behind PR stunts while letting London rot. Now he’s coaching Mamdani to sanitize his own extremism: BDS cheerleading, NYPD defunding, and rent freezes that’ll collapse…

— CityDeskNYC (@CityDeskNYC) November 3, 2025

Is it fair to brand Mamdani with the admissions of his supporters? Well, I know that when one single old-woman Republican posed a question to John McCain in 2008 stating that Obama was "a terrorist," every single conservative or Republican voter was demanded to denounce that statement and John McCain had to go on TV essentially campaigning for his opponent, vouching for Obama that he was not a terrorist, not a radical, and in fact, would be a pretty great president.

Mamdani is now airing ads in Arabic. The fact that he is even airing ads in Arabic is a sign of a failed city. Pray for New York. pic.twitter.com/warbosDSRT

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 2, 2025

pic.twitter.com/s9BIP4O2du

— 欧阳周周 (@oyzhouzhou) November 2, 2025

Trump says the obvious, though many will claim he's speaking more of the Devil's Lies:

"Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!" Trump posted on Truth Social.

And Trump is warning that NYC will not be getting the large amounts of subsidizing the new Communist-Islamist City will need to simply continue existing:

Trump says he will not give NYC federal funds if Mamdani wins while promising to give $20B to Argentina.

How is this America First?

This is election interference. Blue states should stop sending tax $$ to the federal government. pic.twitter.com/N6V4QZBybv

— Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00) October 14, 2025

I'll do that guy one better: Why don't blue states just make it official and secede?

We promise we won't fight too hard to keep you.

Close it up

James Comey Accuses Trump of Political Weaponization. Then the US Attorney Prosecuting His Case Presented His Emails, Showing His Intention to Please Hillary Clinton and Secure Her Election.

—Ace

And secure his own position in the would-be Hillary Clinton administration he wanted to play Internal Spymaster and Dissident-Hunter in.

Federal prosecutors revealed Monday they have unearthed a trove of personal emails showing then-FBI Director James Comey openly talked in the days before the 2016 election that he expected to be working soon for President-elect Hillary Clinton and was being kept apprised by a top FBI aide on efforts to anonymously provide information to the news media.

"Well done my friend. Who knew this would. E [sic] so uh fun," Comey wrote in an early November 2016 email after then-FBI special government employee Dan Richman briefed the FBI director on Richman's efforts to provide information and guidance to The New York Times on an article involving Clinton's email scandal.

The emails were referenced in a bombshell court filing by acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and her deputy, Tyler Lemmons in which the government rejected Comey's argument that he was being maliciously prosecuted for misleading Congress about actions he took as FBI director.

Halligan cited and attached to the filing numerous emails in which Comey was clearly aware that Richman was working to provide information anonymously to news outlets about the Clinton email case and that he expected those outreach efforts would end with Clinton defeating Donald Trump in the November 2016 election.

"Some day they will figure it out. And as [Individual 1 and Individual 2] point out, my decision will be one a president-elect Clinton will be very grateful for (although that wasn't why I did it)," Comey wrote Richman in one such email in late October 2016.

Halligan's filing said the emails showed Comey was aware of and encouraging Richman's contacts with the media, contrary to his claims to Congress.

"Consistent with the above-described correspondence, Richman corresponded extensively with members of the media regarding or on behalf of the defendant, including in an anonymous capacity," the DOJ court filing argued.

Comey has also lied and maintained that he never knew -- nay, never suspected! -- that the "intelligence" he based opening cases on Trump and his associates on was simply some oppo-research garbage paid for by Hillary Clinton. He has also denied knowing that Hillary Clinton cooked up the plan to claim that Trump was a "RUSSIAN AGENT."

Some handwritten notes may prove that Comey has repeatedly committed perjury in claiming that.

"The discovery of the handwritten notes is relevant considering the defendant's prior testimony on September 30, 2020. Of note, during that hearing, the defendant was questioned by Senator Graham of South Carolina and Senator Hawley of Missouri," the filing noted. "The questions focused on whether the defendant remembered 'being taught' of 'U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.'

"The defendant responded by stating that 'it doesn't ring any bells with me' and 'I don't know what that refers to' and 'I don't remember receiving anything that is described in that letter,'" the filing added. "Despite this testimony, the defendant's handwritten notes dated September 26, 2016, read: 'HRC plan to tie Trump.'"

As you may know, Comey hired his pal Daniel Richman and gave him a top secret security clearance for the express purpose of making it legal to leak top secret documents to Richman, with Richman then instructed to leak that information to friendly Regime Media.

"After the defendant sent the October 2016 letter the defendant emailed extensively with Daniel Richman," the DOJ said in its Monday court filing. "Much of the correspondence occurred via the defendant's use of a personal email account and Mr. Richman's use of an email account associated with Columbia University."

"Make sure you keep your eyes shut. The country can't seem to handle your finding stuff," Richman wrote to Comey on Oct. 29, 2016. Comey replied: "Thanks for the battling you have done against unreason. This is a strange time. B[u]t we press on."

More detail in the actual article, showing Comey plainly discussing the fact that Richman's role was to serve as a cut-out for illegal leaks from Comey to Regime Media allies, such as Michael Schmitt of the NYT.

Below, Comey openly discusses uses this cut-out scheme to violate the DOJ's strict rules about not releasing information about investigations close to an election day, if that information could influence the election.

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"Let's imagine the Times had a policy against writing new articles close to elections if the articles might influence the election. Consistent with that policy they would avoid writing this week if sources told them that the FBI was looking at Huma Abedin's emails. But let's imagine that they wrote a very high profile piece in July that sources lead them to now conclude was materially inaccurate. Would they correct it or stay silent because they have a policy to avoid action near elections? I suspect they would quickly conclude that either course is an 'action' and the choices are either reporting or concealing but there is no longer a 'neutral' option because of the reporting in July. I also suspect they would resolve very quickly to choose the action of disclosing because to remain silent is to actively mislead, which has a wide range of very bad consequences."

Comey added: "Why is this so hard for them to grasp? All the stuff about how we were allegedly careful not to take actions on cases involving other allegations about which we have never spoken is irrelevant. I love our practice of being inactive near elections. But inactivity was not an option here. The choices were act to reveal or act to conceal."

What he's talking about there is disclosures that additional classified emails had been found on Huma Abedin's computer, after Comey had already "exonerated" Clinton all wrongdoing. Comey really wants Regime Media to put out the word that those new, never-before-analyzed classified emails being shared among unauthroized persons on an unsecure toilet-stall server would not change his analysis and should not tarnish the sterling reputation for candor and transparency enjoyed by one Hillary Rodham Clinton.

So he justified releasing classified information close to an election by saying, If I don't reveal this information, people might think Hillary Clinton is crooked and did something wrong in sharing classified information with unauthorized persons on a toilet-stall server, so I'm going to leak information to my friend to in turn use to write an op-ed in the NYT assuring the public that it's all a-ok and approved by James Comey as No Big Deal.

And he's claiming this workaround doesn't violate the silence-before-elections rule, because without him speaking up -- through his puppet Richman -- people might get the idea that Hillary Clinton did something wrong.

More from JusttheNews. Prosecutors amply rebutted the claim that Everybody Does It and that Comey is only being "selectively prosecuted" because Trump is "vindictive."

"A large majority of the documents were on the floor in five burn bags. Room 9582 was then subject to an inventory for the documents that were located inside. Investigators located hundreds of pages relating to Crossfire Hurricane ... and the then-classified appendix to the 2016 Durham Special Counsel Report (now partially declassified)," the DOJ said. "Additionally, inside a locked safe within Room 9582, investigators located copies of handwritten notes of the defendant when he was the Director of the FBI."

The DOJ said that Comey's handwritten notes "were not known to any prior investigative teams."

The DOJ lawyers insisted in their Monday court filing that "there is a history of prosecuting high-level Executive Branch officials who have lied to Congress about their official actions" and that "it is hardly surprising that the Executive would prioritize the prosecution of high-level agency officials who have lied to Congressional investigators about their official actions."

"The societal interests in this prosecution are readily apparent and overwhelming," the DOJ added of its charges against Comey. "The defendant is a former FBI Director who lied to Congress about his conduct while at the helm of the Nation's primary federal law-enforcement agency. His prosecution implicates societal interests of the highest order."

Dick Cheney Dead at 84

—Ace

Google's left-wing Artificial Progressivism:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney Dies at 84 from Heart Complications Last updated

9 minutes ago

Dick Cheney, the influential vice president under George W. Bush and key architect of the post-9/11 war on terror, died on November 3, 2025, at his Virginia home due to complications from pneumonia and cardiac disease, surrounded by family including his wife Lynne and daughters Liz and Mary. His five-decade career featured roles as White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford, Wyoming congressman, defense secretary overseeing the 1991 Gulf War, and vice president pushing the 2003 Iraq invasion and Patriot Act expansions. Cheney's legacy includes praise for bolstering U.S. security amid criticism over the human toll of post-9/11 wars, estimated at over 940,000 direct deaths by Brown University's Costs of War project.

Although obituaries identify Cheney as a rock-ribbed Republican, of course he became a progressive Democrat in the last ten years of his life.

Cheney suffered from heart disease for decades and fell out of favor among many Republicans in the Trump era, even famously casting a vote in the 2024 election for Democrat Kamala Harris after a long feud with America's 47th president.

Ed Morrissey sums up Cheney's legacy.

Republicans also transformed, in part because of the failure of Cheney's efforts to change the world through democratic reforms imposed by American arms. Referred to as "neoconservative" both then and now, it required the same kind of global engagement and massive resource expenditures, only to not just fail but also backfire in key ways. Cheney certainly didn't intend the failures, and there were some significant successes too, such as the way in which our forward strategy against terrorists prevented more attacks on the American homeland, at least on the scale of 9/11. Cheney never tired of pointing that out, and with justification.

Still, the impossibility of that overall mission became clear, and with it the costs of failure. Put together with rising resentment over poorly managed "free trade" with China and other countries that got shrugged off as the costs for the net benefits of globalization, populists demanded a party that focused on the working class and their concerns, as well as a return to an America-centric policy set. That opened the door for Donald Trump, who flirted with a presidential run in 2011 only to commit four years later. He blew more than a dozen Republican politicians of the older order out of the water, because Trump spoke to voters who had found themselves marginalized when both parties embraced "globalization" over support for American workers.

Accurate. Cheney embraced an unapologetic, no-hedging, no reaching-across-the-aisle, no compromise "strong form" of neoconservatism, meaning there was no hiding its failure when it failed.

He could not blame-shift or claim that "Real Neoconservatism has never been tried" or that he only got to implement half of the neocon foreign policy, and we'd have to implement the full 100% to determine if it worked or not.

It was tried, we implemented 100% of it, and it failed so spectacularly that former neocons such as myself (and many of you) turned away forcefully, permanently, and in revulsion.

Which did have the salubrious effect of ushering in a new theory of government and foreign policy -- which largely was the refurbishing of an old theory -- personified in the unlikely avatar of a loudmouth real estate tycoon from Queens, NY.

At least in that respect, Cheney provided a service. Political questions are rarely tested in such laboratory-perfect sort of experiment, and Cheney finally put unapologetic neoconservatism to the acid test and delivered us all the results. They were not the results we wanted, but they were the results we needed.

Alas, many Americans died trying to vindicate the now-obviously-absurd political claim that we can or should attempt to politically and culturally transform backwards and barbaric societies, hundreds or even thousands of years away from reaching modernity organically, by sending in a several tens of thousands of American fighters to trade bullets and bodies with savages and terrorists for a decade.

We tried. It may be called a Nobel Failure, or just a failure. It was a costly failure in terms of money and precious Americans' lives (and limbs) lost. It failed, and now we know.

As I've never stopped regretting: We elected George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on the theory that the military exists for war-fighting and destroying the enemy, not to serve as armed Social Engineers and Progressive Reformers to advance primitive societies. We elected them to make sure that Bill Clinton's folly in Haiti -- which involved 25,000 "peace keepers" -- would never be repeated. The US military would henceforth be deployed only to destroy an enemy and secure an advantage for the US, not to "nation build" failed or backwards states barely removed from the Dark Ages.

Instead, we wound up being signed up for a decade-plus of nation-building on a scale that Bill Clinton would have blanched at.

Bill Clinton played around with using the US armed forces as an evangelizing force for progressivism. Dick Cheney took Bill Clinton's early experiments and made them into the central animating theory of US foreign policy.

Dick Cheney tested the limits of overwhelming American military might and to our great regret, he found those limits, at enormous loss of American life.

RIP to Dick Cheney and more importantly, RIP to neoconservatism, nation-building, and chasing our tails around the world in pursuit of absurd utopian goals like "bringing freedom to Islam" and bringing reform and democracy to those who "hate our values."

Tuesday Morning Rant (11/04/25) Bare Bones Edition

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

The ever elusive Charles Brown of Dildo fame is on assignment. So he claims.

I'll be honest with you Morons. The biggest Rant I have is with the USPS. And I really can't get into it anymore here on the World Wide Web without serious repercussions.

The Preamble of our US Constitution states:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

When the authors drafted this magnificent document they attempted to conceive of every possible dilemma which a representative republic could face. The creation of three branches of government was brilliant. Checks and balances with justice and domestic tranquility as the ultimate goal.

I've written it here and discussed it on a Cut Jib Newsletter pod cast. The US is too big to survive. And the following is just one reason of hundreds perhaps thousands.

Although I am not a gambling man. I would wager $100 that the authors would have never guessed that state governments would sue the federal government when federal dollars are involved for federal programs.

States sue USDA over efforts to gather food stamp data on tens of millions of people
UPDATED JULY 28, 20259:26 PM ET

A coalition of 21 states and Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture after the federal agency told states to turn over the detailed, personal information of food assistance applicants and their household members.

The USDA has told states they have until July 30 to turn over data about all applicants to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, over the last five years, including names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses. Last week, the agency broadened the scope of information it is collecting to include other data points, including immigration status and information about household members.

The Federal government should have every right to see who is receiving any type of aid. The Judicial Branch should have tossed the suit immediately with the fancy term for "Go pound sand".

If California wants to take over funding from Uncle Sam to pay for their pipe dreams, fine.

Food stamps SNAP was designed as a part of the safety net for needy Americans. It was not designed to be a magnet for illegal aliens who by definition are here illegally.

Federal funding for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also called food stamps, runs out on Saturday due to the government shutdown. The funding cut-off will hit illegal immigrants hard. The Center’s 2023 analysis of government survey data shows households headed by illegal immigrants make extensive use of the welfare system, particularly food assistance programs.

Among our prior findings:

Of households headed by illegal immigrants, CIS estimated that 59 percent use one or more welfare programs — cash, food assistance, Medicaid, or housing.
Illegal immigrant households have especially high use of food programs, with 48 percent enrolled in one or more of these programs — SNAP, WIC, or school lunch/breakfast.
In particular, our analysis found that 17 percent of illegal immigrant households used SNAP.

It's not a matter of If. But a matter of When.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Portrait of don Rodrigo Vázquez de Arce
Anonymous (Copy after: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos))

From The Prado:

Considered a copy of a portrait by El Greco, the more detailed technique deployed here lacks the loose boldness of his brushstroke but the composition and some of the elements within it remain close to his approach. El Greco would have known the sitter (1529-1600), a celebrated jurist and a member of the Councils of Castile and of Finance.

The Morning Report — 11/4/25

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. So, today is election day and while there are a few very high profile races, I assume that voting is taking place in every state and locality. So do get out there and cast your ballot. Hopefully wherever you are and whatever office is on the ballot, you have the choice to not only vote for the most pro-American conservative candidate that you can, but that said candidate actually has a shot at winning. The two biggest contests are in Virginia where Winsome Earle Sears can and will overcome whatever fraud the Democrats can throw out there in order to drag the horrid Abigail Spanberger over the finish line to give them another governorship which we and President Trump desperately need. Edited. JJS

The one race that has captured all the attention in the media and more crucially the public at large, is the race for NYC mayor. Zohran Mamdani, weaponized virus with half the DNA of Joseph Stalin and the other half of Osama Bin Laden has been in the lead for weeks and is likely to win. The disaster that will befall New York will not be contained to the five boroughs.

President Trump did something surprising in his last minute endorsement of independent candidate Andrew Cuomo.

President Donald Trump told New Yorkers on Monday to back Independent New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral race instead of Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said he would withhold federal funding from New York if Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani wins, calling the socialist state assemblyman a “total failure” who would lead the city into “complete and total economic and social disaster.”

. . . Polling suggests Sliwa’s performance could decide whether socialist Mamdani maintains his lead over Cuomo. Surveys showing weaker support for Sliwa consistently narrow the gap between Mamdani and Cuomo, hinting at a potential late shift in the race.

An Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey released Thursday shows Mamdani leading Cuomo by 25 points, 50% to 25%, with 21% backing Sliwa and 4% undecided. Support for Mamdani has climbed seven points since Sept. 10, when an earlier Emerson poll put him at 43%.

Trump told reporters on Oct. 22 that Sliwa “is not going to win,” adding that if Sliwa dropped out, “maybe Cuomo would have a little bit of a chance, but not much.”

Cuomo dismissed Sliwa’s chances of winning, saying that if “you vote for Curtis, save yourself the time, and vote for Mamdani.” He later told SiriusXM’s Stephen A. Smith that a Mamdani victory in the Nov. 4 general election would mark “the death of the Democratic Party.”

Sadly the President and Cuomo are correct in that Sliwa doesn't really have a snowball's chance in Hell of winning. While I am no huge fan of Curtis Sliwa, at least he's not a far Left or Islamic maniac and having ridden the NYC subways in the bad old days of the 70s and 80s I always breathed a sigh of relief to see Sliwa's Guardian Angels in their red berets riding in the car with me. And the President is of course correct that Mamdani will completely destroy whatever is still functioning and normal in NYC that Adams and the perpetually insane Communist city council have not destroyed by now.

As for Smith's prediction that the Democrat Party will die, that brings up the questions of what exactly is the Democrat Party and what does it represent. In reality not in mythology and shibboleths about freedom, liberty, civil rights, championing the underdog and all the other goody good tripe about Democracy.

The Democrat Party is the epicenter of Anti-Americanism and anti-western Judeo/Christianity. Despite what we have been hearing not only from our side of the divide but from their side, be it Smith or John Fetterman or even vermin like James Carville and others that the embrace, or the open espousal of views and policies that in the past they desperately did their best to cover up and distance themselves from, why is it that the younger generations are now embracing socialism more than ever.

If polling prior to and even after the assassination of Charlie Kirk is correct in that the aforementioned cohort of younger Americans are drifting away from the Democrats and heading back towards God and traditional America, then the vicissitudes of NYC politics notwithstanding, how is it that Mamdani and candidates like him, as well as Bernie Sanders et al and Socialism are growing in popularity?

With Zohran Mamdani’s ascension in New York City, Bernie Sanders nearly capturing the Democrat presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, and the rapidly expanding number of Marxist-indoctrinated candidates and elected officials, socialism—or its latest euphemism, “Democratic Socialism”—is now the dominant philosophical underpinning of the Democrat party. This is a philosophical capture that will not result in transforming the United States but in the fracturing and demise of America’s oldest political party. . . Most of the current iteration of socialists in the United States have never faced any significant national adversity, as the country has experienced unparalleled peace and prosperity for four generations. Far too many, because of a desire to be part of the in-crowd as well as outright ignorance, are captivated by the chimerical theories of socialism/Marxism and refuse to acknowledge the reality of its roster of failures.

Their efforts to transform the United States into a one-party socialist nation will never succeed thanks to America’s unprecedentedly successful two-hundred-fifty-year history as a capitalist-based constitutional republic. While they can foment temporary chaos and turmoil that will repulse most Americans, the only thing they will accomplish is the inevitable fracturing and destruction of the Democrat party they now control.

As I alluded to above, the Democrat party as an entity or brand or whatever might disappear, the will to absolute power that has driven it and its leadership and base will remain, as it always had since human beings first walked the earth. Evil never rests, and so there will be some other party with some other name that will seek to destroy us and seize control.

I'd like to think that the NYC mayoralty race is not a bellwether for the rest of the country insofar as the direction we are heading, but that it is merely indicative of the City's unfortunate historical Leftist/Democrat political bent, the miracle of the Giuliani years notwithstanding.

Mamdani is already threatening insurrection via nullification specifically in shielding the illegal alien population.

Ditto this scumbag Mamdani-wannabe in residence in Mogadishu on the Mississippi:

Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh discussed a plan during a podcast interview involving coordination between city leadership and community-based organizations to ensure elected officials and neighborhood groups are informed before potential immigration enforcement activity.

If either of them, or anyone and everyone from Pritzker to Newsom twitch so much as a muscle to interfere with ICE or the National Guard, President Trump must arrest them and charge them with federal crimes.

Elsewhere in the wider world, as our military is blasting drug-smuggling boats out of the water in the Pacific and in the Southern hemisphere near Venezuela, is this merely an action between that Communist access and us or are other nefarious actors in the mix. To ask is of course to answer.

The next time you hear someone expressing outrage over the attacks on Venezuelan boats that the Trump administration believes are being used by narco-traffickers, remind them of all the criminals — drug traffickers, money launderers, passport forgers — Venezuela has been protecting, and especially, they should be told that Venezuela is Hezbollah’s most valuable ally in all of South America. And that is why Trump’s promise to use, if he deems it necessary, the CIA to attack the narco-traffickers inside Venezuela should be encouraged. Let no part of Venezuela be safe for Hezbollah. Trump would garner much more support for his policy of attacking narco-traffickers, and of enlarging that sea campaign with attacks on Venezuelan soil, were he to spell out for the public the connection between that country, and many of its traffickers who are providing a financial lifeline to Hezbollah.

Of course Hezbollah is Iran and Iran is Hezbollah. Iran has long had a very close relationship with Venezuela going back at least as far as that idiotic Parrot who had Hugo Chavez stuck on its claw. Iran has been funneling spies and terrorists north through Venezuela and into the USA and Canada. There was also talk of Iran building some sort of rocket base in the north of Venezuela from which it could have launched missiles with enough range to hit the continental United States.

Venezuela and the still remaining communist nations in the region, Cuba numero uno among them, can and do pose national security threats to us and with a still existing Mullahocracy in Tehran hell bent on revenge for our taking out (we think) of their nuclear program and their preexisting Islamic hatred of America and what it represents, Venezuela et al should and must be kept in check.

Psaki-Psircling back to Mamzer-dani, As CBD, Robert Spencer and I discussed on the last podcast, the likely to be next mayor of NYC's Shi'ite Twelverism puts him in league with Iran and considering all of the above, that does not bode well for not jus the Big Apple but all of the USA.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• “The tyrants don’t concern me. What concerns me are those who are blindly obedient.” That line, simple and unadorned, captures the essence of the modern dilemma. Tyrants have always existed. Every century gives birth to its strongmen, its ideologues, its bureaucrats with the soul of a warden. What changes—what determines whether tyranny thrives or collapses—is how many ordinary people are willing to follow orders. The machinery of oppression is never built by monsters alone; it’s assembled by millions of tiny, harmless hands.
  The Obedience of the Damned

Daily Tech News 4 November 2025

—Pixy Misa

• None dare call it a bubble: The AI industry is running on FOMO. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  I'm not sure bankruptcy is something I'd fear missing out on though:

  Dedicated AI companies are burning through cash in the meantime: OpenAI reportedly hit $12 billion in annualized revenue this summer - while reportedly being on track to burn through $115 billion through 2029.

  The company has since pushed its expected cash burn up to $1 trillion dollars, albeit over a less well-defined timespan.

  Tension over this mismatch, Fath said, is ratcheting up. There's a "push and pull between those companies and investors," he added. "Investors are saying, 'Am I going to get a return on this spend?'" It's one of the increasingly clear indicators that some parts of the AI industry are a bubble - but it doesn't yet tell us what happens after it pops.

  You get wet.

  OpenAI's rumored IPO is a perfect example of the conundrum, Alter added. The company wants to secure about 26 gigawatts of computing capacity for data centers (which translates to about $1.5 trillion at current costs, per Alter) - meaning that even with the company's current revenue, an up to $100 billion investment from Nvidia, and other "circular deals," Alter says she still hasn't been able to understand how the company's clear funding gap gets solved.

  Correction: You take a bath.
  
  
  
• Coca Cola's new AI holiday ad is sloppy eyesore. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  The company declined to comment on how much it spent on the slop, but said that around 100 people worked on the project - a similar number to earlier non-AI-slop campaigns.
  
  
  
• Hands-off driving is coming and we are so not ready. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Who will be liable when you run over a hundred AI-animated bunnies on their way home from a Coca Cola commercial shoot?
  
  
  
• What has gotten into The Verge today? They're starting to sound like...
  
  They're starting to sound like me.

Overnight Open Thread (11/03/2025)

—CBD

Mount Washington is a cute little peak in comparison to the real mountains of the American West. But because of its peculiar location right smack in the middle of some very common storm tracks, it makes the weather on the mountain very, very strange. The surrounding lower mountains funnel those systems right into Mount Washington, so things like 100mph wind, and snow in August can happen. The earliest snowfall on record is on July 1st. And the latest snowfall on record is on June 30th.

See the pattern?

Couple that with the profoundly stupid population of the Northeast, and we get things like this! In their defense, it is entirely possible to enjoy a glorious warm fall day at the base of the mountain, while it is sleeting and blowing 50mph halfway up!

Of course, this has been known about Mount Washington since it was first climbed in 1642, so maybe it's just Darwin at work! Anybody who climbs any of these peaks without proper preparation is simply stupid. I climbed Mount Lafayette, about 30 miles away and 1,000 feet shorter, a long time ago, and a partly cloudy day at the base gave way to sleet, fog, 40mph winds, and lots of ice on the trail. On the other hand, steak and beer at The Outing Club lodge that night, so it all worked out!

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Go to your rooms...all of you. To say that I am bitterly disappointed in every one of you is an understatement. Not a single one of you made the connection between the top picture and the song behind it in the ONT from two weeks ago.

Do better.

Be better.

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Those stupid, virtue-signaling lawn signs that proclaim how absolutely wonderful the occupants are make me want to drive over their lawns and do 360s. There is so much hypocrisy built into them that I guess the appropriate response is to laugh and point, but I still bristle when I see them.

But... how about this one?

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• Hiraeth
  
• Apricity
  
• Gobemouche
  
• Brabble
  
• Perendinate

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Low Effort Cafe

—Ace

Massimo @Rainmaker1973

The Olive tree of Vouveson on the island of Crete, Greece, is one of the oldest olive trees in the world.

Scientists from the University of Crete have estimated it to be 4,000 years old, which means that, when it sprouted, the last mammoths were still walking on Earth, someone in China was discovering bronze casting and the seventh Egyptian dinasty was declining.

The Minoan civilization was thriving and its monumental architecture was adorning the island of Crete. The first stones of the Palace of Minos at Knossos which inspired the myth of the Minotaur were laid.

This tree saw the humans deeds for thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the artificial intelligence and, possibly the most amazing thing, it continues to produce olives at every season.

Cats don't care.

Wile E. Coyote chases the Roadrunner.

Penguin gives a gift to a caretaker.

Dog jumps for joy.

Slowly swaying boobies.

Kitten lowers her ears to enter stealth mode.

He misundestood his orders.

Kids don't believe us, but we used to walk around a store called "Blockbuster" looking for the new Eric Roberts erotic thriller.

Dogs wait for the adventure bus.

Sexy robot costume.

Real robots aren't ready for market yet.

If you cut through 20 pounds of hair you might find a dog inside.

Cat-o-lantern.

Saving a seal.

Quick Hits

—Ace

Apologies for the low-quality blogging today. I'm under the weather and just trying to finish up so I can go to bed early.

The BBC was caught stitching together Trump's statements before January 6th to falsely show him as encouraging an insurrection.

Whistleblower Alleges BBC Doctored Trump January 6 Speech in Panorama Episode

A former BBC adviser's internal report accuses the broadcaster of splicing unrelated segments from Donald Trump's January 6, 2021, Ellipse rally speech in its October 25, 2024, Panorama episode 'Trump: A Second Chance?' to misleadingly imply he incited the Capitol riot. The edit combined an early call to march peacefully with a later reference to fighting electoral challenges, paired with pre-speech footage of supporters. The claims, detailed in a 19-page memo sent to BBC executives, have triggered a White House inquiry and criticism from UK politicians including Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, who call for defunding the BBC.

The Telegraph:

The BBC "doctored" a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph. A Panorama programme, broadcast a week before the US election, "completely misled" viewers by showing the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to "fight like hell", when in fact he said he would walk with them "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard".

The "mangled" footage was highlighted in a 19-page dossier on BBC bias, which was compiled by a recent member of the corporation's standards committee and is now circulating in government departments.

The dossier said the programme made the US president "'say' things [he] never actually said" by splicing together footage from the start of his speech with something he said nearly an hour later.

It claimed senior executives and the BBC's chairman had ignored and dismissed a string of serious complaints raised by the corporation's own standards watchdog.
Donald Trump Jr, the president's eldest son, accused the BBC of dishonesty and "fake news".

He reposted The Telegraph's story on X, writing: "The FAKE NEWS 'reporters' in the UK are just as dishonest and full of s--- as the ones here in America!!!!"

The Telegraph will soon publish other excerpts of the memo, which accuse the BBC's Arabic service of bias over its coverage of the war in Gaza, and accuse the corporation of "effective censorship" of its coverage of the transgender debate.

The document raises serious questions about the culture at the BBC, how it affects impartiality and how managers including Tim Davie, the director-general, are accused of turning a blind eye to evidence of bias.

The spliced together version of Trump's comments aired by Panorama made it seem that he said: "We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore."

In reality, the first part of Trump's speech: "We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be with you," came 15 minutes into the speech. The second half of the sentence that was aired by Panorama, "and we fight. We fight like hell..." came 54 minutes later.

Fifteen minutes into the speech, Trump actually said: "We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.

That was not the end of Panorama's distortion of the day's events.

The Conservatives have demanded an immediate investigation into how the Panorama documentary was allowed to be broadcast.

Nigel Huddleston, the shadow culture secretary, said: "These are extremely concerning revelations that could seriously undermine the brand and reputation of the BBC.

"The BBC licence fee is justified on the basis of impartiality and trust.
"There can be no justification for this kind of deliberate manipulation and the spreading of misinformation. "This is not the first time that evidence of bias at the BBC has emerged, but it is one of the most stark and alarming examples to date.
"Licence-fee payers deserve an immediate explanation and apology from the BBC and a thorough investigation into this scandal must take place."

The most damaging disclosures involve a one-hour Panorama special called Trump: A Second Chance? that was broadcast in October last year.

As well as altering Mr Trump's words, the documentary also showed flag-waving men marching on the Capitol in Washington DC on Jan 6 2021 after the president spoke, which "created the impression Trump's supporters had taken up his 'call to arms'". In fact the footage, was shot before Mr Trump had even started speaking.

The report said Panorama's "distortion of the day's events" was so egregious that viewers would ask: "Why should the BBC be trusted, and where will this all end?"

Suspected "Michigan Men" Terrorists Took Target Practice In Preparation of Attack: FBI

—Ace

Commenters wondered -- rightly -- if this was a legit terror plan or just the FBI entrapping idiots into some hot talk.

We can't say which it is just yet. But the "Michigan Men" who spoke about shooting up synagogues over Halloween weekend did practice shooting.

Practicing shooting is no crime. But... the law of conspiracy requires an "overt act" taken in furtherance of the conspiracy to establish it's a legit plan and not just hot talk. This would satisfy that element. The overt act doesn't have to be a crime. Buying rubber gloves isn't a crime, but if you buy them after agreeing to participate in a break-in and robbery, then buying rubber gloves becomes an overt act in furtherance of the agreed-upon crime.

So no, there's nothing illegal about taking target practice.

But it is, legally, an overt act in furtherance of an alleged conspiracy to shoot up synagogues.

Suspects in foiled Halloween terror plot pictured practicing at Michigan gun range: FBI

FBI recovered stockpile of weapons from suspects who allegedly planned Detroit-area Halloween terror attack

FIRST ON FOX: Two Michigan men have been charged in a foiled ISIS-inspired terror attack that allegedly would have involved a massacre in a Detroit suburb on Halloween, according to an FBI affidavit.

Mohmed Ali, of Dearborn, Michigan, and Majed Mahmoud are accused of plotting to launch a terror-inspired mass shooting codenamed "pumpkin," according to court documents.

Classic Michigan Men names.

They've been charged with receiving, transferring and attempting to receive and transfer firearms knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that they would be used to commit terrorism.

Ali practiced shooting at a local gun range multiple times, including with Mahmoud, a juvenile suspect referred to as "Person 1" and under the alias "Athari" -- and once with an unnamed "Co-conspirator 4," according to the complaint.

The charges come after Amir Makled, a lawyer for Ali, who was arrested Friday, claimed to The Associated Press that there was no plot and that he did not expect charges to be filed. Makled did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital Monday.

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In one exchange, intercepted by law enforcement, according to an affidavit, the unnamed juvenile suspect allegedly insisted that the attack should take place on Halloween and not a later date.

"So ya, I talked to my brothers. We are going to do pumpkin," he allegedly told Ali. "I talked to...[Co-conspirator 4] and [Co-conspirator 5], they said it is getting bad. So we got to do pumpkin, ya."

Read the complaint:

Before they could act, however, authorities served federal search warrants on both men's homes and a storage unit in nearby Inkster, recovering three AR-15-style rifles, two shotguns, four pistols and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, along with other evidence including GoPro cameras, tactical vests and other gear.

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The complaint includes multiple unnamed co-conspirators who allegedly practiced shooting at ranges with Ali and Mahmoud. They also allegedly scouted potential attack locations in Ferndale, Michigan, a suburb north of Detroit known in part for its LGBT nightlife.

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Ali and Athari, the juvenile suspect's alias, were allegedly planning to do the "same thing as France," in an alleged reference to the Nov. 13, 2015 ISIS attack in France that left 137 dead and more than 400 injured after gunmen and suicide bombers launched a coordinated assault on multiple locations in the French capital.

Diversity, Which Is Our Strength, has been increasingly shooty and stabby since 10/7. Almost as if they're a would-be conquering army which has infiltrated the west under cover as "civilians."

CNN naturally claimed this was all just "Islamophobia."

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--CNN Deletes Piece on Dearborn ISIS Plot--

Earlier today, CNN cast doubt on the ISIS attack being planned by residents of Dearborn, Michigan, framing it as "Islamophobia."

Later, the DOJ released a 70-page criminal complaint revealing that Dearborn residents Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud possessed multiple assault rifles, over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and detailed plans to carry out an attack on behalf of ISIS.

Following that development, CNN stealth-edited its article, effectively deleting it by transforming it into a piece about the DOJ complaint -- not about "Islamophobia."

Democrat Post-Mortem: Working Class Voters Have Deserted the Party Because It Is "Weak," "Woke," and "Out of Touch"

—Ace

You don't say.

How many millions did you spend to uncover these secrets?

Working-class voters see Democrats as "woke, weak and out-of-touch" and six in 10 have a negative view of the party, concluded a frank internal assessment of the hole the party finds itself in.

The nine-month, 21-state research project is the latest in a wave of post-mortems and data dives aimed at solving the Democratic Party's electoral challenges after their sweeping losses in 2024. It was funded by Democracy Matters, a nonprofit aligned with flagship Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, and backed by months of polling, dozens of focus groups and message testing.

American Bridge's project focused exclusively on working-class voters, shedding light on a once-core constituency for Democrats that's drifted away from the party over the last decade. And the initial feedback is grim: Working-class voters don't see Democrats as strong or patriotic, while Republicans represent safety and strength for them. These voters "can't name what Democrats stand for, other than being against [Donald] Trump," according to the report.

The Democratic brand "is suffering," as working-class voters see the party as "too focused on social issues and not nearly focused enough on the economic issues that impact every one, every day," the report said.

"We lost people we used to get [in 2024], so why did we lose them? Why don't we go ask them," said Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of Democracy Matters and senior adviser to then-President Joe Biden. "They said what they thought about us and it was painful to hear ... They feel forgotten, left out, and that their issues are not prioritized by the Democratic Party or the Republican Party."

He added, "They want somebody focused first, second and third, on their economic stress."

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Democrats' must focus on affordability, the report emphasized, though its messaging suggestions clash with the strategy of progressives, differing on who to blame for economic strain. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) drew enormous crowds when they barnstormed the country this spring on their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, attacking billionaires and "the 1 percent."

But in the report, their surveys found "a candidate focused on taking on big corporations and the wealthy" received 43 percent, while a "candidate focused on fixing the economy so those who work hard can get ahead" earned 52 percent.

"Not one person in all of our focus groups mentioned the word 'oligarchy,'" Landrieu said.

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The report identified two areas of particular weakness for Democrats: transgender rights and immigration. Both topics dominated Republican messaging in 2024, particularly Trump's ad that included the tagline, "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you."

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But it also found one-third of independents would be "much more likely" to support Democrats if they said "transgender women should not play in women's sports," the second highest testing message in swaying these voters.

Democrats have split on how to talk about transgender issues. Some, like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, broke with his party to criticize allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports, calling it "an issue of fairness" on his podcast last March. In contrast, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blasted "do-nothing" Democrats in a speech last spring for "blam[ing] our losses on our defense of Black people, of trans kids, of immigrants -- instead of their own lack of guts and gumption."

Speaking of transgender issues: A woman objected to a man walking around with his dick out in the women's locker room, while she herself was naked.

Instead of ejecting the man, Gold's Gym chose to eject her.

The cops did escort the free-balling pervert out of the gym, though.

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NEW: Woman says her Gold's Gym membership was terminated after a man followed her into the women's locker room.

Tish Hyman (@listen2tish) says she was escorted out of the gym by police after she demanded that men not be allowed in the women's locker room.

"Today he saw me walk into the women's room followed me in and called me a bitch. I ran out into the locker room crying and screaming," Hyman said.

"This is why we can't be quiet because people need to know what's happening. Thank you to the men who helped me today."

"Gold's Gym terminated my membership after the MAN was escorted out by police. Then had me escorted out by officers afterwards."

"It was EMBARRASSING! I left but not before making sure everyone KNEW that they were allowing MEN in the locker room !!!!!"

The incident appears to have occurred at Gold's Gym Beverly Center in Los Angeles.

According to Fox 11, the gym was recently acquired by EoS Fitness.