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September 13, 2026

Sunday Morning Book Thread 9-13-2026 [Sabrina Chase]

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Writer getting ideas, 1947, colorized

Welcome to the Book Thread, Guest Poster edition! I will be your host as we explore all sorts of book-related topics. All usual Book Thread rules are incorporated by reference (pets, beverage, clothing covering the lower limbs, etc.) with the special Sabrina Chase exemption for those stylish persons preferring kilts.

As I may have mentioned previously, I am a writer. I thought the esteemed Morons of the Book Thread might be interested in some of the inner workings of the authorial process, so now it is time for some Dark Writer Secrets, or ...

How Writers Get Their Ideas

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Daily Tech News 13 September 2026

Top Story

  • LG televisions are spyware, part one:



    Unlikely it's limited to LG, but they boast of it even as they deny it.


  • LG televisions are definitely not spyware, says LG, as it reportedly force-pushes a firmware update to hide the spyware:


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September 12, 2026

Saturday Night Club ONT - September 12, 2026 [Disco & Dino]

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Welcome to Club ONT - a whelming collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.

Open thread - bar is open, too. Come in in, grab a drink or 2. Or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Is that a moose out front or are you just happy to see us?


[Mystery Click - please let us know (and drop some SHORTENED links) for your favorites or honorable mentions that weren't included!]

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Pre-Club Open Thread

Whelm yourselves in preparation for the Club which opens at 10pm Eastern Time

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Hobby Thread - September 12, 2026 [TRex]

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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling lucky and decided on a farm tractor theme for this Hobby Thread.

A farm tractor theme? Yep. Let's get tractoring!

[Top photo: John Deere Model 80, Canfield Ohio Fair]

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 12

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Courtesy Donald Sensing


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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Special Garden and Orchard Thread - Apples!

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Special edition today - APPLES! From LEX

Adventures with Apple Trees

I have always disfavored the saying “it’s about the journey, not the destination.” I find (usually) writers and artists employ this platitude to excuse a story or piece of work that is not too well thought out.
Our stories need catharsis (so said Aristotle), and if your conclusion is weak, it’s tempting to deflect by offering… “don’t you see, it’s about the journey?”

But certainly there are other aspects of life where the journey is –if not the point— as acceptable as the destination. Do I need to reach the summit of a mountain to enjoy a hike?

Might it be the same with gardening? Do we need the fruit or the flower to experience a sense of satisfaction? Perhaps the process can bring as much joy as the terminus.

I’m not trying to run interference for failure. In fact, last year, I posted on AoS about my ongoing battle with birds, which had, for years, poached my annual blueberry crop. That essay was titled “The Great Blueberry Bush Battle.”

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A War for Civilization

Well, it's been quite a week for civilization in the USA. Try scrolling through the posts from the archives here from the past week for a sampling of craziness. Mark Steyn has noticed something, too:

This is my ancient column from that day, composed in the hours that followed, when very little was known. There are passages I would write differently today, and some I would not write at all, but I thought we would re-publish it as is, with the original (Spectator) illustration and headline. It was and is "a war for civilisation", but in ways I did not fully grasp until six months later, standing across the street from a Viennese maternity shop.

So here we are, a generation later, when no jihadist needs to fly planes into western skyscrapers - because, in New York as in London as in other western capitals, we have handed Islam the keys to those skyscrapers. In the excerpts from the flight manifests that appeared over the next few days, I was struck by the name of Christine Hanson of Groton, Massachusetts, a two-year-old girl sitting between her parents on a doomed flight. She was last heard crying in the background during her father's telephone call to her grandparents to report that the stewardess had been stabbed. Christine would be approaching thirty now - and I cannot but feel that the intervening years have dishonoured her memory:

Interesting to read what Steyn wrote 25 years ago. What has changed since then?

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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[I rate the preceding 100% accurate.]



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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Sauk City)
1) This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Never hurts to pray either.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Unless you're feeling lucky......
3) No. Running with sharp objects is not allowed.
4) Besides not being able to run with sharp objects have a Great Weekend!

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Daily Tech News 12 September 2026

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September 11, 2026

9/11 ONT

Never forget

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Omnibus Cafe

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A horse-drawn bus from the 1890s

BuffaloRon
@BuffaloRon

Jul 14, 2025

There is no way a horse drew this.

its a photograph.

When I read Sherlock Holmes or history books (usually Jack the Ripper books), they refer to this kind of bus, usually calling it an "omnibus." "Omnibus" meaning in Latin, the internet tells me, "for all," in other words public, not private. The word "bus" is just a clipped version of that.

The term originated in Paris, where it began as "voiture omnibus," or "carriage for all" or "public carriage." They lopped off the "voiture." In London, the term was quickly shorted to the modern word "bus," by the 1830s.

But I swear I see "omnibus" when I read a history or period book in the 1890s.

I couldn't visualize what this "omnibus" looked like. I couldn't figure out if it was short-ish like a Wild West coach or long-ish like a modern bus. So, of course, it's short-ish like a Wild West coach. Duh.

Here's one from 1895, packed top to bottom with advertising.

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More details here, including "buses" packed with people and absolutely jammed with luggage.

German shepherd protects his cat buddy.

Cat sneak-attacks the German shepherd.

Dog is perfectly hidden.

Saving a cat who got stuck in the middle of a highway.

Giant ears like a fuzzy bat.

Kitten practices his pouncing.

If you ever feel like you're being watched, it's probably goats.
People keep brining their dogs to weddings for some reason.

Puppy's first howl.

Pupper's keeping his head on a swivel.

Happy puppy puts on a show for air travelers stuck in delays.

Kind of like "Raygun" the retarded Australian breakdancer except actually awesome.

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Of Course: Garbage Tier Network NBC Is Now Doxxing the Lone "Rogue" Holdout in the Lindsay Clancy Case

The media exists solely for purposes of blackmail and incitement to murder.

Sue O'Connell: COMMENTATOR, not a reporter
@SueOC_NBCBoston

EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston

Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.

Fusilli Spock
@awstar11

It's just a matter of time before this guy is doxed and assaulted, if not murdered. Meanwhile Massachusetts has done nothing to stem the leaks or punish the leakers.

How much do you want to bet the Angry Alpha Karens doxxed his name to NBC?

It could also be the disgusting defense lawyer, who has filed a motion asking the judge to set aside the jury's non-verdict and declare Lindsay Clancy innocent on his own authority. The leak may be part of a public pressure campaign.


AG
@AGHamilton29

I was talking to someone who doesn't follow the news much and she had a convo where 3 mid 30's regular women were telling her about the case and they were all completely convinced that the husband killed the kids despite there being no evidence of that and even Lindsay Clancy's reps aren't claiming that.

It's a serious problem that so much of society now views news as a form of entertainment to the point where reality and facts become optional. They just go with the story they think sounds better to them.

It's why people, for example, listen to Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and others who are consistently saying things that are provably false and insane. Conspiracies are now the norm and regularly people are consistently buying into them without evidence. It's a serious threat to a functioning society.


Plus: an actual Lindsay Clancy Super-Fan has done what the TikTok brained AWFULs told her was every woman's right to do, and hanged her 11th trimester fetus -- also known as a 2-year-old toddler -- and then declared she was temporarily psychotic and would like her book deal and Oprah appearance now.

She's claiming she suffers from "grief psychosis" so I assume a jury made up mostly of Angry Karen Nurses and Teachers with TikTok Brain will acquit her too.


An Illinois mother allegedly hanged her 2-year-old son that she described as the "anti-Christ" -- hours after discussing the Lindsay Clancy case with friends, authorities said.

Corie Walsh, 38, is facing first-degree murder charges after one of her neighbors found Walsh's son, Barrett, hanging from the rafters in the family's basement, FOX 32 reported.

Walsh allegedly told investigators she killed her young son because he's the "anti-Christ" and "devil," according to prosecutors.

Little Barrett was found with his feet off the ground, and a ligature around his neck.

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Walsh was reportedly found lying in a bathtub, fully clothed and drenched in bloody water.

She was hospitalized after police determined she had attempted to self-harm, according to a court proffer viewed by FOX 32. Her injuries were not considered life-threatening.

Three other children were found unharmed inside the home.

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Prosecutors say that Walsh was infatuated with the Clancy trial, having texted friends about the case at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, just three hours before Barrett was found dead.

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At the the time of Barrett's tragic death, the jury was still deliberating Clancy's case, a parallel prosecutors have noted to FOX 32.

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Walsh's husband was out of town at the time of the alleged murder and flew home Tuesday evening.

Killing the kid, attempting a kinda-fake "self-harm," doing it when the husband is away -- she's following the Lindsay Clancy playbook.

And now her lawyer announces she was just "psychotic" so she gets to kill one kid for free. After all, Lindsay Clancy got to kill three. Fair is fair.

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The Week In Woke

Nike has been kicked out of the S&P 100 -- which is supposed to be an index of market leaders -- after its share price fell 79% due to incompetence and the handmaiden of incompetence, woke marketing.

Nike stock has fallen roughly 78% from its 2021 peak, traded this summer around levels investors had not seen in more than a decade, and is now about to suffer another symbolic blow.

S&P Dow Jones Indices will remove Nike from the S&P 100, an index intended to represent some of America's largest and most established blue-chip companies. It will remain in the S&P 500, so I would not overstate the mechanical significance of the change, but after everything that has happened to Nike over the last several years, the timing is difficult to ignore.

As a wise man said in the future of 1997, "Killian, here is Subzero, now, plain zero!"

Someone finally did a paper about the costs of DEI policies -- specifically, about the reduction in performance when you stop prioritizing performance and instead prioritize "diversity."

It does have a major cost.

The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program


The analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities.

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By Eric Kaufmann, Leif Rasmussen, and Jonah Davids
September 1, 2026

Is diversity truly our strength? Does equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) improve excellence?

Since 2017, the prestigious Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which sets the agenda for Canadian academic research, has moved dramatically in the direction of implementing EDI ideology and quotas.

Regrettably, prioritizing EDI results in an "equity-excellence trade-off": Canadian taxpayers are funding cultural socialist activism among elite professionals at the expense of the disinterested pursuit of truth.

And, Canadian research is paying a high cost for its unfettered embrace of EDI, both through the non-meritorious appointment of less qualified Black, Indigenous, and female chairs, and by diverting millions of dollars to left-wing scholar-activist research.

According to our analysis -- the first of its kind -- EDI ideology is costing approximately $36 million per year, equivalent to a 12 per cent "tax" on the CRC's $300 million annual budget.

While previous studies have examined demographic differences and the effects of EDI on organizational and team performance, none has examined its organizational-level consequences in academic research. This study fills that gap by testing EDI's impact on research output in the CRC holders program from 2016 to 2025. It turns out, diversity is not merely neutral -- it can actually lower performance.

To determine the scope of the EDI problem, we measured all award holders listed on the CRC site using the industry standard publication metric, the h-index, which combines both the number of articles a scholar has written or co-written with the number of times those articles have been cited by other researchers.

Our analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities. Specifically, we find that:

* The average h-index of publication impact for Black or Indigenous chairs is 18, for female chairs is 28, and for White or Asian males is 38.

* The proportion of chairs who are White males declined from approximately 80 per cent in 2000 to around 25 per cent in 2025.

* EDI hiring resulted in lost productivity equivalent to 10 to 15 per cent per "equity-deserving" (female, Black, Indigenous) Canada Research Chair between 2016 to 2025.
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EDI in American federal grants peaked in 2021 and collapsed after 2024, but kept on rising in Canada, reaching record-setting levels by 2025.


Collin Cleary
@collin_cleary

I spent 30 years in academia. Here are my observations about my students. Toward the end, I was teaching "Gen Z." These students combined ignorance with strident moral certainty. They seemed to have had no general education at all, and lacked the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history. They were immature and emotionally fragile.

Many could not handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated. It took very little to reduce them to tears -- or to send them into a fit of narcissistic rage. They were shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity, and many gave the impression of having no internal life at all.

I'll share more observations later.

More observations about my students: Many could not follow a simple chain of reasoning. Often it seemed like my class was the first occasion they had ever been challenged to think. It was common for them to visit me in my office hours and to ask me to tell them exactly what I wanted them to say on tests or in papers. When I said that I wanted to see evidence that they had done their own thinking, they would look panic stricken.

Some more observations about my students: It was extremely difficult to get a class discussion going, because they were often unwilling to make judgments of any kind. Partly, this was because they had an intense fear of offending anyone. In addition, most believed that everything is "relative" and that therefore it's wrong to judge (completely blanking out the fact that this itself is a judgment).

Trump Administration launches probe of California and New York Schools for allowing minorities to repeatedly bully and hit Jewish students without consequence.


The Trump administration on Thursday launched two separate federal civil rights investigations into antisemitic persecution of Jewish students inside California's Etiwanda School District and the American Musical Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York, according to the advocacy groups that prompted the action.

The probe of Etiwanda schools--a 14,000-student district in California's Inland Empire--stems from a March 6 complaint to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, alleging that a 12-year-old girl "was subjected to repeated anti-Semitic bullying, harassment, and discrimination that continued to escalate due to inaction from the school." At New York's AMDA, one of the top schools for developing Broadway stars, a Jewish student allegedly "faced retaliation after she reported anti-Semitic harassment shortly after beginning studies at the performing arts college."

Both complaints--filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Anti-Defamation League--were deemed credible enough by federal officials to initiate a probe, which will determine whether the schools violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by permitting discrimination against Jews. They are the latest federal actions aimed at stemming Jew hatred in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror spree, which fueled a massive rise in antisemitism across American college campuses and even primary schools.

The Etiwanda school district, which is 16 percent white, is in a county where the Jewish population is estimated to be at less than 1 percent. At the Etiwanda Intermediate School, which teaches sixth through eighth grade students, a Jewish girl was struck repeatedly with a stick and told to "Shut [her] stupid Jewish ass up" when yelling for help, according to the complaint. "She was then pinned against a table and choked for several seconds, until she escaped." The student also faced harassment inside the classroom, including in one case where the student was publicly "humiliated" and told, "This wouldn't be an issue if you weren't Jewish."

The Brandeis Center, ADL, and pro-Israel organization StandWithUs subsequently notified the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights of more disturbing behavior in the school district that allegedly included "students giving Nazi salutes in the hallways, the drawing of swastikas, praise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, Holocaust taunts and anti-Jewish slurs." The original complaint documents instances in which "a student allegedly said, 'I love making Jews uncomfortable, especially with Hitler jokes'" and another where a student was called a "stupid Jew."

"The continuing harassment is significant because the Brandeis Center, ADL and StandWithUs allege that the district's inadequate response to the original incidents left the hostile environment in place, allowing anti-Semitic conduct targeting the same victim to continue incident after incident," the organization said in a press release.


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AMDA reportedly investigated the incident and found that "several students had intentionally targeted the Jewish student." However, the performing arts school ultimately imposed a "mutual no-contact directive" on both the Jewish student and her abusers, a decision that the complaint alleges penalized the Jewish student for reporting to law enforcement what would likely constitute a hate crime.

"Rather than protecting the student from retaliation after she reported the anti-Semitic harassment, the complaint alleges that AMDA allowed the retaliation to continue and failed to punish the students for violating the directive," the organizations said.

Female resident of Zohran Mamdani's NYC complains that homeless men are allowed to just whip out their dicks and p*** anywhere they want, resulting in a filthy city that reeks of bum-urine.

Also in NYC: A Gentle Giant "Teen" whips out a knife and chases a soccer player around. The soccer player must be thanking God for his superior speed and endurance, or he'd be dead now.

No arrests for this in Zohran Mamdani's NYC. Arresting Gentle Giant "Teens" would be racist.

Young woman beats up a Soyboy Beta Cuck until she hits the Soyboy in his Okay Now I'm Pissed Off Button, and she gets a quick lesson in why men shouldn't be allowed to compete with women in sports. I wish he knew how to actually throw a punch because I fear this "lesson" was too lightly applied to stick.

This video screams "AI" but it features a Big Titty Goth Chick so I'll chance it.

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Twenty Five Years After 9/11, Most Have Forgotten -- and the Children Who Were Born After the Terrorist Attack are Being Taught That Muslims Were the Victims and Americans the Racist Aggressors

How on earth was this allowed to happen?

Hijacking history: Woke teachers offer twisted 9/11 lessons focused on 'Islamophobia' -- not 2,977 innocents killed


Only two US states legally require that 9/11 be taught in public schools -- and the void is being filled with twisted lefty lessons blaming America, downplaying Islamic terrorism and portraying Islamophobia as the real tragedy.

The hijacked history of America's darkest day has created a lost generation. According to one shocking new study, two-thirds of American Middle East studies professors say college kids cannot identify who attacked the US on Sept. 11, 200,1 or why.

New York requires schools to observe a moment of silence on Sept. 11 and the state Board of Regents includes teaching about the attacks in social studies standards, but the state has no standard curriculum covering the attacks.

Only Arizona and Florida mandate that the 9/11 attacks be taught in schools. Ten states have statutes that encourage teaching about the attacks -- which could mean anything from a moment of silence, classwork, or a school assembly, according to an August University of Wisconsin Study.

"We made a promise to 'Never Forget', but today, only a handful of states require 9/11 to be taught in their schools," Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R- Long Island), who is pushing legislation to mandate 9/11 curriculum be taught in all 50 states, told The Post.

In the absence of mandatory standards, leftist activists -- some backed by billionaire George Soros -- are producing lesson plans filled with woke distortions of the attacks, even in New York City schools, according to an analysis from the North America Values Institute, an education watchdog.

"Teaching Beyond September 11th" -- a radical retelling of 9/11 that devotes a single paragraph to the horrific attacks and fails to refer to the murderous Islamic extremists as terrorists -- focuses lessons on "Right-Wing Extremism" and "Islamophobia and the Oval Office."

The curriculum was developed by the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, and includes this passage: "On the 11th of September 2001, 19 hijackers flew two airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one airplane into the Pentagon in Virginia, and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. A total of 2,996 people were killed, including the hijackers."

Never forget, the hijackers were the First Victims on 9/11.


Education departments in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Oregon all recommend "Teaching Beyond September 11th" in public schools.

The lesson does not provide the radical Jihadist motivations of the terrorists, and appears to equivocate on whether al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks.


"The US accused Saudi national Osama bin Laden, living in Afghanistan at the time, of being the mastermind behind the attacks
," the lesson states, without mentioning bin Laden's multiple confessions or his broader campaign of terrorism and declaration of Jihad against the US -- which he labeled the "worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind."

Other topics in "Teaching Beyond September 11th" include "Surveillance of Muslims," "The Muslim and African Ban," and "Muslim Youth and Resistance."

The Real Victims.

Oh, and I enjoy Muslim Youth and Resistance -- in other words, justifying Muslim violence on college campuses as heroic "resistance" against Jews trying to get to class without being spat on or punched.



A lesson on the 2005 riots over a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad -- which caused the deaths of 250 people globally -- asks students to discuss how the media "presented certain values as more important than the fact that the cartoons were offensive and racist."

Zineb Riboua, a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute, told The Post that the attempts to rewrite 9/11 history was part of a broader leftist project.

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The NEA, the national teachers labor union, provides resources for teaching 9/11 that quotes radical anti-Israel professor Edward Said calling the US "cruel and inhumane" and blaming the 9/11 attacks on America's support for the Jewish state.

The Voices Ethnic Studies curriculum used in Pittsburgh public schools teaches that the attacks led to "increased experiences with racism and Islamophobia," with no mention of how many people were killed or by whom.

A California ethnic studies curriculum reportedly stated that "9/11 served as a catalyst to bring about more blatant discrimination" and referred to America as a "colonizer."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations pushes 9/11 curriculum that accuses the US of "state-sanctioned Islamophobia" after the 9/11 attacks.

The woke propaganda appears to be having its desired affect, according to a damning new poll.

An overwhelming majority (66%) of American Middle East Studies professors believe that college students cannot correctly identify who the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks were or what its causes were, according to a poll released by the academic research nonprofit the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa.

The poll also finds that the historical hijacking is not limited to America's public schools. Two-thirds of Middle East Studies professors said that scholarly academic work actively runs cover for regimes, groups and ideologies that hate America, according to the survey of 470 respondents.

Not to be outdone, a woke NYC teacher has taken it upon himself to assign his students Osama Bin Laden's infamous "Letter to America."

Adam Feinberg, who teaches at Brooklyn's City Polytechnic High School, then has them answer questions based on the propaganda text, such as, "Why do you think Osama bin Laden hates Jews so much?"

Other questions include, "For what reasons does he believe that America is the 'worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind?'"

He also asks, "Find the word 'usury'. It means lending money with high interest rates. Why do you think Osama bin Laden disagrees with this?"

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Feinberg, who made $113,394 in 2025, routinely disseminates his leftist ideology on social media, such as sharing a meme mocking assassinated conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk shortly after his death. Feinberg did not deny the worksheet belonged to him but declined further comment.

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The goal of the curriculum is to "relate anti-Muslim racism/violence with other forms of racism and violence (e.g. Black Lives Matter; xenophobia, anti-Semitism etc.) in the United States and abroad," per its website.

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Hollywood: Shit or Garbage

I kinda half-like Sydney Sweeney, but I am getting a little sick of this Jezebel Hussy.

Yes I know that makes me partially gay.

But still.

Madame, please put away your bosoms. I've seen them. We all have. Many times. They're becoming wallpaper. You are making boobs boring, and that I cannot abide.


The heartthrob and "Euphoria" star was looking to get everyone excited for the NFL season when she posed in her birthday suit with a variety of props that cover just enough to be legally distributed on airwaves.

"Think you know sports?" Sweeney said in the ad for Novig, a prediction market company also partnered with the New York Mets. "Prove it."

The camera then pans out to show that Sweeney appears to be fully nude, with only two footballs covering her chest.

"Novig is just sports," Sweeney says.

Among the riskiest shots, Sweeney sits atop a basketball hoop with a basketball on her finger tips and her hair falling over her breasts.

"You can trade this sport," Sweeney says.

"This sport too," she says while wearing soccer gear and a soccer ball held up by her feet.

She then lies on a felt billiards table and quips: "You can't trade this. I just look good here."

Sweeney is no stranger to controversial ads; she's previously sold soap for Dr. Sasquatch, where the soap was infused with her bathwater.

She's supposed to be a major movie star -- but she's acting like the most rancid, desperate OnlyFans e-girl.

I know many of your are naturally skeptical and demand evidence for everything I say, so here is your precious evidence, offered solely to appease the people saying "Cite?"

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Ugh, Jennifer Lawrence.

The Doctor Who actor who played Rose Tyler's Soyboy Beta Cuck boyfriend "Mickey" on the show between 2005 and 2010 has been charged with multiple sex crimes, from sexual assault to peeping/spying to indecent exposure.

While the UK legal system did not offer any information on the nature of the investigation, rumors of the actor's behavior had been rampant for years already. In 2021, Clarke even sued the Guardian for libel for its story on the rumors of his history of sexual assault, based on claims from more than 20 women.

The actor sued, but during the trial, more than a dozen women testified against him and alleged that he sexually abused them, charges that he adamantly denied.

Clarke lost the legal challenge and was ordered to pay the newspaper around $4 million in court costs.

Next item: Inde Navarette exploded to the A list, or at least the B+ list, for her turn in Obsession.

Jeff Sneider, meanwhile, is an internet "scooper." What's a scooper? It's someone who passes around rumors about upcoming movies, like who's being looked at for a role or what a plot points might be in it. In other words, it's a job for idiots. 80% of true tips are just planted leaks by the studio, which wants free advertising, so the "scooper" can take no credit for that.

Meanwhile, most "scoops" are false, usually just some bullshit the "scooper" saw on Reddit (Doomcock gets accused of this) or, when there aren't any rumors to drive traffic, simply something the "scooper" made up entirely for clicks.

Anyway, this oxygen thief wrote to Inde Navarette demanding her attention and demanding she give him content for his fake job, and she, or more likely her PR team, didn't respond.

He was outraged that someone would blow-off an internet nobody dickbag and threatened her, telling her that he would begin reporting every nasty and sham rumor he heard about her unless she gives him the attention he deserves:

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When someone ragged on him for being a complainy gay bitch, he responded that this wasn't a complaint -- it's a threat.

In other words, he's copping to a blackmail charge.

And he's so arrogant about it. He really thinks he's something. He really thinks his stupid "look up rumors on Reddit and then turn them into twitter posts" job is something to brag about.

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And then he doubled down, not just on the blackmail, which he deems a legitimate tactic, but on how awesome he is for being a gay-ass internet movie nerd.

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Victory Lap: Communist Jihadi Zohran Mamdani Does "Interfaith" Walk on 9/11, Which Ends at... Islamic Center

Unbelievable.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New Yorkers of all faiths on Thursday participated in a tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Approximately 100 people joined the Children of Abraham Peace Walk, the New York Post reported.

The peace walk was created for people to "come together to remember those we've lost, and to recommit to our shared vision of safety in solidarity," according to an online flyer.

Muslims were the Real Victims of 9/11, you know. Zohran Mamdani has said so repeatedly, "centering" his own experience in being pulled out of class on 9/11 out of fear -- not reality, fear by a leftwing teaching staff-- that he might be "bullied."

I mean, that's the important thing. Not the 2,997 people killed by his cousins, but the fact that a left-wing AWFUL thought he might be briefly bullied.


Amid calls for him to skip the ceremonies altogether, Mamdani only came for the end of the commemoration at the Islamic Center of New York City.

The walk started at the Hebrew Union College before stopping by Judson Church, and then continued on to the Islamic Center, where Mamdani delivered remarks remembering the victims of 9/11 and thanking first responders for their service.



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Rep. Mike Lawler is calling on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip the Sept. 11 memorial in Manhattan -- with a petition signed by over 100,000 people, led by 9/11 families, backing the demand.

Lawler ripped Mamdani as a "vile antisemite" who has "associated with people who believe America deserved 9/11," pointing to the mayor's ties to far-left activist Hasan Piker and others who have downplayed or justified the attacks. A petition from 9/11 families details Mamdani's praise of Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as an alleged co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

The backlash comes as the nation prepares to mark 25 years since the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people -- and Republicans say Mamdani's presence would be an insult to the families and first responders who lived through it.


Lawler told FOX News: "From my vantage point, I don't think he should be there, and I think most New Yorkers agree that he should not be there. Certainly, the 9/11 families and the first responders believe he should not be there."

The petition from 9/11 families goes further than Lawler's comments. It details Mamdani's praise of Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj -- named as an alleged co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing -- and his endorsement of a candidate who described 9/11 as something "a couple of people did in the context of U.S. capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia."

That same candidate also expressed sympathy for Ahmed Ferhani, who pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a Manhattan synagogue.

Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger took aim at Mamdani as well, saying he shouldn't attend "until he can actually call out terror groups around the world for what they want to do to this country, and that includes Hamas."

NYPD Commisioner Jessica Tisch apparently has a frosty relationship with Mamdani, feeling that he -- get this -- celebrates terrorists instead of opposing them.

She passive-aggressively blasted those blurring the lines between heroes and terrorists. She didn't mention Mamdani by name, but most believe she meant him.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch blasts 9/11 revisionists blurring lines between heroes and terrorists


NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch pointedly called Wednesday for "moral clarity" ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks -- decrying revisionists who blur the lines between heroes and terrorists.

Tisch made the remarks before a stone-faced Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other NYPD and city officials as they unveiled a new 9/11 Memorial Wall at One Police Plaza.

The wall -- which includes 469 new names, commemorating NYPD members who have died of Ground Zero-related illnesses -- preserves the unfathomable devastation from the attack on the World Trade Center towers and the heroism in response, Tisch said.

"Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity," she said, addressing an audience of 9/11 first responders' families.

"The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes," she said.

"Twenty-five years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do."

The usually straight-shooting top cop left the specific culprits unclear. But the open-to-interpretation condemnation nonetheless set tongues wagging, particularly as Mamdani -- both the Big Apple's first socialist and first Muslim mayor -- leads the city through a politically fractious run-up to the terror attacks' quarter-century anniversary on Friday.

Several lefties in Mamdani's orbit have come under fire for their views on the attacks, notably online personality Hasan Piker, who previously said that "America deserved 9/11." Piker has since walked back his 2019 comments, saying that he meant US actions in the Middle East have a boomerang effect.

This might be what prompted her to blast Mamdani: Mamdani signed a bill to make 9/11 documents available to the public, and then gave this presentation pen to a lawyer for an Al Qaeda terrorist.


And just days before Tisch's remarks, she found herself smack in the middle of a controversy as Mamdani -- fresh off signing an executive order recognizing 9/11 -- asked her to hand a ceremonial pen to his chief counsel Ramzi Kassem, a civil rights attorney who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist.

Three attendees at the NYPD ceremony told The Post they snickered when Tisch made her remarks on "moral clarity," and perceived it as a dig.

"It definitely sounded like she took a shot at the mayor, especially after the pen incident last week," said one attendee.

Mamdani, for his part, didn't flinch as Tisch made her remarks.

NYPD officials didn't clarify at whom Tisch's remarks were pointed, when pressed by The Post.

The communist jihadi refused calls to skip the 9/11 services.

He wanted that Victory Lap.


Maya Sulkin
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Former Governor George Pataki says Mamdani's refusal to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada" means he should not attend the 25th anniversary memorial for 9/11 -- aligning with a petition against his attendance that over 100,000 victims' families have signed.

Pataki also called it "ridiculous" to say Mamdani is being excluded because of his faith. "Muslims have always been included... but it's different when you tolerate -- let alone encourage -- violence. Then you don't belong there. This is about the families." Not attending, he added, "would be a sign of respect for the suffering that the families still face 25 years later."

Video here.

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Eyal Yakoby
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It has nothing to do with Zohran being Muslim, it has to do with:
- Zohran campaigning with Imam Siraj Wahhaj -- an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
- Zohran rapping about his love for the Holy Land Five
- Zohran's inability to condemn Hamas
- Being funded by CAIR
- Zohran's intern Arzoo Malik who called for a Holy War through Jihad
- Zohran's meeting with the woman who is responsible for making being gay punishable by death in Uganda
- Zohran claiming that it is an "illusion" that Muslims can become New Yorkers and settle into the city
- Zohran defending Anwar al-Awlaki -- the terrorist cleric linked to 9/11, Fort Hood, the Underwear Bomber, and whose sermons inspired the Boston Marathon bombing
- Zohran campaigning with Hasan Piker who said that "America deserved 9/11"
- Zohran's imam ally Siraj Wahhaj who referred to Homosexuals as a "Disease of this society"

Below: the pen incident.

He actually made Tisch pass the pen to the terror lawyer.


David Asman
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From the NYPOST: After Mayor Mamdani signed the 9/11 documents, he gave Police Commish Tisch the ceremonial pen, and whispered, "Can you pass this?"

Tisch handed it to Mamdani's chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist with links to the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and who had just snuck into the press conference.

She then hurried out of the room -- the first official to exit the press conference.

This childish, calculated display of passive aggression was missed by no one, and will not be forgotten by Tisch or by NYC's millions of 9/11 survivors.


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The UK Branded Turning Point Members as Dangerous Right Wing Extremists, Claimed Leftists, On the Other Hand, Were "Moderate"

They actually tracked and surveilled Turning Point UK members because they thought they were dangerous -- after a leftist killed Charlie Kirk. They feared they would agitate for "free speech," which is of course dangerous to a corrupt authoritarian and wildly unpopular regime.

They also complained that the "ERW" -- "extreme right wing" -- blamed Kirk's assassination on "the political left."

I am done with the UK. I am done with NATO.

If Russia invades, I'll agitate to send Russia additional weapons to finish the job.

Inside Britain's Counter-Terrorism monitoring of Charlie Kirk's 'Extreme Right-Wing' supporters


A leaked counter-terrorism memo reveals officials tracked Kirk's British supporters, warning they would "push pro-free speech narratives" -- while describing the Left-wing response as “moderate”


One year ago, Charlie Kirk was shot dead; the British government immediately got to work.

Following Kirk's murder, the Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU), a government counter-extremism and terrorism unit, began monitoring thousands of social media channels, gauging the reaction of what they describe as "Extreme Right Wing" (ERW) activists.

Published here for the first time, a memo generated by RICU reveals that officials assessed that "Extreme Right-Wing" activists, including Tommy Robinson, would use Kirk's assassination to "push pro-free speech narratives".


Counter-extremism agents assessed that Right-wing extremists would use Kirk's death to "encourage more radical action" and "abandon political moderation in favour of more radical political stances".

Meanwhile, RICU characterised the Left-wing online response to Kirk's assassination as "moderate" and largely "factual reporting", despite thousands of Left-wing activists celebrating the shooting.
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A memo entitled 'RICU Event Response: Charlie Kirk Assassination' was circulated across Whitehall, including to officials in the Home Office, Foreign Office and Cabinet Office, as well as police officers, on 11 September 2025, the day after Kirk was shot.

The memo was classified as "Official Sensitive".

RICU assessed that American and British ERW audiences would present the murder as "a shared attack on the ERW movement and free speech activism more generally", and monitored the response of Turning Point UK, the British arm of Charlie Kirk's American organisation.

"There is nothing 'extreme' about 'pushing pro free speech narratives,'" said Sarah Rogers, the United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, who served as Kirk's attorney on First Amendment issues and has led the Trump administration's advocacy against censorship in Europe.

"That's why censorship by governments proves so unpopular."

Rogers added that in her judgment, the RICU report showed "blind spots" which "regrettably were not unique to the UK," pointing out now-discredited intelligence products rescinded by the CIA "show the same biases."

"Most glaringly, the memo describes the 'leftist' response as 'moderate,' despite describing the same leftists as 'celebratory' of Charlie's murder," said Rogers.

RICU is a government unit based in the Home Office that monitors and analyses terrorist and extremist content and supports government counter-terrorism communications.

This is the same unit that pumps out propaganda like "I'll Ride with You" after Muslims commit terrorist murders and also pushed covid hysteria to help the government control the population.

Founded in 2007, RICU has stirred controversy over its role in coordinating 'controlled spontaneity' campaigns in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, including pre-planned messaging, vigils and demonstrations intended to shape the public's response to terrorism.

For example, after an ISIS terrorist attack in 2014, RICU created an image of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab with a British flag, which was subsequently published on the front page of The Sun and other British newspapers.


The image was created because, according to a leaked document from the company RICU commissioned to make the image, "the UK authorities wanted to challenge ultraconservative and misogynistic interpretations of Islam".


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"The dominant narrative within the ERW attributes responsibility for the assassination to the 'political left' and claims that it is part of a broader campaign of violence against conservatives and White Christians," the memo stated.

As thousands of left-wing accounts literally celebrated Kirk's murder and called for additional murders, including fresh assassination attempts on Trump.

I am done. Done.

I'm going to donate to left-wing NGOs that settle "migrants" in the UK.

To hell with them all.

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The "Rogue" Juror the Extreme Left-Wing AWFUL Karens Berated and Bullied for a Week?
B L A C K

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Old bitter AWFULs communicating in their favored manner,
via birdhands

Thanks to Spencer Pratt for that.

What will the AWFULs do? They were all set on hating and deploring the presumably white (spit) man (spit) who refused to OBEY the Alpha Karens, but now it turns out the white man was actually a black man (or a White Black man, as the New York Times might say).

What's the Oppression Calculus on that? Turns out Tuq'r Qarlson was completely wrong about not needing any algebra after all!

Just kidding, you're allowed to be RACIST if you're an AWFUL! They are God's Perfect Beings and you are required to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND.

Curtis Houck
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NEW: Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on 'CBS Mornings' that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.

The 11 not-guilty jurors -- who hectored him for a week to cave -- were all white.


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THE MORNING RANT: EV Owners and Lessors Have a Problem - Heavily Depreciated EVs that Dealerships Won’t Take Off Their Hands at Any Price

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The failed “EV Transition” has led to a widespread suspension of electric vehicle manufacturing in the United States. Ford has discontinued its flagship F150 Conflagration Lightning, and it also mothballed an all-new plant that was intended to manufacture that unwanted electric pickup. Volkswagen suspended production of its only American-built electric offering, and GM is cancelling or postponing most of its electric offerings too.

But the nightmare isn’t over yet. There is still a great financial reckoning to come, due to all the lithium-ion albatrosses pushed on consumers over the past few years. Those who financed the purchase of their new electric vehicle will likely be woefully “upside down” when it comes trade-in time, because they’ll owe much more to the finance company than a dealer will offer for it in trade. There’s a good chance a dealer will not make a trade-in offer on an EV at any price. For those EV customers who were put in leases, the manufacturers’ finance companies are about to take a bath when those vehicles go to auction and don’t bring anywhere near the amount of the contracted lease-end residual value.

Whether the original owner of the EV is an individual or a leasing company, they will likely face a financial bloodletting trying to make the car go away. Horror stories are mounting.

Because Audi dealers are struggling to sell their new “e-tron GT” electric vehicles - despite heavy manufacturer incentives and discounting - those dealers have little interest in purchasing used e-tron GTs that are coming off lease, and certainly not for the original lease-end value. So, Audi is offering to pay the current drivers $10,000 to stay in the leased car they’re currently driving, because sending the car to auction would result in a much larger loss.

“Audi Is Paying Lessees $10,000 To Keep the EVs They Already Have” [Car Scoops – 2/26/226]

A recent Audi BEV Lessee Buyout Option Incentive sent to dealerships on September 1, reveals that current e-tron GT lessees are being offered a $10,000 discount to purchase their vehicle at the end of the lease term.

Dealers would be paid a small stipend for handling the paperwork, but Audi loses out on the sale of a new vehicle. When manufacturers offer leasing specials, the intent is for a customer to surrender the vehicle at lease-end to the originating dealership, at which time he is both car-less and in the perfect place to buy a replacement vehicle from the same manufacturer. Instead, Audi is forgoing a vehicle sale and paying a potential repeat customer not to buy a new car.

Meanwhile...

“Porsche Taycan Owner Discovers the Brutal Reality of EV Depreciation: ‘I’m Left With a Car That’s Worthless’” [Yahoo Autos – 7/17/2026]

Lee Davey bought a new Porsche Taycan EV two years ago, paying more than $160,000. There is such a glut of unwanted used EVs that the dealer he bought it from will not take the electric Taycan back in trade at any price:

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