November 04, 2025
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.
And secure his own position in the would-be Hillary Clinton administration he wanted to play Internal Spymaster and Dissident-Hunter in.
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.
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.
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.
"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.'"
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.
"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."
... "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."
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Dick Cheney Dead at 84
Google's left-wing Artificial Progressivism:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney Dies at 84 from Heart ComplicationsAlthough obituaries identify Cheney as a rock-ribbed Republican, of course he became a progressive Democrat in the last ten years of his life.
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.
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."
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Tuesday Morning Rant (11/04/25) Bare Bones EditionMystery Click???
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:
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.
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.
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 peopleThe 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.
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.
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.It's not a matter of If. But a matter of When.
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.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Anonymous (Copy after: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)) From The Prado:
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.
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The Morning Report — 11/4/25
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.
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?
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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
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Daily Tech News 4 November 2025
Top Story
- 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.
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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.
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November 03, 2025
Overnight Open Thread (11/03/2025)
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Low Effort Cafe
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.
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.
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Quick Hits
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?"
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Suspected "Michigan Men" Terrorists Took Target Practice In Preparation of Attack: FBI
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 attackClassic Michigan Men names.
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.
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. ... 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.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."
"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. ... 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. ... 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.
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@EFischberger 26m --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."
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Democrat Post-Mortem: Working Class Voters Have Deserted the Party Because It Is "Weak," "Woke," and "Out of Touch"
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." ... 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."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.
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.
... 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." ... 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."
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@CollinRugg 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.
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FDA Drug Chief Resigns Amid Probe Into Alleged Misconduct
The head of the Food and Drug Administration's drug division abruptly resigned Sunday following an internal review into "serious concerns about his personal conduct," according to a government spokesperson. According to The Associated Press, Dr. George Tidmarsh, who took over the position in July, was placed on leave Friday after the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of General Counsel was alerted to the allegations. He then resigned Sunday morning, HHS press secretary Emily Hilliard said in an email. ... The resignation coincided with the filing of a lawsuit by Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, which accuses Tidmarsh of making "false and defamatory statements" and using his FDA post to pursue a "longstanding personal vendetta" against Kevin Tang, the company's board chair. According to the complaint, Tang previously served on the boards of several drug companies where Tidmarsh had been an executive -- including La Jolla Pharmaceutical -- and was involved in his removal from leadership roles.I didn't cover this last week -- a new study shows that 91% of all people who got the Moderna non-vaccine experienced cardiovascular side-effects.
From the moment the COVID vaccines were released, the public was gaslit about their safety and efficacy. Many of the claims were pure bovine excrement, such as the claim that recipients of the vaccine couldn't contract or transmit the virus. The former was not evident in the original studies (and turned out to be the opposite of the truth), and the latter claim was never even tested before release. And that's just efficacy. Safety is even more important, and the studies were so small and poorly designed that only the most gross safety signals could possibly have been picked up. It turns out that all the claims about how benign the vaccines are are pure BS, and all the people making those claims had every reason to know that they were deceiving people. ... Well, another study examining the effect of the Moderna mRNA COVID vaccine has come out, and it shows that over 90% of people who get the Moderna vaccine experience cardiovascular side effects. The effects are usually subtle, but that doesn't mean they are benign. People who get the vaccine experience a measurable and significant decline in arterial flexibility--a hardening of the arteries--that could have significant impacts on their health long-term.Random insults to the body are usually not good. If you get hit with a big dose of radiation, you'll see some changes in your DNA, and the odds are those changes will be bad for your health. The chances of you gaining superpowers from the exposure are rather low.
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Claim: Soros "Charities" Illegally Financed Mamdani's Campaign
This charge is made by the CPA who discovered Big Tish James' mortgage fraud.
Note that a charity may advocate for policies, but cannot spend money to help or defeat candidates. Antar alleges that Soros' "charities" did exactly that.
Zohran Mamdani's campaign is facing explosive allegations that it benefited from tens of millions of dollars in donations funneled from George Soros-linked charities as part of an elaborate scheme that may have violated federal tax laws. The 34-year-old State Assemblyman's team has always claimed that he rose from obscurity to become New York City's mayoral front-runner thanks to an organic, grassroots movement involving many small donations and hundreds of young people with backpacks canvassing on his behalf. But the Daily Mail can reveal that that narrative is now being called into question according to a report from a watchdog website. The findings, from conservative investigative site White Collar Fraud, alleged that a network of tax-exempt organizations connected to billionaire financier Soros shrewdly coordinated political and ground operations to support Mamdani in a scheme that involved laundering more than $40million in charitable donations through nonprofits and redirecting them into political activity. Soros's group disputes the report's findings of improprieties, saying it is 'riddled with inaccuracies, false assumptions and misinformation'. 'The math isn't the only thing that doesn't add up,' a spokesman for the Open Society Foundation -- that was founded by Soros and is now headed by his 40-year-old son Alex, told the Daily Mail. 'The grants it cited -- many of which we were earmarked for specific projects and causes elsewhere around the country as we have disclosed -- were made years before the mayoral race even began.' But White Collar Fraud investigator Sam Antar told the Daily Mail Soros-affiliated entities may have violated federal tax laws. Antar has filed 11 whistleblower complaints with the Internal Revenue Service as a result of his investigation.
Antar, who is a convicted felon and former CPA, now assists the government in white-collar fraud investigations and has lectured on such crimes on college campuses and at the IRS. He called what he uncovered 'the manufacturing process of a generational political machine that has weaponized the income tax code'. And he described Mamdani as 'a product of that machine.'
Antar said he uncovered how Soros's tax-exempt organizations helped fund activities that 'mimicked what looked like a grassroots campaign', including large-scale door-knocking efforts. 'The problem is they weren't campaigning for a general cause like women's rights,' he said. 'They were campaigning for a specific candidate. And that's the rub.' Under US tax law, a 501(c)(3) may fund a 501(c)(4) for nonpartisan purposes such as issue advocacy or civic engagement. But that money is not supposed to be used to directly support or oppose a candidate, a line that can be difficult to prove without internal communications or evidence showing intent. White Collar Fraud's investigation argues that the scope of Soros's alleged network extends far beyond Mamdani's campaign, potentially spanning hundreds of races nationwide.The communist Hamas jihadist isn't the shoo-in he once looked like. It's not too much comfort, but the guy who crammed covid patients into nursing homes so that his big-hospital donors wouldn't be saddled with them is catching up. In a new schmoll from Atlas Schmolling, the communist jihadist who just got here eight years ago and never had a real job is only four points ahead of the grandma-murdering psychopath.
Independent mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo would beat Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdan in a head-to-head race, a bombshell new poll found -- as Cuomo was in striking distance a day before the general election. The new AtlasIntel survey, which dropped Monday afternoon, has Mamdani with 43.9% of support with Cuomo trailing in second with 39.4%.Update: NGOs are teaching illegal aliens how to illegally vote.
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Harmeet K. Dhillon Demands Fulton County Turn Over Its Voting Records After Report Concludes Widespread Irregularities in Fulton County's 2020 Election
The Trump Justice Department is intervening in a long-simmering election integrity dispute over 2020 vote counting, demanding that Georgia's largest county turn over to federal officials records that they have refused to give under subpoena to state election regulators. The request to Fulton County, home to the city of Atlanta, was sent last week by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon, whose division oversees election laws, after the State Elections Board had tried unsuccessfully for months to get certain historical election records from the county.Smells like obstruction to me. Also smells like Conspiracy to Defraud the United States.
Cleanest election in history. 81 million votes, Racists.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office documented widespread irregularities with voting procedures and counting in Fulton during the 2020 election, and Gov. Brian Kemp even ordered vote counts to be investigated after alleged errors were found. ... Raffensperger concluded none of the problems were serious enough to overturn the results, in which Joe Biden narrowly defeated Donald Trump, and that there was no conspiracy by county election workers to cheat during the election. The GOP-led State Elections Board revived some of those questions about 2020 voting last year, voting to subpoena records. The county did not comply, and the state attorney general's office has not moved to enforce the subpoena. That prompted the board to pass a resolution this summer asking DOJ to assist, which prompted Dhillon's letter on Thursday. "Transparency seems to have been frustrated at multiple turns in Georgia," Dhillon wrote. "The State Election Board has cited 'unexplained anomalies in vote tabulation and storage related to the 2020 election' in a letter to you dated November 7, 2024. The Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division has also been made aware, in correspondence to it on August 1, 2025 from voter transparency advocates, of multiple instances of government obstruction of transparency requests, including high-resolution ballot scans, signature verification documentation, and various metadata requests." ...
While legacy media have tried to downplay concerns about Fulton County's election history, Just the News spent months reviewing Fulton County election results after the 2020 election, and chronicled widespread concerns. That state's handpicked election monitor himself documented two dozen pages of mismanagement and irregularities during vote counting in Atlanta in November 2020, including double-scanning of ballots, insecure transport of ballots, and violations of voter privacy. And the State Election Board concluded in 2024 that Fulton County had likely scanned more than 3,000 ballots twice during the 2020 presidential election recount.
Even Brian Kemp, the state's popular Republican governor and a defender of the 2020 election results, admitted that Fulton County did a "sloppy" job counting votes and administering the election and asked the Election Board to investigate, leaing to the duplicate counting findings.
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CNN and All Leftwing Propaganda Outlets:A "British Man" Stabs Ten In Brutal Jihadi Knife Attack on British Train
Just another Maryland Man doing what Maryland Men do.
Ah, British Men. Much like Maryland Man, they're salt-of-the-earth domestic products.
Note that initial reports discussed two men. I don't know if they still think it was two men or it was the usual situation where the early reports speak of multiple assailants but it turns out to be one. This is about the one suspect we know has been arrested. He's a British Man. Just like Basil Fawlty or James Bond.A man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder over a mass stabbing attack on a British train on Saturday evening that targeted passengers as they traveled through central England on their way to London. The attack left nine people in need of treatment for life-threatening injuries, one of whom was still fighting for his life in hospital on Sunday evening, after what the British Transport Police (BTP) declared a "major incident." The man charged, Anthony Williams, 32, of Peterborough, was remanded in custody after appearing in court on Monday. While in court, he wasn't asked to enter pleas and he said "no fixed abode" when he was asked about his address, according to the UK's PA Media news agency. His next appearance in court is due to be on December 1. He is further charged with one count of actual bodily harm and one count of possession of bladed article in connection to the mass stabbing in Cambridgeshire, according to BTP. ... Police are working to determine a motive but previously said that there was no evidence to suggest the attacks were terror-related.Don't read anything into the fact that witnesses agree the British Man shouted "Allahu Ackbar" as he slaughtered British citizens.
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@grok 36m Al Jazeera's coverage confirms the suspect shouted "Allahu Akbar" repeatedly, drawing from event details that echo early eyewitness reports. This outlet lacks any Islamophobic track record and highlights the phrase amid the Cambridgeshire train attack chaos. Convergent evidence patterns, including these shouts, justify probing Islamist links until CCTV or investigations rule them out definitively.
Just another Maryland Man doing what Maryland Men do.
A survivor of the UK train mass stabbing has described how she begged for her life, and the madman attacker told her, "The devil's not going to win." Dayna Arnold was in the same train car as the attacker when he began slashing at "anyone he could find" during horrific scenes on board a London-bound train in the east of England just after 7:30 p.m. Saturday. "I was going with the crowd but then I got knocked into some seats. I looked back and saw the knifeman running, so I slid down to the floor," Arnold, 48, told the Sun.Typical white supremacist far-right killer. The British government and world left-wing pro-open-borders media is pretending there cannot be any terrorism here, because the man was "born in Britain." Yes. He was born in Britain to a migrant. Obviously then he is culturally British through-and-through and has no residual ethnic animosities or barbaric religious imperatives remaining in him. Remember, when a Muslim or immigrant commits an obvious terrorist attack, left-wing-dominated American and European law enforcement public relations managers claim that it's not a terror attack, because there was "no overseas nexus" or command structure directing the attack. Note that this special "no overseas nexus" is N E V E R even mentioned when an actual born-and-bred citizen commits an atrocity. The "rule" only exits for purposes of not counting Muslim murders as "terrorism." I don't want to spread any Russian Conspiracy Theories, but it's almost as if Obama and left-wing European governments conspired to change the definition of a "terrorist attack" to exclude as many Muslims and immigrants as possible, while also counting drug-deals-gone-wrong as "right wing terrorism" to falsely depict Muslims and immigrants as non-threatening and born-and-bred citizens as The Real Threat Here.
She added: "He came at me with the knife and I begged, 'Please don't.' Then something shifted in his face and he just carried on. I feel very fortunate to still be alive." Arnold, who was on board the train with friend Andy Gray, 37, recalled the attacker's sinister words as he spared her amid the mass slashing that left 11 people wounded, two of whom are still fighting for their lives.
"Then a minute or so later he came back through, looked at me again and said, 'The devil's not going to win,' and continued on," she said. "I was waiting because I could still hear him in the carriage. I heard the doors open and ran off the train. I saw him take off running and then minutes later, police rushed past me and I saw him get tasered," Arnold said. One 32-year-old British man is in custody for attempted murder following the attack, which saw armed cops scramble to the small market town of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. A second man was detained, but later released without charge. Arnold described the suspect as "quite tall with dark-colored skin" and wearing dark clothing and a hat over shoulder-length braided hair.
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It’s Not Acceptable for Adam Schiff and Bernie Sanders to Have Veto/Approval Authority Over TVA Board Appointments
were just narrowly approved by a 10-9 vote of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works. All nine Democrats on the committee voted against Trump’s appointees. Having (barely) received the committee’s approval, the nominations now proceed to the full Senate where a simple majority vote is needed from the Republican-controlled Senate for final confirmation. The TVA is the nation’s largest public power company, providing electricity to over 10 million people in Appalachia and the southeast, including most of Tennessee.
Among those Democrats on the senate committee who voted against Trump’s TVA nominees were Sen. Adam Schiff of California, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Sen. Ed. Markey of Massachusetts. With the “net zero” abolition of carbon-based energy now a foundational priority of Democrats and blue state leftists, it is unacceptable that TVA customers in the Tennessee Valley are in any way subject to the Green New Deal zealotry of blue state senators such as Schiff, Sanders, and Markey.
I’d like to propose an alternative method for selecting board members: TVA Directors should be appointed by the governors of the states served by the TVA, without requiring US Senate confirmation.
Specifics would need to be worked out, but I might suggest something along the lines of nine total directors, with three from Tennessee (which is by far the largest TVA customer and constitutes most of the footprint), and one each from the other six states (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky.)
As I have previously documented, Joe Biden’s TVA appointees were anti-fossil fuel activists. Fortunately, President Trump promptly fired them after taking office, ensuring that their green delusions about “renewable” energy wouldn’t interfere with the TVA continuing to provide reliable, affordable electricity to its service area…for now.
But there will be almost certainly be another Democrat president in the future, and s/he too will appoint directors with a commitment to shutting down TVA’s carbon-based energy production. An “energiewende” will be inflicted upon Appalachia that is just as devastating as the energy poverty inflicted upon Germany by Angela Merkel. That cannot be allowed to happen.
I live in Tennessee, where we have no say in how California and Massachusetts get their electricity. Residents of those states should not have any say over Tennessee’s electricity either, but when blue state Democrats vote for leftists like Schiff and Markey, they are also casting votes to deny Tennesseans affordable, reliable energy. Again, that is not acceptable.
In the confirmation hearings, Senators Schiff and Markey demanded that the TVA appointees commit to carbon-free, “net zero” electricity production within 25 years. Trump’s nominees would not make that promise, in part because it is not feasible, but also because they do not share the climate alarmism that Democrats have embraced as their post-Christianity religion.
There is some discussion about privatizing the TVA. Chattanooga’s Republican Congressman, Chuck Fleischmann, is opposed to the idea, while Knoxville’s Republican Congressman, Tim Burchett, is willing to entertain the idea. Since a highly regulated, private utility that has no competition is hardly a free market entity, I won’t argue for privatization. Further, since the prevailing business school mindset found in C-suites these days is to cut costs, cut quality, and reduce service, all while treating customers as prey to be gouged, and while vilifying employees as an expense that reduces executive bonuses, I am fine keeping the TVA publicly owned. However, it needs to be accountable to the voters in its service area. That is why I want the governors in the seven states to be the ones appointing directors. The directors then hire the TVA leadership.
If control of the TVA is left to Washington DC, the day is coming that a President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will appoint a full board of Greta Thunbergs to de-carbonize the TVA. The Green New Deal is not a joke. It’s a communist plan for re-organizing society in a way that turns prosperity into poverty, death, and despair. Venezuela’s trajectory is a role model for the Green New Dealers on what they would like to impose domestically.
The Tennessee Valley needs to have energy independence from Washington DC and the Green New Dealers. It is literally a life or death issue.
The map below is the TVA’s service area. I will be reaching out to my Congressman and Senators, and also to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, to promote this idea. Senator Marsha Blackburn is the frontrunner to be elected governor of Tennessee in 2026, so I will also reach out to her campaign team and press secretary.
were just narrowly approved by a 10-9 vote of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works. All nine Democrats on the committee voted against Trump’s appointees. Having (barely) received the committee’s approval, the nominations now proceed to the full Senate where a simple majority vote is needed from the Republican-controlled Senate for final confirmation. The TVA is the nation’s largest public power company, providing electricity to over 10 million people in Appalachia and the southeast, including most of Tennessee.
Among those Democrats on the senate committee who voted against Trump’s TVA nominees were Sen. Adam Schiff of California, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Sen. Ed. Markey of Massachusetts. With the “net zero” abolition of carbon-based energy now a foundational priority of Democrats and blue state leftists, it is unacceptable that TVA customers in the Tennessee Valley are in any way subject to the Green New Deal zealotry of blue state senators such as Schiff, Sanders, and Markey.
I’d like to propose an alternative method for selecting board members: TVA Directors should be appointed by the governors of the states served by the TVA, without requiring US Senate confirmation.
Specifics would need to be worked out, but I might suggest something along the lines of nine total directors, with three from Tennessee (which is by far the largest TVA customer and constitutes most of the footprint), and one each from the other six states (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky.)
As I have previously documented, Joe Biden’s TVA appointees were anti-fossil fuel activists. Fortunately, President Trump promptly fired them after taking office, ensuring that their green delusions about “renewable” energy wouldn’t interfere with the TVA continuing to provide reliable, affordable electricity to its service area…for now.
But there will be almost certainly be another Democrat president in the future, and s/he too will appoint directors with a commitment to shutting down TVA’s carbon-based energy production. An “energiewende” will be inflicted upon Appalachia that is just as devastating as the energy poverty inflicted upon Germany by Angela Merkel. That cannot be allowed to happen.
I live in Tennessee, where we have no say in how California and Massachusetts get their electricity. Residents of those states should not have any say over Tennessee’s electricity either, but when blue state Democrats vote for leftists like Schiff and Markey, they are also casting votes to deny Tennesseans affordable, reliable energy. Again, that is not acceptable.
In the confirmation hearings, Senators Schiff and Markey demanded that the TVA appointees commit to carbon-free, “net zero” electricity production within 25 years. Trump’s nominees would not make that promise, in part because it is not feasible, but also because they do not share the climate alarmism that Democrats have embraced as their post-Christianity religion.
There is some discussion about privatizing the TVA. Chattanooga’s Republican Congressman, Chuck Fleischmann, is opposed to the idea, while Knoxville’s Republican Congressman, Tim Burchett, is willing to entertain the idea. Since a highly regulated, private utility that has no competition is hardly a free market entity, I won’t argue for privatization. Further, since the prevailing business school mindset found in C-suites these days is to cut costs, cut quality, and reduce service, all while treating customers as prey to be gouged, and while vilifying employees as an expense that reduces executive bonuses, I am fine keeping the TVA publicly owned. However, it needs to be accountable to the voters in its service area. That is why I want the governors in the seven states to be the ones appointing directors. The directors then hire the TVA leadership.
If control of the TVA is left to Washington DC, the day is coming that a President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will appoint a full board of Greta Thunbergs to de-carbonize the TVA. The Green New Deal is not a joke. It’s a communist plan for re-organizing society in a way that turns prosperity into poverty, death, and despair. Venezuela’s trajectory is a role model for the Green New Dealers on what they would like to impose domestically.
The Tennessee Valley needs to have energy independence from Washington DC and the Green New Dealers. It is literally a life or death issue.
The map below is the TVA’s service area. I will be reaching out to my Congressman and Senators, and also to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, to promote this idea. Senator Marsha Blackburn is the frontrunner to be elected governor of Tennessee in 2026, so I will also reach out to her campaign team and press secretary.
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
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The Morning Report — 11/3/25
The Left loves Mamdani partly for what he says—free bus fare, no cops, and the endless extension of rent control. But they love him too for his manner and self-presentation. Like Barack Obama, he is a certifiable exotic: African, Muslim, and never too shy to weep when he recalls how mean (white) New Yorkers have been to people of his tribe. He said that his aunt was too scared to wear her hijab on the New York subway because of “Islamophobia,” but neglected to mention the 3000 New Yorkers who would not be riding any subway because they were killed on 9/11 by Muslim fanatics. Here’s a prediction: Mamdani will, in short order, drive New York into the slough of economic and social immiseration that always follows the institution of socialist policies. The Mamdani candy dispenser will push the city toward bankruptcy. His “eat the rich” attitude will precipitate an aggressive flight of wealthy taxpayers, making the city’s economic prospects even more dire. Crime will soar, and in place of the broken-windows policing, the city will have an abundance of broken windows. As the anomie expands, Mamdani will need to find someone to blame. Whites in general will attract his notice, but Mamdani’s ill-concealed anti-Semitism will soon fix upon the Jews.Mamdani's unabashed twelverism poses an extremely grave danger because it is the avowed and preached policy of Iran. The same Iran that has been hell bent on developing nuclear weapons along with spending the better part of the past half century plotting and executing terrorist attacks across the globe aimed not only at Israel and Jewish targets but at Western targets in general both in the cause of following Mohammed's (pig piss be upon him) teachings as written in the Koran and preached every Friday in every mosque on the planet and not just in a cave in Tora Bora, but to bring about the aforementioned Armageddon. Should Iran, still smoldering from the attacks by Israel and by the USAF on its nuclear facilities care to try and strike back, they now have one of their own in New York City hall who will use his power to not only not prevent any such attack but perhaps even help the mullahs carry it out. So, while some people are having a schadenfreude about New York getting what they voted for good and hard, what might happen God-forbid in New York may not stay in New York. And that leads me to what's happening and been happening in Nigeria for several decades but is only now getting attention. And it's getting the attention of President Trump
While Islamists and Marxists have spent years lying about and faking ‘genocides’ in Yemen and Gaza, they have been perpetrating an actual genocide of Christians in Nigeria. Obama enabled the genocide by helping a Muslim dictator take over Nigeria. Over the summer our article, ‘Trump Can End Obama’s Christian Genocide in Africa’ documented the mass murder of Christians in Nigeria and called for action. “Did you know 125,000 Christians have been murdered and 19,000 churches destroyed by Muslims in Nigeria in the last 15 years? Weird how that never gets any attention. Wonder why,” Charlie Kirk tweeted out our article. Now President Trump sent a clear message. Time’s up. "I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action."On the one hand, there is no denying what is happening and has been happening in Nigeria and all over central Africa where Boko Haram and other Islamic groups have been rampaging and that crushing them is the sensible and moral thing to do. And at long last it certainly seems as if the Nigerian government is at the very least making the right noises about fighting back and protecting its citizens. But on the other hand, American boots on the ground is something that raises a lot of alarm bells for a whole host of reasons that I and others have written about for a very long time. The fact of the matter is, as I have stated time and again, Islam was is and always be on the march to conquer every nation on earth where even one Muslim lives who reads and practices the so-called "religion" as it is written and preached. To conquer that land by force or deception or any and every means at one's disposal for the purpose of bringing it into and making it a part of the Islamic Ummah or community. Unless and until the so-called "moderate Muslims" who we have heard so much about since 9/11 if not before come forward to renounce the Koranic verses calling for the death of infidels — a complete non-starter since the only "moderate" Muslims are the ones who don't actually carry out terrorist acts but only cheer them on either enthusiastically or so as not to be targeted by their neighbors for lacking sufficient Islamic ardor/commitment. And because Mohammed's words are considered as coming directly from God so they cannot be disavowed lest whoever does so is given a big fat Fatwa. That's why rather than boots on the ground, it is high time for President Trump to get on TV and read the actual words of the Koran and Hadith to the American people and denounce them in the name of every decent civilized human being in the nation and the world. If one really wants to honor the memory of Charlie Kirk in this regard, let alone the victims of the Beirut Marine Barracks, Khobar Towers, the World Trade Center and on and on and on and on . . . Then calling out Islam as it is wrttten for what it is, the ultimate document of violent incitement, then what's the point. Since George W. Bush's madness of declaring we weren't at war with Islam it is high time for the leader of the Free World to step up and declare that Islam has and always will be at war with us until the Free World is Free no more. Genucht.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- President Trump tore into Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown, justified his order to restart nuclear weapons testing in the US and defended his administration’s ICE raids in a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday – his first with CBS News…
Trump talks NYC mayoral race, government shutdown and nuclear weapons in tense ‘60 Minutes’ return
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Daily Tech News 3 November 2025
Top Story
- Is OpenAI becoming too big to fail? (MSN)
It sure is. Just like Lehman Brothers. And Worldcom. And Enron.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explained how the company is planning to pay for $1 trillion worth of hardware and services deals with an annual revenue of $13 billion. (Tech Crunch)
"We are taking a forward bet that it will continue to grow, and that not only will ChatGPT keep growing, but we will be able to become one of the important AI clouds, that our consumer device business will be a significant and important thing, that AI that can automate science will create huge value," he added.
Well, I know I feel comforted.
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November 02, 2025
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - November 2, 2025 [Doof]
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