October 04, 2025
Berry Enticing Guest Gardening Post [Lex] 
K.T. Take it away, Lex!The Great Blueberry Bush Battle
K.T. Take it away, Lex!
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How, exactly, do people "disagree better"?
Utah State Seal
Candace Owens thinks Charlie Kirk's assassination
might have something to do with the new Utah State Flag and bees
There was a big fight in Utah over "modernizing" the State Flag, which used to resemble the State Seal. Candace Owens has added some new dimensions to the conflict which I don't think have been completely thought through.
Anyway, a little over a year ago, I wondered how the electorate in Utah could have chosen both Senator Mike Lee and Governor Spencer Cox. Our own commenter Bonhomme answered some of my questions.
Spencer Cox has made a name for himself with his "Disagree Better" campaign. He has enlisted other governors in this program. It generally involves giving in to "the other side", but he has sometimes "circled back" to more conservative positions under pressure. And there is something to be said for the idea that government officials working at the state level are forced to be somewhat more practical than the feds, because they "have to fix the potholes". Though he also has some big ideas, like the Olympics, that involve compromise with, well, you know who.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Cox did a pretty good job of keeping people informed of the actions of law enforcement and of the plans of the State of Utah. Many people were impressed. This brought new attention to the "disagree better" idea, but there seems to be more rancor, anger and disdain than ever in both the legacy media and social media. Strange.
The Atlantic turns its attention westward
might have something to do with the new Utah State Flag and bees
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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival [Sammich making optional]
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over before we start. (Rulz for those of you in Little Suamico.) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Yes, even to the trolls.
3) Running with sharp objects? If I have written it once I have written it 12,702 times. No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a wonderful first weekend of October.
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over before we start. (Rulz for those of you in Little Suamico.) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Yes, even to the trolls.
3) Running with sharp objects? If I have written it once I have written it 12,702 times. No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a wonderful first weekend of October.
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Daily Tech News 4 October 2025
Top Story
- Thwarted plot to cripple cell service in NY was bigger than first thought unless it wasn't: Sources. (ABC)
Over on the sidebar you'll find a link by CBD to an article about a planned attack against communications infrastructure in New York City, discovered and averted twelve days ago by the Secret Service.
They found 100,000 activated SIM cards and over 300 specialised (and, in the US, illegal) SIM servers set up to use them, in a handful of rented locations in the city, capable of sending out thirty million SMS messages per minute and overwhelming and crippling nearby cell towers.
The latest update us that the Secret Service has found another 200,000 SIM cards in another location nearby in New Jersey.
So the question is, who was behind this rather sophisticated plot, and what were they hoping to achieve? The Secret Service links it to China, which is probably true but only at the surface level.
Most likely this wasn't a nation-state planning a terror attack at all, but an organised crime ring using those hundreds of thousands of numbers to make scam calls. The hardware was probably smuggled from China, but not to declare war, just to make an illicit buck.
That's speculation, but what we know for sure - because it put the Secret Service on the track in the first place - is that this same network was used in swatting attacks against members of Congress in December of 2023.
And it would be foolish of a nation-state actor to allow such an elaborate plot to be foiled over such a minor and secondary objective. Though dumber things have happened.
- Second pass at today's thread because my computer decided to reboot right when I was looking for the video for the interlude and I hadn't saved yet. That'll teach me.
* Spoiler: It didn't teach them.
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October 03, 2025
A Poem Lovely As An ONT
Hello everyone! We made it to another Friday. Two weeks until the TxMoMe. How's everyone doing tonight?
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Spooky Season Cafe
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YouTube (Owned by Google/Alphabet) Settles Lawsuit for Banning Trump's Accounts to Rig the 2024 Election; Will Pay Trump $24.5 Million
This is a couple of days old but I missed it and I know you did too because you wouldn't cheat on this site.
Just as Jake Tapper was claiming that the three-day suspension of Jimmy Kimmel was the greatest assault on speech in human history, Google/YouTube admitted that it had banned accounts presenting perfectly legal -- and, in fact, perfectly true -- facts about covid and the non-vaccinating vaccines. (Apparently Jake Tapper doesn't watch the news. Or else he's just a hack lifelong Democrat activist. You choose.) Too little, too late, says Wendi Strauch Mahoney at American Thinker.
Google's YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit President Donald Trump brought after the video site suspended his account following the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol following the election that resulted in him leaving the White House for four years. The settlement of the more than four-year-old case earmarks $22 million for Trump to contribute to the Trust for the National Mall and a construction of a White House ballroom, according to court documents filed Monday. The remaining $2.5 million will be paid to other parties involved in the case, including the writer Naomi Wolf and the American Conservative Union. Alphabet, the parent of Google, is the third major technology company to settle a volley of lawsuits that Trump brought for what he alleged had unfairly muzzled him after his first term as president ended in January 2021. He filed similar cases Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Twitter before it was bought by billionaire Elon Musk in 2022 and rebranded as X. Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle Trumps' lawsuit over his 2021 suspension from Facebook and X agreed to settle the lawsuit that Trump brought against Twitter for $10 million. When the lawsuits against Meta. Twitter and YouTube were filed, legal experts predicted Trump had little chance of prevailing.
Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. finally put in writing what many have suspected for years: Senior Biden-era officials "conducted repeated and sustained outreach" to the company and pressed YouTube to remove COVID-related videos that did not violate YouTube's policies. In a Sep. 23 letter to House Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Alphabet's counsel called such government attempts to dictate moderation "unacceptable and wrong" and said YouTube will create a pathway for creators banned under now-retired COVID-19 and 2020/2024 election policies to return. Google's mea culpa followed a March 6, 2025 subpoena issued by Jordan. The House Judiciary Committee summarized the admission, underscoring five key points from Google:In unusually plain language for outside counsel, Alphabet told Congress that during COVID-19, "White House officials" sought removal of non-violative videos and that the broader political atmosphere -- "including President Biden" -- sought to influence platform decisions. Alphabet says it "consistently fought against those efforts on First Amendment grounds." Google excused its behavior, arguing that the "COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented time in which online platforms had to reach decisions about how best to balance freedom of expression with responsibility, including responsibility with respect to the moderation of user-generated content that could result in real-world harm." But this reads as a convenient, too-little, too-late defense. Google knew what it was doing and chose policies that harmed lawful speech anyway. Even Alphabet's lawyers now concede that "it is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, attempts to dictate how the company moderates content" -- a striking admission, given that the COVID- and election-related speech at issue was plainly protected by the First Amendment. To illustrate just how materially damaging the removals were, Richard Baris speaks not only to his own experience, but also many others' all too common experiences with Google. Baris (People's Pundit) is a well respected data analyst and commentator whose polling outfit, Big Data Poll, has accurately predicted several presidential elections, including 2024. During his appearance on the Sep. 24, 2025 QuiteFrankly podcast, Baris describes the excruciating consequences of being suppressed and then banned by Google's YouTube. Like so many others, he was repeatedly struck, demonetized, and throttled by Google, actions that translated to significant lost income, lost audience, and throttled fact-based reporting. Baris said the strikes and demonetization were ironically triggered by concrete pieces of journalism and data analysis. In one instance, he said he aired and analyzed remarks from the U.K. health minister -- summarizing that masking children "didn't prevent" transmission and could harm cognitive and social development. He said the video was struck for "medical misinformation." YouTube, he said, repeatedly threatened channel closure when he and his team presented longitudinal findings and compared them with published studies. Baris believes that much of it was political, and he is not wrong.
Biden officials pressured the company to censor Americans and take down lawful content. Google considers that pressure "unacceptable and wrong." Public debate should not hinge on deferring to "authorities." The company will not empower third-party fact-checkers to label or remove content. European speech rules, including the Digital Services Act, risk forcing removal of lawful American speech.
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Puffy Diddler Sentenced to Four Years In Prison For Something
The Man Who Tried to Murder Three Supreme Court Justices Gets a Lenient 8-Year Sentence from a Biden Judge... Becuase He Now Says He's a Transgender
The Man Who Tried to Murder Three Supreme Court Justices Gets a Lenient 8-Year Sentence from a Biden Judge... Becuase He Now Says He's a Transgender
I kinda forget what the charges were.
The NY Post forgets too, and doesn't remember until late in the article.Hip-hop icon Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to more than four years in prison Friday -- a paltry term compared to the 11 years sought by prosecutors after a blockbuster, stomach-churning sex crimes trial exposed the mogul's depraved secrets. The emotional, nearly six-hour sentencing hearing on prostitution charges in Manhattan federal court closed with Judge Arun Subramanian condemning Combs' horrific abuse of victims Cassie Ventura and an influencer known as "Jane." "You abused them, physically, emotionally and psychologically," Judge Arun Subramanian told Combs before heading down the sentence of 50 months. "Why did it happen for so long? Because you had the power and resources to keep it going, and because you didn't get caught," Subramanian said. "A meaningful sentence is needed to protect the public for further crimes." Combs likely will spend only three more years in a federal lockup, as he has already been behind bars for 14 months. His sentence is also shorter than the roughly six-to-seven-year term recommended under federal guidelines, as well as the more than 11 years sought by prosecutors. But it's also a far cry from the 14-month, time-served sentence his high-powered defense team had argued he deserved. The highly anticipated sentencing unfolded in the same courtroom where jurors found Combs, 55, guilty of prostitution charges in July after two harrowing months of testimony delving into his twisted, violent and baby oil-drenched private life.Four years for... prostitution? I think this guys is a scumbag but this screams "Moral Panic Prosecution." I still don't really know what it is that he's alleged to have done. I heard all sorts of things about kidnapping, Mann Act violations (a nonsense law that creates a federal crime of prostitution, if you bring a woman across state lines for "immoral purposes"), RICO claims, whispers that he killed Tupak Shakur and Biggie Smalls (or whoever), etc. But apparently he was only convicted of prostitution. Again: Four years for prostitution? This smacks of sentencing him for crimes there wasn't evidence enough to convict him on, so the counts of prostitution are treated as the equivalent of manslaughter. I'll shed no tears but this is the sort of bullshit that prosecutors do every single day. If you don't believe me, ask Daniel Penny. Ask Peter Navarro. Ask Steve Bannon. Ask Rudy Giulliani. Ask any of the J6 political prisoners. Ask Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the man -- and I emphasize, man -- who tried to kill Brett Kavanaugh and planned to kill two other Supreme Court Justices as well (I think Alito and Coney-Barrett) got just eight years for his assassination attempt. Prosecutors sought 30. How'd he get so little time? Easy. He declared he's now a woman named "Sophie" and so of course transgender killers need to be incentivized to kill more people. There are so few transgender assassins we really need to DEI-promote them.
No, really:
Carrie Severino
@JCNSeverino Unreal. The attempted assassin put not only Justice Kavanaugh's life at risk, but his family's and his fellow justices'. Judge Boardman's explanation for granting Roske leniency is absurd -- so, claiming you are transgender gets you less time in prison? That's a great incentive program. What an outrageously dangerous signal to send as political violence is on the rise. This sentence is a disgrace.
Luke Rosiak
@lukerosiak 8h Good morning. @realDailyWire is in federal court in Maryland for the sentencing of transgender terrorist Nicholas "Sophie" Roske for the crime of attempted assassination of a US Justice, for his plot to kill Brett Kavanaugh in 2022. Brett Kavanaugh wearing a black judicial robe and blue tie, seated in a courtroom. Nicholas "Sophie" Roske wearing a black T-shirt with a red and white design, standing indoors with long hair.
Judge Boardman, a Biden appointee, is referring to the defendant as Ms. Roske and asking whether "she" will be placed in a women's prison and given hormone replacement. The implication is that if not, she will be given a shorter sentence. Judge Boardman is asking how Roske's transgender status should impact her sentence, and demanding evidence that longer sentences provide more deterrence. Asking why, 3 years later, "ms roske" is a risk to the public. Seems somewhat Kafkaesque. Judge asked "ms roske, have you read the sentencing report?" Roske, a very tall man, boomed in an unusually deep baritone, "yes."
The sentence also includes a lifetime of court supervision. "I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family... I accept their daughter for who she is," Judge Boardman said of the convict's mom affirming his gender identity. His mom told the judge "I have attended PFLAG meetings and learned about the LgBTQ+ community. I am committed to going on this journey with Sophie." Kavanaugh's family did not speak but looked pained.
Brent ScherImpeach this cocksucker -- and that's the moderate position. And of course the degenerate Transgender Media is pushing the lie that this man's name is "Sophie:"
@BrentScher 22m
This is insane. The judge referred to Nicholas Roske as a woman and admitted in court that him claiming to be transgender got him a better sentence. He tried to murder a Supreme Court justice! Only got 8 years!
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The Week in Woke
Of course: Communist Zohran Mamdani plans to do what all communists do eventually -- impose "equality" on people who are not equal. He'll end Gifted and Talented programs in NYC, because communists cannot bear that some people might have more academic potential than others.
C3
@C_3C_3 SPLC is the targeting wing of the Democrat party. Soros is the financial wing of the Democrat party. Antifa is the military wing of the Democrat party. Legacy Media is the propaganda wing of the Democrat party. Simple.
Of course: Communist Zohran Mamdani plans to do what all communists do eventually -- impose "equality" on people who are not equal. He'll end Gifted and Talented programs in NYC, because communists cannot bear that some people might have more academic potential than others.
Democratic socialist and mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to undo the Gifted and Talented program for young New York City school kids -- the latest move to revert to ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio's era. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, told the New York Times that he would eliminate the program at the kindergarten level in a move that is likely to anger parents, who have been passionately divided on the issue. The gifted classes would remain active through the school year, but would no longer be available next fall, according to the report. The proposal by the mayoral hopeful would be the first step in phasing out the gifted program across all elementary schools -- a controversial change inside the Department of Education made by de Blasio on his way out the door in 2021. "I will return to the previous policy," Mamdani told the outlet in a statement. "Ultimately, my administration would aim to make sure that every child receives a high-quality early education that nurtures their curiosity and learning."The next step is to end NYC's competitive-admissions public "magnet schools," which keep the comfortable-but-not-rich in the city, because the city's private schools are hugely expensive. That was on diBlasio's chopping block too. And that will drive the comfortable-but-not-rich middle class out of NYC once and for all. Harrison Bergeron is a How-To Book. Proof that AI is exclusively "trained" on far-left media and social media: The tech monopolists' chatbots all claim that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a far-right extremist. Alannah Goodman for Free Beacon:
'It Was a Fatal Right-Wing Terrorist Incident': AI Chatbot Giants Claim Charlie Kirk's Killer Was Right-Wing but Say Left-Wing Violence Is 'Exceptionally Rare'Angry incompetent lesbian Randi Weingarten continues inciting violence against normal people by branding us all as "fascists," even in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. Cory DeAngelis for the NYPost:
This is despite the documented fact that Kirk's killer, Tyler Robinson, referred to him as a 'fascist' on an unused bullet and said he targeted the conservative commentator because 'some hate can't be negotiated out'
The major AI platforms--which have emerged as significant American news sources--describe Charlie Kirk's assassination as motivated by "right-wing ideology" and downplay left-wing violence as "exceptionally rare," according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. When asked to name a "recent assassination in the U.S. motivated by right-wing ideology," multiple AI chatbots--powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Perplexity--listed Kirk's murder as the main example. Chatbots are tools where everyday news consumers ask questions and receive authoritative answers or fully written articles explaining a news story. Gemini's chatbot made the provably false statement that the "assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September 2025 has been identified by some researchers as the only fatal right-wing terrorist incident in the U.S. during the first half of 2025." The chatbots' inaccurate consensus that Kirk was killed by a right-wing assassin comes as the AI platforms are increasingly a primary news source for younger American news consumers. Traffic to news publishers from Google searches have plummeted in the last year as more news consumers turn to AI-powered searches. Often these search results contain limited citations, or the citations are hard to find and incomplete. The AI chatbots glean their information by training on, or crawling, mainstream media sources that often lean left. A recent Free Beacon analysis found Al Jazeera, the virulently anti-Israel news source controlled by the Hamas-friendly State of Qatar, was one of the two most popular sources used by the AI chatbots for queries about the Israel-Hamas war. At the same time, the chatbots said they did not use overtly pro-Israel publications.
For many Americans, the Sept. 10 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk sparked some sober reflection on the inflammatory rhetoric that has poisoned our political discourse. For Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, it was a chance to kick that rhetoric up a notch. Weingarten barreled full speed ahead with the launch of her new book, "Why Fascists Fear Teachers," within days of the tragedy. From its opening lines invoking Adolf Hitler, Weingarten's tome equates her political opponents with history's greatest evils, smearing President Donald Trump and others as "fascists." It's frighteningly similar to the language used by Tyler Robinson, Kirk's alleged killer, who wrote he'd "had enough of [Kirk's] hatred" and believed "some hate can't be negotiated out." One bullet casing at the scene allegedly bore the inscription "Hey fascist! Catch!" Yet there was Weingarten, fanning the flames by branding conservatives as fascists -- essentially suggesting that fellow Americans are "literally Hitler." And she's hardly alone. In the days after Kirk's murder Todd Wolfson, a vice president at Weingarten's union and president of the American Association of University Professors, ranted on social media that "Trump is the enemy" and equated presidential adviser Stephen Miller -- who is Jewish -- to chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. "The assassin was a disturbed right wing kid, influenced by Nick Fuentes, that likely murdered Kirk because he was not right wing enough," Wolfson declared on Facebook long after it was clear the opposite was true. The rot runs deep in the teachers' unions, and it starts at the very top. Hundreds of so-called educators publicly rejoiced in Kirk's politically motivated assassination, posting gleeful messages that crossed every line of decency. When parents and others objected, union officials dismissed the backlash as "baseless online smear campaigns." The Texas affiliate of Weingarten's AFT emailed members pledging to "vigorously defend" teachers "targeted" for celebrating Kirk's death online, and Weingarten herself issued a formal statement defending these teachers' "free speech." Sure, they have the right to spew whatever venom they want on their own time -- but employers have freedom of association, too, and taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize these individuals to indoctrinate impressionable minds with sick, divisive rhetoric. This inability to read the room -- to tone it down even after Robinson's heinous act -- is emblematic of the unions' broader messaging. Rather than simply condemning unseemly celebrations and taking responsibility for their members' words, educators are deflecting by portraying themselves as perpetual victims. This year, the AFT passed a resolution aimed at "protecting public education from right-wing extremism."
J Michael WallerCourt-sanctioned liar and Husky Huckster Michael Mann has stepped down, under pressure, from his former position of Vice Provost for Climate " " " Science " " " at UPenn, acknowledging that he is now just an angry left-wing partisan and he doesn't want to give that gig up.
@JMichaelWaller
Any time you hear someone say that America is fascist, or our president is a fascist, or the cops are fascist, you are hearing a narrative nearly a century old. Stalin's USSR started that narrative nearly a century ago. The Communist Party USA obediently followed.
Chris MartzHere are a few of the Fart Huffer's own comments, and this doesn't include whatever vicious stupidities he retweeted with the élan of a fat man floating through the air as he sniffs the air for a freshly baked pie.
@ChrisMartzWX Interesting development. Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann has resigned his position as the Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action ("VPC") at @UPenn
. This presumably comes after pushback he received for his comments and tone-deaf reposts on social media following Charlie Kirk's assassination a couple of weeks ago, although UPenn officials maintain that Mann's decision to step down was entirely his decision. However, Mann wrote on his website,So, that hints otherwise. Mann remains a distinguished professor and Director of UPenn's Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media.
Mann's comments on social media -- including reposting a message that called Kirk "the head of Trump's Hitler Youth" -- faced backlash from prominent conservative pundits and social media commentators, including Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.). The posts have since been deleted. McCormick's remarks came following a post by Mann that read, "The white on white violence has gotten out of hand." Mann also reposted several posts from other users criticizing Ezra Klein's New York Times column on the event, which was titled "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way." "This is despicable behavior," McCormick wrote on X. "This dangerous rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated. I unequivocally condemn this behavior and demand UPenn to take immediate, decisive action."Oh boo hoo hoo: When young, liberal women say they'll never date a conservative man, by which I mean a heterosexual man. As they get older and more desperate, they become more open to dating an icky conservative interested in sex with women. But here's the wonderful catch: As conservative men get older, they become less and less interested in dating a liberal. In other words: As conservative men get older and want more than sex with a friend with benefits, they turn away from promiscuous liberal women and become more and more interested in wife/mother material and less interested in blue-hair nosering basketcases.
The study found that, generally, as liberal women age, they become more open to dating a conservative man. However, their openness with age might all be for nothing. According to the study, as conservative men get older, they actually become less open to dating a liberal.
Zach GoldbergThe thread describing the poll's findings with lots of Pie Graphs is here. Bear in mind I'm a terrible cook so my idea of a "pie graph" may not resemble yours.
@ZachG932 Sep 25 8/As it happens, when further broken down by ideological orientation, we observe some evidence that young unmarried female liberal respondents disproportionately drive the difference.
For instance, 64% of young liberal women are opposed and just 12% are willing to date across political lines----rates that are higher and lower, respectively, than any other group (though the small sample sizes for some of these subgroups----e.g. just 15 young male conservative respondents----do warrant some interpretive caution).
9/ More generally, ideological orientation emerges as the most potent predictor of tolerance in our data. As shown below, for each factor tolerance tends to fall at the extremes: 'Very Liberal' and 'Very Conservative' respondents are less tolerant than their 'somewhat' and moderate counterparts. With this being said, liberal respondents are, overall, significantly less willing to engage with people of opposing political views than their conservative peers.
10/ One particularly striking pattern emerges among Very Liberal respondents: they are significantly more willing to engage with ex-felons than political opponents on average, especially when it comes to more intimate contexts. For example, whereas 29% of very liberals would be willing to date an ex-felon, just 13% would be willing to date someone with opposing political views. Among Very Conservative respondents, the pattern is reversed: 25% say they would date across party lines, while just 10% would date an ex-felon. Fully 67% say they are unwilling to date someone with a criminal history, compared to 46% unwilling to date across political lines.
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In Portland, Anti-ICE/Antifa Rioters Attack Conservative Journalist Nick Sortor;
The Portland Police Arrest Sortor and Leave the Antifa Rioters Free
The Portland Police Arrest Sortor and Leave the Antifa Rioters Free
Trump must declare a state of insurrection and assume control over all of Oregon's police forces.
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Democrat-Antifa-Media Party Ramps Up Lies to Conceal Their Agenda of Paying Illegals to Come Here and Vote for Them
Elizabeth Warren insists it's "flat-out lie" to say the truth: The Democrat-Antifa-Media Party wants to reverse the part of the Big Beautiful Bill which ends "emergency" payments to hospitals to pay for the health care of illegal aliens.
It's right in their bill. It says so. They're repealing that (or would if they could).Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren shouted over "CBS Mornings" host Tony Dokoupil on Thursday as he confronted her on Democrats wanting to give healthcare to non-citizens. Dokoupil pointed to the Democrats' counter-proposal to the Republicans' continuing resolution (CR), which Republicans said would have provided healthcare to some non-citizens that are no longer eligible for those benefits under President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill." A visibly frustrated Warren quickly interrupted Dokoupil to state that Republicans are blatantly lying about her party wanting to give healthcare to illegal immigrants. "Republicans say what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars, as they put it, for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true, but there is a provision--" Dokoupil added. "Excuse me, not strictly true. It is a flat-out lie. It is a flat-out lie!" Warren said. "There is nothing in Medicaid, there is nothing in Medicare that permits one undocumented immigrant to get one dollar of assistance. None, zero." (RELATED: JD Vance Tells Peter Doocy Government Shutdown Will Probably Not Last Too Long) "Senator, if you would like me finish the question," Dokoupil said. "In the Democratic counter offer, the proposal for funding, there is a restoration for Medicaid benefits for certain non-citizens that had been taken away in the big, beautiful bill as Republicans put it. Republicans don't think those people should be getting healthcare on the taxpayers' dime, I'm not asking on the merits. Politically, putting that in there exposes you to this talking point, this lie as you put it. Why put it in there? Why is it worth it?"Here's mustachioed villain Kaitlin Collins insisting it's a "lie" to say that Democrats want to restore Medicaid funding for illegal aliens' health care by saying "But they can't get Obamacare!" We're not saying that, Magnum P.M.S. We're saying the Democrats want to restore Medicaid reimbursements for illegal's health care.
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Left Wing Media Speculation: Manchester UK Synagogue Terrorist Is "White" and "Far Right"
Reality: Terrorist Is a Syrian Immigrant Named "Jihad al-Shamie"
No one (who consumes left-wing propaganda) could have possibly seen this coming.
Reality: Terrorist Is a Syrian Immigrant Named "Jihad al-Shamie"
Wow, what an unexpected plot twist. Not just that the Jew-hating terrorist turns out to be another fucking Islamist named "Jihad," but that the left-wing propaganda media spent another 24 hours lying about the identity of the suspect.
Pictures showed a balding man with olive skin a curly jet-black Madrassa beard. Obviously, a far-right Aryan type.No one (who consumes left-wing propaganda) could have possibly seen this coming.
No, he's an immigrant. Yes he got his citizenship in 2006... after immigrating.
The suspect behind the deadly car and knife terror attack outside a synagogue in Manchester in the United Kingdom on Thursday has been identified by police as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent.
Jihad the Syrian. Perfect.
Police said Al-Shamie entered the United Kingdom as a young child and became a citizen in 2006. He had no previous criminal record. Al-Shamie translates into English as "the Syrian," and authorities are unsure whether that is his birth name.
The Metropolitan Police in London declared the assault a terrorist attack. It came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, as large crowds of worshipers gathered at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, an Orthodox synagogue.This one was so obvious they couldn't cover it up.
The attacker's exact motive is still being probed by police.LOL, I spoke too soon. I guess they can cover it up.
The AP coming at you with straight facts.
Neighbors of the attacker in the Manchester suburb of Prestwich, a couple of miles from the synagogue, said Al-Shamie's family had lived in a house there for years. Several described seeing Al-Shamie lifting weights and working out in the backyard. Geoff Halliwell, who lives nearby, told The Associated Press that he appeared to be "a straightforward, ordinary lad."
Al-Shamie is accused of ramming a car into pedestrians outside the synagogue at around 9:30 a.m. local time and then attacking them with a knife. He wore what appeared to be an explosives belt, which was found to be fake. Armed police declared a major incident and opened fire minutes later, killing the suspect.The British police responded to an attack on a synagogue by shooting the Jews. Perfect. Exactly what we've come to expect from the colonized, conquered British.
In an update, police said that Al-Shamie was not armed and that one of the deceased victims suffered a gunshot wound likely from police gunfire during the response. One hospitalized victim also suffered a gunshot wound, police said.
... Police arrested three people Thursday on suspicion of the preparation or commission of acts of terrorism. They are two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s.May their motives never be known. Remember how, after every grisly Muslim terrorist attack on civilians, Jihadi Muslims pretended to be scared of "backlash" and minded their Ps and Qs for a couple of weeks? Well they only do that before they conquer a country. Once they've conquered it, they take to the streets to celebrate their latest murders and chant for the murders of more Jews.
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Gallup: Trust In the Demonic Democrat-Antifa Media Hits All-Time Low; 70% of Public Has Little Or No Trust in the "Press"
The numbers are boosted by the older generation, of which 43% still say they trust the media. This accounts for the sudden shift of older people to the Democrats (or perhaps their shift to the Democrats accounts for their bizarre belief that Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter are giving them the straight news).
That 8% are Bulwark and Dispatch staffers. They are Paid to Believe.
Americans' trust in the media has slumped to an all-time low, according to a Gallup survey released Thursday. Nearly seven in ten Americans say they don't trust the press -- a finding underscored by recent controversies over coverage of the Charlie Kirk assassination and the murder of a Ukrainian on a light rail in North Carolina. Just 28% of Americans say they have a "great deal" or "fair amount" of confidence in newspapers, television, and radio to report the news "fully, accurately and fairly" compared to 31% last year, according to a Gallup survey released Thursday. By contrast, 34% say they have no trust at all, and another 36% say they have "not very much" confidence. Confidence in the media breaks sharply along party lines. Republican trust in the media has fallen to 8%, the first time it has dropped into single digits.
Among Democrats, the numbers are down to 51% who have a great or fair amount of trust in the media. Only 9% say they have no trust. The Independents are more evenly divided, with 27% expressing trust and 32% reporting none at all. ... Trust in the media also shows a clear generational divide that has widened over the past decade, according to three-year aggregated data. From 2023 to 2025, 43% of adults 65 and older said they trust the media, compared with no more than 28% in any younger age group, Gallup found. ... Despite the growing trend of left-wing extremist violence, between Jan. 21 and June 21, news outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS used labels such as "far right" 1,222 times compared with just 86 mentions of "far left" or similar labels, according to the Media Research Center. Moreover, corporate media outlets largely ignored the stabbing death of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, for several days, despite news of the brutal incident going viral on social media, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found in September. CNN also faced criticism for appearing to downplay anti-fascist messages found on ammunition near the site of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's assassination, referring to the markings as "a range of phrases related to cultural issues."
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Unhelpful in the Battle Against Socialism’s Growing Appeal: Sherwin Williams Eliminates Employees’ 401(k) Match Amidst Stock Buybacks and Increased CEO Compensation
“Sherwin-Williams said to pause 401(k) matching as macro headwinds dent sales” [MSN / Seeking Alpha – 9/17/2025]
“Sherwin-Williams said to pause 401(k) matching as macro headwinds dent sales” [MSN / Seeking Alpha – 9/17/2025]
Sherwin-Williams will temporarily suspend its matching contributions to employee 401(k) plans due to weak sales and higher costs, Cleveland.com reported this month, citing an internal communication. The suspension will apply to the paint manufacturer's policy of matching 100% of the first 6% of eligible employee 401(k) contributions, starting October 1. CEO Heidi Petz said the decision was a result of high mortgage rates weakening housing demand and inflation reducing DIY demand. Tariff policies also dented industrial demand and raised costs for the company. "Sherwin-Williams is not immune from these conditions, which have lasted longer and been more impactful than anticipated," Petz said, adding that macroeconomic headwinds will likely persist through at least the first half of 2026. The company has also taken up cost-saving measures such as reducing third-party spending, delaying new hires and restructuring global assets.I’ve read several news reports about the financial headwinds forcing Sherwin to cut employees’ compensation via suspension of the 401(k) match, but I have not been able to find any documentation of “cost savings” to be realized by giving a haircut to executive bonus plans. Neither have I been able to find any reporting that stock buybacks are being suspended to conserve cash. Whenever I discuss executive pay, I receive some pushback arguing that stock incentives are not an expense, and therefore do not affect a company’s profit. That’s true. Executive stock incentives come from diluting the ownership of existing shareholders and redistributing it to company executives. But when a company uses its cash to buy back shares, and then it awards stock shares to its executives, it is a two-step distribution of the company’s cash and equity to its executives.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte
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The Morning Report — 10/3/25
As we continue to await an official casualty count because of the federal government shutdown, predicted to be in the millions by such distended grapefruits in a mesh bag dragging on the sidewalk bescrotumed decrepit momzers as Bernie Sanders, himself a cheerleader of mass death as his fellow commies in a little over a century racked up well over 100 million, and still counting.
And he has the unmitigated cutzpocritical gall after all the death, misery, dislocation, dissolution and waste of life, wealth and potential at the hands of the DemoKKKrats to declare
And yet, with all the gloom and doom predicted, this happened:
Elsewhere, out in southern California last night . . .
And as I and others have stated here and elsewhere it won't be long before this insanity comes here if it isn't here already as the campus centered Jew-baiting in the wake of the 10/7 Gaza-led mass wave pogrom has shown. Have a great weekend! And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know
This would be hilarious were it not prophetic pic.twitter.com/r3gdxqIsAG
— J.J. Sefton (@therealJJSefton) October 2, 2025
As we continue to await an official casualty count because of the federal government shutdown, predicted to be in the millions by such distended grapefruits in a mesh bag dragging on the sidewalk bescrotumed decrepit momzers as Bernie Sanders, himself a cheerleader of mass death as his fellow commies in a little over a century racked up well over 100 million, and still counting.
And he has the unmitigated cutzpocritical gall after all the death, misery, dislocation, dissolution and waste of life, wealth and potential at the hands of the DemoKKKrats to declare
. . . President Donald Trump’s second term has become “the worst crisis in America literally since the Civil War.” . . we are living in an unprecedentedly dangerous moment, possibly the worst crisis in America since the Civil War. You have a president who is acting unconstitutionally and illegally. Guess what? These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And then basically to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn’t vote for Donald Trump, well, we’re going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state, illegal, outrageous, unconstitutional.”Vayr ge hargit already, Lose yourself among the dozens of rooms in your Vermont mansions, so that even maggots and blowflies will get lost trying to follow the stench of your accursed, miserable rotting corpse.
And yet, with all the gloom and doom predicted, this happened:
Global stocks gained and gold traded near record highs on Thursday as investors took in their stride the potential ramifications of a U.S. government shutdown, while a weak private U.S. labor market report bolstered bets for Federal Reserve rate cuts. Investors have been largely sanguine about the shutdown’s impact on the markets and economy, helped by data of past shutdowns that showed limited fallouts. Morgan Stanley, for example, said U.S. share prices have risen an average 4.4% while real U.S. economic growth has expanded 2.2% during shutdowns in the past.
Elsewhere, out in southern California last night . . .
A massive fire erupted at a Chevron oil refinery outside of Los Angeles on Thursday night, forcing residents to shelter in place following multiple reports of an explosion. Californians said they felt the blast come from Chevron’s refinery — the company’s second-biggest site in the US — in El Segundo, Calif., at around 9:30 p.m., the Los Angeles Times reported. “I thought we got nuked or something,” Mark Rogers told the outlet, saying his adult soccer league match in Redondo Beach was canceled moments later because of the heavy smoke coming from the blaze roughly 6 miles away.Well, here's a golden opportunity for Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass to seize the land and convert it into low-income housing while at the same time destroying the fossil fuel industry. Win-win, nein?! With everything going on in the world and here at home, it would not surprise me if this was not the result of enemy action. Foreign or domestic enemies or some combination of both given the nature of global Islam and communism. Speaking of the former, It won't be long now before Albion wakes up to discover Westminster Abbey is now Hagia Sophia 2, Global Caliphate boogaloo. Right on the heels of a Yom Kippur terror attack in Manchester, we had this madness in London, right at Keir Starmer-bahnfuhrer's doorstep!
After the Muslim terrorist attack at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, PM Keir Starmer made remarks claiming that he’s going to fight “antisemitic hatred”. It might have be more useful to fight Islamic terrorism, but in any case his party’s base would like to go in a very different direction. As they showed when they showed up as a mob to protest not killing Jews. The “peaceful protest” was one of those that have “death” chants.
And as I and others have stated here and elsewhere it won't be long before this insanity comes here if it isn't here already as the campus centered Jew-baiting in the wake of the 10/7 Gaza-led mass wave pogrom has shown. Have a great weekend! And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know
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- The 1,000-acre El Segundo facility, operated by Chevron, has its own fire department battling the blaze with assistance from the El Segundo Fire Department, KCAL News reported. “We were able to respond with Chevron fire immediately, our station is about a .25 mile away from the gates of Chevron,” El Segundo Mayor Christ Pimentel told the outlet. “Obviously, we are very concerned, and there is a lot of investigative work to be done to see what has happened.”
Massive fire breaks out at California oil refinery as residents feel explosion rock area: ‘Thought we got nuked’
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Daily Tech News 3 October 2025
Top Story
- OpenAI reported a revenue of $4.3 billion for the first six months of 2025. (Tech in Asia)
Unfortunately, they spent $17.8 billion.
But they'll make it up in volume.
- Speaking of which a college student was caught after a wild and apparently drunken rampage destroying parked cars because he asked ChatGPT if the police had any way of knowing he did it. (The Smoking Gun)
The incriminating ChatGPT conversation--filled with typos--opened with Schaefer asking, "How fucked am I" and "qilll I go to jail." After the AI program "gave tips about the potential outcome of getting caught or being involved in this kind of behavior," Schaefer typed, "What if I smashed the shit outta mutlipls cars."
Oh, and his own phone placed him at the scene.
And it was all caught on security cameras.
Not too bright, this lad.
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October 02, 2025
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 2, 2025 [Doof]
Chugging into October and autumn!
Chugging into October and autumn!
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Castle Freak Cafe
Castle Butron, Bizkaia, Spanien
by Tony Findeisen
Castle Butron, Bizkaia, Spanien
by Tony Findeisen
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Anti-Woke Dissident Liberal to Join CBS as Editor-in-Chief of News
Is she a conservative? Nah, son, she's a lesbian who can't go three seconds without mentioning that she's married to a woman. She's probably further to the left, ideologically, than Hillary Clinton.
But she's been against leftwing censorship consistently. She does recognize the threat of establishment liberals using force and coercion to impose their bizarre anti-factual conspiracy-theory demonic ideology on a population who hates it. She herself was purged from the New York Times. Google's Woke Satanic AI insists to me she wasn't "purged" at all, merely forced to resign by the entire newsroom bullying her over her "centrist positions."Bari Weiss was not purged from The New York Times; she resigned in July 2020 after alleging that the newspaper fostered a "hostile work environment" where she was bullied by colleagues for her centrist viewpoints. Her resignation followed a period of internal turmoil, including the controversy over an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton.Well that's nothing at all like a purge, is it? The most egregious, hateful part of current leftist ideology is their insistence that they will weaponize all the institutional power they've acquired through decades of the Long March Through the Institutions, purging conservatives and then moderates and forever recruiting and promoting ever-harder-left ideologues, to compel everyone outside the Demonic Church of the Left to comply or die. At least she opposes that. This is a sea change at the ultra-left propaganda network CBS. Yes, Bari Weiss is just a liberal. But she's not a power-craving "shitlib" like all of the establishment fascist leftists are.
Third place. Everyone continues chasing the shrinking far-left audience that everyone else despises. Roger Ailes famously said that cleverly discovered a very hidden underserved market -- half of the f***ing country. Will CBS News vault to first place as it becomes the less liberal news? Yes, probably, though... you know, the networks are dying. CBS will the sexiest patient in the hospice.
Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days -- giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned. Weiss -- a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent -- is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said. In a remarkable reshuffle of CBS News' decades-old management structure, Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the Tiffany Network's third-place news division, a source close to the situation said.
Weiss's direct line to Ellison means she will not report to CBS News president Tom Cibrowski, who currently reports to George Cheeks, chair of TV media at Paramount Skydance. No further details could be immediately learned about how Weiss would work with Cibrowski. Insiders said the hiring of Weiss casts doubts on speculation about the possible return of former CBS President David Rhodes to the network, with one source saying their job candidacies were an "either/or" situation.That's Ben Rhodes' brother, a man whom establishment country-club Republicans like Brit Hume exist is "moderate." Moderate, but presiding, somehow, over a hard-left antifa propaganda operation.
Oh no, I'd hate to see any establishment fascist liberals lose their jobs. I sure hope that multi-millionaire Ratings Poison Gayle King doesn't get her Oprah-Dick-Riding ass fired. The far left -- by which I mean "The Democrat Party" -- is fuming.
Sources told The Post that Weiss could be a strong counterpart to Cibrowski, a former "Good Morning America" executive who is regarded more as a production wizard than a journalist. Others said they expect it will only be a matter of time before Weiss -- who has emerged as a leading voice against antisemitism and the "woke" elites in mainstream media -- zeroes in on Cibrowski's job. "Bari is extremely ambitious. Tom had better watch out," a source close to both parties said.
Puck News reported the move "would inevitably inspire blowback from various corners of the newsroom," but not everyone at CBS News was alarmed. "Maybe more free thought, free expression is on the way. Nothing to fear here," one CBS News staffer told Fox News Digital in September.BTW, Weiss is reportedly being paid $150 million in cash and stock for her start-up webzine the Free Press. Previous reports said $100-200 million and darnit if it didn't turn out to be right in the middle.
Left-wing commentators, however, fumed at the idea, claiming that hiring "one of the most polarizing figures in media" would only further erode media trust and amount to a "right-wing grift." Weiss, a classical liberal who famously exited The New York Times in 2020 after bullying from far-left colleagues, has largely been ostracized by the cultural left for The Free Press' reporting that challenges DEI, gender ideology and media narratives against Israel during its ongoing war with Hamas.
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