August 12, 2025
Daily Tech News 12 August 2025
Top Story
- Thomas Dhomke, the GitHub CEO who just told programmers to either adopt AI for development or leave the industry, has left the industry. (GitHub)
He'll be leaving GitHub at the end of the year.
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August 11, 2025
Monday Overnight Open Thread - August 11, 2025 [Doof]
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Monday Cafe<
Potash Road near Moab, Utah
I've linked this video of a border collie playing volleyball a couple of times before, but this clip emphasizes the dog's happiness when he realizes they won the point.
I've also linked this, but in case you missed it: If your baby is crying, throw a slice of cheese on his head. Works every time.
America's Funniest Home Animal Videos.
No roughhousing in the pool!
This puppy must be saved: He's on his way to becoming a Theater Kid.
Dogs doing whatever is necessary to avoid bathing. Have they tried blogging?
Baby gorilla acting silly.
Never. Stop. Herding.
I repeat: Never. Stop. Herding.
Dog and baby discover they have a shared interest in filth.
Dog makes the bed (by dog standards).
Potash Road near Moab, Utah
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Quick Hits
In an Emerson poll of California Democrats, Kamala Harris placed third in preference for party presidential nominee.
I've never seen lesbians so fearful of free dildos:
In an Emerson poll of California Democrats, Kamala Harris placed third in preference for party presidential nominee.
California is, of course, this Canadian Jamaican's "home" state. Big LOL on Tienanmen Tim running for president. Trump says that the Pelosis' insane stock market wizardry is on-its-face proof of "INSIDER TRADING." Of course it is. But does anyone have the courage to prosecute?
Emerson College's August 4–5, 2025 poll found Newsom leading with 23%, Buttigieg at 17%, Harris at 11%, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 9% among likely Democrat primary voters. The survey sampled 1,000 active registered voters statewide, with a Democrat primary subset of 444 likely voters and a +/- 4.6 percentage point credibility interval. Breitbart News has reported that some Senate Democrats were wary of Harris making another White House run, while her 2024 running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has left the door open to a future campaign.
President Donald Trump on Saturday accused Nancy Pelosi and her husband of insider trading, saying their 2024 market gains "beat every hedge fund" and could only be explained by "INSIDE INFORMATION." Key Details: On Saturday, Trump's post on Truth Social mocked Pelosi and her husband as "very average minds" who somehow outperformed "all of the super geniuses on Wall Street" last year. He questioned whether anyone was investigating the matter. In a May interview on The Alex Marlow Show, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) accused Pelosi of making "hundreds of millions of dollars" off insider knowledge acquired as a member of Congress. Hawley reintroduced his Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act, which would bar members of Congress and their families from trading or holding stocks. Hawley pointed out Pelosi's salary has never exceeded roughly $200,000, yet she and her husband reportedly beat nearly every hedge fund's returns in 2024. He suggested her wealth accumulation "cannot be done legally" and noted past trades--such as Paul Pelosi's purchase of up to $5 million in semiconductor stock ahead of a Senate subsidy vote--as prime examples of why the bill is needed.Texas AG Ken Paxton filed a motion with Texas' Supreme Court to fire the ringleaders of the runaway Texas legislators.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Friday asking the state's Supreme Court to declare 13 Democrat-held seats vacant after lawmakers fled the state to block legislative business. Paxton accused the "runaway" members of abandoning their constitutional duties and violating their oath of office.And a judge has put a restraining order on Robert Francis O'Rourke -- who calls himself "Beto" for political purposes -- to stop him from illegally fundraising and paying bribe money to the runaway Democrats.
Republican ad directors, clip this: Robert Francis O'Rourke also vows that the next time Democrats take power, they will grant amnesty to every single illegal alien, which includes all the rapists, kidnappers, child predators, and killers.
A Texas judge ruled Friday against Beto O'Rourke and his nonprofit in a case brought by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused them of illegally raising funds to support Democratic lawmakers fleeing the state to block GOP redistricting legislation. Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey handed down a temporary restraining order Friday evening against O'Rourke, a former congressman and Democratic presidential candidate, and his group, Powered by People, over alleged "unlawful fundraising practices" tied to efforts to support Texas Democrats who fled the state -- including funding air travel, lodging, logistics and daily fines. "Defendants have and will continue to engage in unlawful fundraising practices and utilization of political funds in a manner that either directly violates or causes Texas Democratic Legislators to violate [the law]," Fahey wrote in her Friday evening ruling. "Consumer have and continue to suffer irreparable harm through these unlawful acts because they are making political contributions that are being used to fund personal expenses and violate state law."
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke told supporters in Fort Worth on Saturday that Democrats cannot afford to squander another chance at controlling the federal government. Speaking at a rally titled "The People vs. The Power Grab," O'Rourke recalled how Democrats campaigned on immigration reform only to abandon the pledge after taking full control in both 2008 and 2020. "You know, Democrats -- present company excluded -- have talked an awful good game on immigration for as long as I have been listening," O'Rourke said. "You know, if you just keep voting for us, once we get in power, comprehensive immigration reform. Well, we won power, in 2008 -- the White House, the House, and the Senate. We won power in 2020 -- the White House, the House, and the Senate. The American people were watching, because we had promised them what we would do with that power, and we absolutely failed to live up to the expectation that we set." He then vowed that if Democrats take power again, "we're going to drive that car like we stole it, we're going to legalize every Dreamer, every Dreamer's parents, every hard-working American doing back breaking work, that makes this country so Goddamn great in the first place -- even greater as U.S. citizens."Vance: If you want to govern like Trump, you have to redistrict like Democrats.
Vice President JD Vance blasted Democrats Sunday for "rigging" the census by counting illegal immigrants to pad blue-state House seats. He urged Republicans to fight back with Trump-led redistricting and a census overhaul. Key Details: Vance told Sunday Morning Futures that Democrats benefit from counting illegal immigrants in congressional apportionment, giving states like California more House seats than they should have.
He praised President Donald Trump's push for a new census excluding illegal immigrants, saying Republicans need "backbone" to redraw maps in red states as aggressively as Democrats do in blue states.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a court to vacate the seats of Texas Democrats who fled to New York and Illinois to block GOP redistricting, a move backed by groups tied to Beto O'Rourke and George Soros.
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Kash Patel: We're On Track to Achieve the Lowest National Murder Rate in Modern History
In other words: Authoritarianism.
That last one looks like an increase in child victimization but of course it's an increase in detection of such crimes.
FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday stated that the U.S. was on track to reach its lowest murder rate in modern American history as the president moved to deploy the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and to assume control of the city police. "And the murder rates are plummeting. We are now able to report that the murder rate is on track to be the lowest in US history, in modern reported US history, thanks to this team behind me and President Trump's priorities," Patel stated at a press conference. "This year alone, under President Trump's administration, we've had over 4,000 child victims identified and found that's a 33% increase from the same time period last year, 33% increase," he added.
"We've had a seizure of 1500 kilograms of fentanyl up to this date, that is a 25% increase since the same time period last year. And just to put it in perspective, 1500 kilograms of fentanyl is enough to kill 115 million Americans." "Cops are getting after it. The FBI has arrested 19,000 people this year alone, thanks to President Trump's administration. That's double than where we were this time last year," Patel went on. "And we have also arrested 1,600 people who have committed violent acts against children. 270 of them are human traffickers of children.More:
In the same 200-day period, agents arrested more than 1,600 people for violent crimes against children, including 270 human trafficking arrests, and located over 4,000 child victims. The bureau also made 1,000 arrests tied to foreign terrorist organizations and seized 6,300 kilos of methamphetamine, which Patel called "lives saved."
Byron York
@ByronYork Trump is imagining a Washington DC with a far lower crime rate than its residents have become accustomed to. Many of those residents will oppose him for it. It's like they are protective of their crime rate, now that Trump is threatening it.
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Mangy Foreign Rat Jon Oliver: Nuts to Jay Leno, Comedy Is All About Political Partisanship
Jay Leno was one of the most successful comedians in world history. He never even touched his Tonight Show salary, living entirely on his comedy show income, which he continued doing well past the Tonight Show gig. He made the brilliant calculation to never do a comedy show for broadcast, figuring, correctly, that his act was worth tens of millions of dollars over a lifetime, whereas releasing a DVD would net him maybe $100,000. He made so much money from his road gigs that it was nothing to him to give up $10 million per year of his NBC salary to keep his entire staff on without any firings or salary reductions. I'm a mid-tier fan of Leno's comedy. I never had any interest in his Tonight Show stuff, but as an actual working comedian, there are few in history who have made the fortune he has just standing on stage, one man one mic, telling jokes he wrote. How snotty and overly fond of oneself do you have to be to proclaim that Jay Leno has nothing of value to say about comedy?
John Oliver doesn't care about Jay Leno's opinions. The "Last Week Tonight" host, 48, responded to Leno, 75, recently criticizing late-night TV hosts for alienating half their audience with one-sided political jabs. "I'm going to take a hard pass on taking comedic advice from Jay Leno," Oliver told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Tuesday.
He literally never insulted viewers. He's a coward who only placates and flatters his leftwing audience. He insults non-viewers.
The British comedian also defended sometimes upsetting viewers with jokes on his show.
... "I guess I don't think it's a question of what you should do because I don't think comedy is prescriptive in that way," he added. "It's just what people want. I think our show clearly comes from a point of view, but most of those long stories we do are not party political. They're about systemic issues.""Systemic issues" like racism and transphobia. Totally not "party political." In addition, 90% of his "stories" end in an explicit activist call to action. John Oliver's gimmick was to rouse the audience to join in some stupid hastag or internet trend to push certain political outcomes. But not "party political" at all!
These are his examples of stories he does that might upset liberals? He knocks air traffic controllers (almost certainly in a story attacking Trump for defunding the FAA or some nonsense) and he wants us to believe his braindead liberal clapping seals are really "upset" by jokes about air traffic controllers? Hey, if you really want to be edgy and rile up your viewers, tell jokes about airplane food. Have you tasted it?! It's not very good at all! Zing! Got 'em!
Oliver, who has hosted "Last Week Tonight" since 2014, pointed out that he doesn't only discuss divisive political issues on the HBO show. The British comedian defended sometimes upsetting viewers with jokes on his show. "Our last few shows were about gang databases, AI slop, juvenile justice, med spas, air traffic control," he said. "I'm not saying that these don't have a point of view in them. Of course they do. But I hope a lot of them actually reach across people's political persuasions."
LOL. We just want people to agree that liberal panic issues are real stories -- global warming, "white supremacy," Israel's "genocide," Trump's "authoritarianism," six year olds unable to receive "gender affirming care" -- while agreeing that things conservatives care about like uncontrolled immigration and unpunished violent crime are "fake issues" that Republicans make up to divide us and push their racist agenda.
"You want people to at least be able to agree on the problem," Oliver added, "even if you disagree on what the solution to it is."
... Oliver said after Colbert's show was axed that the decision was "terrible news for the world of comedy."What a surprising opinion that is sure to upset many of John Oliver's viewers. I wanted to update the Howard Stern story: Many people are reporting he's been "cancelled." He hasn't been. There is merely reported to be talk that Sirius doesn't want to pay him any longer, and Stern is meanwhile claiming he may retire. I now realize that all of this talk is happening around a contract renegotiation. As a longtime fan of James Bond since the Roger Moore years (wait, how can I possibly be 28 years old?!), I remember well the dance that Roger Moore and Cubby Broccoli would do every couple of years. Moore would say "I'm thinking of turning in my Walther PPK" and Cubby Broccoli would say he's ready to go in a new direction and leak to the media that he had screentested actors to replace Bond. (Like... American actor James Brolin?! In the scene, he and First Tier Bond Girl Maude Adams play out a key scene from From Russia With Love. Adams would impress them so much that they'd just cast her, for the second time, as a Bond girl, this time in Octopussy.) And then they'd come to terms. Broccoli would give Moore a raise and he would sign on to do another Bond film. (And he agreed to do one more Bond film too many.) I just wanted to point this out because people are psyched that Starn is being cancelled. He may be. But Sirius might just be saying they don't want to sign him to get Stern to reduce his demands. And they may be the ones who leaked his current (alleged) ratings of 125,000, down from 20 million. I do think he might well end up being cancelled because there just may be no number that the perverted narcissist Howard Stern is prepared to swallow his pride and accept, which Sirius could also agree to. But he might not be. Unfortunately. Other news going around that is, sadly, Fake News is the claim that The View has been cancelled.
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Trump Announces Peace Deal Between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ending 35 Year War
He deserves it, but won't get it. To get the Nobel Peace Prize, you need to accomplish absolutely nothing in bringing about Peace, like America's first gay president Barack Obama did.
President Donald Trump on Friday announced a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, ending decades of conflict and creating a new trade corridor called the "Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity." Key Details: Trump hosted Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for the signing in the Oval Office, later announcing the agreement in the State Dining Room. The pact commits both countries to permanently end fighting, normalize relations, and respect sovereignty, while granting Azerbaijan full access to Nakhichevan -- a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan separated from the rest of the country by Armenia -- via a U.S.-partnered transit route that could last up to 99 years. U.S. companies are expected to invest heavily in the region, with Trump also announcing new bilateral agreements on trade, energy, and technology -- including artificial intelligence.
... Trump drew parallels to his earlier success using trade leverage to secure peace deals, such as the agreement he brokered between Thailand and Cambodia. Both leaders praised Trump for bringing the 35-year conflict to an end. Aliyev called it "a day which will be remembered by the people of Azerbaijan with a feeling of pride and gratitude to President Trump," while Pashinyan described it as "a significant milestone" in bilateral relations, crediting Trump's "personal engagement and resolute commitment to peace in our region."
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Explosion at Pennsylvania Steel Plant Kills at Least One, Injures Dozens
Dozens of people are wounded and trapped under rubble after an explosion occurred Monday at a U.S. Steel plant in western Pennsylvania. Emergency workers on site are trying to rescue those who are still trapped, according to the Associated Press.Although the government hasn't confirmed any deaths, a reporter says at least one person has died.
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Harmeet Dillon: Officials Who Weaponized the Government Against Political Enemies May Face Indictments
This seems like a broadening of the scope of the criminal investigation. She's not just talking about Brennan, she's talking about going after the officials who weaponized the DOJ to prosecute MAGA supporters.
Remember when the DOJ made very controversial cash-money payments to Hillary Clinton's Inside Operators Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, allegedly for "invasion of privacy"? Would it surprise you to learn that the man who authorized this $2 million in payments to Hillary's operatives is a "left-wing activist"?
A top Justice Department lawyer is warning that federal agents and intelligence officers who weaponized their government powers for political purposes could face criminal charges under civil rights laws created to fight injustices during the Jim Crow era more than a half-century ago. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon cautioned in an interview with Just the News that she could not discuss any specific investigations or potential suspect. But she said recent reports that one or more grand juries were probing the weaponization of government powers against President Trump and his associates or followers might have given good reason for current and former FBI and CIA officials to hire lawyers. "This, again, goes back to those Reconstruction Era statutes that sought to remedy the vestiges of racism, and we had some terrible incidents in our country's history of law enforcement officials conspiring to deprive African Americans of their civil rights," she said in a wide-ranging interview with the "Just the News, No Noise" television show. "And that is where some of these laws stem from." "But they're broader than that, and so it can be a crime for government officials, either together or in conspiring with non-government officials, to violate people's civil rights," she explained. "That's also a civil violation. I've actually sued over that in California for pro-life activists. And you know, we have long-standing cases involving these issues, and so I think, you know, government officials may think, because nobody ever bothers to enforce these statutes, that they're immune, and they can do whatever they want." "Not so, and I think that's why you're seeing some people tongue-in-cheek saying that in DC, every lawyer is being retained .... as these investigations have begun to hit the newswires," she added. ... The laws were seldom successfully used against police officers during the 1960's, but have been more commonly used against police misconduct over the last three decades, starting most notably with the infamous 1993 Rodney King case where four LAPD officers involved were captured on videotape beating King.
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Official Who Approved $2 Million Payout To Disgraced Russia Hoaxers Identified As Left-Wing Activist Brian Netter Netter now works for a group chaired by Marc Elias, who helped run the Russia collusion hoax. The Department of Justice official who signed off on $2 million in taxpayer-funded payments to disgraced Russia collusion hoax participants left the Department of Justice to help lead the "legal resistance" to President Donald Trump and other duly-elected Republicans, new records reviewed exclusively by The Federalist reveal. FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, sued the Department of Justice over the release of messages detailing their role in pushing the Clinton campaign's Russia collusion hoax. They said the release of the messages that were written using government resources violated their privacy. The Biden administration rewarded the duo with lucrative payouts. Strozk received $1.2 million in taxpayer funds while Page received an $800,000 settlement. "[W]e have identified Brian Netter, Deputy Assistant Attorney General as the individual that approved the settlement agreements," a DOJ official told the Center to Advance Security in America, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2024, when the payouts were publicly announced. Netter was the deputy assistant attorney general for the Federal Programs Branch during the term of President Joe Biden. Netter currently serves as the legal director at Democracy Forward, a Democrat Party-affiliated group launched in 2017 to fight President Trump with lawfare. The group brags that it took Trump to court more than 100 times in his first term in office. It has continued its use of the courts to win political battles into his second term in office. "Liberal Legal Group Positions Itself as a Top Trump Administration Foe," touted The New York Times last November.So the perpetrators of weaponization get paid off big-time and their victims get nothing but hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars in legal bills? Christian Adams of PJMedia calls for the DOJ to make restitution to citizens illegally targeted by a weaponized government.
There are real victims of Biden's weaponized Justice Department, and it is time to make them whole. The fix is quick, easy, and immune to judicial meddling. Consider the outrageous prosecution of Douglass Mackey. The Biden Justice Department went after him for tweeting a joke that Hillary supporters could vote by text in 2016. It was telling that he was indicted four years after the tweet, just days after Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed his ridiculous conviction this year because "no rational jury" could have found him guilty. ... James Smith, Erik D. Paulsen, F. Turner Buford, and William J. Gullotta, check your email. Despite his exoneration, Mackey still had hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees. He is not alone. Across America, innocent bystanders were forced to respond to Justice Department subpoenas investigating the Russia collusion hoax and the January 6 investigation. ... The Judgment Fund is a pot of money sitting at the Treasury Department used to pay "judicially and administratively ordered monetary awards against the United States." The federal regulation that governs the fund, 31 CFR § 256.1, says it can be used to pay "amounts owed under compromise agreements negotiated by the U.S. Department of Justice in settlement of claims" against the government. The Judgment Fund is a "permanent, indefinite appropriation" that pays out millions of dollars for mistakes, errors, and violations of federal law committed by federal agencies and federal employees. The "permanent, indefinite appropriation" language means that the money just magically shows up for Treasury and the Justice Department to use without needing a specific appropriation from Congress.Side-benefit: People claiming such restitution will also wind up making a case against the government officials that targeted them, creating a paper trail to justify their firing.
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Trump Announces DC Homeless Are Being Moved Out and DC Criminals Are Going to Jail
Will Federalize DC Police
Will Federalize DC Police
President Trump on Sunday vowed to "take our Capital back," pledging to move the homeless "far from the Capital" and jail criminals "very fast" with "no MR. NICE GUY." Key Details: Trump said the homeless will be provided housing "far from the Capital" while criminals "will be put in jail where you belong." He compared the planned crackdown to his border enforcement policies. The president's comments come after 19-year-old Edward Coristine, a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer, was beaten by about 10 juveniles while trying to stop a carjacking last Sunday. Two suspects have been arrested, and a $10,000 reward is offered for information leading to the others. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said the city will cooperate with federal law enforcement but claimed there is "no crime spike."Yes there is. As in many other post-George-Floyd blue cities, cops have been told to simply not make arrests.
Diving Deeper: President Donald Trump on Sunday took aim at Washington, DC's crime and homelessness, vowing an aggressive federal push to "make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before." Writing on Truth Social, Trump said, "The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital." He added that criminals "don't have to move out. We're going to put you in jail where you belong. It's all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. This will be easier -- Be prepared! There will be no 'MR. NICE GUY.'" ... Last Thursday, Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement in DC to combat crime. Some Republicans have floated a federal takeover of the city, which operates under the 1973 Home Rule Act, giving Congress the authority to override local laws. ... DC remains one of the most dangerous cities in the country, ranking fourth in homicide rates in 2023, according to USA Facts. "It is our capital city. It is more violent than Baghdad. It is more violent than parts of Ethiopia, than parts of many of the most dangerous places in the world," White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller told reporters last week.Hello everybody. It's a wonderful day for a Monday. Update: His announcement of the DC crackdown is below. He announced that he's using his powers to federalize the DC police and he's sending in the National Guard.
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THE MORNING RANT: Canada Has Recognized the Nation of Palestine, Trump Should Recognize the Independence of Alberta & Quebec
I genuinely believe that President Trump’s “Canada as a 51st state” posturing has actually been an “art of the deal” play to make annexing Alberta the compromise position. Once Alberta has safely found refuge under the Stars and Stripes, we should also rescue and annex Saskatchewan too. Canada ultimately is powerless to stop breakaway provinces. Recognition from the United States that Alberta and Quebec are free and independent, and that we will provide all resources and aid necessary to ensure their independence, may be all that is needed to break up the terror-supporting nation of Canada.
The Canadian government has announced that it will be recognizing “Palestine” as an independent nation next month. Donald Trump should respond by recognizing the independence of Alberta and Quebec, and offering whatever US security and aid is necessary for those provinces to liberate themselves from the Canadian federation, if requested.
Under Hamas, Palestinians have rejected self-rule under a two-state solution that would include a safe and free Israel living in peace next to Gaza. With the October 7, 2023 invasion and mass murder of Israeli civilians, the Palestinians have made it clear that they will only settle for a one-state solution, in which Israelis are killed en masse. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has now let it be known that he sides with the Palestinians in their murderous zeal to have a Jew-free Palestine “from the river to the sea” where Israel now exists. “Canada says it plans to recognize Palestine as a state, joining the U.K. and France” [CBS – 7/31/2025]Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will recognize Palestine as a state in September at the United Nations General Assembly, following similar announcements from the United Kingdom and France. "The deepening suffering of civilians leaves no room for delay in co-ordinated international action to support peace, security, and the dignity of all human life," Carney said in a statement Wednesday.
President Trump’s message to the UK, France, and Canada recognizing a Palestinian state:
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 30, 2025
"You're rewarding terrorists!"
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“Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social shortly after midnight. “That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!” he added.While I have no problem with using economic sanctions or tariffs against terror-supporting countries, which is what Mark Carney’s Canada has become, a better punishment would be to help liberate its restless provinces. Quebec has had several secession votes over the years, and there is a strong desire for independence among its French-speaking majority. It should be known that the United States recognizes the independent nation of Quebec if it should announce its independence from Canada. As for Alberta, a conservative province whose agricultural and energy industries are under attack from the radical leftists who control the Canadian government, there is a strong and growing independence movement. Donald Trump should give it a nudge by recognizing the sovereignty of Alberta to pursue nationhood – or U.S. statehood – if it so desires.
Canada has a legal duty to negotiate if Alberta votes to leave.
— Rise Of Alberta (@RiseOfAlberta) August 6, 2025
If they refuse?
The U.S. could step in and recognize Alberta as a sovereign nation.
That changes everything.#AlbertaIndependence pic.twitter.com/ygIFLZypcz
I genuinely believe that President Trump’s “Canada as a 51st state” posturing has actually been an “art of the deal” play to make annexing Alberta the compromise position. Once Alberta has safely found refuge under the Stars and Stripes, we should also rescue and annex Saskatchewan too. Canada ultimately is powerless to stop breakaway provinces. Recognition from the United States that Alberta and Quebec are free and independent, and that we will provide all resources and aid necessary to ensure their independence, may be all that is needed to break up the terror-supporting nation of Canada.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Frans Hals
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The Morning Report — 8/11/25
Meh, if President Trump invented a cure for cancer, his and our enemies would be screaming louder than the Concord's engines at full volume through a stack of Marshall amps in defense of sweet innocent cancer from "literally Hitler!" In the name of our precious democracy, of course. Pfft. So, with that in mind, the holy hell this move from President Trump will cause is going to be off the charts.
Of all the vile depredations perpetrated on our nation and society by Barak Obama during his accursed tenure defiling the Oval Office by his mere presence behind the Resolute Desk, his poisonous racism set us back 50 years or more in terms of the advances in becoming a colorblind society. The bitter irony is that in order for Obama and his ilk to gain and maintain power, they need America to be the racist illegitimate colonialist hell on earth they have blood libeled it as for years. Elsewhere, Forget deploying the National Guard to DC. or perhaps even the efforts to go after the Russian Colluion hoax purveyors that will likely gain very little traction. Not that it isn't necessary regardless of the slim to none chances of the wicked conspirators facing the music. I'd much rather the DOJ and FBI go after these bastards with fistfuls of RICO charges.
Meh, if President Trump invented a cure for cancer, his and our enemies would be screaming louder than the Concord's engines at full volume through a stack of Marshall amps in defense of sweet innocent cancer from "literally Hitler!" In the name of our precious democracy, of course. Pfft. So, with that in mind, the holy hell this move from President Trump will cause is going to be off the charts.
The US military is preparing to activate hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, DC as a part of President Trump’s sweeping federal crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital, according to authorities. Trump has yet to make a final decision about the activation of federal troops, but the National Guard is currently readying to deploy them, two US officials with knowledge of the operation confirmed to Reuters. The preparation comes as 120 FBI agents from across the country have already begun patrolling DC streets overnight and backing up area cops at carjacking hot spots, despite many lacking local patrol work training, The Washington Post reported. . . “Be prepared! There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We want our Capital BACK,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Sunday ahead of a planned White House press conference Monday morning about the city’s cleanliness and general condition.This announcement comes on the heels of last week's announcement by the President of his intention to strip DC of home rule and bring it under federal control. Considering that the majority of crimes of all kinds in our nation's cities are committed by black youths, and that said cities have been run for decades by Democrats, you don't have to be Kreskin or Jeanne Dixon to predict the reaction. As a former resident of New York City who came of age in the bad old days of the 60s through the 80s and then experienced the miraculous renaissance engendered by he coming of Rudy Giuliani, the feeling of not having to have eyes in the back of your head nor having to worry about riding the subway at night was truly liberating. All of the anti-crime policies that the usual suspects on the Left scream about as racist and have done all they can in the years since Rudy left Gracie Mansion to eliminate benefit and protect the so-called "communities of color." non-white criminals by and large prey upon blacks and latinos most of all. But of course, the Left cannot attain power without sowing division and tearing at the scars of racialism that they inflicted on us for decades. It's why this item disgusts me no end:
Illinois Lt. Governor Tweets That Michael Brown Was “Murdered” In fact, Brown was shot when he sucker punched a cop and tried to grab his service weapon. . . Yet 11 years after Brown’s shooting, the lie persists and is spread by politicians and activists.On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot dead by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. According to the narrative, Brown was a “gentle giant” who was shot by a racist cop just for being black, while his hands were raised shouting ‘don’t shoot.’
Of all the vile depredations perpetrated on our nation and society by Barak Obama during his accursed tenure defiling the Oval Office by his mere presence behind the Resolute Desk, his poisonous racism set us back 50 years or more in terms of the advances in becoming a colorblind society. The bitter irony is that in order for Obama and his ilk to gain and maintain power, they need America to be the racist illegitimate colonialist hell on earth they have blood libeled it as for years. Elsewhere, Forget deploying the National Guard to DC. or perhaps even the efforts to go after the Russian Colluion hoax purveyors that will likely gain very little traction. Not that it isn't necessary regardless of the slim to none chances of the wicked conspirators facing the music. I'd much rather the DOJ and FBI go after these bastards with fistfuls of RICO charges.
In 2022, leftist online warrior and Media Matters for America Founder David Brock launched Project 65, which has the explicit goal to “disbar and discredit” any attorney who helped Donald Trump in his challenges to the veracity of the 2020 election. . . The “65” in Project 65 is ostensibly in the name because they were targeting 65 attorneys who, in their eyes, tried to overthrow democracy with Trump, though the number is entirely arbitrary. The board consists of assorted leftists both familiar and unfamiliar, as well as establishment Republicans. . . All of these names direct their time and resources to sowing chaos in our streets by advocating for people and policies that undermine the concept of law and order itself. As for George Soros, Reid Hoffman, and the Sandler Foundation, I contend they are attempting to buy our democracy outright – attempting to do so through lawfare.Penniless, rotting in prison or swinging from a noose should be their fate. Because ultimately, that is what they have planned in one form or another for every real American citizen. That is, you and I my friends. It's us or them. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. Have a great day!
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- Roger Kimball: The George Floyd case shows how America traded the rule of law for the rule of narrative—leaving Derek Chauvin to serve the sentence the storyline demanded.
Why Derek Chauvin Will Languish in Prison—Regardless of the Facts - “Be prepared! There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We want our Capital BACK,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Sunday. (Termite tent DNC HQ - jjs)
US military preparing to surge National Guard troops to Washington DC to fight local crime and youth violence: report
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Daily Tech News 11 August 2025
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- AOL is closing its dial-up internet service next month, bringing the Eternal September to an end after thirty-four years. (Tom's Hardware)
Good. But a little too late.
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August 10, 2025
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - August 10, 2025 [Doof]
Greywolf Golf Course - Panorama Mountain Resort - British Columbia
Greywolf Golf Course - Panorama Mountain Resort - British Columbia
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Gun Thread: Second August Edition!
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Food Thread:The Frogs Are The GOAT...At Least When It Comes To Goat Cheese
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?-- Charles de Gaulle Actually, de Gaulle underestimated the number, with most assuming that France has more than 1,000 different cheeses. He wasn't wrong about the "ungovernable" part, but that is a discussion for a different forum. The variety of cheese is astounding. There are three excellent cheese stores within a five-minute walk of my apartment, and that's not counting the supermarket, which has a mass-market selection that is nevertheless pretty good. That cheese in the photo is called La Tour Du Montot, made in eastern France by midget monks who live in a tower, and milk the goats only at night under a full moon, overseen by angels. Well, maybe not, but it is the best goat cheese I have ever tasted, and I have tasted a lot of goat cheese! Of course the other cheese on the table was an absolutely marvelous sheep's-milk cheese from...somewhere. How the hell am I supposed to keep track? I love America, and I am very pleased that I will be moving back, but damn! Great cheese and great bread is a wonderful thing, and the Frogs do them well...maybe the best in the world.
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First World Problems...
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The Administrative State Is Broken, And The FAA Is A Prime Example
Okay, it was a bit of a mess in 1981. But it is also a mess in 2025, and two generations of so-called professionals made an absolute mess of the entire system, allowing it to become technologically antiquated, poorly staffed, and for four years under the Biden/Obama junta a mess of DEI hiring over competence. For f*ck's sake...they still use floppy disks and CDs! And I am confident that the rest of the technology in our airport control centers is just as old. So why did this happen? The short answer is that they just don't give a sh*t, and care more about their pensions than their responsibilities to the people of the United States of America. The longer answer is that the administrative state does not have any market pressures to excel, and no penalties for failure. Congressmen move on, senators get bored, and their high profile hearings about the sorry state of the FAA or the DoD or the department flavor of the month gets subsumed in the next news cycle. So nobody is held accountable over the years, and the institutional rot caused by lack of accountability is built into the process. How to fix it? Decertify every government union. Employment must be at will. Make the compensation of all managers dependent on the successful and timely completion of capital projects. Do yearly evaluations with the expectation that people will get fired. And every one of us who has ever worked for any sort of large company recognizes that as business-as-usual! The trick is to get Congress to go along, and that will have to wait until the House of Representatives actually represents Americans, rather than 20,000,000 wetbacks and gerrymandered districts. Hopefully President Vance's second term will be calm enough that he can focus on the total restructuring of our civil service!
The conventional wisdom holds that an administrative state made up of professional government functionaries will run well in spite of the constant political changes that most free countries expect every four or five or six years. Institutional knowledge, subject-matter expertise, and a non-partisan mindset should make the day-to-day function of government a process, rather than a political minefield.
It very obviously does not work that way. The administrative state in America has morphed into the Deep StateTM, or maybe it was always that way and it took many years for it to destroy even a semblance of competence. Add in the catastrophically inefficient, labyrinthine process that our modern government does anything, and we have a reasonable explanation for the absolute mess that the FAA has made of our air traffic control system...over 40 years! FAA Plans to Hire Nearly 9,000 Air Traffic Controllers by 2028 Amid Nationwide ShortageThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Aug. 7 unveiled updated plans to hire thousands of air traffic controllers by the end of the year, and nearly 9,000 by 2028, as the agency looks to dig itself out of a now decades-long shortage of workers who are among the most critical for aviation safety.
The FAA has been beset by a decades-long shortage of air traffic controllers, who are critical for directing and overseeing air traffic in and out of the nation’s busiest and most congested air spaces. The issue dates to 1981, when then-President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers who were on strike, viewing it as an illegal strike. Months later, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) decertified the only existing air traffic controller union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), which was the first time in history that a national union was decertified.
Okay, it was a bit of a mess in 1981. But it is also a mess in 2025, and two generations of so-called professionals made an absolute mess of the entire system, allowing it to become technologically antiquated, poorly staffed, and for four years under the Biden/Obama junta a mess of DEI hiring over competence. For f*ck's sake...they still use floppy disks and CDs! And I am confident that the rest of the technology in our airport control centers is just as old. So why did this happen? The short answer is that they just don't give a sh*t, and care more about their pensions than their responsibilities to the people of the United States of America. The longer answer is that the administrative state does not have any market pressures to excel, and no penalties for failure. Congressmen move on, senators get bored, and their high profile hearings about the sorry state of the FAA or the DoD or the department flavor of the month gets subsumed in the next news cycle. So nobody is held accountable over the years, and the institutional rot caused by lack of accountability is built into the process. How to fix it? Decertify every government union. Employment must be at will. Make the compensation of all managers dependent on the successful and timely completion of capital projects. Do yearly evaluations with the expectation that people will get fired. And every one of us who has ever worked for any sort of large company recognizes that as business-as-usual! The trick is to get Congress to go along, and that will have to wait until the House of Representatives actually represents Americans, rather than 20,000,000 wetbacks and gerrymandered districts. Hopefully President Vance's second term will be calm enough that he can focus on the total restructuring of our civil service!
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Reading Thread 08/10/2025
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Howdy Readers! Welcome to the Reading Thread, your Sunday morning source for the insightful, yet lively and spirited discussion of books 'n stuff. I'm filling in for a while as this space re-invents itself under new management, so please set your near-term expectations accordingly low.
Anyhoo...
What do we have this week? Why, it's none other than Sergeant Dick of the Royal Mounted Police - A Thrilling Story of the Canadian Woods, written by John G. Rowe. and originally published in 1929. Yes, an actual book for this inaugural Reading Thread but be forewarned, the longer I do this, you may not be so fortunate.
Why did I pick this particular book you ask? Well, mostly because I liked the title. Actually, I picked Sgt. Dick almost entirely based on the title and also the cover photo. Even with our hero losing his hat in the first few minutes of the story, something no self-respecting American cowboy or lawman would allow, it does otherwise seem good so I hope you like it. Feel free to discuss reading and books in general and share your thoughts on this week's selection if you're so inclined.
I know you're just as excited as I am, so just jump below the fold to get started!
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