March 27, 2025
Animals Are Asshoe Cafe
Korcula Island, Croatia
by Halina Jasinska
Baby's first steps are a lavish dance routine. Baby beaver nibbles on his tail. Leaving ice cold water out for a family of foxes in the desert. Copykitten.
Korcula Island, Croatia
by Halina Jasinska
Baby's first steps are a lavish dance routine. Baby beaver nibbles on his tail. Leaving ice cold water out for a family of foxes in the desert. Copykitten.
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"Dutch Man" Goes on Stabbing Spree in Amsterdam
Who could have seen this coming?
As usual, they'll hide the fact that he's a Muslim "asylum seeker" and then arrest you for speculating about that. Here's the way AP spins it: Five attacked, including four foreigners. See, if it was "foreigners" who were attacked, then we shouldn't worry that it was also a foreigner who went on the knife jihad, stabbing an elderly woman, a little girl, and three others. The "foreigners" attacked were... tourists.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
@EvaVlaar Here we go again. Someone just stabbed 5 people on the Dam Square - Amsterdam's main square. According to eyewitnesses an elderly woman and a young girl were stabbed in the back. A trauma helicopter was flown in to take care of the victims. The knifeman has been arrested, but *surprise, surprise* no further information has been provided.
-- A knife-wielding assailant in Amsterdam seriously wounded five people -- including two from the United States, one from Belgium and one from Poland -- in a stabbing attack Thursday on a busy shopping street, Dutch police said. The attack lasted several minutes before the assailant was stopped by a passerby near the city's Dam Square in the late afternoon. Police cordoned off the area and several ambulances and a trauma helicopter were called to the scene. Authorities said in a statement that no motive had been established for the attack, but that police were considering a scenario where the man targeted victims at random. The victims were identified as a 67-year-old woman and a 69-year old man from the United States, a 73-year-old woman from Belgium, a 26-year-old man from Poland and a 19-year old Dutch woman from Amsterdam.The 69-year-old man from the United States is a "foreigner" in Amsterdam, see. From Beege Wellborn, quoting from DW.com:
...One witness told Dutch media that the attacker had stabbed a young woman in the back, with the perpetrator then running away. "I saw a knife at least 10 centimeters (nearly four inches) sticking out of the girl's back, between her shoulders," they told Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool.As far as "no known motive" -- this account claims that the mayor has been making statements against antisemitism among Unknown Groups, and maybe that was the cause of the knife jihad.
@MeanLILMeoW #BREAKING Stabbing Attack #Amsterdam - The incident happened near Dam Square, in the southern part of the Dutch capital MOTIVE NOT STATED - however, there was a city council meeting going regarding the mayor Femke Halsema, who's been under fire for her passionate words about Antisemitism calling them hooligans though she did Apologize since then. They have been having what is called "jew hunt" according to some spiking tension.
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Disney Insiders Throw Rachel Zegler All the Way Under the Bus for Tanking Snow Woke
This shit again!?!?, you all sigh.
Yes, this shit again. I apologize. There were death threats too. Not against Rachel Zegler, though you may get that misimpression from the headline.Actually, the final figure was even lower: $42.2 million.
Inside Disney's 'Snow White' Fiasco: Death Threats, Beefed-Up Security and a Social Media Guru for Rachel Zegler On Aug. 12, 2024, three days after Rachel Zegler hit the stage at Disney's D23 fan event to introduce the first official trailer of "Snow White," she thanked supporters effusively in an X post for driving the teaser to 120 million views in 24 hours. One minute later, she added an afterthought in the same thread: "and always remember, free palestine." That addendum, which amassed 8.8 million views, nearly four times the number for the initial post, quickly made the rounds, with many inside the studio expressing shock that the "Snow White" star would commingle the promotion of its $270 million tentpole with any kind of political statement. A Disney executive raised the studio's concerns with Zegler's team, while the film's producer Marc Platt flew to New York to speak directly with her. But the actress, whose relationship with the studio began to unravel in 2022 during a contentious "West Side Story" awards season campaign and continued as she trashed the beloved original "Snow White," stood her ground, and the post remained. Behind the scenes, death threats toward Zegler's co-star Gal Gadot, who is Israeli, spiked, and Disney had to pay for additional security for the mother of four. "She didn't understand the repercussions of her actions as far as what that meant for the film, for Gal, for anyone," says one insider. Three months later, following the presidential election, Zegler posted "Fuck Donald Trump" and "May Trump supporters ... never know peace" on Instagram. Disney had had enough, given that the star was signaling to half the potential audience of an already troubled film plagued by costly reshoots to stay home. Platt made the case again to Zegler. After a back and forth, she began working with a social media guru paid for by Disney to vet any posts before the film's March 21 bow. Disney declined comment. Zegler did not respond to a request for comment. ... "You can't say that a live-action remake of the most iconic film in the vault that cost [$270] million and has been reshot multiple times opening to $50 million is OK. The math does not work. That movie should be a billion-dollar movie," said an executive at a rival studio when the film was tracking for a $45 million-$55 million domestic opening. (It ended up at below even the low-end figure, at $43 million.)
There is definitely bad blood between them. Claims to the contrary are false. About those death threats: It was Gal Gadot who received death threats because she's an Israeli. Note that the media is not covering this, because the culprits, obviously, are Democrat Party allies, whether in trantifa or the very active "Pro-Palestine" community. Snow Woke is expected to lose between $200 million and $400 million. (Per one of the guys from Ruthless.) Zegler's leftwing trantifa fans attacked that producer, Marc Platt, for rushing off to visit Zegler to tell her that when you sign up to make a $270 million movie, you can't pop off with highly contentious TikTok zingers that alienate half the potential audience. That producer's son responded on behalf of his father.
The Disney-Zegler standoffs underscore the challenge Hollywood studios face as they attempt to rein in stars who court controversy on social media. For her part, Gadot kept her comments on geopolitics limited to offering support for the civilian hostages taken during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and did not mix that message with the promotion of the film. ... Months later at D23, she criticized the original 1937 "Snow White," noting that the prince "literally stalks" the heroine. One top agent says that was the moment that Disney allowed Zegler to control the narrative: "The first time she shoots her mouth off, you nip it in the bud." Instead, the studio said nothing, and purists began to revolt. ...
Still, there was no bad blood between the two "Snow White" leads despite press reports to the contrary. Sources say the actresses got along well during production, and things only got awkward during the run-up to release. Case in point: Zegler referred to Gadot as "a professional pageant queen" in one Instagram reply that followed their joint appearance as presenters at the Oscars this month, considered a dismissive way to describe a fellow actress.
You really want to do this? Yeah, my dad, the producer of enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for. This is called adult responsibility and accountability. And her actions clearly hurt the film's box office. Free speech does not mean you're allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions. Tens of thousands of people worked on that film and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged.Below, Rachel Zegler coddles her own narcissism by shrieking in joy at seeing her own name in the credits of the movie, which she watches in a nearly-empty theater.
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Seven Republican Senators Anonymously Criticize JD Vance to Leftwing Hack "Journalist"
Update: JD Vance Calls the Sneaky Anonymous Critics "Cowardly"
Update: JD Vance Calls the Sneaky Anonymous Critics "Cowardly"
From the article: "Republican senators are privately expressing frustrations over Vice President JD Vance's suggestion in a leaked group chat that the Houthis are more of a problem for Europe than the United States and his voicing of doubt that it was in the U.S.'s interest to strike the Iran-backed group in Yemen." https://jewishinsider.com/2025/03/vice-Donald Trump, Jr. minces no words: He attacks these seven anonymous critics as "cowards" and "pussies." Why can they not state their criticisms publicly? The GOPe has long practiced these dishonest, cowardly tactics. Their agenda is unpopular and scarcely different from the Democrats', except that the GOPe wants to shower the Corporate Class with trillions of dollars' worth of government favors because it's only the corrupt donations of the Corporate Class that keep this crew in office. Trump's agenda is mostly popular, and even where its popularity is shaky, as with tariffs, he and his allies talk about it openly. Why can't these even Senators -- and let's face it, we're all pretty confident that it's McConnell, Tillis, Corwyn, the two-faced Lindsey Graham, Collins, Murskowski, and that other dingbat from Alaska -- do their actual jobs as senators representing the public and bring their criticisms and arguments to the public? Oh: And that idiot neolib fairy from Utah, or maybe the ultra-liberal Bill Cassidy from Louisiana. The answer is: Because they've never done that in their entire careers. Their entire careers have been spent lying to voters and keeping true to their Corporate Class masters. They tell public lies and private truths. The idea of actually bringing their real ideas and agenda to the public is anathema to them. They literally think that's crazy-talk. Don't you know that real power is wielded steathilly, in the darkness, shielded from the prying eyes of the peasants? They're all afraid that, because their agenda is unpopular and has been repeatedly rejected by the public in democrat voting, they will face, get this, consequences and push-back from voters for admitting their agenda. Why yes. That's how the system is supposed to work. The public is supposed to have the power to influence policy by expressing its support or disapproval for policies. These anti-democracy oligarch liars can only push their agenda through stealthy, dirty maneuverings. They can never just stand in the well of the Senate and say, "I dissent, and here is why." You all remember when Thom Tillis encouraged Pete Hegseth's brother's ex-wife to make her scurrilous, evidence-free allegations, to give him the pretext he craved to vote against Hegseth. But publicly, he pretended he was supportive of Hegseth. He only voted in favor of him because, coward that he is, he knew the voters would hold him accountable for tanking a Trump nominee. Which is their right, of course. It reminds me of Bill Kristol's concept of "civil discourse." He would attack Trump for criticizing GOPers in public, or to their very faces. That's not civil, you see. "Civility," per Kristol and his gayops grifter, consists of lying publicly while planting nasty anonymous quotes against your enemies in the press and smearing them with fake "dossiers." That's not civil. Trump's criticisms may be uncivil, but it's both uncivil and dishonorable and craven to spread your smears anonymously so that no man may argue against you. Apologies: I never said what the criticism was. I wrongly thought it was encapsulated in the tweet I linked.
president-j-d-vance-houthi-strikes-gop-isolationist/ Really a non-story as he was not supporting the houthis, he was saying that it was Europe's problem and the US has to stop coddling them. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Trump Announces He's Taking the UN Ambassador Nomination from Elisa Stefanik, Because the GOP's Margin in the House Is Too Tiny to Give Up a Seat
Yes, I thought it was a bad idea to appoint Lee Zeldin to the EPA, too. Not because he's a bad pick, but because the GOP barely has a majority.
The New York Democrat party, led by Lethal Nurse Kathy Hochul, has passed a law delaying the special election to replace Stefanik, to keep any Republican from serving in that seat. In addition, now comes the threat of a third-party run in the district, to divide up the anti-Democrat vote and throw the seat to the Democrats. Trump made the right call here. Yes, she's a good trooper who should get her reward, but we just don't have enough seats to give this one up now.Posted by: Ace at 02:35 PM | Comments (368) | Trackbacks (Suck)
VA Secretary Goes on CNN to Talk About the VA, But CNN's Mustachioed Villain Kaitlin Collins Won't Stop Trying to Make FetchGate Happen
Three times he gives her the same answer -- I know nothing about this, I trust Trump to figure out what happened, I'm hear to talk about veterans' issues -- but she keeps demanding that Doug Collins denounce Pete Hegseth and demand that Trump fire all the Secretaries the liberals wanted to block but could not.
Finally, he does what I've been praying for for decades: He starts demanding she answer his questions, specifically about why CNN continues to employ the Convicted Defamer who #Rigged a CNN story against a veteran -- this is the guy who was getting American allies out of Afghanistan -- and who wrote "We're going to get this MFer." Mustache McGee actually attempts to pull rank and assert that she has some kind of Journalistic Authority over him to compel him to answer while she refuses to answer his questions. She asserts "I'm conducting an investigation" and then hisses "I'm asking the questions here." As if she's a judge presiding over court and directing the witness to answer. They really believe this. Mustache McGee really believes that She Has the Girl-Boss Power Here and that she has an elevated status, that of an aristocrat, that gives her social power to order about the peasants.Posted by: Ace at 01:30 PM | Comments (354) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Pam Bondi, Kash Patel Announce Arrest of Leader of MS-13 Gangs
Of course. The media is determined to make Fetch happen. Fetchgate is never going to happen, communist subversives and terror-promoters.
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that federal authorities had arrested a "key leader" of the MS-13 gang in Virginia. The White House has not yet released the name of the individual but explained that the individual is from El Salvador and was "one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the United States," according to a press release. ... Leavitt further noted that the suspect "was a very violent individual who was picked up in a home with five children present." The press secretary then answered questions about the tariff wars and the controversy over "Signalgate."
... Attorney General Pam Bondi also lauded the arrest, saying, "America is safer today because one of the top domestic terrorists in MS-13, he is off the streets. This has been an ongoing directive of President Trump. His directive to me when I became Attorney General of the United States was very simple: keep America safe."Boston Woke High Priestess Michelle Wu declared that ICE would not take away her precious alien criminals. ICE just raided Boston.
mediately." ... Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently nabbed multiple MS-13 gang members in northern Virginia.According to ICE, it arrested 214 illegal immigrants in northern Virginia during an enhanced enforcement operation that targeted dangerous transnational organized crime and egregious criminal illegal aliens between March 1 and 13. The agency reported the arrest of several Salvadoran nationals with suspected connections to the MS-13 gang, including those with prior convictions for malicious wounding, larceny, and weapons offenses. Additionally, a Jamaican national was taken into custody, who had previously been convicted of second-degree murder and firearm-related felonies.
@BillMelugin_ NEW: ICE Boston announces that 205 of the 370+ illegal aliens they arrested in a major operation in Massachusetts have serious criminal convictions or charges. They were all at large arrests - meaning they were wandering the streets in MA, including the following: - Previously deported Dominican illegal alien charged w/ fentanyl trafficking arrested in the sanctuary city of Boston.Good afternoon, fellow Insurrectionists.
- Previously deported Honduran alien convicted of child rape arrested in Salem.
- Two Brazilians wanted for murder in their home countries arrested in Lowell & Milford.
- Guatemalan alien charged with rape of minor released by the New Bedford District Court without the ICE detainer being honored, arrested in New Bedford.
- Dominican alien wanted for homicide arrested in Dorchester.
- Brazilian alien charged with manslaughter arrested in Worcester.
- Brazilian fugitive who failed fled serving murder sentence in Brazil, arrested in Marlborough.
- Previously deported Salvadoran 18th Street gang member arrested in Wakefield.
- Previously deported Jamaican alien convicted of armed robbery, possession of a firearm, and assault arrested in Pittsfield.
- Brazilian alien wanted in Brazil for drug trafficking arrested in West Yarmouth. ICE Boston says 5 kilos of fentanyl, which equates to more than 2 million lethal doses, were also seized from illegal aliens during the operation. ICE Boston statement: "The Commonwealth is a safer place for our residents to live and work because ICE and our federal law enforcement partners arrested hundreds of alien offenders and removed them from the streets of Massachusetts," said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. "Throughout this enhanced enforcement operation, we targeted the most dangerous alien offenders in some of the most crime-infested neighborhoods in and around Boston. Our efforts resulted in 370 arrests throughout the commonwealth."
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
That sounds like a dystopia in the making. And it is, mostly because of the exact policies that Californians have enthusiastically voted for over the last generation. The California of the 60s and 70s is gone. Replaced with a compliant, government-loving populace that seems more like lemmings than entrepreneurs. In the grand scheme, California should be allowed to fail, and the voters (or whoever is actually casting those votes) should suffer the consequences of their stupidity. California going bankrupt would be a huge shock to our financial system, but it would emerge stronger on the other side, and California would be forced into a period of fiscal responsibility that would go a long way to correcting the damage done by the Democrat juggernaut (I count Schwarzenegger as a Democrat) that has controlled California for 25 years. Except... the very policies that California forcefully rejects may very well save it from itself. President Trump is busily repairing the damage done by the Obama/Biden/GOPe junta that was driving the entire country into insolvency and cultural rot. California is fighting Donald Trump and his merry band of cabinet officials at every turn, but they will ultimately prevail, and the economy and culture of California will be saved from its own excesses. Maybe not permanently, because the entire state is built on an unsustainable model, and shifting to a sane government structure will require the pain and suffering of a default and a total re-imagining of the state's relationship with its citizens and its resources. It will be very interesting to observe a temporary resurgence in the Golden State that is entirely the result of MAGA. I wonder how Governor hair gel will explain it away? * They played in my student co-op's dining room. Good show!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]
One percent of Californians pay well over 50 percent of the state’s income taxes—and is leaving in droves. Power is exorbitant, in part due to inefficient solar/wind/green mandates, restrictions on oil, natural gas, nuclear energy, and new hydroelectric production. In addition, some 4 million—or nearly 25 percent of utility users—simply no longer pay their monthly power bills and are yet usually not subject to cutoffs of power. They in turn must be subsidized by a shrinking number whose rates climb almost yearly.
That sounds like a dystopia in the making. And it is, mostly because of the exact policies that Californians have enthusiastically voted for over the last generation. The California of the 60s and 70s is gone. Replaced with a compliant, government-loving populace that seems more like lemmings than entrepreneurs. In the grand scheme, California should be allowed to fail, and the voters (or whoever is actually casting those votes) should suffer the consequences of their stupidity. California going bankrupt would be a huge shock to our financial system, but it would emerge stronger on the other side, and California would be forced into a period of fiscal responsibility that would go a long way to correcting the damage done by the Democrat juggernaut (I count Schwarzenegger as a Democrat) that has controlled California for 25 years. Except... the very policies that California forcefully rejects may very well save it from itself. President Trump is busily repairing the damage done by the Obama/Biden/GOPe junta that was driving the entire country into insolvency and cultural rot. California is fighting Donald Trump and his merry band of cabinet officials at every turn, but they will ultimately prevail, and the economy and culture of California will be saved from its own excesses. Maybe not permanently, because the entire state is built on an unsustainable model, and shifting to a sane government structure will require the pain and suffering of a default and a total re-imagining of the state's relationship with its citizens and its resources. It will be very interesting to observe a temporary resurgence in the Golden State that is entirely the result of MAGA. I wonder how Governor hair gel will explain it away? * They played in my student co-op's dining room. Good show!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Charles-Alexandre Giron
Charles-Alexandre Giron
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The Morning Report — 3/ 27 /25 
And the equally estimable Miranda Devine:
Apple Pie borscht and Peking Pekingese dwellers of Foggy Bottom, the Pentagon, Langley and the Hoover Building just snap bugged out of Afghanistan leaving behind a strategic base and multi billions of dollars in materiel for our enemies to get their hands on, while giving billions to Iran to spread terrorism around the world (including the Houthis) while building nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
And yet JEffrey Goldberg accidentally or accidentally on purpose being in on this call is the greatest threat to our national security ever!
To me, and I think most Americans, this is a big fat stinking nothing-burger meant to distract us from the abject insane disaster of perversion, criminality, tyranny and violence in its insane desperate attempt to maintain political relevance, not to make our lives better but to at long last seize absolute power and enslave or destroy us whichever comes first.
But something Like THIS? Pay no mind:
Speaking of Minnesota, oh wait a second... I mean the diametric and geographic opposite - Ho Lee Fook!!!:
The fact that the far left’s propaganda arm, otherwise known as the establishment media, is making so much of the Signal chat affair is an indication of how little it has to work with in the new Trump administration. Back at this point in Trump’s first administration, the Russian Collusion hoax was in full swing, and the Ukraine phone call impeachment, the bogus Jan. 6 “insurrection,” and all-out lawfare against Trump were in the offing. By comparison, the Signal business is thin gruel indeed, but to try to make the most of it that can be made, a lawsuit has been filed, and lo and behold, Trump-hating Judge James Boasberg, the same corrupt leftist ideologue who has been doing all he can to stop Trump from deporting criminal migrants, has been assigned the case. . . National security advisor Michael Waltz said of The Atlantic’s far-left scandalmonger Jeffrey Goldberg, the “journalist” who was somehow added to the Signal chat: “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but of all the people out there, somehow this guy – who has lied about the president, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys and gone to Russia hoax, gone to just all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States – and he’s the one that somehow gets on somebody’s contact and then gets sucked into this group.” That’s the real question: is there another deep state operative in Waltz’s agency who is trying to emulate Miles Taylor? Taylor was the young Trump administration official who shot to a kind of fame in September 2018, when he wrote an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times that was one of the first open acknowledgments that there was a coterie of federal bureaucrats that is determined to thwart Trump’s agenda by any means possible: “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration: I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
And the equally estimable Miranda Devine:
There’s no getting around the fact that Signal-gate was a blunder. In soccer terms, it was an own goal, a totally unnecessary screw-up that set back the Trump team. But the team is still winning and the opposition is still in total disarray and fighting among themselves. Let’s hope lessons have been learned. It’s hard to believe that, of all the people on planet Earth, it was Jeffrey Goldberg, America’s most rabidly anti-Trump journalist, who could have been “inadvertently” patched into a sensitive Signal group chat of the national security Cabinet discussing sensitive plans for military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. But that’s what President Trump’s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is telling us. . . . . .But something doesn’t add up, and you can’t blame the Trump administration for being paranoid after all the Deep State ops against the president in his first term. This smells a lot like the Russia hoax, the Steele Dossier, the phony impeachment, the Dirty 51, etc. One thing is for sure, Trump won’t sacrifice Waltz to appease the media after the ambush in his first term of Gen. Michael Flynn, his first national security adviser. The president has learned that you never give an inch to the forces of darkness, because they are insatiable. They’ll never stop. So he is standing by Waltz, calling him a “good man [who has] learned a lesson.”As I stated, or at least tried to state yesterday, perhaps Goldberg on the call was part of a cointel op to both gather intel on Houthi assets via a known traitorous scumbag (Goldberg) and or nail Deep State saboteurs who are still working to undermine Trump and his agenda even if it means putting American lives at risk. I'd prefer to think that this is the case and if so naturally Trump and team can't come out and openly reveal it. That being said, you would think the traitors still in the ranks of the Intel community and military would know that something like this would be in the offing, unless the rot and corruption is so pervasive that the majority of agents, operatives and employees in Langley, the Pentagon and elsewhere are our enemy. It's frightening enough if one or a few are traitors - - but to have entire agencies populated with Walkers, Robert Hanssens, and Rosenbergs is nightmare fuel. Hell we had Obama as President and puppet master for 3 terms and as I said yesterday and many times before, that John Brennan could have become a CIA agent in the first place however many years ago, presumably when that agency was headed and staffed by in theory pro-American ethical leaders and personnel. Meanwhile, Joe Biden, under the direction of Obama and many of the same American as
On the 1300 block of North Eustis Street in St. Paul, Minnesota, a ten-minute drive from the Governor’s Mansion, sits a brutalist brick building that houses a secret Chinese Communist Party (CCP) front operation that serves several functions for the CCP — none of them good for the United States. Out of this building, CCP operatives curry favor with politicians like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and provide various services for Chinese Americans in Minnesota who are still loyal to Beijing, including hosting meet-and-greets with CCP diplomats and dignitaries. Businesses registered at this address receive six-figure grants from American taxpayers. The building has been associated with a web of businesses and groups including the Alliance of Chinese Culture & Arts, the Center for Community Service, and the Alliance of Minnesota Chinese Organizations. It is also the home of the Overseas Chinese Service Center of Minnesota (“Minnesota OCSC”, which apparently works under the umbrella of the CCP’s “united front.” . . . . . Chinese dictator Xi Jinping describes united front work as one of the CCP’s “magic weapons” that helps “undermine the sovereignty and integrity of the political system of targeted states.”
Speaking of Minnesota, oh wait a second... I mean the diametric and geographic opposite - Ho Lee Fook!!!:
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has announced that multiple state agencies are investigating a project to create a “Muslim city” in the state, with some fearing that Sharia law may be applied within the settlement. The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) is behind the project, dubbed “EPIC City,” which plans to create a new city in Collin and Hunt Counties.Governor Abbott stated on social media platform X that the project has “serious legal issues,” announcing: “A dozen state agencies are investigating it, the Attorney General will look into it, and legislators are considering laws to restrict it, as well as laws to prevent foreign adversaries from buying land in Texas.” . . .The project was initially announced in February, with the organizers arguing that while the settlement will be Muslim, it will be integrated. Governor Abbott reacted to the project by stating, “To be clear, Sharia law is not allowed in Texas. Nor are Sharia cities. Nor are ‘no go zones’ which this project seems to imply.”With all due respect to Governor Abbott, if/God-forbid when the Muslims take over (or likely die trying should my beloved Texans do the right thing and ventilate them in the attempt) Sharia will make your head spin. Mostly on the ground after it saws your head off with the KSM rusty hacksaw. Note to those screaming bloody murder about the Houthis being our enemies, maybe the above story might be of some interest, as well as the disgusting geschrei about the deportations of Hamas boosters and their allies. Not to mention foreign-born Latin American gangsters, thugs, murderers, rapists and human traffickers and drug traffickers. Psaki-Psircling back to Goldberg, in a not unrelated, meaning totally related story, ot one word that this hack-n-black Boasberg has a major conflict of interest.
The judge who blocked the Trump administration from deporting foreign gang members will hear a lawsuit challenging officials’ use of a Signal chat to discuss attack plans. American Oversight alleged in its lawsuit Tuesday that the app Signal, where officials hosted a chat about plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen that included The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, does not comply with federal record laws. . . . . . Judge James Boasberg, an Obama-appointee who previously ordered the administration to halt flights carrying members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang, was assigned to the Signal case. The administration invoked state secrets privilege on Monday when it declined to disclose further information about the flights.(RELATED: Trump Admin Intel Officials Say No Classified Information Was Leaked In Signal Messages)No of course not! Not a peep about this, except to say Trump is squelching free speech and acting like Hitler in calling them dangerous enemy aliens as a pretext to have them ejected. And dear Dems, repulsive as Jasmine Crockett may be, please put her out there as often and loudly as possible all the way through to the end of Trump's term, and then for the next 16 years covering two terms of Vance and two of his VP pick, Potuses 47-49. That should do the trick quite nicely! Funny how the CIA can confirm the existence of the Ark of the Covenant, by someone swallowing LSD, staring at a lava lamp and impersonating Carson as Karnak, but no one could find Hillary Clinton's 33,000 missing e-mails? Have a great day — And. . . A gentle reminder to my fellow Wisconsinites to get out and vote early, early absentee or whatever for Eric Schimel or on Election Day next Tuesday. Earlier is more better. And often!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The project was initially announced in February, with the organizers arguing that while the settlement will be Muslim, it will be integrated. Governor Abbott reacted to the project by stating, “To be clear, Sharia law is not allowed in Texas. Nor are Sharia cities. Nor are ‘no go zones’ which this project seems to imply.”
Texas Govt Investigating Alleged Pro-Sharia ‘Muslim City’ Project.
- Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats, reeling from electoral losses, embrace profanity-laced rhetoric, street-theater activism, and veiled support for political violence, alienating voters and hastening their own decline.
From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Porn
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Daily Tech News 27 March 2025
Top Story
- That security breach that Oracle claims didn't happen seems increasingly to have, y'know, the opposite of that. (The Register)
Sample data reportedly checks out. Passwords contained in the files are securely hashed and haven't been decrypted - yet. And hopefully the managers of corporate Oracle Cloud accounts wouldn't be reusing emails and passwords from other less-secure platforms oh who am I kidding.
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March 26, 2025
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - March 26, 2025 [TRex]
[Top photo: Falcon 9 Starlink Launch, Florida Spacecoast, March 15, 2025; photo credit to Max Evans]
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
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New Frenz Cafe
by Maksymillian
Inman: The Karate Cat. Taking out the soy trash. Deer crossing. Maybe an overreaction... This cow doesn't want to be part of your stupid TikTok stunt.
by Maksymillian
Inman: The Karate Cat. Taking out the soy trash. Deer crossing. Maybe an overreaction... This cow doesn't want to be part of your stupid TikTok stunt.
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Trump Approval "Skyrocketing" (But Angry Democrats Steal a State Congressional Race While Conservatives Are Too Busy High-Fiving Each Other to Vote)
David Strom has the details on the state senatorial seat we lost.
Keep that mind as the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court election approaches.YouGov: President Trump Approval Among Adults Approve: 48% (+3) Disapprove: 46% (-4) Registered voters Approve: 48% (+1) Disapprove: 50% (=) (shift vs last week) ---- White: 55-41 Black: 19-69 Hispanic: 48-47 --- Ages 18-29: 49-41 Ages 30-44: 42-51 Ages 45-64: 48-46 Ages 65+: 52-47
Dem: 10-86 GOP: 93-5 Indie: 40-49 --- Male: 55-40 Female: 41-52 The Economist | March 22-25 | 1,600 A
Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen ReportsMeanwhile, Gen Z is the "most conservative generation" in modern memory.
@honestpollster Sigh. Right Track back up to 47. Independent Trump approval almost back to parity. Trump net +5 Democrat Trump approval at 26% I'm worried about Democrats.
I find this part of this chart shocking. I sometimes talk about narrative violations, and if we knew anything about Donald Trump eight years ago, it was that young people didn't like him. And Republicans had been maybe throwing away young people for generations in order to run up their margins among seniors," Klein said. "But if you look at this chart, 75-year-old White men supported Kamala Harris at a significantly higher rate than 20-year-old White men." "It is a real shift," Shor agreed. "This is the thing I am the most shocked by in the last four years -- that young people have gone from being the most progressive generation since the Baby Boomers, and maybe even in some ways more so, to becoming potentially the most conservative generation that we've experienced maybe in 50 to 60 years." The data expert went on to discuss what he called "the scariest chart in this entire presentation," which shows the massive and historically unusual polarization between young men and women. "What's crazy is that if you look at people under the age of 30, the gender gap has exploded. Eighteen-year-old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Donald Trump than 18-year-old women, which is just completely unprecedented in American politics," Shor said.And Jordan Peterson says it will get more conservative, because girls, he says, tend to follow boys in their preferences. Boys have already shifted, and in four or five years, girls will probably shift to match them. He says that's because girls date older boys/men, and so the younger girls coming up, who will be dating boys 4-5 years older, will start trending conservative.
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NPR and PBS Ideologues Face Congress, Defend Forcing Taxpayers to Pay for Partisan Propaganda
NRP's Katherine Maher is a woke disaster.
The Daily Mail notes that the computer shop owner who turned over Hunter Biden's laptop almost immediately faced penny-ante retribution from Biden's IRS:
NPR's CEO has owned up to not giving the Hunter Biden laptop story the coverage it deserved. Katherine Maher, a progressive who previously headed Wikipedia before starting at NPR last year, made the admission after being grilled relentlessly by Marjorie Taylor Greene on Capitol Hill about the broadcaster's alleged bias. 'I do want to say that NPR acknowledges we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively or sooner,' Maher said Wednesday, at a hearing centered around whether NPR should receive federal funding. At another moment, Greene confronted Maher - a 41-year-old former tech exec - on some of her more opinionated comments. This included statements to social media penned in the past, like one that slammed Donald Trump as a 'racist' and 'sociopath' in 2020. When asked by GOP Rep. Tim Burchett about such tweets, Maher said: 'I regret [them] today.' The CEO also said she and her team 'has work to do', when it comes to offering access to reliable reporting. Joining Maher was PBS boss Paula Kerger - but due to the makeup of her staff and past comments, Maher appeared to bear the brunt of the beatdown. This led to some bombshell admissions - including the one surrounding the recently pardoned son of the former president. 'Our current editorial leadership thinks that was a mistake, as do I,' Maher said of NPR's failure to immediately cover the the scandal surrounding contents found on his laptop, which surfaced in late 2020. ... Contents seized from the laptop shed light on Hunter's business dealings in Ukraine and China - all while his father was vice president. On March 31, 2021, NPR published an article stating U.S. intelligence had discredited the story, before issuing a correction the very next day - one saying officials actually never made such a statement.
... In September 2021, Mac Isaac also received what he perceived as threats from the IRS, demanding a supposedly overdue $57 from a 2016 tax return. He told the Post how he sent the agency the $57 almost immediately. ...Chris Rufo collected up this Regime Communist's most pungent emanations back in 2024.
With this and more on her mind Wednesday, a visibly disgusted Greene - showing little patience - tore in Maher from the outset. 'Let's walk through some of your statements so the public can understand your personal views,' she began.
'Your fellow Americans selected Donald Trump as president again this past November - you called him "a deranged, racist and sociopath." 'You posted on X that America is "addicted" to white supremacy,' she added, before ad-libbing: 'That's appalling. 'You've publicly chastised using the phrase "boy and girl", which you said "erases the language for nonbinary people",' the 50-year-old Georgia firebrand continued, before again offering her own commentary. 'There's only two genders, by the way.' She went on to point out how NPR's federal funding comes from 'all' American tax-dollars - not just NPR viewers, listeners, and readers. Roughly half, she pointed out, were the 77 million who voted for Trump - 'someone you called a "deranged, racist sociopath,"' she reminded Maher, before loudly sucking her teeth. 'Many find your professorship and anti-free speech views more concerning than your politics,' Greene insisted, telling Maher: 'The only speech you like seems to be speech you agree with.' Greene went on to recall more apparent slip-ups from Maher, whose role at NPR is her first in journalism. 'In 2021, you called the First amendment the "number one challenge" in American journalism because it makes it hard to crack down on bad information,' Greene said - before Maher attempted to clarify those comments were taken out of context. 'You said on a TED talk that "our reverence for the truth might be a distraction",' Greene, in rare form, continued. 'You've also expressed support for deplatforming individuals you view as "facist".' Greene then sarcastically asked the CEO who she believes should be in charge of making such calls. 'Is it NPR? Is it the government? Is it you Ms. Maher?' ... At this point, Greene reminded Maher how she was under oath, as well as the punishments one could face, including prison time, if found flouting the federal law. She went on to ask the same for Kerger, who said no and that PBS 'look[s] forward to delivering the material required in this part of the investigation.' To this, Greene offered a characteristic, out-of-the-ordinary clapback, before again sucking her teeth. 'We look forward to that too. I'm assuming both of you are concerned about this,' she said. 'And that's why you brought so many attorneys with you today.'
Katherine Maher has a golden résumé, with stints and affiliations at UNICEF, the Atlantic Council, the World Economic Forum, the State Department, Stanford University, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. And, as of last month, she is CEO of National Public Radio. Mere weeks into this new role, Maher has stepped into controversy. Long-time NPR senior editor Uri Berliner published a scathing indictment of the self-professed "public" media service's ideological capture. Rather than address the substance of these criticisms--which will ring true to anyone who has listened to NPR over the past decade--Maher punished Berliner with a five-day unpaid suspension. (Berliner announced his resignation from NPR earlier today.) But Maher has another problem: her archive of 29,400 tweets. I have spent the past few days exploring Maher's prolific history on social media, which she seems to have used as a private diary, narrating her every thought, emotion, meeting, and political opinion in real-time. This archive is a collection of her statements, but at a deeper level, it provides a window into the soul of a uniquely American archetype: the affluent, white, female liberal--many of whom now sit atop our elite institutions. What you notice first about Maher's public speech are the buzzwords and phrases: "structural privilege," "epistemic emergency," "transit justice," "non-binary people," "late-stage capitalism," "cis white mobility privilege," "the politics of representation," "folx." She supported Black Lives Matter from its earliest days. She compares driving cars with smoking cigarettes. She is very concerned about "toxic masculinity." On every topic, Maher adopts the fashionable language of left-wing academic theory and uses it as social currency, even when her efforts veer into self-parody. She never explains, never provides new interpretation--she just repeats the phrases, in search of affirmation and, when the time is right, a promotion. Maher understands the game: America's elite institutions reward loyalty to the narrative. Those who repeat the words move up; those who don't move out. Next, you notice the partisanship. Maher was "excited" about Elizabeth Warren in 2012. She "just [couldn't] wait to vote" for Hillary in 2016. She once had a dream about "sampling and comparing nuts and baklava on roadside stands" with Kamala Harris. She worked to "get out the vote" in Arizona for Joe Biden but slightly resented being called a "Biden supporter"; for her, it was simply a matter of being a "supporter of human rights, dignity, and justice." Donald Trump, on the other hand, is a "deranged racist sociopath." If you read Maher's tweets closely, you also get glimpses of the human being. She spent much of her time in airports, taxis, meetings, and conferences. She expressed anger over the fact that most first-class flyers were white men, then noted that she went straight "to the back of the bus." In her thirties, unmarried and without children, she felt the need to explain that "the planet is literally burning" and that she could not, in good conscience, "bring a child into a warming world."Of course, she has also campaigned vigorously for censorship, or as she calls it, "fighting disinformation" and "harmful information." She has called the First Amendment "the main impediment" to fighting harmful information. She also declared that "Truth is a distraction" from what's really important, which is finding "consensus" (the leftwing consensus) on leftwing political dogma. So of course Biden installed her has head of NPR, literal state media which is supposed to serve all of the taxpayers forced to fund it, not just yoga-practicing shrink-seeking lunatic AWFLs like herself.
Behind the frenetic activity and the moral posturing, you wonder. Maher once posted her daily routine, which involved yoga, iced coffee, back-to-back meetings, and Zoom-based psychotherapy. She resented being served maternity advertisements on Instagram, she said. She was not "currently in the market for a baby" and would not be "tending her ovaries" according to the dictates of American capitalism.
Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher helped advance Color Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, arguing that regime-change operatives could "govern a country" by capturing radio stations. Now she has taken over NPR, bringing the Color Revolution home.
The Color Revolution is restless. Beginning in the former Soviet republics in the early 2000s, it moved along the coast of North Africa with the so-called Arab Spring in the 2010s, and, into the current decade, has spread further. The ostensible purpose of Color Revolutions--named after the Rose Revolution, Orange Revolution, and Tulip Revolution in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, respectively--is to replace authoritarian regimes with Western liberal democracies. American and European intelligence services are often heavily involved in these revolutions, with ambitions not only to spread modern ideologies but also to undermine geopolitical opponents. The West's favored methods of supporting Color Revolutions include fomenting dissent, organizing activists through social media, promoting student movements, and unleashing domestic unrest on the streets. Americans hold varying opinions on such efforts, but what many don't realize is that they occur not only overseas but also here in the United States. The summer of rioting following the death of George Floyd, which ushered in the new DEI regime, was in many ways a domestic Color Revolution, advanced by progressive NGOs, media entities, and political actors. A minor figure in these movements, a woman named Katherine Maher, has recently come to greater prominence. Maher was involved in the wave of Color Revolutions that took place in North Africa in the 2010s, and she supported the post-George Floyd upheavals in the United States in the 2020s. She was also the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, and was just recently named the new CEO of National Public Radio. At NPR, Maher has already been embroiled in controversy. Longtime editor Uri Berliner, who has now resigned, accused her of left-wing bias and suppressing dissent. Following these accusations, I did extensive reporting demonstrating that Maher has a troubling history of arguing against the notion of objective truth and supporting censorship in the name of democracy. Now I have gathered additional facts that raise new questions about Maher's role as a regime-change agent, both foreign and domestic. She has brought the Color Revolution home to America. ... During much of 2011, Maher worked for the National Democratic Institute, a government-funded NGO with deep connections to U.S. intelligence and the Democratic Party's foreign policy machine. The organization was "set up to do independently what CIA had done covertly worldwide," says national security analyst J. Michael Waller. While initially some distance supposedly existed between NDI and the intelligence services, that relationship has devolved back to "the gray zone," per Waller, and it appears that they often work in concert. "NDI is an instrument of Samantha Power and the global revolution elements of the Obama team," Waller explains. "It has gone along with, and been significant parts of, color revolutions around the world. It is very much a regime-change actor." American adversaries such as China agree with this sentiment and have accused NDI of being a "second CIA." Some nations, fearing American interference, have banned NDI from operating in their territories. In 2012, for example, Egypt accused NDI and other organizations of serving as unregistered foreign agents and working "in coordination" with U.S. intelligence to subvert the Egyptian state. During her time at NDI, Katherine Maher was "part of a revolutionary vanguard movement," says Waller.Read the whole thing.
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
The CEO of NPR: * Believes the First Amendment is a "problem"
* Supports censorship of "bad information"
* Said the "truth" is a "distraction"
* Lied to Congress multiple times
* Said a "free and open" internet is a "white male Westernized construct" Defund NPR.
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WSJ: A Lawsuit, Citing an Admission Made by a Scientist, Claims That Pfizer Sat on Positive Covid-19 "Vaccine" Results to Throw the Election to Biden
Ed Morrissey quotes the Wall Street Journal:
Soon after President Trump won the presidential election in November, British drugmaker GSK brought an unusual claim to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, according to people familiar with the matter. A senior GSK scientist, who formerly worked at rival Pfizer, had told GSK colleagues that Pfizer delayed announcing the success of its Covid vaccine in 2020 until after that year's election. The scientist disputes that account of what he told colleagues. But prosecutors are taking a closer look at what GSK shared with them, which is potentially politically explosive. Trump for years has claimed that Pfizer sat on the positive results of clinical trials, which could have reflected well on his management of the pandemic. There has never been evidence to support the accusation, and the development of the Covid vaccines is widely viewed as a medical miracle, coming faster than any other vaccine in history. The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan has interviewed at least two people in connection with the allegation, including a GSK executive who took notes of a conversation with the former Pfizer scientist, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.Morrissey comments that he's not sure what crime is being investigated here, if any. I suppose that if Pfizer's leaders had been asked previously under oath about suppressing their trial data until two days after the election -- which they probably have been asked -- then this information could prove obstruction of Congress. There might have been some language in the original government contract stating that Pfizer, in exchange for billions of funding, would find (and announce) a vaccine as soon as possible, and delaying the announcement of the vaccine could be construed, a bit shakily, as fraud. More like a non-criminal breach of contract, but I don't know. Some bad behavior, like election-rigging and running psyops against the country, has never been outlawed by a specific criminal code. It is something to consider as we ponder whether or not to ban Pfizer and other Big Pharma firms from basically bribing the media to always defend them.
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Former Biden Staffer: We Bullied the Weakling Press Into Only Reporting What We Allowed Them To Report. It's "So Weird" That the Press "Never Pushed Back."
Is it though? Is it really?
So, all of the "interviews" they granted were pre-conditioned on the promise that the "reporter" would only use the quotes that the Biden staff approved. The "reporter" would run his story by the Biden staff, and the staff would veto any quotes they didn't like, stuff where Biden went off-message or was simply incoherent. As Jim Acosta said to President Trump: "We are real news, Mr. President."
Michael LaRosa was Jill Biden's press secretary for the first 18 months of Biden's presidency, and in recent weeks he's loosened his lips about how Team Joe mistreated a pliant press corps. In an interview with Cenk Uygur on "The Young Turks" show, LaRosa admitted: "They did bully a lot of journalists, and I think they would tell you that now. They wouldn't have told you at the time." LaRosa didn't want to say the reporters were "co-conspirators," but it's impossible to see all of their obsequious cooperation with Team Biden and think that word is inappropriate. Uygur asked how they bullied the press, and LaRosa said Joe's handlers insisted they had to pre-approve the quotes used in stories. That's helping shape the story, not something an "independent journalist" would accept. LaRosa added "you saw them get caught trying to script questions to radio reporters" last summer. They didn't just "try." The radio hosts the Bidenites selected were happy to use the pre-scripted questions. LaRosa added: "It was very reminiscent to me of being on the campaign in 2020, where these young press staffers in these states like New Hampshire, or Iowa, or Nevada, they were sort of like dog trained to make the questions conditional for interviews." Questions had to be submitted for approval.
Is it? Is it actually?
On "Doctor" Jill Biden's team, LaRosa said, he told staffers it was "unethical" to require questions before granting access, but they replied it's what Team Joe (or "the boys team") required. "These young kids are really taught to make that a part of their sort of pre-pre-screening for interviews." "Yeah, it's amazing to me that no one in the press complained about it," mused Uygur.
.. Uygur wondered: "Did the press ever push back? We couldn't see the press pushing back at all, until the debate [fiasco]." ... LaRosa thought maybe the local reporters would be less intimidated by a national campaign. "Like why didn't any of these reporters even in New Hampshire, and some of these small town papers or local news, like why didn't anybody ever say anything [about the pre-screening]? I thought it was so weird at the time."So obviously, Trump or Katherine Leavitt should ban every reporter who asked a "pre-screened" question of Biden -- thus perpetrating a fraud on the American people, and showing that they are nothing but Democrat propaganda officers -- from ever setting foot in the press room again. Make them argue in favor of "pre-clearing" staged questions for a mentally-incompetent archliberal incompetent.
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Senate Democrats at Censorship Hearing: There Was No Censorship and Also All the Censorship Was Good and Patriotic
John D. Davidson for The Federalist:
Below, Mollie Hemingway testifies about "censorship tools" like Newsgard or the "Center for Countering Digital Hate" for targeting her site for an advertising boycott. The Federalist was deemed a "hate" publication for noting that the Black Lives Matter riots were not in fact "mostly peaceful," and then deemed to be engaging in disinformation for saying, of the media, "They lie, and they lie, and they lie, and then they lie some more." She notes that 70% of the public agrees with this sentiment, stating they have little or no trust of the media. But you can't say that and then hope that your writing will be treated like the writing of anyone else -- that is, that you can get advertising to support yourself while writing, because government-funded, government cut-out groups will starve you of any revenue until you just stop writing, Insolent Peasant.
Democrats had a tough time at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing yesterday on the censorship industrial complex. They had to argue there was never any censorship during the Biden administration (including during Covid!) and that free speech and freedom of the press were never threatened by the partnership of government agencies with private institutions to combat "disinformation." After all, the government was just trying to catch foreign disinformation operations, they argued, so any censorship that did happen was necessary and proper. Put another way, the censorship industrial complex never happened -- and if it did it was a good thing and the targets deserved it. At one point early on in the hearing, Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., more or less came right out and said as much. While his staff displayed a large placard showing a screenshot of a piece I wrote in February 2023 about the Twitter Files -- with "NOT TRUE" stamped across the screenshot in read letters -- Welch claimed that there was nothing whatsoever to the Twitter Files story. Government funding that went to private entities for "disinformation" monitoring, he said, was actually "to help counter foreign disinformation." All the government did, in Welch's telling, was alert Twitter when users violated the company's own terms of service and community guidelines. Nothing to see here! If anything is "NOT TRUE," it's this absurd characterization of what the Twitter Files actually revealed. Released in tranches to a group of journalists shortly after Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, the Twitter Files exposed a coordinated and sustained effort by the intelligence community to co-opt and deputize social media platforms like Twitter into censoring American citizens. Basically, it was a scheme to allow the government to censor Americans in a way that would have been straightforwardly unconstitutional if the feds had tried to do it directly. The Hunter Biden laptop story is a prime example of how this worked. Long before The New York Post published its first bombshell scoop on the laptop in October 2020 there had been an organized effort by the intelligence community to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden. Why? Because the FBI had been in possession of the laptop since the previous December when the agency seized it from a computer repair shop in Delaware. The FBI already knew the laptop contained damning evidence of the younger Biden's criminal activity ranging from illegal drug use to foreign corruption and influence-peddling on behalf of his father. The FBI and the intelligence community knew all of this might come out ahead of the presidential election, so for months it had been priming top officials at Twitter and Facebook to dismiss news reports about Hunter Biden as "hack-and-leak" operations by hostile foreign actors. The FBI had even established a special one-way communications channel with Twitter to send documents to the company about supposed foreign disinformation. As part of this setup, the FBI arranged for top Twitter officials to get special security clearances so the agency could share intelligence about possible foreign threats to the upcoming presidential election. Of course this was all a ruse to groom and pressure Twitter into censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story when it inevitably appeared, which is exactly what the company did -- along with Facebook and every major media outlet in America. Welch was either totally unaware of this background or simply chose to clumsily misrepresent it. He was similarly dishonest or out of his depth when discussing other aspects of the censorship industrial complex, displaying an almost comical level of naiveté about how online censorship works.
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Are We Still Talking About This Cringe GayOp?
Matt Margolis reports that Little Jeffrey has trouble even responding to the Tough and Probing Questions offered by... The Bulwark. The Administration says that none of the texts Jeffrey Goldberg were classified, which means they are officially un-classified and Jeffrey Goldberg can legally release them. Instead, he plays a game where he insists that he saw all sorts of "war plans" and Top Secrets but he can't say what they were because Sacred Honor compels him. The Bulwark's nasty Professional Homosexual Tim Miller (the others are hobbyists only) has trouble understanding why Goldberg just won't release the Totally Classified Texts given that the Administration says they're not classified at all.
Unfortunately we are.
A commenter linked a xeet in which the user speculated that Jeffrey Goldberg, Real Reporter and Totally Not a Democrat Political Operative, held on to a "scoop" he had two weeks ago to release it on the day that Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, for the purpose of badgering Trump officials into not using Signal. Which Biden approved the use of, btw. And they did this so that their allies in the Administration could once again spy on them using hacker back-doors into the government's email systems. Why hold on to a fake "scoop" for so long if not for a political attack purpose? People release scoops ASAP because there's always the chance someone will out-scoop you first. How did Jeffrey Goldberg know he wasn't the only person accidentally added to the chat? So no, he held it for one reason only, to give his Democrat bosses time to plan a coordinated op.Matt Margolis reports that Little Jeffrey has trouble even responding to the Tough and Probing Questions offered by... The Bulwark. The Administration says that none of the texts Jeffrey Goldberg were classified, which means they are officially un-classified and Jeffrey Goldberg can legally release them. Instead, he plays a game where he insists that he saw all sorts of "war plans" and Top Secrets but he can't say what they were because Sacred Honor compels him. The Bulwark's nasty Professional Homosexual Tim Miller (the others are hobbyists only) has trouble understanding why Goldberg just won't release the Totally Classified Texts given that the Administration says they're not classified at all.
The Democrats' latest effort to manufacture a Trump administration scandal blew up in their faces this week after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, reported that he was somehow included in an encrypted Signal chat group with top administration officials discussing a planned attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen. According to Goldberg, officials discussed classified and/or top-secret war plans. No one disputes that Goldberg was erroneously included in the chat, but the real issue is whether classified or top-secret war plans were actually discussed. CIA Director John Ratcliffe and DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard testified that nothing classified or top secret was discussed in the chat. Others in the administration have said the same thing. Goldberg had been given the opening to release the chats in their entirety to prove them wrong. But he insisted that he wouldn't. During an interview on The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller, Goldberg repeatedly evaded calls to produce evidence, raising serious questions about the credibility of his claims. Miller directly challenged Goldberg, pointing out that top Trump administration officials had accused him of lying. "Now, the Secretary of Defense and the White House Press Secretary have said you're lying, have said there are no war plans there, have said there's no classified information," Miller stated. "So the obvious question is, shouldn't you now demonstrate it? Shouldn't you publish the text?" Goldberg flatly refused. "No, because they're wrong. They're wrong," he insisted, offering no proof to back up his claims. Here's the problem with that claim: In the encrypted chat, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz explicitly mentioned the participants' "high side" inboxes, a reference to the classified system. This made it clear they knew certain topics couldn't be discussed on the Signal platform. Miller pressed Goldberg further in the interview, asking whether he would at least provide the alleged messages to congressional intelligence committees. Instead of responding substantively, Goldberg deflected with sarcasm. "Wow. What? You wanna become my lawyer?" he quipped with an annoyed tone. He clearly wasn't comfortable with the line of questioning, and I got the sense he was hiding something. As the conversation continued, Goldberg struggled to justify his refusal to produce evidence, resorting to vague justifications. "Just because they're irresponsible with material doesn't mean that I'm gonna be irresponsible with this material," he said. He further attempted to cast doubt on the administration's credibility, suggesting officials were merely trying to "get out of a jam." In a final attempt to defend his decision, Goldberg framed it as a matter of principle. "I have a pretty clear standard in my own behavior of what I consider... information that I consider to be in the public interest, even if it's technically classified or not," he said, adding that he was "sticking to my principles."Muh Prinzibuhls! The fake reporter claims that his journalistic prinzibuhls demand that he not release information which the government says is not classified and therefore perfectly legal to report. Please brah, you gotta believe me brah, those texts were totally filled with Top Secret War Plans, I just can't prove it brah, muh prinzibuhls won't allow me to vindicate my name, you just have to believe me brah.
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Trump Signs Executive Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship When Voting in Federal Elections
I don't think he can do this, or else Biden would have done the opposite before 2024, mandating that states accept any votes from anyone, no ID required.
I appreciate the sentiment here but I don't think this one will survive.This is interesting:
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at restoring confidence in America's elections by enforcing voter ID, cracking down on non-citizen voting, and ensuring compliance with existing federal election laws. Key Details: The executive order criticizes the United States for falling behind other nations in securing its elections, noting that while India and Brazil use biometric voter ID systems, many U.S. states rely on self-attestation. Trump ordered the Election Assistance Commission to update the national voter registration form to require "documentary proof of United States citizenship," including passports or REAL ID-compliant documents.
The order also instructs the Department of Justice to crack down on states that count ballots received after Election Day, stating that counting late ballots is akin to letting someone "vote in person at a former voting precinct" days after polls close. ... Trump's directive enforces federal laws already on the books, such as 2 U.S.C. sec. 7 and 3 U.S.C. sec. 1, which establish a uniform national Election Day. Referencing a 2024 Fifth Circuit ruling, the order states that ballots must be both cast and received by Election Day. "This is like allowing persons who arrive 3 days after Election Day, perhaps after a winner has been declared, to vote in person... which would be absurd," the order reads.It wouldn't be a Trump executive order without a deadly threat to the left's corrupt money:
... To assist states in cleaning up voter rolls, Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security to provide access to immigration databases and mandated that the Social Security Administration share death and identity data. The Attorney General is instructed to "prioritize enforcement" of statutes that prohibit non-citizens from registering or voting and to coordinate with state officials to prosecute violations. The order also targets election infrastructure and voting machines, requiring that all voting systems include "a voter-verifiable paper record" and banning systems that use barcodes or QR codes to contain vote data, except for accessibility needs. The Election Assistance Commission is instructed to decertify equipment that fails to meet new integrity standards within 180 days.
As you probably know, ActBlue is very credibly accused of deliberate weakening its donor information protocols to allow foreigners (including foreign intelligence operatives) to donate to Democrats while assigning the donation to a "smurf," an American citizen whose name is being hijacked to launder illegal foreign political donations. Happy Wednesday. I want to thank whichever commenter told me that March 25 was the "Tolkein Reading Day" because it's the official day the Ring was destroyed. That got me amped up to power through and finish it -- and like magic, I then saw in the text repeated statements that the Ring was destroyed on March 25. And now-- Hound of the Baskervilles.
The executive order further aims to eliminate foreign interference by enforcing 52 U.S.C. sec. 30121, which bans foreign contributions to federal, state, or local elections. Trump highlighted the abuse of ballot initiative spending loopholes and committed federal enforcement resources to curtail this influence, declaring that "foreign nationals and non-governmental organizations have taken advantage of loopholes... undermining the franchise." Through information-sharing agreements, increased prosecution, and withholding of federal funds to uncooperative states, the order seeks to hold jurisdictions accountable for maintaining accurate voter rolls and enforcing citizenship requirements.
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