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July 24, 2025

The Morning Report — 7/24/25

Good morning kids. CBD and I mused on the latest edition of the podcast, here and in the sidebar as well as on the usual platforms listed below, is the Democrat Party tearing itself apart over actual policy or merely over tactics. As the late great Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory stated time and again, if Democrats were open and honest about the policies they supported, they'd never win any election. Of course, electoral fraud notwithstanding. And of course, generational Democrats still perceive of their party being led by FDR, that is the mythological media/generated image of FDR, It's why to this day, the titanic lie of the Democrat Party as the party of civil rights and justice is still swallowed whole by ignorant dupes who vote for the party of slavery and Jim Crow believing that post 1964 the several hundred segregationists instantaneously switched parties and became Republicans. But I digress.

So with that as a set-up, there's this item to chew on:

The Democratic Party’s attempt to “resist” President Donald Trump is backfiring, the latest I&I/TIPP poll shows. A plurality of American adults now believe the one-time party of the center has gone too far to the left.
Voters who responded to the online national poll of 1,421 adults, taken from June 25 to June 27, were asked the following question: “Do you think the Democratic Party has become too radical in its views and policies?”
A strong plurality of 45% of all poll respondents said yes, while 36% said no and another 18% said they weren’t sure. The poll’s margin of error is +/-2.7 percentage points. . .
. . . I&I/TIPP went a little further on a second question, asking: “Should Democrats in Congress work with President Trump when possible, or should they focus on resisting his agenda?”
Overall, voters preferred for congressional Democrats to work with Trump, rather than simply opposing his agenda. Among all respondents, 46% answered “work with Trump,” 19% said “resist Trump,” a sizable 26% said “depends on the issue,” with only 9% “not sure.”
Summed up, that means that an overwhelming 72% would like to see Democrats cooperate with Trump, at least on an issue-by-issue basis. Just 19% would resist all Trumpian initiatives.

And yet despite all of that, how does one explain the rise of Momdani in NYC and this Fateh/Fatah whatever in Minneapolis? Of course Curtis Sliwa has virtually zero chance in NYC, but when as one pundit claimed even Anthony Weiner looked sane in comparison to Momdani. And Democrats still could have gone with Cuomo or even Eric Adams who is now running as an independent. Sadly, if as expected this cancer does become the candidate, the voters will reflexively vote him in simply because he has that magical "D" designator by his name. And yet it was not that long ago that New Yorkers twice chose Rudy Giuliani and then Michelito Lo-Lo Bloomberg despite Tammany Hall and a thoroughly corrupt Marxist city council. What the hell happened in the intervening years?

So are the Democrats really TOO "radical" for their own good or is it that they are too open and honest about who and what they always have been which is radical, period.

On a not necessarily unrelated subject, there are a couple of links that certainly shed some light as to how our society in many frightening ways sank so low as to make Momdani, Bro-Fo Omar, Bernie Sanders and Obama appeal to far too many of our fellow citizens when the reaction to them should have been utter revulsion.

First up:

America’s colleges and universities have long been the bright lights of our civilization. For nearly four centuries, they have pioneered new fields of knowledge, brought the arts and sciences to new heights, and educated the men who built our republic. But over the past half-century, these institutions gradually discarded their founding principles and burned down their accumulated prestige, all in pursuit of ideologies that corrupt knowledge and point the nation toward nihilism…
. . . The universities have capitulated to the radical left’s “long march through the institutions,” which has converted them into laboratories of ideology, rather than institutions oriented toward truth. 
. . .The universities have contributed to a new kind of tyranny, with publicly funded initiatives designed to advance the cause of digital censorship, public health lockdowns, child sex-trait modification, race-based redistribution, and other infringements on America’s long-standing rights and liberties.

And it starts in Pre-Kindergarten all the way through to past-graduate:

The National Education Association Representative Assembly met for four days earlier this month. This annual event usually reveals how deplorable the organization is, and this year was no different. . .
. . . But the most outrageous speech at the convention—and perhaps ever given—came from NEA boss Becky Pringle, who ranted on about how those in power are “trying to erase the truth of our history. They want to whitewash the past so our students are denied the full story of who we are. They want to silence all of the pain, all of the struggle. Even in the telling of the triumphs, their narration is incomplete. They want to stop our students from looking inward to see their own dignity or outward to a diverse world filled with possibility and pride.”
Worse than the content was Pringle’s tone, which was way beyond hysterical. If you watch this 36-second clip, you will get the idea.
. . . In 1906, Congress granted the NEA a special status among U.S. labor unions as a federally chartered corporation to “elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of education in the United States.”
Since the union has obviously failed miserably in its mission, GOP lawmakers are trying to revoke its charter. On July 16, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Reps. Mark Harris, R-N.C., Mary Miller, R-Ill., and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., introduced the latest proposal to repeal it. The new legislation was introduced following reports that the NEA prioritized politics over education at its annual meeting.

In light of what American academia has done to the minds of at least three generations of students, it's a miracle that Ronald Reagan was elected let alone the coming of Donald Trump and the glimmer of hope that the MAGA movement will engender a true American renaissance.

That said, we don't have a chance unless and until we wrest control of the education of future generations from these evil degenerate pied-pipers of perversion, dissolution, anti-civilization and tyranny.

So, in 2028 is it Greasy greasball Newsome, Titty-Caca, the Bro Fo, Beto and his E.L. Fudge special filling cookies, or even Hunter Biden?! who will lead the Democrats to victory . . .

Gee, what a surprise, Hilary Clinton was a falling down drunken pill-popping maniac hopped up on alcohol, uppers and antipsychotics and her own ego. If only Putin shared that intel with Trump in 2016? Pfft.

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Victor Davis Hanson: There's no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom -- or the status quo.
The World Woke Up (See what he did there?! - jjs)
The NEA’s true agenda was on full display at its recent convention.
Uncivil Union

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Daily Tech News 24 July 2025

Top Story

The US government has ordered that all AIs competing for government contracts must be viewpoint neutral - that is, abandoning the DEI bullshit that infests all AI models. (Tech Crunch)

The DEI crowd is big mad:
As Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist, CEO of the tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence, and former U.S. science envoy for AI, put it, "Anything [the Trump administration doesn't] like is immediately tossed into this pejorative pile of woke."
Stop being woke then.
Mark Lemley, a law professor at Stanford University, told TechCrunch the executive order is "clearly intended as viewpoint discrimination, since [the government] just signed a contract with Grok, aka 'MechaHitler.'"
Big mad.

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July 23, 2025

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - July 23, 2025 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

While Ozzy is gone, be thankful that his passing purged our collective social media streams of Coldplay memes and comments.

[Top photo: South Boston street art, Boston, Massachusetts]

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A Tomb With a View Cafe

Caption:

DaVinci
@BiancoDavinci
This floor contains 400 tombs of the great Knights of Malta, decorated with polychrome marble and bearing the knights' emblems. Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Valletta (1608 AD).

Aw: A senior dachshund -- oh, and I just learned this, "dachs" in German means "badger," so a dachsund is a badger-hunting dog -- competes in an agility contest. I give this dog 14 out of 10 for heart.

Baby cows.

Cute baby donkey.

Absolute UNIT of a dog.

My work here is done. Time for a break.

Agents of chaos.

Doggo released from death row -- scheduled for euthanasia -- has the best life now.

Parents will give everything for their children, but somethings they need for themselves.

Bamburgh Castle is impressive.

A child and elephant wave to each other.

Dropping your daughter off at an Ivy League college.

Motorcycle vigilante witnesses a hit-and-run and says Not on my watch. (Unfortunately no violence, just submits evidence.)

Man allows a duck and her ducklings to take a shortcut through his house every morning.

Agents of Chaos and Ruin perform "War Pigs." A fitting tribute. Thanks to a commenter but I forget who it was!

Just some dudes giving each other lovely thoughtful gifts.

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Marco Rubio Begins Systematic Prove Into Harvard's Admissions of Dangerous Foreign Radicals

If Harvard won't comply with the Administration's demands for information about the foreign terrorists Harvard is letting into the country through its visa program, then that program needs to be scrutinized.

NBC "News:"

The State Department said Wednesday that it launched an investigation into Harvard University's compliance with the government-run visa program for international students, marking the latest effort by the Trump administration to prevent the university from enrolling international students.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the State Department would be scrutinizing Harvard's sponsorship eligibility under the Exchange Visitor Program certification -- also known as the J-1 visa program -- which allows foreign students to participate in exchange programs in the United States.
The secretary of state noted that all sponsors of the program "must comply with all regulations, including conducting their programs in a manner that does not undermine the foreign policy objectives or compromise the national security interests of the United States."
"The American people have the right to expect their universities to uphold national security, comply with the law, and provide safe environments for all students," Rubio said. "The investigation will ensure that State Department programs do not run contrary to our nation's interests."
A spokesperson for Harvard said in a statement that the school "is committed to continuing to comply with the applicable Exchange Visitor Program regulations."
"This investigation is yet another retaliatory step taken by the Administration in violation of Harvard's First Amendment right," the spokesperson said. "Harvard continues to enroll and sponsor international scholars, researchers, and students, and will protect its international community and support them as they apply for U.S. visas and travel to campus this fall."

Eat a dick.

Ed Morrissey:

Let's remember how we got here. Harvard and other Ivy League institutions -- as well as other colleges and universities, such as UCLA -- allowed their foreign students to conduct intimidation campaigns aimed at Jewish students and faculty, sometimes to the point of assault and battery. That specifically took place at Harvard, and rather than punish those identified as the perpetrators in those incidents, Harvard rewarded them.
It became clear nearly immediately that the foreign students were only part of the problem. The funding that these universities receive from places like Qatar and other sources linked to Hamas specifically and other malevolent movements and regimes are also part of the problem, and provide funding for these students....
Rubio's statement suggests that he wants to take a systemic look at the entire SEVP program as well as the effects that the influx of massive cash from unfriendly regimes has on education in the US from a nat-sec perspective. That will be much more difficult to challenge, since the State Department operates at the apex of presidential authority in the Constitution in the foreign-policy arena, rather than DHS, which operates as a hybrid between the executive and legislative branches. The State Department can get ahead of the SEVP program by simply refusing student visa applications entirely from certain countries.

More at the link.

A Timeline Witch just emailed me: "That DEI bitch be crazy. She's distracting from the important work the rest of us useless eaters are doing to reunite the timelines."

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Trump Announces "Massive" Tariff Deal With Japan, Cutting Rate from 25% to 15%

The deal includes an investment package of $550 billion.

Auto stocks soared on the news.

U.S. President Donald Trump struck a trade deal with Japan that lowers tariffs on auto imports and spares Tokyo from punishing new levies on other goods in exchange for a $550 billion package of U.S.-bound investment and loans.
It is the most significant of a clutch of agreements that Trump has bagged since unveiling sweeping global levies in April though, like other deals, exact details remained unclear.
As part of the deal, Japan will buy 100 Boeing planes and hike defense spending with U.S. firms to $17 billion annually, from $14 billion, a White House official said.
Japan's auto sector, which accounts for more than a quarter of its U.S. exports, will see existing tariffs cut to 15% from levies totaling 27.5% previously. Duties that were due to come into effect on other Japanese goods from August 1 will also be cut to 15% from 25%.
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The announcement Tuesday evening sent Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index climbing almost 4% to its highest in a year, led by stocks in automakers with Toyota (7203.T) up more than 14% and Honda (7267.T) nearly 11%.
Wall Street opened higher on Wednesday, shoring up expectations of further agreements ahead of the fast-approaching August 1 deadline. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 158.7 points, or 0.36%, at the open to 44661.12.
"I just signed the largest TRADE DEAL in history with Japan," Trump said in announcing the deal on social media.

At the Daily Wire: Trump's economy continues defying the leftwing prophets of doom.

How Trump's Economy Continues To Defy The 'Experts' And Shock The 'Panicans'

For the "experts," the rapid pace of the administration's economic agenda has been shocking. For President Trump, this was all a part of the plan.
By Zach Jewell
In the first six months of President Donald Trump's second term, one major theme has defined Trump's economic record thus far: success that surprises the people who are paid to predict it.
...
The latest numbers on the U.S. economy fly in the face of the naysayers, branded by Trump as "panicans." Late last week, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that June retail sales were up 0.6% from May and up 3.5% from last year. Food service and drinks sales jumped 6.6% from June 2024. Those numbers were, of course, better than what economists had predicted -- a phrase that has become a monthly tradition since Trump stepped back into the White House
According to University of Michigan surveys, American consumers expected prices to rise 6.6% this year. But so far, there's been no sign of inflation jumping through the roof, and even CNN had to admit last month, "Love tariffs or hate them, there's no denying inflation is lower now than when Trump took office."
The numbers don't lie: inflation under Trump has defied economists' predictions in nearly every month the president has been in office. In April, year-over-year inflation came in at 2.3%, its lowest annual rate in more than four years. The Consumer Price Index rose to just 2.4% in May compared to last year, which again was lower than what the "experts" predicted. Meanwhile, the Producer Price Index, which measures the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers, had its biggest drop in five years in April, falling 0.5%.
As inflation numbers continue to look good for the Trump administration, U.S. job growth also beat expectations in May and June while unemployment ticks down.
"During his first six months in office, President Trump has repeatedly embarrassed the panicans who predicted doom and gloom, from inflation to recession. Under President Trump, Americans have seen an end to Joe Biden's inflation crisis, multiple expectation-beating jobs reports, record tariff revenue collection, bond and stock market rallies, and historic investment commitments worth trillions that will cement America's dominance in cutting-edge sectors," White House Spokesman Kush Desai told The Daily Wire.

Related: Remember when high stock market values were unassailable proof that Biden's Miracle Economy was a miracle?

You won't be surprised to learn that that rule has been repealed.

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DOJ Staffer: I Was Fired Because My Husband Created an App That Lets Domestic Terrorist Track ICE and Border Patrol Agents

Huh, you don't say.

Boy that's a tough break.

And that's not just me saying that. I just got an email from a J6 protester who was kept in solitary confinement for 180 days pre-trial. He says, "Boy, that's a tough break."

A Department of Justice staffer claims she was abruptly fired after it emerged that her husband was the brains behind a controversial anti-ICE app that warns users when the feds are closing in.
Carolyn Feinstein, who worked as a DOJ forensic accountant in Austin, Texas, alleges she was terminated last Friday as "retribution" for her spouse's radical alert system, in which she has minority shares.
"This was retribution. I was fired because of the actions, or activism, of my husband," Feinstein told the Daily Beast on Monday.
Feinstein's tech husband, Joshua Aaron, recently sparked outrage after it emerged he'd created the ICEBlock app, which alerts users if Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been spotted within a five-mile radius of them.
President Trump's border czar Tom Homan and ICE Acting Director Tom Lyon quickly called on the DOJ to investigate after Feinstein's hubby went on CNN last month to advertise the app -- sparking immediate backlash.
Feinstein claims she informed the DOJ of her ties to the app creator after he allegedly started receiving death threats.
"Since we live in the same house, I thought it was pertinent to contact my employer, the DOJ, to notify them of death threats that were coming in and just in case I needed to be out of the office, so they would be prepared," she said.

So this snowflake was using the app as an excuse to start skiving off from work. Perfect.

A week later, Feinstein said, the Office of the US Trustee started asking questions about the app.
Feinstein admitted she has minority shares in All U Chart, Inc., which hold the IP address for the app.

Oh so it's not just that her husband created the app -- she's a co-owner.

Weird how every leftist makes you fight for every single drop of truth.

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A DOJ spokesperson said it had been probing Feinstein's connection to the app for "several weeks" after it emerged she had interests in the company.
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Feinstein, for her part, insisted that her role at the DOJ was "unbiased."
"It is insulting to me because I dedicated myself and my career to serving the people of the United States, and now the DOJ is claiming I was attempting to harm some of them. And that's not true," she said.

Nah, not true at all.

Now some of you may be wondering if her husband is Antifa.

Well, he identifies as "Proud #Antifa" online.

This is like a CIA officer being married to a card-carrying communist who makes frequent trips to the Soviet Union.

And then whining that it's just not fair to punish her just because her husband is clandestinely meeting with the KGB.

And on top of that: According to the DOJ, she wasn't fired just being married to a "Proud #Antifa" violent revolutionary trying to get feds killed.

No, she was fired for allegedly "lacking candor" -- aka "lying," concealing the truth -- about it during an official inquiry into the matter.

According to the Notice of Removal from Federal Service memorandum transmitted to Feinstein that was shared by the Beast, "Pursuant to Article II of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States and based on your lack of candor during an internal inquiry, your employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated, and you are removed from federal service effective immediately."
Prior to the termination, backlash over the ICEBlock app included reporting from CNN that the Trump administration was considering prosecution against the network for obstructing justice. As Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put it, "We're working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that, because what they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities -- operations."
While Aaron -- who reportedly self-identifies on social media as "Proud #Antifa" and in the past has contended, "Once again we should all be #antifa" -- appeared on CNN, the X account Sippi Cup was credited as the first to determine that a DOJ employee was romantically involved with the app creator, a point that was later updated to highlight the pair are married.

Apparently he goes by "Joshua Aaron" online, rather than Joshua Aaron Feinstein, which would give a clue that he's married to the DOJ employee Carolyn Feinstein.

Did he drop his last name to help his wife evade detection? I don't know. We'll see.

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Russia Had Intel That Hillary Clinton Was Suffering from Serious Physical and Mental Health Problems But Did Not Release That Info, Disproving the Claim that Russia Was Trying to Help Trump

Gabbard released our own intelligence assessments of what intelligence Russia had. So this is our spooks reporting on what Russian spooks knew, or thought they knew.

According to our own intelligence, Hillary Clinton was keeping all of her medical problems strictly secret, including from her top staffers.

But per Russia's intelligence from the DNC, Obama and party leaders found the state of Hillary Clinton's health to be "extraordinarily alarming."

She suffered from "intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrollable fits of anger, aggressiveness, and cheerfulness." She was placed on a daily schedule of "heavy tranquilizers."

She was, as we already all knew, "obsessed with a thirst for power."

The SVR (the renamed KGB) also had intelligence indicating that Hillary Clinton suffered from Type 2 diabetes -- a diagnosis that most could make just by visual inspection -- "ischemic heart disease, deep vein thrombosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." I know the latter is deadly, as it killed someone close to me.

Now, if Russia actually was determined to defeat Hillary: Why did they keep this intelligence secret?

The SVR also had intelligence in advance that Hillary would concoct the "Russia sought to help Trump" narrative -- which of course she did later deploy -- to distract from her own illegal hoarding of top secret US documents.

Again, if Russia wanted Trump to win: Why didn't they release this information when Hillary started claiming Trump was a Russian agent? Or before?

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Wednesday Morning Rant

By Design

On Monday, Ace posted about the "shocking" failure of Comey and the IC in the Clinton E-Mail scandal. It turns out, as everyone with a brain had already guessed, that they didn't bother to look into it at all. They just claimed they did, and the press went along with it and asked no questions. That is the press' part to play, and it played its part as well as it always does.

At the end of that post, Ace quoted a tweet about the press in a different context, which is about Tapper's book. That tweet reads, in part:

The main takeaway from Original Sin is that CNN doesn't do reporting/investigating. Tapper admits that everything they said about Biden's mental and physical health was based solely on what the White House said.

Yes, and? Why is this surprising? It isn't new.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Campagne de France, 1814 (Napoleon and his staff returning from Soissons after the Battle of Laon)
Ernest Meissonier

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The Morning Report — 7/23/25

Good morning kids. Several things of note that share the common theme of the raw abuse of power by a still active, feral Deep State. First up there's this:

“House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries corruptly gave 17 New Jersey U.S. district judges their marching orders: ‘Fire New Jersey U.S. Attorney @AlinaHabba,’ “wrote Article III Project president Mike Davis on X following the panel’s decision. “And these New Jersey activist judges—15 of whom were appointed by Obama and Biden—saluted,” Davis continued. “This violated Canons 2, 3, and 5 of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. @Article3Project will file a judicial misconduct complaint.”
President Donald Trump appointed Habba to the position on March 24 but her confirmation has been held up by Senate Democrats. Interim US attorneys are only allowed to serve for 120 days without a Senate confirmation but their term can be extended if the district court in their jurisdiction grants them an extension.
The 17 New Jersey district judges held a meeting Monday morning to decide whether to extend her position, which was set to expire at 11:59 p.m. Friday.
Chief US District Judge Renée Marie Bumb announced in a signed order Tuesday that the panel had opted against extending Habba’s term and appointed career prosecutor Desiree Leigh Grace to take over for her, effective immediately.
Later Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi stepped in and promptly removed Grace from the position.
“US Atty Habba has been doing a great job in making NJ safe again. Nonetheless, politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position, replacing Alina with the First Assistant,” Bondi said in a statement posted on X at 4:18 pm.
“Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just been removed,” Bondi continued. “This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers.”

Thank you AG Bondi for slapping that mutt piece of shit Hakeem-rent-a-camel (Beatles cartoon reference) Jeffries down.

When asked why the current Department of Justice might be investigating him, former CIA Director John Brennan answered, as was his wont, with a complete lie: “I am clueless about what it is exactly that they may be investigating me for.” Clueless? Hardly. Brennan knows full well that his fingerprints are on some of the greatest scandals of the last decade. These machinations have threatened the very integrity of our institutions and elections. He has a record of serially lying to Congress, the public, and the media, and doing so emphatically. . .
. . . Brennan was at the center of three of the greatest scandals in recent history that may well have changed American history. His promotion of the fake Steele dossier sought to destroy the Trump campaign and sway the election in favor of Hillary Clinton. . .
. . . Now, Brennan thinks Trump has weaponized the Justice Department to investigate Brennan’s many lies and efforts to warp domestic elections. In truth, John Brennan, along with former FBI Director James Comey and James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, more or less destroyed the reputation of our investigative and intelligence bureaus by chronically lying, leaking, and weaponizing the government.

Of course Brennan was working at the direct behest of or on his own to please/appease Obama.

The ODNI report found “overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how, after President Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump,” per a release from Gabbard’s office.

The CIA and other agencies that deal with foreign intelligence have historically been subject to strict rules that forbid them from operating on or spying on American citizens on American soil in most circumstances. However, after 9/11, the American people’s privacy and protections as citizens were stripped back to supposedly combat future terrorist attacks. DHS was created, and the NSA was empowered. The NSA has since developed a track record for taking liberties with their jurisdiction and spying on American citizens. Then we had rapid advancements in technology that brought Americans’ personal lives online and into spaces that had no legal precedent for privacy. Fast forward to 2016, when this Russia Hoax begins taking place, and DHS, CIA, FBI, NSA, and others were directed by the White House to work together to manufacture intelligence to subvert the will of the American people. With this kind of pressure and direction from the White House, there are numerous ways that protections enshrined for American citizens could have been violated. When different agencies with varying jurisdictions and mandates are directed to work together against the American people, how can we ensure that our protections are being respected? DHS has access to information that the CIA might not, and vice versa, because they have different mandates. This, in theory, protects Americans from the type of influence coming from the Intelligence Community that was peddled during this hoax. This hoax was luckily contained to manufacturing and politicizing intelligence, as far as we know. Still, the demand from the White House for cooperation among all these agencies to work against the American people should be enough to prompt us to pause and think seriously. As much as we need cooperation and we want our homeland protection agencies to have the best information possible, I believe this revelation is a powerful reason for us to implement checks and balances on the Intelligence Community to protect American citizens.

As the author of this piece states “As much as we need cooperation and we want our homeland protection agencies to have the best information possible, I believe this revelation is a powerful reason for us to implement checks and balances on the Intelligence Community to protect American citizens.”

The problem is, despite the election of Donald Trump and his allies in the top slots of these and other agencies, this presupposes we do indeed still have a government and bureaucracies that actually want to parted the America citizenry and not oppress/enslave them. While I want to believe we are on the right track, we still have a very long journey ahead of us to restore these institutions and at the heart of it all, the moral fiber and character of people who work at and ultimately lead these institutions, and indeed the entire nation itself.

If freaks and mutants like Momdani in NYC and now this Fateh in Minneapolis are actually the frontrunners in their respective mayoral races, that does not give one much hope for the future. Meh, Obama, a verified America-hating son/mentee of a bust out America-hating Stalinist was twice elected President. And John Brennan a likely known Communist sympathizer and Gus Hall/Angela Davis supporter somehow was accepted in as an employee of the CIA, the supposed first line of defense against communist/enemy infiltration whose eyes and ears are allegedly everywhere and X-Ray every aspect of any potential government employee's life before they can even apply to be a toilet attendant at the Dept. of Redundancy Dept., let alone the CIA itself!

And elsewhere in the Land of the free and the home of the brave . . or the Land of the freebies and the home of the depraved. . .

The Palisades Fire, with a burn area that included Malibu, destroyed over 6,000 homes. So far, 161 permits have been issued by the City of Los Angeles. The community of Altadena, which was consumed by the Eaton Fire, lost over 9,000 homes. So far, 84 rebuilding permits have been issued. . . But whether it’s California Governor Gavin Newsom or Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, the playbook is not designed to help people rebuild their homes and move back into the neighborhoods where their families have lived for generations. New regulations did not replace old regulations. They added as much as they removed, with the new ones being unfamiliar even to veteran builders. All of them, of course, came delivered with the rhetoric of streamlining, while in fact only adding complexity.
Newsom, a tool of corporatist special interests, and Bass, a socialist darling of public sector union bosses, were never playing a game intended to help anyone living in a “single-family detached home.” The new regulations, sold as a way to expedite permitting, were in fact a way to make rebuilding impossible for all but the wealthiest homeowners. And Newsom’s executive order that would “prevent opportunistic investors from exploiting vulnerable residents by offering below-market prices” was actually a move calculated to limit the options of homeowners while the special interests—including the government itself—lined up to purchase these properties. . . This “action plan” released by a “blue ribbon commission” in Los Angeles epitomizes the corporate socialist vision. Public/private partnerships grab rebuilding funds, purchase homes from people who can’t possibly hope to navigate ridiculous “streamlined” regulations, and consolidate properties into high-density, low-income housing. To be even more specific: heavily subsidized corporations and hedge funds will purchase properties in Altadena and Pacific Palisades to redesign, rebuild, and then own apartment houses where before there were privately held single-family homes. Then they will collect taxpayer-guaranteed and taxpayer-subsidized rents in perpetuity. The properties will be owned and managed by hedge funds and their proxies, while the tenants will be supervised by NGOs and government bureaucrats. This is the dawning face of corporate socialism. It hides behind environmentalism to create shortages and increase prices, allowing financial special interests to partner with government bureaucrats to roll up a manipulated market.

For those of you who have schadenfreude over citizens getting what they voted for good and hard, Whether here or a potential mass terror attack in New York City, thankfully broken up by an alert FBI remember that what elected maniacs can do via their political power or what psychos with pipe bombs can do can and ultimately may very well happen in your seemingly out of the way neck of the woods.

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Daily Tech News 23 July 2025

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Replit, the company whose AI "Agent" deleted a user's production database, has promised that its AI "Agent" will no longer delete users' production databases in the future. (The Register)

Basically the system currently uses the same database for test and production, with no built-in rollback support.

When using an entirely experimental technology, this is kind of a bad idea.

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July 22, 2025

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - July 22, 2025 [scampydog]

Image courtesy of nurse ratched. Mystery Click courtesy of TRex.

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne passed away today after a long battle with Parkinson's and a lot of living. He was 76 years old and left an imprint on a number of people across many decades.

Good evening, and welcome to tonight's ONT - a mix of tribute, fun, and whatever else could be cobbled together. Speech is free. As is comment roasting. Keep it friendly - or pretend convincingly.

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Duet for Piano and Cock Cafe

Gardens in Pompeii

Tiger mom tells cub to stop playing around and get back to playing the recorder.

From the Patriarch Tree, and oldie but a goodie: A donkey is so happy to see the little girl who used to care for him.

People who don't like squirrels should not watch this vid. Even people who like squirrels shouldn't watch it. There is something primeval about disgust at swarms of small creatures.

Never forget your own power. Your power is the Knife Hand.

Adopted dog is so happy to have a new owner.

Doggo is so excited to be riding in the car and oh no he's been tricked again.

Brazen dog criminal.

Husky is excited whenever she hears the ice cream man jingle.

This dog went out and got you a present.

Your best weapon against a bear is a firm tone and peer pressure.

Saturday Night Live is never funny, even when it (gently) pokes the left. But at least there is some satisfaction at hearing the left-wing audience giggle sheepishly as a sketch calls them all pretenders and posers, dum-dums and dodos.

This frogmouth looks like a darned tree branch.

Otters know how to relax and enjoy the scenery.

A herd of horses moves through the mountains of France.

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Media Pushes Another Completely-Fabricated Hoax on Country

An immigrant family of Cultural Enrichers and Basement Laboratory Cancer-Curers made up a hoax and the left-wing propaganda media spread it without doing a moment's worth of fact-checking.

A newspaper in Allentown, PA, called The Morning Call apparently decided it wanted to play Big-Time Media and manufacture a hoax of its own.

The story peddled to this undistinguished rag went like this: A Chilean Cultural Enricher, 82 years young with a long history of Curing Cancers went to a Fascist Government Office to get his green card replaced when, wouldn't you know it, Fascist ICE officers seized him and deported him to the wrong country -- Guatemala -- which he had never even visited. He almost immediately collapsed due to Fascism-Caused Pneumonia and was rushed to a hospital, at which point he died and then ICE pretended they'd never detained him at all.

They just "disappeared" this 82-year-old Cancer Researcher, thus proving that the Current Year Leftist Narrative about "disappearing" people is true.

Here's how one left-wing podcaster "reported" the "story," for example:

Instead of processing the request, ICE handcuffed him, detained his wife for 10 hours, and later told the family; through a fake "lawyer," that he was dead.
Turns out, ICE quietly transferred him through a Minnesota detention center and dumped him in Guatemala, a country he has zero ties to. There's no deportation paperwork, no public record. His family only found him alive after relatives in Chile tracked him to a Guatemalan hospital.
Leon suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart issues. The DOJ is now under fire, but this is the Trump-era immigration machine still in motion--cruel, unaccountable, and lawless.
If they can disappear an elderly, law-abiding U.S. resident...
They can disappear anyone.

Oh no they're disappearing people just like left-wing agitators have been claiming for the past two No Kings protests!

There were a few problems with this convenient narrative-reinforcing tale of woe.

Multiple international news outlets, including The Guardian, ran with the story, giving it an air of credibility, to the point where AI engines like Google and Grok were claiming it was confirmed. But by Sunday, holes started to appear.
For example, why did the family first claim Leon had died in custody before changing the story to him being deported to Guatemala? Why could the Guatemalan authorities find no record of Leon being admitted into their country? Why was the granddaughter, who was the primary source for the press, claiming that Leon had "no plans" to return to the United States if he was illegally deported to a country he's not even from?
Instead of pressing those inconsistencies, though, The Morning Call doubled down. According to their first update of the story, the granddaughter flew to Guatemala and relayed information from Leon himself, including a series of new or altered claims. Immigration lawyer Nicolette Glazer, who has been chronicling this story from the beginning, was immediately skeptical given her expertise.

Nicolette Glazer
@NicoletteGlazer
UPDATE on this very bizarre story: Now the Guatemala Immigration Authorities have issued a press release saying no one by the name of Luis Leon has entered Guatemala lawfully at an immigration checkpoint and no national of Chile has been deported from the US there.

UPDATE on the UPDATES on the alleged deportation by ICE of Luis Leon to Guatemala:
So, after Guatemala flatly denied that anyone with the name Luis Leon from Chile has crossed officially into Guatemala, much less been deported there by ICE, the Morning Call puts up an "update" and doubles down on its reporting, relying exclusively on the granddaughter's account.
But the new details and ICE deafening silence just make this story even more absurd.
The Morning Call doubles down and now says
1. not only is Mr. Leon in Guatemala he got there on 1 July 2025 (10 days after his alleged arrest at the local USCIS office)
2. Mr. Leon "was taken in handcuffs from a Philadelphia immigration office and driven two days by bus to a detention center in Minnesota". To the best of my knowledge, there are no ICE run or GEO/Core Civic/LaSalle etc (private for profit prisons) detention facilities but I believe there are 3 county jails that have contracts with ICE to hold detainees. But the 2-day bus straight bit is not believable and will be a clear violation of the transport standards.
3. Remember the story about how a relative in Chile was the one who found Mr. Leon in a Guatemala City hospital. The new version is that "a Chilean government contact of Leon's brother was able to reach an official [in Guatemala] who told him Leon had been taken to Minnesota, then to Guatemala. It isn't clear if that official was from ICE or another government agency." Hmm what?!
4. Mr. Leon does not plan to come back to the US.

So every time someone checks up on the claims made by this Cultural Enricher, and finds them to be false, she changes the "facts" to new ones that haven't been disproven yet.

First he died in custody but wait no, he was "secretly" shipped to Guatemala, and then he was shipped to Guatemala and died in Guatemala, no wait he's alive again but he's not coming back because Trump is so fascist.

Bill Melugin covered the hoax as well:

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
NEW: It appears another hoax has been attempted. Family members of an 82-year-old Chilean man in PA went to the media claiming ICE arrested him while renewing a green card in Philly, that he died in ICE custody, then that he was secretly deported to Guatemala. The story went viral online.
It appears to have been all made up by the family, which has since gone dark and stopped responding to the press. Here's what happened since the story first ran in The Morning Call, an Allentown, PA newspaper.
- Records in Chile show a man with his same name and date of birth died in Chile in 2019.
- Guatemala says they have no record of him being deported to their country.
- DHS says there is no record of him appearing at any green card appointment in the Philly area, and they say ICE never arrested him.
- DHS says they never deported him, and their only record of him entering the US is in 2015 from Chile via the visa waiver program, not an asylum grant from the 1980s as the family claimed.
- His granddaughter claimed he was sick in a Guatemalan hospital with pneumonia after ICE deported him, and that he was traumatized (after first claiming he was dead). A doctor at the hospital she claimed he was at says there is no record of him being there.
Link to updated story via the Morning Call, which DHX is calling "another hoax designed to demonize ICE":
http://mcall.com/2025/07/21/luis-leon-
allentown-grandfather-story-hoax-ice-says/

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Columbia Finally Suspends "Students" Involved in Library Putsch

Justice delayed is justice denied.

This is about a terrorist "library takeover" that happened in May 2024.

The students took over the library, chanting antisemitic, pro-terrorist chants.

Campus security, Sexton says, did something smart: They locked the radicals in the library. They told them they could leave... but only if they presented student IDs so that they could be identified for possible future discipline.

The terrorists refused and attempted to barricade themselves in the library to avoid accountability. When the police were called, they attempted to violently ram their way past campus security and the police.

80 were arrested -- but Columbia refused to actually discipline the Hitler Youth.

Until now -- while being pressured by Trump to crack down on violent antisemitic pro-terrorist college radicals.

From the NY Post:

More than 70 students are set to be punished for their involvement in the hugely disruptive Butler Library chaos that unfolded on May 7, as well as the encampment that popped up on the Morningside Heights campus in spring 2024, sources familiar with the disciplinary action said.
Roughly two-thirds of those will be hit with suspensions between one and three years, with the majority being hit with two-year suspensions, the sources said.
Those involved were informed of their punishments on Monday following a probe by the elite school's University Judicial Board.

Sexton's post has the videos of the putsch.

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Treasonous Coup Organizer Barack Hussein Obama Releases Statement Denying His Treachery

This is what a guilty man's "denial" sounds like -- deny the conclusions while remaining completely silent about the facts alleged. (Which are undeniable.)

He did all the things he's accused of doing -- he just needs you to know he Lacked Intent to commit the felony of treason.

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 BREAKING: Barack Obama's office has just released a statement on his Russia Collusion Hoax
Obama is TERRIFIED
"Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction."
Lawyer up, bud!

Here's his real defense:

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