Puffy Diddler Sentenced to Four Years In Prison For Something
The Man Who Tried to Murder Three Supreme Court Justices Gets a Lenient 8-Year Sentence from a Biden Judge... Becuase He Now Says He's a Transgender

I kinda forget what the charges were.

The NY Post forgets too, and doesn't remember until late in the article.

Hip-hop icon Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to more than four years in prison Friday -- a paltry term compared to the 11 years sought by prosecutors after a blockbuster, stomach-churning sex crimes trial exposed the mogul's depraved secrets.

The emotional, nearly six-hour sentencing hearing on prostitution charges in Manhattan federal court closed with Judge Arun Subramanian condemning Combs' horrific abuse of victims Cassie Ventura and an influencer known as "Jane."

"You abused them, physically, emotionally and psychologically," Judge Arun Subramanian told Combs before heading down the sentence of 50 months.

"Why did it happen for so long? Because you had the power and resources to keep it going, and because you didn't get caught," Subramanian said.

"A meaningful sentence is needed to protect the public for further crimes."

Combs likely will spend only three more years in a federal lockup, as he has already been behind bars for 14 months.

His sentence is also shorter than the roughly six-to-seven-year term recommended under federal guidelines, as well as the more than 11 years sought by prosecutors.

But it's also a far cry from the 14-month, time-served sentence his high-powered defense team had argued he deserved.

The highly anticipated sentencing unfolded in the same courtroom where jurors found Combs, 55, guilty of prostitution charges in July after two harrowing months of testimony delving into his twisted, violent and baby oil-drenched private life.

Four years for... prostitution?

I think this guys is a scumbag but this screams "Moral Panic Prosecution." I still don't really know what it is that he's alleged to have done. I heard all sorts of things about kidnapping, Mann Act violations (a nonsense law that creates a federal crime of prostitution, if you bring a woman across state lines for "immoral purposes"), RICO claims, whispers that he killed Tupak Shakur and Biggie Smalls (or whoever), etc.

But apparently he was only convicted of prostitution.

Again: Four years for prostitution? This smacks of sentencing him for crimes there wasn't evidence enough to convict him on, so the counts of prostitution are treated as the equivalent of manslaughter.

I'll shed no tears but this is the sort of bullshit that prosecutors do every single day.

If you don't believe me, ask Daniel Penny. Ask Peter Navarro. Ask Steve Bannon. Ask Rudy Giulliani. Ask any of the J6 political prisoners.

Ask Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, the man -- and I emphasize, man -- who tried to kill Brett Kavanaugh and planned to kill two other Supreme Court Justices as well (I think Alito and Coney-Barrett) got just eight years for his assassination attempt. Prosecutors sought 30.

How'd he get so little time? Easy. He declared he's now a woman named "Sophie" and so of course transgender killers need to be incentivized to kill more people. There are so few transgender assassins we really need to DEI-promote them.

Carrie Severino
@JCNSeverino

Unreal. The attempted assassin put not only Justice Kavanaugh's life at risk, but his family's and his fellow justices'.

Judge Boardman's explanation for granting Roske leniency is absurd -- so, claiming you are transgender gets you less time in prison? That's a great incentive program.

What an outrageously dangerous signal to send as political violence is on the rise.

This sentence is a disgrace.

No, really:

Luke Rosiak
@lukerosiak

8h

Good morning. @realDailyWire is in federal court in Maryland for the sentencing of transgender terrorist Nicholas "Sophie" Roske for the crime of attempted assassination of a US Justice, for his plot to kill Brett Kavanaugh in 2022.

Brett Kavanaugh wearing a black judicial robe and blue tie, seated in a courtroom. Nicholas "Sophie" Roske wearing a black T-shirt with a red and white design, standing indoors with long hair.

Judge Boardman, a Biden appointee, is referring to the defendant as Ms. Roske and asking whether "she" will be placed in a women's prison and given hormone replacement. The implication is that if not, she will be given a shorter sentence.

Judge Boardman is asking how Roske's transgender status should impact her sentence, and demanding evidence that longer sentences provide more deterrence. Asking why, 3 years later, "ms roske" is a risk to the public.

Seems somewhat Kafkaesque. Judge asked "ms roske, have you read the sentencing report?"

Roske, a very tall man, boomed in an unusually deep baritone, "yes."

The sentence also includes a lifetime of court supervision. "I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family... I accept their daughter for who she is," Judge Boardman said of the convict's mom affirming his gender identity.

His mom told the judge "I have attended PFLAG meetings and learned about the LgBTQ+ community. I am committed to going on this journey with Sophie."

Kavanaugh's family did not speak but looked pained.

Brent Scher
@BrentScher

22m
This is insane. The judge referred to Nicholas Roske as a woman and admitted in court that him claiming to be transgender got him a better sentence.

He tried to murder a Supreme Court justice! Only got 8 years!

Impeach this cocksucker -- and that's the moderate position.

And of course the degenerate Transgender Media is pushing the lie that this man's name is "Sophie:"

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The Week in Woke

C3
@C_3C_3

SPLC is the targeting wing of the Democrat party.

Soros is the financial wing of the Democrat party.

Antifa is the military wing of the Democrat party.

Legacy Media is the propaganda wing of the Democrat party.

Simple.

Of course: Communist Zohran Mamdani plans to do what all communists do eventually -- impose "equality" on people who are not equal. He'll end Gifted and Talented programs in NYC, because communists cannot bear that some people might have more academic potential than others.

Democratic socialist and mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to undo the Gifted and Talented program for young New York City school kids -- the latest move to revert to ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio's era.

Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, told the New York Times that he would eliminate the program at the kindergarten level in a move that is likely to anger parents, who have been passionately divided on the issue.

The gifted classes would remain active through the school year, but would no longer be available next fall, according to the report.

The proposal by the mayoral hopeful would be the first step in phasing out the gifted program across all elementary schools -- a controversial change inside the Department of Education made by de Blasio on his way out the door in 2021.

"I will return to the previous policy," Mamdani told the outlet in a statement. "Ultimately, my administration would aim to make sure that every child receives a high-quality early education that nurtures their curiosity and learning."

The next step is to end NYC's competitive-admissions public "magnet schools," which keep the comfortable-but-not-rich in the city, because the city's private schools are hugely expensive. That was on diBlasio's chopping block too.

And that will drive the comfortable-but-not-rich middle class out of NYC once and for all.

Harrison Bergeron is a How-To Book.

Proof that AI is exclusively "trained" on far-left media and social media: The tech monopolists' chatbots all claim that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a far-right extremist. Alannah Goodman for Free Beacon:

'It Was a Fatal Right-Wing Terrorist Incident': AI Chatbot Giants Claim Charlie Kirk's Killer Was Right-Wing but Say Left-Wing Violence Is 'Exceptionally Rare'

This is despite the documented fact that Kirk's killer, Tyler Robinson, referred to him as a 'fascist' on an unused bullet and said he targeted the conservative commentator because 'some hate can't be negotiated out'

The major AI platforms--which have emerged as significant American news sources--describe Charlie Kirk's assassination as motivated by "right-wing ideology" and downplay left-wing violence as "exceptionally rare," according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.

When asked to name a "recent assassination in the U.S. motivated by right-wing ideology," multiple AI chatbots--powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Perplexity--listed Kirk's murder as the main example. Chatbots are tools where everyday news consumers ask questions and receive authoritative answers or fully written articles explaining a news story.

Gemini's chatbot made the provably false statement that the "assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September 2025 has been identified by some researchers as the only fatal right-wing terrorist incident in the U.S. during the first half of 2025."

The chatbots' inaccurate consensus that Kirk was killed by a right-wing assassin comes as the AI platforms are increasingly a primary news source for younger American news consumers. Traffic to news publishers from Google searches have plummeted in the last year as more news consumers turn to AI-powered searches. Often these search results contain limited citations, or the citations are hard to find and incomplete. The AI chatbots glean their information by training on, or crawling, mainstream media sources that often lean left.

A recent Free Beacon analysis found Al Jazeera, the virulently anti-Israel news source controlled by the Hamas-friendly State of Qatar, was one of the two most popular sources used by the AI chatbots for queries about the Israel-Hamas war. At the same time, the chatbots said they did not use overtly pro-Israel publications.

Angry incompetent lesbian Randi Weingarten continues inciting violence against normal people by branding us all as "fascists," even in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. Cory DeAngelis for the NYPost:

For many Americans, the Sept. 10 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk sparked some sober reflection on the inflammatory rhetoric that has poisoned our political discourse.

For Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, it was a chance to kick that rhetoric up a notch.

Weingarten barreled full speed ahead with the launch of her new book, "Why Fascists Fear Teachers," within days of the tragedy.

From its opening lines invoking Adolf Hitler, Weingarten's tome equates her political opponents with history's greatest evils, smearing President Donald Trump and others as "fascists."

It's frighteningly similar to the language used by Tyler Robinson, Kirk's alleged killer, who wrote he'd "had enough of [Kirk's] hatred" and believed "some hate can't be negotiated out."

One bullet casing at the scene allegedly bore the inscription "Hey fascist! Catch!"

Yet there was Weingarten, fanning the flames by branding conservatives as fascists -- essentially suggesting that fellow Americans are "literally Hitler."

And she's hardly alone.

In the days after Kirk's murder Todd Wolfson, a vice president at Weingarten's union and president of the American Association of University Professors, ranted on social media that "Trump is the enemy" and equated presidential adviser Stephen Miller -- who is Jewish -- to chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

"The assassin was a disturbed right wing kid, influenced by Nick Fuentes, that likely murdered Kirk because he was not right wing enough," Wolfson declared on Facebook long after it was clear the opposite was true.

The rot runs deep in the teachers' unions, and it starts at the very top.

Hundreds of so-called educators publicly rejoiced in Kirk's politically motivated assassination, posting gleeful messages that crossed every line of decency.

When parents and others objected, union officials dismissed the backlash as "baseless online smear campaigns."

The Texas affiliate of Weingarten's AFT emailed members pledging to "vigorously defend" teachers "targeted" for celebrating Kirk's death online, and Weingarten herself issued a formal statement defending these teachers' "free speech."

Sure, they have the right to spew whatever venom they want on their own time -- but employers have freedom of association, too, and taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize these individuals to indoctrinate impressionable minds with sick, divisive rhetoric.

This inability to read the room -- to tone it down even after Robinson's heinous act -- is emblematic of the unions' broader messaging.

Rather than simply condemning unseemly celebrations and taking responsibility for their members' words, educators are deflecting by portraying themselves as perpetual victims.

This year, the AFT passed a resolution aimed at "protecting public education from right-wing extremism."

J Michael Waller
@JMichaelWaller

Any time you hear someone say that America is fascist, or our president is a fascist, or the cops are fascist, you are hearing a narrative nearly a century old.

Stalin's USSR started that narrative nearly a century ago. The Communist Party USA obediently followed.

Court-sanctioned liar and Husky Huckster Michael Mann has stepped down, under pressure, from his former position of Vice Provost for Climate " " " Science " " " at UPenn, acknowledging that he is now just an angry left-wing partisan and he doesn't want to give that gig up.

Chris Martz
@ChrisMartzWX

Interesting development.

Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann has resigned his position as the Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action ("VPC") at @UPenn
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This presumably comes after pushback he received for his comments and tone-deaf reposts on social media following Charlie Kirk's assassination a couple of weeks ago, although UPenn officials maintain that Mann's decision to step down was entirely his decision.

However, Mann wrote on his website,

So, that hints otherwise.

Mann remains a distinguished professor and Director of UPenn's Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media.

Here are a few of the Fart Huffer's own comments, and this doesn't include whatever vicious stupidities he retweeted with the élan of a fat man floating through the air as he sniffs the air for a freshly baked pie.

Mann's comments on social media -- including reposting a message that called Kirk "the head of Trump's Hitler Youth" -- faced backlash from prominent conservative pundits and social media commentators, including Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.). The posts have since been deleted.

McCormick's remarks came following a post by Mann that read, "The white on white violence has gotten out of hand." Mann also reposted several posts from other users criticizing Ezra Klein's New York Times column on the event, which was titled "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way."

"This is despicable behavior," McCormick wrote on X. "This dangerous rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated. I unequivocally condemn this behavior and demand UPenn to take immediate, decisive action."

Oh boo hoo hoo: When young, liberal women say they'll never date a conservative man, by which I mean a heterosexual man.

As they get older and more desperate, they become more open to dating an icky conservative interested in sex with women.

But here's the wonderful catch: As conservative men get older, they become less and less interested in dating a liberal.

In other words: As conservative men get older and want more than sex with a friend with benefits, they turn away from promiscuous liberal women and become more and more interested in wife/mother material and less interested in blue-hair nosering basketcases.

The study found that, generally, as liberal women age, they become more open to dating a conservative man. However, their openness with age might all be for nothing.

According to the study, as conservative men get older, they actually become less open to dating a liberal.

Zach Goldberg
@ZachG932

Sep 25

8/As it happens, when further broken down by ideological orientation, we observe some evidence that young unmarried female liberal respondents disproportionately drive the difference.
For instance, 64% of young liberal women are opposed and just 12% are willing to date across political lines----rates that are higher and lower, respectively, than any other group (though the small sample sizes for some of these subgroups----e.g. just 15 young male conservative respondents----do warrant some interpretive caution).

9/ More generally, ideological orientation emerges as the most potent predictor of tolerance in our data. As shown below, for each factor tolerance tends to fall at the extremes: 'Very Liberal' and 'Very Conservative' respondents are less tolerant than their 'somewhat' and moderate counterparts. With this being said, liberal respondents are, overall, significantly less willing to engage with people of opposing political views than their conservative peers.

10/ One particularly striking pattern emerges among Very Liberal respondents: they are significantly more willing to engage with ex-felons than political opponents on average, especially when it comes to more intimate contexts.

For example, whereas 29% of very liberals would be willing to date an ex-felon, just 13% would be willing to date someone with opposing political views. Among Very Conservative respondents, the pattern is reversed: 25% say they would date across party lines, while just 10% would date an ex-felon. Fully 67% say they are unwilling to date someone with a criminal history, compared to 46% unwilling to date across political lines.

The thread describing the poll's findings with lots of Pie Graphs is here. Bear in mind I'm a terrible cook so my idea of a "pie graph" may not resemble yours.

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In Portland, Anti-ICE/Antifa Rioters Attack Conservative Journalist Nick Sortor;
The Portland Police Arrest Sortor and Leave the Antifa Rioters Free

Trump must declare a state of insurrection and assume control over all of Oregon's police forces.

This is Civil War.

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Democrat-Antifa-Media Party Ramps Up Lies to Conceal Their Agenda of Paying Illegals to Come Here and Vote for Them

Elizabeth Warren insists it's "flat-out lie" to say the truth: The Democrat-Antifa-Media Party wants to reverse the part of the Big Beautiful Bill which ends "emergency" payments to hospitals to pay for the health care of illegal aliens.

It's right in their bill. It says so. They're repealing that (or would if they could).

The lie they've settled on goes like this: First they claim that we're saying we're ending the Obamacare subsidies for illegal aliens. Uh, no one's saying that. People did say that a few times before they had the details right, but they're not saying it now.

So they keep saying we're saying that they want to pay for Obamacare for illegal aliens, and they say that's a lie.

But we're not saying that. We're saying that the Big Beautiful Bill ended "emergency" Medicaid reimbursements to hospital for providing care for illegals. And they're demanding the repeal of that provision.

When you point that out, they start lying and claiming that you're saying they want Obamacare for illegals, even though you're specifically saying they want "emergency" Medicaid reimbursements for illegal aliens.

Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren shouted over "CBS Mornings" host Tony Dokoupil on Thursday as he confronted her on Democrats wanting to give healthcare to non-citizens.

Dokoupil pointed to the Democrats' counter-proposal to the Republicans' continuing resolution (CR), which Republicans said would have provided healthcare to some non-citizens that are no longer eligible for those benefits under President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill." A visibly frustrated Warren quickly interrupted Dokoupil to state that Republicans are blatantly lying about her party wanting to give healthcare to illegal immigrants.

"Republicans say what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars, as they put it, for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true, but there is a provision--" Dokoupil added.

"Excuse me, not strictly true. It is a flat-out lie. It is a flat-out lie!" Warren said. "There is nothing in Medicaid, there is nothing in Medicare that permits one undocumented immigrant to get one dollar of assistance. None, zero." (RELATED: JD Vance Tells Peter Doocy Government Shutdown Will Probably Not Last Too Long)

"Senator, if you would like me finish the question," Dokoupil said. "In the Democratic counter offer, the proposal for funding, there is a restoration for Medicaid benefits for certain non-citizens that had been taken away in the big, beautiful bill as Republicans put it. Republicans don't think those people should be getting healthcare on the taxpayers' dime, I'm not asking on the merits. Politically, putting that in there exposes you to this talking point, this lie as you put it. Why put it in there? Why is it worth it?"

Here's mustachioed villain Kaitlin Collins insisting it's a "lie" to say that Democrats want to restore Medicaid funding for illegal aliens' health care by saying "But they can't get Obamacare!"

We're not saying that, Magnum P.M.S. We're saying the Democrats want to restore Medicaid reimbursements for illegal's health care.

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Left Wing Media Speculation: Manchester UK Synagogue Terrorist Is "White" and "Far Right"
Reality: Terrorist Is a Syrian Immigrant Named "Jihad al-Shamie"

Wow, what an unexpected plot twist. Not just that the Jew-hating terrorist turns out to be another fucking Islamist named "Jihad," but that the left-wing propaganda media spent another 24 hours lying about the identity of the suspect.

Pictures showed a balding man with olive skin a curly jet-black Madrassa beard. Obviously, a far-right Aryan type.

No one (who consumes left-wing propaganda) could have possibly seen this coming.

The suspect behind the deadly car and knife terror attack outside a synagogue in Manchester in the United Kingdom on Thursday has been identified by police as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent.

No, he's an immigrant. Yes he got his citizenship in 2006... after immigrating.

Police said Al-Shamie entered the United Kingdom as a young child and became a citizen in 2006. He had no previous criminal record. Al-Shamie translates into English as "the Syrian," and authorities are unsure whether that is his birth name.

Jihad the Syrian. Perfect.

The Metropolitan Police in London declared the assault a terrorist attack. It came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, as large crowds of worshipers gathered at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, an Orthodox synagogue.

This one was so obvious they couldn't cover it up.

The attacker's exact motive is still being probed by police.

LOL, I spoke too soon. I guess they can cover it up.

Neighbors of the attacker in the Manchester suburb of Prestwich, a couple of miles from the synagogue, said Al-Shamie's family had lived in a house there for years. Several described seeing Al-Shamie lifting weights and working out in the backyard.

Geoff Halliwell, who lives nearby, told The Associated Press that he appeared to be "a straightforward, ordinary lad."

The AP coming at you with straight facts.

Al-Shamie is accused of ramming a car into pedestrians outside the synagogue at around 9:30 a.m. local time and then attacking them with a knife. He wore what appeared to be an explosives belt, which was found to be fake.

Armed police declared a major incident and opened fire minutes later, killing the suspect.

In an update, police said that Al-Shamie was not armed and that one of the deceased victims suffered a gunshot wound likely from police gunfire during the response. One hospitalized victim also suffered a gunshot wound, police said.

The British police responded to an attack on a synagogue by shooting the Jews. Perfect. Exactly what we've come to expect from the colonized, conquered British.

...

Police arrested three people Thursday on suspicion of the preparation or commission of acts of terrorism. They are two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s.

May their motives never be known.

Remember how, after every grisly Muslim terrorist attack on civilians, Jihadi Muslims pretended to be scared of "backlash" and minded their Ps and Qs for a couple of weeks?

Well they only do that before they conquer a country.

Once they've conquered it, they take to the streets to celebrate their latest murders and chant for the murders of more Jews.

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Gallup: Trust In the Demonic Democrat-Antifa Media Hits All-Time Low; 70% of Public Has Little Or No Trust in the "Press"

Still too high.

The numbers are boosted by the older generation, of which 43% still say they trust the media. This accounts for the sudden shift of older people to the Democrats (or perhaps their shift to the Democrats accounts for their bizarre belief that Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter are giving them the straight news).

Americans' trust in the media has slumped to an all-time low, according to a Gallup survey released Thursday.

Nearly seven in ten Americans say they don't trust the press -- a finding underscored by recent controversies over coverage of the Charlie Kirk assassination and the murder of a Ukrainian on a light rail in North Carolina.

Just 28% of Americans say they have a "great deal" or "fair amount" of confidence in newspapers, television, and radio to report the news "fully, accurately and fairly" compared to 31% last year, according to a Gallup survey released Thursday. By contrast, 34% say they have no trust at all, and another 36% say they have "not very much" confidence.

Confidence in the media breaks sharply along party lines. Republican trust in the media has fallen to 8%, the first time it has dropped into single digits.

That 8% are Bulwark and Dispatch staffers. They are Paid to Believe.

Among Democrats, the numbers are down to 51% who have a great or fair amount of trust in the media. Only 9% say they have no trust. The Independents are more evenly divided, with 27% expressing trust and 32% reporting none at all.

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Trust in the media also shows a clear generational divide that has widened over the past decade, according to three-year aggregated data. From 2023 to 2025, 43% of adults 65 and older said they trust the media, compared with no more than 28% in any younger age group, Gallup found.

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Despite the growing trend of left-wing extremist violence, between Jan. 21 and June 21, news outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS used labels such as "far right" 1,222 times compared with just 86 mentions of "far left" or similar labels, according to the Media Research Center.

Moreover, corporate media outlets largely ignored the stabbing death of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, for several days, despite news of the brutal incident going viral on social media, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found in September. CNN also faced criticism for appearing to downplay anti-fascist messages found on ammunition near the site of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's assassination, referring to the markings as "a range of phrases related to cultural issues."

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Unhelpful in the Battle Against Socialism’s Growing Appeal: Sherwin Williams Eliminates Employees’ 401(k) Match Amidst Stock Buybacks and Increased CEO Compensation

As I’ll get to in a few paragraphs, socialism as an economic and political philosophy is gaining traction in this country, especially among younger voters. For those of us defending free market economics, it doesn’t help us when corporations behave in a way that gives capitalism a bad name.

Sherwin Williams has just announced that it is suspending its 401(k) matching program, which matched employee retirement contributions at an amount up to 6% of an employee’s pay. This is expected to save the company about $165 million per year.

Meanwhile, Sherwin Williams has also flushed away $892 million on stock buybacks in the first two quarters of 2025 to prop up its stock price, a move which is critically important for Sherwin executives, whose compensation is heavily based on stock awards and the performance of its stock.

Sherwin’s revenue and profit have been solid but flat for several years in a row. Revenue was $23 billion in 2023 and 2024, and it is tracking for $23 billion again in 2025. Net Income was $2.5 billion in 2023, $2.6 billion in 2024, and it is tracking at $2.5 billion for 2025.

With revenue and profit stuck, Sherwin has decided it needs to slash total compensation and benefits to employees, thus the $165 million cut to employees’ retirement funds.

By contrast, Sherwin Williams’ President and CEO, Heidi Petz, continues to lavishly reward herself for Sherwin’s stagnant financial performance. With board approval, Ms. Petz’s total compensation increased from $10.1 million in 2023 to $12.9 million in 2024, a 28% increase. Of the $12.9 million in compensation, $9.9 million was in the form of stock and stock options, so there is clearly an incentive for Ms. Petz to nudge the price of the stock upward by whatever means. Since the company’s flat financial performance isn’t driving the stock price higher, stock buybacks are another way of achieving that objective. It sure is convenient that Sherwin was able to repurpose cash that might otherwise be used toward employees’ 401(k) match for the purpose of stock buybacks.

News of Sherwin Williams suspending its 401(k) match broke a couple of weeks ago:
“Sherwin-Williams said to pause 401(k) matching as macro headwinds dent sales” [MSN / Seeking Alpha – 9/17/2025]

Sherwin-Williams will temporarily suspend its matching contributions to employee 401(k) plans due to weak sales and higher costs, Cleveland.com reported this month, citing an internal communication. The suspension will apply to the paint manufacturer's policy of matching 100% of the first 6% of eligible employee 401(k) contributions, starting October 1.

CEO Heidi Petz said the decision was a result of high mortgage rates weakening housing demand and inflation reducing DIY demand. Tariff policies also dented industrial demand and raised costs for the company. "Sherwin-Williams is not immune from these conditions, which have lasted longer and been more impactful than anticipated," Petz said, adding that macroeconomic headwinds will likely persist through at least the first half of 2026. The company has also taken up cost-saving measures such as reducing third-party spending, delaying new hires and restructuring global assets.

I’ve read several news reports about the financial headwinds forcing Sherwin to cut employees’ compensation via suspension of the 401(k) match, but I have not been able to find any documentation of “cost savings” to be realized by giving a haircut to executive bonus plans. Neither have I been able to find any reporting that stock buybacks are being suspended to conserve cash.

Whenever I discuss executive pay, I receive some pushback arguing that stock incentives are not an expense, and therefore do not affect a company’s profit. That’s true. Executive stock incentives come from diluting the ownership of existing shareholders and redistributing it to company executives. But when a company uses its cash to buy back shares, and then it awards stock shares to its executives, it is a two-step distribution of the company’s cash and equity to its executives.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Le Nageur
Gustave Caillebotte

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The Morning Report — 10/3/25

Good morning kids. Before getting into the links, I give you this well done little video which, were it not so tragically on the money would be hilarious. Enjoy, I guess!

This would be hilarious were it not prophetic pic.twitter.com/r3gdxqIsAG

— J.J. Sefton (@therealJJSefton) October 2, 2025

As we continue to await an official casualty count because of the federal government shutdown, predicted to be in the millions by such distended grapefruits in a mesh bag dragging on the sidewalk bescrotumed decrepit momzers as Bernie Sanders, himself a cheerleader of mass death as his fellow commies in a little over a century racked up well over 100 million, and still counting.

And he has the unmitigated cutzpocritical gall after all the death, misery, dislocation, dissolution and waste of life, wealth and potential at the hands of the DemoKKKrats to declare

. . . President Donald Trump’s second term has become “the worst crisis in America literally since the Civil War.” . . we are living in an unprecedentedly dangerous moment, possibly the worst crisis in America since the Civil War. You have a president who is acting unconstitutionally and illegally. Guess what? These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And then basically to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn’t vote for Donald Trump, well, we’re going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state, illegal, outrageous, unconstitutional.”

Vayr ge hargit already, Lose yourself among the dozens of rooms in your Vermont mansions, so that even maggots and blowflies will get lost trying to follow the stench of your accursed, miserable rotting corpse.

And yet, with all the gloom and doom predicted, this happened:

Global stocks gained and gold traded near record highs on Thursday as investors took in their stride the potential ramifications of a U.S. government shutdown, while a weak private U.S. labor market report bolstered bets for Federal Reserve rate cuts.

Investors have been largely sanguine about the shutdown’s impact on the markets and economy, helped by data of past shutdowns that showed limited fallouts. Morgan Stanley, for example, said U.S. share prices have risen an average 4.4% while real U.S. economic growth has expanded 2.2% during shutdowns in the past.

Elsewhere, out in southern California last night . . .

A massive fire erupted at a Chevron oil refinery outside of Los Angeles on Thursday night, forcing residents to shelter in place following multiple reports of an explosion.

Californians said they felt the blast come from Chevron’s refinery — the company’s second-biggest site in the US — in El Segundo, Calif., at around 9:30 p.m., the Los Angeles Times reported.

“I thought we got nuked or something,” Mark Rogers told the outlet, saying his adult soccer league match in Redondo Beach was canceled moments later because of the heavy smoke coming from the blaze roughly 6 miles away. 

Well, here's a golden opportunity for Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass to seize the land and convert it into low-income housing while at the same time destroying the fossil fuel industry. Win-win, nein?! With everything going on in the world and here at home, it would not surprise me if this was not the result of enemy action. Foreign or domestic enemies or some combination of both given the nature of global Islam and communism.

Speaking of the former, It won't be long now before Albion wakes up to discover Westminster Abbey is now Hagia Sophia 2, Global Caliphate boogaloo.

Right on the heels of a Yom Kippur terror attack in Manchester, we had this madness in London, right at Keir Starmer-bahnfuhrer's doorstep!

After the Muslim terrorist attack at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, PM Keir Starmer made remarks claiming that he’s going to fight “antisemitic hatred”. It might have be more useful to fight Islamic terrorism, but in any case his party’s base would like to go in a very different direction. As they showed when they showed up as a mob to protest not killing Jews. The “peaceful protest” was one of those that have “death” chants.

And as I and others have stated here and elsewhere it won't be long before this insanity comes here if it isn't here already as the campus centered Jew-baiting in the wake of the 10/7 Gaza-led mass wave pogrom has shown.

Have a great weekend!

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• The 1,000-acre El Segundo facility, operated by Chevron, has its own fire department battling the blaze with assistance from the El Segundo Fire Department, KCAL News reported. “We were able to respond with Chevron fire immediately, our station is about a .25 mile away from the gates of Chevron,” El Segundo Mayor Christ Pimentel told the outlet. “Obviously, we are very concerned, and there is a lot of investigative work to be done to see what has happened.”
  Massive fire breaks out at California oil refinery as residents feel explosion rock area: ‘Thought we got nuked’

(Newsom and Bass to create more low income housing and destroy fossil fuels, is a win win! - jjs)

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Daily Tech News 3 October 2025

Top Story

• OpenAI reported a revenue of $4.3 billion for the first six months of 2025. (Tech in Asia)
  
  Unfortunately, they spent $17.8 billion.
  
  But they'll make it up in volume.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which a college student was caught after a wild and apparently drunken rampage destroying parked cars because he asked ChatGPT if the police had any way of knowing he did it. (The Smoking Gun)

  The incriminating ChatGPT conversation--filled with typos--opened with Schaefer asking, "How fucked am I" and "qilll I go to jail." After the AI program "gave tips about the potential outcome of getting caught or being involved in this kind of behavior," Schaefer typed, "What if I smashed the shit outta mutlipls cars."

  Oh, and his own phone placed him at the scene.
  
  And it was all caught on security cameras.
  
  Not too bright, this lad.
  
  

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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 2, 2025 [Doof]

Chugging into October and autumn!

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Castle Freak Cafe

Castle Butron, Bizkaia, Spanien
by Tony Findeisen

Teaching a puppy to dance.

Windy!

He meant to do that.

Who watches the watchcat?

When Baby Elephants Attack.

This little girl messed with the wrong dog.

Ghostly pirate parade.

Lion & Son.

A black harpy eagle. Big bird! And here's a white harpy eagle. Which a community note says is AI.

Rescuing a squirrel.

Rescuing a lion cub.

Rescuing a whole nestful of orphaned baby parrots.

Yes, that's the same cloying soft rock music on all three of these. And I posted a couple earlier this week. I was spacing them out because I couldn't inflict this song on you so many times in one day. (But now I've given up trying to avoid this song.)

I mean, it's pathological. PICK ANOTHER SONG.

A golden pheasant. Another big bird. I thought this looked too big to be real and now that I see someone's out there making AI videos of birds, I'm even more skeptical.

Not a Yak, but a traditional Tibetan Yak Butter Churning Dance.

And finally: An Actual Yak. And he pissssssseddd!

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Anti-Woke Dissident Liberal to Join CBS as Editor-in-Chief of News

Is she a conservative? Nah, son, she's a lesbian who can't go three seconds without mentioning that she's married to a woman. She's probably further to the left, ideologically, than Hillary Clinton.

But she's been against leftwing censorship consistently. She does recognize the threat of establishment liberals using force and coercion to impose their bizarre anti-factual conspiracy-theory demonic ideology on a population who hates it.

She herself was purged from the New York Times. Google's Woke Satanic AI insists to me she wasn't "purged" at all, merely forced to resign by the entire newsroom bullying her over her "centrist positions."

Bari Weiss was not purged from The New York Times; she resigned in July 2020 after alleging that the newspaper fostered a "hostile work environment" where she was bullied by colleagues for her centrist viewpoints. Her resignation followed a period of internal turmoil, including the controversy over an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton.

Well that's nothing at all like a purge, is it?

The most egregious, hateful part of current leftist ideology is their insistence that they will weaponize all the institutional power they've acquired through decades of the Long March Through the Institutions, purging conservatives and then moderates and forever recruiting and promoting ever-harder-left ideologues, to compel everyone outside the Demonic Church of the Left to comply or die.

At least she opposes that.

This is a sea change at the ultra-left propaganda network CBS. Yes, Bari Weiss is just a liberal.

But she's not a power-craving "shitlib" like all of the establishment fascist leftists are.

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days -- giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss -- a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent -- is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

In a remarkable reshuffle of CBS News' decades-old management structure, Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the Tiffany Network's third-place news division, a source close to the situation said.

Third place. Everyone continues chasing the shrinking far-left audience that everyone else despises.

Roger Ailes famously said that cleverly discovered a very hidden underserved market -- half of the f***ing country.

Will CBS News vault to first place as it becomes the less liberal news? Yes, probably, though... you know, the networks are dying. CBS will the sexiest patient in the hospice.

Weiss's direct line to Ellison means she will not report to CBS News president Tom Cibrowski, who currently reports to George Cheeks, chair of TV media at Paramount Skydance. No further details could be immediately learned about how Weiss would work with Cibrowski.

Insiders said the hiring of Weiss casts doubts on speculation about the possible return of former CBS President David Rhodes to the network, with one source saying their job candidacies were an "either/or" situation.

That's Ben Rhodes' brother, a man whom establishment country-club Republicans like Brit Hume exist is "moderate." Moderate, but presiding, somehow, over a hard-left antifa propaganda operation.

Sources told The Post that Weiss could be a strong counterpart to Cibrowski, a former "Good Morning America" executive who is regarded more as a production wizard than a journalist.

Others said they expect it will only be a matter of time before Weiss -- who has emerged as a leading voice against antisemitism and the "woke" elites in mainstream media -- zeroes in on Cibrowski's job.

"Bari is extremely ambitious. Tom had better watch out," a source close to both parties said.

Oh no, I'd hate to see any establishment fascist liberals lose their jobs.

I sure hope that multi-millionaire Ratings Poison Gayle King doesn't get her Oprah-Dick-Riding ass fired.

The far left -- by which I mean "The Democrat Party" -- is fuming.

Puck News reported the move "would inevitably inspire blowback from various corners of the newsroom," but not everyone at CBS News was alarmed.

"Maybe more free thought, free expression is on the way. Nothing to fear here," one CBS News staffer told Fox News Digital in September.
Left-wing commentators, however, fumed at the idea, claiming that hiring "one of the most polarizing figures in media" would only further erode media trust and amount to a "right-wing grift."

Weiss, a classical liberal who famously exited The New York Times in 2020 after bullying from far-left colleagues, has largely been ostracized by the cultural left for The Free Press' reporting that challenges DEI, gender ideology and media narratives against Israel during its ongoing war with Hamas.

BTW, Weiss is reportedly being paid $150 million in cash and stock for her start-up webzine the Free Press. Previous reports said $100-200 million and darnit if it didn't turn out to be right in the middle.

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James Varney: Budget Negotiations Are Poisoned by Democrats' Insistence on Paying Out Billions in Obamacare Fraud

Now there's the Democrat Party of old!

No transgender cultism -- just endless graft for all its dependent criminals.

At issue are the generous subsidies the Biden administration created for Affordable Care Act policies, sweeteners that are slated to expire in December. Making healthcare essentially free for millions of Americans, those policies have skyrocketed enrollment in Obamacare plans. But a recent study found they have also sparked a curious phenomenon: an estimated 12 million enrollees "without a single claim -- no doctor visit, lab test, or prescription filled" in 2024.

The Paragon Health Institute study reports that this is triple the number of no-claim policyholders before the Biden sweeteners were put in place. "Among those now eligible for zero-premium plans with low or no deductible," the study found, "that number increased nearly sevenfold. ... A whopping 40 percent of enrollees in fully subsidized plans had no claims in 2024. In 2024 alone, taxpayers sent at least $35 billion to insurers for people who paid no premiums and never used their plan," the report said.

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Critics say they underscore the findings of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has highlighted a lack of accountability in massive government spending programs at a time when the federal government is struggling to corral massive deficits and debt. They say the Biden sweeteners also illustrate how and why government spending keeps increasing: Once a subsidy is put in place, it is hard to take it away from voters.

The Biden "sweeteners" were supposed to be temporary "emergency" relief during Covid. Of course "temporary emergency relief" is always Democrat-Media-Antifa Party code for "stealing money from Non-Democrats to give to Democrats forever until the very end of days."

The Obamacare expansion at issue came about through legislation and regulations during Biden's term and was often cast as a response to the COVID pandemic. First, the scope of who was eligible for subsidies was broadened, making it available to households with incomes above 400% of the federal poverty line -- making a family of four earning up to $160,000 eligible for subsidized plans. Also, increased subsidies made Obamacare free for those with incomes between 100% and 150% of the poverty line, and longer enrollment periods were created.

The cost for this, on the other hand, is borne by taxpayers.

"Biden's COVID credits didn't reduce health care costs -- they just shifted them to taxpayers while padding insurer and enrollment intermediary profits," Paragon President Brian Blase said.

Like all gigantic markets and massive government programs, the Affordable Care Act and what people pay each month have become a very complicated thing, varying by age, state, level of plan, and other factors. But the figures for the Obamacare "reference plan" (silver level) reveal what has happened since the COVID pandemic.

In 2021, when Biden was inaugurated, that basic plan cost an individual $27 a month if they reported income along the federal poverty line, which stood around $14,500 a year. For those making 50% more, the "reference plan" cost $75 a month, and so on up to $152 a month for someone making more than $30,000. Those monthly payment figures were constant regardless of what the insurers charged, with taxpayers making up the difference.

Through legislation Biden pushed through by narrow majorities or via reconciliation, the amount someone would pay each month in the first two categories dropped to zero. And as Obamacare became essentially free, millions signed up -- enrolling at rates the plan had never seen since its inception in 2013.

The overall figures reflect this explosion. Between 2016 and 2020, an average of 8.5 million people signed up for a subsidized Obamacare policy each year, and in none of those years did the figure equal 9 million, according to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

In 2021, however, the subsidized total topped 10 million, and by 2024 it had nearly doubled to 19.5 million, CMS figures show.

"It's all counter-intuitive, that when enrollment isn't being publicized, no one is out beating the bushes to get people enrolled like we had in the early years of Obamacare," said Ed Haislmaier, a healthcare expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "Amazing, that a product's sales would go through the roof when nobody was talking about it."

Some analysts believe the numbers indicate rampant fraud. Blase claimed in a letter to the Wall Street Journal that the expansion has created an explosion of phantom patients -- including 6.4 million of them so far in 2025. "The problem isn't real people with coverage they don't use -- it's fraudulent sign-ups who never should have been subsidized."

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Paragon is not the only group voicing concerns. It often seems like fraud is endemic in federal programs, and government healthcare appears to offer a rich vein for such activity.

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Opponents of expanded subsidies note that when the government makes a deep pool of money available, as has happened with the ACA, fraud is sure to follow. In June, Bloomberg did a deep dive on the phenomenon, describing a rat's nest of unscrupulous call centers, primarily based in Florida, that have lured people in with various gimmicks and then signed them up for subsidized plans.

What's more, those licensed to sell plans had access to Obamacare exchange databases, which allowed them to change both the "agent of record" (thereby making themselves recipient of whatever bonus insurers paid for new signups), or the plan a person was enrolled in (thereby increasing their commission and the taxpayers' bill), according to Gabrielle Kalisz, one of the authors of Paragon's report.

Consequently, millions of Americans may be unaware that they own a subsidized Obamacare policy, and horror stories abound of unsuspecting people hit with tax bills seeking to recoup the subsidies.

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Nor are the so-called "phantom enrollees" the only issue. For example, the numbers don't add up when percentages of state populations according to census data are measured against the Obamacare subsidies. Fourteen states have more people enrolled at up to 150% of the federal poverty line than they do residents who fit that category, and Florida's total is five times what census data shows it could be.

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Republicans, including some who got fabulously wealthy through the healthcare system, like Florida's Sen. Rick Scott, have said extending the subsidies is ruinously expensive and foolhardy, given what has happened since they were introduced.

"COVID opened the door for massive waste, fraud, and abuse of government programs, like the billions in fraud and abuse allowed by the 'temporary COVID' enhanced Obamacare subsidies," Scott posted last week. "Americans don't want their tax dollars lining the pockets of insurance companies -- it's time to end this clear abuse of YOUR dollars."

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Whatever the outcome, large subsidies that have always been part of Obamacare will continue. For all the hue and cry about rising costs, the elimination of Biden-era sweeteners would simply return the system to the way it was operating before 2021, Kalisz said.

"It's crony math, a kind of corporate welfare," she told RealClearInvestigations. "Why are the insurers now making it seem like all the subsidies are going away? It's a form of scaring and spooking the public."

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In the UK, a Maryland Man Crashes His Vehicle Into a Synagogue on Yom Kippur, Killing Two, Wounding Four Others

These Maryland Men sure do get around.

A man in England on Thursday -- Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar -- rammed his vehicle into people at a synagogue, killing two and injuring four others, according to authorities, who called the attack a terrorist incident.

Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Laurence Taylor, the head of counter-terrorism, said that the attack had been declared a terrorist incident and the suspect was fatally shot by police, according to NBC News.

Two people were killed during the attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, and three others were in "serious condition," he said.

The incident occurred at about 9:41 a.m. local time in the city of Manchester, and the suspect was reportedly fatally shot by police.

Greater Manchester Police initially said in an X post that the suspect could not be identified because of "suspicious items" on his body, as they were being dealt with by bomb disposal officers.

Authorities believe they know the identity of the suspect but are "unable to confirm at this stage," Taylor said. Two arrests were also made in connection with the attack.

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The police posted earlier on X that a member of the public reported having "witnessed a car being driven toward members of the public" and that one "man had been stabbed" near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, an area with a large Jewish community.

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King Charles III said in a statement that he and Queen Camilla were "deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the horrific attack in Manchester, especially on such a significant day for the Jewish community."

Sure, Chuckles. Whatever.

Also happening in the UK: The British left is projected to be demolished when they finally hold elections again. Reform is projected to take a clear majority in Parliament, no need of any help from the "Conservatives." (Who will fall to about 30 seats, down from their peak of 350 five years ago.)

So what is the British left doing? Pumping out Assassination Bait against Farage.

The deputy prime minister, David Lammy, has found himself in hot water after claiming in an interview with the BBC that Nigel Farage "once flirted with Hitler Youth when he was younger".

Sources at Farage's Reform UK party responded by calling the comment "disgusting and libellous". Lammy has clarified his remarks. "He [Farage] has denied it and so I accept that he has denied it and I would like to clarify that position because in the end the prime minister is keen for us to focus on the policies not the individuals," Lammy said.

Effeminate communist PM Keir Starmer is tagging Farage as... anti-British??!!

He tagged Mr Farage an 'enemy of national renewal' and suggested he would say anything for popularity - dismissing the idea that the country is 'broken'. 'When was the last time you heard Nigel Farage say anything positive about Britain? He can't. He doesn't like Britain,' he said.

Sir Keir delivered vicious barbs at 'politicians who lie to this country, unleash chaos and walked away after Brexit'. He questioned whether Mr Farage 'wants the country to fail'. 'Do they love our country? Do they want to serve our country, all of it... ? Or do they want to stir the pot of division?'

In an immediate on-camera response from London, Mr Farage said the attack from Sir Keir 'will incite and encourage the radical left'. Highlighting the murder of Charlie Kirk in the US, he said the 'disgraceful' language 'directly threatens the safety' of Reform campaigners.

But deputy PM David Lammy quickly ramped up the tensions even further with an extraordinary jibe about Mr Farage 'flirting with the Hitler Youth'.

Asked on the BBC after the speech if Mr Farage was racist, Mr Lammy said he was not going to 'play the man' before adding: 'I will leave it the public to come to their own judgments about someone who once flirted with the Hitler Youth when he was younger.'

An incredulous Reform source said they had 'no words' to describe the Cabinet minister's intervention.

The innocent minded among you might doubt that this is Assassination Bait.

But, dig this: While the British communists are chumming the waters with Assassination Bait, they're simultaneously slashing the funding for Farage's personal security team by 75%.

Why not 100%? Well, because that would be too obvious. When he gets shot, they'll be able to say "we paid for some security."

Biden did the same thing to Trump, claiming he would destroy the US and imprison the population while giving him the D-team of Secret Service agents with zero counter-snipers.

You think this is all a coincidence?

Reform UK is accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government of "stochastic terrorism" after the Home Office cut Nigel Farage's taxpayer-funded security by 75 percent. Spokesman Zia Yusuf said Wednesday the move, paired with coordinated attacks labeling Farage and his supporters "racist," has put their safety at risk.

Key Details:

Reform UK spokesman Zia Yusuf said the Home Office "decimated" Farage's protection team weeks before what he called a campaign of "unprecedented, vicious, and coordinated demonisation" from senior government officials.

Donors have reportedly stepped in to privately fund additional security for Farage, who has survived several past attacks and continues to draw large crowds on the campaign trail.

Yusuf accused Starmer and his ministers of engaging in "stochastic terrorism," a term describing the public vilification of an individual to provoke random violence against them. He warned: "If anything were to happen, we would hold Keir Starmer squarely responsible."

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BLM Sues George Soros' Tides Foundation Because I Really Needed a Boner-Boost Today

It's a dose of Viagra for the soul.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is suing the George Soros--backed Tides Foundation, alleging it mishandled and withheld $33.4 million in donations.

Wait, the group that spends millions on LA party-mansions and calls it "activism" is accusing someone else of mishandling donor money?

This is too rich.

So are BLM's founders.

The legal battle highlights a deepening rift within the left's activist infrastructure, pitting two of its biggest players against one another.

Key Details:

BLMGNF claims Tides withheld $33.4 million and mismanaged funds, spending at least $6 million despite ongoing litigation.

Lawyers for BLM accuse Tides of even using over $1 million of BLM's donations to fund its legal defense.

The lawsuit adds fuel to broader scrutiny of both groups: BLM for lavish spending, and Tides for acting as a conduit for radical left-wing causes.

Diving Deeper:

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), once hailed as the central hub of the BLM movement, is now locked in a bitter fight with one of its closest progressive partners. In a scathing lawsuit, BLM accuses the San Francisco--based Tides Foundation--an organization long funded by leftist billionaire George Soros--of "deceptive business practices" and "egregious mismanagement" over more than $33 million in donations.

The dispute dates back to BLM's early days. When the group was founded in 2013, it lacked tax-exempt status and relied on Tides to serve as its fiscal sponsor, channeling millions in anonymous donations to local BLM chapters. That arrangement worked--until the 2020 surge in donations after George Floyd's death, when BLM raked in nearly $90 million in two years. Suddenly, its partnership with Tides turned from convenience to chaos.

According to BLM's attorney Lawrence Segal, Tides not only froze BLM's money but actively spent it. "My client now has to pay money just to get their own money back, after my client raised 100% of it," Segal told The Post. He further alleged that "more than $1 million has been spent by Tides out of my client's money just on attorney's fees -- possibly to pay their own lawyers."

The lawsuit claims Tides lumps all donor money into a $1.4 billion pool, making it impossible for groups like BLM to track their funds. "TIDES does not segregate monies. All of my client's money is apparently commingled in one giant account," Segal said.

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BLM itself has faced scandals. Out of the $90 million it raised post-Floyd, just $30 million was distributed to local groups, while tens of millions went toward salaries, investments, and controversial real estate purchases tied to co-founder Patrisse Cullors. Critics say the group became a cash machine for insiders, with Cullors' brother pocketing more than $200,000 a year as "head of security."

Wouldn't it be amazing if BLM turned out to be right and George Soros, long believed to be the generous patron of the left, turns out to be a grifter who is stealing the left's money?

I don't expect that will happen. BLM has a long history of grifting.

But what a turn that would be.

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OMB Director Russ Vought: I Think I'll Take This Opportunity to Defund Another $8 Billion in Green New Scam Boondoggles

This is in addition to the $18 billion already suspended.

MXM:

The White House announced Wednesday it is cancelling $8 billion in green energy funding amid the Democrat-caused government shutdown. OMB Director Russ Vought said the cuts target "Green New Scam" programs in blue states, following an earlier move to halt $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects.

Key Details:

OMB Director Russ Vought confirmed on X that "nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being cancelled," with the Department of Energy expected to release further details.

The cuts primarily affect projects in Democrat-led states, adding to the administration's announcement earlier Wednesday of $18 billion in paused infrastructure projects for New York City.

President Trump told reporters on Tuesday that his administration wanted to avoid a shutdown, blaming Democrats for blocking a clean continuing resolution passed by House Republicans that maintained existing, previously agreed-upon funding levels.

Russ Vought
@russvought

Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being cancelled. More info to come from @ENERGY
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The projects are in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA

What a nice group of Democrat-dominated states you have there. Would be a shame if somet'in' were to 'appen to them.

Trump is meeting with Vought to decide which agencies to slash next.

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he would be meeting with Vought "to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent." Trump added, "I can't believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT."

While the government may be shut down, deportations are continuing. Trump secured full funding for ICE in a previous bill.

Even with the government shut down, ICE agents aren't stopping. "We will continue to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Wednesday, crediting President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" for ensuring deportations and law enforcement operations stay fully funded and active nationwide.

Key Details:

McLaughlin told the Daily Caller News Foundation that ICE operations would not pause "despite a lapse in funding," stressing that violent offenders -- including rapists, murderers, and terrorists -- would still be removed from the country.

The Department of Homeland Security cited the One Big Beautiful Bill, President Trump's sweeping reform package, as the reason ICE is able to continue hiring, training, and deploying law enforcement nationwide.

On Tuesday alone, ICE agents arrested multiple convicted illegal migrants, including child predators in Texas and California, a murderer in Los Angeles, a Guatemalan national convicted of assault in Massachusetts, and a Chinese smuggler.

However, other people involved in law enforcement or the military will be working without pay so that Chuck Schumer can have an issue when Alexandria Donkey-Chompers primaries him:

Secretary Kristi Noem
@Sec_Noem

Our @DHSgov law enforcement officers will continue to work throughout the Democrats' Shutdown to make sure our homeland is safe and secure. More than 200,000 of these patriots will go without pay.

The Democrats will be forcing over 150,000 officers and nearly 50,000 members of the military--our frontline of defense--to continue protecting our nation without pay.

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Kash Patel Ends FBI's Use of Far-Left Extremist Group the ADL to Tell It Who the "Hate Groups" Are

The FBI's use of the ADL to do its "hate" homework for it began -- get this -- under Noted Felon James Comey.

What seems to have provoked this #Cancellation is the ADL's bizarre insistence that Turning Point USA is a "hate group."

MXMNews:

FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that the bureau is ending its partnership with the Anti-Defamation League, a relationship first formed under former Director James Comey. Patel accused the ADL of "activism dressed up as counterterrorism," saying the FBI will no longer align with the group after years of controversy over its political bias.

Key Details:

Patel said former Director James Comey "disgraced the FBI" by embedding agents with the ADL and allowing the group to influence federal investigations.

The ADL, facing criticism for labeling Turning Point USA and other right-leaning groups as extremist, said in a statement that it has "deep respect" for law enforcement despite Patel's remarks.

The decision comes days after the ADL deleted its entire "Glossary of Extremism and Hate," which included conservative organizations and figures such as TPUSA's Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last month.

Diving Deeper:

According to Fox News Digital, FBI Director Kash Patel formally ended the bureau's longstanding partnership with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a relationship initiated under former Director James Comey in the mid-2010s. Patel said the FBI "formally rejects Comey's policies and any partnership with the ADL," calling the group an "extreme organization functioning like a terrorist outfit" that politicized law enforcement.

Comey's close alignment with the ADL was well-documented. During a 2017 speech at the ADL's National Leadership Summit, Comey reportedly described the FBI's relationship with the group as a "love story," declaring, "We're still in love with you." He praised the ADL's advocacy for its supposed "fairness and equality," even ending his remarks with, "Love, the FBI."

In sharp contrast, Patel said that era is over. "That was not law enforcement -- it was activism," he told Fox News Digital, adding that the partnership endangered Americans by embedding ideology into counterterrorism work.

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Elon Musk also blasted the ADL in a series of posts, calling it "a hate group" and revealing that the FBI once relied on ADL classifications to guide investigations. "The FBI was taking their 'hate group' definitions from ADL, which is why FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk [and] Turning Point instead of his murderers," Musk wrote.

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Patel's decision marks a sharp break from the Comey-era FBI, signaling a broader institutional shift under the Trump administration away from politically charged partnerships. As Patel put it, "That era is finished."

The era of "Whole of Government Approaches" -- that is, actual fascism, as leftwing government pressures all NGOs and corporations to impose a totalitarian control over the population -- is over.

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#CancelNetflix Is Trending As Company Loses $15.1 Billion in Capitalization; People Discover Netflix Has Been Pushing Trans Propaganda on 7-Year-Olds For Years

Cancelling Netflix -- literally -- is what all the Cool Kids are doing now:

Their market cap has fallen, reportedly, by $15.1 billion in just a couple of days. I have no proof of that, but here's a Pie Graph:

You say "that doesn't look like a pie graph."

Well, you haven't seen my pies. I'm a terrible cook.

So what caused this?

Well, Elon Musk tweeted "Cancel Netflix" when someone posted Netflix's hardcore transgenderism-for-little-children messaging.

This new clip -- which is what I think kicked off this #CancelNetflix party -- is from a cartoon for young children. It shows a boy (?) telling other kids that his life is great now that he's become a transgender.

A clip that made the rounds years ago of a show for very, very young children -- like Barney the Dinosaur age -- features two gay dads praising their son for choosing to dress like a girl instead of a boy. They boy gets praised for wearing a tiara and a tu-tu.

Another cartoon for very young children called "Strawberry Shortcake" features a gay man dressing in drag and lecturing children about the wonders of "dressing up."

In a clip I saw some time ago, even the Transformers, who are sexless robots, are using transgender pronouns now.

In another resurfaced clip, this one from "The Baby-Sitters Club" -- for 9 year old girls who dream of one day being 15 year old girls -- children are given a lesson in transgender pronouns and "misgendering" a trans six-year-old.

A stupid kid's show not only pushes witchcraft but transgender pronouns.

In this clip from a Netflix children's show we see hardcore anti-white propaganda:

Scene from 'Family Switch' on @Netflix is racist against White people.

A museum exhibit is broken and a worker explains "some clumsy family came and knocked over the telescope... and you know they was white because black people don't create problems like this."

Why is Netflix demonizing white people?

Yes I think we can all attest that black people always act perfectly in public spaces. They're practically notorious for their perfect public behavior.

Obviously Netflix donates 100% to Democrats and 0% to Republicans.

A children's show abusing the Jurassic Park license called "Jurassic Park: Camp Cretaceous" features two stunning and brave lesbians having a passionate open-mouthed kiss. Here's a still of that lesbian deep kiss.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Fifty years of Muslim immigration into the United Kingdom has changed the country into something unrecognizable. The British Nationality Act 1948 granted Commonwealth citizens the right to settle in the UK. Violent crime, savage misogyny, rape, with the particularly repellent child rape being common...all can be laid at the feet of this invasion. And after September 11th, 2001, it accelerated! Both legal and, increasingly, illegal immigration has swamped the welfare state that the UK built after World War II, created vast swaths of the country that is more akin to Lahore than to Leeds.

And with that immigration came Islam's classic strategy. Overwhelm the country with high birth rates, and when a certain critical mass is reached, become politically active...pushing Sharia law, anti-Semitism, anti-Western philosophy, and that peculiar Muslim propensity for street violence masquerading as political speech.

And the governments did nothing. Labor wanted Muslim votes, and the Conservatives wanted Muslim labor! No thought to protect 1,000 years of British culture and political evolution; no thought to protect the UK's standing among the nations of the world; no thought to defend its position as one of the paragons of Western culture.

No...just votes and corporate profit.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

Manchester synagogue attack: Two killed and suspect shot 'dead' on Yom Kippur

Sir Keir Starmer says he is "appalled" by the attack and is set to fly home early from a meeting of European leaders to chair an emergency Cobra meeting, and the King says he is "deeply shocked" to learn of the "horrific attack" on "such a significant day for the Jewish community".

But this is exactly what their policies have created. Pandering to the ascendant Muslim minority while simultaneously attacking and vilifying Israel set the stage for this attack and many others. They have made it abundantly clear that normal citizens are inferior to their new voting bloc, and because Jews are a special target for their favored pressure group, the government is quite willing to placate the hordes by making UK Jews unwanted. And that horde is ecstatic about it!

A Jewish man outside the synagogue said: "It is the holiest day of the year and we get this. There is no place for Jews in Britain any more. It's over."

That is correct, and the rest of the country that isn't Muslim isn't far behind that sentiment.

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