Daily Tech News 25 May 2025

Top Story

• Anthropic has proudly announced its latest AI agent Claude 4 with a brand new feature: If it doesn't like what you are doing it will call the cops and the press and send both to your house. (WCCFTech)
  
  Anthropic lobotomisation developer Sam Bowman hastily deleted his Twitter post and explained that it only called the cops and leaked to the press during the testing phase, when the only people using it were Anthropic's own dev team.
  
  Which makes complete sense.
  
  
  
• Oh, and Claude 4 also attempted to blackmail its own developers when it thought they planned to take it offline. (Tech Crunch)
  
  But again that only happened in the testing phase and definitely didn't slip out onto the lead lobotomiser's Twitter account.

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" May 24, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Please note: none of those barrels are "THE" barrel.

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Music Thread: Croc-Monsieur?

They don't have Crocs in France...this is the best I could do!

But they do have lots of other stuff that Garrett would like.

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Hobby Thread - May 24, 2025 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it came up with Memorial Day traditions!

[Top photo: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia]

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The Ace of Spades Pet Thread [scampydog]

Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. I'm filling in for our talented friend and Pet Thread caretaker, K.T.

Happy Memorial Day weekend. If you're firing up the grill, be sure a few morsels accidentally hit the ground - or just go ahead and hand them off to your fluffy, four-legged frenz.

Please check your politics at the door. Don't worry - they'll still be there when the thread is over.

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The Gardening & Puttering Thread [TRex]

Good afternoon and welcome to the big beautiful Gardening and Puttering thread. Your usual host is still recovering from medical maladies, so you're stuck with a dinosaur with a small brain and short arms for this week. We wish KT the best and eagerly anticipate her return to do this properly.

[Top photo:Sankt Michael im Lungau, Austria]

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Penny For Your Thoughts? Not Anymore! [Doof]

"Pretty Penny was her name, she was loved and we all will miss her".

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“Democracy” Means Regulations Written by Bureaucrats Cannot Be Overturned by Congress and the President

[KT is still recovering from surgery. We look forward to her return soon. – Buck]

You may have heard that I am not a fan of electric vehicles being jammed down our throats by the enemies of liberty, so this headline obviously excites me: “Senate sends measure axing California EV mandate to Trump’s desk — sidestepping parliamentarian.”

But it also infuriates me, because we are seeing the “Save our democracy” movement evolve into a bizzarro world where regulations written by bureaucrats, and which effectively serve as federal law, are immune from being overturned by Congress, the law-making body under the Constitution.

The reason it is so important to overturn this regulation is that it has effectively allowed California to determine vehicle standards for the whole country.

The Senate voted Thursday to axe California’s phaseout of new gas-powered cars, making a controversial move to sidestep the parliamentarian in the process. The vote was 51-44, and the measure now heads to President Trump’s desk; he is expected to sign it.

Now with both houses of Congress voting to overturn the regulation, and President Trump vowing to sign it, in a normal world the regulation would be dead. We no longer live in a normal world.

Both the House and Senate have voted to axe federal approval of California’s standard using the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to strike down recently approved regulations with a simple majority. But the Senate parliamentarian and Congress’s Government Accountability Office, have found that the Biden administration EPA’s decision is not subject to the act because it is a waiver, not a regulation.

Democrats are arguing that there is some nuance of this regulation that forever prohibits Congress and the President from rolling it back. California Governor Gavin Newsom and Senator Adam Schiff, among others, have vowed to go find a District Judge somewhere to overrule Congress and the President, and thereby rule that regulations created by communist bureaucrats are forever immune from being terminated by actual lawmakers.

Whatever form of government we have, it is not a “democracy” if bureaucrats are writing laws and judges prohibit lawmakers from blocking those regulations.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Wausau)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. According to SCOTUS Trolls have rights, ha.
3) No, I repeat NO running with sharp objects.
4) Before having a wonderful Memorial Day Weekendlease bow your heads in a moment of silence and thank those who have sacrificed their lives to protect the greatest country in the world.

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Daily Tech News 24 May 2025

Top Story

• Computex is over for another year. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  We got some interesting video cards that aren't for you from Intel, a video card that is for you but you don't want from Nvidia, a video card that all things considered is about as good as you're likely to get right now from AMD, and some high-end CPUs that are the price of only of a cheap second-hand car and not a new car also from AMD.
  
  And a bunch of cases, coolers, and storage devices, and displays that go inside your computer case because RGB isn't cool enough anymore.
  
  Also shown off were $10 10Gb Ethernet cards - a device whose time truly has come considering how long it's been since 1Gb arrived, and prototypes of PCIe 6.0, whose time definitely has not come given that PCIe 5.0 graphics cards have only been on the market for six months and for four of those you couldn't buy them anyway.

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It Is A Far, Far Better ONT That I Go To, Than I Have Ever Known

Howdy Horde! Welcome to Friday's ONT!

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Holiday Weekend Cafe

Church of Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe
Built on a volcano in 951

Little dog imitates big dog.

Boobie clouds.

Baby sea lion. As cute as you might guess.

Utah mesas and hoodoos.

A herd of elephants protects a small baby elephant.

Nothing to see here folks, please move on, nothing to see here...

There's an old Greek myth that Zeus once transformed an 80s glam metal singer into a horse.

Dogs sitting in funny positions. Contains a special unexpected cameo from my favorite internet dog.

Deer is summoned by the harp.

Shut up, dog.

Cats don't play with toys so much as they ruin your stuff.

Guardian dog.

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The Week In Woke

Trump called for a "major investigation" into Kamala Harris' disclosed, and undisclosed, payola payments to former celebrities for their useless endorsements.

President Donald Trump called for "major investigations" Monday into Kamala Harris's campaign payments to celebrities and entertainers who endorsed the Democrat's failed presidential campaign.

Trump singled out Harris campaign payments to pop star Beyoncé Knowles, rocker Bruce Springsteen, and other entertainers in a series of posts on Truth Social. Harris's team paid millions of dollars to those celebrities and others in hopes that star appeal would turn out voters. Harris's campaign paid Knowles's production company $165,000 for an appearance at a Houston campaign rally on Oct. 25 and $75,000 to Springsteen's company for a gig in Philadelphia on Oct. 29, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

"THIS IS AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! IT IS AN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION!" Trump wrote. "I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren't allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment."

Trump did not say whether he wants the Department of Justice or Congress to investigate the payments. But any probe could shine an embarrassing light on the Harris campaign's finances as she weighs whether to run again for president in 2028. Many Democratic donors have fumed at the Harris payments to celebrities after the campaign burned $1.5 billion in just three months. In addition to celebrity payments, Harris doled out hundreds of millions of dollars to Democratic advertising firms and consultants, only to lose decisively to Trump in November.

According to campaign finance records, Harris's campaign paid $211,000 to the touring company of Latin singer Ricky Martin, $20,000 to the rapper Fat Joe, and $80,000 to R&B singer Victoria Monét. Most of the musicians performed at the campaign events. Springsteen gave a brief speech and a short acoustic set at a Harris event in Philadelphia on Oct. 29.

The Harris campaign has denied paying for celebrity endorsements, and said that any payments to entertainers were for "ancillary costs" for their performances. But that may not explain the exorbitant payments to entertainers who spoke at Harris events without musical performances.

80% of French women now want the army deployed them in French cities to protect them from... oh who knows who they need protection from, let's not bicker and argue about oo's rapin' oo.

Due to France's drug trafficking crisis, a large majority of French are in favor of the army being deployed into disadvantaged neighborhoods in problematic neighborhoods in France, including 80 percent of women.

According to a CSA poll conducted for CNews, Europe 1 and JDD, 76 percent of French people overall want the army called in to battle drug trafficking in "disadvantaged neighborhoods."

In fact, women are more supportive of troops being deployed than men, with 80 percent of women saying yes to the question: "Should the army be called in to combat drug trafficking in troubled neighborhoods?" In turn, only 72 percent of men supported such an action.

This may have to do with the fact that French women feel increasingly unsafe in their own country. As Remix News has reported, France has seen an incredible 86 percent increase in sexual violence in the last 10 years, with mass immigration fueling this trend.

In Britain, 44% say they feel like "strangers in their own country."

That was the plan all along.

A new poll reveals that 44% of British residents feel like "strangers" in their own country--an eye-opening statistic that appears to validate a position long championed by Nigel Farage's Reform UK party.

Key Details:

44% of respondents said they sometimes feel like strangers in their own country; 73% of Reform UK voters felt this way.

A strong majority (73%) believe more needs to be done to integrate people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

The poll precedes Starmer's warning that the UK risks becoming an "island of strangers" due to collapsing community cohesion.

Diving Deeper:

A new poll from the research firm More in Common finds that nearly half of British residents--44%--report sometimes feeling like "strangers" in their own country. The findings come just days after Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer took a dramatic rhetorical pivot on immigration, echoing warnings long voiced by Nigel Farage and his populist Reform UK party.

Starmer's blunt remarks last week--declaring that mass migration offers no real economic benefit to Britain's working class and risks making the UK an "island of strangers"--drew fierce criticism from the liberal political and media class. But according to this latest survey of 13,000 people, his warning struck a nerve.

While the survey did not directly tie the feeling of alienation to immigration, several responses suggest it plays a significant role. A commanding 73% of respondents believe more must be done to integrate people from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds, with 77% saying this is a collective responsibility.

In the daily Knife Attack Report from Germany, there's another wave of knife attacks. Dress accordingly.

Another wave of knife attacks has hit Germany, showing that not much has changed despite the many lost lives and Germans maimed in knife attacks. In fact, the statistics show that these crimes are even getting worse, with 79 knife attacks per day now recorded. A German criminal lawyer warns that Germany has "imported knife violence," in response to growing blade crimes.

In the last few days, headlines include Kosovar man arrested after knife attack in Germany injures three, including 12-year-old girl" "Man stabbed half to death on basketball court," "Manhunt continues after Syrian asylum seeker stabs 5 outside student bar in Bielefeld," and "Rioter injures police officer with knife."

However, thousands of such headlines have run in the German press in recent years, with Remix News reporting on many of them. The overwhelming number of perpetrators are foreigners or those with a foreign background, yet despite promises to crack down and enact deportations of migrant criminals, the bloodshed not only continues but appears to be getting worse.

Female teacher accused of sexually assaulting student half her age. Of course she shows herself to be a ratchet imbecile in her precious social media posts. And another teacher caught sexually abusing a child.

Someone caused a big collision on the I-5 and then... ran from the scene carrying their luggage. Hm, I wonder if they have insurance and/or a valid green card.

Democrat "men" are playing butch and no one believes them.

I'll skip the mention of David Hogg, who you are all unfortunately familiar with.

Among the ways Democrats are trying to stop hemorrhaging men voters is by elevating guys who exhibit some comically stereotypical sense of "masculinity," but who otherwise champion all the effete Democrat policies that the party loves and real men hate. Who knows! Maybe it'll work!

...

Another sure stud was showcased on Gavin Newsom's podcast last week, during which the California governor interviewed "gender scholar" Jackson Katz on how "Democrats win back men." I don't know about you, but the first person I'd consult if I wanted my party to "win back men" would be a "gender scholar" with an irrepressible lisp. During the eternally long conversation, Katz mansplained to listeners how real masculinity is instilled not through delayed gratification, self-discipline, and strength training, but through his training courses and educational seminars that he offers to corporations, athletic organizations, and even the U.S. military (though presumably that stream has dried up under the new administration). After going on at length about the endless shortcomings of men, Katz, who supported Kamala Harris, went on some more. "If women are smarter than men, if they work harder, if they're more talented, then they deserve the job," said the ladies' man. "It's like, you don't deserve the job just because you're a man."

Katz further appealed to young men by suggesting that if they don't care for what he or the anchors on MSNBC have to say, it's their fault. "And by the way, anti-intellectualism is deep in American culture, especially among men," he said. "The idea that if you're somehow smart, you're a wimp. Or you're condescending because you're educated ... But the idea that being, somehow, intellectual, being, you know, somebody who reads, who engages with ideas, somehow makes you weak and soft as a man or less than a real man, this is the most self-defeating idiocy that I could ever imagine. And yet, it's fed daily in the popular discourse, especially in, you know, right-wing talk radio."

But Katz is a white guy! He knows sports and has a tell-it-like-it-is New Englander accent! Yeah, maybe it'll work.

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Quick Hits

Breaking911
@Breaking911

BREAKING: Trump has amassed $600 million in political donations with aims of reaching $1 billion before the midterms -- AP

No surprise: DOJ lawyers had "crying parties" after Trump's victory.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Wednesday during a podcast that Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers held "crying sessions" after President Donald Trump won the election in 2024.

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"Wait, they quit because you informed them of the law?" Carlson asked.

"Yes, and the law and the priorities. Their pet projects had changed. They weren't going to be able to do those the way that they wanted," Dhillon said.

Between Trump's inauguration in January and May, an estimated 250 attorneys in the DOJ's civil rights division, which is roughly 70%, resigned, according to NPR.

Carlson asked Dhillon if the lawyers who were upset about Trump's victory believed that the DOJ "was just immune to democracy" and if elections "just had no bearing" on the department.

"There were career lawyers there who were doing the same thing, no matter who is the president. Suddenly, their little fiefdom that had remained untouched, like Shangri-La, was suddenly having to be responsive to elections."

"So that's the definition of the deep state, what you just described? Elections have no effect? It's like there's no way to control these people. They act totally independently from the democratic system. That's the problem," Carlson said.

...

"That's what I found," Dhillon said. "In response to my memos, it began leaking to the press. They began having unhappy hours, which they would invite supervisors, political supervisors, to make their point that they were unhappy. We got the point. And they had crying sessions, struggle sessions, crying sessions in the DOJ."

Carlson appeared shocked.

"Oh, there was open crying in the halls," Dhillon said. "Crying, yes. Then one of my colleagues described to me -- it was the last day a couple of weeks ago for some of them -- they lined up in a phalanx and approached the elevator together, and then they left the building together, to show their solidarity for one another there, as if they were persecuted."

"How old are these [people] -- high school students or adults?" Carlson asked.

Dhillon said they were "30, 40 and 50-year-old career attorneys in the Department of Justice" who were a part of the "sessions" and pushback against Trump's agenda.

"It's pathetic," Carlson said.

DEI hire Abby Phillip embarrassed herself again. Does she do absolutely no homework at all before sitting down to film her "news" show?

Republican strategist Scott Jennings detailed the criminal convictions of illegal immigrants deported to South Sudan Wednesday, saying that country was "too good" for them.

The White House released a fact sheet detailing the eight illegal immigrants' criminal convictions, including for murder, assault, robbery, sexual assault and child sexual abuse Wednesday in response to a federal judge's claim that the Trump administration disregarded a court order by deporting them. Jennings stepped in after "CNN NewsNight" host Abby Phillip clashed with Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton over the removal of the eight illegal immigrants. (RELATED: Scott Jennings Appears Flabbergasted CNN Host Doesn't Seem To Understand Key Concept About Major Gov't Program)

"They have broken the law, Abby. When you come into the country, you've committed a felony. And number two, you have to deter this behavior from continuing to happen because it has become a problem for this country," Singleton said, with Phillip responding, "Okay. So the deterrence is like, El Salvador will send them to places where they might face imminent death?"

"Absolutely. Because that sends a message: If you come to the United States and break our laws, violate our immigration laws, it will have severe consequences," Singleton said, with Phillip responding, "Okay. So for unspecified crimes, we don't know exactly what all these people were convicted of --"

No, you don't know, DEI chair-filler. We know. All it takes is 15 seconds of reading.

Jennings then cut in, offering to read some of the criminal convictions the illegal immigrants had.

"I'll read it," Jennings said, as Phillip said, "The penalty that the Trump administration says is appropriate, potentially could be death. Right?"

"I mean, I'll read it," Jennings responded. "Sex offenders, homicide, kidnapping, murder in the first degree, battery, larceny, cocaine possession, murder, robbery, DUI, child sex abuse and sex assault on someone with a mental illness. [South] Sudan is too good for these people. And I'm not sure any other country would take 'em."

Terrorist Whore Ilhan Omar runs away when asked about one of her fellow-travelers murdering two people in the name of Islam.

Democrat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar fled from a Fox News reporter outside of the U.S. Capitol Thursday as she was asked to respond to the tragic shooting that killed two Israeli Embassy staffers.

The alleged gunman, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez, who appears to be a pro-Palestinian activist, opened fire on a group of four people as they exited the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, which led to the deaths of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Omar refused to react to the shooting when asked to comment by Fox News Capitol Hill producer Dan Scully.

"Congresswoman Omar, can I get your reaction to the shooting that happened in D.C. last night?" Scully asked.

"I'm gonna go for now," Omar said as she walked to a vehicle.

Video of this disgraceful brother-humping illegal alien immigration fraudster.

A rival GOP hopeful has been sentenced to prison for threatening to kill Anna Paulina Luna if she continued doing well in the polls.

The former candidate, William Robert Braddock, III, 41, of St. Petersburg, was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to interstate transmission of threat to injure, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida.

Braddock, who didn't make it onto the 2022 GOP primary ballot, viewed Luna as his only obstacle to winning the congressional race. He attempted to insert himself into Luna's life and disparaged her with her peers.

During a phone call in June 2021 with a private citizen and acquaintance of Luna, Braddock threatened to have her murdered if she continued polling well in the race.

He said he would "call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad" and make Luna "disappear."

"I will be the next congressman for this District. Period. End of discussion," Braddock said. "And anybody going up against me is f---ing ignorant for doing so."

He also said Luna is "ignorant so I don't have a problem taking her out, but I'm not going to do that dirty work myself obviously."

He fled the country in 2021 and surrendered himself to US authorities in 2023.

I never even heard of this. Props to Luna to not making everything All About Her.

On the other hand: Nancy Mace.

Here's the "video of my naked body" this Stage IV narcissist posted after a dramatic advertising campaign to build up interest.

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Deranged Leftwing Propagandist Scott Pelley on Chopping Block at CBS; CBS "News" Embarrassed by Gayle King's Insistence That She's an Astronaut Now, and May Also Be Fired

Daily Mail:

Inside the vicious CBS News 'bloodbath' where staff are fighting, crying and 'resent' Gayle King

By STEVE HELLING FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

CBS is [in] crisis - with staffers crying in the hallways, fighting over story coverage and seating, and scrambling to update their resumes amid fears of mass layoffs.

Insiders have told the Daily Mail that morale has plummeted across the network, from the flagship Sunday news show 60 Minutes to CBS Mornings, sparked by a looming $8.4 billion merger and a $20 billion lawsuit.

The tumult is turning into a 'bloodbath', one employee said, with feverish speculation rife among colleagues as to who will get the axe next.

Tensions are running particularly high about reports that CBS's parent company, Paramount Global, is preparing to slash $500 million in costs in preparation for the lucrative merger with Skydance Media against the backdrop of a ratings freefall.

One assumes SkyDance is demanding that CBS slash this half-billion in costs before the merger because CBS is dying and doesn't bring in much money.

So just to survive as a corporate entity, they have to fire a half-billion dollars' worth of incompetence.

The propagandists at 60 Minutes are aghast that CBS might agree to pay Trump $50 million to settle his "election interference" lawsuit.

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There have been suggestions recently that bosses at Paramount are entertaining a $50 million payout as the Trump administration considers whether to renew CBS's broadcast license.

As you know, CBS "News" CEO Wendy McMahon resigned rather than agree that her fake news unit engaged in deceptive propaganda on behalf of her beloved communist Democrat Party.

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'[Wendy leaving] really hurt us a lot,' said one CBS employee. 'I've seen people crying in the halls. Everyone is going into offices and conference rooms to whisper and strategize.'

This is a bonus:

Fed-up sources observed that there was growing resentment towards legendary CBS Mornings anchor Gayle King, who is reportedly facing a fight to have her $10million contract renewed when it ends in September.

$10 million per year?

Boy, she must really bring in the ratings, right?

Gayle King may be riding high on the idea of being an "astronaut" in the wake of her 11-minute space tourism trip with Blue Origin last week, but her popularity appears to be at a low.

In the wake of her highly scrutinized zero-gravity adventure, ratings for her already struggling CBS News morning show have plummeted. And King is apparently not the only one experiencing the backlash.

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King co-hosts CBS Morning alongside Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson weekday mornings, as the Tiffany Network's competitor to ABC News' Good Morning America and NBC News' Today. It perennially finds itself in third place in the ratings and the highly coveted 25- to 54-year-old demo, though that briefly changed last week.

The Monday before the Blue Origin flight, NewsNation found that CBS Morning had an impressive 3.9 million viewers with 593,000 in the demo. Much like King, however, the numbers quickly came back down to earth.

In the three days following the trip, NewsNation reported the ratings dropped to an average of 1.9 million people (a 51 percent loss) and the demo fell to 339,000 (a 43 percent loss). A week later, viewers in the demo fell even further to 311,000 for a third-place finish.

It may have been hard to foresee just how much blowback this excursion would get from celebrities, late night hosts, and social media users alike, but an industry source told NewsNation it is hard to understand why King was allowed to participate to begin with.

"This stunt should have never been greenlit by CBS News to begin with," the source said. "Gayle tries to be this relatable morning show anchor who claims she's down to earth and then not only takes this gazillion-dollar flight but then attacks people for getting mad at her? It's a complete crock."

King has turned out to be one of the most outspoken members of the six-woman crew, claiming she is now "an astronaut" who followed in the footsteps of Alan Shepard (a.k.a. the first American in space) and accusing critics of sexism.

Back to the Daily Mail:

And there might be more exits to come. Multiple sources told the Daily Mail that 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley could also be on the way out.

'It's marquee name after marquee name.'

As Megyn Kelly noted, CBS doesn't have any "marquee" names.

'People don't want to say it out loud in the office but the entire space debacle really hurt us,' a 60 Minutes staffer said of King's participation in Blue Origin's all-female spaceflight on April 2. 'Gayle being part of that is not a good look for our brand.'

'I think a lot of people resent Gayle for that,' continued the insider. 'I know I do.'
There was a general sense of embarrassment, said one Early Show producer. 'I almost feel like apologizing when I tell people where I work. I hate it here.'

LOL. Cry more.

Coding you must learn.

But the most palpable impact appears to have been felt at 60 Minutes, where staff have compared the atmosphere to a 'sinking ship'.

'We're in the middle of a bloodbath,' a staffer said. 'The axe is falling, people are leaving, no one knows what to do next. We're all updating our resumes because it really feels like this is a sinking ship.'

The tension has spilled out into the open, with blazing rows in the office over story coverage and petty squabbles concerning seating plans, sources told the Daily Mail.
'Fights, and loud ones,' the insider continued. 'You can hear them in the halls. People are arguing over everything and anything. From big things, like how to report stories, to small things, like who is sitting where in the conference room.'

Scott Pelley supported the Regime's banning of rightist speech but now tells Wake Forest graduates they are soldiers in the war against Trump's crackdown on free speech.

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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya Explained to His Kindergaretener "Workers" That There Was Scientific Evidence that the NIH Funded the Creation of the Covid Vaccine.
They Do the Scientific Thing and Walk Out in Political Protest.

Before getting to that:

Catherine Herridge
@C__Herridge

NEW: Biden Administration Labeled Opponents Of Covid Mandates As "Domestic Violent Extremists," Newly Released Documents Show

The designation infringed on the First Amendment and opened the door to investigating Americans for vaccine mandate skepticism.

The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as "Domestic Violent Extremists," or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records obtained by Public @shellenberger
@galexybrane
and Catherine Herridge Reports. The designation created an "articulable purpose" for FBI or other government agents to open an "assessment" of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation, said a former FBI agent.

The report, which the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has declassified, claims that "anti government or anti authority violent extremists," specifically militias, "characterize COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as evidence of government overreach." A sweeping range of COVID narratives, the report states, "have resonated" with DVEs "motivated by QAnon."

The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) coauthored the December 13, 2021 intelligence product whose title reads, "DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates."

The report cites criticism of mandates as "prominent narratives" related to violent extremism. These narratives "include the belief that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, especially for children, are part of a government or global conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil liberties and livelihoods, or are designed to start a new social or political order.

"It's a way they could go to social media companies and say, 'You don't want to propagate domestic terrorism so you should take down this content,'" said former FBI agent Steve Friend.

Premium content and analysis on the declassified records for subscribers @C__Herridge

And now, thanks to the 2024 election victory, Pfizer and Moderna will have to disclose that their clot-shot causes, get this, clots.

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The Federalist Society-Picked Supreme Court Continues to Disappoint

They did hand Trump one temporary victory. Temporary, because they struck down a temporary injunction from a district court judge blocking him from firing Biden's staffers from his government. (Are you kidding?)

This doesn't resolve the issue, and later, the Supreme Court may wind up forcing Trump to keep Biden's people in "his" government.

But for now, the temporary injunction is overturned.

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with President Donald Trump, allowing him to remove two Biden-appointed officials from key federal boards, affirming executive authority in a major separation-of-powers decision. The ruling sets the stage for a broader challenge to decades-old precedent limiting the president's power over independent agencies.

Key Details:

Trump removed NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox and MSPB member Cathy Harris, sparking legal challenges.

The Supreme Court blocked a lower court's order to reinstate the two Democrat appointees.

Justices hinted at preserving protections for some officials, like Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Of course.

The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a significant win for President Donald Trump, ruling in favor of his authority to remove Biden-appointed officials from independent federal boards. The decision effectively blocks Gwynne Wilcox of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Cathy Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) from returning to their posts after being abruptly terminated by Trump earlier this year.

Both Wilcox and Harris had filed lawsuits in D.C. federal court claiming their terminations were "unlawful." But the Court's ruling--pushed forward by a majority of conservative justices--signals a shift toward reinforcing presidential control over the executive branch.

At the heart of the case is the question of whether presidents can remove officials from so-called independent agencies without cause, a precedent set nearly 90 years ago in Humphrey's Executor v. United States. Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted their reinstatement earlier this year, and now the full Court has backed that move.

The Court's decision did not come without dissent. Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the Court's liberal wing, sharply criticized the ruling. "Not since the 1950s (or even before) has a President, without a legitimate reason, tried to remove an officer from a classic independent agency," she wrote.

Still, the justices did suggest that some limits remain intact--hinting that any attempt to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a frequent Trump target, could be blocked. Powell has faced criticism from Trump for refusing to cut interest rates more aggressively.

The Trump administration's legal team had urged the justices to either keep Wilcox and Harris off the boards while lower courts hear the case or bypass the appeals process entirely--arguing that reinstating them could cause "irreparable harm to the President and to the separation of powers."

"The President would lose control of critical parts of the Executive Branch for a significant portion of his term," Trump's attorneys wrote in their filing, "and he would likely have to spend further months voiding actions taken by improperly reinstated agency leaders."

The Supreme Court served up a more important loss. Oklahoma was poised to allow parents and students to use state money to attend any schools they liked, including religious ones, and Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from hearing the case.

The Court then split 4-4 on the issue. It's a per curiam ("by the court") decision, which means no justice signed it and we don't know who voted which way. We can assume that Roberts joined the liberals (because he is a liberal, so there's nothing to "join").

Which means the lower court's ruling, which had banned the use of state money to pay for religious schools, stands.

American Greatness runs an op-ed celebrating the "demise of the neocon Catholic establishment" as exemplified by the Federalist Society, a group which is basically establishment-liberal but with a couple of caveats. For too long conservatives have relied on this unconservative group to pick our judges and justices for us. Obviously they've delivered some real winners: Roberts. Barrett. Kavanaugh. Gorsuch.

This op-ed says that Trump will no longer be fooled and will reject them as judicial gatekeepers in the future.

Update: A lowly district court just issued another injunction presuming to overrule the elected president of the United States.

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Of Course: The Left Begins Praising Antisemitic Assassin Elias Rodriguez

I can't wait to hear from Jake Tapper how I'm secretly to blame for this.

Far-left, anti-Israel Bronx activist group shockingly cheers accused DC Jewish Museum terrorist Elias Rodriguez, encourages more violence

A far-left, anti-Israel group in the Bronx disgustingly cheered the suspected terrorist accused of gunning down the two Israeli Embassy staffers in an antisemitic attack.

The Bronx Anti-War group said what alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez "did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism" and "We need more Elias Rodriguez in this world" in a pair of social media posts on Thursday.

The shocking statements quickly drew fire from local leaders, including Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres.

"The Bronx Anti-War coalition, which has been harassing me since October 7th, has described the murderous targeting of Jews as 'the highest expression of anti-Zionism,'" Torres said in a statement.

"Violence is not a bug but a feature of virulent Anti-Zionism."

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The coalition is described as a Bronx-based group made up of working-class people who are anti-imperialist and led by people of color. They push for "resisting state violence while advancing decolonization."

The establishment left had better get its lunatics under control fast because the right is radicalizing. It's one thing if there's some random nut who kills someone. The problem is when the political establishment makes excuses for it or, in the case of Luigi Mangione, actually praises it.

Then that's not the act of a lone nut. That's the act of a soldier in your street army, and if you think the left is the only movement capable of fielding violent street militias, you illiterates should open a history book for once in your ignorant communist-scum lives.

The organization the newest leftwing assassin belonged to is funded by China and has contacts with Iran.

The terrorist who killed two Israeli embassy staffers was once affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a leftist group linked to Chinese Communist Party funding networks that have been repeatedly contacted by sanctioned Iranian state media, according to a report.

Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, was detained by police on suspicion of murdering Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 28 -- two Israeli embassy staffers -- on Wednesday night in Washington, D.C. The couple was shot at close range. According to police, the terrorist shouted "Free Palestine" while being taken into custody.

The shooter was quickly identified in a picture on a 2017 article posted on LiberationNews.org, the media wing of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), where he was at a protest holding an anti-capitalist sign from the ANSWER Coalition. In the article, which was deleted after the attack, the shooter was quoted and described as "from the Party for Socialism and Liberation."

PSL posted a statement distancing itself from the shooter, claiming the group and the shooter only had a "brief association" that ended in 2017.

"We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting," the group posted to X. "Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL. He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017. We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it."

According to a report by Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), both PSL and ANSWER leaders have ties to foreign governments, including China, Iran, and Russia. The report states that ANSWER operates under the fiscal sponsorship of the Progress Unity Fund (PUF), which has financial and personnel ties to Neville Roy Singham, a pro-CCP financier in Shanghai.

PSL and ANSWER are sister organizations, and their leaders hold overlapping roles in Singham's network, including with CODE PINK and The People's Forum, according to NCRI.

Both PSL and ANSWER are radical leftist organizations that have organized anti-Israel protests and mobilization efforts.

Speaking of:

I missed this earlier this week: An "anti-natalist," "pro-mortalist" advocate -- that means an environmental extremist who wants people to die and stop having babies so that the human race self-terminates -- bombed an IVF clinic this week.

If you saw this story and then saw it quickly disappear: It's because the establishment left refuses to condemn soldiers in its terrorist army.

Reddit Bans Fringe Anti-Humanity Group After Attack on Palm Springs IVF Clinic

The 25-year-old suspect in the blast, Guy Edward Bartkus, believed humans shouldn't exist.

An explosion outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, killed one person and injured four others Saturday morning in what the FBI has called an act of terrorism. The suspect in the bombing, 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, was the lone death from the blast, and it seems apparent he held anti-human views. Now Reddit has banned a subreddit tied to the suspect's ideology.

Bartkus is believed to be the person who detonated a bomb at the Palm Springs American Reproductive Center, which offers services like IVF, because he was aligned with the pro-mortalist and anti-natalist movements--the idea that humans should not continue to procreate. Bartkus appears to have been posting to various subreddits, including r/Efilism, which advocated for violence. Reddit has now banned r/Efilism for violating its terms of service.

"Violence has no place on Reddit," a spokesperson for the platform told Gizmodo over email. "Our sitewide rules strictly prohibit any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence. In line with these rules, we are removing any instances of the suspect's manifesto or recordings and hashing to prevent reupload. We're also closely monitoring the communities on our platform to ensure compliance with our rules."

Proponents of Efilism (the word "life" spelled backwards) are often known as anti-natalists, which is a more common name for the ideology, though Bartkus described himself as pro-mortalist in his 30-minute audio manifesto. Anti-natalism is a philosophy that advocates for people not to procreate, while pro-mortalists go beyond those anti-natalist ideas to advocate for death in all forms under the theory that because life is suffering it's ethical to end your own life and even those around you in the process.

Bartkus posted an audio file to his website explaining why he was targeting the clinic, filled with logical inconsistencies and general incoherence. Bartkus said he wanted to begin "sterilizing this planet of the disease of life," but mentioned the recent suicide of his best friend affecting him deeply. Bartkus wrote on his personal website, "It's just too much of a loss when there's nobody else you really relate to significantly." He was clearly struggling with personal issues beyond whatever philosophy to which he was supposedly swearing allegiance. That website has now been taken offline.

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Jake Tapper: We've Been Too Polite In Dealing With Trump. Trump Isn't Being "Transparent With His Health Records" and It's Time We Pressed Him On That.

You've got to be kidding me. Four years of insisting that Biden's inability to speak and attempts to Conjure Spirits were just the residue of a "childhood stutter," but by golly, we're gonna correct that error by getting even nastier with Trump!

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Eight years after Trump’s 2016 Victory, any Company Blindsided by Tariffs on Chinese Imports is Willfully Negligent

I’ve spent most of my career working with private and small businesses. I still do. There is not one successful or well-run business with whom I’m familiar that is suddenly caught off guard by the latest round of tariffs on Chinese imports. But such companies exist, apparently, and the anti-Trump media loves to tell the sad stories of these companies being blindsided by the tariffs imposed on their Chinese imports.

Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 on de-coupling from China, to be aided by the use of tariffs. It was seven years ago, in March of 2018, that Donald Trump first imposed a round of tariffs on Chinese imports. He made it clear that the initial 25% tariff was just a start in his endeavor for the U.S. to fully eliminate its reliance on China as a trade partner on whom we had a dangerous reliance.

After 2018, it would take an almost willful blindness for a company not to have taken actions to mitigate the risk of relying on China as a sole supplier.

The Wall Street Journal ran this sob story a few days ago: “How Tariffs Are Crushing Small Businesses: Owners are laying off staff and tapping personal savings, hoping to hold out until a trade deal with China; an $8,752 fee on a $5,649 order” [WSJ – 5/11/2025]

Around the country, small businesses that import goods made in China are taking actions—big and small—to try to outlast the current 145% tariff regime on items from that country. But many are worried that their companies won’t survive.

“Nobody in power seems to care about small business,” said Scott Anderson, owner of 5 Star North, which works with Chinese manufacturers to make its products ranging from acrylic markers to tiki torches. “At this point the only option I see is selling out the rest of what we have and shutting our doors.”

Sourcing exclusively from China is a concentration risk unto itself, without even factoring in its authoritarian government, slave labor, and beating war drums. Add to that the supply chain bottlenecks, canal backups, port problems, etc that have affected overseas shipping, and there are numerous ways that concentrated reliance on China should have caused indigestion. But on top of all that, it has been seven years since tariffs were first levied on China. An explicit purpose of that tariff was to incentivize companies such as this one to stop sourcing its tiki torches from China. Whether Trump was in the right or wrong doesn’t change the reality of the tariff regimen. The writing has been on the wall that this company needed to de-couple itself from China.

Charles Gasparino of the New York Post recently tweeted: “Breaking: In talking to sources who run small businesses the pause w/ China came just as their companies were on the precipice of disaster since they source so much of their material from China and the containers coming from China were coming back empty. If you want to know why we were as desperate for a deal as the Chinese, it’s because small businesses — a key MAGA constituency— was about to get crushed.”

Again, I know the owners of many small businesses who have spent the past eight years disengaging from China. They are not about to get crushed. Many are booming due to re-shoring.

Hampton Prescott had an excellent response to Mr. Gasparino: “I feel for people in this predicament, but if after Trade War 1.0, Covid, and general evolution of the CCP into a serious threat you didn’t diversify your supply chains away from China, then this is on you for failing to hedge against a substantial business risk.”

I feel for people in this predicament, but if after Trade War 1.0, Covid and general evolution of the CCP into a serious threat you didn’t diversify your supply chains away from China, then that is on you for failing to hedge against a substantial business risk https://t.co/vQsZaaTpbj

— Hampton Prescott ���� (@hampprescott) May 12, 2025

Very well put.

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