April 29, 2025
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Camille Corot
Camille Corot
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The Morning Report — 4/ 29 /25 
Spain and Portugal achieved net zero on Monday, but not the way anyone would want to achieve net zero: By going back to the cave-people times with no electricity. . . . . . Sure, they are looking into a cyberattack, or a terrorist act, or a rare weather event involving magnetic fields, or maybe some bad maintenance, and they should. But they have gone remarkably quiet lately, making one think of the one possibility they might want to be quiet about. The blackout was unprecedented, and it happened just shortly after this happened: . . . For those keeping score at home: April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power. April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.Meanwhile, the Chi-Coms are building every coal-fired, fossil fuel fired and nuclear power plant they can while using gullible environmentalist stooges in the West as their agents to help destroy their own economies, in the guise of saving the planet, of course!
European officials are seemingly not very concerned about the possibility that the continent’s green energy agenda may leave it vulnerable to Chinese aggression in the future, according to Politico. Trump administration officials met with a group of European officials in the U.K. earlier in April, warning the Europeans that China is taking advantage of the West’s climate policies to further its own geopolitical goals, Politico reported. Despite the Trump administration’s cautions and Europe’s recent experiences relying on malign actors for energy, European officials mostly shrugged off the warning and signaled that the continent is still intending to make its energy system go green in the long-run.It's a multi-front global assault on American international diplomatic and economic preeminence that we have enjoyed almost uninterrupted since the end of the second world war, which has allowed America to steer the course of global events and keep the peace (more or lesss). Naturally, from Mao until now, the Chi-Coms could not abide by that.
American officials usually accuse China of trying to take over our manufacturing, but that’s old news. China took over our manufacturing long ago. And the parts it still hasn’t taken over are usually the parts that it doesn’t want or that are too uneconomical to be worth taking over. Taking over America’s manufacturing was never China’s endgame. Taking over our economy is.Undercutting, stealing and dumping its way to manufacturing supremacy was how China got its foot in our door. Americans came to think of China as an assembly line for cheap junk, but the cheap junk built China’s production capacity. The next step was moving up to components for bigger products and then the products themselves. Once the components were being made in China, it made more sense for the companies to simplify by moving everything to China. . . . . . China has assembled all the building blocks for taking over our economy. It has hijacked our manufacturing from the ground up. What began with 99-cent store fare now includes high-end smartphones, ebikes and laptops. Its hackers and employees from Silicon Valley to our defense industry provide pipelines of stolen techniques, trade secrets and R&D to supplement whatever we haven’t exported already to provide China with assured manufacturing supremacy. After swallowing our manufacturing, China began consuming our retail sector. Amazon cannibalized our brick and mortar retail by dumping Chinese products in America on a massive scale, but Chinese retailers cannibalized Amazon and turned it into a front for their products. China’s retailers have been figuring out how to rapidly move products into this country, how to set up warehouses and eventually how to master rapid last-mile delivery. And then Amazon will have nothing more to offer Americans than a billion-dollar woke version of Lord of the Rings.Kind of ironic that the same Red-Green commie stooge fifth columnist idiots in our country who complain about consumerism and fossil fuels destroying the planet are the greatest mass consumers of Chinese crap as well as electric vehicles and other Green technology that rely on strip mining and leave behind oceans of toxic waste once batteries and other components can no longer be recharched etc. To say nothing of the fact that slave and child labor in China and all over the third world are used and abused in the initial manufacture of these goods and their components. But America as founded is evil, illegitimate and white supremacist and so must be destroyed. I guess Greta Thunberg finds it more enjoyable these days goose-stepping all over the world and railing against Israel. In any case, before long I fear we shall see who comes out on top, the Chi-Coms or Islam, the legacy of President Trump and the movement to restore America notwithstanding. Unless the world, us included, can shake off so many delusions in the next decade or so, we're in for some very interesting times indeed. And we are living through them right now!
. . . . So insidious and unrelenting has been the Leftist encroachment upon our basic civil liberties that only lately are we starting to understand that the America we thought we knew is on the verge of -- perfectly legal! -- dissolution. . . It's guerilla lawfare at its deadliest, waged under the false flag of "restoring norms" when by norms they mean simply: their way. They're hoping for a provocation that will force Trump into a Jessep-like confrontation with the Tom Cruise character, perhaps played by Chief Justice Roberts himself, in which Trump will openly thumb his nose at the Court and its minions and thus trigger the "constitutional crisis" the Left is trying so hard to provoke. They have, they say, a "higher loyalty"; we are nation of laws, not men. But what they really mean is that their "higher loyalty" is not to the country or the constitution but to themselves and their guild, and that the laws of this nation are to be written, litigated, and enforced not by its citizens but by lawyers. Our duty is to explain to them by any means necessary that they're wrong. And for that we'll need more than a few good men.And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Lawmakers, alumni of these schools, and the public must demand accountability, defund schools with ideological mandates, and restore medicine to its core mission: saving lives through reason and evidence.
Report: Thanks To DEI, Most Medical Schools Now Teach Doctors To Damage Patients
- Heather Mac Donald: Disparate-impact theory preserved the hegemony of the civil-rights regime long after the original impetus for that regime had all but disappeared. One would be hard-pressed today to find any mainstream institution that discriminates against black Americans in admissions, hiring or promotion. The reality, in fact, is the opposite: Every mainstream institution is desperate to hire and promote as many remotely qualified blacks as possible; it is white males who are disfavored and excluded from positions based on their skin color.
Trump is restoring merit — by slaying rules that enforce reverse discrimination
- Michael Walsh: . . . the enemy has done of the courtesy of naming himself: the legal profession. The Resistance 2.0 is now being fought by white-shoe law firms in the halls of justice and Congress, its Lilliputian hordes attempting to hamstring Donald Trump's second term -- not in the streets and with a phantom electorate, as they did the last time -- but in the courtroom. Call it by its name: lawfare
THE COLUMN: Can We Handle the Truth?
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Daily Tech News 29 April 2025
Top Story
- We didn't get hacked or hit by ransomware. We didn't need to. We run Oracle. (CNBC)
45 hospitals belonging to Tennessee-based Community Health Systems lost access to all their electronic records for five days because... Oracle accidentally deleted them.
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April 28, 2025
Monday Overnight Open Thread - April 28, 2025 [Doof]
Sunset over central Colorado
Howdy Hordelings! Hope your Monday has been a good one. We made it through Day 1 without the boss. Give yourself a high-five, grab a beverage of your choosing, and settle on in to the ONT. Lurkers, please don't be shy - say hello! Regulars - eh, it doesn't matter what I say - you're gonna do what you do anyway.
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The Venture Capitalist and the Start-up Lemonade Stand
(Header photo by Djamel: @djame_l)
Disclaimer – I greatly respect the many impressive and successful venture capitalists investing in startups producing real products and fulfilling genuine product needs. I applaud the entrepreneurs who are creating these new companies, as well as the VCs who fund them. They are important, and I regret that there are so many charlatans and carnival barkers making a mockery of the process of steering capital to business start-ups.
But I have spent way too much time - including a few wasted years in my own career - around people cosplaying the start-up lifestyle, and watching incubators get all excited about the latest “Carbon-Neutral Doggie Waymo” or, God help us all, yet another time-sucking software product to help companies monitor employees’ goals and “engagement.”
With that said, Chris Bakke had a hilarious tweet recently about taking his child’s lemonade stand to venture capitalists. I particularly like how he got “AI” into the name of the “lemonAIde” business.
“Forbes five under five.” “Can I tokenize this business and sell LEMON token on the blockchain? Will split proceeds 70/30.” “Wait until he realizes his allowance is paid in vested equity.” “Is there a way to secretly dilute the solution and sugar content of the lemonade to maximize return to investors? What if you set up your shop in a Third World nation with less regulatory oversight?” “I could have sworn Jim Cramer was just raving about this company!” For those of you missing Ace’s evening Cafe and feeling that I’m out of my wheelhouse, please know that I’m bootstrapping my way through his absence, dealing with an aggressive burn rate, and knowing full well that vultures at the accelerator are ready to come in with an elevator pitch if any of you think I’m dishing out nothing but vaporware. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
It's spring break and my son started a lemonade stand. I asked him how much lemonade he sold in the last hour. "$3" he said. I told him, "Here's $20 for one glass of lemonade. In one hour I'm going to come back and buy a lemonade for $1,000. You're going to take that $1,000/hr revenue - multiply it by 24 hours - then multiply it by 365 days, and tell VCs, 'I have $8.76M in run rate revenue with 99.9% net margins, and 100% of our latest cohort of customers have expanded revenue with us. You're also changing the name of your lemonade stand to 'lemon(AI)de' and incorporating it as a C Corp" My son was holding back tears. I said, "Doesn't it feel good to be a millionaire, bud?" He said, "Dad I'm 4 and I don't know what any of these words are." I said, "Welcome to life as a tech CEO - neither do I" and drove away.
It's spring break and my son started a lemonade stand.
— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) April 18, 2025
I asked him how much lemonade he sold in the last hour.
"$3" he said.
I told him, "Here's $20 for one glass of lemonade. In one hour I'm going to come back and buy a lemonade for $1,000. You're going to take that…
“Forbes five under five.” “Can I tokenize this business and sell LEMON token on the blockchain? Will split proceeds 70/30.” “Wait until he realizes his allowance is paid in vested equity.” “Is there a way to secretly dilute the solution and sugar content of the lemonade to maximize return to investors? What if you set up your shop in a Third World nation with less regulatory oversight?” “I could have sworn Jim Cramer was just raving about this company!” For those of you missing Ace’s evening Cafe and feeling that I’m out of my wheelhouse, please know that I’m bootstrapping my way through his absence, dealing with an aggressive burn rate, and knowing full well that vultures at the accelerator are ready to come in with an elevator pitch if any of you think I’m dishing out nothing but vaporware. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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Cafe Thread Attempt
Dating advice:Marta Kostyuk brings her dog on court after beating Emma Raducanu in Madrid.
— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) April 25, 2025
Too cute. 🐕❤️
pic.twitter.com/8VTC1sZ7Ln
Big, fluffy dog:If you‘re on a date with cute girl, and a random dog takes an instant liking to you, your chances of going home with her have just increased noticeably pic.twitter.com/Agkbn0E4Ez
— John Dory (@johndory1914) April 23, 2025
The Adorable dog is so cute and happy 🐕🧡 pic.twitter.com/LKd94T1j54
— dogs so cute that could save the world (@dogssaveworld) April 16, 2025
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The Media Is at the Height of Its Power and Aren't at all Scared that Their Influence has been Slipping for Decades and is now Undeniable
I mean, just look at CNN!
Okay, sure, CNN is doing badly. They promised and promised and promised their viewers that Trump was going to end up in jail and Kamala was going to be president. But that's no reason to tune them out, right? They said it. That makes it happen, right? It's not like people have decided to tune out televised news to a large extent, leaving only a minority who even turn it on, much less are convinced by it, and it's not like their viewership is very, very old, or anything. Oh wait, I've been informed that all of those things are true. Too bad. Next, the press told itself that it's very serious and very important and that it's just unfortunate that Biden's aides were able to trick them into thinking Biden was in great shape:CNN's full-scale collapse continues rapidly. It reaches a remarkable new low led by @kaitlancollins and @abbydphillip: fewer than 500,000 viewers total in prime-time! That's almost impossible to do even if you wanted it.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 27, 2025
Also, they're well below 100k for viewers under 55. pic.twitter.com/4gG4jMWBTH
I think we should give them medals. And raises. And to jail anyone who thinks they lied for several years about the health status of the most powerful man on the planet. It's not like they'd ever lie about anything else. Nope. They're just honest people who can be tricked into believing things that are obviously not true. Wait...is that better? I'm being informed that no, it's not, in fact, better. For some reason, I'm reminded of the below clip from Steven Spielberg's 2017 movie, The Post where Ben Bradlee (played by Tom Hanks) explains how he was Jack Kennedy's friend and refused to run bad stories about him. He's going to make up for this journalistic malpractice by turning on Nixon, a man he already disagrees with, and try to destroy him..@AlexThomp: "President Biden's decline and its coverup by the people around him is a reminder that every White House regardless of party is capable of deception...We, myself included, missed a lot of this story and some people trust us less because of it." #whcd #nerdprom pic.twitter.com/L9CtbB3HIZ
— CSPAN (@cspan) April 27, 2025
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[moviegique]: Warfare
Alex Garland is a talented director. I think. A novelist who transitioned to movies with scripts like 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd, he made a big splash with his directorial debut Ex Machina, which was good, overrated but also easily the peak of his efforts—leading as it did into Annihilation, a muddled distaff remake of Stalker, and then descended into the risible Men and Civil War—well, let's just say there's no confusion as to his politics. It gives one pause, whether to watch a movie about a squad in Ramadi during the Iraq War, under these circumstances. However, he had a co-director and co-writer on this, first time writer/director Ray Mendoza, a Navy Seal who was part of the squad that took part in the events detailed in this film. Once again, The Boy and I decided to roll the dice. Rolling the dice can pay off, people.
They're watching 2005's "Call On Me" video which is confusing because it looks like the sleaziest Aerobicize video from 1981.
TJM: I spiked moviegique's post on Saturday night because our unspoken schedule said one thing, and I felt really, really bad about it. So, highlighting this on a Monday afternoon, with much more traffic, seems like a nice way to try and make up to him. Sorry, moviegique. Now, everyone read his wise words. Take over, moviegique:
Tonight we have three movies under consideration: Warfare, The Ballad of Wallis Island, and When Fall Is Coming. But to spare the fools who read the content a 2,200 word post, I've posted the review for Warfare here as being the most likely one to interest the readers of a Smart and Cruel Military Blog. Interested parties can read the reviews for the other two on my blog: Wallis Island is a delightful comedy-drama: Funny but not all fluff. When Fall Is Coming is a French drama about a woman with a troubled relationship with her daughter which is rather complicated by the daughter's death. The movie takes a pleasant turn into mystery/suspense-land as the mother and her friends are potentially implicated in the death. I've decided on May 17th, I'm going to present a defense of the 2005 Pride & Prejudice. So you may want to set your alarms for then (or set them to ignore). And Now For Our Feature Attraction!Alex Garland is a talented director. I think. A novelist who transitioned to movies with scripts like 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd, he made a big splash with his directorial debut Ex Machina, which was good, overrated but also easily the peak of his efforts—leading as it did into Annihilation, a muddled distaff remake of Stalker, and then descended into the risible Men and Civil War—well, let's just say there's no confusion as to his politics. It gives one pause, whether to watch a movie about a squad in Ramadi during the Iraq War, under these circumstances. However, he had a co-director and co-writer on this, first time writer/director Ray Mendoza, a Navy Seal who was part of the squad that took part in the events detailed in this film. Once again, The Boy and I decided to roll the dice. Rolling the dice can pay off, people.
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Some Immigration News
Alright...Dem politician news...check.
Old news that had some slight update recently...check.
Looks like next should be something...immigrationy.
First, that story of the 2 year old citizen being deported: Tom Homan had some thoughts:
It looks like the mother was an illegal. The father never showed up to the deportation hearing and is in hiding. The authorities were asking the mother where they wanted the child to end up (either with her or with her sister-in-law, it seems). The mother chose to take the daughter with her. Also...Homan wants to deport the father too, in order to be with the family since he's also illegal. Next, Colorado Governor Polis had some thoughts on the raid on an illegal nightclub that rounded up over 100 illegal immigrants:🚨 HOLY SMOKES: Border Czar Tom Homan just laid down the hammer on the media. He said - we're deporting the ENTIRE family.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 28, 2025
"What we did is remove children with their mothers who requested it - that's a parental decision. Parenting 101. I'll tell you what - if we DIDN'T do it,… pic.twitter.com/ZARHCBdPJY
I mean...okay. That's a choice. Is he planning on running for president or something (he is). Thirdly: the person who stole Kristi Noem's purse was apparently an illegal immigrant let into the country despite an expediated removal order.Gov. Polis's response to a multi-agency raid on an illegal nightclub in Colorado Springs, where more than a hundred illegal immigrants were detained, was pathetically wimpy and weak: https://t.co/VIy8ZFypSZ
— Sean Paige (@SeanPaige) April 28, 2025
But what would one expect from a @GovofCO who has systematically… pic.twitter.com/pUbA8KbtN9
But, remember, Biden's administration was serious about the border. Their press releases in October of 2024 said so.Authorities said they arrested a second suspect in the theft of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's purse in the District after tracking down the illegal immigrant in Miami. https://t.co/4gskOmuYl9
— Washington Times Local (@WashTimesLocal) April 28, 2025
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Remember the Helicopter Crash that was supposed to be Trump's fault for firings that didn't happen at the FAA? Turns out it was the pilot's fault for not doing what she was supposed to do. Whoops.
But it's Trump's fault because DOGE sent out letters to federal employees about their weeks.
Whoopsie!
I scanned the article, and it seems to describe the chaos of running an airport, especially one in the middle of DC. Seems like a high-stress job with a lot of moving parts, but one part refused to move. She just didn't move to the left when her warrant officer told her that's what ATC wanted.The @nytimes story on the January DC plane crash hides its takeaway until the last sentences: the lady helicopter pilot ignored multiple warnings from her right seat about altitude (and his directly telling her to turn away) and flew straight into a passenger jet.
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 27, 2025
The end. Ugh. pic.twitter.com/7emtYkZTwQ
But it's Trump's fault because DOGE sent out letters to federal employees about their weeks.
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Gerry Connolly, top Democrat on the Oversight Committee and Rep since the Dawn of Time, to step down at the end of this Congress
VA-11, his district, is very heavily Democrat, so don't expect a pickup. Do expect, however, a Resistance idol to take the primary and the seat next Congress. Someone young, dumb, and full of...ideas about how Trump needs to be impeached for the good of illegal immigrant gangbangers.
Rep. Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will step down from his leadership post on the panel and not run for reelection. The Virginia Democrat, whose constituency includes many federal workers, cited the return of his esophageal cancer - first diagnosed in late 2024 - as the reason for his planned departure.
VA-11, his district, is very heavily Democrat, so don't expect a pickup. Do expect, however, a Resistance idol to take the primary and the seat next Congress. Someone young, dumb, and full of...ideas about how Trump needs to be impeached for the good of illegal immigrant gangbangers.
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THE MORNING RANT: Abrego Garcia & the Pure Evil That Human Traffickers are Inflicting on the United States, with Democrat Support
Kilmar Abrego Garcia would seem an unlikely hero. He is a woman-beating, MS-13 gang member who is in this country illegally. He is also associated with known human traffickers, and he appears to have personally engaged in the interstate trafficking of foreign nationals while driving without a license. The Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia, who should never have been in this country in the first place.
It’s hard to comprehend, but Democrats and the legacy media consider Mr. Garcia a hero who encapsulates the values they champion, and they desperately want to return Mr. Garcia to the U.S. to resume his criminal ways here. As I’ll get into a little deeper, there are grotesque violations of human rights flowing from the international trafficking of foreigners held as chattel here in the United States. It is a modern-day slave trade. Democrats, the media, and those who defend Abrego Garcia are also champions of the modern-day slave trade.Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transporting eight passengers from Houston, Texas to Temple Hills, Maryland using a vehicle owned by an illegal immigrant who was convicted of human trafficking and deported from the United States to his country of origin, El Salvador. Less than one week after The Tennessee Star reported that Abrego Garcia was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in late 2022, and released at the instruction of the “Biden-era FBI” despite being suspected of human trafficking, transporting nine passengers, and operating the vehicle without a valid license, Just the News reported that Abrego Garcia was driving a vehicle registered to Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes.The Biden administration instructing the Tennessee Highway Patrol to release Mr. Garcia, although he was clearly engaged in human trafficking at the time he was pulled over, quite simply means that human trafficking had the official imprimatur of the US government during the Biden presidency. In October 2023, I wrote about the discovery of a 14-year-old Guatemalan girl’s body near an interstate highway in rural Tennessee. Her corpse was found dumped in the parking lot of a restaurant. “Border Policy Disgrace: Body of a 14-Year-Old Guatemalan Girl Found Dumped in a Rural Tennessee Parking Lot” [Buck Throckmorton – 10/16/2023]
A few days ago, the body of a young teenage girl was found dumped in the parking lot of a small-town Tennessee restaurant along the interstate between Nashville and Atlanta. She was from Guatemala according to the local Sheriff. This is the embodiment of Joe Biden’s immigration and border policies. While we don’t know what horrors this girl endured on US soil before her death, her ordeal almost certainly occurred because the President of the United States and his Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, have allowed and incentivized it to happen. Trafficking of foreign children on US soil is unthinkably awful, but it is happening. While we don’t yet know the exact circumstances regarding this girl, it’s probably a safe assumption that her body wasn’t left in that parking lot by loving parents.An autopsy was performed on the dead girl, and the story gets even more heartbreaking. She was pregnant and shot dead. 14-year-old sex slaves lose their value when they get pregnant.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
David Ligare
David Ligare
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The Morning Report — 4/ 28 /25 
let alone when subway passengers are set on fire and illegal alien rapists and murderers are set free to rampage with impunity. As if not more egregious we have judges who quite literally are shielding these criminals from apprehension.
What we do have is now open insurrection against the American people.
Were it not so deadly serious, it would be laughable since The Democrats are proclaiming Trump to be acting as an imperial monarch/dictator. Greatest case of projection ever. It is Evers, and every other elected official or judge who should be arrested, and charged, and in the cases of these judges removed from the bench and disbarred. Of course Chuck Schemer is threatening . . . wait for it "Impeachment!" Yeah that's a real political winner, Chuck. Worse we have vile slithering lipid mass J.B. Pritzker wearing Jasmine Crockett's false eyelashes and gargling with dog feces to give his poisonous forked tongue that certain quelque chose de Maxine Waters:
Elsewhere in the world, some mysterious explosions in Iran . . .
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let alone when subway passengers are set on fire and illegal alien rapists and murderers are set free to rampage with impunity. As if not more egregious we have judges who quite literally are shielding these criminals from apprehension.
Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a previously deported illegal alien, was in Judge Hannah Dugan’s Milwaukee courtroom on charges of domestic abuse.And the propagandists are going bonkers, first by proclaiming that the roundup, detention and rapid deportation/repatriation of these criminal invaders is a violation of due process, which as we went into in great detail on the last podcast it is clearly not.
But when ICE showed up, Judge Dugan allegedly colluded to obstruct immigration enforcement and help the illegal alien wife-beater make his escape. According to federal authorities, Dugan first tried to pressure ICE personnel into leaving, then she directed Ruiz to flee through a ‘jury door’. ICE however chased him down and arrested him. Then the FBI busted Judge Dugan.
What we do have is now open insurrection against the American people.
State governments refusing to cooperate with federal law enforcement in enforcing immigration law because they reject the idea is an insurrection. And it ought to be treated like one. Whether it’s Gov. Newsom in California or Gov. Evers in Wisconsin, state governors ordering employees to obstruct ICE is a Fort Sumter moment. The State of Wisconsin guidance to “state employees encountering ICE or other federal agents at their workplace” tells them to ask for their budgets, tell them to sit in a “public area” , not allow them to “enter into a non-public area” and to refuse to cooperate without contacting a lawyer. Gov. Evers’ directive warns state employees “do not answer questions” and “do not give the agent access to any paper files or computer systems” because “state employees may not grant ICE or another agent access to such data or information.”
Were it not so deadly serious, it would be laughable since The Democrats are proclaiming Trump to be acting as an imperial monarch/dictator. Greatest case of projection ever. It is Evers, and every other elected official or judge who should be arrested, and charged, and in the cases of these judges removed from the bench and disbarred. Of course Chuck Schemer is threatening . . . wait for it "Impeachment!" Yeah that's a real political winner, Chuck. Worse we have vile slithering lipid mass J.B. Pritzker wearing Jasmine Crockett's false eyelashes and gargling with dog feces to give his poisonous forked tongue that certain quelque chose de Maxine Waters:
“Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I am now, these Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” Pritzker recited.So, defend violent criminals, harass political opponents, including parents who object to the rot and perversion being forced on their children, and openly foment violence against the aforementioned. While I don't think this is being orchestrated, I do think that there is a mindset that allows these politicians and judges to do what they knowing that they have fellow travelers all up and down the line who agree with them and give them political and legal cover. Of course, the arrival of Trump and the likes of Kash Patel and Pam Bondi will hopefully put paid to that notion. We shall see just how corrupt the system is, or if as some have stated that corruption is the system how far the President can go to thwart the insurrectionists and traitors in our midst and what the societal and political repercussions will be, either if he stands his ground or perhaps worse, if he backs down.
Elsewhere in the world, some mysterious explosions in Iran . . .
A deadly explosion at an Iranian port that killed at least 28 people on Saturday was caused by chemicals used for ballistic missile fuel, which had in turn been imported from China, according to media reports Sunday. As Breitbart News noted Saturday, “A huge explosion … destroyed large parts of the Iranian port of Shahid Rajaee southwest of Bandar Abbas along the shores of the Persian Gulf. … The port is located in southwestern Iran and is one of Iran’s main oil facilities. … The explosion occurred as Iran began a third round of nuclear talks with the United States in Oman.” The death toll, as of Sunday, is at least 28, with over 1,000 wounded.
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Thad McCotter: A new report warns that rising left-wing support for political violence, fueled by online “assassination culture,” threatens the foundations of civil discourse and democracy.
On “Assassination Culture”: It’s Not You, It’s the Left
- A pathetic powermonger unable to lift her hand from the lever of power.
Susan Rice: The thing that wouldn't go away
- Forty-six years later, there is no other conclusion to reach than that the Education Department has been a total failure, and that’s putting it kindly.
Calling the Education Dept. A Total Failure Is An Insult To Total Failures
- “And she asked me what happened and I told her. And she basically said … ‘Yeah, Democrats are a**holes.'”
What Adam Schiff-for-brains Learned from a Cashier at Target
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Daily Tech News 28 April 2025
Top Story
- Google's DeepMind team in the UK is reportedly seeking to unionise, upset by Google dropping the "don't be evil" motto about seventeen years ago. (Tech Crunch)
We regret to inform you that Google's DeepMind team in the UK has been replaced by DeepMind.
- Meanwhile Microsoft's massive AI efforts have come to a screeching halt. (XDA Developers)
People are willing to dabble with AI, but far fewer are willing to have it infect their own devices. Copilot has one twentieth the userbase of ChatGPT and is only falling further behind.
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April 27, 2025
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - April 27, 2025 [Doof]
Howdy Hordelings - Hope you have a great Sunday! Lots of fun and smiles for you in tonight's ONT. What say you step on in and stay for a while? Lurkers always welcome - and encouraged to delurk! Regulars - do your thing and share those witty and wise comments we all know and love.
Howdy Hordelings - Hope you have a great Sunday! Lots of fun and smiles for you in tonight's ONT. What say you step on in and stay for a while? Lurkers always welcome - and encouraged to delurk! Regulars - do your thing and share those witty and wise comments we all know and love.
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First World Problems...
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How Do You Know If Someone Attended Harvard?
He'll tell you in the first five minutes He's a Racist, Sexist, Jew-And-Christian-Hater Who Rejects Civil Rights Law!
It has always been easy to dislike Harvard. Their smug superiority and class condescension is famous, but recently the facade carefully built over almost 400 years is showing lots and lots of cracks. Their vaunted undergraduates have been exposed as mostly illiterate, innumerate buffoons who cheer on genocidal maniacs like Hamas, simply because it is what the cool kids are doing. Their bloated management structure is filled with affirmative-action hires who can barely communicate, and when they do, it is often plagiarized.
And perhaps even worse, their teaching ranks are filled with a combination of Muslim-funded anti-Western, anti-Semitic rabble-rousers, or mush-brained fools who pretend to be academics while writing nonsensical polemics about intersectionality, transsexualism, White Privilege, and on and on... But Harvard crosses the line between typical academic stupidity and far more malign behavior. They have failed to protect their students from obvious discrimination by professors, and even more obvious physical intimidation from the mobs whipped up by Harvard's curious support for every anti-Western organization and philosophy. Harvard has also failed to revamp their admissions and hiring practices to fall in line with basic civil rights law. Which would be distasteful but acceptable if Harvard did not accept government funds. But they do, so they should be bound by federal civil rights laws. And hilariously the administration and many faculty are crying about academic independence! They are suing, claiming they are a private university and the government can't tell them what to do! Hey Harvard...use your $53 billion endowment and be independent of government funding! But the best part of this whole mess is the possibility of Harvard losing its tax-exempt status. That would be absolutely delicious! Trump Right: Ending Tax-Exemption for Universities Can Be DoneAs the Internal Revenue Code makes clear, discriminatory policies "cannot be viewed as conferring a public benefit within the 'charitable' concept" of the common law" or "within the Congressional intent" in establishing tax-exempt categories under federal law. In the foundational case of Bob Jones University v. United States, 461 U.S. 574, (1983), the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the IRS that "government has a fundamental, overriding interest in eradicating . . . discrimination in education" and that this public interest "substantially outweighs whatever burden denial of tax benefits places" on an offending institution. The high court found that this applied even to First Amendment rights, to which both Bob Jones University and Harvard appealed to justify their policies. Bob Jones’s loss of tax-exempt status was accordingly upheld and only restored after the university abolished its discriminatory policies in full.Read the article...it is worthwhile. It points out that a loss of tax-exempt status would also kill donations, which would be a lovely bonus. Harvard might discover how dedicated their alums are if those donations aren't deductible! My guess is that Harvard will prevail in court, at least in part. But going forward their position at the front of the government funding trough is in jeopardy. What prevents the federal government from rejecting all future funding applications from Harvard? Is there some legal entitlement to public money? It will be interesting, but even if Harvard ultimately digs its way out of this mess, their reputation has been tarnished, and it will take a very long while before Harvard can claim to be the greatest university in the world. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!
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