Grasping Basket-Case Nancy Mace Humilitated in Run for SC Governor, Finishing... Fifth

How could she finish fifth in the SC Republican gubernatorial primary? She got Trump's endorsement!

Or... so her social media account strongly implied, using an AI generated fake picture of her and Trump.

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Surprise! Democrat "Ballot Harvesters" Were Illegally Paying Skid Row Homeless Drug Addicts $5 to "Vote" for Nithya Raman

Isn't odd that these meth-addicted morons knew, in advance, that it was Nithya Raman who would need the bulk of their "votes" and not the current communist mayor?

It's almost as if most of these votes were cast after Election Day, with Democrat "ballot harversters" knowing they needed many more votes for Nithya Raman to eliminate the one person they needed out of the race, Spencer Pratt.

Skid Row homeless claim they've been paid to vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman

By Jamie Paige and
Katie Jerkovich

A series of shocking videos show homeless residents on Los Angeles' Skid Row claiming they were paid to vote for Mayor Karen Bass and councilwoman Nithya Raman.

The California Post obtained copies of the videos after they were published Tuesday on the TikTok account LaneNeedsSpencerPratt.

The footage, recorded near 7th Street and Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, has since been provided to the Department of Justice. It also follows The Post's revelations that thousands of homeless voters were registered to shelters where they didn't live.

One shelter in Venice, where 185 Raman voters were registered, received $600,000 from taxpayers care of the socialist Raman.

In one of the clips, a man who calls himself Kevin Shepherd, claimed he received $4 to vote for Bass.

When asked whether he would also have been paid to vote for Raman, Shepherd answered "yes" and said Spencer Pratt was not among the candidates he was encouraged to support.

"They gave you an optional choice," Shepherd claimed, alleging the was offered $2 but negotiated for a higher payment and ultimately received $4.

Shepherd further claimed he completed a mail-in ballot for Bass and deposited it in a ballot box.

Skid Row resident, Rene Johnson, 39, also claimed she received $5 after being told to vote for Bass.

Johnson said she supported Bass, but told the creator she was still unclear about some of the forms she had completed.

"But, you know, at the time, I didn't know that that was going on," she said.
A person wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt, standing outdoors with hands

"I was just trying to make five bucks, you know? But I didn't do the fraud."

When asked if she thought it was fraud, she said she thought that it was "fraudulent behavior."

She also said she thought people were being taken advantage of.

Another woman, who said she was living on the street, also claimed she accepted money to vote for Mayor Bass.

"It was like two bucks," the unidentified woman said, adding that "yeah they come out here all the time."

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The creator said he spent about two hours speaking with residents, many of whom claimed voter-registration and outreach efforts were a routine part of life on Skid Row before Election Day.

Several residents alleged that groups regularly visited the area asking people to sign paperwork, though some acknowledged they did not fully understand what they were signing.

According to multiple residents interviewed on camera, outreach workers allegedly visited the area as often as three to five times a week before the election, with several organizations purportedly involved.

A fourth resident, identified as Mark Sanchez, claimed he had been approached repeatedly by political canvassers.

"To sign a petition for the mayor or different things in office and they paid me $4 or $5 in different accounts," Sanchez claimed.

Sanchez further alleged the payments occurred multiple times.

"It happened more than four or five times," he claimed.

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A Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America openly promotes a guide instructing volunteers on how to encourage voters to cast ballots on the spot and hand them over for delivery.

The practice, commonly known as ballot harvesting, is legal in California but remains highly controversial. The guide, titled "How To: Ballot Delivery," was published by the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in May 2022 and remains available online.

The instructions provide a step-by-step process for collecting completed mail ballots and urge volunteers to repeatedly press voters to submit them immediately. "Will you vote now?" the guide tells volunteers to ask, before adding: "Ask at least 3 times."

The California Post reached out to Bass and Raman campaign for further comment but did not hear back.

More regarding the many "votes" "harvested" from homeless shelters where the "votes" collected greatly exceeded the number of homeless living there.

Thousands of homeless voters were registered to vote at LA shelters -- despite many not living there or the facilities not having any beds.

And as Spencer Pratt was eliminated by Nithya Raman in the mayor's race on Monday night, it can be revealed that one drop-in center that received $600,000 from the socialist candidate had 185 registered voters at the address but offers no accommodations.

The revelations have prompted US Attorney Bill Essayli to say he will investigate the concerns uncovered by The Post and "follow the evidence" to see if the law has been broken.

A review of records shows 7,600 voters tied to homeless shelters and service providers.

Among them was St. Joseph Center in Venice, a homeless services drop-in center with 185 registered voters tied to its address. The organization received a $600,000 taxpayer-funded grant awarded by Raman while she chaired the City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee.

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The largest concentration of homeless voters was at the Midnight Mission in Skid Row, where voting records show 1,160 registrations -- but its website shows it only has beds for 84 men and 36 women.

One homeless man on Skid Row, Norman, said he's witnessed voter registration efforts in the area for years and claims he had previously been paid to help sign up voters -- and that cigarettes were offered to some people during the drives.

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Outside the Midnight Mission on Monday afternoon, The Post met with Bo Jackson, who is registered to vote but says he could not remember registering -- and couldn't even name a candidate in the LA mayor's race.

The Post asked Midnight Mission staff for comment on how ballots are handled when they arrive at the shelter, but our reporter was kicked out and was left without a response.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

What Will The Ballots Say?

California is very much in the news courtesy - this week - of the obvious chicanery involving the LA primary election. There is another reason that has ebbed and flowed over the past year, and that is California's (actually, the SEIU's) proposed "billionaire tax" that is on the ballot this autumn. This proposed "tax" is a simple expropriation. The tax scheme as proposed is fairly straightforwad. If someone has a net worth over $1.1 billion, California will confiscate 5% of his net worth. If someone has a net worth of between $1.0 and $1.1 billion, California will confiscate slightly less of his net worth. When the tax is due, he can pay the entire sum in full, or he can spread payments out over 5 years - with interest. The money will go to fund "shortfalls" due to Federal or state budget cuts to medical (Medi-Cal), food (CalFresh) or school budgets.

Set aside whether wealth expropriation is just or legal or proper. Set aside whether the primary medical services union sponsoring a ballot initiative to confiscate assets and transfer them to the medical industry is a conflict of interest. Set aside whether the confiscation will raise as much money as expected. Set aside whether the money raised will actually go where it is supposed to rather than be stolen. Set aside widespread fraud in these programs, and whether throwing more money at them is sensible. Set aside unintended consequences on capital structure. Set aside the risks of forced liquidation. Set aside all of the very real objections to such a scheme and consider what this would actually accomplish even if it works exactly as promised.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Little Denise
Theo van Rysselberghe

This amuses me greatly because of her loose-limbed posture that the artist captures quite well. The model is his six-year-old niece, who clearly isn't listening to instructions. That lean is her attempt at amusing herself while the boring adult finishes up.

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The Morning Report — 6/ 10 /26

Good morning kids. Well is anyone surprised that bearded clam oyster farmer Maine Kampf Platner won his Democrat primary? He is in the last analysis a quintessential Democrat — a prevaricating antisemitic pedophilia-connected/adjacent sex Pest. Hell, with attributes like that, just slather his head in Brylcreem and Newsom can kiss his presidential aspirations goodbye, nein?!

Speaking of which as CBD and I discussed in disgust on the latest episode of the podcast (linked here and in the sidebar and on the popular outlets listed at the bottom of the post)
Newsom's trail of destruction won't serve him well to say the least in the run-up to 2028 but considering the direction and mindset of the Democrat base, the prediction or wishcasting that that party and its movement are being abandoned may be just that. Yes they stole the LA mayor's race and will rig the gubernatorial race as is their wont despite both being bluer than blue. It's just how they roll. In any case with contenders like Newsom, Chlamydia Harris and Titty-Caca Ocasio Cortez already in the mix, look who is now being pimped: the moral equivalent of Alien chest-burster ass cancer:

California Dem Ro Khanna Being Prepped for 2028 Presidential Run by Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron KKKlain'sman...Khanna announced while speaking with left-wing activist terrorist Rev. Al Shvarpton at the National Action Network Conference in April. that he would “consider” a run after the November midterm elections.

Yeah the Democrats are becoming moderate. Pfft.

A new poll suggests that more than half of Democrats don’t like the U.S. or even want to live here, and it does seem like we’ve reached a fork in the road. The Democrats want a more socialist society with the government running more and more of our affairs.  The funny thing is that most Democrat young people have never actually lived in a country like that, say Cuba, but they have fallen in love with whatever their college professor has told them about the socialist utopia.  Another big difference is getting married and having kids, another point where the two sides don’t see eye to eye.. . So here we are.  It does seem like we’ve reached that famous fork in the road, or a moment of decision.

Indeed, and our as in the GOP's response is illustrated this way . . . because besides this horrid oyster cracka we also have to likely endure the other cracker, in the mangled parlance of Trayvon's faked-inamorata Rachel Jeantel, the crazy-ass cracker (shift the hyphen) the crazy ass-cracker Lindsay Graham the bottom who came out on top yet again in South Carolina.

Moving on from the ridiculous to the utterly insane:

Attempted Beheading in Belfast... Celebrate diversity!

Anyone who is older than about 20 should be able to remember a time when we did not see, ever, stories of this kind in Europe or North America. What has changed, and what can we do about it now?

LBC reported Tuesday that “a stab victim is in serious condition in hospital after a gruesome knife attack in a street in Belfast. In harrowing video posted online, an attacker can be seen straddling the bloodied victim’s neck armed with a knife.”

It might have been taken down by the time you read this, but as of this writing on Tuesday morning, you can find the video here. The perpetrator “stabs the victim in the head repeatedly before taking the knife to the man’s neck, before members of the public rush over to stop the attack. Bystanders can be heard screaming in the clip: ‘He’s trying to cut his head off.’”

Lest we forget what happened about 10 years ago in Manchester to British army soldier Lee Rigby who was beheaded in broad daylight in the middle of the street. might have an ocean between us and the soon to be Islamized Europe but of course we have tens of thousands of head-choppers and that number in many multiples of their cheerleaders already here.

But if we didn't have them, we have always had our own homegrown savages in our midst courtesy of the Democrats. Their goal is to MAGSA . . Maintain America as the Great Society Always!

The repeat offender who stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death aboard a Charlotte, N.C., commuter train last year is incompetent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. . . In the August attack, Brown appeared to select Zarutska almost at random, stabbing her repeatedly in the neck from behind before casually getting off at the next stop. Zarutska died almost immediately, apparently confused, and then with a look of tragic understanding on her face before she collapsed, unattended and uncomforted by any of the other passengers. The murder, caught on video, shocked the world. 

If it had really shocked the world . . . I don't want to complete that sentence.

Have a great day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• He's also up on state charges of first-degree murder.
  OUTRAGEOUS: Iryna's Killer Found Incompetent to Stand Trial
  
• The history of elections suggests a Potemkin ballot: a public ritual of choice that frequently conceals prearranged outcomes driven by entrenched interests.
  The Potemkin Ballot
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s favorite moral crusades always end the same way: manufactured hysteria, institutional damage, and a quiet retreat from the wreckage.
  Stop Destroying Civilization!

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Daily Tech News 10 June 2026

Top Story

• We haven't had a critical local privilege escalation bug in Linux for at least... What's the time now? (Ars Technica)
  
  Today's little surprise package comes courtesy of an unexpected exclamation mark in the source code for the Netfilter module that handles firewall tasks resulting in a use-after-free bug that can pretty reliably be tricked into granting an unprivileged user administrator access to the entire system. Might break shared-kernel containers too; not sure about that.
  
  If you think you're safe because you use iptables or lfw rather than Netfilter I have some uncomfortable news for you: It's Netfilter all the way down. That's been true since the last millennium.

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 9, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday ONT! Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Monday Cafe

by alp alper

Partially paralyzed dog is restored to full mobility by doctors and kind rehabilitators.

Rescued baby beaver Beatrix.

Tiny puppy's first bath.

Crazy bridges.

Donkeys being nutty.

The least weasel.

Chatty magpie.

Dogs steal food, but they're honest enough to show their guilt.

Baby elephant wakes her sister up.

Trolling a doodle puppy with your Ring.

Little dog fakes a paw injury until it's time to go for a walk.

Every year, a new crop of ducklings has to be led through a university building to the pond.

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The Left, Which Has Propagandized Against Childbirth and For the Self-Extiction of the Human Race for 50 Years, Wonders Why People Aren't Having Babies Any Longer

Of all the anti-human psyops of the left, this one is the most consequential -- and insidious.

The New York Times looks right past their own relentless anti-childbirth propaganda and names "cell phones" as the disruptor.

Now, thare's some truth in that -- in that the cell phone is The Regime's greatest achievement, a mobile, personal, 24/7/364 portal to Regime propaganda.

Why Are Birthrates Down? Two New Studies Point to Phones.

Modern smartphones rolled out in 2007, the year that fertility rates began falling. Two studies say that is not a coincidence.

The enduring mystery of the fertility decline has a new culprit: the smartphone.

Experts have long wondered if phones played a role in the birthrate decline -- which began in 2007, the same year that Apple introduced the iPhone -- but until now there had not been hard evidence to prove it.

Two new papers, one published Monday and the other in May, are the first academic endeavors that test whether the smartphone was a cause.

They are the most recent efforts to explain the sweeping fertility rate decline in the United States and other countries over the past 20 years. Researchers have already looked at contraception use, abortion rates, rising levels of female education and even the popular television show "16 and Pregnant."

Proving phones caused the decline is a tricky endeavor. There were a number of major events in those years, including the Great Recession, and isolating smartphone use is difficult.

The gold standard for scientific evidence is known as random assignment. It compares outcomes for people randomly chosen to receive a treatment (like getting a smartphone) with people who are not.

But that is not possible when it comes to ferreting out reasons for declining fertility.

So researchers sought out data about smartphones that introduced randomness.

Caitlin Myers, an economist at Middlebury College, and Ezekiel Hooper, her student, used the spotty early rollout of the iPhone as a way to isolate the effects of the phone on fertility. The first iPhone was released in June 2007, they wrote, and was available only on the AT&T network until February 2011. The study compared fertility rates in U.S. counties that had near-universal AT&T coverage with counties that had little or none.

Their paper, published in the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that the iPhone caused as much as half of the fertility decline between 2007 and 2011. The most pronounced effects were among young people aged 15 to 24.

What happened in the counties with iPhones? One theory, Professor Myers said, is that young people began to socialize more on their phones and less in person, and consequently were less likely to have sex and become pregnant.

And what messages did they get over their cellphones 24/7? Constant crisis, constant fear, constant messaging that the world was ending and it was all due to human births, constant messaging in favor of hook-up culture and abortion and, for the boys, pornography, and constant messaging against marriage, the family, and humanity itself.

And then they wonder: Why are women under 40 barren by their own decisions and actions?

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Report: Bari Weiss Will Assume Editorial Control Over Basketcase Ratings-Disaster Partisan Spin-Shop CNN

Via Steven Miller, who's worried about Tater.

And what will happen to Fake Jake?

CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report.

Paramount executives are said to have held preliminary discussions with several candidates who would come in and run the business-side operations next to Weiss while she continues to oversee editorial.

The company is considering several big names, including current CNN CEO Mark Thompson, NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde and former NBC News chief Noah Oppenheim, Axios reported.

Ben Sherwood, currently CEO of Daily Beast, and former CBS News president David Rhodes are also under consideration, according to the report.

The search implies that once the merger goes through, Weiss will also be put in charge of CNN's editorial operations, Axios said.

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According to Axios, Ellison couldn't be more pleased with Weiss' performance thus far.

"The Paramount brass loves Bari Weiss," a source told the news site.

"She has the full confidence of David Ellison, who believes Bari has done a fantastic job as editor-in-chief."

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Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has not yet closed, though both companies have said they expect the roughly $110 billion deal to be completed in the third quarter of 2026, pending regulatory approvals and any legal challenges.

Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders have already approved the transaction, but the merger still faces scrutiny from antitrust regulators and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who has said his office is reviewing the deal.

thanks to runner.

Fake Tapper knows that, like Pott Smelley, he'll be one of the first overpaid prima donna Theater Kid jokes to be fired by Bari Weiss, so he's preparing his Heroic Flounce.

CNN's The Lead host Jake Tapper leaned on his sanctimonious reputation late Wednesday afternoon as he devoted the first 14 minutes to huffing about CBS News firing longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for his petulant reenactment of Pickett's Charge, thinking he could eviscerate his bosses and intimidate them in his "house."

For the second of three segments, Tapper turned to former ABC colleague Terry Moran and former CBS January 6 correspondent-turned-MeidasTouch host Scott MacFarlane. Both are now at Substack.

MacFarlane went first, declaring "[n]obody wins if 60 Minutes is damaged" because "[i]t's still one of those rare media entities, Jake, that can cut through the noise and cut through the clutter."

[Disgraced fake "journalist" now working for a Biden political PAC McFarlane] then embarrassingly referred to Pelley as "the living Mount Rushmore at CBS News" and that, speaking for himself, he wasn't known at CBS as "Scott" because that name had "reverence" reserved for Pelley.

"I'm surprised that anybody would get rid of a transcendent personality who can attract an audience or who is associated with the strength of a brand. You watch Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes. You knew you were going to get a comprehensive report. You never want to damage a brand by getting rid of the pillar of the entity," he further opined.

Scott Pelley was fired by CBS from the "anchor" position by Ben Rhodes' brother David Rhodes. For months, Rhodes schemed about how to solve "the Scott Pelley problem," as Sheryl Attkisson reported. She said that Pelley was "unpopular" at CBS because of his domineering incompetence, insisting on rewriting and censoring reporters' stories after, emptilly, assuring them that their reports would be the "stars" of the show.

She also made this funny quip about his preening, Look At Me ego:

Sharyl Attkisson
@SharylAttkisson

Perhaps David Bloom put it best. "When Scott Pelley gets in line at Starbucks and orders coffee, he doesn't order what he really wants. He orders what he wants people behind him to hear him order."

Mount Rushmore? Seriously?

MacFarlane at least conceded much of 60 Minutes's large ratings are owed to its lead-in from NFL games.

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The only explanation, [disgraced partisan lightweight fairy Terry Moran] argued, for the changes to the show are from Paramount Skydance boss David Ellison "want[ing] to curry favor with Trump."

Drool was missing from Moran's shirt as he said this about Pelley's fellow fired colleagues: "They fired Cecilia Vega and Sharon Alfonso, two fearless, bold journalists, troublemakers. I mean, in a good way, good trouble, right, as John Lewis used to say."

I can't help noticing they only made trouble for one political movement.

Tapper presented MacFarlane with the reality that "polls do suggest that the media trust is at an all-time low" and wondered if he saw any validity in that widespread belief in legacy media having "an anti-Trump spin, liberal spin."

MacFarlane scoffed, deriding the idea that those polls are legitimate or provide context:

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Breaking: Psychopathic Race-Murderer Karmelo Anthony Convicted of Brutal Killing of Innocent Athlete
"Protesters," Get This, Begin Punching People; Police Are Arresting the Thugs

Washington Times:

A Texas jury on Tuesday found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco high school track meet last year, concluding a closely watched trial that drew national attention over questions of race, self-defense and school safety.

The Collin County jury deliberated for about three hours before returning its unanimous verdict. The same jury will now decide Anthony's sentence. Under Texas law, a murder conviction is punishable by five to 99 years in state prison.

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The case stems from a confrontation at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco on April 2, 2025, where Anthony, then a student at Frisco Centennial High School, and Metcalf, a student-athlete at Frisco Memorial High School, clashed under a team tent where athletes had gathered during inclement weather. The altercation ended when Metcalf was stabbed in the chest. Medical examiner testimony at trial revealed that Metcalf had been stabbed through the heart, with a two-inch wound described as "gaping."

Prosecutors characterized the stabbing as a provoked, unjustified "sneak attack" inside the team tent, while the defense argued it was a split-second act of self-defense born of fear and chaos. Anthony did not testify in his own defense.

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Anthony, now 19, was convicted in Collin County District Court in McKinney. The sentencing phase, to be decided by the same jury, was expected to begin promptly given the speed of deliberations.

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Former Platner Campaign Aide: Captain Nazi Is a Monster and More Women Have Come Forward

Believe all women.

Not this woman, mind you, and not the women who have come forward with new accusations against Gerald Platner.

Believe all women who concoct a Law & Order: SVU pantomime allegation about Trump raping their scrawny Crypt Keeper ass in a changing room in a year TBD. Believe that woman.

Ex-Graham Platner campaign director says embattled Maine Dem 'shouldn't be a US senator': 'My concerns have only grown'

Graham Platner's ex-political director expressed her growing concern about the embattled Maine Democrat in a Washington Post op-ed Monday, arguing that her former boss "'shouldn't be a US senator."

"I quit the campaign in October, disturbed by what I learned about the candidate and concerned about his potential impact on the Democratic Party's prospects in my home state," Genevieve McDonald wrote. "As Tuesday's primary arrives, I want to make clear what transpired since August and why my concerns have only grown."

McDonald argued that Platner "exhibits a pattern of dishonest behavior that is impossible to ignore."

"Despite being exposed by a series of scandals beginning last October, he kept assuring voters and the Democratic Party that there were no more skeletons in his closet," she continued. "Then more emerged -- the latest, in recent days, have involved former girlfriends' serious accusations of physical mistreatment."

McDonald described herself as "one of the Platner campaign's first gaslighting casualties," claiming the candidate and his campaign dismissed her concerns about his Nazi tattoo and electability.

"I was willing to believe his explanations, I wanted to believe, until his flaws as a candidate became impossible to ignore," she wrote.

McDonald said she "realized the campaign had not been honest" when reports on Platner's disturbing Reddit post history started to surface.

She claims the Platner campaign offered her "$15,000 to sign a nondisclosure agreement," after her resignation, which she refused to do so, and that "over the past eight months, women have come to me with their own disturbing stories about Platner."

"Enough is enough," McDonald wrote.

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Platner, a Marine veteran and former oyster farmer, has faced numerous controversies since launching his campaign, including the sexting scandal and Reddit posts he made downplaying sexual assault, mocking soldiers and contending that white Americans "actually are" racist and stupid, among others.

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McDonald urged Democrats to "demand better from those entrusted with power or seeking it."

Maine Democrats are having concerns about the Nazi-tattooed woman-beating socialist violent revolutionary, on the day of the Maine primary.

Strong work, guys. Give yourselves all a bonus.

Platner's continued drumbeat of scandals has divided both Democratic Party leaders and voters as they stare down the must-win Senate race. Defeating Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November is crucial to the party's plans to take back control of the upper chamber and provide a check on President Donald Trump. But even as Platner's staunch supporters stick with him, his political baggage is threatening to sink him with some Democratic and independent voters heading into the general election, according to interviews with nearly two dozen Maine voters.

Several Democratic voters were hesitant to weigh in on the Senate race, saying they felt Platner's candidacy was all but certain at this point and sharing their opinion on him was likely to be met with backlash. Others who were planning to vote Democratic in November are now toying with backing Collins or sitting out the Senate race entirely -- a challenge for the likely nominee and his party.

Peter and Kelly Dufour were manning the grill at a Get-Out-the-Vote event for gubernatorial candidate Hannah Pingree in Portland on Saturday and excited about the former Democratic state House speaker's candidacy for governor. Asked about the Senate race, Kelly put her head in her hands.

Wow, they're too afraid to speak out against Gerald Platner? And they claim those of us who mostly defend Trump against the mostly-absurd communist propaganda allegations against Trump are "cultists."

So we're cultists for Trump? The most successful Republican president since Reagan (and some would say before that)?

But meanwhile you're cultists for an unemployed and frankly unemployable Fake Oyster Farmer born on third base but who has oozed his way down to the non-working class, beating women and ranting on the internet 24/7?

I think I'd rather be a cultist for the guy with actual accomplishments.

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The SPLC Repeatedly Invokes the Fifth Amendment to Avoid Answering Whether They Used Donor Money to Pay "Extremists" to Put On "Hate" Marches, Burn Crosses, and Recruit New Members

I say he invoked the Fifth Amendment, which he did. But the words he kept using were "We will address those allegations in court." In other words, I will not answer questions for which I will be held criminally responsible in another court.

That's his right, but:

1, why are people allowed to invoke the Fifth without explicitly invoking the Fifth? I bet you Democrats would demand to know what basis a witness has for refusing to answer.

and,

2, he's a fucking criminal, he knows he broke the law, and this is not some kind of principled invocation of the Fifth. He's guilty and his answers would either confirm his guilty or deny it, which would be obstruction of Congress because he'd be lying.

Here's some of his repeated refusal to aswer on the basis that he will be answering these questions in criminal court.

A lot of money, and some bodily fluids, flowed from the SPLC to their "informants."

House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@JudiciaryGOP

🚨 A SPLC informant had a romantic relationship with a SPLC employee.

That same employee oversaw field sources.

They shared a home.

They held joint bank accounts.

And 66% of the funds in those accounts came from the SPLC.

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Invasion: Sudanese Colonist Uses Knife to Slash Open the Eyeballs of Northern Irish Man, Attempts to Saw His Head Off on Street in Broad Daylight

The country that fought a civil war for a hundred years to resist colonization by Britons is apparently cool with colonization by black Islamic Africans.

Do you feel Culturally Enriched?

Belfast attack: Sudanese man arrested over stabbing 'had leave to remain'

Victim has 'significant' eye injuries from attack that bystanders stopped -- the city is now braced for protests

A Sudanese man arrested over a knife attack in Belfast on Monday is understood to have been granted leave to remain in Northern Ireland, the police have said.

The man, initially believed by police to be Somali but later confirmed as Sudanese, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after officers were called to Kinnaird Avenue at about 10.30pm on Monday.

Video of the attack appeared to show a man with a knife holding another man down on the ground, before bystanders intervened. One of them hit the attacker over the head with a hurling stick. The victim, who is in his forties, had "significant" eye injuries, Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said.

Yeah he cut out his eyes. This is cultural enrichment.

Asked about the suspect's immigration status, Henderson said: "My understanding is that the individual came into Northern Ireland from Dublin, moving up, and then was granted leave to remain."

Northern Ireland remains part of the UK so this is once again all due to Two-Tier Queer Keir and the British Islamo-Labour establishment.

Police are not seeking anyone else over the attack and at this stage is not deemed terror-related, Henderson said.

Of course not! But later on you will see that the "authorities" (who have no remaining authority) were immediately capable of judging planned protests for tonight as "far right."

Their capacity to detect ideology is highly selective.

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Henderson said he shared "the public's revulsion at the attack', which he said had "sent shockwaves through communities".

Sure. The people in power attempting to convince the peons to accept this as normal and mainstream -- and racist to object to -- are "revolted" by the newest apocalyptic violence they've engineered.

The suspect is believed to have travelled from Sudan to Paris, then to Dublin, on unknown dates before taking a bus to Belfast in February 2023 where he immediately claimed asylum. He was given leave to remain in the UK in September 2023, according to Jon Boutcher, chief constable of Northern Ireland. He said his status when crossing the Irish border was still to be determined but that "lawyers will debate the legal status of this individual for weeks, months and even years to come".

The police who can't identify any ideological motive immediately sprang to label those who don't want to be invaded by bloodthirsty savages as "toxic."

Boutcher accused "faceless" people online who know nothing of Northern Ireland of causing "toxic" discourse that was inciting violence. The first minister, Michelle O'Neill, echoed his thoughts and called on people to reject "sectarianism" and violence.

In London, the Conservatives have demanded "total transparency" on the immigration status of the suspect. Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: "Last night's brutal attempted beheading in Belfast is appalling. The government must ensure full details about the suspect's nationality and immigration status are released. Total transparency is required.

"If it turns out this man is an illegal immigrant it would provide further evidence that the government's lack of border control is endangering the public."

Hilary Benn, the Northern Ireland secretary, would not comment on the suspect's immigration status. He appealed for calm, adding it was "innocent people who suffer" when political leaders failed to reduce tensions.

And don't worry about the people having their eyes slashed open by a foreign invader. The only thing that bothers them is "backlash" against the violent foreign invaders. The forelash is accepted and even praised as "cultural enrichment."

He also paid tribute to the bystanders who intervened to pull the assailant away, saying they represented "the very best of humanity".

I'm sure he's very happy about this. He got civilians to do the police's job for them. The police are too busy harassing people over tweets.

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Anti-immigration protesters have sought to capitalise on the incident by calling for a mass protest in Belfast on Tuesday evening. An online message of unknown origin has widely circulated on social media calling for men over 18 to arrive wearing dark clothing and to be "prepared to fight or be arrested".

A version of the post circulating on X called for "road closures and businesses to close in protest over the migrant invasion of Northern Ireland". Politicians in Northern Ireland warned that the incident may be hijacked by far-right activists.

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The Morning Rant

Unions are one of the most corrosive influences in America, and teachers unions (along with government employee unions) are the worst of the bunch. They drive an aggressive progressive agenda into our schools, while sucking state and municipal coffers dry in their never-ending quest for more...more...more. The education of our children is an afterthought. Number one on their agenda is of course more money and less work. Number two is to relegate actual teaching to a few minutes each day, and concentrate on the leftist agenda of racial and gender politics, and above all the denigration of America.

And all of that is protected by their oceans of money extorted from their members.

Except in right-to-work states! And guess what? Mississippi is one of those states. Is it a coincidence that with increased accountability and more important, dissemination of objective data about the success of their schools, that Mississippi rapidly can improve their education outcomes?

Mississippi Proves that More Money Won't Fix Our Schools

Over the past decade, Mississippi has made such progress in fourth-grade reading that people have taken to calling it the “Mississippi miracle.” Mississippi ranked 9th in the country for fourth-grade reading in 2024, up from 49th in 2013, a forty-place climb in a decade, from near the bottom of the table into the top ten.

Mississippi’s fourth graders now read better than their peers in New York, Minnesota, and California -- every one of them a state that spends a great deal more per child than we do. And here is the part the spend-more crowd would rather you did not dwell on. We get those better results on far less money.

Mississippi spends around $12,300 per pupil, one of the five lowest figures in America. New York spends $31,918 -- more than two and a half times as much -- and its children read less well for it. New York, in other words, buys more than two dollars of schooling for every one of ours, and ends up further behind.

Sure, there are issues with correlating money and outcome, because there are confounding variables at work. For instance, it is likely that poorly-performing districts have money thrown at them, so their budgets increase without any improvement in outcomes. But there is a correlation, and more important, there is vast improvement driven by something other than money!

The education of our nation's youth is not an intractable problem, especially because the skills necessary to teach children are not particularly rare or difficult to train. And the reality is that education is a product, just like everything else in an economy, and if the transactions are transparent, with accessible data describing that product, then the consumer -- parents -- can make informed decisions. And the providers -- the schools -- can respond to those market pressures. Only when unions and politicians interfere with those decisions is the basic education of our youth at risk.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Garden at Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet

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The Morning Report — 6/ 9 /26

Good morning kids. There certainly is a lot of attention on California and Los Angeles in the wake of the primary elections, and not just because President Trump called out the in-your-face Democrat election rigging which was and is plain to see in real time.

“I have to tell you, they’ve probably got the worst election system of any state in the country. It’s as if they set out to design it so that it would be easy to cheat and easy to steal elections,” he said, noting that the Golden State has banned voter ID while they “mail ballots to every single registered voter in the state.”
“They don’t do anything, I mean, hardly anything to clean up their voter rolls. So, like, in Los Angeles, you talk to anybody who lives there, and they will tell you if they live in condos and apartments, they’re probably receiving or have received ballots in the mail for people who don’t live there,” he said, highlighting the magnitude of this issue, surmising that some individuals receive multiple ballots.
“People have testified to that. I mean, it’s just one thing after another like that,” he said, noting that it does not end there, as the state will count ballots that come in for seven days after Election Day, with a 22-day “cure period” for ballots with issues such as a missing signature. Even then, the so-called “fix” is lacking.

Hello Hans von Spakovsky, 2020 is on the phone and would like a word with you! But, while this third-world fraud is certainly horrendous, it does make me wonder why the deepest of deep blue hellhole cities' and states' Democrats even have to worry that they could actually lose an election — Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger notwithstanding - not that they accomplished anything that even for a moment stopped the Leftists' destruction of a place that once embodied the American dream but that now is the symbol of Democrat/Leftist failure. And that right there is the reason. The socialist delusion has run head first into the brick wall of reality for all to see, most tellingly the younger generations who have been Pied-Pipered and brainwashed into true believers but are more and more waking up from the delusion.

The problem with the Gen Z new age socialist frame of thought is that they have no means of production of their own. Put plainly, there are no such things as socialist means of production or economic market tools; if so, what are they? To Gen Z, putting private property in someone else's hands and tweaking the economy to their benefit sounds workable, but the basic reality is very scary: they are under the impression that a socialist economy will solve their problems, and everyone else's for that matter, because in their minds all you have to do is control prices, increase minimums, put a cap on this, overtax the other, overregulate this and that, confiscate wealth, and so on. Yet here is the red pill: the previously listed points are capitalist means of production for a market economy; without a socialist means of production, none of the utopian ideas are workable.

Of course the abject incompetence in the wake of the Pacific Palisades wildfires on top of the crime and economic dislocations of open borders have also opened eyes, the attacks on ICE and police notwithstanding, but far too many have taken a bite out of that reality sandwich and evidently are not liking the taste. And so, Newsom , Bass and the Democrats have deployed the fraud machine tonsure California stays blue, and that there is not even the most minuscule chance of losing the state nationally in '28 and possibly for a generation or two down the line. It's not necessarily wishful thinking on my part but just interpreting Democrat motives and mindsets in the current environment. And considering Newsom is the or a frontrunner for the top of the Democrat ticket in '28, his record speaks for itself, not just going forward but right here and now as reflected in the election theft.

California today “has the nation’s highest cost-of-living adjusted poverty rate, the highest levels of functioning illiteracy, and the worst housing affordability in the continental US,” writes Joel Kotkin, who has been chronicling California’s highs and lows for more than 40 years. “California increasingly resembles a neo-feudal state, where a handful of large companies drive the economy while the vast majority of workers endure high energy and housing costs, high taxes, and diminishing opportunity.”

Golden State government has spawned fiascos large and small. Fraudulent Medicaid spending, which made headlines in Minnesota last winter, seems likely to be even more monumental in California, whose Medicaid programs are scheduled to get $138 billion from the federal government, up $18 billion from 2024. The state subsidizes tribal ceremonies and exorcisms, gym memberships and art lessons. . . California in its golden years made the movie “Casablanca.” Today, Casablanca is better at building public works than California. The state that within six months completed two major bridges across the San Francisco Bay can’t properly route phone calls in Tuolumne County.

Taking a workable system and making it fail requires a particular talent. Reading between the lines, one sees little among California’s well-paid public-sector union ranks of the pride I once noticed in a state employee years ago. Instead, there is an eagerness to extract still more from the state’s private-sector success — SEIU is pushing a supposedly onetime wealth tax on the very rich to boost current employees’ benefits — and a complacent indifference to whether the work actually serves its intended beneficiaries. . .

. . . Will the politicians astride this rot pay a price? Harris was the Democratic nominee for president in 2024, and Newsom leads in polls for the nomination in 2028. But a countertrend may be visible in the theoretically nonpartisan June 2 primary for mayor of LA. The (sparse) polling shows LA Mayor Karen Bass way below the 50% needed to win reelection next week, and former reality TV star Spencer Pratt overtaking the left-wing council member initially expected to be her chief challenger.

Pratt’s house was burned down in the January 2025 Pacific Palisades fire, which struck as Bass (despite promising in 2002 to take no foreign trips) was headed to the inauguration of the president of Ghana. Pratt’s cheeky ads lampoon Bass’s left-wing policies, which have produced empty reservoirs and streets full of angry, drug-addicted homeless people.

Empty reservoirs and acres of homeless tents — that’s what California’s once-proud public sector has been producing.

And on the national level we have this nightmare scenario from the Democrats.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) took action “toward drafting” an affordability agenda for 2027 that puts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in charge of health care, and transgender-identifying Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) in charge of caregiving, according to multiple reports.

So, in other words smother America with a pillow, steal its wallet, then gang anal-rape its convulsing corpse. Funny how Jefries insists we're in economic freefall thanks to President Trump while a look at the headlines in the Economy Stupid section today and over the last few days debunks that bullshit totally. Yes prices are still high but the trend towards better times is unmistakeable. And paying a bit more at the pump is a very small price to pay in order to prevent an Islamic ICBM from coming down on us.

That said the madness with Iran continues and we have full coverage on that topic as well as is evidenced by the links.

Have a great day,

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Daily Tech News 9 June 2026

Top Story

• Eric Berger, the last sane man at Ars Technica, puts things into perspective: Over the past five years, a single Falcon 9 rocket - the same rocket, just recovered after its 35th launch - has lofted more payload into orbit than all the single-use rockets of competitor United Launch Alliance combined. (Ars Technica)
  
  The little booster that could, B 1067, completed its mission safely after delivering 29 more satellites into orbit. 35 sequential reuses was seen as something of a boundary, but they've sailed right past it, at several miles per second.
  
  
  
• xAI is seen as more of a datacenter REIT - a real estate investment trust - than a frontier AI lab. (Martin Alderson)
  
  The key distinction seems to be that xAI is making money. Lots of it. Deals to lease unused capacity to Anthropic and Google will pay for xAI's entire investment in 18 months.
  
  
  

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Monday Overnight Open Thread - June 8, 2026 [Hour of the Wolf]

Note from the hamsters -
Mis Hum has the night off. The other ONT hosts noticed something in the seldom-monitored suggestion box. No idea how long it had been in there. Regular commenter "Hour of the Wolf" is responsible for tonight's content. Treat him as you see fit!

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Grandpup Cafe

The angel in St. Michael's Cave, Gibraltar
Supposedly an entrance to the underworld
a lightshow makes it even stranger
Ecad_Guy Deathofautocad/@EcadGuy2509

This dog doesn't know what he's doing but he's very enthusiastic in doing it!

This dog "voted" for Nithya Raman.

This snail is so EXTREME! he could have been a cartoon character in the 90s.

Enjoying the storm that is safely outside your window.

Visiting hours.

So I guess a cat isn't saying "I Love You" when he rubs against me.

Obsession is just the story of normal dogs.

Hedgehog babies look like massage pads for your toes.

Puppy exhausts cat.

Dog wants to make sure her older sister gets attention, too.

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