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Sculpture made of dried willow branches

Seagull trolls a cat.

It looks like a leaf. Surprise, it's not a leaf, it's a spider disguised as a leaf.

I'm not afraid of snakes but this first one has me reconsidering my position.

Remember to keep your elephant hydrated.

Horse and reindeer (?) become friends.

Swimming with whales.

Bioluminesence.

Helping a bunny trapped in a skateboard pit.

Odd couple.

A bear is out of control, as usual, but a little yapping dog puts him straight.

Some very elevated and sophisticated male humor, redolent of Balzac.

Glacial lake in Idaho is very nice.

So this is a trend which I can't evaluate. Is it funny, or just dickish? I guess possibly both but if it's too dickish I don't know if it can be funny. Anyway, the trend is walking up/driving up to people who have just had a car accident and telling them "You're not allowed to park here."

You let me know. I don't know what to think of this. It's kind of funny but I remember my couple of crack-ups and I was in no mood at all for joking at the time.

Little scottie terrier has the cutest walk.

Duck loves her puppies.

The right kind of otter.

When you got beef but you got no energy.

This bear is giving me a come hither look and I don't know whether I should trust him. I've been hurt before. And by "hurt" I mean "mauled by bears."

A bear shows off his running speed. He takes steep inclines quickly, too.

Even scarier: A duck in Attack Mode.

Mine!

Husky Orchestra.

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The Week in Woke

Elizabeth Warren is all-in on the communist Hamas supporter Zohran Mamdani.

Fox News
@FoxNews
Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor.
REPORTER: "Democratic socialism--is this what the party should look like?"
WARREN: "Yes, you bet!"

Bear in mind that for 70 years, the Democrat Party has denied that they were socialists. Now they're endorsing socialists without apologizing for all their previous lying. This was always what they wanted: Socialism.

And communism.

The old Democrat Party claimed, "We're not socialists, we're just liberals."

The new Democrat Party says, "We're not communists, we're just socialists."

Well you lied last time. Why should we believe you now?

Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSey
I gift you with the dumbest thing you'll read today.
Where is the evidence that masculinity is crippling society? I can't with how dumb this is.
From a journalistic perspective, there is no evidence that masculinity is crippling society. There is more evidence, in fact, that calling all men toxic for being masculine is crippling society.
But they just print it like it's true.
ALSO, the "trans" movement is the most adherent to "traditional gender roles." The movement thinks lipstick and a hairstyle makes a person a woman. The movement thinks if a man likes "feminine things" (???) he must be a woman, penis be damned.
I mean the whole thing...

Deport him now.

Anti-Israel campus leader Mahmoud Khalil was ripped Thursday over his attempt to "justify" the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks in a recent interview -- with elected officials saying it boosts the Trump administration's case seeking to kick him out of the country.
New York and national officials condemned Khalil for his statements seemingly sympathizing with Hamas' rationale for the cowardly assault on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people and took another 251 hostage in Gaza.
"Mahmoud Khalil must be immediately deported," Upstate New York Rep. Elise Stefanik told The Post.
The Republican congresswoman has long lambasted Khalil, a green card holder, for his role in fomenting virulent anti-Israel protests at Columbia University.
"He is a chief pro-Hamas terrorist agitator who contributed to the antisemitic encampments at Columbia, the rioting and violent takeover of Hamilton Hall, and the harassment and physical assault of Jewish students," she said.
"Naturalized citizenship is an earned privilege of our nation, and he has not earned it. The government should continue taking every lawful step necessary to remove this enemy from the United States," Brooklyn Assemblyman Kalman Yeger seethed.
Speaking with New York Times journalist Ezra Klein on his podcast this week, Khalil, 30, called Oct. 7 a "desperate" moment which Palestinians "had to reach" in order to have their voices heard.
"Unfortunately, we couldn't avoid such a moment," he said, when asked about the attack by the terror group -- which is still holding 50 hostages in Gaza, of whom just about 20 are believed to still be alive.

UPenn loses another big donor over its embrace of Middle Eastern shithole Nazism.

Donor Stephen Levin is no longer making donations toward his $15 million pledge for naming rights to the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Although he yanked his support in November 2023, it is coming to light this week with the student newspaper article.
"Penn has quietly removed the name of 1967 College graduate Stephen Levin from the behavioral sciences building he previously endowed after the longtime University donor halted his contributions over the administration's handling of antisemitism on campus," the newspaper reported Wednesday.
According to a letter obtained by the Daily Pennsylvanian, Levin had told former President Liz Magill: "Today Penn is far from the University I attended, along with my father and two of my sons."
"Furthermore, I want my name removed from the building and no longer want to be associated with Penn. Penn is an embarrassment not only to the Jewish community but also has lost its luster as a superb Ivy league school."

Please hire these people. They're the best and brightest.

The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery.
The decision, detailed in the college's course catalogue, reflects a broader trend among social work programs to adopt inclusive language.
The York College program chose "to create an anti-racism learning environment by adopting alternative terminology in the place of the word 'field,'" its catalogue states.
"The decision was made by the MSW Team due to the term's association with a painful historical era that inflicted significant harm on Black Americans/African Americans during their enslavement in America," it adds.

Hardball, finally: Florida's top educational official recommends clawing back the salaries from school board officials who expelled a father from a meeting for raising justified concerns.

The Florida commissioner of education is recommending a local school district lose funding totaling the salaries of all its board members following the board's treatment of a father who spoke up at a July 31 meeting.
As reported by Corey DeAngelis on X, Parent Jeremy Clepper (pictured) took his turn during public comment to criticize Alachua County Public Schools Board Chair Sarah Rockwell for her social media comments celebrating the recent death of pro wrestling star Hulk Hogan.
Hogan, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, died a week ago from a heart attack.
Upon learning of Hogan's passing, Rockwell wrote on Facebook "Oh, did Hulk die? I didn't even know. One less MAGA in the world."
In response to a comment, Rockwell added Hogan "worked with the McMahons to union bust professional wrestling. he's never been a good guy. I feel absolutely nothing about his death."
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During his time at the mic, Clepper told Rockwell her comments had "cheered for the death of MAGA" and he mocked her apology: "Aren't you a highly educated woman that knows the exact meaning behind her words?"
Clepper concluded by telling the board chair she "should step down," and that she's a "disgusting, vile human being."
A board member took issue with Clepper's remarks and called over a police officer to remove him from the meeting. While he was being escorted out, another board member noted the district's attorney had requested that Clepper not be removed.
But by that time it appeared Clepper was already on his way out of the room.
Many in attendance at the meeting (who were wearing face masks, including Rockwell) were in favor of ejecting Clepper. One can be heard saying "He needs to go," while local "social justice activist" Faye Williams (pictured) screamed over and over "Get out!" and called Clepper a "white supremacist."
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The commissioner noted since the Alachua Board "failed to ensure free expression of all viewpoints during public comment" he found "probable cause" that state law was violated. As such, Kamoutsas recommended the Florida State Board of Education "withhold from the [Alachua] district an amount equal to the salaries of all board members."

Okay, so it's the district, not the actual school board fascists, losing the amount of the fascists' salaries. It's something, I guess. (I'd say we're punishing the kids rather than the officials but you know most school funding is just wasted anyway.)

An MIT professor says she (of course it's a she) spends one third of all of her working hours fighting "Trump terrorism."

Sounds like MIT should claw back one third of her salary then, doesn't it?

When Professor Catherine D'Ignazio isn't running the "Data + Feminism" lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or organizing "reproductive justice hackathons" she is fighting Donald Trump's "state terrorism."

LOL. So much communist cant.

The urban studies professor, and "data feminism" scholar, recently explained "how U.S. universities can survive state terrorism" in an essay for Academe Blog.
"What distinguishes state terrorism from other routine uses of force is that the violence is designed to 'send a message' --to reverberate out into the population, to engender fear, and to shift behavior," Professor D'Ignazio (pictured) explains.
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"The Trump administration's strategy conjoins specific instances of threats and violence with widely reported media representations in order to spread fear," the professor wrote. "This is what distinguishes the current violence of the state as terrorist. It is not only a judicial project but also a public relations project and a strategic communications project."
Even "left- and center-leaning" publications like the New York Times play a role in promoting fear, the professor said.
It's no wonder then that one-third of her paid time goes to fighting "state terrorism."

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"Surviving state terrorism will not be easy," however. "During this period, we must remember that the current project is an elaborate exercise in political theater designed to spread fear, isolation, and division."
"Acts of radical care, everyday courage, and collective action are the most effective antidote to state terrorism."

Wesley Yang
@wesyang
The media celebrated a 17-year old female mathematical prodigy while actively suppressing the fact in the initial report that the girl is actually a boy. It's not hard to do the intersectional math and figure out why the story wasn't framed as a triumph of "transgender inclusion." A weird confluence of different interests at play, among them the fact that 1.) a contagion of trans-identification is ripping through the male nerd population and 2.) STEM and tech are "solving" their gender problems with a burgeoning new cohort of these male nerds who "identify" as a women
1.) We want there to be an inspiring female math prodigy
2.) We have one! But he's a boy.
3.) But trans girls are girls, right? No?
4.) No they aren't.
5.) OK, just leave it out.

Aphorisms like "the early bird gets the worm" are how societies pass wisdom from mouth to ear. What aphorisms people use tell you about their cultural values.

Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo find that aphorisms that encourage individuality, responsibility, and tolerance for others' thoughts are no longer being used by the young. In fact, some young people say they've never heard of these formerly-common aphorisms like "It's a free country."

In May, we surveyed 1,122 American adults about common expressions related to free speech and intellectual pluralism. And while the results show some promising potential trends, they also illustrate ways our cultural climate isn't as free speech-friendly as it could be.
Before we go further, a quick pedantic point: It can be argued that many of the sayings in question aren't technically idioms, which are defined as common phrases or expressions that carry symbolic rather than literal meanings -- e.g., "raining cats and dogs," "break the ice," or "by the skin of my teeth." And while we love being pedantic, let's agree to use a looser definition of the term, which can be interchangeable with "expression," "phrase," or "saying," for the sake of this piece.

Um, the word you're searching for is "aphorism."

Do people not know what words mean any longer?

But let's continue:

The FIRE/NORC 2025 Idioms Survey, which was conducted through NORC's AmeriSpeak panel, focused mainly on participants' familiarity with and usage of the following expressions:
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
"It's a free country."
"Everyone's entitled to their own opinion."
"Walk a mile in someone else's shoes."
"To each their own."
"Different strokes for different folks."
"Who am I to judge?"
"Address the argument, not the person."
The good news is, recognition of the vast majority of these idioms was generally very high across all participants, ranging from 76 to 85%.
In fact, only 6% of surveyed participants said they hadn't heard any of these expressions before.

But that's the percentage who hadn't heard of all of the aphorisms. More people haven't heard of particular ones.

Given that these particular sayings tend to communicate perspectives that are in favor of "small-D" democratic values like free speech, epistemic humility, and intellectual pluralism, it's a very good thing that people are familiar with them.
The bad news is that, while recognition was high across the board, participants reported both hearing and using these phrases at low numbers.
For each of the selected idioms, 30% of participants or fewer said they heard them used "fairly" or "very" often, and at most only 21% reported using them "fairly" or "very" often themselves.
Even the most well-known phrases still achieved low double-digit results on the survey questions. For example, there are few sayings that would be more helpful for the promotion of free speech culture than "Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," and we'd love for it to be more prevalent in our culture. Unfortunately, only 28% of participants reported hearing this expression either "fairly" or "very" often, and only 21% reported using it at those same levels.

A bet everyone routinely hears about the progressive stack and deplatforming Nazis and fascists and authoritarians, though.

Stanky hoe-ass American women are now getting, get this, tattoos of hair in their armpits so that they always appear hairy and smelly even if they shave.

To be honest, I don't imagine this is a super-popular trend. In fact it might just be this one stanky hoe-ass.

But it's still something that this particular stanky hoe-ass wants to show off on social media and be praised for.

I guess she's trying to Defeat the Male Gaze but I gotta tell you, honey, you're working too hard. God took care of that for ya.

It's totally the children's choice, right? Sex and the City "star" Cynthia Nixon: "My kid is trans, my sister's kids are trans, every kid I know is trans and proud."

Woke "history teacher" wants her kids to know that when Brown People practiced child sacrifice, it was a good, Mostly Peaceful type of child sacrifice, because they just wanted their heathen gods to deliver a good crop and also the children who had their hearts pulled out of their still-heaving chests "volunteered" to be executed.

These teachers are all so intelligent, educated, competent, and mentally healthy that I can't believe we're able to keep them on as teachers for only $100,000 per year, insane benefits and retirement packages, and a work year consisting of just over 180 days out of 365. Surely they could make so much more money as aerospace engineers and mathematicians specializing in higher-dimensional topography.

Noted Stock Market Wizard Nancy Pelosi: "We're are hoping we can have gender-affirming care for our trans kids."

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Judge Gives Leftwing Thugs a Hunting License to Beat Down Elderly Pro-Choice Protesters on the Street

Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
Some thug brutally assaults two elderly prolife demonstrators -- shoves one to the ground and beats him, all on camera -- and gets "home detention" for a sentence from a liberal judge. This is not justice. This is open season on prolife Americans

It's okay. This thug beating the shit out of a senior citizen "just snapped" and was having a "bad day."

Obviously black thugs -- or antifa paramilitaries, or other leftwing scum -- are allowed to give Street Reparations to any elderly white people they decided to beat nearly to death on the street. It's what they're owed because of George Floyd.

This black pastor wants the white victims of the Cincinnati mob arrested for not walking away. Don't they know they're supposed to obey the commands of black street thugs?

This is the Rubicon.

The Regime is making its last mistake when it calculates that half of the country will voluntarily agree to become a state-declared Prey Species for leftwing predators.

The corrupt woke Regime will not survive Two-Tier Policing. The public will not accept it.

This ain't the UK.

A 28-year-old man who was caught on video attacking two pro-life activists outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Baltimore was sentenced this week to a year of home detention and three years of probation.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant rebuffed prosecutors' calls for a 10-year sentence against Patrick Brice, 28, after he was found guilty of two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment in relation to the May 2023 incident, according to The Baltimore Banner.
"What about my rights and my well-being?" one of the victims in the attack, Mark Crosby -- who was 73 years old at the time -- reportedly shouted at Bryant on Thursday as she left the bench.
Brice said on May 26, 2023, he intended to debate Richard Schaefer -- the other victim, who was 84 -- about the concept of sin outside the Planned Parenthood facility, but then lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark, The Baltimore Banner reported. Surveillance video showed Brice shoving Schaefer into a flowerpot and then assaulting Crosby when he rushed to his aid.

"I just snapped one day," Brice was quoted by The Baltimore Banner as saying in court Thursday before apologizing to both men.
As part of his sentence, Brice must complete anger management classes, undergo drug and alcohol screening and remain in therapy, the website added.
It also said Crosby suffered permanent damage to his right eye as a result of the assault.
"This was not a minor altercation between two parties with differing views on abortion. It was a vicious, targeted assault on two senior citizens whose only 'offense' was praying for expectant mothers and offering life-affirming alternatives to abortion," Tom Brejcha, the President and Chief Counsel of the conservative law firm Thomas More Society, said in a statement.

"One of the victims was knocked unconscious. The other suffered broken facial bones and a lifelong eye impairment. This was an act of cowardice and cruelty, and sheer mayhem. This crime deserves far more serious consequences than a 'get out of jail free' card and a one-year home detention that amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist," he added.

I'm not going to shy away from this any longer. Is my take racial? Yes it is. But the story is racial.

There is clearly a belief among members of the left, including many black politicians and judges, that black people should essentially be immunized from prosecution so long as they're doing the important Violent Street Justice work of beating up white people.

We need to be clear: Whatever you hallucinated happening in the George Floyd case, no, you do not have the legal right to lynch white people on the street because you were "having a bad day."

This cannot go on much longer.

The Media and a Mob in Cincinnati

The racial narrative leads major news organizations to ignore a violent attack on two white people.
When a mob violently attacked two people in downtown Cincinnati last week, video of the beat-down spread across social media. But not a single major television network covered the story. It didn't fit the mainstream media's narrative about racial violence in America. The victims were white, and as of Wednesday police had arrested six black suspects for their alleged roles in the public pummeling.
Today's media seems to conflagrate over violence only when the perpetrator is white and the victim is black. Then the cameras roll, protests erupt, and hashtags fly. But when the races are reversed, the mainstream media buries the incident or ignores it entirely. The same is true of black-on-black violence.
Consider the tragic case of Ariana Delane, the 4-year-old niece of George Floyd, who was shot and wounded while sleeping beside her grandmother as gunfire hit their apartment. Despite the horror of her story, it received nowhere near the national attention that followed her uncle's death. Both the girl and Floyd deserved to live in peace, yet there is national outrage when a black man is killed at the hands of police but silence when black children are the collateral victims of the senseless violence plaguing our cities every day.
During a 2018 spike in violent incidents against Asian-Americans, journalists mostly ignored that blacks were the most frequent perpetrators. The truth would have broken the media's worldview that black Americans are always innocent victims.
This racial gerrymandering of the facts mirrors the very injustices the media claim to hate in American history. In the Jim Crow South, if a black man committed an offense against another black man, he would face few consequences, if any--especially if the perpetrator worked for an influential white figure. Meanwhile, a black man who allegedly harmed a white person would face swift and brutal retribution. One hundred years later, we have flipped the script.
We teach our children that to be black is to be permanently victimized and that to be white is to be perpetually guilty.
Americans should renounce any schema in which one race is guilty and another innocent. That is the path to national ruin. Only if we disregard race in how we judge one another will we be able to address the real crisis in society: the spiritual and moral free-fall given to us by identity politics.
As the mainstream media chatters about systemic racism, our young people are dying of bullets, drugs, and despair. Atlanta saw 47 people shot and five killed over four days in July. Homicide and suicide are leading causes of death for 15- to 19-year-olds, and teen drug overdose deaths are still way up from before the pandemic. When our young are bombarded with claims that they live in a fundamentally racist society and that they are powerless pawns of systemic forces beyond their control, how can we expect them to have hope, to believe in moral agency, to work with others with grace and compassion toward a better world?

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Sydney Sweeney Fitness and Sorority Girl Nationalism GAINZZZ

Lefties are still upset that Trump is reinstating the presidential fitness standards for students.

Trump focus on health is not 'inclusive' enough
A history professor said she generally supports President Donald Trump's interest in promoting health but criticized his plan to revive the Presidential Fitness Test.

Don't buy this jive turkey's jive that she supports Trump's health initiatives generally. You'll see.

"Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids," reads the headline of Professor Natalia Petrzela's recent essay for MSNBC.
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Petrzela criticized the appearance of a WWE wrestler, Paul Levesque, at the press conference.
"The swaggering, solo, white machismo is obvious -- and about as far a cry as it gets from Beyoncé dancing with a cafeteria full of New York City schoolkids to promote the Obamas' program," The New School professor wrote. "And of course, the WWE is primarily an entertainment franchise, not an athletic one, a fact that is both perfectly on brand for the Trump administration and further suggests this effort might be more show than substance."

1, of course you're yammering about Beyonce, who is the only person anyone is allowed to look up to because she's black and a feminist.

2, you just objected to including a WWE wrestler because he's in the entertainment business, not athletics -- and then you immediately praise Beyonce, a singing whore with more plastic in her than a 1984 Corvette, as a great athletic hero for children.

I'm serious about this -- are all professors, you know, actually retarded now? Are they incapable of following their own line of argument within a single paragraph?

"I too am deeply concerned about the lack of exercise among American children and adults, and am thrilled this is an administration priority," she wrote.

Oh yeah, obviously. Big fan. It's so apparent.

But the professor also criticized Trump for not focusing on an "inclusive" approach to sports like that of President John F. Kennedy.
"Gone is JFK's emphasis on inclusive, publicly funded recreation," she wrote. "And, crucially, JFK supported vaccines and Medicare."

That's her idea of "inclusive health initiatives" -- injections and subsidies.

I wanted to warn all of you about this, because I know my readership tends to be good-looking and fit and getting all kinds of GAINZZZ.

But be aware: People may see your fitness and hotness and brand you as MAGA due to your healthiness and good looks.

Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House, I've noticed a steady stream of rhetoric that attempts to make health and fitness partisan.
If you're fit and enjoy working out (or even sport a tan), chances are there's a progressive who will eye you with suspicion of being MAGA.
t's an extreme example of the "if-Trump-is-for-it, we-must-be-adamantly-against-it" mentality that has infected the left.
To borrow a phrase from former Democratic vice presidential contender Tim Walz, it's weird.
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The rise in obesity and the decline in health is especially disheartening when it comes to the country's kids.
According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2024 report, about 20% of children are obese (2 in 5 adults are obese). That's a sharp increase from when childhood obesity rates were 5% in the 1970s.
Not only is this a national health concern, it's a national security one, as Trump acknowledges in his executive order.
The CDC report found that only 2 in 5 young adults are weight-eligible and active enough to serve in the military.
Yet, Trump's commonsense approach to boost fitness was met with consternation among media progressives.
"Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids," proclaimed MSNBC.
"Generations of Americans who struggled to complete a pull-up in front of their classmates winced as President Trump announced that he was reinstating the annual assessment," The New York Times opined.
Leftists also have thoughts about fitness for adults and what it says about conservatism.
Earlier this year, fitness influencer MaryBeth Monaco-Vavrik posted a video that went viral connecting the "popularization of Pilates & running instead of strength training ... and the rise of extreme American authoritarianism." She also equated conservatism with "smaller bodies."

It may surprise you to learn that this woman is conventionally fit. But she's using her own fitness to sell obesity and ill-health to leftwing women.

Men, on the other hand, must avoid looking too manly and the trap of toxic masculinity and the "manosphere," which liberals tell us have flourished under Trump. For instance, actor Sacha Baron Cohen's appearance on the August cover of Men's Fitness UK sparked criticism over his newly chiseled body.
One headline said his physique "is repellent to most women."
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In 2024, a columnist in The Guardian warned, "There is a dark side to wellness, which I always, for shorthand, thought of as political: getting fit makes you more rightwing."
And now, enjoying sunshine and getting a tan could mark you as a MAGA fanatic. After all, Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sport a perennial bronze shade.
As The Atlantic recently observed: "Tanning is back. Only this time, it's not just about looking good -- it's about embracing an entire ideology."

Absolutely vile lunatics.

I've been getting some GAINZZZ. I've stuck to vigorous walking (so long as it's not 100 degrees outside or p*ssing rain).

Another study proves the value of just walking around for a spell.

An analysis of over 36,000 people with high blood pressure has shown that taking more steps, even below the recommended daily target of 10,000 steps, and walking faster, is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of major problems of the heart and blood vessels.
The study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, found that compared to a daily step count of 2,300 steps, every extra 1,000 steps was linked to a 17% reduction in the risk of developing a major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE), up to 10,000 steps. Additional steps above 10,000 were associated with a lower risk of stroke.

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Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis, Director of the Mackenzie Wearables Research Hub at the University of Sydney, Australia, who supervised the study, said, "This study is one of the first to demonstrate a dose-response relationship between daily step count and major problems of the heart and blood vessels.
"In a nutshell, we found that, if you live with high blood pressure, the more you walk with greater intensity, the lower your risk for future serious cardiovascular events.

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You're Not Going to Believe This, But Jasmine Ratchet Turns Out to Be a Self-Obsessed Narcissist Who's a Nightmare to Work For

I know this comes as a blow, but steady on, citizens. We will get through this together.

Trump critic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a no-show boss from hell who terrorizes staffers, aides say: 'All diva, no wow'
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has positioned herself as an unfiltered critic of President Trump, earning regular TV appearances and an enthusiastic online following, but congressional aides tell The Post that the Dallas Democrat is just as "rude" and mean to her own staff.

A narcissist treats "the little people" with contempt. Pretty standard.

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But three sources who have worked with or for Crockett say she's rarely present when TV cameras aren't rolling -- and terrorizes staff when she does appear.
Crockett is not often found at her government-provided suite in the Longworth House Office Building, with one insider saying she prefers to work from her nearby luxury apartment building, sometimes for weeks on end.
"She is laying around her apartment, won't come into the office, and is really just indifferent to staff and will scream at them," the former aide said.
"She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bulls-- that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things."
A second source close to Crockett's team added: "It is widely known that she's not nice to staff and is just not a really dedicated member focused on constituents."
"She is focused almost exclusively on being an influencer, not a member of Congress," said a third source who has worked with Crockett, describing her as "all diva, no wow."
When Crockett does show up for work on Capitol Hill -- often to attend a committee hearing where she deploys a made-for-social-media attack on Trump -- she prefers to have a staff member drive her the short distance to her office in a rented car rather than the staffer's own, a cheaper option commonly used by lawmakers.
The staffer is expected to stand outside the vehicle, which "has to be an Escalade" or similar upscale make, and open the door for her.
"You're technically allowed to do this but it's wildly inefficient. Instead of using the scheduler's car, she rents a car every week in DC," one source said.
"She expects her staff to drive her around while she's in the back seat," they added, calling it a "power play" akin to "treating the staffer like an Uber driver."

She called Marjorie Taylor-Greene "butch" in a committee meeting, which is trashy and ratchet, obviously, but which is also, in today's Hyper-Gay Democrat Party, "homophobic," as lesbians are sometimes called butch.

I have never been more proud of Jasmine Ratchet:

Complaints poured in from lesbians who objected to Crockett's derogatory use of the term "butch" to attack Greene, which even left some aides uneasy.
"She told her gay staff members, 'That's not offensive. You're stupid if you think so,'" a former aide recounted to the Post.

LOL. But also, typical narcissist stuff. I can do no wrong, if it appears that I have done something wrong, it's just your stupid inferior brain hallucinating.

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Crockett has burned through employees at such a pace that she's becoming known as a present-day version of the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), long called the Capitol's toughest boss.
A number of staff have become fed up with their treatment, while others have either been fired or left on their own -- a distinction often difficult to discern in Washington.
Some former aides cited fear of retribution when declining to participate in this story.
"She thinks she's her own best adviser, she knows best, and has this toxic staff environment," a source said. "She gets rid of press people because she's like, 'I do all of the press stuff.'"
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"The staff is really just an island unto itself, because she doesn't care about the local issues happening in her district," this person added. "She's more focused on, 'Get me on "The View," 'Get me on this late-night talk show.'

Greg Foreman points out an amusing clip that demonstrates Ratchet's narcissism and belief that she is the Star of the Movie.

She was speaking in a group of a runaway Democrat legislators. But you know how the main act always goes last? You can have opening acts and middle acts but the band that closes the night is the big draw.

Well, Jasmine Ratchet was determined that she would be the Closer, the Star, of this propaganda opportunity, but other Democrats did not agree she should be the closer.

But she kept insisting she was the closer and no one could speak after her.

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Appeals Court Overrules Partisan Operative "Judge" Boasberg, Rebukes Him For "Overstepping His Authority" When He Presumed to Hold Trump In Criminal Contempt

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
🚨BREAKING: The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia just vacated radical activist Judge Boasberg's order holding the Trump admin in criminal contempt for deporting illegals using the Illegal Alien Enemies Act.
Boasberg embarassed. Deportations march on.

Two Trump judges overturned Boasberg's attempt to arrest Trump officials. One Obama judge dissented (of course).

The Trump judges found that Boasberg lacked authority to continue his judicial witchhunt. They also found him wrong on the legal merits. Boasberg is claiming that his ambiguous order should be read in a certain way, and by that reading, Trump officials acted in contempt. The judges on the Appeals panel found that the abiguous ruling could be read either of two different ways, and by one reading, the Trump Administration obeyed the order.

They also note that Boasberg is attempting to conjure a contempt charge out of the facts of a confusing and quickly-changing situation where the facts were unclear (as was his corrupt ruling).

Fox:

US appeals court blocks Trump contempt proceedings ordered by Boasberg
The 2-1 ruling in President Donald Trump's favor will likely go to the full court for review, or be appealed directly to the Supreme Court
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 Friday that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg cannot move forward with possible contempt proceedings against the Trump administration.
The case involves the administration's alleged violation of an emergency court order blocking the administration from using a 1798 law to summarily deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador -- the latest in an evolving, high-stakes court clash that has played out for months in various courts.
Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, two Trump appointees on the majority-Democrat bench, sided with the Trump administration Friday in blocking Boasberg's contempt motion from moving forward.
Judge Nina Pillard, an Obama appointee, dissented.
...
"The district court here was placed in an enormously difficult position," Katsas said Friday, writing for the majority.
"Faced with an emergency situation, it had to digest and rule upon novel and complex issues within a matter of hours. In that context, the court quite understandably issued a written order that contained some ambiguity."
...
"Regardless, the government's initial implementation of the proclamation clearly and indisputably was not criminal."
...
The long-awaited ruling comes months after Boasberg ruled that the court had found probable cause to move on criminal contempt proceedings after he issued a late-night temporary restraining order on March 15 blocking the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to summarily deport certain migrants to El Salvador.
Boasberg had also ordered all migrants to be "immediately returned" to U.S. soil, which did not happen.
Despite the order, hundreds of migrants were deported to the Salvadorian prison, CECOT, in March, where they remained until late last month, when they were sent from the prison in El Salvador to Venezuela, as part of the prisoner exchange.

Although the opinion does not state this explicitly, the gist seems to be: Boasberg, you rushed to involve yourself in this matter without bothering to fully appreciate the facts or the law, and you wrote a sloppy, rushed opinion which was open to multiple interpretations. You can't pick and choose which parts of your ruling are "real" and you can't claim that your sloppy, ambiguous opinion only had one interpretation. It has multiple fair interpretations, and you probably could have cleaned it up to be enforceable if you weren't in such a mad partisan rush to Get Trump.

ulie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
Jeb Boasberg needs to step down as chief judge.
He has embarrassed himself and inflicted a permanent (and well deserved I might add) black eye on the federal court system in our nation's capital.
Republicans in Washington must demand his resignation or pursue impeachment. Enough.

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The DOJ Has Empaneled a Grand Jury in Albany to Investigate Butch AG "Tish" James For Her Corrupt Harassment of Trump

TrashDiscourse
@TrashDiscourse
DOJ has referred Leticia James to a Grand Jury in Albany for a "Deprivation of Rights" investigation by the newly formed Strike Force at DOJ.
This stems from the Trump case regarding the valuation of Mar A Lago.
This seems like Fani Willis could be headed for the same fate based the language used in regards to James "running for office to get Trump"
No word yet on what other avenues this may reach, but things are heating up

Fox:

The Department of Justice convened a grand jury to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James, marking an escalation in President Donald Trump's fight with New York's top prosecutor.
The investigation is being run out of Albany, New York, and focused on possible deprivation of rights allegations, two well-placed sources familiar with the probe told Fox News Digital.
The investigation is in an early stage, but Fox News Digital has learned that James's office received subpoenas for documents this week, including for information related to her civil fraud lawsuit against Trump.
Separately, Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized a special prosecutor, Ed Martin, to investigate allegations of mortgage fraud involving James and California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff.
A grand jury in Virginia will investigate claims involving James. A grand jury in Maryland will investigate claims involving Schiff.

Note that she already has a grand jury investigating her for her serial mortgage fraud.

Mike Davis had previously warned James: If you continue using your office to illegally harass Trump, "Big Tish," we will "throw your fat ass in prison."

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Biden Turned FEMA Into a Democrat Voter-Registration Machine and Prioritized Democrat Voters Over Republican Ones When Distributing Emergency Aid

Did Biden pardon Mayorkas?

Or himself?

Miranda Divine:

The Biden administration abused its power by turning the entire mechanism of the federal government into a Democratic voter mobilization campaign, according to newly unearthed White House documents viewed exclusively by The Post.
The worst offender was FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under the Department of Homeland Security, which was controlled for four years by Biden's Machiavellian border buster Alejandro Mayorkas.
When responding to an emergency or a natural disaster, FEMA employees were directed to make voter registration a "key priority."
They politically targeted vulnerable people in their hour of need instead of focusing on providing federal assistance.
Left-wing NGOs were brought in to "educate" FEMA staff about "equity and voter access for individuals affected by disaster," says a Trump administration official.
"FEMA's job is to make sure Americans who have suffered catastrophic loss due to some disaster in their community [can access] food, water and shelter ... Under President Biden, FEMA, like every agency, produced a plan on how they would leverage these crisis situations for political [purposes]. I can't think of anything more disgusting."
FEMA employees were so fixated on voter outreach that, when they visited hurricane-ravaged Florida last October, they didn't even bother knocking on the doors of houses that had Trump signs in the yard.
Instead of assisting Hurricane Milton survivors, they were instructed to "avoid homes advertising Trump," according to an Office of Special Counsel complaint.
FEMA supervisor Marn'i Washington was fired as a scapegoat after Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called foul on the scam and the Daily Wire reported that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags had been skipped by FEMA and denied the opportunity of qualifying for federal assistance.
It stands to reason that if FEMA's priority was getting out Democrats to vote, the last people they would want to visit were Trump supporters.
The Florida scandal came on the heels of the Biden administration's sluggish response to Hurricane Helene in Trump-supporting rural areas of North Carolina and Tennessee.
Whether it was Hurricane Helene, the Maui wildfires, Hurricane Ian, or the East Palestine train derailment in Ohio, FEMA always came up short during the Biden years.
The agency's inadequate performance is more understandable when you realize that providing actual disaster relief to victims had become simply a side dish to the partisan political priorities of the Democratic Party.

Remember, guys, it's Trump who's running an "authoritarian government." The people who banned speech and pressured banks to terminate the accounts of political enemies, and who weaponized the FBI, CIA, and FEMA into political weapons, were the anti-authoritarians, you see.

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Dissolving Failed Cities: Ohio Needs to Revoke Cincinnati’s Charter and Break Up the Crime-Ridden City

Cincinnati is a failed city that is no longer capable of home rule – e.g. self-governance. The state of Ohio has an obligation to revoke its charter, disincorporate it, and permanently dissolve the Queen City as it now exists. It can be done, if the Ohio legislature has the will and if the people of Ohio are repulsed enough by what Cincinnati has become.

The images coming out of Cincinnati following the brutal mob beating of the woman identified simply as “Holly” are awful. Sadly, in this era of failed cities full of feral criminals, these pictures are no longer shocking. But what is shocking is the despicable way that Cincinnati’s leadership rallied around the attackers and sought to vilify Holly as being an instigator who deserved her near fatal beating. In a time when Democrats have widely embraced “defund the police,” and with “Soros prosecutors” being elected on the promise of not incarcerating hardened criminals, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Cincinnati’s leadership is not hiding their support for hardened criminals, including Holly’s attackers.

Infamously, Cincinnati’s woke Police Chief Terri Theetge was the first to race to the defense of Holly’s assailants, stating that, “Social media, the posts that we’ve seen, does not depict the entire incident. That is one version of what occurred. At times social media, and mainstream media, and their commentaries, are misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding any given event.” The police chief didn’t have a word of sympathy for Holly being beaten while unconscious, as Ms. Theetge angrily lashed out at those on social media who condemned Holly’s beating. The picture below is “one version of what occurred.”

This Daily Wire piece (“‘It’s Pretty Disgusting’: Cincinnati Police Union Head Bashes ‘Victim Shaming’ After Mob Attack” recaps some of the most atrocious statements and actions of other Cincinnati leaders, as they too rallied around Holly’s attackers, and sought to blame Holly herself for having her head kicked while she lay there unconscious. It’s important to remember that actual video shows Holly doing nothing provocative at all, she was simply trying to stop an escalating brawl.

• City Council President Pro Tem Victoria Parks wrote on Facebook that Holly “begged for that beat down!”

• Vice Mayor Jan Michele Kinsey condemned Holly for provoking her own beat down, “We condemn the violent actions of the instigator(s) of the fight as well as the violent actions of those who responded to the provocation.”

The head of Cincinnati’s police union expressed his utter disgust at how the city has become a crime-ridden city with a governing class that will not fight crime.

Progressive judges in the city have allowed criminals to walk free on small bonds in recent years, according to [Fraternal Order of Police President Ken] Kober. One of the men arrested in connection with the Cincinnati mob attack had been out of custody for just weeks after posting $400 for bond in a case in which he was arrested on felony weapons and stolen property charges.

Per this same article, the city’s police department is understaffed by several hundred officers, which is logical in its own disturbing way. A city whose leadership is pro-crime and vilifies crime victims does not need a properly staffed police force.

Ken Kober told Scott Jennings that with judges refusing to keep Cincinnati criminals off the streets, “If the Mayor, the City Manager, and the Chief, if they can't figure it out or they won't figure it out, then they do need to be replaced, absolutely."

Cincinnati FOP President Ken Kober says cops are "DISGUSTED" as judges continue to let criminals walk:

"If the Mayor, the City Manager, and the Chief, if they can't figure it out or they won't figure it out, then they do need to be replaced, absolutely." pic.twitter.com/Cf9sHLI55d
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) July 30, 2025

Yes, Cincinnati’s leadership needs to be replaced, and the State of Ohio needs to make it happen.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

A Luteplayer Carousing With A Young Woman Holding A Roemer
Hendrick Terbrugghen

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The Morning Report — 8/8/25

Good morning kids. Democrat/Leftist hypocrisy in service of tyrannical evil tops the news on the domestic side, with the Democrat scum Texas Flee Circus at the top of the heap. In complete abrogation of their oaths of office, rather than do their duty as they had sworn by debating and then voting on the plan to redraw congressional districts, which would have bolstered the GOP's majority of seats in the state, and is something the vast majority of Texans voted for and want, these filthy criminals hit the road and fled to Illinois and New York. And speaking of my former home state, its wax works harridan of a governor announced this:

Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that everyone should stand up and not let the FBI “hunt down” the 50 Texas Democrat legislators who left the state to avoid a vote on redistricting.

The Democrat Party is a lawless, insurrectionist terrorist organization dressed in the trappings of a political party, that has been undermining our nation and society in its unslakable lust for absolute power for over 200 years. From slavery, to civil war, to government-sanctioned racism and concentration camps for the Nisei, to election rigging,

Dear FBI, anyone and everyone including this slithering cadaver who gets in the way of your agents doing their duty should have the cuffs slapped on them and hauled off to a jail cell. But as we all know, lawlessness is as lawlessness does. And on that note, the beatdown from a corrupt leftist controlled/manipulated judiciary goes on:

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams—an Obama appointee, naturally—issued a temporary restraining order Thursday to halt construction at Florida's migrant detention facility, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz.” The 14-day order stops all construction projects at the facility, including lighting, paving, excavation, and fencing, though it doesn't affect current detainees. Williams justified her decision by claiming environmental concerns, citing potential damage to "sensitive wetlands" and threats to "protected plants and animals."
Can you hear my eyes rolling? Let's be crystal clear about what's really happening here: This judge prioritized hypothetical environmental damage over actual border security and the safety of American citizens.

And Psaki-Psircling back to my railing against the Democrats' history of misery, evil and crime:

The battle between Texas and Democrat states over gerrymandering seems likely to touch on the biggest driver of Democrat gerrymandering which fundamentally altered the political balance of power in state after state. Louisiana v. Callais is likely headed for a big Supreme Court decision that will fundamentally change how the Voting Rights Act enforces minority districts.
There’s nothing to celebrate about the 60th anniversary of the VRA, a civil rights era relic which long ago stopped fighting segregation and instead enforced partisan gerrymandering with no end in sight. When the Supreme Court began allowing VRA ‘monitoring’ of elections in some states to sunset, Democrats cried that segregation and slavery were about to come back.But for all the talk of democracy and racism, Louisiana v. Callais shows what keeping the zombie VRA alive is really about. The case is about whether federal courts can force Louisiana to create two Democrat congressional seats under the guise of creating two black seats. It’s a common form of gerrymandering that uses race as a trojan horse for mandating Dem seats.
When heavily gerrymandered Democrat states like California, New York and Illinois eliminate Republican seats, that’s not seen as a Voting Rights Act violation even though much as Democrat seats are disproportionately minority, Republican seats are disproportionately white.
Democrats are not fighting to keep the VRA alive because they care about black people, but because they care about maintaining the racially gerrymandered seats produced by VRA abuses.

Given the miracle of the Dobbs decision that dismantled the evil of Roe v. Wade, and the torrent of vitriol and actual terrorism against pro-life organizations and churches as well as average citizens

Man Who Brutally Beat Elderly Pro-Lifers Dodges Prison Time — He was sentenced to only one year of home detention after the brutal attack outside a Planned Parenthood facility.

As we discussed on the latest episode of the podcast, the notion that the Russia Collusion hoax pimps/purveyors will be prosecuted let alone convicted are slim to none.

Most especially Barack Hussein Obama, because of the firestorm of racialist violence it would unleash that will make the 2020 Summer of Floyd look like a smoldering cigarette butt drooping from his purple dog-eating lips. Given all of that do you think that SCOTUS especially this one is going to even hint at reversing the hideous VRA?!

Moving on to the international scene, this item caught my eye this morning:

The Trump administration on Thursday offered a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. “Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like [Tren de Aragua], Sinaloa and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a video posted on X. The Drug Enforcement Administration has thus far seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates, Bondi said, and “nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself, which represents a primary source of income for the deadly cartels based in Venezuela and Mexico.”

One wonders if this is a shot across the bow against Brazil's commie dictator Lula Da Silva, who fancies himself as a Bolivarian anti-Trump. Hopefully Maduro goes the way of Manuel Noriega late of Panama and this mortal coil.

And in the Middle East, as we also discussed on the podcast, it looks as if Israel at long last is going to re-occupy Gaza in part if not completely in a final bid to free the remaining hostages and stomp out Hamas.

Israel’s political-security cabinet approved a plan early on Friday to take control of Gaza City, as the country expands its military operations despite intensifying criticism at home and abroad over the devastating almost two-year-old war. “The IDF will prepare to take control of Gaza City while providing humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat zones,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, referring to the Israeli Defence Forces.

Let's hope the Israelis have finally rejected the insanity of land for peace.

Israel Can’t Win Without Beating the Muslim Brotherhood And the same is true for America.

Certainly this is true, but at the end of the day what is the muslim Brotherhood? And what is Hamas, Hezbollah and all the rest, be they head choppers, Islamikaze suicide bombers or merely ululate and pass out candy when Jews are raped, beheaded and roasted alive in front of their parents? All of them are ISLAM.

And whatever became of this effort. Yeah go after Maduro, but I think this is pretty damned crucial as well.

Congressman Randy Fine Introduces a Bill to Designate CAIR as a Foreign Terrorist Organization

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Daily Tech News 8 August 2025

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The Framework Desktop is here and it is the perfect machine for a very specific subset of users. (Tom's Hardware)

The 16 core CPU is as fast as you'd expect, and the 40 core integrated graphics are quite capable of playing your games at 2560x1440.

But where it really excels is when you need 96GB of memory on your GPU. That would cost you $10,000 or more on a dedicated graphics card, while this entire PC is just $2000.

If you don't need 96GB of memory on your GPU, it's still nice, but you're probably be better off with a system with dedicated graphics.

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August 07, 2025

A Farewell To ONT

Howdy! Welcome to the Thursday ONT. Know who get it? The Poles get it.

Drives me nuts that so many people think Fascism and Communism are opposites. They're 98% the same set of beliefs. Historically, they oppose each other because they're both competing for the same followers.

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New Employees Cafe

Mike Tyson purchased a white tiger in the 90s because he wanted a pet that would match his energy.

Two massive volcanic eruptions as seen from satellites.

A colugo is an animal that looks fake. Like they made it up for that horrible 1999 Lost in Space.

A wolf is domesticated.

Taking your hawk out for a flight.

Taking your otter for a swim.

Taking your horse out for a trot.

Boaters give a warbler a lift back to land.

The dog who was mother to tigers.

A big herd of camels in their natural habitat, the beach.

You can't stop a sheep from headbutting.

This video proves global warming is real. (Well it's as good as evidence as the communist Democrats provide.)

Well-mannered foxes.

The female narc tried to entrap these good boys but they were wise to her jive.

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Ugh: Gina Carano Settles With the Disney Groomer Corporation
Update: Carano Posts Brief Statement

Elon Musk backed Gina Carano's lawsuit against Disney for firing her because they didn't like her "politics" -- her "politics" being only that she did not bow to the Pedro-Pascal-fueled trans mob demanding she post her pronouns as if she were a tranny, and did not like the left's constant demands to hate thy neighbor -- and for defaming her, claiming that her post about the Nazis' early propaganda efforts to make people turn on an "internal enemy." Disney falsey claimed this "demeaned" people's "religion."

That's just a straight-up lie. She analogized the modern left to the Nazis. They didn't want to dispute that -- it's hard to dispute -- so they just created a defamation out of nothing and claimed she was fired for trafficking in antisemitic slurs.

All because they didn't want to admit the real reasons for firing her -- 1, she was known to lean Republican, and 2, because the trannies and troons demanded her head and Disney did not want to admit that the precious transgenders were behind it all, or that Disney is now simply a transgender corporation.

I had thought, wrongly, that this suit would expose Disney's corrupt behavior because Musk was funding it for political/ideological reasons. I didn't think Carano would just settle and bury the matter.

But that's what's happened.

Lucasfilm and the Walt Disney Company have reached a mutual agreement in their legal dispute with Gina Carano following her firing from "The Mandalorian."
A Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement provided to Variety, "The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with Gina Carano to resolve the issues in her pending lawsuit against the companies. Ms. Carano was always well respected by her directors, co-stars, and staff, and she worked hard to perfect her craft while treating her colleagues with kindness and respect. With this lawsuit concluded, we look forward to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future."

Sure.

Carano was fired from "The Mandalorian" in 2021 after sharing several controversial social media posts, including one that compared being a Republican to being Jewish during the Holocaust.

Actually Jews were never mentioned, and, not to be pedantic, but Jews weren't the only Internal Enemies the Nazis demonized.

She was also dropped as a client by UTA at the time. In 2024, Carano filed suit in California federal court alleging wrongful termination and discrimination, as well as a demand that the court should force Lucasfilm to recast her and pay at least $75,000 in punitive damages.
Disney's lawyers filed a motion in April 2024 to throw out the lawsuit, arguing that it had a First Amendment right to fire the actor, stating it has "a constitutional right not to associate its artistic expression with Carano's speech."
Carano fired back in a post on X, writing, "Disney has confirmed what has been known all along, they will fire you if you say anything they disagree with, even if they have to MISREPRESENT, MALIGN, and MISCHARACTERIZE you to do it. They are now on record letting everyone who works for them know that Disney will take any chance they get to control what you say, what you think or they will attempt to destroy your career. Glad we cleared that up. The First Amendment does not allow Disney to wantonly DISCRIMINATE, which is what they have done in my case and frankly have now admitted they did. If you ever wanted to know what today's 'Disney values' are, they just told you."

Carano hasn't discussed the settlement yet but she did obliquely reference it by tweeting "and the truth will set you free."

Um, what truth? I don't see Disney disclosing anything or admitting anything. All they did was say that you were "well-respected." They did not even retract their previous slander of apologize for it.

In cases like this, there's the matter of individual justice for the plaintiff and a farther-reaching justice that affects people beyond the named plaintiffs. And yes, of course, I want Carano to get paid off. I want justice for her.

But I sure didn't want that justice for Gina to come with absolutely nothing else.

So for all of this, all that happens is what people expected would happen before Elon Musk underwrote the lawsuit: Disney pays Gina Carano to go away and go quietly, and that's it. Everything else is covered up.

I guess it proves that when the vicious communist left cancels you thoroughly and makes it impossible for you to work or earn any money in your profession, you'll eventually break and take their meager payoff.

Everyone should continue boycotting Disney until they come clean about the evil they do.

Many people are holding Disney to account through the boycott. The movie opened a bit weak and then suffered a big 67% drop in its second weekend. It now looks like it will struggle to beat the box office of the flopbuster Blacktain Ameriblack: So Close to Pride Month starring TGS funnyman Tracey Jordan.

Their stupid Fantastic Four movie is admitted to be a flop, even by their most intense "journalist" shill advocates, and in fact is making less money that the flop that killed Fox's X-Man franchise.

The 20th Century Fox era of X-Men movies got an emotional send-off last year at the end of Deadpool & Wolverine. But fans will remember that, in 2019, the franchise was curb-stomped into oblivion by Dark Phoenix, the fourth installment of the reboot series that began with X-Men: First Class. The movie tanked commercially and with the critics, and is said to have lost the studio hundreds of millions of dollars just before Fox and its assets were sold to Disney. The X-Men will soon be introduced afresh in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the highest-grossing film franchise in history, just like the recently released The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The movie delivered a decent opening weekend haul but witnessed an unexpectedly hefty drop in its sophomore frame. To make matters worse, The Fantastic Four is underperforming in overseas markets, where it still trails Dark Phoenix.

Directed by Simon Kinberg, the longtime Fox hand who had worked on several of these films previously, Dark Phoenix grossed around $250 million worldwide on a reported budget of $200 million. It's sitting at a terrible 22% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics' consensus reads, "Dark Phoenix ends an era of the X-Men franchise by taking a second stab at adapting a classic comics arc -- with deeply disappointing results.

Both movies were remakes of a story just told a handful of years earlier. The X-Men already did the Dark Phoenix story, in a rushed way, in X-Men III Last Stand, and we've already seen the Fantastic Four square up against Galactus in the second Tim Story FF movie. (Around 2008, I think.)

The only selling point to these way-too-early remakes was that they were considered to have been botched previously and so the new versions would be more "comics accurate." (That's why they gender-swapped Silver Surfer, doncha know.)

Supposedly -- allegedly -- the Fantastic Four is supposed to be okay. Some say it's mid or meh, but that's an improvement over the most recent fare.

Some are pointing out that if a bad movie fails, that's okay, because it was a bad movie.

But if a supposedly "good" movie fails, that indicates that the public just isn't interested in what you're selling any longer, even if your "meh" movie looks like a relative success.

Update: Carano's letter plugs Star Wars. I guess they might actually give her a small role.

Gina Carano 🕯
@ginacarano
I have come to an agreement with Disney/Lucasfilm @disney @Lucasfilm which I believe is the best outcome for all parties involved. I hope this brings some healing to the force.
I want to extend my deepest most heartfelt gratitude to Elon Musk, @elonmusk
a man I've never met, who did this Good Samaritan deed for me in funding my lawsuit.
Thank you Mr. Musk and @X for backing my case and asking for nothing in return.
To my lawyers at @GSchaerr Schaerr|Jaffe who walked me through this unknown territory, thank you for your wisdom and guidance.
I am humbled and grateful to God for His love and grace in this outcome.
I'd like to thank you all for your unrelenting support throughout my life and career, you've been the heartbeat that has kept my story alive. I hope to make you proud.
I am excited to flip the page and move onto the next chapter. My desires remain in the arts, which is where I hope you will join me. ♥️
Yes, I'm smiling.
From my heart to yours,
Gina
1h

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Terrific: Lizzo Now Weighs In on the Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad

Yes, I agree, I cannot believe this non-story is still going after more than two weeks, either.

Lizzo does not have great jeans.

Lizzo is calling out Sydney Sweeney's controversial American Eagle jeans ad in a new song.

Can we retire the ugly, trashy phrase "calling out?"

On Wednesday, the four-time Grammy winner released two clips from a track on social media that name-dropped Sweeney and referenced the viral ad.
In one video snippet for "I'm Goin' In Till October" (below), Lizzo is clad in torn denim while hosing down a Porsche and raps, "No kizzy, he ain't got no business being with me. Fat ass pretty face with the titties. Bitch, I got good jeans like I'm Sydney." (Or perhaps that should be "genes"?).
In the second video, Lizzo opens with a clip of a cable news pundit doing a celebratory rant about the Sweeney ad, declaring, "We're over this woke agenda. We are over the Lizzos, we are over the Dylan Mulvaneys. If this were a 300-pound non-binary person they would be applauding her." Then the video cuts to Lizzo lounging in head-to-toe denim, similar to the Sweeney ad. Lizzo commented on the video, "Lizzo's got good jeans."
The messaging could be seen as a push-back on the Sweeney ad. But it could also be taken as a positive for the American Eagle campaign. The company tried to make the point in a statement on the controversy last week that the marketing effort was meant to be inclusive, and Lizzo adopting the "great jeans" tag for herself could be seen as a co-sign of it's intended message. As company put it in its statement, "We'll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone."

Clips from those videos under the fold.

People pointed out the the Sweeney Jeans/Genes homophonic pun (Homophonic? SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?) was actually just a straight replay of of an early 80s Brooke Shields ad for Calvin Klein jeans. She also made a pun about "survival of the fittest," fittest meaning "how well these jeans cling to your buttcrack."

American Eagle continues to not back down.
Sydney Sweeney has great aim. And they continue profiting not just from the ad itself, but from their laudable decision to not bow to the woke lunatics.

Her 2019 Instagram video of her shooting guns with a Hollywood gun trainer (I think he trained Keanu Reeves for John Wick) has gone viral.

Sydney Sweeney has impressed conservative admirers with her skills on the gun range after her American Eagle campaign caused controversy.
The "Euphoria" actress' 2019 video of herself shooting targets with Taran Tactical Innovations has resurfaced after the firearms retailer reposted the footage on Instagram Saturday, splicing it with a clip from her controversial denim ad.
Sweeney's Instagram video -- which noted she was "training for a new project" -- attracted plenty of new comments of support from mostly male fans despite it being six years old.
"3000% wifey material 👏🎉💯😮😍😂," one comment reads.
Footage of Sydney Sweeney shooting targets at a gun range from 2019 has attracted many new admirers after her controversial American Eagle jeans campaign. Sydney
"Strong, self thinking women are the sexiest! ❤️🇺🇸 Nice shooting Miss Sweeney!" another comment reads.
"We love this valid American women... 🙌," another user wrote.
On Taran Tactical Innovations' video, more netizens expressed their love for her.
"I am a new fan of Sydney. I hope she doesn't cave to the cancel culture mob!" one user wrote.
"Make America hot again 🇺🇸🦅🔥," another comment reads.

Another video that's gone wild features her replacing the brake-pads on her fastback Mustang.

For some reason, Lizzo decided she wasn't getting enough attention so she did her own "jeans ad."

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CNN Whines That Trump's Energy Secretary Is Reviewing and Possibly Correcting Previous Absurd Claims About "Global Warming"

A long time ago, a commenter or coblogger -- Dave in Texas? The Warden? Empire of Jeff? -- mused:

There must be some unknown force causing our planet to become warmer.
This hypothetical unknown force would have to be large, however -- on an order of magnitude equal to our own Sun.

The Babylon Bee echoes this 20 year old joke:

The Science (TM) is perfect and infallible. No one may question that which The Science (TM) has decreed.

(CNN) -- Energy Sec. Chris Wright said Tuesday night the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.
"We're reviewing them, and we will come out with updated reports on those and with comments on those reports," Wright told CNN's Kaitlan Collins in an interview on "The Source."
Wright dismissed the past reports, saying "they weren't fair in broad-based assessments of climate change."
"When you get into departments and look at stuff that's there and you find stuff that's objectionable, you want to fix it," he said.
Energy spokesperson Andrea Woods said, "The National Climate Reports are published by NOAA, not DOE. He was not suggesting he personally would be altering past reports."
The interagency process and publication is overseen by the US Global Change Research Program, which was established by Congress.
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The first Trump administration signed off on and released the Fourth US National Climate Assessment in 2018, although it attempted to bury the report's news by releasing it on Black Friday. The current administration has deleted all previous reports from government websites, fired the scientists working on the next iteration of the report, and recently issued a separate report compiled by five researchers that questioned the severity of climate change.
Altering or revising previously published assessments would be a significant escalation in the administration's attempts to wipe credible climate science off the record.

Eat dirt. We're not playing games with your remorseless communists any longer.

EPA head Lee Zeldin tried to explain the actual science to CNN's bubble-headed wine aunt Kasie Hunt but she didn't want to hear it.

He gives a clue to what's going on with revising previous "global warming" claims -- none of these dire predictions came to pass. Shall we let those false prophecies of doom stand forever, like religious writs, or should we look at the bad assumptions that caused them to miss the mark?

Lee Zeldin left a CNN host staring blankly for nearly two minutes on Monday as he took her apart regarding a recent proposal at the EPA. As the interview started, host Kasie Hunt dumped an attempted gotcha question on the EPA administrator, asking him if he accepts the "overwhelming scientific consensus" that greenhouse gas emissions drive "man-made climate change." That was in the context of a recent announcement that the Trump administration will revoke a 2009 endangerment finding that led to the implementation of stringent regulations.
Zeldin clearly came prepared, because he peppered Hunt with facts, and for once, a CNN host couldn't come up with a reason to interrupt a Republican.

HUNT: Do you accept the overwhelming scientific consensus that these greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest drivers of man-made climate change?
ZELDIN: Well, it's great to be on with you. First, it's worth pointing out that all eight or so images that you just posted on the screen have nothing to do with this week's announcement. What the 2009 endangerment finding had to do with was with regards to mobile sources, vehicles. This week's proposal to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding was with regards to mobile sources, vehicles. CNN has been using a lot of photos where they show smoke stacks of stationary sources like power plants. That's not what we proposed.
Now, going back to 2009, the science that they were reviewing included both optimistic to pessimistic scenarios. To reach the 2009 endangerment finding, they relied on the most pessimistic views of the science. The great news is that a lot of the pessimistic views of the science in 2009 that was being assumed ended up not panning out. Hey, that's great, we can rely on 2025 facts as opposed to 2009 bad assumptions.
Whenever you speak to any left-winger (as all CNN hosts are) about this topic, you have to understand that climate change is a religious deity to them. It doesn't matter how many decades we've gone without the worst-case predictions coming true. Climate change is a position of faith for these people, and that means they shift the data to meet their preconceived outcome. If new data arises showing climate change isn't the level of threat they claimed it to be, and thus policies should be changed, they brush that off as "denialism."