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July 31, 2025

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The disconnect between the Democrat party's platform and the will of many Americans is nowhere more clear than in the debate about transsexual lunacy and its expansion into the formerly axiomatic definition of Man and Woman. Add in their psychotic fixation on the chemical and surgical mutilation of children, and we have a clear vision of the evil of the Democrats and their willingness to destroy their image as a party of the people.

And that is a fantastic thing that the Republican party must use to its (and our) advantage. It makes the distinction between the parties obvious and simple, and energizes a normally quiescent segment of the electorate. There is nothing that focuses the minds of mothers and fathers more than threats to their children's' well being. And having some maniac blue-haired monstrosity in a position of influence in their public school whispering secretly that being a girl is much better than being a boy, and the switch is easy, is a terrifying and very real threat!

Here is a perfect example. Thank you Governor Stein for making public your desire to mainstream the psychosis of transsexualism! And calling us mean spirited because we don't agree.

More please!

North Carolina Lawmakers Override Dem Governor's Veto Of Bill Preventing 'Sexual Exploitation Of Women And Minors'

Gov. Stein vetoed the legislation on July 3, saying he supports the pornography restrictions in the original version of the bill, but he painted the revised version containing the other provisions added in the Senate as a “mean-spirited” attempt “to further divide us by marginalizing vulnerable North Carolinians.” Stein’s veto seemed specifically related to a section added to the legislation that requires state records to include both the “amended” and original version of birth certificates for those who are issued a new one after a sex “change.”

Notice how he uses the buzz-words! Marginalized! Vulnerable!

But unsaid is the obvious... He wants to let men into women's locker rooms and bathrooms. He wants to allow unaccountable bureaucrats take control of our children. He wants to blur the distinctions between men and women. He wants to allow our children to see horrid pornography.

Is that true? I don't know, but let's make the sonafabitch deny it! (apologies to LBJ)

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

An Anniversary
Edwin Dickinson

This strikes me as redolent of post-WW1 German expressionism.

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The Morning Report — 7/31/25

Good morning kids.

First of all, congratulations to President Trump's nominee Emil Bove who was confirmed by the Senate to the third circuit court of appeals. Bove's nomination was a particularly bitter pill for the Dems insofar as he represented the President as his attorney during the Biden Junta's persecution of him with the bullshit allegations of improper retention of classified documents as well as supposedly trying to subvert the 2020 elections. Wow, you talk about projection!

So congratulations to Justice Bove, and here's hoping your trajectory does not mirror that of Amy Coney Island whitefish Barrett. But that said, the salient point here is the fact that, Surprise Surprise Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined the Dems in casting "No" votes making the final tally 50-49.

But adding insult to injury, we have this item:

President Donald Trump railed against Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley on Wednesday afternoon following Hawley’s decision to join Democrats in tanking a measure that would have commissioned a government report on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stock trading history. Hawley voted against a measure sponsored by Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott to request information regarding the former speaker and her husband Paul Pelosi’s stock trades over the last 25 years during debate over a proposed stock trading ban Wednesday morning. Trump excoriated the Missouri Republican’s opposition to adding the Pelosi report as an amendment to the legislation and for working with Senate Democrats to pass a congressional trading ban that also curtails the president’s authority to trade stocks. (‘A Clown Show’: GOP Sen Teams Up With Dems To Advance Stock Trading Ban)

With Elon Musk's announcement of his intention to form a new political party all but disappearing from the headlines in the blogosphere and the propaganda press, I reiterate my assertion and appeal to him that his energy, time and money are better spent in a concerted effort to weed out the RINOs from the GOP and support actual America-first conservatives, be they under the MAGA banner or under whatever banner you want to label them, so long as they are 100% "down for the struggle" as it were, in opposing the leftist/Democrat globalists onslaught against the republic. Put aside whatever petty rivalry/differences with Donald Trump, whatever they may be, and put the nation first. More than anything else, that will burnish your credentials and/or image as it were as the patriot you have been projecting, to varying degrees of success since you first emerged as a political force to be reckoned with.

Switching gears we have a couple of truly disturbing stories that sadly are becoming more and more common:

First this nightmare:

Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler, 38, was allegedly attacked by Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29 — who has since been placed under arrest — in the offices of Showcase Magazine. Hayes, according to the outlet’s publisher and local law enforcement, dumped a five-gallon bucket of gasoline over Vogler — and when Vogler ran out of the building, Hayes followed and set him on fire. . . According to multiple reports, Vogler and the suspect knew each other prior to the attack, and the motive is not believed to be political.

I cannot seem to find any information on the political affiliation of either Vogler or the Psycho who set him on fire. That said, I am seeing boilerplate sort of lines like this one from ABC quoting local police "the attack stems from a personal matter not related to the victim’s position on Danville City Council or any other political affiliation."

To me, given what we have witnessed between open borders, the Hamasniks on campuses, transexual mass shooters and so on, and how the media and public officials obfuscate motives almost immediately after an incident takes place, a statement like this reeks of covering up for Leftists/Democrats. And as is the case with the Left, the personal is always political.

What we need is common sense gasoline control to prevent ~~immolation attacks~~ Global warming! Pfft.

And to underscore my assertions, we have this item that happened a few days ago and has all but been buried by the propaganda press:

Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling several white adults in downtown Cincinnati. The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white male in he-said/he-said fashion. But that dispute soon turned into a virtual free-for-all. . .
. . . There were many disturbing aspects to the beat-downs. One, the violence broke out along racial and age fault lines. After the initial one-on-one dispute, groups of black youths swarmed solitary older white bystanders to pound them.
Two, the surrounding assembled group of black youths not only failed to intervene to restrain the bullies. They also recorded the beatings for social media and were heard cheering on the one-sided violence. . .
. . . Racialists too often concoct white racist attackers and go silent when the evidence proves fabricated—only to be primed to manipulate the next hoax.
Five, the media and authorities did their best to either hide or play down the violence. . .
. . . The country is descending into a tribal morass of double standards and racial fixations.
The diversity/equity/inclusion industry, the Defund-the-Police madness, and the perpetual left-wing hunt for “white racism/white privilege/white rage”—from the prior Pentagon hierarchy to the lunatic fringe of Jasmine Crockett, Joy Reid, and Zohran Mamdani—have all legitimized double standards while lowering the bar of the once unacceptable.
When our careerist left-wing elites seek to divide us by race and make it essential, not incidental, to our identities, that tribalist message filters throughout communities.

All I can say is If Barack Obama had ~~a son~~ an SS Division named after him, it would look an awful lot like this.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Victor Davis Hanson: Black teens beat white bystanders in downtown Cincinnati as police, media, and public figures stay silent—revealing a dangerous double standard on racial violence.
The Cincinnati Cop-outs

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Daily Tech News 31 July 2025

Top Story

Spotify collects your private information and then leaks it. (The Verge) (archive site)

Which doesn't sound so bad except that Spotify collects a lot more than your playlists.
So do your sneakers. Here's why that's a good thing. Maybe. (Tech Crunch)

Skechers makes kid's shoes that have a hidden compartment for an Apple AirTag. Which is great if your child has a habit of wandering off or you live in a crime-ridden left-wing shithole.

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July 30, 2025

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - July 30, 2025 [TRex]

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Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: Atlas Goes to Mass, Rockefeller Center looking at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, NY]

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Hoodoo Cafe

Valley of Dreams, New Mexico
by willg_photography
More here

Otter (the good kind) playing on the ice.

Icy clear water in Alaska.

Grooming a teddy bear dog.

Doing man-stuff at the beach.

High winds turn a waterfall into a waterfly.

Kitten is overseeing her servant.

At Instagram, some very cool CGI renders of super-luxury space tourism hotels. (For once I realized they were fake before I posted!)

Saving an injured, orphaned baby emu. At 1:37 you can see the emu chasing the dog around a tree.

Tortoises being absolute superstars.

What a beautiful little snack!

Anatolian shepherd stands down a pack of wolves.

He's a terrible watchdog but such a good boy.

Another golden makes a poor watchdog (but is the best boy anyway).

Melting your drone to get good video of lava and it's worth the cost.

Dogger just relaxing at the beach.

Cats with good genes (who are obviously Nazis, especially the one with the Hitler mustache).

A temporary situation becomes more serious.

Great game for you and your cat and it's free.

Dog is packing for his trip, too.

When the missus wants a little somethin'-somethin'.

Trump impresses at his new golf course.

You don't sit in a dog's spot.

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Two More Trump Victories: Signs Deal With South Korea -- 0% Tariff on American Imports, 15% on Korean Imports -- and Forces Fake-Ivy University Brown to Drop DEI and Men in Women's Sports

Plus $350 billy of South Korean capital invested in US business. Directed, supposedly, by the US.

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Steve Jobs' Widow's Vanity Magazine The Atlantic: Everyone Hates Jasmine Ratchet

The Free Beacon's Andrew Stiles read it so that you don't have to.

Basic takeaway: She's so obnoxious that even The Atlantic has trouble polishing this turd. Thirty-three of her Democrat colleagues refused to comment about her -- refusing to offer the expected "she's great" puffery -- strongly hinting that she is absolutely despised, even by this crew of criminals, demagogues, and groomers.

It also indicates that everyone knows that everyone else will cook her, so no one wants to be known to have spoken to the "journalists" from the Atlantic: Naturally anyone known to have spoken to them will be suspected of having trashed her.

So they just pretend "I don't even know this ratchet bitch."

[E]ven the liberal journalist was repulsed by Crockett's toxic narcissism. As a sign of how poorly it went, the congresswoman called the Atlantic reporter, Elaine Godfrey, days before the story came out to complain that the journalist had been contacting her colleagues in the House "without telling her first," and proclaimed that she was "shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions," which isn't a thing.

Yeah that sounds like her. Bold. Brash. Borderline illiterate.

The article portrays Crockett as a self-infatuated wannabe influencer who "monitors social-media engagement like a day trader checks her portfolio." She brags about having the "largest social-media following" on the House Oversight Committee, and makes sure to notify the reporter that her YouTube rant about ICE agents being "out of control" was approaching 800,000 views. She would often tout her social media metrics while meeting with House Democrats during her failed bid to become ranking member of the Oversight Committee. "The base is thirsty," she told one freshman colleague. Out of the four candidates who wanted the job, Crockett finished last.
"During many of our conversations, Crockett wore acrylic nails painted with the word RESIST, and a set of heavy lashes over her brown eyes," Godfrey writes. "The lock screen on her phone is a headshot of herself." She does not come across as someone who is particularly pleasant to work for. Godfrey notes that Crockett called her office to berate a staffer in the middle of an interview.
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Not surprisingly, Crockett's glory-hounding antics have aggravated many of her fellow Democrats. Godfrey notes that 33 House Democrats she contacted for the story "either declined to talk with me on the record or didn't respond to my interview requests." A number of Democratic staffers suggested that Crockett's colleagues were reluctant to criticize her publicly, but have expressed concern privately about her lack of discipline. "She likes to talk," one of the staffers said. "Is she a loose cannon? Sometimes. Does that cause headaches for other members? 100 percent."

More at the Free Beacon. The narcissistic no-account says she's thinking about running for governor of Texas, insisting that Texas is actually a blue state, just "vote-repressed."

In addition, fellow unaccomplished dim-bulb diva AOC seems to be jealous that another female moron is getting attention and "likes" on TikTok.

Jasmine Ratchet is forcing herself into another story, and not for any good reason.

Texas is planning to re-draw its legislative districts for partisan advantage, which is perfectly legal. Democrats oppose the effort, which is also legal.

Though they're going to resort to illegal means to do so. They're planning on denying a quorum in the Texas legislature by "fleebagging" again, running away to another state. (Texas police can arrest them and deliver them to the State House if found in Texas.)

But flying around the country to avoid arrest is expensive, and Texas fines truant legislators $500 a day. Last time they did this, they just paid the fines with campaign dollars.

Republican legislators closed that loophole, and the law now forbids the use of campaign donations to pay legal fines.

But Jasmine Ratchet has a solution -- just lie about where the money came from. Just claim it's a "salary" from a side-gig.

From the Texas Tribune:

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Dallas Democrat who was part of the 2021 quorum break, sees a path to circumvent the campaign finance rules: With minimal limits on external income, Texas lawmakers can simply accept the donations as another salary, she said. As one of the most prolific fundraisers in the U.S. House, Crockett said she's willing to tap her donor base -- and her $3.7 million war chest -- to cover the expenses.

That's illegal. I don't just mean lying, I mean Ratchet's suggestion that people should lie about where their money comes from, and that she will help them.

A "conspiracy" is a simpler-than-you'd-imagine crime: A conspiracy is simply an agreement between two or more people that one or more of them should commit a felony. You don't have to commit the felony to be guilty of conspiring to commit the felony; the conspiracy -- the agreement itself -- is the crime.

You can be guilty of conspiracy to murder even if the murder never comes off. Again, the crime is the conspiracy itself, not the crime you agree to commit. (You can withdraw from a conspiracy but only by taking action that makes it clear you no longer wish the crime to be committed, like... calling the cops.)

There is some case law that you have to commit at least one "overt act" in furtherance of the conspiracy, just to establish it was a real agreement and not some loose talk. If Ratchet does in fact call a single one of her donors, that's an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy she's already publicly announced.

I don't know Texas law but it is surely a felony for a politician to lie about his sources of income to evade campaign finance laws, so Jasmine Ratchet's urging of others to commit this crime, along with her promise to help commit this crime, makes her a conspirator to commit the crime herself.

She pretends she's a lawyer. She should know all this.

But, you know: None of the letters in "DEI" stand for excellence or achievement or earning it.

Arrest this ratchet criminal.

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Two of the Criminal Thugs from the Cincinnati Street Lynching Are Arrested, But At Least One is Released on a $400 Bond, as Morbidly Obese DEI Police Chief Blames the Beating on the Bartender Who "Overserved" the Thugs

This cannot continue.

Two arrested in brutal Cincinnati mob attack; one was freed on bail despite serious charges

CINCINNATI - Cincinnati Chief of Police Teresa Theetge announced during a public safety meeting on Tuesday that two people have been arrested in connection with a downtown attack that left two people seriously injured over the weekend.
The chief said 34-year-old Montianez Merriweather and 24-year-old Dekyra Vernon were arrested, though no charges were announced.
Hamilton County jail records also omit the charges that both suspects face.
FOX 19 in Cincinnati reported that the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office said three warrants have also been issued for additional arrests.
The Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Queen City Lodge #69 thanked the Cincinnati Police Department for arresting the two people so far in the "heinous attack" that occurred on Saturday morning.
The FOP also shared a previous incident in which Merriweather was indicted on July 10, 2025, for receiving stolen property, weapons under disability, improper transportation of a firearm and other charges.

Another Gentle Giant. He was thinking of applying to CUNY and starting a career as a rapper.

Per a story linked at Hot Air, he was released on all of these charges -- carrying a gun despite a "disability," meaning illegally carrying a gun as a felon -- on a bond of $400.

The post also noted that Merriweather was released on a $4,000 bond, though he only needed to post 10%, or $400 to be released.
"This is your court system," the FOP post read.

Well, it's not his fault, is it? It's never the fault of a member of a Protected Democrat Group.

Note he was released for the gun charge for $400, and on this charge, also for $400.

Obviously they did not charge this guy with anything serious.

Because the real villain here is... a bartender. She says this at 2:40. She's going to use "all investigatory techniques" to move the blame away from Protected Democrats.

She continues calling this savage attack "a fight." And she insists she will charge anyone on "either side of the fight." So the white guy who got put into the hospital is just as guilty as the wilders who repeatedly stomped on his head when he was down.

And she refuses to tell us what they're being charged with. Because she's charging them with basically nothing.

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Kamala Harris: I'm Not Running for California Governor, I'll Be Keeping My Options Open for Any Other Ways I Can Serve the People In the Future (Like in 2028, Maybe)

Fox News
@FoxNews
Former Vice President @KamalaHarris
announces that she will NOT run for governor of California: "For now, my leadership and public service will not be in elected office."

For now.

File this under Least Surprising Headlines of the Day. Democrats have been "bemoaning" her threat to run for governor.

"She Comes In With Baggage': California Dems Bemoan Potential Harris Gubernatorial Bid

Former VP 'would only fire up Republicans and hurt' Democrats, a California House Democrat says
Matthew Xiao
July 28, 2025
As Kamala Harris weighs a run for California governor in 2026, state Democrats are expressing their fears that the former vice president "comes in with baggage" that could hurt the party down-ballot and energize Republicans.
"There's no groundswell for [Harris's] candidacy," one California House Democrat told CNN on condition of anonymity. "In fact, I think it would only fire up Republicans and hurt our ability to win the four to five seats that we need to win the House and hold on to three seats that we just flipped in 2024."
"She comes in with baggage," the Democrat said.
Other California Democrats expressed frustration that Harris appears more focused on staging a 2028 presidential bid than on leading California. "Once you're the vice president of the United States, there's only one place to go--it's president," Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D., Calif) told CNN. "For me, if I was vice president and all of a sudden I lose, it would be a fallback to me. I hate to put it so bluntly."
Some major Democratic donors and interest group leaders, meanwhile, are insisting that Harris still needs to answer for her failed presidential bid last year, according to CNN. Harris took over the Democratic nomination from then-president Joe Biden and went on to lose to Donald Trump, failing to carry a single swing state.
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This isn't the first time that California Democrats have publicly aired doubts about Harris, who said that she will make up her mind about a gubernatorial bid by late summer.
"Kamala just reminds you we are in this complete shit storm," a California Democrat who contributed six figures to her presidential bid told Politico last month, noting that another Harris candidacy would only remind Democratic voters of the "traumatizing" 2024 election.

California Democrats faulted her for treating the office of governor of the seventh biggest economy in the world as a Safety School.

From her previous statements, I previously concluded that she is trying to interest donors into setting her up in "charity" grift in which she will be paid a salary, given luxury offices, have travel and hotel paid for worldwide tours, and have a 24-hour-per-day professional chauffeur service. She doesn't really want any office where she'd be expected to actually perform or make decisions.

You know-- the exact same grift they set up for Hillary Clinton and her mutant Deep One spawn Chelsea.

But Kamala is willing to threaten runs for governor and the presidency (again) to get Democrat mega-donors to pay her to go away. They will have to open up their checkbooks is they want to focus on (right hand up and to the front) What Can Be (left hand down and to the back) Unburdened By What Has Been.

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GDP Grows Strong 3% in Second Quarter

The 3% rate is the annualized growth rate, that is, what the annual growth rate would be if this quarter were repeated four times.

It's a solid number -- a strong number. In my own mind 3% is the baseline for a "strong" rate of growth. The economy can grow more, but 3% is where the "strong" range begins.

Even the AP is forced to concede this is "strong" growth.

But note that immediately after conceding that the second quarter showed "surprising" (that means "experts predicted the opposite") "strong" growth, they immediately begin undermining that fact, talking up foreigners' and leftists' "concerns" about the economy.

And then they keep talking about the 0.5% contraction in the first quarter, talking about the old news of the first quarter more than the new news of the second quarter.

The U.S. economy expanded at a surprising 3% annual pace from April through June, bouncing back at least temporarily from a first-quarter drop that reflected disruptions from President Donald Trump's trade wars.
Still, details of the report suggested that U.S. consumers and businesses are wary about the economic uncertainty arising from Trump's radical campaign to restructure the American economy by slapping big taxes -- tariffs -- on imports from around the world.

Weird, huh, that the only time that the left admits that taxes slow economic growth is when Trump imposes tariffs? They deny that Democrat tax hikes slow growth. In fact, they've been screaming about Trump's tax cuts without ever once conceding that lower taxes spur growth.

"Headline numbers are hiding the economy's true performance, which is slowing as tariffs take a bite out of activity," Nationwide chief economist Kathy Bostjancic wrote.

The "experts" keep predicting rising inflation and slowing economic growth which never actually arrives, and of course the Steno Pool Media repeats these Democrat talking points.

America gross domestic product -- the nation's output of goods and services --rebounded after falling at a 0.5% clip from January through March, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The first-quarter drop, the first retreat of the U.S. economy in three years, was mainly caused by a surge in imports -- which are subtracted from GDP -- as businesses scrambled to bring in foreign goods ahead of Trump's tariffs.

Boy you almost forget that the new GDP number is 3.0% because they won't stop talking about the brief Biden-era 0.5% contraction six months ago.

Check this out:

The bounceback was expected but its strength was a surprise: Economists had forecast 2% growth from April through June.

The "experts" keep failing in their predictions, so let's keep making the "experts'" predictions the main topic of conversation, rather than the 3% growth.

The New York Times takes the "let's keep talking about the first quarter even though we have the second quarter's data in now" tactic to the next level.

The Times doesn't want to acknowledge that the GDP grew by a strong 3%, so they average it with the first quarter number -- still suffering under Biden, and with Trump's policies not even close to enacted yet -- to talk about the first half-year's average GDP growth.

I think this is the first time in economic reporting history that anyone has ever descended to this level of hackery -- let's ignore the actual new numbers to focus laser-like on numbers from six months ago.

One claim these hacks are making is that the GDP growth isn't really that strong because a drop in imports boosts domestic GDP. So, they're saying, we just stopped importing foreign goods, and this sparked domestic production, so it doesn't really "count."

Two things, though:

1, the whole Trump economic plan is built on the idea of taxing foreign imports to reduce the levels of imports to spark domestic economic production. So the left is saying that even though Trump's plan is working as designed, it doesn't count, because they're neoliberal c*nts who want to offshore all production to foreign countries.

2, the only reason we had a "contraction" in the first quarter is because businesses overbought foreign goods to buy them before Trump's tariffs kicked in, and increasing imports reduces the GDP. So while they're saying that the 3% growth isn't "really real" because it's based on falling imports, they continue to insist that the first quarter's "contraction" is really real even though that "contraction" was largely an artifact of HIGHER imports.

When trade effects reduce GDP, highlight the lower GDP and pretend it's all really real. But when trade effects increase GDP, highlight the trade effects and denigrate strong 3% growth as not really real at all.

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The Fiercely Heterosexual Cory "Ssspartacuss" Booker Yells Like a Mental Patient In His Latest TikTok Stunt While Democrats Pump Iron for Communism GAINZZZ

He's a very emotional "man."

But he's totally tough.

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Terrorist Training Camp UCLA Pays Out Big Settlement to Jewish Students for Permitting a "Jew Exclusion Zone" on Campus

Not a one of them asks the Mitchell and Webb question: "Are we the baddies?"

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Jewish students and faculty members over the school's handling of anti-Israel protests, including allowing protesters to ban Jews from a part of the campus known as a "Jew Exclusion Zone."
The lawsuit was brought last year by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which accused UCLA of "aiding and abetting" an antisemitic culture, including "segregating Jewish students and preventing them from accessing the heart of campus."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Mary Osako, the UCLA vice chancellor for strategic communications, said the university has taken "concrete action to enhance campus safety by creating a new Office of Campus and Community Safety, instituting new policies to manage protests on campus and taking decisive action for conduct that violates our longstanding policies."
"Antisemitism has no place at UCLA, and we remain steadfast in our commitment to eradicating it from our community," Osako said. "We have reflected candidly on our progress and are working to expunge antisemitism from our community in its entirety.
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The university agreed to enter into a consent judgment and pay more than $6.13 million to the plaintiffs. A federal judge still needs to give final approval.
In August 2024, a federal judge ordered the school to stop allowing anti-Israel protesters to ban Jews from portions of the school's campus. School officials acknowledged that students had been physically blocked from accessing parts of campus.
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"In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith," a federal court found at the time.
"This fact is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom that it bears repeating, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith."
"When antisemites were terrorizing Jews and excluding them from campus, UCLA chose to protect the thugs and help keep Jews out," Frankel said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital by the Becket Fund. "That was shameful, and it is sad that my own school defended those actions for more than a year. But today's court judgment brings justice back to our campus and ensures Jews will be safe and be treated equally once again."

Harvard, for its part, sees the writing on the wall and is considering finally settling with Trump.

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute
The sum sought by the government is more than twice as much as the $200 million fine that Columbia University said it would pay when it settled its clash with the White House last week.

Harvard University has signaled a willingness to meet the Trump administration's demand to spend as much as $500 million to end its dispute with the White House as talks between the two sides intensify, four people familiar with the negotiations said.
According to one of the people, Harvard is reluctant to directly pay the federal government, but negotiators are still discussing the exact financial terms.
The sum sought by the government, which recently accused Harvard of civil rights violations, is more than twice as much as the $200 million fine that Columbia University said it would pay when it settled antisemitism claims with the White House last week. Neither Harvard nor the government has publicly detailed potential terms for a settlement and what allegations the money would be intended to resolve.
President Trump has privately demanded that Harvard pay far more than Columbia. The people who described the talks and the dynamics surrounding them spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential negotiations.
Although the two sides have made progress toward a deal, Harvard is also skeptical of Columbia's agreement to allow an outside monitor to oversee its sweeping arrangement with the government. Harvard officials have signaled that such a requirement for their own settlement could be a redline as a potential infringement on the university's academic freedom.

Well then there will be no settlement. You are refusing to bring yourself into alignment with US law -- and the Constitution -- regarding discrimination against some races. You have made it clear that you intend to flout and evade that law.

A federal overseer is required to make sure you stop discriminating.

But you won't.

This isn't just about your antisemitism. It's also about being anti-white and anti-Asian and anti-male.

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Mr. Trump said in June that his administration might strike an agreement with Harvard "over the next week or so." Although that time frame has lapsed, the president has privately told aides that he will not green-light a deal unless the nation's oldest and wealthiest university agrees to spend many millions of dollars.
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A White House spokesman, Harrison W. Fields, said on Monday that the administration's "proposition is simple and common sense: Don't allow antisemitism and D.E.I. to run your campus, don't break the law, and protect the civil liberties of all students."
Mr. Fields added that the White House was "confident that Harvard will eventually come around and support the president's vision, and through good-faith conversations and negotiations, a good deal is more than possible."

I think Harvard is more determined to discriminate against Jews, whites, Asians and men than Putin is to capture Ukraine. No good deal is possible.

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Reports: King Charles Is "Appalled" By Trump's Comments That "Bad People" Are Coming to Europe on Boats and This Will "Ruin" Europe

This pussy.

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NEW: Sources close to King Charles have informed The Express newspaper that the King is "appalled" by Donald Trump's recent comments on immigration to the UK

Before getting to the story, let's review Trump's various comments about immigration made with the effeminate PM Keir Starmer.

A couple of days ago, a reporter asked Keir Starmer about Trump's incredible performance in securing the border.

Keir Starmer is plainly upset at this statement/question. Starmer is presently pretending that he really wants to stop "the boats" coming over from France, filled with illegal aliens from the Middle East. But he's just pretending, so he doesn't want to have to endorse Trump's actual action on the issue too much.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

Heat

It's summertime and that means - you might want to sit down for this - it gets hot. Shocking, I know. This year, as in many prior years, Western Europe has had a spate of hot weather. This seems to happen most years. Europe gets hot, stuff shuts down, people die and then things return to normal. This year, it was early, and various outfits estimate that it caused thousands of deaths - a bunch of them, of course, directly attributable to Muh Climate Change.

As easy as it would be to write it off as the annual exercise in European absurdity and weakness, that would obscure an underlying issue. Why does this happen to Europe? Why are heat waves in the US notable but not a nightmare that suspends public life and results in thousands of deaths (if estimates are to be believed)? Two words: air conditioning. We have it, they don't. But why don't they have it?

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Bindo Altoviti
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

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The Morning Report — 7/30/25

Good morning kids. Well after a fairly massive quake hit off the Russian Pacific coast, tsunami warnings in Hawaii and across the US Pacific coast were triggered. So far this morning the warnings both here and in Japan have been downgraded to advisories. Hopefully whatever damage may have occurred or is anticipated is at a bare minimum.

First up, let me just state categorically for the record what an utterly evil, despicable piece of subhuman waste Chris Van Hollen is. The fact that he's a Democrat merely confirms it but only hints at the level of his sick depravity.

Tuesday on MSNBC’s (MSNSDAP) “All In,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was using “food as a weapon of war.”

There is absolutely zero political gain that I can see in publicly stating this. Other than perhaps him thinking that attacking Bibi is a way to somehow ding President Trump as some sort of genocidal war criminal, given the undeniable and indisputable facts on the ground since the October 7th Barbaric mass assault and pogrom out of Gaza aimed at Israel, and indeed since Islam itself matastasized almost 1500 years ago, this is just naked Anti-Semitism. Or is he trying to impress the Islamic Republic of Dearbornistan and Mogadishuappolis for a potential run at the Democrat nomination?

The Media Pulled the Same Famine Hoax in Yemen Before Gaza. . . Since the famine began, Yemen’s population shot up from 30 million to 39 million. . .
. . . It was all lies. It still is. The same tactics used in Yemen, photos of sick kids who look like they’re starving, and false claims of famine no matter how much aid goes in, are being used in Gaza. The same lie. The same hoax. For the same purpose. To aid Islamic terrorists.

Funny how the Gazan population actually boomed over the past 20 years since Israel's insane withdrawal chasing the HunterBiden crackpipe dream of land for peace. If Israel is committing genocide, they're obviously doing it wrong.

Remember, this has absolutely zero to do with ending starvation, it has everything to do with the dismantling – way too gentle a word – the demolition of the State of Israel, even if it means the death of every Jew there and indeed every Jew on the planet as can be seen with assaults on Jews all over the world demonstrates. That's what "Globalize the Intifada means: Death to the Jews. The erasure of Israel's border and supplanting its population with Muslims is incidental.
This is what Chris Van Hollen is actually saying. So if the Mossad took this filthy despicable, blood-libeling shitstain out, it would be justifiable and frankly, I'd cheer it.
 
And in a similar vein, vis a vis hypocrisy and lying, sure as night follows day, in the wake of the multiple victim shooting in Manhattan yesterday, the gun grabbers emitted their predictable hideous cloud of flatus:

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” New York Assemblyman Alex Bores (D) said that “it is finally time for us to have a nationwide ban on assault weapons, on these AR-15-style weapons.” But “we shouldn’t be in these discussions on the ticky-tacky aspects of the specific guns. We need to be taking action to keep people safe. Exactly where we draw the line on exactly what kind of weapon, we can discuss.”
Bores said, “I think it’s, as our governor said this morning, it is finally time for us to have a nationwide ban on assault weapons, on these AR-15-style weapons. Now, this one was a pistol and a different one, and I expect many of my colleagues in elected office to pick at specific distinctions in weapons. But what’s clear is no one should have a magazine that can shoot 30 rounds. No one should have such a high-powered and maneuverable weapon and be able to walk around city streets or drive it into our state.”

This Bores, like every other leftist drone bores me to fucking tears with their predictable bullshit Meh, the deadliest assault weapons out there are Leftism, and Islam. We can bandy about the Ticky Tacky features of the Democrat Party but there you have it.

So, not to minimize the tragedy of the shooting, but as I mentioned yesterday and it bears repeating we've heard nothing from Bores or any other Democrat about the 11 people stabbed to death at a Michigan Walmart over the weekend.

What about common sense Steak Knife control? Meh, what we desperately need is common sense Democrat Control. Had we only abolished that Party post-Appomattox, think of all the pain, misery, death, destruction and dislocation we could have prevented?! It is to weep. Alas, we cannot go back in time. But we can go forward.

And yet we have these items, the first of which starts across the pond:

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has defended the censorious Online Safety Act and insisted Britain “had free speech for a very, very long time” and will continue to do so. Critics argue the legislation marks the end of that tradition, which is already ineffective due to laws allowing people to be prosecuted for “grossly offensive” communications and other forms of expression by enabling widespread censorship under the guise of “online safety.”The Online Safety Act, passed by the formerly governing Conservative (Tory) Party government but only effective from Friday, grants the unelected regulator Ofcom the power to enforce a “duty of care” on websites. Under this framework, social media companies must remove content Ofcom deems harmful or face fines of up to $24 million or 10 percent of global revenue, whichever is higher.Ofcom’s definition of “harmful content” is broad, encompassing criticisms of government policies, including immigration and COVID-19 measures—not just sexually explicit content, as its defenders imply. Zia Yusuf, of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, described the act as plunging Britain into a “borderline dystopian state.” Farage himself has pledged to repeal the legislation if Reform takes over the government.Social media platforms are now required to verify users’ ages and adjust algorithms to block inappropriate content for children. Critics argue this effectively censors conservative viewpoints and dissenting opinions, as the rules apply extraterritorially, potentially impacting American users. Notably, it has already restricted not only minors’ access to pornography, but also parliamentary debates on Muslim grooming gangs.

Speaking of Starmer, we have our own greasy bastard of a Starmer-bahnfuhrer who fancies himself as Lord And Master:

In a move that reeks of political opportunism and arbitrary censorship, California’s legislature is advancing Senate Bill 771, a measure that would impose draconian fines on social media platforms for failing to suppress what state officials label as “hate speech.”
“Under the bill, which sits in the state Assembly after being passed by the Senate in May, large social media companies will be subject to legal challenges and fines if their algorithms ‘relay content to users’ that violates the state's civil rights protections, such as hate speech. Platforms that knowingly violate the law could face fines up to $1 million. The bill would also implement a separate ‘civil penalty’ fine of up to $500,000 for reckless violations.
Which is curious, because one might think that freedom of speech is a “civil right” and no one has a right to push “unlikeable” speech off the web. Additionally, some might wonder how anyone has a so-called “right” to force his neighbor to pay for the creation and operation of a government “speech police” gang.
Mandt notes that, as one might expect, the typical “don’t say anything bad about LGBTQ – ‘bad’ being whatever government defines as 'bad.'"

Too bad Greasy Kid Stuff is a white, hetero male. Maybe CNN can turn him into a black drag queen, or POSSIBLY a black drag queen like they turned the Manhattan shooter into a POSSIBLY white guy? Like AL Sharpton is possibly Casper the Friendly Ghost.

I seem to recall a few years back after a mass shooting, some schmuck came up with the great idea of schoolrooms stocking up on canned goods and hurling cans of food at a shooter. Wonder how Van Hollen felt about that vis a vis using food as a weapon?!

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A massive 8.8 earthquake rocked the upper Pacific Ocean Tuesday evening, triggering tsunami warnings for the entire state of Hawaii and parts of Alaska as the first waves already hit parts of Russia and Japan. The quake hit an area about 85 miles east of Kamchatsky which is on the south-eastern coast of Russia’s Pacific Ocean peninsula at 1:24 p.m. Hawaiian Time, according to officials.
Tsunami fears around the world live updates: First waves hit mainland US in California after Russia, Japan, Hawaii already impacted

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Daily Tech News 30 July 2025

Top Story

What's up with Steam and Itch.io suddenly vanishing all those games and books and art and stuff? (The Verge) (archive site)

Proximate cause: Visa and Mastercard deciding they have to act as global fun censors.

Distal cause: Some group of Australian Stalinist nutcases called Collective Shout who have for years believed they have to act as global fun censors.
As a result of Collective Shout's actions, in tandem with the payment processors, over 20,000 games, books, comics, and other creative works - confirmed via the Internet Archive - functionally ceased to exist on the site (though purchased content remains in users' libraries so long as it doesn't violate itch.io's new guidelines), imperiling the creators who depend on sales from itch.io. In addition to NSFW content, notable projects that didn't have the tag were caught up in the purge as well.
Anything not mandatory is forbidden.
Whenever a platform announces a blanket ban on adult content, LGBTQ+ creators are almost always disproportionately affected, harming queer artists and invariably queer people.
This is true, because "queer" artists and "queer" people are sex-obsessed lunatics, but I'll support them before a bunch of Stalinist fun censors who are probably from Melbourne anyway.

Update: Nope. Sydney. Well, I moved out of there just in time.

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