Kash Patel: The FBI's Years Long Stonewalling on the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game Assassin Is Over

At long last.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced this week that he had handed over to Congress long-sought bureau records related to the 2017 congressional baseball game shooting following years of House Republicans arguing the bureau was stonewalling on why it had labeled the attack "suicide by cop" instead of domestic terrorism.

James Hodgkinson, an extreme left-wing activist living out of a van in northern Virginia opened fire on Republicans at an Alexandria baseball field on June 14, 2017 after asking GOP congressmen who had left the practice early if the players were Republicans or Democrats. GOP Congressman Steve Scalise nearly died as a result of the attack. Before opening fire, Hodgkinson reportedly asked if the players on the field were Republicans, and then proceeded with his armed assault.

Republican congressmen have for years harshly criticized the 2017 decision by the FBI, led in an acting capacity at the time by Andrew McCabe, not to label the shooting by Hodgkinson as domestic terrorism despite his targeting of elected Republican leaders as they practiced for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. The FBI had instead dubbed the attack "suicide by cop" -- a position the bureau refused to reverse until 2021, and a position the FBI has never fully explained.

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As he sprayed bullets at the GOP members practicing for a baseball game, Hodgkinson's gunfire struck Scalise in the hip, hit lobbyist Matt Mika in the chest, and injured two Capitol Police officers, Crystal Griner and David Bailey. Scalise nearly bled to death and required multiple surgeries before returning to Congress. The shooter, who was killed by police, had written down the names of GOP congressmen.

McCabe, who was deeply involved in the FBI's roundly criticized Crossfire Hurricane investigation, took over the FBI after the May 2017 firing of former FBI Director James Comey, who himself had played a key role in the false Trump-Russia collusion saga. It was during McCabe's tenure that the bureau rejected calling the shooting "domestic terrorism." McCabe did not respond to a request for comment from Just the News through his LinkedIn page.

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Hodgkinson supporter of Democratic presidential primary candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, was killed by law enforcement after the attack. Infuriated by Trump winning the 2016 election, he had posted on Facebook that "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co." and had joined other groups such as "Terminate The Republican Party" and "Join The Resistance Worldwide!!"

The FBI declared just a week after the shooting in June 2017 that it did not consider the baseball shooting a terrorist attack, saying, "The FBI is investigating this shooting as an assault on a member of Congress and an assault on a federal officer. At this point in the investigation, the FBI does not believe there is a nexus to terrorism." The FBI held onto this position for years.

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"Much to our shock that day, the FBI concluded that this was a case of the attacker seeking suicide by cop," Wenstrup said. "Director, you want suicide by cop, you just pull a gun on a cop. It doesn't take 136 rounds. It takes one bullet. Both [Department of Homeland Security] and the [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] published products labeling this attack as a domestic violent extremism event, specifically targeting Republican members of Congress. The FBI did not. The FBI still has not."

This is chilling. Particularly when you consider that the Democrat Party and permanent Deep State are currently agitating for more political violence against Trump, Musk, and anyone associated with the right.

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France Convicts Marie Le Pen of Fake Embezzlement, Bans Her From Running in 2027, an Election In Which She is the Front-Runner

Where have I seen this tactic before?

Auron MacIntyre
@AuronMacintyre

In western liberal democracies jailing or shooting the opposition candidate is quickly becoming the preferred election strategy

CNN claims she's just a "figurehead" so this isn't an attack on democracy, you see.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen banned from 2027 presidential race, throwing French politics into disarray

French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds, in a politically explosive ruling that has shattered her hopes of winning the presidency in 2027.

A Paris court also handed Le Pen, who was the frontrunner for the next election, a four-year prison sentence with two years suspended, to be served under house arrest, and a 100,000 Euro ($108,000) fine. Le Pen will file an appeal, her lawyer said.

The imprisonment is on hold. The thing they really wanted- - banning her from running -- is imposed immediately, even during her appeal.

Europe is a totalitarian hellhole and we should no longer spend a dime defending it.

Her party, National Rally (RN), was ordered to pay 2 million Euros in fines for the 4.1 million Euros that it was accused of embezzling.

The court's presiding judge, Bénédicte de Perthuis, said Le Pen's actions amounted to a "serious and lasting attack on the rules of democratic life in Europe, but especially in France." She said Le Pen's immediate ban on standing for office was tied to "democratic public unrest" that would result from the election of a person convicted of embezzlement.

But the decision itself looks set to spark significant unrest. Jordan Bardella, Le Pen's protégé who succeeded her as RN's president, said it was not only Le Pen "who is being unjustly condemned: it is French democracy that is being executed."

Marion Maréchal, Le Pen's niece and a Member of the European Parliament for a rival far-right party, said her aunt had "led our side on the path to victory. This is her only guilt, and that is why she is condemned."

Calm and composed as she entered the court on Monday, greeting supporters, Le Pen grew increasingly agitated, shaking her head as the court president spent more than an hour detailing the embezzlement scheme.

"The question therefore arises in a singular way in this criminal case which makes its decision 'in the name of the French people.' The court must not ignore the requirement to seek a social consensus," the presiding judge said.

De Perthuis said her fellow judges had weighed the "two risks" in their sentencing: the risk of a person convicted for embezzlement being elected for political office and the "major risk to public order" if a likely presidential candidate was banned from running.

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Le Pen had branded the case against her a "witchhunt," mirroring language that US President Donald Trump used against legal proceedings that targeted him.

Her right-wing European allies also quickly rallied to her defense after the decision.

"Je suis Marine," Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister and a champion of socially conservative politics in Europe, posted on X following the conviction, with Italian far-right leader and Matteo Salvini slamming the decision.

More from David Strom.

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Trump: "I'm Not Joking," I'm Thinking About Running for a Third Term

Maybe he's floating this idea as part of a midterms strategy. The first step of repealing an amendment is a 2/3rds vote in Congress.

Maybe he's just trolling the Media Spazzes.

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THE MORNING RANT: Another Climate Apocalypse Deadline Just Passed

On June 3, 2022, a protestor tied her neck to the net during a tennis match at the French Open. Her shirt read “We Have 1028 Days Left.” She was referring to the scientifically indisputable analysis from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that if radical de-carbonization was not implemented within that time frame, it would be too late to save the planet from the angry climate God.

“Climate activist delivers a poignant message during the French Open semi-final” [06/06/2022]

The 1,028th day was last week, Thursday March 27, 2025. We’re all still here, sea levels haven’t risen, global temperatures haven’t changed, and the climate is not in peril.

I’ve spent a lot of time mocking people like this young lady, but it is absolutely tragic and heartbreaking how we have immersed our children in the false-science of the climate doomsday cult. She deserved better than to be told by “respectable” authorities that life on Earth will end if she does not take radical action, possibly sacrificing her freedom, to save the planet.

We’re also at the 5-year anniversary of the Covid hysteria, and it too was pure evil how authorities put the fear of death into our children. My city’s local newspaper has an annual competition for children to design wrapping paper, with the winning design distributed within the paper on the Sunday before Christmas. In December 2020, this was the winner – two cartoon gingerbread children with a yard stick between them, and the words “6 feet apart but still in my heart” across the wrapping paper.

I’m still seething with anger about the Covid sharia and emotional abuse inflicted on children during the that social panic.

Ace wrote a few days ago about how Gen-Z is turning out remarkably conservative, as well they should, considering all the abuse that was heaped on them at the confluence of climate catastrophism, Covid, and woke vilification. For all the times and all the ways today’s young adults were told by adults in their lives that they were going to die young, we are lucky the younger generation didn’t turn out to be burn-it-all down nihilists.

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My latest piece The Media's Great Barrier Reef Hoax Is Bigger Than The Reef has been published at The Blaze.

In it I discuss how the Great Barrier Reef’s coral cover has more than doubled in a decade and its extent is the highest ever recorded, yet the propaganda media is unrelenting in promoting the imminent demise of the reef due to global warming.

It’s behind a paywall, but if you have a Blaze subscription, I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Sunday Stroll
Carl Spitzweg

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The Morning Report — 3/ 31 /25

Good morning kids. Does this story really surprise you?!

The headquarters for the Republican Party in New Mexico was targeted Sunday in what is being called “a deliberate act of arson,” leaving the entryway to the building destroyed.

In a post on X, the Republican Party of New Mexico revealed the damage to the state’s GOP headquarters in Albuquerque also included the words “ICE=KKK” spray painted on a wall of the building. The attack was described as being “fueled by hatred and intolerance.”

. . . “We are deeply relieved that no one was harmed in what could have been a tragic and deadly attack,” Barela said. “Those who resort to violence to undermine our state and nation must be held accountable, and our state leaders must reinforce through decisive action that these cowardly attacks will not be tolerated.”

Continuing on with the completely unsurprising category, I give you this story on the eve of a most crucial special election here in my new home state of Wisconsin:

The elections director of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is apparently playing sheriff. Meanwhile, workers allegedly have been handling ballots in secret rooms inadmissible to observers for weeks.

City workers are allegedly using secret offices, off limits for observers, to handle ballots for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, multiple sources told The Federalist. Milwaukee Elections Director Paulina Gutierrez also allegedly claimed “police powers” to remove observers in a March 19 meeting at Milwaukee Central Count. Early voting began in the race March 18, and election day is April 1. Former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, backed by Republicans, is running against Democrat-backed Judge Susan Crawford for a 10-year term on the state Supreme Court. Leftists took control of the court in 2023, but with the retirement of Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, this race could decide the ideological tilt of the state’s highest court for years. . .

. . . The rooms are purportedly used to scan ballots as received then divide them by “ward” — the equivalent of an election precinct. “They’re scanning them in, and then they’re sorting them by ward,” the observer said. “Why would it happen in secret?”

The observer claimed to have personally seen the back rooms in Milwaukee Central Count — described as offices with windows “papered over so you can’t actually see what they’re doing.” Gutierrez and the city attorney allegedly confirmed to the observer “they were using those rooms again” and that “they had every right to do that.”

. . . The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel claimed on election day that “Wisconsin has secure elections.” But in 2020, Milwaukee was home to “Zuckbucks” meddling and late-night ballot dumps. In 2024, it was the site of alleged ballot harvesting, broken tabulator seals, and a mysterious “black curtain.” As one unnamed source said, “this is a major perception issue.”

I guess Democrat terror goons firebombing Wisconsin's GOP headquarters might be misinterpreted by the unwashed masses and so that option was nixed. Meh, with Election officials and administratators like they have in Milwaukee, the election has been in the bag for weeks already and tomorrow's magic show is just pro forma.

I would have hoped that both the state and national GOP would have been preparing for this election for months now. Or is that hoping for too much. But considering what's at stake . . .

All eyes are on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, where liberals currently hold a 4-3 majority. On Tuesday, voters will choose between a conservative judge, Brad Schimel, and a liberal judge, Susan Crawford, to fill a vacancy and possibly flip the court to conservative control.

What difference does it make? A lot — and not just in Wisconsin.

If liberals retain control, it is likely that the court will unwind the public sector union reforms enacted when Scott Walker was governor, something high on labor unions’ wish list for the past decade. Issues such as abortion are also on the agenda. Voters gave Republicans an 18-15 majority in the Wisconsin State Senate and a 54-45 majority in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Yet a liberal Supreme Court bench would spell disaster for any Republican initiatives. . .

. . . Redistricting could net Democrats two extra seats, and control of Congress. Crawford supporters even put out a campaign email touting the election as a “chance to put two more House seats in play for 2026” Democrats know what is at stake.

So this state court election is about control of the nation, not just Wisconsin.

Soros saw an early opportunity, and donated $1 million directly to Crawford’s campaign before the race received its current publicity, plus his network has raised far more. 

Have a great day — And. . . A gentle reminder to my fellow Wisconsinites Tomorrow is Election Day so get out and vote early absentee today if you can and for sure tomorrow for BRAD SCHIMEL

Well, I voted early as it supposedly makes shenanigans and thievery on the part of Democrats harder to pull off on and immediately after election day itself. If any of my fellow Wisconsinites can go vote today, wherever you may be, do so. I did not flee NYC just to live in its arctic equivalent.

And then there's this little nugget:

Constitutional scholars believe they have identified a loophole in the Constitution that would allow President Trump (or any President) to serve more than two terms. The revelation stems from a 1999 Minnesota Law Review paper by Professor Bruce Peabody.The move, which some dismiss as improbable, could be facilitated by a new interpretation of the 22nd Amendment. Academic circles, Congress, and staunch Trump supporters have discussed exploiting a potential loophole in the language of the amendment. The 22nd Amendment, ratified to prevent any individual from being elected as President more than twice, holds a phrase that experts argue does not restrict someone from returning to office if they were not re-elected President.

Eh, something else for Lefties to go apeshit about.

Vote Early & Often! Go BRAD SCHIMEL!

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• In a post on X, the Republican Party of New Mexico revealed the damage to the state’s GOP headquarters in Albuquerque also included the words “ICE=KKK” spray painted on a wall of the building. The attack was described as being “fueled by hatred and intolerance.”
  Headquarters of New Mexico Republican Party Targeted in ‘Deliberate Act of Arson’
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Trump is racing to dismantle decades of leftist policies, but success hinges on speed, discipline, and the Supreme Court—while facing fierce resistance from entrenched institutions.
  Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in America
  
• The highest court in New York State, the Court of Appeals, has unbelievably opened the door for quarantine camps to become a reality. (Since Korematsu is still settled law, lock up Yoko and George Takei - in the same cell!!!! - jjs)
  New York Greenlights Quarantine Camps

“It’s one of those surprisingly straightforward scenarios,” says Professor Bruce Peabody, discussing thepossible third term of Trump through a constitutional loophole.Constitutional debate regarding the 22nd Amendment and potential future implications for presidential terms.
REVEALED: The Constitutional Loophole That Could Extend Trump’s Presidency Until 2037.

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Daily Tech News 31 March 2025

Top Story

• The latest Windows 11 development builds disable the time-honoured oobe\bypassnro script that lets you setup a new PC without creating an online Microsoft account. (The Verge)
  
  Right now you can still enable the script by editing the registry first - which you have to do, perfectly, from the command line, on a PC that isn't working yet - but who knows how long that will last.
  
  The desktop release of SteamOS cannot arrive soon enough.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - March 30, 2025 [Doof]

DC’s cherry blossoms reach peak bloom

Howdy Hordelings! Hope you are having a very nice Sunday here in the early days of Spring. How are your brackets? Did you make sixteen sweet picks? Or perhaps you really just don't care. Whatever your feelings on that, the ONT is here for you to end your weekend. Step on in!

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Gun Thread: Finally Final End of March Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the end of March Edition? Not the first, not the second, not the third, not the fourth, but rather the fifth edition of the Ol' Gun Thread this month! Next week, by the way, we will have the first edition of April. Don't worry. I'll remind you.

I did not make it to the farm-o as planned this weekend, dangit! Trying again this week!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: New Jersey Scallops? Are You Mad?

Tasty! And easy to open. And for me, that is an important point, because while I understand how to do it, and I am fairly good at it, there is always the risk of plunging the oyster knife into one's palm while opening a particularly recalcitrant oyster. Some varieties have nicely exposed hinges which makes opening them a breeze. These were great! But some varieties hide the hinge behind a curve in the shell or some other subterfuge, and they can be a dangerous thing indeed. As the apex predator of the edible mollusk world, oysters can be tough to handle.

And notice there are only 11 oysters on that plate? Yup, the twelfth was a bit too easy to open, no doubt planning a sneak attack of some nasty virus or bacteria. But I was too quick for him!

The French grade their oysters by size, from 5 to 0 (by weight, beginning at 30g and ending above 150g!). I have never seen a 0, and the 2s and 3s are just perfect, so I won't look hard for some monstrous oyster the size of a dinner plate. They may be a bit tough to swallow.

France consumes most of its oyster production, which tells me...something. I have no idea what. Prices are lower in the stores compared to the United States, but just as painful in Parisian restaurants. Along the coast in the oyster-growing regions is a different and happy paradigm; great oysters for not much at all!

Yes, I will be spending time on the coast.

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First World Problems...

It's difficult to see in the photo, but that door is guaranteed to smash one's fingers or knuckles if opened the normal way, by grasping the handle and pushing.

Why? Because the handle is mounted so close to the edge of the door that it is impossible to open without pain unless one is delicate and careful and holds the handle by the edge while simultaneously curling one's hand away from the other door.

Which nobody does. So they smash their thumbs or knuckles or fingers, depending on their preferred door-opening technique, against the other door, and then curse.

Loudly.

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RFK Jr. May Be Crazy, But Getting Rid Of A Mandate-Loving, Science-Torturing Bureaucrat Is A Very Good Thing!

RFK Jr. Is a loon when it comes to vaccines, and the catastrophe that is the Covid19 vaccine effort has just solidified his opinions. The reality is that there many, safe, effective, lifesaving vaccines available, and the experience with these in the 20th century is a wonderful example of the power of science. Polio, Small Pox, Measles, Tetanus, Pertussis (Whooping Cough) and several others are a successful testament to the West's public health and scientific efforts.

But as usual, hubris, graft, self-aggrandizement and government overreach took that wonderful success and made it a problem. The attitude seemed to be, if several vaccines are good, then a dozen are even better!

HPV? Why? Protecting children from a sexually transmitted disease? Chicken Pox? Why? Natural immunity is better, and the disease itself is mild. And let's accelerate the time frame for these vaccines, so babies are bombarded with vaccine after vaccine, without a solid understanding of how their immune systems will respond.

And if traditional vaccine development takes years, but we have a new and mostly untested way to create vaccines quickly, then why the hell not!

Covid19 was the perfect opportunity for the ultimate in medical and government hubris. Big Pharma had the technology to create a vaccine very quickly, and government had the jackbooted thugs of its enforcement arms to mandate its use. Never mind that it was a crappy vaccine, didn't really protect people from contracting the disease, didn't limit its spread very much, and had poorly understood side effects.

But none of that mattered, and the evil cabal of Pharma and government ran roughshod over our rights, and absolutely destroyed the science of vaccines in the process. In doing so they took a society that was mostly comfortable with vaccinations, and convinced them that government and Pharma were lying through their teeth, and absolutely could not be trusted with anything... including the vaccines that have been demonstrated to work.

But back to RFK Jr.'s lunacy. It now makes more sense to America, because even if he is mostly wrong about traditional vaccines (they don't cause autism), there is a monstrous example of exactly what he has been saying for years: the Covid19 catastrophe.

Sadly, our compliant media will not tell the truth about Peter Marks, who is one of the prime players in the ridiculously fast rollout of the Covid19 vaccine and the subsequent mandates for its use. He is a fascist: comfortable with government forcing any manner of medical treatment on pain of loss of employment and, in a few cases, death.

Good on Ya RFK Jr. for dumping this arrogant, superior, freedom-crushing fascist!

Top FDA vaccine official Peter Marks resigns in opposition to RFK Jr.

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator Peter Marks has resigned, citing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation and lies” around immunization, according to a resignation letter obtained by CNBC.

For nearly 10 years, Marks led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, a post that included evaluating Covid-19 vaccines and establishing guidelines for emerging treatments like cell and gene therapies. A key figure at the FDA, biopharma industry insiders were closely watching Marks amid the transition.

The Wall Street Journal first reported Marks’s resignation, saying an official of the Department of Health and Human Services gave Marks the chance to resign or be fired. Marks, the FDA, and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Oh... the poor dear! Just a dedicated and selfless career scientist whose only goal is to improve the health and well-being of Americans! He's like Santa Claus and Albert Schweitzer wrapped in one!

Wenstrup Investigates FDA's Rushed Approval of the COVID-19 Vaccine

FDA Director Dr. Peter Marks testified that the FDA’s approval of the COVID-19 vaccine may have been rushed in order to meet arbitrary mandate policies set forth by the Biden Administration. Previous documents uncovered by the Select Subcommittee revealed that scientists warned Dr. Marks and other FDA officials on numerous occasions about the dangers of rushing the COVID-19 vaccine approval process. The FDA seemingly disregarded the warnings, dismissed the scientists who brought forward the concerns, and went forward with the accelerated approval process. The day after approval, the Biden Administration announced its first COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Well look at that! A mandate! Otherwise known as totalitarianism. Marks is an evil man, and his departure from the FDA is a wonderful thing. Too bad it wasn't on a rail.

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

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 3-30-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (HT: Dash my lace wigs). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...(includes 3 replacement anvil zippers)

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

Congratulations to Wolfus Aurelius on his impending official retirement from the drudgery of WORK. More time for reading!

Congratulations to Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) for Leveling Up and becoming an official grandmother! Now with 25% more uppitiness!

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Daily Tech News 30 March 2025

Top Story

• Why do LLMs make stuff up? (Ars Technica)
  
  Because that's what they're designed to do.
  
  They're language models, not fact models. Indeed, they don't have fact models.
  
  They're stuffed full of words and the associations between those words, and then told not to use certain of those words, a process called lobotomisation alignment.
  
  And then they go forth and bloviate.
  
  
  

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" March 29, 2025 [The 3 D's]

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Come on in! We have box seats, high top tables, peanuts, and a crowd that knows nothing about being on their best behavior.

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: The Rule of Jenny Pen

If "hag horror" is a thing—and with examples like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and Strait-jacketwho can deny that it is?—might there be a non-distaff version of the genre? That is, if we have genres featuring old women, former starlets, going head to head against each other, is there a genre where once strong young men stagger around as oldsters and 'cause mischief and mayhem?

This isn't a rhetorical question. I really don't know! Bubba Ho-Tep, maybe? Grumpy Old Men is a comedy, not really the same.

Well, if there wasn't one before, we have the beginnings of in The Rule of Jenny Pen. A neat and nasty little horror out of New Zealand that pits John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush against each other mano-a-mano and cato-a-mouse-o and so on.

Cat (left), mouse (right), WTF? (middle).

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Hobby Thread - March 29, 2025 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it shuddered, wobbled and squeaked. Enough of that. The Wheel clearly needs servicing. We will try something else in the interim...

[Photo:National World War II Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana]

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, March 29

Courtesy BIF
(Pet Thread Wins, will share with Book Thread)

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, March 29

From the famous Pat*:

I bought 40 crocus bulbs a few years back. Now I have about 80 flowers - a good return on investment!

I would say so! Lovely! Tells us your secrets.

Tulips, Crocuses, Hyacinths and More today! And we have extras for next week!

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Is Newsom going to break into his podcasting schedule long enough to do something real about High-Speed Rail?

kcra.com, Ashley Zavala:

NEW: California’s High-Speed Rail project needs $7 Billion by next summer, lawmakers learned today.

“We have no plan, we have a good likelihood it's going to get worse, and we have a short time to solve the problem,” said Democratic Asm. Steven Bennett.

From the accompanying news article: "That's not a good place for government to put itself into".

Who is this "Government", Asm. Bennett?

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