When the South African President Denies His Country is Murdering White Farmers, Trump, Incredibly, Plays Him Video of White Famers Being Murdered

This is so racist I can't even right now.

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Report: The CDC and FDA Knew the Clot-Shot Was Causing Myocarditis But Decided to Hide this Vital Information from the Public

They knew.

They chose to kill more people rather than admit they'd made a deadly mistake.

U.S. health officials knew about the risks of myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines but downplayed the concern and delayed informing the public about the risks of taking the jab -- that is according to a new Senate report released by Sen. Ron Johnson Wednesday.

Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has been investigating the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines. Earlier this year, he subpoenaed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records relating to COVID-19 vaccine safety data and communications about the pandemic.

The interim report, spanning 55 pages, obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital, revealed that Biden administration officials "withheld crucial health information from the Subcommittee and the public."

Since 2021, Johnson has sent more than 70 oversight letters, which he says were "either completely ignored or inadequately addressed."

The report highlights the records Johnson has obtained pursuant to the subpoena from the new, Trump administration-led health agency. Specifically, the report focuses on HHS' awareness of and response to cases of myocarditis--a type of heart inflammation--following COVID-19 vaccination.

Johnson's report says the 2,473 pages of records he obtained "contain evidence of the Biden administration's efforts to downplay and delay warning the public about the risks of myocarditis associated with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines."

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"Based on the subpoenaed records the Subcommittee has received to date, as well as public FOIA documents, this interim report will highlight records and present a timeline showing U.S. health officials knew about the risk of myocarditis; those officials downplayed the health concern; and U.S. health agencies delayed informing the public about the risk of the adverse event."

The report also highlights the Israeli Ministry of Health notifying officials at the CDC in February 2021 of "large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people, following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine."

The report also highlights documents showing CDC officials discussing "safety signals" for myocarditis with mRNA vaccines in April 2021 based on Defense Department and Israeli data, but "still not taking immediate steps to warn the public."

Documents obtained by Johnson also show CDC officials communicating with Moderna and Pfizer representatives about the risks.

Johnson also obtained "draft meeting notes from late May 2021 exchanged between U.S. public health officials which included the question: 'Is VAERS signaling for myopericarditis now?,' and the answer: 'For the age groups 16-17 years and 18-24 years, yes.'"

"VAERS" is an acronym for the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

"Rather than provide the public and health care providers with immediate and transparent information regarding the risk of myocarditis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, the Biden administration waited until late June 2021 to announce changes to the labels for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines based on the 'suggested increased risks' of myocarditis and pericarditis," the report states. "Even though CDC and FDA officials were well aware of the risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination, the Biden administration opted to withhold issuing a formal warning to the public for months about the safety concerns, jeopardizing the health of young Americans."

The report added that the Biden administration's decision "to downplay the COVID-19 vaccine health risks and delay warning the public about cardiac-related adverse events associated with the mRNA vaccines jeopardized the public's health."

According to the report, as of April 25, 2025, VAERS reported 38,607 deaths and more than 1.6 million "adverse events worldwide associated with the administration of COVID-19 injections."

Of the more than 38,000 deaths, the report said 25% occurred on Day 0, 1, or 2 following injection, compared to "2,663 deaths reported to VAERS associated with the flu vaccine over a period of 35 years."

"No other reports of adverse events associated with any other drug or vaccine even come close to these statistics," the report states. "And yet, those who oversaw the development and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines continue to insist it is safe and effective, without providing the data to prove their claims."

#TrustTheExperts, Bigots.

Good to see the covid cover-up being exposed.

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Report: DOJ Investigating Andrew Cuomo for Lying to Congress About His Murder of Thousands of Grandparents By Packing Them Into the Nursing Homes During Covid

I guess we can't prosecute him for mass murder, but we can prosecute him for lying about the mass murder.

The Department of Justice has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for allegedly lying to Congress about his role in downplaying COVID-related nursing home deaths.

Key Details:

The New York Times reported Tuesday that the investigation is focused on whether Cuomo misled Congress during a June 11th, 2024, interview in which he denied reviewing or editing a July 2020 nursing home death report.

Evidence reviewed by House Republicans reportedly includes internal emails and handwritten edits suggesting Cuomo did, in fact, participate in shaping the report, which undercounted deaths by as much as 46%.

Cuomo's team has dismissed the investigation as "lawfare and election interference," while advocacy group Voices for Seniors called the probe "justified" and "overdue."

Diving Deeper:

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for allegedly making false statements to Congress regarding the state's handling of nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the New York Times. The inquiry, led by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., reportedly began about a month ago and is now being overseen by Jeanine Pirro, who has long been publicly critical of Cuomo's pandemic policies.

At issue is Cuomo's June 11th, 2024, testimony before the House COVID subcommittee, in which he denied playing any role in drafting, reviewing, or editing the state's July 2020 nursing home report. That report significantly downplayed the number of COVID-related deaths in long-term care facilities, citing 6,432 fatalities instead of the more than 9,000 who actually died when hospital deaths were included.

House Oversight Committee Chairman, Kentucky Rep. James Comer referred Cuomo to the DOJ for prosecution, claiming there is "overwhelming evidence" the former governor misled lawmakers. Documents obtained by the subcommittee reportedly include internal emails among Cuomo aides and copies of the report with Cuomo's handwritten edits--including one margin note questioning the reported death toll and another replacing the word "death" with softer language.

Cuomo, now a leading candidate in New York City's mayoral race, has denounced the investigation. His spokesman Rich Azzopardi told the New York Post they were unaware of any probe and called the report "lawfare and election interference plain and simple.

Happy Humpday!

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Wednesday Morning Rant

"Coded"

Remember "dog whistles?" A "dog whistle" is, according (usually) to leftists, a form of spoken code uttered by somebody to help subtly inform those in the club - always a bad club, of course - that he's one of them. It's used to signal group membership and alignment. This one used to be bandied around a lot. Talk about "inner-city crime?" Why, that's a "racist dog-whistle." They used to accuse Trump of it a lot before everyone kept making fun of them for being stupid. But no stupid thing can ever be allowed to die, so it has instead changed form. "Dog whistles" are out, but "coding" is in.

Meet "coding:" the new(ish) idiot in town. Now, things are "coded" to mean something - exclusively in the eyes of the observer - that usually isn't really there. Examples abound. Ace uses it humorously but idiots use it seriously. Cartoon characters of yesteryear are "gay-coded" because contemporary gay writers need to contrive a justification for putting sex politics in children's programming. Competent, mechanically-inclined women are "trans-coded" because fake chicks need there to be real women who they perceive as like themselves.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]

Dancing Colors
JoAnn Bird

In Dancing Colors, JoAnn Bird communicates through color, texture, and technique the energy and sound of the modern powwow. It's no accident the title is what it is. Color explodes off the canvas. Blues and blacks make up a base upon which Bird applied reds and oranges, which flash and pop against the dark background. They remind me of a bonfire.

Without the white, these colors would become a vibrating blob. White defines form. Notice how it’s used: as belts, feathered headdresses, leggings and sleeves. Unlike the cacophony of the others, white appears to be applied methodically. The strokes have a visual rhythm and remind me of the beat of the drums to which these figures are dancing.

The top of the painting is a white field splashed with red, orange, green, blue, and black — the same colors as below. I think this is a nice contrast against the lower section. There is so much commotion in the lower two-thirds that the calm top counters it. However, Bird understood that if the area were solid white, it would look odd. The lower half is so active and vibrant that it would overpower the top, so she adds quick, Pollock-like splatters of color to liven it up. Just as the white breaks up the colors in the bottom, the colors here break up the white. I think it’s visually interesting.

How Bird applied her paint is important, too. She didn’t paint this with a brush. She used a palette knife. Large gobs of paint were scooped up and slapped and smeared onto the canvas. As a result, the paint is thick and textured. If you could touch it (don’t do this, however), you’d be able to feel the ridges and edges of the strokes. Then, as mentioned above, she splattered more paint across the top. These techniques are, themselves, very active and dramatic and enhance the motion of the dancers.

When I look at Dancing Colors, I see a love and pride for tradition and culture. JoAnn Bird, a Dakota Sioux, could have painted a naturalistic scene with beautiful, colorful costumes, swaying tassels, and twinkling bells. She could have shown us the gestures and movements of the dancers. But that wasn’t her goal. This painting is expressively abstract. Bird wanted me to feel and hear this piece, not just see it. Bird’s tassels of color blaze with energy and movement. Her technique creates the beat. Dancing Colors is not about a powwow. It’s about the experience of the powwow.

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The Morning Report — 5/ 21 /25

Good morning kids. Honestly, is it really all that surprising that the Democrats and their accomplices in the media/propaganda complex covered up Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' stage 4 cancer, on top of his obvious dementia/Alzheimer's disease cognitive impairment on top of his decades-long career as a venal influence peddler selling his office and the national security of this nation to the highest bidder, including our greatest foreign adversaries and enemies. Of course not, because his criminality is their own.

On a number of levels, the adage of "the coverup is worse than the crime" is in full effect. I'll try and peel back the layers of the onion, so to speak, of my thought process on this. First, why did they decide to run him in 2020 in the first place, especially after the Hillary debacle of 2016? Her candidacy then was only because she was forced out to make way for Obama in '08, and Biden's role as VP was to put lipstick on the Stalinist/Muslim/Pig that was and still is Obama to try and reassure the low-info and middle-American crowd that Joe Biden, an old white guy, was a baseball hotdogs apple pie and Chevrolet influence that would prevail in an Obama Oval Office.

Yet with Obama gone, and Hillary by that time seemingly political kryptonite, surely the Democrats had some candidate that both checked off all the correct ethno/sexual political boxes and could fake normalcy in front of the cameras and while pressing the flesh at middle American state fairs when he or she had to?

So why Biden? Did they really think American wanted a return to the Obama years and that Biden represented that? Or even with the election-rigging machinery in place courtesy of the COVID lockdowns and Democrat amorality firmly ensconced in the key swing states and districts on top of it, did they still fear a Trump re-election and did not want to waste a future potential Democrat standard bearer and made Biden a sacrificial lamb? Of course, his "victory" so-called in 2020 still left all of Obama's henchmen and acolytes firmly in control.

Even still, between Burisma, the stolen.mishandled document revelations, the Afghanistan bug-out debacle, click here for news on that, his obvious stumbling and getting lost in the Rose Garden and at World Summits and all the other personal and political disasters that we all saw with our own eyes, To get rid of him in 2024 would have been tacit admission that his 2020 candidacy and Presidency in the first place was an absolute farce, and worse, one of the most monstrous crimes and frauds ever perpetrated against the American people.

He could not be replaced by Harris or whoever, and demented as he was, as everyone saw with that disaster of a debate performance, he knew he had his party by the short hairs. And so Trump destroyed him last November and the rest is history.

And to be an optimist, All the Democrats have are the very people and policies that are the absolute antithesis of President Trump and the MAGA agenda that so far, especially vis a vis illegal immigration/invasion are proving wildly popular not only with sane Americans and the MAGA base/faithful but even eroding some of the traditional support from key Democrat constituencies. Despite the propaganda, even President Trump's trade and economic policies are starting to bear fruit, in people's wallets and in their perceptions as polls also indicate.

That leaves the Democrats with two of their key options, political violence/terrorism and sabotage.

. . . the resistance has come from the federal judiciary, some 844 active members of the Article III branch of the American government. Except for the chief justice of the Supreme Court, all such judgeships have been created by and remain subject to the jurisdiction of Congress, while the judges themselves are appointed by the Executive. They're not referred to "inferior" courts (relative to the Supreme Court) for nothing, and the notion that the judiciary is "independent" is a rank fiction. . .

. . .the unconstitutional power grab of Marbury v. Madison (1803), which created out of whole cloth the judiciary's "right" to meddle in absolutely everything the president or Congress does. The current crop of Resistance judges has taken that parlous doctrine to its logical conclusion. But the Law is only as valid as the men who write it and enforce it and defend it. The laws of the Weimar Republic were instantly invalidated by the National Socialists' Nuremberg Laws, and all the lawyers in the Reich couldn't save a single Jew, gypsy, homosexual, Catholic prelate, or Communist once the new Law came down on them. .
. . . Thus far, the Trump team has played it smart, avoiding provocation, fighting lawfare with lawfare and not overtly refusing a court order while at the same time punting it for all the right reasons of state. The president has every bit as much right to "interpret" the Constitution as John Roberts does, or the lowliest federal judge in Honolulu, and every bit as much right to ignore them, as both Jefferson and Jackson and even Biden did. But when the time comes, as it will, Trump will simply have to quote Andrew Jackson, who is supposed to have said to Chief Justice Marshall (the author of Marbury): "John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it."

And then of course the question remains, How many divisions do Roberts, and the so-called "resistance" have and more to the point how many do We The People have?!

We are heading in the same direction as South Africa . .

And instead as some have postulated, Trump being added to Mount Rushmore, giant Jasmine Crockett Eyelashes will be welded onto Lady Liberty, while her dress is removed and a tranny phallus welded on, with a patina'd Rules for Radicals in her outstretched hands.

I have a nightmare today...

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• Michael Walsh: . . .You know the rest of the quote, which derives from the fourth act of Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2. Discussing ways in which to improve England, Dick the Butcher advises his fellow rebels that the quickest path to their objective is "first, let's kill all the lawyers."
  THE COLUMN: 'The First Thing We Do'

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Daily Tech News 21 May 2025

Top Story

• AMD has officially announced the eagerly-awaited 9060 XT graphics card, arriving June 5 and starting at $299. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Though that's for the 8GB model which you don't want to buy. The 16GB model costs $349, which is well worth it given that it's reportedly faster than the competing 5060 Ti from Nvidia and the 16GB model of that card costs $429.
  
  And it also leaves the newly announced 5060 (non-Ti) dead in the water. It also costs $299 for 8GB of RAM, but it's slower than the 5060 Ti.
  
  One shortcoming is that the 9060 XT only offers three display outputs. That's a bit odd because almost everything offers four outputs, and professional cards can offer six.
  
  
  
• AMD also announced the Radeon AI Pro R9700, which is the Radeon 9070 XT with double the RAM. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And probably more than double the price.

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - May 20, 2025 [scampydog]

Butler Maps - Courtesy of Pete Bog

Good evening, and welcome to the Tuesday ONT. We have some guest blogging contributions from our AoSHQ friend and commenter, Pete Bog. Did you pack your compass?

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Dog's Eye View Cafe

Proof the moon landing was faked -- note that
the shadow of the cat does not align with the sun's position

If you've got some sticks to move, you better believe your dog needs to be a part of that action.

Otter just chillin' in a mountain lake. Looks like a sea otter so I don't even know what's going on.

"Land spout" tornado I thought all tornadoes over land would be "land spouts" but it's a special type.

Hangry hangry hippo.

Big ol' gator.

Cute seal wants snuggles.

Adopted dog finds out that his family has also now adopted his sister.

Cant does great impersonation of Oscar the Grouch.

MimiSounds plays Comfortably Numb while ice-skating. In a boob shirt, of course.

Anteater family out for a stacked stroll.

Hawk doesn't know what to do with a wooden mallard.

Out of control.

Dog defends kitten.

Kitten establishes the power hierarchy quickly.

Cat takes down dog.

Border collie shows who's boss.

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Quick Hits

Nancy Mace has got to be the most pathologically attention-seeking women to have ever lived.

James Comey says that his message to "86" Trump was completely innocent and he is being investigated for, as he puts it, "walking on the beach with my wife."

86 James Comey. I also have never, ever heard that to 86 someone is to take them out violently, so my statement is also innocent.

"Dank Brandon" has a message about his recent diagnosis.

DOJ to investigate woke DEI Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson for admitting he makes the city hire people based on their race.

The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has launched an investigation into the employment practices of the city of Chicago after Mayor Brandon Johnson made comments on Sunday suggesting that he has "made hiring decisions solely on the basis of race."

Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon wrote in a letter to Johnson that the probe was opened to investigate potential violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

"Our investigation is based on information suggesting that you have made hiring decisions solely on the basis of race. In your remarks made yesterday at the Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn, you 'highlight[ed] the number of Black officials in [your] administration,'" the letter stated, noting that Johnson highlighted multiple high-ranking positions that were held by black men and women.

"You then said that you were 'laying' these positions 'out' to 'ensure that our people get a chance to grow their business,'" Dhillon continued. "Considering these remarks, I have authorized an investigation to determine whether the City of Chicago is engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination as set forth above. If these kind of hiring decisions are being made for top-level positions in your administration, then it begs the question whether such decisions are also being made for lower-level positions."

Because I have age-related cognitive decline, I forgot to link this earlier:

Tapper's critics have frequently highlighted his Lara Trump interview, but a review of the record clearly shows the CNN host repeatedly promoted Democratic talking points on the air, and aggressively bullied those who questioned the official narrative. One month prior to his confrontation with Lara Trump, Tapper interviewed H.R. McMastter, the national security adviser Trump fired, and implied that Republicans questioning Biden's mental acuity were promoting Russian disinformation. "What do you make of the fact that so many of the criticisms that you're talking about, the Russians are trying to do to make us and the public not trust in our election integrity, the election is rigged, Joe Biden has dementia, and all this stuff, is stuff that we're hearing repeated by leaders, by American political leaders?" the CNN host asked, channeling the Democratic Party's bizarre conspiracies about Vladimir Putin as an all-powerful puppet master.

Hakeem Jeffries insists that all discussion of the Biden Dementia Cover-Up must stop now, and also declares that anyone saying that Biden's had cancer for years -- like most oncologists -- is a "conspiracy theorist."

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

Hakeem Jeffries wants talk of the Biden cognitive coverup shut down.

Says it's "entirely inappropriate" for Republicans to discuss such "conspiracy theories" after the cancer diagnosis.

"Republicans want to look backward...Democrats are going to look forward."

There it is.

Video here.

Hakeem Jeffries also says that fat black Democrat women should be allowed to hit cops with impunity.

"The proceeding initiated by the so-called U.S. Attorney in New Jersey is a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to intimidate Congress and interfere with our ability to serve as a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democratic leaders said in a statement Monday night. "House Democrats will not be intimidated by the Trump administration. Not today. Not ever."

This BLAWFL is on videotape repeatedly striking cops.

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Hollywood's Favorite Gay-Coded Pudgy Hispanic Plank of Wood Rails Against the Conservative Half of the Country as Disney Sends Him Out to Promote the Upcoming Marvel Bomb "Fantastic Four"

Ambiguously-sexed Hispanic man
delights the ladies like Liberace used to do.
His Dead Eyes smolder with zero intensity

Word is, Disney had much more faith in the Thunderbolts movie, and saw greater fan interest in it, than in the Fantastic Four movie.

And the Thunderbolts movie just sputtered to a sub-$300 million haul. Yes, it will cross the $300 million (global) threshold over the next couple of weeks, but it won't come anywhere close to $400 million. Or close to $350 million.

Even The Eternals made $400 million... during the pandemic.

And Disney expects Fantastic Four to perform even more poorly.

And Pedro Pascal will be part of the reason for widespread fan disinterest.

Pascal has recently attacked "toxic masculinity" with fellow gay-coded actor Oscar Isaac.

The internet is buzzing once again over Pedro Pascal, but this time, it's not because he's promoting some radical ideology or starring in just about every project Hollywood announces. No, this time it's all about an Instagram story featuring Pascal and his longtime friend Oscar Isaac full-on snuggling--something that has the legacy media predictably tripping over itself to declare yet another victory against so-called "toxic masculinity."

He also attacked an actual woman, JK Rowling, as a "heinous loser" for not wanting to shower with rando mentally-ill dudes in wigs.

Pedro Pascal, best known for his role in The Mandalorian and The Last of Us has inserted himself into the ongoing debate over gender terminology and women's spaces by publicly disparaging bestselling Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. The actor left a comment on activist Tariq Ra'ouf's Instagram post calling Rowling a "heinous loser," following her support for a recent UK Supreme Court ruling that clarified legal definitions around biological sex.

And now: This shapeless void of anti-charisma attacks half the country has fascists.

And he's starring in a movie that seems to support Covid fascism!

Pedro Pascal Went Off in Profane Political Meltdown at Cannes and Got Applause, Gina Carano Got Fired for a Meme

Its becoming impossible to ignore the way Hollywood treats Pedro Pascal compared to the way it treated Gina Carano.

Pedro Pascal stood in front of the international press at Cannes, dropped an F-bomb on political opponents in the United States, promoted a film that vilifies conservatives, and walked away with applause and headlines. Meanwhile, Gina Carano -- who said far less, without profanity or attacks -- remains blacklisted from Hollywood, forced to take her fight to court.

That's the double standard on full display.

While promoting A24's Eddington, Pascal was asked whether he was concerned about returning to the U.S. given the film's political message. His response was blunt.

"F*** the people who try to make you scared," he said. "Fear is the way that they win... keep expressing yourself and don't let them win."

The film itself is set in New Mexico during the 2020 lockdowns and features a clash between Pascal's left-leaning mayor and Joaquin Phoenix's sheriff. The story has been described by critics as a direct attack on conservative populism, set in a town tearing itself apart. Variety praised its aggressive tone and message, with Pascal calling the script a form of "whistleblowing" and saying it felt like someone was finally speaking out "from the inside."

There has been no public reprimand from Disney for these comments. No distancing from Marvel. No statement from Lucasfilm. And there won't be.

Pascal remains the star of The Mandalorian & Grogu and is still playing a prominent role in Avengers: Secret Wars.

In 2021, Carano shared a social media post warning that demonizing political opponents could lead to dark consequences. It didn't include any foul language. It didn't target anyone. It simply referenced historical patterns from the 1940s in Germany, when neighbor turned against neighbor. It was a call for awareness. For that, Lucasfilm terminated her contract, issued a public statement condemning her, and effectively erased her from the Star Wars universe.

She has not worked with a major studio since.

The very normal actor further wooed the straight young men that make up what remains of the superhero movie audience by dancing suggestively with a rainbow-colored phallic glowstick, because that's what normal men do.

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Supreme Court Orders Maine to Restore Speaking and Voting Rights to State Congresswoman, Who Was Illegally Barred from the Statehouse for Stating That a Transgender "Athlete" Is In Fact Transgender

The Democrats demanded that this elected representative, who was elected by voters to represent their point-of-view and priorities in state government, apologize for speaking the truth before they'd consider permitting her to represent her voters again.

Seven Supreme Court Justices ordered an end to this illegal deprivation of representation. Sotomayor and Jackson, of course, dissented.

The Supreme Court restored Representative Laurel Libby's voice in the Maine Statehouse on Tuesday, letting the Republican lawmaker avoid apologizing to a transgender athlete she attacked in a social media post.

Without explanation, the high court granted Libby's emergency appeal in an apparent 7-2 ruling. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

Jackson suggested that her colleagues had acted prematurely, intervening in a case without critical and exigent circumstances.

"Denying emergency relief in a case that does not satisfy the usual certiorari factors also avoids creating perverse incentives to seek our intervention prematurely," Jackson, a Joe Biden appointee, wrote in her solo dissent. "Why would any applicant who thinks the lower courts are mistaken wait for those courts' final word on any issue if real-time error correction via our emergency docket is readily available?"

Libby was censured for a Facebook post complaining that the winner of a high school track meet was transgender, unable to participate in debate or vote under a centuries-old rule of the Maine House. The Legislature said she had to apologize to the transgender athlete to regain her privileges.

Libby turned to the courts instead, asking the justices to intervene so her constituents could have their voice heard in the Legislature.

"The Constitution does not tolerate respondents' unprecedented punishment for Libby's speech on a debated issue of exceptional importance," Libby wrote.

Maine says Libby agreed to the House rules for how the body would govern. According to the statehouse, any member found to be in breach of its rules may not participate in floor debates or votes until they have remedied their breach.

Libby's colleagues said she must apologize for her conduct.

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CNN Reveals More Details About Biden's Obvious-On-Its-Face Senility and Jake Tapper Continues to Insist That Only After the Election Was He Able to Confirm That Biden Was Mentally Diminished

Don't think of this as promotion for the dickbag's phony book. Think of it as releasing all the relevant material so that no one has to buy it.

CNN continues spinning for Biden even in this article purporting to reveal the details of his mental unfitness.

In the final two years of his presidency, Joe Biden had private moments where he could not recall the names of top aides, had an increasingly limited private schedule, was prone to incoherence and losing his train of thought, and was hidden from the public eye to shield the extent of his decline, according to a new book from CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson.

We saw that Biden was given reporters' questions before they were "asked." We saw on those note-cards that Biden was given the exact question and also given his scripted answer.

Did Tapper and Thompson not notice that then? They seem to continue not noticing that, because noticing that would force them to name "reporters" eager to join a fraud on the American people.

The book details episode after episode where Democratic lawmakers, White House aides, members of Biden's Cabinet and Democratic donors were shocked at Biden's diminishing mental and physical capabilities while the president embarked on an ill-fated 2024 reelection bid. But nearly all did not speak out publicly or try to stop him from running.

"What the world saw at his one and only 2024 debate was not an anomaly. It was not a cold; it was not someone who was underprepared or overprepared. It was not someone who was just a little tired," Tapper and Thompson write. "It was the natural result of an eighty-one-year-old man whose capabilities had been diminishing for years. Biden, his family, and his team let their self-interest and fear of another Trump term justify an attempt to put an at times addled old man in the Oval Office for four more years."

...

Tapper and Thompson report that concerns about Biden's health from those working for him dated all the way back to 2020, but his mental and physical diminishment accelerated in 2023 and 2024 before his disastrous June debate with Donald Trump.

As I keep saying, they're lying about it only getting noticeably bad in 2023 to 2024 to limit their own exposure.

Although I should say that CNN is lying about what the book says -- the book doesn't say it goes back to 2020, it says it goes back to 2019, and Tapper says in his Megyn Kelly interview (linked below) that it goes back to 2015.

At one point in December 2022, Biden could not remember the names of his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and communications director, Kate Bedingfield, the authors write. In fall 2023, he did not appear to recognize Jamie Harrison, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee (Harrison disputes this). And in early 2024, Tapper and Thompson report that Biden did not recognize movie star George Clooney, whom Biden has known for years.

Some members of Biden's Cabinet told Tapper and Thompson they did not believe Biden could be relied upon to perform at 2 a.m. if there was a national emergency.

"Things that would have been considered a disaster in 2023 -- by 2024, we would have said, 'Okay, we got through that,'" a top aide told the authors.

Tapper and Thompson write that Biden was protected by an insular group, including his wife, his son and a group of longtime aides nicknamed the "Politburo," a reference to the leadership committee of a communist party.

Biden's top aides -- Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed -- valued loyalty to the president. Those not in the inner circle, including campaign staff, pollsters and members of Biden's Cabinet, believed the aides were protecting Biden from negative information as the president decided to run for reelection with no discussion or input from others in the White House or campaign, according to the book.

"It was a theology that bordered on zealotry: In January 2025, Donilon continued to hold the viewpoint that while Biden might forget and mix up names, when the president decided what the proposal should be for a peace deal between Hamas and Israel, he was pretty damn smart," Tapper and Thompson write.

Biden was long known as one of the stupidest braying jackasses in the Senate, a body known to be filled with self-important mediocrities and zeroes.

...

Tapper and Thompson found that concerns about Biden's health issues dated back to his 2020 campaign. Biden shot campaign videos talking to voters on Zoom ahead of the convention but the hours of footage were largely unusable and stunned some on Biden's team.

"It was like a different person. It was incredible. This was like watching Grandpa who shouldn't be driving," said one Democrat, according to the book. "I didn't think he could be president."

...

Multiple lawmakers told the authors the Biden they saw reminded them of ailing parents and grandparents.

Publicly, questions swirled in 2024 about Biden's health, fueled by the scathing report from Hur, who opted not to charge Biden for mishandling classified information in part because of how a jury would view his age.

Privately, Tapper and Thompson report Democrats were shocked at their interactions with Biden last year, both in closed-door meetings and donor gatherings. Democratic senators told the authors they saw a noticeable change in Biden during private meetings in early 2024, which they found alarming but gave their former colleague the benefit of the doubt.

One senior administration official angrily confronted a White House colleague after a meeting with Biden's task force on reproductive health-care access. "What the f**k are you guys doing?" the official said. "I don't get how this guy can do any campaigning to run for reelection."

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After Biden's rousing March 2024 State of the Union speech -- a performance many Democrats pointed to in justification he could run for reelection -- some White House aides who didn't normally get access to him were disturbed at his deteriorating condition when he addressed a room of high schoolers later that night and gave a rambling speech. One aide, the authors write, couldn't help asking "what on earth they had just seen."

"This isn't going to work," the aide thought, according to the book. "He can't do it. This is crazy. Crazy. Crazy."

After Biden's disastrous June debate with Trump, Tapper and Thompson report that Biden's closest aides tried to move past the debacle as though nothing happened.

"If anything, the debate made Biden aides more watchful for signs of disloyalty," the authors write. "They saw the debate as just the latest instance of counting Biden out."

Behind the scenes, Democrats urged Biden's inner circle to get the president out there in unscripted events. But the authors write that Biden "couldn't do what folks were calling on him to do to prove his acuity."

One campaign adviser recounted a post-debate discussion with Biden aboard Air Force One. "What are we doing here? the adviser thought as the president spoke. This guy can't form a f**king sentence," according to the book. "If I had a conversation like this with someone who wasn't the president, I would be worried about his health. And here he is, the sitting president of the United States."

Via John Sexton, who also complies the comments from the CNN article. The top comments? "Why are you talking about Biden's mental unfitness, which is old news, when there is so much New News to cover, like Orange Man Still Bad."

Below, Megyn Kelly confronts Jake Tapper with his own frantic efforts to spin for Biden, including playing back clips of his infamous Laura Bush attack dogging. He claims he "already apologized" to Lara Trump -- privately, of course, because Tapper doesn't want to admit his egregious bias publicly.

And I imagine he was told to fake-apologize to Lara Trump privately by his crisis communications advisor, who told him to do this so he could offer the Big Reveal that he "already" apologized to her. Probably a few weeks ago when he was stunned to learn that people thought he showed his usual Democrat bias in covering for Biden.

He continues insisting that only knowing what he "knows now" does his past partisan service for the Democrats give him "humility." Megyn Kelly points out that much of what Tapper is "reporting" now was reported by the right years ago, but Tapper ignores that and insists that only Now I Can All Be Told.

Maddening.

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"A Restoration of... Trust:" FDA Will Stop Recommending the Clot-Shot to Anyone Under 65

So they've joined the Russian Conspiracy Theory too.

Did you know that the FDA approval process for the COVID vaccines does not require that the shots be safe and effective?

It doesn't, and never has. All that has been required is that the vaccines be proven to increase antibodies, which is a very low and atypical standard.

Vaccine approval for people over 65--those who face the greatest risk from COVID and who are most likely to have a favorable risk/reward profile--will remain the same as before, but for anybody under 65, the approval standard will be the more common and more stringent standard of proven clinical benefit.

From the Free Press:

In a paper published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, Martin Makary, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and Vinay Prasad, the newly appointed head of the FDA's vaccine division, have unveiled a new policy in which the government will no longer recommend Covid booster shots for healthy Americans ages 64 and younger.

In addition, as of today, Covid vaccine manufacturers like Moderna and Pfizer will have to conduct trials to prove that their updated vaccines offer clinical benefits such as fewer symptoms, hospitalizations, or deaths. Previously, pharmaceutical companies only had to show that their updated booster shots produced antibodies. That less rigorous standard will still apply for people 65 and older and the immunocompromised.

It is well established that people 65 and older account for the vast majority of Covid deaths, while most children, in particular, show few effects from the virus.

In an exclusive interview with The Free Press, Prasad said that the previous one-size-fits-all approach--in which the federal government recommended Covid vaccine boosters for everyone, including healthy 6-month-olds--"fatigued" the country.

"The American people were skeptical, and some of them took that skepticism to every single vaccine, which has led to some big problems," said Prasad, referring to the fact that a growing number of Americans have stopped having their children vaccinated for measles, mumps, and rubella, leading to measles outbreaks in pockets of the country. "This is a restoration of that trust. It's bringing us back to evidence."

The move is one part of what is expected to be further changes in federal Covid vaccine policy. According to The Wall Street Journal, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to scrap guidelines recommending routine Covid vaccinations for pregnant women, teenagers, and children. Late last month, in an interview with Phil McGraw (popularly known as Dr. Phil), Kennedy advised parents to "do your own research" before vaccinating their newborns. That skepticism is increasingly shared by the public: Less than a quarter of Americans received boosters in recent years, according to Makary and Prasad's paper. Even healthcare workers have been slow to roll up their sleeves--fewer than one third reported getting a booster in 2023.

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DOJ Charges One of the Democrats Who Attacked Guards at the Newark ICE Facility

But but but Democratic Immunity!

It's just been revoked.

Dem Rep. LaMonica McIver charged with assaulting officers during ICE protest

Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver has been charged with assaulting and obstructing law enforcement during a protest at a Newark ICE facility. U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced the charge Monday and said McIver declined repeated chances to resolve the issue.

Key Details:

Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba said McIver "assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement" in violation of Title 18, U.S. Code § 111(a)(1) during the May 9th standoff at Delaney Hall.

Habba emphasized she gave McIver "every opportunity to come to a resolution" before filing charges, stating: "No one is above the law -- politicians or otherwise."

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, arrested the same day for alleged trespassing, will not be prosecuted. Habba said the dismissal was made "for the sake of moving forward."

Diving Deeper:

Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey is now facing federal criminal charges for her conduct during a tense confrontation outside the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark earlier this month. Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced the charge Monday, saying McIver violated Title 18, Section 111(a)(1) of the U.S. Code by "assaulting, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement."

That May 9th incident saw several Democrat officials gather outside the ICE-contracted facility, where tensions boiled over and ended in the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for alleged trespassing.

Habba, who previously served as President Donald Trump's personal attorney, stressed that she had worked to avoid bringing charges but was left with no choice. "I have persistently made efforts to address these issues without bringing criminal charges and have given Representative McIver every opportunity to come to a resolution, but she has unfortunately declined," she said in a statement.

"No one is above the law--politicians or otherwise," Habba continued. "It is the job of this office to uphold justice impartially, regardless of who you are. Now we will let the justice system work."

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The Morning Rant: Negotiating like The “Donald” Lesson 1 [Pete Bog]

This is not news, but Trump tends to polarize viewpoints. For years I thought of him as a guy whose personality got in the way of some very sensible policies. To some degree I still do, however he has successfully humanized and reintroduced himself to a lot of people over the last couple of years. Getting shot can do that.

The first step to learning to negotiate like The Donald is to remember who he is, a Real Estate Developer. He has made a fortune in one of the most competitive markets in the world by recognizing opportunities, understanding the path forward and negotiating that path. Does he have an enormous ego and get prickly when people mock him? Yes, so does Obama, and so does almost every member of the Press.

As a rule, Real Estate people hate the Press. Most Developers try to avoid the Media. They need a villain for every story and only by making their story heard will they prosper. Developers are always the villain. The truth is not relevant to the journalist’s goal of getting heard. If they had real talent and brains they would probably have been something other than Journalism majors. Maybe even Real Estate Developers. To his credit The Donald has developed a more subtle relationship with the Press. They are a tool, and he treats them as such. They know they are being used and as a result despise him and themselves even more.

One of the key lessons to negotiating like the Donald is to keep your opponent guessing. If you pay attention you will see that he runs the exact same playbook every time he sets out to accomplish something. He makes a brash claim or laughable statement. Say for example, “The US should own Greenland, it is our destiny!” Of course, the Danish hoi polloi, and the useful predictable press wail and scream. But with whom is Trump negotiating? How about in his first Campaign when he named Marco Rubio “Little Marco” or Ted Cruz “Lying Ted”? Why would he be so unnecessarily rude? How about when he muttered under his breath in the debate with Hillary “what a nasty woman”? Because he was not negotiating with the Danish government, his Primary opponents or Hillary. He was negotiating with the people of Greenland, and the in the other examples with the voters. He was demonstrating his product, that is the US to the inhabitants of Greenland, and himself to the voters, while distinguishing that product from the competition. In these examples the competition is an inattentive Danish government, and his political opponents.

Apply this same lens to the Tariff Hoopla. Same playbook. Same application.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Herring Net
Winslow Homer

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The Morning Report — 5/ 20 /25

Good morning kids. There are a number of links today that sort of remind me of the lyrics to the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime." You may find yourself....

Starting off with:

The Department of Justice is reportedly set to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed on January 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol, for $5 million. Babbitt’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government last year, seeking $30 million. The Justice Department previously opposed the suit and planned to argue against it in a trial scheduled for July 2026.

While this certainly is a good thing. And obviously no one can speak for the late Ms. Babbitt and I am neither a relative nor a personal friend. As an American, for me real justice can not be done until Michael Byrd is sitting on death row in a federal prison, sweating out the last minutes before his sentence is carried out. And as a Capitol Police officer, the agency of which he was a part was under the direct control of the Speaker of the House, who on January 6th of 2021 was Malig-Nancy Pelosi. Surely it was neither Byrd's first day on the job, nor could he have been where he was the moment he fired his weapon at Babbitt without a considerable amount of training before being given a badge and a weapon. What orders was he given that day or in the hours or even days leading up to his shift, and who gave them? Surely an unarmed woman, ditto anyone near her at the time posed no threat whatsoever that warranted the use of deadly force.

Moving right along, we have this tantalizing bit of news:

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) was charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers during a riot at Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba revealed that McIver was being charged. Noem noted that “no one is above the law.” The announcements of the charges against McIver come after Reps. McIver, Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) showed up at Delaney Hall to “conduct federal oversight” of the facility and allegedly stormed and trespassed. Baraka ended up being arrested for alleged criminal trespass.

Tantalizing but perhaps it's kind of just a sugar rush as I fully expect the corrupt judiciary in New Jersey and if it ever gets that far, the federal courts all the way up to SCOTUS to let them off scot free. I mean, there's insurrection and then there's "insurrection!" You can guess which one's which depending upon who's in the dock, and who sits in judgement.

As the estimable Margot Cleveland notes, in reaction to the rather surprising decision by the Supreme court that Trump's deportation order of 350,000 illegal alien Venezuelans was indeed kosher:

From a legal perspective, the two liberal justices have it entirely backwards: The legal question for the justices was not how do courts accomplish their goal of stopping Trump without nationwide injunctions, but rather, do courts have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions?

The Supreme Court spent little time probing that question, which includes two fundamental issues. The first issue is whether nationwide injunctions are within a court’s “traditional equitable authority,” such that Congress, in granting the lower courts equitable jurisdiction under the Judiciary Act, gave judges the power to issue nationwide injunctions. . .

. . . The litigants challenging the president’s American First agenda have filed their 100-plus lawsuits in the same handful of courts, which are presided over by liberal judges. And those judges, just like Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, view the Trump Administration’s policies and actions as “dead wrong.” Those lower courts likewise see the question before them as how can they stop Trump.

By reverse-engineering the cases, the lower courts are ignoring what should be the initial questions of standing, jurisdiction, and in some cases even the merits, the latter of which the judges presume the Trump Administration is wrong on.  But why shouldn’t they? After all, several Supreme Court justices take the same tact. And if a majority of the high court issues a decision in the birthright cases that acquiesces in the use of nationwide injunctions, there will be no end to the use of nationwide injunctions because a judge will always find an excuse to justify the remedy — just as the same justices bemoaning the “abuses of nationwide” injunctions did.

Elsewhere, are we still having to endure the concept of "reparations" for black people?! Of course we are. And yet Wes Moore, the nation's lone black governor from Maryland is stating "wait a cotton-pickin' minute. No, not because he has a fiber of sanity and/or decency, but because he has aspirations to be the Democrat nominee in 2028 and knows or senses this to be something that will turn off the otherwise easy to dupe and beat about the head with the race card white folks.

I would support reparations under two specific conditions. First any recipient would have to have been an actual slave at the time of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Proof cannot include a death certificate or Democrat voter registration card (But I Repeat Myself) from any election after 1900. And payments must come from the State Democrat National Committee where said enslavement took place with matching funds from the National DNC.

Over in the Middle East, it looks as if at long last Israel is about to make the rubble bounce in Gaza.

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.

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• That’s where all of this leads: self-nullification. Death. Murder.
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  What Milton Friedman Can Teach Abundance Advocates

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Daily Tech News 20 May 2025

Top Story

• Intel has announced two and a half new graphics cards aimed at workstations: The Arc Pro B50 and B60. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The B50, priced at $299, has 16GB of RAM and a cut-down version of the B580 GPU. It has 16 GPU cores rather than 20, and the 16GB of RAM is on a 12GHz 128-bit bus instead of having 12GB of RAM on a 19GHz 192-bit bus.
  
  So yes, it will run slower (unless you need more than 12GB of RAM, in which case the B580 will flounder), but on the other hand it uses only 70W of power, which is tiny. The B580 specified 190W.
  
  At just 70W it can run on power just from the PCIe slot, and it's available in a half-height version to fit in awkward cases like the Hyte Y family (which can only fit a single full-height card).
  
  The other card, the Arc Pro B60, is a B580 with 24GB of RAM. At full power (200W) it should perform within 10% of the B580. In low power mode (120W) it will slow down by about 15%. Priced around $500.
  
  
  
• Wait, you said two and a half.
  
  I did.
  
  The Intel Arc Pro Dual 48GB Turbo is the half. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Made by Maxsun, it's two B60s sharing a single card. Very literally: The B60 uses a PCIe 5.0 x8 connection, so each of the chips on this card takes up one half of a PCIe x16 slot.
  
  If you're playing games you'll get the same performance as a B580 or B60. But if you're running AI, you can use all 48GB of RAM for a single task thanks to new software from Intel.
  
  And if you have a server you can combine four of these to assign 192GB of VRAM to a single task.

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Monday Overnight Open Thread - May 19, 2025 [Doof]

Treasure Island, Florida

Howdy Hordelings! The Monday ONT is here for your nighttime enjoyment. Step on in and see what's in store for you. Regulars - you know what to do. Lurkers - please don't let the regulars scare you into silence. The ONT encourages delurking!

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