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I don't know why, but YouTube started serving me up a lot of animal videos I either linked in the past or at least intended to link.

So expect some re-runs here. Though, if you missed them the first time, they're New to You (TM).

Bunny enforces screentime limit.

Dog is so grateful to be adopted.

Dog adopts an orphaned deer.

Beautiful baby yak.

Beaver goes crazy for banana.

The Russian army isn't bringing their best.

Squirrel thinks he's JCVD or something.

Puppy and baby grow up together.

The black pit bull "Tubbs" wanted to greet the neighbors but everyone was too afraid of him to approach. So the owners put up a sign announcing that Tubbs was very friendly and would like a nice petting.

Adopted dog attempts to speak English. He's at a level just below Scooby Doo.

Baby elephant tries to shoo away a pigeon but the pigeon isn't afraid of him.

A couple of weeks ago I posted a video of some Australians using goats to clear out an overgrown lawn. Here's another one. I assumed the last time that bringing in goats to eat grass in an overgrown lawn was just a stunt for the internet. But in this video, the goats' owner confirms that this is actually his full-time job and that it's pretty common to call up your local goat-herder to clear out a lawn disaster. He says he does this every working day.

Baby tapir has the zoomies.

Crow knocks on the window every day to play with his favorite baby boy.

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Quick Hits

Kamala Harris is running for president. She claims she "should have won" in 2024:

"She walks in as the front-runner. It is fairly obvious she is followed wherever she goes," said one former aide. "And I don't want to upset any narratives that any of the other candidates are pushing, but she comes in with 99 percent name ID and everyone else is going to have to raise money and buy it."

It remains an article of faith among Harris's tight-knit group of advisers that the 2024 race wasn't winnable. Her polling lead was a mirage and did not square with what the campaign's internal polls were showing. The compressed timeline after Biden dropped out of the race left her without enough time to appear as her own person, a particularly big problem when much of the public had tired of the president. And multiple former campaign staffers brought up the two assassination attempts against Trump as evidence that Harris's loss was all but preordained.

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"She is looking for where the wave is going and is determined to ride it," said one supporter who had recently spoken with her and came away convinced that Harris is running in 2028. "Her mindset is that I should have won, and I am going to do it my way because my way would have won, and it was all these consultants that were telling me to take this position or that position, and it was their fault."

I encourage this. Jazz-snaps.

The Minnesota (Red) Star Tribune praises Walz for pardoning the rapist of a 10-year-old child:

A conservative woman has a job so she's a hypocrite and a liar:

Don Lemon wants some attention.

Former CNN host-turned-podcaster Don Lemon outrageously argued President Trump's MAGA movement is "America's version" of the Nazi Party -- just "without the Holocaust and all that stuff."

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"MAGA is the closest thing to the modern version of the Nazi Party. This is America's version," Lemon raved. "It's the closest thing, without the Holocaust and all that stuff."

Lemon -- who also revealed he is considering a presidential run in the 2028 election, saying he'd be a "really good" commander-in-chief -- argued MAGA supporters have stuck by the movement in an effort to promote white supremacy.

"Most intelligent people or logical people, when they get new information and that information is negative or not factual, then they change their minds and go, 'Oh, well I wish I'd known better, and now that I have this information, then I can readjust,'" Lemon said.

"No matter how many facts and how much information you give them about this presidency, about the policies, they don't change their minds," he continued. "Because they're really not voting for the price of eggs -- they're voting for white supremacy, they're voting for power, they're voting to have a preeminent voice."

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As host Dhanraj started to ask another question, noting that it was Lemon's view that the administration has gone "off the rails," Lemon interjected, saying: "It's not off the rails. We've careened into facism. The president is a fascist."

He then jammed his hand down his pants, rubbed it on his testicles, and wiped his fingers in the host's face.

I added the last sentence. But it's true in spirit.

NYC has spent $2.6 billion in welfare and just 860,000 residents... in one year.

More than $2.6 billion was handed out to 864,999 New York City residents in 2025, the news coming as people are fleeing the state due to high taxes and a socialist mayor who has made it his mission to "tax the rich."

Data from city records Fox News reviewed showed the billion dollar number was a 71 percent increase since 2022 when it was $1.57 billion, the outlet reported Saturday.

"When coupled with payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the city paid out more than $7 billion in welfare to residents in 2024, according to a Fox News analysis of data from the city's Human Resources Administration (HRA)," the outlet said, adding, "The rise in welfare payments comes as some of New York City's wealthiest contemplate a Big Apple exodus due to what many have described as a policy environment unfriendly to businesses and moneymakers."

Indeed, Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in April said there would be an annual tax on high-value properties owned by those who did not live in the area full-time, Breitbart News reported.

"When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich. Well, today, we're taxing the rich. I'm thrilled to announce we've secured a pied-à-terre tax, the first in New York's history. This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million whose owners do not live full time in the city, like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million," he stated.

To offset the political damage from the murder of a Restore party official by a deranged communist, the leftwing, Muslim Home Secretary of the UK began talking up a vague "plot" by "white supremacists" to do... something in relation to a Muslim gathering.

It was all made-up. Just a straight lie.

What is really angering patriotic Brits is that the UK government will fine them or even jail them for spreading "speculation" about violence or terrorism, but leftwing politicians -- Muslim ones, especially -- are free to invent fake "white supremacist" attacks on Muslims as they wish.

Because they're the conquerors. There are different rules for the conquerors.

Ben Graham
@BenGrahamUK

Jul 19

Heres a prime example of politicians speculating whilst the British public is told not to speculate.

Shabana Mahmood said "undoubtedly saved lives".

Humza Youaf used the words of the Home Secretary to push the narrative that this could have been a "terrorist attack of unimaginable scale".

7 days later and all 12 people arrested have been released with no terror charges.

One man is 82 years old.

They deserve a public apology. https://x.com/HumzaYousaf/st

The trans candidate for Maine Senate isn't promoting transgenderism the way he thinks he is.

Defiant L's
@DefiantLs

Trans Democrat Maine Senate candidate Webb: "I also leak, like, a mucus, which they can't really explain."

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US Pounds Iran Military Sites for Ninth Straight Night; Trump Announces Next Big Target?

About the strikes last night:

The United States broadened the scale and scope of its strikes against Iran on Monday, hitting a variety of targets including military bases, air defense systems and a city hosting a nuclear power plant.

The ninth consecutive night of U.S. strikes came on the back of the totalitarian Islamic regime delivering attacks in the region with strikes in Syria, Jordan and Kuwait overnight.

AFP reports in Bushehr, home to the country's only operational civilian nuclear power plant, governor Mohammad Mozaffari told state news agency IRNA: "A few minutes ago, several locations in Bushehr city were hit by American enemy's projectiles."

In East Azerbaijan province in the north, the head of the local crisis management unit Majid Farshi told IRNA that "one person was martyred and several others injured" in an attack there.

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As Breitbart News reported, President Donald Trump said Sunday the U.S. had earlier struck Iran "very hard" in honor of three American servicemembers killed in recent days.

As mentioned, three servicemen were killed when Iran attacked US bases in Jordan.

Two U.S. service members were killed and one remains missing after Iran struck American forces in Jordan, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Saturday.

The command said the two troops were killed in action Friday while defending against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks, and confirmed four other service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and have since been discharged.

Trump ordered the military to "open the gates of hell" to avenge their deaths.

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Pimps and Professors at "HustlerU.," Andrew and Tristan Tate, Arrested by US Marshals After Extradition Request by UK for Rape Charges

I didn't jump to condemn these guys three years ago when the entire leftwing social media ecosystem acted with lightning speed to cancel them. We've all seen a lot of good people canceled by the left.

On the other hand, I didn't defend them, because: I don't know anything about them and considering that their business seems to be, openly, pimping and prostitution, I didn't really think they deserved much of my time or mental exertion, nor much of yours.

I still don't know much about them, apart from them bragging they con women (and girls) into the exciting life of online prostitution by using the "loverboy" tactic of making them emotionally dependent on their pimps, then pimping them out. Which is a standard pimp tactic. These guys didn't invent it. It was created at a laboratory at "Hustler U."

And now Trump is honoring a UK request for extradition on rape/child exploitation charges.

Trump isn't always right, of course.

But these guys sound like any other douchebag criminal: Everyone is just conspiring against me (and my pimp business and pimp school).

OSINTdefender
@sentdefender

Both Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by U.S. Marshals outside of a private event in Miami, Florida, following an extradition request by the UK Government against the brothers on over fifty charges related to rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, as well as additional charges relating to illegal child images and pornography.

Yashar Ali 🐘
@yashar

Jul 18
BREAKING

Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami by the U.S. Marshals Service.

Statement below from the U.K.'s Crown Prosecution Service about additional charges being filed against the brothers.

The Tate brothers are now facing a total of 59 charges:

42 against Andrew Tate
17 against Tristan Tate

"Andrew Tate, 39, is being charged with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.

Tristan Tate, 38, is being charged with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation."

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Former DSA Member: We Started This Moderate, Wholesome Socialist Group But It Got Taken Over by Extremist Communists, Somehow

Really? I'm so surprised. Leftwing movements are never taken over by some kind of, oh, let's say "Bolshevik Faction."

Former Democratic Socialists of America member Jake Altman offered an inside look Saturday at the organization he says has been overtaken by communists -- warning the same playbook is now being used to push the Democratic Party further to the left.

"Their organization has been captured..." Altman told Fox News.

"One of my real concerns is that we see a lot of resistance to anti-communism within the DSA, even from the moderate wing of the DSA, and I think this is very, very dangerous."

Speaking on "Saturday in America," Altman warned the organization is anything but "harmless," claiming its members are "perfectly willing to cohabitate with Maoists, with Trotskyists, with Leninists" -- groups he said are intent on dismantling American institutions.

"People who want to pull down American institutions and are very clear about it. People who have this thrill to violence. That is just profoundly troubling at a time when our country is already facing many, many problems," he said.

Altman also said some aspects of the group raised his eyebrows nearly 10 years ago when, while participating in a debate on the organization's behalf, he questioned whether he was the best person to represent its trajectory.

At the time, he claimed, he was reassured that the organization's increasingly radical direction was being driven by only a small faction clustered around "Jacobin" magazine.

"I was debating with Leninists who were saying Bernie Sanders isn't a socialist, and now we're hearing that from DSA, right? Bernie Sanders, AOC, they're not real socialists," he recalled.

"So I think this is just the level of extremism and radicalism we're seeing. People in DSA will try to minimize it and say it's just a few people... they're a small minority. But... look at the executive board. It's full of this alphabet soup of extremist caucuses."

Altman urged Democrats to stand up against a "radicalized base," as far-left DSA candidates secure wins nationwide.

"These people are not operating in good faith," he said. "DSA members are not in the Democratic Party to operate in good faith."

Even Arch-Race-Lefty Van Jones is alarmed about his totally-not-communist Democrat Party being taken over by communists.

Again, how can these non-communist moderate leftist organizations keep becoming communist revolutionary groups?! Make it make sense!

Longtime CNN political commentator and Democrat Van Jones rebuked far-left activists Saturday, warning that their positions on Hamas, prisons and immigration are regressive and threatened to steer the Democratic Party in the wrong direction as socialist-backed candidates celebrated recent primary victories.

That is the Democrat Party's direction, which you approve of.

You just don't like the communists shouting it when they're supposed to just whisper it and imply it, as you do.

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"But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. 'No police, no prisons, no borders' is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE," Jones said.

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The ex-administration advisor to former President Barack Obama also rejected the argument that the far-left was merely advocating the type of social democracy practiced in Nordic countries.

"Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them," Jones said. "I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter. And these are terrible ideas."

Communist nepo baby and Islamist Party-Boy Zohran Mamdani claims he's just fighting for the working class but has no definition of "working class."

When pressed, he claims the "working class" is anyone being paid a salary, and includes his rich donors making up to one million dollars per year.

Mayor Mamdani struggles to define who the 'working class' is in a word salad interview

New York City's socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, struggled to define who the "working class" is in a word salad response to a question about the people he vows to fight for.

Mamdani, in a lengthy interview with the New York Times published over the weekend, was asked point-blank by journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro, "How do you define the working class?"

"I think if you have to work to pay your bills, I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class," he vaguely responded.

When pushed whether he would consider those who make $250,000 per year as working class, he said, "I haven't asked myself where it starts and stops.

"What I would say is those who are working to try and afford the basic dignities of life and aren't able to do so, I think that that is also working class. Oftentimes we're asked how we divide this country. I think there's only one majority in this country -- it's the working class," he then rambled.

Confused by the convoluted reponse, Garcia-Navarro admitted that Hizzoner's description didn't seem to "ring true," to her.

"It just seems a very easy answer to what is a complicated question," the reporter fought back. "Because politically, if you're saying everyone is the working class, or anyone that gets a salary is the working class, yes, that opens up your tent. But practically speaking, we are divided by income -- and especially if you want to tax people, where you draw those lines matter."

Mamdani then said he would draw the line at around $1 million per year -- which Garcia-Navarro pointed out could alienate potential voters such as a janitor who he's lumped in the same "working class" category as a successful lawyer.

I can't believe we're still fighting the leftists on whether or not communism works.

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Dead Body Found at Home Belonging to Criminal Husband of Bald-Headed Freak Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley

Black Uncle Fester's thug husband:

The felony-convicted husband of progressive "squad" lawmaker Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., slapped a phone out of a reporter's hands Monday inside a city hall building after they attempted to approach the congresswoman to ask her a question about alleged childcare fraud in Minnesota.

"Congresswoman Pressley, do you support --" the interviewer could be heard asking as he approached Pressley with his phone camera on record before Conan Harris, Pressley's husband who spent 10 years in prison on felony drug trafficking charges, smacked the phone out of the questioner's hand.

"Sir, you cannot take my phone out of my hand," the questioner could be heard saying, before the phone was picked back up and returned to focus. Harris spent 10 years in prison on a drug trafficking charge before marrying Pressley, who said she draws from his experience of reintegrating into regular society after leaving prison to help inform how she advocates for incarcerated, or previously incarcerated, individuals.

Massachusetts' leftwing grifter governor gave this guy $600 million to restore a courthouse.

That's not even the worst part. The worst part is that Massachusetts won't even own the courthouse they're giving this guy $600 million for -- instead, they've signed a 40 year lease to rent the building from him, bringing the total value of this grift to two fucking billion fucking dollars.

Two billion dollars of DEI and incestuous graft among political pals:

A company where the husband of Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is a partner was selected for a nearly $2 billion deal to build a new courthouse in Springfield, Massachusetts -- a decision now being challenged in court by rejected bidders who allege conflicts of interest tainted the process.

Conan Harris, who has been married to the Massachusetts Democrat for more than a decade, is a partner with John Barros in CoJo Real Estate, which is part of the Liberty Junction team selected in early July for the 40-year courthouse lease, according to the lawsuit.

The plaintiffs allege Barros' role as interim executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) created a conflict of interest because several members of that agency's board also serve on the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, the state agency that selected Liberty Junction.

Pressley, a member of the "Squad," was not accused of any wrongdoing by the plaintiffs, and there is no evidence she was involved in the bidding process to rebuild the aging Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse.

Records show the bidding process formally began June 30, 2025, when DCAMM released its request for proposals for the Springfield courthouse project.

The plaintiffs argued that when Barros became the head of the MCCA on Jan. 14, 2026, he did not disclose his participation in the courthouse bidding process to the State Ethics Commission.

The lawsuit also said the Liberty Junction proposal was not updated to indicate that Barros had been appointed to a leading role on the MCCA.

Massachusetts law generally bars state employees from having a direct or indirect financial interest in state contracts, unless they qualify for an exemption, such as by making required disclosures to the State Ethics Commission and not participating in the contracting agency's work.

Fox News Digital reached out to Barros and Harris for comment.

And now, a dead body is found at this guy's property.

Crime scene tape cordoned off a home owned by the husband of Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA) Saturday night as Boston homicide detectives investigated a dead body police found at the property.

A police spokesman told CBS News that officers were called to the house on Malta Street in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood at 1:52 p.m. "for a report to investigate a person."

When they arrived, they found the person deceased, the spokesman said.

Police have released no further details such as the cause or manner of death, but the homicide unit is now investigating the incident.

CBS reported late Saturday:

According to property records from the city of Boston, Pressley's husband, Conan Harris, is listed as the owner of the Malta Street home. The property has an assessed value of $919,000.

The two-story, seven bedroom house was built in 1910. Pressley and Harris do not live at the home. It's a rental property that's currently for sale. The asking price is $1.15 million.

Is this something? I doubt it. The criminal doesn't live at this address.

But these Power Communists sure do seem to own a lot of million-dollar properties, don't they?

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THE MORNING RANT: “Yes” to Data Centers that Are Privately Funded, Without Taxpayer Subsidization

I support the construction of privately funded data centers whose utilities are not taxpayer-subsidized. Investors in data center projects are welcome to bring to my state and county all the economic activity that comes with their construction and operation. I’m also excited that the data center era has finally caused tech bros to abandon their green-energy obsession. They understand, finally, that they can’t have energy-hungry plants without the abundant, reliable electricity that comes from natural gas.

But I do not support the construction of data centers for which tax abatements, incentive payments, and subsidized utilities must be paid by taxpayers.

In the raging battle between pro-data center and anti-data center forces, the two sides may not even be talking about the same thing. It is understandable that many of those who oppose data centers are skeptical, given the horrendous track record of corporate welfare, corporate cronyism, and taxpayer-funded industrial boondoggles they’ve been forced to pay for.

In my part of the country, the Republican governors of Tennessee and Georgia have repeatedly gambled taxpayer money on “venture communism” projects, redistributing money from taxpayers to favored industrial developers, especially when it’s for the next big thing (usually EVs and battery manufacturers.) As I’ve frequently documented, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has flushed away billions and billions of taxpayer dollars on failed EV-related endeavors. Republicans of the Chamber of Commerce persuasion applaud Governor Kemp’s naïve profligacy as being “pro-business.”

Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee is also addicted to wasting taxpayer money. This includes Ford’s mothballed, never-used EV plant near Memphis, for which Tennessee taxpayers contributed a billion dollars. Just a few weeks ago, Governor Lee announced a $30 million payment to Starbucks for relocating from Seattle to Nashville. Starbucks was fleeing Seattle anyhow, and would have come to Tennessee for nothing, but Governor Lee felt it very important to take a boatload of taxpayer money and give it to a left-wing corporation as a “thank you.” Starbucks sneers at Tennessee values. Now its executives (they/them) can also sneer at us for being easy marks.

Data centers are the new “next big thing,” and it is rational for exhausted taxpayers to expect they’ll again be asked to subsidize the capex and utility costs for these projects.

There shouldn’t be a binary choice between either banning economic progress, like New York has done with data centers, or subsidizing it, like Republican governors reflexively do.

My understanding is that most data centers are building their own natural gas power plants, with diesel generator backup. Millions of dollars are flowing to local contractors doing the grading, construction, electrical, etc. The data center buildout, combined with Trump’s reshoring efforts, are creating an industrial explosion in this country. It is similar to what politicians would call “stimulus spending,” but it’s privately funded.

However, those of us supporting data center construction need to be careful about insulting opponents as being anti-progress. Taxpayers have a legitimate fear of their elected officials betraying them in favor of promoters hustling the next big thing.

And finally, because much of the data center buildout is to support growing AI use, it doesn’t help for AI promoters to crow about all the people AI will put out of work. I genuinely believe that AI will be disruptive, eliminating some jobs while creating many more. But if AI is being sold as a way to eliminate labor expense and put people out of work, that will motivate people to oppose the data centers that fuel AI.

The blue-collar jobs and industrial development resulting from data center construction are what MAGA Republicans have been fighting for. Let’s take the win – so long as the developers are not being subsidized by local taxpayers.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Yacht America
Charles S. Raleigh

From the Smithsonian Museum:

The original yacht America was built in 1851 to compete in the Hundred Guinea Cup, the only American entry against fourteen British vessels. When the race was over, Queen Victoria asked, "Who is in first place?" and was told that America had won. When she asked, "Then who is in second?" the American boat had such a strong lead that the reply was: "Madam, there is no second." After this, the race became known as the America's Cup.

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The Morning Report — 7/ 20 /26

Good morning kids. Well we seem to be picking up from where we left off last week. Then again why is this Monday different from any other Monday in this day and age?!

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appears to have let out a ghastly flatulence this week on the floor of the chamber while criticizing President Donald Trump over the war in Iran.

Meh, every time Chuck Schumer opens his mouth to imitate human speech he emits the noise and stench of flatus, but continuing on a more serious yet schatological note.

The lettuce now being recalled by Taylor Farms in California has also hatched a number of lawsuits filed in federal court against Taco Bell, which allegedly used the shredded lettuce contaminated with a parasite called cyclospora.

No deaths have been reported from the outbreak.

Of course, like most any negative condition that makes headlines and impacts Americans, the problem was caused by Trump, according to a Democrat lawmaker and another who is running for Congress.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) posted a video Saturday on social media claiming the “worst outbreak in U.S. history” was caused by the president “taking a wrecking ball” to “our public health infrastructure,” even though the actual source of the outbreak has been traced to Mexico.

And speaking of projection and projectile diarrhea. . .

Mamdani’s belief that, as a minor municipal functionary, he wields some imaginary international power to subvert American sovereignty just shows the delusions of his ideology.

His authority extends to fixing potholes and collecting garbage, neither of which he does competently. But his delusions of grandeur are shared by the misfits, ignoramuses, and foreign interlopers who make up his rancid branch of the Democrat Party — the DSA.

The Democratic Socialists of America know nothing, have built nothing and don’t understand the country they live in, yet they imagine they have the moral authority to tear it down.

Their aim is to import foreign conflicts and alien ideologies that are the antithesis of America’s founding principles. . . Leftists are motivated by envy and a “poisonous resentment” that makes them hostile to everything that has made America successful, as Rubio said last week when opening a State Department conference on combating left-wing violence, something his Cuban emigre family knows a thing or two about. . . But that is the mission of the DSA. To use the Democratic Party as their Trojan horse to foment a communist revolution in America.

Does Mamdani really think that any NYC police officer is really going to attempt to lay a finger on Benjamin Netanyahu? There sure is no way in hell any Mossad agent and there are likely a half dozen or so surrounding Bibi everywhere he goes, will ever allow that to happen and they're probably itching to ventilate or otherwise break Mamdani's bones if they get half a chance.

That said, sic transit gloria Democrats because of Sick Bastards like Mamdani.

So, do they really have a shot at winning the next couple of elections and then finally snuffing us out for good?

Democratic Senate contenders are dramatically out-raising their Republican peers, according to Federal Election Commission data — with Georgia’s Jon Ossoff and James Talarico in Texas leading the pack.
Eight of the top 10 Senate candidate fundraiser this year are Democrats, whose top contestants have raked in $574 million, compared to the Republicans’ $336 million, per the FEC.
Incumbent Sen. Ossoff (D-Ga.) is the biggest fundraiser on both sides, having raked in a jaw-dropping $77 million as of June 30, and has a staggering $42.5 million in cash on hand. . . . Democrats are considered likely to retake the House in the Nov. 3 elections, due to polls and the historical trend of the party in power in the White House losing seats in the midterms.
But the Senate is a tougher call. Based on polls and incumbents, Republicans have an easier path to hold the upper chamber, but Democrats are running neck and neck with them in key races.
Democrats are generally eying Maine, Ohio, North Carolina and Alaska in particular as their easiest path to retaking the Senate.
But to win the upper chamber, they have to defend vulnerable incumbents, including Ossoff, who has proven to be a financial juggernaut.

Well at least I can delude myself with the likes of John Fetterman.

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Miranda Devine: This is not just politics as usual. It is a communist insurgency aimed at destroying America. It is intolerable.
  Mamdani and his DSA comrades have one goal — a communist revolution in America

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Daily Tech News 20 July 2026

Top Story

• OpenAI has rushed to reassure users that the brand new GPT 5.6 still has all the same features they know and love. (InfoWorld)
  
  Like accidentally deleting all your files but being really sorry about it afterwards.
  
  
  
• Alibaba's AI tool Qwen 3.8 is launching and will soon be open-weight - that is, you can't create your own version but you can download and run it yourself. (Twitter)
  
  One small problem is that is has 2.4 trillion parameters, meaning you'll need a graphics card with 4.8 terabytes of VRAM to run it efficiently, and not many end users have the necessary hardware.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Apple just hired the original team behind Qwen. (WCCFTech)
  
  Who Alibaba had fired in a quiet reminder that grotesque ineptitude is not solely a gift of the western world.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - July 19, 2026 [Doof]

Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse - From Rusted Spoke Brewing

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Glad you could stop by! Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. Anything exciting in your world tonight?

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Gun Thread: Post-Vacation 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 Post-Vacation Edition? The week at the beach sure did go by quickly. Made it home yesterday with everyone I left with, so all good. I'll do my best to try thinking about working on my backlog of email this week. Promise!

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

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Food Thread: Bacon And Beans Together Again!

It is glaringly obvious that we do not discuss bacon nearly enough on these august pages. And not just the luscious, unctuous, rich, smoky deliciousness of the best part of the pig! No, we should also chat about cooking it!

All of you microwave aficionados may now go to another room...the grownups are talking.

My preferred technique is to start the bacon (thick-cut if possible) in a cold oven set to 375 degrees convection. Then after about 15 minutes, take them out and flip the strips. Another 10-15 minutes should do nicely for very crispy, which was what I was shooting for today!

Cleaning the pan is another issue for another day.

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First World Problems [Doof]

Broken golf tees. How does that happen? You approach the tee box with your driver. You hear that voice in your head - "tee it high, and let it fly!" But how high is too high? There's water or some other hazard right in front of you. If you tee the ball too low, you'll top it and it'll go right in there! So you tee it up a little higher to make sure you hit the ball up in the air. But you teed it up too high, you hit the bottom of the ball, which means you also made contact with the tee, so the tee broke. No problem -- snap the bottom part off, toss it somewhere (be courteous and don't leave it on the ground at the tee box!), then put the top part of the tee into your pocket to use on a Par 3 or a short Par 4 when you're using a 3W or 5W. But you break several more tees before you get a chance to use one of the handful of salvaged stubbies that you kept. So you end up with a collection that looks something like this.

Useable for sure. But they're ugly! So what to do if you have OCD and don't want jagged stubby tees?

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Physical Deportation Is The First Step, And Cutting Illegals Off From Our Society Is The Next Step!

Going after violent illegals is an absolutely necessary first step in cleansing our country of the scourge of uncontrolled illegal immigration. Traffic stops, chasing them on foot, or if necessary breaking down doors at 3:00AM and dragging them to a waiting flight to Sh*tcanistan is something that the American people will support.

But the huge numbers of illegals in our country make physical deportation a long and complex process. Luckily, there are other ways! As I wrote a few days ago, going after their employers, starting with the biggest companies will make huge inroads into the illegal population by denying them the ability to steal Americans' identities and undercut their price for labor.

And there is more! Lax enforcement of existing laws, and banks that chased their business have allowed illegals to enter our financial systems, with credit cards, bank accounts, auto and home loans, etc.

Will the administration end that? It sure sounds like they are beginning to take it seriously, or at least paying some attention!

Stephen Miller says Trump administration is pursuing policy to debank illegal immigrants

"President Trump signed an executive order a few weeks ago saying that we are not going to allow illegal aliens to use banking services in this country," Miller said.

"Illegal aliens have credit cards, they have bank accounts and they're paid with direct deposit. So, illegal aliens fully participate in the commercial systems, the financial systems of America. Shutting that down is a massive engine for deportation."

Miller was likely referring to an executive order Trump signed on May 19 that directed banks and federal regulators to increase scrutiny of accounts and credit applications involving immigrants without legal status or work authorization.

The order did not explicitly instruct banks to deny credit cards or bank accounts to illegal immigrants, but compliance with it could make it more difficult for them to participate in the financial system.

Federal agencies have already begun acting on Trump's executive order.

Executive orders are a stopgap measure. But it is a start. The real teeth will come if the various banking regulators demand that banks positively identify all account holders, and verify that their identification is not fraudulent or stolen. As I mentioned on Thursday, "E-Verify" needs to be improved, because we are our own worst enemy. But forcing the issue and making financial institutions take seriously the identification regulations would go a long way toward pushing illegals back to their home countries. If they can't easily open bank accounts or cash checks or buy cars or get an account with the electric company, their lives will become much more difficult.

And that is the goal! We have made their lives effortless for too long. It is time to push them back into the shadows, and make every interaction with the legal financial world a risk.

Debanking is an excellent start.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread 7-19-2026 [Sabrina Chase]

Welcome to the Book Thread, Guest Poster edition! I will be your host as we explore all sorts of book-related topics. All usual Book Thread rules are incorporated by reference (pets, beverage, clothing covering the lower limbs, etc.) with the special Sabrina Chase exemption for those stylish persons preferring kilts. Now let us proceed to today's topic, which is ...

(Big) Beautiful Book Bindings

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Daily Tech News 18 July 2026

Top Story

• Nvidia's 5000 Super graphics cards are lined up on the runway ready to go as soon as someone breaks the news to the passengers that the price of their tickets just tripled. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Or less obliquely, the 3GB memory chips used for the Super models are three times the price of the standard 2GB chips.
  
  Which is STUPID because the GPUs already support two banks of memory and Nvidia could more cheaply produce a 24GB RTX 5070 Super than an 18GB version.
  
  AMD should make mainstream 24GB and 32GB cards just to mock their rivals.
  
  
  
• Speaking of AMD, the company launched its Ryzen 7700X3D CPU at a price of $329 last weak, making it something less than a bargain because the 7800X3D is available cheaper than that. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You can now pick up a 7700X3D for $279.
  
  Worth pointing out the the previous generations 5800X3D runs to $349.

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Saturday Night Club ONT - July 18, 2026 [Disco & Dino]

Welcome to Club ONT - a collaboration of The Disco and The Dino. We built this place for you so you can have some fun. Come in in, grab a drink or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Jerks need not enter the premises (the moose out front is keeping track and you do NOT want to disappoint the moose).

[Top photo: the bar at Fraunces Tavern, New York City. The oldest surviving building in New York.]

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Music Thread: End Of Bin Cleanup

My apologies for bringing the real world into this thread, but this made me laugh, and it is excellent on so many levels. Not least of which is poking marvelous fun at the Woke bullsh*t that oozes out of so many organizations that are designed for non-political pursuits.

Anyway, behind the graphic is a great American Rock And Roll song. Even Duncanthrax will like it...I think.

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Hobby Thread - July 18, 2026 [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. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is into Heavy Metal. It spun and spun and landed on a metal working theme for this Hobby Thread.

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