April 15, 2026
Finally? Alliance Defending Freedom -- the Firm That Defended the Colorado Baker Who Wouldn't Bake the Gay Cake -- Will Sue Candace Owens for Defamation on Behalf of Erika Kirk and TPUSA?
This isn't confirmed or announced yet, but Cavernous Nostrils herself says she's "uncomfortable" about what the Alliance Defending Freedom is saying about case they're working.
Ben Shapiro might also be suing. She recently defamed him as well. (Well, she has probably defamed him a dozen times, I just remember in the past few days she dropped another one and I thought, "That's actionable, I sure hope he sues.") Cavernous Nostrils herself showed this video, which she says is an "internal video" from ADF (though it appears to be a public Q&A, but then again, Cavernous is a low-IQ lunatic who doesn't know anything.) In the video, a person she identifies as being part of the ADF says that she was on a phone call with a "large organization you would know very well... it has to do with Candace Owens, which might give you an idea about what we're talking about." And she talks about the question of whether to sue or not sue when someone defames you.Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM | Comments (328) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Wednesday Morning Rant
The Spite Option
One of the problems with taxation - if you're a citizen, anyway - is that there are few means of protest. This same reality is, of course, a significant benefit to those with taxing authority. If a citizen is seriously displeased with the functioning of the state, it doesn't matter - he must pay his taxes. If he doesn't, he will go to prison if not worse and he will get no aid from his fellow citizens. No matter how legitimate his grievance, nobody will defend him. After all, everyone who might be inclined to defend him had to pay his own taxes, and resents the man who doesn't. Is his protest legitimate, or is he just a cheater?
So what to do about that? How can a man protest his taxes and withhold his support from a state that behaves in a way he finds unconscionable without subjecting himself to privation? Privation is the only option today. If you have nothing and earn nothing, you have nothing to tax. All-or-nothing is the only choice. Any change to the system will, of course, never happen - but what a means of effective tax protest actually existed? Join me in a thought experiment I call the "Spite Option."
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach
Stanhope Alexander Forbes
A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach
Stanhope Alexander Forbes
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The Morning Report — 4/ 15/26 
Good morning kids. As if, I suppose, you needed any reminder, today is tax day. if only you were a violent jihadist, illegal alien or legal immigrant from Somalia scamming us out of billions, you'd have it made in the shade and living the American dream just like our Founders intended. Exceptionalism indeed.
Exceptionally tolerant beyond all logic in tolerating "a long train of abuses 2.0). God bless and keep Donald Trump and his loyal/competent advisers for doing what they can to try and turn back the tide of a swamp the size and depth of every ocean on the planet. In spite of some setbacks and disappointments over his two terms, at the barest of bare minimums, his greatest accomplishment has been exposing the forces of darkness and evil of the Democrat-Left and Deep state out to not just destroy I'm but all of us, as he had so eloquently and perfectly stated almost from the moment he stepped off the golden Trump Tower escalator nearly six years ago.
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Referring to an impeachment reversal, Dershowitz admitted, “It's never been done. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be done. Impeachment is a quasi-judicial procedure, whether you have to go back to Congress and ask them to expunge it or go to the courts.”Referring to the new exposure of the key source for the accusations, who met with top Democrat Adam Schiff before filing his complaint, Dershowitz added, “But I have to tell you one thing, history will expunge it already based on your work, because what you've done is you've created so much doubt about the credibility of the main accuser that it's hard for anybody to sit back now and say that was a just, a just impeachment, but I don't know that there's going to be any remedy. Maybe we should try to create one.”And from the exceptionally all-too tolerant American people, we go to the exceptionally stupid people of Spain:
Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party has authorized plans to grant amnesty to 500,000 illegal migrants in the country, authorities said. Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s prime minister and general secretary of the Socialist Workers’ Party, said in an April 14 statement shared on X that the Council of Ministers would approve a move to grant amnesty to migrants. . . The move will provide amnesty to 500,000 illegal migrants and allow them to be formally integrated into the Spanish workforce, according to the BBC. The government will offer migrants a one-year renewable residence permit. Migrants seeking amnesty must apply between April 16 and the end of June. They must also prove they have been living in Spain for five months and have no criminal record, the outlet reported.PS: Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants thinks all those colored dudes look alike: At least Barack was "clean and articulate, that's a storybook, man!"
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Daily News Stuff 15 April 2026
Top Story
- China's leading flash memory producer, YTMC, is constructing two new factories in addition to the one already in progress. (Tom's Hardware)
Each factory will produce 100,000 wafers per month - equal to 50% of the company's current production - once it reaches full capacity, but that will take a while. The first of the new facilities will come online this year but will take another year to reach 50% of planned capacity.
In an interesting twist, half the capacity of the first of these factories will be assigned to DRAM rather than NAND, which is what YTMC normally produces.
It won't be enough to fill the current shortage but every bit helps.
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April 14, 2026
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - April 14, 2026 [Doof]
From VIEW
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Village at the foot of the Dolomites
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Quick Hits
Paul Sperry"Moderate" Democrat and Deep State operative Abigail Spanberger just signed away Virginia's electoral college votes, pledging the state to cast its votes according to the national public vote. Note that this compact does not take effect until states having electoral votes totally 270 or more join it. The Maryland Man who set fire to a multimillion dollar paper warehouse and burned it to the ground compares himself to Democrat Thrill-Killer Luigi Mangione, and he means that as a compliment to himself.
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: IC IG Michael Atkinson, an Obama holdover and former aide to Russiagate operative Mary McCord, "weaponized the whistleblower process" against Trump by 1) failing to conduct basic due diligence and 2) willfully exceeding his statutory jurisdiction by altering the whistleblower form to no longer require firsthand knowledge as a prerequisite for reporting complaints in order to facilitate fake impeachment "whistleblower" Eric Ciaramella's 2019 hearsay complaint against Trump, an ODNI investigation has found based on hundreds of newly declassified docs
The 29-year-old man charged in connection with fires that burned down a paper products warehouse in California was allegedly motivated by anti-capitalism sentiment and compared himself to Luigi Mangione, authorities said Friday. Chamel Abdulkarim, of Highland, California, was charged by federal authorities with arson of a building used in interstate and foreign commerce, Bill Essayli, the first assistant United States attorney, said at a news conference Friday morning. Abdulkarim is accused of intentionally starting multiple fires at a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse on Tuesday. The warehouse was located in Ontario, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, and was owned by the consumer goods company Kimberly-Clark Corp. ...Speaking of Luigi Mangione: Creepy New Manson Girls praise Mangione as a "real life superhero" and, threateningly, declare "we have more work to do." You can imagine what they mean by "work." AWFULs are jealous, envious, spiteful, status-craving, crab-in-a-bucket-tugging, tall-poppy-cutting lunatics:
There were at least 20 people at the warehouse when the fires began, authorities said, but no one has been reported injured. ,,, The first state charge carries the special circumstance of the damage from the arson reaching more than $10.1 million, Anderson said. That charge carries a penalty of 10 years to life. An initial estimate found the paper products inside the warehouse to be worth $500 million, with the building itself worth $150 million.
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Essayli said that in a phone call, Abdulkarim allegedly "compared himself to Luigi Mangione."
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DC Court of Appeals Bodies, Beats Down Obama Judge Boasberg for His Extrajudicial Unending "Investigation" Into Trump for Ignoring His Poorly-Worded and Also Illegal Order
This made Boasberg angry so, on his own initiative and by his own "authority," Boasberg has been conducting a Star Chamber criminal investigation into Trump and his staffers.
Even worse, the Supreme Court later ruled that Boasberg had no authority to issue this order in any case. But the power-mad authoritarian continued his "investigations" into whether his order -- now ruled conclusively to have been lawless and void from the onset -- was "violated" by Trump anyway. The order has been ruled illegal - but Boasberg insists on seeking criminal charges against people for violating his officially-illegal order anyway. He's taking the position: "I don't care if the order was illegal, Trump should have obeyed it anyway, and he should be punished for not Respeccing My Authoritah!" By a vote of 2-1, an Appeals Court just ordered him to terminate these lawless proceedings.
SCOTUS WireIf you recall, Boasberg issued a (lawless) TRO blocking Trump from deporting criminal illegal Venezuelans to the CECOT prison in El Salvador. But Boasberg mis-drafted his order because the planes were already on their way. The TRO was then moot.
@scotus_wire 2h 🚨 In a 2-1 vote, a D.C. Circuit panel has issued an extraordinary writ of mandamus, ordering Judge Boasberg to terminate his criminal contempt probe into the Trump administration's transfer of alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador.
This made Boasberg angry so, on his own initiative and by his own "authority," Boasberg has been conducting a Star Chamber criminal investigation into Trump and his staffers.
Even worse, the Supreme Court later ruled that Boasberg had no authority to issue this order in any case. But the power-mad authoritarian continued his "investigations" into whether his order -- now ruled conclusively to have been lawless and void from the onset -- was "violated" by Trump anyway. The order has been ruled illegal - but Boasberg insists on seeking criminal charges against people for violating his officially-illegal order anyway. He's taking the position: "I don't care if the order was illegal, Trump should have obeyed it anyway, and he should be punished for not Respeccing My Authoritah!" By a vote of 2-1, an Appeals Court just ordered him to terminate these lawless proceedings.
More from the decision, via Powerline:
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered an end to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's criminal contempt inquiry into Trump administration officials over last year's deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador, delivering a second major rebuke to Boasberg and foreclosing further pursuit of the case. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted a writ of mandamus and directed that the contempt proceedings be "terminated," finding Boasberg, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, had committed a "clear abuse of discretion" by continuing to press forward A writ of mandamus is a rare and extraordinary order from a higher court directing a lower court or government official to stop exceeding their authority. The panel that wrote the 122-page decision included Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker, both appointed by President Donald Trump, in the majority, and Judge J. Michelle Childs, appointed by former President Joe Biden, in dissent. The Washington Examiner contacted the Justice Department for comment. "The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy," the majority wrote. "These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion, as the district court's order said nothing about transferring custody of the plaintiffs and therefore lacks the clarity to support criminal contempt based on the transfer of custody." The order comes nearly one year after Boasberg found probable cause to hold the government in criminal contempt, accusing officials of failing to comply with his March directive to halt deportation flights carrying Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador, where many were sent to a maximum-security prison. The deported Venezuelans were illegal immigrants who were suspected of being members of Tren de Aragua, a violent transnational gang. Boasberg had sought to determine whether officials, including then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, willfully violated that order and had moved toward referring the matter for criminal prosecution while continuing to gather evidence through hearings and testimony.
The Supreme Court ultimately overturned the underlying order from Boasberg that had blocked Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal immigrants suspected of gang membership. Boasberg, however, continued investigating whether the Trump administration had violated the order.
More than a year ago, the President invoked the Alien Enemies Act against members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal gang and foreign terrorist organization, and ordered that they be detained and removed from the United States. In a series of fast-moving events on March 15, 2025, the government placed a group of alleged gang members, including plaintiffs in this case, on planes to El Salvador. After the planes took off and left the country, the district court ordered the government not to remove the plaintiffs from the United States. The Supreme Court vacated the district court's order because it was premised on a legal error and the plaintiffs' suit was brought in the wrong court.I think that last part might be about these criminal illegals filing in friendly liberal district courts while ignoring the Immigration Courts that actually have jurisdiction over their cases. They did this again and again and the Supreme Court kept telling them that they had no original (first-dibs) jurisdiction in these cases, but could only enter the cases after an appeal.
Eric Schmidt comments:
Nonetheless, the district court threatened to hold government officials in criminal contempt unless they complied with the now-vacated order by, for instance, taking back custody of the plaintiffs. We issued a writ of mandamus vacating the court's first contempt order. Undeterred, the district court is proceeding with criminal contempt for the government's decision to transfer the plaintiffs to the custody of El Salvador. To cooperate, the government identified then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as the official responsible for the transfer decision. The district court previously said this was the only information it required to make a referral for prosecution. But the district court has now expanded its inquest and ordered hearings to extract more information from government counsel about exactly what happened last March. The government petitions for mandamus. The widening gyre of the district court's investigation again calls for the extraordinary remedy of mandamus to halt the judicial "impairment of another branch in the performance of its constitutional duties." Cheney v. U.S. Dist. Ct. for D.C.,542 U.S. 367, 390 (2004) (cleaned up). The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy. These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion, as the district court's order said nothing about transferring custody of the plaintiffs and therefore lacks the clarity to support criminal contempt based on the transfer of custody. Moreover, the government has already provided the name of the responsible official, so further judicial investigation is unnecessary and therefore improper. In these circumstances, mandamus is appropriate to prevent the district court from assuming an antagonistic jurisdiction that encroaches on the autonomy of the Executive Branch.
So, he mis-drafted his order but now wants to put people in jail for not having obeyed the order I meant to give, but did not in fact give because I am a sloppy partisan incompetent.
Senator Eric Schmitt
@SenEricSchmitt 4h "The pursuit of this improper investigation is a clear abuse of discretion." Judge Boasberg just got slapped down...again. The walls are closing in on his crusade to jail Trump officials for DEPORTING Venezualan terrorists. It's clear: time to impeach Rogue Judge Boasberg. 🧵 To review: last March, Judge Boasberg forced himself onto the "turn the planes around" case--just a few days after trying to foment a constitutional crisis at a Judicial Conference meeting. He has spent the past year trying to jail prosecutors and cabinet Secretaries. Today, the D.C. Circuit issued an opinion, once again, in the appeal on Boasberg's attempt (extrajurisdictionally) to hold officials in contempt. The Court found Boasberg's "inquest" was both wrong on the law and a violation of our Separation of Powers. Let's break it down.
The core holding is simple. Criminal contempt requires a court order that is "clear and specific." The D.C. Circuit held this TRO was not. Why? Because the written order barred "removing" class members, but said nothing about transferring custody once the planes were already outside the United States. The district court tried to transform an order about "removal" into an order about continued U.S. custody in El Salvador. The D.C. Circuit said no: criminal liability cannot rest on what a judge later says he meant. It has to rest on what the order actually said at the time.
Judge Boasberg was mad he didn't get his way by halting the deportation of TDA terrorists. He got shut down: "In our constitutional system of government, criminal liability cannot turn on the unstated intentions (or post hoc assertions) of a district court judge." The district court told the government it would issue a written order "so you don't have to race to write it down." The written order then superseded the oral remarks--and that written order did not bar what the district court later claimed it barred. This is bigger than one case. If this contempt theory had survived, any politically charged district judge could issue a rushed, muddy order, then later reinterpret it to threaten executive officials with prosecution. The D.C. Circuit put a needed stop to that. Today's ruling is a win for due process, for separation of powers, and for the proposition that judges must follow the law too. No vague order.
No post-hoc rewrite.
No judicial fishing expedition.
No contempt. Time to move forward with impeachment.
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DEI Actress: DEI Has Become a Bad Word in Hollywood and We Have to Use Different Words Now to Push Our DEI Grift
There is an entire grifter industry in Hollywood of people taking a mafia-like cut of projects. Crap DEI director Ava DuVernay has a whole business based upon the concept of DEI entrepreneurialism, monetizing white guilt and the George Floyd propaganda effort. It's called "ARRAY." You know, an array of skin colors and diverse lived experiences.
She's been complaining since 2024 that the DEI grift isn't paying off like it had in the prior years. But how long did you think you could milk the George Floyd grift?
Issa Rae says DEI has become a 'bad word' in Hollywood as executives of color 'tiptoe' to keep jobsIn other words, moneylosing grifter projects had previously been greenlighted due to the DEI lobby's power and now that lobby has lost power and DEI projects aren't getting greenlighted and DEI hustlers aren't getting paid.
'Insecure' actress spoke at TheWrap's Creators x Hollywood Summit about the rollback of DEI initiatives Actress Issa Rae said Thursday that she believes diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has become a toxic topic for the entertainment industry. "I'm seeing it," the "Insecure" actress said while participating in TheWrap's Creators x Hollywood Summit. "Just blatantly. People are scared and just not necessarily investing the same way that they would have before. Even executives who, you know, are of color are also like tiptoeing like, 'Well, I can't co-sign you because I'm going to lose my job.' And that's scary to see and sad to see because it's kind of like a bad word now."
Yes: Let's talk about "the medicine." A lot of people don't object to black actors, writers, or directors. I have nothing against a black actor in a kind of show or movie I'd like. If it's a detective show with a black lead, I would watch that. The problem is "the medicine." DEI grifters don't merely push beancounting hiring for positions. They also push The Message. They want to make movies and shows that are lectures. There's a reason I avoid black-- and "female led" -- tv shows and movies: Didacticism. There is a powerful strain of woke lecturing among female and black creators. Again, if you're pitching me a black detective show, I might be interested. But if you're pitching me a black detective show in which every two or three episodes are about The Talk and White Supremacy and George Floyd and white superiors denying promotions to qualified black cops and giving those promotions to Mediocre White Men -- that's gonna be a "no" from me, dog. And that's what a lot of this crap is. These creators are frustrated because they want to make very didactic, lecturing fare and be rewarded and beloved for it. But that's not what the public wants, and it's never been what the public wants. As Samuel Goldwyn said 80 years ago (I think): "If you want to send a message, use Western Union." Partly they do this because projects that would never, ever have gotten greenlit in the past were suddenly mandatory due to the DEI takeover of all corporations. Partly it might be a kind of employment-guarantee: If a project is specifically about "The Black Experience in America," well, you know that all of the lead roles and key positions will have to go to black people. But no one wants this. They never did. During the height of DEI, Hollywood lost hundreds of millions of dollars every year making one sure-moneyloser woke lecture after another. Losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year is not a sustainable business model.
"We all know that, typically, when we're talking about diversity, equity [and] inclusion, it is about giving people opportunities that would otherwise not have them as opposed to pity hires and pity shows and the like," she continued. "It's changed meanings and has become a bad word, but it hasn't affected what we do and who I create for and what our company creates for and who we prioritize. And it never will." Rae was asked about Hollywood and other major industries rolling back DEI initiatives since President Donald Trump took office again in 2025. As a series creator herself, Rae admitted that people have to be "smarter" about how they package diverse projects. "Like, 'It's not a show about a Black woman, it's a show about class,'" Rae said. "As icky as that might feel, it gets the show sold. You know, a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down."
There is an entire grifter industry in Hollywood of people taking a mafia-like cut of projects. Crap DEI director Ava DuVernay has a whole business based upon the concept of DEI entrepreneurialism, monetizing white guilt and the George Floyd propaganda effort. It's called "ARRAY." You know, an array of skin colors and diverse lived experiences.
array now https://arraynow.com Founded in 2011 by filmmaker Ava DuVernay, ARRAY is a Peabody award-winning arts and social impact collective dedicated to narrative change.
She's been complaining since 2024 that the DEI grift isn't paying off like it had in the prior years. But how long did you think you could milk the George Floyd grift?
Well isn't that what you should have done in the first place, instead of playing the Black Female Card to get people to "invest" in projects that had no chance of breaking even?
Ava DuVernay On Hollywood's Diversity Failures: She's "Tapping Out" & Will Go "Make My Movies" Ava DuVernay is frustrated, and perhaps the odd way her acclaimed drama, "Origin" has largely been ignored by the awards circuit hasn't helped ("I wish she was at the Globes or SAG Awards or Critics Choice or the other nominations that didn't come," the filmmaker recently lamented about her "Origin" star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor). It's no secret that the ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion are under attack in the United States at the moment (just look at what happened to former Harvard President Claudine Gay and the coordinated attack on her from the far right that led her to step down from her post). There's been a concerted effort and campaign among the conservative forces in this country to disassemble DEI initiatives and it's clear as day (you can cite dozens of articles on this topic, but feel free to read "Republicans are at war with corporate America over diversity" at The Hill or "Conservatives See Claudine Gay's Resignation As A Victory" in the New York Times or just yesterday, "DEI Goes Quiet" from the Times). And all you need to do is look around at the way the diversity movement is receding in Hollywood, much like the way #MeToo did after it had its moment. Many conservatives see all these movements as "overcorrections" to roll back. DuVernay was on the Talk Easy podcast recently and vented her frustrations about it all when asked about the attack on DEI in this country and the growing voices in the conservative right that are trying to systematically dismantle these practices ("After #MeToo Reckoning, a Fear Hollywood Is Regressing," is also another key NYTimes article to read). In her long response, DuVernay said she would be "tapping out" of the "Hollywood industrial complex" and would "pass the baton" to others over the industry's ongoing failures in diversity and inclusion. "This town does not want it," she said. ... "I'm going to build another house; I'm going to go over to the house that I've built on my own and focus on that," she explained. "That's where I am today, like I did it all, and I'm good. I'm just gonna over here and make my movies."
What did her efforts achieve? According to DuVernay, she couldn't move the DEI needle in the way she wanted, and that's the source of her frustrations with the Hollywood industry at large, "I think I've done things to help but that those are isolated incidents that are [anomalies]. [The system can be fixed], sure it can, but it needs cooperation, it needs people to want to do it and this town does not want to do it."Well it does want "to do it," but Hollywood is now on the verge of collapse. At some point a business has to actually start producing widgets the public is actually interested in buying. Of course, DEI lecturing isn't limited to female and black creators. All of NBC's white liberal showrunners are determined to push the party line in every single show, for example.
The surprising racial and gender bias in 'Law and Order' John Sides - January 3, 2017Spoiler alert: You will not be surprised.
For many years, variants of the show "Law and Order" have been among the most popular television programs about crime. At times, they have been among the most popular programs, period. "Law and Order: SVU" still airs on NBC. Social science research tells us that the public often learns about crime -- and especially its racial implications -- from how it is portrayed on television. A new paper by Gaurav Sood and Daniel Trielli analyzes "Law and Order" and comes to a surprising conclusion: In its portrayal of both perpetrators and victims, "Law and Order" is biased in terms of both race and gender, but not in the way you'd expect. The show over-represents whites and females as both victims and perpetrators.That is exactly what I expected.
In total, Sood and Trielli analyzed 731 episodes from three different "Law and Order" series: the original, "SVU," and "Criminal Intent." They identified the gender and race of over 1,100 criminals and over 1,500 victims portrayed on these episodes. They compared the racial and gender breakdown among criminals and victims to government statistics for similar types of crime and periods of time. Here is what they found. Criminals Black criminals are less common on "Law and Order" than in reality. The graph below shows that in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), about 30 percent of criminals are black (with higher percentages among those arrested for murder or rape). But in each of the "Law and Order" series, about 10 percent are black.Even when a criminal turns out to be black, he's not the real criminal, who will turn out to be a white guy and usually a white supremacist who goaded him into committing the crime.
... "Law and Order" also distorts the true proportion of blacks and women who are crime victims. It dramatically underrepresents blacks as victims, especially with regard to murder. About 50 percent of murder victims are black, according to the FBI, but on "Law and Order" just over 10 percent of victims are black. The show overrepresents females as victims. Just over 20 percent of murder victims are women, but on "Law and Order" it is upward of 40 percent and, on "Law and Order: SVU," 60 percent.The female thing isn't due to political bias-- it's due to these shows being beloved by female, and in particular urban liberal females (AWFULs). Women like stories about women. Related: They've torn down the sets for the cancelled woke identity "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" show -- Gay Klingons Eating Pudding -- as well as the sets for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and they're selling the props at auction.
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Bill Cosby SuperFan Eric Swalwell's Resignation Is Official, Effective Immediately
Would you like some Jello Puddin' with your rufies
Jennifer Van Laar reports that the earliest the election can be held is 126 days after the slippery-assed governor declares a vacancy.Just about two hours after the latest allegations against California Democrat Eric Swalwell became public, the former gubernatorial candidate is now a former member of the House of Representatives. ...Other Democratic sex-pests and Registered Sex Offenders are now "jockeying" to fill Eric Swalwell's seat, which coincidentally is also what his fellow prisoners will be doing when his juicy ass is thrown into the clink. Click on the link for that.
Now that Swalwell's seat is officially vacant, California Gov. Gavin Newsom can call a special election to fill it. According to the California Government Code, "A special election to fill a vacancy in the office of Representative in Congress, State Senator, or Member of the Assembly shall be conducted on a Tuesday at least 126 days, but not more than 140 days, following the issuance of an election proclamation by the Governor pursuant to Section 1773 of the Government Code." Assuming that Newsom issues that proclamation today, that election could take place on August 18, 2026. If one candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote in that election, they will win the seat outright and can be seated immediately. Before that, on June 2, the primary election for that seat for the next term of Congress will occur.
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Documents: Biden's Autopen Autocrats Knew About Elevated Stroke Risk from the Covid Jab But, Get This, Covered It Up and Falsified #TheScience
They told the public a lie while searching for any evidence that might support that lie. And they decided that, because they were still "examining the evidence" -- searching for some thin reed to hang their lie on -- the public was not entitled to any warnings during this period of investigation. But do note they told the public a lie even though the investigation was ongoing. It was not the case that they believed that they should issue no conclusions at all prior to the conclusion of the seven different analyses. They issued a statement they knew to be false during this period. From late March: Documents reveal Biden Autopen Autocrats "edited" -- falsified -- reports about the risk of stroke from the covid jab, downplaying the actual science so that the political commissars could continue telling their lies. The first email says that "they" don't want to see the report on covid jab stroke risk ever again. The second document shows them editing the actual science stating that there is a "moderately" elevated risk of stroke, downgrading it to a "slightly" elevated risk. They falsified the science to make it agree with their already-determined political conclusions.
New details emerging from a Senate investigation confirm that Biden administration officials at both the FDA and CDC knew about a significant stroke risk tied to Pfizer's bivalent COVID-19 booster in people over 65. They knew. And they said nothing. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, formally notified HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of the findings in a letter backed by roughly 2,000 pages of federal documents.Between November 2022 and March 2023, seven separate analyses of incoming data flagged the same stroke signal for the same vulnerable population. Seven. Yet not a single formal warning went out. "HHS records show that as early as October 2022, federal health officials identified a potential connection between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent booster and ischemic stroke for individuals over the age of 65," Johnson wrote. The CDC's own data shows 226 stroke cases reported between August 2022 and February 2023, with additional cases continuing to roll in through 2024. Instead of warning the public, the Biden administration buried the data and hired a private contractor. In February 2023, HHS brought in Lukos LLC to run an internal program called "The Stroke Project" -- a deeper dive into the data -- while continuing to tell the public that the vaccines were safe. As Johnson put it, "from the initial detection of the safety signal in late 2022, through contractor-led case review, VAERS data-mining analyses, and follow-up VSD studies referenced in MMWR publications through at least September 2024, health officials continued to say the vaccine was safe while simultaneously searching for evidence to support that assertion."
On August 31, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") authorized the PfizerBioNTech COVID-19 bivalent booster. By late October 2022, HHS reported that approximately 14.4 million people 12 years and older had received the booster. In November 2022, federal health officials became aware of a statistically significant safety signal for ischemic stroke among individuals age 65 and older following administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent booster. An ischemic stroke occurs when a blood vessel supplying the brain becomes blocked, preventing blood and oxygen from reaching parts of the brain. Despite the monthslong persistence of this safety signal in multiple vaccine safety surveillance systems, Biden's FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC") did not issue any formal health alerts, nor did they advise the public to avoid the vaccine. Instead, federal health officials continued to tell the public the vaccine was safe, but behind closed doors, they initiated multiple studies and statistical analyses--including a so-called "Stroke Project"--to investigate the validity of their assertion. These investigations continued through at least September 2025.
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Ana Paulina Luna: It's Going to Get Worse for Eric Rapewell, and He Might Wind Up in Prison
PLUS: Another Drugging and Rape Allegation Note that while I waved a yellow flag on him cavorting with a woman on a hotel bed, I now believe this video is real. No one has actually debunked it, and Luna says it's real and I believe her because she is scalding hot and her lips glimmer like the stars on a spring night.
PLUS: Another Drugging and Rape Allegation Note that while I waved a yellow flag on him cavorting with a woman on a hotel bed, I now believe this video is real. No one has actually debunked it, and Luna says it's real and I believe her because she is scalding hot and her lips glimmer like the stars on a spring night.
Luna appeared on Fox News with Jesse Watters Monday night and warned that more damaging material about Swalwell would be coming within 24 hours, and she made clear that what she already knows is bad enough on its own. "I do think that he has serious criminal problems on his hands, and I do think that he might end up in jail," Luna told Watters. "Not only did I receive forensic reporting showing that you know, that infamous video of him in the hotel room was indeed him -- it was not AI-generated -- but I'm also being told that... more stuff is going to be dropping in the next 24 hours, and that also potentially the individual that recorded that video in the hotel room was a female and she was underage," she claimed. Underage? Well, Swalwell's problem just got so much worse.That video at the link.
"I do think that he has serious criminal problems on his hands, and I do think that he might end up in jail." She concluded the segment by calling on the Manhattan DA to take a hard look at the criminal dimensions of the case.Another woman has come forward to allege Rapewell drugged and then raped her.
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Wisconsin Sheriff Sues Liar for Claiming She Was Detained by ICE for Two Days -- When She Was Actually at a Hotel Getting Spa Treatments
There must be consequences for disinformation and defamation. Isn't that what the self-appointed "Disinformation Experts" told us when they tried to ban Joe Rogan?
Woman claimed she was detained by ICE for two days -- but was actually at hotel getting spa treatments: lawsuit
An Illinois woman who claimed she was detained by ICE for nearly two days was actually relaxing at a hotel getting spa treatments, according to a $1 million defamation suit filed by a county sheriff. US citizen Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, 28, gained national attention last month when she and a band of supporters -- including Cook County, Ill., Commissioner Kevin Morrison -- publicly insisted she was unlawfully detained by ICE officers for roughly 43 hours. Naqvi claimed that after landing back in the US from a work trip to Turkey on the morning of March 5, she was detained for nearly 30 hours at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, then transferred to another ICE facility in Broadview, Ill., before winding up at Dodge County Jail in Wisconsin. Morrison, who called the Chicago-area native his "best friend's sister," shared questionable screenshots of Naqvi's location at the Juneau, Wisc., jail on Facebook -- and decried the alleged incident during a tense media conference alongside Naqvi's sister March 8. "This is a 28-year-old girl just left on the street by ICE in another state, without her property," the commissioner said. He claimed Naqvi was released from custody in the early hours of March 7, then hitchhiked nine miles to a hotel, where she was met by family. The Department of Homeland Security called the claims "blatantly false" -- and even posted surveillance footage from the airport showing Naqvi entering a secondary inspection zone that morning and leaving around an hour later. "Ms. Naqvi departed CBP within 90 minutes of her arrival to the United States...[she] was not taken into custody or transferred to ICE for detention," DHS wrote in a March 10 X statement. The Dodge County Sheriff's Office also said it had no record of Naqvi ever "being booked, detained, or released" at the local jail.
But Morrison, who is running for a seat in Congress, doubled down -- even accusing the officials of "lying" and "trying to create a cover-up," according to the Wisconsin outlet WISN 12 News. Now Naqvi and Morrison are the subjects of a federal defamation lawsuit filed by Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt on Friday -- as his office released new details of Naqvi's actual actions during the alleged hoax period. "She checked into the Hampton Inn and Suites in Rosemont, Ill., for the entire duration of this alleged event," Schmidt said during a press conference, where he presented a hotel bill and text receipts to illustrate Naqvi's time there. The folio shows Naqvi checked in at the Hampton Inn -- just a 10-minute drive from the airport -- at 1:17 p.m. March 5, while text messages with an unidentified witness over the following days show she enjoyed free food, spa services and trips to the gym. "May I use ur card to order some food" and "going to check out the gym in like 5," read texts from Naqvi to the witness, according to authorities. "May i use your card to pay my spa lady?" another says in screenshots released by the sheriff's office. The witness told cops he also drove Naqvi to a nearby gas station in the early hours of March 7. Surveillance footage taken from that outing revealed Naqvi brazenly wearing the same clothes that she's later seen sporting in a "reunited" picture uploaded to Facebook just hours later, according to the sheriff's office. ... Though Wisconsin authorities were not able to bring criminal charges in this case, Schmidt is seeking justice through the lawsuit, officials said. Schmidt is requesting a jury trial and seeking damages no less than $1 million per defendant -- including 10 "John Does" -- who he said caused "reputational harm...particularly as he prepares for a re-election campaign in 2026."
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Fading into Irrelevance or Scurrying for Cover? [Seamus Muldoon]
This is a Proposed Rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on 12/19/2025 which threatens to withhold payments from facilities that continue to offer hormone treatments for gender dysphoria in patients under age 18. Secretary Kennedy is now using the phrase "sex-rejecting procedures" in place of the euphemistic "gender-affirming care". In addition to questioning the pro-trans viewpoint of the American Academy of Pediatrics and WPATH and the Endocrine Society published treatment guidelines, Kennedy cites trends in England and Europe spearheaded by the Cass Review that are questioning the supposed benefits of hormones and transsexual surgeries. This rule is now being litigated. In addition to the proposed HHS rule, CHCO has been referred for investigation by the HHS Inspector General. The Colorado Sun (1/2/26):
Children’s Hospital Colorado has suspended gender-affirming care for transgender youth amid a new federal investigation Along with other children's hospitals and 18 state AGs, Children's Hospital Colorado (CHCO) is mounting legal challenges to the proposed rule by HHS that threatens suspension of ALL Medicaid and Medicare payments to CHCO across the board for ALL patients. Since more than half of CHCO's overall patient population is funded by Medicaid, this would be a massive hit to CHCO's funding and CHCO has temporarily backed off...for now. Although CHCO has suspended writing prescriptions for puberty blockers and cross-gender hormones, they signal via their TRUE Center for Gender Diversity that they are fighting the HHS proposed rule and offer encouragement that these services may be available at some point in the future. From the TRUE Center's home page:
Chris Bray at The Federalist:
California Is Trying To Save The Pediatric Trans Industry Because It’s Dying In this April 7, 2026 piece, Bray posits that the retrenching, pausing or shuttering of children's hospital gender clinics in response to federal and legal pressure signals the demise of the transgender fad. Let's take a look at that premise. Becker's Hospital Review gives a brief summary of the current status here: Hospitals and gender care for minors: Where things stand In December RFK Jt. submitted this comprehensive review of the state of gender programs for children: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Hospital Condition of Participation: Prohibiting Sex-Rejecting Procedures for ChildrenThis is a Proposed Rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on 12/19/2025 which threatens to withhold payments from facilities that continue to offer hormone treatments for gender dysphoria in patients under age 18. Secretary Kennedy is now using the phrase "sex-rejecting procedures" in place of the euphemistic "gender-affirming care". In addition to questioning the pro-trans viewpoint of the American Academy of Pediatrics and WPATH and the Endocrine Society published treatment guidelines, Kennedy cites trends in England and Europe spearheaded by the Cass Review that are questioning the supposed benefits of hormones and transsexual surgeries. This rule is now being litigated. In addition to the proposed HHS rule, CHCO has been referred for investigation by the HHS Inspector General. The Colorado Sun (1/2/26):
Children’s Hospital Colorado has suspended gender-affirming care for transgender youth amid a new federal investigation Along with other children's hospitals and 18 state AGs, Children's Hospital Colorado (CHCO) is mounting legal challenges to the proposed rule by HHS that threatens suspension of ALL Medicaid and Medicare payments to CHCO across the board for ALL patients. Since more than half of CHCO's overall patient population is funded by Medicaid, this would be a massive hit to CHCO's funding and CHCO has temporarily backed off...for now. Although CHCO has suspended writing prescriptions for puberty blockers and cross-gender hormones, they signal via their TRUE Center for Gender Diversity that they are fighting the HHS proposed rule and offer encouragement that these services may be available at some point in the future. From the TRUE Center's home page:
At this time, the TRUE Center is not able to offer prescriptions for medical gender-affirming care for patients under the age of 18 years. Patients and families can meet with medical experts to obtain comprehensive medical education about treatment options that patients may seek in the future.So, it appears that the TRUE Center is being cagey about their intentions and that their suspension of hormone prescriptions is merely a dodge to protect the CHCO mothership from stiff financial penalties They are rabid zealots and Gender-Affirming Care is still their top priority and ultimate goal. They clearly hope the legal challenges will fall in their favor, allowing them to resume what I prefer to call Delusion-Affirming Abuse. They are not suspending the prescriptions because of principle or a willingness to reconsider the deeper implications of these life-altering drugs. No, they are pausing while behind the scenes they are strategically regrouping and doubling down on their core beliefs. I suspect that Bray's assessment of the pending demise of childhood transgender programs is premature. The reaction of the transgender zealots is more akin to cockroaches scurrying for cover when the kitchen light is turned on. For each one you see, there are a hundred laying in wait. One additional point. Let us not forget that with the passage of Obamacare, the Secretary of HHS was granted broad purview over all aspects of the federal healthcare system, including Medicare and Medicaid Rules. "The Secretary shall...this" and "The Secretary shall...that" are peppered throughout the Affordable Care Act, leaving HHS in charge of the nuts and bolts of implementing O-care. That stands in stark contrast to the current Democrat-led litigation seeking to micromanage the current Secretary's application of the same authority simply because it threatens the zealots' pet programs.
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Joséphine Bowes
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The Morning Report --4/ 14 /26
Good morning kids. Hopefully the sudden bizarre formatting bugs over the past couple of days have been ironed out and when this posts you should be free of the black diamonds or other distracting crap and see normal text, so thanks for bearing with it. With that out of the way, let's dive right in. On the latest episode of the podcast linked here
as well as in the sidebar and on the popular platforms noted at the bottom of the post, CBD a nd I took the logical approach in predicting that degenerate sex-pest and dupe/williing confederate of Chi-Com spy Fang Fang Eric Swalwell's departure from the California gubernatorial race would not necessarily affect his political career. Democrat scum criminals (pardon the redundancy) rarely if ever suffer any repercussions from their crimes. And so it comes as kind of a shock that not only has he withdrawn from the race for Sacramento but has actually resigned his House seat.
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Good morning kids. Hopefully the sudden bizarre formatting bugs over the past couple of days have been ironed out and when this posts you should be free of the black diamonds or other distracting crap and see normal text, so thanks for bearing with it. With that out of the way, let's dive right in. On the latest episode of the podcast linked here
as well as in the sidebar and on the popular platforms noted at the bottom of the post, CBD a nd I took the logical approach in predicting that degenerate sex-pest and dupe/williing confederate of Chi-Com spy Fang Fang Eric Swalwell's departure from the California gubernatorial race would not necessarily affect his political career. Democrat scum criminals (pardon the redundancy) rarely if ever suffer any repercussions from their crimes. And so it comes as kind of a shock that not only has he withdrawn from the race for Sacramento but has actually resigned his House seat.
“I am deeply sorry to my family, staff, and constituents for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegation made against me. However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I did make,” he said.Absolutely galling if not completely unsurprising is his hollow remonstration that these are "false allegations" even as he calls it quits in not only the governor's race but in ankling from Congress itself! Well, hell, if he's innocent then why head for the emergency exit?! Despite the fact that he's not only a Democrat but a California Democrat, which in theory should've made him utterly invulnerable; there have been musings over the past few weeks that California may not be so ironclad Democrat, and with their electoral system a hot mess there is even a chance, slim though it may be, that a Republican could win the statehouse or even swipe one or more House seats come November? So maybe there is something that the party bosses fear could be extremely damaging to the Democrats both as the race for the midterms heats up and perhaps longer term and, more crucially for the Leftist movement in general over the longer haul? UPDATE: Swalwell has not actually resigned but only announced his intention to resign. And that day might be tomorrow or the 12th of Never-JJS And elsewhere, although this is not news it nonetheless is absolutely bone-chilling and indicative of the mindset of the Democrat Party and Leftist movement.
“I am aware of efforts to bring an immediate expulsion vote against me and other members. Expelling anyone in Congress without due process, within days of an allegation being made, is wrong. But it’s also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties,” Swalwell added. “Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress. I will work with my staff in the coming days to ensure they are able, in my absence, to serve the needs of the good people of the 14th congressional district.” Swalwell dropped out of the California governor’s race on Sunday night, after losing nearly all of his endorsements.
The Department of Justice under former [s0-called quote-unquote[President Joe Biden “withheld evidence” and approved “aggressive arrest tactics” when targeting pro-life defendants — and then slapped them with longer prison sentences than pro-abortion ones, according to an explosive internal review released Tuesday. The DOJ revealed the stunning abuses in a nearly 900-page report after examining more than 700,000 records related to the Biden administration&'s prosecutions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The 1994 law was passed to protect access to houses of worship, religious institutions, abortion clinics and pregnancy resource centers. But the Biden DOJ was found to have engaged multiple times in “biased enforcement” of it — while also collaborating with and even seeking to fund pro-abortion groups, according to the DOJ Office of Legal Policy report. Emails show the task force, led by civil division trial attorney Sanjay Patel, worked closely with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Feminist Majority Foundation and the National Abortion Federation (NAF) Security Team to initiate investigations and “monitor” pro-life activists — sometimes for years — before requesting arrest warrants and filing charges. In a Nov. 17, 2021, email, before the task force was launched, Patel had already praised NAF’s security director, Michelle Davidson, to colleagues as an “MVP” at “bringing incidents to my attention, often in real-time, which usually result in an investigation/prosecution.” The task force director was not nearly as chummy with defense counsel for one of the first pro-lifers indicted for illegally blocking access to an abortion clinic after the Dobbs decision, writing in a Feb. 22, 2023, email that he didn’t “keep the kind of records” the lawyer requested about the total number of “prosecutions for vandalisms of pregnancy centers. . . . . . The task force director claimed the “main reason” for the public show of force was “in hope of seizing phones” pursuant to search warrants, an Oct. 4, 2022, email disclosed. “I think the unspoken reason is bc the FBI really likes to make arrests,” Patel added. The Biden DOJ also liked to seek higher prison sentences against pro-lifers charged with non-violent FACE Act violations. On average, its prosecutors sought 26.8 months in prison for pro-life defendants, compared with 12.3 months averaged for pro-abortion ones.” . . . Judges also sentenced those pro-lifers at higher rates, 14 months to 3 months. President Trump, on his third day in office, signed pardons for 23 pro-lifers convicted of FACE Act violations under the prior administration, many of whom he said were “elderly” and should not have been prosecuted. Houck was acquitted by a federal jury in January 2023 and later reached a settlement with the Biden DOJ “This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement Tuesday. “No Department should conduct selective prosecution based on beliefs.”This is as horrible and in some profound ways perhaps worse than assassins' bullets and molotov cocktails. Continuing in that vein the estimable Margot Cleveland who has covered this beat since the beginning.
These new revelations should wake Americans up to how the deep state and a complicit media sought to thwart their electoral will. . . . . .The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ('HPSCI')released two transcripts Monday morning from the 2019 closed-door interviews of the then-Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Michael Atkinson. The just-released transcripts reveal new details behind the scheming that led to the first impeachment of Donald Trump.. . ... In addition to all the backdoor scheming between the “whistleblower,” Vindman, Democrats on HPSCI, and, through at best, his willful ignorance, Atkinson, the transcripts released Monday also highlight the politicization of the FBI that continued under Trump 1.0 after Director James Comey’s firing.
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- Biden DOJ prosecutors on average sought 26.8 months in prison for pro-life defendants charged with non-violent crimes, compared with 12.3 months averaged for pro-abortion ones.
Biden DOJ ‘weaponized’ federal law to prosecute pro-lifers and give them longer prison sentences
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Daily Tech News 14 April 2026
Top Story
- Answering the questions nobody is asking: Can AI be a "child of God"? (Washington Post / MSN)
Something needs to be done about Anthropic.
- Sam Altman's home has been targeted by violent idiots for the second time in a week. (SF Standard)
That's not it, guys.
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April 13, 2026
Monday Overnight Open Thread - April 13, 2026 [scampydog]
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Happy Monday. Hope you all tried to behave over the weekend. Misanthropic Humanitarian took the evening off, and I've been thawed out from my cryogenic ONT retirement freeze. Please adjust your expectations accordingly.
The main dome of the observatory houses an 8.25 inch refracting telescope, on a German equatorial mount. The ashes of the astronomer Daniel Walter Morehouse, and those of his wife Myrtle, are interred within the wall of the observatory rotunda.Observatory sits in the middle of Waveland Golf Course, Des Moines, IA. Got a few good pictures of it over the weekend (and one golf ball a bit closer than I'd have liked).
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Focus and Determination Cafe
Two streetwalkers in Montparnasse looking for trade
Brassai, Paris 1931
Two streetwalkers in Montparnasse looking for trade
Brassai, Paris 1931
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