Mid-Morning Art Thread

Zonnebeke
Sir William Orpen

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The Morning Report — 4/ 23/26

Good morning kids, Here's a bit of good news to start things off for a change. In the wake of the nightmarish redistricting vote in Virginia, sanity has quickly prevailed in the OldDominion:

The decision halts the certification process, potentially blocking changes to Virginia’s congressional map, pending the outcome of the appeal. The new map, authorized in a close referendum on Tuesday, heavily favors the Democrats, likely handing the party another four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

At least in the near term, I don't expect this to be resolved before the midterms which was certainly why the evil commie bastards rammed this abomination through when they did. It's not just about Virginia, this vote had and might yet have national implications first of all to completely derail President Trump's remaining two years and then wipe out any national GOP aspirations going forward. Absolute power by every means at their disposal is the Left's ultimate goal, same as it ever was since time immemorial.

Given the vicissitudes of a top down corrupted judiciary, this situation may yet go in the Democrats favor, but at least for now we may have dodged a pretty significant electoral/political bullet.

All of that said, there has been much anger aimed at the GOP for being woefully unprepared for this vote, and rightfully so. For sure the party is at best useless and feckless and at worst collaborating with the Democrats on every level and on every issue. This in spite of the fact that Virginia and America in general is still a distinctly if not overwhelmingly conservative or non-crazy-leftist nation (or is it?). And for sure millions of dollars from the DNC and the usual Soros and other Leftist front groups were poured in to buy the victory.

Yes the Virginia and National GOP have much to answer for but at the end of the day, despite all of the aforementioned, we can bitch and moan about the Grifting Oleaginous Parasites until the cows come home, but the reality is is that it's the voters who don't show up that bear the responsibility for yesterday's abomination. Surely Virginians were not clueless about the ramifications of losing this vote and yet how is it that this was able to pass? 'nuff said.

Naturally the criminals who foisted this on us are warning us not to do unto them what they have done to us because that would be un"Democratic" shall we say. It is to vomit:

In a statement to PunchBowl News founder Jake Sherman, Hakeem Jeffries said that Republicans in Florida will suffer further losses if they move forward with redistricting.
 “If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas,” he said.
“We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win.” Jeffries added, “Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

Aside from Democrats, speaking of invasive parasitic worms that destroy everything in their path:

A destructive, fast-moving invader is wriggling its way into yards across the US, and officials say Californians should be on alert. Agriculture authorities are sounding the alarm over the Asian jumping worm, a highly invasive species that’s already been spotted in multiple states, including the Golden State. . . The worms are easy to spot, and hard to forget.

They’re smooth, dark gray or brown, with a distinctive flat, milky-white band circling their bodies near the head. Bridging the gap between a gardener’s nightmare and a Klingon’s dream, reports indicate that the invasive Asian jumping worm can flip its body a foot into the air, a violent thrashing behavior that perfectly mirrors the legendary Star Trek delicacy, Gagh.
. ..With no reliable way to eliminate them once established, officials are urging residents to focus on prevention.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• he decision halts the certification process, potentially blocking changes to Virginia’s congressional map, pending the outcome of the appeal. The new map, authorized in a close referendum on Tuesday, heavily favors the Democrats, likely handing the party another four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  Judge Blocks Virginia Redistricting Referendum Certification Over Constitutional Violations.

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Daily Tech News 23 April 2026

Top Story

• TSMC has shown off its roadmap through 2029 - heading towards 1.2nm chips. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That used to be not a lot. In fact, it probably wouldn't be possible if the numbers were still real, but they haven't been real for twenty years.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile TeraFab, the SpaceX / Tesla joint venture in chipmaking, will be using Intel's 14A - 1.4nm - process. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They'll be running their own fabs; they'll just be licensing Intel's technology rather than starting from scratch (which would take years).
  
  

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Wednesday Night ONT - April 22, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. Now that the sweet, sweet flow of SPLC "research" money has dried up, the ONT no longer has the budget for totally organic grassroots protests. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers in this difficult time. The bar is open.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace and Megyn free zone. Please.

[Top photo: 1956 and 1958 John Deere 520 tractors, Paul Schmitt, Fort Atkinson, Iowa]

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These Racist Puppy Videos Brought to You By Secret Funding by the SPLC Cafe

This dog was paid $130,000 by the SPLC
to steal equipment from the Midnight Tennis league in Baltimore

This dog spent all day posting racist memes on Gab, under the direction of the SPLC, and boy are his arms tired.

These innocent-looking capybaras just took off their matching blue button-downs and tan khakis and are sore from marching around all day carrying tiki-torches (furnished to them by the SPLC).

This dog is grinning because he just cashed a check for $30,000 for barking extra hard at black mailmen.

This cat was returned home after spending six months as an SPLC "researcher" (which means he posted child porn on conservative message boards).

This white dog fought off 13 coyotes and was denounced by the SPLC as a "racist ICE hound."

The SPLC has secretly formed an airborne battalion of Flying Racists.

This albino sea turtle complained about the forty remoras free-riding on him and was immediately put on the SPLC "hate map." He was shot and killed shortly thereafter.

This white cerval was paid to infiltrate this rotweiler neighborhood and stir up trouble.

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Quick Hits

Hmmmm...

The media is pumping out SPLC propaganda, claiming they're being sued for "paying informants," while hiding the actual indictment so that their stupid NPC readers can't see what they're really charged with:

Robby Soave
@robbysoave

I'm always flummoxed when mainstream news sources describe a lawsuit, indictment, or pertinent document without actually linking to it. The SPLC indictment isn't linked in New York Times, AP, BBC, The Guardian, or any of first 10 sources I checked. Just have to take their word for it.

Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi

Making readers jump through hoops to find the full quote or original source document is a gross new propaganda technique.

Only "very fine people" do it, you know.

The Rabbit Hole
@TheRabbitHole

"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as racists."

-- Thomas Sowell

The "virtual winery" owned by Ilhan Omar and her "husband," claimed to be worth millions, has been legally dissolved days after she amended her financial disclosures to say she's not a millionaire and it was just a big whoopsie to inflate her personal fortune.

Didn't they prosecute Trump for that?

Here, America's Sweetheart (TM) snaps at a reporter asking about the "revision" to her financials: "I don't have to tell you jack shit."

BTW, what is a "virtual winery"? I don't know, but it's not a real winery, or else they would just say "winery." What I imagine is that it's a "winery" with no actual vinyard -- that is, it's just a label. They buy wine from others -- cheap wine, I'd bet -- slap a label on it, and sell it.

You know what's interesting about wine? No one can say with legal precision how much a bottle of wine is worth. Much like Hunter Biden's watercolors, doncha know. Political sympathizers could maybe possibly "buy" cases and cases of greatly over-priced cheapo-beapo "virtual wine" to funnel bribes and illegal campaign contributions to a politician with a level of plausible deniability.

Is that what happened here? I'm not saying. And neither is Ilhan Omar. She doesn't have to tell you jack shit.

MSNOW's full-spectrum failure Alex Wagner -- they have repeatedly pushed her as a "star" influencer with millions of dollars of push, and she's failed every time -- forgives Tuq'r Qarlson and welcomes him as an ally in the Democrat War on America.

'This Is Hard For Me To Say': MS NOW's Alex Wagner Says Tucker Carlson's Trump Apology 'Feels' Genuine

MS NOW's Alex Wagner admitted Tucker Carlson's apology for helping to elect President Donald Trump "feels" genuine, though she remains skeptical of how much help he could actually be to Democrats.

...

"I do think it's like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. You know, we'll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I'm sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional. That's all I'll say," Carlson said.

Wagner first said she was "cynical" about Carlson's declaration, though she eventually conceded that she feels the "tortured" Carlson was "genuine" in expressing remorse for throwing support behind Trump.

She said:

I guess it's welcome if overdue. Pardon me for being a little cynical about the mea culpa. Ari, this is someone who witnessed Trump stage and foment an insurrection at the Capitol and still went and campaigned for the man. Like, did you not think his narcissism was malignant in early January of 2021? Because I sure did. Like, here was a man that clearly was going to stop at nothing, including tearing down our own democracy, to regain power. So the idea that it's just dawned on him that this man's moral compass may not be pointing in the right direction, and he may not be operating with the most strategic manual is like maybe a little bit late and maybe a little bit not as genuine as I wish it was.

She ultimately concluded the public break from Trump for Carlson was a purposeful move that he can't easily go back on.

"This is hard for me to say, but it feels like the apology is genuine. And I also don't know that you can find your way back to supporting Trump once you've had that sort of emotional, sort of almost therapy-like session," Wagner said, adding, "I don't think it should be making Democrats think that Tucker Carlson is going to go out on the campaign trail for them just yet."

But it will. He will follow his leader Nick Fuentes in actively campaigning for the Nazi Right to vote for Kamala Harris.

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Virginia Democrats Barely Get Their Gerrymander Referendum Passed, but a Virginia Judge Just Ruled it Unconstitutional

The referendum passed 51% to 49% in blue-as-ice Virginia. That doesn't sound like a coming Blue Wave to me.

But it did pass. And Democrats will use this power to increase their congressional delegation from six to five to 10 to one.

But a judge says hold on -- this was all unconstitutional.

Former Virginia attorney general and Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli II posted on X Wednesday about the gerrymandered map, "UPDATE on referendum lawsuits: The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional. The Judge entered an injunction blocking certification of the election & denied a motion to stay pending appeal. A final order will be entered once drafted, & it will be immediately appealed."

The new map would almost certainly hand ten out of eleven congressional districts to Democrat control. This would impact not only Virginia, therefore, but the Republican-Democrat balance of power in the U.S. Congress.

Cuccinelli had already predicted that the election results last night were not the final say on Virginia Democrats' gerrymandering. He noted that the "[f]irst passage was invalid," as the "amendment was taken up during a special session convened in 2024 for budget purposes. The General Assembly's own call to the Governor (under Art. IV, §6 and Art. V, §5) and its governing resolution (HJR 6001) limited the session's scope. Expanding it to include a constitutional amendment on redistricting required a two-thirds vote that never occurred." In light of this, a Tazewell County judge ruled that this action was "void, ab initio."

So to even vote this into a referendum, they needed a two-thirds majority vote, which they never even tried to get, so the referendum was never legally before the public.

There are additional procedural defects, which have to do with timing and so bore me, but you can click the link to read about those.

And finally, as a challenge to the proposed map, "Art. II, §6 requires that 'every electoral district shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory.' The proposed congressional maps violate this contiguity requirement (rather badly)," Cuccinelli wrote.

The Democrats created a giant lobster-shaped district to mix their ultra-blue northeatern voters with red voters in the south and west of the state. It's barely "contiguous" and not "compact" at all, sprawling, as it does, across half the state, a three hour drive from one end to the other.

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The SPLC Paid "Unite the Right" -- AKA Boost the Left -- $250,000 and Reaped Over $50 Million in Fundraising Off Its Investment In Manufactured "White Supremacy"

The Rate of Return on "racism" is incredible. "Racism" should be in everybody's investment portfolio!

And the political benefits -- incalculable!

Disinformation Expert Lizzy
@StarChamberMaid

Not a bad investment: $270K--->$81.6M

If only the left were that good with taxpayer money.

SPLC should be dissolved and the officers thrown in jail.

I mentioned that the SPLC funded the fake "Unite the Right" rally that serves the Democrat-Media Complex's main op during the 2020 election.

But I didn't know how deep SPLC's stage-managing of a "white supremacist rally" went.

We already knew that the "fine people" hoax was based on the lie that Trump called white supremacists "fine people," instead of, as he did, condemning them. But until yesterday, we didn't know that the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville and whose protest led to the death of one person were bused there on the Southern Poverty Law Center's dime, and were organized to be there by an SPLC "informer."

They funded the riot, organized the riot, bused the marchers to the riot -- and then fundraised off of liberals, promising to stop the very organization that was their paid-for pet!

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Wow: The Hit on Kash Patel Was a Pre-Emptive Strike Arranged by the SPLC to Dirty Up His Image Before News of the Indictment Came Out?

Of course. Of course.

I can't wait for Kash Patel's discovery of communications between the Atlantic, owner/Democrat lunatic Lauren Powell Jobs, and the SPLC.

Now it becomes a bit clearer. The Atlantic published a vile and unsubstantiated hit piece on FBI Director Kash Patel right before he revealed an indictment of the SPLC for committing fraud by anonymously funding hate groups that organized "right-wing" rallies, one of which ended in the death of a bystander.
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You know, the infamous Charlottesville rally upon which the "fine people" hoax was based.

The Democrats and Pravda media, which have collaborated with the SPLC to smear conservatives for decades, are scrambling to defend the SPLC's illegal activities and, once again, smear Republicans for pointing out their perfidy.

The Atlantic's hit piece on Patel, based entirely on anonymous sources and having no evidence to back them up, is obviously intended to "pre-bunk" anything Patel says.

The claims in The Atlantic's story were bizarre. Kash Patel got blackout drunk. He was locked out of his computers. FBI agents considered using breaching equipment to force open his door, according to the report. He was unable to perform his duties because he was hungover. Etc. Etc.

Does Lauren Powell Jobs have some kind of many-years-old, pre-existing relationship with the SPLC?

Coincidentally enough, she does!

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New York Times: A Year After Their Very Deserved Mass-Firing, USAID Propagandists, Grifters, and Hangers-On Are Still Looking for New Jobs, and, Get This, Not Finding Many Employers Interested in Their Skill Set of Nothing At All

The New York Times' attempt to wring sympathy out of us for people who should have had these fake "jobs" in the first place, and are now actually forced to work for a living instead of just relying on their Democrat contacts to give them well-paid, no-work political sinecures, is absurd.

These people were making almost $200,000 per year -- and then dishing out fat government contracts to their family members who just happened to be in the USAID grant check-cashing business themselves.

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.'s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss

People have plowed through savings, cashed out retirement funds and moved in with relatives. Former U.S.A.I.D. workers estimate that less than half have found full-time work.

She was fired by email while on maternity leave, given 24 hours to clear out her desk and left with three days of health insurance and no severance pay. She had worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development or related groups for more than two decades. She made $175,000 a year.

That was Jan. 28, 2025. Today Amy Uccello and her husband, who also lost his job when U.S.A.I.D. funding for his nonprofit dried up, rely on food stamps, Medicaid and a supplemental nutrition program for women and children that helps with their now 19-month-old daughter.

The mortgage on their home in Washington was until recently in forbearance, meaning they negotiated to pay less than they owed each month. But the bank has now cut them off and suggested they apply for a low-income mortgage program. "We don't know if we'll qualify," Ms. Uccello said. She and her husband have applied for more than 100 jobs with no luck. Most of their friends don't have jobs either.

$175,000 per year as a tick on the belly of the taxpayer while the husband was himself grifting off the grants shoveled to left-wing groups by USAID.

And they want you feel their pain.

I do feel their pain -- and it is exquisite.

"I have such sights to show you....
Here is a Walmart application."

Nights are the hardest.

"I can't sleep because of our own situation," Ms. Uccello, 49, said over coffee on a recent afternoon. "I can't sleep because of what I know what's happening around the world. I can't sleep because my former colleagues and friends are also suffering."

"Your suffering will be legendary, even in Hell!
BTW, Learn to Code."

When the Trump administration dismantled the sprawling global aid agency last year, it wiped out virtually an entire industry -- international development -- that had been based in Washington since U.S.A.I.D.'s creation in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy. Nearly all of the agency's 16,000 employees were laid off. An estimated 280,000 contractors, partners and local hires worldwide lost their jobs as well.

A year later, people have plowed through savings, cashed out retirement funds and moved in with friends and relatives. Former U.S.A.I.D. workers who have done informal surveys estimate that less than half have found full-time work, with many making less than before. An estimated third are unemployed. Others are in part-time work. The District of Columbia currently has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, at 6.7 percent, in large part because of major reductions in the federal work force, including U.S.A.I.D., and cuts to government grants and contracts.

The Cenobites of DOGE are demons to some, angels to others
I hear Kinko's is hiring

Jobs are also gone at the many nonprofits and partner agencies once funded by U.S.A.I.D. "Everyone I know is also up the creek, all my bosses, my mentors, the people you would normally go to, the people providing me references," said Catherine Baker, 36, who, as a contractor, made $127,000 a year recruiting staff and helping to start up U.S.A.I.D. projects. Ms. Baker now volunteers as a manager for OneAid, which helps former U.S.A.I.D. workers, and works nine hours a week as a companion for two elderly women.

Come upon me so I may show you The Way...
Here is The Way: Bed Bath and Beyond.
I recommend "Beyond."
That's where I got my start.

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Trump to Iran: I'm Giving You Primitive Screwheads "Three to Five Days" to Come Up With a United Government Position, Or Else It's Bombs Away

I guess it's something.

As you probably know, parts of the Iran "government," such as it is, are making conciliatory noises while others are crying Death to America and ordering attacks on ships.

I think this is typical Muslim hudna bullshit -- "negotiating" just to regroup before the next unbroken-for-1300-years war on the world -- but hopefully Trump has reached the end of his patience for this rope-a-dope.

Axios:

U.S. officials first began to see the divisions after the first round of Islamabad talks, when it became clear IRGC commander Gen. Ahmad Vahidi and his deputies had rejected much of what Iran's own negotiators had discussed.

The split broke into the open last Friday. When Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the IRGC refused to implement it -- and began publicly attacking him.

Someone must have put the Democrats in charge of Iran's finances because they're not paying Homeland Security.

Or... so Trump says. I don't know. The mullahs will make sure the first and last pennies they have left are used to pay their secret police and terrorists.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
@SecScottBessent

As @POTUS has made clear, the United States Navy will continue the blockade of Iranian ports. In a matter of days, Kharg Island storage will be full and the fragile Iranian oil wells will be shut in. Constraining Iran's maritime trade directly targets the regime's primary revenue lifelines.

The @USTreasury will continue to apply maximum pressure through Economic Fury to systematically degrade Tehran's ability to generate, move, and repatriate funds.

Any person or vessel facilitating these flows--through covert trade and finance--risks exposure to U.S. sanctions.

We continue to freeze the funds stolen by the corrupt leadership on behalf of the people of Iran.

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The SPLC Paid Off the "Unite the Right" Marchers in Charlottesville -- Which the Democrat-Media Party Then Used as the Centerpiece of the 2020 Election Campaign

They didn't just pour money into "Unite the Right." They poured donor money into dozens of "far right"/"white supremacist" groups.

They claim they were "infiltrating" them. I say, they were creating the fake enemies they then fundraised off of. By pouring a few million into "far right"/"white supremacist" groups, they could in turn grift tens of millions from panicky pissbaby liberals terrified of the monsters the SPLC was itself funding and supporting.

I know JJ covered this but I gotta!

U.S. Department of Justice
@TheJusticeDept

19h

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.

Jennifer Jacobs
@JenniferJJacobs

BREAKING: A federal grand jury in Alabama charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with 11 counts of wire and bank fraud-related charges, the Justice Department announced, accusing the group of paying members of extremist groups as part of its efforts to investigate them.

My guess that this was about embezzlement/misuse of funds was, I guess, borderline correct, but boy oh boy is the reality so much better than my guess. The SPLC is literally funding the white dragons they claim they're protecting us from!

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Iran Attacks Three Ships in the Strait of Hormuz, Claims It Has Seized Two of Them

The third I've read was not seized and wasn't damaged too badly but it has stopped movement.

The attacks were conducted by the "fast attack boats" -- speedboats converted for military use -- that for some reason we never dropped daisy-cutter bombs on. I don't know why.

But while we observe a "cease-fire," they're shooting up ships and taking the crews hostage.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attacked multiple ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, less than a day after President Trump extended the ceasefire indefinitely until Tehran agrees to negotiate a new deal.

The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that an IRGC gun boat approached and then fired on a container ship located 15 nautical miles northeast of Oman. That attack caused "heavy damage" to the ship's bridge, while no fires or environmental damage were reported and the crew was reported safe, according to the organization.

Later in the day, UKMTO noted that an outbound cargo ship eight nautical miles west of Iran was fired upon and had to stop in the water. In that case, the crew was also safe and there was no reported damage to the vessel.

The Fars News Agency in Iran, which is close to the IRGC, reported Wednesday morning that two "violating" ships were seized by the IRGC Navy and directed to the coast of Iran. It is unclear whether those ships are the same ones reported by the UKMTO.

On Tuesday afternoon, Trump announced that he was extending the ceasefire with Iran until officials from the latter return to the negotiating table.

This isn't going to appease Tucker Carlson and the Ron Paul crowd. It might, however, wind up costing Trump actual MAGA voters.

The attacks aren't just about the ships stopped. The attacks are about bottling up oil shipments, so that insurers won't insure them and the ships won't attempt to travel through the strait, so that the price of oil jumps up, our "allies" pressure us and American opinion forces Trump into conceding the war to Iran.

Trump says Iran is "collapsing." Well, may be, but why are you granting them a cease-fire so that they can regroup?

Dining Room of the White House, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that Iran was "collapsing financially" over the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked three ships in the vital waterway that is blockaded by both Washington and Tehran.

Trump's comments came hours after he announced he was indefinitely extending the two-week ceasefire with Iran, which had been conditioned on Iran lifting its blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran last week briefly lifted its blockade following the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, but reversed course after the US said it would maintain the blockade it had imposed on Iran-linked shipping on April 13, five days into the truce.

"Iran is collapsing financially! They want the Strait of Hormuz opened immediately," Trump wrote on Truth Social. The Islamic Republic is "starving for cash" and its military and police were "complaining that they are not getting paid," he claimed, adding: "SOS!!!"

I'm sorry, I do not believe this. Iran is attacking shipping. This is not them saying "SOS." This is Iran attacking shipping.

Yes, they are collapsing financially -- but that will take a while. In the meantime, they're attacking shipping, and for some reason, we're not blowing up their attack boats.

Because of the "cease-fire" that only we are observing.

Why are we not attacking the fast attack boats? Why are we not dropping air-burst bombs over their harbors?

So we can "talk" to the Iranians who are plainly playing us for fools?

Like I said yesterday: Trump wants a deal. It is clear that Iran does not. They think they can win by outlasting him (and us). Trump continuing to talk deal, deal, deal just convinces them more and more that they're right that he doesn't have the perseverance to outlast them.

For example, he's extending the cease-fire, even though Iran is now attacking ships again, because he says that the Iranian government is "fractured" and some parts of it want a deal and other parts don't.

Well, I'm afraid we have to deal with the parts of the Iranian government that do not want a deal first. There is no point talking to the people who want a deal while the people who don't want a deal continue making war.

Trump needs to change their minds. And giving them a ceasefire while prattling forever about how "close" we are to a deal is not changing their minds, it's convincing them they are right and Allah will see them through this.

I don't even believe the talk of an imminent "deal" is able to fulfill its earlier purpose of stopping the price of oil from climbing too high. I think people have heard this song too many times and just don't believe it any longer.

Wars are won with three things, they say: Manpower, firepower, and staying power. Iran has little of the first two but they seek to win by topping us in the third category.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

Is It Actually Unusual?

There is a former USAF major general named William McCasland. He retired in in the teens. He recently took his .38 revolver and headed out for a hike near his Albuquerque, NM home - and never returned. So far, there is nothing all that unusual about this. A missing persons case - even when it is a former Air Force general - is in fact one of those "local news stories." It is unusual for such a case to be reported on outside of the home market and much more unusual for it be a topic for mainstream outlets like Fox News and Scientific American. Or, for that matter, the FBI, Congress and the White House.

And, in fact, it hasn't. Not on its own. McCasland's recent disappearance, however, is allegedly one incident in a disturbing trend. Per NBC News, there has been much online speculation that McCasland is just the latest incident in a long series of deaths or disappearances of US scientists. The speculation is that US scientists are being targeted, by enemy actors or others of unknown motive. This has since grown into actual investigations to see if there is any there there.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Painted in a Welsh Village
Albert Houthuesen

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The Morning Report — 4/ 22/26

Good morning kids, So Virginians went to the polls and voted, or allegedly "voted" to redraw their congressional map in such a way as to prevent anyone but Democrats from winning any seat ever again...

Virginia Democrats’ legally suspect and deceptively worded referendum now gives their allies in the legislature the ability to redistrict the state ahead of the 2026 midterms. The party’s proposal seeks to remake the commonwealth from a six Democrat-five Republican map to a 10 Democrat-one Republican map and effectively disenfranchise millions of rural Virginians in the process.

In addition to dishonest ballot language about “fairness,” the referendum also enjoyed heavy support from the left’s dark money network. A Federalist analysis from earlier this month discovered that more than 90 percent of the funds being poured into the left-wing group backing the amendment (Virginians for Fair Elections) came from outside the state.

According to the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP), Virginians for Fair Elections received more than $38 million from D.C.-based House Majority Forward (HMF). HMF notably boasts ties to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrat leadership.

... I wrote "allegedly voted" above, because as we know all too well, the Democrat party and leftist organizations have the ability and no compunctions to rig, cheat, steal and do whatever they can to win by any means necessary, since they are deluded in the twisted worldview that they and they alone have absolute moral authority and Gott mit uns as their predecessors/kissing cousins from the NSDAP had on their belt buckles, to organize society as they see fit.

As CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast (linked here) as well as in the sidebar and on the outlets/apps listed at the bottom of the post) Abigail Spanberger is an evil harridan. But make no mistake, she is no outlier nor a one-off. The Democrat Party is out to destroy America as founded, and regardless of their excuses and mythologies always to acquire and wield absolute power, period full stop.

Until my dying breath, everything wrong with this nation, all of the problems, discord, dissolution, dislocation violence, bloodshed and wastage of human life and human potential is directly the fault of, or has been exacerbated and made worse by orders of magnitude by the Democrat Left.

And when the problems are solved or at least well on the way to being solved well what do Democrats do, they gin up the discord or at the very least fake it.

This next item while hardly surprising makes the blood boil.

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for making fraudulent payments of millions of dollars to members of the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi organizations.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a news conference that the 11-count indictment filed in an Alabama federal court alleged the left-wing nonprofit had in the past decade paid at least $3 million to eight members of the far-right groups.
One leader of the 2017 Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Va., received roughly $270,000 over an eight-year period. Neither that person nor others were identified in the 14-page indictment. Another embedded in a neo-Nazi organization was paid $1 million to steal 25 boxes of the hate group’s documents . .
. . . Starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began using informants who had infiltrated various groups.
But Blanche said in the press conference that the nonprofit never informed law enforcement that it was “paying off the Klu Klux Klan” or other extremist groups.
Several of the informants were also being paid while simultaneously being featured in SPLC publications — including on its public-facing “Extremist File” webpage — as members of the hate groups.
Prosecutors alleged in the indictment that the informants, or “field sources,” were also “engaged in the active promotion of racist groups.”

So like the infamous "Charlottesville" hoax" and the alleged 1/6 "insurrection" it's all an op, a lie or a hoax or an elaborate fake. That and projection.

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• FBI Director Kash Patel called it a “widespread, decade-long multi-million dollar fraud” that was concealed through a “banking network.”
  'Manufacturing extremisim' DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud for paying white supremacist groups $3M to ‘stoke racial hatred

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Daily Tech News 22 April 2026

Top Story

• AMD's new top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor is here. Don't buy it. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not AMD's fault. They've resisted shipping CPUs with this configuration for years, claiming that it only helped performance for certain very specific workloads.
  
  They were right.
  
  Also, Intel's new 270K Plus is nearly as fast for creative work at less than half the price. Yes, it's on a dead platform, but even if you'll end up throwing away both the CPU and the motherboard it may work out better value than the 9950X3D2.
  
  
  

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - April 21, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday night ONT has arrived. Glad you stopped by. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Suspicious Characters Cafe

San Francisco bay as seen from Sausalito

Pink elephants after the parade.

Goose wearing beer goggles.

Nightmare.

Back off, bruv.

El Capitan in Yosemite. (NOT Yellowstone. Whoopsie.)

Some pig.

Friendly pig.

Goose-stepping chicken.

Re-post: Golden retriever wants to pack for the trip, too.

Two paws have twice the scratching power.

"The guilty dog test." It works every time.

Caught red-pawed.

Baby tiger tries to calm down his stressy mom.

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Quick Hits

Communist traitor and generational fraud co-conspirator Tim Walz has started a new PAC to, get this, grift money.

This will be the mechanism which funds his very unearned retirement.

Boy Democrats will do a lot of work to avoid any actual work.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz launched a federal political action committee on Monday and the name of the new venture quickly created a stir on social media among conservatives.

Walz's PAC, first reported in Politico Playbook, is named the "Small Town PAC." The governor said he wants to "show up in small towns" and "organize in places too many people have given up on, and build power with the folks who call these places home."

"If Democrats want to win in more places, we've got to start showing up in more places," Walz wrote in an X post.

Walz was widely mocked by conservatives when he ran for vice president in 2024 for his attempts to make inroads with rural voters -- like touting his blue-collar roots and hunting hobby.

"Small towns across Minnesota loathe @Tim_Walz," state Rep. Kristin Robbins, Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate, posted.

"Small towns and townships overwhelmingly voted against you, Tim," Townhall columnist Dustin Grage posted on X. "We think your policies are despicable."

"Small towns across Minnesota loathe @Tim_Walz," state Rep. Kristin Robbins, Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate, posted on X.

"He infamously disparaged them as @RocksAndCowsHQ and his left-wing policies are opposed by most!"

Daniel Turner, executive director of Power the Future, wrote on X, "Good Lord small town America hates everything you stand for: open borders, trans insanity, defund the police, rampant crime, Somali fraud."

This is a very Minnesota-heavy Quick Hits, because Minnesota is a third-world garbage state filled with nasty communists. Sorry, Minnesotans, but you know it's true.

Ilhan Omar has amended her past financial disclosure which revealed that she was now a millionaire with up to $30 million in assets. She now says that was a big whoopsie and that we should just ignore that and stop asking her about it.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said Tuesday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will "be held accountable to the fullest extent" if it is discovered that she was involved in or benefited from "any fraud."

His remarks follow a Wall Street Journal report that a financial disclosure listed her and her husband's assets at between $6 million and $30 million. Omar's office later told the outlet the filing contained a "discrepancy," and an amended version put the couple's assets at between $18,004 and $95,000, the Journal reported.

"Omar is saying the multimillion-dollar discrepancy was nothing more than an accounting error. In what world is a multibillion-dollar correction to a person's financial disclosure considered normal? Perhaps this member's accountant, perhaps Ilhan's accountant, is a graduate from the Quality Learing Center. Either way, this about-face shows incompetence at best and a cover-up at worst," Emmer told reporters during a press briefing on Tuesday.

"Make no mistake, if Ilhan Omar is discovered to have been involved in any or to have benefited in any way from any fraud, she must be held accountable to the fullest extent," Emmer added.

A lawyer representing Omar wrote in a letter to the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC) that, "While the error is of course unfortunate, there is nothing untoward and nothing illegal has occurred," according to the Journal.

But the situation has only intensified GOP scrutiny of Omar. She has long been a target of Republican criticism, with backlash mounting earlier this year over reports of an alleged sprawling fraud scandal in Minnesota, in which many people charged were of Somali descent. Prosecutors claim that billions of dollars were stolen by various groups that purported to have provided meal assistance for children in need, in addition to other social safety net services that were reimbursed through state agencies.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) told Fox News's Sean Hannity on Monday that, "She's never explained to the public how her net worth was $30 million and if she made a mistake, how the mistake happened."

"It's highly unlikely that she made a mistake. This isn't going to go away from her. So we're going to continue to try to push for answers and see if her name pops up in any of these frauds that Vice President Vance and the House Oversight Committee are detecting in Minnesota," he said.

The "bulbous goon" who violently attacked Savanah Hernandez is now on a media tour, insisting that he attacked the 100-pound woman in self-defense.

Savanah Hernandez
@Savsays

UPDATE: Chris Ostroushko says that the backlash his family has beenreceiving for their actions last weekend has been "overwhelming" and "nonstop"

He's now "second guessing" living in the United States, because he's unhappy with how negatively the public has reacted to him assaulting a woman on camera.

He is in complete disbelief, stating that, "I've never had anything like this happen in my life".

Chris and Deyanna have been going on a press tour continuing to assert that they are the real victims, despite millions watching the footage of them instigating everything.

There is also a GoFundMe for them, where they are currently trying to raise $8k, stating that they've lost their jobs and, "are facing one of the most overwhelming and life-altering moments they have ever experienced".

The family has still taken zero accountability for any of the violence they committed and are in complete shock that they are facing consequences for their actions.

Last week Chris also did an interview where he lied, stating that his family is "absolutely not violent" and that all he did was "stay back and watch" everything, despite being on camera shoving me multiple times.

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