Saturday Night Club ONT - June 13, 2026 [D&D]

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

[Top photo: Old First Church, Bennington, Vermont]

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Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: Backrooms

Another good and in some ways significant film—twelve out of twelve new films in a row, for those counting—has crossed our paths, being yet another trampler of a once undefeatable franchise.

The origins of Backrooms go back to a 2019—ancient history!—creepypasta about an eerie interdimensional space that looks like a very ordinary but empty office building or, in fact, a furniture store. Although much of the concept (which I don't know, honestly) was developed collectively on the Internet, 16-year-old writer/director Kane Parsons created, wrote, directed and starred in a YouTube series based on his take on the story and, now, at the ripe old age of 20, has directed a movie that's easily smashed the $100M barrier, made 20x its budget back already and trounced the flagging Mandalorian.

Of course, only 20x its budget (so far) makes it a big compared to Obsession, which had now made over 220x it's budget, but I doubt anyone's going to complain. And Backrooms may have even better legs, because while it's not a better film, it does have a massive trove of Easter Eggs for fans.

"Backrooms" looking at "Obsession"s legs in the distance.

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Hobby Thread - June 13, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread.

This is the second anniversary of TRex assuming the Hobby Thread helm. Hooray! That makes this my 105th Hobby Thread (not counting a few previous oddball contributions through MisHum). Thank you all for being here and participating. None of this works without you (even the lurkers).

In honor of the occasion, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) took the night off and left a note that said "all of the above." What does that mean? Read on hobbyists...

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, June 13

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

Would you like a treat?

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

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, June 13

Penstemon cobaea close-up, showing the "bearded tongue" characteristic of the genus

Don in Kansas has a fine summary on his experiences growing penstemons, back on May 9: Tongues with Beards. Here are three of several he is growing. Click on the link for photos and description of others, along with growing tips:

One of my long-term projects is to find out which penstemons will do well in Kansas. I've got around twenty species planted in various parts of the yard, many of which are coming into bloom now. The Kansas natives such as Penstemon cobaea, above, have done very well. In general, most species I've tried have been easy and haven't needed attention beyond weeding and occasional watering during dry spells. . .

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Getting close to that big anniversary: What and whom do you appreciate?

George Washington and his valet, William Lee

A lot of people don't know much about William Lee, whom George Washington really trusted.

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Thomas Sowell

A lot of people who should know about Thomas Sowell don't know much about Thomas Sowell.

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Black & bitter as my soul.]

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival there are just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Omro)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Let's keep that permanent record clean, shall we?
3) Running with sharp objects is a No-No.
4) Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 13 June 2026

Top Story

• Welcome to Earth Delos D. Harriman, our new-minted trillionaire! (Tech Crunch)
  
  May I say how delightful it is to watch the wailing of the worst people on the planet at your good fortune?
  
  (I didn't invest; all my ready cash is tied up in RAM and SSDs. Which to be fair is looking like the soundest investment I have made in years.)
  
  
  
• Critics meanwhile accuse Musk of... Running the companies he runs. (Reuters)
  
  You can't make everybody happy, but with some effort you can make everybody miserable.

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Here Comes Johnny With His ONT In His Hand

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Fri-Yay Cafe

Darkness begone. Sickness begone!

Begone from me, you Soyboy Beta Cuck! BEGONE!

Begone Vile Man, Begone from me!

I'm taking a bold statement on things that must begone.

Mother horse and her twins.

Firework show at the Sagrada Familia Cathedral.

Sweet 70s-era high end audio system.

Dude trained his corgi to "hunt birds," if you know what I'm saying. That little corgi earned himself some Gainsburger tonight.

Compilation of Happy Dogs.

This border collie says "What's a greyhound?"

You don't understand -- no matter the time, no matter the place, cats are the stars of this production.

Disney nonsense.

The dog wants more affection, the cat's already bored.

Rescue dog goes from being scared and cringing to happy and proud.

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The Weak Are Woke

This is a rough one. One of the worst "Woke" posts yet.

Sorry. But this one got dark.

It's not me, you understand.

This is what the left is doing.

But let's start of light, stupid, and artistically vapid.

Has-been Bruce Springsteen and Never-was Chris Robinson of the Black Crows -- yes, THE Black Crows, the band with one lame "hit" to its credit -- won't shut up about their insipid leftwing politics and fans (the Black Crows have fans? Seriously?) are sick of it.

The Black Crowes' frontman Chris Robinson and rock icon Bruce Springsteen recently faced backlash over their political comments, which PR experts say reflect a growing frustration among Americans who feel musicians have become more interested in lecturing fans than entertaining them.

Robinson sparked controversy when he allegedly criticized fans chanting "USA" at a Florida concert and questioned what Americans had to be "so proud of right now," prompting some audience members to boo and walk out of the show, according to TMZ.

Meanwhile, some fans recently labeled Springsteen a "traitor" after he criticized the current state of America during a concert in April. Springsteen told the crowd that America had become seen by "many" as a "reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation" under President Donald Trump's administration.

Since kicking off his Land of Hope and Dreams Tour, the singer has repeatedly unleashed blistering attacks on Trump during his shows, blasting the administration as "corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous."

Doug Eldridge, founder of Achilles PR, told Fox News Digital that the response to Robinson and Springsteen's remarks signals a broader sentiment among Americans.

"At this point, it's fatigue," Eldridge said.

"Much like compounding interest, it's not a linear calculation; it's accumulation," he continued. "For the last decade, fans (read: average Americans) have been lectured, lied to, gaslit, and shamed, if they didn't conform to the new standard du jour."

"Worst of all, if you didn't buy into the 'new normal' you were castigated with an -ist or -ism as being the reason for your non-compliance," he added. "At a certain point, Americans had enough -- the same way they vote with their feet in elections, they vote with their dollars in the free market; especially for non-essential items like entertainment."

According to experts, fans aren't necessarily objecting to artists having political opinions, rather they are taking issue with what they perceive as criticism of their own beliefs.

"Most Americans don't mind that you have a different view; what they resent is being lectured and chastised for having an opposing view from the very act they paid good money to see," Eldridge said. "For Springsteen, the incessant criticism of Trump seems paradoxical, given his highest grossing album of all-time, was the iconic 'Born in the USA.'"

My no-longer guilty secret: Although I tried to like Bruce Springsteen because a confederacy of dunces told me I should, and I guess I do like (just like) a few songs, including "Rosalita" and "10th Avenue Freeze-Out," I always thought Springsteen was a, how do I put this, corny low-IQ posturing imbecile who was simultaneously bemoaning the low state of the "common man" while holding himself superior to the "common man" and who can't, what's the word?, sing and can barely play guitar.

Yes he was born a working-class kid -- a working-class kid who hates all other working-class kids, and who hates that the upper class kids looked down on him, but always longed to join the upper class kids so he could look down on the other working class kids.

He's a thickwitted New Jersey trash yokel that stupid rock critics, always on the lookout for the next Hero Philosopher Poet Guru Who Will Be Savior to the World -- of which rock has produced, so far, precisely zero -- gassed up into a sweaty-balled "genius."

Fuck him and his adulterous tax-dodging hypocrisy. He's a less-charismatic Carmine Ragusa from Laverne & Shirley.

I know this is a brave position to take on a blog where 99% of the readers don't like Springsteen and the 1% who do (which I guess would include garrett, and I don't mean that as an insult, but garrett generally has ecumenical tastes and likes most of the big rock acts), are just not going to feel that sticking up for this horse's ass, whose IQ is lower than Spinal Tap's, is worth it, especially at this late date, especially given his last 20 turgid regurgitive albums.

We are a long way since Born to Run and Born to Run is, get this, kinda mid.

And Born in the USA was always, always trash. And that's the one album most people think they like! It's so corny and basic-bitch and it's where he shows his condescension for "the common man" most nakedly. Every song is a sneer. A sneer from an imbecile.

Now "Fight Me," I say to people who are bored to even see the name "Bruce Springsteen." And seriously, fuck this dumb honky bitch.

Update: We finally found an answer to "which classic rock bands does garrett not like," and it's Blockhead Bruce Springsteen.

I heard some of you fretting "But don't we need more Cultural Enrichment? Europe seems to have so much of it now, and we have so much less than we used to!"

Don't worry, Massachusetts has come Cultural Enrichment for you.

So when I read the following headline, I figured it would be another such case: "Pitchfork Killing in Fall River: 28-Year-Old Charged in Bloody Double Homicide."

The savagery, the copious bloodshed, and the rustic weapon were the giveaways: We're dealing with yet another third-world savage, I figured.

The suspect's name seemed to confirm this diagnosis. Fall River Reporter posted the details on X:

28-year old Vitor Francisco Gomes is facing charges after two men were found dead on Aetna Street in Fall River, one with a pitchfork in the back of his head in Fall River, Massachusetts on Wednesday night.

FRPD responded to shots fired and found two men with severe injuries - one man's face covered in blood (likely gun shot wounds) the other with a metal pitchfork impaled into his head. The men were identified as 20-year old Pablo Henrique Rocha-Dasilva of Whitman and 19-year old Eduardo Cardosa DaSilva of Fall River.

Police found Vitor Francisco Gomes covered in blood one block away from the crime scene. After a short foot pursuit, they found him in possession of a bag that contained a firearm and ammunition. Gomes was taken into custody and charged with two counts of murder, unlawful carrying of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.

So Gomes even had a gun on him, yet he still used hand tools to perpetrate his barbaric crimes. Fall River Reporter added gruesome details in a follow-up post:

According to DA Quinn, the murder scene was the worst he's every seen. One victim was shot in his car, dragged onto the street and beat with a brick. The second man was killed by a pitch fork to the back of the head. There are reports of an illegal boxing lead up to the violence.

These all sound like south-of-the-equator behaviors to me. Gomes' appearance at his arraignment reinforced my impression, as he required a Brazilian Portuguese interpreter.

Now, this being the Northeast, there is heavy societal and legal pressure to hide miscreants' immigration or citizenship status. I was unable to find any official mention of Gomes' origins, but you can do the math.

I don't do math and shame on you for even suggesting such a thing. But I take your point.

While that's bad, Europe is really putting on hall-of-fame performance:

Carney Must GO
The Mozartian

This post is true although I cannot confirm the police lying to the family. I can confirm the precedence of European and really all western governments actively obfuscating ethnicities and nationalities of criminal suspects in order to push ideological agendas.

Here's Claude AI's breakdown:

Institutional Concealment of Suspect Identity in Europe: The Tamar Boes Case and Its Ideological Context

The Tamar Boes Case: Confirmed Facts

On July 25, 2020, 14-year-old Tamar Boes from Marken, Netherlands, was found dead on the roadside of the Zeedijk between Monnickendam and Marken. She had left home after an argument with her parents. The following facts are confirmed by Dutch English-language reporting:

• The driver was identified as a 28-year-old resident of Germany who turned himself in through his Dutch defense attorney weeks after the incident. He drove a gray Mazda 3 and carried four occupants. The group had applied for asylum in Germany, were camping in the Netherlands, and left for Germany the morning after the crash. The vehicle was subsequently washed and put up for sale two months later.

• In 2021, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) imposed only a €1,500 fine, citing inattention to the road and finding insufficient evidence for manslaughter or criminal negligence charges.

• An accident expert concluded Tamar's body had been dragged to the roadside after the collision. Police officers who found her described an unusual scene: arms positioned upward, legs extended straight together, "as if she had been laid out." A drag mark was observed across the asphalt. Expert opinion remains disputed as to whether she was moved by a third party or survived the impact briefly and moved herself, though a forensic pathologist commissioned by the family's legal representative rejected the self-movement scenario.

• The family refused to accept the fine-only outcome and filed an Article 12 procedure to compel prosecution. A court ruled in 2022 that insufficient investigation had been conducted. After additional forensic work, the OM reopened the case. In March 2026, the driver -- now identified as Jamal T., age 33 -- was confirmed for prosecution on charges of causing a fatal accident and leaving the scene.

The specific claim that police explicitly told the family the driver was German and subsequently admitted he was Iraqi while citing a desire to avoid a "Wilders effect" is not confirmed by available Dutch English-language reporting.

That's a reference to anti-immigration Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The cop is admitting he lied to the family of the murdered girl about the nationality of her killers because he didn't want Geert Wilders to hear the truth and use the truth to boost his campaign.

Early reporting described the driver as "a 28-year-old resident of Germany," which may be the origin of the "German" characterization. The driver's precise country of origin is not stated in available English-language sources, and the deliberate deception narrative, while plausible given wider documented European patterns, remains unverified in this specific case.

The Broader Pattern: Institutional Concealment Across Europe

The Tamar Boes case reflects a documented pattern across Western European institutions of suppressing or obscuring the ethnic and national backgrounds of crime suspects. This is not an isolated or incidental practice. It is systemic, and its origins and mechanisms are traceable.

One day the people constantly lying to us and gaslighting us to keep us from "radicalizing" by knowing the truth are going to realize they're the ones who are doing the radicalizing.

Pro-Hamas "protesters" smashed a female cop in the spine with a sledgehammer to stop her from arresting their fellow "protesters." They had invaded the offices of a business they claim was an "arms supplier to Israel," which is 1, probably a lie, and 2, it also wouldn't matter if they were legally selling arms to Israel, you fucking degenerate terrorists.

Europa.com
@europa

May 5

🇬🇧 A jury at Woolwich Crown Court found 23-year-old Samuel Corner guilty of grievous bodily harm and criminal damage.

Corner, linked to Palestine Action, struck Police Sergeant Kate Evans with a sledgehammer from behind while she was attempting an arrest, fracturing her spine.

Bodycam footage was shown in court. Sentencing will take place at a later date.

Follow: @europa

A "Green Party Leader" and "London Assembly Member" says it's a shame this terrorist is being tried in court, and that trying him for attempting to paralyze or kill a woman with a sledgehammer is a an attack on "the right to protest."

I think some of us might one day exercise our right to protest you guys.

Do you understand that when the social compact finally dissolves in degenerate third-world terrorist acid, you weaklings will be the first in danger? Do you not understand that the social compact protects you pathetic crybaby bitchmade soyboys and Obese Karens with extreme emotional dysregulation most of all?

The apocalypse is hard. It's harder still if you're weak and stupid and mentally ill.

(Those videos are worth the watch, btw. They almost make up for the darkness of this post.)

How do you see the literal End of Civilization going? Do you think you're going to finally get to the gym and put on a quick 40 pounds of muscle you you can start cracking heads?

has been ruled by a judge to be not competent to stand trial so he gets a free murder. Or maybe a few free murders.

The repeat offender who stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death aboard a Charlotte, N.C., commuter train last year is incompetent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

Presiding Federal Judge Kenneth Bell found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr did not understand the proceedings and would be unable to assist in his defense. Brown is up on federal charges of terrorist attacks and other violence against mass transportation systems, in large part because state and local courts kept releasing him, despite a long history of violence and mental illness.

He's also up on state charges of first-degree murder.

In the August attack, Brown appeared to select Zarutska almost at random, stabbing her repeatedly in the neck from behind before casually getting off at the next stop. Zarutska died almost immediately, apparently confused, and then with a look of tragic understanding on her face before she collapsed, unattended and uncomforted by any of the other passengers.

The murder, caught on video, shocked the world.

Brown had an outburst at today's hearing, according to Queen City News, shouting, "that he wants to ask the judge whether he reviewed the evaluation and said he wants to press charges against the FBI." He went on with more intelligible shouts, including something about having "material in my body."

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The federal judge also ruled -- unlike so many previous North Carolina judges -- that Brown will not be released. Instead, "he will receive medication and treatment for up to four months in an effort to restore his competency."

And then what? Out on the street again?

See the article for his long, long list of serious crimes.

You know, the great majority of spur-of-the-moment killers have some kind of psychological problem, compromised executive function, or brain abnormality. Judges who aren't WOKE AF know this and do not insist on prisoners being able to get a 1200 on their SATs before being tried for SLICING OPEN THE THROATS OF RANDOM WOMEN ON SUBWAYS.

Highly fatiguing behavior. It must be my fault, somehow.

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More: Graham Platner, Known to Have a Dick the Size of a Grain of Rice, Has Lied About Why He Has a Nazi Totenkopf on His Flabby Droopy Moob According To What Story He Thinks His Mark Wants to Hear

I'm 99% sure this is the woman we heard about yesterday. I'm not 100% on that, though.

This woman says that she was matched to Slim Prickens on a dating platform (Tinder, I think). She explicitly identified as belonging to the "I.W.W." which is the Industrial Workers of the World, a hardcore socialist group known during the Wilson era as "The Wobblies."

This is an important point: She objects to the media attacking the credibility of Princess Tinymeat's female accusers based on being "Republican operatives," but she's a socialist. She supports a group that was once illegal and raided by Wilson's commie-busters.

Is she a "Republican operative" too, Media? Did she pretend to be a hardcore socialist all her life as part of the Long Con against your Small-Dick-Energy Oyster Fuhrer?

This is an important accusation: She says when she specifically asked him about his "Totenkopf" -- she used that word, and he didn't protest -- he made up a story that would please her as a committed leftist.

His story, she says, that he got a Nazi tattoo to remind himself that the "US were the bad guys" in the world makes no sense at all, but it was a story which was pleasing to the socialist woman he was fucking.

Note that she now sees that he made up a story to manipulate her into accepting that the guy she was fucking had a fucking Nazi Death-Camp Tattoo. He spun up a "story clean up" for the socialist woman by claiming it was his way of showing the world he Opposed American Imperialism.

Why no, she then says. She now sees that his new explanation about his Nazi tattoo is completely different from the bespoke, personally-tailored lie he offered her.

Now he says he never knew what it was and his drunk sergeant ordered him to get it.

As Sideshow Bob explained, it wasn't Die Bart Die. It was German -- Die Bart, Die.

This is psychopath-style manipulation. Psychopaths are hollow demons who only look human on the surface, and the moment they meet an actual human, they plot out which scheme of lies will be deployed to manipulate and dominate this new victim.

She then found out that not only had he been engaged to his now "wife" the whole time, but his fiance had just caught him and his child-sized genitals in bed with a completely different side piece!

This was 2022. But he's grown since then you guys. (Except that his "wife" caught him on a hook-up site famously used by predators sending lewd photos and propositions to other women.)

I'm starting to think that maybe this manipulative psychopath just proposed to this woman for the money and so he'd have a "wife" to show off in his political bid.

Below, she scolds Sergeant Shrimpdick and the media for attacking female accusers for their political affiliations, explicitly or implicitly calling them liars with political axes to grind:

Boy, the Nazi-Communist-Islamist Gay Tranny Race Party sure can pick its avatars.

Her posts below. Turns out that that text chain I posted yesterday, not knowing who it had come from, came from her.

Jodi "#MeToo" Kantor, can you do some more clean-up?

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Despite the Lies of the Biden Administration and Its Egregiously Dishonest Spokeswoman Jen Psaki, the US Did In Fact Use Taxpayer Money to Fund Bioweapon Labs Across the Globe, Including in Ukraine

PJ Media's Catherine Salgado:

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is apparently back on the job and releasing more evidence that the federal government used American taxpayer funds for biolabs in well over two dozen countries.

Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci raised a firestorm of controversy after he apparently lied under oath about the American government funding dangerous gain-of-function research at the very Chinese government-linked Wuhan biolab where COVID-19 came into existence. But it seems that such risky research at our expense was not unusual or isolated to our number one enemy, China.

DNI Gabbard, who has been at least temporarily absent from her position due to her husband's serious medical problems, came back with a bang on June 12. "Today, I'm releasing never-before-seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine," she posted on X.

She continued, "In support of President Trump's Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what 'research' is being conducted."

Russia's government is thoroughly dictatorial and corrupt, but unfortunately its accusation that the United States was secretively funding questionable biolabs in Ukraine was not a conspiracy theory, based on Gabbard's newly released information. The Democrats and Marxists in the U.S. government were channeling our money to unconstitutional "research."

See the link for more. Now, she revealed evidence of "biolabs" which is not the same -- one might argue -- as "bioweapon labs."

But as the Wuhan Covid Lab demonstrated to everyone -- they're the same thing. The idea of these labs is to collect viruses and then engineer them into highly infectious forms -- the deliberate "gain of function" procedures which involve either directly splicing in new components into viruses to make them deadlier, or just repeatedly running them through "mouse models" with similar DNA to humans to induce them to mutate into new forms.

Then, they say, they will have the Bad Guy Virus they can design a Good Guy Vaccine to cure.

But note that the first step of producing a vaccine is creating a deadly, infectious virus that never existed and probably would never exist but for the deliberate engineering of the virus by Frankenstein-like God-Playing scientific maniacs.

Boy I wish I could think of a single example of one of their Frankenstein Viruses escaping from the lab and provoking a global shutdown -- a deliberate overreaction, which they felt was necessary, because they knew they themselves created the virus and might be executed for mass murder unless they could demonstrate they did everything legal and illegal to stop the spread of their created WMD weapon -- but I just can't think of a single example of something like that happening.

That's a blessing, I guess.

Members of the Krew Klue can remind me if something like that happened, for five Krew Klue P.I. Points.

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The Little Scottish Girl Smeared by the Left as a Racist Thug for Defending Her Sister Completely Vindicated as Bulgarian Brother and Sister Team Convicted of Assaulting and Making Sexual Remarks to a 12-Year-Old Child

She said she grabbed the ax and knife to defend her sister against the sexual advances of yet another immigrant with a leaning towards sex with children.

The left smeared her endlessly. Scotland's anti-white racist Muslim one-time First Minister Humza Yusef smeared her as a liar and racist stirring up hate against Mostly Peaceful immigrants.

The police concealed details about the couple the girl was defending her sister against -- concealing their nationality (people only found out they were foreign when it leaked that a Romanian translator was needed for police interviews) and the crimes they committed against the 12- and 13-year-old children.

But now the truth is revealed, and it turns out, the Islamocommunist left all lied in perfect unison again, almost as if they're intelligence assets for an invading foreign army.

A Bulgarian man has been found guilty of assaulting a 12-year-old girl during an incident in Dundee last year.

Ilia Belov, 22, was also convicted of behaving in a "threatening or abusive manner" towards four girls, all of whom were aged between 12 and 14.

Belov's sister Nadjedzha Belova, 20, earlier pleaded guilty to one charge of assaulting a 13-year-old girl in the incident, which happened in the Lochee area of the city in August 2025.

During a two-day trial, Dundee Sheriff Court heard the 12-year-old had been walking with a group of girls on their way to a bus stop when Belov made sexual remarks to her.

Giving evidence by video-link, the girl, who is now 13, recalled: "He kept saying, 'come here sexy. I will show you how to have a good time'."

She said his words made her feel "dead angry", and she turned around and began shouting at him.

Belov then phoned his sister, who arrived shortly afterwards and began attacking a 13-year-old member of the group.

In the ensuing fracas, Belov pushed the 12-year-old, who told the court she hit her head on a metal handrail as she fell to the ground.

After standing back up she pulled out an axe and knife she said had been hidden in her waistband for five to 10 minutes before the incident.

She said after revealing the weapons she was "basically sat holding them", saying she "knew" the man would "try to go for (the other girl)".

When the police arrived minutes later, the girl said she dumped the weapons on a nearby roundabout, where they were later recovered by officers.

Giving evidence during the trial with the assistance of a Bulgarian interpreter, Belov claimed he had pushed the girl in order to protect his sister after seeing she had a knife hidden under her T-shirt.

He also denied having made sexualised remarks to the girls, telling the court they had been saying derogatory things to him, including calling him a "f****** migrant".

Of course -- he said the Magic Words. He accused a Western person of Racism.

But it didn't wholly work.

Oh, it worked on the fucking communist media and their political representatives, of course.

However sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith rejected Belov's version of events, describing it as "neither credible nor reliable".

"For a number of reasons I find your evidence to be wholly unconvincing and self-serving," he said.

"It is, as was suggested by the prosecution, a revisionist or excuse.

"It is a curious set of circumstances that having been alerted to (a girl) in possession of a knife... having pushed the person in possession of the knife to the ground, you turn your back upon her.

"It is not for me to speculate, but common sense would suggest that if someone had a knife you would pay particular attention to the individual with (it), for fear that they attack you with it."

He said the girl's evidence was supported by that of two other members of the group, and by CCTV footage of the incident that was shown to the court.

What would have happened if there had been no CCTV footage? I'd say another Henry Nowak situation.

He told Belov: "I am entirely satisfied by proof beyond reasonable doubt that the trigger for all of this were the comments that you made.

"I accept that as a result of the comments you made abuse was directed at you, which included swear words, including you being called a 'f****** creep and an immigrant'.

"The words of the children were eloquent to describe your behaviour given your age and their respective ages."

He went on: "Having made the sexual remarks to the children you then, enraged by the fact that they became angry and started shouting abuse at you, followed them."

He said rather than leave the area or call the police he instead called his sister, who "immediately on arrival engaged in attacking one of the females".

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The pair are due to be sentenced on August 5.

His defense was that he saw the girl secretly concealing a knife under her shirt -- nonsense! -- and only pushed her in a sort of Reverse Anthony Karmelo self-defense move.

Michelle Dewberry
@MichelleDewbs

Last year, a video went viral of a scared, 12 year old girl in Dundee.

She was waving weapons, shouting at a migrant to leave her alone.

Almost immediately, many on the left were calling this girl a liar (and worse). They were saying the "far-right" were whipping up 'anti-migrant hate'.

People like @HumzaYousaf
& many more called it 'bullsh*t'.

Many, including people like @jdpoc
while calling her a liar & talking about her 'hatred', showed pictures of the little girl. Just to make sure everyone knew who the 'liar' they were talking about, was.

A fundraiser for the girl was mocked, suggesting she'd use the money to buy "machetes and IronBru"

She was a child. Their posts were seen by hundreds of thousands of people.

She wasn't 'hate-filled', she was scared.

Yesterday, her version of events was proven to be true. She was sexually harassed by a migrant and another child physically assaulted too.

The man and his sister were prosecuted.

How shameful that children need to arm themselves for protection.

How shameful that adults will deny their reality.

How shameful that some people are so desperate to defend migration into this country, that they will literally mock children who are victims of their crimes.

Shame on you all.

I'll be fascinated to see how many of you publicly apologise to the girl, in the same public way that you called her a liar.

I won't hold my breath...

I hope this girl is ok.

We will never recover from these levels of Cultural Enrichment.

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Democrat Lawmaker: If You Don't Give Us Reparations, We'll Stop Voting for Democrats

Am I being punked?

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said during an interview on Sunday that Black Americans would stop voting if they aren't given reparations.

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"And that's what they do," she continued. "Because, again, they're trying to disenfranchise you. Because if you believe that you're never going to get reparations from this system, then you tap out, and you don't just tap out of the conversation, you tap out of the system. You don't want to vote anymore. You don't participate anymore."

"And they know that that's how they don't control Congress," Lee added. "That's how you can get your school boards, your board of supervisors. They want us that far out of this system. So right now, we fight for reparations because it's owed us. It is owed us, so we're not going to back down on that one way or another."

Lee reintroduced a resolution in May that, if passed, could give federal dollars to the descendants of enslaved people brought from Africa to the United States. Former Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. -- who lost her 2024 primary to a more moderate Democrat -- introduced the reparations bill in the last Congress. Bush's bill, unveiled in May 2023, called for $14 trillion to be put toward reparations payments for descendants of slavery in the United States, but it did not go anywhere.

Lee told "The Native Land Pod" that she wasn't surprised Democrats weren't backing reparation efforts.

"I'm not shocked that my colleagues are not on it, that Democratic colleagues aren't on it," she said. "Again, there is a level of comfort in this building that sustains people. And I know that the people who don't want reparations back a lot of my colleagues, Democrat and otherwise. So no, I'm not shocked, but it is why we have to keep people on the outside encouraged."

The Democratic congresswoman was asked about how reparations would work in practice, and about what host Andrew Gillum said was how the right has made the term reparations so "raggedy, ugly, so unattractive that White liberals are avoiding signing onto it."

"The reality is, is that the cowardice that liberals are able to show when it comes to all types of things that sound scary, but we know you have, you know, just data, evidence, empirical evidence behind it," Lee said. "And that comes with -- that comes with police accountability, that comes with criminal legal reform, that comes with reparations, right?"

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"We know there will be pushback," she said after she reintroduced the proposal. "Reparations are a proposal to level the playing field, but the only way we could ever have a level playing field is by remedying the harms that have been done by the system."

But Lee signaled on Wednesday that the long odds would not deter her.

Well, good! You secure that bag, bae.

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Open Thread

Computer problems. Lot of updating and shutting down.

For the moment, on TikTok, the very subtle political messaging in almost every "entertainment" slop content.

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THE MORNING RANT

My apologies, but I’m traveling, so I have no exploding EVs nor rants about Principled Free Traders
today. Not even an upright bass. But here’s a little filler until Ace gets here:

Wisconsin Democrats provided some comic relief with this since-deleted post they put up to celebrate National Dairy Month. What’s hilarious is that while we reality-based people were mocking the Democrats for putting up a picture of bulls, it is 100% consistent with where Democrats stand on issues:

• Democrats are completely oblivious about agriculture.

• Since Democrats believe that cross-dressing men have menstrual cycles and can lactate, it is entirely consistent for Dems to believe that trans-cows (e.g. bulls) can be milked.

*****

My wife and I had a guilty pleasure for several years of watching “Live PD” and its successor “On Patrol Live.” The encounters with “sovereign citizen” were especially entertaining. Sovereign citizens think of themselves as a being a country unto themselves, or something like that, and they expect those they encounter to play along in their make-believe world.

While watching police interact with sovereign citizens, I occasionally made the observation that the entire “they/them” thing is very similar. If someone wants to look in the mirror and believe that he is the sovereign ruler of the Republic of 2914 Birchwood Street, more power to him. Just like a dude can put on women’s clothes, look in the mirror, and pretend there’s a woman staring back at him. But the rest of us don’t have to play along.

“Sovereign citizens” remind me of “they/thems,” living in a pretend world while demanding that others play along.

— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) May 15, 2026

If you’ve never seen a police encounter with a “sovereign citizen,” here’s an entertaining one that is not too long.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Death of General Wolfe
Benjamin West

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The Morning Report — 6/ 12 /26

Good morning kids. And so the breaking news this morning is that Iran and the United States have come to terms to bring hostilities to an end, just as the clock was winding down to about three hours before the latest aerial assault by the USAF was set to take off.

The main hangup, according to the source, was “sequencing,” referring to the order in which the terms of the arrangement would be fulfilled.

Those terms have included reopening the Strait of Hormuz, lifting the US blockade of Iranian ports, releasing frozen Iranian funds and Iran’s willingness to discuss a plan to destroy, degrade or transfer its stockpile of enriched uranium and vow to never seek a nuclear weapon.

While Iran has repeatedly demanded economic incentives before it would sign an MOU, Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week told Congress that lifting sanctions would only be considered in exchange for real nuclear concessions.

Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly refused to release frozen Iranian assets to begin the talks.

The apparent breakthrough happened after US forces pounded Iran’s coasts overnight, targeting missile and radar systems in retaliation for the Islamic Republic downing an American Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz Monday night, as source familiar with the operation told The Post.

The strikes lasted approximately four hours and ended shortly before dawn broke across Iran, targeting the theocratic regime’s “military surveillance capabilities, communication systems and air defense sites,” according to US Central Command.

Trump announced the agreement hours after threatening to strike Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT” in a Thursday morning post to Truth Social, adding that the US would also soon invade Kharg Island, a hub of Iranian oil refinement.

“At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after 8 a.m.

For me, the fly in the ointment as it were is that the Iranian regime and its ability to terrorize the world and its own citizenry as it has done ever since Jimmy Carter pig-piss be upon him allowed them to take over the country 47 years ago and metastasize into the sharp edge of the Islamic sword that has shed oceans of blood, quite a bit of it American, in that time. So color me highly skeptical...

If (the Houthis) and Iran’s other proxies now watch the United States reach for the familiar off-ramp — sanctions relief and a deal that lets its terror network survive intact — they’ll read it as confirmation that pain pays, just as Tehran taught them.

And a presidential administration that has shown its readiness to act would be squandering its own leverage if it trades pressure for the illusion of calm.

The key point is this: The Islamic Republic is not Venezuela. Rodriguez and her cronies are corrupt autocrats who want to survive; pressure can change their calculus.

Iran’s rulers are corrupt too, but the regime’s true believers also see themselves as participants in a religious struggle for jihad.
Therefore, breaking the cycle requires maintaining US pressure on Iran’s oil, drone and missile procurement networks — without trading sanctions relief for promises that will only evaporate.

It also requires treating Iran’s proxy network as a single target, from the Houthis astride Bab al-Mandab to the shops in Venezuela assembling Iranian drones, rather than chasing each flashpoint after it ignites.
And it requires providing US support to the millions of Iranians who want to bring down the regime — and have been on the streets for years facing the brutal Islamist security services alone. 
All of this is grounded in a refusal to allow the regime any lifeline to continue its external aggression and internal repression. 

And lest we forget, the Regime is propelled not merely by the personal venality and egomania of its leadership but primarily by Islam and its eternal quest for the subjugation of humanity, or its destruction should that goal be unobtainable. And bear in mind that with Shia Twelverism, unleashing Armageddon in the quest for global conquest is a prerequisite!

Another Taqqiya sunrise?! It sure seems that way. Can the Mullahs outlast Trump's final two years or so and are they counting on perhaps a Democrat and RINO/isolationist assisted Congress coming to power via the midterms to keep them in power, just as Congress betrayed the South Vietnamese in 1975 and unleashed the Killing Fields on southeast Asia?

We'll have to wait and see as the President is wont to say...

Just as I'm posting this, I'm hearing news that the Iranian foreign ministry is now denying that any deal at all has been reached.

Have a great weekend,

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Daily Tech News 12 June 2026

Top Story

• It's been an entire day since there was a critical Microsoft vulnerability so here we are again. (The Register)
  
  It's BitLocker again this time, which not many people care about because a major problem is with it being too secure; encrypting your entire computer without ever prompting you to set up a decryption key. Built-in ransomware.
  
  Anyway, the hack allows you to access an encrypted PC if it has run a Windows Defender offline scan... Ever.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Maine's security breach disclosure portal suffered a security breach. (Bleeping Computers)
  
  Clever hackers found a way to post fake but official-looking security breach notices. You can probably see where that could lead.

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