Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, May 9

The pink flower is Bletilla striata, a terrestrial orchid. I planted it years ago and can't remember what the bare root looked like. I've seen it described as a root, pseudobulb or a tuber. Breck's calls it a rhizome. It is pretty dependable and not really fussy,. The plant does spread slowly but a single plant will eventually grow to more.

I love that little flower. The middle looks ruffled. I used to have some, in part shade. The rhizomes sometimes stuck out above ground. They were green.

There is also a white version of the flower.

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At what point do conspiracy theories go too far?

Is Thomas Sowell right?

Are any of those barbarians involved in conspiracies?

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Ahhh, the simple comforts of life.]

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Daily Tech News 9 May 2026

Tech News

• Maybe we should just not install software for a bit. (Xe Iaso)
  
  There's another new - or newish - Linux privilege escalation bug. It's literally called Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo.
  
  But under the hood it's abusing the same module as yesterday's Dirty Frag, so if you already applied the mitigation for that, you're protected from CF2EB.
  
  
  
• Also, my recommendation is don't install Ubuntu 26.04 just yet. Unlike 24.04 which worked smoothly from release day, Ubuntu 26.04 still has some odd quirks. Particularly if you want to use it under WSL and integrate with JetBrains IDEs (CLion in this case, but they'll all be the same here) where it just doesn't work.
  
  I went back to 24.04 and had no more issues.
  
  
  

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Into The Valley Of The Shadow Of ONT Rode The 400

Hello everyone! Welcome to the weekend! Y'all have company tonight, or are you going it alone?

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Barrel of Monkeys Cafe

a photograph to illustrate depth of field (literally),
by Garrick/@8ntmuch

Bad Boys, watcha gonna do?

So... I twigged that was AI because the guy has no reaction to any of this, and this kind of AI video always features giggling and this kind of fractured speech. But I thought it was cute, so I posted it so you'd enjoy it.

Hey, sometimes you still enjoy things that are Faked.

I hate AI slop (when it's dishonestly presented as real) but the torrent of slop is overwhelming my defenses.

Ears for music.

Human jungle gym.

Aqua miming, the art of the future.

Insepurrable.

Stray dog decides to adopt a family.

Senior pittie languished in a shelter for 600 days until a woman took a chance on him.

Oh no: Blind dog was stuck in a shelter for six years and just spun around in her cage to get exercise. But then a man adopted her.

I'd like to teach my crow to sing with me like this.

FAQ: If I tickle a rat, will it giggle ultrasonically?

Stray mama dog brings her dying -- almost no heartbeat at all -- puppy to the vet.

Raising a runt-of-the-litter tiger kitten.

Deaf gentle giant dog acts as a nanny to puppies to give the beleaguered beagle mom some time alone.

What if Lord of the Rings but orcs nice?

Stray cat adopts a woman and her dog.

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Democrats Melt Down Over Virginia Supreme Court Ruling, with Socialist Democrat Influencer Hasan Piker Demanding Violent Revolution and the "Smart" Commentators of the Left Unable to Read a Simple Court Decision

The left is spamming out wholly ignorant objections to the ruling.

A major one is: But other states passed new maps! Why can't Virginia pass a new map?!?!

Headquarters
@HQNewsNow

Republicans: Pass new maps in Tennessee, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas ALL without a vote -- upheld

Democrats: Pass new maps in Virginia with a vote from the will of the people -- overturned

Make it make sense.

By the way: When they say "Without a vote," they mean without a public vote on a referendum.

Do you know why there was no public vote on a referendum in those states?

That's right, because those other states didn't require a constitutional change to pass the new map, so there was no referendum.

Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke

Okay. I'll "make it make sense." Virginia has a constitution that applies in Virginia but not in those other states, and the government of Virginia did not follow that constitution, which is illegal.

To be more specific: States like Virginia wanted to Virtue Signal that they were anti-gerrymandering (which they're not, they just wanted to lock in the current gerrymander they approved of) so they passed a constitutional amendment limiting gerrymandering.

Then, just to show the left believes in nothing they claim to believe, they attempted to undo that amendment through a rushed and unconstitutional process.

The other states always left this power in the hands of the legislature, so the legislature is able to change the maps with a vote.

It's not so hard to understand is it? Aren't you the guys always claiming that you're the Smartest Kids in the Class (TM)? Are you entirely incapable of reading anything but BlueSky for your "research"?

Another stupid objection they keep on making: If this process was deficient from the very beginning -- which the Court ruled it was -- why didn't the Court make this ruling earlier?

This is a hilarious one. The Virginia Supreme Court was going to rule on whether this process was adequate or defective -- but the Democrats pushing the new map insisted that it was illegal for the Court to rule on the referendum before the referendum had been voted on and was entirely concluded.

The Democrats themselves insisted that the Court had no power to rule on this except after the referendum was voted on and was in the process of being implemented.

The Court read the Democrats' arguments and... agreed.

Here's another Smartest Kid in the Class (TM) Sam Stein babbling that this wasn't "handled" correctly. What he means is, if this was f***ed up, why didn't you stop us earlier?

Another one: The very, very smart (just ask him!) Dweeb Goblin Will Saletan:

Will Saletan
@saletan

Can someone explain why--if this was the court's basis for nullifying the redistricting measure--the court didn't rule this way when the challenge arose before the referendum?

It looks like the court waited to see which side would win, and then intervened.

With an ugly mug like that, you'd think he would know how to read.

There's a very easy way to find the answer to that question: RTFO. Read the fucking opinion, Retard Who Is a Genius.

By the way, do you want to know why the Democrats argued the Virginia Supreme Court should not rule on the process until later? For the same reason all litigants make such arguments: Because they knew the Court would probably find the process was defective.

What they were hoping was: If the process went forward, it would create its own political momentum, and then the Supreme Court would be too afraid to rule when the referendum has passed and would allow the defective process to stand.

But they weren't (thankfully!).

This is a stupid argument anyway -- whether the process was ruled unconstitutional six months ago or now, it doesn't matter. It would have been ruled unconstitutional then, or now. There was nothing the Democrats could do, because what they were trying to do was forbidden -- the Virginia Constitution demands a schedule for amendments that requires time for cooler heads to prevail, and the Democrats were trying to rush this process and ignore the built-in scheduling requirements.

So whether the Court ruled earlier or later -- the Democrats just were not permitted to rush the amendment.

And speaking of that rushed effort: the timing requirements were that a referendum be passed in one legislative period, and then an intervening general election be held, and then the vote be held after that general election. This is to make sure the public has the chance to vote out the rascals if they don't like the amendment they're trying to force through.

But the Democrats passed the referendum while voting was taking place for the next general election. In other words, there was no intervening election between the passing of the referendum in the assembly and the vote by the people, because the election was already happening when the assembly passed it.

And voting was already happening because Democrats created a clownlishly long campaign season instead of an election day.

Greg Price
@greg_price11

In the end, Virginia's ridiculously long early voting period is what sunk the Virginia referendum.

Amending the VA Constitution requires two votes in the General Assembly with an intervening election in between.

The first vote in the redistricting referendum was 40 days into early voting in 2025, when over 1.3M people had voted.

Hilariously, the key argument made by the lawyers in favor of the referendum was that only Election Day counts as the election.

The Smartest Kids in the Class (TM) -- just ask them, they'll tell you they're the Smartest Kids in the Class (TM) -- keep asking the same questions and people keep posting the same link to the same publicly-published court opinion.

And the Smartest Kids in the Class (TM) continue refusing to read a fairly straightforward opinion, not super-cluttered with legalese.

They don't read, because the Smartest Kids in the Class (TM) are above reading. They just know through Diverse Lived Experiences.

They're treating this opinion like it's The Hound of the Baskervilles or something. I mean, come on. It's not that hard.

Meanwhile, the violent communist and terrorist cheerleader that the Democrats all insist is a moderate mainstream voice calls for violence.

AGAIN.

hasanabi
@hasanthehun

the va supreme court denied the results of the redistricting referendum. scotus gutted the voting rights act and tennessee carved up the last dem district destroying black voter power in the state.

those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable

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Quick Hits/The Week In Woke Combo Thread

Let us all take a moment to honor the true heroes that built America: Somali who got here in 199fucking9.

#Cult.

The Spencer Pratt ads -- both his own and the ones created by supporters -- are outstanding and true political entertainment.

Spencer Pratt's calm, cool, and well-prepared debate performance is making leftwing shit-blogs like Axios worry about the many-decades bill of Democrat governing incompetence finally coming due.

The two most consequential races in California have devolved into twin spectacles, with years of visible dysfunction hollowing out Democrats' case for competent leadership.

Why it matters: California is the ultimate paradox of Democratic rule. A state of immense wealth, innovation and cultural power is increasingly unable to deliver the basics of housing, public safety and disaster response.

The big picture: Those failures have been building for years.

But COVID and last year's catastrophic fires have transformed long-simmering frustration with California governance into a visceral public indictment of the people running the state -- one now playing out in the races for governor and Los Angeles mayor.

Psst: It's not a "paradox" that socialism turns rich orderly societies into poor chaotic ones. It's happened every single time.

Yes, you will need a photo ID to enter Barack Obama's ugly Soviet Konstuktivist library of lies.

It remains, of course, racist and unconstitutional to require an ID at someplace less grand and important, like a polling station.

I wonder why?

The Washington Post modeled the effects of a law requiring voters to show ID at polling places. Guess what it found?

By the way, you can buy ugly tchotchkies to show your support to the Obama Temple of Ego.

He also wants to sell you communist organizer Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, and black supremacist antisemite Ta-Nehesi Coates' racial provocations.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

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BREAKING UPDATE: Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen has RESIGNED amid an investigation for having an alleged romantic relationship with the lawyer who argued the Democrats' Utah redistricting case, which she ruled in FAVOR of.

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DOJ Will Denaturalize 12 Cultural Enrichment Officers Who Lied About Their War Crimes and Support for Terrorism

But what about looting and pillaging?

DOJ Moves To Denaturalize Alleged Terrorists And War Criminals

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is moving to denaturalize 12 individuals for offenses and allegations including providing material support to terrorism, war crimes and sexual abuse of a minor, the Daily Caller has learned.

The DOJ is expected to announce on Friday that it is filing denaturalizing actions against 12 individuals, originally from Iraq, Colombia, Morocco, Somalia, Gambia, Bolivia, Uzbekistan, Kenya, India, China and Nigeria.

The Cultural Enrichment Officers are all from a diverse array of races which makes this very, very racist.

Ali Yousif Ahmed, a native of Iraq, is one of the individuals the DOJ says they are taking action against. Ahmed came to the U.S. in 2009, claiming his family was attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. Ten years later, Iraq asked the U.S. to extradite Ahmed to Iraq, claiming he was facing criminal charges for the premeditated murder of two Iraqi police officers in 2006.

"Upon further investigation, United States learned that, in 2015, Ahmed illegally procured his naturalization, which warrants his denaturalization, because he lied under oath about his criminal and family history when he sought admission to the United States and naturalized as a U.S. citizen," a document on the denaturalization process and shared with the Caller read.

Khalid Ouazzani, a native of Morocco, applied for U.S. citizenship in 2005 and then again a year later, according to the DOJ. Ouazzani was allegedly "planning--with two men later convicted of trying to bomb the New York Stock exchange--ways to support AlQaida" in 2003. Then after being naturalized, Ouazzani pleaded guilty to sending al-Qaida tens of thousands of dollars with money he had fraudulently obtained Ouazzani also took a pledge of pledge of allegiance in 2008 to al-Qaida.

The DOJ is also looking to strip Baboucarr Mboob, a native of Gambia, of his naturalization, claiming he was involved in war crimes, the Caller learned. Mboob was a military police officer in the Gambian army and participated in the execution of six officers following the orders from his commanding officer who believed were victims in plotting a counter-coup against then President Yahya Jammeh, according to the DOJ.

Mboob concealed his involvement in the war crimes during the naturalization process, but later admitted to executing his fellow officers, the DOJ told the Caller.

Say, Ilhan "Omar's" father is a war criminal and genocidal warlord, isn't he?

Meanwhile, a Cultural Enrichment Officer who thinks you're a racist and are not accepting enough of her and her culture organized a "Muslims Only" day at a waterpark.

Hmm, does that mean we can arrange a No-Muslims Day?

No, right?

Oh did I mention the waterpark in question is taxpayer funded?

A "Muslim only" event at a taxpayer-funded Texas water park has been canceled following criticism and threats by Gov. Greg Abbott to pull public safety grants.

A local Islamic group had rented out the Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark in Grand Prairie for its annual Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) "Epic Eid" celebration on June 1.

Representatives for both the water park and the city of Grand Prairie sent the following statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday evening confirming the event is canceled:

"After further review and in the best interest of the City of Grand Prairie, the June 1 EID event at Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark has been canceled."

And did I forget to mention that this Economic Powerhouse Who Built Our Country happens to own her very own "learing center"?

And yes, she spelled it that way.

And while this isn't being reported -- I'm 100% certain that the Excellence Early Learing Center is paid for by government funds.

The head of a Texas Islamic group that rented out a taxpayer-funded waterpark for an event that was advertised as "Muslim only" runs a childhood education center with the exact same unfortunate 'Learing Center' typo first seen at an infamous daycare in Minneapolis.

The "Excellence Early Learing Center," as its misspelled website header reads -- located in the Fort Worth suburb of Hurst -- offers a variety of programs for youngsters from infants to pre-K, and promises to provide children with "the loving, personal care that they need to thrive and feel confident."

The center boasts "multiculturalism, small classroom sizes, healthy eating and a warm, loving environment that feels like home" and staff with degrees in "education, accounting, biology, pharmacology, science, nursing and mathematics from their home countries."

Its owner, head operator and curriculum designer is Aminah Knight, who boasts a master's degree fro the University of Southern California and a doctorate from Vanderbilt University.

Earlier this week, Knight and her DFW Epic Eid organization drew massive criticism for a flyer advertising an event at Epic Waters in Grand Prairie billed as "Muslim only" and requiring modest swimsuits for all attendees.

Epic Waters, a sprawling, 80,000-square-feet indoor waterpark opened in 2017 at a cost of $88 million -- funded by a 0.25% sales tax hike residents approved at the ballot box in 2014.

The FAQ for the third-annual event, which was being held to celebrate the Muslim holiday Eid, initially proclaimed "the entire waterpark has been exclusively reserved for Muslims."

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Reform Gains Over 1,300 Seats as Labour Loses Nearly 1,200

And there's still damage to come -- just 117 of the 136 councils have reported so far.

These are council (local) elections, not the general elections for Parliament (the national legislature), which do not have to be scheduled before 2029.

But council members do have power locally -- and these elections are a mighty harbinger of what will come.

The Greens gained 296 seats so far, almost all at Labour's expense.

(Numbers updated at 2:53 pm.)

Labour had controlled Wales for 27 years. Not only did they lose control -- Plaid Cymru won 42 seats, with Reform stomping in for 39 in second -- but even the Labour First Minister for Wales lost her seat in the vote.

Politics UK
@PolitlcsUK

2h

🚨 BREAKING: Welsh Labour First Minister Eluned Morgan has lost her seat in the Senedd

It's the first time in British history that a sitting head of Government has lost re-election to the house they led

The SNP kept control in Scotland, with Reform gaining zero seats, because Scotland is a mess and not worth thinking about. Their Muslim First Minister Hamzi Yusef hates the actual Scottish people and gives fiery speeches denouncing the Scots.

Keir Starmer, noted for his outreach to gay Ukrainian male model prostitutes -- just offering them a bad for the night, that kind of charity -- says that he's not stepping aside... sort of. What he actually said was that he would not walk away and "leave the party in disorder," which means, I'm pretty sure, that as soon as the party agrees on a successor, he will step down. He just doesn't want a big fight for control.

Astute post from Maxi@AllForProgress on X. Applies to the US too.

"There are the usual notes on procedure. People like my parents, Britain's ultimate swing voter category, were buried with doorknockers, and their earnest heartfelt pleas, in the final few weeks of campaigning. An avalanche of appeals after five years of having not a single party representative knocking on their doors, inquiring after them, or following up on their concerns.

There is still no party on the slate that understands that such elections as these are won between campaigns, through diligent attention to voters and relentless follow-up, not with three weeks to go. This, to my mind, is the single greatest predictor of governmental success, and it's a test that none of the current bottle are passing.

Whatever; the cumulative picture is the one we've watched forming for some time. Britain is shopping, rotating through every available political product, trying them on for size, and finding them generally wanting.

The political market is wide open. The next general election will reward whoever spends the intervening period building something vast, intense, and serious. . ."

Posted by: whig

While the cowardly chattering classes acknowledge the catastrophe, they refuse to address the reasons for it. They resort to gauzy evasions like "The public just wanted a change."

A change from what, exactly?

Or "the public has lost faith in the traditional major parties."

But why has the public lost faith, exactly?

Or they'll claim that Keir Starmer just isn't charismatic. Yes, correct, he's a gray dullard who looks like he'd lose a naked wrestling match to Anderson Cooper*, but... couldn't there be other, more tangible reasons the public has made the longtime former Two Major Establishment Parties of the UK minor parties?

What reasons might explain that, do you think?

Say -- what was Reform's One Single Endlessly Repeated Campaign Promise, anyway? Maybe that could provide a clue to this Mystery.

Even as the establishment faces a reckoning a long time coming, they still pretend away the reason for that reckoning.

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US Launches Airstrikes Against Iranian Targets, Stops 70+ Iranian Oil Tankers from Evading the Blockade

Getting a little spicy again:

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Virginia Supreme Court tosses Dem-backed redistricting map, upending expected 10--1 edge

Republicans in Virginia celebrate a circuit court ruling that the Democrat-led redistricting map was unconstitutional. Salena Zito, a Pittsburgh-based columnist, joined 'Fox & Friends First' to react.

The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday invalidated a new, voter-approved redistricting map, delivering a significant victory for Republicans in the state ahead of the fast-approaching 2026 midterm elections.

"We hold that the legislative process employed to advance this proposal violated Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia," the Virginia Supreme Court said in the ruling. "This constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy."

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The Virginia Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month over the newly passed congressional map, which voters in the state approved by a narrow 51% to 49% margin.

The ballot measure would have given the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature -- rather than the state's current nonpartisan commission -- temporary redistricting power through 2030.

It was also expected to yield a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia's congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge.

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Greg Price
@greg_price11

Democrats spent north of $80 million on the Virginia referendum.

Almost half of it came from Hakeem Jeffries' personal 501(c)4, House Majority Forward.

Louise Lucas, Don Scott, and Abigail Spanberger exerted so much of their political capital to get it passed.

All to be stuffed into a locker by SCOVA for the blatantly unconstitutional way they got it on the ballot.

lol lol lol lol garret's a homo lol.

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THE MORNING RANT: School Board and Down Ballot Races Are the Most Important Races You Can Vote in this Cycle

It’s election season, and the most important political races in the country aren’t the ones we’re discussing at national political sites such as Ace of Spades. No, the most important races are the down-ballot state and local races. These elections suffer from terribly low voter interest, yet they impact how your community is governed and what is being taught in your schools.

Those down-ballot races also give ambitious politicians the first step up their political career ladder. In deep red states, this is where RINOs get their first victories, and soon they have incumbency and name recognition propelling them upward. Puzzled conservatives eventually scratch their heads and ask how did a Democrat-aligned “Republican” like John Cornyn or Bill Cassidy ever win statewide office in a red state? The answer is that they started way down the ballot and worked their way up over the years. The best time to defeat RINOs is before they start their political climb, but that means voting for actual conservatives in local elections.

School board elections, which are often “non-partisan” are also critical. If you don’t like your child being taught that the U.S. is evil and that children can change their genders, then it’s imperative to vote in school board races. Low turnout is the left’s friend.

For example, a conservative backlash in recent years to woke public schools propelled conservatives to a school board majority in the Grapevine-Colleyville School District in suburban Dallas. But in last week’s school board election, there was decreased turnout. Conservative incumbents were defeated by candidates committed to restoring the left-wing agenda in local schools.

“Grapevine-Colleyville ISD board sees major shift as incumbents lose seats” [NBC DFW – 5/04/2026]

Two Grapevine-Colleyville ISD board members backed by conservative PAC Patriot Mobile were among three incumbents voted out Saturday in a sweeping change for a district already facing major decisions. The results mean the far-right conservative group no longer has a majority on the GCISD Board of Trustees.

Barely 11,000 votes were cast out of 90,000 registered voters, representing a 12% turnout. The conservatives lost by a 52/48 margin, each losing by less than 500 votes. If the 79,000 non-voters have any complaints about the left’s woke agenda, they forsook the most important place to stop it – their local schools.

Sometimes a little research is necessary to vet the candidates, but a few minutes researching a race is time better spent on politics than watching cable news. There’s also a pretty easy shortcut to determine who are the actual conservatives in down ballot races - watch the yard sign people. The neighbor who proudly puts out Trump signs, or who currently has a Paxton sign in his yard, can probably be trusted to also have yard signs of the real conservatives in local races. (I’m aware that this is more of a challenge in deep blue areas, since putting out a Republican yard sign can be an invitation to vandalism.)

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Sources of Country Music
Thomas Hart Benton

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The Morning Report — 5/ 8/26

Good morning kids. Lots of things happening as you can see by the links, but two in particular are jumping out at me and getting me rather ticked.

First, the fact that this frog-mouthed silt-eating slug is even in this country in the first place let alone holds public office is offensive in the extreme. Given every advantage that only America would and could, as opposed to the repressive third world shithole of Indonesia that she was spawned in, she has blood-libeled and done all she could to stab us in the back and drag us down to the savage Dark Age level of her forbears.

First of all, this congresswoman claims she's concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Cuba. That's admirable. I am too and have been for a long time. But it's funny, this humanitarian crisis has been going on for years, and yet, unless I'm missing something, she's only found it in her heart to be concerned about it since Trump and Rubio began taking legitimate steps to put an end to it once and for all. 

If you'll recall, Jayapal and Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.) traveled to Cuba last month on the taxpayers' dime to "assess the humanitarian situation." The reality is that they took a five-day vacation (or what they called a "congressional delegation") to Cuba to meet with the regime and find new ways to bash Donald Trump. They went in with an agenda and opinions already formed and walked away with those opinions intact and using the same language the regime does about how Trump is hurting them with his sanctions and blockades...

...why in the heck is a sitting member of the U.S. Congress going behind the president's back and colluding with foreign countries in a way that directly goes against the president's current actions and foreign policy? Trump and Rubio are working to pressure the regime so that the Cuban people are finally free. They've also made it incredibly clear that the island nation as it stands with the regime in charge is a threat to the national security of the United States. 

But wait, there's more from another anti-American traitor . . and she's not even American literally!, and yet she holds public office?!

“I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country,” Former Minnesota State Rep. Kaohly Her declared.

Her ran in the 2025 St. Paul mayoral election on a promise to fight ICE and protect illegal aliens. While she lost the election, the usual ‘ranked choice’ shenanigans that elevated Mamdani in New York City, and other urban leftists, put her ahead of Melvin Carter III who was not an illegal.

In her inaugural address, Mayor Kaohly Her described federal immigration enforcement as an “unprecedented incursion that we must meet head on.” She spoke while surrounded by minority female politicians as well as Robert ‘Susan Kimblery’ Sylvester: a former deputy mayor who now claims to be a transgender woman.

This secessionist rhetoric was soon paired with a secessionist ordinance commanding federal law enforcement not to operate on ‘city-owned property’ as if St. Paul had somehow seceded from the United States.

Why are either of these evil filthy skanks not awaiting removal from our nation?! Jayapal deserves to at a minimum be removed from office and prosecuted for her actions along with anyone who aided and abetted her. But grabbing this admitted criminal illegal alien Kaohly and shipping her the hell out of the country is, or should be a snap, for ICE and/or the DOJ?!

And let the rent-a-goon thugs try and stop it.

Yeah, my blood is now at a slow simmer.

Have a great weekend!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• “It reminds us of the comedy routine of the Three Stooges on a rickety boat that is taking on water so they drill a hole in the bottom to get the water out.”
  Blue states have bled $2 trillion in wealth to red states in the last decade — and NY leads the pack

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Daily Tech News 8 May 2026

Top Story

• There's a local privilege escalation bug that affects all recent versions of Linux. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  No, not that one, another one. It abuses bugs in three optional kernel modules to give any local user root access.
  
  Good news: It's relatively easy to prevent.
  
  Bad news: It's already out in the wild even though none of the Linux distributions has had a chance to patch it yet. There's a script available that prevents the affected kernel modules from loading that blocks the exploit. Run it once and you're good - unless you depend on one of those modules and you have untrusted local users, in which case you're... Not good.
  
  
  
• Also, there's a CPanel exploit making lives miserable, with a patch planned for 12pm EST.
  
  Again, not that one, another one.
  
  At least this one hasn't leaked yet.

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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - May 7, 2026 [Doof]

Welcome to the Thursday ONT for this week. Open thread, as always. Content awaits those who care. Both of you. Come on in!

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Thursday Cafe

In the French Pyrenees
Justin Locke, 1956
Via Guisi Gaile

Turtle refuses to obey police commands.

Work hard, play hard.

Lay your paws on me.

Introducing the babies. More babies hanging out.

What's the name of that phobia where you get triggered by a large group of holes? I just got a dose of that and now you can too.

Yff pile.

Not a penguin.

Dogs just want to help. If it involves carrying things around in their mouths like it's treasure, so much the better. Yup, anything involving grabbing things in their mouths and carrying them, they're Johnny On the Spot.

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US Assets Counter-Attack Iranian Fast Boats

Good.

But they're claiming none of this violated the ceasefire, because they're trying to pretend to comport with the unconstitutional War Powers Act for some reason.

A U.S. strike on Iran's Qeshm Port in the Strait of Hormuz and Bandar Abbas were reported Thursday, with U.S. officials telling Fox News National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin that this was neither a restart of the war nor an end to the ceasefire.

The U.S. military also struck Iran's Bandar Kargan naval checkpoint in Minab, officials confirmed.

The development came as Iran's state-run IRNA news agency also reported air defense activity in western Tehran.

Two other loud explosions were heard Thursday night, while eyewitnesses told Iran International they heard multiple blasts in Chitgar.

Iran's state-run Mehr News Agency also reported attacks and exchanges of fire across Iran's southern Hormozgan province near Bandar Abbas, Bandar Khamir, Sirik and Qeshm Island, according to reports.

Thursday's strike on Iran's major port came two days after Iran fired 15 ballistic and cruise missiles at the UAE's Fujairah Port.

Those strikes sparked anger among Gulf countries, officials told Griffin, though Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine had said during a Pentagon briefing May 5 that those attacks did not amount to a violation of the ceasefire.

Hegseth and Caine described the attacks as low-level incidents that did not rise to that threshold.

U.S. forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May 7.

Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage. No U.S. assets were struck.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes.

CENTCOM does not seek escalation but remains positioned and ready to protect American forces.

If they're firing on US ships, the War Powers Act is out the window. The US President has nearly unlimited inherent authority to defend US ships and bases from attack.

More from Ed Morrissey. The Iranians attacked us with "swarms of fast attack boats." I don't understand why those were allowed to continue existing.

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Quick Hits

The family of Sheridan Gorman -- the co-ed brutally slain by an illegal alien who a Chicago city councilwoman blamed for her own death by saying she was in "the wrong place at the wrong time" -- corrects the record: No, the Venezuelan illegal alien killer was in the wrong place.

As commenters pointed out (and I missed), Democrats are currently shrieking MUH RACISM about Tennessee redrawing the Memphis-area district. That seat is currently held by a pasty white fraud named Steve Cohen.

I don't think Cohen is a black name.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Congressman Steve Cohen is reacting to the congressional map of Tennessee proposed by Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday.

U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen says it's devastating, and he believes it's a way to divide the Black vote in order to minimize its influence.

Protesters made their voices heard during a House committee hearing in Nashville over the proposed redistricting of District 9, which includes the city of Memphis.

"Memphis is Black, there's no denying that," protesters chanted.

Yeah but Cohen isn't. So the Maximize Minority Voting Power rule failed anyway.

"It devastates the work that has been done to rectify the injuries to African Americans because of years, centuries of slavery and decades of Jim Crow rule and Jim Crow laws," said Cohen.

Jesus, he's talking like he's Kunte J. Kinte.

By the way, he's already announced he's filing a hopeless, dilatory lawsuit only to run out the clock to keep his seat.

I cannot wait to cast an illegal vote in Tennessee against him.

And why shouldn't I? Democrats insist it's everyone's right to vote illegally.

Maybe things are changing: A judge ruled the Trump DOJ can keep 600+ boxes of "ballots" seized from Fani Willis' Fulton County, to inspect them for authenticity.

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Exactly.

No one has ever inspected the actual ballots that didn't have an interest in the 2020 results being confirmed.

A federal grand jury has no obligation to accept any conclusions reached by anyone before them.

That's because no one before them had subpoena power of a federal court, and the ability to compel testimony under oath with a threat of contempt if they refuse.

This is a new ballgame played by different rules.

Update: They're still babbling that the seat held by Steve Cohen is his forever because "it's a black district."

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