Keir Starmer Announces Resignation as His Pre-Arranged Replacement Is Sworn In To Parliament

Before that, here's a completely unrelated story.

UK Police told mother of daughter stabbed to death 23 times with screwdriver by Rwandan 'asylum seeker' to 'tone down' statement to avoid anti-migrant 'violence'

27-year-old Rhiannon Whyte was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver in October 2024. Her killer, Deng Majek, was a Sudanese national and was later sentenced to 29 years in prison.

by: Hayden Cunningham

UK Police told mother of daughter stabbed to death 23 times with screwdriver by Rwandan 'asylum seeker' to 'tone down' statement to avoid anti-migrant 'violence'
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Police in the United Kingdom encouraged the family of a hotel worker who was murdered by an asylum seeker to moderate their public statements out of concern that the killing could trigger anti-immigration protests.

27-year-old Rhiannon Whyte was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver in October 2024. Her killer, Deng Majek, was a Sudanese national and was later sentenced to 29 years in prison.

The killing came just months after the Southport child murders, which sparked anti-migrant riots and demonstrations across parts of the UK. Whyte's mother, Siobhan, said police were concerned about the possibility of the murder prompting further unrest, saying they didn't want "another Southport."

"Did they tell us what to say? No. Did they guide us so it didn't look so aggressive? Maybe. I was aggressive -- they toned it down," she said, according to the Daily Mail.

"Those migrants were out within two hours -- I think that's because [the police] feared violence," Siobhan said.

Following the revelation that Majek had arrived in the UK on a small boat just three months before the attack, Siobhan publicly accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of having "blood on his hands."

Keir Starmer hung on to power in order to have an "orderly" -- that is, scripted and pre-decided by party elites -- transition of power.

The transition involves making another leftist, Andy Burnham, PM. Starmer couldn't do this right away because Burnham had actually left Parliament (I think to be mayor of Manchester). So Starmer hung on to his seat to allow time for the currently-serving leftist Member of Parliament of Burnham's old district to resign, and then for a by-election to be scheduled to fill the seat, and then for Burnham to be elected as an MP again.

By the way I wasn't even 100% certain that the current MP for Manchester resigned specifically to allow Burnahm to run to replace him when I wrote that paragraph. I just assumed it. But now, having bothered to check, yes this was all arranged by party leaders.

He was literally sworn in as a "new" MP a couple of hours ago.

And now that he's an MP again, he will be coronated PM.

And then he'll serve until the next required election in 2029.

But not yet. Starmer says he'll remain in office for a while as they further scheme to coronate Burnham. He says he'll definitely be out by September, though.

Neil Farage, leader of Reform, is calling for a sooner election -- a "snap" general election -- as are many, many others.

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🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has called for a general election following Keir Starmer's resignation

But that will be ignored, of course, because while Labour can arrange and confabulate a single win in a Labour stronghold, they will be destroyed in any national election.

Democracy. Mmmm, drink it in.

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Fathomless Corruption: Feds Probe Gavin and Jennifer Newsom's Wholesale Looting of Taxpayer Money Through Their "Non-Profit" Grifter Organizations

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🚨🇺🇸Federal investigations are targeting the Newsom family's nonprofits and personal finances.

Officials are examining $3.7 million paid to the governor's wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom from her charities over the past decade.

Gavin Newsom himself is also being probed for soliciting millions in behested payments for her organizations from major donors with state business.

Questions have also surfaced about how the couple bought a $3.7 million Sacramento home through an LLC that allegedly didn't appear on his tax returns.

No charges have been filed yet.

The Sac Bee:

Federal investigators are digging into the finances of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The governor calls it a political attack tied to his expected 2028 presidential run. The Trump administration's Justice Department is probing the Newsoms' ties to nonprofits, taxes and business dealings going back years.

Siebel Newsom has occupied a higher profile position compared to the spouses of other state leaders. The filmmaker and gender equity advocate has helped shape her husband's policies on issues like reproductive health, the male loneliness and mental health crisis, school nutrition, and regulating children's access to social media.

Here are key takeaways:

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Siebel Newsom's taxes and nonprofits connected to her and the governor, with several probes ongoing for about a year that originated from whistleblower complaints to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Sacramento.

IRS and FBI agents have approached staff, friends and associates of the Newsoms in recent weeks and obtained their bank records. The Governor's Office said the probe intensified after Todd Blanche became acting head of the DOJ.

One of the investigations is connected to Dana Williamson, Newsom's former chief of staff, who pleaded guilty to fraud and lying to the FBI last month and faces up to 38 years in prison.

Siebel Newsom earned about $2.3 million from the Representation Project nonprofit between 2011 and 2018. A 2021 Sacramento Bee investigation found more than $800,000 in donations to the nonprofit from companies that lobby the governor, including PG&E, AT&T and Kaiser Permanente.

Just days before the DOJ probe became public, the state's Fair Political Practices Commission fined Newsom $31,500 for failing to report $5.6 million in charitable donations on time, with most going to the California Fire Foundation during the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.

Newsom was late filing reports on so-called behested payments 34 times in 2025, and the governor has previously been fined for failing to disclose $14 million in donations made between 2019 and 2024.

There's a reason Newsom doesn't want to admit these "behested payments."

The "behested payments" -- when a politician requests/demands payments to a charity he favors -- aren't illegal but are a "problem," admits the left-wing LA Times.

After Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week that the U.S. Department of Justice may be investigating his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, media and pundits pounced on millions in charity payments he has solicited for nonprofits, including ones she is involved in.

Those donations, known as "behested payments," aren't illegal in California, but, long before Newsom started asking for them, many have found them unsavory -- with good cause. A behest, after all, is by definition a command or at least a strong suggestion.

Anytime a politician is commanding money, regardless of the purpose, there is at least the appearance that the giver -- Meta, Google, Blue Shield for example -- may expect something in return.

It may seem absurd that the Trump administration could be investigating Newsom for questionable ethics, when Trump has hawked everything from crypto-coins to sneakers from the Oval Office. But the problem Newsom now faces is that behested payments are actually skeevy, and legal or not, they make an excellent target for pummeling the presidential contender. Especially because some of the charities are tied to his wife.

"The Newsom case has blown it wide open, but this has been an issue for years," Sean McMorris told me. He's the transparency, ethics and accountability program manager at Common Cause, a nonpartisan organization that has been raising alarms over behested payments for more than a decade.

McMorris said that while these payments don't violate any laws, they are "ripe for abuse" because companies and people likely aren't ponying up cash just to be good citizens. If you or I called up PG&E and asked them to give a few million to our favorite cause, I doubt we'd have much luck, even if it involved kittens, puppies or small children in need.

The entire system, McMorris points out, "doesn't really work unless you're shaking down people who you know need things from you as a politician."

In other words, it's a shakedown. He asks corporations for money for his favored "charities," with the understanding they will either get a favor in return (or that all favors will be refused unless they pay up).

A lot of these donations go to his fucking wife's "charity."

Which then pays her a salary putting her in the top 5% of all CEOs of "charities" in the country.

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🚨 Gavin Newsom's wife was laundering herself so much money from her NGO she was actually in the top 5% for pay from all charities in the entire nation

But that's not all, Gavin Newsom "bought his $3.7 million Sacramento estate, it was done through an LLC, but that LLC doesn't seem to have appeared on his tax returns -- There's a lot of questions"

"He's released at least partly to journalists in closed-door viewing sessions, his tax returns. And if you look at that, his income, it's about $1.2 to $1.4 million a year. And it just doesn't add up for all of his expenses. He's got massive mortgages, $625,000 in mortgage payments and he's got at least $1 million in living expenses, and the two just don't add up"

"When I had a look at Jennifer Newsom's charity, I found that she was paying herself since 2012, $3.7 million. And this is a lot of money when you look at the amount that the charity brings in. It's sort of $1-$1.7 million a year. And she's paying up to a third of that to herself and her own company--$300,000 a year.

Now, I did a bit of data analysis looking at what charities that size usually pay their executives, and she was in the top 5% of all charities in the nation for pay"

In the video I included more instances where Gavin Newsom laundered money to his wife

- $1 million to block a casino project
- $5 million to an office for his wife that he created
- He sent $300,000 from his donor PG&E to his wife's NGO

And more, it never ends. They need to go to jail

Jennifer Van Der Laar has been covering the Newsom's unquenchable thirst for graft and plunder for years, and has written a "Start Here" introduction to bring everyone up to speed on their decades of daylight robbery of the taxpayers.

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MORNING RANT: The Iran Situation and Trump’s MOU – What Constitutes “Finishing the Job” After the Lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan?

I’m being told that Donald Trump has failed. Instead of bringing about eternal harmony in a region that has never known peace, the president has simply killed off Iran’s senior leadership, obliterated its military, weakened its proxy networks, and destroyed its nuclear capability. In addition, this conflict has finally compelled the Gulf States to start building oil pipelines to the Mediterranean and Red Seas, ensuring that the Strait of Hormuz will not be a chokepoint for global oil flow in the not-distant future.

Unfortunately, and despite our military success, Iran still doesn’t have a secular, pro-western government releasing doves while crooning “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.” Neither do Iraq or Afghanistan, for which a tragic amount of American blood was spilled in pursuit of unattainable, western-style democracies. All those regimes deserved to be toppled, but none of them are worth spilling American blood to rebuild.

While it’s a shame that the people of Iran did not rise up and reclaim their country from the Islamists holding levers of power, the U.S. has done enough for now, and if we need to come back and do some more bombing, that remains on the table. But occupation cannot be an option we’re considering. This is a consistent opinion of mine, and I believe it is consistent with much of the MAGA right.

A year ago, right after the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities but well before this latest round of strikes, I wrote a piece titled “President Trump’s Use of Military Power - If We Have to Break It, We Aren't Going to Buy It.” In it I rejected the notion that the only two options regarding the use of military power are either pacifism or boots-on-the-ground nation-building, writing, ”There is another much better option, which President Trump just demonstrated – the use of our military to destroy what needs destroying, and then leaving the mess as a lesson. If Iran attempts to rebuild its nuclear program in coming years, we can bust it all up again. We don’t have to occupy Iran or pretend that it will become a western democracy. It can figure out whatever it wants to become, but if Iran restarts its nuclear program or exports terror again, it can also face our wrath again.”

The full text of that piece is below the fold. I stand by it, and it seems to be the avenue President Trump is pursuing.

But first, here are a few other thoughts I have regarding the domestic U.S. political battles involving Iran and Israel.

• What does “Finish the job” even mean? It if means a resumption of the Crusades and re-Christianizing the Middle East, then I’m all ears. But if it means spilling American blood in the futile pursuit of a friendly “Islamic democracy,” we cannot go down that road ever again.

• After the first Gulf War in the early 1990s, President Bush (41) was criticized for not finishing the job. In the ‘00s, President Bush (43) did attempt to finish the job. We’ve been down this road before in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It went poorly.

• Perhaps I’m projecting myself onto others, but I believe that a solid majority of Trump/MAGA voters are both America-first and solidly pro-Israel. Sacrifices such as higher gas prices and some inflation are a price we’re willing to pay for a while in support of our civilizational ally, but not in perpetuity. American voters elected Trump overwhelmingly for domestic concerns, not to fix what is unfixable in the Middle East.

• The online debate regarding the Iran situation seems to be argued most loudly by Israel-haters and Israel-firsters, but I want to believe both of those camps are at the two ends of a bell curve. I passionately dislike the anti-Israel crowd because they seem to be in service to Islamists, with whom we (western civilization) are engaged in a war that has been going on for 1,400 years. But I’d also like to warn the Israel-firsters that their screeching denunciations of Trump and his voters for not prioritizing Israel above all other concerns is actually deleterious to their cause. If you keep accusing people of “not supporting Israel” if they object to a military invasion of Iran and $200 per barrel oil, they may start to accept the terms of your phrasing.

Below is the text of that June 2025 piece titled “President Trump’s Use of Military Power - If We Have to Break It, We Aren't Going to Buy It”:

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Girl by the Window
Edvard Munch

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The Morning Report — 6/ 22 /26

Good morning kids. Well the big story breaking late or early depending which side of the pond you're on is that Keir Starmer has decided to call it quits as England's Prime Minister.

Sir Keir Starmer choked up as he announced his resignation as UK Prime Minister Monday – less than 2 years after the Labour Party stormed to a landslide general election win.
Starmer, 63, set out a timetable to stand down after coming under mounting pressure following last month’s local elections, where the governing Labour Party lost over 1,000 seats.

The Prime Minister announced his intention to step down after admitting the Labour Party was questioning whether he could lead it into the next general election, which must be held before July 2029, just 23 months after leading his party to a landslide win. 

“I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace,” Starmer said outside 10 Downing Street in London.

Every decision I’ve taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to His Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision.”

While I'm no expert, to say the least, on British politics but no doubt that one of the things that has led to Starmer's departure is the growing scandal of the Muslim rape crisis that has come to light especially over the last year or so. But shockingly Muslim men have been raping non-Muslim women and girls for decades!

This is something that’s also totally missed by the report’s focus on Islam as the main driving force behind the grooming: Pakistani Muslim men raping white British girls because they aren’t Muslim. In many cases, the Muslim identity of the men appears to be incidental to the grooming, and the kinship networks like the Kashmiri birādarī system that structure it predate conversion to Islam by centuries. Yes, some groomers do refer to the girls as kuffār—non-believers—and the justification is that of the wretched Quran verse “What the right hand possesses,” which says Muslim men can take sex slaves from among kuffār women, but it seems to be kinship, rather than religion, that gives these crimes their systematic and persistent character. Ultimately, though, this remains to be explored properly.

Rape is not a one-off crime committed here and there but it is a documented tool of warfare used by Muslims to conquer and subjugate nations and people once Islam becomes a dominant force politically and/or demographically aided and abetted by a cowed and submissive indigenous populace that refuses to defend itself from invasion and conquest, and as is the case of Britain and much of western Europe brought it willingly upon themselves for myriad cultural and historic reasons.

While Starmer is gone, is there really a chance that the English people will recognize the mortal danger they placed themselves in by allowing the socialists to rule essentially unchecked since the end of the Second World War, Churchill's sunset years and Maggie Thatcher notwithstanding.

The uprising in Belfast over the attempted public beheading of a man in broad daylight certainly gives one hope that people are indeed waking up at long last. Still, I'm hesitant to predict a sea change over there, knowing full well that despite being mugged by reality, Leftists/Democrats will lather rinse and repeat and continue to vote for their own destruction. Of course the societal and political pressure imposed by the globalist/political media cultural complex to bend the knee and surrender cannot be underestimated either. And in the UK there is now an official censorship regime where one can be hauled off and prosecuted for uttering anything critical against Islam, let alone even silently praying in front of an abortion mill.

And elsewhere the beat goes on with the Iran negotiations. Some are hailing Trump and Vance as brilliant masters of 11-dimension chess. . .

Regardless of the naysayers, neoconservatives, and progressive leftist shills using social and mainstream media to portray America as weak for the thousandth time, President Trump's Iran deal and the communication of the deal by Vice President JD Vance has been a masterclass in geopolitics and media dexterity. President Trump's preliminary MOU with Iran took pressure, pragmatism, forceful language, and a militaristic strategy to secure, but it was all worth it. The priority of using peace through strength, the ever-powerful Trumpist foreign policy mantra, proved yet again that President Trump is the best negotiator in modern American or world politics.

Using bombs to force conversation is certainly an option, but it ended up being the best solution for all sides of the war in Iran. While Obama's Iran deal funded radical Islamic terrorism and the spreading of Sharia Law throughout the globe, Trump's deal utilized tariffs, bombs, and blockades to bring Iran up the ramp and into 12 rounds with the 45th and 47th President of the United States.

. . . Sounds great, but others are claiming they've both been taken to the cleaners.

Trump Coulda Been a Contender -- The destruction of a legacy. . .

It’s one of the most justly celebrated moments in cinematic history. In Elia Kazan’s classic movie On the Waterfront (1954), the failed boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando), who was forced to take a dive during the bout that could have established him as a possible challenger for the championship belt, says to his brother, who was in on the fix: “I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”

I was going to make the subtitle to this article “Instead of a bum which is what he is,” but it was just too painful. Trump isn’t a bum, and maybe, just maybe, he will eventually right the ship and get on with the business of making America great again. But showering billions on a regime whose leaders routinely scream “Death to America,” and pretending that the evil men who now control that regime are rational people with whom America can do business — that’s the behavior of one of the America-Lasters who has governed this unhappy land in recent decades, not that of the visionary who promised to take on and defeat those who were selling out our interests.

A number of good essays in the links that illustrate both sides of the argument. So, as the President himself is fond of saying, we'll just have to wait and see.

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Starmer, 63, set out a timetable to stand down after coming under mounting pressure following last month’s local elections, where the governing Labour Party lost over 1,000 seats.
  
  Keir Starmer chokes up as he resigns as UK Prime Minister — less than 2 years after landslide election win

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Daily Tech News 22 June 2026

Top Story

• A tech-worked backed PAC is spending $5 million to fight a multi-trillion dollar industry. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Or blatantly stealing the money while serving the goals of communists foreign and domestic. One of those.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which did my old job only exist because of fraud? (It's not about code)
  
  Always awkward to realise this is a possibility. Something of a comfort to realise that the answer is... Probably not.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - June 21, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Hope you enjoyed the first official day of summer. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Gun Thread: Post NoVAMoMe Discussion and Analysis Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Post NoVAMoMe Discussion and Analysis Edition! I guess it's inevitable after a NoVAMoMe, but it still comes and goes so quickly. A bigly hearty thank you to all those who made the effort to come. If you attended this year's NoVAMoMe, or any MoMe for that matter, please speak up with your impressions in the comments below. Who knows, it might just be your words that inspires a scaredy-cat lurker to attend one!

Happy Father's Day to all you Dads out there!

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

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Food Thread: Fish Eggs, Fish Eggs, Roly-Poly Fish Eggs!

Ooh! That looks good! Except it is an odd dish that many people will carefully step around on the way to more conventional pasta dishes. Spaghetti alla Bottarga is a deceptively simple dish made of fish eggs, oil, and garlic...essentially Aglio e Olio with caviar! Except the Italian version of caviar is, A. much less expensive, and 2. made from the whole egg sac of Mullet, then salted and dried.

Yeah, it sounds a bit weird, but it is delicious, and a dish that I will order every time I see it, which is, sadly, very infrequently. I guess I should head to Sardinia, where it is a famous and popular dish, but that's a bit much for one plate of pasta, even for a glutton like me!

The base recipe can be used with pretty much any seafood, although I would stick to briny flavors like vongole (clams) or even anchovies! I think the pasta should be cooked in less water so the starchy water used to thicken the dish is as powerful as possible. And do not skimp on the garlic! But I shouldn't have to tell you that!

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First World Problems...

Why do I have this in a cabinet? I don't particularly like the beer, there is only one, so it isn't even a set, and the reason for its existence is lost in the mists of time and approaching senescence.

I have a vague recollection of one of the brats going through a "Stella Artois" phase, so that must be why, but why it hasn't been tossed is beyond me.

Soon though, my village's semi-monthly bulk pickup will be worked hard. I will revel in discarding...pretty much everything!

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Another mRNA Vaccine? Really?

The science of vaccines and the resulting public health miracles are one of the glories of Western Civilization. We eradicated Small Pox, have marvelous vaccines for Rabies, Tetanus, Diphtheria, and a slew of childhood diseases that can be dangerous like Pertusis (Whooping Cough), Mumps, and Measles.

But the arrogance of the government medical establishment, coupled with good old grifting conspired to create a "modern" vaccine for a manufactured disease that has destroyed the trust that most Americans had for the once-vaunted FDA and its offshoots, and the medical establishment that carried its water during the catastrophically destructive COVID fiasco.

They created a disease, they lied about its origins, they used it to destroy our civil liberties and manipulate the country to be more compliant, and perhaps worst of all, they sabotaged possible treatments to favor their dangerous and expensive vaccine and treatments.

So why should the American people think that all of those failings have magically disappeared, and the new and improved FDA/Pharma/Deep State is any more invested in the health and well being of America?

FDA Advisers Recommend Approving First mRNA Influenza Vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration should approve the first messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for influenza, the agency’s vaccine advisory panel said on June 18.

The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee in a unanimous vote advised the FDA to approve an mRNA flu shot from Moderna for adults aged 50 and older.

The same mRNA technology that is implicated in some serious side effects? The same mRNA technology that was used to create the COVID vaccine that was famously awful? And all for a disease that has shifting antigens that are very difficult to identify quickly enough to create an effective vaccine? The flu vaccine works adequately, but it is by no means impressive, and the mRNA vaccine won't change that, so why risk the documented side effects of an mRNA vaccine when the traditional vaccine is safe?

Oh. Look! Money!

“The presented data do indicate efficacy against flu with no safety signals,” Dr. Hana El Sahly, a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and committee member who worked on a trial for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, said after the vote.

First of all, this harridan should have never been allowed on the committee because she has a clear conflict of interest in making mRNA vaccines mainstream. Second, she is a liar. Their own data show a higher risk of complications, but she uses typical biomedical weasel-words to avoid admitting that..."no safety signals?" what the f*ck does that mean?

Traditional vaccines work wonderfully. Until mRNA vaccines are shown to be equal to or better than traditional vaccines, in particular for diseases that by definition cannot be eradicated or whose vaccine is only marginally effective, we should be very, very suspicious!

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Sunday Morning Book Thread 6-21-2026 [Sabrina Chase]

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

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Daily Tech News 21 June 2026

Top Story

• AMD and Intel have unveiled their new ACE instruction set, which extends AVX vector instructions into matrix calculations. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  A single ACE instruction can result in up to 1024 multiplications, which is convenient but not exactly adhering to the RISC philosophy.
  
  We'll probably be waiting a couple of years to see this. AMD previously announced a new matrix engine for Zen 7 - which is not expected until 2028.
  
  
  

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Saturday Night Club ONT - June 20, 2026 [D Squared]

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: The first NoVa MoMe since the election of Virginia Governor Spanberger took place today. The state was on alert!]

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 6/20/2026

Hugo

The movie world continues to make quality films from time to time, and fifteen years ago Martin Scorsese released what I think is one of his best films, the adaptation of the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. The novel is a children's novel, several hundred pages long but with minimal words on each page and heavily illustrated in black and white pictures. However, I did not care at all about the novel when the film was announced. All I cared about was that Martin Scorsese was making a new movie.

It came, it went. I saw it in theaters, but it was a financial failure. Most people seem to have completely forgotten about it, most people seemingly dismissing it because it's a Scorsese movie that's not a gangster movie. That's all he makes, right? And he's making a children's movie? In 3D? He jumped on that bandwagon? There is every reason to ignore this, right?

Well, I love the film. I've purchased it twice (once on Blu-ray and once the 4K disc), and I've seen it half a dozen times. A couple of weeks ago, though, I decided to actually read the source novel with an eye towards the questions of adaptation. What did Scorsese (and screenwriter John Logan) change? What did they add? What did they take away?

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Hobby Thread - June 20, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is on fire. It spun and spun and landed on a candle theme for this Hobby Thread.

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle." St. Francis Of Assisi.

[Photo credit: NoName_13 on Pixabay]

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, June 20

Courtesy Terry Glenn

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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 20

My little garden has been pretty colorful and a delight to look at out the window on a 90 degree day. Here's a couple photos of my Tequila and lime Daylilies.

Didn't realize that each blossom actually only last for a day til Hrothgar mentioned it.
In one picture you can see the delicate pink hydrangeas. I was initially disappointed that they didn't get those big rounded flowers but grew to like how delicate they look.

Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Daylilies and hydrangeas both come in different flower forms. The daylilies are spectacular, and the color of the hydrangeas looks nice with them.

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Father's Day Weekend, 2026

Happy Father's Day Weekend! Are you seeing or doing anything different from other Father's Day Weekends? Like maybe,

Remembering the Founding Fathers

John Adams

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Coffee & Musical H/T Hadrian The Seventh]

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

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Black marks on your permanent record are not pretty.
3) A weekly reminder. No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a great weekend and a Happy Father's Day to all of you Fathers.

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