Harvard's Chief DEI Officer Also Plagiarized Her "Papers," Cribbed Her Work From Her Husband's Previously-Published Papers

Of course. They've turned academics into a scam, and so it's now flooded with scamsters.

Harvard University's chief diversity and inclusion officer allegedly plagiarized some of her academic works, according to a complaint filed Monday with the university.

The complaint alleged that Sherri Charleston plagiarized 40 passages throughout her works, including in her 2009 dissertation and her single peer-reviewed paper, The Washington Free Beacon first reported. Charleston allegedly did not properly cite almost a dozen scholars when quoting or paraphrasing in her dissertation, and she is accused of re-using a portion of a 2012 study published by her husband, LaVar Charleston, in the peer-reviewed article, which was coauthored by LaVar, according to the complaint.

LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to his webpage.

"The 2014 paper appears to be entirely counterfeit," Peter Wood, head of the National Association of Scholars, told the Beacon. "This is research fraud pure and simple."

The peer-reviewed article, which was also co-authored with now-dean of Michigan State University's College of Education Jerlando Jackson, uses the same methodology, description and findings as a 2012 study by her husband, according to the complaint.

You know how sometimes kids just submit the book report written in prior years by their older brothers and sisters as their own work?

Same deal here. DEI grifters are getting promoted on hand-me-down book reports.

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Harvard and the Office for Equity, Diversion, Inclusion and Belonging did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation's request for comment.

Demanding original research which extends the filed of human knowledge is just White Supremacy Straight-Up.

It's almost as if promoting people based on racial grievance rather than ability results in filling the ranks with people who are low in ability and high in racial grievance.

Meanwhile, major donors are calling for Cornell's DEI-and-BDS president to resign.

Cornell University is facing mounting pressure to end its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and for the school's president to resign, following a top donor's fiery letter to the school's board of trustees, Fox News Digital has learned.

"Replace the President and the Provost," Cornell major donor and trustee emeritus Jon A. Lindseth wrote in a letter Tuesday as the top item Cornell's board of trustees should address.

"Eliminate DEI staffing and programming. Revert to Open Inquiry, Academic Freedom, Free Expression, and Viewpoint Diversity on campus," Lindseth wrote as the second item that needs to be addressed by the board.

Fox News Digital learned that as of Thursday, the letter was mailed to each trustee, and will likely be fresh in their minds as they head into an emergency board meeting on Friday, a source familiar with the situation told Fox News Digital. The trustees' calendar shows they are scheduled to hold a meeting on Friday in New York City.

Lindseth is requesting the board include calls for Cornell President Martha Pollack to resign as part of their meeting agenda on Friday.

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The lengthy letter goes into detail how Lindseth, who has been one of the school's largest donors for several decades, is "alarmed" by the university's embrace of DEI initiatives across all academic fields. He cited reports that the school is "hiring faculty based on race rather than academic merit," as well as reports of "failures to support faculty members choosing to exercise free expression and academic freedom."

"I am proud to count myself one of several generations of Lindseths who are Cornell alumni and invested donors, but I am alarmed by the diminished quality of education offered lately by my alma mater because of its disastrous involvement with DEI policies that have infiltrated every part of the university," he wrote.

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The source told Fox News Digital that since the letter was sent, and subsequently reported on by numerous media outlets, Lindseth has received an outpouring of support. Students, professors and parents have reached out to thank him for sounding the alarm on DEI initiatives to the board, adding that they didn't feel like their concerns were being heard until he weighed in.

Lindseth took issue with a handful of initiatives the university has rolled out in recent years, which has led to a "toxic" school environment.

"A new campus 'bias reporting system' fosters a hostile Orwellian environment among neighbors, classmates and colleagues reporting on one another. The elimination of grades and SATs has created a system in which equal outcomes rather than proven merit has become the objective. This is disastrous for a research university that is built upon academic achievement and aims to educate and train some of our country's leading scientists, architects and engineers," he wrote.

Meanwhile, at least a dozen universities are being investigated by the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights due to their refusal to investigate and punish clear cases of antisemtism and harassment against Jewish students.

SUNY-Binghampton was just added to the list of shame. Although, I gotta tell you, this is a real SJW bullshit complaint:

The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into Binghamton University in New York over its alleged failure to respond to harassment of Jewish students, Campus Reform has learned.

The complaint was filed by Campus Reform Editor-in-Chief Dr. Zachary Marschall.

An investigation into Binghamton University was opened on Monday by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

The letter cited an October 25, 2023, Students for Justice in Palestine "Walk out for Palestine" protest, where one student who served on the organization's executive board said "Israel is worse than Nazi Germany," according to a video posted to X.

The Binghamton University Zionist Organization responded to the incident in an email to the Pipe Dream, the university's student newspaper.

"Such a comparison profoundly diminishes the Holocaust's atrocities, where 6 million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered. To draw upon such a tragic chapter in human history for political leverage is not only historically misguided but deeply offensive, especially to Jewish students who bear the weight of the Holocaust's legacy," the organization wrote.

Marschall wrote in the complaint that Binghamton hasn't properly responded to "very clear threats" to Jewish students."

Well what are the threats? The one thing you actually call out is complete bullshit, and I assume that you're leading with your strongest evidence.

That is not a threat nor is it harassment. That is simply speech you do not like, and using your status as a minority to enlist the government to suppress the speech you don't like.

I trust the other complaints are more substantial than the one submitted by this SJW brownshirtnoser.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

"Rebuilding Trust"

Ever since the Davos crowd finally figured out that they - not just the WEF, but the "elite" in general - are pretty well reviled the world over, they've been trying to pay lip service to "restoring trust" in the masters of the universe among the global rubes. It's risen from a talking point to a primary focus among their clique.

Back in 2021, a woman called Ngaire Woods out of Oxford spoke at the WEF's "Great Narrative Meeting" about a years-long trend in trust:

... the good news is that the elite across the world trust each other more and more. So we can come together and design and do beautiful things together. The bad news is that in every single country they were polling, the majority of people trusted their elite less. So, we can lead, but if people aren't following, we're not going to get to where we want to go.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Spring at the Old House
E. Bart Gerald

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The Morning Report — 1/30/24

Good morning, kids. This bastard. This filthy, criminal, amoral, scumbag of a BASTARD:

For days we’ve been waiting to hear what Joe Biden and the Bidenites are planning to do after three of our service members were killed in a drone strike at Tower 22, an American outpost on the border of Syria and Jordan—are we getting into another war or not? . . .

. . . who knows what’s taking so long for him to let the American public know if he’s going to be requiring more dollars and death, but he didn’t earn the nickname “Slow Joe” for nothing—and, it turns out, that’s not the only part of this whole mess where he displays his complete lack of urgency. Here’s this, from a Fox News report out today:

The parents of one of the U.S. soldiers killed in a drone strike in Jordan spoke out Tuesday morning about the loss of their daughter, as they await a phone call from [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden.

Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders of Waycross, Ga., was killed alongside 23-year-old Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett and 46-year-old Sgt. William Jerome Rivers during the drone attack near the Syrian border over the weekend.

Kennedy’s parents, Oneida and Shawn Sanders joined ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss the unexpected loss and how they want America to respond to the deadly attack that took their daughter’s life.

…Oneida mentioned that the family expects a call from [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden, and they have already been in contact with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and various lawmakers. She said they have to complete paperwork before they can speak to the [so-called quote-unquote "president"].

I’m sorry, did she say “paperwork”? It’s been days, and he still hasn’t called? And he’ll only call when the grieving families fill out the correct forms? If this weren’t the Biden regime, I’d think this were satire—a government agency requiring paperwork to get a ‘condolences’ call.

Again, what does this man even do all day? Eat ice cream cones, take beach naps, and wear hardhats backwards for photo ops? His schedule cannot be that busy.

Will Kennedy Sanders get three funerals like George Floyd did? What about the other dead soldiers? Will the Democrats in Congress get down on their knees for an extended period of silence, to honor our fallen military members? No, of course not.

On the latest episode of the podcast, CBD admonished me for not recognizing that the Kalorama Klown Komintern of Obama, Jarrett, Rice and who the hell knows who else are the ones really in charge which I thought goes without saying and funny enough I admonished him just a few moments later for the same thing.

Yes indeed, Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants is literally that; his dementia and geriatric enfeeblement are obvious and worsening by the day. And yet, sometimes you get the feeling that flashes of clarity come through every so often. It's almost as if it's a sort of mashup of being idiot savant and demented, because when it comes to grabbing ill-gotten lucre or the crotch of a prepubescent girl, or running down his political enemies, I believe even at this late date Joe Biden is razor sharp.

Meh, how is his attitude any different from that of the dog-eating figurative and literal pole-smoker who's pulling his strings? Strings that are getting more and more entangled with each gigantic clusterfuck of a disaster that they've unleashed on us and much of the world. You better believe those forms require complete non-disclosure of whatever discussion these poor grieving people would have with Biden, since I'd want to know what the hell they were doing in Jordan in the first place and how is it that our defenses were so horrendous that this could've happened? Embarrassing questions for the Kohlrabi-in-Chief.

Of course, advanced dementia sufferers have a tendency to lash out when they can't understand what the hell someone is saying. So the combination of having a pointed criticism aimed at you and a titanic ego would result in an exchange that would be, to Joey's handlers, suboptimal to say the least if it ever got out. That is if they could even make sense of the half-eaten Maypo and halitosis-tinged gibberish he'd hurl at them.

You also better believe that the "paperwork" has all sorts of serious criminal penalties attached to them should they dare say anything other than "Joe Biden is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." Of course, certain individuals don't necessarily have to jump through these kind of hoops, do they? They get the red carpet treatment. But on the down-low.

Alex Soros, who recently took over his father's Open Society Foundations that funds progressive organizations across the country, has attended meetings and events at the White House at least 20 times, visitor logs show. Alex Soros held recent meetings with several White House advisers including Nina Srivastava, who was previously an adviser for Biden's former chief of staff Ron Klain, and Amanda Sloat, the National Security Council's senior director for Europe. He also met with Jon Finer, the principal deputy national security adviser.

A report in early June showed Alex Soros met with Finer ahead of meetings between Biden and Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Alex Soros brought along Pedro Abramovay, director of Open Society’s Rio de Janeiro office and a former Lula official.

The younger Soros has already given tens of millions of dollars to Democrats in recent years. He gave $5.25 million to the Senate Majority PAC in 2016 and 2018. He donated $721,300 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020 and $350,000 to Hillary Clinton’s victory fund in 2016. He's given millions more to the DNC and Democratic committees.

Alex Soros is known for his connections with high-level Democrats and has posted photos with top party leaders including Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi.

That story is from last July. You can bet your ass the Soros spawn has been there at least as many times if not more since then. Carte blanche for this guy, as well as not just a condolence call but a personal meeting with the parents (such as you could refer to them as such) of George Floyd, the supposed martyr at the hands of a supposed racist cop, but in truth was already dead the moment he was born. Slaughtered along with hundreds of thousands of other wasted black lives by LBJ's Great Society.

The parents of American soldiers who were nothing more than cannon fodder to a junta that despises them? They had the gall of being killed as a result of this junta's abject malfeasance, irresponsibility and raging incompetence that is pushing us closer and closer to Armageddon by the day. To hell with them.

A Department of Defense (DOD) office invited two experts to discuss their new book on far-right terrorism in the U.S. as part of a new series featuring guest speakers, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The invitation appeared to go out via email to “all” staff of SO/LIC, the acronym for the Pentagon’s office overseeing special operations and irregular warfare, according to screenshots obtained exclusively by the DCNF. Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Jacob Ware, a research fellow at CFR, were scheduled Tuesday to present their book, which traces right-wing domestic terrorism through U.S history, including the Ku Klux Klan and groups involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots seeking to reverse the 2020 election. 

“Reminder to please join us at 1200 tomorrow morning via Teams (link below) for this virtual brown bag book talk event — renowned terrorism scholars Dr. Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware. Their new book, God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America was released earlier this month,” the invitation, dated Jan. 29 at 9:51 a.m., reads.

“This is the first of what we hope will be a series of brown bag events featuring internal and external speakers,” it said, and was signed by the “FO Team.”

The reminder included a brief description of the book and links to the author’s biographies in documents on the internal office drive.

“Serious acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol,” the book synopsis, which was also included in the email, read.

“They are the latest flashpoints in a process that has been unfolding for decades, in which vast conspiracy theories and radical ideologies such as white supremacism, racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and hostility to government converge into a deadly threat to democracy,” it said. “This talk, derived from the speakers’ new book, God, Guns, and Sedition (Columbia Univ. Press) discusses the rise of far-right terrorism in the United States, the impact of U.S. domestic terrorism on our foreign policy and our allies, and policy recommendations to counter far-right terrorism.”

“God, Guns and Terrorism” opens with a description of an anti-government group in 2020 advocating for the overthrow of the U.S. government, spurred by former President Donald Trump’s social media incitement, a sample of the book on Amazon.com shows. It then describes the “accelerationist” ideology, which the authors say motivates many right-wing anti-government groups, as a “white power strategy to foment violence and chaos as a means to seize power.”

The two recently co-authored an editorial arguing that far-right threats of violence in support of the MAGA agenda is splintering the Republican party. GOP support for Trump could inspire a repeat of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, they said.

Wow. How frightening . . . If it were true and not a complete fairy tale exercise in mass projection. It literally reeks of the same kind of completely baseless raving that one might find in Mein Kampf. And yet, this shit is being taken absolutely seriously at the Department of Defense. So much so that that now completely corrupt institution has identified as its chief global security threats "climate change" and "domestic terrorism." By that of course, they mean anyone who opposes the junta in power and objects to anything Leftist.

As a side note, I have to apologize for being forced to use the Left-Right paradigm. It doesn't exist. You either are on the side of liberty and freedom as defined by America as founded or you're not. Besides, they give the game away by never ever identifying any dangerous groups on the Far Left, let alone even admitting that the Far Left exists.

It's kind of akin to Islam. The only sliding scale there is has those on one end who cut heads off and roast babies alive and on the other, those who merely pass out candy, ululate and approve of it. There is likely a very small fraction of those who perhaps are appalled by it, but so far this seems to be merely an insignificant percentage approaching that of a rounding error.

Psaki-psircling back, every single institution that formerly was a bastion of American, western and Judeo-Christian values has been coopted, corrupted and virtually destroyed. The last to fall has been our military. The chief architect of its destruction was Obama when he purged the flag officer corps early on in his first term. Now, well into his third term, morale and readiness are at an all-time low thanks to the internal purges and disincentivizing of the junta's now clearly identified enemies: whites, Christians, heterosexual males and anyone perceived as anti-"woke." All are now potential enemies of the State.

When you couple this with the needless deaths of GIs in Jordan, on top of the scores of attacks on our service personnel in the Middle East that have essentially gone unanswered, not to mention the Afghanistan bug-out fiasco/disaster, with the exception of a few cruise missiles taking out an empty aspirin factory, two tents and a diseased camel, is it any wonder that recruitment is at an all-time low? Meh, even that is music to Obama's jug ears since the collapse of the military will come that much faster. Then, he can have that Domestic Security Force he's always dreamed about. You remember? The one that would have twice the budget of the entire Defense Department.

With that, he can finally declare war on the number one threat to security to the world — us.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The Massachusetts legal system’s prosecution of Michelle Efendi for protesting the state’s overreaching Covid mandates continues to drag on."
  Meet the Mom Being Politically Persecuted for Protesting Massachusetts’ Tyrannical Covid Mandates
  
• Larry Elder: "What happens if a white person takes a knee?"
  Black National Anthem at the Super Bowl
  
• "Aware of the Deep State, will voters finally condemn it as fundamentally un-American? Or will they disregard, or worse, embrace it—and thereby affirmatively consent to their own subjugation?"
  The "Deep State" and the 2024 US Presidential Election: Down to the Crossroads
  
• "In a logical country, this would be the end of the line for the state’s continued involvement, but we no longer live in a country that protects the divine right of parents. Instead, they are forced to sit back and watch as the state flexes its power over families."
  Montana Child Trafficking Story Exposes GOP Weakness In Protecting American Children
  
• "Will Kennedy Sanders get three funerals like George Floyd did? What about the other dead soldiers? Will the Democrats in Congress get down on their knees for an extended period of silence, to honor our fallen military members? No, of course not."
  Gold Star Parents of Soldier Killed in Drone Strike Required to Fill Out "Paperwork" to get a Condolence Call from Slow Joe Biden

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Daily Tech News 31 January 2024

Top Story

• Good news: ChatGPT is not leaking private chat content between users.
  
  Bad news: Your account got hacked. (Ars Technica)
  
  ChatGPT has no option for two-factor authentication.
  
  But if you're sharing confidential information with a chat bot you're an idiot in the first place.
  
  
  

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (1/30/24)

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Quote I

At that moment what I felt was mainly great pain. We knew it would happen someday, because there is a limit to how much you can belittle and how arrogant you can be when it comes to Gaza, but the pain was enormous, the pain for the innocents who died and those who would die later.Gaia Dan is a 23-year-old Jewish student

Quote II

“As the increase of extreme weather hazards become more severe due to climate change, we need to adapt the way we are helping communities rebuild post-disaster,”FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell

Quote III

"It's insane. The more we look, the more crazy things we see." University of North Carolina cell biologist Mark Peifer

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Tiny Critters Cafe

Cinque Terre, Italy

Tiny cow.

Kitty says, "I know what's mine."

Panda shenanigans.

Kids.

Cat takes the smoke alarm very seriously.

Pet jealousy is a real issue.

Dog welcomes the new kitten.

Puppies bother old cat.

Switzerland, but in the spring.

Definitely not the spring/summer energy I'm trying to bring with integrity, but a good click anyway.

Also not a sunny scene, but pretty good. (It's hard to find sunshine pics this time of year.)

Not sure where this is.

Bouncing down the stairs.

Baller.

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AI Is F***ing Terrifying

But it's still more wholesome than DEIsney.

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IDF: We Stopped a 10/7 Like Terror Attack Which Was Being Run Out of a, Get This, Hamas-Controlled Hospital

That makes no sense. Hamas wouldn't do that.

They Just Want To Breathe (TM).

Israeli counterterrorism forces foiled an October 7-inspired terror attack overnight on Tuesday, targeting a cell hiding and planning the attack from the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin, the West Bank.

According to a joint statement by the IDF, Israel Police's YAMAM counterterrorism forces, and the Shin Bet, Hamas terrorist Mohammad Jalamna was killed during the operation, along with two fellow terrorists who hid alongside him at the hospital.

27-year-old Jalamna, a resident of the Jenin refugee camp, held direct communications with Hamas leadership abroad. According to the statement, he was responsible for transferring weaponry and ammunition to Hamas terrorists across the West Bank for shooting attacks targeting Israelis.

The Israeli commando forces entered the hospital dressed as doctors and nurses, as seen in CCTV footage shared on social media.

Furthermore, Jalamna used the Jenin hospital as a secret base of operations as he was planning an infiltration attack akin to and inspired by the October 7 massacre, it added.

Along with Jalamneh, Mohammed and Basel Ghazawi, brothers and Palestinian terrorists, were also killed by Israeli forces. Mohammed was a terrorist operative of the Jenin battalions who was involved in numerous attacks including firing at IDF soldiers in the area in recent weeks, the IDF said.

Basel was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative involved in terror activities in the area.

The security forces stated that for a long time, a large number of wanted persons had been hiding in hospitals and were using them as a base for planning terror attacks and carrying them out, and that they believed that the hospitals would serve as protection against Israeli security forces.

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One senior official stated, "There are no cities of refuge in the West Bank and there will not be - every terrorist should know this. The hand of the IDF and the security establishment will reach everyone."

US forces have been attacked by Iran's various terror proxy armies 160 times since 10/7.

Not that you heard much about it -- the media suppresses any story that reflects badly on the dying Democrat regime.

There have been at least 160 attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East since mid-October, following this weekend's attack on a base in Jordan near the Syrian border that left three American soldiers dead and dozens of others injured, U.S. officials said.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin addressed Sunday's attack and vowed the U.S. would "take all necessary actions" to keep U.S. troops in the region safe.

"Let me start with my outrage and sorrow for the deaths of three brave U.S. troops in Jordan and for the other troops who were wounded," Austin said.

This asshole just returned to work yesterday. You will of course remember he kept his prostate surgery secret even though he would obviously not be able to execute his job as SecDef while under anesthesia. Then he experienced complications in surgery and was rushed to critical care.

Only after about 48 hours of that did he get around to notifying anyone that he was out of the office.

But he's a very private man.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was back in the office Monday, exactly four weeks after he was rushed to the hospital with complications from prostate cancer surgery that he kept from his colleagues -- and President Biden -- for days.

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Secrecy appeared to be Austin's top priority, with an aide asking 911 operators to have the ambulance arrive without running its lights or sirens.

"We're trying to remain a little subtle," the aide added in the call.

Austin quietly transferred his authority to Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks on Jan. 2 -- without telling her or any of his other Pentagon colleagues of the reason behind it -- but failed to tell the White House that he had done so. That didn't happen until Jan. 4, when Biden was notified of Austin's hospitalization.

Back to the first article:

He added, "The president and I will not tolerate attack on U.S. forces. And we will take all necessary actions to defend the U.S. and our troops."

Everyone's shaking, Girth Vader.

Fox News' Jennifer Griffin reported Austin's return to the Pentagon on Monday. His first time working in-person since his prostate cancer surgery comes after Sunday's attack, which was the deadliest on U.S. forces since 2021. Griffin reported that Austin is "actively engaged" in talks regarding the U.S. response.

Jennifer Griffin is a stenographer for any Democrat or neocon in power.

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Five Ukraianian Officials Stole $40 Million In US Taxpayer Funds

Of course. The Afghanistan of the North.

Five Ukrainian officials were arrested this weekend on accusations of stealing nearly $40 million in funds meant to purchase military equipment for the war against Russia.

Ukraine's security service said members of the defense ministry conspired with members of a Ukrainian arms firm to embezzle the funds, which were meant to purchase 100,000 mortar shells. The allegations come amid division in the U.S. over whether to send more aid to Ukraine, with some critics pointing to Ukraine's longtime struggles with corruption.

The five individuals arrested face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty. Ukraine's prosecutor general says the $39.6 million has since been seized and returned to the defense budget.

Sure.

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Former Actress and Current Millionaire Alyssa Milano Sets Up a GoFundMe to... Pay For Her Son's Baseball Team to Go On a Trip to Cooperstown

She's such a terrible hag.

God forbid that she should have to use some of her Who's the Boss? residuals to pay for her f***ing kid's trip.

No, of course not. Just bleg from your twitter fans.

Actress Alyssa Milano is responding after angering fans on social media by asking if they could donate to her son's baseball team.

A day after her donation request, Milano took to X, formerly Twitter, to share that she had gotten a lot of "media inquiries about whether [she has] financially contributed to [her] son's baseball team."

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"My son's baseball team is raising money for their Cooperstown trip," Milano wrote on X Thursday. "Any amount would be so greatly appreciated." She also shared more information on how to access the GoFundMe page.

Social media users were confused why Milano was asking her followers for money, when she is a multimillionaire. Milano starred on the hit drama "Charmed" for six seasons, and Bugliari is the co-head of motion picture talent at the management firm Creative Artists Agency.

Many were left wondering "why isn't Alyssa Milano paying for the trip for the whole team herself," while others were questioning why the actress is "asking for money from people who can barely buy groceries."

"Alyssa Milano has absolutely lost her mind. How out-of-touch and tone deaf can one person possibly be," one user wrote.

"Just a reminder: Alyssa Milano and her husband are both multi-millionaires," another commented. "They could pay for the entire trip for the whole team without batting an eye!"

She's raised $8,000. GoFundMe has no problem with this.

On the other hand, there's Kurt Russell.

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Axios: "Trump, Republicans Plot to Kill Border Deal"

The verb plot connotes secrecy and skulduggery.

But Trump and the anti-"deal" Republicans are announcing their position and their intent publicly, with no deception.

But Axios, aka Politico for Kidz!, thinks it's just generally underhanded to oppose leftwing Democrat propagandists and traitors.

Republican and Democratic senators are taking to the airwaves, scrambling to pass severe restrictions on migrants flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border. There's just one thing: Their plan is all but dead.

Why it matters: The Senate might pass the plan, which would be one of the harshest immigration bills of the century.

It's so harsh that it writes into law that 150,000 illegals are allowed to enter the country in a 30-day month without fear of deportation.

President Biden is ready to sign it. But House Republicans -- egged on by former President Trump -- already are planning to shut it down.

Mike Johnson announced it was "dead on arrival" before Trump made any statements about it.

State of play: Illegal immigration has rocketed to the top of voters' concerns, and Biden has become increasingly desperate for a solution. Trump and conservative Republicans see a political opportunity to squeeze Biden and Democrats on the issue.

This is the treasonous propaganda line: Everyone knows this is a great bill which will "fix the border," but nasty Republicans oppose it just to deny Biden credit for "fixing the border."

The fact that it includes no money for a wall, does not authorize deportations except in very narrow circumstances and only for limited time periods, and does not narrow the grounds for making Fake Asylum claims don't count.

Biden says this is a perfect bill and you should believe him, he's never lied or raped an employee before.

Trump, whose front-runner status in the Republican presidential race has solidified his leadership of the GOP, has loudly vowed to kill the bipartisan border deal.

"It's not going to happen, and I'll fight it all the way," Trump said Saturday in Nevada.

Zoom in: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has fallen in line. He called the deal "dead on arrival" on Friday, then doubled down over the weekend, claiming it wouldn't do enough to stop illegal border crossings.

Interesting that Johnson said this Friday and Trump make his statement Saturday but Johnson "fell in line" with a statement that would be made in the future.

Karen Armstrong writes that Jill Biden is out on the campaign trail in place of her invalid rapist husband, making the same case that Republicans know this bill is just So Awesome but are opposing it just to hurt Joe Biden.

Via the Daily Mail:

'You see what happened today with the border, and now Trump is trying to do everything he can to make Joe look bad, you know, even at the lives -- sacrificing lives of so many people just for his own political gain,' she told donors to her husband's re-election campaign.

'I know it's early to start, but I want you to sort of think after you leave tonight that yes, I am committed to a democracy. And yes, I'm going to fight as hard as I can and not let anything like 2016 happen again.'

You mean, you're going to fight to make sure we don't have a fair and free election?

Yes we already knew that.

The Daily Mail points out that Joe Biden's immigration policy is... largely shaped by "Doctor" Jill Biden.

Biden's border policy has been particularly influenced by the first lady, his advisors told the Wall Street Journal, because of her reaction to the Trump administration's policy of family separations and his 'Remain in Mexico' program.

During the 2020 campaign, Jill Biden visited a tent camp of migrants living just across the southern border in Matamoros, Mexico.

Over the weekend, a group of former FBI officials wrote an urgent letter to Joe Biden informing him that the terrorists freely flowing across the open border presented a clear and present danger to US citizens' lives.

The Biden administration's border policy poses an "imminent danger" to the US, which has been "invaded" by "military-aged men from around the globe," a group of former FBI officials warned.

In a letter sent Jan. 17 to leaders in the House and Senate, 10 former FBI senior executives said the migrant crisis is " the most pernicious ever to menace the United States.

"In its modern history, the US has never suffered an invasion of the homeland, and yet one is unfolding now," according to the officials, which included former Terrorist Screening Center Director Timothy Healy, FBI assistant directors Kevin Brock and Chris Swecker, and Mark Morgan, the former acting commissioner US Customs and Border Protection who also an ex-FBI superintendent.

"Military-aged men from across the globe, many from countries or regions not friendly to the United States are landing in waves on our soil by the thousands -- not by splashing ashore from a ship or parachuting from a plane but rather by foot across a border that has been accurately advertised around the world as largely unprotected and with ready access granted," the letter continued.

The matter is even more pressing than ever, particularly after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel, they warned.

"It is stark to say so, but having a large number of young males now within our borders who could begin attacking gatherings of unarmed citizens, in imitation of 10/7 and at the behest of a foreign terror group, must be considered a distinct possibility," the officials wrote.

"We would be remiss not to call out this potentially grave threat in the most direct terms. The warning lights are blinking."

...

And all the more stunning in light of terrorist attacks on our own soil, said New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis.

"It's shocking that in a post 9/11 world that the Biden administration would have an open border policy with such lax vetting," she said. "They are even allowing people with no real identification to board airplanes, which is directly against the 9/11 Commission recommendations."

This is not a hypothetical concern.

Federal authorities caught a terrorist at the U.S. southern border and released him into the country, where he roamed freely for nearly a year before being arrested in Minnesota just days ago, according to an internal federal memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The unnamed individual, who the memo only identifies as a member of the Somali terror group al-Shabaab, was released shortly after being caught illegally crossing the southern border near San Ysidro, California on March 13, 2023, according to the memo, which the DCNF is not publishing in order to protect the identity of a confidential source. The Terrorist Screening Center "deemed him a 'mismatch'" after running his name through the terror watchlist, according to the memo, which was sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.

However, on January 18, 2024, the Terrorist Screening Center "made a redetermination" that the individual was "a confirmed member of al-Shabaab" and was involved in the use, manufacture or transport of explosives or firearms, the memo states. Two days later, ICE nabbed the al-Shabaab member in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Border Patrol caught 172 terror watchlist suspects attempting to enter the U.S. illegally during fiscal year 2023. Former homeland security officials say the constant deluge of illegal immigrants hitting the southern border is making it easier for bad actors to slip into the country.

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The House Democrat Under Investigation By the DOJ for Taking Taxpayer Money for Security and Paying It To Her Husband is... Cori Bush, Of Course

I mean, obviously. Duh.

She's a fat stupid thug and racist gangster.

Lock her up. Lock her up. Lock her up.

As RedState reported on Monday, a House Democrat is currently under criminal investigation for the misuse of government funds under the guise of paying for "security" services. Heavy speculation revolved around that Democrat being Rep. Cori Bush, and that has now been confirmed.

According to Punchbowl News, which broke the original story, the DOJ has subpoenaed the House Sergeant at Arms, who has records of how the money was allocated.

Bush's troubles involving payments for "security services" are well known, with allegations that she paid her now-husband $60,000 in early 2023. That dynamic raised eyebrows because the man in question was not even licensed to provide security services in Missouri.

[Punchbowl News:]

That's a problem because having a security license is required in Missouri to offer security services, and you would assume Merritts would have provided his "services" in Bush's district (especially given their personal relationship). Further, as the report notes, Bush's campaign shelled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in other payments to real security firms at the same time. That seems like a rather odd dynamic, does it not?

She also paid out a half million dollars for other "security services," which I'm going to guestulate went to other unemployable family members, fuckbuddies, and assorted BLM criminals. (And RedState points out that this level of spending on "security" for a congressperson is "absurdly overblown.")

There's still a lot more to learn, and things could get very messy in an election year. Bush is not the type of person who is going to go away quietly even if the DOJ drops the hammer on her. With that said, if she's indicted, she must be immediately expelled from the House. That is the standard that was set with George Santos recently, and Democrats should be made to abide by it.

Yeah I wouldn't count on that. Only Republicans are this stupid and weak.

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The Super-Smart Thinkfluencers at Saturday Night Live Have Never Heard the Term "De-Banking" Before, and Think Trump Made It Up

So smart. Please teach me all of your knowledges.

During the "Weekend Update" segment, the show suggested that Donald Trump made up the term "de-banking."

"Trump did have a slight stumble this week while talking about banks, and he introduced an interesting new term called de-bank," said Colin Jost.

"I don't know what the hell de-bank means, but you might have to take 'de-ambulance' to see 'de-doctor.'"

There are corky terms Trump coins and are worth ridicule. "De-banking" is not one of them.

Of course not. I use the word once per week.

But the left lives in a bubble, and doesn't themselves get de-banked, so to them, this is all a fiction.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

There is a growing body of evidence that UNRWA is hopelessly entangled with the terrorist groups that have been active in the various "Palestinian" refugee camps (hah) and cities, and who most recently perpetrated the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Israel has provided evidence (video and other) that shows UNRWA employees actively participating in the terror attacks of October 7th, and supporting Hamas via shared infrastructure. Of course most people who pay any attention to this sort of thing and who have an ounce of common sense knew that long ago, but the evidence is now so damning that it can't be ignored, even by the western governments that fund UNRWA.

Well...except for the Biden/Obama junta!

Biden Appoints Former Palestinian UNRWA Official as Director of NSC Intelligence

President Joe Biden on Friday appointed Palestinian-American attorney Maher al-Bitar, who served on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council as Director for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs and as deputy to Samantha Power, to be the new director of the NSC intelligence service. Politico, which broke the news, described Al-Bitar’s new job as “the day-to-day connective tissue between the intelligence community and the White House.”

A graduate of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, al-Bitar received a Master of Science in Forced Migration from Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Center on a Marshall scholarship and has worked with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jerusalem.

In normal times with normal administrations, this sort of appointment would be toxic...radioactive! It would have been quietly shelved and some milquetoast replacement would have been chosen, instead of a high-profile Arab with links to a thoroughly discredited organization that has acted in support of terrorism.

But this is 2024, and the Biden/Obama administration is completely co-opted by a core of rabid Jew-haters whose most fervent goal is the ascendance of Iran and the destruction of Israel. They simply don't care about the optics, because this appointment galvanizes their support in the pro-terror Arab and Somali communities on which the junta depends for votes. Their vile calculation is that enough Jews will reflexively vote Democrat no matter what, so why not let out their Judenrein sensibilities for all the world to see!

But it also signals a shift in the Deep State^TM. Traditionally, the state department was anti-Semitic, but with this sort of appointment the administration is moving towards a broader pro-Iran and pro-Arab tone, which is indistinguishable from an anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Western one. And that fits perfectly with the goals of the Obama wing of the Democrat party!

And lest you think this is just one of many drones milling about the directionless White House, this is a real job with real power and access to the highest levels of intelligence. Allowing anyone linked with terrorism anywhere near that position is a profound failure in governance and an ongoing danger to America and its allies.

Which sounds just right for the drooling idiot figurehead in the Oval Office.

[Hat Tip: JackStraw]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Girl in Green
Theo van Rysselberghe

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The Morning Report — 1/30/24

Good morning, kids. I didn't intend to lead off with Joy Reid, the shrieking knockwurst with more ghastly repurposed merkins on her head than Sy Sperling and the Istanbul rug bazaar combined, dropping an F-bomb on her nightly 30 minutes of hate on MSNSDAP, but my muse takes me where it wants to go.

Reid was trying to blame Republicans for the border crisis when she played a video of Biden saying he would shut the border down.

“Congressional Republicans love to latch on to [fraudulent] President Biden and Democrats’ successful policies and take credit for things they didn’t do, while tying themselves into pretzels to do nothing for the American people for the sake of Donald Trump,” Reid began. “Case in point, fixing what they say is a crisis at the border with congressional negotiators continuing work on a bipartisan deal to tie border policy changes to funding for Ukraine. Over the weekend, [fraudulent] President Biden said he’s ready to take action if Congress is serious about solving the border issue.”

Reid then played two clips of Biden, one in which he said he would shut down the border immediately if the proposed legislation were law today.

“And Congress needs to get it done,” Biden added when suddenly Reid was caught off camera saying “starting another f*cking war.”

The audio was then quickly cut, with Reid’s sentence audibly cut off before she went on to blame Trump for the legislation not yet passing. . . Reid’s “war” comment is likely a reference to the White House saying the nation would respond to the drone attack in Jordan that killed three service members and injured dozens more.

Let's face it. Statistically speaking, Joy Reid has virtually no audience. In point of fact it's the blogosphere that gives her the lion's share of exposure. Usually, I avoid her like plague since highlighting anything that emanates from her small exhaust port is a waste of pixels. But in this case, her accidental dig at Biden is quite revealing. In fact, disregarding where she's coming from she sounded positively America First.

With everything he's doing, or more accurately being directed to do by Obama/Rice/Jarrett, collapsing in on them and more importantly everyone, they are desperate for one big ass wag of the dog (if they can keep it away from Obama's chef, and the odds are good since he drowned in three feet of water just offshore of the Obama Martha's Vineyard compound). Looks like Ukraine is a bust on that one, so just before they put him in the ground, heeeeere's Johnny! — McCain that is with his #1 chart busting smash "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran!"

Joy Reid notwithstanding, this is now the battlecry from the propagandists, surprise-surprise, since their job is the dissemination of the junta's desires to the masses.

Iran, allegedly, via proxy, attacked U.S. installments in Jordan yesterday. The corporate state media and the national security state have seized on the opportunity to promote instigating a full-scale war with Iran.

Make no mistake: attacking Iran, which would be no cakewalk even on its own, would almost certainly result in China and Russia jumping in on the other side, at which point we’d have World War III with nuclear powers.

The geopolitical reality — insulated as these technocrats are from it — is that the U.S. and the broader neoliberal world order have a three-front war brewing, nearly entirely of its own making: in Eurasia, the Middle East, and East Asia. Only a fool, hopped up on hubris and war contractor talking points, would believe it is capable of waging and winning even one of these without incurring nuclear annihilation, let alone all three at once.

This is the stuff of crumbled empires.

As I averred yesterday, all of this would not be happening with Trump in the White House, or at the very least nowhere near the breadth, depth and danger levels that have us on the brink of catastrophe. If elections have consequences, stolen elections have it out the freaking wahzoo.

That's why Joy Reid's outburst rings true. Before we go hoisting her, presumably with a crane, on our shoulders and proclaiming her as the next Fetterman, it should be noted that she said this off camera and only apologized for dropping the F-bomb, and not the truth nuke. It's likely her attitude is heavily shaded by hatred of Israel. Also, the prime directive is to protect Biden at all costs while sliming and smearing Republicans, especially Donald Trump. So it's all run of the mill immediate political calculus.

As we have observed over the past few years, it's interesting to compare and contrast the positions of the hardcore anti-war Left in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 with their attitude towards Ukraine. If I'm correct, and you don't have to be Kreskin to read these tea leaves since the above link clearly shows what's about to happen, the Code Pink pinkos are going to be doing a Hallelujah Chorus of John McCain's big hit any moment now.

Regardless of why Reid is disgusted by Biden looking to wag the dog, you have to believe that a very large swathe of the citizenry are equally disgusted. But not for the same reasons as she. It's the open borders on top of and exacerbating the crashing economy, stupid. We see it and now traditional Democrats see it, especially blacks and Latinos of the legitimate citizen variety. Joy Reid's outburst in that regard is for sure a tell that Biden and his party are facing an ass-kicking of tremendous proportions.

And that segues quite nicely into this semi-alarming and infuriating bit of news:

The numbers, which Turning Point Action provided to Breitbart News exclusively, are stunning. Across ten battleground states, the group identified 4,571,210 disengaged GOP voters who did not vote in 2016 or 2020. The ten states counted are Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina, and Nevada. While Trump won Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and North Carolina in 2020, Democrat President Joe Biden took the other six states—and in each one, the disengaged GOP voters total was more than the margin of Biden’s victory over Trump.

For instance, in Pennsylvania, the margin between Trump and Biden was 80,555. The number of disengaged GOP voters was, per Turning Point Action’s analysis, 589,350—more than seven times the margin. In Michigan, the margin was 154,188 votes by which Biden beat Trump. Turning Point Action found 490,630 disengaged GOP voters there, more than three times the margin.

It was even more profound in places like Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia. In Georgia, the margin was 11,779—and the number of disengaged GOP voters was, per Turning Point Action, 539,480—more than 45 times the margin. In Arizona, the margin between Trump and Biden was 10,457—and Turning Point Action identified 286,440 disengaged GOP voters there, more than 27 times the margin. In Wisconsin, 20,682 votes separated Trump and Biden—and Turning Point identified 542,720 disengaged GOP voters there. That is more than 26 times the margin. . .

. . . Turning Point Action is doing a major “ballot chasing” program across those three states—Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia—designed to get these people to vote.

“It’s a little wonky, but we can’t touch the ballot,” Kirk said when asked to explain what ballot chasing is. “Ballot harvesting is illegal in these states. We actually honor the law. We follow the law—the bad guys, they break the law. That’s actually ballot harvesting, but we don’t touch the ballot. We understand there’s voting month, and then we find the people who are low-propensity voters—we’re not interested in the people showing up anyway. That’s one of the problems with the RNC—the RNC is focused on moving people who already vote on election day into the category of early voting. That’s not a new vote; it’s just the same votes being transferred into a different column. So we try to go out there and find these low-propensity voters and try to get them to submit their ballot in that 30-day period, and we do that through a variety of ways. We’ll have 300 full-time people in Arizona and Wisconsin. It will be, to be my knowledge, the largest deployment of full-time field staff in the history of modern conservative politics.”

Two things: first, to hell with being worried about breaking the law vis a vis ballot harvesting. The Left are doing it and in point of fact the laws were completely bastardized and eviscerated with the cover of the lockdowns and fake-demic to do exactly that. So do what they do. Then again, with the justice system being what it is, it's us who'll be prosecuted for election fraud, right?

Second, and most importantly, Charlie Kirk and company neither ask nor answer the rather cromulent question of WHY. Why didn't voters show up? Could it be that they were sick and tired of merely voting against the slightly, and now ever so slightly lesser of two evils, the Grifting Oleaginous Potemkin Party that is the GOP instead of having a reason to vote for a true opposition party? One that actually puts forth pro-American and anti-globalist/Democrat policies?

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, here – as if we didn't know this ages ago – is what open borders and the equally horrendous policies of Hart-Celler gets us:

It seems like a no-brainer that the men and women elected to lead the U.S. would put America’s interest above all else, and yet, there are daily reminders that not only are they not doing that, but their allegiances are to foreign nations wanting to destroy the country.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reported exclusively Monday that federal authorities caught a Somali terrorist from the al-Shabaab terror group at the California border and released him into the interior United States, where he stayed for almost a year before eventually being arrested again in Minnesota. . .

. . . It’s hard to explain what it does to the psyche of a country’s citizens when they realize national safety is a myth and even worse when one of its elected officials is telling crowds of people in a foreign language that her allegiances lie with Somalia first.

Democrat Minn. Rep. Ilhan Omar told Somalis at a recent event that although there are “areas of friction” among their people, Somalis know “they are Somalians first, Muslims second.”

“Many Somalians have personally called me to encourage me to speak to the U.S. government and help Somalia. They wanted to know what the U.S. government could do for Somalia to ensure the MoU [Memorandum of Agreement] never turns into a full bilateral agreement. My answer to Somalians was that the U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else,” Omar told the crowd according to a translation on X, formally Twitter. “They must follow our orders, and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia. We Somalians must have that confidence in ourselves that we call for the shots in the U.S.”

“We live in the U.S., pay taxes in the U.S., and have a real voice. The U.S. is a country where one of your daughters is in Congress to represent your interests,” she continued.

“For as long as I am in the U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger. Its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others. The U.S. would not dare to support anyone against Somalia to steal our land or oceans. Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system,” Omar promised. “The woman you sent to Congress is working day and night to protect your interests. She knows your plight and that of Somalia. I am as concerned about Somalia as you guys are. Together we will protect the interests of Somalia.”

She is not the only official accused of subverting U.S. interests for those of a foreign country. The Daily Caller reported in Oct. 2023 that the Biden Administration quietly revoked its special envoy to Iran, Rober Malley’s security clearance, after he was found allegedly “mishandling classified information.”

Malley was the lead negotiator for the U.S. on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) under former President Barack Obama, which saw Iran receive the now infamous billions of dollars in sanctions relief. Malley called the Hamas terrorist group a “charity organization” in a 2008 interview, according to the New York Post.

While the Biden [junta] would love for the American people to focus on Taylor Swift and abortion as the topics that will lead the 2024 presidential election, it’s a tall order, considering the drums of war get louder every day. If the country goes to war with Iran or Hamas, how are American parents supposed to willingly send their children to die in the desert, knowing the people running war games are helping the enemy?

Let's face it; Bro-Fo Omar, who should be ejected the hell out of this country, let alone Congress, for lying about her multiple marriages and literal incestuous relationships to get here, is now openly boasting that her aims and goals and allegiance is not to the United States but Somalia. She should be expelled from Congress, her citizenship stripped and then deported the hell back to her dark age shit hole where her joy buzzer can be re-attached to her nose and then she can be decapitated for failing to taqqiya sunrise us to death.

Meh, as sick as she is, she's merely a symptom. The fish stinks from the head; Joe Biden's 50 years of selling us out to every bad actor around the globe is bad enough but the deliberate opening of the borders and erasure of even the barest minimum of immigration controls is intentionally with malice aforethought endangering the lives of every citizen and an existential threat to our national security. Ergo . . .

T R E A S O N

I don't think I can spell it out any louder or clearer. But Grahamnesty, Cornyn, Cotton et al would rather help open the borders and wag the dog over Tehran.

Meh, what does citizenship or treason even mean in a nation that no longer really exists?

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "In London, a group of Chinese Communists test their power to crush freedom."
  Silencing a Piano Man
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "On inauguration day every FBI agent and manager must either submit his or her resignation or be fired. They should told in no uncertain terms that they must not report to work, and that they no longer have any authority to enter any FBI facility or use any government equipment, from email servers to computer desktops"
  The FBI Must Be Wiped Clean, or Wiped Out, on Day One of the Next Republican Administration
  
• Dennis Prager: "The notion that the cockpit or the mayor's office has to look like the rest of the population is just foolish -- as foolish as the idea that professional athletes have to look like the rest of the population. It is an idea, like most stupid ideas, that appeals primarily to college graduates."
  You Should Rethink Flying United Airlines
  
• Glenn Reynolds: "Apparently anyone who challenges the insider crowd’s power is the next Hitler.  Except the insiders are the ones wearing the jackboots. . . I mentioned just how afraid of a populist revolt the West’s leadership has become. But why, exactly, is it so afraid? Perhaps these people fear for their necks if the commoners ever figure out what’s been done to them." (We have figured it out. What we do about it is the question - jjs)
  Canada’s Elite Colluded Against the Freedom Convoy truckers — Just as America’s Elite Have Colluded Against Us

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Daily Tech News 30 January 2024

Top Story

• AMD's new Ryzen 8700G and 8600G are here. (AnandTech)
  
  They provide pretty good CPU performance with pretty good integrated graphics.
  
  The 8700G in particular can provide 49 fps in Baldur's Gate 3 at 1080p low settings, where Intel's 14700K manages just 13.
  
  A cheaper CPU with a low-end graphics card will do much better for games, and you can get a 7900X for $399 which will do much better for productivity.
  
  But if you want something mostly for work that can also run games like Minecraft or Palworld (cough) it might do fine, and the graphics card market sucks right now.
  
  The 8600G and 8700G only have 20 lanes of PCIe 4 instead of 28 lanes of PCIe 5 on the mainstream Ryzen desktop chips, but that's still fine unless you want to run something like Asus's NVMe RAID card, which just won't work with this chip.
  
  The 8500G cuts that to 14 lanes of PCIe 4, though, which just isn't enough.
  
  
  

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Monday Overnight Open Thread (1/29/24)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

“Base jumping is dangerous because you don’t have a second chance." Ed Harrison

Quote II

“Who suffered here? We haven’t seen a long list of victims.” University of Michigan law professor William Thomas

Quote III

“As No Labels goes down that presidential path, we cannot lose what was gained in all these years trying to improve the institution of Congress,” New York Rep. Tom Reed, a Republican No Labels board member

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Oh Hai Cafe

Sunset seen through sea stacks at Capri
AndreaCostaPhotographer

On Paco's suggestion, I'm trying to bring a little more spring/summer energy to the thread.

Positano, Italy. (Or at least somewhere on the Amalfi coast.)

Peckers and a porker.

Yawning caracals.

A reenactment of Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd molesting a waitress during the 80s.

Big surf in Rio.

Oof -- this dog has Ludacris' "get out the way, bitch" playing on his mental stereo 24/7.

Hi there!

Army crawl of cuteness.

Frenz.

Cat is worried about how Bitcoin is performing today. He is spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

Monkey kamikaze wing.

Some fries are needed with these shakes.

Very pretty soldiers, lieutenant, very pretty indeed... but can they fight?!"

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