Women's Safety Is A Red Herring

Obviously the Maine Attorney General is a booger-eating retard if he thinks that there is no danger to women and girls when they compete against men and boys. Can he be that dumb? Possibly! Just read the two sentence statement and you will notice a conspicuous lack of communication ability: Crap sentence structure, run-on, fragments, no parallelism, and that weird affectation that politicians and other worms use -- "The participation?" What... he can't even recognize that there are actual humans involved? And of course, the sheer idiocy of failing to recognize what most people with seven seconds of experience in the real world understand... Men and boys are bigger, stronger, faster, and more aggressive than women and girls. They shouldn't contend in physical competition.

But he's not that much of a retard...he is an apparatchik. He is dutifully following his marching orders to blur the lines between men and women, to destroy the concepts of traditional relationships, to subvert our culture with ahistorical, ascientific nonsense like transgenderism.

Maine AG Feels 'No Concerns of Safety' For Girls Playing Against Trans-Identifying Athletes

After the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against Maine on Wednesday, state Attorney General Aaron Frey claimed there are “no concerns of safety” about female athletes competing against transgender-identifying males.

Frey made the comment during an interview on CNN, continuing his state’s defense of letting males play on female sports teams because of their claimed “gender identity.” The DOJ is suing Maine over its refusal to comply with President Trump’s executive order, which interpreted Title IX to prohibit the inclusion of men in women’s sports.

“We’ve been working though to understand what, if any, problem exists with the participation. If some of the harms that are being alleged really are of some concern and what we’ve identified, there really are no concerns of safety,” Frey said.

He is tipping his hand though... the idea of physical danger to women and girls if they are forced to compete with men and boys can be massaged away almost completely. Rule changes, better officiating, high-level committees, weight classes...and on and on and on. They will flood the zone with that sort of bullshit, trying to hide the real issue.

That real issue is that men and boys are biologically and psychologically distinct from women and girls, and no amount of post-modern, Freudian/Marxist bullsh*t can change that. They want to make the issue simply one of safety, when the reality is that it is a cultural and biological issue. Denial of the damage to our culture is one step, and denial of biological reality is another. By focusing on safety they ignore the profound issues.

There are many sports in which physical safety isn't an issue. Swimming comes to mind, and Riley Gaines has been a staunch defender of the traditional concept of Men and Women without resorting to the important but secondary "physical safety" issue. That is not to say that there are no safety issues in non-contact sports. The psychological and cultural damage being done to women and girls by forcing them to compete with an objectively unfair set of rules can't be overstated. And forcing the use of the same locker rooms is a perversion that is breathtaking in its evil.

But the primary evil is the Marxist conceit that Man is malleable and perfectible. And in their twisted world, the innate differences between men and women can be changed with a new birth certificate, a handful of hormone pills, some makeup, and long hair.

Yes, safety is a significant issue, but letting them focus on that is a tactical error. Never let go of the real issue...Men and Women are simply different, and no amount of Marxist/Freudian gobbledygook can change that.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 4-20-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

Today's Sunday Morning Book Thread is dedicated to the memory of jewells45, who went to be with the Lord this past week. I will always remember her as a smiling, laughing woman who danced with me at a TXMOME.

Prayers for NaCly Dog and his wife this morning.

"He is not here. He is risen, just as he said."

--Matthew 28:6 (NIV)

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Daily Tech News 20 April 2025

Top Story

• Vendors have voted to reduce the duration of SSL certificates from one year to 47 days. (Computerworld)
  
  Fuck vendors.
  
  This is mostly driven by Apple, because... Because nothing, really. It's a bad solution to a non-problem.
  
  Apple has been pushing for this for some time. Previously certificates were valid for up to five years, and then Apple got involved.
  
  And the certificate vendors have just committed suicide, because nobody is going to pay them for a certificate that has to be manually refreshed every few weeks, and if you are deploying an automated solution you might as well go all the way and implement a free automated solution using Let's Encrypt.
  
  So good work, assholes.
  
  
  
• It's true that SSL providers are stupid but you still can't use the certificate without hacking DNS. (Bugzilla)
  
  And it's true that SSL is intended to be resilient to this sort of attack, but if you care about security you need to care about who is providing your DNS, and if you do then this attack doesn't work anyway.

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" April 19, 2025 [The 3 D's]

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Two D show tonight as the Doggo jumped the fence and is roaming the neighborhood - if you get a message from him about canned meat, don't open it. It's Spam.

Top photo: Easter baskets at Club ONT may be a little different than those the Easter Bunny leaves for the kiddies.

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Open Thread

You know the drill...

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Hobby Thread - April 19, 2025 [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. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) the weekend off because Peter Cottontail has taken over. Let's talk Easter!

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, April 19

Courtesy Misantropic Humanitarian

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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, April 19

Sakura blossoms, JR, Japan

Happy Easter Weekend! What could be nicer than some blossoming trees?

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A little history of self-assuredness in mass media

I ran across an interesting thread on X by Mike Nayna, the Australian cinematographer and writer. Timely given the Trump Administration's efforts to shake up the self-assuredness of places like Harvard and Columbia:

In 1922, a journalist by the name of Walter Lippmann published a book called Public Opinion where he explored the limitations of the liberal democratic order in the burgeoning era of mass media. 1/n

This was a time between the world wars when innovations in radio, the telegraph, industrial printing, & cinema were being honed as powerful tools for propagandising the masses. 2/n

He argued that the public doesn’t have direct access to objective reality due to limitations in knowledge & access to information. Instead, they rely on heavily mediated info & simplified constructs to create a distorted image of reality that he called a ‘pseudo-environment’. 3/n

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. It has been a sad week here at the Horde family. It's a good day to be alive.

Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Spring Green)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be nice, be kind. And no you can't tie your younger sibling up with zip ties.
3) No! Don't even think about it! No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a blessed Easter.

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Daily Tech News 19 April 2025

Top Story

• TSMC is planning to produce 30% of its 2nm and newer chips in its US fabs. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Currently US production is only at 4nm, with 3nm only active in Taiwan and 2nm still ramping up. The new plans will boost output at the company's Fab21 site in Arizona and bring to it the newer N3, N2, and the 1.6nm A16 lines.
  
  N3 equipment is being installed right now, and construction of new buildings for N2 and A16 is set to begin next year.

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In A Mine! In A Mine! Where A Million ONTs Shine!

Hello everybody, and welcome to Friday night! Crack open a cold one or pour a few fingers of a smooth one and let's get on with the show!

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Good Friday Cafe

Your Easter parade displays need work, guys.

"Angels" singing prayers in Italy (IG). A little awkward, but cute-ish.

Cows are excited to be allowed outdoors for the first time since winter.

You had my interest, now you have my attention.
Katy Perry is going to claim this stunt in the name of the Divine Feminine. (IG)

Seajackers. (IG)

The staircase to the top of Yellowstone Falls (IG).

Blind cat finally finds the toy he's hunting.

One of the rarest creatures on Earth -- a Star Wars fan who's under 50.

Five year old girl leads her dog through an agility course. I don't think the dog listens to her much.

Dog is so happy her human has landed.

When you're not home, your cat is doing crimes.

Out of control.

Good to know: The Easter Bunny is not a pagan invention. It traces back to German customs in the 17th century. Well after Germany was Christianized, of course.

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The Week In Woke

Democrats are doubling down on the human trafficker/MS-13 made man/terrorist, and Trump is making them pay for that bad bet:

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_

NEW: DHS has provided @FoxNews a bodycam image & HSI report from when Kilmar Abrego Garcia was pulled over by Tennessee Highway Patrol & was suspected of human trafficking in 2022. Per report, he had 8 people w/ no luggage in the car w/ him, & claimed to be driving them from TX to MD for construction work. Every passenger gave the same home address as Abrego Garcia's address. The report says Abrego Garcia was evasive during questioning, and had an expired license.

He was not arrested or charged with any crime in relation to the incident.

DHS says the report has yesterday's date due to redactions made of law enforcement sensitive info for public consumption, but this is an old document.

Abrego Garcia's wife was asked by liberal news clown Michael Strahan why she filed domestic abuse complaints against her MS-13 Maryland Husband in 2021. She refused to answer.

When Trump began listing the court documents establishing that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 human smuggler and wife-abuser, MSNBC decided to stop broadcasting. Here are the remarks Trump made that MSNBC censored from its lunatic assassination-promoting viewers.

Chris Van Hollen got back from his El Salvador stunt. His press conference was standing room only. Assuming "standing room only" means only one sad man standing in a big room.

El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele can't stop goofing on Van Hollen.

A Minnesota state government analyst was arrested for vandalizing Teslas. Why, it's almost as if the government exists to give the unemployable psychotic radicals of the Democrat Party jobs (or "jobs") in between their paid "protest" gigs.

That annoying trans activist called ICE agents "Nazis."

In the UK, a man is arrested for having said to someone "Speak English." He's told this is a hate crime. Speaking English in England is a hate crime.

Teacher insists that teaching kids about how to use butt plugs is her duty and her right and if you disagree you're saying "all queer sex is disgusting" and you're attacking the kind of sex she and her friends enjoy.

In California, Oregon, and Connecticut, the top-rated "women's" high jumpers are all male. The thing that never happens continues not happening at an escalating pace.

The brave woman who refused to fence the mentally-ill dude says "There's no end to the backlash that you may face" for standing up to shmen. She points out that referees will begin penalizing your for violating their religious cult doctrines.

Maine's AG, suing Trump to prevent the loss of funds to Maine, claims there are "no safety concerns" concerning men playing contact sports against girls.

After the U.S. Department of Justice sued Maine for putting women and girls at risk by allowing males to compete in their sports, the state's attorney general claimed -- with zero evidence -- that Maine's ideology poses "no concerns of safety."

"There are no concerns about individuals who are just choosing which gender they want to give themself in order to participate," Democrat Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said in an interview with CNN. "So that, that too is really after a lot of work on whether or not there's any issue here that warrants this intrusion by the federal government into what's going on in Maine schools."

Frey was on CNN to defend his state's refusal to comply with Title IX federal civil rights law by continuing to allow men to compete against women. His appearance came after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a civil lawsuit against Maine for its noncompliance in the wake of multiple federal agencies trying to get the state to stop putting women and girls at risk for weeks.

"We've been working through to understand what, if any problem, really exists with the participation, if some of the harms that are being alleged really are of some concern, and what we've identified is, there really is -- there are no concerns of safety," Frey told CNN.

Frey either has no clue what he is talking about or is lying through his teeth, because it is not hard to find instances of serious injuries to women and girls at the hands of the biologically stronger and larger males they are forced to compete against.

Take Payton McNabb, for instance. She was invited as one of President Donald Trump's guests to his address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year because she suffered a concussion, brain bleed, and other trauma when a male athlete spiked a volleyball violently directly into her face. She still has issues with vision, partial paralysis, and mental health concerns associated with such injuries.

Which causes me to wonder, for the thousandth time: Then why do we have sex-segregated sports at all? If there's no meaningful difference between men and women in sports (btw, apropos of nothing, the top woman sprinter in the world's best time is slower than those of the top 1,500 high school boys in the US alone), then get rid of "girls'" sports and make them compete with the guys. We're all the same, right?

The Mayo Clinic renamed its Office of DEI to "Office of Belonging" to fake-comply with Trump's executive order.

People sometimes think that there's no harm done if an adult female teacher has sex with a male student. But what you forget is, most female pedophiles are heinous just like most male pedophiles are heinous. You don't want this on your sexual resume, kids. Say "no" to heinous pedophiles. At the current rate this country is going, you'll have sex at age 12 anyway, so hold out for something better.

Liberal "man" who looks like he'd totally prosper in a civil war environment calls for the killing of his political enemies.

Future Hero of the Pumpkin Spice Wars

This bulging-biceps Internet Tough Guy has some interesting theories on the forced cuckolding of fathers. Scan down to his "think" piece about whether women should be fertilized by randos' sperm so that no children could be said to "belong" to a father.

More calls for assassinating our duly-elected President, this one at Kent State. Sure hope another president doesn't have to call out the National Guard...

A California mom -- whose child had been "transitioned" by the school -- tried to offer a prayer at a school board meeting. The school board shut down this Terrorism immediately. "We don't do prayer," the chair of the board intoned.

Another Likely Terrorist is shouted down by peaceful trans activists. The school board yells at the Terrorist to stop addressing "the audience," which is heckling him.

They're going to have "trans" Easter events. That's nice.

libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

DEMONIC. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an "order of queer and trans nuns" are hosting a transgender Easter event at a public park in San Francisco this weekend which includes a "Hunky Jesus & Foxy Mary" drag contest and events for children.

They literally say that their show is inappropriate for children while still encouraging children to attend.

Make it make sense

Sorry to spoil Good Friday with that one.

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NPR: Trump's Plotting to Cut All of Our Funding

What a scoop from NPR.

The Trump administration has ed a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.

The memo, which the administration plans to send to Congress when it reconvenes from recess on April 28, will open a 45-day window in which the House and Senate can either approve the rescission or allow the money to be restored.

The official, who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity, confirmed the existence of the .

In a statement on Monday that did not refer to the memo, the White House said: "For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'" The statement includes examples of what the White House said is "trash that passes as 'news'" and "intolerance of non-leftist viewpoints."

NPR produces the award-winning news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered, while PBS is best known for its nightly PBS News Hour and its high-quality children's programming, such as Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.

There's a little commercial for NPR tucked right into NPR's article about NPR.

No bias here!

This month, on social media platforms, President Trump blasted the two primary public broadcasting networks, posting in all caps: "REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT 'MONSTERS' THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!"

Trump is expected to propose rescinding $1.1 billion -- two years' worth of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a congressionally chartered independent nonprofit organization that in turn partially funds NPR and PBS.

Gentlemen, here are your talking points: "$1.1 billion is less than one-one-thousandth of our multi-trillion dollar budgets therefore we must never cut billions from the budget."

In making the move, the president appears to be drawing impetus from a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing in late March. The panel called NPR's and PBS' chiefs to testify, alleging the networks' news coverage is biased against conservatives.

In a statement, NPR said: "Eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would have a devastating impact on American communities across the nation that rely on public radio for trusted local and national news, culture, lifesaving emergency alerts, and public safety information."

"We serve the public interest. It's not just in our name -- it's our mission. Across the country, locally owned public media stations represent a proud American tradition of public-private partnership for our shared common good," it said.

Paula Kerger, PBS' CEO and president, said the Trump administration's effort to rescind funding for public media would "disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people."

"There's nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress," she said.

NPR added this: This article was written by people working for NPR, who would therefore lose their jobs if NPR's funding was cut, but they didn't allow the ludicrously biased head of NPR to review the article, therefore, it's free of all bias or self-interest.

Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR correspondents David Folkenflik and Scott Neuman. It was edited by deputy business editor Emily Kopp and Managing Editors Gerry Holmes and Vickie Walton-James. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no NPR corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.

The article claims NPR and PBS aren't biased. Another lie.

The Free Beacon reviewed a bunch of PBS "documentaries." The main thesis of these "documentaries? Literally everything is racist.

PBS receives roughly 15 percent of its $373 million operating budget from the federal government. In addition to its member stations and on-demand streaming shows, some of the money goes to Independent Lens, the weekly series through which PBS airs documentary films. They often have to do with racism.

The 2022 Independent Lens flick Racist Trees, for example, chronicles a black neighborhood in the overwhelmingly liberal "LGBTQ haven" of Palm Springs, Calif. The neighborhood's residents feel that a "wall of trees" that lines a nearby golf course was "intentionally planted to exclude and segregate" the neighborhood, and want the trees removed.

"They say that these trees are not racially motivated, that they were not racially planted there," one interviewee says in the film. "They can prove that by one simple act. Remove the trees."

Other Independent Lens documentaries similarly center on claims of racism, misogyny, and homophobia. There's Our League, the story of a transgender woman who "comes out to her old-school Ohio bowling league." There's also Ferguson Rises, a documentary in which PBS shadows the father of Michael Brown. And in Breaking the News, PBS documents the "women and LGBTQ+ journalists" who launched nonprofit newsroom The 19th to "buck a broken news media system." One interviewee in the film argues that it's easier for a white woman "to vote in space than it is for a black woman to vote in Philadelphia."

It's documentaries like those that have motivated the Trump administration to call to scrap taxpayer funds for PBS. The White House plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the entity that funds NPR and PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS has hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with deep ties to the Trump administration, to push back.

Video at the link.

Drew Holden
@DrewHolden360

Thread

I’m not sure people realize just how egregious some of NPR's "journalism" has been. Amid the debate about defunding the network, I wanted to walk down memory lane to revisit some of its worst coverage.

There's a lot.

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Minnesota AG and Islamist Keith Ellison Is Distancing Himself from a Fake "Charity" That Stole $250 Million in Covid Funds, Supposedly for Feeding Poor Children

His grubby fingerprints are all over this, says David Strom.

The scandal, about which I have written a bit, can be condensed into a few sentences: DFL politicos hooked up with Somali immigrants tied to Ilhan Omar to rip off the state and federal government by charging hundreds of millions for meals they never provided to children during COVID.

Hundreds of millions, and that is only one of the scams that Somalis have run with the cooperation of the Democrat-controlled government. There has been a similar fraud related to child care subsidies and home care services that never happened. All told, somewhere between $500 million and a billion dollars has been conned out of Minnesota taxpayers, and the local Democratic Party is deeply connected to it all.

In the case of this particular scandal, the lead conspirator was a former top official in Amy Klobuchar's office, not that you would ever know it from the news coverage. Aimee Bock was the ringleader, but most of the minions were Somali refugees with deep political ties to Ilhan Omar, Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey, and our very own Attorney General and former Democratic Party Vice Chair Keith Ellison.

Ellison is claiming he had nothing to do with the scam charity that stole a quarter of a billion dollars out of the mouths of poor children, but he's on tape pledging his support to the fraudsters.

Keith Ellison, Minnesota's attorney general, can clearly be heard pledging his support to individuals who would soon become his family's campaign donors and later Feeding Our Future criminal defendants.

His recorded statements flatly contradict his contemporaneous public statements and raise uncomfortable questions about the intersection between political fundraising and constituent services.

American Experiment has exclusively obtained the complete 54-minute, 44-second audio file of a private December 2021 meeting between state Attorney General (AG) Keith Ellison and key figures in the Feeding Our Future scandal.

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As a document, it exceeds expectations. Voices can be heard clearly and are clearly identifiable. The highlights, which are many, tend to be front-loaded. I've included below some clips from the meeting to highlight a few points.

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The meeting proper begins at the 1:28 mark with introductions. The female voice heard beginning at 1:45 belongs to Ikram Mohamed. She is Feeding Our Future Defendant No. 63, overall, in the case and is expected to stand trial in December 2025.

Ikram worked as an employee/consultant for Feeding Our Future for a time and also participated in the free-food program independently. She has pled not guilty in the case.

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The first, but hardly the last, accusation of racism is dropped at 4:20. Beginning at 6:00, Omar describes (offers) his organization's fundraising prowess (6:30) on behalf of "elected officials who are willing to protect communities of color." To repeat, Omar has never been accused of any wrongdoing.

At 8:00, Ellison offers his initial thoughts on the meeting's introductory remarks:

Ellison describes his interventions with then-DHS Commissioner Jodi Harpstead starting at 8:15. Harpstead left her post earlier this year...

Ellison states on the recording that "we are in the middle of the battle with the agencies now" at 8:59. At 9:07, Ellison asserts that:

"Walz agrees with me that this piddly, stupid stuff running small people out of business is terrible."

At 9:22, Ellison can be heard drawing a diagram on a whiteboard. At 9:50, Ellison agrees with the proposition that there is state agency discrimination against East African businesses.

At 11:30, Ellison brags that:

"Just being able to say, just getting the question, just getting the inquiry from the AG is sometimes enough to make people knock it off."

See the article for more, and to hear the clips.

Another recording of Keith Ellison meeting with Feeding Our Future Vacation Homes grifters has dropped.

From AmericanExperiment.org:

Another leaked audio recording links Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Feeding Our Future (FOF) scandal. This much earlier recording (June 2021) raises more questions about Ellison's public statements on the case and his office's less-than-adequate representation of the state Department of Education (MDE) in an FOF-filed lawsuit.

Last week, American Experiment exclusively published a 55-minute audio recording, dated December 11, 2021, featuring AG Ellison meeting with a half-dozen or so individuals associated with the nonprofit Feeding Our Future (FOF). Feeding was the rogue nonprofit behind a $250 million theft from a taxpayer-funded program meant to feed children from low-income families.

That audio was recorded just 9 days before Ellison received several campaign donations from individuals linked to FOF. One month after that (January 20, 2022), FBI raids shut down the fraud and closed FOF.

To be clear, no one mentioned by name in this post has been accused of any wrongdoing in the Feeding Our Future case.

Well, may be. But the investigation is young.

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American Experiment was sent the following 19-second video.

The man standing on the left is Abshir Omar, the Feeding Our Future consultant. The man seated on the right is state Sen. Omar Fateh (DFL-62, Minneapolis). According to campaign finance records, Abshir Omar donated $1,000 to Sen. Fateh's re-election campaign on November 20, 2021. In addition to Abshir's, Sen. Fateh collected six other donations on that date.

It is alleged that the video above was shot on November 14, 2021. From the short video, it is not clear what subject is being discussed. The word "food" is mentioned by Abshir at the 11-second mark.

Below are the campaign donations accepted by the Ellisons (father and son) and Sen. Fateh from individuals linked to the Feeding Our Future scandal.

From the contributor list above, Abshir Omar is Donor "E."

We were also sent a 54-second audio recording, allegedly recorded much earlier on June 22, 2021. From the audio, it sounds as if the recording is of a telephone call or a Zoom meeting.

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The subject matter appears to be the ongoing state lawsuit between Feeding Our Future and the state Dept. of Education ("MDE"). The audio mentions (0:05) a contempt ruling filed against MDE, which occurred in June 2021. MDE was represented in the lawsuit by Ellison's office.

At the 24-second mark, Ellison respond to a question by stating that he had heard of the FOF/MDE case "late this afternoon." This contradicts Ellison's statement on the later December 2021 audio tape that he was unaware of the lawsuit.

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The Self-Declared "Party of Science:" We Don't Want to Know Why Autism Rates Have Increased 1300% Over the Past 50 Years, Bigots

RFKJr. talked about the skyrocketing rates of autism in children -- now 1 in 31 kids are autistic.

The numbers are worse for boys: 1 in 20 boys are autistic. In California, that number is 1 in 12.5, or about 8%.

RFKJr. wants to find out why 5% of our boys are now autistic (or 8% in California):

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Supreme Court Will Hear Trump's Argument to Overturn "Birthright Citizenship"

Birthright citizenship is the theory that if someone is born in America, even if their parents are here illegally, they are American citizens by birthright.

This is the majority rule in the Western Hemisphere, but almost no European countries have this rule.

Birthright citizenship was never passed into law. Rather, it was asserted by the Supreme Court in a 19th century case.

Trump wants the rule changed so that anchor babies born here are not American citizens.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments May 15 on President Donald Trump's order to end birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants. While the justices declined to lift the nationwide pause on the policy, their decision to fast-track the case signals its legal and constitutional importance.

Key Details:

Trump's executive order, signed on his first day in office, remains blocked by federal courts in three states.

The court will not immediately rule on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship but will review the legality of nationwide injunctions.

Trump hailed the court's decision to hear the case, saying he was "so happy" and calling the policy's origins misunderstood.

Diving Deeper:

In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear oral arguments on May 15 over former President Donald Trump's executive order ending automatic birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants and non-citizen residents. The announcement came via a brief, unsigned order that offered no reasoning, as is typical in emergency requests, but underscored the case's significance by granting expedited review.

At issue is whether lower courts overstepped their authority by imposing nationwide injunctions on the Trump administration's birthright citizenship policy, which the former president enacted on his first day back in office. The policy would eliminate automatic citizenship for individuals born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally--a direct challenge to a longstanding interpretation of the 14th Amendment.

That interpretation has held since 1898, when the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that nearly all children born on American soil are citizens, regardless of their parents' immigration status. Legal scholars have debated this for years, with some conservatives, including Trump ally John Eastman, arguing that the 14th Amendment was never intended to apply so broadly. Others, like New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, have called Trump's order "blatantly unconstitutional," pointing to post-Civil War intent and more than a century of legal precedent.

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CNN: Trump and Musk Murdered a Federal Worker By Worrying Her With DOGE Cuts Until She Had a Heart Attack

You've got to be ****ing kidding me with this sh** now, CNN.

You cannot be serious. You simply cannot be.

I know what you're thinking -- this bureaucrat was probably in terrific shape, which means that the heart attack was caused not by 50+ years of unhealthy living but just by Trump's and Musk's nefarious plotting.

And you're absolutely right -- she was an original member of the George Floyd Memorial Crossfit Center.

As you can see, she was a real health nut.

Healthy at any size -- but who can survive the combined evil of Trump and Musk?

CNN is really doing this:

In a federal workforce racked by stress and fear, one family shares a story of death

By Sean Lyngaas

He's a "cybersecurity reporter," which we know now just means "he pushes censorship and propaganda behalf of the left and the Deep State."

Here's another example of his neutral, objective reporting:

'It's a bloodbath': Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies

It's almost as if he's a propagandist who is fighting for bureaucrats to keep their phoney-baloney jobs by This One Neat Trick of claiming every run-of-the-mill redundancy is a "bloodbath" or "slaughter" or, as in this case, a stealthy murder committed by use of the ultimate poison: Dark MAGA DOGE.

Stress and anxiety had been building for weeks in Monique Lockett, a 25-year veteran of the Social Security Administration, about the fate of her colleagues and the sensitive agency data she had vowed to protect, her sister Ksha told CNN.

That's apparently not a typo. Her name is "Ksha," no vowel in the beginning.

I believe Ksha is the third moon of Planet Vulcan but I'll have to double-check that. Please do not pump that disinformation out there until it's confirmed.

In February, amid sweeping changes to the federal workforce, Monique was five years from retirement but was facing one of the most uncertain periods of her career, according to Ksha. She was growing increasingly concerned about what Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency might do to the agency.

"My sister had a lot of anxiety around the changes that were happening in other agencies and, inevitably, what would happen to Social Security," Ksha told CNN. "She was concerned about the overall well-being of everybody that she worked with because it was stressful for a lot of people."

Yes, that's because she was crazy and neurotic. And her morbid obesity probably contributed to that. Obesity puts strains and stresses on the body, and therefore on the mind.

The Trump administration's demolition of federal programs and jobs has sent waves of anxiety and depression through a government workforce that is experiencing anger, hopelessness and worries about people harming themselves, according to interviews with federal workers, their family members and mental health professionals who spoke to CNN.

Mental patients should not be working for the federal government. Sorry not sorry.

Since the beginning of the DOGE-led program cuts, falsehoods have proliferated online about alleged fraud and wasteful programs, fueling a caricature in some Americans' minds of an inept or corrupt federal worker.

You're literally erasing the existence of bureaucrats, Hater Bigots.

Monique's final days were spent in that climate of fear and stress while feeling devalued in the workplace, before dying on the job two months ago, according to her sister.

By the way, CNN then links to this related story:

Related article 'It is a wrecking ball': Former DOGE worker describes Musk-led government-slashing effort from the inside

Gripping stuff.

Back to the "Trump and Musk did a murder" exposé:

"It was very upsetting to her to hear that what they did wasn't valued, what they did wasn't important and certainly that what they did was wasteful," Ksha said.

Monique died of hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease -- a buildup of plaque in the arteries -- according to Stephanie Moore, a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland.

As everyone knows, people build up lethal levels of plaque in their arteries over a matter a few months. Your arteries are clean, Trump gets elected, and then bang, four months later, you're as dead as Hunter Biden's legal career. And watercolor career.

Note she died two months ago so Trump and Musk worked their deadly spells over just two months, January and February.

This... is CNN.

It is impossible to know exactly what factors triggered Monique's health emergency that day. Chronic stress can increase the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to medical experts.

How about chronic morbid obesity? Does that have any impacts on people's cardiovascular health?

Or is it just the Heart Attack Laser Beams that Musk fires out of his eyes?

Ksha believes that stress may have been a factor in her sister's death.

Well as long as you can cite that to an expert, like the woman's sister "Ksha."

Monique usually called Ksha when she got to the Social Security Administration's vast campus outside of Baltimore, but Ksha's phone didn't ring the morning of February 18. Monique came in and went to her desk, where she fell asleep, according to a Baltimore County Police report that the agency shared with CNN. Paramedics spent about 40 minutes trying to revive her, the report says, but the 53-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sleep is a telltale symptom of lethal stress, as you know. Whenever I get stressed out so bad it hurts my health, I take a little nap. It puts me right out, like cheddar cheese.

Complications from Monique's disease can include a heart attack or stroke. According to the report, Ksha told police that Monique had obesity and high blood pressure, which she was taking medication for. Co-workers told the responding police officer that Monique was "not in a [sic] visible signs of distress" prior to falling asleep, the report said.

Oh so there are alternate theories in this Murder Mystery.

But nah, it was probably Trump.

When a cause of death is related to atherosclerosis, "stress can certainly play a role by increasing blood pressure and cortisol levels" -- a "stress hormone," said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University. "Chronic stress can also lead to increase in inflammation, which plays a role in both formation of new atherosclerosis and acute events."

A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration, or SSA, confirmed to CNN that an employee died at the agency's headquarters on February 18 but did not respond to further questions.

February 18th -- Trump took office on January 20th.

He killed her not in a couple of months, as I stupidly claimed above, but in just 29 days. Just one Leap Year February was all it took for Trump and Musk to choke her arteries with budget-induced plaque.

The DOGE team at SSA has grown to at least 10 people in the administration's three months in power, according to court documents. The Trump administration has tasked DOGE representatives, some of whom are detailed from other agencies, with finding fraud in the Social Security payment system -- while granting them access to sensitive data on millions of Americans.

That has nothing to do with the bizarre main claim in the article. It's just additional propaganda this "journalist" wanted to get in.

Here CNN links to another CNN exclusive:

Related article GOP states go 'DOGE-ing,' mimicking Musk's branding as they call attention to spending cuts

Back to Sean Lyngaas's breathless propaganda:

A federal judge on March 20 blocked DOGE's access to the SSA data that contains personal identifiable information and accused DOGE of being "essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA ... without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack."

The multiple emails, sometimes on weekends, that the Trump administration has sent to SSA employees asking them about their productivity has had a "whiplash effect," according to a former SSA employee familiar with projects that Monique worked on. "It's creating a level of anxiety that's making it hard to do their jobs. These are good people who are being traumatized."

Monique "was an integral part of ... making sure that people's information was kept safe," Ksha said, and that "the right people had access to the right information."

She died protecting illegal aliens from having fraudulently-obtained benefits from being blocked. What a hero.

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A spokesperson for DOGE did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails seeking comment.

Because you're a silly pussymouth bitch specializing in Teen Beat panic porn for psychotic aging white leftwing women who are dead from the waist down and who can no longer feel any emotions except for fear and outrage.

"What happened to Monique was truly sad and tragic, literally shook me to the core," an SSA employee told CNN.

'Total fear and demoralization'

Other current and former federal employees told CNN they have felt depressed or were concerned about colleagues harming themselves amid the layoffs and reorganizations. Alex Berman, an Internal Revenue Service employee who is a union leader in the Philadelphia area, said he has heard directly from colleagues who have experienced panic attacks and anxiety attacks in recent weeks.

In nearly 20 years as a union official, Berman said, he has talked with "a lot of people at the ends of their ropes."

"A lot of times, I'm happy to say that I was able to stand between them and the end of the cliff," Berman, whose agency is facing a potential 20% reduction in the workforce by DOGE, told CNN. "The few who could not step back from the cliff's edge will forever haunt me. And I can't help foreseeing more to come."

People do get stressed about the fear of being fired from their jobs... this happens all the time in the private sector. Every time one company buys another, everyone is afraid for their jobs as they know the first thing that will happen is that many of the employees of the old company will be fired.

Again, this is just standard life stress that everyone has to deal with.

Everyone, that is, except our precious extremely-highly-paid bureaucrats, who get paid like lawyers but have the job protections of longshoremen.

And they can retire at 58.

CNN saw that the Daily Beast was getting Outrage Clicks over their own story of woe and heart-ache, and wanted to get in on that scam.

Here the Daily Beast tells the sad and terrifying story of a Social Security worker who refused to do as his superiors instructed and then refused to leave his desk when he was fired.

Ultimately she was dragged out of the office by, quote, "DOGE goons."

DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker From Desk

The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.

A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to The Washington Post.

Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency's data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.

The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk's DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the "death master file."

Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card. The goal was to push migrants who were granted a temporary legal status under former President Joe Biden to "self deport."

Jim Francis, a consumer law lawyer who is suing Social Security for wrongly entering a Maryland woman into the file, cast the repercussions in dire terms.

"It's the source of that data that the whole world uses, which is why, if it's inaccurate, it has such devastating impacts on people," he told the Post. "Overnight, you literally become financially paralyzed."

Fatal heart attacks and now paralysis.

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DOGE had been working on a strategy to push out immigrants since February. A group of about a dozen civil servants from Social Security were assigned to help Musk's goons--and agents from the Department of Homeland Security--with the plot.

February? Why that's when they killed young, healthy Monique?

Coincidence? I don't want to start any conspiracy theories but the theory that Musk and Trump have conspired to spray the Social Security building with Heart Attack Paralysis Gas is now proven.

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THE MORNING RANT: The Slippery Slope to (Re)Normalizing American Slavery Keeps Getting Slipperier

In my post earlier this week I expressed my concern that Principled Free Traders pretty much openly express their support nowadays for the use of overseas slave labor in the manufacture of consumer goods imported into the U.S., and what this situational tolerance for slavery portends.

The disturbing end point for this “libertarian” passion for the elimination of labor expense, despite the ongoing need for human labor, is a return to the “peculiar institution” that western nations finally abolished in the 19th century. Principled Free Traders are already quite open about their enthusiasm for the use of overseas chattel labor in the name of increased corporate profit and lower consumer prices. What is the principle that allows free trade libertarians to be comfortable with foreign slavery but not domestic slavery? It seems like a slippery slope.

I also noted how those most passionate about offshoring American industrial jobs tend to be the same people most enthusiastic about opening the U.S. border to an off-the-book, in-the-shadows workforce for those jobs which cannot be offshored. The common denominator is that there is a passion to reduce labor expense to as close to $0 as possible, be it with overseas slaves or with domestic illegal labor.

Isn’t it puzzling that “free market libertarians” who do chest-bumps and grave dances to celebrate American industrial workers losing their jobs are also passionate about importing off-the-book labor to do “the jobs that Americans won’t do.”

It’s all coming full circle now. Slavery is back in the American South, and it’s the perfect confluence of the libertarians’ ideal labor forces – foreign slaves serving as unregulated domestic labor…

“Three arrested in wake of ‘massive’ labor trafficking bust in Georgia” [Atlanta Journal Constitution – 4/12/2025]

Employees were Chinese nationals who had been recruited through a temporary visa program and promised high salaries. Instead, they were allegedly required to work 12-hour shifts, and they were not allowed to leave the factory or their residence. [Assistant District Attorney] Waldo said there were several calls to authorities reporting slave labor-like conditions, WBHF reported.

Libertarians and Principled Free Traders swoon at the idea of being able to control Chinese nationals who work 12-hour days and are prohibited from even leaving their apartments without their master’s employer’s consent, which coincidentally enough was not given. It’s funny how slave owners don’t like to give their chattel any passes from 24-hour control.

The authorities’ arrival at Wellmade Industries in Cartersville, roughly 40 miles north of Atlanta, was the culmination of what an official described as a “massive” labor trafficking investigation. At an April 4 news conference, Steven Schrank, special agent with a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said law enforcement encountered 60 victims of “horrific” forced labor.

Who owns Wellmade?

These sweeps yielded two arrests: Wellmade Industries’ owner, Zhu Chen, and his nephew, Jiayi Chen. A third person connected to the company, Jian Jun Lu, was arrested April 5. All three face felony charges of “trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude.”

The operation that Wellmade ran in Georgia is exactly what Principled Free Traders advocate for when they celebrate American jobs being replaced by Wellmade-style slaves in China and elsewhere.

Again, if slavery is wrong when practiced in the state of Georgia, how can we condone the exact same slavery being used to produce goods being sold on American shelves so long as the slaves are located in foreign lands. If re-shoring slavery would result in lower consumer prices, how could libertarians object? They already embrace and endorse slavery, at this point we’re just talking about its geographic location.

As I said, it’s a slippery slope that’s getting slipperier. And to be clear, slavery is an abomination before God that should not be tolerated anywhere. It is beyond despicable that there are “respectable” voices on the right who advocate for the exploitation of slave labor in the name of “free trade” and “lower consumer prices.”

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