Daily Tech News 26 June 2025

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• Facebook has also won the lawsuit filed against it by angry authors (and "authors"), with a different federal judge also ruling that it is legal to read books that you bought. (MSN)
  
  The authors sued because Facebook could hypothetically use its AI to create near-copies of their work. They lost the suit because, well, it didn't.

  "The plaintiffs presented no meaningful evidence on market dilution at all," said Judge Chhabria.

  There's a lot of that going around.

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - June 25, 2025 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters.

[Top photo: The Natchez-Vidalia Bridge spans across the Mississippi River and links Mississippi and Louisiana]

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Wends-Yay Cafe

Hedgehogs are so cute that people say Sure I'll live with a permanent risk of salmonella to own one.

Horse and dog are besties.

The love of a pimp is very different from the love of a square.

Giant dogs need cuddles too.

Can a border collie find a tiny zipper-pull thrown into the woods? The answer may surprise you. (But probably not.)

The instinct runs deep.

Cat introduces her kitten to the new baby.

I like cats, but this is disturbing. They look like spiders.

Out of control.

The instinct to bathe is irresistible.

Rescuing a seal that got stuck in a crevasse.

Thoughtless people rescue a dangerous ice-bat.

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Quick Hits

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

#BREAKING: The White House is AGGRESSIVELY tracking down the person who leaked classified documents to CNN, per Karoline Leavitt

"They should go to JAIL," Leavitt said

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

JUST IN: Statement from CIA Director John Ratcliffe about Intelligence on Iran's Nuclear Program:

"CIA can confirm that a body of credible intelligence indicates Iran's Nuclear Program has been severely damaged by the recent, targeted strikes."

Shares of firms tied to the NYC real estate market fall over fears of Socialist Jihadi Zorhan Mamdani's socialist plan to freeze rents.

Shares of firms with exposure to New York City's real-estate market were hammered Wednesday as investors panicked over the growing prospect of rent-freeze advocate Zohran Mamdani winning City Hall.

Vornado Realty Trust and SL Green, two of the Big Apple's largest developers, each plunged more than 5%.

Other real estate investment trusts (REITs) with heavy ties to the city also suffered. Equity Residential and Empire State Realty Trust fell 3% and 4%, respectively. LXP Industrial Trust was down 2.5%.

Investors also sold off shares in New York banks with major real estate portfolios.

Flagstar Financial and Dime Community Bank fell 5% and 4%, respectively, while Flushing Financial slipped 3%.

Obama's senior economic advisor warns about electing a jihadist to be the mayor the terrorists' favorite target city... but then says that Mamdani just has to offer some meaningless distancing from his jihadist platform and then he's all good to go.

Lawrence H. Summers
@LHSummers

I am profoundly alarmed about the future of the @DNC and the country by yesterday's NYC anointment of a candidate who failed to disavow a "globalize the intifada" slogan and advocated Trotskyite economic policies.

I fear it is evidence that our party is following the most problematic aspects of Britain's Labor Party. It didn't work there, and it won't work here.

@Harvard and other universities' moral weakness after Oct 7 in condoning hateful, anti-Israeli, and even antisemitic, rhetoric and activity opened the Overton window in ways that contributed to yesterday's outcome.

I hope candidate @ZohranKMamdani, who showed great ability to learn and adapt during his campaign, will continue to evolve in ways that provide much needed reassurance to people committed to a free from prejudice, market economy as an American ideal.

An important task for Mamdani now is to provide reassurance that his moral energy and formidable political skills can be productively directed for the City of New York at this difficult moment.

So you acknowledge he's a terrorist, but you're only asking that he offer some obviously-insincere pablum about not wanting to bring the intifada to NYC and then you're okay with him?

Palestinian-American Chuck Schumer is endorsing Mamdani:

Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer

I have known @ZohranKMamdani since we worked together to provide debt relief for thousands of beleaguered taxi drivers & fought to stop a fracked gas plant in Astoria. He ran an impressive campaign that connected with New Yorkers about affordability, fairness, & opportunity.

Lou Perez
@TheLouPerez

I'm upset that my parents never got rich enough for me to become a socialist.

Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_

The U.S. Dept. of Education has found California in violation of Title IX for letting males compete in girls' sports.

CDE & CIF must restore records, titles & awards to female athletes AND send apology letters to every girl robbed by this discrimination.

This is fantastic.

Dustin Grage
@GrageDustin

BREAKING: The Department of Justice is now suing Tim Walz and Keith Ellison for providing free and discounted college tuition for illegal aliens.

It's great to have a President who cares about fighting for American citizens in blue states like Minnesota!

Jasmine Ratchet believes she's the one the Constitution empowered to make decisions about war and peace. I have never heard so eloquent an argument for unlimited executive power.

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Jonathan Turley Predicts That the Supreme Court Will Rebuke Lowly District Courts After a Boston Judge Ignores Their Ruling

As you may know, a Boston judge forbid Trump from deporting illegal aliens to South Sudan. The Supreme Court overruled his order, and said that deportations may resume.

That lowly district hack then gave the finger to the Supreme Court and announced that their ruling doesn't apply to him.

Law prof Jonathan Turley predicts this might be the case that forces Roberts to act to rein in the district court insurrection.

The Trump administration on Tuesday accused US District Judge Brian Murphy of defying the Supreme Court's ruling allowing the White House to deport illegal immigrants to third countries without appropriate due process. The judge had previously ruled that the White House must provide a period of time in which a deportee can challenge the proceedings. The Supreme Court overruled this injunction, but Murphy has kept it in place, arguing that the Court's ruling did not apply specifically to his earlier decision.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a motion characterized Murphy's refusal to comply with the Supreme Court ruling as a "lawless act of defiance." The agency requested that the high court confirm its order extends to Murphy's injunction.

Jones then asked what progressive opponents of the administration might do in response to the Supreme Court ruling.

"Well, as you know, Lawrence, this is a full-court press among advocates for these individuals and their attorneys. They're trying to find every angle to help their clients," Turley replied. "They're going to many of these favorable jurisdictions and favorable judges, like the one in Boston, and they're issuing these injunctions."

The professor continued, explaining that the Supreme Court might be instrumental in solving what has been a heated debate over the past six months: Whether federal judges should possess the authority to issue nationwide injunctions on the White House's policies. "The court could very well say, 'Enough. We're not going to have individual judges now freezing the entire United States government on critical programs like this.'"

Video at the link.

Bizarrely, the Bulwark's brain trust has decided that Trump must respect the lowest courts, and the Supreme Court must defer to their partisan leftwing inferiors, too. They're actually arguing that lowly district court judges are the ultimate arbiters of legal cases, and the president and even the Supreme Court must defer to them.

Meanwhile, the Vice Mayor of the gang-infested suburb of LA, Cudahy, is calling for gang members to rise up and violently oppose ICE.

Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez is facing backlash after she allegedly posted a video on her social media accounts, calling on local gang members to reclaim city streets as immigration operations continue across Los Angeles.

"You guys tag everything up, claiming hood, and now that your hood is being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain't a peep out of you. It's everyone else that's not about the gang life and out there protesting and speaking up," Gonzalez says in a portion of the since-deleted video.

Though she didn't explicitly refer to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement by name, the Department of Homeland Security shared a statement in response.

"The comments made by the Vice Mayor of Cudahy, CA, Cynthia Gonzalez, are despicable," their statement said. "She calls for criminal gangs -- including the vicious 18th Street Gang --to commit violence against our brave ICE law enforcement. This kind of garbage has led to a more than 500 percent increase in assaults against our ICE law enforcement officers."

The city of Cudahy also shared a response to the video, saying that they are aware of Gonzalez's comments and that they do not represent the city's official position.

When the gang-bangers do follow her suggestion and assault or even kill ICE agents -- what charges should be brought against this gangster whore? Remember, they prosecuted Trump for inciting a riot by telling people to "protest peacefully."

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Shock: Crack Addict and Prostitute Addict With No Obvious Source of Income Doesn't Pay His Lawyers for Defending Him in Court

I think that this law firm knew all along it was working for free, in the interests of the Democrat-Media-Communist Party.

The law firm that represented Hunter Biden in federal investigations filed a lawsuit against him on Monday, saying that former president Joe Biden's son owes its attorneys "substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest."

I would guess that $50,000 is the minimum amount of the claim needed to get into superior court or whatever. $50,000 should not be taken as anywhere near what Hunter the Crackhead owes. It's just that they have to note in their lawsuit that the money sought exceeds this threshold.

"This is breach of contract action against Mr. Biden for unpaid legal fees," Winston & Strawn LLP wrote in its complaint, the New York Post reported. "Despite repeated requests for payment, Mr. Biden has failed to pay the amounts he owes."

"Although a portion of those fees have been paid," the complaint reads, "Mr. Biden presently owes [Winston & Strawn] substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest that are due and payable."

Winston & Strawn represented Hunter Biden in both the Delaware gun case and the California tax evasion case.

...

This isn't the first time that Hunter Biden, who has a long history of alcohol and drug addictions, has struggled to finance his legal defense.

In January 2024, Hollywood entertainment lawyer Kevin Morris testified to Congress that he had been paying "various attorneys" on behalf of the then-first son. By last May--just weeks before Biden's gun trial--Morris reportedly told associates he was "completely tapped out" from footing the bill for millions in legal expenses for years.

Weird that Kevin Morris won't pay Hunter Biden's bills now that Joe Biden (and his ability to raise money through Biden, Inc.) isn't in office.

Did their friendship just end?

Or was it always a criminal scam to illegally donate money to Hunter Biden?

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INSURRECTION: RIOTERS BREAK INTO CAPITOL HILL TO STOP OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

Which I'm told makes you an insurrectionist and subject to jail without bail until trial.

And also subject to the government slamming you with multiple duplicative charges and fabricated charges like "conspiracy to defraud the United States."

That's the rule now, right?

U.S. Capitol Police detained a group of peaceful protestors on Wednesday, including several people in wheelchairs, during a protest over proposed cuts to Medicaid spending on Capitol Hill.

Scripps News footage shows a crowd of people, some of them in wheelchairs, being zip-tied and escorted out of the Russell Senate Rotunda. The room is part of a Senate office building on Capitol Hill.

The protests are over proposed Medicaid cuts included in the "Big Beautiful Bill," which would remove coverage for some 10 million of the poorest Americans over the next decade as well as implement additional work requirements for those using Medicaid.

The media continues to push the idea that some people -- women, minorities, gays, transgenders, the disabled -- have special rights and privileges and are allowed to break the law, and that it's Racist to apply the law to them. Hence the special mention that some of the rioters are "in wheelchairs" -- so what if they are? What is being argued here? That if someone is in a wheelchair (and might just be posing in a wheelchair, btw) then they have a special right to riot?

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The Federal Trade Commission Extracts a Heavy Price for Approval of the Merger of Two Ad Titans: Stop Blacklisting and Boycotting Conservative Outlets

Two major ad companies wanted to merge, but the FTC commissioner forced them to sign a consent decree. They're promising that they will no longer subject conservative outlets to an advertising boycott.

As part of a landmark merger deal, the FTC secured a commitment from two global advertising giants not to discriminate against conservative media based on political views. The move follows revelations of past collusion aimed at defunding right-leaning outlets.

Key Details:

The FTC approved the merger between Omnicom and IPG with strict conditions against political viewpoint discrimination.

Both firms were previously involved in GARM, a now-defunct group that coordinated ad boycotts of center-right media.

The agreement prohibits coordinated blacklisting of media based on ideology and imposes regular compliance checks.

Diving Deeper:

Two of the world's largest advertising companies, Omnicom and Interpublic Group (IPG), will be barred from colluding or discriminating against media outlets based on political or ideological viewpoints as a condition of their newly approved merger, the Federal Trade Commission announced Monday.

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson revealed that the agency had secured what he called a "major victory" for viewpoint neutrality in media. In a rare move, the FTC imposed behavioral conditions on the merger, citing past coordination between the two firms and others to defund conservative media.

The firms, which together represent a third of the global advertising market, had been founding members of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), a group accused of blacklisting conservative outlets including Breitbart News, Fox News, and The Daily Wire. Ferguson emphasized that such coordination is "tantamount to an agreement not to compete on quality" and said the merger conditions will eliminate the need for costly litigation while preventing future abuses.

"Specifically, the proposed decision and order prohibits Omnicom and IPG from entering into or maintaining any agreement or practice that would steer advertising dollars away from publishers based on their political or ideological viewpoints," Ferguson explained.

The FTC is also continuing its broader investigation into whether more than a dozen advertising advocacy groups may have violated antitrust laws by engaging in similar viewpoint-based collusion. As part of the merger agreement, Omnicom and IPG agreed to cease any coordination that could blacklist publishers for political reasons and pledged to cooperate with federal investigators.

According to Ferguson, GARM once dismissed free speech as "an extreme global interpretation of the US Constitution," citing "principles of governance" crafted exclusively by "white men." A Congressional report found that GARM led efforts to starve conservative publishers of advertising revenue, effectively attempting to "destroy publishers of content which they disapproved."

A 2024 House Judiciary Committee report exposed internal GARM communications, including a message from an Omnicom executive referencing Breitbart, stating: "As much as we hated their ideology and bullshit, we couldn't really justify blocking them for misguided opinion..."

Ferguson clarified that while advertisers still have the right to choose where their ads appear, they are prohibited from engaging in collective boycotts or forming "exclusion lists" to pressure others to follow suit--what he called "the supreme evil of antitrust."

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Leftists Leak a Classified DIA Assessment of the Damage to the Iran Nuke Sites to Embarass Trump

Endless treason. Endless.

Trump administration officials on Tuesday slammed a leaked preliminary intelligence assessment of the damage done to Iran's nuclear facilities by weekend US airstrikes that the president has touted as a massive success.

The classified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) bomb damage assessment -- deemed a "low confidence" estimation of the effectiveness of Saturday's strikes on the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz sites -- reportedly determined that Iran could bring its nuclear program back online as quickly as one to two months, according to Fox News.

On the high end, estimates indicate that Iran could restart uranium enrichment within a year, according to those who viewed the DIA report.

CNN, which first reported on the leaked classified document, noted that assessments are ongoing and could change, but the DIA believes Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed by the "bunker buster" bombs dropped on the nuclear facilities.

"This alleged 'assessment' is flat-out wrong and was classified as 'top secret' but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X.

"The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran's nuclear program," she added.

"Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration," Leavitt argued.

The assessment was reportedly based on satellite images and electronic communications that have been intercepted since the strikes.

The report focuses on the damage done to Fordow, a facility buried under mountains south of Tehran, which was hit by 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators.

The DIA reportedly assessed that the entrances to the facility caved in as a result of the strike, and that some infrastructure was destroyed, but that the Iranians could still dig out, repair or rebuild the site.

..

"Fordow is the last enrichment reactor that was operating there, and we put 12 bunker-buster bombs on Fordow. There's no doubt that it breached the canopy. There's no doubt that it was well within reach of the depth that these bunker-buster bombs go to, and there's no doubt that it was obliterated."

So according to the Deep State, Iran was simultaneously not building a nuclear bomb and able to quickly build a nuclear bomb in a few months.

"Intelligence" is whatever a communist traitor needs it to be at any given moment.

Trump says that leak was -- besides being an act of treason -- misleading, as the leaked report is preliminary and incomplete.

He cited Israel's own assessment of the effectiveness of the strike.

Israel confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. airstrike on Iran's Fordow nuclear site over the weekend caused severe damage, rendering the facility "inoperable." Israeli officials say the operation has significantly delayed Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Key Details:

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office said the U.S. strike destroyed key infrastructure at Fordow and crippled Iran's uranium enrichment capability at the site.

The statement, delivered on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, concluded that combined U.S. and Israeli strikes have set Iran's nuclear weapons program back "by many years."

President Trump praised the success of the operation during remarks at the NATO summit in Brussels, calling it a "joint Israeli-American victory" and likening it to Israel's decisive 1967 Six Day War.

Diving Deeper:

On Wednesday, the Israeli government released an official statement confirming that a U.S. airstrike on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility had effectively shut down operations at the controversial site. The announcement came shortly after President Donald Trump previewed the findings during a press conference at the NATO summit in Brussels, noting that Israeli intelligence would provide details on the mission's results.

"The devastating U.S. strike on Fordow destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable," read the statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. The report concluded that the joint American and Israeli military campaign had "set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years."

Officials added that this delay in Iran's nuclear capabilities could continue "indefinitely," provided Tehran is prevented from obtaining new sources of nuclear material.

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New York City Chooses the Form of Its Destructor and It's (Check Notes) a Socialist Ex-Rapper (!) Who Supports Global Jihad
Update: One of His "Raps" Praised Five Convicted Terrorist Funders of Hamas

In the city that was struck by Al Qaeda on 9/11, notes David Strom.

Yesterday I wrongly wrote that this was the election. It was a mental typo. This isn't the election, just the Democrat primary, but the winner of the Democrat primary almost always wins the election, unless the Democrat candidate is so terrible that a Republican like Guiliani or an "independent" billionaire like Bloomberg can win.

Are we at that stage? Or does New York City want to go the way of Chicago?

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Wednesday Morning Rant

"Grassroots"

As I was trawling the news this week, I saw a couple of articles about a "grassroots" boycott movement that has been targeting various businesses this year, focused on opposition to the sudden lurching reversal of various DEI-type activities. This was news to me, but it turns out that they've had eleven completed or planned boycott actions this year. The targets are varied, from Wal-Mart (past) and McDonald's (current) to overall "economic blackout" activities. I decided to look into it further, and didn't realize I was about to enter the theater of the absurd.

It's all backed by an outfit calling itself "The People's Union USA," (I begrudgingly link to the actual site here, because the archived versions are outdated) which is itself backed by a man called John Schwartz. Schwartz himself is a former meditation instructor turned activist, and the organization describes itself as:

The People’s Union USA is a grassroots movement focused on economic resistance, corporate accountability, and real justice for the working class. We’re not a political party, we’re a movement for the people. All people. No matter your background, beliefs, or affiliation.
Our mission is simple, unite everyday Americans against the greed and corruption that’s kept us divided, distracted, and struggling for decades.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Sunny Slopes
Gardner Symons

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The Morning Report — 6/ 25 /25

Good morning kids. So, pun intended Trump went ballistic on Iran and Israel vis a vis this so-called ceasefire. Continuing on from yesterday's editorial/rant a few things to consider.

Supreme Leader Khamenei insisted publicly that “Iran will never surrender to the enemies of Islam.” But the regime’s behavior contradicts this. And after Donald Trumps announcement there has been no IRGC press conference, no new vow of revenge. Messaging platforms long used to broadcast defiance have gone silent.

Leaks suggest younger commanders within the Guard are urging a strategic pause—not out of diplomacy, but survival instinct. Even China and Russia, both traditional allies, have issued only neutral statements.

There is no formal capitulation. But Iran’s actions—warning enemies of a missile strike, initiating the ceasefire, ceasing retaliation—amount to a modern, informal surrender.

This was not peace. It was exhaustion. Iran has not been conquered. But it has been contained, weakened, and temporarily silenced.

Indeed the word "temporarily" is the key, and it's not Iran the nation state, it's Islam that has been on the march in the Middle East and across the world for 1500 years, whether at the Gates of Vienna, or with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire post the Treaty of Versailles or after getting its ass kicked by Israel in several major wars and other military operations after the October '73 humiliation. But the nightmares of 9/11/01 here, 2004 in Madrid 2005 in London and the butchery and slaughter of Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf, Isis and every other Islamic terror group will no doubt continue regardless of what the polticial/governmental future of Iran as a nation state holds. Please God may it be non-Islamic for the sake of the Iranian people and indeed the region and the world, but if past is prologue, I'm not holding my breath.

So, Iran's nuclear weapons capability has been neutralized and perhaps at long last the Mullahs heads might be on the chopping block and the doors have been blown off of Evin Prison.

And despite that, or perhaps because of that, we have this tory:

Not the mass murder of Israelis that took place in the past, at the Nova Music Festival that was held in Israel on October 7, 2023, but a mass murder planned for the future, at the Boom Music Festival to be held in Portugal this July. Antisemites, encouraged by the hatred that has been heaped on Israel by so much of the world, with so many people both so ill-informed and so malevolent, have apparently been planning to do all kinds of terrible things to the 4,000 Israelis expected to attend this year’s festival. Perhaps the sudden revelation about the planning of that massacre will prevent it, if Portuguese authorities wake up from their stupor, from being attempted.

And did you catch this item the other day?

Fourteen arrested after nearly 150 people report being jabbed with needles at French music festival

As my good friend and friend of the blog Michael Walsh states:

So the ongoing conflict in Iran should  only end one way: with the destruction of the mullahs, the disestablishment of Islam, the eradication of Iran's nuclear capabilities, a stern warning backed up by force if necessary to other nuclear powers not to ship any nuclear bombs or other material to a fundamentalist Iran and the neutralization of the well at Jamkaran to end Shia Islam's belief in the resurrection of the hidden Twelfth Imam. The Jews have survived the destruction of the Second Temple and Christians the loss of Constantinople and the Church of Holy Wisdom (the Hagia Sophia, now a mosque), without any loss of belief; Islam ought to have the opportunity to do the same. The president's announcement late this afternoon that a cease-fire between Israel and Iran has been reached is, therefore, disappointing absent the collapse of the mullahs. . .

"Fuckin' A Bubba" to quote Gus Grissom from The Right Stuff, but what of the other 1.5 billion Muslims, both Shia and Sunni all over the world? Unless and until they have a, shall we say "Come to Jesus moment" about their beliefs vis a vis their imagined destiny of global conquest and supremacy, we shall surely see Notre Dame (underscored by CBD's eloquent essay) and Westminster Abbey if not the Vatican itself transformed into mosques just like Hagia Sophia in the next 20 to 50 years. Whether via the sword or the maternity ward.

On a completely different note, there goes New York City. Yes, I am well aware there are many here who could care less, and even I as a NYC native just shake my head in abject disgust and disappointment. And while this is only the Democrat Primary, the fact that as Daniel Greenfield suspects, and probably rightly so, the Tammany Hall machine still rigged it for one of the most outrageously maniac leftist candidates imaginable. And this in a city that suffered through two terms of Bill DeBolshevik, on top of a city council that is perpetually to the left of the Shining Path and Vietcong.

So given all of that, you can easily calculate the odds of Curtis Sliwa or whoever the GOP candidate may be in winning the general. Regardless of one's prejudices against the city and indeed any blue city in America, that we have lost them for generations and some unforeseen cultural sea change notwithstanding, likely forever, is still a tragedy and an infamnia. Leftist madness might not be confined to big blue cities. Over time, it spreads everywhere and one day, those who sleep comfortably in solid red states and districts might wake up to find their neighborhoods and towns fundamentally transformed, to coin a phrase.

Apropos of NYC, as Travis Bickle said in Taxi Driver "Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." And out of City Hall. everywhere else Leftists are in control, the media. and most especially the schools.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Authorities in that country aren't taking it seriously.
  Mass Murder of Israelis Planned at Portuguese Music Festival
  
  
• Michael Walsh: The president's announcement late this afternoon that a cease-fire between Israel and Iran has been reached is, therefore, disappointing absent the collapse of the mullahs.. . (Fuckin' A bubba!!!! - jjs)
  THE COLUMN: Unconditional Surrender

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Daily Tech News 25 June 2025

Top Story

• You don't need an author's permission to read their books. (Tech Crunch)
  
  If they publish it, you can buy a copy and read it, according to a federal judge for the Northern District of California.
  
  Groundbreaking? Not for people, no, but it may signal a seismic shift for all the content creators throwing lawsuits at AI companies, because this was one of those cases.
  
  There is still an issue that Anthropic did not buy all the books it used to train its AI, at least, not at first. The damages for that will be the subject of a separate trial.

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 24, 2025 [scampydog]

Good evening and thank you for checking in on the Tuesday, ONT. Summer is here - funny tan lines, green grass, grilling, lemonade, and warm nights. Open thread - abstract concepts, cautionary tales, and a verbal shiv or two are encouraged.

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Elephants on Parade Cafe

Baby elephant having a bath with his bath toys.

Too cute.

I just linked this, but this friendly baby elephant is worth a repost. This baby elephant is even more rambunctious.

Cat fight #1. Cat fight #2. Who was the most impressive?

Puppy thinks she's a cowboy.

Tree pavilion.

This kitten is learning to pounce and this dog has agreed to help train her.

Cats being absolute ninjas. Note that about two thirds of the way through a cat attempts to climb the exterior wall of a tall building and falls. But he does just get off the ground and run away. Can't have been pleasant, though. Soon after, a cat jumps from a building into a bucket of water on the ground. Crazy.

All aboard the Dog Bus. Except for Kevin.

I don't know if these guys are workers or intruders, but no one informed the cane corso on guard duty.

I think I linked this before, but it's good: Two dogs got to know each other over FaceTime, and then finally had an IRL Moron Meet-Up.

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Quick Hits

Trump gave the stinkeye to oil markets, telling them they better not rise.

President Trump on Monday warned oil producers not to raise prices in the wake of U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, cautioning that a spike would benefit America's enemies. "EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I'M WATCHING!"

Key Details:

Trump posted on Truth Social: "YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON'T DO IT!"

Oil prices fell after the post, with Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate both slipping by about one percent following earlier gains driven by Middle East tensions.

In a follow-up message, Trump told the Department of Energy: "DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! And I mean NOW!!!"

Prices did in fact fall:

Apparently Vladimir Putin called Trump offering to "help" with Iran. I assume he meant "I'll help with Iran if you help with Ukraine." Trump rejected his offer, telling him what he really needed help with was dealing with Vladimir Putin.

Al Green, who is an ugly clown and only got elected because voters thought he was the singer Al Green, once again filed stupid impeachment charges against Trump. They were rejected almost as hard as Democrats rejected Jasmine Ratchet's demand for a leadership position.

A push to impeach President Donald Trump over his recent military actions in Iran was blocked Tuesday after a decisive bipartisan vote in the House. The effort, led by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, failed as top Democrats joined Republicans in shelving the resolution.

Key Details:

The House voted 344-79 to table Green's impeachment resolution, effectively killing it without a formal debate.

A majority of House Democrats, including party leaders Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, and Pete Aguilar, voted to halt the effort.

Green argued Trump's strikes on Iran were unconstitutional, while Trump fired back on Truth Social, daring progressives to "make my day."

More than 100 Democrats voted against the measure, so you know it must have been so stupid even a Democrat can see it.

The Democrats' other ratchet dum-dum who's also hitting the wall at 170 mph engaged in juvenile male taunting of Trump:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully.

As you probably know, Donkey-Chompers grew up in the affluent suburb of Westchester, not the Bronx. She is, as most socialists are, a child of privilege.

New York City is voting to destroy the city today. I am pretty sure the Socialist Muslim who has only been in America for seven years and who has campaigned to defund the police and use NYC's medical budget to pay for transing children will win.

Why?

Because of... the "educated" classes.

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The Muslim socialist running for NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is so obviously a conman the only people dumb enough to support him are college-educated.

This poll is the single most damning indictment of higher education in America that I've seen.

Zohran Mamdani is Muhammad Mao

I saw someone speculating, plausibly, that when this pro-terrorist socialist wins, corporations and Wall Street will move out of NYC, possibly to Florida.

And as you know, NYC is only able to keep its head barely above bankruptcy because of all those trillion-dollar-cap corporations paying taxes to have their offices in this unlivable shithole.

It can't happen soon enough. They need to own their choices.

How did I miss this? Disney's other wealth-killing anti-talent Rachel Zegler is attempting a career reinvention, explaining that she's just mentally ill.

Even Snow White needs a shrink.

Rachel Zegler has revealed that therapy and anxiety medication helped her overcome the monumental backlash she received while starring in Disney's live-action "Snow White" remake.

The 24-year-old actress opened up about the controversy and how she moved past it in an interview with i-D magazine published on Monday, June 23.
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Rachel Zegler has revealed that therapy and anxiety medication helped her overcome the backlash she received while starring in "Snow White." GC Images
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The 24-year-old actress opened up about the controversy and how she moved past it in an interview with i-D magazine published on Monday. Walt Disney Co.

"My f--king psychiatrist has seen me through all of it," Zegler explained, noting that her medical doctor constantly reminded her that "what you're going through isn't normal."
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"That sentence did such wonders for me in multiple situations in my life," she said.

The "Y2K" actress also revealed that she started taking anxiety medication.

Zegler said the decision was "truly a game changer" because "I just wasn't functioning" and "I wanted to function in a way that made me feel confident in the way I was moving through the world."

Besides her psychiatrist and anxiety meds, the "West Side Story" star also cited her "mindset" as one of the things that helped her overcome the backlash she received.

"I think a victim mindset is a choice, and I don't choose it," she explained. "I also don't choose nastiness in the face of it. I don't choose negativity in the face of it."

Don't worry, Screwhead, I'm going to choose to make you a victim for you.

Instapundit mentions rumors that Zegler is being eyed for the Julie Andrews role in a Sound of Music remake, but I have a feeling the source of those rumors is Rachel Zegler's PR team.

No one's going to take a hundred million dollar gamble on this bitchy brat again.

Atlanta is facing another crime wave but they're focusing resources on stopping the Real Crime -- pedestrians scuffing up their rainbow pride crosswalks beyond normal scuffing.

So close to Pride Month. So close to Pride Month.

Atlanta installed its rainbow crosswalk at the intersection of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue in 2015, and it reportedly cost taxpayers close to $200,000. The city updated the crosswalk to include the transgender flag colors, as well as brown and black; Lord knows how much that cost. The crosswalk even has its own Instagram account.

The Gay Crosswalk is also starring as Reed Richards in Fantastic Four.

Four people, three of them minors, were hunted down for the crime of cutting down pride flags at a bar and then for using scooters to mark up the rainbow crosswalk with tire rubber. They're all being prosecuted for hate crimes.

Good work. Give yourselves each a $20 tip on the Underhills' account.

CNN had another Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Moment, AWFLsplaining that when Iran chants "Death to America" and "Death to Israel," they actually mean it in a friendly way.

Ditzy Dance Mom Erin Burnett made this declaration:

"I remember, Dana, one point being in Tehran years ago and they're chanting 'death to America' all around me, even as I say, 'oh, I'm an American, reporting for CNN,'" she said. "And they were happy to speak to me, so -- so those two sort of jarring realities of the chant and yet, the -- the friendliness have existed together."

"We will wipe you from the pages of history," they screamed with a jovial wink.

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Jasmine Ratchet Runs to Be the Ranking Democrat Member of the House Oversight Committee; The Democrats Reject Her In Humiliating Fashion

She received the lowest vote total of any candidate.

I wonder why. Must be because Democrats hate black women.

That's the rule, right? If any member of a group protected by the Democrat-Media Party fails, then it must be due to "hate" of one kind or another, right?

Outspoken progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) dropped her bid Tuesday to become the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee after it became clear she lacked the votes.

"It was clear by the numbers that my style of leadership is not exactly what they were looking for, and so I didn't think that it was fair for me to then push forward and try to rebuke that," the lefty pol told reporters.

Democrats later anointed Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) to become their ranking member on the Oversight panel, replacing late Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who died last month.

Crockett, who has a penchant for going viral during committee hearings with her incendiary rhetoric, had touted her ability to go on the offense during the internal party battle to succeed Connolly.

She acknowledged Tuesday that "people may be disappointed" by her loss but vowed to remain a "team player" nonetheless.

On Monday, Democrats on the Oversight Committee voted on the successor to Connolly, and Crocket dropped hints that she came in last place. Later Tuesday, Democrats held a caucus meeting and voted Garcia as the ranking member.

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Crockett's loss marks the latest setback for the hard-left flank of progressives who wanted to put a firebrand as the top Democrat on the powerful investigative committee.

Last year, "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was bested by Connolly in her quest to serve as ranking member.

Below, Jasmine Ratchet shows why I call her "ratchet," meaning an "unruly or poorly-behaved person."

The woman has only one setting and that setting is Yelling and Hollering About Target Not Honoring Your One-Year-Expired Coupon for Fake Eyelashes.

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Disney Has a New $200 Million Movie About to Come Out So It Must Be Time for One of Its Overpaid Woke Communist Non-Talents to Open His Mouth Again

Pedro Pascal, related to the family of the Chilean communist Allende and a self-described "50-year-old Bougie Bitch" because that's how straight men talk about themselves, saw Rachel Zegler tanking Snow Beige and said, Hold mi cerveza.

Now he's got yet another unneeded Fantastic Four movie coming out within the month, and he decides it's time again to attack J.K. Rowling for not wanting a tranny's dick-n-balls in her face when she's in a changing room.

Pedro Pascal defends calling JK Rowling a 'heinous loser' and says 'bullies make me f****** sick' in latest broadside at Harry Potter creator

The actor has doubled down on his Instagram criticism of the British author

By AIDAN RADNEDGE

Pedro Pascal has launched a new attack on JK Rowling - defending his description of her as a 'heinous loser' as he declared how 'bullies' made him feel 'f***ing sick'.

The Game Of Thrones and Gladiator II actor has doubled down on his criticisms of the Harry Potter author over her gender-critical opinions in a new interview.

Pascal, 50, whose sister Lux recently came out as a transgender woman, initially made the scathing 'heinous loser' remark in April on Instagram.

He was responding to activist Tariq Ra'ouf who was calling for a boycott of any future Harry Potter projects due to Rowling's outspoken stance on trans issues.

The British writer, 59, had celebrated a ruling by London's Supreme Court determining that, specifically within the terms of Britain's Equality act, 'woman' meant a biological female and not gender.

Rowling, who also writes under the pen name JK Galbraith, has also been involved in wars of words over the subject with Sir Stephen Fry, Boy George and the three young actors who played the main trio in the original Harry Potter movies.

Now Pascal has continued his opposition to Rowling in a new interview with Vanity Fair, in which he addressed the response to his Instagram comment earlier this year.

Campaigner Mr Ra'ouf had written on Instagram: 'It has become our mission as the general public to make sure that every single thing that's Harry Potter related fails...because that awful disgusting s**t, that has consequences.'

As well as liking the video, Pedro also shared a defiant comment, writing: 'Awful disgusting S**T is exactly right. Heinous LOSER behavior.'

His older sister Balmaceda, also talking to Vanity Fair for the new feature, defended him against allegations of being a man talking down to a woman - saying: But it is heinous loser behavior.

'And he said that as the older brother to someone saying that our little sister doesn't exist.'

Again with the hysterics. No one denies that this person doesn't exist. We deny his delusion that he's a woman. This is a matter of pure fact.

Pascal himself has now told the magazine the backlash that followed made him feel like 'that kid that got sent to the principal's office a lot for behavioural issues in public schools in Texas feeling scared and thinking, "What'd I do?"'

But the Hollywood star's main concern was whether he might have hindered the cause he was supporting.

Pascal went on to add: 'The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, "Am I helping? Am I f***ing helping?"

'It's a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected.

'Listen, I want to protect the people I love. But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me f***ing sick.'

Pascal has previously shown his support for the transgender community, earlier this year sharing on Instagram the quote: 'A world without trans people has never existed and never will.'

He added in his caption: 'I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorising the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.'

You have the right to exist. You do not have the right to use government or corporate force to compel free people to accept your deranged, delusionary view of the word.

So if I understand this: People who do not play around with your brother's delusions are attempting to "erase" him from existence -- and you certainly don't want such bigots' money, do you? So you certainly are telling them not to see your movies, right?

Trannies are insulting Rowling by saying she looks like a tranny.

What an own-goal sort of insult.

Hey everyone be sure to rush out and see The Fabulous Four. It's a real family film.

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Chicago Teachers Union President Declares That They Own Your Children

Not a juiced headline. She says this.

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