Surprise! A Virologist Warned the "Intel" Community That Covid-19 Did Not Look Natural and Likely Came From a Lab.
Then Fauci Had a Chat With Him.
And Then He Started Telling the Public and Congress It Must Be a Natural Virus.

tRuSt ThE eXpErTs

Prominent Virologist Warned Intelligence Community COVID-19 Could Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab. Then He Met With Fauci and Changed His Tune.

The researcher, UNC professor Ralph Baric, also privately downplayed the wet market theory but publicly lent it credit

A prominent U.S. virologist who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the COVID-19 pandemic privately informed the U.S. intelligence community in January 2020 that the Chinese lab may be responsible for the outbreak. But in his public remarks to congressional staffers one month later--and after meeting with former White House health adviser Anthony Fauci--the researcher stayed mum about the Wuhan lab and lent credence to the discredited wet market theory.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill virologist Dr. Ralph Baric warned the Office of the Director of National Intelligence during a closed-door presentation with the agency's Biological Sciences Experts Group on or around Jan. 29, 2020, that the Wuhan lab, which was conducting risky gain-of-function experiments on bat viruses similar to the one that causes COVID-19, may have accidentally released the virus into the human population. Baric's presentation, which the Washington Free Beacon obtained from a whistleblower, went beyond mere speculation: Considered one of the world's foremost experts on coronaviruses, Baric experimented with coronaviruses in 2015 with the Wuhan Institute of Virology's top researcher, Shi Zhengli. Later, in early 2024, he testified to House investigators that he had privately warned Shi that her lab lacked sufficient biosafety protections and that he always believed a lab leak origin was possible.

But Baric had nothing to say about the Wuhan lab in his public remarks during the early days of the pandemic as the press cast Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and other proponents of the lab leak theory as unhinged conspiracy theorists.

Huh. You don't say.

Baric's private presentation to the intelligence community in January 2020, which was first disclosed Friday by Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), was almost identical to a public briefing he delivered to the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus the following month on Feb. 26, 2020. For the public presentation, however, Baric removed the slides referencing the possibility that the virus could have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard Ebright, one of the most prominent academic proponents of the lab leak theory, said it was no coincidence that Baric omitted his references to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in his public presentation. Ebright said Baric held a "highly unusual one-on-one meeting" with Fauci on Feb. 11, 2020, an appointment reflected in a copy of Fauci's schedule obtained through a Freedom of Information Act Request.

At the time, Fauci was quietly coordinating efforts to cast the lab leak theory as a baseless conspiracy. Fauci and former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins were also warned about the Wuhan lab's potential role in the outbreak during a Feb. 1, 2020, conference call. But instead of heeding those warnings, Collins and Fauci, who led the federal agencies that funded gain-of-function research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, set out to cast discussions of lab origin of COVID-19 as a baseless conspiracy theory.

Collins lamented in an email exchange with Fauci the next day that discussion of a lab origin of COVID-19 "would do great potential harm to science and international harmony."

Trust the experts, peons.

They are above suspicion. Unlike non-experts, they all have sterling characters and possess no human flaws that can be exploited. They are never motivated by money or self-interest.

Did you know that being accredited makes you an actual angel created directly by the hand of God Himself?

It's true, Racists. Read a fucking book once in a while. Ever hear of "the Bible"? It's in there, somewhere.

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Sydney Sweeney Is Repeatedly Badgered by a Woke Ugly Karen "Journalist" To Apologize for Being White and Pretty, and Keeps On Not Apologizing

Struggle Session rejected.

Do you repent of your race, Sinner?

Usually I start with real news and do a fun silly post later in the day, but the whole internet has been buzzing about this since last night so f*** it, I'm doing it live.

The woke left media is still demanding Sydney Sweeney apologize for her "great genes/jeans" ad. They are still after her to admit it was a Race Crime to make so many neurotic, hysterical, internet-addicted Karens upset by making a dumb pun Brooke Shields made in her jeans ads in 1980.

This gross, manipulative cow interviewing her even demanded she apologize for being "white" and speaking, she claims, of "genetic superiority."

Sweeney -- get this -- refused to apologize.

No matter how many times the angry, unattractive Karen from the gay fashion magazine GQ demanded she apologize for existing, Sweeney pretended she had no idea what the cow meant and gave a light deflection.

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Goodyear Senior Executive Outsourced Jobs to India While Personally Benefitting from the Outsourcing Industry…annnnd She Just Departed Goodyear after Being Exposed

Corporate America has a problem. Its C-suites are stocked with ethically compromised individuals who have embraced a hostility to American labor, while wrapping themselves in a veneer of wokeness to cover the depth of their corruption and self-serving behavior.

I periodically like to highlight examples of this America-last, corporate corruption. Here is another example:

This scandal has already taken down one Goodyear executive, Mamatha Chamarthi. The company’s CEO, Mark Stewart, has not yet resigned, even though he is in the thick of the scandal. He needs to be dismissed by Goodyear’s Board of Directors. (But of course, the Board probably think they work for him, not vice versa.) Here is what happened:

• CEO Mark Stewart hired Mamatha Chamarthi as Goodyear’s “Chief Digital Officer” in 2024. Under Ms. Chamarthi’s direction, Goodyear is aggressively outsourcing jobs to India, with the full blessing of the CEO.

“Tech Mahindra to build 3,000-member GCC for Goodyear” [Outsource Accelerator – 02/10/2025]

Tech Mahindra, one of India’s leading IT services companies, is finalizing plans to establish a global capability center (GCC) for Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co in Hyderabad. The center, expected to employ 3,000 professionals, will focus on managing Goodyear’s research and development (R&D) and IT operations.

It goes without saying that Hyderabad is not in Ohio. It’s in India.

• Ms. Chamarthi is also the co-founder of T200, an organization with a goal of “Empowering Women in Technology.”

• Accenture is a company that specializes in providing outsourcing services and consultation, with a special focus on outsourcing jobs to India. Accenture is a potential contractor for Goodyear’s outsourcing contracts. The CEO of Accenture is Julie Sweet.

• A few weeks ago, T200 held its “Soar 2025” conference at Accenture headquarters in Chicago. Two of the three featured speakers at the T200 conference were Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and Goodyear CEO Mark Stewart.

• At the conclusion of the seminar, T200 put up a post at Linked-In that read, ”Thank you Julie Sweet and Accenture for your generous donation to T200.”

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Still Life with Three Puppies
Paul Gauguin

The main page version is from the museum. The clickable version is from WikiArt. They are different!

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The Morning Report — 11/7/25

Good morning kids. At long last there is at least a very small ray of light after the shattering darkness of the reality which smacked us upside the head this past Tuesday. Nancy Pelosi who for sure is among the most despicable political figures in modern if not all of American history ever to blight the landscape of our once great Republic and rapidly degenerating society is retiring after 40 years in office! That alone is an indicator of how messed up our government is. The latter due in no small part to her presence and malign influence that has dragged us to the very precipice of destruction. Hyperbole? Take a look around and examine everything we have lived through and continue to suffer from during her tenure as House speaker and Democrat Party prime mover.

Mostly, though, Pelosi helped Trump win his historic second-term comeback in 2024 by backing Joe Biden and his disastrous policies, everything from open borders to appeasing Iran to vaccine mandates and all the terrible choices that led to record inflation. Worse still was her role in the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline and her immediate endorsement of Kamala Harris to take Biden’s place in the 2024 presidential election, which meant no primary for the so-called pro-democracy party.

Above all, Pelosi was so polarizing and divisive that throughout her role on the national stage after becoming House Speaker in 2007, she was not only one of the most consistently unpopular politicians in the country, but she also helped the GOP raise money like no one else.

Bye, Nancy. You won’t be missed. Enjoy your ice cream and Scrooge McDuck pile of unearned money.

Most egregious was her role indirectly and in my view directly of the chaos that ensued on 1/6/21 at the Capitol first by her refusing to allow President Trump to call out the troops to secure DC and then in her role as the chief of the Capitol Police, whose ineptitude and or intentional actions allowed the ensuing civil disturbance to escalate to a point where two innocent women, Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland wound up dead at the hands of her officers and other unknown law enforcement agents. This allowed her and her ilk to transmogrify the events into a charge of insurrection against Trump and to brand him and his voters as dangerous, treasonous, racist Nazis, fascists and traitors, etc. etc. All of which has escalated to the point where she and her party and their base now have a license to commit literal murder and terrorist acts because they view themselves as defenders of democracy and us as an existential evil to be eradicated. Three attempts on Trump and one successful take down of Charlie Kirk, plus the weaponization of our Judiciary, intel and LE agencies as instruments of political repression against anyone and everyone who opposes the Democrat Party and its rule.

I assert that the events of 1/6/21 were engineered in part by Pelosi, Obama and a cabal that included Brennan, Clapper, Comey and the cadre of power-mad tyrants who engineered the Russia Collusion hoax, aided and abetted by cops on the take, then prosecutors and judges who collectively became the American Gestapo and Gulag commandants and guards of the J-6 political prisoners.

Of course now, the Democrat Party is openly bust-out proudly Democrat/Soy-cialist/Islamist nearly to the point of being the closest thing to Ba'athist that we have yet encountered — and unless and until there is a radical (ironic that word) change of course in our society, it will only get worse from here.

So why is Pelosi ankling? Does she sense her own physical mortality or is it that she thinks she may be targeted for termination by the Titty-Caca up and comers that she herself had an outsized role in creating in the first place.

And here I thought I was bringing a ray of sunshine, instead of micturating in your cornflakes.

Like Zohran Mamdani, Scott Wiener is the frightening face of a new Democratic Party, in which letting children get transgender surgeries is just the tip of the iceberg. From letting the state take gay kids away from their parents to legalizing pedophilia, Wiener makes even the most radical member of Congress look like a moderate. . .In the Golden State, Wiener has pushed socially seismic policies that allow male sex offenders live in female prisons if they claim to be transgender, to exempt gay sex offenders from the state registry if the minor is at least 14 and within a 10-year age gap, and to make California a “haven” for out-of-state kids to come for sex changes without their parents’ consent.

Just as a reminder that Islam was founded by a megalomaniacal, bloodthirsty savage pedophile. And Islam is a growing factor in the Democrat party. If the Bro-Fo Omars and Rancida Tlaibs weren't a wakeup call then for sure this Mamdani cancer in NYC ought to be.

whether Weiner or someone else wins Pelosi's House seat, one thing is certain, with San Francisco the modern equivalent of Sodom on the Pacific, and now with California slated to get at least 5 more House seats which thanks to Newsom's Prop 50 will likely be all Democrat. The only question is will they be Stalinist or merely Trotskyite? So Pelosi is gone, but the Democrat bench is ugly dark and deep.

There are many conclusions to be drawn from resounding Democrat victories in Tuesday’s elections, but perhaps none is sadder than this: the left suffered little blowback from the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In the aftermath of Kirk’s killing, there was a sense that it could be a momentous event in U.S. history, and a wake-up call for the right and the country as a whole. Not only had extreme anti-conservative rhetoric culminated in the murder of arguably the GOP’s brightest young star, but platforms like Bluesky and Reddit showcased the left immediately reveling in the gruesome shooting of an innocent man. .. Two months after the assassination, on Tuesday, Jay Jones was elected Virginia’s AG despite leaked text messages in which he fantasized about the violent death of a Republican lawmaker and that lawmaker’s “little fascist“ children. Jones’ candidacy was a morbid litmus test as to whether Kirk’s death created any significant ramifications for Democrats, with the results being a very clear “no.”
. . . The lack of fallout over Kirk’s assassination has proved once again that the left is vastly more adept at following Rahm Emmanuel’s famous advice never to let tragedies go to waste. Kirk’s death, politically speaking, was a blip compared to George Floyd’s, for instance. The date Kirk was slain is not common knowledge, unlike that of the Capitol riots, which have been forever branded in the public memory, 9-11 style, as “January 6.”

. . . The devastating irony is that Kirk would have been the first Republican to realize that the party needed to respond aggressively to his murder and leverage it to force a change in Democratic behavior. He would have recognized the opportunity to continue pushing the issue until Democrats were held accountable for both their rhetoric leading up to the fatal shot and the widespread, disgusting reactions by their base during the aftermath. Instead, in Kirk’s absence, the GOP dropped the ball and allowed the event to exit the news cycle without any major consequences for Democrats. By failing to draw a line even at murder, Republicans have left an open question as to where the boundary is for the left, or whether one even exists.

First of all, and it's no excuse, "the news cycle" is controlled by some of the loudest cheerleaders of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Second forget the GOP, but how are we as a people supposed to respond to not only Kirk's slaughter at the hands of Pelosi and her ilk's minions when even when we peacefully show up to protest what we feel was a stolen election or the continued slaughter of babies in utero we wind up tarred and feathered as Nazis and worse, in prison, the hospital or in Kirk's case an early grave.

If we not only cannot seek redress as guaranteed by our Constitutional first amendment rights, or in what is supposed to be the fairest most impartial judicial system yet seen by humanity, then we as a society are lost and when just the opposite happens, that the state or those who wield its power and its supporters are seen as above the law and the arbiters of what is and what is not legal then we as a society are finished, America is dead. Then all bets are off.

If as I pray with all my might we are not at that point and never get even close to it, then this situation cannot go on and must not go on. And what cannot go on, ultimately will not go on. After that, I can't see what the future holds, and I'm too damned scared to even hazard a guess.

Have a great weekend,

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

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Daily Tech News 7 November 2025

Top Story

• Why does so much new technology feel inspired by dystopian sci-fi movies? (New York Times) (archive site)
  
  You mean like Escape From New York?
  
  Because the people who wrote those movies were inspired by people, and people do dumb things.
  
  
  
• It's a cookbook. (CNBC) (archive site)

  Microsoft has formed a superintelligence team under AI chief Suleyman 'to serve humanity'.

  Hey, I've seen this one. It's a classic!
  

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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - November 6, 2025 [Doof]

Hello and welcome to the Thursday ONT! So glad you're here. Content has been provided. Do you care? Open thread, as always. Step on in!

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Thursday Night Cafe

Duntrune Castle, Scotland

Doggo lets it slip that the woman's husband always takes him to the pub.

Himalayan snow leopard.

Boom. My uncle, an Air Force master sergeant (or that sort of level of NCO), told me they called this "an unscheduled sunrise."

Cats. You can't stop 'em. You can't even contain 'em.

Alcohol was involved.

Neat. Unless it's AI. In which case it sucks.

Lambo look like the Bat-Lambo

Jealousy.

Dog resigns himself to bathtime.

Double golden retriever welcome.

Rescue dog goes to his first grooming, and is worried that his new master might leave him.

Oldie but a goodie: Buttermilk the rambunctious baby goat.

Pandas, Nature's Natural Acrobats.

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Republicans -- Get This -- Compromise With Democrats for CR

Before that, an update to the J6 pipe bomb story.

The story is on hold.

Steve Baker
@SteveBakerUSA

🚨Update on J6 Pipe Bomber Report🚨

After an abundance of counsel from trusted parties within and outside the government, we've hit the pause button so those interested parties can have some more time to look at the J6 pipe bomber evidence. There are things they need to do internally.

This is a real story. When it breaks, it's going to be a HUGE story. There are a lot of moving parts, but we need to give them time to do what they need to do, and I know everyone is waiting. Believe me. Tensions are running high. There have been a lot of sleepless nights the last two weeks. But this is a game-changer, and we don't want to do anything to jeopardize that right now.

I was up at 3:30 am preparing the video clips for the release on this morning's Glenn Beck Program. Contrary to what so many X complainers will say, this wasn't a hype stunt for views and clicks. And no, the government didn't silence us. Glenn and I both were pretty amped up to put it all out this morning. And we were both very disappointed when the decision to postpone was made.

The government's investigation into the J6 pipe bombs was going nowhere just two weeks ago. Today I can tell you that has all changed. A bunch of people got pretty spun up yesterday.

Hang tight. It's all coming.

DISAPPOINTED!!!!

Well, this is understandable. They are about to name a citizen as a criminal who has been sought (sort of...) by the feds for almost five years. The story can't just be dashed off like an internet post; it needs a full legal scub-down by defamation lawyers.

Still:

DISAPPOINTED!!!!

On to the story of Republicans caving.

Here's why Republicans are caving: Despite the fact that it is the Democrats keeping the government shut down, the propaganda media has convinced the cow-like public that it's the Republicans who are to blame.

If they do press on, if they do keep the government closed, Democrats will be acting with confidence that comes from a number of polls that show more people blame Republicans for the shutdown than blame the Democrats, who actually caused the impasse. Two polls out just before the election, one from the Washington Post and the other from NBC News, both found that more people blamed Republicans for the shutdown than blamed Democrats.

That seems odd, given the plain facts of the case: Democrats are filibustering the government-opening bill. But it makes more sense after looking at media coverage of the standoff. In a new report, the Media Research Center's NewsBusters studied broadcast newscasts for October and noted that "the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have hammered both congressional Republicans and President Trump with a wall of negative shutdown coverage, while largely shielding Democrats from blame for the now-historic gridlock."

"Coverage across all three networks was conspicuously vague about how the shutdown had even occurred," the MRC report continued. "There were only 12 instances in which any of the three outlets hinted that Senate Democrats had voted repeatedly against a continuing resolution." Just informally reading print coverage of the shutdown, it's interesting to note that many articles discussed the internal Republican debate on ending the filibuster but did not specifically say the reason for the debate is that Senate Democrats are employing the filibuster to block a government funding bill that has majority support.

This must be because the GOP isn't anti-Israel enough. (According to Israel obsessives on the pseudoright.)

We're going to be delivering them a win in exchange for opening the government:

Andrew Desiderio
@AndrewDesiderio

THUNE told Senate Republicans to plan to stay here this weekend & that he'll tee up the House-passed CR for a vote TOMORROW -- but he said he was unsure if enough Dems would back it.

60+ would need to get on the bill and then amend

To the point about GOP skepticism -- Dems likely wouldn't provide the votes to advance the House-passed CR until there's clarity on *what* the final deal actually is.

CR end-date is still not ironed out, for example. And Dems demanding RIF language after R's expressed openness

I believe RIF means "Reduction in Force." Democrats want to force Trump to hire back all the useless leftwing bureaucrats fired by DOGE. Or maybe just fired during the shutdown. (But did we actually fire anyone during the shutdown, or did we just threaten to?)

How many we're agreeing to, I don't know.

Andrew Desiderio
@AndrewDesiderio

MORE -- Dems came to consensus that they should hold out a bit longer (i.e. block Fri procedural vote) to try to extract more from GOP, such as language on RIFs (which R’s injected into the convo)

Belief is they can get a better deal & shouldn’t fold for what’s currently on table

Early on, some R's privately grumbled about RIFs and blue-state funding freezes because Dems would likely use it as a bargaining chip in a deal to get out of the shutdown.

That is in fact what's happening

Byron York
@ByronYork

Bad precedent: Democrats will be rewarded for shutting down the government. Republicans did not insist on hard line. And biased media coverage helps shield Democrats from the consequences of what they have done

Well, if this just means that Trump will hire back people he fired during the shutdown and undo the funding freezes he imposed during the shutdown -- that's not catastrophic.

Look, let's be serious: Those were always bargaining points, intended to be leverage and ultimately bargained away.

If that's the price of opening the government and paying the troops and air-traffic controllers, shrug.

If that's all it is.

Democrats have also demanded that they be given a vote on spending taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens and extending the supposed "emergency" Obamacare subsidies Biden enacted.

But here's the rub: The deal they want is that that stuff would not require a 60-vote cloture vote to come to a vote, but would proceed directly to a vote where all you need is 51 votes.

Murkowski, Collins, Bill Cassidy and I'm sure a couple of other fake Republicans would then deliver Democrats their victory.

That would be a huge concession.

The Democrats never gave us anything.

The Republicans, of course, make concessions to terrorists.

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"We Must Stop Fighting, We Cannot Divide the Right*"
* "Except for Tucker Carlson Who Is Allowed to Continue #Cancelling All Jewish Republicans He Doesn't Like"

David Strom has a good piece: How can the Tucker Apologists claim that we mustn't attack Tucker Carlson for his, erm, evolution, while his entire show consists of relentlessly attacking Republicans himself?

Is it just some Republicans -- and anti-Republican, anti-MAGA Nazis -- who are afforded this Identitarian Privilege?

Is it, or should it be true that in order to win, we should follow the principle that there are "no enemies to the right?"

On its face, the principle makes sense. After all, elections are won by adding together enough voters and voting blocs to get a plurality of the vote. Unless you have more voters than the other side(s), you lose. So if you see a group of voters who might be persuaded to vote along with you, it makes sense to either appeal to them or, at the very least, not criticize them.

This is the essence of some conservatives' arguments that the critiques of Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts are counterproductive. Some would toss Candace Owens into the mix, but fewer because she now just seems kooky to people.

At least I hope so.

There are a number of problems I see with this seemingly plausible argument, morally, intellectually, and electorally, where the rubber meets the road.

First, let's get this out of the way: Nick Fuentes is not a conservative, nor is he somebody who could (at least reliably) be included in the Republican coalition even if we wanted him to be. He is a racist, authoritarian, antisemitic bottom feeder who says he is on "Team Hitler," admires Josef Stalin, attacks JD Vance for marrying his wife, and who literally campaigned against Donald Trump in the last election.

He's not only a scumbag, but he spends a lot of time trying to kick people OUT OF the Republican coalition because they don't fit his model for what America should look like.

Anybody who says "no enemies on the right has to explain why this is not a declaration of enmity TO the right:

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The Blaze: We've Identified the J6 Pipe Bomber and It's a Government Worker at a Three-Letter Agency

Intel Report Daily
@TruthNinja316

🚨J6 PIPE BOMBER HAS LIKELY BEEN IDENTIFIED🚨
The person responsible for planting the pipe bombs has been ID'd. They are a female. They are from a 3 letter agency. They did work for Capitol Police. I know the name but can't name the person out of respect for the person who worked this story masterfully... @SteveBakerUSA

The "lead suspect" is a woman, and high government official.

Here's the Blaze story from yesterday:

'She's one of us!' Steve Baker stuns Glenn Beck with bombshell revelation about J6 pipe-bomb suspect

Joseph MacKinnon
November 05, 2025

Beck indicated that the suspect will be named as soon as the relevant agencies have 'battened down the hatches.'

Blaze News investigative reporters Steve Baker and Joseph Hanneman have spent years working to identify the masked individual who placed pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021.

Baker, whom the Biden FBI arrested over his January 6 reporting, revealed to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Wednesday that they have finally locked in on a suspect. What's more, Baker hinted that the suspect's imminent identification will implicate and shame at least one federal agency.

Baker told Beck, "When I pulled this thread, I was so shocked by what I saw, I immediately took it to a source in one of the most important, highest-level investigative federal agencies in the country. I immediately took it to our sources there, and I said, 'You have to see this.'"

"After they looked at it for about two hours, the response that I got back was, 'Holy F,'" continued Baker. "And then the follow-up response was, 'She's one of us!'"

When pressed by Beck about his confidence level in the suspect ID, Baker said, "I will tell you that from gait analysis -- that's the analysis of the hoodied bomber ... compared to the gait analysis of this individual in private life and at work -- that the actual software hit at a 94% accuracy."

"Human analysis from the experts in intelligence is much higher," continued Baker. "They looked at it and went, 'My God, that's it. We got it.'"

In the below interview, Glen Beck says the Blaze will publish the story... tomorrow. And since these were posted yesterday, that means "today." But I don't see an update at the Blaze.

Is this real? I dunno. I have heard rumblings that the bomber has been identified for a few months. I wasn't told who it was, just that a researcher knew who it was and was absolutely confident in her belief. I only mention that as the teensiest, tiniest little scrap of information that suggests that maybe this is real. (It's very weak confirmation, but it's all I have.)

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Jeffrey Epstein's Former Cellmate Alleges: James Comey's Daughter, Federal Prosecutor Maureen Comey, Said That I Could Walk Free If I Falsely Claimed That Epstein Implicated Trump in His Pedo Schemes

Allegedly, per this admittedly-convicted criminal, James Comey's nasty, ugly daughter promised that he would skate if he could make any allegation against Trump. She further said, allegedly, that it did not matter if he could provide evidence that the allegation was true. All that mattered was that Trump would be unable to disprove it.

The former cellmate of infamous financier Jeffrey Epstein has claimed that Epstein said New York federal prosecutors had offered him a deal if Epstein agreed to implicate Donald Trump, then serving his first presidential term.

Epstein, who was arrested on child sex-trafficking charges in July of 2019, was transferred to the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan and shared a cell with former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, who at that time was awaiting trial. Tartaglione was eventually convicted on a quadruple-murder charge, while Epstein died in the jail a month after being arrested.

In a pardon application obtained by the New York Post, Tartaglione wrote, "Prosecutors ... told Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Epstein's crimes he would walk free."

"Epstein told me that [lead prosecutor] Maurene Comey said that he didn't have to prove anything, as long as President Trump's people could not disprove it. According to Maurene Comey, the FBI were 'her people, not his [President Trump's]," the filing stated.

Tartaglione added in his petition that Epstein told him "President Trump was not involved in Epstein's crimes."

Now, remember, jailhouse testimony is notoriously unreliable and people will say anything in hopes of currying favor from whoever is in a position to set them free.

Still... worth investigating, I would say.

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Migrants Offer the Cultural Enrichment of Stalking Women and Demanding Sex

Also, curing cancer.

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Trump Strikes Deal With Big Pharma to Reduce *American* Prices for Weight Loss Drugs Ozempic and Mounjaro

Well, with all of the angst about the economy and Trump spending too much focus on foreign policy, I guess this is helpful.

Supposedly, the price would drop, eventually, to $245 per month for those paying cash. We'll see.

U.S. President Donald Trump, Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk unveiled a deal on Thursday to slash the prices of popular GLP-1 weight‑loss drugs for the government's Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as for cash payers.

The move is aimed at increasing access to the treatments through U.S. Medicare for people aged 65 and over and the Medicaid program for low-income people, which together provide healthcare coverage for nearly half of all Americans.

U.S. patients currently pay by far the most for prescription medicines, often nearly three times more than in other developed nations, and Trump has been pressuring drugmakers to lower their prices to what patients pay elsewhere.

"GLP-1s have been top of mind and not just because of the cardiometabolic benefits that they provide, but also because it is an issue of fairness and utilization and pricing and access and affordability for the American people," an administration official told reporters.

Starter doses of rival weight‑loss pills being developed by Lilly and Novo, if approved, will cost $149 per month for all Medicare and Medicaid enrollees and via the White House's new direct-to-consumer site, TrumpRx, senior administration officials said.

For currently available injectable GLP-1s used for diabetes and other covered health issues, prices would fall to $245 per month for patients with Medicare or Medicaid, they said.

On TrumpRx, the average price of injectables and pills will start at or below $350 monthly and is expected to trend downward to $245 within two years.

I tried to get on Mounjaro. The cost was something obscene like $1400 per month, but you could sign up for a coupon and "only" pay $550 or something.

$350 would be expensive but, I guess, obtainable.

Think about all the money I'd save on Ho-Ho's.

In Medicare, patients' co-pays will be capped at $50 a month, officials said.
Commercial health insurers would also be able to access prices estimated to be 25% lower than current cash prices, they said.

The government will also expand coverage for GLP-1s under the deal, officials said, to overweight patients with prediabetes or heart problems, obese patients with comorbidities and severely obese patients, accounting for 10% of Medicare patients.

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Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants, Who Boomers Know as "Nancy Pelosi," Finally Retires

I mean, this was obvious, but when Pedophile Enabler Scott Wiener announced he was running for Nancy Pelosi's seat, it was pretty obvious that Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants had put out the word among her Closest Groomer Friends that she was going to retire. The Twink Groomer Friend of All Pedophiles Scott Wiener would not have had the balls to challenge her if she were running again.

Granny Rictus sure made a lot of millions of dollars trading with inside information during her 40 year career.

C3
@C_3C_3

1987-2025

$240,000,000 million made as a "public servant".

Criminal.

Nice grift if you can get it.

Now she's got a nice huge nest egg.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she won't seek re-election at the end of her current term, ending a roughly four-decade career in Congress for the key Democratic power player who had been the first female speaker.

"I want you, my fellow San Franciscans, to be the first to know I will not be seeking re-election to Congress," Pelosi, 85, said in a video message to her constituents.

You already told your Pedophile Advocate successor Scott Wiener.

The Golden State Democrat had faced speculation this week that she was planning to announce her plans to skip re-election following Tuesday's off-year elections.

The New York Times gushes about this "powerful woman:"

Representative Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday that she will retire when her term concludes in early 2027, ending a remarkable career in which she rose to become one of the most powerful women in American history.

Ms. Pelosi, 85, was the nation's first and only female House speaker, and she will have represented San Francisco in Congress for 39 years when she leaves office. She has served during an era of seismic change for American society and her own city, from the throes of the AIDS crisis to the legalization of gay marriage, and through the meteoric rise of the tech sector and the nation's extreme polarization.

She entered political office later in life and became a hero to Democrats for the way she wielded immense power to push Obamacare, climate change legislation and infrastructure programs through Congress.

"With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative," she told her constituents in a nearly six-minute video posted on X early Thursday morning, with clips of San Francisco's iconic cable cars and colorful Victorian homes flashing in the background.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The two sides of the coin that is President Donald Trump was on full display two days ago. His amazing ability to motivate and energize an otherwise detached electorate -- when he is on the ballot -- and his equally amazing ability to infuriate and motivate the Democrats.

And that's where JD Vance has a tremendous opportunity. As the presumptive front-runner for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, He has the next two years, before the 2028 campaign begins in earnest, to create a persona as "The Anti-Trump." But not on policy, where the President and he are in broad agreement. No, it will be in tone, presentation, and image.

Donald Trump's bombast and hyperbole is an integral part of his public face, and in most cases it works to heighten awareness of the topic at hand and, frankly, to pique the interest of disinterested potential voters. But it also raises the hackles of his implacable enemies and, frankly, can blur the message. But that message is vital...love of America, respect for the working man, the desire for American industry to be unequaled, and for his beloved country to be a safe, prosperous, and happy place, with secure borders, a powerful military that is rarely used, a vibrant domestic economy, and the probability of upward mobility for most.

Is JD Vance any different? No, of course not. That message, until recently, would have been completely unexceptional, were it not for the shambling wreck of the Democrat/progressive movement dragging us into 3rd World territory.

But without the lightning rod that is Donald Trump, the Democrats, who can get their compliant flocks frothing at the mouth by the mere mention of the President's name, will lose a powerful recruiting and motivational tool. And the more JD Vance can separate himself from Donald Trump's unique personality, the weaker the Democrat strategy will be when directed at him. Thus the suggestion that he becomes the "Anti-Trump."

Trump Has the Entire Room Laughing as He Pokes Fun at JD Vance

The president then turned to Vice President Vance, quipping, “Why don’t you act like that? JD doesn’t behave like that. JD butts into conversations. I wanna have that for at least a couple of days. Okay, JD? We’ll keep you long term, but a couple of days of that would be very, very nice.”

This is exactly the way that JD Vance can create the image of an independent and powerful executive who is more than happy to confront Donald Trump if necessary, but will always be measured and calm in public.

Hyperbole is the politician's stock in trade, but with a thoughtful and quiet delivery, JD Vance can create distance from Donald Trump that will still allow him to communicate the broad strokes of an America First policy. It will also neuter the Democrat shock troops, who operate on rage and adrenaline. Three more years of Donald Trump will, hopefully, leave them exhausted, and the American people bored with their unending, unthinking, and hysterical responses to everything that the President does or says.

Yes, I am a fan of JD Vance. Will he be the nominee? Who knows! But the bench is reasonably deep, so if he fails to secure the nomination, I am confident that there are others who will be good candidates, especially with the possibility of Governor Hair Gel Newsom as the Democrat candidate, with all of California's miserable baggage piled high around him!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Two Sisters
John D. Graham

At closing time, they were beautiful

-- 2009Refugee

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The Morning Report — 11/6/25

Good morning kids. Of course the main story remains the fallout over his past Tuesday's Election Day insanity. Yes, the most high profile race was of course New York City deciding that a full on Bloodthirsty communist Jihadist was the ideal choice to be mayor. Other significant races included the passage of California's gerrymandering law that will effectively eliminate five GOP congressional seats and Virginia electing a thug with homicidal fantasies as its top law enforcement officer.

On the latest episode of the podcast both CBD and I marveled at how our nation and society could have come to this pass.

what I cannot understand are the mixed signals whereby we have all kinds of polls and indicators that younger generations are turning away from the Democrat Left "brand" as it were and that in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination many seem to be returning to traditional religion and church, rejecting wokeism and on and on and on. And yet there are polls (yeah, I know) showing that the aforementioned youths are embracing socialism with a vengeance, of course not really knowing or understanding it's bloody legacy and toll of human life approaching over 200 million in little more than a century. Of course this goes hand in hand with the brainwashing and malediction and inculcation of hatred of country and society.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with a foiled Halloween terror plot, according to a law enforcement source. The individuals, identified as Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal and Milo Sederat, were taken into custody on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation that could lead to additional arrests. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau assisted federal authorities in locating and apprehending the suspects. It remains unclear whether the two are among the unnamed co-conspirators mentioned in earlier court documents.
  Feds Catch Two More in ISIS-Linked Halloween Plot.
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats wield chaos as a strategy, overwhelming voters with nonstop turmoil that obscures blame and rallies key groups—leaving Republicans scrambling to counter before the clock runs out.
  Does the Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Work?

• In case you hadn't noticed how brazen far-left Democrats have become since President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, allow me to introduce you to a woman who previously admitted that she was living in the U.S. illegally and who just won an election to become the next mayor of St. Paul, Minn. The left isn't even hiding the fact that illegals are participating in our political/governmental systems anymore. 
  Illegal Immigrant Wins Mayoral Election in Major City

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Daily Tech News 6 November 2025

Top Story

• A survey has found that 72% of game developers say Steam is effectively a monopoly in the PC gaming market. (TechSpot)
  
  No it hasn't.

  In a survey of over 300 executives from large US and UK game companies, 72% either slightly or strongly agreed that Steam constitutes a monopoly over PC games.

  So by "developers" you mean... Not developers.

  Many customers are so adamant about only purchasing games through Steam that the industry's largest publishers, including EA, Ubisoft, and even Microsoft, have tried - and failed - to withhold their titles from the service.

  Because Steam works. The competitors less so.
  
  The one standout is GOG, which gets in your way even less than Steam.

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - November 5, 2025 [TRex]

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

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb fodder and mystery clicks. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: Lost River Butcher Block, Lost River, West Virginia]

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