October 23, 2025
The Morning Report — 10/23/25
So far, Linda McMahon's work as DoE Secretary along with President Trump's putting the screws to such vipers' nests of America and Jew-hatred as Harvard have been praiseworthy and long overdue. But there is still much work to be done, because the Molotov cocktails don't make themselves nor are lit and hurled at ICE and cops all by themselves. Once again, to quote the great Rogers and Hammerstein, You've got to be carefully taught
And while we're on the subject
On a not completely unrelated note given the greatest threat to the stability and continued existence of whatever remnants of he American Republic still remain and function as intended are the combined political thuggery of Democrat politicians and policy, the corruption now systemic and endemic in the unelected unaccountable bureaucracy and our legal/judicial system and the physical thuggery and violence of the aforementioned's openly violent base — I give you this item:
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The Trump administration has agreed to cancel billions of dollars in federal student loan debt for as many as 2.5 million borrowers, following a federal court settlement in the case American Federation of Teachers (AFT) v. U.S. Department of Education. The settlement, filed on October 17, reinstates loan forgiveness provisions tied to income-driven repayment (IDR) programs, including Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR), Pay As You Earn (PAYE), and Income-Based Repayment (IBR). These plans cap monthly payments based on income and household size, and forgive remaining balances after 20 to 25 years of qualifying payments.The agreement comes after the AFT sued the Trump administration in March 2025, claiming it had unlawfully reversed Joe Biden-era loan forgiveness initiatives. According to the lawsuit, the Department of Education, under President Trump, removed IDR enrollment applications from federal websites and directed servicers to stop processing new enrollments and forgiveness applications. The AFT argued that this violated federal law by denying borrowers access to debt relief guaranteed by Congress.“For nearly a decade, the AFT has fought for the rights of student loan borrowers to be freed from the shackles of unjust debt—and today, a huge part of that affordability fight was vindicated,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten in a statement. “Our agreement means that borrowers stuck in limbo can either get immediate relief or finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. And, crucially, they won’t ever get taxed on that relief.Yes, this was a lawsuit and was wending its way through our highly corrupted judicial system, but shouldn't President Trump have stuck to his guns? is his settling a sell out. I certainly did not vote for this and as we all were, disgusted in the extreme over having to bail out deadbeats whose education in the main consisted of being indoctrinated by Marxists, perverts, anti-Semites, and heathens intent on dismantling this nation and society and the past 2,000 to 10,000 years of human advancement and development. I like that "Freed from the shackles of unjust debt." If only Weingarten were in fron of me so I can direct my projectile voimitus directly down her filthy pie hole. When little Susie or Johnny or their bastard-producing parents sign on the dotted line for that loan, It's not the moral equivalent of Luca Brazzi holding a gun to Johnny Fontaine's manager's head and Vito Corleone assuring them that either their signature or their brains will be on that paper.
So far, Linda McMahon's work as DoE Secretary along with President Trump's putting the screws to such vipers' nests of America and Jew-hatred as Harvard have been praiseworthy and long overdue. But there is still much work to be done, because the Molotov cocktails don't make themselves nor are lit and hurled at ICE and cops all by themselves. Once again, to quote the great Rogers and Hammerstein, You've got to be carefully taught
. . . Education departments in every state are on radical autopilot when they make social studies standards. Americans expect blue states to use their state social studies standards to impose identity politics ideology and action civics (vocational training in progressive activism) on schools and students, strip out factual content, and ignore or slander the history of Western civilization and America, and call it “social studies instruction” — that’s what you get in states such as Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Minnesota. But radical activists embedded in state education departments do the same thing in red states whenever policymakers and citizens aren’t looking. That’s what just happened in Alaska. . . The Alaska Social Studies Standards (2024), produced by Alaska’s Department of Education and Early Development, avoided the worst of the blue-state social studies standards’ extreme politicization, unprofessional vocabulary, and ideologically extreme content. That’s because there’s hardly any historical content. The standards’ absences include basic facts of American history, much of how our government works, and our foundational documents of liberty. The standards also introduced substantial new amounts of politicized material.
And while we're on the subject
48-page report released in September exposes the depth of the nation’s teachers’ unions’ hostility toward all things Jewish. “Breaking Solidarity: How Anti-Semitic Activists Turned Teacher Unions Against Israel,” published by the Defense of Freedom Institute in September, explains how unions have worked to embed anti-Semitism into K–12 education. . . While the NEA handbook fails to mention the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, it manages to criticize Israel and Jews by promoting “Palestinian Nakba Education,” explaining that “the Nakba, meaning catastrophe in Arabic, refers to the forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the establishment of the state of Israel.” Additionally, there was harassment and intimidation of Jews at the NEA Representative Assembly held in July. Jewish educators who spoke out against a resolution that proposed to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League were shouted down during the proceedings. Just over a week after the assembly’s conclusion, the executive committee of the NEA’s Jewish Affairs Caucus published a chilling letter to NEA President Becky Pringle, reporting that Jewish delegates attending the gathering “were vocally mocked, harassed, and threatened in ways that dishonor our union.”Wait until they find out that Randi Weingarten is Jewish. Well, she's more Ish than Jew, but still.
On a not completely unrelated note given the greatest threat to the stability and continued existence of whatever remnants of he American Republic still remain and function as intended are the combined political thuggery of Democrat politicians and policy, the corruption now systemic and endemic in the unelected unaccountable bureaucracy and our legal/judicial system and the physical thuggery and violence of the aforementioned's openly violent base — I give you this item:
"On September 4," the narrative went on page 10, "a PPB officer reported seeing several older homeless people being coerced into approaching the ICE facility gate." Interesting. "Coerced" into doing something. As in being ordered to do something against their will?This revolting story reminds of something an uncle of mine, now of blessed memory, told me of his experience at the hands of the Nazis and later among the Ukrainian partisans. When they learned he was a Jew fleeing Nazi captivity, they dragooned him into being a mine detector. No, they did not issue him with electronic gear but they gave him a long stick and ordered him at gunpoint to walk in front of their column on the road and start poking at the ground. If he blew up, as was the fate of many of his compatriots, then "mine detected." And yet it's President Trump and all of us who support him that are the Nazis, fascists and racists. Antifa: so anti-fascist that they are surprisingly (not) expert and eager utilizers of fascistic tactics across the spectrum. If we do not completely dismantle and reconstruct the brainwashing mills of Pre-K through Post-Graduate into bastions of real learning as well as high temples of Western andJudeo/Christian morals and ethics, then we have no hope. How we are to do that without employing the most dare I say it "radical" of solutions, is the question. But what must be done, must be done, and yesterday!!!
Well, yes. The 9th Circuit Court’s recitation of the facts continued: “The instigators told these people that they should create a distraction or simply rattle the gate,” the court noted. And it wasn't just some crackhead or tweaker telling the story. Indeed, the narrators of this story were the very same Portland Police Bureau officers who have been told not to help ICE keep the peace. The cops were dropping dime on Antifa, using homeless people to ... get arrested. . . "[PPB] Officers confirmed this was happening by watching 'the instigators escorting different [older homeless people] up to the gate,'” the opinion read. And what were these "older homeless people" supposed to do? Why, they were told to "just come up to the gate and rattle it." To accomplish what, exactly? Well, the feds wanted to know. The opinion continued, "FPS took custody of an elderly man after he asked federal officers" watching the gate, who begged officers to be able to "just come up to the gate and rattle it so the antifa instigators would leave him and others alone.”
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats cry “No Kings” while wielding royal power—raiding rivals, silencing dissent, and crowning heirs without a single vote.
Who Are the Real Kings?
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Daily Tech News 23 October 2025
Top Story
- A statement on superintelligence. (Superintelligence Statement)
These people are idiots. Or at least, suffering from an epidemic of Engineer's Disease.
If you outlaw AI that actually works, only outlaws will have AI that actually works.
And nobody is working in superintelligent AI because nobody is working on intelligent AI.
- Meta is laying off 600 people from its AI team. (CNBC) (archive site)
Certainly not those guys.
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October 22, 2025
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - October 22, 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 debris. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM | Comments (299) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Stop Touching Me Cafe
The Wynding, Bamburgh, Northumbria
Jim Scott Photography
Stray dog enjoys a pet from a stranger. Dog will not be denied his assigned place in the bed. Me every Humpday Night. A duet in NYC, before it sinks finally into Hell. Before our ancestors got a hold of them, they used to be wolves. Sickly stray dog is the prettiest girl now. Dog likes kisses so much that it gets weird, not gonna lie. From a while ago: Dog gets caught outside, rings the Ring doorbell to awaken his masters. Just a cat feeling up a dog. Second base. Canine commando crawl. Dog wants to play ball-ball. Poor dog is never gonna get him to throw that ball. Senior dog still loves at a second-grade level. Owl photobomb. Cats sleep like wacked-out mobsters in old-timey crime scene photos. I have experienced this particular hell. Dog is A+++ at hunting and catching raindrops. He pushed this cat too far. The only AI assistant I would trust with this blog. Pig knows his destiny. Knocking off time.
The Wynding, Bamburgh, Northumbria
Jim Scott Photography
Stray dog enjoys a pet from a stranger. Dog will not be denied his assigned place in the bed. Me every Humpday Night. A duet in NYC, before it sinks finally into Hell. Before our ancestors got a hold of them, they used to be wolves. Sickly stray dog is the prettiest girl now. Dog likes kisses so much that it gets weird, not gonna lie. From a while ago: Dog gets caught outside, rings the Ring doorbell to awaken his masters. Just a cat feeling up a dog. Second base. Canine commando crawl. Dog wants to play ball-ball. Poor dog is never gonna get him to throw that ball. Senior dog still loves at a second-grade level. Owl photobomb. Cats sleep like wacked-out mobsters in old-timey crime scene photos. I have experienced this particular hell. Dog is A+++ at hunting and catching raindrops. He pushed this cat too far. The only AI assistant I would trust with this blog. Pig knows his destiny. Knocking off time.
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Latrine John-Pissoir's Book Tour Is a Disaster (Which Only Makes Sense Because Latrine John-Pissoir Is a Disaster)
"Her" "book," which is a disaster, is already in identity crisis.
To sell to the public, you need to promise that you're going to deliver "the real insider story" to the public. Kamala Harris pretended she was going to deliver the real insider story, and then delivered nothing but the usual spin she offers for free. Latrine John-Pissoir's book is titled, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House. The problem is that this title is clearly fabricated by the publisher to sell books and does not reflect the actual content of the book. Because Latrine John-Pissoir's " look inside" is the same look she offered us from the podium day after day after day: behind the scenes, Joe Biden was forming human pyramids with Bulgarian acrobats and solving three-dimensional matrices in his mind. People -- even identity-politics-besotted woke leftists -- aren't going to pay for the same spin that they already had a bellyfull of for free, so the publisher subtitled the book "A Look Inside a Broken White House." Suggesting we're going to read about the Biden White House being broken, from an insider's perspective. Fooled you! The only thing that's broken about the Biden White House is the public's mistaken impression of Joe Biden, and the Democrats' betrayal of Biden.Posted by: Ace at 06:24 PM | Comments (204) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Left-Wing Tiger Beat Murderer Luigi Mangione Was Beaten Up by Seven "Lady Boys" on a Thailand Trip Months Before He Killed the UnitedHealthCare CEO
Plus: Susan Collins' Challenger Has a Nazi Tattoo
Plus: Susan Collins' Challenger Has a Nazi Tattoo
Did Luigi get a blow to the head after blowing a ladyboy?
Unrelated, but, in a way, completely related: The would-be challenger to Susan Collins, a Democrat who admitted that he's a "communist" and who hates the country and all "white people" in his many lunatic Reddit postings, turns out to have a Nazi SS "Totenkopf" skull tattoo on his left moob. He says he was "very inebriated" when he got the Nazi tattoo. Yeah, that should cover it.
Luigi Mangione was roughed up by a group of transgender women during a wild night out in Thailand in the months before he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new report claims. The 27-year-old accused assassin allegedly bragged to friends over WhatsApp about his raucous nightlife backpacking through Asia before he returned to the US in July 2024 and allegedly shot Thompson that December, the New York Times reported Tuesday. In one eyebrow-raising message, Mangione claimed he had been beaten up by seven "ladyboys" -- a colloquial term for transgender women -- in Bangkok and shared a photo of his battered and scratched arm, according to texts reviewed by the outlet. The Ivy League-educated tech whiz set off on a solo trip abroad in early 2024, befriending soccer player Christian Sacchini and an unidentified companion along the way. Sacchini, who met Mangione at a Bangkok pub in March, told the publication the accused killer initially talked about video games and Pokemon before veering into a rant about how "effed up" the US health care system is compared to Thailand.
"He couldn't believe it," Sacchini said of Mangione's shock at the low cost of an MRI in the Southeast Asian nation.
... Fellow travelers, locals, and Mangione's own notes suggest he went from craving human connection at the start of his trip to isolating himself, while obsessing over how to make a dramatic statement about injustice over insurance coverage, the Times reported.
Graham Platner, a Marine vet who's running for a US Senate seat in Maine, said he was "very inebriated" when he got a tattoo linked to Nazism while on leave in Croatia nearly 20 years ago and insists he's "not a secret Nazi." The liberal candidate, 41, went out of his way to disclose the controversial skull tattoo on the right side of his chest as he shared an embarrassing video that shows him singing in only briefs at a wedding celebration for his brother. The Democratic oyster farmer, in an apparent attempt to get ahead of bad press, said he was on leave with fellow Marines in Croatia in 2007 when he got the questionable ink, which appears to resemble the "Totenkopf" -- an image adopted as a symbol by Hitler's Schutzstaffel, or SS. "We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo," he explained on the "Pod Save America" show. "We chose a terrifying-looking skull and crossbones off the wall because we were Marines and, you know, skulls and crossbones are a pretty standard military thing, and we got those tattoos, and we all moved on with our lives," Platner explained.Is that story possible? Sure. But here's the thing: the left is still insisting that Musk gave a Nazi salute and that everyone who gives the okay sign is flashing a White Power symbol. So go f*** yourself, Nazi scum. By the way, the left tells me that it's just and righteous to punch a Nazi.
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Is This Something?
Almost 20 years ago, an animated video was released telling the world the real story of George Washington, who saved the children (but not the British children).
Angel Studios optioned that video and made a live-action movie about it.*Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM | Comments (301) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Illegal Alien Rams His Car Into a US Marshall Vehicle and Is Shot In Return
Unfortunately, a ricochet hit a Marshall in the hand. He's expected to recover.
The illegal alien turns out to be a TikToker with a long history of following around and stalking ICE agents. The Cultural Enricher was shot in the elbow which is too bad, really, because that was his cancer-curing elbow and who knows when he'll recover.
The illegal immigrant who was shot after allegedly ramming his car into federal agents in Los Angeles is a TikTok star famous for recording ICE arrests. Carlitos Ricardo Parias -- who was hit in the elbow Tuesday in a tense standoff where a US marshal was also shot -- is known as Richard LA on TikTok, where he has more than 130,000 followers, ABC 7 reported. He mostly follows ICE agents around Los Angeles, recording them detaining suspected illegal immigrants, getting him hundreds of thousands of views and likes. The 44-year-old TikTokker, who had reportedly escaped from custody on a previous occasion, allegedly rammed his Toyota Camry into law enforcement vehicles after agents boxed him in following a traffic stop on Tuesday, officials said. ... Parias was arrested and charged with assaulting a federal officer. He is scheduled to make his initial court appearance at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles on Wednesday and faces up to eight years in prison if convicted. Despite Parias being in the country illegally and accused of dangerously ramming agents, he was celebrated by Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price. "Richard is a pillar of our community, a fearless citizen journalist whose authentic storytelling has consistently uplifted the unheard voices of South Central Los Angeles," Price wrote in a statement.
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Japan Makes It Official and Confirms Trumpian Female Prime Minister
There's some good news in Bolivia too.
She had been elected head of the party in power a couple of weeks ago, but it was only yesterday that the Diet voted to make it official.
Japan has elected its first female prime minister -- and she's a staunch conservative. Sanae Takaichi, 64, a former TV broadcaster and longtime lawmaker known for her admiration of Margaret Thatcher, won a historic vote Tuesday to lead both the nation and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shattering a political ceiling that stood for more than seven decades. Takaichi captured 237 votes in Japan's 465-member lower house after her party secured a coalition agreement just one day earlier, cementing her position as leader of the country that has been governed by the LDP for nearly all of its postwar history. Takaichi's victory marks a decisive turn for Japan's right, as her government prepares to push for higher defense spending, potential tax reductions, and a return to nuclear energy amid growing regional threats and economic stagnation. She has been unapologetic in her traditional views, supporting male-only imperial succession, opposing same-sex marriage, and rejecting proposals for married couples to use separate surnames -- positions that have made her a hero among Japan's nationalist base. "I have always believed in the strength of Japan's traditions and the need to defend them," she said during her campaign. Her leadership is also expected to strengthen Tokyo's alliance with Washington. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump congratulated Takaichi for her victory in the LDP leadership race, calling it "tremendous news" and describing her as "a highly respected person of great wisdom and strength." Takaichi responded that she was "very pleased" by Trump's message and "hoping to work together to make our alliance even stronger and more prosperous." She has publicly pledged to honor an investment agreement made with the Trump administration, signaling stability in U.S.--Japan relations.
There's some good news in Bolivia too.
Bolivia's first conservative president-elect in 20 years, Rodrigo Paz, injected a sharp note of realism into his plans to tackle an economic crisis Monday, a day after his surprise electoral victory signaled the end of decades of leftist rule in the South American nation. After years of government antipathy toward the U.S. under the Movement Toward Socialism party, Paz pledged to rebuild relations with Washington -- and attract foreign investment to a country long locked out of international markets. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that Paz's victory Sunday "marks a transformative opportunity for both nations" to work on investment, immigration, security and other matters. ... In another sign of the dramatic regional shift, Paz held a video call with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize this month. After years of Bolivia aligning itself with Venezuela's increasingly repressive President Nicolás Maduro, Paz told Machado that his country was "here to join in the fight for Venezuela and for Latin American democracies.""On the other hand, the coked-up communist president of Colombia is very, very mad that Trump is blowing up the narcoterrorists' drug boats and "> He also spoke of the need for "cutting the head" off the "kings:" "Here, we cut off the heads of kings. A king cannot tell us what to do. "
President Trump has been highly critical of Petro, calling him "an illegal drug leader" in a post on Truth Social on Sunday. Trump went on to say in the post that the production of illegal drugs "has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it." He called Petro "a low rated and very unpopular leader" and said that if Petro does not stop the drug routes to the U.S., "the United States will close them up for him, and it won't be done nicely." On September 16, the U.S. military carried out a drone strike that destroyed a submarine reportedly carrying drugs in international waters off the coast of Colombia. Last week, Petro stated on X that "U.S. government officials have committed murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters." He went on to say that the submarine was a fishing vessel in distress and demanded an explanation from the United States about the strike. In response, Trump announced that he would end all U.S. funding to Colombia, cutting off hundreds of millions in economic, military, and humanitarian aid. Speaking to reporters, Trump went after Petro, calling him "a lunatic who's got a lot of problems. Mental problems."
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North Carolina Enacts New Congressional Districting Map Which Will Likely Add One More Republican to the House of Representatives
CNN's collective vagina is sandy.
Nay -- it's gritty.The North Carolina Senate approved a new congressional map aimed at helping Republicans eke out an additional GOP seat to help shore up the party's majority in the US House after next year's midterm elections. The vote came one day after Republican lawmakers who control North Carolina's legislature formally opened debate on the map. It targets a House district currently represented by Democratic Rep. Don Davis -- one of three Black members of Congress from the state. The new district lines aim to give Republicans the advantage for 11 out of 14 US House seats from North Carolina. The GOP currently controls 10 seats under the map used in last year's elections.Now for the schmoll news I know many of you are going to gripe at, forcing me to hide schmolling news in deceptively-headlined posts like a dirty secret Brian Stelter hides in his orthopedic sock drawer. We can win the Virginia governor's race.
A new poll shows Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears trailing Democratic hopeful Abigail Spanberger by 5 points.Polls are inaccurate, and favor Democrats by 3 points or more (often more), so this race is a jump-ball.
And of course last week's Trafalgar poll but the race within the margin of error:
The 2025 Virginia governor's race is emerging as a key indicator of national political trends ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. ... In the co/efficient poll released on Friday, Earle-Sears is down 5 points, with 44 percent of the vote compared to Spanberger's 49 percent. Six percent remain undecided, the poll shows. The survey polled 937 likely voters from October 15 to October 17 and has a 3.19 percent margin of error.
The Democrats are worried enough about Abigail Spanberger that they're sending their highest-ranking homosexuals. First Obama, and now Pete!
In another poll taken last week, Earle-Sears was also behind Spanberger but within the margin of error. The poll by The Trafalgar Group showed Spanberger had 47.5 percent of the vote compared to Earle-Sears' 45.3 percent.
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"France's Crown Jewels" Stolen in Daring Daylight Heist from Louvre; French Right Blames "Le Wokisme" and the Drive to Hire Women No Matter What Their Qualifications
People are talking about the thieves chopping up the jewels into smaller, more salable gems but that would destroy about 90% of the value of the jewels. What I imagine, based on years of study and watching the first four seasons of Leverage, is that the thieves intend to ransom the jewels back to the Louvre.
The gay furry communist webzine Daily Beast is shrieking that MAGA is blaming the theft on woke DEI hiring of females based on their gender and not their abilities. Unfortunately for America's leading furry community webzine, the facts seem to indicate that's exactly what happened.
The daylight heist about 30 minutes after opening, with visitors already inside, was among the highest-profile museum thefts in living memory and comes as staff complained that crowding and thin staffing are straining security.Repeat after me: "There was nothing that anyone could have done, even if the director of security was chosen based on qualifications rather than what she's got between her legs."
There was nothing that anyone could have done, even if someone qualified were the head of security.
The theft unfolded just 250 meters (270 yards) from the Mona Lisa, in what Culture Minister Rachida Dati described as a professional "four-minute operation." One object, the emerald-set imperial crown of Napoleon III's wife, Empress Eugénie, containing more than 1,300 diamonds, was later found outside the museum, French authorities said. It was reportedly recovered broken. Images from the scene showed confused tourists being steered out of the glass pyramid and adjoining courtyards as officers closed nearby streets along the Seine.
Related Stories A lift -- which officials say the thieves brought and which was later removed -- stood against the Seine-facing façade, their entry route and, observers said, a revealing weakness: that such machinery could be brought to a palace-museum unchecked.
There was nothing that anyone could have done, even if a qualified director of security had trained and drilled the guards to come running at the sound of breaking glass.
Around 9:30 a.m., several intruders forced a window, cut panes with a disc cutter and went straight for the glass display cases, officials said.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the crew entered from outside using a basket lift via the riverfront facade to reach the hall with the 23-item royal collection. Their target was the gilded Apollon Gallery, where the Crown Diamonds are displayed, including the Regent, the Sancy and the Hortensia. The thieves smashed two display cases and fled on motorbikes, Nunez said. No one was hurt. Alarms brought Louvre agents to the room, forcing the intruders to bolt, but the theft was already done. Eight objects were taken, according to officials: a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a matching set linked to 19th-century French queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense; an emerald necklace and earrings from the matching set of Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte's second wife; a reliquary brooch; Empress Eugénie's diadem; and her large corsage-bow brooch -- a prized 19th-century imperial ensemble. "It's a major robbery," Nunez said...No shit? Pas de merde?
... noting that security measures at the Louvre had been strengthened in recent years and would be reinforced further as part of the museum's upcoming overhaul plan. Officials said security upgrades include new-generation cameras, perimeter detection, and a new security control room.Whatever. Police are searching for the three thieves. One of them may be named Pierre Despereaux and another uses various aliases including Lavender Goombs, Sillypants Jackson, Ghee Buttersnaps, Ovaltine Jenkins, Longbranch Pennywhistle, and Scooney "U-Turn" Singleton.
People are talking about the thieves chopping up the jewels into smaller, more salable gems but that would destroy about 90% of the value of the jewels. What I imagine, based on years of study and watching the first four seasons of Leverage, is that the thieves intend to ransom the jewels back to the Louvre.
The gay furry communist webzine Daily Beast is shrieking that MAGA is blaming the theft on woke DEI hiring of females based on their gender and not their abilities. Unfortunately for America's leading furry community webzine, the facts seem to indicate that's exactly what happened.
French and American conservatives have made Sunday's daylight Louvre heist the site of a battle in the culture wars upon learning the museum's security head is a woman. After thieves executed a surprisingly simple heist to rob the museum of jewels that belonged to Napoleon's family, France's far right began blaming "le wokisme," believing Dominique Buffin, the first woman hired as security chief at the Louvre, was chosen for her gender and not her merits.Oh, they don't have a formal policy of DEI. They just talk about le wokisme and the need for the "feminization of recruitment." Was it really this woman's fault? Is she really unqualified? I don't know. I don't work there. But I do know this: the left insists on hiring based on factors having nothing to do with qualifications, experience, and ability, and then when things go south -- and they go south a lot -- they claim that the people they previously admitted were hired for anti-merit reasons were the the very best people for the job. They keep claiming, absurdly, that although they confess they have reduced the required qualifications down to almost nothing as long as you are female or minority or "queer," this system just happens to keep coincidentally resulting in the most qualified people being hired. Female, minority, and "queer" people are hired for anti-merit reasons, but they insist that it turns out these anti-merit hiring criteria just so happen to result in the most meritorious candidates being hired. In other words: We don't need the system of preferences and quotas at all because, according to the left, the most qualified people are being hired despite the anti-merit hiring practices. Thus, without these preferences and quotas, the allegedly "best" people for the job would have been hired anyway. They're the best, right? I'm sorry, I'm going to need more than "there was nothing anyone could have done, trust us, bro." The thieves just literally pushed a very tall ladder/basket lift against the building at 9:30 in the morning, used power tools to cut through the exterior window, walked in and started smashing-and-grabbing. They were in and out in seven minutes. But... the Louvre has hundreds of security guards. No one saw the ladder/"basket lift"? No one came running at the sound of smashing glass?
Speaking on French radio station Europe 1, Erik Tegnér, founder of far-right French news outlet Frontiéres, said, "The Louvre's security director would have been chosen not based on her abilities, but because she is a woman. It is this destruction by wokeism that we find notably in the United States."
On X, EU parliament member Marion Maréchal, niece of far-right French leader Marine Le Pen, said Buffin's hire was "part of a feminization policy" in France and demanded her resignation. The basis for these claims appears to stem from a 2024 article in Le Monde, which said "feminization of recruitment" is important to Laurence Des Cars, the museum's first female director. Conservatives have jumped on this sentence to suggest Buffin is unqualified for the job and only got it because she is female.
Buffin, 46, began her career as a police officer in 2001. In 2013, she joined the Ministry of Culture, where she worked as an adviser on the security of French museums. In 2017, she was promoted to senior defense deputy and security official at the Ministry of Culture, and in 2024 was named the Louvre's security director. ... The Daily Beast has reached out to the Louvre, which does not have a formal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy, for comment.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
Which Base?
As the Schumer Shutdown drags on, two things have become increasingly clear:
1. This is shaping up to be yet another example of how the party that initiates a shutdown battle rarely wins it.
2. Schumer has thrust the Democrats into a game of "chicken" with the Party's dual bases. Trump's approval is hanging on and, depending on which polls you choose to examine, a sizable plurality or outright majority of people lay the blame for the shutdown where it belongs: firmly on the Democrats. This is in part because Trump is outmaneuvering Schumer at every turn. Unlike Obama, he isn't being petty with it. He's getting soldiers paid and working to gut Democrat programs while daring the Party to challenge him.
1. This is shaping up to be yet another example of how the party that initiates a shutdown battle rarely wins it.
2. Schumer has thrust the Democrats into a game of "chicken" with the Party's dual bases. Trump's approval is hanging on and, depending on which polls you choose to examine, a sizable plurality or outright majority of people lay the blame for the shutdown where it belongs: firmly on the Democrats. This is in part because Trump is outmaneuvering Schumer at every turn. Unlike Obama, he isn't being petty with it. He's getting soldiers paid and working to gut Democrat programs while daring the Party to challenge him.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Pablo Picasso I'm unsure why Picasso became the icon he is; although self-promotion and his vile politics did a lot to keep him in the limelight. But... he did have talent. And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death.
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Pablo Picasso I'm unsure why Picasso became the icon he is; although self-promotion and his vile politics did a lot to keep him in the limelight. But... he did have talent. And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death.
If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.-- Archimedes For you new readers, here is the art in question. And here.
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The Morning Report — 10/22/25
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A man was taken into custody late Tuesday after driving his car into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said. The US Secret Service said the man crashed into the security gate at a White House entrance at 10:37 p.m. on Tuesday. The man was immediately arrested by officers from the Secret Service’s uniformed division, the agency said. Investigators searched his car and deemed it to be safe, Secret Service officials said in a statement. Authorities did not immediately provide any additional information about the crash, the driver’s identity or any potential motivation.That last sentence means that the media knows he has to have some sort of link to the Democrat party and or Antifa. Oh these Democrats and their mouthpieces have trouble identifying Nazis, terrorists and tyrants. Honestly, I don't know why since all they have to do is look directly into the nearest mirror. And with that, I give you exhibit A, or really exhibit A on top of 200 years of Democrat/Leftist wastage of life, treasure and human potential that has brought this nation to the brink of destruction. Yeah, No Kings but plenty of Totenkopfs. . .
I had an early investigative piece on Graham Platner, the Bernie Sanders endorsed Senate candidate, was not working class (he’s the grandson of a world famous architect, the son of a lawyer who went to a prep school) and not a disillusioned veteran, but was a longtime leftist. But Dems were sitting on a much bigger pot of opposition research which included Platner’s past Reddit history in which he claimed that he was a Communist and that white rural people were stupid and racist. “Bastards. Cops are bastards.” Platner replied, “All of them, in fact.” “Bastards. Cops are bastards.” Platner replied, “All of them, in fact.”The Democrat propaganda complex is spinning faster than a gaggle of Dervishes pleasuring their nether regions on an Iranian centrifuge like a teenybopper on the basement washing machine. And yet, Pete Hegseth, a true patriot who is arguably President Trump's best pick insofar as what he has done to date as sec Def and now Secretary of War, was slimed as a white supremacist by the acolytes of the purple-lipped, closet queen dog-eating communist scumbag:
In another since-removed post from 2020, Platner responded to a thread titled “White people aren’t as racist or stupid as Trump thinks” by writing, “Living in white rural America, I’m afraid to tell you they actually are.” Could things get worse? There was Planter’s reported self-identification as an “Antifa Supersoldier”. But no, that didn’t do it, the SS tattoo however is making Platner a truly national figure.
Pod Save Graham Platner. The former Obama White House aides Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes, now hosts of the podcast Pod Save the World, helped the Maine Senate candidate frontrun the news that he has a Nazi tattoo emblazoned on his chest—a stark contrast to their condemnation of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's tattoo of a Jerusalem Cross as a "dog whistle" for "white nationalists."The chutzpocrisy is so utterly blinding that it can be seen by Ray Charles if he were standing on the surface of a supernova 5 billion light years away. I look forward to living long enough to see the day that President Hegseth is sworn in for his second term. Of course the dream Democrat ticket of Sanders and Platner '28 might derail all that, especially with the catchy slogan of Molotov & Von Ribbentrop '28. In other news, it is gratifying to see that John Brennan, the turducken of Benedict Arnold/the Rosenbergs and John Walker Lindh rolled into one being referred to for indictment by the DOJ. Not that he will ever be convicted in any DC court set alone see the inside of a jail cell. How he ever was allowed to join the CIA let alone get an interview is still beyond my comprehension. Meh, how the hell did Obama ever become president? Lastly, Jen Piss-Hockey needs to have her filthy sewer wired shut.
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- A man was taken into custody late Tuesday after driving his car into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said. The US Secret Service said the man crashed into the security gate at a White House entrance at 10:37 p.m. on Tuesday. The man was immediately arrested by officers from the Secret Service’s uniformed division, the agency said.
Man arrested after driving his car into security gate outside White House: authorities (the car, and driver, should've been been utterly ventilated by 9mm holes - jjs)
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Daily Tech News 22 October 2025
Top Story
- So what happened? Why did Amazon's premier US-East-1 datacenter collapse, taking an uncountable number of websites and applications with it, and causing billions of dollars in losses? (Ars Technica)
DNS.
It was DNS.
It is always DNS.
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October 21, 2025
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - October 21, 2025 [scampydog]
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Animal Playground Cafe
Police dogs get the zoomies in an airport. Animals necking. Shepherd puppy meets the human puppy. These dogs are very very excited! The difference between lions and tigers. Cat just wants to dip his beak. Dog enjoys a fountain. Dad taught me how to wallow.
Police dogs get the zoomies in an airport. Animals necking. Shepherd puppy meets the human puppy. These dogs are very very excited! The difference between lions and tigers. Cat just wants to dip his beak. Dog enjoys a fountain. Dad taught me how to wallow.
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DEI Dum-Dum Who Debated Charlie Kirk and Then Glorified His Murder Booted Out as President of Prestigious Oxford Debating Society
At least he had the class to accept the 2/3rds no-confidence vote gracefully.
I'm just kidding, he's claiming the vote was rigged. The New York Post from September:Oxford student George Abaraonye, who is the president of the historic debate club founded in 1823, callously cheered when he heard Kirk was shot and killed -- and is now facing the repercussions. "Charlie Kirk got shot, let's f--king go," Abaraonye, 20, posted on WhatsApp on Wednesday. "Charlie Kirk got shot loool," the depraved debater wrote on Instagram in another message.What made this especially sociopathic is that the two men had just met and debated a few months before. Charlie Kirk was no accumulation of pixels, he'd actually shaken this degenerate animal's hand. And he celebrated when Kirk was murdered.
The third year Philosophy, Politics, and Economics undergrad met Kirk and debated face-to-face back in May, during which the president-elect showed up in sweatpants and a T-shirt. Abaraonye challenged Kirk to expand on his claims that younger generations of boys are being negatively affected by the wider culture, which tamps down masculinity. "It's a very good faith question, thank you," Kirk said to Abaraonye while they squared off over podiums. The two did come to loggerheads over the issue of "infantilization of young men" and "toxic femininity," which Abarayone suggested was a byproduct of an "oppressive system." When asked what could contribute to happiness in men is, in part, "openness to allowing men to express themselves any way they want."Obviously, someone who is interested in debate should not also be fans of murdering people who beat your dumb DEI ass in a debate. And the Oxford Union has wisely -- finally -- agreed with that. After the degenerates' emails were leaked, revealing that he hates Oxford and the UK itself, and ran to become president of the Oxford Union out of sheer racial spite.
The president-elect of the Oxford Union has lost a no-confidence vote after he was criticised for comments appearing to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk.Oh, it "appeared" that way, did it? "Charlie Kirk got shot, let's f***ing go!!!"
Pride goeth.
The motion against George Abaraonye had met the required two-thirds threshold to oust the student from his position, the society has announced. ... Mr Abaraonye is disputing the no-confidence vote, telling the BBC people campaigning to oust him had "unsupervised access" to the email account collecting proxy ballots.
... According to the Telegraph, Mr Abaraonye posted a message on Instagram which read "Charlie Kirk got shot loool" - an elongated version of the phrase 'lol' which means 'laughing out loud'. ... Last week, Mr Abaraonye said he had submitted the motion of no confidence in himself, with voting taking place over the weekend.
A notice published by extraordinary returning officer Donovan Lock on Tuesday said 1,228 ballots were cast in favour of no confidence, while 501 were against. The notice stated the president-elect was deemed to have resigned in accordance with Oxford Union's rules. Proceedings were informally suspended early on Monday after the returning officer was allegedly subjected to "obstruction, intimidation, and unwarranted hostility by a number of representatives", a notice said. In a statement, Mr Abaraonye claimed the count had been halted because electoral officials believed "no legitimate and true result could be reached as a result of procedural failures". "We unequivocally deny that any representative appointed by George engaged in intimidating or disruptive behaviour," his statement stated. It said the "extremely serious issues" had been referred to the disciplinary committee on Monday afternoon and that Mr Abaraonye remained president-elect.In other words, he's crying -- get this -- "racism." No one could have possibly seen that one coming.
As I mentioned, this psychopathic token was defenestrated after his emails were leaked, showing him to be -- get this -- a hateful and malignant person.
"George is proud and thankful to have the support of well in excess of a majority of students at Oxford, who voted to have a safe election and resist attempts to subvert democracy," his statement added. ... On Friday, Mikey McCoy, Kirk's former chief of staff, read out an open letter to the Oxford Union on The Charlie Kirk Show podcast. It accused the union of becoming a place where "presidents of the union publicly celebrate the assassination of a political opponent". The letter said that if Mr Abaraonye were to remain in post, Kirk's allies would "personally contact every American political speaker who has ever graced the union's chamber and urge them never again to lend their name, time or reputation to that institution that has betrayed its founding ideals".
The controversial president-elect of the Oxford Union -- the world's most prestigious debate club -- once endorsed the claim that Queen Elizabeth perpetuated "genocide" and said he "hates" the famed organization he now leads, texts obtained by The Post reveal. George Abaraonye, an Oxford University student who became infamous after he celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk just months after the two debated, claimed in leaked WhatsApp text messages that he only sought the presidency of the vaunted Oxford Union because of "hate." "If u hate it then you should run for the presidency!!!!" one Oxford student wrote in a group WhatsApp chat with members of the debating society, which was founded in 1823.
"Real lol that's what I did," answered Abaraonye, 20, who was elected in June. In another message from the chat which included from Oxford, Trinity College, and Keble College, Abaraonye endorsed the idea that Queen Elizabeth was a perpetrator of "genocide and famine." "Bro low-key the day before the Queen died I did a massive post about her being implicit in genocide and famine and just a big thing about imperialism," one person wrote in the chat. "And then when she died so many people got angry at me because they thought that I somehow killed the queen because of bad vibes," the Oxford student continued, referencing the monarch's September 2022 death.
"Based," Abaraonye said in response to the tasteless message, using slang for unapologetic approval. The leftist also expressed an antipathy for "white establishments." "But I don't frequent white establishments so I don't have firsthand experience," he wrote regarding "Indie Fridays," a monthly concert series at Oxford University.
WhatsApp chat showing George Abaraonye's response, "real lol that's what I did," to an earlier message that says, "if u hate it then you should run for presidency!!!!"
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Jim Jordan Refers John Brennan to the DOJ for Prosecution Over His Serial Perjuries
"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly fine".
These fictions compiled by Hillary Clinton's Master of Conspiracies Sydney Blumenthal, and then given a Credibility Laundering through Christopher Steele -- do they ring true to the other demented partisans in this room?
Jordan's referral, sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi, alleges that Brennan "knowingly and willfully testified falsely" during a May 2023 interview with the Judiciary Committee when he claimed the CIA "was not involved at all" with the Steele dossier -- a Democrat-funded collection of false stories used to smear Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. But a newly declassified House Intelligence Committee report contradicts that testimony, revealing the CIA worked directly with the FBI to circulate information from the dossier and that Brennan personally intervened to keep it in the intelligence community's 2017 assessment on Russian election interference. That assessment, produced under Brennan's direction, claimed Russia sought to help Trump win -- a conclusion Trump has long dismissed as part of the "Russia hoax." According to declassified CIA memos cited by Jordan, agency analysts warned against including the dossier's unverified material. Brennan, however, insisted it remain, reportedly responding, "Yes, but doesn't it ring true?"
Jordan's letter says that Brennan's testimony "was a brazen attempt to mislead Congress" and that the former CIA chief "intentionally distorted material facts" surrounding his actions. ... Jordan also cited Brennan's 2017 testimony before the House Intelligence Committee -- when he insisted the CIA did not "rely on" the dossier -- as further evidence of a pattern of deception. Though that earlier statement falls outside the five-year statute of limitations, Jordan said Brennan's statements showed "a pattern of willingness to lie to Congress about the Steele dossier."
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The FDA Remained Silent For Years About the Linkage of Tylenol and Autism, Even As Their Own Scientists Urged Them to Inform the Public
The Karen in her natural habitat, a sprawling bureacracy
where power is maximized and accountability is minimized.
This fine specimen of a Karen here demonstrates
her characteristic "smugging" behavior.
FDA Stayed Silent As Internal Reports About Potential Tylenol Risks Piled Up
Emily Kopp
Investigative Reporter The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defied the advice of its own drug safety experts to warn pregnant women about Tylenol for nearly a decade, internal reports and presentations obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation reveal. FDA rank-and-file scientists repeatedly recommended the agency release information about Tylenol in pregnancy across three scientific reviews conducted in 2016, 2019, 2022 and two memos, one from the FDA's maternal health division in 2016 and one from the FDA's urological health division in 2017. The scientific literature posits many plausible drivers of autism, the most well-established of which are genetic, and the FDA drug safety experts acknowledged that the research linking the condition to Tylenol is far from ironclad. Still, as alarm bells rang within FDA headquarters and the boardrooms of Tylenol's manufacturers, pregnant women heard nothing from either the government or the manufacturers about the potential risks until the September announcement by President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. FDA leadership declined to update its webpage about over-the-counter painkillers in pregnancy, repeatedly falling back on language first issued in January 2015. But that statement simply acknowledged that "FDA is aware of concerns" about Tylenol and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), citing just one scientific paper. At the urging of Trump and Kennedy, FDA finally released a nuanced statement in September cautioning pregnant women about Tylenol while acknowledging that aspirin, ibuprofen and high fevers all pose their own risks. That move was first recommended by an FDA drug safety expert nine years earlier. The DCNF obtained the FDA documents from the law firm Keller Postman LLC, which brought a class action lawsuit against Tylenol maker Kenvue, a legally independent spinoff of Johnson & Johnson. The personal injury law firm, which often brings class action lawsuits, obtained the documents from FDA via the Freedom of Information Act. Tylenol, a brand name for acetaminophen, first received FDA approval in 1955 before modern drug laws tightened clinical trial requirements in 1962. Some experts argue that neurological damage occurs due to a toxic byproduct of acetaminophen called NAPQI. Babies and children with autism may struggle to metabolize the drug, resulting in higher levels of NAPQI, which kills cells. ... An internal memo reveals that the agency first began examining acetaminophen in pregnancy 11 years ago, in May 2014, after an April 2014 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association raised concerns about the drug and ADHD-like behaviors, prompting its sole statement on the issue for the next decade -- an 2015 FDA webpage that acknowledging that "FDA is aware of concerns" and citing that single study. Less than two years later, in October 2016, FDA Senior Medical Officer Andrew Mosholder had reviewed eight observational studies with seven showing an association between acetaminophen and issues including attention deficits, delayed motor development and autistic behaviors. Mosholder's 22-page report recommended that FDA issue a nuanced warning: Tylenol in pregnancy could cause neurological harm and the drug should be used sparingly, but other painkillers are associated with more definite risks and Tylenol will sometimes be necessary to reduce fever. The report also recommended more toxicology studies -- laboratory studies designed to uncover the potential toxicity of a drug. Mosholder declined to comment. ...
In January 2018, an FDA decision-making committee led by longtime Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Director (CDER) Janet Woodcock heard a presentation by Mosholder and Valerie Pratt, who oversaw the safety of over-the-counter drugs, according to the meeting minutes. By this time the scientists had reviewed 21 studies, three-fourths of which indicated a risk of Tylenol in pregnancy, the slides show. FDA had preemptively ruled out a drug label change, but Woodcock and other FDA officials also nixed Mosholder's proposed public statement, instead postponing a decision by six months and calling for yet more studies, the meeting minutes show. ... Woodcock oversaw CDER during other controversial decisions over her lengthy tenure, including the approval of OxyContin in 1996, government records show, and defended the approval as following "all applicable statutes and regulations" in a 2020 Senate letter. She also delayed a clinical warning about the risk of heart issues and the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in 2021, according to a Senate investigation. CDER under Woodcock had downplayed a warning flagged by Mosholder before when he warned in a Dec. 2003 report that antidepressants increased suicide rates in children, a report superiors sought to suppress. Requests for comment from the DCNF sent to two nonprofits for which Woodcock serves on the board of directors did not receive a reply.
The Karen in her natural habitat, a sprawling bureacracy
where power is maximized and accountability is minimized.
This fine specimen of a Karen here demonstrates
her characteristic "smugging" behavior.
... In October 2018, at the follow-up meeting FDA officials had called for six months earlier, the FDA's toxicology division shared their hypothesis that Tylenol could impede blood flow to the growing infant. Other details have been largely redacted in the documents obtained by the DCNF.
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