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This magical piece of art is inspired by our late, great Delilah. It captures perfectly her beauty, dignity and pride. It was given to Her Majesty at our National Specialty this week. She cried whenever she saw it.
Meanwhile, we have had reports of lizard hunters among our PetMorons, including some of our own kittens, who left one (no tail) in a food dish and another by the door. To show their love.
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Gioia, our official AoSHQ Swiss Guide Dog, takes us on a little country visit to a farm:
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Isn't the iris above from badgerwx gorgeous? I was finishing a spring update from her, and somehow the entire thing was deleted. Drat! Even from the HTML translator! As she noted, gardening always comes with surprises! Next week, I hope! Here's another of her irises:
It is blistering hot here and I have put up many shade cloths in the garden and mulched everything. I am not sure if you have ever heard of perpetual spinach but I always have at least 6 plants going and it is pretty good at self seeding so I usually end up with more. I picked this today and even though it is over 100 degrees, the perpetual spinach just shrugs off the heat and it doesn't get bothered by pests. If I haven't planned well, I know I can always go pick some for a side for dinner. This bowl is a mix of red chard and perpetual spinach which I am doing with the recipe below. Here is a bit about perpetual spinach
Perpetual spinach (Beta vulgaris) is a variety of Swiss chard, not true spinach, providing a heat-tolerant, high-yielding "cut-and-come-again" green that tastes similar to spinach but lasts for months. Unlike true spinach, which bolts (seeds) quickly in heat, perpetual spinach thrives in warmer weather, features smaller, tender stems, and lacks the intense, earthy taste of traditional chard.
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Perpetual Spinach sounds great! Looks good!
I also harvested my garlic. We had such a hot March that it was ready to be pulled. The heat in March decimated my mulberry harvest. I usually am drowning in mulberries but this year I got none. They set fruit just as it was super hot in March and they just shriveled and dried on the tree. I was hoping the trees would bud out again but they didn't. Hopefully I will get an epic harvest next year.
Hope everyone is busy with their garden plans. I look forward to seeing what you all grow.
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Thanks for sharing your updates!
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One reason we spend time in the garden:
Did you know we find birdsong relaxing because our brains associate it with safety since birds stop singing when predators are near?
On top of this, their songs are particularly pleasant to your ear also because of the striking similarities between theirs and human music. pic.twitter.com/Lf6JnDtU7G
We have had a lot of discussion and more than a few laughs over AI in the past couple of years, but things are starting to get serious. Tucquer Carlson recently raked an investor in a huge data center campus and energy infrastructure in Box Elder County, Utah over the coals. Kevin O'Leary, a Canadian, does not have a sterling background.
But Tucquer sort of suggested that investors like him should know what kinds of jobs AI would lead to in the future, and perhaps even have those jobs ready for new graduates from college. That seems sort of unrealistic. On the other hand, new graduates in certain fields face some real problems. Anybody see these students booing?
Journalism. Creative writing. Film production. Advertising.
People who spent 4 years and serious money training to write, produce, and publish.
The floor on junior creative work is collapsing in real time. Their anger is legitimate. Their response is the problem.
Photography didn't kill painting.
It killed portrait painters who refused to evolve.
The internet didn't kill journalism. It killed the business model that paid reporters to rewrite press releases.
Every wave does this. Technology bifurcates the room. Adapters move up. Resisters get displaced. . .
Who told these kids that a degree would guarantee a good job for them?
Here's a voice from yesteryear:
Eric Hoffer:
“Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status…The explosive component in the contemporary scene is not the clamor of the masses but the self-righteous claims of a multitude of graduates from schools and universities. This army of scribes is clamoring for a society in which planning, regulation, and supervision are paramount and the prerogative of the educated. They hanker for the scribe’s golden age, for a return to something like the scribe-dominated societies of ancient Egypt, China, and the Europe of the Middle Ages. There is little doubt that the present trend in the new and renovated countries toward social regimentation stems partly from the need to create adequate employment for a large number of scribes…Obviously, a high ratio between the supervisory and the productive force spells economic inefficiency. Yet where social stability is an overriding need the economic waste involved in providing suitable positions for the educated might be an element of social efficiency.
It has often been stated that a social order is likely to be stable so long as it gives scope to talent. Actually, it is the ability to give scope to the untalented that is most vital in maintaining social stability…For there is a tendency in the untalented to divert their energies from their own development into the management, manipulation, and probably frustration of others. They want to police, instruct, guide, and meddle. In an adequate society, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them. This requires, first, an abundance of opportunities for purposeful action and self-advancement. Secondly, a wide diffusion of technical and social skills so that people will be able to work and manage their affairs with a minimum of tutelage. The scribe mentality is best neutralized by canalizing energies into purposeful and useful pursuits, and by raising the cultural level of the whole population so as to blur the dividing line between the educated and the uneducated…We do not know enough to suit a social pattern to the realization of all the creative potentialities inherent in a population. But we do know that a scribe-dominated society is not optimal for the full unfolding of the creative mind.”
Of course, eliminating human beings from media outlets also means losing human brains and the interesting ways that their firing synapses, loaded memories, passions and prejudices and even personal quirks can take the “basic information” on offer and fine-tune it to a particular issue, bringing nuance to a headline or making a vital connection to historical trivia that can change the conversation on some hot topic about which too many are “feeling” and too few are seeking clarity and depth.
Only the human brain, coupled to human spirit, human emotion and development can take the headline, the social notion, the conversation and -– with an assist from the God-spark that resides in all of us — send it careening off into something else — even something altogether new and enlightening.
Without that God-spark, all that is left of thought becomes non-thinking: commonplace, empty, dull and sterile.
Two years ago my friends chuckled at me for my instinctive distrust of AI, my wary refusal to experiment with emerging tools, and my worry that ChatGPT had the potential to make parents expendable. They chided me for being paranoid, teasing that I sounded like Kathy Bates in “Waterboy,” mindlessly crowing “AI is the devil!”
Recently, a very level-headed friend confessed that she too was becoming concerned; she wondered whether AI might be a sort of antichrist, or a forerunner — a contributor to the sort of chaos (or “chaos magick”) that might usher in precisely such a dark energy.
As extreme as that sounds, I didn’t shrug it off. It’s too apparent that while some advances in Artificial Intelligence can clearly benefit civilization, it has already begun to warp our understanding of human relationships, inducing a corrupt funhouse distortion to the complex realities of love, or the mysteries of love when it is present and unconditional, and not at all connected to one’s image of oneself.
Distortion at that level, minute and personal and all about love, is what can break us completely, individually and as a society, because being created in the image and likeness of the triune God (who is 100% Love), means our brains are a triune wholeism involving body, mind, and spirit and rooted in that love.
Through our human brokenness we carry our imperfect comprehensions into every part of that wholeism. So, if we permit our understanding of authentic love to be messed with, we will participate in the shattering of our own foundations.
“Foundations once destroyed,” the psalmist asked, “what can the just do” (Ps 11:3)?
Nothing will be left standing.
AI cannot pray. It can compose but lacks that broken human element -– and the God-spark — that connects the words to the Word, in whom things all hang together. . .
So, what do you think? We don't want to give up the human voice, do we?
Here's a non-scribe use of AI:
This is awesome.
These guys used AI to discover a new molecule for treating MRSA and then instead of just going 'Look, we found a potentially helpful molecule' they went and tested it.
AI vs. Woke?
Should we consider a past French Connection?
Elon Musk re-tweeted a couple of threads by a French guy which are kind of interesting in both English and French. The first one apologizes for three French philosophers, plus 1968:
Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).
Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons…
I want to offer my apologies, on behalf of the French, for giving birth to French Theory (which in turn gave birth to the worst of all ideological monstrosities: wokism).
We gave the world Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. And then, in the intellectual ruins of post-1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Three brilliant men who forged, in the elegance of our language, the ideological weapon that today paralyzes the West.
We must understand what they did. Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that there are only power relations disguised as knowledge. That science, reason, justice, the medical institution, the school, the prison, sexuality—everything is merely a staging of domination. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning, that every signifier slips away, that every reading is a betrayal, that the author is dead and the reader reigns supreme. Deleuze taught that we should prefer the rhizome to the tree, the nomad to the sedentary, desire to the law, becoming to being, difference to identity.
Taken individually, these are debatable theses. Combined, exported, and popularized, they form a system. And that system is a poison.
For here’s what happened. These texts, unreadable in France, crossed the Atlantic. The departments of Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia absorbed them in the 1980s. They found there a soil that did not exist among us: American Puritanism, its racial guilt, its obsession with identity. French Theory married this substratum, and the child of that union is called wokism. . .
read the rest by clicking translate on the tweet above.
The second thread picked up by Musk discusses socialism:
Le socialisme n'est pas une théorie économique.
C'est une structure morale qui a besoin de trois choses pour exister :
1. De la rareté à redistribuer 2. Des victimes à défendre 3. Une classe d'intermédiaires pour orchestrer le tout
It was a busy week in the news, although, to be honest, a relatively quiet one in meme-world. Trump went to China, the New York Times sank to what could be a new low even for that despicable rag, the Spencer Pratt campaign took Los Angeles by storm, a Hollywood director unveiled a new adaptation of The Odyssey in which Helen is black and Achilles is a woman, the Democrats’ redistricting scheme blew up, for the most part, in their face. But meme-makers responded most to another story, the appearance of the dreaded hantavirus. Here, as someone once said, we go again.
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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Plymouth)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) No running with sharp objects save that for next weekend.
4) Have a great weekend!
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
3/10 – Update on Susan, who we have been praying for as she battles cancer. She is hospitalized again with an infection in her colon that quickly turned bad. The doctor says the signs are sepsis but they are running tests to make sure. The good news is that the pancreatic cancer was and is responding to the chemo and her cancer numbers are going down. God bless and thank you!
4/18 Update – Susan is doing outstanding. Her weight is better than expected. They have increased her dosage for chemo, and her cancer numbers are the lowest they have been since they started keeping track of them. They are so thankful for the mercy they have received. Thanks to everyone for the thoughts and prayers.
3/28 – Hrothgar asked for prayers for a dear and long time close friend and former neighbor, Daniel, who is scheduled for open heart surgery in mid-April. Prayers for his wife would be appreciated as well, as she will be carrying a heavy load for the next few months.
4/18 Update – Daniel survived his complex open heart surgery. He is sitting up and it seems like it went well, but they are not going to release him as quickly as he would like, so he is not happy. Thanks to the Horde for the prayers and please keep praying for his dear wife, who now has even more to put up with.
3/28 – Jordan61 posted that Mr. Jordan61 is back in the hospital. His sepsis has returned and gotten into where his compression fracture is, and he has vertebral osteomyelitis. The doctor is supposed to come in today and let them know the plan.
4/9 Update – On 4/1 Mr. Jordan61 was released from the hospital with six weeks of IV antibiotics, which Jordan61 is administering every 8 hours. He’s in a lot of pain; they’ve given him oxy, fentanyl, and dilaudid, and nothing seems to touch it. From what they were told, the pain won’t subside until the infection is cleared up. For the time being, he is bed-bound and they are limiting his movement as much as possible to keep the pain to a minimum. Jordan61 will send updates with progress.
4/25 Update – Mr. Jordan61 is making slow but steady progress. He can get up and walk for short periods of time, and can sit in the living room for an hour or so per day. He is halfway through the IV antibiotics, with 3 weeks to go. A physical therapist will be coming to help him build strength and learn how to move without aggravating his back injury. Thank you all for the prayers!
4/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. Her chemo seems to be holding things steady for now. Unfortunately, as she is receiving a steroid, she has gained about 25 pounds. Her blood sugar has also jumped up about 40 points (which only happens when she is on steroids).
4/24 Update – Teresa in Fort Worth provided an update: The pump that was put in to battle cancer in December can only be used for 6 months. After that, it starts to damage the liver. So she may have to go back onto the medication that made her lose her hair and messed up her vision and nails, and then return to this medication after a break. This is not good news, since this new medication is working so well. But for now, she is doing well and is incredibly grateful for the time that she has been given so far.
4/11 – Eromero craves prayers for Mrs. E., as she has been diagnosed with lymphoma. She begins infusions on 4/23.
4/25 Update – Mrs. E. reports that she feels fine. Praise be to God that she has had only one distressful episode during the infusions. Thank you for all the past and continued prayers.
4/18 – Vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for Captain Whitebread, who is back in ICU with a leg infection that sounds very serious. She also asked for prayers for her husband’s mental and emotional well-being as he faces transition of a possible forced retirement in 3 months.
4/29 Update Captain Whitebread’s son posted that Captain Whitebread had several more infections and passed away on 4/29.
4/18 – Warai-otoko offered a prayer of thanksgiving that he got a new job that he is really enjoying. Wifey also got an offer for a new job that sounds great, after a decade of putting up with her old job.
4/18 – neverenoughcaffiene asked that Devyn be kept in prayers. She is a young mother of 2 with a mass on her esophagus. The Doc said it was scar tissue and hopefully the second opinion will agree.
4/18 – Smell the Glove could use some prayers as therapy and rehab occur after gout/sepsis.
5/2 Update – The gout has cleared and the infection in the lower back is healing.
4/18 – PA Dutchman asked for prayers for his family. His dad passed away on 4/9 after complications from a fall. He was 95 and a veteran of the Korean War, 34th Inf Rgt. Mostly prayers are need for PA Dutchman’s mom, who is absolutely heartbroken.
4/18 – PabloD has been having dizzy spells for the past few weeks. He is seeing a doctor soon, and is requesting prayers that figure it out and that it’s nothing too serious.
4/18 – Sam Adams requested prayers for a friend, Mary F, who was just sent to a long-term recovery facility after having a tracheostomy.
5/2 Update – Mary’s breathing is improving, and they are weaning her off assisted breathing. She is now off the ventilator for 12 hours a day, and they are aiming for 14 hours soon. Many thanks to all of the Moron Horde for the prayers.
4/18 – Doof provided an update on his mother. She is doing better. She moved into her own room in an assisted living facility. It’s walking distance from Doof’s house, which is great. Her mental state has improved dramatically. She can no longer walk but she does stand with some assistance and can transfer between a wheelchair and bed or a lift/recliner chair. This facility is more of a home and less of a hospital, which hopefully will provide a good opportunity for her to enjoy life. He appreciates the Horde’s prayers and asks for prayers that she settles in comfortably and develops new friendships.
4/24 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for a friend’s father (Cory), who needs prayers for strength and peace as he is going through some troubled times.
4/27 – Matthew Kant Cipher sent his thanks to those who prayed for his friend Layne (who is also his son’s FIL). The Horde may recall that in August, Layne was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He has since undergone courses of chemo, immunotherapy, and radiation. His latest scans came back clean. The cancer is in remission; praise be to God! Prayers are also humbly requested for Mrs. MKC, who is dealing with a new flare-up of a GI condition that had been leaving her alone until a recent procedure re-aggravated it. It is very frustrating/discouraging as she waits to see a new GI doctor.
4/25 – Retired Buckeye Cop asked that we would continue to lift his 16 year old grandson (LH) up in prayers, as LH continues to consider the call to priesthood in the Catholic Church. LH recently went to a meeting with a group of young men who are considering the priesthood.
4/25 – Fenelon Spoke asked for prayers for “I”, who Fenelon visited and anointed with oil, and prayed for healing of her health concerns.
5/2 – neverenoughcaffiene requested prayers for parishioners at her church, who lost their newborn daughter, Astrid.
5/7 – turambar asked for prayers for relatives. Mom needs prayers as she was admitted to the hospital to check her heart and cardio. They did not find pneumonia. Two months ago, she fell at her assisted living place, and broke her hip. She also has dementia. Turambar’s uncle fell recently and broke his hip, too.
5/9 – D asked for prayers. He was let go from his IT job and has started a business making and selling lens cleaners to make ends meet. Please contact Annie’s Stew if you’d like more information – either to order lens cleaners, or if you’d like to contact him related to IT job openings (DBA/Network Admin).
5/11 – rez986 asked if anyone had an update on Neidermeyer’s Dead Horse’s health. The last info Annie’s Stew has was from January, 2026, that he’d been given 6 months to live due to heart failure and was being treated and waiting for a transplant at Mayo.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
It's true: A guilty dog cannot look its master in the eye. How human. (Well, I mean "human" for non-sociopaths. Candace Owens can stare you right in the eyes while lying.)
Blue states have bled $2 trillion in wealth to red states in the last decade -- and New York leads the pack.New York had the biggest fall in cumulative adjusted gross income (AGI) -- losing $660 billion between 2012 and 2023.
California came next with $503 billion in the same time period.
In contrast, Florida gained $1.3 trillion, and Texas gained $371 billion between 2012 and 2023.
It comes as billionaire bigwigs are beginning their Big Apple exodus as a result of Mayor Mamdani's wealth-bashing agenda.
Hedge fund titan Ken Griffin and Marc Rowan both announced recently that they will move jobs out of New York in response to Mamdani's calls to "tax the rich."
From Ed Morrissey, Steve Jobs' Useless Widow's Vanity Project The Atlantic says that Democrats must reduce the toxicity of their brand by denouncing racist preferences, but will not.
Racial preferences in college admissions have long been deeply unpopular, and three years ago, the Supreme Court declared them unlawful, in a sweeping ruling that portended doom for other race-conscious policies to promote diversity or remedy past discrimination. Some research indicates that, in the aftermath of the civil-rights era, the achievement gap between rich and poor students now dwarfs the gap between white and Black students. Even so, well-intentioned blue-state Democrats keep pushing for race-based affirmative action, to their own political detriment, rather than supporting a much fairer policy of providing a leg up to economically disadvantaged people of all races.
In February, the California State Assembly passed, by a 54--14 vote, a measure seeking to place on the November ballot a change in the state constitution to allow racial preferences in K--12 education and in higher-education scholarships. (The state Senate has not yet acted on the measure.) In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a 375-page Racial Equity Plan last month that said, "New York's history has been one of colonization, exploitation and racial oppression"; among other measures, the plan reaffirms the city's intent to steer contracts to minority-owned businesses. Late last year, Democratic supermajorities in the Maryland House and Senate overrode Governor Wes Moore's veto of legislation to study reparations for the descendants of enslaved people.
In huge swaths of the country, the Democratic brand has become anathema. The party will struggle to recapture the White House and reclaim the Senate unless it can persuade some red-state voters to take a fresh look at it. One obvious move would be for the Democrats, who have hemorrhaged working-class voters, to abandon their stubborn support for politically radioactive racial preferences. Significantly more Americans believe that economically disadvantaged people of any race deserve special consideration in admissions and employment decisions, and such efforts do not run afoul of laws against racial discrimination. Nevertheless, many Democrats cannot bring themselves to accept the Supreme Court's ruling--or the public's attitude--even when doing so would help their prospects immensely.
Blue cities built dozens of monuments to obese drug addict George Floyd of the Sacred Cardiac Myopathy, but putting up a single mural honoring the slain immigrant Iryna Zarutska is too "divisive" to let stand.
A mural painted to honor Iryna Zarutska -- the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered while riding a North Carolina train -- is being taken down after outrage in Providence, Rhode Island.
On Tuesday, a construction crew was seen near the exterior of The Dark Lady, an LGBTQ+ club in downtown Providence, working to remove the partly finished mural. The mural, which was painted on canvas, was lowered to the ground, folded up and taken away, WJAR-TV reported.
Artist Ian Gaudreau confirmed the news that the artwork was going to be removed after local outrage.
"A lot of people voiced their frustrations, and voices were heard, and the work is coming down as a reaction to that," Gaudreau told WJAR-TV Monday.
The mural's removal came as residents and elected officials complained about the artwork. The office of Mayor Brett Smiley told Fox News that he wanted the artwork taken down, saying that the art is "divisive and does not represent Providence."
"The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence," Smiley said in a statement.
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Chairman of the Narragansett Republican Party Anthony D'Ellena created a petition in an effort to keep the mural of Zarutska in Providence.
"This is exactly what Democrats do -- they try to erase the memory of their victims and they don't fix their soft-on-crime policies," D'Ellena told WPRI-TV. "They erase the evidence, so no one sees the deadly price of their policies."
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Records from the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction show Brown has a prior criminal history, including convictions for larceny, breaking and entering and armed robbery.
"Iryna was riding home on the train when a deranged monster, who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no-cash bail, stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body," President Trump said.
Don't worry: They have a new killer they're going to have to bury the evidence about.
This guy has been let out of jail repeatedly. The last time, he attacked a liberal woman, who refused to press charges because she couldn't bear to see a "black man in jail."
So now she's accessory to the murder this lunatic thug committed.
Savanah Hernandez
@Savsays
May 11
WTF: So apparently this criminal, Rhamell Burke, attacked a young woman on the subway and chased her until she found police who could help her.
She then DECLINED to press charges because she "didn't want to put another black man in jail".
5 weeks later, Burke shoves a 76-year-old retired teacher down a flight of stairs, killing him.
And it gets WORSE because apparently NYPD officers had sent Burke to the Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation earlier that day and within FIVE HOURS of his release, he went on to kill 76-year-old, Ross Falzone, while still wearing his hospital PSYCHIATRIC BRACELET.
Burke had also already been arrested four times prior for assault, burglary and resisting arrest.
Yet another horrific death that could have been prevented if NYC had enacted basic law and order and put this man in prison where he belonged...
Another accessory to murder:
“I now have the autonomy to be my authentic self on the bench and make decisions without fear of reprisals that might be contrary to what mainstream media people, who don’t see value in my people or our community, agree with.”
CBS News boss Bari Weiss blindsided "60 Minutes" legend Lesley Stahl by handing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first major US broadcast interview since the Iran war to Major Garrett -- a CBS News veteran who isn't part of the iconic show's correspondent roster, according to a report.
The decision stunned staffers because Stahl, the longtime "60 Minutes" star, had spent months trying to land the Netanyahu sit-down, according to the Status newsletter. She was bypassed in favor of Garrett -- a respected Washington journalist who is currently chief White House correspondent at CBS News.
The move marked the second time in recent months that Weiss reportedly secured a marquee interview for "60 Minutes" only to hand the assignment to Garrett instead of one of the program's own correspondents.
In March, Weiss tapped Garrett to interview Secretary of War Pete Hegseth -- then instructed that the high-profile sit-down air on "60 Minutes" despite Garrett not being one of the program's correspondents, according to Status.
According to Status, tensions erupted after Weiss personally booked Netanyahu for the interview and once again assigned Garrett to conduct it rather than Stahl or another "60 Minutes" correspondent.
The move reportedly sparked frustration among correspondents and producers, who viewed Netanyahu as having effectively gone around the traditional "60 Minutes" team with Weiss' assistance.
Some staffers believed Netanyahu preferred Garrett because he was viewed as a more agreeable interviewer, according to the report.
He's no prize himself. But I assume Stahl is worse.
Below: Badly Aging Skank Anita Sarkesian femsplains why she refuses to debate any of her claims with anyone who disagrees with her.
She claims it's very easy for people to argue for the status quo, whereas it's very very hard for leftwing morons like her to argue for "social justice" positions.
You see, we can just "say three words" and win the day, but they are forced to explain complex ideas to push their POV.
Complex ideas like "you're racist," "you need to be faaaaiir," "you hate women," etc.
Here is the clip. Sarkeesian is responding to a question about what her biggest challenges are in trying to "shift the greater culture in games" and ending abuse and harassment. This is her complete answer to that question. No clipping, no edits, nothing out of context. pic.twitter.com/9LNTZbIqqn
— Alex "The Hatman" Baldwin (@TheHat2) May 14, 2026
A former inspector general who fast-tracked a "whistleblower" complaint that led to the first impeachment of President Trump in 2019 knew the whistleblower was a registered Democrat and Joe Biden loyalist yet still determined his complaint was "a matter of urgent concern that appeared credible," according to newly declassified documents.
The documents also reveal the anonymous whistleblower secretly met with the Democratic staff of former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff prior to submitting his complaint in August 2019.
Yet under direct questioning, the whistleblower -- later identified by RealClearInvestigations as intelligence analyst Eric Ciaramella -- failed to disclose those contacts in interviews with IG investigators or on whistleblower forms, according to more than 350 pages of intel briefings Schiff classified as secret and locked up in a Capitol vault.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford released the papers Monday morning after National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard declassified them late last week. Justice Department insiders say the documents factor into an ongoing grand jury investigation into an alleged "grand conspiracy" by former Obama and Biden officials to illegally target Trump in political espionage activities.
Nonetheless, IG Michael Atkinson, then the intelligence community's top watchdog, did not question the whistleblower's political motivations, truthfulness or credibility.
This is the guy who rewrote the rules of what makes a "whistleblower" so that he could accept this second-hand hearsay and investigate it -- and then claimed the fact he changed the definition in the days after Eric Ciaramella whined to him was just a coincidence.
Atkinson conducted no investigation of his interactions with Schiff staffers to see if political bias played a role in the preparation of his complaint, which alleged that Trump "had clearly committed a criminal act" in a 30-minute phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. During that call, which was reported listened to by dozens of people, Trump told Zelenskyy "I would like you to do us a favor," and help investigate Biden's son's role in the Burisma scandal. It was later alleged that Trump held up Ukraine funding to force that assistance, which never came. The whistleblower was not in the White House at the time to witness the phone call and relied instead on the account of former White House colleague and political ally Alexander Vindman, who is now seeking a U.S. Senate seat in Florida as a Democrat.
Second-Hand Hearsay
An Obama holdover, Atkinson formally notified Schiff of the complaint in September 2019, paving the way for its release to the public.
By allowing a second-hand hearsay complaint to be processed, Atkinson bent the longstanding rules of his office, according to the declassified briefings.
He also transmitted the information to Schiff over the objections of then-acting National Intelligence Director Joseph Maguire, who had a legal opinion from the DOJ which overruled Atkinson's determination that the complaint was credible and urgent enough to warrant disclosure to Congress.
"The complainant's allegations appear credible to me," Atkinson insisted in a Sept. 19, 2019, briefing before Schiff's committee.
Atkinson called then-FBI Director Christopher Wray's chief of staff and briefed him on the complaint before filing a criminal referral with the bureau to investigate the allegations.
Atkinson also testified about the whistleblower and his complaint during a classified session held on Oct. 4, 2019, during which he stated, "The complainant was not politically biased in any way."
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Atkinson refused to disclose the identity of the whistleblower "even now in a classified setting," because he said he felt compelled to "honor" his "request for confidentiality" -- even though the IG has the authority to disclose such information in the course of an investigation.
At the same time, however, Atkinson revealed that the whistleblower disclosed under questioning by his team of three investigators that he was "a registered member of the Democratic Party [and] had a prior professional relationship with one of the Democratic presidential candidates for the 2020 election."
Ciaramella is listed in voting records as a registered Democrat. He worked directly with Vice President Biden on national security issues involving Ukraine and Russia. Ciaramella was even involved in internal Obama White House discussions over Burisma and Hunter Biden, as RCI also first reported.
These facts did not raise flags with Atkinson.
"There is no indication of any misconduct by the complainant related to this disclosure," Atkinson briefed the committee, adding that "the complainant has played by the rules."
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Then-House Intelligence member John Ratcliffe, now CIA director, said Schiff's office coached the whistleblower on how to file a complaint under intelligence community whistleblower protections before steering him to Atkinson, who facilitated the processing of his complaint, despite numerous alarms sounded by career Justice Department lawyers who reviewed it.
The department's Office of Legal Counsel ruled that the complaint involved "foreign diplomacy," not intelligence, contained "hearsay" evidence based on "secondhand" information, and did not meet the definition of an "urgent concern" that needed to be reported to Congress. Still, Atkinson worked closely with Schiff to pressure the White House to make the complaint public.
Former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz said cloaking the Biden CIA detailee in the whistleblower statute provided him cover from public scrutiny. By making Ciaramella anonymous, he was able to hide his background and motives.
More: the phone call that was the subject matter of ImpeachmentGate 2.0 -- the post-2020 election impeachment -- was, get this, illegally recorded.
Newly released depositions in Georgia confirm Federalist reporting that Democrats' attempt to imprison President Donald Trump for his 2020 election challenge in the state was based on a misinterpreted and illegally recorded phone call.
For years, Democrats and the propaganda press claimed President Donald Trump had asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to steal the election, and further claimed their allegations were supported by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between the two men. In fact, Trump asked Raffensperger to take seriously the legal challenge that his campaign had made, which cited numerous areas where votes were in question. The call became the foundation for an impeachment effort and for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' since-discredited and dismissed racketeering case against Trump and his allies.
The newly released testimony transcript confirms what The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway reported in 2024: The call wasn't just misconstrued, it was illegally recorded by Raffensperger's "second in command."
Jordan Fuchs -- Raffensperger's deputy chief of staff -- admitted under oath that she recorded the call while she was in Florida, a two-party consent state that requires all parties on a call to consent to a recording.
During the deposition, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was also Fani Willis' lover, noted that Fuchs received "use immunity" to testify before the grand jury, meaning she could admit what she had done without being prosecuted for any crime.
"I recorded the phone call," Fuchs admitted to the grand jury, shortly before admitting she immediately leaked it to The Washington Post, which had won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for its role in perpetuating the lie that Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia.
The call was the centerpiece of Democrats' and the propaganda press's "Get Trump" lawfare. Fuchs provided another leak to The Washington Post about another phone call from Trump a few days later. The Post later admitted its source -- Fuchs -- had provided false information about that call.
"The Post misquoted Trump's comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to 'find the fraud' or say she would be 'a national hero' if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find 'dishonesty' there. He also told her that she had 'the most important job in the country right now,'" read The Washington Post's correction.
"Several other major media outlets -- including NBC, ABC, USA Today, PBS, and CNN -- 'confirmed' the fabricated quotes from the Post's anonymous source by, get this, citing their own anonymous sources," Mark Hemingway explained. House Democrats would go so far as to cite the fake contents in their impeachment proceedings against Trump.
Raffensperger's office and the media they leaked to made it seem as though Trump was asking Raffensperger to commit fraud or do something illegal. But as The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway pointed out, "Anyone familiar with the lawsuit knew Trump was saying his team had already 'found' nearly 150,000 irregular or fraudulent votes and simply needed the secretary of state's office to agree ... just that fewer than 10 percent of them were problematic." The provision of information from the secretary of state's office was sought in part because of the urgent timing issues in play. The court date the Trump team had secured for their legal challenge was Jan. 8, after Congress was scheduled to certify the Electoral College votes.
By the way, the rest of the panel -- consisting of liberals who impose racial quotas on everything -- shriek "what does it matter who plays Helen of Troy?"
Well, if it doesn't matter, then you shouldn't insist on perfect Black and Brown Representation in histories about white racial groups, should you?
But you do. Liberals are fond of demanding "But why do you caaaaare so much?!!" about topics they obviously care themselves about a great deal.
Buck Sexton
@BuckSexton
Absolutely perfect that Hostin, the most bitter DEI ignoramus on television, proudly proclaims she "taught Black Athena" as history to kids, when it's been thrown on the trash heap by every scholar and archeologist of the last 40 years who can tell terracotta from panna cotta
Sunny Hostin introduces us to a book called BLACK ATHENA, written by scholar Martin Bernal who tells us the Greeks stole their entire culture from great African nations like Egypt and something called the Levant (must be Somalian).
Foreign Communist Candidate for LA Mayor Nithya Raman Wants to Ban Backyard BBQs Because the Transnational Invaders Instinctively Make Endless War on American Normies
I'm sure you remember this same instinct in full effect during the lockdown.
But Black Lives Matter thugs are allowed to dance in the streets, of course.
LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban
Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman wanted to ban backyard barbecues for residents during certain high fire danger days across the city.
Raman introduced a motion Wednesday directing city officials to examine emergency restrictions on grilling during Red Flag Warning days, when high winds and dry conditions significantly increase wildfire danger across Los Angeles.
The proposal specifically asks officials to consider possible limits on backyard barbecues, fire pits and other open flames in residential neighborhoods during those high-risk weather events.
Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who represents much of the San Fernando Valley, stepped in and successfully blocked the proposal by introducing a separate motion that stripped Raman's barbecue ban.
"The last thing Angelenos need is a ban on hosting a carne asada in their own backyard," Rodriguez told The California Post.
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"We're not checking the weather for red flag conditions before planning a backyard barbecue," Rodriguez said. "This is what families do. Birthday parties. Carne asadas. Family gatherings. A lot of people barbecue."
The same motion would have also had a major impact on restaurants that cook with open flames. Rodriguez said she started hearing concerns from restaurant owners when the motion was being passed around.
"You had restaurant owners calling it out saying, 'This is going to affect our business,'" she said.
Note that her interest in public safety is strictly limited. She insists that kids will not be safer with a ban on illegal homeless encampments just 500 feet from a school:
Watch Nithya Raman’s constituents BOO her when she says it doesn’t matter if homeless drug encampments are cleared out or left right next to a school. Then she rolls her eyes. No wonder everyone hates her. pic.twitter.com/dnSrZLPIoe
Congress Rejected Biden's Demand for $50 Billion in Extra Spending for Medicaid Programs. On His Own Tyrannical Authority, Biden "Authorized" $46.5 Billion of That Spending Anyway
It just so happens the money he spent on his own authority is exactly the money currently being looted from the American taxpayer by Democrat parasite groups.
The Biden administration may have failed to convince Congress to double Medicaid spending on home healthcare in 2021, but the funding increase occurred anyway.
"Home healthcare" is that very (deliberately) exploitable form of "medical spending" that people sign up for. Like if you cook a dinner for your parents -- you can charge the taxpayers for "elder care."
An RCI analysis of federal data has found that spending on the program, which pays health aides and family members to act as caregivers for elderly and disabled adults, nearly doubled between 2019 and 2024, to $46.4 billion a year -- an amount nearly identical to the $50 billion per year Biden wanted. As a result, American taxpayers paid more than $217 billion for home-based care under the program during that five-year span.
Lacking congressional approval, policymakers simply moved the initiative out of Washington and down to the state Medicaid agencies.
And whoopsie! The money was immediately stolen by Democrat constituencies.
Although the expansion was promoted as a way to reduce reliance on more expensive nursing homes, federal data show that did not happen. Medicaid spending on nursing facilities rose by nearly $5 billion in the same five years, to $46.3 billion. In addition, the sprawling home care program has become the subject of a growing set of fraud probes and prosecutions involving the billing codes at the center of the new spending.
The data suggest that the complex landscape of healthcare offers myriad ways for states and providers to access large amounts of federal funding.
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The federal government put a number on the projected savings. The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation projected that for every additional dollar Medicaid spent on home care, nursing-home spending would drop by about 26 cents. Those were the figures used to make the case to Congress and to the public.
Justice for Aging and the Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to requests for comment.
The battle over reparations for racial minorities in the United States has grown somewhat quiet in recent years, but it's not because proponents of it have surrendered. It's because they have already won.
The list of ways in which our government redistributes wealth to minorities is long, as you'll see below, but first, it's worth paying attention to something that Democratic strategist James Carville said recently.
Referring to packing the Supreme Court and making Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico states, should Democrats retake power, the cagey old Cajun said, "Don't run on it. Don't talk about it. Just do it."
I posit that this is precisely what Democrats have done in regard to reparations.
Take for example, marijuana legalization laws in states such as New York and Minnesota that offer loans, often forgivable, and training only to Black and Brown people, or other "special equity" groups,
This is millions of tax dollars being given to people solely on the basis of their race.
The excuse Democrats use is that Black and Brown people were disproportionately harmed by harsh drug laws, but obviously the vast majority have never been arrested for drug crimes.
And it's not just the weed business. In Democratic enclave after Democratic enclave, these set-aside programs exist to help these "special equity" groups get a leg up in businesses like, oh, I don't know, daycare centers and hospices. In states like Minnesota and California, we have seen how this form of reparations easily falls prey to fraud.
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Even reparations studies themselves, of which there has been an endless supply and which all seem to land on needing more money for more studies, is a form of reparations.
Democrats aren't even particularly shy about their use of reparations anymore. New York Mayor Zorhan Mamdani, as a candidate, defended his plan to heavily tax "wealthier and whiter," neighborhoods, by saying, "That is just a description of what we see right now. It's not driven by race. It's more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being under-taxed versus over-taxed."
More directly: Democrats have deliberately made it easy for their criminal constituents to just sign themselves up for millions in Medicaid money and then deliberately crippled all authorization and verification of the payouts. This is just handing out money is sacks to their criminal class voters.
Know the Op: The Entire Machinery of the Left Wing, Including Me-Again Kelly, Is All-In on Thomas Massie
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Gee what could have these hard-left communists so jazzed about a "conservative libertarian," I wonder?
The New York Times now loves Thomas Massie, SuperConservative.
Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
The glowing NYT article hailing Massie as a Republican hero. lol.
I said this months ago, the left and to counterfeit right love each other.
The article was written by Massie's New Bestie, leftwing California Democrat Ro Khanna, the man Massie's been traveling the country with spreading Epstein slop-lies.
Thomas Massie is a man of character. He is the type of Congressman our founders envisioned. I hope his constituents will see the courage, independence and sincere love of country he brings to the job. https://t.co/pT1zrYd4be via @NYTOpinion
Massie supporters don’t understand this, but the fact that @AnaKasparian wants Massie to win is part of a trend in support for Massie that Republican voters in Massie’s district can sense and are alarmed by. https://t.co/XfmIKXlfsf
She's losing the Crazy Race to AOC, and needs to change that.
A new poll shows the top choices for the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries in 2028.
The May 12 poll, released by Atlas Intel, found U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., leading among Democrats, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the top choice for a majority of Republicans.
The national poll showed 26% of Democrats would vote for Ocasio-Cortez for president in two years, with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 22.4% and California Gov. Gavin Newsom at 21.2%. Former Vice President Kamala Harris came in fourth place at 12.9%.
Last week, she began demanding the DNC release its suppressed "autopsy" of her 2024 blowout loss.
I assume she wants to be released because she knows it was a whitewash which excused her for any responsibility for the loss and blamed all on Muh Racism and Muh Misogyny.
Though apparently the reason it was suppressed is that it blames...
... Joe Biden, who the Democrats have of course decided to blame all their woes on, now that he's gone.
To make matters worse, the DNC is facing continued calls to release its internal autopsy of the party's sweeping setbacks in the 2024 election, when Democrats lost the presidency and Senate majority and fell short in winning back control of the House.
Among those calling on the DNC to make public their report on what went wrong for the Democrats in 2024 is former Vice President Kamala Harris, the party's presidential nominee two years ago.
Harris, who is mulling making another White House bid in 2028, recently told donors she believes the DNC should make the autopsy public. The news was first reported by NBC News and confirmed by Fox News Digital.
A source with knowledge said that Harris had not discussed the autopsy with DNC Chair Ken Martin, and that the former vice president did not know in advance about Martin's decision in December to keep the 2024 election postmortem under wraps.
Martin ordered the report soon after he was elected DNC chair early last year.
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There was controversy surrounding the report as it was being compiled, after reports last summer said the autopsy would skip analyzing whether then-President Joe Biden should have run for re-election in 2024 and would pass on judging key decisions made by Harris and her team, after she replaced Biden as the party's nominee with just over three months to go until the 2024 election.
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"They are spiking an autopsy of the election that gave us Trump 2.0. If party leaders won't take the steps required to rebuild ourselves into a winning coalition, we will take it into our own hands," former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg warned in a social media post at the time.
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A person familiar with the DNC's strategy told Fox News Digital because of all the attention on the autopsy, "they are going to be forced to release something."
Coconut Kamala grabbed clicks by proposing a slate of anticonstitutional measures to rig elections even harder for Democrats:
Pat Adams
@PatAdams96
10h
Kamala Harris is now calling for Democrats to hold a "No Bad Idea Brainstorm" where they discuss:
- Abolishing the Electoral College
- Packing the Supreme Court
- Making Puerto Rico and D.C. states
"We've got to neutralize these red states from cheating!"
Ron DeSantis noticed that she's talking about expanding and packing the Supreme Court in the future.
But not now, now that Trump is President and the GOP controls the Senate.
So maybe we should beat them to the punch.
WATCH: @GovRonDeSantis is taking aim at Kamala Harris over proposals to pack the Supreme Court and abolish the Electoral College, calling the moves an attempt to "deviate from founding principles."
"They've suffered a series of losses over many, many cycles, none more dramatic… pic.twitter.com/zfUBd8gFXM
Pretty telling that when someone says we’ve got to get “fraudsters” out of the country, it’s immediately assumed that’s Democrats. https://t.co/fBwfCvsM6o
A start-up venture promising to take existing airplanes, retrofit them with hydrogen-electric engines, and start a new passenger airline, has predictably gone into liquidation. This is bad news for the suckers who already invested, but as I’ve said before, the people losing their money in green investments are almost begging that someone swindle them out of their money. I might be a wealthier man if my moral compass didn’t prevent me from being that someone, because I know exactly who the marks are.
The promoter and founder, Dale Vince, is a financial supporter of Britain’s Labor party, as well as being a supporter of the eco-terrorist group “Just Stop Oil.
Despite the setback, Mr. Vince voiced confidence about the eventual success of electric flight, adding: “This is a vital frontier in the move to net zero, green living, whatever you choose to call it- and it’s absolutely doable.”
I have zero confidence in “the eventual success of electric flight,” but I have every confidence that promoters of electric flight will continue to bring new ideas to market to fleece the same “socially responsible” investors again and again.
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Capital One’s SEC Filing Acknowledges the Litigation Peril from its Debanking of Conservatives
In Capitol One Bank’s latest quarterly 10-Q filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, it has acknowledged that there is material litigation risk from its actions in debanking associates of Donald Trump during the Biden administration.
Fair Access to Banking: Capital One is responding to demands and requests from various federal agencies regarding “fair access to banking,” including those resulting from Executive Order 14331 “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” which directed government agencies to review financial institutions’ policies and practices for providing, maintaining, or discontinuing financial products or services to certain clients or potential clients, and a civil lawsuit filed by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust and several affiliated corporate entities against Capital One, which is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
As documented in a widely distributed piece titled Capital One Flags Debanking Fight in Quarterly Filing, ”the Trump Organization sued Capital One, alleging the bank closed some 300 Trump-linked accounts because it believed ‘the political tide at the moment favored doing so.’”
I’ve no doubt that the money center banks received inappropriate pressure from the Biden administration to help crush Trump and other political adversaries of the Obama’s puppet regime. But I also doubt that the executives pushed back at all. In fact, I believe they were glad to be an enforcement arm of the government’s vendetta against Trump and his supporters. When Donald Trump publicly shamed Bank of America CEO for his complicity in debanking conservatives, Brian Moynihan could only sputter about “over-regulation,” because he could not deny the well-documented fact that BofA debanked conservatives without ever providing a reason. There really need to be consequences for what was quite literally fascist behavior between big banks and the federal government.
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Gas-Powered Cars Don’t Lose 40% of their Range in 20° Weather
With the “EV transition” circling the drain, there is so much to cover that I haven’t done an EV Roundup for some time, mainly because I don’t know where to start. I have dozens of possible stories. As usual, there are exploding cars, failing EV companies, and puzzled CEOs acknowledging that they misjudged EV demand, etc.
At this point, with there being a grudging acknowledgement from even the most passionate EV-pushers that consumers have rejected electric vehicles, it’s important to remind everyone the story isn’t just about consumer taste in engine types. Consumers have rejected EVs because they are ill-suited to the job of being a multi-purpose daily-driver for the majority of Americans who cannot buy a Tesla as a boutique 2nd family car.
The electric vehicle revolution was supposed to conquer the elements; instead, the elements conquered it. The industry has spent billions optimizing aerodynamics and fast-charging curves, but the latest data from the AAA exposes a significant problem: electric and hybrid vehicles are still fundamentally failing the temperature test.
When the mercury drops to 20°F, electric vehicles lose an agonizing 39 percent of their driving range and suffer a 35.6 percent collapse in overall efficiency. For the everyday commuter, this is not merely a logistical headache; it is a direct financial penalty.
20° temperatures are common well into the South. Temperatures far below 20° are a normal part of winter in much of the country. An EV that loses about half of its range in a mid-winter cold snap is just simply not an option for tens of millions of drivers.
But as AAA points out, the catastrophic loss of range in freezing weather is also very expensive, because so much more charging is necessary. The additional electricity usage costs on average $32 per 1,000 miles above normal for those who can charge at home. If forced to use public chargers, the cost is an additional $77 per 1,000 miles.
Despite all this, General Motor’s CEO Mary Barra stated in an interview two weeks ago with Fox News’ Brian Baier that she is still committed to an all-EV future and that “EVs are the end game.” GM’s board has got to take action soon to relieve the company of Barra’s deluded eco-agenda and put a competent auto person back in charge.
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DExit update
A majority of Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Delaware due to its business-friendly legal system and chancery courts.
But in 2024, a left-wing chancery judge decided to arrogate unto herself the authority to determine Elon Musk’s Tesla compensation, supplanting the decision-making role of Tesla’s board. The media and Democrats cheered, because Elon was becoming Trump-friendly and they wanted Musk punished. The business community, however, realized a scary precedent had been set, and their companies might be next. The “DExit” began.
Nevada and Texas have been the primary destinations for companies moving their headquarters, especially for companies whose leaders/founders have Trump-friendly political beliefs that might be subject to chancery court persecution in Delaware. These companies include Pershing Square (Bill Ackman) and Andreesen Horowitz (Marc Andreesen.)
Michael Dell just made a similar move to get out of Delaware before it’s too late.
Round Rock, Texas - Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved changing the jurisdiction of Dell Technologies’ state of incorporation from Delaware to its home state of Texas.
Delaware was sitting on a gold mine but (pardon the mixed metaphor) it decided to kill the golden goose by letting activists in judicial robes go on political vendettas against corporations not sufficiently obedient to the left.
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No Way-mo!
I’ve been a skeptic of self-driving cars. After a few weeks of Waymos gone wild in Texas, I’m even more of a skeptic now.
In Austin last week, a Waymo decided to use the oncoming traffic lane as a turn lane, even though it was completely across a double yellow line.
Meanwhile, in Dallas a Waymo at a red light decided that rather than wait for the light to turn green, it would just slowly creep into the intersection until traffic cleared enough for it to fully enter the intersection, despite the red light.
�� WAYMO ROBOTAXI CAUGHT RUNNING RED LIGHT IN DALLAS
Video shows the self-driving vehicle crossing through traffic at Irving Boulevard and Inwood Road. No injuries reported. @Waymo says it is addressing the incident and that safety remains its highest priority.… pic.twitter.com/Zjsud5zX67
— The Dallas Express News (@DallasExpress) May 12, 2026
Also in Austin, Waymos were seen driving into flooded roads, and then stopping in the flooded roadways. Video is at this link.
Even more terrifying, during heavy rains in San Antonio in late April, a Waymo drove into floodwaters and was swept away! Fortunately the Waymo was unoccupied at the time.
Waymo suspended service in San Antonio, and it has finally issued a broader recall due to its self-driving cars’ inability to identify standing water on roadways.
Authorities reported a bomb at an Alabama dam that posed “an unprecedented threat” during routine repairs on Tuesday.
Mobile’s water and sewer agency alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office after discovering a grenade-like improvised explosive device underwater at the federally designated Converse Reservoir dam, according to local media reports. The nearby Daphne Search and Rescue Team, Mobile Police Department (MPD), Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) and FBI bomb squad also responded to the scene.(RELATED: Trump DOJ Hits DC Pipe Bomb Suspect With Terror Charges)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was also notified of the discovery.
The Converse Reservoir is a 3,600-acre lake that “is the source of all drinking water and most raw water” for the Mobile area, according to the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS).
Officials have not released information on anyone potentially responsible for placing the bomb or how it happened. The Gulf Coast Regional Maritime Response and Render-Safe Team retrieved and safely detonated the device, Advance Local reported. . .
. . . “This is an unprecedented threat, and we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals,” MAWSS Director Bud McCrory said, NBC 15 reported. “We are grateful for the professionalism and competency of our law enforcement partners — as well as the quick thinking of our contractors and divers — in identifying this device and safely destroying it.”
Agencies are working to boost security around the dam, multiple outlets reported.
While this is indeed an "unprecedented threat," not to minimize the disaster that could have happened had the explosive detonated and the dam was actually breached, given our pre-Donald Trump non-existent border and immigration control, and the proclivities of our global adversaries/rivals and let's face it enemies, imagine a more sophisticated device planted at the base of Hoover Dam?
The man accused of starting the Palisades fire, one of the costliest disasters in U.S. history, was motivated by a resentment for the rich and viewed Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, as a Robin Hood-like figure, according to court documents detailing evidence gathered by federal prosecutors.
In a court brief filed last week, authorities say a forensic review of his computer showed Jonathan Rinderknecht searched “Free Luigi” and “reddit lets kill all billionaires” in December 2024.
Rinderknecht, 30, is accused of starting the Lachman fire in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 1, 2025, which smoldered underground for a week before exploding into the deadly Palisades fire.
I was thinking perhaps a whacko Red/Green enviro-communist, but anything that advances, in their twisted minds the cause of anti-Americanism and freedom is fair game. By any means necessary, right?
“A police station operating in New York City at the direction of the Chinese government has been exposed, its sinister purpose disrupted, and its founder held accountable for blatantly disregarding the law and our country’s sovereignty.” – U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. . . . Lu faces up to 10 years in prison for acting as an illegal foreign agent and an additional 20 years for obstruction of justice. His conviction underscores growing concerns about Chinese influence operations on U.S. soil. It also highlights the CCP’s global strategy to suppress dissent and exert its power far beyond its borders. On Tuesday, the National Pulse reported on Eileen Wang, the Democrat mayor of Arcadia, California, pleading guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government.
Lest we forget Eric Swalwell, NYC pol Grace Meng, Dianne Feinstein's chauffeur the Confucius institute's on college campuses all over America and on and on. Not to mention the massive tracts of farmland as well as real estate abutting sensitive military installations and far too many Chinese nationals employed in our defense and tech sectors as well as research facilities, stealing our secrets.
The recent indictment of former senior NIAID official David Morens has ripped the lid off the COVID-era corruption machine. Now, against the backdrop of the United States Senate investigation on COVID origins, North Carolina taxpayers and families also deserve to know whether their flagship public university played any role in the research that may have sparked the entire disaster.
Ralph Baric, a world-renowned virologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, by all accounts collaborated for years with Shi Zhengli at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology on bat coronaviruses capable of infecting humans. NIH grants under Anthony Fauci helped fund that work -- including controversial gain-of-function experiments that many experts now believe helped create the conditions for the pandemic.
As a state-supported institution -- with Chapel Hill as North Carolina’s flagship campus -- UNC owes its citizens full transparency. There are reports of public information requests being either ignored or stonewalled. Who was paid what, and why? Where did the money flow in from, and where did it finally land? What was the actual result of the research conducted in Chapel Hill -- a scientific breakthrough in a bottle, or harm to millions?
Leaving the investigation in the hands of the United States Senate is not enough.
On April 1, 2026, The MV Hondius, a Dutch-registered cruise ship, departed from Ushuaia, a city in southern Argentina. Between April 6 and April 28, a number of passengers became sick, with the first reported death on April 11. On May 2, an outbreak of hantavirus was officially reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). Hantavirus is carried by rodents and there are currently no targeted treatments or widely available vaccines. Consequently, the 18 American passengers have been put into quarantine. Sixteen of the passengers are being monitored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, while the other two passengers are at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. One of the passengers has been placed in biocontainment due to testing positive for the Andes virus, a hantavirus subtype. The passengers reportedly range from their late 20s to their 80s. Early symptoms typically include fatigue, fever, and muscle aches, especially in the larger muscles of the hips, thighs, and back. Hantavirus symptoms typically occur between one and eight weeks after exposure...
“The risk of hantavirus to the general public remains very, very low,” said Admiral Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
But the risk to Democrats, Leftists and globalists is existential, should they lose the next two elections.
Have a great weekend.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Mobile’s water and sewer agency alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office after discovering a grenade-like improvised explosive device underwater at the federally designated Converse Reservoir dam, according to local media reports. The nearby Daphne Search and Rescue Team, Mobile Police Department (MPD), Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) and FBI bomb squad also responded to the scene. Bomb Planted Near Mobile’s Water Supply And We Barely Know Anything
Unsurprisingly, Democrats are willing to eliminate black-majority congressional districts through redistricting in order to gain more political power, a new poll finds. Democrat politicians and pundits have long claimed that any proposed shift away from race-based gerrymandering is racist, repeatedly weaponizing the issue to smear Republicans Democrats Tell Pollsters They’d Happily Ditch Black Districts To Get More Power
Banks’ departure follows that of several top leaders within DHS. In March, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem departed the agency and was subsequently replaced by Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. Later that month, CBP Commander Gregory Bovino announced his retirement from the Border Patrol. A short time later, Todd Lyons, the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced his retirement effective May 31. DHS Shakeup Continues: Border Patrol Chief Banks Resigns
The committee’s findings expose significant vulnerabilities in Minnesota’s government programs, calling for stronger oversight and accountability measures. The report has sparked calls for federal investigations and for increased fraud prevention efforts in future legislative sessions. Final Walz Fraud Report Criticizes ‘Culture of Tolerance’ for Abuse.
HealthSplash owner Brett Blackman was convicted by a federal jury in the Southern District of Florida for his part in the scheme that officials said generated fake doctors’ orders and prescriptions to defraud Medicare and other benefit programs, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. DOJ: Man Convicted in $1 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme Targeting ‘Sick and Elderly’
This not the first case of its kind in Europe. In April this year, Italy deported Ali Kashif, an imam of Pakistani origin, after he was filmed endorsing child marriage. Citing passages from the Qur’an, Kashif claimed that girls could be married after their first menstrual cycle. In another case in Britain, a 52-year-old Muslim admitted to facilitating child marriage as part of an Islamic Nikah ceremony. It is a crime to arrange or facilitate a marriage involving anyone under 18 in England, even with parental consent. Imam Sentenced for Decade-Long Campaign of Rape and Abuse Against Women and Girls.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
Karol Markowicz:This week’s silence should be humiliating. It should be clarifying. It should, at last, wake up those Jews on the left who care at all about self-preservation — or that of their children. It’s long past time to leave this one-sided alliance behind. Face it, Jewish liberals: You have no friends on the left
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Douglas Murray: Nicholas Kristof raped my dog. At least that is what I have heard, from an anonymous source. A source who is intensely hostile to the New York Times columnist. And that’s good enough for me. Now I come to think of it, my pet pug has had a strange look on his face lately. As it happens, the rumor that I have just attempted to spread is far less lurid and fanciful than the one that the New York Times chose to spread around the world this week. The New York Times feeds anti-Jew hatred with a horrific lie
The New York Times reported Wednesday Andreessen Horowitz has funneled over $115 million to midterm election efforts, making the company the highest known political contributor. Soros, the liberal billionaire and longtime Democratic donor, has so far reportedly contributed nearly $103 million, followed by MAGA ally Elon Musk at $85 million. Tech Overlords Beat Out George Soros In Midterms Spending
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, more commonly known as the Clarity Act, a bill that would establish clear rules of the road for the burgeoning crypto industry. The bill advanced out of the committee 15-9, with two Democrats, Sens. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), voting for the bill. President Donald Trump has made making America the capital of the crypto industry a key priority of his second term in office. Exclusive — Sen. Cynthia Lummis: Enact Clarity Act Before Elizabeth Warren Tries to ‘Kill’ Crypto Industry
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Secretary Rollins published a statement on X amplifying Heartland Impact's video on Pathways to Dairy Net Zero. In the thread, Secretary Rollins warned that the initiative would "burden small farms with costly compliance," criticized "radical ESG mandates disguised as sustainability," and declared that "ESG mandates have no place in American agriculture." Heartland Impact Thanks USDA Secretary Rollins for Spotlighting Threat of Pathways to Dairy Net Zero
The question of whether Nowak hurled racial slurs at Digwa does not seem very relevant to the question of whether Digwa allegedly stabbed a stranger to death. I fail to see how murder could ever constitute a proportional response to heckling. And I question the wisdom of arresting a dying man because he might have said something racist. British Police Reportedly Arrest Stabbing Victim After Alleged Attacker Plays Race Card
They noted that suppressors are regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA), yet the city of D.C. goes beyond such regulation by actually banning them. Moreover, the DOJ claimed DC’s suppressor ban cannot survive the Bruen (2022) test. Trump DOJ Expands Lawsuit Against DC: Now Targeting Suppressor Ban Too
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan got into a heated exchange with Descano after his office removed his immigration policy from his website weeks prior to the hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement. Descano said his campaign promises are not actually his policies. Left-Wing Prosecutor Says Voters ‘Obtuse’ If They Expect Him To Keep Campaign Promises
During Democrat Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson’s absence, the Florida Democrat missed major votes like extending FISA surveillance authorities. Wilson’s official social media account also reused at least one photo of the congresswoman that was originally uploaded back in October. 83-Year-Old Democrat Absent For Dozens Of Consecutive Votes
California Democrats are fractured, unpopular, and vulnerable, giving Republicans their best chance in decades to make the Golden State competitive again. Reflections on the California Governor Race
While speaking on a call with the group known as Win with Black Women, the California leftist suggested her party should hold a “no bad idea brainstorm” in which participants consider implementing radical proposals such as court-packing and granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. once Democrats retake power. Dem Frontrunner Floats Packing SCOTUS, Nuking Electoral College As 2028 Platform
This rapidly developing trend in Republican-heavy states is not about independence: It’s about big-government policies being deliberately repackaged for voters who have grown skeptical of the liberal brand. And the left is using party labels to mask what should be a genuine debate about policy direction. Beware Democrats’ sneaky ‘independent-in-name-only’ midterm gambit
“Founding father Benjamin Franklin published the sayings of Confucius in his colonial newspaper, and today’s sculpture recognizing that ancient Chinese sage is carved into the face of the United States Supreme Court very proudly,” Trump said. “The appreciation ran in both directions. Chinese admirers of President George Washington gifted a stone tablet honoring his memory to adorn the Washington Monument. It bears the words of a Chinese official who called the great general and statesman, ‘a hero among men,'” he added. Trump, Xi Toast U.S.-China Relations at Historic Beijing Banquet
President Donald Trump turned Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “declining nation” line into a clean political contrast. Xi meant it as a warning about American weakness. Trump treated it as a diagnosis of Joe Biden’s years in power. Trump Flips Xi’s America-in-Decline Line Back on Biden
The situation in Cuba may be at or near a breaking point. Many experts — real ones whom I trust and learn from regularly, not just whoever the MSM could dig up — are calling today the "beginning of the end" of the regime that has been in power for 67 years. Cuba Falling: There's a Lot Going On Right Now. This Could Be the Breaking Point.
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . AND HISTORY
Lu faces up to 10 years in prison for acting as an illegal foreign agent and an additional 20 years for obstruction of justice. His conviction underscores growing concerns about Chinese influence operations on U.S. soil. It also highlights the CCP’s global strategy to suppress dissent and exert its power far beyond its borders. On Tuesday, the National Pulse reported on Eileen Wang, the Democrat mayor of Arcadia, California, pleading guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government. Man Convicted of Running Chinese Secret Police Station in NYC.
After Kittle regaled fans on the spider that frightened his wife in their bathroom and how he eliminated the threat, PETA jumped in and noted it was not amused at all by the tale of marital crisis, and they ripped into the seven-time Pro Bowler, the New York Post reported. PETA Takes Swat at 49ers Star George Kittle for Killing a Spider
ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day.
A year after it was released for the 9000 series, and eight months after the source code for a version that worked on RX 6000 and 7000 cards was accidentally leaked.
This is good news for owners of older AMD graphics cards - and also for Xbox and PlayStation owners, which use custom versions of those older graphics designs. In fact Sony has announced its own release of FSR 4 technology for the PlayStation 4.
It may be the console contracts that held AMD back from announcing FSR 4 for older cards for so long. They could have released a beta driver for PCs, but for consoles it has to just work.
The update will be out for the RX 7000 range in July; RX 6000 owners will need to wait until early next year.
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to another whelming Thursday night ONT. Content provided for those who are into that sort of thing. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Sushi Toro, a restaurant in Gelves, Spain’s Sevilla region, has been getting a lot of attention because of its decision to charge people extra if they end up vomiting on the premises due to overeating. Apparently, the eatery had seen many incidents of vomiting related to overeating in recent months and decided to do something about it.
“If a client throws up as a result of having eaten too much, the restaurant reserves the right to charge them an extra fee to cover damages,” a sign posted by Sushi Toro reads.
The Spanish restaurant explained that the growing number of vomiting incidents affects other diners, service, management and hygiene in the establishment, so they basically had no other choice but to implement the vomiting fee to discourage overeating.
The late John Pinette would never have been charged this fee!
Do you have any unique "all you can eat" places in your neck of the woods? Here in central MD, there are still some places that offer all you can eat steamed crabs. What are your favorite / least favorite "AYCE" places that you've ever been to?
We live in an age where digital tools promise to make everything faster, more efficient, more connected. Yet here's what's fascinating: some still carry physical notebooks.
Perhaps, they're not behind the times. Perhaps, they've discovered what neuroscience suggests - that the act of writing by hand does something to our brains that typing simply cannot replicate.
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Here's the trap we've fallen into: we've confused speed with effectiveness.
Typing can be fast, but speed does not always mean depth. A person can type an entire paragraph quickly and still realize afterward that they were barely present for the thought itself.
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How many browser tabs do you have open right now? How many notifications are waiting on your phone?
Our digital tools are designed to fragment our attention. Every app, every platform, every device is optimized to pull us in multiple directions at once. We've become so accustomed to this fractured state that we've forgotten what focused thinking feels like.
A blank page and a pen offer something radical in this context: constraint.
Many here at AOSHQ are definitely fond of old school stuff and ways. I personally feel like I employ a good blend of new tech vs older methods. Where do you fall on this spectrum?
It’s a downright creepy feeling. You’re striding confidently down what seems to be a clear, open path, and then you feel it. Stretchy filaments dragging across your skin, your clothes—even worse, your face. The more you try to backtrack and flail your way out of it the more you feel like Frodo wrapped in Shelob the spider’s deadly web, your luckier friends snickering like orcs ready to take you back to Mordor.
Long story short, walking through a spiderweb is awful. However, according to the National Park Service (NPS), there are ways to avoid the frustrating encounter. The first tip they list is sticking to the road most traveled. Since spiders are more likely to build their sticky and intricate homes near greenery, walking along the center of the trail can lessen your chances of becoming an arachnid home wrecker.
That word I mentioned above - arachnidiot - is a Sniglet (Rich Hall, HBO's "Not Necessarily The News"). A Sniglet is any word that isn't in the dictionary, but should be. Here's Rich with one installment of Sniglets
I use some Sniglets still to this day.
Twinch - The movement a dog makes with its head when it hears a high-pitched noise.
Flannister - The plastic yoke that holds a six-pack of beer or soda together.
Blivett - To turn one's pillow over and over, looking for the cool spot.
DJ Doof - This Date In Music History Edition
from thisdayinmusic.com
On this date in 1976: 33 year-old Keith Relf, former lead singer for The Yardbirds, was electrocuted while tuning a guitar which was not properly earthed.
Born on this date in 1966: American rock musician Mike Inez, best known for his role as the bassist of Alice in Chains since 1993.
Born on this date in 1962: C.C. Deville, lead guitarist from American rock band Poison
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The power of nature -- man is catapulted through the air after the roof he is trying to hold down is ripped off by powerful winds. In fairness, Crom laughs at your four winds.
If you live with a cat, congratulations, you live with a celebrity.
You know that odd bird call you always hear in movies set in the jungle? Apparently it's been a Kookaburra all along. But it's an Australian/New Guinean bird so I don't know what it's doing in every South American, Asian, and African jungle. Thanks for ruining jungle movies for me, Facts. And jungle movies are the best movies.
Steve Inman:
Street justice. The first clip I linked a month or so back, featuring a bunch of girls in cocktail dresses pulling hair and kicking each other. One girl gets her top pulled down and another girl seems to be wearing a thong or no underwear at all. The last one is great -- some "prankster" punches random people and videotapes it to see their reaction. The reaction is a knockout punch.
Podcast: Sefton and CBD are joined by Jeff Carter, candidate for NV treasurer, and seasoned finance professional, for a discussion of the issues facing Nevadans, and the larger financial challenges in America.
Few people remember that Norm MacDonald began his career as a ventriloquist MacDonald's old partner Adam Egot revealed that MacDonald repurposed a bit with one of his ventriloquist dolls -- that he was a "bad guy" who "didn't believe the Holocaust happened" -- for the Norm MacDonald show, in which he claimed Egot didn't believe in the Holocaust.
Funniest thing I've read about the Virginia mess. Back when they were hustling the referendum through the assembly both Senators, Warner and Kaine, advised them to go slow and play by the rules. Louise Lucas said she respected them but didn't need advice from the "cuck chair" in the corner. The gerrymandering was overturned and Louise is heading for the big house. Edward G. Robinson voice "where's your cuck now?"
Posted by: Smell the Glove
"Ahhhhh ahh I put my career on the line for Louise Lucas and Jay Jones thinking they'd vault me into presidential contention and we ended up costing Democrats 20 House seats and unleashing a Reverse Dobbs ahhhhh ahhh"
"It's f**king f**ked." -- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source" Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.
Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat
🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER
He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight
It's over
"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)
No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.
Only a cult does this.
Now they've lost 84%.
Annunziata Rees-Mogg
@zatzi
If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.
That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.
Cataclysmic
Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.
Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...
The British Patriot
@TheBritLad
🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.< br>
If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.
Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.
Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult. Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
Reform are basically wiping Labour out in the North. It's not a defeat. It's not even a rout. Labour are simply ceasing to exist.
Nick Lowles
@lowles_nick
Tonight’s results are calamitous for Labour. Not just for Keir Starmer's leadership, but for the very future of the party
STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98. Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years. Fulton County Georgia just discovered 400 boxes of ballots for Labour
Update: REF +156, LAB -107, CON -45
Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%.
I'm sure it's not this simple, but Reform is straight taking Labour's and the "Conservatives'" seats. They've lost almost exactly what Reform gained. If understand this right (and warning, I probably don't), all of London's council seats are up for election, and Labour might lose hugely there, as their old voters abandon them for Reform, Muslim Indenpendents, and the Greens.
REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.
Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that. People claim that while Labour has adopted the Sharia Agenda to appeal to the million Muslims it allowed to migrate to the country, those voters are ditching Labour to vote for the Muslim Independent Party or the Greens. Delicious. This shadenfreude is going straight to my thighs. Oh, and if Starmer loses about as badly as expected, Labour will toss him out of a window Braveheart style and replace him. He will announce he is resigning to spend more time with his Gay Ukrainian Male Prostitutes.
Media bias and senationalism are as old as, well, the media:
That was written by Denny O'Neill and illustrated by, get this, Frank Miller. Editor to the Stars Jim Shooter was in charge at the time. I always thought the gag was original to the comic book, but in fact the "Threat or Menace" headline was a satirical joke about media bias and sensationalism for a long while. The Harvard Lampoon used it in a parody of Life magazine: "Flying Saucers: Threat or Menace?"