The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists,” or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records obtained by Public and Catherine Herridge Reports. The designation created an “articulable purpose” for FBI or other government agents to open an “assessment” of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation, said a former FBI agent.
How Dare You question their decisions. How dare you not obey. Shut up and do what you're told, peasant.
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) coauthored the December 13, 2021 intelligence product whose title reads, “DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates.”
The report cites criticism of mandates as “prominent narratives” related to violent extremism. These narratives “include the belief that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, especially for children, are part of a government or global conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil liberties and livelihoods, or are designed to start a new social or political order.“
So anyone who wasn't a leftist drone, in other words.
According to investigators, preliminary information indicates the victim was brandishing a knife during an altercation and reportedly attacked a man who was armed. That man then shot the victim, possibly in self-defense.
Dalton, Georgia is about a 90 mile drive north of Atlanta, or about a 30 mile drive southeast of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The guy who did the shooting has not been arrested, because self-defense is your legal right in Georgia. The investigation is continuing.
You would think the bad guys would get the memo about the good guys being armed.
Yes she was a grandmother. And yes she was shot by police. That much is true. She was also the suspect in a domestic violence "incident," and she pointed a loaded gun at police.
But stating any of that in the form of a headline wouldn't paint the cops as bastards.
Oh, and she apparently shot her own daughter, and possibly drugged her.
I should categorize this as self-defense, but I will hold off. I usually only use that for non-police related shootings. But if this isn't clearly self-defense - point a gun at someone and expect to get shot in return - I don't know what is.
The second team cleared the rest of the house, locating the suspect barricaded in a locked back room. Deputies made contact with the locked room and issued multiple commands for the suspect to open the door and make herself known.
When deputies breached the door, they found the grandmother armed with a firearm in her right hand. Deputies issued multiple commands to drop the firearm. “She raises the firearm and our Deputy fires and neutralizes a threat,” Chief Deputy Maurer reported.
So no, the cops can't sue over the headline being defamatory, but the "professional journalist" who came up with that headline should ask themselves, "Why is it that trust in the media is at an all time low?"
Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Stone Creem (D) introduced a bill this year to create a commission with the goal of reducing the number of miles driven by residents in their cars because of ‘climate change’, with an ultimate goal to “reduce the need for personal vehicles.”
Because they hate your freedom, and they love control. Control of every aspect of your life.
On some level the answer is simple, and not surprising.
As part of the George Floyd riots, the Minneapolis, Third Precinct police station was burned down. The arsonists were prosecuted in federal court.
All of them got from two to four years in federal prison. What did these perps do to advance “social justice”? Where is the value-added? Who benefits from mindless destruction? Well, Democrats do.
Allegations of racism are political capital for Democrats.
It’s all about politics. It’s not about public safety or justice or any real concern about civil rights. Rather, it’s about Trump — Trump! Trump! Trump! — and the Democratic Party talking point that any time a Republican wins an election, it’s bad for black people. This is a sort of tautology that liberals never question, because they operate from the premise of their own good intentions (“we vote Democrat because we want to help black people”) and, on that basis, assume that anyone who opposes them must have bad intentions. To them, it’s self-evident.
There is much more. Click thru. The "more" includes an affordable housing project, which was under construction, was burned down and destroyed. In the name of social justice. Or something.
Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a petahertz transistor. (U. of Arizona) [SNIP]
At the current stage of development it is useless, but so is Congress
The DOGE cuts are overwhelmingly discretionary, not mandatory. The bill saves more than 1.6 TRILLION in mandatory spending, including the largest-ever welfare reform. A remarkable achievement. ..."
2. Does anyone think Facebook is any less of a far left wing agent of imposition of authoritarianism now than it was during the Obama/Biden years?
3. Historically, comedy was the only way you could ever tell the truth…
Germany: Hamburg: Knife Attack Suspect Was Known to Police
The suspect in the recent knife attack at Hamburg’s central train station had been known to police since 2021
ITEM 5: Eric Daugherty tweeted, “The Trump administration sent criminal aliens to South Sudan, from Texas, convicted of crimes including child r*pe, m*rder, r*pe of a handicapped person and more. And a judge in Massachusetts is now trying to BRING THEM BACK.”
Woke America: Trump’s Manhattan Project. The climate crisis. George Floyd. And at the Bee.
Lord Carney’s Canada: Hamas in Toronto. To serve and protect.
The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) was awarded grants through its U.S.-based affiliate, AN Foundation, from NED, a congressionally chartered and taxpayer-funded agency in Washington. The grants were paid to develop strategies on how to fight perceived disinformation in foreign countries.
But GDI's quarterly progress reports often explicitly boasted about the impact of censorship efforts on American targets and audiences.
They targeted The Blaze, The New York Post, The Daily Wire, Newsmax, and The Federalist. At least. They also specifically targeted Trump, and were so pleased when he was kicked off of social media in 2021.
Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online and a major anti-censorship activist, said the documents were stunning and disturbing.
“I am absolutely disgusted by these revelations, as should be every American and every world citizen to see the US government, under the Biden administration, actively funding a full-out campaign to pressure advertisers to defund private independent news sites who competed with the Biden State Department’s media narratives," Benz told Just the News.
"Everyone involved in this should be fired, and frankly, NED itself must be defunded," he added.
For years, my colleagues and I have been fighting this enormous machine of censorship. We knew it was an immense machine but we did not know the US government was behind it.
The Summer of Silly Decisions has arrived! Starting this weekend and for the next 100 days, poor life choices will accompany silly decisions resulting in maximum stupidity. However stupid or silly, they’re just kids, so we ask that you please do not demonize them.
For those not following Chicago politics, those last couple of characterizations of criminal activity are from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
The Mayhem was down considerably from the past few years.
Final Demonized Tally: 5 killed, 24 wounded
This being a 3-day, holiday weekend, HeyJackass! tracks the weekend as being from 12 noon on Friday through 6:00 AM on Tuesday. Are we encouraged that those numbers are an improvement, or dismayed that past years were worse?
Another smooth jazz song by way of the streaming service Tidal. I must say I am liking Tidal. One of the reasons I gave up on Spotify, was way it would screw up it playlists/radio stations. Spotify would build playlists in ways that would mix songs together, that had no business being together. I haven't noticed Tidal doing that, or if it does, it is rare.
The example I give about Spotify, is that it insisted on mixing German Heavy Metal, specifically Neue Deutsche Härte, with German folk music. Hey, it's all in German, it must be the same. Or at least that is what the algorithm at Spotify seems to think. They are not the same, and when you want to listen to one, you really don't want the other in the mix.
I’ve watched enough YouTube videos of officer-involved shootings in the past few years that I could probably qualify as an expert witness on the subject by now. Many times, there’s not much to learn from such videos — like, what part of “drop the knife” do I have to explain?
We've extensively documented the wave of what appear to be coordinated media attacks on Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) in recent weeks as members of his party grow more and more frustrated with his unwillingness to be a rubber stamp for the radical left's agenda on issues like illegal immigration and the Israel-Hamas war.
By the end of 2024, Connecticut and Virginia saw the light before green mandates extinguished it. They ended their EV lunacy. In April, 2025, Maryland did the same. And now Vermont Governor Phil Scott has ended Vermont’s mandate.
What a wild week! The Senators went to the Mistake By The Lake to face the Tribe, against whom we were 2-4, and managed a sweep. The bullpen saved us in Games 1 & 2, with Steve Foucault and Charlie Hough notching the wins, and Spaceman Lee returned to form in Game 3, outdueling Mickey Lolich for his 13th win. It [didn’t] go so well against the Royals at home.
Where Marxism has been tried on a large scale, it has resulted in extreme poverty and even mass starvation, killing tens of millions in Russia and China. Yet the malignant ideology does not go away, because economically it works quite well for those who impose it.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
Triggernometry on X - Why They Are Terrified of @elonmusk. They bring us a short excerpt of an interview with Richard Miniter, and they provide a link to the full 80 minute interview.
The homeowner told dispatchers that they were armed with a firearm. The suspect, officials said, eventually forced his way inside and was shot.
Deputies arrived at the scene around 11 p.m. where they found the suspect suffering from his wounds. Paramedics responded and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Riverside County, California is a geographically large county just east of Los Angeles and Long Beach. It stretches from about 40 miles east of the coast, east to the Arizona state line.
While they did take the homeowner in for questioning, no one was arrested. The investigation is on going.
The reporters in LA are getting more in tune with the ins and outs of self-defense. If anyone asked insane questions, this reporter, or the editor at least, didn't include them in the story. They seem to be coming to an understanding that self-defense is both a human right, and your legal right.
Then again, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Surveillance video shows the suspect approaching the counter, pretending to make a purchase and then pulling a gun.
Startled, Prince throws his hands in the air and begins handing over money from the register.
It didn't end there.
The shooter leaves the frame only to return to shoot Prince again, while he's on the ground.
He didn't survive.
He wasn't shot because he was a threat; his being shot while on the ground proves that. He wasn't shot because he was resisting; he wasn't resisting. He was shot because this bad guy didn't want a witness around.
Now having a gun for his own protection may not have saved this guy. There are no guarantees in this life. The Left, however, just loves to go on with the chorus of, "Just give them what they want, and you will be safe." (The Left never wants to discuss rape in that light, for some reason.) Even if he was armed, he may not have had an opportunity to respond. A barrier of bullet-resistant polycarbonate may have saved him, but that was clearly not present.
The clerk who got shot leaves behind a wife and child. Like I said, a tragedy.
They did catch the guy who, allegedly, did the shooting. He is charged with homicide, and more charges are expected.
The disregard for human life that is on display is astounding. Not shocking, really, since I read too many stories like this, but the level of ruthlessness and callous indifference toward someone's life, to execute them like this, I find more than a little disturbing.
The incident where the Mexican tall ship allided with a bridge in NYC, sparked several discussions, on the subject of, "How often does this happen?" One of those discussions was in the comments of my post on that incident.
Well, that kind of thing happens a lot, and Sal Mercogliano has decided, with the help of his subscribers (who send him stories), to share some of the funnier ones with us. I'm sure the people experiencing these things don't think they are funny, but no one died, unless North Korea has decided to execute someone. A couple people are probably going to have to update their résumés and seek new employment. (Don't expect a recommendation after doing that much damage!)
It was the thumbnail image that caught my attention. Well, I subscribe to What's Going on With Shipping?, but the image is striking. Pun intended. The ship went aground at 16 knots, in clear weather, so they will have some issues freeing it. And the crew will have to answer some pointed questions.
Here’s a question that Carter Sherman might want to consider: What’s so wrong about sex being “heterosexual, married, and . . . procreative”? Or what is so precious about other kinds of sex that the threatened “loss of freedoms” is a societal crisis? While we’re asking questions that feminists never bother to ask, was life really so awful for women in “the 1950s, before the Sexual Revolution and second-wave feminism of the 1960s and ’70s”? Are women happier now that many of them have no hope of achieving that kind of suburban life?
Actually most people I know, male or female, are not happier than people were in the 1970s. I'm sure my friends were not a cross section of America, but the crime of the '80s and '90s was just getting going. Kennedy's rising tide was making life better for a lot of people. 50 years on a lot has gone wrong.
One important difference between Peggy Orenstein and Carter Sherman is that Orenstein, born in 1961, at least has some direct knowledge of what life was like for her parents “before the Sexual Revolution and second-wave feminism,” whereas for Sherman, born in 1993, this is all ancient history. And, because she is a feminist, certainly Sherman believes that the 1950s were a Dark Night of Fascist Oppression — Leave It to Beaver was Nazi propaganda directed by Leni Riefenstahl, with Ward Cleaver as Hitler, and his wife June in the role of Eva Braun. Carter Sherman expects young women to share her existential fear — what a dreadful thing it would be to “turn back the clock” to those days!
Ghost is a band that is part Heavy Metal, and part something that reminds me of 1970s Rock. They released an album at the end of April, and I quite like a lot of the songs.
And no, this song doesn't have any relation to Memorial Day. When I was selecting a song for today, I was convinced that Memorial Day was next week, but then I'm lucky if I know what day it is, let alone what date.
Memorial Day is the day to honor those who fell fighting to preserve the republic and if Memorial Day falls, that's dishonoring every one of them. Every one of them gave themselves, their lives, their futures, for something bigger than themselves.
It's not just "the greatest generation" that saved the west in the all out war of WWII; it's all of them, from those we know of fighting in the first battles of the Revolution on April 19, 1775, (commemorated as Patriots' Day but some states shift the date to get a Monday Holiday) to those who were lost in Bumbling Biden's disastrous abandonment of Afghanistan, and those lost since then. We include losses from training accidents as well as actual enemy action.
It has been a few weeks since the guys at Unsubscribe Podcast first took aim at the Buffalo School System. On Saturday, they published another video. This one contains a whole bunch of receipts: Some info on school board members and the superintendent of the district being sorority sisters, some info on the local DA, and more stories from more schools. How the school district hires law firms to do "Third Party Investigations" of whatever has gone wrong (and a lot has gone wrong) so that the results are attorney-client privilege, and are NEVER disclosed to the public.
This is the Unsubscribe Podcast, Episode #214: ALARMING PROOF: Buffalo Schools EXPOSED For Hiding Child Abuse Evidence. It is quite a long video at an hour and 25 minutes, but full of good stuff. The beautiful thing about YouTube or Rumble videos is you don't have to watch them in one sitting.
Investigators said the homeowner in Aurora shot and injured the suspect just before 5 a.m. Monday.
There was a similar break in on the 17th, so the homeowner installed security cameras and they alerted him to the presence of an intruder.
The homeowner told police that when he went to his garage, he confronted the suspect and there was an altercation that ended when the homeowner shot the suspected intruder.
The guy who got shot was in the hospital with "life-threatening" injuries.
The final decision on charges rest with the DA, but self-defense is a human right.
Imagine a world in which half the population thinks its okay to physically attack someone that they disagree with politically.
According to an arrest affidavit, Laura Elizabeth Garrett, 33, was at Northeast Park and Paw Place located at 4630 East Bay Drive in Largo around 5:30 p.m. when she got into an argument with a 72-year-old man wearing a MAGA hat.
During the altercation, documents show that the victim told investigators that Garrett hit him on the back of the head and shoulder area with a can she was holding before she jumped a fence and walked away.
She would only admit to pouring the contents of the can on this old guy, but denied hitting him. As she was being arrested and escorted out of the park ...
... she wrapped both of her legs around an officer, causing him to fall to the ground and bruise his knee.
Charges include battery on a police officer and battery on a person 65 years old or older. All because she didn't like a hat.
I'm not a lawyer, but it is my understanding that both of those charges are felonies in the State of Florida. I suppose a plea deal will be offered, but even if she doesn't serve much time, a felony will follow her.
Blue haired freaks, Luigis, all of this was incited by Comey, AOC, and the entire Democrat establishment.
So I'm going to call this Peak Florida, because the headline does start with "Florida Woman." And the blue hair does make me think of the Blue Oyster Cult song.
From the moment Buffalo SVU Detective Richard Hy unveiled his allegations against the Buffalo Public Schools, the schools had a simple fix. They could take the allegations seriously, address them, thank Hy for bringing it to their attention, and then move on.
Instead, they called the allegations "untruths," which likely was a ploy to avoid being sued for libel when they knew the accusations were most definitely true. They've dragged their feet on their so-called independent investigation, and now they're doubling down on the stupid.
The board of education scheduled a meeting where parents could discuss their concerns, when they realized that the interest was off the charts, they changed the venue to a SMALLER location.
So yeah, rather than use a venue that could seat plenty who might wish to voice their concerns about what the hell is going on with their public school system, and honestly might be too small anyway, they're downsizing to a much smaller room that will artificially restrict the number of people who can physically attend the meeting.
That's some shady stuff, folks.
There is a lot more, including how making this may may violate New York's Open Meetings Law.
You can get up-to-the-minute news, or nearly so, on this subject by following Angry Cops, and The Fat Electrician on X.
Scary headlines about the Pacific Northwest sinking into the sea are circulating online, with warnings that a major earthquake in the notorious Cascadia subduction zone could be worse than expected.
After a flurry of articles from 2 or 3 weeks ago, I saw another cluster of articles in the past week. Maybe it was a slow news day.
Of course the furor seems to be over "estimated sea level rise by 2100." Take that as you will. At least it seems to have woken people up to the underlying issue. No one should be living in that part of the Northwest. Not that people will change.
People talk about "the big one" being an earthquake that hits the San Andreas fault in Southern California. San Andreas has about 6% of the potential of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, off the coast of Washington and Oregon. The earthquake and resulting Tsunami will kill many thousands of people who will not be able to get out of the way. A 2011 study by the Washington National Guard concluded that over 8,000 people would die. Later estimates triple that number of dead. More than 500,000 buildings would be damaged or destroyed, and about 400,000 people would need emergency shelter.
I had a post on the subject back in 2019, but the magazine article I quoted has moved behind a paywall, and the FEMA document referenced has moved, or been removed. I can find very little information from FEMA today, beyond the "executive summary" of the periodic exercises that they run. I suppose someone decided it was a security risk to publish the full documents, or a PR nightmare.
Here is a video from 7 years ago, on the topic from KING 5 Seattle: Disaster planning: Cascadia rising. Cascadia Rising is the name that FEMA gives to exercises that they run every few years to try to prepare for this event. It is six and a half minutes long.
Of course preparing should consist mostly of getting as many people as possible to move out of the area that will be devastated by the event. But that won't happen.
Bryan Malinowski's widow is suing the ATF. There are a lot of issues with what happened that day, including ATF agents NOT following government policy on dynamic-entry search warrants. And then there is the question of why was it a dynamic entry in the first place. Did they simply want to play dress-up in their tactical gear? Was it murder? Well that is how it seems to me.
This is a longer video than I usually feature, but the paperwork for the lawsuit is over 200 pages, so there is a lot of detail. Find 15 minutes, and weep for the loss of our freedoms that the ATF has been pushing.
This government has not been by the people, for the people, in a very long time.
That isn't really news, but at least the Police Chief and the Chief of Detectives are starting to say the quiet part out loud. The sanctuary laws in NY and NYC are contributing to the increase in crime.
There is too much that's good to pull a single quote. The video is less than 16 minutes. Find some time, and weep for the future of this country, because it isn't only in NYC where the rule of law has been destroyed by the Left.
“Two men were going door-to-door ... attempting to sell solar panel packages for their company. When they arrived at (the suspect’s home) and knocked on the door, they were greeted by a woman who was upset that they were there and told them to leave,” the sheriff’s office said.
“As they began to leave the property, they suddenly heard multiple gunshots and turned to see a man ... pointing a gun in their direction. Williams then fired several more times toward them.”
Port Charlotte, Florida is about a 30 mile drive north of Fort Myers, or roughly a 100 mile drive south of Tampa.
The solar panel salesmen were unharmed. The homeowner was arrested and charged with with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Slim sees his face on a moonlit wave
He grabs a shovel and digs his own grave (Florida man)
Lee hates plate glass, he drives right through it
Said Alice's caterpillar made him do it (Florida man)
Fortnite is available on iOS again after a federal judge ordered the Apple executives involved in denying it to appear personally in court. (9to5Mac)
I have little interest in Fortnite or in iOS, but this is satisfying.
In other foreign policy news, from the Center Square, Ukraine crisis will end in 'negotiated settlement,' says Rubio: 'There is no military solution' "Rubio's frank assessment of the conflict comes less than a day after President Donald Trump tried to push forward with a ceasefire
When is an executive law enforcement agency not an executive law enforcement agency? I guess whenever a judge decides they simply want to ignore the concept of separation of powers.
Victory Girls: Salon And Incurable Trump Derangement Syndrome
Watts Up With That: EXCLUSIVE: Almost All ‘Extreme’ Temperature Highs in UK Now Being Recorded at Junk Sites with Massive Possible Errors
Columbia Anti-Israel Group Praises D.C. Shooter’s Actions
An anti-Israel activist group linked to the library takeover at Columbia University put out a statement Friday praising alleged Capital Jewish Museum shooter Elias Rodriguez
The Supreme Court rules that, no, you can’t overthrow democracy just because someone disagrees with the radical transexual agenda: “Supreme Court Orders Maine House to Restore Vote of Lawmaker Censured over Post Criticizing Trans Athlete.”
1. This is a good article on the conviction of Tamara Lich and Chris barber after a 13 month ‘Mischief’ trial. Worth the read.
Does the right to peacefully protest and freedom of speech still exist in Canada?
Woke America: It’s gay sex season. Living in California. Trump must convert to Islam? Neil Young is upset again.
Lord Carney’s Canada: Blackie will receive two pensions
The Lid: U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Trump on Firing Federal Employees in Independent Agencies
Legal Insurrection: Gene-Editing Breakthrough Saves an Infant with a Rare Disease
Why New Zealanders are emigrating in record numbers
Oh I don’t know, maybe it’s the lasting effects of fleeing the government that was the model for Fauci Flu tyranny?
Democracy cannot function without informed citizens. And citizens cannot be informed when they are being systematically lied to.
Unmasking the Real Threat to America's Democracy
It should read, "15-year-old criminal shot attempting to break into an occupied home," which should qualify as felony stupidity, but sadly does not.
As for the misleading headline, it couldn't be that Professional Journalists hate guns and gun owners, could it? Could they be letting their personal bias impact the way the report a news story? Professional Journalists would never do that, would they? </sarcasm>
Deputies said the homeowner told them that he shot at the people who were trying to break into his home. According to the sheriff's office, a 15-year-old girl from Jackson was shot and is in the hospital; she is expected to survive.
She wasn't alone.
The sheriff's office said three people are believed to be involved in the alleged breaking and entering. They have been found, detained, and interviewed.
No one was arrested, which makes me believe that all were juveniles.
Summit Township, in Jackson County, Michigan, is about an 85 mile drive west of Detroit, in the central part of the state.
So what were you doing at the age of 15? I'm guessing felony breaking and entering wasn't on the menu.
The DA will determine if anyone is charged with anything. As for the homeowner, self-defense is a human-right, and mostly your legal right in Michigan.
It is almost like Marvel doesn't know how to make a movie anymore. You write a script. You read the script. You decide if it's good based on the script. And THEN you make the movie. This whole "Let's start making the movie before we know what the story is" just doesn't work.
And it isn't getting better. Fantastic Four: First Steps seems to be the worst example, of a collection of bad examples.
According to a post on X by user Will-Iam Smith, audiences didn’t respond well to the film’s ending during early test screenings. The post reads:
“Hearing the test screenings didn’t go over well because audiences didn’t vibe with the ending, so now they’re reshooting some scenes. I’m still hopeful it’ll be good, but it’s a little worrying — Marvel really needs this one to be a home run. #FantasticFour”
Which was brushed off as rumor, but That Park Place has confirmed that they are, or were, reshooting the ending.
Pedro Pascal stood in front of the international press at Cannes, dropped an F-bomb on political opponents in the United States, promoted a film that vilifies conservatives, and walked away with applause and headlines. Meanwhile, Gina Carano — who said far less, without profanity or attacks — remains blacklisted from Hollywood, forced to take her fight to court.
He basically told everyone who he doesn't agree with to F- Off. Not in so many words, but the meaning is clear.
I would like to say that Pedro Pascal being an idiot destroyed any desire I had to see this movie, but most of that desire was killed when they announced he would play Reed Richards, and then they said that the movie would address gender politics, and to do that they gender-swapped the Silver Surfer. I will see this movie when the DVD comes to my library, and I can watch it for free. Maybe.
Gunship is a British synthwave band. Synthwave is an outgrowth of French House Music. It is described as sounding like the soundtracks to Sci-Fi movies. House Music in general is an outgrowth of the music found in the clubs from Chicago, Detroit, New York, etc. and probably some places like West Berlin, from the 80s and 90s, and earlier.
This song is "Moster In Paradise" by Gunship from their 2023 album Unicorn. It features help from Milkie Way, Tim Cappello, Dave Lombardo, and Tyler Bates
There is an official video. Find it at this link. It comes with a warning about flashing lights causing discomfort or seizures. I find it more than a little distracting, bordering on painful.
Listening to someone recently, may be Joe Rogan, saying that in five years we won't be able to tell the difference between reality and AI generated media. He's probably correct.
I recently saw a very powerful documentary called “Follow The Silenced”, it’s a in depth look at some of the vax injured by the covid experimental DNA altering injection that everyone from Rachel Madcow, Tony (Lock him up) Fauxci and Joe Biden assured everyone was “safe and effective”.
Despite its impracticality and expense, the left loves to romanticize train travel. I think much of it is because left-wing media types all live in the Acela corridor, where passenger rail infrastructure is plentiful. They don’t consider everyone else in “flyover states,” where travel by air or car makes more sense.
There’s another reason why the left fetishizes rail. Europe has embraced it hook, line, and sinker, and leftists are obsessed with the U.S. becoming more like Europe.
A Santa Rosa County man was bitten by a bear while trying to protect his dog from the wild animal early in the morning on May 15.
After the attack, the bear left the property. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will place a trap, and if caught the bear will be killed. Relocation is not an option for bears that have become a safety risk.
The attack was the second in Florida in the last two weeks. Florida authorities found Robert Markel and his dog deceased on May 5 following a bear attack on Markel's property near Jerome, a small unincorporated community 30 miles east of Naples, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Gulf Breeze, Florida is about 3 miles across Pensacola Bay from Pensacola. It isn't on the barrier islands, it is still part of the mainland, just on a narrow strip of land, which you can reach by way of the US 98 bridge, also known as the Pensacola Bay Bridge, across the bay.
That was the first fatal bear attack in Florida's history.
When someone tells you that no one needs a weapon, ask what this man should have done? Or do they want everyone to end up dead?
Math is hard, especially when the numbers don't tell the story that you want them to tell.
There is a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of the gun control group, Everytown. If you are interested, click thru. As far as I'm concerned, it's the same old song and dance.
While [Everytown for Gun Safety president Nick] Suplina credits the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and unnamed "improvements to state laws", he ignores the additional states that have adopted permitless carry over the past few years and seen their crime rates decline dramatically. In Alabama, for instance, homicides in Birmingham have dropped by 42% this year, despite Mayor Randall Woodfin's claim that the state's permitless carry law led to an historic increase in murders in 2024.
That is one city.
Louisiana also adopted permitless carry in 2024, and homicides in New Orleans have dropped 21% compared to the same time period in 2024. Other cities in permitless carry states that have seen double-digit decreases in their homicide rates include St. Louis (down 43.9%), Dallas (down 34%), Louisville (down 33%), Phoenix (down 33%), and Memphis (down 12.5%). According to the anti-gunners, these cities should be in the midst of skyrocketing murder rates, but we're seeing the opposite instead.
There are also a few words on the pro-2A stance of the current Trump administration. Click thru.
The situation is so bad, that in a recent livestream promoting the product in question, Marathon, they showed no footage of the game.
Marathon developer Bungie has been accused of, and has now admitted to, stealing artwork used in the current build of Marathon from an artist who first published the work in 2017.
That artist is ANTIREAL, who posted several comparisons of her work and existing Bungie Marathon assets which go far beyond “inspiration” and often are direct 1:1 lifts of images, words, symbols and even ANTIREAL’s own personal logo.
This was what was identified, and not by Bungie. Bungie eventually admitted to the theft, blamed it on an ex-employee, though several members of the art department apparently do follow @4nt1r34l on either X or Instagram.
There is no disputing the asset rips. They are 1:1 in many, many cases that are clear to see. The result of that, if Bungie will simply cut the artist a check and credit them, is unclear. It is possible that legal action could be pursued here but the artist did not seem to think they had the resources to mount the campaign. That could change, given the attention that this story has now gotten.
If you click the link at the top, the first image, of many, shows an image copied directly from Antireal's catalog into the game, with only the color grading being changed. Fewer changes were made in other places.
So if this was done so blatantly, did Bungie steal anything else from anyone else? A review is underway.
I believe it is too early to start naming and blaming specific individuals within Bungie, but the studio will need to do an intense investigation into this and come out with a lengthy explanation in addition to the terms they’ve come to with the artist, publicly. And they may promise this will not happen in the future but it has now happened four times in the past four years, the others with Destiny fan art that was lifted in some capacity for the game or in merchandise. That was third party contractors, however, and this is Bungie in-house. Or former in-house. Or whatever you want to believe.
So if something that should never happen, happened four times in four years, that means you have no procedures in place to prevent it, and you are not training your employees in the fine details of copyright. That would seem to be another problem.
This isn't the only example of the games industry stealing stuff. There were at least a couple of examples of similar insanity in Assassin's Creed: Shadows from Ubisoft, though only one example of plagiarism that I can recall. Aside from lifting a banner from a historical-reenactment society, Chinese architecture was included in a game based in Japan, and then there was the one-legged Torii gate fiasco.
It's almost like the large corporations think they will never get caught.
Chaos has engulfed Bungie after an artist, ANTIREAL, came forward to accuse Bungie of ripping off her 2017 work as its upcoming extraction shooter Marathon was starting to take shape as early as 2018. Bungie admitted to the plagiarism, supposedly the work of one ex-artist, and promised to make things right, but the story gained traction among gaming outlets and reaction streamers alike, and it’s poisoned the previous positive conversation about the aesthetic of the game.
But all of this is happening after another not-great time period for Marathon in the last few weeks, starting with the gameplay reveal and then its Closed Alpha, both of which received mostly mixed-to-negative feedback. A livestream on Friday addressed both the art plagiarism and Alpha feedback in what ended up being the most uncomfortable on-camera offerings I’ve ever seen from the studio.
Marathon was supposed to be released in a few months time, but that is questionable. Even if they come to some agreement with Antireal, they clearly need to review all of the art to see if anything else has been stolen.
The results of the alpha test may be a bigger hurdle.
Preliminary investigations found that Parker may have been attempting to break into the home. Once he entered, at least one person inside the home allegedly shot him with a “legally owned firearm,” the release said.
Or how would you respond to someone breaking into your home at 5 a.m.?
Lorain, Ohio is on Lake Erie, about a 30 mile drive west of Cleveland.
There are few details beyond that being released, because the investigation is just getting underway.
Self-defense is a human right, and Ohio has fairly decent laws defending that, at least when you are in your own home.
There’s no rule book for carjackers. But, if there were, “Don’t crash into a squad car occupied by an anti-carjacking task force” would undoubtedly be an essential chapter.
Perhaps Marshun Fort and Kayne Hunt can start scratching out a draft of that chapter while they await trial on carjacking and robbery charges in the Cook County Jail.
The amazing thing, aside from the sheer stupidity on display, is that they judge ordered these 2 detained pending trial.
The "End of 10" website is a cooperative effort to let people know that they have other options besides buying a new computer.
The campaign is a noble attempt to raise public awareness. It carries a simple, clear message in large, friendly letters: when Windows 10 reaches the end of its life in five months' time, you don't need to buy a new computer.
The article recommends a couple of options for a system that looks like Windows. I personally like Linux Mint, mostly because it is easy to install.
What do people use their computers for? Web browsing. Google Chrome, the slightly less-Google Chromium, Brave, Firefox, and more are all on Linux. Email. Thunderbird email client is the same as on Windows, if you don't care for the web interfaces provided.
For Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, etc. I have been using LibreOffice for a very long time. It is 99.3% like Office, but it doesn't come with a yearly fee. Or any of Microsoft's AI "upgrades."
One of the most interesting parts of the site is the list of places where visitors can find Linux support. There are over 70 around the world, but with a noticeable concentration so far in Germany. (Our favorite is the splendidly named Serious Cybernetics in Australia, and for clarity, nowhere near Sirius.)
Click thru if you're a bit miffed at Microsoft for this insanity.
Facebook is arguing in court that the FTC has no case that Facebook has become terrible because Facebook was always terrible. (Ars Technica)
They might have a point there.
ITEM 12: Zero Hedge reported, “Moody's Downgrades USA Credit Rating From Aaa.”
Sure, this will force higher interest rates on the national debt, but we’ll just borrow more money to cover that. Right?
Nick Arama at RedState watches Scott Jennings, Bill Maher Light It Up on Trump's Powerful Speech, Transformative Change He's Bringing, Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "President Trump has flipped "war and peace" to "peace and war
Father of Palm Springs Explosion Suspect Details Son’s Childhood
The father of Guy Edward Bartkus, the suspect in the Palm Springs in vitro fertilization facility explosion, says that he was “shocked” when a relative reached out and said his son ...
Don Surber: It’s not Trump they fear – it’s you
Gates Of Vienna: The Dawn of a New Day in Telephony, Honor Killings: Party Like It’s 1099, and Martel And Macron
The Lies in New York’s Assisted Suicide Bill
New York is close to passing a bill to legalize assisted suicide. Having passed the assembly, it is currently being considered in the senate.
Woke America: Will RFK jr win his battle? Trump posts wild clip. A New Jersey imam. Sharia Philly.
Lord Carney’s Canada: Will parliament recognize Palestinian Nakba Day?
REVIEW: ‘The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed’ by Jason L. Riley
Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action
Report: DNC on Brink of ‘Chaos’ over Potential Ouster of Vice Chair David Hogg.
South Carolina Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Law Banning Abortion at Point When Heartbeat Can Be Detected.
