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Copy/Paste

I never want to hand it to Republicans, but this is a good template Dems can copy in response to DHS actions. Restitution is important!

“I want to make sure that Homeland Security can provide me with the definitive list of people who were detained, how long they were detained, whether or not they were released and, when property was damaged, whether or not they’ve been provided proper restitution,” Tillis said, in the hearing. “We’re the party of law and order, and I want to make sure that we’re also orderly in the process of enforcing it.”

No idea what is motivating Tillis here. I'm sure he will have different opinions about other nasty states - I certainly don't think Tillis is joining the Resistance - but the basic demand is good!

Afternoon Levity

From America's finest news source.

WASHINGTON—In the wake of a controversial incident aboard Air Force One in which President Donald Trump insulted a female journalist, Vice President JD Vance is said to have wept in his office bathroom, furious that the commander-in-chief had used his special “piggy” nickname on someone else. “But I’m supposed to be his piggy—I’m supposed to be his only piggy,” a weeping Vance said this week as he collapsed against the locked bathroom door and slid down onto the tile. “Somebody’s in here! Just give me a second! God, it’s not fair. She didn’t even do the oinks. It was hard enough to have to hold it together after he called Marjorie Taylor Greene a ‘ranting lunatic’ last week, but this—this is a bridge too far. Who does that bitch reporter think she is? I’m his piggy. Me! You just need to pull yourself together, JD, and show him you’re still his best little piggy.” At press time, Vance had reportedly locked himself in his bedroom and refused to come out after hearing Trump refer to someone else as a “fat slob.”

Seems Bad

I know there are no magic wands, but the Dem leadership has discouraged members from making an issue of this stuff since it started.

Multiple sources told Target 12 that Rhode Island sheriffs earlier noticed someone taking photos of the intern inside the courthouse and in Superior Court Judge McBurney’s courtroom. When approached, the individual identified himself as an ICE agent and was told to abide by standard courthouse rules, and to stop taking pictures.

The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.

Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked.

And Schumer and Jeffries have been almost silent themselves.

I have a lot of hate for Chuck but, man, Jeffries fucking sucks so hard. Chuck has some talents beyond "sucking up to Nancy Pelosi."

Lunch

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Newspapers Against Disclosure

I suppose we're nearing the era of "just ignore the Washington Post, everybody who matters does" but we are not quite there yet. Still DC's major newspaper and one of the remaining few national newspapers coming out against public disclosure is quite funny.

After all, the purpose of criminal investigations is to determine whether people are guilty of crimes. The Justice Department exists to prosecute those crimes. It does not exist to satisfy public curiosity. That’s a job for Congress and journalists. When prosecutors leak investigative information about people who haven’t been charged with a crime, that is normally considered a breach.

Yet here the Justice Department, by popular demand, is being directed to open its investigative books and publish a trove of information related to any “entities” with “known or alleged ties” to Epstein. That could include private information obtained in search warrants that is not incriminating.

Is the implication here that ordering the release is bad but it would be OK if it was all just leaked to journalists? But that would be bad, because it's a breach? I don't understand. And Congress is... passing a law to make this happen? Doing their job? Is there something different Congress can do here?

Sure the ideology of the WaPo is bad but also they are all stupid motherfuckers.

I swear nobody is even trying anymore.

Presidential Pardon Candidates

#Metoo has gone too far. President Trump, please fix this injustice!

Weisenburg and Thomas prepared from August 2024 to July 2025 to execute their plans, in which they allegedly intended to buy a boat, sail to Gonâve Island, kill every man on the island, overtake it by force, and take the women and children as sex slaves.

Gonâve Island has a population of about 87,000.

Elon Make A Boom Boom

This kind of thing is to be expected and the important thing is that SpaceX was able to obtain valuable the data that these kind of exercises provide (it's a piece of shit).

During the pre-dawn hours in South Texas on Friday morning, SpaceX’s next-generation Starship first stage suffered some sort of major damage during pre-launch testing.

The company had only rolled the massive rocket out of the factory a day earlier, noting the beginning of its test campaign, it said on the social media site X: “The first operations will test the booster’s redesigned propellant systems and its structural strength.”

Verdict: no structural strength.

Morning

Get it started.

Thursday Night

Rock on.

Motive

I thought for awhile what the motive for this would be, if we rule out mental illness (don't know!), and I suppose it's that being martyred by the evil libs can be a very lucrative play.

Appropriately Reported, At Least

Cool beans.

The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

Welp

 (in response to Dems telling the military not to follow unlawful orders)

I blame the heated rhetoric of The Left.

Freedum

Smell it.

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.

The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement.

Suddenly, drivers find themselves pulled over — often for reasons cited such as speeding, failure to signal, the wrong window tint or even a dangling air freshener blocking the view. They are then aggressively questioned and searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar.

Larry Summers To Join Harvard Institute Of Politics

(joke)

Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

Malware 11

There have inevitably been numerous meetings in Microsoft (and other companies) where someone has pointed out that their spicy chatbot rollout has numerous catastrophic privacy and security issues and is therefore completely unsuitable and dangerous, and was overruled by someone else saying, "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

Microsoft’s warning on Tuesday that an experimental AI agent integrated into Windows can infect devices and pilfer sensitive user data has set off a familiar response from security-minded critics: Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and contained?

As reported Tuesday, Microsoft introduced Copilot Actions, a new set of “experimental agentic features” that, when enabled, perform “everyday tasks like organizing files, scheduling meetings, or sending emails,” and provide “an active digital collaborator that can carry out complex tasks for you to enhance efficiency and productivity.”

Hallucinations and prompt injections apply The fanfare, however, came with a significant caveat. Microsoft recommended users enable Copilot Actions only “if you understand the security implications outlined.”

I Don’t See How Donnie Two Scoops...

I don’t like to be a doomer, but there is no way anything gets released in the "Epstein Files" that incriminates him

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Bending Towards Justice

It isn't perfect, but 2010 me would definitely enjoy hearing about Larry's later in life humiliation.

Harvard has started a new review of ties that its former president, Lawrence H. Summers, and others at the institution had with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the university.

I don't really understand people like this, but Larry loves being in the public eye and doing media hits and well...

The Crimson keeps whacking him.