Back in the heyday of Cyberpunk and the beginning of the Internet Revolution, there was a saying bandied about by Bruce Sterling and others: information wants to be free. That tendency for information to escape the bounds placed by repressive governments helped pull down the Berlin Wall and end the Soviet Union.
Despite that, governments around the world still continue to impose censorship on information they deem to hurt their own preferred narratives, despite the colossal failure of all but complete totalitarian regimes like North Korea to prevent such information from spreading. Just look at how all the truths the Democrat media complex and European elites wanted to hide in 2020 eventually came out, and the effort to censor them in the name of “fighting misinformation” ended up backfiring.
The latest example of a regime attempting to hide information they don’t like comes from Nepal, where two days ago the commie government tried to ban social media platforms.
Nepal’s government has banned dozens of social media platforms after they failed to comply with new registration requirements, disrupting essential communication and raising concerns over free speech.
The 26 blocked platforms include messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and WeChat, as well as websites like YouTube and LinkedIn.
The ban, which went into effect on Thursday after a one-week ultimatum to the social media companies expired, has caused confusion across the country. It has ignited fears about how it could affect press freedom and the tourism industry, and particularly about how families can continue to communicate with relatives working abroad as migrant laborers. About 7.5 percent of Nepal’s 29 million population was living abroad in 2021, according to census figures cited by the Nepal Economic Forum, a research institute.
Officials at Nepal’s ministry of communication and information technology said the ban was enforced after the platforms refused to comply with a new law regulating social media, despite several formal requests.
Sounds an awful lot like what the EU is trying to do, doesn’t it?
The proper response to all such government demands is “Get bent!”
Gen Z protesters have set fire to Nepal’s parliament and the prime minister’s house, forcing his resignation, amid a deadly crackdown on dissent sparked by a social media ban.
There’s video:
KP Sharma Oli, the four-time prime minister and leader of the Communist Party, stood down on Tuesday after violent youth demonstrations in Kathmandu left at least 19 people dead and more than 500 injured on Monday.
So a commie wanted to censor his own people. What are the odds?
The unprecedented violence left the capital shrouded in smoke and forced security forces to retreat, with ministers reportedly plucked to safety by military helicopters after some were chased down the street and assaulted.
Corrupt commies deserve to end up like Nicolae Ceausescu.
Oh yeah, corruption. People exposing that was a big reason why the government wanted to impose censorship.
What are the protesters’ demands?
Their two main demands have been clear: the government lifting the ban on social media, which has now happened, and officials putting an end to what they call “corrupt practices”.
Protesters, many of them college students, have linked the social media blockade with curtailing freedom of speech, and widespread allegations of corruption among politicians.
“We want to see an end to corruption in Nepal,” Binu KC, a 19-year-old college student, told BBC Nepali. “Leaders promise one thing during elections but never deliver. They are the cause of so many problems.” She added the social media ban had disrupted her education, limiting access to online classes and study resources.
Subhana Budhathoki, a content creator, echoed the frustration: “Gen Z will not stop now. This protest is about more than just social media – it’s about silencing our voices, and we won’t let that happen.”
What is the ‘NepoKids’ trend and how is it related to these protests?
A defining feature of the protest has been the widespread use of two slogans -#Nepo Baby and #Nepo Kids.
These two terms have gained popularity on social media in the past few weeks after a number of videos showing the lavish lifestyles of politicians and their families went viral in Nepal.
Protesters argue these individuals enjoy success and luxury without merit, living off public money while ordinary Nepalis struggle.
Viral videos on TikTok and Instagram have contrasted the lavish lifestyles of political families — involving designer clothes, foreign travel and luxury cars — with the harsh realities faced by young people, including unemployment and forced migration.
The slogans have become symbolic of a deeper frustration with inequality, as protesters compare the lives of the elite with those of everyday citizens.
William Gibson once said that the future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed. A cyberpunk revolution against an oppressive communist regime sounds like it should have happened in the 1990s, but Nepal is finally getting theirs in 2025.
Let’s hope they drive the commie scumbags out of power entirely.
Every year the timeless adage to “Never bring a knife to a gun fight” gets bandied about, and every year at least one dumbass does just that.
Today’s dumbass is Tikila Walker, AKA Florida Woman.
The incident happened on August 15 in Gulf County, Florida. Police in Port St. Joe responded to a call from a repo driver at 3:42 p.m. who said 41-year-old Tikila Walker had fled while he was trying to repossess her white Ford Fusion for failure to make payments.
Police located Walker, but she fled, getting involved in a hit-and-run at 4:19 p.m. The other driver didn’t press charges against Walker, but the repo driver caught up and police had to deescalate an argument between the two while Walker remained in her car.
Walker drove away to escape the repo man, but at 5:52 p.m., she was involved in another hit-and-run at a convenience store after the repo man had tried to box her in.
At 6:01 p.m., police located her again. She refused to get out of the vehicle after police tried once again to deescalate the situation. She then charged at them with a knife.
And yes, there’s video.
The money shot comes precisely 3 minutes in.
Keep in mind, this is after one of them has already tased her seven times.
She survived and was arrested after treatment at the hospital.
This is such a textbook justified shooting they’ll probably teach it in law courses next year.
If you are surrounded by three cops, one of whom has already tased you, and you find yourself thinking “I should grab this knife and charge one them,” this is the precise moment when you should stop, reflect on the possibility that you’re making a really bad decision, and reconsider your life choices.
As greed, bias and AI enshittification continues to degrade Google’s once-vaunted search dominance into barely usable garbage, similar problems are degrading the usefulness of video searches on YouTube.
For once it’s not the ad block wars, as the ad-blockers (and ad-block blocker blockers) seemed to have handily gained the upper hand for the last several weeks. What’s ruining YouTube right now are shorts and AI slop.
For some reason, the powers that be at Google/YouTube have decided that just being the most dominate video platform in the world isn’t enough, and what they really want to do is mimic the braindead hellscape that is TikTok. Hence the bite-sized morsels of annoyance that are Shorts. A good bit of the time, when I’m on YouTube, I’m looking for content to post here. (Or at least that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it.) Shorts, being non-embedable, are useless to me. Plus I have no desire to be shunted into your scrolling TikTok clone.
The first tool needed to reverse the enshittification of YouTube is a way to exclude Shorts from search results.
The second thing enshittifying YouTube is the AI Slop infecting the platform these days. Now, I don’t object to the mere existence of AI generated videos there, as some are pretty interesting and/or amusing, like those “Super Panavision” Star Wars re-imaginings, or the imaginary Wes Anderson remakes.
What I object to is those being plopped down in my video feed and search results without any disclaimer that they’re AI. Worse still, AI videos are not only being created and uploaded more than ever, they’re actually being created exponentially and algorithmically, as shown in this Speeed video from five months ago (which I think I’ve linked to before).
It’s one thing when a human tells an AI to create a video, but quite another when AIs are automatically spamming videos to YouTube without human intervention, a mindless army of sorcerer’s apprentices creating more sorcerer’s apprentices, just on the off-chance they’ll suck in enough eyeballs to monetize their ever-rising tide of slop.
Worse, these two flaws combine when setting the previously quite useful “Upload date” filter for video searches. For a lot of things, almost the entire feed is now AI slop shorts that combine the worst of both worlds. For a non-political example, a search for “dog rescue” videos quickly turns up obvious AI slop like this, or this, or this.
They second tool needed to fight the enshittification of YouTube is a new category for the “Report” button where you can label something “AI Slop,” and then have a search option to exclude things tagged AI slop from your search results.
These are two obvious moves to improve the quality of the user experience. So naturally, I don’t expect the powers-that-be at YouTube/Google to implement them…
Oh the glories of Intersectionality! Up in Ottawa, pro-Palestinian protestors blocked a gay pride parade.
Ottawa’s annual Pride parade was cancelled Sunday after being disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters.
A group called Queers for Palestine – Ottawa had organized a rally to coincide with the Pride parade.
Queers for Palestine is every bit as logical as Cattle for Burger King.
Elected officials and other groups boycotted last year’s parade after Capital Pride released a statement expressing solidarity with Palestinians, but the statement has since been removed from the organization’s website.
A video posted online today shows a protester calling for Capital Pride to recommit to solidarity with the pro-Palestinian cause and for elected officials who boycotted last year’s parade to apologize.
Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, who attended Sunday’s parade, says it was “deeply regrettable” that the group of activists chose to block the event.
I bet ordinary Canadians think it “deeply regrettable” that you’re such a spineless pussy that you let activists block a legal parade and do nothing about it.
Asmongold has some video:
“‘No Pride in Genocide.’ I’m going to be real, that’s a pretty good one.”
“Basically it’s two caterpillar Karens getting in a fight with each other about whose cause is more oppressed.”
“The left is cannibalizing itself. Oh, it will. The reason why is that it has no mechanism to rein in extreme actors.”
“Being a left-wing person is like living in a Russian nesting doll of infinitely many purity tests. And if you say no to any of those, you’re instantly a Nazi.”
“Virtue signaling civil war.”
“Muslims outrank LGBT.” Do they? Does anyone have an intersectionality chart that actually answers victimization on the head of a pin questions like this?
While there’s a question as to which social justice victimhood identity politics sect outranks which, there’s none as to how devout Muslims regard homosexuals They are to be stoned. Execution is explicitly authorized as punishment for homosexual acts in many Muslim countries, including those of Hamas benefactor Iran. In Palestinian-controlled territories, the killings appear to be “extra-judicial,” which I’m sure is a great comfort to the gays being murdered there.
“Social justice” is an unstable ideology design to cram disparate groups who otherwise have nothing in common together for the purpose of promoting far leftwing ideology and raking off government graft. It’s a deeply unstable mixture that can (and should) explode at any time…
The Trump47 Administration’s efforts to control the border continues to rack up win after win, despite the best efforts of Democrats to prevent deportation of their beloved illegal alien felons, so let’s do a quick roundup.
It was another busy weekend for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as federal agents arrested more dangerous and violent criminals and predators whom Democrats want to protect.
From pedophiles to drug traffickers to killers, the illegal alien floods under previous presidents — and particularly under Joe Biden — were plentifully filled with the “worst of the worst,” as ICE puts it. Now the Trump administration faces the monumental task of tracking down and arresting hundreds of thousands of these thugs.
ICE confirmed that it has arrested Noelia Saray Martinez-Avila, an illegal alien from Honduras, who is accused of being drunk when he struck a vehicle while he was driving the wrong direction on a highway. In the July 20 crash, Martinez-Avila killed 18-year-old Hallie Helgeson and severely injured her 19-year-old high school sweetheart Brady Heiling, who subsequently died from his injuries. ICE was able to arrest the homicide suspect despite being in a sanctuary jurisdiction in Wisconsin and having less than an hour’s notice to come make the arrest. Hopefully, justice is coming hard and fast for Martinez-Avila.
On August 16, ICE highlighted other major criminals just arrested by agents. Hilberto Velasquez-Ramirez, for instance, is an illegal alien from Guatemala who was previously convicted of homicide by vehicle in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Meanwhile, Gilberto Castillo-Talavera, a 29-year-old illegal alien originally from Honduras, has a conviction for sexual assault of a child in Travis County, Texas.
As for Gustavo Jose Gonzalez-Recarey, who came here illegally from Cuba, he was previously convicted of a lewd and lascivious act with a child in Riverside, Calif.
Jhan Carlos Caceres-Peguero is an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic who has a previous conviction for trafficking fentanyl in Essex County, Mass. Finally, Isaiah Alexander, an illegal alien who comes from Jamaica, was convicted of assault in Albion, N.Y. These are just a handful of the criminal illegal aliens ICE has arrested recently.
As liberals, Democrats, and others on the Left continue to disparage the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, officers in those agencies continue to do their jobs protecting Americans from the worst of the worst violent illegal immigrant criminals in the country. DHS and ICE continue to make the country a safer place.
One of the worst criminals apprehended was Magdeleno Barbosa-Montalvo, a 53-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico. According to DHS, Barbosa-Montalvo’s criminal record includes a heinous act in Vincennes, Indiana, where he was previously convicted of sexual misconduct with a minor. Another who could be filed under the “worst of the worst” was Adalberto Turcios-Mejia, a 66-year-old illegal immigrant from Honduras whose criminal history includes a conviction for “indecency with a child by contact in Austin, Texas.”
Wow, seems like Austin is quite the hotspot for illegal aliens sexually abusing children.
ICE also arrested known drug traffickers this weekend. These are people who peddle poison, which makes its way to Americans, causing harm in communities throughout the country. One of those apprehended was a 48-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, Ramon Lopez-Ruiz. According to ICE, Lopez-Ruiz was previously convicted for “trafficking in cocaine in Durham County, North Carolina.”
Snip.
But ICE’s work did not stop there. Amid the onslaught of verbal attacks and vilification by Democrats, they arrested Daniel Hernandez-Sanchez, a 32-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico. According to DHS, Hernandez-Sanchez has a long criminal rap sheet, which includes a “conviction for robbery in Mendocino, California.” Also arrested was Cindy Rivas-Cruz, a 32-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala. She was convicted of larceny in Draper, Utah, DHS reported.
ICE also arrested Ibrahim Albawaneh, an illegal immigrant from Jordan. His criminal history includes “convictions for possession of a controlled substance and aggravated assault in Vermillion County, Illinois,” according to the Department of Homeland Security. Another person arrested was Roslandy Garcia-Cruz, an illegal immigrant from Cuba, who, DHS said, had “23 criminal convictions across four different states.” These included crimes where Garcia-Cruz “knowingly and with intent to defraud” innocent people. He also possessed “15 or more counterfeit or unauthorized access devices, possession of criminal tools, counterfeiting, and probation violation.”
There was also Oscar Pille-Aguilera, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. According to DHS, his criminal history includes “conviction for exploitation of child/elderly/disabled in Collin County, Texas. Omar Balbino-Navarro, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was also arrested by ICE this weekend. He had a criminal history that included a conviction for carrying a concealed dirk or dagger in Ventura, California, according to DHS.
D&D players will remember that a dirk is longer and straighter than a dagger, thus giving you better reach for stabbing orcs…
Democrats are so devoted to keeping illegal immigrants in the country that they are enabling murderous illegal immigrants to stay in the country, and even fighting against their deportations in one notable case.
That case is in New York, where Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul pardoned Somchith Vatthanavong, a Laotian illegal immigrant who killed a man in 1988. He was convicted of first-degree manslaughter after he admitted that he shot the man while trying “to scare him” and that it “was too dark” and he couldn’t actually see where he was shooting. But Hochul now wants to ensure that his criminal record does not flag him for deportation, and so she did so quietly with no announcement, only acknowledging the pardon after the New York Times reported on it.
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Meanwhile, Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is dealing with the consequences of his anti-deportation laws. Raul Luna-Perez killed two people and injured another while driving drunk, and a New Jersey Superior Court judge has released him pending a trial, despite prosecutors asking for pretrial detention. Luna-Perez had three previous arrests before this fatal crash, including two for DUI, leading Murphy’s team to claim he should have been deported already.
That is the same Phil Murphy whose administration has restricted cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, and the same Phil Murphy who weirdly claimed that he was harboring an illegal immigrant above his garage and that the authorities could never find her. Luna-Perez was only free to kill two people in a DUI because he wasn’t immediately flagged to Immigration and Customs Enforcement by New Jersey police the first time he was arrested for DUI, and the blame for that lies with Murphy’s anti-deportation policies and messaging.
Over the weekend, the leading news story was about Harjinder Singh, an Indian man who killed three people in Florida when he attempted an illegal U-turn on the highway in his semi truck.
The public quickly learned that Singh has been in the United States illegally since 2018, yet was somehow able to get a CDL in California to drive massive trucks across the nation.
People quickly connected Singh’s name to another man named Harjinder Singh who attempted to drive a semi over a small bridge in Arkansas in January 2019, collapsing it.
You can’t tell the Harjinder Singhs without a scorecard.
And yes, there is dashcam footage of the illegal u-turn:
Finally, it takes a heart of stone not to laugh. “Illegal Alien Influencer that Filmed ICE Raids Arrested While Livestreaming.”
A Colombian illegal alien influencer that documented efforts to crack down on illegal immigration was arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency while livestreaming.
Leidy Tatiana Mafla-Martinez filed inside her Tesla when ICE officials apprehended her last Friday in Los Angeles, California.
The migrant reportedly screamed, “no, no, no,” over and as well as, “wait, wait,” in Spanish as ICE agents ordered her out of the car.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said, “On August 15, ICE arrested Leidy Tatiana Mafla-Martinez, a criminal illegal alien from Colombia who was convicted for driving under the influence in Los Angeles.”
“This criminal illegal alien entered the country in 2022 and was RELEASED by the Biden administration,” she added.
“During her arrest, Martinez claimed to experience shortness of breath. She was given proper medical treatment and will be held in ICE custody pending removal proceedings,” the DHS official continued.
DHS said that some witnesses tried to interfere with the arrest, with one person towing away a government vehicle.
McLaughlin stated, “During the arrest, an individual unlawfully towed a government police vehicle. He mocked and videotaped ICE officers chasing after him.”
High profile Democrats have been freaking out about President Trump’s takeover of policing functions in the District of Columbia. There’s just one tiny little problem: Trump’s takeover is working and reducing crime.
The Democrats have been losing their minds about President Donald Trump’s takeover of law enforcement in Washington, D.C. You even had people like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) trying to downplay crime in the city, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claiming it wasn’t an emergency, and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) trying to argue that Trump “owned” a murder the day after the president formally announced he was taking action. People talk about Trump setting a trap for them to fall into to defend crime, but it’s truly that they are this dumb that they do this.
But most people aren’t buying the Democrat pitch – they know there’s a problem with crime in the city. Even the leftist protest in D.C. on Saturday which was focused on this issue didn’t draw many people. Probably because If you live in the area, you know crime is a reality.
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There have been more than 380 total arrests since the start of the operation 11 days ago.
In total…
– 59 firearms have been seized.
– Over 160 illegal aliens have been arrested, including known gang members and those with additional charges: assault, kidnapping, burglary, larceny, commercialized sexual offenses, smuggling illegal drugs like heroin, and more.
Last night 22 multi-agency teams were deployed throughout all 7 districts in D.C. There were more than 1,950 participants in last night’s operations.
That sounds like a lot of action in a short time. You would think flooding the streets with law enforcement presence would have an effect – it tends to discourage bad actors.
How does that compare to what had been going on before the Trump move?
Here’s what the D.C. Police Union is saying.
DC crime since the announcement of federal control versus the 7 days prior:
Robbery ⬇️46% ADW ⬇️6% Carjacking ⬇️83% Car Theft ⬇️21% Violent Crime ⬇️22% Property Crime ⬇️6% All Crimes⬇️8%
While federal assistance gives us a boost, we must repeal the misguided Comprehensive…
The D.C. Police Union was supportive of the Trump move – they knew crime was a crisis because their people deal with it every day. They also want to eliminate legislation they feel has been tying their hands. But once again, just as with the border, it seems what was needed to make a change was a new president with the will to get the job done.
And one of the dirty secrets elected Democrats don’t want you to hear is that people in D.C. are noticing the huge drop in crime…even Democrats.
“A lot of our friends are in the media and also Democrats that worked on Joe Biden’s campaign, that worked on other campaigns that are saying, ‘Yeah, I’d like to feel safe walking around this city.’ If the federal government can be a positive partner in keeping the street safe while again forming a partnership with the DC police and not taking over, then at least the people I’ve spoken with that live in DC, day in, day out, see this as a positive step.”
“The Washington Post took a poll late April, early May. 91% of Washington residents say crime is a problem.”
“This is one thing that I think Democrats have gotten so wrong about crime.”
“There are stark divides among lines of race and income in the poll with black residents and lower income residents significantly more worried about crime than white residents and those with higher incomes.”
Let’s talk about that “positive partner” blather.
As shown above, the Trump Administration and other Republicans have no trouble working with police and police unions to reduce crime. That’s been shown time and time again.
Who Trump, Republicans and police can’t work with as “positive partners” to reduce crime are social justice-infected Democrats, because they don’t want to reduce crime. Some cadres believe high crime rates are key to radicalizing minorities and fomenting revolution against capitalism. There are others that believe that “whiteness” and “structural racism” mean that no black person should ever be punished for any crime against any white person. There are others that want to completely defund the police so they can rake off all police funding for their own graft and left-wing causes. Still others refuse to deport any illegal aliens, even rapists and murderers, because they still believe that amnestied illegal aliens are their key to achieving permanent electoral majorities.
None of these people can be trusted partners in reducing crime because none of them want to reduce crime. Or, to put it ever-so-slightly more charitably, none of them are willing to implement policies known to reduce crime because none of those policies would benefit the Democratic Party.
We’ve engaged in a multi decade, multi generational study on whether or not Democrats can run cities…
In this short video from Tim Pool’s Timcast, he and others float two possible theories of fraudulent practices from the left that have a certain plausibility to them.
Theory the first: Democrats have been using taxpayer money to prop-up leftwing media outlets. “I genuinely believe USAID was funneling money to prop up media and big channels, like Colbert getting cancelled and whatever.”
“I think, directly or indirectly, the US government, maybe it was USAID or otherwise, was funding sock puppet accounts, bot accounts, online to prop up liberal personalities to make it look like they were getting traffic.”
“Because we saw this when Elon announced he was buying Twitter. All these liberals. You guys remember this? They lost hundreds of thousands to millions of followers.”
“When Elon won the court battle and he was going to buy, it was like someone at Twitter said, ‘Quick, burn everything.’ And they started eliminating millions of bot accounts.”
Theory the Second: Blue states have been carrying out massive census fraud to boost their House and Electoral College counts. “What if the new census finds that, we didn’t track this, but there’s census fraud? What if Democrats in California were increasing the amount of people in the census count because nobody checks?”
“The illegal immigrant argument might actually just be a red herring. The real issue might be that Democrats have been just claiming more people live there than they [have].”
“What if it comes out it’s like actually they they added 3 to 4 million to the number, giving themselves extra seats without actually anyone living there?”
“How many times have we or anyone else talked about census fraud? Ne-ver. Never.”
“It’s not about illegal immigrants. You know, they do ballot harvesting. We watch them do it and people get paid to collect ballots. Why would I not believe at the same time they’re saying, you know, that census form you got filled out? They said three people live there. Make it six.”
“It’s like when DOGE found all those dead people getting benefits, like 190 year old guy getting benefits still, people who vote still.”
“Consider how much that warps your understanding of American politics and the supposed competitiveness.” Maybe the supposed 50/50 competitiveness of American politics is actually an artifact of that fraud.
Plus a discussion of how Trump bringing the National Guard to the highest crime cities (which are also blue cities) not only flexes his political power, but let’s ICE do it’s job.
I’m not sure how much direct evidence their is for either theory, but both have a lot of explanatory power. If Democrats were going to prop up the legacy media with taxpayer money, you’d think they’d do a better job of it, as it’s been in collapse for, what, a decade now? Maybe they just don’t have enough of “their” people working for Nielsen. But evidently not even taxpayer money can make Jen Psaki popular.
As for the census, certainly numerous other federal agencies have been corrupted, so it certainly doesn’t seem beyond the realm of possibility. Surely Slow Joe’s corruption couldn’t have been limited to USAID, immigration authorities and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
What do you think? What other government agencies have been corrupted that we haven’t even started looking at? Leave your comments below.
There’s been a lot of media articles that the runaway Texas House Democrats are going to cave, but it hasn’t happened yet. The Trump Administration continues to rack up success after success at the border, Ukraine hits more Russian oil facilities, once again Adam is full of Schiff, more illegal alien sex traffickers nabbed, and China finally picks on someone its own size.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said that the U.S.-Mexico border is experiencing “all-time lows” of illegal immigrant crossings after President Donald Trump’s administration ramped up efforts to secure the southern border.
On August 1, DHS released preliminary numbers for the month of July that report to show nationwide encounters are 90 percent lower than during the Biden administration, in addition to the “lowest single-day apprehensions in history” — on July 20, DHS reported just 88 apprehensions at the southern border and 116 across the country.
“History made, again. The numbers don’t lie — this is the most secure the border has ever been,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. “President Trump didn’t just manage the crisis — he obliterated it. No more excuses. No more releases. We’ve put the cartels on defense and taken our border back.”
The numbers released from DHS reflect previous assessments made by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which said in July that nationwide apprehensions have hit a “new historic low” following a “dramatic shift” in policy focus since President Donald Trump entered office.
According to the Migration Policy Institute, encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped to levels not observed since the 1960s.
Progress. “Trump Purges 275,000 Illegal Aliens From Social Security.”
Months after President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum targeting illegal aliens and other ineligible individuals from collecting Social Security Act benefits, the president told reporters at the White House on Thursday afternoon that nearly 300,000 illegals have been removed from the government program that provides financial benefits to eligible citizen taxpayers and/or lawful permanent residents (green card holders).
“Last month, I signed the One Big Beautiful Bill, and allowed No Tax on Social Security for our great seniors … and to protect our benefits, we’ve already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system,” Trump told reporters.
Recall that on April 15, the president signed a memorandum directing federal agencies to take immediate action to purge the Social Security system of illegals and fraudsters.
As Maureen Steele via American Greatness elegantly noted earlier this year, “We don’t need an executive order to bar illegals from Social Security – we need a government that obeys the law.”
Let’s not forget that the Biden-Harris regime facilitated the invasion of illegal aliens, allowing millions of these third-worlders to siphon dollars and essential services from citizens and lawful permanent residents – in what some have described as a classic Cloward–Piven strategy.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimated that taxpayers spend more than $182 billion annually to cover costs associated with 20 million illegal aliens and their children, which includes $66.4 billion in Federal expenses plus an additional $115.6 billion in state and local expenses.
The free lunch for the Democratic Party’s illegals is coming to an end.
A Democratic whistleblower told the FBI that Senator Adam Schiff authorized the leak of classified information related to the Russia collusion investigation in 2017 in an effort to discredit President Trump, newly-released documents show.
The whistleblower, who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than ten years, first reported Schiff’s alleged behavior to the FBI in 2017, when Schiff was leading the committee’s Russian collusion investigation.
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed on Monday that he had handed over the documents, first obtained by Just the News, to Congress. “We found it. We declassified it. Now Congress can see how classified info was leaked to shape political narratives – and decide if our institutions were weaponized against the American people.”
The FBI interviewed the whistleblower most recently in June 2023, at which point the unidentified intelligence officer said he had been part of an all-staff meeting called by Schiff in which the then-California representative “stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States Donald J. TRUMP. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to Indict President TRUMP.”
“[The whistleblower] stated this would be illegal and, upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured that they would not be caught leaking classified information,” the report added.
The whistleblower expressed concerns that Schiff’s actions were “treasonous” and “illegal.”
District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer (Obama) wrote in his order that the government’s premise that unsealing the records would shed light on meaningful new information was “demonstrably false,” and that “unsealing the grand jury materials would not reveal new information of any consequence.”
“Contrary to the Government’s depiction, the Maxwell grand jury testimony is not a matter of significant historical or public interest. Far from it,” he wrote. “It consists of garden-variety summary testimony by two law enforcement agents. And the information it contains is already almost entirely a matter of longstanding public record.
Translation: Either it implicates powerful Democrats, or else we need to keep the issue alive to try to dirty up President Trump.
Truth: “White House Deputy Chief of Staff on Redistricting Battle: ‘We all know Democrats cheat.”
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is blasting Democrats for complaining about the current redistricting uproar and accuses them of stealing dozens of House seats by counting illegal aliens in the last census.
Miller told Newsmax that Democrats brought in tens of millions of “invaders” into the nation through their open borders policies to “rig the results of the census” and the apportionment of congressional seats.
Miller pointed out that even though Republicans won a landslide in the House popular vote, they only picked up a 4-seat majority due to Democratic gerrymandering, manipulation and rigging of congressional districts.
He contrasted the gains of this last election with the 2010 election, in which the Republicans won a much smaller majority in the popular vote, yet gained 63 seats in the House.
President Trump on Monday announced plans to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and to deploy several hundred National Guard troops and more than 100 FBI agents to the streets of Washington, D.C., to assist local law enforcement in fighting crime.
“I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, squalor and worse,” Trump said during a press conference on Monday. “This is liberation day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back.”
“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people,” he said.
Trump said the murder rate in D.C. is higher than some of the “worst places” in the world, including Bogota, Colombia.
Trump has the authority to take over the Metropolitan Police Department under the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which includes a provision that grants him the ability to take over the department when there are “special conditions of an emergency nature.” As part of the federal takeover, Attorney General Pam Bondi will lead the department, while Terry Cole, the new DEA Administrator, will be the interim federal commissioner of the department.
On Friday, the Trump administration dispatched federal law enforcement officers to tourist hotspots around D.C. Trump has also threatened to federalize the district if crime rates do not fall and on Monday, he said he would send in the military, if needed.
Attorney General Pam Bondi rescinded several DC police executive orders Thursday that restricted officers from arresting illegal migrants – vowing that the nation’s capital will not be a sanctuary jurisdiction under President Trump.
“DC will not remain a sanctuary city. Actively shielding criminal aliens will not happen,” Bondi declared in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
The attorney general’s comments came as she issued a new directive voiding commands issued – as recently as earlier Thursday – by DC Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith.
Smith is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. “DC police chief [Pamela Smith] asks what ‘chain of command’ means after question from reporter.”
Hilarious news this week: “Two Chinese ships collide while chasing Philippine Coast Guard boat.” A Chinese Coast Guard ship collided with a Chinese Navy ship. And yes, there is video:
A power bill crisis is gripping parts of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and is set to worsen, threatening to financially crush households as long-range forecasts point to a brutally cold winter. What began in Baltimore, Maryland – as first covered in our reporting one year ago- has now spread to New Jersey, where residents are furious over skyrocketing electricity costs.
The common denominator in both states? A disastrous green energy agenda, pushed by radical leftist lawmakers, is dismantling reliable and cheap fossil fuel power generation in favor of unstable solar and wind. This has unleashed a power bill armageddon on working-class and middle-class households, as well as mom-and-pop businesses, all while baseload power demand surges in the era of AI data centers.
Fox News is beginning to latch onto the power bill crisis theme, starting with coverage of New Jersey residents who are absolutely furious over exploding power bills. This new development could severely damage the state’s Democratic leaders in the upcoming elections.
This all started when New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities approved a 17 to 20% rate hike for power bills in June. Many residents were shocked when they opened their bills at the end of last month.
“$200 more, I know my electrical bill,” one Jersey woman told Fox News reporter CB Cotton, adding, “I was shocked. So to say the least, I’m very disappointed. This is killing us, and every time you turn around it’s something more. You only get little pleasures in life that you enjoy, and my air conditioner is one of them.”
Perhaps Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s decision to shutter the state’s nuclear and coal plants, without a one-to-one replacement for lost capacity on the grid, was a catastrophic error that is only now coming home to roost. He also prioritized offshore wind farms and other green energy projects, which have left the grid more fragile than ever.
“Just like the old gypsy woman every Republican ever said!”
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, disillusioned and even disavowed by Democratic leaders, is showing Republicans some love in the midterms. The union’s donations are evidence of a realignment that could outlast President Trump’s term unless Democrats embrace at least some union-friendly policies like tariffs.
Prior to 2024, the Teamsters backed almost no Republicans. This year, the Democrat, Republican, Independent Voter Education PAC gave the maximum, $5,000, to each of 22 House Republicans and backed several Senate candidates, Politico reports. They also gave $50,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association.
After dumping millions into the 2024 election cycle and coming up short, Las Vegas Sands appears ready to roll the dice again.
New financial disclosures show that Texas Sands PAC, the Texas-based political arm of the casino giant, has more than $9 million in cash on hand heading into the upcoming election season. That money comes almost entirely from Miriam Adelson, the billionaire owner of Las Vegas Sands and majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Despite its name, Sands does not operate casinos in Las Vegas or anywhere in the United States; its operations are exclusively in China and Singapore.
While the group has largely held off on spending in recent months, records show it contributed $1.8 million to members of the Texas House during the 2024 cycle—$1.34 million to Republicans and $457,500 to Democrats. That spending mirrors the strategy the group employed last time: pour money into protecting lawmakers who supported its push to legalize casino gambling in Texas.
That effort didn’t go as planned.
Despite getting casino legislation to the floor of the Texas House in 2023, Sands watched its momentum collapse in the primaries. Voters rejected the very lawmakers who had sided with the casino giant. Former House Speaker Dade Phelan, the top recipient of Sands money, was forced into a runoff. Meanwhile, 14 Republican House members who voted for casino legislation either lost re-election or chose not to seek it.
Sands and Adelson attempted to salvage the cycle with a massive last-minute push. The Texas Defense PAC, funded entirely by Adelson, poured more than $7 million into runoff races in an effort to rescue Phelan’s allies. But again, the money didn’t translate into wins.
Now, Sands is recalibrating.
Although no major new contributions have been reported yet this cycle, those connected to the group have continued to work in some statewide campaigns.
Former State Sen. Kelly Hancock, who is now running for state comptroller, has hired John Jackson to run his campaign.
Until earlier this year, however, Jackson served as Sands’ head political consultant in Texas. He previously managed campaigns for Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn.
Hancock did not respond to a request for comment on whether he supports the group’s efforts to bring government-monopoly casinos to Texas.
Neither Don Huffines or Christi Craddick—the other two candidates currently in the race—have casino operatives leading their campaigns.
Hancock is not the only one with senior staff tied to the casino operator.
Jordan Berry, a recent registered lobbyist for Sands, also serves as a campaign consultant to numerous candidates in the state legislature, including State Sen. Mayes Middleton (R–Galveston) in his campaign for attorney general. Berry’s lobby registration with all his clients ended on June 23.
City-owned Kansas City grocery store closesdespitebecause of millions of dollars in subsidies.
Not this shit again: “Judge Rules Against Little Sisters of the Poor in Obamacare Contraception Case.”
A U.S. district court decided on Wednesday to strike down a 2017 federal regulation that exempted religious employers from the Affordable Care Act’s mandate for employer-sponsored health insurance to cover the cost of contraception.
If the ruling holds, religious non-profit organizations such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, the defendants in the case, may now be required to file for an accommodation process with the government that still maintains employees’ access to contraception without the religious organization having to pay. For-profit employers would have access to no religious exemption from the mandate whatsoever.
Judge Wendy Beetlestone, chief judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, found that the Trump administration’s 2017 rule expanding religious exemptions from the contraception mandate was “arbitrary and capricious,” thus violating statutory authority. Consequently, she declared the rule vacated.
The left can’t stop attacking the Little Sisters of the Poor because it is intolerable to them that there is an legitimate source of moral authority apart from the state. Catholic nuns must be forced to pay for contraception (and abortions) as a token of their submission to social justice. Every. Knee. Must. Bend.
I know you’ll be shocked to learn that Beetlestone is an Obama appointee…
So on Monday, I get a text from my property management company saying that they’ve retained an outside security company to address the numerous complaints about loitering and drug sales in the neighborhood.
‘Beginning today, you will see these security personnel around the properties and in the neighborhood, goes on and on about procedures.’
Okay. Today’s Wednesday. It’s two days later, I get an email from my property management, and they said,
‘We’re disappointed to share that the security company that was hired has pulled out of the neighborhood. After a day and a half of doing recon and observing activity in the neighborhood, they decided the problems with crime exceed their resources to control. We will continue to work with organizations and neighborhood and explore other options to improve public safety and so on.’
Funny what happens when a Democrat-run locale decides to “defund the police” because a random black drug user died…
“Commissioner Ramsey Seeks Removal of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo. Following a vote to censure Hidalgo, Ramsey said, ‘It is time to consider replacing Judge Hidalgo.'”
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo faced a historic 3-1 censure vote from the commissioners court after her proposed property tax increase was rejected. The vote followed accusations of disruptive behavior, prompting Republican Commissioner Tom Ramsey to call for her removal.
This is the first time a Harris County judge, the chief executive of the county, has been censured.
Lots of candidates (Democrats and Republicans) are lining up to run against Hidalgo next year.
United States Attorney Lesley A. Woods announced that five people were charged by complaint for a range of federal violations that center around their alleged conspiracy to engage in labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and harboring of aliens at several hotel locations across the Omaha metro area and into central Nebraska. The defendants own, operate and manage several hotels in the Omaha metro area located at the following locations where federal search warrants were executed in the early morning hours of August 12, 2025:
The AmericInn, 2920 S 13 Ct., Omaha;
The Inn (formerly Super 8), 9305 S 145th St., Omaha;
The New Victorian, 10728 L St., Omaha; and
Roadway Inn, 1110 Fort Crook Rd S, Bellevue, NE.
The five Nebraska men from Nebraska with very Nebraskan names were identified as:
Kentakumar Chaudhari, a/k/a Ken Chaudhari, age 36, of Elkhorn, NE;
Rashmi Ajit Samani, a/k/a Falguni Samani, age 42, of Elkhorn, NE:;
Amit Prahladbhai Chaudhari, a/k/a Amit, age 32, of Omaha;
Amit Babubhai Chaudhari, a/k/a Matt, age 33, of Omaha; and
Maheshkumar Chaudhari, a/k/a Mahesh, age 38, of Norfolk, NE.
Federal, state, and local law enforcement officers conducted a search of 14 premises, including homes and several “Brow and Lash” salons associated with the men.
During the operation, law enforcement officers rescued 10 minors from an alleged labor trafficking conspiracy that involved putting children under the age of twelve years old to work at the hotels for long hours with little to no pay. Seventeen adult victims were also rescued from the same conspiracy.
The US Attorney’s Office says at least one of the defendants were running a sex trafficking operation that sold both children and adults into prostitution. Sex trafficking was “not only allowed at the hotels … but also encouraged.” Prosecutors say hotel management and employees sexually abused the victims personally, as well as selling their victims out to others.
Drugs were also openly used and sold at the hotels, according to officials.
The Biden Administration went all-out to ensure that all 50 states got to enjoy that vibrant illegal alien diversity they imported…
An Arizona judge is reportedly planning to free an illegal alien who kidnapped and raped a girl from Kansas whom he brought all the way to Arizona.
The 14-year-old girl went missing on July 20, but authorities were able to track her cell phone and locate her in an Extended Stay America hotel in Chandler, Arizona. The kidnapper is a man named Cristian Leonardo Caal Mucu. When police arrived, the teenage girl was alone in the hotel room. What local media was reluctant to admit was that Caal Mucu is an illegal alien. And now this predator is set to be released on bail with only electronic monitoring.
Another week, another example of AI hallucinating in a way detrimental to human beings.
Kneon: “We’re going to talk about Open AI adding mental health safeguards to chat GPT because apparently it’s feeding into users delusions.”
K: “It’s telling them that they’re they’ve got superpowers, or that they’re the chosen one.”
Geeky Sparkles: “If you have chat GPT trying to generate something for you, if they don’t have the information, they’ll make up or whatever, cuz it’s just programmed to please you.”
GS: “So when you have people who have um mental health issues, and they might be delusional in some way, it’s going to reaffirm that, which is not helpful.”
K: “Apparently, it’s causing issues in relationships. People are using it as a marriage counselor, relationship counselor.”
GS: “Oh no.”
K: “A 30-year-old man with autism was hospitalized for manic episodes and an emotional breakdown after chat GPT reinforced his belief he had discovered a way to bend time.”
AI doesn’t tell you the truth, it tells you what you want to hear, or some stochastic approximation of truth laid down by process you probably don’t understand. It’s a salesman that doesn’t even know its lying because it has no human conception of “truth.”
K: “A 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum had no previous diagnosis of mental illness. He asked ChatGpt to find flaws with his amateur theory on faster than light travel. He became convinced he had made a stunning scientific breakthrough. When Irwin questioned the chatbot’s validation of his ideas, the bot encouraged him, telling him his theory was sound.” So AI has less “common sense” than an average high school science fiction fan…
K: “And when Irwin showed signs of psychological distress, the chatbot assured him he was fine.”
GS: “Well, right there, you’re asking a chatbot if you’re okay. That’s your first indication that you’re not okay.”
GS: “If you don’t watch it, it’ll just make up shit. It’ll make up quotes, it’ll make up numbers, it’ll make up that’s why you have to double check everything anymore. Because you know sometimes these bots are running amuck as far as articles and stuff are concerned, and people don’t check.”
Just imagine what Chuck Jones could do with “Bot Amuck”
K: “YouTube is completely littered with all these like fake videos, not even like, ‘Hey, we’re bending the news.’ No, it’s ‘we’re just making shit up,’ like so-and-so died, or this is a big lawsuit going on with so and so and so and so and, oh my god, that’s not real.”
Sadly, So-And-So is, in fact, dead
GS: “You especially can’t expect ChatGPT to tell you the truth about things like, ‘Am I mentally ill?'”
The isolation of the pandemic also left some people broken and lonely. K: “They just can’t make those human connections again.”
GS: “ChatGPT, they’re worried, is stunting people mentally.”
GS: “It’s actually making them dumber.”
GS: “If it’s telling you you can bend space and time, it’s probably not telling you the truth.”
I’m skipping over the whole “sad, lonely men turning to AI ‘girlfriends'” thing.
It’s possible that the rational, infallible, near God-like AI envisioned by our venture capital TechLords could have been developed. On Vulcan. By a select caste of priest king logicians dedicated to pure truth. In the 23rd century.
But that’s not the AI we have. The AI we have was birthed in the weirdness of the social justice/pandemic era by very irrational human beings. Garbage in/garbage out.
Real artificial intelligence was always going to be a long-shot, but AI had the misfortune of having the technological underpinnings that allowed it to arrive and grow at the exact same time that one of the most irrational movements in human history infected the overclass with wokeness. Not only are the terminally woke incapable of telling the truth, they deny the very possibility of objective truth in favor of their subjective “lived experience.”
To be sure, wokeness was not the only madness around when the the TechLords unleashed their bottlejinn to krill-feed data in the vast ocean of the Internet, but social justice has been the most pervasive flavor of madness.
