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Thursday, August 20, 2026

Pardoned Nazi January 6 runamok Jake Lang and phony Christian pastor Lorenzo Sewell led a horde of Islamomisists on a "Christian Crusader March" on a Dearborn City Council meeting, barking that their mob would "not surrender to Islam" nor the "Islamification of America." Riot police arrested twenty-two of these dangerous racist misfits. Nota Bene: Islamophobia is the irrational fear of Islam; Islamomisos is the irrational hatred of Islam, which is afflicting these violent AIPAC pod-people.

Muslim haters such as Jake Lang, Lorenzo Sewell, Laura Loomer, Scott LoBaido, Andrew Cuomo, and Alan Dershowitz are simply not good human beings. Samaritans may have concussed the malpariso in Minnesota (Jan 2026). Ouch!


  • Felon Musk, the worst person in the world, is expected to spend up to $200 million in the 2026 midterms to help good-for-nothing pedophile protector GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton in Texas who has been struggling to raise cash and fighting a determined foe in James Talarico (D).
  • The wealthiest man in the galaxy also bleated that Derek Chauvin, the detestable former Minneapolis racist police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, should be freed: "Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed."
    White supremacist agit-prop


    The American taxpayer-funded Israeli Death Forces (IDF) murdered six Palestinians, including a child, wounding a dozen others with a drone strike on a seaside cafe. The one-way ceasefire has only stopped Palestinian resistance fighters from combating extinction and not the non-stop serial killers of the Middle East, the psychopathic IDF.

    Itamar Ben-Gvir wants 30 to 40 Palestinians liquidated in Gaza every night, not just a paltry six like today


    X's algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper, titled Value misalignment of X's feed algorithm is a reflection of value tensions in engagement, found that the site's algorithm prioritized engagement above all else when it generated a user's For You Page. It also showed that X serves more ragebait to people who say they are Democrats, although the exact reason for that is unclear.


    Wednesday, August 19, 2026

    A former Justice Department attorney alleges the DOJ's investigations into alleged antisemitism at Ivy League schools had predetermined conclusions and didn't use normal investigative practices.


    Rebranded feature promises household alerts without video, but mind the small print


    U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson, who was arrested in July after standing on the Capitol steps and calling for President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to be impeached, has been detained again, following an interview with CNN in which he criticized the commander-in-chief again. Read more


    It's not complicated

    Poll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is rigged Read more


    President Donald Trump suffered his most concentrated series of endorsement defeats of the 2026 primary cycle on Tuesday, when three Republican candidates he supported lost races in Florida and Wyoming. Representative Cory Mills was defeated in the Republican primary for Florida's 7th Congressional District, Catalina Lauf lost the contest for the GOP nomination in Florida's 19th District, and Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder fell short in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary. they add to a run of August defeats that has exposed the limits of the president's ability to carry candidates past local opposition, controversy or questions about their fitness for office. Former NBC News moderator Chuck Todd summarized the political moment in a post on X late Tuesday, writing: "August has been a cruel month for Trump politically."


    President Donald Trump bragged on Wednesday, "I'm very good at flagpoles!" during what CNN described as an "impromptu tour of his various White House construction projects." CNN's Kasie Hunt reported on the moment during Wednesday's edition of The Arena, explaining, "The president's schedule initially said he was participating in a policy meeting during that time. Instead, he spent 32 minutes ... explaining in painstaking detail the changes that he's bringing to the People's House." While the CNN segment is a supercut of the event, the full clip shows Trump citing a 2025 donation of his, which he described on Truth Social at the time as "two beautiful Flag Poles on both sides of the White House."


    The Mecca Agreement and regional pipeline bypasses confirm that Middle Eastern self-reliance, as a multinational region, is no longer theoretical. In January, CENTCOM aligned with a 17-nation Middle East Air Defense, Combined Defense Operations Cell at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Seven months later, on August 7th in Mecca, three of the region's largest militaries turned that coordination into commitment: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, declaring that an armed attack on any one member is an attack on all. It combines Saudi financial resources, Turkey's defense industry, and Pakistan's nuclear capability, anchored by a permanent secretariat in Saudi Arabia. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan cited NATO's collective defense clause as a technical parallel; the founders have said they don't intend to stay at three.


    Reuters found the Guard mentioned in only a tiny fraction -- 1.3% -- of criminal prosecutions in a year-long deployment. Trump administration projects that sending troops to Washington will cost $1.4 billion through 2029. Soldiers mostly responded to incidents in wealthier, whiter areas and were absent from neighborhoods where 82% of murders take place.


    Publishers Weekly: In a new study released by AI detection platform Originality.ai, 63% of paperback religious books listed for sale on Amazon were flagged as likely written by AI. To arrive at that number, Originality.ai analyzed 2,034 English-language paperbacks with at least a four-star average rating across 14 faith and belief categories. Over the first six months of 2026, the company scanned the three elements of books available on Amazon: summaries, author bios, and in-book samples, with the samples serving as the study's primary metric. Any text with a score of 50 or above was classified "Likely AI." (The study's authors note that detection indicates a book was likely written with AI, but doesn't prove authorship.) Read more


    Columbia House, a pioneer of subscription music before streaming, is shutting down after seven decades in business. A widely reported statement appeared on its website saying the company is closing on September 15 has been removed, but a customer service representative confirmed to CNN by phone that it is soon ceasing operations.


    Last June, two investigators employed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) showed up at David Streever's house in Rochester, New York. Streever was not home, so they left him a note. That note, presented as an official warning from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is at the center of a First Amendment lawsuit that Streever filed last month, alleging that ICE agents investigated and threatened him based on his constitutionally protected criticism of their boss. This month, the government responded to Streever's lawsuit, confirming his allegations while attempting to rebut them.


    If I were writing a book about the U.S. war with Iran, I know exactly what the title would be. It would be President Trump's social media post of April 5, 2026, directed at the leaders of Iran: "Open the [expletive] Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell " JUST WATCH!" Wars are a crucible that very often exposes changes in the physics of the world around us " who has power, who doesn't have power and how power is being wielded. Nothing better captures the new power equation produced by this war than Trump's unhinged and obscene rant at the Iranian leadership for not bending to his bombs. Read more


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