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Sorry, you little people need to give up your farm so we can feed the digital beast!

I see a day when the surface will be covered with data centers topped by solar panels, and the rest of us living underground like Morlocks.

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Note to employers: When you discover your twin brother employees are ex-cons who did time for hacking into the US State Department, and go to fire them, make sure you fully disable their access.

February 2025, twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter turned a routine job termination into one of the most brazen insider sabotage incidents in recent U.S. government history. Just minutes after being fired from Opexus – a Washington, D.C.-area contractor that provides critical case-management software to more than 45 federal agencies – the brothers allegedly launched a rapid digital assault that deleted approximately 96 government databases containing sensitive FOIA records, investigative files, and taxpayer data.

I’m curious as to whom in the government it seemed like a good idea to put persons named Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter in charge of data for U.S. Federal agencies. That guy ought to have been fired as well.

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Currently active CIA analyst James Erdman, presented himself as a whistleblower to congress to outline how the Intelligence Community had evidence and knowledge about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and how it was created by “gain of function” research (weaponizing a virus) in a biolab in Wuhan, China funded by the United States government.

According to the testimony, there are elements inside the Intelligence Community, specifically the CIA, who worked with scientists to coverup the origin of COVID-19 and the fact the virus was man made and leaked from a lab. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, pressured and influenced scientists in the intelligence community to fabricate information and lie about the origin of the virus.

Fauci has denied accusations that he lied about the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) role in funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and argued that the research did not meet the level of gain-of-function research. However, a longtime advisor of Fauci’s, David Morens, who served as a top advisor at NIAID, was indicted by the DOJ last month and accused of using his personal email account to hide communications related to a controversial coronavirus research grant that involved collaboration with the Wuhan Institute.

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No wonder Biden pardoned him.

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Fraud in government programs is often treated like an urban legend—something that happens in faraway blue cities run by corrupt political machines. But the truth is more unsettling: Some of the most brazen theft of taxpayer money is happening in places governed by Republicans, right under their noses.

Consider Ohio.

At one address in Columbus, investigators found 94 different companies registered in the same building. The windows were covered. The offices appeared empty. Yet, according to The Daily Wire investigative team led by Luke Rosiak, that single address has billed taxpayers more than $66 million.

This is not a minor accounting error. It is not mere “waste.” It is a system being exploited.

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European officials have expressed dismay, disappointment, and surprise in the wake of the weekend announcement by the Trump administration that the US will be withdrawing some 5,000 troops from Germany over the coming months.

“There has been talk about withdrawing US troops from Europe for a long time. But of course, the timing of this announcement comes as a surprise,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas expressed on the sidelines of the European Political Community meeting in Yerevan, Armenia on Monday.

And the gravy train starts creaking to a halt.

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am aware that many here do not think that the entire effects of the experimental gene therapy known as the Covid vaccine have been adverse. Some may even still get “boosters” when they are offered. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and ways of thinking. I have been paying close attention to news and research reports that have always been out there; they were mostly suppressed by the legacy media and banned from multiple social media platforms when reports started showing up in mid-2021, showing numerous adverse effects of the Covid shots, up to and including death.

Right now, even the US government, which actively suppressed news reports of deaths and injuries, and heavily promoted the shots (and refused to allow proven existing medications to be used) is admitting that the harms of the shots are too obvious to ignore any longer. Countless reports of young athletes literally dropping dead on the playing fields have been publicized. Media news readers have collapsed over their desks in front of the public, but doctors continue to be “baffled” as to causes. Most young athletes and employees of media companies were mandated by their employers and schools to receive shots and boosters, yet vaccine injury is still not recognized as a cause in many cases.

On my blog, I do occasional big posts, bringing together news and research stories of individuals, groups, and countries where vaccine injuries leave people dead or severely disabled. Statistics show obvious spikes in deaths from “turbo-cancer” in people who have ZERO risk factors. Today, people under age 45 are being diagnosed with Stage Four colon and pancreatic cancers, who literally were completely healthy before. The only common factor is Covid shots. Yet much of the public remains blind to these risk factors staring them in the face.

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As the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration, the Justice Department this week advanced cases against illegal aliens running criminal enterprises—including a gun trafficking scheme orchestrated from behind bars.

In Georgia, the Justice Department announced the 25-year sentence of a Mexican illegal immigrant who used a contraband cell phone from inside a Georgia state prison to manage a massive drug and gun trafficking conspiracy.

Servando Corona Penaloza, a Georgia state prison inmate, was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for orchestrating the sale of more than 1,000 kilograms of methamphetamine and fentanyl and the purchase of more than 200 military-style firearms transported to Mexico for use by Mexican cartels, according to the Justice Department.

He was in prison serving a sentence for a Gwinnett County drug trafficking offense.

You can only have waste, fraud, and abuse when the government is giving people money. Stop the government from giving people money, and you will also stop the waste, fraud, and abuse.

This is not rocket science….

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Remember the J6 prosecutor who stabbed another driver on the highway during a road rage incident?

Well, two-and-a-half years later, he has finally been sentenced to jail.

For 90 days.

This all happened in FLORIDA, by the way. This wasn’t some woke DC judge like the kind who screwed over J6 protesters.

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In 2019, the Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona spent over $20 million to tear down and completely rebuild a school named Pima Elementary. This year, it voted to close the school.

Pima Elementary, designed for up to 840 students, reopened at less than 60% of that capacity, and it continued to decline. This fall, just seven years later, the school building won’t contain a single student.

Far from a one-off tale of district mismanagement, the closing of a brand new $20 million school building illustrates how easy special interest groups find it to manipulate school districts.

A nationwide baby bust had begun eight years before the bond election, meaning that there were already fewer students to go around. Likewise, the high price of housing in Scottsdale became a significant deterrent to young families locating there.

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Never forget that Anthony Fauci received a random and very suspicious pardon from a not-all-there Joe Biden right before Joe left office.

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Hey, we never said it would be easy….

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has halted payments to more than 400 hospices in Los Angeles and across California, with the estimated fraud being greater than $600 million, according to the anti-fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance.

Sheila Clark, CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, is questioning how these alleged instances of fraud have slipped through the cracks.

“How do you put a hospice in a burrito stand in California? How do you put a hospice in a tire store? That all had to be vetted through licensure, certification, and accreditation,” Clark said during a House of Representatives hearing on April 21.

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A divided federal appeals court on April 24 allowed Texas to enforce a state law that permits the arrest and prosecution of individuals thought to have unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted 10–7 to undo a 2024 injunction that had prevented enforcement of the law known as Senate Bill 4. Initially, the former Biden administration had challenged the statute, but the second Trump administration dropped the challenge in March 2025.

SB 4, which Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed in December 2023, would make it a state-level crime to illegally enter or re-enter Texas from a foreign country, give state judges authority to order that violators leave the United States, and allow prison sentences ?of up to 20 years for those refusing to comply.

The Fifth Circuit did not address the merits of the case because it found that the groups challenging the law—Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and American Gateways—lacked legal standing to do so.

Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s kick the can down the road!

The groups had argued that SB 4 was preempted—or superseded—by the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.

Which is obviously is—but its enforcement relies on an Administration that actually enforces laws and all that other right-wing picky shit.

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Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It takes time, rare expertise, and materials that cannot be sourced at scale. You would not equip an entire orchestra with instruments like that. Yet that is essentially what the United States has attempted with its tactical air fleet.

The F-35 program’s total lifetime cost is projected to exceed two trillion dollars, the most expensive Major Defense Acquisition Program in history. The United States plans to purchase thousands of them. Meanwhile, modern conflict, from Ukraine’s drone war to naval engagements in the Red Sea to Iran’s own mass missile and drone salvos, increasingly favors systems that can be produced at scale and replaced when lost. The F-35 is a masterpiece. But a force designed around a masterpiece is not designed for long, protracted wars, and U.S. adversaries know this.

The problems fall into two categories. The first is the physical problem of operating in the Pacific. The second is the sustainability problem of fighting there for more than a few nights. Both problems point to the same solution: a balanced force that has the unique capabilities of the F-35, while hedging against its limitations by shifting more procurement dollars to unmanned systems. That would result in a force with fewer F-35s than projected, but positioned for what the decades to come will demand.

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A district court judge repeatedly shielded the Southern Poverty Law Center from scrutiny during a defamation case and then dismissed a conservative group’s case because it “lacked evidence,” according to the conservative group’s attorneys.

Attorneys for the estate of Donald A. King and his organization, the Dustin Inman Society, filed an 81-page brief Thursday asking a higher court to reconsider the case. They claimed that Judge Corey L. Maze of the Northern District of Alabama erred in rejecting their attempts to obtain evidence proving the SPLC acted with actual malice in branding the society an “anti-immigrant hate group.”

“The case was decided by stacking four errors,” Harry Mihet, chief litigation counsel for Liberty Counsel and one of DIS’s attorneys, told The Daily Signal in a Friday phone call. “Cutting off discovery, ignoring what the SPLC already knew, twisting the legal standard, and stretching the single-publication rule, until the plaintiffs had no case left. And so the case was decided, not because there is no evidence available, but because the court did not allow any evidence to be gathered, to show that the SPLC acted with actual malice.”

The Somali Community Of Minnesota Would Like To Remind America That Today Is Tax Day (Babylon Bee)

Where the fuck did my taxes go? Enter what you paid in federal income tax for FY2025 and see exactly where every dollar went.

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The $15 billion USS Ford was forced to cut short its deployment due to a 30-hour laundry fire that did millions of dollars in damage. And it has been revealed that even while it remained on station in the Gulf, Ford could not generate combat sorties for two days due to the raging 30-hour laundry fire that drove some 600 sailors out of their sleeping quarters. Thirty hours to get a laundry fire under control raises a couple of questions. Why would a laundry catch on fire, and why did it take the firefighters and damage-control personnel of the USS Ford so long to put out the laundry fire? Sadly, the answers can be found in some wrongheaded decisions the Navy made in its effort to be viewed as being “green.”

Design for the Ford-class carrier began in March 1996, and finally, more than $15 billion later, the USS Ford was fully certified for combat in April 2023. Due to a misguided green initiative, instead of installing inherently super energy-efficient steam-based laundries, the Ford-class carriers have standardized on more expensive, more complex, inherently fire-prone, ozone-based systems.

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In a long-awaited release that sent ripples through Washington on Monday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has declassified closed-door 2019 transcripts from briefings with then-Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson. The documents, withheld from the public for over seven years, reveal critical details about the anonymous “whistleblower” whose complaint about President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky triggered Trump’s first impeachment – details that directly contradict the narrative of a neutral, non-partisan civil servant acting in good faith.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

The Foundry.

On July 4, American taxpayers are set to resume funding one of the nation’s largest providers of so-called gender-affirming care for children, which also just happens to be the nation’s largest provider of abortion. If that’s not a killjoy for America’s 250th birthday, I don’t know what is.

Last year, President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunded Big Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood of almost $800 million in taxpayer-funded Medicaid reimbursements, dealing a significant blow to the nation’s largest abortion franchise.

In July 2025 alone, Planned Parenthood shuttered 25 clinics across the country, and the total number of closures has reached 47. Planned Parenthood cannot seem to survive on its own without a $792.2 million crutch from hard-working Americans who, by and large, do not want to be complicit in its practices.

While the one-year defunding of Big Abortion businesses in the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” demonstrated one of the largest legislative wins in pro-life history, the defunding is set to expire on July 4, 2026. Come America’s 250th, taxpayers will be footing the bill for the nation’s largest abortion franchise once again.

Little do many realize, however, that funding Planned Parenthood also means propping up one of the nation’s leading providers of so-called gender-affirming care: cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and referrals for mastectomies and other sex-rejecting procedures.

The War Zone.

The U.S. Navy has abandoned plans to return the Los Angeles class attack submarine USS Boise to active duty. This brings an end to the saga of a still-incomplete major overhaul of the boat, which has lasted more than a decade now. In that time, it has become a poster child for the Navy’s worrisome struggles to tackle huge maintenance backlogs, as well as larger concerns about the availability, or lack thereof, of naval shipyard capacity in the United States.

The Navy announced its decision to inactivate Boise, which was first commissioned into service in 1992, earlier today.

“After a rigorous, data-driven analysis, we’ve made the tough but necessary decision to inactivate the USS Boise,” Navy Adm. Daryl Caudle, Chief of Naval Operations, the service’s top officer, said in a statement. “This strategic move allows us to reallocate America’s highly-skilled workforce to our highest priorities: delivering new Virginia and Columbia class submarines and improving the readiness of the current fleet. We owe it to our Sailors and the nation to make these tough calls to build a more capable and ready Navy.”

UPDATE: Criminal Negligence – USS Boise

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The fate of the country is being decided by a person who doesn’t know what a woman is.

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The Washington Post first reported that Patel was considering releasing files to the public after reopening the investigation of California congressman Eric Swalwell’s relationship with a Chinese honeypot named Fang Fang.

I guess dating a Chinese spy isn’t technically against the law, as long as there’s no proof he divulged any secret information to the commie spy.

Navy Matters.

Currently, two of the three LCS supposedly based in the Middle East have been moved (evacuated?) to Singapore.[1] The whereabouts of the third is unknown. Why aren’t they in the Middle East, perhaps ensuring the safe passage of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz? Isn’t this kind of mission exactly what they were designed for? As you recall, the original LCS concept was that they would boldly enter littoral (hence, the ship’s name) waters and neutralize mines, subs, surface, and land threats so that larger, more expensive ships could operate in the area with less risk.

So, why aren’t they there? Well, we all know the answer. The originally envisioned modules were just flights of fantasy and never materialized. But, what if the original modules had become available as fully functioning equipment? Would such LCSes be useful in the Middle East today?

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Per the most recent report, in 2025, of the Social Security and Medicare board of trustees, Social Security is capable of paying out the entirety of promised benefits through 2033. After that, there is only the capability of paying out 77% of promised benefits.

That’s seven years from now.

Anyone who got a letter from their investment fund or insurance program that said, “We’re sorry, but in another seven years we won’t be able to pay out what was promised,” would immediately be on the phone to their lawyer,

Why does this very bad news about Social Security not seem to trouble Americans?

One reason is that we have no control. It’s not yours despite the fact that you paid for it.

You would immediately be on the phone to your agent or your lawyer if your insurance company declared bankruptcy because it’s yours. You own it.

Have you ever called Social Security or the IRS to ask a question? You will sit on the phone for hours, and in the end, most likely you won’t connect. Try it and you will understand what hopeless means.

My Social Security income just about pays my income taxes, so I’m good.

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The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has agreed to pay $800,000 in attorney fees to settle a case with a Christian photographer who fought to protect her religious and free speech rights over the years of litigation.

Louisville ultimately spent a fortune to force Chelsey Nelson to photograph same sex marriages under its nondiscrimination laws.

When combined with its own litigation costs, the case likely cost the city and the courts millions to deny Nelson her constitutional rights.

What to they care? It’s not their personal money.

The Antiplanner.

The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) wants to build 28 bus-rapid transit lines in the four counties (Fairfax, Loudoun, Arlington, and Prince William) and five cities (Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park) in its jurisdiction. As described in the agency’s Bus Rapid Transit Action Plan, these lines total to 170 miles of bus routes.

I used to think bus-rapid transit was a smart and economical alternative to light rail, but the NVTA expects to spend $4.2 billion on this plan. The actual cost will almost certainly be more: one line that is already underway, the Richmond Highway route, was supposed to cost $638 million, but according to the Federal Transit Administration it is costing $730 million. That route is 7.4 miles long, which means the line is costing almost $100 million per mile.

$100 million a mile is cheaper than light rail, which is averaging more than $300 million a mile for lines now under construction or in planning stages. But it is still a needless expenditure of money, as most of it is going for dedicated bus lanes that will be occupied by ten buses an hour during rush hours, five buses an hour the rest of the day, and no buses an hour at night (midnight to 6 am). Thus, entire lanes of traffic will be dedicated to just 125 vehicles per day.

Of course, mass transit systems aren’t really about providing convenient transit for people who would otherwise drive cars (or who can’t afford cars in the first place). They’re actually jobs programs for Fashionable Minorities—spend a day in the offices of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system, or a day riding their buses and trains, and I’ll give you five dollars for every non-brown face you see—and lucrative make-work jobs for politically-connected construction and supply companies (all of whom have to be women-owned or minority-owned, naturally).

Gothamist.

The argument came in response to a claim filed by Amanda Luci, who alleged NYPD officers failed to protect her from a mob of young men and boys who attacked her in Crown Heights in 2025.

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Since the end of the Cold War, for 30 years, the U.S. Navy has sustained a third of its fleet deployed on the backs of sailors and sometimes taking shortcuts at the shipyard—this approach is breaking down, according to the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office.

But with what is being called a New Cold War with China potentially heating up, the luxuries of the past are now urgent necessities—needed are more sailors, warships, and shipyards.

Each week, the U.S. Naval Institute Fleet Tracker has for years been reporting roughly 100 U.S. Navy warships deployed overseas. This total of warships deployed has remained remarkably consistent from the 1980s through today. But the fleet supporting that presence has been halved. In the late Cold War, the Navy peaked at 594 battle-force ships in 1987. Today’s fleet hovers around 293 ships, which is well below what is assessed as necessary by The Heritage Foundation’s 2026 Index of U.S. Military Strength.

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President Donald Trump said Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would be sent to U.S. airports beginning Monday to assist Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said ICE would support TSA agents who have continued working during a partial government shutdown. He had also warned a day earlier that he would deploy ICE officers to airports if congressional Democrats did not agree to fund airport security.

Tom Homan, the White House border czar, confirmed the planned deployment, describing it as an effort to address long security lines during a busy travel period. Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Homan said ICE agents would help TSA manage passenger flow as staffing shortages have increased amid the shutdown, during which many TSA employees are working without pay.

The logic of government is, that if getting on an airplane requires TSA screening, and you don’t have enough TSA screeners, that doesn’t mean you can get on without screening (God forbid); it means you have to wait hours in long lines in order to be screened by however few may actually be available.

Democrats, knowing that this sort of bureaucratic bottleneck was impassible, are using their holdup of DHS funding to cause the maximum inconvenience to people who ordinarily don’t give a shit about politics but just want to get on the damned plane. Such people, unaware of the actual issues involved, whine to their elected representatives to JUST GET SOMETHING DONE, which works out to eventually requiring greasing the squeaky wheel of Democrat intransigence.

Trump, who is smarter than you and me in these matters, has brought his BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR stamp and is busily impressing it on the foreheads of the Democrats in Congress: Okay, if we need more screeners and Democrats won’t pay for it, then we’ll use ICE and put them there and (oh, by the way) arrest any illegal immigrants we may come across in the process. This puts Democrats in a cleft stick and uses them to play Lacrosse.

I really love this guy.

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New York City spent about $368 million last year on services for people living on the streets, which equals roughly $81,000 per unsheltered person, according to the NY Post.

Spending through the city’s New York City Department of Homeless Services street outreach programs has increased sharply over the past several years. In 2019, the city spent about $102 million on these services, averaging around $28,000 per unsheltered individual. By the 2025 fiscal year, the average cost had risen to about $81,000 per person, close to the city’s median household income of $81,228.

Unsheltered homeless individuals are those who regularly live outside rather than in shelters or permanent housing. During this same period, the number of people living on the streets grew by 26 percent, rising from 3,588 in 2019 to 4,505 in 2025. However, spending increased far faster than the population itself.

The Telegraph (UK).

When Donald Trump boasts that America’s military is bigger and better than anyone else’s in Nato, he can point to the USS Gerald R Ford. Costing nearly £10bn, the 100,000-tonne aircraft carrier is the largest and most expensive warship in the world. Its 25 decks carry 4,500 personnel and 75 aircraft, allowing it to project US air and sea power anywhere in the world.

It does, however, appear to have a weak spot: its laundry and toilet facilities. Having been sent to the Red Sea to act as a launch platform for Trump’s bombing campaign against Iran, it has now been diverted to Crete for repairs, following a fire in the ship’s launderette which raged for more than 30 hours before it was extinguished.

There are also reports that sabotage may have been involved – not by Iranian undercover operatives, but by crew members disgruntled that their standard six-month tour of duty has been extended for the Gulf operation. To make matters worse, the ship’s toilets have been constantly breaking down and clogging up with sewage.

The U.S. needs more carriers, and can’t afford to build more gold-plated crap like the Ford.

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The Center for Immigration Studies has a very interesting study out that will make you think again about all of the “immigrants” who are “contributing” to the United States.

These results shouldn’t be shocking, unless you’re still surprised that we pay for the welfare of people who aren’t even citizens.

Navy Matters.

Surprisingly, two of the Navy’s MCM configured LCS have been moved from the Middle East to a port in Malaysia despite the obvious possibility of Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The ships were relocated about a week or so before the US strikes began. If the Iranians do lay mines (there are no confirmed reports yet), we’ll desperately miss the LCS MCM capabilities … or will we?

From a Hunterbrooks website report, we learn that the LCS MCM capability is even more problematic and limited than we already knew. The report provides information from a US Navy briefing.

As you read it, bear in mind that the summarized information presented below is the Navy’s information, not mine. If you want to dispute anything, you’ll have to take it up with the Navy.

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The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has abruptly withdrawn from Operation Epic Fury. A $13 billion supercarrier, entirely untouched by enemy munitions, has been neutralised from within. On 12 March 2026, a massive fire in the aft main laundry facility burned for over 30 hours, destroying primary berthing spaces and leaving 600 sailors without racks. The operational degradation forced US Central Command to order the carrier to Naval Support Activity Souda Bay in Crete, effectively binning the remainder of its deployment.

The failure of the Ford is rooted in a gruelling 10-month deployment that pushed the crew beyond physical limits. Severe infrastructure flaws in the vacuum plumbing system led to daily breakdowns, requiring 19-hour maintenance shifts. Exhausted personnel weaponised this vulnerability, flushing heavy cotton T-shirts and four-foot lengths of rope to deliberately destroy the sewage system’s suction capability. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is actively investigating this sabotage, as well as examining whether the 12 March fire was an act of arson designed to force a mission abort.

The Pentagon has initiated a rapid substitution to maintain the offensive against Iranian targets. The USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is deploying as the primary relief asset. Reinforcing the theatre is the USS Tripoli (LHA-7), operating as a light aircraft carrier with F-35B Lightning II strike fighters, whilst the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) sustains continuous strike sorties from the Arabian Sea. The sidelining of CVN-78 proves a brutal fact: high-end hardware remains completely subordinate to basic habitability and the physical limits of the personnel operating it.

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There was chaos aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford after a major onboard fire knocked out a big swathe of living quarters, leaving hundreds of US sailors without beds in the middle of a live war deployment, in what marks a much bigger incident than what the Pentagon previously disclosed

The modern U.S. Navy seems pretty much unfit for purpose.

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The Make America Healthy Again agenda just found its first serious legal challenger. This week, five food stamp recipients filed suit in Washington, D.C., federal court demanding the right to spend taxpayer-funded SNAP benefits on candy, soda, and energy drinks.

The MAHA movement would be applauded if it were pushed by a Democrat—as it has been in the past, when Democrats had a monopoly on Nanny State food propaganda (I’m looking at you, Michelle Obama).

I personally favor encouraging people on the dole to eat food that will kill them as soon as possible, in order to save taxpayer funds. But that’s me.

The War Zone.

The U.S. Navy Independence class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) USS Tulsa and USS Santa Barbara, which are configured for minesweeping duties, have appeared in port in Malaysia. Both of these ships were last known to be forward-deployed in the Middle East, having arrived in Bahrain in the past year or so to take the place of a group of now-decommissioned Avenger class mine hunters. Now, as Iranian attacks on commercial ships have caused a virtual halt to maritime traffic through the highly strategic Strait of Hormuz, these ships have emerged thousands of miles away. The extent to which Iran has seeded naval mines in the Strait already is unclear, but this remains a huge threat to the future security of the waterway and will have to be taken into account in any future effort to reopen this critical waterway.

I guess the Navy figured out that the LCS are totally useless and so decided to get them out from underfoot.

Perhaps they will park them in the Taiwan Strait to give the Communist Chinese something to shoot at.

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Nearly $1 billion in U.S. federal research funds have been funneled into projects involving the Chinese regime’s defense laboratories that pose “critical risks” to America’s national security, according to a new study.

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“What we are looking at today is the perversion of aid: the use of aid money to attain political objectives which cannot be obtained openly by other means,” declared John O’Sullivan, president of the Danube Institute that hosted the conference “The Politicization of Aid,” held in Budapest on Tuesday, February 24th.

The speakers of the event elaborated on the central topic of the conference: how foreign aid has shifted from traditional humanitarian relief to supporting activist networks and the promotion of progressive causes. According to many of the speakers, aid has long been shaped by political and ideological interests, but in recent decades it has taken on a more explicitly political character.

Although this “perversion” has been apparent for quite a while, with the closing down of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the new U.S. president Donald Trump in 2025, public awareness of this transformation has accelerated.

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Just because someone is wearing a black robe doesn’t mean they’re upholding the rule of law. Consider some recent judicial rulings.

Last November, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem published a notice ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Leave aside the merits of that decision. The law is clear that this decision belongs to the Trump administration.

Congress created TPS in 1990. It applies to citizens of other countries living in the United States. It offers recipients temporary legal protection after their home country has been affected by a natural disaster or other hardship. Basically, the government says things in your home country are so terrible that it won’t force you to leave or deport you.

The secretary of homeland security decides which countries fit this description. The designation can last for six, 12, or 18 months. Before a designation expires, the secretary can choose to extend it or end it. In the case of Haiti, the impetus for this “temporary” status was a 2010 earthquake.

“There is no judicial review of any determination of the Attorney General with respect to the designation, or termination or extension of a designation, of a foreign state under this subsection,” the law states. After 9/11, Congress moved authority over enforcing immigration law from the attorney general to the DHS secretary.

The takeaway is clear. A judge doesn’t get to second-guess Noem’s decision. Doing so wouldn’t just violate the law. It’d run afoul of recent Supreme Court precedent. In a 6-to-3 ruling last October, the Supreme Court smacked down a California judge who told DHS it couldn’t end TPS for Venezuelan nationals.

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It has been 60 years since The Beatles released their album Revolver with the lead song “Taxman.” Its lyrics have become classic:

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street; If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat; If you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.

Government is the most rigid construct man has ever invented, with one exception: taxes. Just like George Harrison’s lyrics so amusingly point out, there is no limit to how creative government will get if it thinks it can squeeze more taxes out of us.

At the time the song was written, British income tax topped out at 95% (‘It’s one for you, nineteen for me’). Under a Labour government, of course; socialism is based on robbing people.

One of the most absurd tax inventions is the idea that people should pay taxes on financial hot air, also known as ‘unrealized capital gains.’ These are increases in the value of assets that you have not cashed in. In other words, unrealized capital gains are assessments of how much your assets would yield in cash if you were to sell them today.

This tax already exists in Europe and is fervently debated in America….

Proglodytes and other dimwits think that ‘billionaires’ are Scrooge McDuck, with a big Money Bin in which they swim around in their cash. In fact, ‘billionaires’ have all their supposed wealth invested in productive assets, providing goods and services (and employment for thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, of people).

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A disturbing video has surfaced showing middle school students delivering a classroom presentation that openly attacks U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and promotes unchecked immigration.

Dressed in black hoodies, the boys stand before their peers, chanting profanities and gesturing defiantly against the agents protecting America’s borders.

The footage captures the students declaring “F*ck ICE” while raising their middle fingers to federal immigration enforcement.

The Register.

They’d be fools not to Microsoft proved that last century—you may not be interested in fucking politics, but politics is interested in fucking you.

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Topline: Eight Massachusetts state agencies and 13 colleges spent $6.8 million to settle grievances, partly in secret, brought by their own employees from 2019 to 2024, according to a Jan. 16 report from State Auditor Diana DiZoglio.

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You’d think they’d figure this out and do something about is. But no. Busness As Usual, until Arlington disappears in nuclear fire and the finger-pointing starts.

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The chaos caused by millions of illegal immigrants flooding across the southwest border under the Biden administration left scars on this border town.

?The constant high-speed chases, buzzing helicopters, screaming emergency sirens, hurried school lockdowns, torn barbed-wire fences, and decomposing bodies on ranches and along the Rio Grande all took their toll on Texas towns near the Mexican border.

?The border crisis drained resources and changed the lifestyle of Brackettville, a little town with two traffic light intersections in Kinney County. Residents of the county and beyond said the madness stopped almost overnight after President Donald Trump took office.?

The Antiplanner.

One argument against rail transit is that rail vehicles cost a lot more than buses, even when adjusting for numbers of seats and vehicle lifespans. The transit industry is trying to fix that — by spending more on buses. As shown in the table below, table 24 of the American Public Transportation Association’s vehicle database says that an intercity bus costs less than $300,000, but in 2023 and 2024 transit agencies spent an average of more than $1.1 million for 40-foot buses to use for bus rapid transit.

Politicians (especially Democrat politicians) love to spend money (your money, not their own money).

And … they love having juicy contracts to pass out among … friends, let us say.

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Not just to put it on the market—to require that it be used.

A congressional task force soon plans to release a compromise between corn farmer and oil refinery interests that could reshape the American energy industry.

In D.C., it doesn’t matter what benefits the consumer—what matters is who wins the fight between two organized blocks of producers (and their sock-puppets in Congress).