"The suspect, who used to work as an Uber driver and lived in the Pacific Palisades at the time, did not enter a plea at a federal court appearance on Wednesday in Orlando.
"Authorities painted a picture of a man singularly focused on a city going up in flames at a news conference Wednesday, saying the suspect repeatedly watched a rap video that included “objects being lit on fire” in the days before allegedly setting the fire.
"The suspect also allegedly prompted ChatGPT to generate a “dystopian painting showing in part a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it,” in the months before the fire started, Essayli said."
It would be tempting to blame social media or rap. AI use is more symptom I think of an underlying pyromania.
The appropriate answer, of course, is match control. "If it saves one life..."
The 1/8" end mills seem to lack a flat spot. On the shank of end mills there is usually a flat spot so that the set screw that holds the end mill in its holder can gets a solid purchase. I have been struggling with the set screws failing to hold down on the perfectly round and very smooth shanks. As feed rates increased, vibration was loosening the end mills.
After reading discussions on this online, I used my grinder to cut a little notch in an appropriate place on the shank. It seems to have solved that problem.
Progressives love "harm reduction" which usually means "We will not prohibit drug abuse." 10/7/25 National Post:
Greta Thunberg is using a picture of a starving Palestinian to make the case for Palestine. The picture is of Evyatar David, a hostage held by Hamas. You can see the picture and his identification at 8/4/25 BBC. It isn't like legacy media will expose Greta Thunberg's dishonesty.
A Democratic candidate, who is in hot water over texts revealing his desire to shoot a GOP lawmaker, previously received the endorsement and a hefty donation from one of the most prominent gun control groups in the country.
Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, running alongside gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, received $200,000 from Everytown for Gun Safety in August, campaign finance records reviewed by Fox News Digital show.
Jones has been facing calls to drop out of the race after a National Review report exposed text messages in 2022 where Jones compared one of his Republican colleagues, former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, to Hitler and Pol Pot and said that if he was given two bullets, he would use both against the GOP lawmaker.
Over the years, I have noticed an interesting feature (or is it a bug?) of gun control activists: a lack of personal self-control that they project on to others. There was a DC gun ban activist who police arrested in possession of a MAC-10 that they believed she intended to use on the criminal accused of killing her son. There was a New Jersey gun banner who claimed he supported restrictive gun laws because his brother was killed with a gun. (Deeper examination found the brother was shot to death by New Jersey police after a traffic stop.)
Mayors Against Illegal Guns has a long history of members being arrested or convicted of felonies including, "false imprisonment, unlawful restraint, reckless endangerment, serving alcohol to a minor and other crimes, and he also allegedly used more than one gun in this incident, in which at least one shot was fired."
Projection is a fundamental characteristic of progressive politics.
Oddly enough, the interior lights in my wife's Hyundai Tucson do not come on automatically when opening any of the doors. This is odd. At one time, police cars did this same thing to prevent the lighting from outlining an officer to a criminal as they were getting out of the car at night.
The manual showed an icon for a switch that controls this feature. But it did not identify where this switch was located. A Hyundai video showed me where this switch was located in the overhead lighting panel.
I was attempting to cut a .5" wide slice from a .5" thick piece. It was not successfully removing it. I went deeper with no luck. I told the mill to cut across 2". I really needed 2.1". That last .1" was so stiff and strong that it could not be snapped off by hand.
When I blog from the Blogger app on my phone, pictures often get turned, I end up using quotation marks instead of use block quotation format, and links sometimes get lost. I wish the app was more capable. So I sometimes go back through and fix these. This sometimes moves these to top of blog.
Powerful presentation by the late Rabbi Sacks of Britain explaining why anti-Semitism should not be not just a concern for Jews, but everyone. It is a canary in the mine that scapegoating has become a way of explaining why group A is not doing well rather than asking if group A has been doing something stupid to itself. You see this with other forms of racial hatred: are cultural problems in some urban communities creating poverty, violence, and educational failure, or can we blame systemic racism (which has been legally prohibited and generally derided by nearly all Americans for decades now).
Over at Instapundit, Sarah Hoyt links to a news story New Jersey man arrested for having Molotov cocktail outside DC church during high profile mass, and asks DOES THE 2ND AMENDMENT COVER THOSE?
Arguable. The Court has largely focused on self-defense on its decisions, and emphatically so with respect to bearing in Bruen.. Molotov cocktails are only such weapons under the most extreme conditions (large mobs coming to burn out the black section of town as happened in East St. Louis in 1916). Even this would likely not require the right to bear them off your own property.
The Court has never dealt with the primary motivation for the Second Amendment: the insurrectionary theory, that a tyrannical government might need some kinetic conversation to prevent misuse of its powers. This does not require a right to carry any category of arms. Revolutionaries have bigger problems than violating carry laws. To be ready to persuade the government to stop or relinquish the levers of power, you only need to possess such arms at home in preparation for such revolt. In practice, laws prohibiting possession of the required components for Molotov cocktails (flammable liquid, glass bottle, rag) are unenforceable.
Our recent Skeptic Research Center survey of over 3,000 Americans found that 67% of GenZ men and 72% of GenZ women (i.e., those born between 1997-2006) believe “mental health challenges are an important part of my identity.”7 It isn’t just young people, though. After all, American culture—and possibly that of most Western nations—is one dominated by therapy and psychiatry.So, while rates of identifying as mentally ill are higher in younger generations, we still found that over a quarter (27%) of Baby Boomer men and over a third (34%) of Baby Boomer women (i.e., those born between 1946-1964) believe that mental health challenges are an important part of their identity (see Figure 1).
A final interesting finding worth mentioning here is that younger generations and liberals are also more likely to ascribe social status to identifying as mentally ill. Specifically, we found that these demographics more often agreed with the statement, “People with mental health challenges have more important points of view than people without mental health challenges” (see Figure 4).
Although we didn’t measure attitudes about income inequality per se, we did measure peoples’ accuracy in estimating poverty rates in America. Specifically, we asked our sample to take a guess as to the percentage of Americans living in poverty (according to the U.S. Census,19 about 11% of Americans live in poverty). Those in our sample vastly overestimated the rate: only 3% of the over 3,000 people that took our representative survey gave the correct answer, and over a third of our sample told us they think the majority of Americans (i.e., > 50%) live in poverty (see Figure 5). Revealingly, a key finding is that those who agreed more strongly that mental health challenges are an important part of their identity tended to give even more extreme overestimates of the poverty rate....
If you had to guess, about what percentage of Black Americans live in poverty? According to the U.S. Census, the correct answer is around 17%, a record low.20 Yet the average guess in our sample was 45% and, again, those who identified more strongly with their mental health challenges tended to give higher estimates (see Figure 6).
The Des Moines Public Schools board announced Friday it intends to pursue legal action against a consulting firm it says it hired in 2023 to conduct a search for a new superintendent, claiming the firm failed to "properly vet candidates" after the district's now-former superintendent was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last week.Federal authorities said the superintendent, Ian Roberts, is not in the U.S. legally and has not had any work authorization in the U.S. since 2020. He had served as the superintendent of the Des Moines school district since July 2023 until his resignation this week following his detainment.
This is bizarre. Every employer of mine since 9/11 has required proof of citizenship or other legal employable status. So Des Moines School District did not? How many other employees slipped through the cracks?
10/4/25 PJMedia reports:
A woman in Chicago was recently caught red-handed (or brown-handed?) smearing dog feces on a Tesla Cybertruck decorated with an American flag wrap and featuring President Trump's gold-leaf signature on the tailgate.
The incident unfolded in the Northalsted neighborhood while the truck's owner, John Evans from Savannah, Georgia, was attending a conference in the city. What this vandal apparently failed to remember was that Tesla vehicles come equipped with multiple cameras that capture everything happening around them. Evans returned to find his vehicle defaced, and the footage told the whole story.
"It's crazy that something like this upsets somebody so much that they decided, 'oh I'm going to ruin that person's day,'" Evans told FOX 32. "Well, the shoe is on the other foot now." The surveillance video showed the woman calmly spreading the mess across the tailgate before walking away, apparently satisfied with her handiwork. Evans suspects the Trump-themed decoration was what set her off. "On the tailgate in Gold Leaf, there is a representation of the signature of President Trump," he explained. "And I think that may have further inflamed the mental illness of the person that decided to do this to my vehicle."
Rather than call police, she decided to post pictures and let the market deal with her business ("the owner of a local dog daycare"). At least it washes off.
Her Instagram account tells us that: "Fascists are not people." If my memory serves me right, this was the phrase the SS used to concentration camp inmates: "Kein arbeiten, kein fressen." No working, no feeding. German has two verbs for eating. Essen is for people eating, fressen is for animals feeding. Let us hope leftist efforts to provoke civil war do not reach that point.
Cutting Length 1.5 Inches
I have been using SpeedTigers with .5" LOC for some time. They work but today I wanted to cut some .1495" holes (6-32 through hole size). I had no drill bits that were close.
They will be more brittle, so careful to not use a high feed rate.
UPDATE: Misdescribed. Actually 1.5" total length. Length of cut is 0.5". I will doubtless need even short 1/8" carbide endmills in the future. They are brittle. Fortunately:
Kodiak Cutting Tools KCT138334 USA Made Solid Carbide End Mill, Extra Long, 4 Flute, 1/8" Shank, 1" Length of Cut, 3" Overall Length, 1/8" Diameter
Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's Southwest SideAuthorities were on patrol when they were “rammed by 10 cars,” according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. The woman who was shot “was armed with a semi-automatic weapon,” prompting officers to open fire, DHS said. She was taken in fair condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
This week, federal officials made an astounding announcement: Nearly half of all immigrants in greater Minneapolis were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud.
"The fraud, uncovered in a September sweep, came in all kinds — sham marria
ges, fake death certificates and “other bizarre schemes,” as US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edley put it.
Of course, how else do you get Rep. Ilan Omar (D-MN)?
10/3/25 Daily Mail reports that an airliner made an emergency stop because a passenger wearing 15 layers of masks starting screaming that LGBTQs were giving him cancer.
Police tell the BBC that 35-year-old suspect Jihad Al-Shamie was on police bail for an alleged rape when he carried out a car ramming and stabbing attack at a Manchester synagogue on Thursday.Some things do not mix well. Alcohol and power tools. Teenaged boys, tequila and automobiles. It increasingly seems to be Muslims and post-medieval cultures.
A Newburgh resident expecting an Amazon delivery of rice, paper plates and a toy lightsaber instead opened a box to find 250 state election ballots.The discovery raised alarms about election security, leading the Maine Republican Party Chairman to call for a federal criminal investigation as the state is mere weeks from deciding on whether it will join 36 other states in requiring some form of Vote ID.
The package arrived Tuesday looking beat up and re-taped, as if tampered with. Inside, along with household items, were bundles of ballots packaged in tamper-evident packs of 50 — the same format used for official shipments to local clerks. Election officials who reviewed photographs confirmed the documents appear to be authentic 2025 ballots.
Amazon delivers so quickly. I still have to wonder why someone would do this. The pictures look authentic. Of course, these are Democrats. Not exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer.
WARMINGTON: You can bring mini axe to rally — as long as you are sacred firekeeperToronto Police removed the handcuffs and returned the hatchet to the man in an orange shirt with no charges...
Even if the public has an axe to grind with the decision, Toronto Police stand behind their call to return a hatchet to a protester they had in handcuffs.
The article goes to explain:
Sa’d said it was later explained to her the man was a “traditional firekeeper” but she did note there was no traditional fire-burning anywhere in sight.
Admittedly irritated at first, she acknowledges it’s not only purportedly legal in the Criminal Code of Canada to carry around a hatchet as long as it’s not used in a crime or for defensive purposes, under city of Toronto rules, there is also special status for Indigenous sacred fire and firekeepers.
Two Jewish people have died in a car ramming and stabbing attack at a synagogue in Manchester.
The attack came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar, and is being treated by police as a terror incident.
Police say they know the identity of the attacker, who was shot dead by armed officers at the scene.
Four people remain in hospital with serious injuries. Here is what we know so far about the attack.
A nation so focused on keeping its Muslim population peaceful should not find this surprising. I am so glad Britain does not have those icky guns available to commit mass murder.
Police have named the attacker believed to be behind today's terror attack at a synagogue as 35-year-old Jihad al Shamie. Police say three people are also in custody, while Sir Keir Starmer has promised to do all he can to protect Jewish communities. Follow the latest below.
Obviously MAGA. What else could he be when his first name is Jihad? A little later in the day they reported that three others have been arrested for conspiracy to terrorism.
UPDATE: Great comment at Instapundit: "Giving someone called "Jihad" citizenship in 2025 is like naturalising someone in 1943 called Hitler von Auschwitz."
After the Civil War, laws mandated racial segregation in public facilities across many U.S. cities, requiring separate bathrooms, schools and waiting rooms for people of color and white people. While the last of this legislation, known as the Jim Crow laws, was overturned in the 1960s, the built environment continues to impose boundaries that make certain races feel unwelcome, said Shawhin Roudbari, an associate professor in CU Boulder’s Program in Environmental Design.
Roudbari has been studying how design elements can perpetuate racial inequality in the U.S., hoping to shed light on systemic issues.
Currently, he is piloting a study exploring how the space and buildings at U.S. college campuses reinforce racial inequality.
“I first became interested in this area because college campuses are a place where young people come during an identity-forming time in their lives,” Roudbari said. “It’s important to learn how they perceive the space around them in a place they have to live for multiple years.”
CU Boulder Today sat down with Roudbari to discuss his research on campus design, racial inequity in architecture and what inclusive design looks like.
Many don’t think about that when considering architecture. They might think of accessibility issues, like the presence of ramps for people with disabilities, but not about race.
But architectural design often reflects social hierarchies, and those hierarchies are frequently tied to the history of Western colonization and racism.
For example, certain classroom setups, like the auditorium-style lecture hall where students surround a professor, portray the teacher as the center of power standing in the middle of the room. This way of learning was made mainstream by Western colonization, which eliminated enslaved or otherwise colonized Indigenous communities as part of attempts to extract wealth or advance supremacist projects like Manifest Destiny (a belief that American settlers were destined to expand across North America). In other non-Western traditions, learning tends to be more communal and decentralized, where people sit around in a circle and share their expertise.
Do the following phrases mean anything to this idiot: "Indian chief", "Chinese emperor", "caliph"?
In your recent study, you interviewed 20 CU Boulder community members, including white people and people of color, about how they perceived the campus. What did you find?
One issue that came up a lot is visibility. The campus has a lot of big, open spaces, which is great for some. But others pointed out that on a campus with a predominantly white demographic, people of color stand out more in open spaces.
Many people of color expressed that they felt a sense of being noticed and watched on this campus, because the environment provided little refuge for them to be less visible or even hide in this predominantly white space.
The big lawn in front of the Norlin Library is one example. Students there enjoy playing games or sun tanning. When most people there are white, and my skin color is a bit different, the contrast becomes enough to make people uncomfortable.
This would be a problem in classrooms, too, maybe even more so. Solution is simple: do not attend colleges with white people! Clearly, we left that behind with Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Green spaces like this are common across college campuses in the US. Can you elaborate more on how this landscape can be problematic?
Manicured lawns on U.S. college campuses have roots in our imagination of what elite schools in Europe look like. We want to build a campus that looks like Oxford University or Cambridge University to convey a superior status. So, even though they seem like neutral design elements, they can make non-white students feel alienated because these spaces weren’t designed for them. The architecture of a campus can send subtle messages about who belongs there and who doesn’t.
Excuse me while I laugh. I thought it was about creating a peaceful environment. Does any non-white student walk onto campus and say, "This place looks like Oxford. They do not want me here."
When I first went to university, I was a lower socioeconomic status white person. (The people that ran universities then could not imagine that concept.) Was it different? Yes. I was grateful for the opportunity to get an education on my way to becoming a research chemist. Do black freshmen show up on campus and say, "This place does not want me here." They may not feel like they fit in. My first year at USC, I felt the same way. But I did not let that stop me. They wanted me there or they would not have admitted me and provided a modest scholarship to make up the difference between the scholarship provided by California and USC's hefty tuition. (I could have attended UCLA. But the gap between what California would pay and UCLA's much more modest tuition meant that USC was the cheap alternative.)
If you want to see how deep the rot is in our institutions of higher education, look at what "architecture racism" finds in news.google.com.
A Fort Hays State University (FHSU) employee is facing backlash after she labeled White men the “most dangerous animals on the planet” and called Charlie Kirk’s assassination “karma.”
Nuchelle Chance, an assistant psychology professor at FHSU in Hays, Kansas, posted the controversial statements on social media after Kirk’s death.
“Me thinks the word ‘karma’ is appropriate. Sad all the way around,” she posted on Facebook under the name “NuNu LA Chance.”
Chance doubled down on her comments in a video she posted to TikTok Sept. 29, stating, “It’s always ironic that the shooters, the perpetrators of these mass incidents, they always tend to fit a certain demographic…White American men…they’re the perpetrators of these crimes…the average person sees that and understands that.”
If she misses "mass shooters" a popular claim in Progressiveland, this Statista report answers that:
Number of mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and August 2025, by shooter's race or ethnicity
Race of mass shooters reflects the U.S. population
Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole. While a superficial comparison of the statistics seems to suggest African American shooters are over-represented and Latino shooters underrepresented, the fact that the shooter’s race is unclear in around nine percent of cases, along with the different time frames over which these statistics are calculated, means no such conclusions should be drawn. Conversely, looking at the mass shootings in the United States by gender clearly demonstrates that the majority of mass shootings are carried out by men.
A vote to end the government shutdown hours after it began failed Wednesday, as Democrats in the Senate held firm to the party’s demands to fund health care subsidies that President Donald Trump and Republicans refuse to provide....
Health care demands: Democrats want the health care subsidies extended now, for Republicans to reverse the Medicaid cuts that were enacted over the summer, and for the White House to promise not to rescind congressional spending. Republicans say there’s still time to negotiate on health care this year, but stopgap funding for the government is the priority. Republican claims that Democrats want to provide free health care to immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally are false.
If you click through the "are false" link you get a 10/1/25 AP news story that almost says that.
But immigrants in the U.S. illegally are not eligible for any federal health care programs, including insurance provided through the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid.
Hospitals do receive Medicaid reimbursements — which would be reduced under Trump’s mega-bill — for emergency care that they are obligated to provide to people who meet other Medicaid eligibility requirements, but do not have an eligible immigration status, according to KFF, a nonprofit health policy research polling and news organization. This spending accounted for less than 1% of total Medicaid spending between fiscal years 2017 and 2023.
So, not direct aid but hospitals treat illegals knowing they will get reimbursed. The requirement that all hospitals that have ever received national government assistance must provide emergency medical care is a humane requirement. At the same time, knowing that you will receive such care has to act as an encouragement to stay here. That the amount of spending is small really means somewhere below $8.8 billion. In the larger scheme of things this is not huge. But we are running a huge deficit. Americans are fairly sympathetic to those in need. That includes those in need who have a right to be here.
The new definition, from 9/25/25 BizPacReview:
A former nonprofit executive who’s been credibly accused of embezzling money to fund her personal expenses is now suing the same nonprofit for allegedly not properly compensating her for her supposed work.
Kyra Worthy, the former executive director of San Francisco SAFE, filed a $26,000 suit against the nonprofit and its last board chair, Dan Lawson, in court last Friday, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The nonprofit San Francisco SAFE, or SF Safe, was considered the nonprofit arm of the local San Francisco Police Department.
In January of last year, SF SAFE fired Worthy after an investigation by the city found that she’d “misused public money on luxury gift boxes, valet parking at an exclusive club, and limo services during a Lake Tahoe trip,” according to The San Francisco Standard.
This led to her termination, as well as the bombshell announcement by SF SAFE that its bank account was devoid of any money, which in turn led to the nonprofit being shut down “for the time being.”
After her termination, Worthy immediately began demanding her final paycheck from the “very beginning,” according to Lawson.
Her former underlings are appalled at the fact that she’s filed suit. One of them told the Chronicle that they too never received their final paycheck, nor were they ever paid out for unused sick and vacation time.
But the underlings aren’t appalled at the nonprofit — they’re appalled by Worthy, the woman pretty much responsible for bankrupting SF SAFE with her selfish actions, now demanding the nonprofit pay her.
Speaking of her selfish actions, Worthy is also facing dozens of felonies for stealing from SF SAFE and misusing public funds. She was formally arrested on July 30, 2024.
A couple years old when progressive insanity was peaking. 11/1/22 Reduxx: Feminist News & Opinion:
A man in Norway is sparking outrage on social media after he was sympathetically interviewed about his decision to begin identifying as a disabled woman.
On October 28, Good Morning Norway (God Morgen Norge, GMN) aired an interview with Jørund Viktoria Alme, 53, an able-bodied male who now identifies as a disabled woman. In the interview, Alme stated that he had always wished he had been born a woman who was paralyzed from the waist down.
Will some progressive please explain why this is not sick? Not intersectionality but madness?
Alme, a senior credit analyst for Handelsbanken in Oslo, has received positive coverage in Norwegian media since he first announced his trans-disability publicly on Facebook in 2020. He has given several interviews, often alongside his wife, Agnes Mjålseth.
Despite having no physical handicaps, Alme currently utilizes a wheelchair “almost all the time.”
In addition to gender dysphoria, Alme claims to have a Body Integrity Disorder (BID), citing a “dissonance” between how he perceives himself and how his body functions. “I have struggled with this every day my whole life,” Alme told Vi, a Norwegian outlet, earlier this year.
“It is a cognitive dissonance: in the same way that I experience being a woman in a man’s body, I experience that I should have been paralyzed from the waist down. This is not a desire to be a burden on society. It is about the wheelchair being an aid for me to function in everyday life, both privately and at work,” Alme stated.
A Muslim man who attacked someone burning a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London has been spared jail.
Moussa Kadri, 59, saw Hamit Coskun setting alight the text and shouted: "I'm going to kill you" before slashing at him with a knife.
He later told police he was protecting his religion, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Judge Adam Hiddleston handed Kadri a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.
The incidents happened on 13 February in Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge, when Coskun, 51, shouted "Islam is religion of terrorism" and "Quran is burning".
Coskun, who is half Kurdish and half Armenian, travelled from his home in the Midlands and set fire to the Koran at about 14:00 GMT, prosecutors previously said.
Kadri approached and asked Coskun why he was burning it.
Coskun could be heard in footage making a reference to "terrorists", and Kadri swore, called him "an idiot" and said "one sec, I'm coming back".
Kadri later returned holding a knife and slashed at Coskun, the court heard.
The judge said that the way Kadri lost his temper was "disgraceful" and that the "use of blades is a curse on our community".
Kadri said to Coskun: "Burning the Quran? It's my religion, you don't burn the Quran."
He later told police: "I protect my religion."
Greg Unwin, defending, said: "This was a response to a very unusual situation that Mr Kadri has demonstrated regret and remorse for.
"His reaction was in the heat of the moment to what he perceived was a deeply offensive act on a holy book."
One might wonder if this guy belongs in civilized society. He was not carrying the knife and responded in the heat of the moment. He left and returned with the knife. What about the victim?
Coskun was convicted at Westminster Magistrates' Court in June of a religiously aggravated public order offence.
An appeal was lodged with the Crown Court.
Coskun had argued that his criticism was of Islam in general rather than its followers, but District Judge John McGarva said he could not accept this, finding that Coskun's actions were "highly provocative" and that he was "motivated at least in part by a hatred of Muslims".
His case prompted campaigners and some politicians to say it was an attempt to bring back blasphemy law, but the government has said there are no blasphemy laws in England nor are there any plans to introduce any.
Technically, this is not a blasphemy law but that a distinctio without a difference.
Burning something that is regarded as holy (like a cross, Bible, or American flag) is rude and unpersuasive. Telling someone who engaged in a premeditated knife attack that his actions are understandable and not deserving of segregation from civilization is a sign of a society that is going down.
9/30/25 U.S. Department of Justice:
The Civil Rights Division today filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department due to their pattern or practice of infringing the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens seeking concealed carry weapons (CCW) permits. This lawsuit is the first affirmative lawsuit in support of gun owners filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. On March 27, 2025, the Division initiated the first-of-its-kind Second Amendment investigation due to numerous complaints of unreasonable delays in CCW permitting decisions by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. After analysis of data and documents spanning over 8,000 CCW permit applications, the Division today filed suit seeking relief on behalf of law-abiding applicants.
“The Second Amendment protects the fundamental constitutional right of law-abiding citizens to bear arms,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Los Angeles County may not like that right, but the Constitution does not allow them to infringe upon it. This Department of Justice will continue to fight for the Second Amendment.”
“The Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This lawsuit seeks to stop Los Angeles County’s egregious pattern and practice of delaying law-abiding citizens from exercising their right to bear arms.”
“Citizens living in high-crime areas cannot afford to wait to protect themselves with firearms while Los Angeles County dithers,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California. “The right to bear arms is among the founding principles of our nation. It can and must be upheld.”
If your progressive friends ask why the national government is sticking its nose in to this, ask them theis hypothetical. It is 1957. The Supreme Court has just ruled that racial segregation of public schools violates the civil rights of black kids. Should DOJ file suit against discriminating public school districts? Of course, the right to an equal education is important but not as immediately critical as self-defense.
SAG-AFTRA has issued a statement condemning Tilly Norwood, the AI “actress” who has become a contentious subject in Hollywood after her creator, Eline Van der Velden, recently claimed that multiple talent agents were interested in signing the AI creation. The acting guild believes “creativity is, and should remain, human-centered” and “is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.”
“To be clear, ‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation,” SAG-AFTRA wrote in a statement. “It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience. It doesn’t solve any ‘problem’ — it creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry.”
Hey, I understand. If AI can replace humans why hire temperamental actors. Especially ones that you cannot pull a Weinstein on? I am a bit perplexed by the "no life experience to draw
from" complaint. Do 5-year-olds have the same life experience upon which to draw as Sean Connery? I thought the skill of an actor was their ability to simulate emotions like a real person?
It only took me a day after his death to start seeing the left-wing conspiracy theories on my social-media feed, with people sharing posts that claimed that MAGA activist Charlie Kirk was killed by someone on his own side.
According to a recent survey carried out by YouGov, 33 per cent of Democrats say that Kirk’s killer was motivated by right-wing beliefs. Only 10 per cent of Democrats appear to accept what is thus far the most likely scenario: that the suspect saw Kirk as a political opponent.
It isn’t hard to see where this wanton ignorance is coming from. Indeed, ever since Kirk’s death there has been a concerted effort by prominent left-wing and mainstream media figures to obscure the political leanings of the suspect, Tyler Robinson.
Take Keith Edwards, a former Democratic spin doctor who has over 800,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. On 12 September, two days after the shooting, Edwards made the following claim in a video that has more than 800,000 views:
‘It is looking more and more like this is someone who is far right, very online… Maybe what is called a Groyper… Groypers are a group of alt-right white nationalists and Christian-nationalist activists.’
Edwards even claimed that some of the etchings on the suspect’s weapon were ‘symbols of far-right ideology’.
The Daily Beast, a prominent liberal outlet, also published a disturbingly dishonest piece on the same day, with a headline blaring: ‘Charlie Kirk’s suspect’s grandma says family all MAGA.’ The piece quoted Utah governor Spencer Cox as saying Robinson had ‘become more political in recent years’, leaving the reader to imply that his politics were conservative.
Had the reporter bothered to contact Cox, she would have discovered the opposite to be the case. Indeed, Cox was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the day after the Daily Beast article was published, saying that he believed Robinson was ‘deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology’.
Progressives are so deeply trapped in their bubble that they are completely unaware of what even the left of center legacy media are reporting.
