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WATCH: Massive fire breaks out at Chinese electric vehicle company BYD’s parking garage in Shenzhen, China

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Alaska Lawmakers advance bill to shield AK librarians who offer sexually explicit books to kids

https://alaskawatchman.com/2026/03/24/lawmakers-advance-bill-to-shield-ak-librarians-who-offer-sexually-explicit-books-to-kids/

Excerpt:

A controversial bill, which aims to provide legal cover for Alaska librarians who distribute sexually explicit material to minors, has advanced out of the Senate Education Committee and awaits its next assignment in the Judiciary Committee.

Sponsored by Senator Scott Kawasaki (D-Fairbanks), Senate Bill 238 has already generated heated debate with scores of impassioned letters from both sides of the issue being sent to lawmakers.

On March 23, however, all five Senate Education Committee members agreed to let the bill advance to its next committee. These members include Senators Löki Tobin (D-Anchorage), Gary Stevens (R-Kodiak), Jesse Bjorkman (R- Nikiski), Jesse Kiehl (D-Juneau) and Rob Yundt (R-Wasilla).

Opponents of the legislation have warned that the bill grants libraries wide latitude to order and shelve objectionable books that many parents view as sexually explicit and pornographic in nature.

Proponents of the legislation, however, claim the bill is necessary to ensure librarians have ample freedom to make these books available to the general public without fear of legal action.

The latest version of Senate Bill 238 aims to give librarians a defense against charges of “enticement of a minor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and distribution of indecent material to minors.”

Given the ongoing controversies surrounding librarians who deliberately order and shelve objectionable children’s books, the bill is clearly aimed at countering concerned parents and local citizens who have been working for years to remove highly sexualized, graphic children’s materials from area schools and libraries. These include books in Alaska libraries that expose youth to topics such as bondage, anal and oral sex, pederasty, transgenderism, sexting and masturbation. If Kawasaki’s legislation passes, it will be much more difficult to challenge or remove these books.

Obesity killing people at such a young age and yet society has to be silent about it. And now with diabetes drugs that cause weight loss, obesity fixed with an injection instead of a lifestyle change. Yet stop the ‘wonder’ drug and they gain the weight back in fat they don’t regain the muscle loss.

The Holocaust Memorial in D.C, is one to visit. Went years ago and it was emotional, eye opening and made history feel like you were in it. They actually have a German railcar that was used to transport Jews to the extermination camps there.

‘My 600-Lb. Life’ star Dolly Martinez dead at age 30

https://pagesix.com/2026/04/12/celebrity-news/my-600-lb-life-star-dolly-martinez-dies-at-age-30/

Excerpt:

“My 600-Lb. Life” star Dolly Martinez has died at the age of 30.

.....No cause of death was given, but Cooper shared that her sister was in the hospital “fighting for her life” a day prior.
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No word from the body positivity crowd. She died from obesity.

I remember when young and the anti-smoking crowd was loud and everywhere saying that the cost to society from smoking would be a cost to everyone. Yet the cost to society from obesity will make smoking costs look like pocket change, yet crickets about calling out obese people like they did smokers. A result of our trophy for everyone culture?

Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
@profstonge

New database tracks judges who let criminals off.

Very useful for the 20,000 elected judgeships in the country (2/3 of all judges) where voters today really don’t know what they’re voting on.

JohnnyFSE
@JohnnyFSE·Apr 11

I built http://CourtWatch.us — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities.
You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free.
I started with.....

https://x.com/profstonge/status/2043740443272212500

Inactive Isn’t Removed — And Florida Just Showed Us Why That Matters

Federal law says states “shall remove” ineligible voters from the rolls. So why are millions of them still sitting there — and why did Florida just make the problem worse?

https://krisjurski.substack.com/p/inactive-isnt-removed-and-florida
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Imagine this. You move from Florida to Tennessee. You buy a house. You get a Tennessee driver’s license. You register to vote in your new county. You’re a responsible citizen — so you call your old county back in Florida and ask them to take your name off their voter rolls.

They ignore you.

You write a letter. Nothing.

You call again. The clerk tells you that you have to fill out some form — but they’re not sure which one. You ask them to email it. They don’t.

Two years later, you’re still on the voter rolls in a county where you no longer live, in a state where you can no longer legally vote. And nobody seems to care.

This isn’t a hypothetical. We’ve now heard from hundreds of Americans who tell us essentially the same story. They moved. They tried to do the right thing. Their old county simply refused to act.

Here’s the part that should make every American angry: federal law required that county to act. They didn’t have a choice. There is no decision to make. There is no local, county or state ordinance that over rules that.

In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act — the NVRA. Most people know it as the “Motor Voter” law because it let people register to vote at the DMV. Buried inside that same law is a much less famous section that puts a hard, mandatory duty on every state in the country.

It’s called Section 8. And here’s the language that matters, in plain English:

Every state shall conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters — by reason of death, or change of residence.

Read that one more time. Notice the word “shall.” In legal writing, “shall” doesn’t mean “should” or “if you get around to it.” It means must. It is a command, not a suggestion.

And notice the other word: “remove.”

Not “flag.” Not “mark inactive.” Not “set aside for later.” Remove.

Nine years later, in 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act — HAVA — and used the exact same word again: states must make a “reasonable effort to remove registrants who are ineligible to vote.”

Here’s the trick. Federal law uses the word ineligible. But many counties use a different word: inactive.

These two words sound similar. They are not the same thing.

Ineligible is a legal status. It means a person no longer meets the requirements to be registered at that address. Maybe they died. Maybe they moved. Maybe they were never a citizen. Federal law says ineligible voters must be removed.

Inactive is an administrative label. It means the county has some reason to think the registration might be stale, but they haven’t done anything about it yet. The voter is still on the rolls. They can still receive mail. In many states, they can still request a ballot.

Federal law tells counties to remove ineligible voters. Many counties have decided, on their own, to mark them “inactive” instead — and then leave them sitting there. For years. Sometimes forever.

Those who were ineligible at the time of their registration, but were incorrectly granted voting privileges in error, are still ineligible, and should be removed immediately upon discovery. Examples include: registering with information on their application that is incorrect or registering an address that doesn’t exist.

This is the inactive shell game. It lets a county claim, with a straight face, that they’re “managing” their voter rolls — while not doing what federal law actually requires.

Also in Florida, it means Supervisors of Elections (SOEs) can ask for more of your tax money since their budgets are derived by the size of their voter rolls. This means Florida SOEs are incentivized to keep their voter rolls bloated.

The NVRA did create a legitimate use for “inactive” status: it’s supposed to be a short, temporary holding spot during a 30-day notice process. After two federal general elections — about two years and a week, at most — an unresponsive inactive voter is supposed to be removed entirely. But somewhere along the way, “temporary” became “permanent” database to “park” a voter registration for possible future use.
The NVRA explicitly says that if a registrant gives written confirmation that they’ve moved out of the jurisdiction, the county can remove them — immediately. No 90-day waiting period. No multiple letters. No “wet signature” on the county’s own form or card. Done.

It also says counties must conduct a general program — meaning they have to go looking for these voters, not wait for the voters to find them. The Election Assistance Commission, which is the federal agency that helps states comply with these laws, specifically encourages counties to use data sources like:

USPS National Change of Address records

State and federal death records

Cross-state voter registration matching

EAC has been experimenting for several years, and a number of counties are already using proprietary data sources such as credit card agencies.

If a county isn’t using these tools — or worse, has the data and is ignoring it — that county is not making a “reasonable effort.” That’s a direct violation of federal law.

.....On April 1, 2026, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s version of the SAVE Act, House Bill 991. The headlines praised it as a major election integrity win, requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.

That part is good.

But buried in Florida law — and left untouched by HB 991 — is a provision in Florida Statute § 98.065 that should make every Florida voter sit up. Under existing Florida law, an “inactive” voter can stop their own removal from the rolls by doing one of three things:

Updating their registration

Showing up to vote in person

Requesting a vote-by-mail ballot

Stop and think about that third one for a moment.

Florida TODAY has nearly 2.7 MILLION inactive registrations on it’s voter rolls. That means 1 in every 5 registrations in our voter rolls is currently INACTIVE.

Now picture a sophisticated bad actor. They pull the public voter file. They filter for inactive registrations. They identify thousands of people who are Inactive, not voted for 3 or more federal elections, and then check the NCOA to see if they moved away. They update the mailing address - which changes the status to Active - to an address they have access to, ... like a UPS Personal Mail Box rented four months prior to an election under a fictitious name and address.

The request itself resets the removal clock under Florida law, which means the registration stays alive on the rolls — ready to be exploited again next election. And because the real voter has no idea this is happening, there’s no one to complain.

This is not a theoretical concern. This is a textbook identity theft scheme, sitting in plain sight, made possible by the gap between what federal law requires (removal) and what counties actually do (its easier: just mark Inactive and ignore).

The same Florida law that just cracked down on noncitizen registration left a wide-open back door for ballot fraud against Inactive voters. One hand giveth., the other hand left the screen door unlatched.

The fix is not complicated, and it does not require new laws. It requires counties to do what existing federal law has required them to do for the last 33 years:

Use the data. NCOA records, death records, and cross-state matches already exist. The information is sitting there.

Stop hiding behind “inactive.” The NVRA says remove. Not relabel.

Stop hiding behind “wet signature.” When the apply to vote elsewhere, a driver’s license, public benefits, homestead tax exemption, their wet signature is put on the application, serving as a legal attestation of their new permanent address.

Honor written requests. When a voter who has moved asks to be removed for the voter roll, federal law says you can do it that day. So, do it that day.

Close the mail-ballot loophole. A registration that is stale enough to be “inactive” should not be eligible to receive a mail ballot to an address where the voter no longer lives. Period.
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Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸
@Tablesalt13

40% of Canadians who would rank in Canada’s top 1% of earners have emigrated to the US, along with 30-50% of the next 9%

This is from the Bank of Canada.

....and you wonder why they are discussing an EXIT VISA?

The ENTIRE power structure of Canada is being defunded.

https://x.com/Tablesalt13/status/2043376821484364212

Enguerrand VII de Coucy
@ingelramdecoucy

I gather Magyar is similarly anti-immigrant to Orban, possibly moreso. I think the lib victory lap is gonna be short lived.

https://x.com/ingelramdecoucy/status/2043428405484425683

If true watch EU heads explode.

Massachusetts Bill to Track & Fine Residents Who Drive Too Much

https://www.independentsentinel.com/massachusetts-bill-to-track-fine-residents-who-drive-too-much/

Excerpt:

Massachusetts lawmakers have a shiny new bill to get people out of their cars.

Senate Bill S.2246, under the banner of reducing emissions and vehicle miles traveled (VMT), added tyrannical rules to its state’s climate plan. As part of the plan, the department of transportation will track residents’ mileage and impose fines for excessive driving. It has its critics, such as the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, over the impact it will have on residents’ daily lives.’

However, the residents will let any tyrannical bill pass under the guise of climate change.

It would force the majority of residents to slash the miles they drive, claiming they have to do it to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

It orders the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to set binding goals for reducing statewide vehicle miles traveled (VMT). The bill will create a new government council tasked with pushing people onto public transit, one way or another.

No mileage limit is listed yet, but it’s coming. The globalists ruling Massachusetts want you out of your car and on to dangerous and dirty public transportation, and, eventually, into 15-minute cities.

The Massachusetts politicians love it, and it has been sent from the State House to the Senate Ways and Means Committee.

Massachusetts High Court Rules Armed Robbery Not Violent Enough to Hold Suspects Until Trial

https://www.massdailynews.com/2026/04/10/massachusetts-das-can-no-longer-hold-armed-robbers-before

Excerpt:

A Florida man walked into a Fall River bank last summer, handed the teller a note that said “I have a bomb,” and walked out with $5,000. He got caught the same day with dye on his hands and stolen cash in his pocket. Open and shut.

But before his case was resolved, a legal question made it all the way to the state’s highest court: could prosecutors hold him without bail as a danger to the public?

The Supreme Judicial Court said no. Armed robbery, the justices ruled on March 10, doesn’t count as a violent enough crime to lock someone up before trial.

Read that again. Armed robbery. Not violent enough. …

Under Massachusetts law, there’s a tool called Section 58A that lets prosecutors ask a judge to hold someone for up to 120 days with no bail at all — no ankle monitor, no conditions, just locked up. It’s the strongest card a DA can play to keep a dangerous person off the street before trial.

The SJC just took that card away for armed robbery.

Porter and Steyer with one of the two, at a minimum, placing in the top two to proceed to the November election. Given current polling, if true, Scumwell exiting would give Porter enough of his 13.7% to prevent both Republican candidates from being the top two to proceed to November. At least that is what the democrat machine is hoping for and why they are trying to force Scumwell out. It’s the Christine Blasey Ford treatment for Scumwell.

The Pot That Refuses to Melt

Assimilation as a modern fairy tale.

https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/11/the-pot-that-refuses-to-melt/

Excerpt:

Before we talk about assimilation, we need to confront a more basic question: how malleable are human populations to begin with? Modern political rhetoric often assumes that move a group across borders, change its institutions, disrupt its environment, and its social profile will quickly reconfigure. But history suggests otherwise. Group differences are stubbornly durable. Status, skills, norms, and behavioral patterns do not dissolve on contact with new soil. They persist. If assimilation were automatic, we would expect shocks to scramble human capital and permanently reshuffle hierarchies. They rarely do. Persistence is not an anomaly in human affairs, but the baseline.

.....But the evidence points in a darker direction. Human populations are not blank slates, and the traits that shape economic, cultural, and political life are not easily erased by borders or bureaucracies. They persist across generations. They reshape the societies that receive them. And once demographic changes occur at a large enough scale, attempting to rectify and reverse it through policy becomes an uphill battle. This is the part of the immigration debate that polite conversation avoids: immigration is not just an economic policy. It is an entire nation-building (or nation-ending) policy. It determines who the future electorate will be, what norms will dominate, what institutions will be sustained or dismantled. Its effects unfold slowly, over generations, which makes them easy to ignore in the present and extremely difficult to undo later. By the time the consequences are obvious, the foreigners responsible for them become powerful and influential enough to demand permanent acceptance.

The comforting image of the melting pot suggests a kind of inevitability—different ingredients thrown together, eventually dissolving into a single homogeneous substance. But history offers a different metaphor. Societies are not melting pots. Rather, they are closer to ecosystems. Introduce new elements in small numbers and they may eventually adapt to the environment. Introduce them in large numbers and the environment eventually adapts to them. And ecosystems, once altered, do not easily revert to their original state.

The real danger, then, is not simply that the assimilation story is wrong. Rather, it is believed so confidently that any serious consideration of the long-run stakes rarely make it into the mainstream discourse. A society convinced that differences will inevitably disappear will never ask what happens if they do not. The fairy tale is repeated because it is comforting. Reality is much less so. But reality has a habit of asserting itself eventually. By the time it does, the comforting myths that once justified complacency will no longer matter, because the world they described will already be gone. Something new will have taken its place. And it is far from obvious that this something new will resemble the American success story that made the country worth coming to in the first place.

Medals not metals ugh....

LOL they could create a new fashion style with all those metals. Too funny.

It is a mystery as to why Bongino would become part of a corporate podcast group, especially given the following he had before he joined Trumps administration.

It’s not censorship but it’s what they discuss as breaking, headline important news etc..... If all the podcasters in Cumulus are emphasizing or discussing the same topic or subject matter from the same viewpoint on a given day then there you have what/who they are representing.

The fact that they are contract agents of a corporation podcast company should raise red flags, that they are not as independent as they portray themselves. When you work for a corporate entity you have to abide by their rules whatever they are. Johnson and Bongino are contract agents with financial relationships to the corporation. The rules and employment conditions of the corporation applies to them.