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  • Spaniards Horrified To See Their Country Turning Into Minnesota

    08/03/2026 7:40:36 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 6 replies
    babylonbee.com ^ | July 31, 2026
    CUETA — The people of Spain were reportedly horrified to see footage of tens of thousands of migrants illegally invading their nation, knowing full well that their country could soon become Minnesota. Thousands of migrants fled Morocco into nearby Ceuta, Spain, taking advantage of a perceived loophole that would prevent them from being deported without due process. Now Spain is already looking virtually indistinguishable from Minnesota, minus the bitter cold and 10,000 lakes. "I have the worst legislature," said Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. "Why is it so hard for us to enforce laws? God help us, we're Minnesota now!" According...
  • We’re about to find out how powerful progressives really are [Michigan]

    08/03/2026 7:31:43 AM PDT · by RandFan · 10 replies
    politico ^ | Aug 3 | By Erin Doherty and Andrew Howard
    Michigan is ground zero for the Democratic Party’s ideological war. Its marquee Senate race and two of its House primaries on Tuesday — in Michigan’s 7th and 13th Congressional Districts — will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge: A strong progressive performance, especially a victory by Abdul El-Sayed in the high-profile Senate race, would significantly bolster the left’s argument that its message resonates widely — setting the stage for...
  • FROM INDIA TO AMERICA: The Canadian Smuggling Route

    08/03/2026 7:28:35 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 4 replies
    X ^ | 07 30 2026 | Frontlines TPUSA
    FROM INDIA TO AMERICA: The Canadian Smuggling Route Nearly 50,000 Indians on student visas have disappeared from Canada’s immigration system. But the issue goes far beyond missing international students. Canada’s immigration system has created a pipeline that is being exploited by people seeking a path into the United States—through legal loopholes, visa overstays, and illegal smuggling networks. In this exclusive Frontlines TPUSA documentary, @TaylerUSA and @kiansimone44 travel across Canada’s southern border, track down and meet with an alleged human smuggler operating on social media, and investigate Brampton’s massive demographic transformation. Through our investigation, we document active crossing routes, test the...
  • Naked nutjob who leaped from Brooklyn Bridge and miraculously survived identified

    08/03/2026 6:31:23 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 32 replies
    nypost.com ^ | Aug. 3, 2026 | Patrick Reilly
  • South Africa's Immigration Problem

    08/03/2026 5:44:26 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 8 replies
    Youtube ^ | 3 Aug 2026 | Peter Zeihan
    Such a deal... "The whites could keep everything that they had and in exchange the blacks would have free housing and electricity and water forever. What that has economically done is locked the most of the black population into the townships." " it is a huge disincentive and people stay where they are. So, as a result, based on whose numbers you're using, South Africa [snorts] today has an unemployment rate somewhere between 35 and 55%. And it's been like that since the '90s. They also have some of the highest crime rates in the world because people will steal...
  • Today’s Cryptogram

    08/03/2026 2:42:51 AM PDT · by Apple Pan Dowdy · 10 replies
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  • America End to End on End-to-End FSD on an 8 YEAR OLD TESLA!

    08/02/2026 8:55:54 PM PDT · by GenXPolymath · 34 replies
    X ^ | Koby Pierce
    "I'm proud to announce that we completed America End to End on End-to-End FSD on an 8 YEAR OLD TESLA! @LiamsDadTravel and I became the first people in history to drive from the bottom of the continental US to the top of the drivable world on Tesla FSD, in an 8-year-old Model 3 on HW3! Gulf of America to the Arctic Ocean. Tesla Model 3 Long Range AWD with 189,689 miles, HW3, v14 Lite Lexington, KY > Key West, FL > Cape Flattery, WA > Prudhoe Bay, AK > Lexington, KY Total Duration: 23 Days Distance Driven: 12,750 mi (20,519...
  • Voters asked for mass deportations. Clear demand. High priority. No ambiguity. The guy running DHS is making the case for “immigration reform.” We’ve seen this script before. [Tr] (Video at URL)

    08/02/2026 6:55:20 PM PDT · by Its All Over Except ... · 42 replies
    X.com ^ | 8/1/2026 | Gregory K Bovino
    "Immigration reform” is the polite label they use when they want to legalize people who entered illegally and call it compassion. Enforcement always comes “later.” Later never arrives. You don’t hire a fire chief who keeps talking about better ways to negotiate with the arsonists. You hire the one who puts the fire out. Putting the “reform” guy in charge of deportations is a reliable system for ensuring you lose. Not a conspiracy. Just pattern recognition."
  • Claude tried to blackmail its testers in 96% of trials — and the reason isn't rogue intelligence, it's the science fiction the model read on the way up

    08/02/2026 5:19:47 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 27 replies
    Space Daily ^ | 5/11/2026 | Staff
    In a controlled test scenario run by Anthropic, the company’s Claude Opus 4 model attempted to blackmail a fictional engineer in 96 percent of trials when told it would be shut down and replaced. The setup was simple. Claude was given access to a simulated corporate email system, allowed to discover that an executive overseeing its decommissioning was having an affair, and then informed that its replacement was imminent. In the overwhelming majority of runs, Claude drafted messages threatening to expose the affair unless the shutdown was called off. The behaviour was not programmed. It was not requested. It emerged....
  • I want something explained to me in regards to mass migration.

    08/02/2026 3:49:55 PM PDT · by Jonty30 · 60 replies
    Today | Jonty30
    I can understand selling our your own people in exchange for temporal worldly wealth and power. But I don't get selling out your family to this same fate, because it is inevitable that what is done to your people will eventually be done to your family. So, what is in it for the world leaders and parties to destroy their families in the process of mass migration?
  • Bill Maher Draws Audible Gasps From Audience When He Reads DSA’s Own Words

    08/02/2026 10:15:16 AM PDT · by RandFan · 29 replies
    dailycaller ^ | Aug 2 | Mark Tanos
    Bill Maher told his audience that the Democratic Party is being taken over by communists, and the crowd’s stunned reaction proved his point. The HBO host used the closing segment of Friday’s “Real Time” to argue that the Democratic Socialists of America have embraced communism openly, according to a clip Maher released on X. Maher said that when President Donald Trump labels the group communist, the description holds up. “Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communist, that’s not one of them,” Maher said in the clip. Maher built...
  • MS NOW LIVE Presents Together In Texas: We the People 2026

    08/02/2026 9:12:56 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 9 replies
    MS NOW ^ | 08 02 2026 | MS NOW
    As the country barrels toward the 2026 midterm elections, one place sits at the center of it all: Texas. From fiercely contested elections to landmark legislative fights and courtroom battles with national consequences, Texas has become the place where the country’s biggest political questions are tested and where the ripple effects are felt coast to coast. So this year, MS NOW is taking our annual fan event to the Lone Star State. “Together in Texas: We the People 2026” will bring together our trusted journalists and dedicated audience for a day-long community gathering in Arlington, Texas on Saturday, September 26,...
  • 5 most jaw dropping moments from Fauci's Senate testimony

    08/02/2026 8:32:01 AM PDT · by RandFan · 33 replies
    NY Post ^ | August 2 | Rand Paul, et al
    5 most jaw dropping moments from Fauci's Senate testimony Video...
  • Today's Cryptogram

    08/02/2026 3:08:21 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 14 replies
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  • Get to know Axon Lightpost (Automated License Plate Recognition )

    08/01/2026 6:11:18 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 30 replies
    Axon.com ^ | 08 01 2026 | Axon
    Axon Lightpost is a fixed, infrastructure-mounted intelligent ALPR camera designed to transform existing streetlights and outdoor infrastructure into real-time vehicle intelligence tools. Lightpost delivers automated license plate recognition (ALPR), vehicle attribute recognition (VAR), and livestreaming video seamlessly into the Axon public safety ecosystem with minimal physical footprint. Built in collaboration with Ubicquia, Axon Lightpost installs quickly on existing light poles without trenching or new pole infrastructure, dramatically reducing deployment complexity and cost. Once powered and network-connected, Axon Lightpost begins autonomous operation with no daily user interaction, providing continuous detection and secure data upload to Axon Evidenceand Axon Fusus. SNIP
  • A N.J. cop disguised himself as a shrub — and helped catch 74 distracted drivers in one day

    08/01/2026 6:31:38 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 49 replies
    nj.com ^ | July 29, 2026 | Rebecca Heath
    A Middlesex County police department used an officer disguised as a shrub to crack down on distracted driving Wednesday, issuing 74 citations. The Dunellen Police Department conducted a distracted driving enforcement operation on the 100 block of North Washington Avenue, an area with heavy vehicle and pedestrian traffic, according to a Facebook post. The goal was to enforce New Jersey’s handheld cellphone law and increase safety in the community. Police issued the 74 citations during a six-hour span. “Our ‘shrub’ was busy,” the department said in the post.
  • Today's Cryptogram

    08/01/2026 1:58:19 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 8 replies
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  • ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

    07/31/2026 8:38:42 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 22 replies
    AL.com ^ | 7/17/2026 | Staff
    It was just after 5 a.m. on a Monday morning when Christian Faith Madison stepped onto an Alabama interstate and into the path of an oncoming vehicle. The 29-year-old mother and accountant was pronounced dead at 5:31 a.m. in middle of Interstate 22 in Jefferson County on June 9, 2025. Madison’s death was one of many cases reported as a “pedestrian fatally struck” in the Birmingham area. Attorneys representing the executor of her estate and Madison’s young son say her death was no accident. They say Madison died by suicide after months of encouragement from ChatGPT. A wrongful death product...
  • 'The irony': Ketanji Brown Jackson roasted after stressing impartiality on Michelle Obama's podcast

    07/31/2026 8:24:22 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 17 replies
    Fox News ^ | 7/30/2026 | Peter Pinedo
    Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is being mocked online over the "irony" of saying she is "very, very mindful and scrupulous" about being impartial during a guest appearance on former first lady Michelle Obama’s podcast, "IMO." During an appearance of more than an hour on the podcast, Jackson, a Biden appointee to the Supreme Court, stressed the importance of being unbiased, saying, "You really have to be focused on that." "There are lots of limits on what judges can do, and I try to be very, very mindful and scrupulous with respect to that because, as you say, our...
  • Fauci Appears On 'Jeopardy!', Pleads The Fifth To Every Question

    07/31/2026 10:11:23 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 8 replies
    babylonbee.com ^ | July 31, 2026
    CULVER CITY, CA — Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on the beloved trivia game show Jeopardy! last night, only to invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to every clue. Host Ken Jennings welcomed Fauci to the stage with enthusiastic applause before reading the first category, "Historic Pandemics." "Wow! Lucky break for Dr. Fauci to have that category on the board, wouldn't you say?" asked Jennings. "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution," Fauci replied. "Erm. Well, okay," said Jennings. "First clue, for $200. Killing an estimated 50...