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AI’s abilities have suddenly skyrocketed — is anyone else noticing this?Earlier today I was reading Twotone's post about a BCC piece AI can now 'see' optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains?. The article talks about how some AI systems now fall for the same visual tricks we do — the Moon looking bigger on the horizon, that sort of thing. Interesting enough on its own.But that’s not what really got my attention.What it triggered was a much bigger question I’ve been sitting with for a while now: why does it feel like AI’s abilities have...

VIDEOIt was the well-deserved knockout punch (and punches) destined to launch a Million Memes. A commie anti-ICE mental case kept blasting loud megaphone noise directly into the ear of a MAGA patriot in a sick effort to cause deafness. As you can see, the anti-ICE cretin had plenty of time and opportunity to stand down and relent. However, he chose to pursue his megaphone madness. Big Mistake. As you can see, when the guy who has come to be known as MAGA Tyson had enough, he delivered a severe beating upon the Megaphone Commie. And when the Commie's comrades came...

VIDEOLiberals and especially much of the media are claiming that the anti-ICE protestors are merely peaceful folks who are in no way impeding law enforcement. Watch these videos for a sampling of what those "peaceful" protests are actually like. A bonus video is included to show you why such protests are encouraged by woke local officials such as the crying police chief of Portland who sobs over the fact that he had to admit the "protestors" shot by federal law enforcement turned out to have been members of the murderous Tren De Aragua. It made him cry tears over having...

VIDEOIf you are already irked by the title of this video as somehow being "clickbait" I too would have that attitude UNTIL I watched the video. As most of the Spanish speaking world (and many in the English speaking world) now realize, the plucking of Dictator Nicolas Maduro out of Venezuela in the early morning hours of January 3, 2026 was facilitated by a deal arranged by Special Envoy Rick Grenell with Venezuelan Vice President (now acting President) Delcy Rodriguez and her brother, Jorge Rodriguez, who is the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly. Famous Peruvian journalist Jaime Bayly who...

VIDEOWatch the amazing change in attitude of Chavista thug Diosdado Cabello before and after the commie dictator of Venezuela was plucked out of that country in the early morning hours of January 3, 2026. First we see Diosdado on his weekly TV show, "Con El Mazo Dando" (Going At It With a Club) BEFORE the Trump force arrived briefly in Venezuela when Cabello was full of happy piss and vinegar enjoying himself along with his live Commie audience. Later we see a very different Diosado Cabello after the incursion in which poor leader of the violent Colectivos looks like a...

Coming off back-to-back blockbusters — “Top Gun: Maverick” and “F1: The Movie” — director Joseph Kosinski can likely make just about any movie he wants. Call it carte blanche. In fact, that’s exactly what he’s doing, as he’s set to helm two projects: a “Miami Vice” reboot at Universal Pictures, written by Dan Gilroy, and, more intriguingly, an untitled UFO film centered on government whistleblowers. Speaking to Deadline’s Pete Hammond, Kosinski discussed his hopes of securing Michael Mann’s involvement in the “Miami Vice” reboot, given that Mann was behind both the original television series and the 2006 feature film starring...

VIDEOThe CNN "journalist" Whitney Wild, who attempted to cast ridiculous aspersions upon the reporting by Nick Shirley on day care fraud in Minnesota, has a record of absurd mendacity. Here is a flashback to June 2022 when Wild was reporting on the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of the release of the leaked draft decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade.First Wild CONTRADICTED her own CNN chyron running below her, that stated that the attempted assassin was ARMED, by claiming it was unknown whether he was armed. She again flat out LIED by claiming...

VIDEOHappy New Year to everybody! The year 2025 is ending on a very high note especially since I found out that Scott Jennings must be viewer of the DUmmie FUnnies. How do I know this? Because on December 30 Scott caused yet another meltdown among the liberal CNN crew by mentioning that the Lt. Governor of Minnesota by wearing a hijab was dressed up like the "Handmaid's Tale." Before that very apt observation no other media outlet or figure made that comparison EXCEPT for the DUmmie FUnnies three days earlier on December 27 with a video on this very topic...

VIDEOLiberals are having a tough time grappling with the VAST fraud exposed by Nick Shirley in Minnesota. A lot of brain dead moments here but my favorite brain dead moment was when the liberal claimed that "HUGE" prosecutions on the Minnesota fraud had already been done by Merrick Garland. However, PAID DNC troll Harry J. Sisson gave that brain dead liberal strong competition in the brain dead department.

VIDEOWatch REAL journalist Nick Shirley expose corrupt clucking chickens in Minnesota. Farmer Walz had absolutely no idea that his own chickens have been highly corrupt for years despite openly scamming billions of dollars worth of chicken feed.

VIDEOSo how did the Obama Presidential Library end up appearing as an ugly Flakturm (flak tower)? My theory is that the architect, who was familiar with Flakturm structures, presented the design to Barack Obama as a practical joke. He naturally figured it would get a big laugh from Obama and when they were done laughing, the architect would show Obama his real design for his presidential library. However, much to the astonishment of the architect, Obama absolutely loved the Flaksturm design and raved about it. At that point the architect could NOT tell Obama it was just a joke design...

The biggest story of 2025, to judge from the number of people who sent it to me, was this raccoon:In case you somehow missed this story: In late November, this raccoon got into a state liquor store in Ashland, Va., by falling though the ceiling. Once inside, the raccoon ransacked the store, leaving a trail of broken bottles......and apparently consuming a large quantity of booze before passing out in the bathroom next to the toilet. That’s where the raccoon was found by a store employee, who called an animal-control officer, who took it to an animal shelter. When the raccoon...

VIDEOIn the dystopian novel "Handmaid's Tale" powerless women in a future patriarchal society are treated like slaves and forced to wear ugly head coverings and must cover their bodies completely in long robes. The sad truth is you don't have to conjure up fiction to find such a society. This situation already exists in much of the Muslim world and is strictly enforced in such places as Iran and Afghanistan. So what did the Lt. Governor of Minnesota do? She embraced the Handmaid's Tale ethos by wearing a hijab, a symbol of the Handmaid's Tale type oppression among millions of...

A post from Customs and Border Protection featuring a snarling, dried primate corpse removed from a traveler’s luggage has sparked renewed scrutiny over illegal bushmeat smuggling into major U.S. airports. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Chicago said agriculture specialists at O’Hare International Airport seized prohibited food items from a passenger arriving from the Congo, including what the agency described as nonhuman primate meat, after a post by the agency’s Chicago office drew more than one million views within 24 hours on X. “A passenger from Congo believed the food they were bringing was fine; it was not. In...

On Thursday evening European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cancelled today's planned signing in Brazil of a trade deal between the European Union and five South American MERCOSEUR countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay). The deal will now be signed next month. It's a deal farmers in Europe see as a direct threat to their livelihood. Several months ago US ranchers bristled when President Donald Trump... French farmers have been protesting the MERCOSEUR trade deal for months with various demonstrations that sometimes include the dumping of manure and trash at government buildings. Protests continued in France this week... Meanwhile...

VIDEOIf you ACCURATELY describe what has to be done to attempt to change the sex of kids, it would repulse almost everybody due to its physical as well as mental brutality. So what to do? Well, the Left tried to make the idea palatable to the public by giving this grotesque procedure an Orwellian name that tries to avoid the brutal reality... "Gender Affirming Care." They think that will hide the fact of genital mutilation and defying nature by blocking puberty with hormones. No wonder so many mass shooters have turned out to have been the patients of "Gender Affirming...

During testimony behind closed doors, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers he believed he could prove President Donald Trump engaged in a "criminal scheme" in order to overturn the 2020 election. NBC News' Ryan Reilly reports on Smith's investigation and what members of Congress had to say. Summary Former special counsel Jack Smith testified in a closed-door House Judiciary Committee hearing on December 17, 2025, after being subpoenaed by Republicans. He defended his investigation into President Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, stating that his team found proof beyond a reasonable doubt of Trump's involvement in a criminal...

Michelle Obama revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! she and her husband had dinner planned with Rob and Michele Reiner the evening they were killed, “We were supposed to be seeing them that night — last night.” The Reiners were found slain in their Brentwood home Sunday afternoon. Both had wounds that were consistent with a knife, with reports later indicating their throats were allegedly slit. The couple’s 32-year-old son Nick has been arrested by the police as a suspect and he remains in custody without bail, as Breitbart News reported. The former president posted Sunday evening the Obamas were mourning...

VIDEOIt's on! The European Union vs Elon Musk. The battle began when the EU demanded that X (forever to be known as Twitter) bow down to its censorship regime by paying a 120 million Euro fine. However, the EU may have bit off more than it can chew because it is also trying to extend its censorship to TikTok and Apple and they are also refusing to comply. How will this war end? Will the EU be able to impose its censorship on the rest of the world? Stay tuned!

A Swiss wind instrument repairman is serving a ten-day jail sentence after refusing to pay a fine imposed for a comment he made on Facebook about biological sex. Emanuel Brünisholz, from Burgdorf in the canton of Bern, responded to a December 2022 post by Swiss National Councillor Andreas Glarner, writing: “If you excavate LGBTQI people after 200 years, you will only find men and women among the skeletons; everything else is a mental illness that was fostered by the curriculum!” As we reported, the comment, which stressed the immutability of biological sex, triggered complaints from activists who accused him of...