April 24, 2026
Omar Ghosts Minnesota Investigation
Timothy Birdnow
So why don't they cite her with contempt?
State Rep. Kristin Robbins (R-MN) sent a letter asking Omar why she failed to show. That'll show her!
Omar wasn't under subpoena but she should have been.
We have got to learn how to fight these battles. The Democrats would have had her facing contempt citations by now if she were a Republican.
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Oh no! The strongly-worded letter! How did she dare to ignore that?
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Who Wants to Date a Bitch?
Timothy Birdnow
This was inevitable. Angry young bitches, er, women are forcing young men into chasing older gals.
Why would a young fellow seek the company of someone who makes it clear she hates him? Who demands complete subservience?
Liberals have raised a whole generation of young women who have been told all the world's evils and their personal problems are caused by men and that they would be happier if they didn't have any. But that's not how God made us and pushing men away in this fashion only makes them more miserable, which sadly makes them double down on the very thing that has cursed them in the first place.
It's like alcoholism; the alcoholic's first response to any problem caused by his drinking is to get another drink.
Feminism has made women angry, selfish, belligerent, sullen, and plain old nuts. Who wants to be around that?
Men have been told they are dirtbags, plain and simple, and that they should go away and die. Why continue to feed that sort of thinking?
There's no girl like an old girl!
The battle of the sexes has gone on throughout history, starting with Eve's jealousy of Adam. But until now the women have been at a disadvantage because they were weaker physically and often psychologically. Technology solved the former and feminism has not made women stronger, but women always had more fortitude than men and now with internet access and higher eduction favoring women they have the networks to make them THINK they are stronger than men psychologically. (Actually, most feminists are in desperate need of constant validation and emotional support, and they think they get that from other feminists and with the internet and other instant communications they stay in contact with their "handlers", being constantly reinforced.)
So now the bile and hatred of the feminists is boiling over. Anger is one of those emotions that grow when you feed it. The feminists have been feasting at an all-you-can-eat buffet.
At any rate women in their fifties are in high demand on internet dating sites by young men in their thirties who are desperate for some gentle and tender female companionship. It was as inevitable as the sun rising.
It's a golden age for the old gals (and sadly bodes ill for me, a newly single man in his early sixties). It also bodes ill for the United States of America as our population will decline; old women generally don't have children. And what man wants to sire a child with one of these wicked witches in their twenties?
Our population, especially the white population, will decline in the coming years.
Which makes me wonder; one of the big goals of the liberals in America since the '70's has been to reduce the population by hook or by crook. Did they purposely gin up the war between the sexes to reduce childbirth? Maybe so. The neo-Malthusians are not above such subterfuge
I would add that interracial dating has been ongoing for a long time and it started mainly because black men couldn't stomach many of the angrier black women and sought to find a woman who would treat him well and not like he's an idiot or loser. White men are now enjoying the same situation and the result will be similar to what happened in the black community with a dearth of marriageable men and a loss of fathers. The Left, while using different methods, twisted the black community in this direction and now they are twisting the white community in the exact same way.
At any rate the Cougar phenomenon is real and there is a good reason for it. No man wants to date a bitch.
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What's the problem? As you say, who wants a bee-yotch? When I look back at my life, at least as it pertains to women problems, ALL of them were younger women. Especially the first one I married! The fact that she's now (apparently) happily married to another man is almost totally due to everything that I taught her -- well, maybe
that's a bridge too far. But the fact that her husband, who now is thrice married, is finally a somewhat decent man is TOTALLY due to the fact that his second wife made him so.
How do I know that? He was my current wife's previous husband. And she is a totally blessed woman, who even knocked a few of the remaining rough edges off [clears throat] me.
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Cornyn Ad in Spanish Promises Amnesty for Illegals
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John Cornyn is a true scumbag.
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It’s hard to believe this is real, but it is.
John Cornyn released an ad in Spanish promising his support for amnesty.
Apparently he forgot that we represent American citizens, not illegal aliens.
This is absolutely disqualifying.
I want my country back, and I’m sick of swampy politicians in Washington who are dying to give it away.
One of many reasons for Texans to vote for
@KenPaxtonTX
in the runoffs next month.
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New Form of Light Sail
In my best Mr. Spock voice with one raised eyebrow "fascinating!"
Photon drives are an old idea that go back to the invention of lasers, certainly. But there was no practical way to do them before now.
A photon drive uses light as the propellant for a super-efficient, low thrust spacecraft drive. Light moves at, well, the speed of light which creates an equal and opposite reaction, thus moving a spacecraft (just as the plasma from a standard rocket does). But because photons are massless they produce little thrust (thrust is a coefficient of mass expelled times rate of expulsion). The thing about a photon drive is, while you get low thrust, you can keep the drive running the entire trip, turning the ship around midway to decelerate. Most spacecraft drives burn until a desired velocity is reached then shut down because otherwise you would exhaust all your propellant.
The problem with the photon drive is it still requires you carry your fuel with you.
Then there were light-sails. Light sails use a giant reflective mirror as a sail, catching light from either the sun or a ground-based laser to push it along. Light sails work; Nasa experimented with a small one not so long ago. They have to be huge, naturally, and would be gossamer thin. A light sail using a long range laser cannon could get to the Centari system in about a hundred and fifty years or so, with the cannon on continuously. It is a major commitment to build and maintain the cannon, of course. And the payload would be small - you couldn't put people on it, not without suspended animation.
This is a whole new approach to using light sails as a propulsion ststen. It uses metamaterials that can move in different directions when struck by light, rather than just move in one single direction.
The article states:
The team’s metajets are composed of metasurfaces. These are ultrathin materials etched with tiny patterns. In a similar fashion to a lens, these shapes allow scientists to control the behavior of light bouncing off the devices.
By carefully designing these structures, the scientists were able to control the transfer of momentum from light to an object. This allowed the object to move, showcasing a novel form of light propulsion.
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The metajets differ from other systems in one key aspect; while other methods control objects by shaping the light, this approach builds control directly into the material itself.
According to the Texas A&M team, this allows for more flexible force generation and better scalability.
It's a LONG, LONG way from this to a working spacecraft drive.
However it is tantalizing; this is a much more efficient light sail system than what we are used to considering and could well be harnessed in future to an interstellar mission.
But I don't think an interstellar mission, even one manned by robot probes, will happen any time soon. Interstellar space has lots of debris and any light sail will wind up being chewed up by space ice, in all probability, and if speeds are high enough there will be a huge radiation problem as interstellar gas comes on as gamma radiation. And it would still take decades, meaning any manned mission would require suspended animation.
But it's still fun to see this stuff develop. While we may not go to another star with this technology we can use it here in the solar system and it would work fine! Imagine going to the outer solar system in just a year or so rather than a decade or more! We could eventually build colonies in the outer system and these kinds of ships could resupply them rather easily, unlike what it would take today.
Mankind will eventually burst out into the solar system at least at some point. We are an expansive species and if we don't expand we will decay and eventually die. And one accident, say, a big meteor, could wipe us out. The only safety we have is to settle space and to do that we need better propulsion systems than we currently possess. This is a promising one.
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Won't Stop the Inevitable
Timothy Birdnow
So it's o.k. that Zelensky is doing this to Russia but Trump had better not do it to Iran?
This is, of course, a media propaganda piece about how the Ukrainians are winning the war. The media (and that includes war hawk Republican outfits like the New York Post) has been giving us these sorts of reports since this war began. Mostly it's been wrong.
Yes, the war has dragged on far longer than anyone expected but that is a coefficient of Western aid - huge amounts - to the Ukraine coupled with Russia's strategy, which is a war of attrition. Russia is trying to pull an anaconda on the Ukrainians, and that takes time.
Eventually Russia will win. The Ukrainians are losing so many people they are now talking about importing millions of Asians to resettle their country because they have no men left. When I read that I knew the war was starting to reach it's terminus.
The purpose of this article is to buck up the Ukrainian spirit, little more. But that doesn't mean it's not true; Russia has undoubtedly lost a fortune in this. But it won't stop the inevitable.
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Cuccinelli: Va. Supreme Court Likely to Nuke Redistricting
Timothy Birdnow
The sups in Virginia let this proceed because, by law, the Court couldn't rule on a proposed piece of legislation - only after it was passed. But there were four big procedural errors made - It was done in special session, something not allowed, it was done in under the ninety day minimum time limit as set forth by the Va. Constitution. It violatd the rule that Congressional districts be "compact" and not serpentine. And it violated the rule that such an amendment be authorized only after TWO legislative votes with an election in between. None of those criteria were met.
So this thing is liable to be obliterated in court, provided the Virginia Supreme Court does it's job and does not simply disregard the law. But that doesn't stop liberals, not even liberal judges. We shall see.
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Salazar's Amnesty: It's All About the Money
Timothy Birdnow
Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Tijuana) has proposed an amnesty for illegal aliens called the Digidad Act (Spanish for dignity) and has the support of a number of other rampaging RINO's in the Congress, notably Mike Lawler but others.
"When people tell me that I am trying to help big business to have cheap labor, I’m going to answer them: It’s not [just] big business; it’s not only agricultural or construction or hospitality or health care or manufacturing—it’s more.”..
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"Americans want affordability, and they want affordable vegetables and fruits.”
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Not at that price Senora. Americans LIKE cheap vegetables and hotel rooms and the like but not at that price of surrendering our country to a bunch of free-loading, trespassing people who are not American and have no interest in being American.
Know why the South lost the Civil War? Most people will answer that it was because they lacked the economic infrastructure - factories, mines, rail lines, etc. Those who think a little more deeply will blame slavery but not be able to explain WHY slavery made them lose the war. The reason they lost the war was because the South was much poorer than the North and lacked all that infrastructure for a good reason - because of slavery. Slavery was the ultimate in cheap labor - like the influx of aliens into America to do the menial jobs "Americans Just Won't Do" and how do you compete paying decent wages to workers in a slave economy? You can't; it surpresses wages. The South always had a serious labor shortage even while it had a lot of poor southerners who needed work. The antebellum economy had little opportunity and nobody was industrializing precisely because the slave economy was strangling the market. As a result there wasn't much of a middle class in the Old South; it was either wealthy planters or poor sharecroppers and small farm holdings just barely hanging on. There wasn't much in between. The North, on the other hand, had a strong, vibrant middle class thanks to industrialization and no slaves to keep wages artificially low.
And it has been this cheap labor, especially in the farming community, that has prevented the development of more automated mechanical systems to do the work Americans Just Won't Do (and which they have been proven to want to do whenever these jobs actually open up.)
Just look at what happened when ICE raided a SWift meat packing plant a while ago; thousands of Americans lined up for the newly vacated jobs!
But generally these industries have to pay more to attract American workers and they don't like it. Oh, and they have to actually pay minimum wage too - they can't hire under the table and pay below what the Law demands.
The answer has been for a long time to bring in illegals and simply ignore them being here so these farmers and meat packers and others can continue to profit and maybe kick upstairs to Republicans like this Puta Salazar.
Bringing in these people has numerous ill consequences. It hogs up housing, making renting and buying both more expensive. It ties up social services, making them more expensive and harder to access. It sucks up taxpayer money and illegals pay less in all taxes. It steals jobs from Americans. It steals political power from Americans, and dilutes our votes. Crime goes up. Opportunities such as college admissions go down for Americans.
There is a reason why Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the country; that would never have happened had we enforced border laws.
And they era of largely unrestrained immigration has seen an economic downturn for all but the wealthiest across America as the middle class has shrunk and the wealth gap increased. That is what happened in ancient Rome thanks to slavery and mass immigration and that is what happened in the antebellum South and what has been happening in the quasi-feudal order we have created in modern America.
So everything Salazar said is bunk. Amnesty helps nobody but the people who broke our laws to come here.
It doesn't even help the Republicans politically; after Ronald Reagan amnetized 3 million Caballeros they signed up to vote and most of them went to the Democrats. Republicans lost seats after the amnesty and lost the Hispanic vote by a wide margin.
Many Republicans think that, since the Democrats own the black vote, they could win Hispanics. But Hispanics who are here legally don't like the illegals any more than does anyone else, maybe less so since the illegals are vying for the jobs the legals want themselves but the illegals didn't have the decency to wait in line like everybody else. Amnesty is not the tool to win Hispanic votes. But guess what? Donald Trump won an historic number of Hispanic votes by promising a crackdown on illegal aliens. He showed how to do it.
Naturally the Republicans couldn't and wouldn't learn from that.
Why, pray tell, do Democrats want open borders if it profits the Republicans? That should be their tipoff, but it's not.
Which tells me that this is not a principled stand being made by Salazar or mike Lawler or the rest of these clowns; it is about money and playing to those who fund them. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants this. The big corporations want this. The People emphatically do not.
History is full of Peoples being erased by invading immigrants. The Celts once owned Europe but were chased out of much of central Europe by the invading Germans, who also invaded the Roman Empire and destroyed it. The Germans invaded Britain and chased the peaceful Britons out of what is now called England (they became the Welch because the Germans couldn't fight them in the mountains of Wales). The Anatolian region was full of Greeks, mainly, until the Turks invaded from Asia and it is now called Turkey. The Japanese invaded from Korea and obliterated the generally peaceful (and Caucasian) Ainu People in the Japanese islands. We often call these things invasions and sometimes they are violent but often they are simple migrations by a more vigorous people who outbreed the aborigines. America was once owned by Indians. Australia by the "Aborigines".
Nations can and do disappear and the whole Western World is about to disappear because it is unwilling to stop mass immigration. Our enemies know this which is why they are immigrating in mass numbers to all Western nations (especially in Europe now); that is civilizational Jihad.
That is what this Salazar woman is promoting whether she knows it or not. Reward a thin and you will have more of it.
The Republicans should look at kicking her out of the party, the way they did Liz Chaney. And running a strong candidate against her in the next election - she and the others who got on board with this. Americans have made it quite clear we hate illegal immigration and do not want it. This woman is betraying her party and the American People.
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April 23, 2026
Trump Appoints "Queen of Vaccine" to Head CDC
Timothy Birdnow
President Trump's nominee to head the CDC is known as
the Queen of Vaccines and is infamous for mandating an endless string of mandatory vaccinations.
I don't know what's wrong with President Trump sometimes. He just sucks at personnel.
The nominee Erica Schwartz (you give 'em the schwartz!) was the person responsible for the bad policies during Trump's first term, the policies that lost him the election. And he's recycling her now.
The only thing I can think of is that Trump plans on pretty much cutting the CDC to nothing and figures he'd put her there to preside over a toothless agency. But that is a big risk; he can't just close the CDC.
Vaccine injury lawyer Aaron Siri said (in a freaky computer voice?):
"Her prior promotion, let alone mandates, of nearly a dozen different vaccines leave little hope she will objectively oversee CDC’s vaccine program," which ballooned from three to 29 jabs, "including in utero, by an infant’s first birthday"
"This agency does not need another cheerleader for industry; it needs a regulator over industry."
This former Navy doc also worked for United Healthcare and made millions in that position.
Apparently Trump is burning his bridges with MAHA, something he can ill-afford to do as he needs all the friends he can get. He has now alienated the isolationist wing of the Republican Party and MAHA. He needs to remember who his friends are.
I think he's doing this sort of thing now because he's looking at his legacy and wants some good press, at least in the history books. But he will never get it and he should know better.
This is how you get impeached successfully. The Democrat strategy is the same as it was with Nixon; isolate the President and when his friends are all gone take him out. Mr. Trump seems to be doing this all by himself. Foolish.
I'm not a MAHA man so much but I do think the CDC shouldn't be able to push all these vaccines on Americans. Medical doctors get paid for their patients getting these, and patients who refuse often lose their physicians or worse. And some vaccinations - like Covid - do more harm than good.
Frankly, I never get the flu shot; I get the flu every time I get the vaccination.
I'm also not an isolationist and I think Trump has handled foreign affairs properly, but a lot of Republicans are mad about Iran and it's a dangerous place to be. Trump needs all the support he can get.
So why he made this foolish appointment is beyond me. I hope he knows what he is doing.
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It certainly looks like a bad choice, but there may be things behind the scene that we aren't aware of. Trump has a very good track record, after all.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 23, 2026 01:23 PM (5FaDg)
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He has a good track record on a lot of things Dana but he's always seemed to be pretty bad when it comes to hiring. Some of his picks are great but others? Jeff Sessions. Christopher Wray, Anthony Scaramucci, etc.
I think Trump forgets he's hiring these people for fairly long term and not just one project.
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I certainly can't argue about Sessions and "Fay" Wray...
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Mass Migration in Europe
Timothy Birdnow
This is comfortably larger than the population of Canada.
Canada, at a little over 42 million, is 22 million less than the alien population of Europe. Australia only has 28 million so if you ad Canada and Australia together you get just six million more than the alien population of the Continent.
This is completely untenable.
Western elites aren't even trying to pretend they want to save western civilization anymore.
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Is Starbucks Turning Right Wing?
Timothy Birdnow
Uh, no.
Starbucks isn't moving away from it's crazy progressive values but rather away from the consequences of those values. It is trying to escape the high taxation and crime riddled landscape created by the policies they have espoused over the years. And by moving to Tennessee they are hoping to turn the red-as-blood state blue as the arteries of Martha's Vineyard dwellers, or at least purple as a people eater.
This isn't about changing values - it's about dropping the radical pose to achieve radical ends.
If you want coffee try Folgers.
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Well, fer sherr it ain't about the coffee, since Starbuck's is just a fancy-schmancy drink.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 23, 2026 01:00 PM (5FaDg)
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I never thought Starbucks coffee was that great either. It was decent but too strong and lacked elegance (I like my coffee like my wine - elegant rather than just powerful).
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I had to grab a bit o' breakfast at a fast food emporium this morning and picked America's best -- Mickey D's, of course. Was in a slight hurry because my wife was having a knee replacement and I wasn't interested in what the hospital cafeteria had to offer.
Sausage McMuffin and the ever-reliable McDonald's black coffee (almost as good as what I make at home but didn't have time to do).
Wasn't intending to get political but have always felt Starbuck's is, well, Blue-State.
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RNC Chair Gruters "You are the Weakest LInk: Goodnye!"
Timothy Birdnow
Does this surprise you? A late night surge in votes to approve the Virginia measure to gerrymander the state pushed it over the top. It had been trailing up until the very end.
Everyone is aware of the extremely misleading wording of the amendment (which only authorizes this one-time change, that returns to the old map once the Democrats consolidate their power) which spoke of "fairness" and "fixing" the actions of other states.
Fortunately a judge has struck this new map down. nut they will produce another and still gerrymander, albeit maybe a bit less obviously so.
This needed to fail.
I wonder if we can call another election and vote on it again?
At any rate the GOP failed to fund the fight against this while spending well over three times the amount they spent here to finance John Cornyn's efforts to win the Republican primary.
So why does this keep happening?
Party chairman Joe Gruters appears to be the weakest link. According to Wikipedia:
Gruters lost his first two elections and worked behind the scenes on several more losing campaigns.[5] He joined Vern Buchanan’s original successful 2006 campaign for Congress.[6] Gruters subsequently was chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota for ten years, longer than any of his predecessors.[7]
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Yes, he was there in Florida for the GOP takeover but was that his policies or rather the rise of Ron DeSantis and others who made Gruters look good when in fact he is a mediocrity?
I don't know but clearly he dropped the ball in the last few weeks and that was inexcusable. This guy needs to be treated like the weakest link "goodbye!"
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Kick Arlington and Alexandria Out of Virginia?
Timothy Birdnow
While I admire the spirit of this it would be a disaster, in all probability.
Deep blue Arlington and Alexandria both had belonged to the District of Columbia after Virginia ceded the territories when Washington was first created, and remained so until 1847 when Congress returned them to Virginia as a concession to protect slavery. The issue has never been fully resolved, and the President could call for the return of these areas to the District of Columbia, thus disenfranchising the inhabitants there and taking the blues parts out of Virginia, flipping the state red.
It sounds like a great plan except there is a catch; this will certainly drive a credible call for statehood for D.C. Who could argue against that, with two major cities being incorporated into the nation's capital? We would be hard-pressed to stoop statehood and the public would think that only fair.
We do not want to create another left-wing Democrat state.
As I say, bravo for the spirit but this would probably backfire on us in a Yuge way.
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These days I wish there were some way to kick Virginia out of the U.S.
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Me too. Or move it away from D.C., since it is those counties near Washington that are the problem in the Old Dominion.
Part of Virginia already seceded from the state; maybe the rest of 'em can do so as well.
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"She was bred in old Virginnie but she's just a crumb up here".
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Va. Power Grab Shot Down
Timothy Birdnow
That didn't take long.
No doubt this ruling will be overturned by some pet Democrat court, and have to move up the appeals ladder swiftly. I expect this to go to SCOTUS in short order and who knows which way they will jump?
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Negative Mass
Timothy Birdnow
Vedddy Eeeenterestink!
Scientists have discovered something long theorized - evidence of negative mass in a liquid in a Bose-Einstein Condensate.
A Bose-Einstein Condensate is formed when a gas is cooled to near absolute zero and the bosons (particles with integer spin) go into a collective state and behave as a single entity.
The researchers found that they could produce negative mass in some of the BEC's.
Negative mass was one of those things that Einstein dismissed as a mathematical artifact (much as he did a solution for his E=mcsquared which had a positive number for an electron, something rectified by Paul Dirac and the discovery of the positron in 1932.)
Negative mass would see a reversal of everything we know about matter; it would drop UPWARD and not down. It would move in reverse when you shoved it from behind. Fascinating stuff.
If we could find a way to make it and do so cheaply we would have tools making all sorts of things possible; antigravity to propel spacecraft, etc.
Of course producing minute amounts of the stuff in a Bose Einstein Condensate is a world of difference from making the stuff commercially (just as making antimatter is possible but we can't do it in any quantity). We are a LONG way from antigrav spaceships.
Below is the abstract:
A negative effective mass can be realized in quantum systems by engineering the dispersion relation. A powerful method is provided by spin-orbit coupling, which is currently at the center of intense research efforts. Here we measure an expanding spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate whose dispersion features a region of negative effective mass. We observe a range of dynamical phenomena, including the breaking of parity and of Galilean covariance, dynamical instabilities, and self-trapping. The experimental findings are reproduced by a single-band Gross-Pitaevskii simulation, demonstrating that the emerging features—shock waves, soliton trains, self-trapping, etc.—originate from a modified dispersion. Our work also sheds new light on related phenomena in optical lattices, where the underlying periodic structure often complicates their interpretation.
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Michael Mann Gets Major Award
Timothy Birdnow
Look at this; Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann, the guy who fudged data to promote climate change alarmism and who spent much of the rest of the time since suing people for no good reason and losing, was just
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in a disgusting display of political theater trumping real accomplishment.
After honoring that sleazeball Mann the university has the audacity to proclaim:
"We celebrate the achievement of each new member and the collective breadth and depth of their excellence—this is a fitting commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary,” says Academy President Laurie Patton. "The founding of the nation and the Academy are rooted in the inextricable links between a vibrant democracy, the free pursuit of knowledge, and the expansion of the public good.”
Execrable more like it. Mann has done very little decent science in his day, jumping on board the Climate Change gravy train early on. He was the father of the "hockey stick graph" which simply eliminated the Roman and Medieval Warming Periods and he did that by a sneaky trick "Mike's Nature trick" in which he switched from proxy data (which was dubious at best as he only used three trees from Yamal in Siberia to show warming) to temperature station data without telling anyone that was what he was doing. He did this to "hide the decline" as Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia, said in one of the Climategate e-mails. The reality is the proxy data showed a temperature decline (actually a decline in the rate of growth, but you get the point) and Mann couldn't have that so he switched to the very poor-quality station data to make it appear to be warming. In other words, he lied.
And this guy gets a great honor like this!
He should have been fired for this. Academic dishonesty is grounds for termination, tenure or not.
This is how Leftism works. They protect their own, and then reward them for services rendered. Now Mann will spend his old age with a bunch of honors and medals and statues and plaques. The only good thing about it is he won't be able to persuade his conscience. Hopefully he'll always know he was a fraud.
So what do you get for a major award? Hopefully a leg lamp like in A Christmas Story; that's about Mann's speed.
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Give him a turkey. No, he IS a turkey.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 23, 2026 01:31 PM (5FaDg)
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A butterball with a beard!
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9th Circuit Blocks California's Nude Face Law
Timothy Birdnow
And this was the notoriously liberal 9th Circuit too!
Bill Melugin
BREAKING: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an injunction blocking enforcement of California’s new law that requires ICE agents to unmask and wear visible ID, arguing it violates the Supremacy Clause because it "attempts to directly regulate the United States in its performance of governmental functions.”
California is enjoined from enforcing the law, pending appeal. Big win for the Trump administration & U.S. DOJ.
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How The Dems Stole Pennsylvania in 2020
Timothy Birdnow
Hat tip: Diane Kimura
Janet Atkins
April 20 at 5:04 PM
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USPS whistleblowers expose that around 280,000 completed ballots for the 2020 election were shipped across state lines from Bethpage, NY to Lancaster, PA to steal the 2020 election.
Trump was ahead in PA by 700k votes with 70% already counted before they stopped the count. Fraudulent ballots were then injected into the count and the 2020 election was stolen.
Coincidentally, the 280k fraudulent ballots from Lancaster and the 630k fraudulent ballots found by data expert Phil Waldron in Philadelphia equals the amount needed for Biden to overcome Trump's lead in PA.
These fraudulent ballots were found to be printed in China and coming into the U.S. through the Mexico border and flown in by aircraft. An enormous national security threat to the U.S. and foreign involvement in our elections.
The 2020 election was stolen using a combination of fraudulent mail-in ballots and compromised election equipment with engineered backdoors and remote internet access.
https://t.me/TheIntelSCIF/1668
Executive Order 13848 of September 12, 2018
Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election
https://www.federalregister.gov/.../imposing-certain...
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Rats and Sinking Ships
Timothy Birdnow
Bet this guy got the money for this from the war relief aid sent to Ukraine by the West.
Ukraine Billionaire Spends $554 Million for World’s Most Expensive Apartment in Monte Carlo
The corruption in the Ukraine is legendary, and the kleptocracy is setting themselves up for the day when the war ends (badly for the Ukrainians).
He purchased this property just before the start of the Russian invasion, and after speaking with his bestie Paul Manafort
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April 22, 2026
The Biden Spy Den
Timothy Birdnow
I said this was the tip of the iceberg.
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Republicans Fumble for TD in Va.
Timothy Birdnow
They were outspent by a whopping amount - $62.3 million vs. $20 million to barely scratch out an 81,188 vote gap. The GOP spent less to win this than they did to save John Cornyn from a primary challenge. Two to four million more would probably have won the election for the GOP. Now Democrats pick up four more seats and completely own the state, a state that went 49% for Donald Trump just last year.
As of now the Republican National Committee is sitting on a warchest of $109 million and couldn't be bothered to spend it on saving a critical state.
They gave $91 million to John Cornyn.
I've long argued the Establishment doesn't want to gain ground; they prefer a neck-and-neck Congress where the voters cannot afford to lose a single seat. That means RINO Republicans can keep the "radical" MAGA types from running away with the show. They have a cozy little relationship with the Democrats, are making money and enjoying the fruits of being in Congress, and don't want to actually win and have to do anything useful. Also, many of them are fellow travelers with the Democrats in terms of what they believe. So they want to keep Congress razor thin so that they don't have to worry about being primaried. The aforementioned John Cornyn is a prime example of that. The fought bitterly to keep him in place and shut out Ken Paxton, who is a Middle American - type MAGA guy and who will be a solid vote for Conservatism.
Now it's up to the liberal Virginia Supreme Court, which has twice before refused to act against this travesty. And until the state supreme court acts it cannot be appealed to Federal Court, and then it will go through the notoriously liberal district of Northern Virginia.
I want to know, too, about voter integrity in this election. Who voted and how many times? If there was ever a chance for vote fraud this would be the time for Democrats to utilize it.
Until we get a Republican Party that actually wants to win we are never going to make any headway. We aren't losing America because we are being outplayed so much as because our leadership doesn't want to take the field.
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