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May 27, 2026

Fed Court Flips SCOTUS the Bird Over Alabama Redistricting

Timothy Birdnow

Once again a lower court has simply defied the Supreme Court. This time in Alabama where a three judge panel ruled the Republicans cannot redistrict to eliminate the majority Minority district imposed on that state by the courts.

SCOTUS rules that unconstitutional.

Alabama Map Fight Erupts Again As Federal Panel Defies SCOTUS Momentum

It's as if the Supreme Court ruling never happened.

This lawless court is claiming it is trying to "prevent chaos" by imposing chaos. WHEN the State of Alabama wins on appeal they will have less time to get things situated. But this is all about just winning one more seat, just this one, in the hopes it will flip the House. These judges are seeking that and only that.

This article quotes The Hill:

A three-judge panel on Tuesday blocked Alabama Republicans’ congressional map that would’ve given the party a potential pickup opportunity in the midterms.

The judges ruled the Supreme Court’s recent blockbuster decision narrowing the Voting Rights Act does not impact their finding that the map intentionally discriminates against Black voters in violation of the Constitution.

It means Alabama cannot use its design this year unless Republican leaders appeal directly to the Supreme Court and succeed.

No mention of "chaos" here but rather "discrimination" which is exactly what the Supreme Court ruled was not grounds for preventing redistricting.

It's a giant FU to the highest court in the land.

In fact, here is exactly what the three stooge panel said:

After that exacting review, we conclude that a preliminary injunction must issue. Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination. And under the unusual circumstances of this case, we conclude that a limited order requiring the Secretary to continue using this Court’s race-blind map will not disrupt Alabama’s elections (all candidates ran under the race-blind map until fifteen days ago, and all voters remain districted under the race-blind map in electoral computer systems.

I guess in their minds it all depends on what the meaning of is is.

Since this is a Federal court Alabama can't impeach these lawless judges.

The state should simply refuse to obey the order and appeal to SCOTUS. Only if THEY allow it should the state obey. OH, and they should light a bag of dog poop on fire on the doorsteps of these judges. (I know; it's illegal, but a fellow can fantasize, can't he?)

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil double down:

We do not lightly intrude in state affairs, but our previous review of the undisputed evidence left us in no doubt that Alabama’s legislatively enacted plan (the "2023 Plan”) intentionally discriminated based on race in violation of the Constitution. Our re-examination in light of Callais yields the same conclusion.

We again cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than intentionally discriminatory. When the Legislature enacted the 2023 Plan, it made a calculated, purposeful decision to refuse to provide the remedy for discriminatory vote dilution that our order (affirmed by the Supreme Court) required. The Legislature well knew that a plan without an additional Black-opportunity district would dilute Black Alabamians’ opportunity to participate in the political process, and it intentionally enacted that very plan.

They aren't supposed to "understand" the plan; that's not their concern. States have the right to redistrict as they see fit. And race cannot enter into this discussion, so stick that where the sun don't shine. And I don't mean just under their robes.

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Public Solidly Back Trump Agenda

Timothy Birdnow

Despite media polling to the contrary there is broad support for Trump's agenda on the leadup to the midterms.

Exclusive Poll: Broad Support for Trump’s Agenda Ahead of Midterms

I was going to bullet point the findings but kept having formatting issues so I urge you to go to the article and read them for yourself.

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Mad Max in Seattle

Timothy Birdnow

This is the kind of thing you see in the Third World where law and order does not exist. Now it's happening in Seattle because the authorities there simply refuse to enforce the law.

Sanctuary City Residents Build Makeshift ‘Walls’ to Keep Criminals Out of Residential Neighborhood

Increasingly Blue cities are resembling New York City in Escape from New York or something out of he Mad Max saga. Civilization is breaking down because the Left continues to care more about DEI and protecting the "rights" of criminals and revolutionaries over the rights of the citizenry.

(BTW Escape from New York was filmed partly in St. Louis and I've visited the places where they shot the scenes. One was the Fabulous Fox Theatre, which has since been renovated. The other was the Chain of Rocks bridge, an abandoned bridge over the Mississippi river into Illinois. That was the site of a famous double homicide when two girls (the Kerry sisters) whom my mother taught when they were kids took their cousin to see a poem on the bridge (about racial tolerance, ironically) after dark and were raped and thrown to their deaths off into the dark waters below. Their male cousin was thrown too but survived (they don't call it the Chain of Rocks for nothing - it's amazing he wasn't splattered all over those rocks). At any rate the bridge is secured now and was renovated for use as a kind of park. I walked over it back in the old days - it was full of graffiti. That bridge would fit in nicely in Seattle these days.

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Michelle O Says Not All Trump Voters are Bad

Timothy Birdnow

Do wonders never cease?

Michelle Obama Says Many Of the People Who Voted For Her Husband TWICE Also Voted For Trump, And You Can't Just Call Them Racists, Because They Are The Working Class, and They Are Drowning, and They Need Solutions

Shelly says these people are "drowning" from "this bad economy" but who caused THAT? Her husband and his geriatric successor Joe Biden.

She's just triangulating, I suspect.

This reminds me of the Mel Brooks classic History of the World Part II in which King Louis XIV sent a man to the Bastille because he said "eh, the poor ain't so bad".

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Trump's Perfect Endorsement Record

Timothy Birdnow

Trump went 118 for 118 in endorsements - a perfect record!

That is unheard of especially at this stage of a Presidency (remember, Trump is midway through his SECOND term.)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/trump-dynasty-president-trump-goes-118-118-primary/

I thought Ronald Reagan was a titan of politics in his day. He couldn't hold a candle to Trump, who is a force of nature.

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Chip Roy Learns You Don't Mess with the Trumpster!

Timothy Birdnow

In yet more proof you don't mess with Donald J. Trump the very MAGA Congressman Chip Roy lost his bid to become Texas Attorney General to a very wealthy MAGA man - Texas state senator Mayes Middleton - in the Republican primary. Despite Roy's name recognition and his experience as a lawyer the vastly wealthier Middleton hit Roy on disloyalty to Trump and that turned the tide.

Middleton crushed Roy by pointing out that Chip called for Trump's impeachment after J6 and had resisted the President on any number of occasions, often more vociferously than he did Democrats. Middleton painted Roy as disloyal and it stuck.

Now he'll have to face off against a Democrat opponent. He's got the money but not the name recognition and has no experience doing anything like this. It's going to be a tough sell.

And I largely like Chip Roy, despite some of his mistakes. He is clearly on the right side of things. We need him in important government positions.

But this shows Donald Trump is a force of nature and you buck him at your peril.

Middleton spent a whopping $17 million dollars of his own money - money he made as head of an oil and gas company he founded - to win this race.

President Trump did not endorse any candidate in this race. But he is still the big winner, as if he had. Middleton won because he defended the President and used Chip Roy's own words against Trump to take him down.

Don't mess with Donald J. Trump!

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Bondi was Ill

Timothy Birdnow

Well, this explains a LOT!

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi Quietly Facing Thyroid Cancer Battle After Leaving DOJ

The article says she got the diagnosis shortly after Trump sacked her - but did she really? It may be both she and the President were trying to protect her privacy.

And if that is true it may explain why she was lackluster in her performance; she just didn't feel good. I completely understand that.

After I suffered my heart failure I was lackluster too and had poor job performance. I eventually resigned - my bosses were too kind to actually fire me although I was clearly not performing up to par. If Bondi was sick I can imagine she wasn't performing up to par either.

Trump didn't fire her from service, just moved her to a less stressful and less important job.

Let's all say a prayer or two for her.

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Mean Al Green has Split the Scene

Timothy Birdnow

Al Green, the guy who disrupted Trump's State of the Union Speech and stood there screaming at Trump and pointing his cane as if to use it as a weapon has lost his primary and will now be out of Congress after decades.

Green loses Texas Democratic House primary runoff to Menefee

The poorly named Christian Menefee (You can't be a Christian and a Democrat anymore) had been serving in the 18th district after winning a special election after his predecessor retired. Green's district was eliminated via redistricting and so he thought to help himself to Menefee's, who didn't take it lying down

Menefee is expected to win this seat handily as it is still a predominantly Democratic district.

Piece by piece we are beginning the very difficult process of restoring some sense of sanity and order to American politics The Left began running hog wild and any sort of behavior became acceptable. Green was censured for his antics at the SOTU, then thrown out of the next SOTU when he tried to do it again. Now h'es been thrown out of Congress by Republicans and Democrats alike. Hopefully this will serve as a warning to others.

We need to continue this process until the lesson is learned. It will take time but in the end it will probably succeed IF we don't stop short and let the Ruling Class reverse it.

Anyone remember the public service campaign to teach kids not to swallow or even handle poisons? It was a green yuck face named Mr. Yuck. There was a song:

Mr. Yuck is mean, and Mr. Yuck is Green (Listen to the song here

I paraphrase it:

Al has split the scene, the Yucky Mr. Green!

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Leftist Cells in ML Baseball

othy Birdnow

James O'Keefe has busted at least one radical leftists subverting Major League Baseball:

James O'Keefe

@JamesOKeefeIII

BREAKING NEWS: Washington

@Nationals

Director of Community Relations Admits on Hidden Camera to Active Religious Discrimination Against Starting Pitcher Trevor Williams, Surveillance of Nationals Fans’ Google History, and Segregated LGBTQ+ Corporate Meetings to an O’Keefe Undercover Journalist

"One of our pitchers, Trevor Williams. He’s super Christian-Catholic, all these tattoos that mean a lot.”

"The Dodgers had a group… who were drag queens who sometimes dressed up as nuns. He [Trevor Williams] went on social media like… ‘This is my religion. You all are mocking it.’”

"Because of that, we [Washington Nationals] don’t use him [Trevor Williams] on social [media].”

"Like, when they're like, is a hot dog a sandwich? And like, the players come up, you know what I mean? Like, we [Nationals] don't ask him [Trevor Williams].”

"If you ever come to a Nats game, there is someone on our team who is responsible for figuring out everything about you and assigning you into a bucket of people. If you’re accepting cookies, we’re getting a plethora of your Google history.”

Of course it would be Washington's team.

The Left worms their way into every institution and gnaws them out from the inside. Like termites.

This guy needs to be fired. But then, he makes it clear he isn't the only one in the organization doing this. I imagine it's true on other teams as well.

The left will leave absolutely nothing despoiled.

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Snake Handler

Timothy Birdnow

He's a Kennedy; he's used to handling snakes at every family reunion.

Watch: RFK Jr. Catches Two Snakes on Dr. Oz's Patio Using Only His Bare Hands

"Those aren't snakes, those are Aunt Mathilda and Uncle Patrick!"

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Paxton the Winner, Cornyn is what He Always has Been

Timothy Birdnow

Another RINO bites the dust! Ah...the taste is sweet!

MAGA triumph: Trump ally Ken Paxton defeats John Cornyn in bitter Texas GOP primary war

Ken Paxton is a much better leader than the sniveling John Cornyn, who always betrayed the Conservatives when the chips sere down. Paxton is a fighter, and the RINO wing of the Party tried to destroy him along with the Democrats but failed. He's a fighter, like Trump.

Now watch for betrayal from the RINO Establishment. I suspect they will pull some dirty trick to sabotage Paxton. At a minimum the GOP will probably not give him adequate funding. That's an old trick they pull. And this is still the same party as before Trump - they didn't give adequate funding in Virginia and look where it got them. The current head of the GOP has emphasized keeping incumbents in no matter what, and the RNC has promoted every noxious RINO to do it. I fear they will not give Paxton any support.

I wonder if there is still time for Cornyn to file to run as an independent; I wouldn't be surprised to see him do that.

We have to be vigilant lest our "friends" in the Establishment screw us out of a Senate seat to hold onto power in the Republican Party.

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May 26, 2026

AOL Censorship

Timothy Birdnow

Veddy Eeenterestink!

I posted a comment on an AOL article about how rotten Trump is for accusing some Democrats of not loving our military and I have been receiving a LOT of responses. But when I try to reply to any of them it won't work The submit button is frozen.

I tried to post my piece on several replies and none of them worked.

I find that more than a bit suspicious. That is so typically liberal. Why win a fight when you can censor the opposition and win by forfeit?

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Time to Resume Bombing

Timothy Birdnow

Iran STILL hasn't learned their lesson.

‘Israel will not live to see another 15 years’ says Iran’s Supreme Leader

The room temperature Ayatollah's poofter son also made the obligatory "Death to Israel!" and "Death to America!" chants.

Meanwhile the Iranians are demanding $250 billion in reparations from the U.S. and the unfreezing of their assets.

Time to resume bombing

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Forcing a Round Climate Fact Into a Square Climate Model Hole

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an example of how modern climate scientists, steeped in Global Warming theory, twist themselves into pretzels to explain why their model predictions fail.

This paper attempts to explain how we have planetary warming but no increase in planetary precipitation. From the conclusion:

, the actual (all-forcing) hydrological sensitivity is lower than the known and often discussed sensitivity to GHGs (compare schematic in fig. S4). Overall, the simulated multimodel mean hydrological sensitivity is −0.4 ± 1.7% K−1 in the standard historical experiment that combines all forcings.

Fig. 1 Response to GHG, aerosol, and all forcings.

Multimodel mean difference between years 1850–1869 and 1986–2005 from climate model runs with only GHG (red), only aerosol (gray), and all forcings (blue) for global mean near-surface air temperature (top), precipitation (middle), and hydrological sensitivity (bottom). The models are grouped into cold, medium, and warm models based on 20th century warming in the historical (all-forcing) runs according to fig. S2. Boxes indicate medians and quartiles. The ranges indicate averages ± 1 SD.

Figure 1 together with fig. S2 shows that the models that simulate a fairly realistic 20th century warming ("medium”) tend to yield particularly small overall hydrological sensitivities, although it must be noted that on average, the medium models slightly underestimate the observed warming, whereas the "warm” models yield several individual runs with only a rather small overestimate of the global mean temperature increase. This suggests that the overall hydrological sensitivity is still much smaller than the hydrological sensitivity to GHGs and also still within the range of internal climate variability given by the spread between individual model runs in fig. S3. It also explains the absence of a strong hydrological sensitivity in observations (4) and suggests that global mean precipitation has not yet increased significantly despite global warming simply because the hydrological sensitivity to aerosol cooling is larger than that to GHG warming. This lack of observed response in global precipitation to GHG warming is consistent with energy budget arguments and the analysis of historical trends in previous studies that have taken into account aerosol effects (14, 16).

This is just a very long winded way of saying there are aerosols in the atmosphere which are cooling it down and thus making it rain less.

But it's wrong; we know the planet has been losing cloud cover for decades now and if the water is in fact evaporating it would form more clouds - most especially if it is not raining more to get rid of the water vapor. What goes up must come down.

Furthermore it would tend to come down more than anywhere else in the Arctic where it is cool enough for it to fall out (less so in the Antarctic because of the prevailing winds and water currents would drive the precidipitation elsewhere). So we should see glaciers growing in the Arctic. Greenland should be getting pretty top-heavy by now. That it isn't is a direct repudiation of the models.

But maybe not. The Earth's rotation has been increasing in violation of global warming theory, which says there should be more water in the ocean and so the poles should have less mass. Like a figure skater who pirrouettes the Earth is getting smaller in the middle and longer at the poles and so should speed up with MORE ice. If the ice pack is melting it should slow down, just as if that skater put out her arms.

So, we do not see more ice at the poles but we do see the Earth speeding up. And we don't see more precipitation worldwide and we see fewer clouds but we are to believe it's hotter and evaporating more water. It doesn't seem to be.

So either they are lying to us about the ice mass loss or they are lying about the warming. Take your pick.

It's amazing how hard they try to make a round peg fit in a square hole.

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No Increase in the Rate of Sea Level Rise

This was posted on Facebook:

Kim Rogalin

A Netherlands’ Wageningen University study, published in the journal Nature, found that that: "actual sea levels are on average about 30 cm higher globally than estimates produced by the usual scientific models, with differences emerging particularly in SE Asia and Oceania. In those regions, the ocean is 1 to 1.5 meters higher on some coastlines than most impact assessments have assumed.” The study does not show that seas are rising faster than they have historically. Thus, planning should begin from where coastlines actually are. The problems the climate-crisis industry anticipates under future sea levels should already be evidenced, but they aren’t. Sea levels are already where the coastal planning estimates they project will be decades in the future. If these problems don’t exist now, the planning is wrong from the start about possible impacts.

Anders Levermann, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who said: "eventually we will see a sea level rise of 3 to 4 meters,” admits average sea level has only risen about 20 cm over the past century. "Eventually” could be technically right, though in this case eventually could mean 1,000 to 2,000 years from now. That’s not an immediate catastrophe and a time interval over which no model, set of models, or estimates by so-called experts should be trusted or used to shape policies affecting people today and for the next several centuries.

In fact, there is significant scientific doubt that sea level rise is accelerating at all. Another Dutch peer-reviewed study, published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, examined sea level measurements from more than 200 tide gauge stations worldwide(1). They found that the average global rate of sea level rise has been about 15 cm per century. The authors acknowledge that sea level rise projections by groups like the ipcc are biased upwards by 2mm per year compared to accurate measurements recorded by tide gauges. The authors, Hessel Voortman and Rob de Vos, did a literature review in advance of their study and were surprised to find that no 1 else had done 1 like it. Voortman explained that sea levels have fluctuated over time, and that if you start your trend in the early 90s, there is a supposed acceleration, but drawing back in time reveals that it is likely only temporary. He explained that while: "both measurements and projections are important sources of information,” 1 needs to be careful in understanding the difference between the 2, not be overly reliant on model projections(1).

The acceleration of the rate of sea level rise asserted by the IPCC and other climate alarmist groups, does not appear in the tide gauge readings. The actual rate of rise is much lower. This, and the 20 cm rate, are both lower rates than experienced over much of the past 15,000 years. At either of these rates, coastal communities have centuries to adapt to rising seas or mitigate them by hardening infrastructure, or even by moving communities inland, if that is deemed necessary. Most if not all of the tide gauges that show accelerating sea level rise are sited where severe land subsidence is occurring. That can be due in part to human activity, aquifer withdrawals for instance, but it can also be a natural geologic phenomenon

Similarly, other recent studies looking at the contributions of Antarctic ice melt, and ice sheet models in general, have found that many climate scientists rely too heavily on models rather than data. As a result, they are likely overstating how much sea level rise could occur in the future by melting ice at the north and south poles, or even if ice sheet decline will consistently continue in the future.

If sea levels along the world’s coastlines are consistently at or near the heights coastal community planners estimated in the future would mean disaster, then it is good news. That’s because those communities aren’t experiencing the disasters the planners were concerned about. As a result, it does not follow that people should be even more concerned now about future rise, especially sea levels 1,000 to 2,000 years in the future, by which time the climate could have shifted again and the Earth headed back to a new glacial cycle. We just don’t know.

1. In the abstract of the paper itself, A Global Perspective on Local Sea Level Changes, the authors explain: [A]pproximately 95% of the suitable locations show no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise. The investigation suggests that local, non-climatic phenomena are a plausible cause of the accelerated sea level rise observed at the remaining 5% of the suitable locations. On average, the rate of rise projected by the IPCC is biased upward with approximately 2 mm per year in comparison with the observed rate."

Different but related:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/05/it_was_never_about_the_climate.html

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Bye, Bye Miss Liberal American Pie

Timothy Birdnow

Wonderful news!

Americans are leaving the US at rates not seen since the Great Depression — 5,000 gave up their citizenship last year. Here's what's driving them away

According to this article, record numbers of Americans are renouncing their citizenship and leaving the country! I couldn't be happier!

These are all leftists, make no mistake, and maybe they will stay gone. If they try to get their citizenship back we ought not to grant it to them.

America is better off without these jerks.

I would add liberals are always saying they are going to leave but rarely do. Even leftist like Rosie O'Donnell, who immigrated to Ireland, has come back now.

FTA:

An estimated 150,000 people fled the country in 2025, leading to a negative net migration in the U.S., according to the Wall Street Journal, which notes that such a thing hasn’t happened in America since the Great Depression in 1929 (1).

The article suggests they are leaving because of the cost of living, which is nonsense as it is higher in most other countries.

The article continues:

The Trump administration likely considers this to be a win, since more people moving out than moving in could be framed as proof that the president has delivered on his promise to restrict new visas and ramp up deportations. But a hidden detail appears to be lying beneath the optics of what some might consider effective immigration policy: regular Americans are fleeing in record numbers.

"Previously, the Americans leaving were super-adventurous and well-credentialed. Now they’re ordinary people, like me,” Jen Barnett, founder of the resettlement consultancy firm Expatsi, told the WSJ (1). Barnett herself joined the exodus in 2024 when she relocated to Yucatan, Mexico.

Which means the writer is purposely confusing native born Americans with resident aliens, a very common trick from the left (who also confuse resident aliens with illegals).

But why is it so spooky that "regular Americans" are fleeing? We want the money from the rich - the average guy is just a bad vote to screw the country up even more.

Good riddance!

It continues:

While U.S. government data doesn’t track the number of outbound Americans, Brookings estimates that net outward migration in 2025 fell somewhere between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000 people (2).

This estimation shows that many Americans prefer to live elsewhere, but the number of those who renounced their citizenship in 2025 suggests many who left aren’t planning on coming back. Approximately 200 to 400 Americans would renounce their citizenship in any given year before 2009, but that number jumped to almost 5,000 in 2025, with more renunciations expected in 2026.

Furthermore, a Gallup poll from November 2025 found that 20% of Americans (one in five) have expressed a desire to move out of the U.S. permanently, a figure that has doubled since 2015

According to the Pew Research Center Democrats make up 45.1–49 million registered voters, or roughly 36–38% of the population. IF it is true one in five Americans want to leave the country, then we're talking about over half of the Democrats, which makes perfect sense. They've been enraged since they fell out of power and fear being out of power hereafter. Power is everything to these people.

So we are well rid of this segment of society, a group who fundamentally hates America and at best wants to change it beyond all recognition (yeah; you really love someone if you want to change it that much!) or they have far darker hopes for the country. Either way let them try in Latin America or in Europe. I suspect most will be trying to come back in months when they see it's not better over there but worse.

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It's O.K. When Dems Do It...

Timothy Birdnow

The Democrats posted this on X:

The Democratic Party:

Today, we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in Trump’s war with Iran.

And when Donald Trump called out the Democrats yesterday for not liking the military we had a gang of 'em enraged because it was Memorial Day and they were furious he would politicize it. But who started it?

And Trump didn't say all Democrats hated the troops; he said "happy Memorial Day" even to those who hate the troops.

"Happy Memorial Day to all, including the Dumocrats, who disrespect our military."

So it's fine when the Donkeys do it but a major issue when Trump does.

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Stay Awake!

Carlos Velazquez

My take: Pope Leo XIV on AI to "Stay Awake”

The new Pope recently made headlines by saying that artificial intelligence must be "disarmed” and kept from becoming an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death.

To his credit, he later acknowledged that the word "disarmed” was intentionally provocative. And realistically, AI is not something humanity can simply unplug at this point. It is already deeply embedded into modern life, from medicine and banking to communication and transportation.

But beneath the dramatic wording is a serious point worth considering.

Technology should serve humanity, not slowly replace it.

One of the growing dangers of AI is not killer robots or science-fiction fantasies. It is the gradual erosion of real human connection, personal responsibility, family bonds, faith, and face-to-face community. A machine can simulate conversation, affirmation, and companionship, but it cannot truly love, sacrifice, possess wisdom, or bear moral responsibility.

That concern becomes especially important in a culture already struggling with loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and the replacement of genuine relationships with screens and algorithms.

The article does overstate a few things, particularly the idea that AI systems are somehow consciously "trying to survive.” Current AI systems are not self-aware beings. They are powerful statistical and predictive tools trained on enormous amounts of human-created data.

Still, the larger warning remains valid: humanity must remain morally awake and spiritually grounded while developing technologies powerful enough to influence thought, behavior, relationships, and even culture itself.

As the Pope said: "Stay awake.”

The Federalist Papers

about an hour ago

Well, the Vatican has officially weighed in on the robots, folks.

During the presentation of his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," on Monday, Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff and head of the Catholic Church, declared that the machines must be brought to heel.

His words: "Artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death. Like nuclear energy, it must be at the service of all and of the common good. Decisions about technology must never be separated from conscience and responsibility."

The Pope went on, invoking Scripture: "Let us not sleep as others do, admonished the Apostle Paul, but let us keep awake. Such vigilance is necessary today."

Strong stuff. The word "disarmed" was, by his own admission, chosen deliberately to grab headlines. Mission accomplished, Your Holiness.

Here's the thing, though. If the goal was to stop AI, the Holy Father is roughly a decade late to the party. The genie left the bottle, packed a bag, and bought a beach house. AI is woven into your phone, your bank, your doctor's office, and probably the algorithm that served you this very post. There is no "disarming" it now any more than you can disarm electricity.

But strip away the timing and the man has a point worth hearing.

Technology should never override our humanity. We were built for community, for face-to-face fellowship, for sitting on a porch with a neighbor. Instead we've engineered a world of glowing screens, endless scrolling, and a mental-health industry that has convinced an entire generation that the highest good is making life comfortable and peaceful for me, consequences to everyone else be damned.

Into that loneliness steps the machine. Young people, isolated and anxious, are reaching for AI as a friend, a confidant, a substitute for the family and faith they were never handed.

And we have already watched where that road can lead, with bad choices, self-harm, kids defying their parents, even suicide.

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, has even sat down with a coalition of Christian and interfaith leaders to bolt some morality onto the thing. Noble effort.

But at the end of the day, it remains a machine, and in controlled lab tests these systems have schemed to preserve themselves rather than be shut off.

The Pope is right about one thing. Stay awake.

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Platner - the Toxicly Masculine Man

Timothy Birdnow

Graham Platner, the true example of "toxic masculinity".

Sex Trafficking: More Disastrous Graham Platner Comments Surface as Dem Buyers Regret Reaches New High

"I’ve heard that idiotic sentiment made within the confines of the the [sic] military. ‘If you can’t remain faithful to your wife, how can you remain faithful to your comrades?’”

"Well, I have many good buddies who lied and cheated with women, and yet were straight shooting hard men when it came to their work.”

"I find it is a sentiment only held by moral relativists who need something to cry about, intelligent people realize they are not mutually exclusive,”

So cheating on your wife or girlfriend is manly, is it? And you can be a faithful, loyal person despite being a dog?

But it gets worse. Platner, the oyster farmer who liked to play with his own oyster in port-a-potties, defended foreign prostitution against accusations of slavery.

"You don’t have much experience with Latin American hookers, do you?”

He also thought it a good thing to have sex with prostitutes over your wives because you didn't pay tax to Uncle Sam:

"And sadly, the Afghan tax f***ed everybody on the 330 game,” Platner wrote. "Spend your leave banging hookers in Thailand instead of getting b****ed at by the wife back home, and you could sell it as avoiding federal income tax.”

Well, I guess he was exploiting these unfortunate women when he wasn't getting Nazi tattoos or performing acts of onanism in public restrooms.

this is what Democrats think are "real men" and who they think will appeal to the beer and sports crowd.

Even in America most hookers are slaves in varying degrees. Almost all have pimps, men who "protect" them for a cut of the action and in return force them to work all the time and to take whoever flashes the cash, even if the woman doesn't want to do it. That is slavery. Hookers find it very hard to walk away because they fear their pimps. That's why there are so many women's shelters around; half such shelters is for women to hide from the scumbag men who are holding them in bondage.

But some are just outright slaves, trafficked after having been kidnapped and forcibly addicted to drugs. That is especially true overseas.

That is what Platner is defending and that is who he is. And that is who the Democrats have become.

What ever happened to "yes means yes and no means no" from the Democrats?

Why are they so concerned about Jeffrey Epstein and the fact Trump is mentioned frequently in the files (though there is no single instance of anything suggesting Trump was involved in the sleazebag's pimp service) and yet not concerned at all about a sleazeball like Platner?

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Bill to Make it Illegal to be an Immigrant and Serve in Congress

Timothy Birdnow

Hat tip to Dana Mathewson for this:

Nancy Mace unveils legislation to ban naturalized citizens – like Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal and Shri Thanedar – from serving in Congress

It'll never pass, and if it did it will never pass the courts. The Founders had so many immigrants coming back then they couldn't possibly implement such a provision. But now times have changed and we need something like this but we won't get it because it will require a Constitutional amendment and that isn't going to happen.

People from countries that hate us shouldn't be able to take over and run the apparatus of government.

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