Here's a fun update on the status of the Taylor Lorenz story, starring Hannity.
[GatewayPundit] “Do You Lack a Conscience, a Soul, and a Heart?” — Hannity OBLITERATES Taylor Lorenz for Gushing Over Accused Murderer Luigi Mangione While Refusing to Condemn Political Violence.
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Note: TW seems to be the pro at finding YouTube links to FoxNews items, and you may want to watch Hannity's actual interview with Lorenz or the vignettes of Lorenz that you've already seen if you've been following the story.
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And finally, here's a link to the Rantburg article on Tuesday, but my comments got scrubbed at midnight on Wednesday, so I've included the comments below from what I've managed to save:
Political Violence Is Now Ingrained in American Youth
[The Ingraham Angle 4/14/25, the piece begins the program and lasts 13 minutes]
This time the Angle is about how political violence has become mainstreamed in American youth today.
Laura starts with a picture of Luigi Maglione, and an odd photo of an unidentified guy who killed someone.
A clip is played of Taylor Lorenz [has been a journalist for many left wing publications, like the Times, the Post, the Beast, and apparently Substack] She’s a 40 year old immunocompromised vegan who’s had many recent online harassment attacks including threats of death and violent rape, and has had her share of problems with stalkers and “swatters” as well.
By an act of the Lord, it seems, she has been engaged now for 10 years to Christopher Mims, an author and a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal. (I wonder if this might be something like the Stalwell situation.) Laura continues with how Taylor has bragged about murderers, like those displayed on the screen, of how cool they are, including the CEO healthcare murderer. “Why he’s a famous handsome young revolutionary, smart, and the sort of guy that any girl would want to become involved with.” In a clip she laughs off the healthcare murder as “this is America, as if we don’t lionize murderers, as if we don’t give then Netflix shows,” and is glad that some journalists are now finally “standing up and speaking out about the anger that we all feel.”
Laura tosses in a clip [The Daily Show/Comedy Central 12/11/24] of a comedian who says that the recent google search for “conjugal visit” is now trending. Laura appreciates that we now know more about the guy who recently threatened Trump, rather than, for example Thomas Crooks. See:
The rest of the show follows in the same vein, including the Tesla attacks (one perpetrator is now a folk hero), the break-if of Governor Shapiro [PA]’s residence where the place was touched, and Trump comes in to suggest the perpetrator is just a whack job. I’m 7 minutes into the program I haven’t reviewed anything beyond this point but I don’t really care to and this is enough.
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Finally, the Rantburg article cited in comment #4 had my comments on the 9/17/24 Rantburg article which have been scrubbed, and if anyone is interested in this, it would be great if some member of the club can put these in a comment, otherwise let me know and I can type them in from my hardcopy, but that will take over 20 minutes to reenter and proof.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Thomas Steven Sanders, a convicted child murderer whose federal death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... was commuted by Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... in December 2024 through his autopen, has been indicted for first-degree murder by a Louisiana grand jury.
Sanders was originally sentenced to death in 2014 for the 2010 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Lexis Roberts of Las Vegas.
He had taken Lexis and her mother, Suellen Roberts, on a trip to the Grand Canyon, during which he murdered Suellen in Arizona and then brought Lexis to Louisiana, where he killed her in Catahoula Gay Pareeh.
Despite his federal conviction and death sentence, Biden commuted Sanders' sentence to life imprisonment without parole as part of a broader move affecting 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row.
Now, the state of Louisiana is seeking to impose its own justice.
A Catahoula Gay Pareeh Grand Jury indicted Sanders for the state-level murder of Lexis Roberts.
District Attorney Bradley Burget announced that his office will seek the death penalty , emphasizing that Biden's federal commutation does not affect state prosecution, KALB reported.
''Biden's action to commute the federal death penalty will have no effect on the state prosecution of Sanders,'' Burget stated per The Democrat.
Ooooooh, snap!
Thomas Steven Sanders is the third individual granted clemency to end up back behind bars.
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Given, even the Liberal Media and the DNC both knew "The Big Guy", had SERIOUS Mental competency issues. How could any use of the Auto-pen be valid?
So, when will the Auto-pen signatures be properly investigated?
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Uh, your initials signify that instead of signing, you initialed. Uh, then, uh, you have to sign this form which states that you merely initialed the forms that required signing. Uh, then after you've signed, you put your initial where you signed so that people will know that you okayed your signature with your initial. - Radar, MASH
[NBCDFW] Five students were hospitalized after a shooting inside Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas on Tuesday afternoon, officials say. The school is the same one where a student was injured in a shooting in a classroom last year.
Officials with Dallas Fire-Rescue confirmed Wednesday that four boys were shot and a 14-year-old girl was hospitalized for anxiety. The ages of the shooting victims were 15 to 18, and they had injuries that ranged from serious to non-life-threatening. Of the five people hospitalized on Tuesday, only two remained hospitalized on Wednesday, DFR said.
Officials have confirmed a suspect is in custody. The suspect has been identified as 17-year-old Tracy Denard Haynes Jr.
The affidavit says school surveillance video showed an unidentified student let Haynes in through an unsecured door at 1:03 p.m., and moments later, he began firing indiscriminately at five students.
Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn sent a letter Tuesday to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) calling on the medical school to comply with President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... 's Executive Order on ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs at educational institutions.
The letter comes after VUMC reportedly took steps to hide many of its DEI resources as opposed to getting rid of them, following the president's Executive Orders.
Consumers Research, a conservative nonprofit that was following medical schools' responses to Trump's orders on ending DEI discovered that VUMC was taking steps to hide some of theirs behind password-protected web pages. In response to criticism, a VUMC spokesperson told Fox News Digital at the time that it was undergoing "a thorough review" of its programs to figure out "where revisions may be required to remain in compliance, including updating information on websites and other public platforms."
According to an updated review, VUMC's Office of Diversity and Inclusion website remains behind a password-protected web page. Same with the DEI web page on VUMC's Department of Medicine website, resources touting "climate care is health care," and a web page for the school's "Inaugural Climate Change Action & Sustainability Summit." Other resources which had previously appeared to be hidden behind password protected web pages — rather than deleted — such as a YouTube video about "The War on DEI," appear to have been deleted since criticism over the matter was unleashed against the school.
[Federalist] Over the past week, the University of Tennessee and its starting quarterback, Nico Iamaleava, staged a very public and very destructive contract negotiation that ended in Iamaleava’s departure from the program. In 2023, Iamaleava made national news by signing a reported $8 million contract with the Vols before he even graduated high school. While multimillion dollar NIL deals have become commonplace in college football and basketball recently, his deal was unprecedented at the time.
Apparently, Iamaleava and his family felt that, after his first season as a starter wherein he finished 8th in the SEC in passing yards, the contract he signed just two years prior did not provide adequate compensation. There were reports he was asking for $4 million. Tennessee clearly couldn’t justify paying him more based on his performance, and because of the barrage of anti-trust lawsuits lost by the NCAA and the conferences over the last few years, the school had no ability to enforce the contract that was in place.
Google - UT and its researchers spent $153.63 million in federal funds for research and development in 2023
[FoxNews] A Massachusetts man wearing a gas mask and tactical gear was captured on video walking into a courthouse in a Boston suburb and attacking several people with pepper spray on Monday.
Nicholas Akerberg, 28, of Yarmouth Port, entered Woburn District Court and deployed pepper spray at multiple court officers, a police officer and an assistant district attorney, the Middlesex district attorney's office said in a statement.
Security footage from the courthouse shows a man wearing a helmet, gas mask, tactical boots and sunglasses walk up to the building as a court officer opens the front door. The man is then seen spraying pepper spray at the officer and barging into the courthouse.
Other officers inside the courthouse tackled the man to the ground, according to the video. Akerberg punched, shoved and assaulted multiple people before several officers subdued him, the officials said.
Akerberg was ordered to be held at a Monday arraignment. His bail was revoked, and he was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation.
Sounds like they expect to find out he’s nuts then, rather than merely vicious.
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We brats were always amused to hear Mom say "Woburn," not that she had much occasion to. Sounded like Barney Frank ordering a reuben (which was of course perfectly correct Masshole, but how were we to know?). What wouldn't I give now to hear her read a random page from a gazetteer of the Commonwealth?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A strong magnetic storm has begun on Earth. This was reported on April 16 by meteorologist and candidate of technical sciences Evgeny Tishkovets.
"Two huge solar prominences reached the Earth and hit the magnetosphere. The cosmic impact caused a powerful magnetic storm, which will last intermittently until Thursday morning and could seriously affect the health of weather-sensitive people," Tishkovets wrote on his Telegram channel.
The magnetic disturbance will last for 24 hours, its peak was on the morning of April 16 — level G3 and G2 — strong and medium storm. G2 and G1 — medium and weak storm — are expected on the night and in the morning of April 17.
Tishkovets said that this configuration of the interplanetary magnetic field is favorable for the polar lights.
"The highest probabilities of Aurora in recent months have been set for the night from Tuesday to Wednesday and the night from Wednesday to Thursday. Aurora is possible even in mid-latitudes," the meteorologist said.
He added that a deterioration in shortwave radio communication conditions cannot be ruled out.
As reported by IA Regnum, a less powerful magnetic storm was recorded on April 5. The level of magnetic disturbances reached 5.67 units. This level is higher than weak and slightly lower than average.
As Vladimir Kuznetsov, Director of the Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, previously told Regnum News Agency, a magnetic storm is accompanied by a change in atmospheric pressure. Therefore, people who depend on it may experience a deterioration in their health. But the negative impact of magnetic storms should not be exaggerated.
[Breitbart] The Trump administration on Monday informed U.S. chipmaker Nvidia that exports of its powerful H20 chips to China, and several other nations, will have to meet new licensing requirements.
Nvidia said meeting the restrictions could cost the company up to $5.5 billion.
Nvidia was informed the new licensing requirement, which will remain in place indefinitely, “addresses the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a supercomputer in China.”
The H20 chip is not the most powerful product in Nvidia’s inventory – but, until now, it has been the most powerful chip Nvidia could legally sell to China.
The Biden administration restricted the sale of more advanced chips to China in 2022. Nvidia worked around the restriction by reducing the capabilities of its popular H100 chip until it fell below the export limit and created the H20, a product sold only to China.
China used the H20 to create DeepSeek, a new artificial intelligence (AI) that rattled world markets when it was introduced late last year because it offered high-level performance at a fraction of the price. According to its creators, one reason DeepSeek was developed so cheaply was that its physical architecture employed those inexpensive Nvidia chips.
The sensational debut of DeepSeek prompted Chinese tech companies to order more than $16 billion worth of H20 chips. Nvidia accordingly stepped-up production and now fears it will have a backlog of inventory it cannot sell, since there is no demand for the H20 outside of China. The unique nature of the H20 could alleviate that problem somewhat, since some of the frozen export inventory could be H100 chips that have not yet been “throttled” down to the lower H20 specifications.
A bigger long-term problem is that losing access to the H20 could prompt China to develop a comparable chip domestically, probably through electronics titan Huawei, potentially causing Nvidia to lose its lucrative Chinese market for good. Nvidia posted $17 billion in sales to China last year.
“Banning the H20 makes little sense to us. H20 performance is low, well below already-available Chinese alternatives; a ban essentially simply hands the Chinese AI market over to Huawei,” analyst Stacy Rasgon told investors Wednesday.
The left-wing New York Times (NYT) on Wednesday noted the politics of the Nvidia situation are complicated, as leading Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is strongly in favor of restricting H20 sales to China.
Warren wrote a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Monday urging restrictions on H20 sales without “further delay” because she felt even the throttled-down chip sold to China was powerful enough to jeopardize U.S. national security, and because U.S. companies are having difficulty sourcing all of the artificial intelligence chips they need.
Nvidia’s position on the matter also seems delicate, as CEO Jensen Huang invested considerable effort in blocking export restrictions on the company’s chips. Just one day before the new restrictions were announced, the White House applauded Nvidia for committing $500 billion to manufacture AI equipment in the United States.
Nvidia shares were down seven percent on Wednesday after news of the export restrictions broke. The Nvidia H20 was not the only electronics export to China that was restricted on Monday; another company, Advanced Micro Devices, also slipped seven percent on Wednesday due to export restrictions, while chipmakers like Qualcomm lost two to three percent of their value.
[FoxNews] APT29 hacking group is believed to be connected to Russian intelligence services
A Russia-linked hacking group unleashed a new "advanced phishing campaign" targeting European diplomats with invites to fake wine tasting events, according to a report.
Check Point Research said the APT29 group is trying to "impersonate a major European Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send out invitations to wine tasting events, prompting targets to click a web link leading to the deployment of a new backdoor [malware] called GRAPELOADER."
"This campaign appears to be focused on targeting European diplomatic entities, including non-European countries’ embassies located in Europe," the cybersecurity firm said in an advisory, noting that the emails with malicious links included subject lines such as "Wine tasting event (update date)," "For Ambassador’s Calendar" and "Diplomatic dinner."
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said last year that APT29, which also goes by the names of Midnight Blizzard, the Dukes, or Cozy Bear, is "a cyber espionage group, almost certainly part of the SVR, an element of the Russian intelligence services."
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The so-called "Service Related Economy." A rarely seen or used term of late. But then, few boast about failure, misleading narratives or false assertions.
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Saw an article last year I think, lithium filtered from fracking water in the state of MI would exceed the USs annual need. And it’s clean. Haven’t really seen anything on it since.
[FoxNews] While American taxpayers are familiar with the annual rigmarole of filing their federal taxes and realizing just how much of their hard-earned money Uncle Sam is taking away, several House Republicans are pushing a proposal to take some things away from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS): Guns and ammunition.
The "Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act" would disarm the federal agency, prohibiting the commissioner of internal revenue from using funds to buy, receive or store firearms and ammo, and requiring the transfer of IRS firearms and ammunition to the Administrator of General Services.
The guns would then be sold or auctioned to licensed dealers and the ammo would be auctioned to the public.
Proceeds would go to "the general fund of the Treasury for the sole purpose of deficit reduction," the measure stipulates.
[FoxBusinessNews] President Donald Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer are expected to negotiate a historic deal with Japan on Wednesday as they meet with Tokyo’s Economic Revitalization Minister Ryōsei Akazawa.
Military support, energy projects and exchange rates are all expected to be on the table during the talks as the countries aim to strike a mutually beneficial deal, Reuters reported.
Bessent recently told Bloomberg that there is a "first-mover advantage" in trade deals with the White House, something that could make Washington more amenable to Japan.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
[NBCDFW] Five students were hospitalized after a shooting inside Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas on Tuesday afternoon, officials say. The school is the same one where a student was injured in a shooting in a classroom last year.
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
[FoxNews] A Massachusetts man wearing a gas mask and tactical gear was captured on video walking into a courthouse in a 
