Unguarded strength is double weakness, because that is where the “retired sphere of the leasts” saps. The Bible characters fell on their strong points, never on their weak ones.

“Kept by the power of God” — that is the only safety.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
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🚨 SEE IT! If you go to "http://Covid.gov," it sends you to a page breaking down the WUHAN LAB LEAK origin of COVID-19.

All the documents, all the receipts. It even highlights how Biden pardoned Fauci, and debunks things like "6 feet social distancing" and mask-wearing.

9:57 AM · Apr 18, 2025 //

The site contains a bulleted list noting five key points:

1. The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t. //

We know that here at RedState all too well. RedState had some of the earliest reporting on the likely origins of COVID-19, on the gain-of-function research being conducted at WIV, on the troubling connections to and involvement of Daszak and Fauci. And what did we get for our trouble? A kick in the teeth. Demonetization. Demonization.

If I sound somewhat bitter, it's because I am. Even writing about it now, it's taking me back to that sick feeling we all had in the pits of our stomachs — not from fear of the virus itself, but from fear of losing this site and losing our livelihoods...simply for daring to question the "official" narrative. //

anon-dhms SC Patriots
8 hours ago
Maybe the leak was accidental but what China did afterward was by design and calculated. They are monsters and all who worked with them to keep this quiet and also worked to destroy anyone who spoke out with truth were complicit with these monsters. I am still demanding that Fauci and others be charged by State AG's. He may have been pardoned of a punishment per se but that doesn't mean we cannot have a trial and prove to everyone the evidence against him and the others.

We have seen guilty people who should have been convicted walk but their lives were still ruined by the truth and that is what should happen here.

If Democrats wish to travel to El Salvador and meet with a foreign illegal MS-13 gang member, they can spend their own money to do so.

I will not approve a single dime of Oversight Committee taxpayer funds for use on the excursion Democrats have requested. //

idalily
3 hours ago
No, no, I want a couple dozen of them to go. And take some Dem senators with them. While they're gone, bring every item on the GOP wish list to the floor and pass it.

President Joe Biden brought at least 8 million illegal immigrants into the United States through an assortment of semi-legal programs.

Now, President Donald Trump is seeking to do the will of the American people by deporting them, but the Democrats’ tooth-and-nail legal fight against him shows that keeping them in the country forever was always their plan. //

If the full array of amnesty hearings and appeals were to be given to all the millions of illegal immigrants Biden ushered in, it would take not decades but centuries to clear the backlog of cases.

Biden’s aides knew this when they opened the floodgates, and they knew it when they brought suit against Texas for securing its part of the US-Mexico border.

They knew this when they abolished “Remain in Mexico” and told millions of people to simply hang out until their court dates came up — or until the administration did away with their court dates altogether, leaving them as de facto permanent residents.

Polling shows that mass deportation is what the voters want. They propelled Trump into office to fulfill this promise, just as they did in 2016 before the Democrats made the border a mess again. //

The party’s plan is now laid bare: Bring in millions of people, let them work illegally, increase blue-state congressional power, draw on state and federal benefits, and expand government reach — all to prop up the lifestyle of the laptop class.

Meanwhile, keep the American working class hooked on cheap imported goods, fighting with undocumented workers for housing, health care, and jobs.

They’ve said it outright and repeatedly — proof that the “humanitarian concerns” they profess for illegal immigrants are hollow. //

Democrats took advantage of America’s legal system. Republicans must use every tool to right their wrongs.

Back in 2020, James massively stretched consumer protection law to gin up a case surrounding the Trump Organization’s dealing years earlier with Deutsche Bank, alleging that optimistic valuations of Trump properties somehow deceived the bankers into giving Trump overly generous loan terms.

The ensuing investigation and trial made it plain that nobody was harmed — indeed, everyone on the non-Trump side of the table made money.

But that didn’t stop Engoron from issuing a host of dubious rulings, culminating in a finding of guilt and a preposterous $454 million penalty (including interest) in February 2024, a number that continues to grow each day it goes unpaid. //

And when a five-judge panel of the First Department heard the case in September, Justice Peter Moulton put it bluntly: “The immense penalty in this case is troubling,” because “the parties left these transactions happy.”

Justice David Friedman pointed out, “No one lost any money,” and consumer protection statutes don’t normally apply to “really sophisticated players” like one of the world’s largest banks.

It seems pretty obvious that Engoron’s penalties and verdict, indeed the entire case, should be tossed.

We have no independent sources to prove or disprove White House aides’ claims that Hochul told Trump, “I control the judges” in some veiled hint that he needed to back off on upending her “congestion” tolls, but something odd is going on here. //

The court can make some excuse for its delays so far, citing the presidential election, transition and so on, but this stall is now starting to reek.

The Appellate Division needs to do its job and rule; on the merits, it should be a reversal.

Shut down the left-leaning lawfare, and make it plain that in this country, we fight political battles at the ballot box, not in the courts.

Random US Citizen
4 hours ago edited
Things are moving along, but I'd like to see more girls refuse to participate in sports where mentally ill men are allowed to compete. The fencer who took a knee and others have the right idea. I'm not opposed to Trump's EO or these lawsuits, but the only way this stops is when girls refuse to compete in these situations. Middle aged white dudes can't end it. Soccer moms can't prevent it. The only ones with real power are the ones being hurt. If every girl refused to compete against them--these narcissistic, deranged boys would give it up. Because what they're really after is the affirmation of their delusion and the thrill of a "win" they can only get by competing against women.

As Alexander Solzhenitsyn pointed out in Live not By Lies, participation in lies by agreeing to be bound by them is a large part of what gives them power. When you refuse to pretend that men are women and that their involvement if girls' sports is OK, you weaken the whole false edifice. Eventually it will collapse. But most important the ones who have to stop agreeing to the lie are the girls themselves. We should all support them unequivocally, but they have to do it.

Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users

Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system

...

Microsoft is addressing the issue using a Known Issue Rollback (KIR), a mechanism introduced in 2021 that lets the Excel giant quietly undo borked non-security updates without user intervention.

If you're running Windows 11 24H2 on a personal or unmanaged machine, the rollback should apply automatically via Windows Update - though it might take up to 24 hours to kick in. A reboot could help your system grab the fix faster, according to Microsoft.

The dark chocolate version of Toblerone's most popular bar has been discontinued after nearly six decades on confectionery shelves.

Sweet treats manufacturer Mondelēz International confirmed in a statement that its 360g dark chocolate bar would no longer be sold in the UK.

The company said it understood the "difficult decision" may be "disappointing for some consumers".

It attributed the discontinuation to "changing tastes" and growing its business, adding it "continuously adapt[s]" its range and "continue[s] to invest in Toblerone".

The original Toblerone bar was first invented in 1908, with a dark chocolate version - containing 50% cocoa - released in 1969.

Mondelēz did not indicate if its dark chocolate Toblerone was being discontinued elsewhere besides the UK, or if other sizes will also be discontinued. The BBC has approached the company for further comment.

The brand name Toblerone was created using the founder's surname, "Tobler" and the Italian word for a type of nougat made with honey and almonds - "torrone" - which the chocolate contains.

The Swiss chocolate bar's distinctive triangular shape is thought to have been inspired by the Matterhorn in the Alps - a silhouette of which appears on the packaging - though its true origins remain unclear.

From my first experience creating a shell script, I learned about the shebang (#!), the special first line used to specify the interpreter for executing the script:

  #! /usr/bin/sh
  echo "Hello, World!"

So that you can just invoke it with ./hello.sh and it will run with the specified interpreter, assuming the file has execute permissions.

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We have proposed that other planetary forces and phenomena, such as albedo, play a much larger role than CO2 in global warming or temperature variations.

The basic laws of physics and thermodynamics are not in support of efficient processing of CO2 using DAC. This is because dilute molecules of CO2 in air prefer to randomly mix and achieve maximum disorder or entropy per The Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Per Sherwood, trace amounts of CO2 molecules in an air mixture are difficult and costly to separate.

Capturing CO2 by DAC takes at least as much energy as that is contained in the fossil fuels that produced the carbon dioxide in the first place, per Keynumbers. //

Extra Thoughts: What Might Happen if CO₂ is Removed from the Air ?

1. If CO₂ is removed from the air in some significant quantity, CO₂ may outgas from the other sinks (land, oceans, lakes) to replace the removed CO₂. The reverse is true as well: when CO₂ is increased in the air, land/oceans/lakes) will uptake more CO₂ until a new quasi-equilibrium state is possibly reached over time.

2. A recent Nature Climate Change paper discusses the possible effect of CO₂ removal on the global carbon cycle. The paper notes that removing tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere might not be effective, because the shifting atmospheric chemistry could, in turn, affect how readily land and oceans release their CO₂, aka Le Chatelier’s principle. Another reference discusses the same concepts, and it is noted that both rely on synthetic models, like most climate change theory.

3. Handwaving synthetic climate models: a general rule that has been propagated is that for every tonne that ends up being emitted from fossil fuels or “land use changes”, a quarter gets absorbed by trees, another quarter by the ocean and the remaining half gets left in the atmosphere. I have not seen any hard data that backs this up. It basically says half the CO₂ emitted by man is left over and can’t be absorbed or re-equilibrated.

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Breaking911 @Breaking911
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NEW: After latest mass shooting, Pres. Trump is asked if he would support any new gun control legislation

"The gun doesn't do the shooting, the people do," Trump said. "I have an obligation to protect the Second Amendment."

5:47 PM · Apr 17, 2025 //

SESummers
13 hours ago
A better answer: "Yes, the gun control laws in this country need to change. 'Gun Free Zones' need to be made illegal, and constitutional carry implemented nationwide. That way, these crazy leftist monsters doing most of these mass shootings will get their birth certificates revoked before they can pull the trigger a second time, long before the cops would get there."

Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy
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The U.S. commercial space industry is an inspiring project which showcases American ingenuity and exceptionalism. But the last FAA guidelines under the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings Program were clear: Crewmembers who travel into space must have “demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety.”

The crew who flew to space this week on an automated flight by Blue Origin were brave and glam, but you cannot identify as an astronaut. They do not meet the FAA astronaut criteria.

Blue Origin @blueorigin
We just completed our 11th human spaceflight and the 31st flight of the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez.

To date, New Shepard has flown 58 people to space. Read more:
6:55 PM · Apr 17, 2025. //

The Trump administration has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status. This status allows Harvard to avoid paying income and property taxes, and donations to Harvard provide leftist billionaires with massive tax deductions for charitable contributions. //

As that action gathers steam, the Department of Homeland Security is considering withdrawing Harvard's ability to matriculate foreign students. The concern here is the number of foreign students at Harvard who seem as interested in pro-Hamas demonstrations as they are in attending classes. //

Harvard was told that it had to eradicate the DEI filters it uses in admissions to bring its processes into compliance with federal law and Supreme Court rulings. It was also told to take positive action to suppress what appears to be an official policy of antisemitism, or at least pro-terrorism, by Harvard's administration. Fair dealing and protecting Jewish students from harassment and discrimination were just a bridge too far for Harvard President Alan Garber. "The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government," he huffed. "It violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority under Title VI. And it threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge. No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."

He's missing the point. No one is requiring Harvard to do anything differently. The government is not threatening to take control. It is simply saying that if you wish to receive government benefits, you must comply with the same rules as any other educational institution and with federal law. Harvard's obeisance to DEI, for instance, runs up against two Supreme Court precedents. In Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard, the Supreme Court ruled that race was an impermissible factor in college admissions; see BREAKING: Supreme Court Rejects Race-Based College Admissions – RedState. The 1983 decision, Bob Jones University vs. United States, established that "The Government's fundamental, overriding interest in eradicating racial discrimination in education substantially outweighs whatever burden denial of tax benefits places on petitioners' exercise of their religious beliefs." //

DaveM
3 hours ago
This really isn't that difficult. Harvard allows Jewish students to be harassed on the basis of their religion- which is

1. Illegal at every level of government anywhere in the US. Those4 harassing Jewish students are committing prosecutable acts

2. By failing to provide a safe learning environment Harvard itself is in direct violation of multiple laws at both the Federal and State levels.

Keep a close eye on the trajectory of these two stories. They haven’t met in the middle yet, but when they do, the old Democratic Party will be dead — and AOC will be its next leader.

David Hogg wouldn’t have it any other way.

Thousands of complicated legal cases go on every day, and many are resolved in ways that are deeply unsatisfying because complicated legal cases are rarely as cut and dried as they appear on TV. When you get into high-stakes, politically charged cases, they never are perfect.

This one, in an immigration case, should be a slam dunk.

To me, the interesting thing about this case is not how it is resolved--after all, if Garcia somehow is sprung from prison in El Salvador he is still deportable and will just wind up somewhere else. He will never return home as a "Maryland man" because he is an illegal alien who is set to be deported by court order. //

Still, in a world where Nigerian Christians are being massacred by the thousands, hundreds of thousands of Americans are overdosing on fentanyl, children are being raped and murdered by illegal immigrants, and politicians are forcing women and girls to undress in front of men, the entire liberal establishment is in a tizzy over this one ever so barely ambiguous case. //

Why are they fighting so hard on this likely losing issue? Whatever they say, it isn't about what they claim. There are between 20-30 million illegal immigrants in the United States--Joe Biden let in over 10 million through illegal means--and Americans want them gone. Democrats do not. //

Winning Garcia's case is so important because they want to establish that every single deportation case should go to a trial, basically, where the standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt." He appears to be an MS 13 gang member? Prove it in court! He is accused of beating his wife? Well, she never pressed charges!

As if these are the standards for deporting an illegal alien with a deportation order. //

Not only is that not the legal standard, but as a practical matter, they are demanding that once an illegal alien sets foot in the United States, they get what amounts to a trial before they get deported. That is, logistically, impossible. 30 million trials? Not going to happen. It is logistically impossible for it to happen. Nobody wants it to happen, not even Democrats.

What they want is as few deportations as humanly possible, so demanding an impossible standard is about stopping deportations. //

The passion isn't about justice. This case is just another tool to use to get ignorant people riled up against deportations. //

This is about thwarting Trump's policies, not due process or anything else.

Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. from the Crime Prevention Research Center and Dr. Carlisle E. Moody, Professor of Economics, Emeritus from College of William and Mary, aggregated the data. Their paper, “Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?” was released on April 3. //

“The first takeaway is, assuming our count is complete, that armed citizens have stopped more active shooter incidents than the police have, although the difference is not significantly different from zero,” Lott and Moody noted. “Also, armed citizens do not appear to interfere with the police or blunder so badly as to get their weapon taken away by the shooter or kill the wrong person.” //

This study by Lott and Moody has uncovered several important developments. Holistically, they found that a civilian response is more effective than uniformed police officers when it comes to stopping mass shooting events. That being said, the pair is quick to point out that the “result isn’t a criticism of law enforcement, it simply reflects the tactical realities they face.” They cite the high visibility of uniformed officers making them more of a target.

https://download.ssrn.com/2025/4/4/5205768.pdf.

Larry Arnold
19 hours ago

“The first takeaway is, assuming our count is complete, that armed citizens have stopped more active shooter incidents than the police have, although the difference is not significantly different from zero,”

Unless the study corrected for anti-gun laws, given that most mass shootings happen in "Gun-Free Zones" where civilians are prohibited from being armed, the finding is significant. Civilians are stopping as many mass shootings in the small subset of places where they are allowed to carry as the police are everywhere. //

SecondOpinionz Frontierjeanne
11 hours ago
A shooter is ready to attack the prey or the uniformed 'enemy'.
A shooter falls apart (psychologically) when the prey defend themselves.

Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal aliens into our country. This placed extraordinary burdens on our country--our schools, hospitals, housing, and other essential services were overwhelmed. On top of that, many of these illegal aliens committed violent crimes, or facilitated fentanyl and sex trafficking. That is the situation we inherited.

There's a reason they did that, of course, and a lot of it has to do with the census and the apportionment of House districts. Don't think it's about compassion or anything like that; illegal aliens living in a city are counted by the census just as are citizens, which is patently ridiculous, but that's the hand we are dealt - for the moment - and that's why Democrats are so determined to bring these people in and keep them here. No matter who they are.

When the media and the far left obsess over an MS-13 gang member and demand that he be returned to the United States for a third deportation hearing, what they're really saying is they want the vast majority of illegal aliens to stay here permanently. //

Here's a useful test: ask the people weeping over the lack of due process what precisely they propose for dealing with Biden's millions and millions of illegals. And with reasonable resource and administrative judge constraints, does their solution allow us to deport at least a few million people per year?

If the answer is no, they've given their game away. They don't want border security. They don't want us to deport the people who've come into our country illegally. They want to accomplish through fake legal process what they failed to accomplish politically:

The ratification of Biden's illegal migrant invasion. //

Adam Selene / Simon Jester
7 hours ago
Counting non-citizens for representation in the census makes about as much sense as allowing me to claim anybody who spends time in my house on Dec 31 as a dependent on my taxes. //

idalily
7 hours ago
Tweet of the Day (from the thread): "This isn’t about due process—it’s about using bureaucracy as a weapon to erase our borders. The same people who’d audit your grandmother for a $600 Venmo want MS-13 protected like endangered species. Trump was elected to stop this madness, not manage it politely."

AMEN.

A classified analysis from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), prepared in mid-2020 and only recently brought to light, lays out in scientific detail why the virus that upended the world may not have emerged through natural spillover at all—but instead through a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The analysis doesn’t claim to have proof, but what it offers is a structured, evidence-based argument for why the genome of SARS-CoV-2 fits with known genetic engineering practices, including specific methods used in coronavirus research. From unusual genomic features, like the presence of a furin cleavage site not seen in close relatives, to the possibility that sections of the spike protein were spliced together from different sources, the report builds a case that’s far more technical and comprehensive than most public government statements have admitted.

https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/dia-analysis-covid-may-have-come-from-wuhan-lab/

This isn’t just about virology or the politics of a pandemic that’s reshaped the world. It’s about whether we still believe in the kind of transparency and accountability that democracy depends on. For too long, the “lab leak” question was framed as dangerous to even ask. But if our own intelligence agencies were raising red flags early on—only to see those warnings sidelined or silenced—we need to ask harder questions about who decides what counts as truth in a crisis.

Because if we can't get honest answers about how this started, what hope do we have of preventing the next one?