Deploying the National Guard is not an overreach but a measured response to a crisis that local leaders have failed to address. //
Labeling riotous behavior as “peaceful protest” is a deliberate misrepresentation that erodes trust in governance. Protesters who attack federal agents, destroy property, and endanger lives are not champions of justice; they are obstructing the rule of law. To paint Trump as the villain for responding to this chaos is to invert reality and excuse lawlessness under the guise of political posturing. //
The rule of law is not negotiable, and no state can opt out of federal authority when it comes to immigration enforcement. Other communities across the country must take heed: excusing violence as protest and obstructing federal law enforcement sets a dangerous precedent. As a nation, we must stand united in supporting the lawful execution of federal duties and reject the narrative that casts law enforcement as the enemy. The safety of our communities and the integrity of our laws depend on it.
Companies today claim they are “designing for the environment.” What they often mean is: they’re doing what the Association of Plastics Recyclers (APR) tells them to do.
APR is not an environmental nonprofit, nor is it a scientific body. It is a trade association. Its purpose isn’t planetary stewardship or public benefit—it’s to protect the business model of mechanical recyclers. Across the country, retailers and consumer brands have allowed APR to shape packaging policy, effectively outsourcing key sustainability decisions to an organization with no accountability to the public.
This didn’t happen by accident. It was a calculated public affairs coup.
By presenting itself as a neutral authority on recycling, APR has become the de facto gatekeeper of “recyclable” packaging. Its “Design Guide for Plastics Recyclability” guidelines are treated by many brands as gospel. The result is a system in which APR’s preferences—many of which conveniently raise costs, entrench incumbents, and discourage alternatives—are adopted as moral imperatives rather than contested ideas. //
APR has pulled off something remarkable but all too common in today’s age. It has cloaked its trade priorities in the language of sustainability, allowing its design standards to spread across entire industries without serious scrutiny.
Brands that comply get to call their packaging “recyclable.” Lawmakers and regulators often codify APR’s framework into official policy. Environmental groups, eager to support anything labeled circular or zero-waste, rarely question the mechanics. But this is where the problem begins. //
A 2022 Greenpeace USA report found that less than six percent of plastic waste in the United States is recycled. That means more than 94 percent of plastic—much of it labeled recyclable—never completes the circular loop consumers are led to believe exists.
Meanwhile, the cost of playing by APR’s rules isn’t theoretical. Brands often must reengineer their packaging to meet APR’s specifications, which can involve switching to more expensive materials, altering shapes or adhesives, or redesigning entire product lines. These costs are passed directly to consumers—and they rarely result in actual environmental gains.
In fact, many APR-approved packages use more resources and energy to produce than their conventional counterparts. When those packages aren’t recycled, the net environmental impact is worse than if brands had used simpler, more efficient designs. Compliance becomes performance. And performance becomes policy. //
One of the clearest indicators of APR’s self-interest is its stance on chemical recycling. Unlike mechanical recycling, which is limited to certain polymers and degrades material quality, chemical recycling can break down a broader range of plastics into base feedstocks. It has real potential to scale down plastic recovery and reduce landfill dependency. For APR, chemical recycling threatens its existing model. The association has repeatedly warned that advanced recycling isn’t a “silver bullet,” advocating for limited definitions of the practice and cautioning against falling for marketing claims. //
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Corruption can and nearly inevitably will evolve in what amounts to a natural fashion, whenever any organized group finds its goal or raison d'être has been met, but said group does not then immediately refocus its aim at another problem. Many Unions are the embodiment of this, as are countless Leftist social causes.
But then there is Corruption that was never anything but from the jump, examples we can always trace to the Left. Any solution to an imaginary problem falls under this inevitably taxpayer-funded umbrella.
Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Phelan cited the case of the USS Gerald R. Ford, America's largest and most expensive nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which carried a price tag of $13 billion. The ship was struggling to feed its crew of over 4,500 because six of its eight ovens were out of action, and sailors were barred by contract from fixing them themselves.
"I am a huge supporter of right to repair," Phelan told the politicians. "I went on the carrier; they had eight ovens — this is a ship that serves 15,300 meals a day. Only two were working. Six were out."
He pointed out the Navy personnel are capable of fixing their own gear but are blocked by contracts that reserve repairs for vendors, often due to IP restrictions. //
In a rare display of bipartisanship, both Democrats and Republicans agreed that the Army shouldn't be waiting on contractors to fix its kit and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo directing the service to add right-to-repair provisions to its contracts.
"On a go-forward basis, we have been directed to not sign any contracts that don't give us a right to repair," Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told the House Armed Services Committee on June 4. "On a go-back basis, we have been directed to go and do what we can to go get that right to repair."
So please, when sending your protest message in the form of flames, please be sure to choose fuel consisting of a minimum of at least 30 percent bio-ethanol, and select only cars with standard power plants. This will also ensure that more EVs will remain on California roadways. Protest responsibly and govern yourselves accordingly. //
Granny Heartful
an hour ago
I might be a dumb blonde, but I gotta ask:
How do you burn cars in an environmentally responsible fashion?
I wish it weren't so, but there's gotta be a punch line in there somewhere.
bk Granny Heartful
3 minutes ago
You give up smoking dope for a week and call it a carbon offset. /s
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When cars are on fire and stores are looted, just remember:
“It may be the exuberance of the moment…” — Nancy Pelosi.
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<-- PELOSI TODAY
"On January 6th... we begged the President of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it."
--> PELOSI ON J6
"Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?.. I take responsibility."
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FACT: I made 11 urgent calls requesting National Guard support on Jan 6, starting at 12:58 PM. Approval was withheld for 71 minutes by the House Sergeant at Arms, who reported directly to Speaker Pelosi. She caused critical delays, and now is shifting blame to @realDonaldTrump Show more
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.@SpeakerPelosi: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."
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FACT: On January 3, I made multiple requests for the assistance of the National Guard to help secure the Capitol on January 6 and was DENIED each time, leaving us underprepared for the attack. @realDonaldTrump @PressSec @bennyjohnson
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Chief Steven Sund,
Who denied your requests for the assistance of the National Guard on January 3?
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The House and Senate Sargeants at Arms.
7:07 PM · Jun 10, 2025
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) — which openly calls for revolution to bring down the current American system and which publicly sympathizes with murderous Communist regimes — has been a leader in organizing and fueling anti-ICE demonstrations in LA as well as in other cities nationwide. //
The leadership and activities of PSL are closely tied to far-left groups bolstered by the financial network of wealthy Marxist businessman Neville Roy Singham, who sold his ThoughtWorks tech company in 2017 and has used the money to fund openly Communist endeavors globally. //
On its social media accounts, PSL touted such anti-ICE demonstrations held in the Texas cities of Austin and Houston; in the Ohio cities of Cleveland and Columbus; in Providence, Rhode Island; in Chicago, Illinois; and in Washington, DC.
It was reported by Breitbart News that PSL organized an anti-ICE protest in San Antonio, Texas — and the outlet “noted the signs provided and carried by PSL members in San Antonio were identical to those held by PSL members in the Los Angeles demonstrations.”
“Immigrant voters, foreign-born voters, have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020,” CNN's Harry Enten explained. Back in 2020, Democrats enjoyed a comfortable 32-point lead among immigrant voters on the issue of immigration. But those days are gone. According to Enten, there has been “a 40-point shift to the right among immigrant voters,” and Republicans now lead Democrats by eight points on the issue, more than with any other demographic group.
This isn’t a marginal shift; it’s a political earthquake. And it’s not just about party preference; it’s also about attitudes toward Donald Trump himself.
Long dismissed as radioactive to immigrant voters, Trump is now seeing a surge in support that few thought possible. In 2016, he pulled 36% of the immigrant citizen vote. That ticked up to 39% in 2020. But in 2024, he’s jumped to 47% — and in some polls, he’s either tied or outright leading among immigrant voters. It’s a stunning political reversal that shatters the old assumptions.
That political shift mirrors a broader transformation in how immigrant citizens perceive illegal immigration. Back in 2020, illegal immigrants enjoyed a net favorable rating of +23 points among immigrant voters. By 2024, that number had plunged to -6. This dramatic drop completely undercuts the left’s go-to narrative that immigrant communities automatically align in solidarity with those here illegally.
The same arguments being used to shut down the Satanic Temple, “too disturbing,” “not appropriate,” and “offensive to children,” are the same ones that will be used one day to shut you down.
Do you believe marriage is between a man and a woman? That could be labeled disturbing.
Do you read the Bible in public? Someone might find that offensive.
You wear a crucifix, pray in a school lunchroom, or talk about creation? One day, that’ll be the excuse. “Not appropriate for children.”
We’re building the tools of censorship. And we’re handing them to people who think tolerance ends when their feelings get hurt.
Today, it’s Baphomet. Tomorrow, it’s Bethlehem.
If you’re cheering this, you're building your own cell.
The Capitol Isn’t a Church
The Iowa State Capitol doesn’t belong to the governor. Or the majority. It belongs to us, all of us.
If Christians can set up a nativity scene, then other groups can set up something, too, even if it’s ridiculous, even if it’s grotesque. Even if you think it’s morally bankrupt.
That’s the price of liberty.
It’s uncomfortable. //
This Isn’t Complicated
Let them put up their damn statue.
If it bothers you, look away.
Or pray harder.
Or put up a bigger, better display of your own.
Don’t ask the state to silence them for you.
Because that’s not liberty, that’s cowardice.
And deep down, I think we know that. We just don’t want to admit the uncomfortable truth:
We’re the ones failing the test.
Not them. //
The Constitution was never about safety.
It was about risk. Risking offense. Risking speech. Risking freedom.
Everybody counts.
Or nobody does. //
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There are incompatible religious organizations as well as ideologies. Not all can be reconciled enough to live in the same community. Some even go to the extent to kill those they cannot convert - and that is part of their religion, in some it is a requirement. The point is not all can be peacefully brought together, not all can live side by side. Do we, in the name of "liberty" allow the extermination of one group from another to satisfy liberty? I suggest that there are limits to liberty for it to exist at all. The generalization, for liberty to exist it must exist for all, is an axiom that sounds good but it denies reality in that many religions or ideologies do not allow freedom for those not part of their religious order or community. For this axiom to be true it must by definition violate those religious precepts, liberty for all denies liberty for some, which make the statement nonsense, which invalidates the whole.
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An Article V convention is the fast way to neuter the Constitution. Conservatives have done so well managing to get good people into Congress, they would get just the right people into the Article V convention?
The Constitution came out of a similar convention to "fix" the Articles of Confederation, but we had extraordinary men then. We don't have them now, we would end up without a Constitution, without a Bill of Rights, no 2A protection, no 1A protection for either speech or religion, and we would have something about 900 pages long that only lawyers could understand, instead of a 6 page document that every school child can understand.
An Article V convention is the "easy" way, and we conservatives have been trying for the easy way for at least four generations.
The only way this gets fixed is by hard work and dedication for decades. The problem is not what's not in the Constitution, it's what is or is not in the hearts of the people. Change the hearts of the people and you will change the culture and then it will be easy to get the needed changes in the Constitution.
There is only way way to change the hearts of people, and that is at the cross.
When the feds served a criminal warrant on a business in L.A.'s garment district, however, they weren't there to arrest illegal aliens; they were after a business owner who allegedly hadn't paid millions of dollars in taxes and tariffs and was part of an investigation into possible drug cartel activity.
Border Czar Tom Homan told L.A. radio host John Kobylt that the bust was over a "criminal conspiracy investigation involving money laundering, tax evasion, and customs fraud where one of the companies didn't declare over $80 million in criminal imports and failed to pay $17 million in taxes and tariffs." He told the KFI host that, "It was a criminal investigation and while we served a criminal warrant, we arrested about 40 illegal aliens." //
The U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, told Kobylt that because they had a criminal warrant to search the premises, they're allowed to question and detain everyone. And they did. //
If what the feds say is true, then Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the entire leftist industrial complex, which is supported by U.S. tax dollars, as I reported in Who's Paying for the Violent L.A. Protests Against ICE? You Are, are supporting riots while castigating the feds going after the illegal drug cartels.
Using an SD card on the moto g7 play
Your phone supports an optional microSD card up to 512 GB.
The type to buy depends on how you'll format the card:
Portable storage (can use card in different devices): A Class 2, 4, or 6 card is sufficient.
Internal storage (card used only by phone): Use a high speed card such as UHS-1 type for best performance. Class 2, 4, or 6 cards are slower than your phone’s internal storage, so using them for internal storage would slow your phone's performance.
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I want to use a live USB iso of FreeBSD to mount my actual system ans change a config file.
My problem is, I can't mount it because I get an error thay says that the filesystem is "read only" (reffing to the ISO filesystem).
Is there another way to do it? Can I make the filesystem read-write?
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Create a mount point under /tmp/, mount the file system there. /tmp is a tmpfs and rw.
How to fix high CPU usage while there is nothing in the Task Manager? //
To use Windows Defender, follow these simple steps:
- Press the Windows Key+I to open “Settings”.
- Select Update & Security > Windows Security > Virus & threat protection.
- Click “Run a new advanced scan”. In earlier versions, click “Advanced scan”.
- Select “Windows Defender Offline scan”.
- Click the “Scan now” button. This restarts your PC and the scanning process begins. (It’s important to save and close all your work before proceeding).
If this doesn’t resolve the high CPU usage on your computer, try the next solution.
Solution 3: Check if the WMI is hogging your CPU
The WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), also known as the WMI Provider Host process or WmiPrvSE.exe, is a Windows service that helps to monitor various systems on a network. Since it handles a large number of systems, it’s not uncommon for the WMI to run out of control and cause abnormal CPU usage.
Something broke. The VPS would not boot:
ZFS: out of temporary buffer spaceSo this sounds like a missing step in the automated upgrade flow. Normally, using new features in zpool is deferred until you choose to upgrade the pool after the reboot, so you get to see the warnings. At a guess (because I'm on FreeBSD 11.4 still), the OpenZFS migration forces the issue to do the zpool upgrade early and they missed the gpart requirement. //
boot from the current rescue disk
bring ifaces up
scp a current/13 zfsbootcode file
install that
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gpart bootcode -p /root/Downloads/gptzfsboot -i<gpart index of freebsd-boot> <block device>
with that just use the correct path from gptzfsboot
or just dd if=/root/Downloads/gptzfsboot of=/dev/vtbd0p1 if you are brave
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🚨NEW — LA Mayor Karen Bass DOUBLES DOWN on calling riots "peaceful" & blaming ICE raids for violence.
"If immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder..."
"It is peaceful now, but we do not know where and when the next raids will be!"
11:06 AM · Jun 9, 2025. //
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3 hours ago
Karen Bass was mentored by Fidel Castro. That's all you need to know about her politics. //
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3 hours ago
They really need to point out that the raids started as the execution of a warrant for the business owners. They only apprehended the illegals after they found them there. She looks very foolish pretending this all started because of ICE. //
BletchleyGirl Watch-tower
3 hours ago
Money laundering operation was the intent on Friday, not illegals. Tells you everything you need to know about B-ass and LA.
When push came to shove, Thunberg ran away back to Europe instead of standing against what she falsely claims is a "genocide." She's not a revolutionary. She's just an attention-seeking fraud who wants to post selfies and get on television while not paying any cost for her radical activism. We've seen that dynamic play out many times, where Thunberg is "arrested" and released within hours. She's cosplaying.
The other part of this is that Israel was going to make her watch video of the October 7th attacks while in detention. Instead of facing the reality of what her Hamas buddies did, which just might push back on her narrative, she chose to flee at the first chance. That speaks to her complete lack of morality and authenticity. Even if one truly disagrees with how Israel is battling Hamas in Gaza, her complete obfuscation of Palestinian atrocities is the tell that Thunberg has no deep-seated belief about any of this.
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system: FreeBSD v13.0-p7
reason: the bootloader is broken (e.g. after update)
solution: reinstall the bootloader(s) to your boot disk(s)
- Boot from recent FreeBSD image
- find out the devicenames and boot partition number from your boot-disks
gpart show
(the partition named “freebsd-boot” is the boot partition on every disk) - reinstall the pMBR and GPT ZFS bootloader (for every booting disk)
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i <boot-partition-number> <devicename>
(e.g.gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0)
(e.g.gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada1) - reboot
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A Chinese researcher allegedly tried to smuggle biological materials into the US from Wuhan and lied to the feds about the secretive scheme.
Chengxuan Han was arrested Sunday after landing at the Detroit Metropolitan airport on a flight from Shanghai, according to charging documents. She was charged with smuggling goods into the US and making false statements.
Han is the third Chinese scientist to be charged with smuggling illegal biological materials into Michigan in recent weeks.