Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy, 08/26

[SVPete]

NEW: Australia Expels Iranian Diplomats, Accuses Tehran of Directing Domestic Terror Attacks

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/08/26/new-australia-expels-iranian-diplomats-accuses-tehran-of-directing-terror-attacks-n3806168

Australia just dropped a diplomatic bomb on Tehran, one whose shockwaves may reverberate around the world. For the first time since World War II, the government in Canberra has expelled all diplomats from a foreign country and terminated all diplomatic relations. Their intelligence and law enforcement services have determined that Iran directed at least two significant terror attacks in Australia that targeted Jews, and may have been responsible for several others.

"Iran and its proxies," declared Australia's intelligence chief Mike Burgess declared a short while ago, "literally and figuratively lit the matches and fanned the flames."

A spate of violent attacks on Jewish businesses and institutions, which began late last year, has unnerved many people in Australia, which has the highest concentration of Holocaust survivors outside of Israel. The extraordinary decision to publicly hold Iran responsible for some of the attacks, and to cut diplomatic relations, was not reached quickly or taken lightly, Australian officials said on Tuesday.

Australian security agencies have concluded that Iran was behind the arson attacks on a decades-old kosher restaurant, Lewis’ Continental Kitchen, in Sydney in October and the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne two months later. No one was injured in the attacks, which officials said were meant to tear at Australia’s social fabric. ...

Agents of the Revolutionary Guards, a powerful branch of Iran’s military, used “a complex web of proxies to hide its involvement” in the attacks, Mr. Burgess said at the news conference.

I sincerely wonder if Oz would have acted as decisively had Israel and the US not taken action against Iran's nuclear program.

[SVPete]

Case Study: Watching a San Fran Non-Profit Dissolve Into a Corruption Cesspool

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/08/26/case-study-watching-a-san-fran-non-profit-dissolve-into-a-corruption-cesspool-n3806174

This sordid, tangled mess has been going on for quite a while, but only recently, as in yesterday, have the words 'criminal investigation' been used, which is absolutely gobsmacking when one digs back even only as far as a year to see what would compel that kind of interest. The tease sure sounded juicy.

Ex-leader of Dream Keeper Initiative under criminal investigation, sources say

Sheryl Davis, who ran former Mayor London Breed’s signature program for the city’s Black community, resigned last fall amid allegations of financial misconduct.

Sheryl Davis, the disgraced city official who led San Francisco’s once-in-a-generation effort to invest tens of millions of dollars in Black communities, is under criminal investigation, The Standard has learned.

Davis resigned in September as head of the Human Rights Commission in the wake of allegations of financial misconduct and conflicts of interest involving an executive at a nonprofit that received department funding.

Not to mention that this Sheryl Davis is a close London Breed associate, the former controversial San Francisco mayor who recently was defeated in her run for reelection.

Davis has long been a prominent feature in San Fran's black community. After the George Floyd riots, Mayor Breed funneled city money to black non-profits and programs under the umbrella of her new 'Dream Keeper' program, and handed the reins to Davis to administer.
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In September of '24, all hell breaks loose, one thing after another, and they all have to do with one Sheryl Davis.

The San Francisco Chronicle had been doing some journalism and, woof. What they came up with turned out to be just an appetizer.

...Original Story, 2:40 pm: Thursday was a hell of a day at San Francisco City Hall’s Human Rights Commission, which gets plenty of city money for their “service of the City’s anti-discrimination laws to further racial solidarity, equity, and healing.” The commission’s executive director Sheryl Davis was nailed by a Thursday Chronicle exposé that alleged, among other things, a $10,000 Martha’s Vineyard cottage rental paid for by invoices that were split, seemingly to avoid city oversight of department bills larger than $10,000.

“Can you split the invoice?” Davis emailed to a nonprofit CEO who’d rung up that $10,000 tab for intern lodging at a conference. “Half before June 30 and the other half after July 1?”

London Breed came into office having made huge promises, and, well, severely under-performed, in general. This suggests that some of her under-performance was rooted in trusting this corrupticrat.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

London Breed came into office having made huge promises, and, well, severely under-performed, in general. This suggests that some of her under-performance was rooted in trusting this corrupticrat.

I don't get it. Either A) these corrupticrats were once sincere or B) they were always crooks.

If A, why would you destroy the thing you believe in when you finally get the chance to prove to the world you were right?

If B, did you not plan an exit strategy so you could make your pile and retire?