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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 7/17
« Last post by SVPete on July 17, 2026, 10:43:55 AM »
Court sides with U. Pittsburgh professor demoted for criticizing affirmative action

https://www.thecollegefix.com/court-sides-with-u-pittsburgh-professor-demoted-for-criticizing-affirmative-action/

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A federal appeals court reinstated a medical professor’s defamation and civil rights retaliation case against the University of Pittsburgh last week over an article he wrote criticizing affirmative action.

“I have devoted my career to caring for patients, training the next generation of physicians, and contributing to scholarship within my field. When I published this article, I was doing the same thing,” Dr. Norman Wang said in a statement after the ruling.

In its July 7 opinion, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided that a federal judge erred in dismissing most of the doctor’s claims last year. The ruling means his lawsuit can move forward. 

The medical professor expressed relief at the court’s decision, saying it “strongly supported my version of the events and rejected the narratives and excuses from the defendants.”

“No professor should be demoted for raising honest questions in a peer-reviewed academic journal,” Wang said.
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In 2020, Wang published an article in the Journal of American Heart Association arguing affirmative action harmed the medical academy, The Fix previously reported.
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According to the appeals court ruling, four months after his article was published, a doctor filed a complaint against Wang on July 29, 2020.

Within a week, Wang was fired from his director position, had his article retracted, and faced a social media pressure campaign where some of his colleagues labeled him as a racist, according to court documents. Wang was also banned from any role teaching fellows, residents, or medical students.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 7/17
« Last post by SVPete on July 17, 2026, 10:26:36 AM »
Former AG John Ashcroft Schools Adam Schiff in the Most Brutal Way

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/07/16/former-ag-john-ashcroft-schools-adam-schiff-in-the-most-brutal-way-n4955130

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It has been a while since I’ve thought about John Ashcroft. But on Thursday, the former Attorney General wandered back onto Capitol Hill for the confirmation hearings of Todd Blanche for Attorney General and Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence and gave a brutal lesson to Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who tried so hard to bait the 84-year-old Ashcroft into condemning Donald Trump for supposedly siccing the Justice Department on his political enemies. It did not go the way Schiff hoped.

"Mr. Blanche has said that he believes the president has both the right and the duty to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies," Schiff said, before turning to Ashcroft and asking, "Do you subscribe to that view?"

It was a trap dressed up as a question, and Ashcroft didn’t fall for it.

"I believe that the Attorney General of the United States has the right and responsibility to enforce the law uniformly, and if the law has been broken by the president's 'enemies,' he has a duty," Ashcroft said, adding that lawbreakers "do not become exempt from following the law merely by their enmity to the president of the United States."

Then he flipped the script entirely. "As a matter of fact, the people who break the law are in enmity with the people of the United States," Ashcroft said. "We used to call people who break the law, 'public enemies.'"
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Schiff, visibly annoyed that his gotcha had failed, pressed on. "If you do have a problem with that, please say so," he demanded, apparently hoping a second attempt would land where the first one failed so miserably.

It didn't.

"I believe the president needs to be an advocate of strong law enforcement, and that includes enemies of his," Ashcroft answered, before adding, "If an enemy of the president goes out and conducts a violent crime, there's nothing wrong with the president calling the attorney general and saying, 'I hope you do something about this violent crime.'"

I didn't know that John Ashcroft is still alive, TBH. Anyway, he clearly was in a battle of wits with an unarmed Schifftyroo.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 7/17
« Last post by SVPete on July 17, 2026, 09:00:15 AM »
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... "I understand that Israel has to confront threats to their existences and cannot let them go unchecked," Smith declares. "But Israel does not have to fight the way they have chosen to do so – a way that has caused enormous suffering and led to endless war." Well, whose fault is the "endless war"? The US and the West keep forcing Israel into ceasefires with Hamas and Hezbollah with which neither group will comply, and which have resulted in continuing attacks, especially from Gaza. ...

That's like EuroLanders in NATO who basically say, "What Trump says is true, but his style is too blunt!"

Smith gives no solutions, he just objects to Israel's style. Well, after the decades of US arm-twisting Israel into cease fires that ALWAYS let Hamas and Hezbollah recover and rebuild, Israel finally had a President weak enough - LIEden - and understanding enough (mostly) - Trump - to act decisively against Hamas and Hezbollah. Smith, seemingly, would prefer Israel revert to the cease fires that have failed repeatedly, hoping for a different outcome, i.e. the definition of insanity.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 7/17
« Last post by SVPete on July 17, 2026, 08:47:01 AM »
France, in the late 1960s, inadvertently taught Israel the value of being able to design and manufacture its own weapons. When the US proved a reliable ally, Israel went with US arms. OhBummer!, more recently LIEden, and Dem Party antisemites have shown and are showing Israel that alliance with the US is becoming tenuous.

Israel is in the process of replacing its battle rifles, now a mix of US M4s and an Israeli model, entirely with an Israeli design. A consequential strategy shift?
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The DUmpster / Re: CBS just cut him off
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on July 17, 2026, 08:45:13 AM »
CBS News Rates Election Info Trump Declassified As 'False' Without Looking at the Documents

Last night President Trump delivered a speech after declassifying documents showing election vulnerabilities and Chinese hacking attempts while also explaining the need for the SAVE America Act to be passed in the Senate.

Here's a little bit about what the declassified documents show.

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- Hundreds of millions of American voter files in the hands of foreign govs

- Voting machines & ballot-counting systems exposed to hacking & manipulation

- China & other adversaries actively trying to meddle in elections

- Evidence of fraud being buried

- Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens & dead people still active on voter rolls

- No Voter ID, no Proof of Citizenship required

- Tens of millions of mail-in ballots floating unsecured

And yet the Democrats fiercely oppose the SAVE Act. Gee, why would that be?

Right on cue, CBS News, who also had a reporter "prebunking" Trump's speech ahead of time, did a "fact check" seemingly without even looking at the declassified documents in detail and found what Trump said last night to be false.

All we heard after 2016 was "Russia hacked our election" to give the impression Trump had it stolen for him and these media hacks did no pearl clutching over it.

The "appeal to authority" is strong with CBS News' "fact check."

CBS News, and many other outlets, probably had their stories about this written even before the documents were declassified and released.

https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/07/17/cbs-news-rates-election-info-trump-declassified-as-false-without-looking-at-the-documents-n2430316
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 7/17
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on July 17, 2026, 08:41:46 AM »
House Dem: Leftists' Threats Intimidated Me Into Voting Against Israel

In case anyone wonders whether the violence on the Left can be considered "fringe" or overblown, as some suggested after Marco Rubio's address yesterday, this offers a moment of clarification. Not only have leftist violence and threats ramped up significantly over the last three years since Hamas' October 7 massacres, but it has also already had an impact on the legislative process. And that admission comes from a leading House Democrat, not Republicans or conservative commentators.

Thomas Massie forced a vote to defund aid and defense sales to Israel this week, in a dumb stunt that ended up damaging Hakeem Jeffries and Democrat leadership far more than it threatened Israel. The caucus split down the middle while Republicans ignored Massie, and the bill failed by a wide margin. However, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee put out a statement after he voted with Massie that insinuated he did so out of fear of violent leftists and their threats against his family. Jewish Insider picked it up, and Power Line flagged it immediately:

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Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, indicated he voted to cut off military aid to Israel in part because of sustained personal threats against his family and his staff, part of what he described as a violent and relentless campaign of intimidation by far-left anti-Israel activists.

Smith voted on Wednesday to support an amendment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to strip $3.3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel from the 2027 State Department appropriations bill — a major reversal by the hawkish Democrat after he previously told Jewish Insider he planned to oppose the measure.

In a statement explaining his vote in favor, the high-ranking defense lawmaker said it was a “very close vote.” He said that despite voting to cut off U.S. aid, he was “deeply concerned” about the tactics used by far left activists to pressure him to support such a measure.

“To date, my family and I have had our home vandalized, a fire has been set in my driveway, my neighbors’ lives have been disrupted by demonstrations in the middle of the night, town halls meant to be forums for dialogue have been shut down, and a staff member has been physically assaulted,” Smith said in a statement on X.

This would be quite an accusation, and one that should get the attention of anti-terrorist investigators at the FBI and Department of Justice. Smith's full statement offered a weaselly and more ambiguous approach around the direct quotes picked out by JI's Matthew Shea, but it's clear that Shea read between the lines pretty accurately:

This is a very strange concatenation of excuses from Smith. He seems to understand that voting to cut off aid to Israel will be unpopular outside of the fever-swamp radical Hamasniks on the Left, so Smith offers a smorgasbord of excuses for his gutless alignment against an ally thrown into a war by two Iranian-backed terrorist networks. It's Benjamin Netanyahu's fault! No, wait, it's Smotrich's and Ben Gvir's fault! No, wait, it's the fault of "U.S. supporters of Israel"! No, wait, it's violent leftists and their threats against my family!

The words get even weaselier when attempting to explain why he's blaming Israel for fighting a war that Hamas and Hezbollah have waged against them for decades. "I understand that Israel has to confront threats to their existences and cannot let them go unchecked," Smith declares. "But Israel does not have to fight the way they have chosen to do so – a way that has caused enormous suffering and led to endless war." Well, whose fault is the "endless war"? The US and the West keep forcing Israel into ceasefires with Hamas and Hezbollah with which neither group will comply, and which have resulted in continuing attacks, especially from Gaza. The main component of US aid to Israel is for Iron Dome anti-missile defense systems, an enormous expense that exists because Israel has tolerated Iranian proxies' continuous attacks on Israeli civilian populations to forego fighting an actual war.

How did that get repaid? By October 7 and the following explosion of Jew-hatred from the Left, and on the fringes of the Right where Massie belongs. Israel has tried the incremental approach for 20 years with Hamas and over 40 with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the result was the single greatest single-day loss of Jewish lives since the Holocaust. And in response to that, Smith voted to cut off funding for their defensive systems that has kept Israelis alive and willing to work for peace.

Nevertheless, I tend to credit Smith in his intimidation by radical leftists issuing threats to impose their will on Democrats first, and then the US as a whole later. Smith does not appear to have a plethora of intestinal fortitude, as evidenced by his post-vote statement. The DoJ needs to investigate these threats, and the funding behind them, as part of the new program announced by Secretary of State Rubio this week to demolish the structures that promote and organize the violent Left.

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/17/house-dem-leftists-intimidated-me-into-voting-against-israel-n3817059

The anti-Jewish coalition of the left is getting really f*cking dangerous, and they're spreading like monkeypox.
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Breaking News / Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 7/17
« Last post by SVPete on July 17, 2026, 08:37:25 AM »
The United Nations Finally Admits Hamas Has Been Stealing Aid

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/07/15/un-admits-hamas-is-stealing-aid-n2679387

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The United Nations (U.N.) has run interference for Hamas for years, trying to protect the terrorists from Israel obliterating them while also attacking Israel in an attempt to undermine the nation and its right to self-defense. Ever since October 7, 2023, the U.N. has accused Israel of committing 'genocide,' dismissed Hamas' sexual violence against women, and blamed Israel for not allowing adequate aid to Palestine.

Israel, and others, pointed out that Hamas was hijacking the aid so they could either use it or sell it. They were all accused of lying.

Now the U.N. finally admitted that Hamas has been stealing aid all this time.
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I strongly condemn the recent obstruction of humanitarian operations in Gaza by the de facto authorities, which endangered humanitarian personnel, intimidated workers delivering lifesaving food assistance and disrupted life-saving humanitarian operations.

Yesterday, humanitarian workers were forced to halt food distributions after armed personnel affiliated with the de facto authorities forcibly entered the Abu Rashid food distribution point in Jaballa, North Gaza. The forces also entered a WFP warehouse and reportedly assaulted two truck drivers who were delivering humanitarian supplies.

The UN is admitting, finally, what has been known for a couple of years. It's a CYA move after the admission does not really matter.

Now do the construction materials used for years to build Hamas tunnels instead of rebuilding Gaza cities.
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The DUmpster / CBS just cut him off
« Last post by CC27 on July 17, 2026, 08:34:22 AM »
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Beachnutt (9,009) Posts

CBS just cut him off

and are fact checking him.
He has lost his mind completely

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221381818

CBS fact checks? 🙄🙄
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General Discussion / Re: Oh, look! Election fraud.
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on July 17, 2026, 07:27:49 AM »
Apologies to SSG Snuggle Bunny, as we (I) have hijacked this thread on a different tangent.

One more to add:

Hot Takes: Democrats Melt Down and Break Out the Talking Points After Trump Speech on Election Integrity

President Donald Trump's Thursday speech to the nation was short and compact. The new teleprompter person was a bit rusty, but he pulled it off without too many hiccups. As expected, the hiccups came from Democrats and the NeverTrumpers, who had already decided what the substance of the speech would be before Trump even uttered a word

The takeaways from the Democrats and the Left: Trump is a raving lunatic and is setting the stage to steal the 2026 midterms.

And they accuse Trump of being a conspiracy theorist?

Democrat Socialist Rep. Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07) teed it off, deciding five minutes into the speech that Trump was desperately trying to prop up his "dictator persona."

These are the DSA-types who want to rip apart the Constitution, abolish the presidency and the Electoral College. Sounds like that's more dictator-y than anything Trump was saying tonight.

Speaking of dictators, Gavin Newsom, the Governor King of California who is jonesing to be the 2028 Democrat nominee for president, was in Trump's mind and knows what he believes in: authoritarianism.

Then, from another account (he has five of them?), he called Trump's speech "the ramblings of a mad king," and claimed that Trump would rig 2026 to his benefit. Newsom encouraged everyone to "organize, show up, and vote!"

This is the same governor who stomped on the California constitution and a bipartisan redistricting committee which the voters chose, in order to redraw electoral maps to benefit Democrats. Now that President Trump is pushing election integrity, Newsom signed a law preventing any law enforcement, including federal election officials, from being able to access the voter rolls or voting technology without a court order.

As usual, Gavin is accusing someone else of what he is guilty of.

The Lincoln Project had this brilliant hot take.

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The Lincoln Project
@ProjectLincoln

Donald Trump is declaring war on America's election officials

Same with Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), who also accused Trump of wanting to rig 2026.

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Mark Warner
Senate Democrats
@MarkWarner

Well folks, as expected, Trump revealed essentially nothing new.

His speech was just lies & long-debunked conspiracies about the 2020 election.

This is all just a prelude to interfere in our midterms — don’t fall for it.

Then Warner went on CBS, which only aired the portion of the speech they felt was relevant, to claim he was embarrassed for the president and demanded "responsible journalists" to push back on it. Since CBS initially was not going to air the speech, I'm not sure they could be lumped into that "responsible journalist" category Warner is talking about.

MS NOW what is their name? Did the same thing: cut away from pertinent information in the speech when they didn't like the substance of it.

There was also a plethora of "I listened to the speech so you don't have to," takes. As a citizen of the United States, it would behoove you to listen to it for yourself and make your own judgments. But pompous sows like Lawrence O'Donnell only want you to absorb their impressions.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@Lawrence

I watched the whole thing so you didn’t have to.

It was a 25 minute deranged pitch for one piece of legislation that has no chance of passing.

@TheLastWord 10pm

And riddle me this: if Trump is intent on rigging the 2026 midterms, you would think Democrat senators like Mark Warner would be invested in helping to ensure he isn't able to do this by voting for the SAVE America Act, which would not only institute Voter ID in all federal elections, but put up safeguards to combat election fraud.

The soy boys and girls of The Bulwark also had their panties twisted all up in their short hairs. Graham Platner apologist Sarah Longwell just couldn't wait to twist a speech about resolving the undermining of American elections into a ploy to delegitimize American elections.

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Sarah Longwell
@SarahLongwell25

Trump is really terrified that Democrats might have some oversight after the 2026 election, so he preemptively working to delegitimize America’s elections. That’s all this speech was. Undermining American elections. Outrageous.

"The View" harpy Ana Navarro decided to go with the madman angle, and even attempted a diarrhea joke. 

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Ana Navarro-Cárdenas
@ananavarro

What a non-sensical prime time address or whatever that was. The rantings of a mad-man.

Dude must have consumed contaminated lettuce. But it affected the wrong orifice. He has explosive diarrhea of the mouth.

But the grand prize reaction probably comes from the failed former Vice President Kamala Harris, who wouldn't know election integrity if it served her a Ketel One. Harris claimed that the SAVE America Act is voter suppression, and that Trump is "attempting to distract from reality."

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Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris

Replying to @KamalaHarris
The SAVE Act is voter suppression.

It is part of a larger agenda of conservatives trying to steal power from the people.

Someone who blew $1.5 billion only to lose an election is not exactly in touch with reality.

Just saying...

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/07/16/hot-takes-trump-talks-about-election-integrity-democrats-still-want-to-litigate-2020-n2204420

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General Discussion / Re: Oh, look! Election fraud.
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on July 17, 2026, 07:21:04 AM »
Now, regarding the substance of the speech:

Trump Drops Bombshell Election Fraud Intel. Here’s What It Says.

That evidence is now public. The White House posted a batch of previously classified documents on a dedicated webpage, and they paint a picture of an election system compromised by hostile foreign governments and shielded by internal cover-ups. The administration is using the disclosures to push for voter ID, proof of citizenship, and tighter controls on mail ballots.

For years, officials assured Americans that election infrastructure, electronic voting machines, ballot-counting systems, all of it, was secure. The documents released this week directly contradict that claim.

"We judge that U.S. adversaries, including at a minimum Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure,” a declassified U.S. Intelligence Community assessment states. It also warned that "centralized election-related data repositories, such as voter registration databases, pollbooks, and official election websites, are most vulnerable to exploitation, and adversaries could use access to these systems to disrupt election processes."

The most alarming revelations include that the CIA reportedly obtained intelligence on a specific plot by the Maduro regime in Venezuela to digitally rig its own 2020 election, using methods designed to shift vote totals in ways that would survive an audit undetected. And starting around the 2020 cycle, China allegedly carried out that historic data heist, illicitly acquiring 220 million voter files containing names, addresses, phone numbers, and party affiliations, complete with a dedicated data exploitation unit assigned to the job.

And the worst part is that the Deep State inside U.S. intelligence agencies allegedly suppressed and downplayed the scale of China's theft, keeping it from the president and from the public. Spy agencies reportedly learned back in 2020 that tens of millions of voters' data across 18 states had been bought, stolen, or hacked by China.

Yet they sat on it.

Think it can’t get worse? The FBI files document large-scale voter registration fraud in Michigan, uncovered after state police raided a Democratic get-out-the-vote organization in Muskegon back in 2020 and referred the case to the FBI's Detroit office. Canvassers allegedly admitted to agents that they signed registration forms in other people's names, invented registrations for people who don't exist, and collected gift cards based on how many applications they churned out. FBI agents believed crimes had been committed. The Biden Department of Justice slow-walked the case for years. FBI Director Kash Patel has now been directed to make sure it's fully investigated and prosecuted.

Then there's the noncitizen problem.

A Department of Homeland Security review of state voter rolls found roughly 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote in federal elections, and officials believe the real number is far higher since some Democrat-led states refused to hand over their voter files.

Check out the site. Download the files. Review the evidence. Add it all up, you got hundreds of millions of voter files sitting in foreign hands, hackable voting machines, foreign meddling, fraud evidence that sat buried for years, and noncitizens and deceased voters still active on the rolls. All while U.S. elections continue without voter ID, without proof of citizenship, and without meaningful limits on mail ballots. Call me crazy, but that makes no sense.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/07/16/trump-drops-bombshell-election-fraud-intel-heres-what-it-says-n4955142
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