WHCD shooting suspect Cole Allen's toxic Blue Sky history shows China's dangerous hold on our social media

 Miranda Devine   

So when we look for overseas influences on the left-wing young men who have become assassins, or aspired to murder conservative bogeymen, we shouldn’t ignore the malign foreign operations on the gaming platforms and social media networks they use.

Cartoon Movement

"Cole Allen, the latest alleged wannabe Trump assassin, was an enthusiastic user of the rancid left-wing echo chamber known as the social media platform Blue Sky. 

"A breakdown of Cole’s most-liked accounts over the past month, before he tried to kill Trump at the Washington Hilton Saturday night, shows a classic grab bag of Trump-haters and liberal activists, with lefty Trump-deranged lawyer Will Stancil at the top, boasting 28 likes.

"But a curious account in the middle of the radical left soup, coming in at number 12 with seven likes, is a little-known China apologist, James Palmer, the deputy editor of Foreign Policy, who uses the handle “beijingpalmer.”

"Palmer writes on absurd topics, such as “More hope for gay rights in China than the US,” and once asked his Asian-American followers to contact him if they “have been through the US security clearance process — particularly those who have had problems with it because of ethnicity.”

"Allen’s approval of Palmer’s outpourings may mean nothing more than that he liked material favorable to China.

"But there’s no doubt China is actively working to magnify social, political and racial divisions in this country and does so in part by seeding psychologically manipulative narratives through social media influence operations. What better venue than the Trump-deranged niche asylum of Blue Sky?" . . .   More... 

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‘Is there anything Gavin hasn’t destroyed?’ California 911 system upgrade reportedly a ‘disaster’

 BizPac Review   

"And while Newsom and others play the blame game over who is responsible for the disastrous rollout, California is “stuck with a 1970s-era emergency call system that is falling apart.'”

"California’s emergency telephone service has become another victim of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s dismal leadership.

"After seven years and nearly $500 million spent, California’s 911 emergency system overhaul is a failure, as Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, reported.

"'During his first year in office, the governor confidently projected that he would replace the state’s emergency call system within three years, a goal that officials previously estimated would cost $132 million. But nearly seven years later, the state has spent more than $450 million on a regionalized ‘Next Generation’ digital system that suffered such appalling failures and disruptions during its initial rollout that the Newsom administration scrapped it entirely,” Rufo noted in a City-Journal report." . . .

“Could you imagine making the scariest phone call of your life and thinking no one is coming?” a whistleblower said, according to the report.

"'After a series of warnings and delays, in November 2025, the Newsom administration officially terminated the regional approach. In a postmortem report, Cal OES indicated that the regional rollout overwhelmed dispatch centers and was ultimately too fragile and risky to work,” the report continued." . . . More...

"The left wing agenda would have been fodder for Don Rickles"

. . . "Quite simply, if you are living off the largesse of others, you should not get to tell them what to do. Or to label them greedy bigots if they question how their money is being used." . . .

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‘Clowns to the Left of me…!’ - American Thinker

"Far left ideology is rooted in emotionally based sanctimonious self righteousness, evolved to counteract feelings of victimization, insecurity, marginalization.  Its activism is based in vengeance against elements of the existing social structure that trigger its feelings of subjugation.  The dominant role of emotion in its genesis and in its reflexive reactions to perceived injustices precludes any possible awareness of its own illogic or hypocrisy."

Top DNC donor occupation for 2025 was 'unemployed'? - Eric Utter   "An analysis of the most recent federal election filing found that the top “occupation” of donors to the Democratic National Committee was “not employed.”

"The unemployed donated more than $12 million to the DNC in 2025.

"Other top DNC donating occupations included “retired,” “attorney,” “physician,” and “professor,” none of which are surprising.

But how in hell are those without gainful employment donating so much cash to the DNC? 

"It’s almost as if those receiving any of the vast panoply of government handouts to the indigent feel obligated to aid, abet, and vote for Democrats." . . .

Is the American public getting wise to Democrat lies? - Andrea Widburg

. . . "The problem for Democrats is that, if you peruse all the other posts at The Other 98%, you realize that the writer is a voice in the wilderness. The rest of the site is entirely given over to the same theories the shooter voiced in his manifesto: That Trump is Hitler, a racist, a despoiler of women and children, a sadist, a tyrant, etc. Even the writer of the above post, after calling for sanity, went back to the same tropes at the end.

"The left is so mired in this alternative reality that it cannot get out of it. Some have an inkling of the problem, but they’re stuck in quicksand—they know they’re sinking, but they can’t get out.

"Perhaps, though, because the crazy is too obvious, Americans are waking up from their decades in the leftist loony bin and returning to a normal, fact-based view of the world around them." . . .More...

Johnny Carson Warned Us About Jimmy Kimmel

"Where would we be without Jimmy Kimmel?  We’d never know when the walls are closing in, our democracy was hanging by a thread or an East Wing renovation threatened world peace. Thankfully, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is there when we need it most. Or, so Kimmel thinks."

Jimmy Kimmel is on TV to hate President Trump: Bill O'Reilly | Katie Pavlich

Comments from readers at the above link: "Bill is 100% right. Not one word he said was even a millimeter off the bullseye. It is a shame we can't go back to a time where almost everyone in the USA had common sense instead of almost no body. I wish we could get along a little better. Each party gets a chance sooner or later to try to make America better. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't but this hate stuff as gone way too far and Jimmy Kimmel is not a comedian anymore and should be removed. As for Disney I am done with them. They don't have the values they had when I was growing up watching their cartoons and stuff."

O'Reilly had his moments as well: "Anybody remember when Bill demonized an abortion doctor for so long and so fiercely that a crazy guy killed the doctor? I do."

Johnny Carson Warned Us About Jimmy Kimmel   

"'Tonight Show' legend shared secret to his apolitical succes[s] decades ago"

. . . "Carson’s successor, Jay Leno, kept that bipartisan, upbeat spirit alive. Now, it’s a relic of the past trashed by the likes of Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Kimmel and the soon-to-be-unemployed Stephen Colbert.

"Wallace pressed Carson on that decision, and the talker had a ready, emphatic answer. It’s not my job, he insisted." . . .

. . . "“Tell me the last time a Jack Benny, a Red Skelton or any comedian used his show to do serious issues. That’s not what I’m there for. Can’t they see that?” Carson asked at the time. “Just because you have a ‘Tonight Show’ you must deal in serious issues. That’s a danger. It’s a real danger. Once you start that, you start to get that self-important feeling that what you say has great import, and you know, strangely enough, you can use that show as a forum. You could sway people, and I don’t think you should as an entertainer.”

"Why, you might repeatedly cry on the air and treat your showcase like a one-sided political screed." . . . President Reagan was also hated by Hollywood, yet Johnny Carson loved showing him this way:

"Johnny Carson was undoubtedly the very best late night variety show ever, but since he retired in May of 1992 with two of the funniest people Robin Williams & Bette Midler on the very last show or in other words the farewell show, things were never the same again in late night TV show beside Jay Leno & Letterman which they were O.K & a lot of fun to watch them too. But Carson surely was something else, he was the best of the best in late night show. there will never be another Johnny Carson ever again. RIP Johnny. You are missed very much so."

Johnny As Ronald Reagan in Classic “Who’s on First” Spoof | Carson Tonight Show

Horrible final hours of a city destroyed by a volcano

Lost in Time

Pompeii: The Last Morning | A Day in the Life of a Doomed City

Fading Lore  "On August 24, 79 AD, the people of Pompeii woke up to what seemed like an ordinary Tuesday morning. By sunset, their city would be buried under volcanic ash. This is the story of that last morning.

"Follow a single day in ancient Pompeii: the bakers lighting their ovens before dawn, children playing in the streets, merchants opening their shops, families gathering for meals. Experience the normalcy bias that kept most residents from fleeing, the warning signs that went unheeded, and the final hours of one of history's most perfectly preserved cities.

Based on archaeological evidence, historical accounts from Pliny the Younger, and decades of excavation findings, this reconstruction shows what daily life actually looked like in a Roman city and what it means that we can still walk those same streets today.

Wonderful storytelling. Put Pompeii on your bucket list. It's an incredible experience down to the burned rock smell which still wells up in the breeze. Go off season. I lagged behind my tour group and found myself alone near an intersection with just the wind. It's the closest to time travel I can imagine. It was like they were all at the arena and I was awaiting their return. The only disagreement I have, ( and this was after an enlightening discussion with my guide), is that most survived. Most did (eventually) leave the city but the final surge reached from Mycenium to Stabaei. He said the general consensus from the archeologists is thousands, with nowhere to go, in pitch darkness made there way south towards the river and Stabaei moving no faster than a slow walk. They believe the final surge overtook them and thousands died, buried by subsequent ash fall. The say that today during construction or road widening miles from Pompeii, remains are found routinely. Their guess, 80 to 90% perished and only a few thousand; those who left immediately, made it beyond that final surge.