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Category: American Spectator, History

‘Yes, We Stole the Election. Oopsie.’

Posted on | December 20, 2025 | No Comments

Earlier this month, Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified but were nonetheless still included in the final results of that election.
The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a challenge filed by David Cross, a local election integrity activist. Cross filed a challenge with the SEB in March 2022. Cross alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia statute in the handling of advanced voting ahead of the November 2020 election, counting hundreds of thousands of votes even though polling workers failed to sign off on the vote tabulation “tapes” critical to the certification process.
And Fulton County admitted to it.
Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, told the SEB in the hearing that while she has “not seen the tapes” herself, the county does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.” Brumbaugh continued, “It was a violation of the rule. We, since 2020, again, we have new leadership and a new building and a new board and a new standard operating procedures. And since then the training has been enhanced. … But … we don’t dispute the allegation from the 2020 election.”
Georgia’s Secretary of State Office investigated the alleged failure to sign tabluation tapes and “substantiated” the findings that Fulton County “violated Official Election Record Document Processes when it was discovered that thirty-six (36) out of thirty-seven (37) Advanced Voting Precincts in Fulton County, Georgia failed to sign the Tabulation Tapes as required [by statute],” according to a 2024 investigation summary. In addition to probing the unsigned tabulation tapes, the investigation also found that officials at 32 polling sites failed to verify their zero tapes.
Georgia law requires that election officials have each ballot scanner print three closing tapes at the end of each voting day. Poll workers must sign these tapes or include a documented reason for refusal. Voting laws also require poll workers to begin each day of voting by printing and signing a “zero tape” showing that voting machines are starting at zero votes.

Read the whole thing. Five years after the election — when it is too late to rectify the crime, and never mind all the injury inflicted on those branded “election deniers” for protesting this fraud — we learn the truth.

Elections are, and must be, governed by law. Rules and procedures are established to ensure not only that votes are accurately counted, but also that the accuracy can be verified after the fact, in the case of disputed outcomes. Failure to follow the established procedures undermines public confidence in election integrity. Given what we now know about what went on in Fulton County, Georgia, in the 2020 election, the accusation of spreading “misinformation” should be made not against those who claim Democrats stole the election, but rather against those who claim there is “no evidence” of such fraud. Here you have more than 300,000 ballots illegally included in the tally, which is nearly 30 times more than Biden’s margin of (alleged) victory in Georgia.

Why would any honest person vote for Democrats? What ridiculous frauds they are, presenting themselves as defenders of “Our Democracy,” as they call it, when there’s nothing democratic about what they do?

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Category: Election, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 12.19.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 20, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Ten Steps To End Jihad Against The West,
357 Magnum: 65 No-Go zones in Sweden
EBL: Pluribus, Fish Fajitas, Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan Convicted Of Felony Obstruction, Alleged Brown University shooter kills himself, and Somali Immgrant in Minnesota Mocks U.S. Taxpayers
Twitchy: Maria Shriver Gets A Lesson On Dignity After Whining About Trump-Kennedy Center. US Retaliates Against ISIS IN Syria With Massive Airstrikes, and MAGA Embraces White House “Soulless Train” AI Parody Video Being Shared By The Left
Louder With Crowder: Zohran Mamdani Thinks Hey, if we make buses free, thugs totally won’t assault bus drivers so much, also, Woman harassed by “Target Karen” over her Charlie Kirk shirt speaks out with more class and grace than “Target Karen” deserves
Vox Popoli: Beyond MITTENS, He Just Gets It, Why the EU is Panicking, and Readers Wanted
According To Hoyt: There And Back Again, You Get More of What You Pay For, Other People’s Children, Frens, Romans, Countrymen, and Hard Or Soft?
Monster Hunter Nation: Internet Zoologist Field Notes – TSCW
Toni Airaksinen: My First Hanukkah As A Jew
Stoic Observations: The Moral Hazard Of Racial Self-Interest
Ammo.com: Homicide in Chicago
Postcards From Barsoom: DEI, The Dispossessed Generation, & The Digital Koryos

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Benefits Britain Is on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, also, Farewell to an American Icon
American Greatness: Wisconsin Judge Found Guilty of Felony Obstruction of Federal Immigration Officers, Minnesota DHS Whistleblower Group Accuses Gov. Walz of Threatening Them, Appeals Court Allows Florida to Enforce Law Banning Children from Drag Shows, D.C. Appeals Court Pauses Boasberg’s Contempt Hearings on Trump Deportations, and Can the Dark Ages Return?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News, also, Rule Five Annoying A-Holes Friday
BattleSwarm: Gardner vs. Maryland Heads To Supreme Court, also, LinkSwarm For December 19
Behind The Black: Curiosity’s exploration of boxwork on Mount Sharp, Spherex completes first infrared map of the sky, A new commercial smallsat space telescope is now operational and offering its data to scientists, Scientist think they have detected a collision in the debris disk surrounding the star Fomalhaut, and New Trump executive order today guarantees major changes coming to NASA’s Moon program
Cafe Hayek: Stop Slaying the Strawman Case Against Tariffs, Lower-priced Goods are A Blessing, Not a Curse, and One Weird Trick
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Dana Loesch: The Brown University Shooter Is Dead
Don Surber: Assimilate or go home
First Street Journal: Crazy People Are Dangerous: At least this guy is going to be locked up for a long, long time
Gates Of Vienna: Raped by Gambians on the Street in Rome, Paul Weston: “Our Imminent Racial and Civilizational Collapse”, “I’m Tired of Immigrants”, and Election Jihad Coming to a Jurisdiction Near You
The Geller Report: Fulton County Admits 315,000 Illegal 2020 Votes Were Counted, GOP Congressmen Starting ‘Sharia Free America Caucus’, Soros-Backed Virginia Democrat DA Frees Illegal Murder Suspect—He Kills Again Hours Later, Historic BDS Collapse: Netanyahu Seals $34.7 Billion Gas Deal With Egypt, and Somali “Staggering, Industrial-Scale” FRAUD in ONE STATE Far Exceeds Somalia’s ENTIRE GDP
Hollywood In Toto: Avatar: Fire and Ash Won’t Save Mother Earth, We Bury the Dead Offers Somber Spin on Zombie Craze, Train Dreams Is One-Way Ticket to Snoozeville, The Worst Movies of 2025 (Not One but TWO De Niros), and Cameron Proves Aging Movie Franchises Never, Ever Die
Legal Insurrection: Illinois Legalizes Assisted Suicide, and New York Will Likely Follow, “Polaris Dawn” Hero Jared Isaacman Confirmed as NASA Administrator, Trump Suspends Green Card Program That Allowed Brown U. Shooting Suspect Into U.S., Trump Admin, Major Drugmakers Make Agreement to Lower Medicaid Prescription Costs, and NY Rep. Elise Stefanik Suspends Governor Campaign, Won’t Run for Re-Election
Matt Taibbi: Five Craziest Things About The Epstein Case, also, The Epstein Saga Is The Worst Reported Story Of All Time,
Nebraska Energy Observer: Rob Reiner, also, Europe
Outkick: Puka Nacua Goes From Lovable Overachiever To Online Villain Bent On Destroying NFL Officials, Nick Saban Blasts JMU And Tulane Making The CFP, When He Should Be Destroying The ACC, Radio Host Mike Francesca Says Mets Traded Star Player Because He Supported Trump, Flyers Radio Broadcaster Gets Slapped With Ridiculous Suspension For Hot Mic Joke, and Paulina Gretzky Turns Up The Heat In Paris As The Holidays Crank Up, Pickleball Fight Club & A Tomahawk Steak
Power Line: It’s past time for the reckoning, About Those Job Numbers, This Should Be a Crime, Ben Shapiro continues the argument, and What fraud?
Shark Tank: Patronis Praises Trump’s “Warrior Dividend”
Shot In The Dark: Inconvenient Truth, also, Not A Math Error
The Political Hat: 12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 4), (Day 5), (Day 6), and (Day 7)
This Ain’t Hell: Occasional Cortex believes that she would stomp JD Vance in a potential 2028 matchup, Milwaukee Judge F’d around, now finds out, Valor Friday, Cat IV Follies, and Nuclear Scientist assassinated?
Transterrestrial Musings: The Foresight Meme Prize, The British State, Obnoxious Quotes Of 2025, Gundo, and Who Won Georgia In 2020?
Victory Girls: Bad Penny Wasserman Schultz Signals Democrats 2026 Election Tactic, also, Salon Discovers Construction and Declares Trump’s White House Ballroom Impossible
Watts Up With That: The Critical Flaw in Single-Event Hurricane Climate Attribution, U.S. and China Are Headed for an AI Collision, Ireland Turns Back on Data Centres, The Electric Vehicle Collapse: Wow, That Was Quick, and Could the AI Dash for Gas Energy Boom Actually Be an Underestimate?
The Federalist: Michigan Democrat Candidate Fantasizes About Hurling Beers At Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, 9th Circuit Protects Professor’s First Amendment Right To Make Fun Of Land Acknowledgments, Court Finds Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan Guilty Of Obstructing ICE, Chaplains Punished For Mentioning Jesus Cheer Hegseth’s Return To God-Focused Ministry, and Yes, Trump Pardoned 70-Year-Old Colorado Election Clerk, Gov. Polis Should Too
Mark Steyn: On the Beach, Live Around the Planet – The Bollocks of Bollards, Nothing Works Anymore, Add Light, and The Bollocksing of Everything

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 12.19.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | December 19, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: More Improvised Weapons from Around the World
Director Blue: Racism Under The Banner Of DEI Is Still Racism, also, A Walking Tour Of Porkopolis
EBL: Classic Christmas Songs, also, Julie London – “I’d Like You For Christmas”
Twitchy: Try As Hard As They Might – NYT Can’t Find Evidence Implicating Trump In Epstein Files, Joe Concha Spots MSNOW’s 10-Year Ratings Brag Turning Into Another Democrat Self-Own, and SHOCKER – Tim Walz & “White Men For Harris” Actually Made The Democrats’ Man Problem WORSE
Louder With Crowder: Corrupt democrat DA freaks out at hearing, demands committee investigate how many times someone has called her a racial slur, also, Minneapolis police chief attempts to compare illegal immigrants to the birth of Jesus
Vox Popoli: Darwin and the Black Death, also, The EU Threatens DC
Gab: Vivek Ramaswamy Is Wrong About Everything
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Joyous Noel Part 2

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: Trump’s Bad Texas Endorsement
Don Surber: Trump vs. BBC

Category: Linkagery

Claudio Neves-Valente Identified as Brown University Gunman, Found Dead

Posted on | December 19, 2025 | No Comments

Claudio Neves-Valente, seen on surveillance camera

It was a wild and sudden finish to a mysterious case Thursday night. A press conference had been scheduled in Providence, Rhode Island, after it was reported that police had finally identified a “person of interest” wanted in connection with last Saturday’s deadly shooting at Brown University. However, the press conference was then cancelled, as new developments in the case unfolded. Eventually, police descended on a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, where they found 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

It turns out that Neves-Valente, a native of Portugal, had formerly been a Ph.D. physics student at Brown, but withdrew in 2003 before completing his doctorate. Also, not coincidentally, Neves-Valente had previously attended the same physics program at a university Portugal as MIT physics Professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, who was shot to death Monday at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Neves-Valente had apparently planned these crimes for a while. He had been living in Miami, Florida, but arrived in Providence about two weeks ago and had been “casing” the campus. The motive of the Brown shooting is unclear, but he killed two students and wounded nine others on Saturday, before escaping to the Boston area, where police say he murdered Loureiro.

Somewhere along the way, Neves-Valente left behind an unfired bullet, and police got a DNA sample from that bullet that they were able to match to the gunman. Also, on the day of the Brown shooting, Neves-Valente had been encountered by a man who saw him behaving suspiciously and was able to give police a description of the vehicle with Florida plates that he was driving. Neves-Valente then apparently parked that vehicle at the storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, which is just over the state line from Massachusetts, about 35 miles north of Boston. Meanwhile, after police had focused on Neves-Valente as a suspect, they showed his photo to one of the surviving victims of the Brown shooting, who “quickly froze, physically pushed back, and became emotional . . . tearing up and shaking.” Then information from Flock license plate reader cameras was able to lead them to the Salem storage facility, where Neves-Valente was found. And thus the mystery is solved.

Whatever the motive turns out to be, it apparently had nothing to do with radicalism on the Brown University campus, which means that apologies are owed to the chubby Palestinian student whom many Internet sleuths had suspected as the gunman. Jew-hating douchebag? Yes. Killer? No.

Matt Vespa at Townhall is understandably skeptical:

Category: Crime, Rhode Island

Finally: ‘Person of Interest’ Reportedly Identified in Brown University Shooting

Posted on | December 18, 2025 | No Comments

After six days of double-talk and obfuscation, at last authorities in Rhode Island claim to have gotten a clue about the killer:

Law enforcement is investigating possible connections between the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday afternoon and the targeted killing of an MIT professor two days later, sources tell CBS News.
Prior, multiple sources familiar with the investigation at Brown University told CBS News on Thursday that a person of interest has been identified in the deadly mass shooting.
Law enforcement has identified a person, and a search for that individual is underway, the sources said.
Two students were killed and nine more were wounded when the gunman opened fire Saturday afternoon inside a classroom on the Ivy League university’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island, authorities said. The shooting occurred in the school’s Barus & Holley engineering building during final exams.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, police said a male suspect had managed to escape from the building. In the hours and days that followed, police and the FBI released images and videos of the man they described as a person of interest walking around a nearby neighborhood several hours before the first 911 calls reporting the shooting came in.

Of course, the suspect isn’t identified, so we’re going on ‘trust us, bro’ from the police.
“I don’t know” was often said, along with word salad, and, at times, anger that some questions, like why a student assistant at Brown was being scrubbed from the websites during this probe, were being asked. . . .
[G]iven this week, prepare for the circus to continue, as no one in Rhode Island seems to know what they’re doing.
We have a university president, Christina Paxson, who’s a deer in the headlights, being incapable of providing direct and clear answers on various lines of inquiry, specifically and camera system and the use of the school’s alert system, a police chief who couldn’t seem to find any leads, and a state attorney general, Peter Neronha, who was equally useless. The mayor, Brett Smiley, whined about being tired. It’s a mess.

There’s supposed to be a press conference soon, and I may come back to update if this involves actual news. Big “if” there.