Author: HP McLovincraft

Seeker of rabbit holes. Pessimist. Libertine. Contrarian. Your huckleberry. Possibly true tales of sanity-blasting horror also known as abject reality. Prepare yourself. Veteran of a thousand psychic wars. I have seen the fnords. Deplatformed on Tumblr and Twitter.

Illinois Taxpayers Appear to Be Footing the Bill for Billionaire Pritzker’s Weight Loss Drug

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker revealed to “CBS Mornings” that for the last two years he has been using a GLP-1 medication to lose weight.

In a CBS News interview broadcast Monday, Pritzker said he’s lost 80 pounds so far and he feels “a whole lot different and a whole lot better.”

“I’ve been overweight most of my life, really, since I was probably 7 or 8 years old,” Pritzker said.

Pritzker told the network a diabetes diagnosis two years ago pushed the change. A doctor recommended a GLP-1 and warned he might need treatment for life. Pritzker said he injects weekly, walks about four miles most mornings, and is off insulin.

Keep reading

Report Exposes California’s $11B ‘Shadow Welfare System’ for Illegals

The State of California has spent more than $11 billion tax dollars to give illegal migrants free healthcare, free food, housing, legal assistance, education, smart phones, and even free car insurance, a report finds.

It’s all more evidence of the Democrat Ponzi scheme of subsidizing illegals to give the party more power and more money to spread around to maintain that power.

The state’s generous welfare system is, of course, intended to give California citizens a helping hand when they come on hard times, but the state’s far-left Democrat establishment has warped the programs to support criminal illegals, according to City Journal’s Christopher Rufo.

Rufo calls the abuse a “a shadow welfare system” that hands tax dollars over to noncitizens. And during his reseearch into his article he visited four state offices in Southern California each of them said that illegal aliens are permitted to sign up for California’s public assistance programs. Rufo adds that the state has spent more than $11 billion for illegals.

Keep reading

Leaked memo reveals federal prisons handing out drug-testing kits to inmates as ‘authorized health materials’

A leaked internal memo posted on X shows Correctional Service Canada (CSC) is rolling out a new “harm reduction” supply program in federal prisons that includes paper straws for snorting drugs, foil for smoking them, and rapid test strips to check for fentanyl, benzodiazepines and xylazine — all handed directly to inmates by Health Services staff.

The internal FAQ document, dated April 2026 and set to take effect Monday, September 21, lays out exactly what the Liberal government is now supplying behind bars:

  • Paper straws, described as “biodegradable” and intended for “inhaling substances in powdered form or inhaling vapour from heated substances”
  • Foil, specifically manufactured “for smoking substances” and reportedly thicker than the ordinary household kind
  • Drug-testing strips for fentanyl, benzodiazepines and xylazine, so inmates can check the potency of their illegal drugs before using them

According to the memo, inmates are allowed to keep up to three pieces of foil, two paper straws, and two of each type of drug-testing strip in their cells at any time and handwritten notes on the document suggest these limits aren’t even strictly enforced, with one annotation reading “not one in one out just garbage.”

Keep reading

Iran Vows To ‘Paralyze’ Regional Airports Which Prevent Its Flights From Landing

Facing crippling US sanctions against its aviation sector as part of the Trump/Bessent Economic D-Day initiative, Iran is warning that if regional countries join the sanctions action, their own airports could be targeted.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has on Wednesday put neighboring states who are allies of Washington on notice. The statement warned their airports will be “paralyzed” if they cooperate with US attempts to prevent the landing of Iranian airliners.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared on Monday that by Wednesday. Sept. 23, “all the Iranian airlines will be shut down around the world.“

He warned that any airports or companies providing fuel, landing, and ticketing for sanctioned Iranian entities risk dollar-system exclusion.

Already Turkey has taken the dramatic action of canceling all flights in the foreseeable future for various Iranian carriers.

According to more of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council statement, delivered via its chief, Mohsen Rezaei, “We ask all the countries of the region not to join America’s adventure. If they do not allow Iranian aircraft to travel, their own airports will not be able to have flights either.”

“You are our friends, but you should not join America’s ranks. You should prevent the war from spreading,” he added. Throughout the prior seven months of war with the US, Iran has shown a willingness to target major civilian hubs, particularly in neighboring Kuwait.

Iran is defiantly planning to press forward with its commercial airline operations. While some countries are complying with the US order, China is clearly not…

Keep reading

Trump Responds to “Ford’s Theater Hoax” After MS Now Claims Trump Planning to Attach Name to Ford’s Theater

President Trump on Wednesday responded to reports that he seeks to affix his own name to Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC, the site of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. 

Trump called the story, first published by MS Now, “a ridiculous lie.”

Notably, MS Now is one of the three outlets that Trump banned from the White House last week, citing the “FICTION and LIES” they report.

MS Now reported on Tuesday,

As President Donald Trump fights to rename the Kennedy Center after himself, administration officials are circulating a list of government sites that could have his name affixed to them in some way, according to people familiar with the effort.

One landmark that has emerged in the discussions among administration officials has raised eyebrows: Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.

It is unclear how seriously the theater is being considered or how the administration would attach Trump’s name to it. One administration official said the idea had been discussed, but they didn’t know where it stood. The prospect sparked a flurry of discussion over the past week among people responsible for the historic site.

The discussions underscore how much of a priority honoring the president has become inside parts of the Trump administration — even as the Iran war nears its eighth month, diesel prices hit an all-time high, the midterm elections approach in six weeks and most Americans disapprove of the president’s job performance.

Trump responded to the report on Wednesday, calling it “FAKE NEWS” and blasting the Democrats and leftist journalists as “Degenerates and Losers who make up lie after lie.”

“Who would possibly want a name on such a tragic place? The Dumocrats suffer from serious Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trump said.

Keep reading

An AI Went Looking Through DNA and Found Something Humans Had Missed

For years, we’ve been asking whether artificial intelligence can write like us, draw like us, code like us, or eventually replace us. Anthropic just gave us a more interesting question: Can AI notice something in nature that human scientists have been staring past?

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that its Claude AI had identified what researchers believe is a previously unrecognized biological system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria. The system contains a reverse transcriptase, a nearby partner gene, and a long array of repeating DNA sequences. Anthropic calls it ART, short for array-associated reverse transcriptases.

From Anthropic:

Today, we’re sharing early results from one of our first research programs, in which Claude autonomously discovered a novel enzyme system that is associated with an array of DNA repeats, a pattern reminiscent of CRISPR. Although we don’t yet know its function, the system that Claude discovered has a set of characteristics that have only ever been found together in a handful of other systems, all of which are programmable and perform operations like cutting, copying, and pasting DNA. Beyond CRISPR, which has already transformed science and medicine, several other such systems are now in development as promising tools.

The system that Claude found is based on a reverse transcriptase (RT), enzymes that copy RNA into DNA. While this underlying RT, found in a jumbo phage, had been identified in previous studies, Claude appears to be the first to notice the system’s defining features—an associated array of non-coding DNA sequences and an additional accessory protein of unknown function.

The enzyme itself wasn’t unknown. Scientists had already catalogued the reverse transcriptase. What humans apparently missed was the larger pattern surrounding it. Claude noticed that these pieces occurred together and that the repeating DNA looked strangely organized.

Keep reading

Idaho Sheriff’s Office Claims It Might Have Solved Infamous ‘Tylenol Murders’ Case

An Idaho sheriff’s office believes that a man who died in a Boise church 44 years ago could be linked to the 1982 case in which several people were killed after taking tampered Tylenol.

The Ada County Sheriff’s Office said that a man who killed himself inside a Boise Catholic church was Dr. Mathew Betkouski, according to a news release. When the man was found in December 1982, he had no ID, only a large amount of cash and a typed letter with a false name.

Sheriff’s office cold case Detective Tim Cooper began looking at the case in 2019. He determined through photos and DNA that a Florida man who disappeared in 1982 and Betkouwski were one and the same.

Betkouski, who had worked in two drugstores in college, had discussed the use of cyanide to kill without being detected.

The 1982 Tylenol killings involved cyanide being substituted for the medicine in several Tylenol capsules. Seven people were killed in the Chicago area before the product was pulled from shelves.

Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist, said that by 2021, he believed Cooper was making connections that linked Betkouski to the Tylenol case.

More details will be released on the “Unsolved Mysteries” TV series episode titled “Unmasking the Tylenol Killer.”  The show will appear Oct. 9 on The Roku Channel.

Keep reading

Spain Clears Way For US Extradition Case Against Cox Media Heir Turned Communist Financier

The Spanish government has begun a process that could soon lead to the US extradition of Jim “Fergie” Chambers, the communist centimillionaire and heir to the massive Cox media fortune.

Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Chambers moved a step closer to extradition to the US after Spain’s Cabinet allowed the case to proceed to court.

Chambers has been detained since his July 10 arrest in Ibiza and is wanted by the US on money laundering, riot and riot conspiracy charges linked to 2023 pro-Palestinian demonstrations and transfers to a company in Tunisia, where he previously lived.

Government spokeswoman Elma Saiz confirmed to the outlet that Spanish courts would now review the request. If judges approve extradition, the final decision returns to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Cabinet.

We profiled Chambers in July, shortly after he was arrested, and noted that he was a major funder of America’s radical left and had been described by pro-Palestinian activist Laith Marouf as “the new Soros.“

Chambers founded the Babochki Collective and is a major backer of Stop Cop City, Palestine Action US (later renamed Unity of Fields), and related legal defense efforts. He allegedly funded bail, legal fees, and direct-action campaigns targeting police-training projects and Israeli-linked defense firms, while also building networks with far-left activists.

A communist and a convert to Islam from New York, Chambers allegedly used his $250 million fortune to fund “revolutionary organizing.”

Keep reading

Far-Left Philly Teacher Who Called Herself ‘Black and Palestinian’ Begs Her Comrades for Mercy as The Surprising Truth About Her Background is Revealed 

A Philadelphia woman is being compared to the infamous former NAACP President Rachel Dolezal after her cover as a Palestinian and black woman was blown up by other woke activists.

The New York Post reported on Wednesday that Hannah Gann, a Philadelphia teacher, was forced to admit that she invented her identity as a Palestinian after her comrades grew suspicious of her background and confronted her over it.

“I lied about my identity and have been lying for years. I have no Palestinian or Tunisian heritage,” Gann wrote on Instagram.

“I am a white woman of significant privilege and wealth. Anyone who supported me was manipulated and should not be judged as a result of their support for me,” she added.

In a subsequent video, Gann continued groveling to her comrades and revealed more about how deep her lies ran.

“I hid the truth or outright lied about my background to everyone in my life,” she stated.

Gann additionally claimed she “allowed half-truths and obfuscations to grow into outright lies” because she “genuinely wanted to commit to the work I was doing.”

Keep reading

Supposed ‘Independent’ Nebraska Senate Candidate Dan Osborn Once Again Caught on a Hot Mic Revealing What He REALLY Thinks

Just last week, the Gateway Pundit reported that supposed ‘independent’ Nebraska senate candidate Dan Osborn was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about rural voters who may have voted for Trump.

Now we have another such report.

In this case, Osborn was explaining to someone how he has to hide his support for leftist issues like illegal immigration and trans rights so that he can get elected but then he will tell everyone to ‘eff off’ after he wins.

Townhall reports:

Now, an exclusive video shows Dan Osborn admitting that he’s not only hiding his beliefs from voters — something we’ve known for a while — but that he’ll champion a far-left agenda if he wins the Senate race in November.

These remarks date back to May 25, when Osborn held a townhall in South Omaha. The press was not allowed in the room, but a mother and daughter attended and brought with them a Fairness for Girls petition, which would add protections for girls’ sports in the state constitution.

That measure will be on the ballot in November, but Osborn refused to sign it.

Osborn reportedly told the mother and daughter that the measure was “rooted in hate” and refused to commit to protecting girls’ sports. Local media later corroborated the encounter, and Osborn supporters harassed the mother and daughter until they left the event out of concerns for their safety…

“I can go and I can be the voice for LGBTQ and immigration and all of these issues. Then I lose the election,” Osborn said, reportedly to a transgender supporter. “It feels good in the moment. At the end of the day, I’m gonna win this election. And then I’ll be the Senator for six years and everybody else can f-off.”

Keep reading