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The Laugh’s on Hollywood

The long whimpering finish of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week confirmed a sad truth. Hollywood killed comedy. A century of laughter provoked by comic geniuses — Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Fields, Hope, Brooks, Martin, Carrey, and Saturday Night Live alumni (Belushi, Aykroyd, Murray, Murphy, Sandler, Ferrell, Myers, Stiller) ended in the first decade of this one. Mirth has either been missing from the screen since 2010 or reduced to conservative man-bashing, as on every late-night show. The latter is questionably rewarded by “clapter,” the former depends on mocking the now unmockable — to Hollywoke if not the audience.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•Hollywood

WTF?

I am going on vacation and am considering a spray tan. I’ve never gotten one before. Have you?

It’s either that, or going to WalMart and getting a free one like this:

(adambarta) pic.twitter.com/s25Q4Zq71L

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 25, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•WTF?

She Exposed Beijing’s Secret Police. Now Its AI Porn Deepfakes Smear Her — as Ottawa Signs a Pact With the Same Chinese Ministry

OTTAWA — Laura Harth helped expose Beijing’s “overseas police service centers” as a global architecture of transnational repression — clandestine outposts that Harth and Safeguard Defenders linked to China’s Ministry of Public Security, triggering investigations from Europe to North America.

Now, Harth says, the machinery she helped reveal has turned on her with an AI-generated sexualized deepfake smear campaign that her organization identifies as part of the same Chinese police-linked repression ecosystem documented by the U.S. Justice Department and other security researchers.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

New York City’s Other Violent Crime Problem

Murder is down, but assault is up—a dangerous sign.

New York’s leaders have been rightly celebrating the city’s major reductions in murder and gun violence. But the city still struggles with a different violent crime problem: record-high assault rates. The causes are difficult to parse from the data alone, but the trend bodes poorly for long-term safety and stability.

Start with the good news. The city saw 309 murders last year, according to NYPD’s crime statistics. That’s the lowest figure since 2018, and a 36 percent decrease from the recent peak in 2021. Shootings stand “at their lowest level since consistent records began in 1993,” the New York–focused publication Vital City noted in a recent brief. The city managed at least one shooting-free day per week, on average, last year.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•Crime, New York City

The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) found a whopping 324 asylum claims to be unfounded out of 107,000 refugee applications made in 2025

A federal tribunal declared a record number of refugee claims in 2025 to be fraudulent amid an unprecedented number of people claiming asylum.

In the first 11 months of 2025, the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) declared 324 asylum claims to be “manifestly unfounded,” more than any year since at least 2015.

That finding means that not only were the claims rejected, but the IRB’s staff concluded they were so baseless that applicants are precluded from appealing the board’s decision.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

The Islamic Terrorist Conquest of West Africa

The widened scope and quickened pace of the Islamic State’s military operations in the Sahel region — just below North Africa, roughly from Senegal to Sudan — threatens to alter the strategic orientation of the African continent. Efforts at countering terrorist operations in the Sahel, such as they were, have evidently failed. As all roads to Mali’s capital of Bamoko are now blocked, that country might be the first state to “go under.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Africa, Islam, Islam and violence

Toronto during FIFA World Cup at greater risk than Vancouver for terrorist attack: National security expert

On May 6, the Trump White House released its 2026 United States Counterterrorism Strategy that found “legacy Islamist terrorists,” narcoterrorists, and violent extremists as the primary threats to their homeland. Now with the FIFA World Cup kicking off June 11 across North America, the document lands as the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are in the final weeks of preparing to host the largest sporting event on earth.

The threat level has increased considerably in recent months. In March, LBC exclusively reported that ISIS had been actively encouraging followers to target the 2026 World Cup, calling for mass casualty attacks. This month, Al-Qaeda released a new issue of its English-language periodical Inspire in video format, titled “Why We Call for Jihad Operations in the West,” encouraging lone wolf attacks inside Western countries. A Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) analysis published last week concluded: “The risk has never been higher.”

Alternate link

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

MEMORIAL DAY: Margaret Brennan Tries to Get Medal of Honor Recipients to Bash America, Is SCHOOLED

The Elitist Media don’t often pass up on an opportunity to convey their disappointment in the American people, which is part of what makes them the Elitist Media. Memorial Day is no different, as CBS’s Margaret Brennan closes out an interview of two Medal of Honor recipients by trying to get them to bash America.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•The Media Lies

CHARLEBOIS: Dispelling Canada’s grocery tax illusion

Quebec is poised to become the second province in Canada in recent weeks to eliminate provincial sales taxes on food-related items. Unlike Manitoba, however, Quebec is taking a broader and arguably more pragmatic approach by extending relief to healthier, ready-to-eat products and convenience foods. That distinction matters. Too often, public policy assumes that only “junk food” is taxed, when in reality many prepared and nutritious options remain subject to provincial sales taxes simply because they are convenient. Quebec’s new measure, expected to cost more than $100 million annually, acknowledges an important reality of modern food consumption: Convenience is no longer a luxury. For many Canadians, it is a necessity.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"Food Insecurity", Canada

Report: Far-Left AOC May Be Moving Toward 2028 Run for President

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appears to be moving toward a possible run for the White House, Axios reported Sunday.

Although she has said she has not made a decision on the matter, Ocasio-Cortez has been on a national tour rallying voters and making endorsements in several races, the outlet said.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•USA, WTF?

Canadian court ruling will make it easier for drug traffickers to win asylum

For the safety of their family, Nini Johana Rodriguez Anzola and her husband said they had no choice but to ingest the cocaine-filled pouches, swallowing them along with some oat oil.

The Colombian couple were intercepted at the Bogota airport before they boarded the flight to Spain. They later pled guilty to drug-related charges because they said they felt pressured to remain silent in court about the involvement of the feared trafficking and guerrilla group known as the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC.

The tribunal says they don’t have to believe nothing they don’t wanna believe.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Liberal Party Criminal Abuse Of Immigration Policy For Private & Political Gain", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Netanyahu frozen out of Iran talks — but he won’t back down easily

A day after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an airstrike, Binyamin Netanyahu stood before a camera against the backdrop of Tel Aviv’s skyline. Israelis had died in Iranian missile strikes and he grieved them, the prime minister said.

With the help of his friend President Trump, he could finally do what he had “yearned for 40 years” to do: to “smite the terror regime” in Iran, he said.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

WARMINGTON: Violent extortion bust in Peel leads to 17 non-Canadians charged

“Pay up” or they would “shoot up.”

That’s what Peel Regional Police allege criminals extorting innocent business people for cash threatened as part of their “pay up or you pay the price” criminal enterprise in which 324 gunshots were fired into two dozen Peel residences or businesses.

Now it’s the accused’s turn to pay a legal price!

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"Diversity Crime", "Diversity Fatigue", "Diversity", "Immigration from incompatible cultures"

Venezuela inmates occupy prison roof and set fire to mattresses to highlight alleged abuse

Inmates at Venezuela’s western Barinas prison staged a protest on its roof on Sunday, piling flaming mattresses and calling for the removal of the facility’s director, whom they accused of overseeing guards as they shot unarmed prisoners.

“We want justice. They are shooting us, the guards and the wardens,” a prisoner said in a video shared by the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons, a local NGO, on X, in which a man is seen with a bullet wound in his chest.

Inmates said they were peacefully protesting when prison staff opened fire and left some wounded.

Prisoners in Venezuela’s western Barinas prison staged a protest on the roof of the detention center, piling flaming mattresses and calling for ‌the removal of the prison’s director, who they said had overseen guards as they shot unarmed prisoners https://t.co/ppPYwrAVCN pic.twitter.com/14fHembgYs

— Reuters (@Reuters) May 25, 2026

🇻🇪 Inmates at the Barinas Judicial Internment Center in Venezuela are demanding the removal of new director Elvis Macuare Guerrero, accusing him of violent raids, isolation, and torture.

Outside the prison, families fear what could happen next.pic.twitter.com/uux4zUPr29

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 25, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•Venezuela

Echoes of Brexit as Alberta blunders towards vote on separation from Canada

An embattled leader forced to call a referendum on separation to ward off mutiny – and then pledging to campaign against it. Allegations that prosperity had been stolen by distant elites and could be remedied with a vote to leave. Mutterings of foreign interference.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government