[PJ Media] Have you wondered why the story of the Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter has suddenly vanished from the news? Now we have a pretty good idea why.
Boelter, who murdered State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband while also shooting State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, unleashed terror that sparked a massive manhunt before his capture late Sunday. Initial media coverage was rife with speculation, with left-leaning outlets eager to cast Boelter as a MAGA Republican, hastily blaming the GOP and even President Donald Trump for inciting his shooting spree.
Yet the letter found in Boelter’s abandoned vehicle tells a radically different story, one that not only exposes the media’s rush to judgment and political opportunism but sudden drop in coverage.
According to Minnesota’s largest newspaper, the Star-Tribune, Boelter believed he was acting under the supposed orders of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz. Boelter’s incoherent letter, about a page and a half long, bizarrely claimed that killing Sen. Amy Klobuchar was necessary to clear the way for Walz to run for the U.S. Senate.
[Townhall] Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, released their first statement after being shot last week by a gunman accused of murdering Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, the same day.
In the statement, the two describe having attended the Humphrey Mondale dinner on June 13th, returning home that evening to their daughter, Hope. Around 2 a.m., they woke up to pounding on the door and a man identifying himself as a police officer. All three were in the entryway when the door opened, with John getting hit nine times as he lunged toward the gunman. That’s when Yvette stepped in to push the attacker out and shut the door. And while she was successful, she was shot eight times during her efforts.
"Hope then rushed to shut the door and secured the lock; she got to the phone and shared with the 911 operator that Senator John Hoffman had been shot in his home," explained the statement, reported by KARE 11. "Her brave actions and quick thinking triggered the notice to public safety officials that a politically-motivated act was potentially underway."
As the Department of Justice explained, law enforcement was in the process of conducting a welfare check on the Hortmans when the attacker opened fire.
Boelter then traveled to the homes of two other Minnesota elected officials, still disguised as a law enforcement officer. Boelter did not manage to make contact with either of those officials or their families.
Next, Boelter drove to the home of Speaker Emerita and Representative Melissa Hortman. Meanwhile, local law enforcement, having heard of the shooting at the Hoffman residence, drove to the Hortman household to conduct a safety check. Upon arriving, officers saw Boelter’s car, a black Ford Explorer SUV designed to look like a law enforcement vehicle. It was equipped with police-style lights that were on and flashing. Officers saw Boelter, standing several feet from and facing the front door of the Hortman home. Moments later, Boelter fired several gunshots into the home, repeatedly striking Mr. Hortman. As Boelter did so, he rushed into the home and fired several additional shots, repeatedly striking Representative Hortman. Officers provided medical aid to the Hortmans and attempted to pursue Boelter, who abandoned the SUV and fled, initially, on foot. Both Hortmans died from their wounds.
Law enforcement searched Boelter’s SUV and recovered five firearms, including semi-automatic, assault-style rifles, a large quantity of ammunition, and several notebooks filled with handwritten notations. Those notes listed out the names of dozens of Minnesota state and federal elected officials. The notes often identified those officials’ home addresses. (DOJ)
The Hoffmans went on to thank first responders, the hospital workers who have cared for them as they recover, and those who have contributed to a GoFundMe to help them "pick up the broken pieces of our lives." John is in critical but stable condition, while Yvette was released from the hospital on Thursday.
The suspect, Vance Boelter, was apprehended Sunday evening after the largest manhunt in the state’s history. He was charged with second-degree murder, but the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said it intends to seek first-degree murder charges, carrying a mandatory life sentence without possibility of parole. He also faces six federal counts.
Text taken from the X account of William Ho. China’s Photonic Chips
China just unveiled a chip that could end the era of the GPU. Over 100 channels of light. 2,560 TOPS. No heat. No bottlenecks. It makes NVIDIA look old by comparison. This could be the biggest shift since the microprocessor. A 50 GHz optical clock. Fits on a fingernail. Meanwhile, the US is still pretending that NVIDIA is a strategy.
China didn’t just build a faster chip. They broke through in a new field of physics. Optical computing uses light, not electrons. They don’t get hot. They operate at multiple wavelengths. They shatter the wall that silicon erected a decade ago. The US has nothing like this. Nothing.
Where is the US version? It doesn’t exist. No photonic chip foundries. No pilot lines. No industrial policy. No ecosystem. Just tenured physics professors and DARPA slides who never left defense contractors.
Every American “AI breakthrough” is just another GPU with more transistors and more power. Put water cooling on it and pretend it’s progress. NVIDIA is now an energy company with marketing.
China is already ramping up production of thin-film lithium niobate photonic devices. They have the physics, the materials, and the manufacturing. This is not a demo. It’s a roadmap. And it’s government-backed from start to finish.
America, on the other hand, is stuck in its own mythology. It still thinks it leads the world in innovation. In reality, it leads the world in lawsuits and export controls. That’s not leadership. That’s fear.
The US military-industrial complex is too big to change. Optical computing doesn’t make Raytheon rich. So it’s ignored. Meanwhile, the Pentagon keeps writing checks to Lockheed for useless things.
Optical chips won’t just power AI. They will destroy the current cloud model. They will destroy the GPU cartel. They will make American silicon look like steam engines. That’s why no one in Washington wants to talk about it.
China is playing to win. Not with press releases. With physics, fabrications, and government coordination. The US response? Sue everyone, sanction everyone, and pray Taiwan doesn’t reunify.
This isn’t just a story about chips. This is another story about how America is not the greatest country in the world. No vision. No leadership. Just a bloated tech sector struggling to keep the lights on using yesterday’s tools. Wake up.
On the China-US standoff and why China is helping Russia
The Western media pretends that China doesn’t know what BlackRock, Vanguard and NATO are doing in Europe. They don’t. Beijing sees the entire chessboard. No illusions, no noise. Just the moves. Whatever China does for Russia, it does it with clarity, not confusion.
The US outsourced European sovereignty to Wall Street. BlackRock is now presiding over the “reconstruction” of Ukraine. Defense contractors are financing Europe’s rearmament. The IMF and Brussels are imposing financial discipline on the ruins. This is not aid. This is terraforming.
China watched Iraq being plundered. Then Libya. Then Syria. It watched NATO gobble up Eastern Europe and place missile systems on Russia’s doorstep. It saw what 2014 was in Ukraine: a hostile merger backed by Anglo-Saxon capital. It knew what was coming next.
So no, China’s support for Russia is no accident. This is a deliberate counterweight to the Anglo-financial-military complex reshaping Eurasia. The same complex is now eyeing Taiwan and the South China Sea. Everything is connected.
Look at the data. China is not supplying tanks. It is supplying CNC machines, sensors, microelectronics – the same stuff the West was selling before sanctions. Now it is just going through a different channel. Quietly. Relentlessly.
Beijing does not pretend to be neutral. It does not join blocs of its own free will. Its diplomacy is slow, its countermeasures are targeted, and its weapons are economic. Russia is a buffer. A testing ground. A living textbook.
The West made a fatal mistake: it assumed that China would play by the same rules it wants to rewrite. Instead, China is creating parallel institutions, parallel logistics, and a parallel currency sphere. And it is doing this with partners who have nothing to lose.
China is not supporting Russia out of sentimentality. He is protecting the Eurasian continent from becoming another profit zone for JPMorgan and Raytheon. He is fighting the privatization of sovereignty.
And lastly, if you are still pretending that China is naive, you are not serious. It knows what the West is. It has seen what it has done. And it is preparing for what comes next.
On the tech competition in AI and hardware.
The West has hailed Jensen Huang and Sam Altman as visionaries. China sees them as two hucksters. One is selling obsolete chips wrapped in hype. The other is hyping the GPU shortage as if it were the next oil crisis. Both are backed by Wall Street. Here is the full story.
Start with CUDA. Nvidia's real moat. Not the hardware. A bloated compiler stack inherited from the gaming era. It was never designed for AI. It became dominant by inertia, not merit.
Every Western AI startup is tied to it. The H100 is not chosen for performance. They are chosen because everything depends on Nvidia’s proprietary stack. It’s vendor lock-in disguised as innovation.
China is unimpressed. It doesn’t want access to CUDA. It wants to get rid of the lock-in. So it built a new stack from scratch. Da Vinci cores. CANN compiler. Completely sovereign.
Then comes the interconnect. Nvidia keeps NVLink as a monopoly. No open access. No third-party innovation. Only a select few hyperscalers get the best. Everyone else waits their turn.
Huawei’s answer: CubeAI. A proprietary interconnect protocol. Then came CloudMatrix 384. A national AI cluster with 384 Ascend 910B processors. No CUDA. No NVLink. No asking.
CloudMatrix is vertically integrated. The hardware, the compiler, the network, the orchestration — all built in-house. No Jensen. No TSMC waste. No US bottlenecks.
Meanwhile, in the West, startups spend their time rewriting cores to suit Nvidia’s quirks. They’re not building AI. They’re writing drivers for someone else’s hardware monopoly.
From China’s perspective, Jensen Huang is no genius. He’s a salesman in a leather jacket. Creating artificial shortages. Giving away chips. Recycling the same GPU every cycle.
Sam Altman is even worse. A PR golem hiding behind AGI buzzwords. His job is to cause a computing panic, attract government capital, and drive up prices. It’s a slow-motion exit strategy from Silicon Valley.
China refused. Not because it had to. But because it saw a trap. CUDA is a cage. NVLink is a leash. Jensen is a gatekeeper. CloudMatrix is a prison break.
Huawei isn't playing catch-up. It's building a separate ecosystem. One where Nvidia and OpenAI don't matter. No need to install drivers. No need to please middlemen.
The West's AI boom is built on hype, subsidies, and shortages. China is building real infrastructure. Using local silicon, local software, and not looking at Nvidia's games.
Jensen and Sam are selling dreams. China is reading the fine print. The future belongs to those who can build outside the Wall Street casinos.
[WND] If extremism is a competition, Democrat lawmakers in Oregon are in the finals.
They arranged for a drag show to highlight their resolution, from Portland Rep. Travis Nelson, that honors the black drag industry in the state.
That’s an awfully specific form of decadence. Why are they prejudiced against Asians, Pacific Islanders, Latinos, blonds and redheads…
Oregon Live waxed eloquent about the event, with, "Isaiah Esquire danced his way through the Oregon House of Representatives on Wednesday to the sounds of Aretha Franklin, followed closely by fellow Black drag performer Aqua Flora, who held a pride flag aloft as they sashayed down the chamber's center aisle."
The report noted Speaker Pro Tempore David Gomberg said it was "appropriate" for lawmakers to applaud during the performance.
Nelson said, "Your presence, artistry and courage are a powerful reminder of the joy, resilience and cultural impact of drag in Oregon and beyond. Thank you for sharing your light with us this morning."
Nelson, as Oregon's first openly LGBTQ African American lawmaker, offered the self-promoting resolution weeks ago, pointing out that resolutions in the body rarely recognized members of the state's LGBTQ community.
[ABC] Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson unloaded on her Supreme Court colleagues Friday in a series of sharp dissents, castigating what she called a "pure textualism" approach to interpreting laws, which she said had become a pretext for securing their desired outcomes, and implying the conservative justices have strayed from their oath by showing favoritism to "moneyed interests."
The attack on the court's conservative majority by the junior justice and member of the liberal wing is notably pointed and aggressive but stopped short of getting personal. It laid bare the stark divisions on the court and pent-up frustration in the minority over what Jackson described as inconsistent and unfair application of precedent by those in power. "I'm not a biologist. Or a genius"
Jackson took particular aim at Justice Neil Gorsuch's majority opinion in a case brought by a retired Florida firefighter with Parkinson's disease who had tried to sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act after her former employer, the City of Sanford, canceled extended health insurance coverage for retirees who left the force before serving 25 years because of a disability.
Wiki - Textualism is a formalist theory in which the interpretation of the law is based exclusively on the ordinary meaning of the legal text, where no consideration is given to non-textual sources, such as intention of the law when passed, the problem it was intended to remedy, or significant questions regarding the justice or rectitude of the law.[1]
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It's not "textualism" just because she says it is, although I give her credit for using a big word. The case of the 14th Amendment (at the Supreme Court) will be interesting. The discussions will be primarily about the authors' intent rather than modern interpretation.
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In Diamond Alternative Energy LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Jackson dissented:
“I worry that the fuel industry’s gain comes at a reputational cost for this Court, which is already viewed by many as being overly sympathetic to corporate interests,” she wrote.Link
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She really did just say forget law and proceedings, do what I say.
Here's yet another Black Woman In Charge, bringing down all Black People, shrieking about how reading is racist.
Sucking up to The Big Guy, because they think he’s simple. Not that the Nobel Prize Committee is likely to give it to him — they’ve made it clear they don’t like him, and they’d rejected his nomination for the thing the last time he was president.
[OffThePress] Pakistan Nominates ‘Genuine Peacemaker’ Trump For Nobel Prize
Pakistan government has formally nominated US President Donald Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, citing his “decisive diplomatic engagement and pivotal leadership” during the 2025 India-Pakistan crisis, which it credits with preventing a potentially catastrophic conflict between the two nuclear-armed nations.
In a formal statement posted on the government’s verified account, Islamabad praised Trump for what it called a critical intervention that led to a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, preventing what could have escalated into a full-scale regional war.
President Trump demonstrated great strategic foresight and stellar statesmanship by engaging both Islamabad and New Delhi at a critical moment. “His efforts led to a ceasefire that averted a catastrophic conflict,” the statement said.
Pakistan said the crisis began with what it described as “unprovoked and unlawful Indian aggression” that violated its sovereignty and caused significant civilian casualties. In response, Islamabad launched Operation Bunyan-un-Marsoos, described as a “measured and precise military response” aimed at restoring deterrence while minimizing harm to civilians.
As tensions rose rapidly, Pakistan claimed it was Trump’s “back-channel diplomacy” that helped de-escalate the situation and restore calm.
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[Politico] Beijing’s subsidies should be a reason to work together, not tariff each other, Ursula von der Leyen argues.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday tried to find common ground with Donald Trump by criticizing China's export restrictions on raw materials used for cars, batteries and wind turbines.
During a session on the global economy at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada, von der Leyen slammed Beijing for disrupting global trade by deploying subsidies to boost its own companies, according to an EU readout of the event. The chief of the EU executive accused China of "weaponizing" its leading position in producing and refining critical raw materials, and of ignoring global trade rules to undercut competitors.
Since April, Beijing has significantly restricted exports of permanent magnets and the minerals needed to make them. While that move came in response to Trump's tariffs on China, Beijing has applied the restrictions globally, hurting Europe too.
[Field Ethos] The year was 1896, and the newly minted British cavalry officer was reporting to his first operational posting in Bombay, India. He was 22 years old and justifiably terrified. Born into the English aristocracy, the ruddy youth, like so many rambunctious young men of means who had come before, sought out military service for its quickening and maturation. Now, amid the steaming, sweaty milieu that was imperial India, he was about to test his mettle.
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Sandhurst had taught him the rudiments of how to be an officer. However, a lieutenant’s first posting is invariably a voyage of discovery. As the small boat puttered up to the quay, the enthusiastic young firebreather reached out to steady the vessel. In so doing, he badly wrenched his right shoulder.
The injury was agonizing. It also never fully healed. A severe rotator cuff tear back in the days before arthroscopic orthopedic surgery was the gift that kept on giving. This represented an ignominious start to the young officer’s military career.
[FoxNews] Agriculture Secretary Rollins vows to defeat flesh-eating New World screwworm fly after suspending cattle imports
The U.S. government announced plans Wednesday to build an $8.5 million fly-breeding facility near the US-Mexico border as part of an initiative to prevent a flesh-eating parasite from infesting cattle.
The planned site, slated to be located at Moore Air Base in Texas, will breed millions of sterile male New World screwworm flies. The males will then be released into the wild to mate with females, preventing them from laying eggs that turn into flesh-eating larvae, the Associated Press reported.
A female New World screwworm fly lays eggs in the wound of an animal. The eggs then hatch into larvae, or maggots, that burrow into the flesh, causing potentially deadly damage, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"The United States has defeated [New World screwworm] before, and we will do it again," U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a statement.
The Texas facility would be only the second of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, AP reported.
Recent appearances of the fly in Mexico — as close as 700 miles from the Southern border — have raised concerns among officials. Last month, authorities responded by suspending cattle, horse and bison imports along the US-Mexico border, according to a news release from the USDA.
Taking further measures, the USDA said it may also create a companion breeding center at the Texas location so that as many as 300 million flies could be produced each week. The executive department also plans to spend $21 million to convert a separate facility near Mexico's border with Guatemala into one for breeding for the fly. That site won't be ready until the end of 2026, according to AP.
"The United States has defeated [New World screwworm] before, and we will do it again," U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a statement. "We do not take lightly the threat [New World screwworm] poses to our livestock industry, our economy and our food supply chain."
The U.S. has previously bred and released New World screwworm flies into the wild, completely eradicating the insect from the country for decades. While there are treatments for infestations of the fly, officials worry about the economic impacts on farmers. Household pets and humans can also be infested by the larvae, AP reported.
"We trust the enthusiasm for cooperation that Secretary Rollins mentioned, and based on objective results and the reports from the USDA mission visiting us this week, we will be able to restart exports of our cattle as soon as possible," Mexican Agriculture Secretary Julio Berdegué said in a post on X on Wednesday.
New World screwworm flies are endemic in Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and some South American countries, according to the USDA.
"Curbing the spread of the destructive New World screwworm is critical to protecting the Texas agriculture and livestock industry, and this new sterile fly distribution facility in Edinburg is a significant step in the right direction," Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a statement. "I will continue to work alongside Secretary Rollins and my colleagues in Congress to halt the spread of New World screwworm and increase our sterile fly production capacity through my STOP Screwworms Act."
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[Red State] With Israel continuing to hit Iran's nuclear and military capacity, including its ballistic missile capabilities, the Islamist nation is getting more and more desperate. On Friday morning, the Iranian foreign minister took off from Turkey for Europe to meet with France, the United Kingdom, and Germany in what is an obvious attempt to push for a ceasefire that prolongs this issue for decades to come. Unfortunately, it's not just the perpetually weak Europeans who are looking to stop Israel from finishing the job, though.
According to a new report, "officials" are leaking U.S. intelligence reports claiming that the only way to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is to allow them to preserve their ability to get a nuclear weapon. No, I'm not kidding.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ Media] Have you wondered why the story of the Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter has suddenly vanished from the news? Now we have a pretty good idea why.
[ABC] Justice 
