More on Grok Image II — the Xer below shows that it can be far more imaginative than my merely teaching Steve Meskers to dance (or a Mac II to paint). We'll have to explore a bit more.

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Hello, World!

Just when you thought the world couldn't possibly get any worse, that we'd hit rock bottom, this:

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“Hey, let’s talk renewable energy!”

Newsom's PAC plans to train people to push the governor's talking points in their friends' and families' group chats

You know how you get those annoying random spam messages asking you to support a political candidate? Everyone loves those!

Now imagine instead of a bot, it's your annoying lefty relative or college buddy sending out talking points from Gavin Newsom.

Awesome, right?

Well, that's the plan for Newsom.

Newsom's email lays out a new 'digital' political operation his PAC is launching to help elect Democrats — and spread the gospel of Newsom — by training supporters to implant Newsom's talking points into family text chains, alumni Facebook groups and other online communities, where politics isn't typically discussed.

'A lot of those spaces aren't political at all,' the email says. 'That's the point.'

While your brothers and sisters are sending cute pics of their kids at the zoo, you need to be introducing politics on behalf of Gavin Newscum into the group chats.

"Cute polar bear, did you know the ice caps are melting?"

"Nice Christmas tree! Have you thought about Palestine today?"

"That was a great game last night! Reminded me that Republicans are a threat to our democracy."

Instead of hoping campaign ads or official social media posts reach persuadable voters, Newsom's PAC ... will be holding training sessions every Tuesday for the next eight weeks to teach people to digest Newsom's messaging and regurgitate it to friends, family and associates in their own words.

'So the task isn't forwarding talking points or propaganda,' the email says. 'It's taking what we send you and translating it for people you understand better than we do.'

The email adds, 'The person already in that room is the only one who can get a message in, and the only one who knows how to say it so it doesn't feel out of place.'

Fortunately, for every problem, there is a solution; at least in this case and this one is simple:

Miss Tracy Rosenthal may not be the most disgusting person in the world; after all she has friends just like her, but as a group ….

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(After Founding and leading an LA Tenants’ Rights Group in 2015, Rosenthal moved to NYC to do the same; despite the “intolerable” conditions of the apt she rented, she’s stayed there five years, paying no rent.)

A rent-striking, rising-star radical orchestrating the Mamdani administration’s socialist housing agenda is the daughter of a famed music studio owner who recorded rock legends like David Bowie, the Ramones, Blondie, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, the Foo Fighters and Coldplay, The Post has learned.

While framing herself as a champion of the proletariat, Tracy Rosenthal grew up in a trendy $1.7 million NoMad pad with elite access to the music industry — attending the Grammys at least twice with her dad, four-time winner Steven Rosenthal.

Yet despite her first-class upbringing, she’s been on a four-year “rent strike” since moving back to New York City after a stint in Los Angeles — because the Bolshevik bugged out after spotting a cockroach in her hip $2,300 a month Bed-Stuy apartment.

At a North Carolina Democratic Socialists of America meeting where she spoke last August, Rosenthal, 39 — who pridefully posed for a snap on Karl Marx’s grave during a trip to London — sang the blues about what she claimed were horrendous conditions she had to endure in 2021.

“As soon as I moved in, I realized that we had roaches . . . and I lost my mind,” she said of the two-bedroom pad that occupies the top floor of a brownstone. “I was very angry. . . . it’s really gross.”

She said the landlord refused to hire an exterminator, and after finding out the building had more rental units than were legally approved and was facing foreclosure, she organized with the other tenants to eventually stop paying rent, stiffing the owner of at least $108,000 on her unit alone.

“We’ve been on rent strike ever since,” she said proudly.

Her Bed-Stuy landlord, Adetunji Akinboboye, eventually lost the building to foreclosure in 2023.

US Bank, the new owner, is now suing Rosenthal, along with four other tenants, for eviction, saying they have “squatted upon the premises,” according to records filed in housing court in November. The cases are still before the courts.

Maybe we should try scattering mothballs on federal courthouse steps and in judges chambers?

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The plaintiff in the case is the National Trust for Historic Preservation, but that organization has nothing to do with the White House grounds, which are under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. The Trust claims to have standing to sue because it has a member who occasionally walks past the White House and thinks she will consider the new ballroom to be aesthetically unpleasant.

The Supreme Court will knock this out for the plaintiffs’ lack of standing, but how many millions of dollars will be wasted and jobs lost while this huge project is shut down? I’m guessing that, like much of the Democrats’ moves, the object here is to delay until they can regain control of Congress and change laws or, in this case, sue to stop it; unlike our offended pedestrian, Congress probably does have standing in this matter.

So perhaps this approach as a preventative measure against any more of these TDS deranged, whack-job judges’ ilegal rulings:

Florida business owners allegedly scattered 1,500 mothballs on beach to send endangered birds packing

On the other hand, here’s a shutdown effort I can heartily endorse, and I extend my congratulations to its originators:

It's probably not worth the extra money, to me, but it could certainly be fun

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Grok’s added a picture-to-video ceature, and I’m trying it out free, but I think they want an additional $10 a month, so …

(Then again, viewing this again …. maybe.

Oh, I'm so very sorry

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goodbye to all that: with suddenly available spare time, USAid employees head home to create new dance routines for the peruvian gay dance team and women’s empowerment classes for Afghan clerics

23,000 Jobs Lost, but the Number Washington Hates Is 53,000

Statistics can tell very different stories depending on where somebody stops reading. The easiest headline is "23,000 jobs lost."

It's accurate, but so is "private employers added 30,000 jobs."

So is "government employment fell 53,000."

We deserve all three numbers because together they show what actually happened.

The government decline needs context, too. Of the 53,000 jobs lost, 50,000 came from local government education. Federal employment fell by only 3,000 in July. Giving Trump credit for all 53,000 would be just as misleading as pretending the private-sector gain never happened.

The larger federal trend, however, belongs squarely in Trump's column. Office of Personnel Management data show the federal workforce has lost 272,283 employees since Trump took office on Jan. 30, 2025.

Why, that’s even better than the Democrats’ once-beloved cigar aficionado achieved: he got rid of 200,000.

Other than Democrats, who'd trust them or it?

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“the doctor will see you now”

FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Vaccine for Older Adults

The COVID vaccine used the same technology.

Dr. Fauci being temporarily absent, Moderna has announced alternative spokesmen for its new drug:

DAS Kapital, DSA Kapital: spell it as you like, it's still Marxism

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Democracy Dimwit: DSA Co-Chair Cannot Explain What ‘Taxing the Hell Out of Millionaires’ Means

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members are making inroads into the Democrat Party on their message of taxing billionaires and even millionaires. But there’s a difference between a message and a genuine plan. David Remnick of The New Yorker asked DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer to lay out what ‘taxing the Hell out of millionaires’ means and looks like as policy. You can tell these DSA fools rarely get challenged to explain themselves. She had no answer.

Here’s more:

DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer says, "We believe in taxing the hell out of millionaires."

She then struggles to explain what that actually means.

Remnick: "What does 'taxing the hell out of them' mean?"

Romer: "Yeah. You know, again, I don't have, like, a solid…"

Remnick: "But shouldn't you?"

Romer: "Ummmmm, that's a good question."

Remnick: "If you're the co-chair of the DSA, shouldn't you be more specific than just taxing the hell out of something? What exactly do you mean?"

Romer: "So again, it's democracy, right?…

"This is the Democrat party 'Big Tent.'

In fact, she does explain it, beginning at 33 seconds in on this video: They mean to “tax the hell out of millionaires until there are no millionaires left: “We don’t want to depend on the existence of millionaires, because that means people are still being exploited”. So, tax until everyone’s “wealth” is below a million dollars — problem, solution. Done.

“Wealth”, to the DSA and its supporters, Democrats like Chris Murphy, Elizabeth Warren and their slimey like, is to be calculated on total assets, which many homeowners in America won’t appreciate when they’re taxed from their houses and shoved into government housing. But hey, scrambled eggs and omelettes and all that.