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Stairway to Stardom Cafe
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Mons Olympus on Mars
Little kid group "The Greystones" play "Don't Stop Believing."
Flashback: Metal heads hanging out in the parking lot before a Judas Priest show, back in the 80s.
Lion and tiger cubs roughhousing.
Juvenile bat squeaks for pets.
Dog tries to keep a family of bears under control.
Playing hide and seek with a golden retriever.
Impression of a guy at a party who only knows one part of "Tiny Dancer."
Baby has seven shepherd siblings.
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The Week in Woke
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Zohran Mamdani's mother, a "famous director," lobbied hard to get Gal Gadot disinvited from the Oscars because she's a Jew.
The 2025 Oscars ceremony has drawn renewed attention to New York City mayoral candidate and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, thanks in part to his mother's alleged role in a campaign to have Israeli actress Gal Gadot barred from the Academy Awards.Mira Nair, Mamdani's mother and acclaimed director of Monsoon Wedding, was one of the signatories of a letter demanding that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disinvite Gadot from presenting at the Oscars. The letter, signed by 21 Academy members and more than 75 other filmmakers, condemned Gadot's "vocal and unwavering support" for Israel's military and described her presence as "deeply offensive."
The letter falsely claimed Israel's actions in Gaza were a "genocide," and accused Gadot of using her celebrity to "endorse violence against innocent civilians." It went on to pressure the Academy to remove Gadot from the ceremony -- a move critics say targets her based solely on her Israeli identity. "This is a moment to choose integrity over complicity," the letter stated. "The Oscars should be a space for artists who uplift humanity, not those who justify its destruction."
A source familiar with the matter told Page Six, "They spent a few hours trying to get Gal removed from the Oscars. It was disgusting." This isn't the first time Nair has aligned herself with anti-Israel activism. In 2013, she joined a cultural boycott and refused to attend a film festival in Haifa.
Mamdani's father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a Columbia University professor and chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda. He has also drawn scrutiny for anti-Israel comments. In a 2014 speech at Columbia, Mahmood argued that "the longtime security of a Jewish homeland in historic Palestine requires the dismantling of the Jewish state," and stated that "Jews can have a homeland in historic Palestine, but not a state."
There's a "publishing scene" in LA -- they read books in LA? I thought they only read coverages of scripts -- and apparently it's getting "anti-woke," according to woke propaganda rag Rolling Stone.
Rolling Stone doesn't like this revolt against censorship.
Inside the 'Anti-Woke' Literary Scene Growing in L.A.They felt excluded by "millennial moral censorship" -- but is their work pushing boundaries, or just pushing buttons?
Matt Pegas neatly arranges stacks of books atop the red tablecloth at the reception table in the front yard of the house party. Surrounding the books is a tableau of candles, rose petals, a tarot deck, and packets of wildflower seeds, which guests are encouraged to take home and plant. Midnight will mark the spring equinox, and the pagan decor is meant to celebrate a rebirth, because, they say, after years of being tacitly driven underground, the "anti-woke" arts scene in Los Angeles is ready to blossom in full view.
"We have been in hibernation. We have been in the cold. We've been hiding. Now we're out in the open," says party organizer and emcee Adem Luz Rienspects, clad in a white linen shirt and pants.
The function, held in a single-family home in L.A.'s Lincoln Heights, is, at a glance, your standard collection of Eastside scenesters -- nebbish guys in glasses; handsome bros in black leather jackets; guys with long Seventies rocker hair; doughy, bearded guys in ball caps, accompanied by women several magnitudes hotter than them; a man in a tweedy three-piece suit; a woman who's a dead ringer for Naomi Watts. Several women wear lacy white dresses and flower crowns, in accordance with the theme. The requisite amounts of woo woo and pretension. Nearly everyone is white.
"Nearly everyone" is white in a majority white country. What a crisis. I'm so sorry this is happening to you.
Say, what's the racial composition of Rolling Stone's editorial staff, I wonder...?
...More generally, the event is an act of defiance against "wokeness," which, these critics say, has for too long stifled free expression, at the expense of creating quality art.
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"There's a massive cultural pushback against millennial moral censorship," Chris Zeisscheig, a former porn performer turned indie novelist, tells me while watching the party crowd with removed awe.
...The backlash in historically liberal cultural circles has been deemed the Vibe Shift, a term coined by Substack writer Sean Monahan in 2021, and later adopted by the mainstream press, to describe the growing number of young people rejecting the "woke" identity-based politics largely embraced by the contemporary Left. Wokeness first rose to prominence during the Obama years and went mainstream after the gender reckoning of #MeToo, the racial awakening of Black Lives Matter, and the anti-Trump Resistance of his first term.
For a while, woke had a positive connotation -- co-opted from Black communities, it had come to mean being awoken to the historical wrongs perpetrated against women and people of color. At first, this was a welcome development, a long overdue correction to the racial and gender inequities in artistic endeavors. But after a while, a backlash started brewing, one that felt wokeness was overly censorious and punitive of anyone who dared challenge identitarian political ideals. To them, woke became synonymous with Cancel Culture, people being publicly shunned for their political views, and in some cases losing their career opportunities and social connections over them. To be woke, they believed, was to be scolding and off-putting. That anti-woke movement exploded into public view in recent years, culminating with Trump's re-election last fall.
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In this way, the alt-lit scene is part of the cyclical nature of pop culture. A school of thought (woke) takes hold, becomes popular among a certain set of creatively-minded young people, becomes so popular that it becomes uncool, only to be replaced by a counter movement (anti-woke), restarting the process. What is transgressive, indie and anti-woke today will one day be normie, derivative, and cringe.The woke backlash is a manifestation of the horseshoe theory of politics, which posits that the poles of the political spectrum are more alike than different, Pegas says. "The post-Trump Right and the post-Bernie Left merged around creative disaffection somewhere around 2020, 2021," he tells me before his reading. "Culturally, it's about getting rid of woke and the censorship therein."
The left isn't just plotting a fake, Deep-State-organized color revolution for America.
They're also begging foreign countries to intervene in American politics and pursue a policy of regime change, warns Jonathan Turley.
'Hit Us, Please' -- America's Left Issues a 'Broken Arrow' Signal to Europe
"Broken arrow" is arguably the most chilling and desperate order that an American military commander can issue. When faced with an enemy about to overrun a surrounded force, a commander uses it to call in an air or artillery strike on his own position.This month, many on the American left are issuing their own "broken arrow" signals, including calling on globalist allies to hit the U.S. with sanctions and other measures. They are seeking to achieve through sanctions what they could not achieve through elections.
The most recent such call came from commentator Elie Mystal on "The Joy Reid Show" this week.
"Our country needs to be sanctioned," he said. "We are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere at this point, and I'm not even going to say that we've only been a menace for the past three or four months."
Mystal's call was hardly a surprise for those familiar with his writings. A regular commentator on MSNBC, he previously called the Constitution "trash" and urged not just the abolition of the U.S. Senate but also of "all voter registration laws."
Yet, he is not alone in signaling that his position is being overrun by his fellow citizens.
After Elon Musk bought Twitter with a pledge to dismantle its censorship system, former Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called upon Europe to use its infamous Digital Services Act to force him to censor fellow Americans.
Nina Jankowicz, the former head of Biden's infamous Disinformation Governance Board, appeared recently before the European Parliament. She called upon the 27 EU countries to fight against the U.S., which she described as a global threat.
To the delight of globalists, she declared, "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."
This year, I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum and was surprised to see many Americans joining European leaders in support of the forum's slogan, "A New World Order with European Values." Attended by figures such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, the conference heralded Europe as key to countering the threat posed by the U.S.
Others denounced America as the world's villain with boycotts and protests during Fourth of July celebrations. One leading influencer declared that "this country is beyond f**ked" and encouraged citizens to "walk away from the illusion that they built" around this country.
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Yet the fact is, this country is not being "overrun." Those are fellow citizens who are calling for these policy changes and rejecting far-left policies. Just as many in Europe are calling on the EU to block far-right democratic victories, many in this country are advocating for the trashing of the Constitution or transnational interventions to reverse political voting trends.
The fact is, the far left is not truly surrounded. They have simply retreated into smaller and smaller echo chambers rather than engage the rest of the country on these issues. Viewed from within the protected spaces of MSNBC or BlueSky, you can feel surrounded, but it remains a type of self-isolation. It is like watching wagons frantically circling on the plains without a hostile in sight. The problem is that most of America has moved on.
In the end, the calls for a globalist intervention are a final desperate call of America's self-isolated left.
CNN's woke, corrupt "medical reporter" Sanjay Gupta pushed masking and social distancing and shutdowns during covid, but now pretends he was skeptical of these measures all along.
Update to the earlier story of Gavin Newsom screaming about Trump's raid on the illegal pot farm that employs illegal aliens and children: Gavin Newsom wasn't just protecting illegals.
He was doing donor service. One of his political donors owns the pot farm.
Of course. We should have seen that coming.
The Austin Fire Department delayed sending swimmers to the areas expecting floods.
The fire chief in Austin, Texas has been accused of not deploying firefighters to help those who were being impacted by flooding that took place in Kerrville County on July 4. Austin Fire Chief Joel G. Baker is accused of issuing a standing order "on June 6 that prevented Austin firefighters from deploying to assist those working to rescue people during the catastrophic 4th of July flooding in Central Texas," per the Austin Monitor.Baker was accused by the Austin Firefighters Association (AFA) of refusing to deploy the firefighters to Kerr County to aid those impacted by flash floods. The AFA said that it was "absolutely outrageous" and an "egregious dereliction of duty" for him to deny the deployment of the firefighters. The AFA President Bob Nicks has called for his removal and a vote of no confidence will be held online from July 15-17.
Austin's Fire Department chief says DEI, not saving lives or deploying swimmers to save flood victims, is the number-one priority.
LA residents honored the Spirit of '76 by patriotically conducting Boston Tea Party style raids on jewelry stores. Diversity is very much our strength.
Leftwing women are all ugly hags. Or dudes.
It's hard to believe, but the woke gay dilettante Barack Obama can't build a library. It's one of the many things he's bad at, including keeping his awful wife in line.
Sheriff speaks plainly.
JD Vance: The left has no unifying ideology that its Pride Parade Perverts and Jihadist Terror-supporters agree with. All that unites them is hatred of normal Americans.
Pussy femmy Hollywood half-wit Jason Bateman suggests that people need to start going after Trump supporters, and that someone -- maybe the government, it's hard to say who he means -- needs to give Trump supporters a "talking to."
'I exposed myself to the [...] chapter leader for the local Moms for Liberty'The Pennsylvania transgender coach who had been canned for inappropriate conduct, was rehired, but ultimately resigned over a porn video showing him smoking meth, recently admitted he was the one who had sent the incriminating video.
David Yates (pictured), who coached tennis at Gettysburg High School and switched to the name "Sasha" in 2022, was not rehired following a pair of incidents which included him allegedly "stripping down to bra and panties" in the girls' locker room.
Note that, as usual, the fetishistic male chooses a "kewl" fake name like the ones you might see in a Young Adult "novel."
Never a Debbie or Bettie or Susan among them.
But Yates later reapplied for the position, and had the backing of many who claimed he'd been let go due to "transphobia." A district solicitor reportedly recommended Yates be rehired so as to avoid a possible lawsuit.And so, Yates returned as tennis coach after the school board voted 6-2 to (re)hire him.
But months later, Yates resigned after a pornographic video of him smoking meth was emailed to board member Michelle Smyers. Oddly at the time, Smyers also received a text message from Yates' number which said "I have information about Sasha Yates that you need to know."
A subsequent text from Yates informed Smyers that he planned to resign.
The texts appear to make sense now; a recent report by Reduxx notes Yates admitted to emailing the video to Smyers himself in a "'sissy' fetish forum":
"[In] October 2024, I met up with a guy from Grindr and went to his motel room. Was filmed getting spun and being f*cked by raw bbc. The video was sent to a member of the board at the school I worked at. That was my 'coming out' as a meth whore and I was fired," Yates posted on May 22."What I've never admitted is that yes, the video was sent from someone else's email address, but I actually wrote the email and hit the send button. I exposed myself to the member of the school board who is the chapter leader for the local Moms for Liberty. She has been trying to fire me for the last 2 year and this gave her everything she needed to legitimately fire me," he added.
"Since this happened I have not been able to find employment. I apply for jobs but don't even get an interview." ...
When asked whether he regretted his decision, Yates said, "There are parts of it that I might do a little differently, but the end result would be the same."
In his "sissy" forum profile, Yates notes his interests are "gangbangs, female domination, rape fantasies," and something called "poz breeding" -- a fetish for possibly contracting HIV from unprotected sex.
Schools aren't for educating students. Schools now exist purely as pervert funhouses for autogynephiles and sex criminals to show off their gender role-play to little kids.
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Axios Claims Dan Bongino and Kash Patel Are "Furious" About Pam Bondi's Mishandling of the Epstein Case; Bongino Supposedly Will Quit Unless Bondi Is Fired
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Pam Bondi, you may remember, said that the "Epstein client list" was on her desk waiting to be released. She also summoned a bunch of conservative influencers to the DOJ to give them supposedly new information from the Epstein files, but all of this information turned out to be old news. The influencers had their time wasted and Bondi was embarrassed.
Megan Kelly has been speculating that the countdown clock for Bondi's firing or forced resignation is coming.
Now Axios, quoted here by PJ Media's Matt Margolis, reports that Bongino took today off in protest of Bondi and supposedly might not be coming back.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino reportedly had a heated confrontation with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Jeffrey Epstein files, and the fallout has been swift and telling. According to sources, Bongino was so frustrated with Bondi's lack of transparency that he took the day off work on Friday, leading some to speculate that he might have quit altogether."He ain't coming back," a source close to Bongino told Axios.
According to the story, both Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel are "furious" with Bondi over the blowback her handling of the Epstein files has caused them. And who can blame them?
Inside the room: During the meeting, Bongino was confronted about a NewsNation article that said he and Patel wanted more information released about Epstein earlier, but were held back. Bongino denied leaking that idea.
"Pam said her piece. Dan said his piece. It didn't end on friendly terms," said one person briefed on the heated discussion. Bongino left angry, the source said.
"The fact is, Dan was for releasing the information with the video and had no problem until he got heat online," a senior administration official told Axios.
"Bongino found the video with the missing minute. He vouched for it after a 'thorough review,' he said, and he thought this would end the matter. When that didn't work, he lost his mind and ran out of D.C."
Said a pro-Bongino source: "Dan is not the bad guy here. He shouldn't take the fall."
Here's where things get interesting: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche felt the need to defend the memo, insisting that all leadership signed off on it.
I don't know what's going on here. I trust Bongino and Kash Patel, and I trust Trump. So I don't have strong suspicions that they're covering anything up.
It could just be that this story simply does not end the way many people expected it to end. I know people have suspicions, but suspicions are not facts, and it's wrong to take one's suspicions as being true.
James Gunn's Superman No Longer Fights for "The American Way," but "the Human Way;" He and His Brother Both Say the Movie Is About How Vital Immigrants Are to Our Country
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Superman is a character I want to like more than I like. I'm a traditionalist who likes old pulp characters, and I like Americana.
I was hoping this movie might be good. I hear some saying it's good, and some saying it's bad, but it sounded like I'd be in the camp of people that like it. The movie is cartoony and inspired by the goofy, anything-goes ethos of the Silver Age of comic books, which sounds good to me. Apparently the movie makes the case that Superman's real strength isn't his physical power but his simple goodness and moral strength, which sounds nice to me. I'm tired of Dark and Gritty Super-Heroes for Children.
But then these repulsive Hollywood perverts had to open their leftist mouths.
James Gunn changes Superman's catchphrase from 'Truth, Justice, and the American Way' to 'Truth, Justice, and the Human Way': report
I know America isn't popular among foreign degenerates, so I would understand if they made this change in foreign versions of the film. Hollywood routinely makes American versions of films that push politics -- like gays kissing in cartoons for children -- that it takes out of the export versions. Why can't that be done here?
But apparently Gunn doesn't want to say that the American Way is worth fighting for even in America -- his lefty friends of course hate America -- so not even in the American version can we hear that America is good.
According to Comicbook, Superman's new catchphrase is "Truth, Justice, and the Human Way," as seen on official Superman merchandise, eliminating the traditional phrase Superman has used in stories since World War II, only a few years after the character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938.The phrase was seen on official Superman movie merchandise with David Corenswet as Superman. Gunn has previously said that he has to approve all the toys associated with the movie, per Cosmic Book News.
The figure of Superman comes with text that reads, "Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice, and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned."
...The reboot of the hero film directed by Gunn has been slammed before it comes out in theatres on July 11 after Gunn made comments suggesting that the story would highlight Superman as being an immigrant from another planet.
"I mean, Superman is the story of America," Gunn told reporters at The Times of London. "An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country. But for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost."
James Gunn's nepo baby brother Sean Gunn, who appears in every single Gunn movie like Clint Howard gets an easy paycheck in every Ron Howard movie, says that the movie is "about how we support immigrants and if you don't like it, you're not American."
Sold. I mean, you've sold me into the position of "No Sale.
Go fuck yourselves.
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The Defense Department is withdrawing the nomination of Rear Adm. Michael "Buzz" Donnelly, The Daily Wire can first report, under whose command drag performances took place on board the USS Ronald Reagan.Donnelly served as commanding officer of the aircraft carrier from April 2016 to September 2018, during which time Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley performed as a drag queen under the name "Harpy Daniels" at a department-sanctioned "Morale, Welfare, and Recreation" event on the aircraft carrier.
The Defense Department announced on June 18 that President Donald Trump had nominated Donnelly for promotion to vice admiral and an appointment as commander of the 7th Fleet, the largest overseas force that the Navy has.
Following inquiries from The Daily Wire about Donnelly and the drag queen shows he permitted on board the USS Ronald Reagan, a source at the Defense Department said that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is withdrawing Donnelly's nomination to lead the 7th Fleet.
John Kerry realizes, years too late, that the President's "Job One" is to defend the border.
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted that President Donald J. Trump was correct on border and immigration issues, stating, "Trump was right," during an interview. He criticized Democrats for failing to address border security adequately, admitting the U.S.-Mexico border was "under siege" during Joe Biden's presidency.Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, remarked, "The first thing any President should say--or anybody in public life--is without a border protected, you don't have a nation." He added, "I wish President Biden had been heard more often saying, I'm going to enforce the law."
The NYT is sad that Democrats can't get straight on immigration.
The Democrats onstage saw themselves as morally courageous. American voters, it turned out, saw a group of politicians hopelessly out of touch.Standing side by side at a primary debate in June 2019, nine of the party's candidates for president were asked to raise their hand if they wanted to decriminalize illegal border crossings. Only one of them held still.
Six years later, the party remains haunted by that tableau. It stands both as a vivid demonstration of a leftward policy shift on immigration that many prominent Democratic lawmakers and strategists now say they deeply regret, and as a marker of how sharply the country was moving in the other direction.
Last year, 55 percent of Americans told Gallup that they supported a decrease in immigration, nearly twice as many as in 2020, and the first time since 2005 that a majority had said so. The embrace of a more punitive approach to illegal immigration includes not only white voters but also working-class Latinos, whose support Democrats had long courted with liberal border policies.
"When you have the most Latino district in the country outside of Puerto Rico vote for Trump, that should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party," said Representative Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, who saw Mr. Trump win every county in his district along the border with Mexico. "This is a Democratic district that's been blue for over a century."
How the Democrats reached this point, and their continued struggles on immigration, is a decades-long story of political failures, missteps, misreadings and misplaced bets -- and some shrewd Republican moves.
"We got led astray by the 2016 and the 2020 elections, and we just never moved back," said Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who introduced an immigration and border security plan in May. "We looked feckless, we weren't decisive, we weren't listening to voters, and the voters decided that we weren't in the right when it comes to what was happening with the border."
What the party does to change its approach -- and to change how voters see Democrats on immigration -- may be the most consequential and difficult decision it faces as it searches for a path back to power.
But while there is party-wide agreement that Democrats have a problem on immigration and border security, there is no consensus on how to fix it.Some are pushing for a course correction they see as overdue. A new proposal from the Center for American Progress, the party's leading policy shop, calls for expanding legal immigration while embracing ideas long championed by conservatives, including making it harder for migrants to qualify for asylum.
Neera Tanden, the center's chief executive, said the plan acknowledged a reality that Democrats had long resisted: They must embrace new immigration restrictions in order to have the credibility with voters to fight the far more expansive plans of the Trump administration.
"I'm happy to argue with Stephen Miller or anyone else about why they are wrong," she said. "But the way we're going to be able to do that is to also honestly assess that the border has been too insecure, that it allowed too many people to come through and that we need to fix that."
Many on the left vehemently disagree, insisting that more conservative policies will only aid what they see as an insidious and ambitious effort by the Trump administration to demonize and deport Black and brown immigrants who have been in the country for years, remaking the fabric of a nation that once took pride in its diversity.
"Democrats have to stop talking about the issue of immigration within a Republican frame," said Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. "This has nothing to do with law and order. This is about power, control, terror, and it is about racism and xenophobia. Donald Trump wants to make America Jim Crow again, and then some."
Complicating Democrats' efforts to chart a new path is the fact that the party's debate is unfolding in the midst of what it sees as a national crisis. The Trump administration is pursuing the harshest crackdown on immigrants since World War II.Raids and patrols by masked officers, detentions at courthouses and workplaces, the promises to arrest and deport millions, and the deployment of National Guard troops against protesters all have undocumented immigrants and even some naturalized citizens running scared and lying low.
"We, and I include myself in this, created a vacuum on this issue that we allowed the current president to fill," said Cecilia Muñoz, who led the Obama administration's domestic policy council. "And the country is now living with the results. And the results are appalling."
The Washington Post sends out an email to workers -- or, let's say, Those Drawing a Paycheck -- telling them that if they feel their politics "do not align" with the current (less leftwing, allegedly) direction of the paper, they should take the voluntary buyout package. Unstated threat: If you do not align with Bezos's determination to make the paper less insane than MSNBC: The Print Edition as it is now, you will be fired and get nothing.
But the paper seems to still be MSNBC: The Print Edition. They just ran an article objecting to calling Trump a clown, by a literal clown, who says that Trump fails to live up to the Clown Code of Conduct.
I am a clown and board president of the nonprofit, Clowns Without Borders. I'm here to set the record straight.I have performed as a professional clown for 24 years. Clown, capital C, is a valuable and varied art form; pantomimes, acrobats, magicians, dancers, stand-up comedians, vaudeville artists and jugglers are all examples of artists who incorporate Clown into their work. Whether you know it as Clown or not, you've likely seen it. From stage clowns such as Bill Irwin to the characters of Cirque du Soleil, created by masters such as Michelle Matlock and Mooky Cornish; from pedagogical ensembles, such as Pig Iron or Spymonkey to health care clown organizations such as the Laughter League and Healthy Humor. Clown is huge.
As they often ask on Always Sunny: "What is happening right now?"
Democratic socialists in New York City emboldened by Zohran Mamdani's mayoral primary win are warning that they may go after five House incumbents next -- and Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader at the top of their list, is daring them to try.Jeffries' political operation even has a nickname for those talking up threats to the House minority leader back home: "Team Gentrification."
That phrase reflects that Mamdani turned out young progressives who, according to unofficial election data, were largely Whiter and wealthier as a whole than the longtime residents of the districts represented by Jeffries and others being targeted. But it also speaks to the resentment many Democratic politicians in the nation's largest city -- and in places around the country that aren't as deep-blue as New York -- have at being told by Mamdani supporters there's a new reality that they now need to adapt to, and quickly.
Mamdani's allies, notably key leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America, are talking about running primary challengers against Jeffries and several other incumbents, including Reps. Ritchie Torres, Jerry Nadler, Dan Goldman and Yvette Clarke.
Jeffries' team fired back with their new, dumb insult.
"Leader Hakeem Jeffries is focused on taking back the House from the MAGA extremists who just ripped health care away from millions of Americans," Jeffries senior adviser André Richardson told CNN."However, if Team Gentrification wants a primary fight, our response will be forceful and unrelenting. We will teach them and all of their incumbents a painful lesson on June 23, 2026," he warned.
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Trump Is Firing Hundreds and Hundreds of DOJ and State Department Lefties and Layabouts
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The State Department is laying off 1,300 bureaucrats in a "massive restructuring plan."
* Layoff notices are going out to more than 1,300 employees of the U.S. State Department Friday.* The firings are part of a dramatic reorganization and a push by the Trump administration to drastically downsize the federal government.
The State Department is laying off more than 1,300 employees Friday, a move that critics say will make us less safe abroad and hurt America's leadership across the globe.
The Trump administration has pushed to reshape American diplomacy and worked aggressively to shrink the size of the federal government, including mass dismissals as part of moves to dismantle whole departments like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Education Department.
State Dept. layoffsBy the numbers:
The department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the United States, a senior State Department official told The Associated Press.
Foreign service officers affected will be placed immediately on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose their jobs, according to an internal notice obtained by The Associated Press. For most affected civil servants, the separation period is 60 days, it said.
The pinkslips are coming for DOJ lawyers who participated in the political persecution of the right.
Clandestine @WarClandestineInteresting.
WaPo claim anonymous sources are telling them that the Trump admin are currently "firing and pushing out employees" at the DOJ/FBI, with zero explanation or warning.
Sounds like a purge is going on.
Perhaps bad actors are being drawn out and eliminated. But one thing is for certain, that much is going on behind the scenes. There's plenty going on that we do not get to see.
CBS "News" whines that all of their sources and traitors are being fired.
A 17-year former Justice Department official is warning of a wave of retribution inside the agency.Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices, told CBS News, "The rules don't exist anymore."
Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi, is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month.
"There used to be a line, used to be a very distinct separation between the White House and the Department of Justice, because one should not interfere with the work of the other," Hartman told CBS News. "That line is very definitely gone."
Hartman isn't a prosecutor, but worked on the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney's Office public affairs team that distributed news releases about the more than 1,500 Jan. 6 criminal prosecutions.
"I am not political. I do not serve a president or a party," she said. "I serve the American people, the Department of Justice and its mission and the citizens in the district where I work. I've been doing that for almost 20 years."
Julie Kelly says that's a lie.
The purge of Justice Department employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases began shortly after President Trump's second inauguration, when he installed a former Jan. 6 defense attorney, Ed Martin, as the acting top prosecutor in Washington, D.C.Multiple prosecutors were promptly terminated.
The latest wave of firings included Hartman and three more prosecutors who helped handle some of the Jan. 6 cases. She said those firings appear to be a form of retribution from the administration.
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She characterized her dismissal as an indication of a broader destabilization inside the Justice Department and Trump administration. In a social media post this week, she wrote, "We appear to be driving straight into an abyss that holds no memory of what democracy is, was, or should be."
"The people in charge who are supposed to protect us -- our fellow Americans who we elected, along with those who were appointed, and swore an oath to protect this nation and our Constitution -- now use the Constitution as a weapon to suit their own ends. And the most terrifying fact is, their road map is very long," Hartman also wrote.
She told CBS News she had been fired without due process and said she's considering a legal challenge over her termination.
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@julie_kelly2WashPo reporting fabulous news out of DOJ as employee purge continues.
"Widespread, abrupt terminations have left Justice Department and FBI employees wondering if they will be next, people familiar with the matter say."
This makes me especially happy:
"Patricia Hartman, a veteran spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in D.C., was notified Monday that she was fired."
Hartman routinely refused to answer any of my media inquiries as she ran cover for Matt Graves and J6 prosecutors.
"I wish I HAD an explanation," Hartman told WashPo.
More: "At least three attorneys who worked on the prosecutions of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6 and had been demoted to roles elsewhere also were removed."
DOJ already fired several temp J6 prosecutors but many career prosecutors who worked on J6 cases remain but "fear they may be next to receive a termination letter."
I can GUARANTEE some will very soon.
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Fake Republicans Are Blocking Trump's Minor, 0.2% Recission Package
Plus: Was the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Actually... Good?
—Ace
A rescission package to trim a mere 0.2% from the nine trillion dollar budget is being blocked by the usual fake Republican saboteurs, and a couple of their new allies, writes Matt Vespa at Townhall.
The House did their job and passed the rescission package, but currently, it's in jeopardy because the same group of troublemakers in the Senate; Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are holding up the measure over concerns about cutting programs that are a complete waste of taxpayer money. What's worse is that they've found new allies in Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) .So, let's clear the air on some of the cuts that some of these senators find problematic. First, defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ($1.1 billion) has been a conservative goal for a generation. It's biased, its CEO is aloof (and biased), and PBS has been overtly projecting Democrat propaganda for years. They don't need our money to stay afloat; they can sink or swim like the rest of us.
The Democracy Fund--$83 million--bankrolled programs for "Yemen community resilience" and spent millions on LGBT nonsense in the Balkan States. The Economic Support Fund--$1.65 billion--produced Iraqi Sesame Street, pride parades in Lesotho, and millions to subsidize Palestinian media companies.
Development Assistance was a $2.5 billion boondoggle that tried to get electric buses off the ground in Rwanda, a vegan food consumer base in Zambia, and civic engagement operations in authoritarian Zimbabwe. Folks, this is first-world, urban, liberal nonsense. For starters, eating 'vegan' is an elite privilege. Most people would die of starvation on that diet, and that goes double for the people of Africa. You need to eat meat to survive. Period. There's a reason why the late Anthony Bourdain compared vegans to Hezbollah, at least in the culinary arts.
The Bush-era President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) isn't going to be crushed, which you know is going to be a liberal talking point. The package preserves the $10 billion program that's saved countless lives, but funding for programs about transgender sex in Nepal, LGBT advocacy in Uganda, and free training in pastry making for male prostitutes are in the trash bin.
International peacekeeping, which has been rife with fraud, is taking a $1 billion haircut.
And of course Lisa Murkowski and now her Alaskan colleague Dan Sullivan object -- which is likely a scheme to pressure Trump to give unnecessary billions in porkbarrel spending to Alaska.
Boy, the "conservative" state of Alaska is turning out to be a lot more socialist and subsidy-dependent than I would have guessed.
We passed a budget of nine trillion dollars but we can't cut just six billion. And we're also not tough enough to do what's right and primary these motherf***ers out of office.
Chuck Schumer says he'll shut down the government before he allows 0.2% to be rescinded from the budget.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is signaling he could plunge the country into a partial government shutdown if Republicans move forward with rescinding just a fraction of a percent of government spending.The Senate is expected to vote on a request from the White House to claw back $1.1 billion in public broadcasting funding and $8.3 billion in foreign aid next week. Schumer has threatened that Democrats will reject a government funding deal for the upcoming fiscal year if Republicans pass President Donald Trump's $9.4 billion rescission package, which could trigger a partial government shutdown at the end of September.
"Ask the Republicans why they are heading on this path," Schumer said at a Senate Democratic leadership press conference Wednesday in response to a question citing his previous warnings about the alleged harmful effects of letting government funding lapse. "We are doing everything we can to keep the bipartisan appropriations process going. And they're undermining it with rescissions, with pocket rescissions, with impoundment and every other way."
Schumer's implicit shutdown threat is a noticeable departure from his decision to avert a lapse in government funding in March by supplying the votes to pass a Trump-backed stopgap spending bill. The Democratic leader's decision to avoid a government shutdown earlier in the year infuriated the party's base, leading Schumer to postpone a scheduled book tour. Elected Democrats across the country criticized his leadership.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune criticized Schumer's recent remarks appearing to use the rescissions package as leverage in the anticipated government funding showdown later this year. Schumer wrote a "Dear Colleague" letter Tuesday warning of "consequences that will be felt far beyond the halls of power" if Republicans claw back funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
"I was disappointed to see the Democrat leader ... implicitly threaten to shut down the government," Thune said on the Senate floor Wednesday. "But I'm hopeful that that is not the position of the Democrat Party, the Democrat conference here in the Senate, and that we can work together in the coming weeks to pass bipartisan appropriations bills."
"Funding the government is our chief priority before October, but that won't stop us from considering additional measures," Thune said, in an implicit reference to the rescissions package.
On to the OBBB ("One Big Beautiful Bill"):
I know TJM has been praising it, but he also won't shut the f*** up about Prometheus, so... shrug.
But other people who do not bang on about Prometheus think the bill is something:
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"Protester" Gunman Opens Fire On ICE Agents as Democrats Continue Stoking Violence
—Ace
Now they're shooting at ICE agents -- and Gavin Newsom is still inciting them to kill ICE agents.
Immigration operation at California cannabis farms leads to clash between federal agents and protestersProtesters clash with authorities using tear gas and smoke bombs at state-licensed cannabis sites
Protesters clashed with federal authorities Thursday during an immigration operation north of Los Angeles at a marijuana farm allegedly employing illegal immigrants.Multiple agents arrived at the Glass House Farms, a state-licensed cannabis facility which is considered illegal under federal law, in Camarillo. Federal authorities had a warrant for illegal employees, Fox News has learned.
Another raid also occurred at another Glass House Farm in Carpinteria.
People were seen confronting the agents, who used tear gas and smoke bombs. Federal personnel used gas to push back protesters who arrived on scene after getting word of a raid.
Military helicopters were also seen flying low over the fields, a maneuver generally used to flush out people hiding.
"It is becoming increasingly apparent that the actions taken by ICE are bold and aggressive, demonstrating insensitivity towards the direct impact on our community," Luis Mc Arthur, the mayor of nearby Oxnard, said in a social media post. "These actions are causing unnecessary distress and harm. I remain committed to working alongside our Attorney General and the Governor's office to explore potential legal avenues to address these activities."
Footage captured by the news outlet showed several people being detained.
U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said the FBI has offered a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an unknown suspect who appeared to fire a pistol at federal law enforcement officers near Camarillo.
"FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo," Essayli said on X. "The shooting occurred on 7/10/25 at approximately 2:26pm on Laguna Rd between Wood Rd and Las Posas Rd."
Four people were transported to the hospital, the Ventura County Fire Department said. Three additional people were treated at the scene without being transported, Fox Los Angeles reported....
Newsom criticized Thursday's raid and President Donald Trump on X.
"Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields," the governor wrote in a post accompanied by a video showing people running to avoid tear gas deployed by authorities. "Trump calls me 'Newscum' -- but he's the real scum."
A mother "taken from the fields" = an illegal alien working illegally on a pot farm which is also illegal under federal law
He didn't say a thing about the shooting.
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott responded to Newsom's post."Here's some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility - all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It's now under investigation for child labor violations," Scott wrote.
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THE MORNING RANT: 2025 Has Been an Awful Year for EVs, and It Keeps Getting Worse
—Buck Throckmorton
2025 has been a disaster for the electric vehicle industry in the United States. But as bad as it’s been, it just got a lot worse. As I documented a few days ago, The One Big Beautiful Bill that has now become law eliminates the $7,500 federal tax credit for buying a new EV, and it also kills the $4,000 credit for buying a used EV. These tax credits permanently go away in less than two months.
Irrespective of the Big Beautiful Bill, sales of EV’s were already falling way short of expectations in the first quarter of 2025, and then the bottom fell out in the second quarter of 2025.
“Electric Vehicle Sales Fall in 2nd Quarter” [WSJ – 7/02/2025]
US car buyers continue to sour on electric vehicles. Ford Motor, Hyundai, and Kia all reported steep declines in EV sales for the second quarter, with Ford saying its fell more than 30% and Kia saying sales of two models dropped by half.
Ford’s flagship electric vehicle, the F150 Conflagration Lightning pickup truck, is in a sales free fall. Ford sold just 5,842 of these abominations in Q2 of 2025, which represented a 26% decline from the already-pathetic sales volume in the prior-year Q2. 2025 Lightning sales are annualizing to just 23,000 per year, while actually trending even lower.
Now is a good time to remember that Ford built an all-new plant near Memphis to produce 500,000 electric pickup trucks per year. That plant is now mothballed and heading toward obsolescence/repurposing without having ever manufactured one vehicle. Overall, Ford’s Q2 sales were up 14% year-over-year. Maybe that Memphis plant can be refitted to build cars and trucks that people actually want to buy.
For Volkswagen, the EV sales collapse is even worse. VW sold a paltry 1,992 electric ID.4s in Q2 2025, a 65% collapse year-over-year. These sales figures are approaching what might be constituted “nominal” sales volume. VW makes some great gasoline-powered cars, but it has been so distracted with the EV push, that its entire product lineup is collapsing, with total US sales down 29% year over year. Meanwhile, most other major manufacturers are seeing increased ICE vehicle sales in the U.S. If VW doesn’t get back to focusing on cars that Americans will buy, their U.S. operations are at risk. I am a fan of VW’s non-electric cars and I would hate to see them exit the US market, but VW will have to give up the EV dream if it is going to regain lost ground.
The same story plays out with other manufacturers who made major commitments to EVs. While BMW’s overall year-to-date vehicle sales in the U.S. are up, its EV sales are collapsing, with Q2 EV sales of just 11,094 units, a 21% year-over-year decrease.
Even Tesla sales are down significantly. Elon Musk’s EV company does not break its sales out by country or region, but its global sales have been down significantly in 2025, with Q2 sales down 14%. Mr. Musk famously angered the left by aligning with President Trump to clean out government waste, which clearly caused a backlash from some of Tesla’s left-wing customer base. But those lost Tesla sales didn’t go elsewhere. They just went away, or back to ICE vehicles.
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The Morning Report — 7/11/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids, So in pondering the Jeffrey Epstein saga, is this the latest chapter or is this the final chapter? Other than all of the combined stories, and revolting details and allegations, I have no actual knowledge of what he has been accused of doing nor of his death in a New York jail cell. The fact remains that, AG Pam Bondi made a very big deal out of this and now all of a sudden, it's, meh, nothing to see here so case closed and lets move on?! All she has succeeded in doing is pointing the spotlight away from Epstein and shining it on her and by extension President Trump. Brilliant maneuver, so what the hell is going on here?
But, you see, here’s the thing: People want answers that seem logical, that provide rational explanations to obvious questions, that provide proof that the speculation is wrong. This is particularly true when the people now saying there’s nothing there were the very people who promised that answers, transparency, and accountability would be coming when they won. Well, they won, and we’re getting the same obfuscation. . . The problem here is that this is all happening in an environment where Americans are coming to believe that no one is ever accountable for their actions. We see city centers across the country imploding as stores, shops, and hotels close because of the crime that sees hoodlums, thugs, and drug addicts in urban centers basically take or destroy with impunity whatever they want. We see judges issue injunctions against the administration despite SCOTUS specifically ruling they can’t. At the same time, we have politicians, Antifa, and activists undermining, hindering, and assaulting ICE agents who are trying to deport criminals, and the chances of them being held accountable for these crimes are almost nonexistent.
Bingo. Of course Democrat/Leftist politicians and sometimes their useful RINO confederates are protected up until the point where they become political liabilities, and then they are thrown to the wolves.
When roving bands of criminals, domestic terrorists and criminal domestic terrorists can riot, loot and burn with impunity while the average citizen is arrested, and tried for self defense (Kyle Rittenhouse) or worse, arrested, tried and imprisoned for merely exercising their first amendment right of free speech (1/6/21 in DC, at school board meetings and abortion abattoirs), a very dangerous precedent is set that can only end in the breakdown of the civil society as trust in our institutions that are meant to preserve said society is completely eroded.
Look at it this way. When degenerate scum like Jasmine Crockett and Karen Bass and the majority of their fellow Democrat politicians — again John Fetterman being the surprising lone voice of sanity and reason in that Snake Pit of Evil — openly call for violent resistance to Ice and law enforcement in carrying out their legitimate duties to arrest, detain and deport illegal aliens, What does that do to the morale and effectiveness of the officers on the front line? Answer: it destroys it and will ultimately lead to their dissolution or worse their defection to the terrorists and criminals and maybe the ultimate formation of citizens brigades that will arm and protect themselves even if it means using deadly force to do so. Is that what we really want? Answer that any way you want, but for sure it might very well be where we are heading, and then all bets are off.
Some, like Tucker Carlson (who seems to spend half his time in the Gulf and seems to have offered flattering interviews to every Muslim tyrant in the region), were obvious agents of foreign influence, others may have been sincere in their hysteria, but the combined effect made the movement look like clowns, especially once they were proven wrong. Most refused to admit they were wrong, but have gone on claiming that if it wasn’t for their bedwetting, we’d all be dead. Whoever won the debate on social media is hard to say, but we all know who won the debate in real life. Trump acted and shrugged off the antics. But, interestingly, there are signs he’s pivoting on Ukraine. While that may be in part hardball negotiating politics due to Putin’s refusal to make a deal, but it seems to have ramped up after the same people who had vocally argued against U.S. support for Ukraine burned up all their credibility trying to stop a U.S. strike on Iran’s nukes.
There is no doubt that a severely degraded if not completely destroyed Iranian nuclear program is a wonderful thing for world peace and security. Whether America should have been directly involved in delivering the coup de grace Qom shot at the Fordow foundation is something that even I, as an ardent supporter of Israel, thought beforehand was not the best course of action but what's done is done, and as stated, and the nuke program is a smoldering ruin. What emerges from the ashes there and in the Iranian government are still big question marks.
But President Trump's meddling in a war between Russia and Ukraine that has much less if not zero national security ramifications for America, unlike the Iranian nuclear program, is a head-scratcher. Russia as of right now will likely win the war and even if Trump does push Putin and Shecky Zelensky to a negotiation table, does anyone really think that Putin is going to surrender a single inch of territory? Regardless of the fact that Putin started this latest round of war, there is going to have to be some give and take on both sides, so what will Ukraine give up in order to stop the carnage?
As for Trump, is he merely doing this to get a Nobel Peace Prize, which would never happen anyway? What does Donald Trump and the USA have to gain by meddling here and potentially getting involved in a war that could very quickly get out of hand where a lot of hair would get mussed . . "depending on the breaks" as General Buck Turgidson would say.
Months of violent left-wing anti-ICE rhetoric achieved its apparently desired end state this week as an alleged Antifa cell conducted an attempted assassination of police officers outside the Praireland Detention Center, being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a detention facility for illegal aliens.On July 4, 11 black-garbed individuals, some equipped with body armor, ammunition, and firearms, conducted what the Department of Justice described as a “planned ambush.” Two of the attackers allegedly opened fire on ICE officers after their comrades initiated a disturbance to lure officers out of the building and into the line of fire by launching fireworks and spray painting anti-ICE slogans on nearby property. A police officer was shot in the neck but is expected to live. According to the criminal complaint filed by the Department of Justice, pamphlets on insurrectionary anarchism and propaganda materials, including a “Resist Fascism” flag, were recovered by law enforcement.
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Margot Cleveland: Hopefully, Director Ratcliffe’s investigation is still ongoing.
EXCLUSIVE: Henchmen Behind Brennan’s Fake Russia Collusion Assessment Are Still At The CIA
- The real issue is accountability, and this matters a great deal to the American people, especially to Trump’s supporters.
The Jeffrey Epstein Case Is Far Bigger Than Jeffrey Epstein
- Daniel Greenfield: Those claiming they were stopping us from being dragged into a war in Iran may have dragged us into a war in Ukraine.
The Anti-Israel Push May Have Changed Trump’s Mind on Ukraine
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Daily Tech News 11 July 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Intel is no longer among the top ten chipmakers, says... Intel's new CEO. (The Register)
Not with that attitude.
It's not entirely clear what he's talking about, but we can guess. Intel is in the top three in terms of revenue, but not even in the top ten in terms of market cap. Years of losses have left it with a valuation just half that of key competitor AMD.
AMD of course spend years in the doldrums before starting a spectacular path to recovery in 2017 with the introduction of the Zen family of CPU cores.
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The ONT Remains The Same
—WeirdDave
Welcome to Thursday night! So, is everyone enjoying the Axis Powers menu at McDonalds?
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Don't Beware of Dog Cafe
—Ace
The emaciated pit bull in the shelter wasn't given a name because they knew she'd die and naming the dog would make that harder. But one woman couldn't forget the dog with no name.
The British built fake trees to hide spies and snipers in during World War One. They put the fake trees out into No Man's Land at night and trusted that no one would notice. (Actually they were made to resemble trees on the battlefield, which they removed and replaced with the fake.)
I hope you don't think I'm a coward, but if I was ordered to hide in a fake tree out in No Man's Land, I would take the court martial.
Dog failed out of seeing-eye-dog school and is now a pet. But he keeps dragging his normal-sighted owner around.
No fence can keep a boy and a dog from playing with each other.
Making a pet of a pine marten. That noise would drive me crazy.
Cute Australian woman raises an orphaned 'roo.
Orphaned wombat gets sassy as he enters his teenage years.
Magpie raised by a dog won't stop barking.
Baby hippo is a straight savage.
German shepherd and husky act out a buddy cop movie where one is a motormouth and the other is the strong silent type. I think maybe it's Rush Hour.
(Am I the first person in 20 years to even think of Rush Hour?)
Leading a lost baby elephant back to its family.
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JustTheNews: The Secret Service Tracked James Comey After His "86 47" Call for Assassinating the President
—Ace
Hey, it's just a group of sea shells I thought was interesting. I don't mean anything by that. Just some completely random numbers and letters I randomly typed out.
The Secret Service tracked former FBI Director James Comey after a social media post in May that critics of it say called for killing President Trump....
Three anonymous government officials told The New York Times that law enforcement authorities in unmarked cars and street clothes tracked the location of Comey's cellphone the day after he posted on Instagram a picture of the numbers etched in the sand at a beach via seashells.
Comey deleted the post, which was captioned "Cool shell formation on my beach walk." In a follow-up post, Comey said, "I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down."
Authorities tailed Comey and his wife, Patrice, as they drove from their North Carolina vacation through Virginia to their home in the Washington, D.C., area, the officials said, citing "exigent" circumstances for the justification.
The Secret Service was also receiving information showing the location of Comey's phone while federal law enforcement were at his home waiting for him to return, according to the officials, The Times also reports.
Comey was interviewed over the phone by the Secret Service the evening of the day that he shared the post, and he said he had no intent to cause the president harm. The Secret Service still wanted to interview Comey at their headquarters the next day, so agency personnel met him when he arrived home from vacation and drove him to the D.C. office, where they questioned him.
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Comey has not been charged with a crime, and the status of the inquiry is unclear.
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A representative for Comey declined to comment to the Times.
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Trump also responded to Comey's initial post and follow-up explanation, saying, "He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant. If you're the FBI director and you don't know what that meant? That meant assassination. And it says it loud and clear."
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has reportedly launched an initiative aimed at preventing bad actors from using their positions to weaponize intelligence agencies against Americans for political reasons.The Washington Post reported that Gabbard has formed a new team called the Director's Initiative Group (DIG) to access the chat logs and emails of US intelligence agencies. This move is intended to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to "end the weaponization of the federal government" while dismantling DEI initiatives and revealing political bias within these agencies.
However, some have taken issue with the initiative, arguing that it would result in the department gathering sensitive information on millions of American citizens. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) characterized the initiative as an effort "to expose the truth and end the politicization and weaponization of intelligence against Americans."
DIG has already obtained unclassified communications from the Intelligence Advanced Research Proejcts Activity and is planning to leverage artificial intelligence technology to analyze the data.
Critics who spoke with The Washington Post on condition of anonymity expressed fears that this move could compromise sensitive information while targeting employees for political retaliation. "They wanted access to everybody's systems," one source told the news outlet.
Oh, the spies object to being spied on...?
Well then, you go right back to leaking top secret documents to the press and tipping off CHIRLA and Trantifa about coming ICE raids.
As Democrats Remain Silent on the Insurrectionary Assaults on Federal Agents, Senator Schmitt Proposes Increased Criminal Penalties
—Ace
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Thursday announced that he would introduce a bill to raise the maximum penalties for attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel amid an uptick in violent opposition to mass deportations."The punishment for attacking an ICE agent should be swift and devastating," he said.
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I'm introducing a bill to double the maximum federal penalty.Left-wing radicals want to use violence to advance their political agenda. We can't let them win.
The mass deportations must continue."
The White House confirmed this week that ICE agents had faced a 700% surge in assaults against them as federal agents moved to ramp up arrests and deportations following passage of the "One, Big Beautiful Bill Act."
That legislation greatly expanded ICE's budget to double its detention space from 50,000 beds to 100,000 and to hire as many as 10,000 additional agents.
Even left-leaning Mediaite thinks this is notable.
If you hadn't heard about it yet, you might just be a CNN or MSNBC viewer; neither network has devoted a single minute of airtime to covering the attack, though CNN managed to devote a sentence to it in an online story about another attack on immigration authorities.Should that not strike you as unusual, imagine this scenario: 11 members of a right-wing militia group open fire on an FBI field office on a major holiday, and a responding police officer is shot in the neck.
You think that would have a cold chance in hell of escaping the attention of the likes of Joe Scarborough, Wolf Blitzer, Jen Psaki, Brian Stelter, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Dana Bash?
This glaring omission is particularly notable given the two news organizations' relentlessly critical coverage of ICE and persistent warnings about right-wing extremism and violence.
Searches for mentions of ICE on air may not turn up any coverage at all of the attempted murder of innocent law enforcement officers, but they do yield plenty of segments about other protests of the organization, MSNBC's Catherine Rampell ranting about its employees "potentially like beating people, and committing violence," and a CNN interview of a Latino man lamenting that his "own people" were being "arrested and harassed by the ICE agents."
Nothing about bullets flying by heads, though.
Just as illegal aliens tell lies about the oppression they're facing in their home countries to get the US to let them into the country, so too are the residents of Gator Gitmo now telling Sad Stories about mosquitoes and "food filled with maggots" to be released back into America.
The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."
Obvious lies. Just spamming out whatever complaints sound like they might be of constitutional-level import, so that another Biden/Obama judge can issue a restraining order.
Fuck you. If you don't like it, GO THE FUCK HOME.
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Jasmine Ratchet: Biden's Mental Acuity Is Great, It's Trump Who's the Senile One
—Ace
"I know you are but what am I?" Sick burn, dum-dum.
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Lowly District Court Judge Blows Off the Supreme Court and Issues Another Nationwide Injunction Against Trump's Birthright Citizenship EO
—Ace
Just as the good Justice Alito predicted.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante granted class-action status to babies who would be affected by the order, in an apparent attempt to circumvent the high court's directives to limit injunctions to participating parties in the case.The ACLU filed suit, arguing that those affected would suffer irreparable harm, NBC News reported.
The Supreme Court last month narrowed the scope of prior injunctions against the order, finding that lower courts likely lacked the authority to issue sweeping injunctions.
"The issuance of a universal injunction can be justified only as an exercise of equitable authority, yet Congress has granted federal courts no such power," wrote Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
In a concurring opinion, however, Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote that "today's decision will have very little value if district courts award relief to broadly defined classes without following 'Rule 23's procedural protections' for class certification."
Note that Rule 23 imposes certain requirements which this judge is almost certainly blowing off because he's really just issuing a nationwide injunction under a different name.
(B) For (b)(3) Classes. For any class certified under Rule 23(b)(3) --or upon ordering notice under Rule 23(e)(1) to a class proposed to be certified for purposes of settlement under Rule 23(b)(3)--the court must direct to class members the best notice that is practicable under the circumstances, including individual notice to all members who can be identified through reasonable effort. The notice may be by one or more of the following: United States mail, electronic means, or other appropriate means.The notice must clearly and concisely state in plain, easily understood language:(i) the nature of the action;
(ii) the definition of the class certified;
(iii) the class claims, issues, or defenses;
(iv) that a class member may enter an appearance through an attorney if the member so desires;
(v) that the court will exclude from the class any member who requests exclusion;
(vi) the time and manner for requesting exclusion; and
(vii) the binding effect of a class judgment on members under Rule 23(c)(3) .
Obviously he's not even going to attempt notifying babies that they are now part of a class action lawsuit.
And note that just because you certify a class for a class action, that isn't -- or shouldn't be -- grounds for issuing yet another single-unelected-judge diktat that overrides the American voters' strong message at the ballot box.
But no big deal because this is just a pretext for the Judicial Insurrection's continuing Will to Power.
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Trump Sues California For Violating Title IX's Purpose of Reserving Female Sports for Females
—Ace
That's now been exposed as the toe-in-the-water first attempt at political reinvention that it was. He's a Trans Crusader and always will be.
Pam Bondi even quoted Transin' Newsom's statement that it's "deeply unfair" to force women to compete with men to support the lawsuit.
The Trump administration sued California Wednesday after a Department of Education probe found the state had discriminated against women by "allowing males in girls' sports and intimate spaces."The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division alleged that the California Department of Education (CDE) and California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) violated Title IX and forced girls to be "displaced from podiums, denied awards, and miss out on critical visibility for scholarships and recognition," according to the complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court.
"This discrimination is not only illegal and unfair but also demeaning, signaling to girls that their opportunities and achievements are secondary to accommodating boys," the filing stated.
"It erodes the integrity of girls' sports, diminishes their competitive experience, and undermines the very purpose of Title IX: to provide equal access to educational benefits, including interscholastic athletics."
The complaint demanded a court order barring the policies, compensation for "female athletes who have been denied equal athletic opportunities ... including correcting past athletics records" and a requirement that California turn in "regular compliance reports" for at least the next five years.
The DOJ's complaint noted that California's compliance was necessary since the $44.3 billion in federal funding the state received this fiscal year was conditioned upon compliance with Title IX.
The 1972 law mandates equal opportunities regardless of sex in schools receiving federal funds.
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California is one of more than 20 states that allows athletes to compete in sports that comport with their chosen "gender identity" -- despite President Trump having signed an executive order in February barring the policy and threatening to pull federal funding to those states that persisted.
"The Governor of California has previously admitted that it is 'deeply unfair' to force women and girls to compete with men and boys in competitive sports," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement.
"But not only is it 'deeply unfair,' it is also illegal under federal law. This Department of Justice will continue its fight to protect equal opportunities for women and girls in sports."
The left continues claiming that Trump didn't reduce the price of eggs despite the fact that Trump has already reduced the price of eggs.
But if they want him to do more to reduce the price of eggs further, fine.
He's also suing California for its interference in the national egg market.
The Trump administration sued California and Gov. Gavin Newsom over the state's anti-animal cruelty laws Wednesday, alleging they are contributing to the high cost of egg prices and are superseded by a federal law regulating egg quality, inspection and packaging.In its complaint, the Justice Department is attempting to block state laws that require additional space for hen-growing chickens, arguing they are "unnecessary red tape" and "do not advance consumer welfare."
"California has effectively prevented farmers across the country from using a number of agricultural production methods which were in widespread use and which helped keep eggs affordable," the Justice Department wrote in its civil complaint.
Two California ballot initiatives, passed in 2008 and 2018, mandate higher standards and housing requirements for hen-laying chickens and eggs sold in the state, requiring the birds to be given enough space to extend their limbs and move without touching another bird.
The 2018 ballot initiative also bars hens from being kept in any "enclosure other than a cage-free housing system" and mandates space requirements for breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.
I don't know about this one. There is a doctrine of federal supremacy that says that any state law that conflicts with federal law is null and void. There's always a question about whether the federal law is "so comprehensive" as to preclude any state laws in this area.
And also: The federal government's power to intrude into state law is limited, or at least was intended to be limited.
Eh, I think it's weak. But I do like that Trump is hitting the idea that it's the left responsible for inflation and high prices, and he's doing what he can to improve things.
Lawfare for me? Then lawfare for thee.
President Donald Trump's Department of Education announced Thursday that it will end a Clinton-era policy allowing illegal immigrants to access taxpayer funds for technical and career schools.Key Details:
The Department of Education revoked a 1997 Clinton administration interpretation allowing illegal immigrants to access federal career and technical education funds.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said taxpayer funds should be reserved for American citizens and legal residents.
Enforcement of the new interpretation begins August 9, 2025, following President Trump's February executive order ending subsidization for illegal immigrants.
Diving Deeper:
The Department of Education announced Thursday that it is formally revoking a rule put in place under President Bill Clinton allowing illegal immigrants to access taxpayer-funded programs in career, technical, and adult education. The Clinton administration issued a 1997 Dear Colleague Letter interpreting the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) to exempt these programs, effectively opening federal funding to illegal immigrants.
Under the Trump administration, the Education Department is now reversing that interpretation. The Department notified postsecondary education providers that they will no longer be able to operate under Clinton-era standards and will be required to verify the eligibility of participants for these programs.
"Postsecondary education programs funded by the federal government should benefit American citizens, not illegal aliens," Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated. "Under President Trump's leadership, hardworking American taxpayers will no longer foot the bill for illegal aliens to participate in our career, technical, or adult education programs or activities."
Below, Transin' Newsom is incensed that Trump is trying to roll back trans rights all the way back to (checks calendar) 2016.
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