Holiday Weekend Cafe
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Church of Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe
Built on a volcano in 951
Baby sea lion. As cute as you might guess.
A herd of elephants protects a small baby elephant.
Nothing to see here folks, please move on, nothing to see here...
There's an old Greek myth that Zeus once transformed an 80s glam metal singer into a horse.
Dogs sitting in funny positions. Contains a special unexpected cameo from my favorite internet dog.
Cats don't play with toys so much as they ruin your stuff.
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The Week In Woke
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President Donald Trump called for "major investigations" Monday into Kamala Harris's campaign payments to celebrities and entertainers who endorsed the Democrat's failed presidential campaign.
Trump singled out Harris campaign payments to pop star Beyoncé Knowles, rocker Bruce Springsteen, and other entertainers in a series of posts on Truth Social. Harris's team paid millions of dollars to those celebrities and others in hopes that star appeal would turn out voters. Harris's campaign paid Knowles's production company $165,000 for an appearance at a Houston campaign rally on Oct. 25 and $75,000 to Springsteen's company for a gig in Philadelphia on Oct. 29, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
"THIS IS AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! IT IS AN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION!" Trump wrote. "I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren't allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment."
Trump did not say whether he wants the Department of Justice or Congress to investigate the payments. But any probe could shine an embarrassing light on the Harris campaign's finances as she weighs whether to run again for president in 2028. Many Democratic donors have fumed at the Harris payments to celebrities after the campaign burned $1.5 billion in just three months. In addition to celebrity payments, Harris doled out hundreds of millions of dollars to Democratic advertising firms and consultants, only to lose decisively to Trump in November.
According to campaign finance records, Harris's campaign paid $211,000 to the touring company of Latin singer Ricky Martin, $20,000 to the rapper Fat Joe, and $80,000 to R&B singer Victoria Monét. Most of the musicians performed at the campaign events. Springsteen gave a brief speech and a short acoustic set at a Harris event in Philadelphia on Oct. 29.
The Harris campaign has denied paying for celebrity endorsements, and said that any payments to entertainers were for "ancillary costs" for their performances. But that may not explain the exorbitant payments to entertainers who spoke at Harris events without musical performances.
Due to France's drug trafficking crisis, a large majority of French are in favor of the army being deployed into disadvantaged neighborhoods in problematic neighborhoods in France, including 80 percent of women.According to a CSA poll conducted for CNews, Europe 1 and JDD, 76 percent of French people overall want the army called in to battle drug trafficking in "disadvantaged neighborhoods."
In fact, women are more supportive of troops being deployed than men, with 80 percent of women saying yes to the question: "Should the army be called in to combat drug trafficking in troubled neighborhoods?" In turn, only 72 percent of men supported such an action.
This may have to do with the fact that French women feel increasingly unsafe in their own country. As Remix News has reported, France has seen an incredible 86 percent increase in sexual violence in the last 10 years, with mass immigration fueling this trend.
In Britain, 44% say they feel like "strangers in their own country."
That was the plan all along.
A new poll reveals that 44% of British residents feel like "strangers" in their own country--an eye-opening statistic that appears to validate a position long championed by Nigel Farage's Reform UK party.Key Details:
44% of respondents said they sometimes feel like strangers in their own country; 73% of Reform UK voters felt this way.
A strong majority (73%) believe more needs to be done to integrate people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
The poll precedes Starmer's warning that the UK risks becoming an "island of strangers" due to collapsing community cohesion.
Diving Deeper:
A new poll from the research firm More in Common finds that nearly half of British residents--44%--report sometimes feeling like "strangers" in their own country. The findings come just days after Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer took a dramatic rhetorical pivot on immigration, echoing warnings long voiced by Nigel Farage and his populist Reform UK party.
Starmer's blunt remarks last week--declaring that mass migration offers no real economic benefit to Britain's working class and risks making the UK an "island of strangers"--drew fierce criticism from the liberal political and media class. But according to this latest survey of 13,000 people, his warning struck a nerve.
While the survey did not directly tie the feeling of alienation to immigration, several responses suggest it plays a significant role. A commanding 73% of respondents believe more must be done to integrate people from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds, with 77% saying this is a collective responsibility.
In the daily Knife Attack Report from Germany, there's another wave of knife attacks. Dress accordingly.
Another wave of knife attacks has hit Germany, showing that not much has changed despite the many lost lives and Germans maimed in knife attacks. In fact, the statistics show that these crimes are even getting worse, with 79 knife attacks per day now recorded. A German criminal lawyer warns that Germany has "imported knife violence," in response to growing blade crimes.In the last few days, headlines include Kosovar man arrested after knife attack in Germany injures three, including 12-year-old girl" "Man stabbed half to death on basketball court," "Manhunt continues after Syrian asylum seeker stabs 5 outside student bar in Bielefeld," and "Rioter injures police officer with knife."
However, thousands of such headlines have run in the German press in recent years, with Remix News reporting on many of them. The overwhelming number of perpetrators are foreigners or those with a foreign background, yet despite promises to crack down and enact deportations of migrant criminals, the bloodshed not only continues but appears to be getting worse.
Female teacher accused of sexually assaulting student half her age. Of course she shows herself to be a ratchet imbecile in her precious social media posts. And another teacher caught sexually abusing a child.
Someone caused a big collision on the I-5 and then... ran from the scene carrying their luggage. Hm, I wonder if they have insurance and/or a valid green card.
Democrat "men" are playing butch and no one believes them.
I'll skip the mention of David Hogg, who you are all unfortunately familiar with.
Among the ways Democrats are trying to stop hemorrhaging men voters is by elevating guys who exhibit some comically stereotypical sense of "masculinity," but who otherwise champion all the effete Democrat policies that the party loves and real men hate. Who knows! Maybe it'll work!...
Another sure stud was showcased on Gavin Newsom's podcast last week, during which the California governor interviewed "gender scholar" Jackson Katz on how "Democrats win back men." I don't know about you, but the first person I'd consult if I wanted my party to "win back men" would be a "gender scholar" with an irrepressible lisp. During the eternally long conversation, Katz mansplained to listeners how real masculinity is instilled not through delayed gratification, self-discipline, and strength training, but through his training courses and educational seminars that he offers to corporations, athletic organizations, and even the U.S. military (though presumably that stream has dried up under the new administration). After going on at length about the endless shortcomings of men, Katz, who supported Kamala Harris, went on some more. "If women are smarter than men, if they work harder, if they're more talented, then they deserve the job," said the ladies' man. "It's like, you don't deserve the job just because you're a man."
Katz further appealed to young men by suggesting that if they don't care for what he or the anchors on MSNBC have to say, it's their fault. "And by the way, anti-intellectualism is deep in American culture, especially among men," he said. "The idea that if you're somehow smart, you're a wimp. Or you're condescending because you're educated ... But the idea that being, somehow, intellectual, being, you know, somebody who reads, who engages with ideas, somehow makes you weak and soft as a man or less than a real man, this is the most self-defeating idiocy that I could ever imagine. And yet, it's fed daily in the popular discourse, especially in, you know, right-wing talk radio."
But Katz is a white guy! He knows sports and has a tell-it-like-it-is New Englander accent! Yeah, maybe it'll work.
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Quick Hits
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Breaking911 @Breaking911BREAKING: Trump has amassed $600 million in political donations with aims of reaching $1 billion before the midterms -- AP
No surprise: DOJ lawyers had "crying parties" after Trump's victory.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Wednesday during a podcast that Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers held "crying sessions" after President Donald Trump won the election in 2024....
"Wait, they quit because you informed them of the law?" Carlson asked.
"Yes, and the law and the priorities. Their pet projects had changed. They weren't going to be able to do those the way that they wanted," Dhillon said.
Between Trump's inauguration in January and May, an estimated 250 attorneys in the DOJ's civil rights division, which is roughly 70%, resigned, according to NPR.
Carlson asked Dhillon if the lawyers who were upset about Trump's victory believed that the DOJ "was just immune to democracy" and if elections "just had no bearing" on the department.
"There were career lawyers there who were doing the same thing, no matter who is the president. Suddenly, their little fiefdom that had remained untouched, like Shangri-La, was suddenly having to be responsive to elections."
"So that's the definition of the deep state, what you just described? Elections have no effect? It's like there's no way to control these people. They act totally independently from the democratic system. That's the problem," Carlson said.
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"That's what I found," Dhillon said. "In response to my memos, it began leaking to the press. They began having unhappy hours, which they would invite supervisors, political supervisors, to make their point that they were unhappy. We got the point. And they had crying sessions, struggle sessions, crying sessions in the DOJ."
Carlson appeared shocked.
"Oh, there was open crying in the halls," Dhillon said. "Crying, yes. Then one of my colleagues described to me -- it was the last day a couple of weeks ago for some of them -- they lined up in a phalanx and approached the elevator together, and then they left the building together, to show their solidarity for one another there, as if they were persecuted."
"How old are these [people] -- high school students or adults?" Carlson asked.
Dhillon said they were "30, 40 and 50-year-old career attorneys in the Department of Justice" who were a part of the "sessions" and pushback against Trump's agenda.
"It's pathetic," Carlson said.
DEI hire Abby Phillip embarrassed herself again. Does she do absolutely no homework at all before sitting down to film her "news" show?
Republican strategist Scott Jennings detailed the criminal convictions of illegal immigrants deported to South Sudan Wednesday, saying that country was "too good" for them.The White House released a fact sheet detailing the eight illegal immigrants' criminal convictions, including for murder, assault, robbery, sexual assault and child sexual abuse Wednesday in response to a federal judge's claim that the Trump administration disregarded a court order by deporting them. Jennings stepped in after "CNN NewsNight" host Abby Phillip clashed with Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton over the removal of the eight illegal immigrants. (RELATED: Scott Jennings Appears Flabbergasted CNN Host Doesn't Seem To Understand Key Concept About Major Gov't Program)
"They have broken the law, Abby. When you come into the country, you've committed a felony. And number two, you have to deter this behavior from continuing to happen because it has become a problem for this country," Singleton said, with Phillip responding, "Okay. So the deterrence is like, El Salvador will send them to places where they might face imminent death?"
"Absolutely. Because that sends a message: If you come to the United States and break our laws, violate our immigration laws, it will have severe consequences," Singleton said, with Phillip responding, "Okay. So for unspecified crimes, we don't know exactly what all these people were convicted of --"
No, you don't know, DEI chair-filler. We know. All it takes is 15 seconds of reading.
Jennings then cut in, offering to read some of the criminal convictions the illegal immigrants had.
"I'll read it," Jennings said, as Phillip said, "The penalty that the Trump administration says is appropriate, potentially could be death. Right?"
"I mean, I'll read it," Jennings responded. "Sex offenders, homicide, kidnapping, murder in the first degree, battery, larceny, cocaine possession, murder, robbery, DUI, child sex abuse and sex assault on someone with a mental illness. [South] Sudan is too good for these people. And I'm not sure any other country would take 'em."
Democrat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar fled from a Fox News reporter outside of the U.S. Capitol Thursday as she was asked to respond to the tragic shooting that killed two Israeli Embassy staffers.The alleged gunman, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez, who appears to be a pro-Palestinian activist, opened fire on a group of four people as they exited the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, which led to the deaths of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Omar refused to react to the shooting when asked to comment by Fox News Capitol Hill producer Dan Scully.
"Congresswoman Omar, can I get your reaction to the shooting that happened in D.C. last night?" Scully asked.
"I'm gonna go for now," Omar said as she walked to a vehicle.
Video of this disgraceful brother-humping illegal alien immigration fraudster.
A rival GOP hopeful has been sentenced to prison for threatening to kill Anna Paulina Luna if she continued doing well in the polls.
The former candidate, William Robert Braddock, III, 41, of St. Petersburg, was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to interstate transmission of threat to injure, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida.Braddock, who didn't make it onto the 2022 GOP primary ballot, viewed Luna as his only obstacle to winning the congressional race. He attempted to insert himself into Luna's life and disparaged her with her peers.
During a phone call in June 2021 with a private citizen and acquaintance of Luna, Braddock threatened to have her murdered if she continued polling well in the race.
He said he would "call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad" and make Luna "disappear."
"I will be the next congressman for this District. Period. End of discussion," Braddock said. "And anybody going up against me is f---ing ignorant for doing so."
He also said Luna is "ignorant so I don't have a problem taking her out, but I'm not going to do that dirty work myself obviously."
He fled the country in 2021 and surrendered himself to US authorities in 2023.
I never even heard of this. Props to Luna to not making everything All About Her.
On the other hand: Nancy Mace.
Here's the "video of my naked body" this Stage IV narcissist posted after a dramatic advertising campaign to build up interest.
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Deranged Leftwing Propagandist Scott Pelley on Chopping Block at CBS; CBS "News" Embarrassed by Gayle King's Insistence That She's an Astronaut Now, and May Also Be Fired
—Ace
Inside the vicious CBS News 'bloodbath' where staff are fighting, crying and 'resent' Gayle KingBy STEVE HELLING FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
CBS is [in] crisis - with staffers crying in the hallways, fighting over story coverage and seating, and scrambling to update their resumes amid fears of mass layoffs.Insiders have told the Daily Mail that morale has plummeted across the network, from the flagship Sunday news show 60 Minutes to CBS Mornings, sparked by a looming $8.4 billion merger and a $20 billion lawsuit.
The tumult is turning into a 'bloodbath', one employee said, with feverish speculation rife among colleagues as to who will get the axe next.
Tensions are running particularly high about reports that CBS's parent company, Paramount Global, is preparing to slash $500 million in costs in preparation for the lucrative merger with Skydance Media against the backdrop of a ratings freefall.
One assumes SkyDance is demanding that CBS slash this half-billion in costs before the merger because CBS is dying and doesn't bring in much money.
So just to survive as a corporate entity, they have to fire a half-billion dollars' worth of incompetence.
The propagandists at 60 Minutes are aghast that CBS might agree to pay Trump $50 million to settle his "election interference" lawsuit.
...There have been suggestions recently that bosses at Paramount are entertaining a $50 million payout as the Trump administration considers whether to renew CBS's broadcast license.
As you know, CBS "News" CEO Wendy McMahon resigned rather than agree that her fake news unit engaged in deceptive propaganda on behalf of her beloved communist Democrat Party.
...'[Wendy leaving] really hurt us a lot,' said one CBS employee. 'I've seen people crying in the halls. Everyone is going into offices and conference rooms to whisper and strategize.'
This is a bonus:
Fed-up sources observed that there was growing resentment towards legendary CBS Mornings anchor Gayle King, who is reportedly facing a fight to have her $10million contract renewed when it ends in September.
$10 million per year?
Boy, she must really bring in the ratings, right?
Gayle King may be riding high on the idea of being an "astronaut" in the wake of her 11-minute space tourism trip with Blue Origin last week, but her popularity appears to be at a low.In the wake of her highly scrutinized zero-gravity adventure, ratings for her already struggling CBS News morning show have plummeted. And King is apparently not the only one experiencing the backlash.
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King co-hosts CBS Morning alongside Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson weekday mornings, as the Tiffany Network's competitor to ABC News' Good Morning America and NBC News' Today. It perennially finds itself in third place in the ratings and the highly coveted 25- to 54-year-old demo, though that briefly changed last week.
The Monday before the Blue Origin flight, NewsNation found that CBS Morning had an impressive 3.9 million viewers with 593,000 in the demo. Much like King, however, the numbers quickly came back down to earth.
In the three days following the trip, NewsNation reported the ratings dropped to an average of 1.9 million people (a 51 percent loss) and the demo fell to 339,000 (a 43 percent loss). A week later, viewers in the demo fell even further to 311,000 for a third-place finish.
It may have been hard to foresee just how much blowback this excursion would get from celebrities, late night hosts, and social media users alike, but an industry source told NewsNation it is hard to understand why King was allowed to participate to begin with.
"This stunt should have never been greenlit by CBS News to begin with," the source said. "Gayle tries to be this relatable morning show anchor who claims she's down to earth and then not only takes this gazillion-dollar flight but then attacks people for getting mad at her? It's a complete crock."
King has turned out to be one of the most outspoken members of the six-woman crew, claiming she is now "an astronaut" who followed in the footsteps of Alan Shepard (a.k.a. the first American in space) and accusing critics of sexism.
Back to the Daily Mail:
And there might be more exits to come. Multiple sources told the Daily Mail that 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley could also be on the way out.'It's marquee name after marquee name.'
As Megyn Kelly noted, CBS doesn't have any "marquee" names.
'People don't want to say it out loud in the office but the entire space debacle really hurt us,' a 60 Minutes staffer said of King's participation in Blue Origin's all-female spaceflight on April 2. 'Gayle being part of that is not a good look for our brand.''I think a lot of people resent Gayle for that,' continued the insider. 'I know I do.'
There was a general sense of embarrassment, said one Early Show producer. 'I almost feel like apologizing when I tell people where I work. I hate it here.'
LOL. Cry more.
Coding you must learn.
But the most palpable impact appears to have been felt at 60 Minutes, where staff have compared the atmosphere to a 'sinking ship'.
'We're in the middle of a bloodbath,' a staffer said. 'The axe is falling, people are leaving, no one knows what to do next. We're all updating our resumes because it really feels like this is a sinking ship.'
The tension has spilled out into the open, with blazing rows in the office over story coverage and petty squabbles concerning seating plans, sources told the Daily Mail.
'Fights, and loud ones,' the insider continued. 'You can hear them in the halls. People are arguing over everything and anything. From big things, like how to report stories, to small things, like who is sitting where in the conference room.'
Scott Pelley supported the Regime's banning of rightist speech but now tells Wake Forest graduates they are soldiers in the war against Trump's crackdown on free speech.
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya Explained to His Kindergaretener "Workers" That There Was Scientific Evidence that the NIH Funded the Creation of the Covid Vaccine.
They Do the Scientific Thing and Walk Out in Political Protest.
—Ace
Before getting to that:
Catherine Herridge @C__HerridgeNEW: Biden Administration Labeled Opponents Of Covid Mandates As "Domestic Violent Extremists," Newly Released Documents Show
The designation infringed on the First Amendment and opened the door to investigating Americans for vaccine mandate skepticism.
The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as "Domestic Violent Extremists," or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records obtained by Public @shellenberger
@galexybrane
and Catherine Herridge Reports. The designation created an "articulable purpose" for FBI or other government agents to open an "assessment" of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation, said a former FBI agent.The report, which the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has declassified, claims that "anti government or anti authority violent extremists," specifically militias, "characterize COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as evidence of government overreach." A sweeping range of COVID narratives, the report states, "have resonated" with DVEs "motivated by QAnon."
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) coauthored the December 13, 2021 intelligence product whose title reads, "DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates."
The report cites criticism of mandates as "prominent narratives" related to violent extremism. These narratives "include the belief that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, especially for children, are part of a government or global conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil liberties and livelihoods, or are designed to start a new social or political order.
"It's a way they could go to social media companies and say, 'You don't want to propagate domestic terrorism so you should take down this content,'" said former FBI agent Steve Friend.
Premium content and analysis on the declassified records for subscribers @C__Herridge
And now, thanks to the 2024 election victory, Pfizer and Moderna will have to disclose that their clot-shot causes, get this, clots.
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The Federalist Society-Picked Supreme Court Continues to Disappoint
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They did hand Trump one temporary victory. Temporary, because they struck down a temporary injunction from a district court judge blocking him from firing Biden's staffers from his government. (Are you kidding?)
This doesn't resolve the issue, and later, the Supreme Court may wind up forcing Trump to keep Biden's people in "his" government.
But for now, the temporary injunction is overturned.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with President Donald Trump, allowing him to remove two Biden-appointed officials from key federal boards, affirming executive authority in a major separation-of-powers decision. The ruling sets the stage for a broader challenge to decades-old precedent limiting the president's power over independent agencies.Key Details:
Trump removed NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox and MSPB member Cathy Harris, sparking legal challenges.
The Supreme Court blocked a lower court's order to reinstate the two Democrat appointees.
Justices hinted at preserving protections for some officials, like Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Of course.
The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a significant win for President Donald Trump, ruling in favor of his authority to remove Biden-appointed officials from independent federal boards. The decision effectively blocks Gwynne Wilcox of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Cathy Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) from returning to their posts after being abruptly terminated by Trump earlier this year.Both Wilcox and Harris had filed lawsuits in D.C. federal court claiming their terminations were "unlawful." But the Court's ruling--pushed forward by a majority of conservative justices--signals a shift toward reinforcing presidential control over the executive branch.
At the heart of the case is the question of whether presidents can remove officials from so-called independent agencies without cause, a precedent set nearly 90 years ago in Humphrey's Executor v. United States. Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted their reinstatement earlier this year, and now the full Court has backed that move.
The Court's decision did not come without dissent. Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the Court's liberal wing, sharply criticized the ruling. "Not since the 1950s (or even before) has a President, without a legitimate reason, tried to remove an officer from a classic independent agency," she wrote.
Still, the justices did suggest that some limits remain intact--hinting that any attempt to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a frequent Trump target, could be blocked. Powell has faced criticism from Trump for refusing to cut interest rates more aggressively.
The Trump administration's legal team had urged the justices to either keep Wilcox and Harris off the boards while lower courts hear the case or bypass the appeals process entirely--arguing that reinstating them could cause "irreparable harm to the President and to the separation of powers."
"The President would lose control of critical parts of the Executive Branch for a significant portion of his term," Trump's attorneys wrote in their filing, "and he would likely have to spend further months voiding actions taken by improperly reinstated agency leaders."
The Supreme Court served up a more important loss. Oklahoma was poised to allow parents and students to use state money to attend any schools they liked, including religious ones, and Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from hearing the case.
The Court then split 4-4 on the issue. It's a per curiam ("by the court") decision, which means no justice signed it and we don't know who voted which way. We can assume that Roberts joined the liberals (because he is a liberal, so there's nothing to "join").
Which means the lower court's ruling, which had banned the use of state money to pay for religious schools, stands.
American Greatness runs an op-ed celebrating the "demise of the neocon Catholic establishment" as exemplified by the Federalist Society, a group which is basically establishment-liberal but with a couple of caveats. For too long conservatives have relied on this unconservative group to pick our judges and justices for us. Obviously they've delivered some real winners: Roberts. Barrett. Kavanaugh. Gorsuch.
Update: A lowly district court just issued another injunction presuming to overrule the elected president of the United States.
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Of Course: The Left Begins Praising Antisemitic Assassin Elias Rodriguez
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I can't wait to hear from Jake Tapper how I'm secretly to blame for this.
Far-left, anti-Israel Bronx activist group shockingly cheers accused DC Jewish Museum terrorist Elias Rodriguez, encourages more violence
A far-left, anti-Israel group in the Bronx disgustingly cheered the suspected terrorist accused of gunning down the two Israeli Embassy staffers in an antisemitic attack.The Bronx Anti-War group said what alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez "did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism" and "We need more Elias Rodriguez in this world" in a pair of social media posts on Thursday.
The shocking statements quickly drew fire from local leaders, including Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres.
"The Bronx Anti-War coalition, which has been harassing me since October 7th, has described the murderous targeting of Jews as 'the highest expression of anti-Zionism,'" Torres said in a statement.
"Violence is not a bug but a feature of virulent Anti-Zionism."
...The coalition is described as a Bronx-based group made up of working-class people who are anti-imperialist and led by people of color. They push for "resisting state violence while advancing decolonization."
The establishment left had better get its lunatics under control fast because the right is radicalizing. It's one thing if there's some random nut who kills someone. The problem is when the political establishment makes excuses for it or, in the case of Luigi Mangione, actually praises it.
Then that's not the act of a lone nut. That's the act of a soldier in your street army, and if you think the left is the only movement capable of fielding violent street militias, you illiterates should open a history book for once in your ignorant communist-scum lives.
The terrorist who killed two Israeli embassy staffers was once affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a leftist group linked to Chinese Communist Party funding networks that have been repeatedly contacted by sanctioned Iranian state media, according to a report.Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, was detained by police on suspicion of murdering Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 28 -- two Israeli embassy staffers -- on Wednesday night in Washington, D.C. The couple was shot at close range. According to police, the terrorist shouted "Free Palestine" while being taken into custody.
The shooter was quickly identified in a picture on a 2017 article posted on LiberationNews.org, the media wing of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), where he was at a protest holding an anti-capitalist sign from the ANSWER Coalition. In the article, which was deleted after the attack, the shooter was quoted and described as "from the Party for Socialism and Liberation."
PSL posted a statement distancing itself from the shooter, claiming the group and the shooter only had a "brief association" that ended in 2017.
"We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting," the group posted to X. "Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL. He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017. We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it."
According to a report by Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), both PSL and ANSWER leaders have ties to foreign governments, including China, Iran, and Russia. The report states that ANSWER operates under the fiscal sponsorship of the Progress Unity Fund (PUF), which has financial and personnel ties to Neville Roy Singham, a pro-CCP financier in Shanghai.PSL and ANSWER are sister organizations, and their leaders hold overlapping roles in Singham's network, including with CODE PINK and The People's Forum, according to NCRI.
Both PSL and ANSWER are radical leftist organizations that have organized anti-Israel protests and mobilization efforts.
Speaking of:
I missed this earlier this week: An "anti-natalist," "pro-mortalist" advocate -- that means an environmental extremist who wants people to die and stop having babies so that the human race self-terminates -- bombed an IVF clinic this week.
If you saw this story and then saw it quickly disappear: It's because the establishment left refuses to condemn soldiers in its terrorist army.
Reddit Bans Fringe Anti-Humanity Group After Attack on Palm Springs IVF Clinic
The 25-year-old suspect in the blast, Guy Edward Bartkus, believed humans shouldn't exist.
An explosion outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, killed one person and injured four others Saturday morning in what the FBI has called an act of terrorism. The suspect in the bombing, 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, was the lone death from the blast, and it seems apparent he held anti-human views. Now Reddit has banned a subreddit tied to the suspect's ideology.Bartkus is believed to be the person who detonated a bomb at the Palm Springs American Reproductive Center, which offers services like IVF, because he was aligned with the pro-mortalist and anti-natalist movements--the idea that humans should not continue to procreate. Bartkus appears to have been posting to various subreddits, including r/Efilism, which advocated for violence. Reddit has now banned r/Efilism for violating its terms of service.
"Violence has no place on Reddit," a spokesperson for the platform told Gizmodo over email. "Our sitewide rules strictly prohibit any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence. In line with these rules, we are removing any instances of the suspect's manifesto or recordings and hashing to prevent reupload. We're also closely monitoring the communities on our platform to ensure compliance with our rules."
Proponents of Efilism (the word "life" spelled backwards) are often known as anti-natalists, which is a more common name for the ideology, though Bartkus described himself as pro-mortalist in his 30-minute audio manifesto. Anti-natalism is a philosophy that advocates for people not to procreate, while pro-mortalists go beyond those anti-natalist ideas to advocate for death in all forms under the theory that because life is suffering it's ethical to end your own life and even those around you in the process.
Bartkus posted an audio file to his website explaining why he was targeting the clinic, filled with logical inconsistencies and general incoherence. Bartkus said he wanted to begin "sterilizing this planet of the disease of life," but mentioned the recent suicide of his best friend affecting him deeply. Bartkus wrote on his personal website, "It's just too much of a loss when there's nobody else you really relate to significantly." He was clearly struggling with personal issues beyond whatever philosophy to which he was supposedly swearing allegiance. That website has now been taken offline.
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Jake Tapper: We've Been Too Polite In Dealing With Trump. Trump Isn't Being "Transparent With His Health Records" and It's Time We Pressed Him On That.
—Ace
You've got to be kidding me. Four years of insisting that Biden's inability to speak and attempts to Conjure Spirits were just the residue of a "childhood stutter," but by golly, we're gonna correct that error by getting even nastier with Trump!
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Eight years after Trump’s 2016 Victory, any Company Blindsided by Tariffs on Chinese Imports is Willfully Negligent
—Buck Throckmorton
I’ve spent most of my career working with private and small businesses. I still do. There is not one successful or well-run business with whom I’m familiar that is suddenly caught off guard by the latest round of tariffs on Chinese imports. But such companies exist, apparently, and the anti-Trump media loves to tell the sad stories of these companies being blindsided by the tariffs imposed on their Chinese imports.
Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 on de-coupling from China, to be aided by the use of tariffs. It was seven years ago, in March of 2018, that Donald Trump first imposed a round of tariffs on Chinese imports. He made it clear that the initial 25% tariff was just a start in his endeavor for the U.S. to fully eliminate its reliance on China as a trade partner on whom we had a dangerous reliance.
After 2018, it would take an almost willful blindness for a company not to have taken actions to mitigate the risk of relying on China as a sole supplier.
The Wall Street Journal ran this sob story a few days ago: “How Tariffs Are Crushing Small Businesses: Owners are laying off staff and tapping personal savings, hoping to hold out until a trade deal with China; an $8,752 fee on a $5,649 order” [WSJ – 5/11/2025]
Around the country, small businesses that import goods made in China are taking actions—big and small—to try to outlast the current 145% tariff regime on items from that country. But many are worried that their companies won’t survive.“Nobody in power seems to care about small business,” said Scott Anderson, owner of 5 Star North, which works with Chinese manufacturers to make its products ranging from acrylic markers to tiki torches. “At this point the only option I see is selling out the rest of what we have and shutting our doors.”
Sourcing exclusively from China is a concentration risk unto itself, without even factoring in its authoritarian government, slave labor, and beating war drums. Add to that the supply chain bottlenecks, canal backups, port problems, etc that have affected overseas shipping, and there are numerous ways that concentrated reliance on China should have caused indigestion. But on top of all that, it has been seven years since tariffs were first levied on China. An explicit purpose of that tariff was to incentivize companies such as this one to stop sourcing its tiki torches from China. Whether Trump was in the right or wrong doesn’t change the reality of the tariff regimen. The writing has been on the wall that this company needed to de-couple itself from China.
Charles Gasparino of the New York Post recently tweeted: “Breaking: In talking to sources who run small businesses the pause w/ China came just as their companies were on the precipice of disaster since they source so much of their material from China and the containers coming from China were coming back empty. If you want to know why we were as desperate for a deal as the Chinese, it’s because small businesses — a key MAGA constituency— was about to get crushed.”
Again, I know the owners of many small businesses who have spent the past eight years disengaging from China. They are not about to get crushed. Many are booming due to re-shoring.
Hampton Prescott had an excellent response to Mr. Gasparino: “I feel for people in this predicament, but if after Trade War 1.0, Covid, and general evolution of the CCP into a serious threat you didn’t diversify your supply chains away from China, then this is on you for failing to hedge against a substantial business risk.”
I feel for people in this predicament, but if after Trade War 1.0, Covid and general evolution of the CCP into a serious threat you didn’t diversify your supply chains away from China, then that is on you for failing to hedge against a substantial business risk https://t.co/vQsZaaTpbj
— Hampton Prescott ���� (@hampprescott) May 12, 2025
Very well put.
[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
The Morning Report — 5/ 23 /25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. So, you will recall this story from last month making news:
The parents of a teenager who carried out a deadly school shooting in the US state of Michigan were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison on Tuesday in an unprecedented and closely watched case.Jennifer Crumbley, 46, and her husband James, 47, were the first parents of a school shooter convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the United States for the actions of their child. Their son Ethan, who is now 17, is serving a life sentence for the November 30, 2021, shooting which left four students dead and seven other people injured at Oxford High School, 45 miles (70 kilometers) north of Detroit.“Parents are not expected to be psychic,” Matthews said at an emotional sentencing hearing in Pontiac, Michigan, attended by parents of the victims.
“But these convictions are not about poor parenting,” Matthews said. “These convictions confirm repeated acts, or lack of acts, that could have halted an oncoming runaway train.”
If the parents of a school shooter can be arrested and tried for the acts of their child, can we not arrest and charge the parents, Imams and professors of those who inspired this bastard who gunned down two Israelis in DC? And their political mentors and boosters:
The father of the terror suspect accused of gunning down two soon-to-be-engaged Israeli Embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum was honored by a far-left member of Congress with an invitation to President Trump’s joint address this past March, The Post has exclusively learned.“Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,” Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) said Thursday night.
In March, he hailed Rodriguez as “an outspoken advocate against attacks on veterans’ services and the rights of unionized federal employees.”
“Eric represents the very best of our community — someone who has served his country, continues to serve his fellow veterans and fights every day to protect the dignity of working people,” the congressman said in a statement at the time.
Rodriguez also appeared in a Service Employees International Union video that same day, and said he was an Iraq War vet and an employee with the Veterans Affairs Department, the New York Times reported. “I’ve been with the VA for three years, and the reason why I’m in Washington, DC, is because I’m concerned about what Donald Trump Elon Musk and DOGE are doing to the VA system.” On Thursday, Rodriguez’s son, Elias, was charged in federal court with two counts of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold-blooded slayings of Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, as the Israeli Embassy employees left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum.
He was an Iraq War vet. Lest we forget the usual anti-Semitic tropes coming from all quarters about nefarious Jewish plotters controlling American foreign policy on behalf of Israel. His SEIU membership and ties to Democrats of the latter-day variety who are notoriously anti-Israel regardless of foreskin status.
On October 25, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 412-10 in favor of H.R. 771, a resolution titled “Standing with Israel as It Defends Itself against the Barbaric War Launched by Hamas and Other Terrorists.” The resolution stated, among other things, that the House of Representatives “reaffirms Israel’s right to self-defense”; “calls on all countries to unequivocally condemn Hamas’ brutal war against Israel”; “reaffirms the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security”; “condemns Iran’s support for terrorist groups and proxies, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad”; and “urges full enforcement of United States sanctions against Iran to prevent Iran’s funding of terrorist groups.”. . . The 9 Democrats who voted “No” to the resolution were: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, Cori Bush, André Carson, Al Green, and Delia Ramirez.
And the 6 Democrats who voted “Present” were Jesús “Chuy” Garcia, Ayanna Pressley, Joaquin Castro, Nydia Velázquez, Pramila Jayapal, and Greg Casar.
Over the course of his political career, Garcia has been endorsed by an extensive list of far-left and Communist Party USA figures. Among his more prominent backers have been such notables as Senator Bernie Sanders, former Democrat Congressman Luis Gutierrez, Illinois socialist David Orr, CPUSA vice chair Scott Marshall, CPUSA activists like Pepe Lozano and Abdul-Aziz Hassan, and the Progressive Democrats of America. Conversely, Garcia has supported known members of the Communist Party, the Democratic Socialists of America, and other left-wing organizations. He even campaigned with CPUSA member Rudy Lozano, Jr. in 2009, when the latter ran, unsuccessfully, for a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives.
Unlike the parents of the school shooter, you don't have to be psychic to know that the constant drumbeat that Israel is committing genocide against the "Palestinians" and is an illegitimate colonial occupier of "Palestine" which must be liberated "From the River to the Sea" with the dismantling of Israel might have had just the tiniest bit of influence on the subhuman scumbag who blew away that innocent couple in DC the other night. Ditto every other person prevented from attending their classes at universities and or threatened, spat upon, beaten up and so on.
And so, is Chuy Garcia along with this subhuman's father culpable in these murders too? What about every imam in America who quotes from the Koran about rocks and trees coming to life and imploring passerby Muslims to slit the throats of the filthy Jews hiding behind them? What about the liars at the UN spreading the blood libel about Israel depriving "innocent" so-called Gazans of food and water and using the "G" word, Genocide.
Lest we forget, as the stormfronter trolls will no doubt remind me (as if I need it!) that this is more than just about Jews. This is about all of us, not just Israel and Jews.
The same colonialism occupier bilge has been used as a cassus belli of the Left to dismantle America as founded, by any and every means necessary.
Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) called President Donald Trump a “dictator” while discussing his actions against Harvard University. . . He continued, “This is all a part of the authoritarian playbook that Trump has been seeking to execute right from January 20th on. The problem that he has and that he’s been running into all along is that we do have a United States Constitution that, in the Fifth Amendment, requires due process with regard to any charge which is brought against any individual or institution. We actually have immigration laws in terms of the protection of international students as well. And by the way, these students do have First Amendment rights of free speech, which they are also seeking to circumscribe. So all of those are going to be protections which ultimately will result in Harvard winning this case but it’s really meant to send a chilling effect to academic institutions all across this country.”
This would be the same MSNBC (NSDAP) that regularly features Al Sharpton as a voice of reason and reconciliation, despite having literal blood on his hands from the Crown Heights pogrom/riots, to the incineration of Freddies Fashion Mart and the vile incitement of "Diamond Merchants" and White Interlopers."
Ditto Chuck Schemer threatening the Supreme Court and voila, a psycho thankfully gets arrested on Brett Kavanaugh's front lawn ready to murder him and his entire family.
Of course as we all know, their violence and language are speech, our mere existence, let alone voices are violence.
And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
Have a great Memorial Day Weekend, God Bless the Memory of all who gave their lives in service. More on this on Monday.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- “Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,” Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) said Thursday night.
Dad of suspected terrorist Elias Rodriguez was invited to Trump address by left-wing Democrat lawmaker
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Daily Tech News 23 May 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Nvidia hates you and doesn't care if you know it. (The Verge) (archive site)
They are lying to you, and also don't care if you know it.
They still want your money, but they get enough of that from the AI slop industry so they don't care all that much.
But what they really hate is reviewers telling the truth, because if you know the truth you might not hand over your money.
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ONT Was Dead, To Begin With
—WeirdDave
Hello everybody! Thursday night, let's see what's in the ONT hopper.
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The Highs and the Lows Cafe
—Ace
from Scuba Diving Lover
Raising a baby quail... and then the next generation.
This bird is unflappable.
It annoys me that anytime I see a neat video my first thought is "probably an AI cheapfake."
Golden retriever puppy growing up.
A cat-and-mouse game played by dog-and-squirrel.
Stella the leaf-pile-jumping dog is still giving those leaf-piles a splash at the ripe age of 11 years old. Reached for comment, Joe Biden said, "Mmmghno lurger Trumpalinizaure kids like my hairy legs nnnyenhigguruff."
If you're not herdin', you're not livin'.
Hippo chases three adult male lions out of his watering hole like he's shooing three tweens out of a 7-11.
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CNN Knows the Real Important Story About the Ongoing Jihad Against Jews in the US: Whatever We Do, We Must Declare That Leftists Calling for "Intifida" Are Absolved from Blame
—Ace
This is CNN.
The leftwing media has argued for a clampdown on rightist rhetoric claiming that it's "stochastic terrorism." The idea is that right is "demonizing" some people and thereby increasing the odds that an unhinged person will take the rhetoric as a "permission slip" to shoot the people right-wing people are criticizing.
Viva Frei talks about the left's endless discussion of "stochastic terrorism" -- until a fellow leftwinger cashes in their "permission slip" to shoot up a Republican softball team, in which case stochastic terrorism doesn't exist and is all just Russian Disinformation, Bigot.
Drew Holden has a question. Given that a left-wing assassin just gunned down two young, beautiful, completely-innocent people by shouting "Intifada!" and "Free Palestine," where are the screaming headlines about Stochastic Terrorism today?
He also points out that whenever leftwing terrorists chant in favor of the "intifada" -- a violent jihad against Jews and Christians -- the media rushes in to claim that the word "intifada" needs context and maybe the notions of intifada (and jihad, which they often claim just means "an internal struggle") are too complicated for people to understand.
Holden says: Boy it sure seems like "intifada" means exactly what we think it means.
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Trump, RFKJr. Deliver 100-Day MAHA Report on America's Health
—Ace
The left was all-in on whole foods and health until Trump embraced it.
Now they're pro-pesticides and pro-artificial adulterants.
The White House's "Make America Healthy Again" or "MAHA" commission, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has published its first report on what it says are four leading drivers of childhood chronic disease."The report is the product of a consensual process, and it represents a collaborative effort of all the agencies and the White House. And it represents a consensus that is probably the strongest and most radical consensus by a government agency in history about the state of America's health," Kennedy told reporters in a call ahead of its release.
Thursday's release is the first in a process laid out by President Trump's executive order in February. By August, the commission is due to follow up with a policy strategy to address the findings raised in this report. Kennedy called the report a "milestone."
"MAHA's become hot," Mr. Trump told a roundtable that included Kennedy and other top administration officials at the White House on Thursday.
It's amusing that Trump calls it "hot."
The "chronic disease crisis" in children is described in the report as growing rates of a number of issues including childhood obesity, diabetes, autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, cancer, allergies and autoimmune disorders.
"More than 40% of American children now have at least one chronic health condition," Mr. Trump said Thursday. "Since the 1970s, rates of childhood cancer have soared, in many cases, by nearly 50%. ... In the 1960s, less than 5% of the children were obese, now over 20% are obese. ... Think of this one, this is the one that gets me every time, and it seems to be getting worse -- just a few decades ago, one in 10,000 children had autism. Today it's 1 in 31."
Medical experts attribute much of the increase in autism to better and more widespread testing and diagnostics.
Some of it, yeah. What about the rest of it?
These are the people who will only buy food from Whole Foods (aka "Whole Paycheck") themselves but now that Trump is pushing for a more healthful food industry, they're intensely skeptical.
Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said that the Trump administration was not seeking "a European, mandate-driven regulatory system that stifles growth" as a result of the process."It will happen through a renewed focus on improved science throughout the federal government and our partners. And through unleashing private sector innovation to produce better solutions for our children," Zeldin said.
Multiple current and former federal health officials criticized the report, which they said misrepresented several facts and left out other well-known drivers of childhood chronic disease.
"They're looking for specific causes and silver bullets to draw attention to. However, prevention is all about making it easier for people to make healthy choices," said one current federal health official in a message, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
It's just unbelievable. Every bit of commentary from CBS is negative.
The wide-ranging report is organized around four topics that it describes as the "potential drivers behind the rise in childhood chronic disease that present the clearest opportunities for progress":
Poor diet, driven primarily by ultra-processed foods
Cumulative exposure to chemicals like food additives and pesticides
Lack of physical activity and chronic stress
"Overmedicalization" with too many prescriptions and vaccinesThese largely reflect many of the themes that Kennedy has long spoken about, including as a longshot presidential candidate last year and as the head of the nation's public health agencies in recent months.
"It is very strong, it's very frank, and it is a clarion call to do something with utmost urgency to end this crisis. And that's what we wanted," Kennedy said of the report.
For example, under the heading of ultra-processed foods, the report echoes Kennedy's criticism of the shift from using "minimally processed animal-based sources like butter and lard" to seed oils like corn and canola. And it takes aim at the federal dietary guidelines process, which is due to release a major update later this year.
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It calls out the "growth of the childhood vaccine schedule," which Kennedy has long denounced, often with misleading claims about how vaccines were not sufficiently vetted for safety and efficacy."The number of vaccinations on the American vaccine schedule exceeds the number of vaccinations on many European schedules, including Denmark, which has nearly half as many," the report says.
The report also reiterates Kennedy's criticism of the CDC's vaccine safety monitoring efforts, like in the Vaccines Adverse Event Reporting System and Vaccine Safety Datalink, as well as the federal approach to compensating childhood vaccine injury.
It also criticizes groups like the American Medical Association for efforts to address disinformation about vaccines, saying it "undermines the open dialogue essential to protecting and improving children's health."
RFKJr. praised Trump for increasing the Hotness of MAHA.
The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFoxNOW: RFK Jr. Reveals Trump Made a MAHA Pledge--Before MAHA Even Existed.
This is the real origin story of one of the most powerful political alliances in modern history.
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat beside President Trump, laid it out:
"I do want to say something," Kennedy began.
"Because I get a lot of credit for steering this administration toward the MAHA movement--but I joined the campaign in August."
"It was in June that he made a speech specifically on this issue."
"It was a MAHA speech--before MAHA existed."
Kennedy said that speech caught his attention.
"I took note of it at the time and thought: there's potential here for common ground."
Then he turned directly to Trump and said:
"I want to thank you for your vision, for your courage, for standing up... President Trump is a populist president."
"He is on the side of the middle class, the working class, the poor in this country."
The crowd erupted in applause.
And Kennedy closed with a statement few would expect from a Democrat:
"I've never seen a president--Democrat or Republican--that is willing to stand up to industry when it's the right thing to do."
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaughBREAKING: At the MAHA Commission meeting, Trump just declared he will NOT stand down to the Big Pharma and Big Food lobbyists.
"Unlike other administrations, we will NOT be silenced or intimidated by the corporate lobbyists or special interests."
MUSIC TO MY EARS!
RFK Jr. and President Trump are on a quest to end the childhood chronic illness epidemic. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
"There's something wrong. And we will not stop until we defeat the chronic disease epidemic."
"Its first report on childhood health - here are just some of the alarming findings. And they really are alarming. It's unbelievable, terrible."
"More than 40% of American children now have at least one chronic health condition. Since the 1970s, rates of childhood cancer have soared, in many cases, by nearly 50%."
"In the 1960s, less than 5% of the children were obese. Now over 20% are obese."
"Just a few decades ago, 1 in 10,000 children had autism. Today, it's one in 31. Last time I heard the number, was one in 34, right? Now it's one in 31."
"We're going to get it done. For the first time ever, this report examines some of the root causes that many believe are making our children sicker and our population sicker. It just doesn't stop with the children. It's our population also."
"Such as the ultra-processed over-medicalization and over-prescription, and widespread exposure to potentially toxic chemicals."
One of the downsides of Trump is that he has no regard for long-established Normzzz of DC -- the compromises and treaties that were signed decades ago, like about never crossing Big Ag, that still persist although no one remembers the conflict that caused the treaty.
Of course, that's simultaneously his biggest upside.
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Revoke's Harvard's Right to Issue Visas to Foreign "Students," Citing Their Refusal to Address Antisemtism and "Pro-Terrorism Conduct" on Their Campus
—Ace
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is eliminating the student visa program at Harvard University due to "pro-terrorist conduct" at campus protests, Fox News Digital has learned.It's a severe consequence for what DHS claims is Harvard's refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of student visa holders.
"This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus," said Secretary Kristi Noem. "It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country."
Harvard may no longer enroll foreign students in the 2025-2026 school year, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status to reside in the U.S. before the next academic year begins.
"As a result of your brazen refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas rhetoric, and employs racist 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' policies, you have lost this privilege," Noem wrote in a letter to Maureen Martin, the university's director of immigration services.
Noem offered Harvard 72 hours to provide the information requested for an opportunity to regain its visa program for the next school year.
She called the move the "direct result of Harvard's epic failure to comply with simple reporting requirements."
The records requested include any footage of protest activity involving students on visas and the disciplinary records of all students on visas in the last five years.
Noem said last month she had requested records related to visa-holding students enrolled in the university and Harvard's counsel did not provide adequate information to meet the demand. After the DHS general counsel asked again for the information, Harvard provided an "insufficient, incomplete and unacceptable response," she said.
"Consequences must follow to send a clear signal to Harvard and all universities that want to enjoy the privilege of enrolling foreign students, that the Trump administration will enforce the law and root out the evils of antisemitism in society and campuses.
Requested records also include footage or documentation of illegal, dangerous or violent activity by student visa holders, any records of threats or the deprivation of rights of other students or university personnel.
Harvard could not immediately be reached for comment.
Trump is also working to stop illegal aliens from "hijacking" our elections by voting illegally.
The Trump administration is unrolling a new initiative Thursday that will help prevent noncitizens from voting in U.S. elections, a high-priority policy for the White House.The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program and partnering with the Social Security Administration in order to ensure "a single, reliable source for verifying immigration status and U.S. citizenship," according to a memo exclusively shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Under the update, state and local officials will be able to input Social Security numbers for verification of U.S. citizenship and thereby prevent foreign nationals from voting in American elections.
"For years, states have pleaded for tools to help identify and stop aliens from hijacking our elections," USCIS Spokesman Matthew Tragesser said in a statement provided to the DCNF.
"Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, USCIS is moving quickly to eliminate voter fraud," Tragesser continued. "We expect further improvements soon and remain committed to restoring trust in American elections."
North Carolina Holds Midterm Primary ElectionsSAVE, an online service administered by USCIS, allows various government agencies to verify the immigration status or U.S. naturalization of applicants seeking benefits or licenses.
The new partnership allows government agencies to create cases in SAVE using an applicant's Social Security number rather than a Department of Homeland Security identifying number, which is not collected by a majority of state and local agencies, according to a separate news release. Additionally, agencies for the first time will be able to submit more than one case at a time, streamlining the process.
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Polling indicates that basic voter protection regulations, such as requiring a photo ID to vote and providing proof of citizenship when registering to vote for the first time, are incredibly popular among Americans.
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State officials in Texas, Alabama, Virginia and Ohio identified as many as 17,000 noncitizens on state voting rolls and worked to remove them from the books ahead of the 2024 general election. America First Legal, a Washington, D.C.-based group aligned with the Trump administration, sued Maricopa County, Arizona, in August after the county recorder allegedly failed to purge 35,000 registered voters who did not provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
The Trump administration hinted at more updates to come in the future.
James Comer Demands That Biden's Dementia Conspirators and Autopen Usurpers Stand for Questioning
—Ace
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday wrote to key aides to President Joe Biden demanding that they sit for transcribed interviews as part of his investigation into the former president's mental decline and the potentially unauthorized use of an autopen for executive actions.Comer wrote to Biden physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor, former Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden, former Assistant to the President Anthony Bernal, former Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, and former Special Assistant to the President Ashley Williams.
"The cover-up of President Biden's obvious mental decline is a historic scandal. The American people deserve to know when this decline began, how far it progressed, and who was making critical decisions on his behalf," Comer said in a press release. "Key executive actions signed by autopen, such as sweeping pardons for the Biden Crime Family, must be examined considering President Biden's diminished capacity."
"Today, we are calling on President Biden's physician and former White House advisors to participate in transcribed interviews so we can begin to uncover the truth," he added. "In the last Congress, the Biden White House blocked these individuals from providing testimony to the Oversight Committee as part of the effort to cover-up Biden's declining health. Any continued obstruction will be met with swift and decisive action. The American people demand transparency and accountability now."
Below, Trump says that Biden wouldn't have ordered open borders, but that "leftwing lunatics" took advantage of a senile, weak man to impose that. I doubt that specific claim, but he's 100% right that unelected hacks were illegally running the country for four years.
And Ed Martin, now at the DOJ to investigate weaponization of government, says a "high-ranking Biden Official" has come forward to give information. He said a "senior, senior Democrat" gave him the three names of Biden staffers using the autopen to sign Biden's names to thousands of partners, and this "whistleblower" says "people were making money off it."
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Disney/ABC, Seeing Their Groomer Empire Crumble All Around Them, Tell the Shrieking Harpies of The View to Cool It On Attacking Half the Country Every Single Day
—Ace
ABC and Disney will be destroyed by the #Resistance.
Executives at Disney and ABC News have reportedly asked The View hosts to reduce their political attacks on President Donald Trump and shift the show's focus back toward lighter fare.
Key Details:
The Daily Beast reports that Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic met with The View's hosts and executive producer Brian Teta to request a shift away from political content, particularly criticisms of Trump.
Karamehmedovic reportedly pointed to episodes featuring celebrity interviews as high performers and encouraged the show to "lean into such coverage."
Ana Navarro reportedly challenged the executives, saying, "This is what our audience wants," and later confronted Iger again during Disney's advertiser presentation.
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The executives reportedly conveyed that the daytime talk show has become too consumed with political commentary and has veered away from its original mission as a more general-interest program for women. One source told the Daily Beast that Karamehmedovic highlighted episodes featuring celebrity guests as examples of higher-rated content and encouraged the team to focus more on that type of coverage moving forward.
While the meeting reportedly stopped short of issuing a mandate, the suggestion did not sit well with several of the co-hosts. Ana Navarro, a frequent political commentator on the show, reportedly objected to the suggestion, telling the executives, "This is what our audience wants. Isn't it gonna look kind of bad if we're all of a sudden not talking about politics?"at they'd prefer The View to be less politically driven.
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Despite the executive nudging, some of the show's hosts reportedly found the conversation "silly" and expressed their intent to continue "doing their thing." As of now, it appears no concrete changes have been implemented, but the tension underscores the larger corporate concern about the program's political tone and its impact on broader viewer engagement.
CBS' biggest shareholder, Sharri Redstone, reportedly told her Left-Wing Animal House of Democrat Party Operators at CBS "News" to tone it down, too.
So CBS "News's" president quit.
CBS News President and CEO Wendy McMahon announced her resignation on Monday because "the company and I do not agree on the path forward."Left unstated but hanging over her announcement: CBS' corporate parent, Paramount Global, and its controlling owner, Shari Redstone, are involved in settlement negotiations with lawyers for President Trump in an effort to settle his $20 billion lawsuit against CBS' signature show, 60 Minutes.
McMahon made her announcement the morning after the final episode of this season's 60 Minutes and just weeks after the resignation of the show's veteran executive producer, Bill Owens. Owens said he no longer felt he could lead the show independently.
House Passes "Big Beautiful Bill" on Razor-Thin Majority
—Ace
House passes "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," now headed to the Senate
Quick Hit:In a razor-thin 215-214 vote, House Republicans passed President Trump's sweeping "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," which delivers on his top legislative priorities. Speaker Mike Johnson hailed the passage as a defining moment for the GOP and a pivotal step in shaping Trump's second term.
Key Details:
The bill extends Trump's 2017 tax cuts, slashes green energy subsidies, and imposes stricter Medicaid work requirements.
Only two Republicans -- Reps. Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson -- opposed the bill; one GOP member voted "present."
The Senate is expected to push changes, sparking a battle that could stretch into the summer as the debt ceiling deadline looms.
Diving Deeper:
House Republicans scored a major legislative win early Thursday morning, passing President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" by a single vote -- a sprawling package that cements his second-term policy agenda and signals a renewed GOP offensive on spending, immigration, and tax reform.
In a 215-214 vote, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) muscled the bill through his slim majority, rallying a deeply divided conference behind a package that many believe could define the next chapter of the Trump era. The vote followed days of tense negotiations, last-minute revisions, and a rare lobbying push by President Trump himself, who met with holdouts just hours before the final vote.
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The bill is a policy juggernaut. It extends Trump's 2017 tax cuts, rolls back Biden-era green energy incentives, boosts defense and border security funding, and imposes work requirements on Medicaid -- a provision that, according to budget analysts, could result in millions losing government-subsidized health insurance. It also raises the debt ceiling by $4 trillion, giving Republicans room to maneuver without another fiscal standoff -- at least for now.
Two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Warren Davidson (Ohio), opposed the bill on principle, with House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.) voting "present." Their concerns focused on spending levels and executive power -- issues that could be addressed through a wave of executive orders Trump is expected to issue in the coming weeks.
Centrist Republicans also extracted concessions. After a high-stakes back-and-forth over the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap, members from high-tax states like New York and California reached a compromise to raise the deduction limit to $40,000 for individuals making $500,000 or less -- far short of their initial demands but enough to secure their votes.
While House passage is a political win for Trump and Johnson, the bill's future in the Senate is less certain. Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader John Thune, are already signaling that changes are coming -- particularly on Medicaid reforms and tax provisions. Any significant revisions will require the House to reconsider the bill, setting up a fierce intra-party tug-of-war in the coming weeks.
In theory, they can now make this bill stronger through reconciliation, where only a simple majority is needed in the Senate to pass spending/taxing changes to a bill.
But does anyone believe the left-leaning Bush "Republicans" that dominate the Senate Republican Caucus will actually do that?
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