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June 19, 2025

Anderson Cooper Hires New "Super Agent" As CNN Gets Ready to Can Its Expensive Ratings-Poison Anti-Talent

—Ace

For the first time ever, more people are watching TV via internet streaming than are watching TV through broadcast or cable, combined.

More Americans are watching TV via streaming platforms than both broadcast and cable combined for the first time ever.

The finding comes from Nielson's monthly Gauge report, which was launched four years ago to provide insight on what viewers are watching, as well as how they are watching it. The latest report found that streaming accounted for 44.8% of total TV viewership in May--the largest share on record. Meanwhile, broadcast and cable TV only made up 20.1% and 24.1%, respectively, for a total of 44.2%.

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Previously, the Gauge reported another big milestone for streaming platforms. In July 2022, for the first time, streaming topped cable viewership. At the time, it accounted for 34.8% of viewership while cable made up 34.4%. Broadcast made up 21.6%. However today, the combined total for both cable and broadcast viewing still falls behind the percentage of monthly streamers.

So everyone knows the cable channels and broadcast networks are dying, and dying quickly. Every year from now forward, they will see big yearly declines in viewership.

The broadcast channels will probably survive, diminished but still in business, as they just shift over to streaming.

But the cable channels? With everyone cutting the cord, they can no longer depend on all those forced fees from consumers for a hundred channels they never, ever watch.

I cut mine when I got sick of paying for ESPN, which I never watch, but takes something like one third of your cable bill payment. And the idea that I was paying for CNN and MSNBC -- and Fox, too -- just cinched it.

To hell with these channels. I'm not paying $100 a month just because every once in a while I watch Dual Survivor or Reno 911.

You might know that Warner-Discovery is in deep debt it can't get out of -- $40 billion in fact.

Warner-Discovery is taking all of the companies that might actually be profitable one day -- its streaming services and its movie studio -- and keeping them.

All the basket-case cable channels will be put into a new company called Global Networks. This company will contain the dying CNN and other POS channels, and will also be filled with, get this, most of Warner-Discovery's $40 billion in debt.

I guess they'll try to sell this Lehman Bros. tranche of sub-sub-sub-subprime properties to some sucker out there. But who's going to buy expensive, dying cable channels while also assuming the huge amount of debt?

It might be one of those free sales -- if you take on the debt, you can have these dying channels for free.

But... that's not free. That's taking on billions in debt to own dying channels.

Warner-Discovery is in such dire straits that even its CEO is taking a huge paycut.

CEOs do not take paycuts. Except if the company is in real trouble, and they have to cut everything, even their own pay.

Physical Media Forever @VHSDVDBLURAY4K

Warner Bros. Discovery is cutting CEO David Zaslav's pay after shareholder backlash

-Salary from $22M to $6M
-Stock bonus target will shrink from $23.5M to $7.5M per year

With that background, you now appreciate why Vanderbilt-fortune nepo-baby and Deep State catspaw Anderson Cooper, is suddenly seeking new representation.

If Zazlav is cutting his own salary from $22 million to $6 million, what are the odds that Anderson Cooper gets to keep his $18 million?

Before you answer: The guy they've put in charge of the Basket of Deplorables cable channels is known in the industry as a slash-and-burn hatchet man that you bring in to fire lots of people to keep a company from bankruptcy.

Coincidentally enough.

You know why I think he's taking a paycut?

So he can turn to people like Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper and demand they take a paycut, too.

A dark cloud hangs over CNN headquarters as staffers brace for layoffs and a likely sale of the network amid another reshuffling by its parents company.

'I'd say the mood remains really grim,' a CNN employee told Fox News, in the wake of last week's restructuring announcement from Warner Bros. Discovery.

'People are uncertain.'

Meanwhile, CNN mainstay Anderson Cooper just signed with a new talent agency for the first time in decades - a move Variety reported was is a surefire sign he is open to new opportunities.

LOL. "He's open to new opportunities." Sure.

Another guy who's just itching to get into this Podcast Game that everyone's talking about!

I can't wait to see the semen-hued Nepo Baby read ads for Squarspace, Fum, and Factor.

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The staffer added: 'I think they've telegraphed clearly that more cuts are coming.'

The insider noted that Wiedenfels' 'remit is not to grow stuff.'

'This company is a cash-flow giant with shrinking revenue. Like that's the deal,' the source said. 'It's merely a matter of how fast it shrinks. That's why the assets were split.'

Wiedenfels has already managed to reduce WBD's $55billion debt by $21 billion in less than two years.

His appointment by WBC CEO David Zaslav comes after several rounds of layoffs at his behest.

Less than five months ago, CNN laid off 200 staffers - all from its struggling TV division. WBD has engaged in repeated rounds as well.

A staffer told the Daily Mail at the time of the most recent CNN firings that the network had become 'bloated' after Warner Bros.' merger with Discovery in 2021.

'And we don't have streaming yet so - it's hard to imagine it doesn't get worse,' the CNN source further told Fox, referring to an anticipated portion of CNN CEO Mark Thompson's long-in-the works restructuring plan.

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'Zaslav killed this place. He killed it,' the source said.

'The last few years under Zas has been a disaster in terms of what he has done,' the person added.

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A third staffer who spoke to Fox also appeared to believe a collapse at CNN is imminent.

'I'm trying to figure out what I'll do next when the whole thing collapses, but I don't even know when that will be,' the source said.

Cry moar.

This Fox News report mentions that the Basket of Deplorable Channels company will be saddled with the bulk of Warner-Discovery's massive debt.

It also says:

Industry critics like Puck correspondent Dylan Byers have predicted doom and gloom for the future of CNN, suggesting it will meet the fate of HLN, which he has noted "no longer exists."


I sure hope Andrew Breitbart is looking down and laughing in a not-approved-by-God kind of way.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

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What to do when traditional conservative belief that government should not involve itself in markets, runs smack into national security concerns?

Every time the government tries to pick winners and losers, the taxpayer loses. From sports stadium subsidies to redevelopment zones to ridiculous subsidies for favored industries like "Green Energy" and EVs, the only people who come out better off are the politicians who pushed through the cash grabs and the businesses that took the free money. We taxpayers end up footing the bill, and don't get much for it.

And when there is only a single player in the market, like the production of rare earth metals, it gets even worse. Giving cash to the only player in town raises the barriers to entry into the market, and that makes it more difficult for potential competitors to push prices down and supplies up.

Trump mulls using defense powers to fund rare-Earth projects

The Trump administration is developing a plan to use Cold War-era powers to prioritize and fund rare earth projects it deems critical to national security, people familiar with the matter said.

Officials are discussing using the Defense Production Act to tap financing, loans and other means for rare earths element-related projects, including mining, processing and other downstream technologies to bolster the U.S.'s capability to build a domestic supply chain, the people said. A specific course of action or a timeline have yet to be finalized, the people said.

MP Materials Corp., the sole domestic producer of rare earths, would be a prime beneficiary. Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg is working to line up funding for the company, people familiar with that matter said. The Nevada-based mineral processor has received millions in funding from the Defense Department. [bolding mine]


But we need these materials to maintain our technological lead in many things, not least of which is our military technology. So a rational conservative will hold his nose and support this sort of economic inefficiency, but only for the short term!

The best action by far would be to decrease the regulatory burden on potential competitors, so they can enter the market without having to spend years navigating the byzantine world of environmental and safety regulations, not to mention the watermelons who emerge from their swamps to contest every single mine and oil well and power plant and any other capital project that would improve our lives and bolster our independence from malign players throughout the world.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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Her Mother's Kiss
Eugene Carriere

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The Morning Report — 6/ 19 /25

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids. from friend and friend of he blog Bob Zimmerman whose daily links from his own excellent Behind the Black dot-com website make him our sort of unofficial science reporter, comes the late breaking news that during a static test firing of a new Starship rocket at Boca Chica, a massive explosion took place.

Given everything going on here and abroad, my initial thought was okay, Iranians? Chi-Coms? Antifa? or the Deep State? Bob replied "I think it is simply a flaw in the revised engineering of this version 2 of Starship, which failed on the last two test flights as well."

And as for what's going on here and abroad, let's kick it off with an emetic from America's "sweetheart," Ilhan the Bro-Fo Omar with this thoroughly unsurprising if not disgusting emanation of oral flatus:

I'll just give you headline because in a certain sense I actually agree with the statement, just not in the way this joy/buzzer-less savage does. For those keen on regurgitation or in need of a morning emetic, you can click on the link and read the transcript.

America Is Becoming ‘One of the Worst Countries’ in the World

Indeed it is, if we're not there already, by allowing evil, retrograde, dark age cultures into this country, which was intended to be the last great hope for humanity to rise above the tyranny and oppression of the old world, and instead has been poisoned by letting in the flotsam and jetsam of the world such as Omar and her ilk, without even the most rudimentary vetting process and demanding assimilation. Of course to do so would be racist, Islamophobic and contrary to the tenets of our so-called precious democracy (vomit) or so we are perpetually lectured and hectored by our supposed betters.

This cancer started long before this immigration fraudster and purveyor of Taqqiya sunrises set foot on our blessed soil to befoul it. It's funny how those who supposedly escaped tyranny and bemoan what has happened to America are the ones that are promoting and imposing tyranny the hardest, loudest and longest. The shining example of the infection though likely not the start of it would be Herbert Marcuse, Theodore Adorno and the refugees from Nazism Known as the Frankfurt School who came here and hijacked the education system to turn it into the breeding ground of Marxist-Leninism for nearly 80 years. And that's why you see several generations of American-born citizens hurling molotov cocktails at ICE and police, beating up Jews on campuses and calling for the dismantling of western civilization, all in the name of "democracy!" of course!


And speaking of native-born cancer, I bookend Bro-Fo Omar with another reeking degenerate coprolite from straight out of Olduvai Gorge, ready to give you bonk-bonk on the head with the giant Tapir bone last seen flying through the air in 2001 A Space Odyssey. . .

Whoopi Goldberg says black people living in America have it just as bad as people living in Iran.

You mean like Oprah Winfrey who has been so badly oppressed that she is worth in excess of a couple billion dollars? Or you who for God only knows what reason has a daily TV show and rakes in millions from that and royalties from your alleged acting career. Plus every black pituitary case ever who makes millions throwing or running with some ball through some net in between hawking junk food and deodorant?

Forgetting that, it's funny that the foot traffic over the Rio Grande is only from south to north while if Whoopi were correct, Compton and Watts, Chicago, New York, Newark, Boston and every other place that burned to the ground in 2020 and all through the 1960s would be denuded of blacks heading the other way to demand citizenship in Mexico if not as far south as the Ross Ice Shelf.

So oppressed she insists on being rogered by white guys and playing Steppin Fetchit and taking on/defiling a Jewish name while those evil Israelis attack wonderful Iran! Yeah, America sucks.

I cordially invite you to get the hell out and leave all your assets to the USPF - the United Sefton Pastrami Fund. My waistline is a terrible thing to waste.

And of course today being June 19th, which given all of the above is a completely meaningless day devoid of any real significance to anyone with an iota of intelligence, self-respect and decency.

Attention Black America, I am not an oppressor and you are not a victim of anyone other than yourselves, your lack of ambition and sloth if you choose to accept this toxic Democrat narrative that only serves to keep them in power. Yeah, observe a holiday that memorializes victims of the people you vote for election after election.


Meanwhile in the real world, as CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast it certainly appears as if President Trump is going to commit American forces, likely the USAF to help Israel take out the last and most significant Iranian nuclear weapons facility at Fordow.

If Fordow is flattened, that certainly would be a good thing. Should America be the one to do the flattening is quite another thing entirely, and I'm not very sanguine about that for a host of reasons. Beyond that, if the regime collapses, we cannot be sure of what will replace it. A worst case scenario is the same as what happened in Syria, with the projectile colitis of the Assad regime replaced by the metastatic colon/liver/pancreatic cancer of ISIS AL Qaeda.

Given the breadth and depth of the IRGC in the military and government in general, it is rather unlikely we will see any form of western-oriented government let alone Jeffersonian Democracy. The Chi-Coms and Putin are too heavily invested in the current regime to let it collapse and potentially if not very slowly move back towards the American sphere of influence. Of course, we cannot know the future, but certainly the past and the tea leaves point the way to a tense period of uncertainty as our enemies make moves to protect their interests, which include doing their best to destroy and degrade us, same as it ever was.

Whatever happens, I hope the Iranian regime can be brought down and that the long-suffering Iranian people can be liberated and once again breathe freely. Yes, the Shah's regime was no picnic either so I'm not rooting for a return of the Pahlavi dynasty, though nearly 50 years on and being totally out of power, perhaps the heir is of a different mindset than his father, who being dead for decades likely has not been much if not any influence on his son. It's up to the people and the ex-pat community to weigh in on this.

And the world at large would be safer without Iranian nukes and Iranian terrorism that has slaughtered many thousands of people around the world in the last 45 years including many many Americans.

Of course, Even if Iran is liberated from the Mullahs, Islam itself goes on, same as it has since the dark ages. Sunni or Shiite, its goal is unchanging — the submission of the entire world and the formation of a global Islamic caliphate for all time.

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    ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

  • As engineers tonight were preparing for a standard static fire engine test at Boca Chica of the next Starship prototype, expected to fly on the tenth Starship/Superheavy test flight, the spacecraft suddenly exploded. (Iran? The Chi-Coms? Antifa? or the Deep State? - jjs)
    Major explosion during preparations for static fire test of Starship prototype

  • Victor Davis Hanson: The more the left rages, the more Trump rises—while Democrats trade policy for tantrums and canonize chaos in place of compromise. (they will never compromise their goal of absolute power, only the speed at which they push for it, and their ability to deceive the public-jjs)
    Can the Left Ever Stop Its Craziness?

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Daily Tech News 19 June 2025

—Pixy Misa

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - June 18, 2025 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

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Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT.

[Top photo: Woodley Park Metro Station Escalator, Washington, DC]

No, the mystery click is not Stairway to Heaven. That would have been too easy. Besides, the DC Zoo is at the top. While a good zoo, it doesn't qualify as Heaven.

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Animal UFC Cafe

—Ace

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Japan during cherry blossom season.

Chiropractor gives a giraffe a neck adjustment and she looks like she's in love.

Doggos taking a bath.

Dog actor does a great job and gets his big-time Hollywood salary of one (1) ball.

Jaguar waits in tree and then 1, pounces, and 2, seizes an alligator.

When you're not around, dogs get up to all sorts of nonsense.

What is this odd, adorable little critter? Some kind of weasel?

This squirrel knows it's gonna take a montage to beat the bullies in the big skiing race.

Dog thinks all it takes to get ice cream from the ice cream truck is to queue up in line and today, he's right.

The cutest dog on your block. (Contains Australian accent.)

Cat has the up-and-at-'em work ethic of a postal worker.

I was told that someone likes otters.

Big dog is the cutest little baby.

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Quick Hits

—Ace

New York state is facing a massive deficit so of course Kathy Hochul directs $50 million to be spent on defending illegal aliens from deportation.

Sounds like New York has too much money. Cut their federal funds to zero.

Might as well elect the radical Muslim socialist who has only been an American for seven years and who has screamed "Defund the Police" for most of those.

Here's NYC's next mayor getting violent with cops as he attempts to menace Tom Homan.

Let it burn. Ship every damn illegal criminal who the ACLU blocks from deportation to NYC, Boston, LA, and SF. Let them choke on illegal alien murders and rapes.

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They write it off, Jerry.

Trump is said to have blessed, privately, Israel's previous strikes but is asking them to hold off on a final round of decapitation strikes, in the hopes that madmen will finally find reason.

I doubt it, but, good luck.

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Candace Owens @RealCandaceO

The same people say Iran can't have a nuke because they are religious fundamentalists are the same people who hold the heretical belief that we must support Israel's non-stop campaign of murder, blackmail, land theft bombing & starvation of the innocent because 'God will bless those who bless the 1948 created nation of Israel'.

Noted Philosopher Whoopie Goldberg -- real name, Karen Johnson -- says that people living under Iran's terror regime have it better than blacks in America.

THEN EMIGRATE THERE. If you believe it, act on it.

If you don't act on it, you don't believe it, and you should stop lying.

I wouldn't hold my breath.

During a heated exchange on The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed that the experience of black Americans in the United States is equivalent to the conditions faced by citizens under the authoritarian regime in Iran.

The discussion began when co-host Alyssa Farah highlighted the severe human rights violations in Iran, noting that the regime will "literally throw gay people off buildings" and routinely suppresses basic freedoms. She argued that such conditions are vastly different from life in the United States.

Goldberg immediately rejected the comparison, responding that the US is known to "tie gay folks to the car." She then compared life in Iran to black Americans.

"I'm sorry, they used to just keep hanging black people," Goldberg said. "It is the same."

Farah pushed back, emphasizing that Iran in 2025 is nothing like the modern United States. She noted how if she were to walk the streets of Tehran wearing a skirt and her hair showing, she would be severely punished for it. "I think it's very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran," she explained.

Goldberg dismissed the distinction, replying, "Not if you're black," a remark that was met with applause from the audience.

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Republican Senators Open Hearings Into the "Massive Cover-Up" of Biden's Cognitive Decline
Democrats Boycott Hearings Entirely

—Ace

More hearings.

Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on Wednesday accused former Biden Cabinet officials, Democratic members of Congress and the media of participating in a massive "cover-up" to hide what they claim was former President Biden's obvious and alarming cognitive decline during his final two years in office.

"There was a conspiracy to hide the president's true condition by his family, by his staff, by the media, and many elected officials. This was a constitutional crisis bigger than President Biden, bigger than any single election, and one that cannot be absolved by the collective apology of the press and an election where the president's party lost," Cornyn said in his opening statement of a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Cornyn and Schmitt rolled out their accusations against the former president and his inner circle to a mostly empty room after most Democrats on the panel boycotted the hearing.

"Most"? Try "all."

Well, okay, one Democrat showed up for a short time.

Schmitt declared that Biden was "mentally unfit to carry out the responsibilities of the most powerful office in the world."

"Given his mental incapacity, the American people deserve to know who was running the country the last four years," he said.

Schmitt called it "deeply disappointing" that most Democrats on the panel chose to "boycott" the meeting and decided not to call a single witness to testify.

Schmitt claimed that Biden's decline "did not suddenly begin in June of 2024," when he performed disastrously at the presidential debate against Trump.

"It was a persistent and obvious truth that was evident for years to anyone who was willing to see it," he said.

Note that Cornyn asked Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson to testify. They refused.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) revealed Thursday he sought congressional testimony from CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios's Alex Thompson for a hearing later this month on former President Joe Biden's mental acuity while in office.

The pair are authors of Original Sin, a recently published book with revelations about the former president's alleged cognitive decline in the White House and the effort by those in Biden's orbit to orchestrate a "cover-up."

"We reached out to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, and they were otherwise occupied," Cornyn told reporters.

Neither reporter responded to a request for comment.

Why is this pussy asking for a voluntary appearance? Subpoena them. They claim they have inside information that can help Congress pass legislation to stop this from happening again.

Biden's nefarious doctor and Biden, Inc. business partner also refused to testify. They have subpoenaed him, but I imagine he will just refuse to answer, citing doctor-patient privilege.

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued a subpoena to Dr. Kevin O'Connor, President Joe Biden's physician, to appear for a deposition on June 27, 2025, as part of the investigation into the cover-up of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline and potentially unauthorized issuance of sweeping pardons and other executive actions.

Chairman Comer recently requested Dr. O'Connor appear voluntarily for a transcribed interview, but he refused. Last Congress, Chairman Comer also requested Dr. O'Connor appear for a transcribed interview to discuss his medical assessments and involvement in the Biden family's influence peddling racket, but the Biden White House blocked his testimony.

So why is Fake Jake Tapper getting a pass?

If Tapper and Thompson had written a book about Trump, and had been asked by Democrats to testify, you can be sure these straight-shootin' non-partisan Servants of the Truth would have been there with bells on.

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Maryland Man Arrested for Attempting to Stab a US Attorney
Plus: US Murder Rate Plummets, and Border Patrol Encounters Only 95 Illegals, The Lowest Single Day Number in History

—Ace

When I say "Maryland Man," I mean it like the Democrat-Media Regime means it.

I mean "illegal alien criminal."

This particular Maryland Man is from El Salvador and currently threatening to slit public servant's throats in the Albany, NY region, after fleeing from other jurisdictions due to a stack of warrants against him.

Oh, and he had just been deported, but snuck back in.

So these foreign army terrorists are trying to kill the US officials who are connected, in a very tenuous way, to their proper deportation.



An illegal immigrant in New York has been arrested for allegedly threatening a U.S. attorney with a knife.

The incident occurred Tuesday in the state capital of Albany when Saul Morales-Garcia, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, allegedly approached John A. Sarcone III, a U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, with a knife at a Hilton hotel.

Morales-Garcia allegedly pulled out the knife and lunged toward the federal prosecutor, the Times Union newspaper reports. Sarcone retreated into the hotel.

Security camera footage reviewed by police showed Morales-Garcia wielding a knife and appearing to go after Sarcone as he ran toward the Hilton's lobby. Morales-Garcia was previously deported, then apparently reentered the U.S. recently without authorization.

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Prosecutors argued that Morales-Garcia is a flight risk, as he has criminal charges pending in Georgia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and federal court, including an active warrant seeking his arrest in Georgia.

Who's going to cure cancer while this scholar is tied up in court?

From the Federalist: Coincidentally with the deportation of thousands of foreign invader murderers and gang members, the US murder rate plunges to the lowest levels in history.

John Lott:

Murder rates are plummeting. While we still have more than half a year to go, Kash Patel, the FBI's director, says that the U.S. is on track to have the lowest murder rate ever. The current record low occurred in 2014 when the FBI reported a murder rate of 4.45 per 100,000.

The question is: why? Law enforcement matters, but it is probably also that Trump is deporting criminal illegal aliens.

According to Patel, "Let good cops be cops," is the answer. "I'm gonna let you, the agents, the police officers, the sheriffs, go out there and do the work you so badly want to do. And I'm gonna give you the resources you need to do it. And I'm gonna take away the politicization and weaponization ... and that's what we've done."

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But there is another reason. Deporting criminal illegals may cause some illegals to lay low so that they don't risk getting caught. As the Wall Street Journal noted, "ICE operations have received so much attention, prompting migrants to be more cautious, according to agents and leaders."

Since President Trump's Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration, the FBI has actively invested over 1 million hours collaborating with ICE, DEA, and local police to arrest more than 10,000 illegal aliens. They are targeting Biden-era border crossers.

A lot of these illegals have criminal backgrounds and if they cut back on the amount of time they are committing to reduce the risks of getting caught, it could have a noticeable impact on crime rates. If you believe the Biden administration, 9 percent of the so-called "non-detained" illegals who were released into the U.S. had criminal backgrounds (662,566 out of 7.4 million released). That is almost assuredly an underestimate as "non-detained" illegals were overwhelmingly those who had voluntarily turned themselves in at the border, presumably the ones we should be least concerned about. It doesn't count the 2 million "gotaways" we detected crossing the border but failed to apprehend during the Biden administration, nor the unknown millions we never saw coming across the borders. This also assumes the Biden administration didn't underreport criminal backgrounds. And many countries, such as Venezuela, wouldn't provide information on the criminal backgrounds of their citizens.

There is other evidence that Trump's deportation efforts are making a difference in causing illegal aliens to lay low. For example, illegals are leaving the labor force. From January 2021 to January 2025, under Biden's administration, foreign-born workers filled approximately 4.3 million of the new jobs created, based on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). However, in just the last four months, the immigrant workforce has plummeted by 773,000 -- a staggering 18 percent reversal of that growth in such a short period of time.

A March headline in the New York Times notes: "Fearing roundups, many immigrants are staying home."

Nick Sortor @nicksortor

JUST IN: Tom Homan announces Border Patrol had only 95 encounters with illegals TOTAL yesterday, along the entire 2,000 mile southern border

This is the lowest number in HISTORY.

WAY TO GO, HOMAN, TRUMP, AND BORDER PATROL!

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Three Iranian Planes Fly to Oman as Israel Reportedly Begins Attacking the Ayatollah's Bunkers

—Ace

Iran just threatened "a surprise that will be remembered for centuries." Then they released a video strongly hinting they were about to attack the US or Israel with a nuke.


But now the The Bee can exclusively report on what this "surprise" is:

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There are claims on X that three Iranian planes have landed at Oman:

Nick Sortor @nicksortor

#BREAKING: At least THREE Iranian military planes have just left Iran and landed in Oman, the country mediating U.S.-Iran nuclear talks

A deal may be back on the table!

LFG!

Trump himself does not seem interested in a deal. First he said to reporters, "I'm in no mood to negotiate." Then, later, he posted on Truth Social:

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!


I really do not know why people who identify as on the right are on such a jihad to save the Ayatollah. They have completely reversed their previous support for military intervention. They haven't just adjusted it. They've fully embraced the Code Pink/Blame America First position, without ever even bother to explain why they've made this dramatic complete reversal of all their past beliefs. It's like this group just radicalized each other on X, all based on emotion and groupthink, so no one is able to say why this change in fundamental beliefs occurred. They just suddenly adopt this extremist left-wing position and then act like you're the weird one for not having joined them in this inexplicable journey to the Blame America First side.

Do they likewise believe that Obama did right in knocking down the Iranian uprising and pledging fealty to the Ayatollah?


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A Return to Sanity: Supreme Court Upholds Bans on "Gender Affirming Surgery" for Children 6-3 in a Major Repudiation of the Extremist Transgender Cult
Update: Thomas Warns Against Deferring to Fake "Experts"

—Ace

Sean Davis @seanmdav

BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's law banning genital mutilation of minors under the guise of so-called "trans" surgery.

"The Court's role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of [the ban on surgically mutilating minors], but only to ensure that the law does not violate equal protection guarantees," the Supreme Court ruled. "It does not. Questions regarding the law's policy are thus appropriately left to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process."


Fox:

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Tennessee law banning specific transgender medical treatments for adolescents in the state is not discriminatory, ruling 6-3 to uphold the law.

At issue in the case, United States v. Skrmetti, was whether Tennessee's Senate Bill 1, which "prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow 'a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex' or to treat 'purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity,'" violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The ACLU claimed that because girls who experience "precocious puberty" at ages as young as nine are given hormone blockers to delay their puberty until 12 or 13, it's "discriminatory" to forbid girls from taking hormone blockers to stop their puberty altogether, and then flood them with testosterone to create weird and unconvincing fake "boys."

That's like saying the law should treat a doctor who cuts into you to remove a tumor the same as a thug who stabs you on the street.

That law prohibits states from allowing medical providers to deliver puberty blockers and hormones to facilitate a minor's transition to another sex.

It also targets healthcare providers in the state who continue to provide such procedures to gender-dysphoric minors-- opening these providers up to fines, lawsuits and other liability.

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that the law question is not subject to heightened scrutiny "because it does not classify on any bases that warrant heightened review."

"This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field," he said. "The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound."

United States v. Skrmetti was one of the most closely watched cases of the Supreme Court's term, with potential ripple effects for ongoing legal battles over transgender rights -- including bathroom access and participation in school sports.

The ruling could also serve as a legal pretext in future cases involving LGBTQ+ protections, including whether sexual orientation qualifies as a "protected class" on par with race or national origin.

"The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it afford us license to decide them as we see best," he added. "Our role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of the law before us ... but only to ensure that it does not violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment. Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process."

All three liberal justices notably dissented in the case.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent that cited a long history of laws discriminating against others, noting that transgender persons in the U.S. make up less than 1% of the country's population. There are an estimated 1.3 million adults and 300,000 adolescents aged 13 to 17 who identify as transgender, according to the UCLA law school's Williams Institute.

She noted that SB1 "expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny."

"The majority contorts logic and precedent to say otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee's categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so long as 'any reasonably conceivable state of facts' might justify it," Sotomayor said, adding: "By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims."

"In sadness, I dissent," she said.

"Lifesaving medical treatment." Get f***ed you vile ugly swine.

...

Justice Samuel Alito cited "hotly disputed" medical studies on the alleged benefits of such medical treatments, and told the government's attorney that those studies "found a complete lack of high-quality evidence showing that the benefits of the treatments in question here outweigh the risks."

"Do you dispute that?" Alito asked during oral arguments.

In his concurrence, Justice Thomas had this to say about fake phony Expertism:

This case carries a simple lesson: In politically contentious debates over matters shrouded in scientific uncertainty, courts should not assume that self-described experts are correct.

Deference to legislatures, not experts, is particularly critical here. Many prominent medical professionals have declared a consensus around the efficacy of treating children's gender dysphoria with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. They have dismissed grave problems undercutting the assumption that young children can consent to irreversible treatments that may deprive them of their ability to eventually produce children of their own.

They have built their medical determinations on concededly weak evidence. And, they have surreptitiously compromised their medical recommendations to achieve political
ends.

The Court today reserves "to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process" the power to decide how best to address an area of medical uncertainty and extraordinary importance. Ante, at 24. That sovereign pre-
rogative does not bow to "major medical organizations." Post, at 5, n. 5 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.). "[E]xperts and elites have been wrong before--and they may prove to be wrong again." Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

That last part is Thomas citing himself, from a previous concurrence.

The full decision is here.

Meanwhile, another lowly district court judge, this one, get this, a Biden judge from Massachusetts, issues another insupportable nationwide ban.

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday broadened the scope of an earlier ruling that blocks the Trump administration from enforcing a controversial passport policy requiring Americans to list their sex "at conception," rather than their gender identity. The order now applies nationwide, protecting all transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans.

U.S. District Judge Julia E. Kobick, a Biden appointee, wrote that the plaintiffs in the case--originally just six named individuals--share the same injury as the broader class: an inability to obtain passports that accurately reflect their gender identity. Kobick concluded that the administration's policy is likely unconstitutional and not tied to any "important governmental interest."

The initial lawsuit was filed in February by the ACLU, its Massachusetts affiliate, and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP. It alleges the policy is driven by "impermissible animus" toward gender-nonconforming individuals. Following that, attorneys asked the court to expand the ruling to cover all individuals impacted by the rule, a request Kobick granted Tuesday.

The ruling halts enforcement of a key portion of President Trump's executive order, signed in his first hours back in office, which directed federal agencies to base official documents--including passports and Global Entry cards--on an individual's sex assigned at birth, not their gender identity. The policy also suspended the State Department's prior option that allowed applicants to self-select their gender marker, including the nonbinary "X" option.


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Blue Collar Wages Rise 2% In Just the First Five Months of Trump's Second Term, the Most in 60 Years

—Ace

Nice:

Blue-collar workers have seen real wage growth of almost two percent in the first five months of President Donald Trump's second term, the largest increase for any administration in nearly 60 years.

The 1.7% pay bump is in stark contrast to negative growth under Joe Biden, according to new data from the US Department of the Treasury.

Since Richard Nixon in 1969, Trump has been the only president to record positive growth for blue-collar workers in his first five months. He also achieved 1.3% in his first term.

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The recovery from a 1.7% decline recorded in Biden's first five months, as inflation outpaced earnings, suggests a shift in economic conditions for this financially stressed segment of the workforce.

"The only other time it's been this high was... during President Trump's first term," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told me on the latest episode of the "Pod Force One" podcast, out Wednesday.

"We've seen real wages for hourly workers, non-supervisory workers, rise almost 2% in the first five months. ... No president has done that before."

Falling inflation has driven the significant improvement in blue-collar wages, lifting workers' take-home pay and living standards.

Bessent says wage growth is also fueled by the president's "emphasis on manufacturing" and commitment to remove illegal migrants from the workforce.

"Biden opened the border, and it was flooded," said Bessent. "And for working Americans, that's a disaster because it's pressure on their wages."

Per a Harvard-Harris poll from June 11-12, the country now believes the economy is "strong," 52% to 43%.

As soon as Trump took office, the percentage of voters saying the country was on the right track shot up from 26% to 42%. (It has now dropped to 41%, which is probably just statistical noise.)

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Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

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Last week, Ace posted a column about a Congressional sideshow wherein Governor Hochul (D[emon], NY) claimed not to remember any of the particulars about an incident in New York City where an illegal alien decided to turn a citizen into a human torch on a subway train. (reminder: don't comment on old threads). While I don't believe for a minute that Hochul wasn't well aware of the details and used the typical "I don't recall" dodge, the wider point is important.

Mark Halperin has been talking about this for a while. Democrats don't know what the public knows, or what the public is thinking, because the left-wing media "wraps them in blue bubble-wrap" to protect Democrats from being confronted with the horrors caused by their policies. Democrat politicians never realize the public is getting sick of being set on fire by lunatic illegal aliens, or having their daughters kidnapped and raped by illegal aliens fleeing their home countries because of outstanding rape charges, because the Blue Bubble-Wrap Media refuses to report on these stories.

All lefties wrap themselves snugly in this Blue Bubble-Wrap and go for years without ever realizing that their policies are causing rapes and murders.

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The Morning Report — 6/ 18 /25

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids. So with things really heating up over Iran as well as here at home, both situations put the sudden rushing to the hospital last night of Kristi Noem, the head of our Department of Homeland Security, into a new light. It could be just a freaky coincidence, but the timing could not be at a more crucial moment.

First the details:

“Secretary Noem experienced an allergic reaction earlier today and was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and recovering,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement obtained by the Daily Caller. . . Noem was previously in Los Angeles, California, where Democratic Senator Alex Padilla interrupted a June 12 press conference she was conducting in response to the LA riots. Security forcibly removed the senator and reportedly handcuffed him. DHS accused Padilla of “disrespectful public theatre.”

Frankly, the fat filthy bastard is damned lucky to be alive. Because, given the flood of foreign criminals already in country as well as our own homegrown Leftist Schakowsky/Soros rent-a-mob cadres that always pop up in congressional hearings when they're not burnining looting and murdering in the name of peace love and understanding, If I were Noem, and likely carrying a firearm, I'd have not given a second thought to ventilating the fat bastard who was bull-rushing me.

And given what is happening now in Iran, with the potential for President Trump to deploy MOP ordnance to obliterate the last and perhaps most important Iranian nuclear facility inside and beneath the mountains at Fordow, The erased border courtesy of Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants that was already extremely porous prior to his installation as Obama's puppet in 2020, the potential for sleeper cells to cause murder and mayhem, on top of what the aforementioned native-born self-hating America-hating brainwashed Leftist droogs are already doing to us should scare the shit out of anyone who is even minimally aware of what's been going on at least since 9/11/01 or February of 1993 when we had the first World Trade Center truck bomb attack.

So now to square the circle of open borders and Islamic terrorism, With what's happening the name Padilla should set off some very loud alarm bells. Not Alex. But in this case one JOSE PADILLA who came to national prominence in the wake of 9/11/01.


Born in Brooklyn on October 18, 1970, Jose Padilla is an American citizen and a Muslim convert who was arrested in May 2002 and was thereafter detained by the U.S. government for three-and-a-half years as an “enemy combatant” who aspired to contribute to the worldwide Islamic jihad by killing large numbers of Americans.

In his early teens, Padilla joined a mostly Puerto Rican gang called the Latin Disciples. He went on to compile a rap sheet of both juvenile and adult crimes — offenses ranging from aggravated assault to unlawful weapons possession to attempted theft. He was also involved in a violent assault and shooting where his victim later died from the injuries that Padilla helped inflict.

In the early 1990s, Padilla became a working member of the Benevolence International Foundation, a charity that had close financial ties to the al Qaeda terrorist network, the Abu Sayyaf Islamic rebels in the Philippines, and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

. . . After 9/11, Padilla spent some time living with Atef in the house where the latter was eventually killed by a U.S. air strike in November 2001. Seeking to avoid further danger, Padilla went to Pakistan, where he became acquainted with Osama bin Laden’s deputy Abu Zubaydah. Padilla approached Zubaydah with an idea: He wanted to follow Internet instructions for creating a nuclear bomb, and then detonate it somewhere in the United States. Skeptical about Padilla’s ability to carry out such an attack, Zubaydah suggested that wrapping explosives in uranium (to create a radiological “dirty bomb) might be more feasible...

. . . On January 22, 2008, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke sentenced Padilla to 17 years and four months in prison, as opposed to the life sentence the government was seeking. In explaining her decision, Judge Cooke underscored the serious nature of Mr. Padilla’s offenses, but added: “There is no evidence that these defendants personally maimed, kidnapped or killed anyone in the United States or elsewhere. There was never a plot to overthrow the United States government.”

And where is this wonderful humanitarian and bust out quintessential Democrat today??? (Per Wikipedia) Padilla is serving his sentence at ADX Florence prison in Florence, Colorado. Padilla's prisoner number is 20796-424; he is projected to be released in 2026.

So, With the Iranian regime apparently on the ropes, and threatening to unleash hell on Earth, Is that mere bluster of the Mad Mullahs in the bunker shrieking "Steiner will come" or the 12th Imam will QQM?!!!!

Remember, that Iran has been enriching Uranium for years. and with a non existent southern border and a very poorly watched northern border to say nothing of thousands of miles of Atlantic and Pacific coastline plus seaports where anything can be smuggled in or where corrupt LE and CBP agents can be bribed to look the other way, it is certainly a distinct possibility that quite a bit of radioactive material is already within our borders ready to be weaponized and used by who knows how many other Jose Padillas are walking our streets waiting for the Mullahs, to give the Go code, or who will just act on their own if Tehran should fall.

And, as for radioactive material for a dirty bomb, you don't necessarily need weapons-grade U-235 or Plutonium or Cobalt Thorium-G or whatever is used to detonate Atomic or thermonuclear devices. All you need is a not so very large amount of low level radioactive material such as is used in the medical profession. Strap a few pounds to some propane tanks and set it off in Times Square or near the Pentagon or wherever to create a toxic cloud of radioactive fallout. No, I'm not giving away any deep dark secrets that the evil Muslim savages haven't already figured out probably courtesy of Hose-B Padilla 25 years ago.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared “the battle begins” in an ominous post Tuesday, hours after President Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender.”

“In the name of #Haider, the battle begins. Ali returns to #Khaybar with his Zulfiqar.” Khamenei wrote on X in Farsi, referring to Islam’s first imam, Ali, who won the Battle of Khaybar with the sword Zulfiqar.

Khamenei’s sinister message comes hours after the Islamic Republic’s state media also warned of a “surprise” on Tuesday night into Wednesday that the “world will remember for centuries.”

So, the bluster of a cornered rat, or is there something to this whether similar to the nightmare scenario I pondered above or perhaps something else?

Remember that Shiite Islam is predicated on armageddon being the precursor to their mythological 12th Imam returning to earth from some magic wishing well in the holy city of Qom to then usher in an eternal paradise on earth in the form of the world becoming Islamic for all time.

Now, as I understand it, the true believers regard/venerate that well as a scared site that must be protected at all costs. If a "STRAY" Israeli bomb were to take it out, it would also take out the fantasies of tens of millions of Muslims around the world. The 12th imam could never emerge. Islamic experts like Robert Spencer and others have stated this and when we had him on a previous episode of the podcast he reiterated this.

Forget Fordow. We need the John C. Holmes mega Qom Shot of all time to Seek out that well and destroy it. The psychological shock alone of that well's obliteration might well be more powerful and effective than the combined military defeats of Islam in all its wars against Israel and Western Christendom.

Meh, there's also that space rock in Mecca, but that's another story.

FYI, a quick heads up to be on the lookout for a new episode of the the podcast with me and CBD that should be posting in the sidebar by this afternoon, as well as at CJN and via our usual outlets.

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  • “Secretary Noem experienced an allergic reaction earlier today and was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and recovering,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement obtained by the Daily Caller.
    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Taken By Ambulance To Washington DC Hospital

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  • Michael Walsh: The Iranian mullahs are no better at fighting than Darius was (way back in 331 BC - jjs). . . The Israelis have shredded their Islamic cloak of teleological inevitability and have left them naked, figures of ridicule in a land they have terrorized for too long, and in which they now cower in fear: impotent old men whose god has failed them.
    In Praise of Instability

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Daily Tech News 18 June 2025

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • Why it has suddenly become difficult to buy a handheld gaming device. (The Verge) (archive site)

    The popular models - the Switch 2 and Steam Deck OLED - are out of stock.

    The less popular models suddenly had price increases.

    The bad models are, well, bad.

    And the recently announced Xbox-branded handhelds are potentially all of those, but most importantly aren't out yet.


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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 17, 2025 [scampydog]

—Open Blogger

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Good evening and thank you for checking in on the Tuesday, ONT. Some random, a few parts science, and 100% why not. Comment section won't bite - probably.

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Ministry of Silly Dances Cafe

—Ace

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Horses enjoy the beach.

Turtle takes on a dog. Winner: Dog. Flawless Victory.

This turtle thinks a lawnmower is just a big, loud turtle and wants to say hello.

Octopus using its camouflage.

Lazy dog 1.

Lazy dog 2.

It's not a trick, Michael -- it's an illusion.

ICYMI: Dog has a Major League swing.

ICYMI: Nosy dogs.

Baby elephant charges, but then embarrasses himself.

Dog tries to wake up his paw.

Cat misses her passed dog brother.

Golden retriever meets his new puppy brother.

Duck and little dog play.

Moo-sic appreciation.

Cuddling with rhinos.

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Iran Threatens a "Surprise the World Will Remember for Centuries" Tonight

—Ace

I don't want to be alarmist, but what they seem to be hinting at is dropping a nuke.

Breaking911 @Breaking911

IRANIAN STATE MEDIA: "There is a surprise tonight that the world will remember for centuries."

They also posted a video of a hand stroking a nuclear warhead.

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