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CNN reports the IRS is preparing to rescind Harvard's tax-exempt status:

The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices.

A final decision on rescinding the university's tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said.

Via Ed Morrissey, who notes the Supreme Court voted 8-1 to uphold the stripping of tax-exempt status from Bob Jones University for failing to act in "the public interest" (there, alleged discrimination against non-whites).

Surprise! The leftwing socialist BLM supporter who fire-bombed the residence of the Jewish governor of PA -- not that you'd know that from the media -- turns out to have acted as a terrorist to support the Palestinians.

ABC "News:"

The suspected arsonist who allegedly tried to kill Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro decided to firebomb his official residence because of "what he wants to do to the Palestinian people," according to a search warrant signed by Pennsylvania State Police.

Investigators obtained several warrants as part of the investigation into the early Sunday morning arson attack, including for suspect Cody Balmer's storage unit, electronic devices and parents' home, where he told a Dauphin County judge he had recently been living.

Balmer, 38, targeted Shapiro "based upon perceived injustices to the people of Palestine," one of the warrants said, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

That'll give the New York Times another chance to hide highly-relevant information.

The FBI agent arrested for attempting to take top secret information overseas -- and who tried to frame Giuliani as a Russian agent -- is being defended by Hunter Biden's law firm.

An arrested FBI agent who had publicly alleged Trump ally Rudy Giuliani may have been compromised by Russia and who had denied the FBI had mishandled its investigation of Hunter Biden is now represented by a law firm that defended Joe Biden's son.

The agent, Jonathan Buma, who had handled confidential human sources (CHSs) for the bureau and whose home had been raided by the FBI back in 2023, was arrested at JFK Airport in New York City in March for the alleged illegal disclosure of confidential information. He is being prosecuted in California, where he was based as an FBI agent.

Buma, whose previous claims to Congress and the media alleged that he was involved with helping special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into debunked claims of Trump-Russia collusion and who has repeatedly taken aim at Giuliani while defending the bureau's slow walking of the Hunter Biden investigation, is now being defended by a high-profile law firm that defended Joe Biden's son and attacked the federal investigation into him, Just the News has learned.

Serpentine spinner James Carville tells the progressive wing to leave the Democrat Party.

Democratic strategist James Carville suggested in a Tuesday video that far-left individuals should formally break away from the Democratic Party.

Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, 45% would prefer the Democratic Party become "more moderate," according to Gallup polling published in February. Carville, in a Politicon video, argued that far-left elements are hurting the party's appeal and proposed "a schism" as a possible solution.

"The only thing I'd ask is just don't use the word 'Democratic' in any title that you have, because most Democrats that I know that are running for office don't want your name, don't want you to be part of the deal," Carville said. "Yeah, sure, they would be glad to take your votes. Who wouldn't? Everybody wants to get as many votes as they can. Maybe you come up with your own name."

"And by the way, nothing against -- after the election, we can sit down and do like is done in parliamentary governments or governments around the world," he continued. "You sit down and you say, 'Okay, we want to be part of a governing majority. And we have these things that we want you to do to bring us in.' And we have negotiations and we figure a way that we can live with different parties, different titles, but under the same general philosophical roof."

While Carville said he agrees with most of the "faculty lounge and identity left" policy goals, he drew a line on what he called "pronoun politics."

"I think that if this election did not teach you how damaging that is, I don't think there's anything that I can tell you. And you say, 'This guy is stuck in another century -- not another decade -- and he represents nothing to do with the future of our movement.' I can accept that," he said. "You're not really going to hurt my feelings. So maybe we could have a kind of amicable split here and we go to post in 2026. Because you don't ever run. They never run against a Republican. Okay? All they do is run against other Democrats."

"I don't quite understand why you're so anxious to have the word 'Democrat' in the description of what you do. But maybe we can have an amicable split here and you go your way and we go our way," he continued. "And after the election, we come together and see how much common ground we can find. I know this is of heresy. It's always been -- the Democratic Party has always been the coalition. People said we have to work hard in the coalition."

For instance, the Democratic strategist said he recalls when the party attempted to unite "southern segregationist Democrats" and "more progressive Democrats" under the Democratic label.

"Maybe it's just not worth it anymore ... maybe what I think is that what you are proposing -- which are stupid fucking buttons with jackass pronouns on it -- is something that no one in the country really wants," Carville said. "And in fact, it turns people off and costs us votes."

Carville also asserted during a Thursday podcast that the Democratic Party will no longer choose its candidates based on their gender, race or ethnicity.

"No one gives a shit anymore in the Democratic Party what gender you are, what race you are, what ethnicity you are," he said. "They just want to win."

Moreover, he said during an April 3 discussion that Democratic swing-state senators felt that overcoming their party's brand was their most significant challenge as candidates, particularly noting Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego and Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who both were elected in 2024.

"If you talk to, like, Senator Liz Slotkin or Ruben, they'll tell you the hardest thing they had to overcome was a 'D' after their name, okay?" Carville said. "That was the one thing that they had to -- we have created a party for people to run from, not to run on."

We need to purge the military of the progressive quislings.

There is a cancer in America's military ranks, and it must be expunged before it's too late. That cancer lies in uniformed service members' widespread rejection of the uniquely American concept of civilian control of the military and disregard for the absolute necessity that America's military officers remain apolitical in the face of the constitutional will of the electorate.

Recent events reveal this cancer, and they include the relief for cause of Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield after she reportedly refused to hang photos of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on her headquarters' customary "Chain of Command" board and reportedly told her subordinates in a town hall that she would "wait [the Trump administration] out" the next four years. They also include the relief for cause of Col. Sussanah Meyers, commander of the U.S. Space Force's base in Greenland, after she openly questioned (to all of her subordinates via email) Vice President J.D. Vance's official pronouncements regarding the United States, Greenland, and Denmark.

Since Trump's inauguration, numerous other senior generals and admirals have been relieved by President Trump for various publicly unspecified reasons, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown; Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti; Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, the commandant of the Coast Guard; and Air Force Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command. Each of these four-star firings is publicly shrouded in a certain degree of mystery, but rumors abound that so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) played a part in one way or another.

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Since Trump's inauguration, I have been flooded with reports of insubordination in the ranks toward Trump and Hegseth. Those reports range from fairly senior officers in the Pentagon showing open disrespect around the E-Ring coffee maker, all the way down to junior enlisted disrespecting their president and secretary of defense in the ship's galley or the chow hall.

I hate this smug, self-assured bullshit.

"I know I'm right, and people must be dumb or immoral to disagree with me."

It's an easy way to go through life, because then you never have to think seriously about why your worldview is a justification for the mass invasion of the… https://t.co/b6ff7QYlyZ

— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 16, 2025

The All-Women Space Tourists are being mocked, including by fellow left-wing feminists:

Men and women used to follow a rule: When you've achieved something great, don't praise yourself. Praise other people for helping you succeed, or praise God for his benevolence. When people are putting the spotlight on you, share it.

Don't call yourself "hero," in short.

But left-wing feminists do not follow this rule. Oh, they are just as bothered by men being douchey narcissists, but they've decided that society just doesn't value their Feminist Achievements enough, so they constantly lavish themselves in praise.

For some reason, they think this kind of narcissistic self-regard is charming and "inspirational" when rich liberal women engage in it.

They're wrong, like they're wrong about everything else.

posted by Ace at 06:11 PM

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