The Morning Report — 6/ 18 /25

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.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• “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

• Can you guess who the 'No Kings' protesters were recruited by?
  Video: O’Keefe Undercover in L.A.
  
• 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

"NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS"
• California under Gavin Newsom has made its bed.
  Masks for terrorists but not for law enforcement
  
• I assume Soros Prosecutors and Hawaiian judges will have this vermin freed in no time with an apology for the inconvenience - jjs
  U.S. Attorney Charges Alejandro Orellana for Distributing Face Shields to Los Angeles Rioters
  
• “Rather than a model for the future, Los Angeles today offers a masterclass in urban dysfunction,” Kotkin wrote last week in “Los Angeles has fallen.” “Drive through the streets of the South Side or along Central Avenue – historically black L.A.’s main thoroughfare, now predominantly Hispanic – and the ambience increasingly resembles that of Mexico City or Mumbai: cracked pavements, dilapidated buildings, outdoor swap-meet markets and food stalls serving customers, much as one would see in the developing world.”
  L.A. Riots: Just One More Symptom Of Far-Left California’s Sad Decline

  
  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN

• 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.”
  Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei warns Israel ‘the battle begins’ hours after Trump called for ‘unconditional surrender’

• “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff,'” Trump wrote.
  Trump Touts ‘Total Control’ of Iranian Airspace, Says U.S. Knows Where Ayatollah ‘Is Hiding’
  
• President Donald Trump has signaled that he is open to a U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear sites
  What a US Strike on Iran's Fordow Enrichment Facility Would Mean for Tehran's Nuclear Program

• The son of the Shah breaks the silence. The nation has its signal.
  Heir to the Throne – The Return of the Son
  
• The exiled Crown Prince of Iran took to social media Tuesday to encourage dissident Iranians to rise up and help topple the Islamic Republic’s oppressive, 46-year hold on the nation. Reza Pahlavi, 64, is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran and his third wife Farah Diba. He was officially named Crown Prince of Iran at age seven in 1967 during his father’s coronation. The Islamic revolution overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979, forcing the shah and his family into exile.
  ‘End This Nightmare’: Exiled Crown Prince of Iran Urges Iranians to Rise Up Against the ‘Falling’ Regime
  
• A review of Persian-language outlets based outside Iran, which have broadcast a stream of comments and video updates from Iran residents in recent days, indicates that the conflict is widely seen as a war between Khamenei’s regime and Israel, not as an attack on the populace. (This is a very big deal and crucial both now and after the regime Please God is sent back to Hades from whence it came - jjs)
  ‘They strike, we dance’ — Iranians damn the regime amid Israeli barrage

• President Donald Trump has taken a page out of the Iranian playbook, according to Amit Segal
  WATCH: Israeli Journalist Explains Trump's 'Fabulous' Response to Israeli Strikes on Iran
  
• Daniel Greenfield: But too many Israelis think they’re losing.
  'Palestinians' Think Israel is Winning
  
• The Israel-Iran conflict, now in its fifth day, has seen extensive military operations by both sides. Overnight, Israeli forces conducted targeted strikes on key Iranian military sites, including a command center in Tehran, where Maj. Gen. Ali Shadmani, Iran’s wartime chief of staff, was killed. Shadmani had been appointed just days earlier, following the death of his predecessor, Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, in another Israeli strike on Friday.According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the strike that killed Shadmani occurred “in the heart of Tehran” late Monday, with the target presenting a “sudden opportunity.” In a statement, the IDF declared that Maj. Gen. Shadmani’s death “adds to a series of eliminations of Iran’s most senior military leadership and degrades the chain of command of the Iranian armed forces.”
  ICYMI: Israel Eliminated Iran’s Top Military Leader, Again.
  
• Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday defended President Donald J. Trump’s position on Iran in response to “crazy” accusations circulating on social media. Writing on X, Vance stated, “Look, I’m seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there’s a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue.”Vance noted Trump “has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” adding that Trump has encouraged his foreign policy team to reach a deal with Iran to achieve this goal, emphasizing that “Iran cannot have uranium enrichment” and that the America First leader has made it clear this would happen “one of two ways—the easy way or the ‘other’ way.”
  Here’s What VP Vance Had to Say About Trump and Iran…
  
• Robert Spencer: It has been implementing it for years.
  Iran’s Plan to Eliminate Israel

• Colonel Nathan McCormack called Israel a 'death cult' and questioned whether the United States is acting as Israel’s proxy. (I assume he is an Obama holdover/termite - jjs)
  Pentagon Official Removed From Joint Chiefs Of Staff For Anti-Israel Posts
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• The Tucker Carlson contingent isn’t only predicting doom and gloom — it’s also predicting the “end of the American empire” and accusing everyone on Trump’s side of being a “warmonger”:
  Unmasking the REAL 'America First' Traitors, Backstabbers, and MAGA-Phonies
  
• A GOP official in Congress told the Free Beacon 'there's no Republican divide,' stating that 'Republicans back Israel'
  Poll Finds Overwhelming Support for Israeli Strikes—and for Trump's Response—Among MAGA Base

  
  "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• The anti-ICE group gathered on one side of Federal Plaza, across the street from a federal courthouse, to await the alleged emergence of ICE vans they believed to be holding illegal immigrants.
  Mostly White Anti-ICE Protesters Clash With Black And Hispanic Pro-Cop Demonstrators In Manhattan
  
• The scene was chaotic, with agents attempting to separate Lander from the immigrant with whom he was walking...
  ICE Takes NYC Mayoral Candidate Into Custody
  
  
• As The Post exclusively reported, James has demanded that Oswego County’s Sheriff’s Office hand over documents that may show cooperation with federal agencies such as ICE and Homeland Security.
  An attorney general who HELPS bad guys and targets cops? Yep: Meet NY’s Letitia James

• Christopher F. Rufo: The underlying theory is that Donald Trump is an authoritarian leader on the cusp of becoming king.
  The “No Kings” Protest Is Pure Fantasy
  
• These protests not only came off as delusional but as inherently anti-American.
  ‘No Kings’ protests fall flat as Trump deportations gain in popularity
  
• Border Patrol agents did not release any illegal migrants into the United States during the month of May, a decrease from the more than 60,000 who were released into the U.S. the year before, according to a report.
  Promise Kept: Trump Blocked Every Border Migrant in May

  
  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Five city employees last year made more than the $400,000 annual salary of the president of the United States, according to the OTB report.
  Report: Riot-Ravaged L.A. Paid Out $1.1 Billion In Overtime Hours Last Year
  
• Arizona’s Court of Appeals finds that Tucson can be held liable for failing to abate the “public nuisance” resulting from a homeless encampment.
  The Latest Flashpoint in Cities’ Failed Response to Street Homelessness
  
• The judiciary was never meant to rule the republic unchecked—it's time the other branches, and the people, reassert their constitutional authority.
  Judicial Restoration, or Checking and Balancing the Judiciary

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  
  

• Since Richard Nixon in 1969, Trump is the only president to record positive growth for blue-collar workers in the first five months of his term. During his first term, Trump also achieved a 1.3 percent increase. The current wage growth recovery follows a 1.7 percent decline during Biden’s initial months in office, when inflation outpaced earnings.
  Working Class Hero: Blue-Collar Wages Surging Under Trump.

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Coming to a neighborhood near you.
  Algerian Muslim in France: ‘Give Me the Little Girl, or I’ll Kill You’

  
  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• Reviewers scrutinized several of the grant applications for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), the EPA program that awarded $20 billion to green groups connected to Democrat donors and insiders, identifying concerns such as “excessive” executive pay, curious financial statements and limited oversight, according to documents first obtained by The Free Press and additional findings uncovered and compiled in PPT’s new report. The GGRF budget far exceeded any budget in all of EPA’s history, and the PPT report argues that the program was not administered with appropriate levels of oversight.
  EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s ‘Gold Bars’ Went To Politically-Connected Orgs Over Internal Red Flags, Watchdog Finds
  
• San Francisco bans gas stoves in the name of nature—but won’t lift a finger to restore a valley John Muir called more beautiful than Yosemite.
  The Hypocrisy of San Francisco’s Hetch Hetchy Reservoir

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) initiated the lawsuit in March after the Trump administration cut roughly $400 million from the Ivy League university over its alleged failure to address antisemitism on campus. In the opinion, Trump-appointed district judge Mary Kay Vyskocil stated the challenge lacked standing as the plaintiffs themselves did not suffer any direct harm, and noted that Columbia itself was “conspicuously absent.”
  Trump Admin Scores Victory Against Columbia
  
• Should it become law, a House bill could help over a million children escape their zip-code-mandated public schools.
  Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Legislation Is Advancing
  
• Why private colleges should become part of the marketplace.
  University Abuse of Taxpayers Must End

  
  ABORTION

• Watchdog group warns of Planned Parenthood's growing online presence.
  Planned Parenthood Keeps Closing Facilities. But It Just Aborted A Record Number Of Babies.

  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• There’s been a new, disturbing development in the case of the Chinese plot to interfere in the 2020 election. 
  The FBI Was Ordered to Destroy Evidence of China’s 2020 Election Plot to Help Biden

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Biden junta gave $800M contract to a home-based company despite knowing its manager received past contracts through bribery.
  USAID Gave Known Con Man $800M Contract To Do Kamala’s Work On ‘Root Causes Of Migration’

  POLITICS

• While Trump unburdened us from what could have been.
  Kamala Harris: Still Burdened by What Has Been

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• After then-President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law throughout South Korea in December 2024, he was impeached and a “caretaker” government was put in place until elections could be held. Lee was elected June 3 and sworn in June 4. In the days since assuming office, Lee has taken a hard line on digital regulation, and it’s making some in the U.S. uneasy. (Beware slippery slopes - jjs)
  EXCLUSIVE: Tensions Mount As South Korea Plans On Targeting US Tech While Letting China Slide, Critics Say

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• In a press release, the food giant noted that the vast majority of its products — 90 percent — are already absent FD&C colors, otherwise known as synthetic dyes approved by the FDA.
  Food Giant Kraft Heinz Announces Plans to End Artificial Dyes by End of 2027

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• In 2021 the company said it was targeting the first orbital flights by 2030. Today’s update says it will be doing suborbital flights in 2029, which suggests the orbital flights will not occur in 2030.
  Honda’s grasshopper rocket successfully completes vertical take-off and landing
  
• This focus appears correctly centered on the FCC’s actual legal statutory authority to regulate the limited bandwidth of the electromagnetic spectrum to avoid conflicts in its use. Under Biden, the FCC instead focused on expanding its power beyond that statutory authority, claiming it had the right to determine how satellites were built, when they would be de-orbited, and in what manner. None of those activities have anything to do with bandwidth and the FCC’s legal responsibilities.
  Under Trump FCC shifts from regulating satellite construction and de-orbit to streamlining red tape

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• Therapists are abdicating their responsibility to examine underlying issues.
  Kink, sexual radicalism normalized by therapists, mental health training

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• President Donald Trump showered praise on America’s soldiers for their sacrifices on Saturday during the 250th anniversary parade, celebrating the U.S. Army while the left-wing late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel mocked and ridiculed the event. “After all the hype, and money, somewhere around 50 million dollars, it was… boring,” Kimmel said Monday on Live.
  Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Mock U.S. Army 250th Anniversary Parade: ‘Big, Stupid, and Boring’
  
• A new YouGov survey reveals tattoos are more common among Republicans than Democrats. Pollsters asked 1115 U.S. adult citizens if they’d ever had a tattoo. 19% of Democrats answered “Yes, currently.” 27% of Independents and 27% of Republicans said the same. YouGov asked Americans the same question in 2015. They returned nearly opposite results. A decade ago, 26% of Democrats and 26% of Independents said they had a tattoo, while just 16% of Republicans said the same.
  Cultural Shift No One Is Talking About Perfectly Explains Why Democrats Are Bleeding Voters
  
• The rhetoric around Juneteenth celebrations is clearly intended to compete with and marginalize the Fourth of July.
  Park Service Wrongly Celebrates Juneteenth As ‘National Independence Day’

• Go fall asleep on the subway and wake up on fire, then contemplate your worldview as your skin melts like so much burned cheese whiz - jjs
  Filthy Slag Piece-of-Shit Shit-Whore vile ingrate Actress Ellen Barkin Shares ‘Poem’ Calling Kristi Noem a ‘C*nt’ as Homeland Security Sec. Rushed to Hospital
  
• Christian Toto: Producer Brian Grazer's Trump vote yields shocking blowback from peers
  Is Hollywood’s Anti-Trump Blacklist Worse Than We Thought?

  HITHER & YON

• The Food Network star died at her home in Brooklyn on the morning of Tuesday, June 17, at the age of 55. The New York City Police Department now shared that Burrell was found “unconscious and unresponsive” and pronounced dead at the scene.
  Anne Burrell found ‘unconscious and unresponsive’ as details of celeb chef’s shocking death are revealed

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