The Morning Report — 12/19/25

Good morning kids. Not to toot my own horn but am I good or what?! In yesterday's Morning Report, I wrote:

we have two separate shootings on two of the nation’s top campuses, Brown University and at MIT. . .Are these incidents all connected somehow. Given the assassination of Charlie Kirk and several failed attempts on President Trump as well as the violent rhetoric and actual violence and acts of terrorism by the Left cheered on and encouraged by the Democrat propagandist media and the Democrats themselves not just in the Trump era but virtually throughout our history. Well anything is possible, and maybe the MIT Professor had links to Academia’s bête noire The State of Israel or was targeted by the Chi-Coms or other foreign state actors? Meh, just spit-ballin’ here. Don’t cost nuthin’. . .  

Well, the gunman offed himsef and it turns out he was a Portuguese national, as was his victim at MIT. What his connection to the victims at Brown is unclear, except for the fact that he attended Brown at one point. But here's the kicker:

Israeli officials are reportedly investigating a possible Iranian connection to the murder of senior MIT nuclear scientist Prof. Nuno F. G. Loureiro, who was reportedly shot at his home on Monday evening by unknown assailants and died in the hospital a few hours later. Professor Loureiro, 47, was the director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), whose faculty he joined in 2016. He was born and raised in Portugal, earning an undergraduate degree from the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon and a Ph.D. from Imperial College in London, then spending several years at the Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion in Lisbon before moving to the United States. . . “The Israeli investigation is being conducted against the backdrop of Loureiro’s sensitive field of research,” JP reported. “However, informed sources have emphasized that at this stage, there is no unequivocal determination or evidence linking the murder to a state or intelligence operation.”

The Jewish magazine Forward on Wednesday sought to debunk social media rumors that Loureiro was killed because he was an outspoken supporter of Israel and Jewish people as unfounded. The rumors appear to be based on some social media posts that were mistakenly attributed to Prof. Loureiro, but actually written by someone else using the same name, along with a photo posted to social media that claimed to show a “Stand With Israel” sign in the professor’s window. . . There has been much speculation about such a connection, since the killer has proven remarkably elusive in both cases, and Loureiro’s home in Brookline is only about 50 miles from Brown University, so it would not be difficult for the killer to get from one murder site to the other in less than two days.

Well about me saying "Am I good or what?" I'll go with the "or what" choice. As I said, given everything going on both at home and abroad and the Venn diagram of events intersects at quite a few points. Almost any day of the week, the links we have can be played almost like that old game called "Mad Libs" no not angry leftists but a play on the expression Ad-lib, although there are myriad Mad Libs/angry leftists that populate virtually every link to one degree or another. Where or how the victims and perpetrator in these killings are connected vis a vis the motive is still unknown, and as President Trump is fond of saying, we'll just have to wait and see. Unless of course the propaganda media and their paymasters in the institutional left deem the truth way to inconvenient and damaging to their narrative.

As in this case:

How bad is the establishment media? How much does it present propaganda disguised as news? How low will it stoop? Here’s a case study.

A “Sioux Falls man” was arrested on Tuesday. It seems that this particular Sioux Falls man was minding his own business, not bothering anybody, livestreaming on Facebook, when he suddenly decided to let the world know that all was not right in the world of Sioux Falls Man. He announced, right on his Facebook livestream, that he was planning to burn a building down. He also brandished a gun and a knife. . . Having thus advertised his intentions to the world, Sioux Falls man was arrested, and the local media covered the story. Yet the way that one Sioux Falls “news” outlet presented the facts has implications that go far beyond Sioux Falls and the story of one local boy who went bad. . . You’d reasonably expect, or even assume, that this was a photo of the Sioux Falls man who was livestreaming and announced his plans to commit an act of arson. Yet not only was it not a photo of the perp, but it was a photo that showed someone who was about as different from the perp as it would be possible to get. . . the real Sioux Falls man who issued this arson threat was not the man in KELO’s photo. Instead, he was a black man named Mohamed Mansarry. Likely because of all the attention KELO received from their false photo (End Wokeness has 3.9 million followers on X), it has taken down the story that it initially circulated with the misleading photo; now all there is at that link is a Page Not Found notice. . .
The story that KELO now has up carries Mohamed Mansarry. But what was going on with that other photo? One X user offered the most likely explanation: “The media operates as a laundering service for the regime’s persistent failures. This visual deception in Sioux Falls is a blatant example of narrative control. KELO News substitutes a stock photo of a white man for Mohamed Mansarry to preserve a hollow multicultural illusion. This is a calculated attempt to sanitize demographic reality. You liberal sycophants swallow this visual poison because you fear the truth more than the fire Mansarry threatened to start. The press functions as the propaganda wing of a crumbling state that relies on your blindness to survive.”

At the tail end of the latest edition of the podcast CBD and I were reminiscing about the good old days growing up in the greater NYC area. For me it was the Flatbush/Midwood section of Brooklyn, having graduated from what was an outstanding example of what the concept of the Melting Pot ought to be: Midwood High School, where whatever your religion, ethnicity or background, we all somehow managed to get along and embraced not only our heritages but our common heritage of being American. Anyway, when we were off the air, CBD asked me about notable alumni:

Unfortunately one of my predecessors was Woody Allen and some years after I ventured as far away as across the street to Brooklyn College, came the truly execrable Hakeem Jeffries. I don't know if fellow alums Didi Conn, Morty Gunty or David Peel collectively offset the latter two.

But sadly, one of my own classmates, who long ago and far away I once considered a friend. I haven't seen nor spoken with him in ages and with this story I likely never will:

Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead,” network medical analyst Jonathan Reiner said the “manic cadence” of President Donald Trump’s White House address raised medical concerns.

One of Dr. Reiner's former patients was the late VP Dick Cheney. IIRC way back when when Cheney either had one of his dozens of heart attacks or was diagnosed with a serious heart ailment early on in Dubya's first term, I believe Reiner operated on him, and he became a go-to press source for politician-related medical stories. Anyway, Oh Johnny, my old friend and classmate, it pains me to say this but that you've let yourself descend to the level of being a flaming asshole paid propagandist with an MD shingle is disgusting and disappointing beyond belief. I'm ashamed and embarrassed for you, and I cannot believe we came up together in the same environment.

Perhaps this story is too personal but it is nevertheless illustrative of the nature of both the media as well as how one's personal politics can cloud any sense of ethics and decency, or more frighteningly that their personal politics and blinkered uninformed worldview gives them a sense of moral superiority that they are justified in doing what they do. Lying is truth telling to them. They have gone full Orwellian 1984. Meh, basta cosi.

Elsewhere, shiver me timbers!!!

Patriots of the Caribbean: Sen. Mike Lee Bill Authorizes Privateers to Combat Cartels Outside U.S. Borders — “The Constitution provides for Letters of Marque and Reprisal as a tool against the enemies of the United States,” Lee said. “Cartels have replaced corsairs in the modern era, but we can still give private American citizens and their businesses a stake in the fight against these murderous foreign criminals. The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization act will revive this historic practice to defend our shores and seize cartel assets.”

God forbid the Democrats seize control . . . I can imagine them one day deputizing Antifa goons to use deadly force on suspected conservatives! Nous Somme les deux Charlies maintenant - Kirk et Hebdo .

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Providence police have identified a former Brown University student and Portuguese national as the suspect in Saturday’s shooting at the Ivy League school. 
  Brown, MIT shooting suspect ID’d — after he’s found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound
  

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• “Over the years, Charlie and Turning Point have been attacked by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, which villainizes our open-dialogue approach on campuses,” Andrew Sypher, Turning Point USA Executive Vice President of Field Operations, said.
  Turning Point USA Executive Testifies to Congress About How SPLC ‘Villainizes’ Conservatives Like Charlie Kirk

  
  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS

• The denaturalization plan, detailed in The New York Times, will be spearheaded by USCIS Director Joe Edlow and focus on referring 100 to 200 denaturalization cases every month to the agency’s Office of Immigration Litigation.
  Trump’s USCIS Seeks to Strip Naturalized Citizenship from Immigration Fraudsters

• The case underscores systemic failures in welfare oversight, with taxpayers bearing the cost and legitimate recipients facing increased scrutiny.
  $7 Million SNAP Fraud Scheme Uncovered, Run by Haitian Immigrant Duo.

• “People go where they have connections.”
  Intervention Leads to Immigration

  
  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The world’s major religions needs a better answer to Islam.
  The Religion of the Strong Horse

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Within just 24 hours, two Jewish men were attacked in Brooklyn in incidents now under investigation by the NYPD. 
  ‘It’s Open Season’: Antisemitic Attacks in NYC Highlight Broader Threat, ‘This is Mamdani’s NY’

• A high-profile Zohran Mamdani appointee resigned Thursday after newly unearthed posts revealed a series of antisemitic comments online — including rants about “money hungry Jews” and defunding NYPD “piggies.” The short-lived appointment fell apart once the Anti-Defamation League of New York and New Jersey demanded answers Thursday from Mayor-elect Mamdani’s team about whether its members knew about Catherine Almonte Da Costa’s past antisemitic posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. Da Costa, whom Mamdani tapped on Wednesday as the city’s next director of appointments, had several vile stereotype-laden posts from 2011 and 2012, the ADL revealed in a post on X
  Zohran Mamdani appointee resigns after vile antisemitic social media posts resurface (Meh, the Islamunist bench of Einsatz-Groupie Jew-haters runs very deep - jjs)

  BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH

• Cops from New South Wales (NSW), the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) responded to a tip of a “violent act” in planning, according to an NSW Police statement. The men were headed for unknown reasons to Bondi Beach and five were arrested, reported news.com.au
  Australian Police Reportedly Ram Car To Foil Suspected Second Terror Plot In Days
  
• Bondi Beach was the site of last weekend's ISIS-inspired antisemitic terror attack.
  Australian Police Arrest 7 Near Bondi Beach Over Suspected Plot To Carry Out ‘Violent Act’

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Nothing Trump has done, or what his critics accuse him of doing, even compares to this
  Two New Tales Of FBI Corruption Should Make Everyone Furious

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The consumer price index rose 2.7 percent from a year ago, the Department of Labor said, down from three percent in September and below the 3.1 percent forecast by economists. The report was delayed by the shutdown of the federal government that stretched from early October through mid-November.
  Inflation Unexpectedly Tumbles To 2.7%, Much Better Than Expected, Core Inflation Falls to Lowest Since Early 2021
  
• There’s no denying that Biden's economic legacy is a disaster. Inflation averaged nearly 5% during his tenure and peaked at a jaw-dropping 9.1%, the worst inflation crisis in generations. Democrats' reckless spending spree fueled the fire, and American families paid the price.
  The Economic Comeback Under Trump Is Very Real
  
• Gasparino: . . . Trump just needs to work on the messaging
  There’s positive signs for US economy but...
  
• 47 seems to have forgotten how to appeal to those feeling left behind at such a critical juncture for the nation — and his Barnum & Bailey second presidency.
  Affordability-Addled Americans Want Dr. Marcus Welby, The Donald Gave ‘Em P.T. Barnum

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The incidents have left communities grieving and sparked an ongoing investigation into potential links between the two crimes.
  Brown, MIT Shootings Possibly Linked, Investigation Suggests.
  
• Professor Loureiro, 47, was the director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), whose faculty he joined in 2016. He was born and raised in Portugal, earning an undergraduate degree from the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon and a Ph.D. from Imperial College in London, then spending several years at the Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion in Lisbon before moving to the United States.
  Report: Israel Investigates Possible Iran Link in Killing of MIT Nuclear Scientist

• Douglas Murray: Even Trump haters are having to admit that it’s working. Long-time DC resident Andrew Sullivan this week wrote a mea-culpa column in which he had to fess up.
  Douglas Murray: Trump cleaned up crime in DC – and taught everyone a lesson in public safety

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• The story that KELO now has up carries Mohamed Mansarry. But what was going on with that other photo? One X user offered the most likely explanation: “The media operates as a laundering service for the regime’s persistent failures. This visual deception in Sioux Falls is a blatant example of narrative control. KELO News substitutes a stock photo of a white man for Mohamed Mansarry to preserve a hollow multicultural illusion. This is a calculated attempt to sanitize demographic reality. You liberal sycophants swallow this visual poison because you fear the truth more than the fire Mansarry threatened to start. The press functions as the propaganda wing of a crumbling state that relies on your blindness to survive.”
  ‘Sioux Falls Man’ Is Arrested, and There’s Something Weird About the News Coverage
  
• Where macho feminism takes us.
  The Trouble With Female Leftist Reporters
  
• Luke Yarwood, 36, pleaded guilty at Bournemouth Crown Court to two counts of publishing writen material intended to stir up racial hatred.
  UK man jailed for anti-migrant posts condemning Islamic attacks on German Christmas markets after relative rats him out to cops

• Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead,” network medical analyst Jonathan Reiner said the “manic cadence” of President Donald Trump’s White House address raised medical concerns. (Oh Jonathan, My old friend and classmate, it pains me to say this but that you've let yourself descend to the level of being a flaming asshole propagandist with an MD sheepskin is disgusting; I'm ashamed and embarrassed for you - JJS)
  CNN’s Reiner: ‘Manic Cadence’ of Trump’s Speech Raises Health Concerns
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• ‘The EU’s AI Act should be a wake-up call for every American who cares about sovereignty and free expression.’ ‘The idea that a laissez-faire approach to artificial intelligence protects free markets is no longer tenable when Europe is already writing and enforcing the rules.’
  New Heartland Institute Study: Europe Is Now Regulating America’s AI
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "The frightening part to me, however, is the weak response by parents. Only half are convinced this technology is harming their kids, and even those who do believe so are not taking it away from their children, only limiting its use in a variety of superficial and generally ineffective ways."
  New study: AI is corrupting the minds of children

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

• “Trump Media & Technology Group built uncancellable infrastructure to secure free expression online for Americans, and now we’re taking a big step forward toward a revolutionary technology that will cement America’s global energy dominance for generations,” TMTG Chairman and CEO Devin Nunes said in a statement.Trump Media Announces $6 Billion Merger With Tech Giant To Spearhead ‘Fusion Energy’ Revolution

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Conservatives can’t save the country by funding their enemies—defunding the Department of Education would return billions to taxpayers, cut grift, and let education compete.
  Conservatives can’t save the country by funding their enemies—defunding the Department of Education would return billions to taxpayers, cut grift, and let education compete.

• The teacher was concerned for ‘their’ personal safety.
  ‘Non-Binary’ Teacher Refused to Teach 10-Year-Old Son of Conservative School Board Member

• 10 percent of the school's graduates since 2014 bear the surname of the ruling Al Thani family, according to a Middle East Forum report
  Northwestern Says Its Qatar Campus Gives Middle Eastern Women a Quality Education. Nearly 40 Percent of Its 2020 Graduates Came From Elite Qatari Families.

• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reportedly considering adding a ‘black box’ warning to COVID-19 vaccines to highlight potential side effects.
  COVID Boosters Linked to Elevated Risk of Dementia-Linked Virus.

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Loudmouthed Texas Democrat announces U.S. Senate run after taking money from Jeffrey Epstein
  Bombshell Report: Crockett Charged with Assaulting Police Officer in 2022

  POLITICS

• Not his name. Not his face. But his presidency, his agenda, and the remaining years of his administration absolutely are.
  Vote like Trump is on the ballot in 2026—because he is
  
• Stefanik, whose team argues she has the best shot at defeating incumbent Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, is facing Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. Even though Stefanik currently leads Blakeman by 31 points, President Donald Trump has asserted both are “great people” and declined to get involved in the race at this point.
  Elise Stefanik Went Full MAGA — So Where Is Her Trump Endorsement?
  
• If Hilton and Bianco advance, it could lead to a Republican governor in California for the first time since 2011.
  Former Fox Host, UK PM David Cameron Advisor Tops CA Governor Primary.
  
• “So, all this stuff they’re doing with the not getting off of the trans for everyone, not getting off of the just racial politics, the victimhood politics, the soft on crime politics…none of this stuff is actually helping their brand, amongst themselves.”
  Shock Poll Reveals Democrats at Worst Level of the Century (take another poll New Year's eve 2100 and call me - jjs)

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Fred Fleitz: Trump’s peace-through-strength approach has reversed Biden-era weakness, restoring deterrence, ending conflicts, and reasserting American leadership at home and abroad.
  Trump’s Christmas Gift to America: A Year of US Global Leadership and Peacemaking
  
• . . . how President Trump has restored America's power of deterrence and global prestige.
  President Trump’s Foreign Policy Realism and Successes
  
• Another year of useless UN pronouncements and conferences.
  Two Fade-Outs and a Farce

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act authorizes President Donald Trump to commission American operators under letters of marque to seize cartel property and persons on land or sea outside the United States.
  Exclusive — Patriots of the Caribbean: Sen. Mike Lee Bill Authorizes Privateers to Combat Cartels Outside U.S. Borders (I can imagine Democrats one day deputizing Antifa goons to use deadly force on suspected conservatives! Nous Somme Charlie Kirk et Hebdo maintenant - jjs)

• The Indo-Pacific is where global power now concentrates, and decades of U.S. neglect have left deterrence against a rising China urgent, fragile, and racing against time.
  Deterrence by Denial in the Indo-Pacific
  
• The deal prompted an angry backlash from China which continues to threaten the independent, democratic state on an almost daily basis.
  U.S. Approves Sale of $11 Billion-Worth of Arms to Taiwan

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• I negotiated directly with the drug companies in foreign nations to which were taken advantage of our country for many decades to slash prices on drugs and pharmaceuticals by as much as 400 500 and even 600% in other words, your drug costs will be plummeting downward, and I use the threat of tariffs to get foreign countries who would never have done it to pay the cost of this giant dollar reduction.
  ‘I’m Doing What No Politician Has Ever Done’: TrumpRx Delivers Historic Price Cuts Up to 600%
  
• The Executive Order aims to improve research, access, and guidance for medical marijuana and CBD products.
  Trump Expands Medical Marijuana and CBD Research, Orders DOJ to Expedite Cannabis Reclassification.
  
• If we handle it right, a more effective, more humane vision of medicine is within reach.
  Is AI the Rx for U.S. Health Care?

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The deadline for this report suggests that Trump’s executive order today is precisely aimed at providing Isaacman the political clout he needs to pull those astronauts from [the spring SLS-Orion lunar] mission, for legitimate safety concerns. When he releases this report in March, he will do so with great fanfare, in a manner that will allow him to take such a politically charged action.
  
  New Trump executive order today guarantees major changes coming to NASA’s Moon program
  
• Flammarion Crater is of interest because some scientists believe it once held a lake. These channels on the periphery of the crater floor support that hypothesis, especially as they seem to drain downward into the crater.
  Ancient Martian drainage into crater lake, now turned into ridges

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

• Fuscarino has close ties to New Jersey’s governor-elect Mikie Sherrill (D) and other Democrat state officials.
  LGBTQ Group Leader Charged With Assaulting Foster Child.
  
• “Collectively, these actions will ensure that the federal government in no way funds directly gender transition procedures on minors, and also does not fund facilities that perform these procedures on minors,” the official stated.
  HHS Moves To Defund Hospitals And States Pushing ‘Gender Transition’ On Children
  
• The mayor-elect’s gender agenda is built more on dogma than evidence.
  Mamdani’s LGBTQ Morality Trap

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• A disembodied notion of American identity means that America is really nothing at all, and no one is really an American.
  Vivek Ramaswamy Is Wrong About American Identity And Wrong About America
  
• The new name reflects bipartisan support for the cultural center.
  Kennedy Center Renamed Trump Kennedy Center Following Unanimous Board Decision.
  
• Those on the left who label Robert E. Lee a traitor and call for statues of him to be torn down have no interest in the historical facts or good faith debate.
  The Left’s Real Target In Its Latest Attack On Robert E. Lee Is America Itself

  HITHER & YON

• "God has given us an opportunity to achieve Charlie's almost impossible goal."
  Charlie Kirk Gave His Team An Impossible Task. Now They’re Fighting To Make It A Reality.

• Christian Toto: Thoughtful undead thriller puts emphasis on healing, not head shots
  ‘We Bury the Dead’ Offers Somber Spin on Zombie Craze

• A powerful book unveils Nazism after the lights went out.
  When the “Master Race” Sat in a Jail Cell

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