The Morning Report — 12/24/25

Good morning kids. It's Christmas EVE and here's wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas. I'll try to keep it as brief as I can today. First we have reports of some kind of gas explosion at a nursing home just outside of Philadelphia in Bucks County. There are two confirmed fatalities as well as numerous injuries from the explosion and subsequent partial collapse of the structure that has left many elderly residents trapped. And with another major cold front set to sock in the northeast, the timing is perfect. Prayers for all those affected, and for those involved in rescue, recovery and emergency services.

On to a couple of major stories — first up is the Supreme Court yet again riding roughshod over the will of the American people and declaring "screw your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

The Supreme Court refused to issue a stay requested by President Donald Trump after lower courts blocked him from sending the National Guard to Illinois.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued the restraining orders.

Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh did not join the majority’s explanation. .. Alito, with Thomas, in his dissent, slammed the Court for “unnecessarily” and “unwisely” departing from standard practice.

It is high time that President Trump drove a stake through the heart of the undead vampire that is Marbury v. Madison. Deploy the damned Guard and do what the Left have always done and instead of seeking redress in the courts, let the Democrat insurrectionist treasonous traitors waste their time with that and for once just do what needs to be done and declare "Catch Me If You Can" while axing the question "How many divisions do you have?!" And that would put the issue of that video of Mark Kelly, Abigail Spamburger et al sowing mutiny in the ranks front and center in a very glaring spotlight.

Do the safety and security of America's citizenry take precedence over respecting a completely corrupt justice system that in its behavior represents as much of an existential threat to America's citizenry as that of gang bangers, illegal aliens and drug dealers, if not more of a threat in that the lack of faith and trust in the rule of law results in total societal collapse and subsequent chaos followed shortly thereafter by tyranny. And that tyranny will be a combination hardcore Marxist/Maoist variety with more than a soupçon of Islamic influence.

Of course the latter will ultimately gain the upper hand when their useful idiot hosts/cohorts are no longer of use to them.

Speaking of which:

Minnesota Dem Tearfully Apologizes To Somalians After They Were Busted Stealing Billions — Organizer Asad Aliwed put together the event Dec. 12 at the Irshad Islamic Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Eden Prairie Local News reported. Democratic state Sens. Ann Johnson Stewart and Steve Cwodzinski tearfully shared their apology and offered support to a mosque full of Somalians on Friday. They were accompanied by Eden Prairie Mayor Ron Case, who ran in a nonpartisan election.

Just take a gander across the pond and perhaps through a glass and darkly at our future if we do not get a handle on all of the aforementioned and soon.

Describing British society as “low trust, highly fractured, and highly politically factionalized,” Betz warned that “civil conflict” is “increasingly inevitable.”  Then Betz directly accused U.K. authorities of hiding the true intentions behind their overhaul of domestic security forces: “What they’re concerned about is domestic conflict ... but that’s completely politically toxic for them to say so publicly, hence the convenience of saying, ‘We need to develop ... a citizen’s militia for the protection of critical infrastructure.’  To say that we’re doing this against the potential of Russian attack ... is convenient as a pretext.” . . . Fast-forward to this week, and Lane has written another piece that sharply articulates the disconnect between the government officials preparing Britain for war and the ordinary Britons who will be expected to do the fighting.  With talk of military conscription filling the airwaves and a glut of hyperventilating government officials assuring citizens that war with Russia has already begun, Lane notes “the reality that many young Britons feel the government has actively sabotaged their interests and are wondering why they ought to risk their lives for such a state.”   . . . Lane highlights the argument from another op-ed in The Times in which that author correctly observes that “defending one’s homeland is a question of societal mass mobilization ... in the sense of a shared belief in the nation and the culture that is at stake, an awareness that it is at risk and a commitment to defend it.  Without a united population it is difficult to make the trade-offs necessary to transform Britain and its European allies into thoroughly indigestible military targets for our enemies.”  

It is as if corporate news institutions are finally awakening to this reality: When you actively destroy national unity, shared history, tradition, and cultural heritage by importing foreigners on an industrial scale, you also destroy national identity.  Young British lads have no interest in fighting and dying for “multiculturalism.”  British parents have no interest in sacrificing their children for “diversity.”  No sane country is interested in sacrificing everything in order to preserve costly “climate change” regulations and safeguard the criminalization of so-called “hate speech.”  No patriot charges up a hill to raise an Antifa or LGBT flag in defense of censorship, government bullying, demographic replacement, and mass surveillance.

Apologies for hitting you with these stories of woe, especially on Christmas eve and at the close of Chanukah, the festival of light and a celebration of the victory over both literal and figurative darkness. Let's remember the meaning of both of these holidays and resolve to continue to live our lives fully and with hope for a better future and a renewed determination to do what we must to make it a reality.

God bless each and every one of you and let me wish you and yours a very MERRY and BLESSED CHRISTMAS.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Police have declared a "mass casualty incident" and have asked people to "avoid the area."
  Gas Explosion Leaves People Trapped Inside Pennsylvania Nursing Home

  
  

• We have intersectionality to thank for the widespread rot in higher education, as it works to “dismantle the persistent colonial structures and Eurocentric biases” of academia. Worse, intersectionality has become the ideology of terror — the next logical step for a worldview that pits people against each other based on group identity.
  Toxic ideas fueling far-left terrorists came straight from our college campuses
  
• Statistics from media, academia, and law suggest meritocracy has given way to ideology—reshaping institutions, sidelining men, and raising hard questions about the West’s long-term viability. (this right alongside Islam - jjs)
  Feminism, Anti-racism, and the Unraveling of Western Civilization

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• On Tuesday, SCOTUS ruled in a 6-3 decision that the Trump administration “has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” and therefore the administration’s application for a stay was denied:
  Bastards, time to burn Marbury - jjs
  SCOTUS Rules Against Trump Sending National Guard to Sanctuary Chicago

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

• "Omar Abdul Revere rides frantically through the night, relaying a signal from a mosque"
  Mayor Wu: You Can’t Talk About Boston’s Achievements Without Mentioning Somalis
  
• The U.S. is not for everyone. To keep the founding fathers’ vision alive, it must be exclusive. We are not open to all comers.
  ‘E Pluribus Unum’ Means That We’re One People, Not A ‘Nation Of Immigrants’

• It’s hard to take the administration’s warnings seriously when Trump supports importing more Chinese students.
  How Many Chinese Visa Holders Have To Be Charged Before Trump Stops Importing Them Into Our Universities?

• And an honest census means counting only citizens.
  The Constitution Demands An Honest Census (Democrats to the Constitution, "up yours baby!" - jjs)

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• . . .Saadaoui, 38, and Hussein, 52, have just been found guilty of plotting a jihad massacre with the Jews of Manchester, England as its target. The plot had gone well beyond the talking stage: “They had bought assault rifles, handguns and ammunition for the suicide attack they planned on Jewish targets. They saw any Christian victims ‘as a bonus.’”
  Cops Avert the ‘Deadliest Terrorist Attack in UK History’ — Guess Who the Target Was

• The fresh young face of jihad in Europe. 
  Bambinos with Bombs
  
• "Instead of demonizing our Somali community, we’re going to do more to welcome more in"
  Somali Sentenced for 9/11 Style Terror Plot
  
• "Terrorism is our religion. Koran say terrorism is normal. We are proud, we say terrorism is proud"
  Muslim Terror Plot UK: “I Break My Thirst With Jewish, Christian Blood”

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• An FBI raid of a Secret Service agent tied to JD Vance’s detail spotlights an alleged charity fraud scheme that could deepen scrutiny of an agency already struggling to restore trust.
  FBI Raided Secret Service Agent’s Home in Tax Fraud Probe

• As much as $9 billion, or more, in taxpayer dollars could have been fraudulently claimed.
  Tim Walz Gets More Bad News From Feds After Massive Fraud Scandal Exposed
  
• Organizer Asad Aliwed put together the event Dec. 12 at the Irshad Islamic Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Eden Prairie Local News reported. Democratic state Sens. Ann Johnson Stewart and Steve Cwodzinski tearfully shared their apology and offered support to a mosque full of Somalians on Friday. They were accompanied by Eden Prairie Mayor Ron Case, who ran in a nonpartisan election. (Filthy scumbag needs to be horsewhipped in public -jjs)
  Minnesota Dem Tearfully Apologizes To Somalians After They Were Busted Stealing Billions

• As millions of dollars in more fraud and theft of state and federal welfare funding are uncovered in Ohio, Minnesota, and other places committed at the hands of Somali migrants, democrats are falling all over themselves to show their unmitigated support for the fraudsters.
  Democrats from Minnesota, Ohio, Maine, and Boston Embrace Somalians

• Call it “Stewart’s Folly,” if you will, but Justice Stewart’s “I know it when I see it” was the permission leftist judges needed to make the law up as they go along.
  A Single Line In a 1964 Supreme Court Case Opened The Door To Rogue Leftist Judges

• DOGE did not collapse the system. It forced parts of it to move. We see that today in this IG report. Once you accept that as the goal, the claim that DOGE “failed” becomes difficult to sustain.
  The Social Security Administration's Turnaround and the Real Purpose of DOGE

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The Commerce Department said U.S. gross domestic product—the government’s official economic scorecard—rose at a seasonally and inflation-adjusted 4.3 percent annual rate in the third quarter. The report on the July through September period was delayed due to the shutdown.
  Trump Boom: U.S. Economy Grows 4.3%, Fastest in Two Years, Smashing Expectations
  
• It’s the highest growth in two years.
  Third-Quarter GDP Grew at an Annual 4.3% Rate, But With a Catch
  
• THe economy was softening under Biden, and is now growing rapidly.
  Yes, Democrats, Trump Does Own This Economy

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Who did he see? The alleged shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente.
  Brown U. Custodian Claims He Warned Security Twice About Suspected Gunman
  
• In that case, his bond was set at $15,000 but a nonprofit group called The Bail Project reportedly paid some of the bond a few days later and he was released. However, Allen was charged with murder in the shooting death of Ben McComas on December 14 at a different transit station, the Puritas and West 150th Street Rapid station, and his bond has been set at $1 million.
  ‘Bail Project’ Leftist Org Freed Career Criminal in Ohio, Days Before He Allegedly Shot & Killed a Stranger
  
• The “blue state” stories get crazier by the day.
  If you park it, they’ll steal it

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

• The move is sparked by concerns over national security and the impact on radar systems, which were completely ignored by the Biden junta.
  Trump Administration Puts a Deep Freeze on 5 East Coast Wind Farms
  
• Environmental groups and left-wing politicians are happy to sacrifice hard-working rural Americans on the altar of their latest hysteria-laden agenda.
  Why Are Environmental Groups Attacking the Industry That Makes America’s Clean Energy Future Possible? (Because they're Malthusian Luddites - jjs)

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The Trump administration is preparing to crack down on student loan defaulters starting next year. This will be interesting because you can bet Democrats are going to flip out about this. The Education Department confirmed it will begin withholding wages from borrowers who fail to pay their debts.
  Trump Makes Huge Move on Student Loan Debt, and Democrats Are Gonna Flip

• Parents have a right to be told when their child transitions to the opposite sex, and teachers have a right to tell them.
  Win for California Parents, Teachers: Court Blocks School Secret Gender Transitioning Policy
  
• McMahon said one of her favorite accomplishments is the department’s Title IX work protecting women’s sports from the incursion of transgender-identifying male athletes, and noted that men playing women’s sports “lacked common sense.” 
  Exclusive: Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Outlines 2026 Priorities After Year of Tackling Radical Left-Wing Agenda

• The decision underscores global condemnation of Albanese’s statements.
  Major U.S. University Severs Links with Sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur on 'Palestine.'

  
  ABORTION

• The VA has ceased aborting babies under the Biden-era rule, complying with the DOJ’s interpretation of federal law.
  DOJ Reverses Biden-Era Rule, Halts Veterans Affairs Abortion Funding.

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• “The United States of America brings this lawsuit to protect the rights that have been guaranteed for 234 years and which the Supreme Court has explicitly reaffirmed several times over the last two decades”
  Trump Administration Suing D.C. Over Restrictive Gun Control Laws

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

• If nothing comes of Fulton County’s admission, the implication will be that election laws can be treated as optional rather than binding.
  5 Years Too Late, Fulton County Proves Trump’s Call To Raffensperger Right

  POLITICS

• It’s worth noting just how well Trump has fared, even if you consider yourself a traditional liberal. A word of caution if you count yourself in this group: By the end of this piece, you’re going to realize you’re a Trumpist. 
  The Liberal Case for President Donald Trump
  
• He is just a man. He has flaws. He makes mistakes, it's not a sin to point this out.
  Trump Fanboys And Never-Trumpers Are Cut From The Same Cloth
  
• Hageman also highlighted her success in securing $15 million in federal infrastructure funds for Wyoming projects, her opposition to federal land management policies, and her work with President Trump to secure border funding and deliver tax relief. She also committed to further immigration enforcement, saying, “We work together to secure the border and fund efforts to remove and deport those in the country illegally.” President Trump’s endorsement on Truth Social came swiftly thereafter:
  WY Rep. Hageman Launches Senate Bid Backed by Trump, GOP Senators

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

• Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei last week condemned the US's seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, but Iran's interests in Latin America stretch beyond the oil trade
  Hezbollah, Short on Support From Iran, Turns to Drug Trafficking in Venezuela To Fill Its Coffers
  
• It takes a special fusion of ignorance and ideology for people to come together to fund an ideology that routinely executes them. ("Palestine" is a myth dressed in truth drag - jjs)
  A ‘Drag for "Palestine"’ fundraiser is the perfect microcosm of leftism

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Israel’s “Ministry of Tourism is preparing to welcome an estimated 130,000 visitors this December, including about 40,000 Christian pilgrims expected to celebrate Christmas at holy sites across the country.”
  Israel Welcomes 40,000 Christian Pilgrims This Christmas
  
• The sanctions aim to prevent individuals who promote censorship of American speech from entering the U.S., reinforcing the administration’s stance against external censorship pressures.
  U.S. Sanctions Pro-Censorship Figures in UK, EU for Suppressing Americans’ Free Speech.
  
• But not the way you think.
  Iran Opens New Front in Its War Against the U.S.
  
• But who wants to die for Big Brother’s woke State?
  The British State Needs WWIII to Stave Off Civil War
  
• Is Britain still a free country? A generation ago, the question would have seemed absurd. Today, it hangs in the balance. 
  From Magna Carta to Mass Arrests: Britain’s Warning to America

• For decades, the Cuban regime and its allies around the world have incessantly presented a false narrative that the United States’ “embargo” on Cuba is the one and only cause of all of Cuba’s shortcomings — and not the decades’ worth of failed communist policies, brutal repression, and gross mismanagement of the country’s infrastructure that has pushed the island-nation to the brink of complete ruin.
  Report: Cuba Has Purchased over $8 Billion Worth of Food from the U.S. Since 2001
  
• A bill aimed at curbing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) forced organ harvesting of cultural and religious minorities, including Christians, has “languished” in committee for seven months as Senate leaders have failed to act.
  ‘Murder Masquerading As Medicine’: Senate Ignores Bill On CCP’s Christian Organ Harvesting
  
• A young politician makes the case for France’s survival.
  Jordan Bardella: ‘People Are From Somewhere. They Don’t Want to Disappear.’

  
  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

  
  

• The surge in recruiting numbers strengthens U.S. military ranks amid global geopolitical challenges, suggesting a renewed focus on military readiness.
  Pentagon Hits Best Recruitment Numbers in 15 Years.

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Addiction is not a disease. It is a choice.
  The Trump admin is high on the denial of marijuana's harms

• This is your government. This is your government on leftist politics.
  Scotland Bans Smoking Cigarettes, Legalizes Smoking Crack (Trainspotting was a sick movie, not a blueprint for a society - jjs)

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• …The impressive height of these features wasn’t the only thing that captured the attention of scientists. The new images revealed that vertically imposing filament-like features appear on just one side of the disk, while the other side appears to have a sharp edge and no visible filaments. This peculiar, lopsided structure suggests that dynamic processes, like the recent infall of dust and gas, or interactions with its surroundings, are shaping the disk.
  Hubble images gigantic protoplanetary disk

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

• The Southern Baptist Convention has squandered much of its moral credibility crusading for leftist causes, such as amnesty and DEI.
  How The Southern Baptist Convention Blew Up Its Credibility To Appease The #MeToo Movement
  
• One of President Trump's achievements is his reshaping of the manner in which politics is conducted in D.C.
  How President Trump's Grandmaster Moves Infused Fun into D.C. Politics

  
  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• The Netflix–Warner merger isn’t just an antitrust question—it risks creating a cultural monopoly that sidelines parents and reshapes what America’s children are taught to value.
  Why Parents Must Oppose Netflix’s Bid to Control America’s Culture

• Christian Toto: Chalamet, Arnett and a searing indictment of western culture powered the year
  HiT’s Best Movies of 2025 (Behold the Ping Pong Prodigy!)

  HITHER & YON

• The trains that never arrive.
  30 Things That Will Not Happen in 2026

• Former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse announced Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with metastasized stage-four pancreatic cancer. The 53-year-old former lawmaker and university president described the diagnosis as terminal and emphasized that his Christian faith is central to how he views his condition and the future.
  Former Sen. Ben Sasse Confronts Stage 4 Cancer with Christian Faith: ‘Orient Our Hearts Toward the Hope of What’s to Come’
  
• Alex Baber — a 50-year-old West Virginian with autism — used AI programs and his codebreaking prowess to whittle down the Zodiac killer’s infamous 1970 clue he sent to newspapers and identify a single suspect with an overwhelming connection across all the murders: a late Chicagoan named Marvin Margolis. “It’s my autism. Once I start on something, I have to see it through. The deeper I go, the harder I push. My mind’s wired differently,” Baber told the LA Times, explaining he’d spent up to 20 hours a day on the code for months at a time.
  Zodiac and Black Dahlia killer may have been same man, amateur codebreaking whiz claims: ‘Irrefutable’

  
  FINALLY . . .

• "We are giving our country and our loved ones at home a worthy Christmas present," McAuliffe wrote.
  Read The Letter General Anthony McAuliffe Sent Exhausted, Surrounded Men At The Battle Of The Bulge

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