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Supreme Court Grants Motion to Immediately Finalize Gerrymander Decision, Allowing Lousiana to Implement It Now
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I guess there's some period of time that usually passes after a decision is announced until it is considered implementable law -- thirty two days before it is "reported" to the lower court.
But this is just a general practice, not a firm rule. The Court has adjusted this clock before when justice demanded it.
The Supreme Court on Monday night granted a request to immediately finalize its opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, in which it struck down that state's congressional map, to allow Louisiana to draw a new map in time for the 2026 elections. That map is expected to favor Republicans, who currently hold four of the state's six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives but could pick up one or even two more under a revised map.
Was it justified to speed up the clock? Yes, for two reasons.
1, the racially discriminatory maps are unconstitutional right now. Not in two years, right now. The citizens of Louisiana are living under racist congressional maps right now. And what's the left's favorite propaganda slogan...? "Justice delayed is justice denied."
2, we now have almost complete confirmation of the rumor that Obama hack Kagan deliberately dragged her heels on submitting her dissent not because she needed seven months to perfectly craft it, but specifically to avoid the ruling taking effect a half year ago, giving southern states plenty of time to adjust without having to scramble right before voting began.
Because it's now revealed that the Supreme Court "conferenced" the case seven months ago -- meaning they debated and voted on the decision.
But Kagan needed Moar Time to craft her perfect dissent.
The first Alito footnote is notable: he says the original case was conferenced 7 months ago. That says there’s more than a little smoke to the rumors the liberal justices drug their feel to impact the midterms, and now Jackson is throwing a fit the majority is fixing that delay https://t.co/HIa4creaiD
Unqualified DEI Fake Justice Ketanji-Brown through another one of her racialist hissy-fits. She is appalled that the Court will not allow the leftwing Justice's deliberate seven-month delay to stand. She has no good reason for this -- she says that granting this motion would show "partisanship" but, as Alito says, she does not explain why not granting it would equally show partisanship, but in favor of the Always Racist Democrat Party.
🚨 HOLY CRAP!! Justices Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas just PUMMELED Ketanji Jackson's dissent, calling it "trivial at best, and the other is baseless and INSULTING"
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Jackson basically ATTACKED the majority, and argued Louisiana should be required to use an *unconstitutional* racially gerrymandered map in the 2026 midterms -- directly against the majority ruling.
Alito didn't take too kindly to that:
"The dissent goes on to claim that our decision represents an unprincipled use of power...that is a groundless and utterly irresponsible charge."
"What principle has the Court violated? The principle that Rule 45.3's 32-day default period should never be shortened even when there is good reason to do so? The principle that we should never take any action that might unjustifiably be criticized as partisan?"
"The dissent accuses the Court of 'unshackl[ing] itself from 'constraints...' It is the DISSENT'S rhetoric that lacks restraint."
"The dissent in this suit levels charges that cannot go unanswered. The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional."
"The dissent does not claim that it is now too late for the state legislature or the District Court to adopt a new map that complies with the Constitution."
"Nor does the dissent assert that it is not feasible for the elections to be held under such a map. Instead, the dissent offers two reasons for its proposed course of action."
"One is trivial at best, and the other is baseless and insulting."
Gorsuch signed onto this as well.
Once again, not a single other leftwing justice was willing to sign her name to Ketanji-Brown's pig-ignorant doctrine of "the law must constantly shape-shift to guarantee that blacks, women, gays and Democrats always win" bullshit:
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
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There was a routine Supreme Court procedural order today not to delay fixing Louisiana's unconstitutional gerrymander. Normally these things are handled quietly without revealing who thought what but this time was different because Jackson insisted on writing a bizarre diatribe, which prompted Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch to respond. And they did not hold back. They described her claims as "baseless and insulting" and "groundless and utterly irresponsible." They really, really cannot stand her.
What really says it all is that the other liberals would not touch it, let alone join Jackson or defend her. She is simply too embarrassing even for them to sign onto. Also interesting, but not surprising, that Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett sat this one out, as usual, because they are too timid to call out someone who, by any sane standard, should not be anywhere near a judge's chambers, especially not this one.
KBJ is single-handedly discrediting progressive jurisprudence for a generation
May she stay on the court for as long as she wants, writing lone, angry dissents https://t.co/3xJRDI6qgv
Hello! Good afternoon to all. Except those on the west coast or further west. Good morning!
Crow update: I am getting one crow visitor. (I think it's one.) He comes most days now. I didn't tell you before because I wanted to post a good photo of him, but my photos are terrible. Also, they're not improving.
When he sees me he flies off, so I've only got a second to grab the picture.
When supposedly conservative organizations reach a certain size, they begin that sad journey into wishy-washy bullsh*t language, so as not to attract the attention of the legal departments of their competition, or the libel attorneys working for the Democrat opposition.
Of course there is a different interpretation, and that is they are protecting their carefully cultivated access to the movers and shakers of the Corporate GOP apparatus, and the excellent cocktail parties they throw with the superb passed hors d'œuvres (especially the scallop with bacon!) and top-shelf bourbon.
Why else would The Federalist bury the obvious lead until the penultimate paragraph? They are minimizing the glaringly obvious conclusion that the Democrat talking points about lack of access to citizenship documents being a horror on par with genocide and puppy rape are absolute unmitigated lies, and the real issue is that the reason so many of their voters can't prove they are citizens is BECAUSE THEY AREN'T!
Ayres and Slaughter estimate that Democrats are 13 percentage points “less likely than Republicans to hold qualifying registration documents” in New Mexico. And while Ayres and Slaughter estimate the passage of the SAVE America Act would only have “modest” consequences for the midterms because those currently registered to vote would be “unaffected,” “as more people would need to register after moving, changing their names or reaching voting age, this document shortfall could flip New Mexico to an electorate where Republicans have a 3.3-percentage-point advantage.”
They are buying into the nonsense that poor people and people of color and non-binary trans-women and downtrodden housewives simply can't get the vital documents to prove they are citizens. No...not "buying into," but purposefully obfuscating so their donors in the GOPe don't get too frustrated by the threats to their labor force...wetbacks and non-citizen guest workers, many of whom vote.
The correct headline should read:
WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Are Not Citizens
Everybody with a pulse and a few functioning neurons knows that's the case, but Conservative Inc. can't seem to admit it.
Rushing out articles debunking the Democrat lies about the difficulty of access to basic documentation is allowing the Democrat/Progressive cabal to control the narrative. The issue is not documentation access...it is that illegals are voting.
That's it. Nothing else matters.
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Gunshots were fired near the White House complex and the Washington Monument Monday, prompting the Secret Service to lock down nearby locations.
United States Secret Service confirmed that law enforcement shot one individual at 15th Street and Independence Avenue during the incident, and a bystander was struck; both are alive, authorities confirmed at a press briefing Monday. Agents reportedly engaged in a heated confrontation with an armed man near the White House and National Mall before President Donald Trump’s event in the East Room of the White House began, RealClearPolitics national correspondent Susan Crabtree first reported... The suspect is currently in custody and no Secret Service agents were harmed. He is reportedly recovering from his gunshot wounds at George Washington Hospital, and Secret Service agents recovered his firearm.
You may well ask, given the fact that President Trump and his entire cabinet and really all of us who support and voted for him have a big fat (literal, not Mark Kelly imaginary) target painted on them, how could something like this happen, yet again?! Well how about this for starters?
Secret Service Agent Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation in Miami. John Spillman, age 33, had been in Miami to work exterior security for President Donald Trump’s appearance at the PGA Tour’s Cadillac Championship on Sunday, per CNBC: The incident involving Spillman occurred at the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport & Convention Center on Sunday night, according to WSVN-7 News Miami, which cited an arrest report by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
Joe Biden, the last Democrat to occupy the White House, said it was “time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” Five days later, Thomas Matthew Crooks evaded the Secret Service and fired seven shots, one wounding candidate Trump in the ear. Jump ahead to April 25, 2026.
By all indications, Joe Biden issued no post after Cole Thomas Allen aimed to assassinate Trump. Take Obama’s post as another admission that, as David Samuels acknowledged in “The Obama Factor” in 2023, the hapless Biden was a puppet and the “fictional character” created in Dreams from My Father was still running the country and “responsible for the disaster that we are living through now.”
For all but the willfully blind, leading Democrats are now all-in on political violence. Obama serves as a pro-bono attorney for assassins like Cole Thomas Allen and jihadists like Nidal Hasan. The mass murderer was sentenced to death in 2013 but remains alive at this writing.
Trump Goes All In On Regime Change In Cuba: The Trump administration just slammed the door on an effort by Cuba’s communist government to secure an economic lifeline while appearing to embrace reform. A May 1 executive order expands and sharpens longstanding American sanctions on Cuba, and appears to deliberately target a recent gesture at partially opening the Cuban economy. “All property and interests in property that are in the United States,” the order says, are barred from operating “in the energy, defense and related materiel, metals and mining, financial services, or security sector of the Cuban economy, or any other sector of the Cuban economy,” under the penalty of economic sanctions.
If you'll remember, in March, a group of far-leftist folks from the U.S. and Europe — including members of Code Pink, commie activist Hasan Piker, and Ilhan Omar's daughter — flew into the crumblingly communist country and stayed in five-star hotels, enjoyed fancy meals, held concerts, and recorded podcasts, all while the Cuban people starve and live without electricity or water much of the time. They took photos with "president" Miguel Díaz-Canel and came back declaring that all was well on the island.
This crew spent some of their time riding around the city and viewing the Cubans as if they were on some sort of poverty safari, and Piker said the people just had an "island mindset" and that's why they just hung around in the streets all day. They came back reporting that things were just groovy down there and would be even better if Trump and Rubio would stop bullying them.
Well, independent journalist Nick Shirley recently visited Cuba and attempted to do the same thing... but he wanted to tell the real story of what's happening after decades of failed and corrupt communist rule. As you can imagine, he didn't get quite the welcome the others did. Not only that, but according to him, his equipment was seized, "spies" followed him around, and he barely escaped without being "kidnapped."
It is my fervent hope and prayer that Nick Shirley is not a one-off and that there are growing numbers of millennials and the younger generations that while not perhaps as open and brave as to put themselves in direct danger at least will become the next literal "Silent Majority" that will reject the insanity of Democrat/Leftism and once again secure America's future as the shining city on a hill.
Shirley has put himself in some precarious situations in the past, but this one may have been the most dangerous. Thankfully, he did make it out alive, but here's exactly what happened, according to him. . . Nick Shirley Went to Cuba. He Almost Didn't Make It Home
Victor Davis Hanson: The Iran war didn’t just break Tehran—it shattered old alliances, exposed Europe’s weakness, checked China and Russia, and accelerated an American-led geopolitical realignment. The Global Ripples from the Iran War
Central Command (CENTCOM), the U.S. military formation responsible for operations in the Middle East, moved to dispel a claim by Iran that it had landed a blow on one of its warships on Monday morning. The unequivocal response from CENTCOM noted the assertion of a successful attack on a U.S. warship and stated: “No U.S. Navy ships have been struck. U.S. forces are supporting Project Freedom and enforcing the naval blockade on Iranian ports.” Iran Claims Two-Missile Strike on U.S. Warship, CENTCOM Denies
Belmont Club/Richard Fernandez: If Project Freedom succeeds, the Strait will essentially be controlled not by Iran, but the United States.The USN will essentially turn Iran’s ultimate weapon, a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, against it. This is a feat that both Britain and France have long declared as physically impossible. The Horns of Hormuz
Daily Caller that the U.S. has cleared an “effective pathway” through the strait. Two U.S. ships have passed through the strait in the last 24 hours. Following the exchange of fire, Cooper declined to speak about whether the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was now over. US Destroys Six Iranian Ships In Straight Of Hormuz During ‘Project Freedom’
Iran’s shifting peace proposals, escalating Strait confrontations, and nuclear defiance point to a crisis diplomacy cannot contain and only force can resolve. Iran Proposes Peace but Provokes War
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
United States Secret Service confirmed that law enforcement shot one individual at 15th Street and Independence Avenue during the incident. Agents reportedly engaged in a heated confrontation with an armed man at the White House before President Donald Trump’s upcoming event began and wound up shooting him, RealClearPolitics national correspondent Susan Crabtree first reported. Gunshots Fired Near White House
The shooting led to heightened security measures in the area, including a White House lockdown, underscoring the ongoing challenges of maintaining security in the nation’s capital. Notably, an event involving President Donald J. Trump and small business owners took place as planned, although journalists at the White House were taken to a briefing room for safety. Secret Service Shoots Man Near Washington Monument, White House Locked Down.
Grace Carol Brown was arrested Jan. 22 by the New Braunfels Police Department on suspicion of arson and burglary after employees at the Comal County Republican Party headquarters discovered the building had been broken into and a small fire had been set on Jan. 14, according to a Jan. 23 release. A Comal County grand jury added the terrorism charge on April 15, the San Antonio News-Express reported. Woman Charged With Terrorism For Allegedly Setting Fire To Texas GOP Office
This coincides with the reality that President Donald Trump has one of his highest approval ratings on the issue of immigration, clocking in at 47 percent. For greater comparison, former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden’s approval on immigration stood at 34 percent in January 2025, prior to Trump beginning his second term. Poll: Most Americans Believe Democrats Are for Open Borders
When a toddler threatens to scream and cry while out to dinner, it’s easier to throw a phone or tablet at them to stop the chaos. However, all you are teaching them is that they’ll get their way if they make a big enough scene. Now, every time you are out in public, and they don’t get what they want, they will resort to the behavior that gets them the reward. Children need structure and clearly defined rules. If you allow them to be disruptive, you’ve relinquished your control and ability to take care of the family. DHS Should Use Age-Old Parenting Tactic While Conducting Deportations
John Spillman, age 33, had been in Miami to work exterior security for President Donald Trump’s appearance at the PGA Tour’s Cadillac Championship on Sunday, per CNBC: The incident involving Spillman occurred at the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport & Convention Center on Sunday night, according to WSVN-7 News Miami, which cited an arrest report by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. Secret Service Agent Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation in Miami
“Our investigation found that State Farm delayed, underpaid, and buried policyholders in red tape at the worst moment of their lives,” Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said in a statement. “That is unacceptable, and we are taking decisive action to hold them accountable.” ( California Regulators Seek to Suspend State Farm License for Mishandling Los Angeles Wildfire Claims (Suspend Bass and Newsom from a lamp post first - jjs)
Patel: “The FBI uses all tools to do our mission.” The bureau is buying detailed profiles of American citizens from their movements, habits, and associations from commercial data brokers. No warrant necessary, no judge, no probable cause—just a purchase order made by some low-level staffer. What seems to be a clear violation of the 4th Amendment is a Washington problem, one that has been festering for years across administrations on both sides of the aisle. Our Data Is For Sale To An Unexpected Buyer
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Affordability is just the Democrats’ latest excuse for giving out free stuff to their supporters, paid for by you and me. Now I Get It: Affordability is a Con
“A third of the crime doesn’t happen here, so we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out. Every state is getting a plus up,” Patel said. FBI Shifts Agents Out of DC in Major Overhaul
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Public schools survive what no business could: monopoly protection, union entrenchment, and taxpayer bailouts—proof that education works best when government gets out of the way. It’s Time to Abolish Public Schools
Leftism forces us to look at things only from the woman’s viewpoint, but the baby’s life is equally important, no matter the circumstances of its conception. I Was Not Really Pro-Life (And What Changed My Mind)
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Not a single Democrat in the Senate is willing to support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, and a new op-ed from The Washington Post might just explain why. WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Can’t Prove They’re Citizens
The charges highlight the Trump administration’s focus on voter fraud, particularly involving noncitizens, which undermines election integrity. The penalties for such offenses can be severe, including up to 10 years in prison for false statements leading to citizenship. Election integrity proponents say such cases prove the need for voter identification laws, such as the SAVE America Act. Multiple Immigrants Charged with Voting Illegally.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Democrat Illinois Gov. and billionaire JB Pritzker has been quietly throwing his political weight and checkbook around, bankrolling major campaign committees, senior leaders, and 2026 congressional election challengers viewed as critical to the Democrat Party. Meet The Heavy Hitter Quietly Bankrolling Democrats Ahead Of Possible Presidential Run
Seattle used to be a place where the arts were bigger than Antifa, food culture was bigger than fentanyl, and where hardworking citizens were prized above homeless addicts. With every utterance or move she makes, however, the humorless, public school teacher–like scold telegraphs her communist priorities for what once was a great American city. These priorities boil down to more homeless, more crime, and fewer jobs. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson: A Dumber and More Unlikeable Version of Commie Mamdani
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
One report suggested that Rubio, who is a Cuban-American Catholic, will also address the dire situation that the Caribbean island is facing after nearly 70 years of communist devastation. Vatican Confirms Marco Rubio Will Meet Pope Leo XIV on May 7
The Trump administration just slammed the door on an effort by Cuba’s communist government to secure an economic lifeline while appearing to embrace reform. A May 1 executive order expands and sharpens longstanding American sanctions on Cuba, and appears to deliberately target a recent gesture at partially opening the Cuban economy. Trump Goes All In On Regime Change In Cuba
This is not the first time Amsterdam has served as a site for far-left social engineering programs. In early January, an investigation revealed that students living with asylum seekers as part of an integration experiment in Amsterdam reported years of sexual assaults, violence, and harassment. European Capital Outlaws Ads for Burgers, Gas Cars, and Cruises.
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS
Horrors! The latest atrocity in Gaza, reports Al Jazeera, is a wave of “luxurious” cafes and restaurants that have sprung up, “revealing a new genocidal reality.” (Table for two, right here by the mass grave! - jjs) Luxurious Gaza cafes poke quite the hole in the ‘genocide’ narrative
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
...the President ordered the withdrawal of 12,000 troops from Germany, citing the country’s insufficient NATO contributions. The new withdrawal allows the U.S. to shift its military resources to other zones of interest. Trump Plans Further Troop Reductions in Europe.
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
“Trouble reached my door...“I would also not be able to say that I was in the program...“‘Sex worker’ is what you have to say now...“Writers have no problem censoring other writers. The Wrong Kind of Black
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Where by audio industry they mean, basically, Spotify.
The problem is a company called Inception Point, that is spewing out 3000 podcasts a week using AI-generated voices.
Does anyone listen to them?
Well, the number is probably not zero. I listened to an AI-generated science fiction story that was tolerable if not particularly original. But when I was automatically forwarded to the next story on the channel it was exactly the same with a few names and details changed.
The site racked up 245 million visits over 25 years... Which is not remotely enough for a business to survive on. Which makes me wonder a little how they did.
Counterpoint: No it fucking doesn't. Are you stupid or what?
The analyst adds that not only is jumping from a 90% yield to a 98% yield significantly more difficult than achieving 90% from 0%, but also that the 90% yield is a validation figure instead of a production figure. As a result, he believes cautious optimism is the better approach when following the packaging technology.
Getting from 0% to 90% yield is taking a process that simply doesn't work and making it into a reliable production line. Getting it to 98% is nice, but irrelevant on the broader scale.
Musical Interlude
And since the audio on that version is a little muddy:
Democrats Just Can't Stop Tributing Nazis and Then Lying About It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Late last week, Mark Halperin reported that NRSC official told him that the dirt they're about to drop on the Nazi -- I guess being a Nazi isn't disqualifying in the "anti-Nazi party" -- that "he'll have to leave the state."
Now that is an exaggeration.
But radio host and former Breitbart editor Larry O'Connor said he'd heard that too -- well, he said he did more than hear it.
Larry said: "This is a bad man... I'm sorry, I hate to put it [in these terms,] but I have learned, and I haven't just heard, I know things about this person that will come out, the GOP is not joking about this, and frankly it goes beyond the Nazi tattoo."
Now I generally trust Larry O'Connor but I didn't mention it because I hate getting too far ahead of the news. But his statement that he hasn't just "heard," but knows for a fact makes me think this won't just be another round of campaign-scuttlebutt that turns out to be vapornews.
Meanwhile, a major Democrat donor is threatening a lawsuit against the Free Beacon because they "invaded her privacy" by reporting that she had freely admitted on a public post on social media that her grandfather had been a soldier in Hitler's army.
She's claiming that doesn't make him a Nazi. Um... I guess?
But she says he did escape to Brazil before the end of the war which, I don't know, I always kind of assumed was something that major Nazi figures did, and not just everyday soldiers in the Wehrmacht.
Kelly Neumann, a Michigan trial attorney and Democratic fundraiser, has threatened the Washington Free Beacon with "legal action" unless we retract our story about her Veterans Day Facebook post honoring her grandfather who served "on the German side" in World War II.
What an anodyne way to put it. He fought bravely in World War Two. But, you know, not for the army you might think.
And she did this on... Veterans Day. American Veterans Day. On American Veterans Day, she decided to tribute a man who killed Americans.
What a very weird Aryan flex on Veterans Day.
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"Happy Veterans Day to all my family and friends who serve/served!" Neumann's post read. "Interesting story, I do not talk much about but my Grandfather, Albert Neumann was on the German side in WWI & WWII. He escaped to Brazil with my father after Germany lost..."
Very interesting story, brah.
The post included several photos of the Nazi soldier in his Wehrmacht uniform. Neumann recalled that her grandfather was one of the first people to accept her as gay, which proved that "people can change and love can indeed win."
Well as long as your Nazi Army opa who fled to Brazil after the war was okay with you being a lesbian, everything's cool. There were Very Fine People on both sides, would you say...?
This isn't such a big deal, I guess. But what makes it creepy is that this woman, who obviously did not fall far from the fascist tree, is now threatening the Free Beacon unless they retract their 100% true story which merely quotes what she herself admitted.
Last week, the Free Beacon received a letter from Neumann's attorney demanding a "formal retraction" of the "false and defamatory" statement in the article. The letter was signed by Eugenie B. Eardley, another Michigan trial attorney who describes herself as the "First Lady of Law." She even has her own catch phrase--"seriously serious about the law"--which is ironic given the profound unseriousness of the threatening letter she wrote on Neumann's behalf.
For example, Eardley suggested the Free Beacon had not merely defamed her client, but may have also invaded her privacy by reporting on a post she made on the public Facebook account where she routinely shares photos of herself cavorting with Democratic politicians. That's because Neumann made the post "in her private capacity as a granddaughter," which sounds like nonsense.
It is nonsense. A public utterance is a public utterance. You cannot transmute it into private, confidential information by later claiming "I only said that publicly in my capacity as a private citizen who loves her Wehrmacht opa."
Her lawyer said that the Free Beacon falsely claimed he was a member of the S.S., which they said they never did. They also say they never identified him as a Nazi, but... I mean... he did flee to Brazil. I assume it wasn't just because he likes the lambada (the forbidden dance).
Democrats like the "I'm not an X I'm just a Y" defense. "I'm not a socialist I'm just a liberal" which is now "I'm not a communist I'm just a socialist."
And now: "He's not SS he was just a soldier in Hitler's army who fled to Brazil after the war."
It's about the people who spent years calling everyone on the Right a Nazi for the slightest association, only to line up like rank-and-file partisans behind a Democratic Senate candidate who wore a literal SS Totenkopf tattoo for 18… pic.twitter.com/I9Gp2I4dBp
Meanwhile, the federal magistrate who signed dozens of J6 arrest warrants is now whining that the Democrats' previous assassin is being treated harshly!!!
And the "harshness" was only putting him in restraints -- because he was on suicide watch.
Wait until this magistrate finds out about J6 prisoners held in solitary confinement for almost a year pre-trial!!! Won't she be mad then!!!
"Judge Zia Faruqui apologized to suspect Cole Allen for the treatment he's received so far while he has been behind bars. He's been put on suicide watch by the Department of Corrections, and the judge was asking why. An attorney from the government said that he was put on suicide watch because he told FBI agents that night of the White House Correspondents' dinner attack that he didn't expect to survive, and his language suggested that he really was not expecting to survive his trip to Washington, D.C., and the ultimate incident where he allegedly showed up with a weapon to try and assassinate President Trump. He's been charged with that crime.
"But the judge, very concerned about his constitutional rights, saying the defendant has requested a Bible, has requested meetings with his legal team, and that has not been allowed, he's been put in restrictive, 24 hour lockup, with no windows and a padded room without an opportunity to get out for recreation. So the judge making it clear that he wants answers by tomorrow morning about exactly what the housing determination will be made for the suspect in this case, out of grave concern about his constitutional rights. And that apology issued near the end of the hearing. And so, quite a moment just moments ago in federal court.
"Bottom line: Department of Correction said they wanted to make sure that he survived, that this is a high-profile case. All involved acknowledged it was a high-profile case. Again, the judge concerned about the treatment he's gotten since he was arrested after the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting incident. Sandra, back to you."
As I have reported—Zia Faruqui signed arrest warrants for hundreds of J6ers.
He has used some of the harshest terms to describe J6ers including those accused of no violence.
He is now APOLOGIZING to the psycho who tried to kill multiple people including the president pic.twitter.com/gsHaEVS1pJ
Assassination Prep works on the weak-minded, and the left is a cult of the weak-minded:
January, 2024. Moron Mark Ruffalo reposts obviously AI photos of Trump with young girls and claims the photos are real and from Trump on Epstein's plane.
Ruffalo eventually admitted the photos were fake and blamed Elon Musk for allowing him to be fooled.
Charlie Kirk's Head of Security Sues Cavernous Nostrils for Defamation After She Repeatedly Insinuates He Was Part of a French/Israeli/Egyptian/US Plot to Kill "Her Best Friend"
The former head of security for Charlie Kirk sued podcaster Candace Owens on Thursday for defamation, claiming that she falsely implicated him in a conspiracy to assassinate Kirk.
The former security chief, Brian Harpole, alleged that Owens, a right-wing firebrand, inaccurately accused him of meeting with Kirk's wife, Erika, at a military base a day before Charlie Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University in September. He is also suing Mitch Snow, a retired Army sergeant who stated on Owens' podcast that he was an eyewitness to what he described as the secret encounter.
In the 69-page lawsuit, Harpole, who owns a private security firm and worked for Kirk for several years, accused Owens of "engaging in a coordinated and deliberate campaign designed to defame" him.
He denied any involvement in any plot to assassinate Kirk and called Owens a "conspiracy theorist" who displayed a "pattern of seeking public attention and media exposure."
No lies detected.
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A spokesperson for Owens said she had no comment beyond what she said on her podcast. Snow did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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In July, Owens was sued for defamation by Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, for claiming she is transgender....
Last month, Trump got involved, posting on Truth Social that Owens is an "extremely Low IQ individual" and sharing a doctored image that referred to Owens as "vile person of the year." He also called Owens' claims about Brigitte Macron "despicable." Two members of Congress this week introduced a bipartisan House resolution condemning Owens, as well a left-wing livestreamer, for "antisemitic hate-filled rhetoric."
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
BREAKING: Brian Harpole -- Charlie Kirk's chief of security -- has filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens and her source Mitchell Snow.
Owens publicly accused Harpole of conspiring with the U.S. military at Fort Huachuca to assassinate Charlie Kirk, alongside Erika Kirk, Rep. Mark Amodei, and Cabot Phillips.
Her own words promoting the story:
"Charlie Kirk was assassinated and our military was involved. I can't wait to share this information with you guys."
The story rested entirely on Mitchell Snow, who claimed he "inadvertently" walked into a top-secret meeting at the Army base on September 9, 2025 -- the day before the assassination -- where Harpole and twelve lieutenant colonels were allegedly finalizing the plot to assassinate Charlie Kirk.
Per the complaint, the claim is verifiably false:
→ Harpole was in Dallas that morning.
→ He has never been to Fort Huachuca.
→ Owens had his flight records -- she admitted as much on X -- yet kept publishing anyway.
From the complaint: "Without even a modicum of substantiated evidence, she has publicly accused Harpole of foreknowledge, participation in, and cover-up of the assassination of Charlie Kirk."
69 pages. Jury trial demanded. Seeking millions of dollars. Filed today in Tennessee.
The fact that Cavernous Nostrils knew that Harpole wasn't anywhere near Fort Huachuca the day the French/Israeli/Egyptian/US Military assassination-plotters were meeting will satisfy the absurd rule in defamation that you can only be sued for defaming a public figure if you acted with "reckless indifference" as to whether your defmation was true or false.
Dana Loesch reminded me the other day that Gal Sharpton's first attention-getting media play was... doxxing GamerGate conservatives.
Cavernous Nostrils has since advanced a new conspiracy theory: All of the defamation lawsuits against her are not caused by her rapid-fire Tourettes-like machine-gun defamation of everyone in the world, but by... Perfidious Jew Ben Shapiro.
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Candace is having a Britney Spears moment.
Let me explain what she just said:
1. Candace slanders Erika Kirk and accuses her of murdering her husband.
2. Candace implies that Charlie's head of security actually wanted him to be assassinated ... and intentionally orchestrated his murder.
3. Laura Loomer got annoyed with Candace attacking innocent people and decided to hit back by exposing some dirt from Candace's history--her husband's DUI and firearm charge.
4. And now Candace, instead of taking any responsibility whatsoever, has decided that the REAL CULPRIT behind everything is actually ....... Ben Shapiro ...... because he is a Jew.
He sat down with a New York Times "reporter" -- I assume because he thought she'd give him an easy time, as they're now on the same side -- and claimed he never implied that Trump was the Anti-Christ. When she read his words implying that Trump is the Anti-Christ, he claimed he never said those words.
It's on video tape, you lunatic.
Tucker Carlson: “I’ve never said those words. That word never left my lips.”
He also claimed that " " " They " " " are ruthlessly attacking JD Vance, persons apparently vaguely connected to Marco Rubio, and says he knows, for a fact, that " " " They " " " are engaging in this hateful disparagement operation against Vance.
When he's asked who this " " " They " " " are whom he claims he "knows" are attacking Vance, he says "I honestly don't know."
So once again, the "source" for all the things he "knows" is "Trust Me Bro."
I have to say, I don't even understand what his complaint would be, even if his Trust Me Bro "source" were accurate. This is a major thing that justifies the "Woke Reich" descriptor -- like the woke left, they attack people relentlessly and engage in endless reputation destruction, and then they whine that other people are attacking them (or a believed ally, like Vance).
Who cares if someone's attacking you or someone you consider an ally? That's politics, and that's literally what you do every single minute of your little-viewed podcast, you fucking whiny fat homo nepo baby bitch.
This is the exact kind of bizarre claim the woke left makes -- we are Special and allowed to defame our enemies all day long but if anyone says boo back to us it's a Hate Crime! Help us! Punching down, punching down!!!
Remember this very accurate meme of a woke feminist throwing shit over a wall at her enemies -- and then crying and Damseling when that shit is thrown right back?
I saw James Lindsey making this point before, and now Will Chamberlain makes it: The Woke Reich are now running RussiaGate 2.0.
What was the left's RussiaGate claim? That Trump was being blackmailed by a hostile foreign leader into carrying that leader's water for him.
And now the Woke Reich is making the same claim, but now it's Bibi Netanyahu blackmailing Trump with the Epstein files instead of Putin blackmailing him with the Russian Prostitute Pee-Pee Videos.
On @PiersUncensored yesterday, Buckley Carlson tried to suggest that Donald Trump "didn't want" to strike Iran but that he was "pressured" into doing so by Israel. Here's how I responded. pic.twitter.com/30Vz5EaAwx
US CIS Adopts New Aggressive Posture in Rooting Out Immigration Fraud and Denaturalizing Fraudsters: "USCIS Is Declaring an All-Out War on Immigration Fraud"
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has created a special team of criminal investigators to root out immigration fraud, equipping newly designated special agents with expanded law enforcement powers to investigate, arrest and prosecute violators and even denaturalize cheaters.
"We're going to get to a place where people are going to know that if they file, and they're going to file something fraudulently, or they're not giving us their full story, we're going to find that," United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow told Just The News.
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Edlow announced the initiative in September under a final rule that allows the agency to hire and train 1811-classified officers who can carry firearms, execute warrants and handle cases from start to finish without always referring them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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In one early test of the heightened scrutiny, USCIS's Operation Twin Shield in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area uncovered suspected fraud in 275 of more than 1,000 cases reviewed during a 10-day surge of site visits and interviews. Edlow declared the operation part of a broader crackdown. "USCIS is declaring an all-out war on immigration fraud," he said. "We will relentlessly pursue everyone involved in undermining the integrity of our immigration system and laws."
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Individuals found to have committed immigration fraud, particularly in procuring naturalization through concealment of material facts, willful misrepresentation or illegal means, face potential denaturalization and subsequent deportation, according to U.S. law and ongoing enforcement actions.
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Recent examples include filings against naturalized citizens involved in tax fraud schemes, identity concealment to evade prior deportation orders and naturalization fraud via fake divorce decrees.
Meanwhile, fully invaded-and-occupied Sweden shuts the open borders door twenty years too late:
Pato Bonato
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Translated from Spanish
🇸🇪 Sweden has just approved that to obtain citizenship, the following must be required:
- 8 years of residence
- Stable income
- NOT having received social benefits
- Swedish language exam
- Exam on Swedish values and society
If you don't speak the language or don't demonstrate that you understand how Sweden works → they won't give you citizenship.
Self-Proclaimed "Snapchat King" Eric Swalwell Sent Videos of Himself Masturbating to More Women, and Is Also Now Using Snapchat to Attack Women for Talking About His Masturbation Videos
Former Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell was accused by multiple women of sending sexual messages, including "videos of him masturbating," after becoming one of the first members of Congress to join Snapchat in an effort to restore "faith" in "democracy."
In a bombshell report on Sunday -- less than a month after Swalwell resigned from Congress after being accused of rape and sexual assault by multiple women -- CNN spoke to "more than a dozen" women who claimed the congressman had made them feel uncomfortable, both in person and online, over the past decade.
Several women told CNN that the congressman had sent them sexually explicit messages on Snapchat after he became "one of the first lawmakers to join Snapchat" and was heralded in the media as "the Snapchat king of Congress," according to CNN.
"We can restore a lot of faith that people have in their democracy by opening it up a little bit more," Swalwell told The Hill in 2016 after joining the messaging service. "Snapchat is a great way to do that."
Snapchat is a messaging app whose chief selling point is that messages and photos disappear after being viewed or after a period of time (if unviewed). It is purpose-built for adultery and dicpics.
However, it allegedly wasn't long before the congressman began to use his Snapchat account for purposes other than politics.
One young woman claimed Swalwell would send her Snapchat messages about her future, before asking inappropriate questions such as, "What are you wearing?"
Two other women told CNN that Swalwell sent them "sexually explicit messages and unsolicited nude photos and videos of himself" in 2021, while a third woman also claimed to have received "sexually tinged messages and videos."
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During the relationship, Swalwell reportedly sent "nude photos of himself and videos of him masturbating," which showed the congressman's "face and naked body."
The videos, which were saved by the woman, were shown to CNN.
"His stories would be his, like, congressional content, but then he would be sending me dick pics," she alleged, adding that Swalwell sent her another "explicit video" late last year, just weeks before he announced his 2026 California gubernatorial campaign.
In another alleged case, Swalwell reportedly wrote a letter of recommendation for a woman he had never met after sending her flirty Snapchat messages about her "sexy pajamas."
And he's still doing it. Even as he's being investigated (supposedly) in California and New York for rape, he's still sending out Snapchat messages to his victims.
Another young woman who connected online with Swalwell about a policy issue said he repeatedly sent her suggestive messages, offered to fly her to DC, and even wrote her a letter of recommendation despite never meeting in person.
"He would Snapchat me. He'd be like, 'What do you want to do with your future?'" she recalled. "And then he'd be like, 'What are you wearing right now?'"
More than a dozen women who spoke with CNN described interactions with Swalwell that made them uncomfortable over the last decade, from social media messages to in-person encounters to alleged attempts by the congressman to lure them to his hotel room. Some asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation.
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Similarly, Swalwell met Amanda Koski, a former Hill staffer and political operative, when she served him and his family while waitressing at a DC pizza restaurant. He asked for her phone number and later started messaging her about her involvement in politics, she told CNN...
The night after CNN spoke with Azari about the women's claims, Swalwell sent Koski a Snapchat message at 1:57 a.m. Eastern -- asking why she had screenshotted his chats and including screencaps of texts between the two of them.
"Given the accusations against him, attempting to gaslight or intimidate a woman on Snapchat at 2:00 a.m. isn't overly becoming of a person who has 'done no wrong,'" Koski told CNN.
Why are you saying I sexually harassed you when I sent you pictures of my dick? I wasn't harassing you. I just wanted your medical opinion about whether the mole on the tip of my penis looks cancerous or sexy. I thought it looked like a helmeted Cindy Crawford but I was a little worried about the uneven edges.
Live Updates: U.S. sinks 6 small Iranian boats as Iran launches attacks on UAE and a ship in Strait of Hormuz
Iran launched its first missile and drone attack on the United Arab Emirates since a ceasefire with the U.S. took effect on April 8, and it fired two drones at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, UAE authorities said Monday.
The U.S. military said two commercial vessels safely transited the strait amid "efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping" under the Project Freedom initiative announced by President Trump.
The Iranian regime says it received a U.S. response to its latest 14-point peace proposal, which it says is aimed at ending the war, not extending the current ceasefire. Mr. Trump said over the weekend that he'd likely reject the Iranian proposal, as "they have not paid a big enough price."
Trump just stated that hostilities were officially concluded, backdating this to the start of the "hot ceasefire." That satisfies the 60-days-without-congressional-authorization demand of the unconstitutional War Powers Act.
What Iran absolutely should not do is attack American ships, because that would give Trump full legal authorization to counterattack them on his own authority.
And guess what they say they did?
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Iranian state media said earlier that forces fired "warning" shots, including missiles and drones, at a U.S. destroyer as it neared the Strait of Hormuz in the Sea of Oman.
CENTCOM said two U.S.-flagged commercial vessels transited the strait Monday under the auspices of Project Freedom, an initiative announced by President Trump on Sunday for the U.S. military to guide ships through the waterway.
Iranian authorities insist the strait is closed and only vessels with explicit permission from its military will be permitted to pass, while U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted Monday that the U.S. has full control over the waterway.
Apparently they're now claiming they didn't attack-attack Navy ships. I don't know if they did or they didn't. I think their statement that they did should be taken at face value.
Trump announced that US Navy ships will escort tankers through the Strait, beginning today, in another attempt to defeat Iran's use of the price of oil against him.
President Trump said the U.S. Navy will start guiding ships from foreign countries through the Strait of Hormuz from Monday and warned that if Iran tries to disrupt the process, the American military will use force.
Why it matters: This move that Trump called "Project Freedom" is the most significant step by his administration to try and reopen the key strait since Iran shut it down early in the war.
While Trump claims the move is "humanitarian," it is a clear U.S. challenge to Tehran's effort to control the strait. An Iranian military response could spark a confrontation or even an escalation back to war.
Iran's attempt to shut down the free navigation of ships is also an act of war that authorizes Trump's retaliation on his own authority.
Update: CENTCOM is using slippery language -- they say they'll be guiding ships through the Strait, not escorting them. I am guessing this is for legal reasons. Trump doesn't want his domestic disloyal opposition claiming that if he "escorts" ships that's a violation of the War Powers Act.
Woke Pope Appoints an Illegal Alien as Bishop of West Virginia to Speak In Favor of Mass Amnesty, in a State That Is Only 2% Hispanic
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Via Instapundit, reports that the pope is a woke buffoon and leftwing culture warrior have been proven 100% true, by his own actions.
The Washington Post
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Pope Leo's pick to be bishop of West Virginia is a formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk.
Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala has called for Catholics to speak out against President Trump's treatment of immigrants.
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This was not a dreamer. Evelio originally came here from El Salvador illegally as a grown man in 1990. He had already been deported at least once before. Soon after his arrival, he was granted TPS because of the civil war back home. Eventually learned English and became a US citizen in 2006. His is a sympathetic case from a bygone era when most of America thought we could look the other way at such things given the overall prosperous state of things.
But we are not now in that era.
Our national debt is now over 1,000% higher than it was when Evelio first arrived. Illegal immigration has swelled over 300%. Whole industries have replaced the American-born family man with illegal aliens. The amount of school children who only speak Spanish has doubled since 1990. The median age of a first time home buyer in 1990 was 28-30, while today it is 41. It was twice as likely a 30-year old man would be married with children in 1990 compared to now.
Barely 2% of West Virginia is Hispanic. Barely 1% of the state speaks Spanish. This is a purely political appointment by a woke pope trying to shoehorn his open borders agenda into a state Trump has won by 40 points three times. There's nothing prophetic here, but it's all shamefully political. An open borders agenda the pope himself isn't forced to abide by, because Vatican City has strict enforcement policies and walls. This is like if MSNBC picked offices in the church, all the while never allowing the illegals in Martha's Vineyard where their primetime hosts spend their summers.
MORNING RANT: There’s a Growing Preference Cascade for More Red States to Revoke the ABA’s Monopoly on Law School Accreditation
—Buck Throckmorton
Among the most powerful institutions captured by the left is the American Bar Association, with its monopoly power on law school accreditation. Until very recently, a degree from an ABA-accredited law school was necessary in all 50 states to be able to take the bar exam. Concurrently, the ABA had become radically left-wing, imposing its agenda on law schools. For instance, to maintain accreditation, the ABA had imposed a requirement that law schools demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion, with statistical proof that its faculty and student bodies were diverse with respect to gender, race, and ethnicity.
As I documented at The American Spectator, Texas and Florida recently ended the ABA’s monolithic power, at least in those two states, and that the action of the two big red states should be a spark for other red states to follow suit. Specifically, ”The liberation of Texas and Florida law schools from mandatory, ABA-enforced woke orthodoxy is a major milestone. Other conservative states should quickly follow suit, helping accelerate the nullification of the ABA’s authority into a broad preference cascade.”
That preference cascade appears to be under way. The bright red state of Tennessee may be the next to defenestrate the ABA.
The Tennessee Supreme Court recently reached out to the Federal Trade Commission, seeking advice regarding the state’s reliance on the monopoly accrediting agency. Joined by the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, the FTC has just assertively advocated for revoking the ABA’s monopoly in the state.
Federal Trade Commission staff urged the Tennessee Supreme Court yesterday to open law school accreditation to competition by reducing its reliance on the American Bar Association (ABA) in determining which law schools provide sufficient education for their graduates to take the Tennessee bar examination. The letter was joined by the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee and officials at the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division.
Responding to the court’s invitation to comment on whether it should “modify, reduce, or eliminate” its reliance on the ABA, the letter recommended reforms to the current process.
Here is a link to the full FTC letter, which is also signed by Braden Boucek, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
While I’m not sure there should even be accrediting agencies – bar exam results should be the proof of whether a law school is doing its job well – I can state with authority that the imprimatur of the ABA should be considered a demerit for a law school. The American Bar Association is so comically partisan that when Joe Biden tweeted that the 28th Amendment (“Equal Rights Amendment”) was now the law of the land, the ABA lent its support, urging ”all bar associations and the legal community as a whole to support implementation of the ERA” in accordance with Biden’s tweet.
Every red state governor needs to start being asked what actions are necessary in his or her state to eliminate the ABA’s accreditation monopoly, and to be pressed for a deadline to get it done. The preference cascade against the ABA is picking up speed, and it should soon be a badge of shame for any red state to still allow the ABA to retain control over its law schools.
As I wrote about recently, Texas & Florida just ended the ABA’s monopoly on law school accreditation in those states. There needs to be a preference cascade through all red states to follow. Tennessee most certainly needs to do so. https://t.co/BLsTnCJY6p
We joined @FTC and @USAO_MDTN in a letter supporting Tennessee’s initiative to open law school accreditation to competition. The ABA’s regulatory monopoly over law school accreditation reduces Americans’ access to quality legal representation. https://t.co/kmDpTwQSab
“Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition, the spokesperson said in a statement. “Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak. We do ask that you join us in prayer for America’s Mayor – Rudy Giuliani.” It’s unclear what ailment the 81-year-old ex-mayor and former Trump attorney is being treated for while in the care of a Florida hospital.
New Yorkers, you’ve been slacking — so the mayor wants to organize you. Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t happy that only 400 people showed up to last year’s Rent Guidelines Board hearings. In response, last Wednesday, he launched Organize NYC, a supposed volunteer effort to have New Yorkers participate in local government... Taken straight from the Democratic Socialists of America’s community-organizing playbook, Mamdani is calling it “a long-term initiative to bring mass public participation into the work of governing.”
Don’t be fooled. Organize NYC is a thinly veiled, taxpayer-funded effort to embed campaign-style political organizing inside city government, dress it up as civic virtue and deliver Mamdani’s campaign promise under a veneer of official neutrality.
Having been born and raised in New York, and coming of age during bad old days of grime and crime in the 60s and 70s, the Giuliani years were absolutely miraculous both in terms of making it America's nd arguably the world's premier city and a truly great place to live. Considering the city's long-standing status as a Democrat/Liberal if not necessarily hardcore leftist bastion (a few isolated pockets and a couple college campuses notwithstanding) Rudy's election and incredible success was somewhat miraculous all things considered, and a perpetually ultra-liberal/leftist city council underscores that.
And so when NYC was on life support it rebounded spectacularly. Perhaps both Rudy and the city itself can one day come back once again. Momdani is going to lay waste to Gotham, but this time around will there be an electorate that rises up to elect another Rudy or are the younger generations so brainwashed and self-absorbed as to make that utterly impossible. I fear that to be the case since as the saner/older cohort of the baby boomers pass away leaving nothing but the younger generations who have no real collective memory nor desire for America as founded and sane Western Judeo/Christian values, since they were barely if at all taught and raised with them.
Former Rep. Barney Frank spent decades as one of the Democrat Party’s most recognizable left-wing figures. Now, in what may be one of his final public warnings, he is telling Democrats that their loudest activists have pushed the party into territory the public simply is not buying. Frank’s warning, delivered as he enters hospice, is blunt. He is not attacking the left from the right. He is saying the left has made a strategic mess of things by turning its most controversial causes into purity tests and then acting surprised when voters balk. . . That is a polite Washington way of saying the fringe has taken over the message and made the party look reckless. Frank also sees a broader pattern in Democrat politics, one that should worry anyone who thinks slogans are a substitute for results. By his telling, too many Democrats have fallen in love with whatever the current thing is, regardless of how radical it is.
Well, as we have seen when (or if) voters balk then the Democrats wield molotov cocktails and rent-a-mobs along with assassins. Funny how he's complaining about the very thing that allowed him to be elected in the first place. In a way perhaps there is a sea change taking place insofar as the DOnald Trump MAGA revolution could not have taken place were it not for the utter disasters engendered by Clinton(s), and the Bushes and GOP-e are in the mix here, make no mistake, and then of course the insanity of Obama and Biden. Nixon's silent or not-so-silent anymore majority must still exist at least to a level that keeps things in check, but how long will that last and will the Socialist-loving Yoots take over the asylum or will America, that is Can America be reborn as we approach 250, or are we destined to fall?
On that cheery note... Here's wishing for a full and speedy recovery for Mayor Giuliani.
Trump imposed a blockade of Iran on April 12 after the Islamic regime imposed a toll on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The move came days after Iran declared it would allow passage of 12 ships per day that paid a $1 per barrel toll in either Chinese yuan or cryptocurrency. Trump’s new announcement on Truth Social stated the “humanitarian gesture” addressing “victims of circumstance” would start Monday morning, local time. Trump Announces Humanitarian Mission To Free Ships Stranded By Iran War
Speaking to reporters before departing West Palm Beach, Florida, President Trump said he would review the proposal after being briefed only on the “concept of the deal,” noting, “They’re going to give me the exact wording now… I’ll let you know about it later.” Moments later, he underscored his skepticism in a Truth Social post, writing he “can’t imagine” the proposal would be acceptable in that Iran has “not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years.” Iran Warns ‘Renewed Conflict Likely’ as Trump Rejects Latest Proposal — ‘Fully Prepared for American Foolishness’
Roger Kimball: Iran’s regime lost the war the moment American force and economic pressure exposed its bluff; what remains is the slow collapse of a terror state running out of money, options, and time. The Last Days of the Iranian Regime
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Barely a week after the latest assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, federal agents arrested a Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate accused of leaving violent voicemails aimed at Trump and a member of Congress’ family. The suspect, Raymond Eugene Chandler III of Wilkinsburg, is now facing federal charges. U.S. Senate Candidate Arrested for Trump Threats
Modern Western unrest stems from a long institutional “war of position” that outlived its revolutionary purpose, leaving frustration, drift, and recurring political violence. Revolutionaries without a Cause (Absolute power is the cause - jjs)
Mamdani isn’t happy that only 400 people showed up to last year’s Rent Guidelines Board hearings. In response, last Wednesday, he launched Organize NYC, a supposed volunteer effort to have New Yorkers participate in local government. Mayor Mamdani’s new scam: Charge NYC taxpayers to hire his rent-a-mobs
The funding freeze adds pressure on Minnesota to address systemic vulnerabilities in its Medicaid program, with state officials now required to provide additional documentation to justify payment requests. The move could also influence broader anti-fraud efforts nationwide, as CMS and other federal agencies continue to scrutinize public program expenditures. Trump Admin Withholds Another $91 Million in Medicaid from Fraud-Ridden Minnesota.
The expanded work requirements are contained in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law July 4, 2025, by President Donald Trump. The adult age bracket previously affected was 18–54 years old, and dependents had to be under 18 years of age, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for SNAP. Millions Drop Off Welfare Rolls As New Trump Eligibility Rules Take Effect
A 34-year-old migrant who entered Britain illegally is on trial for attempting a knife attack at the Israeli Embassy in London, citing “revenge” for Gaza. He was stopped by police just moments before he could launch an attack. WATCH: Armed Boat Migrant Caught Trying to Attack Israeli Embassy.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
Trump said, “Well, you’re really helping the workers because we’re building plants all over the country. When these plants open up, you’re going to see a big surge. But you’re really helping and helping, and you’re helping a lot of other things like cures, diseases that we’re going to find through AI, etc. but we have plants, right now. As an example, construction jobs are way up. The jobs after they open are going to be way up, and AI is going to be a boon to the country. It’s going to be incredible I think. And we’re leading China. Trump: AI Will Lead to ‘Tremendous Numbers of Jobs’
The departments of Justice and Transportation on Tuesday launched a two-pronged attack on JetBlue’s $3.8 billion purchase of ultra-low-cost Spirit Airlines — an aggressive effort intended to counter decades of airline industry consolidation and ensure Americans maintain access to cheaper fares. 2023 Video: Buttigieg Brags About Helping Kill Spirit Airlines, JetBlue Merger
(Former FTC apparatchik Lina) Khan and then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg cheered as the Biden Justice Department blocked JetBlue’s bid to buy Spirit in 2024, arguing that the “industry consolidation” would be bad for consumers. Democrats eager to shift the blame point to how the Iran war sent fuel prices surging, but that at most explains the timing of Spirit’s death: It had been struggling for years, including two bankruptcies. Spirit Airlines’ death is entirely on the Biden junta — and specifically faux-populism
As part of a plea agreement, Ibezim pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree forgery. Prior to the plea agreement, Ibezim was also facing eight other counts, including witness tampering and election fraud. This case underscores the threat posed by voter fraud to election integrity. In April, the North Carolina State Board of Elections identified approximately 34,000 dead people still on the state’s voter rolls, indicating that there are other vehicles for substantial election fraud. Former Democrat Mayoral Candidate Confesses to Forging Voter Registrations.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
They’ve spent the last 10 years accusing Donald Trump of being the second coming of Hitler and melting down when Elon Musk or anyone else perceived as close to Trump made a hand gesture they pretended was a Nazi salute... Now that Maine Gov. Janet Mills has pulled out of her Senate campaign, citing money problems, Democrat grandees are lining up to campaign for their anointed candidate, the ersatz Joe Six-Pack Graham Platner, who has an actual Nazi tattoo on his chest — or did for 18 years until he disguised it to campaign. Miranda Devine: Dems seek a blue-collar MAGA man to win back Trump voters — but better look in the mirror
POLITICS
Frank is telling Democrats that there is a difference between advancing an agenda and insulting the country into submission. Unpopular ideas do not become popular because activists insist they should. And he’s making a solid point... A Dying Barney Frank Has a Message for His Party — and Democrats Won’t Like It
Trump said he made the announcement after meeting with Morris on Thursday and framed him as a “terrific businessman and strong MAGA warrior” who would do better serving in his administration as a yet-unannounced ambassador, according to his Truth Social post. Kentucky Senate Candidate Nate Morris Drops Out For Ambassador Role In Trump Admin
Thad McCotter: Republicans will not keep the majority on promises alone; in 2026, deeds—not rhetoric—will decide whether voters reward governance or return to empty words. The 2026 Midterm Vigil (No. 1): Words vs. Deeds
The implications of the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais overturning race-based voting districts are far more profound and far-reaching than anyone has yet realized. SCOTUS Tolls the Bell on Racial Gerrymandering
If Alabama is successful at getting the Allen v. Milligan injunction lifted, the state would be allowed to eliminate racially gerrymandered majority-minority districts, likely costing the Democrats representation in the U.S. House of Representatives in the November midterms. The Louisiana v. Callais ruling against racial gerrymandering earlier this week suggests that there is a high chance the Supreme Court will lift the injunction. text
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The move comes after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz heavily criticized Trump speaking to students Monday, stating, “The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skilful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result.” Trump To Pull 5,000 Troops Out Of Germany After Merz Inaction In Iran War
Matteo Salvini, the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and leader of the Lega or League political party that rounds out the coalition that put Meloni in as Prime Minister, held a huge rally a couple weeks ago in Duomo Square here in Milan alongside other major European conservatives like Jordan Bardella from France and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands. During his address, he told the crowd that President Trump is “our ally” and “our friend,” and that “every misunderstanding will be settled very soon.” Exclusive — Deputy Italian Prime Minister Matteo Salvini: Trump’s ‘Courage’ for ‘Cultural Foundation’ Critical to Survival of the West
The question is not whether Milei is right about Keynes. It is whether he can translate that conviction into durable structural change. How Javier Milei Took Down Keynes
The challenges in Canada’s military underscore broader issues with mass migration straining social cohesion and institutional integrity. Notably, over 40 percent of Canada’s population of young people, those most likely to join the armed forces, are immigrants, including a large number of Indian nationals. However, despite the failures recorded in the report, Canada’s armed forces continue to tout the supposed successes of diversity. Push to Recruit Migrants Into Military Ends in Disaster.
Vancouver Coastal Health, the taxpayer-funded government health authority that operates Vancouver General Hospital under Canada’s single-payer healthcare system, told The B.C. Catholic that its hospital’s “staff may consider bringing up MAiD based on their clinical judgment, provided they possess the necessary knowledge and skills to do so.” Canadian Priest Says Hospital Asked Him To Consider Assisted Suicide Twice After Broken Hip
According to a real estate agent in Louisiana, there is credible but unconfirmed evidence that SpaceX is in the process of buying a 136,000 acre plot of land owned by Exxon on the coast of Louisiana west of New Orleans, near the unincorporated town of Pecan Island. Is SpaceX buying a 200-plus square mile patch of Louisiana?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“Christianity was just one more iteration of the monomyth...War was an act of providence...Inmates were cruelly forced to labor in biodynamic plantations...Guénon’s despair for the modern West led him to convert...Blavatsky turned the Wheel of Dharma.” How Occultists Remade the World
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Since anyone can set up a VPN of their own in minutes using open source software and any of a thousand cloud service providers, and tear it down right after leaving no trace of its existence, this is stereotypical malicious idiocy.
So of course the UK and France are pushing similar legislations as fast as they can.
These are specialised devices that store their data in on-chip static RAM rather than in a large pool of DRAM. But they can't perform tasks that require a large memory pool.
From Monica
(Yeah, I know - the mystery click and photo aren't exact matches)
Howdy Hordelings! Time for the Sunday night ONT. Somewhat in the style of one of Ace's weekday Cafe threads tonight. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Golden Tempo was literally dead last in the final turn and then outkicked everyone to win the Kentucky Derby. What an insane finish. pic.twitter.com/ZjJqQs0Pb1
Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol stopped a pickup truck in Central Florida and discovered zip-tied iguanas.
The truck was pulled over along State Road 540 in Winter Haven because it did not have a working tag light on its license plate. The plate had been attached to the fold-down gate of a utility trailer made of expanded metal.
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During questioning, Casildo-Acdiel told troopers he was from North Carolina. He claimed he had driven to Miami to pick up coconuts and was on his way to Polk County to get fish before heading back home.
This explanation raised suspicion. Troopers then used a K-9 unit to inspect the vehicle. The search revealed five coolers filled with iced tilapia and 13 live iguanas in the truck bed.
Investigators noted that the animals were zip-tied iguanas, with their feet bound behind their backs. The presence of these zip-tied iguanas led to further concern about possible wildlife violations. Authorities emphasized that the zip-tied iguanas appeared to have been restrained for transport.
News video segment at the link.
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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)
It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.
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Fashion Diplomacy at the White House: Camilla and Melania’s Coordinated Style Highlights from the Royal State Visit
King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s four-day state visit to Washington, D.C., offered more than diplomatic pageantry; it delivered a masterclass in fashion. First Lady Melania Trump and Queen Camilla repeatedly aligned their looks in spring pastels, creating harmonious photo ops that signaled unity between the U.S. and U.K. The result? Magic.
Upon the royals’ arrival, Camilla wore a light pink bespoke Dior coatdress, paired with a Bottega Veneta Intrecciato bag and a beautiful Union Flag/Stars and Stripes brooch that once belonged to Queen Elizabeth II.
Subsequent daytime appearances kept the palette soft and coordinated. My favorite was Melania being absolutely everything in a Ralph Lauren Collection silk and wool suit in ivory with a signature wide-brimmed Eric Javits straw boater. Her shoes? Manolo Blahnik BB Pumps in ivory, flawless as always. Camilla overcame any frumpy tendencies in a bespoke Fiona Clare coatdress in light pistachio, with a Philip Treacy hat and Eliot Zed Tina pumps. She finished with the sparkling Cullinan V Diamond Brooch. The two looked like they stepped out of a perfectly styled garden party.
The pinnacle came at the white-tie state dinner. This level of formality hasn’t graced the White House in over 20 years, and wow—our FLOTUS knocked it out of the park with absolute perfection! I mean, look at this:
Melania and Camilla stepped out in harmonizing pinks that stole the spotlight, perfectly invoking cherry blossom season. Melania wore head-to-toe Dior: a delphinium-pink silk strapless Christian Dior Haute Couture gown with architectural ruching at the waist, long off-white Dior gloves, and matching Dior shoes. The elegant, columnar silhouette felt both modern and regal, it was timeless First Lady excellence.
Queen Camilla complemented beautifully in a magenta Fiona Clare embroidered chiffon gown. She paired it with a dramatic amethyst and diamond necklace once belonging to Queen Victoria. (I was so stunned by that piece I honestly have no idea what was on her feet—sorry!) The two created one of the most memorable fashion moments of the visit.
From daytime pastels to white-tie drama, Melania and Camilla delivered coordinated elegance with personality to spare—spring style diplomacy at its finest.
Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!
Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be May? It has to be May because I have it on good authority this is the First May edition, right? Not the May first edition, but rather the first May edition!
PSA: Don't forget next Sunday is Mother's Day!
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
What do you think? I like the regular stainless finish more better.
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You'll Put Your Eye Out!
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Magazine Loader
Courtesy of our pal Pillage Idiot
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Our Pal Nuclear Explosives
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NoVaMoMe 2026
What - you thought there wasn't going to be a NoVaMoMe in 2026?
Note: One of the great joys of NoVAMoMe season, at least for me, is being able to cut and paste the entire block of text below and haranguing you to attend the event. Are you attending? Are you focusing on the fundamentals of attending?
Alright, guys and gals, the long awaited and highly anticipated details of the 2026 NoVAMoMe are here! That's right, I finally got my act together and updated the information page for 2026, and need to go over a few details. First, the date is June 20th, 2026 from 11am to 3pm. Nextly, my bestest blog buddy bluebell and I have decided 2026 will continue the longstanding tradition of NoVAMoMe simplification, and want to pass along the changes from prior years.
First, no registration and no advance charge for food. If you would like to attend, send an email to WeaselBell Productions, and let us know. You will be directed to a sekrit webpage with all of the details. We do ask once you have decided to attend to let us know so we can coordinate an expected count with venue management. Once there if you are hungry or thirsty simply order from the onsite menu and pay separately. Cash and credit cards accepted. Next, although fun, we have decided to again take a break from the raffles and mug sales this year. Depending on how it goes, that may be something we bring back in future years. While your generosity is always appreciated, with no prize table, please leave donations and contributions at home, but bring your appetite for a great afternoon spent with your imaginary online friends.
Next, a NoVAMoMe PSA from our pal bluebell
Hi folks - just a quick PSA. If you write for info about the MoMe, please give us a few words in the body of the email just so I know you are a Moron and not a spammer (moron). I do receive spam on this email account because it's sitting right here in my nic, so that's why I'm asking. I don't want to give our details to a spammer. Also, remember to check your spam folder if you don't receive a reply email.
Thanks.
bluebell
Seriously, just send an email then go to the website with the password provided. If you forget, a link to the email is on the main page, left sidebar. If you do not sign up, bluebell will be disappointed. Weasel will be disappointed, too, but it's bluebell you need to worry about.
This week our pal rhomboid scores again with this excellent review of the Drew Estate 20 Acre Farm
Most premium cigars with American leaf get that from Connecticut shade or broadleaf, or Pennsylvania broadleaf. A few however use tobacco from other states, and one of those is Drew Estate's 20 Acre Farm, whose fillers include leaf grown in Florida. On top of that is binder from Honduras and a beautiful golden brown connecticut shade wrapper from Ecuador. I tried the toro (6 X 52). The draw was just right. Due to breezy conditions I sort of botched the light-up, scorching up the side of the wrapper in one area. As an experiment I let the burn line correct itself - which it did - and it didn't require much management after. Smoke, as always with a Drew Estate cigar, was plentiful. To me a nice version of the classic connecticut shade cigar - mild profile, hints of sweetness and sweeter flavors throughout, some light wood or cedar in the background. More perceptive reviewers find coffee bean, citrus, and vanilla. Very pleasant smoke. This cigar is available online for $11 and up.
Excellent as always, rhomboid! Thank you!
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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.
A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid
Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!
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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Podcast: Starting a new season, CBD and Sefton discuss their personal journeys to conservative principles, is Nick Shirley the beginning of a trend?, Iran trying to reignite the war, the Left attacks itself, even on "Best Guitarist" lists, and more!
Podcast: CBD and Sefton Charge the Democrats with fomenting violence against the nation with their rhetoric, Virginia redistricting going down the tubes? Trump's bully pulpit is not censorship, Lee Zeldin is a star, J.B. Pritzker is an idiot, and more!
ANOTHER LEFT WING ASSASSIN ATTEMPTS TO KILL TRUMP If I understand this, the left-wing Democrat assassin attempted to get into the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and was stopped at the magnetometers, which detected his gun. I guess he pulled out the gun and was shot by Secret Service agents. Erika Kirk was present.
Forgotten 70s Mystery Click You made me cry when you said good-bye 70s, not 50s Now that is a motherflipping intro
Podcast: Sefton and CBD wonder about the Chaos that Trump is creating in the minds of the Iranian junta, Virginia redistricting is pure power grab, Ilhan Omar is many things ...and stupid too! Amazon censoring conservative thought again, and the UK...put a fork in it!
The people in charge [Jews, of course -- ace] don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.
Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity.
Trump's trolling tweet was ill-advised, but Tucker is just lying when he claims the Christianity-hating President of Iran was "offended" by this. He's one step away from announcing his official conversion to Islam. He literally never stops praising Islam. Well, he suddenly became Christian two years ago, there's not much stopping him from converting again.
You can track Tuq'r's official conversion to Islam with this Bingo card.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton talk Orban losing, but is it the end of Hungary? The Irish start a brawl, but is it enough, Pope Leo wades into politics, Trump calls Iran's bluff and blockades Hormuz, Artemis II! Swallwell is scum, and more!
People say that the bearded man in the video of Fartwell molesting a hooker looks like Democrat Arizona Senator Rueben Gallego, said to be Swalwell's "best friend" and known to take vacations with him.
