We've Brought the Arab Middle East to America (and It's the Same Here as It Is There)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Open thread.
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Trump: I'm Not Signing Any Bills Until the Senate Passes the SAVE Act
—Disinformation Expert Ace
President Trump canceled the signing of a bipartisan housing bill on Wednesday, saying he would not sign the legislation until the Senate passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act."Today's Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
The development underscores the tension between Trump and Senate Republicans on the SAVE America Act.
If Trump doesn't sign the bill within ten days, it is automatically vetoed. That's the so-called "pocket veto."
Trump had earlier ordered the Postmaster General to not deliver federal mail-in ballots to states which refused to turn over their voter lists for vetting.
The Postmaster General confirmed he will obey that order, in congressional testimony.
Postmaster General David Steiner told senators during a hearing Wednesday that he plans to abide by the Trump administration's rule regarding not delivering mail-in ballots in states that decline to hand over sensitive data about voters to the federal government.
The proposed rule faces court challenges and Steiner said he would follow any court ruling on the matter, but will follow the rule until an order blocks it. The proposed rule seeks to create lists of citizens in each state to help determine who is eligible to vote and calls on the Postal Service not to distribute mail ballots to those not on state lists.
Steiner confirmed he would follow the rule after Democratic Michigan Sen. Gary Peters asked "If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposal rule?"
"Under our proposed regulation, no," Steiner said, according to the New York Times. "We would tell the state that we need the manifest."
Supreme Court Overrules Lower Leftwing Judges: Trump May Turn Away Illegals at Border Without First Letting Them Into the Country, The "Temporary" Protected Status Afforded to Syrians and Hatians is, Get This, TEMPORARY and May Be Rescinded
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's incredible that Trump had to fight for the right of the executive to turn illegals away at the border rather than requiring the executive to let them into the country to submit their falsified asylum claims.
Now, if an illegal alien is in the US, judges have ruled he gets to stay while his fake claims are heard (for 8-12 years).
But Trump was turning them away before they got into the country.
Leftwing judges decided that even turning them away into the border was still letting them "arrive in the US," so they get to stay 8-12 years while their phony claims are heard.
In other words -- this is so stupid it's hard to graft -- if you stop an illegal alien before he crosses into the country, leftwing judges insisted he still "arrived in America" when he came to the border and now you have to let him in and let him stay.
The Supreme Court said: "No."
Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter
NEWS: The Supreme Court just gave the federal government the power to turn away asylum seekers at the border before they ever set foot on American soil.In a 6-3 ruling in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the Court held that a migrant standing in Mexico has not "arrived in the United States" under federal immigration law until he physically crosses the border. Until that moment, the government owes him no inspection and no chance to apply for asylum.
The decision clears the way for the Trump administration to revive "metering," the practice of stationing officers at ports of entry to cap how many asylum seekers are processed each day and block the rest from crossing.
Justice Alito, writing for the majority, rested the case on the ordinary meaning of a single phrase. To arrive in a place is to enter it, he reasoned, and "that conclusion does not change because someone or something blocks entry."
Justice Sotomayor, in a scathing dissent joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, said the ruling lets the Executive Branch "circumvent all these mandatory procedures by having U.S. immigration officers stand at the border and physically block noncitizens from setting a foot onto U.S. soil." That holds, she wrote, "even if the asylum seeker is certain to be persecuted, or killed, if she is turned away." She accused the majority of an interpretation "driven almost entirely by a fixation on a single word: 'in.'"
Alito was joined by the chief justice, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. The three liberal justices dissented.
Leftwing judges had also insisted the TPP status -- Temporary Protected Person status -- granted to nationals of Haiti and Syria were effectively permanent and Trump could never end them, Because Muh Racism.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation.
They Haiti disaster was an earthquake in 1993.
The 6-3 decision overturns lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end temporary protected status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries.The Trump administration argued judges that can't second-guess immigrations officials' decisions about the protections, which were intended to be temporary.
Immigration attorneys said the countries remain unsafe to return, and the administration ended them in an unlawfully hasty process tinged by racial animus. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants were abducting and eating dogs and cats.
The Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court after judges postponed the end of the program for about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. The high court sided with the administration before and allowed the end of the program for people from Venezuela.
Federal authorities deny that racial animus played a role. They also cited a Supreme Court decision from Trump's first term that rejected bias claims based on his social media posts and upheld a travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries.
DHS has ended the protections people from 13 countries since Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, including some that had been in place for more than a decade.
The terminations were made even though countries like Haiti and Syria remain dangerous, immigration attorneys said. Four Haitian women who were deported from the United States in February were found beheaded and dumped in a river several months later, lawyers said in court documents.
The House passed legislation with a rare bipartisan vote in April that would extend protections for Haitians, though the bill has languished in the Senate.
The U.S. first granted protections to Haitians in 2010 after a catastrophic earthquake, and extended them multiple times amid ongoing gang violence that has displaced more than a million people, according to court documents.
Syrians, meanwhile, were first granted protected status in 2012, during a civil war that lasted for more than a decade before the fall of President Bashar Assad's government in late 2024.
TPS was created by Congress in 1990 to prevent deportations to countries suffering from natural disasters, civil strife and other instability. It allows people already in the country to stay with work permits in increments of up to 18 months, but it doesn't provide a path to citizenship.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
The descent into socialism that NYC seems to have embraced was not created out of whole cloth. This was not some covert effort to insinuate a crypto-socialist into the halls of power, the way Obama slithered his way into the Oval Office. The NYC versions are out-and-proud Islamo-fascists who cover themselves with a thin veneer of socialism that in and of itself is compatible with Islam.
What they did was clever...embracing the disaffection of an over-educated youth whose worthless degrees and lack of any actual worthwhile skills prevented them from entering the highly competitive workforce of NYC, all while expanding their cutely named "Democratic Socialist" platform to include a reprehensible foreign policy that centers around Jew-hate. That attracted the new 3rd World immigrants and the AWFLs. Couple that with a notoriously low turn-out and obvious vote manipulation, and Bingo! We have a NYC that is indistinguishable from Cuba.
Their platform is simple. America is evil. Israel is evil. Market economies are evil. Wealth is evil. The rule of law is evil. Confiscatory taxation to fund a comprehensive welfare state to benefit their voters is the only way to run a city, state, or nation.
Jeffrey Carter, a finance guy who came within a few thousand votes of the Republican nomination for NV Treasurer, has written a primer on the emergence of socialism in America, and it is worth a careful read. He is polite, and sometimes calls them Democrats, but the results are the same.
Democrats played the very long game. Where did it start? Post 1960s, the radicals quit trying to change society overtly. They all went into education. They became respected members of the professor class, and frankly, that professor class had a bias toward welcoming them in. That’s how Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, worked. Here they are. Smiling commies with their red stars. Totally accepted in the Obama network.Never forget, The Weatherman and 60s radicals all grew up wealthy. Ayer’s father was the CEO of Commonwealth Edison. They have trust funds and generational wealth to rely on. President FDR was the same. They won’t part with it, but they are happy to take yours.
It took a couple of generations via taking over the public and private school system, but we have a lot of people out there who do not understand capitalism and think America is a racist country with a flawed founding.
They are easily persuaded to communism, socialism, or whatever you want to call it.
No amount of data can get them out of their confirmation bias.
Well, there is one bit of data that will convince them of the evils of socialism, but that is the end game, when they are lined up against a wall and shot for being enemies of the state. That is the unavoidable result of the ignorance that is engulfing the West. As Marx himself said:
When our turn comes, we shall make no excuse for the terror.
So where will patriotic Democrats go, now that the hard left of their party is subsuming the rest of them?
The center of the Democratic Party is gone. It's over for people like Senator Fetterman. There are no Danny Rostenkowskis, Scoop Jacksons, or Tip O' Neills. Rahm Emanuel is running around the country trying to save it but he was the butler who helped usher in the communists as Obama's Chief of Staff.
The answer is that they will support the obscenity of the Democratic Socialist wing because the political philosophy of the Democrat party is simply a prettier version of Stalin's...the lust for power is all-encompassing, and mainstream Democrats will hold their noses and continue to vote for what can only end in Gulags and concentration camps and wholesale murder and death.
They seem nice!
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The Morning Report — 6/ 25 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Venezuela was rocked by its strongest earthquakes in over a century on Wednesday afternoon — causing widespread destruction in the capital of Caracas and fears of as many as 100,000 casualties. A magnitude 7.2 quake struck roughly 100 miles west of Caracas, followed by a 7.5 magnitude tremor just a minute later, according to the US Geological Survey. “High casualties and extensive damage are probable, and the disaster is likely widespread,” the USGS warned.
Closer to home it looks as if a couple of political earthquakes are shaking up the establishments of both parties. On the latest episode of the podcast, linked here and in the sidebar as well as on the popular platforms listed at the bottom of this post, both CBD and i discussed the ramifications locally in NYC and nationally with the victory of Mad Mamdani minions who are equally insane and tyrannical in their views.
Carville freaked out at the results. He noted that Avila Chevalier, who was born to Dominican immigrants, once said white people should not be in interracial marriages. “Lady, I ain’t in the same party as you,” Carville said. “I’m sorry. I’m just not. And I actually do think it’s time for Democrats to talk the ‘s’ word: schism. I really do. Everybody’s always said, ‘No, no. We’re a coalition. We’re a big tent. And there’s just some sh*t I can’t be in the same tent with.” Carville then insisted that despite winning their Democratic primaries, “these people are not Democrats.” He then suggested that establishment Democrats “negotiate the terms of a schism” with democratic socialists in the party.
Oh, James, old boy, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are most definitely in the same party as this filthy evil slag. Meh, this would be amusing if it weren't so disgusting. The descriptor of "Far-Left" for some Democrats is the same as "Radical" for Muslims. It's a redundancy. It's a naked attempt to whitewash and minimize the core beliefs and values of each which are self-evident through their actions over a long and bloody history. A history of causing a civil war to preserve slavery, and then to repress the freed slaves for over 100 years and create one of the most massive welfare states to keep them enslaved for your political gain at the cost of trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of wasted lives. And when you've genocided the hell out of your base, the only thing left is to throw open the borders and register third world wetback criminals by the millions as Democrats and steal the elections you still can't win legitimately.
Carville, you and yours have done all you could to hack away at the Constitution and individual liberty in order to create a gargantuan centralized bureaucracy where your fellow travelers are at the controls generationally and in perpetuity. The views of Wilson and FDR are crystal clear in dismantling America as founded in service of that fever dream of absolute power.
And the disparate groups in your big tent share one thing in common — an incandescent hatred for this country, its citizens, history, heritage and western Judeo-Christian civilization, morality and sanity, and so for Carville and others of his ilk to be freaking out over what happened in NYC, where the hell was he when Bernie Sanders was elected to the Senate over and over again on a platform of naked in-your-face communism which is exactly what got elected in NYC and lookie here what's happening in California, surprise surprise!
The Mamdani regime in New York City has already been making noises about moving on this sort of thing, and now the LA County Board of Supervisors is following suit. People will call this socialism but in some ways this is worse. They’re not just proposing a government takeover of private property, what they’re proposing to do is to use government power and taxpayer money to seize private property and turn it over to their political allies who will run ‘community groups’. This is fundamentally no different than politicians using eminent domain to seize property and transfer it to their political allies who then fund their political campaigns. . .. . . Socialist governments create pressure on landlords through every possible means. As prices rise and housing stock drops, creating a ‘housing crisis’, they cite the homeless vagrants as evidence that there is a serious threat and justify property seizures. We’re now in stage 3 of their plan. Stay tuned for stage 4.
You know what else has a "stage 4?" Incurable cancer.
As we also noted on the podcast, this bit of very positive news.
The Prairieland case in Texas is actually worth celebrating because it’s one of the few times the feds went after an Antifa-linked group with real teeth, leading to the first federal terrorism-related convictions and sentencing of individuals affiliated with Antifa in U.S. history.For once, the material support law was used, and it worked. But at the same time, it’s nowhere near enough, and that’s the frustrating part.
President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization back in September 2025. That was supposed to mean something. Americans were supposed to see mass action against the violent extremists terrorizing our country. But months later, Prairieland stands out as almost the only case where they brought terrorist charges and took a group to trial over it.
Think about what the domestic terrorism definition actually says. It covers acts that are dangerous to human life, break criminal laws, and look like they’re meant to intimidate civilians, push the government to change policy through fear, or mess with government functions through destruction or attacks.
The Prairieland case is not the only time Antifa planned an attack meant to intimidate and cause mass destruction. It’s not even the first time that the violent group has acted to shut down federal immigration enforcement.
And Antifa is the unofficial (wink-wink) Democrat/Leftist brownshirt goon squad that take to the streets to commit political terrorism with the protection of Democrat politicians and worse Judges, Attorneys General and other corrupted appendages of our justice system to further their collective aims at societal dissolution and the accrual of absolute power.
Let's hope they all rot in prison and that God-forbid a future Democrat president does not set them free.
Have a good day,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook Venezuela on Wednesday, swaying buildings and homes in the capital of Caracas.
Venezuela rocked by strongest earthquakes in over a century, fears up to 100K deaths — Trump vows US is ‘ready, willing, and able to help’
- Corrupt, criminal and radical.
LA County Proposes to Seize Houses and Turn Them Over to Political Allies
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Daily Tech News 25 June 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Walmart has signed a deal to buy 176 megawatts of nuclear power for 15 years. (MSN)
Enough, says the article, to power 150,000 homes, assuming those homes have gas heating and no gaming PCs.
- The Trump administration has announced $17.5 billion in loans for 10 new nuclear reactors. (AP News)
Coming soon to a Walmart near you. Well, soon is about ten years from now. Soonish.
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Wednesday Night ONT - June 24, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open and freshly re-stocked.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
Will reading the content earn you free Triscuits? No. Will it entertain and inform while you eat your Triscuits? Perhaps. Only one way to find out.
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Kangaroo Backyard Brawl Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Oregon
Ben Milbrath
Poor little dog just wants peace.
Pet squirrel is crying because wild squirrels stole her stored nuts.
After a long day of work, it's nice to come home.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A team of elite civil rights attorneys announced they will represent Karmelo Anthony in the appeal of his murder conviction for fatally stabbing fellow high school athlete Austin Metcalf.Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe, veteran appellate attorney Russell Wilson, civil rights lawyer Brooke Cluse from Ben Crump Law, and others have joined forces in an effort to overturn Anthony's conviction and 35-year prison sentence, CBS News reported.
They will conduct an independent review of the trial to determine whether any errors occurred during the trial in their pursuit of an appeal, the lawyers said in their announcement on Monday.
End Wokeness @EndWokeness15h
NY-13 nominee Daraliza Avila Chevalier is a founder of CUAD. The org's stated goal?
"Eradication of Western civilization"
The loathsome Dan Goldman lost his bid for reelection in NYC's 10th Congressional district to -- get this -- an anti-Jewish communist.
Greg Price @greg_price113h
Dan Goldman losing is truly hilarious because he has one of the most liberal voting records in Congress and is unapologetic about being willing to tell any incendiary lie about Republicans, but refused to pledge allegiance to third-world terrorists on the other side of the planet and was, therefore, not radical enough for the new Democrat base.
Also losing last night: Jack "Kennedy" Schlossberg, who I would call a nepo baby but don't you need an actual job to be a nepo baby? All this fag does is troll people online and appear on leftwing chat shows to embarrass his family. He's like an even less-accomplished Ron Reagan Jr.
Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon
Against all odds, Manhattan voters made the right call on Tuesday: They handily rejected Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old influencer with four trust funds and no actual employment history, in New York's 12th Congressional District.
Against all odds, Manhattan voters made the right call on Tuesday.Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old Kennedy scion who has never worked a real job, was handily defeated in the Democratic primary for New York's 12th Congressional District, sitting in third place with less than 11 percent of the vote. George Conway, the mentally disturbed Lincoln Project cofounder and frequent guest on The Jim Acosta Show, sat in fifth, trailing not just Schlossberg but also a woman named Nina Schwalbe.
Schlossberg's defeat is worth celebrating for several reasons.
The Kennedy family is a toxic cabal of bloated, boat-shoed sex pests and trust-fund layabouts still living off the fortune amassed by Joseph P. Kennedy, the wealthy patriarch best known for his efforts to make peace with Adolf Hitler. Tuesday's outcome suggests the family's once-mythic reputation is in the midst of a long-overdue correction.
John F. Kennedy, Schlossberg's grandfather, was the Eric Swalwell of the White House, while his great uncle Ted Kennedy was the Eric Swalwell of the U.S. Senate, a reputation he cemented in 1985 by making a "waitress sandwich" with Chris Dodd at a local fine-dining establishment.
To be fair to Swalwell, there's no evidence (that we know of) to suggest he's ever fled the scene of an accident after a woman drowned in his car. Ted Kennedy, on the other hand, continued to serve in public office until 2009, more than 40 years after Mary Jo Kopechne's death.
Days before the election, Schlossberg told the Wall Street Journal he would view his loss in the primary as proof that our political system is irrevocably broken. "If I can't do it, then nobody can," he said.
Indeed, if a 33-year-old Kennedy brat with four trust funds and what the New York Times described as "little traditional work experience" can lose a primary in one of the country's wealthiest congressional districts despite being endorsed by David Letterman and spending $1 million of his own inheritance, the American Dream is truly dead.
And of course ultra-cuck George Conway:
Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew
Kellyanne Conway served as Senior Counsel to President Trump in his first term, after having had a senior role in his campaign that went from 1% GOP support in July 2015 to winning the Presidency in November 2016.Her now ex-husband George Conway, once believing himself to be the best choice to serve as Solicitor General of the United States -- the DOJ Attorney responsible for arguments in front of the Supreme Court -- received the votes of 1 out of every 17 NY Dems who cast ballots for a new Representative in their district yesterday, finishing in 5th place.
He spent $6.65 million and received 1,050 fewer votes than 4th place finisher Nina Schwalbe.
She spent $457,000.
They both finished behind Jack Schlossberg, reported by many in the media to be mentally ill.
If Conway had won or come close, at least some Never Trumpers might have made it official and tried grifting as Democrats. But now that it's proven that no one likes a traitor, the NeverTrumpers will have no choice but continuing their grift of pretending to be "Republicans."
Here's what USAID money was actually paying for:
Catherine Herridge @C__HerridgeSTUNNING: USAID + THE BIG GRIFT
Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist.
Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the financial help via the State Dept. when he was actually a US citizen, born in Las Cruces New Mexico.
Aulaqi would later develop close ties with several 9/11 hijackers and attain leadership status in AQ's Yemen affiliate.
Aulaqi was the godfather of the digital jihad that leveraged his writings and the web to radicalize Americans to AQ's cause.
Aulaqi became the first American targeted for death by the CIA. In 2011, he was killed in a US drone strike.
This 1997 Aulaqi mugshot is for soliciting prostitutes.
Good catch first flagged Feb. 2025 via @browne_pamela
@intelwire
A San Francisco socialist politician took a three month "mental health leave" because she just can't even right now.
A lefty member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who abruptly went on leave at the end of March melted into tears as she explained to her constituents Tuesday why she needed the mental health break.Supervisor Jacqueline Fielder is set to return to work next Monday, after her absence earlier in the year fueled theories on what motivated the first-term lawmaker to go missing from City Hall meetings for weeks before checking herself in for treatment.
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In a Tuesday post on Instagram, Fielder said "I left the work I love so much not because I wanted to but because my mental health demanded it."
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She seemed to attribute her crisis to the pressures of being a politician."At the end of the day I'm a human being and a renter, a working class candidate that is now a supervisor," Fielder said, "but I was going 100 miles a hour since early 2023 when I started the campaign for supervisor, and being a grassroots candidate is a lot of elbow grease."
Her medical leave made her realize that she has colleagues and others who share the weight of representing the city with her, she said.
"I'm coming clear-eyed and grounded and eager to serve in this role again," said Fielder, who ended her note on encouraging others dealing with mental health issues to also seek help or take a leave.
Here's a short video of this lefty basketcase.
One of the many rioters in NYC after the Knicks' win dumped and then stole a trash can.
Turns out she is -- or was -- a DEI executive at JP Morgan.
A woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street then stealing it during New York City's Knicks championship parade was a director at JPMorgan Chase who was fired Tuesday over the incident, The Post has learned.
Angie Báez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile.
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Sources say the bank looked into the incident after the video surfaced and a JPMorgan Chase spokesperson told The Post, "This employee is no longer with the company."
Báez could not be reached by The Post for comment Tuesday. Sources noted she had attended the parade in her personal capacity.
I hate rioters, but I also understand that people with low IQ and poor impulse control can get "swept up" in them. I wouldn't be gleeful about her being fired except for the fact that, let's face it, she never should have had a job in the first place.
So nothing lost.
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Texas, DOJ Sign Joint Decree Declaring Biden's Prior "Backdoor Amnesty" to be Illegal and Void
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You of course know of the Democrats' favorite strategy of sue-and-settle, whereby a friendly third party is invited to sue the Democrat government. The Democrat government gives up the case and agrees to a "consent decree" resolving the issue -- and this resolution has the force of law, despite no legislature having ever voted for it.
Well, two can play at that game. Steven Miller's organization America First Legal joined with Texas to sue the DOJ over a Biden-era policy allowing immigration judges to put immigration cases on "administrative pause," forever. Biden allowed judges who would otherwise be required to deport illegal aliens to instead "pause" the case against them, effectively granting them amnesty (and even the "right to work").
Technically, they're still illegal aliens in the middle of deportation proceedings but the reality is that those proceedings are now "paused," forever. So every illegal alien getting his deportation "paused" is effectively granted backdoor amnesty that Congress never even contemplated, let alone voted to make law.
Texas and Steven Miller sued the DOJ over this blatant end-run around the actual law of the land and the DOJ said "Fair" and signed a consent decree admitting this was always illegal and now is forbidden.
Judge blocks Biden-era immigration rule hours after Texas AG and Stephen Miller's group sued DOJ
On Monday, Ken Paxton's office asked the judge to block the rule, a request the federal agency then agreed with. The suit echoes a similar move in 2025 that killed a 24-year-old state tuition law.
A federal judge in Texas blocked a Biden administration rule on Monday that allowed immigration judges to indefinitely close a deportation case against immigrants on the same day Texas sued to stop the rule.The rule, which was adopted in 2024, allowed immigration judges to close a deportation case after hearing arguments from the federal government and the immigrant in deportation proceedings, especially if the person could qualify for a benefit that allows them to stay in the country legally.
But on Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas in Wichita Falls to block the rule with U.S. Judge Reed O'Connor, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush.
The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice was also co-filed by America First Legal Foundation, an organization founded by Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Trump who has focused on ways to limit both legal and illegal immigration to the country. America First Legal Foundation also previously filed various lawsuits representing Paxton against the Biden administration's immigration policies, which helped derail President Biden's immigration agenda in his lone term.
In this latest complaint, Paxton's office said in the 43-page lawsuit that the Biden-era rule "effectively grant(s) indefinite amnesty to aliens illegally present in this country."
Lawsuits usually take several months to years to settle, but in this case O'Connor ruled late on Monday in favor of Texas after the Department of Justice filed its response saying it agreed with Paxton's office.
Before this lawless action by Biden, 130,000 cases were paused. After Biden gave his leftwing immigration judges permission to dole out personalized amnesty, the number of "paused" cases "skyrocketed" (as the judgment says) to 1.08 million. And then, a year later, it doubled again to 2.2 million.
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Feds Announce Arrests of 455 Defendants Responsible for $6.5 Billion in Fraud Looted from the American People
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Nick shirley @nickshirleyyJun 23
"The fraud is not real"
Today: 455 fraudsters charged, $6.5 billion exposed
*silent*
Society will never improve until people and the media can look at issues with a logical perspective of: Is this right or wrong to be happening?
EXPOSE IT ALL
Think of how many trillions have been stolen -- or allowed to be pilfered by Democrats.
National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in 455 Defendants Charged in Connection with Over $6.5 Billion in Alleged Fraud
The Justice Department today announced the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in charges against 455 defendants, including 90 doctors and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud and opioid abuse schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims and significant patient harm, including death.Today's Takedown represents a new era in federal, state, and international cooperation to combat health care fraud: cases in 56 federal districts and 45 U.S. states and territories, with 50 state Medicaid Fraud Control Units participating, the most in Department history.
In addition, unprecedented international cooperation over the two-week Takedown resulted in the apprehension and return to the United States of the following health care fraudsters: one defendant in Kyrenia in connection with an over $3.7 billion scheme; two defendants in Estonia in connection with a previously charged $10.6 billion scheme; and, in the Philippines, one of FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters in connection with a previously-charged $1.2 billion telemedicine fraud scheme.
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Today's coordinated enforcement action involves a whole-of-government approach, including:
* Actions by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to suspend 1,079 providers and revoke billing privileges for 1,403 providers.
* 48 Civil Monetary Payment settlements amounting to over $73 million, over 1,400 provider exclusions, and 25 actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General ("HHS-OIG") under the Civil Monetary Penalties Law seeking more than $10 billion in payments to the Medicare Trust Fund from payments that CMS caught and suspended before the funds were paid to the fraudulent providers.
* Civil charges against 13 defendants for $14.8 million in health care fraud schemes, as well as civil settlements with 31 defendants totaling $23 million.
* 928 administrative cases by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seeking the revocation of authority to handle and/or prescribe controlled substances since October 1, 2025.
Fake wound graft treatments were a big source of fraud:
Charges were filed against 11 defendants, including a company executive and eight medical professionals, across six districts in connection with billions of dollars in fraudulent claims for amniotic wound allografts. In the District of Arizona, the Vice President of Sales for a company that sold allografts was charged in a nationwide illegal kickback and health care fraud scheme. From approximately December 2021 through June 2024, providers billed Medicare over $4 billion for this company's allografts, resulting in over $2 billion in payments. This significant spike in allograft billings was alleged to have been driven not by medical necessity, but by a kickback scheme that generated substantial profit margins and lavish lifestyles for marketers and providers who participated. The company did not manufacture allografts and instead acquired allografts from tissue banks and relabeled them for sale at a 2,000% mark-up, charging up to $1,450 per square centimeter. The defendant is alleged to have paid illegal kickbacks of approximately 40% of that amount, allowing marketers and medical providers to pocket approximately $500-600 per square centimeter.
The hive of fake hospices in California were raided:
In the Central District of California, charges were brought against a hospice owner and two marketers for a $27.7 million Medicare fraud scheme in which the hospice owner allegedly tried to avoid detection through a scheme to purchase information of the recently deceased from a funeral home employee. The defendant was allegedly carrying out a hospice fraud scheme in which he fraudulently enrolled patients who were not terminally ill.Concerned that Medicare and law enforcement used data analytics to monitor the percentage of patients discharged from hospice alive (an indicator of fraud), the hospice owner allegedly paid illegal kickbacks of $1,000 to $3,000 per person to a funeral home employee in exchange for deceased Medicare beneficiaries' information. The defendant then allegedly billed Medicare for a few days of hospice services for these recently-deceased individuals who hadn't received hospice care and created fake, back-dated medical records claiming that the beneficiaries had been seen by a physician, thereby allegedly seeking to deceive Medicare by reducing his outlier data metrics.
And of course the fake "adult day care" scam:
In the Eastern District of New York, charges were brought against eight defendants for their role in a $38 million fraud on New York Medicaid for social adult day care services that were medically unnecessary, procured by kickbacks to marketers and beneficiaries, and never provided. Although the permitted occupancy of the social adult day cares (shown below) was only 30 people, the defendants fraudulently submitted claims for services provided to hundreds of beneficiaries per day.
One of Trump's bugaboos is opioid distribution. 28 licensed medical professionals, mostly doctors, were charged in illegally writing opioid prescriptions.
...The defendants allegedly operated a voicemail refill line that allowed patients to request and receive refills of Schedule II controlled substance prescriptions--though some patients who used the refill line to obtain Schedule II controlled substances from the defendants suffered drug overdoses and died, the defendants continued to operate the refill line to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances without interacting with patients.
F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli
@USAttyEssayliToday, under the leadership of @VP Vance and @DAGToddBlanche, we are announcing the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown involving 455 defendants charged in connection with $6.5+ BILLION in alleged fraud.
One person arrested by @FBILosAngeles in the Central District of California was Jeannie Choi, 57, of Torrance.
She is charged along with two other defendants--Oren David Shachar, 59, of Van Nuys, and Abraham Shin, 66, of Corona--with a hospice fraud scheme that caused Medicare to pay nearly $27 million in fraudulent claims.
Shachar allegedly exploited deceased Medicare beneficiaries by collecting their personal health data and medical records through meetings with surviving relatives. He then directed staff to use those identities to create false, backdated hospice records claiming evaluations and terminal certifications that never occurred.
Shachar paid Choi and Shin between $1,000 and $3,000 for each deceased beneficiary fraudulently enrolled in hospice care.
Shachar and Shin have pleaded not guilty and have a trial scheduled for August 11. Choi is expected to make her initial appearance and be arraigned today in Los Angeles federal court.
Public health programs intended to help the elderly and sick are being undermined by fraudsters, threatening the financial stability of these programs for all Americans. We are committed to rooting out the rampant fraud that has plagued our institutions for too long.
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Trump's Acting Director of National Intelligence Begins Mass-Firing Obama/Biden Holdovers and Hacks
—Disinformation Expert Ace
During Trumo's first term, a friend of mine, Rich Higgins, wrote to Trump advising him to fire just about everyone in the Office of National Intelligence. Obama and then Biden had purged most good people from the organization and filled it with political hacks.
Trump's acting Director of National Intelligence, Bill Pulte, just took the long-awaited step of firing their asses.
ABC "News" is pissy, of course, because the Democrat way is to fill the bureaucracies with stone-cold Democrat/progressive partisans who shape the country's policies even when a Republican is nominally the president.
Trump's acting director of national intelligence begins firings at agency, sources say
Trump had previously called for the "needed downsizing of the office."
I don't know if the office really needs to be downsized. But I think it's easier just to say "we need to downsize" and then to fire all of the Obama hacks.
And then later, maybe, decide "Oh we need a few more people, we're going to hire some more people."
President Donald Trump's acting director of national intelligence has begun firing people at the agency, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.Bill Pulte, a Trump loyalist with zero intelligence experience, took over the agency late last week and had promised to cut hundreds of jobs at ODNI once taking over.
Obama never held a real job before he became a state senator and the left insisted to us that he had all the experience he needed to be president.
It was not immediately clear how many jobs had already been affected, but sources told ABC News that the National Counterterrorism Center was expected to be hit hard.
Oh, John Brennan's old unit?
...Trump, for his part, has made clear he wants Pulte to slash jobs at the agency.
Trump said earlier this month the size of ODNI has been "way too high for way too long" and told reporters he wouldn't mind it if cuts were made. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, Trump also said he wanted Pulte to "start the process" of firing ODNI personnel and cited his role as acting director as "less shackled," according to the paper.
John Thune knows better than to poke the bear again and supports the firings:
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Fourth Circuit Overturns Lowly District Court Judge, Okays Trump's Expedited Deportations
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Congress passed a bill authorizing expedited deportation -- which could take as little as a few days. They called this, "expedited deportations."
I am stressing it's called "expedited deportations" because the Hawaiian judges who keep blocking Trump from doing this seem to think that Trump is breaking the law by attempting to use expedited deportations to deport illegal aliens in an expeditious manner. They think it should take years upon years until the feds just give up and let the illegal alien stay forever.
The Fourth Circuit considered the dispute. They looked at the part of the law that says "expedited deportations" and
reasoned that the law must mean that illegal aliens can be deported expeditiously.
Federal court allows ICE to expand expedited deportations nationwide
A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with an effort to expand fast-track deportations throughout the U.S., in a legal win for the president's crackdown on illegal immigration.The 2-1 decision by a panel of judges at the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia Circuit allows the Department of Homeland Security to carry out an expansion of the expedited removal process, which empowers federal immigration officials to deport some detainees without court hearings.
Before the second Trump administration, the expedited removal policy was limited to areas close to the border and only applied to recent entrants who could not prove they had been living in the country for more than two weeks.
But the policy allowed to take effect Tuesday -- which was drafted in the first week of President Trump's second term in January 2025 -- expands expedited removal to anywhere in the United States. Officials can use it on any unauthorized immigrant who cannot prove they have been in the country for more than two years.
Congress left it to the Executive to determine how broadly to apply the power. Leftists have been suing for years claiming that because previous presidents -- Biden and Obama --did not choose to use the power to its maximum effect, that means Trump isn't allowed to either.
And Hawaiian judges agreed.
But now they've been overruled.
In August 2025, a federal judge found the Trump administration's expansion of expedited removal violated due process rights, following a lawsuit from immigrant advocacy group Make the Road New York. The panel of appellate judges disagreed Tuesday, invalidating her order.
The two appellate judges in the majority -- Trump-appointed Justin Walker and Neomi Rao -- found the policy offers sufficient due process protections.
"Make the Road has not shown that the expedited-removal process denies its members notice and an opportunity to be heard," they wrote.
The law stupidly includes a provision that an illegal who can show that he's been living in America, illegally or legally (and it will be illegally, of course) for two years is not subject to this expedited form of deportation.
Leftists made up a new part of the law that would read, if it existed, that Trump is required to inform each deportee of this fact so they can begin scrambling to make up a fake timeline showing their continuous presence in the US.
Held: Cops and judges do not have to write illegal aliens' defense motions for them.
Last August, a lower court judge called the government's procedures for ensuring people aren't accidentally subjected to expedited removal "woefully inadequate," writing that migrants were not even informed of the fact that being in the country for at least two years is a possible defense. On Tuesday, the appellate court pushed back, finding that standard "would require immigration officers to provide what amounts to legal advice."
Obama-appointed Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins dissented from the core of the ruling, arguing the policy deprives people of due process rights. In part, he wrote that the policy doesn't require immigration officials to ask migrants how long they have been in the country, or inform them of the two-year rule.
Socialists Take Over the New York Democrat Party, Eye a National Takeover
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_BREAKING: Rep. Espaillat concedes. Mamdani-backed socialists have officially gone 3/3 and won all of their respective Democratic primaries for U.S. House in New York tonight. Their positions are some of the most extreme & far left Dems have seen:
Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13): Abolish prisons, abolish ICE, abolish borders, defund the police, and "all deportations are wrong", including for violent criminals. She has called the U.S. an "effing disgrace", and said in a prior social media post "I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me."
Claire Valdez (NY-7): Grant citizenship and voting rights to illegal aliens, use taxpayer funds for all transgender treatments, & eliminate private health insurance.
Brad Lander (NY-10): Abolish ICE, forgive all student loans (almost $2 trillion worth), expand the Supreme Court.
Mamdani gets a clean sweep, a bad night for Hakeem Jeffries, and big questions for where the Democratic Party is heading.
One of the big winners yesterday was a communist who wants to empty the prisons and refuses to say that even murderers should go to jail. Darializa Chevalier -- a child of an immigrant and, as Actual Justice Warrior surmised, most likely an anchor baby herself -- is firmly against deportations for any reason, favors illegal aliens voting in US elections because the elections affect them too, and wants to end all enforcement at the border.
Meet the Islamic daughter of an immigrant who a leftwing magazine calls "the Next AOC," Darializa Avlia Chevalier.
She is now the Democrat candidate for the 13th Congressional district in NY and will of course win the general.
She says that if you're convicted of murder in the US you cannot be deported on top of that because that would be "double jeopardy" and there's a constitutional forbiddence of that. This is of course completely untrue; if you commit both a murder and a theft, you can be punished for either. Double jeopardy means being punished twice for the same offense, but the Learning Disability Left doesn't know basic things like this.
This anchor baby has an Anchor Murder policy, as Actual Justice Warrior termed it. She really believes that if you commit a murder in the US and go to jail for it, you are now guaranteed permanent residence in the US because deporting you after the murder sentence is double jeopardy.
She is a zealot on defunding the police and emptying the prisons. refuses to say that even murder should result in a prison sentence. Liberal Ben Smith asked her four times in this group interview by liberals if a murderer should ever go to jail and she kept refusing to answer, saying instead that she wants to look at the root causes for the murder and objecting to prison because people only go to prison if they're "black and brown."
Oh and she attended a pro-Palestinian rally the day after October 7, to celebrate the attacks, and converted to Islam three years ago.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
As happens seemingly every year (I wrote about it last year, too), Europe is again going through a major heat wave. This time, they're calling it a "heat dome" and there's lots of apocalyptic language being thrown around, and plenty of blaming "climate change" for this thing that happens every summer. It is indeed hot. Parts of Western Europe have been over 100 degrees and it's expected to continue for a few days. Britain is expecting to set records. Europe can't deal with it and the perennial lack of effective response has real consequences.
According to the WHO (grains of salt, etc.), heatwaves have killed 200,000 Europeans in the past four years. That's a lot of people. For comparison, heat-related deaths in the United States - a country where many parts are much hotter than Europe - has had 20,000 heat-related deaths in the past 25 years. This year, Europe is responding as it always does: by banning things and by engaging in hysterical hand-wringing. It's the only response the EU ever has, and it is perhaps the only response it can have.
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The Morning Report — 6/ 24 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. So, this happened yesterday in the primary elections.
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s far-left slate of Big Apple congressional hopefuls prevailed in Tuesday’s Democratic primary — with firebrand Darializa Avila Chevalier projected to pull off an AOC-style upset.Former city Comptroller Brad Lander and state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez were quickly projected by the Associated Press and NY1 to win over their establishment Democrat opponents. Avila Chevalier held a razor-thin 49.3% to 46% lead over Rep. Adriano Espaillat with 86% of votes counted late Tuesday, leading the five-term incumbent to concede. The projected win by Avila Chevalier and the congressional race victories — coupled with a likely clean sweep of Democratic Socialists of America candidates in state races — signaled Mamdani could expand his socialist wave beyond New York City, to Washington, DC. . . The candidates hold a slew of far-left views that were once fringe within the Democrat Party.. ....Valdez and Avila Chevalier both campaigned on their staunch opposition to Israel — labeling the Jewish state’s actions in Gaza a genocide — and on pushing their pro-Palestinian values. Like Mamdani, the pair called for a full divestment of Israel and cutting off of any sales of US arms to its ally in the Middle East.
Valdez also echoed the Mamdani admin’s radical housing platform, pushing for the seizure of property from bad landlords.
All three also want to abolish ICE and Avila Chevalier, a community organizer and doctoral candidate, has even said she doesn’t believe foreign criminals should be deported.
One can laugh at New York and smugly claim, and not unjustly so, that they brought this on themselves. while New York at least for the last 50 years or so has for sure been liberal, the David Dinkins years notwithstanding, it has not been insane. A combination of cultural societal and political conditions have converged to create a perfect storm of insanity that has utterly eradicated the legacy and miracle of the Rudy Giuliani years. And so while one can jeer at New York, this madness can and likely will spread.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” CNN Senior Political Commentator Van Jones reacted to Brad Lander’s primary win over Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) by saying that “The Mamdani phenomenon is not a one guy thing. The Democratic Socialists are an insurgency in this party.” And “This is a serious movement inside the Democratic Party. The left is on the march.” . . . He continued, “But I think people who thought this was going to be kind of a cute guy off to the side, there’s a huge infrastructure here, there’s a movement here, there’s passion here, and people who don’t like it are going to have to wake up and smell the coffee. This is a serious movement inside the Democratic Party. The left is on the march.”
You know who else was "on the march?!" All Jones needs is an Austrian inflection with a soupçon, or mit einem bisschen of Ugandan/Muslim jive for extra texture! For those unaware or as a refresher, Van Jones is a full-on Anti-American anti-Western freak as you can see from his rap sheet here at Discover the Networks.
Jones’ new approach was modeled on the tactics outlined by the famed radical organizer Saul Alinsky, who stressed the need for revolutionaries to mask the extremism of their objectives and to present themselves as moderates until they could gain some control over the machinery of political power. Jones still considered himself a revolutionary, but a more effective one thanks to his revised tactics.
And thus we had the candidacy and now the actions/policies of Abigail Spanberger among others. So no Van Jones was not lamenting the hard left lurch as illustrated by Mamdani and last night's results in NYC. Far from it, his nipples were bursting with orgasmic glee. But, is this filthy bastard right and my hopes that the coming of President Trump heralded a sea change in our culture merely a speed bump on America's road to hell?
Yes, James Talarico I assume has no shot at all, ditto all the others like him scattered around the sane areas of the country, or am I whistling past the graveyard?
By the end of this year, there could be 10 socialist mayors in the U.S. That’s the most since the 1910s, when socialism was the shiny new object embraced by educated elites. But what excuse do Democrats have today – after 100 years of socialism’s miserable, murderous failures – for embracing this toxic ideology? Back in 1911, according to one historical count, members of the Socialist Party of America won office in 74 towns and cities, and another 32 in 1913. Fast forward to today. As NBC News put it, “Democratic socialists are on the rise in Trump-era mayoral races … fueled by a backlash to Trump policies, economic strain and fatigue with the Democratic establishment.” Right now, there are eight socialist mayors – the most since the 1920s – and primary voters in one-party District of Columbia virtually guaranteed a ninth when they nominated a socialist to run that misbegotten city. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, socialist Democrat Nithya Raman will face off against the Fidel Castro-loving incumbent Karen Bass. Then there’s Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is a socialist in all but name. . But Democrats rushing to embrace the current socialist fad should beware, because the last one was (thankfully) short-lived here in the U.S. In 1919, only five socialists won mayoral elections. Even in the middle of the Great Depression, there were only three socialist mayors in the country. A “historical note” by the New York University Libraries says the party had trouble containing its “revolutionary wing” right off the bat. And the 1917 Russian Revolution, it says, “encouraged the left wing of the party to demand a more militant program and, when this was not forthcoming, to secede from the party in 1919 and establish the Communist Party.” . . . As the City Journal notes, “As more and more DSA members take power, the group they belong to keeps getting more radical—a tension they will inevitably have to resolve.” A separate City Journal article points out the party’s “emerging militant network.” Republicans ignore these developments at their own peril, since they can’t fight something – even if that something is as toxic as socialism – with nothing. And dismissing it as “junk food of modern American politics,” as GOP strategist Luke Ball told Fox News recently, isn’t going to cut it.Yes, way too busy voting to give money to Ukraine to pass the SAVE Act.
Have a good day,
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Daily Tech News 24 June 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- It was Prime Day again. Here are the deals you missed. (Tom's Hardware)
There was a reasonable price for the 4TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD, but not on Amazon and the deal is over and they're out of stock.
- For me, the deal of the day was on the Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3, cut from A$1000 to A$500. Also not on Amazon, but I scooped one up from local electronics chain JB Hifi.*
They also had the new Gen 5 model (the Gen 4 was a China exclusive), listed at A$1500. It's about 20% faster than the Gen 3 and has a 20% higher resolution screen, which is not enough to convince me to spend 200% more. Particularly since neither of those are issues with the Gen 3 anyway.
* Long time readers may recall that I bought one of these on sale last year. Yes. And now I will have two.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 23, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Tuesday night ONT. It has arrived. So have you. Open thread, as always. Got anything interesting to say tonight?
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