The Morning Report — 5/ 20 /25

Good morning kids. There are a number of links today that sort of remind me of the lyrics to the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime." You may find yourself....

Starting off with:

The Department of Justice is reportedly set to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed on January 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol, for $5 million. Babbitt’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government last year, seeking $30 million. The Justice Department previously opposed the suit and planned to argue against it in a trial scheduled for July 2026.

While this certainly is a good thing. And obviously no one can speak for the late Ms. Babbitt and I am neither a relative nor a personal friend. As an American, for me real justice can not be done until Michael Byrd is sitting on death row in a federal prison, sweating out the last minutes before his sentence is carried out. And as a Capitol Police officer, the agency of which he was a part was under the direct control of the Speaker of the House, who on January 6th of 2021 was Malig-Nancy Pelosi. Surely it was neither Byrd's first day on the job, nor could he have been where he was the moment he fired his weapon at Babbitt without a considerable amount of training before being given a badge and a weapon. What orders was he given that day or in the hours or even days leading up to his shift, and who gave them? Surely an unarmed woman, ditto anyone near her at the time posed no threat whatsoever that warranted the use of deadly force.

Moving right along, we have this tantalizing bit of news:

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) was charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers during a riot at Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba revealed that McIver was being charged. Noem noted that “no one is above the law.” The announcements of the charges against McIver come after Reps. McIver, Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) showed up at Delaney Hall to “conduct federal oversight” of the facility and allegedly stormed and trespassed. Baraka ended up being arrested for alleged criminal trespass.

Tantalizing but perhaps it's kind of just a sugar rush as I fully expect the corrupt judiciary in New Jersey and if it ever gets that far, the federal courts all the way up to SCOTUS to let them off scot free. I mean, there's insurrection and then there's "insurrection!" You can guess which one's which depending upon who's in the dock, and who sits in judgement.

As the estimable Margot Cleveland notes, in reaction to the rather surprising decision by the Supreme court that Trump's deportation order of 350,000 illegal alien Venezuelans was indeed kosher:

From a legal perspective, the two liberal justices have it entirely backwards: The legal question for the justices was not how do courts accomplish their goal of stopping Trump without nationwide injunctions, but rather, do courts have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions?

The Supreme Court spent little time probing that question, which includes two fundamental issues. The first issue is whether nationwide injunctions are within a court’s “traditional equitable authority,” such that Congress, in granting the lower courts equitable jurisdiction under the Judiciary Act, gave judges the power to issue nationwide injunctions. . .

. . . The litigants challenging the president’s American First agenda have filed their 100-plus lawsuits in the same handful of courts, which are presided over by liberal judges. And those judges, just like Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, view the Trump Administration’s policies and actions as “dead wrong.” Those lower courts likewise see the question before them as how can they stop Trump.

By reverse-engineering the cases, the lower courts are ignoring what should be the initial questions of standing, jurisdiction, and in some cases even the merits, the latter of which the judges presume the Trump Administration is wrong on.  But why shouldn’t they? After all, several Supreme Court justices take the same tact. And if a majority of the high court issues a decision in the birthright cases that acquiesces in the use of nationwide injunctions, there will be no end to the use of nationwide injunctions because a judge will always find an excuse to justify the remedy — just as the same justices bemoaning the “abuses of nationwide” injunctions did.

Elsewhere, are we still having to endure the concept of "reparations" for black people?! Of course we are. And yet Wes Moore, the nation's lone black governor from Maryland is stating "wait a cotton-pickin' minute. No, not because he has a fiber of sanity and/or decency, but because he has aspirations to be the Democrat nominee in 2028 and knows or senses this to be something that will turn off the otherwise easy to dupe and beat about the head with the race card white folks.

I would support reparations under two specific conditions. First any recipient would have to have been an actual slave at the time of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Proof cannot include a death certificate or Democrat voter registration card (But I Repeat Myself) from any election after 1900. And payments must come from the State Democrat National Committee where said enslavement took place with matching funds from the National DNC.

Over in the Middle East, it looks as if at long last Israel is about to make the rubble bounce in Gaza.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• That’s where all of this leads: self-nullification. Death. Murder.
  RAW EGG NATIONALIST: Mask Off: Trump's Afrikaner Refugee Program has revealed the true depth of leftist anti-white hatred
  
• Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson should take a page out of the great economist’s book.
  What Milton Friedman Can Teach Abundance Advocates

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE




• So I want to try and educate Justice Barrett just a little bit. Maybe she heard of the Dred Scott decision. Most people think that was a horrendous decision. It was argued in 1856 and decided in 1857 and precipitated the Civil War. The Supreme Court majority ruled that basically, slavery is here to stay, and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do about it, including Congress.
  Mark Levin: Amy Coney Barrett ‘Has It All Wrong’ — ‘She’s Worried About Power’
  
• The primary purpose of the federal government is not defense, nor environmental protection nor national parks, but the redistribution of income.
  Universal Income? It’s Already Here

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• The announcements of the charges against McIver come after Reps. McIver, Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) showed up at Delaney Hall to “conduct federal oversight” of the facility and allegedly stormed and trespassed. Baraka ended up being arrested for alleged criminal trespass.
  Rep. LaMonica McIver Charged with Assault, Impeding Law Enforcement Officials at ICE Detention Center

• This bombing is yet another sad and devastating example of what happens when a collectivist anti-life ideology takes over critical thinking and morality.
  Anti-human terrorism strikes fertility clinic in Palm Springss
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: Former FBI boss - and Clinton crony - targets Trump.
  Dirty Cop Comey
  
• Babbitt's family last year filed a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government.
  Trump Admin Reportedly Reaches Settlement With Family Of Ashli Babbitt
  (Only when Michael Byrd is on death Row, will justice be served - jjs)
  
• Hillary also criticized the traditional values that built America: the nuclear family and religion!
  Hillary Clinton: A Republican Female President Would be a ‘Handmaiden to the Patriarchy’
  
• Since Obama restoked racial resentment in America, black race hustlers have been working hard to stoke the rage, and Americans are getting tired. (and murdered - jjs)
  Race Fatigue in the United States
  
• Though Moore has signaled that he does not intend to run for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, he is widely viewed as a potential top contender in the race.
  Nation’s Sole Black Governor Vetoes Reparations Bill

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

• While speaking during a Saturday commencement address at the University of Minnesota Law School, Walz referred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as President Donald Trump’s “modern-day Gestapo,” accusing the agency of disappearing people with no due process. DHS, the department that oversees ICE, called the governor’s comments “absolutely sickening” and “wrong”.
  ‘Absolutely Sickening’: Trump DHS Unloads On Tim Walz For Comparing ICE Agents To ‘Gestapo’
  
• Margot Cleveland: By reverse-engineering the cases, the lower courts are ignoring what should be the initial questions of standing, jurisdiction, and in some cases even the merits.
  SCOTUS: Trump Can Deport 350K Venezuelans Biden Allowed To Break The Law — Oral Argument In Nationwide Injunction Case Illustrates Courts’ Coup Against Trump
  
• The court’s order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month.
  Supreme Court Allows Trump To Strip Protections From Some Venezuelans; Deportations Could Follow
  
• “We’re going to flood the system with warrants for criminal illegal immigrants who are in county jails; they can ignore a detainer, but they cannot ignore a criminal arrest warrant.”
  California U.S. Attorney Cracking Down on State’s Sanctuary Laws
  
• Manager Eric Batista’s executive order came on the heels of the release of police body cam footage of the arrest of Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira, who attempted to interfere in the legal actions by ICE agents. (As MA is effectively a province of Red China, nothing will happen - jjs)
  Massachusetts City Manager Blocks Police from Working with ICE

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

• Israeli commandos eliminate senior Hamas-linked commander in Khan Younis raid.
  IDF Expands Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots,’ Orders Khan Younis Evacuation Ahead of ‘Unprecedented Attack’
  
• Gazans rally against Hamas as Israeli offensive expands and humanitarian aid returns under Trump plan.
  Gazans Flood The Streets To Protest Hamas As IDF Operations Intensify
  
• The loss of innocent life is always regrettable — and, in war, often inevitable. Assuming they happened at all, given Hamas’s habit of inflating civilian death numbers. But I will not weep for the loss of UNRWA personnel. 
  Here's the Smoking Gun: UNWRA Knew About Oct 7 in Advance
  
• Insists on its own flawed aid delivery plan.
  The UN’s Pride Goes Before Delivering Humanitarian Relief in Gaza
  
• The realities - and implications - of October 7 go way beyond the region.
  Prager U Video: The Cult of Death
  
• She missed the boat, literally. She wasn’t on the good ship “Conscience”.
  Greta Thunberg, If You Can Stand Her

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

• McMahon stated that the past few months have been a “challenging” time and that she and the company are in disagreements about the path going forward, according to a memo obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Her resignation follows an ongoing legal battle with President Donald Trump, who is suing the network and its program, “60 Minutes,” for allegedly editing an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in an effort to benefit her.
  Top Legacy Media Exec Bails On Network Amid Legal Showdown With Trump
  
• A leopard has changed its spots, overnight.
  Anybody notice 60 Minutes' curiously rightward lurch?
  
• The famously thin-skilled news star has hired a top PR guru to help him fend off allegations that he’s profiting from hypocrisy. Unfortunately for Jake, there are receipts.
  The Tapper Dossier: How the CNN 'Journalist' Covered (Up) the Biden Cover-Up—Before Writing a Best-Selling Book About It

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

• Another state discovers California-style mandates are not workable given the current technologies and infrastructure.
  Vermont Pulls the Plug on Its Electric Vehicle Mandate
  
• Meanwhile, 17 states sue Trump administration for blocking the development of wind energy and 2 dead whales wash up on Rhode Island shores.
  East Coast Citizen Groups Sue Over Unlawful Authorization of Empire Wind Project
  
• Just a thought: Maybe if the environment and nature matter, we reconsider the towering slaughter machines killing all our birds?
  Growth of wind ‘farms’ put Golden Eagle on ‘path to possible extinction’
  
• Critics argue such lawsuits are a form of lawfare designed to bankrupt the oil industry
  Pennsylvania Judge Trashes Prosecutors' Climate Change Lawsuit Targeting Oil Companies

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• It is no more Harvard’s job to protect its political activists from public criticism than it is to protect its Romance literature professors from bad book reviews.
  The Shield of ‘Veritas’
  
• More important however are the three quirks of personality illustrated by their position and actions that signify why their are unqualified to be professors to begin with.
  In telling us why they are fleeing Trump America, three Yale professors prove they are unqualified for their jobs
  
• When teachers and students are your last priority.
  The Mess in California Schools

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Liberty doesn’t vanish in an instant. It’s chipped away regulation by regulation, ruling by ruling, until the original shape is unrecognizable. Today, the target is suppressors. Tomorrow, it’s your right to bear arms.
  The Suppressor Fight: A Bite Today, the Second Amendment Tomorrow

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

• How dare school teachers introduce indisputable information and ask students to draw their own conclusions!
  Oklahoma public schools to teach about the 2020 election ‘discrepancies’ using real data, and leftists are losing it

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
  

• White House says "Flying Palace" is not a personal gift to the president.
  Schumer Unveils Bill To Stop Trump From Turning Qatari Jet Into Air Force One
  
• Harris' campaign paid huge sums to celebrities as it burned through over $1 billion in three months
  Trump Calls for ‘Major Investigations’ Into Harris Campaign's Payments to Major Celebrities
  
• These latest revelations demonstrate that Americans are right to give Democrats and the media historically low ratings of trust. And neither group is doing anything to regain that trust as the lies and coverups continue.
  Cancer diagnosis, expose of mental decline reveal the lies of Joe Biden's [so-called quote-unquote] presidency

  POLITICS

• He claimed that Hillary Clinton was the most intimidating figure in the administration, even more so than her husband. Patterson recalled being warned by his predecessor, “You can get away with pissing off Bill, but if you make her mad, she’ll rip your heart out.”
  Bill Clinton’s Nuclear Football Carrier Says Hillary was ‘Nazi Schoolmarm.’
  
• New York Republicans are hoping to flip a largely Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn state Senate district that has strongly backed President Donald Trump in recent years as Democrats continue to struggle with antisemitism from certain corners of the party’s coalition.
  ‘Betrayed Us’: Dems’ Antisemitism Problem Could Help GOP Pick Up Heavily Jewish NY Seat

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Trump said the Vatican is open to hosting negotiations.
  Trump Makes Big Announcement Following ‘Very Frank’ Two-Hour Call With Putin

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "Voters are tired of being blindsided by outrageous hospital bills."
  Most Americans Back Trump’s ‘Radical’ Actions To Reform Health Care Industry
  
• It's time to scrap this hopelessly flawed, fraud-riddled, budget-busting disaster of a program and start over from scratch.
  Medicaid: End It, Don’t Mend It
  
• Fitness breeds strength, discipline, and independence—maybe that’s why the media suddenly thinks your workout routine is a political threat.
  Working Out Is Right Wing, and That’s a Good Thing

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

• A Title IX 'expert' praised the Virginia school administrator for her 'clever' workaround.
  ‘Go Down Fighting’: Emails Reveal School Official Plotting To ‘Skirt’ Trump Trans Guidance

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• FALLOUT: The upcoming season contains no drag shows, gender curriculum, or left-wing ideological content in children’s programming.
  Ric Grenell’s Kennedy Center Unveils New Season of Woke-Free Programming.
  
• You’d think large corporations like Dove would learn a lesson from Bud Light that everything woke goes to hell. Instead, they apparently believe paving that same worn out path will get them anywhere other than retail ruin.
  Dove Replaces Women With Gender-Confused Man Advertising Female Hair Products
  
• “Catholicism resisted the modern state.. .The instruments designed to limit the power of the state began to supersede it.”
  Pope Leo Must Revive Catholic Social Teaching
  
• Christian Toto: Rebel comic schools journalist on why Kamala Harris lost last year
  Tim Dillon Brutally Roasts CNN to Its Face

  HITHER & YON

• “My life expectancy is maybe this summer,” he said.
  Scott Adams Reveals Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
  
• The Left hated him because he was right.
  R.I.P. Michael Ledeen

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