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This economy is one of the toughest job markets for entry-level positions, and now, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is advancing new tax hikes in his budget that will make it even more difficult for Gen Z workers to build lives and careers in the city.

As he unveiled his third budget last week, Mayor Johnson took to a familiar tactic to fill a $1.15 billion budget shortfall: new taxes, higher fees.

The target of his worst tax hikes this time is the business community—and if history is any indicator, results are poised to be disastrous. Johnson announced he’d revive the city’s long-defunct business “head tax,” charging businesses with over 100 employees—such as McDonald’s, United, and other large firms—a $21 per employee per month fee.

Second-tier cities, including Raleigh, Baltimore, and our neighbor Milwaukee, have positioned themselves as technology hubs and are courting businesses and attracting young workers with affordable cost-of-living and well-paying positions.

Time to leave.

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The GOP-led House Oversight Committee on Tuesday called on the Justice Department to investigate every executive action taken during the Biden administration.

The committee said it found evidence that some of former President Joe Biden’s orders and clemency decisions may have been issued without his personal approval.

In a 91-page report released early Tuesday, the committee said its investigation found no record that Biden authorized several executive actions, including presidential pardons and commutations.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday called on Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to account for what the Vermont independent said were hundreds of thousands of potential lost jobs due to automation.

Bezos doesn’t answer to you, Bernie, unless you’re a stockholder–and then, not directly. It’s his company, not yours.

“If Amazon succeeds on its massive automation plan, it will have a profound impact on blue-collar workers throughout America and will likely be used as a model by large corporations throughout America,” Sanders wrote in a letter to Bezos, which was exclusively reviewed by Reuters.

Yup. New technology is like that. Machine tools eliminated a lot of jobs for blue-collar workers. We survived and prospered.

Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats, was referring to a New York Times article published earlier this month that cited documents and interviews showing that Amazon executives believe 500,000 jobs could be cut over time by replacing warehouse workers with robots. Amazon employs 1.55 million people, the majority of whom are hourly workers.

That’s socialism for you, standing in the way of progress.

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Over the weekend, you might have noticed, the Portland, OR, police cleared out the Antifa encampments down around the city’s ICE facility, carted away their lavish riot supplies, and warned them not to congregate on the street there. For now, anyway. Hmmmm. . . . Why do you suppose that happened? Antifa has been rioting freely around federal buildings in Portland since the Summer of Floyd, 2020. Did the police suddenly notice that Antifa has been disturbing the peace?

So far, nobody in the news media has bothered to ask the Portland Police honchos about this sudden change of heart, nor did the honchos venture to say. Did word come from higher up to finally put a stop to Antifa’s psychotic monkeyshines? Like, from Mayor Keith Wilson or Oregon Governor Tina Kotek? Wouldn’t you say those two have got some ‘splainin’ to do?

After all, the Antifa actions at this particular address were not just peaceable assemblies petitioning the government for redress of their grievances, as the Constitution has it. They were often violent efforts to interfere with federal officers going about their duties, namely, the expulsion of illegal border-jumpers. Left unsaid by the aforementioned persons in authority was whether they were in on that interference.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi has put Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), San Francisco D.A. Brooke Jenkins, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) and others on notice that she will charge them if they violate the nation’s laws protecting federal officers.

“We will charge them. And, if they think I won’t, they haven’t met me,” Bondi vowed Thursday in an interview discussing Democrats threatening U.S. immigration agents with Fox News Channel’s Jesse Watters.

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In a move clearly designed to help illegal aliens avoid the authorities, the Democratic Party has proposed adding an ICE tracker to its website to allow anyone to track the movements of agents.

Labelling it a “master” ICE tracker, Rep. Robert Garcia announced the plan alongside Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

The Democrats are taking the mask off and revealing themselves as a criminal conspiracy. No wonder the do so little to repress crime.

Less than a month ago, Apple removed an app called ICEBlock from its App Store because it allowed users to report the locations of ICE agents ahead of raids, both putting them in danger and helping illegal aliens evade justice.

Apple acquiesced following pressure from the Justice Department after a demented leftist carried out a shooting at an ICE detention facility in Dallas.

Attorney General Pam Bondi declared “ICEBlock is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs, and violence against law enforcement is an intolerable red line that cannot be crossed.”

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By the time this passes, if it does pass, the only billionaires left in California will be the stupid ones.

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There is little enthusiasm among Democrats in Illinois to redraw the state’s congressional districts, despite pressure from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., to do so, Capitol News Illinois reports.

“I think there is next to zero appetite to do it,” one House Democrat told the news outlet.

Another added that “there is no world where I see this happening.”

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DEI will do that do you.

Democrats today resemble a pack of lost puppies – unsure which direction to run: left, further left, or all the way into the radical fringe, where political violence and assassination culture is normalized, anti-American sentiment is celebrated, and socialism and Marxism are embraced. The original ‘No Kings’ protest was the election of Donald Trump, in which the American people rejected the globalists running the White House, the Biden-Harris regime, who pushed nation-killing policies, such as open borders, despised masculinity, and promoted all things woke.

Yet Democrats haven’t corrected course to what lost them the election. Instead, they’ve quadrupled down on wokeness, transgender ideology, socialism, illegal aliens, and everything the majority of Americans voted against with the election of Trump. And here we are, fast approaching the first anniversary of Trump’s election victory, as Democrats rally behind “Commie Mamdani,” the far-left NYC mayoral candidate poised to become the city’s next mayor.

The result of quadrupling down on all things woke, as explained by John MacGhionn in an op-ed for The Hill, is that “the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging men.”

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As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, mass layoffs, missed paychecks and halted infrastructure projects have done little to sway congressional Democrats into reopening the federal government.

But the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which they’ve long championed, is set to run out of funds in just over a week, a development which could change the shutdown’s trajectory.

The program, which is administered by the Agriculture Department, helps feed more than 40 million people. Beginning Nov. 1, at least 25 states plan to cut off benefits for recipients, including California, where 4.5 million people rely on SNAP to put food on the table.

If you’re the Party of Free Stuff, and your base are no longer getting Free Stuff, how much longer will they vote for you?

Power Line.

Collusion Hoax, and, true to form, he has devoted the time since he left office to being a television shill for the Democratic Party. It is widely agreed that Brennan committed perjury in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on May 23, 2017, when he denied the CIA’s involvement in the fraudulent Steele “dossier.” But the statute of limitations on perjury is five years. We wrote about those issues here.

Now the House Judiciary Committee has referred Brennan to the Department of Justice for possible criminal prosecution. Chairman Jim Jordan’s letter to Attorney General Pamela Bondi is here.

Jordan’s letter says that Brennan perjured himself in testimony he gave a committee investigator in an interview on May 11, 2023. In that interview, Brennan repeated essentially the same statements that he made in 2017:

No, I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all. I said the first time I actually saw it, it was after the election. And the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier. You can direct that to the FBI and to others.

In fact, documents that have recently come to light confirm the CIA’s role in promoting the Steele dossier, and that of John Brennan in particular. Chairman Jordan’s letter recites some of the evidence.

Probably not — the Deep State takes care of its own — but we can hope.

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Democratic Texas state Rep. Jolanda Jones told CNN on Wednesday that her party should “wipe out” every Republican and slash their necks.

Jones stated on “Erin Burnett OutFront” that Democrats are losing black supporters because they need to fight harder, which included slashing her political opponent’s neck and wiping out Republicans. Her rhetoric followed two assassination attempts against President Donald Trump and the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

“I’m from the hood, okay? So when a bully comes, like, if there are no rules, you literally have to figure it out. So, Donald Trump has changed things, and people trying to do what’s always been done is not going to work,” Jones said. “And I think that’s why Democrats are losing black people, that’s why they’re losing poor people, because poor people, all they want is for us to fight.”

I guess you can take the …….. out of the ‘hood, but you can’t take the ‘hood out of the …….. (Why do black women do their best to avoid looking like black women?)

The Other McCain.

Think back to mid-November 2024. President Trump had just scored a decisive victory, winning all seven “battleground” states and, unlike 2016, winning the popular vote by a margin of more than 2 million votes.

In the wake of their shattering defeat — which not only put Trump back in the White House, but left Republicans with majorities in both houses of Congress — many Democrats, and their media mouthpieces, seemed willing to admit that maybe it was time to reconsider their general approach to politics. Perhaps taxpayer-funded sex-change treatment for prison inmates and DEI quotas in the Pentagon were not a winning policy agenda, some liberals were willing to confess. For a few weeks there, in November and December, it seemed that Democrats might be on the road to recovery from their long bout with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Ah, fleeting hope! The brief prospect of a more sensible (or at least, more cautious) stance by Democrats did not last long, and they swiftly reverted to the shrieking rhetorical extremism — “Resist Orange Hitler!” — that had been their habit for more than eight years. So here we are, more than three weeks into a shutdown caused by the Democrats filibustering a spending bill in the Senate, and the No. 2 Democrat in the House can’t seem to understand why some people might be upset about it.

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Saturday to protest our extremely authoritarian—and definitely not democratically elected—“king,” President Donald Trump. It was the “No Kings” rally, and The Daily Signal team took the opportunity to get some fresh air and, of course, interview a few of them.

We started by asking, “What has Trump done to seem like a king to you?”

“He just disregards all the laws. … It’s all part of the plan … Project 2025,” an older woman replied.

When I asked her to describe Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation-led effort to create a blueprint for the administration of significant reforms in government, she replied, “I can’t remember. I’m lucky I remember my name some days, but I can’t remember. But just Google it for God’s sake. It’s 2025. There is no excuse for being ignorant in this day and age.”

We couldn’t agree with you more, ma’am. There isn’t any excuse: If you’re going to protest it, you should at least know what it is.

There are a lot of foolish and ignorant people in the Democrat base. Just sayin’….

Power Line.

Liberals tell us 1) that Charlie Kirk had it coming, but 2) hardly any liberals approved of his murder. Both of those assertions are false. At City Journal, the Manhattan Institute’s Christina Buttons reminds us of some basic facts.

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A Democratic New York congressman is calling on the NYPD to arrest and prosecute ICE agents who engage in “unlawful actions” during federal immigration crackdowns in the city.

Democrats are lawfare central.

In a letter to NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch, U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman rips U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officers’ “outrageous and unlawful conduct” in cities around the country, saying they have been “violently and improperly” arresting U.S. citizens.

That’s an assumption on his part, otherwise he would cite cases. There are ways to object to what LEOs so, and this isn’t one of them. It is, however, the way that empowers him to make spurious accusations, without the perceived need to cite any evidence, and grandstand for the news media, which I suspect is all it is.

Goldman said with the “likely possibility” that the Department of Homeland Security will “send armies of agents into New York City for civil immigration purposes” he urged the NYPD to be “prepared to strictly enforce state and local laws in order to hold federal agents accountable for any unlawful actions they engage in, including potentially through arrest and prosecution for felony violations.”

Said Commissioner will, if she (it’s always a she in a Blue state) knows anything about the law, ignore him, because of two little words: Qualified Immunity. (Feel free to look it up. Or, if you’re lazy, just ask your favorite AI.)

It’s astonishing the number of Congressmen, who are in charge of writing our laws, appear to know nothing about the laws to which they are attempting to add (or modify, as the case may be). This applies even to those who are lawyers (by training if not by trade) who one would expect to know better. In this particular case, he does know better, being a JD from Stanford; I suspect he’s traded his lawyer hat for a politician hat and never looked back.

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Sports commentator Clay Travis, appearing on Fox News with Jesse Watters, delivered a scathing 40-second assessment of the Democrats’ downfall during coverage of a “No Kings” rally in Boston. Travis’s remarks highlight a broader sentiment: the party has lost touch with mainstream America, particularly younger generations, and risks becoming a relic of the past.

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Several blue cities, led by Chicago, want federal money to keep flowing but aren’t willing to abide by the Trump administration’s condition of dropping diversity, equity, and inclusion policies to get it.

Joining Chicago in the lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are Boston, New York, Baltimore, Denver, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and New Haven, Connecticut.

The cities filed the case of Chicago v. Noem in federal court in the Northern District of Illinois Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is named in her official capacity as the defendant.

The Foundry.

shutdown. They also voted against funding the military, thereby necessitating that the Pentagon initiate some innovative accounting in order to ensure service members are paid on time.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., defended his caucus’s latest vote, opining, “It’s always been unacceptable to Democrats to do the defense bill without other bills that have so many things that are important to the American people in terms of health care, in terms of housing, in terms of safety.” But to most Americans, such tendentious bloviating falls on deaf ears. Most commonsense Americans understand that there is no reason paying America’s warriors should be held hostage to arcane debates over housing policy.

As Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., one of three Senate Democrats who joined Republicans on Thursday in support of the defense appropriations bill, put it earlier this week: “You know, if you’re thinking about winning the election, now, that’s all going to come down to seven or eight states. … And a lot of the things, the extremism that people turned their back in ’24, and that’s how we kind of came up short.”

It’s wise advice. But Fetterman is likely to pay for being such a rare voice of (relative) reason within the party with an impending bruising Senate primary contest.

Why exactly are Democrats, who control neither chamber of Congress nor the presidency, continuing to insist on a protracted shutdown battle? It’s a more complex question than it ought to be. But the basic disagreement amounts to one over expiring Obamacare subsidies and the scope of Medicaid coverage—pertaining, to no small extent, to illegal aliens.

Democrats always have to act as it they are in charge, even when they aren’t, because they can’t admit that they aren’t without destorying the fantasy world in which they all live.

The Foundry.

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen….

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California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to use the mass mail-in ballot state’s Democrat stranglehold to crush California’s independent redistricting commission, but a deep-pocketed key figure in establishing it does not want it to die in the darkness of partisan force.

Charles Munger Jr., a Berkshire Hathaway heir backed by his late father’s $2 billion estate, is committed “to protect something that he fought so hard alongside us to win,” Common Cause CEO Virginia Kase Solomón told The Washington Post.

But Common Cause, which co-wrote Munger Jr.’s Propositions 11 and 20 to make redistricting independent of the state’s Democrat stranglehold, recently returned his $200,000 August donation, saying it would not join the heir in opposing Newsom’s Proposition 50.

Erick Erickson.

The president is still riding on global goodwill for the release of hostages from Hamas. On stage in Egypt, the president of Pakistan praised President Donald Trump for bringing peace to what could have become a nuclear war between Pakistan and India. The Israeli people love him more than they do their own leaders. But here at home, Democrats have kept voting to keep the government shut down.

Democrats, however, have been careful with their battle. Trump has moved defense funding around to make sure the military gets paid this week. He will not be able to keep doing it, but for now, our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines will get paid. Democrats are publicly protesting that this is unconstitutional. None of them are, so far, willing to fight the president on it. Democrats are refusing to vote for the same continuing resolution authored by and submitted by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer just last year. The resolution is the same, and Democrats are now killing what they themselves wrote last year.

Therein lies the problem for the Democrats. They want credit for fighting Trump and shutting down the government, but they don’t want any blame for shutting down the government. On Wednesday, the 15th day of the government shutdown, neither the New York Times, the Washington Post, nor the Wall Street Journal had a front-page story about the shutdown. If the press could praise the Democrats, they undoubtedly would. But at this point, few Americans are feeling the effects of the shutdown. Social security checks are going out, the military is getting paid, passports are being issued and life goes on.

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A Democrat governor who called Republicans “Nazis” and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “Gestapo” accused the White House of hate speech Thursday.

Responding to a social media post of comments by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) accused the administration of inciting hate.

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Billionaire investor Tom Steyer is spending millions on ads touting California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposition for redistricting — but his ads are starting to irk prominent Democrats, Politico reported.

Steyer’s ads were made without coordination with Newsom’s campaign team, according to Politico.

Steyer, who ran for president in 2020, has caused heartburn for Democrats with an ad that ties his support for redistricting to calls for President Donald Trump’s impeachment.

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San Francisco Democrat District Attorney Brooke Jenkins reiterated she would not “hesitate” to bring charges against federal agents or National Guard troops if she had a “provable case,” Politico reported Thursday.

Jenkins made her latest comments Wednesday, hours after President Donald Trump again said he’s considering deploying the National Guard to San Francisco, which he called “a mess.” She first warned federal agents of possible charges in a social media post last week.
Jenkins said she would take the unprecedented step of bringing charges, such as excessive force, if U.S. troops or immigration agents broke local laws.

“If I believe, and have conviction, that we can meet our burden and charges are appropriate, that I won’t hesitate to do so,” she told Politico.

Two words: Qualified Immunity. This affirmative-action hire apparently has about the same legal competence as Justice Brown.

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While the federal shutdown grinds on, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have clearly perfected a strange new art form: performative politics, where each word is a cue, every accusation a prop, and every tweet an audition for those who can look the most indignant while working the least.

In the meantime, President Donald Trump isn’t playing along; he’s rewriting the script in real time, walking over Schumer and Jeffries online, each dropping posts and videos that make Democrats look like out-of-work actors fumbling through a forgotten scene.

Democrats? More accurately “Dramacrats” … inventors of the slogan “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday he is withholding more than $40 million in federal funds from California for failing to comply with the department’s English Language Proficiency standards for commercial truck drivers.

Duffy had warned California, Washington and New Mexico in August that they risked losing federal money unless they adopted and enforced the ELP requirement for commercial drivers.

“California is the only state in the nation that refuses to ensure big-rig drivers can read our road signs and communicate with law enforcement,” Duffy said in a news release.

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When Sen. Elizabeth A. Warren recently traveled to the Big Apple to endorse New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, she was asked if overt socialism is really the best model for Democrats to adopt. “You bet,” she replied in her signature folksy style.

The Boston lawmaker wasn’t just jumping on the sudden trendiness of socialism three-and-a-half decades after its near-extinction. With fellow Senate traveler Bernie Sanders, Warren has been a catalyst for moving her party to the left since her first campaign in 2012.

She and Sanders are, in many ways, the godparents of the self-avowed Democratic Socialists such as Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who are providing the youthful energy for the Democrats in the Trump era.

As history has proved, socialism is only for the proletariat. The apparatchiks skate free.

Financial records examined by RealClearInvestigations show that Warren has hardly followed the path of socialism in her personal finances. Start with the redistribution of wealth. Warren tirelessly bashes the “selfish” and “greedy” rich for not paying their “fair share,” and demands the government step in and redistribute their income to the poor. But charity does not always begin in the Warren home.

While Warren hauls in nearly $1 million a year, she donated less than 3% of her household income to charity in 2024, according to her tax returns. This is much less than the charity of the Obamas, for instance, who typically donate more than 20% of their earnings to the needy and philanthropic causes, and low for the average American in her income bracket, studies show. The average millionaire donates more than twice her share.

It also appears that Warren opens her pocketbook wider when she’s running for national office and under a bigger media microscope.

The $26,669 in charitable deductions Warren reported on her tax returns last year pales in comparison to the $81,858, or 9% of income, she reported as she launched her campaign for the White House in 2020.

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A three-day operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) nabbed 120 illegal aliens – three of four of whom have commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) issued by U.S. states that grant CDLs regardless of immigration status.

The issue of illegal alien CDLs made national news in August, when Harjinder Singh attempted to make an illegal U-turn, causing a deadly wreck that killed three people in Florida. Singh has been charged with vehicular homicide.

In the ICE-OHP operation, which concluded September 25, the CDL of one illegal alien taken into custody had “No Name Given Anmol” listed as his identity on his license.

Three-fourths (75.8%) of the 120 illegal aliens arrested in the operation have commercial driver’s licenses.

Of those 91 illegal aliens with CDLs, nearly two-thirds (63.8%) were issued their commercial driver’s licenses by either California or New York – both so-called “sanctuary states”.

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California authorities ignored an ICE detainer — now, six people are dead,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported Tuesday after an illegal alien drove a van into a tree killing six passengers and injuring another.

“Cerillo-Bialva has been removed from the United States seven times—a felony—and maintains an extensive criminal history,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement, noting that the illegal alien has “an extensive criminal history,” including:

Possession of cocaine.
Three DUIs.
Driving without a license.
Violating a court ordered restraining order for domestic abuse.

As a result of his state’s refusal to honor the ICE detainer, Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom “has blood on his hands,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said:

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed the long-anticipated “Responsible Gun Manufacturing Act,” Assembly Bill 1127, a law that may now trigger a major challenge under the Second Amendment. The law banned the Glock semi-automatic handguns that are a favorite of American gun owners, including former Vice President Kamala Harris.

The law constitutes one of the most ambitious gun bans since the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) that gun ownership is an individual right.

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) claimed that “nobody” knows what the left-wing terrorist organization Antifa is and that it does not exist, despite promoting an Antifa “handbook” in a 2018 social media post.

Ellison was reacting to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s remarks at a recent White House roundtable on political violence during a Saturday appearance on MSNBC when he said, “There really is no Antifa as an institutional organization… Nobody even knows what it is.”

He went on to claim that “the first person I ever heard use the word Antifa was Donald J. Trump when he was going on about Charlottesville.”

A since-deleted X post made by Ellison in 2018 while he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives shows him holding Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, authored by Rutgers University “antifascist historian” Mark Bray. The caption stated that the book would “strike fear in the heart” of President Donald Trump.

The New York Post (Jonathan Turley).

In Federalist No. 51, James Madison famously wrote that “ambition must be made to counteract ambition.” He believed that members of each branch of government would jealously protect their own institutions from the other branches.

Of course, Madison never met Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY). Goldman is an example of how the wrong type of ambition can destroy Congress if it becomes widespread among members.

This week, both Republican and Democratic members raised alarm over the disclosure that special counsel Jack Smith tracked the telephone calls by members of both houses of Congress.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) stated, “On the surface of it, it would strike me as a significant invasion of the right of senators to conduct their jobs, so this is something that needs urgent follow-up.”

But one member leaped to dismiss such institutional concerns as much ado about nothing. Goldman attacked the victims as legitimate targets to help “confirm Trump’s effort to overturn the election.”

Goldman has long been viewed as the face of rage politics in Washington. He often uses hearings to attack witnesses and political opponents. His signature style involves heaping insults on witnesses and then immediately “reclaiming his time” to prevent them from answering his accusations.

Dunno–soinds like a typical Democrat to me. Can’t see how he differs that much from Schumer, Nadler, Schiff, or Pelosi.

Gothamist.

Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani has made universal childcare a centerpiece of his campaign.

The governor and Democratic mayoral nominee differ on raising taxes.

New York Post.

A New Jersey school board candidate was caught red-handed sending vicious, sexual messages about a conservative female board member in a group chat labeled “ThisBitchNeedsToDie.”

Photos of Scott Semaya’s vile texts about Danielle Bellomo at a July school board meeting leaked this week on social media — and the widening scandal is now being investigated by local cops and roiling the affluent suburb of Marlboro.

“Bellomo must be cold — her nips could cut glass right n” read one text, allegedly captured on camera while Semaya’s fingers typed an “o.”

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A long-left-leaning billionaire philanthropist has triggered San Francisco politicians by praising President Trump’s performance in office — and even more so by urging Trump to deploy National Guard soldiers to suppress the city’s rampant criminality.

“I fully support the president,” said Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in an interview with the New York Times. “I think he’s doing a great job.” That puts Benioff at stark odds with his fellow San Franciscans: In a June Public Policy Institute of California poll, 77% of Bay Area residents disapproved of Trump’s performance. Benioff recounted his recent honor of sitting across a table from Trump at a state dinner hosted by King Charles at Windsor Castle, and said he used the dinner to tell Trump “how grateful I am for everything he’s doing.”

The reason Democrat politicians prefer criminals to billionaires is (a) there are more criminals than billionaires, hence more votes, (b) criminals are more stupid than billionaires, hence more likely to vote for Democrats, and (c) there are enough foolish billionaires that will make massive political contributions to Democrats (Lenin’s ‘useful idiots’) that they’ll still rake in the bucks. No downside.

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LEAVE OUR CRIME ALONE!

Two weeks ago the FBI announced that 489 ‘violent criminals’ had been arrested in Memphis over a 60-day period, which included 118 guns seized, in a multi-agency effort involving the FBI, DEA, Memphis PD, ICE, Homeland Security and other agencies.

Shortly after this announcement, Memphis law enforcement coordinated with DHS to deploy the National Guard to Memphis to assist the effort.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that eliminates the expiration date on the state’s End of Life Option Act, making ongoing access to assisted suicide for adults facing terminal illnesses permanent.

Democrats just love killing people.

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“It’s not looking good for those pardons” President Joe Biden gave out to Hunter Biden, other family members and cohorts in his administration, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said Thursday.

In an interview with Newsmax, Comer discussed Republicans’ investigation of how staff members used President Joe Biden’s auto-pen to sign documents on his behalf without his consent or, potentially, even his knowledge.

“We’re in the final stages of this auto-pen investigation: it’s not looking good for those pardons,” Rep. Comer explained:

 

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Katie Porter, the leading candidate to replace Gavin Newsom in California’s upcoming gubernatorial election, has thrown her campaign into chaos after a second viral clip of her berating a staffer emerged hours after she made headlines for throwing a complete temper tantrum in a CBS News interview.

On Wednesday evening, Politico published the second clip of Porter screaming at a staffer.

“Get out of my fucking shot!” Porter screeched at a masked staffer who appeared in the background of an online conversation between Porter and then-Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in July 2021. Porter’s staffer had interjected to correct something Porter said about electric vehicles – which earned the employee a reprimand.

“You also were in my shot before that. Stay out of my shot,” Porter said.

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The Department of Homeland Security blasted California officials for releasing an illegal alien who went on to kill six people in a drunk driving crash.

DHS directly blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s sanctuary state policies for the tragedy.

Beto Cerillo-Bialva, a 49-year-old Mexican national, had been deported seven times, the DHS revealed Thursday.

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What goes around, comes around.

You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

UPDATE: New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump foe, is indicted by Trump’s DOJ (Politico)  Not just any DOJ, but Trump’s DOJ.

UPDATE: Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals (Sam Levine/The Guardian)  Since James was elected on an explicit promise to ‘get Trump’, this seems appropriate.

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I’m sure they do….

Union leaders representing hundreds of thousands of workers are calling on Congress to end the government shutdown, which stretched into the eighth day Wednesday.

They want their money, and a lot of that money comes from the Federal government. They’re also a major brick in the wall of the Democrat base.

“Federal employees, a third of whom are veterans, are patriotic Americans who provide essential services to communities across the country,” the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers, said in a news release.

Almost all of whom vote Democrat. KEEP THAT MONEY FLOWING!

“These employees should be able to do their jobs free of political interference. Instead, they are being forced to either work without pay or stay off the job without pay for as long as this shutdown continues.”

You voted for the guys that caused this. Fuck Around and Find Out.