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On Tuesday, a judge released pending trial the two suspects arrested for ramming and boxing in a vehicle driven by a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent in Chicago on Saturday, saying they were not a flight risk and could be trusted to appear in court.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Heather McShain was the judge who presided over the detention hearing, Judge McShain said, given that both are U.S. citizens and lifelong residents of Chicago with no criminal history, they can be released on bond, pending trial, WGN Chicago reports.

Marimar Martinez – reportedly armed with a semi-automatic weapon – and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz were participating in a protest against federal immigration law enforcement in the city when they allegedly rammed the CBP vehicle and attempted to box it in.

According to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, Martinez and Ruiz used their vehicles to strike the vehicle containing three CBP agents Saturday morning near the intersection of West 39th Street and South Kedzie Avenue on Chicago’s Southwest Side.

Both suspects fled, but were quickly apprehended, the Justice Department reports. Martinez, who had been shot during the confrontation, was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she received treatment for her wounds.
The complaint charges Martinez, 30, and Ruiz, 21, both of Chicago, with assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon, as well as impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer.

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A Justice Department official from President Donald Trump’s first administration, Jeff Clark, marked the fourth anniversary of former President Joe Biden’s using the power of the White House and DOJ to control the certification of lawyers by targeting those defending against Biden’s weaponization of justice.

“Weaponization of bar processes must end,” Clark wrote in a detailed X post Tuesday morning.

Clark served as acting head of the DOJ’s Civil Division in 2020. He rebuked the political witch-hunt launched by then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., having sparked a cascade of legal fights and professional fallout.

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The Schumer Shutdown dragged through the weekend, with neither side budging. Republicans pushed for a straightforward continuing resolution to keep the government funded through November, but Democrats chose to hold the line for their wish list of radical spending priorities—billions and billions of dollars’ worth—and in doing so, shut the government down. The media has focused on their demand for free health care for illegal immigrants, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s a lot more buried in this standoff that isn’t getting the attention it deserves.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) took to the Senate floor this week and laid out, in his trademark blunt and hilarious fashion, exactly what Democrats are trying to shut the government down over—and it’s every bit as ridiculous as you’d expect.

“Basically, President Trump just said, ‘We want you to take some stuff out of the budget that we think is wasteful,’” Kennedy began. “And we did — and that upset the congresswoman.”

That “congresswoman,” of course, is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who, according to Kennedy, went ballistic when Trump and congressional Republicans started cutting some of the more absurd Biden-era spending priorities.

Kennedy didn’t hold back as he read aloud what Democrats are fighting to restore.

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Jesse Jackson Jr. will reportedly announce a run to reclaim his old congressional seat in Illinois after vacating it more than a decade ago following his conviction on fraud charges.

“We must fight them at every level to restore decency, fairness, and equity back into the federal government,” reads a line from the Jesse Jackson Jr. for Congress webpage.

Jackson, 60, the son of prominent political activist and minister Jesse Jackson, was sentenced to 30 months in prison “for conspiring to defraud his reelection campaigns of about $750,000 in funds that were used to pay for personal items and expenses, including high-end appliances and electronics, and then filing misleading reports to conceal seven years of the illegal activities,” according to the Justice Department in August 2013.

As a crooked black Democrat from a family of race-hustlers, he will no doubt be embraced warmly.

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Doesn’t surprise me a bit.

ATQUE: Another Democratic Party Scandal in Virginia

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Jones’s violent text messages about former Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert are disgusting and dangerous rhetoric and underscore the broader hate messaging by the Democratic Party, which has spent years creating target profiles on conservatives by labeling them “fascists” and “Nazis.” In other words, the left has normalized assassination culture against their political enemies.

“Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot.” Jones wrote. “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”

UPDATE; OMISSION: Legacy Sunday Shows SILENT About Virginia AG Candidate’s Murderous Text Messages

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All things being equal, I think President Trump is doing a damn good job his first year in office. Sure, there are things that I could choose to take exception with — not cutting as much spending as anticipated or dangerous ideas involving stablecoins in the Treasury market, for example — but all in all, Trump is getting the big things right.

Every once in a while, I check in on the Democrats to see if they have somehow organically manifested one new brain cell while they just sleep, lobotomized and Matrix-pod style, in the liquid goo of groupthink, identity politics, race hustling, “academic” theories, and post-post-post-postmodern ideologies (the fourth post just kills you)—and I’m quickly assured that they have made no progress whatsoever.

For example, here’s Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett stating just days ago that just because somebody commits a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal, while her yoga teacher nods along in deep agreement as though she has just presented a breakthrough in differential geometry at MIT and he’s in the class following along, taking notes.

The Foundry.

Since Democrats have shut down the federal government because they want another $1.5 trillion bailout of Obamacare, it’s a good time to remind everyone that the law has been a wide-ranging and expensive fiasco.

Virtually every promise made by Democrats regarding the Affordable Care Act has failed to come true.

Sure, former President Barack Obama infamously promised that Americans could keep their preferred insurance if they desired. By the end of his second term, around 7 million people had been booted from their insurance because of the Affordable Care Act. Who knows how many have been dropped since.

But let’s also not forget that Obama pledged that the law would reduce family health insurance premiums by “up to” $2,500 annually by the end of his first term. Premiums not only continued to rise during his presidency, but since 2010, they have spiked from $13,000 to nearly $24,000.

Democrats used to love to talk about “bending the cost curve.” Well, congrats.

The Foundry.

The “Schumer Shutdown” is here and Democrats have essentially reversed 30 years of messaging about the dangers of closing the government.

Forty-three Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Shumer, D-N.Y., voted against a stopgap budget measure Tuesday night that triggered a government shutdown. This came over protests by congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump.

It’s a remarkable reversal for America’s two major political parties.

In past shutdown debates, Republicans have typically been in the more difficult position of demanding budget cuts while Democrats blast them for not supporting X, Y, and Z. In many cases, there has been a Democrat in the White House who could help congressional Democrats craft any narrative they chose about the catastrophic consequence of the government closing.

They’ve typically portrayed the ensuing government shutdowns as something akin to the apocalypse.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., posted a montage of Democrats arguing during past budget battles, saying that shutting down the government would be devastating to the average American.

Newsbusters.

“So we do want to provide health care funds for illegals,” Fox News’ Brit Hume pointed out, reacting to a Democrat congressman’s admission Tuesday that not all of the increase in health care funding Democrats want is going to American citizens.

“So we do want to provide health care funds for illegals, but just not much of it,” Chief Political Analyst Hume wrote on X.com, responding to video of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on Fox Business discussing the funding battle that has caused the government to shut down.

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Barack Obama’s long-promised presidential library is shaping up to be just as corrupt as his administration. You probably haven’t heard much about this in the media, but recent tax filings reveal that money donated to the Obama Foundation—supposedly earmarked for his sprawling “presidential center” in Chicago—is quietly being redirected to one of the left’s most notorious dark money groups: the Tides Foundation.

The numbers tell the story. In 2022 and 2023, the Obama Foundation handed over $2 million to Tides, a group best known for serving as a clearinghouse for radical left-wing causes and for shielding donor identities. It should come as no surprise that George Soros heavily backs Tides, and Tides is directly tied to groups organizing anti-Israel protests. That includes demonstrations against the Jewish state in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities. In other words, donations made in the name of funding a presidential library are now helping bankroll organizations promoting antisemitic activism under the guise of social justice.

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The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, claiming it is infringing on the rights of citizens seeking concealed-carry permits.

The lawsuit is the first affirmative case in support of gun owners filed by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Civil Rights Division said it had received numerous complaints that revealed “inexplicable” delays well beyond California’s statutory requirements and in violation of the Second Amendment.

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The New York Times Magazine posted a 2,500-word essay, likely bound for the next print edition of the Sunday magazine, by far-left Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones: “What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed.” Hannah-Jones was the force behind the paper’s discredited revisionist history The 1619 Project, which tied the founding of America to slavery.

The headline deck to this callous piece, another failed and personally obnoxious attempt at ideological revisionism.

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In emotionally fraught testimony Monday, Steve Federico, father of a young woman who was brutally murdered by a black career criminal in South Carolina, pleaded with Democrats to stop protecting dangerous criminals with soft-on-crime policies.

The House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing in Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday, to “examine violent crime in Charlotte, North Carolina and the surrounding areas looking at repeat offenders and lenient pretrial release policies and decisions among others.”

The man’s daughter, Logan Federico, 22, was fatally shot in the chest by Alexander Dickey, 30, during a home invasion on May 3, 2025. She had been visiting friends at a rented property in Columbia, South Carolina at the time of the execution-style murder.

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“Let your rage fuel you.” Those words from Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger captured what I have called “rage politics” in America.

Across the country, politicians and pundits are fueling rage, encouraging voters to embrace it. If you turn on the television, you would think that Darth Sidious had taken over: “Give in to your anger. With each passing moment, you grow stronger.”

I do not think for a second that Spanberger supports violence. She was sharing with voters the “sage advice” of her mother, which she said she has applied in her political career. However, the anger is all around us.

I think she supports violence–if it’s against Republicans. It seems pretty obvious.

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Democrats in Congress are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to protect subsidies that help reduce the cost of Wi-Fi on school buses.

In a letter led by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., the lawmakers argue against FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who said in a press release last month that the commission should end expansion of the E-Rate program, which provides discounts on Wi-Fi on buses and hot spots on school campuses.

“Rolling back the E-Rate hotspot and school bus decisions would undercut some of the most effective tools for addressing inequities in home connectivity and would reverse progress in closing the ‘Homework Gap.’ For millions of students, especially those from low-income households, internet access outside of school walls is not a luxury but a prerequisite for academic success,” reads the letter, which was signed by Sens. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, and Peter Welch of Vermont, and Rep. Grace Meng of New York, all Democrats.

Holding out for the Really Important Stuff.

The Foundry.

As Republicans show no sign of giving in to their demands, Democrats are facing a difficult decision in the coming days—cave in and allow a Republican-backed stopgap funding bill to pass Congress and keep the government open or allow a partial government shutdown?

The U.S. Senate is currently scheduled to return to work Sept. 29, a day before Congress’ deadline to pass a new spending measure to continue funding government operations. A shutdown could lead to several categories of federal workers not being paid, at least temporarily during the shutdown, as well as interruptions to certain government services.

Republicans are looking to pass a seven-week continuing resolution, which would roughly extend current spending levels—the spending levels of the previous Biden administration. They need at least seven Democrat votes in the Senate to bring the bill to the floor.

Democrats, however, have made big demands to keep the government open, including undoing recently passed cost-saving Medicaid reforms, hamstringing the White House’s ability to rescind certain federal funding, and extending expiring Obamacare health care premium tax credits, which were enhanced during the previous administration.

But on Friday, President Donald Trump, having previously canceled plans to meet with Democrats about their demands, appeared unbothered while attending the Ryder Cup golf tournament in Farmingdale, New York.

Democrats appeared outraged as it became apparent that Republicans were inviting them to a game of shutdown chicken.

Yup, Trump doesn’t play the Deep State kabuki-dance.

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Delaware has long reigned as the nation’s corporate capital, but not anymore.

Recent high-profile departures and growing criticism of its judiciary have put the First State under the microscope.

On CNBC this past Wednesday, “Squawk Box” anchors Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin pressed Gov. Matt Meyer, a Democrat, on whether his administration is mishandling what could become a turning point in Delaware’s century-old dominance of corporate law.

Texas Tribune, a Voice of the Woke.

Party insiders said the way the move was handled undercuts Chair Kendall Scudder’s rhetoric about winning back working class voters, who lurched to the right in 2024.

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If California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plan is approved, a large rural district that once proposed seceding from the state will be merged with northern San Francisco, causing the residents to fear they are losing their voice in Congress.

Modoc County is closer to Oregon than San Francisco and more closely resembles Texas in terms of its politics and agricultural lifestyle, yet the nearly 8,500 residents may be swallowed up by Newsom’s own district in Marin County. The small rural community voted 78% in favor of recalling Newsom and a reformed district would eliminate their small conservative voice represented by Republican Congressman Doug LaMalfa.

“It’s like a smack in the face,” local rancher Amie Martinez told CalMatters this week. “How could you put Marin County with Modoc County? It’s just a different perspective.”

Thus disfranchising them forever. So much for democracy.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Sept. 22 that it will defy California’s new law banning federal immigration agents and other law enforcement personnel from wearing face masks while on duty.

“To be clear: We will NOT comply with Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban,” DHS said in a social media post.

DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin accused California Gov. Gavin Newsom of “fanning the flames of division, hatred, and dehumanization of our law enforcement” by signing the ban.

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Two sisters have turned to GoFundMe after being arrested for defacing a memorial for Charlie Kirk in Arkansas.

Kerri Rollo, 23, and her sister, Kaylee, 22, were arrested after they vandalized the memorial for the slain conservative leader, which was erected outside the Benton County Courthouse, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office said in a release.

The sisters are charged with criminal mischief, while Kaylee was also charged with obstruction of governmental operations.

AWFUL times are here.

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In 1965 Teddy Kennedy and the Democrats passed legislation that moved America from being of predominantly European ancestry, toward being a nation that looked more like the rest of the planet (other than Europe at that time), meaning predominantly non-white and non-Christian.

The fact of the legislation having changed American demographics and thereby culture is not in question today, but Democrats say “we were just unaware what would happen”. Ignorance is always possible (especially with Democrats), but it was certainly willful ignorance if so, Customs and Immigration Services knew what was going to happen.

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The state of California has projected an image of economic superiority for many years that is simply a facade. Much of the state’s GDP (the go-to stat used by Governor Gavin Newsom to deflect any criticism of fiscal mismanagement) is based on a large proportion of federal funding, state welfare spending and a handful of large corporations that are now leaving for greener pastures in red states.

The corporate exodus has been taking place for at least a decade, but it accelerated during the pandemic lockdowns and has not abated since. It would appear that Newsom has finally recognized that his economic position is tenuous at best. His latest “charm offensive” is designed to entice oil companies to stay in the Golden State, with legislation to increase domestic oil production in California through new drilling permits and rehabilitating a defunct offshore pipeline.

The bill will allow for 2000 new oil permits a year over the next 10 years.

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The process of gaslighting is not limited to abusive personal relationships, it can also happen between groups of people within the same society. For the past decade at least, the progressive movement and the Democrats have consistently abused the American public to the verge of rebellion, then, they pull back just enough to defuse tensions.

They did it with the BLM and Antifa riots, dealing out around $2 billion in property damage in cities across the US, injuring thousands of police officers and killing dozens of innocent bystanders.  Conservatives and moderates stood back, for the most part, until the Kyle Rittenhouse incident in August of 2020.  When leftists sought to prosecute the young man for defending himself from a mob that was trying to murder him – When they falsely labeled him a “racist” and a “terrorist”, the line was crossed.

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And rapidly turning it into North Korea With Celebrities.

Charlie Kirk tribute scrapped by Sinclair after local TV giant got threats against its ABC stations: source (Ariel Zilber/New York Post)

Sinclair Won’t Air Kimmel’s Return on ABC Affiliates

Selective Outrage and Political Spin: The Charlie Kirk Fallout

CNN: Charlie Kirk Memorial ‘Mostly Hateful’

Watch: Don Lemon Rants Against “Christian Messaging” And “Religious Nationalism” At Charlie Kirk’s Memorial

Two women arrested for vandalism of Charlie Kirk memorial in Bentonville

Sinclair will preempt Jimmy Kimmel’s show, replacing with ‘news programming’ (Max Rego/The Hill)

REGIME MEDIA: Legacy Newscasts Cheer Kimmel Return

Kimmel’s show to return Tuesday, but Sinclair will continue to keep it off its ABC stations (CNN)

Trump Shits All Over Message of Charlie Kirk’s Widow at His Memorial (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

New Leftist Talking Point: “Christian Nationalism” Is Latest Threat To Democracy

Oliver Doesn’t Understand Why Kimmel’s Remarks Were So Bad

Rasmussen Poll: 54% of Liberals Call Kirk’s Killing ‘Understandable’ (NewsMax)

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In the tense aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination earlier this month, prominent left-leaning figures have not relented in their efforts to incite violence against their political enemies.

On Monday evening, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann fired off a pair of now-deleted X posts that appeared to directly threaten CNN political commentator Scott Jennings, a vocal defender of conservative values.

The messages, captured in screenshots before they vanished, read: “You’re Next, Motherf*cker” followed by “But keep mugging to the camera.”

“Trantifa”: The collection of ‘trans-gender’ terrorists.

Thanks to Rollo Tomassi for this excellent neologism.

Newsbusters.

And rightly so. Listen to anti-white racists like Maxine Waters, and Jasmine Crockett on TV and tell me they don’t scare the pants off of you.

“Some People Have To Die”: NJ Elementary School Teacher Resigns After Celebrating Charlie Kirk Murder Online

Rep. Crockett Slams ‘Caucasian’ Dems For Honoring ‘Racist’ Kirk, Likens Him To Confederate ‘Relic’, Calls Trump ‘Hitler’… Again

ABC’s Jon Karl: ‘The Murder of Charlie Kirk Was Not a Political Act’  It was many things, but it was indeed a political act.

FAKE NEWS: MSNBC’s Al Sharpton Insists Motive to Charlie Kirk Killing Still Unknown

At Kirk Service, an Extraordinary Fusion of Government and Christianity (Elizabeth Dias/New York Times)  Just like we used to have.

BS at PBS: ‘Conservative Pundit….Matthew Dowd Was Fired’ From MSNBC

Jasmine Crockett scolds white Dems for not voting against Charlie Kirk resolution: ‘Hurt my heart’ (Ryan King/New York Post)

Good Morning Britain viewers demand hosts be ‘sacked’ after ‘shameful’ Charlie Kirk memorial remark

How Erika Kirk Memorialized Her Late Husband (David M. Drucker/Bloomberg)

Hegseth Suspends Service Members Celebrating Kirk Killing  And rightly so.

The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook (Stephanie Saul/New York Times)  Yeah–that which Democrats have followed for decades.

Jonathan Turley.

Charlotte Bronte once wrote “I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.” No quote better captured the chilling curiosity that is Hillary Clinton. This week, Clinton (without any sign of shame or self-awareness) attacked others for seeking censorship and blacklisting political opponents through government and corporate collaboration. Clinton is one of the most anti-free speech figures in the United States and actively campaigned for the censorship of opponents. Today, my column in the Hill discusses the hypocrisy of many on the left this week after the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. However, there is simply no one in the same class as Clinton in hitting hypocrisy’s rock bottom.

This week, Clinton declared: “I think this is a very clear example of using the power of the state to suppress speech. It is a direct government action to try to intimidate employers, organizations, corporations, much of which we’ve already seen, to remove an opponent, even though it’s a comic.”

For many in the free speech community, the statement led us to spit out our morning coffee.

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Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

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Capital Research Center Investigative Researcher Ryan Mauro released a devastating investigation September 17 exposing how Soros gave “over $80 million into groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence.” As Mauro concluded, “The evidence is stark: Open Society has sent millions of dollars into U.S.-based organizations that engage in ‘direct actions’ that the FBI defines as domestic terrorism.”

This pool included groups that helped train activists in “property destruction and sabotage” during the 2020 Marxist Black Lives Matter riots, and the climate change-obsessed Sunrise Movement, which Mauro wrote “endorsed the Antifa-linked Stop Cop City campaign, in which activists currently face over 40 domestic terrorism charges and 60 racketeering indictments.”

What’s even more damning is that this brand of dangerous, radicalized organizations that Soros funds isn’t just limited to American streets, but even stretches across the globe right into the heart of Islamist terrorist conflict in the Middle East.

Newsbusters.

“It’s the left, no it’s the right, no it’s both.”

Ever since the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, the media has been embroiled in a constant debate over who has a monopoly on inciteful and downright violent political rhetoric. These “debates” are usually one sided with the overwhelming majority of those involved coming from the hard left.

To me, there is no contest. Not only has most of the violence come from the left, so has the violent talk. The token conservatives who have been allowed to weigh in on this, have done a good job for the most part, in pointing out that Donald Trump was shot, and another assassination attempt on him was stopped. House GOP leader Steve Scalise was also shot. There was an assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, (more on this later) and the left has burned down cities and has been rioting on and off for years. They point out that the left calls Trump a Nazi, and every other name in the book, claiming he is an existential threat to our country. And of course it is Charlie Kirk who was killed in Utah.

But for some reason, these conservative voices are missing several examples of high-ranking Democrats who have talked about attacking Donald Trump, threatened SCOTUS Justices and urged confrontation with members of Trump’s administration.

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President Trump’s executive order earlier this year to dismantle the Department of Education comes as the president highlighted a disturbing and inconvenient truth about Baltimore City’s Democratic Party-run “failure factory” school system: 40% of public high schools have zero students proficient in math. This damning statistic follows eight years of Fox45 investigative reporter Chris Papst’s coverage of the crime-ridden city’s education crisis. Keep in mind, the metro area is mainly controlled by leftists at City Hall, with virtually no diversity when it comes to Republicans holding positions of power.

A new report by Papst released this past week may catch the White House’s attention, highlighting yet another inconvenient truth about the stunning failure of Baltimore City Public Schools in terms of academic outcomes, proving that simply throwing more taxpayer funds at the problem is not a viable solution.

The Kirk Assassination and the MAGA Threat to Free Speech (Garrett Epps/Washington Monthly)

Texas Liberal Group Doxes HS TPUSA Organizers

Congressional Black Caucus says resolution honoring Charlie Kirk ‘not about healing’ (Faith Wardwell/Politico)  Ponder the existence of an explicitly racist group in the U.S. Congress. Imagine what they would have to say about a Congressional White Caucus.

Majority Of Democrats Refuse To Support Resolution Rejecting Political Violence  My, what a surprise.

Networks Still Mourn Kimmel, ABC/NBC Ignore Reports of Backlash Over Vile Remarks

America’s Turning Point

Bozell Battles USA Today Hosts Over Kimmel’s False MAGA Accusation

“Planning War Against Fascists” – Socialist Rifle Association Boasts 10,000 Members

New Yorker: ‘Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson Came from the Same Warped Online Worlds’

ABSURD: PolitiFact Won’t Check Jimmy Kimmel’s LIE, Tags Sean Hannity as ‘False’

Marvel Stars Stand for Jimmy Kimmel: Pedro Pascal Defends Free Speech While Others Endorse Boycott (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)

Sinclair pulls Charlie Kirk documentary from ABC affiliates (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)

The Pentagon would politicize the military if it uses Charlie Kirk’s death for recruitment (Zeeshan Aleem/MSNBC)  And DEI didn’t, I suppose.

Armed man detained at site of planned memorial service for Charlie Kirk (Washington Post)

Kirk’s Funeral Tests Secret Service Yet Again

The Media Aggressively Plays Dumb on the Liberal Hate of Kirk’s Killer

‘The Normal-American Community’ and the Demonic Horde Who Love Death

The lawyers who caved — A note from Aaron: ABC’s craven decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel’s show represents … (Matthew Wollin/Public Notice)

Showing Us Their True Colours

Illinois professors face threats after landing on Charlie Kirk group watchlist (Mawa Iqbal/WBEZ)

Following Kirk’s assassination, Republicans sour on direction of the country, new AP-NORC poll finds (Associated Press) Gee, I wonder why?

‘That’s Just Jimmy Kimmel’: Colbert Doesn’t Understand Anger at Kimmel

Meyers, Stewart, Fallon Condemn Kimmel’s Suspension Without Playing His Remarks

AOC Smears Kirk’s Beliefs as ‘Uneducated, Ignorant’

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In what appears to be the Democratic Party’s revolutionary arm of the industrial protest complex (“civil terrorism”) – backed by possible ties to dark-money-funded NGOs – a show of force emerged outside the Broadview ICE processing center in the crime-ridden sanctuary city of Chicago earlier today.

Protesters, some possibly skipping work and others suspected of being professional agitators funded by shadowy NGOs, carried the usual signs – “Fascists,” “Resist Trump” – and waved a LGBTQ Mexican flag.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Gov. Greg Abbott has renewed his legal push to oust dozens of legislators who fled Texas in August to briefly derail a hyperpartisan redrawing of the state’s congressional district boundaries.

In a letter to the state Supreme Court, Abbott’s attorneys say even though Democrats abandoned their effort to block the redistricting maneuver, those who left the state — including Texas House Democratic leader Gene Wu — should still lose their jobs over it.

“Ouster is the time-tested consequence for conduct like Wu’s. Absent action by this Court, quorum breaking threatens to become our new normal,” Abbott’s lawyer Trevor Ezell wrote.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Progressive megadonor George Soros has given $10 million to boost Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting campaign as Democrats continue to raise huge sums from reliable allies.

The donation from Soros, first reported by the New York Times, is the single largest for Proposition 50 to date. Labor unions, a national Democratic PAC, and wealthy liberals have together contributed well more than $30 million as Newsom and allies rush to persuade voters to approve new House maps that could force out a half-dozen Republicans while shoring up Democratic incumbents.

Soros is a longstanding benefactor for the left and bogeyman for the right. He has poured millions into California politics in recent years, spending $1 million to help shield Newsom from a 2021 recall attempt and working to elect progressive prosecutors who embraced lighter sentencing and tougher police accountability.

His latest donation is likely to harden the fault lines in a race that has already become a highly partisan national fight. Republicans have long cast Soros as a malignant force, often using conspiratorial rhetoric to denounce his influence.

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Many people are calling out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a posting supporting American Federation of Teachers (AFT) chief Randi Weingarten’s new book in which she paints her political opponents as “fascists.”

The timing was flagged as, at best, tone deaf in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a shooter who wrote fascist references on his bullets and was clearly radicalized by such rage rhetoric.

For me, the timing was most notable in how Weingarten and Clinton are again pushing their extreme rhetoric as a new report emerged showing the utter failure of our schools to actually educate our children. Weingarten and Clinton cannot be bothered by the long-standing declines in education. They are returning to the three Rs: Republicans, Rage, and Recrimination.

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We might also say that Democrats are the Party of Crime.

Pentagon’s crackdown on Kirk comments stirs fears among troops (Politico)

Weingarten Labels GOP ‘Fascist’ Days After Kirk Slain

Calif. City Official Shares Post Cheering Kirk Death

ABC Reporter Apologizes For Calling Texts From Kirk’s Alleged Murderer ‘Very Touching’

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)  TechDirt is supposedly a tech news site but in effect it’s Just Another Voice of the Crust.

‘Cancel Culture’; CNN’s Tapper, Stelter Defend, Mourn Jimmy Kimmel After ABC Suspension

Cowardly Disney Caves To Brendan Carr’s Bogus Censorial Threats, Pulling Jimmy Kimmel (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  Of course! Trump is to blame!

The Regime Media Mourn the Suspension of Regime Comic Jimmy Kimmel

Sinclair Says Suspension Not Enough, Will Air Charlie Kirk Special During Kimmel’s Timeslot

Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown (Daniel Moritz-Rabson/Truthout)  Never let a crisis go to waste! Isn’t that what Democrats always say?

German State Media Have Systematically Slandered Charlie Kirk Since His Assassination

How the Left Is Smearing Charlie Kirk as a Racist

Newsom blasts ‘spineless’ ABC for pulling Jimmy Kimmel over Charlie Kirk remarks (Aidin Vaziri/San Francisco Chronicle)

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Replaced With Charlie Kirk Tribute on Sinclair’s ABC Stations; Company Demands Kimmel Apologize and Donate to Kirk’s Family and Turning Point USA (Selome Hailu/Variety)

Exploiting Male Rage (Paul Krugman)

Tensions erupt among House Dems over vote to honor Charlie Kirk (Andrew Solender/Axios)

FCC Chairman Threatens ABC Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Remarks About Charlie Kirk’s Killer (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

First, They Came for Jimmy Kimmel (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  Hardly the first….

Canceling Kimmel … On Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr dropped … (Oliver Darcy/Status)

An Escalation in Every Way — Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from late-night is a chilling precedent … (David Sims/The Atlantic)  Proglodytes are getting the treatment they’ve been dishing out to normal people for decades, and they don’t much like the taste of it.

CNN Tries To Spin Kimmel’s Falsehood as a Joke.

ABC Axes Kimmel Show After He Links Kirk Killer to MAGA

Why the Left Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Killing—and How to Respond to It

The Kimmel Meltdown: The Left’s Selective Outrage Exposes Their Free Speech Hypocrisy

Jimmy Kimmel Cancelled as Trump uses Charlie Kirk’s Murder for his Reichstag Fire moment. (Francesca Fiorentini/The Left Hook …)

Top House Dems demand FCC chair resign over Jimmy Kimmel suspension (Andrew Solender/Axios)

New York Times Front Page Desperately Deflects Focus From Leftist Charlie Kirk Ghouls

Democrats voice fears of violence over Charlie Kirk vote (Andrew Solender/Axios)  Gee, I wonder why?

ABC Affiliate Owner Demands Jimmy Kimmel Make Charlie Kirk Donation (Newsweek)

Fla. Ed Dept Investigating Teachers Praising Kirk Murder

Kirk’s Assassination: The Left’s Big Denial

Sorry, Barack. Kimmel Was Canceled Because of His Own Maliciousness.

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For decades, New York City prided itself on being the financial capital of the world. It’s a place where money, culture, and power converge. And yet, as has been seen in San Francisco, Chicago, and other locations around the United States, New York is experiencing a steady exodus of millionaires and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. While some observers dismiss this as anecdotal or exaggerated, the facts paint a different picture: one with serious implications for the city’s fiscal health, social fabric, and attractiveness.

It is easy to forget that New York’s gleaming infrastructure, vast public services, and social programs are underwritten disproportionately by a tiny number of residents. Fewer than one percent of taxpayers account for more than 40 percent of all income tax revenue collected in the state, and a similar share in the city. Without those individuals, the ability of millions of ordinary New Yorkers to enjoy subsidized transit, robust public safety services, and cultural investments would collapse. In other words, and despite endless egalitarian rhetoric, the lifestyle of the masses is silently carried on the shoulders of the few.

The scale of the loss is becoming visible. Between 2019 and 2020, the number of New Yorkers earning between $150,000 and $750,000 fell by nearly six percent, while the number of true high earners—those making over $750,000—dropped by nearly 10 percent, according to the city’s Independent Budget Office. This erosion matters because the city’s top one percent—about 41,000 filers—pay more than 40 percent of all income taxes. The top 10 percent pay about two-thirds. Which means the remaining 90 percent of taxpayers contribute only about one-third of the city’s income tax revenue. When even a small share of these high earners disappears, the impact is seismic.

Recent migration trends confirm the damage. More than 125,000 New Yorkers have fled to Florida in just the past few years, carrying nearly $14 billion worth of income with them, according to the Citizens Budget Commission. About a third of those movers—more than 41,000 people—went to Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward Counties between 2018 and 2022. Those escapes alone stripped New York City of an estimated $10 billion in adjusted gross income. When money and mobility align, no amount of political rhetoric can stop people from voting with their feet.

Newsbusters.

“Deplatforming works and it is important,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declared on-camera when Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News – but, Democrats are singing a different tune now that one of their own has been suspended indefinitely for comments regarding the assassination of conservative Charlie Kirk.

“Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy,” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez cheered in a social media video in 2023, in which she cited Carlson’s firing as an example of the “good things” that can happen when others are silenced:

The New York Democrat also claimed Carlson was responsible for driving “death threats” against her and others across the country. She also compared him to a Marvel movie villain, saying she feared he would eventually “reemerge.”

The New Neo.

For anyone who follows the news it’s impossible to ignore the tide of hatred unleashed against the affable, smiling, “let us all reason together,” and now-deceased Charlie Kirk and his supporters.

However, it’s not new. From those who admire the cold-blooded killer of a heretofore obscure insurance executive to those who applaud the murder of a young Jewish couple, from those who use the occasion of a Kirk memorial ceremony to mockingly enact Kirk’s death to teachers who think nothing of telling their students after Kirk’s assassination that Kirk was “a piece of garbage,” examples are unfortunately legion. They not only think it, they feel no hesitation to publicly go on record with these sorts of abominable sentiments.

Although it’s impossible to say when this started, it’s been steadily growing. But on reflection, I’ve decided there was a turning point that I don’t see anyone else mentioning. It happened in 2019, and it was the widespread hatred unapologetically expressed towards a very young and very innocent person: 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann.

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Just like Democrats to make a hero out of a murderer.

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President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to declare a national emergency in Washington DC after Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that DC police will no longer cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

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Last week, conservatives were bludgeoned, once again, by the reality that they live in a country full of people who want them dead.

Charlie Kirk — a man known for his love of country, open and respectful debate, and Christian faith — was allegedly assassinated by a left-wing maniac. Many on the left tried to justify it, and some even cheered.

While the wound is still fresh, and we are finding out who people really are in the wake of such a horrific, and horrifically public, assassination, now is the time for action — serious action.

We do not need “unified condemnations” followed by zero action. Many on the left are offering this pathway, which is something weak-willed people on the right might be inclined to accept in order to move on without rocking the boat too much.

The time for conversation is over. The left only ever wants to “turn the temperature down” when their rhetoric gets someone shot or killed. And then they turn around and build it back up again. And then people — whether they be praying at a school, contributing to public discourse, or running for president — get shot or killed.

The spreaders of this rhetoric are not fringes of the far left. These are the rank-and-file, and we know that because Democrat members of Congress jeered at the idea of a moment of silence in the moments after Kirk’s death on the House floor.

Back when Biden was elected over Trump, Scott Adams predicted that very soon Republicans would be hunted. I’m thinking he was more right than he expected.