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Democrats only follow the rules that they like.

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victims of the recent Texas Hill Country floods.

Blue Fish Pediatrics terminated Dr. Christina Propst following widespread criticism of her Facebook post about Kerr County residents who voted for President Donald Trump last year. Propst has since deleted the viral comment.

Propst wrote, “May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry.” She added that “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for.”

Loose lips sink dips.

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The “big beautiful bill” includes a provision that bars Medicaid dollars from going to institutions that perform abortions. For some reason–I have no idea why–the ban reportedly only applies for one year. Among other things, it would prevent Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood affiliates.

Planned Parenthood sued to block this legislative provision from going into effect. It is a remarkable claim: Planned Parenthood says that Congress has a constitutional obligation to continue funding it, whether Congress likes it or not. And the executive branch is prohibited from complying with the law, and is required to continue funding Planned Parenthood regardless of the statute.

These breathtaking claims were accepted by federal judge Indira Talwani of Boston, another judge-shopped left-winger. Talwani has granted Planned Parenthood’s motion for a temporary restraining order, without waiting to hear the administration’s opposition to the motion. Talwani’s order, entered yesterday, is embedded below.

Curious to know on what grounds this remarkable order was granted, I tracked down Planned Parenthood’s complaint. It, too, is embedded below.

UPDATE: What You Need to Know About the Judge Protecting Planned Parenthood’s Funding From One Big, Beautiful Bill

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A federal magistrate judge in Wisconsin refused to recommend the dismissal of criminal charges against a Milwaukee judge accused of helping an illegal alien avoid being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

About time Democrat scoff-laws paid for their crimes.

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Attention, all parents and college students worried about the ever-rising cost of college tuition. The Department of Justice has finally—after three decades—started enforcing the federal law that prohibits states from offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless they also offer in-state tuition to everyone else—including all citizen students from out of state.

Democrats just love to privilege foreigners over Americans–especially if they belong to a Fashionable Victim Group.

Unfortunately for them, Republicans have all of the guns.

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Democrat policies and new regulations hiked California’s gas prices on Tuesday, and a slew of green energy initiatives has led to refinery closures and lofty gas prices in the Golden State that may soon spiral into a full-blown crisis.

Power Line.

The flash flood in central Texas is a terrible tragedy. The fact that so many of the victims are young girls adds to the heartbreak. In Texas, they are still searching for bodies and, one hopes, survivors, but the Democrats are already trying to make political hay.

Texas Democratic Rep. Julian Castro seized on the opportunity of the disaster to score political points at the GOP president’s expense, insisting “Trump’s cuts to the National Weather service should be investigated.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) echoed his colleague’s sentiment, demanding an investigation into whether “staffing shortages” at the agency resulted in a higher death toll in a letter to Acting Inspector General Roderick Anderson.

These responses are beneath contempt. They would be beneath contempt even if there had been cuts to the National Weather Service budget, but there haven’t been. They just made it up.

As they do.

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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who represents Washington, D.C, in the House of Representatives, insists she’s running for reelection, but her staff keeps telling reporters that’s not true, Mediaite reported.

Hey, it’s as easy to be a crooked black female Democrat politician at 88 as it is at at 28.

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How can a leftist group present itself as the authority on “hate groups” in public, touting the fact that police and even the FBI have relied on its materials, and then reverse course when challenged in court, claiming that its statements are unprovable “opinion” rather than expert statements of fact?

Has the Southern Poverty Law Center no shame? To ask the question is to answer it.

As I wrote in my book, “Making Hate Pay,” the SPLC has long engaged in ritual character assassination, putting mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, claiming that the map exposes the “infrastructure upholding white supremacy.” It persisted in doing this after the “hate map” inspired a terrorist attack in 2012 and after a former employee called the “hate” accusations a “highly profitable scam.”

The SPLC uses the “hate map” as a sword, eviscerating the reputations of its political and ideological opponents. When these targeted conservatives seek redress in court, the SPLC erects an extremely disingenuous shield, claiming that the “hate group” accusation is a mere matter of opinion, not liable for defamation because it doesn’t involve any specific “facts.”

A well-crafted lawsuit has cut right to the heart of this slimy argument, however, and the SPLC is desperately twisting itself in knots to avoid facing a jury trial on the merits.

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Progressive and liberal activists and supporters are telling Democrat lawmakers “there needs to be blood” in their fight against President Donald Trump and Republicans, it was reported.

Washington Free Beacon.

Philadelphia’s public school system has become an “absolute cesspool” of anti-Semitism and anti-American hatred, according to local parents, who say Gov. Josh Shapiro (D.) has “completely ignored” their pleas for help.

Since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, Philadelphia school officials have publicly defended terrorism, called for the release of convicted cop killers, claimed Israel is an “apartheid theocracy,” and denounced the United States as a “criminal Amerikan empire.” The Philadelphia school district settled a federal discrimination case with the Department of Education last year after students allegedly taunted their Jewish classmates with Nazi salutes, swastika graffiti on doors, and threats to “kill the Jews.”

Frustrated parents told the Washington Free Beacon that they have tried to raise these issues with the governor but that his staff has done nothing in response and eventually stopped taking meetings with them.’

People make a lot of noise about Shapiro being Jewish but never seem to remember that he’s a Democrat first.

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I have a bookmark folder on X called “Democrat hate.”

When I think about it, I toss especially hateful posts into the folder as potential fodder for articles. I rarely dip into them unless some particularly prominent person utters some particularly hateful thing. Still, it is striking how many posts I find of Democrats wishing death or suffering on people for the crime of seeing things differently than they do.

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In its last two working days, the Biden administration’s Energy Department signed off on nearly $42 billion for green energy projects—a sum that exceeded the total amount its Loan Programs Office had put out in the past decade.

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Only in Minnesota. Two (2) state government agencies knowingly hired the same Kenyan-born, illegal alien, convicted felon, registered sex offender to do (get this) internal audit work. Now that’s a DEI hire.

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On June 24, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an unprecedented complaint against all 15 of the federal district court judges in Maryland, as well as the clerk of the Maryland district court, for engaging in what Attorney General Pam Bondi calls an “egregious example of unlawful judicial overreach into the Executive Branch’s ability to enforce and administer federal [immigration] law.”

If successful, it may be the first time a judgment against federal judges has been rendered in such a very historic case.

The chief culprit in this innovative lawsuit is Chief Judge George Russell, a Barack Obama appointee who became the chief judge in 2024. He and the other federal judges are accused of violating federal immigration law, the requirements imposed by the Supreme Court before a preliminary injunction can be granted, and the federal law governing the promulgation of the local rules of a federal court.

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Before she became the acting president of Columbia University, Claire Shipman argued that the school needed to get an “Arab on our board” and suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy, according to text messages obtained by the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

“We need to get somebody from the middle east [sic] or who is Arab on our board,” Shipman, then the co-chair of Columbia’s board of trustees, wrote in a message on January 17, 2024. “Quickly I think. Somehow.”

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And there you have it. Tyranny on the hoof.

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Todd Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Monday that activists against the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal aliens have been targeting the children of ICE agents.

The Organs of the Left are like the Mafia: “Nice life you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.”

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The Republican National Committee, along with the Republican Party of Arizona, has filed suit against the State of Arizona, claiming it improperly allows people who have never lived in the U.S. to participate in state elections.

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trend of district court judges siding with leftist activists to block President Donald Trump’s policies through nationwide preliminary injunctions.

The court’s decision rightly struck down the judicial insurrection’s number one strategy, but that doesn’t mean rogue judges won’t find ways to block Trump’s attempt to keep his promises to the American people.

“Traditionally, courts issued injunctions prohibiting executive officials from enforcing a challenged law or policy only against the plaintiffs in the lawsuit,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the court’s 6-3 majority. Yet nationwide or “universal” injunctions aim to block policies from impacting anyone.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

The Wall Street Journal, unfortunately now a Voice of the Crust.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for New York mayor emerged from a world of privilege with radical politics and charm to spare.

One of the most persuasive arguments against ‘wealth inequality’ is that we need to take steps to prevent rich families producing such Children of the Crust, whose goal in life seems to (a) be fools and (b) make it worse for everybody else.

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Using the term very loosely.

For most citizens, the release of Supreme Court opinions is about as exciting as watching paint dry, particularly in a case dealing with the limits of district courts in issuing universal injunctions.

Yet Friday’s Trump v. CASA case included a virtual slugfest between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The decision was one of the biggest of the term. The Court moved to free the Administration from an onslaught of orders from district judges seeking to block the President in areas ranging from the downsizing of government to immigration.

However, it was the departure of the normally staid court analysis that attracted the most attention.

The tenor of Jackson’s language shocked not just many court watchers, but her colleagues.

Victor Davis Hanson

The Democrats, under kind of a volatile and unhinged Rep. Al Green, introduced articles of impeachment in an effort to impeach President Donald Trump for a third time.

Remember, there were two successful impeachments. But of course, they failed to get a conviction in the Senate during Trump’s first term.

And this one was strange because 128 Democrats of the House caucus voted against it. And so, Reps. Al Green and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and all of these people that were affiliates for “the squad” and the radical fringe couldn’t even get a majority of Democrats.

And you know why that was? Think about it for a reason. One of them was that Sen. Chuck Schumer in the Senate and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who’s not speaker but she still has the influence on Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the speaker who voted against the resolution, said, “Wait a minute. You got to remember that if we do this, we’re going to get killed by clips every day during the midterms.”

And those clips are going to show President Barack Obama, in the single year 2016, he dropped 26,000 bombs. And it wasn’t just in Syria. It wasn’t just in Iraq. It wasn’t just in Afghanistan. He dropped them in Libya. He dropped them in Somalia. He dropped them in Yemen.

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Democrats, the party of Crime, Cartels, and Corruption.

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The Denver City Council has voted unanimously to shutter a highly successful anti-theft auto license plate tracking system. The system was not closed due to concerns about privacy or finances. It was shut down because Democratic members believed that ICE could use the data to deport illegals.

In May, the council refused to renew the $666,000 contract with Flock for camera monitors around 70 Denver intersections to screen for car theft.

That system resulted in the recovery of 170 stolen cars and 300 arrests. It is also credited with key evidence in the investigation of hit-and-run and murder cases.

However, it could also be used to assist ICE, and that is all that matters.

Newsday, a Voice of the Crust.

Carolyn McCarthy, whose personal tragedy propelled her to national prominence after her husband was killed during the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre, launching a nearly two-decade congressional career during which she became one of the nation’s leading voices for gun control, died Wednesday of natural causes at her home in Fort Myers, Florida. She was 81.

First of all, it’s not ‘gun control’, it’s ‘gun banning’. They just tiptoe up to it because of that whole inconvenient Second Amendment thingie.

Secondly, the ‘Long Island Railroad Massacre’ was perpetrated by a guy named Colin Ferguson. Here he is:

But, as we all know, black people have no agency and are merely dimwitted tools in the hands of the inanimate objects that they use to commit crimes–so a good Democrat like McCarthy has to IGNORE THE PERPETRATOR and attempt to BAN THE TOOL that he used. The elephant in the room is that, even if the tool is successfully banned, the Usual Suspect perpetrators remain. And, as we have seen in Britain (which has ‘gun control’ laws of which McCarthy could only dream), such perpetration-inclined minorities will use knives if that’s all they have. (Be sure to call it ‘knife crime’, of course, to continue to deflect attention from The Perpetrators to The Tools.)

Imagine how low the crime rates would be if young black males were prohibited from possessing firearms.

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Follow the money!

A leading Democratic senator has offered a frank and rare explanation for why many in his party are disconnected from everyday Democratic voters when it comes to foreign policy, which for a brief spell during the Bush years was dubbed ‘anti-war’—a platform which pretty much disappeared during the Obama years and later Biden admin.

Senator Chris Murphy was on MSNBC this week to talk about President Trump’s strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, which was not so much as debated much less formally approved by Congress. Murphy pointed out to Chris Hayes that an overwhelming 87% of Democrats expressed disapproval, according to a recent poll, and that 56% of Americans overall opposed the military action.

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President Donald Trump is helping congressional Republicans investigate his White House predecessor, Joe Biden, and the Biden administration’s extensive use of the autopen.

Nine senior Biden aides have been called to testify before the House Oversight Committee, and the Trump White House decided Tuesday to waive executive privilege for the staffers, allowing committee members to grill them on the autopen use without any legal obstacles.

“Evidence that aides to former President Biden concealed information regarding his fitness to exercise the powers of the President—and may have unconstitutionally exercised those powers themselves to aid in their concealment—implicates both Congress’ constitutional and legislative powers,” wrote Deputy White House Counsel Gary Lawkowski in a letter to former Biden adviser and staff secretary Neera Tanden and her attorneys.

Newsbusters.

Leave it to the abortion army to enforce their pro-death ideology by threatening to murder anyone who disagrees with them.

Florida Congresswoman Kat Cammack recently opened up to the Wall Street Journal about her life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, which resulted in the tragic loss of her unborn baby last May. And the left responded just as you’d expect them to.

“Since then, we’ve received thousands of hate-filled messages and dozens of credible threats from pro-abortion activists, which law enforcement is actively investigating,” announced Cammack, who is pregnant again.

Newsbusters.

The “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC were ebullient Wednesday morning in celebrating far-left, “young, charismatic, socialist” New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani emerging as the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor as a “seismic…possible harbinger” for America’s future because of his “populist” views “meeting people where they are” with “solutions.”

And, remarkably, prior to their flagship morning news shows on Wednesday, there was only one news brief in the week prior to Election Day.

UPDATE: What Zohran Mamdani’s Defeat of Andrew Cuomo Means for the Democrats (Benjamin Wallace-Wells/New Yorker)

UPDATE: What the New York Mayoral Primary Means for Democrats (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)

UPDATE: What Democrats can (and can’t) learn from Zohran Mamdani’s triumph (Eric Levitz/Vox)

UPDATE: Mamdani Supporters Celebrate Win with Cries of ‘Globalize the Intifada’

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As early as July of last year, during the heat of a presidential race, a group of Democrat state attorneys general coordinated on challenging the White House on environmental policy.

Fast forward to 10 days after Republican Donald Trump was elected to another term as president, and Democrat attorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia agreed that they “have a common interest in developing potential litigation to challenge executive action related to ending or curtailing birthright citizenship.”

In the following days and weeks after the election and before Trump was inaugurated, attorneys general—such as Letitia James of New York, Rob Bonta of California, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Brian Schwalb of the District of Columbia, and others—planned other hypothetical lawsuits regarding immigration, environmental regulations, health care, and gun control.

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New York City Democrats chose 33-year-old Muslim Socialist Zohran Mamdani as their mayoral candidate in the Tuesday, June 24th primary, stunning his opponent, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo.

In what appears to be the left-leaning city’s rebuke of the Democratic party’s veteran moderates, Mamdani led with 43% of the vote with 95% of ballots counted. Mamdani declared victory this morning (tonight in New York).

Mamdani is backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. He speaks out for Palestinians and has accused Israel of “genocide.”

The democratic socialist described his vision for New York City’s future as a place “where the mayor will use their power to reject Donald Trump’s fascism, to stop mass ICE agents from deporting our neighbours, and to govern our city as a model for the Democratic Party.”

Time to leave, comrades.

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A top far-left city official in southeast Los Angeles County is now under federal investigation after allegedly posting a video on social media calling on Mexican gangs to mobilize against ICE agents. If this isn’t textbook insurrectionist behavior, it’s hard to imagine what is.

Fox News reporter Bill Melugin broke the story on X late Tuesday afternoon. He stated that Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez is under investigation for urging 18th Street and Florencia 13 gang members to defend their territory against ICE, reportedly telling gang leaders to “get your f***ing members in order.”

Meanwhile, the city of Cudahy has posted links on social media, including X, for illegal aliens to call the “CHIRLA Rapid Response Hotline” amid ongoing local ICE raids. 

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Former President Barack Obama had some harsh criticism for Big Tech platforms that allow free speech, while delivering remarks at the June 17 Connecticut Forum. Obama lamented that America had lost its “monoculture” and no longer unanimously listened to legacy media sources such as CBS anchor Walter Cronkite or TIME Magazine. Obama lamented that Americans are divided on the facts and not the issues. This is rich, particularly coming from a man whose political party claims that men can switch genders and have babies. After placing the blame on his political opponents and Big Tech greed, Obama proposed that the media and the government had a role to play.

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I would have phrased that “do anything right”, but that’s me.

California, it turns out, is a ridiculous place, run by ridiculous people, with ridiculous regulations. Or, as the folks at Rand put it, “The average market-rate apartment in California is roughly two and a half times the cost of a similar apartment constructed in Texas on a square-foot basis—and regional differences within California, where costs in the San Francisco Bay Area are roughly 50 percent higher than costs in San Diego.” Additionally, “[t]he time to bring a project to completion in California is more than 22 months longer than the average time required in Texas.” According to Rand, the culprit for these grotesque disparities is, to no one’s surprise, the differences in regulatory burdens between Texas and California and between various jurisdictions within the (allegedly) Golden State.

They call it the Golden State because they keep pissing in their own soup.

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Governor Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) announced Tuesday that the state of New York will provide $50 million in taxpayer dollars to pay legal fees for illegal immigrants to help them fight back against the Trump administration’s popular deportation efforts.

Democrats seem to think that the job of government is to protect criminals against law enforcement rather than protect citizens against criminals.

Time to leave.

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He must be a MAGA star–like Steve Bannon.

New York Post.

I wonder whether she and Hillary were comparing notes.

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A coalition of New York City Democrats has begun maneuvering to ensure the state’s nearly 2 million illegal aliens will be counted in the 2030 census, The New York Times reported this week.

In January, Republicans at the state and national level initiated efforts to stop the counting of illegal migrants when determining a state’s population. If successful, Democrats stand to lose several congressional seats, particularly in states such as California and New York, each of which is home to millions of illegal aliens.

Now, several of New York’s elected officials are coming together to figure out how to stop the GOP’s plans. Councilwoman Julie Menin, a Democrat from Manhattan’s East Side, hosted a discussion in April at New York Law School on how to count city residents accurately.

Power Line.

I was just talking about how media in Minnesota coddle local Democrats, to their detriment once they reach the national stage. Just twenty-one minutes later, the Minneapolis Star Tribune comes out with another article to prove my point.

It took four (count ’em, 4) Star Tribune reporters to create the story headlined,

Walz pivots from saying Democrats need to be ‘meaner’ to calling for civility after shooting.

Don’t worry, Tim! All is forgiven! An actual sentence from the article,

Walz never matched President Donald Trump’s willingness to mock and insult his political adversaries.

That Walz is not as skillful at it is obvious, but not for lack of willingness or effort. The article quotes Walz calling his opponents “dipshit,” “Gestapo,” “dictators,” “despots” and asking his supporters to “bully the shit” out of his Republican opponents. Curiously, the Star Tribuneomits Walz’ use of the term “Nazi.” Perhaps they just ran out of room.

The Star Tribune attributes the new (however temporary) civility to Walz and to him alone. And when Walz reverts to form, he’ll be described as “feisty” or “combative” or the like.

We have always been at war with Eurasia.

Tim Graham.

The “No Kings” rally against President Trump on June 14 featured several angry speeches from Democrats. Mediaite had this story: “Eric Swalwell ‘Trump Is America’s Hitler’ Remark at Rally Sparks Viral Outrage.” That gaseous D.C. speech was easily ignored by PolitiFact and those “independent fact-checkers.”

Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) says this repeatedly, and Mediaite added it’s a regular line from Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.). A while back, Fox News host Neil Cavuto offered some mild pushback: “So you don’t think that’s a little hyperbolic?” If we compared Clyburn to a mass-murdering dictator, would that be “a little hyperbolic”?

Two months ago at a similar “Hands Off” rally, Swalwell offered the same schtick to excite the leftist crowd: “This is what kicking the s—t out of fascism looks like!”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz can rant at a law-school commencement ceremony that ICE is “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo,” and no one pounces on the Nazi smears.

You can put “Hitler” in the search engine at PolitiFact and you won’t find them ever doing a fact check that says “Trump is not a carbon copy of Hitler” or “our immigration law enforcement personnel are not the Gestapo.”

However, on June 18, PolitiFact’s Madison Czopek was throwing flags on Walz’s behalf after the horrific assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband in their home. The Patriot Oasis X account was ruled “False” that “Governor Tim Walz has DELETED every post he made praising Minnesota (assassin) Vance Boelter.”

The Foundry.

We’re in very troubled and chaotic times. We’ve got a theater-wide war in the Middle East with the Iranian theocracy on the ropes. We’ve had mass “No Kings” demonstrations in the United States. And we’ve had kind of a hysterical reaction to President Donald Trump’s deportation warrants.

But here’s my point. We’re not hearing alternative proposals from the opposition party. What I mean is, if you do not want the 12 million who entered the United States illegally under President Joe Biden, you might want to issue alternative proposals.

Maybe you could say to Donald Trump: “Well, wait a minute. If people have been here five years and they have no criminal record or they’re gainfully employed, they’re not on any public assistance, can we issue them a green card? Pay a fine?”

I’m not hearing any of that. Nothing. All we’re hearing from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is that everything was peaceful and then Donald Trump nationalized the California National Guard, and the result is chaos.

But that’s not what we see. We see people spitting on police officers. We see people throwing concrete at them. We see people looting stores. We see stores boarded up. We see buildings defaced. We see people taking over the street. We see people stopping the 101 Freeway and major traffic. We see people waving the Mexican flag, of the country they don’t want to go back to, and spitting and burning the flag of the country they insist on staying in.

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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attacks on Republican states for their murder rates ignore a wealth of data on how violent crime plagues left-leaning parts of the country.

Newsom boasted in X posts throughout June that Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri had higher murder rates than California after Republican lawmakers from those states criticized him over the anti-deportation riots that rocked Los Angeles. However, statistics show California ranks above most states in overall violent crime, one of several statistics that do not fit Newsom’s narrative of conservatives failing to crack down on criminals.

The governor’s argument “lacks context and paints an inaccurate picture of crime in California,” Steve Smith, a crime expert for the Pacific Research Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Most states have lower overall felony crime rates than California,” Smith said. A study by Paper Prisons Initiative in 2020 put California’s felony rate among the top 15 in the country.

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Democrats just prefer crooks. They vote for crooks, they elect crooks, and they support crooks when they are shown to be crooks. The Clintons are the poster children for this predilection. The Biden Crime Family just surfed that wave to fame and fortune. Bob Menendez and Rod Blagojevich just had the bad luck to get caught.

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On Tuesday, Lander — who, as New York City comptroller, is the highest-ranking Jewish official in the city’s government — was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court in Lower Manhattan after he linked arms with a person that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were attempting to detain.

Numerous journalists were present at the court at 26 Federal Plaza and witnessed the arrest, including AM New York reporter Dean Moses, who posted a video to X in which Lander, 55, can be heard saying, repeatedly, “Do you have a judicial warrant?”

Performace art for political advantage. I hope they throw the book at him.

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“All Americans should be shocked, appalled, and terrified that the Biden Justice Department was taking advice from a hate-filled, morally bankrupt organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Ian Prior, senior counselor at America First Legal, told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “The SPLC’s agenda is anti-American to its core, and we must ensure that the SPLC never regains the power that it was so wrongly granted by the woke bureaucrats who ran this country until this past January.”

On Oct. 27, 2023, Robert Moossy Jr., deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, sent an email to Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, head of the Civil Rights Division.

His email referenced a “Hate Crimes Symposium” at the National Advocacy Center at the National District Attorneys Association in Columbia, South Carolina on Nov. 7-9, 2023. The Civil Rights Division’s Criminal Section “will hold a hate crimes symposium focusing on the investigation and prosecution of federal hate crimes.”

The New York Times, the Paper of Record of the Narrative.

Randi Weingarten, head of one of the nation’s most influential teachers unions, and Lee Saunders, the president of a large union of public workers, each pointed to Ken Martin’s leadership.

Trouble in paradise.

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As the Trump administration faces substantial pushback in the courts, including an unprecedented wave of nationwide injunctions halting its policies, some are claiming that his opponents are tilting the scales of justice by selectively bringing their lawsuits before sympathetic courts in a practice called “forum shopping.” They note that three-quarters of the lower court justices who have blocked Trump policies were appointed by Democrats.

Gaming the federal justice system, however, is harder than it sounds because plaintiffs bring cases before courts rather than judges. Most federal courts have a mix of judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. The plaintiff’s goal in forum shopping is to launch their suit in a district where they are more likely to draw a sympathetic justice – ideally, this district would also include an appellate court stacked with like-minded judges.