Power Line.

Last month This past California Federal District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a temporary restraining order more or less preventing ICE from operating in California’s Central District — the covering the seven counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. The counties’ population of nearly 20 million people is the largest of any federal judicial district in the country. I wrote about Judge Frimpong’s crimping of ICE in posts that are accessible here.

“Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong” sure says “American” to me…

Heather Mac Donald takes up the case and the mysteries of Judge Frimpong herself in the City Journal column “Using a Double Standard on Race to Handicap ICE.” Subhead: “A federal judge ruled that agents impermissibly used race in questioning suspected illegal aliens—but she’s hardly color-blind in her own courtroom.” As one would expect from Ms. Mac Donald, it is an excellent column.

Mac Donald links to what she calls the government’s “emergency appeal” to the Supreme Court. The linked document is actually styled an application for a stay. The procedural background is addressed at pages 8-14. The government discusses the Ninth Circuit’s disposition of its request for relief, but it’s not clear to me that the Ninth Circuit even had appellate jurisdiction over Judge Frimpong’s temporary restraining order.

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All run by Democrats. All except Detroit are ‘black-led’; Detroit (out of desperation, perhaps) more recently elected a white mayor after the city had been run into the ground by black politicians for the last fifty years.

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America’s Democratic Mayors Association (DMA) says President Donald Trump is not justified in ordering federal management of the Washington, D.C., police department.

Of course they do. But they won’t perform the basic function of government of ensuring that people can live in peace. They talk a good fight but take no action.

UPDATE Protesters Gather Near White House as Trump Unveils D.C. Plans (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times) “What do we want?” “Crime!” “When do we want it?” “Now!”

UPDATE: DC Mayor Warns Trump’s Crime Fighting Measures Will Unfairly Impact Criminals (Babylon Bee)

UPDATE: Trump Vows To Drastically Reduce The Number Of Criminals In Washington By Sending Congress Home (Babylon Bee)

Bloomberg, a Voice of the Crust.

Good luck with that.

UPDATE: Newsom Offers Trump Deal on Redistricting Fight  In order to offer a deal, you have to have something to offer. Is Newsom going to make Democrats quit gerrymandering California to exclude Republicans from the California state government. Sure, he may SAY he will, but he won’t, really, nor will any Democrat. They don’t give up power any more than Lucy will allow Charlie Brown to kick the football.

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A Texas judge has temporarily blocked Beto O’Rourke’s shady fundraising campaign to bankroll “runaway Democrats”—the group of state legislators who fled Texas to stall redistricting efforts.

On Friday, Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey issued a temporary injunction against O’Rourke and his group, Powered by People, barring them from raising funds or covering expenses for the Democrats while a lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton moves forward.

The order came just hours after Paxton sued O’Rourke and Powered by People, accusing them of misleading donors by falsely advertising the campaign as a political effort rather than a slush fund for personal expenses.

In her ruling, Fahey said the court found “imminent harm” that could cause the state to be irreparably injured, meeting the threshold for such an order.

Oh, I don’t know–seems like fewer Democrat politicians is a feature, not a bug.

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Pearl Davis interviews an attorney who lays out how racial politics can put people in prison who don’t belong there.

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Back in 2020 and under President Joe Biden, the institutional Left would tell anyone foolish enough to listen that we needed to add seats to the Supreme Court. In October 2024, however, much of the court-packing rhetoric vanished, almost on cue.

Now, it’s back, as Democrats strain to find any reason to claim they’re getting slighted while President Donald Trump seeks to restore fairness by correcting the errors of the 2020 census.

James Carville, the Democrat political strategist best known for helping Bill Clinton get elected, decided to remind Americans why they can’t trust the Left. He brought up court-packing and more.

“If the Democrats win the presidency, the Senate, and the House in 2028 … they are just going to have to unilaterally add Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as states,” Carville said on the show “Politics War Room” Thursday. “The Constitution gives Congress power over federal elections, I don’t think they can redistrict, but there are things they can do. … And they may have to expand the court to 13 members.”

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A federal appeals court Friday shut down Judge James Boasberg’s attempt to pursue criminal contempt charges against figures in the Trump administration.

In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that Boasberg’s orders were overly “ambiguous” and left too much room for interpretation. The panel also found that Boasberg’s attempt to hold administration officials in contempt for failing to follow an order that was later overturned by the Supreme Court was unprecedented.

“The district court’s order exceeds the contempt power and intrudes on the powers of the Executive Branch,” Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee, wrote in the ruling obtained by The Washington Times.

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A federal judge on Thursday ruled President Donald Trump’s administration can’t bar citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily, the fourth such court decision blocking Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide since the June U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

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News broke Wednesday that a U.S.-based executive at a luxury electric carmaker gave tens of thousands of dollars to the campaign of Democrat Virginia gubernatorial candidate and former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger. While that wouldn’t normally make news, the executive has been listed as a member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Alana Goodman of The Washington Free Beacon first reported that Pin Ni, the president of Wanxiang America, donated $50,000 over two contributions to the Spanberger campaign. The donations occurred in April and May, according to campaign finance disclosures.

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As you’ve probably heard, Texas Republicans have proposed redistricting their state to favor the Republican Party in their state legislature. Texas Democrats realize that they’ll lose this vote, so they’ve decided to do a series of town halls and other presentations around the state, explaining why gerrymandering is bad, and why the voters should put an end to this practice.

Ha! Just kidding, of course. Texas Democrats realize that they’ll lose this vote, so they left the state to prevent the Republicans from having a quorum, so they can’t pass anything. Ironically, they went to Illinois, which is one of the most heavily gerrymandered states in the country.

Rich Lowry has a great article up in which he points out that Illinois Republicans won nearly 44% of the vote, but only about 17% of the state House seats. California Republicans won nearly 40% of the vote, but only about 17% of the House seats.

Democrats don’t want to stop gerrymandering. They want to control gerrymandering because they understand how powerful it is. There are no Democrat states. There are only Democrat cities.

If Democrats don’t gerrymander, then Congress would more closely represent the views of the American people. This would obviously be disastrous for Democrats. So they don’t want to stop it. That would remove any influence they have in Congress. So all they can do is try to prevent the Republicans from doing the same thing.

I was talking to a Democrat patient yesterday – he was furious about Republican efforts to gerrymander Texas.  I agreed with him, saying that we should ban gerrymandering completely.  He looked at me for a second, then said, “You’re a Republican.  Of course you would say that.”

Imagine being a Democrat voter and supporting gerrymandering so that the American government will NOT represent the will of the people.

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past 10 years or so trying to understand the thinking of leftists.  I figured that once I understood their thought process, I would become more sympathetic to them.

I was wrong.

Power Line.

When Donald Trump ran for president on an “America first” platform, it provoked howls of outrage from the Left. That struck me as bizarre: isn’t putting America first the president’s job description?

In the years that have gone by since 2016, it has become increasingly clear that one of our major parties, the Democrats, do not put America first. In fact, they will put pretty much anyone other than Americans first. Most notably, of course, illegal aliens.

Applying the principle that actions speak louder than words, we can see that most Democrats put America last. Usually, they don’t say it out loud, but occasionally, a Democrat will say the unsayable, perhaps in a foreign language. Thus, we have Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Democrat from Illinois, telling a crowd in Mexico City–in Spanish–“I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.”

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Thank you, Barack Obama.

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Racism, straight up.

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Sauce for the Donald is sauce for the weasel.

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The Russiagate scandal has long been one of the most convoluted, hard-to-follow news stories of all time. It even has multiple names thanks to its peculiar chronology. From 2016 until April 2019 — while Democrats still held out hope of “presidency-wrecking” revelations that would topple Donald Trump — it was generally known as the Trump-Russia scandal. After Special Counsel Robert Mueller broke the hearts of MSNBC audiences by issuing a report without new indictments, attention began to be cast on the scandal’s fraudulent construction, how it was propped up by political spying, illegal leaks, and WMD-style intelligence fakery. Trump and others began to call it Spygate or the Russia hoax, but the name that stuck was Russiagate.

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Democrats: Hating America First.

Power Line.

It is commonly believed that the Russia collusion hoax was the worst scandal in American history, and certainly it has a strong claim. But if smearing Donald Trump with Hillary-concocted lies was a major scandal, how about trying to put him in prison?

Alex Marlow, editor in chief of Breitbart News, has written a book titled Breaking the Law: Exposing the Weaponization of America’s Legal System Against Donald Trump. It hits bookstores tomorrow. Marlow’s theme is that the multiple criminal and civil cases that were brought against Trump before the 2024 election were coordinated from the Joe Biden White House. The whole thing was a Democratic Party put-up job.

Of course it was. Obvious to the most casual observer.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, has vowed to protect the cadre of Texas Democrats who fled to his state to prevent the Legislature from redrawing the Lone Star State’s congressional map.

At least 57 Democrats have left Texas for Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts to thwart legislation in the Texas House on the redistricting that could net Republicans five more congressional seats in next year’s midterms.

“They’re here in Illinois. We’re going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them and make sure that — ’cause we know they’re doing the right thing, we know that they’re following the law,” Pritzker told reporters at a press conference Sunday.

Funny how one never sees Republicans do this sort of adolescent shit. “Mooommmeee! Johnny hit me BACK!” Democrats really need to grow up.

Newsbusters.

Democrats may have just realized that having “orange man bad” as their sole political message for the past 10 years was a really bad idea. In a surprisingly blunt segment on CNN News Central, the show’s hosts acknowledged what many Americans have long suspected: the Democratic Party was “a complete and utter mess” as they looked toward the 2028 presidential election. With no frontrunner, deep internal disarray, and record-low favorability ratings; you knew things were bad when even CNN sounded the alarm.

The analysis was sparked by former Vice President Kamala Harris’s return to the national stage to promote her book on her campaign for president in 2024. While co-anchor Kate Bolduan made sure to note that Harris had not ruled out a future presidential run, CNN’s senior data reporter Harry Enten wasted no time in downplaying her chances. “The chance that Kamala Harris is going to be the 2028 Democratic nominee. They don’t look too good right now, to be perfectly honest with you,” he asserted.

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The digital deluge is a familiar annoyance for anyone on a Democratic fundraising list. It’s a relentless cacophony of bizarre texts and emails, each one more urgent than the last, promising that your immediate $15 donation is the only thing standing between democracy and the abyss.

The main rationale offered for this fundraising frenzy is that it’s a necessary evil—that the tactics, while unpleasant, are brutally effective at raising the money needed to win. But an analysis of the official FEC filings tells a very different story. The fundraising model is not a brutally effective tool for the party; it is a financial vortex that consumes the vast majority of every dollar it raises.

We all have that one obscure skill we’ve inadvertently maxed out. Mine happens to be navigating the labyrinth of campaign finance data. So, after documenting the spam tactics in a previous article, I told myself I’d just take a quick look to see who was behind them and where the money was going.

That “quick look” immediately pulled me in. The illusion of a sprawling grassroots movement, with its dozens of different PAC names, quickly gave way to a much simpler and more alarming reality. It only required pulling on a single thread—tracing who a few of the most aggressive PACs were paying—to watch their entire manufactured world unravel. What emerged was not a diverse network of activists, but a concentrated ecosystem built to serve the firm at its center: Mothership Strategies.

Babylon Bee.

Socialists of a feather clump together .

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Before Barack Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan and 50 other intelligence analysts deceived Americans in the run-up to the 2020 election by warning that Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the earmarks of a classic Russian information operation” – and before Obama, Brennan, Obama’s FBI Director James Comey, and National Intelligence Director James Clapper falsified an Intelligence Community Assessment in December 2016 to destabilize Donald Trump’s first term – there was Hillary Clinton.

The media’s focus these days is on President Trump’s possible cameo in the so-called “Epstein files” and Obama’s role in advancing the Russia collusion hoax. These stories crossed when DNI Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe released compelling evidence that six weeks before his term concluded, Obama pressed the intelligence community to ignore its previous assessments and instead rely on the sham Steele dossier and an ambiguous and unverifiable sentence fragment to smear Trump and undermine his presidency before it began.

But let’s not forget the Clinton campaign’s role in this kabuki dance.

Clinton, not Obama, was Trump’s opponent in the 2016 election. As we learned last week from the declassification of reports issued by Gabbard and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the weight of the heretofore concealed evidence is that if Putin had a preference, it was most likely Clinton – not the wildcard first-time officeholder who surprised the world by winning.

I’d still like to see that toad behind bars.

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What happens when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rescues 14 children from labor exploitation and exposure to sex offenders in marijuana fields? Surely, this would be a moment for mental clarity and political cohesion, where federal law enforcement officials are recognized for their good work.

That was not what happened. Instead, Democrat leaders rushed to their soapboxes to condemn the agents. They decried the raid as “militarized,” “traumatizing” and “disproportionate” and framed ICE’s enforcement effort as the problem.

What ICE found when it raided two marijuana farms in Ventura County, California, on July 10 was not a peaceful agricultural operation; it was a crime scene where they were met with hostility and violence.

Fourteen children were found working in the fields (the youngest was 14), along with more than 360 illegal alien workers, including multiple felons convicted of crimes involving kidnapping, rape and child molestation.

Protesters at the scene responded by throwing rocks and asphalt at ICE vehicles. A masked demonstrator even fired a gun at agents before fleeing.

Yet Democrats focused not on the horrible working conditions and threats to children but rather on condemning the ICE raid.

Democrats have never forgiven Republicans for freeing their slaves.

The Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort attempt to block redrawn U.S. House maps that President Donald Trump wants before the 2026 midterm elections.

The revolt by the state House Democrats, many of whom went to Illinois or New York on Sunday, and Abbott giving them less than 24 hours to come home ratcheted up a widening fight over congressional maps that began in Texas but has drawn in Democratic governors who have floated the possibility of rushing to redraw their own state’s maps in retaliation. Their options, however, are limited.

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Four years later, Abbott is taking a far more aggressive stance and swiftly warning Democrats that he will seek to remove them from office if they are not back when the House reconvenes Monday afternoon. He cited a non-binding 2021 legal opinion issued by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, which suggested a court could determine that a legislator had forfeited their office.

He also suggested the lawmakers may have committed felonies by raising money to help pay for fines they’d face.

“This truancy ends now,” Abbott said.

It is not clear to me what legal basis there would be to remove them from office aside from impeachment. The U.S. House of Representatives can expel a member, but Adam Clayton Powell demonstrated that if constituents support a member in being an asshole, there isn’t much that a legislative body can do about it in the short term. I’m not sufficiently knowledgeable about Texas politics to say what options there might be, nor am I sufficiently interested to put any time in researching it; things will happen as they happen.

UPDATE: Texas Begins Construction On Northern Border Wall To Keep Democrat Lawmakers From Returning (Babylon Bee)

Bloomberg, a Voice of the Crust.

Like he cowards they are.

The Other McCain.

Of course I’m kidding. We’ve all known from the get-go who was really behind the “Russian collusion” hoax, but I just had to use that line from The Godfather now, because the release of the so-called Durham annex (previously classified evidence obtained by John Durham during his Special Counsel investigation) has finally proven what we’ve suspected. We have reached that “a-ha!” moment, like Don Corleone watching Barzini play puppet-master to Tattaglia in the meeting of the Five Families, where everything is now crystal clear.

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Jack Smith, who oversaw two criminal investigations of President Donald Trump, is under investigation by the Office of Special Counsel, the New York Post reported.

What goes around comes around.

UPDATE: Ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith under investigation by Office of Special Counsel after claims of playing politics: ‘No one is above the law’ (Lydia Moynihan/New York Post) Although Democrats often act as if they were.

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This week, Washington was rocked by new releases in the declassification of material related to the origins of the Russian investigation. The material shows further evidence of a secret plan by the Clinton campaign to use the FBI and media to spread a false claim that Donald Trump was a Russian asset. With this material, the public is finally seeing how officials and reporters set into motion what may be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated in American politics. There never was a Russian collusion conspiracy. This is the emerging story of the real Russian conspiracy to manufacture a false narrative that succeeded in devouring much of the first term of the Trump Administration.

What is emerging in these documents is a political illusion carefully constructed by government officials and a willing media.

The brilliance of the trick was getting reporters to buy into the illusion; to own it like members of an audience called to the stage by an illusionist.

The effort closely followed the three steps of the classic magic trick: The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige.

“Trick”? Say rather FRAUD.

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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sued Mesa County Sheriff’s Deputy Alexander Zwinck last week after Zwinck reportedly sent federal agents information about a student present in the U.S. illegally, The Associated Press first reported.

Zwinck and another deputy, Erik Olson, have also been placed on unpaid leave; Zwinck for three weeks and Olson for two weeks.

On June 5, Zwinck is reported to have pulled Caroline Dias-Goncalves over for a traffic stop. The officer gave Dias-Goncalves, a college student from Brazil with an expired visa, a warning but shortly after, federal immigration officers stopped Dias-Goncalves and arrested her.

A Mesa County Sheriff’s Office internal investigation found that Zwinck and Olson were a part of a Signal group chat that included Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Both deputies are reported to have used the Signal chat to relay information to federal officers.

Babylon Bee.

No surprises here.

The Foundry.

While Hunter Biden’s viral three-hour long interview on YouTube last week came across as an “entitled rant” to even MSNBC, the son of former President Joe Biden added a valuable piece in the puzzle about his father’s mental decline while in office.

According to Hunter Biden, Joe Biden was given Ambien, a sedative used to treat insomnia, before the 2024 presidential debate with Donald Trump that ultimately led to his bowing out of the race.

“He’s tired,” Hunter Biden said. “They give him Ambien to be able to sleep, and he gets up on the stage and looks like a deer in the headlights.”

But questions surrounding Joe Biden’s mental acuity go well beyond his son’s musings. Now, Congress is investigating the Biden White House’s use of the autopen in signing official documents, which some argue renders certain autopen-signed documents void.

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More than two dozen protesters were captured on video last week delivering a faux coffin and flowers to the Wisconsin home of House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis.

The unwanted visitors, dressed in black and carrying cowbells, walked up the congressman’s private driveway in what appeared to be a mock funeral procession, before dropping a cardboard coffin prop with an epitaph at his front door.

Former Walworth County Democrat Party Chairwoman Ellen Holly was identified in the video footage posted to social media allegedly walking up to Steil’s front door, along with several other constituents from previous protests.

That is a death threat, straight up. But of course the Usual Suspects are immune from law enforcement in Blue States.

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Democratic leaders across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast have really done it this time. Their reckless decarbonization agenda is backfiring spectacularly, driving power prices to some of the highest in the nation and financially crushing the very working-class families they claim to champion.

In Maryland, Democrats and Gov. Wes Moore have been scrambling to deflect growing dissent (even unleashing dark money NGOs to flood radio waves with propaganda) in the state as power bill costs erupt.

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We don’t mind that–it’s just that they always keep coming back….

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Jasmine Crockett, the trash-talking Democratic congresswoman from Texas, has become a genuine celebrity among the handful of troubled souls who still watch MSNBC and think Stephen Colbert is actually funny. They love her because she’s loud and obnoxious, but rather than disrupting their peaceful Sunday brunch with the girls, Crockett is disrupting a Democratic establishment that is too polite and insufficiently committed to the anti-Trump resistance. She talks like a deranged MSNBC fan—minus the affected “sassy black woman” accent—venting their outrage in a “Liberal Lushes” group chat.

Crockett, 44, has no real accomplishments to speak of, apart from some meaningless awards (and a diploma from an esteemed private high school in St. Louis). She was named “advocate of the year” at the 2025 Webby Awards for using her online platform to amplify her “commitment to social justice.” (She went viral after calling her Republican colleague, Nancy Mace, a “child” during a civil rights hearing.) Crockett is also the star of numerous YouTube videos with “CLAPS BACK” in the title, so there’s that. Whether she’s denouncing Hispanic Trump voters for having a “slave mentality,” or deriding the “white tears” of her critics, Crockett knows how to get attention.

It was only a matter of time before the mainstream media offered to help Crockett burnish her reputation by writing a glowing profile of the potty-mouthed Democrat who fights. On Sunday, the Atlantic published an article that might have accomplished this goal. Alas, even the liberal journalist was repulsed by Crockett’s toxic narcissism. As a sign of how poorly it went, the congresswoman called the Atlantic reporter, Elaine Godfrey, days before the story came out to complain that the journalist had been contacting her colleagues in the House “without telling her first,” and proclaimed that she was “shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions,” which isn’t a thing.

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The rise of socialist New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has highlighted a fundamental truth that I learned as a former Democratic elected official: the Democratic Party never learns.

Sure, Democrats occasionally pay lip service to law and order and economic opportunity. But before I announced two years ago that I was officially renouncing my Democratic ties and becoming the only Republican mayor to lead a top 10 American city, I saw over and over again that when given the choice between effective, common-sense growth-focused governance or the fever dreams of radicals – high taxes, burdensome regulations, and hostility toward law enforcement – the Democratic Party will consistently run to the left and jump off the deep end.

In the end, Democrats are content to make cities unaffordable, unlivable, and untenable for businesses – driving out the very people who make cities vibrant. America’s cities deserve better leadership that is grounded in public safety, fiscal responsibility, and a respect for their taxpayers.

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New York, California, and a host of other Democrat-run states are suing the Trump administration over its efforts to weed noncitizens off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program.

A coalition of 20 attorneys general, led by New York AG Letitia James and California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the lawsuit Monday, arguing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s demand that states turn over personal information about SNAP recipients dating back five years, violates privacy laws.

“We need thta money to pay our underclass peons! These mobs don’t assemble for free, you know!”

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Wild judicial activism has become the norm in the age of Trump, but the latest decision from a federal court on Monday to block Congress’ defunding of Planned Parenthood is the most egregious example yet.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani appears to be on a crusade to ensure that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortion, receives funding from taxpayers today, tomorrow, and forever, no matter how the people’s representatives vote.

The Massachusetts judge ruled that Planned Parenthood clinics around the country must continue to be reimbursed by Medicaid even though Congress just voted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to pull the funding.

What was her justification for blocking an act of Congress?

“Patients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,” Talwani wrote in her Monday order, according to The Associated Press. “In particular, restricting Members’ ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives, and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated STIs.”

I’m not a lawyer, but that doesn’t sound like a legal argument. It’s a policy argument, like the ones debated and voted on in Congress. You know, that governing body intended to make laws for the United States under the Constitution.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

The Justice Department filed a formal complaint on Monday, accusing U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of misconduct and demanding that he be removed from a high-profile deportation case and face reprimand.

Boasberg has long faced the ire of President Trump, who at one point called for Boasberg’s impeachment over his handling of the case. But Monday’s letter escalates tensions with Trump’s Justice Department, which newly demands Boasberg be investigated and referred for appropriate discipline.

“Judge Boasberg’s actions have harmed the integrity and public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary,” Justice Department Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle wrote in the five-page complaint, which was obtained by The Hill.

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A Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) investigation has revealed that disgraced Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appointed two Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked bankers, Dominic Ng (CEO, East West Bank) and Simon Pang (co-founder, Royal Business Bank), to her mayoral transition advisory team in 2022. The investigation found that the two bankers and their institutions funneled over $1 million to Bass’ campaign and the mayor’s nonprofit, which she advises.

The report, titled “Karen Bass Raked In Cash From Chinese Intel-Tied Bankers Before Hiring Them,” noted that it’s unclear what roles Ng and Pang played on Bass’ mayoral transition advisory team, but what’s undeniable is that both have held positions within an influence and intelligence service of the CCP called the United Front Work Department (UFWD).

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Gee, I wonder how that happened.

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A little-noticed provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” forces blue states and cities to make a tough choice: Comply with federal immigration law or lose federal money for criminal justice aid.

And we all know how much Democrats love to use “federal money” to aid criminals avoid justice.

Tim Pool brings the heat.

And there you have it. Democrats and other proglodytes are aborting their babies rather than raising them. So their cencus numbers go down, and they lose Congressional seats to Red states. So they want to bring in a shitload of illegal immigrants from the Turd World who will eventually morph into loyal left wing voters supporting the Party of Free Stuff, and in the interim the incoming tide will lift the boats of the Democrat Congressional delegations.

Don’t think they’re doing this in pursuit of the bleeding hearts. It’s about power. For Democrats, it’s always about power.And it’s always very carefully calculated.

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Oops,

Business Insider, a Voice of the Crust.

(Despite its name, ‘Business Insider’ has nothing to do with business, but is just another Democrat talking-points machine.)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s appearance at the 2021 Met Gala ended up being more expensive for her than she might’ve thought.

The House Ethics Committee on Friday closed its yearslong probe into the New York congresswoman and whether she accepted improper gifts in connection with her attendance at the high-profile event, where she wore a white dress emblazoned with the phrase “Tax the Rich.”

In a 31-page report, the panel said that Ocasio-Cortez had “impermissibly accepted gifts” and said that in order for the matter to be closed, she would need to pay nearly $3,000 in personal funds.

That includes $250 to cover the attendance of her fiancé, Riley Roberts, and an additional $2,733.28 payment to Brother?Vellies, the business that designed her dress.

Armstrong Williams, whom I am glad to see is still alive.

Did former President Barack Obama play a role in the fabrication of the Russia collusion narrative? According to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard—once a rising star within the Democratic Party and now a gadfly for political truth—the answer is unequivocally yes. More than that, Gabbard suggests the Obama administration orchestrated a “treasonous conspiracy” in 2016, one that weaponized the intelligence community and buried exculpatory findings that contradicted their desired political outcome.

Let us not pretend this charge is light. A “treasonous conspiracy” suggests not merely malfeasance but a betrayal of the public trust at the highest levels of government. If these allegations are true—and the declassified documents and testimonies increasingly suggest they are—then we are dealing with one of the most corrosive abuses of power in American history. And yet, predictably, the usual suspects in the Democratic Party and their allies in corporate media have denounced these revelations not with evidence but with noise.

Men like Sen. Adam Schiff, the architect and chief propagandist of the Russia hoax, have long enjoyed the luxury of consequence-free deception. Schiff assured the nation, repeatedly and confidently, that he had “direct evidence” of collusion between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government. No such evidence ever materialized. None. Instead, what we received was a yearslong investigation—one that disrupted a presidency, undermined international credibility, and cost the American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars—only to conclude there was no collusion.

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The California Energy Commission (CEC) is reportedly actively seeking buyers to stop the upcoming closure of the Valero refinery in Benicia, California, according to three people familiar with the matter that spoke to Reuters. Democrat officials are now reportedly scrambling to keep the refinery operating in California after enforcing stringent regulations that have helped prompt refineries to close across the state for years.

The Foundry.

Well, he’s welcome to try. The last two Democrat witch-hunts failed; this one will, too.

Notice that his rent-a-mob, in the background of the picture, are all white and female. I guess that’s his ‘base’.

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Disturbing reports were revealed during a hearing held last week by the House Committee on Homeland Security on the role of NGOs (non-profit organizations) in facilitating the unprecedented border crisis during the Biden Administration.

A key witness, Ali Hopper, founder and president of GUARD Against Trafficking, testified that both federal agencies and NGOs have been “hijacked by criminal networks” and operate behind the “scale and the mismanagement” of the immigration system. The allegations revolve around reports that the Biden and Democrats had lost track of over 300,000 unaccompanied alien minors (children crossing the border illegally without parents).