Trump says he would ‘look at the facts’ on pardoning Diddy (Julia Mueller/The Hill)

Trump fires director of the National Portrait Gallery (Washington Post)  As we all know, portaits are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump administration knew most Venezuelans deported from Texas to a Salvadoran prison had no U.S. convictions (The Texas Tribune)  Because the court system is so backed up and so few illegal immigrants show up for their hearings, getting a ‘conviction’ is like pulling tree stumps. If they were here illegally, then they are criminals ipso facto.

Trump Says He Will Consider Pardoning Diddy (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)  CrimeThink! CrimeThink!

The Trump administration just kicked its war on free speech into overdrive (Anthony L. Fisher/MSNBC)

PBS sues Trump over executive order targeting federal funding, following NPR (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

PBS sues Trump administration over executive order that cut its funding (NBC News)

Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard (Greg Lukianoff/The Atlantic)

Trump picks right-wing lawyer and podcaster who promoted 2020 election lies as watchdog agency head (Associated Press)

MSNBC’s Morning Joe Praises Springsteen for Bashing Trump

A court halted his deportation. The Trump administration deported him 28 minutes later. (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Veteran ’60 Minutes’ Correspondent Lesley Stahl Lashes Out at Paramount Boss Over Trump Settlement Talks: ‘It Steps on the First Amendment’

US Court Won’t Lift Judge’s Block on Mass Layoffs

Trump administration to prioritize ‘patriotic Americans’ for federal jobs (Robin Bravender/Politico)

EXCLUSIVE: Insane moment Elon Musk ‘SHOVED’ Trump’s treasury secretary Scott Bessent during screaming match (Will Potter/Daily Mail)

The Dizzying Rise of MAHA Warrior Calley Means, RFK Jr.’s Right-Hand Man (Katherine Eban/Vanity Fair)

Supreme Court allows Trump to suspend deportation protections for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CNN)

Trump’s sweeping tax-cut bill includes provision to weaken court powers (Tom Hals/Reuters)

Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, finding an HIV vaccine is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Energy Dept. Cancels $3.7 Billion for New Technologies to Lower Emissions (Brad Plumer/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, reducing admissions is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts (James Glanz/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, funding ‘world scientists’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government  – and the Federal taxpayer.

‘Devastating.’ NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia (Jon Cohen/Science)

US judge prevents Trump from invalidating 5,000 Venezuelans’ legal documents (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

Trump might become the most pro-illegal immigration president ever (Catherine Rampell/Washington Post)

Brooks Invokes Pol Pot, Mao, and Stalin To Mark Musk’s Departure From DOGE

After Rubio seeks to revoke their visas, Chinese students say U.S. resembles the country they left (Kimmy Yam/NBC News)

Trump Officials Unveil Budget Cuts to Aid for Health, Housing and Research (Tony Romm/New York Times)  Because health, housing, and research are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

DOJ’s New Top Voting Lawyer Worked for Leading Anti-Voting Law Firm (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

MAGA outlet’s Pentagon correspondent criticized Hegseth. And then she was fired, she says (Brian Stelter/CNN)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump? (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)

Trump pardons drug kingpins even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric (Brian Mann/NPR)

The great undoing: Trump’s presidency reeled in by courts (Sam Baker/Axios)

Hegseth gutted Pentagon office that said it would oversee testing of Golden Dome missile defense system (Natasha Bertrand/CNN)  Gutted!

Migrants criminally charged after failing to register with U.S. government (Washington Post)  The horror!

The Unconstitutional Conservatives — Not too long ago, Republicans believed in the rule of law … (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

Dickerson Urges ‘All Of Us’ To Heed Pelley’s Anti-Trump Commencement Speech

U2’s Bono Claims: “300,000 Dead After USAID Cuts”

Army says Trump’s military parade could cause $16 million in damage to Washington streets (NBC News)  About the same as your typical BLM riot.

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June 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark parental rights decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters.

That historic opinion recognized “the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.” It also famously declared that “the child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.”

Sadly, despite that—and even now—many federal programs continue to encroach on parental rights.

Though parents have a fundamental right to raise and educate their children, and America’s history and tradition recognize the integrity of the family and parents’ rightful role as their children’s primary decision-makers, many courts have failed to properly treat parental rights as constitutionally protected. Instead, they have eroded parents’ rights by not applying the highest level of legal protection. That has contributed to the problems that still exist with many federal programs.

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A new report by Open Doors, an international human rights organization that monitors Christian persecution on a global scale, confirms that Christianity is the world’s most persecuted religion. Except for North Korea, where the source of persecution is Communist and Post-Communist oppression, the cause of persecution in the other top 10 countries is mainly Islamic oppression.

Every year, Open Doors releases its “World Watch” report of the 50 states that persecute Christians. According to the organization’s 2025 report, more than 380 million Christians across the world suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination because of their faith.

North Korea, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are all in the top ten list of countries where Christians are exposed to extreme persecution.

The only NATO member country on the World Watch list is Turkey (number 45), where the Christian minority suffers from Islamic oppression, religious nationalism, dictatorial paranoia, and ethno-religious hostility.

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Democrats lost the plot. First, it was among men, especially young men who were tired of being labeled “toxic” or “a cisgender male,” instead of simply men. Now, the Left is doubling down on an ideology that also could isolate one of their most reliable voting blocs—young women and suburban moms.

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I did a scan of the news coverage, and our Daily Signal column reporting on the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association petitioning the president for the pardon was the only one I could find that delved into Jenkins’ court proceedings and the judge’s restrictions on the sheriff’s defense. The judge limited Jenkins’ ability to present contradicting testimony and the timeline of events that preceded the Department of Justice’s “sting operation” against him.

To many, that sting operation seemed intended to ensnare the sheriff for joining other Virginia sheriffs in declaring their counties would be “sanctuaries” for gun owners after the Democrat-controlled Virginia General Assembly proposed several anti-Second Amendment bills. Jenkins was also gaining significant national media attention for this as well as for being part of the team investigating the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

But to the public that only saw the TV or local newspaper coverage, Jenkins had been found guilty of the kind of corruption that in most circumstances would be abhorrent to a conservative. He was accused of selling auxiliary deputy positions in his department for campaign contributions.

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U.S. tariff revenues reached an all-time high in May as President Donald Trump’s trade policies started to fill government coffers.

According to the May 28 Daily Treasury Statement, revenues from “customs and certain excise taxes” climbed to a record high of $23.28 billion this month, up from $17.431 billion in April.

May was the first full month that Trump’s levies took effect. Most of the tax collections occurred on May 22, exceeding $16 billion.

Shortly after his April 2 “Liberation Day” announcement, the administration imposed 10 percent tariffs on nearly every country in the world.

Fiscal year-to-date—the federal government’s fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30—tariff revenues total $93.85 billion.

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We truly live in amazing times.

ZMan:

It is not that the suburban dad wants to be a he-man construction worker, so he buys the gear of the he-man construction worker and wears it like a costume, but that men naturally want to be in a world where they make things and fix things. Ten thousand years of selection pressure for that has had its effect and no amount of feminization will extirpate that instinct from the males of our species.

Modernity, however, means most men live lives of quiet desperation, to borrow a phrase from Thoreau. Necessity requires them to work in cubicles and offices, playing office politics and adhering to the highly feminized work structure. They live lives that are at war with their nature. It is no wonder that home improvement is a multibillion-dollar industry that caters to the office drone.

The Register (UK).

To make America great again, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) aims to get by with less.

The agency responsible for promoting scientific progress in the US and nurturing national STEM talent has proposed a budget of $3.9 billion, 61.7 percent less than the $10.183 billion sought in FY 2025. Actual budget appropriations tend to differ from the sum requested.

Established in 1950 to advance science and national health, prosperity, welfare, and defense, the NSF carries out its mission mainly by making grants to American colleges and universities and by supporting academic researchers.

“This is a budget of destruction of US science,” an NSF staffer told The Register. “Cuts of 65 percent to 75 in science, engineering and education will remove the United States from the world’s map of impact, will lead to irreversible damage to American creativity, and destroy our country’s GDP.” This person asked for anonymity for fear of getting fired for talking to the press.

Because, as we all know, NO SCIENCE WILL HAPPEN unless it is paid for by the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Makes you wonder how Santa Claus can distribute all those toys without Federal subsidies.

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This is pretty slick, with obvious applications to semiconductor manufacturing.

We live in amazing times.

The Financial Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The Financial Times is the British equivalent of the Wall Street Journal – if the Wall Street Journal were run by the staff of Mother Jones.

The German government is drawing up plans for a 10 per cent tax on global internet groups such as Meta and Google in a move that could further fuel transatlantic trade tensions.

Germany’s federal commissioner for media and culture, Wolfram Weimer, told Stern magazine on Thursday that the new government was drafting a digital levy on global internet platforms, although alternatives such as a voluntary commitment by the affected tech companies to pay more tax in Germany were also still under consideration.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s centre-left coalition agreed to “evaluate” a tax on internet platforms in its treaty signed in early May, agreeing that the proceeds should be used to strengthen the country’s media landscape.

It ought to come as no surprise that the first concern of any government is “Can we tax this?” Unspoken is how they are going to enforce this tax – Google and Meta aren’t German companies, and if they get seriously annoyed they’ll just remove any physical presence from Germany (or its running dogs) and they can whistle for their money.

From what I’ve seen, there is no ‘centre’ in this alleged ‘centre-left coalition’.

CNN’s Enten: Most Back Trump on Colleges’ Liberal Bias

Expect Trump’s Military Parade to Cost More Than the Army Says (Nick Turse/The Intercept)  So what? Since when does somebody at The Intercept give a shit about how much the government spends?

Two Dozen Arrested at Manhattan ICE Protest

ICE officials ousted amid demands for more immigrant arrests (Axios)

Corrupter-in-Chief — WHEN DONALD TRUMP TRIED to stay in power after losing … (Will Saletan/The Bulwark) More lies from the Kristol Krew.

When the Corporate Media Diagnosed Trump with Everything from Alzheimer’s to Heart Disease

Your guide to Cryptogate, Trump’s $4 billion corruption scandal that’s 10 times bigger than Watergate (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit. (Hey – it’s what he was hired to do.)

For These Trump Voters, a Rubber-Stamp Congress Is a Key Demand (Annie Karni/New York Times)

‘Taco, Taco, Taco,’ Ana Navarro Loses It for Trump’s New ‘Nickname’ Could have just stopped with ‘Ana Navarro loses it.’

Trump Admin Misleads the Supreme Court About Its South Sudan Deportations (Jacqueline Sweet/Rolling Stone)

They’ve tracked Americans’ drug use for decades. Trump and RFK Jr. fired them (Rhitu Chatterjee/NPR)  Because, as we all know,  tracking mental health and drug use is TOTALLY a responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Musk Is Leaving Washington Pretty Much as He Found It (Jessica Karl/Bloomberg)  Except they’re having shit their pants.

Elon Musk Didn’t Blow Up Washington, but He Left Plenty of Damage Behind (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Mostly in the form of unemployed Deep State bureaucrats.

Who Gets Hurt When Congress Cuts Healthcare and Food Aid? Everyone But the Rich. (Sage Warner/Ms. Magazine)  Because, as we all know, health care and food aid are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the federal taxpayer (mostly rich people).

DOJ cutting American Bar Association access to judicial nominees (Rebecca Beitsch/The Hill)

Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

Trump’s Flurry of Pardons Signals a Wholesale Effort to Redefine Crime (Glenn Thrush/New York Times)  Yeah – crime will no longer mean ‘offends Democrats’.

Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes (ProPublica)  But they were illegal immigrants and therefore criminals, ‘convicted’ or not.

How Trump’s Regulatory Rollbacks Are Increasing Costs on Americans (New York Times)

MAGA Fury Erupts as Trump’s Epic Legal Loss on Tariffs Slowly Sinks In (New Republic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

The Trump admin’s mockery of the courts goes beyond defiance (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Ramble On: The Most Corrupt POTUS of All Time is Abusing His Pardon Power–Again. (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)

Supreme Court Lets Trump Strip 500,000 Migrants Of Legal Status

Don’t Fall for Trump’s Crocodile Tears Over ‘Judicial Tyranny’ (Paul Rosenzweig/The Bulwark)

RFK Jr.’s MAHA Hallucinations (The Bulwark)

Musk Used Heavy Drugs Including Ketamine And Ecstasy While He Became Close To Trump, Report Says (Sara Dorn/Forbes)  Since when have proglodytes ever given a shit about drug use?

Insiders Spill Elon Musk’s Frenzied Drug Use at Trump’s Side (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

Trump Taps His Own Criminal Defense Attorney For Lifetime Federal Judgeship (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration, for Now, to End Biden-Era Migrant Program (New York Times)

SCOTUS has allowed the Trump admin to end legal status for more than 1 million people (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Trump’s Angry New Tirade Over Tariff Ruling Accidentally Says Too Much (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

We’re minimizing the horror of Trump’s military birthday parade (Judith Levine/The Guardian)  Horror!

How ICE Is Seeking to Ramp Up Deportations Through Courthouse Arrests (New York Times)

Trump appoints Paul Ingrassia, staffer linked to Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate, to senior federal watchdog role

LINKED TO: “Linked to” in news stories means “there is a strong correlation but we can’t really say that there’s a causal link without being called out for it, but we’re going to write as if there actually was a causal link because otherwise we wouldn’t be able to stir people up and get more clicks”.

The New Neo.

Of course, he doesn’t say “I lied.” He’s such a good and virtuous person, you see. He meant well, and he just needs to be more precise….

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“…between us and you enmity and hatred forever, unless you believe in Allah and him alone.”

This is the “excellent pattern” praised in Koran 60:4. It is spoken to the Jews by Ibrahim, who is a Muslim, unlike the Abraham of the Bible, who is a Jew. Ibrahim’s declaration of hatred towards unbelievers is not something archaic and obsolete, like Old Testament commands to slaughter Amalekites and Hittites.

Like all of the Koran, it forms part of Islamic law.

Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology under the guise of a religion with which no co-existence is possible.

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The Swedish Ombudsman for Discrimination (DO) has determined a hospital was guilty of discrimination after a person who gave birth in their maternity ward was referred to as “mother” in medical records despite identifying as a man. The Ombudsman calls it a “clear case of discrimination.”

While staff adhered to the wishes of the patient—spelled out in the birth plan as well as on a whiteboard in the hospital room—and used male pronouns during the birth and aftercare, all medical records did not.

In a letter of complaint to the DO last year, the patient wrote: “Despite multiple occasions at different times and in various contexts when I have said that I want to be referred to with male pronouns, this has been ignored in parts of my medical records. Even though it is clearly stated in the same record.”

The male-identifying woman also felt offended by a survey she received after giving birth, addressed to “pregnant women and new mothers.”

The health care region explains that certain terms—presumably including ‘mother’ for a person who gives birth—are pre-installed in their software and cannot be changed. Changes are in progress, the region said, but DO’s criticism remains.

“For more than ten years now, it has been possible to change gender identity without prior sterilization,” the DO writes. “The region has, nevertheless, not taken any measures to make it possible to change the designation of birthing persons in the medical records system to a gender-neutral term.”

Marie Bennermo, head of patient safety, told Sörmlands Nyheter last year that the healthcare system has not kept up with the new changes: “It may be that we are stuck in the idea that a mother is a mother, and a father is a father. That is why it is important to learn from cases like these.”

Or maybe hospitals and health care providers should stick to the medical and biological facts?

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Considering the magnitude of the error in using CO2 emissions as a basis for climate forecasts, the authors conclude the Anthro models’ unreliability “would appear to void policy relevance.”

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As the trial opens for the man accused of stabbing young Matisse to death on April 24th last year, the case is one in a series of crimes that have become symbols for a disturbing trend in France. A new report submitted to the government highlights the sharp rise in attacks with bladed weapons, many committed by increasingly younger perpetrators—some of them minors. The authorities seem completely powerless to stop this dramatic trend.

The murders of teenagers killed with bladed weapons have made headlines in France several times in recent months: mundane stories of provocation, dirty looks, and phone thefts degenerating into savage murders with knives or sometimes even machetes. Faced with the scale of the phenomenon, Prime Minister François Bayrou has commissioned a special report entitled “Minors—Bladed Weapons.”

The report concludes that there is “increasingly armed juvenile violence.” According to figures from 2024, 31% of alleged perpetrators of armed robbery are minors aged 13 to 17. In addition, a knife is involved in 57% of homicides committed by minors.

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The Floyd reckoning killed more black people than Hurricane Katrina did. The real legacy of the BLM race riots were 2,000 dead black people. The real legacy of the fists and kneelings were entire cemeteries filled with dead black bodies over the course of only one single year.

And coffins being placed in cemeteries across the country, planted there by the ‘reckoning’.

More Americans died in the BLM wars than were killed in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined. Or at Pearl Harbor. To find a conflict that was more lethal to Americans, you would have to go back to Vietnam. Far more were killed by the BLM crime wave than perished in Hurricane Katrina, not to mention Sandy, Harvey, Maria, Ike and the California wildfires.

George Floyd’s death was the single deadliest non-drug or disease event of any war or natural disaster in the United States in the last 40 years.

The 14,000 dead, many of them black, are Floyd’s true legacy. Those 14,000 did not tour the nation in golden coffins. There were no multi-million dollar payments to their families. Members of Congress in cheerfully colored outfits did not kneel by their gravesides. Most simply disappeared and became footnotes.

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The “consensus of scientists” with respect to climate change is not organic. It was manufactured through questionable data processing methods.

When someone states the axiom “All scientists agree,” it is usually a reference to two particular studies, both of which were published in Environmental Research Letters (ERL): Cook et al. (2013) and Lynas et al. (2021).

Let’s look closer at these studies.

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California officials are taking another shot at undoing a voter-approved measure in the city of Huntington Beach that requires ID to vote.

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an appeal in the California 4th District Court of Appeals after an Orange County Superior Court backed Huntington Beach’s authority to require voter ID.

Local governments enacting their own election laws in California isn’t unheard of. The cities of Oakland and San Francisco allow noncitizens to vote in school board elections. However, in August 2024, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1174, which bars local election officials from requiring photo identification for elections.

Earlier this year, a group of Republican state legislators initiated the process for a ballot referendum to get voter ID statewide.

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Democrats: The face of fascism.

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California leads the nation in more ways than one—taxes, regulations, and, once again, gas prices. As of mid-May 2025, the average gasoline price in California is $4.85 per gallon, far above the national average of $3.26, according to GasBuddy and AAA.

And it’s getting worse. A March 2025 study by USC Professor Michael Mische forecasts California’s fuel prices could spike 75 percent to over $8 per gallon within the next year. That’s not hyperbole—that’s the trajectory unless policymakers reverse course.

The culprit? It’s not oil companies or global demand. It’s decades of state-level tax hikes, regulatory overreach, and misguided climate mandates that have warped the gasoline market in California. This is a man-made problem—a case study in government failure, not market failure.

Newsbusters.

The Friday editions of ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today both employed Harvard Professor and former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns to attack the Trump administration’s move to “aggressively” curtail student visas to Chinese nationals. As Burns was both networks’ sole expert, much critical information about the administration’s concerns was noticably missing.

On GMA, Selina Wang reported on “a dramatic new escalation that could impact universities across the country. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing the U.S. will work to aggressively revoke visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”

She then introduced Burns, “The Trump Administration has already accused Harvard of failing to confront anti-Semitic harassment and claims the school has coordinated with the Chinese Communist Party, allegations Harvard denies. Former ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, now a Harvard professor, telling us there’s already a rigorous vetting process.”

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Same old socialism in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

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A radical student group at Brandeis University. Members of a socialist organization affiliated with House “Squad” members. The treasurer of a Democratic super PAC funded heavily by George Soros. These are just some of the figures and groups calling to “free” Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man police say confessed to the Washington, D.C., murders of two Israeli diplomats.

Twenty-one organizations, along with Democratic activist Kamau Franklin, signed an open letter in support of Rodriguez organized by the Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network. It calls Rodriguez’s shooting of Israeli diplomats Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky outside of the Capital Jewish Museum “fully justified,” “eminently defensible,” and “morally righteous.” It also urges readers to “give pause to the zionists” and “GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA,” a popular rallying cry among student radicals on Ivy League campuses like Columbia University and Harvard University. One signee, Unity of Fields, has been involved in the Columbia protests.

Another signatory is the Liberation Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)—”Squad” members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Greg Casar (D., Texas) are members of DSA, the largest socialist group in the country. Franklin, who serves as treasurer of the Black Voters Matter Action PAC, a Democratic group that received $2.4 million from Soros and the Soros-funded Democracy PAC, signed the letter and promoted it on his Twitter page. So did the Brandeis Jewish Bund, a self-described “Anti-Zionist” group at Brandeis University, a school founded by Jewish Americans to address anti-Semitism in the American education system. Another signee, Bronx Anti War, was cofounded by Janet Goodman-Clarke, a member of the Soros-funded Jewish Voice for Peace.

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If you want to travel back in history and get a glimpse of the spread of violent Bolshevism across Europe in the early 20th Century, the west coast of the US in 2025 is a close parallel. Seattle in particular has become a cesspool of extreme Antifa activism and apathetic local governance. It’s a place where zero tolerance is displayed for differing political views and violence is considered an acceptable strategy to silence opponents. Seattle is a glimpse back to the height of the woke era, and a warning of what could happen if the political left is ever allowed to gain real power again.

As we covered last week, Antifa groups organized and descended on a Christian event held by Mayday USA in Cal Anderson Park, within the same area that was once the “CHAZ autonomous zone” during the riots of 2020. The reaction from the woke mob to the peaceful free speech event was vicious and at least 23 arrests were made by police.

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Hoist by their own retard….

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AND IT’S ABOUT TIME! This has been a running sore since Clinton was elected.

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DHS is putting more than 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” across the country on notice that the Trump administration views them as obstructing immigration enforcement as it attempts to increase pressure on communities it believes are standing in the way of mass deportations.

NPR, the Voice of the Crust.

Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who was born, raised, and trained in the United States, packed up his family and left the country.

Feminist ‘journalism’: Don’t tell anybody facts; start the story with a single anecdote that illustrates your agenda, then attempt to pretend that it applies everywhere.

Michael now works in a small-town hospital in Canada. KFF Health News and NPR granted him anonymity because of fears he might face reprisal from the Trump administration if he returns to the U.S. He said he feels some guilt that he did not stay to resist the Trump agenda but is assured in his decision to leave. Too much of America has simply grown too comfortable with violence and cruelty, he said.

Oh? Like AntiFa? Like Black Lives Matter? Like pro-Hamas supporters rioting to promote Muslim terrorism and kill the Jews? That violence and cruelty?

“Part of being a physician is being kind to people who are in their weakest place,” Michael said. “And I feel like our country is devolving to really step on people who are weak and vulnerable.”

I see. Refusing to pay for everybody’s health care with money yanked from taxpayers is to ‘step on people who are weak and vulnerable’. Well, this guy will feel right at home as a government health bureaucrat in Canada.

Good riddance, I say.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Recently, President Donald Trump has escalated his struggle with Harvard University. Remember what the issues were. Harvard had not really followed the letter of the law according to the 2022 Supreme Court ruling, which it and the University of North Carolina had lost.

In other words, they were, by court order, to stop giving preference in admissions, in hiring, in promotion, in retention on the basis of race, gender, etc., what we would call DEI. Harvard has been skirting that. And I think the data’s pretty clear how they have and no question that they’ve been doing it.

Second, they have also been getting a lot of money from foreign governments, not always fully accounted for, that is reported to the Department of Education, specifically Communist China and Qatar, over the years.

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The U.S. Department of Education is investigating Wisconsin’s Green Bay Public School District for allegedly discriminating against a white student and blocking access to special needs services.

The DOE said in a release that it was responding to a complaint filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. WILL reported that a white elementary student was prevented from access to special needs services for dyslexia. The complaint alleges that a district employee told a WILL representative that the district used a color-coded spreadsheet to track whether “racial priority” groups were receiving services in front others.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (1964) prohibits discrimination in federally funded education programs on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Additionally, the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits recipients of federal financial assistance from discriminating on the basis of disability.

The proglodytes who have spent the last fifty years piling power onto the Federal agencies in the sure and certain knowledge that agents of the Deep State would always remain in control of those agencies are undergoing a rude awakening.

The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

About 10 years ago, Dona Sauerburger, a longtime Maryland Democrat disillusioned with America’s two-party system, decided to become an independent voter.

But that choice, she said, was immediately disenfranchising because Maryland residents who register as unaffiliated with a political party are not allowed to vote in primary elections. So for years, Sauerburger protested outside primary polling places and advocated for change before state lawmakers in Annapolis — without success.

Now she is taking her fight to the courts, leading a group of independents in a lawsuit against Maryland and the Board of Elections that alleges the state’s partisan, or closed, primary process is unconstitutional and violates the rights of registered voters like her who are not affiliated with a political party.

That assumes that voters who are not members of a particular political have some ‘right’ to help decide who that party’s candidate will be. This directly destroys the reason for having political parties in the first place, and further buries the Freedom of Association guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment that was pretty much shot in the head by the Civil Rights laws in the 1960s.

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Lawyer Eric Baxter argued Wednesday that his defense of Maryland parents seeking to opt their kids out of LGBTQ+ classroom discussions in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor could be a generational opportunity to reaffirm parental rights in education.

Baxter, senior counsel at Becket, a nonprofit religious liberty law firm, spoke to an audience at The Heritage Foundation celebrating the forthcoming 100th anniversary of the Pierce v. Society of Sisters Supreme Court case that enshrined the rights of parents to educate their children outside of public schools.

Newsbusters.

On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s All In ran a story about an ill 4-year-old named Sofia, who was supposedly being heartlessly forced out of the country by the Trump administration without recourse. The suffering of this child was deeply saddening, but the story omitted extremely key information. MSNBC was using this child’s brutal and agonizing health complications with Short Bowel Syndrome to make the claim that Trump was “forcing” her out of the country and that she might die after a few days.

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A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people.

First, it serially lied to Americans about the cognitive decline and cancerous condition of President Joe Biden, both while in and after office.

Only when caught did the complicit media fess up that the Biden inner circle serially misled the American people about Biden’s inability to fulfill the duties of the presidency.

Second, left-wing politicos used Biden as a waxen effigy. His job was to pose as a “moderate” cover to push through the most radical and unpopular agenda in the last half century.

Only that way could “Old Joe Biden from Scranton” and his backroom handlers ram down the throat of the American people unpopular policies that nearly wrecked the country: hyperinflation and $7 trillion in new debt, weaponization of the government, and partisan lawfare, an open border and 12 million illegal aliens, a racialist DEI commissariat, a crackpot Green New Deal, defunding the police, biological men competing in girls’ sports, and two theater-wide wars abroad.

Rasmussen Reports.

Voters are overwhelmingly concerned about Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and a majority would support an American military strike to end the threat.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 77% of Likely U.S. Voters are concerned that Iran may be developing a nuclear weapon, including 44% who are Very Concerned. Only 18% are not concerned. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

While negotiating with Iran over the issue, President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to unleash airstrikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program if a deal isn’t reached Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters would support military action by the United States to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program, including 28% who would Strongly Support it. Thirty percent (30%) would oppose a U.S. strike against Iran, including 17% who Strongly Oppose such military action. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.

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The Supreme Court backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah on Thursday in a ruling that scales back a key environmental law and could accelerate development projects around the country.

The 8-0 decision came after an appeal to the high court from backers of the project, which is aimed at quadrupling oil production in the remote area of sandstone and sagebrush.

Environmental groups said the decision would have sweeping impacts on National Environmental Policy Act reviews. President Donald Trump’s administration has already said it’s speeding up that process after the president in January declared a “national energy emergency” and vowed to boost U.S. oil and gas development.

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In the immediate sense, the schools being defunded are in trouble financially, even Harvard. Half of Harvard’s research budget comes from the federal government. Even if it wins in litigation, the instability could cause researchers to go elsewhere. And maybe they should.

If I were an enterprising president of a mid-tier state school, I’d be doing my best to convince the administration that my institution is free from antisemitism, open to bringing more intellectual diversity to campus, and will wisely use the money.

The bigger problem for higher education is existential. For a long, long time Americans gave support to elite educational institutions, billions of taxpayer dollars, based on the idea that they were of invaluable contribution to the country. But do we need more over-credentialed people in this country who passed through the DEI crucible, or do we need more welders and shipbuilders?

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Margaret Atwood claims she may be “imprisoned” if she enters the United States—an absurd suggestion from one of the most celebrated progressive writers alive, and a striking example of how elites weaponize language to smear their opponents.

In a recent award acceptance speech, Atwood said: “Unlike so many writers, publishers and booksellers … I have never been imprisoned—though I may have to revise that statistic if I attempt to cross into the United States in the near future.” Coverage of the event does not record gales of laughter in response.

Atwood’s talent for gaslighting is genuinely impressive. She will, of course, be just fine the next time she visits the United States—not only because she is famous, but because she is deliberately abusing language to lie about what is happening there. Her references to “book-banning” and “censorship,” for example, are calculated to persuade her audience that America is engaged in practices akin to Nazi-style book burnings and Soviet censorship. Writers choose their words carefully, and Atwood is deliberately evoking the evils of past totalitarian regimes.

She is lying. Books are not being banned in the United States. School boards and other levels of government are engaged in a debate about which books are appropriate for children. Some educators and parents have concluded that graphic novels depicting homosexual acts or books with explicit sexual content should not be part of the curriculum or in the school library. This is not a “ban.” Nor is it “censorship.” Every school curates their curriculum and library, and authors like Atwood, contrary to what their inflated egos tell them, do not have a right to have their work purchased with taxpayer dollars and supplied to schoolchildren.

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An excellent presentation of what we all ought to know.

SQL-Workbench, “SQL Workbench/J is a DBMS-independent, cross-platform SQL query tool. It is written in Java and should run on any operating system that provides a Java Runtime Environment.”

NPR CEO Refuses To Negotiate With Trump as Network Sues President Over Defunding

A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained. (New York Times)  Feminist ‘journalism’ Find a tear-jerking story somewhere and try to believe that is a basis for general policy.

Immigration courts are dismissing cases of those sent to El Salvador, potentially cutting off their return (David Noriega/NBC News)

Trump rejects claim he’s ‘chickening out’ on tariffs just because he keeps changing rates (Josh Boak/Associated Press)

Psaki’s Morality On Pardons Doesn’t Apply To Anyone But Trump

These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired them all. (Petula Dvorak/Washington Post)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

House tax plan now costs $4T, budget forecasters say (Brian Faler/Politico)  Money the government isn’t allowed to take from you is somehow a ‘cost’ to the government.

Rubio: US to begin revoking visas of Chinese students (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)

Crime is Now Legal (At Least for Trump’s Friends) (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)  I guess Hunter Biden has passed through the Memory Hole.

White House cuts aid for state unemployment systems (Emily Peck/Axios)  Because, as we all know, state unemployment systems are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump Shows Signs of ‘Cognitive Decline’ Says Speech Expert (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)

Trump administration emerges as a staunch defender of Germany’s far-right AfD (Henry J. Gomez/NBC News)  The swine!

A Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He’s Exiting Washington (New York Times)  Disillusioned!

Trump Nominates His Defense Lawyer-Turned-DOJ Yes Man For Federal Appeals Court (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)  AAAGH! NO! TRUMP COOTIES! RUN AWAY!

House Democrat launches investigation of Trump’s meme coin dinner (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)  I guess he thinks that Democrats still run things in Washington.

Lawrence O’Donnell Reveals Exact Moment Trump Suffered ‘Worldwide Humiliation’ (Ed Mazza/HuffPost)  Worldwide!

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it (Michael Mann/The Guardian)  Sounds good. What I’ve seen of ‘American science’ doesn’t impress me.

PBS Host Invokes ‘1984’ and Mussolini To Urge Harvard Grads To Resist Trump  Well, unlike Mussolini, Trump doesn’t claim to be a socialist – unlike many Harvard grads.

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Today in Democrat Lawfare

Judge Orders Release of HMS Researcher Kseniia Petrova From ICE Custody (William C. Mao/The Harvard Crimson)

Judge Says Government Should Release Russian Scientist (Ellen Barry/New York Times)

Trump Bid to Deport Columbia Activist Khalil Likely Unconstitutional, Judge Says

States Sue Over Trump Cuts to Research Funding  Because, as we all know, anytime someone gets money from the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer – they are entitled to that money (or more) forever.

Judge orders release of Harvard scientist from ICE detention (Lexi Lonas Cochran/The Hill)

Futures Soar After Trade Court Blocks Trump’s Global Tariffs; White House To Appeal

Court says Trump doesn’t have the authority to set tariffs (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

Federal court strikes down Trump’s April 2 tariffs (Politico)

Federal trade court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law (Lindsay Whitehurst/Associated Press)

16 States Sue Trump Over $1.4 Billion in Science Cuts (New York Times)

Trump Tariffs Blocked by U.S. Court of International Trade (New York Times)

Trump administration’s bid to deport Mahmoud Khalil is likely unconstitutional, judge rules (Erica Orden/Politico)

Judge rules that Trump administration wrongly ended humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands (Associated Press)

US judge blocks Trump from halting Biden-era migrant ‘parole’ programs (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

The sweeping federal court order blocking Trump’s tariffs, explained (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Obama Judge to Hear Harvard Case on Block of Foreign Students

Federal court throws up latest roadblock to Trump’s policy agenda (Washington Post)

National Association of the Deaf Sues White House for Access to Press Briefings (National Association of the Deaf)

NY, NJ attorneys general sue Trump administration over cuts to science, diversity in research

Live Updates: Judge Intends to Block Trump Effort to Stop Harvard From Enrolling Foreign Students (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)

Obama Judge to Order Govt ‘Status Quo’ on Student Visas

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CNN is whipping out an exhausted climate doom mongering tactic: It’s the end of the world, but we won’t see it for a number of years!

Yeah, because Americans haven’t heard that one before right?

CNN climate and weather senior reporter Andrew Freedman harped on the idea that “[g]lobal temperatures are forecast to reach record or near-record levels during the next five years, setting the stage for more deadly extreme weather” due to global warming. Basing his climate propaganda on new crystal ball predictions by the World Meteorological Organization and the UK Met Office, Friedman was adamant that “[m]ore than 1.5 degrees of global warming increases the risks of more severe impacts, including triggering tipping points in the climate system. Melting sea ice and glaciers could soon reach a point of no return, with dramatic implications for sea level rise.”

Or it’s quite possible CNN will find no point to return when this prediction fails to pan out, as so many doom-mongering world-boiling reports have failed to come true since the 1990s.

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A whistleblower from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has charged that the Biden administration was actively operating a policy of forgiving loans to farmers based on the colour of their skin.

My, what a surprise.

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Where is the sympathy for him while the Usual Suspects are hand-wrining about all of the foreign babies in danger from Trump’s spending cuts?

Nowhere, that’s where.