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The Trump administration has opened an investigation into alleged Title IX violations in Washington state following reports of biological males participating in female sports and using girls’ locker rooms, the Department of Education announced on Wednesday.

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An increasing number of “zombie” or “phantom” oil tankers—vessels that assume the identities of scrapped ships—have emerged off Venezuela’s coast, allowing dark fleet operators to circumvent U.S. trade restrictions on global oil transport.

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With results as you see them.

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Good. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

The Foundry.

While I never met Horowitz, I did have the opportunity to read his autobiography “Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey” for a college final paper. Somewhat ironically, the book had been recommended by a famous left-wing professor at my university whose class on the history of the American Left I was taking.

Reading the memoir would become a highlight of my college career. Horowitz was, at heart, a superb storyteller.

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Horowitz also became acquainted with the Black Panthers during this period, in particular cultivating a friendship with the group’s founder, Huey P. Newton. As Horowitz would tell it, he even helped facilitate getting a bookkeeping job for a former Ramparts colleague named Betty Van Patter at a school run by the Black Panthers in 1974.

A few months later, Van Patter would disappear, and her severely beaten body would be fished out of the San Francisco Bay. An article published in the East Bay Express in 1989 contended that Newton took credit for ordering the death of Van Patter after she refused to lie on the bookkeeping and threatened to go to the police.

Van Patter’s slaying was a point of no return for Horowitz’s relationship with the American Left.

The Foundry.

New York Attorney General Letitia James—already facing a federal criminal referral—now faces a potential state probe regarding her reporting of properties she owns in Virginia.

America First Legal, a conservative government watchdog, filed a bar complaint against James with the New York Committee on Professional Standards, seeking an investigation into the statements made in a criminal referral the Federal Housing Finance Agency sent to the U.S. Justice Department.

Long prominent in New York politics, James became a national figure when her office sued and won against then-former President Donald Trump when he was out of office and running for another term in 2024. She alleged Trump’s companies falsified information to obtain loans.

I dislike the term ‘watchdog’, which implies a degree of official sanction that rarely exists. I can’t think of a better one, though, for people who specialize in snooping on other people who may be doing something they don’t like; God knows there are enough of them on the Left, each and every one of which is called a ‘watchdog’ by the Narrative Media. My wife calls such people ‘Gladys’, the old busybody who is always peering out from behind the curtains at doings in the neighborhood of which she might disapprove–I guess the current tag is ‘Karen’.

Still, I’m glad that somebody is keeping an eye on James, who has shown a very Democrat devotion to abusing her office in pursuit of people she (and the people who vote for her) dislike.

The New Neo.

Fifty years is a long time. Most of the Vietnamese weren’t around back then, and to them it’s ancient history and the Communist Party and its “socialist-oriented market economy” is all they know. The bloodbaths are over.

To me, and I assume to most older Vietnamese who came to this country after the fall, and their descendants – it’s a sad reminder of an ignominious end to a long struggle against Communism. I’ve written about Vietnam many many times on this blog – in fact, it’s an entire category of posts numbering over a hundred, some of them personal including parts of my “A mind is a difficult thing to change” series.

Like the Chinese, they’re still Communists. They still have blood on their hands, and will accumulate gallons more, as the Chinese showed in Tiananmen Square.