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The Classic Learning Test, an alternative to standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, has scored recent legislative victories in Texas and Oklahoma, with another win expected in Louisiana. These changes allow students to use their CLT score when applying for college.

Jeremy Tate, a former schoolteacher who created the CLT in 2015, spoke with The Daily Signal about the legislative victories and future goals of the Classic Learning Test. As its CEO, he is passionate about offering students an alternative college entrance exam.

ZMan rips back the curtain.

The streaming story is a good example of how culture is too complicated to model with a green visor and excel spreadsheet. The bean counters just assumed streaming would follow the model of the rental market, which followed the pattern they saw in the secondary theater market. Low budget films, mediocre films and even terrible films made additional money in the secondary theater market. When take-home rentals came along, these films often got a second life in this market.

It has not worked that way with streaming. A film like the live action Snow White, which was torn apart by internet critics, was a massive flop at the theaters, but then had no life in the streaming market. In the old days, it would get rentals from people curious about it or for get-togethers with friends to have a good time laughing at a bad film. That is not the dynamic with streaming. People will watch nothing rather than sit down to watch a bad movie or something unknown to them.

What streaming failed to account for is the social aspect of films. In the old days, going to the theater for many people was like going to church. It was a thing you did every weekend, not because of the content but because of the social aspect. The theater was where men took their dates and the choice of film or how they selected the film to see was part of the courtship. Friends went to the theater, even if the films on offer were unknown or not good, because it was part of the social event.

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Nicolle Wallace is one of the original “MSNBC Republicans,” a former adviser to George W. Bush and John McCain who quickly swapped sides to become one of the more popular Democratic Party-line tap dancers on her show “Deadline White House.”

Her reflexive leftist take on the Los Angeles riots was a “uniquely alarming moment”—not the riots, but President Donald Trump‘s response to the riots. It wasn’t a response so much as it was “theater.” She claimed former President Barack Obama was more effective at deporting illegal immigrants—like Democrats do.

Naturally, former CNN media reporters Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino define her as a “defining voice of the resistance” with “clear eyes and keen political insight.” Translation: She’s reliably, bitterly anti-Trump.

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Looks like a trend.

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A civil rights lawsuit filed on June 11 in federal court for the Eastern District of Tennessee claims that a program providing federal money to colleges and universities if Hispanic students make up at least 25 percent of the student body is unconstitutional.

Sounds like a racial preference to me.

Victor Davis Hanson.

The left’s martyr-making machine is in overdrive—recasting criminals, rioters, and radicals as victims, even as the public demands law, order, and sanity.

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Somehow I don’t think it was Republicans who did this.

Time to leave.

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Inquiring minds want to know.

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The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s 35-nation Board of Governors declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations on Thursday, June 12th, for the first time in almost 20 years, raising the prospect of reporting it to the UN Security Council.

Israel on Thursday urged the international community to “respond decisively” to the IAEA report and prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons..

“Iran has consistently obstructed IAEA’s verification and monitoring, it removed inspectors, and it sanitised and concealed suspected undeclared locations in Iran,” Israel’s foreign ministry said on X.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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The EU is silently preparing to roll out major new treaty reforms before the end of the decade for the first time since the Lisbon Treaty of 2009, and most Europeans have no idea.

That’s deliberate, of course, since the current proposals—drafted primarily by the hardline eurofederalist Guy Verhofstadt—would give unprecedented control to the EU Commission in nearly all national matters, irreversibly damaging national sovereignty, and therefore, democratic representation, in the process.

Luckily, there is now also an alternative vision, even if it’s a long shot to expect the mainstream EU elites ever to agree with it. EU experts and Patriot MEPs presented a comprehensive reform proposal in the European Parliament on Wednesday, June 11th, with decentralization, sovereignty, and local decision-making at its core, titled “The Great Reset.”

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A sham Palestinian charity added to the U.S. terrorist sanctions list this week has worked closely with elite American universities—including Harvard, Yale, and Columbia—to promote anti-Israel propaganda.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury said the West Bank-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, which describes itself as a “civil institution that works to support Palestinian political prisoners,” has “long supported and is affiliated” with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist group that took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

The designation came as part of the Trump administration’s broader crackdown against “fraudulent” charities linked to Hamas and the PFLP, which includes sanctions against five other organizations.

Addameer has a long history of partnering with prominent colleges and student groups to push unverified allegations against Israel, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

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California jails failed to honor more than 13,000 ICE detainers over 2½ years, significantly affecting enforcement of federal immigration law and public safety, according to newly released Immigration and Customs Enforcement records, Breitbart reported.

New records show that Golden State jails did not comply with over 13,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests between October 2022 and February 2025. The documents, reviewed by the Center for Immigration Studies, highlight California as the state most frequently refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

An ICE detainer asks local or state law enforcement to hold those under arrest for up to 48 hours after their scheduled release, allowing ICE to take custody for potential deportation. CIS said, “More than half of the declined detainers (52%) were refused by jails and prisons in California.”

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Democratic lawmakers in Annapolis—more focused on Marxist reparations schemes to fleece taxpayers, taxing the hell out of Marylanders, having margaritas with migrants, diverting public funds to illegal aliens, pushing radical woke agendas, attempting to install condom machines in elementary schools, and focusing on de-growth policies to neuter the state’s power grid—have finally done it.

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A former CIA analyst who pleaded guilty in January over a leak of classified Israeli plans to strike Iran was sentenced to 37 months in prison on Wednesday, the Department of Justice said.

In pleading guilty, Asif William Rahman, who had worked at the U.S. intelligence agency since 2016, acknowledged that he illegally downloaded, printed and distributed classified information on multiple occasions, including several in 2024.

Yet another failure of birthright citizenship.

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Donie O’Sullivan is a senior correspondent for CNN who purports to be an expert on political “extremism” in America. The esteemed journalist earned an Emmy nomination for his three-part series, MisinfoNation: Extreme America, in which he traveled “around the country meeting far-right extremists with a long history of hate.” For some reason, O’Sullivan has been remarkably uninterested in covering the ongoing outburst of left-wing violence in this country.

My, what a surprise.

Over the past three weeks, two Israeli embassy officials were gunned down by a radical leftist shouting “Free Palestine,” more than a dozen peaceful protesters (including a Holocaust survivor) were injured in a makeshift flamethrower attack carried out by an illegal immigrant who said he wanted to “kill all Zionist people,” and violent hooligans in Los Angeles have rioted in support of illegal immigration by looting stores, setting fire to cars, and hurling bricks at police officers. In New York City on Wednesday, illegal immigration supporters chanted, “From Mexico to Gaza, globalize the intifada.”

During that time, O’Sullivan produced just one lousy segment for CNN. Three days after the firebomb attack in Boulder, Colo., he traveled to Denver (less than an hour away) to cover the defamation trial of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. He appeared on the failing network several times last week to discuss the public feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Yet observers have taken note of O’Sullivan’s glaring absence as left-wing extremists wreaked havoc in Los Angeles. Perhaps in an effort to provide proof of life, the journalist logged onto his X account and reposted his colleague Brian Stelter’s absurd comments about how the “unrest” in Los Angeles was being blown out of proportion by “fake content” from “unvetted social media accounts.”

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Federal authorities in Southern California filed a complaint charging three foreign nationals with conspiring to distribute nearly four tons of methamphetamine, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a June 5 statement.

Erick Arriola, 27, from El Salvador, and Mexican nationals Baltazar Rodriguez Reyes, 49, and Eugenio Lizama, 35, were charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. They face a minimum of 10 years in prison.

According to federal prosecutors, Arriola is a felon convicted of DUI, battery of a spouse, and false imprisonment.

Sure, send them to prison, where they will be welcomed by their fellow Mexican gang members, with which our prisons are currently overcrowded.

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New numbers from the California Department of Education show a continued drop in public school enrollment in the 2024–2025 school year. Despite fewer students, TK-12 education spending continues to increase, begging the question of whether taxpayers are getting value for money.

The 5.8 million students counted for the just-concluded school year represents a reduction of 31,000 from 2023–2024 and 380,000 (or 6 percent) from before the pandemic. But the drop in traditional public school enrollment is even worse than these headline numbers suggest. The totals include charter schools which added 75,000 students since the 2018–19 school year.

Netting out charters yields an enrollment drop of 8 percent, and this is despite the fact that a new grade, Transitional Kindergarten, was added during the period.

People are pulling their kids out of California public schools because they realize that their kids are getting indoctrinated in Woke ideology rather than actually educated. California would be a great place if it weren’t for the Californians.

Time to leave.

The Telegraph (UK).

Hamas has killed five staff belonging to a new US aid delivery company in Gaza and may also have taken hostages, the organisation said.
In a statement early on Thursday, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) team said the terror group attacked a bus carrying more than two-dozen of its team at around 10pm on Wednesday.
GHF said Palestinians working “side-by-side with the US” to deliver critical aid were “brutally attacked by Hamas”.
A statement said: “At the time of the attack, our team was en route to one of our distribution centres in the area west of Khan Younis.
“We are still gathering facts, but what we know is devastating: there are at least five fatalities, multiple injuries, and fear that some of our team members may have been taken hostage.”

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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The U.S. Navy’s future Constellation class frigates are set to be at least 759 metric tons (close to 867 U.S. tons) heavier than expected, a 13 percent increase over earlier estimates. Concerns have previously been raised about how weight growth with the Constellation class design, which was still being finalized as of April, could negatively impact the ships’ top speed and other capabilities. Overall, the frigate program, the entire point of which was to leverage an existing in-production design to help reduce risk and speed up delivery, remains years behind schedule and at risk of ballooning costs.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a Congressional watchdog, included the new details about the Constellation class design’s weight growth and other updates about the program in an annual assessment of major procurement efforts across the U.S. military released today. The U.S. Navy chose Marinette Marine in Wisconsin, a wholly owned subsidiary of Italy’s Fincantieri, to build the new frigates in 2020. The ship’s core design is derived from the Franco-Italian Fregata Europea Multi-Missione (FREMM).

The Navy currently expects to take delivery of the first-in-class USS Constellation in 2029, three years behind schedule. The service has, to date, awarded Marinette Marine contracts to build six Constellation class frigates.

The Navy procurement system is so screwed up that they would be better off just getting rid of it and starting fresh. Steve Jobs would have fired all of these people by now.

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It’s not about principle. It’s not about democracy. It’s not even about Trump.

It’s about stealing other people’s stuff. Democrats love to do that.

Time to leave.

L.A., Abrego Garcia, and the Big Lies of Trump tyranny (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch loses his shit.

Judge Blocks DOGE from Federal Databases

Trump warns ‘any’ protesters at military parade will be ‘met with heavy force’ (Stacey Dec/ABC News)  You mess witht the bull, you get the horns every time.

Trump faces criticism of his broad mass deportation push from two different angles (Natasha Korecki/NBC News)  As if he cares.

White House looks to freeze more agency funds  and expand executive power (E&E News by POLITICO)  Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but ‘agencies’ are part of the executive and ipso factor subject to ‘executive power’.

The revolution will be monetized: How Steve Bannon conned the working class (John Mac Ghlionn/The Hill)  And the Narrative Media, who desperately cling to the fantasy that he’s somehow still connected to Trump.

Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Operation (Time)  Another Narrative Media smear-job.

The View: L.A. Riots Were ‘Peaceful for Days,’ ICE Brought ‘Crisis’

Trump’s Flawed Message to Los Angeles (Barbara F. Walter/New York Times)  Yet another liberal retread trotted out to defame Trump.

Videos of LA Riots ‘Can Give People a False Impression of What’s Actually Happening,’ Says Brian Stelter  Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

The DOGE 100: Musk Is Out, but More Than 100 of His Followers Remain to Implement Trump’s Blueprint (ProPublica)

MAGA Whisperer Maggie Haberman Iced Out by Trumpworld Sources (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Hegseth cites 2020 Minnesota riots as reason for sending National Guard into LA (Mike Brest/Washington Examiner)

Gov. Newsom Asks Judge to Block Use of Military in LA

16 States Sue Feds Over Firearm Conversion Devices

‘Paid insurrectionists’: Amid unrest in L.A, Trump returns to an unsettling old favorite (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Protests Over Immigration Raids Spread Across US  Note the word ‘planned’.

House Launched Probe Into Harvard Over ‘Discrimination in Hiring’

CBS’s Dickerson Uses 71 Years Since Fall of McCarthy as Veiled Attack on Trump’s ‘Cruelty’

Rogue NGOs Prepare For Nationwide Color Revolution; Walmart Heiress Calls For “Mobilization”

Taxpayer-Funded ‘Public Radio’ Station Posts Radical ‘Resistance Calendar’

Viral Footage Appears To Show Waymo Vehicles Fleeing Los Angeles After Riots 

Is Trump’s Birthday Parade a Celebration of the Army or a Funeral Cortege for Democracy? (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)

National Guard in downtown Santa Ana after protesters clashed with police over ICE raids (Orange County Register)

WATCH: Fed-Up LA Business Owners Rip Into Rioters After Looting Rampage

WATCH: Fed-Up LA Business Owners Rip Into Rioters After Looting Rampage

Poll: Majority Favor Trump’s Immigration Approach

Judge rejects Newsom’s request to immediately intervene against Trump (April Rubin/Axios)

TikTok star detained by ICE, leaves US amid Trump immigration crackdown (Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing/Politico)

Trump orders names restored to Army bases honoring Confederate leaders (Jason Lalljee/Axios)

Trump to Restore Names of 7 Army Bases Changed by Biden

Former, current CDC employees call on RFK Jr. to resign (Kristal Dixon/Axios)  Don’t hold your breath.

Gov. Newsom Calls Hegseth ‘Joke’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Military members boo Newsom, Biden and the press during Trump speech (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Marines that deployed to Los Angeles have not yet responded to immigration protests (Associated Press)  They were deployed to protect Federal buildings and other Federal property. If the rioters don’t bother then, they won’t bother the rioters.

The Vicious MAGA Feedback Loop Feeding Trump’s L.A. Crackdown (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  One of the Kristol Krew loses his shit.

White House proposes axing 988 suicide hotline services for LGBTQ youth (Jo Yurcaba/NBC News)  Because, as we all know, prefenting LGBTQRSTUVWZYZ suicide is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Stephen Miller Behind Draconian Orders That Set Off L.A. Protests (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)  Draconian!

Appeals Court Keeps Trump’s Tariffs In Place For Now

FBI Director Patel Sues MSNBC Columnist Over False Nightclub Claims

Billionaire Walmart Heiress Promotes Nationwide Anti-Trump Protests (Jemima McEvoy/Forbes)  Democrats: Party of the rich.

Pam Bondi Drops The Hammer: L.A. Rioters Face Federal Robbery Charges Under Hobbs Act

Sorry PBS, Trump’s L.A. Military Deployments Were Not So Unprecedented

CNN: Arrest Of Union Leader Blocking ICE Was Trump’s ‘Weaponization, Targeting’  Wouldn’t surprise me. So what?

Immigration raid rocks Nebraska meatpacking plant; protesters and law enforcement clash (Jeremy Turley/Flatwater Free Press)

Newsom Says Trump Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests (Laurel Rosenhall/New York Times)  Trump isn’t the one pushing the riots. Mostly it’s the Dramacrats destroying U.S. democracy.

Today President Donald J. Trump made it clear that the provocations he and his administration … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)  Oh, I see: Enforcing the law and suppressing riots is ‘provocation’.

Vance, Rubio peddle fiction that 88 percent of foreign aid doesn’t go overseas (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)  Fiction!

Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires–and Reveals His Own Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Trump’s ludicrously sloppy legal rationale for occupying LA (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Stephen Miller can’t make America white. LA is paying for his impotent rage (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Trump’s War on International Students (Washington Monthly)

The Trump Administration Keeps Denying Disaster Preparedness Aid to States (Zahra Hirji/Bloomberg)  Because, as we all know,  state disaster preparedness is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Fearmongering Pundits Disappointed AGAIN As Consumer Prices Refuse To Surge On Trump Tariffs

MAGA feasts on red meat as Trump escalates L.A. showdown (Tal Axelrod/Axios)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)

PBS’s Most Biased Reporter Tries to Transform Trump Into an Anti-Semite

Kimmel Claims ‘Mentally Ill’ Trump ‘Wants There To Be a War’ in LA  There is already a war in L.A., started by proglodytes and foreigners.

With reporters shot and roughed up, advocates question whether those covering protests are targets (David Bauder/Associated Press)  If they make themselves targets – as they tend to do.

Despite administration rhetoric, ICE heavily targets non-criminals (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  Philip Bump apparently believes that being in the country illegally doesn’t make you a criminal. He’s wrong.

Donald Trump v. America (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost)

Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He’s Actually a Weak Man (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  He looks pretty strong to me.

‘No Kings’: Millions to Protest Trump’s ‘Dictator-Style Birthday Parade’ (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)

Professor Sends Email Encouraging Campus To Join LA Protests Against ICE

Trump’s Grotesque Military Address (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  William Kristol loses his shit. (Don’t worry – he’s got a lot left.)

The Purpose of Trump’s Terror (Rick Wilson/Rick Wilson’s Intel …)  Terror!

Trump’s Fort Bragg speech was a serious step toward ending democracy (Stephen Saideman/MSNBC)

Trump is waging war against citizens in LA. This is a dangerous new era (Judith Levine/The Guardian)

MSNBC’s Wallace: Trump Wants To ‘F*** Around With The Military’

ICE Arrests Illegal Alien for Molotov Cocktail Attack on Law Enforcement Caught on Video (Department of Homeland Security)

Brian Stelter Says ‘Most Angelenos Are Having a Perfectly Normal Day’—Right Before LA Declares Curfew

The secret police descending on Small Town, U.S.A. (Catherine Rampell/Washington Post) Catherine Rampell loses her shit.

ABC: ICE, National Guard, Marines ‘Just Following Orders’ Like Nazis

NPR CEO Claims Federal Funding Needed For Safe Drinking Water  Because, as we all know, safe drinking water is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Illegal alien charged with attempted murder for throwing Molotov cocktail at officers in LA riots: DHS (Fox News)

US’s worldwide popularity plummets thanks to ‘arrogant’ Trump (Yurii Stasiuk/Politico)  Funny, he never complained about dementia Biden.

Trump’s EPA delivers new blow to Biden climate agenda (Politico)  I like it already.

House Democrats Brand Trump’s LA Riot Response ‘Unlawful,’ ‘Reckless’  The NEENER NEENER NEENER is implied.

Federal Judge Denies Newsom’s Request to Restrict National Guard in LA

The New Neo.

She says it better than I could. He will be missed.

ZMan does a deep dive.

Since Trump arrived for a second turn at the wheel, everyone has been wondering when the Blob would make its move against him. The one thing we know about these people is they never take no for an answer. Every setback is met with a new round of schemes against their enemies. The relatively muted response to this point has had many people scratching their heads. The invader riots in Los Angeles that are spreading to other cities appear to be the long-awaited response.

At this point, it is clear that the Los Angeles riot is synthetic. The internet is full of images and videos showing professionally trained rioters. For example, whenever you see college aged white girls with whistles at one of these things, you know the army of not-for-profits has their people on the ground training protestors. The whistle is a common, low-tech item for professional protestors. It is often used to alert the lawyers stationed at the protest to come to the area.

There is also the fact that the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, was on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy. This is one of the main hubs of the Blob, primarily used to stage color revolutions around the world. When Bass was in Congress she was on a committee that had the job of overseeing NED, while she was also their most senior board member. Of course, the color revolution queen, Victoria Nuland, is currently a senior Blob person at NED.

It appears that the plan is to replay the Summer of Floyd, but this time with little brown guys as the fig leaf for the project. The George Floyd riots were also a manufactured crisis, organized by white activists. They caught fire and became a series of race riots, where blacks burned down their own neighborhoods, but the general operation was run out of Washington. This time they are trying get the migrants and brown activists worked up into a ghetto riot.

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The total number of migrants illegally crossing the English Channel by small boat hit 15,000 for this year to date, new figures show.

Wednesday, June 11th, saw approximately 120 individuals brought ashore in the early morning, with more predicted to follow. These arrivals are the first since a record 1,195 migrants in 19 small boats made ‘successful’ crossings on a single day, June 3rd. This followed another record total for 2025, making the last day of spring awkward for Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.

Hundreds more are expected to attempt the journey today, with warm weather and calm seas on their side?mirroring the government’s excuse for its failure to ‘smash the gangs.’

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President Trump gave a speech at Fort Bragg today to a record crowd of U.S. soldiers. As part of his remarks, the president announced that the forts that used to be named for Confederate generals will have those names restored, including Fort Hood, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee.

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The life of a  proglodyte consists of pestering normal people.

Newsbusters.

Google may be NPR and PBS’s partners in crime, but even the tech giant’s AI chatbot Gemini can’t run cover for the leftist outlets’ taxpayer-funded shell game.

On Friday, Gemini gave inconsistent information in response to MRC Free Speech America’s questions about how much taxpayer dollars, both federal and state, NPR receives. Is it one, four or 10 percent of NPR’s total budget? Gemini claimed it is all of the above. Apparently, NPR’s funding is a multiple-choice mystery.

“The amount NPR and PBS receive in taxpayer dollars is as closely guarded a secret as Google’s algorithm,” said MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider. “That’s precisely why Google AI Gemini can’t say exactly how much the two leftist outlets receive in taxpayer dollars—because NPR and PBS won’t say.”

Gemini’s conflicting answer was unsurprising, since it nearly exclusively relied on none other than NPR as a source. NPR has never clearly broken down its total taxpayer funding, including money from federal and state governments and member stations, which receive taxpayer dollars through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Gee, I wonder why.

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Senior officials inside the NIH are working to shut down a Tony Fauci initiative launched in 2020 called the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases or “CREID.” Meanwhile, attorneys inside the Justice Department have launched initial inquiries into one of the CREID grants awarded to Scripps Research Institute researcher Kristian Andersen, who is now in the process of fleeing the United States for a position being created for him at the University of Oslo.

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Don’t hold your breath.

Further evidenced that this is an officially sanctioned invasion.s

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Time to leave.

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About time some of these crooks went to jail. (Well, we can hope….)

UPDATE: Congresswoman Charged for Forcibly Impeding and Interfering With Federal Officers (US Department of Justice)

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A former director of a Massachusetts migrant shelter is blowing the whistle on the disastrous situation wrought by the state’s sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants under Democrat Gov. Maura Healey, combined with the Biden administration’s open-border policies.

Jon Fetherston, who managed a hotel-turned-migrant shelter in Marlborough, Massachusetts, from November 2023 to July 2024, urged Attorney General Pam Bondi in a letter Monday to investigate Healey’s migrant shelter program, calling it “dangerous and corrupt,” Blaze News reported Tuesday. Fetherston added there is “a disturbing pattern of criminal activity, sexual assaults, financial abuse, and the widespread use of no-bid contracts.”

Fetherston shared the letter he wrote to Bondi on his X account. Among the most concerning failures he observed was rampant criminal activity within the shelters, which posed threats to residents and the nearby community.

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Topline: An annex to California’s Capitol Building was supposed to cost $543 million, but the price has doubled to $1.1 billion and now includes hallways designed to hide lawmakers from journalists.

Tell the truth: Who could blame them?

Key facts: KCRA 3 reported that the annex will include a new parking garage and visitor’s center and office space for 120 state lawmakers. The news station pointed out it is almost as expensive as the $1.3 billion spent on Levi’s Stadium, the San Francisco 49ers’ football stadium that seats 68,500 people.

KCRA 3’s sources revealed the annex will include private hallways. The building’s current layout means lawmakers must walk through a public “swing space” to get from hearing rooms to the elevators, where journalists can ask them questions about the day’s proceedings. The new layout will allow lawmakers to avoid the swing space.

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DEI practices are ipso facto discriminatory. Harvard is in obvious violation of the ‘civil rights’ laws.

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A Democratic state lawmaker in New York has proposed a cap on the number of cows that farms in the state are allowed to maintain.

Legislation sponsored by Brooklyn Democratic State Senator Jabari Brisport proposed the cap to be set at 699. The bill would require the state to block the expansion or creation of a farm reaching or exceeding 700 cows.

The New York Post reported that Brisport and several other Democratic lawmakers who have signed the legislation in support believe that large farming operations pose threats ranging from greenhouse gases to manure runoff getting into streams, lakes, and rivers.

The Democrat compulsion to regulate businesses to death will eventually destroy New York.

Time to leave.

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Wine and spirits distributor Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) is leaving the California market.

RNDC cited increasing costs and changes among suppliers as one of the reasons it has decided to stop operating in the state.

“This decision follows years of increasing costs, industry headwinds, and supplier shifts that have made it difficult to operate sustainably in the state,” its leadership said in an emailed statement to its customers on June 4. “We are incredibly proud of our California team and all of their hard work over the years. Please know that our commitment to you during this transition remains unwavering.”

Time to leave.

The Times (UK).

Members of Britain’s largest teaching union hosted an event where teachers were told that there is no legal definition for biological sex.

The claims were made at an online seminar held last month by the trans and non-binary network of National Education Union (NEU) members to advise non-trans “allies” how to support transgender rights.

The event, entitled “Solidarity in Practice: Building Sustainable and Effective Cisgender Allyship”, attracted more than 150 people including teachers and other trade union members.

British unions have embraced insanity.

Time to leave.

War of words between Trump and Newsom over LA protests escalates with arrest threat (Alexandra Hutzler/ABC News)

Trump supports Tom Homan arresting Newsom over California protests (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is floating a federal tax boycott. Here’s what to know. (Aimee Picchi/CBS News)

Calif. Sheriff: Harris Blaming Trump for LA Protests Embarrassing

Justice Jackson warns the Supreme Court is manipulating the rules to benefit Trump (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Bipartisan lawmakers seek to reverse Trump’s staff cuts at program that helps Americans afford heat, air conditioning (Rachel Frazin/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, helping Americans afford heating and air conditioning is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Fderal taxpayer.

MSNBC’s David Noriega Denies Violence from L.A.’s ‘Peaceful Protests’

4 things to know about the immigration raid protests that roiled LA this weekend (NPR)  Come and get yer Narrative, right here.

RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines (Annika Kim Constantino/CNBC)

Trump Budget’s Caps on Grad School Loans Could Worsen Doctor Shortage (Roni Caryn Rabin/New York Times) The ‘doctor shortage’ is because the government won’t allow new medical schools to be built. We’re already importing more doctors from overseas than ever before. I have three specialists that I see regularly: Two are Indian and one is Pakistani.

Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel (Helen Branswell/STAT)

Trump deploying the National Guard is part of a bigger plan (Abdallah Fayyad/Vox)

Trump says he’d arrest Gov. Newsom (Sareen Habeshian/Axios)  And I would encourage him to do so.

About 700 Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests, sources tell CNN (CNN)

The Trump Administration Is Turning ICE Raids and Protests Into Reality TV (Makena Kelly/Wired)

ABC News: Trump Ordered National Guard to ‘Attack the Protesters,’ Start ‘Civil War’

Trump Calls Protesters in Los Angeles ‘Insurrectionists’ (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

California union leader charged with federal conspiracy counts after being arrested during L.A. ICE protest (Jacob Rosen/CBS News)

Latinas For Trump Co-Founder Rips Trump Immigration Policies As ‘Unacceptable And Inhumane’ (Nina Golgowski/HuffPost)

Trump flexes executive power through the military (Politico)  Maybe he ought to start a war, like Obama and Biden did.

Juan Williams Ignorantly Compares ICE Agents to Nazi Police Force  As they eternally do.

Mass deportations are an unnatural fit for a country purporting to be free (Andy Craig/MSNBC)

It May Feel Like the 1960s, but It’s Worse (Serge Schmemann/New York Times)  Yeah, this time the Democrats are even more on the side of the rioters.

RFK Jr. purges every vaccine adviser on CDC panel; will pick replacements (Washington Post)

Gavin Newsom: Trump is ‘unhinged,’ speaking like an ‘authoritarian’ (Politico)  He’s enforcing the law, which is literally his job.

Anti-vaccine advocate RFK Jr. fires entire CDC panel of vaccine advisors (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)

‘Clean Sweep’: RFK Jr. Boots Entire CDC ‘Rubber-Stamp’ Vax Panel

Cleaning up Trump’s mess, California surges regional law enforcement response in Los Angeles (Marissasaldivar/Governor of California)

The Criminal Case Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Highly Suspect (Mark Joseph Stern/Slate)  He’s illegal. That’s all they need.

Democrats accuse Gabbard of illegal interference in IG office (Washington Post)

Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  Send them to Hamas, the torture experts.

This Is What Autocracy Looks Like — Since Donald Trump was elected again … (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles (David Dayen/American Prospect)

Trump Calls Up the Marines. Democracy Is in Danger. (Sasha Abramsky/The Nation)  Apparently democracy = riots.

Networks Double Down on Illegals, Bash Trump ‘Creating the Conditions’ for LA Riots

NIH scientists publish “Bethesda Declaration” rebuking Trump admin (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)  He might even care.

A U.S. Archbishop Shreds Trump’s Budget Bill: “The Cruelty of This Bill Is Historic” (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)  Because, as we all know, once someone has received money from the taxpayers he or she is ENTITLED to that amount (or more ) forever.

What A Day: MAGA’s Dripless Fits (Crooked Media)  A very appropriate name. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

A Tale of Two Resolutions: 75 Dems Join GOP in Resolution Praising Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime (Jonathan Cohn)

Playbook: The LA standoff Trump wanted (Politico)  No, the standoff that the Left wanted. They started it. They’re keeping it up. Trump is just enforcing the law, which is his job.

The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown (Wall Street Journal)  The WSJ has officially joined the Narrative Media.

Inside the MAGA vs. hawk battle to sway Trump on bombing Iran (Politico)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump is coming for the ‘enemy within’ (Edward Luce/Financial Times)  Indeed he is, with good reason as we have seen.

ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body (Emily Mullin/Wired)  All you have to do is not riot. But apparently that’s beyond the crazy Left.

Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)  Mostly on the part of the Narrative Media.

Unrestrained Trump flirts with Insurrection Act as Marines deploy to L.A. (Zachary Basu/Axios)  With good reason.

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything. (Patrick Marley/Washington Post)  By revealing how bad it was getting.

How viral images are shaping views of L.A.’s immigration showdown (Washington Post)  By revealing the truth, rather than the narrative spin. Case in point: FBI Seeking LA Rock-Throwing Suspect Elpidio Reyna

Anti-ICE protests held coast-to-coast after L.A. unrest as national movement grows (Patrick Smith/NBC News)  Good luck with that.

The Bully’s Pulpit Comes Home (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner’s World)

Ridiculous NY Times Article Cites ‘Largely Peaceful’ L.A. Riots Four Times

‘We’re happy to have this fight’: Trump administration leans into California protests (NBC News)  Great videos for the next Republican political campaign: Trump popularity surges on LA riots, immigration stance

We Finally Know What “American Carnage” Was About (Paul Krugman)  He must have slept through the COVID scamdemic.

Donald Trump Proven Right Again–LA Riots Fizzle As Overwhelming Force Shows Who’s Boss (Bob Hoge/RedState)

Bannon calls for special counsel probe of Musk (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)

Elon Was Right, Trump Is Compromised and Knows It: Ex-Aide (Josephine Harvey/The Daily Beast)

LA protests: Riot gear distributed by masked group sparks questions (Austin Williams/FOX 11 Los Angeles)

There Are No ‘Distractions’ In A War, Only Fronts (Oliver Willis Explains)  Racist escalator!

CNN Panel Triggered By Trump’s Description Of Rioters As “Insurrectionists”

CBS Comedians Melt Down At Trump’s ‘Fascist Impulses’ Amid LA Riots

Kooky David Frum: Trump’s L.A. Riot Response Is Dress Rehearsal for Midterm Military Takeover

Stewart and Meyers See Racism and ‘Authoritarianism’ In Trump’s LA Riot Response

The Head of a New RFK-Backing Group Promoted 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)  Because, as we all know, RFK is TOTALLY responsible for the views of anybody who might ‘back’ him – but don’t dare apply that same standard to Democrats….

Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say (Adam Liptak/New York Times)  Scholars say! That proves it!

LA Mayor Blames US Government For Inciting Protests

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How did Hamas do it on October 7? This time, I don’t mean to ask how they had so little humanity as to butcher over 1,200 innocents in Israel in a single day of horrors, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Nor do I refer to the level of brainwashing or innate evil necessary to kill 370 young people at a dance party, to rape and genitally mutilate screaming women and girls, or to drag 250 hostages – including 12 Americans – back to Gaza. No, at present, I am speaking of practical and, ultimately, financial capability: how was Hamas able to afford the trucks, the motorcycles, the assault weapons and grenades, the paragliders and massive tunnel networks that enabled their terroristic invasion on that black day? To a large extent, the answer can be found at a single address: Qatar, the absolute monarchy on the Arabian peninsula that is the beating heart of modern terrorism financing.

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Former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen to sign official presidential documents has been revealed to be far more widespread than originally suspected, according to new revelations by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.

Oversight Project lead investigator Kyle Brosnan said his team pulled official proclamations from the National Archives for the first two years of the Biden administration.

“There’s around several hundred of them — and through that analysis, we were able to determine that there was a third autopen signature that was used to sign those proclamations” as early as his first year in office in 2021, he said.

Brosnan’s team uncovered that there are now three unique signatures that the Biden administration used via the autopen to sign documents during the former president’s four years in the White House. The uniform and flawless nature of the signatures across hundreds of documents suggests a mechanical output leading the team to uncover a third, previously undiscovered, use of the device.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Israeli Defence minister Israel Katz warned Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on Tuesday they will face a naval and air blockade if they do not halt attacks on Israel.

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On Sunday during live coverage of the Los Angeles riots, local ABC affiliate KABC ran footage that did not match what the anchors were describing. Jory Rand went as far as to say the protestors were “having fun watching cars burn,” but would he feel that way if that was his car? Would this have been just another example of the liberal media distracting from the obvious facts?

Los Angeles took a beating earlier this year with the historic wildfires in January but has taken another pounding with the city’s breakout over ICE arrests and deportations. Again, the city and nation turn heads due to the lack of leadership and command to simply protect the people of Los Angeles, ranging from California Governor Gavin Newsom, down to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

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I suggest strapping Greta to an aid carton and leaving her for the hyenas.

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Imagine it’s late 2025, and you’re at the grocery store, but your digital wallet’s throwing a tantrum. “Transaction denied: You questioned the climate mandate on X.” Your punishment? No organic kale for you, science denying, conspiracy theorist.

Welcome to the New World Order’s fever dream, where autonomy is as outdated as a VHS tape. We’ve all been shouting into the void about this globalist circus since 2022. Since then we’ve dealt with this geopolitical mess through the trade wars, the CBDC obsession, the wars in Europe and the Middle East, the threat of more scamdemics, all building to a 2025 power grab that will make dystopian novelists jealous.

But we don’t sip the Kool-Aid. This article rips apart the NWO’s playbook, exposes its psychological dirty tricks, and hands you a toolkit to stay free. Ready to outsmart the overlords? Let’s roll.

ZMan reviews The Accountant 2:

In the first film, Affleck plays an autistic guy who was raised and trained by a military father to be a warrior, but his autism lets him be an accounting savant due to his extraordinary math skills. We first met him when he was hired to audit the books of a biotech company. We learn his backstory as the plot leads him from the audit to the action thriller portion of the story.
The sequel feels like it was made by first putting plot ideas into a hat and then drawing out a bunch of them. These were then given to separate teams of writers to create those sections of the plot. Then it was filmed separately and stitched together by whoever is tasked with editing. It also has far too many people, so it wastes a lot of time trying to explain why they are in the film.
It starts with the J. K. Simmons character from the first film in retirement, working on a mysterious case. He is meeting a female assassin at a bar when a group of assassins turn up to kill him. There is a big shootout with all the John Wick style fighting scenes, but it is unclear if the assassins are there for the female or for Simmons. They kill Simmons, which is the hook to bring in the rest of the cast.
The strong black female who was trained by Simmons in the first film is now being strong and black in his old job. Simmons had written the words “FIND THE ACCOUNTANT” on his arm during the shootout. She sees this at the morgue and then sets out to locate the accountant, Ben Affleck. The death of Simmons is the McGuffin to get the band together to solve the mystery of his death.
At this point the film starts taking detours to explore the characters. We learn that Affleck has been learning how to date. His brother is learning how to buy a pet, which makes no sense at the time. We learn that Affleck works with a secret army of autistic children who help him break into computer systems, identify people, and help him solve mysteries in real time. I did not make that up.

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Well, now we know.