Exclusive: Trump’s letting Putin “embarrass” the U.S., Sen. Shaheen says (Dave Lawler/Axios)

ICE Barbie Dropped F-Bombs on ‘Screaming’ Call With DHS Officials After Embarrassing Stories (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

Hundreds of stars sign letter defending free speech after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension (Mark Kennedy/Associated Press)  And not one of them had anything bad to say about Woke cancel culture.

Suspect detained after allegedly pointing laser at Marine One with Trump on board (Faith Wardwell/Politico)

Stephanopoulos Pretends Justice Department Was NEVER Politicized Under Democrats

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire F.T.C. Commissioner (New York Times)

Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence (Associated Press)

EPA reorganization sparks fears of ‘political interference’ (Politico)  The EPA has been political since Nixon established it.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Promotes Unproven Ties to Autism With a Common Painkiller and Vaccines (Alan Feuer/New York Times)

Unease grows at the Justice Department as Trump’s threats get even more blunt (Carrie Johnson/NPR)

Trump Drug Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Damning New Facts Emerge (The New Republic)

As Trump orders more deadly military strikes on civilian boats, Congress eyes next steps (MSNBC)

The United States’ Dirty War on “Narco Terrorism” (Just Security)

Getting Away with Murder (New York Review of Books) You might ask why a book review would publish such a political article. But it would be pointless; they are all Voices of the Narrative.

Trump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn’t back him up (NPR) No, he doesn’t. He merely suggests that there may be a connection, and advises caution. This is the sort of lie-by-exaggeration in which the Narrative Media specialize.

Brendan Carr accuses Democrats of ‘distortion’ over Kimmel comments (Max Rego/The Hill)  Distortion is what they do.

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants (Jaweed Kaleem/Los Angeles Times)

The flimsy evidence behind Trump’s big autism announcement, explained (Dylan Scott/Vox)

“He Never Took The $50,000” – White House Spox Says Biden’s Weaponized FBI Tried To Entrap Tom Homan With Bribe No matter. They’ll just lie about it. It’s what they do.

Did Trump’s deportation czar accept $50K in cash? (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Harris blasts ‘feckless’ billionaires bending to ‘tyrant’ Trump (MSNBC)

The MAGA Movement Is Ready to Dump Donald Trump. Here’s His Replacement (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)  There’s that MAGA guy again. Wonder what he’s up to in the Narrative fantasy world today?

Conservative writer Bill Kristol took to social media today to say: “So many coverups. … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)  Bill Kristol quit being ‘conservative’ when he realized that nobody was paying attention to him any more.

Behind the Curtain: The most unprecedented presidency in 250 years (Axios)  The Narrative Media Mind-Readers are on the march!

The Trump Vengeance Tour Is Coming to a Stadium Near You (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

Trump’s new anti-antifa panic is the start of something much more dangerous (Christopher Mathias/MSNBC)

‘Pay no attention’: global health agencies dismiss false Trump claim on everyday painkillers (Oliver Holmes/The Guardian)

The very specific way America could become authoritarian (Vox)  If Democrats were in charge?

America’s accelerating exit from itself (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Trump is waging culture war on Europe by promoting rightwing allies, report finds (Jon Henley/The Guardian)

Trump’s announcement linking Tylenol and autism is already doing major damage (Eric Garcia/MSNBC)  To pharma profits, perhaps.

The Department of Homeland Security Is Unlawfully Collecting DNA (Stevie Glaberson/Lawfare)

Trump’s crackdown on high-skill immigration will make Americans poorer (Eric Levitz/Vox)  Oh, Americans are richer by foreigners taking their jobs? I see.

How Fox covers for Trump administration malfeasance (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)

Stephanopoulos Heckles Rubio, Argues He Killed Innocent People by Ending USAID

Fact-Checking Trump’s U.N. Speech (Linda Qiu/New York Times)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

MAGA Rages Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Return–and Reveals a Big Trump Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit. (There’s that magic MAGA guy again….)

Trump Hit by Devastating Polls on Issues That Won Him the Election (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Why Is the American Experiment in Trouble? Simple: A Demagogue Has Ignited the ‘Dark Passions’ of the People (Jonathan Rauch/The UnPopulist)

A New Count for Trump’s Next Impeachment: Practicing Medicine Without a License

‘Unserious and Ridiculous Demands’: Trump Cancels Budget Talks With Democrats as Shutdown Looms

Charlie Kirk tribute scrapped by Sinclair after local TV giant got threats against its ABC stations: source (Ariel Zilber/New York Post)

Sinclair Won’t Air Kimmel’s Return on ABC Affiliates

Selective Outrage and Political Spin: The Charlie Kirk Fallout

CNN: Charlie Kirk Memorial ‘Mostly Hateful’

Watch: Don Lemon Rants Against “Christian Messaging” And “Religious Nationalism” At Charlie Kirk’s Memorial

Two women arrested for vandalism of Charlie Kirk memorial in Bentonville

Sinclair will preempt Jimmy Kimmel’s show, replacing with ‘news programming’ (Max Rego/The Hill)

REGIME MEDIA: Legacy Newscasts Cheer Kimmel Return

Kimmel’s show to return Tuesday, but Sinclair will continue to keep it off its ABC stations (CNN)

Trump Shits All Over Message of Charlie Kirk’s Widow at His Memorial (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

New Leftist Talking Point: “Christian Nationalism” Is Latest Threat To Democracy

Oliver Doesn’t Understand Why Kimmel’s Remarks Were So Bad

Rasmussen Poll: 54% of Liberals Call Kirk’s Killing ‘Understandable’ (NewsMax)

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The revelation to the French public of the close ties between certain public service journalists and the Left by the conservative magazine L’Incorrect sent shockwaves through the small world of French media, the effects of which are still being felt. Under these circumstances, reform of public broadcasting is more urgent than ever, especially since a report by the Court of Auditors has revealed its catastrophic management and the financial drain it represents for the public purse.

In early September, L’Incorrect magazine published a recording made in a Parisian café, revealing a conversation between France Inter state radio journalists Patrick Cohen and Thomas Legrand and Socialist Party executives, leaving no doubt about the degree of collusion between these figures and their concerted strategy to use the public media to push their electoral advantage at the expense of the Right.

Since then, the journalists in question, and behind them the management of the public broadcasting service—Radio France and France Télévisions—have been struggling painfully to restore their reputation, between attacks on whistleblowers and denials of bad faith.

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Well, we know whose side they’re on.

The Foundry.

The Department of War is discontinuing a committee criticized for pushing feminism in the military, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Signal.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed the memo saying he has determined that the reinstatement of the Defense Advisory Committee for Women in the Services should not proceed.

The committee cost the department $1,128,000 in fiscal years 2023-2024. This includes $485,000
in expenses and $643,000 in Defense Department labor.

The committee was originally created following the passage of the 1948 Women’s Armed Services Integration Act to advise on strategies to improve the recruitment of women into the U.S. military during the Korean War. But critics say DACOWITS today is largely advancing a feminist agenda with a detrimental effect on combat readiness.

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In the tense aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination earlier this month, prominent left-leaning figures have not relented in their efforts to incite violence against their political enemies.

On Monday evening, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann fired off a pair of now-deleted X posts that appeared to directly threaten CNN political commentator Scott Jennings, a vocal defender of conservative values.

The messages, captured in screenshots before they vanished, read: “You’re Next, Motherf*cker” followed by “But keep mugging to the camera.”

Newsbusters.

On the second day of the second quarter, President Donald Trump announced “reciprocal tariffs” on goods from countries charging exorbitant tariffs on U.S. exports. By the quarter’s end, the U.S. trade deficit shrank by 42.9%, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported Tuesday.

Newsbusters.

Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic featured regular roundtable journalist Vivian Salama of The Atlantic sitting in as moderator for Jeffrey Goldberg, and the topic was the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or rather, the GOP’s supposedly frightening and hypocritical reactions to Kirk’s assassination.

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Asma Khalid, another regular panelist now with the BBC, at least summarized the offensive thing Kimmel actually said, though without noting its falsehood (Kirk’s killer was a recently radicalized leftist).

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Guest host Salama took it further, perverting the failure of universities to protect the rights of Jewish students, into a crackdown on “dissent,” as if being nasty toward an assassination victim and attacking Jews on campus were just examples of peaceful protest.

“Trantifa”: The collection of ‘trans-gender’ terrorists.

Thanks to Rollo Tomassi for this excellent neologism.

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A duo of Tesla shareholder-influencers tried to complete Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving ride that he claimed Tesla would be able to do in 2017 and they crashed before making it about 60 miles.

In 2016, Elon Musk infamously said that Tesla would complete a fully self-driving coast-to-coast drive between Los Angeles and New York by the end of 2017.

The idea was to livestream or film a full unedited drive coast-to-coast with the vehicle driving itself at all times.
We are in 2025 and Tesla never made that drive.

Despite the many missed autonomous driving goals, many Tesla shareholders believe that the company is on the verge of delivering unsupervised self-driving following the rollout of its ‘Robotaxi’ fleet in Austin, which requires supervision from Tesla employees inside the vehicles, and improvements to its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) systems inside consumer vehicles, which is still only a level 2 driver assist system that requires driver attention at all times as per Tesla.

Two of these Tesla shareholders and online influencers attempted to undertake a coast-to-coast drive between San Diego, CA, and Jacksonville, FL, in a Tesla Model Y equipped with the latest FSD software update.

They didn’t make it out of California without crashing into easily avoidable road debris that badly damaged the Tesla Model Y.

Pardon me while I snicker. Anyone who drives a Tesla is a fool.

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Thousands took to the streets in Italy on Monday to protest against Israel’s attack on Gaza, blocking roads and railways as unions called a general strike and masked protesters clashed with police in Milan.

officers were injured as they used batons and tear gas to push back protesters who smashed windows at Milan’s central station.

Schools shut and train services were hit as staff responded to calls from unions to join marchers calling for a halt to Israel’s invasion of Gaza and backing the 50 vessel-strong flotilla trying to deliver aid to Palestinians.

Ah, more ‘mostly peaceful’ leftist protests.

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Bell Hotel resident Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, is to be sentenced at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court after he was found guilty of five charges, including two of sexual assault, following an earlier trial.

READ MORE: https://www.thetimes.com/article/67745584-2b15-46ff-9b65-4e7aebaca686

An Ethiopian asylum seeker who provoked nationwide protests when he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old schoolgirl and a woman near a migrant hotel in Essex has been convicted.

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The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee voted today, on September 23rd, against lifting the immunity of the Italian leftist MEP Ilaria Salis, who was arrested and imprisoned in Hungary in 2023 for participating in attacks organised by the Antifa-linked Hammerbande (Hammer Gang).

Members of this group bludgeoned nine innocent people—claiming they “looked like” neo-Nazis—with batons and hammers on the streets of Budapest.

Salis’s election to Italy’s Greens and Left Alliance in the European Parliament last year secured her immunity, which Hungarian authorities had requested to be lifted.

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The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), a multinational convoy of around 40 ships attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza, has been shaken by internal disputes and resignations.

The conflicts arose over the participation of queer and ‘LGBT’ activists, which several participants criticized as unrelated to the flotilla’s stated mission.

Khaled Boujemâa–the flotilla’s coordinator–resigned on September 16th in protest against Saif Ayadi, who identifies as a “queer activist.” Activist Mariem Meftah and moderator Samir Elwafi also criticized attempts to push a “culturally progressive agenda” into the mission. Meftah stated that homosexuality is a private matter and that exploiting the “holy cause of Al-Aqsa” for unrelated ideological purposes contradicts Islamic values.

The internal turmoil led Greta Thunberg to step down from the flotilla’s leadership team. She remains on board only as an organizer and volunteer.

Israeli-Swedish journalist David Stavrou has highlighted in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet that the flotilla includes participants with extremist, antisemitic, and chauvinist views, which raises serious questions about the operation’s true intent.

No question at all–it’s ‘true intent’ is virtue-signaling, pure and simple.

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The lawsuits involve computer models with zero predictive capability; conclusory assertions devoid of actual supportive evidence; and refusal to recognize Earth’s tumultuous climate history, powerful natural forces that caused momentous climate changes long before the fossil fuel era, written records and data over the past 200 years showing no unprecedented changes or trends in climate or weather, and an inability to separate natural from alleged human causes.

The Antiplanner.

Andrew Thomas, an assistant professor at Helena’s Carroll College, asked the Montana Department of Commerce, which distributes affordable housing credits and grants to developers, for all of the successful applications for low-income housing tax credits since 2000. The department graciously responded by providing information about nearly 190 housing projects.

Thomas had some of his students transcribe the data from the applications into a spreadsheet that he gave me to analyze. The applications tell how many units and how many livable square feet would be built in each project and break down costs into such categories as property acquisition, construction, professional fees, developer fees, and project reserves. The applications don’t say how tall each project would be but Thomas also asked his student to look up each project on Google street view to determine how many stories tall they were.

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Comparing costs from projects built in 2000 through 2004 with those of projects built in 2019 through 2023 revealed that the cost per square foot had risen by 83 percent or $154 (in 2023 dollars) per square foot. The costs of just “construction” (including such things as relocation expenses, contractor overhead and profits, and permits as well as construction itself) grew by 44 percent or $49 per square foot, so other costs were responsible for most of the $154 increase.

Newsbusters.

And rightly so. Listen to anti-white racists like Maxine Waters, and Jasmine Crockett on TV and tell me they don’t scare the pants off of you.

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The UN has announced it will need to cut $500m from their 2026 budget and will lay off 20% of its staff as it struggles to cope with a massive reduction in funding by the Trump administration. Trump has eliminated at least $1 billion in total funding from the UN.

The plan is likely to involve an initial minimum 3,000 job cuts out of a 35,000-strong main workforce, with eventual job losses at around 7,000. The overall UN core or regular budget would be cut from $3.7bn to about $3.2bn next year. It means reductions of 15.1% in resources and 18.8% in posts in the regular budget compared with the 2025 budget.

Despite the funding losses, UN Secretary General António Guterres continues to press ahead with his new “pact for the future” focusing on artificial intelligence and policies for sustainable development. The UN is now looking for alternative funding for their operations, though, it is unlikely they will be able to fill the void left by US cuts. Most countries have no interest in paying more; the reliance has been entirely on Americans for generations.

The U.N. has been a mechanism for sucking U.S. taxpayer dollars to Turd World bureaucrats for at least sixty years.

Newsbusters.

The nation struggles to come to grips with this latest rash of political violence. One of these incidents involved the shooting of the lobby of ABC’s Sacramento affiliate. Shockingly, NBC was the only newscast to offer these new details.

The Spot, New Haven, Connecticut. Finest kind.

The Telegraph (UK).

GPs have been told they must stop dismissing patients following the death of a young woman who was turned away 20 times by the NHS.

Jessica Brady died from cancer in 2020, after her concerns were repeatedly brushed off with online consultations and she was not sent for tests.

Andrea and Simon Brady, her parents, have since campaigned successfully for the introduction of new guidance, named Jess’s Rule, in a case highlighted by the Telegraph.

How about that great government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

No,  I didn’t think so. This is what happens when you put the Post Office in charge of your medical care.

The Times (UK).

Grooming gangs will be able to carry out their crimes with “impunity” if a new definition of Islamophobia is given the go-ahead, the Conservatives have warned.

Writing in The Times, Claire Coutinho, the shadow equalities minister, said that the definition risked intensifying the “culture of censorship” by creating a “special status” for one group over others.

She claimed that Labour was only pressing ahead with the new definition to stave off the threat posed by pro-Gaza candidates at the next election.

The Times (UK).

Teenagers who fail their English and maths GCSEs should not be forced to resit the exams unless they have a “realistic” chance of passing, the Commons education committee has said.

In a report published on Tuesday, the cross-party group of MPs urged the government to introduce three alternative pathways for the thousands of post-16 pupils who do not achieve a grade 4 in these core subjects.

It warned that the policy of mandatory resits was “not serving its purpose”, as more than 80 per cent of pupils who failed at 16 had still not passed by age 19.

It is exactly serving its purpose, which is to ensure that people who have gone through the educational system have actually learned what they were supposed to learn. This reflects the proglodyte ‘participation trophy’ mindset, and demonstrates that Britain is now what Democrats what America to become.

Hormonal contraception was made available to the public in 1960.

Abortion-on-demand was declared a constitutional right in 1974.

Connect the dots … if you can.

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The Supreme Court Monday announced it would take up a case that gets to the heart of why the deep state exists—it will revisit a precedent that defended the bureaucracy against the executive power vested in the president.

In Donald Trump v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the Supreme Court blocked a lower court order forcing the president to re-hire a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission after he had fired her in March.

On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it wasn’t just allowing Trump to fire Slaughter until the case is resolved in court, but also that it would fully consider the case.

The court’s majority directed both parties to argue two central questions: “Whether the statutory removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission violate the separation of powers and, if so, whether Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935), should be overruled”; and “Whether a federal court may prevent a person’s removal from public office, either through relief at equity or at law.”

Victor Davis Hanson.

I’d like to return, if I could, to the brutal murder of the Ukrainian immigrant, Ms. Iryna Zarutska, who was killed on a light rail, as we saw from the video, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

I think the way to look at this, this was a horrible scab—this incident—but once it was pulled off, we saw a putrid wound underneath. And all of our pathologies that we really have to deal with were apparent and led to her death.

The first thing, of course, is she was blamed—I could not believe it—in some of the videos that she was not situationally aware. That she walked into an area where there was a suspicious-looking individual with a hoodie on—black Americans, that maybe they meant by their analyses that they have, statistically, higher prope

The Investigative Project on Terrorism

On July 14 at 6:15AM, armed members of the Syrian Security Directorate surrounded the Saraya family home in the predominantly Druze province of Sweida. They began shooting wildly into the house where the large Saraya family members were sleeping including the Saraya brothers, husbands, mothers and wives lived. They were “security forces”— violent jihadists inducted into the armed forces of newly installed President al-Shara, himself a long-time leader of radical Islamic terrorist group who once had a $10 million dollar U.S. bounty on his head for the murder of thousands of innocent civilians including Americans.

In the home at the time was 35-year-old Hussam Saraya, an American from Oklahoma who had returned to Sweida to help his brothers and sister take care of their father, whose health was in serious decline. The security forces dragged the 8 men living on the second floor and handcuffed and blindfolded them. They were led up the street to Tishreen Square where they were machine gunned to death in a horrific manner, captured on video that went viral on social media.

I have been interviewing leaders of the Syrian Druze as well as other religious minorities for the past 5 months who have been subjected to violent mass murder that reached a total of 3,000 Druze in a 7-day period in mid-July. The total number of minorities killed by al-Shara’s forces since taking power is now at least 10,000. They were deliberately slaughtered one by one in what can only be categorized as a true genocide, one that the mainstream media has largely ignored.

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A whistleblower letter obtained by The Croton Chronicle has cast new light on a free-speech issue in Croton-on-Hudson, a quiet village 40 miles north of New York City, where a resident’s Trump flag became the subject of code enforcement action and a federal inquiry, even coming to the attention of President Donald Trump.

The letter, written by Code Enforcement Officer Thor Snilsberg and filed with village officials on Sept. 8, alleges that Croton-on-Hudson leaders ordered him to cite local resident Lenny Amicola for displaying a large Trump banner — even while other noncommercial flags and displays in the community went unchallenged.

Snilsberg, who has since taken medical leave citing stress-related health issues, says he felt “used as a pawn in a political game” and pressured to issue a violation that he didn’t believe was legitimate.

Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say (Sarah N. Lynch/Reuters)  Sources say! That proves it!

MSNBC’s Hinojosa Invokes Anne Frank, 9/11 Against ICE, Accuses Them of Murder

Trump Officials Didn’t Know If His Order To Prosecute Foes Was Meant To Be Secret (Rolling Stone)  Not that it would matter.

Donald Trump’s Firing of a Federal Prosecutor Crosses the Reddest of Lines (Ruth Marcus/New Yorker)

MAGA Melts Down Over Maher’s Shooter Take (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger (M. Gessen/New York Times)  And the country looks at you and sees a stranger as well. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it’s time to Make America into America Again (Fortune)  According to an academic.

How “Free Speech Culture” Is Killing Free Speech: Part One (Ken White/The Popehat Report)  Free speech for Democrats, that is.

Trump ramps up retribution campaign with push for Bondi to pursue cases against his foes (Meg Kinnard/Associated Press)

Adam Schiff, Tim Kaine Introduce Bill To Protect Caribbean Drug Traffickers From Trump Strikes

Amazon and eBay Sell Merch Calling for Trump’s Death

Trump To Designate More Leftist Groups As Terrorists  As, indeed, they are. He ought to designate the Democrat party as terrorists, but even Trump would shrink from that much truth in politics.

Trump Must Lose the Second Bank War (Chance Phillips/Liberal Currents) Did you know that there was a “Second Bank War”?

Hey, Let’s Undermine America’s Technology, Education and Research! (Paul Krugman)  Krugman is one of those tedious proglodytes who is firmly convinced that if the Federal government doesn’t do something, it won’t get done.

Why Democrats can’t match Trump’s gerrymander push (Natalie Fertig/Politico)  I suspect that incompetence has a key role.

California Bans Most Law Enforcement, Including Federal Agents, From Wearing Masks  All the better to doxx you later, my dear.

The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It’s Down to Two. (Jose Pagliery/NOTUS)  “Corruption” meaning, of course, Republicans.

Why Trump’s directive to AG Bondi should be seen as an impeachment-level scandal (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Which doesn’t differ in any significant way from every other ‘impeachment level scandal’ Democrats manufacture.

Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump? (John Cassidy/New Yorker)  Progs haves a hard time grasping the concept that not everybody thinks as they do.

Trump’s Expanding Mafia State (Steven Beschloss/America, America)

Turns out Republicans don’t care about free speech after all (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  Just like Democrats!

Here’s How Much The Trump Kids Have Made Because Of The Presidency (Dan Alexander/Forbes)  Biden Crime Family? Never heard of it! Ten percent for the Big Guy? A mere myth!

Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws (Debra Kamin/New York Times) Said “fair housing laws” dedicated to letting Fashionable Minorities get housing for free.

The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege (Matt Egan/CNN)  And it’s all Trump’s fault! But you knew that….

Trump’s new demands on Justice Department raise alarm among prosecutors (Washington Post)  Well, Democrat prosecutors, who are the only prosecutors who count.

Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges (New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

STEVE MILLOY: Rigged Report By National Academies Aims To Thwart Trump Energy Agenda

Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Vaccine Rant About Babies and Horses (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)  Or ag least that’s what they’d like you to believe.

Trump is breaking his most important promises and keeping the worst (Svante Myrick/The Hill)  From the Narrative viewpoint, that is.

Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee sparks a global race to grab top talent (Sam Meredith/CNBC)  Good luck with that. There are reasons they want to come here rather than remain in the Turd World.

Trump’s escalating war on speech raises a chilling question: Where does it end? (Tom Jones/Poynter)  When the Democrats quit being fascists.

A Scandal Covered in Tahini (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew have completely dropped the pretencse that they are ‘conservatives’.

Hegseth’s purge of service members cheering Kirk killing comes under heavy scrutiny (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill) “They can’t do that to our pledges! Only we can do that to our pledges!” — Otter, ANIMAL HOUSE

It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)  It never was a ‘democracy’, but a constitutional representative republic, which Democrats hate and have tried to expunge for their entire lifetime.

Trump administration cancels annual hunger report after enacting historic cuts to nation’s safety net (Tami Luhby/CNN)  Since that report was just an excuse to throw good money after bad, that’s a feature, not a bug.

Trump Wants to Target Left-Wing Groups. Here’s How He Might Do It (Brian Bennett/Time)  It’s time for Narrative Media Mind-Reading, boys and girls! Get out your popcorn!

Top Goon — Kristi Noem is the face of Trump’s police state. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle. (Ben Terris/New York Magazine)  Best looking goon we’ve ever seen.

A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  And a lot of choleric media shills just don’t realize how popular Trump is; reality has no entry to their fantasy world.

Meme-ify Trump’s Failures (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Shell-shocked green movement searches for how to counter Trump (Zack Colman/Politico)  Unfortunately, getting their heads out of their asses doesn’t appear to be an option.

Join the ACLU and Over 400 Artists to Defend Free Speech (American Civil Liberties Union)  Or don’t. They haven’t got a case. (FCC Chair Defends Comments, Says Kimmel Not Suspended Because of Government Action)

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract (404 Media)  Good luck with that.

Trump’s Tax Cut Is Underwater. Can a ‘Refund Boom’ Save It? (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)

Trump’s immigration crackdown could stunt his blockbuster economic aims (Neil Irwin/Axios)  Or not.

How Should a DOJ Political Appointee Think About a Trump-Weaponized DOJ? (Jack Goldsmith/Executive Functions)  It’s payback time!

Open-Air Extortion Markets (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew continues carrying water for the Left.

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars (Ted Mann/Bloomberg)  That whining sound you hear is all of the Wokerati oxen being gored.

The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy (Matt Ford/New Republic)  And about time, too.

Trump to Redirect $2.4 Billion in California High-Speed Rail Aid (Sri Taylor/Bloomberg)  The winning never stops.

Supreme Court will weigh expanding Trump’s power to shape agencies by overturning 90-year-old ruling (Lindsay Whitehurst/Associated Press)

Man Arrested After Pointing Laser at Trump’s Chopper

“Some People Have To Die”: NJ Elementary School Teacher Resigns After Celebrating Charlie Kirk Murder Online

Rep. Crockett Slams ‘Caucasian’ Dems For Honoring ‘Racist’ Kirk, Likens Him To Confederate ‘Relic’, Calls Trump ‘Hitler’… Again

ABC’s Jon Karl: ‘The Murder of Charlie Kirk Was Not a Political Act’  It was many things, but it was indeed a political act.

FAKE NEWS: MSNBC’s Al Sharpton Insists Motive to Charlie Kirk Killing Still Unknown

At Kirk Service, an Extraordinary Fusion of Government and Christianity (Elizabeth Dias/New York Times)  Just like we used to have.

BS at PBS: ‘Conservative Pundit….Matthew Dowd Was Fired’ From MSNBC

Jasmine Crockett scolds white Dems for not voting against Charlie Kirk resolution: ‘Hurt my heart’ (Ryan King/New York Post)

Good Morning Britain viewers demand hosts be ‘sacked’ after ‘shameful’ Charlie Kirk memorial remark

How Erika Kirk Memorialized Her Late Husband (David M. Drucker/Bloomberg)

Hegseth Suspends Service Members Celebrating Kirk Killing  And rightly so.

The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook (Stephanie Saul/New York Times)  Yeah–that which Democrats have followed for decades.

Newsbusters.

Arguably buried given it aired on Friday’s show, NBC Nightly News nonetheless offered a shocking full segment that conceded the truth there’s “growing support for political violence among the ‘younger, highly online, and ideologically left aligned’” that’s included support for Luigi Mangione, the assassination attempts on President Trump, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The piece tried to insert a disclaimer for their liberal base that “both sides are now radicalized,” but the tone was unmistakable.”

Anchor Tom Llamas set the table: “We turn to the rise of political violence in this country. Among young people who spend a lot of time online, support for violent acts is now growing.”

Correspondent Stephanie Gosk came out of the gate with the reality about the broad support for Mangione: “Soon after Luigi Mangione was accused of killing United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson, the memes started celebrating the cold-blooded murder, treating the alleged killer like a hero.”

Network Contagion Research Institute’s Max Horder backed this up by refusing to join in the left’s troubling lionizing of him: “He’s become a symbol for this really enormous and radical and maybe unprecedented change in American culture.”

Jonathan Turley.

Charlotte Bronte once wrote “I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.” No quote better captured the chilling curiosity that is Hillary Clinton. This week, Clinton (without any sign of shame or self-awareness) attacked others for seeking censorship and blacklisting political opponents through government and corporate collaboration. Clinton is one of the most anti-free speech figures in the United States and actively campaigned for the censorship of opponents. Today, my column in the Hill discusses the hypocrisy of many on the left this week after the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. However, there is simply no one in the same class as Clinton in hitting hypocrisy’s rock bottom.

This week, Clinton declared: “I think this is a very clear example of using the power of the state to suppress speech. It is a direct government action to try to intimidate employers, organizations, corporations, much of which we’ve already seen, to remove an opponent, even though it’s a comic.”

For many in the free speech community, the statement led us to spit out our morning coffee.

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The report also notes that a threat to kill Morrissey was also made by a deranged leftist on Bluesky prior to the singer’s CityFolk appearance in Ottawa.

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The United States is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire International Criminal Court, putting the court’s day-to-day operations in jeopardy in retaliation for investigations of suspected Israeli war crimes.

Washington has already imposed targeted sanctions on several prosecutors and judges at the court, but naming the court itself in the sanctions list would be a major escalation.

Six sources with knowledge of the matter, all speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive diplomatic issue that has not been publicly announced, said a decision on such “entity sanctions” was expected soon.

Sounds like a plan.

Times News (UK).

Well, of you’re going to ‘flee’, a Mercedes is the way to go.

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Gaza is the snail-darter of the modern Left.

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The outpouring of love and support for Charlie Kirk has been touching to see—especially considering that it has transcended the typical conservative ecosystem and burst into popular culture. In sporting events across the country over the past week, from New York City to Texas, Charlie’s life’s work was recognized and memorialized in front of millions of viewers.

However, beneath the surface, a more pernicious sentiment lingers. American leftists have cheered on Charlie’s unconscionable assassination, with a concerning number of them appearing to occupy key roles at American universities. While conservatives have highlighted the often radical and near-unanimously blue political affiliations of professors for some time, the reality is that the rot extends far deeper at these institutions.

The vast majority of university employees have nothing to do with teaching or research—they’re bureaucrats. According to the National Center for Education Statistics in 2023, just over 64% of all university employees are anything but faculty. The college where Charlie Kirk was murdered, Utah Valley University, is a quarter-billion-dollar-a-year enterprise. It is also one of the largest employers in the state, with 6,000 employees on its payroll. Of that number, about one-third teach students.

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Could President Donald Trump become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom? Conservative U.K. politician Jacob Rees-Mogg said the 47th American president could serve across the pond after he wraps his second term.

In an opinion piece published Monday by The Telegraph, Rees-Mogg laid out his case for Trump, which hinges on the Republican president’s Scottish-born mother.

“A child born to a British mother, who was herself born in these Isles, normally has a right to British citizenship,” Rees-Mogg wrote. “Thus, Donald Trump could become a subject of His Majesty, granting him eligibility to stand for Parliament at the next election in 2029, shortly after his term in office as American president ends. If he were then elected, the King could send for him to ask him to form a government as prime minister.”

They could do worse–and have, for decades. But I doubt that he’d do it; Britain is too much of a proglodyte paradise for any rational person’s taste. But never say never….

ALSO: Trump for PM? It might just be possible… (The Telegraph) “This constitutional possibility, an admittedly remote one, has the great virtue of winding up po-faced Lefties who suffer from Trump derangement syndrome, but it also would be an excellent idea, as this country needs a jolt of Trump to extricate it from the slough of despond.”

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What was the true root cause of the anti-immigration riots and protests which rocked the United Kingdom last summer and have continued doing so intermittently ever since? The logical explanation could be that the native population are sick and tired of seeing their civilisation and their culture replaced by unassimilable outsiders, a feeling brought to a head by the murder of three innocent little girls in the town of Southport by a supposed ‘Welsh choirboy’ who later turned out to be a black Rwandan second-generation settler. Yet some British MPs claim to know better: the disturbances were actually caused by crude and ‘offensive’ pictures circulating on the Internet, without which nobody would ever have objected to such acts of senseless infanticide.

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We’re talking about the SPLC, of course.

The Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

Because that’s always worked so well in the past.

It’s really easy to figure out: There are evil people in the world, some of those people have economic and political power, and the people who are in charge are unwilling to take any action against them.

Ask me a hard one.

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Cutting onions and tomatoes is about to get a high-tech upgrade. Seattle Ultrasonics today unveiled the C-200 that they’re calling the world’s first ultrasonic chef’s knife for home cooks. The $399 knife harnesses ultrasonic technology used in industrial settings, vibrating more than 40,000 times per second to “reduce friction and the force needed to make cuts by 50%.”

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Several French mayors have raised Palestinian flags on town halls—defying government instructions ahead of France’s formal recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations.

The initiative follows Socialist leader Olivier Faure’s call to display the flags, despite warnings from the Interior Ministry about the risks of importing international conflicts onto French territory.

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Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

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In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination as well as the confirmation that alleged killer Tyler Robinson is a far-left ideologue and gay man living with a transgender partner, the public’s attention has once again turned to the issue of Antifa, an activist network that shares many similar political beliefs with the shooter.

Federal authorities are currently investigating the Discord sever groups used by Robinson in the lead up to the attack to find any potential co-conspirators. Discord has been identified as a common forum used by Antifa for organizing members for specific events while pretending as if their protests are random and “grassroots”.

In the meantime, the corporate media is once again running interference for Antifa, claiming that the group is nothing more than a gaggle of disconnected people without no affiliation other than they “agree to oppose fascists”.

Of course, simply declaring yourself the “good guys” does not necessarily make it so.

ALSO: Netherlands, Hungary Push To Designate Antifa As Terrorist Organization

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Patrons at a restaurant acted quickly and selflessly to stop a gunman who opened fire while a wedding was taking place at a New Hampshire country club, averting a worse tragedy, authorities said Sunday.

One person was killed and two others were wounded by the gunfire Saturday night before the suspect was taken into custody in a nearby neighborhood not long after the shooting, authorities said.

The gunfire killed Robert Steven DeCesare, 59, at Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, said New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella and Nashua Police Chief Kevin Rourke. They said the suspect was Hunter Nadeau, 23, of Nashua, and said he was arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder for knowingly shooting DeCesare.

In other words, they were Republicans. Democrats would have run and hid, and the death toll would have been much higher.

Trump’s Censorship Binge After Kirk’s Killing Is Part of an All-Out Effort to Crush the Opposition (Andy Craig/The UnPopulist)

The Post-Kirk Clampdown … America’s new cancel culture has arrived. (Patrick Frey/Quillette)

The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Trump’s economic promises to Black voters fall short after a modest shift in support for him in 2024 (Josh Boak/Associated Press)  Because Democrats have been blocking his moves.

Trump Demands That Bondi Move ‘Now’ to Prosecute Foes (New York Times)

MSNBC Host Claims It’s ‘Hard to Understand’ Exactly What Kimmel’s MAGA Smear Meant

Trump Makes Bonkers Demand for Bondi to Lock Up His Enemies (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)

Trump is breaking US diplomacy, State Department staffers say (Nahal Toosi/Politico)  Really? Other countries ignored Obama and Biden. Nobody ignores Trump.

In Assault on Free Speech, Trump Targets Speech He Hates (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Which Democrats have been doing since Clinton.

Prosecution Rests Case In Trial Of Trump Assassination Attempt Suspect: 5 Takeaways  Funny, I don’t remember anybody trying to assassinate Obama or Biden. Must be all those white supremacists on the Left.

Trump Pushes Attorney General Pam Bondi to Prosecute Political Foes (Wall Street Journal)

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home (Adrienne Matei/The Guardian)  Get your feminist Narrative, right here.

Eric Adams, Donald Trump and the Case That Broke American Justice (Noah Shachtman/New York Times)

Here’s what happens when big-time lobbyists become big-name Trump officials (Caitlin Oprysko/Politico)  And how does that differ from when big-time lobbyists become Demcorartadministration officials? Proglodyte projection in action.

“Path to a dictatorship”: Democrats flame Trump’s public pressure on Bondi (Avery Lotz/Axios) You’d think they’d get tired of shouting “Fascist!” “Authoritarian!” “Dictatorship!” “Nazi!” all the time, when it’s obvious that normal people are just tuning them out.

The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing (J Oliver Conroy/The Guardian)  The Kirk assassination brought home the fact that when one side cheats all the time and the other side plays by the rules, the cheaters tend to win, and they’re tired of losing. “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, Portion 72, verse 1.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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America is suffering from leftist fatigue. Three left wing shooters in the span of a week, from the murder of Charlie Kirk to an attack on an ABC affiliate station in Sacramento to the most recent event – A shooting at a country club wedding in Nashua, New Hampshire.

This is, of course, not counting the transgender killer who murdered 2 children and wounded 18 others at a catholic school in Minneapolis the week before the Charlie Kirk assassination. In every case there has been clear intent of politically motivated violence. Democrats and woke activists continue to deny they have any culpability, but after a decade of demonizing everyone who disagrees with them as “fascists and Nazis”, isn’t this the end result they always wanted?

The suspect, identified as 23-year-old Hunter Nadeau, was arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder. Witnesses heard the man scream “The children are safe, free Palestine!” as he started shooting, killing one person and wounding two others before he was hit in the head with a chair by a female party member and ran away with his head bleeding.

Funny how all of these juvenile delinquents attacking weddings and schools and TV stations and such are proglodytes. If the right were such a breeding ground of terrorists, they must be on vacation or something. Slackers.