July 08, 2025
Ten Members of an Antifa Terror Cell Arrested and Charged for Organizing the Ambush on ICE Agents and "Insurrectionary Anarchy"
The Daily Caller:
I want Congress to recall Christopher Wray and grill him over his partisan insistence that the Democrats' violent socialist army was "just an idea."
And prosecute him for any perjuries.Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo These are the 10 alleged members of a north Texas Antifa terror cell accused of carrying out the attempted murder of federal officers at a shooting terrorist attack on an ICE facility on the Fourth of July in Alvarado, Texas. One local police officer was shot in the neck, and survived. The group was armed with multiple rifles, pistols, body armor, escape vehicles, radios, and other devices indicating a planned conspiracy. Multiple members of the cell are confirmed trans. They've been charged federally with attempted murder and also face local charges of terrorism in Johnson County, Texas. Photo scoop by @AntifaWatch2
. Top row from left to right:
Elizabeth Soto, of Fort Worth
Maricela Rueda, of Fort Worth
Ines Soto, of Fort Worth
Savanna Batten, of Fort Worth
Seth Sikes, of Kennedale Bottom row from left to right:
Bradford Morris (trans name "Meagan Morris"), of Dallas
Cameron Arnold (trans name "Autumn Hill"), of Dallas
Joy Gibson, of Dallas
Zachary Evetts, of Waxahachie
Nathan Baumann, of College Station
Daniel Rolando Sanchez (not pictured below)
The Daily Caller:
Ten leftists charged in a Friday "ambush" on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Texas could each face sentences ranging from ten years to life in prison if convicted, authorities said Monday. The Department of Justice (DOJ) arrested ten suspects accused of coordinating an armed July 4 attack on the building in Alvarado, Texas and shooting a local police officer in the neck, officials said in a Monday press conference and criminal complaint. The incident was the first of two shootings at Texas border facilities over the past four days, reflecting a trend of increasingly violent assaults on law enforcement since the Trump administration ramped up ICE deportations. The leftist mob arrived at the scene on the evening of July 4 "wearing all black" and began shooting fireworks and writing graffiti such as "ICE pig" around the detention center and parking lot, the complaint said. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) correctional officer attempted to talk to the vandals, but two suspects later fired 20 to 30 rounds at federal and local officers, wounding one Alvarado officer in the neck, the DOJ alleged. "It was a planned ambush with the intent to kill ICE corrections officers," acting U.S. Attorney Nancy Larson said at the press conference. "Make no mistake. This was not a so-called peaceful protest." Police found two AR-15-style rifles, used casings, body armor plate carriers and loaded magazines near the scene, according to the DOJ. Officers later allegedly found more weapons in the vehicle of one of the suspects, who said he brought some individuals that he met online from Dallas to the ICE detention center to "make some noise." Law enforcement also observed body armor and radios on other suspects arrested that night, the DOJ alleged. One wearing the body armor allegedly had a backpack containing flyers that read "fight ICE terror with class war" and "free all political prisoners." The ten suspects alleged to have participated in the attack face charges of attempted murder, attempted murder of a federal officer, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence and aiding and abetting, the DOJ complaint says. They each face a maximum sentence of life in prison, while an eleventh "co-conspirator" who allegedly tried to destroy evidence of the plot faces up to ten years in prison, Larson said. Court records do not yet list attorneys for any of the defendants. On Monday morning, the FBI searched an apartment linked to the eleventh suspect and found "anti-government propaganda," including materials for "organizing for attack" and "insurrectionary anarchy." Law enforcement officials also announced Monday that a gunman opened fire on a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, before local police and border agents returned fire and killed him. The July 4th incident followed weeks of violent anti-ICE riots that sprouted in California and spread across the country. The Trump administration has charged more than 20 people with federal crimes related to the California riots.
We're returning to the days of Obama's buddies in the Weather Underground:
Gunther Eagleman
@GuntherEagleman HOLY CRAP! New details are just now being reported about this incident, and it proves why Antifa MUST be labeled as a domestic terror organization: "The ambush in Alvarado, Texas, appears to be the most coordinated of all the recent attacks on ICE and border patrol agents and facilities." "That attack began with at least 10 people, all dressed in what investigators describe as black military style clothing, shooting fireworks at the Prairie Detention Center." "Around ten minutes later, one or two of them broke off from the main group and began spray painting the facility and vehicles parked there with words like traitor and other slogans." "A police officer arrived responding to a 911 call, and at that point, one of the group who had apparently hidden in trees near the facility opened fire, hitting the officer in the neck, while another attacker also across the street fired dozens of rounds at officers from the facility." "It was a planned ambush with the intent to k*ll ICE corrections officers. Make no mistake. This was not a so-called peaceful protest. It was indeed an ambush." "Police also discovered anarchist literature and flyers in one of the vehicles used by the attackers and a Faraday bag, a type of bag that blocks phone signals and which is commonly used by criminals to prevent law enforcement tracking their locations."
Mike Shelby
@grayzoneintel For the first time in nearly a decade tracking the Far Left, we just witnessed a coordinated, complex ambush by a Far Left direct action cell. And the media is SILENT on its implications. Here's what you need to know: 🧵👇 1. Last Friday, 8-10 individuals launched fireworks and vandalized an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas to draw a law enforcement presence. After a 911 call was made, multiple shooters opened fire, at least one in a nearby treeline, wounding an arriving officer. 2. These kinds of shootings are normally conducted by individuals. What we see here is 10 militants and an 11th co-conspirator forming a cell, selecting a target, and carrying out a coordinated, complex attack. Armed Far Left violence is not uncommon, but this is unprecedented 3. What this shows is an operational evolution from individuals acting out of uncontrolled rage to coordinated cell-based violence. Now that this precedent has been set, where do we go from here? 4. The Most Likely Course of Action is continued attacks involving 1-3 shooters. Larger groups will be exponentially more difficult to coordinate, and there aren't enough Far Left militants to keep getting rolled up by the dozen. 5. Far Left militants will see the relative failure of this attack against a hard target, and simply choose softer targets in the future. The availability of federal agents' personal information through online doxxing increases this likelihood. 6. The Most Dangerous Course of Action is that this attack open's a Pandora's Box of other armed Leftist groups attempting to successfully carrying out similar relatively large scale attacks against federal facilities. 7. Another Possible Course of Action: The relative failure of the attack and swift response by federal authorities diminishes the likelihood of future armed, organized political violence. It's a bit counter-narrative, but we've seen that [felony charges against domestic terrorists] work. 8. The Georgia RICO case is a great example. After 61 Far Left militants were charged under the RICO Act -- and some with domestic terrorism -- the Stop Cop City movement folded. They deleted their website and stopped most operations because they didn't have the people. 9. If these 10 individuals and an 11th co-conspirator had a successful attack and escaped, then future attacks would be come immensely more likely because of a belief in the likelihood of success. But this attack was not successful. 10. These 10 individuals are each being charged with three counts of attempted murder of a federal agent, which carries a mandatory 10-year prison sentence. This will reduce the likelihood of similarly sized attacks, though not to zero. 11. The Alvarado ambush is a watershed moment for this country and our ongoing Low Intensity Conflict. We will almost certainly continue to see armed political violence against federal facilities and/or personnel. RICO works. I'll post my take on RICO below.
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Obama Massachusetts Judge Now Rules That Congress Does Not Control Congressional Spending
This absurd judicial insurrection was launched to protect -- of course! -- Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood has a right to taxpayer money, this Cultural Enricher discovered. Note that this isn't an injunction against an executive order. No, this judge is declaring that a law passed by both chambers of Congress and signed by the President is invalid.John Sexton is baffled -- the Supreme Court just ruled that South Carolina can completely ban Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood, and the Supreme Court just told lowly district court judges they could not issue nationwide injunctions. This judge just blew off the Supreme Court, twice.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked part of President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" that cuts Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. The ruling came just hours after the abortion provider sued to protect its federal funding. Key Details: U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani granted a 14-day Temporary Restraining Order on Monday, halting implementation of the defunding measure. The lawsuit argues that while the bill doesn't name Planned Parenthood, its structure effectively singles the group out by applying restrictions only they meet. Planned Parenthood says the funding cut could force nearly 200 of its clinics to close. Diving Deeper: On Monday, a federal judge issued a temporary block on the Trump administration's effort to strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, halting a core provision of the president's signature legislative package known as the "Big Beautiful Bill." The ruling came within hours of Planned Parenthood filing suit in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. Judge Indira Talwani, appointed by former President Barack Obama, issued a Temporary Restraining Order that bars the Department of Health and Human Services from implementing the defunding measure for 14 days. In her order, Talwani instructed HHS to "take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed" to Planned Parenthood during that period. While the legislation does not specifically name Planned Parenthood, the abortion giant is the only provider meeting the criteria outlined in the bill, making them the de facto target. Planned Parenthood's legal team contends that the provision is both discriminatory and unconstitutional. According to the lawsuit, "Many Planned Parenthood Members will be required to lay off staff and curtail services... Members may be forced to shutter a substantial number of their health centers nationwide, many of which are in rural or underserved areas."
Matt Margolis:
I'm really not sure how this is possible. It has been less than two weeks since the Supreme Court ruled that South Carolina could block Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood.So today Planned Parenthood sued the federal government arguing that it could not cut them off from Medicaid reimbursements.
At issue was a provision of the federal Medicaid law that guarantees Medicaid patients the ability to choose their doctors, or in the words of the statute, they are entitled to "any qualified and willing provider." South Carolina, however, maintained that it could disqualify Medicaid providers for "any reason that state law allows." Or as Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, put it, "Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize abortion providers who are in direct opposition to their beliefs." On Thursday the Supreme Court, by a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, agreed.... Is this a nationwide TRO or does it only apply to PP of Massachusetts and Utah? It's not clear to me because it does say funding should continue to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which is a national organization. Didn't the Supreme Court just put an end to nationwide TRO's by federal judges? I thought they did but maybe this is an exception somehow?
Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration on Monday over a provision in President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill that would prevent its health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. In a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Planned Parenthood said the provision is unconstitutional because it singles out members for advocacy for sexual and reproductive health care, including abortions...
It's almost impossible to overstate the sheer audacity of what's just happened in Massachusetts. In a move that defies both logic and the very foundation of our constitutional order, an Obama-appointed judge has swooped in to protect Planned Parenthood from the will of the American people as expressed through their elected representatives. Judge Indira Talwani, sitting on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, decided that Congress--yes, Congress--doesn't actually get to decide how taxpayer money is spent, at least not when it comes to the Left's sacred cow. Let's be clear: This wasn't a rogue executive order or some bureaucratic sleight of hand. Congress passed a law. The people's representatives, accountable to voters, made a decision to defund Planned Parenthood as part of the One Big, Beautiful Bill. That's how our system is supposed to work. If you don't like it, you organize, you vote, you persuade your fellow citizens and change the law. That's democracy. But apparently, that's not good enough for the activist bench. Instead, Judge Talwani issued a temporary restraining order, telling the executive branch not to enforce the law. Not because the law was found unconstitutional or even legally questionable--no, the judge didn't bother to offer any real legal reasoning at all. The ruling simply halted the will of Congress in its tracks, leaving Americans and even seasoned legal professionals scratching their heads. How does a judge order the executive branch to ignore a duly-enacted statute without first declaring that statute invalid? On what grounds?Per MXMNews, Mike Lee wants to impeach this judge:
Conservative lawmakers denounced the judge's move. Senator Mike Lee of Utah said on X, "Unless I'm missing something, this is an abuse of judicial power. And unless there's more to the story here, I suspect the House Judiciary Committee will consider articles of impeachment."
L A R R YHello good readers. How is your Tuesday going?
@LarryOConnor
This bill was debated and voted on in committee and then on the floor of the House, then debated in the Senate and voted on there and finally ratified again in the House before the President signed it into law. But, "NO KINGS" or something...
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Airlines for America, a trade association of leading U.S. airlines, commended President Donald Trump for signing into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that contains a $12.5 billion provision to modernize the country's air traffic control (ATC) systems, the group said in a July 4 statement. The bill, signed by Trump on Independence Day, sets aside roughly $12.5 billion for "acquisition, construction, sustainment, and improvement of facilities and equipment necessary to improve or maintain aviation safety." The amount will be appropriated to the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and remain available until Sept. 30, 2029.The real question is: Can a competent and aggressive administrator cut through the massive inertia of the FAA (or any other government department) and modernize what is clearly an overstrained system? We have at our fingertips incredible technology that can be leveraged to make our safe skies even safer. But the track record of technological advancement in our government is pathetically bad. Are they still using floppy disks at NASA? CRT screens at the FAA? This will be a significant challenge for President Trump and his appointee, who is a career government man, and that does not fill me with hope! Perhaps he will delegate the technological development to others and focus on what he probably knows best...navigating the labyrinth of government! [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!
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The Morning Report — 7/8/25 
To the border we go, and quite literally, to McAllen TX.
With that, this happened yesterday in Los Angeles' Macarthur Park, made famous in song by both Richard Harris and Donna Summer, but made infamous as a third world shit hole populated by bums, drifters, drug addicts and illegal aliens. Of course, the leadership of the city and state of California are the root cause of the problem,
Good. If Bass and Newsom are communicating directly or indirectly with people and telling them to interfere with law enforcement, that is insurrection/treason or call it what you will. And to me, that calls for the use of deadly force.
Elsewhere we have several judges throwing up roadblocks to several Trump initiatives via the OBBB, as well as Deep State Traitors like Brennan, Comey and Clapper among others semingly plotting to coordinate mass acts of insubordination within the bureaucracy. Gallows cannot be constructed rapidly enough to suit me. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. Have a great day!
To the border we go, and quite literally, to McAllen TX.
Authorities say Ryan Louis Mosqueda, a 27-year-old Michigan resident, opened fire on the U.S. Border Patrol facility Monday before Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement neutralized him, according to The Associated Press. “America Reports” co-host John Roberts asked Banks if the attack was a surprise. (RELATED: ‘We’re Gonna Double Down And Triple Down’: Tom Homan Vows To ‘Flood The Zone’ On Sanctuary Cities) Assaults on ICE agents have increased by 500% while trying to arrest illegal immigrants, Breitbart News reported in June. Banks urged the administration to take a two-pronged approach to the increasing violence directed at ICE and the Border Patrol.Well, when President Trump is equated to Hitler and the enforcement of our laws to that of Nazi Germany in rounding up Jews and sending them to concentration camps, QED. Just last week in Portland OR.
Multiple people have been arrested following a violent riot outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon, that involved knife-throwing and explosives.
With that, this happened yesterday in Los Angeles' Macarthur Park, made famous in song by both Richard Harris and Donna Summer, but made infamous as a third world shit hole populated by bums, drifters, drug addicts and illegal aliens. Of course, the leadership of the city and state of California are the root cause of the problem,
A Border Patrol official declared Monday that agents will be sticking around Los Angeles until their “mission is accomplished” as Mayor Karen Bass lashed out at federal law enforcement conducting an apparent immigration sweep at a local park.
Heavily armed officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and the military units deployed by President Trump arrived at MacArthur Park in force, with the agents seen carrying rifles and traveling across the grounds on foot, horseback and in armored vehicles.
Bass, who was due to meet with California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the morning, showed up in the middle of the operation to yell at the agents to get out of the park, slamming the action as a “political stunt.” . . . Bass was only at the park momentarily after speaking with CBP Assistant Chief Patrol Agent David Kim, who handed her a direct line to “the head of Customs,” she added, noting that the agents left moments later.
One Border Patrol official promised that federal agencies aren’t backing down — and had a few choice words for Bass herself.
“The federal government is not leaving LA. … The federal government does not work for Karen Bass. We’re going to be here until that mission is accomplished,” Border Patrol El Centro Sector Chief Gregory Bovino told FOX Los Angeles.
“Better get used to us now because this is going to be normal very soon,” he added.
Good. If Bass and Newsom are communicating directly or indirectly with people and telling them to interfere with law enforcement, that is insurrection/treason or call it what you will. And to me, that calls for the use of deadly force.
Elsewhere we have several judges throwing up roadblocks to several Trump initiatives via the OBBB, as well as Deep State Traitors like Brennan, Comey and Clapper among others semingly plotting to coordinate mass acts of insubordination within the bureaucracy. Gallows cannot be constructed rapidly enough to suit me. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. Have a great day!
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Daily Tech News 8 July 2025
Top Story
- Apple has filed an appeal against the EU's latest half-billion-dollar fine for - and I quote - "having money the EU wants". (Hot Hardware)
Okay, so maybe I don't quote. But when it comes to a fight between communists pretending to be politicians and communists pretending to be capitalists, I'll side with the pretend capitalists unless they're also French.
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July 07, 2025
Monday Overnight Open Thread - July 7, 2025 [Doof]
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Cave Canem Cafe
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Report: Fired USAID and Deep State Operatives Are Planning to Use Their Regime Change/Color Revolution Skills Against Trump
Trump Fired Them. Now They're Plotting to Stop Him."Pay us to not work or we'll organize a coup." Prison for all of them.
Former USAID and State Department officials worried about the future of democracy in America say they're actively organizing to resist Trump, inside and outside of government. By Jose Pagliery Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump's power. For years, these officials were stationed across the globe actively supporting opposition movements in autocratic nations. Now they've got time, a network of former colleagues and a growing sense of moral indignation. "Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We've become one," said a currently employed federal official, who spoke to NOTUS on condition of anonymity. "They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they've done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime."
No shit.
The former officials tell NOTUS they're holding workshops on a tactic called "noncooperation." They're building a network of government workers willing to engage in even minor acts of rebellion in the office. And they're planting the seeds of what they hope could become a nationwide general strike. Some in the informal network of Trump opponents are sharing an old CIA pamphlet with allies who still work in the government: It's called "Simple Sabotage." "Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police," it says. "The saboteur may have to reverse his thinking... where he formerly thought of keeping his tools sharp, he should now let them grow dull; surfaces that formerly were lubricated now should be sanded; normally diligent, he should now be lazy and careless." The community is composed of diplomats and human rights activists who were once on the U.S. government payroll encouraging Latin American dissidents to fight dictators and supporting African independence movements. They were involved to varying degrees with an ultimately successful uprising in the Middle East. Some have found post-government work in academia and nonprofits.
Others are still looking for jobs.You don't say.
Several have begun moonlighting as strategic advisers to American activists, protest organizers and,b> federal employees willing to engage in civil disobedience. One group that has, until this story, remained under the radar but is starting to play a prominent role in this space is "DemocracyAID." It has no website or formal legal entity -- yet. But it's already hosting invite-only workshops with federal employees who hear about them from friends, vetting each person before they're allowed into a trusted circle and teaching them case studies, like the Danish underground insurgency against Nazi occupation. The lesson from Denmark is that what starts as office socializing can morph into trusted networks; seemingly uncoordinated work slowdowns transition into long lunch breaks that annoy the bosses as everyone goes home to "tend to their gardens." ... DemocracyAID is the brainchild of Danielle Reiff, another former USAID diplomat who retired from government work in late 2024. As Trump targeted her former agency this year, she started a group chat on the encrypted app Signal to "keep the community together." ... The focus quickly shifted from salvaging the foreign assistance infrastructure to redeploying inside the United States. Reiff and Tucci joined forces, held dozens of meetings, sketched out a general structure and split it up into working groups that concentrate on separate missions like communications and training. They now have 200 volunteers and an Instagram account, @friendsofUSAID, with over 88,000 followers. A recent post shared "5 ways to keep up the momentum" of last month's "No Kings" protests.Archived article here. Thanks to comrade Arthur. Sen. Eric Schmitt posted about this so the Senate knows about it, too.
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Revealed: The Six-Page Memo That Conned Biden Into Debating Trump Early (So That the Democrat Party Could Force Him Out)
So there's that interesting theory, and then there's the older theory that Biden's inner circle wanted to pressure him to leave the race but they could not budge the stubborn vegetable, and figured that he would melt down in the debate so bad that even this brain-dead husk could see it for himself. I'm not sure which theory is true. It's possible that both are. It could be that Biden's staff knew that he would get worse literally every single day, so current day Biden was as good as Biden was going to get, and also wanted the debate early so that if Biden melted down they would have time to attempt to push Anyone But Kamala into the nomination.
Either way, the memo advising Biden that YOU need to debate as soon as possible to put YOUR campaign in the best position to win has been leaked, and not even to Fake Jake Tapper.
Matt Margolis suggested that Biden's staff knew that Biden was declining rapidly, and so their gamble was to schedule the debate as soon as possible and give Biden a week off so that his dying brain could repair a little. They figured that Biden would be worse in July than in June, worse in August than in July, worse in September than in August, etc. So the "best Biden" was the current Biden, and every day they delayed a debate, Biden would be 1-2% more mentally degraded.
So there's that interesting theory, and then there's the older theory that Biden's inner circle wanted to pressure him to leave the race but they could not budge the stubborn vegetable, and figured that he would melt down in the debate so bad that even this brain-dead husk could see it for himself. I'm not sure which theory is true. It's possible that both are. It could be that Biden's staff knew that he would get worse literally every single day, so current day Biden was as good as Biden was going to get, and also wanted the debate early so that if Biden melted down they would have time to attempt to push Anyone But Kamala into the nomination.
Either way, the memo advising Biden that YOU need to debate as soon as possible to put YOUR campaign in the best position to win has been leaked, and not even to Fake Jake Tapper.
Biden was apparently so mentally degraded that he needed to have the word "YOU" written in all-caps bold to get his attention. Democrat memo more like Ace of Spades HTML protocol, am i rite
With friends like these: In the ill-fated briefing document, dated April 15, 2024, Biden's senior advisers told him not to wait for the autumn dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates -- the first of which, they noted, was scheduled after mail-in ballots would start going out -- but instead to arrange a head-to-head with Trump within a matter of weeks. The memo was obtained by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, in the process of reporting their new book, "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America," which is out tomorrow. Read it and weep: "By holding the first debate in the spring, YOU will be able to reach the widest audience possible," Biden's top aides told him -- and by the way, every reference to Biden is written in attention-grabbing all-caps and bold -- "before we are deep in the summer months with the conventions, Olympics and family vacations taking precedence. In addition, the earlier YOU are able to debate the better, so that the American people can see YOU standing next to Trump and showing the strength of YOUR leadership, compared to Trump's weakness and chaos."
... And there's more: The book says support for an early debate was not unanimous among the president's aides, and that Some members of Biden world felt he should not go head-to-head with Trump at all. One unnamed donor called the White House in May, the book reports, "alarmed" by a recent appearance by the president at a Chicago fundraiser, and urged his team to "find an excuse" to get him out of the debates. This was rejected out of hand.Of course. Biden thinks he's a real fighter and could whoop Trump behind the shack. Among Biden's many fantastical vanities, his belief that he's some kind of tough-guy All-American pugilist turned out to be his most disastrous.
MEMO TO BIDEN: YOUR staff is deliberately sabotaging YOU. YOU are a semi-ambulatory VEGETABLE. YOU could not debate a CHICKPEA. YOU are a shambling SWAMP HUSK from a 1950s HORROR MOVIE. YOU are now more MONSTER than MAN. YOUR brain is rotten and YOUR "memories" are mostly just childhood sports fantasies mixed with half-remembered parts of 70s and 80s action movies. No, YOU did not defeat THUNDERLIPS (The Ultimate Male) at a charity wrestling match. That was ROCKY III. Please stop saying this. YOU are causing headaches for YOUR staff. We cannot keep fabricating new timelines in which YOU led the Dallas Cowboys to victory in SUPERBOWL VI. YOU are being set-up to fail so that YOUR presidency can be stolen from YOU and given to Kamala Harris or the GAY NERD. As Kamala Harris would say, YOU are NOT being Positioned for Success.
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Trump May Prosecute Disgraced Ex-Communist CIA Head John Brennan for Perjury
Note: Politi"Fact" says it's "Mostly False" to say John Brennan was a communist. He merely admits voting for the communist party, that's all. You liars!
Matt Taibbi on the central role John Brennan played in legitimizing Hillary Clinton's completely fake oppo research "dossier" into a product of official US intelligence:
Miranda Devine of the New York Post, who broke the fateful story about Hunter Biden's laptop, has struck again with an exposé on the origins of Russiagate that implicates former intelligence chiefs John Brennan, James Comey, and Jim Clapper in an elaborate fraud. From the story, which is centered on a new CIA report commissioned by John Ratcliffe:Taibbi writes that the FBI only endorsed the fake "intelligence" report because they themselves had predicated their illegal surveillance of Trump on the Steele Dossier -- and were eager to sign up for any report that legitimized their own crimes.The CIA report is focused mainly on the publication of the infamous Intelligence Community Assessment of January 6th, 2017, which concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought "to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability" while maintaining a "clear preference for President-elect Trump." Publication of that Intelligence Assessment, which was ordered by Barack Obama on December 6th, 2016 and included material from the infamous Steele dossier, set in motion a series of events that led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. It was the trigger for years of Russiagate lunacy that consumed Trump's first term. Racket readers may remember reports I co-authored with Michael Shellenberger and Alexandra Gutentag last February, describing how Brennan, Comey, and Clapper "cooked the intelligence" in that 2017 ICA. For instance, the chiefs suppressed junior analysts' belief that Russia may not have preferred Trump, seeing him as "mercurial," "unreliable," and "not steady," while viewing a possible Clinton presidency as "manageable and reflecting continuity." The notion that the ICA was manipulated isn't new, as Aaron Mate at RealClearInvestigations reported the ICA's preparation "deviated from standard CIA practice," and similar reports came out via former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, current deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, and others. However, this new report contains a wealth of new details. It's not clear what this may or may not mean for any possible future criminal investigation, but Ratcliffe's CIA investigation fills in a lot of blanks. Some key conclusions: CIA chief was warned not to include the Steele Dossier The new CIA report criticizes the intel chiefs for including the Steele Dossier in the report, saying that "ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles" and "undermined the credibility" of his key conclusions. That isn't just a post-factum conclusion, however. The report reveals:
Brennan handpicked the CIA analysts to compile the ICA and involved only the ODNI, CIA, FBI and NSA, excluding 13 of the then-17 intelligence agencies. He sidelined the National Intelligence Council and forced the inclusion of the discredited Steele dossier despite objections of the authors and senior CIA Russia experts, so as to push a false narrative that Russia secured Trump's 2016 victory. "This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding 'We're going to screw Trump,'" said Ratcliffe in an exclusive interview. "It was, 'We're going to create this and put the imprimatur of an IC assessment in a way that nobody can question it.'"Thanks to previous reports (including material from John Brennan's own book Undaunted), it was already known that Brennan not only overruled NSA chief Mike Rogers but "two senior managers for the CIA mission center for Russia" to reach the much-disputed conclusion that Putin "aspired" to help Donald Trump win the election. The new CIA report's inclusion of an email from a senior CIA official specifically warning against use of the Steele Dossier is damning. Regarding the objections of those two "senior managers," Ratcliffe had more detail:
CIA's Deputy Director for Analysis (DDA) warned in an email to Brennan on 29 December that including it in any form risked "the credibility of the entire paper."
The two senior leaders of the CIA mission center responsible for Russia argued jointly against including the "aspire" judgment. In an email to Brennan on 30 December, they stated the judgment should be removed because it was both weakly supported and unnecessary, given the strength and logic of the paper's other findings on intent. They warned that including it would only "open up a line of very politicized inquiry."It's one thing for Ratcliffe to criticize the ICA, but these specific email warnings add significantly to the pile of evidence that the key pillar of Russiagate was manipulated.
Why the FBI endorsed the ICA According to the report:And, of course:This is a significant revelation, because while the NSA expressed only "moderate" confidence in the Intelligence Assessment, the FBI appeared to change its mind. On October 31, 2016, a week before Obama ordered the ICA written, senior FBI officials told the New York Times in a much-criticized piece called "Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia" that "even the hacking into Democratic emails, F.B.I. and intelligence officials now believe, was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump." In the first week of December 2016, the FBI and CIA reportedly gave conflicting briefings to Congress on the question. Shortly after, the FBI publicly backed the CIA's interpretation. The reason for the FBI's turnaround has always been a mystery.
FBI leadership made it clear that their participation in the ICA hinged on the Dossier's inclusion and, over the next few days, repeatedly pushed to weave references to it throughout the main body of the ICA.The FBI by December 2016 already knew it had an issue with its use of the Steele Dossier to obtain FISA surveillance on Carter Page, and the FBI's lead Trump-Russia investigator Peter Strzok had privately questioned Steele's reliability. By inducing the CIA to throw its weight behind the flawed document (one the CIA itself had pooh-poohed as "internet rumor"), the FBI and Comey gained crucial bureaucratic cover.
It was Brennan all along From the report:Now Miranda Divine is back with a new report: Brennan mau face perjury charges over his false testimony to Congress, denying his central role in the conspiracy.As has been made clear, there was no "strong consensus" about Russia's intentions among the three agencies. The NSA was lukewarm at best, the FBI gave public statements contradicting the ICA conclusions, and even within the CIA -- even within Brennan's hand-picked group of CIA analysts -- there was serious dissent. Brennan steamrolled that dissent in a number of ways, beginning with this "premature signaling" effort, and moving on to override his own team. Ratcliffe wrote that "Brennan showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness," describing a scene in which he overrode the objections to the Steele Dossier by those two CIA "mission center for Russia" analysts. When confronted, Brennan reportedly said, "My bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report." Overall, the report looks very bad for the intelligence chiefs Brennan, Comey, and Clapper, who submitted the flawed ICA to the National Intelligence Council just "hours before it was due to be published," as Devine wrote. Those same figures then briefed President-Elect Trump about the ICA's contents, ostensibly to warn him about the possibility of Russian efforts to compromise him. Shortly after, the details of that briefing were leaked to the press. In this manner, the otherwise classified issue of "blackmail" and the pee tape and so on became public, leading to years of the Russiagate circus.
One business day before IC analysts convened for the only coordination session on the ICA, Brennan sent a note to the CIA workforce stating he had met with the DNI and FBI Director and that "there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our recent Presidential election." While officers involved in ing the ICA consistently said they did not feel pressured ...Brennan's premature signaling... risked stifling analytic debate.
John Brennan, the disgraced former Obama CIA director, may have opened himself up to perjury charges after a new email was uncovered in a scathing internal review by CIA career professionals of the agency's 2016 Trump-Russia collusion assessment. Brennan is said to be under renewed scrutiny by authorities over discrepancies between his sworn testimony to federal investigations and his written orders to underlings conducting the Intelligence Community Assessment commissioned by President Barack Obama in December 2016 that found Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump. The review, declassified last week, found that Brennan insisted on the inclusion of the discredited Steele dossier, over the strong objections of the CIA's two most senior Russia experts, who said it "did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards."Again, reinforcing the idea that Comey wanted the Steele Dossier included because the needed it to be legitimized to justify his illegal spying on Trump.
John Brennan testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. Then-CIA Deputy Director for Analysis (DDA) David Cohen warned in an email to Brennan on December 29 that including the dossier in any form risked "the credibility of the entire paper." But Brennan "formalized his position in writing, stating that 'my bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.' "
... Last week's CIA review by the deputy director of analysis found that when Brennan was "confronted with specific flaws in the Dossier by the two [Russia] mission center leaders -- one with extensive operational experience and the other with a strong analytic background -- he appeared more swayed by the Dossier's general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns." The decision to include the Steele dossier in the assessment "ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment." ... Including the dossier reference in the main body of the ICA "implicitly elevated unsubstantiated claims to the status of credible supporting evidence, compromising the analytical integrity of the judgment." By forcing the dossier into the ICA, the virulently anti-Trump Brennan also elevated the credibility of the vile fictional smear sheet which he had been shopping to Democratic leaders and the press during the 2016 election campaign. The review found that former FBI Director James Comey also insisted on the dossier's inclusion in the ICA. "FBI leadership made it clear that their participation in the ICA hinged on the Dossier's inclusion and, over the next few days, repeatedly pushed to weave references to it throughout the main body of the ICA."
Yet in congressional testimony under oath on May 23, 2017, Brennan claimed the Steele dossier "wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community Assessment that was done." Now we know that is not true. The Steele dossier was forced into the ICA by Brennan and it appeared not just in the "annex" but was referenced in the main body of the ICA that ended up triggering the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller that crippled the first two years of Trump's first term and served to delegitimize his 2016 election victory. Brennan continued to play innocent in various media interviews, including those he was paid for as an MSNBC contributor. In 2018, he told NBC's "Meet the Press" that he first heard "just snippets about" the Steele dossier in the "late summer of 2016."
Note: Politi"Fact" says it's "Mostly False" to say John Brennan was a communist. He merely admits voting for the communist party, that's all. You liars!
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CBS "News" Fears Mass Layoffs Under New Skydance Ownership
Paramount slashed 3.5% of its workforce in June. And that came after it cut 15% of its workforce in 2024.
Won't someone think of the journalists!
[I] can guarantee that the 42-year-old Ellison -- the son of mega-billionaire Larry Ellison of Oracle fame, who is a MAGA supporter of the president -- isn't thinking about the CBS News legacy as he prepares to complete his $8 billion combo. In fact, from what I hear, continuing in the grand tradition of Murrow, Wallace and Cronkite is not at the top of Ellison's mind because, for one, it ain't so grand any longer, and two (maybe most important), he knows it's a lousy business. It's not worth the trouble that it generates. We don't even know if it's profitable since Paramount doesn't disclose the news division's P&L statements. Plus, its product has moved so far to the left that it angers more than half the country. Full disclosure: I don't know David Ellison personally but people I trust do, and they tell me he's substantive, much more than a lucky sperm kid that being Larry's son confers. His independent studio Skydance has produced such recent blockbusters as "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning." He doesn't get his news from TikTok -- far from it. For the time being, he wants to keep the news division but also move away from its progressive leanings. (A person close to him says look for investments in "truth-based" news.) He does appreciate the CBS News legacy that he is about to buy -- as long as the numbers are working and he believes they aren't, I am told. And that's where things could get scary for the news division. Ellison, I am told, equates CBS with football more than he does with Cronkite. If he's looking to grow stuff, he and his point man in running the new company, former NBCU chief Jeff Shell, are looking at CBS Sports as the tip of the spear. Everything else is about to get the mother of all efficiency reviews, my sources say. Layoffs are likely, as are smaller salaries and squeezed budgets. In Ellison's worldview, CBS News' legacy has cachet but when an anchor like Tony Dokoupil gets upbraided by management -- as he did last year -- for questioning the work of far left author Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Coates' rationalization of the Oct. 7 massacre, something needs to change.One can imagine that part of the reason CBS "News" "journalists" fought the Trump settlement is precisely because they wanted to block the Skydance sale from happening, because they knew the new management would fire their lazy, incompetent hack asses.
... If I were in the news division, I would be afraid, very afraid.
Paramount slashed 3.5% of its workforce in June. And that came after it cut 15% of its workforce in 2024.
The latest cuts come after the media giant slashed about 15% of its workforce last year, part of an effort to trim costs by $500 million and return the company to profitability. For the first three months of the year, Paramount reported net earnings of $152 million on revenue of $7.1 billion, compared with a loss of $563 million on revenue of $7.6 billion in the year-ago period.From May: CBS "News" may get rid of Leslie Stahl and Scott Pelley.
Staffers are now speculating whether Pelley and Stahl will be the next to go, following the exit of former 60 Minutes showrunner Bill Owens last month. Both correspondents had made their loyalty to McMahon and Owens known, as the network continues to navigate the president's suit.Meanwhile, at CNN and ABC "News:"
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LOL: Zohran Mamdani Claimed He Was Black on His Columbia University Application
Someone hacked Columbia's computers to prove they were still using illegal racial discrimination practices in admissions.
We don't know if they found evidence of that yet, but what they did find is that the pro-Hamas jihadi communist New Democrat Zohran Mamdani claimed in his Columbia application package that he was "Asian" and... "black." The New York Times reported this, but only because they knew anti-DEI crusader Christopher Rufo was about to report it himself, and getting scooped by Rufo on an all-NYC story (Columbia is in NYC) would be a yet another professional embarrassment. Unbelievably -- which I now use in its modern sense of "perfectly believably," just like "literally" now means "not literally" -- the New York Times is defending itself against its woke hyperpartisan Marxist employees for reporting actual news. Jonathan Turley:Obviously, the Times is spinning as hard as it can to claim that its scoop just isn't very newsworthy and that you should ignore it entirely. They are pushing Zorhan's spin: "In order to tell a deeper truth, I was forced to lie about the actual facts." This is, of course, an eternal claim of the left, so it makes perfect sense to the NYT.
New York Times Struggles to Explain Why It Reported News to Traumatized Readers
This week, the New York Times experienced an uprising in its ranks and among its readers. The paper was denounced by its own staff and liberal pundits called for the entire editorial staff to be canned. Why? Because The New York Times actually reported news that was deemed harmful to the Democrats, specifically Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. The newspaper took the additional step of publishing a cringing explanation of why it reported the news that Mamdani lied on his Columbia application in claiming to be black. For liberals, it was an utter nightmare. For a party still defined by identity politics, Mamdani's false claim over his race left many uncertain about how to react. The left has always maintained a high degree of tolerance for false claims by its own leaders, from Sen. Elizabeth Warren claiming to be a native American to Sen. Richard Blumenthal claiming to have served in the Vietnam War. The problem is when a news eco-chamber for many readers is shattered by an errant outbreak of journalism. Many Times readers live within a hermetically sealed news silo, relying on MSNBC for cable, The New York Times for print, and BlueSky for social media. You can literally go all day without being exposed to an opposing view or fact. Then suddenly this happens. The result is often anger. It is the same response many in higher education have to "triggering" views being expressed on campus by conservative or libertarian speakers. The fact is that the Mamdani story was obvious news--and confirmed by the candidate himself. Mamdani identified as both Asian and African American on his 2009 Columbia University application, according to the New York Times. Some accused him of being a fraud while others suggested he was trying to abuse affirmative action. The Times reported, adding:
Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there. In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Mamdani, 33, said he did not consider himself either Black or African American, but rather "an American who was born in Africa." He said his answers on the college application were an attempt to represent his complex background given the limited choices before him, not to gain an upper hand in the admissions process. (He was not accepted at Columbia.)
The Times readers were outraged to the point that the paper published a lengthy statement from the Times' assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, Patrick Healy, attempting to explain why it decided to publish facts that undermined a Democratic candidate. Healy sheepishly explained that "When we hear anything of news value, we try to confirm it through direct sources. Mr. Mamdani confirmed this information in an interview with The Times." It did not help. Much like the infamous Cotton scandal, where editors were fired for allowing a Republican senator to print an opposing view on riots, writers and pundits demanded firings or attacked the journalists. One such response came from Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, who attacked the journalists themselves. Not surprisingly, the attack appropriately came on BlueSky, a social media site designed to be a safe place for liberals who do not want to be triggered by opposing views. Bouie slammed Times reporter, Benjamin Ryan, as stupid, claiming, "Everything I have seen about him screams a guy with little to no actual brain activity." After that outrageous attack, Bouie deleted the post, explaining, "I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards."
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An Armed Gunman Shoots Border Patrol Guards In an "Ambush" As Axios Reports Rich White Democrats Are Demanding Actual Violence and a Literal Bloody Revolution Against Trump
Muh Normzzz. Muh precious Normzzz.
Muh Pillars of Democracy.Bill MeluginThe would-be mass murderer was only doing what his fellow Democrats demanded he do. From Democrat-mouthpiece Axios: Democrats demand literal blood in the literal fight against Trump.
@BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Three federal & TX law enforcement sources tell me an active shooter with a rifle & tactical gear ambushed Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, TX this morning. Local police and federal agents returned fire, killing him. I'm told this was a purposeful ambush/attack against federal agents and a press conference is planned for later this morning. No federal agents injured. Im told a McAllen police officer may have been shot, but is in stable condition.
Democrats told to "get shot" for the anti-Trump resistanceWell, this guy did. So is he a hero now?
At town halls in their districts and in one-on-one meetings with constituents and activists, Democratic members of Congress are facing a growing thrum of demands to break the rules, fight dirty -- and not be afraid to get hurt. Why it matters: House Democrats told Axios they see a growing anger among their base that has, in some cases, morphed into a disregard for American institutions, political traditions and even the rule of law. "This idea that we're going to save every norm and that we're not going to play [Republicans'] game ... I don't think that's resonating with voters anymore," said one House Democrat. Another told Axios that a "sense of fear and despair and anger" among voters "puts us in a different position where ... we can't keep following norms of decorum." Axios spoke to more than two dozen House Democrats for this story, with many requesting anonymity to offer candid insights about their interactions with constituents and activists. Zoom out: For months, Democratic lawmakers have fumed that their base's demands to "fight harder" misunderstand the lack of legislative and investigative power afforded to the minority party in Congress. ... What we're hearing: The grassroots wants more. "Some of them have suggested ... what we really need to do is be willing to get shot" when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios. "Our own base is telling us that what we're doing is not good enough ... [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public," the lawmaker said.Who's calling for violence? No shock -- it's the AWFLs and Karens, who assume that because of their sex and money they will never be held accountable for their incitement of violence, and never be on the receiving end of retallitatory violence themselves.
A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them "civility isn't working" and to prepare for "violence ... to fight to protect our democracy." A fifth House Democrat told Axios that "people online have sent me crazy s*** ... told me to storm the White House and stuff like that," though they added that "there's always people on the internet saying crazy stuff." Between the lines: While other Democratic lawmakers said their discussions haven't gone that far, nearly every one who spoke to Axios cited examples of voters' panic and fury fueling demands to adopt brute force tactics. A sixth House Democrat said that when they try to persuade voters to channel their frustration into a focus on winning back Congress in 2026, "people who are angry don't accept that. They're angry beyond things." "It's like ... the Roman coliseum. People just want more and more of this spectacle," said a seventh lawmaker.
Zoom in: Many lawmakers said these voters tend to be white, well-educated and live in upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods. "What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and ... a lot of times that's coming from economically very secure white people," said an eighth House Democrat. ... The bottom line: "The expectations aren't just unreal. They're dangerous," the eighth House Democrat said. A ninth lawmaker told Axios: "I actually said in a meeting, 'When they light a fire, my thought is to grab an extinguisher,'" a ninth House Democrat told Axios. "And someone at the table said, 'Have you tried gasoline?'"
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Communist Ghoul Media Goes Straight to Blaming a Republican President for Deadly Weather
It's so strange that no Democrat president, not one, has ever been blamed for the weather-related catastrophes that occur during his term, while not a single Republican president has ever escaped blame. That seems statistically unlikely, if we assume a non-partisan media, so we should definitely not assume that.
Around 70 people died in the floods and we can expect that number to continue rising as some of those reported missing will eventually be confirmed to be dead.
President Donald Trump signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, over the weekend, pledging immediate federal assistance to support rescue and recovery operations after devastating Fourth of July flooding. Key Details: In a Truth Social post Sunday, Trump confirmed he signed the disaster declaration "to ensure that our Brave First Responders immediately have the resources they need."The Democrat Media knew from the first moments the cause for this tragedy: Global Warming and the Bad Orange Man who is a Fascist.
Floodwaters surged through Kerr County on Independence Day, claiming nearly 70 lives and leaving over 20 girls still missing, according to updated reports.
More than 850 individuals have been rescued thanks to joint operations by the U.S. Coast Guard and state emergency personnel, Trump said, noting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the area alongside Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Diving Deeper: President Donald Trump moved swiftly over the weekend to authorize federal support for flood recovery efforts in central Texas, where the aftermath of deadly flash flooding continues to unfold. On Sunday, Trump announced via Truth Social that he had signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, one of the hardest-hit regions in the state. "I just signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, to ensure that our Brave First Responders immediately have the resources they need," Trump wrote. "These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost, and many still missing." The disaster struck during Independence Day celebrations, with sudden and violent flooding sweeping through areas around Kerrville -- including children's camps -- leaving widespread devastation in its path.
It's so strange that no Democrat president, not one, has ever been blamed for the weather-related catastrophes that occur during his term, while not a single Republican president has ever escaped blame. That seems statistically unlikely, if we assume a non-partisan media, so we should definitely not assume that.
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger Climate change caused the Texas floods that killed at least 27 people, say the media. No, it didn't. The lack of a flood warning system did. We've managed floods for millennia, and deaths from them declined 80% in the last 100 years. Climate reporters are trapped in a weird cult
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger Jul 5
Climate change caused the catastrophic floods that tore through Central Texas over the last few days, killing at least 27 people, including nine children, and turning calm rivers into violent torrents, according to the media. At Camp Mystic in Kerr County, the Guadalupe River surged from about three feet to nearly 29 feet in just 90 minutes, sweeping away cabins, vehicles, and people with little or no warning. Climate change caused a warmer atmosphere, which holds more moisture, and unleashed it in increasingly intense bursts. Volumes of precipitation were extreme. They had less than a 0.1% chance of occurring in any given year, according to the New York Times. Texas climatologists warned that the frequency and severity of such events have already increased and could intensify by another 10 percent by 2036. In East Texas, "the number of days per year with at least two inches of rain or snow has increased by 20 percent since 1900," noted the Times. But that tiny increase in precipitation doesn't explain the floods or the deaths in Texas. Over the past century, global flood deaths declined by more than 80 percent. That happened not because nations reduced rainfall but because they have learned how to live with it. They built levees, dams, and drainage systems. They developed early warning systems and evacuated people before the water arrived. Kerr County in Texas failed to do any of these things. Despite its location in one of the most flood-prone regions in the United States, the county had no formal flood warning system in place. There were no sirens, no automated text alerts, no rapid evacuation protocol. The river rose, and families had no idea it was coming...
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THE MORNING RANT: The Big Beautiful Bill Has Just Kneecapped Green Energy and the “EV Transition”
• Residential Solar: The 30% tax credit goes away at the end of this year.
• Electric Vehicles: The $7,500 per unit federal tax credit for the purchase of new EVs is eliminated effective 9/30/2025 – less than three months! The $4,000 federal incentive for buying a used EV is also killed off.
• EV Chargers: The tax credit for installing an EV charger at home is also killed off effective 6/30/2026, less than a year from now. There is nothing in this big beautiful law that will stop a person from being true to his faith in The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse. He can still buy a Tesla or any other electric vehicle, install a car charger in his home, and produce some of the electricity on his very own rooftop solar array. None of this will be prohibited. It’s just not going to be subsidized by the rest of us. Let freedom ring. There are still a lot of “small government conservatives” criticizing the OBBB. I’d caution fellow conservatives to be careful about nodding too vigorously with these critics who accuse the OBBB being a “tax-and-spend bill,” since we conservatives are famously anti-tax. Everyone who is losing a “green” tax credit will be facing a “tax increase,” which was really just a very special, targeted incentive subsidized by the rest of us. The elimination of tax exemptions for adversaries seeking to deny me reliable energy and transportation freedom is a “tax increase” I can enthusiastically support.*****
My latest piece at The Blaze is a non-political piece that ran over the holiday weekend. It’s a little bit of Americana recounting a morning I spent chatting with a wise, ex-convict on a Texas fishing pier.
The story is behind a paywall, but if you’re a Blaze subscriber I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
This is a joyous moment for conservatives and all of us who have been battling the climate hoax. With President Trump signing the One Big Beautiful Bill into law, government subsidization of electric vehicles and “green energy” has effectively been shut down.
I will have much more to write about this, and I also know that a lot of people had reservations about the OBBB because it did not suddenly fix decades of government deficit spending. But what it did do is actually eliminate some of the most egregious government spending that was in service to attacks on America’s energy independence and transportation freedom. Unlike traditional omnibus bills where Republican congressmen get funding for roads or infrastructure in exchange for Democrats getting an expansion of the welfare state, this law is slashing all sorts of left-wing programs, including the funding of Medicaid for the able-bodied who won’t work, and for Planned Parenthood. Perhaps most significant to me is that the OBBB has killed off the “EV transition” effective almost immediately. In addition, green energy boondoggles will have to come up with a business plan that doesn’t involve taxpayer subsidization. We are also likely near the end of the environmental nightmare of wind energy, and industrial-scale solar. Specifically: • Wind and Solar Energy Projects: Tax credits are eliminated, with the exception that projects started within the next 11 months, or those completed by the end of 2027, are grandfathered in.• Residential Solar: The 30% tax credit goes away at the end of this year.
• Electric Vehicles: The $7,500 per unit federal tax credit for the purchase of new EVs is eliminated effective 9/30/2025 – less than three months! The $4,000 federal incentive for buying a used EV is also killed off.
• EV Chargers: The tax credit for installing an EV charger at home is also killed off effective 6/30/2026, less than a year from now. There is nothing in this big beautiful law that will stop a person from being true to his faith in The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse. He can still buy a Tesla or any other electric vehicle, install a car charger in his home, and produce some of the electricity on his very own rooftop solar array. None of this will be prohibited. It’s just not going to be subsidized by the rest of us. Let freedom ring. There are still a lot of “small government conservatives” criticizing the OBBB. I’d caution fellow conservatives to be careful about nodding too vigorously with these critics who accuse the OBBB being a “tax-and-spend bill,” since we conservatives are famously anti-tax. Everyone who is losing a “green” tax credit will be facing a “tax increase,” which was really just a very special, targeted incentive subsidized by the rest of us. The elimination of tax exemptions for adversaries seeking to deny me reliable energy and transportation freedom is a “tax increase” I can enthusiastically support.
“You know,” he said, “my biggest regret isn’t those lost years. It’s how it hurt my folks. They had to always try to avoid talking about family. They stopped going out much. It hurts to have to say, ‘My boy is in prison in Huntsville.’ Mom died while I was in prison, and I missed her funeral. I’ve paid my debt to society. I think I’ve overpaid. By looking out for Dad, I can try to repay a more important debt.”
The story is behind a paywall, but if you’re a Blaze subscriber I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest piece at The Blaze: "From Prison to Pier: The Unlikely Wisdom of a Catfisherman"
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) July 6, 2025
"Catching a hardhead always recalls the gentle ex-convict whose path in life briefly intersected with mine one morning on a South Texas pier."https://t.co/MJcSlFmSDU
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
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The Morning Report — 7/7 /25 
Meh, these are the same twisted reptilian ghouls who cheered on the Islamic hordes from Gaza raping and butchering Israelis if not joining in here at home by verbally and physically assaulting Jews on college campuses and elsewhere. It's why even I, as an ex New Yorker despite having mixed feelings about what my hometown is in for should the absolutely man-caused disaster of Zohran Momdani and his acolytes take control. NYC didn't and should not have to have been doomed to suffer what is about to hit it, and yet. . .
So there's that and then there is the sheer insanity/stupidity/folly or whatever of Elon Musk forming a political party that will only, if it does gain any traction, merely siphon off votes from the Trump base and Trump averse GOP electorate thereby handing the country over to the Democrats for the midterms, 2028 and quite possibly well into the future. This at the very moment when the Democrat Party is tearing itself apart as it struggles to contain the erupting insanity of the Momdani/Titty-Caca/Bernie Sanders and other bust-out wackadoo maniacs from gaining control from the more effective closeted communists and criminals who control the Party. President Trump in just the past 6 months has been wildly successful domestically and internationally, with his most successful accomplishment being exposing the Democrats as well as the traitors allegedly on our side in the GOP for who and what they are.
As CBD and I lamented on the latest episode of the podcast in reference to the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, all it is is the furtherance of the multi-trillion dollar ongoing grift that makes politicians on both sides of the aisle part and parcel of the same hypocrisy. The irony of course is that the BBB, at least in our early estimation will expose this, but as erudite commenter and friend Dave in Florida pointed out to me (and which i included in the editorial last Friday) there are actually some very good things in the bill, so I look forward to having my reservations about it proven to be wrong. President Trump in just the past 6 months has been wildly successful domestically and internationally, with his most successful accomplishment being exposing the Democrats as well as the traitors allegedly on our side in the GOP for who and what they are. Whether the BBB stinks on ice or is indeed a major Trump masterstroke, Musk is violating Napoleon's ironclad principle of when your enemy is making a mistake, let them continue without interference. Jealousy, treachery, duplicitousness? What a scumbag, or am I missing something here? Instead of a third party pipe dream, it should be all hands on deck to wrest control of the GOP. Elsewhere, has it really been 20 years since the Islamic terror attack on London? How time flies when westerners have their heads up their ass... And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. Have a great day!
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, as the state reels from deadly flooding that has killed dozens and left more missing. . . According to Trump, Coast Guard officials and Texas first responders have rescued over 850 people as of Sunday. At least 67 people have died in the floods across Texas, including 59 in Kerr County, according to local officials. Particularly hard-hit was Camp Mystic, a Christian summer retreat for girls near the Guadalupe River, where 11 children and one counselor remain missing, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said during a press briefing.Of course, the response from the anti-American left is about what you'd expect:
When tragedy strikes, you can always count on the left to weaponize heartbreak for political gain. . . Instead of mourning the dead or supporting the heroic first responders—who have already rescued more than 850 people from the floodwaters—leftists are spinning a narrative that blames Trump-era budget decisions for the devastation. . . It’s not enough for them to politicize a tragedy—they have to lie about it, too. As the search for survivors continues, liberal pundits and blue-check Twitter warriors are busy “concern trolling” Texans, suggesting that “this is what happens when you cut too much government.” Some have even gone so far as to imply that red states somehow deserve this fate, as if the weather itself is a tool of cosmic justice for voting the wrong way. The sheer callousness is staggering.
Meh, these are the same twisted reptilian ghouls who cheered on the Islamic hordes from Gaza raping and butchering Israelis if not joining in here at home by verbally and physically assaulting Jews on college campuses and elsewhere. It's why even I, as an ex New Yorker despite having mixed feelings about what my hometown is in for should the absolutely man-caused disaster of Zohran Momdani and his acolytes take control. NYC didn't and should not have to have been doomed to suffer what is about to hit it, and yet. . .
The city is dying, and we should let it. Progressives are all in favor of assisted suicide, we should join them in the case of New York and help the city kill itself. Only a complete embrace of socialist/fascist/communist policies (and there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the three) will ween those people off their addiction to seeking government to solve their problems/improve their lives. Let it die, and let them choke on whatever damage and harm to people it does along the way. Some people can learn from history, other are too dumb to heed those lessons and avoid the pitfalls of the past. New York falls into the latter, so let them swallow the whole bottle of their own medicine. I can’t bring myself to care. Republicans in Washington should do everything to make sure that all the socialist policies New York currently has, and the ones in waiting to be imposed, have the maximum impact on the people who voted for their worthless politicians.As I attempted to articulate, I totally get this sentiment and I even agree with it. Good and hard as the saying goes. But, I still have elderly relatives and some sane friends who simply cannot pack up and leave for a host of reasons and so are trapped. Yes, it's easy to to tell NYC and every other blue shit hole to go to hell. But, unless and until an actual civil war or other political dissolution of the bonds that tie us together comes about, if it and all the other blue states go down, we may very well be sucked down in the vortex as well.
So there's that and then there is the sheer insanity/stupidity/folly or whatever of Elon Musk forming a political party that will only, if it does gain any traction, merely siphon off votes from the Trump base and Trump averse GOP electorate thereby handing the country over to the Democrats for the midterms, 2028 and quite possibly well into the future. This at the very moment when the Democrat Party is tearing itself apart as it struggles to contain the erupting insanity of the Momdani/Titty-Caca/Bernie Sanders and other bust-out wackadoo maniacs from gaining control from the more effective closeted communists and criminals who control the Party. President Trump in just the past 6 months has been wildly successful domestically and internationally, with his most successful accomplishment being exposing the Democrats as well as the traitors allegedly on our side in the GOP for who and what they are.
As CBD and I lamented on the latest episode of the podcast in reference to the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, all it is is the furtherance of the multi-trillion dollar ongoing grift that makes politicians on both sides of the aisle part and parcel of the same hypocrisy. The irony of course is that the BBB, at least in our early estimation will expose this, but as erudite commenter and friend Dave in Florida pointed out to me (and which i included in the editorial last Friday) there are actually some very good things in the bill, so I look forward to having my reservations about it proven to be wrong. President Trump in just the past 6 months has been wildly successful domestically and internationally, with his most successful accomplishment being exposing the Democrats as well as the traitors allegedly on our side in the GOP for who and what they are. Whether the BBB stinks on ice or is indeed a major Trump masterstroke, Musk is violating Napoleon's ironclad principle of when your enemy is making a mistake, let them continue without interference. Jealousy, treachery, duplicitousness? What a scumbag, or am I missing something here? Instead of a third party pipe dream, it should be all hands on deck to wrest control of the GOP. Elsewhere, has it really been 20 years since the Islamic terror attack on London? How time flies when westerners have their heads up their ass... And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. Have a great day!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- A general aviation aircraft was intercepted by a North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) fighter after it violated Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) airspace over Bedminster, New Jersey. This event marked one of five unauthorized incursions into the restricted airspace on the day.The civilian aircraft entered the restricted zone at about 2:39 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To capture the pilot’s attention, NORAD aircraft executed a headbutt maneuver and safely escorted the aircraft out of the area.
NORAD Intercepts Plane at Trump’s Bedminster.
- John Dale Dunn, M.D.: What didn’t happen is that four police officers violated both regulations and laws to kill George Floyd, and the officers were railroaded.
A Five-Year George Floyd Retrospective Lets Us See What Really Happened
- Victor Davis Hanson: Zoran Mamdani built his dream on radical chic—but now that he's winning, he's scrambling to bury the blueprint.
The Frightening Dream House of Zoran Mamdani
- Michael Walsh: The recent accession to the throne of St. Peter by the new pope, Leo XIV, is surely the most significant event in Church history since the doctrinal demolition derby of the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 unleashed by Pope John XXIII and concluded by Pope Paul VI (both, unaccountably, sainted since their deaths). Nothing did more to destroy the integrity and popularity of the Roman Catholic faith than this disastrous conclave, and nothing could be more timely or encouraging than a restoration of the liturgy by the Chicago White Sox fan, Pope Bob; it just might take an American to clean out the Augean Stables of the Eternal City.
THE COLUMN: Il Ritorno della Messa Tridentina in Patria?
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- Why AI sucks. (Dwarkesh)
Because it doesn't learn.
Specifically, current large language models are not designed to acquire and verify new facts and to discard old one that turned out to be incorrect, or to adopt new modes of though that streamline reasoning.
They are trained, once, and then left to slowly rot until they are replaced.
Interesting comments on this article too: Arguing about when AI will replace humanity and then admitting that nobody really knows anything and it will probably never happen.
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