Axios: Democrats Wonder If Their New Socialist, Globalize-the-Intifada Superstar Might Lead Voters to Think They're All Terrorist-Loving Radical Communists or Something

It's their brand. Always has been.

They just used to do a better job of hiding it.

Many Democratic leaders and donors are panicking about Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist who won the party's nomination to be the next mayor of New York City.

Why it matters: Establishment Democrats looking to recover from 2024's losses fear Mamdani could hurt the party's brand nationally -- while young progressives believe his formula could spread beyond New York.

Democratic leaders largely rallied behind former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York's mayoral primary, and Mamdani's shocking victory Tuesday was the latest example of the party's establishment being disconnected from many of its own voters.

Driving the news: On Wednesday, many Democratic lawmakers and officials either denounced Mamdani or notably declined to rally around him. Republicans -- including President Trump -- crowed about Democrats embracing a democratic socialist who has called for reduced police funding and sided with Palestinians in the Gaza war.

The top two Democratic leaders in Congress, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, both New Yorkers, declined to endorse Mamdani even as they applauded his victory.

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Other House Democrats from New York who hadn't backed Mamdani were mostly tight-lipped Wednesday.

Reps. Pat Ryan, Josh Riley and Ritchie Torres -- who went so far as to say he wouldn't run for governor if Mamdani won -- all dodged reporters.

Rep. Dan Goldman, asked if he had any thoughts on the result, told Axios: "Not right now."

Major Democratic donors -- who poured tens of millions into a Super PAC for Cuomo -- were having private discussions Wednesday about whether to back an independent run by Cuomo in November's general election, or rally behind unpopular incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who's also running as an independent.

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"The full-on freakout by the establishment is entirely predictable -- they do no introspection or soul searching, and instead just lash out," said Lis Smith, a longtime Democratic operative who used to work for Cuomo but has become a critic.

"This is an outcome of their own creation," Smith added. "If you don't want to lose to a socialist, don't run a fatally flawed candidate like Andrew Cuomo."

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Flashback: Mamdani repeatedly had called for defunding the New York Police Department -- a position he tried to add nuance to during the campaign.

"We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety," he posted on X (then Twitter) in June 2020. "What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD."

Mamdani also dodged questions about whether Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state -- an important issue to many Jewish voters in New York City.

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Mamdani has denounced anti-semitism, but some Democrats aren't convinced.

Gillen alleged that Mamdani "has demonstrated a deeply disturbing pattern of unacceptable antisemitic comments."

Ed Morrissey calls bullshit on the leftwing Axios' warning that socialism may spread to other blue cities in the future, noting that LA elected the Castro-loving communist Karen Bass and Chicago elected the openly racist radical black revanchist Brandon Johnson.

And that didn't go very well at all.

Even the ultraliberal Chicago Tribune, which I assume endorsed their literal-moron Mayor Brandon Johnson, tried to warn NYC about voting for this terrorist-supporting communist.

To no avail, of course.

The Chicago Tribune issued a grim warning to New Yorkers about electing a socialist mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani in a bombshell op-ed Monday, the day before the Empire State's primary elections.

The paper's editorial board paints a bleak image of Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic socialist Queens assemblyman who leapfrogged the longtime front-runner, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a stunning new poll released earlier in the day.

"A familiar dilemma: a moderate, business-friendly Democrat versus a democratic socialist. New Yorkers, take it from Chicago -- we've seen this movie before, and the ending isn't pretty," the board of one of the last remaining big-city daily newspapers cautioned.

The Tribune likened Mamdani's buzzworthy campaign, which has garnered a historic amount of grassroots support, to that of embattled progressive Windy City Mayor Brandon Johnson, who took office in 2023.

"Johnson's approval rating cratered in his second year -- a reflection of how quickly progressive promises collapsed under the weight of governance and Chicago's financial reality," the paper wrote. "What sounded good in theory has translated into dysfunction, driven by fiscal missteps and political inexperience.

"Johnson is one of the most progressive mayors in the U.S., but Mamdani, inarguably, is yet more radical," it continued.

I know you're going to be shocked to hear this, but it turns out that any criticism you direct at Mamdani for calling for a globalization of the intifada and for having released a rap track praising the convicted Holy Land Foundation funders of Hamas,

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Mediator in Trump's Lawsuit Against CBS For Deceptively Editing Kamala's Word-Salad Answers Suggests $20 Million Settlement

A mediator has proposed that Paramount Global (PARA.O), opens new tab and U.S. President Donald Trump settle his lawsuit against CBS News over an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris for $20 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The proposal would include a $17 million donation to Trump's presidential foundation or museum, as well as millions more in legal fees and public service announcements on Paramount-owned networks to fight antisemitism, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS in October, alleging the network deceptively edited a "60 Minutes" interview with then-vice president and presidential candidate Harris to "tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party" in the election.

In an amended complaint filed in February, Trump bumped his claim for damages to $20 billion.

The sticking point isn't the money, the Wall Street Journal reports. Trump wants an apology from the network and an admission of fault, but Paramount (CBS' corporate parent) refuses.

Instead they're offering to run... public services messages about antisemitism? What?
What has that got to do with any of this?

Ed Morrissey comments:

They don't want to admit error, the WSJ later notes, because they don't want to expose their news operations to further legal liability for cooked reporting and corrupt election meddling. They want the lawsuit out of the way for their merger with Skydance, likely because of the potential liability of a $20 billion claim on the balance sheet as the value of Paramount gets calculated. Other media outlets also claim that Paramount and Redstone are worried that the FTC would intervene in the merger in retaliation, but that has never made a lot of sense. (The WSJ lays out that case near the end of that report, for those who want to read it.) There isn't really much of a reason for an FTC intervention in this merger, as it's not even among the more impactful consolidations in the entertainment industry of late. A federal court would make short shrift of such a move, especially these days, and maybe especially in the DC circuit.

CBS "News" and 60 Minutes are shrieking about the possibility of any admission, even an implicit one, that they ever did anything wrong or biased, ever.

Even as lawyers for Paramount Global and President Trump are in discussions about a potential settlement in his lawsuit over the editing of a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris, Paramount and CBS filed a response reaffirming their position that the interview is protected by the First Amendment -- and that Trump's legal team has failed to provide any evidence to the contrary.

"This is a meritless lawsuit that, as Plaintiffs' opposition admits, takes 'aim[] at a news organization' ... for editorial decisions Plaintiffs dislike," Paramount and CBS said in a filing Monday in reply to Trump's motion to deny CBS's request to dismiss the lawsuit.

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"President Trump and Representative Jackson attempt to evade bedrock First Amendment principles establishing that public officials like themselves cannot hold news organizations like CBS liable for the exercise of editorial judgment," CBS said in its June 23 reply.

As you know, 60 Minutes ultraliberal partisan Scott Pelley whined like a bitch over the alleged Death of Democracy should Paramount settle with Trump.

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Study of 1.3 Million Czech Women Shows That Those Who Received the Covid "Vaccine" Had Their Fertility Rates Reduced by One Third As Compared to the Unvaccinated

Dr. Simone Gold
@drsimonegold

WOW: A peer-reviewed study of 1.3 million women in the Czech Republic found that in 2022, vaccinated women had 33% fewer successful conceptions per 1,000 than unvaccinated women.

This is not speculation--it's data.

Time to wake up & ask hard questions. Humanity demands answers.

From David Strom:

From the outset, all the evidence suggested that COVID-19 was deadly to the old and infirm, and a bad flu for everybody else.

Focused protection for the vulnerable and developing a vaccine to alleviate the burden on them were policies that made the most sense. And given that only a small fraction of the population was especially vulnerable, when the vaccine was rushed out, it made sense to give it--even without long-term testing--to those at high risk of death.

Of course, that's not what happened. The risks were exaggerated, and the "protection" measures were mostly useless, and when the vaccine--not a standard vaccine, but a novel mRNA vaccine that was untested--the government tried to force everyone to take it.

It's as if you had asked public health officials to develop the worst possible policy measures and implement them. The damage done has been immense, and there has still been no reckoning.

It's a conspiracy theory, you guys. Don't do your own research. Only obey the State and State Media. They know what the truth is.

The study is here.

Below, the abbreviation "SC" means "Successful Conceptions," that is, pregnancies among women trying to have a baby.

The "vaccine" seems to have reduced women's ability to successfully become pregnant by a full third.

Estimates of the number of SCs for vaccinated and unvaccinated women are shown in Figure 1. During the study period (January 2021--March 2023), there were approximately 1,300,000 women aged 18--39 years in the Czech Republic, and the proportion of vaccinated women increased until reaching a steady state of around 70% of all women by the end of 2021 (Figure 1(a)). The Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech) and Spikevax (Moderna) mRNA vaccines comprised 96% of all administered COVID-19 vaccine doses, with an 11:1 ratio in the use of these two vaccines.

Blue-shaded areas in Figure 1(b) show intervals between upper and lower bounds for the estimates delineating the actual SC rates.

In the graph below, the big, thick chungus parts of the graphs are estimates. The areas are big because this part of the graph shows the spread between the lower bounds of estimates and the upper bounds. They don't have full data to resolve this band into a single line.

However, past 2021, the actual data is known. The big-bands of estimated successful conceptions resolves into nice neat lines.

The estimated intervals for SC rates varied substantially for vaccinated women at the beginning of the study period where few women had been vaccinated, that is, representing a very low absolute number of SCs. Notably, at least from June 2021, monthly numbers of SCs per 1000 women were considerably lower for women that were vaccinated before SC, compared to those that were not. SC rates for women vaccinated before SC were generally lower than expected based on their proportion of the total population of women (Figure 1(a) and (b)).

throughout 2022, SC rates remained about 1.5 times higher for women that were unvaccinated before SC compared with those that were vaccinated before SC (Figure 1(b)).

Unvaccinated women have successful conception rates 1.5 times as high as those of unvaccinated women. This just restates the finding that vaccinated women have 2/3rds the successful conception rate of unvaccinated women, because vaccinated women have 2/3rds as many successful pregancies, and unvaccinated women have 3/2nds (1.5 x) as many pregnanices.

The paper notes that while a correlation is observed, that doesn't prove causation, but other explanations seem frivolous -- like "women are just more stressed post-covid so they're naturally not as fertile."

How does the establishment, the Regime, and the Democrat-Media Party survive this?

This is, bizarrely, the plot of the British series Utopia, which was remade using American actors for Amazon. The Amazon series played with the disclaimer that the series was entirely fiction and should not be taken as containing any truth and should not cast doubt on the efficacy of vaccines.

I wondered why they ran that disclaimer. It turns out, because the show's whole plot concerned Pro-Mortalist elites -- elites who fear that the world has too many people -- creating a fake epidemic to get people to take a vaccine to prevent it.

The "vaccine" was engineered deliberately to reduce people's fertility, to solve the fake global overpopulation "problem."

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Jill Biden's "Work Husband," the Aide Who Controlled The White House and Hid Joe Biden's Infirmity from the Public, Refuses to Testify to Congress

"Work husband," huh?

Top Biden aide Anthony Bernal is refusing to appear before a House Republican-led committee on Thursday to answer questions about the purported cover-up of the president's cognitive decline while in office.

Bernal, known as first lady Jill Biden's "work husband" and a loyal member of the family's inner circle, flouted an invitation to sit for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee after the Trump White House waived executive privilege for the testimony.

"With no privilege left to hide behind, Mr. Bernal is now running scared, desperate to bury the truth," said Oversight chairman James Comer (R-Ky.)

"The American people deserve answers and accountability, and the Oversight Committee will not tolerate this obstruction. I will promptly issue a subpoena to compel Anthony Bernal's testimony before the Committee."

Dr. Kevin O'Connor, who served as the former White House physician for Biden, has already been issued a subpoena to appear for testimony Friday.

Another top Biden aide, Neera Tanden, also attempted to dodge testimony.

She said she couldn't testify because of executive privilege. But executive privilege is invoked by the currently-serving president, not a past one. Trump requested that Biden invoke executive privilege to protect his own documents, but Biden repeatedly refused.

When Neera Tanden made the same request, you know that Trump enjoyed telling her to get stuffed.

Bernal's move comes after former White House Domestic Policy Council director Neera Tanden testified to the Oversight panel on Tuesday, without the shield of privilege covering her statements.

"After balancing the Legislative and Executive Branch interests, as required under the accommodation process, it is the President's view that this presents an exceptional situation in which the congressional need for information outweighs the Executive Branch's interest in maintaining confidentiality," wrote Gary Lawkowski, deputy White House counsel, in a Monday letter to Tanden.

Comer said Tanden revealed in her testimony that she controlled access to Biden's autopen -- despite having "minimal interaction" with the president -- and sent numerous "decision memos" to an "inner circle" of White House advisers for approval.

"Her testimony raises serious questions about who was really calling the shots in the Biden White House amid the President's obvious decline," the Oversight chairman thundered.

Tanden was one of the main operators of the presidential autopen. She admitted that while she affixed Biden's fake signature to pardons, she didn't know who had actually authorized these pardons.

In other words, it wasn't Biden. One of Biden's aides would tell her to activate President Autopen, and she ran hundreds of pardons through the Presidential Simulator.

Neera Tanden, former head of Biden's Domestic Policy Council, admitted that she authorized autopen signatures without knowledge of who issued the final approval in a closed-door hearing before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, according to Fox News.

In her role as staff secretary, before she was moved to the Domestic Policy Council, Tanden "was responsible for handling the the flow of documents to and from the President," sending decision memos to "Biden's inner circle" and affixing the president's autopen signature to the documents when she received approval. Tanden was not privy to any of the decision-making process or who was giving the final approval. She rarely interacted with Biden. The system, according to her opening statement, was a relic of previous administrations.

So she would make a decision about what orders or pardons should be signed, and send those "decision memos" to the inner circle controlling the White House. The inner circle would approve her "decision memos" and instruct her to fire up President Autopen. But, criticially: She wasn't ever talking to Biden and had no idea of who was actually making these decisions.

And she claims that this is Just How It's Always Been Done.

Perjury.

Tanden denied that she had ever discussed the former president's fitness for office, per Fox News. "I had no experience in the White House that would provide any reason to question his command as President. He was in charge," she said in her statement.

That's another lie.

When asked by a reporter after the hearing if there had been an "effort to disguise President Biden's condition," she quickly denied it as she walked away.

"Her testimony raises serious questions about who was really calling the shots in the Biden White House amid the President's obvious decline," Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement.

Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, who's ditched her cuck, says that it's extremely unusual for the person who handles the presidential paperwork to never interact with the president whose orders she's allegedly executing.

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General "Razin'" Caine: The Massive Ordnance Penetrators Worked Exactly as Designed, and Obliterated Their Targets
CNN's Analyst: I'm Convinced, the Centrifuges Are All Destroyed

CNN hardest hit.

The Pentagon on Thursday released footage of 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs designed to destroy fortified underground targets like Iran's Fordow site. Gen. Dan Caine said all six bombs "went exactly where they were intended," pushing back on claims the sites weren't damaged.

Key Details:

The footage shows a Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) plunging into a target and igniting a fireball through a shaft--highlighting the bomb's ability to penetrate before detonating.

Gen. Dan Caine told reporters, "Unlike a normal surface bomb, you won't see an impact crater because they're designed to deeply bury and then function."

Caine added the strikes on Iran's Fordow enrichment facility were precise: "All six weapons at each vent... went exactly where they were intended to go."

Diving Deeper:

The Pentagon on Thursday released dramatic footage illustrating the destructive power of America's most advanced bunker-busting weaponry--just days after questions emerged about the effectiveness of strikes on Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

The video showcases the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), a 30,000-pound bomb specifically engineered to burrow into heavily reinforced underground targets before detonating. One clip shows the bomb piercing a target and triggering a bright inferno shooting through a vertical shaft--highlighting its underground impact rather than surface-level destruction.

"Unlike a normal surface bomb, you won't see an impact crater because they're designed to deeply bury and then function," said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Caine during Thursday's briefing at the Pentagon.

Caine confirmed that the U.S. deployed six bunker-busters per vent at Iran's Fordow uranium enrichment facility and emphasized that "all six weapons... went exactly where they were intended to go." The statement appears to directly contradict anonymous claims cited by CNN earlier in the week, which suggested that U.S. strikes had failed to damage nuclear targets.

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"A bomb has three effects that cause damage: blast, fragmentation, and overpressure," Caine explained. "In this case, the primary kill mechanisms... were a mix of overpressure and blast." He concluded with a warning: "Imagine what this looks like six times over."

Meanwhile, Iran's Supreme Leader emerges from his bunker to declare victory over the US and Israel.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's aging theocratic ruler, emerged from hiding Thursday to make his first public remarks since hostilities erupted between Israel and Iran earlier this month. Appearing via video on state-run television, Khamenei painted a picture of Iranian triumph and American failure, using characteristically fiery rhetoric to assert dominance in the aftermath of a fragile ceasefire.

"The Islamic Republic was victorious and, in retaliation, delivered a hand slap to America's face," Khamenei declared, referencing Iran's symbolic missile strike on the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar on Monday. Though the attack resulted in no casualties or structural damage, Khamenei used it to posture strength, warning, "Such an action can be repeated in the future too. Should any aggression occur, the enemy will definitely pay a heavy price."

Khamenei has remained out of sight since June 13, when Israel initiated a targeted campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities and top-level military figures. Following a retaliatory strike by U.S. forces on June 22 -- involving the use of seven stealth bombers and over a dozen bunker-busting bombs -- speculation swirled over the regime's internal chaos. Khamenei's reappearance on Thursday appeared aimed at dispelling doubts about Iran's control and resolve.

He dismissed America's involvement as ineffective, saying the United States "achieved no gains from this war." According to Khamenei, the U.S. only intervened after realizing the "Zionist regime would be utterly destroyed" without assistance.

CNN immediately offered the Ayatollah a $1.5 million per year contract to serve as their international affairs correspondent.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Anyone who trusts the government to respect his privacy and his rights is a fool. And all governments (federal, state, local) are the same...an insatiable desire for power and control and -- this is the big one -- knowledge of our innermost secrets, or how many garbage cans we fill each week. It doesn't matter; they want it all. Every bit of data that describes us!

Medical records and toll records and what we buy and banking data and how any people live in our homes and who we call and what websites do we frequent and....

They can build a complete record of our lives with enough of that data, and the vast majority of it isn't anyone's business but our own!

However, when the federal government funds a welfare program, it is entirely reasonable that they have access to at least some of that data about the recipients, because that is our money, and the federal government had better be damned diligent in minimizing misuse and outright theft.

Why? Because if you take a handout from the government, you lose privacy. Sorry, but that is just the way it is. I have no idea why the expectation of privacy extends to those who are willing to give up their autonomy and accept assistance from the public.

Trump knocks down barriers around personal data, raising alarm

On May 6, the U.S. Department of Agriculture asked states to hand over the data of 42 million people receiving SNAP benefits, including their names, dates of birth, social security numbers and addresses. This request is currently paused amid legal challenges.

Sorry, but I just don't give a sh*t that some SNAP recipient is concerned with his privacy. If you want privacy, pay for your own groceries.

Of course the reality is probably different. I'll bet those SNAP recipients don't much care, and this is simply the ACLU and other leftist organizations using lawfare to attack the Trump administration.

But it does expose the larger point that in most cases the government has no need for most of the data they accumulate about us, and in many cases it flies in the face of our constitutionally protected rights. Collection of weapons purchase data is an affront to the 2nd Amendment, yet the federal government and the blue states are busily building a massive database of legal gun owners.

I wonder why? Whatever could they do with that information?

The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.

-- Thomas Paine

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Stamford Harbor
Louis Bouché

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The Morning Report — 6/ 26 /25

Good morning kids. Well evidently Chuck Schumer was hospitalized yesterday for dehydration after working out at the gym. I'm sure you all will join me in wishing him a heartfelt Get HELL soon. Anyone know what brand of exercise bands Harry Reid used? I'd like to send him a set.

With rumors of civil war within the Democrat Party, vis a vis the gerontocracy that still populate and run it and not so much the battle over its policy positions, but of how hard, fast and loud the policies should be pushed by its elected officials and candidates. Insofar as both the old guard and up and comers recognize to greater or lesser extents that much of America is repulsed by the Leftist agenda. Not that that matters to Democrats as they will ram it down our throats when they seize power. It's why despite polls showing core constituencies abandoning the Democrats I'm not so sanguine, given the results of the Democrat primary in NYC yesterday. Tammany Hall wanted a full-on freakazoid Muslim DSA socialist as their candidate. Not that Cuomo the mass murderer of the elderly was all that appealing nor incumbent Eric Adams whose own baggage is forcing him to run as an independent. And with all of that, he might actually have a good shot at beating this Mamdani psychopath. That means NYC goes off the cliff at a slightly slower pace than if Mamdani is elected.

So given all of that, and perhaps NYC is way too blue to be a barometer for the nation at large. Is there at least a chance for an overall American deprogramming from Leftism if not a MAGA ignited renaissance of, if not America and Americanism, then at the very least some modicum of a scintilla of cultural and political sanity for the future?

As you ponder that one, I give you today's festering slithering Olduvai Gorge refugee of a toxic beast du jour:

Democrat California Rep. Lateefah Simon lashed out at Republican witnesses at the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday for quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Simon told the witnesses to keep King’s name “out of their mouth[s]” during a hearing on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The witnesses she addressed were Dan Lennington of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Judge Glock of the Manhattan Institute and Erec Smith of the Cato Institute. . . “They’re motivated by a fear of a multiracial and multicultural democracy. A fear that freedom of coequal citizens living as their authentic selves with pride. Out of fear, they have a fear of accountability,” Simon said. “We must name this conversation today for what it truly is. It is a bigotry, it is a hypocrisy. Republicans, like I’ve said before, will quote Dr. King all day, will bring forth Lincoln and talk about Frederick Douglass in the same breath that they are gutting civil rights offices in our governments.”

The sheer chutzpocritcal gall and projection of this filthy fekete shit-whore is so breathtakingly incandescent as to make my blood boil. It is her and her party that have been the epicenter of racism, division and oppression, on top of slavery, segregation and the actual creation of concentration camps thank you FDR.

Considering the poison ravings of fetid scum like Ibram X. [Krement] Kendi and his anti-racism theories in his Jive Kampf tracts that legitimize overt racism by punishing every white person now and forevermore into the future for alleged collective guilt within Caucasian DNA over slavery and this mythological white supremacy/white privilege that allegedly has oppressed black people despite the Civil War, civil rights movement and the election by a two thirds white majority country of blacks to every office in the land including the presidency etc. etc. etc.

I assume this moldering eggplant Lateefah slag is fully on board with that crackpot nuttery. If that's the case then why is she so enraged about some crackers invoking a man who prayed that one day his children will be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

And from the leakers of the Iran raid damage assessments to the LA vice mayor signaling gangbangers to mobilize and attack ICE agents, Old Sparky needs to be dusted off and wired up for action.

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
• Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was hospitalized on Wednesday morning and treated for dehydration after he felt “lightheaded” while working out at the gym, according to multiple reports. (I want to send him some Harry Reid exercise bands! Get Hell soon - jjs)
  Schumer Hospitalized, Treated for Dehydration After Feeling ‘Lightheaded’ Due to Heat

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Daily Tech News 26 June 2025

Top Story

• Facebook has also won the lawsuit filed against it by angry authors (and "authors"), with a different federal judge also ruling that it is legal to read books that you bought. (MSN)
  
  The authors sued because Facebook could hypothetically use its AI to create near-copies of their work. They lost the suit because, well, it didn't.

  "The plaintiffs presented no meaningful evidence on market dilution at all," said Judge Chhabria.

  There's a lot of that going around.

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - June 25, 2025 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters.

[Top photo: The Natchez-Vidalia Bridge spans across the Mississippi River and links Mississippi and Louisiana]

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Wends-Yay Cafe

Hedgehogs are so cute that people say Sure I'll live with a permanent risk of salmonella to own one.

Horse and dog are besties.

The love of a pimp is very different from the love of a square.

Giant dogs need cuddles too.

Can a border collie find a tiny zipper-pull thrown into the woods? The answer may surprise you. (But probably not.)

The instinct runs deep.

Cat introduces her kitten to the new baby.

I like cats, but this is disturbing. They look like spiders.

Out of control.

The instinct to bathe is irresistible.

Rescuing a seal that got stuck in a crevasse.

Thoughtless people rescue a dangerous ice-bat.

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Quick Hits

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

#BREAKING: The White House is AGGRESSIVELY tracking down the person who leaked classified documents to CNN, per Karoline Leavitt

"They should go to JAIL," Leavitt said

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

JUST IN: Statement from CIA Director John Ratcliffe about Intelligence on Iran's Nuclear Program:

"CIA can confirm that a body of credible intelligence indicates Iran's Nuclear Program has been severely damaged by the recent, targeted strikes."

Shares of firms tied to the NYC real estate market fall over fears of Socialist Jihadi Zorhan Mamdani's socialist plan to freeze rents.

Shares of firms with exposure to New York City's real-estate market were hammered Wednesday as investors panicked over the growing prospect of rent-freeze advocate Zohran Mamdani winning City Hall.

Vornado Realty Trust and SL Green, two of the Big Apple's largest developers, each plunged more than 5%.

Other real estate investment trusts (REITs) with heavy ties to the city also suffered. Equity Residential and Empire State Realty Trust fell 3% and 4%, respectively. LXP Industrial Trust was down 2.5%.

Investors also sold off shares in New York banks with major real estate portfolios.

Flagstar Financial and Dime Community Bank fell 5% and 4%, respectively, while Flushing Financial slipped 3%.

Obama's senior economic advisor warns about electing a jihadist to be the mayor the terrorists' favorite target city... but then says that Mamdani just has to offer some meaningless distancing from his jihadist platform and then he's all good to go.

Lawrence H. Summers
@LHSummers

I am profoundly alarmed about the future of the @DNC and the country by yesterday's NYC anointment of a candidate who failed to disavow a "globalize the intifada" slogan and advocated Trotskyite economic policies.

I fear it is evidence that our party is following the most problematic aspects of Britain's Labor Party. It didn't work there, and it won't work here.

@Harvard and other universities' moral weakness after Oct 7 in condoning hateful, anti-Israeli, and even antisemitic, rhetoric and activity opened the Overton window in ways that contributed to yesterday's outcome.

I hope candidate @ZohranKMamdani, who showed great ability to learn and adapt during his campaign, will continue to evolve in ways that provide much needed reassurance to people committed to a free from prejudice, market economy as an American ideal.

An important task for Mamdani now is to provide reassurance that his moral energy and formidable political skills can be productively directed for the City of New York at this difficult moment.

So you acknowledge he's a terrorist, but you're only asking that he offer some obviously-insincere pablum about not wanting to bring the intifada to NYC and then you're okay with him?

Palestinian-American Chuck Schumer is endorsing Mamdani:

Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer

I have known @ZohranKMamdani since we worked together to provide debt relief for thousands of beleaguered taxi drivers & fought to stop a fracked gas plant in Astoria. He ran an impressive campaign that connected with New Yorkers about affordability, fairness, & opportunity.

Lou Perez
@TheLouPerez

I'm upset that my parents never got rich enough for me to become a socialist.

Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_

The U.S. Dept. of Education has found California in violation of Title IX for letting males compete in girls' sports.

CDE & CIF must restore records, titles & awards to female athletes AND send apology letters to every girl robbed by this discrimination.

This is fantastic.

Dustin Grage
@GrageDustin

BREAKING: The Department of Justice is now suing Tim Walz and Keith Ellison for providing free and discounted college tuition for illegal aliens.

It's great to have a President who cares about fighting for American citizens in blue states like Minnesota!

Jasmine Ratchet believes she's the one the Constitution empowered to make decisions about war and peace. I have never heard so eloquent an argument for unlimited executive power.

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Jonathan Turley Predicts That the Supreme Court Will Rebuke Lowly District Courts After a Boston Judge Ignores Their Ruling

As you may know, a Boston judge forbid Trump from deporting illegal aliens to South Sudan. The Supreme Court overruled his order, and said that deportations may resume.

That lowly district hack then gave the finger to the Supreme Court and announced that their ruling doesn't apply to him.

Law prof Jonathan Turley predicts this might be the case that forces Roberts to act to rein in the district court insurrection.

The Trump administration on Tuesday accused US District Judge Brian Murphy of defying the Supreme Court's ruling allowing the White House to deport illegal immigrants to third countries without appropriate due process. The judge had previously ruled that the White House must provide a period of time in which a deportee can challenge the proceedings. The Supreme Court overruled this injunction, but Murphy has kept it in place, arguing that the Court's ruling did not apply specifically to his earlier decision.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a motion characterized Murphy's refusal to comply with the Supreme Court ruling as a "lawless act of defiance." The agency requested that the high court confirm its order extends to Murphy's injunction.

Jones then asked what progressive opponents of the administration might do in response to the Supreme Court ruling.

"Well, as you know, Lawrence, this is a full-court press among advocates for these individuals and their attorneys. They're trying to find every angle to help their clients," Turley replied. "They're going to many of these favorable jurisdictions and favorable judges, like the one in Boston, and they're issuing these injunctions."

The professor continued, explaining that the Supreme Court might be instrumental in solving what has been a heated debate over the past six months: Whether federal judges should possess the authority to issue nationwide injunctions on the White House's policies. "The court could very well say, 'Enough. We're not going to have individual judges now freezing the entire United States government on critical programs like this.'"

Video at the link.

Bizarrely, the Bulwark's brain trust has decided that Trump must respect the lowest courts, and the Supreme Court must defer to their partisan leftwing inferiors, too. They're actually arguing that lowly district court judges are the ultimate arbiters of legal cases, and the president and even the Supreme Court must defer to them.

Meanwhile, the Vice Mayor of the gang-infested suburb of LA, Cudahy, is calling for gang members to rise up and violently oppose ICE.

Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez is facing backlash after she allegedly posted a video on her social media accounts, calling on local gang members to reclaim city streets as immigration operations continue across Los Angeles.

"You guys tag everything up, claiming hood, and now that your hood is being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain't a peep out of you. It's everyone else that's not about the gang life and out there protesting and speaking up," Gonzalez says in a portion of the since-deleted video.

Though she didn't explicitly refer to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement by name, the Department of Homeland Security shared a statement in response.

"The comments made by the Vice Mayor of Cudahy, CA, Cynthia Gonzalez, are despicable," their statement said. "She calls for criminal gangs -- including the vicious 18th Street Gang --to commit violence against our brave ICE law enforcement. This kind of garbage has led to a more than 500 percent increase in assaults against our ICE law enforcement officers."

The city of Cudahy also shared a response to the video, saying that they are aware of Gonzalez's comments and that they do not represent the city's official position.

When the gang-bangers do follow her suggestion and assault or even kill ICE agents -- what charges should be brought against this gangster whore? Remember, they prosecuted Trump for inciting a riot by telling people to "protest peacefully."

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Shock: Crack Addict and Prostitute Addict With No Obvious Source of Income Doesn't Pay His Lawyers for Defending Him in Court

I think that this law firm knew all along it was working for free, in the interests of the Democrat-Media-Communist Party.

The law firm that represented Hunter Biden in federal investigations filed a lawsuit against him on Monday, saying that former president Joe Biden's son owes its attorneys "substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest."

I would guess that $50,000 is the minimum amount of the claim needed to get into superior court or whatever. $50,000 should not be taken as anywhere near what Hunter the Crackhead owes. It's just that they have to note in their lawsuit that the money sought exceeds this threshold.

"This is breach of contract action against Mr. Biden for unpaid legal fees," Winston & Strawn LLP wrote in its complaint, the New York Post reported. "Despite repeated requests for payment, Mr. Biden has failed to pay the amounts he owes."

"Although a portion of those fees have been paid," the complaint reads, "Mr. Biden presently owes [Winston & Strawn] substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest that are due and payable."

Winston & Strawn represented Hunter Biden in both the Delaware gun case and the California tax evasion case.

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This isn't the first time that Hunter Biden, who has a long history of alcohol and drug addictions, has struggled to finance his legal defense.

In January 2024, Hollywood entertainment lawyer Kevin Morris testified to Congress that he had been paying "various attorneys" on behalf of the then-first son. By last May--just weeks before Biden's gun trial--Morris reportedly told associates he was "completely tapped out" from footing the bill for millions in legal expenses for years.

Weird that Kevin Morris won't pay Hunter Biden's bills now that Joe Biden (and his ability to raise money through Biden, Inc.) isn't in office.

Did their friendship just end?

Or was it always a criminal scam to illegally donate money to Hunter Biden?

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INSURRECTION: RIOTERS BREAK INTO CAPITOL HILL TO STOP OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

Which I'm told makes you an insurrectionist and subject to jail without bail until trial.

And also subject to the government slamming you with multiple duplicative charges and fabricated charges like "conspiracy to defraud the United States."

That's the rule now, right?

U.S. Capitol Police detained a group of peaceful protestors on Wednesday, including several people in wheelchairs, during a protest over proposed cuts to Medicaid spending on Capitol Hill.

Scripps News footage shows a crowd of people, some of them in wheelchairs, being zip-tied and escorted out of the Russell Senate Rotunda. The room is part of a Senate office building on Capitol Hill.

The protests are over proposed Medicaid cuts included in the "Big Beautiful Bill," which would remove coverage for some 10 million of the poorest Americans over the next decade as well as implement additional work requirements for those using Medicaid.

The media continues to push the idea that some people -- women, minorities, gays, transgenders, the disabled -- have special rights and privileges and are allowed to break the law, and that it's Racist to apply the law to them. Hence the special mention that some of the rioters are "in wheelchairs" -- so what if they are? What is being argued here? That if someone is in a wheelchair (and might just be posing in a wheelchair, btw) then they have a special right to riot?

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The Federal Trade Commission Extracts a Heavy Price for Approval of the Merger of Two Ad Titans: Stop Blacklisting and Boycotting Conservative Outlets

Two major ad companies wanted to merge, but the FTC commissioner forced them to sign a consent decree. They're promising that they will no longer subject conservative outlets to an advertising boycott.

As part of a landmark merger deal, the FTC secured a commitment from two global advertising giants not to discriminate against conservative media based on political views. The move follows revelations of past collusion aimed at defunding right-leaning outlets.

Key Details:

The FTC approved the merger between Omnicom and IPG with strict conditions against political viewpoint discrimination.

Both firms were previously involved in GARM, a now-defunct group that coordinated ad boycotts of center-right media.

The agreement prohibits coordinated blacklisting of media based on ideology and imposes regular compliance checks.

Diving Deeper:

Two of the world's largest advertising companies, Omnicom and Interpublic Group (IPG), will be barred from colluding or discriminating against media outlets based on political or ideological viewpoints as a condition of their newly approved merger, the Federal Trade Commission announced Monday.

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson revealed that the agency had secured what he called a "major victory" for viewpoint neutrality in media. In a rare move, the FTC imposed behavioral conditions on the merger, citing past coordination between the two firms and others to defund conservative media.

The firms, which together represent a third of the global advertising market, had been founding members of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), a group accused of blacklisting conservative outlets including Breitbart News, Fox News, and The Daily Wire. Ferguson emphasized that such coordination is "tantamount to an agreement not to compete on quality" and said the merger conditions will eliminate the need for costly litigation while preventing future abuses.

"Specifically, the proposed decision and order prohibits Omnicom and IPG from entering into or maintaining any agreement or practice that would steer advertising dollars away from publishers based on their political or ideological viewpoints," Ferguson explained.

The FTC is also continuing its broader investigation into whether more than a dozen advertising advocacy groups may have violated antitrust laws by engaging in similar viewpoint-based collusion. As part of the merger agreement, Omnicom and IPG agreed to cease any coordination that could blacklist publishers for political reasons and pledged to cooperate with federal investigators.

According to Ferguson, GARM once dismissed free speech as "an extreme global interpretation of the US Constitution," citing "principles of governance" crafted exclusively by "white men." A Congressional report found that GARM led efforts to starve conservative publishers of advertising revenue, effectively attempting to "destroy publishers of content which they disapproved."

A 2024 House Judiciary Committee report exposed internal GARM communications, including a message from an Omnicom executive referencing Breitbart, stating: "As much as we hated their ideology and bullshit, we couldn't really justify blocking them for misguided opinion..."

Ferguson clarified that while advertisers still have the right to choose where their ads appear, they are prohibited from engaging in collective boycotts or forming "exclusion lists" to pressure others to follow suit--what he called "the supreme evil of antitrust."

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Leftists Leak a Classified DIA Assessment of the Damage to the Iran Nuke Sites to Embarass Trump

Endless treason. Endless.

Trump administration officials on Tuesday slammed a leaked preliminary intelligence assessment of the damage done to Iran's nuclear facilities by weekend US airstrikes that the president has touted as a massive success.

The classified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) bomb damage assessment -- deemed a "low confidence" estimation of the effectiveness of Saturday's strikes on the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz sites -- reportedly determined that Iran could bring its nuclear program back online as quickly as one to two months, according to Fox News.

On the high end, estimates indicate that Iran could restart uranium enrichment within a year, according to those who viewed the DIA report.

CNN, which first reported on the leaked classified document, noted that assessments are ongoing and could change, but the DIA believes Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed by the "bunker buster" bombs dropped on the nuclear facilities.

"This alleged 'assessment' is flat-out wrong and was classified as 'top secret' but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X.

"The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran's nuclear program," she added.

"Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration," Leavitt argued.

The assessment was reportedly based on satellite images and electronic communications that have been intercepted since the strikes.

The report focuses on the damage done to Fordow, a facility buried under mountains south of Tehran, which was hit by 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators.

The DIA reportedly assessed that the entrances to the facility caved in as a result of the strike, and that some infrastructure was destroyed, but that the Iranians could still dig out, repair or rebuild the site.

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"Fordow is the last enrichment reactor that was operating there, and we put 12 bunker-buster bombs on Fordow. There's no doubt that it breached the canopy. There's no doubt that it was well within reach of the depth that these bunker-buster bombs go to, and there's no doubt that it was obliterated."

So according to the Deep State, Iran was simultaneously not building a nuclear bomb and able to quickly build a nuclear bomb in a few months.

"Intelligence" is whatever a communist traitor needs it to be at any given moment.

Trump says that leak was -- besides being an act of treason -- misleading, as the leaked report is preliminary and incomplete.

He cited Israel's own assessment of the effectiveness of the strike.

Israel confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. airstrike on Iran's Fordow nuclear site over the weekend caused severe damage, rendering the facility "inoperable." Israeli officials say the operation has significantly delayed Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Key Details:

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office said the U.S. strike destroyed key infrastructure at Fordow and crippled Iran's uranium enrichment capability at the site.

The statement, delivered on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, concluded that combined U.S. and Israeli strikes have set Iran's nuclear weapons program back "by many years."

President Trump praised the success of the operation during remarks at the NATO summit in Brussels, calling it a "joint Israeli-American victory" and likening it to Israel's decisive 1967 Six Day War.

Diving Deeper:

On Wednesday, the Israeli government released an official statement confirming that a U.S. airstrike on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility had effectively shut down operations at the controversial site. The announcement came shortly after President Donald Trump previewed the findings during a press conference at the NATO summit in Brussels, noting that Israeli intelligence would provide details on the mission's results.

"The devastating U.S. strike on Fordow destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable," read the statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. The report concluded that the joint American and Israeli military campaign had "set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years."

Officials added that this delay in Iran's nuclear capabilities could continue "indefinitely," provided Tehran is prevented from obtaining new sources of nuclear material.

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New York City Chooses the Form of Its Destructor and It's (Check Notes) a Socialist Ex-Rapper (!) Who Supports Global Jihad
Update: One of His "Raps" Praised Five Convicted Terrorist Funders of Hamas

In the city that was struck by Al Qaeda on 9/11, notes David Strom.

Yesterday I wrongly wrote that this was the election. It was a mental typo. This isn't the election, just the Democrat primary, but the winner of the Democrat primary almost always wins the election, unless the Democrat candidate is so terrible that a Republican like Guiliani or an "independent" billionaire like Bloomberg can win.

Are we at that stage? Or does New York City want to go the way of Chicago?

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Wednesday Morning Rant

"Grassroots"

As I was trawling the news this week, I saw a couple of articles about a "grassroots" boycott movement that has been targeting various businesses this year, focused on opposition to the sudden lurching reversal of various DEI-type activities. This was news to me, but it turns out that they've had eleven completed or planned boycott actions this year. The targets are varied, from Wal-Mart (past) and McDonald's (current) to overall "economic blackout" activities. I decided to look into it further, and didn't realize I was about to enter the theater of the absurd.

It's all backed by an outfit calling itself "The People's Union USA," (I begrudgingly link to the actual site here, because the archived versions are outdated) which is itself backed by a man called John Schwartz. Schwartz himself is a former meditation instructor turned activist, and the organization describes itself as:

The People’s Union USA is a grassroots movement focused on economic resistance, corporate accountability, and real justice for the working class. We’re not a political party, we’re a movement for the people. All people. No matter your background, beliefs, or affiliation.
Our mission is simple, unite everyday Americans against the greed and corruption that’s kept us divided, distracted, and struggling for decades.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Sunny Slopes
Gardner Symons

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