Good morning kids. Well, it looks as if the Dept. of Education is indeed dead. Of course I fully expect some judge to crawl out of the rim of Kilauea and declare the action null and void at any moment. In the past 45 years, about the only thing the Federal DoE did was waste billions of dollars and aid and abet the poisoning of two generations of the minds of America's school children. So, in turning off a major brainwashing mill, the reactions from the criminal scum and mutants also known as the Democrat Party were predictable.

The Department of Education, one of the 100 worst legacies of ‘Jimmuh’, the late and unlamented former worst president, is being slowly phased out by the Trump administration. Expect multiple legal battles to come and the media hysteria has been mounting for much of last week. The problem however is… who cares? The D of E is one of those things that sound important but are really just ways for government bureaucrats, special interests and their massive allied constellation of contractors and crooks to buy second homes.

If it only was mere graft. But the DoE was far worse than that in what it spearheaded

The Biden junta's Department of Education threw away over $100 million on university grant funding to train K-12 social workers in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology, “anti-racism,” and critical race theory.

According to a Wednesday report from Parents Defending Education (PDE), the Education Department awarded $100,964,880 to 26 colleges and universities for the far-left trainings. The grants were awarded apparently to help students with mental health under the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration and the School-Based Mental Health Services grant programs. . . . The Education Department awarded an $8 million grant to Georgia State University’s Master of Social Work program in 2023. The program, which is directed at youth mental health, mandates a “Diversity and Social Justice” course, which “focuses on understanding and applying multicultural concepts to practice, developing awareness of one’s cultural identity, and exploring how diversity and justice issues impact generalist practice in the context of field education,” according to the university website. . . In addition to dismantling the Department of Education altogether, the Trump administration has also been focused on eradicating concepts like DEI ideology, critical race theory, and other discriminatory practices from schools. While the Trump administration had already slashed hundreds of millions in far-left teacher training, a Biden-appointed judge ordered the grants be reinstated.

Literally mainlining Mao and Mau-Mauism into the bloodstream of your children, from preschool to Post-graduate. It should be noted that every state in the union has its own Dept. of Education and you best believe that even in Red States, perversion, anti-Americanism, racialism and leftist indoctrination is in the curriculum to one degree or another.

And as far as judges are concerned, CBD and I discussed this on the latest episode of the podcast linked here and the sidebar. We are in agreement that Trump should disregard these lawless lower court hacks in black, but it raises the specter of the flaccid response from both Congress and SCOTUS in reining in these lawless tyrants as well as what a God-forbid never again Democrat president will do.

Funny how Democrats always view the actions of the court as sacrosanct, except of course when rulings don't go their way, then they go all out to either pack the court or delegitimize it. Failing that, attempt to impeach justices like Clarence Thomas, who they hate with a fury perhaps even greater than that for President Trump for a number of reasons, primarily in that he is the living embodiment that destroys so many of their beliefs and shibboleths about our society,their worldview and belief in their abosule moral authority to impose their will on us. And beyond impeachment, there's always assassination as an option, like what almost happened to Brett Kavanaugh. Lest we forget it was Chuck Schumer who openly threatened Kavanaugh and the other justices if they dared overturn Roe.

Funny, did SCOTUS ever overturn FDR's executive order rounding up Japanese Americans and putting them in concentration camps? The case was Korematsu. Meh, SCOTUS never overturned Dred Scott nor Plessy v. Ferguson. Just saying.

All things considered, the political and cultural winds are at Trump's and our backs at least for the present time on a whole host of issues. And as the Molotov cocktails go flying at Tesla dealerships, the flames seem to be setting the Democrats on fire.

This was the week I became convinced that Don Lemon is an undercover MAGA operative. The former CNN presenter was on Bill Maher’s podcast the other day and was asked about the dire outlook for the Democratic Party. Which way should it go?
“People love AOC” Lemon ventured. “People love Jasmine Crockett. People love Eric Swalwell and the like. I think the Democratic Party should put people out there who the people want — who they’re asking for.”
Maher begged to differ. People do not want these people, he pointed out. But Lemon continued to insist otherwise.
Personally I suspect the only person who ever even pretended to love Eric Swalwell was Chinese spy Fang Fang, who Rep. Swalwell was banging the other year. But that’s a detail.
As I say, the only explanation for Lemon’s statement (other than it being a characteristic brain-fart) is that Lemon is secretly working to keep the MAGA movement in power for the foreseeable future.

Because it is only if the Democrats swing to the hard left that they can make sure the Republicans continue in power unchallenged.
Because it is only if the Democrats swing to the hard left that they can make sure the Republicans continue in power unchallenged.
Desperate times may call for desperate thinking. But these are certainly desperate times for the Democrats.
Just consider how bad the situation is for the party.
First, it is utterly leaderless. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is trying to hold the party together, but his decision to allow a vote on the Republicans’ government funding bill has led to a fall out among the party’s gerontocracy.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, this week jabbed at Schumer for giving away to the Republicans “for nothing” in exchange. So dire has been the backlash against Schumer (a mere stripling of 74) that he has canceled his upcoming book tour. “Security concerns” have been offered as the reason.
But that isn’t security concerns from Republican rivals — but rather from disgruntled members of his own party.
Second, there is the dire bench that the Democrats have coming up. One-time golden-boy Gavin Newsom has spent recent weeks trying to tidy up his image faster than he tried to tidy up the Palisades.
Today Governor Gavin is trying to “reach out” and show himself to be a man of the political center. By interviewing Steve Bannon.
Yet the disasters of Newsom’s time as governor will continue to swirl around him. And it’s unlikely that smoke will be able to clear from a bit of light podcasting.
Then there is the left of the party that is trying to drag it their way. But just look at how pathetic it is. It sounds more like a street movement than a political movement.
At a recent protest against federal government expenditure cuts, Democrat Congressman Emanuel Cleaver told an audience: “I want to send a message to somebody. Elon, take your musty millions and musty Moscow rights to the moon. Because if you don’t, we are going to stand up, we are going to speak out, we´re going to march and we are going to do anything we need to do. You must your musty hands off our money or go to Moscow, you musty moo, moo, moo.”

The Gettysburg Address it was not.
But in case anyone forgets, Rep. Cleaver is a member of the Financial Services Subcommittee. And this is the best that he and his colleagues can do? To threaten to stand up and speak out and march and moo?
Similar vibes are coming out of Boston, where Mayor Michelle Wu yesterday announced again that her city will not comply with ICE or any other agencies seeking to remove dangerous illegal migrants from her area.

Confirming her stance, Wu said “We stand with immigrants, you belong here. Boston doesn’t back down. If you come for one of us, you will get all of us.”
So Wu is willing to stand-off against the federal government and law enforcement based on the idea that someone who breaks into America illegally and stays in Boston has as much right to be there as anyone who has spent their whole life working in the city and paying taxes there?
That’s a heck of a platform to run on.
Meanwhile the party’s road-kill are doing what they can to cheer themselves up. This week former VP Candidate Tim Walz (remember him?) cropped up to boast about how masculine he is and how threatening that makes him to Republicans. I won’t repeat the nickname that did for Tim. . . It´s not a much prettier picture in this town [NYC], where the best challenger the Democrats can run for Mayor is Andrew Cuomo — a former governor who was forced to resign in shame.
If the Democrats are willing to take any friendly advice they should accept the fact that they really need to come up with some coherent policies. Something at a higher level than a street protest.
But if you were their enemy? Well then, like Don Lemon, you’d tell them to go the way of AOC and Cleaver and Walz and Wu, and encourage them to moo and moo ’til they can moo no more.

To channel and paraphrase a popular insult, when your enemies are setting themselves on fire, don't cross the street to piss on them.

As for DOGE and the courts, if Trump ignores the hacks in black and charges forward, does he give Democrats an avenue of attack and as mentioned earlier, future precedent to ignore the courts. Then again they've used the courts and bureaucracy as both shield and cudgel to amass, maintain and increase their own political power, thanks to their amorality, criminality and the spinelessness of the institutions and people in them that were supposed to prevent that from happening.

Trump or no Trump, is our society so far gone that even 40 more years of Trump and MAGA administrations might not make a dent in reversing course?

At least the dismantling of the DoE is a positive and necessary opening salvo in the attempt.

May We now go from victory to victory and see our wonderful nation if not fully restored in our lifetime, then secure in the knowledge that it is well on that path that it will be, God-willing.

Have a great weekend.

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Howdy Horde! Not much of an ONT tonight I'm afraid. I had car trouble tonight and just got in. What can you do? Most of y'all will be discussing March Madness anyway. I do have a few links to share.

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A whole series of weird, creepy "hidden mother" photographs.

Apparently:

Hidden mother photography is a genre of photography common in the Victorian era in which young children were photographed with their mother present but hidden in the photograph. It arose from the need to keep children still while the photograph was taken due to the long exposure times of early cameras.

The daguerreotypes that became publicly available during the 1840s had exposure times from tens of seconds to several minutes. While exposure times shrank as photographic technology developed, to get a clear picture of a child during the 19th century the child had to be persuaded to stay still, which could be difficult to achieve. One technique was for the mother--or sometimes the father, a nanny or the photographer's assistant--to be hidden within the frame, often behind curtains, under cloaks, or disguised as chairs. Mothers were also sometimes obscured simply by removing parts of the photograph afterward, or by them standing slightly off to one side so they could be cropped out. How successfully the mother was hidden varied. Sometimes, simply draped with fabric, their shape would be obvious. In some photographs, arms are clearly visible. A paper overlay could be used when framing the photograph to hide the parts showing the mother, focusing on the child instead The practice of hidden mother photography continued into the 1920s, fading away as cameras became more ubiquitous and exposure times became faster, rendering need to hold small children rigidly still no longer necessary.

It doesn't say why the mother had to be covered. I imagine the baby would keep turning to look at the mother, if it saw the mother, so they hid her under a carpet.

Capybaras are even cuter as babies because of course they are.

Pigeon has discovered a new way of hoarding food. Might make it hard to fly away with his haul, though.

You ever see an action movie and the hero is "hidden" up on the ceiling but the ceiling isn't that high and you're like, "There's no way if someone walked into that room he wouldn't naturally just see the guy perched on the ceiling. You just see it. Your cone of vision extends upwards, too."

That always bothers me. But this cat suggests that maybe it's real.

Speaking of action movies: Heroic entrance into a jeep.

"Good garden dog" helps his master bury the potatoes he's planting.

Magician wows the audience.

Have you ever seen snails eating?

Come out to the coast, we'll buy the dog a trampoline, we'll have a few laughs...

Dog takes his ailing fren out for a walk.

Cadyshack was real.

Seal makes human surfers look like n00bz.

Pet owners: I have no idea why I'm always exhausted every morning! Definitely watch through 2am.

Puppy and baby.

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Finally, a non-insane ruling from the high court of New York State:

Breanna Morello
@BreannaMorello

New York's highest court just ruled against NYC's law allowing non-citizens to vote.

Voting is limited to citizens, the court ruled.

It was a 6-to-1 decision.

Would they have ruled this way before the election, before Trump announced to the world that Woke Is Dead?

New York's top court has struck down a law that would have let noncitizens vote in New York City elections, with the court's progressive majority overwhelmingly siding with Republicans who challenged the idea.

The law would have made more than 800,000 people eligible to vote in municipal contests such as mayoral races.

"We file some lawsuits that are stretches," said Joe Borelli, the former Republican minority leader of the New York City Council and one of the plaintiffs who challenged the law. "This one was, from the beginning, an open-shut case."

The law was approved in the waning days of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration. When neither he nor successor Eric Adams issued a veto, it automatically became law in early 2022.

The legal battles since then have centered on language in the state constitution that says "every citizen shall be entitled to vote at every election for all officers elected by the people."

Republicans argued that this prohibits all noncitizens from casting ballots. Democrats on the City Council who defended the law said this language should be viewed as a floor rather than a ceiling, and that local governments have the power to expand the franchise further if they wish.

In a decision handed down by the Court of Appeals on Thursday, the judges brushed off the Democratic argument by a 6-1 margin.

"Under that interpretation, municipalities are free to enact legislation that would enable anyone to vote -- including ... thirteen-year-old children," Chief Judge Rowan Wilson wrote for the majority.

"It is plain from the language and restrictions contained in [the state constitution] that 'citizen' is not meant as a floor, but as a condition of voter eligibility: the franchise extends only to citizens whose right to vote is established by proper proofs," Wilson wrote.

In some related immigration news:

"We Finally Got You:" ICE arrests illegal alien who made herself a cause celebre when she moved herself and her three children into a church basement and demanded it provide her sanctuary.

'We Finally Got You.' Immigrant-Rights Advocate Arrested in Colorado.

Jeanette Vizguerra, who made national news evading deportation in a church basement, is the latest activist to be taken into custody by federal immigration agents.

An undocumented woman in Denver who became a symbol of immigrant resistance during President Trump's first term as she evaded deportation was arrested at work on Monday by federal immigration agents, her family and immigrant activists said.
Jeanette Vizguerra, 53, had been on her break at a Target store near Denver when immigration agents took her into custody, said Jordan Garcia, an immigrant-rights advocate with the American Friends Service Committee who has known Ms. Vizguerra for 15 years.

Recounting details of the arrest that Ms. Vizguerra had relayed to her family, Mr. Garcia said one of the agents told her, "We finally got you."

Ms. Vizguerra drew national attention when, in early 2017, she packed her clothes and moved with her three youngest children into a church basement in Colorado, hoping that the sanctuary of a house of worship would protect her from Mr. Trump's deportation plans. In 2021, she received a one-year stay of deportation from the Biden administration, but friends said Tuesday she was aware of her peril.

Her detention has already stirred a backlash from Colorado Democratic politicians and immigrant-rights supporters, who accused the Trump administration of trying to silence critics of its immigration crackdown.

Mayor Mike Johnston of Denver condemned Ms. Vizguerra's arrest as a "Putin-style persecution of political dissidents" that had ensnared a working-class mother who had dedicated her life to helping other undocumented immigrants.

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Get out.

U.S. immigration authorities have detained a Georgetown University graduate student from India, who also teaches at the school, for allegedly having close ties to Hamas and spreading the terrorist group's propaganda and "promoting antisemitism on social media."

The detainee, Badar Khan Suri, was arrested Monday outside of his home in Arlington, Virginia, his attorney, Hassan Ahmad, said Wednesday.

Ahmad said his client is in the U.S. on a student visa to teach at the school. He also said the authorities who arrested Suri said they were with the Department of Homeland Security and informed him that his visa had been revoked by the government.

"Suri has close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas," Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X. "The Secretary of State issued a determination on March 15, 2025 that Suri's activities and presence in the United States rendered him deportable under INA section 237(a)(4)(C)(i).

McLaughlin cited a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that "renders an alien deportable if the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds to believe that their presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences."

Georgetown University, a private Jesuit college in Washington, D.C., said it wasn't aware of Suri doing anything wrong, according to NBC News.

Meanwhile, the FBI has stopped hunting grandmothers in red hats and is now rolling up long-sought fugitives.

FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash

BREAKING: I can now confirm that last night, working with @TheJusticeDept
and other interagency partners, the FBI has extradited one of our "Ten Most Wanted" from Mexico -- one we believe to be a key senior leader of MS-13, Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales.

He was arrested in Mexico and is being transported within the U.S. as we speak, where he will face American justice.

This is a major victory both for our law enforcement partners and for a safer America.

Thank you to our brave personnel for executing the mission. And thank you to Mexico's SSPC and FGE teams for their support of the FBI in this investigation and arrest.

MXM:

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Tuesday that one of the nation's most wanted fugitives, Francisco Javier Román-Bardales, has been successfully extradited from Mexico and is now in U.S. custody. Román-Bardales, a senior figure within the violent MS-13 gang, was arrested in Veracruz and immediately processed for extradition under joint efforts by U.S. and Mexican authorities.

Patel praised the mission's execution, thanking American personnel and Mexican law enforcement for their cooperation. "This is a major victory both for our law enforcement partners and for a safer America," he stated.

Román-Bardales has been charged in the United States with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, racketeering, and human trafficking, among other serious offenses. He is accused of orchestrating violent attacks on civilians and rival gangs, as well as overseeing MS-13's extensive drug trafficking and extortion networks.

The Trump administration has classified MS-13 as a terrorist organization, broadening the legal framework for pursuing its members. Some officials argue that this designation could pave the way for U.S. strikes against cartel operations in Mexico.

The DHS is also seizing smuggled drugs on the seas.

Homeland Security: Coast Guard has seized $500M of drugs in recent months

BY Susan Carpenter

The U.S. Coast Guard has seized more than $500 million worth of cocaine and marijuana off the coasts of Mexico, South America and Central America in recent months, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday.

In what Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called "an unprecedented seizure of illicit drugs," two Coast Guard vessels intercepted over 45,000 pounds of cocaine and 50 pounds of marijuana headed for the U.S.
What You Need To Know

The U.S. Coast Guard has seized more than $500,000 million worth of cocaine and marijuana off the coast of Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday

Two Coast Guard vessels intercepted over 45,000 pounds of cocaine and 50 pounds of marijuana headed for the U.S. in recent months

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called it "an unprecedented seizure of illicit drugs"

Many of the drug cartels the Coast Guard encountered in its recent cocaine seizures were among the eight groups Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated as foreign terrorist organizations last month

"This action is a testimony to President Trump's commitment to delivering for the American people and his unwavering dedication to our military strength, to our border security, our law enforcement, to our producing incredible results," Noem said at a portside event where she was flanked by Coast Guard officers. "His leadership is making America safe again."

The drug seizure is the result of 14 different interdictions of drug-smuggling vessels off the coasts of Mexico, South America and Central America, four of which happened over a span of 15 minutes.

Since President Donald Trump was sworn in, the U.S. has seized over 80,000 pounds of illegal drugs, according to U.S. Coast Guard acting Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday. The drugs were intercepted by the Coast Guard in partnership with the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense and 22 Central American, South American and European partners.

It's amazing what a government can do when it's focused on actual government functions, rather than being weaponized into the Armed Wing of the Democrat Party.

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As you know, Fox News' polls always skew Democrat because their in-house polling expert is himself a partisan left-wing Hillary Clinton donor. Because FoxNews is a garbage organization that cons the rubes.

But even their skewed poll shows Trump and Republicans at their highest approval rates ever.

Nearly two months into his second term, President Donald Trump's approval rating matches his all-time high.

Congressional Republicans also enjoy record ratings, while views of congressional Democrats tumble near an all-time low, according to the latest Fox News Poll.

Half of voters, 49%, approve of the job Trump is doing as president, matching his high from April 2020. That's also better than at the same point in his first term (43% approved in March 2017). He is at high marks among key groups, including women, Black voters and voters under age 30. (For reference, in January, a 52% majority of voters approved of the job Trump was doing handling the presidential transition.)

Keep in mind that Trump has made major big-time moves since the transition, many of which are -- or would have been, in years passed -- extremely controversial. To have majority support while you're tearing down the entire Old Order is amazing.

His approval rate will go higher once his crusade to bring down the Regime is accomplished and he passes into a more peaceful stage of his presidency.

Depending on how the bets he's making now turn out, this could well be the lowest level of support he'll see during his second term. I think most of these bets will pay off, politically.

Nine in 10 Republicans approve of Trump, while the same number of Democrats disapprove. Six in 10 Independents disapprove of his job performance.

Don't worry about the independents being against us. "Independent" is a malleable category with people drifting in and out of it. As the Republican Party coalesced around Trump, liberal Republicans either became Democrats, or were given New York Times columnist jobs, or became independents. Meanwhile, many Republican leaners who had been Republican-aligned independents simply began identifying as Republicans.

Also, many Democrats who are either are worried that the party has become too woke and too crazy -- or are angry that the party isn't woke and crazy enough -- now call themselves "independents."

This is a change from years past when "independents" were a Republican-leaning group. Now most Republican leaners are simply Republicans.

Overall, 51% disapprove of the job Trump is doing, including 45% who strongly disapprove.

...

Congressional Republicans hit their highest approval rating ever this month, as 43% of voters approve and 55% disapprove. While that is upside down by 12 points, it still constitutes a significant improvement from the 36-point net negative rating in October 2023 and the 55-point low a decade ago.

News across the aisle isn't as rosy. For Democrats in Congress, 66% disapprove of the job they are doing, with only 30% approving -- nearly matching their record low of 29% approval in November 2013. The current 36-point deficit represents a marked decline from the 23-point difference in October 2023, the last time the question was asked (37% approve, 60% disapprove), and the high of +10 in April 2009 (50-40%).

2013 was a time when the Tea Party was thriving -- but opposed by the Republican Party itself. Now the Republican Party has been taken over by Tea Party types, who are largely MAGA now.

My point is: The Republican Party was not poised to capitalize on Democrat unpopularity in 2013, as Mitch McConnell considered his own base his primary political opponent. Now it is unified, and well-positioned to make the Democrats pay for their extremism and pro-terrorism insurrectionary tendencies.

The boost to the GOP approval is primarily attributable to more Republicans backing their party today (88%) than in October 2023 (54%). Again, the partisan contrast is striking, as only 49% of Democrats approve of their party's lawmakers today vs. 74% in 2023.

...

Vice President JD Vance's job rating is in negative territory by 8 points: 45% approve, 53% disapprove. Among Republicans, his approval (85%) is slightly lower than Trump's (92%) and Congressional Republicans' (88%).

By an 18-point margin, voters disapprove of the job Elon Musk is doing at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) (40% approve, 58% disapprove). Most Republicans (78%) approve, while nearly all Democrats disapprove (93%).

Secretary of State Marco Rubio breaks even with 47% both approving and disapproving. He is the only administration official who receives double-digit approval from Democrats (11%).

Don't worry about the Democrats, though: They have increased their hold on the AWFLs, even as the AWFLs drive every other bloc out of the party.

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I don't think he can abolish by executive order, as it is authorized by Congress.

A tactic he's using -- I think he did this with USAID -- is to defund/dismantle agencies to the "minimum level allowed by law." I expect that's what he'll do here -- he'll order government lawyers to look into the very minimum amount of funding and functionality of the DoEd required by law, and cut it to that level.

Congress will have to take it from there.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, fulfilling a major campaign promise. The move shifts education authority back to states and parents, sparking fierce debate from both supporters and critics.

Key Details:

Trump has long criticized the agency, calling it a hub for "radicals, zealots, and Marxists."

White House says the order will "empower parents" and refocus education on student outcomes.

Critics, including teachers' unions, argue that only Congress can legally abolish the department.

The executive order follows the Senate confirmation of Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education, who pledged to oversee the agency's closure.

Congressional approval is required for full dissolution, but Trump aims to reduce its influence immediately.

...

"The federal government has failed American students," Trump said in a statement. "For too long, unelected bureaucrats in Washington have pushed radical agendas while test scores plummet. It's time to return power to parents and local schools."

The White House justified the decision by pointing to declining student performance, citing National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, which reveal falling proficiency in math and reading. Additionally, the administration highlighted the strain placed on public schools by illegal immigration, arguing that resources have been diverted away from American students.

"Over the past four years, Democrats have allowed millions of illegal minors into the country, straining school resources," said Harrison Fields, White House principal deputy press secretary. "Coupled with CRT and DEI indoctrination, this is harming our most vulnerable students."

...

Despite Trump's executive order, Congress holds the ultimate authority to eliminate the agency. The Constitution's Article II requires legislative approval, and with only 53 Republican senators, the White House faces an uphill battle.

Trump is making Reagan look like a Bush.

Speaking of Trump ending things that never should have begun:

President Donald Trump held a "very good" call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, following a preliminary agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin one day earlier. Trump said the discussions focused on aligning Ukraine and Russia's "requests and needs" and that the ceasefire negotiations remain "on track."

Key Details:

Trump announced the call with Zelenskyy on Truth Social, stating it lasted about an hour and was largely based on the conversation he had with Putin on Tuesday. "Just completed a very good telephone call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine," he wrote, adding that the talks centered on ensuring both sides' concerns were addressed.

Putin agreed to halt strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure for 30 days, though the ceasefire has yet to extend to frontline combat or civilian areas. Special envoy Steve Witkoff suggested a full ceasefire could be reached in the coming weeks.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz will return to Saudi Arabia on Sunday to continue ceasefire negotiations, with a potential Trump-Putin meeting also on the table. It remains unclear whether a Ukrainian delegation will attend.

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"Woman."

Police in Loveland, Colorado have arrested a suspect in connection with several "offensive and hateful" vandalism incidents involving incendiary devices at the local Tesla dealership. The suspect, who goes by the name Lucy Grace Nelson, is a biological male (formerly Justin Thomas Nelson). The alleged "trantifa" activist was arrested just before midnight on Monday after a weeks long investigation and "incorrectly booked" into the Larimer County Jail as a female, according to the Post Millennial's Andy Ngo on X.

All the major media outlets, including the Denver Post, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, CNN, and Fox News, are referring to Nelson as a woman in their reports.

Police launched the investigation on Jan. 29 after they found incendiary devices on the scene of the first vandalism incident, according to a Loveland Police press release.

Investigators said two more incidents occurred at the dealership on Feb. 2 and Feb. 7. Photos and video taken at the dealership after the Feb 7 incident showed several Cybertrucks and other Teslas with red X's spray painted across the windshields, and graffiti on the building reading "NAZI CAR." There was also reportedly broken glass in the lot and incendiary devices found at the scene.

Investigators said that Nelson, 42, returned to Tesla dealership Monday evening "while in possession of additional incendiary devices along with materials attributed to vandalism" and that detectives were able to apprehend him before more damage occurred.

The attacks came amid left-wing calls to boycott Tesla to protest what agitators reportedly call "Elon Musk's moves to destroy our democracy."

Nelson "has a long history of posts obsessing about fighting fascism and white supremacy," according to Ngo.

A year ago on Reddit, the trantifa agitator was actively calling for violence against the GOP, Reddit Lies posted on X.

More at the link, including this lady's history of indoctrinating minors into transgenderism via the internet.

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This particular grifter office refused to allow DOGE to even enter and sued to keep DOGE out. The judge, miraculously, declined to stop the president's appointed officials from doing their jobs.

This judge is Beryl Howell, the extremely partisan political actor who has granted TRO after TRO against Trump and eagerly sentenced J6ers to long terms in prison.

A federal judge on Wednesday declined to temporarily block the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), after the organization said its power was seized without lawful authority.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell expressed alarm about the manner in which DOGE accessed the building but said the now-fired board members likely don't have authority to sue in their official capacity, calling some aspects of the lawsuit "a stretch."

Howell declined to bar DOGE from accessing USIP's facilities and systems, acting in USIP's name or declare void the apparent removal of its board.

She also declined to forbid further trespass against the independent institute, after it said in court filings DOGE conducted a "literal trespass and takeover by force."

"I am very offended by how DOGE has operated at the institute and treated American citizens trying to do a job that they were statutorily tasked to do at the institute," Howell said. "But that concern about how this has gone down is not one that can sway me in my consideration of the factors for a [temporary restraining order], which is an emergency relief that is extraordinary."

F*** you.

Now DOGE comes in with a police presence to clear out the trash.

DOGE employees, with the aid of a master key and DC Metropolitan Police Department officers, finally gained control of the massive office building in Foggy Bottom on Monday, ending a standoff by US Institute of Peace bureaucrats barricaded in their offices. On Monday evening, DOGE employees accompanied by MPD officers and high-ranking administration officials stormed the building using a master key provided by the building security service, precipitating a brief scuffle before the building was liberated.

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DOGE staffers returned Monday and found organized resistance to entry.

Contrary to earlier reporting by The Washington Post and The New York Times, which claimed the institute merely locked its doors, photographic evidence exclusively obtained by the [Daily Caller News Foundation] shows locks had been physically removed from the exterior doors, effectively destroying entry mechanisms. The official said USIP staff removed the locks.

Moreover, staff contacted Washington's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in an attempt to prevent DOGE personnel from entering, citing barricaded doors and security concerns. MPD officers later confirmed these obstructions upon arrival, further discrediting claims that USIP had only engaged in passive resistance. Much of USIP's leadership, including Moose, barricaded themselves on the building's fifth floor, closing window shades and blocking access points in a last-ditch effort to resist DOGE's entry, the official told the DCNF.

The obstruction didn't end at damaged doors. Prior to Monday's confrontation, USIP leaders disabled telephone lines, internet connections and other IT infrastructure, forcing communication among staff through walkie-talkies, according to the official. This deliberate effort to disrupt operations delayed DOGE's entry and added to the confusion during Monday's standoff.

Using a master key provided by the security contractor, Trump's team, accompanied by MPD officers, bypassed the damaged and barricaded entryway and "entered the facility through emergency stairs." Confronted with determined leadership and overwhelming force, resistance crumbled, and the insurrectionists exited the building.

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Luke Rosiak
@lukerosiak

One of the 7 federal agencies shuttered by DOGE on Friday is the most DOGE-able agency of all time. FMCS (before the pandemic!) had a 9-story K Street tower for 60 employees. Its halls were lined with oil paintings of those employees, and other art purchased from the boss's wife

Luke Rosiak:

One of the seven small federal agencies that President Donald Trump ordered downsized or eliminated on Friday was rife with corruption, with its employees hiring friends and relatives, commissioning paintings of themselves, and using government credit cards to indulge in constant luxuries.

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) occupied a nine-story office tower on D.C.'s K Street for only 60 employees, many of whom actually worked from home, prior to the pandemic. Its managers had luxury suites with full bathrooms; one manager would often be "in the shower" when she was needed, while another used her bathroom as a cigarette lounge. FMCS recorded its director as being on a years-long business trip to D.C. so he could have all of his meals and living expenses covered by taxpayers, simply for showing up to the office.

FMCS is a 230-employee agency that exists to serve as a voluntary mediator between unions and businesses. As an "independent agency," its director nominally reports to the president, but the agency is so small that in effect, there is no oversight at all -- and it showed, becoming a real-life caricature of all the excesses that the Department of Government Efficiency has alleged take place in government.

This reporter spent a year investigating the agency a decade ago, and I found egregious and self-serving violations of hiring, pay, contracting, and purchase card rules. One thing I could not discover is why the agency actually existed, other than to provide luxurious lifestyles for its employees. Endless junkets to resort destinations, which employees openly used to facilitate personal vacations, were justified as building awareness of the agency in the hopes that someone would actually want to use its voluntary services.

FMCS seemed, quite clearly, to exist for the benefit of those on its payroll, and not much else. One employee told me: "Let me give you the honest truth: A lot of FMCS employees don't do a hell of a lot, including myself. Personally, the reason that I've stayed is that I just don't feel like working that hard, plus the location on K Street is great, plus we all have these oversized offices with windows, plus management doesn't seem to care if we stay out at lunch a long time. Can you blame me?"

"Recreation and reception fund."

Top FMCS official George Cohen used a "recreation and reception fund" to order champagne and $200 coasters for his office, and to purchase artwork painted by his wife. The tiny agency commissioned paintings of its top employees -- as one employee told me, "like they were reigning kings or something...I've never seen anything like it before." It spent $2,402 retouching the portrait of someone who briefly held the top job in an acting capacity.

FMCS employees "unblocked" their government credit cards to turn off typical abuse protections, then used them to apparently fund personal expenses and simply bill anything they'd like to the government. One employee leased a BMW; another (IT director James Donnen) billed the government for his wife's cell phone, cable TV at both his home and his vacation home, and even his subscription to USA Today.

Employee Dan W. Funkhouser used his FMCS card to rent a storage unit near his home in rural Virginia, two hours from the office he supposedly worked at, which was used to store personal possessions such as a photo album of his dog, Buster. Funkhouser also spent $18,000 at a jewelry store near his house, and "destroyed all purchase card records upon leaving the agency," an audit said.

When Charles Burton retired from FMCS, he incorporated an LLC to which another FMCS employee paid $85,000 using his purchase card, listing it as a "Call Center Service," even though the company had neither a website nor a working phone.

When an accountant, Carol Booth, blew the whistle on financial abuses to the General Services Administration, which manages purchase cards and contracting, Cohen forced her to send an email (which he wrote under her name) rescinding her statement.

Like something out of "The Office," the employees spent an inordinate amount of time and money congratulating one another for being employed there and engaging in "work" that really amounted to pampering themselves.

One purchase was for $30,000 on trinkets marking employees' anniversaries. The agency's office was absurdly oversized, but it refused to move. It hired a consultant for a "Hallway Improvement Project" to decorate. It had an in-house gym for employees, and purchased a $1,000 TV for the gym, a $3,867 ice-maker, and a $560 stereo.

The expenses that were actually business-related were hardly better. It paid, for example, $895 "for Suzanne Nichter's enrollment in the English Essentials: A Grammar Refresher course" and $735 "for Lakisha Steward to attend Listening and Memory Skills Development Course."
All expenses paid lifestyle

FMCS used federal jobs as a spigot of cash for friends and relatives. Allison Beck, a former union lawyer who became a top FMCS official, employed her sister-in-law as a "special assistant," and an inspector general found evidence that she tried to create a high-level job for a friend.

FMCS employees allegedly steered contracts to friends, allowing them to write the "statement of work" that would be used to choose the contract winner -- resulting in, of course, their own selection. Such "trainers" were paid $1,500 per day per person to train FMCS's staff, plus $163 an hour for travel. When a low-level employee eventually said the extra travel pay ran afoul of federal rules, a contractor made clear he viewed it as an entitlement, huffing: "Work we have successfully performed for the agency for more than a decade -- at great personal sacrifice, I should add -- will be taken away unless we comply in an unquestioning manner with your edict."

Scot Beckenbaugh, a top agency official, was paid $174,000 a year, but that wasn't enough: He had his "duty station" listed as Iowa so that he could have all of his living expenses and food paid for in D.C., where he lived and worked, as if he was on a six-year-long business trip. When an employee raised the issue to an agency lawyer, the lawyer told him he "should not raise these issues ... it would open a can of worms."

FMCS hired a former mail carrier who lived in Pennsylvania, Lu-Ann Glaser, for a high-level, D.C.-based job, and agreed to pay for her to stay in a hotel for half of every month -- even though it would have been easy to find someone better qualified who didn't need to be put up in a hotel to simply do her job.

Paul Voight, a human resources official, was listed as living in D.C. even though he actually lived in Wisconsin, in order to fraudulently obtain higher cost-of-living pay. Voight's boss was Artur Pearlstein, who left the agency to become a law professor, and was then re-hired after his academic career imploded in a plagiarism scandal. His first move in his new job was terminating an independent investigation into FMCS staff abusing taxpayer funds for personal gain.

Cohen, for his part, steered work to his previous employer, despite signing ethics forms saying he would not.

Many of the agency's top employees lived outside of the typical Washington, D.C., commuting area, and only stopped in the area occasionally, in an era before telework was routine. Its CFO, Fran Leonard, would come to the office twice a week but leave by 2:00 p.m.

The agency had, inexplicably, an office in Honolulu.

It funded constant travel of its employees to exotic locales, on the pretext that it was drumming up business for the federal agency -- an admission that there was little demand for the agency's existence.

In one month, Beck traveled to Italy and Switzerland, where she conducted a business meeting -- over video chat. Then she went to Tunisia and an island off the coast of Georgia. She flew first class and forced the agency to reimburse her for mileage when she drove to her vacation home in Maine.

The agency had three full-time media relations staffers, none of whom would speak to me, almost certainly one of the only reporters to ever call.
Cash grants for insiders

The agency's existence is predicated on the idea that it is an impartial mediator, biased neither towards labor nor management. But its staff largely comes from a union background, and it gave out grants to promote union membership. But it was too incompetent to do much ideological damage; its employees' comfort always came before helping unions.

Anyone could request cash grants from the agency, with the only requirement that they mention some nexus with unions, however tortured. It doled out a seemingly random assortment of giveaways to private businesses, perhaps because they were the only ones who knew the grants existed.

It gave $63,000 to a hospital that went bankrupt; $51,000 to a childcare company to help it pay government licensing fees; and $57,000 to a company to "strengthen of culture of continuous improvement to drive us to world class excellence!"

What surprised me most about my FMCS investigation was what happened afterward: nothing. An inspector general made a referral to the FBI, but there were no prosecutions. Instead, President Barack Obama nominated a chief subject of the investigation to the top job.

A decade later, Trump has done what even the agency's own employees said should happen: shut it down.

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To the vast disappointment of the Forever-War^TM supporters, President Trump's efforts to end the pointless border war in Ukraine may be entering a new phase. Both the Z-man and Putin have agreed to end energy infrastructure attacks which, while it might seem incomplete and narrowly focused, is a boon for the people who are suffering. Z-man and Putin certainly aren't!

An incremental ceasefire leading to a total cessation of fighting might not be the quickest way to get to an end to this bloodbath, but President Trump is in his element as a negotiator, so it isn't surprising.

Putin is in a position of strength as he consolidates his military gains in Ukraine. Obviously it has gone very badly for Russia compared to their rosy and optimistic plans for a three day campaign, at which any student of Russian military history will smile and nod and say...Yup! pretty typical!

But Russia is much bigger than Ukraine, has shorter supply lines, and will, in the end, succeed in taking the territory it desires. Perhaps they have already accomplished their goals, and the current fighting is simply to wear down Ukraine to the point at which it must agree to whatever ceasefire is proposed, no matter how much worse than the one it was offered three years ago!

Zelenskyy Also Agrees to Limited Russia-Ukraine Cease-Fire in Call With Trump

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has agreed to a moratorium on attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure following a March 19 phone call with President Donald Trump.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and national security adviser Mike Waltz issued a statement on the Trump–Zelenskyy call, saying that the two leaders “agreed on a partial ceasefire against energy.”

Zelenskyy confirmed the development in a post on social media platform X, saying, “I supported this step, and Ukraine confirmed that we are ready to implement it.”

Trump’s and Zelenskyy’s phone conversation lasted about an hour and came a day after Trump proposed the moratorium on energy infrastructure attacks to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

It is already fracturing!

Italy's Meloni Backs Trump's Peace Efforts in Ukraine, Urges 'Pragmatism' in Europe on Trade Talks

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday called for “pragmatism” to prevent an EU-US dispute over tariffs from escalating into a full-scale trade war, and expressed support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts for a ceasefire in Ukraine.

Speaking to the Italian Senate ahead of a meeting of EU leaders this week, Meloni made her first wide-ranging comments touching on Trump policies that have shaken Europe in the two months since he took office.

Meloni struck a diplomatic tone on tariffs and expressed favor for Trump’s moves to establish a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine as a possible pathway to end the war in Ukraine. She also ruled out sending Italian troops to Ukraine, and spoke against the proposal for a security force by Britain and France. And she pledged to forge ahead with a controversial and stalled plan to vet migrants outside of the EU borders in Albania.

No, of course not. But Raytheon and Northrop Grumman and Pratt & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin sure are cheering for that! It is a testament to Donald Trump's independence from the military-industrial complex that he is not willing to commit American treasure and blood to a border dispute 4,000 miles away.

This is a war whose antecedents are not simply that Putin is a bad man. Regardless of how you feel about him and Russia, NATO has been pushing closer and closer to Russia's traditional borders, and only a jingoistic Russia-hating, war-loving retard would fail to understand that it was probably not a good idea.

Well, as NATO crumbles, perhaps it is incumbent upon the UK and France and Germany to step in, send troops and cash, and do what they are clamoring for! Yeah, that's not going to happen for a few reasons, the most important of which is that their militaries are a sadly diminished and ineffectual shell of what they once were. They will bluster and pontificate, but ultimately they will agree to Donald Trump's plan for a ceasefire, because they simply don't have a choice.

I guess I sound like a Putin supporter, but I'm really not. I just don't think that it is worth the blood and treasure of the West to intervene in a border dispute between two countries whose borders have been bouncing around for a very long time.

If both countries could lose, I would be happy!

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Gustave Boyer in a Straw Hat
Paul Cézanne

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Good morning kids. Well, it is the first day of Spring, at least on the calendar, and as hope always or at least in theory, springs eternal, in that light, I thought I'd lead off today's Report with a headline and story that will surely put a big old smile on your face.

Greenpeace Loses Dakota Access Pipeline Trial, Faces Bankruptcy and Extinction

Energy Transfer named three Greenpeace entities — Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace International (based in the Netherlands), and Greenpeace Fund — as the organizers and funders of this sabotage. And on Wednesday, a North Dakota jury found that the infamous non-profit must pay the price for its actions. The nine-person and two-alternate jury deliberated for two and a half days before arriving at its unanimous verdict. . . For its part, Greenpeace has attempted to frame the lawsuit as a First Amendment issue with a dash of racism thrown into the mix. . . There will doubtlessly be an appeal — Greenpeace's Senior Legal Adviser, Deepa Padmanabha, said, “We know that this fight is not over.” But at any rate, this is a great day for Americans and people everywhere who are sick to death of environmentalists, BLM, and other disruptive, violent, and destructive Marxist mobs upending their lives under the guise of the right to protest. 

You might recall, also "Former Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore Says Climate Change Based on False Narratives."

And now, a dose of realty in that Evil never rests. And I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, or Molotov Cocktail to toss. Well, sadly, as we all know all is not sunshine and lollipops, so long as Leftists and the Democrat Party still exist, as you instinctively by now are aware and as most of the links will confirm. I assume the High Court in Hawaii, with it's Super-chief justices of Buch M. Danno, Mac A. Damia, Tai Nee Bubbles and Zulu As Kono will invoke the 11th Commandment of Marbury Maliki MAGA and declare this verdict null and void. While the 9 jurors who voted to convict are busy putting the flames out on the backs of their children.

Well, there's this not unrelated item: Along with all the others in the Domestic Affairs section.

A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama ruled Tuesday evening to block the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from terminating $20 billion in grants doled out through a Biden-era program.

Federal D.C. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that the EPA could not currently revoke money that the agency parked in accounts at Citibank in the final days of the Biden administration. The judge wrote that the Trump EPA “gave no legal justification for the termination” of the agreements with the recipients while the administration “vaguely” outlined its initial concerns with the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). While Chutkan did temporarily block EPA from moving forward with its push to claw back the funds, she noted in her filing that the ruling does not permanently prevent the EPA from recovering the money. . . In a statement responding to Chutkan’s ruling, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said he will do all he can to regain control over the funds in question despite Tuesday’s developments.

Ah yes, Tanya (Russian name!!!!!!) Shitcan, the judge who was persecuting Trump in that trumped up insurrection case, nyet?!

Absolutely disgusting how the Left wraps itself in the Constitution while simultaneously ripping it to shreds and tossing it into a fire. If only the Left would do like their hapless asshole foot soldier at that Tesla dealership and set themselves on fire with their own Molotov Cocktail. That, or as Ace would so poetically say "go fuck themselves in the heart with a steak knife." Satan sez "I like my Filet of Donald Manes well done."



Along with corrupt courts, all the Democrat Left have is thuggery and violence. Meh once you have the former you have a green light for the latter.

When you believe you are the defenders of democracy, then you're a red nether hair's breadth away from the Einsatzgruppen. And this is their mindset. Make no mistake.

Have a great day.

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• We might not get the big reveals we want from all the files, but the more we pull back the curtain of the military-industrial complex, the more we can hope to end its out-of-control greed and bloodlust.
  Trump fulfills promise by releasing JFK files, giving a deeper understanding CIA operations in the 1960s
  
• Kurt Schlichter: Another of Trump’s superpowers – the ability to attract the dumbest enemies possible.
  Do Normal People Pay Any Attention at All to These Democrat Lunatics?
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: The left knowingly pushed falsehoods on COVID, Biden’s fitness, Hunter’s laptop, and the border—dividing the nation while facing no accountability. (But it was for our own good/sarc!!! - jjs)
  The Left Knew They Were Lying to Us All Along
  
• Matt Taibbi: Twenty years ago, maybe even ten, I’d have found stories about the administration cutting grants to universities and detonating thousands of campus-related jobs horrifying. (welcome to the party, pal - jjs)
  America’s colleges are hoarding billions — and yet still cry poor as Trump targets federal funding

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• Micron and Hynix have unveiled their new SOCAMM memory modules for laptops, mini-PCs, and anything else that needs a lot of memory in a little space. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They start at 128GB running at 7500MHz. And that's with 16Gbit chips, where Micron is already shipping 32Gbit chips.
  
  The modules measure 14mm x 92mm, so about the same size as an M.2 SSD.
  
  These aren't proprietary but also aren't the same as existing (if rare) CAMM2 modules, and will initially be produced specifically for Nvidia's new AI servers.

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

This is the Wednesday night ONT.

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Curiosity
@MAstronomers

At 4207 meters above sea level on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, photographer Andrew McCarthy set out on a challenging climb. His goal was to capture a rare sight, Saturn slipping behind the moon. From the peak of the dormant volcano, he finally witnessed and photographed the stunning event, bringing a piece of the cosmos down to earth.

Doggos and babies.

A five-year-old gives his dog a spa day. Meanwhile, Mom doesn't even get a pancake on Mother's Day.

Grandma gives dog a giant stuffed animal.

Lion spends some quality time with cub.

Giving a teddy-bear dog a makeover.

Giving your marmot a bubble bath, if you know what I mean.

Senior dog was abandoned by owner, who tied her next to a burned-down building, and left her to starve. She was adopted by a rescuer. Tough story, though -- she is at the end of her life with lymphoma. But she's being loved as she reaches the end of her days.

They'll never build a better mousetrap but God built a better mouse.

A bird does his sexiful dance for your pleasure.

Bears: A National Crisis. And now hippos are out of control.

Colorized film of Chicago in the 1930s with street ambient noise added. Some teenagers engage in old-timey teenager activities, like riding each other like ponies, at 5:55.

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Schumer is now vowing he will never, ever pass a Trump budget or CR again.

That's gonna be a problem down the road -- for the Democrats as well as Trump. The country is sick to death of 24/7/365 #Resistance.

They voted for Trump's agenda. If Democrats continue this, the public may will rebuke them in 2026.

But this is going to be a problem for us for the next year and a half:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asserted his party's role is to take down President Donald Trump's numbers as Democrats face a popularity crisis.

Polls published by CNN/SSRS and NBC News on Sunday found that the Democratic Party has hit all-time lows in popularity among voters -- 29% and 27% respectively -- while Trump's approval rating is tied with its highest point across both of his terms at 47%, per NBC News. Schumer, speaking on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," said that weakening Trump's popularity would help Democrats mitigate his ability to accomplish his agenda.

"We are fighting on all of the fronts to go after Trump, not have a circular firing squad, which Democrats tend to do, particularly when there's such an enemy as Trump, so that the basic premise that we are going after him on -- and [House Minority Leader] Hakeem [Jeffries] and I are working on this very closely together ... is that Trump is taking things away from the middle class, from you, to pay for tax cuts for the rich," Schumer said.

Despite Schumer characterizing himself as being in strong alignment with Jeffries, the House minority leader refused to weigh in on whether the Senate needed "new leadership" on Friday after Schumer on Thursday signaled support for passing a GOP-backed government funding bill to avert a partial shutdown.

"And we have so many different areas to go after him on. And we're already bringing his numbers down. We'll keep bringing them down more and more and more. If, you know, six months from now, his numbers are really low, he'll have not only less popularity, he'll have less authority," Schumer continued. "That's our job and we're doing it. And there are going to be some bigger issues where we're going to make a stand as well ... You got to do it in a smart way and not let him drive you into a trap and let your anger at him end up hurting you."

Schumer also made similar remarks during a Saturday New York Times interview when asked about potential primary challenges in New York in 2028.

"I am focused on bringing Trump's numbers down, his popularity down, exposing what he has done to America and what he will do," he said. "That's my focus right now and that's what I'm focusing on 24/7. You know, three years from now is a long way to speculate. I believe that my hard work against Trump will pay off."

Nearly two-thirds of Democrats want their congressional lawmakers to avoid making compromises with Trump, according to the NBC News poll.

Voters have even worse perceptions of congressional Democrats than the party in general, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said on Monday.

"Holy Toledo, 'voters' views of the Democrats in Congress:' Among all voters, disapprove 68%," Enten said. "And look at the approved number, just 21%, even lower than the Democratic Party at large. This is the lowest on record for Democrats, according to Quinnipiac University polling."

Enten also stated that "the plurality of Democratic voters disapprove of Democrats in Congress at 49%, and just 40% approve." calling the numbers "horrible" for the party.

Schumer makes his fight-fight-fight pledge as the progressive extremist media issues a Code Red on Schumer, according to Ed Morrissey.

Ask not for whom the Journolist tolls, Chuck ... it tolls for thee.

Earlier, I wondered whether a revolt among House Democrats would impact Chuck Schumer's standing in party leadership. Perhaps we should pay more attention to Democrat house media. The backlash to Schumer's fold-o-rama on the continuing resolution has become a new talking point among the Left's favorite media outlets, from MSNBC on down.

The Daily Beast, for instance, took a break from smearing Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) to breathlessly report that the Democrats' "party civil war spirals." They covered the first demand from a House Democrat for Schumer to resign from leadership...

Politico follows up today to note how "Schumer bashing has gone mainstream." They also pick up on Ivey's demand, but reports that it's now open season on Schumer within the Democrat Party...

LOL, Politico thinks that until AOC got mad at him, bashing Schumer was not "mainstream," but fringe.

The Daily Beast took note of Schumer's treatment too, in an article titled "MSNBC Forces Chuck Schumer to Sit Through Brutal Supercut of His Critics." HuffPo featured Nancy Pelosi's attack on Schumer, reporting the "shade" she tossed his way as Politico also reported; The New Republic did as well earlier today. Salon reported on J.B. Pritzker's "liberal anger" over Schumer's fade.

It certainly looks like the Journolist Bat Signal has gone out.

Pelosi has knocked Schumer for a second time.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continued to criticize Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday, suggesting he voluntarily relinquished Democrats' leverage in the government funding fight.

"I myself don't give away anything for nothing," Pelosi told reporters during a San Francisco town hall on Republican lawmakers' alleged cuts to Medicaid -- despite no existing proposal from GOP lawmakers to cut the entitlement program. "I think that's what happened the other day."

...

Some congressional Democrats have privately urged New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to launch a primary challenge against Schumer in 2028. Ocasio-Cortez has declined to rule out a Senate bid and has called on Schumer to retire at the end of his current term.

"Schumer has been in politics for a long time, and I would hope that this is his final term, and he opens it up for someone new," Ocasio-Cortez said.

Leftwing Narrative-Enforcement Organization Axios says that Schumer's standing with Democrats is lower than ebola.

Why it matters: Some House members are urging Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) behind closed doors to mount a primary bid against the New York senator in 2028.

"From the threads I am on, [people are] pissed off ... and not just the typical lefties," one House Democrat told Axios on the condition of anonymity to share details of members' private communications.

A senior House Democrat said of their colleagues' mood toward Schumer: "His popularity is hovering somewhere between Elon Musk and the Ebola virus."

A third House Democrat who represents a swing district, when asked about Schumer, responded sarcastically: "Who?"

...

The first House Democrat told Axios that people are "mainly venting" but also "talking a big game about supporting AOC" in a possible primary challenge.

A fourth House Democrat who spoke on the condition of anonymity described their colleagues' feelings toward Schumer as "big mad."

Zoom in: Schumer is under siege from Democrats' liberal grassroots, postponing stops on his book tour that groups like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee had planned to protest.

Indivisible, another liberal group, has publicly called on Schumer to step down as Senate Democratic leader.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said in a CNN interview that Senate Democrats should "sit down and take a look and decide whether or not Chuck Schumer is the one to lead in this moment."

Stupid busted-poon DEI skank Sonny Hostin cucked Schumer to his ugly mug.

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The surprising thing isn't that a male liberal influencer is a pervert and user.

What's shocking here is that Harry Nisson is... straight? Sort of?!

Sarah Fields
@SarahisCensored

Harry Sisson convinced 11 different women that 'he had no roster' and 'respected them for more than their bodies' while persuading them to send explicit photos of themselves through Snapchat, including one from a domestic abuse survivor.

When the women discovered each other one by one, he called them all insane and attempted to coerce one of them into telling the public that the photos were 'fake.'

A Request to the Reader - Set political differences to the side. I believe both sides of the aisle can agree that this is unacceptable behavior from a man-child with collectively over 2 million followers.

I don't know if asking women for nudes is much of a violation in today's effed-up world.

But keep in mind, this is a Male Feminist who really cares about women.

Vodka Pundit posts this from the allegedly-predatory twink:

Harry Sisson
@harryjsisson

America failed women tonight. Trump bullied, assaulted, and stripped reproductive rights away from women all across the country and instead of standing against it, many voted for it. We have failed our daughters, mothers, and sisters.

I'm your ally. Please send your tits.

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The antifa left needs to be dealt with, like Hamas -- once and for all.

A website called "Dogequest" has reportedly published the personal details of Tesla owners nationwide, exposing names, addresses, and phone numbers on an interactive map. The site, which appears to be targeting Tesla drivers due to CEO Elon Musk's ties with the Trump administration, also features a Molotov cocktail as a cursor. The operators claim they will only remove personal information if the individual provides proof they have sold their Tesla.

Key Details:

The website "Dogequest" reportedly doxes Tesla owners and employees of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), listing personal information and Tesla dealership locations.

The site encourages vandalism of Tesla vehicles, stating it supports "creative expressions of protest."

Recent incidents include vandalism at Tesla dealerships, gunfire attacks in Oregon, and harassment of Cybertruck owners.

Diving Deeper:

The emergence of "Dogequest" comes amid rising hostility toward Tesla owners and dealerships, a trend that has escalated following Elon Musk's high-profile role in the Trump administration. According to a report, the website exposes the names, addresses, and phone numbers of Tesla drivers across the United States while using a Molotov cocktail cursor--a clear symbol of violent intent.

Beyond targeting individual Tesla owners, the site also reveals locations of Tesla dealerships and supercharger stations. One section of the website appears to endorse vandalism, stating that those looking to attack a Tesla "don't need a map" to do so. This rhetoric coincides with increasing reports of Tesla-related attacks, including a woman arrested for throwing an incendiary device at a dealership in Loveland, Colorado, and multiple Tesla locations in Oregon being targeted by gunfire.

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Legal experts suggest that while doxing itself does not violate a specific federal law, it can lead to criminal charges under harassment, stalking, or invasion of privacy statutes. The Justice Department has not issued a formal statement on the matter, but given the escalating violence against Tesla owners and dealerships, federal authorities may be forced to take action.

Meanwhile, Tesla's stock continues to struggle, dipping another 6% in early trading on Tuesday. Shares have now fallen more than 50% from their post-election high, raising concerns about the company's stability amid this wave of anti-Tesla sentiment.

David Strom proposes that the left has essentially adopted a "modified Al Qaeda" (or Jihadist "Resistance") strategy against Musk -- and America.

Osama and al Qaeda believed that they had History and God on their side, and if they struck the US hard and provoked a war on their own soil, where they had advantages, instead of here in the US, they could prevail. The terrorism was a lure, not the point in itself.

I believe that, consciously or unconsciously, the anarcho-left is pursuing a similar strategy to incite a civil war that will bring down the current US regime. If this sounds insane, recall that less than two years ago it became quite popular on TikTok among liberals to reassess Osama's critique of America and the West and to endorse his tactics to destroy it.

He notes that leftwingers began reading Osama bin Ladin's "Letter to America" -- Osama's threat to America to comply or suffer terrorism -- on TikTok last November. They were openly embracing Al Qaeda tactics.

We have already seen a huge spike in terrorism from trans activists. Many of the attacks on Teslas and Tesla showrooms were done by trans "women," and a number of mass shootings have been as well. "Kill TERFs" has become a common slogan as well.

Relatively normal AWFLs are fantasizing about violent resistance, and while they won't do it themselves, they have already cheered it on, up to an including endorsing Luigi Mangione's cause and helping fund his very expensive defense.

As far as I can tell, there is no backlash among Democrats to the increasing violence, which instead has inspired a bunch of "I don't endorse violence, but..." tut-tutting. That is, in fact, a tacit endorsement of violence, and we know that the Democrat-controlled ActBlue is raising money for the extremist wing of the Party that commits these terroristic acts.

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