June 06, 2025
The Week In Woke
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states cannot discriminate against charities just because they're religious in nature. Seems obvious, but again, something that was in doubt.
Democrats just don't understand why normal people are running for them.
National Review is exactly what we thought they were:
Sean DavisThe lefties won! Abrego-Garcia will be shipped back to America. Where he will be tried for being the kingpin of a major human trafficking operation.
@seanmdav Standing athwart history, yelling, "Leave the gay pederast predator alone!" Impossible to parody.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday. For months, the Trump administration has been locked in an intense standoff with the federal judiciary over court orders for the government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return from El Salvador, where he was mistakenly deported in mid-March, in a situation that one federal judge warned could present an "incipient crisis" between the two branches. Abrego Garcia has been indicted on two criminal counts in the in the Middle District of Tennessee: conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain and unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain. The indictment unsealed Friday afternoon accuses Abrego Garcia and others of partaking in a conspiracy in recent years in which they "knowingly and unlawfully transported thousands of undocumented aliens who had no authorization to be present in the United States, and many of whom were MS-13 members and associates."
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states cannot discriminate against charities just because they're religious in nature. Seems obvious, but again, something that was in doubt.
This one is so easy that even Sotomayor gets it. Some FBI agents objected to the FBI memo targeting Catholics, accurately noting that this memo seemed to be confabulated purely to please the vicious race-Marxist demagogues of the Southern Poverty "Law" Center.
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Wisconsin-based Catholic charity group in a case centered on unemployment tax credits for religious institutions -- delivering a victory for faith-based institutions, who argued that the state's decision had violated the religious clauses under the First Amendment. In a unanimous opinion, the justices agreed that the state had engaged in an "unnecessary entanglement" in attempting to define whether religious groups should be entitled to an otherwise-available tax exemption based on the state's criteria for religious behavior. "When the government distinguishes among religions based on theological differences in their provision of services, it imposes a denominational preference that must satisfy the highest level of judicial scrutiny," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, writing for the majority. "Because Wisconsin has transgressed that principle without the tailoring necessary to survive such scrutiny, the judgment of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion."
The FBI rushed to rescind the document after a whistleblower leaked it in February 2023. Then-FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in July 2023 that the memo came from "a single product by a single field office, which, as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems." Yet Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has claimed Wray may have lied under oath because multiple FBI offices were involved in creating the memo. Grassley announced Tuesday that he found evidence that the memo had been disseminated to at least 1,000 FBI staff. "Is anyone really asking for a product like this?" an FBI employee in Phoenix, Arizona, wrote in a February 2023 email responding to the memo. "Apparently we are at the behest of the SPLC..." An FBI employee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, responded, "And yeah, our overreliance on the SPLC for hate designations is ... problematic." In addition to these emails, Grassley found the FBI produced at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used the term "radical traditionalist Catholic" and relied on the SPLC.Left-wing groups are actually rallying to support the assassin that shot two people in the back merely for being Jewish.
Meet the Left-Wing Groups and Operatives Rallying Behind Jewish Museum Shooter Elias RodriguezMore grooming in schools as students are asked to consider becoming gay as part of a class assignment.
Soros-funded operatives, a Democratic Socialists of America caucus, and an anti-Israel student group among signatories of letter endorsing murders
A radical student group at Brandeis University. Members of a socialist organization affiliated with House "Squad" members. The treasurer of a Democratic super PAC funded heavily by George Soros. These are just some of the figures and groups calling to "free" Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man police say confessed to the Washington, D.C., murders of two Israeli diplomats. Twenty-one organizations, along with Democratic activist Kamau Franklin, signed an open letter in support of Rodriguez organized by the Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network. It calls Rodriguez's shooting of Israeli diplomats Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky outside of the Capital Jewish Museum "fully justified," "eminently defensible," and "morally righteous." It also urges readers to "give pause to the zionists" and "GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA," a popular rallying cry among student radicals on Ivy League campuses like Columbia University and Harvard University. One signee, Unity of Fields, has been involved in the Columbia protests. Another signatory is the Liberation Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)--"Squad" members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Greg Casar (D., Texas) are members of DSA, the largest socialist group in the country. Franklin, who serves as treasurer of the Black Voters Matter Action PAC, a Democratic group that received $2.4 million from Soros and the Soros-funded Democracy PAC, signed the letter and promoted it on his Twitter page. So did the Brandeis Jewish Bund, a self-described "Anti-Zionist" group at Brandeis University, a school founded by Jewish Americans to address anti-Semitism in the American education system. Another signee, Bronx Anti War, was cofounded by Janet Goodman-Clarke, a member of the Soros-funded Jewish Voice for Peace. While many of the groups backing Rodriguez are not well known beyond radical activist circles, their ties to prominent Democratic lawmakers, donors, and organizations reflect the extent to which anti-Semitism has infiltrated the party. Ocasio-Cortez, for example, held a virtual event with DSA's New York chapter in December. She has not addressed the Liberation Caucus's signing of the pro-Rodriguez letter.
Florida high school students were drilled for being straight, asked to consider being gay, and told that straight people are to blame for overpopulation, according to course materials obtained by The Daily Wire. During a course for high school children in Miami-Dade County, students were assigned to complete a sexuality-focused questionnaire that asked a series of bizarre questions such as: "What do you think caused your heterosexuality?"; "Is it possible that being straight is just a phase you may grow out of?"; and, "Considering the menace of hunger and overpopulation, could the human race survive if everyone were straight like yourself?"From John Sexton: The New York Times' "conservative" David Brooks warns the Democrats that they're in more trouble than they know.
Advertisement Parents were shocked to learn that a professor made their children answer questions like this as part of a Miami-Dade College course being offered to high schoolers. The course, called "Preparing for Student Success," was designed for students to develop academic goals and come up with strategies to succeed in college and offered in Miami-Dade County, an area that has turned red in recent years. "It's not normal. I mean imagine if a person, anyone, goes close to your son and asks him these questions, I'd call the police," a concerned mother whose son was enrolled in the class told The Daily Wire. "It's perversion. Why are you talking about their sexuality to 15-year-old boys or girls? It's absolutely sick. It's sick." Other questions posed to the children included, "To whom have you disclosed your straight tendencies?" and "Why do you insist on showing off your heterosexuality?" The questionnaire ended by asking students what their reaction to it was and "about the assumptions you hold about what others are like."
Naming Imane Khelif as having XY chromosomes inflicted "irreparable psychological damage" on him, lefties whine.
I have a lot of Democratic friends who are extremely disappointed with their party leaders. They tell me that the Democratic Party is currently rudderless, weak, passive, lacking a compelling message. I try to be polite, but I want to tell them: "The problem is not the party leaders. The problem is you. You don't understand how big a shift we're in the middle of. You think the Democrats can solve their problems with a new message and a new leader. But the Democrats' challenge is that they have to adapt to a new historical era. That's not something done by working politicians who are focused on fund-raising and the next election. That's only accomplished by visionaries and people willing to shift their entire worldview. That's up to you, my friends, not Chuck Schumer." ... The Republicans have adjusted to the shift in the zeitgeist more effectively than the Democrats. Trump tells a clear story: The elites are screwing America. He took a free trade party and made it a protectionist party, an internationalist party and made it an isolationist party... Trump has taken the atmosphere of alienation, magnified it with his own apocalypticism, and, assaulting institutions across society, has created a revolutionary government. More this term than last, he is shifting the conditions in which we live. ... The Democrats' first core challenge is that we live in an age that is hostile to institutions and Democrats dominate the institutions -- the universities, the media, Hollywood, the foundations, the teachers unions, the Civil Service, etc. The second is that we live in an age in which a caste divide has opened up between the educated elite and everybody else, and Democrats are the party of the highly educated... For today's Democrats that means this: If people rightly distrust establishment institutions and you are the party of the establishment institutions, then you have to be the party of thoroughgoing reform. You have to say that Trump is taking a blowtorch to institutions, and we are for effectively changing institutions.
Algerian boxing bosses have issued a furious response to boxing's new world governing body for a "violation" of Imane Khelif's rights to medical confidentiality. A statement released by World Boxing last week, naming Khelif while outlining its new policy of gender testing, has "created psychological damage to our athlete" according to the Algerian Boxing Federation. In a letter the Federation President said the "consequences are immeasurable." He added that the statement had internationally harmed "our national sports movement" and that Khelif was not given "the right to defend herself" nor did World Boxing "hear from the doctors specialising in endocrinology who follow her."What about the damage this biological man inflicted on the women he punched in the face?
Man doesn't understand why he has been excluded from a women's book club. The Democrats' push to fund fake influencers who can sell the Democrats' gay agenda to straight men is going great. I've got my own suggestion for the Democrats: New York City's hottest Speaking to American Men influencer is Stefon.
It's a verdict that would make the Ayatollah smile. Today, in nominally liberal Britain, a man has been found guilty of a crime after he dared to burn a Koran in public. Hamit Coskun, a Turkish-born asylum seeker, has been convicted of a 'religiously aggravated public-order offence' over his -- quite literally -- incendiary protest outside of the Turkish consulate in London in February, against what he sees as the Islamist turn of Erdogan's Turkey. If nothing else, Coskun's stunt has exposed the Islamist-apologist turn of our own United Kingdom. On paper, Coskun has been convicted of 'disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress', motivated by 'hostility towards members of a religious group, namely followers of Islam', contrary to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the Public Order Act 1986. But we all know what that word salad really means in practice, regardless of the judge's many assurances to the contrary. Coskun has been convicted, and fined £240, for blasphemy. All by a supposedly secular court. The judgement, handed down by district judge John McGarva, is an elaborate exercise in victim-blaming. Coskun was assaulted at the scene by two men -- first by a passerby armed with a knife, then by a delivery rider who kicked Coskun while he was on the floor. Remarkably, this is used as proof of his guilt. 'That the conduct was disorderly is no better illustrated than by the fact that it led to serious public disorder involving him being assaulted by two different people', says McGarva. Thank God he wasn't also wearing a short skirt, eh? Similar intellectual acrobatics were required to prove that Coskun was motivated by a hatred of Muslims. He claims his beef is with the religion, not its followers. But McGarva was having none of it, citing Coskun's belief that 'Islam is an ideology which encourages its followers to violence, paedophilia, and a disregard for the rights of non-believers'. Whether or not this is an accurate or fair reflection of the faith, as practised by Muslims around the world, is totally irrelevant. The judge decided there was no difference between Coskun's dislike of what he means by Islam and hatred of Muslims. So he hates Muslims because he hates Islam. I'm no legal scholar, but that strikes me as a rather circular argument. In a free society, you should be free to hate whoever and whatever you like, of course. Indeed, this ruling is another grim reminder of the subjective, authoritarian mess you find yourself in when you invite the state to police what is and isn't hateful -- whether that's racial, religious or whatever. Someone has to decide. And in this case it has been decided by a legalistic cretin who is totally blasé about ushering in medieval blasphemy prohibitions, albeit dressed up in hate-speech lingo.
Enjoying spiked? Britain may have abolished its blasphemy law in 2008, more than three decades after the last blasphemy trial went to court. But it has returned, zombie-like, through public-order and communications offences.... Brace yourselves for more. Not least as Coskun -- who either has balls of steel or is nursing a death wish -- has said he intends to go on a Koran-burning tour of some of the UK's other great cities.
Democrats just don't understand why normal people are running for them.
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The Marxist Media Pivots: Now They're Telling Lefties to Go to the Gym
As you know, the left has been celebrating weakness and frailty and poor health (both physical and mental) for its entire history. The strong have no need of a Mommy-Daddy God-State to protect them and provide them with food and phony affirmation.
In the age of Trump, though, they've gone positive bonkers. Time magazine, 2022: Exercise is just progressive-overload white supremacy.The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitness Aspects of the wellness world connect with conspiracy theories. If you've spent some time in bodybuilding forums, fitness Instagram, or really anywhere, this is not a surprise. Most recently, The Guardian covered the "wellness-to-fascism pipeline," detailing how some people in the wellness and fitness world are susceptible to conspiracies ranging from quacky antivax theories to full-blown Alex Jones brain. And last year, Time highlighted the "White Supremacist Origins of Exercise," in an interview with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of the book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession. It turns out your far-too-online personal trainer might be sneaking a red pill into your protein shake. The reasons are many, including a lack of trust in modern medicine and the pharmaceutical industry, paired with long periods of isolation thanks to the pandemic. There's also the right wing influencers targeting incels, who might be convinced their deadlift stats are the reason for their lack of romantic success. It doesn't help that the fitness industry often leans on "One Weird Trick" to promote quick spot fixes and instant health benefits, which can then sprout into other types of forbidden "wisdom."From just three weeks ago: Vanity Fair wonders why protein is so hot right now, and says "Blame MAGA."
Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Protein? Blame MAGA. From the Liver King to the podcast bros to RFK Jr.'s MAHA constituents, America’s infatuation with protein has reached a fever pitch--and it's undeniably gendered.How can it be "gendered" when we can't even say what a woman is? The left just spent $20 million to conduct a "study" at a four-star hotel while loading "mini lobster rolls" into their fat weakling mouths to figure out how to "Speak to American Men." MSNBC provides the first fruits of this effort, telling fat, weakling Democrats to go to the gym, not for the purposes of health, fitness, longevity, and self-improvement, but for the grubby, gross motive of being better able to politically proselytize to young men.
They literally cannot think in any other terms other than Marxist ones. Why do people go to the gym? To give themselves a dopamine hit in order to get them the struggle of capitalist oppression. Squats are the opiate of the masses.
Do you even vote, bro? Democrats should look for new voters at the gym.
"Speaking with American Men" is a Democratic initiative to win young men, a group Democrats lost ground with in 2024.
After losing big with men under 30 in the 2024 election, Democrats have spent $20 million on a program called "Speaking with American Men" (SAM) to help figure out which "spaces" they need to show up in to fare better with this demographic. A smart place to start would be the gym; the booming men's fitness market is expected to more than double by 2029, growth driven by men under 25, who are joining gyms almost twice as fast as women. And as SAM co-director Ilyse Hogue and I wrote here last year, the right has done an excellent job parlaying young men's healthy interest in exercise into an embrace of reactionary politics. But it doesn't need to be that way. Across the political spectrum, craving the surefire sense of accomplishment the gym provides is an age-old response to an unstable political and economic environment.
If you weren't so gross, people might like you more, so yeah, maybe.
And historically, championing physical fitness with appeals to American manliness has not been a partisan issue. If the SAM initiative is going to net the Democrats more than online snark, its leaders should appreciate that this history suggests the party's path forward might just begin at the gym.
You should see him on the Fire Alarm Lat Pull machine.
In the vast digital universe targeting young men, the idea that exercise is imperative to self-actualization is inescapable. It's most obvious in fitness-focused influencers like Ashton Hall, whose six-hour "morning routine" recently racked up nearly a billion views on X. But plenty of public figures with grander concerns insist exercise is integral to achievement. Take Andrew Tate's obsession with "plummeting masculinity" or Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s quest to make America healthy again. A commitment to early-morning workouts, Tate advises, is Step 1 to asserting alpha dominance. Performing pullups, as the septuagenarian Kennedy does shirtless at Gold's Gym, is proof of political power. Such encouragement spans the political spectrum. While it's become more common to see Republicans like Paul Ryan or Pete Hegseth flaunting their fitness, Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden often promoted exercise as a personal and policy priority, and former Rep. Jamaal Bowman went viral in 2023 for benching 405 pounds while wearing a Working Families Party T-shirt.
... For more than a century, in moments of upheaval that raise questions about what it means to be a man, men have reliably sought a sense of agency in exercise.This whole article is intended as Marching Orders to the left: Stop writing articles about exercise being toxic masculinity white supremacy or else men are going to continue voting against you. She's now reduced to arguing against the left-wing anti-health, anti-male narratives the left has been spinning out for a decade.
The social and economic roots of the American man's fixation on fitness date to the early 20th century. When the world feels confusing or out of control, make a man of yourself, beginning with your body is an especially enticing proposition.I should also point out that their idea of appealing to men is exactly the same as their idea of appealing to women. They appeal to women by talking about anxiety and empowerment, and, because they don't recognize any differences between the sexes, they're going to appeal to men with the exact same Empowerment Overcomes Your Anxiety and Neuroticism pitch, too. They can only talk about working out in the only language they know, and that language is: Therapy.
...We could become a nation of sofites, huh?
Although the white-collar careers to which upwardly mobile young men aspired conferred superiority over the sweaty masses, this prestige came at a cost: so-called "desk diseases," as 19th-century doctors styled them, marked by sloped shoulders and sagging paunches. And President Teddy Roosevelt touted "the strenuous life" as a way for young men to resolve the paradox of progress. ... The unprecedented prosperity of the 1950s, with its many desk jobs, televisions and time-saving appliances, ushered in yet more anxiety about the softening of the American male -- among members of both major political parties. Worried that the sudden glut of leisure risked rendering boys unfit for military duty, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration launched what would become the Presidential Council on Youth Fitness in 1957. "We are not a nation of softies," Vice President Richard Nixon warned at its launch, "but we could become one." We are not a nation of softies, but we could become one.
Again, "self-actualization" is a concept pushed in self-help books written for an exclusively female audience. But I guess that's the target audience for this article. It's trying to persuade wine-and-Xanax addicted left-wing mad women to stop "problematizing" male interest in working out so that they stop chasing off voters. So every argument is basically, "So you angry crazy-women like 'self-actualization,' so just think about the gym being 'self-actualization for bro's.'"
Given the many physical and mental benefits of exercise, the latest push for men to self-actualize through fitness is hardly a negative -- or necessarily partisan -- development.
Experts agree that exercise is close to a "magic pill" for its many health benefits.You don't say. Weird you took the exact opposite position during the covid pandemic the left created. So... do you have any GAINZZZ? My only GAINZZZ are starting once again to get GAINZZZ, at the very bottom of the GAINZZZ ladder. I basically skipped out on exercise for a year and now I'm reduced to the n00biest of n00bs. Gotta get some N00B GAINZZZ, then. How about you?
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Have Trump and Musk Been Persuaded to End Their Feud?
White House aides scrambled to arrange peace talks Thursday after President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's vicious public spat threatened to derail the president's signature legislative agenda, Politico reported. Aides had arranged a private call for Friday, according to the outlet, though a senior White House official told The Daily Caller that while Musk "has expressed interest in a phone call, the President does not intend to speak to Musk today." Staff reportedly prodded Trump to avoid insults and act tactfully, arguing a skirmish with the world's richest man would only distract Republicans he still needs to muscle the multi-trillion-dollar package across the finish line, while Musk hinted at reconciliation after hedge fund titan Bill Ackman publicly begged the two men to "make peace for the benefit of our country." "Oh it's OK," Trump told Politico, responding to a question about the spat. "It's going very well, never done better ... the numbers are through the roof, the highest polls I've ever had and I have to go." The president's nonchalant response Thursday marked a stark contrast to the ugly, days-long social media exchange that began when Musk blasted the "big beautiful bill's" projected $2.4 billion price tag as "pork-filled" and a "disgusting abomination" on Tuesday. The SpaceX founder continued to unleash a barrage of posts attacking the legislation's fiscal impact, accusing Trump and congressional Republicans of abandoning conservative principles on government spending. Trump initially fired back with characteristic force -- branding Musk "CRAZY" and threatening to terminate the many federal subsidies and contracts his companies enjoy -- but White House staff successfully convinced him to temper his approach by Thursday afternoon, according to the outlet. "I don't mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This is one of the Greatest Bills ever presented to Congress ... I didn't create this mess, I'm just here to FIX IT. This puts our Country on a Path of Greatness." The reconciliation signals became clearer when Ackman posted his peace plea on X, writing, "I support @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk and they should make peace for the benefit of our country." "You're not wrong," Musk responded at around 9:30 Thursday night, hours after implying the president was implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring, threatening to form a third party and suggesting Trump should be impeached.
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Job Growth Exceeds Expectations for Third Month Running
The U.S. added 139,000 jobs in May, marking the third straight month of stronger-than-expected growth. With wages up nearly 4% and all gains going to native-born Americans, the White House called it further proof of a "BOOMING" Trump-led economy. Key Details: Leisure and hospitality led with 48,000 new jobs, followed by transportation and warehousing (+5,800) and construction (+4,000). Real average hourly earnings rose nearly 4% over the past year, far surpassing forecasts. Since Trump took office, real disposable personal income has risen at a 7.5% annualized pace. According to the White House, 99.8% of all job gains under Trump have been in the private sector--a sharp contrast from the final two years of the Biden era, when one in four new jobs were government-funded. Diving Deeper: President Donald Trump's "America First Economic Agenda" is delivering, according to the White House's Friday statement celebrating May's stronger-than-expected jobs numbers. "President Trump's America First Economic Agenda has created a BOOMING economy--jobs are up, unemployment is down, wages are increasing, and inflation is dead," said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. "More than 139,000 good jobs were added to the private sector in May, all accounted for by American-born workers." The private sector has now accounted for nearly every job created since Trump took office in January. That includes four straight months of gains in construction, while wage growth for working Americans continues to beat expectations. Real average hourly earnings are up nearly 4% over the past year. The White House also emphasized that under Trump, real disposable personal income is growing at more than three times the pace of Biden's final year in office. The report also marks a reversal from the trend seen under Biden, where government jobs made up a significant share of employment gains. Under Trump, 99.8% of jobs added have been in the private economy. Leavitt argued that this reflects a return to a market-driven labor force: "Americans should continue to trust in President Trump, who continues to beat expectations." Council of Economic Advisers Chair Steve Miran noted on Fox News that over half a million jobs have been created since January--all going to native-born workers. "The President is succeeding in creating hundreds of thousands of jobs."
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The Democrat-Media Party Only Cares About Illegal Aliens
From Instapundit, Scott Jennings doesn't really argue with CNN's usual panel of liberal Democrats. He just keeps asking the same question, and getting them all on the record that they support paying for the health care of illegal aliens, forever, including, of course, all of the "trans" shit.
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Biden Put "Unaccompanied Minor" Illegal Aliens Into the Homes of Unvetted Illegal Alien Sponsors.
One Fifteen Year Old Girl Was Repeatedly Raped by Biden's Appointed Child-Molester.
One Fifteen Year Old Girl Was Repeatedly Raped by Biden's Appointed Child-Molester.
Biden practiced family separation. Instead of sending "unaccompanied minor" illegal aliens back to their home countries to live with their families, he scrambled to find homes in America he could put them in.
His Administration didn't bother vetting the men he was giving children to. So they put children into the home of pedophiles and rapists.So much more "humane" then sending the illegal immigrant child back to her home.
A 37-year-old illegal immigrant man was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing at least one teen girl who the federal government sent to live with him as part of the Biden administration's scheme to place "unaccompanied alien children" in the homes of unrelated, loosely-vetted "sponsors." Wilson Manfredo Lopez-Carillo was arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office in Florida on May 22 and charged with three counts of sexual assault on a minor. Police said in charging documents that the victim arrived in the United States in August 2023 as a 16-year-old, and was placed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the home of several people, whose names are redacted but appear to include Lopez-Carillo. The victim "reported three instances of sexual battery by [redacted] all occurring in February 2024. [Redacted] stated that [redacted] was not present during these incidents, as she would be out with her children selling tamales to support the family. She explained that [redacted] took advantage of [redacted's] absence to abuse her," a document said. While she was in the kitchen, Lopez-Carillo "grabbed her, and took her to his bedroom. He removed her pants and underwear and proceeded to sexually batter her," police wrote. A second incident unfolded similarly, with the man offering her $100 to keep quiet, which she refused, police said. She did not report the incidents to police initially "due to fear of retribution from [redacted], who had threatened her," it continued. The heavily redacted police statement suggested that the adult woman in the house became suspicious and confronted Lopez-Carillo. The victim was given three days to leave the house and "sought refuge with...a friend from church." The friend contacted the woman who "revealed that [redacted] had sexually assaulted [the victim] which led to her expulsion. [The friend] expressed his shock and concern upon hearing this. He decided to allow [the victim] to stay in a room at his home to prevent her from being homeless." Once living with the friend, she felt safe enough to report the abuse to the police. The friend later became the girl's legal guardian after receiving permission from her parents, and told police another girl had also sought refuge at his home after a person whose name was redacted had attempted to sexually assault her. Police set up a recorded call where the victim asked Lopez-Carillo why he had assaulted her as a minor, and he "responded by attempting to justify his actions." He did not deny the incidents but "tried to downplay their significance" and "attempted to shift the blame onto [redacted]," police said. "When confronted about the possibility of a pregnancy, due to unprotected sex, he mentioned giving [the victim] a pill," they wrote.
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THE MORNING RANT: Harvard’s Doom Loop: The Poison Ivy is Considering Selling Some of its Illiquid Endowment at a Discount for Some Fast Cash
In the past two months, Harvard has turned to the bond markets twice to quickly raise over $1 billion in cash. This follows a scramble in 2024 to raise $1.5 billion through similar bond offerings, which still fell short of its initial target.In April, Charles Gasparino hinted that Harvard was starting to sell some of the liquid assets in its endowment, e.g. stocks and bonds. He wrote ”Wall Street execs who follow the college endowment business say it's only a matter of time before Harvard starts selling what's liquid in its portfolio, ie stocks, maybe issue more debt, if its tax-exempt status remains revoked. There are UNCONFIRMED market reports that the selling has already begun.” As we’re learning now, the situation was even worse than what Mr. Gasparino was hearing. Selling stocks and bonds at least gets you a dollar-for-dollar price on the exchange value of your asset. A desperation sale of an illiquid asset, such as a stake in a private equity investment, is like selling a prized possession to a pawn shop. “Forced liquidation value” of anything means that a big financial haircut is going to be realized. It gets even worse for the Poison Ivy school. Harvard’s endowment is famously (allegedly?) valued at $53 billion. Beyond the discount required to sell an illiquid asset, investor Bill Ackman believes that the underlying value of the endowment has already taken a huge hit, because private equity uses leverage as a multiplier of investment gains. This multiplier effect can also work in reverse in regard to losses, and probably has. In his example, “if a real estate fund’s asset values decline by 15% and the assets are levered 60%, the fund’s equity value will decline by 37.5%.” In speculating how much cash Harvard could generate by selling its illiquid, impaired assets, Ackman wrote, ”the realizable values of Harvard’s private assets could be as low 40% of current carrying values if Harvard needs to liquidate substantial portions of its assets to meet its obligations.” Ackman estimates that the actual realizable value of Harvard’s endowment might not exceed $40 billion right now. That represents a $13 billion book loss that has already occurred to Harvard’s legendary endowment.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Serviceman's Wife
Ivan G. Olinsky
Serviceman's Wife
Ivan G. Olinsky
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The Morning Report — 6/ 6 /25
Good morning kids. 81 years ago at almost this very hour, the allied armies, led by the United States and the British stormed ashore on five Normandy beaches to begin the liberation of Europe from the barbarism of Nazi German occupation and all of its horrors. God bless the sacred memory of all those wonderful guys who gave their lives and eternal honor to all who came ashore that day. Within a year, those who survived the landings would have to endure other nightmares, with names written in their and their buddies' blood like Falaise, Arnhem, Bastogne, the Hurtgen Forest and then the Rhine, and if they survived would ultimately come upon the electrified barbed wire gates of hell that were Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen. At the latter, the wonderful Angels of the Lord dressed as members of the US 11th Armored Division liberated my mother. Miraculous as her survival was, somehow both her parents and her 6 siblings, also managed to survive and be reunited to live long and full lives here and in Israel. The odds of an entire family making it through intact are astronomical, and as I am now in the twilight of my years, with one of my mother's sisters still alive at age 93, I just shake my head at what a blessing it was for them and me to be here today. It's why I am going to have try and tread as lightly as possible, given recent events. And yet, sadly, tragically it is something that needs to be addressed, so here goes.
This episode once again highlights the head shaking question of why are Jews liberal and vote Democrat. I can certainly understand how generations of persecution can attract people to movements and individuals who mouth the right words about Justice and security and yet deliver exactly the opposite. Hell, forget Jews but for blacks to vote generationally for the party that had them in literal chains as slaves and then kept them in economic chains, destroying them all in the name of political power is insanity. Which as we all know is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result. Back to this poor woman, This is the direct result of thinking with one's heart and not with one's head while at the same time being completely deaf, dumb and blind to everything around one. You will never find a more compassionate, sympathetic and even empathetic human being on this earth than my dear mother of blessed memory. But she knew what was what in terms of the politics of this nation. She knew what the Democrat Left was all about and would have none of it. From the moment they came onto the scene, she knew the Clintons were going to be trouble, and sadly she had to endure most of the first term of Obama. The salient point is, unlike this poor woman from Boulder, there is no way in hell my mother would have countenanced open borders, or the flooding in of unvetted aliens regardless of their claims of persecution. And it took her years of sweating out the paperwork in a Displaced Persons Camp before she got her papers, and she had to prove she was not an indigent, had communicable diseases, was not a communist agitator, and that she had relatives here in the States who would support her while she got on her feet. A big hat tip to commenters Washington Nearsider who brought this to our attention late in the comments yesterday, and to Lizzy whose reaction sums it all up: What's wrong with this country? People like you brought in terrorists. GAH!
And just to preempt the usual trolls and other anti-semites out there, this is NOT a Jewish thing. Some people have bleeding hearts for very good reasons but unfortunately they let their good natures and own personal issues cloud their ability to think clearly, reasonably and rationally. And that is why this poor woman aligned herself with individuals who want to unleash the very same barbarism that nearly gassed and then burnt her in a crematorium, or shot her into a mass grave, right here in America. Compassion and charity are of course noble and admirable. They are central tenets of Judaism and Christianity. But let's have a healthy dose of sanity
With that off my chest, the big story is that Trump and Musk are at each other's throats over the budget bill and while I have my reservations over incurring trillions more in debt to stop incurring trillions more in debt, the incongruity of this and the purpose of DOGE now coupled with the nastiness between these two individuals is only giving our enemies propaganda/politica fodder that we can ill afford. We have to get our act together. 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 weekend.
If the video is glitchy, It is The World at War Episode 17 "Morning" which is aeasily found on YouTube and elsewhere.
Good morning kids. 81 years ago at almost this very hour, the allied armies, led by the United States and the British stormed ashore on five Normandy beaches to begin the liberation of Europe from the barbarism of Nazi German occupation and all of its horrors. God bless the sacred memory of all those wonderful guys who gave their lives and eternal honor to all who came ashore that day. Within a year, those who survived the landings would have to endure other nightmares, with names written in their and their buddies' blood like Falaise, Arnhem, Bastogne, the Hurtgen Forest and then the Rhine, and if they survived would ultimately come upon the electrified barbed wire gates of hell that were Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen. At the latter, the wonderful Angels of the Lord dressed as members of the US 11th Armored Division liberated my mother. Miraculous as her survival was, somehow both her parents and her 6 siblings, also managed to survive and be reunited to live long and full lives here and in Israel. The odds of an entire family making it through intact are astronomical, and as I am now in the twilight of my years, with one of my mother's sisters still alive at age 93, I just shake my head at what a blessing it was for them and me to be here today. It's why I am going to have try and tread as lightly as possible, given recent events. And yet, sadly, tragically it is something that needs to be addressed, so here goes.
Holocaust survivor who supports nonprofit suing Trump over refugee ban surprised that illegal Egyptian migrant would set her on fire . . . An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who was burned in Sunday’s alleged terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, shares a message for the rest of Americans, saying, “We are better than this,” before asking, “What the hell is going on in our country?” She's wearing a huge HIAS button. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is a Jewish American nonprofit that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees, like the Catholic and Lutheran charities. “We at HIAS have been so blessed to have Ali Mayorkas on our board of directors, and are thrilled to have him nominated to be the next Secretary of Homeland Security,” said HIAS President and CEO Mark Hetfield. “Ali has consistently demonstrated that he is not only a strong and highly respected leader, but an empathetic one who knows the heart of the stranger, as the child of a Holocaust survivor, as a Latino, and as a refugee and immigrant himself. Ali is uniquely suited to rebuild public trust in the Department of Homeland Security as he knows that America is at its greatest when we build bridges, not walls.”
This episode once again highlights the head shaking question of why are Jews liberal and vote Democrat. I can certainly understand how generations of persecution can attract people to movements and individuals who mouth the right words about Justice and security and yet deliver exactly the opposite. Hell, forget Jews but for blacks to vote generationally for the party that had them in literal chains as slaves and then kept them in economic chains, destroying them all in the name of political power is insanity. Which as we all know is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result. Back to this poor woman, This is the direct result of thinking with one's heart and not with one's head while at the same time being completely deaf, dumb and blind to everything around one. You will never find a more compassionate, sympathetic and even empathetic human being on this earth than my dear mother of blessed memory. But she knew what was what in terms of the politics of this nation. She knew what the Democrat Left was all about and would have none of it. From the moment they came onto the scene, she knew the Clintons were going to be trouble, and sadly she had to endure most of the first term of Obama. The salient point is, unlike this poor woman from Boulder, there is no way in hell my mother would have countenanced open borders, or the flooding in of unvetted aliens regardless of their claims of persecution. And it took her years of sweating out the paperwork in a Displaced Persons Camp before she got her papers, and she had to prove she was not an indigent, had communicable diseases, was not a communist agitator, and that she had relatives here in the States who would support her while she got on her feet. A big hat tip to commenters Washington Nearsider who brought this to our attention late in the comments yesterday, and to Lizzy whose reaction sums it all up: What's wrong with this country? People like you brought in terrorists. GAH!
And just to preempt the usual trolls and other anti-semites out there, this is NOT a Jewish thing. Some people have bleeding hearts for very good reasons but unfortunately they let their good natures and own personal issues cloud their ability to think clearly, reasonably and rationally. And that is why this poor woman aligned herself with individuals who want to unleash the very same barbarism that nearly gassed and then burnt her in a crematorium, or shot her into a mass grave, right here in America. Compassion and charity are of course noble and admirable. They are central tenets of Judaism and Christianity. But let's have a healthy dose of sanity
With that off my chest, the big story is that Trump and Musk are at each other's throats over the budget bill and while I have my reservations over incurring trillions more in debt to stop incurring trillions more in debt, the incongruity of this and the purpose of DOGE now coupled with the nastiness between these two individuals is only giving our enemies propaganda/politica fodder that we can ill afford. We have to get our act together. 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 weekend.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- There is a judicial coup underway in this country. The presidency cannot remain functional if it is core powers are subject to the whims of rogue judges.
How Long Will Trump Let Rogue Judges Break The Law To Help Gangsters And Terrorists? - Michael Walsh: As my regular readers know by now, the subject of this excerpt is not only things military, but also things artistic, historical, musical, and poetic -- in other words, the context in which the various commanders (in this case, Napoleon) undertook their great enterprises. I hope you find it both challenging and interesting.
THE CONVERSATION: 'Amateurs Talk Tactics; Pros Talk Logistics'
- But there is a cost to committing crimes. And there are costs for carrying out acts of terrorism. If one of those costs is inconvenience to your loved ones, then perhaps you should think twice about it first. Because the sympathies of the American public have been stretched quite far enough. (Lest we forget, the mere presence on our soil without permission is a crime in and of itself, calling for immediate deportation, no trials no questions - jjs)
Douglas Murray: Liberals turn killers, racists, and haters into martyrs
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Daily Tech News 6 June 2025
Top Story
- AMD's "budget" Radeon 9060 XT graphics card is here. Is it any good? (Ars Technica)
Yes. And also no.
The 16GB model is pretty decent if you can find it for under $400. The MSRP is $349 for basic models, but they sold out pretty quickly in the US. You should still be able to find slightly faster models for around $389.
(In Australia the MSRP models are still available.)
The 8GB model is $50 cheaper and is readily available at MSRP because it sucks and you shouldn't buy it.
It's consistently faster than Nvidia's RTX 5060 and the same price. Compared to the 5060 Ti it's cheaper, and faster on non-ray-traced games, though a little slower in ray-traced titles. (And a lot slower on Black Myth Wukong which significantly favours Nvidia hardware, but that's an outlier.)
If you want a graphics card that is merely a bit expensive but not actually insanely overpriced, this is the one to buy.
(Or go back in time a few months and nab a 7800 XT for $400 like I did.)
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June 05, 2025
Everyone's Crazy Except For Me And ONT
Greetings Horde! Man, I dunno what's going on here, but it must be something seriously spooky.
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Animal Bandits Cafe
The Pont du Gard, the tallest of the Roman aqueducts
by Roberto Ferrari
The Pont du Gard, the tallest of the Roman aqueducts
by Roberto Ferrari
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Democrats Call ICE Agents "Nazis" and "Secret Police," Demand ICE Agents Remove Their Masks So That the Democrats' Marxist Paramilitary of Antifa Can Dox and Murder Them
Boston Mayor and suspected Chinese Agent Michelle Wu called ICE agents "Nazis" and "secret police" and demanded they remove their masks during arrests.
ICE's acting director explained that ICE agents are only wearing masks because the Democrats' violent paramilitary street armies of antifa are posting pictures of them online -- and posting pictures of their family members online -- encouraging antifa street thugs to kill them. Rather than disown suspected Chinese agent Wu's disgusting embrace of antifa terror-tactics as a useful Democrat political tool, Minority Leader (but is he really a leader Hakeem Jeffries doubles down and says ICE agents are Nazis, and yes, they deserved to be doxed and physically threatened.No one in the Democrat Media asks their fellow Democrats to denounce their antifa allies, because they know, of course, that the Democrat Party views its violent paramilitaries in antifa, trantifa, and BLM as a legitimate "fourth branch of government." Mary Rooke at the Daily Caller objects:
Not only are ICE agents and their families being targeted by unhinged left-wing activists, but now Democrats in Washington are openly threatening to dox ICE personnel themselves, effectively aiding and abetting those who want to intimidate, endanger, and silence federal law enforcement. "Every single ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said at a press conference Tuesday. "This is America. This is not the Soviet Union. We're not behind the Iron Curtain. This is not the 1930s. And every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will, of course, be identified." Hakeem Jeffries' unhinged rhetoric should outrage every American who believes in law and order. Comparing ICE agents--federal officers lawfully enforcing immigration policy--to Nazis and Soviet secret police isn't just vile, it's calculated and dangerous. Jeffries knows exactly what he's doing by invoking the 1930s and the Iron Curtain: He's deliberately smearing these agents to justify their public targeting and harassment. It's not just reckless--it's an open invitation for extremists to hunt down law enforcement officers and their families. This isn't leadership; it's incitement. And it speaks volumes about the radical, unhinged direction of today's Democrat Party.
The Democrats are creating more New Rules every day. They will not be happy when the right embraces these New Rules and inflicts them on Democrats. But dem's the New Rules.
Democrats are wading into dangerous territory that could end up seeing U.S. Immigration and Customs agents killed. It's an established fact that Democrats are suffering from a violent extremist problem permeating from the far left wing of their party. But despite this worrisome reality, Democrats are doubling down on enticing violence that will be targeted at ICE agents. New York Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman held a press conference on May 29, denouncing ICE agents' use of masks while conducting immigration arrests. He claimed that if these brave men and women are doing nothing wrong, then why do they have to hide their faces? On Tuesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also promised to dox every agent who wears a mask while conducting these immigration raids, "no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes." ( ... What do Jeffries, Goldman and the other Democrats think is going to happen when they label an entire swath of the federal government Nazis? The violent extremists in the Democrat party are going to listen to their leaders tell them ICE agents are evil and attack accordingly. We've already seen this happen with the left, who firebombed Tesla dealerships after Elon Musk became involved with DOGE. Trump has survived two separate assassination attempts. Republicans were shot at a Congressional baseball game practice. And entire communities burned to the ground during "peaceful but fiery" protests during the George Floyd riot season. All of these deadly events have one thing in common. The left used their massive voice to either support the perpetrator[s] in these crimes and/or labeled the victim as an evil Nazi.
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Trump Announces Muslim Travel Ban 2.0, Putting 19 Third-World Shitholes and Failed States Under Visa Restrictions
The announcement is well-timed, given that we just had a third-world savage attempt to re-create Auschwitz on the streets of Boulder.
Biden judges are already writing their injunctions, just waiting for a George-Soros-funded group to file for one.President Donald Trump on Wednesday resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term, announcing that citizens of 12 countries would be banned from visiting the United States and those from seven others would face restrictions. The ban takes effect Monday at 12:01 a.m., a cushion that may avoid the chaos that unfolded at airports nationwide when a similar measure took effect with virtually no notice in 2017. Trump, who signaled plans for a new ban upon taking office in January, appears to be on firmer ground this time after the Supreme Court sided with him. Some, but not all, 12 countries also appeared on the list of banned countries in Trump's first term. The new ban includes Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. There will be heightened restrictions on visitors from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. In a video released on social media, Trump tied the new ban to Sunday's terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, saying it underscored the dangers posed by some visitors who overstay visas. The suspect in the attack is from Egypt, a country that is not on Trump's restricted list. The Department of Homeland Security says he overstayed a tourist visa. Trump said some countries had "deficient" screening and vetting or have historically refused to take back their own citizens. His findings rely extensively on an annual Homeland Security report of visa overstays of tourists, business visitors and students who arrive by air and sea, singling out countries with high percentages of remaining after their visas expired. "We don't want them," Trump said. The inclusion of Afghanistan angered some supporters who have worked to resettle its people. The ban makes exceptions for Afghans on Special Immigrant Visas, generally people who worked most closely with the U.S. government during the two-decade-long war there. Afghanistan was also one of the largest sources of resettled refugees, with about 14,000 arrivals in a 12-month period through September 2024. Trump suspended refugee resettlement his first day in office. "To include Afghanistan -- a nation whose people stood alongside American service members for 20 years -- is a moral disgrace. It spits in the face of our allies, our veterans, and every value we claim to uphold," said Shawn VanDiver, president and board chairman of #AfghanEvac. Trump wrote that Afghanistan "lacks a competent or cooperative central authority for issuing passports or civil documents and it does not have appropriate screening and vetting measures." He also cited its visa overstay rates.Below, a Somali refugee in Sweden defends robbery and murder and drug-dealing as the prerogative of asylum seekers who want to get "rich." In the second clip, her mother tells her she has to teach her children not to be drug-dealing gang members, given that they're "guests" in Sweden, but she denies this, saying that she's a Swede now and can do whatever she wants. Including, literally, committing murder.
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Biden Aides Go Nuclear on Latrine John-Pissoir, Calling Her the Most Incompetent WH Spokesman In History
Putting aside the recent unpleasantness...
As some have noted: When you pointed out that Latrine John-Pissoir was an incompetent incapable of answering basic questions without reading a largely-unrelated entry from her giant cheat-sheet briefing book, you were a racist homophobe who hates women and immigrants. But when Latrine John-Pissoir pisses off Biden staffers, and they say she's an incompetent incapable of answering basic questions without reading a largely-unrelated entry from her giant cheat-sheet briefing book, they are heroic truth-tellers correcting the record. Axios reports what everyone else saw with their own eyes five years ago... again.Um, Axios... is that the only reason she was "untouchable"? When people criticized her, they weren't attacked as "people who disagreed with Jill Biden's top aide Anthony Bernal." They were attacked as racist homophobes who hate women and immigrants. Trust the news media, people. They tell nothing but the full truth.
Former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Tuesday that she's written a book about a "broken" Biden White House and what she sees as the betrayal of the former president by the Democratic Party. Many of her former colleagues think Jean-Pierre -- the face of the White House for more than two years -- was part of the problem, according to interviews with more than two dozen former Biden administration officials. Driving the news: Jean-Pierre's announcement Wednesday led former Biden aides to tee off on her. Many quietly had fumed for years, believing she was incompetent at her job at the White House podium and more interested in promoting herself than Joe Biden.
... What they're saying: One former White House official who worked closely with Jean-Pierre told Axios that she "was one of the most ineffectual and unprepared people I've ever worked with. ... She had meltdowns after any interview that asked about a topic not sent over by producers." "She didn't know how to manage a team, didn't know how to shape or deliver a message, and often created more problems than she solved," the official said. A former Biden communications official threw more wood on the fire: "The hubris of thinking you can position yourself as an outsider when you not only have enjoyed the perks of extreme proximity to power -- which ... bestows the name recognition needed to sell books off your name -- but have actively wielded it from the biggest pulpit there is, is as breathtaking as it is desperate ... It's difficult to see how this is anything but a bizarre cash grab." Another former White House official familiar with the dynamics told Axios: "The amount of time that was spent coddling [Jean-Pierre] and appeasing her was astronomical compared to our attention on actual matters of substance." A former senior spokesperson in Biden's administration added: "It's hard to believe someone could look at the past year and genuinely think, 'The party left Joe Biden -- that's why I'm leaving the Democratic Party.' '" ... The intrigue: Despite longstanding internal frustration with Jean-Pierre's performance since she took over as press secretary in mid-2022, Biden aides largely had stayed silent because she was seen as untouchable, given her close relationship with Jill Biden's top aide Anthony Bernal.
... Zoom in: Some former Biden aides said Jean-Pierre's tenure was complicated by her work with a New York-based publicist, Gilda Squire. Jean-Pierre was the focus of several magazine profiles and appeared on "The View" in New York. At one point, she wanted to appear on the show once a week.There was another story about her trying to get hired by The View. They never even bothered to call her back, those racists!
Alex Thompson is now posting the PR flack's false denial, saying that people who lie don't get the protections of an "off the record" agreement. Um... will you be revealing the emails of Biden staffers who lied about Biden's mental fitness, or are you just taking cheap shots against an easy target?
Within the White House, there were concerns about Squire being looped in on internal emails regarding Jean-Pierre's profiles and promotional appearances. Concerns about Jean-Pierre's self-promotion were even raised with the White House counsel's office because some staffers felt torn between their administration duties and helping Jean-Pierre promote herself, according to a former White House aide familiar with the internal dynamics. Contacted by Axios in February 2024, Squire asked to go off the record and denied she was working with Jean-Pierre to navigate and boost the press secretary's public profile. As a result, Axios didn't report Squire's involvement at the time. Internal White House emails obtained later by Axios, however, show that Squire was copied on emails related to Jean-Pierre's publicity work. The messages included a September 2023 email describing plans for a Vogue magazine profile.
Becket Adams
@BecketAdams So ... when we all went "Wow KJP is terrible at her job" and the White House was all "how dare you speak in such a manner about our black queer queen" .... the White House was lying about what we all could clearly see with our own two eyes? Has this happened before??
David WeigelI saw a Democrat remark that there are few opportunities for Biden staffers to get work now, and that this is Latrine John-Pissoir's attempt at a quick grift.
@daveweigel A very odd part of the Biden legacy: Elevating black women as the first to be VP and WH press secretary, then making it known to everybody that they were disasters.
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Elon Musk Goes Nuclear on Trump, Claiming He's "In the Epstein Files"
Well, that escalated quickly. It really took a jump.
Trump foolishly suggested cutting "government subsidies" to Elon Musk to save money. Those aren't subsidies, those are contracts for Musk's companies' services. And then Musk went absolutely nuclear. This got bad, fast.Posted by: Ace at 03:22 PM | Comments (443) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Elon Musk: Trump "Betrayed" Me. He Wouldn't Have Gotten Elected Without Me.
I understand Musk's frustration. Musk put himself in a terrible business position -- pissing off his own progressive greeney customer base -- to ferret out all of the wasteful spending in government, only to see those efforts wasted. We're not seeing $2 trillion cut from the budget. We're not even seeing $200 billion, which was a number floated as well. Trump is asking for $9.4 billion in rescissions from the budget. Maybe this describes you as well -- I never know what to think in these situations. Is it really true that this is the best we can do? Are there just too many leftwing "Republicans" to ever pass meaningful budget cuts? If there are too many -- why don't we just go to war with them and turn them out of office? Why do we continue to allow Lisa Murkowski to command the entire party? On the other hand -- did Musk over-promise? Was his ultimate plan to reform entitlement spending, which Trump promised he would not do? No doubt, some things probably are "politically impossible." The problem is, the GOPe claims that everything actual conservatives want is "politically impossible," including stuff that is now proven to be very politically possible -- like closing the border without having to join with the Democrats on a Bipartisan Open Borders Amnesty bill. They lie about literally everything and claim everything we ask them to do simply cannot be done. This is a lie. They just don't want to do these things, because they're establishment liberals and always have been. So if someone says that $2 trillion in cuts is politically impossible, should I believe them? Why should I believe them, when they have lied remorselessly to me about literally everything else?
Anyway, this is a a messy public break-up and it's a shame that Trump and Musk are no longer a team.
Trump, as a businessman, seemed a little off-balance in his first term. He expected that, as the National CEO, he could announce a policy and the "business" would enact that policy. In his second term, he's savvier about what a shitshow DC is. Maybe the problem is that Musk, being a neophyte -- being in the Trump 1.0 mindset -- just doesn't accept that the CEO has to make crappy deals with his stupid RINO middle-managers. I've also heard people say that Musk is angry that Trump isn't extending the Obama-era subsidies for EVs. (And if I had to make this call -- I'd extend those subsidies for ten years. Yes, I know, it's a garbage policy. But Musk has lost tens of billions of dollars due to his crusade. I'd give the guy a break. Yes, it's a political payoff. So what? Politics is mostly payoffs, and this one is well-earned.)
Musk has really crossed a line here -- Trump does not forgive anyone who doesn't say he won an election. I think Musk nuked their relationship by claiming credit for his win. And, by the way, I think he has a point: Musk did bring in a lot of "Gray Tribe" voters, voters who usually consider themselves "above" electoral politics and the Democrat/Republican dichotomy. And Musk brought in a lot of Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires, too. But... I don't think he can say he won the election for Trump. And I know he can't say that and have any future relationship with Trump.
I understand Musk's frustration. Musk put himself in a terrible business position -- pissing off his own progressive greeney customer base -- to ferret out all of the wasteful spending in government, only to see those efforts wasted. We're not seeing $2 trillion cut from the budget. We're not even seeing $200 billion, which was a number floated as well. Trump is asking for $9.4 billion in rescissions from the budget. Maybe this describes you as well -- I never know what to think in these situations. Is it really true that this is the best we can do? Are there just too many leftwing "Republicans" to ever pass meaningful budget cuts? If there are too many -- why don't we just go to war with them and turn them out of office? Why do we continue to allow Lisa Murkowski to command the entire party? On the other hand -- did Musk over-promise? Was his ultimate plan to reform entitlement spending, which Trump promised he would not do? No doubt, some things probably are "politically impossible." The problem is, the GOPe claims that everything actual conservatives want is "politically impossible," including stuff that is now proven to be very politically possible -- like closing the border without having to join with the Democrats on a Bipartisan Open Borders Amnesty bill. They lie about literally everything and claim everything we ask them to do simply cannot be done. This is a lie. They just don't want to do these things, because they're establishment liberals and always have been. So if someone says that $2 trillion in cuts is politically impossible, should I believe them? Why should I believe them, when they have lied remorselessly to me about literally everything else?
Anyway, this is a a messy public break-up and it's a shame that Trump and Musk are no longer a team.
"Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office after Musk slammed his tax and spending mega-bill as an "abomination". The world's richest man responded by live-tweeting on his X social media platform as Trump spoke on television, saying that the Republican would not have won the 2024 election without him and slamming him for "ingratitude." In an extraordinary rant as visiting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz sat mutely beside him, 78-year-old Trump unloaded on SpaceX and Tesla boss Musk in his first comments on the issue. "I'm very disappointed, because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here... All of a sudden, he had a problem," Trump said when asked about Musk. The clash comes less than a week since Trump held a grand Oval Office farewell for Musk as he wrapped up his time leading the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). South African-born Musk, 53, hit back minutes later, saying Trump's claims he had advance sight of the bill were "false." "Whatever," he added above a video of Trump saying Musk was upset about the loss of subsidies for electric vehicles. Musk then ratcheted up the public spat even further, saying the Republican would have lost the election without his support. He was the biggest donor to Trump's campaign, to the tune of nearly $300 million. "Without me, Trump would have lost the election," Musk said on X. "Such ingratitude." Tesla shares fell sharply on Wall Street, down eight percent, after his comments, in a sign of the huge stakes for a falling out between the world's richest man and its most powerful.
Trump, as a businessman, seemed a little off-balance in his first term. He expected that, as the National CEO, he could announce a policy and the "business" would enact that policy. In his second term, he's savvier about what a shitshow DC is. Maybe the problem is that Musk, being a neophyte -- being in the Trump 1.0 mindset -- just doesn't accept that the CEO has to make crappy deals with his stupid RINO middle-managers. I've also heard people say that Musk is angry that Trump isn't extending the Obama-era subsidies for EVs. (And if I had to make this call -- I'd extend those subsidies for ten years. Yes, I know, it's a garbage policy. But Musk has lost tens of billions of dollars due to his crusade. I'd give the guy a break. Yes, it's a political payoff. So what? Politics is mostly payoffs, and this one is well-earned.)
Musk has really crossed a line here -- Trump does not forgive anyone who doesn't say he won an election. I think Musk nuked their relationship by claiming credit for his win. And, by the way, I think he has a point: Musk did bring in a lot of "Gray Tribe" voters, voters who usually consider themselves "above" electoral politics and the Democrat/Republican dichotomy. And Musk brought in a lot of Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires, too. But... I don't think he can say he won the election for Trump. And I know he can't say that and have any future relationship with Trump.
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FBI Arrests Chinese National Loyal to the Communist Chinese Party for Smuggling In an "Agroterrorism Agent" Capable of Wiping Out Billions of Dollars Worth of Foodcrops
This is a serious, serious escalation.
FBI Director Kash PatelI don't know if Trump blames China for this. It might be a case of another of these Frankenvirus maniacs just deciding to play dice with human existence. Trump said he had a "very good call" with Chinese tyrant Xi over trade terms.
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New... I can confirm that the FBI arrested a Chinese national within the United States who allegedly smuggled a dangerous biological pathogen into the country. The individual, Yunqing Jian, is alleged to have smuggled a dangerous fungus called "Fusarium graminearum," which is an agroterrorism agent, into the U.S. to research at the University of Michigan, where she works. This fungus can cause a disease called "head blight," a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, causing significant health issues in both humans and livestock. It is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. Evidence also indicates Jian had expressed loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party and had received funding from the Chinese government for similar work on this pathogen in China. Jian's boyfriend, Zunyong Liu -- also charged in the complaint -- works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen. Liu is alleged to have first lied, then admitted, to also smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America--through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport--so that he too could conduct research the University of Michigan. Both individuals have been charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud. This case is a sobering reminder that the CCP is working around the clock to deploy operatives and researchers to infiltrate American institutions and target our food supply, which would have grave consequences... putting American lives and our economy at serious risk. Your FBI will continue working tirelessly to be on guard against it. Our @FBIDetroit team did excellent work in this case partnering with @CBP. Justice will be done.
President Trump on Thursday announced he held a lengthy and productive call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, focused "almost entirely on TRADE." Trump said both sides will soon send top officials to a follow-up meeting, location TBD. Key Details: Trump described the call with Xi as "a very good phone call...discussing some of the intricacies of our recently made, and agreed to, Trade Deal," adding the conversation "resulted in a very positive conclusion for both Countries." He named key U.S. representatives for the upcoming trade discussions: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Trump confirmed the discussion excluded any talk of Russia, Ukraine, or Iran, stating, "The conversation was focused almost entirely on TRADE."Update: Last week, the State Department announced that it will begin revoking Chinese "student" visas.
One day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the U.S. would scale back visas to Chinese students, a department spokesperson emphasized that the Trump administration would fight back against China's "exploitation" of American research and intellectual property. Spokesperson for the Department of State Tammy Bruce delivered her warning against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during a press briefing on Thursday. [RELATED: Education Department launches investigation into UPenn over foreign donations] "The United States, I further can say here, will not tolerate the CCP's exploitation of U.S. universities or theft of U.S. research, intellectual property, or technologies to grow its military power, conduct intelligence collection, or repress voices of opposition," Bruce said. In her opening remarks, Bruce noted that initiatives like pulling visas from CCP-linked students are part of the department's updated "America First" reorganizing. "Every visa adjudication is a national security decision - every single one of them," Bruce continued. The spokesperson noted China's extensive role in "exploiting" American intellectual property and research, adding that the State Department's latest strategy is "one way that [the department] can certainly try to mitigate that issue." In a brief press release on Wednesday, Secretary Rubio said that revoking student visas would place "America First, not China." "I think everyone who's here on a visa has to recognize ... that America takes their visa seriously, that vetting is not a one-time process - it's continuing," Bruce said.
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Supreme Court Stuns: Non-Minorities Actually Have Some Rights In America
Good news: the Supreme Court voted unanimously that people in the majority actually have constitutional rights
Bad news: This was actually in question.In a major unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that majority group individuals--such as heterosexuals--are fully protected under federal anti-discrimination laws, siding with an Ohio woman who alleged she was demoted and denied a promotion due to her sexual identity. Key Details: The 9-0 ruling supports Marlean Ames, a heterosexual woman who claimed she was discriminated against in the workplace. Justices ruled that Title VII protects majority groups equally from reverse discrimination. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, strengthening the Court's stance. Diving Deeper In a decision that could shape future workplace discrimination lawsuits, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously in favor of an Ohio woman who claimed she faced unlawful discrimination due to her identity as a heterosexual. The case, Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, centered on Marlean Ames, a former executive secretary and program administrator who worked at the state agency for over a decade. Ames alleged that, despite receiving positive performance reviews--including from a gay supervisor--she was denied a promotion in 2019 and later demoted, with both roles going to gay employees. Ames filed suit, claiming her demotion and the denied promotion constituted illegal discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals initially dismissed her claim, saying she failed to show a pattern of discrimination or "background circumstances," the nation's highest court disagreed. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered the opinion of the Court, affirming that the protections under Title VII apply to all individuals, not just those in historically disadvantaged groups. The Court made clear that "reverse discrimination"--discrimination against members of majority groups--is just as unlawful as any other kind. Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, issued a concurring opinion, reinforcing the constitutional principle of equal treatment under the law.During Pride Month, Supreme Court? DURING PRIDE MONTH?!?!!
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