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Les Otages
Jean-Paul Laurens

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The Morning Report — 6/ 27 /25

Good morning kids. As CBD and I discussed/lamented on the latest episode of the podcast ((here and in the sidebar as well as the usual outlets listed at the bottom of this post) New York the most Jewish city on the planet outside the state of Israel has chosen a bust out rabid Muslim Socialist to be the Democrat nominee for mayor. Of course, Jewish in this case is defined by lineage and not by attitude, mindset and/or lifestyle. Even though this was only the primary which I suppose makes people even more lazy and apathetic than usual, Daniel Greenfield notes

I said the results either reflected low turnout or tinkering. Probably both.

Well the low turnout has been confirmed. Less than 30% of Democrats voted in the party’s mayoral primary. Of those 43% supposedly voted for Mamdani. (Ranked choice voting also makes this whole thing more complicated, but I’m keeping it simple.)

As I note in my upcoming article, “56% of registered voters in the city are Democrats so some 7.2% of city residents voted for him. New York City has a population of 8.2 million. Of those 432,305 or 5% voted for Mamdani.”
You can go with the 7% figure which represents voters, but either way this is far from the massive sweep of the city that the media is hyping.

Most New Yorkers didn’t vote for Mamdani. Even most Democrats stayed home.

So assuming there was tinkering with the results, and being New York you can bet Rachel Levine's balls to the doors of Evin Prison that there was tinkering, What does this say about the leadership of the local and for sure national Democrat Party if this is who they want as the candidate. If the across the board visceral revulsion at the wave of anti-Semitism in NYC and the nation in the wake of the 10/7 pogrom in Israel as well as the general revulsion over the illegal immigration crisis and other Leftist criminality, dissolution and perversion being forced down everyone's throats, or at the least the overt promoting of it all by leading politicians is supposedly frightening Democrat leadership and pundits, then how in the hell does one account for this Mamdani cancer? Sure, Cuomo and Adams might have had all sorts of baggage but, they still would've and did have that all important "D" designator after their names Adams now running indy. I don't think even a Curtis Sliwa or whoever could've overcome that in the general.

So, if the Democrats are all supposedly running scared from Mamdani, then what of this miserable degenerate shitstain Mark Pocan:

To paraphrase the late Freedom Center founder David Horowitz: scratch a tolerant, inclusive, compassionate “liberal” and just underneath the surface you’ll find a raging, totalitarian racist and antisemite. Wisconsin Democrat Congressman Marc Pocan is the latest example of this ugly truth. On Wednesday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller tweeted in regard to New York City Democrats embracing Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani, a Ugandan immigrant, as the city’s mayoral candidate: “NYC is the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration.” In response to Miller’s suggestion that America needs to quit importing people who are actively seeking to undermine our nation and civilization, Rep. Pocan, 60, tweeted this intemperate message: “Racist fuck. Go back to 1930’s Germany.”

Pocan represents the communist shithole of Madison WI, sadly only an hour or so upwind of where I am. God bless Stephen Miller but when he tweeted about "the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration.” He was about 80-90 years too late. Like the taqqiya sunrisers including Mamdani and Bro-Fo Omar who come here to undermine us from within, the Soviets and now the Chi-Coms have been and are doing the same thing for decades. When two to three generations of Americans are taught to hate their birthright, their parents, their wonderful nation, its heritage and ultimately themselves, that is how police, ICE agents and Jewish students get molotov cocktails hurled at them. And ultimately how normal people are arrested for merely praying in front of Abortion abbatoirs, speaking their minds at school board meetings, or showing up in DC to protest a stolen election only to be entrapped in a manufactured sting operation staged by Pelosi and the FBI.

And speaking of corrupt, amoral evil tyranny parading around in the moldering skin-suit of Lady Liberty and demanding respect:

Per a report at Fox News, township officials in the unincorporated community of Cranbury, NJ are in the process of seizing a historic family farm that has been under the family’s ownership for 175 years—that means since 1850—because they want to use it for a welfare housing project.

Benji Farraro reports that in April, Andy and Christopher Henry, the two brothers who currently own the farm, received a letter that informed them that Cranbury would be seizing all 21 acres, but government officials have now decided that they’ll make do with just half of the farm, and benevolently leave the house for the Henry family—now the Henry family gets to be neighbors with the third world foreigners who will no doubt be taking up residence in the “affordable housing” units built on Henry land! (Kind of reminds of when Abraham Lincoln spitefully directed the federal government to seize land that belonged to Mary Custis Lee as retribution for her husband’s allegiance to country over the Union, citing a “tax” dispute.)

The only thing I found surprising was that one of the owners of the farm was “shocked” that the government would operate in such an evil way:

I guess they never heard of the KELO decision either! (Burn in hell, John Paul Stevens)

So while the Democrats are falling all over themselves to defend and even directly organize LA gangbangers to attack ICE and police to prevent the arrest and deportation of illegal aliens, What do you suppose the reaction would be if the Henry brothers and their friends and neighbors were to attack US marshals or other law enforcement officers with deadly force to prevent the seizure of their land. To ask that question is to answer it.

And on the other side of the world:

On Christmas Day in 1989, the people of Romania held a long-awaited ceremony that was more joyous than any Nativity had been in decades. They held a spontaneous trial of President Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, found them guilty of capital crimes against the Romanian people, and sentenced them to death. There was no shortage of volunteers for the firing squad, and those lucky enough to be chosen didn’t wait for the order to fire: they riddled the Ceaușescu’s bodies with more than one hundred bullets.

The story of how the dictatorial couple met their end has important lessons for those wondering about the fate of today’s Iranian Islamic Revolutionary government. What caused the Ceaușescu regime to collapse and how did the people overcome the power of the dictatorship?

Thankfully, yet despite Donald Trump once again being in charge, I was kind of hoping that the Democrat/globalist/Deep State cabal would be totally vanquished, preferably not via the Ceaucescu route – though it is plain to see, despite the Claude Rains reaction by those poor New Jersey farmers, that those in power have no compunction about going that route to preserve protect and defend their hold on power over us to make it as absolute and permanent as possible.

Capping it all off is this howler from as repulsive and despicable a purple-helmeted fire alarm puller as you'll find.

The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the n-word - directly or indirectly - every day," Bowman yelled at a white Republican on the panel.

For decades now, Black culture – so-called – has made that word as commonly spoken among blacks as "gesundheit" among the general populace. Not only is it commonly spoken but among blacks it's supposedly an honorific. Woe-betide comedian Michael Richards who you may recall committed career suicide by daring to rattle off the word like machine-gun fire. Of course his career was destroyed by either intentionally or perhaps accidentally pointing out the hypocrisy of using the word, inartfully to be sure to make a point but worse to commit the most heinous crime against humanity of using the word while being white.

Of course Stephen Miller is at no risk of heart disease, obesity, cancer or diabetes for being told to go back to Nazi Germany to be gassed or shot into a mass grave. And Jews who commit the heinous crime of defending Israel or even being seen in public are at no risk of being beaten, raped, stabbed or immolated to death on the streets or campuses of New York, eh Jamal?!

I'd ululate and pass out candy if Bowman et al were Ciao-Ciao Ceaucescue'd away for good.

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
• Just because the judiciary chooses to violate the Constitution does not mean the other branches are required to follow suit.
  If Trump Doesn’t Reject Judicial Supremacism, His Presidency Is Finished
  
• This is who the Democrats are.
  Dem Congressman Tells Jewish Stephen Miller to Go Back to ’30s Germany
  
• What radicalized me? Stories like this.
  NJ smirks and cites ‘eminent domain’ to seize a 175-year-old farm so it can build welfare housing

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Daily Tech News 27 June 2025

Top Story

• AI makes people dumber. (MSN)
  
  This is a finding that has been replicated in a series of studies across education and professional use:

  But in a series of experiments involving more than 4,500 participants at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, people who used LLMs to research everyday topics demonstrated weaker understanding of those topics afterward and produced less original insights than people who looked up the same topics using Google.

  Of course Google itself and other search engines have become less useful in recent years for a whole range of reasons, most recently and notably the inundation of the internet with AI slop.

  "It is like the Google Effect on steroids," she says, in a nod to earlier research suggesting people tend to remember less when information is easy to look up. With LLMs, she says, "We're shifting even further away from active learning."

  It's like giving kids calculators to learn arithmetic. If you do that, you get the right answer, but you never learn arithmetic.
  
  And then when you inevitably get the wrong answer because you hit a wrong button, you have no idea that it is wrong.

  Oppenheimer says the findings suggest that simply believing information came from an LLM makes people learn less. "It is like they think the system is smarter than them, so they stop trying," he says. "That's a motivational issue, not just a cognitive one."

  This is hardly a new problem, of course:

  On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That ONT

Howdy folks! So, what a week, huh?

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Dogs Versus Stairs Cafe

Wildlife photographer Alan McFadyen took over 720,000 shots over the course of 6 years to capture this perfect photo of a Kingfisher diving into the water.

Via @IndiaTales7.

Kitten won't let you touch his teddy bear.

A man and his donkey friend.

Cute little dog waits patiently for his dad to notice him.

Baby elephant plays with a basketball. No, he doesn't dunk. Darn.

People with arachnophobia don't think enough about how weird and dangerous bees are.

Little Farmer Fred's caravan of critters just gets bigger and bigger.

Dog brings home his baby racoon friend.

They bought one puppy but ended up with two.

Dog enjoys his pool.

Anteaters travel in stacks.

Tricksy old desk with secret compartments and drawers that open different compartments depending on how you open them.

Ice puppy says hi.

I guess this is technically a skill.

Swimming with the sharks. Why?

Big chungus.

Big pipe. Scroll up to see it being transported. TBH this looks fake to me but the basic object is real. I just wonder why they're transporting it in one piece. Here's another video of part of a distillation column being transported.

Cat bully!

Gentle dog catches a bird caught inside the house and sets it free outside.

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Update: CNN's Big "Scoop" Came from... Iranian Sources Passing Iranian State Propaganda

Outstanding work, CNN.

Make sure you all hand out awards to each other.

Adam Kredo of the Free Beacon:

The top-secret Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that claimed Iran's nuclear sites suffered only moderate damage likely relied on faulty information from deceitful Iranian sources, according to several former U.S. intelligence officers, one of whom described the document as so unreliable "you can wipe your ass with it."

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The U.S. intelligence community deemed that initial assessment "low-confidence," a fact CNN omitted from its original piece, and based it solely on satellite imagery and intercepted communications--known as signals intelligence, or SIGINT--from Iranian officials. Shortly after the assessment leaked, Axios reported that communications intercepted by Israel "suggest Iranian military officials have been giving false situation reports to the country's political leadership--downplaying the extent of the damage." Such communications likely made their way into the DIA report, according to three former U.S. intelligence operatives, a current U.S. official, and other veteran national security insiders who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon both on and off the record. Some of them referred to the DIA as the "discount intelligence agency."

LOL.

"It's basically messaging by the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps], messaging by Tehran," said Michael Pregent, a former intelligence officer with U.S. Central Command who operated in the Middle East for nearly 30 years. "DIA is taking a SIGINT report from the National Security Agency ... and putting together an assessment to leak. I know it's messaging, the Iranians know it's messaging, and for some reason, NSA believes it's actual f--ing intelligence."

A current U.S. official familiar with the ongoing damage assessment process said that the DIA's findings--as well as "the partisan hit job published by CNN"--have been "completely debunked" over the past 24 hours, including by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

"It has now been established by the IAEA that Iran's nuclear program suffered 'enormous damage' and the 'centrifuges ... are completely destroyed,'" the official told the Free Beacon. "The military operation carried out by the United States was a huge success and we are grateful to our troops who valiantly carried out the president's mission."

In addition to the IAEA, Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe announced that the CIA learned from "an historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years."

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The former intelligence officer said that the DIA's categorization of its own assessment renders it effectively useless.

"The fact that the DIA's assessment was deemed 'low-confidence' means that you can wipe your ass with it," the source added. "You probably get more information from a Free Beacon article."

Wait, what? This is appearing in the Free Beacon.

A third former U.S. official who worked primarily on the Iran portfolio agreed that the initial DIA report included "Iranians repeating propaganda to each other, as they have done throughout the war and preceding preparations."

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Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser, noted that DIA analysts' reliance on intercepted communications has been a longstanding concern.

"There's a long pattern within the DIA in which analysts listen so much to their targets that they actually start to rationalize, if not believe them," said Rubin, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. "This is why so many DIA Middle East analysts become outspoken conspiracy theorists or advocates for normalizing ties with groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. Too much Iran leads to becoming analytically--if not morally--unhinged."

The leak itself, Rubin said, likely came from a DIA agent who "wanted to write the first draft of history because he or she knew the assessment would likely be challenged."

This thread examines the likely damage to all five parts of Iran's nuke/ICBM research.

Dmitri Alperovitch
@DAlperovitch

First part - the weaponization research suffered very heavy blows. Hard to estimate how much because it was always covert and unaccounted for but numerous key scientists have been killed and Parchin, where much of this work had been done, was hit multiple times.

Thus, even if Iran had all the ingredients for a bomb today, it would likely take it some months before it could be assembled and put on a missile.

Second part - enrichment facilities at Fordow and Natanz were hit by US Massive Ordinance Penetrators (and Israeli strikes at Natanz before that).

While the facility at Fordow may or may not be recoverable, the sensitive centrifuges inside almost certainly suffered heavy damage.

Thus, it is unlikely that Iran can use these facilities to enrich in the coming months.

BUT Iran announced right before the war that it had built a new secret enrichment facility that it refused to disclose.

Thus, if Iran already has centrifuges deployed at this new facility or can deploy new ones there quickly, it can once again start enriching *existing* uranium gas fairly quickly.

Third part - centrifuge manufacturing facilities. The Isfahan facility was destroyed but the largest one at Natanz is buried so deep in the mountain that even MOPs can't destroy it. It was not hit in this war.

It's hard to say how much of the supply chain for this Natanz centrifuge manufacturing facility was targeted but it's likely that Iran can still produce centrifuges or can resume that production relatively quickly at Natanz.

Fourth part - auxiliary facilities for conversion of uranium. Those all have been destroyed.

So IF Iran has to start enrichment from scratch using their new secret facility, it will still likely take a year or more to rebuild those plants and enrich uranium up to 90%.

Fifth part - IAEA said that before the war, Iran had accumulated the stockpile of 408kg of 60% enriched uranium that was likely stored in the tunnels at Isfahan.

The reason this is key is that this material can be enriched within a few weeks to 90% - enough for ~9 bombs.

Israelis apparently believe this material was not moved and is buried at Isfahan (tunnel entrances had been hit) and that it may or may not be recoverable.

Either Trump or Hegseth let it slip that they had been told by Mossad agents on the ground at these facilities that they had been rekt.

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Pete Hegseth Blasts CNN's RussiaGate Disinformation Whore Natasha Bertrand for Her False Reporting About the Iran Strike, Then CNN Lies to Cover Up Betrand's Lies

Natasha Bertrand, along with "Fusion Ken" Dilanian, were the chief disinformation peddlers for Christopher Steele and FusionGPS's completely-fake Russian hoax "dossier."

Bertrand was also one of the earliest and most vigorous proponents of the Biden "51 Intelligence officials" lie falsely claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was a RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION OPERATION.

She has never apologized for her role in constantly pushing out "stories" about complete fabrications. Always from the same crew of corrupt Democrat hacks, always with the intention of interfering in elections by injecting disinformation into the national dialogue.

She once again had a fanciful "scoop" provided to her by a partisan burrowed-in political operator: The Iran strikes, she claimed, did not destroy Fodrow or Isfahan. They only did some superficial damage.

She said she was quoting from a Pentagon report.

But she wasn't quoting the whole report. She selectively quoted negative claims from it while hiding the fact that the report said it had only a "low confidence" in its findings because it would take WEEKS to conduct a proper bomb damage assessment. She also failed to disclose the report was marked as "preliminary" and was not done in coordination with our intelligence agencies. Or Israel's, for that matter.

In an unsurprising move, CNN -- which a jury found is literally fake news -- is "stand[ing] 100% behind" the so-called "journalism" of one its biggest propagandists: Natasha Bertrand.

On Wednesday afternoon, the left-wing outlet issued a statement in defense of Bertrand amid criticisms the media hoaxer is facing over a recent report she co-authored about the U.S.-led strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. Published on Tuesday, this "exclusive" contained anonymous claims about a preliminary defense intelligence assessment that these unnamed sources said shows the "strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities ... did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back by months."

President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet have since come out refuting the accuracy of Bertrand and Co.'s article. This includes statements by CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the latter of whom wrote on X, "New intelligence confirms what @POTUS has stated numerous times: Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed. If the Iranians chose to rebuild, they would have to rebuild all three facilities ... entirely, which would likely take years to do."

Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway has additionally reported that "multiple knowledgeable sources" have said "the intel assessment being bandied about specifically notes it was done the day after the strike, needs weeks' more analysis, was not done in conjunction with other intel agencies, and was given a low confidence rating."

But none of that has stopped CNN from rushing to Bertrand's side. In its statement, the propaganda outlet said it "stand[s] 100% behind Natasha Bertrand's journalism and specifically her and her colleagues' reporting of the early intelligence assessment of the U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities."

"CNN's reporting made clear that this was an initial finding that could change with additional intelligence," the statement reads. "We have extensively covered President Trump's own deep skepticism about it. However, we do not believe it is reasonable to criticize CNN reporters for accurately reporting the existence of the assessment and accurately characterizing its findings, which are in the public interest."

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

It's their brand. Always has been.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And that didn't go very well at all.

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

To no avail, of course.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ed Morrissey comments:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Simone Gold
@drsimonegold

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

This is not speculation--it's data.

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

From David Strom:

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

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

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

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

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

The study is here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Work husband," huh?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Perjury.

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

That's another lie.

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

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

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

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

CNN hardest hit.

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

Key Details:

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

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

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

Diving Deeper:

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

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

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

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

...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

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

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

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

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

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

Trump knocks down barriers around personal data, raising alarm

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

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

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

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

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

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

-- Thomas Paine

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

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Stamford Harbor
Louis Bouché

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The Morning Report — 6/ 26 /25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a great day!

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

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Daily Tech News 26 June 2025

Top Story

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

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

  There's a lot of that going around.

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

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

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

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

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Wends-Yay Cafe

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

Horse and dog are besties.

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

Giant dogs need cuddles too.

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

The instinct runs deep.

Cat introduces her kitten to the new baby.

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

Out of control.

The instinct to bathe is irresistible.

Rescuing a seal that got stuck in a crevasse.

Thoughtless people rescue a dangerous ice-bat.

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Quick Hits

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

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

"They should go to JAIL," Leavitt said

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lawrence H. Summers
@LHSummers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Palestinian-American Chuck Schumer is endorsing Mamdani:

Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer

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

Lou Perez
@TheLouPerez

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

Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_

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

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

This is fantastic.

Dustin Grage
@GrageDustin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Video at the link.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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