October 24, 2025
Trump, along with some donors, is funding a free-to-the-taxpayer renovation to the White House. Specifically, he's building a long-planned but never built ballroom.
Here's the terrorist-aligned AP:Hm, why would Trump, who has been the target of multiple assassination attempts, both of which were permitted by Secret Service incompetence bordering on accomplicehood, want to stop doing outside events and instead keep inside the safety of walls? And gee, why would the left object to that, and demand that Donald Trump remain out in the wide-open where snipers can shoot him?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Construction started this week on the $250 million ballroom that President Donald Trump is adding to the White House as construction crews began tearing down the facade of the East Wing, where the new space is being built. The 90,000-square-foot ballroom will dwarf the main White House itself, at nearly double the size, and Trump says it will accommodate 999 people. Trump said on social media that the ballroom won't cost taxpayers a dime because it is being privately funded by "many generous Patriots, Great American Companies, and, yours truly." Here are some things to know about the newest White House construction project: Why is Trump building a ballroom? Trump says the White House needs a large entertaining space and has complained that the East Room, the current largest space in the White House, is too small, holding about 200 people. He has frowned on the past practice of presidents hosting state dinners and other large events in tents on the South Lawn.
Publius says the White House is trolling the left by giving the renovation its own website. Publius says to scroll down to "Major Events Timeline."
Who is paying the $250 million construction tab? Trump says the project will be paid for with private donations and that no public money will be spent on the ballroom. The White House promised to release information on which individuals and corporations have pledged or donated money and invited some of the donors to an East Room dinner last week, but has not released a comprehensive list and breakdown of funds.
Some $22 million for the project came from YouTube, a Google subsidiary, as part of a recent settlement for a 2021 lawsuit Trump brought against the company. The White House also has not said how much of his own money Trump is contributing.
The timeline is freakin gold. 1998The absolute clownfuckery of one of Bill Kristol's more garish grifters from the Bulwark:
Bill Clinton Scandal 2012
Muslim Brotherhood Visit 2023
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This daffy, ditzy conspiracy theorist who cheats on tests and uses insider information to trade defense stocks while serving on the House Armed Services Committee -- and who may be elected NJ governor in two weeks -- accused Republican Rep. Loudermilk of being a Secret Mastermind behind The Great Unruliness of 6 January 2021, because he led a couple of tours in the Capitol Building before January 6th.
It was a dry run for the greatest threat this Republic has faced since... like two days before, if I'm being honest.Mikie Sherrill, the Democrat nominee for New Jersey governor who is battling allegations over a military academy cheating scandal, also faced a congressional ethics complaint in 2021 for tarring a fellow lawmaker with allegations later disproven by Capitol Police. The ethics complaint was submitted against Sherrill and a number of her Democratic colleagues after they referred for investigation Republican members of Congress to the U.S. Capitol Police and both the House and Senate Sergeants at Arms for giving private tours on Jan. 5, 2021. The members billed the tours suspicious because they were in advance of the Jan. 6 riot. One of the Republican members accused was Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., whose office conducted a tour of House office buildings the day before Jan. 6. Sherrill's letter sparked a probe by the Democrat-led Jan. 6 Committee into whether Loudermilk was giving a reconnaissance tour to Jan. 6 rioters.He told them exactly where Nancy Pelosi kept her prized coat-rack! He was in on the plot from the start!
Meanwhile, in Virginia, a Special Prosecutor was just appointed to investigate child-murder-fantasist Jay Jones. The investigation isn't about him calling for the murder of state representatives, the children of state representatives, and police. No, the investigation is about the curious case of Jay Jones speeding, doing 116 mph in fact, on a road with a posted speed limit of 70. In Virginia, speeding by more than 40mph over the limit gets you an automatic "recklessness" upgrade to your fine, which always results in loss of license and even jail time. But not for Jay Jones! Oh dear, not for a Democrat politician! Jay Jones got zero jail time and also zero days of a license suspension. Instead, he got 1000 hours of community service. Now, that may sound like a lot of community service -- that's more than 40 full 24-hour days, according to my quick use of a desk calculator. But Jay Jones supposedly did all 1000 hours of community service in just one year, while working full-time at his law firm and also working for his own political action committee. Even if he spent 24 hours almost every weekend -- two 12 hour shifts in a row, Saturday then Sunday -- doing "community service," he would only just complete these hours in a year. So how did he do it? Simple -- they let him claim that the hours he spent working on his own self-serving political action committee counted as "community service." And so a special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate the judge who gave him such a light non-sentence and whichever court officer approved this obviously-sham "community service." John Sexton points out that people who drive more than 40 miles per hour over the speed limit usually have their licenses suspended or revoked, and often do jail time:
However, the U.S. Capitol Police reviewed security footage from that day and concluded neither Loudermilk, nor his staff, nor his guests were acting suspicious at all and that the lawmaker had simply given a routine tour to constituents. "Rep. Sherrill made false accusations, without evidence of any wrongdoing, with apparently no thought of the threats to the safety of myself, my family, and others. The truth prevailed, which it always does, and the real damage at the end of the day was to her own credibility," Loudermilk told Just the News in a statement Thursday.
If you were caught driving 46 miles per hour over the speed limit in Virginia, would you expect to serve jail time or at least have your license suspended or driving privileges restricted? Those are the kinds of consequences many Virginia drivers have had to face but Jay Jones did not. 7News reviewed more than a dozen reckless driving cases in New Kent County, Virginia, where Jones was convicted of reckless driving in 2022, for driving 116 miles an hour. SEE ALSO | Virginia leaders condemn Democrat AG candidate's violent text messages sent in 2022 Court records show, one man was found guilty of driving 115 mph in a 70 in New Kent County. He got 10 days in jail, his license was suspended for six months, he was fined $2,000, and once he got his license back, he could only drive to and from work. On the same day Jones received his sentence, a Woodbridge man was sentenced to 30 days in jail for driving 115 mph in a 70-mph zone. The Prince William County man's sentence was suspended as long as he didn't speed again. The Woodbridge man's license was suspended for six months, then restricted, and he was fined $1,500. Another man was found guilty of reckless driving for driving 104 mph in a 70-mph zone in New Kent County. That earned him 20 days in jail, a six-month license suspension, and a $1,250 fine. Jones, a former Virginia lawmaker, got no jail time for driving 116 mph in a 70 on I-64. He paid a $1,500 fine, his driving privileges were not impacted and he got 1,000 hours of community service. The Richmond Times Dispatch reported that Jones completed those 1,000 hours -- equal to 25 weeks of full-time work -- in just one year.Well, easy! They credited him working at his actual jobs as doing "community service." That's the Special Justice that First-Tier connected people get. From National Review:
The certificates signed by representatives of the NAACP and MOM PAC attest that Jones completed more than 500 hours of community service for each organization within the 2023 calendar year. In order to complete that number of hours within one year, Jones would have had to dedicate ten hours of every week to MOM PAC and ten hours to the NAACP, all while working at the law firm Hogan Lovells full time. Social media posts show Jones also traveled the state campaigning for fellow Democrats throughout that year.Current AG, and Jones' opponent, Jason Miyares says that Jones must drop out as he is seeking the office that will decide whether or not he should go to prison or not. As clear a conflict of interest as one could imagine.
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I didn't cover this yesterday because I thought it was a Pete Rose situation. IIRC, Rose was accused of betting on baseball, but not the games he played in. So this was a violation of the rule but not evidence he was throwing games for money.
But apparently, NBA players did throw games for money, and told their mafia partners which games they'd be throwing. Specifically, some players left the games early or claimed an injury to not play, and tipped off the mafia that they'd be doing so, thus either throwing the game or cutting down on points scored (which is a big area of sports betting). So, belatedly, I'll mention the story now. With my apologies -- I thought it was some bullshit about players betting on online poker against league rules or something.LeBron James is tangentially involved (but not implicated -- not yet, anyway). Knowing the extent of players' injuries -- if they can play, if they can't play, or if they can play but with a diminished capacity -- is important information when you're betting. Teams generally keep this stuff as secret as possible and only disclose what they absolutely have to, by league rules. Knowing in advance if a big play-maker will or won't play, or can play but will be impaired, is valuable information in betting. One NBA player passed information about LeBron James' injuries to his mafia partners.
FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday morning announced a sweeping federal investigation alleging at least 31 defendants -- including an NBA player and an NBA coach -- were involved in illegal gambling schemes. "You hear a lot about our work of defending the homeland and crushing violent crime. Well, this work is also representative of a colossal portion of the FBI's mandate to keep America safe and to keep our entertainment industry fair and secure," Patel said at a press conference in Washington, D.C., announcing the probe. He and other federal prosecutors said the probe is, in fact, two cases: one related to the NBA and the other to illegal, rigged poker games. Patel and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Joseph Nocella, Jr., said the overall probe was "years-long," across 11 states and involved tens of millions of dollars. "Your winning streak has ended," Nocella said. He and Patel also confirmed reports from earlier in the morning that Miami Heat player Terry Rozier and Portland Trailblazer coach Chauncey Billups were arrested earlier in the day in connection with the probe. Prosecutors also said Mafia crime families were involved in the rigged poker games, which included X-ray machines to see face-down cards. They said members helped collect debts for a cut of the winnings. Regarding the NBA games, he alleged Rozier was involved in a scene in which players didn't play or left games early, in an attempt to influence scores and betting.
Prop bets -- "proposition bets" -- are bets made about a proposition other than who will win or lose. Like, "Will LeBron James score at least 30 points in tonight's game?" Normies mostly bet on the outcomes of games. More serious gamblers put a lot of money on these proposition bets.
Details of LeBron James' injury status were sold by his pal and former Los Angeles Lakers coach Damon Jones as part of a massive prop betting scheme, according to court docs and law enforcement sources.
$2,500? Shaq was asked about this and made the obvious point: "You're making nine million a year -- how much more do you need?" And committing a serious crime that can get you banned from a lifetime of lucrative work for twenty-five hundred bucks? Risk-reward, fellas. Risk-reward. I can't really think of any political angles here. The media is talking up the perils of allowing sports betting out of Las Vegas and into everyone's laptops and phones. As a billion dollar business turns into a trillion dollar business, the opportunities for graft skyrocket. I guess that's a decent take, though I don't know if the answer should be betting prohibition. I don't like seeing sports betting commercials every other minute and I guess I think it's pretty sad that this vice is now so popular, but I'm not sure I really care enough to care. I'm certainly happy to see another woke sports league take another fat shiner to the eyes. How are you doing? I don't know if you've checked the calendar, but it's all Friday up in this piece.
Jones, an ex Cleveland Cavs player and "unofficial assistant coach" for the Lakers during the 2022-2023 season, sent a message to one of the betting ring members on Feb. 9, 2023 urging him to place a large bet on the Lakers' opponent the Milwaukee Bucks, because James would be out with an injury that night, the sources told The Post.
"Get a big bet on Milwaukee tonight before the information is out!," Jones texted, according to the indictment. The player, whom sources identified as James, did not play after reporting a lower body injury, and the Lakers lost.
Jones is a longtime friend of James who played with him on the Cavs earlier in James' career. Jones also separately received $2,500 for hawking a supposed injury tip -- which turned out to be bogus -- about another Lakers star player before a Jan. 15, 2024 game against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Tens of thousands of Albertans are expected to descend upon the Alberta Legislature this Saturday for the “I Am Alberta” rally, organized by the Alberta Prosperity Project, which is also coordinating bus transport across the province.This is a topic I keep returning to because I want to do my little part to help move the needle. Although I have stated my support for statehood for Alberta and Saskatchewan, the important thing is that the conservative prairie provinces break free from Ottawa’s suppression, irrespective of statehood, and that they know they have the support of the United States. A conservative, new nation north of the 49th parallel, with a petroleum and ranching based economy, would be a welcome neighbor. In an August piece titled “Canada Has Recognized the Nation of Palestine, Trump Should Recognize the Independence of Alberta & Quebec” I wrote that the U.S. should offer ”whatever US security and aid is necessary for those provinces to liberate themselves from the Canadian federation, if requested.” The Trump administration is apparently ready to do just that. Glenn Beck reports that, ”My understanding from the meetings that have occurred is that the Trump admin officials have indicated that the US would recognize a vote by the people of Alberta to become independent.”
The Trump admin is OPEN to recoginizing Alberta as an independent nation if it votes to secede from Canada in 2026, the lawyer leading the Alberta separatist referendum @ikwilson tells me:
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) October 2, 2025
"My understanding from the meetings that have occured is that the Trump admin officials… pic.twitter.com/3P4opCnbfS
Whatever Canada might have once been in the 20th century, that country is gone. The population of the Toronto metro area is now less than 50% Canadian-born, and Vancouver is little different. There is no expectation that immigrants assimilate or become culturally Canadian, because Canada’s own political leadership rejects the legitimacy of the country. As I have written before, “Canada’s strange political experiment is showing signs of collapse. The ruling class in Ottawa derides the very existence of their country — obsessed with ‘stolen land’ narratives and hostile to their own national culture. Their last remaining shred of civic unity is anti-Americanism.”
The prairie provinces have nominal political influence in the national government and they’re not anti-American. They’re treated like colonies or territories at best, and they deserve independence. I am glad to hear that recognition from the Trump administration is ready and waiting as soon as Alberta declares itself independent.
Alberta has every hallmark of an exploited colony.
— Rise Of Alberta (@RiseOfAlberta) October 21, 2025
Our wealth flows to a distant capital that bleeds us dry, offers nothing in return, and holds us back from achieving our true potential.
Alberta builds. Ottawa takes.
Independence is how Alberta moves forward. pic.twitter.com/2Awv9vbWsT

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Deserted Bridge with Figure
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That famous curmudgeon H.L. Mencken said it well: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”While even I as a not altogether disinterested NYC expat nod regretably in agreement, what happens in NYC, or California and many other blue states and cities rarely stays isolated and tends to metastasize to other relatively healthy areas of the American body politic and republic, such as it is.
Texas Democrat Jolanda Jones Says She’s Going To ‘Wipe Out’ Every Republican And Slash Their Necks . . . Democrats are losing black supporters because they need to fight harder, which included slashing her political opponent’s neck and wiping out Republicans. Her rhetoric followed two assassination attempts against President Donald Trump and the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Media Outlet Affiliated With Radical Dearborn Preacher Calls on Muslims to Celebrate and Repeat Charlie Kirk's Assassination . . . Ahmad Musa Jabril, who served six and a half years in prison for conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, and possession of firearms and ammunition, is a popular figure among ISIS terroristsWell, terrorism is as terrorism does. And Mamdani aside, remember the Maine! That is the state of Maine that in theory should be light years from NYC culturally and politically. And yet as CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast linked here and in the sidebar, as well as available on all the popular outlets, We have this Graham Platner Bernie Sanders endorsed candidate for Senator who beyond an SS "Totenkopf" tattoo on his chest And is it coincidence that Bernie Sanders was enthusiastically supported by one James Hopkinson, who eight years go shot up a GOP congressional softball practice grievously wounding Steve Scalise. Sanders and also Dick Durbin have yet to answer for the extent of their relationship with Hodgkinson. As for Democrat Nazi Platner, he has this charming item on his rap sheet that the media has yet to cover up or otherwise obfuscate.
Maine Dem Graham Platner Belonged To Socialist Group Linked To ICE Attack, Tesla Bombings. . . The Senate candidate has come under fire for radical statements and a Nazi tattoo.Meh, to the braindead masses who are only following orders, Trump, ICE, the National Guard and Charlie Kirk are an existential threat to their lives, "Our precious democracy" the planet and the universe.
Before Carlitos Ricardos Parias, an illegal alien TikTok influencer, was arrested in an alleged car ramming assault on federal agents in Los Angeles, he had received a ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ from Councilmember Curren D. Price Jr for his “tireless efforts to safeguard our neighborhoods from illegal raids”. Such close cooperation between illegal alien rioters and local Democrat officials first attracted national attention during what some have called ‘Newsom’s Riots’ when leftist groups funded by the governor and other top Dems set off violent confrontations in L.A.. While the riots died down once the National Guard took decisive action, the violence has continued on a smaller scale as the Parias arrest shows with local confrontations by activists backed by California Democrats. The situation is much more blatant in Portland, Oregon, where the city council unanimously endorsed the ‘Protect Portland Initiative’. Mayor Keith Wilson declared that the move reaffirms that the city is a “proud sanctuary city in a sanctuary state” for illegal aliens. Criminals.Amazing how the Democrat/Left media/propaganda complex yammers on and on about Insurrection. It's because they are experts in it, insofar as the latest round of political violence that has been ongoing really for close to 200 years is their continued effort to overthrow America as founded and seize absolute power for themselves.
Until my dying day and unto my last breath, the greatest threat to this nation was is and always will be Leftist/progressivism/socialism and its epicenter in the Democrat Party. So long as it exists and their acolytes in the legal system, the bureaucracy and most especially in Academia from whence our misery originated, we cannot survive for very much longer even if we elect MAGA candidates, or that is are permitted to do so, in every election for the next 50 years. Have a great weekend! 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.
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- The Senate candidate has come under fire for radical statements and a Nazi tattoo.
Maine Dem Graham Platner Belonged To Socialist Group Linked To ICE Attack, Tesla Bombings
- This is what an insurrection looks like.
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- Apple has lost a lawsuit in the UK alleging it overcharged commissions payable by developers, who passed half the excess cost on to their customers, which, this being Apple, was charged by Apple who then took their cut on it. (9to5Mac)
Penalties could amount to $2 billion.
- In other "that used to be a lot" news Anthropic has signed a deal with Google for cloud services said to be in the tens of billions of dollars. (CNBC)
Amazon, which has invested $8 billion in Anthropic, might be asking some questions at this point.
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October 23, 2025

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Wolf and her pups
More horrors from Down Under. And I don't mean Kamala Harris's stank. Another Australian adventure. This elephant heard some humans saying "Akshually the hippo is the most dangerous animal in Africa" and got really steamed. Owls are making a play to become America's third-favorite pet. Seals want in, too.
Snails, snacking. Cranky senior turtles having a spat. Racing an emu. Can you spot the party-crasher? (He's near the horizon, in about the middle of the screen for most shots.)
Big rock slide. The sun ejecting plasma.
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Senator John Kennedy: Putin invaded Ukraine because he saw Joe Biden was a demented, weak, mentally-incompetent fool who would never have the energy or force of personality to lead a resistance against him.
Former President Joe Biden's cognitive decline was so pronounced that it imperiled US foreign policy by providing an "invitation" to dictators like Russia's Vladimir Putin, Sen. John Kennedy told "Pod Force One." "I remember when Putin was lined up on the Ukrainian border, thinking of going in, weighing his option, watching President Biden have a short press conference and say, 'Well, if it's a small incursion, it might be OK,'" Kennedy (R-La.) told The Post's Miranda Devine on the latest episode, out Wednesday. "I'm thinking, Holy Moses, that's an invitation," added the Louisiana Republican, reflecting on the January 2022 press conference, during which Biden went off the rails while responding to criticisms of his agenda raised by the White House press corps.Trump is now laying sanctions on China and India to get them to stop buying (and reselling) Russian oil. Biden never took this step. Trump is also authorizing Ukraine to use missiles against targets in Russia. Again, Biden never took this step. But Trump's a foreign agent under the control of Putin, huh? The unemployed madwoman Rosie O'Donnell demands a "blackout embargo" of the entire US economy.
Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington. Subscribe here! "It depends on what [Russia] does," Biden said at the time when asked about Putin's plans. "It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do." Kennedy recalled thinking at the time that the president's rhetoric "was dangerous." "I think he just started rambling," the senator said, before rattling off other foreign policy flubs. "Afghanistan. [Biden] removed the sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. He removed the sanctions on Iran from selling their oil. Now, President Xi in China is working with Putin and Russia and the Ayatollah in Iran, they see all this. "They're working together, and they saw the president, who was not clearly in grasp -- didn't have a clean grasp on all of his faculties. They saw the weakness, and they made their move. And that's how Ukraine started," he added. Kennedy also claimed that he could see the Democrat's "neurodegenerative disease ... got worse" over time. "I figured his staff was getting maybe four hours, five hours of work out in the day. He couldn't help it," The Republican claimed. "His staff cleverly hid it until they couldn't anymore. He had the debate in front of God and the country and the American people -- and the American people saw it, and they said, 'Look, this man is just, he's like my grandpa, you know, who I just took the car keys from.'"
The former co-host of The View posted on Instagram Wednesday, promising to launch "the largest economic blackout protest in U.S. history." ... In the post, O'Donnell calls for workers to refuse to go to work and stay home instead. She also asks for them not to attend any events and to stay away from restaurants. The message scrawled on the meme reads, "We're not asking. We're shutting it down." ... Hundreds of Instagram users told O'Donnell exactly what they thought of her radical left-wing call to action. And it wasn't pretty.I've come around to crediting Trump for his many wins. But I cannot forgive the broken promise he made to me in 2006, when he vowed he would send one of his attractive female friends to steal Rosie O'Donnell's lesbian girlfriend away from her.
One user said, "That's so nice of you to pay my rent and car note since my check will be short a week." Another user, fuming over her assault on restaurants, replied, "What did restaurants do to you? You wrote it 2x. Lots of mom and pop places will go under. Service staff survives on the tips. Many of those workers live pay check to pay check." "This is great for people that are privileged enough to be able to do this," one commenter noted. "A lot of small biz will suffer with a week of no sales, myself included. Maybe not even be able to pay rent or employees with that much revenue loss."
"I'll send one of my friends to pick up her girlfriend and I think it would be very easy."Still waiting, Donald. Still waiting. Glenn Reynolds: "No Kings" isn't a pro-democracy movement. It's an overtly anti-democratic movement, made up of fading, aging former elites who are angry that the public no longer allows them to manage the American decline.
Watching the "No Kings" protests, a friend commented: "Democracy dies when the other side wins. Another rule they wouldn't want to have turned back on them." That does seem to be the animating spirit not only of the various marches around the country, but of the entire anti-Trump resistance. President Trump's crime isn't anything he's said, or done, or even believed (which, all too often, anti-Trump protesters can't cogently describe anyway). It's that he won, and he represents the other team. As Batya Ungar-Sargon put it: "The 'No Kings' rally isn't protesting Trump but rather the agenda the majority of America voted for. The Left isn't protesting a king but their fellow Americans. They aren't standing up for democracy -- they are protesting against it." This is entirely correct. Trump isn't a king; he's a popularly elected president who won in something of a landslide, delivering exactly the policies that he promised the electorate. His actions generally involve invoking various statutes passed into law by Congress over the past several decades. His enforcement of immigration laws and deportation of criminal aliens is very popular. His ending of DEI policies is also very popular. So is his slashing of federal payrolls, and his cuts to foreign aid. Then there are his cuts to federal regulations. And his support for law enforcement. In fact, Trump is a "king" -- or "dictator," as we're often told -- whose actual program seems to involve shrinking the government he heads. That's not the usual thing for autocrats.I don't know why Trump insists on allowing the Chicom propaganda operation TikTok persist:

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Attacks on ICE are up 1000% and we just had an antifa-connected lunatic open fire on ICE agents in Texas, and before that, we had an antifa ambush of ICE agents.
And the violent communist revolutionaries of the Democrat-Antifa-Media Party want to increase those attacks. They want dead bodies.Oversight Committee
@GOPoversight Oct 22 "Oversight" Democrats are UNHINGED. They SHUT DOWN the government, leaving federal workers UNPAID, to give FREE healthcare to ILLEGALS. Now they're making a "master" ICE tracker TARGETING enforcement actions. This puts agents and public safety AT RISK. This is weaponization.
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"Maine Kampf," the fake Blue Collar candidate who has given guerilla shooting training to an antifa-related socialist revolutionary group and who has freely called himself a "communist" and bragged that he was an "Antifa Supersoldier," claims that he just randomly chose the Waffen Totenkopf (Death's Head) tattoo out of a book of designs at a tattoo parlor and never had any suspicion it might be a symbol worn by SS guards at concentration camps.
That's a lie, says a former acquaintance. He literally referred to it as "Mein Totenkopf."according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the "death's head" symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II. "He said, 'Oh, this is my Totenkopf,'" the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. "He said it in a cutesy little way." The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled. Platner gave varying accounts of the image during this time, saying at one point he was aware it was a Totenkopf when he had first gotten the tattoo several years prior and at another time claiming he had not known, according to the former acquaintance. The mixed accounts indicate that Platner has at least long been aware of the symbols's connection to Nazism, even as he said in the podcast interview he was not familiar with any such association when he chose to get the tattoo.
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John Fetterman's lump, "Lumpy Jack," makes a lot of sense.
Outspoken US Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said his party "lost the plot" -- and the White House -- when their then-leader Kamala Harris started calling President Trump a fascist. "When Vice President Harris referred to President Trump as a 'fascist' ... I knew absolutely we lost the plot at that point," Fetterman told Fox News' "Hannity" on Wednesday night. "If you call the president or someone like a fascist, you are effectively calling the people who are going to vote for him ... then they must be fascist too ... or they support fascism and those things. And that is just not true."Communists have been smearing anyone standing in the way of Sovietization as "fascists" since, literally, the era of the actual Fascists. All the communists do -- and I include, obviously, the Democrats and Democrat Media -- is smear people to make them too afraid to stand up for themselves. This has worked for far too long, but it's no longer working. If you smear selected people, many (dumb) people will figure, "Gee, if someone's calling that guy a fascist and a Nazi, maybe there's something to it." But when you start smearing literally everyone as a fascist or Nazi, usually to vindicate some very petty and entirely personal cause, like getting out of a common traffic citation, people start to realize that this is just a dishonest tactic used to cow people into submission. Once you've smeared literally everyone as a fascist Nazi, then literally everyone knows that this is a stupid, brutish tactic used by communists to knuckle people under. And that's where we are. This just doesn't work any longer.
Senator John Fetterman on Fox News. 3
Sen. John Fetterman says he knew Democrats "lost the plot" after "Kamala Harris referred to President Trump as a 'fascist.'" Fox News Fetterman laid into Harris after being asked why other Democrats have been echoing her by disturbingly comparing Trump to the likes of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. "I don't know why -- and I have always refused to say that," Fetterman said.
He also noted that spewing such hatred encourages violence -- such as Charlie Kirk's assassination. "I refuse to do those kinds of things because that kind of extreme kinds of rhetoric makes it easier for those kinds of extreme kinds of actions -- even like what happened to poor Charlie Kirk," he said.
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Kill him. Straight to the gallows.
As Bizarro-World Obama might say: At some point, you've made enough people's lives worse. A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., the career criminal accused of brutally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death aboard a Charlotte light-rail train in August. Brown faces federal charges of violence against a railroad carrier and a mass transportation system resulting in death -- offenses that make him eligible for the death penalty. ... Brown, who has a criminal history stretching back nearly two decades, was arrested immediately after the attack and has remained in custody. Records show at least 14 prior arrests in North Carolina for assault, firearm possession, robbery, and larceny since 2007. The killing of Zarutska -- who fled war-torn Ukraine in 2022 seeking safety in the United States -- sparked national outrage and bipartisan calls for justice. President Donald Trump weighed in on Truth Social, writing: "The ANIMAL who so violently killed the beautiful young lady from Ukraine, who came to America searching for peace and safety, should be given a 'Quick' (there is no doubt!) Trial, and only awarded THE DEATH PENALTY." ... Zarutska's murder has become a rallying cry in North Carolina for victims' rights advocates and those demanding tougher penalties on repeat offenders. Brown now faces both state and federal murder charges as prosecutors prepare a case that could bring the ultimate punishment for what authorities describe as one of Charlotte's most horrific and senseless crimes in years. In the UK, 10,000 people have signed a petition to create women-only subway cars. Apparently women feel threatened by some men. Maryland Men, I'm assuming. Here's how the Daily Mirror chose to illustrate the problem of men threatening women on public transit:
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Florida Rep: Let's Let the Victims of Illegal Aliens Sue the Municipalties and Officials Who Help Kill Them Oh, and he was high off his gourd on drugs, too.
A gruesome crash involving several tractor-trailers and passenger vehicles on the 10 Freeway in Ontario, California, left at least three people dead and two hospitalized Tuesday afternoon. The crash happened shortly after 1 p.m. in the westbound lanes of the freeway near the junction with Interstate 15, according to the California Highway Patrol. A man who witnessed the pileup told KTLA 5's Jillian Smukler that a big rig with a red cab went barreling into bumper-to-bumper traffic, apparently without braking. "I was standing outside talking to a friend of mine in the parking lot facing the freeway and the red truck was traveling at a high rate of speed when everyone else was stopped," Jason Calmelat said. "He didn't try to slow down. He just went full force into the back of another truck, crushing two other cars." Calmelat said the collision created a huge fireball. CHP officials said the big rig driver who didn't brake was later arrested for driving under the influence of drugs. He was only identified as a 21-year-old man.Of course he was only identified as "a man." A Maryland Man, perhaps. They need to cover it up until all the Democrat spin-doctors can be activated to tell us how this has Culturally Enriched us. And of course he turns out to be another Third World Assassin, killing the Americans that Americans won't kill.
Bill MeluginWe are being Culturally Enriched by third-world driving practices, where life is cheap and there are essentially no laws of the road at all.
@BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per multiple ICE sources, Jashanpreet Singh, the semi-truck driver suspected of killing three people in a DUI crash on the 10 freeway in Ontario, CA yesterday, is an Indian illegal alien who was caught & released at the CA border by the Biden admin in March 2022. DHS photo of him attached via federal sources. I'm told ICE is placing a detainer request on Singh with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, where he is in custody on suspicion of DUI causing great bodily injury and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. He has not been formally charged yet. Police say Singh was speeding and under the influence, never hitting his breaks, when he crashed into slow moving traffic on the freeway, causing a devastating and deadly chain reaction crash that killed 3 people. The victims have not been identified yet.
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(By the way, pay no attention to the correlation between Democrat presidents and the beef supply.) And as the basic laws of economics suggest, when supply shrinks, prices tend to go up when demand is consistent or rising, so there is...get this...pricing pressure to increase supply! I know, that's just crazy talk. It's not like cattle ranchers enjoy making money or anything. They are obviously in the business for altruistic reasons, and are more than willing to cut prices even though they have fewer head to sell, just so you and I can enjoy more good American corn-fed beef! I for one am very pleased that the immutable laws of economics have been repealed for the cattle industry, because beef is one of my favorite foods! At least that is what President Trump is suggesting. Trump says US cattle producers benefiting from tariffs, need to drop beef prices
President Donald Trump says U.S. cattle ranchers are benefiting from tariffs he has imposed on imports but must lower prices to encourage American consumers to buy their beef. Trump earlier this week said the administration was considering importing Argentine beef as a means of lowering record-high consumer beef prices. The suggestion angered U.S. ranchers. U.S. farmers also recently lost out to Argentina on soybean sales to China. "The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don't understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States, including a 50% Tariff on Brazil," Trump wrote in a post Wednesday, Oct. 22, on Truth Social. "They also have to get their prices down, because the consumer is a very big factor in my thinking, also!"
Did you notice the inane, stupid, and gratuitous shot at Trump in the quotation? What the hell does the soybean market have to do with the subject of the article? Anyway, President Trump is mistaken that his bully pulpit is an appropriate use for demanding that American cattle ranchers do exactly the wrong thing to ease high beef prices. His suggestion is simply nonsense. The only way beef prices will come down (and every Econ 1 student knows this), is if those ranchers see the high prices and decide to raise more cattle. That's how economies work, and directives from the President smack of price controls, five-year-plans, central planning, and all sorts of interference by bureaucrats into the unimaginably complex decisions that run market economies. If President Trump wants to help beef prices come down in America, he should streamline the bureaucratic roadblocks to cattle production and processing. Maybe end the ridiculous ethanol boondoggle so more of that corn can be fed to cattle. Maybe ease the Department of Agriculture's byzantine rules on slaughter. Maybe tell the EPA to back the f*ck off of farmers and cattle ranchers. There is a lot he can do, but simply demanding that the beef industry cut their prices isn't one of them. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
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The Trump administration has agreed to cancel billions of dollars in federal student loan debt for as many as 2.5 million borrowers, following a federal court settlement in the case American Federation of Teachers (AFT) v. U.S. Department of Education. The settlement, filed on October 17, reinstates loan forgiveness provisions tied to income-driven repayment (IDR) programs, including Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR), Pay As You Earn (PAYE), and Income-Based Repayment (IBR). These plans cap monthly payments based on income and household size, and forgive remaining balances after 20 to 25 years of qualifying payments.The agreement comes after the AFT sued the Trump administration in March 2025, claiming it had unlawfully reversed Joe Biden-era loan forgiveness initiatives. According to the lawsuit, the Department of Education, under President Trump, removed IDR enrollment applications from federal websites and directed servicers to stop processing new enrollments and forgiveness applications. The AFT argued that this violated federal law by denying borrowers access to debt relief guaranteed by Congress.“For nearly a decade, the AFT has fought for the rights of student loan borrowers to be freed from the shackles of unjust debt—and today, a huge part of that affordability fight was vindicated,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten in a statement. “Our agreement means that borrowers stuck in limbo can either get immediate relief or finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. And, crucially, they won’t ever get taxed on that relief.Yes, this was a lawsuit and was wending its way through our highly corrupted judicial system, but shouldn't President Trump have stuck to his guns? is his settling a sell out. I certainly did not vote for this and as we all were, disgusted in the extreme over having to bail out deadbeats whose education in the main consisted of being indoctrinated by Marxists, perverts, anti-Semites, and heathens intent on dismantling this nation and society and the past 2,000 to 10,000 years of human advancement and development. I like that "Freed from the shackles of unjust debt." If only Weingarten were in fron of me so I can direct my projectile voimitus directly down her filthy pie hole. When little Susie or Johnny or their bastard-producing parents sign on the dotted line for that loan, It's not the moral equivalent of Luca Brazzi holding a gun to Johnny Fontaine's manager's head and Vito Corleone assuring them that either their signature or their brains will be on that paper.
So far, Linda McMahon's work as DoE Secretary along with President Trump's putting the screws to such vipers' nests of America and Jew-hatred as Harvard have been praiseworthy and long overdue. But there is still much work to be done, because the Molotov cocktails don't make themselves nor are lit and hurled at ICE and cops all by themselves. Once again, to quote the great Rogers and Hammerstein, You've got to be carefully taught
. . . Education departments in every state are on radical autopilot when they make social studies standards. Americans expect blue states to use their state social studies standards to impose identity politics ideology and action civics (vocational training in progressive activism) on schools and students, strip out factual content, and ignore or slander the history of Western civilization and America, and call it “social studies instruction” — that’s what you get in states such as Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Minnesota. But radical activists embedded in state education departments do the same thing in red states whenever policymakers and citizens aren’t looking. That’s what just happened in Alaska. . . The Alaska Social Studies Standards (2024), produced by Alaska’s Department of Education and Early Development, avoided the worst of the blue-state social studies standards’ extreme politicization, unprofessional vocabulary, and ideologically extreme content. That’s because there’s hardly any historical content. The standards’ absences include basic facts of American history, much of how our government works, and our foundational documents of liberty. The standards also introduced substantial new amounts of politicized material.
And while we're on the subject
48-page report released in September exposes the depth of the nation’s teachers’ unions’ hostility toward all things Jewish. “Breaking Solidarity: How Anti-Semitic Activists Turned Teacher Unions Against Israel,” published by the Defense of Freedom Institute in September, explains how unions have worked to embed anti-Semitism into K–12 education. . . While the NEA handbook fails to mention the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, it manages to criticize Israel and Jews by promoting “Palestinian Nakba Education,” explaining that “the Nakba, meaning catastrophe in Arabic, refers to the forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the establishment of the state of Israel.” Additionally, there was harassment and intimidation of Jews at the NEA Representative Assembly held in July. Jewish educators who spoke out against a resolution that proposed to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League were shouted down during the proceedings. Just over a week after the assembly’s conclusion, the executive committee of the NEA’s Jewish Affairs Caucus published a chilling letter to NEA President Becky Pringle, reporting that Jewish delegates attending the gathering “were vocally mocked, harassed, and threatened in ways that dishonor our union.”Wait until they find out that Randi Weingarten is Jewish. Well, she's more Ish than Jew, but still.
On a not completely unrelated note given the greatest threat to the stability and continued existence of whatever remnants of he American Republic still remain and function as intended are the combined political thuggery of Democrat politicians and policy, the corruption now systemic and endemic in the unelected unaccountable bureaucracy and our legal/judicial system and the physical thuggery and violence of the aforementioned's openly violent base — I give you this item:
"On September 4," the narrative went on page 10, "a PPB officer reported seeing several older homeless people being coerced into approaching the ICE facility gate." Interesting. "Coerced" into doing something. As in being ordered to do something against their will?This revolting story reminds of something an uncle of mine, now of blessed memory, told me of his experience at the hands of the Nazis and later among the Ukrainian partisans. When they learned he was a Jew fleeing Nazi captivity, they dragooned him into being a mine detector. No, they did not issue him with electronic gear but they gave him a long stick and ordered him at gunpoint to walk in front of their column on the road and start poking at the ground. If he blew up, as was the fate of many of his compatriots, then "mine detected." And yet it's President Trump and all of us who support him that are the Nazis, fascists and racists. Antifa: so anti-fascist that they are surprisingly (not) expert and eager utilizers of fascistic tactics across the spectrum. If we do not completely dismantle and reconstruct the brainwashing mills of Pre-K through Post-Graduate into bastions of real learning as well as high temples of Western andJudeo/Christian morals and ethics, then we have no hope. How we are to do that without employing the most dare I say it "radical" of solutions, is the question. But what must be done, must be done, and yesterday!!!
Well, yes. The 9th Circuit Court’s recitation of the facts continued: “The instigators told these people that they should create a distraction or simply rattle the gate,” the court noted. And it wasn't just some crackhead or tweaker telling the story. Indeed, the narrators of this story were the very same Portland Police Bureau officers who have been told not to help ICE keep the peace. The cops were dropping dime on Antifa, using homeless people to ... get arrested. . . "[PPB] Officers confirmed this was happening by watching 'the instigators escorting different [older homeless people] up to the gate,'” the opinion read. And what were these "older homeless people" supposed to do? Why, they were told to "just come up to the gate and rattle it." To accomplish what, exactly? Well, the feds wanted to know. The opinion continued, "FPS took custody of an elderly man after he asked federal officers" watching the gate, who begged officers to be able to "just come up to the gate and rattle it so the antifa instigators would leave him and others alone.”
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- Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats cry “No Kings” while wielding royal power—raiding rivals, silencing dissent, and crowning heirs without a single vote.
Who Are the Real Kings?
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- A statement on superintelligence. (Superintelligence Statement)
These people are idiots. Or at least, suffering from an epidemic of Engineer's Disease.
If you outlaw AI that actually works, only outlaws will have AI that actually works.
And nobody is working in superintelligent AI because nobody is working on intelligent AI.
- Meta is laying off 600 people from its AI team. (CNBC) (archive site)
Certainly not those guys.
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