Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Returns to CBS

Sundance at CTH hosts President Trump Full 60 Minutes Interview, Sunday Talks – Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Discusses Disruptions from Govt Shutdown and Sunday Talks – White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Discusses Administration Perspective on Federal Govt Shutdown. PJM's Cathy Salgado hears the Teamsters Union Prez Tells Dems to End Shutdown. The NYPo ed board notes Democrats are screaming about the impact of THEIR government shutdown. Scott McLallen at TownHall, 'New Sheriff in Town': USDA Secretary Rollins To Reform SNAP Program. At the Center for Immigrant Studies, Illegal Immigrants To Be Hit Hard As SNAP and WIC Benefits Expire. Quotalatiousness wonders is a EBTpocalypse imminent? Da Signal predicts This Shutdown Fight Will Change the Way Washington Works. The I&I ed board says Don’t Give Federal Workers A Dime In Back Pay. What's not fair about no work, no pay? Fox reports Resurfaced Obama video blasting shutdown ‘blackmail’ now haunts Democrats amid new standoff, "The former president once slammed shutdowns as ‘irresponsible'; Democrats have blocked 13 GOP reopening attempts." Amanda Head at JTN says Obamacare's inconvenient truths exposed during shutdown "Expert says "When he said, 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.' No you couldn't. Obamacare made a lot of those health care plans illegal." Other infirmities of ACA have been laid out, including nebulous allegations of fraud." From LifeZette, Bill Maher Says Democrats Pulled a ‘Bait-and-Switch’ for Their Shutdown Narrative "“We’re talking about these subsidies, that were COVID-era subsidies that were renewed. And the entire shutdown is based on these subsidies,” Moynihan said. Maher agreed, describing the policy extension as misleading. “That is what the shutdown is based on. For people who don’t know, let me just say, during COVID, they upped the subsidies. And then, it is a bit of a bait-and-switch, I’ll give you, that’s true on that one,” Maher said." News Wax opines Medicare Wasn't Broken Until Democrats Made It That Way. "What happened? The Democrats' 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) happened."

Also from Sundance, President Trump Outlines Stakes in Next Week SCOTUS Tariff Case. From ET, China ‘Made a Real Mistake’ With Rare Earth Threats: Bessent, "The Treasury chief said Beijing’s export controls have alerted trading partners to the dangers of relying on China for critical minerals." From Fox, War Department escalates campaign against narco-terror at sea with 15th strike: 'They will not succeed', "US military kills three suspected smugglers during expanded maritime campaign against narco-terror networks in Caribbean." ET also reports Trump Says He’s Not Considering Military Strikes Inside Venezuela, yet.

At NYPo, the Divine Ms Devine sees  Biden’s autopen presidency inked a legacy of failure and coverups. From LifeZette, Karine Jean‑Pierre Makes Stunning ‘Cheap Fakes’ Admission During Testimony to Congress. Oversight Committee @GOPoversight, "WHAT IS A CHEAP FAKE? We asked Karine Jean-Pierre. She tells us it was a term "coined by the media" of videos creating an "illusion" of Biden that was "not real." WE ASKED: "Are there videos of Joe Biden appearing confused or frozen that are real?" KJP:   "Not that I recall.""

At NYPo Michael Goodwin thinks  A Zohran Mamdani mayoralty would mean a long, sour decline for NYC and Carl Campanile reports Queens Democrat Party snubs own Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — refuses to endorse him for NYC mayor. At UnHerd, Joel Kotkin says New York’s Jews fear a Mamdani win Antisemitism is on the rise. At the Everyman Commentaries Katya Sedgwick asserts  AOC is Wrong About New York and Wrong About its Jews "At a recent Zohran Mamdani rally, Alexandria Ocasia-Cortex went on a rant about the history of New York's immigrants, exposing that she is wrong about the city's history and its Jewish residents." The Free Bacon remembers The Last Time New York Hit Rock Bottom, "REVIEW: ‘The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990’ by Jonathan Mahler." They do seem stuck in a cycle of electing liberal who let the city go to hell, and then correcting by electing a law and order candidate. At NewsBusters Oh Heck No! Christiane Amanpour Calls Soros Henchman Mamdani’s ‘Close Confidant.’ 

PJM's Matt Margolis hears John Fetterman Drop a Devastating Truth Bomb About Gavin Newsom,  "But people [forget] that the internet exists and all of the clips and all of the outlandish things that they've said or they've done, that's going to have about 20 or 30 million dollars that can pound you for those things." Driscoll at Insty sees TWO GAVINS IN ONE! Collin Rugg @CollinRugg, "NEW: Newsom says he hates politicians who lie to your face in the same interview that he told Kristen Welker that he didn’t see an issue with Biden’s mental acuity. Newsom: There is nothing I dislike more than the politician who sits there & lies to you. Also Newsom: I'm gonna express my relationship to my truth with Biden… There was nothing to suggest that he had problems with his mental acuity." Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel "I did not dine indoors at the French Laundry. 2 days later pictures of him dining indoors appear." 

The Chronic calls Abigail Spanberger, Agent Double-O-Trans. Matt Margolis says Don’t Be Fooled—Obama Wasn’t Campaigning for Spanberger "He’s not there to help Spanberger. He’s there to help salvage what's left of the Democratic ticket, specifically the embattled Jay Jones, who's running for attorney general." From NYPo, NJ governor’s race virtually tied as Jack Ciattarelli gains on Mikie Sherrill in campaign’s closing stretch, stunning poll shows. But is it outside the margin of fraud? News Wax reports Trump Political Machine Diverts Funds to Gubernatorial Toss-Ups. "The White House-backed campaign apparatus tied to President Trump is reportedly deploying "a $1 million-plus microtargeting effort" in each of the two states, New Jersey and Virginia, aimed at mobilizing Trump supporters and other Republicans who might normally skip off-year elections." Tom Knighton at TownHall sees Enemies of the People. "In recent weeks, the insanity has reached a fevered pace. We've got everything from former presidents calling for the regulation of what people say to some reality TV personality from Bravo threatening literally everyone who isn't as rabidly leftist as she is. We've got a sizeable chunk of the Democrats' base threatening to loot if they don't get their free food money they did nothing to deserve from the government, even."

Sundance hosts Senator Eric Schmitt Outlines What He Wants to See Next Following Initial “Arctic Frost” Information. Ben Whedon at JTN reports Sen. Blackburn demands Judge Boasberg testify before Senate panel, "Accompanying her post was an order from Boasberg directing Verizon to remain silent as to a subpoena for phone records." At Twitchy, Arrest Boasberg NOW: You Won't Believe This List of Charges Brought Under Biden's DOJ Is Real But It IS. Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber, "On Monday morning, arrest Judge Boasberg for spying on Congress and hiding the spying from Congress, and arrest Jack Smith as his co-conspirator. All these charges were brought against Trumpworld figures under the Biden DOJ. Theirs were bullshit. This is actually real." Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2, "Might I add making false statements? In both the AT&T NDO (moot) and Verizon NDO (enforced), Boasberg claimed sitting members of the Senate and House would destroy/ tamper with evidence and/or intimidate witnesses if notice of subpoenas was given. Absolutely no basis to those allegations , just egregious lies by the chief judge of DC district court." And just how would a Senator destroy his phone records at ATT and Verizon. 

At RedState, Nick Arama thinks you should Watch: John Brennan Loses It When Confronted by Former Tulsi DNI Advisor About Laptop Letter and the ICA. At Da Caller, Former CIA Director James Brennan Gets Heated When Confronted Over Hunter Biden Laptop Disinformation Attempt. From Doug Ross at Director Blue, The Illustrated Spygate Scandal. "The first political coup in American history: Part I"

At Da Caller, Tish James Is Fighting Another DOJ Probe For ‘Selective Enforcement’ Against Trump’s Business, NRA, Unsealed Docs Show "James’s effort to block subpoenas issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) touches “on matters of national concern, with implications that stretch well beyond this action,” Judge Lorna Schofield, an Obama appointee, wrote in her order making the filings public Friday."

From ET, About 80 Missing Children Rescued, 1,700 People Arrested in Memphis: Bondi "Last month, the federal government announced it would send National Guard troops and federal agents to the Tennessee city."

Ben Smith at LI notes  Trump Defends ICE Raids in CBS Interview, Says ‘They Haven’t Gone Far Enough’, “We have to start off with a policy, and the policy has to be that ‘you came into the country illegally, you’re going to go out.” From Da Blaze, Trump ramps up vetting of foreign workers to combat Biden's lax policies. Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins, "On my first day @USDA, we told every state to send us their SNAP data so we could make sure illegal immigrants aren’t getting benefits meant for American families. 29 states stepped up. 21 blue states refused — and two SUED US FOR ASKING!" And guess what? In just the states that cooperated, we’ve already uncovered massive fraud. The Democrat Party has turned its back on working Americans and built its entire strategy around protecting illegal aliens. They know if the handouts stop, those illegals will go back home, and Democrats will lose 20+ seats after the next census. There’s a new sheriff in town. @POTUS will not tolerate waste, fraud, or abuse while hardworking Americans go hungry."

Susie Moore at RedState hears That Lebanese Doctor the Trump Admin. Sent Packing Got Some Bad News on Friday. "Ultimately, Sorokin concludes that the district court lacks the jurisdiction to provide Alawieh with that relief. . . . In other words, this district court judge, despite where his sympathies may lie, properly acknowledges the limits of his jurisdiction and the precedent by which he is bound. And Dr. Alawieh has learned a tough object lesson in the perils of playing footsie with terrorist groups."

Twitchy, Jon Stewart Laments How We Got to the Point of Not Seeing Conservatives as Human Beings. "Jon Stewart can have moments of lucidity," The Dog of Sinope @SinoopyS, "John has been part of that problem for a long time. He'll say these things and then later when he wants to burn someone he'll do the cancel culture thing. Enough. I'll take people that are consistent, john... John is not consistent." It all depends on which nose he's wearing.

At Campus Reform, Students caught using wrong pronouns at Harvard may violate harassment policies. "Students at Harvard University were told that failing to use a person's preferred pronouns could be a violation of the university’s sexual misconduct and harassment policies during a mandatory online Title IX training last month." Trump needs to keep the pressure on.

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: The Beatings Will Continue garnering clicks at The Other McCain.