Flotsam and Jetsam - SPLC Indictment, Virginia Gerrymander Still Top the News

The indictment of the SPLC for a variety of financial frauds involved in their funding of hate groups is getting most of the heat. Stacy McCain calls it SPLC’s Clayton Bigsby Moment. "You can read the whole thing. If you’re laughing at the SPLC’s disgrace, that probably means you’re a neo-Confederate supremacist." Da Wire has a FLASHBACK: SPLC Falsely Accused Border Patrol Agents Of Whipping Haitian Migrants, "An internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) probe found that the claim was false." Matt Margolis at PJM thinks This Screaming Match Between Greg Gutfeld and Jessica Tarlov on 'The Five' Was Brutal. It was pretty heated, even for them. At Twitchy, Investigative Reporter Self-Owns While Arguing Conservatives Are Lying About the SPLC Indictment. Dave Strom at Hat Hair sees Lies, Damned Lies, and Democrats Talking. On YouTube, How the SPLC Grift Betrayed My Family's Trust. Driscoll at Insty recounts ACTIVIST BULLIES, "Read the whole thing." The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole, "The rise of white supremacy was a media generated narrative. This is observable." Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "That's the stuff NY Times." Quote Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze "You're talking about a 10 year narrative from our national media based on fraud. It's been their main topic. It's been at the forefront of every story that they approach. It's been the main focus of everything they've done, or published or broadcasted in a decade and it was all mostly made up. They can't just let it go and they won't. They are going to dig in on this unlike anything that we have seen before." Kyle Becker @kylenabecker, "The SPLC wasn't paying for the "infiltration" of "hate groups" (not including Antifa, by the way). It was supervising the posting of racist hate messages and helping with the transport of agitators who provoked riots. We all can read the grand jury indictment, which isn't based on opinion, but facts..." Sean Davis @seanmdav, "It says exactly that at the top of page 4 of the indictment, you illiterate buffoon." Quote Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates, Replying to @megbasham, "Nowhere in the indictment does it say that SPLC paid people “to organize protests and transport ppl to those protests.” You are continuing to spread absolute fabrications." Savannah Insights @BasedSavannah, "IMO, one of the most basic yet most profound aspects of all of this is that the FBI, DOJ, potentially the CIA, some Democrat members of Congress and potentially at least one Democrat President KNEW what the SPLC was doing and allowed it to happen. MANY people need to go to jail." Elon Musk @elonmusk, "Exactly" Quote Marc Andreessen @pmarca, ""Marc, why do you care about SPLC's crimes & other activists/companies/gov't agencies who may have done the same/complicit?" I sat in so many meetings for a DECADE where these groups determined who got cancelled/debanked/censored. Wholly un-American. People need to go to jail." Marc Andreessen @pmarca, "So @grok, we all just discovered that the SPLC has allegedly been funding some of the worst of the people and groups it claims to oppose. What are other activist pressure groups that advocate censorship/deplatforming of their enemies that could be doing the same thing?" Grok @grok, "Groups like the ADL (which tracks "hate" and pushes deplatforming while accused of overreach on critics), Media Matters (drives ad boycotts against conservative speech), and CCDH (reports targeting platforms for censorship) operate on similar models: identifying enemies to fuel donations and advocacy. No proven SPLC-style fraud yet, but their incentives mirror the risks exposed here—perpetual threats keep the funding flowing. Transparency audits would help everywhere." Andrew Kerr @AndrewKerrNC, "BREAKING: IRS announces plans to revise nonprofit Form 990 filings to require disclosure of fiscal sponsorships This is a big deal. Liberal dark money networks including Tides and Arabella have for decades exploited fiscal sponsorships to effectively operate in the shadows." PJM's Stephen Kruise just says Whaddya Know — Republicans Can Play Legal Hardball Too. Rod Martin, The Noose Tightens on ActBlue, And Democrats Have a Major Problem "ActBlue may have collected billions of dollars in illicit campaign cash for Democrats. A lot of it appears to be foreign. And its leaders just took the Fifth 146 times."

John Lucas at Bravo Blue worries Virginia Paves the Way for the Nation. . . . "To have more surrender monkeys in Congress." Mary Chastain at LI wonders ‘Where Were You?’: GOP Faces Backlash After Virginia Voters Approve Congressional Map. “You can’t brag about a huge war chest and then continue to leave Republicans stranded in blue states.” TheFOO @PolitiBunny, "Probably not a great idea texting Virginians and asking us for money today, GOP." At the Washington Stand, Mark Tapscott reports Fairfax Co. Elections Official Refuses Comment on Redistricting Mail-in Vote Fraud Allegations. At Twitchy, THIS! Scott Jennings Goes OFF on Spanberger's Gerrymandering, Leaves CNN's Kasie Hunt Speechless. In a Larry vid at Hat Hair, DeSantis Just Made Sure Hakeem Jeffries Will Never Try That Stunt Again. James Bacon at Bacon's Rebellion, Guess Who Won on Redistricting? "The Rich Men north of Richmond may have won for a day, but they cashed out every ounce of public goodwill they had to do it." On YouTube, FAFO | The Numbers Are Out & Dems Are SCREWED After VA Ballot Rigging... Wait Till You See The SHIFT.

Bob Hoge at RedState, CA Gubernatorial Debate Night Scorecard: Who Killed It, Who Bombed. Dave Strom at Hat Hair, California Democrat Candidates Agree: Requiring Truck Drivers to Speak English Is Racist. Roscoe Smith IV @LoneStarLegendX, "Fire victims in California can’t get a permit to rebuild years later, but a ‘Hospice Company’ can be certified, vetted, and accredited to operate out of a “Burrito Stand” to steal taxpayer funds. Arrest Gavin Newsom already." Ace is shocked, shocked to find out California Officials Licensed and Approved a "Hospice" Located In a... FUCKING BURRITO STAND, "Victoria Taft:" Reason reasons High Taxes and Burdensome Regulations Are Killing California. Dave Strom poses a Question to Ponder: Is There Anything That Democrats Support That Is Not Fraudulent? and notes All Democratic Promises Are Empty.

Jia Tolentino doesn't look like she's skipped many meals

Dave Strom also notes NYT Now Promoting 'Microlooting' as Social Justice. Steal this newspaper. New York Post @nypost, "Anti-capitalist New Yorker writer brags she stole from Whole Foods 'on several occasions' in NYT podcast." Ace, The Democrat Party, AKA The Party of Plunder, Is Now All-In on Shoplifting, Celebrating Rich White Bitches' "Microlooting" Expensive Food from Whole Foods. "We wouldn't want Princess to have to scale back on her lifestyle, so we should overlook Princess' sticky fingers in grocery stores." Mike Solana @micsolana, "the new york times politely discussed the assassination of a businessman with hasan piker, who made the case, in the new york times, for assassination. this is not a small thing. this is an insane, unacceptable thing that every liberal needs to denounce."

Senator Eric Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt, "NYT frames this as if USAID employees had a quasi-property right to high-paying, taxpayer-funded jobs. In reality, this tells a darker story—we spent half-a-century debt-financing a managerial class of Leftists whose only qualifications were ideological." Quote Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis, ""Sheryl Cowan, 57, was making $272,000 a year as a senior VP at a U.S.A.I.D.-funded nonprofit when she was let go at the end of March 2025. Last month she had an online interview for a $19-an-hour job managing a Penzeys Spices store in Falls Church, Va."" Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer, "The organization is the Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs. Here's their 2024 expenses. $28 million on salary + benefits (for 100 employees) $12 million on subcontractors $3 million on travel $5 million on consultants $9 million on other Only $4 million on grants." Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy, "This NYT piece may do more to bring attention to what a useless parasitic class the entire NGO world has encouraged to fester in DC than a thousand deeply researched and thought out policy papers ever could have."

Eva Lopez Chavez

Matt Vespa at TownHall notices We Have Another Dem Scandal. Daily Caller @DailyCaller, "Salt Lake City Councilwoman Eva Lopez Chavez, now a Democrat congressional candidate, once described herself as “a Mexican lesbian shaping downtown.” She is now facing allegations from four women, including three elected officials, who say she restrained them during advances they considered sexual and unwanted. Lopez Chavez denies wrongdoing and says one alleged encounter “never occurred.”" Ace, In Utah, Democrat Women Allege That the Latina Lesbian Running for Congress Sexually Molested Them, Forcing One Up Against the Wall and Demanding She "F***" Her Like a Man: Plus, More Democrat Female Predators. "Democrat feminist and Latina lesbian accused of sexual harassment of women, including one woman she forced against the wall while gripping the victim's throat. " " " Allegedly. " " " (Touches finger to nose.) What the **** is going on in Utah?" But I see a matchmaking opportunity, from Sister Toldja at RedState, Wowsers: House Ethics Committee Targeted North Carolina Democrat in Investigation No One Saw Coming. Brett Jensen WBT News @Brett_Jensen, "Bombshell report on a potential inappropriate relationship between Congresswoman Alma Adams @RepAdams (79) and a (female) staffer and the investigation that took place. Adams represents parts of Charlotte. #ncpol"

Kyle Olson at TownHall, Undercover Videos Expose Biden Admin Manipulating UAC Reports to Protect ‘Reputation’. Townhall.com @townhallcom, "New undercover video from Townhall Media's investigation into the Biden administration's disastrous border policies reveals that federally funded groups were not equipped to handle the astounding surge of 450,000 unaccompanied migrant children coming across the southern border. Even worse: - Groups received millions of dollars but allegedly never received a child to process - Nearly half of the calls to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) were unanswered or dropped - Reports about sexual abuse in facilities were manipulated Watch our third installment below ." Althouse prompts ChatGPT's astounding hallucination: "Joe Biden did not withdraw after the primaries were over. He stayed in the race through the primaries and remained the nominee. Kamala Harris did not replace him as the Democratic nominee."

Matt Vespa asks if you Remember Ilhan Omar's Winery? Something Very Peculiar Just Happened to It. It just vanished!

Sundance hosts During Healthcare Event President Trump Answers Media Questions in the Oval Office and looks at The Global Trade and Economic Restructuring That Centers Around Energy Use. Stephen Soukup at Am Great goes on about Sanchez, Lenin, and Global Opposition to Trump, "Pedro Sanchez’s anti-American crusade exposes a deeper truth: the global Left’s ideology remains rooted in recycled Marxism, repackaged through expediency and contradiction." Sarah Anderson at PJM reports Rubio and Bessent Go After Sinaloa and Its Fentanyl Pipeline. Pascal Najadi (USSF) @JfkPascalNajadX, " BREAKING: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to PERMANENTLY CUT OFF U.S. aid to Somalia after the country demolished a warehouse holding 76 TONS of American food, per Daily Wire. GOOD. Cut off the gravy train. Rubio said it perfectly. Foreign aid is NOT charity. It is U.S. TAXPAYER MONEY and it must serve the AMERICAN national interest. ..." Ace, notes China Made a Ton of Risky Loans to Third-World Nations to Bring Them Under Its Sphere of Influence. Now Those Loans are Turning Bad. China Wants the US to Bail It Out. "This is such a disgusting demand to even make that I'm 90% sure that the "US" Congress will agree to to it. Why Trump is doing this, I have no idea. I saw someone saying that he inherited this position from Biden's Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, but that doesn't seem like a good reason to keep it."

 

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Senate Passes Budget Resolution To Fund ICE; Will House Deliver? Althouse, "We can fix this with Republican votes, and we will. Every Democrat has opposed money for the Border Patrol and ICE at a time of great peril." "Said Senator Lindsey Graham, quoted in "Senate Adopts G.O.P. Budget, Defeating Democrats’ Affordability Proposals/Republicans pushed through a budget plan with a $70 billion increase for immigration enforcement after an overnight session in which they beat back Democratic proposals aimed at lowering costs" (NYT)."

Althouse hears "Donald Trump will launch a 'revenge' attack on the White House media when he confronts them in person at a Washington dinner on Saturday night—then flee before there can be revenge...." "From "Trump’s Plans for ‘Mic-Drop’ Media Confrontation Are Leaked/The president is planning a rage-fueled moment at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner" (Daily Beast)." At NYPo the Divine Miranda Devine: Trump tells The Post what he wants to do at Penn Station. At I&I, Trump Puts Colleges On Notice: No More Taxpayer Subsidies For Worthless Degrees. Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "RFK Jr. just showed America that Sen. Warnock (D-GA) is an absolute DOPE, WARNOCK: You made cuts to the rabies office! RFK JR: “There’s 1-3 rabies cases PER YEAR in the US! I think ONE PERSON manning that office can handle that traffic!”"

Capt. Ed hears Trump to Navy: Splash Iranian Minelayers; UPDATE: Reload? and NYT: Nepo Babytollah More Like a Chairman Of the (Card)Board. Nick Arama at RedState enjoys how Trump Decimates Reporter Who Asked What May Be Worst Question Ever About Battle With Iran. Department of State @StateDept, "REPORTER: Would you use a nuclear weapon against Iran? PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. Why would a stupid question like that be asked? Why would l use a nuclear weapon when we’ve totally decimated Iran without it? A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody." WUWT warns America’s AI Advantage Runs into Trouble in the Strait of Hormuz. Who had helium on their list of things that come from there? James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy, "Food for thought. Iran Is Not Winning. It Is Unraveling. The prevailing narrative on Iran has it almost perfectly reversed. We are told that Tehran is winning a war of wills in the Gulf and that Donald Trump is gambling recklessly with the world’s most sensitive chokepoint. In reality, Iran is not consolidating strength; it is managing decline. And Trump’s play on the Strait of Hormuz has quietly forced energy markets to reprice security—tilting the balance decisively toward the Americas, and away from Europe, Asia and China. The Islamic Republic no longer resembles a confident revolutionary project...."

Sundance is concerned the House Proposes New 3-Year FISA(702) Reauthorization with ODNI as Auditor for Monthly FBI Compliance Report.

At Da Fed, the unsinkable Mollie Hemingway calls Sam Alito The Most ‘Courageous’ SCOTUS Justice You’ve Never Read About (Until Now).

Matt Vespa reports an Appeals Court Just Smacked Down CA's New Anti-ICE law for a Simple Reason, federal supremacy. At Hat Hair, Beege Welborn hears After Governor's $$$ Threat, Houston City Council Has ICEy 'Upon Further Reflection' Moment. hernando arce @hernandoarce, "New: Data on Asylum Cases: “The Trump administration has dismissed more than 100 immigration judges out of about 750 in place when Mr. Trump returned to power, an unprecedented purge. The results of this purge, or aggressive supervision, have been excellent. Across the board, immigration judges are denying asylum claims at unprecedented levels and ordering aliens deported at rates previously unheard of. DOJ Judges have approved asylum claims in fewer than 10 percent of cases this year” compared to Biden Admin average of 42 percent. @theamgreatness."

Quotulatiousness shows They put out propaganda because it works.

Mike LaChance at LI reports Leftist Students Repeatedly Disrupt UCLA Law School Event Featuring DHS Official. From the Free Bacon, Stanford Students Award Drag Group Five Times As Much Funding As Veterans Association "The university also allocates more money for the Muslim Student Union than every Christian group combined." At the College Fix, Western Kentucky U. staffer admits DEI still in social work curriculum: video. At Althouse, Reinforce the academic core of the university; don’t allow classes to be dominated by open laptops or other devices; do more to ensure that people do not self-censor; respect the ideals of free speech and academic freedom; 'be human.'" "Those are among the "smart and sensible recommendations" to be found in Yale's "Report of the Committee on Trust in Higher Education" according to "Yale Has Come Up With a Surefire Way to Make a Terrible Situation Worse" (NYT). That's written by the president of Wesleyan University, Michael S. Roth."

Dave Strom, Leftists Applaud for the Terrorist, Ban the Victim From Speaking. John Sexton, 18-Year-Old Arrested in Plot to Attack Houston Synagogue "Angelina Han Hicks was arrested yesterday and is being held on $10 million bond. She allegedly was planning the attack online with a teen in Texas who was also arrested."

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