Flotsam and Jetsam - The Fauci Fallout

If you weren't out doing something fun or useful yesterday, you probably know by now that former NIH Director Anthony Fauci made a long appearance at the Senate Homeland Security committee led by Rand Paul, where, as I pointed out yesterday, other than an opening statement saying Rand Paul had it in for him (true, but for good reasons), he said almost nothing, other than to take the 5th amendment 111 times to Republican questions ranging from pointed to ridiculous (what color is your tie?), while receiving tongue bath from Democrats loyal to the Covid lockdown regime. If you need to count them for yourself you can find the whole sordid affair at from sundance at CTH, Dr Anthony Fauci Testifies Before Senate Homeland Security Committee or at Althouse, Fauci invokes the 5th Amendment privilege at the Senate hearing today. Ace, Deep State Mafia Boss Anthony "Little Bones" Fauci Pleads the Fifth, "This is what I thought he would do. But now I wonder if he has any legal right to invoke the Fifth." Matt Vespa at TownHall, So, That's Why Fauci Pled the Fifth, Despite a Blanket Pardon From Biden, state charges? No, that's just the excuse. He just didn't want to own up to all his Covid shenanigans. John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNC, "This also states it well... The pardon put Fauci in a position where he could either testify truthfully and face no prosecution, or invoke the Fifth and face a contempt charge. Obviously, Fauci decided telling the truth was more dangerous (even with no fear of prosecution) than facing prosecution with a contempt charge. Why? That's the question." Quote Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney, "Pleading the 5th is tricky, legally, because Fauci is pardoned for all pre-2025 conduct — fear of a future perjury trap is a lot to hang a blanket assertion of 5th Amendment privilege on. And it also opens him up to being held in contempt and prosecuted on that basis." The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox, "PAUL: "Dr. Fauci, would you like to at least answer this one question for us today...?" FAUCI: "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline..." PAUL: "The chairman has DENIED your assertion of privilege and directed you to ANSWER, but you nonetheless refuse and stand on privilege despite the existence of the pardon." "It's AGAINST THE LAW to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions to your refusal to testify today." Sean Davis @seanmdav, "Rand Paul did the impossible today: he found a way to make Anthony Fauci not talk. Rand Paul got the world’s most promiscuous media whore to suddenly not want to be on camera behind a microphone." Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy, "Dear Diary... If I plead the Fifth, will I still be famous?" Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D.@neoavatara "Its over." Quote Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul, "Fauci claims he is pleading the Fifth because of my so-called “obsession” with prosecuting him and because I released his "private" diary. The American people know better. He is protecting himself. There is more to this. This is not over." Tim O'Brien at PJM, Fauci’s Disastrous Senate Hearing Signals That It’s Time to Put the Autopen on Trial Through Him. PJM's Stephen Kruiser sighs Regrettably, Anthony Fauci Slept Very Well Last Night.

PJM's Cathy Salgado, Rand Paul Orders Fauci’s Lawyer Removed As Hearing Grows Chaotic. From News Wax, Fauci Solicited Award Noms From NIH-Funded Scientists, for awards with cash prizes. At Hat Hair, Capt Ed quotes Hawley to Fauci: 'You Got Rich, Didn't You … While People Were Dying?' Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol, "If you only watch ONE video from the Fauci hearing today, it should be this one... Bernie Moreno: "It was about six years ago today that I decided I'm going to give up my businesses, sell them all, run for office, run for the United States Senate. Here I am sitting in front of you six years later, saying, "Who the fuck do you think you are for doing that?" It is a total disgrace what you did to this country and my Democrat colleagues are standing there defending you...." RazörFist @RazorFist, "2020: The Science™ is settled 2021: Trust the Science™ 2022: Sorry you lost your job for not trusting The Science™ 2023: We have recalled The Science™ from the market 2026: The Science™ pleads the 5th." Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy, "My biggest takeaway from this Fauci stuff is that we aren't mad enough."

Matt Vespa, TMZ Had a Total Meltdown Over the Attacks on Fauci...and They're Not Alone. Brad Polumbo @brad_polumbo, "Never forget they literally made action figures of this man..." Drew Holden at Holden Court thinks Legacy Media’s Fauci Love Affair Might’ve Buried COVID’s Origins, "Ahead of the doctor's public testimony, making sense of what the dominant press helped to keep buried." PoIiMath @politicalmath, "If there was another Covid-style pandemic, it would probably be because scientists were carelessly researching deadly novel viruses in large urban centers." Quote Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan, "It’s very clear, sadly, that if there was another Covid-style pandemic today, the level of total disinformation, misinformation, lies, cherry-picked quotes and documents, and conspiracies on this hellsite would mean tens of millions, not just millions, of dead Americans." From Da Caller, Meet The Republicans Who Sided With Anthony Fauci To Shut Down The Country "“Hope Hicks and I convinced him to essentially put Easter on hold for this year,” Fauci wrote." Nick Arama at RedState notices Brandon Gill and Ted Cruz Have a Field Day With James Talarico's Old Fauci Post. Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill, "Do you think James Talarico still plays with his Fauci action figure?" Ted Cruz @tedcruz, "James Talarico called Fauci a superhero. Today, Fauci took the Fifth 111 times. Apparently accountability was sold separately." Leslie Eastman at LI hypes a New Documentary the Asserts Deborah Birx Was Real Culprit Behind Disastrous Covid Lockdowns. "“It Wasn’t Fauci: How the Deep State Really Played Trump” shows how a career bureaucrat seized control of the government and created a disaster. And Birx had help…from Pence." She did kind of slither away unscathed, didn't she. Insty at his substack explains Why Fauci Matters. "He's not just a powerful guy who acted in bad faith. He's a totem to a whole class of people who don't care about that."

I'm of two minds about Fauci. Scientists are allowed to be wrong. It's part of the process of discovery, as long as you change your mind once evidence show it.  But you're not supposed to conspire to blackball those with opposing opinions, and keep up the pretense of being right after you've been proven wrong. And there's the prize stuff, which is just plain corruption. Drew Pinsky put it pretty well here.

Sundance is still following foreign affairs, President Trump Takes Questions From Media, Senate Fan Girls for Zelenskyy then Advances Russian Sanction Bill 86-12 and Finland Plans to Build a New Iron Curtain and block Russian Internet Traffic. Ace, Iran Threatens Lives of First Lady and Barron Trump; Trump Says He'll Kick the Sh** Out of Them "Iran is calling upon its foreign agents to kill Trump's wife and youngest son."

At Am Great, the Great Victor Davis Hanson worries The Socialist Monster Awakens, "The Left’s socialist revolt did not come from nowhere—it was the inevitable offspring of years of Democratic radicalization, now turning against the party that created it." Mark Tapscott at Insty asks IS SOCIALISM A FAD OR FULL-ON THREAT?. "Are the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) just a passing fad or a real, long-term threat to the Democratic Party and ultimately America? That’s the question discussed on the latest edition of the Outstanding podcast by host Casey Harper, The Washington Stand’s Managing Editor for Broadcast, Matt Carpener, chief of Family Research Council (FRC) Action, and yours truly." VodkaPundit at PJM hears 'Welcome to Socialism': A Clinton Hand's Stark Warning About Mamdani "In a piece headlined "Welcome to Socialism," Penn wrote that Mamdani’s administration "with fanfare" released its list of "960,000 owners of real estate in New York City that have been determined they could owe the pied-a-terre tax because NYC computers have determined they own what was billed as a market value of $5 million or more."" NYPo opines Mamdani’s vindictive pied-à-terre hitlist reveals his true colors. I think we already knew his colors, red with a dash of green. John Sexton, Business Groups to Sue Mamdani Over Subsidized Grocery Stores. Govt. subsidized competition. At NYPo, Jonathan Turley opines Mamdani’s grocery stores will be the most expensive markets in NYC — paid for by you, the taxpayer.

Hat Hair's John Sexton wonders Are Democrats Worried About Their Antisemitism Problem?. Nope, they're wallowing in it, and Dave Strom sees El-Sayed is Gaining Strength and Stevens Is Sputtering Out. Victory Girls notice MI Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Maligns PA Senator John Fetterman. Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "It's hilarious that you think he's leaving the party and that the party is not leaving him. You continue to be the absolute king of misreading the situation." Quote Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza, "I don't know if John Fetterman is going to switch parties. But man he is doing everything that someone who is going to switch parties. Wrote about it here:"

A laugh at Twitchy, Rental Ram Revealed: Talarico Props Up 'Real Texan' Image With Enterprise Rental Truck. Jen Van Laar at RedState is obsessing over Newsom’s Affair, Revisited: New Details, Conflicting Accounts, and 2028 Fallout. Travis Lynch at Am Think thinks (no, not yet) America’s election problem is bigger than the ballot box. James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames, "Republican voters should turn out in this year's midterm elections like President Trump is on the ballot because, once you understand what the Democrats are planning if he loses, you'll understand that he IS on the ballot."

At AMAC, The Left’s Imaginary Food Stamps “Crisis” "SNAP enrollment has dropped by about 4.5 million people over the past year—an 11 percent decline. While critics call this a "crisis" and blame the Trump administration for stripping benefits from needy families, the reduction largely reflects new work requirements and stronger anti-fraud measures under the One Big Beautiful Bill. This article examines the data behind the debate and explains what's really driving the change in food stamp participation."

Twitchy notices Agitators in Madison Use Boards With Nails to Defend Their BLM Encampment, and the City Is Helping. Well, Madison.

Capt. Ed, NYTimes Shocked, Shocked to Find Immigration Enforcement in Airports! Ace, Media Can't Stop Boo-Hoo Whinin' and Cryin' That Trump Is Deporting The Democrats' Best Voters. "Axios: Trump has ramped up self-deportation."

From Ace, MS NOW "National Security Reporter" Took a Luxury All-Expenses Paid Junket Paid for by Communist China's Intelligence Services, Then Wrote Articles Trashing Trump for Criticzing China. "I wrote about Natalie Winters' expose of "journalists" receiving valuable all-expenses paid travel to China and then immediately acting as China's propaganda agents yesterday. Just the News writes about one of these agents of Red China, a former Reuters fake reporter now serving as MS NOW's fake national security reporter." John Sexton, Russia Goes After Telegram's Founder.

The Telegraph opines the Berlin Pride attack shows the insanity of the Left’s love affair with Islamism. Dave Strom sees Jews Are Fleeing...Canada?

At Twitchy, Deranged WNBA Owner Berates Teenage Fans Supporting Fair Play for Women. Dave Strom hears Sophie Cunningham Fans Harassed in Seattle for Standing Up for Women's Rights. From Ace, Department of Education Investigates Minnesota's Use of "Trans Dolls" with Swappable Genitalia to Promote Transgenderism to Young Children "I think it's time to simply eject Minnesota from the United States. It's a diseased appendage that must be cut off to save the rest of the body. It just gets worse and worse every single day." And "Trans" Man Beats Mother to Death With Hammer, "Coming to a girls locker room near you. But how could you keep him out of a women's locker room? As you can see from the photos that run with that story, he looks exactly like a woman. It's uncanny!"

And more from the Wombat at In The Mailbox: 07.28.26 (Evening Edition) and In The Mailbox: 07.29.26. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: In The Bowels of the Draft up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Still in China

As far as I know. Don Surber say Trump conquers Red China, "He has the oil, the military and the corporate wizards on his side." Don maybe be exaggerating for effect, but it's true, Trump is holding lots of cards. Sasha Gong at Am Great, aks Who Really Needs Whom? Trump, Xi Jinping, and the Illusion of Chinese Strength. "China projects strength abroad, but internal purge politics, economic strain, and structural dependence suggest a far more fragile system than it appears." At PJM, VodkaPundit says Wait, China Is Gonna Buy Oil From WHERE? Alaska. News Wax hears Trump, Bessent Say China May Help Reopen Strait of Hormuz. My breath remains unbated. Jerry Dunleavy IV @JerryDunleavy, "Differences between U.S. & Chinese readouts on Trump-Xi meeting. U.S. mentions fentanyl, no to toll on Strait of Hormuz, buying U.S. oil, & opposition to Iranian nuke. China does not. China warns U.S. about Taiwan & says it is most important issue. U.S. doesn’t mention it at all." At Althouse, "Speaking just ahead of Trump, Xi... said a major question for the two countries was whether they could avoid the 'Thucydides Trap'....", "I'm reading "Xi asks Trump if U.S. and China can avoid 'Thucydides Trap' at high-stakes summit" (CNBC). (That's the original headline. The headline was rewritten, perhaps to avoid mystification, as "Xi warns Trump: Mishandling Taiwan will put U.S.-China relationship in 'great jeopardy.'")"... "Based on an observation by Thucydides in his "History of the Peloponnesian War" that "it was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable," [political scientist Graham] Allison used the term to describe a tendency towards war when a rising power (such as Athens) challenges the status of a ruling power (such as Sparta). Allison... argued that "China and the US are currently on a collision course for war."..."

Matt Vespa at TownHall reports the Senate Parliamentarian Just Delivered Some Brutal News About the Reconciliation Package. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "JUST IN: The unelected SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN has STRUCK DOWN major provisions of the GOP's ICE-CBP reconciliation funding bill This is RIDICULOUS! The parliamentarian has been a HUGE roadblock, even playing games with the Big Beautiful Bill last year Thune should've removed her a LONG time ago. Now, Republicans have to go back and fix: - CBP sections - Border security, tech and screening funds - Some $2.5B relating to Homeland Security Appropriations And then wait for her "green light" so it can pass with 50+1 votes." "The parliamentarian of the United States Senate is the official advisor to the United States Senate on the interpretation of Standing Rules of the United States Senate and parliamentary procedure. Incumbent parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has held the office since 2012, appointed by then-Senate majority leader Harry Reid." Term length - "Serves at the pleasure of the majority leader" Time for her to go. Also at TownHall, Kurt Schlichter says Good Riddance to the Awful Thomas Massie in his own inimitable way.

Da Wire is pleased to see Republicans Move To Wipe Out Democrat Seats In Louisiana, South Carolina. "Republican-led Southern states have raced to redraw their congressional maps after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision two weeks ago." But, maybe not as many as they could, still pretending to be the better party. Brianna Lyman at Da Fed hears Democrats Tell Pollsters They’d Happily Ditch Black Districts To Get More Power. At PJM, Rick Moran thinks This One Thing Is the Democrats' Achilles Heel and the Republicans' Super Power.

Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet, "UNBELIEVABLE. Vice President Vance just did a double take after hearing this wild stat dropped by Dr. Oz: "You're saying that we kicked off 800 fraudulent healthcare providers off of the Medicare system and not a single one of them called the government and said, 'hey, you made a mistake?'" "It's just completely insane."" Financial Express, Empty offices, Indian HR calling the shots: ICE uncovers rampant OPT abuse by foreign students. At the Victory Girls, Minnesota: Different Day, More Fraud, A Minnesota “grocery store owner” was charged yesterday with $1 million dollars in EBT food stamp fraud. "Abdid Wahid Mohamed, the owner of Minnesota Food Grocery LLC, allegedly used EBT cards registered to others to purchase items at Sam’s Club and Costco in 2021 before turning around and reselling them in his store, Fox 9 Minneapolis reported.""

PJM's Stephen Kruiser sings I'm California Dreaming About Karen Bass Losing Her Job. Jen O'Connell at RedState, LA Mayoral Candidate Proposes Backyard BBQ Ban to Fight Wildfires, Gets Raked Over the Coals. Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "Spencer Pratt: “We need to clean up homeless camps, get rid of the drug addicted everywhere, prepare for fires better, and lower taxes.” Nithya Raman: “We need to ban the normals from cooking hamburgers.” The right vs. left paradigm perfectly illustrated." Quote California Post @californiapost, "LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban https://trib.al/qaHiUo7." VodkaPundit at Insty finds THE CHICAGO WAY: Spencer Pratt Can Win Because Angry People Vote. Just Ask Former Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic. But so do the homeless, either by ballot harvesting or direct payments. Also, THIS IS MY STATE ON DEMOCRATS: Colorado Unfiltered @COUnfiltered, "So let me get this straight… Citizens get pissed that Colorado roads are held together with crack sealant, expired hopes, and orange cones from 2007, so they launch a ballot initiative to constitutionally force transportation money toward… you know… transportation. And the State Senate’s response is HB26-1430. A bill specifically designed to basically go: “Ok sure, you can vote for road funding… but we’re gonna offset it, redirect it, cut fees somewhere else, reshuffle transfers, and accountant-ninja kick the actual impact into another dimension.” That is objectively insane behavior..."At Twitchy, Schadenfreude-a-PALOOZA! Abigail Spanberger VETOS Collective Bargaining and HOOBOY, Their RAGE Fuels Them.

Melinda Hennenberger at RCP calls it How ‘Trumpian’ of the Left To Go After Susan Collins’ Tremor. I just thought she drank a lot of coffee... 

John Solomon at JTN reports the House Judiciary Chairman urges DOJ to permanently dismiss all Trump cases after bombshell report ""It's probably time that this all just ended," Jim Jordan told Jsu the News." Some in FBI still hanging onto the remains of Jack Smith's case for whenever a Democrat can get into office. 

Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit @drawandstrike, "Trump's already irretrievably crippled their 'human wave' migration machine by defunding it. All those "Catholic charities" aren't getting the US Treasury/USAID money any longer. Trump's been shutting off their REVENUE STREAMS to the human wave machinery for over 15 months at this point. And all this criminal networking is intertwined. Human trafficking, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, arms trafficking, gambling, contraband, moving stuff around public sanctions, when you cut off one network, you affect all the others also. The **last and easiest step** is the domestic stuff. Trump is actually a massive humanitarian. He knows who set up most of those 'rogue narcoterror regimes' to our South. WE DID. WE DID THAT. Well, to be fair, the people FORMERLY IN CONTROL OF OUR US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT and most especially, our CIA did that..."

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Lost in the reaction to @NickKristof doing journeyman's work pushing Hamas propaganda is the tremendous service he's done by promoting the most apt possible metaphor for modern American journalism: Dog Rape. Credit where credit is due." Quote John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz "New Wirecutter feature: We tested the rape skills of these 15 breeds of dog. Here are our rankings. x.com/dansenor/statu…"

Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "Here's Joe Biden calling a reporter he didn’t like “a stupid son of a bitch." Normalized like that?" Quote Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan, "When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized? x.com/atrupar/status…"

From Campus Reform, UCLA med school illegally discriminated based on race, DOJ concludes. I prefer my doctors chosen for ability, but maybe that's just me. Aaron Sibarium @aaronsibarium, "NEW: In a mandatory anti-racism class, Penn State told 1L law students they must "acknowledge the reality of systemic racism" and "dismantle systems that racialize, subordinate, and oppress." One student withdrew from the law school over the class. We obtained shocking audio." Teach them how to lie early; it's an important lawyerly skill.

At NYPo, Former BLM activist goes scorched earth on ‘scam’ group, insists systemic racism in US isn’t real.

Leslie Eastman at LI notices CDC Official Dusts Off Familiar ‘Six Feet’ Playbook Regarding Hantavirus. "So far, 11 passengers have tested positive for Andes strain, with 3 in critical condition. An expert asserts that assurances of low risk to general public is “calm-mongering”." Eventually, like a broken clock, they'll get one right.

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Marking Time up and at'em at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Homan Goes To Minneapolis

Sundance at CTH has the news conference, Border Czar Tom Homan Holds a Press Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At Althouse, "Um, the President of the United States called me Monday morning and asked me to deploy here. I got here Monday evening, and I'm staying until the problem's gone." "Said Tom Homan, in Minneapolis, just now. I'm quoting from the transcript at YouTube, here, along with video." Virginia Allen at Da Signal, Tom Homan Explains ICE ‘Drawdown’ Plan in Minnesota, "What Must Happen in Minnesota Before 'Withdrawal'" "Specifically, the border czar is asking state and local officials to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers and allow agents to arrest criminal illegal aliens in the controlled environment of a prison or jail, rather than releasing them from custody before federal agents can apprehend them." At Twitchy, NOT A WORD! Tom Homan Putting Anti-Ice Democrats In Their PLACE About Illegals Is GLORIOUS (Watch). Townhall.com @townhallcom, "Tom Homan CALLS OUT Democrats attacking ICE: "Where were they the last 4 years when the numbers of women and children sex-trafficked was at an all time high? Where were they when a quarter of a million Americans died from fentanyl coming across the border? Where were they when women and children were dying making that journey? ...Not a WORD." USA Today opines Trump secured the border. Don't let Minnesota overshadow that. Nick Arama at RedState says Yikes: This Threat to Kristi Noem From Hakeem Jeffries Isn't Toning Down the Temperature at All. Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ "NEW: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: “She’s got to be put on ice permanently.”" I'm sure he thought that was a clever pun, but imaging Trump threatening to put Jeffries on ice. From WJ, Watch As Chants Ring Out About Lynching Kristi Noem, Clueless Lib Protesters Realize to Their Horror Who They're in Bed With.

Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke, "Federal agents are in a recalcitrant state trying to enforce federal law, and the governor of that state wonders if it’s Fort Sumter without stopping to puzzle out which side that makes him in the analogy." The Peacock whines Tim Walz says he'll never seek elected office again "The Minnesota governor unexpectedly announced this month that he wouldn't run for re-election." Mike Miller at RedState, Embattled MN Gov. Makes Big Announcement About Political Future, but What He Leaves Out Is Pure Walz. I guess he has enough baksheesh from the Somali fraudsters to get by. Hat Hai's Capt. Ed hears the Twin Cities Police Union Chief: These Deaths Are On Walz, Frey. Sasha Stone thinks Tim Walz is the Worst Kind of Coward.

Ace woke up to the news "Peaceful Protester" and Super-Hot Male Model Alex Pretti Seen in New Video Spitting at ICE Agents, Kicking Their Cars. "Assault and battery with a side of Blue Steel." Mary Chastain at LI, Durbin Used Fake AI Picture of Alex Pretti Shooting on Senate Floor "One of the agents doesn’t have a head." From NewsBusters, MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace Displays AI-Enhanced Alex Pretti Photo, the one they "prettified." Shipwreckedcrew explains, THE LAW on "Excessive Use Of Force Claims" -- Public Sentiments Do Not Reflect The Realities Of Legal Principles. ""Right" and "Wrong" are only seldomly relevant in the analysis, and the law has a tolerance for alleged "mistakes" by law enforcement in fast moving and confusing situations." 

Tom Knighton at BA sees The Truly Scary Part of Minneapolis Protests "Now, where things go from here could be overstated. This could somehow de-escalate on its own, and this could be the anomaly. But I wouldn't bet money on that one if my life depended on it, and it kind of does." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, sees Polar Bear of Little Brains Jealous of ICE Flow in Other Cities. Illinois Review @IllinoisReview, "Defying his own city’s winter storm warnings, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson stood on ice — literally — with hundreds of protesters while calling to abolish ICE, then accused the Trump administration of kidnapping illegal aliens. Illegal Aliens First. The Safety of American Citizens Last." Ace, Don Lemon Arrested, But Not for the Sexual Assault He Was Credibly Accused of . " Don Lemon's shit-eating grin just got 10% more literal. Disgraced ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested early Friday over the anti-ICE protest that stormed a Minneapolis church during Sunday service, according to his attorney and Attorney General Pamela Bondi." At Da Signal, Dave Harsanyi asserts Protest Culture Is Annoying and Un-American. Jerry Dunleavy at JTN, Anti-ICE protest ‘terrorized’ Minnesota church, left kids scared, parents blocked: DOJ says. "DOJ says Minnesota churchgoers were "intimidated, harassed, oppressed, and terrorized" by anti-ICE agitators. They also added that at least one woman was hurt in the confrontation." Oli London @OliLondonTV, "Man dressed as Batman goes on anti-ICE tirade in front of the Santa Clara City Council. “I am disgusted by each and every one of you.”" TownHall's Amy Curtis sees Stephen Colbert Wants People to Stop Calling Ice Agents Nazis — and the Reason Why Will Have You Fuming. Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_, "Stephen Colbert: “Do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That’s an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces.”" Ace, Surprise! Left Wing Uses Pressure from Below, Pressure from Above Color Revolution Tactics to Push... Comprehensive Immigration Reform "So it makes perfect communist color revolution sense that the "insiders" are now pushing amnesty and open borders again, this time, supposedly as a way to avoid the further violence and chaos they're allied "outsiders" are perpetrating." At Am Spec, Scott McKay has some Some Obvious Truths From Minnesota.

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, " MAJOR BREAKING : The largest ICE license plate tracker, StopICE, has been compromised. First, follow @astrarce and @bitchuneedsoap. If you visit the StopICE license plate tracker, you will note all their plates have been overwritten with the following image: <-. From Twitchy, Woman Who Doxxed ICE Director and His FAMILY Just Found OUT by Losing Her Job and She is BIG MAD. Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr, "MAJOR update: The woman who DOXED the ICE Director and his family has LOST HER JOB! Turns out the tables were turned on her and now she BIG MAD. She made the announcement privately on a local community group and is upset that people dimed her out. So of course this was brought to us to HIGH FIVE all of you for pushing back against evil. Heidi Scholes of Groveland, Massachusetts posted the home address of the ICE Director all over the internet, encouraging protestors to head to his house. His own CHILDREN AND WIFE have been made targets thanks to Heidi and her minions. Heidi's Facebook profile says she's "radicalized by basic decency" - which is pretty ironic, considering there's no "decency" in doxxing. Let's be clear - you target federal #lawenforcement and their families... and you make our naughty list. And you don't want to make our naughty list. Because our team is made up of trained warriors, law enforcement, combat veterans... and people who are really, really good at unmasking and exposing evil. Go ahead and f around, leftists. You'll find out."

PJM's Rick Moran claims The Iranian Regime Is in Worse Shape Than Previously Thought. Hat Hair's Duane Patterson quips Iran's Doomsday Clock Is So Close To Midnight, the Ball Is Dropping. Globe Observer @_GlobeObserver, "BREAKING: USS Abraham Lincoln has gone dark, with no transponder or communication, signaling possible preparation for action against Iran." Frontalforce @FrontalForce, "BREAKING A third US carrier strike group, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), is moving into the Middle East theater. Encircling Iran ?" TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog, "US Navy guided missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) has been confirmed by officials as entering the region as of yesterday. It's last position was departing NSA Souda Bay, Crete on the 26th. It joins the USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Both ships will likely be positioned to provide ballistic missile defense for Israel." Quote The War Zone @thewarzonewire, "Destroyer, Electronic Surveillance Jet Joins U.S. Forces Massing In Middle East Amid the ongoing military buildup, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that no one knows who would lead Iran next should the Khamenei regime fall." At Da Wire, CNN’s Report From Tehran Echoes Regime Propaganda While Glossing Over Massacres. "Iran’s leadership is sending a strong and very defiant message to the United States."

Common Place's Oren Cass and Dan Kishi point out Canada Doesn’t Have the Cards. Canada is the foam on America's latte. At Am Con, The ‘Art’ of Trump’s ‘Concept’ Deal in Greenland.

Rick Moran thinks 'Trump Accounts' For Kids Could Turn Out to Be a Game Changer for the Next Generation. I expect Democrats to seize them at the next opportunity "for the children!"

For your amusement, Althouse posts this video, "How can you succeed when you say things like that?" To be a political pundit means you have no shame.

Ace notices Feds Seize 700 Boxes of "Votes" From Fulton County, GA, Election Hub; Democrats Shriek In Fear "Via Twitchy, Democrats are scrambling for a "plan" to #resist a signed judicial search warrant. Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC "You can’t make it up. The FCC will vote on requiring that federal subsidies flow only to people that are both living and lawful beneficiaries. Dems oppose." Beege Welborn hears Dr Oz Is the Latest Trump 'Racist' Going After Medical Fraud by Armenian mobs in California. Leslie Eastman at LI, Newsom Smears Dr. Oz as ‘Racist’ After He Targeted Alleged California Medical Fraud, "Because Oz asserts Russian, Armenian gangs are involved in a $1.4 billion fraud involving home healthcare services, Newsom’s office suggested that Oz’s Turkish heritage played a role in his findings." No Pasaran! sees Widespread failure across nearly every level of leadership in Minnesota: Public programs fraud on the scale we see today— of which Ilhan Omar is Somali Fraud Exhibit A—indicates a leadership class that has either forgotten or no longer takes seriously the idea that public office is a public trust.

Dave Strom cites Mamdani: Fiscal Crisis as Bad as Great Recession in NYC, because he can't spend money he doesn't have. 

And this is where I quit yesterday. Ilhan Omar was "attacked?" at a speech, by a man wielding a syringe of what turned out to be apple cider vinegar, which he sprayed on her torso. Now, vinegar in the eyes would be painful, but not deadly (ask me how I know), but on clothes, all it does is smell funny. Kind of like the whole affair. Ace, Ilhan Omar "Attacked"... with... Water... "Some claim it was staged. Including Trump. Or, at least, he jokes that she "probably" sprayed herself, while also not caring if she did nor not." And As Media Convulses Over Ilhan Omar Being Sprayed Like a Misbehaving Kitten, Tim Walz Says He'd "Beat the Shit Out of JD Vance If I Could," and a Democrat Attorney General Candidate Threatens to "Kill" Trump "But boy oh boy, Ilhan Omar had her monthly shower a few days early, what a tragedy. JLR© @JLRINVESTIGATES, "Anthony Kazmierczak was arrested last night for attacking Ilhan Omar. He was once married to a Patrice Kazmierczak. They divorced a few years ago. His ex-wife Patrice is a political activist & a big supporter of Ilhan Omar & AOC." Matt Vespa, Here’s the Guy Who Sprayed That Stuff on Ilhan Omar. Matt Vespa, It's a Question Everyone Is Asking About the Ilhan Omar Syringe Attack...and I Can See Why. Trish Regan @trish_regan, "Ilhan Omar was reportedly sprayed in the face tonight — And, she runs after the attacker?!! As though she’s about to take him out? This is not normal behavior. Not even close. No wonder people are asking if it was STAGED!" Matt Margolis, Here’s Why Many Say the Ilhan Omar Assault Was Staged. Twitchy, FAKE, FAKE, FAKE! Ilhan Omar LOSES It When Asked Why She Didn't Follow Foreign Substance Protocols. Bad Hombre @Badhombre, "The craziest thing about Ilhan Omar getting sprayed with apple cider vinegar is how her net worth increased by 3,500% since getting elected." To be sure, she's not the only congress critter to do that. Dave Strom sees a mystery when Ilhan Omar's Winery Disappears...Literally Gone From the Internet and Archives. "A major part of that growth in wealth has been the rapid rise in the valuation of a sketchy "winery" from a few thousand dollars to a whopping $5 million to$15 million, despite having (perhaps) released few wines and, in recent years, none at all. Its locations appear to be empty buildings, its wines are unavailable, and once attention was turned to its sketchy nature, all the information about it disappeared from the internet." Elon Musk @elonmusk, "Hmm" Quote Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal, "Ilhan Omar’s so called $5M winery vanishes without a trace...no license, no footprint, just gone. Source: @NEWSMAX x.com/MarioNawfal/st…" From Wombat at the In The Mailbox: 01.29.26 (Afternoon Edition), EBL: Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has a California winery? More likely a California money laundry. 

FWIW, I give the chances of the vinegar attack being staged about 10%. You'd have to be a real sucker to do that knowing you'd be caught and charged assaulting a congresscritter. However, if she begs for his release from the charges, or fails to file needed charges, the chance goes up to 95%.

✪ Evil Te𝕏an ✪ @vileTexan "After Benny @bennyjohnson went digging on Illan Omar, I went digging a little bit on "the squad". Rashida Tlaib is a broke ass mf'r btw. However, Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) has some interesting things going on. Her husband is pulling in $1M/yr from "government funded" sources. So I dug through her congressional financial disclosures and used AI to break some things down. Let's go. THE NUMBERS: * 2018 net worth: -$12,500 (per OpenSecrets) * 2024 net worth: ~$8,000,000 That's an $8 MILLION increase in 6 years on a $174K congressional salary. How'd that happen? . . . " 

From the GatewayPundit, Tulsi Gabbard Releases Documents that PROVE it Was Barack Obama who Led the Russiagate Conspiracy and Coup Against Donald Trump – Documents Have Been Turned Over to the DOJ. Sundance notes Virginia Senator and SSCI Vice Chairman, Mark Warner, is Very Concerned About Tulsi Gabbard, and Search Warrant Revealed – DNI Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey on the Ground in Fulton County. The fact that Tulsi is there suggests foreign activity is suspected.

From Da Caller, Police Charge West Virginia Librarian For Allegedly Recruiting People To Assassinate Trump, as someone quipped, leaving WV with no librarians. 

 

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo "After weeks of trial, a jury has found the City of Seattle liable for a black boy who was shot dead by the CHAZ BLM-Antifa security in 2020. The city evacuated the police station & built barricades to help the far-left rioters. Report by @KatieDaviscourt." I'm pleasantly surprised a Seattle jury did that. 

From the College Fix, Chicago schools refuse to hire Christian college student teachers despite lawsuit. Hat Hair's John Sexton hears a Biologist Sues Cornell Claiming Racial Discrimination and Dave Strom hears Michelle Obama complain Black Women Don't Complain Enough. Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger "Newly unsealed federal court orders point to massive Qatari funding shaping Carnegie Mellon’s behavior and enabling antisemitism on campus: . . . A federal judge said a reasonable juror could conclude that CMU’s reliance on over $1 billion from Qatar motivated the university to accommodate donor expectations . . ." Ace, AP: "Car Rams Into Chabad Headquaters In New York City". "If you don't know what a Chabad house is, join the club. My guess is that it's some kind of community center or charity. Jewish. Which is why AP resorts to their favorite fact-obscuring tactic: Claiming a "car" rammed something, rather than a person at the wheel of that car. And the man who rammed the car into the Jewish center has an Arabic last name, "Sohail." So you'll understand Associated with Terrorist's lunatic choice to make the car the bad actor in this story."

A Driscolly post at Insty, AND NOW, A WORD FROM GUS FRING: Sociopath Giancarlo Esposito Willing to See 50 Million (Other) People Die for His Revolution. "Actor Giancarlo Esposito crystallized today’s Democrat Party by admitting he is willing to see people die to fulfill his revolution. This is a direct quote, per the far-left Variety, and these are the words of a narcissistic sociopath. Block quotes are Variety’s… "This is time for a revolution — and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting. We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world]." Don’t you get it, you over-privileged, leftist dummies? Do you not see it? You bored, spoiled brats attempting fill the God-shaped hole in your soul by attacking law enforcement, destroying private property, and provoking violence are nothing more or less than cannon fodder to Democrat Party elites like Giancarlo Esposito. . ."

From the Martin Center, A Triumph for Civic Renewal at America’s 250th "A Texas program aims to improve civic literacy in underserved communities."

At the Spec, Amelia: the purple-haired goth girl who became a nationalist icon.

Still more from the Wombat at the In The Mailbox: 01.29.26 (Afternoon Edition). The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: One Big Crunch ready for your clicks at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Pubs Pounce on NC Killing

Yeah, we're still dwelling on the horrific crime against Iryna Zarutska, stabbed to death out of the blue on the Charlotte NC light rail, by schizophrenic and multiple violent offender Decarlos Brown Jr, out on no cash bond from previous run-ins with the law. The crime, committed on Aug, 22, was all but unreported nationally until right-wing bloggers caught on and started promoting the story. Sundance at CTH catches up with 23-year-old Ukraine Refugee Killed in North Carolina by Violent Career Criminal. Likewise, Ace, A 14-Time Arrestee and Homeless Man with Multiple Arrests for Violent Armed Muggings and a History of Schizophrenic Delusion Murders a Beautiful Young Woman on Video, and the Media Brutally Suppresses the Story. NYPo, Horrid video of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska’s slaughter on Charlotte train is met with deafening silence from Dem leaders, media. Brad R. Torgersen @BradRTorgersen "This incident really does combine all the kryptonite elements into one: the city hasn't had an (R) mayor in sixteen years, currently has a murder and assault rate much higher than the national average, the perpetrator is a black American male with a history of mental illness and arrests for violence, the victim was a caucasian female unrelated to the perpetrator, and she was also not native-born U.S. *And* she's from Ukraine. If you were a MAGA strategist trying to script a perfect event to inject into the culture and political war with entrenched (D)s in cities struggling under (D) policies, you could not have come up with something like this. It would be too perfect. And that's why American legacy media are paralyzed. They can only tip-toe up to the story while wearing a HAZMAT suit. They're forced by ideology to report on the story's framing in the zeitgeist. Not report the story itself. The story itself is like a SpaceX Starship lifting off, for all of M"AGA's claims about (D) dereliction. And about black (D) dereliction in particular." At Hat Hair, Duane Patterson, Three More Examples of Why You Don't Hate Media Nearly Enough, a video, Understanding Why the Media Ignored the Brutal Murder of Iryna Zarutska, and Dustin Grage, MAGA Pounces on Charlotte Horror, Matt Silver @CohibasN_Cognac, "How dare you notice what we have tried to suppress! This is just Republicans pounce but more unhinged due to the subject. Also there's the illegal who murdered a young black woman and threw her off a bridge. They don't want to talk about that either." LifeZette, Mainstream Media Completely Exposed by Refusal to Cover Murder of Ukrainian Refugee. Driscoll at Insty sees AXIOS GOES INTO FULL REPUBLICANS POUNCE MODE TO TUT-TUT ZARUTSKA MURDER: "Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message. MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases." Stephen Kruiser at PJM thinks the Media Blackout Regarding Charlotte Murder Is Pure Evil.

TownHall's Guy Benson says A Democratic Mayor's Disgraceful Reaction to an Avoidable Murder in Her City. Brett Jensen WBT News @Brett_Jensen, "The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police has put out another blistering statement regarding what they deem to be massive failures of Mayor Vi Lyles." Matt Vespa at TownHall, Oh, Hi, Roy Cooper, Nice of You to Finally Weigh in on the Brutal Charlotte Stabbing . Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles, "Preposterous statement from the @NC_Governor. The problem isn't that cops didn't arrest the guy. He was arrested over two dozen times! The problem is that liberal prosecutors, judges, and legislators like you refused to keep him locked up." Quote Governor Josh Stein @NC_Governor, "I am heartbroken for the family of Iryna Zarutska, who lost their loved one to this senseless act of violence, and I am appalled by the footage of her murder. We need more cops on the beat to keep people safe. That’s why my budget calls for more funding to hire more well-trained police officers .. . ." Please give me more money. Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling, "The 1619 Project creator has weighed in on the Charlotte murder, and it’s exactly the word salad you would have expected." Insty, WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE: Ashley Rindsberg @AshleyRindsberg, "Wikipedia is already trying to erase it"

Nabootique @Vince_Noir77, "Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes freed Decarlos Brown Jr. in January allowed Brown who is homeless and has a litany of previous arrests - including for armed robbery and assault - to walk free on a 'written promise' that he would return for his next court appearance. FIRE HER." Margo @MargoinWNC, "THE MAGISTRATE IN CHARLOTTE HAS FIVE BANKRUPTCIES? WHAT IS GOING ON?" Quote, Sloan Rachmuth @SloanRachmuth "Why does Charlotte Judge Teresa Ann Stokes claim to also live in Lansing, MI? And, according to @TruthFinder, someone named Teresa Ann Stokes, who graduated from Capella and Thomas M. Cooley Law School and lived in Lansing, has multiple tax liens and bankruptcies." C3 @C_3C_3, "Here’s something that needs to be looked into… How many other Democrat run cities have Magistrate Judges that also run treatment centers? Releasing criminals into “court ordered” treatment centers sure could be lucrative. I bet Teresa Stokes in Charlotte isn’t the only one…" Insty, SANER AND MORE DECENT THAN THE NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS, WHICH ADMITTEDLY IS A LOW BAR. BUT GOOD FOR HER, Joe Bruno @JoeBrunoWSOC9, "Today we heard from Decarlos Brown's mom. She spoke to @Hunt_Saenz. She is not making excuses for her son. She says "what he did was atrocious, it was horrible and it was wrong." The point of her speaking isn't to make her son out to be a victim. He's not. She says she wanted to speak about the arrest to highlight how the system failed and things got to this point. . . " Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Trump: You'd Better Believe I'm Looking Into Murder in Charlotte; UPDATE: GoFundMe Ends Perp's Pages. The White House @WhiteHouse, ""I have seen the horrific video of a beautiful, young Ukrainian refugee, who came to America to escape the vicious War in Ukraine, and was innocently riding the Metro in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was brutally ambushed by a mentally deranged lunatic. The perpetrator was a well known career criminal, who had been previously arrested and released on CASHLESS BAIL in January, a total of 14 TIMES. What the hell was he doing riding the train, and walking the streets? Criminals like this need to be LOCKED UP."
@POTUS" Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo, "Old joke: two social workers walking down the road come across a man who has clearly been viciously assaulted: he is bruised, bleeding, and lying unconscious in a ditch. One of the social workers looks at the other and says: "We have to find whoever did this. He needs help!"

Insty, IF YOUR MOVEMENT CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH, YOUR MOVEMENT SHOULD BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH: DC_Draino @DC_Draino, "BLM 2020: We want bodycams on every cop! BLM 2026: wait nevermind, turn em off". Quote Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "Understand that the war on cameras, including surveillance cameras in public spaces, body cams on cops, and your Ring, is coming. The problem for the left is they reveal the inconvenient truth, so they have to be banned." At Hat Hair, Dave Strom notes, to no one's surprise, Michael Brown's Friend Who Invented 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' Hoax Is Murdered and Beege Welborn Singing a Different Tune: Chicago Rapper Shot Moonlighting as a Carjacker AppPatriotgirl @jsmith4966, "Fun fact about Charlotte's transit system - you aren't allowed to concealed carry even with a permit. They have no security on the train or buses, but you aren't allowed to protect yourself. They killer had a knife though, because no metal detectors, and didn't pay for his fare because you ride on the "honor system". Liberal utopia bullshit right there." Capt. Ed, Trump Escalates: After Six More Dead in Chicago, Why Won't Pritzker Ask for Help?

Sarah Anderson at TownHall hears Trump Hint at Escalation in Venezuela as Maduro Scrambles. CDR Salamander, So, we Now Have the "War" in "Drug War" "Operation Reciprocity is a go ... just have your get out of jail free card. . . . Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have some new ROE." Ace notes Communist Deep Staters Are Angry That Trump Has Reverted the "Department of War" Back to Its Original Name. "The name of the Department was changed, probably by liberals, for PR reasons. There is no need to euphemize it: The point of a military is to fight and win wars, not "hearts and minds." If "Department of War" was good enough for the founding fathers, it should be good enough for us." Ryan King at NYPo hears Trump ready to punish Putin, Russia after latest deadly assault on Ukraine. 

NYPo again, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatens housing regulator Bill Pulte in explosive Trump admin fight: ‘Punch you in your f—ing face’. PJM's Scott Pinsker calls him ‘Sugar’ Scott Bessent: Donald Trump’s Man of Mayhem and Violence. But, he seems so calm. Leah Barkoukis at TownHall on Why Bessent Was Amused When 'Meet the Press' Host Brought Up What Goldman Sachs Said About Tariffs: “So just bottom line, Mr. Secretary, do you acknowledge that these tariffs are a tax on American consumers?” Welker asked. "No, I don't," Bessent said with a smile. "You're quoting Goldman Sachs...I made a good career of trading against Goldman Sachs." MPR News reports Postal traffic to U.S. sank 80% after Trump administration ended exemption on low-value parcels. Fox Bus, US-born workers see job gains as foreign-born employment declines, Labor Department data shows, "Labor Department report shows unemployment rates were relatively stable for both immigrants and US-born workers." The Peacock whines, Higher SALT deduction relieves homeowners, adds to national debt. "Trump raised the SALT deduction cap to $40,000: Here’s what it means for taxpayers." Cathy Salgado at PJM reports PBS Cuts 100 Jobs After Funding Slashed by Trump Administration and Congress. It's a start. Hat Hair's John Sexton cites Ezra Klein: Democrats Should Shut Down the Government (and Damage the Economy).

Katie Jerkovich claims JD Vance Crushes Lefties' Dreams After Democrats Release Alleged Trump-Epstein Birthday Note JD Vance @JDVance "The Democrats don't care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That's why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies. No one is falling for this BS." Quote Karoline Leavitt @PressSec "The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire “Birthday Card” story is false. As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it. . . "

Mark Tapscott at Insty sees THE ORCS ARE COMING FOR RFK JR: "That tumultuous Senate Finance Committee hearing last week in which HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. was subjected to an unprecedented series of insults, misrepresentations, outright lies, and character assassination is just the opening of Sauron’s massive assault. The goal is to do whatever is necessary to either persuade President Donald Trump to fire Kennedy, or to render Kennedy so bloodied and distracted that he resigns." At Althouse, "I don’t think there have been successes. We’ve seen a 30- or 40-year decline in the agency because... it’s been infiltrated by the pharmaceutical companies." "And they’ve made a series of bad decisions.... What we want to do now is put an end to it, to end those entanglements — those corrupting entanglements with the pharmaceutical industry — and make this again a gold standard science agency that is protecting the American public." Said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., quoted in "RFK Jr. says he sees no successes in the agency he leads" (CNN)." Dave Strom at Hat Hair says I Am So Tired of Political 'Science'.

Spare the sob story about how the CDC is only following the science. Here's Mandy Cohen, then head of the CDC, describing how she made policy decisions - tell me what science she was following here?! pic.twitter.com/dRwfodzC8y

— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) August 28, 2025

Driscoll at Insty, with a reminder, AND NOW, A FEW WORDS FROM JOE BIDEN: MAZE @mazemoore, "1989. Senator Biden calls on George Bush to do more to fight crime and drug trafficking. Beef up border security. Build more prisons. Set up an international strike force to take out narco terrorists. Oh how times have changed." Sarah Arnold hears Biden’s Presidential Library Faces Fundraising Hurdles Amid Democratic Division. From the Center Square, EXCLUSIVE: Secret Service spent $11 million on Hunter Biden travel detail "The spending came as Biden denied protection to RFK Jr. and with two assassination attempts on Trump's life." At Hat Hair, Can Tim Walz Win Again? From Ace, With Pro-Trans Democrats Threatening a Return of Jim Crow, Can Pete Buttigieg’s Black Support Go Lower than 0%? From LifeZette, CNN’s Scott Jennings Reveals Who is Really Leading the Democratic Party. "“Well, I mean, for the foreseeable future, the person who’s running the Democratic Party now is going to be running it, and that’s Donald Trump. I mean, the only thing they know how to do is be against whatever he is for, and so there is no leader of the party except for Trump. The beating heart of the Democratic Party is, ‘If Trump is for it, we’re against it,’ and you throw a little socialism on the side. That’s basically how they’re — ” Jennings said before being cut off by interjections from Democratic panelists."

Dave Strom reports VA Governor Candidate Spanberger Invents 'News' Site to Deceive Voters "The "news" outlet is the Commonwealth Courier, which is a Facebook page that presents itself as a "Media/News" company. Only it isn't a company at all. It is, in fact, an artificial creation of the Spanberger for Governor campaign." From Da Caller, Democrats Now Like Socialism Much More Than Capitalism, New Poll Shows. Well, they mostly have government jobs. At Brackish Waters, Barren Soils, I still want that 20 million from the dems, by the way.

Susie Moore at RedState, Breaking: SCOTUS Issues Critical Ruling on L.A. Immigration Stops. John Sexton, Supreme Court: Immigration Stops in LA Can Continue. Greg Price @greg_price11, "In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court pauses a lower court ruling that had prohibited the Trump administration from conducting roving immigration arrests across Los Angeles." Ace, Supreme Court Stays Lawless Lowly District Court Judge's Injunction Against Trump Enforcing Our Nation's Immigration Laws. "A Biden judge decided that the immigration laws cannot be enforced in Los Angeles. This is insurrectionary. The Supreme Court issued a terse stay of the order, allowing ICE to conduct raids in LA again." U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong. Sundance, Supreme Court Rules 6-3 to Lift Court Ordered Restrictions on Los Angeles (CA) ICE Immigration Enforcement Raids. From Twitchy, Schiff and Newsom and Bass OH MY! SCOTUS Decision on ICE California Ops Irks All the Right People. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair VIP, BREAKING: SCOTUS Unshackles Executive Authority in Immigration, 'Independent Agency' Cases. Althouse, "The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission despite a federal law..." ""... that is intended to restrict the White House’s power to control the agency.... Trump fired both Democratic commissioners on the five-person FTC in March, [Rebecca Kelly] Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. Both challenged the move, although Bedoya later dropped out of the case." Anxiously, from Anxious, Supreme Court lets Trump fire FTC commissioner for now. From LifeZette, Federal Appeals Court Rules ‘Pretend Categories’ for Trans Allowed on Passports. VodkaPundit at Insty says HMM: Trump loses bid to overturn $83.3 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll defamation case. “The panel who delivered Monday’s ruling comprised two judges appointed by former President Joe Biden and one judge picked by former President Barack Obama.” That detail doesn’t come up until the final graf of CNBC’s report."

Adam Pack at Da Caller hears John Thune To Steamroll Chuck Schumer’s Blockade Of Trump Nominees Through ‘Nuclear Option.’  As Matt Margolis at PJM puts it Chuck Schumer Tested FAFO and the GOP Is About To Make Him Pay the Price. 

Misty Severi at JTN reports Jeffries taps Swalwell to lead Democrats on new House J6 panel. "Jeffries also selected Reps. Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Jared Moskowitz of Florida to serve as the other two Democrats on the panel. House Speaker Mike Johnson gets final approval of all members." Mike should follow Nancy Pelosi's lead and nix Swallowwell and Crockoshit and appoint his own quislings. 

LifeZette reports Homan Confirms Federal Immigration Crackdown Headed Straight for Chicago. John Sexton, Operation Midway Blitz Gets Started in Chicago. At Da Fetched, Border Czar Tom Homan Warns: “Touch an ICE Officer or Make a Threat – You’re Going to Jail”. From Da Wire, Trump’s Border Czar Says Even He Is ‘Amazed’ By Success Of Illegal Alien Crackdown “We have the most secure border in the history of this nation." Fox wants you to Meet the Trump team tracking down thousands of missing migrant children "Investigation reveals Biden administration released minors to unvetted sponsors without proper screening." Dave Strom, Former Minnesota Department of Education Director and Sex Offender Arrested by ICE. Wow, an illegal alien sex offender chosen to be a high official in their educations system? ET, Trump Urges Foreign Companies to Obey Laws, Train US Workers After Hyundai Raid "South Korea’s government has chartered a plane to bring home the detained workers after negotiations with U.S. officials."

Pop Times hears the CBS Deal With Bari Weiss Sparks Panic Among Media Elites. Poor dears. NYT whines CBS Taps Conservative Policy Veteran for New Ombudsman Role. "Kenneth R. Weinstein, who will review complaints about CBS News, was head of the right-leaning Hudson Institute, a think tank, and has no experience overseeing news coverage."

From Campus Reform, University of Pittsburgh must reinstate SJP chapter after federal judge rules free speech was violated.

John Sexton hears the Idaho Trans Athlete Asks Supreme Court to Drop Case. "In June, Idaho's attorney general asked the Supreme Court to hear the case and in July the court agreed. But last week, lawyers for Hecox asked SCOTUS to drop the case saying their client didn't want to face a public backlash." and examines how The Left-RIght Divide on Family Creation Matches the Divide on Mental Health. From Breitbart, Trump Slams Democrat Abigail Spanberger for Supporting Males in Girls’ Bathrooms and Sports. 

More links at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.08.25. The Wombat has posted FMJRA 2.0: Cramming For The Draft at the usual time and place.