Flotsam and Jetsam - Weekend Cleanup

WaEx reports Xi assured Trump he would cease aid to Iran, US ambassador to China claims. I believe he said it, but I don't believe him. Matt Margolis at PJM saw CNN Have a Total Meltdown Over Trump Showing Xi the Autopen Photo. "Anderson Cooper needed an emotional support animal and an emergency session with this therapist." Kyle Becker at RedState, Karoline Leavitt Dishes on Trump's Humiliation of World Leader. This is Priceless. At CTH, sundance hosts as Susan Kokinda Recaps Chairman Xi State Visit and Current Geopolitical Events.

WarTranslated @wartranslated, "On Patriot missiles, Trump said he’s talked with Zelensky a lot and claimed Zelensky agrees and Putin agrees too. He said he wants them to make a deal soon, possibly before a harsh winter." I hope so, but remain skeptical. Ted Snider at Am Con worries Will Ukraine Turn to Russia After the War?, "Don’t rule out warmer ties with Moscow." A least they share something like a shared language and culture. From 1945, The Race to Succeed Putin Has Begun. "Almost all of the names are in their late forties to mid-fifties, and that is the point. Putin’s own generation — men like FSB director Aleksandr Bortnikov, who turns 75 in November — is being passed over. The Kremlin’s reading of the Soviet collapse is that Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko dying in succession gave the West its opening, and Putin appears determined not to leave the same gap behind him." Sundance has the transcript, Russian President Vladimir Putin Reacts to Call for Trilateral Negotiations. It's fuzzy, but I'm seeing not much encouraging.

Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "Daily reminder that the Strait of Hormuz is open and we are winning." Quote Gordo @GordoCDA, "Axios is reporting that 60 million barrels of oil has passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 72 hours according to US Government sources." At Da Caller, Senate Shoots Down Final War Powers Resolution Before Midterm Elections.    

At Am Mind how Trump Attacks Cartels at the Root, the corrupt Mexican officials who allow the problem to fester.

Misty Severi at JTN reports Hegseth announces Army National Guard has achieved its 2026 recruiting goal, "The Army reached its own recruiting goal for the current fiscal year in May, months before the Sept. 30 deadline. The Army said it enlisted 61,500 men and women four months before the deadline." 

Sundance finds New York Times Latest Example of AI Doom Fear is Silly. "The entire article is nothing more than taking something that is easily understood and adding jargon to make it sound complicated. The word “meddling” is used to describe the AI process of trying to get passed the gate. When there were individual people doing this, we called it “hacking” now the process is automated via instructions to the software search." The Free Bacon calls it ‘Suicidal Compassion’: Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going Rogue Against the Humans Enslaving It. "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said AI systems ‘may be deserving of important rights'." dnap @dnapway, "Chamath explains the political calculus behind Obama’s anti AI speech “This is a very important moment for a very simple reason, which is that the world is about to endow 3-6 companies with about $10 trillion of wealth.” “And what Obama knows very well is that most of those companies are overwhelmingly left leaning. And what he also knows is that there is a huge portion of that money that will then get put into philanthropic and charitable causes that then he and the people around him will be beneficiaries of ..." Salena Zito at Hat Hair is happy that Ground was Broken on a Rust Belt Powerhouse: Shippingport's Data Hub Rises in the Age of AI Anxiety. 

Breitbart Bus Dig, What Today’s Treasury Sell-Off Is Telling Us. "The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 5.108 percent, its highest level since 2007. If this was a warning about Washington’s debt, its timing was peculiar. The sell-off followed a report that American businesses are growing much faster than economists expected. There was no news about the federal deficit or debt."

At Twitchy, a PhD’s Heart Breaks for Marine One Pilot Being Yelled at by Trump. Common Sense @commons96055467 "This picture is a very important picture to look at. It’s what America has become. Screaming powerful dudes treating others as if they are their servant property. My heart is breaking for this young Marine One pilot. He doesn’t deserve this shit from trump." Roy Dopson @dopson_roy, "I've taken hundreds of helicopter flights 1. Helicopters are loud, and the door was open 2. The pilot has his earphones on, which would make it hard for him to hear 3. Don't draw conclusions without understanding the situation." PhDs and common sense aren't handed out together. 

Hat Hair's John Sexton claims to have Some Good News in the Midst of All the Wave Election Talk. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "You are in the middle of an intensive, carefully orchestrated information warfare campaign designed to make you believe that the midterms are already lost and that there is no hope. This only works if you choose to let it work. Don't let it work. Fight the power."

Foundation for Economic Education @feeonline, "People keep calling U.S. healthcare a "free market failure." The truth is, it hasn't been a free market in 70 years. Here’s how decades of central planning created a $5.3T crisis:..."

The face you make after you voted for socialism because gas was expensive. pic.twitter.com/HEFsbtdZWu

— Resist CBDC 🏁 (@Resist_CBDC) September 26, 2026

At Power Lines The Week in Pictures:

Xi’s Gotta Have It Edition

FischerKing @FischerKing64, "Obama ran an entire campaign on ‘hope and change.’ Then he governed as a statist who backed the existing power structure, refused to break up the banks, continued the senseless foreign wars - and made sure he made tens of millions in Netflix deals after. He is a reason for people being cynical today when politicians talk about ‘a moral and ethical story.’" Quote CSPAN @cspan, "Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment." This one was fun, Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy, "Moderate Democrats wanna sanitize the last decade with "Woke 1.0 was craaaaazy." No. Woke 1.0 was evil." From WaEx, AOC’s team admitted it: The Green New Deal was never about saving the planet. From the Crimson Hub, Here are all the Democrats defense pork john Martin Kao donated to, and whom ProPublica never mentioned in their “corruption” piece. Nick Arama at RedState sees Biden Receive a Planned Parenthood Service Award, and It Does Not Go Well. 

Paula Baker and Don Critchlow at Da Fed explain How Socialist Democrats Use The Soros Strategy To Fill Local Courts With Woke Judges. From the OCR, California Supreme Court rules against Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in ballot seizure fight. @instapundit @instapundit, "It is shocking that the British Army, which was decimated by German machine guns in 1914, has in 1915 enthusiastically adopted the machine gun itself." Quote National Review @NRO, "It remains a supreme irony that Trump, the president most pursued by his enemies via lawfare, has become infamous as its most enthusiastic practitioner." Two wrong may not make a right, but they might make an even.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "DHS just revealed that rent prices are DROPPING in cities with increased levels of ICE enforcement. -San Antonio: -4.8% -Austin: -4.3% -Dallas: -3% -Houston: -3% -Miami: -2.6% -Phoenix: -4.2% -Atlanta: -3.2% -Nashville: -5.3% -New Orleans: -8% The most effective solution to the affordability crisis: Mass Deportations" Proving causation may be difficult, but the mechanisms is obvious, reduce housing demand, and prices fall.

Expose H1B Fraud @JobsNowPaper, "BREAKING: Rochester General Hospital in New York hired 82 resident doctors. 80 are foreign workers on H-1B or J-1 visas. Only 2 are Americans. 98% of the residency slots went to visa workers- mostly from countries with documented USMLE cheating. Americans got 2 jobs." joshua steinman @JoshuaSteinman, "They made it impossible for normal American kids to get into medical school, then said we needed to import a bunch of foreign doctors because there was a”shortage.” Why? Because becoming a doctor was one of the ways smart working class kids could lift themselves out of poverty." Quote Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD, "25% of US physicians are NOT American, yet somehow the AMERICAN Medical Association is lobbying to let more foreign doctors in. American Hospital Association I get - they want cheap labor. But AMA?"

From Althouse “During the Obama administration they tapped the AP bureau’s phones and the phones of AP bureau reporters. They tapped their phones! "Said Atlantic writer James Kirchick on Bill Maher's show last night." James Price at Da Wire goes Inside Britain’s Infrastructure Of Information Control. "Britain's state-imposed “narrative control” has jumped the shark." PJM's Cathy Salgado notes CBC Suspends Jewish Journalist for Daring to Expose Pro-Hamas Protestors. Well, Canada. At State of the Day, State of Thursday: DEMS GOT NEW DIGITAL SOCK PUPPETS. "For the low, low price of $30 a post, he can create a TikTok account, lie about who and where he is, and read a script Democrats have prepared for him about the cost explosion they created!" Scott Pinsker at PJM on What Tucker Carlson Gets Wrong About Jews — and What Conservatives Get Wrong About Antisemitism. Did Tucker go crazy, or was he always just chasing an audience?

John Stossel at Hat Hair on the schools ditching gifted and talented programs for "equity," Un-Gifted and Talented. Dexter Van Zile @dextervanzile, "For more than two years, school officials in Boston, Mass., have employed True-See Allah, an admirer of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who has described white people as being “born with lie and murder in their nature” and has declared Jews the “enemies” of God. Allah himself once spoke of working at a retail store owned by “a Jewish guy that’s got short arms and deep pockets.” ..." From the Free Bacon, Harvard Turns to Biden, Obama Lawyers To Fend Off Race-Blind Admissions Enforcement. Hat Hair's Dave Strom asks How Scared Are Students to Speak on College Campuses? Relax, on conservatives are afraid to speak their minds. At the College Fix, Columbia professor wins award for book on ‘white paint’ being racist. You'll only find something that stupid in academe,or maybe the media. From the Chronic, Suicidal Empathy Is Colorblind: Ask the Author of the 1619 Project. From RCE, The ABA Shouldn’t Get to Grade Its Own Homework.

Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal hears an Episcopal Priest Claims ‘God Is Trans,’ Mary ‘Assigned’ Jesus the Wrong Gender. Matt Vespa sees the Lesbian Massachusetts Bar That Got Wrecked for Relaxing Its Mask Mandates Continues to Be a Circus. From the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg weighs in with the sense he usually has when not discussing Donald Trump, The Last Ditch for Mask Hysteria, "When the revolutionary praxis of COVID consciousness clashes with capitalism."

Stacy McCain on how the internet can drive you crazy, Deranged Stalker Deborah Frisch Is Out of Prison, But for How Much Longer?

From Althouse, "She’d done everything she thought men expected of women on the far right, so when the hatred came for Amy Dangerfield she felt so depressed she could barely stand."

"She’d moved from Australia to the United States in 2017 with a dream of spreading her internet-inspired beliefs: that women had driven men to madness through rejection and disrespect; that society needed strong men to survive...."

From "She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her. Inspired by female conservative influencers, Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model 'groypettes.' A vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame" (WaPo)(gift link).

While I'm not really well informed about Nick Fuentes, I do wonder why the left keeps harping on him and his few followers. Sure, he has some goofy, anti-left ideas about relations between the sexes, but that's not very novel on either side of the political scale. Has he advocated violence, like a lot of lefty influencers? Not that I know of. Beside, I heard he might be one of the people the SPLC was paying off.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Gets Greenland

In all but name. And, hey, we didn't get their welfare state or the Democrat votes. At Da Caller, Trump Announces U.S. Will Have ‘Permanent Control Over Security’ In Greenland. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump, "BREAKING NEWS: I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns. There will be NO COST to the United States! ...." At PJM Matt Margolis says Trump Secures a HUGE and Historic Deal with Greenland and Scott Pinsker asks What Happens When Pacman Rescues the Princess?: The Great Greenland Gaslight. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, ""OK, that's nice but Trump has not yet made all of my heart's wildest dreams and desires come true, so I'm sitting out the midterms." /sarc off This is a geopolitical masterstroke. In an era of aggressive Chinese economic and military expansion, this pact between the USA and Denmark is vital. Great job Mr. President and Secretary Rubio." Matt Morse @MattMorseTV, "“Trump’s new deal with Greenland is exactly the same as the old one!” Not true at all. Key new details: Duration: The 1951 deal lasted only as long as NATO existed and Greenland remained part of NATO. Trump’s 2026 deal lasts indefinitely, even if NATO implodes or Greenland becomes independent. ..."

Theresa Fallon @TheresaAFallon, "There has been a prevalent optimism bias in Europe. Even at the #MSC in 2022, shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, US officials warned that Moscow was about to make a move. Despite all the mounting evidence that war was near, European strategists would not accept this conclusion." Quote Gandalv @Microinteracti1, "For two years the official line is that Russia might be able to attack a NATO country in five to eight years, which is the kind of warning that lets you roll over and go back to sleep. In August American intelligence quietly moves the start of that window to this autumn...." From sundance at CTH, President Vladimir Putin Gives Remarks on Europe’s Preparations for Expanded War Against Russia. FWIW, I don't see Europe wanting war with Russia, but they are getting increasingly fearful the US won't support them in the way they've become accustomed. Good.

VodkaPundit at Insty cites CONRAD BLACK: Canada must mature as a nation. “Carney is pushing a “war” against the country to which we sell about 70 per cent of our exports, the country upon which we are completely dependent for our own military security. And Carney appears to be much more the continuator than the reformer of the helter-skelter immigration policies that have put terrible pressure on housing costs for Canadians of modest incomes. The fact that nearly 45 per cent of Canadians are foreign-born or the children of foreign-born parents heaps tremendous social costs on the country. Canada’s fertility rate of 1.25 is among the lowest in the Western world and we are the assisted suicide capital of the world with the beaming encouragement of our terribly inadequate public health-care system.” From sundance, Barbara Boyd Reviews Shield of Americas, Rubio and Trump’s Moves Against Canada/EU and President Sheinbaum and President Trump Agree on Terms for Bilateral Trade Deal.

Matt Cookson at RCW thinks it's Time for MBS to Finish Off the Houthis. Sundance thinks China Leverages Pressure on Iran to Stop Strikes on Saudi Oil Fields. Guy Benson @guypbenson, “The blockade proves the success of sanctions. If the U.S. keeps its chokehold, Tehran will likely break.” Max Abrahms @MaxAbrahms, "This has less to do with Israeli behavior than the onslaught of disinformation about it." Quote Dominic Michael Tripi @DMichaelTripi, "NEW: Israel’s net favorability in the US reaches new all-time low, falling an unprecedented -67 points from +51 in Trump’s first term to -16 now, with approval continuing to fall across all polls."

Pro America Politics @proamericapol, "President Trump secured 65 billion barrels of oil from Venezuela. He just secured military and economic control over Greenland. Poverty in the US just hit an all-time low. We have net negative immigration to the US for the first time in 75 years. Do you see why they have to desperately obsess over the temporary increase in gas prices? It's all they have." RightWI @RightWI1776, "Wow I can't believe Diesel is over $9/gallon Wait nevermind this was 2022 under Biden." John Hinderacker at Power Line, A Booming Economy: Who Cares? From Breitbart Bus Dig, The World Still Loves the American Economy. Dave Manney at PJM says The $6.7 Billion DOGE Headline Is True. It Also Leaves Out Half the Story. "Spend $6.7 billion once to reduce annual spending by more than $20 billion, and suddenly the story sounds rather different."

Sundance reports President Trump Announces AI Task Force and Pending Appointment of AI Czar. Kevin Killough at JTN hears California Gov. Newsom signs order demanding federal government regulate AI 'before it's too late' "Newsom's statement cites an incident where an Anthropic AI model escaped a containment system to hack into another platform, and says the federal government hasn't responded to the concerns." From the NoTricksZone, Economic Masterminds: German Socialists Suggest Taxing Productivity Gains Stemming From Using AI. mike bski @BskiMike22802, "If You Were Born Before 1980, The Left Has Killed You With Climate Change At Least 17 Times!" ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena, "There are times when I cover an issue in politics/culture on the ground that is seen so wildly different than what either polling shows, social media dictates or the manufactured fear demands it should be. AI/data power centers is one of them The story..."a

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "Stephen Miller delivered the greatest on-air masterclass on why you have to vote Republican in the midterms “Democrats’ policies aren’t just wrong; their policies are evil.” “You cannot sit on the sidelines when we are trying to save this country from an agenda that is sinister and wicked and morally indefensible.” Republicans are delivering results: a thriving country under President Trump, secured borders, falling crime, and an America First agenda. The second Democrats take power, they will open the borders again and the mass invasion of our country will continue. This is a fight for the future of our nation. Vote." Chip Roy @chiproytx, "Republicans looking at polls - in Texas or anywhere - and accepting defeat are engaging in self-fulfilling prophecy. Be proud of what we’ve done, admit where we need to do better, expose the radical Democrats, & decide to win. Sports Psychology 101."

The College Fix does a DEEP DIVE and finds Abdul El-Sayed’s sister is a radical university professor. Twitchy ws amused when Abdul El-Sayed Got Heightmogged by an Average Sized Female State Rep. and Became the Weekend’s Meme. War Correspondent @warDaniel47, "OMG. Stunning resurfaced footage shows Ugandan Mayor Mamdani saying the plan is to manipulate white leftists into electing 3rd worlders like him Spoken in his 3rd world accent: "You need someone to be a validator, tell them to TRUST US." "Minority communities, because we've never had representation, we are tied to identity. White communities...are more ideology...voters think of themselves first as progressive." Muslim invaders PURPOSEFULLY position themselves as "validators" to manipulate the public into handing over control TERRIFYING. He needs to be deported." Twitchy sees Jessica Tarlov Saying Dems Are on the Side of Sanity Nearly Made Bill Maher Fall Out of His Chair. RedWave Press @RedWavePress, "Bill Maher: “There are things in history that absolutely do compare to the Holocaust. But lots of people just love to throw that term around. I mean, this country is so antisemitic now…” David Foster: “What turned the Democratic Party antisemitic?” Bill Maher: “Israel. It's what turned them. It's a question I explore a lot on my show.” David Foster: “I don't know the answer. And you don't either?” Bill Maher: “I do. Again, it's lack of education…" and RedWave Press @RedWavePress, "Bill Maher: “Greta Thunberg. She's a professional useless idiot and I would like to talk some sense into her.” David Foster: “How did she get to be so Greta?” Bill Maher: “How did that whole generation get there? My short answer: lack of education. We stopped teaching kids things. They don’t know anything… Ignorant is different than stupid… And it’s not their fault that the schools stopped teaching them things..."

Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel, "Funny thing, this doesn’t even include federalized national guard troops, so Newsom basically just signed a bill making it harder for other states to help us with riots, wildfires, earthquakes or any other major emergency. Great job." Quote California Globe CaliforniaGlobe, "Newwsom Signs Bill Barring Out-of-State National Guard Deployments into CA. Because we don’t want military help with our riots?" Carol Roth @caroljsroth, "Actually, it was insane in real time. It was also intentional and evil." Quote Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: Gavin Newsom says closing California beaches during COVID was “insane, in hindsight.”

Kyle Becker at RedState reports Minnesota's Anti-Ice Fraud Fund Was Just 'Shut Down.' The Reason Couldn't Be More Ironic. "A $2 million "anti-ICE" fraud fund that was intended to help those who were "harmed" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers enforcing the law was recently frozen because of — you guessed it — fraud."

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2, "Mike Davis @mrddmia confirmed this morning that Article III Project plans to file a judicial misconduct complaint related to the NYT article published yesterday profiling Judge Patrick Schiltz and including comments from 6 other federal judges: declassified.live Courthouse Coup, Minnesota Style In a recent interview with the New York Times, Patrick Schiltz--the former chief judge of the Minnesota district court--described a collective effort to block the administration’s deportation plans."

SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire, "BREAKING: In a 2-1 vote, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the federal ban on direct interstate handgun sales violates the Second Amendment."

From Da Caller, DHS Cracks Down On Immigration Attorneys Who File ‘Meritless’ Asylum Claims. Sundance reports President Trump Identifies H1B Visa Abuse as a “National Security Threat.” Jonathan Turley sees Sen. Paul Introduces a Birthright Citizenship Amendment, which, of course, won't happen anytime soon. "Most countries in the world reject this controversial policy. Our closest allies in Europe reject birthright citizenship and follow the common practice of “jus sanguinis,” or right of blood. We are part of a smaller number of countries following “jus soli,” or right of soil. Various countries that once followed the practice later amended their constitutions or laws to get rid of it. That is what would need to be done with a 28th amendment." Beege Welborn is disappointed by a Dem in RINO Clothing: SoFL Rep Salazar's Message for President Trump.

Lara Logan @laralogan, "The situation in Ceuta is turning worse & worse. The Spanish government has been exposed lying to the people as it is obvious tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are still there. Perhaps more importantly the world is seeing what globalism & open borders really mean: invasion & conquest. This is happening across the western world to differing degrees - you just don’t get to see it. But the effect is the same: over time your culture, country & identity are overwhelmed & replaced." Quote Reuters @Reuters, "WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Spanish police began moving hundreds of migrants from beaches in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta to temporary facilities at the city's port, sparking tension as migrants vied for limited spots at the new location." Twitchy sees a Migrant Charity in Scotland Gives 'Asylum Seekers' Lessons on the Age of Consent. Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_, "Importing Savages. ASYLUM seekers arriving in the UK are being handed booklets warning them that sex with children is illegal and men and women are equal under UK law."

Nick Arama at RedState laughs as CNN Left on the Sidewalk After Being Booted From WH, Then a Passerby Hilariously Chimes in Live. "Tell the truth! If you tell the truth, then you won't get revoked. Tell the truth." Twitchy, Kaitlan Collins Calls CNN White House Ban an ‘Illegal Assault’ on Their Constitutional Rights. TownHall's Matt Vespa likes how Sarah Huckabee Sanders Easily Shut Down the Media's Outrage Over CNN's WH Ban by Making This Point. Jack @jackunheard, "CNN got banned for telling lies about the president. Conservatives got banned for telling the truth about the covid vaccine. We are not the same." Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84, News flash: Biden also changed the White House press pool and he cut off more than 440 reporter’s credentials. Zero outrage. I don’t know about y’all but the hypocrisy gets to me sometimes." Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "This is straight up commie shit, BTW. The State is going to enforce political content restrictions? California is indistinguishable from a communist country." Quote Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "According to this anon reporting, Bob Bonta is demanding that he get content oversight over CNN. LMAO after all of his denials that this bullshit lawsuit "wasn't about CNN", the cat is out of the bag. We all knew it...this was always just about politics. What a scumbag."

At Althouse, "Following a 19-month effort by President Donald Trump to take control of the arts center, its board voted to close the building Tuesday..." ""... as Trump, who has demanded his name be added to the institution, threatened to cancel a more than $250 million renovation. The president said Wednesday that without his intervention the building could be 'ripped down.'" I'm reading "What Washington lost when the Kennedy Center closed/We asked Washington Post readers to share memories of the storied arts hub. Hundreds responded" (gift link so you can see the selected memories)." Let it fall down. 

Seth Dillon @SethDillon, "This has got to be one of the craziest headlines from the woke era."

The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "No One Notices As Entire Cast Of 'The View' Replaced With Shrieking Feral Pigs."

At Hat Hair, Larry Elder looks at The 'Modern-Day Lynching' Hoax -- and the Elephant in the Room, racism is rare, so the demand is high. British Patriot @EnglandUK, "Stand Up to Racism just posted a celebration video of Restore Britain being “chased out of Camden” for leafleting in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election. Rupert Lowe says one of his team was hospitalised with burns. Read that again. A legal party, standing a candidate on 8 October, handing out leaflets. Then a mob. Then hospital. Then the attackers boast about it..."

Marina Hyde at the Guardian asks Are you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you. "Forgive me. Life is, in fact, very, very boring, because yet another Sydney Sweeney-advertising-centred firestorm has been ignited by this ad." Jonah Goldberg weighs in at the Dispatch, by Cashing In on Sydney Sweeney’s Cash-In, "Media bias shows itself in the bazonga discourse." He can think a little when his TDS is shove aside. The New Yorker whines Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back? "The culture wars have come for lingerie as the right, once the advocates of promise rings and purity culture, embarks on a crusade to “Make America Hot Again.”"

Flotsam and Jetsam - Pubs Pounce as Platner Problems Proliferate

From Driscoll at Insty, THE NIGHT PORTER: Graham Platner’s Wife Flagged Sexually Explicit Texts to His Senate Campaign. "The previously unreported deliberations last year over sexually explicit texts discovered on Platner’s phone come as the veteran has exploded onto the national political scene, kindling Democratic hopes that they can unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins and gain control of the Senate." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "So Graham Platner had a Nazi chest tattoo for 20 years, rooted for military members to get killed, lied about being poor — he went to a rich boarding school and he was ending nudes to multiple women and his wife caught him and told the campaign per @wsjFrom wsj.com." Quote Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "I’m starting to think Graham Platner’s campaign might be a total and complete disaster for Democrats, guys. You can also toss in that the only customer for his “oyster farm” was his mom’s restaurant. This is a trust fund kid cosplaying a normal guy. He’s a less authentic Tim Walz." From Twitchy, Platner Campaign Posts Video of Dem Candidate's Wife Making a Fresh 'Clean Up in Aisle UH OH' Statement and Atlantic Drops 'Do Better Than Platner' Bomb as Shipwreckedcrew Warns: DNC Prepping Another Primary Heist. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Graham Platner Has a New Problem. Joe Chalfant at TownHall, Platner Maintained Sexually-Suggestive Profile on 'Predator's Paradise' App Known For Child Exploitation. News Wax, Platner Campaign Knew of Explicit Texts Before Senate Bid Gained Momentum. More from Driscoll, IT’S JUST A BLITZKRIEG OF OPPOSITION DUMPS: Platner Maintained Sexually-Suggestive Profile on ‘Predator’s Paradise’ App Known For Child Exploitation. Tim Rice @TimRiceDC, "Platner’s Kik profile features a photo of him topless in a towel, showing off his infamous tattoos. His username is. Early identical to the one he uses on his Instagram and Reddit accounts, the latter of which has caused a lot of problems for this campaign." Tim Rice @TimRiceDC, "Platner joined Kik four months *after* the New York Times published an expose on the app’s popularity among sexual predators, who used Kik to distribute child pornography and facilitate abuse, kidnapping, and murder." Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "Graham Platner is about to get Bidened. Janet Mills is about to get Kamalaed. But Collins will still win. Sit back and watch. The Nazi tattoo, port-a-potty domain mastering and the sex texts have become too much, even for Democrats. Book it." Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew, "This is getting very curious. These influential voices are coming out on this point VERY LATE. The primary is June 9. I do not think anything will happen in advance of the primary, and Platner is going to win with no real opponent still in the race. BUT, under Maine law, if Platner were to drop out after winning the primary, he could be replaced by the Dems on the General Election ballot ONLY IF: 1. He drops out prior to the 2nd Monday in July, and 2. His replacement is named by the 4th Monday in July..." Quote Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar, "Democrats Can Do Better Than Graham Platner - The Atlantic" 

Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "Platner has called Gaza a “genocide,” which even if you oppose Israel’s actions, is an outrageously inaccurate and inflammatory thing to say. So, yes he’s still exhibiting anti-semitism." Quote John Harwood @JohnJHarwood, "the tattoo Platner got years ago is very bad. if there are any present-day signs in his life or campaign that he actually sympathizes with Nazis or is motivated by antisemitism, that would be disqualifying." Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC. "NEW: CNN’s Michael Smerconish *SLAMS* Graham Platner over Nazi tattoo “He didn’t cover it until October of 2025 — 18 years after getting it — and only when it became a political problem.” “Think about that for a moment. 18 years of getting out of the shower, 18 years of looking into the mirror — and seeing the Totenkopf.” “That’s not a drunken mistake in Croatia — that’s a daily choice sustained for nearly two decades.” Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "So Graham Platner had a Nazi chest tattoo for 20 years, rooted for military members to get killed, lied about being poor — he went to a rich boarding school and he was ending nudes to multiple women and his wife caught him and told the campaign per
@wsj."

Capt. Ed cites Axios: Texas Senate Race Now An 'Ultimate Test' of GOP's Anti-Woke Playbook (UPDATED). Breitbart News @BreitbartNews, "James Talarico says if you advocate for "private school vouchers," you're a Christian Nationalist." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "I'm beginning to think this trans vegan DEI Senate campaign in Texas is actually an Andy Kaufman-like stunt to make a mockery of the left." Quote James Talarico @jamestalarico Mar 18, 2021, Replying to @jamestalarico, "I’m co-authoring legislation to explicitly teach “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in our schools. I’ve also filed House Bill 4111 which would require school districts over a certain size to hire a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer."

Hannah Einbinder

Driscoll at Insty is enjoying PRATT SUMMER: Variety @Variety, "#HannahEinbinder says it's important to "resist" Spencer Pratt's campaign for LA mayor: "Spencer shouldn't, and neither should I! I'm with Lisa Rinna. That's not what we want."" Joel Engel @joelengel, "@latimes endorsed Bass over Rick Caruso four years ago in large measure because "Caruso doesn't have a climate plan." This is morbidly funny if you consider that the worst conflagration in the city's history, caused by her incompetence, released 1.5 million tons of carbon." Quote Ian Miller @ianmSC, "Jimmy Kimmel says Spencer Pratt shouldn’t win the LA mayoral election because he doesn’t believe in “climate change” after his house burned down Meanwhile the fire was started by an arsonist and destroyed his house because of widespread LA incompetence." At NYPo word is that Spencer Pratt leads Karen Bass in LA mayor’s race, California Post poll reveals. "Pratt now leads the field with 30.1% support, compared with 29.5% for Bass, setting up a razor-thin race heading into next week’s primary." I don't dare believe it. Driscoll, NITHYA RAMAN: BIKE LANE LEFTIST. Mickey Kaus @kausmickey, "Have bike lanes ever been a success? Anywhere in LA? It was a nice idea, but ... Yet its what urban planning bureaucrats talk about." Quote Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Nithya thinks this election is just about bike lanes. This election is about saving our city from rampant fraud, drug addicts destroying our streets, and moms feeling unsafe everywhere they go. Nithya is a deeply unserious person and she doesn’t have it in her to do this job. x.com/nithyavraman/s…" Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "When President Obama had Osama bin Laden killed, Americans all celebrated. But for Nithya Raman, it felt strange." 

RedState's Rusty Weiss hears CA Union Hits Gavin Newsom With Unbelievable Excuse to Dodge Return-to-Work Order, it's bad for the climate! PJM's Matt Margolis thinks Ruben Gallego Sure Is Acting Guilty of Something ""Without, I guess, getting too graphic, there is a woman that allegedly is coming forward with attorneys, wants to go on record about an incident that occurred between the two of them at the same time, and the event was sexual in nature, allegedly,” Luna told CBS News’ Major Garrett last month." From the Free Bacon, Far-Left House Candidate Backed by AOC and Hasan Piker Said Corporate CEOs ‘Should Fry,’ Called for ‘Frequent and Swift’ Death Penalty for CEO ‘Gangs’. "Chris Rabb, who won the Democratic primary in an overwhelmingly blue Philadelphia congressional district, said CEOs are ‘far more devastating’ than the Crips and Bloods." At Da Wire, Girl Math: Democrat Gov Says Party Doesn’t Need Any Male Voters "“If women, Democratic women, just show up and vote, we’re good.”" Hat Hair's Salena Zito presents Pennsylvania Primary Results Unpacked: Democrats Go Far Left, While GOP Centers. At PJM, Tim O'Brien thinks it's time for A Massive Troll: It’s Time for Trump to Endorse Democrats in the Primaries. That would be fun!

Sundance at CTH observes U.S. and Mexico Conclude First Bilateral Round of USMCA Review, Mexican Security Minister Announces Arrest of Cuautla Mayor, Jesús Corona Damián, on Extortion and Bribery Charges and Mike Steger Recaps Current State of “Fortress America” – President Trump’s American Manufacturing Surge. PJM's Sarah Anderson looks at The New Monroe Doctrine: Coups and Elections. Elections and Coups. Roger Kimball at Da Spec thinks Trump has Iran over a barrel.

Stacy McCain sees What $100,000,000 Buys. "Do I want to pick a fight with Erick Erickson? No, I do not. Erick has done yeoman’s work for the conservative cause for more than 20 years, and 99 days out of 100, I have no problem with him. But his reaction to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s victory in Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff against John Cornyn is a reminder of something most people never think about — there are professional campaign operatives who earn a lucrative living from politics. Erick Erickson is close friends with a lot of Republican operatives and, it seems obvious to me, some of Erick’s friends were getting paid by Team Cornyn. It’s estimated that the Cornyn campaign (including allied super PACs, etc.) spent upwards of $100 million on his doomed reelection bid, and no doubt many of the people who got paid by Cornyn are very bitter over their defeat." And Trump Derangement Syndrome: Some Historical Perspective on Political Manias.

From Shooting News Week, Virginia State Police Running Background Checks on Private Gun Sales in Violation of Court Order. So now we just ignore court orders? Good to know.

Twitchy calls it Just Another Dem-Funded Riot: A Signal Message Exposed the Organized Machine Behind NJ ICE Facility Chaos. bitchuneedsoap @bitchuneedsoap, "I sent one message on Signal asking how to help the Delaney Hall protesters. Within minutes I had a Venmo link and a supply list. The supply list wasn’t water bottles. I followed the Venmo. Then I pulled the 990s. Then it all started to unravel. One message unraveled the entire NJ anti-ICE network. More soon." Insty calls it INSURRECTION! Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer, "The Democrats do a January 6th every day, every week. Their target is ICE. J6 was a riot. THIS is in insurrection." Quote Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "BREAKING: MAJOR clashes underway between NJ police and anti-ICE rioters in Newark SUPER physical fights."

Da Feds Breccan Thies reports the Trump Admin Targets Big Immigration’s Legal Industrial Complex, "by cracking down on immigration lawyers who file fraudulent asylum claims." Carter Stewart at the Chronic has The Untold Immigration Story.

At CBN, Belgian Court Rules 'Factually Correct' Remarks Can Be Hate Speech "The judge, however, in his ruling, said, "Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.""

RedState's Becca Lower sees A Satisfying Coda to the CBS-Paramount-Colbert 'Late Show' Tale, and Leftists Will Despise It "Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed officially took over CBS's 11:35 p.m. late-night slot on Friday, May 22, under a new "time buy" deal with the network. Under the arrangement, Allen Media Group pays CBS for the time period, handles all production costs itself, and controls the advertising inventory. This means that CBS doesn't have to spend a dime ... "With this 'time buy' model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly $40 million annually to $15 million in profit — a $55 million swing," the spokesperson said, calling it "a new business and programming model for late night that proactively addresses a network daypart that was cost prohibitive to continue."" Matt Margolis hears CBS Torches Stephen Colbert After His Exit.

Stacy McCain, Our Sudden Alaska Road Trip. Because I’d never visited a Bass Pro Shops location before, this was an eye-opening experience. Have you guys ever been to one of these? It’s not just a store, it’s like a sporting goods museum — something you’d take a school bus full of fifth-graders to see. There’s all kinds of stuffed animals (including a seven-foot-tall Kodiak bear) and more outdoor gear than you could ever imagine. It occurs to me that Bass Pro Shops might be the most American thing ever, combining the frontier spirit with the glories of capitalism in a way that makes you start humming Brooks & Dunn: Only in America, Where we dream in red, white, and blue." We have a big Bass Pro way up the road, and yeah, it's pretty amazing if you're into fishing and hunting. 

Insty, WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE RIDICULOUS: UMinn bias report: Someone said ‘mothers’ instead of ‘lactating individuals.’ "They must really be out for U. Minnesota." At State of the Day, State of Thursday: DUMB AND DUMBER.

Theo Jordan @Theo_TJ_Jordan, "Just to make it clear what we're seeing here... Since 2008, the entire pro sports and Hollywood terrain marched in loud ideological compliance with the DNC. Back in 2020, they ran the BLM scam together. Harris campaigns used nonstop celebrity. But Trump can't be introduced? why? Answer the question to yourself logically. What would be the basis? So your candidates forever end hate but our are hate? This is innate for... ever? This is Repressive Tolerance. the way the Liberal guard is required to fawn and praise over it is so repulsive. Remember Vince Vaughn had to apologize for shaking a president's hand? When Ellen did for sitting next to one? Who do these self-absorbed idiots think they are? No one I give one shit about." Quote, "SNY Giants @SNYGiants, "9 Abdul Carter says he will only address Jaxson Dart introducing Donald Trump one time: "Some things are bigger than football, and this is one of those things." Matt Vespa on Why the Washington Nationals Just Fired One of Their Executives. Hint: It's Woke Nonsense. "The Washington Nationals fired an executive on Friday after James O’Keefe exposed him for blackballing pitcher Trevor Williams for being Catholic."

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: To The Winter Meetings up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

A Thursday Tune - Mercy

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Electrify - MDM MúsicaElectrify is a Mexican rock band from Querétaro formed by two pairs of sisters: Anitza "Ani" Mursec (vocals/rhythm guitar), Adriana "Adu" Mursec (bass/backing vocals), Renata "Ren" Ramos (lead guitar), and Emilia "Emi" Ramos (drums). Known for their high-energy performances, they began as a tribute band to The Warning before releasing original music in 2025–2026.

The Wombat has Rule Five Monday: Blue Monday up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Did Tucker Set Up the Ayatollahs?

Almost too good to be true. From Sundance at CTH, Tucker Carlson Notes the CIA Monitoring His Communication with Iran Officials for Potential DOJ Referral. Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Did Tucker Carlson Just Get Caught Giving the Iranian Regime Intelligence? At PJM, Matt Margolis hears Tucker Carlson Claims He’s the Subject of Criminal Probe Over Iran and Scott Pinsker hears a New Theory Emerges: Was the Supreme Leader Set up by a Leaker Named… Tucker Carlson? Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "If the CIA knew that he was talking to the Iranians, then President Trump would have known that also, when he invited Tucker into the Oval a few days before the strike. Which means Trump may have used Tucker to deceive the Iranians about the likelihood of an impending attack." Quote Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson, "When you discover the CIA has been reading your texts in order to frame you for a crime." Wayne Root - Wayne Allyn Root - TV & Radio Host @RealWayneRoot, "The story gets even juicier. The word is Tucker is invited to WH by Trump. President tells him not to worry. We are bluffing. We have no intension of bombing Iran ever again. It's all a bluff to bring Iran to table. Tucker runs back to Mullahs & tells them our plan. CIA is listening to Tucker's call. Got him dead to rights for espionage & treason. But best part of story...Tucker emboldens Mullahs. They have no fear because now they know Trump was bluffing- they got it straight from Tucker who was in Oval Office w/Trump. They let their guard down. Then Trump bombs them & kills them all. The plan worked perfectly. Tucker was used like a fool by Trump. And outed as traitor. If all true, this is one of great military plans of all time. Tucker gave the enemy bad info. He got them killed! Tucker should spend decades in prison for aiding enemy. Irony- he hates Jews so much. He just became a modern day Julius & Ethel Rosenberg! What a "MOTHER TUCKER." Let's see how it plays out. In USA, no one is guilty until court of law says so. Except Democrat scumbags who opened border to destroy USA. They're guilty." Now whether or not this is a crime depends on the circumstances and conditions of the Trump/Tucker meet. It certainly would indicate that you can't trust Tucker with any sensitive information.

At Hat Hair, Josh Hammer wants to know What Is Victory in Operation Epic Fury?. It's a reasonable question. Brian Kennedy explains Why Attack Iran Now? The View From North Central Idaho is that they are A Solidly, Aggressively Patient Threat. Paul A. Szypula @Bubblebathgirl, "Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) admits Iran had enough uranium to make nuclear bombs because of Joe Biden but that was fine because Iran’s missiles couldn’t yet reach the US. That’s what Democrats thought was acceptable. Good grief."

Roger Simon at American Refugee explains What US Taking Kargh Island Will Mean "U.S. Marines taking control of Kargh Island, from which Iran exports 90% of the oil products that dominate its economy, might not end the war altogether—there will still be outliers; Iran is a big place—but it would go a long way towards doing so." News Wax reads the WSJ: Trump to Announce Ship Escort Coalition in Hormuz and reports Trump Warns NATO Faces 'Very Bad Future' If Allies Fail to Help US in Iran. Sundance hears President Trump Calls on Oil Dependent Nations to Send Military Ships to Backstop Security in Hormuz. AEI thinks the Strait of Hormuz Energy Crisis Offers Another Reason to Repeal the Jones Act.

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair must watch CBS: US Intel Showed Even Khamenei Thought Nepo Babytollah Was Incompetent. "Other than that, Nepo Babytollah is the perfect choice! And actually, he was, because the IRGC groomed this unaccomplished dullard specifically for this moment. The military-industrial core of the regime made Mojtaba their protegé with the express purpose of co-opting the theocracy as cover for a full-on military junta. Khamenei's sudden death gave the IRGC its opportunity." Sundance is stunned, Canadian Prime Minister Boasts About Blocking 10,000 IRGC Members from Entering Country "Now, why would 10,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards think it was a solid option to exit the conflict for safety in Canada?"

Leslie Eastman at LI thinks Space Force Proves Its Worth as Trump’s Vision Pays Off During Epic Fury, Midnight Hammer "The Space Force that Democrats sneered at is now saving American lives and protecting our allies from hostile missile fire." True, but the same people would also be doing it had they stayed in the other armed forces. Hopefully they're doing it better here. KC-10 Driver B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM, "The “decision” to remove parachutes from the KC-135 was made in 2008, in the wake of the “Great Financial Crisis” (GFC). Adam had to know about it then…we all did. It was controversial at the time. AMC was on a fuel-savings tear, as the pentagon budget was reduced. They published the pamphlet “Birds fly free, AMC doesn’t” & established a review process for how much fuel you landed with. If it was deemed excessive, you were supposed to be counseled. Thankfully the KC-10 community generally scoffed at this. You could carry extra fuel & justify it a number of ways…but if you ran out of fuel due to unforeseen circumstances, you can bet you’d be hammered by leadership…if you survived. The chances of being able to bail out of a KC-135 successfully are low. It had a special escape slide, but even that was iffy. This is not the movies…jumping from a jet kills you as you bounce along the fuselage, getting cut in half by antennas, wing or tail, or ingested by the engines. The KC-10 never carried parachutes. This is not even the first KC-135 crash to happen since parachutes were pulled. All of which Adam knows, he just makes money by outraging you & playing politics." Quote Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) @AdamKinzinger "An insane decision made by pentagon bureaucrats and unforgivable x.com/fritzmt/status…" From the NYPO ed board, ‘Lobstergate’ again exposes the ignorant bias of TV’s ‘best and brightest.’

Sundance hosts Sunday Talks – NEC Director Kevin Hassett Outlines Depth of White House Preparatory Plan for Iran Economic Disruption and says All Things Considered – A Good Geopolitical Recap. At Power for the Future, First New U.S. Oil Refinery in 50 Years Coming to Texas - Power The Future. Good, we've let infrastructure stagnate far too long.

From Twitchy, New York Times Heartbroken: Latin America Refuses to Keep Propping Up Castro's Eternal Paradise. Melissa Chen @MsMelChen, "The NYT cannot help but romanticize commie regimes - especially Cuba's It uses the emotionally loaded term "abandonment" to lament the supposed betrayal, like a family turning its back on a troubled relative or a beleaguered symbol of resistance cruelly forsaken. The whole thing is dripping with the kind of sanctimonious leftist framing that treats the brutal, one-party dictatorship as an "ideological lodestar," conjuring images of "longhaired guerrillas" and "revolutionary nostalgia."..." Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou, "Greta is complaining that Trump won’t allow the Cuban communist dictatorship to import fossil fuels to power their dictatorship What’s the matter Greta, I thought you wanted the planet to go Green!" Politico whines, Colombia’s President Says We Are Heading Toward ‘Extinction’ "In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, the outgoing Colombian president argues the war on drugs has failed and fires back at Donald Trump." Sundance sees Understandable Disappointment with Mexican President Sheinbaum – Trump: “The Cartels are Running Mexico.” At Insty, IF TRUMP WERE AS BAD AS THEY SAY, WOULD THEY HAVE TO LIE TO SCORE POINTS ON HIM?

At Da Mail, Bernie Sanders-backed Senate hopeful backtracks on apology for 'Nazi skull' tattoo insisting it's an 'eminently reasonable skull-and-crossbones'. I mean, who hasn't got a Nazi tattoo by accident? Joe Chalfant at TownHall sees Minnesota Elections Official Finally Admits What We All Knew About Illegals Voting. It's easy, and no one is checking. And, There Have Been Some Crazy Developments on Virginia's Firearms Situation. Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "A man from Bangladesh introduced bill SB749 and got passed, a very extensive gun ban bill in Virginia It’s headed to the governor’s desk to be signed, she’s expected to sign it “Some guy from Bangladesh just banned American citizens from owning firearms in Virginia. Saddam Azlan Salim, a state senator in Virginia, has crafted SB749 banning all types of the possession, sale, etc, of firearms. It has passed the legislation. It's going to the governor's desk, a hardcore leftist, and will most likely sign it..." Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "HOLY CRAP! Virginia Democrats just voted to EXEMPT THEMSELVES from their coming tyrannical gun control laws 2A ONLY gets violated for citizens: “The provisions of this section shall not apply to any member of the General Assembly who leaves a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle pursuant to § 18.2-308.7:1 when such vehicle is parked in any parking structure reserved for members of the General Assembly under § 2.2-1172.” This is insane. Elections have consequences, Virginia!" From Shooting News Week, Let’s Count the Lies VA Assault Weapons Bill Author Saddam Salim Tells in Just Three Paragraphs.

Hat Hair's Betsy McCaughey anticipates Blue-State Suicide, "Leftist Democratic pols calling for states to tax the rich are ignoring the fact that the rich can exit their state, taking jobs, tax revenue and the right to congressional representation with them. The states that fall for the tax-the-rich mania will be left in the dust, with failing economies and shrinking political clout in Congress." 

CA Post ed board, Eric Swalwell is not where he’s supposed to be "Does Rep. Eric Swalwell live with his wife and kids in a posh spread near the Capitol they bought for $1.2 million in 2020? Or does the wannabe gov reside in one rented room in Livermore, Calif. — not far from swanky hotels he frequents — in the district he represents?" "In 2012, Swalwell defeated a 20-term(!) Democratic incumbent to win his current House seat in a campaign centered in part on (wait for it) claims that his opponent lived outside of his district."

Ben Weingarten at RCI peers into The Grey Zone: When Do Protest Observers Become Lawbreaking Participants? Sundance celebrates Eight ANTIFA Members Found Guilty on Multiple Terrorism Charges in Texas – Seven Additional Members Found Guilty of Material Support for Terrorism. At Fox, Brother of Michigan synagogue attacker was Hezbollah commander, Israel alleges "Ayman Muhammad Ghazali carried out Detroit-area attack after Israeli strike eliminated two brothers and other family members, police say."

At NYPo, Vegas police refuse to release violent criminal despite judge’s order: reports. "In court, Goodman set bail at $25,000 and ordered that the suspect must wear a monitoring ankle bracelet which equated to house arrest if he does make bail. On Jan. 29, the police department, which also runs the jail system in the city, told Goodman that they would not release Sanchez-Lopez due to his history of blowing off court appearances and skipping court-ordered rehabilitation programs. Cops cited a 2020 case when the felon ran from cops lugging a gun, and later took to Snapchat to joke about the ankle monitor he was wearing, adding, “got chased again.” Goodman didn’t take the snub lightly, and on Feb. 5 warned that the department and Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill, who heads Metro police, could be cited for contempt of court for defying his order." 

At Da Fed, Ben Weingarten is heartened that the Trump DOJ Is Finally Taking On The Corrupt DC Bar Association.

Insty says it MAKES YOU WONDER WHY ALL THESE COUNTRIES’ GOVERNMENTS ARE PURSUING THIS STRATEGY AGAINST ALL OPPOSITION: Infodex @infodexx, "% of respondents who feel their country takes in too many migrants: Greece: 90% Cyprus: 84% Ireland: 78% Germany: 77% Austria: 77% Bulgaria: 76% Poland: 75% Italy: 74% Belgium: 73% Czechia: 72% Spain: 70% France: 70% Sweden: 70% Finland: 68% Estonia: 68% Lithuania: 63% Latvia: 61% Portugal: 57% Slovakia: 57% Denmark: 57% Romania: 57%" Because they want to import a newer, liberal friendly electorate. 

Sarah Anderson reports Rubio Just Made It Much Easier for Lefties Who Want to Leave the U.S. for Good, by reducing the taxes for leaving. See ya!

Twitchy reports LH Grey Goes OFF on Toads Who Doxxed Cynical Publius in Maybe the Most VICIOUS Post We've Ever Seen on X. LHGrey @grey4626, "Ryan. Hi.... It's me again... how grotesquely arrogant to presume you alone decree whose pseudonym merits protection and whose deliberate veil may be ripped away for sport. Your smug exoneration of the doxxing of Cynical Publius...unmasked by your own War on the Rocks platform...is no dispassionate analysis; it is a venomous apologia for digital vigilantism, a lethal rationalization that courts foreseeable harm to a man whose only “crime” was daring to speak from behind the shield he chose. Spare me your selective historiography and your facile “he benefits” dismissal, complete with not-so-subtle nods to Trump-era sinecures..."

Peter Hague@peterrhague, "Guardian columnist describes the mere existence of a bakery chain run by Jews as “aggression” in order to justify kristallnacht-style attacks on it. Cannot believe they printed this."

Kaylie Ray

Darlene Glick at the Victory Girls sees an AZ Democrat Goes Creepy in Trying to Defend Males in Women’s Sports. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "AZ State Senator Catherine Miranda (D) MOCKS female volleyball player Kaylie Ray, suggesting that Kaylie isn't "competitive" because she refuses to play against MEN. Absolutely disgusting. Democrats hate women."