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 If you haven't voted, get out and do it. It's on our list.

TownHall's Kurt Schlichter asserts Your Vote for the Republicans Is a Vote Against Tyranny. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, This Is the Time for Choosing. And the First Choice Is ... "What kind of country do you want?" Roger Kimball at Da Spec warns Beware the false electoral prophets. Ace, Polls Are Made for Strippers and They Get Greasy and Slippery Around Closing Time, "The New York Times admits that Republicans are 30% less likely to respond to polls at all. And if a group disfavored by the media party refuses to answer at such high rates -- what is the skew within that group? That is, among the Republicans who do answer, is it the case that Republicans voting Democrat are the most likely "Republicans" to answer a leftwing pollster's questions?" W. Joseph Campbell @wjosephcampbell, has "Closing observations about polls and their prominence in 2026 midterms."

The Mayhem in Michigan is still getting the lion's share of the coverage. Dr. Maalouf @realMaalouf, "Mariam Odeh, a former staffer on Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign, is currently facing federal charges alongside 11 other anti-Israel activists accused of vandalizing the homes of members of Michigan’s Jewish and pro-Israel community and plotting to poison and murder them and their families. Jars containing noxious chemicals were thrown into family homes. Windows were smashed. Homes were marked with the Hamas red inverted triangle, designating them as targets for death. One of the accused allegedly threatened to slowly poison a victim once he became a doctor..." Matt Vespa at TownHall, An El-Sayed Supporter Went Crazy on a Jewish Woman at UM. Wait Until You See Her...

El Sayed shock troops getting violent now. When they tell you who they are, believe them. Pay attention Michigan.

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 2, 2026

Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, "UNREAL: The University of Michigan student caught on video shoving Jewish conservative Liz Benichou to the ground is ALREADY BACK OUT. Police watched her do it. She resisted arrest. Then, as she was loaded into the cruiser, she screamed that she "should have f***ing killed" Liz. Campus police say she was processed and released pending warrant authorization. As of now, NO charges have been filed. Cam Higby says she was an Abdul El-Sayed supporter. A death threat on camera, and she's home by morning. Charge her!" Quote Cam Higby @camhigby, "Police say that the psycho who attacked @basedinmalibu HAS BEEN LET GO Prosecutors refused to hold despite the fact that she made terroristic threats, brutally assaulted Liz, smacked @teameffujoe in the face, tried to punch me." David Burge @iowahawkblog, "Her family were persecuted Mongolian immigrants, and as a young girl she spoke out against oppression by the Chinese Communist Party. What you're seeing here is not tribal wars, it's the result of brainwashing in American schools." Quote EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince, "Democrats imported 3rd world tribal wars. Oh goodie." At ¡No Pasaran! The quisling DNC is real; The violent Islamo-left is real: The most brutal psychopathic illegals — rapists, human traffickers, fentanyl bosslings — will be hired as guards at the re-education camps the lefties have planned for you and me. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "BREAKING: CT Governor Ned Lamont (D) just assauIted a journalist and tried slapping the camera out of her hands." Dave Strom at Hat Hair warns Threats and Condemnations Are the Wages of Crossing Jihadis. Clown World ™ @ClownWorld, "Threatening to murder someone's entire family over a book This is completely insane." Quote Back Channel @BackChannelQ, "Muslim tells Nick Shirley if any American burns the Quran or even attempts to burn one he will kill them, and kill their whole family “Burn of the Quran — attempted burning. F*ck that motherf*cker's life up and his family. — I'll kill him. Murder f*ckers”" At the Victory Girls, So Now Puppies in the Classroom are Islamophobic, Too?

At PJM, Ashli-Meghan Eskeldson hears an Expert Accuse El-Sayed of Hiding Muslim Brotherhood Ties Behind a ‘Modern’ Image and Tim O'Brien says Men Know That Abdul El-Sayed Is ‘That Guy,' Which Is Bad News for Him. "He’s the type who, every time he shows up, is likely to create one cringe moment after another. If he talks, he talks too much. If he brags, he brags too much. If he argues, he argues too much. You’d have to explain him to other people, sometimes apologize for him, but usually if you’re stuck in the group with him, you try to distance yourself from him. You try to send the “I’m not with him” vibe." Rusty Weiss at RedState thinks El-Sayed’s Answer on Men in Girls’ Locker Rooms Is the Worst Thing Any Sane Parent Could Imagine. Capt. Ed on El-Sayed: Men in Girls' Locker Rooms Is Totally Cool Because of the Internet. Plus: Israel, Maybe? From Althouse, The theory that since we haven't protected young girls from seeing photographs of penises, it's not important to protect them from a penis in the girls' locker room. Mike Rogers @MikeRogersForMI, "@AbdulElSayed says it’s ok for MEN to be in girl’s locker rooms. Why? “Well because they are going to find out about it on the internet anyway” Completely unacceptable."

Da Caller thinks the Democratic Coalition Appears To Break Down Days Ahead Of Michigan Senate Seat Election. Nick Arama at RedState has More Bad News for El-Sayed With Democrats in Michigan Senate Race. PJM's Scott Pinsker wonders about Haley Stevens’ Bombshell Endorsement: What Does She Know That the Polls Don’t? In a Larry video at Hat Hair, NYT Senate Polls Under Fire As Democrats Turn on Haley Stevens. Capt. Ed has a Word From the Party of Women: Haley Stevens Is 'A Used Condom.' Dave Rubin @RubinReport, "What Temu Skeletor here can’t comprehend is that the Republican Party is actually the party of free thought and true tolerance. That’s why it welcomed
@elonmusk @RobertKennedyJr me and many more. Stevens will be warmly welcomed and then decide for herself where she lands." Quote L A R R Y @LarryOConnor, "James Carville to Haley Stevens: "If you think that these Republicans are going to treat you as anything other than what they view you as...a used condom. The Democrats don't even think you're worth a used condom."" At Althouse: Byron York @ByronYork, ""It sounds like you're upset with me, too, Anderson." Indeed, it did. But did Haley Stevens expect that, by switching her support from a Democrat to a Republican, she would receive the media's Liz Cheney Country Over Party award? If so, she was badly mistaken." Quote Overton @overton_news, "Anderson Cooper is BIG MAD that Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens crossed the aisle to endorse Republican Mike Rogers. Listen to his tone as he speaks to Stevens during this CNN segment." Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Hamas Piker: I HATE AMERICA! YOU DESERVED 9/11 DNC: Well, we have a big tent! Haley Stevens: I don't think we should blame Jews for produce DNC: YOU TRAITOR! YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A USED CONDOM! What a time to be alive.." Ace snarks The Objective and Completely Unbiased Media Attacks Haley Stevens for Not Endorsing the Candidate They Totally Aren't Supporting. "The Democrats are considering stripping Haley Stevens of all congressional powers she might owe to the party." Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal sees Socialism on the ballot: Races to watch in the DSA orbit as the ‘squad’ may expand, "The movement's national tracker lists 59 candidates for state legislative offices across 25 states, including several in Minnesota."

From Shooting News Week, Don’t Illinois Our Texas: Billionaire Governor Throws $1.2 Million at Abbott’s Democrat Challenger. Hat Hair's John Sexton hears The Top Fundraiser for the Midterms Is... Talarico. Mary Chastain at LI reports Collins Blasts Schumer, Democrats Over ‘Completely False’ Campaign Ads “So this is part of Chuck Schumer’s playbook, and it’s one thing to have a legitimate debate on policy, and there are a lot of differences between my opponent and me.” DC_Draino @DC_Draino, "Oh look - Katie Hobbs is trying to pull her stolen election bullshit again." Quote Leading Report @LeadingReport, "Power outage temporarily shuts down heavily Republican-leaning vote center in Mesa, Arizona, per Maricopa County Recorder’s Office.

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "PolicyLink is a creepy giant NGO which deserves a lot more attention." Quote Andrea Shaffer, Anti-Marxist Warrior @Andreafreedom76, "Policy Inc. Data Republican Drop 13: The Players Include DSA Linda Sarsour, and Others! The connection between DSA, RAD, and "Thriving Together" for a new post-constitutional society is clear." InfantryDort @infantrydort, "“Behold the final endgame of the progressive machine: the controlled demolition of a free people.” Damn…." Quote Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph, "The Liberals are now communists, and they intend on staying in power forever to rule over the ashes. The Architecture of National Erasure: Inside the Left’s Blueprint for Permanent One-Party Rule." DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, The Shadow Cabinet of Soros. "Inside the Soros-Funded Nonprofit That Hand-Picked Biden's National Security Team, Then Pretended to Dissolve." At Rest News, BREAKING: Fake Wisconsin Protest Groups Backed by Soros, Tides, Arabella Dark Money. Insty notices EVERYTHING IS FAKE: Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey, "BREAKING: Dallas Morning News just added an editor's note saying they were unaware that the author was paid $57,000 by Gina Hinojosa’s political campaign. They said they wouldn't have published it if they knew. Then take it down, now,
@dallasnews." Matt Vespa thinks This Tweet Perfectly Captures the Media Eating It on Voter Fraud.

From AMAC, a reminder, Peak Irony: Obama Complains About Health Insurance Premium Spike That He Caused, "The 44th president apparently forgot that he promised Obamacare would lower premiums - and that it was a miserable failure." From CJ, Drug Prices Are Finally Falling "The Trump administration’s policies are helping bring down prescription drug costs and expand access to popular medications like GLP-1s."

Don Surber says Poland belongs to the Poles, "A weekend battle against EU supporters for sovereignty." Ace has his take on The Coup In Poland, "The globalists launched another coup. When the right took power, they installed judges they liked, which the left could not abide." Sundance hosts Susan Kokinda Highlights CIA Operative Elissa Slotkin, the Midterm Color Revolution and Slotkin’s Role in Poland.

Dave Strom asks Will Trump Nuke Iran? Like T'qr suggests? I don't believe so. He doesn't have to. Driscoll at Insty reports DEVELOPING: US struck Iran’s Qeshm Island, Wall Street Journal reports.

From CDR Salamander, Russia’s Bloody Two Months of Losing Ground, "a fine grind" John Sexton hears Ukraine Struck Three Russian Oil Refineries in Three Days. Sundance at CTH, Zelenskyy Outlines Clouded Threats to Trump – Lukoil Remains a Target Until U.S. Gives Weapons. After the midterm, he loses that leverage.

Elsewhere abroad, the Free Bacon thinks It’s Not Just Taiwan: China Plots Indian Land Grab. Oh great, the worlds two largest nations going at it. At Fox, Colombia's 'El Tigre' takes fight to cartels as Trump alliance takes shape. "Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella wages war on crime, following through on law-and-order election promises." Sundance delights in Canada Manufacturing Contracted in October – U.S. Manufacturing Expanded.  

Bloomberg reports Valero to Buy, Restart Idled Texas Refinery as Fuel Rallies. zerohedge @zerohedge, "The AI math gets more insane every year: In Dec '24, Morgan Stanley estimated 57GW of data center power needs and a 36GW shortfall through 2028. In Nov '25, it was 69GW of power needs and a 44GW gap. Today, the est. total power needed doubled to 116GW and the gap is 70GW." If AI is worth it, AI needs to pay for the new power. Build nukes.

At Ace, In No One Is Above the Law News, Democrat Operative and Flake John Bolton Learns No One Is Above the Law. "He has pled guilty to illegal retention of classified information. He will pay a $2.25 million fine, forfeit his federal pension, and could spend 60 months in prison. But, of course, a plea deal means prosecutors have agreed to recommend far less than that, and probably zero time at all." Sundance reports Activist Judge Dismisses Charges Against FBI Officials who Lied to Congress During Hunter Biden Laptop Review. "U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui dismissed the criminal complaint against former FBI officials Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides from the bench, sharply criticizing the government’s handling of the prosecution. “What has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization,” Faruqui said, describing the case as a “rush job” directed by President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel."

Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks Ilhan Omar's Marriage Certificate Is a Trainwreck. "A certified copy from the Hennepin County, Minn., government shows that the Democratic congresswoman’s surname was initially written as Omar, before being crossed out and replaced with Elmi. A final edit reverted it back to Omar." 

At Am Mind, John Eastman discourses on The American Regime and the Meaning of Citizenship. At Crisis, Meet the Rising Young Catholic Group Pressing for Tougher Immigration Enforcement. "Young Catholics for Ordered Migration wants the bishops to hear another view on immigration, one rooted in the Church’s tradition. As its response to the USCCB put it, “We ask only that the second half of Catechism 2241 be preached with the same clarity as the first.”"

Da Fed's Chris Bray finds The Lazy ProPublica Hit Piece On Cleta Mitchell Is Full Of Howlers. Insty, A GALLON WEIGHS ROUGHLY EIGHT POUNDS, SO THAT’S A GOOD PRICE. OR, ALTERNATIVELY, SHE’S DRUNK. Bad Hombre @Badhombre, "The View’s Ana Navarro: “Ground beef is $6.30 a gallon. Guys, please vote these bums out.”"

VodkaPundit at Insty says I GOT NOTHIN’: Dave Strom, As America Heads to the Polls to Decide Whether to Be Europe, the Continent Is Falling Apart. Sarah at Insty, MOSTLY, A LOT OF RIOTS ARE BEING BOUGHT. NO THAT’S NOT WHAT THE ARTICLE SAYS. IT IS WHAT IT IS: "Catching up with what’s happening in a declining Europe. Yes, their supposed leaders abet this. You want to keep it out of here, get out and vote. Vote against the socialists and their islamist allies. And gain us a little time to get more people in politics that you actually want to vote FOR."

And still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.02.26.

Forget It Jake, It's Baltimore

Mujahid Muhammad
He dresses like a pimp.

At the Balmer Sun, An FBI raid exposes Baltimore’s nonprofit oversight problem

Baltimore did not need another governance scandal, but it has one. The abrupt resignation of school commissioner Mujahid Muhammad after an FBI search of his nonprofit offices is more than an uncomfortable headline. It is a clear example of how Baltimore’s nonprofit sector has grown large, politically connected and poorly scrutinized. It now spills directly into public oversight. It also reflects poorly on Mayor Brandon Scott’s judgment, and it cannot be brushed aside with a short statement.

Federal agents executed a court-authorized search at the Liberty Road building that houses KEYS Empowers, the nonprofit Muhammad leads. Witnesses described a dramatic scene with armed agents, a battering ram and a full street shutdown. The FBI has not disclosed details, but the timing was unmistakable. Within hours, Muhammad resigned from the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, and the district removed his biography from its website.

The mayor confirmed he accepted the resignation but offered no explanation. City Hall often defaults to silence when the issue involves politically favored nonprofits, and this moment followed the pattern.

The facts surrounding Muhammad’s organizations are not subtle. KEYS Empowers and its related entities have received millions in public funding, including a million dollars in federal COVID relief for a community center that still has not opened. Tax filings reviewed by multiple outlets show more than $4.7 million in government contracts and grants in recent years, along with expenses that exceeded revenue. One analyst described the filings as containing every red flag imaginable.

Baltimore City Public Schools has now terminated its contract with KEYS Development. The district cited ethics concerns and incomplete financial disclosures that Muhammad amended only years later. But the decision highlights a larger truth. The city has been outsourcing critical youth development work to nonprofits that operate with far less transparency than public agencies, even as they receive public money.

This is not a blanket criticism of all nonprofits in Baltimore. Many provide essential services. The problem is the city’s growing reliance on nonprofit executives in public roles without rigorous vetting or clear boundaries. When Scott appointed Muhammad in 2023, he praised his commitment to young people. Good intentions do not qualify someone for public oversight, especially when the appointee runs organizations that depend on government contracts.

Spotlight on Maryland’s Thursday reporting, showing that Baltimore City awarded millions to a nonprofit run by a convicted felon who filed for bankruptcy three times, only further exposes the lack of controls and vetting in the city’s nonprofit system.

Baltimore’s nonprofit ecosystem is sprawling, politically intertwined and often shielded from scrutiny. It functions as a parallel governance structure that elected officials use to fill gaps in city services. When the mayor repeatedly selects nonprofit operators for powerful public positions, he brings their conflicts of interest directly into government. Muhammad’s downfall shows how quickly that can create problems.

The deeper issue is structural. Baltimore has built a system where nonprofits act as extensions of city government but without the accountability mechanisms that government requires. This arrangement may be politically convenient, but it is not sustainable. It erodes public trust, blurs lines of responsibility and creates fertile ground for the kind of scandal now unfolding.

Scott now faces a question he has avoided. Why is the city’s leadership pipeline so dependent on nonprofit figures whose organizations rely on public dollars? He also must explain why his administration consistently responds to controversy with opacity instead of candor.

Muhammad’s resignation is a warning. Baltimore cannot continue outsourcing public responsibility to private entities and treating the risks as hypothetical. They are visible, they are costly and they now sit squarely on the mayor’s desk.

Of course, if you follow this blog, or even news in general you know that corruption in the NGO game is not restricted to Baltimore. It's very wide spread in the US, with countless non-profits sailing pretty close to, or across the wind with regard to their legal requirements. They've largely been a tool of the left to funnel money back to Democrat supporters and politicians, or to evade disclosure rules on disclosure. I'm the sure the right has a few as well. You can't unilaterally disarm. 

I would be in favor of abolishing the tax free status of NGOs. Let them do what they're going to do with post-tax money.

Flotsam and Jetsam - From Gamers to Air Traffic Controllers

 A dog day in summer, not all that much of significance happening. From Althouse, "If you can merge gaming with aviation, why not?". Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle, " 2,000+ Gamers Hired for AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL @SecDuffy : “They multitask. They have to think on their feet. They work with their hands and their eyes, and they’re making great controllers… We had 14,000 applicants, 8,000 qualified. We were getting the best and the brightest.”" Sundance at CTH contributes Trade Court Rules U.S. President Can Set De Minimis Rules/Rates and Foreign Nations Cannot Interfere, Canadian Trade Officials Threaten to Leave USMCA Trade Talks if Trump Triggers 50 Percent Tariffs and The Southern Murkowski Wins SC Primary – Heads into Runoff Against Ralph Norman. I've nothing bad about Darlene Graham, but I'm generally against nepotism. If she was a good politician, she'd already be one. Peter Navarro to Newsmax: China Dodging US Tariffs. If they can, they will. Another from Althouse, "The right-wing De la Espriella, who was inaugurated last week, pledged during his campaign to bring the 'wrath of God' against drug traffickers and other armed groups to 'end them like cockroaches, like rats.'" "From "Colombia’s new president asks Trump to bring militarized antidrug campaign to the country/The South American nation is the world’s largest producer of cocaine" (WaPo)." Yeah, but you have to put in the effort, too. A day late, Ace notices Karoline Leavitt Will Leave Her Job as WH Spokeswoman at the End of the Month, "She says she wants to mother her new baby, and for once I believe the "spend more time with my family" line." TownHall's Kurt Schlichter opines The Doomers Can’t Deny Trump’s Big Wins "don’t spaz out like a teenage girl whose parents just read her diary about what President Donald Trump has accomplished so far." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair hears Trump Backing Another Fracking Attack in California. Make them contribute to the national energy supply. At RCE, Trump Is Right to Make Defense Contractors More Accountable.

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Good on Trump for Being 'Stubborn' With Iran, Says ... Joe Scarborough? "Get ready for an avalanche of hate directed at Joe Scarborough for his sensible take this morning on the predicament Trump faces with Iran." From News Wax, Bessent to Newsmax: US to Hit Iran With Unprecedented Economic Isolation and Vance: Low Oil Prices Are Top US Goal in Iran Conflict. I thought it was no nukes. 

Capt. Ed parodies Pollsters in WI, MI: It Wasn't Us – It Was the One-Armed Voter! "So what actually happened? Axios attempts to pass along a series of excuses in a "here's why" piece, but it reads more like a litany of blame-shifting for an industry that has consistently failed to predict outcomes. Or even come close, for that matter." Dave Strom at Hat Hair thinks that This Isn't Suspicious: MI SOS Requires Deletion of Election Records One Week After Certification, despite a federal law require votes in a federal election to be held 22 months. Kevin Kijewski @KevinKijewski, "PICK A CRIME: That's the choice Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson handed my client, a township clerk. A new state rule Benson made orders my client to DELETE the electronic poll book records of the August 4 primary within 7 days of certification. What’s the problem? Federal law orders her to KEEP those same records for 22 months, into 2028. Delete them? Face up to 1 year of imprisonment under federal law. Refuse? Up to 90 days imprisonment under Michigan law. Every path carries a penalty aimed at my client personally. For trying to follow the law..."

John Sexton sees Mamdani's Rent Freeze Is Going As Well As Expected. Scott Pinsker at PJM opens The Gentleman’s Guide to Destroying the DSA, Humiliating El-Sayed, and Saving America! "But now that we know El-Sayed can’t resist taking the bait and flushing his happy-happy-joy-joy image down the toilet when the alternative is appearing weak or “different,” the GOP ought to make a beeline in that direction. That’s our PR sweet spot — and Abdul El-Sayed’s biggest vulnerability." Dave Strom, Oh, Joy! 'Diverse' Somali Child Care Owner Wins Democrat Primary for State House Seat in Rural MN. At least the sign was spelled right. Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "The most dangerous thing Republicans can do is underestimate candidates like AOC in 2028. We need to focus on addressing the issues that are attracting voters to them instead of dismissing their concerns. Time to get serious." Quote Polymarket @Polymarket, "BREAKING: AOC overtakes Marco Rubio in the 2028 presidential odds for the first time this year, moving into second place. 13% chance AOC wins the White House." James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames, "I once again see socialism being caused by the perception of downward mobility among privileged children of relatively wealthy people."

From Breitbart, Democrat CA Gov. Nominee Xavier Becerra Blinks, Calls for Paramount-Warner Settlement, as Paramount threatens to leave the state. Beege Welborn thinks she detects Some of the Bloom Coming Off That Faded Becerra Rose. "Becerra now has the support of 55% of likely voters, down from 61% in last month, according to a Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies/Los Angeles Times poll. Hilton, meanwhile, has edged up one point, from 36% to 37%, shrinking Becerra’s once-commanding 25-point lead to 18 points." I'd like to believe California can better itself, but it's hard. Justine Bateman @JustineBateman, "LOL. Your comparison between these two cities is very significant. Detroit's main industry of automotive production was destroyed and left the town hollowed out. The same thing is happening with Los Angeles. The entertainment business has been steadily drained from this place for at least a decade. LA will soon be hollowed out just like Detroit. It is becoming just sprawling city with no central industry at all." Quote Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom, "Detroit and Los Angeles have a lot in common — cities defined by resilience, reinvention, and generations of Black and Brown leadership. And both have been targeted by Donald Trump because of it. Grateful to sit down with Black leaders to talk about building economic power..."

VodkaPundit at Insty, NOT FLORIDA WOMAN: "Tacoma Democrat arrested in five-car DUI crash one week after winning House primary. “Though she was recognized as a House candidate, a source tells The Jason Rantz Show that she did not seek any special treatment, nor did she identify herself as a candidate.” That’s actually refreshing."

Capt. Ed explains The NGO Racket: How Durban 2001 Led to 'Rape Dogs', SPLC Corruption, and More

Kamala Harris Issues Dire Warning That SAVE America Act Could Result In America Being Saved https://t.co/dyXgRavq4g

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 13, 2026

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "It might be too late already. The dynamics of demographics and basic givingAF are such, western civilization may already have hit the tipping point. To be determined. Spain was occupied for 800 years, drove them out. The Balkans were occupied for 500 years. But were left with a wretched legacy of divided populations. ..." Quote Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan, "I had to write this because too few Americans understand the stages by which Islamists pursue power and where America may be today. We should learn to recognize the pattern before it is too late.…" David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein, "Commie anti-Israel fanatic Owen Jones: "I support a one-state solution with Arab majority rule after a right of return is exercised. Don't worry, the Jews will be fine." His X audience, as in the tweet below: "How dare you as a Westerner tell Palestinians that they can't murder and expel the Jews!", Quote Ashish Prashar @Ash_Prashar, "People in the west cannot be allowed to set the terms of liberation. No one should dare ask the occupied who are victims of a genocide to live side by side with the very terrorists committing those crimes. Colonizers do not belong on that land whether they are British or Israeli." Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "A New York town is facing a federal lawsuit after officials refused to allow a Christian Nativity display in a public square while permitting Islamic religious displays..."

Stacy McCain enjoys his schadenfreude as The Feds Put the Cuffs on Heidi "Grudge, you say? Why would I have a grudge against Heidi Beirich, who did so much to make me famous as a “neo-Confederate white supremacist”? Probably the SPLC has removed her bylines from the various articles she wrote about me, decades ago, when her transparent purpose was to get me fired from The Washington Times." Sundance, SPLC Chief Financial Officer Arrested for Paying Hate Groups and Nazis – Wire Fraud, Conspiracy, False Statements. TheFOO @PolitiBunny, "America wasn't a racist country. Americans as a whole aren't racist. So SPLC tried to make it happen so they had a reason to take people's money. Evil." Quote Twitchy Team @TwitchyTeam, "What an absolutely horrific woman. Gets WORSE: Techno Fog Shares Most DAMNING Receipts yet of Former SPLC CFO's Neo-Nazi Relationship." Ace, Grossly Ugly SPLC AWFL Who Funneled Money to Her KKK Boyfriend So He Would Give Her a Pity Nazi-Bang Arrested for Money Laundering, "Sad!"

PJM's Matt Margolis thinks The Russiagate Hoax Looks Even Worse After These FBI Revelations "The White House Government Transparency Task Force released a trove of intelligence community records on Wednesday, including a recovered FBI spreadsheet. It cataloged more than six dozen prominent Americans, foreigners, and organizations tied to the Biden-Ukraine scandal and Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment. Democrats, including the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and George Soros, were labeled "targets" of Russian disinformation. Conservatives investigating the Bidens, including Fox News, One America News, Michael Caputo, and Rudy Giuliani, were branded "conduits" spreading it. It gets worse. The FBI also tagged Trump's own Cabinet officials, Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo, along with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), as disinformation "conduits." For what? Investigating whether the Biden corruption allegations were true. The FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force signed off on every single assessment."

Kyle Becker at RedState says Boom: Judges Give Americans a Pair of Election Integrity Wins "Judge Andrew Oldham, writing for a unanimous panel, concluded that the challengers lacked standing to attack Texas's mail-ballot ID requirements because they failed to demonstrate that their members faced a substantial risk of future harm." Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket, "BREAKING: In a loss for voters, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld a state law requiring absentee ballots to include a witness signature. As a result, absentee voters must continue to: mark the ballot in the presence of a witness and sign a certificate stating all voter eligibility requirements are met."

At Althouse, "The Ivy League graduate had briefly planned to pursue an ‘extreme emotional disturbance’ defence after pleading not guilty to murder of healthcare boss.", "I'm reading "Luigi Mangione expected to discuss 'plea deal on Friday'" in the London Times. You can tell the publication is British and not just by the spelling of "defence." It's the forefronting of "Ivy League graduate" rather than his being considered especially cute, which is what counts in America." Ace hears The Left's Dreamboat Assassin Luigi Mangione Close to Pleading Guilty In Execution of United Healthcare CEO and Father Brian Thompson "These are federal charges, so they plea deal is being negotiated by "Trump's" DOJ. But we all know about the Southern District of NY, where Comey's foul daughter worked. If this is a sweetheart deal -- if it's anything less than life in prison without parole -- then every single corporation should immediately evacuate New York City, as this communist shithole has been determined to be a place where a jury won't convict a leftwing killer. And if Trump doesn't like the deal, he should overrule "his" lawyers and yank it off the table. I fear that's exactly the plan."

Sundance approves that DOJ Announces Charges Against 11 Defendants in Chinese “Fake Marriage” Fraud Scheme. Beege Welborn is irate, Hola, Yanquis! 37 Illegal Years in US, Speaks Nary a Word of English, and Demanding Citizenship. Breitbart News @BreitbartNews, "Margarita Cielo Balbuena, a woman who has been in the U.S. since 1989 and cannot speak a WORD of English, demands amnesty at a Democrat presser about Delaney Hall: "We need a path to citizenship for those of us that have been present at least 7 years in this country."" Mike Bales @MikeBales, "If white South Africans still don’t “belong” in South Africa after four centuries, explain how a Somali who arrived in Minnesota last month is already American." Littlekelley @Little1kelley, "The white South Africans don’t (as far as we know) vote for the Democratic Party."

Dave Strom hears Pedro Sánchez Wants People to Think Ceuta Is Over; It's Worse Than Before.

Dave Strom sees The Lynchings That Aren't. Sean Davis @seanmdav, "Her black boyfriend was arrested. You don’t hate CNN enough." Quote The Lead CNN @TheLeadCNN, "Police investigating after a Black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi."

Timur Kuran @timurkuran, "Universities across the Anglosphere are stocked with Jason Ardays. None match his colorful résumé, yet the faculty and administrators who hired them under DEI rules have faced zero accountability. Cambridge is just the latest chapter in the same story." Quote Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien, "Still no one in Cambridge has resigned - and there has been no accountability for this misuse of taxpayers' money." Ward Churchill just died.

Capt. Ed, Woke Will Eat Itself, Chapter MCLXII: WNBA Meets to Discover Definition of 'Woman', And ... can't. 

At Althouse, "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released a report Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine'..." "... a commissioned report examining insurance coding practices, perverse financial incentives, and the provision of sex-rejecting procedures for minors. Drawing on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Guidance, Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations, peer-reviewed scientific literature, hospital records, whistleblower testimony, nationwide insurance claims analyses, and interviews with patients and parents, the report presents HHS’ findings and recommendations about the industry pushing and profiting off so-called “gender medicine.” A shortform documentary illustrating the report’s findings and highlighting the stories of victims of predatory gender medical practices was also released in conjunction with the report...." Wesley Yang @wesyang, "The chances are quite high that virtually every gender clinic and doctor in America already has a long backlog of criminal acts that will be trivially easy to discover — and that now will be found and prosecuted." Quote Eithan Haim MD @EithanDHaimMD, "The critical detail to understand about the HHS Report, especially the section on healthcare fraud, is that the "signals" are remarkably easy to identify. The list of fraudulent diagnoses are widely advertised by gender activists, easily detectable through publicly available."

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Another Rough Start up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

Forget It Jake, It's Baltimore

Hana Scott

 Balmer Sun, Taxpayer-funded nonprofit tied to mayor’s wife closed. Where did its money go?

A nonprofit that received roughly $300,000 in taxpayer-backed funding and employed Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott’s wife shut down last year, but its latest public tax filing showed more than $224,000 in net assets — and there is not yet a final filing showing what happened to the organization’s resources. 

Bmore Empowered ended operations in September 2025, after years of receiving public funding, mostly through the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund. Its director of operations was Hana Scott, the mayor’s wife, who was paid $51,000 through the organization from August 2024 to September 2025, according to documents obtained by Spotlight on Maryland.

Now, nonprofit watchdogs say Bmore Empowered’s closure raises an accountability question: Where did its remaining money go? 

Nazaahah Amin

The organization’s most recent publicly available tax return, covering fiscal year 2024 and filed nearly a year late, reported $224,144 in net assets or fund balances. Its fiscal year 2025 return was due in May but has not been filed, according to the IRS and charity databases. Charities can get an extension to November.

Bmore Empowered’s cofounders, Nazaahah Amin and Kieta Iriarte-Amin, did not respond to questions about whether they have plans to submit documentation on how the nonprofit’s remaining funds will be spent.

Laurie Styron, CEO of Charity Watch, a nonprofit watchdog that advocates for financial transparency, said organizations that dissolve are legally required to file a final tax return detailing what happened to their remaining assets. She said nonprofits are supposed to return unspent grant money and donate extra funds to other charities.

Kieta Iriarte-Amin

“Money doesn’t disappear into thin air,” she told Spotlight on Maryland. “It goes somewhere. And you need to make sure that you understand where it’s going in a timely manner so that if it doesn’t go where it’s supposed to, you can hold people accountable.”

Styron said she worries that Bmore Empowered’s history of late tax filings gives reason to believe they’ll never disclose where the remaining money went.

“Past behavior is often a good predictor of future behavior, and this charity doesn’t have a great track record of being incredibly transparent and accountable,” she told Spotlight on Maryland. “I’ve seen many, many instances in my 25-year career of charities simply not filing that form and the IRS not following up on it. Hopefully, that won’t be the case here.”

By the standards of Democrat grift $300 k isn't a lot of money, barely enough to hire lawyers if split 3 ways, but it would be nice to find out what happened to it. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Platner Signs Off

Erstwhile Democrat candidate for Susan Collin's Maine senate sea abruptly sent his resignation letter to Maine's Secretary of State yesterday, after having stated he would do so on Monday the 13th, the last possible day he could do it without being on the ballot, spurring rumors he might just "miss" the deadline to withdraw. Matt Margolis at PJM, Platner Drops Out. Althouse, "F*ck ICE. Free Palestine. Up the Hearts. Solidarity forever." "So writes Graham Platner, closing his letter formally withdrawing as a Senate candidate. He says he "seek[s] to further the movement we have built together." The movement is better without him. But why? There's nothing in his letter expressing penitence or regret for anything he's done. "Up the Hearts" — which struck me as a possible euphemism for an obscenity — is a rallying cry for the Portland Maine soccer team, the Hearts of Pine. He stomps off — "F*ck ICE. Free Palestine. Up the Hearts. Solidarity forever." And "Cory Upton-Cosulich sat in a parked car by a hiking trail in Maine this week, fuming over the implosion of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign." "Her anger wasn’t directed at him. It was aimed at the powerful people far away from her working-class harbor town who, one after the next, had rescinded their endorsements of a candidate she supported in the Democratic primary last month. The feeling was familiar — watching people in Washington decide who should represent her. She said she believed the woman who had accused Mr. Platner.... She decided to support him anyway ... From "Why Some Women in Maine Are Mourning the End of Graham Platner’s Campaign/They believe the accuser, but they also grieve the demise of a campaign that promised that politics could be different — and they blame those who failed to find a less flawed candidate" Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson, "Hahaha @nytimes doubles down." At PJM Stephen Kruiser says QUELLE SURPRISE! New York Times Blames Platner on — You Guessed It — President Trump and Vicky Taft, Hold On — Was There a Dirty Quid Quo Bro for Graham Platner? Did Democrats threaten to prosecute the rape if he didn't withdraw ASAP? He might tell us after a couple of drinks. Salem News Channel @WatchSalemNews, ""They called him and said, 'Hey, you could be facing charges...' And all of a sudden, we get a reversal." Jon Fetherston drops a massive investigative bombshell on the Scott @JenningsShow regarding why Maine progressive candidate Graham Platner suddenly aborted his Senate campaign." Chris @Chris_1791, "CBS News anchor tells viewers Democrats dropped Platner because he was looking 'like a loser.'" Campus Reform asks, Did employees at your university donate to Graham Platner? Check out our map. "Campaign finance records reviewed by Campus Reform show that donors listing colleges, universities, and higher-education affiliates as their employers made political contributions to Democrat Graham Platner’s campaign. Donations totaled over $100,000 and came from over 100 different institutions."

I do have a little sympathy for poor Platner. The black-sheep son of a wealthy family, he suffered through boarding school, enlisted in the military, and didn't enjoy the strictures of military life and got a stupid tattoo, while drunk. After returning he got a disability based on possibly made-up PTSD, developed a drinking problem, and got into odd jobs, while largely still sponging off mom and dad. He's only rapey when he's blind drunk, and he claims to be reformed. His politics drifted off to the envy driven left, and based on some wild, likely drunken Reddit posts, he was lifted from obscurity by some Democratic Socialist activists who managed to elevate him to the lead Democrat candidate for the Senate seat. However, when his poll numbers began to flag below Collins' the Democrats revealed the dirt they had on him all along, in a desperate bid to find someone else to carry the day. He was never really in charge.

Note they skipped Little Italy

At Da Signal, The Great Victor Davis Hanson: Mamdani Is the Real Racist Polluting This Country. CJ reports A Top Mamdani Official Tried to Meet with Iran, "Ana Maria Archila, Commissioner for International Affairs, almost took a meeting with the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to the U.N."

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "WOAH, My jaw literally dropped listening to this The Los Angeles Police Department came and tried to clean up Skid Row and in a response a nonprofit working with Mayor Karen Bass SUED THEM and stopped police from EVEN BEING ALLOWED TO ENTER “LA CAN, which is another organization (an NGO), they get very, very upset and they sue the LAPD when they come and do street cleaning down here. And they're basically saying that their encampments are their Private property. Police can't enter, and they sued the police more than any other organization” Translation: They are suing to keep the homeless population right where they are so the NGO homeless money laundering industrial complex keeps running This same NGO has also launched protests to stop Skid Row from being cleaned up Pure insanity. It’s criminal."

From WCVB, Sen. Markey pledges final term following debate with Rep. Moulton in western Massachusetts.

At Space.com, 'Reckless' space-based data centers lack environmental review, drawing criticism. "Allowing a million orbiting data centers with no environmental review isn’t just irresponsible — it’s reckless," Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees Unalterably Opposed to Elon Musk for Environmental Responsibility, said in a statement on Wednesday (July 8).

Sundance at CTH reports President Trump Will Not Sign Section 8 Expanding Housing Bill – Auto Effect Midnight Tonight. "I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, which is polling at 97% with the Republican Party, and very high with the non-politician Dumocrats." But he did not veto it, so it goes into effect without his signiture. Jeff Crouere at Am Spec examines The GOP’s Self-Inflicted Midterm Crisis, "With narrow majorities and little to show beyond one major bill, congressional Republicans risk demoralizing their own voters — and handing Congress back to Democrats."

Don Surber sees the Globalists pit NATO against Trump. "The last thing they want is nationalism—except in North Korea, Red China and Iran." Insty says WHAT WUSSES: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented engraved revolvers – with bullets – to his guests in Ankara, causing security concerns. “The question asked over and over again: why such a gift? While it is very common for heads of state to exchange various gifts during meetings or summits, such exchanges rarely require these kinds of precautions.” Plus: “An unnamed NATO official told Agence France-Presse the gift triggered “insane” responses behind the scenes from some of the delegations’ security teams.” Gifts of firearms were a traditional thing between leaders until the feminization of the West. You can bet Teddy Roosevelt wouldn’t have panicked. Or LBJ. Or even GWB." Shooting News Week, NATO Leaders Flummoxed by Turkish Python Clone Revolvers Given to Them After Ankara Summit.

1945 insists Taiwan Can Be Defended Against China. The Price Is the Real Problem. "Cheap drones can make a Chinese assault on Taiwan bloodier and a quick victory less likely — but they don’t repeal geography or remove the risk of escalation. CSIS wargames suggest the U.S. and its allies could defeat an invasion while losing dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft, and thousands of troops."

The NYPo ed board worries The rule of law can’t survive if judges like Hannah Dugan can obstruct justice. "Adelman said Dugan was “an otherwise good person” who “made a bad decision in the moment” because she was “upset by immigrant enforcement.” Sorry: Good people who do bad things deserve serious punishment, especially judges who put their private views above their oaths of impartiality to frustrate completely legitimate law enforcement." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears Rubio and DHS Deported Child Molester Walz Tried to Keep In US, via pardon. 

Cernovich @Cernovich, "Anthropic is giving left wing NGO’s free access to its tools to target conservatives and MAGA. This company is completely out of control and is now waging war against every Trump voter." 

At NYPo, Michael Goodwin: America 250 showed the pride and joy this country has to offer. RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa, "Another white Christian preacher has been arrested by British police because his prayers caused anxiety to some people. This happens in Islamic caliphates."

The College Fix has a Report that Only 1 in 10 Ivy League trustees is Republican, Yale has none. I'm shocked, shocked. 

Gateway Pundit hears a REPORT: So Many Transgender People Are Moving to Socialist-Run Seattle That it’s Overwhelming the City’s Nonprofits. Bummer, dude. Althouse finds "Any sport where the man is wearing panties is not a sport." "Said Riley Gaines's father, when college recruiters were interested in Riley both for both swimming and for softball. Quoted in "Riley Gaines: If JK Rowling agrees with me, I’m doing the right thing/America’s most famous opponent of transgender athletes in women’s sports is celebrating a Supreme Court win. She is ‘vindicated’ — and emboldened by her British husband" (London Times)." Who is also a swimmer, and therefore "wears panties."

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Flotsam and Jetsam - SPLC Still In the News

And not in a good way. The Lawplainer, Shipwreckedcrew DOJ Charges the "Southern Poverty Law Center" With Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Money Laundering Conspiracy splains "No one -- and certainly not a charity -- can obtain money or property from a third party through use of a material misrepresentation, or omission of a material fact -- that's called fraud." Steve Guest @SteveGuest, "Bombshell CBS News segment on the Southern Poverty Law Center indictment where the SPLC lied to donors, paid violent extremists millions, and “manufactured racism” for its own purposes “The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.” Per Todd Blanche The Charlottesville rally leader attended “at the direction of SPLC” and made racist posts “under the supervision” of SPLC." Bari Weiss? From Twitchy, This Damning Segment on the SPLC Is Just 1 Reason Dems Are Melting Down About the Direction of CBS News. ET, House Panel Orders Southern Poverty Law Center to Turn Over Communications With Biden’s DOJ. NYPo, Prominent civil rights activist warns bombshell Southern Poverty Law Center indictment is just ‘tip of the iceberg’.

Tony Kinnett @TheTonus, "Kamala Harris falsely accusing Trump of coddling the Charlottesville white supremacist rally exactly one month after she was endorsed by the SPLC—the group that planned, organized, & paid for the Charlottesville white supremacist rally." Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog asks So When Are The “Punch A Nazi” Sorts Going To Punch SPLC Donors? Ace, Gavin McInnes: The Organizer of "United the (Fake) Right" Paid by the SPLC Would Not Stop Beggint Me to Attend His SPLC-Funded Anti-Right Op, "So it was all an op from the beginning: The guy paid by the SPLC -- who was also, get this, a CNN "reporter" (!!!) -- tried to draw in as many people on the right as possible so they would all get smeared as racists when the "They Will Not Replace Us!" tik-torch operatives made their surprise, but planned, appearance." Hat Hair's Dave Strom calls SPLC and Pravda: a Match Made in Heaven. Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec, "Scott called it." Quote Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays, Mar 8, 2023, "What are the odds those tiki torch carrying neo-Nazis from Charlottesville would only rally once? Feels like it was an American intel op against Trump. That’s my working assumption." At LI, Herr Professor Jacobson remembers SPLC False Flag Operations Reminiscent of Tactics Used Against Tea Party “I guarantee you it’s going on extensively, these false flag operations to portray Republicans and conservatives as racist, etc., etc. And it appears if what the Feds are saying is true that SPLC was part of that.”

Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "Each passing day reveals more and more and more how we have all been paying for our own demise, as our tax dollars have been funding NGOs peddling extra-constitutional policies and activities that the electorate had otherwise rejected. The SPLC is just the most prominent organization peddling hate-4-dollars. Their entire network of supported NGOs is in on it too. How did this happen? Did somebody have a good idea in a meeting decades ago: “Hey, let’s control America by moving our activities in an unaccountable way to unelected, non-governmental organizations, but let’s still pay ourselves with tax dollars!” Or was this some sort of unspoken conspiracy between like minded individuals?" Dave Strom at Hat Hair says USAID Is Back in the News For All the Wrong Reasons. Rick de la Torre @vrk_rick, "The NGO funding machine is getting harder to ignore. USAID funneled $27 million through the Tides Center, with some of it going directly into the Southern Poverty Law Center. For years, the liberal left inside the federal government hijacked nonprofits as pass-through vehicles; a legal loophole to launder taxpayer dollars into partisan left-wing networks like SPLC. Tides operates as the perfect hub: it receives massive federal grants, buries the ultimate recipients behind multiple layers of 501(c)(3)s, and quietly re-grants the money to activist allies. The American people didn’t authorize this. It needs to end now." Quote Bad Hombre @Badhombre, "Incredible. USAID was funding the SPLC through an organization called the Tides Center, based in San Francisco. From 2016 through 2024, USAID granted $27 million to the Tides Network to “strengthen global civil society organizations, promote transparency, accountability, citizen engagement, and serve as fiscal agent for USAID’s Civil Society Innovation Initiative.” The Tides Center set up a fund through its Tides Foundation with that money for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Vote Your Voice” initiative. The executive director of the Tides Center is Ayesha Khanna. She was co-chair of Women for Obama in Atlanta, Georgia." Kyle Becker @kylenabecker, "The SPLC wasn't paying for the "infiltration" of "hate groups" (not including Antifa, by the way). It was supervising the posting of racist hate messages and helping with the transport of agitators who provoked riots. We all can read the grand jury indictment, which isn't based on opinion, but facts. BY THE WAY, since you are all going with this idiotic, fabricated narrative...." I want to see the receipts for the Tiki torches. Elon Musk @elonmusk, "The reality is that stoking hate was incredibly lucrative for the SPLC. That’s why they did it. Incentives explain outcomes." Quote The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial, "White supremacy went up because the SPLC changed the definition and applied it to everybody. Supply and demand problem fixed. Fkn magicians. x.com/therabbithole/…" Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey, "The Southern Poverty Law Center paid the National Education Association hundreds of thousands of dollars." 

Trump announced plans to fix and clean up the Washington Monument Reflecting Pond for a fraction of the cost the Biden admin had planned, and it sent liberals into a tizzy, or a least deeper. Dave Manney at PJM, Trump Restores a Landmark and Saves Millions. "Trump chose an industrial-grade swimming pool surface in American flag blue. The coating covers the aging granite bottom and seals the leaks. Trump announced the work on April 23 and set a clear timeline. The job costs around $1.5 million and should finish within weeks. Previous plans called for full granite replacement at roughly $301 million, stretching over many years." At Althouse, Well, plenty of people think something filthy, dirty, and disgusting looking is representative of the country. "Imagine an art installation titled "America." It wouldn't have sparkling clear water bubbling cheerfully now, would it? But I'm reading "Trump Says He’s Renovating ‘Filthy’ Reflecting Pool on the National Mall/The pool, which is more than 2,000 feet long, was the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 'I Have a Dream' speech and other events" (NYT) “It’s filthy, dirty — the water’s disgusting looking,” Mr. Trump recalled a friend telling him. “It’s not representative of the country.”

TownHall's Matt Vespa wants you to Guess Who Could Be Doing the Press Briefings With Karoline Leavitt on Maternity Leave. Disclose.tv @disclosetv, "JUST IN - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt expects to have her second child next week. While on leave Vance, cabinet officials, and potentially Trump are expected to handle press briefings — Politico." She's great! Capt. Ed, Les Folies Impéchements: House Dems Think Third Time's the Charm? Rick Moran at PJM hears Democrats Already Looking to Impeach Trump on 'Day One' If They Take Control of Congress. Ace, No Surprise: Democrats Plot and Scheme to Impeach Trump on "Day One" If the American People Are Insane Enough to Give Them Control of Congress. Democrat communications shop and Eric Swalwell cover-up agency Axios..." "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part! And we're just the guys to do it!" PJM's Stephen Kruiser says Trump's Flex on the Sinaloa Cartel Gives Me Third Term Vibes "I was kidding about the third term thing in the headline, but only barely. It's also great fun to trigger the lefty trolls with talk like that. Any mention of a Trump third term and the Dem hive mind experiences a collective soiling of the undergarments." Shipwreckedcrew likes A Bold Trump Plan To Use The Postal Service As A Firewall Against Fraudulent Mail-In Ballots. "Multiple Dem Party activist groups file suits in courts packed with Democrat appointed judges to try and stop plan to require "trackable" ballot envelopes by states that use mail-in voting." From News Wax, Justice Department Drops Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Powell, Likely Clearing Way for Warsh. Dave Strom says The Narrative™ Is Not Reality, Example #54702394572039. From the Free Bacon, New Navy Secretary, Hung Cao, 'Grabbed on to the American Dream' "'To our enemies … You can run but you’ll only die tired,' immigrant from Vietnam warns." Amy Curtis at TownHall notices The Official Democrat X Account Tried Deleting Its Tweet Attacking Hung Cao...but There Are Screenshots. Height shaming. I make fun of Pete's height all the time. At Shooting News Week, Final Rule Drives a Stake Through Anti-Gun Left’s De-Banking Strategy. RC Policy (RC's proliferate like weeds) asserts America Can’t Afford the Jones Act Anymore. The Jones Act mandates that cargo between US ports must be carried on US flagged vessels, of which there aren't enough.

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears Hegseth: IRGC Reduced To 'Pirates With a Flag.' News Wax cites Hegseth: US 'Ironclad' Blockade on Iran 'Going Global'. Sister Toldja at RedState thinks Hegseth Puts on a Clinic After Tabloid Outlet TMZ Asks First-Ever Questions at Pentagon Briefing. TownHall's Dmitri Bolt hears Iran Activates Retired 30-Year-Old Super Tanker As They Run Out of Places to Store Oil. Shanaka Anslem Perera @shanaka86, "JUST IN: Iran just pulled a thirty-year-old empty supertanker out of retirement and began towing it toward Kharg Island. She is moving so slowly that a voyage that should take a day and a half is taking four days. Her name is NASHA. IMO 9079107. Built 1996. A two-million-barrel very large crude carrier that has been anchored empty off Kharg for years. TankerTrackers confirmed her reactivation yesterday. Gulf News, Iran International, and Fox News all picked it up within hours..." Wells go bad if pumping is not continued. Leslie Eastman at LI hears India Denies Ship Made Crypto Payments to Iran for Strait of Hormuz Passage.

From TCW, It’s hard for Iran to keep a ceasefire when it has no leadership. Capt. Ed with the Deep Question Of the Year: Did Nepo Babytollah Do a Reverse Twelfth Imam? UPDATE. unusual_whales @unusual_whales, "BREAKING: Iran has reportedly decided not to enter negations with the US currently, per Tasnim." Resume bombing. Also Capt. Ed reads the NY Post: Islamabad II Turns Into Impotence Boogaloo. Pigott to Newsmax: Trump Won't Rush Into Weak Iran Deal. The Great Victor Davis Hanson at Da Signal, Trump Isn’t Negotiating—He’s Crushing Iran’s Regime.

Amy Curtis thinks It Sure Sounds Like Hakeem Jeffries Just Tried to Threaten the VA Supreme Court. Don't you dare overturn our gerrymander, even if the law is clear!

Hat Hair's Beege Welborn sees Ken Griffin Kinda Torqued About NYC's Commie 'Tax the Rich' Mayor Pointing Out His Crib, Dave Strom thinks Voters in New York Getting What They Voted for Good and Hard and Leftists Are Destroying Social Trust. RCM sees the US Awash In Moronic Economic Policies Crafted by the Overeducated. DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "I am going to keep repeating this until people understand this. Karen Bass was not only a Castro operative and Communist, but she got elevated to Vice Chair of National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power operations in the US government. She is not a "DEI mayor." She is extremely powerful at the global stage. She was actively involved in shaping foreign policy with the Obama administration, especially Africa. Her Ghana visit during the LA wildfires wasn't a vacation, it was part of a Biden delegate to greet Ghana's new President..." Dave Manney at PJM, Democrats Defend Non-English Truckers as Safety Questions Grow. Lindsay Datko @ldatko, "!! 50 Pages of Recommended Felony Charges Dismissed by DA-Under 2 Years Time! @FirstDAofCO." The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole, "Democrats are the party of racism. Slavery — Democrats Jim Crow — Democrats Internment Camps — Democrats Affirmative Action — Democrats DEI — Democrats." zerohedge @zerohedge, "Ilhan Omar Accused Of Trying To Steer $1.4M To Nonprofit With Somali Restaurant For Address."

At Althouse, "Earlier this week, the Justice Department finalized a $1.25 million settlement to Trump’s 2016 campaign adviser Carter Page..." ""... to settle claims that he was illegally surveilled by federal authorities. Multiple courts had dismissed federal lawsuits that Page — who was never charged with a crime — filed against the government, saying the statute of limitations on his ability to make these claims had lapsed. Last month, the Justice Department reached a settlement with Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn for more than $1 million, asserting he had been the victim of a politicized prosecution...From "DOJ is paying out Trump allies, undermining former investigations/Since Trump’s return to the White House last year, the Justice Department has paid more than $8.5 million to resolve legal claims brought by allies and supporters"" Shipwreckedcrew, splains Democrats Blocking Confirmation Of Trump U.S. Attorney Nominees Is Clear Evidence They Are Obstructing A Duly Elected President's Ability To Execute His Duties. "There are 94 federal judicial districts, each with a U.S. Attorney, and the confirmation results after 14 months proves Democrats adopted partisan obstruction as their response to the election." Dmitri Bolt is happy, The Department of Justice Announces It's Bringing Back Death by Firing Squad in Capital Punishment Cases. Techno Fog documents Biden DOJ collusion with the Abortion lobby, "New report sheds light on the targeting of pro-life activists."

John Sexton, Appeals Court: Trump's Suspension of Asylum System is Unlawful. Sen. Eric Schmitt at Am Mind says The SCAM Act Would Restore Integrity to U.S. Citizenship. Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt, "We must be unapologetic about this: denaturalization is a constitutional, long-established tool for stripping citizenship from people who should've never received it Citizenship is more than paperwork We should expand denaturalizations. It’s why I’ve filed the SCAM Act." Quote The New York Times @nytimes "Breaking News: The Justice Department wants to revoke the citizenship of hundreds of foreign-born Americans, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations, according to a U.S. official." Ace, Oh Dear! NYT Cries That the DOJ Is Increasing the Rate of Denaturalizations of Dirty Terrorist and Piratical Foreigners Who Lied During Their Naturalization Process "We need every single terrorist plunderer Cultural Enricher the world will give us!!!"

Stacy McCain thinks The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved. "Have I exaggerated for the sake of brevity? Perhaps so, but the subtext of Moyn’s book-length argument (Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It) is pretty clear — everything wrong in America is because of old people, and therefore we should adopt policies to inflict harm on these elderly enemies. If you’re 65 or older, you are analogous to a Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 and Professor Moyn is Radio Hutu." From Campus Reform, New Education Dept rule could strip aid from low-return degrees. Brandon Dutcher @brandondutcher, "“State universities are public institutions that must reflect the values of the public,” Chris Rufo correctly points out. But as the headlines below suggest, that is currently not happening in one of the reddest states in America. Neurosurgeon speaks out against DEI in Oklahoma medical school OSU Writing Center seeks “antiracist” tutors who will “accept all Englishes”..." Stephen E. Sachs @StephenESachs, "Absolutely appalling statement by @UCLA_Law , which should have included the line “we will pursue academic discipline against the disruptive attendees, who have shown that they lack the character and fitness to be lawyers.” Gerhard Thielman at the Everyman Commentary, on Woke Mathematics in Education- Part 1. "While the last few years have witnessed growing "fatigue" regarding woke and DEI policies, they are still prominent fixtures in our society, especially (and unfortunately) in our STEM fields."

James Bacon at Bacon's Rebellion, Alleged: Scott Told VMI to Boot Board Members or Suffer State Funding Cuts. "Virginia’s House Speaker demanded the resignation or change of roles of two Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors (BOV) members or suffer budget consequences, allege sources with direct knowledge of the threat. Lt. Gen. David Furness’s continuance as superintendent is conditioned on compliance. The Cadet is investigating, has submitted formal questions, and is awaiting a response."

At CJ, Male Prisoners Are Abusing Incarcerated Women in Massachusetts. "The Department of Justice should investigate MCI–Framingham, where trans-identified male inmates threaten the safety of incarcerated women." Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat, "BBC have turned the comments off because everybody wants to know why a WHITE MAN raping a SIKH is rightfully life in prison Yet a MUSLIM raping a WHITE GIRL can get as little as FOUR YEARS." Quote BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking, "Man who followed Sikh woman home and raped her in religiously aggravated attack sentenced to life."

Ace, Buzzfeed: "Secret" Signs (and Stuff We Just Imagined In Our SSRI-Drenched Pea-Brains) That a Woman Might be a Far Right Extremist "I think the most obvious indicators are that her hair is a natural color, that she doesn't have a 56-year-old male news editor's busted hairline from being high to the gills on SSRIs, and doesn't have more metal in her face than Pinhead -- excuse me, "The Hell Priest." But Buzzfeed asked its experts -- its underemployed ill-educated idiot readers, I mean -- to provide less subtle clues and here's what the Damaged Brain Trust came up with."

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