Flotsam and Jetsam - Arizona Willy Wonka Ferry Ride of Terror Continues

The Guthrie kidnapping caper in Tucson Arizona continues to go nowhere fast. Yesterday's breathless reporting mostly concerned a discarded latex or nitrile glove (or a pair), found on a roadside a mile or more from the scene, which may or may not turn out to be related. In the course of expounding on this they became aware that gloves were also found at the scene, and that the Pima County Sheriffs and the FBI were fighting over who get to process them. DNA evidence on gloves could lead to a CODUS match, and failing that, a familial match. FBI released a description of the person at the door which leave a lot of room, a 5 ft 9-10 man of "average build," with a dirt common Walmart backpack. Sister Toldja at RedState, Reports Pima County Sheriff Pulls Stunt in Nancy Guthrie Case That Has the FBI Fuming. Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks The Nancy Guthrie Abduction Story Has Become the Willy Wonka Ferry Ride of Horror. Yeah, I don't think a happy ending is likely.

PJM's VodkaPundit wonders What in the Actual Hell Is Going on in Russia? Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge, "And just like that, BRICS is over." Quote, BRICS News @BRICSinfo, "JUST IN: Russia memo proposes return to the US dollar system in pitch to President Trump." SightBringer @_The_Prophet__, "This is the preamble to strategic decoupling. The United States has begun the audit of empire. The tone is paternal but the move is surgical. Europe is being warned that the subsidy era is ending. The Pax Americana scaffolding is being dismantled in phases. This is phase one. Washington no longer sees Europe as a strategic force multiplier. It sees entropy. Fragmentation. Electoral volatility. Economic sclerosis. Moral fatigue. The Pentagon knows Europe will hesitate when the next real test comes. That hesitation is now priced in. So the U.S. is repositioning before the liabilities crystallize. The American defense apparatus is reallocating trust to actors who can project force and absorb risk without ambiguity. Japan. India. Israel. Select Gulf states. Australia. NATO, as constructed, is a legacy structure. Legacy structures degrade under new constraints. . . " PJM's Sarah Anderson, The Only Thing Missing Was a MAGA Hat: Venezuela’s Red Carpet Moment and Stephen Kruiser predicts Marco Rubio Would Make a Splendid Territorial Governor of Cuba, like he needs another hat. Rabbi Mike Barclay claims Donald Trump Negotiates Like King Solomon.

Referring to the Bondi hearing, Michael Tracey @mtracey, "Every single "Epstein victim" pictured here was an adult at the time of their claimed victimization. Has the media bothered to clarify this?" Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth, "Stacey Plaskett was a Jeffrey Epstein puppet in Congress... He was literally texting her what to say in at least one hearing. This should be the biggest story in America... and she should be immediately expelled from Congress." Quote Bethany O’Leary @BBMagaMom, "JUST IN: Emails in the Epstein files reference Rep. Stacey Plaskett coordinating a meeting with Jeffrey Epstein, including directions to his island. Why was a sitting member of Congress arranging meetings with a convicted sex offender?"

Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas, "I’m listening…" Quote chairmanwon @chairmanwon "Trump should launch a lawsuit immediatly to reverse the 1846 Retrocession of parts of DC to Virginia. This move would immediately flip VA Red by shifting ~400,000 voters to DC, and force a redistricting of VA's congressional seats that would benefit republicans. The 1846 retrocession has never been ruled on by SCOTUS and there is a solid constitutional case that Clause (Art. I, § 8) established a permanent federal trust that Congress had no constitutional authority to alienate. This move would also undo a historic injustice. The 1846 retrocession was a move to appease slaveholders in Alexandria amid fears that DC would ban the slave trade... as they did in 1850. We would Make DC Square again for that reason alone." Matt Vespa sees CNN's Scott Jennings Wrecks a Lib Guest's Narrative on Election Integrity With a Simple Response “Are you saying that black voters are too dumb to know what’s good for them?” “I mean, it sounds pretty condescending to me.” Driscoll At Insty, HAVING A PHOTO ID TO VOTE — IT’S SO SIMPLE, EVEN A CONGRESSMAN CAN DO IT: Rep. Michael Cloud @RepMichaelCloud, "For reference, this is how we vote in the US House: 1) Insert photo ID 2) Press button." Rep. Michael Cloud @RepMichaelCloud, "Notable that 213 Democrats just used their congressional photo ID to vote NO on a voter ID bill." Dave Strom, NM SOS Disqualifies Republican From Ballot for Senate, Leaving Only the Democrat on the Ballot. Funny how that works.

Ace hears Obama Architect David Axelrod: Confound These Republicans For Obamacare's Prices Skyrocketing and Them Refusing to Further Subsidize the Failing Program. Nick Arama at RedState hears Sen. Kennedy Delivers a Humorous and Direct Message to Schumer About Those DHS Bill Demands :Kennedy said that . . . Schumer was kind of "wandering around" like a "roomba, looking like a man who has just lost his luggage." That's a pretty perfect description of Schumer, who always seems to be in a perpetual state of confusion when it comes to decisions about his own party. He can't deliver the votes, even if we agree, Kennedy said. "And we wouldn't agree anyway." Amy Curtis at TownHall, In Historic Deregulatory Move, Trump Officially Revokes Obama-Era Endangerment Finding. I don't know why it took so long. Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon, "Turns out, when you deport 500,000 people and 2 million more voluntarily go home, Americans line up for the jobs they were doing—and companies have to pay them more! How Trump repudiated the Democrats' addiction to cheap labor: https://batyaus.substack.com/p/the-latest-jobs-report-proves-trumps." Ashley McCully at PJM, explains how the Trump Administration Improves School Experience "These simple acts of closing the borders and deporting folks who tried to jump the line are having a direct impact on public schools. Numbers are down and teachers unions are throwing tantrums disguised as "but what about the children!" when it's really "but what about my pension!" 

Hat Hair's Capt. Ed snickers when a Federal Judge says to the BBC Get Ready for Trump's Defamation Trial. "Alternate headline: Another Media Outlet Soon to Discover Sudden Interest in Trump Library."

Ace, Josh Hawley Grills Muslim Antifa AG Keith Ellison About the Audiotape In Which He Promises Somalis He'll Order Investigators to Let Them Defraud America In Peace "If you need a refresher, Ellison met with a Somali who was later convicted of major fraud against the US taxpayer. This Somali complained that investigators were checking to see if he was legitimate or not, and that just really steamed this Somali fraudster's beans. Ellison told him that he would look into it and make phone calls to the investigators demanding to know "Why am I getting these complaints?" He also asserted that he "already" had his team investigating the investigators picking on these noble Somali Learing Experts." 

Natalia Mittelstadt at JTN reports State Department finds Code Pink, People's Forum linked to Chinese influence operations "“Partisan hacks spent years peddling the phony Russia collusion hoax while turning a blind eye to the sprawling web of far-left activist organizations who push the agendas of the Chinese Communist Party,” Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers said."

SightBringer @_The_Prophet__ "Here is the bare truth. California is entering the seizure phase of the wealth cycle. The productive core has thinned. The debt load is locked. The spending base cannot shrink without civil fracture. The only lever left is the static pool of accumulated capital that remains geographically or legally tethered. That tether becomes the target. Wealth taxes are designed to drain the visible stores of value before exit accelerates. It is a liquidation impulse masked as equity. The system senses its own depletion and attempts to extract the last residues of yield from those who stayed. . . " Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland, "No one could have predicted this." Quote Kalshi @Kalshi, "JUST IN: California lost $1 trillion in wealth due to billionaires leaving." Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen, "FUN FACT: Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $750,000 to oppose the recall efforts against Newsom in 2021 Obviously they have the money to flee the consequences of their bad decisions, unlike most Californians." Quote Remarks @remarks, "JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg officially leaves California, relocates to Florida to avoid new "wealth tax."" PJM's Scott Pinsker sees You’ve Been Spanberged!: , Campaign on Affordability, Deliver Radical Leftism.

From Ace, Obama Judge Boasberg Now Demands That Trump Pick Up 100 Deported Aliens from Venezuela and Bring Them Back, "He's doing what superior courts have repeatedly told him he does not have the power to do: ordering the president around like a house boy " and Politico: Lawless Lowly District Court Political Hacks "Believe They've Found a Way to Bypass" the Controlling Rulings from the Appeals Court That Serves as Their Superior Court, and That's Great "Politico is very excited that lowly district court judges may have found a way to "bypass" the rulings of the Fifth Circuit court of appeals, a court which is superior to them and which makes the controlling law in their district. But they'll just figure out a way to ignore their judicial superiors." Sundance, Texas Judges Strategizing Ways to Block DHS From Enforcing Immigration Laws. Capt. Ed calls it Too Dumb to Check: Federal Judges Writing Squatter's Rights Into Immigration Law? Bill Glahn@billglahn, "Democrat judges have invented a new legal concept, common law citizenship, to prevent illegal aliens from being deported. I'm not kidding."

Anxious is anxious that the ICE surge in Minnesota is over, border czar Homan says. Mission accomplished. CNN, Mayor responds after Homan calls Minneapolis operation a success. Atop Da Hill, Homan on ICE Minneapolis pullback: ‘If we need to come back, we’ll come back’ The Washington Post @washingtonpost, "Correction: National Guard troops withdrew from 3 cities with no public acknowledgment, other than a Trump social media post weeks earlier that announced the move. An earlier post, below, failed to note Trump’s post and has been deleted." At First Things, Madness in Minneapolis. John Sexton, Vandals Send a Message to Washington Democrat. Campus Reform observes 'DEAD ICE AGENTS CAN'T KILL': poster calls for violence against federal law enforcement, "Penn State University (PSU) police have launched an investigation into a flyer that depicts a lynched Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent with the message 'DEAD ICE AGENTS CAN’T KILL.'" From Insty THAT’S THE GOAL, OF COURSE. BUT WHY LISTEN TO DEM “DEMANDS?” Dem Demands For ICE To Obtain Judicial Warrants Could Bring Immigration Enforcement to a Near ‘Halt,’ Experts Say. AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD has PSA video: The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "How To Avoid Getting Shot By ICE."

Dave Strom, YGTBFKM: LA County Just Started Rent Relief Fund for Wildfire Victims and...People Avoiding ICE. Cathy Salgado at PJM notes Los Angeles Teachers’ Union Caught Implementing Anti-ICE ‘Resistance’ All we had to do was put our heads down under the desk to avoid H-bombs. VodkaPundit at Insty, MAKE CONQUISTADORS GREAT AGAIN: Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen, "Spanish is not a language of resistance. It's literally the language of your European colonizers who colonized you so hard you forgot what you were speaking before them." Walt Hudson at Hat Hair VIP, 'Great Replacement' Is No Longer Theory, but Openly Confessed. At Twitchy, CBS News: Irish Illegal Says He Fears for His Life in Modern-Day ICE Concentration Camp Edub's_Perspective @Edub4change, "He chose to stay in ICE custody instead of taking a free flight back to Ireland." Turns out he's wanted man in Ireland. Amy Curtis @RantyAmyCurtis, "For four hours. You know how many jobs I’ve worked where I didn’t get to eat for 8-12 hours? Yeah. And I didn’t break any laws." Quote, NBC News @NBCNews, "About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while being denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit." From Da Caller, Illegal Immigrants Are Just The Tip Of The Iceberg In Trucking Industry’s Troubles. "Equity" came in and they threw out the standards.

Mark Judge at Hat Hair says I Am Begging the Washington Post to Please Let Me Stop Mocking Them, but no dice. From the Free Bacon, Angsty Journalists Said the WaPo Sports Section Was Indispensable. The Evidence Suggests Otherwise. "Recent 'sports' coverage highlighted Colin Kaepernick, climate change, racial equity, and the NHL's failure to adequately celebrate queer culture." VodkaPundit at Insty cites Breitbart's JOHN NOLTE: Rigged Immigration Report Proves Bari Weiss Is Lying About CBS News Reforms. . . . "But there’s also this: CBS Evening News Producer Reportedly Quits in Fiery Note — Calls Out ‘Shifting Set of Ideological Expectations’ at Bari Weiss-Led Outlet. Weiss had — still might have? I dunno — a chance to drag CBS News closer to the center, albeit kicking and screaming. But aside from a couple of cosmetic changes, we have yet to see much." But at Da Beast, MAGA-Coded Anchor’s Show Producer Rips CBS in Fiery Farewell "The attack came in a fiery farewell note to colleagues from producer Alicia Hastey explaining her decision to take a buyout and leave the program. The letter was shared on X by New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin." MAGA-coded? David Rutz @DavidRutz, "The Daily Beast is very, very committed to this bit." Mollie @MZHemingway, "You have to be stupid beyond belief, or enslaved to partisan politics, to think Americans didn't notice that journalists always "evaluate stories not on journalistic merit but whether they conform to left-wing ideological expectations." Russia collusion, Kavanaugh, COVID, etc." Quote Ben Mullin @BenMullin, "NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”" Daily Mail US @Daily_MailUS, "CNN has lost nearly two-thirds of its viewership since 2016 amid growing fears network is circling the drain."

Capt. Ed, Nielsen: NFL Halftime Show Lost 9.6 Million Viewers. Mediaite worries Bad Bunny Reportedly Lost Record Slice of Super Bowl Viewers Heading Into Halftime Show. From Fox, From kneeling to Spanish anthems: How the NFL lost Middle America at halftime. "A major cultural divide emerged on Sunday night as Bad Bunny's Spanish-language Super Bowl performance prompted fans to seek counter-programming." Driscoll cites VDH: Our Super Bowl Satyricon. "In his vile, obscene “Safaera,” to avoid being censored, Bunny omitted a few of the song’s lyrics about his celebration of exploitative sodomy, fellatio, and anilingus—with misogynistic trashing of his compliant female sexual partners as “hoes.”" From Hollywood in Toto, Legacy Media Begging Stars to Get More Political, "Sydney Sweeney among latest stars to be bullied into dividing us." And Bill Maher: Jimmy Kimmel Ended Our Friendship Over Politics, "'Club Random' host suggests bipartisan critiques stopped pair from talking."

BeeGe Welborn at Hat Hair sadly reports 'Gun PERSON' Rampages Thru Canadian School - 10 Dead, 25+ Wounded UPDATE She/Her's a Guy AND MORE. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Canadian Reporterperson Announces Policepersons Have Identified Gunperson " Sundance, School Shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia Leaves 10 Killed, Including Shooter – The “Gender” of Shooter Creating Angst. Ace, Another Trans Terrorist Kills Ten, Wounds 35; Media Honors Mass Murderer's Wishes; Refer to Him as a "Female in a Dress;" Woke Politicians and Police Call Him a "Gunperson" Rather Than a "Gunman" Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo, "A 12-year-old child is among the 25 wounded in the mass school sh—ting by a trans-identifying gunman in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. The girl, Maya, suffered gunshot wounds to the head and neck. Police referred to the deceased shooter as a “female in a dress” and have refused to identify him officially. But independent journalists, not legacy media, have done the heavy work of identifying him as Jesse “Jessie” Strang. He killed nine, making him one of Canada’s most deadly mass sh—ters ever. One of the victims is his mother, who is woke and affirmed his trans identity." Some of the posts have confused Jessie Strang with a much older trans activists Dustin "Zylii" Strang. Jennifer @babybeginner, "BREAKING! HUGE!! HUGE!! The FTC is going after WPATH for deceptive trade practices!! Finally!!!! The Federal Trade Commission has opened a consumer protection investigation into two major nonprofit medical organizations: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and World Professional Association for Tr*nsgender Health (WPATH) On Jan 15, 2026 the FTC issued civil investigative demands (CIDs) which are a formal legal tool requiring the groups to provide documents, testimony, and other information. The probe is examining whether these organizations made “false, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims” in their marketing, advertising, or guidance related to pediatric gen. dys. treatment. This includes scrutiny of statements about the “safety” “effectiveness”, and “benefits” of such care and whether they adequately disclosed risks."

The College Fix hears U. Kentucky staff say DEI, ‘antiracism’ are still ‘important’ in undercover videos. The grift is too good. Campus Reform reports Binghamton Q Center to host live demo of 'transtaping.' Rick Moran at PJM wonders What Are Foreign Governments Buying by Sending $5.2 Billion to Ivy League Schools in Gifts and Contracts? 

KRON4 News @kron4news, "Despite all the anti-Musk rhetoric throughout CA, the Tesla Model Y remained, by far, the best-selling new car model in the state for 2025. STORY."

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Signs to Release Epstein "Files"

Quotes around files because there really are no files per say, just documents scattered about the bureaucracy. Sundance at CTH, Senate Passes Epstein “Shiny Thing” Bill, Sends It to President Trump’s Desk. "Trump will sign it, the Epstein ‘shiny thing’ law will go into effect, and the politicians will continue arguing about it and trying to attack the White House because they put the perpetual argument component into THE BILL . . ." WSJ, Trump Signs Bill Authorizing Release of Epstein Files "Justice Department has 30 days to make unclassified documents available from its investigation." Catturd ™ @catturd2, "So the biggest backfire in history has begun." Quote Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews "BREAKING - Newly released campaign finance records show that from 1990 to 2018, Jeffrey Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democratic and progressive causes, with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer." Dave Strom at Hat Hair says If and When the 'Epstein Files' Come Out, Expect a Lot More of This. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Wait so Hakeem Jeffries invited Epstein to a dinner to solicit money from him in 2013, AFTER Epstein was convicted for procuring a child for prostitution???" Matt Margolis, Here’s the Epstein Email Hakeem Jeffries REALLY Doesn’t Want You to See. From LifeZette, Chuck Schumer Malfunctions When Pressed on Biden Hiding the Epstein Files for Years. At Da Mail, Katie Couric faces mounting criticism for cozying up to Jeffrey Epstein at his private dinner with Prince Andrew AFTER pedophile was convicted. Amy Curtis at TownHall says a Resurfaced Video Makes Stacey Plaskett's Epstein Ties Even Worse for Democrats. At Hat Hair Capt. Ed doesn't believe Plaskett to CNN: I Consulted a Sex Trafficker To Get the Truth Out of Michael Cohen! and Beege Welborn reports House GOP Members Help Protect Plaskett From Consequences of Epstein Collaboration. Bonchie at RedState hears Reps. Luna, Burchett Claim House GOP Leadership Cut a Deal to Save Epstein Ally Stacey Plaskett, "to save Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL)." At RCP Melinda Hennenberger explores The ‘Clubby World’ That Killed the Epstein Story. NewsBusters sees Chris Matthews Embarrasses Himself With Claims that Turned Out Wildly False “the Senate is going to do what it can to logjam this whole effort to get the truth out.” I think most pundits have a very high threshold for embarrassment. Capt. Ed, Aaand ... Scene: Harvard (Finally) Sends Summers Packing Over 'Wingman' Epstein.

At the Pop Times Jasmine Crockett Connects Lee Zeldin to Epstein, But There’s One Major Problem, it was a random Dr. also named Jeffrey Epstein. Twitchy calls it a Name Game: Dem Jasmine Crockett’s Two Epsteins Debacle Ends in a Dumb Double Down on CNN Greg Price@greg_price11 "Jasmine Crockett makes an absolute fool of herself when she is asked to correct the record about accusing Republicans of taking donations from a different Dr. Jeffrey Epstein: "That is specifically why I said *a* Jeffrey Epstein. Just because it wasn't the same one, that's fine... Have I dug in to find out who this doctor is? I have not."" Capt. Ed, Summers: Epstein Connection Too Stupid to Work in Artificial Intelligence -- But Not Harvard? "Seeing Mr. Epstein write that Mr. Trump is 'crazy' or 'truly stupid' and that 'I am the one able to take him down' is certainly more entertaining than..." ""... reading the testimony of Anouska De Georgiou, who told the court... 'loss of innocence, trust and joy is not recoverable.' Or Teala Davies, who testified: 'I’m still a victim because I am fearful for my daughters and everyone’s daughters. I’m fearful for their future in this world where there are predators in power, a world where people can avoid justice if their pockets run deep enough.'... Their pain matters. Their names matter. We should not co-opt their suffering for our own agenda. We should not value our schadenfreude more than their courage." Writes Jennifer Weiner, in "Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission" (NYT)." At TNP, Dems Now Try to Dox Epstein Victims, Release Child P*rn. At Twitchy, Scott Jennings Makes the Most Scott Jennings Face EVER As CNN Panelist Makes Epstein Files About Racism. NYPo reports a victim claims Jeffrey Epstein had a tiny, ‘extremely deformed’ penis shaped like a lemon. "Rina Oh, who has long claimed she was among the scores of young women preyed on and abused by Epstein, dropped the unsettling revelation in a recent Substack interview with magazine maven Tina Brown."

Kurt Schlichter at TownHall, We Had the Best of Times and Now These Are the Worst of Times "Welcome to the doldrums, the period of problems, the phase of foul-ups, the time of the sucking. And it does suck. Everything seems to be going wrong for Republicans right now. We were flying high a few weeks ago, when Donald Trump negotiated the end of the Gaza War, and then it was all downhill. Lost elections, economic uncertainty, Epstein file stupidity, fear that the conservative movement will tear itself apart over people who aren't even conservative, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's face all over our social media feeds. Yeah, it's bad. You're at the top one day, then the next day you're at the bottom."

Jonathan Turley “What has Become of Us”: Rosie O’Donnell May Have Just Handed Trump a Golden Defamation Lawsuit, when she said “Did you think it a million years that they would reelect a man who orchestrated an insurrection against the government? They would reelect that guy with all the charges of sex abuse? — the adjudicated rapist…And then I just saw this thing today about all the cases he’s settled with children, children’s families, accusations about him, that he chose to settle.” The adjudicated bit is false.

Matt Margolis hears Trump Declare War on the Affordability Crisis That Biden Created. At News Wax, Trump Addresses Affordability: 'So Damn Lucky' I'm President. unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "That's 4.2% when just a few months ago the trump haters were predicting recession and empty shelves." Quote, "E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. @RealEJAntoni, "ATL Fed: not only is GDP currently estimated to have grown 4.2% for Q3 but the gain is primarily driven by big increases in private spending and private investment, not gov't:" Beege Welborn, And SNAP! Rollins to Make Beneficiaries Reapply.

From Breitbart, Report Says Trump to Announce Long Overdue Dismantling of Education Dept.

Carrie Lukas at Da Caller looks at Women And Their Risky Bet On Mamdani. Amy Curtis at TownHall thinks Mamdani's 'Gender-Affirming Care' Plan Is Something Straight Out of Iran. At Da Signal, Mamdani Is a Warning for Western Civilization. 

LifeZette sees Cory Booker’s Public Call to Oust Schumer Sends Democrats Deeper Into Chaos. Fox sees lawmakers Headed for the exits: Why 3 dozen House members aren't running for re-election. Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_, "BREAKING: DOJ charges Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) with stealing $5 million in FEMA funds, laundering the proceeds, and then using the money to support her 2021 Congressional campaign. She faces up to 53 years in prison if convicted." Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "Wow. USAID and the EPA Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund got nuked and suddenly Democrat megadonors are broke. Isn’t that something." Quote Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer, "NEW: Stick a fork in Arabella Advisors. The powerful progressive philanthropic consulting firm is no more. Instead, Arabella’s managed funds are investing in a new vehicle that will effectively bring Arabella’s services in house to each of the funds. And Arabella Advisors won’t exist anymore."

On Democrats calling for military to disobey Trumps unspecified illegal orders, Dave Strom, says Call It Insurrection. DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "You should know that this is an open call for others to carry out one of the steps involved in executing a color revolution. See Step 6: defections within military, intelligence, and law enforcement." unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "If the dems calling for insurrection doesn't tell you how desperate they are after losing the shutdown battle and whatever little leverage they had left, I can't help you. The Resistance is dead. It's dead, Jim. It's so dead, that the dems are now calling for a revolt and insurrection because they can't stop Trump for at the very least another 14 months." An Althouse commenter, planetgeo said... The following code section sounds pretty relevant to the Democrats' latest efforts: 18 U.S. Code § 2387 – Activities affecting armed forces generally. (a)Whoever, with intent to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the military or naval forces of the United States: (1)advises, counsels, urges, or in any manner causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by any member of the military or naval forces of the United States; . . .Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction."

From TNP, BREAKING: Court Halts Texas Redistricting Plans Over ‘Racism.’ From Ace, Federal Panel of Judges Rules That Republicans Aren't Allowed to Gerrymander in Republican States "...because when you gerrymander to reduce Democrat seats, you're usually also reducing sets dominated by black or Hispanic voters, and these judges say you can never, ever reduce the "impact" blacks or Hispanics can have on elections. You can, of course, always reduce the impact of white voters, as California just did. In fact, it's legally required." CNN admits ‘I dissent,’ judge says 16 times in 100-page broadside against colleagues in Texas redistricting case. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Dissent: '...the Most Blatant Exercise of Judicial Activism That I Have Ever Witnessed'. @amuse @amuse, "LAWFARE: Judge Dabney L. Friedrich ordered Trump not to power wash the filthy Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) next to the White House. The president has been talking about cleaning it and restoring it since his first term. The judge likes it dirty." Bob Hoge at RedState, Yes, This Is Actually Real – Leftists Stop Trump From Power-Washing Ugly Eisenhower Exec. Office Bldg. Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed hears ‘No More Delays’: GOP Senators Demand D.C. Circuit Chief Suspend Boasberg Amid Impeachment Efforts. PJM's Cathy Salgado reports Sec. Duffy Slams ‘CDL Mills’, Woke Judges Saving Trucking Jobs for Illegals.

At NYPo the Divine Miranda Devine: FBI, Secret Service butchered the Thomas Crooks case and invited conspiracies – we deserve the truth. Matt Vespa, Are We Shocked the Biden FBI Did This During the Trump Assassination Investigation? "On Monday, The Post reported on violent social media posts that are believed to be tied to Crooks. The online activity included numerous endorsements of political violence, and a severe turn from being a hardcore advocate for Trump to coming within a few millimeters of killing him. The FBI never shared those files with the Congressional investigation, said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX)." At Da Caller, ‘Holy Sh*t!’: Shawn Ryan Aghast As Charlie Kirk’s Security Leader Reads Texts He Allegedly Sent University Police. He warned them about the exposed roof Kirk was shot from, they replied they had it covered.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Lawrence Reed who had FOURTY NINE prior arrests including 10 felonies was just arrested for lighting a woman on fire on the train in Chicago. He allegedly shouted “Burn alive b****!” as he doused her in gasoline We shouldn’t have to live like this."

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Curse of the Gopherball up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - It's Official, Trump Ends the 43 Day Schumer Schutdown

From Fox, Congress sends bill ending longest government shutdown in history to Trump's desk Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, BREAKING: House Passes Funding Bill, 222-209, largely on party lines. I guess most Democrats didn't want the government reopened. Anxious anxiously reports Trump signs bill to end longest-ever government shutdown. Misty Severi at JTN reports It’s over! Trump signs resolution ending record 43-day government shutdown, "The resolution will keep the entire government funded through Jan. 30." Sundance at CTH, House Passes Bill to Reopen Government – President Trump to Sign at 9:45pm. Matt Vespa at TownHall explores How This GOP Senator Reportedly Came Up Clutch During the Talks to End the Schumer Shutdown, Katie Britt. Drew Berquist sees Trump Mocks Schumer’s Collapse: ‘He Thought He Could Break Republicans.’ At PM, 'No Kings' activist group Indivisible will only support Dem Senate candidates that call to cancel Chuck Schumer. "For Senate Candidates: Firmly committed to opposing Schumer as Senate Majority Leader."

John Sexton at Hat Hair fears Republicans Have a Year to Make Progress on Affordability or Republicans Are (Probably) Toast. "Affordability" is getting better, wages are rising faster than inflation, again, finally and gas is coming down, but what people really see are 1) Housing, 2) Energy and 3) Heath Insurance each of which has it's own issues, and largely of government origins. At Am Great, Sen. Mike Lee On Obamacare’s Effect on Health Insurance Costs: It ‘Makes Everyone Else Poor.’ Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee, "Health insurance companies are making money hand over fist—not because they’ve discovered new & innovative ways of making Americans healthier, but because Obamacare insulates them from competition while giving them massive subsidies Downside? Obamacare makes everyone else poor."

Ben Whedon at JTN reports Trump claims Dems reviving Epstein issue to distract from shutdown 'failure' "Democrats produced additional documentation in which the late sex-trafficking kingpin mentioned Trump this week." Matt Margolis at PJM explains why The Democrats’ Latest Trump-Epstein 'Bombshell' Actually Vindicates Trump. Oversight Committee @GOPoversight, "Why did Democrats cover up the name when the Estate didn't redact it in the redacted documents provided to the committee? It's because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump. Democrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump. Shame on them." Quote Oversight Dems @OversightDems, "BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES." Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "And the other emails are 1) Epstein admitting Trump booted them, and 2) Michael Wolff suggesting blackmail over flying on the plane. I know I criticize Trump sometimes (a lot the last day), but I do so out of honesty. And the honest answer is people are misleading with these. Quote Greg Price @greg_price1, "Democrats intentionally redacted the name of the "victim" in the Epstein emails they released. The unreacted version shows that it was Virginia Guiffre." Becca Lower at RedState thinks The Guests Dem AZ Rep Grijalva Invited to Her Swearing-in Ceremony Exposes Lefty Outrage As Cynical Stunt. "Two Jeffrey Epstein victim-survivors. Because, of course:" ABC, Johnson says House will vote on releasing Epstein files next week.

From Da Caller, Trump Achieves Most Bipartisan Move Yet: Putting An End To Pennies. Bipartisan you say? Althouse finds "President Donald Trump did not have the legal authority to cancel penny production unilaterally, as he has done." ""The task should have begun with Congress, not only for constitutional reasons, but for practical ones. Congressional deliberation would have facilitated solutions for the problems inherent in eliminating a coin that’s existed since 1793. Retailers want a new law that would allow them to round prices to the nearest nickel for cash transactions, which probably would have been included in penny legislation...." Says the Editorial Board of The Washington Post, in "The penny is dead. Long live inflation. The U.S. has stopped making cents. Declining purchasing power will make us penniless."" Actually, the Sec of the Treasury (Scott Bessent) has authority over minting coins, and he takes his orders from Trump. FWIW, in anticipation of the minting of the final pennies, I dug out the old blue coin books from the collection my grandfather started for me way back when. I have Lincoln's from 1909, including the VDB (but not the highly prized S-VDB). I went and bought a couple new albums to cover the many years we weren't actively looking. Going though the penny jar (which is mostly nickels, dimes and quarters) I managed to get recent years mostly up to date. I haven't found any 2025s yet, but other than a few Ds (it takes them a while to get across the continent by Brownian motion), and figuring out the confusing mess in 1982, when they switched from copper to copper clad zinc, and changed the size of the dates all in one year they're pretty well filled in. I wonder if any of the grandkids will want it?

Althouse dreams of Trump, "I dreamed I was on a train, the subway kind of train where you face people sitting on the other side, and Trump was right across from me. He started reading The Gettysburg Address…." "That's what I texted Meade just now, so then I pasted the statement in Grok. Didn't ask Grok to do anything with it, certainly not to write it up into a short short story, but that's what it did:"

CNN whines UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break. Screw 'em, we supported their shitty little war in the Falkland Islands.

Stephen Kruiser worries Kamala Harris Is Now Sniffing the Paste Before She Eats It, she claims to have been playing 3d-chess while Trump was playing checkers. She actually lost 50 state Tic-tac-toe. 

Insty, at his NYPo gig says The WaPo’s admission about Zohran Mamdani’s dark side comes a bit too late. At the Freep, Mamdani and the New Racism "Anti-Jewish libels are a social technology reshaping everything around us." Fox Bus, New York and New Jersey lose hundreds of billions in resident income as Americans flee to low-tax states "Florida and Texas emerge as biggest winners in decade-long migration shift that reshapes American economy."

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " BREAKING: Rep. Jasmine Crockett demands all 50 states ABOLISH Dominion voting machines because she fears Donald Trump and Republicans will rig the coming elections. https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1987977743020298573/video/1 "It's going to be really important for us to educate all states that we can to make sure that their secretary of states are like, 'We don't want the Dominion machines…’ I think that they're trying to solidify their cheat potentially with the voting machines!” Holy smokes. You gotta be kidding me I’m sure Republicans are in SHAMBLES that Ghetto Crockett wants to reject voting machines (something Trump literally wants). PAPER and SAME DAY!" Da Signal thinks she's In Hot Water: Jasmine Crockett Faces Probe Over Conflicting Financial Disclosures. From AOL, Left-Wing Radio Host Literally Kisses Feet Of Jasmine Crockett In Deranged Act Of ‘Worship.’

Capt. Ed sees the Irony: ‘No Kings’ Dems Try Desperately to Revive Kennedy Dynasty … Again "Jack Schlossberg, grandson of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, announced he will run for Congress next year. In a social media post late Tuesday, Schlossberg said he would be seeking the Democratic nomination to replace longtime Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York’s 12th Congressional District. Nadler, a leading liberal figure for the Democratic Party in Congress, said in September that he would not seek reelection. ..." Jon Gabriel @exjon, "If he gets a Nazi tatt, this guy's a shoo-in." Quote Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC "Jack Schlossberg, Kennedy grandson running for Congress, tweeted about drinking "Jew Blood" and semen in offensive dig at his second-cousin RFK Jr. "

 

Guy Benson @guypbenson "Loathsome. He’s actually telling *parents* who want choices about their own kids’ education (his family can do whatever it wants because they’re loaded) to “f_ck all the way off.”" Quote Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey, "Governor J.B. Pritzker attacked school choice and said its supporters "can F*CK ALL THE WAY OFF." He went to private school. He sent his kids to private school." Dave Strom asserts Pritzker Is Worse Than Newsom. It's a high bar. He can't jump it but he can waddle under it. From OTP, Prosecutors Say Ex-Hochul Aide Spied For China, Bought Mansion, Ferrari With CCP Payments.

Althouse cites Fetterman, "The Right would say really rough things and names ... but on the Left, it was like they want me to die or that 'We're cheering for your next stroke' ... they even have a gif where they have a stroke in your head."

At Twitchy, a Stand-Up Comedian Tells Dems How to Fix Their Messaging Problem With One Joke “And listen, I’ve had progressive friends who have pulled me aside and said, ‘Hey, you should reconsider that. It’s a hurtful phrase, it implies that someone’s existence is illegal. … And I listened to them. I’m not an asshole about this stuff. I went around the country, and Canada, and Australia, using the term ‘undocumented immigrant.’ And you know what happened? Stopped getting laughs. So I had to go back to my progressive friends and be like, ‘I’m sorry. Unlike you guys, I have to win the popular vote.’”

From the Chronic, Our Imperial Judiciary. Shipwreckedcrew says The Speed At Which Federal Judges Are Waging Lawfare To Stop The Trump Administration is Jaw-Dropping. "Worried that your federal lawsuit will drag on for years? No problem -- just add the Trump Administration as a defendant and the judges will drop everything else to rule in your favor." Stephen Kruiser has hopes, Will SCOTUS Bring a Modicum of Sanity to Mail-In Ballot Madness? CNN crows Judge orders release of hundreds arrested in Illinois immigration crackdown. News Wax, Leavitt: 'Unhinged' Judge Tried to Dictate SNAP Spending. Atop Da Hill, Utah judge rejects GOP-favored map, handing Dems another redistricting win and Trump asks Supreme Court to toss E. Jean Carroll sex abuse verdict.

Ace woke up and realized Trump Pardoned 77 American Citizens Unjustly Targeted by the Fully Weaponized Deep State "Good. The same people whining that prosecuting James Comey for his long, sustained career of perjuring himself before Congress is "politically vindictive" are the exact same people demanding that run of the mill protesters and their lawyers be jailed for dissent. These people were part of the "alternative electors" scheme -- a legal theory which may well be doubtful, but it has never been illegal, until now, to attempt a doubtful legal theory." Amanda Head at JTN thinks Trump's pardons could bolster defense in state Jan. 6 cases under Supremacy Clause "Trump repeatedly pledged during his 2024 campaign to review cases and address perceived injustices in the prosecutions of January 6 defendants, whom he referred to as “hostages.” As many as 100 defendants have waited for more than four years to have their day in court." From LifeZette, Deep State Panics as Prosecutors Quit Amid New Trump-Russia Origins Investigation. Da Wire, Shutdown Deal Packs A Surprise As Republicans Strike Back After Phone Snooping, "The provision was included in one of the shutdown spending packages passed Monday night." Sundance at CTH, Representative Austin Scott (GA) Blasts Senate Republicans for Paying Themselves Millions in Retroactive Penalties Within Hidden Clause in CR Bill "Buried on page 217 of the Senate Continuing Resolution Bill [TEXT HERE], Republican Senators have inserted legislation to “retroactively” pay themselves $500,000 each for every line of communication, telephone record, email or other electronic communication, subpoenaed by the Jack Smith Special Counsel during the Arctic Frost investigation."

John Solomon at JTN, ‘Clinton Corruption Files’: Bondi, Patel unleash new evidence about former first family foundation "Officials say evidence sent to Congress raises fresh concerns that government officials kept evidence from prosecutors."

John Sexton, Antifa Rally Outside a Berkeley TPUSA Event (Update).Matt Vespa, Absolute Mayhem Broke Out During TPUSA Event at UC Berkeley. Nick Arama at RedState, AAG Dhillon Lowers the Boom on UC Berkeley After TPUSA Violence. Amy Curtis at TownHall, AAG Harmeet Dhillon Puts UC Berkeley on Notice Following Violent Antifa Attack on TPUSA Event. AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon "We saw all of this at Berkeley back in 2017. @UCBerkeley was sued, and settled the case. The @CivilRights will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA." Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "BREAKING: Antifa has turned Turning Point’s event at UC Berkeley in California into an absolute WARZONE Munitions are being lit on fire by Antifa while attendees are rushed into the venue ENOUGH! ANTIFA’S REIGN OF TERROR MUST END!" NewsWax reports RNC Responded to 28 Bomb Threats During '25 Election. 

NYPo, Cops called to Letitia James’ Virginia homes two dozen times since she bought them. 

At Da Caller, Spy Agencies Cozied Up To Wuhan Virologist Before Lying About Pandemic.

Bob Hoge at RedState, 'Red-Handed': Sean Duffy Yanking an Astonishing 17,000 Illegal Trucker's Licenses in Gavin Newsom's CA. Dave Strom, County Fighting to Keep Employing Illegal Aliens as Prison Guards, Seattle. From WokeSpy, Stephen Miller Drops a Massive Immigration Truth Bomb on Jesse Watters. “If you take Haiti and you move it to America, it’s not going to work here. Somalia doesn’t work as a country, has never worked as a country. You take Somalia out of Somalia, you put it here, it’s not going to work any better.” Hans India, Mexican president rejects new US border wall construction. That's too damn bad. Dave Strom again, AWFL Convinced That She Can Break the Law Because 'I'm Just a Mom'. Matt Vespa, FAFO: Lib Karen Got a Rude Wake-Up Call After Messing With ICE Agents.

At TNP, Trump Plans to Sue BBC for Defamation Over Doctored Jan 6 Speech. Grummz @Grummz,"They are really trying to run with the "editorial mistake" He goes on to say that the edit didn't change the message at all, and that this is all a political hit job on the BBC. You do NOT hate journalists enough." Quote Times Radio @TimesRadio, "“It’s a concerted, full frontal assault on the BBC for what was absolutely an editorial mistake.” The BBC’s “political and commercial enemies” are using the doctoring of Trump’s speech to undermine the institution, says @StevenJBarnett." Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "Did they consider not lying for political gain?" Quote Brian Stelter @brianstelter, "The BBC is feeling the Trump squeeze. It's a move we have seen several times this year against vulnerable media companies" Erick Florack at PJM, NPR/PBS and Now the BBC: The Problem of Government-Funded Media. Richard Fernandez at PJM at the Belmont Club: When You Can't Take the High Hand. David Burge @iowahawkblog, "I grew up in a small rural community, and I distinctly remember back in '73 how shocked all the grownups were to turn on PBS and learn about World War II for the first time" Quote The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline, "Filmmaker @KenBurns discusses why the Trump administration killed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with @JohnAvlon: "It'll hurt mostly rural communities — maybe that's their intention. There'll be news deserts."" Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux, "No. The BBC was trying to change the outcome of the US election by consciously lying. If you don’t understand why that might piss Americans off, I don’t know what to tell you." Quote Ian L Richardson@ianrich15813274, "The BBC made a stupid mistake & should apologise. Beyond that, Trump is now trying to extort money from every BBC license fee payer in the UK. No way, should we give this utterly unworthy man a dime." Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke, "Have you noticed that whenever the press does anything bad, your “two cents” is always that it’s the fault of the “right wing” for noticing, that it doesn’t actually matter, and that, in fact, the real problem is that people are criticizing journalists?" Quote Brian Stelter @brianstelter, "Replying to @brianstelter, "As a source at the BBC remarked to me, Britain's right-wing press has been "feasting like vultures" over the bad edit for days on end. And the corporation's response was feeble at best, enabling conservative critics to advance their long-running campaign against the broadcaster."

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "NEW HOAX JUST DROPPED “The Trump admin removed a memorial for black soldiers” Only when you scroll alllll the way down do they admit that it actually works on a rotation and a panel which happened to feature a black servicemember was simply rotated. You don’t hate the media enough." Ace, To Honor Veterans Day, the Repulsive Traitor Media Launches a Military-Cemetery Race Hoax "Wait, another race hoax? Didn't we just have a race hoax? The black student who was "lynched" by white supremacists at a black college? Except there was videotape showing him hanging himself? And his roommate immediately went out to the press and said, "no, he wasn't lynched, he's been suicidal for months"? Oh well, this is a brand-new race hoax. Hope you like it! It's MAGA Country in the graveyard!

At Pirate Wires, Inside The Sydney Sweeney GQ Interview From Hell "wherein sydney, who evidently has a voluptuous iq, stares into the depths of a gotcha reporter's soul instead of apologizing for being hot." Ace, The GQ Clips of the Sydney Sweeney Struggle Session Were Misleading. "The Full Interview is Worse." From Hollywood in Toto, Billy Bob Thornton Mocks Political Celebrities "'Landman' star cites Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes rant on Joe Rogan podcast." 

Wokal Distance @wokal_distance, "I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band: My 11 year old son son joined the elementary school band, and so I went to the parents orientation night which was held at a local high-school. As the night went on it became obvious to me why young men rage against the larger social system. . . " Read it and weep.

Da Times, Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events "IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male." Dave Strom thinks it's Hilarious: Olympics To Ban 'Trans' Athletes After It 'Discovers' That Males Have Physical Advantages. At WJ, School Cannot Force Students to Use Trans Pronouns, Federal Court Rules.

Plenty o' links left at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.10.25, In The Mailbox: 11.12.25 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 11.12.25 (Evening Edition). The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: It’s Always Warm & Sunny Somewhere and FMJRA 2.0: In Like A Lion up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Kirk Killer Charged

Yesterday, the state of Utah charged Tyler Robinson, who "allegedly" killed Charlie Kirk, with several crimes, including murder with special circumstances making him eligible for the death penalty. Ironically, perhaps, Utah still utilizes the firing squad as a method of execution. The prosecutor laid out much of the evidence in a press conference including more damning text messages between Robinson and his trans lover. Cathy Salgado at PJM, Charlie Kirk’s Accused Shooter Is Charged and LATEST: Utah Attorney Reveals Why Robinson Killed Kirk in Shooter’s Own Words. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Tyler Robinson Has Been Formally Charged in the Assassination of Charlie Kirk. Sundance at CTH, Utah Prosecutors Hold a Press Conference Revealing Charging Documents and Evidence Against Tyler Robinson – Will Seek Death Penalty, of course he has the video. From Ace, Charlie Kirk's Trantifa Assassin in a Text to His Furry Tranny Lover: "I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out." Jerry Dunleavy, Gelet Fragela and Steven Richards at JTN, Armed Queers group trains radical Marxists to shoot just miles from where Charlie Kirk was murdered "The group trains gay, queer, and transgender people to arm themselves and fight against capitalism and the American system. There is at this time no evidence linking the group to Tyler Robinson, Kirk's accused assassin." Funded with tax money. Did Robinson get any assist there? From NYPo, The warped meme life of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer is a warning to parents—ignore it at your own risk. Katie Jerkovich at RedState, Former DHS Senior Advisor Issues Stark Warning About 'Violent' Trans Community,

Matt Margolis at PJM, The First Man Arrested After Kirk Shooting Tried to Help the Real Shooter Escape. He told the cops he shot Kirk to give the real assassin more time to escape. NewsNation, First man arrested for Charlie Kirk shooting wanted to help shooter escape: Documents. Guy Benson @guypbenson, "“Zinn reportedly told an officer that he was glad he said he shot [Kirk] so the real suspect could get away. He also said he ‘wanted to be a martyr for the person who was shot,’ according to the probable cause statement.” An improvised, on-the-fly, pro-murder accomplice." Dave Strom at Hat Hair, The Man Who Falsely Confessed to Killing Kirk Was Trying to Help Robinson Escape; UPDATE: Is a P@do, Too. Oli London @OliLondonTV "Man who shouted “I shot him now shoot me” moments after Charlie Kirk was shot claimed to be the shooter to help the real shooter escape. George Zinn, 71, was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice after immediately claiming to be the shooter after the fatal bullet was fired at Kirk. Whilst in custody he told police he was not in fact the shooter but claimed to have initially said he was “to draw attention from the real shooter.” Following his arrest, he was then taken to a hospital for an unknown medical issue and told an officer that “he was glad he said he shot the individual so the real suspect could get away.” Zinn was booked into the Utah County Jail on a charge of Obstruction of Justice, a second degree felony." Townhall.com @townhallcom, "WHOA: Kash Patel just announced that the number of individuals being investigated in relation to the assassination of Charlie Kirk is “A LOT MORE THAN 20!” Go get ‘em." Investigated, not charged. Sundance, Guy Who Faked Being Charlie Kirk Shooter Charged with Child Pornography. "Now, Zinn has been charged with 4 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after FBI agents examined his phone and found images of underage girls dressed only in their underwear, according to court documents filed Tuesday by Utah prosecutors. The docs say Zinn admitted to the feds he gets “sexually aroused” by children." TMZ, Fake Charlie Kirk Shooter Slapped With Kiddie Porn Charges ... After Confessing to FBI. Ace, And Now, a Plot Twist So Twisted and Plotty That It Will Blow All of Your Damn Minds, "George Zinn was the leftwing codger who immediately declared he'd killed Charlie Kirk." David Webb @davidwebbshow "Three major assassination cases in US courts today. Luigi Mangione, Ryan Routh and Tyler Robinson. What do they have in common?"

Hat Hair, Spicey Language Alert: If You Haven't Seen Gutfeld Eat Tarlov Alive, Here It Is

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Greg Gutfeld just EVISCERATED Jessica Tarlov for making the "both sides" argument about Charlie Kirk's kiIIing

"DON'T PLAY THAT BULLSHlT WITH ME!"

"We don't care about your 'both sides' argument. That shlt is DEAD!"

"On your side, your beliefs do not match… pic.twitter.com/tXAl6RGIQ4

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 15, 2025

The left is still clinging to the idea that the killer is MAGA, or that they can at least convince the public. Dave Strom watches CBS News: We May Never Know Motives in Kirk and Annunciation Shootings. In the absolute sense that we may never know what another person is thinking, that may be true, but his text messages pretty much blurt out his motive, hate. Ace, Disney Groomer Corporation "News:" The Messages the Vicious Left-Wing Assassin Left For His Trans Furry Lover Were "Very Touching, In a Way, That Many of Us Didn't Expect" "ABC really wants its broadcast license yanked, and while I was against this previously, I now want Trump to go full authoritarian and shut them down." John Sexton at Hat Hair VIP, NY Times Still Struggling to Connect the Dots (Update). Jerry Dunleavy IV @JerryDunleavy "CBS News brings on a guy to suggest that Charlie Kirk’s killer — who wrote “Hey Fascist! Catch!” on one of his bullets — was potentially motivated by “neofascist” ideology. Parodical." Quote Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck, "WHAT?! "Motive remains elusive." "Not driven by an obvious political ideology." "Vague, second-hand testimony." Interview on 'CBS Evening News Plus' asserts the Charlie Kirk assassination and the Annunciation Catholic school shooting might be examples of nihilistic terrorism with no particular motive." Amy Curtis at Town thinks you should watch Scott Jennings Shreds Fellow CNN Panelists for Denying Leftist Motives in Assassination of Charlie Kirk. Mark Hemingway @Heminator "This piece from Josh Trevino is excellent, and among other things, absolutely guts the "both sides" claim." At Human Events, AI responses to Charlie Kirk's assassination expose deadly liberal bias. AI responses reflect their input. Dave Strom, Jimmy Kimmel Says MAGA Did It. Really. 

Jimmy Kimmel claims "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it" and "This is not how an adult… pic.twitter.com/KMhnskaYWD

— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) September 16, 2025

But to a great extent, their campaign is working, Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, New Poll on Assassination: 'Colossal Media Failure' ... Or Success? Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson "A colossal media failure in one chart:" Quote Cabot Phillips @cabot_phillips, "Only 8% of Democrats know that Charlie Kirk's assassin was a liberal. They don't believe their side is violent because the legacy media refuses to tell them the truth." Correction, it's not a failure, it's the desired goal.

Michael Cantrell at PJM reports the FBI, Treasury Digging Into Funding of Political Violence Following Charlie Kirk's Assassination. Matt Margolis, Biden’s FBI Targeted Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. At Breitbart, Operation ARCTIC FROST: Biden FBI Investigated Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, Republican Groups. Sundance hosts Grassley Questions FBI Director About Expanded “Arctic Frost” FBI Target List. Ace, Of Course: Biden Weaponized the FBI to Go After... Charlie Kirk "First they went after the J6ers, then they went after the families of the J6ers, then they went after anyone who ever interacted with the J6ers. But the J6ers were never the real target. Just like when the left began agitating to deplatform Alex Jones and punch Nick Fuentes, those were just test-cases intended to prepare the public for deplatforming Ben Shapiro and, ultimately, murdering Charlie Kirk. After Biden's and Chris Wray's FBI ran out of people who went to grade school with the J6ers, they turned to the real target: every Republican advocacy group, including the RNC (!!!) and Turning Point USA."

Althouse, "There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society. We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech." "Said Pam Bondi, quoted in "Bondi takes heat from the right after vowing to prosecute 'hate speech': ‘We will absolutely target you'" (NY Post). Takes heat and deserves it." At mrcFree Speech, CBS News Brings on Biden DOJ Official to Condemn Big Tech Pro-Free Speech Moves After Kirk Murder. Dave Strom, Pam Bondi Has Gone Over the Line by Suggesting Investigating 'Hate Speech'. Cockburn at Spec World, Does Pam Bondi know what free speech is? "The Attorney General is mistaken to think that ‘hate speech’ isn’t free speech." Insty, PAM BONDI IS MAKING A FOOL OF HERSELF HERE, AND WHY?: Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi, "Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. It’s a crime. For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence. That era is over. . . " Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo, "This is extremely concerning. The distinction is not between "free speech" and "hate speech," but between "free speech" and "organizing illicit activities, engaging in political violence, depriving others of their civil rights, and committing tax or nonprofit fraud." Of course, she made that point later in the post, but that never gets seen. Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke "So, just to check, given the encouragingly universal reaction to Bondi I’m seeing this morning: We’re all agreed, going forward, that there’s no such thing as hate speech, and that Jack Phillips can choose which cakes to bake, right? This is settled now?" From Althouse again, "Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed." "Said Sonia Sotomayor, quoted in "Sotomayor rebukes calls to 'criminalize free speech' in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi/The justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over 'hate speech'" (Politico). And so ends the decades long push — by the left — to criminalize hate speech. Thanks, Justice Sotomayor!" Jonathan Turley, Game Changer: Meta and Zuckerberg May Be Ready to Fight for Free Speech, now that the shoe is on the other foot.

Twitchy reports Texas Suspending Certifications of More Than 100 Teachers Who Cheered Charlie Kirk’s Murder. Joanne Jacobs wonders Can teachers be fired for celebrating murder? From the Free Bacon, UCLA Places Race and Equity Director Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk Assassination on Leave, "Johnathan Perkins, formerly of Harvard, has also asserted Jews 'enjoy the benefits of whiteness.'" From the College Fix, ‘Am I safe here?’ TPUSA student speaks out after GWU official calls Kirk assassination ‘fair’. Rick Moran at PJM hears Professors Targeted by Charlie Kirk's 'Watch List' Relieved That He's Dead. At the Daily Skeptic, How the Left Programmed Young People to Hate. Natalie Jean Beisner @NJBeisner, "Whoopi Goldberg said regarding the Charlie Kirk assassination: “You want to fight for something? Then go to the ballot box. Go elect different people.” Trouble is, Whoopi, we did that, and the majority of voters elected Trump—twice. And you called him a Nazi and a fascist and a white supremacist for ten years. That puts a target on his and his supporters’ backs. So it’s nice to say platitudes right now in the wake of tragedy. But what are you actually going to do to change?" Beth Brelje notes Speaker Johnson Has No Plans To Punish Omar For Comments Justifying Charlie Kirk’s Murder. Mehek Cooke @MehekCooke "Hey Ohio! Elliot Forhan, Democrat candidate for Ohio Attorney General, responded to Charlie Kirk’s assassination with “F*** Charlie Kirk.” A man running to be Ohio’s top law enforcement officer celebrating murder? That’s not leadership—it’s moral rot. He must withdraw from the race." Tom Elliott @tomselliott "Dems last week: It’s time to go to war against Republicans! Dems this week: Can you believe all this political violence!?" Illustrated. Capt. Ed reads the WaPo Termination Letter to Attiah: We Fired You For Being a Raging Racist. Driscoll at Insty writes "IN DEFENSE OF KAREN ATTIAH. Sort Of: On October 7, 2023, as terrorists raped and pillaged Israelis, Attiah reposted tweets justifying the unfolding massacre: “What did y’all think decolonization meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? Losers.”" Dave Strom reports Very Liberal People 8x More Likely to Support Political Violence Than Very Conservative, a yougov poll. ZUBY: @ZubyMusic "For those who complain about 'hate speech' and 'hateful rhetoric'... There is literally nothing more hateful than advocating, celebrating, or committing murder. That's worse than all the 'isms' and 'phobias' combined. Disagreement is normal. Wishing death is deeply evil." John Sexton reads Ezra Klein: It Feels Like We're Close to Violence in the Streets. There's already plenty of leftist violence in the streets; he's afraid the right will get into it. PJM's Stephen Kruiser says Dems Are Lucky We're Not Violent About Them Calling Us Violent. Tom Knighton at TAW, Daily Kos Very Upset Right Isn't Reponding to Kirk Assassination the Way They Want. No one proposed to ban deer rifles? Kos is still a thing?

Jim Treacher, I Was Wrong About Charlie Kirk "Mea culpa." From NYPo, Bill Maher says he ‘can’t stop thinking’ about Charlie Kirk’s death, recalls their friendly interview. Ward Clark at RedState hears RFK Jr. Describes Conversation With Charlie Kirk - and Brings Down the House. Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson, "Listen to Charlie Kirk. Do more than just talk. Tear down the well-funded leftist networks that build permission structures for terrorism and violence. Honour his legacy." Quote Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11, "The left has never played by our rules. Only we play by our rules. Our rules are what keeps our side from winning. We either want to win or we will lose under some delusion that the rules mean anything." ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena, "Just spent 90 minutes sitting on the sidelines of a kids flag football practice. I don’t think cable news “experts” or many Democrats have any idea of how profoundly impacted suburban moms are over what happened to Charlie Kirk & how much they have noticed how poorly many have behaved." Quote ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena, “The wave has been rising. And I think that the assassination of Charlie Kirk just reinforces some of these core values. And I think that it is going to be a catalyst in that direction for sure.” The College Fix, TPUSA received ‘32,000 inquiries in the last 48-hours to start new campus chapters’: spokesman. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn enjoys Pensacola's FAFO Charlie Kirk Memorial Moment. "Let's just say they snatched the miscreant up before he could do any serious damage, and maced the crap out of him for good measure."

At Althouse, "Today, I have the Great Honor of bringing a $15 Billion Dollar Defamation and Libel Lawsuit against The New York Times..." and "Treasury secretaries dating back to Alexander Hamilton have a history of dueling." "Quipped the Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, quoted in "Scott Bessent invokes deadly Hamilton-Burr duel when asked about threat to punch Bill Pulte in ‘f–king face’" (NY Post)."

At ET, How Flawed Jobs Data Influences Fed Rate Policy "A recent big revision to jobs data has cast doubt on the government’s data collection methods and raised questions about the Fed’s interest rate decisions." NewsBusters, Bloomberg Chief Economist Admits Economy Was in ‘Recession’ BEFORE THE ELECTION! Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge, "The BLS just revised away the Joe Biden Miracle, admitting 911,000 jobs were fake. Bloomberg now admits we may have been in recession since March of last year -- long before the election." Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed sees Trump Admin Appeal Court Order Blocking Removal Of Fed Governor Lisa Cook: ‘Rests On A Series Of Legal Errors’

The WSJ notes Joe Biden Is Struggling to Cash In on His Presidency. From TNP, Newly Released FBI Files Allege Further Biden Bribery. "Recently declassified Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) documents, made public by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), reveal allegations of a foreign bribery plot involving Hunter Biden, former President Joe Biden, and Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings. The files, containing interviews from 2017 and 2019, claim that Burisma’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, attempted to bribe then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with $100 million to stop an Interpol investigation. The money allegedly moved through a Latvian shell company linked to the Bidens." WaEx explains Now we know why Fauci got a pardon. Senator Rand Paul. @SenRandPaul, "BREAKING: Newly released emails show Fauci directed colleagues to “delete this after you read it”—dating back to Feb. 2020. He denied it under oath. These documents are now public, and Fauci will finally testify before Chairman Rand Paul." Tony Moon @RoofKorean7 "Dude says multiple people tried to kill Biden..hahahahaha Since when did we start counting stairs as people?" Quote Brian Krassenstein
@krassenstein Replying to @jammles9 "No but multiple people tried to kill him"

Frog, meet scorpion. Da Caller, Mamdani Won’t Endorse Hochul’s Reelection Now Despite Her Endorsing Him. 

Dmitri Bolt at TownHall reports Judge Throws Out Terrorism Charges in Luigi Mangione Case. Capt. Ed, New York Court Tosses Terror Charges Against Mangione. Ace, Left-Wing Soft on Terrorism Judge Throws Out Terrorism Charges for the Left's Dreamboat Assassin Luigi Mangione. "So NY State's murder law is odd. What most states would call first degree murder, NYS calls second degree. In NY, second degree murder is intentional murder. In other states, second degree murder might be heat-of-passion crimes. In NY, first degree murder -- which used to make you eligible for the death penalty, before the basket-case shithole state abolished that -- requires special circumstances, like killing a cop, judge, or political official. . . .Now that the left's latest Hot Terrorist is only eligible for second degree murder, he can be sentenced to 25 years to life -- but with the possibility of parole, which means that even if he's convicted, he could be out in, what?, eight years? And he will be paroled, because the pro-terrorism, pro-assassination left is literally masturbating themselves to this latest left-wing killer." Althouse, "Two state terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione... were dismissed on Tuesday, including one that had accused him of first-degree murder.", ""Mr. Mangione, 27, is still charged with second-degree murder. The decision by Justice Carro is a blow to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, led by Alvin L. Bragg. The prosecutors had argued that a terrorism charge was warranted because Mr. Mangione had targeted an executive 'of the United States’ largest health insurance company in front of the hotel where the company was about to conduct its annual investor conference' in Midtown Manhattan, which they said was 'widely recognized as the media capital of the world.' Mr. Bragg has said that the act was 'a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation.'" The NYT reports."

Sundance hosts FBI Director Kash Patel Testifies to Senate Judiciary Committee Nick Arama at RedState says Hoo Boy: Kash Patel Ends Cory Booker in Wild Exchange Where Senator Loses His Mind. Ace, Kash Patel Attacked by Shhpartacush, Proven Serial Liar Adam Schiff, Fat Retarded Woman Maizie Hirono "The Democrats want to fight." Collin Rugg @CollinRugg, "JUST IN: FBI Director Kash Patel calls Democrat Adam Schiff the "biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate" to his face. "You are the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate. You are a disgrace to this institution and an utter coward." "I'm not surprised that you continue to lie from your perch and put on a show so you can go raise money for your charade. You are a political buffoon at best."" James Lynch at NRO, FBI Has Overseen Terminations, Resignations Tied to Anti-Catholic Activities, Director Reveals.

Natalia Mittelstadt at JTN reports Georgia Supreme Court rejects Fani Willis' bid to prosecute Trump. ""This proper decision should bring an end to the wrongful political, lawfare persecutions of the President," Trump attorney Steve Sadow said" Beege Welborn says there's Nuthin' Like a Good Fani Kicking. Ace, Egg with Legs and Town Pump Porkchop Fani Willis Permanently Disqualified from Prosecuting the Indictments She Conjured Against Trump. "Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., hardest hit, as are his Sexual Law associates Lance Clamstabber and Rex DeQuim. They will no longer be making hundreds of thousands of dollars on a case they have no qualifications for apart from their ability to maintain an erection in the face of Fani's weapons-grade fromunda stank. So a lower court had already barred her for any further involvement in this case she contrived for partisan reasons, and now the Georgia Supreme Court leaves that ruling in place. There is no further appeal. She's done." At LifeZette, James Comey’s Daughter Sues the DOJ to Get Her Job Back.