[FoxNews] Army Secretary Dan Driscoll announced Wednesday he had directed the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to rescind a leadership offer extended to former Biden appointee Jen Easterly.
Easterly, a former Army intelligence officer who helped establish the U.S. Cyber Command at the National Security Agency (NSA), served as U.S. director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the Biden administration.
The move comes after leaked internal emails from Big Tech firms showed censorship pressure from the government during the COVID-19 pandemic.
After a subpoena from House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, major tech companies, including Google's parent, Alphabet; Amazon; Apple; Meta; and Microsoft, were investigated for allegedly censoring free speech relating to COVID-19 and vaccines, regardless of accuracy, under pressure from the Biden administration.
Internal communications showed some tech executives pushed back, while others complied.
Easterly was previously deployed to Iraq to investigate how murderous Moslems were using communication technology for recruitment and radicalization.
In a copy of the memo posted to X, Driscoll ordered West Point to terminate the "gratuitous" service agreement with Easterly, noting she will no longer serve as the Robert F. McDermott Distinguished Chair in the Department of Social Sciences.
[SleuthNews] The Obama administration compromised highly sensitive intelligence networks, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke exclusively to Sleuth News on the condition of anonymity.
Highly classified documents, obtained by the CIA from Dutch intelligence, indicate that by the summer of 2016, the American government knew enough to stop a fledgling investigation into Russian collusion. Dutch intelligence had infiltrated Russian intelligence groups, including a group known as Cozy Bear who had allegedly hacked the Democratic National Committee beginning in 2015 in a lesser known hack that did not result in the release of documents.
The CIA received numerous reports from the Dutch intelligence service including a highly classified memorandum produced by the Russians detailing a purported conversation from Attorney General Loretta Lynch with a Clinton staffer named Amanda Renteria. The Russian intelligence document alludes to an email presumptively obtained from the Democratic National Committee in which Debbie Wasserman Schultz emailed Leonard Bernardo regarding the alleged assurances Lynch had given to Renteria. The memorandum, received by the FBI in early March 2016 suggested the existence of an agreement by Lynch not to let the investigation into Clinton’s email server progress too far.
In September 2020, then Director of ODNI John Ratcliffe declassified another piece of this puzzle, summarized in three bullet points in a letter sent to Senator Lindsay Graham. The three bullet points are as follows:
In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U. S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S . Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee. The IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.
According to his handwritten notes, former Central Intelligence Agency Director Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the "alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services."
On 07 September 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok regarding "U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server."
Sleuth’s sources suggest that the Russians had picked up communications between Clinton campaign operatives and public relations personnel containing details of the smear campaign, which Sleuth News has learned included a plan to have the FBI amplify the collusion allegations. The emails described to Sleuth News are strikingly similar to an email released by Wikileaks, authored in February 2016 and sent from Jennifer Palmieri, a Clinton campaign official, to Joel Johnson of The Glover Park Group in which a “swift boat” project is mentioned, weeks before the alleged DNC hack.
On August 3, 2016, then CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama, then Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey and other senior officials on highly classified memorandums authored by Dutch intelligence with details of Clinton’s alleged plans.
The next day, Brennan called Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB intelligence network. Brennan would tell members of the House Intelligence Committee in 2017 that he called Bortnikov to warn Russia to stop interfering in America’s elections.
That call apparently led to an immediate shift in Cozy Bear, cutting off the Dutch’s access and compromised friendly assets working for Western Intelligence. The call also had the effect of stopping additional memorandums that would have shed light on Clinton’s plans.
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I don't think the writing here is very clear but it sounds like the Russians knew all about the Democrat plot and presumably were having a damn good laugh about it.
And the lead sentence mentions a network getting compromised but does not specify which network. Was it the Dutch? That'd teach 'em to share information with the likes of Brennan.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] Once upon a time in America, taxpayers were scandalized to learn the Pentagon paid $400 for a toilet seat. It was front-page news. Congressional hearings were convened. Outrage flowed like prune juice at the Biden White House breakfast buffet.
Fast forward to 2025, and no one bats an eye over spending more than that for just a toilet.
In fact, the federal government under the Biden administration set aside a whopping $7.5 billion in cold, hard, debased American currency—and to date, we've got a grand total of 384 E.V. chargers to show for it.
And here's the twist: hardly anyone is shocked.
No wall-to-wall hearings.
No breathless expos s strung out on tenterhooks.
No Geraldo Rivera cracking open an empty safe at Fort Knox.
These are strange times. We used to get mad when they flushed money down the toilet for toilets.
And you thought a national debt north of $37 trillion was a fiscal problem. Silly you. It's not a money issue—it's a perspective disorder.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... 's 2016 campaign likely 'ginned up' the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy and wanted the Obama FBI's help, according to bombshell new intelligence documents recently recovered from a 'burn bag' in a secret FBI room.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, under Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a 29-page classified file from former Special Counsel John Durham's 'Russiagate' investigation on Thursday called the 'Durham annex.' The annex was one of many files recently discovered by FBI officials that was due to be destroyed.
The heart of the explosive allegations in the document: That the B.O. regime and the Clinton campaign were aware of - and potentially coordinated - a plan to falsely tie Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... to Russia, a chief U.S. rival.
Within the pages of the annex are private communications between Clinton staff and workers at a George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true. Maybe both.... nonprofit discussing a plan to tie Trump to Russia to distract from scrutiny over the Hillary email server scandal, which was hurting the Democrat's campaign at the time.
Leonard Benardo, Senior Vice President of Soros’ Open Society Foundations, sent emails to top Clinton staffers that showed Hillary Clinton herself approved of the Trump-Russia 'smear' plan.
'Julie [Clinton Campaign Advisor] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump,' one of his emails disclosed in the Durham annex states. 'Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.'
A March 2016 intelligence memorandum included in the annex shows that 'Clinton staff, with support from special services, is preparing scandalous revelations of business relations between Trump and the 'Russian mafia.''
Durham's report noted that the 'special services' mentioned in the March 2016 memo could be the FBI, CIA or other intel officials - indicating coordination between Obama's intel officials and Clinton's campaign.
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smells funny. according to jarrett statute of limitations begins upon discovery of hidden evidence in a conspiracy case. so someone just left a burn bag in a room at the FBI without the expectation it would be discovered and opened. setup, can't say whose plan is wrapped in the riddle inside this enigma, but it's someones setup
[ARCHIVE.IS] Harvard is now open to settling with the Trump administration.
The Ivy League university is considering a $500 million deal as a way to end its months-long battle with the administration, according to the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... . News of the possible deal comes shortly after Columbia University agreed to a settlement as well, agreeing to pay more than $200 million for its antisemitism violation.
''It doesn't cross the red lines that we laid out. It protects our academic integrity. That was of course essential for us,'' Claire Shipman, Columbia's acting president, told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... last week.
According to the New York Times, Harvard could be next. Citing four unnamed sources, Harvard is ropen to a potential settlement to end the investigation into campus antisemitism.
''From a legal perspective, it makes sense to have a settlement. It avoids a lot of potential conflicts in the future,'' said attorney and political analyst Madeline Summerville.
The Trump administration has gone after Harvard since April. It has cut billions in funding while also demanding an overhaul of its leadership structure, admissions and hiring. The university previously rejected those demands, instead filing two lawsuits.
US President Donald Trump’s administration has sent a letter to Harvard University saying it has referred the school to the US Justice Department to address allegations of “Harvard’s antisemitic discrimination.”
In late June, the Trump administration said an investigation had concluded that Harvard violated federal civil rights law for failing to address harassment of Jewish and Israeli students.
“The parties’ several months’ engagement has been fruitless,” said the letter dated Wednesday from the US Department of Health and Human Services to Harvard’s leadership. “OCR (Office for Civil Rights), therefore, has no choice but to refer the matter to DOJ to initiate appropriate proceedings to address Harvard’s antisemitic discrimination.”
The New York Times reported on Monday that Harvard was open to spending up to $500 million to end its dispute with the government.
Harvard had no immediate comment on Wednesday’s letter.
I’m taking the opportunity to drop this weeks collections of articles on the subject here, rather than wait until Sunday. They’re a mixed bag again this week instead of being all horrid.
Stanford suspends two student co-ops over antisemitic, anti-white Title VI violations.
[CollegeFix] Stanford University has suspended for one year a pair of student co-ops for Title VI violations, one antisemitic in nature and the other anti-white. As noted by The Stanford Daily, Title VI is the federal law banning “harassment and discrimination based on race, color or national origin in educational institutions.”
The school’s co-ops, or cooperative houses, are “student-managed residences in which house members cooperate in the operation and governance of the house.”
According to the Daily, the Stanford Title VI Office received “several reports” about the Kairos co-op after some students “participating in an extracurricular activity in the house were asked to leave.”
The reason was that “Zionists” present were “making residents of the house uncomfortable” … despite none of the activity’s participants discussing politics.
“The investigation determined that students were targeted based on their perceived Jewish identity,” Stanford said in a statement.
Kairos “fosters BIPOC solidarity as well as arts appreciation” and features a land acknowledgment to the Muwekma Ohlone people on its website.
Residence assistants of the other co-op, the Enchanted Broccoli Forrest (a “loosely arts-themed co-op dedicated to empowering BIPOC, gender-marginalized, queer, and [first-generation/limited-income] voices,” pictured) sent out an email to incoming student residents informing them the EBF “is committed to being a place of refuge for those who are black, brown, gender-marginalized, and FLI.”
Janitors trapped by pro-Palestinian mob reach settlement with Columbia University
[CollegeFix] Two janitors at Columbia University who allege pro-Palestinian protesters trapped them inside a building recently reached a settlement with the institution in connection to its larger agreement with the Trump administration. The settlement with Lester Wilson and Mario Torres comes out of the $20 million that Columbia promised the Trump administration it would pay “employees who alleged they suffered civil rights violations,” the New York Post reports.
“The university set up the situation and ended up putting them into that situation, now the issue is holding accountable those who carried it out and were responsible for the takeover and the assault,” center president Alyza Lewin told the NY Post:
While that wraps up Wilson’s and Torres’ battle against Columbia, the two men are still forging ahead with their lawsuit against more than 40 protesters whom they allege held them hostage during the Hamilton Hall riot last year. …
Neither Wilson nor Torres is Jewish, but the two men were horrified and traumatized by the storm of anti-Israel protests that ripped through campus in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
In April 2024, pro-Palestinian protesters took over Hamilton Hall on campus while Wilson and Torres were still inside. The janitors allege in the lawsuit that protesters “trapped” them inside the building, and they had to fight their way out.
Torres was shoved and struck on the back repeatedly, and one masked protester threatened him, saying, “I’m going to get twenty guys up here to f— you up,’” according to the lawsuit. Since then, neither have returned to work, according to the report.
In their case against the university, the janitors also alleged Columbia leaders ignored repeated acts of vandalism since the fall of 2023. This included “dozens” of swastikas that they had to clean off buildings, according to the NY Post.
Princeton Student Accused of Assault at Pro-Palestine Protest Sues for ‘Incredible Betrayal’
[FreePress] In 2024, David Piegaro attended a pro-Palestine rally on Princeton University’s campus as a self-described “citizen journalist.” A Jewish student from Trenton, New Jersey, he had enrolled at Princeton as an undergraduate after six years of service in the U.S. Army and the New Jersey National Guard
After filming chaos on campus, the student was allegedly shoved down the stairs by Princeton’s public safety chief and wound up in the hospital.
He was arrested at the bottom of the steps and charged with assault, trespassing, resisting arrest, and obstruction. The man in the suit was Kenneth Strother, Princeton’s assistant vice president for public safety. In a sworn statement, Strother said that he was the victim and that Piegaro fell down the stairs only because he had resisted arrest.
In April, a New Jersey judge found Piegaro not guilty of all the charges, concluding that he might “have been unwise, or even defiant, but it does not amount to reckless disregard.”
On Wednesday, Piegaro filed a lawsuit against Princeton and Strother in a federal court in New Jersey, alleging violations of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, use of excessive force, wrongful imprisonment, fabrication of evidence, and more. While the suit doesn’t allege discrimination under Title IV of the Higher Education Act, Piegaro told us that “it was very obvious that I was treated differently from the other students who were arrested the same day that had a different outcome.”
Misdemeanor charges against 13 pro-Palestine protesters accused of trespassing were eventually dismissed, with a judge ordering the students to do community service and write an apology letter to Princeton. A prosecutor said that Princeton officials “did not desire these folks to have permanent records, criminal records, as a result of this.”
Piegaro’s lawsuit is among dozens filed by Jewish students since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, led to the eruption of anti-Israel protests at colleges and universities across the United States. Part of what makes his allegations unusual is the central role of Strother, who is responsible for student safety at Princeton. Piegaro, who graduated in May, alleged that a student was initially told that the investigation “likely would not lead to any disciplinary action” because of inconsistencies by witnesses.
After his arrest, Piegaro was put in a holding cell before he was transported to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with broken ribs and a concussion, the lawsuit alleged.
But after Princeton heard Strother’s side of the story, Piegaro was put on disciplinary probation for nine months, banned from campus, and kicked out of his housing, according to the suit. Two days after Piegaro’s acquittal, Strother was one of six Princeton staff members awarded the President’s Achievement Award. “Even in these most challenging situations,” Princeton associate dean of undergraduate students Jarrett Fisher wrote, “I’ve observed Ken demonstrate the most incredible degree of patience, grace, and diplomacy.” Princeton has said that it had no comment on the charges filed against Piegaro. Michael Hotchkiss, Assistant Vice President for Communications, told The Free Press that “The University believes the complaint to be entirely without merit and plans to mount a vigorous defense. We look forward to a fair trial and expect our position to be fully vindicated.”
Since January, all three of the program’s leaders and most of its staff have left or not had their contracts renewed amid internal and external allegations of antisemitism against the program. It will continue to operate under new leadership this fall, but with vast changes.
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations swept campuses, including Harvard, criticism of the program grew. The statement and the program’s events were cited in a lawsuit by former divinity school student Shabbos Kestenbaum and a recently formed nonprofit organization called Students Against Antisemitism Inc. as examples of ways that antisemitism allegedly permeated Harvard.
Harvard was unable to get the case dismissed and wound up settling with Kestenbaum in May.
Again, the article points out the pushback to the RPL initiative goes back long before Trump was reelected, but his pressure on Harvard may have been the last straw. When the Trump administration announced an investigation into anti-Semitism at Harvard in March the school responded two weeks later with an announcement that RPL was being overhauled. It was by that point some low-hanging fruit that could be pointed to in an effort to show Harvard was serious about dealing with anti-Semitism on campus.
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Oh, looking at at the headline I thought this was about the anti-Asian discrimination. But it's not. I guess they don't have nearly as good a lobby in DC.
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In some important ways, the anti-Jewish stuff is a proxy for all the politically correct/DEI stuff, Elmomoter Mussolini9149: Asians, Caucasians, men and boys, Christians, heteros3xuals. The same people doing much the same kind of harm — except for the mob violence and the blood libels — just to another non-preferred category of human, and needing the exact same fix: Treat Everyone Fairly, not just the preferred groups. If you want to do round-up articles on that (under Great Cultural Revolution, Page 3: Non-WoT, I think, unless someone has a strong reason to put is in different category) I’m fine with it. You could probably find a dozen articles a day on the subject, which would overwhelm the topics we’re following already if not grouped under one headline. Or you could get that information from any number of Conservative blogs that specialize in that kind of thing — we’ve always assumed here that Rantburg is only one of our Readers’ sources, answering only some of their interests.
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Just at Instapundit in the past half hour there are three links about DEI at Brown University and an anonymous BigLaw firm, the Brown ones pointing out that Brown’s surrender on the Jewish issue will require them to establish merit-based policies — overall, not just for Jews. And that’s without scrolling deeper into today’s posts there, let alone other sites like the PJ Media family or Legal Insurrection or Bongino Report or Rantingly, that I occasionally check as I have the time.
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Hundreds of million dollars in fines sounds tempting but I hope the DOJ doesn't settle for it because I have a bad feeling that most of it came from taxpayers in the first place and it won't hurt the people who actually did the discriminating. Those people need to go to jail.
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You could probably find a dozen articles a day on the subject
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somewhere some lawyer is working on a class action case where all the white males who have been DEIed out of a promotion get reparations from a Govt or a big corporation
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[DEADLINE] The runner-up in the 2024 U.S. presidential election won't be running for Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s top job next year, but Kamala Harris who got her start in politix between former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' knees isn't ruling out a 2028 White House bid yet.
After months of speculation and impressive polling, the former Vice President has made it official: She's not going to be on the ballot to lead the Golden State. ''After deep reflection, I've decided that I will not run for Governor in this election,'' Harris said Wednesday.
The news certainly comes as a surprise to those outside Harris’ inner circle, though sources say Gov. Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... was in the loop about what was going on.
Earlier this year, around the time of the Oscars, Harris told friends and deep-pocketed donors that she would make a final decision on running for governor by the end of the summer. A little ahead of schedule, today’s announcement may send some shockwaves through the West Coast body politic as all indications were that the former Veep was staffed up and ready to roll up to Sacramento. To that, the likes of Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, ex-Rep. Katie Bat Girl Porter ...Dem law professor, attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 45th congressional district (Orange County) since 2019. Katie takes her job and her personal dignity so seriously she once showed up for a committee hearing dressed as Batman.... , and current CA Attorney General Rob Bonta have all publicly stated that their own plans would be contingent on what Harris decided.
However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... even though the crowded field to replace the termed-out Newsom won’t include California’s ex-senator and state Attorney General, the electorate and Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... may not have seen the last of the 2024 Democratic nominee.
She will certainly add an amusing note to the proceedings, and will nicely suck up funding at the early stages from the overly optimistic, should she actually try. But given how poorly she did on her own in 2020, I don’t see how she could possibly be a serious contender even in the Democratic primary.
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Prez or governor of Cali - I can see that being a tough choice for her, given that she is wildly under-qualified for either position. With Kamala's lack of job skills outside the hospitality and entertainment industry, I recommend she look for a figurehead position like the head of a useless NGO or the spokes-mom for a box wine company.
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What she's running for is Somebody Give Me A Bunch Of Money To Go Away.
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She is running... out for more box wine
Don't forget the gummies.
But, seriously folks, or not, think of all the fun we'd have watching Harris run against Newsom. He might look like the strong horse but his record as governor sucks and, if Harris really wants to win, she can exploit that.
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Proportional representation is even more susceptible to fraud, using nefarious methods not even considered by our founders, than the current system.
The problem in south Texas (as with many other areas) Grom, is that undocumented 'colonists' are included in the district censuses. Those censuses are then used to determine the district's size and shape to accommodate that number of estimated voting adults, even though the number of adults actually being eligible to vote might be a small fraction of the recorded adult census. Currently, each congressional district in Texas has an ideal population of 766,987. Only 15-20% of those might be eligible to vote, however.
It ain't the greatest system, but it's what we have.
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^Every methods has its pluses and minuses. Proportional representation prevents major parties being taken over by fringe. Also, formation of a ruling coalition under proportional representation involves coalition negotiation - which requires some degree of competence from a future chief executive. It doesn't prevent the government being taken over by sh*ts (see Europe), and doesn't assure there is a government (see Belgium).
The problems with "geographical winner take all" you are familiar with.
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Pico-violins. Donks gerrymandered New Mexico. Used to be Albuquerque and then north and south of the state. The south voted Trunk. So the Donks split the state east and west to eliminate that from repeating.
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Gonna say, the way it is practiced in Europe looks more like a gang grape by globalists of anyone pro-country.
The EU puppet gets the win, or an EU court overturns the election, bans politicians or even whole parties, run the election again, and wins. Then they team up with the flesh traders, commies, and globalists to beat the crap out of the natives.
[PJMEDIA] Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur has the kombucha concession today at a freestyle macram tournament in Kentucky.
This is a bit of an extension of what we led off with yesterday, when we were talking about Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Today, we're looking at Sen. Cory "Hey, a Camera!" Booker — aka New Jersey's lousiest performance artist. Not one to let assigned gender roles slow him down, Booker is determined to crack the Prosecco Ceiling and become one of the Democratic Party's mean girls.
Once more, with feeling: the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... are completely out of ideas that they can offer the American people in an attempt to win back voters that they lost last year. They are also incapable of self-examination, which means they haven't been able to identify any of what they desperately need to change. The only thing that they have been able to put their fingers on is the fact that President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... is a fighter, so, hey, they need to be fighters because it seems that's what the American people want.
So close.
Back to Booker. He's been out there and loud since President Trump got back into office. There was his infamous filibuster, which didn't accomplish anything other than to get him a lot of press about that kind of energy being just what the moribund Dems needed. Recently, Booker kept talking while Sen. Charles Grassley ignored him and proceeded with a vote to advance Emil Bove's nomination. Once again, he accomplished nothing, but, hey, that resist energy!
Yesterday, Booker fell apart again in his ongoing effort to be Testosterone AOC, which Matt wrote about:
''The Democratic Party needs a wake-up call,'' Booker thundered early in his remarks, accusing universities, businesses, and law firms of ''bending the knee'' to President Donald Trump. His tone vacillated between self-righteous indignation and theatrical fury as he painted a dystopian portrait of America under Trump, claiming that free speech was being crushed and that ''secret police are running around this country picking people up off the streets.''
Booker also pushed the bogus narrative that CBS is censoring Stephen Colbert because he criticized Trump.
Booker did everything but stomp his feet and threaten to take his ball and go home. Matt has the video in his post. Make sure you don't have too much food in your stomach if you decide to watch it.
The Democrats are right about one thing — Trump's willingness to fight is a huge part of his appeal. The massive difference between him and them is that he has ideas and policies that he's fighting for. Real-world stuff, not the alt-universe litany of lies that Booker was snot-bubbling about. Fighting just for the sake of fighting garners attention for a brief while, then quickly becomes boring. The people who were already voting for them may offer some virtual high-fives, but most American voters are becoming more savvy. The performative tantrum politics of Booker, Crockett, AOC, and the rest of the Beltway Dems aren't making rational people think that they've got solutions for anything.
[THEFEDERALIST] In a 50-49 vote, the U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday evening to confirm Trump nominee Emil Bove as a judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Daddy, can I be a senator? Murkowski ... representing K Street... of Alaska joined Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... in voting against Bove's nomination.
Bove's nomination was advanced to the full Senate by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a party-line vote on July 17. The upper chamber subsequently voted to invoke cloture on his nomination last Thursday, with Collins and Murkowski joining Democrats in opposition.
Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., did not partake in last week's cloture vote.
Bove's confirmation comes after weeks of attacks from Democrats and their media allies, who have collectively sought to bully weak-kneed GOP senators into tanking the senior Justice Department official's nomination to the bench.
To accomplish this goal, these left-wing actors weaponized multiple whistleblower complaints, which alleged wrongdoing by Bove during his time at the DOJ.
One of the identified whistleblowers is a former Bove underling, Erez Reuveni, who came forward with claims that Bove advocated for ignoring federal court orders related to the administration's deportation efforts. Documents previously reported by The Federalist, however, indicate Reuveni's assertions aren't true.
During his late June confirmation hearing, Bove emphatically rejected Reuveni's claims and blasted the media's characterization of the type of judge he would be if confirmed by the Senate.
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[AmericanThinker] Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican representing Georgia, built her brand by claiming to fight for forgotten Americans. She stormed into Congress on the promise of taking down the elites and draining the swamp. But when you follow the money, a very different story unfolds. It looks a lot more like Wall Street self-enrichment than service to Main Street conservatives.
In 2021, Greene entered Congress with an estimated net worth of $700,000.
By April 2025, her net worth had ballooned to $22 million, driven largely by stock market investments that consistently outperformed even seasoned Lower Manhattan pros.
That kind of rapid financial ascent raises red flags.
After all, the average congressional salary is $174,000. Yet Greene somehow turned her time in public office into a personal fortune. This wasn’t by launching a business, but by making remarkably well-timed trades. She’s claimed not to handle her own investments, but the numbers and timing suggest a different reality.
In 2021, Greene bought shares in corporate behemoths like Visa and Walmart. These are companies she publicly criticized for promoting progressive causes. Her public statements painted these firms as enemies of conservative values, but her private trades told a different story. Those investments paid off handsomely.
By 2023, Greene’s portfolio was outperforming that of many of her congressional peers, earning returns of 18.6%. This level of success doesn’t align with the image of a grassroots outsider who supposedly shuns the elite’s ways.
Fast forward to 2025, and the pattern has only grown more striking. She moved into Treasury notes as market uncertainty spiked — classic defensive positioning.
Then, in April, she made purchases in Apple, Amazon, and NVIDIA just days before Donald Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs were paused. This pumping of the breaks triggered an epic market rally. Greene also purchased Lululemon and Dell, reaping significant gains after the tariff freeze, with some stocks jumping over 30%.
Her ability to repeatedly "buy the dip" with such precision undermines the notion of dumb luck and erodes her anti-establishment credibility.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true. Maybe both....
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
...every time you hear the phrase 
...every time you hear the phrase 
