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Massachusetts Police Training Center Targets 'Moms for Liberty' as a Hate Group
[HOTAIR] Is Moms for Liberty a "hate group" on the order of the KKK?

The Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee thinks so. Not even the infamously anti-sanity NGO, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which never saw a conservative-leaning group it didn't despise, has gone so far as to label Moms for Liberty a hate group, although they do call them "extremist."

When even the SPLC can't conjure up enough evidence to indict you as a hate group, your worst crime is loving puppies and kittens. After all, PragerU and Focus on the Family make it into the hate group category.

Yet police officers in Massachusetts are told to be on the lookout for moms who don't like drag queens fondling their kindergarten children. They may be armed and dangerous.

The parental rights movement grew out of the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools remained closed and required students to wear face masks late into 2020 and 2021, and when remote learning allowed parents to see that schools had been teaching their children divisive gender and racial lessons. The SPLC and many teachers unions champion such lessons.

“While Gov. Maura Healey and the Massachusetts Teachers Union are busy stream-rolling our children’s educational futures to enact their far-left agendas, the MassGOP is focused on recruiting concerned parents to run as Republicans up and down the ballot in 2026,” Carnevale added.

Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There is a Civil Rights case awaiting Harmeet’s gaze of fury.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/14/2025 6:11 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
White House blasts far-left DA's warning that Trump 'better not try' DC-style takeover 'in Philly
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2025 05:34 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Would I be going too far out on a limb by saying we are in the midst of a second Civil War ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2025 8:12 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Democrats gave '$6 billion to a conglomerate of United Nations agencies and over 200 NGOs' to facilitate the illegal immigration invasion of America
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Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [49 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  The defunding has begun but there is much work to be done. The money is surely being rerouted to the same NGOs or to new NGOs with the same mission and same staff. The fundamental issue is the myriad bozos inside our Executive Branch who are facilitating the demise of our country. The phone call is coming from within the house.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/14/2025 6:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Homeland Security - Katie Abraham’s killer
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2025 7:49 Comments || Top||


Russiagate roundup: Anatomy Of A Soft Coup - McCabe's Unprecedented Criminal Investigation Of A Sitting President
[American Liberty] The election of Donald Trump in November 2016 was, for the entrenched political class, a thunderclap. It was not supposed to happen. The experts, the pollsters, the seasoned operatives had assured the country that Hillary Clinton’s victory was inevitable. Yet by the morning of November 9, the White House was preparing to receive a president unlike any in modern history: a political outsider with no government experience, an instinctive distrust of Washington, and a willingness to discard its conventions. For some in the outgoing administration and the permanent bureaucracy, this was not merely a surprise. It was a crisis to be managed, or better yet, undone.

That undoing began in earnest just four months into Trump’s presidency, when Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, with the approval of FBI Counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap and General Counsel James Baker, authorized a criminal investigation into the sitting president of the United States. This probe did not arise from fresh evidence of presidential misconduct. It rested on the same thin reeds that had underpinned the Russia collusion narrative since mid-2016: opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign, laundered through the Steele dossier, and presented as intelligence. It was a case study in how partisan disinformation can metastasize into official action when it finds a willing audience inside the government.

To understand how extraordinary this was, one must appreciate the context. Intelligence reports later declassified in the Durham Annex revealed that, as early as March 2016, the Clinton campaign had hatched a plan to tie Trump to Russian operatives, not as a matter of national security, but as an electoral tactic. These plans were known to senior Obama administration officials, including John Brennan, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe, before the election. Yet when Trump won, the machinery they had assembled did not wind down. It shifted purpose: from preventing his election to destabilizing his presidency.

Courtesy of Fred:
Comey's media mole told FBI he shaped Russia narrative, needed 'discount' to deny leaking intel

[JUSTTHENEWS] The FBI concluded numerous legacy news media stories that crafted the false Russia collusion narrative contained illegally leaked classified intelligence but failed to definitively identify the leakers. But agents did force a stunning admission that ex-FBI Director James The spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
used a special conduit to the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

in his bid to polish his image and push for a special prosecutor to take down President Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman admitted to agents in interviews he routinely communicated on behalf of Comey, his longtime friend, with Times news hound Michael Schmidt, whose work was among the newspaper's 2018 Pulitzer-winning stories on Russian election interference. The goal, Richman told the FBI, was "to correct stories critical of Comey, the FBI and to shape future press coverage" outside of the bureau's official press office, according to internal FBI memos that current Director Kash Patel delivered to Congress this week.

While Richman was known to have been publicly quoted in news stories as an advocate for Comey, he admitted to agents — who were part of the FBI's Arctic Haze classified leaks inquiry — that he was given access by Comey to what turned out to be highly classified information up to the SCI level and sometimes provided information to news hounds on an anonymous basis.

Richman insisted he did not believe he had confirmed or provided classified intelligence to news hounds but said he could not be 100 percent, the memos state, noting he could only make his leak denial ''with a discount.''

"Richman was pretty sure he did not confirm the Classified Information. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
Richman told the interviewing agents he was sure 'with a discount' that he did not tell Schmidt about the Classified Information," one FBI memo recounted.

In the end, the Justice Department decided not to pursue any criminal charges against Comey or any of his lieutenants or now-Sen. Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation" Elected to Senate in 2024 by grateful Californians...
despite potential evidence of leaks, saying it could not be certain of who leaked what and when.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]




Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [43 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There is enough documentation to sink the lot of them, but by the iceberg analogy this is probably 10% of what they were up to. This is the stuff that they were comfortable documenting. What about the squirrelly stuff that they did without documentation?
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/14/2025 6:16 Comments || Top||

#2  These plans were known to senior Obama administration officials, including John Brennan, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe, before the election.

Likely known planned and orchestrated by "Brennan, Comey, and McCabe."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2025 7:26 Comments || Top||


Kentucky whistleblower claims licensing center sold IDs to illegal immigrants 'under the table'
[FoxNews] Kentucky law prohibits providing driver's licenses to non-US residents without proper documentation

Former Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) clerk Melissa Moorman sued her old employers for allegedly firing her because she reported on co-workers selling driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

According to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Moorman discovered in 2024 that two co-workers from the Department of Vehicle Regulation were selling documents to "nonresidents" without proper immigration screenings or testing. Her lawyers argued that she knew of the crime after being invited to participate.

"The employees were being paid under the table," Moorman told WDRB News on Monday. "I immediately let my supervisor know about it."

She also informed WDRB News that these co-workers would sell licenses for $200 per person approximately four to five times a day, for over two years. Moorman said that every case she encountered involved an illegal immigrant.

After she reported the crime, the co-workers were fired, and a federal investigation was launched into KYTC. Moorman allegedly met with federal investigators in January after learning those employees were using her credentials and log-in information without her knowledge at the time. She has said that she was instructed by her supervisor to provide the employees with this information as they waited for their own credentials when they first started.

KYTC fired Moorman the day of her interview but, according to Moorman's lawyers, has kept her supervisor despite the "mismanagement, fraud, abuse of authority, and violations of law and statute in which he engaged that Moorman disclosed and reported."

"I was angry, hurt and depressed," Moorman told WDRB News. "I did the right thing. I told the truth. I should not have been fired."

Moorman filed the lawsuit in April, claiming that KYTC violated the Kentucky Whistleblower Act, which protects public whistleblowers who come forward with information about misconduct. She has asked for her job and benefits to be reinstated along with back pay.

"It is tragic that the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet chose to terminate the person that uncovered the fact that hundreds, perhaps thousands of undocumented people were provided Kentucky driver’s licenses that they were not qualified to receive," Moorman's attorney Garry Adams told Fox News Digital. "The scheme that Melissa Moorman uncovered was putting all Kentuckians that operate or ride in motor vehicles in danger, and she should have been rewarded for her disclosure rather than terminated for it."

He continued, "This type of behavior where local, state and even federal governments seem to favor sweeping big problems under the rug, rather than disclosing it, addressing it and fixing it has got to stop."

KYTC released a statement to Fox News Digital confirming that it had "identified a number of irregularities and revoked 1,985 credentials" and terminated all employees involved, but offered no updates.

"This is an ongoing criminal investigation with numerous state and federal agencies participating, including Kentucky State Police, the Kentucky Attorney General, U.S. Attorneys and others. We have been asked not to share documents or certain information so as not to compromise the investigation," the statement read. "KYTC has turned over all requested information to law enforcement who are investigating the facts, and further questions should be directed there."

Kentucky law allows non-U.S. citizens to obtain standard driver's licenses only if they provide proof of residency and valid immigration documentation. Presenting false documents regarding immigration status could be grounds for prosecution.

In a comment to Fox News Digital, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman said the reports showed "troubling and unacceptable conduct," adding that they have been "aggressively investigating this potential fraud for some time now" with federal law enforcement.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Of course they fired the whistleblower. Someone was making money.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/14/2025 6:09 Comments || Top||


Paxton urges Texas judge to jail Beto O'Rourke over fundraising related to redistricting fight - POLITICO
[POLITI] Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a Texas district court judge to jail former Rep. Beto O'Rourke;

...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...

over his fundraising pitches connected to the state's intensifying redistricting battle.

Paxton's request accused the Texas Democrat of violating a court order that the judge, Tarrant County's Megan Fahey, issued last week that barred fundraising by O'Rourke and his nonprofit Powered by People intended to bankroll the efforts by Texas Democratic politicians to derail the redistricting effort.

In support of his claim, he highlighted a remark O'Rourke made at a Saturday rally — a day after Fahey's order — saying ''there are no refs in this game. Fuck the rules.''

But an attorney for O'Rourke says Paxton's characterization of O'Rourke's remark was an ''outright lie.'' O'Rourke's comment, she noted, was a reference to the broader nationwide fight over redistricting — a call for Democratic states to counteract Texas' redistricting push by undertaking their own partisan redrawing of political boundaries.

''In their zeal I guess to intimidate a political rival, they are actually lying to the court,'' said O'Rourke's attorney, Mimi Marziani, who said she would quickly alert the court to the context of O'Rourke's comments and her intention to seek sanctions against Paxton.
Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Still dumbfounded that folks are continuing to give Beto money.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/14/2025 6:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Melania's Lawyers Drop The Hammer — Daily Beast Forced To Retract
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Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [97 views] Top|| File under:


#2 

Side Note: Looking at A.I. generated Videos and Pictures, what can be trusted in the MSM, or used as evidence in court?

Example: Redneck Star Trek – Beam Me Up, Bubba | AI Country Star Trek Parody
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2025 6:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Hopefully, Hunter is sober enough to realize that everyone else is bailing on that story.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/14/2025 6:33 Comments || Top||

#4  If I ever sat in on a Trump brainstorm to address the national debt, I would suggest defamation lawsuits as a vehicle to make up a big chunk of change.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/14/2025 6:36 Comments || Top||


Chicago Mayor: ''Trump is intimidated by the intellectual prowess of blacks like me''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] He does appreciate real brilliance...
Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [109 views] Top|| File under:

#1  o.O
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/14/2025 5:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2025 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  You have to be really dumb to feed that statement into the internet.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/14/2025 6:28 Comments || Top||

#4  So says the Mayor of Chicago.
With a murder rate 21.5 per 100,000 people in 2024, making it the city with the highest murder rate among large U.S. cities.

So would that mean the intellectual prowess of this Black Chicago mayor, is based on how to defund and hamper police, then watch Blacks kill 428 Black Voters and still get elected?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2025 6:30 Comments || Top||

#5  ...To paraphrase a wonderful line from the movie Time Bandits, "Each day, I thank God that His Honor has never been harmed by the ravages of intelligence."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 08/14/2025 6:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Racist algebra!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/14/2025 7:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Here I give you the product of school policy of social promotion.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2025 8:08 Comments || Top||

#8  in this case "intimidated" = "gobsmacked" as in AYFKM???
Posted by: mercutio || 08/14/2025 8:49 Comments || Top||


MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Mika Brzezinski finally realize Democrats have been duped by Trump into defending violent crime in DC
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [73 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These two are talking sense. Luckily none of the Dems will listen because they are beholden to the crazies, commies and crazy commies.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/14/2025 6:20 Comments || Top||


#3 
Will Soros be getting s refund?

How will the Hildabeast and other DC Swamp'ers now clean up their messes?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2025 6:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Duped? More like professional courtesy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2025 8:09 Comments || Top||



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  Multiple deputies shot in incident near Virginia, North Carolina border
Wed 2025-08-13
  Terrorists killed posing as World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza: IDF
Tue 2025-08-12
  Terror group leader pleads guilty to recruiting hit men in plots to murder federal officials
Mon 2025-08-11
  Video shows Syrian forces executing medical worker inside Al-Suweida Hospital
Sun 2025-08-10
  US shifts focus to Puntland and Somaliland after halting Danab and AUSSOM support
Sat 2025-08-09
  Following the Lebanese government’s unanimous vote to disarm Hezbollah, Islamists have taken to the streets
Fri 2025-08-08
  Spanish town bans Muslim religious festivals provoking outcry
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   Hezbollah rejects Beirut’s call to disarm as ‘major mistake’
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  UN says 88% of its Gaza aid is being looted before it reaches its destinations
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  Illegal immigrants accused of trying to run over ICE officers
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  4 Illegal Aliens arrested in a SWAT standoff in Cobb County
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  IDF declares defeat of Hamas battalion in Beit Hanoun, as operatives shown surrendering
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