Equity Exit

Actual education survives in San Francisco:

Good news for America! https://t.co/N8ZQoZkULc

— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) May 30, 2025

Good Company

The "hate list" keeps growing:

The Colorado Springs-based organization, founded in 1977 by Dr. James Dobson to support Christian families, now joins other conservative groups like the Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom on the SPLC’s list, which critics argue often targets organizations for their traditional views on marriage and sexuality. In its “Extremist Files” profile, the SPLC claims that Focus on the Family “has long relied on its biblical worldview strategy to push back against LGBTQ+ progress and reproductive rights.” The organization’s online publication, The Daily Citizen, was specifically criticized for allegedly promoting “anti-trans pseudoscience” and supporting conversion therapy, which the SPLC labels as harmful. The SPLC also pointed to Focus on the Family’s opposition to same-sex marriage and its advocacy for traditional family structures as evidence of its “extremist” stance. Glenn T. Stanton, director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, responded to the designation with defiance. “To be honest, our reaction was, ‘What took them so long?'” Stanton told The Christian Post. “We are honored to be listed alongside so many other great organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom and Family Research Council. The SPLC’s list is little more than a fundraising tool, and their name-calling doesn’t bother us.”

They will wear it with pride...

Defense Defund

No money for her:

Money Trail

Another Blue fraudster busted:

Investigators with the Office of Congressional Ethics found “substantial reason to believe” the congresswoman she sought money for a community project and directed it to a private business. The findings were revealed after an investigation that has been ongoing for the better part of a year. Investigators also found “probable cause” to further investigate allegations that she accepted campaign contributions linked to official actions. Cherfilus-McCormick has denied the allegations and said she has fully cooperated with the investigation in a statement to WPTV. The Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC) is now calling for a full scale probe concerning the $5 million she obtained from Congress’ 2023 budget, which was supposed to be routed to the Figgers Foundation, a Florida telemedicine non-profit. Instead, the funds were routed to a for-profit entity. The Democrat lawmaker is also facing additional allegations of misusing funds dating back to 2023.

It was just for a rainy day...

Bloodsuckers Inc.

They want to suck your wallets:

The dominance and ubiquity of the consultant class has been a longstanding problem for Democrats. In his 2006 book Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You’re Stupid, longtime Time magazine columnist Joe Klein argued that the political consultants had run amuck, sucking the life out of politicians with their message-tested speeches and leading to the decline of relatability in American politics. Klein gave the example of a Jimmy Carter aide who one month after the 1976 election delivered the president-elect a 10,000-word memorandum on political strategies for incumbents, arguing that he needed a continuous polling operation and offering detailed suggestions, including that wearing cardigan sweaters would somehow help him remain popular. During the Clinton era, the consultant Dick Morris commissioned a 259-question survey to help inform Clinton on how to approach a State of the Union address. “Democrats have always been this way, but it’s become even more so,” said James Carville, the lead strategist on Clinton’s successful 1992 campaign, in an interview with The Bulwark. .... The vast array of white papers and astroturfed podcast ideas betray the fact that Democrats still have little idea of how to talk to or connect with a significant segment of the country. And it suggests that the party is not grappling with the fundamental reason it’s not resonating with voters—not the methods by which its positions are communicated, but that the positions themselves are unpopular.

They need to go back inside their coffins...

Blue Beggers

Democrats can't survive without them:

Myriad measures show Democrats’ liberal worldview is getting crushed. This isn’t just based on policies or leadership—as demonstrated by President Biden’s abysmal job approval ratings (according to Real Clear Politics’ average of national polling, Biden finished with a 39 percent overall approval rating). It’s also measured in the media market. Immediately following November’s election, stories were rife about MSNBC and CNN viewership plummeting: in late November MSNBC was down 38 percent and CNN 22 percent as Fox News jumped 41 percent. Not long after, MSNBC parent Comcast announced it would jettison MSNBC. MSNBC was allowed to keep its name (appropriately titled “SpinCo”), but little else—including staff, offices, and studio space—while remaining “talent” absorbed pay cuts. During April, Fox not only drubbed MSNBC and CNN, it beat ABC and NBC “to become the second highest-rated network in all of television.” On audio (radio and podcasts), where NPR dwells, the situation is far worse. According to Talkers’ estimate for March 2025, all the top 10 radio talk show hosts were conservatives. Earlier this month, Slate admitted: “Liberals have been sufficiently rooted out of the digital-media ecosystem at a moment when political conversations and activism exist largely online.” So desperate to counter Joe Rogan’s influence from the right, Democrats are seeking to buy their own liberal version. The decline of newspapers, which the Left dominate, is itself old news. In October 2024, there were fewer than 5600 newspapers remaining, down from 8900 in 2005—a 37 percent drop. Revenues have fallen even more: from $49.4 billion in 2005 to $9.8 billion in 2022. Even liberal flagships are not immune. The Washington Post lost about $100 million in 2024, 30 percent more than in 2023. The LA Times reportedly lost $50 million in 2024. Unable to pay their own way in media, Democrats need someone to pay it for them. Being Democrats, that of course means going to the government.

They really need their mouthpieces...

Nuclear Man

No more nuke subsidies:

For decades, governments have offered taxpayer subsidies to support existing energy sources or to develop new ones, as well as create new jobs. These subsidies have often taken the form of loan guarantees, direct payments or tax breaks. Once subsidies began to be made available, they became attractive to a number of industries. The Big Beautiful Bill passed by the House of Representatives reduced or cut subsidies for wind and solar companies, while leaving nuclear subsidies intact. Sen. Rand Paul must lead the charge to halt this corporate welfare. According to a 2024 study from the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), the Energy Information Agency (EIA) used to calculate energy subsidies every three year. The TPPF report found totals for every year. The study found that from 2010 to 2023, solar received $76 billion, wind received $65 billion, oil and gas received $ 33 billion, coal received $20 billion, and nuclear received $26 billion in taxpayer subsidies. According to the comprehensive study, since wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and nuclear are used for generating electricity, it compares subsidies within electricity markets. Nuclear has received a similar number of subsidies compared to wind and solar energy. In the last month, Constellation Energy announced a deal with Microsoft to reopen Three Mile Island to service all of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence energy needs. Not only would this be the first time that an American nuclear power plant would be reactivated, but it would also come with a hefty price tag. Constellation Energy is seeking a $1.6 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy, all time making money hand over fist from the rate paying public. But they still have millions to hand out to Woke organizations pushing all sorts of social silliness.

No one deserves a taxpayer-funded ride...

Big Push

This isn't exactly the best messenger:

“I LOVE YOUNG MEN:” Top Democrat activist and thought leader Olivia Julianna is now advising Democrats on how to win over young men. pic.twitter.com/wvPIiTVaoo

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 29, 2025

Yard Sale

Trump is right, again:

Bill Maher: "Harvard is an a**hole factory in a lot of ways that produces smirking f*ck faces. Like so many things he [Trump] does, there’s a kernel of a good idea there."pic.twitter.com/8uibmo9sqO

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 31, 2025

Bully Boy

Be meaner, or something:

HOLY CRAP! Tim Walz unleashes on Donald Trump;

"I'm getting called out on this because I called Donald Trump a wannabe dictator? It's because he is. Maybe it's time for us to be a little meaner, a little more fierce... When it's adult like Donald Trump, you bully the shít out of… pic.twitter.com/Ma7jhocb19

— Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00) May 31, 2025

Seasonal Shift

No parade here:

The Pride Season Kickoff, initially scheduled for June 6, has been canceled due to insufficient attendance, despite strong online enthusiasm. The event was intended to enhance LGBTQ+ visibility and community connection in June, serving as a precursor to the main Boise Pride celebration in September. Organizers expressed their commitment to expanding Pride in Boise, emphasizing the need for active community participation to bring new events to life. “We know the desire for more Pride programming is real—we hear it constantly,” they said. However, they noted that early community buy-in is crucial for the success of events outside the flagship festival. All tickets for the canceled event have been fully refunded. Organizers remain optimistic, viewing this as an opportunity to “reflect, reset, and come back stronger.” They are focused on preparing for an unforgettable Boise Pride Festival this September and are seeking community support to ensure its success. “We still believe in the idea behind the Pride Season Kickoff, and we hope to revisit it in the future,” they said, inviting the community to stand with them and help grow the Pride movement in Boise.

Too bad nobody seems to want to...

Joe Knows

Joe Rogan sets the record straight:

Graduation Goof

No speech for you:

During a speech at Thursday’s commencement event, Vemuri hijacked a special moment for 1,000+ fellow graduates and their families to push her own woke agenda. In her speech, she accused MIT of being part of wiping “Palestine from the face of the Earth.” “Last spring, MIT’s undergraduate body and graduate student union voted overwhelmingly to cut ties with the genocidal Israeli military. You called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. And you stood in solidarity with the pro-Palestinian activists on campus,” Vemuri said while draped in a keffiyeh. “You faced threats, intimidation and suppression coming from all directions, especially your own university officials.” Her comments drew a mixed reaction with some attendees cheering while others booed and yelled “Shame,” and some disgusted attendees walked out. University officials said in a statement that the decision to ban Vemuri graduation was because the speech she delivered was different than the speech she submitted to officials prior to the event. “While that individual had a scheduled role at today’s Undergraduate Degree Ceremony, she was notified that she would not be permitted at today’s events,” said university spokesperson Kimberly Allen.

Leave the woke at home...

Socialist Scam

Just a reminder:

Socialism has been tried by lots of countries. It's failed. It always fails. China prospered somewhat only after they legalized some private enterprise. Perhaps today's kids are ignorant because they're too young to remember the fall of the Soviet Union. They should look at North Korea -- the ultimate "socialist utopia." I recently interviewed Charles Ryu, who escaped North Korea and made it to China. "It felt like getting into a time machine and fast forwarding 50 years ... 24-hour running electricity ... All the food that I can eat ... It was life changing." "We Americans think of China as a surveillance state," I point out, "They'll punish you if you say the wrong thing. But for you, it was freedom?" "(The) Chinese government does watch your every move ... But in North Korea, it's 100 times worse."

Kinder, gentler socialism still doesn't work...

Blogging In The Years: 1992

Class Clowns

Adulting really is hard:

Press Posers

Where the real censors are:

Here lies the central irony: those who claim Trump will jail dissenters are often the ones eager to cancel, demonetize, deplatform, and destroy anyone who disagrees with them. If speech is violence, as the woke lexicon suggests, then the media has become the most violent institution of all. They blacklist speakers from campuses. They campaign to ban books they dislike. They pressure advertisers to abandon entire platforms for daring to host the "wrong" views. Trump’s flaws are many, but when the press cries “dictator!” while wielding the tools of suppression themselves, it stops being journalism and becomes a projection.

It's pretty much all they have...

Island Idiocy

Hawaii has found a new way to scam tourists:

ABC7 reported, “Hawaii's governor signed legislation Tuesday that boosts a tax imposed on hotel room and vacation rental stays in order to raise money to address eroding shorelines, wildfires and other consequences of climate change.” If only elected and appointed officials did their jobs properly and preventative measures condemned by climate alarmists were taken, Hawaii wouldn’t need to worry about catastrophic wildfires or alleged climate change crises. The issue isn’t a lack of money but a lack of integrity and competence. In other words, the issue is Democrats. They tax the life out of their prosperous citizens until those prosperous citizens leave. They not only bloat the welfare state for citizens but also for illegal aliens (though when a natural disaster occurs, they suddenly have no more aid for poor people). They make every city and state they control a hellhole of crime, debt, impoverishment, and danger. Then, when everyone who can afford to leave has left, they begin taxing whatever tourists they might still be able to attract. Talk about a recipe for failure.

If you tax it, they won't come...

The Reason

Whoops:

🚨NEW: Jasmine Crockett calls Biden's decline "false narrative" and suggests he was sharp as a tack — before finally acknowledging even if he was "mentally deficient," she was fine with it🚨

"If Joe Biden was like mentally deficient in some way and he was still able to keep this… pic.twitter.com/PevkrlSxzt

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) May 31, 2025

Paws Off

PETA thnaks Trump for saving the animals:

This week PETA penned a letter to “The Honorable Pete Hegseth,” the secretary of defense, specifically thanking “President Donald J. Trump” and Navy Secretary John Phelan for the branch’s ban on Navy-funded dog and cat experiments. Phelan on Tuesday terminated all Department of the Navy testing on cats and dogs, saying it was “long overdue” when he announced the ban and signed the order on X. However, PETA wants the Pentagon to go further. It asked for a “comprehensive audit” that would root out “waste, fraud, and abuse in cruel and outdated animal experimentation” in all the defense branches. These, the letter stated, included banning the use of animals in decompression and oxygen toxicity tests, stopping the Army’s use of animals in weapon-wounding experiments, and disallowing defense funding of tests on animals at foreign institutions. Specifically, PETA reported that the Navy has “wasted more than $5.1 million in federal funding since 2020 for decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity tests” at universities around the country, using pigs, rodents, and other animals.

Giving credit where credit is due...

The Regulators

California Democrats rail against their own regulations:

California’s Committee on Utilities and Energy grilled several state regulators on Wednesday about a possible gas price spike as two major oil refineries in California prepare to close, according to local news outlet KCRA. Despite their outrage, California Democrats have targeted the fossil fuel industry for years by creating a stringent regulatory climate, and energy companies — including their refining capacity — are withdrawing from the state, setting the table for a potentially massive 75% jump in gas prices. “We have a crisis on our hand that may have been self-created by the actions perhaps taken by the state, by regulators,” Democratic Assemblyman David Alvarez of San Diego said on Wednesday at the hearing, according to KCRA. “I know what climate leadership does not look like, and that is $10 gas,” Democratic Assemblyman Cottie Petrie-Norris told regulators at the hearing. California has the highest average per-gallon gas price at the pump compared to any other state, according to AAA gas price data. Meanwhile, California regulators have suggested increasing state involvement in refinery management, including the possibility of de facto state-owned refineries.

It's their own fault...

Party Pooper

Jake Tapper admits:

Jake Tapper is just now realizing that his party is the party of hate and division pic.twitter.com/OfHATDQoqH

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) May 27, 2025

Closet Chief

Biden literally got trapped in the closet:

The stunning level of disorientation is an example of why the Democratic cover-up of Biden’s mental decline is one of the biggest scandals in presidential history, Hawley argued. “This Secret Service whistleblower actually was assigned to Biden,” the Missouri Republican told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “He told me that Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings at the White House,” Hawley claimed, noting that he spoke to numerous Secret Service agents while investigating the assassination attempts against President Trump.

In all fairness, he probably thought it was the bathroom...

Sue You

Trump wins again:

A Florida appellate court on Wednesday rejected the Pulitzer Prize Board’s attempt to pause the defamation lawsuit, clearing the way for the case to proceed. The board had argued that allowing the litigation to move forward while Trump is serving in office would raise constitutional concerns, but the court dismissed that claim, saying only the president himself could assert such privileges. Trump on Thursday hailed the development as a turning point in his fight against what he called “fake, malicious stories” about alleged ties between his 2016 campaign and Russia.

Sorry, you're still getting sued...

Women's Work

Women aren't just machines, or something:

The “Becoming” author said that the “frustrating thing” is that the issue “has been reduced to a question of choice, as if that’s all of what women’s health is.” “I attempted to make the argument on the campaign trail this past election that there’s just so much more at stake because so many men have no idea what women go through,” Obama said. “We haven’t been researched, we haven’t been considered, and it still affects the way a lot of men lawmakers, a lot of male politicians, a lot of male religious leaders think about the issue of choice, as if it’s just about the fetus, the baby.” “Women’s reproductive health is about our life,” Obama added. “It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life.”

Perhaps she/he can explain what else it does...

Partisan Problems

Whatever you say:

In an interview on PBS NewsHour, the NPR boss trashed Trump’s executive order to “cease Federal funding for NPR,” calling it “viewpoint discrimination” and saying that Trump is just taking it out on NPR because it goes against his views. “And so, it is a textbook example of viewpoint discrimination from a First Amendment standpoint,” she said. “Essentially, by blocking funding to NPR and PBS, it is a form of retaliation against our organizations for airing editorial programming that the president might disagree with.” Maher also responded to criticism, declaring: “Well, first of all, I respond by saying we’re a non-partisan news organization. We seek to be able to provide a range of different viewpoints in terms of who we bring on air, the stories that we tell.” “My view is that is a mischaracterization of our work. We do not seek to favor any political party at all. We seek to ensure that Americans have a wide range of perspectives available to them.”

I'll believe it when I see it...

Bar Buster

Pam Bondi tells the ABA to take a hike:

The letter, sent by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ABA President William R. Bay, was previewed exclusively to Fox News. It marks the latest escalation in a protracted legal fight that Republicans have waged against the nation's largest association of legal workers. "For several decades, the American Bar Association has received special treatment and enjoyed special access to judicial nominees," Bondi said in the letter. "In some administrations, the ABA received notice of nominees before a nomination was announced to the public. Some administrations would even decide whether to nominate an individual based on a rating assigned by the ABA." The Department of Justice said in the letter that it will no longer grant the ABA the "special treatment" and first access it has received, revoking decades of precedent where the ABA interviewed and vetted potential members of the incoming DOJ team. "Accordingly, while the ABA is free to comment on judicial nominations along with other activist organizations, there is no justification for treating the ABA differently from such other activist organizations and the Department of Justice will not do so."

They don't need your approval...

Tenure Trouble

No more fraud for her:

Gino has been attempting to defend herself against the allegations over the last four years, according to a report from The Harvard Crimson. After describing Gino’s reputation before the allegations as “honest” and “ethical,” The Crimson conceded that she has been accused of manipulating data in order to support her hypotheses. Prior to losing her academic position, Gino had attempted to keep her job at the elite institution for two years. In 2018 and 2019, she was the fifth-highest paid employee at the prestigious school, receiving more than $1 million in compensation each year, Fox News reported. Gino had authored more than 140 scholarly papers and won several awards before her work received intense scrutiny from scholars who questioned her data in a series of blog posts published on Data Colada. “In 2021, we and a team of anonymous researchers examined a number of studies co-authored by Gino, because we had concerns that they contained fraudulent data,” the blog reads. “We discovered evidence of fraud in papers spanning over a decade, including papers published quite recently (in 2020).” Researchers initially shared their concerns with the Harvard Business School in 2021. Gino responded by filing a lawsuit against both the blog authors and Harvard, some parts of which are still ongoing. “I did not commit academic fraud. I did not manipulate data to produce a particular result. I did not falsify data to bolster any result. I did not commit the offense I am accused of. Period,” Gino said in her most recent comments on the allegations.

Unfortunately it seems that you did...

Fan Follies

The CIA had its own Star Wars fan site:

In a new in-depth report from independent outlet 404 Media, it's been revealed that starwarsweb.net was more than just a way to get the latest Star Wars news. Via Joseph Cox's reporting, the fan website that had headlines related to LEGO Star Wars, along with advertisements for buying your own lightsaber, had a much deeper purpose … a way for the CIA and its many sources to talk. The Star Wars site was one of several sites in a network built to allow covert communications, with others being centered on comedy, extreme sports and music. “The simplest way to put it — yes, the CIA absolutely had a Star Wars fan website with a secretly embedded communication system," Zach Edwards, an independent cybersecurity researcher, said in part. Unfortunately for the spies in question, many of them died, as these websites were actually sloppily put together, allowing nefarious bodies to sniff them out. In a previous report, it was noted that simply typing a password into the search bar opened up a login screen to begin communication with the CIA.

They were looking for the Death Star plans...

Red Reminder

Communism still isn't the answer:

To Americans who praise socialism, Ryu says: "Just go to North Korea for 10 days and you'll know how bad it is ... You don't really know you have it good." Ryu is only able to talk freely about his experiences in North Korea because he has no immediate family left there. Most North Koreans who escape the country cannot. "If you talk bad about ... the regime, that's the highest crime you can commit ... Your entire three generations of your family will be sent to political prison camp where you will never get out." Ryu is thrilled to be in America. Here he was able to go to school, find a job that he enjoys and marry. "I feel like my life is complete now because all the choices that I can have ... I (can) travel anywhere I want ... eat whatever I want ... do whatever I want in America -- a capitalist country. In North Korea, that's not possible."

Hopefully it won't happen here, either...

Tariff Triumph

The tariffs are back on:

In its decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted an immediate administrative state to the extent that permanent injunctions entered by the Court of International Trade on Wednesday are temporarily stayed until at least June 9. After June 9, the court can issue an order of enforcement. "The plaintiffs-appellees are directed to respond to the United States's motions for a stay no later than June 5, 2025," the decision read. "The United States may file a single, consolidated re-ply in support no later than June 9, 2025."

Until then, they stay...

Climate Crush

The Supreme Court sides with Trump:

The justices handed down the lone decision Thursday morning, slightly curbing judicial authority at a time when President Donald Trump's administration is loudly complaining about alleged judicial overreach. The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, relates to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the requirement for environmental impact statements (EIS) in infrastructure projects supported by the federal government. "NEPA does not allow courts, ‘under the guise of judicial review’ of agency compliance with NEPA, to delay or block agency projects based on the environmental effects of other projects separate from the project at hand," Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the opinion of the court. "Courts should afford substantial deference and should not micromanage those agency choices so long as they fall within a broad zone of reasonableness," the opinion continued.

Keep your noses out of it, they said...

Corps Collapse

There were no jobs here:

The Job Corps program is a federally funded residential career training and education program that is often popular with unions and centered around low-income young adults. The report found that the average graduation rate for the program is only 32 percent. After graduating from the program, participants only earned $16,000 annually, which is barely above the poverty line. More so, the program often suffers from safety issues, as there were 14,913 incident reports in 2023, even though there were only 25,000 participants. The program also costs the American taxpayer $1.7 billion annually; the Job Corps Transparency Report has suggested the cost per student amounts to $80,000, which is $20,000 more than Harvard University’s annual tuition. The average total cost per graduate is $187,000, which exceeds the average cost of a four-year college at $153,000. Given that one third of participants graduate from the program, this shows little efficacity from the money spent for the program.

In other words, it was a lot like college...

Campus Censors

Student speech was frequently targeted:

The study was conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and analyzed efforts to censor students in public universities who engage in various levels of “expressive activity” protected by the First Amendment. The organization found 1,014 students and student groups were targeted or the recipients of punishment by the school administration or some type of student government for exercising their protected speech between 2020 and 2024, according to the Fire. Some 63% of the students and groups targeted ended up receiving some type of administrative punishment. The Worst Punishments? Some of the worst punishments included some 317 students and groups who were directly censored, 72 who were suspended, 55 who “separated from the institution or its funding,” and a further 19 who “were unenrolled under ambiguous circumstances.” .... “This is unacceptable coming from people whose job it is to serve college students and ensure that their rights are protected,” said FIRE Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens. “Their job should be to protect students’ free speech rights, not torpedo them.”

Unfortunately that seems to be what they do now...

People Panderer

Voters don't matter:

Doctor's Orders

Now we know:

BREAKING: Undercover Meeting with DNC Leader @davidhogg111 Reveals who REALLY ran the Biden White House

“He wielded an enormous amount of power... I can’t stress to you enough how much power he had at the White House.”

"It was an open secret... I would avoid him, he was… pic.twitter.com/i7fskTwhNw

— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) May 28, 2025

Burger Bust

Chuck can't cook:

Lazy Blues

Stating the obvious:

Censors Canned

No censors allowed:

“Free speech is among the most cherished rights we enjoy as Americans,” Rubio said in a statement: This right, legally enshrined in our constitution, has set us apart as a beacon of freedom around the world. Even as we take action to reject censorship at home, we see troubling instances of foreign governments and foreign officials picking up the slack. In some instances, foreign officials have taken flagrant censorship actions against U.S. tech companies and U.S. citizens and residents when they have no authority to do so. [Emphasis added] Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States. It is unacceptable for foreign officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on U.S. citizens or U.S. residents for social media posts on American platforms while physically present on U.S. soil. It is similarly unacceptable for foreign officials to demand that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies or engage in censorship activity that reaches beyond their authority and into the United States. We will not tolerate encroachments upon American sovereignty, especially when such encroachments undermine the exercise of our fundamental right to free speech. [Emphasis added]

No speech police here...

Humble Fried

She can't define what she doesn't have:

🚨NEW: Kamala Harris serves up fresh word salad on "humility"🚨

"There's so much that is magnificent and awe-inspiring about this world and its people. And when you take the moment to just listen to an individual's story, whether it's someone you're sitting next to on the plane… pic.twitter.com/ufknuLWBYF

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) May 25, 2025

Talk Normal

Try to be normal, they said:

Some members of the Democratic Party are raising concerns that many of their candidates have become too reliant on using elite-sounding phrases, which they claim is a type of language that could isolate working-class voters, according to the Washington Post. The article cites examples of left-wing words and phrases often used by Democrats, such as “oligarchs,” “equity,” “justice-involved populations” and “intersectionality.” “Some words are just too Ivy League-tested terms,” Democratic Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego told the Washington Post. “I’m going to piss some people off by saying this, but ‘social equity’ — why do we say that? Why don’t we say, ‘We want you to have an even chance’?” (RELATED: House Democrats Set Their Sights On 35 Republican Incumbents) Meanwhile, Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear told the Washington Post he believes that Democrats using certain left-wing words can result in them sounding like they are “not normal.”

There's no normal there anymore...

California Con

The dirty truth behind California's population "boom":

Immigration is the only thing propping up California’s population.

In 2024, ~360,000 immigrants moved to California while 240,000 Americans moved out. In other words, they’re importing people from other countries to replace the Americans leaving California.

We all know why... pic.twitter.com/G0783tnXfr

— Doge from Wall Street (@DOGEfromWS) May 25, 2025

Generation G

The kids are getting religion:

After decades of steady decline, the share of Americans identifying as Christian has stabilized. One reason is the unexpected religiosity of Generation Z—young adults born after 2000—who are not abandoning religion at the rate their parents did. For some, faith has become a form of rebellion against a culture that rejects traditional values. According to the Pew Research Center’s latest Religious Landscape Study, 63 percent of Americans now identify as Christian—a slight increase from the 2022 low of 60 percent and part of a five-year trend of relative stability following nearly two decades of decline. The study analyzed respondents by birth decade and found that every twentieth-century cohort showed a drop in Christian identification compared with the previous one. For example, 80 percent of the group born in the 1940s and earlier identify as Christian, compared with just 46 percent of those born in the 1990s. But among those born in the 2000s, the rate held steady at the 1990s level, suggesting that the generational decline may have plateaued. More broadly, the Pew study found that Christianity is increasingly a marker of conservative political identity across all age groups. Since 2007, the share of conservatives identifying as Christian has declined only modestly—by 7 percentage points. Among liberals, however, Christian identification has dropped sharply, falling 25 points—from 62 percent to 37 percent. Today, conservatives are 45 percentage points more likely to identify as Christian than liberals are.

That old-time religion is new again...

Human Zoo

Democrats are literally prey:

After around 250 focus groups of swing voters, a few patterns have emerged, said the researcher, Anat Shenker-Osorio. Republicans are seen as “apex predators,” like lions, tigers and sharks — beasts that take what they want when they want it. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths: slow, plodding, passive. So Ms. Shenker-Osorio perked up earlier this year when a Democratic man in Georgia suggested that a very different kind of animal symbolized her party. “A deer,” he said, “in headlights.” The man had more to say. “You stand there and you see the car coming, but you’re going to stand there and get hit with it anyway.”

But they like it, unlike actual deer...

Blue Delusions

This is rich:

Apocalypse Soon

The end is sort of near:

Dodging DOGE

Get DOGE done, he said:

Powder Probe

The FBI is reopening some old cases:

Bongino announced Monday morning on social platform X that he and FBI Director Kash Patel had decided to “re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention” toward all three investigations. “Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest,” he wrote on the X platform in a lengthy update. “We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases. These cases are the DC pipe bombing investigation, the cocaine discovery at the prior administration’s White House, and the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case. I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress. If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI,” he added.

Hunter Biden was unavailable at press time...

Ice Comeback

Antarctica's ice isn't disappearing after all:

NASA reported that Antarctica experienced a net gain in ice mass because of unexpected and sustained snowfall, even as global temperatures continued to rise. The scientists were stunned. Their models didn’t predict it. They couldn’t explain it right away. Their conclusion? A short-term fluke that doesn’t mean much. Settled Science or Sinking Ship? For years, we’ve been told the models are settled science. That every click of the thermostat was heading us toward glacial collapse. Politicians invoked these predictions to regulate industries, tax carbon, and lecture us on our thermostats and SUVs. But now, with ice forming where melt was prophesied, it’s suddenly a "statistical hiccup." This is where the analogy ends and the reckoning begins.

The ice is still nice...

Blue Boys

Democrats think they know how to regain their lost demographic:

"Democrats spending millions to learn how to speak to ‘American Men’ and win back the working class," the Independent reported today, with party leaders holed up "in luxury hotel rooms on a strategy codenamed SAM, or 'Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.'" Yeah, that'll work. These guys are going to spend $20 million trying to convince men to rejoin a party whose unofficial anthem is "Lola" — Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls / It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world — but don't be shocked. This is, after all, the same party that last fall praised Gov. Jazz Hands for his "stereotypically masculine traits." The Democrats have guys like Walz, who is maybe one handful of confetti away from Rip Taylor. Republicans? Their top guy’s third wife is also his second supermodel. How are you gonna compete for the male vote like that? Or, as Glenn Reynolds put it on Monday, "I dunno, maybe you guys should stop totally sucking?"

I suppose it's better than blowing...

Covid Concern

You're an extremist, they said:

🚨 JUST IN: Tulsi Gabbard has CONFIRMED the Biden regime put many of us on TERROR WATCH LISTS for speaking out against COVID mandates

People need to be JAILED over this! pic.twitter.com/r8Gz0uuzro

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 23, 2025

Blue Shadows

The Democrats want a shadow government, or something:

POLITICO shares an idea first proposed by Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin and decided to go one better: create a "shadow cabinet," as is often done in parliamentary systems. The idea behind a shadow cabinet is to have one figure who speaks for the opposition on a particular issue. A shadow Secretary of State, a shadow Secretary of Defense, and so on. Instead of having many voices drowning each other out, pick one for each issue--presumably your best. It is a stupid idea--it's one virtue being that transnationalists love the idea of committees, parliaments, and copying European ways of doing things. Even the average European on the street doesn't think that way, and Americans would be hard-pressed to name more than two or three cabinet members, but people who admire technocracies gravitate to just this sort of thing. Slotkin suggested ranking members on Congressional committees for the role (the ranking member is the lead person from the opposition party on any committee; in this case, they are all Democrats because they are in the minority), which is an even more stupid idea. Nobody has a clue who they are and couldn't care less, so Bill Scher came up with his own list. It's a winner, for many reasons. Democrats will probably like it because it includes celebrities and pseudo-intellectuals, and Republicans would love to see it implemented because it is yet another stupid idea that will move the needle not at all. Not one of these individuals could possibly fix what ails the Democrats, which is less any one particular policy idea than an unmistakable contempt for the ordinary American. See Ed's piece from this morning on the real problem Democrats have, and it ain't that they haven't communicated well enough on the importance of investing in electric vehicles or transit in Blue cities.

Bad ideas are still bad ideas...

Bailout Bust

How did this happen:

Student loan debt soared to more than $1.5 trillion during the Biden presidency, and the response by Washington was to "forgive" hundreds of billions of these unpaid loans by deadbeat borrowers and let the taxpayers pick up the tab. It was never clear why the universities that charge exorbitant tuitions that have reached more than $75,000 a year at many elite schools shouldn't bear the cost of the program -- but that's another story. Those of us who watched these events unfold predicted that one result of this policy would be that many college graduates would stop paying back their loans. And guess what? Just like clockwork, this headline from Bloomberg recently told the whole story: "Student Loans Drive US delinquency Rate to Highest Since 2020." Gee, who -- except a bunch of head-in-the-sand politicians in Washington -- would have ever thought that forgiving as many people from paying their student loans as possible would increase future nonpayments?

Forgiveness is never free...

Journalism RIP

Reporters are trying to figure out how to make a living:

Journalism killed itself covering up Joe Biden’s senility so Democrats could maintain power. Humpty Dumpty can’t be put back together again. The media is a feast for crows. CNN’s Fake Jake Tapper and the rest of them can shriek and pull out their hair, protesting wildly that they are true journalists interested in “speaking truth to power.” That too, is a lie. They are not journalists, they are political propagandists. They’re paid whores. This latest episode of mainstream media corruption brings to mind an apocryphal story often wrongly attributed to Churchill or George Bernard Shaw, “Madam, we’ve already established what you are. All we’re doing now is discussing the price.”

They're not even very good whores...

Polite Training

Be nicer to the recruits:

Regimental Sergeant Majors (RSMs) have typically always used shouted orders in the same style to enforce discipline and focus attention on the immediate task at hand. But Warrant Officer 1st Class Matt Howarth, head of the Army’s Non-Commissioned Officers Academy, told Soldier Magazine, the official publication of the British Army, the time has come for a new tactful approach:

There are people who believe the drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket is what we’re like. But the era when people shouted and screamed is long gone — for me, the picture of a good leader is more like David Beckham who never seemed to raise his voice.

The Daily Mail reports he added the ideal senior NCO should be more softly spoken and of good, gentle temper.

Remember, don't upset the privates...

Blue Persuasion

The Democrats want young men back:

According to the New York Times, top Democrat donors have been huddling it up at luxury hotels since the 2024 election in an effort to turn the tide on young men. “Democratic donors and strategists have been gathering at luxury hotels to discuss how to win back working-class voters, commissioning new projects that can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places,” national political correspondent Shane Goldmacher wrote. The Democrats reportedly coded the plan SAM – Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan. “The prospectus for one new $20 million effort, obtained by The Times, aims to reverse the erosion of Democratic support among young men, especially online,” wrote Goldmacher. “It is code-named SAM — short for ‘Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan’ — and promises investment to ‘study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.’” The plan even reportedly goes so far to recommend that Democrats start “buying advertisements in video games, among other things.”

They still won't buy it, SAM I am...

Crooked Class

Jake Tapper gets a lesson on corruption:

WATCH: Jake Tapper tries to corner Speaker Johnson with a Hunter Biden whatabout, gets hit over the head with his own book pic.twitter.com/AJMq54PYKJ

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) May 25, 2025

Peaceful Anarchy

Welcome to Seattle:

Not only did the Christians involved have to deal with hateful, violent attacks from masked lunatics, but the Mayor of Seattle promptly came out and condemned...the Christians. Mayor Bruce Harrell released the following statement, labeling the worship concert as an "extreme right-wing rally" and threw his support behind the "counter-protesters" who fought with and allegedly injured police officers.

Seattle is proud of our reputation as a welcoming, inclusive city for LGBTQ+ communities, and we stand with our trans neighbors when they face bigotry and injustice. Today’s far-right rally was held here for this very reason – to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values, in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood. When the humanity of trans people and those who have been historically marginalized is questioned, we triumph by demonstrating our values through our words and peaceful protest – we lose our voice when this is disrupted by violence, chaos, and confusion.

Let me help Harrell out here. A city does not have "values." A city in America is a conglomeration of people who are all free to express their beliefs, including religious beliefs, in whatever legal way they see fit. If someone is "provoked" to violence and hatred by the singing of worship songs, then that's a symptom of their own depravity. But the "trans community" is nothing if it isn't a deranged cult, dead-set on bending everyone to its will by any means necessary. Pay attention to the words Harrell uses. He's essentially saying that being "LGBTQ+" in Seattle gives one veto power over the rights of others. Harrell went on to blame "anarchists" who "infiltrated" the counter-protest for the violence instead of just admitting that the counter-protesters were the anarchists. He then directed the city's parks department to investigate the application submitted by the Christians for their worship service, suggesting they should not have been allowed to be there.

While there are broad First Amendment requirements around permitting events under free speech protections, I am directing the Parks Department to review all of the circumstances of this application to understand whether there were legal location alternatives or other adjustments that could have been pursued. The Police Department will complete an after-action report of this event, including understanding preparation, crowd management tactics, and review of arrests and citations.

You see, it's not the fault of the left-wing crazies who showed up and injured police officers. It's the fault of the Christians for simply existing. Had they not dared to exercise their rights to free assembly and expression through the legal permitting process, none of this would have happened. That's Harrell's argument.

It's the usual one from the Left...

Corruption Cops

The FBI is detting to work:

“Shortly after swearing in, [FBI Director Kash Patel] and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest,” Dan Bongino wrote in a post on social media platform X on the morning of May 26. Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and radio host, noted that they “made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases.” One case that they are looking to target is the FBI investigation into the alleged pipe bombs left near the Democratic and Republican national committee buildings in Washington a day before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, he said. The FBI said in 2024 that a $500,000 reward is still in effect for information leading to the arrest of the pipe bomb suspect. Earlier in 2025, David Sundberg, former assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office, told CNN that officials are seeking new leads. “Maybe allegiances have changed or relationships have changed, and it’s time to report [on the suspect],” Sundberg told the outlet.

It's about time someone did...

Speech Search

America wants to know wher Britain's freedom of speech went:

A group of five diplomats from the U.S. State Department were recently sent on a fact-finding mission in March to Britain to meet with pro-life activists who have been arrested for silently praying outside abortion clinics in the UK, The Telegraph reports. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) team also met with UK Foreign Office officials and members of the Ofcom broadcasting regulator, which was recently empowered to police speech on the internet in Britain by the controversial Online Safety Act. The legislation has reportedly become a major bone of contention between Washington and London, given the potential for the British authority to impose hefty fines on American social media firms for failing to police content on their platforms. The Trump administration has publicly chastised Britain for its increasingly restrictive speech codes, and reports have claimed that the issue could become a sticking point during trade negotiations.

Don't follow the Codes...

Powers On

Trump wins on tariffs:

Does the IEEPA allow the president to impose tariffs? Wetherell says yes. “IEEPA grants the President broad economic powers to deal with ‘any unusual and extraordinary [foreign] threat … to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States’ on which a national emergency has been declared.” Wetherell spells out the historical legal cases in his order, which lead him to say, “IEEPA is a ‘law … providing for … tariffs.’” Wetherell adds in a footnote that his analysis is “not intended to be a determination.” His court “only has jurisdiction to decide the jurisdictional issue,” and it will be up to the CIT to decide if the IEEPA is a “law … providing for … tariffs” and what it means for the case.

Tariffs are the President's perogative, not the courts...

Testify Time

Doctors have some explaining to do:

Among those requested for interviews are Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s longtime personal physician; Neera Tanden, former Director of the Domestic Policy Council; and senior White House staffers Anthony Bernal, Annie Tomasini, and Ashley Williams. Comer alleges these individuals were not simply witnesses to Biden’s decline but may have played direct roles in concealing his condition and facilitating presidential actions without direct involvement from Biden himself. In a public statement released Thursday, Comer said: “The cover-up of President Biden’s obvious mental decline is a historic scandal. The American people deserve to know when this decline began, how far it progressed, and who was making critical decisions on his behalf. Key executive actions signed by autopen, such as sweeping pardons for the Biden Crime Family, must be examined considering President Biden’s diminished capacity.”

The cover-up won't continue...

Blue Doom

No, it doesn't:

Past Tenses

Students answer themselves:

It Knows

It knows all about you:

In a fictional scenario crafted by Anthropic researchers, the AI was given access to emails implying that it was soon to be decommissioned and replaced by a newer version. One of the emails revealed that the engineer overseeing the replacement was having an extramarital affair. The AI then threatened to expose the engineer’s affair if the shutdown proceeded—a coercive behavior that the safety researchers explicitly defined as “blackmail.” “Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through,” the report states, adding that this occurred even when the replacement model was described as more capable but still aligned with the values of the version slated for deletion. The report noted that Claude Opus 4, like prior models, showed a “strong preference” to first resort to ethical means for its continued existence, such as emailing pleas to decision-makers not to be destroyed. However, when faced with only two choices—accepting being replaced by a newer model or resorting to blackmail—it threatened to expose the engineer’s affair 84 percent of the time.

Don't make it angry...

College Try

Another scheme to get rid of the Electoral College bites the dust:

Heading into 2024, there were growing whispers that Trump might once again win the presidency without the popular vote, and it’s easy to imagine how that would have reignited the left’s push to ditch the Electoral College altogether. But thankfully, we’ll never have to find out—because Trump crushed Kamala Harris in both the Electoral College and the national popular vote. But Maine's experience perfectly illustrates why the compact was always a bad idea. The state joined when Democrats figured Trump could never win the popular vote again. But Trump's decisive popular vote victory in 2024 changed everything. Had the compact been in effect with current members, Trump would have carried a whopping 520 electoral votes, instead of the 312 he actually won. ICYMI: Kamala Really Lost It When CNN Finally Asked Real Questions The irony is delicious. Democrats pushed this compact because they thought it would permanently benefit their party’s candidates. "We were the first state in the nation to split our Electoral College votes by congressional district—a system that reflects our political diversity and values, every voice, whether rural or urban," said Maine state Rep. Barbara Bagshaw, who sponsored the withdrawal bill. "By joining the National Popular Vote Compact, we have undermined that." Bagshaw's got a point. Maine and Nebraska are the only two states that split their electoral votes by congressional district rather than winner-take-all. This system actually gives rural and urban voters meaningful representation—something the popular vote compact would completely destroy. Talk about buyer's remorse.

They bought it, they own it...

Green Pay

Green has been expensive in the UK:

The UK public has been “seduced by narratives that renewables are cheap,” however, according to a study conducted by Watt-Logic’s Kathryn Porter presented by Lord Offord, the Shadow Energy Minister in the House of Lords, has found that the opposite is true, with the green agenda not only siphoning off taxpayer cash subsidies but also driving up energy costs for consumers. “That renewables are not cheap should be clear, based both on the evidence that after 35 years of subsidies, we are yet to see any benefits through lower bills,” the report found. According to Porter’s calculations, if the British government had not embarked upon its so-called green energy transition programme, British households would have saved £218 billion since 2006. The report found that the direct cost of net zero policies in 2023-24 accounted for £17 billion in additional costs on consumer energy bills, and it predicted that this would continue to rise to more than £20 billion in 2029-30. Porter acknowledged that gas prices were impacted by the Ukraine War and broader Western conflict with Russia, however, she noted that this would not explain why energy prices have steadily risen for the two decades prior to the 2021-23 gas crisis in Europe.

It's a complete mystery...

Money Door

Where our money went:

Chris Wright, United States Secretary of Energy reveals to Senator Kennedy today that Biden’s green energy dept released $93B to cronies in the green energy space after Trump became President Elect, and over the last 76 days of the Biden “AutoPen” fictional Presidency. pic.twitter.com/Q868031Q1S

— Scott Adams (@scottadamsshow) May 22, 2025

Electric Bill

If you want to keep your electric car, you may have to pay for it:

The annual national registration fee would begin at $250 for electric vehicles and $150 for hybrid vehicles. An earlier version of the bill included a $20 fee for all other vehicles, but it was dropped from the final version that passed the House on Thursday. The only Republicans to vote against the bill were Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio. All House Democrats voted against it. The Senate is now considering the legislation. Under the House-passed bill, the administrator of the Federal Highway Administration would impose the fees each year. According to the text of the bill, a state motor vehicle department must "incorporate the collection of the fees" into the vehicle registration and renewal processes administered by each department "so long as such fees are imposed for each year in which the fees are required."

Liberals want their green for free...

Wage Revolt

Hotels aren't happy in L.A.:

The Los Angeles City Council gave final approval Friday to an ordinance that will increase the minimum wage for Los Angeles hotel and airport workers... The vote authorized updates to the city's Living Wage and Hotel Workers Minimum Wage ordinances, which regulate the minimum wage for such workers. Hotel and airport employees would receive $22.50 an hour starting in July under the amendments, followed by an annual $2.50 increase over three years... Workers are expected to earn $25 an hour beginning July 2026, $27.50 an hour in July 2027 and $30 an hour in July 2028, as well as receive a new $8.35 per hour healthcare payment, which will begin July 2026. .... “The proposed ordinance calls for a dramatic increase in hotel wages within 60 days of adoption. Increasing hourly wages to $24.40 with an additional $8.35 for health benefits would result in a 69% increase in payroll in just two months,” wrote the Hotel Association of Los Angeles in opposition. “No industry can afford that financial uptick in such a short period of time." According to an April report from the American Hotel and Lodging Association, LA ranks last among major U.S. cities in post-COVID recovery, and with current visitor levels at just 79% of what they were in 2019. A CUF analysis of state data found the city lost 11,000 hotel jobs in 2024 as a result, and warned in a full-page advertisement on Thursday, the day before an anticipated final vote approving the new wage and benefit ordinance, that “this new proposal will kill more jobs and raise costs for visitors.”

There might no longer be rooms at the Holiday Inn...

Bozo Time

Berkeley finally admits it might have a problem:

Of the 290 people who answered the survey question, 16 percent indicated that they think the criticisms are “invalid” and should not be acted upon. Fifteen percent said that while “some criticisms may be valid,” no action should be taken right now “because it would undermine university autonomy.” But nearly half of respondents — 47 percent — answered that some criticisms are “valid” and that action should be taken “deliberately through regular governance processes.” An additional 16 percent agreed that some criticisms are well-founded and think that “we should take action urgently.” .... The academy “decided some time ago, but with a big increase in energy and intensity in 2020, to use the accumulated authority and prestige of our institutions and disciplines to advance ideologically driven political agendas, and we told the lie to others (and often to ourselves) that that wasn’t what we were doing,” one faculty member wrote... Put a bit blunter, by another faculty member: “Universities are under attack (often by idiots), but they deserve it and should get their houses in order.”

It's well past time to listen to the "idiots..."

Social Stiffs

Methuselah can no longer collect:

After 11 weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has hit a milestone in its major cleanup initiative to remove more than 12.3 million names of Social Security number holders whose dates of birth make them over 120 years old. DOGE team members continue to deal with what they call “complex cases” that remain, including investigating instances where an individual has two or more different birth dates on file. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) touted the efforts of DOGE to root out fraud, calling the cleanup of Social Security rolls “remarkable.” Earlier this year, DOGE chief Elon Musk warned of millions of Social Security recipients well over the age of 100 who were still collecting benefits.

Nothing lasts forever...

False Innocence

Jussie settles:

Last month, federal court records revealed the city and Smollett had reached a settlement agreement, but terms of the deal were not made public until Thursday, when the city's Law Department confirmed Smollett has agreed to make a $50,000 charitable donation in exchange for dismissing the lawsuit. Smollett will make the donation to Building Brighter Futures Center for the Arts, a local organization that provides community, health, and education opportunities for Chicago's underprivileged youth. "The City believes this settlement provides a fair, constructive, and conclusive resolution, allowing all the parties to close this six-year-old chapter and move forward," a Law Department spokesperson said.

It was a good con while he had it...

State SNAPs

More states are getting rid of SNAP soda:

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said at an event in Washington that she signed waivers from the two states, several days after the USDA allowed Nebraska to become the first state to ban soda from the program formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Another half a dozen more waiver requests are “coming down the line,” Rollins said. The Department of Agriculture has said other states that requested waivers include Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Utah, and West Virginia. “We are on track to sign multiples of SNAP waivers to get junk food and sugary drinks out of our food stamp system, and I am so proud,” Rollins said.

Making poor people healthy again...

Bagging Bigfoot

Looking for Bigfoot:

Skeptics like Mr. Clark often treat Bigfoot witnesses as either hoaxers or fools. But to listen to the podcast "Sasquatch Chronicles" is to hear real people: hunters, law enforcement officers, hikers, and veterans. These are not cartoon characters. They are often reluctant participants who wait years before sharing what they saw or heard. They describe massive, bipedal figures, often with red or amber eye shine, seen at twilight or in total silence. Do these people suffer from mass hysteria? Are the military officers, EMTs, and wildlife biologists who have contributed accounts suddenly untrustworthy once "Bigfoot" is spoken? I challenge Mr. Clark and the rest of you non-believers to listen to just one month of "Sasquatch Chronicles" and the dozens of level-headed interviews that don't seek fame but understanding. .... Skepticism is healthy. However, condescension is a disease that spreads faster than common sense in today’s clickbait culture. And what Mr. Clark penned reads more like ridicule than rebuttal. His tone is not that of a cautious scientist asking questions, but of a weekend camper jeering at the dark woods from the safety of a lit tent. Science has never advanced by dismissing data before reviewing it. Galileo was mocked, as was Ignaz Semmelweis, who dared suggest that doctors wash their hands. Progress is often first met with laughter, and that laughter usually ages poorly.

Don't stop looking...

Demolition Man

Tear it all down, he said:

“Frankly, the business of government is broken, and it needs smashing up and being reconstituted,” Lydon said of the U.S. government and Trump’s efforts to fix it all. “And as ugly and horrible and vile as that man is, he’s also incredibly funny, and there’s an irony in his humor that is lacking in the reporting here [in the UK],” he told the British periodical. “You have to live in America to understand how this man touches the hearts of working-class people. He talks our lingo, and we like it,” he explained. Lydon also called bollocks on the far-left’s absurd claims that Donald Trump is somehow a “fascist.” The rocker said that “there’s nothing about the Orange Bad Man that is about goose stepping. You don’t have to like the c–t. In fact, it helps if you don’t have any view on him at all. Solve the problem, and then f–k off!”

The haters are all pretty vacant...

Green Defeat

No mandate in California:

The resolution, introduced by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) in April, passed in a bipartisan 51-44 vote Thursday morning. Just one Democrat, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), voted in favor of the resolution alongside every Republican who voted. Five lawmakers were absent from the vote. "The impact of California’s waiver would have been felt across the country, harming multiple sectors of our economy and costing hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process," said Capito, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The vote is a significant loss for both California, which passed its EV mandate in 2022, and for climate activists who loudly defended the law. After the state approved the law, it sought a federal sign-off—the 1970 Clean Air Act allows California to obtain a federal waiver to issue vehicle emissions regulations that are stricter than federal standards, and for other states to adopt those regulations.

Green only goes so far, even there...

Crying Games

They needed some safe space:

🚨DOJ’s Deep-State Lawyers🚨

Harmeet Dhillon (Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights) was on Tucker Carlson’s podcast describing the deep state and said deep state DOJ lawyers held “crying sessions” and “unhappy hours” in response to Trump’s anti-discrimination and anti-DEI… pic.twitter.com/fAlFEI1mkZ

— Patriot in Chief🦅🇺🇸 (@Patriot_N_Chief) May 22, 2025

Cool It

Tone it down, they said:

The Daily Beast reported about an apparent rift between the ladies of "The View" and the top brass at the company, going all the way up to Disney CEO Bob Iger, about a desire for the hosts to cool off the politics. Notably, all six of the co-hosts (Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro) voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election and are outspoken critics of President Donald Trump. "[ABC News president Almin] Karamehmedovic convened a meeting with The View's executive producer Brian Teta and its hosts, and suggested the panel needed to broaden its conversations beyond its predominant focus on politics, two sources familiar with the meeting said," the Daily Beast reported Wednesday. "Karamehmedovic highlighted episodes with celebrity guests that he said were highly rated, one source said, and encouraged them to lean into such coverage moving forward."

Leave the rhetoric at home...

Cents Sense

Marco Rubio explains:

.@SecRubio: "At USAID, 12 cents of every dollar was reaching the recipient." pic.twitter.com/zDhGB4UqjR

— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) May 21, 2025

Speech Police

The EU's Orwellian decline was paid for:

The document, titled Manufacturing Misinformation: The EU-Funded Propaganda War Against Free Speech, was authored by Dr. Norman Lewis, a specialist in digital communication and regulatory policy, and published by the Hungarian think tank MCC Brussels. It accuses the Commission of promoting a “soft authoritarianism” by funding 349 projects through non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and universities. According to the report, this spending exceeds the EU’s annual budget for transnational cancer research by over 30 percent, a discrepancy the authors describe as deliberate. “The EU Commission regards stemming the cancer of free speech as more of a priority than the estimated 4.5 million new cancer cases and almost two million cancer deaths in Europe in 2022,” the report warns. “This is a top-down, authoritarian, curated consensus, where expression is free only when it speaks the language of compliance established by the Commission,” the report states. The report criticizes the Commission’s use of vague, euphemistic language—dubbed “NEUspeak”—to obscure its intentions. Project names like FAST LISA and VIGILANT are described as deliberately misleading, with MCC Brussels stating that such initiatives aim to suppress politically undesirable speech in real time using artificial intelligence (AI). “VIGILANT is an AI surveillance suite aimed at monitoring, classifying, and profiling speech, users, and networks,” the report states, contradicting claims from its designers that the system is ethical and user-focused.

Ethics are for right-wingers now...

Cana-Die

Depressed teens can apparently take the easy way out in Canada:

The brochure, from the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, appears to be against the legalization of doctor-assisted suicide, thank goodness, but how could such an idea ever have been floated? According to the pamphlet, “A mature minor is a child or teen who is deemed capable of making a choice for [doctor-assisted suicide]. This would essentially remove the minimum age of eligibility.” It further claims that a committee of doctors making recommendations suggested the parents’ consent may not even be necessary! This really shouldn’t shock, as Canada has been aggressively expanding its regime of patient-killing doctors. Originally restricted only to the terminally ill, doctor-provided suicide is set to be legal for the mentally in Canada beginning in 2027. Some people have asked for their doctors to help kill them because they believe they’re a burden on their families and society.

With this kind of behavior, they may be right...

Just Chants

They're not really racist, or something:

🚨CNN: Chants about killing white people in South Africa need “historical context.” pic.twitter.com/OFZfUrvn8v

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 21, 2025

Blue Cap

Poor people shouldn't have to subisidze rich peoples' pet programs:

Prior to the SALT cap, lefty elites who lived in lefty, elitist blue states could vote for every lavish, socialist policy they favored to be enacted by their local and/or state governments. Naturally, this drove up state and local taxes — income, sales, and property — to obscene levels. But the wealthy leftists in these places didn't have to worry about that — they could go ahead and deduct the unlimited amount of state and local taxes they paid from their income when they filed their federal taxes. As an example, if a liberal in New York or California earned $200,000 and paid $35,000 of that in state and local taxes, she could adjust her gross income to $175,000 when she calculated her federal tax bill, which would then be based on that lower amount. Then she could enjoy life in her blue state of fully subsidized illegal alien families sopping up public resources, trash picked up and hauled to the dump for her, six months of paid maternity/paternity leave, electric buses, fancy bike paths no one will use, and every other feel-good liberal public-money suck you can think of. So what if the pregnant waitress in Mississippi and the HVAC technician in Alabama have to make up the difference when they pay their federal taxes? You see, every tax dollar liberals pay to fund their blue state and town's extravagant social spending reduces the amount of taxes they pay to the federal government. Thus, people who are smart enough to live in low-tax states precisely because they don't believe in lavish, expensive public programs wind up paying a higher rate of federal tax because they don't have hefty state and local taxes to deduct from their income when calculating what they pay to Uncle Sam.

You're still paying for their mistakes...

Pen Payoffs

Who paid for their pardons?

Destroying Democrats

The Democratic Party gets nuked:

Speech Wins

Another win for free speech:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “workforce diversity” rule from 2024 in response to lawsuits from the National Religious Broadcasters and other groups that argued the regulation violated constitutional rights. Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr celebrated the ruling as he continues his broader push to end left-wing policies at an agency with significant control over America’s airwaves. “The FCC’s 2024 decision was an unlawful effort to pressure businesses into discriminating based on race & gender,” Carr declared in a Monday X post. He said the rule required broadcasters to post “race and gender scorecards.” As Carr referenced, the FCC policy would have required most broadcasters to file a report with the agency detailing their staff demographics each year or face potential enforcement actions. The National Religious Broadcasters, American Family Association and Texas Association of Broadcasters argued in court that the FCC order violated the Equal Protection and Free Speech Clauses of the Constitution, and that the regulation went beyond the authority Congress has granted the agency. The plaintiffs argued that the rule was “arbitrary and capricious,” a phrase often used to describe regulations that violate the Administrative Procedures Act. The court determined that the rule exceeded the FCC’s statutory authority, declining to rule on the other claims. “This ruling helps ensure that the government cannot create a backdoor to control broadcasters through public intimidation, misuse private data against them, or interfere with the sacred and constitutionally protected mission of religious broadcasters,” National Religious Broadcasters President and CEO Troy Miller said in a Wednesday press release.

No censorship allowed...

No Explanation

This didn't go well for her:

Letitia James says she “mistakenly” claimed Virginia residency in loan documents

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I mean, who hasn’t done that a time or two? Right?

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— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) May 21, 2025

Junking Junk

No more junk food in Nebraska:

The waiver, which takes effect on Jan. 1, 2026, is part of the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, the USDA said, adding that this “historic action seeks to reverse alarming disease trends across the country.” One in three children between the ages of 12 and 19 is affected by prediabetes, it said. Forty percent of school-aged children and adolescents suffer from at least one chronic condition, while 15 percent of students in high school drink a minimum of one soda per day. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February establishing the President’s Commission to Make America Healthy Again. The agency is tasked with investigating the “root causes of America’s escalating health crisis,” including chronic disease among children, according to a White House fact sheet.

Making the Midwest healthy again...

Case Dismissed

No case for you:

In a scathing rebuke of the lawsuit filed by Bucks County, Pa., in March 2024, Judge Stephen Corr of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas dismissed the case with prejudice late on Friday and wrote that emissions caused by petroleum are regulated at the federal level, not the state level. Corr also expressed concerns with how Bucks County hired outside counsel and filed its complaint with minimal public feedback. The judge noted that at oral argument, the county's attorney "conceded that the advertising, production, transport, and sale of Defendants' fossil fuel products in Bucks County did not cause any harm to the County." The dismissal is a significant blow to a broad nationwide effort that targets oil companies in state courts and seeks court injunctions forcing them to pay hundreds of millions—or billions, in Bucks County's case—of dollars in environmental damages. After they filed their initial complaint in the case, Bucks County officials said they sought to "shift the financial burden of the climate crisis from the taxpayers of Bucks County to the companies responsible for creating the crisis."

The blame game doesn't work here...

Better Now

The Trump Effect continues:

The share of registered voters saying their household financial situation is worse than a year ago fell to 31.8 percent, the lowest since January 2022, according to a survey released May 18. For most of the Biden administration, more Americans reported being worse off than staying the same. That changed just after the election in November, when the share of Americans reporting that their household financial situation was unchanged climbed above the share saying it worsened. To be sure, far more Americans say they are worse off or unchanged than better off. Just 16.1 percent say they are better off in the most recent poll, versus 49.6 who say their situation is unchanged. That’s typically been the case as far back as 2009, when the YouGov records start.

But it's still better than it was...

Blue Admission

Andrew Cuomo admits what everyone knows:

🚨 Andrew Cuomo Admits Democrat Leaders Are Ruining American Cities

“We get absolutely nothing done and you see a deterioration of conditions, and people say why? … It's all Democrats who are in charge. There's no one else to blame.” pic.twitter.com/6gwabuyZJw

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) May 21, 2025

Psycho Study

Apparently lunatics are more attractive:

A new study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences examined how people perceive strangers' trustworthiness based on facial appearance alone. Researchers found that individuals with high levels of the so-called "dark triad" traits—narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism—were consistently rated as more trustworthy. Why? The answer lies in looks. People with high dark triad traits tended to be perceived as more physically attractive—and this perception strongly influenced how trustworthy people believed them to be. In four experiments involving nearly 600 participants, individuals were asked to judge strangers' faces in rating tasks and simulated trust games. Time and again, those with high dark triad scores were seen as more trustworthy from their image alone.

You don't have to be crazy to get positive attention, but it literally helps...

Boomer Bust

Why the boomers can't quit protesting:

To a certain extent, these tantrums are the result of these folx sitting around the campfire, reliving their glory days when they burned bras and draft cards, dropped acid, and fled to Canada. The legends of the '60s grew in the telling. I know this, having grown up in a house full of copies of Ms. magazine, a soundtrack of Joan Baez and Peter Paul and Mary, and reminders that when I turned 18, I had better register for the draft as a conscientious objector if I knew what was good for me. These people drew a fair amount of their identity from those things, and the ones who didn't go on to grow up and maybe become dot-com millionaires are still clinging to the mythos. Exclusively for our VIPs: The Nation’s Moral Vacuum on Display Of course, the issue is that they continued to tell those stories to the following generations. They may not have sung "The Ballad of the '68 Convention Riot," but they passed the ideals down to their children, students, and others in their charge, who, in turn, kept the mystique and romance front and center for the next generation. In the era of TikTok, Instagram, a jaded, compromised media, and a corrupt education system, the rebellious acts of today are magnified and fed back on themselves until they are unbelievably amplified, making the participants even more destructive and dysfunctional. The old guard has some serious competition in the "Free, free, Palestine" crowd. I know there are boomers out there who matured, and not all of you are Abbie Hoffman retreads. But the ones who stayed behind are still muddying the waters. The Ghost of Protests Past will haunt us for a while.

Even when they die, the boomer probably won't want to give up...