April 28, 2025

IT’S SCAMS AND GRIFT ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Posted at 9:11 am by Charlie Martin

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Peace-Loving Trump Doesn’t Even Know How to Hitler. “Meanwhile, President Trump is out in the real world — the real real world, that is — doing things that are decidedly not very Hitlerian. Those of you who went to school when they still taught history will remember that the other Hitler was really into the whole war thing. In fact, he gave off the distinct impression that it was one of his favorite things to do.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

SLOUCHING TOWARD WORLD WAR III: Russia confirms North Korean troops fighting Ukraine as Trump’s patience with Putin wears thin.

In a report to Russian President Vladimir Putin from Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, published by Russian state media, the use of North Korean soldiers was disclosed.

“I want specially to note the participation of servicemen of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” Gerasimov said in the statement, which claimed they had repelled Ukrainian forces out of the Kursk region.

The statement comes the same day Trump talked with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Vatican City, in what were described as positive talks. Trump also expressed his frustration with Putin, after earlier this week calling on him to stop attacks after a deadly attack on Kyiv.

“With all of that being said, there was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days. It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions?’ Too many people are dying!!!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Sanctions don’t work nearly as well as weapons do.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

BREAKING:

More here, but the upshot is that nobody seems to know anything.

Posted at 7:54 am by Stephen Green

THEY’RE JUST HERE TO DO THE MUGGINGS AMERICANS WON’T: Man arrested in theft of DHS chief Kristi Noem’s purse is in the U.S. illegally, official says.

It is not believed the suspect targeted Noem because she was the Department of Homeland Security chief, Martin said.

“There is no indication it was because of that. It was frankly, it was a nice looking purse,” Martin said in a recorded telephone interview.

In the call, Martin said Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now involved.

“President Trump’s direction to us is we charge these folks that are here illegally and we prosecute them, as well as deport them when need be, you know, as soon as that can happen,” Martin said, adding: “What I can tell you is he won’t be back on the streets in America.”

Well, good.

Posted at 7:32 am by Stephen Green

FASTER, PLEASE: New SpaceX Starship Booster Has 29% More Thrust. “The 35-engine SpaceX Starship booster using version 3 raptor engines is coming sooon. Booster 18 could be the first Version 3 booster. 35 Raptor 3 engines (280 tons of thrust each) will be 9800 tons of thrust. This is 29% more than 33 Raptor 2 engines with 230 tons of thrust each for 7590 tons. The old Saturn V had 7.75 million pounds of thrust vs the SpaceX V3 booster with 21.7 million pounds of thrust. 2.8 times more thrust than a Saturn V.”

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

THEY’RE TERRORISTS. MAKE THEM PAY. ‘Reminiscent of the KKK’: Columbia Janitors Sue Protesters Who Took Over Hamilton Hall.

The Columbia University janitors who were held hostage during the violent takeover of a campus building last spring are suing their alleged captors for battery, assault, and conspiracy to violate their civil rights, according to a copy of the suit reviewed exclusively by The Free Press.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court on Friday evening by Torridon Law and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on behalf of Columbia janitors Mario Torres and Lester Wilson. It alleges that over 40 Columbia students and “outside agitators,” some but not all of whom were arrested by police following the takeover of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall last April 29, “terrorized” both Torres and Wilson “into the early morning of April 30th, assaulted and battered them, held them against their will, and derided them as ‘Jew-lovers’ and ‘Zionists.’ ”

The occupation of Hamilton Hall occurred almost exactly a year ago, and both Torres and Lester say they have been struggling to cope ever since. The lawsuit states both men suffered physical injuries the night of the occupation, and that they have also been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that has required ongoing medical care. Neither has been able to return to work, and are instead “subsisting on interim Workers Compensation payments” which are “inadequate” to pay for their basic needs and medical bills, according to the suit.

“Mario and Lester are decent, honest, hardworking men who have been through hell. None of this ever should have happened,” said Tara Helfman, one of the Torridon lawyers on the case.

The lawsuit describes the protesters, the majority of whom “donned masks and hoods to conceal their identities,” as “reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan.” It claims they “are part of a broad pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic network of organizations, groups, and cells that are connected through a largely untraceable underground communications system. They promote and resort to violent and illegal tactics, and are motivated by invidious discrimination against Jews and supporters of Jews.”

The Brandeis Center also filed a federal lawsuit late Friday on behalf of two students, a professor, and a rabbi at the University of California, Los Angeles, alleging that several groups, including National Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty for Justice in Palestine Network, American Muslims for Palestine, and Westchester People’s Action Coalition, engaged in “a coordinated campaign of egregious acts of racial exclusion, intimidation, and assault” to “intimidate Jewish students, faculty, and staff.”

Go after them, and their funders.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds