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Archive for 2025
April 22, 2025
I’LL BET THIS HEADLINE MAKES LUIGI JEALOUS: Progressive Minnesota Prosecutor Lets State Employee Off with No Charges for Alleged Tesla Vandalism.
A progressive prosecutor is declining to charge a Minnesota state employee after he was caught on camera allegedly causing an estimated $20,000 worth of damages to Tesla vehicles in protest of billionaire Elon Musk.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s office is seeking diversion for Minnesota Department of Human Service employee Dylan Adams after he allegedly vandalized at least six Teslas in Minneapolis while walking his dog.
“This is an approach taken in many property crime cases and helps to ensure the individual keeps their job and can pay restitution, as well as reducing the likelihood of repeat offenses,” the DA’s office told CBS News.
If the vandalism continues, the County Attorney’s office would not rule out charges. Progressive County Attorney Mary Moriarty took office in 2023 and has faced strong criticism for her soft-on-crime approach. On several occasions, Moriarty has shown leniency to violent criminals, including suspects charged with murder and sexual assault, leading to disputes with prosecutors and outrage among victims’s families.
The Minneapolis Police Department blasted the county attorney’s office for its refusal to pursue charges against the Tesla vandal, making it the latest clash between police and the county’s lax prosecutor.
To be fair, it’s not like Adams really committed an automobile-related hate crime such as doing a donut on a gay pride flag-painted intersection.
THIS SEEMS RIGHT:
It’s quite simple – there are 3 things that the MAGA base wants:
1. Mass deportations
2. Deep State arrests
3. Passing the Trump agenda into lawDo those 3 things, and we’ll expand our majorities in the midterms
Don’t do those 3 things and we’ll lose the House and Trump will… https://t.co/V7iw91XF0U
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 22, 2025
UPDATE (From Ed):
I can't take seriously anyone who uses the word "chaos" to describe Trump-related matters.
It's such a strong tell. https://t.co/a9y6O8ZnPy
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 22, 2025
CHANGE (IT BACK): Education Department to Restart Debt Collection on Defaulted Student Loans.
The Education Department will resume collecting on defaulted student loans early next month, restarting a system that’s been on hold since spring 2020, the agency announced Monday.
Starting May 5, the department will withhold tax refunds or benefits such as Social Security from borrowers who are in default. Later this summer, the department will begin garnishing the wages of defaulted borrowers, a move consumer protection advocates have criticized as out of control.
About 38 percent of the nearly 43 million student loan borrowers are current on their payments, and a record number of borrowers are at risk of or in delinquency and default, the department said Monday. Borrowers default when they miss at least 270 days of payments.
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“We think that the federal student loan portfolio is headed toward a fiscal cliff if we don’t start repayment and collections,” a senior department official said on a press call Monday. “American taxpayers can no longer serve as collateral for student loans.”
Thank you. I don’t remember cosigning for anybody’s student loans.
BRENDAN O’NEILL: The tragedy of Pope Francis.
There is a myth that the then Bishop [Jorge] Bergoglio was reluctant to become pope, as propagated by the Netflix drama, The Two Popes. In truth, as John Cornwell of Jesus College, Cambridge has written, the Argentine had a ‘well-planned set of policies ready ahead of his election’. And it was all thoroughly post-Benedict. The Argentine’s papacy would entail acceptance of ‘LGBTQ communities’, a rejection of clericalism, an openness to the idea of having female deacons, a reform of the church to make it less centralised around Vatican diktat, and – most strikingly – a new focus on the ‘climate crisis’. As Cornwell summarised it, Bishop Bergoglio, if elected, would ‘emphasis[e] sins against the environment’ rather than sins relating to ‘sex and “life” issues’. Forget fornication – it’s failing to recycle that will land you in Hell now.
When he became pope, he made good on these policies. Especially in relation to climate change. He promised to minimise the Vatican’s ‘carbon footprint’. Where once the Vatican was seen as a glorious monument to God, now it was treated as a pox on Earth. A place of wonder, art and prayer was reimagined as a drain on Mother Nature, a ‘footprint’ to be shrunk. Catholics must ‘repent’ for their sins against nature and ‘modify [their] lifestyles’, Francis decreed. One couldn’t help but wonder what god he served: the god of Christendom or the god of environmentalism? Where once Catholics pleaded with God for forgiveness, now they were instructed to appease the gods of weather with ‘lifestyle changes’. Neo-paganist rituals like recycling and carbon offsetting competed with the older ritual of communion with God.
Just in time for “Earth Day,” the DNC-MSM talking points went out:
The talkers went out: The New York Times, Time, Axios, and NPR all wrote the same thing about Pope Francis. pic.twitter.com/PLwsrg4Lkp
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 22, 2025
In response, America’s Newspaper of Record has a better, more timeless idea:
Catholic Church To Consider Electing Pope Who's A Catholic This Time https://t.co/T1xCMJYN61 pic.twitter.com/TKeC4rWQvq
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 21, 2025
LOL: ‘Racist repression’: UCLA students protest professor for opposing race-based admissions.
The role model for this is one of my old professors who, when presented with student complaints, responded “That might bother me, if I cared what students think.”
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
People Who Bypassed Legal Process In Migrating To USA Demand Legal Process Before Being Kicked Out https://t.co/5t4n2DohUj pic.twitter.com/17UHds6jSf
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 21, 2025
TRUMP NEEDS TO PICK UP THE BALL: 60 Judicial Vacancies and No Nominees.
SANCTIONS, PLEASE:
WHOO BOY: In an order filed last night, Judge James Hendrix–the judge in Texas presiding over latest Alien Enemies Act case which prompted unprecedented intervention by SCOTUS–accused ACLU atty of violating federal code of conduct rules by calling his chambers AFTER Hendrix… pic.twitter.com/0kYMJbsPjc
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2025
WHERE WE ARE:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 22, 2025
HOW DARE HE DINE WITH THE PRESIDENT: Scott Jennings: The Elites Sent a Message to Maher — And Everyone Else. “This isn’t about the dinner that Bill Maher had with Donald Trump a couple of weeks ago. It’s about the next dinner invitation that Maher or anyone else receives. The Left — especially the entertainment-industry and mainstream-media Left — will launch a vicious character-assassination campaign against anyone who dares to engage with the political opposition.”
This was a bigger threat back when people cared what the entertainment industry and the “mainstream-media” Left thought.
Also, the left’s childish “Mean Girls” style efforts at ostracism are just, well, childish and should be punished. Send them to bed without their supper, by which I mean bankrupt their corrupt, incompetent industries.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I Love the Smell of a COVID Reckoning in the Morning. “Yes, I am furious at how We the People were treated by our own government. I hate that Fauci, now in his 80s, might die before slipping on his own orange jumpsuit, but Cuomo is a great place to start.”
ANTITRUST: Chrome on the chopping block as Google’s search antitrust trial moves forward.
With opening arguments beginning today, the US Justice Department will seek to convince the court that Google should be forced to divest Chrome, unbundle Android, and make other foundational changes. But Google will attempt to paint the government’s position as too extreme and rooted in past grievances. No matter what happens at this trial, Google hasn’t given up hope it can turn back time.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has a major advantage here: Google is guilty. It lost the liability phase of this trial resoundingly, with the court finding Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power.” As far as the court is concerned, Google has an illegal monopoly in search services and general search advertising. The purpose of this trial is to determine what to do about it, and the DOJ has some ideas.
This case, overseen by United States District Judge Amit Mehta, is taking place against a backdrop that is particularly unflattering for Google. It has been rocked by loss after loss in its antitrust cases, including the Epic-backed Google Play case, plus the search case that is at issue here. And just last week, a court ruled that Google abused its monopoly in advertising tech. The remedies in Google’s app store case are currently on hold pending appeal, but that problem is not going away. Meanwhile, Google is facing even more serious threats in the remedy phase of this trial.
The DOJ will come out guns blazing—it sees this as the most consequential antitrust case in the US since the Microsoft trial of the 1990s.
Exit quote: “Google says it will spend a lot of time arguing against the DOJ’s attempt to end search placement deals, and it will have some backup here in the form of representatives from Mozilla and Apple, both of which are paid billions of dollars per year to make Google their default search engine.”
I’m not convinced that last point doesn’t help the DOJ’s case more than Google’s.
OH, THERE’S A SHOCK: Funeral For Pope Francis Will Deviate From Tradition.
CRAZY DAY IN SACRAMENTO: Today, the California Legislature plans to hold several hearings on so-called “reparations” bills.
*Assembly Bill 7 would allow state colleges and universities to give preferential treatment in admissions to the descendants of American slavery.
*Assembly Bill 57 would make possible “home purchase assistance” for the descendants of American slaves (if at some point a Bureau for the Descendants of American Slavery is established (see Senate Bill 518), which will identify who is and who isn’t a descendant of American slavery).
*Senate Bill 437 would provide funding for California State University to further research slavery reparations and especially to figure out how to determine who is descended from American slaves and who isn’t.
*Assembly Bill 742 would provide preferential treatment in licensing for descendants of slaves (if at some point a Bureau for the Descendants of American Slavery is established (see Senate Bill 518), which will identify who is and who isn’t a descendant of American slavery).
And there are more such bills.
Note that California was not even a slave state.
Oh … and there’s a new effort to repeal (partially) Proposition 209. It never ends. We whipped their butts when they tried to repeal Proposition 209 back in 2020, despite being outspent by MORE than 14 to 1. We managed to derail last year’s effort to repeal it by trickery through Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7 (ACA7) (which passed the Assembly, and which looked like it would pass in the Senate, but mercifully did not). That effort would have allowed the governor to make virtually unlimited exceptions to Proposition 209.
This year’s effort is also called ACA7, but I believe that is just a coincidence. The new ACA7 exempts education from Proposition 209’s prohibition of preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin. For K-12, the exemption would be total. For higher education, the exemption would exclude admissions (since that is already prohibited by the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (2023)). But discrimination in financial aid and everything else would no longer be prohibited by Prop 209.
None of these bills has passed either the Assembly or the Senate and with luck they never will. It’s hard to tell at this point whether they should be taken seriously. I can’t imagine that Governor Gavin Newsom, who is desperately trying to position himself as a “Not Crazy” Presidential candidate, would be happy to have to take a stand on them. Still, we at the American Civil Rights Project don’t like to take chances. We’ve filed opposition letters to several of the bills.
But with all the problems California has—fires, crime, water shortages, transportation messes, homeless encampments, drug abuse, immigration—it’s incredible the Legislature thinks it has time for this.
By the way, there are so many bills they can’t handle them all in one day. Tomorrow, Assembly Bill 1071, a criminal procedure bill to combat white supremacy and systemic racism, will be heard.
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NATO NORTH: Sweden Has the Tanks. Finland Has the Troops. Welcome to the Pan-Nordic Army.
Any Nordic country would struggle to militarily square up to Russia on its own. But combined, the Nordics have an economy about the size of Mexico’s, and nearly the same size as Russia’s. Following Sweden and Finland’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, they have pooled some of their forces.
Sweden boasts an advanced defense industry that makes submarines, battle tanks and supersonic jet fighters. Norway possesses maritime surveillance and fighting capabilities in the Arctic. Finland has one of the largest standing armies and artillery forces per capita in Europe. And Denmark’s special forces have decades of experience deploying to some of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight American wars. (The fifth Nordic country, Iceland, has no standing army or defense industry).
“You have a regional grouping with the economic and resource potential to develop a fully integrated defense-industrial base like Germany has, but with a completely different kind of threat perception and political will,” said Eric Ciaramella, senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank and former senior U.S. intelligence analyst.
Well, good. Between the Nordics and the Poles, NATO’s front and northern flank are overperforming much-richer laggards in Britain, France, and Germany.
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