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September 30, 2025

HMM:

Probably just a show vote, but maybe Schumer really is losing control of his caucus.

Posted at 6:59 pm by Stephen Green on Sep 30th, 2025

OPERATION PAPER CLIP: THE NEXT GENERATION. Prolific Liar Randi Weingarten’s Paperclip Stunt: Peak Hypocrisy from Education’s Chief Authoritarian.

Like much of the rest of the left, she’d rather attack Trump than dial down the Democrats’ feverish current tone, even though deescalation is their best chance of regaining power:

Classical reference in headline:

“Looks like [Wweingarten] is supporting Nazis.” She probably doesn’t know about Operation Paperclip, and she probably doesn’t care that she’s displaying a form of Holocaust denial: Are Democrats Whitewashing Hitler with Lame Attacks on Trump?

Posted at 6:42 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 30th, 2025

THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK:

If you’ve been on X at all today, you might have noticed that reaction from enlisted guys and lower-ranking officers seems almost universally supportive of Trump and Hegseth.

Related:

Posted at 5:46 pm by Stephen Green on Sep 30th, 2025

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: How Department of State v. Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition Should Be Resolved (But Probably Won’t Be).

A key issue in this federal case is: What are the legal consequences when Congress appropriates funds by statute? Here, Congress has appropriated funds for named organizations, but the President or his officers have chosen not to segregate and remove the appropriated funds from the Treasury.

Many believe, including some federal judges and legal scholars, that when Congress appropriates money by statute, it follow that those funds must be spent (leaving aside the possibility of any express discretion designed into the statute at issue). There are reasons to reject this position as a settled rule of law.

First, an appropriations statute authorizes the Executive Branch to segregate funds in the Treasury (if such funds are available) and to remove those funds from the Treasury, and, then, further authorizes that the funds be spent for the purposes or in the manner approved by Congress, and in no other fashion. See generally Paul Einzig, The Control of the Purse (1959). But it is not clear that an appropriation commands the segregation, removal, and spending of such funds. Whether a particular statute mandates the segregation, removal, and spending of such funds will depend on the words of the statute. In other words, a naked appropriation (even where made for a particular purpose) does not without more imply that Congress has left the Executive Branch without discretion not to spend the appropriated funds.

Much more at the link, including a little colonial-era history I didn’t know.

Posted at 5:23 pm by Stephen Green on Sep 30th, 2025

ZOOM: Tested! The Lucid Air Sapphire Just Set a New 0–60-MPH Record! “The Lucid Air Sapphire now has godlike grip to go with its hellfire 1,234 horsepower. Armed with Lucid’s new Track Tire package, the three-motor EV leapfrogged to the top of MotorTrend’s all-time 0–60-mph leaderboard with a 1.881-second blitz.”

Posted at 5:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 30th, 2025

MARK JUDGE: Columbia Journalism Dean Celebrates Man Who Beat, ‘Tortured’ Women.

In his new book, Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025, Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb has high praise for late New York Times columnist David Carr. Cobb met Carr in 1996, when Carr was the editor of the Washington City Paper, and writes that Carr had a deep influence on him.

Carr was also a crack addict who, by his own admission, “was a fat thug who beat up women and sold bad coke.” In his appreciation for Carr, Cobb downplays his awful backstory. It’s worth remembering that Cobb, a New Yorker magazine writer, is the same man who expressed moral outrage because Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh defended themselves against dubious sexual assault allegations by Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford, respectively. Cobb compared the two Supreme Court justices to Jeffrey Epstein.

In short, Jelani Cobb celebrates men who maul and torture women while condemning innocent men who defend themselves. He’s kind of a perfect exemplar of modern American journalism. For $124,000 a year you can sit at his feet and absorb his wisdom.

I’m so old, I remember when journalists at least pretended to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.”

But I’d be happy if they’d just stick to the facts.

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green on Sep 30th, 2025

GREAT MOMENTS IN SAFETYISM: Politico Reporter Who Said She Cried Over Trump’s Election Now Covers His Presidency.

As a master’s student at Northwestern University’s esteemed journalism school in 2020, Cheyanne Daniels revealed that she cried when President Donald Trump was elected four years earlier because she knew “horrible things were to come.” She now covers the Trump presidency for Politico.

Daniels joined the outlet as a breaking news reporter in May following a three-year stint as a “race and politics reporter” for The Hill, where she covered both the 2024 election and stories like, “John Boyega: ‘Star Wars’ ‘most whitest, elite space,'” and, “‘Power Rangers’ actor splits with writer, says casting a ‘milestone.'”

Her reporting is now largely focused on the White House, the subject of several of her posts on social media. On Nov. 7, 2020, the day the Associated Press called the presidential election for Joe Biden, Daniels tweeted: “4 years ago, I cried when I realized Donald Trump had been elected, knowing horrible things were to come. Now, I’m in my apartment in D.C., hearing people cheering in the streets screaming that he has been defeated, and I’m crying once again. But for a very different reason.”

One week later, Daniels’s euphoria seemed to fade. “Trump may have lost the election,” she wrote, “but over 70 million people voted for him — and some of those voters were people who felt, like their demagogue, that MY life as a Black woman doesn’t matter, that I shouldn’t exist, I threaten the purity of white power.”

The posts raise questions about Politico‘s decision to hire Daniels for a role that, at least for the next three years, revolves around coverage of the Trump White House and, ostensibly, requires neutrality.

Nahh, I think everyone knows by now that Politico isn’t going to be at all “neutral” when covering Trump, but it’s always good to have additional confirmation.

Posted at 2:55 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 30th, 2025

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green on Sep 30th, 2025
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