Archive for 2025

MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY:

He had no idea what was going on.

WELL, GOOD: FBI Settles With Biden-Era Whistleblowers. “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has openly supported the whistleblowers in question, including Friend and Garret O’Boyle. Grassley celebrated the new settlement as bringing ‘accountability’ and ‘closure’ after ‘intense bureaucratic blowback that caused severe financial and emotional hardship.’ He also encouraged any potential whistleblowers to see him going forward as an ally.”

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS:

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ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Meta suppressed children’s safety research, four whistleblowers claim. “According to their claims, Meta changed its policies around researching sensitive topics — like politics, children, gender, race, and harassment — six weeks after whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked internal documents that showed how Meta’s own research found that Instagram can damage teen girls’ mental health. These revelations, which were made public in 2021, kicked off years of hearings in Congress over child safety on the internet, an issue that remains a hot topic in global governments today.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Grateful Every Day That We’re Not Dealing With Hillary’s SCOTUS. “It’s time to once again step back and appreciate that we would be in a world of hurt as a nation had President Trump not been so successful in getting conservative justices on the Supreme Court during his first term in office. The unhinged liberals in the judiciary would be winning if it weren’t for that.”

ROGER KIMBALL: Trump’s battle against the tyranny of lawfare: The President has to be one of the most punished people in American history.

If the process is the punishment in legal proceedings, as we are often reminded, Trump has to be one of the most punished people in American history. But it is worth remembering that the aim of the lawfare was not simply to punish Trump but to destroy him. It was a multi-front assault. Bankruptcy loomed on one front, jail on another. Then came at least two assassination attempts, not officially part of the lawfare, but spiritually adjacent.

The Kaiser miscalculated when he went to war in Europe. I think that the battalions of anti-Trump activists, in the media and our political establishment as well as in the law, miscalculated when they took up arms against Trump. His response has not been to dig trenches and hunker down. What he has done resembles the D-Day invasion of Normandy more than the pointless slaughter of the Somme or Verdun.
Anti-Trump commentators are up in arms because the President has stormed the beaches of the Deep State and overrun many of its defensive positions. They skirl hysterically when he fires a governor of the Federal Reserve (“But she’s the first black woman to hold the position!”). Trump removes Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris. “A petty, vindictive move from a small man,” quoth a group called “Republicans Against Trump.” But then it turns out that Harris enjoyed the posse longer than any former vice-president in history.

Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton wakes up to find his home and office raided by the FBI. “Retribution” screams the anti-Trump press. But then it turns out the FBI had been investigating Bolton at least since the Biden administration, which eventually shut down the inquiry – possibly, just possibly, because Bolton was such a vocal anti-Trump critic. Two separate magistrates, one in DC, one in Maryland, approved the FBI search warrants. Why? Because, as the New York Times grudgingly acknowledged, data gathered from the spy service of an “adversarial country” included “sensitive,” i.e., classified, information that Bolton, “while still working in the first Trump administration, appeared to have sent to people close to him on an unclassified system.”

The list goes on. The Dems perfected lawfare and unleashed it against Trump under the twin assumptions that it would succeed and that the Republicans would never retaliate in kind. Trump has upended both assumptions. Which is why I believe that what Trump is doing is not a matter of “retribution” or lawfare. It is a battle of liberation from the tyranny of lawfare.

Retribution is an important aspect of justice, and an even more important aspect of deterrence.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS CURLED UP WITH A GOOD BOOK AND A CUP OF TEA: Transgender Covenant School Killer Audrey Hale Included President Donald Trump in ‘Fantasy Murder List.’

The FBI on Monday released to The Tennessee Star more pages from the journals written by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who killed six at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023. The newly released pages feature an entry where Hale included President Donald Trump on a “fantasy murder list.”

Containing just four names, including two that were redacted by the FBI prior to their release of the journal, Hale included Trump as the first name in her second column of those who she would like to kill, potentially suggesting she added the name after writing a subsequent journal entry.

Hale also included “Creswell Middle Prep,” in an apparent reference to Isiah T. Creswell Middle School, where she played on a school basketball team about a decade prior. She reportedly considered attacking the school, but later determined to attack the Christian elementary school she once attended, fearing she would be accused of racism if she attacked the predominantly black middle school.

The journal which includes the “fantasy murder list” was labeled 2019-2020 by the killer, and Hale dated the preceding page to November 5, 2019, nearly three years after Trump was elected to the White House in 2016.

Hale was indulged instead of treated.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Local Leaders Go To War With Colorado’s Sanctuary Law After Cop Who Helped ICE Resigns.

One of Colorado’s biggest counties is taking on the state’s “unconstitutional” sanctuary law after it was used to crack down on a sheriff’s deputy who helped federal immigration authorities.

The Board of Mesa County Commissioners is moving forward with its lawsuit against a Democrat-led sanctuary law that prohibits local law enforcement in Colorado from sharing personal information about a foreign national with federal immigration authorities, the Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed. The lawsuit was filed after state officials sued a Mesa County sheriff’s deputy for helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and effectively forced him out of the job.

Colorado Democrats in May passed SB 25-276, a bill that prohibits sheriff’s offices and police departments from sharing foreign national’s identifying information with ICE for purposes of assisting in investigations or enforcement matters. Colorado Republicans — a minority in the state legislature — vehemently protested its passage, arguing it incentivizes illegal immigration and risks public safety.

The legislation was among many bills Democrat Gov. Jared Polis has signed and other executive actions he’s taken in recent years that restrict cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. The Department of Justice (DOJ) currently identifies the entire state of Colorado as a sanctuary jurisdiction.

Previously: Gov. Polis insists Colorado is not a sanctuary state.

Polis lies.

FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  No Man’s Land: Volume 1 (Chronicles of Lost Elly).

Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.

On a lost colony world, mad geneticists thought they could eliminate inequality by making everyone hermaphrodite. They were wrong. Catastrophically wrong.
Now technology indistinguishable from magic courses through the veins of the inhabitants, making their barbaric civilization survivable—and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Kayel Hayden, Viscount Webson, Envoy of the Star Empire—Skip to his friends— has just crash-landed through a time-space rift into the middle of it all.
Dodging assassins and plummeting from high windows was just the beginning. With a desperate king and an archmagician as his only allies, Scipio must outrun death itself while battling beasts, traitors, and infiltrators bent on finishing what the founders started: total destruction.
Two worlds. One chance. No time to lose.

Volume 1
The Ambassador Corps has rules: you cannot know everything, don’t get horizontal with the natives, don’t make promises you can’t keep.
They’re a lot harder to follow when assassins are hunting you, your barbarian allies could kill you for the wrong word, and death lurks around every corner.
The unwritten rule? Never identify with the natives.
Skip’s already broken that one.
Now he’s racing against time to save his new friends from slavery—or worse—while dodging energy blasts and political intrigue. One crash-landed diplomat. A world of deadly secrets. And absolutely no backup.

Some rules are meant to be broken. Others will get you killed.

SO WHERE ARE THE MOBS WITH PITCHFORKS?