Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

July 25, 2025

GET READY TO ROOT FOR THE BAD GUYS! Coming in September, it’s Aztec Batman: 

From Warner Bros. Animation, Ánima and Chatrone, Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires reimagines the Batman mythos through the lens of Mesoamerican culture.

According to the official synopsis, the film “unfolds within the vibrant and fierce culture of 16th century Mesoamerica. In the time of the Aztec empire, tragedy strikes Yohualli Coatl, a young Aztec boy, when his father is murdered by Spanish conquistadors. To warn King Moctezuma and his high priest, Yoka, of imminent danger, Yohualli escapes to Tenochtitlán.

There, he trains in the temple of the bat god Tzinacan with his mentor, developing equipment and weaponry to confront the Spanish invasion and avenge his father’s death. Along the way, he encounters key figures like the fierce Jaguar Woman and the enchanting Forest Ivy.“

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires will be available in the US exclusively on digital on September 19 and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on September 23. It will be available in both Spanish and English-language versions.

Back during Saturday Night Live’s brilliant first five years, they once ran a sketch featuring Dan Aykroyd as “Uberman,” Superman fighting for “untruth, injustice, and the Nazi way!” which was meant as comedy, but today’s version of Warner Brothers means it, apparently. It’s fascinating to see Batman fighting for – checking notes – the guys who ripped out human hearts for sacrifices to the gods, but here we are, I guess:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 25th, 2025

ACTRESS SANDRA OH TRIES TO CONJURE ‘A PLAGUE ON’ CBS, PARAMOUNT FOR DUMPING COLBERT:

A raucous applause from the audience later, Oh tried to turn Colbert into a free speech martyr, “And not only for yourself and for this entire family who are here but for what it means, of what it means where we are in our culture, and what it means for free speech. So, I just want to say sorry, and also if I can have your hand.”

As she held Colbert by the hand, she continued, “To CBS and Paramount, a plague on both of your houses.”

Through some nervous laughter, Colbert addressed his bosses, “I’m very grateful. I think you’ve been great partners.”

Almost certainly alluding to President Trump, Oh added, “And also, a pox on all those that they serve.”

Ultimately, doesn’t CBS serve the viewers, the people whom the network hopes turns on their TV sets (and increasingly their streaming boxes) and watches some of their shows?

As Christian Toto notes: Why the Left Can’t Stop Crying Over Colbert’s Cancellation.

It’s mourning in America for the Left.

Emmy-winning actress Sandra Oh paid her respects to the now-canceled “Late Show” on Wednesday by wishing a plague on CBS and parent company Paramount.

It’s all in jest, of course. So why did she cradle host Stephen Colbert’s hand like he had just lost a loved one? Because, in a way, he did.

So did Oh and the rest of progressive America. It’s why people are protesting the show’s cancellation outside CBS’s New York City theater, signing online petitions in the “thousands,” and major Democrats insist it’s Herr Trump’s fault.

Without evidence, of course.

The Legacy Media, arm in arm with the modern Left, is crestfallen, and it can’t get up. We’re now a full week into life without Colbert’s “Late Show,” even though it doesn’t officially expire until May 2026.

Why the extended outrage? It’s just one talk show that consistently ranks behind “Gutfeld!” in the ratings.

“The Late Show’s” demise isn’t an isolated incident. The Left’s pop culture dominance is on the decline, and the examples are everywhere.

Perhaps after they’ve concluded mourning their half-century absolute lock on the overculture, the left would consider, oh, I don’t know, some sort of tolerance for ideological diversity. I’m so old, I can remember the 1990s, when they absolutely demanded such a thing from we nonbelievers in their cause.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 25th, 2025

July 24, 2025

OUT ON A LIMB: Colbert Wants to Get Fired.

Colbert and his allies in the Pravda Media/entertainment complex–along with Democrats–are insisting that the former funnyman was fired at the behest of President Trump.

The accusation is absurd. You can’t lose tens of millions of dollars a year and expect to keep your $15 million a year job. The math doesn’t work.

But, as we know, propaganda works with people who want to believe it. All you need is an authoritative voice to say the most absurd things, and people inclined to believe it, will. Even many who do not start out believing it come to do so, based on the “when there is smoke, there’s fire principle.

Colbert is egging on this narrative for a simple reason: his livelihood is at stake, and if he can convince enough people that he is getting screwed because of Trump, his economic value will increase by creating a loyalty to him among Trump haters. And if he gets himself fired for insulting his bosses while accusing them of selling out to Trump, he will get a nice payout and time to set up his next gig.

When Johnny Carson shocked NBC brass in 1991 with his announcement that he would be retiring a year later, NBC had little choice but to allow him to do his year-long victory lap, while they sorted out who would be his successor. (This of course was the plot of Bill Carter’s 1994 book The Late Shift and its hilarious HBO movie adaption two years later.)

Having announced that they would be retiring the Late Show brand, and knowing that Colbert would be a monster for the next ten months, why on earth did CBS’s executives allow him to remain on the air? According to Vox, CBS wants to honor the last year of Colbert’s contract. But surely they could have bought him out, or paid him for one last year while putting something temporary on the air as a placeholder. On the other hand, allowing Colbert to go full Olbermann may also help to render him just as toxic, greatly reducing his employment options outside of CNN, MSNBC, or the aforementioned podcast. Not to mention giving CBS an opportunity to fire him long before his contract is up.

Posted at 5:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 24th, 2025

DAVID THOMPSON: No Escape From Now.

“Why Is The Next Wave Of Period Dramas So White?” asks the headline of the article [in British Vogue], with the obligatory note of disapproval. An understood tutting, one presumed of its readers. Yet I’m struggling to picture Ms [Hanna] Flint making demands that period dramas produced in China and set in the Han Dynasty be adjusted so as to accommodate “excluded or marginalised” actors who resemble Jack Hawkins or Charles Gray.

Ms Flint, “a mixed-race woman, of British and Tunisian heritage,” informs us that, despite her enthusiasm for the genre, “I was left somewhat cold by the news that all these remakes had cast the protagonists as white once again.” Yet this train of thought terminates before reaching the possibility that others, perhaps some larger number, might be left somewhat cold by modish anachronism and jarring contrivance.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 24th, 2025

TYLER O’NEIL: ‘Spitting in the Face of JD Vance:’ German Conservative Says Police Raided Him as He Met With Congressmen in DC.

As Petr Bystron, a member of the European Parliament from Alternative for Germany, a party on the German Right, met with members of Congress in Washington, D.C., German authorities raided two locations previously associated with him, seeking evidence of bribery in what Bystron claims is a politically motivated witch hunt.

“While I was in the Congress I received information that there was one more, there were two raids,” Bystron told The Daily Signal in a phone call Tuesday. The Daily Signal confirmed that Bystron met with Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, among others.

The raids took place Tuesday in Munich, Bystron said. Authorities raided the home of Bystron’s former employee and a flat Bystron’s former shoe company used to store shoes. These raids represented the 22nd and 23rd raids against locations associated with Bystron, he said.

“So, this is just terror, and I think this is spitting in the face of JD Vance,” he added, referring to the American vice president.

In a February speech in Munich, Vance condemned what he described as attacks on free speech in Europe.

“To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old, entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation,’ who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion,” the American vice president said.

Germany is once again reverting to form; too many German politicians view The Lives of Others as a how-to guide for efficient governing.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 24th, 2025

PAUL SPERRY: How Obama Admin Turned ‘Unverifiable’ Report Into Russiagate Dynamite.

On the eve of the 2016 election, Brennan sent a “Fusion Cell” memo to Obama summarizing all the most secret, compartmented intel gathered on Trump and Russia. According to the House report declassified and released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday, that memo ” made no mention of Putin ‘aspiring’ for a Trump victory.” Although the Russian defector had shared his thoughts about Putin with Brennan in July, the CIA director’s Nov. 6 memo concluded, “Putin expected [Clinton] to win.”

But then in early December, after Obama ordered a new assessment, Brennan dusted off the informant’s second-hand hearsay, which had been shelved as unreliable. The CIA director, who had previously worked for Obama in the White House, suddenly insisted it underpin the new conclusion about Putin’s motives.

“The major ‘high confidence’ judgment of the ICA rests on one opinion about a text fragment with uncertain meaning,” the House report found. “This text – which would not have been published without [Brennan’s] orders to do so – is cited using only one interpretation of its meaning and without considering alternative interpretations,” in violation of Intelligence Community Directive 203. One alternative was that Putin was “counting on” Trump winning the primary and nomination at the GOP Convention that July, just two weeks after the informant provided the tip, not the general election in November 2106.

Related: Greg Gutfeld Reaches His Breaking Point With Co-Host, Encapsulates GOP Anger Over Russia Collusion Hoax. As Gutfeld told lefty Jessica Tarlov last night, “They amplified a false conclusion that Trump colluded with Russia in 2016. We had to spend years dealing with that, and now, we’re actually getting an investigation, and you’re saying, No, you know what, you guys should just move on. You guys should just move on.’ You say the same F-ing thing about Biden’s brain. You guys spent four years telling us that Joe Biden was fine. You covered up for an invalid, and then when we get the truth, it’s like, ‘You know what? We’ve got to look forward. We’ve got to stop talking about what’s there.’”

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 24th, 2025

AP: UNION PACIFIC, NORFOLK SOUTHERN DISCUSS MERGER TO CREATE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD.

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in merger talks to create the largest railroad in North America that would connect the East and West Coasts.

The merger discussions began during the first quarter of this year, according to a person familiar with the talks who isn’t authorized to discuss them publicly. It would combine the largest and smallest of the country’s six major freight railroads.

Both railroads declined to comment.

Within the industry there is widespread debate over whether such a merger would be approved by the Surface Transportation Board even though those regulators approved the deal that created CPKC railroad two years ago with the Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern railroad.

That merger combined the two smallest major railroads in North America and left only six major freight railroads. But it was the first major rail merger approved in more than two decades.

The bar for railroad mergers in the U.S. was raised substantially at the start of the century after a disastrous combination of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific in 1996 that snarled rail traffic for an extended period, followed by the 1999 split of Conrail between Norfolk Southern and CSX, which created backups in the East.

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Citi Research analyst Ariel Rosa said in a research note that a major transcontinental railroad merger “would likely prove costly and time consuming, risking a years-long distraction to management, while facing significant pushback from regulators, politicians, employee unions, competitors, customers, and other stakeholders.”

Not to be confused with America’s first intercontinental railroad: New gaffe: Obama hails America’s historic building of ‘the Intercontinental Railroad.’

—The Los Angeles Times, September 23rd, 2011.

Not content with being Mr. Amtrak, Joe had even loftier railroading ambitions than his boss:

As Steve wrote at the time: Biden Wants to Build an 8,000-Mile Ocean Train and I Say Let’s Do This! “On today’s installment of ‘What the Hell Did Biden Actually Just Say?’ we have the alleged president of the most powerful country in the world announcing his plan to build, and I quote, ’a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean.’”

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 24th, 2025

ABC NEWS GETS A STERN TALKING-TO: White House Warns The View to ‘Self-Reflect’ Before ‘Pulled Off-Air.’

As NewsBusters has documented in recent days, ABC News program, The View had made some pretty incendiary and heinous accusations against President Trump; accusing of everything from “crimes against humanity” to “treason.” The White House had apparently had enough, because in a statement to Fox News on Wednesday, the administration called out the show and warned them to straighten up before they get “pulled off-air.” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr also hinted that the administration could be scrutinizing The View.

In reacting to ABC co-host Joy Behar’s accusations of Trump committing acts of treason against the United States, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers issued the administration’s warning, while mocking the show’s ratings:

Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It’s no surprise that The View’s ratings hit an all-time low last year. She should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump’s historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off-air

In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom, Carr was asked by co-host Bill Hemmer if “The View now in the crosshairs of this administration?”

Coincidentally or not, the show is taking a timeout: ‘The View’ Going on Hiatus: Joy Behar Accidentally Reveals the News 1 Day Before Break.

A source confirmed to TV Insider that “the show will be on its annual summer hiatus” beginning next week. The View goes on summer break every year in August and returns after Labor Day. This year, the break will begin on Monday, July 28, which seems to be a few days earlier than usual. That means there will just be one more episode (Friday, July 25) before The View is off the air for several weeks.

Ladies, please take as much time as you need to work through all of your myriad issues.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 24th, 2025

BYRON YORK: Pure, undiluted, unadulterated Joe Biden id.

York writes that Hunter’s recent “three-hour — yes, three-hour — interview to popular left-wing YouTuber Andrew Callaghan…sounds exactly like what Joe Biden would say, were he able. In other words, yes, it’s Hunter Biden talking. But it’s Joe Biden talking:”

“Joe Biden had the most successful midterms of any president in either party in their first term since FDR in 1932. We won more state legislatures, we won more statehouses, more governorships. We picked up a seat in the Senate, which has never happened since 1932. And we held the Republican gains in the House to an all-time low, lower than even 1932.” The Biden administration, Hunter concluded, was “the most successful administration in my lifetime, and I’m including the Obama administration, I’m including the Reagan administration.”

It was classic Biden — Joe Biden. And it all leads to the big question: Why did a small group of Democratic insiders push such a wildly successful president out of the race in 2024? What followed was a stream of angry, profane resentment at the elites of the Democratic Party who concluded that Joe Biden was too elderly, and too infirm, for another term.

The list of those to blame was long. Nancy Pelosi. Charles Schumer. The Obama team. David Axelrod. James Carville. Anita Dunn. The cast of the podcast Pod Save America. George Clooney. Jake Tapper. And more.

And the left is pretending like this is the good stuff – stick it straight into my veins!

Hunter sounded like he was channeling Philip Baker Hall as an angry, bitter post-Watergate Richard Nixon cursing out all of his enemies in Robert Altman’s 1984 one-man movie Secret Honor. That film was of course, was yet another attack on the left’s then-most-hated president (until of course, he was eventually allowed to leave the bunker to attack the current Republican president). I’m not sure why Hunter’s version is being so well received by today’s left.

As with Hunter’s recent interviews, language alert:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 24th, 2025

July 23, 2025

FINALLY: Megalopolis: Francis Ford Coppola To Re-Edit, Add Scenes, “Make it More Weird.”

Coppola wants to restore dream sequences that he cut from the final cut “because already people were saying this film was so weird.” No word yet whether this new cut will be shown during the current tour:

It was [originally] more weird. I own the picture, I can do anything I want with it.

And here’s the shocker: “Megalopolis” is sold out, practically everywhere. Only a few seats remain for upcoming shows in Denver, Dallas, and San Francisco. The event has become a hot ticket, a must-see for cinephiles, and curiosity-seekers alike. Coppola’s film, once a meme, is now, in a way, must-see.

Although I lean toward “Megalopolis” being a beautiful disaster, some believe it might be a misunderstood masterpiece. Only time will tell. In the meantime—hard to believe—we await the ‘weirder’ cut, soon to hit screens, pending Coppola’s approval, of course.

My wife and I were the only people in the theater when Megalopolis played in October; perhaps the new even longer and weirder edition could double the number of people in the audience!

Seriously though, as John Podhoretz pondered last year, what happened to the man who completely owned the 1970s with the two Godfather movies, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now?

Posted at 9:16 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 23rd, 2025

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Production Hell — Ghostbusters 2016. 

Curiously unmentioned in the Drinker’s roundup of patient zero in Hollywood going woke is the cast’s support of Hillary back then:

● The Internet Is Furious Over Ghostbusters’ Hillary Clinton Endorsement.

● Did Hillary Clinton Just Doom the ‘Ghostbusters’ Remake by Booking the Cast with Ellen DeGeneres?

● Hillary Clinton Was The Lady Ghostbusters Of Presidential Candidates.

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 23rd, 2025

THE ANKLER TO COLBERT: It’s Not Personal, Sonny, It’s Strictly Business.

“Free speech” that depends on investors losing $40 million a season is always going to be “endangered,” Ms. Oh. Colbert can speak anywhere he wants, as long as he’s funding it himself. No one is entitled to a network platform, especially when that one has lost half of its advertising revenue and won’t restructure the costs to deal with it. Free speech is just that — it’s free. Salaries cost money, and employers don’t have a constitutional requirement to lose money over an employee’s speech.

For what appears to be the real story, let’s go to last night’s report from The Ankler, via Twitchy. According to Lesley Goldberg’s sources, CBS and Paramount had already decided to pull the plug on The Late Show before reaching the settlement with Trump. In fact, they had already communicated that decision to Colbert’s agent, James Dixon. For some reason, however, Dixon didn’t inform Colbert of the eventual cancellation until he returned from vacation, after the Trump settlement became public knowledge[.]

Would Dixon (who appears to have a near-iron lock on managing late TV hosts, with the exception of Gutfeld) have not informed one of his biggest clients that he was about to be sacked?

Related: Skydance to Eliminate DEI at Paramount, Appoint CBS News Ombudsman to Review ‘Complaints of Bias.’

As Skydance looks to close its $8 billion merger with Paramount, the David Ellison-led studio has sent new letters to the FCC committing to the appointment of an ombudsman and the elimination of the media giant’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

“After consummation of the transaction, New Paramount’s new management will ensure that the company’s array of news and entertainment programming embodies a diversity of viewpoints across the political and ideological spectrum,” the company wrote. “Skydance recognizes that, as a broadcast licensee, it will be charged with operating in the public interest, and the company intends to undertake a comprehensive review of CBS and to make any necessary changes to ensure compliance with that standard. In all respects, Skydance will ensure CBS’ reporting is fair, accurate and fact-based.”

The ombudsman would be in place for at least two years and would report to New Paramount’s president Jeff Shell, who would work together to carefully review “any complaints of bias or other concerns” involving CBS News.

Considering this is CBS News, with six decades of insane leftwing bias, I assume this will improve the quality of the journalism as well as Daniel Okrent’s stint as ombudsman at the New York Times.

Finally, let’s check in with the flagship show of ABC News for some carefully measured opinions on the health of the nation and the media that shapes it: The View’s Sunny Hostin Warns Colbert Cancellation Could Lead To The ‘Dismantling Of Our Constitution.’

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 23rd, 2025

TANNED, RESTED, AND F***ING READY: The man to save the Democratic party: Hunter Biden.

“The one thing that binds each and every one of us is not necessarily love… it’s pain,” Hunter Biden said in his interview yesterday with independent journalist Andrew Callaghan. Well, that’s good, because we’re not all sons of a former president, so at least we have something in common. Someone has really been working the 12 steps!

Cockburn will admit that he didn’t really see it until now, but after yesterday, he’s ready to admit that Robert Hunter Biden may be the only person who can lead the Democratic party out of the wilderness. It’s a development worthy of the best “scion’s fiction.” Hunter said that if he were president, he would call Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and have a chat about those re-expatriated illegal immigrants: “You either fucking send them back [to the US] or I’m going to fucking invade.”

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At one point, while Hunter talked about the dangers of crack, Callaghan, the first journalist in history to conduct a somewhat serious interview while wearing a Philadelphia Phillies cap, appeared to be struggling with a bug.

“I’m going to pretend you’re not getting attacked by a bee right now,” Hunter said. “Keep my train of thought.”

“Without them we would all die,” said Callaghan.

“That’s true too,” said Hunter. “Birds aren’t real. But bees are.”

Well, he’s got a point there. With his keen grasp of the intersection of immigration, economics, and pharmaceuticals, Hunter is clearly poised for big things in the 2028 election:

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 23rd, 2025

DEBATING VERSUS DIAGNOSING:

Posted at 2:40 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 23rd, 2025

TULSI: Hillary Clinton was on ‘daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers’ in 2016.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard addressed reporters during Wednesday’s White House press briefing, outlining how in a report declassified on Monday it was revealed that former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was “allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers.”

“There were high-level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary’s quote, psycho emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression and cheerfulness, and that then Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers.”

On some days, the dosage was apparently higher than others:

Flashback: Mike Cernovich to CBS’s Scott Pelley: “Why would you trust a campaign?”

UPDATE: Putin kept claims Hillary Clinton had physical, ‘psycho-emotional’ problems under wraps because he thought she would win 2016 election: Gabbard.

Posted at 2:25 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 23rd, 2025

THE EUROPEAN MIND CANNOT COMPREHEND THE GLORIES OF AMERICAN AIR CONDITIONING: The new hot topic in European politics is air conditioning.

The prospect of U.S.-style air conditioning sends shivers through some Europeans. In France, media outlets often warn that cooling a room to more than 15 degrees Fahrenheit below the outside temperature can cause something called “thermal shock,” resulting in nausea, loss of consciousness and even respiratory arrest. That would be news to Americans who expect indoor temperatures to be cooled to around 75 degrees even when it is near 100 outside.

Not that I was worried, but I’m glad to see that all Texas restaurants, movie theaters – and Buc-ee’s — are marked safe from a French invasion during the summer months.

Not surprisingly, this story has caught the eye of Joel Abbott of Not the Bee, the straight news spinoff of America’s Newspaper of Record:

The Wall Street Journal frames this debate as a consequence of impending climate change (of course), but climate fear-mongering aside, there is a very real cost to human life that comes from heat waves, particularly to the very young and very old.

Experts say more air conditioning is a necessity to prevent thousands of people from dying during heat waves.

That’s an understatement:

More:

‘Abroad, the contrast is striking: the United States is investing several billion dollars to modernize the air conditioning of its schools, while hospitals there are already largely air-conditioned,’ read legislation proposed by French conservatives this month that would require air conditioning installed in institutions across the country.

How in the world does France not have air-conditioned hospitals?? How am I just learning this now?!

Indeed. In 2000, when Tom Wolfe wrote “Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World,” he wasn’t kidding when he noted, “On his trips abroad, our [American] electrician, like any American businessman, would go to superhuman lengths to avoid being treated in European hospitals, which struck him as little better than those in the Third World. He considered European hygiene so primitive that to receive an injection in a European clinic voluntarily was sheer madness.”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 23rd, 2025

AS KURT SCHLICHTER SAYS, THE LEFT IS GOING TO HATE THE NEW RULES THEY CREATED:

Here’s the full tweet by Trump aide Stephen Miller that Kelly references:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 23rd, 2025

July 22, 2025

BREAKING: Feds Bust Up Terrifying Bomb Plot in Major U.S. City.

Michael Gann appears to have been of an incendiary mind and suffering from explosive hatred for humanity. The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a press release Tuesday with details about Gann and his attempted terrorism, as well as his lies to law enforcement:

[He] manufactured at least seven improvised explosive devices (“IEDs”) using precursor chemicals—chemicals that can be combined to create an explosive mixture—that he had ordered on the internet, stored at least five IEDs and shotgun shells on adjoining rooftops of residential apartment buildings in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, threw at least one IED onto the subway tracks of the Williamsburg Bridge, and subsequently lied to law enforcement about having disposed of his explosives and supplies in a dumpster.

In March, Gann posted a message on X and tagged President Trump, suggesting he may have been unhappy about immigration policy: “Dear @POTUS, I’m thinking just now here in NYC that it’s too bad that the wall wasn’t built before the National Guard would have to come here for the Protests and Riotation or would you just drop a bomb on this place while and because they seem to be coming and coming?”

How would a potential Mayor Mamdani react if, God forbid, this plot had succeeded? Mamdani: ‘Violence Is an Artificial Construction.’

Posted at 9:50 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 22nd, 2025
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