KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: You Know, a Letitia James Perp Walk Sure Would Be Fun to See. “The big difference between the current Department of Justice and the previous one is that it’s actually going after people who have broken the law, rather than just making things up to persecute political enemies. The Dems don’t see it that way, of course. They say that Trump is weaponizing the DOJ. They are known for their projection issues.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
May 9, 2025
HMM: Trump eying Fox News host Jeanine Pirro for top prosecutor in DC.
President Donald Trump is strongly considering installing Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The potential selection comes as Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday that Ed Martin, who is currently serving as D.C.’s interim top prosecutor, would not be taking the position permanently after losing support among top Republicans in the Senate.
An announcement about a new interim U.S. attorney could come as soon as Thursday, sources said. Sources caution that plans could always change and a decision is never final until publicly announced by the president.
She’d be good, but can she get past Sen. Thom Tillis?
Oh, and kudos to Tillis for his promotion by ABC News to “top Republicans in the Senate.”
ICYMI [VIP]: Thursday Essay: Skynet Might Be Fiction, But It’s Coming for Our Jobs. “Please note that Europe and the UK — which gave us the Industrial Revolution, Adam Smith, English liberty, and the World Wide Web — aren’t even in the running. By the time the European Commission on the Correct Use of Foreign Things We Don’t Like But Still Need convenes its Third Plenary Discussion on Proper AI Regulation and Taxation, private firms in the U.S. and China will have made three more leaps.”
THE NEW ANTIFASCISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD FASCISM: I Tried to Cover a May Day Protest. Antifascists Had a Problem With That.
Last week, I was hounded out of a protest by a pair of authoritarians opposing fascism.
Billed as a “May Day” rally on behalf of workers, the event, which began in Foley Square in downtown Manhattan, was one of dozens of such protests promoted by 50501. This one was organized by a coalition of unions and other progressive groups, including the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. I attended the rally and had spent about an hour interviewing participants and onlookers when the trouble began.
My questioning a DSA member about the idea that private ownership was the root of our nation’s troubles had evidently aroused the suspicions of a cadre of masked, yellow-vest-clad organizers bearing arrow signs reading “Right-Wing Troll,” which they then deployed to warn any future interview subjects from speaking with me.
Two of these people followed me doggedly, eventually driving me from the event to a nearby side street, where they continued to monitor me until I eventually whipped out my phone and made a contribution to the GOP.
Heh. Read the whole thing.
May 8, 2025
YOU WOULD NEED A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
A source “very familiar with the Bidens” tells @MarkHalperin that “Biden Inc.,” the family business that generated millions of dollars in revenue to support their lifestyle, has dried up. “The trough is empty, the spigot is turned off,” says Mark. “Biden Inc. needs a source of… pic.twitter.com/T1CVgO7p4Z
— 2WAY (@2waytvapp) May 8, 2025
I assume Biden will still be able to pull in speaking fees but there’s some doubt about how much even sympathetic groups are willing to pay.
IT’S A GAME THE WHOLE WORLD CAN PLAY: Trump’s Not The Only One Slapping Tariffs On China.
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Skynet Might Be Fiction, But It’s Coming for Our Jobs “Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… EVER, until your job has been fully automated!”
ACTUALLY, YES YOU DO NEED TO EXPLAIN — IDEALLY TO A PROSECUTOR:
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett says she doesn't have to explain why her family has been cashing their dead grandmother's Social Security checks since 2004.
"Our family business is our family business."
Sure. Until your family business is defrauding the taxpayer,
DOGE has… pic.twitter.com/73IYjJcW23
— Texas 🇺🇸 (@MustangMan_TX) May 8, 2025
GOOD QUESTION: How Can You Be a Cop in a City That Hates You?
There might be no city in America that monitors its police force more than Chicago. There are at least six oversight agencies scrutinizing the department’s every move. There are even 22 civilian councils—one for each police district—tasked with moving grievances up the chain. Plus, noncitizens—“regardless of immigration status”—get to contribute their “perspectives and experiences” through a first-of-its-kind Noncitizen Advisory Council. Then there is the fact that since 2019, the department has been under a 236-page federal consent decree. That followed a lawsuit won by Black Lives Matter Chicago and other activist groups.
A lawyer who helped represent BLM Chicago told me the group has a “direct role in shaping oversight” of the police department’s reform process. The NAACP also has “intervention authority,” the lawyer said.
Given all of that, perhaps it is no surprise that Chicago police are struggling with a suicide rate that was more than 60 percent higher than the national average, according to a 2017 report from the Justice Department.
Through public records requests, The Free Press was able to uncover that 53 officers, including 12 retirees, have committed suicide in the past decade. The situation is much worse than previously thought, with past estimates putting the figure at “more than 30 police employees.” The Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, which distributes police pensions, told me that one out of every five deaths they logged since 2015 was a suicide.
Read the whole thing.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Causality goes both ways. Students already inclined to hate other identity groups flock disproportionately to Ethnic, Gender, and Area Studies. At the same time, these activist-heavy disciplines radicalize students who flock to them for other reasons, such as low workload. https://t.co/1kzwlyMuuN
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) May 8, 2025
LIVING HISTORY: V-E Day, the Day the Nazis Were Defeated.
BRAVO: ‘Operation Sindoor’ Nails Mastermind of Daniel Pearl Kidnapping. “Whatever the ongoing consequences of India unleashing its missiles on Pakistani terror encampments the night before last – things either chill out or escalate – word has broken this morning of a true service to humanity they performed by knowing exactly where to rain down hell for revenge.”
Thank you, India, for avenging Daniel Pearl.
Full details at the link, and they are plentiful.
I’M NOT GETTING MY HOPES UP BUT I DO APPRECIATE THE GESTURE:
BREAKING – Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has introduced legislation to repeal the Patriot Act. The bill aims to roll back post-9/11 surveillance powers in a major push to restore civil liberties.
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) May 8, 2025
COLORADO: Democrat Invokes ‘Trans Jesus’ After Amending Gender Bill Beyond Recognition in Middle of Night.
HB 25-1312 drew national scrutiny after a Colorado Democrat compared concerned parents to the Ku Klux Klan. The bill originally mandated courts to consider “deadnaming” and “misgendering” as forms of “coercive control” in custody disputes, meaning that parents who dissent from gender identity could lose their children.
Following loud backlash, Senate Democrats substantially altered the measure after it passed the Colorado House of Representatives.
“This email says, basically, ‘I’m accountable to almighty God, because I’m standing up for equality, that my decisions, one day, I will stand before him and be accountable,’” state Sen. Chris Kolker, a Democrat and sponsor of the bill, said on Tuesday.
“Well, this is what I believe: Have you ever seen that movie ‘Talladega Nights’? You see that section where they’re talking around the dinner table, and they’re talking about what their favorite version of Jesus is?” he asked. “Baby Jesus, I love baby Jesus. I love Lynyrd Skynyrd Jesus when angels are behind him and the choir is singing and he’s playing ‘Free Bird.’”
“Well, on my day of judgment, I might be standing in front of trans Jesus, I don’t know,” Kolker quipped.
Colorado isn’t well.
But here’s the worst of it:
“We just asked the House sponsor, and she doesn’t even understand what her bill does anymore,” state Rep. Brandi Bradley, a Republican, told The Daily Signal in an interview Tuesday. “So, I’m just trying to wrap my head around it if the sponsor—the original sponsor of the bill—doesn’t even understand what the bill does.”
Bradley warned, however, that the bill represents “a worse attack on parental rights.”
While the original version of the bill focused on “deadnaming” and “misgendering,” the new version allows minors to change their names on a birth certificate, cutting out parents in some circumstances.
The Republican lawmaker claims the change would allow a court-appointed guardian to change a child’s name if the state removed the child from his or her parents’ custody for disagreeing with the child’s transgender identity.
I’m not leaving while my in-laws are still around but I am leaving.
BREAKING:
JUST IN: The FBI has officially opened a formal criminal investigation into New York AG Letitia James for her alleged fraudulent mortgage transactions, according to Times Union.
The update comes as James continues to have public meltdowns.
James is accused of falsifying records… pic.twitter.com/7DqVyuhWGb
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 8, 2025
COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: The Biden Administration Lied About Famine in Gaza, Accusing Israel of a War Crime It Didn’t Commit.
HE STILL THINKS WAR, WAR IS BETTER THAN JAW, JAW: Trump Offered Putin An ‘Excellent’ Ukraine War Deal: Why Did He Say No?
“Putin’s Rejection of Trump’s Generous Deal Tells Us What He Really Wants.”The crafty Putin play would have been to take the deal now, re-arm and re-fit, and then destabilize Ukraine again later. Indeed, this was a big concern for Ukraine’s backers. It was a bad deal for Ukraine, but Kyiv is desperate to placate Trump and achieve at least a ceasefire. Putin had the great opportunity to solidify his war gains and slip out from under international opprobrium.
That Putin rejected such generous terms tells us a lot—namely, that he truly seeks the conquest of most, if not all, of Ukraine. The Russian army is likely not capable of that, but Putin simply does not care. As former Vice President Mike Pence says, Putin’s relentless intractability—his refusal to take even Trump’s balance-positive deal—tells us that “he wants Ukraine, not peace.”
In this way, Trump’s extraordinary pro-Putin posturing has served a useful analytic purpose: Putin was more likely to get a good deal from Trump than any other Western leader, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. That Putin still rejected the most pro-Russian deal available makes unambiguously clear that he wants the war and that the only ‘peace’ he will accept is a Ukrainian surrender. Even Vice President J.D. Vance, a relentless critic of Zelenskyy, seems to grasp this now.
There is extensive literature in political science on war termination. Unless one side is completely obliterated on the battlefield, most conflicts end when both sides prefer peace over continuing the conflict. They become amenable to ending hostilities when the perception of future battlefield success becomes dim and the costs of continuing to fight exceed the costs of peace. In William Zartman’s words, they reach a ‘mutually hurting stalemate.
Ukraine has almost certainly reached this point of flexibility. It has signaled a willingness to engage in Trump’s various deals despite the poor terms for Kyiv. Ukraine’s big chance to roll back Russian gains was in the much-hyped offensive of 2023. Since that effort failed, the war has mostly stalemated. A deal where Ukraine loses some territory but mainly persists as a free and independent state is not a bad outcome at this late date.
But less than Putin is willing to give, even minus Western security guarantees for Kyiv.
IT’S ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU WONDER WHAT THE SWAMP HAS ON THOM TILLIS:
People are not appreciating the magnitude of the Ed Martin situation. The prosecutor is on top of the FBI. He runs all DC criminal investigations. He is the choke point for DC’s worst secrets. If Ed Martin is blocked, and Boasberg picks, Trump 2.0’s momentum is totally paralyzed.
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) May 6, 2025
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Former Royal Advisor Filmed Saying Prince Andrew Was a P*do.
After confirming The Star’s previous reporting, the ABC News report revealed that Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, who the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed was the owner of the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado driven by Abrego Garcia in 2022, recently spoke to a DOJ lawyer regarding the stop after being offered immunity.
Hernandez Reyes was previously arrested in 2019 and convicted of human trafficking in 2020. At that point, he was sentenced to 18 months behind bars, then deported and ordered not to return for three years.
According to the Tuesday report, Hernandez Reyes violated the terms of his sentence and illegally reentered the United States sometime later, allowing DOJ attorneys to interview Hernandez Reyes at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Talladega, Alabama.
The outlet, citing sources familiar with the interview, reported that Hernandez Reyes “recently spoke” with attorneys who asked questions about his connections to Abrego Garcia.
Hernandez Reyes reportedly told the DOJ officials that he met Abrego Garcia in 2015, just three years after the latter man reportedly admitted to illegally entering the United States.
After they met in 2015, the prisoner reportedly admitted to DOJ officials that he paid Abrego Garcia to transport illegal immigrants from Texas to various destinations throughout the United States.
All the very best people assured me he was an innocent migrant just looking for a better life and with no connection to the cartels or trafficking.
EXACTLY:
The Postal Workers Union endorses democrats in every election and we still allow them to transport ballots.
It’s insanity. End mail ballots. https://t.co/FsOCnppjFt
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 8, 2025
DAVID SOLWAY: Western Canada Puts the Rest of Canada on Notice.
Attending a recent independence rally in Edmonton, Alberta, Calgary-based management consultant James Albers found that “One could scarcely miss the parallels between the plight of Alberta today and that of the American colonies before 1776—only now the offending party is Ottawa, not Westminster.” Albers compares the Stamp Act of 1765 to Canada’s infamous National Energy Program that eviscerated Alberta’s economy, and the Tea Act of 1773 to Bill C-69 (the No Pipelines Act). As for the four Coercive Acts of 1774, we have the Emissions Cap, Equalization (the redistribution of wealth from the West to the East), the Net Zero fantasy, and the Tanker Ban.
What all this means should be obvious to any sentient person. “Our freedoms—of speech, of enterprise, of provincial autonomy—are being strangled under a national bureaucracy.” Canada no longer works for Alberta and the West. “Injustice by Ottawa,” Albers concludes, “has long since moved from aberration to institution,” as it did for the American colonies in the 1770s.
Though diehard loyalists will disagree, it is now time for Western Canada, in particular Alberta, to get its revolutionary act together.
This is from Glenn yesterday: “Maybe Trump dissed Trudeau specifically to cause the liberals to win, leading to a breakup. Then we get the oil, gas, and grain-producing provinces and the remnant-Canada gets angry Frenchmen.”
THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS JUST HAPPENED AGAIN: Six In Frio County Arrested For Voting Fraud. “Rochelle Camacho is is a Democrat. Though the others are ostensibly in non-partisan offices, if I had to bet money, I would guess that they are as well.”