IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: Biden Legacy Imperiled As Presidential Library Project Reportedly Plagued By Anemic Fundraising.

Biden’s library foundation told the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) it anticipates raking in only $11.3 million by the end of 2027, which is not nearly enough money to build the traditional legacy and records management project for each of the nation’s chief executives, The New York Times reported. The IRS filings also reportedly show the organization failed to garner any new donations in 2024, the final year of Biden’s sole term in office. Instead, it was seeded solely with $4 million remaining from his inauguration in 2021, according to the outlet.

The library foundation declined to say the amount of money it raised in 2025, but claimed Biden was just now starting to actively fundraise for the project, The New York Times reported. Moreover, Biden’s aides said they have a goal of eventually raising $200 million for the project, according to the outlet.

In part due to the lackluster fundraising, talks have recently been taking place about merging a potential Biden presidential library with pre-existing Biden-affilated institutions located at the University of Delaware, the outlet reported, citing four anonymous sources familiar with the matter.

His legacy is in no way “imperiled.” If anything, even a lackluster combo deal with the University of Delaware is still more than the President-in-Name-Only deserves.

IF HE’S GOING OUT, AT LEAST HE’S GOING OUT IN STYLE: World Leader Pretend: Maduro’s Hilarious Prop-Driven Propaganda.

PERSONNEL IS POLICY:

Remember the Biden administration’s pentagram-sporting monkeypox czar? Or the mastermind of New York’s race-based COVID policies?

Good news! They’re on Zohran Mamdani’s health advisory team.

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis made national headlines during the monkeypox outbreak when he… pic.twitter.com/3qUgh7c8U8

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) December 12, 2025

In this case, it’s probably safe to skip a step and conclude that twice is enemy action.

MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY:

This data is mind blowing

“Non-citizens Social Security numbers issued during the Biden Administration

2021: 270,425
2022: 590,193
2023: 964,163
2024: 2,095,247

– The Biden administration gave more non-citizens Social Security cards in 4 years than live in the state of Iowa
-… pic.twitter.com/dAgdNnqGGU

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 12, 2025

JULIE KELLY: DC Pipe Bomb Arrest Raises Questions About Christopher’s Wray’s FBI. “If Cole’s arrest proves to have solved the mystery of who planted the bombs, it presents another perhaps even more consequential question: Why did it take law enforcement so long to find him? Although there are no clear answers as of yet, Bongino’s description of the efforts that led to an arrest seems to contradict public comments and congressional testimony regarding the pipe bomb case previously provided by Wray.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Pope Fanboy Gov. JB Pritzker Signs Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide.

CHARLIE IS TOO KIND:

Those are beauty pageant contestants, and you are a complete piece of shit https://t.co/LBjzsOV5ml

— (((Charlie Martin))) (@chasrmartin) December 12, 2025

HOW MANY MORE ON PURPOSE? Washington state issued almost 700 commercial driver’s licenses over the past seven years to non-US citizens—by accident.

IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: His Dirty Bomb Was a Filthy Lie “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how not to frighten away the police, where not to hide things from the police, and why roller skates aren’t the best way to flee the police.”

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Obama administration ICE chief says Trump deportations are ‘remarkable accomplishment.’

Former acting ICE Director John Sandweg told MSNOW on Thursday, “I got to say two things quickly. One is that the way in which the White House structured this immigration enforcement operation with Stephen Miller running the policy, with Tom Homan being the border czar, but very interested … ,” the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.

He also said, “There’s always a little tension between the department and the White House, but especially so when you have three, you know, cooks in the kitchen, so to speak,” likely referring to the Department of Homeland Security.

Sandweg added that he’s aware that “there’s frustration at these numbers, but I have to tell you, this is a — it is a remarkable accomplishment. These numbers are stunning to me.

“When I look at, let’s say, 600,000 deportations this year, those are all from the interior. And I think this is a critical distinction. When you’re doing the immigration enforcement, you divide the world into the border and the interior. And during the Obama Administration, when there were 400,000 deportations, the reality is about 250,000 of those were people caught right at the border. And it’s not as impactful because those are people trying to get into the United States. This is all people in the interior.”

Amazing what you can do when you try.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING A SPA DAY: BLM Leader Indicted for Fraud, Money Laundering.

COL WAR II: Communist China Still Infiltrating Texas. “Communist China is always looking to steal technology from the West through its ‘Thousand Talents’ espionage program, and this week brought two more instances from Texas.”

2026 PREVIEW: Vance, Trump, Don Jr. Warn Indiana GOP Before and After Devastating Redistricting Vote

KIMBERLY STRASSEL: Rise of the Mamdani Clones. “After the 2024 humiliation, the left is back. It could hurt the party in 2026.”

The left’s zeal is also propelling candidates into open and battleground races—no matter the general-election risks. Maine Rep. Jared Golden clung to his rural Maine district by less than 1 point as Mr. Trump won it by 10 last year, and only via a pragmatic voting record. The primary to replace him features two avowed progressives, racing to the left. And progressives are stacking up cash and endorsements in primaries to take on the most vulnerable Republicans in battleground states from Pennsylvania to Arizona and Wisconsin. In the contest to challenge vulnerable Republican California Rep. David Valadao, school-board activist Randy Villegas is using a Sanders endorsement and dollars to outpower moderate state Rep. Jasmeet Bains.

The risks of the Sanders takeover were further highlighted in Texas this week, when former Rep. Colin Allred was pressured out of a Senate run, to clear the decks for uber-progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Mr. Allred, a former NFL linebacker, lost to Sen. Ted Cruz last year by 8 points, significantly outperforming Kamala Harris. Democrats have their best shot at a statewide office in Texas in years, given the general electoral climate and a bloody GOP primary between Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Ms. Crockett still must beat state House member James Talarico, but backing for her is pouring in and Democrats face the real prospect that their “best” shot will be in the hands of a freshman Democrat who has clawed her way to notoriety through creative slanging matches.

Lost in all this maneuvering was the release of a recent report from a center-left group, Welcome, which Semafor reports “consulted hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its broad findings, including that 70% of voters think the Democratic Party is ‘out of touch’ ” on issues ranging from transgenderism to climate—everything the reascendant progressive left stands for.

Well, they are. But that doesn’t mean the GOP can play dead and expect to win.

OPEN SOURCE:

An amazing article came out yesterday.
Seven German journalism students, as a continuation of their OSINT course project, tracked the movements of ships with Russian crews off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany and linked them to swarms of drones appearing over European… pic.twitter.com/4B0CaVp2W5

— Pepel Klaasa (@pepel_klaasa) December 12, 2025

Full story here, complete with instructions on how to follow the ships yourself.

KRUISER: Dems Would Last Maybe 5 Minutes in the Civil War They Think They Want. “All of the posturing and potty-mouthing in front of friendly audiences has given the Democrats the mistaken impression that they actually are tough. It’s mostly amusing, especially given the fact that fey soy boy Gavin Newsom is their highest polling ‘fighter’ right now.”

BECAUSE YOU DON’T GET TO $108 BILLION BY KEEPING MONEY-LOSERS LIKE COLBERT ON FOREVER. NEXT QUESTION? Stephen Colbert Wonders Why ‘The Late Show’ Was Canceled if Paramount Has $108 Billion to Offer for Warner Bros.

THIS IS LOVELY: Aging Gracefully and the Songs That Grow With Us.

WEAKNESS BEGETS AGGRESSION: China Is Quietly Breaking America’s Pacific Defense Chain.

China is methodically chipping away at America’s Pacific defense architecture, and Yap’s Woleai airfield is the latest warning sign.

Despite the Federated States of Micronesia’s Compact of Free Association with Washington, Beijing has secured a deal to refurbish the airfield—just 450 miles from Guam.

That puts a potential dual-use Chinese facility inside the second island chain, complicating U.S. plans for agile air dispersal in a Taiwan war.

Naval expert Brent Sadler argues that Interior, regional commands, and legal advisers have all failed to enforce CoFA protections, risking billions in U.S. investments and eroding America’s positional advantage in Micronesia.

We paid for those islands with American blood. China is buying them with American dollars.

ROBERT SPENCER: ‘Minnesota Somalis Are as Minnesotan as Tater-Tot Hotdish,’ But There’s Just One Catch. “The Center for Immigration Studies revealed Wednesday that ‘nearly every Somali household with children (89 percent) receives some form of welfare.’ Even worse, ‘altogether, 81 percent of Somali households consume some form of welfare, compared to 21 percent of native households.’ Nor does this dependency lessen with time: ‘Somalis with 10 years of residency have welfare consumption rates that are only marginally lower than the Somali population as a whole.'”

JUST TRULY TERRIBLE PEOPLE: Newsom Press Account Had NO IDEA the Hell They Would Unleash Trolling Elon Musk With His Mentally Ill Son. “It takes someone really, really, really low to use one’s mentally ill child to hurt them. Still, then again, we are dealing with Governor Newsom and his broken, hateful, thin-skinned, troll press office account run by whack-job haters, so we’re not exactly surprised they’d go after Elon Musk by exploiting his son, who thinks he’s a girl.”

UPDATE (From Ed): Newsom would enjoy seeing many more families ripped apart:

It's going to be an ad. https://t.co/kVlI6D9TLK

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 11, 2025

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: OCC Fingers Big Banks That De-Banked ‘Controversial’ Business Like Gun Makers, Retailers. ““It is unfortunate that the nation’s largest banks thought these harmful debanking policies were an appropriate use of their government-granted charter and market power. While many of these policies were undertaken in plain sight and even announced publicly, certain banks have continued to insist that they did not engage in debanking… Going forward, the OCC will hold banks accountable for these actions and ensure unlawful debanking does not continue.”

WHO THOUGHT THIS WOULD SELL?

‘Debacle of epic proportions’: Nuzzi book flops in first week https://t.co/bwMdVfjz9e

— POLITICO (@politico) December 11, 2025

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Quiet, Captivating Genius of Kamala Harris. “We all saw Harris for four years. Rare was the occasion when she could string together three coherent sentences. Typically, she would get stuck on a word or phrase and then repeat it. I called it the hamster wheel in her brain. Once she realized that she wasn’t getting off the wheel, she would begin gesticulating wildly, as if that made everything clearer.”

THIS IS THE CORRECT TAKE:

Christopher Caldwell gets the Trump NSS exactly right. Trump doesn't "hate Europe"; he hates the globalist technocratic class ruining it. Michael Anton, the chief drafter of the NSS, told me that he personally loves Europe — but not the EU & its mindset.https://t.co/IZuRUEOxrF

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 11, 2025

“Brussels saps the economic power and the morale of our European allies while purporting to unite and strengthen them.”