CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Change: Acting AG Todd Blanche Lays Out Second Amendment Realignment at DOJ. “In a wide-ranging conversation with nationally-syndicated talk radio host, Tom Gresham, Blanche touched on upcoming regulatory changes, a reshaping of ATF enforcement priorities, active Supreme Court litigation, and a deliberate strategy to embed Second Amendment protections so deeply into federal regulatory infrastructure that future administrations would struggle to reverse them.”

ROGER KIMBALL: Chekhov’s Lesson for Tehran: Trump isn’t negotiating with Iran—he’s dismantling its regime piece by piece, leaving a hollow state with nothing left but bluster and collapse.

What I notice is that in the on-again off-again negotiations that lead nowhere, Trump is doing to the Iranians what they once did to us: “Asked what he had recommended to the President when no hostages were freed after arms shipments to Iran in February 1986, Mr. Regan said, ‘I told him that we’d been snookered again, and how many times do we put up with this rug merchant type of stuff?'” He’s jerking them around with vague prospects of getting something while the clock continues to run. Serves ’em right. He’s a better rug merchant than these guys.

THE ENABLING FACTOR IS “JOURNALISM:”

UPDATE:

That’s the thesis of my latest Substack.

THE ELITES AREN’T:

THE NATURAL NEXT STEP IS FOR PEOPLE TO BECOME AVAILABLE TO BEAT UP GUYS LIKE THIS FOR A FEE. POLICE WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY WITH BRIBES AND/OR INTIMIDATION, OR JUST SYMPATHY:

There are many ways to provide public order if the state won’t. They existed before police and will reappear when police cease to function. “Anarchotyranny” will delay that, but probably also ensure that it appears in a more violent form when it does.

RICHARD GRENELL TAKES JAKE TAPPER TO TASK:

EXPERTS:

Related: The Suicide of Expertise.

#JOURNALISM:

LITERALLY MAKING A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY:

UPDATE: What We Know About WHCD Shooting So Far; Shooter Identified? UPDATE: Video of His Charge. “The basics: inexplicably, given the level of security at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, a man penetrated several layers of security that start far outside the Washington Hilton and rushed the magnetometers just outside the ballroom where the president, vice president, First Lady, and a significant number of Cabinet members and congressmen were.”

Reminder:

https://twitter.com/mattvanswol/status/2048203857168077258/photo/1

Plus: The Left Were Absolute Psychopaths Following the Attack on the WHCA Dinner.

ICYMI:

ICYMI: JONATHAN TURLEY: The SPLC Indictment: Can Public Interest Groups Run Alleged Black-Bag Jobs and Confidential Informants?

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