It’s here, and it’s available on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GYPM85LB/

From the back:
I spent years failing at bread. Every attempt ended in frustration, with inedible bricks or doughy masses. I was told my hands were too warm, that I kneaded too much or not enough, or that one day the mystical “silky smooth” stage would simply make sense. It did not. It took me years of practice, failures, successes, and work to finally perfect my baking skills.

This book is written for every beginner who’s ever stared hopelessly into a bowl of dough that didn’t rise, for those who desperately want to bake but haven’t managed to succeed, and those who are just starting on their journey. It’s also a great collection of recipes for veteran bakers.

The first half of the book includes the real, often funny story of my own messy journey—from a childhood with no baking at all, through years of setbacks and irritation, to the gradual discovery that good bread is possible for everyone.

The second half is filled with the approachable recipes that finally worked for me: straightforward loaves, comforting sandwich breads, crusty rustic rounds, and sweet treats, all written with the nervous beginner in mind. No intimidating jargon. No vague instructions. Just clear, patient guidance, honest troubleshooting, and the gentle encouragement you need to keep going.

Join me on this journey. Whether you’re baking your very first loaf or trying again after past disappointments, I hope these stories and recipes help you find the same. Never give up, and you’ll be baking delicious loaves in no time!

This book has been 25 years in the making, basically. When I first met Chris, I tried. Ask him about some of my “famous” birthday cakes I made for him. I think the first we called “Hamburger Hill” because it was so misshapen that it looked like a hill, so I frosted it green and put soldiers on it… and then they kept falling over, so I left them there and sprinkled red sprinkles around them to look like blood pools. LOL… Baking has been a struggle my whole life. If I had known that him basically bullying me into learning how to bake properly would lead to where I am today, I’d have done it much earlier.

Today, I whip out loaves of bread with very little stress, every week, and sometimes twice a week. I teach bread baking to others. I play with my bread, too, and do different things. If I could learn, then anyone can. This book really is my attempt at making bread something that can be done by ANYONE. It’s written very conversationally (which most of my books are, honestly), so that it doesn’t feel like I’m lecturing. But I don’t hide the hard parts, either. I talk about mistakes that can happen, and how to fix them or get around them, or avoid them going forward. And I challenge the reader, too!

At one time, bread was something everyone knew how to bake. Why? Because bread was 60% of the diet of early Americans. If you didn’t know how to make bread, you could starve. So everyone just knew. Today, we have at least two and sometimes three generations between ourselves and people who “just knew” how to bake. It’s both an art and a necessity, and it needs to return.

So if you want to learn to bake, this is the book for you!

What is the proper way to make a budget? I went to Grok, to see what it had to say.

Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Budget

Calculate Your Net Monthly Income

Start with your take-home pay (after taxes, deductions, and benefits). Include reliable sources like salary, freelance gigs, side hustles, child support, or investment income. If income varies, average the last 3–6 months. Example: $4,000 salary + $500 side income = $4,500 total monthly income.

Track and List All Your Expenses

Review bank/credit card statements, receipts, and bills from the past 1–3 months. Categorize them: Fixed expenses (predictable): Rent/mortgage, utilities, insurance, loan payments, subscriptions. Variable expenses (fluctuate): Groceries, gas, dining out, entertainment, shopping. Be honest and thorough—small daily spends (coffee, apps) add up.

Categorize and Compare Income vs. Expenses

Add up total expenses and subtract from income. Positive balance → Room to save or pay debt. Negative balance → Need to cut spending. Use a simple spreadsheet, app (like Mint, YNAB, or Excel), or free worksheet from consumer.gov.

Set Financial Goals

Decide what the “extra” money should do: build an emergency fund (3–6 months of expenses), pay off debt, save for a house/vacation, or invest for retirement. Make goals specific, measurable, and realistic (e.g., “Save $200/month for emergency fund”).

Choose a Budgeting Method 

Pick one that fits your style: 50/30/20 Rule (simple & popular): 50% needs (housing, food, transport, minimum debt), 30% wants (dining out, hobbies, fun), 20% savings/debt payoff.
Zero-Based Budgeting: Assign every dollar a job until income minus expenses = $0. Great for detailed control.
Envelope System: Allocate cash (or digital “envelopes”) for categories like groceries; once empty, stop spending.
Pay Yourself First: Automate savings/investments right after payday, then budget the rest.

Create Your Plan and Allocate Money

Build a monthly template. Adjust categories so everything fits. Example for $4,500 income using 50/30/20:
Needs (50%): $2,250
Wants (30%): $1,350
Savings/Debt (20%): $900

Track, Review, and Adjust Monthly

Check progress weekly. At month-end, compare actual vs. planned spending. Life changes (new job, inflation), so tweak as needed. Consistency beats perfection.

***

That’s a nice breakdown of what I do to balance my budget. Sometimes, your budget gets upside down. You owe more than you’re bringing in. This is where we are with the American budget. This requires you (in this case “We The People”) to cut costs in many different places and be frugal until the upside down part is paid off. This is what our government should be doing. And while Conservatives are better at budgeting than Liberals, that does not mean they are GOOD at budgeting. Everyone in the government is spending “someone else’s money” and therefore they’re doing a poor job of it.

This government (and by that I mean Trump’s administration, the next three years, and possibly into Vance and Freitas’s terms) NEEDS to make a damn budget. I don’t mean whatever it is they’ve done over the past 25 years. I mean a real, honest to goodness budget. They need to do housekeeping and they need to show us, the American people, WE THE PEOPLE what they are spending and where.

I realize there will be places where it just says, “Security – TS Clearance” or something similar, and we’re going to have to take it at face value. That’s fine. It’s when we don’t see any of those costs that it becomes a problem. When it looks like security, or farm aid, or bailing out car companies or banks, or whatever is free (even when we know it’s only “free at point of service”), there’s a problem. People lose sight of the money that is being spent. That’s why there’s so much fraud being discovered right now.

Imagine, for a moment, how much fraud would be exposed and expunged if our government were required to do a public (or mostly public, within security barriers) audit every four years (right before a President leaves office, for instance)? It would be glorious. It would show the American people just how much a President has actually done for the country.

So how do we calculate the net monthly income of the United States? Well, I looked into it, and it’s roughly $23.6 trillion dollars per year, or about $1.967 trillion dollars per month. In looking this stuff up on Grok, it’s limited in what it can access, but it looks as though we’re currently spending about $2 trillion dollars a month, so a bit more in monthly expenses than we make. Obviously, the details are much larger than what I’m writing about here, but I have to work in generalities because again, there isn’t enough transparency for any of us peons to see what’s actually being paid out or taken in. We can only guess. And that, my friends, is a real problem.

We need to cut spending. Everyone seems to agree (or mostly everyone… all of the Right and portions of the Left agree). What can’t be agreed on is WHAT we should cut, spending-wise. The Right wants to fund military and some government oversight stuff. The Left wants social safety nets. Of the two, our Constitution seems to indicate the Right is correct and the Left should be doing its social safety nets at the state or community level, NOT the Federal level. But it’s hard (for me, at least) to get overly judgmental about bad spending on the Left when I’m also seeing bad spending on the Right (for example, farm subsidies, abstinence only sex ed come to mind, but there’s pork in all those barrels). Don’t get me wrong: I don’t want the Left spending money on songbirds in Denmark or trans rights in Africa. I just also do not want to pay farmers not to farm (especially right now) or to bolster the price of food (never a good thing imo), or to teach something that has proven it just doesn’t work.

The only way, in my VERY strong opinion, to get past this whole pork barrel bullshit, is to budget from the ground up. There should never be “cutting something from the budget” involved. It should be, “We can’t put that INTO the budget, because we’ve run out of money.” Period.

And folks? We’re the richest country in the world. We need to live inside our damn means. That means tightening our belts for a while. It might mean we need to see a number of our stores close (do we really need to support 8 different coffee shops inside a one mile radius? I think not). Money needs to be shifted, and start paying the important stuff.

Looking at all the numbers above, I begin to understand how much DOGE did, and didn’t do. Sure, they rooted out millions of dollars in fraud and waste. But that’s not even a single day worth of budget. It’s not even a measurable PORTION of a single day of budget. That’s how tiny it was.

We can’t keep living the way we’re living, folks. Time to buckle down. Buy less. Grow more. Waste less. Support local companies, because they’re literally the ones that keep us fed. Look at how we fed the nation during WWI and WWII. Look at how we dealt with the Depression. We need to learn, or re-learn those lessons, so we don’t have to repeat them.

Time’s a’wastin’, boys.

Pres. Trump first proposed a new ballroom for We The People back in 2010, when Obama was in office. He suggested it heavily several times between then and July 2025, at which time he announced it would be going forward.

Back when he first mentioned the need for a ballroom, Trump suggested he’d fund it entirely himself. A few million dollars was the proposed cost. Fast forward to July 2025, and that cost had gone up to $200 million. Between then and today, an extra $200 million has been added. And now, the GOP is saying they want an extra $1 BILLION added, but this time out of taxpayer funds.

I am a proponent of the ballroom. We need a secure facility that can host the kind of shindigs the President should be having. The old East Wing was in sad condition, and it needed a refurb at the very least. I have been entirely on board with this project since I first heard of it back in 2025.

I am not a proponent of spending a billion bucks more on it. At every single point, Pres. Trump has talked about how this ballroom would be funded by himself and others, privately. Hearing the addition of $1B to the cost really made me antsy. And then I started thinking, and investigating.

So after doing a small quest, I discovered several things. First and foremost, this is a multi-year request for $1 billion, for security only. It is NOT for the ballroom itself. That is still being privately funded, even after the price hikes after they discovered all the damage. “The funds are appropriated for fiscal year 2026 but remain available until September 30, 2029 (i.e., multi-year availability, spanning roughly FY2026–FY2029).” (CNN) They are also part of a larger $30 B package that the GOP are asking for in regards to immigration, ICE, and general security. There are confusing statements made all over the place about what the $1B is meant to cover, but everyone agrees it absolutely covers the new security measures for the ballroom/East Wing area. There are questions, because of wording by the GOP folks themselves, whether it also covers the rest of the White House. In a few places, they talk about it only being part of the ballroom, and in other places they talk about how it’s all the spots inside the fence.

The very fact that we don’t have wording for this stuff bothers me. When I supported Trump, I was standing for transparency in government. While he’s definitely (imo at least) been the most transparent President in my remembrance, this is being obfuscated. Perhaps that’s to do with security, which I can appreciate, but it’s still our money they’re talking about using. I’d like at least the generalities. Right now, we have very vague wording from the Senate Judiciary Committee, but no line-item breakdown has been released.

I want our President, First Lady, VP and Second Lady, and all dignitaries to be safe when they’re working. I hate that the shooting at the media dinner means that it’s the last time we’ll see Vance and Trump together at a dinner outside of the White House. Someone did a stupid, letting almost the entire chain of command be at that dinner. It just can’t happen again, and that makes me sad. so yes, we absolutely must harden the White House (not just for Trump, but for all future Presidents and their guests).

It’s a lot of money. A billion bucks over 3 years can be more easily understood like this:

• $333,333,333.00 per year
• $27.7 million per month
• $913,242 per day

Those are big numbers. Is the security worth a million bucks a day? Is that a reasonable number? The reality is, none of us plebs can really tell if it’s worth it or not. We don’t have access to enough information to make anything even remotely close to an educated guess. And yes, that bothers me.

I am still VERY much a member of the “less government is good government” club. This security package isn’t necessarily “more” government, but money is fungible and I worry about a stray million being lost here or there. When we get into numbers this large, that is quite literally a reality. And I’m not naive enough to believe that ONLY the Left makes those kinds of appropriations of cash. I know the Right does it as well.

Bottom line? This is not a bait and switch. It’s a (very) big addition that the Right as a whole wants to add to Trump’s ballroom project, and since he didn’t suggest it, he shouldn’t have to pay out of pocket for it. Not that he could. He’s rich, but his pockets aren’t bottomless. On the other hand, my pockets aren’t bottomless either, and things ARE getting tight. I don’t regret Trump being in office, but I do think that some reminders might need to be forthcoming.

This is “the hut.” It’s a one story with short attic, built entirely by Chris and the kids. Some of it is finished, and the rest of it is, as you can see, still waiting on siding. However, today it received a major upgrade. The window is in! As you can see, the front window is now in place, allowing light to come in. Of course, now I have to make curtains for it, so people can’t see in, but whatever. It works. LOL…

This is Chris’s wood workshop. All his woodworking tools will be in here eventually. Quite a few are there already. Now that it’s in place, he’ll be able to get his woodworking done in a better way, and have GOOD storage for all his tools. On top of everything else, this has a really good roof, and is incredibly sturdy (and new of course, relatively speaking). It’s a good place to store stuff.

This is the same hut where our xmas decorations are stored, and where my historical stuff will go in the off season. The loft is high enough on one side that I can almost stand (at 5’1″, it’s a low bar…. a really, really low bar LOL) upright. With the winch setup, it’s easy to get things up and down. I can lift the xmas tree and heavy boxes without having to scale a sketchy ladder on my own, hoping I don’t trip or drop something expensive.

I think it looks pretty spiffy. It seemed to go in quickly, too, as Chris and son went to work on it and it appeared to take less than an hour. I’m impressed. And did I mention there’s room for all the woodworking stuff now? Yay!

May 1

(Pure Trump – jlr)
Trump’s Hilarious Remark About a Bulletproof Vest Has Reporters Rolling in the Aisles
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/04/30/trump-remarks-about-bullet-proof-vest-n2201887
Q: Are there talks about you wearing a bulletproof vest?
@POTUS: “I don’t know if I can handle looking 20 pounds heavier.”
video – 00:00:22 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2049936824668221636

High School Graduate Overjoyed by White House Response to Her Graduation Announcement
https://istandforfreedom.com/high-school-graduate-white-house/
The young graduate’s mother woke her at 6 a.m. to capture the moment on video. What the teen pulled from that oversized White House envelope left her speechless—and then sobbing with joy. The White House sent her a congratulations letter, included is a signed photo of Donald Trump and a photo of JD Vance.”
What most Americans don’t realize is that the White House has maintained a presidential greetings program for decades. Citizens can request acknowledgments for life’s major milestones: births, birthdays, weddings, retirements, and yes, graduations. The current administration actively promoted the program just last month, encouraging Americans to “celebrate life’s most meaningful moments with a message from the President” through WH.Gov/Greetings. So why haven’t you heard about this? Good question. Few take advantage of it and even fewer expect what comes back.

Heads I Win, Tails You’re a Threat to Democracy
https://michaelsmith.substack.com/p/heads-i-win-tails-youre-a-threat
It’s interesting to watch Democrats take both sides of arguments.
When principles become optional and outcomes are everything, “fairness” is just a moving target—and the rules always seem to land in the same place.
When you consider how standing on both sides can be true, you come to understand that their power is based on two things – process and structure – and the control of both – and not the will of the people.

Michigan city spends thousands to remove over 600 ‘racist’ Neighborhood Watch signs
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/05/01/michigan-city-spends-thousands-to-remove-over-600-racist-neighborhood-watch-signs-1636213/
City crews in Ann Arbor spent man-hours and taxpayer funds removing more than 600 “Neighborhood Watch” signs because liberal leaders claimed they were “expressions of exclusion.”…“Removing the signs aligns the city’s environment with its commitment to inclusive, evidence-based public safety and fostering trust, belonging and welcoming neighborhoods for all residents and visitors,” In a unanimous vote in December, the leftists on the city council approved spending $18,000 to have every sign taken down by July 15. The fact that they were actually excluding criminals seemed lost on the city council and the mayor…“Liberals are always siding with the criminals over the victims,”

Minnesota State Trooper: State ‘Tried to Cover Up Fraud Allegations’ – Then Walz Shut Down His Department
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/minnesota-state-trooper-state-tried-to-cover-up-fraud-allegations-then-walz-shut-down-his-department.html
Now Walz is trying to take credit for the fraud investigations he had nothing to do with (except to take part in the fraud.)…
Vice President JD Vance fired back at Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Wednesday after Walz claimed credit for a series of raids on establishments reportedly used by the state’s Somalis to scam welfare benefits…“Where we did actually get some help was from some state local law enforcement officers who we assigned to the federal task force because the state government wasn’t doing anything,” Vance continued. “So, all credit goes to people on the ground, the federal officers, the state officers who are working to uncover this fraud.”

Paxton sues Houston care center over alleged Chinese ‘birth tourism’ scheme
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/paxton-sues-houston-care-center-over-alleged-chinese-birth-tourism-scheme
The lawsuit comes as the Trump administration seeks to crack down on “birth tourism” operations as the Supreme Court considers a challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
V
Paxton accuses Houston-area business of running birth tourism scheme
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/paxton-accuses-houston-area-business-running-birth-tourism-scheme
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges a Houston-area postpartum center ran a “birth tourism” scheme for pregnant Chinese women seeking U.S. citizenship for their babies.
The lawsuit says the operators coached clients on avoiding visa scrutiny and used four Houston-area properties to house families and facilitate births.
Paxton also alleges the business falsely advertised nursing and medical services, and is seeking to shut it down and win financial penalties.
Paxton said “America is for Americans, not foreigners trying to cheat the system to claim citizenship,”…”The Center’s scheme not only facilitated an invasion of Texas, but it also involved shielding and facilitating violations of immigration law. Birthright citizenship is a scam that threatens national security, and I will do everything in my power to stop unlawful ‘birth tourism’ schemes like this one.”

New York City’s ‘Commission on Racial Equity’ Commits $500K to ‘Reparations, Truth, Healing’ Amid Historic Budget Crisis
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/new-york-citys-commission-on-racial
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is pushing for new taxes to help close a multibillion-dollar budget deficit. But the city’s Commission on Racial Equity is doling out $500,000 for a “Reparations, Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation Network” that will help produce a study on reparations to black New Yorkers as well as a “Citywide Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation Plan,”

Newest species scientists want to ‘de-extinct’ is an African antelope
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/30/gene-tech-company-bring-back-extinct-african-antelope/89715897007/
…The latest extinct animal the so-called “de-extinction company” hopes to bring back is an African antelope known as a bluebuck…Colossal began working on the blueback de-extinction project two years ago…Since announcing its project to bring back the woolly mammoth in 2021, Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to de-extinct two birds, the dodo and the moa, the Australian thylacine or Tasmanian tiger and the dire wolf… any success with birthing blueback antelope can help in the conservation efforts of other antelope and bovid species – cloven-hoofed, hollow-horned herbivores including cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo and bison.

House Dem Invokes ‘Nazi’ War Crimes in Attack on Hegseth Over Caribbean Strikes as Rhetoric Escalates
https://www.westernjournal.com/democratic-congressman-suggests-execution-pete-hegseth/
We no longer have to speculate how the recklessness of Democrats’ rhetoric plays out among their base — we saw it Saturday, with a third attempt on Trump’s life. Consider the outrageous substance of Moulton’s comments about these drug boats…He labels traffickers “fishermen … trying to feed their families.” He failed to mention that evidence — including video — shows the “fishing boats” were loaded to the gills with deadly drugs bound for the United States. He also apparently forgot to mention that defense officials told members of Congress after the September incident that the second strike on one boat was justified because survivors had been “attempting to continue their drug run, making them and the already-damaged vessel legitimate targets for another attack.”…Moulton’s CNN interview is typical of the Democrats’ complicity with the far-left-leaning liberal media to paint a distorted picture of conservatives and America’s real enemies. Trump Derangement Syndrome has led the Democrats and the left to defend some of the worst people — drug traffickers and Islamic terrorists, to name two. Whatever the cost, they see it as critical in opposing Trump, implying the president’s administration is worse than the worst people in history, when, in reality, the current administration is making enormous strides at neutralizing some of the most serious threats our country has ever seen.

Watch: House Hearing Turns Into Shouting Match When Pete Hegseth Accuses Rep. Ro Khanna of ‘Gotcha Question’
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-house-hearing-turns-shouting-match-pete-hegseth-accuses-rep-ro-khanna-gotcha-question/
When it came to dealing with Democrats on Capitol Hill this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth lived up to his job title. As lawmakers’ questions turned into contentious debate, Hegseth went on the offensive repeatedly while defending President Donald Trump’s military action against Iran. But his tussle Wednesday with California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna sparked fireworks that could have lit up the Potomac — and Hegseth never backed down.
video – 00:05:07 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqtlq7kI28U&t=139s

Pete Hegseth Shuts Down Elizabeth Warren in Heated Senate Hearing Clash: ‘I Don’t Know What You’re Looking for, But You Ain’t Gonna Find It’
https://www.westernjournal.com/pete-hegseth-shuts-elizabeth-warren-heated-senate-hearing-clash-dont-know-looking-aint-gonna-find/

video – 00:01:54 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1dxxk0lzU&t=1s

US National Debt Exceeds GDP for First Time Since the Immediate Aftermath of WWII
https://www.westernjournal.com/us-national-debt-exceeds-gdp-first-time-since-immediate-aftermath-wwii/
The national debt exceeded 100 percent of the gross domestic product at the end of March and is on a path to reach a level not seen since the end of World War II. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said in a Thursday news release, “Debt held by the public on March 31 was $31.27 trillion, while nominal GDP was an estimated $31.22 trillion over the prior 12-month period.” That pushed the debt-to-GDP ratio to 100.2 percent,

(The ALWAYS Classy) Crockett Mocks Abbott’s Disability on Live TV
https://dailyheadlines.substack.com/p/crockett-mocks-wheelchair-bound-abbott
Jasmine Crockett has made a habit of going after Greg Abbott’s wheelchair
video – 00:00:15 – https://x.com/i/status/2049680065688953170
…Abbott’s office directed Fox News Digital to the governor’s own X response, which said it all without saying much: he posted an AI-generated image of himself as a superhero in his wheelchair alongside the words “Uniquely abled.”
photo – https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/2049701852636119276

Watch: Jasmine Crockett Claims She’s One of the Most ‘Powerful’ People in the Country, Slams Those Not ‘On the Same Level’https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-jasmine-crockett-claims-one-powerful-people-country-slams-not-level/
…she began her viral remarks by… making everything about race. “I’m a black woman in America,” Crockett began. “I mean, some people are just like, ‘Oh, but you’re a congresswoman.’” “I’m a black woman first. And so, you know, the level of disrespect that is continuously lobbed against us as black women, you know, for me, I’m like, wait a minute now, I am one of the 535 most powerful people in this country, and for some reason you think we on the same level but you going to disrespect me.” “Like, it’s not going to happen.”
video – 00:11:36 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ylRXuvfis

Please explain to me…
https://vineofliberty.com/2026/05/01/please-explain-to-me/
I am having a moment of cognitive dissonance.  I am brand new to “the Right.” In some ways, I’m only here under protest, because the Left has scampered so far Left that I can’t be there anymore. There are definitely points I’ve been “far right of center” on since early on (2A comes to mind), but those were outliers. I’ve always been into rainbows and ren faires. I still am. A good portion of my friends are gay or pansexual. Many are pagan. These days a larger portion of them are also Conservative, but that’s due to attrition and stupidity, not me…today, the bar for voters is so low that our Founding Fathers would weep. You have to be a citizen (but only 36 states require some form of ID). You have to be at least 18 years old. Most states have residency requirements, and you have to register…Despite this deplorably low bar, only 64% of citizens voted in the last two Presidential elections… and they were considered historically unusual for the number of voters. Only about 50% of eligible voters voted in the most recent midterms…I like Starship Troopers (Heinlein) method for choosing voters. Only veterans can vote, but anyone can serve. If you want to serve, they’re legally bound to find a job you can do, even if that’s just greeting people at a doorway. Your service to your country buys your franchise. It means you have skin in the game. I’ve always found that to be… a good idea. It’s not a guarantee that the veteran is a better person than the general citizenry, but it’s a better indicator than what we currently have.

This Is the Real Reason the Democrats Hate President Trump’s Ballroom
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/05/01/this-is-the-real-reason-the-democrats-hate-president-trumps-ballroom-n4952410
They hate the ballroom because Trump is building it, and once it’s complete, it will be a lasting legacy of the 45th and 47th president, even if he never steps foot in it as president. It’s the Trump ballroom, and it will always be known as just that.

The Latest Thing the Liberal Media Wants You to Lose Sleep Over Is so Dumb
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/01/the-latest-thing-the-liberal-media-wants-you-to-lose-sleep-over-is-so-dumb-n4952402
…the next option is just to whip up a phony Supreme Court scandal to undermine the court…, the big scandal that makes our blood boil is that Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett all showed up at a state dinner with their spouses… Georgetown Law professor Steve Vladeck, whose take was less than the bombshell she needed. Vladeck confirmed that historically, justices attending state functions — even during high-profile cases involving the president — is not uncommon. His only real concern was optics. “The problem here,” he said, “is the symbolism, that these six justices — and only these six — were there. It does nothing to disabuse the appearance that the court is playing partisan political favorites, an impression this court should be invested in avoiding.” Optics. That’s it. That’s the scandal. A law professor thinks it looks bad…This is the left-wing media playbook at work here. When there’s no scandal, take a non-event, layer it with ominous framing, and hope the narrative takes off.

‘This s**t shouldn’t happen’: Trump-hating brewer weeps after apparently doxxing federal agent
https://www.theblaze.com/news/this-st-shouldnt-happen-trump-hating-brewer-weeps-after-apparently-doxxing-federal-agent
On Thursday, Bangstad claimed that he had been contacted both by the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI, then shared a transcript of an alleged voicemail from a USSS agent on Facebook, including the agent’s alleged name and phone number. Bangstad proceeded to tell his followers, “Call this number and ask this secret service agent to stand down and honor his oath to his country.”

At the Fed: Warsh Secures Committee Approval; Powell Doesn’t Want to Leave
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/at-the-fed-warsh-secures-committee-approval-powell-doesnt-want-to-leave.html
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that he would stay on the central bank’s board after his chairmanship ends next month to defend the institution from what he called unprecedented legal attacks from the Trump administration. His decision marks a departure from decades of precedent and overshadowed deepening divisions over the path for interest rates…. His term as chair ends May 15 but a separate term as governor allows Powell to remain at the Fed until early 2028. For decades, Fed chairs have left the building when their successor is installed (

Biden Officials Buried COVID Vaccine Injury Data
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/biden-officials-buried-covid-vaccine-injury-data.html/
The vaccine has been linked to heart failure, cardiomyopathy and a higher mortality rate in the young. “Nearly a quarter of Americans believe someone they know died from COVID-19 vaccine side effects, and even more say they might be willing to become plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against vaccine makers.” There was no mea culpa, no hesitation, no cessation of mass inoculations. On the contrary, the more people died or sufferrd life long health damage, the more it was ignored and denied.

Active Response Training – Weekend Knowledge Dump- May 1, 2026
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-may-1-2026
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.

THE FIVE POINT CHECK LIST, REVIEWED – Despite some attorneys in disagreement, I firmly believe that Massad Ayoob created the definitive list of statements that you should make to the police after a defensive shooting.

Why aren’t you carrying pepper spray? – Caleb asks an important question. He’s right on with his advice to buy the small container from POM. If you like a larger container, the Sabre Red is an excellent choice as well.

What Criminals Know That You Don’t – Alex shares lessons learned from one of John Hearne’s courses.

May 2

Big Texan Steak Ranch marks 66 years on Route 66 as America nears 250th birthday
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/big-texan-steak-ranch-marks-66-years-on-route-66-as-america-nears-250th-birthday/ar-AA227ZOe?ocid=BingNewsVerp
embedded video – 00:03:04
video – 00:03:04 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92kS7mmC1I4

Chain restaurants are closing hundreds of locations across the US in 2026. See the list.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/chain-restaurants-are-closing-hundreds-of-locations-across-the-us-in-2026-see-the-list/vi-AA20T4zm
Several restaurant chains have revealed plans to close locations in 2026. Wendy’s will close up to 350 US restaurants in the first six months of the year. Pizza Hut intends to shutter 250 US locations in the first half of the year.
(A boost for LOCAL restaurants? – jlr)

Socialist Seattle Mayor Gets Aggressively Saved By Handlers When a Reporter Politely Asks Basic Questions
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/05/01/socialist-seattle-mayor-gets-aggressively-saved-by-handlers-when-a-reporter-politely-asks-basic-questions-n2427765
Seattle’s Socialist Mayor responds to exodus of wealth from Washington state by saying “BYE” … then laughing. We’re doomed.
video – 00:00:14 – https://x.com/i/status/2049562844862324861

60 Years of Artificial Chaos in Service for Revolution
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/05/60_years_of_artificial_chaos_in_service_for_revolution.html
The Cloward-Piven strategy was a calculated blueprint for social disruption. How is it working out?…In the spring of 1966, the United States was in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement and Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. It was at a time when the New Left concluded that American capitalism had neutralized the working class; therefore, it was no longer suitable to be cannon fodder for revolution. To answer the collectivist call, two Columbia University School of Social Work professors—Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven—published a provocative essay in The Nation magazine. Titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty,” the May 2 article outlined what later became known as the Cloward-Piven strategy…Six decades later, the Cloward-Piven strategy, as part of the Left toolbox, remains a Rorschach test for American politics. Conservatives see a cautionary tale of engineered dependency and fiscal irresponsibility that, in a Machiavellian way, battered the very people it proclaimed to help. The Cloward-Piven essay’s enduring power lies in its frank acknowledgment that poverty could be part of political business. Whether one regards the strategy as cynical manipulation or moral necessity, it forces a reckoning: in a republic, how much crisis is tolerable? Cloward and Piven bet that the weight of the poor, thoroughly mobilized and meticulously pre-brainwashed, could bend the arc of policy.

Woman confesses to heinous crime on social media and mocks victim: ‘I bet he ain’t laughing now’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/odonnell-shoot-clerk-confess-video
Shantay Lashay O’Donnell, 46, of Virginia was caught on surveillance video allegedly pulling out a gun at the Columbia, Maryland, gas station and pulling the trigger…Police said she was trying to rob the store but left without anything…n the days following the shooting, O’Donnell allegedly posted a video confessing to the crime and laughing about the victim. “I’m the one that did the shooting at the gas station,”…”I shot that man because he has a demon spirit, and he laughed in my face and thought it was funny. I bet he ain’t laughing now,”…She went on to say that she was “getting ready to rob something right now” and claimed she didn’t pay for anything but stole what she needed.

Guess Who’s Big Mad They Can’t Buy Junk Food With Your Tax Money Anymore
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/05/02/guess-whos-big-mad-they-cant-buy-junk-food-with-your-tax-money-anymore-n4952420
… some big changes took place in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits April 20. The entitlement program’s beneficiaries can no longer use their EBT cards to purchase soda, energy drinks, candy, and “ultra-processed prepared desserts” such as Twinkies, cookies, cupcakes, and other packaged sweets. They can continue to use their taxpayer-funded, free-food cards for fruit, vegetables, grains, meat, dairy and other staples. They can also use their EBT cards for coffee, tea, bottled water, and sport drinks. On the snack side, they can use their EBT cards for granola bars, freshly prepared baked goods, and packaged “breakfast” foods such as toaster strudels and breakfast biscuits. The federal government did not implement the restrictions, even though the state of Florida’s SNAP program receives subsidies from the government. Rather, this a state policy which is being implemented under a waiver program from the Trump administration.
Guess who’s not happy about the change? video – 00:01:14 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2050251148091892221
…the reason for the change was “to better align the program with its intended purpose: providing low-income households with access to a more nutritious diet to alleviate hunger and combat malnutrition,”…“SNAP benefits can continue to be used to purchase the same healthy, nutrient-rich foods they always have, including fruits, vegetables, grains, meat, dairy, and other staples that support a balanced diet and overall well-being.”…the health and nutritional benefits of this move are lost on SNAP benefit recipients who don’t know the first thing about healthy eating – people whose idea of a well-balanced diet includes the four major food groups: soda, ice cream, cookies, and cupcakes.
video – 00:00:27 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2048146540804329980

Blue Cities and States Are Dying. Cause of Death: Suicide.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/05/01/blue-cities-and-states-are-dying-cause-of-death-suicide-n2675363
Only socialism can make places as beautiful and as cool as California into a nightmare, and that seems to be what the Left is intent on doing – everywhere.
embedded video – 00:11:07

House Redistricting Strategery – the Endgame?
https://redstate.com/adam-turner/2026/05/02/house-redistricting-strategery-the-endgame-n2201901
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais, finding that the state’s second majority-Black district violated the Equal Protection Clause…Soon after, the U.S. Justice Department vowed it would enforce the ruling in every state with racially gerrymandered districts.

Alabama Is Set to Make a Huge Redistricting Move Ahead of the Midterms
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/05/01/alabama-is-set-to-make-a-huge-redistricting-move-ahead-of-the-midterms-n2675411
Democrats could potentially lose ALL US House seats in Alabama, with Republicans picking up 1-2

Trump Orders Pentagon to Reduce US Forces Based in Germany
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/05/01/trump-orders-pentagon-to-reduce-us-forces-based-in-germany-n2201919
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell released a statement, quoted in reports linked above, stating that the administration’s move “follows a thorough review of the Department’s force posture in Europe and is in recognition of theater requirements and conditions on the ground.”

Charles Not in Charge: King’s Visit Hits All the Right Notes but Doesn’t Reflect Reality
https://freebeacon.com/columns/charles-not-in-charge-kings-visit-hits-all-the-right-notes-but-doesnt-reflect-reality/
President Trump called Charles “the greatest king” at the White House—reveals His Majesty’s underrated diplomatic abilities. Unfortunately, the trip also shows that Britain’s place in the world is diminishing…Charles can preside but not act. If Starmer does not change course, his country will be able to do neither.

Terrorism Now Highly Likely in UK: US Embassy Just Issued an Alert
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/01/terrorism-now-highly-likely-in-uk-us-embassy-issues-new-may-1-alert-n2201917
This has been a growing problem for some time now, and all of these warnings, alarms, alarums, and alerts all seem to stem from the same demographic: “Refugees” from North Africa and the Middle East, many of whom entered Britain illegally.

May 3

Somali Fraud Is Only a Drop in the Bucket Compared to This Indian Fraud Scheme
https://www.westernjournal.com/somali-fraud-drop-bucket-compared-indian-fraud-scheme/
The Somali fraud is only a drop in the bucket, as it compares to the elaborate Indian fraud and scam networks that are taking American tech jobs and hurting the American economy, through H-1B visas, bought degrees and fake certifications. Since COVID, 90 percent of the net gain in American jobs have gone to foreign workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Tech companies are passing over American college students for foreign workers, many of whom have scam degrees and certifications.

Iran Peace Proposal Aimed at Ending War Under Trump’s Review – ‘I’m Looking at It’
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-iran-peace-proposal-aimed-ending-war-trumps-review-looking/
“I will soon be reviewing the plan that Iran has just sent to us, but can’t imagine that it would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years, thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
The Trump administration has repeatedly insisted it will not agree to a deal with Iran unless nearly all of their terms are met, most notably including Iran’s surrender of its enriched uranium stockpile.

After Attack of Cargo Vessel, Trump Directs US to Escort Foreign Ships Through Hormuz
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-attack-cargo-vessel-trump-directs-us-escort-foreign-ships-hormuz/
Earlier Sunday, a large cargo craft was reportedly attacked by multiple small vessels traveling roughly 11 miles from Iran…Countries from all over the World, almost all of which are not involved in the Middle Eastern dispute going on so visibly, and violently, for all to see, have asked the United States if we could help free up their Ships, which are locked up in the Strait of Hormuz, on something which they have absolutely nothing to do with — They are merely neutral and innocent bystanders! For the good of Iran, the Middle East, and the United States, we have told these Countries that we will guide their Ships safely out of these restricted Waterways, so that they can freely and ably get on with their business. Again, these are Ships from areas of the World that are not in any way involved with that which is currently taking place in the Middle East. I have told my Representatives to inform them that we will use best efforts to get their Ships and Crews safely out of the Strait. In all cases, they said they will not be returning until the area becomes safe for navigation, and everything else. This process, Project Freedom, will begin Monday morning, Middle East time. I am fully aware that my Representatives are having very positive discussions with the Country of Iran, and that these discussions could lead to something very positive for all. The Ship movement is merely meant to free up people, companies, and Countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong — They are victims of circumstance. This is a Humanitarian gesture on behalf of the United States, Middle Eastern Countries but, in particular, the Country of Iran. Many of these Ships are running low on food, and everything else necessary for largescale crews to stay on board in a healthy and sanitary manner. I think it would go a long way in showing Goodwill on behalf of all of those who have been fighting so strenuously over the last number of months. If, in any way, this Humanitarian process is interfered with, that interference will, unfortunately, have to be dealt with forcefully. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Trump Administration Pulls 5K Troops Out of Germany Over Iran War Betrayal
https://gellerreport.com/2026/05/trump-administration-pulls-5k-troops-out-of-germany-over-iran-war-betrayal.html/
Europe has had a free ride for decades. Time and again, they failed to live up to their commitments. Sanctimonious parasites. Troop drawdowns in Europe are way past due. The United States should be clear about one thing: alliances are not entitlements—they’re commitments.
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Germany Urges New Boost From Europe on Its Own Defense After Trump Pulls US Troops
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/02/germany-urges-new-europe-defense-boost-after-trump-pulls-us-troops-n2201930
Germany’s defense minister sought to downplay the impact of Washington’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from the country, casting the move as expected and using it to underline Europe’s need to take greater responsibility for its own security. “It was anticipated that the U.S. might withdraw troops from Europe, including Germany,” Boris Pistorius said on Saturday, adding that “if we are to remain transatlantic, we must strengthen the European pillar within NATO.” NATO said it was “working with the U.S. to understand the details” of the Pentagon’s decision to pull the troops. The move by the Trump administration “underscores the need for Europe to invest more in defense,

Dammit…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/dammit-518
30 plus years of existence wiped out…Spirit Airlines died this morning at the hands of the socialist (Democrat) crusader, Elizabeth Warren, and all the Democrats that stand with her…This morning at 3am, Spirit turned off the lights. Another 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022 so the airline could be saved and competition could be preserved. Shareholders, the unions, management, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. Democrats cheered her on, helping undermine this lifeline the entire way. They wrote letters. They protested and campaigned. They pressured DOT head “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Their argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at the collateral damage they will try to dust under the rug.
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Elizabeth Warren Killed Spirit Airlines and Now She’s Complaining About It
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/05/02/elizabeth-warren-killed-spirit-airlines-and-now-shes-complaining-about-it-n2675422
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in partnership with former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and President Joe Biden are the ones with Spirit Airlines’ blood on their hands after working tirelessly to block the merger of the budget airline with JetBlue…Thankfully, Warren has been dragged on social media for her lack of self-awareness.
video – 00:00:18 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2050581207302177076
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After Spirit Airlines Goes Bust, Remember How Biden, Warren Stopped Merger to Save Airline Because It’d Mean ‘Fewer Flights’https://www.westernjournal.com/spirit-airlines-goes-bust-remember-biden-warren-stopped-merger-save-airline-itd-mean-fewer-flights/
It was killed by Democrats, specifically President Joe Biden’s administration, who thought that letting Spirit exist as an unsustainable separate entity would be good for competition and lead to lower ticket prices and more jobs.
Now, Spirit is completely out of business, meaning less competition, higher ticket prices, and no jobs for anyone with the airline.
Winning, Democrat-style!
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Joe Biden, Pete Butttegieg, and Elizabeth Warren Nixed Plan to Save Spirit Airlines
https://gellerreport.com/2026/05/joe-biden-pete-butttegieg-and-elizabeth-warren-nixed-plan-to-save-spirit-airlines.html/
Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren. She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So, tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.
video – 00:01:43 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2050573502239986035
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Elizabeth Warren Gets Wrecked by Community Notes for Trying to Spin Spirit Airlines Comments
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/02/elizabeth-warren-on-spirit-n2201938
…Well, nothing reduces competition more than a cheaper alternative like Spirit going under. They had filed for bankruptcy twice in 2024 after the merger failed. But now that this has happened, what is Warren saying? She’s bemoaning the fewer choices, and trying to blame others. She even tried to blame the judge who denied the merger, seemingly forgetting what she had said before… she called it a “Biden win for flyers,” but now, with the shutdown, there were fewer flights and less competition.
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Spirit Airlines Ceases Operations After Biden Administration Blocked Merger; Trump Admin Announces Relief Measures
https://americanjournaldaily.com/spirit-biden-trump-relief/
★ Biden’s DOJ killed Spirit’s merger with JetBlue — and thousands of jobs followed.
★ Spirit is the first U.S. airline to fail financially in 25 years.
★ Trump’s team moved fast with capped fares and hiring pathways for displaced workers.
★ This administration refused to bail out a failing airline with taxpayer money.

Pro-CCP Billionaire’s $22.4M Network Helped Organize NYC May Day Rally Where Mayor Mamdani Spoke
https://americanjournaldaily.com/ccp-may-day-mamdani/
…blocks away at Union Square, a different operation was underway. Members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation pulled up in a van and unloaded dozens of professionally printed anti-Trump signs, stacking them neatly for distribution before the march even began. The Revolutionary Communists of America were there. So were the Communist Workers of America. Organizers hawked communist newspapers and recruited for upcoming events, right out in the open. Follow the money to Shangha Here’s where the story turns from disturbing to dangerous. The People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation — the groups running the show at Union Square — are funded by a man named Neville Roy Singham. He’s a tech tycoon. He lives in Shanghai. And according to a Fox News Digital investigation, his nonprofit network funneled $22.4 million to The People’s Forum alone.
Let me ask you something: a guy living in Shanghai is bankrolling political rallies in Manhattan, and nobody in city hall sees a problem with that?
Apparently not — because New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up to deliver remarks. He stood in front of banners reading “NO ICE, NO WAR” and “NO BILLIONAIRES” and told the crowd:

A civil right is a civil right – Even if you don’t like it.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/a-civil-right-is-a-civil-right
If a civil right can be stripped on an allegation in a civil court5 — no probable cause required — that starts a ball rolling nobody really wants to deal with. Y’all need to listen to me on this one … but you won’t.

EU to Begin Censoring Emojis on Social Media — For ‘Safety’
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2026/05/03/eu-to-begin-censoring-emojis-on-social-media-for-safety-n4952447
The European Commission apparently finds itself no longer satiated with controlling what combinations of letters it permits the serfs on its techno-planation to spell out on social media and has now expanded the scope of its Orwellian censorship regime to emojis…Who is going to decide which emojis have to go? Probably some unelected bureaucrat behind a screen in some Brussels lair — or else AI; I’m not sure which is more dystopian…*Always “for the children” — the eternal excuse of the nanny state gynocrats to trample on fundamental civil liberties…**Of course, in such cases of “grey areas,” the censor will always and reflexively err on the side of maximum censorship, which is what’s surely going to happen here.

Apr 23

\https://www.facebook.com/NickFreitasVA/reels/
The Red State Dilemma: A Reality Check on Civil Conflict and the Constitution
video 00:14:47 – https://www.facebook.com/reel/4320647198224116

McLaughlin Poll: Voters Back Trump on Iran
https://www.newsmax.com/mclaughlin/midterm-republican-voters/2026/04/17/id/1253286/
Key findings from our April 8–15 national poll (1,000 likely voters, ±3.1% margin of error):
★ A majority of voters (52%) approve of military action to eliminate Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, while 40% disapprove—an improvement from last month.
★ Support is overwhelming among Republicans (87%), but notably extends across party lines, with 28% of Democrats and 23% of Harris voters also approving.
★ Voters who watched President Trump’s address directly support military action by a decisive 67% to 29%, while those relying on media coverage are essentially split.
★ That contrast reveals a critical dynamic: when voters hear directly from President Trump, support rises sharply. When filtered through media coverage, support erodes…************The reason is equally clear — media framing distorts voter understanding of the mission.

New Navy Secretary, Hung Cao, ‘Grabbed on to the American Dream’
https://freebeacon.com/america/new-navy-secretary-hung-cao-grabbed-on-to-the-american-dream/
‘To our enemies … You can run, but you’ll only die tired.’

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Murky Offshore Assets Ballooned As Embattled Group Secretly Funded KKK and Other ‘Violent Extremist Groups’
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/southern-poverty-law-centers-murky
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which claims to “dismantle white supremacy,” saw its offshore assets balloon by as much as 430 percent over the decade it allegedly defrauded donors by funneling millions to the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations, our Andrew Kerr and Chuck Ross report.
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The Reactions to the SPLC Scandal Have Been Gold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/04/23/the-reactions-to-the-splc-scandal-have-been-gold-n2674895
The reactions to the SPLC getting exposed for subsidizing fake racism has been hilarious: You can’t make this up: the Southern Poverty Law Center sees racism everywhere because they are paying people to act crazy.That’s at the core of the latest Justice Department indictments against the group, which has Democrats melting down and the media going nuts. No wonder MSNBC and CNN viewers think America is racist—they were spoon-fed pure, grade-A leftist nonsense. It was all a psyop, and they fell for it. We knew some of these clowns weren’t genuine. But it was too obvious, yet liberal Americans bought it hook, line, and sinker, which explains a lot about how the Russiagate collusion hoax spread like COVID…Turns out that “white supremacy” was the greatest threat to the United States because the SPLC was spending millions to keep it alive
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Clueless Columnist Asks If It’s Now a Crime to Expose White Supremacist Groups
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/04/22/clueless-columnist-asks-if-its-now-a-crime-to-expose-white-supremacist-groups-n2427401
Media outlets like USA TODAY have been doing their best to misinterpret the charges:
USA TODAY @USATODAY – The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted for paying sources to infiltrate hate groups, a tactic federal agencies have used for decades.
CNN’s post wasn’t any better. Southern Poverty Law Center indicted in federal court over alleged use of paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups
CNN’s post gave just enough disinformation to bait rubes like Georgia Recorder columnist Jay Bookman: “So … it’s now a federal crime to infiltrate and expose white supremacist groups? White supremacist groups are a protected class under this administration?”
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HATE GROUP SPLC INDICTED: ‘Paid Extremist Leaders’ in Shocking Fraud Case, Funded The Hate, 11 Federal Charges Including Money Laundering
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/hate-group-splc-indicted-paid-extremist-leaders-in-shocking-fraud-case-11-federal-charges-including-money-laundering.html
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is one of the Left’s premier, well-heeled, and most dishonest and ruthless attack dogs.

The Morning Briefing: Whaddya Know — Republicans Can Play Legal Hardball Too
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/04/23/the-morning-briefing-whaddya-know-republicans-can-play-legal-hardball-too-n4952074/
A circuit court in Virginia just ruled that the newly passed but incredibly biased gerrymandered congressional map is unconstitutional…What’s rich about this is that the Democrats immediately began whining about an “activist judge.”…Their entire strategy to fight anything that President Trump and his administration do is built around activist judges; without them, the party is nothing. They haven’t had the greatest luck with them so far, mostly because their activist judges tend to overreach and/or ignore the law.
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DataRepublican Shares Data-Filled Post Showing DAMNING Irregularities in VA Gerrymandering
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/04/23/datarepublican-shares-virginia-data-so-many-irregularities-n2427417
There it is folks! Three separate Dumps! TOTALLY 65,000 VOTES!And every vote was a YES! Which was impossible! The trap worked! They exposed themselves!
They only had 3 high speed scanners! 65,000 votes in 5 MINUTES was impossible! Dump 1 – F Dump 2 – F Dump 3 – F –
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HGm8rpdWkAAHDIR?format=jpg&name=small

Cory Booker Calls for ‘Foot Soldiers’ to Take to the Streets to ‘Stand Up’ Against ‘Darkness’ in Bizarre Rant
https://www.westernjournal.com/cory-booker-calls-foot-soldiers-take-streets-stand-darkness-bizarre-rant/
Democratic Sen. Corey Booker of New Jersey called for “foot soldiers” to defend democracy, citing “darkness” and the need to “redeem the dream of America.”
Booker was speaking Saturday at the Legacy Luncheon in Detroit to the Michigan Democratic Women’s Caucus… “Ladies and gentlemen, there is a storm in our nation!”…“There is darkness and wind,”…“People are getting hurt! What we need is not from on high. We need foot soldiers of our Democracy who, in times of trial, are willing to stand up!”…“Will you stand for our democracy?”…“Will you stand to get out the vote? Will you stand for our children? Will you stand up for our elders? And will you stand together, unified, strong, be the hope that people need?”…“We are Democrats! It’s time for a new deal! It’s time to redeem the dream of America.”

Remember Ilhan Omar’s Winery? Something Very Peculiar Just Happened to It
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/04/23/remember-ilhan-omars-winery-something-very-peculiar-just-happened-to-it-n2674907
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is attributing her alleged inflated net worth to an accounting mistake…If that’s a true accounting error, then I’m Somali, too. Are you kidding me, lady? There was an error that inflated your assets to $30 million?…Ilhan Omar’s sham winery LLC was dissolved 9 days after her updated disclosures…The backstory via the Free Beacon: https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ilhan-omar-said-its-categorically-false-to-call-her-a-millionaire-her-net-worth-just-reached-up-to-30-million-an-increase-of-at-least-3500-percent-in-one-year/

PARTY OF TREASON: Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy Supports Iran with ‘Shameful’ X Post
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/party-of-treason-democrat-sen-chris-murphy-supports-iran-with-shameful-x-post.html/
A sitting U.S Senator is supporting the genocidal and terrorist sponsoring Islamic Republic of Iran against America. Not a surprise though. Senator Chris Murphy is among the most radical and unhinged of all the Senate Democrats. Just this week Murphy was in Spain at a Soros funded event trashing President Trump. This lunatic is very likely going to be running for POTUS in 2028.

Michigan’s ‘Dearborn Democrats’ Cheer the Islamization of US Politics: Jewish Incumbent Targeted in Antisemitic Attacks, Choose Pro-Hezb’Allah Muslim
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/michigans-dearborn-democrats-cheer-the-islamization-of-us-politics-jewish-incumbent-targeted-in-antisemitic-attacks-choose-pro-hezballah-muslim.html
Dems reject candidate whose car was sprayed with antisemitic graffiti, choose pro-Hizballah Muslim
Robert Spencer: The pro-jihad elements are here. They insist they’re here to stay. Their leftist allies want them here to help them advance their political power. Eventually, when they have won the day, leftists may regret the alliance they made, but by then it will be far too late.

Macron’s Cowardice: France’s Retreat Before Jihadism
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/macrons-cowardice-frances-retreat-before-jihadism.html
For centuries, the French Republic has struggled to define its relationship with the Islamic world, often oscillating between colonial control and strategic avoidance. Today, President Emmanuel Macron embodies the latest – and perhaps most dangerous – iteration of this failure. While his rhetoric claims to defend laïcité (secularism), his actions reveal a deep-seated political cowardice. By obsessing over domestic administrative hurdles while refusing to confront the ideological and geopolitical centers of radicalism, Macron has proven himself incapable of tackling the menace decisively.

‘Time Is Running Out For Iran’: The Market Is Calling ‘Bullshit’ On Mainstream’s Narrative, Hugh Hendry Explains…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/time-running-out-iran-market-has-wrecked-mainstreams-narrative-hugh-hendry-explains
The stock market is telling a different story from the ‘Iran is strong, America is overreaching’ narrative being spewed by mainstream media. For weeks, the financial war narrative has been ‘Iran, strong; America, reckless’, risk’s like mercury and the thermometer rising. And yet, the stock market has done the opposite…As Hugh Hendry remarks in his latest ‘Acid Capitalist’ report: video – 00:24:48 – https://hughhendry.substack.com…”the gap between what you’re reading on the front page of the Financial Times or in the Wall Street Journal, and what you’re seeing every day in the stock market… has become too wide to ignore.”…the transatlantic intelligentsia of the coastal elites and the European Sophistocrats, tell you the same goddamn thing: Iran, Darling, Iran has the upper hand. The strait is their choke point. Trump, Trump, that clown he’s out of his depth. He’s a reckless vulgarian, and he’s dragging all of us into another disaster. While the patient, chess-playing Iranians, they hold every card as they sip tea in Tehran. My brothers and sisters, this is not journalism. It’s a fucking echo chamber.” This is all perfectly engineered to confirm with every lazy prejudice. It is also contemptible because it’s wrong.

Detroit Is So Far Gone, Officials Are Begging Criminals Not to Steal These
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/04/23/detroit-fire-hydrants-n2674942
Crime is so bad, in fact, that city officials are now asking criminals not to steal the city’s fire hydrants for the brass components…The criminals don’t care, of course.

Tit-For-Tat Assaults On Shipping Widen: US Intercepts 3 More ‘Illicit’ Tankers In Asian Waters, Iran Seizes Additional 2 In Hormuz
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-seizes-two-ships-hormuz-chokepoint-tehran-received-some-signs-us-ready-end
The semi-official news agency Fars reports on X that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized the MSC Francesca and a Greek-owned ship named Euphoria,

Rep. Ilhan Omar Declines to Testify Before Committee Investigating Her Role in $250M Fraud Scandal
https://istandforfreedom.com/omar-testify-committee-fraud/
The Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee wanted answers. They invited Omar to testify at a hearing examining her potential connections to the sprawling scandal but her response was, quite literally, nothing at all. the committee sent multiple emails and letters to Omar’s office, and not a single reply…From State Rep. Kristin Robbins (R-Maple Grove), chair of the committee: “She didn’t even respond, ghosted us. And her Meals Act is what created the conditions that allowed Feeding Our Future to happen. She took the guardrails off so billions of our tax dollars could be stolen.”
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Rep. Ilhan Omar Pulls a ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ Moment As She Blows Off Minnesota Fraud Hearing
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/04/23/rep-ilhan-omar-pulls-a-who-do-you-think-you-are-moment-as-she-blows-off-minnesota-fraud-hearing-n2201602
A Republican lawmaker in Minnesota has gone straight to Omar’s office and is formally requesting records regarding her possible involvement in the “Feeding Our Future” program, after Omar skipped out on a hearing in the Minnesota State Legislature on that program and other COVID-19-era programs. Minnesota Republican State Rep. Kristin Robbins, chair of the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee, sent a letter to Omar denouncing her no-show at a hearing that focused on the MEALS Act, a COVID-era relief program that Omar sponsored and was passed in 2020. In the letter, Robbins stated:…if Omar thinks the questions from the Committee are beneath her and will just go away because of her whiff on the hearing, she would be wrong. Robbins is now asking Omar’s office to turn over any communications that would show how she promoted extended access to federal child nutrition programs. That communication would include emails, texts, and any meeting records with the Minnesota Department of Education and any of her constituents.

Ilhan Omar Uses Columbine to Pine for Gun Control Law that Failed to Stop Columbine
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/23/ilhan-omar-uses-columbine-to-pine-for-gun-control-law-that-failed-to-stop-columbine-n1232312
Omar, as per usual, locked replies to her post on X, which is why you’re not going to see numerous replies calling her out on her stupid here, but you have to know that even she realized she was going to get dragged.
(LOOK at Nancy in the background, smirking at one of her “USEFUL IDIOTS” – jlr)

Angel Mom Blasts California Bill to Fund Taxpayer-Paid Legal Defense for Illegal Aliens Facing Deportation
https://americanjournaldaily.com/angel-moms-california/
Under a bill from Assembly member Mia Bonta, California Democrats want to use your tax dollars to fund the legal defense for immigrants fighting deportation. This is the ultimate “Americans Last” agenda, brought to you by a progressive establishment

(IF you own firearms, and especially if you carry, you need to read this – jlr)
What Wyoming’s Failure Says About the Second Amendment Nationally
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/23/what-wyomings-failure-says-about-second-amendment-nationally-n1232315
Wyoming, a pro-gun state, actually sees it the same way to some degree, and that’s clear with their refusal to pass a recent bill that would be good for gun owners and all those who are forced to act in self-defense. HB14 would have helped citizens acquitted of charges arising from using deadly force in self-defense. It would have allowed the citizen to recover some of their legal expenses from the prosecuting county and would have applied to both acquittals and dropped charges. There was even a provision to expedite expungement: There would be no records to haunt the citizen in the future.
Though Wyoming is one of the reddest states, House Bill 14 failed to advance. Twenty-nine Republicans voted for it; 26 Republicans and six Democrats killed it. It’s likely cost was a factor. Eight of Wyoming’s 23 counties have fewer than 10,000 residents, and it wouldn’t take a particularly large settlement to bankrupt them…The cost of defending oneself from charges such as this can easily run into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars and would bankrupt most people.
(THIS…is why I have USCCA (US Concealed Carry Assn,) insurance – if you don’t have insurance, they can, and will litigate you, sometimes illegally and maliciously, into prison, or bankruptcy, or both – leaving your family broke and homeless – DAs are publically PAID lawyers, and you will be paying for your own defense  attorney, expert witnesses, et al, out of your pocket – unless you have insurance – and I pray daily that I NEVER have to use my firerarm in defence of myself or others – jlr)

something to look at and examin
https://worldpopulationreview.com/

Apr 24

Four Traitorous RINOs Block SAVE America Act Effort
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/four-traitorous-rinos-block-save-america-act-effort.html/
You have to wonder what the swamp has on these turds. You know they are being blackmailed with something. What Republican in his right mind would oppose voter integrity?…Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., broke with much of the GOP conference, opposing an amendment from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., aimed at advancing key election integrity provisions backed by Trump
(Whatever Trump is for, these 4 are against, and Mitch is just a now out-of-power bitter old man willing to secre anything up he can – the other 3 are RINO socialists – jlr)

Every Where You Look: The Game
https://wilderwealthywise.com/every-where-you-look-the-game/
Our values have been ripped away via rule changes to The Game. Nothing is wrong, except thinking something is wrong. Silly. The Game is about inclusion. Even to the point of including people who hate you. This is what is wrong with the world today…Just try on the damn glasses, why don’t you?

Schumer rushes to defend the SPLC after it was EXPOSED for apparently funding racist extremism
https://www.theblaze.com/news/schumer-rushes-to-defend-the-splc-after-it-was-exposed-for-apparently-funding-racist-extremism
Schumer said Wednesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate that the “deeply disturbing charges” brought against the SPLC “should send a chill down the spine of every American who cares about free expression and the rule of law in the Justice Department. It should send a chill down the spine of every American who cares about civil liberties and the fight against violent extremism.”

rcd via email
Greg Gutfeld vs. Ilhan Omar
video – 00:17;31 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BheCaezhq9U
Gutfeld: How is she not in jail…?
starts about 00:03:20

RFK Jr. and Rep. Rosa DeLauro spar over raw milk
video – 00:01:21 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EdsJASWCEc
Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparred over his views on raw milk, with DeLauro questioning why he has not publicly told Americans that consuming unpasteurized milk is dangerous. No one has ever had to put up with this much stupidity and lunacy.
(It’s NOT that liberals DON’T understand the legal issues, it is that they don’t WANT TO understand the legal issues (willful ignorance) on something like this – they just want to grandstand and kvetch about everything that is not run by and for them – jlr)

SHOCK FOOTAGE: Fairfax Democrat Caught on Video STEALING Vote No Info From Election Day Polling Location
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/04/24/shock-footage-no-big-woop-just-a-fairfax-dem-stealing-vote-no-info-from-election-day-polling-location-n2427477
Check out this footage that shows a Fairfax Democrat strolling through an Election Day polling location and stealing ‘Vote No’ literature, signs, and information. Gosh, why on Earth would a Fairfax Democrat not want voters to be informed about what exactly they’re voting on?
video – 00:01:32 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2047670178507301299
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DAMNING Thread BUSTS Spanberger for Being Even SHADIER in Redistricting (GUESS What She HID from Voters)
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/04/24/virginia-redistricting-gets-even-shadier-electors-hid-the-map-n2427469
Have we mentioned Virginia Democrats are the dirtiest Democrats in the country before? We have? Well … they are. And they just proved it by shoving through an illegal, unconstitutional, and unethical power grab with their recent gerrymandering referendum that somehow magically passed after Fairfax County (the county that, incidentally, would get all of the new districts) showed up with three separate vote dumps.(https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/04/23/datarepublican-shares-virginia-data-so-many-irregularities-n2427417)…What makes this even dirtier is the fact that Spanberger literally hid the new map from voters…via Luke Rosiak @lukerosiak – https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/2047535924964192534
Incredible: Gov. Spanberger (D-VA) told localities NOT to post pictures of the gerrymandered maps that people were voting on, saying they should direct people to the General Assembly’s website if they wanted to know. But the General Assembly doesn’t seem to show the maps either!
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It Sure Sounds Like Hakeem Jeffries Just Tried to Threaten the VA Supreme Court
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/04/24/hakeem-jeffries-warns-va-supreme-court-n2675004
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is concerned, and it also appears as though he’s trying to intimidate the Virginia Supreme Court into upholding the map.
video – 00:00:36 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2046985010985484583
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Someone’s NERVOUS: Hakeem Jeffries Threatens VA’s Supreme Court to Uphold Gerrymandering OR ELSE (Watch)
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/04/23/hakeem-jeffries-threatens-the-virginia-supreme-court-n2427421

About that tipping formula and attitude.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/about-that-tipping-formula-and-attitude
If you issue a challenge like that, you’d better be prepared to be let go because people will go to other eateries or stay home just to spite your ass. My tip is 20% if both the food and the service are great. That would make the meal above come to $98.88, which I will round up to the full $100. And what if the food suck but the server is great. I will go 10% to 15% depending on the suckage. Even if the restaurant waives the bill, the server gets a tip (We always tip cash) because he/she tried to make amends. And what if the server sucks and the food is subpar? Oh hell, I will leave a subtle hint like this: And if you think I am being an asshole, I had a friend who would actually crazy-glue the penny to the plate. And, of course, where the penny is dropped, we never return.

Active Response Training – Weekend Knowledge Dump- April 24, 2026
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-april-24-2026

Apr 25

Shots Reportedly Fired at WH Correspondents Dinner, Trump and Melania Rushed Out
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-shots-reportedly-fired-wh-correspondents-dinner-trump-melania-rushed/
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Trump Evacuated As Shots Fired at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Shooter Dead
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-evacuated-shots-fired-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooter-dead
Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s security detail told CNN live that there was a shooter in the lobby and that the shooter is dead.
A separate White House Pool Report from Jeff Mordock of the Washington Times stated that Secret Service ind
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Shooter Reportedly Shot Dead or Apprehended at WH Correspondents Dinner with Trump in Attendance
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-shooter-reportedly-shot-dead-apprehended-wh-correspondents-dinner-trump-attendance/
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Trump Shooter Name: Who is Cole Tomas Allen? 31-Year-Old From Torrance, California, Identified as Suspect By Reporters
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/trump-shooter-name-cole-tomas-allen-torrance-california-ca-white-house-shooting-article-154170692
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Trump: Shooter at White House press dinner had multiple weapons, one officer shot
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/trump-shooter-name-cole-tomas-allen-torrance-california-ca-white-house-shooting-article-154170692

Ha!!! – Always said coffee was ‘good’! It keeps people unstabbed. And now there is proof, but I’m still not drinking decaf or cold coffee…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/ha
Researchers from APC Microbiome Ireland found that habitual coffee consumption alters the trillions of microbes living in the digestive tract, creating a chemical feedback loop that directly influences mood, stress levels and cognitive sharpness.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
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Your daily coffee habit may be quietly reshaping your gut and mood, study finds
https://www.foxnews.com/health/daily-coffee-habit-may-quietly-reshaping-gut-mood-study-finds
Both caffeinated and decaf drinkers reported reduced stress, depression and impulsivity
“Coffee is more than just caffeine,” study author John Cryan, principal investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland, said in a statement.
“It’s a complex dietary factor that interacts with our gut microbes, our metabolism and even our emotional well-being.”

The United States of America v. John Roberts
https://pjmedia.com/aj-christopher/2026/04/25/the-united-states-of-america-v-john-roberts-n4952167
The Supreme Court is under attack. It has been under attack for years, almost exclusively from the left. And by “under attack,” I don’t mean the peaceful criticism. I mean everything from challenges to its legitimacy to outright ignoring its rulings to death threats against conservative justices.
This began years ago. Chief Justice John Roberts initially responded by trying to stay apolitical and by trying to ignore the criticism. When President Barack Obama called him out during his 2010 State of the Union address, Roberts called the stunt “very troubling.” In the last two decades, that has been the entire extent of his pushback against the left…………………..

Democrat melts down after Secretary Doug Burgum drops bombshell about NGOs during committee hearing
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrat-melts-down-after-secretary-doug-burgum-drops-bombshell-about-ngos-during-committee-hearing
In a Monday House Committee Hearing, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) asked for clarification on Burgum’s proposed “complete elimination” of some programs in the Fish and Wildlife Service, including some state and tribal wildlife grants. Burgum replied with a shocking statistic about where some “nongovernmental organizations” get their money. “There was a review done of the grants,”…”And that is an area where there’s been substantial review. We found organizations that were receiving grants from the Interior, where 80 to 100% of the revenue of that NGO was a grant from the federal government.”…”And yet those organizations, we were the sole source of their revenue, but they would have a CEO making $650,000 and four $400,000 lobbyists,”

They Can’t Even Flip Burgers
https://townhall.com/columnists/walter-curt/2026/04/25/they-cant-even-flip-burgers-n2675035
The entire Times frame is backward. DOGE was treated like the marauding villain because it dared to question the sacred bureaucracy. How dare anyone cut government jobs? How dare anyone interrupt the NGO pipeline? How dare anyone ask whether these programs actually work? How dare anyone touch the soft, padded, credentialed ecosystem where public money flows into nonprofit offices, consultant contracts, administrative salaries, stakeholder meetings, and reports about reports. The Times wants Americans to see cruelty. What Americans see is confirmation.

Common sweetener may trigger fat buildup in ways experts didn’t expect
https://www.foxnews.com/health/common-sweetener-may-trigger-fat-buildup-ways-experts-didnt-expect
Fructose promotes fat production and storage differently than glucose, researchers say

Mamdani will VETO NYC schools ‘buffer zone’ bill — he’s determined to protect anti-ICE, pro-Hamas student protesters
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/mamdani-will-veto-nyc-schools-buffer-zone-bill-hes-determined-to-protect-anti-ice-pro-hamas-student-protesters.html/
Mamdani wants to make sure that patriotic Americans who support ICE, and oppose the jihad against Israel, will be terrorized as much as possible in his New York City. He doesn’t want to allow them to have any place where they feel safe. Even as their children go to school, he wants them hounded, harassed, vilified, and terrorized.
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NYC: East Village residents voted 70% for Mamdani, and now they’re suing him
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/nyc-east-village-residents-voted-70-for-mamdani-and-now-theyre-suing-him.html/
East Village residents who voted for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani by a 40-point margin are now suing to stop a building in their neighborhood from becoming a temporary homeless shelter…Leftists sometimes directly experience the misery that their cherished policies inflict on the rest of us, and that’s happening now in the East Village, where they voted in massive numbers for the Marxist Mayor Mamdani, only to have him decide that they would be among the first to be punished… Now Mamdani wants to inflict violent and criminal homeless people on the affluent leftists of the East Village. The idea is to demoralize and threaten them until they’ll support the authoritarian policies that are the heart and center of leftism. Well, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch, but they’re just toward the beginning of the line.

Europe’s War on the Crown Prince Pahlavi
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/europes-war-on-the-crown-prince-pahlavi.html
The European political machine actively conspires to silence Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi through a calculated strategy of diplomatic betrayal and systemic negligence…The liberal elites in Brussels and Berlin view a free, strong Iran under the leadership of Prince Pahlavi as a threat to their predatory energy contracts and geopolitical leverage…Just as the radical left in America deployed a campaign of character assassination and security failure against Donald Trump, European capitals now provide the vacuum in which the Tehran regime operates its hit squads.

Ilhan Omar Accused Of Trying To Steer $1.4M To Nonprofit With Somali Restaurant For Address
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ilhan-omar-accused-trying-steer-14m-nonprofit-somali-restaurant-address
The nonprofit, Generation Hope MN, describes itself as providing addiction recovery services, peer support, job training, and mental health support for the East African community. The address tied to Omar’s earmark request – 326 Cedar Ave S / 411 Cedar Ave S – matches Sagal Restaurant and Coffee, a Somali eatery. Conservative investigator Angela Rose documented the site in a video, using Google Street View archives and on-site footage to show minimal or no clinic signage over the years, with the building primarily operating as a restaurant. The owner has confirmed that Generation Hope uses the upstairs space in the multi-tenant property, but critics highlighted the optics amid Minnesota’s fraud history.

Maryland: Residents ‘fleeing in droves’ after ‘insane’ far-left takeover
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/maryland-residents-fleeing-in-droves-after-insane-far-left-takeover.html/
You can be sure that it’s not just the remaining patriots in Maryland who are fleeing. It’s leftists, also. They don’t want to live under the insane policies they vote for any more than anyone else does. The bitter irony, however, is that they will learn nothing. They will go from Maryland to some state that is not as contaminated with leftist insanity and vote for leftist candidates. They seem unwilling to face the obvious fact that the disastrous and worsening conditions in Maryland are the result of their choices at the ballot box.

Trump Is Making Leftists Pretend They’ve Never Seen Water Before
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/04/25/trump-is-making-leftists-pretend-theyve-never-seen-water-before-n4952169
President Donald Trump learned a long time ago that reverse psychology works on the left. All he has to do is take the most common-sense position; then Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) will take over, and the left will take the exact opposite position…when the president announced that just in time for the America 250 celebrations in Washington, D.C., he’s sprucing up the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool…Trump chose an industrial-grade swimming pool surface in American flag blue. The coating covers the aging granite bottom and seals the leaks. Trump announced the work on April 23 and set a clear timeline. The job costs around $1.5 million and should finish within weeks. Previous plans called for full granite replacement at roughly $301 million, stretching over many years… an amazing number of leftists have convinced themselves that blue does not reflect, even when they post photos of reflective blue paint, even before the water is poured back into the pool. News flash: blue does reflect, but more importantly, water reflects…

Hood-Winked: NAACP Defends KKK-Funding SPLC
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/25/hood-winked-naacp-defends-kkk-funding-splc-n4952168
There are days when I have to triple-check that a story is true, because it seems so preposterous I at first believe it has to come from a satire site. But no, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) actually did issue a protest against the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) regarding payments to… the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups.
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The Vindication of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and a Long Overdue Reckoning for the Southern Poverty Law Center
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/24/the-vindication-of-ayaan-hirsi-ali-and-a-long-overdue-reckoning-for-the-southern-poverty-law-center-n4952137

The Only Ones… Spray and Pray. – “But cops have firearms training!
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/the-only-ones-spray-and-pray
Houston, Texas — On March 25th, 2026, at approximately 3:57 p.m., a Houston Police Officer arrived in the 5800 block of Glenmont Drive. He was responding to a call about a suspicious male with a pink bag and a gun walking near a school. The officer located a man matching the description. He approached the suspect, Bara’Atef Mohammad AlQudah and gave him multiple commands to drop his bag. AlQudah produced a gun from his bag and fired it, striking the officer. The officer returned fire and AlQudah fled on foot into a nearby apartment complex. The officer pursued AlQudah, giving commands to stop. The officer fired his duty weapon, striking AlQudah. The officer immediately began rendering first aid until Houston Fire Department paramedics arrived. AlQudah was pronounced deceased at the scene. The officer grazed in the right side of his abdomen, was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
video – 00:007:17 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l281epVan
(THIS is why semi-annual, annual, 2 yr, 4 yr, 5 yr re-qualifications are useless paperwork, because most people who have to qualify for a concealed carry permit only shoot at the necessary requalification times. Unless you hit the range often, and shoot more than a couple of mags, you are sending hot rocks down range addressed “To Whom it may Concern”, NOT bullets, properly aimed, at a specific target. – This is why I shoot semi-competitively. I say semi-competitively because at 75 y.o. I am shooting against my last scores, not the young guns, who can move faster, have better eyes, and faster reflexes than I do at this age. My goal is to shoot the match clean, 100% 1 shot hits, and beat my best time. The absolute last thing I ever want, if I have to use my firearm in defence of myself or other people, is a round going down range addressed “To Whom it MAY Concern.”
At ALL times YOU are responsible for every round you fire. – jlr)

Florida Man Friday: Meet Mayor McDUI (is there something in the water in FLA or around FLA? – jlr)
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/04/24/florida-mayor-busted-for-dui-while-on-probation-for-dui-n4952149
★Embattled Florida mayor arrested after allegedly flunking drug test while on probation for drunk driving
https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/us-news/florida-mayor-teresa-heitmann-arrested-after-allegedly-flunking-drug-test-while-on-probation/
★★Florida man dressed as pirate with sword arrested after fire at park
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/martin-county/2026/04/23/florida-man-dressed-as-pirate-with-sword-arrested-after-fire-at-park/89748665007/
★Florida Woman Somehow Drives Lifted Truck Over Lamborghini, Video Has Everyone Rewinding
https://autos.yahoo.com/people-and-culture/articles/florida-woman-somehow-drives-lifted-203131283.html?guccounter=1
★Central Florida Man Arrested for Two Hit-and-Run Crashes
https://westorlandonews.com/central-florida-man-arrested-for-two-hit-and-run-crashes/
Meanwhile, in New York…
★★Upstate NY man allegedly tried to stab family member — while dressed as a cow
https://nypost.com/2026/04/13/us-news/upstate-ny-man-allegedly-tried-to-stab-family-member-while-dressed-as-a-cow/

Apr 26

Well…The correspondents’ dinner apparently got a little ‘sporty’ last night…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/well-17c
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump – https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116471074928310119
What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE. This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House. It cannot be built fast enough! While beautiful, it has every highest level security feature there is plus, there are no rooms sitting on top for unsecured people to pour in, and is inside the gates of the most secure building in the World, The White House. The ridiculous Ballroom lawsuit, brought by a woman walking her dog, who has absolutely No Standing to bring such a suit, must be dropped, immediately. Nothing should be allowed to interfere with with its construction, which is on budget and substantially ahead of schedule!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
The video of the perp rushing the magnetometer, gun drawn, and apparently shot a Secret Service agent on the way through.(video – 00:00:13 – https://x.com/i/status/2048280677217599624 – lower left video) – (video – 00:00:24 – https://1a-1791.com/video/fww1/34/s8/2/w/W/w/i/wWwiA.caa.mp4)
Thankfully, nobody died, the perp was captured, and none of the administration or correspondents were hurt. Scared obviously, but not hurt.
So this now makes at least ‘three’ tries at the President now. It’s long past time for the Dems to stop playing games and get with the program to bring this country back together! Dammit…
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Trump Asked Why Assassins Keep Trying to Kill Him, Gives Blunt Answer
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-asked-assassins-keep-trying-kill-gives-blunt-answer/
President Donald Trump told the media why he thinks assassins keep on wanting to take his life: They want “the people that make the biggest impact.”
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Trump says suspect who shot Secret Serviceman at WHCD identified: ‘It’s always shocking’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-says-suspect-who-shot-secret-serviceman-at-whcd-identified-it-s-always-shocking
Trump, who has already survived two assassination attempts, reflected on the political violence waged against him and other politicians, saying, “I want to live because I want to make this country great.”
video – 00:49:10 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHN8xcAJUsc&t=19s
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WH Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter Identified, Appears to Be Kamala Harris Donor on Public Listing
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-wh-correspondents-dinner-shooter-identified-appears-kamala-harris-donor-public-listing/
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Suspected WHCD Shooter Boosted Bluesky Posts Saying Trump Should Be ‘Tried For High Crimes’
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/suspected-whcd-shooter-boosted-bluesky
The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, contributed to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. On social media, he also slammed the First Amendment pocket square journalists were donning at last night’s dinner.
(read the BlueSky posts – jlr)
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WHCD Gunman Manifesto, Social Accounts Found – He Targeted Trump, Was a ‘No Kings’ Rally Attendee
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-whcd-gunman-manifesto-social-accounts-found-targeted-trump-no-kings-rally-attendee/
New information on the White House Correspondences’ dinner shooter, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen,
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Full WHCD Shooter Manifesto: He Told Family He Was Willing to Kill ‘Most Everyone’ at Dinner to Get to Trump
https://www.westernjournal.com/full-whcd-shooter-manifesto-told-family-willing-kill-everyone-dinner-get-trump/
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Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto
https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/read-whcd-gunman-cole-allens-full-anti-trump-manifesto/
Accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen sent a sprawling, crazed manifesto to family members 10 minutes before Saturday’s attack, sources told The Post.
In the 1,052-word missive obtained by The Post Sunday morning — signed Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen” — and outlined his “rules of engagement” for the shooting and stated he believed it was his righteous duty to target administration officials.
Cole Allen’s manifesto in full:
Hello everybody!
So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.
I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”
I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)
I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.
I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.
I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.
On to why I did any of this:
I am a citizen of the United States of America.
What my representatives do reflects on me.
And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.
(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)
While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)
Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest
Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who aren’t
Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)
Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security
National Guard: same as Hotel Security
Hotel Employees: not targets at all
Guests: not targets at all
In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)
Guests crouching under tables after being rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.
Rebuttals to objections:
Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.
Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.
Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.
Trump recounts political unity after White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting: ‘Place was just coming together’
White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting live updates: Trump recounts ‘shocking’ moment he heard gunshots
Cole Allen, 31-year-old California teacher, ID’d as White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter
Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.
Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?
This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.
Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.
Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.
Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.
Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack
Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.
I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is astoundingly incompetent.)
Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.
Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.
Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.
Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.
Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.
Thank you all for everything.
Sincerely,
Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen
PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.
Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.
What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.
No damn security.
Not in transport.
Not in the hotel.
Not in the event.
Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.
I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.
Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.
What do you think? Post a comment.
Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.
Actually insane.
Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.
Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

Full WHCD Shooter Manifesto: He Told Family He Was Willing to Kill ‘Most Everyone’ at Dinner to Get to Trump
The Left Were Absolute Psychopaths Following the Attack on the WHCA Dinner
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/04/26/the-left-were-absolute-psychopaths-following-the-attack-on-the-whca-dinner-n2675073
Allen admitted he was targeting Trump officials. However, the media tried to play the ‘we don’t know who he was targeting’ game, which was comical. For now, the left-leaning influencers on social media are pushing the ‘it was staged’ narrative because a) they’re Trump-obsessed, b) they’re generally foolish, and c) they don’t want to be held responsible for their nonsensical, violence-promoting rhetoric that fuels these lunatics trying to assassinate government officials. That is a fact,
video – 00:00:16 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2048238007979749811
video – 00:00:23 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2048189815628411333
video – 00:01:22 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2048244129503510957
(READ the rest comments posted on X after the attack – jlr)
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Nick Freitas · Original audio
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1547051893417522
After the latest assassination attempt, I finally understand why the left wants gun control so bad…

You Can Tell How ABSOLUTELY SHOOK Mainstream Media Were After WHCD Shooting, Just WATCH (Video)
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/04/26/mainstream-media-were-so-shook-after-assassination-attempt-you-can-see-them-literally-stealing-watch-n2427547
The mainstream media has been very busy this morning trying to find a way to either make everyone believe last night’s WHCD shooting was either staged or ALL ABOUT THEM. Forget that Allen has admitted that he was there to target the Trump administration…Not to mention, they were allegedly caught on video stealing wine bottles.

Retired Green Beret Unpacks Troubling, Even DAMNING Points About Trump Assassination Attempt at WHCD
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/04/26/retired-green-beret-unpacks-very-troubling-points-about-another-attempted-assassination-n2427538
https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/204827256266940858 – So let’s unpack a few things right up front…
1) He left California and was in DC at the hotel where the WHCD was veing held.
2) Imagine the intent he had to have in order to travel that distance all the while thinking about what he was going to do.
3) He either moved several weapons or procured them in/around DC and figured out a way to get them in proximity to the WHCD.
4) He took the time to load the weapons on to his body (to reportedly include several knives) and nobody noticed.
5) Now here is the kicker…in his hidden location he was somehow aware that the President was in the room and was seated. How/when was he aware of that part?
6) If he wasn’t a guest at the WHCD and he couldn’t see the President from where he was….how did he know?
7) It’s not like he could go look in the room and then go load up with his gear.
8) He was supposedly a guest at the exact hotel? Like every room in that place wasn’t booked full over a month in advance? In DC, on a Saturday, with the WHCD in the same hotel….have you ever booked a hotel in DC during a Major Presidential event? Good luck!!!
All of it screams that he had help from someone in DC. Someone with some serious knowledge and capabilities.
You just don’t pull off something like that on a whim and without some serious reconnaissance ahead of time.

Oops! Judge Blocks Bulletproof WH Ballroom Right Before Assassination Attempt Proves Why It’s Needed
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/04/26/ballroom-judge-last-week-no-security-concern-n2427536
via Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine – https://x.com/Vermeullarmine/status/2048231617500533060
On April 16, in his most recent opinion in the ongoing litigation over the construction of the White House ballroom, Judge Leon of the federal district court in DC wrote: “The fact that the ballroom is planned to include security features such as bullet-proof windows and a drone-proof roof does not bring the structure within the scope of the
[national security] exception. While these features may well be beneficial, Defendants have not provided any national security justification for why these features must be installed immediately such that they should be excluded from the scope of the injunction.”
Seems like the ballroom where the President hangs out really needs all that fancy security after all, Judge Leon.

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer Get INSTA-RATIOED Over Their Statements on the WHCD Shooting
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/04/25/really-hakeem-jeffries-gets-insta-ratioed-after-statement-on-whcd-shooting-and-trump-evacuation-n2427531

White House Correspondent’s Dinner – 72-Hour Rule
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/white-house-correspondents-dinner
Folks ask me, “Ian, why do you hate people so much?” And I do. The public as a whole annoys the whey out of me. Humanity in general is nothing more than up-jumped apes; and not only do they possess the full measure of petty biliousness and vile moral depravity of our primate cousins, intelligence has just given humanity the key do it better. Do you doubt me?………………..

The U.S. Virgin Islands Citizen Statute and Birthright Citizenship
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/the_u_s_virgin_islands_citizen_statute_and_birthright_citizenship.html
There’s a 1927 law that’s gotten the silent treatment from courts and parties in birthright citizenship litigation, but that has a place in the discussion.

Apr 27

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Texas’ Redrawn Congressional Map in 6-3 Ruling, Clearing It for 2026 Midterms
https://istandforfreedom.com/scotus-texas-congr-map
I’d say Judge Smith nailed it, and the Supreme Court evidently agreed. Here’s the legal reality that gets buried in every breathless news cycle about gerrymandering: redistricting based on political preference is perfectly legal. Racial gerrymandering is not.

The Toxic Masculinity That So Terrifies and Infuriates a TDS Crazed Left
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/27/the-toxic-masculinity-that-so-terrifies-and-infuriates-a-tds-crazed-left-n3814330
The Trump Derangement Syndrome that so many have reveled in and promoted and built upon with ever-increasing stridency and hysteria only serves to further convince us that the Democratic Party’s current progressive masters, and, by extension, convenient mouthpieces, are purposefully advocating for violence in order to whip their footsoldiers with the short-circuited brains into doing the dirty work for them. A Democratic Party call-to-action is couched in far different terms than one we hear. They’re not asking for votes. They’re soliciting violence volunteers safe within what they see as a thin shield veneer of plausible deniability…It’s a deep, festering sickness eating its way through the pustular crust of the progressive Democratic body politic…

Understanding Phone Number Spoofing
https://amac.us/newsline/lifestyle/understanding-phone-number-spoofing
Spoofing is a deceptive technique that allows scammers to disguise their identity by falsifying information, such as phone numbers, so that their calls or messages appear to come from a trusted source. This technology is often used in scams, phishing, or cyberattacks to steal data or money, or gain unauthorized access to systems.

Third Trump Assassination Attempt – Left Must Acknowledge Its Violence Problem
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/third-trump-assassination-attempt-left-must-acknowledge-its-violence-problem/
President Donald Trump was the target of yet another assassination attempt this weekend, this time during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Details are still coming in, but what does seem clear now more than ever is that Trump Derangement Syndrome is no longer just a joke or online meme. It is a very real psychological sickness driven by a left-wing cult of violence that is tearing at the seams of American society.

WHCD Shooter’s Social Media Posts, Manifesto Show Hatred of Trump as Media Search for ‘Motive’
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/whcd-shooters-social-media-posts
The alleged shooter who succeeded in shutting down Saturday evening’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Cole Tomas Allen, recently shared posts on the left-wing social media platform Bluesky arguing that President Trump should be “tried for high crimes,” that ICE should be abolished, and that Trump ally Elon Musk is “a Nazi,” the Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson scooped. Furthermore, in a manifesto first described by the New York Post, Allen said he was “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday morning that top Trump administration officials were the target of the attempted shooting rampage.

Barack Obama Did Not Just Say That About the WHCA Shooting
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/04/27/barack-obama-did-not-just-say-that-about-the-whca-shooting-n2675098
…the media and now former presidents are trying to play the ‘we don’t know game.’…
via Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok
The shooter: – donated to Kamala – called Trump a r*pist pedo – wrote he wanted to target Trump officials – dozens of anti-Trump posts – house had democrat candidate campaign sign
Obama: “motive unknown”

One LOOK at This Senator’s X Timeline and You Can Tell Where WHCD Shooter Got a LOT of His Talking Points
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/04/27/just-guess-which-senator-whcd-gunmen-quoted-very-often-hint-he-compares-republicans-to-nazis-a-lot-n2427577
One of the scariest parts of the WHCD shooting is that the gunman was influenced by the very ordinary, everyday Democrat talking points. The things he wrote in his manifesto (and in his past tweets and posts) could have come from several Democrats on X.

Suspected WHCD shooter and another would-be Trump assassin have a lot in common — and it’s not just Ukraine
https://www.theblaze.com/news/suspected-whcd-shooter-shares-more-in-common-with-ryan-routh-than-just-a-ukraine-obsession?
Like Ryan Routh, suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Allen appears to have been steeped in unhinged Democratic propaganda…Besides making donations to the same party and obsessing over the same foreign power, both Routh and Allen were apparently radicalized in recent years with the help of Democrats’ incendiary rhetoric.

‘You’re a dead man!’ Enraged family members explode at arrested male accused of fatally shooting boy, 15, at NYC playground
https://www.theblaze.com/news/youre-a-dead-man-enraged-family-members-explode-at-arrested-male-accused-of-fatally-shooting-boy-15-at-nyc-playground
The victim’s older sister, 17-year-old Nellie Pierre, had harsh words for those recording video of the attack on her brother, telling the New York Daily News that “everyone there recording did nothing. They treated it all as entertainment. He was already beat up. He was helpless, and they shot him.”
(That is today’s “video, everything, but do nothing to help, because maybe I might be able to monetize it somehow”, culture. People have videoed people drowning and done nothing. – jlr)

Apr 28

Book recommendation: First 30 Seconds by Ed Monk.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/book-recommendation-first-30-seconds
I don’t recall the last time I got so mad reading a book. And I am not mad at the author by any stretch of the imagination, but I am seething at bureaucrats and politicians who have blocked, impeded and belittled armed personnel in schools…The other thing that makes this book a must-read is the amount of information that was not easily available to the public for any reason…Go buy the book, read it, absorb it, get mad, and wonder why there are people in positions of being responsible for the safety of kids who are willing to go to the mattresses just to keep things the way they are right now and keep the kids being easy targets for murder.

From FaceBook
https://vineofliberty.com/2026/04/28/from-facebook/
Post by Michael Smith on Facebook: https://michaelsmith.substack.com/p/hitlers-mirror
Hitler’s Mirror: When Germans stared into Hitler’s mirror, instead of themselves, they saw dirty Jews. When the American left does it, they see Trump.
Both were wrong.
“The most impenetrable fortress is not a citadel built of concrete and steel; it is a delusional mind built from lies and raw emotion. It’s way past the time when a rational and moral people understand that while the American left’s causes are not real, their violence most certainly is…………….”
(let’s see if I get a time-out or disapeared b fascist foio because I used the word hitler in posting this to fascist folio – jlr)

Democratic Lawmakers on Neighbors Not Enemies Act
https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/democratic-lawmakers-on-neighbors-not-enemies-act/654807
Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and other Democratic lawmakers held a news conference to discuss the Neighbors Not Enemies Act that would repeal the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
embedded video – could not be played
video – 00:34:20 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN2TYGv-A_4

Dangerous Democrats Continue to Leave DHS Unfunded As Political Violence Escalates
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/dangerous-democrats-continue-to-leave-dhs-unfunded-as-political-violence-escalates.html
We’re at day 73 and counting of the partial government shutdown. Meanwhile, those porkers continue to get paid, engorge themselves at the trough of taxpayer dollars, and defraud the people.
The Democrat party is the enemy of the people.

It keeps happening for a reason.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/it-keeps-happening-for-a-reason
Another nutjob, apparently and unexpectedly a Liberal Lefty tried to go Banzai and kill whomever he could from the top tier of this administration…yhere needs to be a rethinking on the shit leaders on the Left think they can say, but it won’t happen because they less-than-secretly wish their political enemies get to suffer or die so they can get more power… They feel safe to do their incitement because they are allowed to be safe…Nothing will change till we get rid of this polite immunity for those who wish us harm. And I fear that there is a lack of genital fortitude to do so by people in charge who are too squeamish and which will lead to things turning real ugly. No, I do not see a happy ending anywhere, or even a quiet one.

The Culture That Bred Cole Allen
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-culture-that-bred-cole-allen
How does the unacceptable become acceptable?…it is impossible not to see the weekend’s thwarted attack in the context of our increasingly upside-down culture, one in which political speech is derided as violence and political violence is tolerated, excused, and even celebrated… just head down to Washington Square Park and ask the NYU co-eds and twentysomethings if they think murder is ever an appropriate political tool. just head down to Washington Square Park and ask the NYU co-eds and twentysomethings if they think murder is ever an appropriate political tool.
video – https://www.instagram.com/p/DXpuAKpCRNk/

Brewer fantasizes about Trump’s death AGAIN — and even Wisconsin Democrats are appalled
https://www.theblaze.com/news/brewer-fantasizes-about-trumps-death-again-and-even-wisconsin-democrats-are-appalled
The brewer wrote the following last weekend after yet another attempt on Trump’s life, this time at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner: Well, we almost got #freebeerday. Either a brother or sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a a [sic] positive news cycle. We’ll never know. Regardless, we stand at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens…Bangstad wrote in a post on Tuesday, “The day ‘he’ dies will do a LOT to end that suffering. Sure, JD Vance will bring with him a more intelligent treachery to the world stage if Trump passes — but when the symbol of American weakness, ignorance, and bigotry finally breathes his last breath — the entire world will be able to breathe a little easier.”

‘Mad Men’ actress accuses Trump of staging WHCA assassination attempt
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/04/28/mad-men-actress-accuses-trump-of-staging-whca-assassination-attempt-1635352/
January Jones is apparently hopping on the boat with people who have refused to utilize critical thinking skills in the wake of Saturday’s shooting. She posted an Instagram story implying that the horrifying event was staged, as if the hateful vitriol from the left exists in a vacuum with no influence over anyone who might genuinely believe the claims that President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, women, minorities, etc…“Do you have a boring dinner party coming up, and lots of losers and fake friends have rsvp’d? Are you looking for help staging a small scale low risk assassination attempt to get out of it? Look no further, the US Government is your man, call us now at 1-800-wehate-americans and they’ll add a bonus podium to talk at people at length about how cool and strong you are and ruin everyone’s evening,” she wrote, adding the caveat “This is is NOT a one time offer, you can do it as many times are you want, taxes don’t apply.” Unfortunately, she’s not alone in this lunacy.

DOJ Moves Against White House Ballroom Lawsuit in Wake of Shooting: ‘Enough Is Enough’
https://www.westernjournal.com/doj-moves-white-house-ballroom-lawsuit-wake-shooting-enough-enough/
National Trust President and CEO Carol Quillen issued a response to Shumate’s letter Monday, writing, “We’re grateful to the Secret Service and DC law enforcement officers for keeping the President and all guests safe at this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. We are not planning to voluntarily dismiss our lawsuit, which endangers no one and which respectfully asks the Administration to follow the law,”

DeSantis Unveils Florida Congressional Map Poised to Deliver 4 Additional House Seats to Republicans
https://istandforfreedom.com/desantis-florida-house-seats/
For years, Democrats have aggressively redrawn congressional maps to tilt the scales in their favor, from California to Virginia. Most Republicans have watched from the sidelines, wringing their hands about optics and procedure. But one governor just picked up the pen…So what are Republicans supposed to do? Keep playing nice while Democrats rewrite the rules?… Predictably, Democrats are losing their minds: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries warned DeSantis to “F around and find out”—classy stuff from the guy who wants to be Speaker…Funny how the same people who celebrated Virginia’s power grab are suddenly concerned about fair play…

Can Congress Kill the ‘Kill’ Switch? UPDATE January ‘Yes’ List Added
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/27/can-congress-kill-the-kill-switch-n3814350
This is more than mere speculation, as Congress is the one that let it live. Specifically, 57 Republicans voted in January of this year NOT to turn off development and installation of the obnoxious, Biden administration Big Brother mandate to determine if you were capable of driving your vehicle starting…checks watch…THIS YEAR.
FORD’S NIGHTMARE TRUCK IS HERE — They just patented a truck that you won’t own, but will OWN YOU!
video – 00:04:05 – https://x.com/i/status/2048765296576471457

The Left’s Sneaky War on Free Speech: It’s Called ‘Epistemic Violence’
https://hotair.com/walter-hudson/2026/04/27/the-lefts-sneaky-war-on-free-speech-its-called-epistemic-violence-n3814271
Epistemic violence, stripped of its academic pretensions, is simply critical thinking. Apply reason and logic to understand the world, and the left brands you guilty. They have deliberately appropriated the word “critical” for their theories—critical race theory, critical gender theory, critical social theory—because “critical thinking” carries a positive connotation among rational people. Yet their version means the opposite: rejecting objective standards in favor of subjective “knowledges.”…Epistemic injustice, they claim, occurs when one form of knowledge—typically Western, scientific, or empirical—is deemed more valid than others. This framework prioritizes “lived experience” over evidence, elevating personal anecdote as unassailable expertise. Rugged individualism, the scientific method, a strong work ethic, grammar, and even timeliness get condemned as tools of “white supremacy.” Hate speech, they argue, sustains this “injustice” and must be curbed…The solution, in their view? Construct freedom of speech by limiting it for disfavored groups. “If there are groups that are going to use their freedom of speech to use hate speech and curb the freedom of speech of other people, those groups need to be stopped,” says Brazilian academic Victor Foresti Castro. Criminalize homophobia, racism, transphobia, he says. Position the state as protector of the “weakest entity.”

It Must Be Tuesday: Yet Another Seismic Event Shakes up the Persian Gulf
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/04/28/the-persian-gulf-just-got-shook-up-again-n4952288
The United Arab Emirates’ leaving OPEC as of May 1 is a much bigger deal…Dubai also has itself a nice little pipeline bypassing Hormuz…If ZH is correct, then UAE is both more hobbled by OPEC, and has more capacity to make up for lost production in Iran…”The UAE likely sees this as the end of Iran as a major market competitor for years to come,”…and so the Emirates “are moving to fill that supply gap permanently.”

Hakeem Jeffries is STILL Melting Down Over DeSantis ‘Ronmander’ After Cheering Virginia Gerrymander
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/04/28/hakeem-jeffries-ron-desantis-gerrymander-dummymander-n2427617
Jeffries keeps threatening to see DeSantis in court. Ok, dude. Everyone heard you the first 10 times…It’s fine when they do it. They just don’t like it when the tables turn. The Democrats believe they live by a different set of rules…In the last decade, the GOP has basically decimated the DNC in Florida. Sorry, but cope and seethe, Hakeem.

Arkansas Lawmakers Haven’t Forgotten ATF Raid That Led to Death of Airport Executive
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/28/arkansas-lawmakers-havent-forgotten-atf-raid-that-led-to-death-of-airport-executive-n1232359
On Monday, 30 Arkansas state senators held a press conference with Malinowski’s widow to announce they’re seeking a federal investigation into Malinowski’s death, and are sending a letter to President Donald Trump outlining their request.

Connecticut Governor Wants to Ban Glocks. Guess What That’s Doing to Gun Sales.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/28/connecticut-governor-wants-to-ban-glocks-guess-what-thats-doing-to-gun-sales-n1232361

Taking New Mexico Back, One Vote at a Time
https://bearingarms.com/kerry-slone/2026/04/28/taking-new-mexico-back-one-vote-at-a-time-n1232358
For Ergo Grip’s CEO and President, Mira O’Connell, that time has passed. Building upon her 15 years of law enforcement experience in New Mexico and her firearms industry experience, Mira decided to infiltrate the “anti-2A” state capitol to bring about positive change, and is petitioning to get on the ballot for the 2026 U.S. senatorial race.

Pennsylvania Democrat Uses Trump Assassination Attempt to Push Ban on ‘Military-Grade’ Guns
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/28/pennsylvania-democrat-uses-trump-assassination-attempt-to-push-ban-on-military-grade-guns-n1232360
In addition to the fact that the suspect was armed with arms that cannot even remotely be described as “military-grade”, he apparently took advantage of no “lethal loopholes” in state or federal law. The suspect purchased the shotgun and handgun at California gun stores, where he underwent and passed a background check, as well as sitting through the state’s mandatory 10-day waiting period before he could obtain the guns he’d purchased. Those purchases were separated by several months, and there’s no reason why either of them would have raised any red flags at the time. So what the heck is Kenyatta talking about?

Apr 29

‘I don’t have to listen to this B.S.’: Watch Lee Zeldin school purple-haired member of Congress on American law
Lee Zeldin, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency for the second Trump administration, has delivered a schooling to a purple-haired member of Congress on the law under which his agency operates. It happened during a congressional hearing and left U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat from Connecticut, literally stunned and flustered. ‘You’re very defensive about not knowing the two biggest landmark Supreme Court cases of the last year with regards to your question’
video – 00:0:25 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2048895480151593427
Schadenfreude in the morning

Yes Kings!
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/yes-kings
Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) bows to King Charles III (that is The Third, not one hundred and eleventh) like she suddenly loves the idea of kings.
Next, somebody is going to say it is a cultural thing, and I am a racist for questioning her motives to show submission to a foreign potentate.
If the video does not start on cue, go back to 00:24 and play it. If somebody can clip just the scene from 00:24 to 00:29 to add to the post, I would appreciate it.
Video – 00:52:32 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS4-mSHIFyQ

Dem Rep: Actually, It’s Donald Trump Who’s Responsible for the Attempts on His Life
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/04/29/of-course-this-dem-rep-blamed-trump-for-the-third-assassination-attempt-on-his-life-at-the-whca-dinner-n2675223
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) remains at the top of the Democratic Party’s attack dog list. President Trump was targeted again at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday by Cole Allen. He was armed and nearly entered the ballroom at the Washington Hilton, but he tripped before he could breach the venue. He was later apprehended by federal agents, and he admitted that he was targeting Trump officials. His manifesto was clear that the president was also a target, the primary one. And Goldman believes Trump is responsible for the attempts on his life or something.
video – 00:00:22 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2049162840892735787
No, sir. You and your party are getting owned because saying this Democrat or that Democrat is scum is very different from saying Trump must be taken out, he’s a threat to democracy, and it’s time for maximum warfare. One is ad hominem—you can argue whether that’s right—but the Democrats have for years peddled assassination-inspiring/civil war porn.

Democrats Always Act Surprised When One of Their Own Tries to Murder Trump
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/04/28/democrats-always-act-surprised-when-one-of-their-own-tries-to-murder-trump-n2675166
In their attempt to get President Donald Trump killed, Democrats are hitting zero. You might think that’s a glib way to put it, but how else can you explain the repeated attempts to inspire someone to kill the president and the deflated “we have to condemn all political violence” that inevitably follows? It’s performance art – they have to pretend to be shocked that someone acted on what they’d been openly hinting they’d like to have happen, because otherwise the next person might not be inspired by their rhetoric to pick up the mantle and try to finish the job.
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Politeness
https://vineofliberty.com/2026/04/29/politeness/
This book (“Friday” by Robert A. Heinlein – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_(novel) is an important one for anyone interested in politics, in my opinion. This quote,(see article) though, is important right now. RIGHT now. Politeness is dying. And it’s considerably more significant than a riot, though we’ve plenty of those, as well, despite their “mostly peaceful” monikers. While I’ve no desire to go back to a time where I would be forced to wear a corset every day and was bound to cook, clean, and bear children for my husband simply because I’m female… I do want to live in a time where doing so is not maligned or looked down upon. Or bad-mouthed. I’m so very tired of many things right now, but the impoliteness is really getting to me right now. You can disagree with someone and be polite. It’s why the South invented the term, “Bless your heart!” Everyone knows if a Southern person says that to you, it’s the equivalent of saying to fuck off… but it’s not the SAME. It’s polite. Why does it matter if we’re using polite language? I mean, if everyone knows that the polite language means the same thing as the brutal language, why bother to use the polite version? Because it’s social lubricant, that’s why………………

Liz Wheeler drops shocking poll that should terrify every conservative after WHCD assassination attempt
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-liz-wheeler-show/liz-wheeler-poll-conservative-whcd-assassination-attempt
According to an April 2025 poll (https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/Assassination-Culture.pdf) conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute in partnership with Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, 56% of self-identified left-of-center respondents said murdering Trump would be at least “somewhat justified,” with 14.1% calling it “completely justified.”…“Fifty-six percent of people on the left — that’s not just the mainstream media and the loudest influencers on X and YouTube, the freaks of the Democratic Party and Congress. This is over half of Democrats,”…“That means if you walk up to someone on a street, you meet a neighbor, a co-worker, and you find out that they voted for Kamala Harris or that they lean left, they are more likely than not going to justify a potential assassination of
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Support for Political Violence Among Americans
https://research.skeptic.com/support-for-political-violence-among-americans/
New survey reveals 1 in 3 younger Americans support political violence, with highest rates among very liberal respondents and those with graduate degrees. 53% of Black GenZ expressed agreement that violence is necessary for social change.

Over 40% of Liberals Say Political Violence is Justified
https://gellerreport.com/2026/04/over-40-of-liberals-say-political-violence-is-justified.html/
pic – https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HG42Wpha8AARNCe?format=jpg&name=small

Minneapolis Residents Are Begging for Police Protection After Elected ‘Defund the Police’ Politicians
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/04/29/minneapolis-30-car-break-ins-n2675237
Minneapolis was the birthplace of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Defund the Police movements. The Left insisted we didn’t need police to keep our communities safe, that violence and crime were social constructs, and if we sent social workers and boatloads of welfare dollars into our cities, the problems would go away. That wasn’t true, of course, and now crime is rampant in blue cities and the residents who voted for such policies are regretting it.
(Schadenfreude – that feeling you get when you watch liberals FA and FO that elections actually have consequences – sometimes negative consequences for them – then whine about it –  jlr ) 
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Data centers are devouring the electrical grid. Is a crash around the corner?
https://www.theblaze.com/return/data-centers-are-devouring-the-electrical-grid-is-a-crash-around-the-corner
America’s scramble for technological dominance is outpacing its power supply.
The technology industry tends to describe its obstacles as temporary inconveniences, friction to be optimized away. The power problem is not that kind of obstacle. A modern data center, before it is a real-estate asset or a monument to computational ambition, is an electrical system. IT equipment can represent 95% of its total demand. Cooling systems are themselves power-electronics loads. For the highest-performing AI facilities, operators have begun to omit traditional backup protection for their servers, relying instead on software checkpointing and restart logic, because the weight of the electrical infrastructure has become something to work around. “Construction complete” does not mean the facility can be turned on. Completion requires that the utility interface, the internal electrical architecture, the backup strategy, and the thermal system are synchronized and tested. The construction is the least of it.

What Would Mike Rowe Do?
https://michaelsmith.substack.com/p/what-would-mike-rowe-do
Results matter more than intent but which of the two do you think drives more of government action?
…politicians are not in government to deliver results, they are there do write laws, create programs and spend money.

Self-Avowed ‘Socialist Socialite’ Roasted After Mocking Budget Dress Worn by Hegseth’s Wife
https://www.westernjournal.com/self-avowed-socialist-socialite-roasted-mocking-budget-dress-worn-hegseths-wife/
Socialism is often defined as a system that rejects private ownership in favor of public or collective control. Wealth, in that framework, is meant to be redistributed rather than accumulated.
A socialite, by contrast, is someone who moves comfortably within elite, often affluent circles. Wealth in that world is not just present — it’s performed, curated, and displayed.
Put simply, one ideology treats wealth as a problem to be solved, and the other treats it as a marker of status to be celebrated.
this inane X post from “socialist socialite” Ella Devi – ella devi @ellad3vi – “Pete Hegseth’s wife wore a dress from Temu to the white house correspondents dinner (I’m not joking)
https://x.com/ellad3vi/status/2048613115718152383
Thankfully, the mockery wasn’t far behind Devi, with many pointing out that her remarks were as airheaded as the entire concept of being a “socialist socialite.”

In Cities Across America, Homeless Services Are Doled Out Based on Race and Sexual Identity
https://freebeacon.com/america/exclusive-in-cities-across-america-homeless-services-are-doled-out-based-on-race-and-sexual-identity/
Rolled out in October 2024, the Multnomah Services and Screening Tool awards up to 5 points to non-white, non-straight applicants who speak English as a second language—more than the 4 points it would award a domestic violence survivor with a six-year-old child who has been homeless for over a year. The rubric, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon through a public records request, is “designed to prioritize … BIPOC households, LGBTQIA2S+, [and] people with disabilities,” according to a Frequently Asked Questions pamphlet. It awards 1 point for “interest in LGBTQ services,” 2 points for “English as a second language,” and another 2 points for “interest in culturally specific services,” a catch-all term for Portland’s race-based housing programs. Maryland and Minnesota use the index to allocate funds for housing, rental assistance, and, in Maryland’s case, street outreach and emergency shelters, according to documents from both states. A third state, Oregon, used the index to allocate rental assistance from 2021 to 2023.

Warmth of Collectivism Mamdani Declares ‘Historic’ Crisis After Blowing Deadline, Pushes State Bailout
https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/04/28/warmth-of-collectivism-mamdani-declares-historic-crisis-after-blowing-deadline-pushes-state-bailout-n2201804
New York City’s self-described democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has made history, just not the kind worth bragging about. Barely months into office, he has blown past a statutory budget deadline for the first time since 2015, declared a fiscal crisis of “historic magnitude,” and responded to a $5.4 billion budget gap the way any good socialist would: by asking someone else to pay for it. Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin appeared together at City Hall on Tuesday to announce they would delay the executive budget, originally due May 1, until May 12 while lobbying Albany to bail out a city that, under their preferred ideology, was supposed to be thriving.
(It’s not enough to banrupt NYC, he is trying to bankrupt NY state as well – jlr)

Limousine Leeches: Sec. Brooke Rollins Drops a BOMBSHELL About People Who Are Receiving SNAP
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2026/04/29/limousine-leeches-sec-brooke-rollins-drops-a-bombshell-on-some-of-the-people-receiving-snap-n2427653
Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins – https://x.com/SecRollins/status/2049131612835586505
In just ONE state, 14,000 individuals receiving SNAP benefits were driving LUXURY VEHICLES!  3 Bentleys  3 Ferraris  11 Lamborghinis 59 Maseratis  141 Porsches  244 Alfa Romeos  306 Land Rovers  2,098 Teslas. And this is just in ONE STATE. We need to defend our nutrition programs for those most in need, not for scammers gaming the system. These individuals are taking advantage of the American taxpayer. And together with @VP’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, this ends NOW. 4.3M Americans have been moved off of SNAP — but more work to be done!
video – 00:00:41 – https://x.com/i/status/2049131612835586505

9th Circuit Court Rules Federal Officers Can Use Crowd Control Munitions Against Anti-ICE Protesters
https://americanjournaldaily.com/court-ice-protests/
The line between protest and riot has been intentionally erased, replaced by a violent entitlement that treats federal property as a playground for destruction. This chaos isn’t an accident; it’s the whole point, designed to intimidate and dismantle the very foundations of our society. This assault on civil order has often been cheered on by activist courts, where judges seem more interested in protecting the “rights” of rioters than the safety of law-abiding citizens. The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against a group of anti-ICE protesters, blocking a lower court judge’s order that barred federal officers from using less-lethal munitions to disperse unruly crowds at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon. The facility has been the site of ongoing violent demonstrations since June 2025. The 2-1 panel decision, issued on Monday by judges Kenneth Lee, Eric Tung, and Ana de Alba, the last of whom dissented, states that protesters failed to show that federal officers deployed crowd-control munitions as a means of retaliation, rejecting the plaintiffs’ arguments that their First Amendment rights were violated. The decision is a permanent administrative stay granted to the Department of Justice (DOJ) pending further appeal proceedings, in which the panel ruled that the Trump administration is “likely to succeed on the merits” of the case.

Armed Response — Not Gun Control — Stopped the D.C. Hilton Attack
https://txgunrights.org/armed-response-not-gun-control-stopped-the-d-c-hilton-attack/
What ultimately stopped the threat was not a regulation or a policy. It was an armed response. Security personnel and law enforcement officers on site were able to intervene and neutralize the situation before it escalated further. This outcome aligns with a large body of research showing that the presence of armed defenders significantly reduces both the duration and severity of violent incidents. When resistance is immediate, attackers are far more likely to be stopped before causing widespread harm.
Why This Matters for Texas
The policy implications are especially relevant for states like Texas, which have taken a different approach. Rather than focusing on restricting access, Texas has increasingly emphasized the role of lawful self-defense. Constitutional Carry, along with strong legal protections for justified use of force, reflects an understanding that public safety depends not just on prevention, but on the ability to respond when prevention fails.

New Funding Bill for DOJ Includes Big Cut to ATF Budget, Deregulation of Some NFA Items
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/29/new-funding-bill-for-doj-includes-big-cut-to-atf-budget-deregulation-of-some-nfa-items-n1232370
House Republicans are advancing a funding bill for the Department of Justice that includes a major cut in funding to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, as well as measures meant to fully remove suppressors and short-barreled firearms from the regulatory framework of the National Firearms Act.

New Pew Research Confirms ‘Assault Weapons’ Rarely Used in Crimes
http://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/29/new-pew-research-confirms-assault-weapons-rarely-used-in-crimes-n1232365

New York Defends Ban on Body Armor, Insists It’s Too Dangerous for Civilians
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/28/new-york-defends-ban-on-body-armor-insists-its-too-dangerous-for-civilians-n1232364

Apr 30

The Alamo fell in blood and turned Texas into a cause
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-alamo-fell-in-blood-and-turned-texas-into-a-cause/vi-AA21U21g#details
The Battle of the Alamo was a crushing military defeat for the Texan defenders, but the brutality of the siege gave the rebellion a far more powerful cause. Outnumbered and overrun after nearly two weeks under bombardment, the defenders were wiped out in a final assault that showed there would be no mercy. But instead of ending the revolt, the massacre hardened Texan resolve and turned Remember the Alamo into a rallying cry. What changed here was not the battlefield result, but the political and emotional force that helped drive Texas to independence just weeks later.
(https://tnm.me/ – Texas Nationalist Movement advocates for Texas independence from the United States, for Texas to become a sovereign nation AGAIN. – jlr)

What Does the Future Hold on Political Violence
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/30/what-does-the-future-hold-on-political-violence-n1232379
…Democrats are not interested in turning down the temperature or abandoning political violence; they are only disappointed that the “lone wolves” they inspired have been unsuccessful. Progressives see political violence as their birthright and will not stop deploying it unless they are stopped with immediate and severe consequences. While Democrats will deliver tired platitudes about political violence having no place in our country, the truth is that violence has been central to their strategy for a long time. From the race riots of the 1960s to the terror bombings of the 1970s to modern-day assassinations, leftists have regularly wielded violence……………

Report on WHCD Shooting Suspect Stumbles Upon the Most Troubling Aspect of Them All
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/04/29/report-on-alleged-whcd-shooting-suspect-stumbles-upon-the-most-troubling-aspect-of-them-all-n2201833
The Democrat Party has been so successful at mainstreaming the radicalism and extremism within its ranks to the point that media outlets and so-called “extremism experts” either don’t recognize it or refuse to acknowledge that the obvious radicalism and extremism that exists among the Democrat faithful, which leads to assassination attempts, is radical and extreme anymore.

A Surprisingly Unanimous SCOTUS Decision Renders a Blow to the Relentless Targeting of Pro-Life Groups
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/04/30/a-surprisingly-unanimous-scotus-decision-renders-a-blow-to-the-relentless-targeting-of-pro-life-groups-n2201858
…NJ pro-life pregnancy can proceed with challenge against subpoena that asked for all kinds of records, including donor information…
The Supreme Court handed the First Choice pro-life pregnancy center a huge victory Wednesday, ruling that it can challenge a New Jersey investigation seeking its private donor information. In a 9-0 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the high court held that the state attorney general’s 2022 subpoena, sent after the creation of a “Reproductive Rights Strike Force,” was chilling to First Amendment freedoms.

Obama, Mamdani, other Democrats throw ugly tantrums after SCOTUS strikes racial gerrymander
https://www.theblaze.com/news/obama-mamdani-and-other-libs-throw-ugly-tantrums-after-scotus-cracks-down-on-racist-gerrymandering
Democrats and other radicals have framed the Supreme Court’s ruling against unconstitutional racial gerrymanders in apocalyptic terms…Their case, Louisiana v. Callais, ultimately made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled on Wednesday that “because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State’s use of race in creating SB8, and that map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”…Beyond striking down the racial gerrymander in its 6-3 decision, the court provided some much-needed clarity on “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act can indeed provide a compelling reason for race-based districting.”…”§2 imposes liability only when the evidence supports a strong inference that the State intentionally drew its districts to afford minority voters less opportunity because of their race.”… the court’s clarifications appeared to be aimed at providing states with guidance on how to comply with Section 2 of the VRA without unduly discriminating on the basis of race and violating the U.S. Constitution,

Hakeem Jeffries Launches Wild Attack on SCOTUS in Wake of Voting Rights Decision
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/04/30/hakeem-jeffries-remarks-about-scotus-n2201864
…the fevered, unhinged remarks from the Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08). Yet, here you have Jeffries going off on the Supreme Court with highly charged rhetoric, saying, “Everything is on the table – everything – to deal with this corrupt MAGA majority that is issuing political opinions that are designed to bolster the prospects of the Republican Party,        and we will not allow them to succeed.“..Democrats are losing what little they have left of their minds after the decision by the Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais, the Voting Rights Act case that may lead to redistricting that helps Republicans. That can’t be allowed to happen, or the Democrats might lose power.
video – 00:00:29 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2049879559890207037

Democrats Are Really Screwed Now
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/30/democrats-are-really-screwed-now-n4952380
Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday that she is suspending her campaign for the U.S. Senate, citing a lack of financial resources…Her exit leaves Democrats in an uncomfortable spot: their presumptive nominee is a self-described communist with a Nazi tattoo and a taste for racism and misogyny…”In November, Susan Collins, a proven leader with an indisputable record of delivering for Maine, will face a Nazi sympathizing self-proclaimed communist with a record of hate-mongering and dishonesty.”
video – 00:01:00 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2049841114690011197

US Jobless Claims Hit a Number Not Seen Since Nixon Was President
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/04/30/us-jobless-claims-hit-a-number-not-seen-since-nixon-was-president-n2201863
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits tumbled to their lowest level more than 50 years last week despite a number of economic headwinds including the war in Iran. U.S. jobless aid applications for the week ending April 25 fell by 26,000 to 189,000, down from the previous week’s 215,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s well below the 214,000 new applications analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet were expecting. ,Filings for unemployment benefits are considered a proxy for U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.

Illinois Judge Rules Shooting Was Self-Defense, but Armed Citizen Could Still Face Prison Sentence
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/29/illinois-judge-rules-shooting-was-self-defense-but-armed-citizen-could-still-face-prison-sentence-n1232372
It doesn’t appear that Pacheco was actually prohibited from possessing a firearm. He just didn’t go through all of the steps to acquire the Second Amendment permission slip before having a gun in his car. In 29 states, that wouldn’t be an issue, but Pacheco has the misfortune of living in a state that makes it a felony offense to transport or possess a loaded firearm in a vehicle without a carry permit.

I am having a moment of cognitive dissonance.

I am brand new to “the Right.” In some ways, I’m only here under protest, because the Left has scampered so far Left that I can’t be there anymore. There are definitely points I’ve been “far right of center” on since early on (2A comes to mind), but those were outliers. I’ve always been into rainbows and ren faires. I still am. A good portion of my friends are gay or pansexual. Many are pagan. These days a larger portion of them are also Conservative, but that’s due to attrition and stupidity, not me.

So explain to me, please, why I am schooling conservatives on FaceBook about the Founders of our country? Chris responded to my question by telling me that most people haven’t read the things I’ve read, or read it all so long ago that they’ve forgotten, or they’re just ignorant because that’s a truism on the Right as much as on the Left (well, maybe not AS MUCH, but you know what I mean). But that should not be true.

Trump posted this on his FaceBook page:

I have to admit, I cringed when I read it. One doesn’t “ace” a cognitive exam. And it’s not … a crowning achievement. I’m glad he passed. I didn’t have any concern that he would fail. But this just looks stupid. I hate it when he makes himself look stupid. *sigh*

However, it sparked commentary. I don’t usually read the comments, because most of the people are just plain stupid. But I decided to go read today. I saw the following (names removed as I’m not asking permission):

“A requirement to be a veteran before becoming Commander In Chief would also be a good thing.”

My response was immediate: “There are a lot of very poignant and important reasons our Framers did not want that. While it would be *nice*, I could not in good conscience support any bill suggesting that it be required.” And the response to my response was basically, “Please elaborate.”

Now, the gentleman in question was not being rude. There was no name calling, but there didn’t seem to be a warm fuzzy feeling either. It was a challenge. I didn’t feel like spending 4 hours getting all my receipts together (I have them, but I wasn’t on my computer at the time and finding it all while on my phone is difficult at best). While doing that, I received this gem:

“Oh, you mean like General George Washington, Colonel James Madison, Colonel Thomas Jefferson, Lt Col Alexander Hamilton, Lt Col James Monroe, and 17 other veterans? SMDH…”

I patiently (okay somewhat impatiently, but not rudely) explained that my problem wasn’t with vets being President, it was with a requirement that the President be a vet. Now I’m getting crickets, of course. But I wanted to share my reply to the original poster:

“(Name Redacted) https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2013/07/why-founding-fathers-would-object-todays-military/66668/ … This says it better than me (tho I disagree with parts of it). But to quote one of the important bits… “The founders also, we well know, had a pronounced fear of and antipathy toward standing armies — large, permanent, professional military establishments — because of the dual temptations for domestic oppression and international adventurism by those in power, the drain on public resources, and, not least, the not-infrequent aberrant behavior of those in uniform.”

To require all presidential candidates to have served in the military would be to take power away from the citizenry. While I find a vast number of today’s citizenry to be abhorrent, it’s still my duty to give all due consideration to the Framers’ opinions on such things. I don’t believe they could have imagined today’s political climate, but they knew all forms of politics were subject to corruption. Hence why we are a constitutional Republic and not a democracy.

Or TLDR, it’s complicated but the Founders were worried about standing armies and their leaders. I suspect most had read the stories of Rome’s heyday, and wanted to avoid the trap of bread and circuses.”

I stand by my statement (and neither person has written back to me in the couple of hours since I wrote that). The Founders of this great country had just walked away from an oppressive government run by a tyrant. To insist that all Presidents going forward be military would be to exchange one tyrant for another. And while we can play nice with Britain now, at the time it was pretty touch and go.

Now… if you want to discuss requirements for VOTERS, that’s a whole other kettle of fish.

Initially, the only people who could vote in a newly formed America were white, adult males who owned property and paid taxes. Those rules were set by the States, not by the Federal government. “The framers and state leaders viewed voting as a privilege tied to independence, virtue, and stake in the community—not a universal natural right for all adults (https://theamericanleader.org/timeline-era/expanding-white-mens-right-to-vote-1787-1856/).”

Today, the bar for voters is so low that our Founding Fathers would weep. You have to be a citizen (but only 36 states require some form of ID). You have to be at least 18 years old. Most states have residency requirements, and you have to register. Felons can’t vote while incarcerated (except in a few states, where they can continue to do so), but few states restrict them from doing so once they’re back in society. Only 39 states allow a judge to take away the right to vote if someone is mentally incapable of voting (when legally adjudicated as incompetent).

Despite this deplorably low bar, only 64% of citizens voted in the last two Presidential elections… and they were considered historically unusual for the number of voters. Only about 50% of eligible voters voted in the most recent midterms.

Yes, everyone who didn’t vote is a Deplorable. And I stand by that.

How did we get here? The freest nation on earth and we can’t get 3/4 of our citizens to vote.

I like Starship Troopers (Heinlein) method for choosing voters. Only veterans can vote, but anyone can serve. If you want to serve, they’re legally bound to find a job you can do, even if that’s just greeting people at a doorway. Your service to your country buys your franchise. It means you have skin in the game. I’ve always found that to be… a good idea. It’s not a guarantee that the veteran is a better person than the general citizenry, but it’s a better indicator than what we currently have.

  This book is an important one for anyone interested in politics, in my opinion. This quote, though, is important right now. RIGHT now.

Politeness is dying. And it’s considerably more significant than a riot, though we’ve plenty of those, as well, despite their “mostly peaceful” monikers. While I’ve no desire to go back to a time where I would be forced to wear a corset every day and was bound to cook, clean, and bear children for my husband simply because I’m female… I do want to live in a time where doing so is not maligned or looked down upon. Or bad-mouthed.

I’m so very tired of many things right now, but the impoliteness is really getting to me right now. You can disagree with someone and be polite. It’s why the South invented the term, “Bless your heart!” Everyone knows if a Southern person says that to you, it’s the equivalent of saying to fuck off… but it’s not the SAME. It’s polite.

Why does it matter if we’re using polite language? I mean, if everyone knows that the polite language means the same thing as the brutal language, why bother to use the polite version? Because it’s social lubricant, that’s why.

Right now, the level of impoliteness is so damn bad. There’s sand in the gears, and no social lubricant at all. Important parts that really require lubrication are not getting it, and instead are being actively fed with things that gum up the works. That thin veil of politeness that was used until sometime in the 80s? That kept the machinery running. And now it isn’t. The machinery, the social machinery, is breaking down.

I will say that I noticed it first on the Right. That doesn’t mean it appeared there first, mind you… it’s just where I saw it. I ran into a couple of pundits (Ann Coulter immediately comes to mind, and Ben Shapiro from 10 years ago but NOT today) who really bothered me, and it put me off anything to do with the Right for a long time. Chris will tell you that anytime he tried to talk to me about something positive, I’d pull out, “Well, that Ann woman was just swearing and being a shit.” It was not good.

At the time, say 10 years ago, I didn’t see it on the Left. I see it daily on the Left, now. That could be entirely my perception, or it could be that the Left has gotten worse, or a combination of that and other factors, but the bottom line is that it doesn’t matter. Whether the Left learned it from the Right, or vice versa, or it all just happened at the same time, we’re here now. People are being so rude on a daily basis that it’s become endemic.

What scares me the most about all of it? America is (in my very strong opinion) the best country at the moment. We’re the most free, the most responsible (other than fiscally), the most helpful. We’re also the cheapest for our citizenry. And our people spend a good portion of their day complaining about how awful it all is. They have no idea what it’s like in other countries. Gas is $5.30 per gallon right now in Canada. In Britain it ranges from $7.50 to $8.10 per gallon. And those are the “free” countries. Housing is more expensive in Canada and Britain. Health care is, too, even if the cost is hidden. Food is ridiculously more expensive in both of those countries. Our citizens have no idea how they are faring in the world. They really don’t.

Our society is dying. If we don’t fix this soon… and by soon I mean in the next year or two at the outside… we’re not going to have a country anymore.

Post by Michael Smith on Facebook:

The most impenetrable fortress is not a citadel built of concrete and steel, it is a delusional mind built from lies and raw emotion.

It’s way past the time when a rational and moral people understand that while the American left’s causes are not real, their violence most certainly is.

Its not unusual for family and friends to describe a perpetrator of political violence as a “nice, quiet person who never bothered anybody”, because most of the time they are­­—but interestingly enough, the same gamma ray energy that transforms mild-mannered scientist Bruce Banner into a rage monster called the Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, transforms that quiet person into a monster who plans and executes an attack on the President of the United States and his cabinet.

Rather than radiation, this “gamma ray” energy is a concoction of hyperbole, half-truths, and lies constantly emitted from Democrat politicians, operatives, and social media influencers and then amplified and beamed directly into the brains and bloodstreams of the Democrat Bruce Banners by willing media mouthpieces who smuggle accusatory premises into dangerous minds via loaded questions as they hide behind a shroud of “objectivity.

Normal, moral people would be shocked if something they said or did cause threat, harm or death to another person and would question their reasoning behind what they did or said. Not so with the contemporary left, and I include the mainstream media in that group (because they are not just friends and allies of the left, they are the left).

President Trump’s interview with Nora O’Donnell last night was a perfect example. O’Donnell feigned concern for a few minutes but that quickly evaporated when she shifted the line of questioning from “Gee sir, we are so shocked that someone would do something like that, but what response do you have to the charge made by the person who wanted to kill you that you are a rapist, a pedophile, and a traitor?”

I found that question interesting in that Scott Pelley, O’Donnell’s risible co-anchor of 60 Minutes, had just minutes before casually and uncritically described the January 6th riot as “the insurrection” as if it had been declared such with legal finality and certainty.

The media did take a gut punch with this assassination attempt because the perpetrator expressed the degree to which he had been irradiated by the left-wing media narrative—and it stopped them for a fraction of a second. And I do mean a fraction of a second because the pause was not due to the assassination attempt, it was the temerity that someone would do it in their presence.

Their response was not to self-examine, they went immediately into cover your ass mode with both blame shifting and the “both sides” rhetoric they always use, but that isn’t working the way it once did. When a faction considers speech as violence (and even silence is defined that way) and the cold-blooded public execution of an insurance company executive is defined as “understandable”, you are not dealing with normal, moral people capable of self-reflection.

It isn’t like the world hasn’t seen this process before.

For all the left’s protestation that the right is filled with Nazis, they are essentially making accusations in a mirror. Their tactics of framing accusation as common knowledge are the same as used by Hitler’s movement in pre-WWII Germany to convince the populace that Jews were the real problem.

That shift didn’t happen in a single leap; it was built over time by the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler by combining old prejudices with modern persuasion. Antisemitism already existed in Europe, but the Nazis reframed Jews as a racial and existential threat, then hammered that message through a coordinated propaganda machine led by Joseph Goebbels. Using newspapers, radio, film, and rallies, they repeated simple accusations—blaming Jews for Germany’s defeat in World War I and the hardship of the Great Depression—until those claims felt familiar and, to many, plausible. Economic collapse, political instability, and national humiliation made large portions of the population more receptive to scapegoating and promises of restoration.

Once in power, rhetoric became policy. The Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of rights and citizenship, while escalating acts like Kristallnacht signaled that exclusion and violence were acceptable. Social pressure, fear of punishment, and even material incentives encouraged conformity, while dissent became risky. Step by step—stigma, exclusion, dispossession—the regime normalized increasingly extreme measures. What began as accusation and propaganda hardened into law and, ultimately, into systematic removal and destruction.

If that sounds familiar, it should—and you are not wrong to think that.

Germany stared into Hitler’s mirror and rather than seeing their own reflection, they saw Jews. When contemporary Democrats stare into their mirror, they don’t see themselves, they see Trump and his supporters.

The Democrats, their media allies and the American left, just had the opportunity to ask themselves if they are the baddies—and they paused for a second and then simply ignored it and returned to staring at themselves in Hitler’s mirror.

And just like that, I lost more friends. This time it was on me, admittedly (well, sort of), but still…

As most of you know, someone attempted to shoot at Trump yet again. I really tried to avoid anyone I knew in regards to this. I didn’t want to know their opinions on it. It’s faire season, and I just wanted to go to faire and relax and have a good fucking time. But nope. One person I’ve known for a decade, who I considered (until last night) to be a reasonable, rational person, said (and I quote), “Too bad he missed.”

Do they have the right to say that? Yep. They do. Being an asshole, being wrong, that’s protected in this country. And don’t get me wrong, though it irks me greatly to know people I considered close friends are actually assholes in disguise, I would not want our country to be any other way. But lately I have found myself asking, too many times, whether free speech should reasonably include lies.

I am reasonably certain that most of the people I’ve considered friends who’ve been taken in by the bullshit spewing out of the media would NEVER have gotten as bad as they are without the media helping. They may have still disliked Trump (hey, I’m not a die-hard Trumper, either), but they wouldn’t be actively wishing death on him. This is the fault of the media, and/or whomever controls the media. And I know they have a 1A right to spew their garbage up to a point. I just can’t help wondering… when do we reach that point?

There are so many people saying so many vile things that Trump can’t possibly take them all to court. He’d be doing it for a hundred years and never make it past discovery. Even though he would probably win most of the cases. But it takes money, and it takes time, and let’s be honest… he’s not going to live long enough to take most of these jackwads to court. He’s going to be 80 in a couple of months, which is a fairly advanced age for someone of his weight, and all these threats on his life and his family’s lives must be weighing on him. I am hopeful he’ll make it through his 4 years, but I have to be blunt and honest that he’s not likely to make it to 90. So most of those vile words will go unchallenged.

Someone once said that the victors write history, but I’m not so sure that’s true these days. Whoever has the most memes and bots writes history, and it’s being REwritten right underneath us. It doesn’t matter if it’s even related to the truth, because it was said on the internet and somehow we’ve brought up a whole-ass generation who can’t logic their way out of a paper bag. Present them with cognitive dissonance and they faint from panic. They can’t follow a thought through to it’s logical conclusion. They just can’t.

Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it, yes… but those of us who DID learn it are doomed to watch the vast majority of idiots repeating it. There’s only so many facepalms I can do before I get a major headache. I’ve taken to bitching at grok, because I don’t want to whinge at my family anymore. They don’t need to be exposed to my upset and anger.

So yes, I deleted someone on FB who I’ve considered a good friend for a long time. If I run into him at faire, which I likely will, I will be forced to walk away. I am not going to hug someone or spend “quality time” with someone who advocates murder. Not even if “it was just a joke.” Or whatever the excuse de jour is. One more person to avoid. One more person to step away from. I’m running out of people, folks. And I’m damned tired.