Iranian General: We’ll Chop Off Trump’s Hand, Annihilate Israel
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/iranian-general-well-chop-off-trumps-hand-annihilate-israel.html/
The Iranian regime tried to assassinate President Trump And it just threatened to “chop his hand off.” The mullahs have to go.
General Ebrahim Jabbari, senior advisor to the IRGC commander-in-chief and former commander of Supreme Leader Khamenei’s security unit, appeared on Channel 3 ***(Iran) on June 23, 2025. ( A pure unadulterated propaganda thrater interview – jlr)

Shocking Poll Shows Jew-Hating Jihadi Zohran Mamdani Leading Andrew Cuomo in NYC’s Rigged Ranked Choice Primary
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/shocking-poll-shows-zohran-mamdani-leading-andrew-cuomo-in-nycs-rigged-ranked-choice-primary.html/
G-d help New York City if this lunatic becomes mayor. The radical Marxist and jihadi Zohran Mamdani is dangerous, and would destroy the greatest city in the world.
more
9/11’s FINAL BLOW: Mayor Primary Election Today as Islamic Terrorist Operative Zohran Mamdani Takes The Lead
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/jihad-for-nyc-mayor.html/
In the city blown up on 9/11……in the city with the largest number of Holocaust survivors in the world…The biased and discriminatory adoption of Democrat-rigged ‘ranked choice voting’ makes this terrorist’s election not just possible but probable.
The FINAL on the NYC Democrat Primary
CUOMO CONCEDES: Jihadi Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary in Stunning Upset
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/cuomo-concedes-jihadi-zohran-mamdani-wins-nyc-democratic-mayoral-primary-in-stunning-upset.html/

New York City Just Voted to Destroy Itself, and It’s Time to Let It Happen
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/06/25/new-york-city-just-chose-to-destroy-itself-and-its-time-to-let-it-happen-n2190880
As the vote totals rolled in on Tuesday, it quickly became clear that a major upset was brewing… left-wing Muslim socialist who wants to “queer the police” while also defunding them…Zohran Mamdani had emerged victorious, and with that, New York City’s fate appeared to be sealed…it looks like New Yorkers saw the destruction of Chicago’s socialist lunatic of a mayor and decided they wanted that too, but even worse…you might be asking how New York City ended up in this position. After all, who in their right mind would vote for someone like Mamdani? The answer is the same as it’s been for a while when discussing the elevation of left-wing radicalism in America: Affluent, white, female liberals.

DOJ Accuses Biden-Appointed Judge Of ‘Unprecedented Defiance’ After Rejecting SCOTUS Ruling Allowing Deportations
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-accuses-biden-appointed-judge-unprecedented-defiance-after-defying-scotus-ruling
Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling however, District Court Judge Murphy declared in a court order late Monday night that his previous order preventing the deportation of the dangerous criminals to South Sudan “remains in full force and effect.”…White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller accused Murphy of trying to “overrule the Supreme Court.”…“A Boston judge openly defying and nullifying a Supreme Court order is a radical escalation of the communist coup taking place within the judiciary,”…Attorney General Pam Bondi’s chief of staff at the Department of Justice described Murphy’s defiance as “an Article III insurrection.”…“When a single district judge immediately and flagrantly defies the Supreme Court, that is not the rule of law—it is an Article III insurrection.”…On Tuesday, Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a motion at the Supreme Court addressing Murphy’s “unprecedented defiance” of the court’s authority, calling his order “untenable.” This Court should immediately make clear that the district court’s enforcement order has no effect, and put a swift end to the ongoing irreparable harm to the Executive Branch and its agents, who remain under baseless threat of contempt as they are forced to house dangerous criminal aliens at a military base in the Horn of Africa that now lies on the borders of a regional conflict.

Silver Price Shows What Government Has Done To Our Money
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/silver-price-shows-what-government-has-done-our-money
You hear about gas prices everyday…in real terms gas prices have gone down…I’m old enough to remember 25-cent gas…“Silver’s rally has made it worth the effort to sift through coin jars looking for old dimes, quarters and half dollars. The melt value of 25-cent coins minted from before 1965, when they were made of 90% silver, is more than $6.50.”…

Harvard Wins Injunction Against Trump Admin’s Student Visa Ban
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvard-wins-injunction-against-trump-admins-student-visa-ban
Federal District Court Judge Allison Burroughs on Monday issued a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of President Donald Trump’s proclamation that bars foreign nationals from entering the United States through Harvard’s student exchange visa program.
(Once again, a DISTRICT Court Judge is trying to set national policy from the bench – jlr)

covid vax and conception rates
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/covid-vax-and-conception-rates
there was certainly a coordinated collapse of birth rates around the world and a lot of this trend smelled fishier than a gumbo shack dumpster after madri gras, but there was never really quite enough data to really do the analyses that seemed warranted.
(VERY math heacy and geeky – BUT IF you can wade throught it there are som interesting convlusions and thoughts on the COVID jabs vs pregnancy – jlr)

Popular Fox Rescuer Commits Suicide After Degenerate Redditors Launch Character Assassination Campaign
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/popular-fox-rescuer-commits-suicide-after-degenerate-redditors-launch-character
There are vast communities across America that most of you might not be aware of – full of people living free, satisfying lives – and often using their little slice of happiness to help those in need. Yet it seems no good deed goes unpunished, thanks to mentally ill degenerates who take pleasure in stalking, harassing, and otherwise tearing people down. These basement-dwelling assholes love attacking tradwives and homesteaders (who are apparently white supremacists). They can’t stand rugged individualism and self-sufficiency, or nuclear families, or people who are thriving while carving their own path. What’s more, these haters form ‘snark’ groups on Reddit and other platforms with the sole purpose of character assassination. And now, they’ve driven someone to suicide.

FOOD for THOUGHT
There’s a New Poll Reporting Mental Illness by Political Party, and You’re Going to Love It
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/06/24/theres-a-new-poll-reporting-mental-illness-by-political-party-and-youre-going-to-love-it-n2190862
Far more Democrats are far more likely to “identify” as mentally ill than Republicans…Nine in 10 conservatives self-report their mental health to be excellent (51%) or very good (39%). Those who consider themselves liberals are struggling, with only 20% saying their mental health is excellent and 26% believing it is very good…Only 19% of conservatives say their mental health is poor, while 45% of liberals say they have poor mental health.

The Mental Health Crisis Among Young Liberal Women
https://www.mensvoicesireland.com/articles/the-mental-health-crisis-among-young-liberal-women/
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/young-liberal-women-statistically-unhappiest-most-mentally-ill-demographic-america
Much data has shown that young women who identify as liberal are much less happy and fulfilled than their more conservative counterparts…liberal women often view marriage and childbearing as “oppressive”… liberal people are less likely to prioritize activities that bring them personal fulfilment, such as a faith community, marriage, and family. Only 37% of liberals are married, while 56% of conservatives are married. Marriage has long been associated with better health, increased happiness, and even longer life expectancy…a Pew survey in 2020 in the US which looks at mental health according to gender, age and politics…
https://www.thefp.com/p/why-the-mental-health-of-liberal
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/03/02/mental-health-and-the-pandemic-what-u-s-surveys-have-found/

TEXAS
Finally: Karmelo Anthony at Long Last Indicted for Stabbing Murder of Fellow Teen at Texas Track Meet
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/06/24/finally-karmelo-anthony-indicted-for-murder-at-high-school-track-meet-n2190863
It was never a question of if Karmelo Anthony was responsible for the stabbing death of fellow teen Austin Metcalf at a Frisco, Texas, high school track meet back in April. Anthony himself admitted to carrying out the deadly act at Kuykendall Stadium, apparently telling police, “I’m not alleged, I did it!” when law enforcement arrested him for the killing. There were also eyewitnesses and video evidence showing Anthony as the aggressor…The question these last few months was, instead, when would Karmelo Anthony finally face justice for killing Austin Metcalf?…be prepared for the “Karmelo Anthony is the real victim here” narrative to go into overdrive as Collin County, Texas, officials have, at long last, indicted Anthony for first degree murder in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf…Anthony’s defense attorney, Mike Howard, said the teen looked forward to his day in court: “We expect that when the full story is heard, the prosecution will not be able to rule out the reasonable doubt that Karmelo Anthony may have acted in self-defense.”
there’s more
Alleged Murderer Karmelo Anthony Enters Grifter Hall of Fame After What He Did With Donations
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/04/16/alleged-murderer-karmelo-anthony-enters-grifter-hall-of-fame-after-what-he-did-with-donations-n2187913
Now, we know what Anthony and his family did with a good portion of the money they received…they bought a new car and moved into a $900,000 home in a gated community…They took money intended for his “legal defense” and hit the upgrade button with it.
but wait it gets even better
Karmelo Anthony spokesman urges fight against ‘white supremacy’ after Anthony’s murder indictment for Austin Metcalf stabbing
https://www.theblaze.com/news/karmelo-anthony-spokesman-urges-fight-against-white-supremacy-after-anthony-s-murder-indictment-for-austin-metcalf-stabbing
Dominique Alexander — president of Next Generation Action Network — posted on X: “To the racists, the bigots, and those filled with hate who’ve targeted Karmelo, his family, and even myself — you do not intimidate us. We are not backing down.”… “stand with us in the fight against white supremacy”… “This case is yet another example of what it means to be Black in America, where even our self-defense is questioned, scrutinized, and politicized.”…Anthony’s GiveSendGo fund as of Wednesday sits at over $538,000…TV host Auron MacIntyre had the following to say about the state of the criminal case and Alexander’s “white supremacy” reference: “The fact that Anthony and his family have claimed victimhood, even in the face of the incredible forgiveness offered by Austin Metcalf’s father, says it all. It is a sad truth that the narratives about ‘white supremacy’ taught to many minorities in the U.S. through the educational system and media quickly become a blank check for violence against white Americans.”

IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (355th Edition)
https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/truth-bomb-central-memes-that-expose-3da

Some ‘Predictions’ For The Latter Half Of 2025… (Scary but somewhat possible – jlr)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/some-predictions-latter-half-2025
Back in mid-January I issued “My Predictions For The Rest Of 2025.” We are half a year in, and I thought I should issue an update.
Ergo, I hereby present to you “My Updated Predictions For The Last Half Of 2025:”
*June 25—A lone federal district court judge rules that President Trump must re-rename the large body of water between Florida and Mexico “The Gulf of Mexico.”
*June 26—A lone federal district court judge, installed by Barack Obama in 2015, rules that all African-Americans must be given $2 million each in reparations—and a $1,000 IHOP gift card.
*June 27—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) takes to the Congressional podium to vehemently declare that illegal aliens’ right to vote must be immediately codified and enshrined in law, while white people “and other infidels” should not be allowed to vote, in order to “save our democracy.”
*June 28—Yes, the Chicago White Sox are mathematically eliminated from playoff contention.
*July 7—Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney jointly issue a stunning announcement: Minnesota will become Canada’s 11th province as of August 1st.
*July 24—A lone federal district court judge rules that President Trump must “immediately restore the White House to exactly as it looked at the very moment when President Biden left office on January 20th, 2025.”
*August 12—With the Canadian wildfires raging as strong as ever, four months in, President Trump, citing national security and health concerns, decides to annex Canada and put out the fires. This also reunites Minnesota with the United States. Sort of. Trump says, “I must protect the rights of American citizens to go outdoors, play golf, and breathe without being forced to inhale toxic smoke that could eventually kill them.”
*August 30—A lone federal district court judge rules that Trump must un-annex Canada and restart the Canadian wildfires.
*September 10—Elon Musk, continuing to try to patch things up with President Trump, says that he misspoke when his tweet implied that Trump visited Epstein Island. Musk says what he meant to tweet was that Trump had once visited Gilligan’s Island. “My bad,” says Musk.
*September 23—A lone federal district court judge rules that, contrary to recent Trump administration directives, the United States military must be at least 50% comprised of members of the LGBTQ Community by Jan. 1, 2027.
*September 30– Extensive new studies find that COVID-19 vaccines injured or killed far more people than originally thought…prompting the mainstream media to immediately launch a series of programs revisiting the “January 6 Insurrection.”
*October 12—Kamala Harris is found passed out on a San Francisco street, empty wine box to her side.
*October 29—Nancy Pelosi is found passed out on a San Francisco street, empty Haagen Dazs containers and vodka bottles to her side.
*November 18—It is revealed that CNN became the first cable news network ever to have a negative ratings share for any week. Lifesitenews brands the network’s Nov. 9- Nov. 15 performance “a miracle.”
*November 20—Congressional Democrats propose a bill that would require the payment of reparations to Blacks and mandate that the U.S. return the southwestern states to Mexico, the middle of the country to France, and the Eastern seaboard to England. An amendment to the bill calls for all English-speaking folks to subsequently return to England, effectively returning the erstwhile United States to the Indigenous Peoples.
*December 10—A lone federal district court judge’s ruling declares that President Trump must only wear boxers, never briefs.
*December 31—Yes, CNN’s Anderson Cooper does accidentally vomit on air after guzzling a glass filled with a mix of Wild Turkey and Clorox Bleach– and taking several prolonged bong hits to celebrate the New Year.

A sneak peek at 2026:
*January 9—Al Gore says that, unless all human activity on planet Earth immediately ceases, the planet will spontaneously combust by the end of the year.
*January 27—The U.S. observes the 10-year anniversary of Al Gore stating that, unless the Earth took “drastic measures,” it would reach the “point of no return” in 10 years.
January 29—A lone federal district court judge invalidates the 2024 presidential election, finding that “the American people are incapable of voting in a way that furthers and supports our precious democracy.” He rules that Kamala Harris be immediately installed as president and Tim Walz as vice-president. He adds, “There are no kings in this country. I have spoken!”

Don’t Do: stupid sht, with stupid people, in stupid places, at stupid times. – paraphrasing John Farnam, firearms instructor

“An armed society is a polite society” – Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“People sleep peaceably in their bed at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – Eric Arthur Blair (AKA – George Orwell)

“If your plan is to come to my house when things get bad, you need a better plan”- like being invited, having a useful skill, bringing food, or ammunition – jlr76380

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” – https://www.zerohedge.com/

My kid has been harassing me to go to a friend’s wedding at an event this fall. I didn’t want to go to the event, but I did want to go to the wedding. These are friends who showed up to their first event and had a catastrophic failure with their food, and ended up at a 4 day event with nothing to eat but nuts. My household “rescued” them, fed them, loved them. They, in turn, adopted my kid (they’re only a couple of years older than my kid, though at the time they were young adults working full time and mine was still in high school). I’ve always been proud of that, the concept of being there to help and offer a hand up to people.

Now, those people are definitely on the Left. But they were, I thought, good people. And on one level they are. They do help others, support people down on their luck, and pass along the help we gave to them. But they are not the type of good people I thought they were.

Today, my very disturbed (adult) kid came to me and said that they’d spoken to those people… and that they didn’t want me at their wedding. I was too extreme. Apparently, when I “supported Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute” they were all done with me, and deleted me. Kid is gutted, apologetic, unsure of what to do.

I’d assumed they’d stopped following me. I’ve unfollowed a few people on social media that I’m still very good friends with. Sometimes, your religion or your politics or some other belief is just too much, and you don’t want to see it. You unfollow them but remain friends, as they say on Facebook. That way, I don’t have to read their posts about their parakeet, their love of Kamala Harris, or their hatred of their job. Or whatever it is I’m tired of seeing. Sometimes I “snooze” people, and sometimes I unfollow them. I VERY rarely unfriend someone, though. I actually want to know the other side of things, and seek out diverse input about various things. To me, that’s vital if you want to be good at … well, pretty much anything.

In any case, I knew they were very Left, and had assumed I’d been unfollowed, just as I’d unfollowed them. No harm, no foul. Despite the mismatch of political beliefs (and I can’t say opposite, because there are still things I heartily agree with them on), I’d always gotten along with them in person. They decided no.

These are people who know me to be kind, helpful, and generous with my time, my resources, and my knowledge. They know all my various niches and labels. But they were so offended that I had a thought opposite to their political ideology, that they had to not only not read my stuff (understandable) but had to remove themselves from me entirely. Online, offline, whatever, they don’t want anything to do with me.

Once more, I find myself disappointed, in people I considered friends, and in myself. Perhaps it’s the sting of the rejection, but I ask myself, was I so poor a judge of character? Again, I haven’t changed. My beliefs are still the same. Some of my opinions have changed because I’ve learned more and educated myself on subjects, but my morals and ethics are still the same.

The thing is, I’m sure they think the same thing. I’m absolutely certain that they were concerned for my kid, worried about her having a parent who thinks like I do. And that concern is likely genuine. But how am I supposed to trust in that again? It makes me ill and I really just don’t know what to think about the whole thing.

I’m disappointed in them. They accepted my hospitality when it suited them, but turned their back the moment it wasn’t all unicorn farts and rainbows. And that hurts.

My (former) best friend walked away because of my politics. That hurt more than I can describe. And you know what? If she showed up on my doorstep tomorrow, asking for help, I would help her. That’s me. That’s what I do.

But man, my patience is starting to wear awful thin.

I can’t write more about this right now. I’m too raw and angry and frustrated. And I’m too damn hot, because the lowest temperature my room has been at in 48 hours is 82*F.

The district courts have been attacking the Trump administration wherever possible. Many have overstepped their authority to intrude on the Article II executive.

A judge in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts decided that he was a final arbitrator of United States foreign policy. To that end, he issued a preliminary injunction stopping the deportation of criminal illegal aliens to third-party countries.

The criminal is detained in the United States. He is taken before an administrative judge, where he is given full due process. The judge can order the criminal released into our country with orders to report for further legal actions. He can decide that the person is not a criminal alien, and turn him loose or to other authorities. Or he can issue a deportation order.

At times, the criminal is not just here illegally, he has committed some other crime. In those cases, they are given a full trial. When they are found guilty, the judge can sentence them according to sentencing guidelines. After serving their sentence, they are then deported. The Article III judge will have ordered them deported, as part of their sentence.

In the alternative, the judge can just deport them. Make them someone else’s problem.

When we deport somebody, the rules say that they should be deported to the country of origin or to the last country they came through to reach the United States.

I’m not breaking it down. Some people hold multiple citizenships. Some people are citizens of their birth country and then move and become citizens in another country. Just assume that they are being sent to the correct country of origin.

Unfortunately, some of these criminal, illegal, aliens are nasty pieces of work. Many countries will refuse entry to people that they deem to be undesirable.

That includes many countries that feel that somebody convicted of murder is undesirable. Regardless of their citizenship.

My understanding is that under international law, a country is required to accept a deportee who is a citizen of their country.

As we well know, international law doesn’t really mean much. Countries have and do refuse entry to people that commit heinous crimes.

Having all of that in hand, let’s look at the facts of this case, according to Sotomayor.

The person being deported, O.C.G., had a removal order in place. He was being returned to his origin country, Guatemala.

When he learned of this, he begged an Immigration Judge to grant “withholding of removal to Guatemala”. Ok. This means that the next place he can be deported to is the last country he was in. Namely, Mexico.

Now, Sotomayor says that the Immigration Judge granted that withholding of removal to Guatemala and not to Guatemala and Mexico because there was no removal order to Mexico.

There is no record of why the Judge did this, only Sotomayor’s statement. The Judge knew that O.C.G. didn’t want to go to Mexico. He could have granted a withholding of removal to Mexico at the same time.

The judge did not.

Under the Trump administration, they looked at what they had. They had a legal removal order. It is legal to send him back to Mexico or Guatemala by statue, but he can’t be sent to Guatemala.

Bingo, he’s now on his way to Mexico.

When he arrived in Mexico, they said, “We don’t want your ass here.” and promptly deported him to Guatemala. It appears that there was no Immigration Judge in Mexico willing to grant a withholding of removal to Guatemala. Poor O.C.G.

From someplace in Guatemala, O.C.G. reached out to lawyers in the United States to start a class action suit to stop the administration from deporting criminal aliens to third-party countries.

Lacking in Sotomayor’s dissent is anything about O.C.G.’s criminal record. Nor was there was no evidence in the record that O.C.G. suffered any torture in Guatemala.

There is only O.C.G.’s claims.

The Immigration Judge who granted the withholding of removal found that O.C.G. was likely to suffer if deported to Guatemala. Therefore, the United States did not. The United States has no say on what Mexico does with its criminal illegal aliens.

This district judge feels that the United States is responsible for making sure nothing bad happens to these criminals after they are kicked out of our country.

The case is, DHS v. D.V.D. et al., No. 24A1153 606 U.S. ____ (2025).

China Issues Warning to Iran After Threats to Close the Strait of Hormuz
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/china-threatens-iran-to-close-the-strait-of-hormuz.html/
The mullahs are on a suicide mission…Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz is attacking it’s most powerful ally…A majority of China’s oil goes through the Straits of Hormuz, the US a tiny portion. This will not affect us. China would be the main loser…Not to mention it would cripple Iran’s economy…No one hates Iran more than the Mullah terrorist regime.

Israel Blows Open the Gates of Infamous Evin Prison Where The Mullahs Tortured, Imprisoned Political Prisoners and Bombs, Destroys ‘Destruction of Israel’ Clock in Tehran
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/israel-blows-open-the-gates-of-infamous-evin-prison-where-the-mullahs-tortured-imprisoned-political-prisoners-bombed-and-destroyed-destruction-of-israel-clock-in-tehran.html/
Thousands of innocent Iranians (political prisoners, journalists, academics, human rights activists, dual nationals, and foreign citizens accused of espionage or propaganda offenses) are trapped inside Evin Prison by the terrorist Islamic Republic. The Israeli Air Force bombed the gates of Iran’s Evin Prison in Tehran, which holds Iranians opposed to the Islamic regime. No word if any prisoners escaped.

Biden Judge Defies SCOTUS Ruling, Goes Rogue in Order to Stop Trump
https://www.westernjournal.com/alert-biden-judge-defies-scotus-ruling-goes-rogue-order-stop-trump/
Remember how President Donald Trump’s administration was supposed to listen to judges when they issued injunctions, even if said judge didn’t have jurisdiction over the entire nation?… There is one court that has jurisdiction over the entire nation — the Supreme Court, for all you dullards out there who don’t get the point — and it handed down a ruling in a controversial case. A judge appointed by President Joe Biden is deciding he can ignore that ruling…Six months into the job, Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, is now openly defying a Supreme Court order;is basically running interference for murderers, drug traffickers, and other (actual) deplorables, and why? Ostensibly because they might be afraid of the countries they’re being deported to, but realistically because it scores a political point. The Democrats don’t have legitimate control over anything right now except for the judges they’ve managed to appoint to various positions over the years. The problem is that these people keep reminding America of why they didn’t give control of any of the two elected branches of government to the Democratic Party.
there’s more
Stephen Miller: Expect ‘fireworks’ when Trump admin holds a Boston judge accountable for defying the Supreme Court
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/24/stephen-miller-expect-fireworks-when-trump-admin-holds-a-boston-judge-accountable-for-defying-the-supreme-court-1553665
“It allows President Trump, as the law has long said but the courts have long blocked, it allows President Trump to send illegal aliens convicted of rape, murder, homicide, assault, battery, crimes against children to any country in the world that’s willing to accept them,”…“So whether that be South Sudan or whether it be Somalia or whether it be Ethiopia, any country in the world that’s willing to accept these monsters, we can get them out of our country and be free of them forever,”…“The only thing I have to share tonight in a little bit of breaking news is that the district court judge in Boston has said he’s going to defy the Supreme Court’s rulings, so expect fireworks tomorrow when we hold that judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court,”…U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy…issued a new ruling claiming his order from last month still remains in effect despite the high court’s decision…“The Court’s May 21, 2025 Order on Remedy remains in full force and effect, notwithstanding today’s stay of the Preliminary Injunction,” (The administration is getting closer to ignoring nationwide district court injunctions and decisions – jlr)

“They Don’t Know What The F**K They’re Doing” – Furious Trump Slams Israel As Fragile Ceasefire Crumbles
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-press-secretary-hints-iran-regime-change-claims-intel-said-weeks-nuclear
President Donald Trump unleashed a fiery statement to the press just moments before boarding Marine One. “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fck they’re doing. You understand that.”

The Big Beautiful Land Grab: Technocrats Stand To Profit As 250 Million Acre Bonanza Hidden In H.R.1
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/big-beautiful-land-grab-technocrats-stand-profit-250-million-acre-bonanza-hidden-hr1
A little-known provision in the Senate’s new reconciliation bill isn’t just about selling public land – it’s about stripping local communities of control. The provision bans states and counties from regulating “AI Systems” for a full decade, opening the door to opaque development far beyond housing. From data centers to deed-restricted zones, this bill rewrites who gets a say in the future of American land…a technocrat’s wet dream when it comes to the infrastructure needed to fuel AI empires…

Got Beef? 12-Year Cycle Signals “Cyclical Low”
https://www.zerohedge.com/food/got-beef-12-year-cycle-signals-cyclical-low
The U.S. beef industry operates on 12-year herd cycles, with the last herd low in 2014 and the beef packer margin trough in 2015. The current herd liquidation began in 2019, and as of the start of 2025, the nation’s cattle herd stands at 86.7 million, the lowest level since the 1950s…Herd rebuilding trends may begin soon, according to Goldman analysts, who cited support from high calf prices and low feed costs, though herds appear tight for the foreseeable future. They expect this dynamic to keep beef packer margins depressed due to reduced slaughter volumes and elevated live cattle prices.

Vindication For The Unvaccinated?
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/vindication-unvaccinated
I was the only person at the table who hadn’t had any form of flu for many years, while all of the guests had been ill to one degree or another. Almost everyone had tested positive for Covid at least once over the last few years with accompanying flu symptoms. Although no one in my family was hospitalized or died during the so-called pandemic; they all had been vaccinated repeatedly. As far as I know, my wife and I were the only ones in our families who didn’t get any Covid shot, and I haven’t been inoculated for anything in the last seventy years….Before the Covid fiasco, my alternative approach to illness had been respected…As the specter of a pandemic arose, my opinion about vaccination became dangerous and irrelevant…It wasn’t complicated. Using genetic-based technology in developing a new drug that attempted to manipulate the magnificent complexity of the human immune system was at a minimum, a gamble…This atmosphere, developed and enforced in a haze of authoritarian dictates, created an unprecedented climate of hostility that infected all relationships. Because of my views and unvaccinated status, I rapidly became a pariah to my family…The venom exuded in response to my unwillingness to join in the mass delusion supporting vaccination was palpable. My crime was unforgivable…they had participated in scapegoating the unvaccinated…No matter how much information about the abuses of powerful forces during the pandemic, no matter how much data supports the dangers of the Covid response, no matter how much is learned about the deviant behavior of leadership and government agencies, the unvaccinated have yet to be vindicated. Self-serving, unconscious attitudes continue to dominate, confirming human nature has not evolved since the plagues of the Dark Ages. In times of difficulty and stress, it remains more convenient and simpler to find others at fault, rather than perceive our failures.

America’s Choice: National Divorce or Civil War
https://texianpartisan.com/analysis/opinion-and-editorial/americas-choice-national-divorce-or-civil-war/
…The Elites, hailing from both Left and Right within the political kaleidoscope, are the big players in the midst of all of this. They are working to ensure the volatility will continue to grow until it reaches a breaking point. The resulting chaos, they believe, will give them the opportunity they desire to usher in their new system of all-out control over the “unwashed masses” as they so disdainfully refer to the common everyday civilian working hard just to survive…National Divorce is the option with the least number of dangers to the freedoms and principles that are America’s true foundation. Withdrawing from the manipulated and corrupted government structures, which now advance the Globalist project, would allow defensive consolidation for the preservation of these values. While this would not guarantee avoidance of war, as the Elites would likely seek to use every tool at their disposal to bring those seceding back under their control, the conflict would be changed into one of self-defense as opposed to maneuvering for power.

YES, THEYARE THIS STUPID
Nap Time And Ping Pong: Inside Gen Z’s Batsht Crazy Expectations For A Workplace
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nap-time-and-ping-pong-inside-gen-zs-batsht-crazy-expectations-workplace
According to a new Resume.io survey, nearly one in six Americans under 28 won’t even look at a job unless it comes with a designated nap zone…“It’s clear Gen-Z isn’t shy about voicing what they want from today’s workplace,”…what it does include is snoozing on the clock, playing ping pong, and hanging out with dogs…one in five Gen-Zers insists on having a “fun room” with games. The same number flat-out refuse to work anywhere that isn’t pet-friendly…A third of Gen-Z expects free snacks and lunch like it’s a constitutional right. Even then, many would prefer not to come in at all. A full third say a four-day workweek is non-negotiable, and one in four wants extended sabbaticals — for “personal development” or, let’s be real, globe-trotting…For the record, despite all the fun-and-games chatter, the top workplace perk across all ages remains good old-fashioned paid overtime — with 76% calling it a must-have.

Pam Bondi’s Calm Jab Causes Purple-Haired Dem Rep to Completely Lose It During Hearing
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-pam-bondis-calm-jab-causes-purple-haired-dem-rep-completely-lose-hearing/
Congressional Democrats excel at defending the indefensible while behaving like spoiled children…During a House Appropriations Committee Hearing on Monday, Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut — she of the purple mane — put all of those repellent qualities on display when she posed a question to Attorney General Pam Bondi, rudely interrupted Bondi’s sensible answer, then, in a moment of comical projection, flew off the handle while accusing the attorney general of filibustering…the congresswoman wanted to know why Bondi’s proposed budget included cuts to the ATF…Bondi calmly delivered an answer that every freedom-loving conservative will cheer. “First, what we’re doing,” the attorney general said, “is ATF is going to be brought over with [Drug Enforcement Administration]. Everyone knows — everyone sitting up here — guns and drugs go together. They go together. We’re going to make it more efficient.”…What the attorney general said next, however, sounded even more like music to a conservative’s ears. In fact, DeLauro hated it so much that she tried to interrupt. “What I will tell you will not be happening,” Bondi continued, “is ATF agents will not be knocking on the doors of legal gun owners in the middle of the night asking them about their guns. They’re going to be out on the streets – DeLauro, of course, did not want Bondi to finish. After all, Democrats have no interest in the rights of law-abiding gun owners. short, DeLauro only wanted to know how many government agents’ jobs Bondi would protect. To that end, the congresswoman went on a nearly one-minute rant about ATF and DEA budget cuts…“As I was attempting to answer your question very calmly unlike you,” her childish reaction to Bondi raises questions about why so many Democrats, particularly Democratic women in Congress, cannot seem to control their emotional outbursts, which make them look both unhinged and entitled….Bondi’s initial answer began around the 1:10 mark.
video – 00:05:49 – https://youtu.be/YGDcTa66HsI

THEY STILL THINK WE’RE STUPID
rcd via e-mail

Remembering Hillary’s “We Came, We Saw, He Died”

https://jackcashill.substack.com/p/remembering-hillarys-we-came-we-saw
For Sheer Ugliness, No US Military Action Can Match the Hillary/Obama Hit on Libya…To sell the idea that the video caused the siege at Benghazi, the Obama DoJ arrested and imprisoned the video maker, a Christian American citizen from Egypt. The media yawned, and AOC took up bartending. Such was the state of American foreign policy in 2012. It was everything the Democrats accused Trump of doing, but immeasurably worse. Again, these are not serious people.
video – 00:00:22 – https://youtu.be/oY7HTPxbrHA

TEXAS
Texas Strikes Gold as Abbott Signs Historic Bill Making Precious Metals Legal Tender
https://texianpartisan.com/news/texasnews/texas-strikes-gold-as-abbott-signs-historic-bill-making-precious-metals-legal-tender/
Governor’s signature on HB 1056 positions Texas as leader in monetary independence from federal system. Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1056 into law late on June 22nd, making Texas the first state in the Union to establish a practical, electronic payment system backed by gold and silver. The landmark legislation recognizes precious metals as legal tender and creates a revolutionary transactional currency system that could fundamentally change how Texans conduct everyday business. The depository already serves as a crucial component of Texas’s economic independence strategy, allowing Texas to repatriate gold holdings from out-of-state storage facilities and maintain direct control over the state’s precious metals assets. The banking industry’s opposition reveals the threat that sound money poses to the current system of fiat currency and fractional reserve banking. When Texas provides its citizens with alternatives to Federal Reserve notes, it undermines the foundation of federal monetary control. Texas has once again proven that we will not wait for Washington to protect our interests. We will forge our own path, build our own systems, and secure our own future. HB 1056 is now the law in Texas, and the age of constitutional money is about to begin.

      see also https://www.goldback.com/
https://tnm.me/

IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (354th Edition)
https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/truth-bomb-central-memes-that-expose-b7c

“Avoid crowds – Get Out of the Cities. – NOW.  A year too soon is better than a day too late” – John Wilder @  https://wilderwealthywise.com/

“God created all men, but Samuel Colt made them equal.” – Unknown

“A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could” – Greg Gutfeld 29 Jul 2017

Don’t Do: stupid sh*t, with stupid people, in stupid places, at stupid times. – paraphrasing John Farnam, firearms instructor

“An armed society is a polite society” – Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“People sleep peaceably in their bed at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – Eric Arthur Blair (AKA – George Orwell)

“If your plan is to come to my house when things get bad, you need a better plan”- like being invited, having a useful skill, bringing food, or ammunition – jlr76380

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” – https://www.zerohedge.com/

Many years ago, I started to build a laminated wood workbench from hard maple. It was very slow-going. I think I have what I finished up in the rafters of the shop.

It is only 9 inches wide. It is not smooth, it is not flat. It is unlikely to be straight, and it is not square.

At the time, I did not have a place to use as a shop. We were living in a rental town house. All the work I did was done on saw horses in the kitchen with hand tools. I had purchased two very nice iron planes to use. But, I did not know how to tune them. I did not know how to use them.

In short, I lacked both skill and knowledge.

You can have something that is very smooth, but it might not be flat. You can have something be flat, but not smooth. You can have something that is flat and smooth, but not square. All three are needed to have a good face.

As a piece of wood comes off the saw, it has rough surfaces. The surfaces are mostly flat and square, but you can’t trust that until it is measured.

A piece of wood can also be cupped. This is when the center is higher than the edges. The board can also be twisted. All of these can be removed with a hand plane.

You start by examining the board and placing the cup up. This creates a stable surface. Looking down the board, you search for any high spots, end to end. These get your attention first.

Using a ‘fore plane, you remove those high spots. You then use a jack plane to make a flat surface that is also smooth.

Now that your board is flat and smooth, you use winding sticks to find any twist in the board. You plane that out.

Finally, you have a good face. Mark it, then move to an edge. Make it flat and smooth. Use a try square or a known good square to make sure your edge is square.

In the end, you will have two faces that are flat, smooth, and square to each other.

Moving on to the other sides becomes much easier.

Planes

I started with two planes from that failed project of years ago. One is a No 5 jack plane and the other is a joiner or try plane, I don’t remember which. I haven’t gotten tot hat stage yet.

What I didn’t have were smoothing or scrub planes.

Via YouTube recommendation, I found one that looked nice on e-bay, was a No 4 smoothing plane, and looked ready to go.

Friday, before I started work on the truck, I stopped in at the second hand store. I found four planes. One without any hardware or iron, one had an asking price of $175, and two that were only $6.

They followed me home.

Yesterday, I had the eBay one arrive. I went to test it, and it wasn’t ready to use.

Taking it apart, I realized the iron needed to be sharpened. About 30 minutes on the diamond plate and the back was mostly flat, again. The chip breaker also had its edge cleaned and straightened.

Then it was time to sharpen the iron. Using a 25° guide, I started working on it.

The bright was at the heel of the bevel. Looking at the bevel more closely, it was more of a half moon shape than flat.

This iron had been badly sharpened many times.

Today, I was able to get my slow speed grinder running with the correct jig for a plane iron. That iron now has a beautiful edge. It needs some hand work, but it is almost ready to go. Testing it shows reasonable shavings, before the hand work.

The first $6 plane needs to have the edge reworked. There is a chip out of it. I’ve not started that process yet. Nor have I looked at the iron of the other thrift shop plane.

Regardless, I will have my smoothing plane and scrub planes in the coming days. Good news for me!

A scrub plane is a smoothing plane with a rounded cutting edge. It is designed to remove bulk material rapidly.

This was a song that I played on the Yamaha CD player in my ’87 TransAm.

Meteorologist Chris Nunley
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1280798840076751&set=a.347604166729561
Dangerous heat is forecast today continuing this week especially for locations near and east of the Mississippi! 150 million people are under heat alerts. Stay safe and cool and never leave pets and kids in cars ( see thr map – jlr)

Maryland Man Abrego gets interesting lawyers.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/maryland-man-abrego-gets-interesting
After being represented by Public Defenders, Kilmar Abrego suddenly nets some top lawyers according the the Tennessee Star…
https://tennesseestar.com/justice/kilmar-abrego-garcia-retains-top-tennessee-lawyers-for-alien-smuggling-case/tpappert/2025/06/19/
And now the only question that remains is who is footing the bill: Soros or Bloomberg? Because none of the “causes” generate enough money to pay a NYC Legal team full time for any time period longer than a work week.

BREAKING: Trump Announces Iran-Israel Cease Fire; UPDATE: Iranians Confirm; UPDATE: Netanyahu Confirms
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/23/breaking-trump-announces-iran-israel-cease-fire-as-explosions-rock-tehran-n3804103
Let’s assume Trump got this agreement from both parties. This came about a few hours after Iran put on a staged light show over Qatar, which clearly intended to give Khamenei a face-saving exit from an existential threat from Trump and the US military. It came less than two days after the US destroyed at least part of Iran’s nuclear-weapons development program. And it came an hour after Khamenei tweeted boldly about his courage from the safety of the bunker he apparently hasn’t left in twelve days:

Iran’s Infamous Fordow Nuclear Facility Just Got Hit Again
https://www.westernjournal.com/irans-infamous-fordow-nuclear-facility-just-got-hit/
Israel fired off a fresh round of strikes Monday morning reportedly targeting various facilities across Iran, including the Fordow uranium enrichment plant.

Iran Probably Wants This One Back – Muslim Clerics Injured After Missile Strikes Israeli Mosque
https://www.westernjournal.com/iran-probably-wants-one-back-muslim-clerics-injured-missile-strikes-israeli-mosque/
“The Iranian regime launched a missile attack on Haifa and struck the Al-Jarina Mosque in the Wadi Nisnas neighborhood. The missile attack injured Muslim clerics who were in the mosque,”…“The Iranian regime is targeting Muslim, Christian, and Jewish civilians, as well as civilian sites.”
(Muslims don’t care. They beleive that if everyone on earth is dead, but there is one Muslim surviving, that they win – and ‘Everywhere a Muslim walks is now Muslim land’ – jlr)

Political Violence Surges Because Politics Matter Too Much
https://reason.com/2025/06/23/political-violence-surges-because-politics-matters-too-much/
We’ve made government so powerful that people will fight rather than surrender control to the enemy…As should be obvious to anybody following news about riots, assassinations, and arson attacks, politics have become far too important in America. With government large, growing, and reaching into every nook and cranny of our lives, Americans perceive politics as too much of a high-stakes game to lose. And so, they have divided into hostile camps to make sure their side comes out on top—and some turn ideological conflict into literal war.

Is This Why the Left Is Throwing a Tantrum Over Trump’s Air Strikes Against Iran?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/06/23/is-this-why-the-left-is-throwing-a-tantrum-over-trumps-air-strikes-against-iran-n2659246
The reaction was predictable—the copy was laughable. After President Donald Trump launched precision air strikes against numerous Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, a shambolic, Trump-deranged, brain-rotted Democratic Party trashed the president for engaging in another endless war with this illegal military action. They can’t think of anything that doesn’t make them look like idiots.Remove Trump, I’d say there would be healthy supermajorities in both chambers supporting these strikes. That’s what’s a bit humorous here. Based on some of the statements, Barack Obama would’ve been impeached by his own party for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his air campaign against Gaddafi in Libya.

Oh, You Know the Libs Are Going to Riot Over This Story About Trump’s Iran Strikes
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/06/23/yeah-i-dont-care-if-dems-whine-about-not-being-looped-in-on-the-iran-air-strikes-n2659255
The Democratic Party is going through it right now: they all agree that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, but they also don’t want to do anything to stop them from accomplishing that feat. Tehran cannot have nukes, but we cannot bomb them because of x, y, and z—all the reasons they’ve given are idiotic. When you boil everything down, it’s because Trump is president. What else is new?…Top Democrats on Capitol Hill say they weren’t briefed in advance of the U.S. attack on Iran on Saturday…There’s a simple reason for that move: Democrats would’ve leaked it. Meanwhile, the Pentagon, which I was told was in total disarray under Pete Hegseth, kept this mission under wraps for all the right reasons. Democrats can’t be trusted. Their opinions on public policy and their supporters are all to the detriment of the country’s health. They cannot and shall not be privy to operations of this nature.

NYT Cries ‘Sexism’ After Pete Hegseth Praises B-2 Pilots in Iran Strike Briefing
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/06/22/nyt-accuses-hegseth-of-sexism-over-iran-strikes-press-conference-n2659260
A female pilot was among the elite B-2 Stealth Bomber crew that unleashed the powerful bunker-buster strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites during Operation Midnight Hammer—yet the liberal media, rather than celebrating the Trump administration’s historic mission, chose to nitpick language.
BUT WAIT! THERE”S MORE!
Yes, This Is a Real Live Fact-Check From the NYT About the Iran Bombing
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/06/23/nyt-would-like-us-to-know-females-were-some-of-the-b2-pilots-that-bombed-iran-n2659243
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held a press conference yesterday morning following Operation Midnight Hammer, where he bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. B-2 Bombers from Missouri were successful in executing this precision strike against Iran’s nuclear program. Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow were all hit in a package that was amassed with absolute secrecy. Hegseth commended our brave boys who piloted the aircraft, which led to this laughable fact-check from The New York Times.

If You Didn’t Think Iran Was Working on Nukes, Check Out What This Russian Leader Just Admitted
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/06/22/whoops-if-you-didnt-think-iran-was-working-on-nukes-check-out-what-russian-leader-just-admitted-n2190775
Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE – https://x.com/MedvedevRussiaE – June 22 – jlr)
What have the Americans accomplished with their nighttime strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran?
1. Critical infrastructure of the nuclear fuel cycle appears to have been unaffected or sustained only minor damage.
2. The enrichment of nuclear material — and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons — will continue.
3. A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.

Iran Launches Missiles At U.S. Bases in Qatar
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/23/breaking-iran-launches-missiles-at-us-bases-in-qatar-n4941087
Reports indicate that Iran has launched a volley of seven ballistic missiles targeting American military bases in Iraq and Qatar. This is the predictable, impotent lashing out of a cornered regime, coming just days after the United States methodically dismantled Iran’s illicit nuclear infrastructure. The ayatollahs were given a clear choice between peace and annihilation, and it seems they have foolishly chosen the latter. For years, they grew accustomed to the weak-kneed appeasement of the Obama administration, which showered them with pallets of cash in the dead of night, and then, of course, that appeasement continued under the Biden administration.

SCOTUS Rules 6-3 That Trump Can Deport to Third-Party Countries
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/06/23/scotus-rules-6-3-that-trump-can-deport-to-third-party-countries-n2414652
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 on Monday that Trump may deport illegal aliens to third-party countries, so that takes care of sending all of those Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members to prison in El Salvador.

Trump administration makes sweeping changes to ObamaCare, ends ‘Dreamer’ coverage
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/23/trump-administration-makes-sweeping-changes-to-obamacare-ends-dreamer-coverage-1553373/
“Reinstating HHS’ longstanding 2012 interpretation of ‘lawfully present’ to exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients from eligibility and enrollment in ACA Exchange coverage and Basic Health Program (BHP) coverage in States that elect to operate a BHP, including [advanced payments of the premium tax credit], premium tax credits, and cost-sharing reductions.”…“CMS is restoring integrity to ACA Exchanges by cracking down on fraud, protecting American taxpayer dollars, and ensuring coverage is there for those who truly need it,” said CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. “This is about putting patients first, stopping exploitation of the system, and realigning the program with the values of personal responsibility and fiscal discipline.”

Senate parliamentarian rejecting Trump provisions in his mega bill left and right
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/23/senate-parliamentarian-rejecting-trump-provisions-in-his-mega-bill-left-and-right-1553400/
She ruled against a provision that would ” increase the Federal Employees Retirement Systems contribution rate for new civil servants if they do not agree to give up civil service protections to become at-will employees,”…also nixed “a section of the bill that would allow the executive branch to reorganize federal government agencies — or eliminate whole agencies — without congressional oversight,”…Also rejected were two provisions that contained language “granting authority to agencies to unilaterally rescind funds appropriated by Congress by establishing an incentive program for federal employees to identify ‘unnecessary expenditures’ and transfer savings back to the Treasury Department” as well as one ordering the United States Postal Service to sell all electric vehicles and any “charging infrastructure.”…Her reasoning? These provisions violated the Byrd Rule, which is a part of the budget reconciliation process that restricts how many “extraneous” matters can be included in such legislation… Democrats are hailing the parliamentarian’s decisions…“There is no better way to define this Big Beautiful Betrayal of a bill than families lose, and billionaires win. Democrats are on the side of families and workers and are scrutinizing this bill piece by piece to ensure Republicans can’t use the reconciliation process to force their anti-worker policies on the American people,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, in a statement. “The Byrd Rule is enshrined in law for a reason, and Democrats are making sure it is enforced.”
(“The Byrd Rule” is an advisaory Senate rule, not a law – https://epicforamerica.org/federal-budget/understanding-the-byrd-rule/ – focused on fiscal issues, subjecting nonbudgetary provisions to a point of order. – jlr)

YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID
rcd via e-mail
Meet The Disabled Latina Lesbian Who Thinks She Can Fix The Democrat ‘Man Problem’
interview starte @ 00:03:00 – she eventually comes on talking about her noble insights
video – 00:16:35 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVxjiQGgV9k

Jasmine Crockett Fumes That Trump Didn’t ‘Holla’ for Her Permission Before Hitting Iran
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/06/22/jasmine-crockett-is-mad-that-trump-didnt-holla-at-her-to-ask-for-her-permission-to-strike-iran-n2659240
“I am a black woman in America who just happens to be educated enough to know what the law is,” Crockett said. “If you Google war and authority and Constitution, you’re gonna see Congress. He could have hollared at us on Monday.”…“Everything [Trump] does is against the law,”…Democrat Rep. Sean Casten (IL) argued that the real issue isn’t Iran’s nuclear program, but the limits of presidential power. He insisted that no president has the authority to launch military strikes on another country without Congressional approval—unless there’s an immediate threat to the U.S.—and called Trump’s strike a clear impeachable offense. (et al., et al. – jlr)

Jasmine Crockett mad that ‘mofo’ Trump didn’t ‘holla’ at her before striking Iran
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/23/jasmine-crockett-mad-that-mofo-trump-didnt-holla-at-her-before-striking-iran-1553276/
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett delivered an inane rant against President Donald Trump in a lengthy TikTok video blasting “the Mofo” for not consulting her before striking Iran. The Texas Democrat posted a nearly 22-minute meltdown on the social media platform Sunday, attacking the president because he hadn’t “hollered” about his intentions before ordering the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites. Her message, recorded while she was driving in a car, claimed “the Mofo [motherfker] that resides in the White House” had “unilaterally… declared war” against Iran.
video – 00:21:47 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1936801144472572399
(read the comments – jlr)

The View’s Meltdown: Shrews Spiral Over U.S. Strike on Iran with Clueless Rants
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/06/23/the-view-behar-jon-john-karl-iran-n2414632
…Their show today was full of their usual crazy mixed with irrational nonsense…They can’t imagine that sometimes countries say one thing to the media with the intent of doing another in order to throw off the enemy…Behar serious questions why Trump didn’t tell the Iranians he was going to bomb their nuclear weapons enrichment facility…
several videos here – https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1937175142183870871

Judge really, really wants to release Dems’ favorite suspected human smuggler
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/23/judge-really-really-wants-to-release-dems-favorite-suspected-human-smuggler-1553346/
U.S.The judge set a hearing for Wednesday to discuss the conditions of Abrego Garcia’s release, according to court documents. Federal prosecutors have already filed a notice that it will challenge her denial for detention. Barbara Holmes denied the Trump administration’s request Sunday to hold Kilmar Abrego Garcia in detention before his trial…Despite the severity of the charges against Abrego Garcia — that he allegedly smuggled not only migrants, but also narcotics and ammo across the country — Holmes ruled that the prosecutors failed to prove that he was a flight risk or that he posed a danger to the community…The judge set a hearing for Wednesday to discuss the conditions of Abrego Garcia’s release, according to court documents. Federal prosecutors have already filed a notice that it will challenge her denial for detention. (Magistrate judges are judicial officers of the U.S. district courts appointed by the district judges of the court. Magistrate judges generally oversee But wait, there’s more
Judge orders release of Kilmar Garcia — but DHS vows that ‘he will never go free on American soil’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/kilmar-garcia-judge-release-dhs
Holmes, however, acknowledged that the ruling was “little more than an academic exercise” because Garcia would likely be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin – “Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a dangerous criminal illegal alien. We have said it for months and it remains true to this day: he will never go free on American soil,”

Elite university professor wants ‘symbolic’ Iranian strike on US base
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/23/elite-university-professor-wants-symbolic-iranian-strike-on-us-base-1553354/
Jonathan Brown, a professor and director of the Arabic and Islamic Studies department, wrote in an X post on Sunday he hopes “Iran does some symbolic strike on a base.”…. The university’s law school also once encouraged students to work for an Israeli-designated terrorist organization.

TEXAS
Governor Abbott Signs TSRA Priority Bills – New Laws Take Effect September 1
https://tsra.com/news_manager.php?page=40900
Senate Bill 706 (Universal LTC Recognition by Sen. Charles Schwertner & Rep. Carrie Isaac)
Senate Bill 1362 (Anti-Red Flag Act by Sen. Bryan Hughes & Rep. Cole Hefner)
Senate Bill 1596 (Repeal State Ban on Short-Barrel Firearms by Sen. Brent Hagenbuch & Rep. Richard Hayes)
House Bill 1403 (No Firearms Registry for Foster Parents by Rep. Cody Harris & Sen. Mayes Middleton)
House Bill 3053 (End Taxpayer-Funded Gun Buybacks by Rep. Wes Virdell & Sen. Bob Hall)
Senate Bill 1718 (NRA Annual Meeting to Texas Program by Sen. Kevin Sparks & Rep. Ryan Guillen)
A Special Session has been called by the Governor, which will convene on July 21. While this Special Session will primarily surround non-firearm bills, it does not mean that guns will be off the table. A Special Session is led by Governor Abbott, and he controls the agenda and the topics.

FIREARMS NEWS
Church Employees Return Fire and Kill Shooter; Rep. Shri Thanedar Calls for Gun Control
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/06/23/church-employees-return-fire-at-shooter-rep-shri-thanedar-thanks-the-police-n2414642
The man had on a tactical vest and carried the two firearm…”A parishioner struck the gunman with his vehicle as the gunman shot the vehicle repeatedly,” he said. “At least two staff members shot the gunman, causing fatal wounds.”…So two armed church staffers took down what we assume was a would-be mass shooter, and Rep. Shri Thanedar, who made a name for himself earlier this year by introducing seven articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, including “acts of tyranny,” thanked the Wayne Police Department for saving lives and called for strong gun control laws.
and More
Video as armed gunman was shot dead by security guard after opening fire at Sunday church service
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/23/video-as-armed-gunman-was-shot-dead-by-security-guard-after-opening-fire-at-sunday-church-service-1553407/
A near tragedy in Michigan emphasized the need for “safety and security” plans after “heroic actions” neutralized an attacker with sights set on a church…Sunday’s attack came as alarms had been raised over the potential for sleeper cells in the United States launching attacks on Americans to retaliate for the strike on the Islamist regime’s nuclear facilities.
video – 00:04:01 – https://youtu.be/1aChfFhB_Ck

MORE FIREARM NEWS (don’t tell me the true facts, my mind is made up, and I have my fake “facts” to back it up……. until some one calls my BULLSHT – jlr)
NSSF Debunks Anti-Suppressor Lies
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/06/23/nssf-debunks-anti-suppressor-lies-n1229026
Sen. Chris Murphy
Among the loudest voices is Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who posted to X, “A hidden provision of the bill…wait for it…legalizes gun silencers!! What?? So now criminals will be able to hide their crimes and police will lose the ability to respond to mass shootings. WTF.” He followed that up by also posting a speech, saying “silencers” will allow murderers to commit crimes in secret, claiming the firearm report would be completely silenced, “Silencers are the tools of killers, they are the tools of criminals, period, stop.”…Sen. Mark Kelly, who tried to claim that suppressors would render technology like ShotSpotter useless. The fact that ShotSpotter itself claims it can detect suppressed gunfire debunks that nonsense.
That’s a lie.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) couldn’t help himself. “Who wants a silencer? Not the average citizen,”…“They’re law-abiding. Not our police officers. They’re against these provisions that allow anyone to get a silencer. The only people who want silencers are criminals because they don’t want people to hear their bad, horrible, deadly deeds.”…I don’t want one because I’m planning on killing anyone. I want one because, God forbid, I ever have to defend my home against invasion. I’d much rather deal with just the psychological trauma of taking a life without everyone in my house having to also deal with the physical trauma of having their hearing damaged. I want to see people have them readily available to reduce the noise at gun ranges, so we stop seeing these battles from neighbors trying to force them out due to noise. And I’m sick of people slinging lies to try and justify preventing any of that from happening.

When the Streets Don’t ‘Run Red With Blood’
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/06/23/when-the-streets-dont-run-red-with-blood-n1229025
I remember hearing anti-gunners make claims about how “the streets will run red with blood” should some pro-gun measure pass. That was a literal quote at the time, and it stuck with me over the years. While the exact wording changes from time to time, the sentiment remains. Gun control advocates routinely claim that without some law, violence will take hold and we’ll have blood everywhere…Gun control doesn’t work, and the studies that claim it does can all be debunked pretty easily. They’re not even clever about it because the biased media won’t poke at them too much. They’ll just repeat what the claim is without any critical thinking.

ATF Downsizing on Gun Inspectors, Outrage Ensues for Stupid Reasons
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/06/23/atf-downsizing-on-gun-inspectors-outrage-ensues-for-stupid-reasons-n1229023
Your rank and file ATF agent isn’t the one walking into your local gun store to see if they’re complying with the rules for FFLs. That’s the job of a team of inspectors who have no actual arrest powers. They’re different entities entirely…The downsizing also saves taxpayers an estimated $82 million specifically from reductions in regulatory inspections, and $354 million overall from staffing cuts that include both IOIs and other support personnel.Of course, this spurred some outrage…GIFFORDS @GIFFORDS_org – Once again, the Trump admin is putting our safety at risk to enrich gun CEOs. Gutting inspections helps no one but rogue gun dealers and those who seek to do us harm. It puts all of our families at risk…This is nothing more than them trying to latch onto class warfare rhetoric to push their agenda, not realizing that no one who doesn’t already agree with them will be moved by this nonsense.

WOULD BE FUNNY, IF IT WASN”T TRUE
34 Signposts On The Way To Civil War . . .
https://wilderwealthywise.com/34-signposts-on-the-way-to-civil-war/
The devolution of the United States was predicted by Thomas Chittum in his book Civil War Two, The Coming Breakup of America…Towards the back of the book, Mr. Chittum provides the Civil War II Checklist, a list of 36 items “in no particular order” that he sees as measurements along the way to Civil War 2.0. He wrote the book originally in 1997, and updated it in 2007, so we’ll be marking close to two decades of time between his last update and this quick analysis.

IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
A little humor…To start the week…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/a-little-humor-d15

Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (353rd Edition)
https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/truth-bomb-central-memes-that-expose-271?

“Avoid crowds – Get Out of the Cities. – NOW.  A year too soon is better than a day too late” – John Wilder @  https://wilderwealthywise.com/

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” – https://www.zerohedge.com/

We love salmon in our home, and I cook it in a variety of different ways. This, however, is my “signature” recipe and it’s the one I get requests for most often. This salmon can be eaten with “the usual suspects” as sides (pasta/potato/rice, salad/steamed veg), or you can shred it after cooking and toss it over a cold salad for a summer treat. Check out the notes below, as there are cooking options listed!

Ingredients:

• 4 to 6 oz salmon per person (filet, not steaks)
• oil for cooking
• soy sauce
• fresh lemon, half sliced and half juiced
• good quality balsamic vinegar (like this one)
• white wine (optional)
• minced garlic (fresh or dried)
• salt and pepper to taste
• fresh herbs: thyme, oregano, rosemary, winter savory, dill are usual

Preheat your oven to 400*F. In a high edge pan or cast iron pan, add some olive oil or other heat safe oil and spread it over the bottom of the pan. Add in your salmon pieces, skin down. Drizzle with soy sauce, the half of a lemon’s juice, about a tablespoon or more of the vinegar, and a dash of wine if you like. Then top with the garlic, herbs, salt, and pepper. You can use dried herbs, about a total of a tablespoon of herbs per 6 oz of salmon. Fresh herbs are, in my opinion, better.

Pop the salmon into the oven and bake for about 25 minutes. Using a thermometer, check for a finished temperature between 125* and 145* F (I like mine more rare, but some people don’t like to risk it and cook it for longer). Check the temp at the fattest part of the salmon. If you don’t have a thermometer, you can try flaking the fat part of the salmon; when it flakes easily and is no longer fleshy and dark pink, it’s ready.

Let this sit on the counter, out of the oven, for about five minutes. This lets the juices settle and the flavors mingle.

Notes:

You can cook this on your stove top, at a medium heat. Using a pan large enough for your salmon, begin with the salmon skin-side down. Cook until you start to see the cooked part of the salmon not quite to the half way point. Flip the salmon over, and continue to cook for about 2 minutes, then flip so the skin is down again. Cook until the salmon is done (see instructions above). If you have a very fat part of salmon, you can put a couple of tablespoons of water or wine or broth into the pan and put a lid over it while cooking.

You can cook this on your grill! If you have a fish grill basket, you can use that. If you don’t, then use a cast iron pan or pick up disposable mesh grill mats. Don’t try to grill salmon directly on your grill bars, because they’re too far apart and your salmon will end up in the fire, and you will be sad.

Though I haven’t tried it, I’d warrant you could even cook this in your air fryer or your slow cooker (though I’d be wary of that last). Enjoy!

All the news from the weekend:

June 20, 2025 –

Iran Launched Cluster Munition at Israel Hospital, Civilian Centers
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/iran-launched-cluster-munition-at-israel-hospital-civilian-centers.html/
…The missile’s warhead held several small munitions, each one with 2.5 kg of explosives…The unique missile split apart at 7 km above the ground, and the munitions were dispersed to an 8 km radius.

OUT OF MONEY: The DNC is Broke After USAID Got Defunded
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/out-of-money-the-dnc-is-broke-after-usaid-got-defunded.html/
DNC’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills, per NYT…It cannot be coincidence that this coincides with the defunding of USAID.

Israeli Air Force SUCCESSFULLY Struck the Iranian Nuclear Reactor in Arak, Iran
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/israeli-air-force-successfully-struck-the-iranian-nuclear-reactor-in-arak-iran.html/
The IDF struck key sites tied to Iran’s nuclear weapons and missile programs, including:– Inactive nuclear reactor in Arak—a key component in plutonium production – A nuclear weapons development site near Natanz – Ballistic missile & air defense production facilities – Radar systems & missile storage sites. These facilities fuel Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons and its attacks on Israeli civilians

Trump Celebrates ‘Big Win’ Over Gavin Newsom in Federal Court: ‘A Great Decision for Our Country
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-celebrates-big-win-gavin-newsom-federal-court-great-decision-country/
President Donald Trump was handed a major victory in his efforts to get the Los Angeles riots under control, courtesy of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…the three-judge panel of the court ordered Trump could maintain control of the California National Guard, blocking an order by a lower court that would have made him turn over command to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.“We conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority.”

English Required for Citizenship – But Not at the Polls
https://amac.us/newsline/elections/english-required-for-citizenship-but-not-at-the-polls/
For all the debate in recent years about how mass unchecked illegal immigration threatens election integrity, there’s one glaring apparent contradiction in American law that almost no one is talking about – and it might be enabling noncitizens to vote. To become a U.S. citizen – and therefore gain the right to vote in federal elections – noncitizens must pass a naturalization test that measures both English language proficiency and knowledge of U.S. history and government. English proficiency is determined by the ability to “read, write, speak, and understand English,” with applicants required to read one sentence, write one sentence, and respond meaningfully to questions in English…that requirement is in apparent conflict with Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act, which mandates translated voting materials—ballots, instructions, and notices—in counties where a significant number of voting-age citizens belong to a single language minority group and have limited English proficiency…The Voting Rights Act, originally passed in 1965 and amended over the years, was critical in ending racial discrimination at the polls and expanding access to the ballot box. But with illegal immigration now a national crisis, there’s legitimate reason for concern that progressive activists and politicians are exploiting Section 203 to enable noncitizen voting – especially in left-leaning states and cities with lax enforcement of election laws to begin with…The Founders envisioned a republic where free citizens deliberated in a shared public language. As debates over immigration and national identity grow more divisive, preserving English as the common civic language is more important than ever. If English is necessary to gain citizenship, it should be necessary at the ballot box too.

Supreme Court delivers blow to California climate zealots
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/20/supreme-court-delivers-blow-to-california-climate-zealots-1552920/
In a 7-2 ruling, the court allowed energy producers to continue their lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to approve California regulations that require manufacturing more electric vehicles. “The government generally may not target a business or industry through stringent and allegedly unlawful regulation, and then evade the resulting lawsuits by claiming that the targets of its regulation should be locked out of court as unaffected bystanders,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion. “In light of this Court’s precedents and the evidence before the Court of Appeals, the fuel producers established Article III standing to challenge EPA’s approval of the California regulations.”

And Another One Gone: Haircare Giant Moving HQ From CA, Bringing 80 Jobs and $12M in Investment With Him
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/06/20/and-another-one-gone-haircare-giant-moving-hq-from-ca-bringing-80-jobs-and-12m-in-investment-with-him-n2190691
The move comes in the wake of multiple corporations hitting the freeway in Gavin Newsom’s California in just the last few years alone: SpaceX, Tesla, X, Blaze Pizza, Charles Schwab, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Hewlett-Packard, Chevron, Oracle, and so many more.

Oil Giant Chevron Says Adios to CA After 145 Years, TX Gov. Abbott Invites Them to ‘Drill Baby Drill’
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/08/02/after-145-years-oil-giant-chevron-to-say-adios-to-california-head-for-greener-pastures-n2177686
With today’s announcement that @Chevron, 2nd biggest energy company, is relocating its headquarters from CA to Texas, you’ve reaffirmed how CA is “a model for the nation” — a model for economic devastation.

Trump admin to intervene on behalf of New Jersey family trying to stop government seizure of 175-year-old farm
https://www.theblaze.com/news/ny-eminent-domain-brooke-rollins
A New Jersey family trying to save their 175-year-old farm from being seized by a local government are getting support from the Trump administration. The Cranbury city government announced its intention to seize the 21-acre farm through eminent domain in order to build low-income apartments, but the Henry family is resisting…Eminent domain is a power of the government that is enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, but its application has been significantly expanded, improperly, according to critics, to include seizures that indirectly benefit the government through increased taxes.

YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID
BLM org asks ‘white folks’ for Juneteenth reparations as finances fizzle
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/19/blm-org-asks-white-folks-for-juneteenth-reparations-as-finances-fizzle-1552729/
Black Lives Matter Grassroots made a series of demands for assistance to “our people” and to hold white Americans “accountable” in a Thursday press release honoring Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the liberation of slaves in the U.S. The group laid out demands for specific ethnic groups, reiterating its brand of leftist identity politics that has lost significant amounts of public support, according to May polling from Pew Research Center. “Commit yourselves to real reparations policies that hold accountable the government, white-supremacist capitalism, and white people — who continue to benefit from our generations of stolen labor,” the press release states. “Slide your Black friend some benjamins. Make a check out to Black liberation organizations, like BLM Grassroots.”…A May poll from Pew Research Center showed most American adults thought an “increased focus on race” driven by the BLM movement brought NO meaningful benefits for black people in the time since George Floyd’s death in 2020.

FA to FO
Most Satisfying Pepper Spray Video You’ll Ever See, She Charged Cops When She Should Have Run
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-satisfying-pepper-spray-video-ever-see-charged-cops-run/
The video, which went viral after being reposted by antifa-chronicler Andy Ngo, began with some long-haired dude yelling at police on bikes to “de-escalate” and asking them if they knew what that meant, claiming that they punched his girlfriend. (What appears to be his girlfriend, for what it’s worth, didn’t seem too upset and seemed to want the guy to de-escalate.). “Yeah, y’all real tough,” one protester can be heard saying before the camera panned through the crowd — with its assemblage of various lefty archetypes holding Mexican or upside-down American flags — to the front line at the intersection. At this point, through incoherent shouting, a group of people tried to break through the line. After a scuffle, which saw several people clearly menacing police, the protesters were hit with pepper spray, with one of the them getting the worst of it.
WARNING: The following video contains vulgar language that some readers may find offensive.
viseo – 00:02:52 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1934042966181507141

FOOD for THOUGHT
Pew Study: White Liberals Disproportionately Suffer From Mental Illness.
https://wibc.com/108211/pew-study-white-liberals-disproportionately-suffer-from-mental-illness/

Over 50% of white womwn under 30 hava mental health problem are we worried yet?
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/over-50-percent-white-liberal-women-under-30-mental-health-condition
https://truthorfake.com/blog/over-50percent-of-young-liberal-women-have-bee-5116

TEXAS
‘Most jacked up thing I’ve ever heard’: Texas Dems OPPOSED bill to keep squatters out of homes
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/20/most-jacked-up-thing-ive-ever-heard-texas-dems-opposed-bill-to-keep-squatters-out-of-homes-1552791/
Texas took “decisive action” in favor of property owners last month when legislation known as the “Squatters Bill” was passed, offering protection against bad-faith tenants and serial squatters. Predictably, Democrats opposed the bill using a familiar argument seen from the party when it comes to deporting illegal immigrants, claiming due process was “being stripped” from squatters…“Texas ranks #2 in the nation for squatting, that is a crisis,” Bettencourt said. “Property owners are facing financial devastation and dangerous confrontations, from a $6,000 dental bill after a squatter dropped a refrigerator on a woman, to over $130,000 in legal fees just to evict unlawful occupants. That ends now, as this is a focused anti-squatters bill.”
video – 00:00:33 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1935754313818948015
(If I go on a vacation and return to find squatters in my house – THEY WILL BE LEAVING! – jlr)

FIREARMS NEWS
Weekend Knowledge Dump- June 20, 2025
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-june-20-2025
Some of the topics: How to prepare for and survive civil unrest – An Eye-Witness’s Shocking Account of What’s REALLY Happening During the Seattle Riots – Does insurance cover damage from civil unrest and looting? – An Archive of Nuclear Preparedness Resources, It can’t hurt to review this material. You might also want to look at some medical references. – Ayoob: Is .45 Still Better Than 9mm? – What officers need to know about organized protest tactics – Stockpiling Ammunition: A Thorough Approach

Gun Rights Groups Ramp Up Efforts to Combat the NFA
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/06/20/gun-rights-groups-ramp-up-efforts-to-combat-the-nfa-n1229006

Ninth Circuit Declares California Gun Rationing Law Unconstitutional
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/06/20/ninth-circuit-declares-california-gun-rationing-law-unconstitutional-n1229018
A three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court ruling declaring California’s “1-in-30” gun rationing law an unconstitutional infringement on the right to keep and bear arms. Judge Danielle Jo Forrest, an appointee of Donald Trump, authored the unanimous opinion holding the California law is “facially unconstitutional because the plain text of the Second Amendment protects the possession of multiple firearms and protects against meaningful constraints on the acquisition of firearms through purchase.” That last bit is particularly interesting, because it calls into question other California gun laws, including attempts by municipalities and counties to zone gun stores out of existence, as well as the state’s prohibition on gun shows on state property.

End to Taxes, Registration on Most NFA Items Faces a Weekend Byrd Bath
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/06/20/end-to-taxes-registration-on-most-nfa-items-faces-a-weekend-byrd-bath-n1229008
For gun owners, the biggest question is whether the language removing the tax and registration requirement on suppressors, short-barreled firearms, and “any other weapons” will survive the Senate parliamentarian’s scrutiny of the bill. Politico reports the Byrd bath, as it’s colloquially known, will begin in earnest this weekend…

IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (350th Edition)
https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/truth-bomb-central-memes-that-expose-a5c

June 21, 2025 –

Trump Launches Assault on Iran’s Nuclear Program
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/06/21/breaking-us-attacking-iran-n2658931
“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.” –President Donald J. Trump…”We’re not looking for a ceasefire. We’re looking for a total and complete victory. Again, you know what the victory is: no nuclear weapon,” Trump said at the White House. “I don’t want to get involved either, but I’ve been saying for 20 years — maybe longer — that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”

United States Bombs Iran, Trump Puts Out Statement
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/06/21/breaking-united-states-bombs-iran-trump-puts-out-statement-n2190749
President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that American bombers had struck three separate nuclear facilities, including the underground enrichment facility in Fordow, which had become the biggest point of contention since strikes began…While the president didn’t confirm it, the bombings were likely done by B-2 bombers that had been positioned in Guam just hours earlier. It’s assumed that they used 30,000-pound GBU-57 bunker busters to penetrate deep into the ground and end Iran’s nuclear threat. Even if the Mullahs survive, it will now take decades for them to rebuild, given the damage that was done…. Trump deserves a lot of credit for standing by his red line and taking action here, something his predecessors refused to do. This also sends a message to America’s enemies outside of Iran that we are not to be trifled with.

Vince Vance & The Valiants – BOMB IRAN (Lyric Video)
music video – 00:02:12 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r64GxYmFS1M

Trump announces ‘successful attack’ by the U.S. on three sites in Iran
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-announces-attack-on-iran
US Bombs Iran, Trump Announces ‘Very Successful Attack’ on Nuclear Site
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-us-bombs-iran-trump-announces-successful-attack-nuclear-site/

Say Hello To My Li’l Friend
https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2025/06/21/say-hello-to-my-lil-friend-n2659203
…we’ve got a “li’l friend” stashed in the hangar—a 30,000-pound Bunker Buster bomb that can punch a hole straight through the gates of hell. And oh, by the way: only we have it. Only we can fly it. And only one man on planet Earth has the brass to use it properly…I’m talking about President Donald J. Trump—the only man with the judgment, strength, and clarity to end Iran’s nuclear program without ever setting foot on Iranian soil…Trump—being Trump—won’t go trigger-happy. He never does. He’s not a neocon looking for regime change or a warmonger needing to prove anything. Trump’s doctrine is simple: no boots, no nation-building, no apologies.

U.S. Ramps Up Surveillance Amid Fears Of Iran-Backed Sleeper Cells
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-ramps-surveillance-amid-fears-iran-backed-sleeper-cells
…Homeland, concerns are flourishing over the possible activation of Iran-backed operatives…law enforcement officials have stepped up surveillance of Iran-backed operatives in the United States…Late last year, federal prosecutors charged an operative of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and two U.S.-based people with plotting to surveil and assassinate critics of the Iranian regime. The IRGC operative allegedly told investigators he was pushed by unnamed IRGC officials to plan an attack against Mr. Trump…former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams “Well, Al-Qaeda says they trained and deployed a thousand for this attack. First off, I think there are more than a thousand Al-Qaeda members in the United States, but for the Homeland Attack, that number is based on what Al-Qaeda is saying, so they could exaggerate it; however, they did have about 1,400 in the Hamas Attack so the number is not off from what they did in the first round of attacks.”…The overlap between the Israel-Iran conflict and an elevated U.S. counter-terrorism posture signals a rising domestic threat environment should President Trump decide on direct military action. Open southern borders over the past four years via the globalists in the Biden-Harris regime have markedly increased uncertainty about the number of IRGC- or Hezbollah-linked operatives inside the country. In the event of a U.S. strike on Iran, these terror networks could conduct retaliatory attacks against high-visibility or soft targets.

FBI Monitoring Possible Domestic Sleeper Cells
https://www.westernjournal.com/alert-fbi-monitoring-possible-domestic-sleeper-cells/

When Santayana does not apply. – “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/when-santayana-does-not-apply
An unwanted post, very probable sponsored under the table, came across my timeline…My faint recollection was something related to the French Revolution and I had to go online to refresh my memory. Britannica removed my memory rust…Jacobin Club, the most famous political group of the French Revolution, which became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794.,,There is no way in this modern day of fast access to information that this group chose its name by random accident because it sounded cool. And maybe it is cool to them the idea of parading perceived enemies to their gruesome deaths in a public location since they figure the bloodshed will only run one way: theirs. This is no longer an era where people ignore history, but are embracing with fervor the worst parts of it.
When they say they want you dead, take them seriously.

Now We Know Why the Minnesota Assassin Story Disappeared Overnight
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/20/now-we-know-why-the-minnesota-assassin-story-disappeared-overnight-n4941019
Have you wondered why the story of the Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter has suddenly vanished from the news? Now we have a pretty good idea why…Initial media coverage was rife with speculation, with left-leaning outlets eager to cast Boelter as a MAGA Republican, hastily blaming the GOP and even President Donald Trump for inciting his shooting spree…Yet the letter found in Boelter’s abandoned vehicle tells a radically different story, one that not only exposes the media’s rush to judgment and political opportunism but sudden drop in coverage….According to the Star-Tribune, Boelter believed he was acting under the supposed orders of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz. Boelter’s incoherent letter, about a page and a half long, bizarrely claimed that killing Sen. Amy Klobuchar was necessary to clear the way for Walz to run for the U.S. Senate…In short, Boelter is just a wacko.

Letter Urges Transportation Sec. Duffy To Ban Foreign CDLs Amid Series Of Highway Crashes
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/letter-urges-duffy-ban-foreign-cdls-amid-series-highway-crashes
American Truckers United delivered a letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, requesting support for our petition to ban non-domicile CDLs issued to non-citizens and to restrict foreign CDLs…Compounding the crisis, Major Omar A. Villarreal of the Texas Highway Patrol detailed in a December 2024 letter to the FMCSA how corrupt Mexican officials sell digital CDLs without vetting, endangering lives. His 17-page report documented safety violations by Mexican and Central American drivers, often employed by U.S. carriers engaging in illegal cabotage.

Supreme Court Allows Victims of Terrorist Attacks Overseas to Sue in US Courts​
https://www.ldsavow.com/forum/threads/supreme-court-allows-victims-of-terrorist-attacks-overseas-to-sue-in-us-courts.311226/
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 20 unanimously upheld a law that empowers Americans harmed by terrorist attacks abroad to sue in U.S. courts. The majority opinion in the 9–0 decision was written by Chief Justice Roberts…The legal issue is whether the extraterritoriality provisions of the federal Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism (PSJVTA) Act are consistent with the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, according to the petition filed on July 3, 2024…the PSJVTA amended the federal Anti-Terrorism Act, which had created a right for victims of terror attacks committed against Americans outside the United States to sue in U.S. courts. The Anti-Terrorism Act was inspired by a lawsuit brought against the PLO for the 1985 killing of wheelchair-bound American cruise ship passenger Leon Klinghoffer “who was shot in the face and thrown into the sea by PLO hijackers”

Europe Admits “Trump Is Right”, China Is The Problem As Beijing Unleashes Global EV Dump
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europe-admits-trump-right-china-problem-beijing-unleashes-global-ev-dump
Overnight the world’s largest maker of EVs, China’s BYD (it surpassed Tesla last year) unleashed a price war nuke, cutting prices by up to 34%

TEXAS
AG Paxton threatens suit against Austin over ‘anti-gun’ bank contract
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/paxton-austin-anti-gun-bank-contract
Paxton filed a letter on Monday threatening legal action against the city for their contract with WEX Bank. The contract, which the city entered into on Sept. 11, 2021, violates Senate Bill 19, which went into effect on Sept. 1, 2021. The bill prohibits contracts over $100,000 between government agencies and companies that discriminate against the firearm or ammunition industries…WEX Bank is a company that does just that, referring to a June 2, 2021, debanking of Defense Solutions Group (DSG), a military and law enforcement provider specializing in high-end equipment. Paxton said WEX Bank terminated their services with DSG, ultimately causing the group to close their doors.

IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (351st Edition)
https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/truth-bomb-central-memes-that-expose-8b8

June 22, 2025 –

Trump Bombed Iran, So We May Soon Know How Many Terrorist Sleeper Cells Came into America Under Biden
https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/06/21/trump-bombed-iran-so-we-will-soon-know-how-many-terrorist-sleeper-cells-came-into-america-under-biden-n4941044
…The grimmer toll could easily come right here at home, thanks to the Open Border policies of the Biden administration that literally allowed pretty much anybody to cross into this country. But don’t expect the mainstream media to provide honest reporting about the severity of this threat… it was Biden’s policies that made it easy for the Iranian terrorist planners and strategists to move terrorist sleeper cells across our border with Mexico. To grasp this reality, here’s what the House Homeland Security Committee reported in Oct. 2024…………..Nobody knows with certainty, of course, precisely how many radical Islamic Revolutionary Guards terrorist sleeper cells there currently are in this country, awaiting orders to launch devastating attacks across the country. Just imagine suicide bombers assaulting the U.S. Capitol, or detonating themselves in crowded public places, or unleashing random shooting on a crowded street in New York, Chicago, Denver, LA, etc.  And it’s not just Iran. There is no reason to assume that other extremist Muslim groups don’t also have sleeper cells here. The ISIS threat has revived in recent years, and let’s not forget that at least 20,000 young Chinese males are known to have crossed into the country during the Biden era. China is our most dangerous adversary, and one of Iran’s most significant allies.

‘There Will Be Peace Or… Tragedy for Iran’: Trump Addresses the Nation on US Bombing of Iran
https://www.westernjournal.com/will-peace-tragedy-iran-trump-addresses-nation-us-bombing-iran/
Just hours after announcing that American bombers had struck three Iranian nuclear facilities, President Donald Trump spoke from the White House late Saturday night, saying Iran needed to choose between “peace” or “tragedy” in the days and weeks to come…“Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” Trump said during his address from the White House. “Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,” the president continued. “If they do not, future attacks will be far greater — and a lot easier.” Trump went on to note that “for 40 years, Iran has been saying ‘Death to America’ … They have been killing our people.” “I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. It will not continue,”

DOD reveals stunning new details following Trump’s attack on Iran
https://www.theblaze.com/news/dod-reveals-details-iran-attack
…Hegseth also clarified that only the Iranian nuclear targets were “devastated” and that civilians were not targeted…”Many presidents have dreamed of delivering the final blow to Iran’s nuclear program, and none could, until President Trump,”…”The operation President Trump planned was bold and it was brilliant, showing the world that American deterrence is back when this president speaks, the world should listen.”

Trump’s Audacious Deception, Tight OpSec, Shocking Stealth in Lead-Up to Hit on Iran’s Nuke Sites
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/06/21/incredible-opsec-shocking-stealth-audacious-deception-by-trump-in-lead-up-to-us-strike-on-nukes-in-iran-n4941045
The first word anyone heard of American B-2 bomber strikes on Iranian nuclear sites was by President Donald Trump…There was nary a leak. There was no chest beating from Congress. No reports of “we hear that…” The operational security leading to this strike on a Saturday appears to have been flawless…While all the pieces on the chess board were being moved—doomsday planes, B-2, carrier strike groups—the Trump Administration deployed multiple feints to lull the mullahs into thinking they had a little time to get out of this dilemma. Trump told the Iranian leadership, or what remains of it after Israel’s tactical strikes on their penthouses, that he’d give them up to two weeks to give up their nuclear enrichment program…the U.S. Air Force bombers used six 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrators — bunker busters — on the Fordow nuclear site…The other two Iranian nuclear sites at Natanz and Isfahan, softened up by Israeli bombs, were struck by U.S. Navy submarines in the region using a reported 30 Tomahawk missiles. The World War II generation was told that “loose lips sink ships.” Trump made sure that this generation of war fighters kept everything on closer-than-close hold.

Trump’s Decision to Bomb Iran Exposes the Failures of Previous U.S. Leadership at Highest Level
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/06/22/trumps-decision-to-bomb-iran-wouldnt-have-been-necessary-if-his-predecessors-had-taken-action-n4941053
Following the Iranian revolution that created the present regime in 1979, Iran found itself in possession of much of the infrastructure that formed the basis of its nuclear weapons program. In 1974, the Shah announced his intention to “produce roughly 23,000 megawatts of electrical power from a series of nuclear power stations within 20 years,”…The Germans built two reactors at Bushehr, and the French supplied two additional, smaller reactors. By 1979, Iran had invested $1 billion in an enrichment plant and had begun to master the nuclear fuel cycle of enriching uranium into a usable fuel for reactors…By the early 1990s, Russia and China (with North Korean technicians) were accelerating Iran’s bomb development. Everything was going well for Iran and it was on track to possess a nuclear weapon sometime in the early 2000s…While the CIA was telling presidents that the Iranians had stopped trying to build a bomb in 2003 after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, work continued on a bomb until the window to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon closed. Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities was more than 40 years in the making and represents a generational failure of leadership of historic proportions. Each president in turn—beginning with George H. W. Bush, through Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, the first Trump administration, and Joe Biden—acknowledged the Iranian threat of a nuclear weapon but refused to act on it. Trump correctly interpreted Iran’s intentions during his first term. Whether he would have gone after Iran’s nuclear program in a second term will never be known. The fact that he’s finishing a job that Joe Biden should have done is an indication that Trump had no illusions about Iran’s capability or intent to build a nuclear bomb. Apologists for previous presidents will point out that the Iranian threat was not an “existential” one at the time. They were kicking the can down the road, hoping a successor would do what they were unwilling to do.

“A Spectacular Military Success” – Trump Says ‘Bully’ Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been “Completely & Totally Obliterated”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/force-posturing-six-b-2-stealth-bombers-en-route-indo-pacific-ahead-trumps-intel
…six B-2 bombers dropped a full dozen of the enormous “bunker-busters”…Trump claimed Iran’s nuclear facilities have been “completely and totally obliterated,” but the jury’s still out. “We won’t know for sure until the morning what was taken out, but our belief is that we took out everything we wanted to,”

Potential 2030 census disaster explains Dems’ ‘ride or die’ stance toward illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/21/potential-2030-census-disaster-explains-dems-ride-or-die-stance-toward-illegals-1553145/
The New York Times sounded the alarm over the ICE raids being conducted by President Donald Trump’s administration, claiming Democrats are panicking over losing “noncitizens” from the count.
“Now there is growing alarm over the Trump administration’s immigration raids and over a renewed push by Republican lawmakers to require the census to ask respondents whether they are U.S. citizens and to exclude noncitizens from counts used to apportion congressional seats,”…“More than 4.5 million migrants live in New York State, about 23.1 percent of its total population, according to a breakdown of 2023 census data from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. Of those 4.5 million, about 1.8 million are noncitizens.”

M.A.D. v. Mad: There is a difference.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/mad-v-mad-there-is-a-difference
…what is called Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.): “I Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.): “If you try to erase us, we will erase you right back; you don’t want to be erased and I don’t want to be erased, so let’s chill. Nobody wins if we go to war.”…but one dedicated individual willing to sacrifice himself others win is one thing (Kamikaze), but when you have a full culture and government who not only don’t care if their people die, but mass death of other countries and themselves are treated as divine mandates and due full obedience, then the game of who has nukes changes drastically…Is anybody with some amount of rationally brain is willing to bet that Iran will not use nukes once they make them? And especially if the USA is perceived as weak and decadent? Israel will be a nuclear wasteland (Gaza included for those Pro Palestinians about to applaud) and probably one or more of the big cities in CONUS. Moscow and/or Saint Petersburg may also get repaved nuclear flat in “payback” for the Chechens. And then, the Middle East will glow in the dark for a very long time once both countries reply in kind twice over. “But we are not a war with Iran!” Bullcrap. We have been in a low-intensity conflict with the assholes since 1979 and playing their game ever since.

Ilhan Omar Hates America, But There’s a Reason Why She Stays Here
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/ilhan-omar-hates-america-but-theres-a-reason-why-she-stays-here.html/
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) is deeply disappointed in her adopted country, and of course, it is all the fault of none other than Donald J. Trump. While virtually all leftists hate Trump with hysterical, lunatic intensity, Omar goes them all one better, and she is in the process of transforming Trump-hatred into a veritable new art form…Omar has gone all the other Trump-haters one better by claiming that Orange Man Bad is not just a new Hitler who is destroying “our democracy” (the term leftists like to use to refer to their own hegemony), but that he is destroying the country itself, and reducing it to the level of a third-world hellhole…It was Omar’s friends and colleagues, her fellow leftist apparatchiks, who did far more to reduce the U.S. to third-world status than Trump ever did…So she loves Somalia and longs to live there. She thinks America, meanwhile, is among “the worst of countries.” Yet despite her expressed hope in the 2022 video, she is likely to remain in the country she hates. After all, there is so much more work to do in order to ensure its destruction.

AS EXPECTED
Tlaib Melts Down Worse Than Iran’s Nuclear Sites Over Trump-Approved US Bombing
https://www.westernjournal.com/tlaib-melts-worse-irans-nuclear-sites-trump-approved-us-bombing/

The Jihad Wing of the Democrat Party Weighs in on the Iran Strike and It’s Predictably Hysterical
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/06/21/the-jihad-wing-of-the-democrat-party-weighs-in-on-us-strike-on-iran-and-its-as-hysterical-as-youd-think-n4941051
Within minutes of Saturday night’s successful U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the jihad wing of the U.S. Democrat Party threw a public wing ding, threatened to impeach the president, and one of them was given a star turn on Tehran TV…Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) issued a statement claiming that the strikes “mark a dangerous and reckless escalation of an already volatile conflict in the Middle East.” She added, “Military strikes will not bring peace. They will only provoke more violence, destabilize the region, and endanger U.S. troops and civilians.” Furthermore, she claimed that no effort at diplomacy had been taken, saying, “We’ve seen what happens when diplomacy is sidelined in favor of bombs.” She apparently doesn’t remember that the mullahs left the negotiating table in Europe…The mission was flawlessly carried off because nobody leaked the details, whispered to a reporter, or dropped a dime to a mullah. But Omar was joined by Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza), who demanded to know why they were not told the details of the mission and allowed to give their consent.
We’re sure the lawfare crowd will try to tie up Trump in the courts over this issue. The Authorized Use of Military Force doesn’t include Iran, according to Just Security, but there is room under the Constitution in which the president may use force “to protect an important national interest.”

YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID
Things may get spicy once again.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/things-may-get-spicy-once-again
Expect the Nose Ring/Black Hoodie crowd to be aggressively waving newly made Iranian flags attached to pipes to ply their “mostly peaceful ” trade. And I am praying that the old rumor about sleeper cells remains that, but not betting life on that. Prepare accordingly.

Hogg replacement for DNC vice chair checks all the boxes and then some
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/21/hogg-replacement-for-dnc-vice-chair-checks-all-the-boxes-and-then-some-1553120/
Only the Democrats could finally get rid of David Hogg just to replace him with someone more painfully on brand for the party.

FOOD for THOUGHT
rcd via e-mail
Against the Purity Spiral
https://tomklingenstein.com/against-the-purity-spiral/
…“A purity spiral occurs,” he wrote, “when a community becomes fixated on implementing a single value that has no upper limit, and no single agreed interpretation. The result is a moral feeding frenzy.”…Mao’s cultural revolution provides another classic example. In the late 1960s, the Red Guards took to the street to identify and destroy anyone and anything involved with traditional Chinese culture. The result was an industrial-scale orgy of murder and destruction… The woke shift their language all the time, so that words that were one day fine are now utterly reprehensible. You can’t keep up — which is the point. … The result is an exercise of cultural power through linguistic distortion…Courage has been in notably short supply in Western countries in recent years as people have allowed petty bureaucrats to turn them into sheep who parrot absurd ideas about sexuality, litter their business cards and correspondence with meaningless phonemes they call “pronouns,” and obediently quiver in place and refuse to be seen out-of-doors without a mask. What we need is a short course in George Orwell, who knew that the surest first step in battling tyranny is having the courage to call things by their real names.

INTERESTING READING
Barack Obama Lets the Mask Slip Again
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/06/21/barack-obama-lets-the-mask-slip-again-n4941041
long, but an eye-opening insight into BHO

“Avoid crowds – Get Out of the Cities. – NOW.  A year too soon is better than a day too late” – John Wilder @  https://wilderwealthywise.com/

“God created all men, but Samuel Colt made them equal.” – Unknown

“A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could” – Greg Gutfeld 29 Jul 2017

Don’t Do: stupid sh*t, with stupid people, in stupid places, at stupid times. – paraphrasing John Farnam, firearms instructor

“An armed society is a polite society” – Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“People sleep peaceably in their bed at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – Eric Arthur Blair (AKA – George Orwell)

“If your plan is to come to my house when things get bad, you need a better plan”- like being invited, having a useful skill, bringing food, or ammunition – jlr76380

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” – https://www.zerohedge.com/

(Feature Image is Raymond M. DiGuiseppe, who argued the case before the Ninth Circuit merits panel)

This was a big case with all the big names involved. We had Chuck Michel and Anna Barvir from Michel & Associates PC. If there is a Second Amendment case happening in California, they are likely to be there. The NRA was there. Erin Murphy, Paul Clement, Matthew Rowen, and Nicholas Gallagher from Clement & Murphy. You should know their names, think Bruen.

Regardless, Raymond is the one that argued and ran this case.

This was a unanimous opinion by all three judges. This is great. It is a win for The People. The 1 gun per 30 days is currently enjoined. The people of The People’s Republic of California have one of the rights the rest of the citizens of these United States enjoy.

Is this judgment going to stand? I do not believe so. The People have had a few wins in the district courts of California, and we have had a few wins with merits panels of the Ninth Circuit. In every case, the Ninth Circuit has then agreed to hear the case en banc and reversed the merits panel.

According to one of the judges that sits on the Ninth Circuit, the Ninth Circuit is over 150 to 0 against The People in Second Amendment cases.

History

In 1999, the state of California enacted a one-gun-a-month law. The law banned the purchase of more than one “concealable handgun” per 30-day period. In 2019, the law was extended to “handgun, semiautomatic centerfire rifle, completed frame or receiver, or firearm precursor part”.

You just have to love that made up term “firearm precursor part”. Does that mean a billet of 6061? Does it mean a raw forging of aluminum? Does it mean an 80% lower? Yeah, when does it stop being a pipe from The Home Depot, and it becomes a firearm precursor part?

The plaintiffs in the district case became Appellees at the circuit level are the good guys. They wanted to buy more than one firearm per month. The case is a facial challenge to the law.

The judges looked at this case “de novo”, or as if it were new. Because the case was a facial challenge, they only considered the text of the statute. It is the burden of the plaintiffs (good guys) to establish that no set of circumstances exists under which the law would be valid.

The Analysis

This is correctly stated and a good summary. It is at this point where most of the rogue, inferior, courts go off the rails.

Teixeira was decided in 2017, against The People. Yet, it is quoted multiple times. Ezell v City of Chicago, in front of the Seventh Circuit court in 2011, was also a loss for The People. Both cases preceded Bruin and as such need to be reanalyzed in light of the Bruen analysis. In other words, they are likely bad law.

They did not cite to Minneapolis Star & Tribune C v. Minnesota. This is because that case is a Supreme Court opinion and was a much stronger indictment for not messing with The People’s rights via restricting ancillary actions. In that case, the state (bad guys) put a tax on the ink purchased by large newspapers.

The phrase “meaningful constraints” is where this opinion starts to go sideways. Because they are quoting case law from before Bruen they are sneaking in “interest balancing”. The state does not get to decide what is or is not a “meaningful constraint.”

They don’t get to because they always extend it to far. Is a $200 tax on a firearm accessory that much of a constraint? Is a requirement for government permission to purchase a firearm accessory? Or to ask for permission to move it across state lines?

According to the federal government, it is not a meaningful constraint. Nor does the state of California think it is a meaningful constraint.

This makes the statement erroneous. This is why I call foul on citing to bad case law to support current cases.

Making a Summary Because I’m tired

California argued that the Second Amendment doesn’t guarantee a right to possess multiple firearms, and even if it did, restricting the frequency of firearm purchases is not a meaningful constraint.

This panel swatted that one down. They point out that if the state was right and because things apart from firearms are arms. The state could argue that if a person owned a knife could be banned from purchasing a firearm.

They get the plain text section right.

Unfortunately, only in part. They claim that delays that serve presumptively valid purposes are constitutional but that in this particular case, the law purpose of the delay is the delay.

They found that there is no history or tradition of meter the exercise of a constitutional right.

Of course, the infringers use the “nuanced approach” argument. That phrase now makes me sick. It tells me the bad guys are about to lie through their teeth and expect me to smile.

Here the court reaches the correct conclusion but for the wrong reasons. This can be bad for the Second Amendment rights of the People.

The nuanced approach only applies to things that are not bans. This is a ban, a metering of rights. In Heller, the Supreme Court found that there was no history or tradition to support firearm bans. This means that a one-per-month ban is unconstitutional, period.

The merits panel then spends a half dozen pages of electrons to find other reasons to find no tradition.

Conclusion

It is a win. I’ll take it.

It is not good case law. They did not create a general understanding of “Plain text” and they did not do a correct history and tradition analysis.

This suggests, to me, that this opinion will be cited by the anti-gun people in the future, in negative ways.

Regardless, this opinion will not stand. It will get overturned by the en banc panel. The Supreme Court is unlikely to grant cert if they request cert.