THE BREAKDOWN: Lower Income Overwhelmingly Voted for Cuomo, Majority of College Educated Vote For Jihadi Mamdani
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/the-breakdown-lower-income-overwhelmingly-voted-for-cuomo-majority-of-college-educated-vote-for-jihadi-mamdani.html/
This election confirms what we already know—American universities have become Marxist indoctrination centers. The low income people in New York City voted en masse AGAINST the guy who promised to create government-run grocery stores and “freeze” the rent. American universities have systematically destroyed the minds of Americans.

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/
How does New York come back from this?
via Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1937848923172782529
Some of the things socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has previously called for: Abolish NYPD – Abolish prisons – Abolish medical bills – Abolish private health insurance – Ban all guns – Legalize sex work – Safe injection sites – End cash bail – Decriminalize drug possession – End sentencing enhancements – End all cooperation with ICE
(Q: What will happen if Wall Street, the Jewish population, hospitals, the smart population who didn’t vote for a terrorist, and major business centers leave NYC? – jlr)
(A: You will have a terrorist enclave in the NE USA – jlr)

Alligator Alcatraz
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/alligator-alcatraz
Everybody in the left are losing their minds about this place. From the “Human Rights” people claiming it is a constitutional violation to the Environmentalists saying it will destroy the Everglades.

“Civil War Comes to the West” – Part 1
https://grayzoneresearch.substack.com/p/civil-war-comes-to-the-west-part
First, thank you to the handful followers who sent me David Betz’s fantastic essay entitled “Civil War Comes to the West.” Betz, a professor of war at King’s College London, concludes that the greatest threat to Western countries is not external, but internal. This means civil war is coming to Western countries. Here’s a summary of the high points of his essay:………………….
(read this synopsis and see if you want to read the whole thing – jlr)
https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west/
https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west-part-ii-strategic-realities/
(This is truely eye opening and disturbing – jlr)

Supreme Court upholds ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood
https://www.theblaze.com/news/supreme-court-planned-parenthood-medicaid
The Supreme Court upheld South Carolina’s decision to bar Planned Parenthood from accessing federal Medicaid funding for non-abortion-related services on Thursday.

YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID
Start buying lots of popcorn…and find the best NYC livestreams
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/start-buying-lots-of-popcorn
Why I say buy popcorn? This video is all I need to explain.
embeded video – 00:00:33

THIS IS WHERE LIBERAL POLITICIANS, LIBERAL JUDGES, THE MSM, RAP MUSIC, AND NO CONSEQUENCES FOR ANYTHING BY ANYONE HAVE GOTTEN US TO!

‘Just end him’: 5th-grade girls allegedly plotted to stab boy to death at school and make it look like a suicide
https://www.theblaze.com/news/5th-grade-murder-plot-girls
A shocking plot from 10- and 11-year-old girls to murder a boy and then stage his death as a suicide was thwarted when another student overheard them, police say. Details of the plot from the group of girls at the Legacy Traditional School’s West Surprise campus in Surprise, Arizona, were released in a police report. Police said the four girls planned the plot during a lunch and recess on Oct. 1, 2024. The student who overheard them reported the conversation to school officials. The plot had a role for each of the girls. One was supposed to have forged the suicide note to make it appear that the boy had committed suicide. Another girl was tasked with bringing the knife to school. Another girl was supposed to act like a lookout while the last girl would commit the stabbing. The girl who overheard the plot said she heard one girl say, “Just end him.”. Police said the girls might have been motivated to kill the boy after an alleged breakup and cheating incident. The police report said two of the girls were aged 10 years old, while the other two were 11 years old. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office confirmed that the students had been charged as juveniles, and police had said they were suspended, pending expulsion. The Surprise Police Dept. said they did not plan to release any more details about the incident.

2 teenagers accused of shooting homeless man to death took photos of themselves with a gun
https://www.theblaze.com/news/nm-teens-shoot-kill-homeless
A23-year-old homeless man found dead in his tent was shot to death by two teenagers, according to New Mexico police. Christopher Sturluson was living in an arroyo in Albuquerque before workers at the Albuquerque Community Safety Department found his body on the morning of May 1. Albuquerque Police Department officers responded after ShotSpotter alerts indicated that about 10 gunshots were fired around 9 p.m. April 30. Police talked to Sturluson, who told them that people had fired in his direction. Later that same night, the ShotSpotter picked up another six gunshots in the same area between 10:15 and 11:50 p.m. Police identified two suspects through surveillance video and later arrested 18-year-old Joshua Curtis as well as a 17-year-old. Police said they were able to recover bullet casings from the scene. Police also found photographs the pair allegedly had taken of themselves with a gun, according to a KOB-TV report. The 17-year-old suspect turned out to be on juvenile probation after he was caught with a gun at Sandia High School in 2022. He was expelled from that school. The 18-year-old suspect has a criminal history that includes a pending case for assault on an officer. Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman said the fatality is clear evidence that the system is broken. “We have two teenagers accused of killing a homeless person,” said Bregman. “The frustration level, quite frankly, is at a boiling point. This will be, I believe, the 47th juvenile that we’ve charged with murder in this office since I’ve been district attorney.” Bregman has been calling for greater consequences for juvenile criminals. “If we don’t start doing something, we will continue to see this kind of result. We’re not teaching our kids anything when we’re not giving them consequences,” Bregman added. Bregman also said that “if convicted, this juvenile is facing the rest of his life in prison. We didn’t do any justice for the poor homeless person that’s dead, and we certainly didn’t do any justice for the kid that’s now charged with murder because we didn’t teach him anything when we had the chance.

10 people charged in connection with alleged murder of homeless man reportedly kidnapped from encampment in New York
https://www.theblaze.com/news/ithaca-homeless-murder-kidnap-jungle
Officials in upstate New York said 10 people were arrested in relation to the alleged kidnapping and murder of a homeless man who was living at an encampment in Ithaca. On May 20, 33-year-old Thomas Rath was forcibly abducted from an encampment called “the Jungle” located in a rustic area behind a Lowe’s home improvement store, according to investigators. About a hundred days later, his remains were discovered in a shallow grave on state land in the village of Candor in Tioga County, police said. Ithaca city police and New York State Police were alerted on May 26 about the suspicious circumstances surrounding Rath’s disappearance. After serving more than 40 search warrants in several locations as a part of the investigation, officials announced that nine of the 10 suspects were being charged with first-degree kidnapping while two suspects were being charged with second-degree murder. Officials also said more arrests were expected in the coming weeks. “[A]s this missing person case evolved, it revealed a particularly disturbing and heinous series of events which ultimately revealed the kidnapping and murder of Mr. Rath,” said New York State Police Troop C Commander Major Jeffery VanAuken at a media briefing Monday. Investigators were unwilling to reveal the victim’s cause of death in order to protect the ongoing investigation, but they did reveal that the victim had been “familiar” with the suspects and that it was not a random act of violence. “Some of these details will have to wait for court, unfortunately,” said investigator Captain Lucas Anthony. “It is an ongoing investigation, more arrests are coming. So some of that information is limited as to what we can release at this time.” Residents of Ithaca had been complaining about crime and drug abuse by homeless people who had camped at the Jungle.

Boys, just 7 and 9 years old, wrestle for loaded gun — and 1 points it at deputies during tense standoff
https://www.theblaze.com/news/boys-loaded-gun-armed-standoff-new-mexico-video
Newly released video shows two young boys engaging New Mexico deputies in an armed standoff. The boys, ages 7 and 9, both handled a loaded handgun — and one of them even pointed it at Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Feb. 16. The two young boys, seen in the video dressed in “Minecraft” and “Star Wars”-themed pajamas, are standing next to an air-conditioning unit while handling a loaded handgun. During the nearly seven-minute video, the boys are seen struggling with each other to take control of the gun. A female voice is heard saying in the drone video, “Put it down, baby. Put it down, babe.” A deputy tells the children, “Just throw it on the ground, bud. Come talk to us. You’re not in trouble.” After more than five minutes into the standoff, police fired a warning shot — a non-lethal projectile — near the children, and the boy holding the gun immediately pointed it at officers. Deputies scream in unison, “Drop it! Drop it!” The boy who was not holding the gun put his hand up and hid behind the air-conditioning unit. Police fired another warning shot. As both boys took cover between the air conditioning unit and a house, a deputy rushed toward the children and wrestled the gun away from the boy, after which other deputies converged on the scene and took the pair into custody. The sheriff’s office said in a statement, “Utilizing BCSO’s drone program, deputies were able to monitor the situation in real-time, providing critical updates and enhancing situational awareness. This technology allowed deputies to secure the area swiftly and safely, ultimately preventing a potential deadly force encounter with the juveniles.” Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen stated, “I will tell, if it was not for our drone program, we would have probably went in there a little bit more blind and been into a deadly force confrontation pretty quick, and as you can imagine, it would have not gone well with us killing and shooting a 7- and 9-year-old.” Police said the drone program has been “instrumental in providing deputies with additional tools to manage diverse and high-risk situations.” Sheriff Allen said, “This case illustrates the complex intersection of juvenile crime, mental health, and public safety. We are taking important steps to close service gaps and expand our ability to work with juveniles involved in firearms or violent crimes.” Allen added that his department previously had been called to the home at least 50 times due to issues with the boys and their family, according to the Albuquerque Journal. BCSO Behavioral Health Unit Clinical Manager Michael Lucero said members of the unit immediately went to the boys’ home to assist the family with “numerous issues they’re experiencing” and conducted psychiatric evaluations of the children. Lucero said the unit is working on getting help for the children and the parent who reportedly has an extensive history of trauma. The family’s case agent, Danielle Smith, told KRQE-TV, “I don’t know how much I’m able to say, so I’m just gonna leave it very vague, but we know where the children learned the behavior from, and that is being addressed as well.” BCSO Deputy Deanna Aragon said the boys were not arrested, and no charges were filed against the children. She noted that the children have not been removed from the home. Law enforcement did not divulge where the boys got the gun but said the firearm was seized after the standoff. Sheriff Allen said the boys “were taught how to use the firearm.” Police said the case is still under investigation, and the parents could face charges. “We’re dealing with a 7- and 9-year-old, so now we’re looking at the adult side, how they had the firearm, are they gonna be charged with the Bennie Hargrove law, we’re looking into all of that,” Allen stated. The Bennie Hargrove law holds adults criminally liable for negligently allowing minors access to firearms. Allen also pushed back against critics who called for the arrest of the young boys. “Children are our future, and we know one side is going to say, ‘Lock them in jail.’ They’re 7 and 9 years old. I told you before, numerous times in numerous interviews, that I understand the frontal lobe,” Allen said, referring to children’s incomplete brain development. Allen added, “Arresting people isn’t the only way out of this crisis of juvenile crime. … You have to look at it from a bunch of different avenues and use the resources you have, and then criminal elements can come later.” Allen did note that if the boys were several years older, the department would “probably be speaking differently and doing it the reverse route.”
(LOTS OF VIDEO HERE – jlr)

IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (356th Edition)
https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/truth-bomb-central-memes-that-expose-28b

Dear New Yorkers: Texas Will Break You
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2025/06/26/dear-new-yorkers-dont-move-to-the-state-of-horror-and-pain-that-is-texas-n2190933
…You really don’t want to move here. Texas is like Hell, only worse, because the living conditions here are so chaotic and difficult that the devil himself thinks it’s a bit much…………..

Anxious New Yorkers: You Should Avoid Alaska at All Costs
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/06/26/anxious-new-yorkers-you-should-avoid-alaska-at-all-costs-n2190936
if one is planning to bail on one place to head for greener pastures, and my good friend and colleague Brandon Morse has presented some cautions about New Yorkers thinking of coming to his home state of Texas; he makes some excellent arguments. But he ends with this sentence: Go to Alaska. They’ve got a ton of room up there.

“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 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/

Considering my post from yesterday and the “Nazi salute” that prompted it, I thought this was germane to the moment. 😉

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16rizNSXqL/

There are people who blame their actions on “The ’tism’.

I had not heard this term until recently. My oldest son is “on the spectrum.” He barely functions, not from emotional out bursts, but because he just isn’t mature enough.

My youngest son is also “on the spectrum”, he is high function, going to collage, doing well. His issues tend to be socal in nature. In other words, he has not had much success in finding new friends.

My youngest is also on the spectrum. She is very high functioning. You would not suspect she is autistic when interacting with her. She is social and she makes friends.

I was born before the great “autism” hunt. I do not have an official diagnosis of autism. There are many indicators that I am autistic.

A side effect of this was I was able to teach some of my coping methods to my children, to help them.

What does this have to do with making friends?

It means it is hard. It takes an effort.

What you might consider to be a friend is unlikely to be a friend in my eyes.

Just because we are co-workers, and we are friendly with each other, does not mean we are friends.

Most people would have no difficulty in ticking off a dozen friends. Maybe even a dozen close friends.

I’ve had 4 true friends in my lifetime. Two of them were good friends. I say “were” because one is dead, and I am out of contact with the other.

Of the other two, one I have not seen since I left high school. The other is in prison because he is a kiddy diddler.

One I thought was a friend decided that anybody who supported the Supreme Court’s Dobbs’ opinion was no longer a friend to her. And later went as far as to say that anybody who voted for Trump was not a friend and could just fuck off.

Ally tells me that there are people attempting to be friends. I can almost see it, but I don’t feel it.

In 2008, Obama was running for office. It is the moment when I felt my country start to fracture. Friends were starting to turn on each other in ways I had not seen before.

I went to speak to a black co-worker. “Who are you voting for?” “Obama”, “Why?” “Because he’s black.”

Anybody who expressed any hesitation or discomfort about voting for a one—term senator from Illinois, who’s most common vote was “Present” was a “racist”.

It was that bad. Since I was working in a deep blue state at the time, I kept my mouth shut. I didn’t care who they were voting for. I wish they had better reasons than “He’s black.” It was their choice.

Oh, it wasn’t just the black co-workers, it was all the lefties.

How did I spot a lefty? Those were the ones openly talking politics, expressing their opinion about anyone who wasn’t voting for Obama.

From that moment on, I have been called racist, for my beliefs, constantly.

Look at Rep. Hunt. Now there is a black man. I like him. Why? Because he echos my beliefs. He stands up for America.

Now compare him to the half white Obama.

Obama’s mother was white, his father was black, he’s brown.

He ran as a black man. So what?

If every single person of color had voted for him and every single white voted against him, he would not have become the President of the United States. A majority of the people of the United States decided that he was a better man to be president than McCain.

For the next 8 years, I wasn’t allowed to say a negative thing about my President. To do so was to “prove I was racist.”

When Hillary ran for President, I suddenly became misogynistic. No change of my positions, just a different candidate by the Democrats.

And every lefty screamed at me that I was a bad person if I didn’t support every belief they held.

There was a TikTok sketch Ally showed to me. A woman says to her Republican friend that she is leaving the GOP.

Her friend responds with, “I’m sorry you feel you need to leave. We’ve been friends all our lives. You will continue to be my friend and are welcome here, anytime.”

The sketch then changes to a woman leaving the Democrat party. “I’m leaving the party. They just don’t match my core beliefs. You’ve been my friend all my life. You will still be my friend.”

The remaining Democrat woman turns to the first and, with a sneer on her face, “I’m not friends with Nazis”

That is what my life felt like during the Obama era. It was worse under Biden.

Our friendships became defined by our beliefs.

Going out in public, I would hear leftists yapping about how anybody who wasn’t like them was horrible, evil people. Nasty labels were everywhere.

I’ve seen “DemocRAT” from time to time. I’m “MAGAot”, a “fascist”, a “racist”, a “white supremest”, and every other nasty label you can think of.

Those people won’t speak with me. They can’t handle being asked for examples. They can’t handle being called on bullshit. They can’t be bothered to verify any of the narrative they spout with no evidence to back them.

I’m sorry for Ally.

She is a good person. We are good people. If you are in need, we will do our best to help you. When a “co-worker” had an emergency, she didn’t ask, “What are your politics? I only help good people.” No, she opened her pantry to them. She did it with no expectation of anything.

When they tried to repay her, she said, “Pay it forward.”

Well, they did pay it forward. Until they had to treat people by what they do instead of what they were told they do.

Make sure you keep your friends close. Make sure they know you are friends.

Stay strapped. Keep your head on a swivel. Don’t be in stupid places at stupid times.

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
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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/