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To Cap an Action-Packed Week of #Winning, Tulsi Nukes ‘RussiaGate’

Posted on | July 19, 2025 | Comments Off on To Cap an Action-Packed Week of #Winning, Tulsi Nukes ‘RussiaGate’

Easy to see now why the Deep State went all-in to try and wreck Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as Director of National Intelligence. I have more thoughts, but let’s get the news out of the way first:

The Obama administration’s top officials committed a “treasonous conspiracy” by manufacturing and politicizing intelligence to create the false narrative that led to the years-long Trump-Russia collusion probe, according to newly-declassified documents released by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard. . . .
Despite the intelligence community’s consensus that Russia “lacked the intent and capability to hack U.S. elections” prior to Trump’s 2016 win over Hillary Clinton, Gabbard said Obama’s officials changed their tune soon after the president won, ignoring the evidence. . . .
On the day the [Presidential Daily Briefing] was supposed to be published on December 9, NSC officials including Clapper, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, then-Secretary of State John Kerry, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and others, met in the White House Situation Room to discuss Russia. . . .
Following the meeting, Clapper’s assistant emailed intelligence leaders telling them to create a new assessment “per the president’s request,” detailing the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.”

You can read the rest. The most important revelation — based on newly declassified documents, keep in mind — is the extent to which the “Intelligence community,” in assembling this frame-up against Trump, were acting on direct orders from Obama. We’ve known the basic outlines of the Russian “collusion” hoax for a while now, but what Gabbard has done is to prove that Obama administration officials perpetrated this hoax on the basis of presidential orders. That’s what the December 9, 2016 meeting was about, and Tulsi’s got the receipts to prove it.

As I said previously, I have some thoughts about this, e.g., do you believe it is just a random coincidence that, hours before Gabbard released this RussiaGate bombshell, the Wall Street Journal published a flimsy smear about Donald Trump sending a birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003?

Because I do not believe it’s a coincidence. Democratic operatives of the Deep State, and their media minions, are certainly not naïve as to how this game is played. It took many weeks for Gabbard’s team to put together the contents of that document trove she dumped on Friday, and this Epstein thing was timed as a “spoiling attack,” as such tactics are called in the military. So I don’t doubt for a minute that the timing of the Wall Street Journal story was part of an attempt to distract from Gabbard’s release of the RussiaGate documents. Despite every effort that Gabbard might make to keep the preparation of this report a secret, the Deep State still has assets inside the bureaucracy who would tip off Democrats about what was coming down the pike and, having advance notice of when it was slated for publication, this “spoiling attack” was set up to be published previous to Gabbard’s bombshell. That’s not paranoia talking, it’s a logical deduction based on facts:

One of the co-authors of the WSJ report, Joe Palazzolo, previously wrote for a publication called Main Justice, which was founded by Mary Jacoby, who happens to be the wife of Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS founder behind the debunked Steele Dossier and the Russia hoax. Both Simpson and Jacoby previously worked at the Wall Street Journal themselves, which tells you everything you need to know about the political rot festering in that newsroom.

Anyway, a lot of people are demanding “accountability,” i.e., criminal prosecutions of everyone involved in the RussiaGate scandal, up to and including Barack Obama himself. While I would enthusiastically applaud such a Payback Is Hell and Karma Is a Bitch reprisal — given everything these vile swine did to Trump — I don’t think it’s likely.

It is one thing to expose such scandals, and another thing altogether to turn the scandal into a criminal indictment that can result in a jury voting unanimously for conviction. There is a reason why the protest mobs who wave signs demanding “#Justice for [Insert Dead Criminal’s Name Here]” are so often disappointed when the local District Attorney announces that the cops won’t be charged for shooting the suspect. Our criminal justice system is, thank God, designed to make it difficult to get a felony conviction in court. In the case of a suspect getting shot by cops, before a prosecutor can charge the cops with any wrongdoing — even mere negligence, let alone deliberate murder — he must first ask whether the cop can make a plausible case for self-defense or otherwise justify the shooting as necessary to public safety. Over and over again, in such cases, the prosecutors find themselves facing a self-defense argument they can’t beat. This is why, even when it’s a Soros-funded anti-police district attorney like Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, the cops aren’t prosecuted for shooting suspects, no matter how sketchy the case may seem to Ben Crump and the #Justice mobs. And so it is with RussiaGate.

Those of us who’ve been angry for years about the Steele Dossier, etc., now find ourselves in the shoes of the urban protest mobs demanding #Justice. We know damned well that Team Obama and Team Hillary engaged in wrongdoing, and that they deserve to be punished for it, but what are the chances that Pam Bondi could actually get a criminal conviction in a federal court? Not good — not good at all.

As egregious as the RussiaGate scandal is, the overwhelming likelihood is that nobody involved in this sordid mess will ever be charged with a crime, and that if somehow Bondi does find a way to get indictments against Brennan, Clapper, Comey, et al., the subsequent trial will end in a verdict of acquittal. “Guilty as hell, free as a bird,” to quote Weather Underground alumnus Bill Ayers. “America is a great country.”

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Is NPR’s Popularity Waning, or Has Their Appeal Become More Selective?

Posted on | July 18, 2025 | 1 Comment

Excuse me for dropping a Spinal Tap gag in the headline, but I couldn’t help thinking of that line as Republicans in Congress voted to eliminate federal taxpayer funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which is the umbrella organization for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). What put me in mind of Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith’s dishonest spin on the band’s declining concert attendance was the link-backs to NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner’s April 2024 exposé of the public radio network’s bias:

It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.
In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population. . . .
Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump. As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. . . . But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.
Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting. At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.
Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.
But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming. . . .
Back in 2011, our audience leaned a bit to the left but roughly reflected America politically; now, the audience is cramped into a smaller, progressive silo.
Despite all the resources we’d devoted to building up our news audience among blacks and Hispanics, the numbers have barely budged. In 2023, according to our demographic research, 6 percent of our news audience was black, far short of the overall U.S. adult population, which is 14.4 percent black. And Hispanics were only 7 percent, compared to the overall Hispanic adult population, around 19 percent. Our news audience doesn’t come close to reflecting America. It’s overwhelmingly white and progressive, and clustered around coastal cities and college towns. . . .

Read the whole thing. Not surprisingly, Uri Berliner got the ax at NPR after spilling the beans, because liberal media bias is like Fight Club — the first rule is, you can’t mention it, at least not if you want to be employed at an outfit like NPR. Media bias is structural and systemic in its nature, the result of hiring practices that exclude opposing voices, so that there is no one in the newsroom who doesn’t share the echo-chamber delusions that their one-sided coverage is fair and accurate.

Here again I’m reminded of Spinal Tap, where so much of the humor derived from the band members’ absurd lack of self-awareness. Nigel Tufnel is playing a quiet and moody piano part for Marty DiBergi, telling him that it was influenced by Mozart and Bach:

Marty: What do you call this?
Nigel: Well, this piece is called “Lick My Love Pump.”

 

Just as Nigel didn’t get what was wrong with that — and let’s not even talk about the cover art for their Smell the Glove album — so, too, do the folks in public broadcasting fail to understand what’s wrong with producing partisan propaganda on the taxpayer’s dime. Doubling down on Trump Derangement Syndrome, making Adam Schiff and his “Russian collusion” fantasies a regular feature of their news coverage — why would they do that? Or, more to the point, why would they not see what’s wrong with that? The answer, as Uri Berliner pointed out, was that everyone in the building shared the same bias. NPR’s boss at the time, CEO John Lansing, had declared diversity was the organization’s “North Star,” but that obviously did not extend to diversity of opinion:

Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.
So on May 3, 2021, I presented the findings at an all-hands editorial staff meeting. When I suggested we had a diversity problem with a score of 87 Democrats and zero Republicans, the response wasn’t hostile. It was worse. It was met with profound indifference. I got a few messages from surprised, curious colleagues. But the messages were of the “oh wow, that’s weird” variety, as if the lopsided tally was a random anomaly rather than a critical failure of our diversity North Star.

The belief that the exclusion of Republicans from employment at NPR is random, rather than deliberate, is a “Lick My Love Pump” level of not getting it, and the current leadership is even worse:

On Thursday’s “CNN News Central,” NPR CEO Katherine Maher responded to accusations that NPR is biased by saying that the network has worked to address that criticism and they’ll “keep doing that work in order to both understand those criticisms, but also to ensure that we remain the nonpartisan organization that we are today.”

As might be expected, others in the liberal media have circled the wagons to defend taxpayer funding for such crap, with CNN’s Brian Stelter supplying this laughable headline: “Trump’s victory over PBS and NPR ‘bias’ will be ‘devastating’ for rural areas, station leaders say.” Oh, sure, it’s going to be “devastating” for rural folks in Kansas and Kentucky that they might lose access to a daily dose of what Katherine Maher thinks of as “nonpartisan” coverage. Now shut up and lick my love pump.



 

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In The Mailbox: 07.17.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 18, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.17.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week, Mark Steyn is reading Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which as you may recall was the inspiration for Apocalypse Now. 

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Universal Health Care or Universal Suffering?
EBL: Happy Birthday Ginger Rogers, The Fish You Never Heard Of, Settlers, My Octopus Teacher, and Connie Francis, RIP
Twitchy: X Responds To Coldplay Cheating CEO As Only X Can, WSJ Releases Alleged Letter from Trump to Epstein – Trump & Vance Respond, and CNN’s Conspiracy Potato Brian Stelter Says Trump Could Be Behind Colbert Termination
Louder With Crowder: Activist CEO was offered $20 million to stage anti-Trump protest, but he turned the money down, Joy Reid Trashes Trump Supporters: “They Will Let Their Families Be Destroyed”, and Migrant Gets “Conditional Discharge” For Sex Crimes Because It Would, And We Quote, “Delay His Citizenship”
Vox Popoli: That’s Not Trump, Less School, More Children, and Russia Acknowledges WWIII

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: “Da plane, Epstein! Da Plane!”
American Conservative: Pro-Israel Hawks Don’t Want to Talk About Epstein
American Greatness: Democrats Angrily Walk Out of Senate Confirmation Hearing For Emil Bove, ICE and CBP Arrest 361 Criminal Illegals, Rescue 14 Minors, Face Violent Rioters During Raids on California Marijuana Farms, The Roots of Leftist Rage, ICE Officer Injured in Texas After Being Dragged Behind Illegal Alien’s Van For Nearly a Block, and Despite SCOTUS Ruling on Nationwide Injunctions, Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
American Thinker: The Conditions at Alligator Alcatraz are Breakin’ My Heart!
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Newsom Nutbar News, Animal’s Hump Day News, and Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: More Frio County Election Fraud Indictments Released, Austin Budgets More Money For Homeless Graft and Social Justice, Less Money For Cops, and Has Trump Finally Killed The Train To Nowhere?
Behind The Black: Musk says 10th Starship/Superheavy launch in “about three weeks”, Astronomers detect first evidence of gas condensing to molecular solids in baby solar system, Proposed North Sea offshore launch platform gets ESA okay, South Korea to push for a lunar base and Mars missions by 2045, and New Space Force policy will encourage a robust private industry to build the capabilities it needs
Cafe Hayek: “Consumption” Signifies Ends; “Production” Signifies a Means, Even If Resources Aren’t Scarce, There’s No Good Case for Protectionism, and Protectionism Is Organized Vandalism
CDR Salamander: I Have Our Next Cruiser If You’re Smart Enough To Take It
Chicago Boyz:The Passwords and the Barbarians
Da Tech Guy: Dynasty 1973 League Divisional Round Preview Twins vs Orioles, Cubs Vs Reds, Royals vs Brewers, Pirates vs Dodgers
Dana Loesch: Trump Goes Ballistic Over WSJ’s Alleged “Trump Letter” to Epstein
Don Surber: Trump Adjusts
First Street Journal: How stupid are the “Occupy Democrats”? also, Killadelphia: Why won’t The Philadelphia Inquirer report the news we need?
Gates Of Vienna: Big Trouble in Torre Pacheco, Mine Eyes Are Made the Fools o’ the Other Senses, and What Does Gavin Newsom Want?
The Geller Report: New Harris Poll in NYC Mayor’s Race Shows Mamdani at 26%, Cuomo at 23%, Sliwa at 22%, Anti-Semitic, Anti-ICE Rioter Who Torched 11 NYPD Cars Identified, Islamic Regime’s Genociding Druze in Syria – Only Israel Comes to Their Defense, All Members of Anti-Semitic UN Commission of Inquiry Resign, and Senator Ted Cruz Introduces Legislation to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization
Hollywood In Toto: Late-Night Comics Pretend Trump May Come for Them Next, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure at 40 – This Man-Child Never Grows Old, Guns & Moses – The Movie Hollywood Would Never Make, Salena Zito’s Butler Coming to a Theater Near You, and Taylor Sheridan Snubbed Again by the Emmys
The Lid: Adam Schiff SCANDAL, General Motors Scales Back EV Plans, Boosting Gas-Powered Cars, and Sen. John Kennedy Ridicules NPR Bias, Mocks CEO Katherine Maher
Legal Insurrection: Senate Passes $9 Billion Rescissions Bill, Including Cuts to NPR, Trump Says He’ll Sue Wall Street Journal Over Story on Alleged Epstein Letter, Education Dept Investigating U Michigan Over Foreign Funding Concerns, Trump Diagnosed With Chronic Venous Insufficiency, But Remains in Excellent Health, and DOJ Fires Maurene Comey, Daughter of James Comey, and There’s a Twist
Outkick: Greg Sankey Says ‘There Is No Rift’ Between Himself And Tony Petitti, Transgender Athlete Suing Princeton After Being Barred From Running In Women’s Category, Dodgers Trade Deadline Plans Show Their Offseason Spending Spree Was A Failure, The WNBA Is Growing Fast — But Is It Fumbling Its Biggest Marketing Opportunity?, and Shohei Ohtani, Children’s Book Author?
Power Line: Escape from Judge Frimpong, The Senator Goes On Trial, and Ax-murderer loose – Thanks, DFL
Shark Tank: Miami Mayoral Candidate Emilio Gonzalez Battles In Court to Restore 2025 Election for Mayor & Commissioner
Shot In The Dark: Thought Experiment, The DFL At Work, Establishment Protection, and Weed Whacked, 
This Ain’t Hell: Bad day to refuel, Marine Recognized By Airline CEO, Georgetown U. Chair of Islamic Studies Fired, and What post name? What day is it?
Transterrestrial Musings: Starliner
Victory Girls: ICE Agents Under Siege as Radical Activists Escalate Threats and Doxxing Campaigns
Watts Up With That: Oh No – We Might Need a 3ft Sea Wall to Stop the Doomsday Glacier from Wrecking Cities, Sunnova’s Enronish Ending, Ed Miliband to unleash new gas plants to back up patchy wind and solar, and Climate Jihadi Allegedly Skyjacks Plane After Declaring Global Warming Will Turn ‘Earth into Venus’
The Federalist: America Is Not A ‘Nation Of Immigrants’, IVF Experiments That Mix And Match Multiple Adults’ DNA Are Bad For Kids And Society, Chip And Joanna Gaines’ Compromise Is A Warning To Us All, Messy New Jersey Voter Rolls Reportedly Have More Than 32,000 ‘Questionable’ Voter Records, and America’s Debt Situation Will Soon Be Worse Than Right After World War II
Mark Steyn: The Eleventh Hours, And the Living’s Easy, On the Town: Non-Indian Summer, Live Around the Planet – Many A Slip Twixt World Cup & Lip, and Live in Truth

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In The Mailbox: 07.17.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | July 17, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.17.25 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Honoring The Ancestors Parte Dos at the Substack.
Blogging may be irregular for the next few days on account of Son of Silvercon III. If you’re in Vegas this weekend, come on down!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Eagle Obsession
EBL: Kremlin Mad Over Trump Ultimatum, This Deep Sea Creature is one of the Best Tasting Fish in the Ocean, J.D. Vance casts tie breaker vote in Senate to push forward PBS and NPR cuts, Death Valley, and Apollo 11: We Have Liftoff
Twitchy: “God Will Have His Vengeance”, Cory Booker Goes Straight-Up Drama Queen – Republicans Ignore Him and Vote Anyway, and Will Chamberlain Takes “Dignity Bill” AKA Amnesty Apart
Louder With Crowder: Judge orders progressive city’s officials to finally do something about the park where people are publicly fornicating in, Top “anti-Trump” business leader sees error of his ways, and Gavin Newsom dances around whether or not 8-year-olds should get sex changes
Vox Popoli: The Dark Herald Reviews Superman, 50 Days to Ceasefire, Another Theory, The Conservative Case for Social Justice, and Adapt or Disappear
Cedar Sanderson: The Fairies
Stoic Optimism: Indefinite Optimism
Jim McCoy: Fae’d To Black
Postcards From Barsoom: Northern Exposure/BasedCon
Upstream Reviews: The Tom Cruise Effect

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Three Amigos of WESTPAC
Dana Loesch: Republicans Turn Epstein Into A Weapon Against Themselves
Don Surber: SCOTUS spanks an FJB appointee
Matt Taibbi: The Bell Finally Tolls For NPR
STUMP: Lightning Strike Death Update – Now 11 For 2025

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In The Mailbox: 07.16.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 16, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.16.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Apollo 11 Liftoff – 16 July 1969 at 13:32 UTC
EBL: Inflation is LESS than what Wall Street anticipated: Dems and Media are freaking out
Twitchy: Fauxcahontas’ Chart of Trump’s “Special Interest” Donors Omits Important Information, SUV With Tinted Windows Alert! and CNN Panel Has A Hissy Fit Over Scott Jennings Correctly Stating Egg Prices Are Down
Louder With Crowder: To Properly End Birthright Citizenship Abuse, We Need Congress to Pass a Law, Democrat narrative gets blown to smithereens as Americans learn more about the Big, Beautiful Bill, Woke reporter tries injecting her politics into MLB All-Star Game, but Pat McAfee refuses to take the bait, Trump official shares shocking update about the migrant kids saved from the pot farm owned by a Gavin Newsom donor, and Zoomer Democrat launches the left’s new attack against Trump – claiming deporting illegals is “human trafficking”
Vox Popoli: Trust the Clowns, Why You Can’t Use Woke, Ten More Years, The Narrative – Conservative edition, and Saint Henry’s Day
Upstream Reviews: Robert Kroese Is Held for Ransom, also, Suicide Run
Defending The Wood Perilous: Sexual Freedom Destroys Societies
Toni Airaksinen: Meet The Muslim Professor Who Called For Iran To Attack American Military Bases

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: In The Red Sea, Don’t Bring A Gun To A Missile Fight
Don Surber: Keep Bondi

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In The Mailbox: 07.14.25

Posted on | July 15, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.14.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Do Wind & Solar Power Make Any Financial Sense Whatsoever?, The Biden Autopen Conspiracy
357 Magnum: How DEI is Causing Hollywood to Lose Globally, also The Tolerant/Peaceful Left – Or Maybe Not
EBL: McHale and His Schweinhunds, The Institute, Patience, Gemma Arterton, and The Anarchists
Twitchy: SCOTUS Decision Has Linda McMahon Ready To Work Herself Out of a Job, Columnist Is Seeing A Lot Of Posts About Trump’s “Alleged” Assassination Attempt, Redditor Posts About Left’s “Project 2029” And It’s Nothing But A Fascist Fantasy
Louder With Crowder: Multimillionaires Michelle Obama, Julia Louis-Dreyfus whine about how tough their lives are, Tom Homan puts smug reporter in her place, Trump official shares shocking update about the migrant kids saved from the pot farm, and Even these lesbians are shocked at the woke indoctrination going on in the kids’ bookstore
Vox Popoli: The Zero Trust Society, The Police are Part of the Problem, Chiba City Blues, It Might Not Survive to 2033, and Turns Out They Care
Cedar Sanderson: The Slow Dark Eclipse of the Soul
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Saints, Sinners, & “The Salt Path”
Upstream Reviews: Transformers One, 
Draw & Talk Comics: The Biggest Secret To Comics Success
Ammo.com: Accidental Shooting Statistics
Toni Airaksinen: The Betrayal – How Israeli Peaceniks Were Attacked By The Gazans They Fought For

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Why Negotiations With Russia Seem So Difficult
American Greatness: ICE and CBP Arrest 361 Criminal Illegals, Rescue 14 Minors & Face Violent Rioters During Raids on California Pot Farms, Feds Launch Immigration Raid in CA, Clash with Protestors, AG Pam Bondi Drops Charges Against Utah Doctor Who Issued Fake COVID-19 Vaccination Cards, Republicans Must Not Cede the Urban Working Class to Socialists Like Zohran Mamdani, and Will John Brennan Ever Tell the Truth?
American Thinker: The Rise of the Islamo-Nazi Left in America, Beware ‘Ragebait Engagement Farming’, Why So Many Young Americans Fall for Socialism, TWA Flight 800 And The Government’s Decades-Long Cover-Up, and A Tale of Two States – How Florida Wins Where New York Bleeds
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Yes, They Are Trying To Turn Babies Gay, Peter Zeihan On Democrats’ Bleak Future, and Is Social Media Driving Girls Insane?
Behind The Black: A distant globular cluster, Third Indian state announces a space policy to encourage private enterprise, Suborbital test launch from Oman’s Duqm spaceport scrubbed, Judge narrows SpaceX lawsuit against California Coastal Commission, and Renewing the heroic Superman of America
Cafe Hayek: Europe vs. the United States, also, Protectionists Say the Darndest Things!
CDR Salamander: The Power & Spirit of Camp David – On Midrats. 
Chicago Boyz: The Democrats and the Necronomicon
Da Tech Guy: The Fake Grok Mel Brooks 2000 Year old Man on the rise of Christianity and Bacon
Dana Loesch: Worldly Gaines?
Don Surber: MAGA saves children, also, The Trump surplus
Elizabeth Nickson: Mark Zuckerberg Is A Very Bad Dude
First Street Journal: Larry Krasner beclowns himself
Gates Of Vienna: An ISIS Operative in Eindhoven, Paul Weston – The Political Betrayal of Britain to Islam, Another Blood-Soaked Day in Modern Multicultural Bavaria, Nursing Home Rapist Can’t Be Deported, and You Must Respect the Book, Bro!
The Geller Report: Muslim Terrorist Opens Fire in Kentucky Church Sunday Mass, Arab Commentator Says Zohran Mamdani is a “Radical Islamist”, LA Mayor Bass to Give “Cash Cards” to Illegals Too ‘Afraid To Go To Work’, Screaming “ALLAHU AKBAR!” Knife-Wielding Muslim Goes on Stabbing Rampage in Australia, and Trump’s Dept Of Education Ends Free Tuition For Illegals
Hollywood In Toto: When We Went MAD! Shows What’s Missing from Digital Era, Superman’s Good (and Scary) Box Office Numbers, Revealed, James Gunn Trashes MAGA & Praises Communist China, How DC League of Super-Pets Laps Gunn’s Superman, and John Leguizamo Stuns Bill Maher with Unhinged Claim
The Lid: Here are Five Middle-Class Jobs Artificial Intelligence will Probably Kill Off
Legal Insurrection: Rep. Carbajal Under Fire from ICE for Sharing Agent’s Info With Rioters, “The State of New York has raised the white flag of surrender in our lawsuit, but not high enough”, NY Times Just Made the Autopen Scandal Worse for Biden, New Poll Shows Majority of Dems Still Believe Trump Russia Collusion Hoax Was Real, and California State U Faculty Group Demands Release of Prof ‘Kidnapped’ by ICE
Outkick: SEC Media Days – Lane Kiffin Blames Paul Finebaum For Phillip Fulmer’s Firing At Tennessee, Jay Cutler Triggers The Libs By Killing An Animal In Africa, Kid Makes Amazing Grab At 2025 Home Run Derby, ‘Robbing’ MLB Star Junior Caminero, End Of An Aura: Make The Home Run Derby Great Again, and CBS Girl Jenny Dell Counts Down To Football In A Bikini, Paige Spiranac In A Wonder Woman Swimsuit & JD’s Run!
Power Line: Clock Ticking For Russia, Drones and the New Military, and Good Riddance!
Shark Tank: Bean Introduces Bill To Improve Healthcare Cost Transparency
Shot In The Dark: Three Questions For Lieutenant Governor Flanagan, 
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Upcoming Webcast, Columbo, and SUUUUMO!
This Ain’t Hell: Littoral Combat Ships- End of an Error, News from the baddies, Admiral’s Promotion Pulled Over Drag Queen Shows, and A doctor with heart
Transterrestrial Musings: The NASA Budget Battle, Tiny Fast Drones, and Two Billion Dollars?
Victory Girls: Tom Homan, Border Czar – The Sexy Beast We Need
Watts Up With That: The Most Environmentalist Woman in the World (Dos Equis Commercial Parody), “China is Building the [Renewable] Future…building coal-fired power stations…because it has to”, The U.S. Without Coal? Good Luck, and Met Office Fail To Respond To Criticisms
The Federalist: Judge Botches TRO In Planned Parenthood Case A Second Time, Fauci Pardon Was Greenlit By Aide With No Proof Biden Approved It, The Uniparty Swamp Tried To Ruin Douglass Mackey’s Life Over A Meme — And Lost, Staff Used Autopen To Change Pardons After Biden Allegedly Approved Them, and Is The YMCA Using Tax Dollars To Push Trans Agenda?
Mark Steyn: Codebreaker: Barbara Stanwyck in Baby Face, Rock Around the Clock, The Very End of the World, (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young, and À la Bastille!

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Rule 5 Sunday: Add More Ginger As Required

Posted on | July 14, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Add More Ginger As Required

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week’s appetizer thanks to @Rule5Tweets on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Secret Service Screwups Friday, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, North By Northwest, Bullitt, Mini Skirts, “Lady Godiva”, Make China Great Again, Susan Jane Backlinie, Marta Kristen, Sherlock’s Daughter, Heads of State, Barbara Alyn Woods, and Superman – A Beautiful James Gunn Mess

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Kendel Kay, Gone Fishin’, Fish Pic Friday – Jennifer Marie Fishing, Oregon, My Oregon, Roam, A New Plan to Sell Blue Catfish, Maryland, My Maryland, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, Sheepshead, You Say?, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – It’s Hot, Let’s Swim

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California Dope Farm Child Slavery and Why Conservative Journalism Matters

Posted on | July 13, 2025 | Comments Off on California Dope Farm Child Slavery and Why Conservative Journalism Matters

Bad news this week for Gov. Gavin Newsom:

Ten illegal migrant youths, most of them unaccompanied, were found at a California marijuana farm during a tense immigration raid on Thursday, prompting federal officials to launch an investigation into possible child labor violations.
The youngsters, one just 14 years old, were discovered by federal agents at Glass House Farms in Southern California during a chaotic operation in which one protester appeared to fire a gun at authorities, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said on X Thursday.
“This is Newsom’s California,” Scott said in response to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who shared a video of the raid.
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin revealed Friday the feds “rescued” eight of the minors, who crossed the border “unaccompanied.”
McLaughlin said the alarming situation “looks like exploitation, violation of child labor laws and potentially human trafficking or smuggling.” . . .
The farm’s president, Graham Farrar, is a regular donor to Democratic politicians, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Farrar has donated to the Santa Barbara County Democratic Central Committee’s federal political action committee and Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif, on multiple occasions, according to the records.
He also donated $10,000 to Newsom in 2018, according to California records.

So, Governor Newsom — considered a leading “mainstream” contender for the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nomination — is supported by a corporate marijuana producer who uses foreign child labor supplied by human traffickers. How much of this would you know if you got your news from ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS or CNN? The correct answer is zero, because those outlets almost completely ignored this story.

Consider how CBS News reported the story Friday:

After riots at a California marijuana farm where ICE conducted an operation arresting 200 illegal immigrants, Los Angeles correspondent Carter Evans repeated on Friday’s CBS Evening News what someone he interviewed about the matter told him, mainly that “she feels like pretty much everyone with brown skin is a target.”
The media’s desire to base journalistic objectivity around what they view as truth instead of neutrality only seems to apply when they can call Republicans untruthful. As Evans began, he ran off Homeland Security’s justifications, “As for the raids in Camarillo and another nearby cannabis farm, the Department of Homeland Security claims it entered with search warrants, rescued at least ten migrant children from potential exploitation, and arrested what it described as 200 illegal aliens, while more than 500 rioters attempted to disrupt operations. The standoff lasted for hours, well into the night.”

The CBS audience is told that, according to “someone” cited as a source, “everyone with brown skin” was targeted in the ICE raid, whereas when government officials explain the actual purpose of the operation, this is merely what DHS “claims” and those apprehended in the raid are merely “described as . . . illegal aliens.” At any point during Biden’s presidency, did CBS News ever exhibit such skepticism toward the “claims” made by officials of his administration? And notice that there is no information in the CBS News report about the CEO of the cannabis company being a $10,000 donor to California’s Democratic governor.

Literal child slavery is happening in Newsom’s California, but the CBS News audience is left with the impression that the real issue is racism, because “pretty much everyone with brown skin is a target” of Trump’s immigration policy. If your 80-year-old grandma believes such nonsense, now you know why. And can you imagine how much worse it would be if there were no conservative alternatives to the “mainstream” media?



 

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