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Even More at the link: https://x.com/alexthechick/status/1912845597133963476

Left's latest 'argument'. . . . . . . . . . there is only two (trans) of them any way. Linda aint having it.

Noem Opens Third Front in War On Haahvaahd: Student Visas Ed Morrissey FTA: Just how long can the elitists hold out on the front lines of Harvard? Kristi Noem threatened a gut punch to their financial model today as the fight escalated between the school and the Trump administration: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem threatened to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, the latest broadside from the Trump administration against the Ivy League school. Noem ordered the university to submit records on what she says is “illegal and violent activities” from international students by April 30, or Harvard would suffer the “immediate loss of Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification,” according to a DHS press release released late Wednesday. The certification program is what allows institutions to enroll foreign students. Noem also announced the canceling of two department grants worth over $2.7 million to the university, “declaring it unfit to be entrusted with taxpayer dollars.” “Harvard bending the knee to antisemitism — driven by its spineless leadership — fuels a cesspool of extremist riots and threatens our national security,” Noem said in the press release. In the meantime, Harvard's still sticking with its "independence" defense while demanding access to billions in federal funding https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/04/17/noem-opens-third-front-in-war-on-haahvaahd-student-visas-n3801886

Everything is racist at PBS by Scott Johnson Collin Anderson and Jessica Schwalb have suffered through the Independent Lens PBS documentary series so that we don’t have to. Collin reports his findings in “From Trees to White Women, Everything Is Racist in These PBS Documentaries.” Their story is accompanied by the video compilation https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/everything-is-racist-at-pbs.php

BURGMENTUM, BABY: Burgum Takes the Wind Out of the Empire State’s Plans. “As much as I cracked on Doug Burgum as a presidential candidate, he is going gangbusters as Interior Secretary and is proving to be another of Trump’s inspired picks. All I can say is molto well done to him. As for the offshore waters South of Long Island, I hope the folks really enjoy them now. Things are always better savored when you realize what you almost lost.” https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/04/17/burgum-takes-the-wind-out-of-the-empire-states-plans-n3801885

STANDING UP TO BIGOTRY: DOJ probes four California colleges for race-based admissions. https://www.thecollegefix.com/reverse-discrimination-doj-probes-four-california-colleges-for-race-based-admissions/ .

WASN’T THIS A SAM PECKINPAH MOVIE? Everything the Democrats Don’t Want You to Know About Abrego Garcia. At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Karoline Leavitt didn’t hold back. In a clear, methodical takedown, she laid out exactly who the deported suspected MS-13 gang member Gilmar Abrego Garcia is — and it’s everything the Democrats don’t want the public to know. Spoiler alert: This is no innocent victim of Trump’s deportation policy. more at the link: https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/17/everything-the-democrats-dont-want-you-to-know-about-abrego-garcia-n4938984

RFK Jr. Exposes a Chilling New Autism Reality HHS Secretary RFK Jr. just held a press conference to respond to the CDC’s latest numbers on autism rates in the United States. The findings were impossible to ignore, and Kennedy didn’t sugarcoat just how dire the situation had become. He revealed that 1 in 31 American children are now diagnosed with autism. For boys, the numbers are even worse—1 in 20. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/rfk-jr-exposes-chilling-new-autism-reality/

More Winning. A HUGE Win for Free Speech: Rubio Shuts Down Controversial State Department Office by Sarah Anderson Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that he's going above and beyond to continue protecting the free speech of every citizen in the United States — something that State Department wasn't doing previously. As a matter of fact, the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) had "actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving" — particularly conservatives — and we were paying at least $50 million per year for it to do so. But Rubio has now shut it down, placing 30 full-time staff members on leave, eliminating all 50 full-time staff positions https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/04/16/a-win-for-free-speech-rubio-shuts-down-controversial-state-dept-office-n4938970

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Harvard, Meet Bob Jones By John Hinderaker When I first saw President Trump’s suggestion that Harvard might lose its tax-exempt status, in addition to federal funding, I considered it mere Trumpian bombast. But Randy Barnett’s comment puts it in a different light: It had been a long time since I had thought about the Bob Jones case, decided in 1983, so I looked it up. You can read the Supreme Court’s decision here. Bob Jones was a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, and it had a policy that prohibited interracial dating or marriage. Because of that policy, the IRS revoked Bob Jones’s tax-exempt status. The case reached the Supreme Court, which upheld the IRS’s action on an 8-1 vote. The Court’s holding was unambiguous: The IRS’s 1970 interpretation of § 501(c)(3) was correct. It would be wholly incompatible with the concepts underlying tax exemption to grant tax-exempt status to racially discriminatory private educational entities. Whatever may be the rationale for such private schools’ policies, racial discrimination in education is contrary to public policy. Racially discriminatory educational institutions cannot be viewed as conferring a public benefit within the above “charitable” concept or within the congressional intent underlying § 501(c)(3). I am sure Harvard never imagined that it would fall under the same condemnation that befell Bob Jones University. But why shouldn’t it? Hasn’t the Supreme Court already found, in Students For Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, that Harvard engages in illegal race discrimination? Yes. That is the holding in the case https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/harvard-meet-bob-jones.php

Being an accused murderer with multiple witnesses ain’t what it used to be. Karmelo Anthony renting $900K home in gated community with family, bought new car after release on bond in Austin Metcalf murder case. The Texas teen accused of fatally stabbing a high school football star at a track meet allegedly lives in a $900K home inside a luxurious gated community — despite requesting a judge lower his $1 million bond because of financial difficulties, according to a report. Karmelo Anthony, 17, is shacked up with his family at the pricey home inside the gated community of Richwoods in Frisco, Texas, after he was released from jail Monday on a reduced $250,000 bond for allegedly killing Austin Metcalf earlier this month, the Daily Mail reported. The home — where rent is estimated to be $3,500 a month — had a white Suburban, a black Acura, and a third sedan in the driveway on Tuesday, according to the outlet. A neighbor said that the family had just bought a new ride. “He got a new car,” the resident told the outlet. “If you look at the license plate, it’s got a paper tag and it says it expires June 4.” https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/us-news/karmelo-anthony-renting-900k-home-in-gated-community-with-family-bought-new-car-after-release-on-bond-in-austin-metcalf-murder-case-report/

7 "tossup" states and 7 victories. That is a Landslide nowadays. You will note that you had to go back to 1984 for your Reagan example. At present all of our presidential elections are close, even the Clinton and Obama "landslides as they were eagerly called. Nothing odd, nothing cultish about it. Standard fare actually. .

The Left's 'Trump Voters Now Regret It' Narrative Just Got Buried 6 Feet Under (and on CNN No Less) Over the last several weeks you've probably heard it quite often: "Trump supporters are already regretting their vote! This is HUGE!" The only thing "huge" about that talking point is the level of gaslighting with these kinds of things: That's one narrative that has been one of the bigger lies being pushed by the Left. Even CNN's numbers guy couldn't help but shoot down the "Trump supporters are regretting their vote" BS. Watch: That was always one of the more glaring lies coming from Dems but hopefully they were watching that CNN segment and will give it up and move on to a whole new set of propagandist narratives. https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/04/16/the-lefts-trump-supporters-now-regret-their-vote-narrative-just-got-buried-6-feet-under-n2411479

Earlier, we told you about Joe Biden lying -- straight up lying -- about what the Trump administration has done and plans to do with Social Security. It was a cavalcade of not only lies, but fear-mongering, with the former president warning people might not get their Social Security checks. (sound familiar ? just every lefty here regurgitates it) Thankfully, the official Social Security X account is having none of it, and they dismantled Joe Biden's shameful falsehoods in an epic thread: Where are the media fact-checkers? Never mind, they'd never tell the truth. Streamlined government services? The horror! All by design. So they could also collect benefits. You know when people won't get checks? When Social Security goes bankrupt. That's when. And if DOGE, President Trump, and the GOP don't stop the fraud and fix the fiscal mess, it will go bankrupt. Sooner rather than later. https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/04/16/social-security-account-calls-out-joe-bidens-lies-n2411454

The worst part is that it will NEVER go back up.

Socialist Attacks Shapiro, Proving Trump and MAGA Are Evil David Strom When all you have is a hammer, everything becomes a nail. Trump hatred is the hammer, and liberals keep hitting their own heads with it in their zeal to pound MAGA and Trump into fleshy pancaked human beings. CNN just made the claim that political violence is basically a right-wing tactic--a fascinating claim that stands up to scrutiny as well as the "Moon is made of green cheese" theory. As the left cheers on the assassination of innocents, laments the failure of two assassins to kill Donald Trump, and contributes through ActBlue to nonprofits planning and executing a terrorist campaign against Elon Musk, they turn around and blame the Right for making them do it. Admittedly, citing Don Lemon is sort of scraping the bottom of the barrel when criticizing the left. But he still qualifies as a lefty with a following, and CNN platformed as one of their prime talents for 17 years. 17. So I will not apologize for assigning him to their camp and asserting that they own both him and his credibility. They broke it, they bought it. I have yet to see anybody, left or right, applaud the socialist who tried to kill Governor Shapiro and his family in the most gruesome way. On the right I can confidently say that this is because nobody on the right remotely approves of burning people alive. I think the same is true for all centrists and even most center-left Democrats. But I can also confidently say that we would be seeing a flood of laments that the mentally deranged man of the left who did this evil act failed if the target had been Ron DeSantis. Liberals really do believe that they are in the right here--on the side of the angels. If only conservatives agreed to do every single thing liberals demand with enthusiasm--become Stepford wives--they wouldn't have to draw swastikas on our stuff, take over our buildings, shoot at our political leaders, and burn down our cities. It really is the conservatives' fault. The irony is thick, if not amusing. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/04/16/socialist-attacks-shapiro-proving-trump-and-maga-are-evil-n3801816

Why Progressives Increasingly Support Violence Zack Dulberg, Max Horder Political violence in America is not just a relic of the past. From the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, to the burning of Teslas in protest of Elon Musk, political violence is a present-day reality. More than 9,000 threats have been made against members of Congress this year—a “huge increase,” according to officials. Are these events aberrations or do they reflect a national problem? Are they connected? And does the public support them? A new report from our group, the Network Contagion Research Institute, provides answers. Our research, based on nationally representative surveys and analyses of online activity, demonstrates the existence of online subcultures that support the murder of public figures like Trump and Musk. This “assassination culture,” incubated on social media, has migrated from the margins of public life into the mainstream. We found that nearly one-third of Americans surveyed—and around half of those identifying as left-of-center—believe that the murder of certain public figures is at least somewhat justified. The figures are startling: 38 percent of respondents, and 55 percent of those left of center, said assassinating President Trump would be at least somewhat justified; 31 percent of respondents, and 48 percent of those left of center, said the same about Musk. Forty percent of respondents, and 58 percent of those left of center, deem it at least somewhat acceptable to “destroy a Tesla dealership” in protest. https://www.city-journal.org/article/progressives-political-violence-donald-trump-assassination-attempt https://networkcontagion.us/reports/4-7-25-ncri-assassination-culture-brief/

Antisemitism. A familiar motive By Scott Johnson Jewish Insider returns to the story of Cody Balmer’s arson and attempted murder of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro in its Daily Roundup. JI links to PennLive’s story on the familiar motive that may have driven Balmer’s attack. Based on one of the search warrants executed in the case, Juliette Rihl reports: The suspect in the arson attack at the Governor’s Residence targeted Josh Shapiro due to his perceived stance on Palestine, according to a search warrant obtained by PennLive. The suspect, Cody Balmer, called 911 following the attack early Sunday, identified himself by name and told operators Shapiro needs to know he “…will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” the search warrant written by police said. Balmer continued, saying he needed to “stop having my friends killed” and that “…our people have been put through too much by that monster,” according to the warrant, which says Balmer’s intonation and cadence sounded like he was possibly reading from a script. Rihl has more on the motive a few paragraphs down in the story: In the warrant for his devices signed Tuesday, Corporal Benjamin Forsythe of the Pennsylvania State Police says Balmer targeted Shapiro “based upon perceived injustices to the people of Palestine,” as well as Shapiro’s Jewish faith, though the warrant does not elaborate on why Shapiro’s faith is believed to have been a motive. Immediately after the attack I expressed the thought that the authorities would get a handle on the source of Balmer’s hatred of Shapiro and the evidence would emerge. Until that time, I thought tact was the better part of wisdom. In retrospect, I think Shapiro must have been briefed on the substance of the affidavit before he made his statement this past Sunday afternoon https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/a-familiar-motive.php .

EVERY RECORD HAS BEEN ALTERED: At Harvard-Hosted ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,’ Law Students Target the Pages of Firms That Criticized School’s Response to Anti-Semitism. Anti-Israel Harvard Law School students organized a workshop on the Ivy League campus earlier this month to edit the Wikipedia pages of more than a dozen prominent law firms, singling out some that threatened to stop recruiting at the school over its failure to rein in anti-Semitic activity. Harvard’s National Lawyers Guild chapter, a left-wing legal advocacy group, hosted the “Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon” on April 2 at Harvard Law’s WCC student center, according to an announcement on Harvard Law’s website. Third-year Harvard Law student Corinne Shanahan, an organizer with Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, organized the clinic for students to “gather data to edit the Wikipedia pages of Big Law firms to reflect cases they have recently argued.” Two days later, Harvard Law student Aashna Avachat edited the Wikipedia pages of 14 law firms, mostly to add details of their representation of clients that the activist students deemed to be unsavory, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of Wikipedia edit logs. Avachat edited the pages for the firms Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to soften the language about anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. Amid a wave of anti-Semitic protests following the Hamas attack on Israel, the two firms warned Harvard Law and others that they would cut back on recruiting on their campuses for failing to rein in anti-Semitic incidents. The edit logs show Avachat changed the term “antisemitic incidents” to “pro-Palestine protests,” and reworded references to “incidents targeting Jewish students” to incidents that the law firms “described … as antisemitic.” Avachat herself was involved in one incident at Harvard in which her law school classmate, Ibrahim Bharmal, accosted and shoved a Jewish student during an anti-Israel “die-in.” Avachat said she witnessed the incident and claimed Bharmal was protecting “peaceful protesters” against an “aggressive” Jewish student. Both Bharmal and another student activist, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, were charged in connection with the “die-in,” a case that Harvard delayed by refusing to cooperate with local prosecutors. https://freebeacon.com/campus/at-harvard-hosted-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-law-students-target-the-pages-of-firms-that-criticized-schools-response-to-anti-semitism/