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SHE’S NOT BIG ON GIVING THOUGHT: Maybe Justice Sotomayor Hasn’t Given Much Thought to the Historical Lessons of Gun Confiscation in America. Justice Sotomayor is pretty predictable. She walks into oral argument with a set of questions she wants to ask, and she will keep asking them, whether or not she gets the answer she wants. I imagine advocates get frustated, but that is part of the game. During the birthright citizenship cases, Justice Sotomayor asked the same line of questions several times--apparently she thought it was clever. To illustrate the limits of the government's position concerning nationwide injunction, she would change the hypo: what would happen if the government sought to confiscate every gun in America; would every gunowner have to bring an individual law suit to seek relief? https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/16/does-justice-sotomayor-really-want-to-know-what-the-remedy-would-be-if-the-government-confiscated-everyones-guns/

If 2018 was the dress rehearsal, this is the full blown Broadway production of gaslighting, ballot harvesting, and media cover-ups. Buckle up.

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So when the Minnesota Vikings posted about Floyd and their 'pause to reflect,' they earned the dragging they're receiving. 'Call for justice' meant burning down cities, including Minneapolis. That's not justice. That's mob violence. https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/05/25/vikings-hide-replies-on-george-floyd-posts-n2413304

It's OUR fault PBS Host Says People Who Blast Media Cover-Up of Biden Decline Don't Understand 'How Reporting Works' Mike Miller In this episode of "Your Tax Dollars at Work"... On Friday's edition of PBS's "Washington Week with The Atlantic," host Jeffrey Goldberg trotted out CNN's disgraced host Jake Tapper and his co-author Alex Thompson to spin the ever-loving crap out their controversial bestseller, "Original Sin." Goldberg astonishingly and shamelessly insisted the left-wing media didn't participate in the cover-up of former President Joe Biden's catastrophic cognitive collapse. And Goldberg being Goldberg, he "forgot" to include the 2023 video of his ridiculous declaration that Biden was "mentally quite acute": Yet, even now, Goldberg remains among those in quasi-official Democrat state media who absurdly continue to insist the left-wing media did nothing wrong — and surely wasn't duplicitous while it regularly lied to viewers about mumbling ol' Joe being sharp as a tack. In other words, in Goldberg's case, your tax dollars at work — as PBS continues to push absurd left-wing narratives. https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2025/05/25/pbs-host-says-people-who-blast-media-cover-up-of-biden-decline-dont-understand-how-reporting-works-n2189585

I can't state it any better than that. ALL of the individual points that many on the Left bring up are certainly not the particular reason that I continue to support President Trump, but as inferred by others I really think that the country was heading towards a a caste system with a Liberal Network at the top, all dissent illegal and extremist non-American ideas enforced ( I am well aware that many wrongly say this about Trump, but my past 4 decades of following American politics confirm my view.) Closing the border, enforcing our present laws, stopping the leftist breakdown of American society and (HOPEFULLY) repairing our broken election system is exactly what I voted for Steve. Thanks for the thread. .

Vote 'buying' is costly. Biden Forgives Student Loans and ... Behold, Defaults Skyrocket Stephen Moore Here's an economics lesson that belongs in the textbooks. Student loan debt soared to more than $1.5 trillion during the Biden presidency, and the response by Washington was to "forgive" hundreds of billions of these unpaid loans by deadbeat borrowers and let the taxpayers pick up the tab. It was never clear why the universities that charge exorbitant tuitions that have reached more than $75,000 a year at many elite schools shouldn't bear the cost of the program -- but that's another story. Those of us who watched these events unfold predicted that one result of this policy would be that many college graduates would stop paying back their loans. And guess what? Just like clockwork, this headline from Bloomberg recently told the whole story: "Student Loans Drive US delinquency Rate to Highest Since 2020." Gee, who -- except a bunch of head-in-the-sand politicians in Washington -- would have ever thought that forgiving as many people from paying their student loans as possible would increase future nonpayments? Well, the Biden administration, for one. Now that the Department of Education is honestly reporting the data, we find that serious delinquency rates are over 10 times what the Biden Department of Education said they were. There is an old saying in physics and economics: Every action in the universe has a reaction. How many students in the future will pay back unpaid student loans when the next forgiveness program is right around the corner? So people who did the right thing and paid back their debts now have to pay more for the people who refused to pay back the money they owed. https://hotair.com/stephen-moore/2025/05/25/biden-forgives-student-loans-and-behold-defaults-skyrocket-n3803085

Like night follows day.

Shocker: Antifa Thugs Attacked a Christian Rally in Seattle, But Guess Who the Mayor Blamed? We've written often about how Democrat politicians encourage, incite, and turn a blind eye to violence from their political supporters. From the 'Summer of Love' in 2020 to the firebombing of Tesla dealerships this year, violence has practically become the defining pillar of the Democratic Party platform. But we've rarely seen an endorsement of political violence -- and punishing your political opposition -- so egregious and explicit as the one made publicly by the mayor of Seattle, Bruce Harrell, this week. Readers may remember Harrell as the mayor who, just a couple of months ago, blamed YEARS of his city's budget failures on Donald Trump, who had been President for only two months at the time. Because, of course, he did. But what Harrell said yesterday is far more shameful. On Saturday, groups of Christians gathered in Seattle's Cal Anderson Park for a rally to support a number of conservative causes, including pro-life and protecting children from the predatory gender cult. Not surprisingly, groups of counter protesters from Antifa and Trantifa showed up to screech at the Christian rally. Less surprisingly, those counter-protesters soon became violent. Police responded and, to their credit, began making swaths of arrests. Perhaps least surprisingly of all, the response from Antifa was to then begin violently assaulting the police. Watch: Good for the police officers. As one of them stated to the camera, they were just upholding and enforcing the law. But just when we thought that a modicum of sanity might be returning to the Pacific Northwest, Mayor Harrell and his Communications Director weighed in on the altercation. And you'll never guess who they blamed. Just kidding. You know EXACTLY who they blamed. https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/05/25/shocker-antifa-attacked-a-christian-rally-in-seattle-but-guess-who-the-mayor-blamed-n2413296

Planned Parenthood is On Life Support John Sexton America's largest abortion provider is struggling against a downward trend since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision clarified that abortion is not a constitutional right but a matter for state laws. Last August the NY Times reported that abortion clinics all over the country were going broke. In February of this year the Times offered a follow-up focusing on botched abortions, substandard care and shrinking numbers of patients at Planned Parenthood in particular. Not long ago the organization had 5 million patients in a year. These days they have about 2 million. https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/05/24/planned-parenthood-is-on-life-support-n3803121

Good SecDef Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Put Press Corps on a Short Leash After Epidemic of Leaks By Becca Lower https://redstate.com/beccalower/2025/05/24/secdef-hegseth-pentagon-n2189565 .

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Another Hit to the 'Deep State' as Trump and Rubio Clean House at NSC Nick Arama President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are doing some serious house cleaning and a huge restructuring at the National Security Council, according to new reports. More than 100 people were notified they were terminated on Friday, according to one report. The NSC had ballooned to more than 300 people under Joe Biden. It now has about half that. The idea is to get it down to just a few dozen people. They are moving some of its tasks to the State and Defense Departments, according to Axios. The problem was "a bottom-to-the-top approach that doesn't work. It's going away," according to a senior White House official. The NSC was supposed to "coordinate and advise — not carry out — policy," another official explained. Now it's "what the president wants, get it done," a senior official said. "It wasn't, 'Oh, let's get the sub-PCC to send it to the PCC to go to the DC to go to the PC.' " That's how it's supposed to work. The President dictates policy, not the bureaucracy or advisers. But, likely under Biden, they had a much more prominent role. But that's how you get unelected bureaucrats who think they control things and they dictate. Now it looks like that's over. https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/05/24/firings-at-national-security-council-n2189541

"Domestic Violent Extremists" is not a rhetorical flourish when employed by intelligence agencies. It has a very specific meaning and empowers US government intelligence and law enforcement officials to take enhanced steps to monitor and investigate you. What would be "unreasonable" searches under the Fourth Amendment suddenly become "reasonable," based on your enhanced danger to the community. So when the Biden administration designated people who opposed MASK and vaccine mandates during the COVID pandemic, it put much of the country--including most Trump supporters--in the crosshairs of law enforcement. (sarcasm alert) Remember all those anti-mandate riots in the summer and fall of 2020? I do. White Supremacist militias burned down vast swathes of cities, created anti-mask occupation zones in cities like Seattle, and torched Minneapolis' Third Precinct. I think I remember that. Republican congressmen even pledged their fealty to these insurrectionists. Most Americans want to forget just how oppressive Western governments became during the COVID pandemic. Bureaucrats and politicians became drunk with power and were motivated by a burning hatred for those who defied them. They mobilized the intelligence community, collaborated with foreign powers to censor dissenters, and even employed military psychological warfare units to gaslight citizens. Ironically, within months of this declaration, a wave of domestic violent extremism swept the country, starting on college campuses, spilling out into our streets, and vividly demonstrated with yet another set of assassinations on the streets of Washington DC. You may have heard of it. They want to globalize the intifada, yet every one of the same people who labeled COVID skeptics--who have been proven prescient--violent extremists are not working furiously to claim that the people who have declared their allegiance to Hamas in the wake of October 7th are merely exercising their First Amendment rights. It's not what you do; it's who you are that matters. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/05/23/did-you-oppose-vaccine-mandates-biden-administration-designated-you-domestic-violent-extremists-n3803069 .

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