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Jasmine Crockett Beclowns Herself, Plays Race Card Defending Ketanji Brown Jackson

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson flexes her “brilliance” in oral arguments. She also “had to be 10 times better than most” to succeed. So claims lame-duck Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), anyway. This is even though the man who nominated Jackson to the High Court, then-President Joe Biden, made clear he chose her based on sex and skin color.

None of this might warrant mention, do note, except for the fact that it relates to deeper issues. That is, the poisonous phenomenon that is diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the matter of what constitutes true qualifications.

Reporting on the Crockett crock, The Western Journal’s Michael Schwarz writes:

Wednesday on the social media platform X, Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, a black woman who regularly obsesses over skin color, tried defending Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson by insisting that Jackson, a black woman appointed to SCOTUS on account of her sex and skin color, “had to be 10 times better than most” on account of her sex and skin color.

Needless to say, reasonable people cannot reconcile those two claims. A factor that aided a person’s advancement, in this case simply being a black woman, cannot also be the factor that forced said black woman to work harder and achieve more than others. It makes no sense.

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The Shift: The Democratic Party battle over AIPAC heats up

A Democratic National Committee member says she will introduce a resolution rejecting AIPAC spending at this month’s DNC meeting.

“At a time when Democratic voters might really not have felt represented or seen when it came to Gaza or seeing their party support Palestinian rights or stand against military conflict, this could be one step toward bringing those voters back into the party,” the committee member, Allison Minnerly, told The Intercept’s Matt Sledge.

“Given the recent primaries in Illinois, but also what we’ve seen across the country, I think it’s important that we specify that AIPAC as a growing force in our primaries needs to be specifically addressed when we talk about dark money,” she added.

If Minnerly’s name rings a bell, it might be because she introduced Resolution 18 last year. It called for a ceasefire in Gaza, suspension of U.S. military aid to Israel, and recognition of Palestinian statehood. Her effort was ultimately watered down, then unceremoniously dismissed at the DNC’s summer meeting in Minnesota.

“The fight over Resolution 18 was more than a simple vote over a symbolic resolution. The story shows how the Israel lobby is doing all it can to prevent Democratic Party leadership from honoring the overwhelming will of party members. It also is a harbinger of fights to come, as support for Palestine only continues to grow in the party in reaction to Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” wrote Nadia Ahmad at Mondoweiss at the time.

The same is true this time around.

The new resolution is also symbolic, but it gets Democrats on the record regarding a lobbying group that has already become a hot-button issue among presidential hopefuls.

One such example is Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who is attempting to distance himself from past AIPAC connections based on the direction of the political winds.

“It became an organization that was supporting Donald Trump and people who follow Donald Trump,” Pritzker declared after the group spent heavily in Illinois’s recent primaries. “AIPAC really is not an organization that I think today I would want any part of.”

A spokesperson for the Governor reiterated that Pritzker “withdrew his support” from the group after it “became a pro-Trump organization.”

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Hochul running mate Adrienne Adams funneled $435K to migrant shelter tied to federal probe

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s running mate – former NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams – dished out $435,000 in taxpayer-funded political pork to a shady migrant-shelter provider at the center of a federal corruption probe, The Post has learned.

The Democratic lieutenant governor candidate gave Brooklyn-based nonprofit BHRAGS Home Care Inc. $375,000 in discretionary funds through her speaker’s pot from 2022 to 2025, Council records show. The taxpayer’s dough was earmarked for the group’s senior and youth after-school programs.

The Queens-based pol also directly tacked on another $60,000 to help it assist the mentally ill, the records show.

In all, the Council under her leadership doled out $544,900 to BHRAGS since 2021, according to the records.

Councilwoman Farah Louis kicked in another $72,000, and other council members chipped in the remaining $37,900, records show.

The feds are looking into whether Louis; her sister, Deborah Louis, who serves as Hochul’s assistant secretary for NYC intergovernmental affairs; Edu Hermelyn, husband of state Assemblywoman and Brooklyn Democratic Party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn; and others accepted bribes or kickbacks to boost BHRAGS.

The Flatbush-based nonprofit has received $185.4 million in no-bid city contracts since 2022 to provide emergency shelters for migrants and other homeless people, according to NYC Comptroller’s Office records. 

The nonprofit’s executive director, Roberto Samedy, its former board chairman, Jean Ronald Tirelus, and two others connected to BHRAGS were arrested Tuesday as part of the corruption probe for allegedly pocketing more than $1 million in kickbacks linked to city-run migrant shelters.

BHRAGS reps have said it’s “fully cooperating with law enforcement” and that Samedy was placed on administrative leave.

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Sen. Van Hollen Shares Sob Story Blaming ICE for Seriously Injuring Supposed “Asylum Seeker” in Crash and It Backfires When DHS Reveals the Cold Truth About Incident

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who infamously became criminal illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s greatest champion, shared a sob story about a supposed “asylum seeker” named Ever Alvarenga Rios that later blew up in his face.

As WMAR reports, an attorney for Rios alleged that his client was driving in Highlandtown Thursday morning when agents supposedly “violently rear-ended” his vehicle and proceeded to take him into custody.

Rios was later hospitalized with injuries to his head, chest, back, and hands.

“I think this is probably the most egregious case that I’ve seen in terms of causing physical bodily injury to the person involved,” Rios’s attorney, Adam Crandell, said. “It’s disturbing, to say the least, that this is how ICE appears to be choosing to interact.”

Crandell went on to state that ICE agents are refusing to allow him or any other people to visit Rios.

Initially, we were told that it was a medical issue that he needed to be stabilized before he could accept visitors or any type of legal visit. Then the story changed and we were told today that there was an issue with the paperwork,” Crandell claimed. “Even more recently, I was told that so long as he remains hospitalized, ICE will not allow us access to him.”

On Saturday morning, Van Hollen took the opportunity to regurgitate Alvarenga’s attorneys’ talking points and to smear ICE agents as “endangering our communities and violating the Constitution.”

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Eric Swalwell Threatens FBI Agents Amid Fang Fang Drama After Bondi’s Firing

Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell on Friday threatened FBI agents during an appearance on CNN on Friday.

Swalwell ran to CNN to discuss Trump’s decision to fire Pam Bondi as Attorney General.

The Democrat lawmaker who is currently running for governor of California claimed FBI agents are being asked to break the law every single day.

“To the FBI agents who are being asked to break the law every single day. What we want to make clear, and I know this comes from Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, who will have the subpoena power next Congress,” Swalwell said without offering any proof whatsoever.

He continued, “You will be protected if you come forward right now.”

“If you do not come forward right now and you enable more corruption on Epstein or the weaponization, you will be before Congress, and it will all come out,” Swalwell said.

Even CNN was skeptical.

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Left Wing Group ‘Demand Justice’ Panicked Over Possibility That Trump Will Get to Pick Two More Supreme Court Justices

The progressive activist group ‘Demand Justice’ is already warning their fellow travelers on the left that President Trump may be able to pick two more new justices for the U.S. Supreme Court before leaving office.

If you remember the ordeal that the left put the country through when Justice Kavanaugh was being confirmed, you have an idea of what the left would do if Trump got to pick not one, but two more judges for the court. The term ‘meltdown’ doesn’t even begin to cover it.

It would be funny though, especially after all of the left’s talk about packing the court.

This is from the New York Times:

Liberal Group Warns That Trump Could Have Two More Supreme Court Picks

For now, none of the nine Supreme Court justices have announced plans to retire, and Mr. Trump has no looming opportunity to keep stocking the court with younger conservative justices.

That isn’t stopping Demand Justice from preparing a multimillion-dollar effort to oppose potential Trump Supreme Court appointees before they happen — with a warning that Mr. Trump could be replacing two justices this year…

Josh Orton, the president of Demand Justice, said the project would cost $3 million to start and $15 million more if vacancies occurred and Mr. Trump nominated a successor to the court — most likely for Clarence Thomas or Samuel A. Alito Jr., the two oldest justices. Justice Thomas is 77 years old, and Justice Alito is 76…

“If you think that Trump is willing to leave two of the three justices he thinks are most loyal on the court in their 80s past when he leaves office, you are not paying attention,” Mr. Orton said in an interview Thursday. “There is no way that Donald Trump and Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would ever commit the fundamental miscalculation about power that we saw from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama and we as a movement.”

Now that it has been revealed that Justice Alito had a recent health scare, people on the left are probably even more nervous.

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Developing: Democrat Fundraising Juggernaut ActBlue Likely Lied to Congress About Foreign Donations

In early 2025, the law firm, Covington & Burling out of Washington DC, raised legal concerns that ActBlue’s CEO lied to GOP investigators in a 2023 letter explaining how the organization vetted donations to ensure that they were not illegally coming from foreign citizens.

This shocking development was published in The New York Times this week.

Laura Ingraham and Chip Roy discussed this latest ActBlue scandal on Thursday night.

** The Gateway Pundit Was First to Report on Democrat Money Laundering Using ActBlue – President Trump Called for an Investigation – The Seditious Six Now Implicated

In early December 2022, after the 2022 election, we were the first to report on what we labeled “voter mules”. These were individuals who made sometimes thousands of donations to Democrat politicians across the country, totaling up to millions of fraudulent donations. “Preacher” Raphael Warnock received $24 million from hundreds of unemployed donors, giving over 358,000 donations.

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Massachusetts Senate President announces she will use the millionaires tax to fund additional lawyers for illegal migrants facing deportation

Massachusetts has a program that pays for lawyers for immigrants facing deportation. Senate Democrats want to put more money into it.

Senate President Karen Spilka plans to include an additional $1 million for the Massachusetts Access to Counsel Initiative in a supplemental spending bill set for release Thursday, WBUR reported.

The program, created in the state’s fiscal year 2026 budget, funds free legal representation for immigrants in deportation proceedings — who, unlike criminal defendants, have no right to a court-appointed attorney.

The additional $1 million would come from the same source as the original $5 million: the so-called millionaires tax, a 4% surtax on Massachusetts incomes above $1 million.

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NY assembly to get million-dollar lounge —while demanding huge tax hikes on hardworking New Yorkers

State assembly members are set to personally enjoy a million-dollar renovation for their lounge space just off the chamber floor — even as they push to hike taxes on businesses while driving up spending, The Post has learned.

The Office of General Services, a division of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration which handles much of the capitol complex, is moving forward with plans to renovate the space with the price tag potentially exceeding $1 million, according to bidding documents reviewed by The Post.

The move comes as the same pols who exclusively get to recline on the couches in the antechamber and chomp down on treats prepared in the lounge’s kitchenette demand Hochul hike taxes on businesses amid next year’s proposed $263 billion state budget.

“Albany Democrats always find money for themselves while asking New Yorkers to pay more. They are completely out of touch,” upstate Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), a former assembly woman, told The Post.

Ex-Assemblyman Andy Goodell (R-Chautaqua) added, “The assembly members should work harder rather than ‘lounge’ around.”

A source confirmed to The Post that OGS had received a request from the Assembly for the project.

Lawmakers ran for the hills Wednesday for Passover break after failing to come to an agreement with Hochul on her proposed $263 billion state budget proposal.

Despite being on a scheduled two-week recess, lawmakers will likely have to gather to vote Tuesday on another stopgap spending bill to keep state workers paid.

At least some will likely skip the tally in person, Goodell said.

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The Flailing GOP’s Biggest Advantage This November Is Democrats Are Still Obviously Crazy

BETTER TO BE INCOMPETENT, THAN OBVIOUSLY CRAZY

Things aren’t going well for Trump among the electorate. He’s slipping in nearly every metric. He just hit his highest national disapproval rating yet.

Functionally speaking, the midterms look bad. I’m not sure why Trump doesn’t appear more urgent other than his striking penchant for inexhaustible confidence. Losing the House would be sad but predictable, while losing the Senate would be catastrophic.

The House of Trump is teetering. The brothers have been doing all sorts of … deals. It hasn’t escaped the notice of other Republicans even. It won’t escape the notice of new Senate leadership. Impeachments are the least of it.

Imagine Biden’s foreign grift but 1000x worse.

And what’s the upshot of all this? What’s propelling Trump’s confidence?

In part, despite the cascade of disappointments, it has to be that the electorate still has a dimmer opinion of Democrats. Dim is a bit understated.

As conservative economist Stephen Moore put it, “Voters may not love Republicans, but increasingly, they fear Democrats.”

Machiavelli coined the term, “better to be feared than loved.” He elucidated further by saying that constant fear would eventually lead to instability, but you get the point.

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