Uh huh

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Wisconsin Dems Accuse Elon Musk of Trying to 'Buy Votes' Ahead of State Supreme Court Race

…. Wisconsin’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, seeking to block his $1 million donation offer ahead of the state’s high-stakes Supreme Court race. The lawsuit contends that Musk’s influence in the race holds significant ground and whose support could significantly impact the race.

Much more here, including the fact that 77% of the Democrat’s money came from out of state donors.

Operation Wetback II

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Our Greenwich Indivisible ladies are too stupid to realize that they and their families will be the first ones to be lined up and shot come the revolution

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When They Tell Us Who They Are, BELIEVE THEM: Leftist Protest Org Indivisible Straight Up Admits They're MAOISTS

This is one of those times when knowing history comes in very handy.

Chinese communist Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) was one of history's bloodiest dictators. His three big policies -- the Long March (1934-1935), the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962), and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) led to the deaths of tens of millions of people from famine, forced labor, or executions.

So when Leftists praise Mao and say their movement is based on one of his, pay attention.

Because it ends badly for the rest of us.

Junior Birdbrain hits the Stamford hustings (Updated)

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waiting for McGovern

Connecticut’s gift to vacuous stupidity, Chris Murphy, held a rally in Stamford for a collection of Democrat geriatrics yesterday, and made a number of claims. First up:

  • Trump is attempting to transition American democracy to an oligarchy, “where a handful of rich money connected elites rule and organize government effectively to steal from the people.”

George Soros and the 501c dark money foundations that have donated literally billions of dollars to Democrats, nationwide and local, were unavailable for comment.

Other Murphy whoppers included:

  • Trump “crushed dissent” by pardoning Jan 6 protesters . Approve of the January 6th riot or not, “pardoning protesters” is not an act of crushing dissent — quite the opposite.

  • The US Attorney in DC is threatening to lock  people up because they interfered with Elon Musk’s operations at DOGE. AG Bondi has warned that those discovered by DOGE to have engaged in fraud — such at the persons behind the 5,593 SBA loans, $312M, granted to borrowers under 11-years-old. Bondi’s only other threat to imprison individuals has been her declaration that TESLA arsonists will be prosecuted as domestic terrorists. Murphy was silent when Biden’s DOJ declared parents protesting transgender material in grade school’s curriculums, just as he’s remained silent on the TESLA attacks. Which looks more like terrorism: parents speaking up at school board meetings, or this?

Murphy also boasted that, thanks to Connecticut’s tough gun laws, Hartford’s fatal shootings have dropped by 50% — from 15 to 8. Gun crime may be down, but there are a number of reasons for that, none of which have anything to do with the laws aimed at residents, because criminals willing to violate laws against murder don’t obey laws addressing gun possession by felons. There are other reasons for the drop: getting gang member off the street and keeping them there, and, possibly, the initiation of armed citizen patrols in Hartford’s worst streets.:

Hartford sees homicides, nonfatal shootings drop. Exactly why depends on whom you ask

  • [Hartford Police spokesman] Boisvert pointed to an April roundup of 13 members of a group called “Get Money Steppas.” Arrested under the state’s corrupt organizations and racketeering activity law, they are tied to homicides, shootings, drug dealing and car thefts, Boisvert said.That definitely took some of the right people off the streets,” Boisvert said Thursday.

  • Police also made some key arrests at the end of last year and the beginning of 2024. The accused were either violent or “catalysts for violence,” he said.

  • Finally, a bill signed into law last year requires certain repeat offenders charged with serious gun crimes to post 30 percent of their bonds in cash. Former Mayor Luke Bronin is one of many people who worked on the bill, Boisvert said. “That’s actually made a big impact,” he said.

  • Meanwhile, the leader of a group called the Self-Defense Brigade said his organization played a big role in the drop in gun violence. Cornell Lewis has been working with community members to set up armed citizen patrols to deter crime. “People don’t realize that that’s the effect of what we’re doing,” Lewis said.  

There are liars, damn liars, and then there’s Murphy.

UPDATE:

(Much) More of this, please; say, all of them. Updated

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Hartford Democrats want to bring this to our towns; do their constituents?

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welcome to oregon!

Judge blocks Oregon city at center of SCOTUS homelessness ruling from enforcing ban on encampments

Grants Pass must increase capacity at locations the city approved for camping and ensure the sites are physically accessible to people with disabilities

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last summer that there’s no constitutional right to crap on sidewalks or camp in public parks, but Oregon has its own law giving “those experiencing homelessness” that privilege, and that’s what this judge has enforced.

An Oregon judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking a rural city at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on homeless encampments from enforcing camping restrictions unless certain conditions are met.

Josephine County Circuit Court Judge Sarah McGlaughlin ruled Friday that the city of Grants Pass must increase capacity at locations the city approved for camping and ensure the sites are physically accessible to people with disabilities.

If the city fails to meet those conditions, the judge's order prohibits the city from citing, arresting or fining people for camping on public property. It also prevents the city from forcing people to leave campsites, from removing campsites that are not clearly abandoned or from prohibiting camping in most city parks.

The lawsuit that ignited the case, filed by Disability Rights Oregon, argued that the city was discriminating against people with disabilities and violating a state law requiring cities' camping regulations to be "objectively reasonable." Five homeless people in Grants Pass were among the plaintiffs.

Grants Pass has struggled for years to handle the homelessness crisis and has become symbolic of the national debate over how to respond to the issue. Many of the city's parks, in particular, saw encampments impacted by drug use and litter.

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Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case brought by the city that communities can ban sleeping outside and fine people who violate the ban, including when there are not enough shelter beds.

The Supreme Court ruling overturned an appeals court decision that camping bans enforced when shelter space is insufficient amounted to cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Following the high court ruling, Grants Pass banned camping on all city property except sites designated by the City Council, which established two locations for the hundreds of homeless people in an effort to remove them from the parks.

After taking office this year, the new mayor and new council members moved to close the larger of the two sites, which housed roughly 120 tents, the lawsuit said. The smaller site's hours of operation were also reduced to between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m.

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McGlaughin's order states that the city must increase capacity to what it was before the larger site was closed.

But hey, this is fine:

Tom Stenson, deputy legal director for Disability Rights Oregon, praised the ruling.

"This is not a radical solution. The court is basically saying, 'Go back to the amount of space and places for people who are homeless that you had just three months ago,'" he told The Associated Press.

Nothing radical, it’s just another step on the road of happy destiny.

I’ve written about the Hartford law several times, most recently three days ago, and the town’s governing bodies have also become aware of it, as reported in our local socialist broadside. Stay tuned.

If this is accurate, we're in trouble too deep for a mere quick fix like DOGE to cure

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The full article is entirely persuasive to me, and the fact that Glenn Reynolds, who as a law professor must be familiar with the modern crop of students, chose to post ii on his own site, at least suggests that he doesn’t disagree.

SAD:

The average college student today: How things have changed. “Most of our students are functionally illiterate. This is not a joke. . . . I’m not saying our students just prefer genre books or graphic novels or whatever. No, our average graduate literally could not read a serious adult novel cover-to-cover and understand what they read. They just couldn’t do it. They don’t have the desire to try, the vocabulary to grasp what they read,2 and most certainly not the attention span to finish. . . . Their writing skills are at the 8th-grade level. Spelling is atrocious, grammar is random, and the correct use of apostrophes is cause for celebration. Worse is the resistance to original thought. What I mean is the reflexive submission of the cheapest cliché as novel insight.”

On the upside, they’re ready for careers in journalism.

Plus:

“I can’t assign papers any more because I’ll just get AI back, and there’s nothing I can do to make it stop. Sadly, not writing exacerbates their illiteracy; writing is a muscle and dedicated writing is a workout for the mind as well as the pen.”

And the good news just keeps piling up

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State Department formally shutters USAID after Trump court victory

WASHINGTON — The State Department formally announced Friday it is closing the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after the Trump administration prevailed in a federal court case challenging the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cost-cutting actions.

“Foreign assistance done right can advance our national interests, protect our borders, and strengthen our partnerships with key allies. Unfortunately, USAID strayed from its original mission long ago. As a result, the gains were too few and the costs were too high,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.

Ex-DOGE official Jeremy Lewin announced USAID’s shuttering in an internal memo earlier Friday — and said the State Department “intends to assume responsibility for many” of the agency’s functions and programs, according to ABC News.

With an annual budget of roughly $40 billion, USAID was responsible for funding critical health care and foreign aid programs but had also been criticized by Republican lawmakers for years for footing the bill for left-wing programs.

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Brian Mast (R-Fla.) had called out several USAID grants last month — including $2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam, $47,000 for “a transgender opera in Colombia” and $32,000 for the production of a Peruvian “transgender comic book,” the Daily Mail first reported.

Per the State Department memo, USAID may now rehire some employees to “assume the responsible administration of USAID’s remaining life-saving and strategic aid programming” while “all non-statutory positions at USAID will be eliminated.”

“This transfer will significantly enhance efficiency, accountability, uniformity, and strategic impact in delivering foreign assistance programs — allowing our nation and President to speak with one voice in foreign affairs,” the memo stated.

“It will also obviate the need for USAID to continue operating as an independent establishment.”

It’s likely the move, coupled with the circuit court’s dismissal of the temporary restraining order against DOGE, will result in further legal challenges.

With 677 active lower court federal judges lurking in courtrooms around the country and billions of dollars available to file delaying lawsuits, the Post’s prediction of “further legal challenges” to DOGE is certain to come true, but any victory in this war is always welcome.

Here's a cheery start to the weekend

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(with apologies to dan hicks)

Brazen ‘migrant influencer’ who flashed cash, urged other illegals to squat in US homes deported to Venezuela

Leonel Moreno, who encouraged illegal migrants to “invade abandoned houses” in sick TikToks, was sent back to the narco state this week, after President Trump resumed deportation flights to the country. ….

Moreno crossed the Texas border illegally in April 2022 and was quickly released into the US.

The Venezuelan border crosser, however, failed to appear for his required check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), leading the feds to arrest him in Gahanna, Ohio, in March 2024.

An immigration judge ordered Moreno’s deportation last October, but Venezuela refused to accept any deportation flights at the time.

Once President Trump returned to the White House and commenced his mass deportation campaign, Venezuela began allowing the US deportation flights to land again.

Moreno was moved to an ICE detention center in Conroe, Texas, on Feb. 26 to prepare for his deportation.

Moreno caused outrage while living in the US illegally for his viral TikTok videos, where he bragged about the handouts migrants could receive from the US government and encouraged other Venezuelan migrants to “invade abandoned houses.”

Moreno used his massive social media following to brag about government handouts.

“I didn’t cross the Rio Grande to work like a slave,” Moreno said in one clip while waving around $100 bills.

Unfortunately, the good news is tempered by the bad:

Moreno also said he used his 1-year-old baby, a US citizen, to boost his social media presence and boasted that he and his wife didn’t pay anything for their daughter’s birth thanks to “Papa Biden.”

At least we’ll have a nine or ten year respite before Moreno’s spawn begins his own criminal career, but shucks, couldn’t we have persuaded this “good husband, good father” to take his sponges collection with him?

While in jail, Moreno spoke to The Post and wailed about being a victim of unjust “persecution.”

“I came here to the United States because of persecution in my country … But they’re doing the same thing to me in the United States — persecuting me,” Moreno moaned.

“It’s all misinformation in the media about me. They’re defaming me. They’re misrepresenting me in the news … I am a good father, a good husband, a good son, a good person, humble, respectful to people who respect me,” he added.