GBenton Indylawyer
4 hours ago
Obama and Biden tried to fundamentally transform America so we could never recover or undo their damage. and Biden was Obama's third term, so the agenda was the same.

Trump is not only doing what he promised, he is tearing out what the dems have built over the past 100 years. If he succeeds, he won't just set them back an election cycle, he'll make it nearly impossible for them to rebuild because he's also changing the culture and the public is getting red pilled on how the Dems have deceived and abused us.

So I can see why Walz and Kamala are the lingering faces of the party - no one with a brain will want to step into this meat grinder.

With ActBlue imploding and Soros in the crosshairs, the Dems may find 2026 and 2028 to be excruciating, especially if we secure the elections with voter ID and paper ballots.

No fraud, no Dem victories, IMO.

All the presidents after Reagan except Trump LIED about what they would do or just failed. Obama wasn't hope and change, he was hate and divide. Biden wasn't a return to normalcy, nor did he build back better, he was a braindead fascist who destroyed everything in his wake.

And Bush's "compassionate conservatism" was total horseshit big government neocon warmongering insanity.

Which is why Trump is blowing minds because he just says what he thinks and then does it. Like him or not, he's not lying.

He does use misdirection and surprise and some deception to keep the enemy on their toes, but he's fundamentally restoring America from the ground up and if the GOP stays the course after 2028 and keeps promises, the Dems are in really, really deep shit.

They can't counter populism with populism lite because no one believes them and Trump occupies that lane and "me too" brands don't tend to work.

Just wait until the crimes and corruption is revealed - the Democrat brand will be radioactive for a generation and Socialism, woke, big government and Communism will be deeply unpopular with the majority of voters. Biden innoculated GenZ from wanting to vote for Dem wokist tyranny.

stripmallgrackle Indylawyer
5 hours ago
We all know that's why the DC establishment pulled out every stop trying to turn him into a national disgrace. They knew he he meant it when he campaigned on the bread and butter promises that every candidate for office has been peddling for decades.

They also know Trump is smart, despite the daily bilge they feed to the media. Worse, the real change Trump is bringing will expose the elites for the lying, self serving scoundrels they are. He's giving voters a real difference in leadership that they can judge future candidates against.

But try telling that to the die hard democrat next door.

What could be happening that would cause most of the executives and all but one of the lawyers to flee a sweet gig? Former RedState colleague Bill Shipley has some insights.

I have no information on this subject but ....

In my experience, this kind of thing starts to happen a large businesses with shady operating practices when law enforcement starts to make contact with senior officials about want to ask them some questions.

That leads to lawyers getting involved.

That leads to lawyers telling their clients that it would be in their interest to part ways with the enterprise.

During the 2024 campaign, we began to see a lot of suspicious activity that indicated federal election campaign violations on a Biblical scale. //

Experts working for the committee used AI to analyze more than 200 million FEC records spanning the last 14 years and identified suspicious trends, including hundreds of $2.50 donations from the same individual, donations in amounts far greater than the donor could afford, and unusually frequent donations from elderly people or first-time contributors.

Further investigation revealed that ActBlue accepted donations from prepaid credit cards and foreign credit cards. They even accepted contributions from countries under sanctions. //

Nineteen Republican attorneys general launched an investigation into ActBlue's fundraising practices. //

ActBlue probably will not survive this. The flight of its senior staff and legal department indicates potential felony indictments on the horizon. A lot of hostile eyeballs will be watching ActBlue's donations very carefully using sophisticated data analysis tools. ActBlue's brand will be associated with fraud and lawbreaking far beyond what we associate with the usual Democrat-run organization. I'm sure WinRed, the less effective Republican clone of ActBlue, will be found to have similar problems. All of this is sure to lead to increased monitoring of online fundraising by the FEC and the Department of Justice. And in November 2026, we'll see just how many real people donate to Democrats. //

houdini1984
2 hours ago
The good news is that this turmoil has absolutely nothing to do with the new focus on identifying and eliminating government fraud and waste. It's just a coincidence that leftist protests have slowed down and the donations have started to dry up. After all, these organizations and movements have always been entirely organic in nature, never relied on misdirected government funds, and the people involved in them are just taking some time off to get outside and touch some grass.

No need to follow the money...

But if you happen to have a cloud-based Linux server running anyway, building a WireGuard VPN can be a simple and free way to add some serious, compromise-free security and privacy to your life.

If you plan to limit the VPN to just devices owned by you and a few friends, you'll probably never even notice any extra resource load on your server. Even if you had to fire up and pay for a dedicated AWS EC2 t2.micro reserved instance, the annual costs should still come out significantly cheaper than most commercial VPNs. And, as a bonus, you'll get complete control over your data.

Right now I'm going to show you how all that would work using the open source WireGuard software on an Ubuntu Linux server.

Why WireGuard? Because it's really easy to use, is designed to be particularly attack resistant, and it's so good at what it does that it was recently incorporated into the Linux kernel itself.

The actual work to make this happen really will take only five minutes - or less. Having said that, planning things out, troubleshooting for unexpected problems and, if necessary, launching a new server might add significant time to the project.

The TSA has no legal right to organize, but negotiations were opened with the AFGE to represent TSA screeners in June 2021. The agreement was signed in March 2024.

As an aside, on social media, you routinely read comments to the effect that federal employee unions were created in 1962 by John F. Kennedy's Executive Order 10988, and all that is needed to abolish them is to repeal that order. That is utter nonsense. While the Kennedy executive order did open the door, the right of federal employees was codified by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-454), which you can find at 5 USC 71.

This is undoubtedly headed for court because AFGE can't afford to cede this ground without a fight. Because the TSA union does not have Title 5 recognition, the administration will prevail in the end, but we can count on leftist judges to slow things down along the way.

The doctors wheeled Trump out of his room to get a CT scan for a possible concussion. The test came back clean, and Trump wanted the records.

“Can you give me a copy of these?” Trump asked a nurse. “Because I want to make sure I can show reporters that my cognitive function is 100 percent. You can’t say the same about Joe Biden.”

“We can put it on a CD for you,” the nurse said.

“OK,” he said. “We'll release that at a later date.”

I know some people with no sense of humor may read that and think Trump lacked seriousness in the moment, but come on. That's legitimately hilarious, and I figure the rule should be that if you get shot, you can react however you want. Certainly, no one can accuse the president of not keeping his eye on the ball. After all, even though he had been shot, there was still an election to win, and if anything, the stakes had only been raised. //

Biden was about to address the nation about the shooting. Trump was back in his hospital room, and there was no TV. Cheung pulled up a feed from CNN on his phone and they watched. After the president was done, Trump asked to see some of the pictures that had been taken during the attack. One, from the New York Times’s Doug Mills, showed a bullet whizzing by Trump’s head. Another, by the Associated Press’s Evan Vucci, depicted a bloodied Trump defiantly raising his fist, with the American flag behind him.

“Wow, that's iconic,” Trump said. “That's the most American picture I've ever seen.” //

Mike Ford
15 hours ago edited
I know some people with no sense of humor may read that and think Trump lacked seriousness in the moment, but come on. That's legitimately hilarious, and I figure the rule should be that if you get shot, you can react however you want.

It's much, much more than that. Being a leader means being able to be in control in harrowing circumstances. Put another way; the definition of bravery, is being the only one in your vicinity that knows, you are scared shitless.

Leaders owe it to their troops to NOT pass on their own fears and thus make things worse for the people they are supposed to be leading, the people they are responsible for.

One of the NASA astronauts trapped on the International Space Station said he believes Elon Musk’s claim that the Biden administration rejected the SpaceX CEO’s offer to help bring the team home.

Barry “Butch” Wilmore made the comment Tuesday during an in-orbit press conference with fellow castaway Sunita Williams nine months after their Boeing Starliner capsule malfunctioned and left the pair stuck on the ISS.

One questioner asked about Musk’s recent claim that former President Joe Biden had intentionally stalled their rescue for “political reasons.”

In an earlier question, Wilmore denied that politics had anything to do with the team’s delayed departure, but he seemed to shift his stance when answering the later question.

“I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says, is absolutely factual … I believe him,” he said.

His dad leaves public office and the money dries up. Weird, isn’t it?

The dispute originated in Mexico's suing seven major U.S. gun makers and one gun wholesaler for billions of dollars in damages caused by the gun violence in Mexico's drug trade. Mexico is also demanding changes in the way guns are sold in the United States so Mexican narcotrafficantes can't acquire them. None of this is to say that Mexico doesn't have a gun violence, or more accurately, a rule-of-law problem. Mexico has one gun store but has a firearm homicide rate of 16.87 per 100,000. The US has nearly 78,000 licensed gun sellers and a firearm homicide rate of 5.9 per 100,000. So the problem isn't access to guns. //

The case was very significant for two reasons. It is the first major test of the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act that largely indemnifies gun manufacturers and resellers from lawsuits as long as they follow applicable laws and regulations. If the Supreme Court doesn't uphold the immunity claims in this case, American gun rights will disappear because manufacturers and firearms dealers will be sued into oblivion. The second reason the case is important is that Mexico's theory could be applied to any product that has the potential to be misused. Liquor distillers could be held liable for drunk-driving deaths.

As many Christians gather to celebrate Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten liturgical season, President Trump released the most overtly Christian message by any president on any subject in modern history.

This Ash Wednesday, we join in prayer with the tens of millions of American Catholics and other Christians beginning the holy season of Lent—a time of spiritual anticipation of the passion, death, and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

During the Lenten season, Christians spend 40 days and 40 nights praying, fasting, and giving alms to deepen our faith and strengthen our belief in the Gospel. Today, followers of Christ wear crosses of ash on their foreheads—a sacred reminder of our mortality and our enduring need for Christ’s infinite mercy and redeeming love.

As we solemnly contemplate Jesus Christ’s suffering and death on the cross this Lent, let us prepare our souls for the coming glory of the Easter miracle.

We offer you our best wishes for a prayerful and enriching Lenten season. May Almighty God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America.

If this is Christian Nationalism, sign me up. //

The invocation of the name of Jesus Christ has become a rarity in public announcements by officials at any level. Taking Christianity out of the context of the gray, meaningless morass of "Jesus was a great teacher" and moralistic therapeutic deism and talking about the Passion, Death, and Resurrection is unheard of in modern political rhetoric. //

Cynical Optimist
3 hours ago
I would like to add how fabulous I thought it was last night when President Trump told the children in America that they were perfect the way God made them, that there was no child ever born in the wrong body.

Q. There have been some pretty big geopolitical shifts since you went up there. What does it look like from your point of view?

Hague: Most of the time when I go over to the window, that's when I start thinking about the Earth below me. And I can tell you, in the time that I've been here, the time that I was here before six years ago, the view hasn't changed, and the thoughts that I eventually get to really haven't changed. I see Earth as a small, small orb that's in a pretty big black vastness of space. And there's a lot out there. There are more stars than you can count, but the world looks pretty small when it's in that perspective. And as you fly from continent to continent, you don't necessarily see all of those borders. And the lesson, or the realization that I always come away with is we have far more in common than we have in different, and those common things that we have bring us together. And if, if we're smart, those differences that we have are differences that we bring to teams like the International Space Station, and those differences make the team stronger.

Sesame's new AI voice model features uncanny imperfections, and it's willing to act like an angry boss.

Once the backdoor exists, others will attempt to surreptitiously use it. A technical means of access can’t be limited to only people with proper legal authority. Its very existence invites others to try. In 2004, hackers—we don’t know who—breached a backdoor access capability in a major Greek cellphone network to spy on users, including the prime minister of Greece and other elected officials. Just last year, China hacked U.S. telecoms and gained access to their systems that provide eavesdropping on cellphone users, possibly including the presidential campaigns of both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. That operation resulted in the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recommending that everyone use end-to-end encrypted messaging for their own security. //

It’s a question of security vs. security. Yes, we are all more secure if the police are able to investigate and solve crimes. But we are also more secure if our data and communications are safe from eavesdropping. A backdoor in Apple’s security is not just harmful on a personal level, it’s harmful to national security. We live in a world where everyone communicates electronically and stores their important data on a computer. These computers and phones are used by every national leader, member of a legislature, police officer, judge, CEO, journalist, dissident, political operative, and citizen. They need to be as secure as possible: from account takeovers, from ransomware, from foreign spying and manipulation. Remember that the FBI recommended that we all use backdoor-free end-to-end encryption for messaging just a few months ago.

Securing digital systems is hard. Defenders must defeat every attack, while eavesdroppers need one attack that works. Given how essential these devices are, we need to adopt a defense-dominant strategy. To do anything else makes us all less safe. //

Stéphan • February 26, 2025 7:37 AM

It will be interesting to see if the UK Govt is satisfied with the disabling of ADP, because that would confirm the backdoor is already in place for non-ADP iCloud accounts. Which would mean it is likely also in place for non-E2E-encrypted cloud services like Google and MS365 accounts. With this move Apple came up with a clever canary about the true underlying situation.

jester6
6 hours ago
The Legacy Media Bubble is like a commemorative snowglobe. Those of us outside know the snow is fake and the buildings aren't real. Those living inside think those buildings are their whole world and they are facing an apocalyptic blizzard.

Keep shaking that globe, Donald.

The Supreme Court struck down some of EPA's rules regulating the discharge of treated sewage. The rules allegedly enforced the Clean Water Act. In a 5-4 decision, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett crossing to join three progressive justices, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA can't play Humpty Dumpty and say the legal standard "means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

It started when the EPA fined the City of San Francisco nearly $10 billion because of alleged violations of its sewage discharge into the Pacific Ocean. There were $313 million in assessed fines and about $10.6 billion in mandated upgrades to its treatment plant. San Francisco did not deny that the EPA had the authority to police sewage discharge; its objection was that the standards were so vague that the city could not meet them because they were forever shifting.

“We simply want to understand our prohibition limits so we can comply with them,” Tara M. Steeley, the San Francisco deputy city attorney, told the justices.

This is how Justice Alito described the situation in his opinion.

Instead, this case involves provisions that do not spell out what a permittee must do or refrain from doing; rather, they make a permittee responsible for the quality of the water in the body of water into which the permittee discharges pollutants. When a permit contains such requirements, a permittee that punctiliously follows every specific requirement in its permit may nevertheless face crushing penalties if the quality of the water in its receiving waters falls below the applicable standards. For convenience, we will call such provisions “end-result” requirements. //

This case marks the latest entrant in the list of court cases that roll back the incredible authority that the EPA has arrogated to itself to manage the US economy.

anon-maty
an hour ago
Culturally, Russia and Russians are much more akin to Europeans than Asians. The royal families of all of old Europe were intermarried. Russians can arguably be said to have a penchant for strong rulers, sometimes to their detriment, see Stalin, Josef.
Putin is one as well. He and Russia may not be our friends. Yet. But they are not the enemy.
The enemy are the globalists. The EU. The UN. The WHO. The World Bank. Every central bank in the world.
These are the enemies of people everywhere.
Perpetual war.
Perpetual debt.
Perpetual suffering, poverty and death.
There are two teams. But they are not liberal (modern sense of the word) and conservative.
They are free and slave.
Think about who wants 15 minute cities. Think about who wants you disarmed.
Think about who wants your speech censored or prohibited altogether.
Think about who wants to erase family, God, country and tradition.
If you do you'll realize it isn't the big bad Russians. It's the financiers and governments dependent upon them, puppets on strings.

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"Every single thing was clockwork... We got some Moon dust on our boots." //

Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to make a picture-perfect landing on the Moon early Sunday, touching down on an ancient basaltic plain, named Mare Crisium, to fulfill a $101 million contract with NASA.

The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen engineers in Firefly's mission control room monitored real-time data streaming down from a quarter-million miles away.

Of course, many women who aren’t expecting a positive pregnancy test do experience all those feelings. It’s compassionate to meet women and their emotions where they’re at. But not once does Natural Cycles balance its we-understand-this-is-the-worst-thing-to-ever-happen-to-you attitude with Hey, this might not be what you were expecting, but your baby is worth celebrating, and you can do this!

Instead, it apologetically admits “the sad truth is that any sexually active woman is always at risk of pregnancy.”

The sad truth? That’s how human sexuality is designed, guys! You’re not actually pro-woman or body-positive if you think the procreative nature of sex and a woman’s natural ability to bear children are a “sad truth.”

Alternatives to hormonal contraceptives are appealing because they recognize a woman’s cycle is an amazing, intricate design to be understood, not suppressed with synthetic hormones. But treating the biological fact that sex creates babies as a bad thing sends women the same message that pumping them with carcinogenic pills and abortion drugs does.

There’s a huge market for a hormone-free alternative like Natural Cycles among pro-life women who want to avoid the anti-birth industry and its risks to their health. For Natural Cycles to shove abortion propaganda in their faces isn’t just bad business, it’s also insulting.

By promoting abortion, Natural Cycles is buying into the same lie as the pharmaceutical contraceptive industry: that women’s bodies and their potential for baby production are a problem. Even worse, it’s ensuring that one of the first reactions an expecting mother receives about her new baby is “here’s how to get rid of it.”

Every baby and every pregnancy deserves to be celebrated. The sad truth is that Natural Cycles doesn’t see it that way.

The federal response to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and Tennessee could have been easily mistaken for a calculated campaign of ethnic cleansing. The White House ignored the storm damage in Appalachia, taking over a week to even acknowledge it existed. //

The slow-rolling of repairs on I-40 appeared to be just another part of the plan to depopulate North Carolina's Appalachian region and flip the state from purple to bright blue. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who'd already displayed his particular brand of incompetence by taking "paternity leave" (lol) and the Third World response to a container ship dropping the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, said, "It will take billions of dollars and months, if not years" to reopen I-40. //

The newly opened road section does have speed restrictions and can't be used by trucks with oversized loads, but that will gradually improve. For the time being, the communities and businesses along I-40 have a functioning highway.

Officials estimate it will take another two to three years to fully restore I-40 to its original four-lane capacity. However, this timeline is contingent on several factors, including material availability and weather conditions.

It could take that long if enough governmental entities drag their feet. I'd just point out that it didn't take three years to build this section of I-40 during its original construction in 1958.

EU member states bought €21.9bn (£18.1bn) of Russian oil and gas in the third year of the war, according to estimates from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea), despite the efforts under way to kick the continent’s addiction to the fuels that fund Vladimir Putin’s war chest.

The amount is one-sixth greater than the €18.7bn the EU allocated to Ukraine in financial aid in 2024, according to a tracker from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).