Nonetheless, I look forward to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s next book, Original Djinn: Ayatollah Khamenei’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Remain Supreme Leader.
I’ll close with a question. Those of us who favor a secure border, an orderly immigration system, and the swift deportation of illegal aliens are often told that this view must be motivated by animus. In particular, we are accused of wishing to remove those who came here without permission because we believe that they are in some sense “second-class.” But is that not, in fact, a perfect description of the approach of Karen Bass, who apparently envisions a city in which some of the jobs are done by her friends at a minimum of $30 per hour plus benefits, and the rest are taken care of by the faceless “immigrant labor,” which does not deserve to benefit from such rules, and cannot?
Progressive America has a clear misandry problem they won’t acknowledge or address, even as they wring their hands about losing male voters. https://t.co/8UI580cEJ6
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 15, 2025
Anti-Trump protesters raged at his near-omnipotence. "He's just doing whatever he wants," another rallygoer said. "Nobody is standing in his way. Except for Congress. And the media. And Hollywood. And multiple rogue federal judges. And every member of the Democratic Party. We don't even live in a free country where we can protest, which is why we're protesting. It's time for us to draw a line in the sand and stand up to demand the right to do exactly what we're all doing today."
In the communications training sessions I lead, I regularly warn clients against manipulating audiences through fear and anger — for example, by mislabeling reasonable objections as “bigotry.” Not only does this poison public discourse, it sabotages campaigners’ own mental health. I speak from experience here.The belief that entrenched, identity-based socioeconomic systems dictate most of our life outcomes fosters what psychologists call an external locus of control, which is associated with poorer mental health. That’s because such narratives make us feel powerless to change our lives.
Now, if this were two men, we’d just chalk all of that up to politicians being like this. And that’s how we should respond. But do the people who routinely make a gender issue out of this when it’s a Republican man and a Democratic woman have even a little self-awareness? Or do they just understand that it’s always a partisan racket?
If I were in the Iranian government, I would not have let Israel build a secret drone base in my country. Just my opinion, YMMV.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) June 13, 2025
Again, I ask, if they’ll lie about something this obvious, countering video evidence, what won’t they lie to you about?
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 9, 2025
How did we get four years of lying about Joe Biden’s health? This is how. There are no limits. https://t.co/c6UCzs289G
While Democrats have not succeeded in making a convincing political case for opposing immigration enforcement, they may be making a stronger case for federal deployment in increasingly hostile blue cities.
In the first weeks of Trump’s term, I grew physically ill at how these policies would upend millions of American lives. But a few months in, though I remained just as opposed to what was happening, I was surprised and disturbed by how calm I’d come to feel most days. The rhythm of my daily life somehow remained the same as before: the kid drop-offs, the virtual meetings, the school event blitz. Like the proverbial boiling frog, I seemed to have gotten used to the water even though the temperature kept rising.
Laurence Tribe, a law professor emeritus at Harvard, said he’s confident the university would prevail before the Supreme Court.
While the courts may chip away at Trump’s offensive, the president has multiple funding spigots over which he has near plenary discretion. Harvard, Columbia, and others have few pressure points other than the courts, which have already, in the case of Harvard, slapped down some of its discriminatory programs.Accordingly, they should, and likely will, soon come to the table.
Slow news day, what are we even going to talk about? @TheoVon pic.twitter.com/LVmtK219Dt
— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 6, 2025
As some have noted: When you pointed out that Latrine John-Pissoir was an incompetent incapable of answering basic questions without reading a largely-unrelated entry from her giant cheat-sheet briefing book, you were a racist homophobe who hates women and immigrants.But when Latrine John-Pissoir pisses off Biden staffers, and they say she's an incompetent incapable of answering basic questions without reading a largely-unrelated entry from her giant cheat-sheet briefing book, they are heroic truth-tellers correcting the record.
Can the institutions and the “responsible people” make a comeback? I’m really not sure. But any revival will have to involve a much deeper reckoning with the failures of that mad, mad year — 2020. Maybe start by calling riots and lawlessness what they were. Make peace with the biological reality of two sexes — man and woman. Retract the ahistorical claptrap of the 1619 Project, which still enjoys the imprimatur of The New York Times. When ideology corrodes public trust, there’s only one path to winning it back: intellectual humility.
Who is the audience for Jake Tapper’s new book, Original Sin? Apparently, there isn’t one.Republicans are mad at Tapper for pretending he had nothing to do with the cover-up of Joe Biden’s senility. Democrats are mad at him for admitting there was a cover-up of Joe Biden’s senility. He’s taking a drubbing from pretty much everybody.Tee-hee!
By the way, I'm seeing reports that Tapper's book — despite the onslaught of publicity — isn't doing very well. I know I won't buy it. I think he shouldn't be rewarded for sitting on the information, apparently in the hope of helping Democrats win the election, and now trying to profit from revealing it. And it's absurd the way he's been going around acting as though he has just learned that journalists ought to do journalism and report events as they happen without toadying to the powerful.
This reflexive tribalism has crippled the journalistic class, hindering its members’ ability to perform their jobs even half competently. The instinct to filter information through a “left good, right bad” filter has prevented them from developing a finely tuned sense of skepticism, whether toward a dubious report they’re conditioned to accept as true or toward friendly sources who are clearly covering up an inconvenient fact. They have grown so accustomed to assuming the worst of their enemies and the noblest intentions of their allies that they have forgotten how to ask basic questions or notice when something is amiss.
They [attacks on Harvard] include multiple bogus investigations, including one from the Justice Department into whether Harvard has been lying to the government about its admissions policy; billions in federal research funding cuts and freezes at the school and its partners for various reasons, from the school’s purported failure to stem antisemitism on campus, to discrimination against white students, to its failure to include enough conservative faculty and orthodoxy to satisfy the administration.
Fifty of the people who bought their way into a private audience with Trump at his Virginia golf club on Thursday night own crypto assets with names only white supremacists could love.
It is not clear to what extent holders of these assets intended to acquire them. For example, it is possible to automate purchases, a strategy that wouldn’t necessarily take into account the name of the assets being purchased. Furthermore, even if the buyers did knowingly buy the tokens, they could have done so solely as a bet on their value, indifferent to the name of the asset.
And if the extremists who run the country get away with doing this to Harvard, they can destroy any school, kicking crucial pillars out from under our democracy.
“This motherf–ker doesn’t treat me like the damn vice president of the United States, she said to colleagues,” according to the new book “Original Sin,” co-authored by Anderson’s CNN colleague Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.
Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new book from New York Times journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, took offense when West Wing staffers — who stood to greet President Joe Biden — failed to do so as she entered the room.
“All schools have a constitutional right to accept as many foreign students as they want and the Government has to rubber stamp them all or they’ll be in contempt of court”
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) May 22, 2025
~ some random District Judge tomorrow https://t.co/1rc3j9Nljp
Well, this is embarrassing. The Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer have been caught running an AI-generated guide to summer books that don’t exist.
To most of us who aren’t inside the bubble of the Left, the Tapper/Thompson book looks more like a rescue mission than a Mea Culpa. They have a book to sell, and they know who their best and most profitable buyers are - people who read the New Yorker with disposable income who have thrown money at the Democrats for almost a decade, all with the promise that they’d make the bad orange man go away.What I know after a decade of irresponsible fear-mongering is that the “original sin” was the moment the Left, with all of the power, called itself “the resistance,” and with the help of a complicit press corps, went to war on a duly elected president and his supporters.
And let’s never forget The Atlantic: pic.twitter.com/KRPrBo6MdD
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 17, 2025
We don’t need @jaketapper or anyone else to tell us Biden has been increasingly senile since the 2020 election. We need them to tell us who was actually running the federal government from 2020-2024 and how they did it. You’re not coming clean until you come clean about that.
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) May 17, 2025
How many times did we point out that Biden did all of his photo ops between 11 am and 4pm?That's why we called him Sundown -- because people with dementia begin getting fuzzy around sundown.But Jake Tapper, Super-Reporter, is just getting around to reporting this now.
"UCLA still produces some very good graduates," one professor said. "But a third to a half of the medical school is incredibly unqualified."
Biden’s interview on “The View” was, as we previously reported, a disaster. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin had asked Joe Biden to respond to claims—sourced from Democrats themselves in several books—that his cognitive decline became significantly worse during his final year in office. The premise, she noted, reflected what many had already suspected as early as his 2020 campaign.Biden denied the allegations, saying, “They are wrong. There’s nothing to sustain that,” but what followed only reinforced the concerns. His response quickly devolved into incoherent rambling, touching on the Capitol riot, COVID-19, and “the incompetence of the last outfit,” all in a confusing jumble of half-finished thoughts. At one point, he admitted, “I’m—I’m talking too long,” prompting Jill Biden to step in and take over the interview, clearly recognizing the need to contain the damage.
How insufferable can Michelle Obama get? I suppose it makes sense — her fame has always been tied to her husband, and now she’s grappling with the fact that she’s no longer the center of attention. Her attempt to stay relevant, like that flop of a podcast with her brother, hasn’t exactly set the world on fire.Sure, she still has a loyal fanbase hanging on her every word, but lately she’s been making the rounds on every podcast she can find, eager to complain about how hard life is as “a black woman in America” and all the usual talking points. Honestly, if she wants to “transition” into anything, maybe she should start with silence.
The changes to SLS, Orion, and Gateway have been widely speculated upon in recent months, but seeing them in black and white is still significant. The development of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft has been a budget fixture for decades, costing in excess of $3 billion a year for slow progress. The projects have been widely derided as "jobs programs." However, that is one reason Congress has so fiercely supported them: They provide good-paying, reliable jobs across the country.
I bet CNN hated reporting this. https://t.co/BPCJc22x9A
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 2, 2025
But now, a voice from outside Washington (and not, believe it or not, California’s voluble governor, who has been all over the place in the debate over how to grapple with Trump 2.0) has turned the volume knob all the way up to 11 and may have preempted the ground for maximum combativeness.
To say that Pritzker pulled no punches is an understatement. He compared the conduct of the current administration to those who ruled Nazi Germany and czarist Russia.
