Melania Trump just took down her first official criminal...

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Scroll to 5:20 for the beginning of the First Lady's speech

. . . "The bill was introduced by Ted Cruz and Democrat Amy Klobuchar, championed by First Lady Melania Trump, and signed into law by President Trump about a year ago. Melania pushed the Take It Down Act as a way to protect both kids and adults from digital abuse. Namely, deepfake images and videos that are being used to humiliate, exploit, and destroy people with the click of a button.

"The first conviction is a 37-year-old man who loaded his phone up with more than two dozen AI platforms and over 100 AI models. He then used texts, phone calls, and online posts to terrorize his victims.

"He targeted at least six adult women with both real and AI-generated nude images. Prosecutors also say he made obscene AI-generated content using the faces of children from his community, then uploaded hundreds of those images and videos to a child sexual abuse website.

The Hill:

First lady Melania Trump lauded the first conviction under the Take It Down Act against nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes, thanking federal prosecutors for “protecting Americans from cybercrimes in this new digital age.”

A Columbus, Ohio, man pleaded guilty Tuesday to cybercrimes involving real and AI-generated sexually explicit images, along with violent threats, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

“Today marks the first conviction under the Take It Down Act – protecting victims from non-consensual AI-generated sexually explicit images, cyberstalking, and threats of violence,” the first lady wrote on the social platform X. “Thank you U.S. Attorney Dominick S. Gerace II for protecting Americans from cybercrimes in this new digital age.” . . .

What can be stranger than a Democrat supporter?

Gavin Newsom says he has led the charge against fraud in California  "We need more Nick Shirleys who expose this rampant fraud. And fewer corrupt politicians who think we will believe anything."

"So, somehow Gavin “Slick” Newsom “led the charge” against fraud in California. And Tampon Timmy Walz implies that he has been anti-fraud all along, and others have been late to the fraud-fighting party.

"Bill Clinton essentially stated that whether or not he was lying depended on what the definition of “is” is. That seems almost quaint now. If he were in keeping with the tactics of today’s Democrats, he would have boldly asserted, “No one in the history of the world has ever fought longer and harder against sexual harassment, impropriety, infidelity, misogyny, and imbalance of power dynamics than I have.'”

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Democrats Go Full Anti-Semite - Civis Americanus   "Gavin Newsom bets antisemitism is the Democratic Party’s future" from the New York Post sums up the entire theme of this article. "Gavin Newsom endorsed the lie Tuesday that Israel is an 'apartheid' state — a damning sign of where the Democratic Party is headed, and how far it’s already sunk."

If Newsom doesn't know that Christian and Muslim Israeli citizens can vote and be elected to the Knesset, and that Israel's laws protect all of its citizens equally, he is incompetent.

"All Israelis are treated equally under the law, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity." . .  .

• This reference adds, "…protesters from the Reverend Sharpton's National Action Network have referred to members of the Jewish faith as 'bloodsucking [J]ews,' and         'Jew bastards…'"  If the Democrat Party needs the kind of vote the NAN can deliver, it doesn't need yours or mine.

Civis Americanus is the pen name of a contributor who remembers the lessons of history, and wants to ensure that our country never needs to learn those lessons again the hard way. He or she is remaining anonymous due to the likely prospect of being subjected to "cancel culture" for exposing the Big Lie behind Black Lives Matter.

Democrats Are Killing the Country with Racism 

. . . "As Root repeatedly points out, Democrat-run states are destroying themselves.  By electing “evil, communist madmen like LA Mayor Karen Bass, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani,” Democrats have ensured that their cities “will soon collapse and drown in a sea of crime and debt.”  For decades, Root argues, white Americans have left Democrat-controlled cities primarily to avoid rising crime and crippling taxes.  Now they are leaving because Democrats have put targets on their backs." . . .

. . . "Democrat mayors, governors, and presidential hopefuls now explicitly tell us that they will never stop taking from white people in the name of false “justice.”  They will never stop dividing Americans by skin color.  They will never just treat all of us as “unhyphenated Americans,” as the late, great Lloyd Marcus used to call himself." . . .  

 

Monday's Swalwell report

" No, it wasn’t the beauty of our constitutional republic that killed the grubby, foul-smelling Swalwell’s campaign to run California.  It was the Democrat beast.  And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy...with a worse beard."  Pete McArdle

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Dems take down one of their own   "How delicious — the sad, sudden end of Eric “The Flatulator” Swalwell’s political career.

"Why do I say “end”?  Because it was an inside job.

"Behind closed doors, Democrat power brokers, for whatever reasons, made the decision to terminate Rep. Swalwell’s bid for governor of California.  And the same old plot that’s used, mainly against Republicans, got called into action, this time against a disfavored Democrat.

"It starts with allegations from the past of rape and sexual harassment, beginning with the most lurid, served with a side of “believe all women.”  Then more victims suddenly come forward.  Strength in numbers.

"Here’s where you know the call came from inside the house.  Normally a Democrat candidate for high office gets his posterior both bussed and protected by the mendacious left-wing media.  Traditionally, the media would have given these sex crime allegations a good leaving alone, as they typically do, say, with the murder of an American woman committed by an unvetted illegal.

"But in Rep. Swalwell’s case, they did not.  Not only was the story widely covered by the normally incurious media, but it was also presented using eerily similar language, as if writers, radio commentators, and TV talking heads were all working from the same script.

"How do they do that?  I don’t know!

"They used the same words, the same lame asides, and all parroted the same fateful conclusion: Swalwell must drop out of the California gubernatorial race."

Over 50 Former Eric Swalwell Staffers Call for His Resignation  

. . . "After calling for a full investigation into the matter, the former staffers ultimately concluded that Swalwell should not only drop from the California governor race but also resign from Congress." . . . 

Report: Billionaire Kicks Swalwell Out of Mansion, Wants $1M in Donations Back Following Rape Allegations  "Stephen Cloobeck, the billionaire and former California governor hopeful who dropped out of the race to fund disgraced Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) gubernatorial campaign, has kicked the congressman out of his mansion and reportedly wants his $1 million in donations back after multiple women accused him of sexual assault and misconduct." . . .  

Representative Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate for California governor, denied accusations of sexual assault by a former staffer, calling them ‘absolutely false’ https://t.co/KWqxztXuD8 pic.twitter.com/TUHmy3ThQR

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 11, 2026

The Morning Briefing: Eric Swalwell's Gubernatorial Bid Gets Hit By the #MeToo Train  

"Few politicians in my lifetime have oozed more sleaze than Eric Swalwell, so none of this is surprising. His fall from grace comes with extra helpings of schadenfreude because Swalwell is also a persistent, combative, and smug presence on social media." 

What's Happening in CA's Gubernatorial Race Perfectly Captures the State's Politics  . . . "Getting Swalwell completely out of politics seems like it would be overwhelmingly positive for the United States of America, but these are the 21st-century Democrats we're talking about here. As I have written on many occasions, the Democrats always have someone worse waiting in the wings. In this case, someone much, much worse. My Twitchy colleague Warren Squire writes that former Vice President Kamala Harris may be jumping into the governor's race in California now that Swalwell is out."  . . .

The American Spectator

Google: Search Engine or Echo Chamber?

"Now, why would anybody ever think there was left-wing bias on Google?"

I have scrolled through as many as a dozen pages before finding liberal-refuting posts. Many of the liberal posts were repeated numerous times before a conservative post appeared for the first time. Did I also mention ChatGPT? TD

 Rusty Walker - American Thinker

"I only hope American teenagers notice the way I noticed the subtle political persuasion of the Left that demonstrably permeates all our institutions." 

Light Wave

. . . "But I wasn’t writing an essay, I was just looking for a better way to write in my notes “breathtaking corruption.” (I take notes while reading. It’s a long-time practice of mine to remember what I read.) On my mind was what Theodore Roosevelt saw when he became New York Police Commissioner, and the normalization of the Democrat Tammany Hall political machine he encountered. I wasn’t searching for a political answer to anything.
"As I searched Google I was expecting a simple thesaurus-like list of such expressions as “astounding fraud,” “incredible graft” et.al. Expressions I could come up with.

"I entered “breathtaking corruption” in Google. Can you guess what paragraphs were chosen to explain “breathtaking corruption”? There were nine paragraphs the subject of which was Donald J. Trump!" . . .  More...

Fenway Park Video Shows the America We Lost

Brian Lonergan; Chronicles  

The stands at Fenway in the ’50s were full of people who had chosen America, and everything that comes with it. If we want those days back, we must choose it again unapologetically and without guilt. 

"When the Boston Red Sox’s legendary Fenway Park posted archival footage of 1950s Opening Day last week, the team expected a pleasant wave of nostalgia. But the comments section produced something else. The grainy clip showed thousands of Bostonians—men in fedoras, well-dressed women in coats, kids waving pennants—all lining up with uninhibited joy for a baseball game. After receiving almost 10 million views, the video was so flooded with pointed comments that Fenway had to lock it. The message was clear: The America in the video exposed the unmistakable decline of our current nation. Millions of viewers saw it and immediately understood why.

"The video touched a raw nerve not just because it was beautiful but because it showed how far we have fallen in what amounts to the span of a single lifetime. The decline did not happen by accident. It is largely the direct, predictable result of decades of reckless immigration policies that prioritized volume over values and social engineering over national cohesion.

"Predictably, the first instinct of critics on the left was to cry racism over these heartfelt reactions to a lost America. It is true that the crowds in the footage were overwhelmingly white. Therefore, the argument goes, any longing that scene stirs in people must be rooted in racism and xenophobia, rather than a recognition of the defects of our current cultural reality.

"This is a lazy, intellectually dishonest dodge. Race is not the point; assimilation is. The people in that 1950s footage were, in many cases, themselves first- or second-generation Americans—Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish, among others. They were people whose parents or grandparents had arrived here through Ellis Island. They did not come to recreate the old country on American soil, transforming it. They came to become American—to transform themselves. They learned the language, embraced the civic norms, cheered on the same teams as their neighbors, and played by the same unwritten rules that made public spaces safe and orderly. Baseball was not merely entertainment. It was a sacrament of a shared American identity.

"That unifying force is precisely what is missing today. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu—who was booed loudly along with Governor Maura Healey on the field at Opening Day—recently declared that “you cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had … without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up.” The Fenway video is a devastating rebuttal to her. There are no Somalis visible in those 1950s stands—nor could there have been, given the timeline." . . .  More...

Brian Lonergan is director of strategic communications and content for the Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington, D.C., and the co-host of the “No Border, No Country” podcast.

Adam Schiff Disavows His Faithful Sidekick, Eric Swalwell

 The Last Refuge  

The wheels on the bus go, whomp, whomp, whomp.

"You have to remember how close they are in all their collaborative efforts in order to truly appreciate the level of disingenuous gaslighting present in this effort to create distance.

"Throughout Spygate, Russiagate and all the impeachment nonsense, Adam Schiff was Batman to Eric Swalwell’s Robin. They were/are peas and carrots, partners in every sense of the word.

"Schiff and Swalwell organized together, planned and conducted media hits together, schemed together, shared the same staff together and were fundamentally side-by-side in everything.  However, now that Swalwell’s perverted zipper problems and rape tendencies have become the talk of California and Washington, DC, Schiff retracts:. .  . " More...

Exclusive: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her | CNN  

“I’ve always lived with a huge secret,” she said. “I’m not speaking up because I’m looking to ruin Eric Swalwell. The only person who could ruin Eric Swalwell is Eric Swalwell.”   More... 

Mike Ramirez notices the whole Swalwell :

How The Algorithm Stripped The Soul Out Of Songwriting

Now maybe I can find out what an algorithm is.

The Federalist   Instead of being consumed in its entirety, a song fragment must typically succeed on social media before listeners seek out the full track.

"I'm sure you’ve experienced this ritual: a baby boomer, raised on The Beatles or Led Zeppelin, encounters a viral hit from TikTok and declares it terrible. “Today’s music,” he insists to his Gen Z interlocutor, is less melodic, less introspective, less human. Where, he asks, is the aching release of “Hey Jude,” the slow climb of “Stairway to Heaven,” the sense that a song might reveal something rather than simply repeat itself? 

"The charge is not entirely wrong. Engineering modern mainstream music often involves repeating wide-net choruses between forgettable verses, occasionally throwing in a bridge. Music from the 1960s and ’70s may have followed the same recipe, but there was something soulful about the hits of the past that cemented them as diamonds, still rediscoverable decades later. 

"What has changed is not the presence of emotional expression, but the conditions under which the feeling must be expressed. Music, like language, bends to the medium that carries it. And in the 2020s, that medium is not the radio dial, but the social media algorithm. 

"In the mid-20th century, the journey from artist to audience resembled a procession. Songs were written, recorded with real instruments, and released into a relatively stable system of promotion — labels, radio stations, critics, and live performances. Gatekeepers stood between creation and consumption, and while their power constrained access, it also created coherence. When The Rolling Stones released “Gimme Shelter” or The Doors released “Light My Fire,” those songs did not arrive as 15-second fragments but as complete statements.

"The listener, in turn, was patient. Songs could begin slowly, even experimentally, because they were not competing against the infinite scroll. One hears echoes of this in the structure of the music baby boomers grew up loving, with its extended intros and guitar solos." . . .

. . . "When a culture cannot sit still long enough to reflect on its inability to sit still and reflect, meaningful music will rarely meet the mainstream. The drumbeat of soul-catching music pounds beneath the floorboards of digital platforms, waiting for those who will pause, listen, and dig it out." . . . More...

Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon

Buster Crabbe - Wikipedia

The 1930s comic strip came alive!

"Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II (/ˈkræb/; February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor.^[1] He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-metre freestyle swimming event, which launched his career on the silver screen and later television. He starred in a variety of popular feature films and movie serials released between 1933 and the 1950s,^[2] portraying the top three syndicated comic-strip heroes of the 1930s: Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers." . . .

Crabbe at age 20 at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam

Olympic medal record
Representing the United States
Men's swimming
	1932 Los Angeles	400 m freestyle
	1928 Amsterdam	1500 m freestyle

Crabbe competed in two Olympic Games as a swimmer. At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, he won the bronze medal for the 1,500 metres freestyle, and at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he won the gold medal for the 400 metres freestyle when he beat Jean Taris of France by a tenth of a second.^[4][5]

. . . "In 1936, he was selected over several stars to play Flash Gordon in the first, very successful Universal Pictures Flash Gordon serial, which was followed by two sequels released in 1938 and 1940. The series was later edited and shown extensively on American television during the 1950s and 1960s, then fully restored for home video release. He also starred as Buck Rogers for Universal, playing the role with dark hair, unlike his blonde hair for Flash Gordon. In 1939 Crabbe reunited with Grable for a lead role in the mainstream comedy Million Dollar Legs." . . .

Kennedy WALKS UP to That Microphone & DESTROYS Schumer And the Entire Democrats in 5 Minutes!!

Patriot Pulse

@markfalshaw-gv9im:    "UK Here o boy I wish we had a politician like your Mr Kennedy I really do ,you don't know how lucky you are to have a honest politician be careful what you wish for America just look across the pond to the once mighty Great Briton now we are a weak country who hasn't. even got a Army or a Navy worth talking about our ileagal immigration has run wild and they live in 4 star hotels while the tax paying population are going without food and heating and can't afford petrol for there cars last time l looked ours was about 3 X more expensive than yours and our country is on brink of bankruptcy and our leader is a cowardly self serving con artist who is running our country to win votes from well you know who and it's on your doorstep ,make your next move very carefully America there may be no way back if you make the wrong decisions, God Bless America"

Trump’s White House Ballroom Can Resume Construction, Court Rules

 Scott McClallen

"A panel of federal judges ordered that President Donald Trump's administration can resume building the White House ballroom while a lower court gathers more information about whether a building pause will cause a national security risk.

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia gave a 2-1 ruling on Saturday.

"The 17-page order extended the district court’s stay of its March 31 preliminary injunction to April 17. The National Trust for Historic Preservation had sued the National Park Service over the planned 90,000 square-foot ballroom to replace the demolished East Wing. The project is funded by private donors. 

"The three-judge panel of Patricia A. Millett, Neomi Rao, and Bradley N. Garcia remanded the case to the district court. 

"On March 31, a district court granted the National Trust’s motion for preliminary injunction. The National Park Service appealed. 

"The National Park Service argued that the ballroom was a matter of national security because planned construction beneath it includes bomb shelters, a hospital and medical area, and military installations. 

“As a result, it remains unclear whether and to what extent the development of certain aspects of the proposed ballroom is necessary to ensure the safety and security of those below-ground national security upgrades or otherwise to ensure the safety of the White House and its occupants while the appeal proceeds,” the order said."

Scott McClallen is the Night and Weekend Web Editor at Townhall.com. A Hillsdale College graduate, his work has been featured in RealClearPolitics, the Washington Examiner and The Center Square. He’s also the author of “Twisted Tech: The Death of Privacy in the Digital Age” and Managing Editor of Michigan Capitol Confidentia

Woke pope becomes a joke and gives the Babylon Bee a field day

 Monica Showalter - American Thinker

Pope Condemns Allied Forces For Not Just Talking It Out With Nazis | Babylon Bee

. . . "We must not stoop to violence against Nazis," said Pope Leo in a general address. "When the Nazis loaded millions of people into gas chambers, that was the time for sincere dialogue. If only the Allied Powers had laid down their weapons and just hugged it out with Nazis, peace could have returned once more." . . .

"Following his meeting with Obama strategist David Axelrod, Pope Leo XIV came out with some of his wokest, most indistinguishable-from-Democratic Party platform statements ever -- all within a day of the encounter.

"Which gave whiplash to many Catholics, whose churchgoing members tend to skew conservative, with the younger, more energetic ones, including many converts, leaning traditional.

"The pope condemned all wars in full pacificism, scrapping the Church's thousand-year-old 'just war' doctrine, urged global income redistribution, moved closer to Pope Francis's call for a universal basic income, called on 'those involved' to contact their local leaders to urge peace, claimed the military action was motivated by business, and said the solution to all conflicts to be addressed through "dialogue." 

"All of the calls were extreme, and in extremity, absurd. After all, is he really telling Iran's battered citizens being machine-gunned in the streets by Iranian government goons to get their local mullahs on the phone and tell them to stop waging war?

"That gave the satirical site, the Babylon Bee, which is an equal-opportunity humor outfit, plenty to work with. They put out these tweets: . . .

. . . "The remarks from the pope were intensely distressing to Catholics, including myself, who are familiar with traditional Church teaching on just war theory, as well as current Democrat party partisan talking points, while also having no desire to loathe Pope Leo. That the Bee could see the contradictions and make humor out of them was a terrific way to deal with this intractable situation. Humor is the best medicine, so good for the Bee!"

Monica Showalter

The negotiators you need when dealing with Iranian antisemites

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker  "It’s true that Trump trusts both Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, but are they joining Vance for another reason, too?"

. . . "Is it also possible that he’s making a point to the Mullahs? Or maybe it’s just a beautiful coming together of circumstances that sees Trump’s best negotiators also being the ones most likely to offend the deeply offensive, indeed, evil mullahs?"

"As I write these words, JD Vance, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff are in Islamabad, Pakistan, to see if they can get a lasting ceasefire deal with the Iranians. I don’t believe that will happen. Still, I believe that good things will flow from the effort, and I also believe that there may be a funny little twist to the nature of the American negotiators now in Pakistan.

"As people have also known for thousands of years, Persians are wily negotiators. Also, as people have known for 1,400 years, Muslims are dishonest negotiators. It’s right there in the Taqiyya principle, which originated to allow beleaguered Muslims to save their lives in the face of forced conversions but has morphed into a license to lie when dealing with infidels, especially during wartime.

"Thus, the current negotiations are as much stagecraft as they are real. First, they allow Trump to show the world that, having achieved his long-stated objective (e.g., destroying the nuclear threat Iran poses to the world), he’s happy to end the fighting.

"When it comes to regime change, it’s important to note that Trump never stated that as a goal. If the war really ends now, I’m sure Trump will tell the Iranian people something along the lines of Look, I made your corrupt government the weakest it’s ever been, and I’m working on getting arms to you. Now it’s up to you. I am not interested in being responsible for you. You guys are responsible for you.

"Second, because Trump is no fool and must have known that the Iranians most likely would not negotiate in good faith, the two-week ceasefire is a chance to rest the troops, replenish supplies, and plan for the war’s next phase. Yes, it’s also a chance for the Iranians to regroup, but they don’t have much equipment left to regroup with. Also, I suspect that the Artesh (i.e., the regular army, not the IRGC or Basij) is not thrilled about regrouping at all." . . . More...