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| “Reflecting Pool Partisanship,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Jun 22, 2026. |
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Reflecting Pool Partisanship
Rosie O’Donnell to Replace Jimmy Kimmel as Late Night Host for the Summer
This is a fight Kimmel started. Rosie will win if Mr. Trump responds in kind, and you know he will have to. At least her appearances will keep vandals away from Trump's beautification projects such as the reflecting pool, monuments and the like. Leftist poster makers will have new doors open to them soon. TD
With O’Donnell now joining Kimmel’s summer guest-host rotation, their long-running feud appears poised to once again take center stage on late-night television during the coming weeks.
. . . "And I asked one of his all-time favorites — Rosie O’Donnell — to be here to keep the hits coming,” Kimmel said while referencing President Donald Trump.
"The announcement generated loud applause from the studio audience.
"“You’re welcome,” Kimmel added.
"The move marks O’Donnell’s return to a major television hosting role and is likely to attract attention due to her decades-long public feud with Trump.
"The dispute between the two public figures dates back nearly 20 years.
"During a 2006 appearance on “The View,” O’Donnell criticized Trump’s personal life and business dealings, sparking a war of words that continued for years.
"The feud later became a notable part of Trump’s first presidential campaign.
"During a Republican primary debate, Trump was asked about accusations that he had used derogatory language toward women.
"“Only Rosie O’Donnell,” Trump famously responded, drawing laughter from the audience and further cementing their public rivalry.
"Since then, the two have repeatedly exchanged criticism through interviews, social media posts and television appearances." . . .
Mayor ignores 39 shot in Chicago to push fake trans violence — gets brutalized online...
"Are the people of Chicago okay with mass shootings and drive-bys as long as the reported “15 trans” people who were killed in Chicago over the past ten years are prioritized?
"When at least 39 people are shot in a city, you’d think the mayor would sound the alarm, call in all hands on deck, and put together a plan to combat the violence, right?
"Wrong.
"In Chicago, when nearly 40 people are shot over one weekend, Mayor Brandon Johnson hops online, totally ignores the violent carnage, spreads fake “trans hate violence,” and gets absolutely brutalized.
"But before we get into that, let’s take a look at the nightmare that unfolded in the mean streets of Chi-town.
"But Mayor Johnson seemed unmoved by the real violence happening in his streets. What did move him to action was an X post from the Chicago Sun-Times about how “anti-trans violence” is supposedly driven by structural barriers." . . . More...
A Democrat Called for Imprisoning American Zionists – Her Party Blamed the GOP
How can pro-Hamas indoctrination be so effective among a generation of our "best and brightest"? Between Ilhan Omar and the videos of Hamas on that Oct 7th, we have all seen who they have stood by, TD
She did not emerge from nowhere. She emerged from a political ecosystem that has made anti-Zionist rhetoric increasingly normalized within Democratic coalition politics. Jeffries knows this. His statement does not engage it.
"A Democratic candidate for Congress proposed turning a Texas immigration detention facility into a prison for Americans targeted by their religious identity. She is still in the runoff. Her party condemned the words and moved on to blaming someone else.
"This is not a fringe story. It happened in a real primary, in a real congressional district, and the candidate is still on the ballot.
Key Facts
• Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist, is the Democratic primary runoff candidate in Texas’ 35th Congressional District.
"• Galindo posted on Instagram that she would convert the Karnes ICE Detention Center “into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.”
• Her post continued: “It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.”
"• House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stated: “This vile language by her is disqualifying and has no place in American politics, and certainly not in the Democratic Party.”
• Jeffries and DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) issued a joint condemnation, but in the same statement blamed Lead Left PAC, a group whose metadata PunchBowl News linked to a Republican fundraising platform. Who controls the PAC has not been independently confirmed.
• As of publication, Galindo has not withdrawn from the runoff." . . .
The Bottom Line
A congressional candidate proposed ethnic imprisonment. The party leader called it disqualifying, blamed an outside group, and moved on. The candidate is still running.
Condemning the words is not the same as answering for how she got there. The Democratic Party owes its voters that answer. So far, it has not given one.
Douglas Murray: The New York Times feeds anti-Jew hatred with a horrific lie "Nicholas Kristof raped my dog. At least that is what I have heard, from an anonymous source. A source who is intensely hostile to the New York Times columnist. And that’s good enough for me. Now I come to think of it, my pet pug has had a strange look on his face lately.
"As it happens, the rumor that I have just attempted to spread is far less lurid and fanciful than the one that the New York Times chose to spread around the world this week.
"In a piece that has already been widely debunked, Kristof claimed that Israeli prison guards routinely use rape as a method of torture on Palestinian prisoners. The piece portrayed Israeli prison guards and soldiers as rapists, sadists and akin to Nazi prison camp guards. Perhaps even worse.
"Kristof’s most grotesque claim is based on an anonymous source who is described as a “journalist” from Gaza. According to this source, while being held in an Israeli prison in 2024, the Gazan man was stripped naked, blindfolded and handcuffed. Then “a dog was summoned.” The dog’s handler — who we are helpfully told was speaking Hebrew — then encouraged the dog to “mount him.” . .
.Meantime, I am sure we can all look forward to the Gray Lady’s next piece pondering the inexplicable rise of Jew-hatred in the United States.They might find the causes are closer to home than they know.
How Shiri Bibas, sons Ariel and Kfir were 'brutally murdered' by Hamas in Gaza
Silenced no more: The Israeli women who documented Hamas's October 7 sexual crimes
"Israel must rebuild support among Democrats
The mystery of Palestinian publicity: Why Jews are losing in the court of public opinion "Fair is fair. When it comes to publicity, to verbiage, to shaping world opinion, to swaying college campuses, to harvesting votes at the United Nations, Iran, the Palestinians, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis run rings around the Israelis in particular and the Jews in general.
"This is a puzzle. The Jews are the “People of the Book,” a phrase that connotes learning, intelligence, creativity. Relative to their numbers, they are wildly overrepresented in literature, fiction, film, theater, philosophy — every craft devoted to persuading an audience. By every measure of talent and training, this is a contest they ought to win walking away. Instead, in the war of words that surrounds the shooting war, they are being routed.
"What does their handiwork look like? Consider the evidence." . . .
"One of the reasons for the Jewish loss in the area of verbiage is that quite a few Jews themselves are on the other side. The most famous one of all is perhaps Sanders, a U.S. senator. But there are others:" . . . (Emphasis mine, TD)
Where Does Israel Go to Get Their Apology? . . . "The reality is that almost without exception, anybody labeled a "journalist" in Gaza is associated with Hamas. They have to be, because Hamas will kill anybody who would report anything they dislike. Many of them are active members with combat or leadership roles.
"It's difficult to believe that anyone familiar with the situation is unaware of it. It's not a secret, after all. The Associated Press shared offices with Hamas for years in Gaza, and has been censoring its stories about Gaza because the alternative is having its stringers killed. " . . .
"June 1: Hamas admitted that Abdullah Breis was a commander posing as a “journalist”— it is no longer “Israel says so” evidence."
Maher mocks Obama presidential library: 'Who's going to go to this?'
"Comedian Bill Maher during his latest show mocked the Obama Presidential Center, which opened in Chicago last week.
“It looks like something aliens built in Dubai,” Maher remarked on the Friday episode of HBO’s “Real Time” while talking with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Politico journalist Jonathan Martin.
“It cost $850 million,” he added later. “I don’t understand why progressives like this. Couldn’t that, you know, money be better spent on something else. Who’s going to go to this?”
The Obama Presidential Center, based in former President Obama’s hometown of Chicago, had a grand opening ceremony last week. The campus features a prominent large gray building with a hexagon-like shape.
Khanna defended the center, saying that “at a time that Elon Musk is talking about sending people to Mars, you’re telling me that spending up to a billion dollars, $1 billion, on commemorating the first and only African American who’s ever been president isn’t worth it?”
On Thursday, the former president took a veiled swipe at President Trump while celebrating the center’s opening.
Obama referenced the U.S.’s founding by echoing the words of the Declaration of Independence, saying that it declared there “will be no kings or lords, no serfs or subjects, but only citizens, each of us free to pursue our own version of happiness and able to determine our collective faith to an elected representative government.”
Trump has previously portrayed himself as a king in AI-generated social media posts.". . . .More...
Monday, June 22, 2026
Nancy Guthrie ransom note to her family included rambled 'apology' for accidentally killing her, bombshell report says
UK Daily Mail
As the investigation into Nancy's disappearance continues, federal authorities are re-examining the letters for any clues about the captor's identity, according to Air Mail.They note that the ransom letters show that the captor is articulate and knowledgeable about the intricacies of cryptocurrency.
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| A masked man was caught on camera on April 29 driving up to a home in the Catalina Foothills in Arizona, the same neighborhood where Nancy Guthrie was abducted |
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Hidden clues in Nancy Guthrie suspect video: Getaway car and shocking new abduction theory
"One of the disturbing ransom notes received by Nancy Guthrie's family included a chilling apology for accidentally killing her, according to a new report.
A bizarre blackmail letter sent February 6 offered to return the 84-year-old's body in return for money, a source familiar with the investigation told Air Mail.
The memo followed an earlier note to TMZ from the same sender, which correctly described what Guthrie was wearing on the night she was abducted, and included information about a damaged floodlight in her backyard.
Guthrie, who is the mother of NBC News Today anchor Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on the night of February 1.
Initial messages from the sender said Guthrie was 'safe but scared', and agreed to return her if the family paid $4 million in Bitcoin by 5pm on February 5.
They added that if the ransom was not paid by February 9, this would increase to $6 million, 'or else', according to Air Mail, a digital weekly newsletter.
The 'apology' note, which came from the same IP address as these initial, seemingly credible emails, arrived at the Guthrie family's home on February 6.
It said that Guthrie had been accidentally killed, and offered to deliver her body back to the family for a sum of $4 million.
Iran stars leave emotional handwritten note in World Cup locker room
"Iran's World Cup squad left behind an emotional handwritten note in the locker room after completing its two-match stay in Los Angeles, which included a poignant reference to a school bombing during the country's recent conflict with the United States.
"The gesture came after Iran secured a hard-fought 0-0 draw against Belgium on Sunday, a result that kept its hopes of advancing into the knockout stages alive heading into a crucial Group G clash with Egypt in Seattle. Before departing the city, the players penned a message thanking Los Angeles and its residents for their support throughout their stay, expressing gratitude to the fans who cheered them on.
"From the ancient Persia of thousands of years ago to the civilized Iran of today, the spirit of Iran remains alive and steadfast," the note said. "We came to Los Angeles with Pride, competed with honor and leave with dignity. Thank you, Los Angeles, for your hospitality. And thank you to every Iranian who gave their heart, voice, and soul for Iran throughout these 180 minutes. May peace, respect, and friendship prevail among all nations." It comes after a sickening discovery was made outside the Iran team's training base in Mexico.
"The Iran team's LA note also included the hashtags "#168" and "#Minab," an apparent reference to the reported death toll from a school bombing in the Iranian city of Minab during the conflict between Iran and the United States earlier this year. While casualty figures have varied across reports, with some estimates placing the death toll at 156, U.S. responsibility for the strike has not been disputed." . . .
The catastrophic mistake Nancy Guthrie investigation suffered in its early days: report
"When Savannah gave her first interview . . . she spoke to the veracity of the ransom notes received. I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real,” she said".
Officials searching for Nancy Guthrie made a major mistake in the early days of the investigation, according to a new report.
"The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI allegedly blew a chance to find the 84-year-old’s kidnappers in early February, sources told Air Mail.
"The outlet claimed Saturday that on Feb. 1, hours after Savannah Guthrie’s mom was reported missing from her Arizona home, a potentially credible ransom note was sent — as was reported by media outlets at the time.
"The alleged kidnappers, who provided accurate details about Nancy’s outfit at the time of her disappearance, and the damaged floodlight in her Tucson backyard, requested $4 million in Bitcoin by Feb. 5.
"The note, which reportedly dubbed Nancy “safe but scared,” ended with the words, “Or else.”
"Instead of paying the full sum and potentially tracking down the kidnapper when the Bitcoin was turned into cash — and giving the money back to the Guthrie family — officials used a “tickling the wire” tactic.
"Investigators sent $152 to the Bitcoin address, hoping this amount would be withdrawn and present them with new leads.
"This move, however, did not “tempt” the alleged kidnapper, who was captured in chilling security camera footage from Nancy’s home, and the Bitcoin sat untouched.
"On Feb. 6, an email from the same I.P. address arrived and, according to sources close to the case, read as “sputtering,” “labored” and “less confident” than the last.
"The individual shared an “apology” for Nancy’s inadvertent death, as well as a request that a ransom payment be made for the return of her body." . . .More...
"Not that there's anything wrong with it!"
"When fans think of Disney movies and the Disney television channel, they may think of a tale as old as time in which a princess marries a prince, and then they live happily ever after. It's happened over and over, a man and woman falling in love, but Disney has started to change that, particularly the purely heterosexual aspect.
"The LGBTQ+ community has become more represented in media in recent years and Disney is just one of many companies hopping aboard that train as well. Unfortunately, not every aspect of the LGBTQ+ community has been represented due to a lack of characters within the Disney canon, and some representation has fallen flat. Hopefully, in the future, there will be more, and better, representation from Disney.
"Updated on June 7th, 2022 by Danielle Bruncati: In the wake of Florida's extremely controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill and the strong criticism that came from within The Walt Disney Company for not speaking up, it seems like Disney is finally understanding out important LGBTQ+ representation is for its fans and its cast members.
"While the company has begun to make small steps in recent years on both the big and small screens, the LGBTQ+ community and its allies are no longer ready to accept the ambiguous ways Disney has introduced LGBTQ+ characters into their stories. Instead, viewers want to see characters clearly stating their sexuality and living their authentic selves which thankfully looks like it is actually happening." . . .
Disney producer cops to 'adding queerness' to animated shows
“I was just, wherever I could, adding queerness,” Raveneau added. “No one would stop me, and no one was trying to stop me.” The leak of Raveneau’s comments came as Karey Burke, president of Disney’s General Entertainment Content, vowed to drastically increase inclusivity in its productions, promising that at least 50 percent of its characters will be LGBTQ or racial minorities by the end of the year. Burke made the pledge in a company-wide Zoom call Monday that was later posted to Twitter.
Your Kid May Graduate Into an Economy That No Longer Needs Entry-Level Workers
"We should not accept a future where technology gets smarter, shareholders get richer, government gets bigger, and human beings become economically and spiritually disposable."
"Artificial intelligence is not just another technology issue; it is the next great middle-class issue.
"It has moved into work, school, medicine, finance, media, transportation, housing, hiring, policing, campaigns, and family life. It is moving faster than Washington, faster than Sacramento, faster than school districts, faster than unions, faster than most businesses, and faster than parents can explain to their children.
"For decades, Americans were told to follow a basic path: study hard, get into a decent school, get a good job, learn the trade, build a career, buy a home, start a family, contribute to your community. That was the ladder. It was not perfect, and it was never equally available to everyone, but people understood it.
"AI now threatens the bottom rungs of that ladder.
"The immediate danger is not that every job disappears overnight. The more subtle danger is that entry-level career work gets hollowed out first. Junior analysts, junior engineers, paralegals, associates, coders, designers, consultants, finance staff, writers, researchers, schedulers, and campaign staffers all do basic work that more advanced workers may dismiss as routine. But that routine work has always served a deeper purpose.
"It is how young people learn judgment." . . .More...
Born and raised in the South Bay region of Los Angeles, Steve Williams is a USC-educated former tech professional turned real estate and land-use expert who brings a grounded, real-world perspective to California politics. A father of three and active GOP leader, he champions common-sense reform, local control, and real accountability in government.
And they hate Donald Trump while adoring Joe the Wanderer
'We 100% Got People Killed': Biden-Era DEA Allowed 'Staggering Amounts' of Fentanyl Into US
"Everyone responsible for punishing Howell should be held accountable for the deaths that followed. That includes Garland and whoever really ran the White House during the Biden Regency."
"Oh, the Associated Press doesn't say that the Joe Biden Regency allowed fentanyl rings to flood the US with their deadly product. In fact, the AP never mentions Biden or who ran the DEA and Department of Justice at the time. The timing in the first paragraph speaks volumes, however:
Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed by The Associated Press.
DEA agents repeatedly monitored shipments of fentanyl pills — but did not seize them — as federal prosecutors sought to bring bigger criminal cases against traffickers of a synthetic opioid that the White House last year designated a “ weapon of mass destruction.”
"Hmmm. Say, who was president between 2023 and 2025? Which party controlled the White House and these agencies, setting policy in regard to both drug interdiction and border security? Three guesses, and one hint: the answer does not rhyme with thump or sound like "Gee, Opie!"
"In fact, as people may recall, Donald Trump made fentanyl trafficking a key part of his presidential campaign. Part of that related to getting tough with China, where the precursors are manufactured, but the bigger point Trump made related to border security. He accused Biden and Kamala Harris of allowing fentanyl to flood across the border without any effective policies to stop it, which Biden and later Harris denied.
"Now DEA agents are telling reporters that this was not just neglect, but a deliberate approach to poison America in hopes of making headline cases against drug traffickers. However, the DEA did not keep track of the shipments, which meant a lot of that fentanyl hit the streets in US cities during the Biden Regency. "We 100% got people killed," one DEA agent told the AP, while others likened it to another disaster during the Barack Obama administration:" . . . More...
Media Won't Investigate Fraud, They Have Algae To Track
"The Department of the Interior has said that the issue is being resolved quickly with treatments, which may offer a partial explanation of the media blitz: These left-wing outlets want to squeeze as much anti-Trump fodder out of the algae bloom before it is gone."
The Federalist "Corporate media are pulling out all the stops, sending their most seasoned left-wing reporters to cover this week’s national scandal: algae blooms in the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Their dedication to this minor story shows how these media outlets have the capacity to focus on important things like crime, fraud, homelessness, and drug use plaguing America’s cities, but choose not to in order to score political points in favor of their Democrat friends.
"Americans have been bombarded with algae coverage by the likes of CNN, ABC, CBS, and the rest of the usual suspects, who are offering wall-to-wall coverage of algae growing in the reflecting pool to undermine President Donald Trump’s push to beautify the nation’s capital after decades of disrepair and neglect. They are essentially arguing that the $14 million renovations were not worth it, and that somehow its previous state of total disrepair is better than the attempt to fix one of America’s most recognizable national monuments.
"As the Department of the Interior, which oversees the pool’s maintenance, pointed out, algae “has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening — most infamously Obama’s reopening — since 1922.”
"Notwithstanding the fact that the reflecting pool has had algae problems essentially since it was built, the time and money put into news coverage of the algae issue stand in stark contrast to the lack of time and resources these deep-pocketed outlets put into reporting on the genuine national crises plaguing the country.
"Take, for example, the near-media blackout on coverage of one of the nation’s largest sewage spills in history in January, when between 200 and 300 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into the Potomac River — a body of water that is just hundreds of feet away from the Lincoln Memorial. The result was 12,000 times the safe amount of E. Coli in the water.
"For CNN’s part, it offered an Associated Press wire (meaning the outlet did not even assign a reporter to cover the issue at first), followed by a 1:18-minute segment on Jake Tapper’s program, an article stating that “politicians snipe” about who is responsible for the spill, and a smattering of social media updates." . . .More...
UPDATE: Jeanine Pirro puts Reflecting Pool vandals ON NOTICE Video.
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