The Secret "For over one hundred years, the story of the Titanic seemed set in stone, a tragic tale carved into history, retold in movies, museums, and whispered legends. But in the icy darkness nearly four thousand meters below the Atlantic, a team of scientists has just changed the script. Using jaw-dropping three-dimensional scanning technology, they have created a complete digital twin of the Titanic’s wreck. What they found at those depths shatters what we thought we knew and reveals secrets that turn history upside down. If you thought every Titanic mystery had been solved, think again."
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
How the ‘Pravda-Like’ Press Distorts the News
Victor Davis Hanson "This is a pattern. And it won’t stop with this. And the result is you wonder why, whether when you look at liberal polls or liberal media, nobody has any confidence anymore, nobody trusts you."
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. . "So much has been said about the media, the mainstream media, the legacy media. There’s not really much to add because we all know that it’s not really a disinterested media but it’s kind of a Pravda-like propaganda organ. I’ll give you a few examples.
"More recently, when Cyril Ramaphosa came to the White House, the president of South Africa, did you see the word “ambush”? It was in every mainstream paper, every left-wing website, every radio—NPR, PBS, CBS, MSNBC. It’s like the Democratic operatives issue a Pravda-like order and then these mindless people just say, “Okay, today’s talking points are…”
"He met President Donald Trump. He wasn’t really surprised that Trump was going to confront him because he bragged that he was gonna confront Trump. There was no secret place. It wasn’t a sudden, unexpected attack from a secret place—the definition of an ambush. Yet, it was ”ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush.”
"And when some questions arose about the visit, it was just typical. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, fielded a question from an NBC journalist. She was very angry because Donald Trump mentioned to President Ramaphosa, “See this picture of a thousand graves.” She said, “Well, he was lying. There weren’t graves.” And the press secretary replied back, “They were commemorations.” Each one of those crosses represents a dead South African who was murdered by virtue of his race. And she said, “Yes, but it’s not…”
Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of "The Victor Davis Hanson Show."
Eric Swalwell's Attempt to Troll Donald Trump Goes All Kinds of Wrong
In a very ill-advised TikTok video, Swalwell can be seen trying to troll President Donald Trump by eating a taco. I'll explain the background on that "joke" momentarily, but even without it, one can admire the sheer level of social awkwardness on display.
"Few things are more pathetic than an irrelevant House member desperately vying for attention, and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CALIFORNIA Emphasis mine, TD) painted his masterpiece of cringe on Monday while doing just that.
"In a very ill-advised TikTok video, Swalwell can be seen trying to troll President Donald Trump by eating a taco. I'll explain the background on that "joke" momentarily, but even without it, one can admire the sheer level of social awkwardness on display.
"Imagine being the staffer who had to film this." (Warning: Language)
"Once again, we see a Congressional member who got the focus group memo that they need to cuss a lot to seem relatable and cool. That aside, though, when the person behind the camera asks, "Why the **** is Trump always chickening out on tariffs," Swawell tries to pick up his taco, but it sticks to the paper. After he works through that dilemma, he takes a large bite, at which point tomatoes start falling out of the backend. He then takes another bite, and the entire taco falls apart in his hands. All of this is set to weird 1950s-era sitcom music just to make sure it's as mock-worthy as possible.
"So what's this about? There was a report that some Wall Street types were calling Trump "TACO" as an acronym for "Trump always chickens out" regarding tariffs. A reporter then asked the president about it, and he didn't appreciate the question, to put it lightly.
"Regardless, I thought Democrats were against Trump's tariff regime? Shouldn't his taking down of the temperature in some of the negotiations make them happy? I mean, when Joe Biden folded on trying to use the Department of Education to force schools to let "transgender" athletes play against girls, I didn't think to make a TikTok video goading him about it. I was just glad he backed down." . . .
Antisemitism uncondemned by Democrats morphs into domestic terrorism
Just The News And Democrats still cheer for these people! TD
"With college campuses becoming breeding grounds for antisemitism, attacks in the United States have surged 893% according to data released by the Anti-Defamation League, the highest level ever recorded by the civil rights organization."
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. . . "With pro-Palestine members of Congress on the Democrat side of the aisle, the party has been increasingly more hesitant to condemn the attacks, which has left some party supporters questioning what the future of their platform looks like.
"Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., well-known for her anti-Israel views, avoided answering questions from reporters regarding the shooting of the two Israeli Embassy staffers. The next day, Omar said in a post on X that she was "appalled" by the shooting and said that violence is not welcome in the U.S. "I am appalled by the deadly shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum last night. Holding the victims, their families, and loved ones in my thoughts and prayers. Violence should have no place in our country."
"In 2023, Squad member Rashida Tlaib was censured by the House after videotape of her chanting "From the river to the sea" at a pro-Palestinian rally came to light. The phrase is recognized as a call for the complete destruction of the Jewish State.
Not all Democrats
"Prominent liberal and host of his Real Time TV show, Bill Maher, recently made this issue the focus of his monologue. On the May 9 edition of his HBO show, he told the audience that their [Democratic Party's] young people, their key constituency, not only don't like their own civilization, they like the wrong one. They actually think Hamas is a liberation movement."
"At an AOC Bernie Sanders rally in Idaho last month, someone threw a Palestinian flag over an American flag, and the crowd erupted in approval. What should have happened after that is one of the adults on stage should have told their young loyal followers, this is not a symbol of freedom. This is," Maher said, as he showed an image of the American flag." . . .
Merrick Garland: the choice of Obama and Biden
Trump DOJ uses footnote to rescind Merrick Garland memo targeting parents as 'domestic terrorists' | Just The News . . ." 'We're immensely grateful that on Attorney General Bondi's first day in office, she did what Merrick Garland refused to do: rescinding DOJ's reprehensible 2021 memo directing federal law enforcement to devote its finite resources in pursuit of American parents,” Nicki Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, told Just The News. “For four years, families were chilled from participating in politics because of the Sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, so it's a tremendous relief that this sorry chapter is finally closed.' ". . .
DOJ Leader Removed After Bondi Saw Front Office Biden Portrait (1) . . ."“I went up on the seventh floor, which is the national security division. The entire floor is a SCIF, so no one can get in there,” Bondi said. “So I was able to get the code, open the door, and I look on the wall and see President Biden, Kamala Harris, and Merrick Garland’s paintings still hanging.”
“ 'I personally took all three photos down,” she added. “I put them in front of someone who said to me, ‘Oh well, maintenance is really slow here. I said, ‘well it took me about 30 seconds to get them off the wall.’” . . .
WaPo: Pam Bondi’s DOJ Plans to Remove Safeguards for Politically Motivated Prosecutions "Unnamed sources in the Department of Justice (DOJ) are claiming the Trump administration is planning to gut safeguards that prevent politically motivated prosecutions — ironically, a safeguard that was not triggered by the prosecution of Donald Trump when he ran for president in 2024, supporters say.
"Reports this weekend by the Washington Post and the Daily Beast allege Attorney General Pam Bondi is considering removing a requirement that an internal department group called the Public Integrity Section (PIN) sign off on any prosecutions of public officials, such as lawmakers and other elected officials." . . .
The latest edition of ‘It’s different when we do it’: Cory Booker’s salute
Andrea Widburg "I cannot repeat often enough that leftism is a narcissistic ideology, although I have no idea whether narcissists are drawn to leftism or if leftism creates narcissists. It’s probably a bit of both. Be that as it may, one of the core tenets of leftism is that “It’s different when I [the narcissist] do it.”
"The latest example of this is the response to Cory Booker for making a salute identical to the one that had Elon Musk castigated as a Hitler acolyte. I don’t need to explain. These side-by-side videos do it for me:
— Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 (@TheRicanMemes) June 1, 2025
"To give a little context, Elon Musk grew up in an apartheid country and has been opposed to apartheid since he was a young man. He has never trafficked in racial issues. He is a creature of the mind, interested in ideas, not skin color.
"Meanwhile, the amazingly heterosexual Cory Booker belongs to a political party that has as one of their central tenets the notion that skin color is the single most important characteristic an individual brings to the table. It defines everything about him, including his status in the world. It’s also a hierarchical party that routinely denigrates white people.
"Back in 2019, when Booker thought he had a shot at the White House, he delivered an entire speech on “white supremacy” to a black audience. Race-obsessed? Yes. Divisive? Yes. Trying to ride race to political power? Yes." . . .
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