Peaceful Protesters, or Fifth Column Insurrectionists?

 Richard Blakley - American Thinker  

"Newsweek reports that Newsom is supporting initiatives that are part of a broader attempt by the CCP to build networks of influence in California."

"With former intelligence officials warning of 1,000 Chinese spies for every ten from the West, reports of 1,200 Chinese spies embedded in Australia, and Chinese spies being “everywhere” in the U.K., China is very busy trying to push its will and policies on the world—which brings me to Minnesota.

"If the agitators in Minnesota are merely protesting removal of U.S. criminal illegal aliens, doesn’t it seem odd that BreakThrough News, a “nonprofit” propaganda arm of the People’s Forum, would circulate a video showing the struggle between federal agents and an armed Alex Pretti, alongside a call to support the People’s Republic of China, Venezuela’s Maduro, and the communist revolution in Cuba?  How does supporting the People’s Republic of China, Venezuela’s Maduro and the communist revolution in Cuba have anything to do with illegal immigration in Minnesota?  Answer: It doesn’t.  The agitators are fifth column insurrectionists, duping citizens into believing lying propaganda to incite them to riot and fight amongst themselves—and they’ve been highly successful.

"If foreign enemies were attempting to start an insurrection in the U.S., agitating the public into anarchy, they would probably start where the most unhinged of the American population lives. Well, what do you know, we’re having riots/protests in New York, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles.

"What evidence is there that these “peaceful protests” are coordinated efforts?

"On Fox News’s program Outnumbered, host Harris Faulkner stated,

New Fox digital reporting pulling back the curtain on a highly organized network working to track and disrupt federal immigration operations across the state of Minnesota…signal chats with mobilization orders to the site of the shooting…Fox digital is reporting within minutes of the alerts, far left activists flooded the area, like right on time with supplies staged on the sidewalk immediately.  Within hours, protesters spread from Minneapolis to New York and Los Angeles.  No one ever wants to hear me say, command and control.  How is this getting done simultaneously?  Vice President Vance alluded to the coordination over the weekend calling out quote, ‘engineered chaos’ that he says is unique to Minneapolis.

"The “engineered chaos” does not seem unique to Minneapolis, if the group chats are spreading it from Los Angeles to New York.

"Is there evidence of foreign ties in these anarchic hotspots?" . . . More...

Newsom Practically Demands to Be the Democratic Candidate

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  

In the New Yorker piece, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Newsom’s wife, becomes the antidote to the problems that led Newsom to drink heavily and have an affair with a married mother. Siebel Newsom, it is stated, allowed Newsom to “express himself.”

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s PR team has been planning this week for months. This is the week that three publications, Vogue, the New Yorker, and the New York Times, were given the go-ahead to publish splashy profiles of Newsom that reveal details from his memoir, which is set to be published later this month. The three publications were offered personal interviews, staged photoshoots, early access to his memoir, and, in two cases, interviews with his family members.

"All of this makes Newsom’s rise to the top of the Democratic field look like the outcome of a meticulously managed effort to make his candidacy seem inevitable, rather than the result of organic momentum.

"Newsom is not — as his book would like to portray — a man who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, but rather a political product who has the whole establishment class working in lockstep to choreograph his presidential rise. It’s when Willie Brown and John Burton and Gordon Getty and the whole San Francisco political class handed him his position as mayor of San Francisco and groomed him to rise even further in politics.

"In his PR team’s effort to tightly control the governor’s image and promote this narrative of inevitability, they selected writers who would fawn over Newsom in breathless fashion. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom’s Democrat Fangirls)

"Just look at how much of a joke the Vogue profile is.

"Titled “Gavin Newsom Is Setting His Own Rules,” the article begins by calling the governor “embarrassingly handsome.” Could there be a more embarrassing way to begin a piece?:

Let’s get this out of the way: He is embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his final State of the State address.

"That was a lot. But it truly gets worse the longer the piece goes on:

"It must drive Trump nuts. Newsom: lithe, ardent, energetic, a glimmer of optimism in his eye; Kennedy-esque.

"Argh! What is this? This must be satire, a joke to see how far the Democratic establishment class can go in demanding that Newsom be selected as the presidential candidate.

"This goes on in just as ridiculous a fashion. We learn Newsom has an “executive strut.” That he is a “self-made millionaire” (he really isn’t). That his tone is “temperate.” He is at one point described in a single sentence as “Immaculate.” Soon thereafter, he is described as — and I’m not entirely sure what this means — “Fantastic at gab, like a windup doll.” We are also treated to this lovely description: “As he spoke, late-summer sun slanted in through the windows, bathing Newsom in an oh so California magic-hour glow.” (RELATED: Gavin Newsom Plots Memoir to Recast Personal Scandals) . . .

Ellie Gardey Holmes is Reporter and Associate Editor at The American Spectator. She is the author of . She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, philosophy, and journalism. Ellie has previously written for the Daily Caller, College Fix, and Irish Rover. She is originally from Michigan. 

Everyone Watches a Different Super Bowl; America’s biggest media event no longer produces a shared culture.

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   

"This may be the defining feature of American culture in 2026. The Super Bowl still gathers the country, but it won’t tell the country who it is"

"The Super Bowl remains the largest shared media event in American life, but it now operates less as a football championship than as a national stage for culture, politics, and performance. Super Bowl LX is expected to draw more than 120 million viewers, yet much of the pregame attention has little to do with the matchup itself. Headlines are already dominated by Bad Bunny’s halftime show and by President Donald Trump’s decision to skip attending the game — figures who, for many viewers, matter more than the teams on the field.

"If news media is running pre-Super Bowl digital articles about political figures and anti-ICE controversies, those headlines are being consumed by some audience, and those clicks generate revenue for the media companies. There were also already several reports dissecting the biggest Super Bowl LX advertisements prior to the game, spoiling the surprise and revealing most marketing strategies. That imbalance says something important about where American culture is in 2026. The Super Bowl still gathers a massive audience, but the audience arrives carrying different expectations, loyalties, and media consumption habits. What once functioned as a shared civic ritual now plays out inside a fragmented ecosystem shaped by personalization, algorithms, and digital subcultures.

"For most of the Super Bowl’s history, its appeal to advertisers was straightforward: one night, one screen, one audience. Brands paid a premium to speak to the country all at once, trusting that viewers would absorb the same jokes, celebrities, and emotional beats together. Today’s dominant advertising model works in the opposite direction. Online, success comes from narrowly delivering tailored messages to specific demographics based on data, not shared experience.

"The Super Bowl remains one of the few media events where narrowcasting is impossible, and that cultural dissonance is visible everywhere.

"It explains creative choices like Instacart pairing Ben Stiller with pop singer Benson Boone. Stiller brings a familiar comedic presence recognizable across generations. Boone is supposed to represent Gen Z’s algorithm-driven pop culture, but the reality is that not everyone in Gen Z is experiencing the “Mystical Magical” “moonbeam ice cream” singer, unless they happened to scroll past a TikTok video mocking his viral 15-second song clip back in 2025." . . .More...

Super Bowl Will Be Delayed To Play National Anthems For All 165 Racial Groups In U.S. | Babylon Bee parody   . . . "Critics condemned the NFL's decision and claimed that "The Star Spangled Banner" was supposed to be a unifying anthem for everyone. Goodell then responded to the critics by calling them racists. "To cure racism, we must segregate all people groups at all times," he said." . . .

Sheriff Chris Nanos spotted at basketball game during Nancy Guthrie search

  Fox News  

Fox News Digital learned on Friday that a critical aspect of the investigation was delayed due to Nanos' dispute with the pilot of the sheriff's department's high-tech search aircraft. The pilot was demoted to street patrol after the dispute.

"The sheriff investigating the apparent kidnapping of "Today" show anchor Savannah Guthrie's mother was spotted sitting near the front row at a college basketball game Saturday night, even as Guthrie and her two siblings posted a plaintive plea on Instagram for the safe return of their mother. 

"Fox News Digital obtained photos of Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, who is facing increased scrutiny as the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance drags on, attending a matchup between the University of Arizona and Oklahoma State. Early Sunday morning will mark one week since Guthrie, 84, disappeared from her suburban Tucson home.  . . .

" 'The pilot even made a personal plea to Sheriff Nanos but was ignored, and he was sent to patrol," a union official told Fox Digital. "This is unfortunately typical of Sheriff Nanos' leadership style. The most experienced Search and Rescue deputy in the department was transferred to Patrol late last year, without a replacement, simply because he'd 'been there too long.' This left a critical unit short-staffed during one of the highest profile searches in PCSD history and during the busiest time of year for Search and Rescue."

"Nanos also admitted in a Friday interview with the Arizona Republic that he made other missteps early in the investigation.

"He said his department released Guthrie’s home as a crime scene too soon, only to return days later to recover additional evidence. Nanos acknowledged that the scene should have remained secured longer and that other agencies could have been called in earlier." . . . More...

So You Wanna Be a Democrat?

 Pete McArdle - American Thinker  

"As a public service, then, let me educate potential Democrats on what will be necessary for them to fit in with their fellow donkeys." 

"A firm believer in individual rights and free choice, I’ve got no problem with young people who think they might like to become card-carrying Democrats.

"As a public service, then, let me educate potential Democrats on what will be necessary for them to fit in with their fellow donkeys.  The following are things you must believe in and loudly advocate for, lest your fellow Dems suddenly turn on you and visit, bearing torches and pitchforks:

Killing People   

"Dems just love to kill people, especially unborn babies.  Doesn’t matter how far along in gestation an unborn human is; Democrats are always ready to off him or her.  Or zem.  Whatever...

"Dems are also fond of killing the elderly, as long as there’s some sort of half-assed justification: terminal disease, oppressive mental illness, or merely attending a rowdy rally on January 6.

"If Democrats somehow regain power in my lifetime, I fully expect them to institute government health care and the same kind of active “assistance in dying” so popular in Canada.

Hating Whitey

"These days, Democrats reduce everyone to white and non-white, a characteristic that, except for Michael Jackson, is unalterable.  And they’ve decided that in every sordid tale, the “person of color” is the victim, and whitey’s the perp.

"George Floyd was a vicious career criminal, chock-full of fentanyl and violently resisting arrest, when he died while being restrained by a Caucasian cop in a Democrat-run city.

"Who went to jail?  The cop doing his duty.

"Who was ordained an American hero?  The black felon.

Hating Masculinity

"These days, Democrats are the party that openly discriminates against men, putting absolute dumbbells like Kamala Harris, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Karen Bass in positions of power regardless of their inability to speak or write coherently, much less do their jobs.  They have ovaries and XX chromosomes, and to Dems, that’s all that matters — although it helps if they possess a certain level of skin pigmentation (see Whitey, Hating).

Allowing Men to Play Women’s Sports

"If a man truly wants to appeal to Democrats, it greatly helps if he slips on a dress, shaves his chest hair, and applies makeup and mascara.  Then it’s quite acceptable for him to set NCAA women’s swimming records, stand on the podium as a ladies’ cycling champion, or beat the snot out of a female boxer in the Olympics.  Although donkeys find big, masculine men toxic, paradoxically, when it comes to athletic competition, they clearly believe that folks born with penises and testicles make better women." . . .

China Bombshell: Patel says Biden-era FBI ‘buried’ truth about CCP’s ties to biolab on US soil

 Just The News   

FBI boss raises concerns Biden-era bureau may have 'buried' truth about Chinese Communist Party ties to dangerous biolabs on U.S. soil, cites 40% increase in Chinese espionage arrests. 

"FBI Director Kash Patel says his agency has resumed an aggressive counterintelligence offensive against China and its Communist Party (CCP) that had been sidelined during the Biden presidency but is concerned the prior administration may have "buried" the truth about dangerous biolabs on U.S. soil tied to Beijing. 

“ 'This FBI, under this leadership, has prioritized the threat against it by the CCP against us, and we've taken swift action,” Patel said Friday in an interview with the Just the News, No Noise television show that focused on China’s threat to U.S. national security and the bureau’s efforts to handle the Chinese Communist Party.

"The FBI boss said the renewed efforts have already resulted in a 40% increase in Chinese espionage arrests in the first year of the second Trump administration.

“ 'What we did in the last year with President Trump and the attorney general and the Department of Justice is reprioritize our dynamic threat landscape, going after and disrupting and looking after the criminal activity from the CCP,” he explained.

"Just the News reported this week that an illegal biolab in California searched by local, state, and federal authorities in 2023 and a separate hazardous lab inside a Las Vegas garage raided by the FBI over the weekend are both tied to a Chinese national currently awaiting trial for fraud, false statements, and adulteration of medical devices, according to court filings, police officials and members of Congress." . . . More...

Democrats want to get you killed

"Obviously, listening to Democrats is not only foolish, but potentially deadly."

Mike McDaniel - American Thinker  

Immigration law does not require individual warrants, which Democrats who wrote the laws, know, but chose to misrepresent because requiring millions of unnecessary warrants would bring deportations to a standstill.

RealityBites by Broc Smith

"Politicians and other Democrats desperate to keep untold millions of illegals in the country at all costs have gone beyond trying to provoke violence against Normal Americans and immigration agents. They’re plainly telling their dim-witted and easily enraged followers to kill Normal Americans and ICE agents. Vice President Vance explains:" . . .

The Manhattan Democrat in a House Judiciary Committee hearing had said “what is really the major problem in this country today, is the fascism in our streets, the attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums.”

“If you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped. You’d be justified in shooting the person to protect yourself,” he said.

“But we see people being shot, for what? For driving a car?” Nadler asked.

"Arizona’s female Democrat Attorney general Kris Mayes went even more deeply into irresponsible insanity:  

During an interview with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik on Monday, Mayes explained why ICE agents could be shot at under Arizona law.

"You know, it’s kind of a recipe for disaster because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks," Mayes explained. 

"We have a stand-your-ground law that says if you reasonably believe your life is in danger, and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force," Mayes added." . . . More...

Some Crying Kids Are Way Cooler Than Others

Ann Coulter 

"But the Clinton administration really wanted to send him back to Cuba, which, if you’re a leftist is, a super cool place!"

"This week’s illegal immigrant poster boy is 5-year-old Liam Ramos.

"According to ICE, when agents approached the boy’s father outside his home, he fled, abandoning his son. The boy’s mother refused to take him, so the agents had to assume custody. The father was soon arrested, but insisted that his son come with him to the Dilley Detention center in Texas (built under Obama for illegals with children to “send a message that our border is not open to illegal migration”).

"The two were soon sprung by Clinton judge Fred Biery, for incomprehensible reasons, and sent back to Minnesota, escorted by approximately half the Democrats in congress.

"The media are bombarding us with pictures of Liam in a bunny-ear hat, providing minute-by-minute updates on his glorious return to Minneapolis, and holding nonstop interviews with the principal and teachers at Liam’s school and, for extra cuteness, his fellow 5-year-old classmates.

"That got me thinking. Remember the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Alan Diaz for the AP, showing an INS agent (the precursor to ICE) pointing a 9-mm MP-5 submachine gun directly at a terrified little boy, Elian Gonzalez, who was hiding in a closet at the home of his Miami relatives? (Incidentally, to this day, the agent’s name remains unknown.) . . .  More...