NBA Doubles Down On Woke By Punishing Player For His Faith

 The Federalist

"The NBA’s players should defend Ivey and demand that all franchise owners keep out of politics and let their players prove themselves on the court."

"After Jaden Ivey expressed opposition to the NBA’s promotion of “Pride Month” on the basis of his Christian faith, the Chicago Bulls immediately waived him. This means that after a 48-hour period, he will become a free agent who can try out for other teams. Lest anyone misattribute this cut to Ivey’s inability to play due to injuries, the Bulls made it abundantly clear they waived Ivey due to purported “conduct detrimental to the team.”

"Nevertheless, the word “conduct” is misleading here because it implies some sort of egregious activity, like committing a felony or assaulting someone. But, as we all know, the NBA is perfectly fine with giving a pass to violent felons. Where the league draws the line is speech that goes against its leftist agenda.

"Ivey is certainly not the first player to be targeted for dissent. In 2021, the Brooklyn Nets benched star point guard Kyrie Irving for refusing to take the Covid shot — he was entirely justified in his objections, by the way — which ended up costing him more than $100 million. Although the team’s leadership pretended this had to do with health concerns, it seemed more like a pretext to force an outspoken player into submission. This is just one example, but the NBA had long distinguished itself as the “wokest sports league,” even as it routinely kowtowed to Chinese authoritarians." . . . More...

Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher and freelance writer in the Dallas area. He is the founding editor of The Everyman, a senior contributor to The Federalist, and has written for essays for The American Mind, The Stream, Religion and Liberty, The Blaze, and elsewhere.

Spencer Pratt zooms to second place in Los Angeles mayoral poll following That Video about taking out the trash

Monica Showalter

"Is Los Angeles waking up?

"According to the California Post, there's been a change in the polling pattern for the Los Angeles mayor's race, which in a crowded field suddenly shows a conservative in second place, with most voters still undecided. The primary is in June and a runoff will be held in November if no candidate manages to break 50% of the vote." . . .

. . . "Pratt has been making impressive television appearances and writing with a nerd's knowledge about the Hollywood moviemaking industry on his substack, which undoubtedly contributed to his rise. Somehow, the underdog is getting word out on his own efforts.

"The polling period also concided with the release of this video by an independent group called LatinosPorPratt which came out on March 27 and rapidly went viral, drawing 168,000 views on X alone, and many more beyond that as influencers shared the video with much higher numbers. They were just freelancers doing their bit to support Pratt on their own dime, saying they had no connection to him." . . .

Spencer, Saca La Basura!

"The video packs a punch and is extremely well made, describing the problems that affect everyday Angelenos (of all nationalities actually) with a splendid Cuban soundtrack and some cute salsa moves featuring a cartoon Spencer and his wife, as well as Spencer sweeping out the trash, repairing potholes, focusing on economic growth, and highlighting Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass's execrable record as mayor -- boondoggle projects, Hollywood shutting down and fleeing, and of course, the Palisades and Altadena fires."  . . . "More...

Spanberger Facing Pressure to Cooperate With ICE After Slew of Heinous Illegal Alien Crimes Rock Virginia

Debra Heine › American Greatness  

“When will sanctuary politicians wake up and begin putting American lives FIRST?” the agency asked.

*Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy

"Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) and other local authorities are under fire over a recent string of very high profile and preventable crimes committed by illegal aliens in the sanctuary state.

"One of Spanberger’s first actions as governor was to sign an executive order barring state and local authorities from cooperating with federal authorities for federal immigration enforcement.

"Since then, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pleaded with Spanberger and Fairfax County officials to stop releasing dangerous criminals back into the community without notifying ICE.

"In the past few weeks, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged four hold requests for illegal immigrants charged with murder and other heinous crimes in Northern Virginia.

"Just this week alone, ICE has issued two detainers for two Guatemalan nationals charged in separate murders in Fairfax County.

"Misael Lopez Gomez, 28, was charged with second-degree murder and felony child abuse for allegedly beating his 3-month-old daughter to death. The baby was reportedly  found unresponsive at the home on March 27, and died from blunt-force trauma. Gomez admitted to illegally crossing the United States’ southern border in July 2023 near Albuquerque, New Mexico, under the Biden administration.

“This cold-blooded killer murdered his own three-month-old daughter. We are calling on Governor Spanberger to commit to not releasing this barbaric animal from jail into Virginia communities,” Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement on April 1. “This monster should have never been allowed in our country by the Biden administration. We need cooperation from sanctuary politicians to stop criminals from being released from jail to perpetrate more crimes and create more innocent victims.”

*"Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, 38, was arrested on March 30, 2026, and charged with second-degree murder following a fatal machete stabbing of a man in Bailey’s Crossroads, Fairfax County, Virginia. According to DHS, he entered the U.S. illegally at an unknown place and time." . . .  More...

Bernie Sanders Is Lying To You About Taxes And The Rich

 Issues & Insights

"It’s easy enough to dismiss Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endless lament that the rich don’t “pay their fair share of taxes,” but he should still be held to account when he flat-out lies about how much the rich do pay.

"In an op-ed published by the Guardian, Sanders repeats a number of leftist tropes: income inequality has never been greater, the Trump tax cuts benefited the rich and big corporations, the middle class is getting screwed. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

"But then he starts making some remarkable claims.

"He says that Warren Buffett’s tax rate is 0.1%, “while the average schoolteacher paid 9.8%.”

"Elon Musk, he says, faced a tax rate of 3.3%. Jeff Bezos’ is less than 1%. Michael Bloomberg’s is 1.3%, while “the average registered nurse paid 13.3%.”

"If that seems too outrageous to be true, that’s because it is.

"Those numbers are based on an analysis by the leftist ProPublica, which compared the taxes paid by these billionaires with their wealth, not their income.

"But as anyone who pays taxes knows, the government taxes income, not some fanciful measure of wealth.

"That same ProPublica report shows that from 2014 to 2018, Buffett paid $23.7 million in taxes, against an income of $125 million. That’s a tax rate of 19%.

Jeff Bezos paid $973 million in taxes on income of $4.22 billion. That’s a 23% tax rate.

"Musk’s tax rate was even higher – 30% – since he paid $455 million on income of $1.52 billion.

"So how did ProPublica manage to force their “true tax rates” down to near zero? Simple, they estimated how much their wealth had increased over those same years using estimates compiled by Forbes of the value of their stock, property, and other holdings, then said that, because those “gains” weren’t taxed, their “true” rates are super low." . . . More...

Chinese Anchor Babies, Now Adults, Accused of Planting Bomb at MacDill Air Force Base

 Breitbart  

This incident underscores the severe national security threat that illegal immigration and birth right citizenship pose to the United States.

"A pair of Chinese-American siblings is accused of planting an improvised explosive device (IED) at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. The siblings, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have revealed, are the now adult “anchor babies” of Chinese illegal aliens who were rewarded birthright citizenship for their two children after their mother delivered them in the United States.

Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) brought charges against 20-year-old Alen Zheng and 27-year-old Ann Mary Zheng after they allegedly orchestrated an attack on MacDill Air Force Base, including planting an IED on the premises.

Federal investigators allege that on March 10, 2026, a bomb threat at MacDill Air Force Base was called into the police. Investigators said Alen Zheng made the call, though no IED was found at the time. Two days later, the Zhengs left the U.S. for China.

On March 16, six days after the Zhengs allegedly planted the IED, an Air Force service member discovered the bomb. The following day, Ann Mary Zheng flew back to the United States from China and was arrested by authorities.

Her brother, Alen Zheng, is believed to still be on the run in China.

Alen and Ann Mary Zheng’s parents are Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng, illegal aliens from China who were both ordered deported from the United States in 1998. The couple had their two children in the U.S., despite being illegal aliens, and therefore, their children were given birthright citizenship — anchoring their parents in the United States for decades.

“Automatically granting citizenship to children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. is based on a historically inaccurate interpretation of the Citizenship Clause and poses a major national security risk,” DHS’s Lauren Bis said in a statement:

The Kamala Effect — Some Dems Want Off the Diversity Train for '28

PJ Media   

"It's just that the party is too far into its diversity push to back off now. That white guilt they've been preying upon over there for decades can't just be wished away" 

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"It's a pretty safe bet to assume that most politicians are more self-involved than they are self-aware. Perhaps it wasn't always that way, but we know what we're dealing with here in the modern era. There are varying degrees of lack of self-awareness among politicians, and few in history have been more clueless than the woman who recently spent four years being one heartbeat away from the presidency, Kamala Harris. 

"The former Madame Veep is blissfully unaware of her stunning lack of popularity. In typical leftist fashion, she continues to blame her loss to President Trump on misogyny and racism, not the fact that she's incapable of stringing together three coherent sentences. 

"Harris is still floating the possibility of a presidential run in 2028. The Democrats aren't really casting their eyes her way, however, just like they didn't in 2020. In fact, they might end up running as far away from the idea of Kamala Harris as they can. This is from Rick:

How flummoxed are the Democrats about 2028? With more than two years before the first primaries to choose a presidential nominee, some Democrats believe their best bet is to choose a candidate who looks and sounds like, well, a Republican.

These Democrats think that a straight, white, Christian man can put the party on his back and carry them to victory in 2028. 

When they find one, they'll let us know in truth, this is pure desperation. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Republicans should be pleased. Democrats are not going to "out-Republican" Republicans when it comes to being normal.

"Rick is writing about an Axios article that shows just how ridiculous and wrong the Democrats are when they look at everything through a prism of race and gender. They stop seeing people, which leads them to greatly misread why their candidates succeed or fail. Democrats just saw that two women lost to Donald Trump. They can't admit to themselves that two monumentally flawed candidates lost to Donald Trump, and gender had nothing to do with it." . . . More...