AOC, meet Senator Kennedy

Just In: AOC Calls Kennedy "Stupid" for 2 Minutes - Then He DESTROYS Her Career   "In the hearing, AOC calls Senator Kennedy stupid for two minutes — and he doesn't argue back. Instead, he asks her one simple economics question, and then he reads her own records back to her, one by one. The Met Gala moment, with AOC in "Tax the Rich" at the table while her own staff were paid. The $885,000 that moved through the PAC. The $127,000 in campaign payments. The $6,000 paid to the company of her fiancé, Riley Roberts. And the Amazon HQ2 timeline through her finance records.

"As her own records are read out on the record, AOC is left without an answer — her career is on the line."

Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy: AOC Single-Handedly Put An End To Dumb Blonde Jokes    "The political battle to reopen the federal government intensified dramatically Friday, as Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy launched a scathing, personal attack on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), accusing her and the "Socialist Wing" of the Democratic party of forcing the shutdown to restore a list of "wasteful" foreign projects.

"Senator Kennedy took to the Senate floor to detail projects—including "pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti"—that Republicans had stripped from the budget. He stated that the "Loon Wing" of Democrats is now demanding their return before agreeing to a short-term funding bill.

Shutdown Over 'Crazy' Demands

"Kennedy claimed the current shutdown boils down to Democrats, galvanized by Ocasio-Cortez's objection, demanding $1.5 trillion in spending and the reinstatement of these specific, controversial items.

"Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez got very, very upset, as did the socialist wing of her party, when the President sent over what was called a rescission package," Kennedy said, referring to a request by President Trump to cut what he deemed wasteful spending. "And that upset the congresswoman... and so we took it out. And here's what they want us to put back in."

The rest of this article is questionable or false.

AOC’s faux lynching panic exposes the left’s poisonous racial delusions

 NY Post  

"Pressley & Co. clearly hoped to stir up a social panic. But the weakness and irrationality of their argument serves only to underline their own profound and disturbing racial paranoia." 

"Even paranoiacs have enemies, they say — but sometimes they’re just paranoid.

Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a founding member of The Squad, organized 59 Democrats to co-sign her letter demanding a federal investigation of a spate of supposed lynchings that never happened. 

The document pronounced its signatories “extremely alarmed by reports of Black people found hanging from trees in numerous states throughout our country.“

“The series of deaths,“ the letter continues, “raises significant suspicion of foul play given the role of lynching in our nation’s history.”

Pressley and her colleagues call for a federal investigation of every hanging death of a black person in the United States, insisting that “inaction by the federal government is tantamount to complicity.“

The letter deems all of this “a national crisis.”

In a post on X, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said how proud she was to sign the missive.

She noted that “this year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the US,” and how we must “address these widespread modern-day lynchings and put a stop to this racial terror.”

It apparently didn’t occur to AOC or any of the other signers to do Google searches of local-news stories about the hangings.

If they had, they would have learned that almost all of them were acts of suicide — awful in their own right, but hardly evidence that we are once again living in the Deep South circa 1892. 

These news stories invariably recount how the local police have concluded a person found hanging on a tree killed him- or herself — as well as all the speculation on social media that something more insidious must have been at play.

In one horrifying case, a young African-American woman was found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house in Jackson, Miss., and her death was indeed ruled a murder.

""A CNN report several days ago related the heightened scrutiny around the crime given “Mississippi’s long history of racial violence involving hangings.”

"The police have now arrested a 51-year-old suspect and charged him with murder.

"But he doesn’t advance the Pressley letter’s narrative — since he, too, is African American. " . . .   More.

Yet another Dem ripped online for 'inventing racism' as lawmakers peddle debunked 'lynching' claims   "An Ohio congresswoman is facing major blowback online after suggesting that lynchings are on the rise in the United States, despite that claim being widely debunked last week.

"In the last year, there’s been an alarming increase in Black Americans found dead hanging from trees. We know what that has meant throughout our history," said Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, on X. "That’s why I’ve joined [Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.] to demand a federal investigation into possible lynchings." . .  .

She must be a disciple of Joy Reid, desperately wanting lynchings of blacks to be true. TD

The Rise of the Pathological Female

Sen. John Fetterman's isolation from Democrats grows stark in Pennsylvania

 SFGATE   

"While Fetterman has insisted he won't change parties, he hasn't ruled it out, saying the Democratic Party becoming anti-Israel would be a “red line" that would force him out."

"HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Around this time two years ago, Sen. John Fetterman was in high demand on the campaign trail, going county-to-county in Pennsylvania to help Democrats up and down the ballot.

Now, after two years of crossing swords with Democrats and backing some of President Donald Trump's priorities, he's nowhere on the stump.

No Democrat in the state wants to be seen with him. His approval ratings are better with Republicans — far better — than they are with Democrats. And a shadow primary of sorts is taking shape for Fetterman’s Senate seat in 2028, even if he runs again.

Fetterman has acknowledged his increasing isolation in the party as he maintains staunch support of Israel's war in Gaza and criticizes left-wing candidates who are members of the Democratic Socialists of America. He's often gone his own way in the Senate, voting repeatedly with Republicans to end the shutdown last year while supporting multiple Trump nominations and opposing efforts to end the war in Iran. He cemented that isolation with a video appearance at Wednesday night’s Republican Party convention in Dallas, praising his Republican counterpart, Pennsylvania Sen. David McCormick, and saying he’d work with Trump to “defend the steel way of life.”

“Why am I here talking to you today? Because, well, I’m a common-sense Democrat. I’m always going to stand with America,” Fetterman said, in a video showing him on the roof of his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania, with U.S. Steel's hulking Edgar Thomson steel mill visible over his shoulder. “I’m going to reject the extremes in socialism and that anti-American way of life.” . . . More.

In my personal Tunnel Wall survey, I find four out of four Democrats hate Fetterman and support Hamas. TD

Make that five of five:   

Macklemore Gets Brutal Reality Check After 'Free Palestine' Stunt Blows Up in His Face

RedState

"Music industry professionals warn that Macklemore's increasingly unhinged radical political rants aren't good for business. Publicist Michael Levine, who has worked with dozens of Grammy-winning musicians, remarked, “Macklemore turned Ed Sheeran’s concert into a political rally. Apparently, the one thing the crowd wanted freed was the stage.'”

"You could say one concert tour currently making its way across the United States is now "Mackle-less." And that's because "rapper" Macklemore (real name: Benjamin Haggerty) has been yanked off of mega-star Ed Sheeran's sold-out tour for subjecting audiences to anti-Israel political rants, graphic images from Gaza, and chants of “Free Palestine” during his opening sets – all while wrapped in a keffiyeh.

"RedState's Brad Essex revealed all the ugly details last week, writing:

Wearing a keffiyeh, he told the crowd of more than 80,000 that he wanted people in Gaza and the West Bank to know they had not been forgotten. He led chants of “Free Palestine,” performed his song “Hind’s Hall,” and put Gaza footage and political images on the big screens. He tied the message to his own daughter and then expanded it to free America, Cuba, the Congo, Sudan, Iran, and people living in fear of ICE.

"This led to backlash from Sheeran's fans, who certainly hadn't paid good money to hear a political rant from the opening act, and prompted the Israeli-American Council to launch a petition asking both Sheeran and the tour organizers to remove Macklemore from the remaining U.S. dates.

And it sounds like they listened.

On Monday, Messina Touring Group, promoters of the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s Loop Tour, told Rolling Stone magazine, “We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans." . . .

More.

Massachusetts: School Secretly Transitioned Girl, State Seized Her From Parents

Massachusetts Family Loses Custody of Daughter After Refusing to Affirm Her “Gender Identity” | WLT Report

"A family in Massachusetts is fighting to regain custody of their teenage daughter Sophie after the state took her away from them in 2024.

The reason?

Sophie’s parents, devout Catholics Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, refused to affirm her “gender identity” after her school — without their knowledge — brainwashed her into believing she is a boy.

On her Lighthouse Faith podcast, Fox News correspondent Lauren Green described this family’s nightmare situation:

Devout Catholic parents are fighting in court to regain custody of their 17-year-old daughter, Sophie, and stop Massachusetts authorities from medically transitioning her with high-dose testosterone. In December 2024, the Department of Children and Families (DCF) removed the then 15-year-old from her home because her parents, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, would not recognize their daughter as a boy due to their faith–an identity change they allege staff at Algonquin Regional High School initiated in secret. Although physical abuse claims against Joseph were deemed unfounded, a permanent restraining order was issued against the family, and DCF cut off contact after the Kutzkos would not call Sophie by a male name or pronouns.

These devastated parents, who have not spoken to their daughter in nearly two years, are suing to bring her back home.

Meanwhile, she is being housed in a boys’ dormitory and has been put on birth control and psychiatric drugs.

The only silver lining is that a judge has temporarily blocked the state from giving her “gender-affirming” testosterone treatment, which would have lifelong, damaging effects." . . .

This Fox News clip dove deeper into the story:  

A Massachusetts family says the state took custody of their teenage daughter after they refused to affirm her as a boy, citing their Catholic faith. The parents allege a school counselor socially transitioned their daughter without their knowledge, then reported them to the Department of Children and Families. Now the state has guardianship, and a restraining order prevents the teen's parents and older brother from contacting her. A judge has temporarily blocked the state from administering high-dose testosterone as the family fights the case. The next court hearing is set for Oct. 29. | @LaurenGreenFox @AmericaNewsroom

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 14, 2026

More.

Be Very Suspicious of the ‘Put the Brakes on AI’ Crowd

Big Tech’s doomsday warnings come with a convenient regulatory solution.

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"Hell, two years ago the Obamas made a Netflix movie about the end of the world. Now Barack is telling his mini-me in Congress to push AI catastrophism as his dominant agenda should he take power. You’re hardly a conspiracy theorist if you don’t recognize the imperative of never letting a crisis go to waste."

AF Branco

"This is probably a take on the AI-will-kill-us-all debate that you haven’t seen. If it isn’t, let me commend you for the quality of your social media feed and/or your internet-surfing habits. But if you’re a regular reader of The American Spectator, you’ve hopefully picked up enough knowledge to be very skeptical of a classic information operation, and you recognized something fishy in the spectacle put on by the AI companies last week and over the weekend.

Specifically, that an employee who’d worked at both OpenAI and then at Anthropic resigned from the latter and released a missive complaining that nothing was being done to rein in the technology before it turns on the public and murders us all.

"No sooner did that little spectacle make the rounds online than both companies gave the “Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full” treatment to the ex-employee’s concerns, in ways which looked on first glance like typical crisis PR communications but then immediately pivoted to something else.

"Namely, a demand for Congress to slam on the brakes and regulate the AI industry.

"No sooner did that happen than the word leaked out that Barack Obama, whose presidential record consistently showed him to be an aficionado of turning every industry he could into a corporate oligopoly beholden to and embedded with an overweening regulatory state, had advised Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to prioritize AI governance as the dominant agenda of his potential speakership should the Democrats carry the House majority in the midterms. (RELATED: AI: Technology the Left Love to Hate)

"Your pattern recognition skills should be kicking in at this point, and you should recognize this for what it is.

"We aren’t talking about the worry that a self-aware Skynet is about to begin manufacturing hunter-killer drones which make humanity extinct. We’re talking about something a lot older and far more tactile.

"Regulatory capture." . . . More.

The AI Revolution Arrives   "What was wrong with horses?

"One observer in the long ago, supposedly given the chance to invest in inventor Henry Ford’s new “horseless carriage,” had this to say about the oncoming revolution of horses being replaced by automobiles — aka “the horseless carriage.” The quote?

"'The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is a passing fad.”

"Well now. To say the least, who was this prognosticator sharing his wisdom on the future as seen from the increasingly car-swamped 20th century?" . . .