Sunny Hostin calls US a ‘failed experiment’ on The View, panel pushes back

 MEAWW 

The blunt remarks came as the daytime panel discussed patriotism, President Donald Trump, and how Americans should feel heading into the country’s 250th anniversary

"NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Sunny Hostin is taking heat after declaring the United States a “failed experiment” during a heated segment on The View.

"The blunt remarks came as the daytime panel discussed patriotism, President Donald Trump, and how Americans should feel heading into the country’s 250th anniversary.

"‘Failed experiment’ remark shakes the table

"Hostin said her frustration runs deeper than any single administration.

"“Why I am conflicted about this country because I feel that it is at this point a failed experiment, quite frankly,” Hostin said. “I am also discouraged by how this country is viewed by the rest of the world.”

"The comments landed during a discussion about Trump’s plan to host a UFC event on the White House lawn as part of the upcoming 250th birthday celebrations.

"Hostin said her list of grievances was long and growing.

"'I’m embarrassed at our government,” Hostin said. “I’m embarrassed at our lack of healthcare. I’m embarrassed on the assault on the press. I’m embarrassed by our Congress. I’m embarrassed by the criminal felon president that is in the Oval Office that has a UFC cage on the White House lawn.”

Neutralizing Chokepoints: Lessons From the Hormuz Strait, Malacca, and Baltic Sea

  The Diplomat  

"What has happened around the Strait of Hormuz might be described as classical coercion: the use of geography to pressure adversaries as part of an interstate power struggle." 

Why the 24 mile wide Strait of Hormuz is so important in the war with Iran | World News | Sky News

. . . "Examine the strategic nexus of the Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Malacca, and the Baltic Sea.

"They are global chokepoints demonstrating the return of the strategic seas. While their roles in global geopolitics and trade differ, there are important similarities as well. Most importantly, they illustrate the ongoing shift from the post-Cold War globalized international order toward a global political economy focused less on economic efficiency and more on securing one’s position within an increasingly fragmented system. Neither states, international organizations, nor businesses can afford to ignore this trend.

"How do these three regions reveal a shift in the global order?

"They all demonstrate the global shift toward what might be called a “multipolar coercive order.” This does not mean the old rules have been completely abandoned, nor does it mean one faces a full-fledged military threat everywhere. Rather, it means growing insecurity and unpredictability in regulations, practices, and the selective enforcement of norms. Fast, well-informed adaptability is becoming an even more valuable asset than before.

Watch: US [Navy] disables ship defying Iran naval blockade | Israel National News Video

"US aircraft disables an oil tanker with a Hellfire missile for violating the Iran blockade."

Obama knew all along

 Obama Buys $11m Beachside Property– No Fear of Sea Level Rise? 7,000-square-foot home a few feet above sea level – Climate Depot

. . . "Of course, the thing about Martha’s Vineyard is that it is a low lying island. And the thing about Obama’s mansion is that it is on the beach front.

WhatsMyElevation lists the elevation of their home as being 3 feet above sea level. Others place it at 10 feet.

Either way, either the Obamas made a very stupid investment, or they don’t believe in the nonsense that they tried to bankrupt their country for.

Of course, Obama did promise us in 2008 that we will be able to look back and tell our children this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow.

Maybe he really was the Messiah after all!"

President and Michelle Obama join the growing list of climate activists who want to enjoy a little beachside luxury before the carbon demon swallows all the coastlines.

These Members of Congress Are Physically and Mentally Unfit, Yet They Remain in Office

 The Federalist Papers   

"Congress has no fitness test, no age limit, and no term limits. The Founders left exactly one check on members who can no longer serve: the election. Voters who keep returning them anyway are not exercising loyalty. They are ratifying a failure, and the republic is paying the price."

"Three sitting members of Congress show documented evidence of cognitive decline or severely impaired judgment, and all three are seeking re-election. There are no fitness tests, no age limits, and no term limits standing in their way. The only check Madison built into the system is the vote, and right now voters are not using it."

Key Facts

• California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, 87, is seeking her 19th term (38 years in Congress) and refused to say whether 100 is too old to serve.

• Waters was duped by pranksters in two separate incidents into accepting fabricated foreign-policy scenarios, including one involving a fictional nation called “Limpopo” and another involving a made-up island called “Chongo-Chango.”

• Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson, 83, missed more than 43 floor votes starting in mid-April 2026, absent for roughly a month with no explanation until her staff cited “eye surgery”; she missed all committee work during the period.

• Washington, D.C., Democratic Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, 88, has served since 1991; a police report noted “early signs of dementia,” and New York Times sources describe her as “unable to function independently” and at times unable to recognize longtime colleagues.

• No mandatory cognitive or fitness tests exist for members of Congress; the Constitution sets a minimum age of 25 for the House and 30 for the Senate, with no maximum and no term limits.

• Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, 84, froze mid-sentence on camera twice, fell multiple times, and uses a wheelchair; he announced he will not seek re-election."

Full article here...

Some Palestinians FINALLY Speak Up...

 From the Debunker.

"A Palestinian man from Gaza has filed an ICC complaint against Hamas, accusing the terror group of using civilians as human shields. Erin Molan says this is what many have been saying since October 7: Hamas is the enemy of both Israelis and Palestinians."

Mamdani LOSES IT After His Wife's SICKENING Hamas Ties Get EXPOSED (Video)   "When New York City's youngest-ever first lady stepped into Gracie Mansion on January 1st, 2026, few observers anticipated that a series of Instagram likes, archived Tumblr posts, and a commissioned illustration would ignite one of the most consequential political controversies in the city's recent history. Rama Duwaji — artist, Gen Z first lady, and wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani — became the center of a rapidly expanding media investigation that raised serious questions not just about her own views, but about the credibility of the mayor's response to them.

"In this breakdown, Felmon examines the full timeline of the Rama Duwaji controversy — from her October 7th social media activity and her illustrated collaboration with a writer who described the Hamas massacre as "spectacular," to decades-old posts glorifying designated terrorist organizations. But at the center of this story is a single date: October 8th, 2023, the day Mamdani publicly condemned a pro-Hamas rally in Times Square — the very same day his then-girlfriend was liking that rally's posts on Instagram. That contradiction, Felmon argues, is not a matter of a spouse's private opinions. It is a window into a troubling pattern of public accountability selectively applied — and it carries implications that extend far beyond New York City politics."

As antisemitic crime soars in NYC, we all must make up for Mamdani’s support of hate

. . . "Zohran Mamdani and his political allies have repeatedly signaled that it’s open season on New York’s Jewish population, the largest in America. 

Pro-Hamas thugs are conducting ongoing mini-pogroms outside synagogues under the guise of legitimate protest — and the mayor has explicitly condoned them, ratifying the lie that they merely target  supposedly illegal sales of West Bank real estate.

He also fought the City Council when it passed a bill setting distance limits on protests outside all places of worship." . . .

About that California Counting...

 

Broc Smith

After Mail-In Ballots Tallied, Joe Biden Wins L.A. Mayor Race With 81 Million Votes | Babylon Bee Parody

LOS ANGELES, CA — After multiple days of late-night mail-in ballot drops finally being tallied, it was discovered that Joe Biden had won the Los Angeles mayoral race with an astonishing 81 million votes.

"While most cities and states seem to be able to figure out who won and who lost by the end of the day of the election, Los Angeles can take days, weeks, or maybe even months to allow for all the mail-in ballots to trickle in, resulting in a spectacular come-from-behind victory for Biden.

"In the case of the Los Angeles mayor's race, most voters expected incumbent Karen Bass and top challenger Spencer Pratt to be the top two vote-getters who would head into a run-off election in November. But several days after the election took place, a late mail-in ballot drop was tabulated, which swung things decidedly in favor of Joe Biden by a historic margin.

"'A truly impressive victory for a candidate who didn't even run," said Los Angeles election official Francis Peabody. "This is a bit unusual but not outside the realm of possibility. Normally, voters expect that the candidates who are actively campaigning for the job will get the most votes, but sometimes a last-minute ballot drop can dramatically swing things like this."

"'We can now officially declare Joe Biden is the winner."

"Skeptics immediately accused the mail-in voting system of being rife with fraud and impossible to verify, but experts were quick to point out that voter fraud is incredibly rare and that no one even needs to make it more transparent or secure.

""We need to count every vote," said Peabody. "These 81 million citizens of the city of Los Angeles deserve to be heard."

"At publishing time, Joe Biden had also won the race for California governor."

CBS News’ Shakeup and the Future of the Mainstream Press

 This week’s upheaval is only the latest sign that the age of activist journalism may be nearing its end.

The American Spectator

"On Sept. 30, 2024, prominent progressive thinker and author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on CBS Mornings to promote his new book focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Message. Coates’s argument echoed many standard left-wing tropes about the intractable conflict, framing it as an intersectional battle between an illegitimate oppressor group and a helpless oppressed group. Tony Dokoupil, whose children live in Israel with their mother, pushed back in the interview. He stated that The Message “would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist,” and he further argued that Coates’s book deliberately omitted crucial details about the Hamas jihadist organization and the realities of Islamic terrorism. For having the temerity to ask challenging questions to a leading proponent of post-George Floyd left-wing racial gospel, Dokoupil was ritually reprimanded by his employer. The anchor was summoned to the organization’s Orwellian-named “Race and Culture Unit” after some CBS News employees complained about Dokoupil’s “tone of voice, phrasing, and body language.” In a subsequent CBS News editorial meeting that was leaked to Bari Weiss’s The Free Press — on Oct. 7, of all dates — network executives Wendy McMahon and Adrienne Roark chided their own anchor for failing to “preserv(e) the legacy of neutrality and objectivity that is CBS News.” . . .. . . More...   Or here...

CBS News Boss Announces Big Shakeup & Warns Network Must Change

. . . "Weiss urged her staff to “look honestly at ourselves,” and admitted, “We are not producing a product that enough people want.” She explained, “Not enough people trust us. Not you. Us. As in: the mainstream media. We can debate ‘why’ that is, but the numbers tell the story.” Another reason for the company’s failure, she said, “We are not doing enough to meet audiences where they are, so they are leaving us.”

"She pointed out that Americans are instead turning to podcasts, YouTube, Twitch, and newsletters to receive information. Weiss warned that the company needs to change their strategy of “[clinging] to the audience that remains on broadcast television.'”. . . 

Scott Pelley kicks himself out at 60 Minutes (Updated)

 

'60 Minutes' star Scott Pelley fired from CBS News after blasting Bari Weiss in heated showdown    . . . "Bilton further accused Pelley of staging a “performative display of hostility” and claimed he had “no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.”
“I am here to deliver first-in-class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama,” Bilton wrote." . . .

. . . “What did he accomplish?” one CBS source said of Pelley’s explosive attack. “He embarrassed the company and the leadership.”

"'The insider added: “This was a set-up. This was Scott going off for show. This was just a show. He wants to stand up for journalism and maybe get fired but what does it change?”

"A second source agreed that Pelley’s tactics were “problematic,” noting that the correspondent should have met with Weiss or Bilton to at least hear them out.ing down a dictator or someone who has committed war crimes,” the source added. “You’re not interviewing Saddam Hussein. It was a little bit overkill.” . . .

Rachel Maddow urges 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley to jump to MS NOW | Daily Mail Online    Why would anyone striving to be a professional journalist ever consider MSNOW?

Scott Pelley kicks himself out at 60 Minutes - Mike McDaniel   . . . "According to Rhodes, the remaking of 60 Minutes—ignoring Pelley’s widely reported gross and serial insubordination—was the fault of—wait for it: Donald Trump. Trump didn’t like their reporting about him so he got them all fired.

"Unfortunately for Rhodes and other Democrats, there’s every reason to think the reshaping is financial. Supposed news outlets can only afford Democrat propaganda for so long. CBS ended Steven Colbert’s late-night anti-Trump fest entirely because it was grossly over-staffed and losing some $40 million per year. There might have been a hint for 60 Minutes there, but if so, they didn’t take it.

"Apparently, Pelly and the rest of the on-air “talent” suffered from “I’m so important you can’t tell me what to do” disease. That’s not uncommon in that industry, but particularly when a property isn’t profitable because it has purposely alienated half its potential audience, management tolerance for that sort of attitude is limited, and Pelly exceeded that limit in spectacular fashion.

"I’ve been an entertainer most of my life. I’ve made a pittance compared to people like Pelley, but I’ve often been asked back because I’ve never pissed off my audience, and I understood I always needed to make my employers think I had something valuable to offer. I knew insulting my employers and acting like an entitled twerp was not the path to success or longevity." . . . 

UPDATE: Katie Couric rubs salt in Scott Pelley's wounds after his firing from 60 Minutes   . . . "She went on to address how those changes set Pelley off during a Monday meeting with the show's next executive producer.

Couric viewed Pelley's comments as tantamount to a 'tirade' and 'impolitic.'

"'I think that's also a massive understatement,' she told guest Oliver Darcy. Pelley was fired a day after the contents of his outburst were leaked to the press within hours.

"'I don't think that [CBS News Editor-in-Chief] Bari Weiss had any choice but to let Scott Pelley go,' Couric - a 60 Minutes correspondent from 2006 until 2011 - reacted.

It's Not Racist to Notice Reality; "Don't tell me that [Somalis] have been an asset to the community."

 David Strom – HotAir   

"It is an especially galling dodge to hear that from the same people who will look you in the eye and talk about how whites are inherently racist. They have no problem making sweeping generalizations about white people; they are, as you saw with Senator Antonio, speaking over the question by calling it racist." 

"When you are passing judgments on individuals regarding their character, it is not right to judge them based on their immutable characteristics as part of a group. 

"We judge individuals based on who they are and what they do. 

"On the other hand, when you are evaluating a group, it's just as wrong to disaggregate it into individual atoms and claim that there are no group characteristics that are relevant to making a judgment. 

"That's why it is simultaneously true that individuals who are part of some group may be good, and the group as a whole is still harmful. When I meet a liberal, for instance, I do not immediately assume that they are degenerates who embrace demonic practices, while I feel perfectly comfortable saying that as a group the Democratic Party is degenerate and embraces demonic practices, like sterilizing and mutilating children, endorsing Nazis who become communists, and al Qaeda supporters. 

"Both can be true. Some of my favorite people are Democrats; the Democratic Party is evil." . . .  More...

Can California Still Be Saved?

 Victor David Hanson› American Greatness

California’s decline is no mystery: decades of one-party rule have turned America’s golden state into a warning about the costs of ideological governance.

"The recent California gubernatorial and Los Angeles mayoral elections—where, remarkably, Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt both appear to have advanced to the general election in November—offer a glimmer of hope.

"Could it be that some on the Left, along with a number of Independents, have finally realized that neither wealth nor an upscale ZIP code can protect them from the Left’s vindictive socialist madness?

"California gas prices, even prior to the Iran war, had reached the highest levels in the continental United States.

"The cause is self-evident: left-wing policies that forbid most new gas and oil exploration, impose radical green-fuel mandates and levy the highest gas taxes in the U.S. and drive out oil refineries.

"Illegal immigration has soared. Currently, some 11 million Californians—28 percent of the resident population—were not born in the U.S. This foreign-born demographic exploded at precisely the time that civic education and melting-pot assimilation and integration were denigrated in the public schools and replaced by ethnic chauvinism and pre-civilizational DEI tribalism.

"A third of the nation’s welfare recipients and nearly a third of the homeless live in California. Almost a quarter of the state’s population lives below the poverty line.

"California has the highest electricity rates in the mainland United States and the steepest income taxes in the nation. And yet it annually runs the highest budget deficits of the 50 states.

"Despite massive unfunded pension debts of $265 billion, the state has spent billions of dollars on illegal-alien subsidies, from free health care to solar panels.

"The state has wasted between $15 billion and $20 billion on its Bakersfield-to-Merced high-speed rail line since the project was approved in 2008. Not a single foot of track has yet been laid in the past 18 years." . . .  More...

 

Democrats cheating again, sun still setting in the West

 Eric Utter - American Thinker  

"I am sick and tired of hearing Democrats talk about “our democracy.” They mean their democracy." 

"So, a late-night ballot drop in Los Angeles appears to have changed the dynamics of the midterm election.

"But, hey, the state might be counting for days or weeks yet, so let’s not jump to conclusions, right?

"Sure, Florida can count 10 million ballots in one day and evening, as can many other states and nations, and Florida has mail balloting, too, but California Democrats say that the reason it takes the erstwhile Golden State so long to tally its votes is because they want to make sure every vote is counted.

"It’s about “our democracy,” you see.

"Well, they want to make sure every illegal ballot is counted, that is for sure. It is much easier to steal elections when you know how many votes you need to do so, when you are unencumbered by silly time constraints. And when others let you do it." . . .

. . . "And if you are against that-- against them-- they will call you sexist, racist, Islamophobic, transphobic, a Nazi, and every other epithet that they can think of to hurl at you. All while claiming to be the open-minded and tolerant good guys who simply and only wish to save our beloved democracy. They relish pushing us around and rubbing our noses in their superiority. And they relish their ability to push us around and rub our noses in their superiority. At this point, a rational, moral person of even the mildest courage would not be cowed by their attacks. In fact, would consider them a badge of bleeping honor considering from whence they sprang." . . .

California announces will take 35 days to count the vote. INDIA counts 640 million ballots in ONE DAY

'IT'S NOT CRAZY': California faces UPROAR over slow vote-counting   "Fox News’ Matt Finn joins ‘The Faulkner Focus’ with updates on California’s races for governor and Los Angeles mayor as vote counting continues."

This Isn’t The FIRST Time NYTimes Buried A Story That Made Nazis Look Bad…

 

"Big Media has tricks that can make concealing a story look like reporting it"

Wes Walker

"In a slate of horrifyingly bad leftwing candidates, the others ought to be thanking the Maine Kampf guy for running cover for the rest of them.

"We’ve got Texas Talirico Larping as a Christian Minister while spouting off more like a creepy cult leader. We’ve got Adam Hamawy in New Jersy whose got connections to not only the Blind Sheik, more commonly known as the mastermind behind 9/11, but he also served in a Bosnian front group for Al Qaeda.

"The more you look at the Democrat bench, the worse it gets.

"It’s anybody’s guess whether this was a deliberate play or just a crazy happenstance, but Platner has a new scandal every week, and it’s all anyone wants to talk about these days. Even the New York Times is in on it. But… they’re not sharing the negative press in exactly the same way that hostile news sources (from both the right AND the left) are sharing.

"It’s being alleged by the Daily Caller that the New York Times is working hard to run cover for the would-be senator with the Nazi Tattoo." . .

Toon added by TD

The Times’s goal here was not to fairly give hearing to allegations against Platner; it was to play Fifield for a sucker, give her story just enough air that the Democrat Party’s cretin media and consultant class could zero in on it and crus

. . . "But Graham Platner isn’t a NAZI, some might argue. He’s said it himself — he’s a Communist.

Let’s play along with that line of argument a little. What has the track record of the Times been with actual communists?

The New York Times is looking to add to its list of 132 Pulitzer Prizes — by far the most of any news organization — when the 2022 recipients for journalism are announced on Monday.

Yet the war in Ukraine has renewed questions of whether the Times should return a Pulitzer awarded 90 years ago for work by Walter Duranty, its charismatic chief correspondent in the Soviet Union.

. . . "“He is the personification of evil in journalism,” says Oksana Piaseckyj, a Ukrainian-American activist who came to the U.S. as a child refugee in 1950. She is among the advocates for the return of the award. “We think he was like the originator of fake news.” — NPR, May 2022    More...

Jim Crow and the Cost of Crying Wolf

"Every time Democrats want to shut down a policy debate, they reach for the same emergency brake."

American Thinker 

 Cry Jim Crow too often, and the public starts hearing static.  Then when a real injustice appears, the language has already been spent.  There’s nothing left to cash in. 

"Every time Democrats want to shut down a policy debate, they reach for the same emergency brake: Jim Crow.  Voter ID?  Jim Crow.  Eligibility checks?  Jim Crow.  The SAVE America Act — which does nothing more than require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections — earned the “Jim Crow 2.0” label from Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer earlier this year.  Asking whether taxpayers are financing fraud?  Somehow, Jim Crow again.

"When a political party turns a genuine historical wound into a routine talking point, the public eventually stops listening.  That’s the boy who cried wolf, except in modern Washington, the wolf is usually a pollster, and the villagers have smartphones.

"Jim Crow was real, brutal, and uniquely evil.  It was the legal architecture of racial segregation and disenfranchisement enforced by Southern Democrats after Reconstruction — literacy tests, poll taxes, violence.  Rep. Wesley Hunt, a Black Republican from Texas, laid out the distinction during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week: “Jim Crow was a time when Black Americans could not sit in classrooms with white Americans.  It was colored-only water fountains; it was beatings in the streets; it was lynchings.”  His father had to enter a New Orleans restaurant through the back door because of the color of his skin.  Comparing that to showing a photo ID at the polls is not just historically wrong — it’s an insult to everyone who endured the real thing.

"A Pew Research Center survey from August 2025 found that 83 percent of Americans support requiring photo ID to vote — including 71 percent of Democrats, 76 percent of black respondents, and 82 percent of Hispanic respondents.  CNN’s Jake Tapper cited those numbers to Schumer on air.  Schumer kept going.  Even Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) broke ranks: “I would never refer to the SAVE Act as, like, Jim Crow 2.0 or some kind of mass conspiracy.”  When your party’s most prominent dissenter won’t echo your line, the line has collapsed.

"The trouble with reflexive alarm-pulling is that credibility is a finite asset.  The villagers in Aesop’s fable didn’t become cynics overnight.  They just got tired of being fooled.  Repetition killed the warning.  That same dynamic plays out every time a serious civil-rights framework gets borrowed to describe a modest administrative requirement.  Once the public senses the alarm is rung for effect — not because a real fire exists — trust starts to evaporate.  And when trust goes, so does the capacity to mobilize people around anything that actually matters." . . .

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LA: Who’s Surprised?

"Los Angeles is at a tipping point. If there is a majority of such progressive voters, then Los Angeles will continue its descent into the abyss to which there is no bottom."   Whitson G. Waldo, III

LA: Who’s Surprised? - American Thinker   "The results of the Los Angeles mayoral primary are disappointing to the rest of America but unsurprising. It appears the voters of that great American city are satisfied with surpassing malgovernance as long as the mayor has a (D) behind his or her name.

"Karen Bass apparently won a plurality of the votes counted so far. Of course, this is a Blue City, so votes will continue to be counted until the correct result is achieved. Distress comes from realizing that if all the votes for the even more extreme progressive Nithya Raman were added to Bass’s then a majority results.

"The only good news is that Spencer Pratt looks likely to make it to the runoff with Bass. This despite voting irregularities already discovered. For example, almost 13,000 votes were counted containing nearly zero votes for Pratt. Considering that an early report had Pratt with a quarter of the vote, this is a statistically suspicious result. Don’t expect any further investigation by authorities suspecting criminal behavior.

"Karen Bass has presided over the decline of Los Angeles for almost four years. Fortunately, considering the apparent ignorance and stupidity of the voters, she can be re-elected only once. But, it would be best if she were single-termed." . . . More...

Californians Deserve Better Than Endless, Fraud-Prone Vote Counting – Issues & Insights   "President Donald Trump has been having a field day with the agonizingly slow vote count in California’s primary.

“The Dumocrats are at it again!” he posted Thursday on Truth Social. “They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA PRIMARY, AND THE MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, PRIMARY, AWAY FROM TWO GREAT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.”

"Which, of course, set off a frenzy of “Trump lies” responses from Democrats and the press.

"But even if Trump is wrong about fraud, he’s right to complain about this laughably inept process." . . .

From Pete Wilson’s California to One-Party Decline: Steve Hilton’s Poll Lead Gives Me Hope   . . . "This decline did not happen by accident. It is the predictable result of expansive government, regulatory overload, and a refusal to hold individuals accountable. As someone with a career in financial services, I have seen firsthand how policies that punish success and reward dependency erode prosperity.

"Meanwhile, Governor Gavin Newsom has been jet-setting around the world like a rock star on a farewell tour, telling international audiences that President Trump is “temporary.” This is the same governor who lectured Californians on strict COVID lockdowns and masking rules while he attended a lavish, maskless dinner party at the exclusive French Laundry restaurant with lobbyists and donors during the height of the pandemic." . . .

MS Now Reporters Admitted They Had No Date, No Name, and No Proof Before Publishing a Story About Kash Patel’s Girlfriend

Deplorable Daily 

"Carol Leonnig is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent 25 years at the Washington Post before joining MS Now – the network that spent four straight years telling you Trump was a Russian asset, that the Steele Dossier was credible, that collusion was real."

"MSNBC spent years running anonymous source stories that turned out to be lies.

Now they rebranded as MS Now – and apparently brought the playbook with them.

A federal judge in Nashville is about to find out exactly what Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian actually knew before they published this one.

The Story Had No Security Detail and No Drunk Friend Because Neither Existed

The December 5, 2025, MS Now article was titled "Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend's pal a lift home: sources."

Three anonymous sources told Leonnig and Dilanian that Patel – on multiple occasions – ordered agents from his girlfriend's security detail to drive her intoxicated friend home after nights of partying in Nashville.

There was one problem with this story.

Alexis Wilkins didn't have a security detail at the time." . . 

None of it happened.

MS Now president Rebecca Kutler issued a statement saying she stands behind the reporting.

She stands behind a story whose reporters couldn't name a date, couldn't name a friend, and described a security detail that didn't exist yet." . . ".More...

When Will This HORROR End?

 modernity  

A second victim, John Pena (also referred to as Jhon Rodriguez), 30, was shoved onto the tracks alongside Williams but heroically helped pull the veteran back onto the platform seconds before a train arrived. Chilling cellphone video captured Hernandez casually strolling along the platform afterward.

"In yet another preventable tragedy enabled by soft-on-crime policies in blue cities, a repeat offender walked out of a psychiatric ward and immediately murdered an innocent man in New York City.

"Ross Falzone, a 76-year-old retired teacher and social worker for children with special needs, is dead after being shoved down a flight of stairs in Manhattan by a career criminal who should never have been on the streets.

"According to the New York Post, the suspect had been detained earlier that afternoon as an “emotionally disturbed person” outside an NYPD station house. 

The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Prosecutors had earlier described Williams as “brain-dead.” His daughter, Debbie Williams, told The Post days after the incident that her father “was not likely to pull through.”

"This is the deadly update to the story we first reported here, when Williams was left in critical condition with multiple fractures and brain bleeding." . . . 

‘I Got That White Girl’: The Words Of The Charlotte Train Killer Following Brutal Murder - modernity