RedState Weekly Briefing: Exposing Loons, Leftists, Leakers, and Liars

 RedState  "Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing  — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. What do you suppose caught people's attention in this latest whirlwind week? Grab a cup of coffee (or something stronger if you're so inclined), and sit down with this 21st Century Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication — here we go!" ...

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#1 - Ben Shapiro's Wild CNN Appearance Exposes the Psychosis of the Left — by Bonchie   "Kasparian starting her commentary with "I totally reject," only for her to totally reject reality, is about what you'd expect. I understand that she hates Israel and loves Middle Eastern terrorists, and don't kid yourself, that's undergirding all of what she says there, but that doesn't mean she's entitled to her own statistical facts. "

#2 - Classified Navy SEAL Mission Leaked to Damage President Trump Harms National Security Instead — by streiff   "The real target here is President Trump. The NYT story starts with the premise, "The Trump administration did not notify key members of Congress who oversee intelligence operations, before or after the mission." . . .

#3 - Brainwashed Leftist Is Offered 1-Way Ticket to Communist Country of Her Choice—the Result Is Fabulous — by Becky Noble   . . . "Bet-David then lays a hard truth on her, saying, "If you lived in North Korea, you wouldn't be able to do what you are doing right now. You wouldn't have a voice."

#4 - Ilhan Omar Challenges People to Dig Into Her Financial Records, Immediately Regrets It   . . . "I'm not sure how it works in Somalia, but in America, that's not how marriage works. Omar is obviously privy to the cash her husband, Tim Mynett, brings in, given the lifestyle she and her crazed daughter live. Here's the thing, though. One of his company's biggest benefactors is Omar's campaign.

#5 -  Monumental Media Malpractice: CBS Deceptively Edits Sec. Kristi Noem Interview   — by Ward Clark   "Sometimes, the legacy media's bias is so open, so shameless, that it's jaw-dropping. ' . . .Case in point: Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, on Sunday, appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation," and they did an absolutely shameless edit of her statement about the illegal alien, Kilmar Abrego Garcia."

 This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.

Watch for the part of my interview that @CBS tried to… pic.twitter.com/28fsGZug48

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) August 31, 2025

Chicago: a picture of how Democrats govern

Chicago: morally and economically bankrupt  

"Chicago has many bills coming due and no money, certainly not from Illinois, which is facing a $3.2 billion dollar deficit. Brandon Johnson is as popular as a festering boil, yet Chicagoans keep electing festering boils." 

Broc Smith

Whose side is the left on?    "It’s infuriating to listen to leftists’ rhetoric, where they defend vicious drug cartels, illegal aliens, and rising crime in American cities.  By doubling down on policies that embolden lawlessness and threaten communities, they’re prioritizing political expediency over public safety.  The Democrats went from owning the slaves, starting the Civil War, forming the KKK, and passing Jim Crow laws to claiming they are “for the little guy.”  Now they’re casting the members of the party specifically founded to fight slavery as oppressors." . . .

The Progressive Pantheon of Pathetic Heroes  

"The left also went gaga over the wealthy, aristocratic, and supposedly charming young Luigi Mangione, the assassin of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. Not since the terrorist and mass murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev adorned the cover of Rolling Stone has the left so romanticized a stone-cold psychopath."

Victor Davis Hanson: . . . "Why does the left make martyrs out of monsters?

"One, in postmodern America, there are too many victims for too few victimizers. So to distinguish the one from the many requires all the more psychodramas and grammar-school dramatics. Violence and claims of racism add to the hero’s mystique.

"Two, the heroes are mere pawns in a larger game of “social justice” in which both useful idiots and ruthless criminals alike can advance the cause." . . .

Schoolgirls told they can escape undressing with boys in their locker rooms by admitting they are mentally ill

 Eric Utter

 "But do you really want the likes of Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Randi Weingarten to be in charge of your child’s education and safety, with no parental checks and balances?"

"In Temecula, California, junior and senior high school girls will henceforth have a choice between letting biological males hang around in their bath and locker rooms … and proclaiming themselves to be mentally ill.

"You read that correctly. The only way these girls will be able to avoid sharing bathrooms and locker rooms with their male counterparts will be for their parents to fill out a “Mental Health Accommodation Request Form.”

"The form reads in part:

I am requesting a mental health accommodation on behalf of my child. This request is made in accordance with federal and state laws, including Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and California Education Codes. Please describe the mental health condition and the nature of the accommodation being requested (e.g., diagnosed anxiety, PTSD, etc.): If available, please attach supporting documentation (e.g., medical diagnosis, 504 Plan, counseling records, etc.) 

So, a young girl must be suffering from a “disability” if she doesn’t want males to watch her undress, use the bathroom, or shower?

As a parent, I would have anxiety if adults in charge of my daughter’s school wanted to force her to share a bathroom and a locker room with boys.

And the “authorities”-- whether at that school or in the government -- who made this so would have PTSD shortly after meeting with me.

Just sayin’.

What’s next, will “authorities” soon “allow” us to decline to submit to an experimental mRNA injection if we sign a document testifying that we’re insane?

This is sounding kind of Soviet, where dissidents were classified as mentally ill and locked up.

Where will this end?

Are we sure we’re winning the War With Woke?

How a Church Fought Back Against a Liberal Takeover — And Won

The American Spectator  

"When a church allows humans to usurp the authority rightfully belonging to the Bible, it becomes vulnerable to the prevailing social causes of the day. Evidence of this is as close as the nearest Protestant mainline church."

"Rarely if ever in American religious history has a Christian church body been able to repulse a concerted attempt by professional theologians to lead that church into the darkness of theological liberalism.

"But that was what happened fifty years ago when theologically conservative laity and pastors rescued the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod from such a fate. In 1974, 90 percent of the faculty (forty-five out of fifty professors) at the denomination’s foremost seminary, Concordia Seminary, and approximately 80 percent of the students walked off the St. Louis campus and into “exile” to start their own theologically liberal institution. Eventually, the group took about two hundred of the church body’s six thousand congregations with them, thus forming the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches.

"It is a story with all the drama one would expect from a modern church splintering in plain sight. It featured tempestuous church conventions, rebellious student convocations, pompous faculty orations, protests and press conferences, and all the militant accouterments — black armbands and the like — one would expect of a winner-take-all showdown in the tumultuous 1970s. It ended with a theatrical exodus event that included a mock funeral for the seminary, boarded-up arches and gateways, the planting of memorial crosses on campus grounds, defiant speeches, and a triumphal march away from the campus into self-imposed exile.

The Theological Tempest

"In a time when churches split over positions on sexual proclivities or thinly disguised political issues, if there is a silver lining to this particular ecclesiastical fissure, it is that, in a bizarre way, it is refreshing to see a church body fracturing over what the church should be about in the first place, that is, theology — or, more specifically, biblical interpretation.

"That’s how this squabble started. It stemmed from the adoption of a hermeneutical method called historical criticism by certain members of the faculty of Concordia Seminary.

"Historical criticism is a product of the Enlightenment, the age when science and reason were in ascendancy. It focuses on biblical hermeneutics, treating God’s written Word as though it is to be interpreted as a merely human document that is in principle no different from any other piece of ancient writing. By rejecting the notion of divine inspiration, historical criticism undermines the Bible’s authority, denies its miracles, and dismisses its historical accounts.

"This method is a cornerstone of liberal theology and is widely utilized in the hermeneutical practices of mainline Protestants, including Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists, and liberal Baptists and Lutherans. The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod had avoided its taint until, in the early 1960s, reports began to filter through pastoral and lay ranks that certain professors at the seminary had embraced this interpretive method. Some professors were giving speeches and publishing papers asserting a troubling notion: that the Scriptures are not God’s written Word verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit but, rather, are self-contradictory.

What is a Gettysburg Witness Tree?

A Gettysburg Witness Tree is a still-living tree that is old enough to have been alive at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, and can be said to have "witnessed" the fighting that swirled around it during those hot summer days of July 1-3, 1863.

"Peter Lukacs has unearthed a ground-breaking way to experience Gettysburg − through the living trees that bore silent witness to this famous Civil War battle of 1863. With his field guides, you can step into history that has been hiding in plain site for over a century!"

Map of Gettysburg Witness Trees.   "Please note: I am updating all the maps, adding newly discovered witness trees, and uploading numerous new then-and-now comparisons, all to make this website as comprehensive as possible!"

Two Vintage Photos of West Confederate Avenue

"Here we feature two very special early 20th century photographs. Thanks to these two photographs, multiple witness trees have been identified, trees which otherwise would have no known extant evidence to prove their witness tree status."

"Douglas Murray WARNS Something Horrifying is Going Down in Britain..."

The most honest and professional voice in the western world today, Douglas Murray.    

"He’s such a great man shares the truth,about the wickedness of Hamas and their cohorts.

"We don’t want this in our countries. "I’m worried as an Australian.

"Seeing what’s happening in Europe and Britain is frightening."

Rabbi Dovid Vigler

Fake Experts Accuse Israel of Genocide; Turns out anyone can join the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

 Legal Insurrection   

"That world leading experts declaring genocide in Gaza was too perfect of a headline for the media zeitgeist to miss. And of course, the declaration was a hatchet job."

"A month ago, I wrote about the top eight Gaza War hoaxes. The granddaddy of them all is the Israel is committing a genocide hoax—because all libels are pointing to this indictment.

"It’s nonsense of course—there is no credible evidence of massacres or intent to slaughter as required by the Genocide Convention, only minimal, for urban warfare, collateral damage. The genocide case against Israel brought before ICC fell apart. Yet unfortunately until Israel wins the war on the ground and takes itself out of the headlines, blood libels will be flooding the media.

"The latest one is the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) vote to declare that Israel is guilty of the willful annihilation of the Gaza population. The NGO’s statement was immediately transformed into headlines on Al Jazeera and ideologically aligned western outlets, including BBC, BBC UK, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, ABC Australia, PBS, Newsweek, Time and the Washington Post among others." [I might suggest CNN and MSNBC/NOW] . . .

(During my school years in the early 1950s, Zeitgeist pictured the world as wiped out by atomic warfare and many stories involved the hero living in the wreckage of destroyed civilization. TD)

. . . "Hamas’ October 7 attack constitutes genocide under  international law. This conclusion rests on three interconnected pillars. First, the physical acts committed—the systematic killing of over 1,200 Israelis, accompanied by torture, sexual violence, and mutilations—satisfy the actus reus requirement of the Genocide Convention. Second, Hamas’ specific intent to destroy Israeli Jews is evident through multiple channels: its foundational ideology of eliminationist antisemitism, its decades-long systematic policy of incitement, its detailed operational planning for mass killing, and explicit statements by its leadership before and during the attack.

"What distinguishes this case, however, is the third element: the immediate deployment of reverse genocide accusation against the victims." . . . (Emphases mine; TD)

Whither the U.K.? And its Anglophone offspring?

 Eric Utter  

"Winston Churchill remarked: “If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.' ”

"An Australian woman has been found guilty of vilifying male athletes competing in women’s sports … and now faces fines and penalties of up to $200,000 (Australian)!

"According to a local court of New South Wales, Kirralie Smith “unlawfully vilified” two males playing soccer on women’s teams by stating that they have unfair physical advantages over the women and noting that opposing female players had suffered severe injuries due to this fact. Two-hundred-grand for stating an obvious truth. 

"Bad on ya, mate!

"Canada’s Prime Minister Mark “Mohamed” Carney recently stated that “Muslim values” are “Canadian values.”

"At an Eid al-Adha celebration hosted by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), Carney said, “all of us must come together – around the values of Eid.” Really? Start shopping for burkas and hijabs, ladies.

"Hope you don’t mind if your hubbies exhibit a bit more “toxic masculinity.”

"British police recently — and infamously -- arrested a comedian who criticized trans activists. Sent five armed coppers after him to seize him in an airport. Scotland Yard’s finest now arrest around 30 folks every day for allegedly offensive online posts. I will let you guess to which groups these posts may be offensive. With some groups -- such as straight, white, male, Christians, for example — almost anything goes, with others … not so much.

"What the hell happened to the British Empire? How did it go from “Rule, Brittania” to “Overrule Brittania?” From a respected world power that stood ready to repel an invasion by Huns to a craven land being overrun by third world Muslim invaders?  

"Then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once stated: “I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.” Personal responsibility, freedom, and the rule of law have now been effectively evicted, deported from the British Empire, even as the foreign hordes are welcomed in." . . .

BOMBSHELL: President Trump Was an FBI Informant Against Epstein

 PJ Media 

"Johnson just dropped a nuclear truth bomb—Trump was an FBI informant helping BUILD the case against Epstein—yet crickets from CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of the propaganda machine."

"House Speaker Mike Johnson made a stunning revelation Thursday in response to questions from CNN’s Manu Raju about President Donald Trump’s use of the term “hoax” to describe the ongoing controversy surrounding the Epstein files. In defending the president, Johnson disclosed that Trump had once acted as an FBI informant against Jeffrey Epstein—a fact that has never before been publicly acknowledged by a sitting congressional leader.

“ 'What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him,” Johnson said. “He has never said or suggested or implied—I’ve talked to him about this many times, many times. He is horrified. It’s been misrepresented. He’s not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It’s a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself.”

"Johnson then dropped the bombshell revelation.

“ 'When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down,” Johnson said, appearing to confirm for the first time that Trump had assisted federal authorities in building a case against Epstein.

"The speaker emphasized that Epstein's crimes had long disgusted Trump. “The president knows and has great sympathy for the women who have suffered these unspeakable harms. It’s detestable to him. He and I have spoken about this as recently as 24 hours ago,” Johnson explained. “What he’s talking about is the Democrats who are doing this with impure motives. If they cared so much about this, why didn’t they do something during the four years of the Biden administration when the Biden DOJ had all the records? They didn’t say a word about it. Now, they’re doing it for political purposes. Not everybody, but a lot of them, and that’s what the President’s frustrated about.”

"For Johnson, Trump’s rhetoric mirrors his past experiences with partisan attacks. “They’re creating a hoax, just like they did with the Russian dossier, because they think it’s going to somehow be mud thrown on him. It’s not. He has no culpability in this thing at all. The president has clean hands. He wants all the records out. He has told me that himself.' ” . . .

Democrats insist: The beatings will continue...

  Kevin Finn  

"The leftist playbook is a masterclass in self-inflicted wounds.  The beatings will continue until Americans rediscover that liberty, safety, and prosperity come from principles older than any senator’s ego or mayor’s tantrum."

"What do you call it when 9 people are killed and 52 wounded in Chicago?  Labor Day weekend.  And what can you say about a governor and mayor who, despite all that bloodshed, not only refuse federal help, but rally their citizens to resist that help?  A former Chicago police official opined that Democrats fear Trump stepping in because it exposes their inability to control the chaos they’ve enabled.

"Like in many blue cities, Chicago’s violent crime rate is a feature, not a bug, of soft-on-crime policies.  Yet, hilariously, a Chicago Democrat is begging Trump to save the city, proving that even some leftists know the ship’s sinking.

"How about a slow clap for Senator Tim Kaine, who boldly declared in a Senate hearing that your rights come from the government, not some pesky Creator?  Yes, the man who was almost a heartbeat away from the presidency in 2016 thinks the Declaration of Independence is just a quaint suggestion.  Kaine called the idea that rights are God-given “extremely troubling” and likened it to Iran’s theocratic regime.  Senator Ted Cruz, bless his heart, nearly fell out of his chair, reminding Kaine that Thomas Jefferson, a fellow Virginian, wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”  But no, Kaine’s out there suggesting your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is just a government-issued coupon, revocable at the next bureaucratic whim.

"In some places (blue cities!), America’s moral fiber is coming apart at the seams, and the clowns are running the show.  The phrase “the beatings will continue until morale improves” isn’t just a snarky quip from a disgruntled pirate captain — it’s the unofficial slogan of today’s leftist overlords, who seem hell-bent on proving that government is the alpha and omega of your rights, your safety, and your sanity.  Their god is Government, they worship in the Church of Climate Change, and their sacraments are abortion and transgenderism.

"Family structures are crumbling, single-parent households are spiking, and marriage rates are plummeting.  This is economic poison.  Kids from broken homes are more likely to flunk classes, drop out of school, turn to crime, or live off welfare.  This costs taxpayers billions.  Meanwhile, the elites keep telling them to “live your truth” while ignoring the truth that stable families build stable economies.  Conservatives need to keep swinging that big stick of traditional values until leftists remember what made our society work.  That might mean shaming deadbeat dads or sanctimonious influencers." . . .

A Fitting Psychiatric Diagnosis

 Sharon Rondeau; The Post & Email 

"Of course, this deranged, obsessed, indeed crazed cult engages daily in inflammatory memes that are largely inaccurate or downright false. When you’re obsessed, truth and accuracy are mere inconveniences."

(Sep. 6, 2025) — Since the very microsecond in 2015 when billionaire builder and TV star Donald Trump descended the escalator in NY City’s splendiferous Trump Tower with his gorgeous wife Melania by his side and pronounced his candidacy as a Republican for the presidency of the United States of America, each and every leftist, liberal, progressive (LLP] from all over the world went insane.

"A big part of that insanity was fear. After a 15-year run hosting the mega-successful TV show The Apprentice, candidate Trump’s adversaries knew that they were up against a guy with not only international name recognition as an innovative real estate developer, but also brains, an Ivy League education, a billionaire who could not be bough18px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;" In fact, it was the late political columnist and TV personality, who was also a psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer, who originally coined  the phrase Bush Derangement Syndrome that ended up fitting candidate Trump so perfectly…hence, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). That “syndrome” was defined by Krauthammer as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency—nay—the very existence of”––in 2015 and beyond, Donald Trump.

"In fact, Krauthammer, in an op-ed, commented that—in addition to general hysteria about Trump—the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” was the “inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and … signs of psychic pathology.”

NO PROBLEM

"But the insanity didn’t last long when all those LLPs realized that they themselves had three immensely powerful weapons against candidate Trump.

"The first was ACORN (Association Of Community Organizations For Reform Now), which admitted to voter fraud in 2010 and went to prison, but upon release reorganized, changed their name, and by 2015 were back in the vote-rigging business.

"The second powerful weapon in their Get-Trump toolbox was the leftist mainstream media, a media that once lionized Donald Trump, featured his beauteous former-model wife on the covers of prestigious fashion magazines, and thanked him copiously for his tremendous contributions to New York City, including for the long-forsaken Wollman ice-skating rink.

"But in 2015, it was a media that was also poised to use all of its power and malevolence to defame, vilify, mock, undermine, and try to utterly destroy candidate––and worse, Republican––Trump." . . .

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There’s a New Biden Autopen Scandal Bombshell, and It Involves Kamala

 PJ Media  

"Every new memo proves the Biden-Harris White House wasn’t just incompetent—it was actively deceiving the American people. The media’s role? Protect the Democrats at all costs. " 

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"The Biden autopen scandal just got even worse, and this time Kamala Harris finds herself squarely in the crosshairs.

"The Trump administration’s investigation into former president Joe Biden’s reliance on the autopen has unearthed internal White House memos that reveal something far more damaging than anyone initially suspected: Biden wasn’t just using the autopen to sign documents—he was effectively handing over presidential power to his vice president, who had no constitutional authority to wield it.

"In the earliest days of Biden’s presidency, White House Staff Secretary Jess Hertz circulated a draft memo that should alarm every American. Just the News obtained and reviewed the documents, which recommended that Biden “personally approve and hand-sign all decisions that require presidential action,” particularly when it came to pardons.

"You have to wonder why such a memo was even necessary. From the very start, those closest to Biden knew he wasn’t capable of handling the most basic responsibilities of the office, and decisions normally reserved for the president were being delegated to others.

"By Biden’s final year in office, even that minimal safeguard had collapsed. Internal memos obtained by the Trump White House reveal that Biden was increasingly deferring to Kamala Harris on clemency decisions.

"A particularly damning February 2024 memo from Biden’s White House Counsel’s office noted that while Biden had previously asked to discuss pardon candidates personally, the process had shifted to the point where “the Vice President’s approval was sufficient to obtain his approval.”

"The Constitution grants the power to “grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States” exclusively to the president—yet Biden was outsourcing this authority to Kamala Harris, who had no constitutional right to exercise it." . . . More...