Seven Out of Ten of the Safest Cities in America Cooperate with ICE

 Markwayne Mullin  

"Under the previous administration, state troopers had participated in field enforcement missions with federal agents, a practice that has since ended."

Markwayne Mullin Cage Fighter

"Markwayne Mullin addressed questions about an executive order signed by Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger that restricts state law enforcement from working with federal immigration authorities, arguing that cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is necessary for public safety and enforcement of immigration laws.

"The issue arose after Spanberger, on her first day in office, signed an executive order preventing state law enforcement agencies from participating in certain enforcement activities alongside ICE.

"Under the previous administration, state troopers had participated in field enforcement missions with federal agents, a practice that has since ended.

"A reporter asked Mullin directly about the policy shift and whether the governor should reconsider the decision." . .

.“Governor Abigail Spanberger, as you said, on her first day in office, she signed an executive order not to allow state law enforcement to work with ICE under the previous governor. You actually saw state troopers go on missions with ICE agents doing field enforcement. We don't see that anymore. Do you think she needs to reverse course?”

DHS Secretary Mullin Annihilates ‘Lying Scumbag’ Schumer Over His ICE Hatred – RedState   . . . "Mullin, in an appearance with Fox News Congressional Correspondent Bill Melugin, thoroughly eviscerated Schumer for his comments and for his overall love of illegal aliens.

"Chuck Schumer—No one respects you," Mullin said. "The definition of a lying scumbag politician—That is you. You would be the definition if you Googled you right now."

"No lies detected. At all.

"I took the liberty of googling that, and, yes, Schumer ended up on a list of four politicians, along with Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and former Republican Rep. George Santos. (Sorry, Ted. I'm guessing the algorithm was swayed a bit by Trump's old nickname. I'm just the messenger.)" . . .

Democrats’ hatred towards law enforcement is disgusting.

. . . "Now, if Cryin' Chuck Schumer wants to express how disrespected ICE and CBP officers are, I have some suggestions. When it comes to ICE, perhaps he could speak with the family of Joseph S. Lowe, who fell in the line of duty on October 19, 2024. Perhaps he could talk to the family of Robert C. Castioni Jr., who was killed on July 24, 2023. Or maybe he could speak to the family of Rachel Elizabeth Vielmas, who was killed on July 23, 2022. There are a lot more fallen ICE agents whose families the senator might speak with, listed here.

How about Customs and Border Patrol? Perhaps Senator Schumer could talk to the family of Eric Cespedes, who fell in the line of duty on July 11, 2025. Or the family of David C. Maland, who fell on January 20, 2025. Or the senator could perhaps speak to the family of Jeffrey T. Kanas, who died in the line of duty on December 16, 2024. There are more CBP agents whose families the senator might wish to check in with, to see if their fallen loved one wasn't respected."  Ward Clark 

Eventually, the Grift Does Get Exposed

"Finally, somebody is willing to do something about one of the most egregious grifts of the century." Little did we realize how disgusting Joe Biden's "white supremacy" schtick was.

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  

"Especially when the Democrats have, since 2009, insisted that it was white supremacist rednecks in the red counties across America who represented the greatest terror threat. Not Antifa communists or transgendered lunatics or Islamist jihadis, who commit actual terrorism with nearly banal regularity, but instead neo-Nazi Neanderthals nobody seems to be able to find."

Southern Poverty Law Center; Montgomery, AL

"Welcome to my favorite news story of the year. I’ll let Tyler O’Neil from the Daily Signal do the dirty work here:

The Southern Poverty Law Center has raised money for decades claiming to dismantle white supremacy, but it funneled millions of dollars to white nationalist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, according to a federal indictment handed down Tuesday.

The SPLC claims it was funding informants inside the extremist groups.

While the SPLC “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press conference that “the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”

Blanche highlighted one example from the indictment, where the SPLC paid a member of the leadership group that planned the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

"O’Neil has been wearing out the SPLC within the pages of the Daily Signal for a couple of years now. He deserves a lot of credit for exposing that organization for what it is.

"Namely, perhaps the most shameless, defamatory criminal syndicate ever to run the long con on the American polity.

"Everything about the Southern Poverty Law Center, at least in this century, has constituted a conspiracy against the public for ideological fun and profit. It’s an organization that was initially staffed up to fight the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, or more to the point it was staffed up to raise money purportedly to take up that cause.

"Except the Ku Klux Klan’s influence in Alabama was already on the wane in 1971 when Julian Bond, Joseph J. Levin, Jr., and Morris Dees started the SPLC. Within a decade, it was an irrelevant organization as to its stated purpose — fighting white supremacists who were keeping black people down in the South.

"White supremacists haven’t had the power to do that to black people in the south for half a century. Truth be told, it’s mostly been black Democrat politicians, and northern white Democrat politicians, all of whom have assured us of the importance and relevance of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who’ve been most effective in immiserating the black community." . . .

Busted! Feds Charge SPLC With Funding Klansmen, Neo-Nazis

  The Justice Department has already won its case against the SPLC. Possibly, the SPLC successfully defends the wire fraud, false statements, and money laundering charges in a court of law. In the court of public opinion, the Southern Poverty Law Center just lost all of its credibility.

Southern Poverty Law Center finally gets its due - Susan Quinn  

. . . "In addition to this indictment, the government is realizing what an outrage this organization is to its mission. FBI Director Kash Patel cut off working with the SPLC last October, when he discovered their activities: 

Patel said the center had been turned into a ‘partisan smear machine,’ and he accused it of defaming ‘mainstream Americans’ with its ‘hate map’ that documents alleged anti-government and hate groups inside the United States.

. . .  "During the last quarter century, the SPLC has altered its mission to target politically right organizations and label them extremist. Most recently, it listed Turning Point USA on its hate map.". . . 

We await the statements of Joy Reid, Democrats, and all from MSNOW.

Listen to every word TPUSA’s @AndrewKolvet just said about the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Kolvet took a beat and made sure the entire network was ready for what he was about to expose:
“They put a HIT on Charlie, they put us on a TARGET list.”
KOLVET: “They cornered the… pic.twitter.com/e4eiveTL06

— Overton (@overton_news) April 23, 2026

Thinking Outside the Cooler on Crime

 Ann Coulter

The Times isn’t overly concerned with the fact that the cooler-throwing sergeant was defending himself and other officers from being run over by a 30-year-old drug-dealer coming directly at them on a gas-powered motorcycle. If they’d died or been injured, no big deal. Definitely not front-page material.

"There’s been some dissension recently about the three-to-nine-year prison sentence handed down by a New York judge to former police sergeant, Erik Duran, for throwing a plastic beverage cooler at a fleeing suspect in the Bronx. The cooler hit the perp in the arm, causing him to lose control of his motorcycle, crash and die. The harsh sentence was uncharacteristic for Supreme Court Justice Guy Mitchell, who a few years earlier gave only nine months to a guy who beat a homeless man to death." . . .

. . . "Most significantly, the judge said that sending Sergeant Duran to prison would be “a general deterrent.” I guess now police officers will think twice before trying to stop fleeing felons by throwing picnic items at them!

"This gave me an idea for how we might disincentivize psychopaths who commit violent, completely unprovoked attacks on innocent people, slash pedestrians with machetes, rape women on subway platforms, push commuters onto train tracks and other piquant behaviors that have become commonplace in New York.

"Prison sentences might work as “general deterrent” on them, too.

"Last month, a transgender illegal alien pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old boy in the bathroom of a Harlem bodega — and was promptly released by Judge Michele Rodney. (Named “Jurist of the Year,” by the Caribbean American Lawyers Association!)

"Wouldn’t punishing the rapist, instead of letting him go, operate as a general deterrent to other men thinking of raping 14-year-old boys?

"Eighteen-year-old gang member, Steven Mendez, got probation for participating in a violent 2020 armed robbery and shooting — his second arrest for assault with a firearm. Not long thereafter, the extremely undeterred Mendez murdered a complete stranger, 19-year-old college student Saikou Koma, by shooting him in the head.

"Had Mendez gotten something a little rougher than probation for his earlier violent crimes, we would have had both specific deterrence — Mendez would have been in prison, not on the street shooting a college student in the head — but also general deterrence, for any other psychos considering shooting passersby for absolutely no reason.

"Speaking of deterrence, shouldn’t Sergeant Duran be commended for dissuading bikers like Duprey from ignoring the helmet law?" .

"I think I’ll run my breakthrough idea up the flagpole with the new mayor, citing Justice Mitchell as my inspiration." . . . Full article...

UPDATED: 4:24; Hospice fraud persists in state despite alarms

UPDATE: A Burrito Stand Qualifies for Hospice Funding Under California’s Medicaid System  

. . . "If a “hospice” can operate out of a burrito stand with no staff, piles of unopened mail, and zero actual patients receiving legitimate care, then we aren’t looking at a few bad actors. The reality is that we are staring at an abyss of abuse that is curated by corrupt people in the system and the toxic political leadership that supports that system." . . .

California Political Review  

But those shuttered hospices represent a sliver of the massive industry in L.A. County. The county is home to 1,584 hospices, more than half of the entire state’s hospice industry as of March.

"Capitol Hill held hearings Tuesday on California's hospice fraud racket that's cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. A Los Angeles woman testified to Congress that one hospice was placed in a burrito stand. What's worse, if you want guacamole with your last meal, it's two dollars extra." Argus Hamilton

"California authorities had pledged to crack down after a Times investigation in 2020.

"Officials have failed to halt pervasive fraud in the hospice industry despite promises of reforms five years ago after learning of widespread corruption that targeted vulnerable patients.

"California authorities promised to crack down after a Times investigation in late 2020 revealed that a cohort of mostly older Americans was being targeted by unscrupulous providers who would bill Medicare for hospice services and equipment for patients who they said were terminally ill, but who were in fact not dying.

"The hospice industry, particularly in Los Angeles County, had exploded in size, outpacing public need.

"One of California’s first moves was to put a moratorium on issuing new hospice licenses to give officials time to strengthen oversight. State officials and industry representatives crafted emergency regulations that they said would address gaps in hospice licensing requirements to weed out bad actors.

"But years later, those regulations have still not been enacted. And problems that have plagued the industry persist despite highly publicized enforcement efforts by the state and federal government, experts say.

"The Trump administration has seized on California hospice fraud in recent months with a series of new arrests while blaming state officials for dropping the ball. California rejects the criticism but last week announced a major investigation of providers that officials said bilked taxpayers out of more than $260 million.

“'This is not a red versus blue issue,” said Sheila Clark, president and chief executive of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Assn. “This is not political. … We care about the beneficiary and the benefit, full stop. That is who we are protecting.”

"Although fraud has been present in the industry for years, the scope of the problem became clear five years ago, with reporting by The Times and a subsequent state audit in response." . . .More...

The devil wears Kagan

 Don Surber  

"Another mean girl liberal icon treats staff like, well, you know what"

"Mollie Hemingway is promoting her new book, Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution.

"But the biggest revelation in the book is how Justice Elena Kagan bullies her staff. Hemingway discovered Kagan and to a lesser extent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, have a reputation for being mean girl bosses.

"The Daily Mail reported:

Hemingway alleges that several of Kagan’s former clerks, along with others at the Court, have described her as “emotionally abusive,” “demanding, demoralizing, demeaning,” and “a hard a**.”’

‘Kagan’s clerks had fear in their eyes,’ Hemingway said someone who clerked for a different justice recounted to her.

Other former aides speculated that there is ‘something psychological going on there,’ Hemingway writes.

Other clerks compared Kagan to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, moving from ‘extremely kind to extremely angry,’ Hemingway claims.

Another former staffer said Kagan is ‘like Klobuchar’—a reference to Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, who was the subject of a New York Times article about her alleged poor treatment of her staff.

"Ah yes, Senator Klobuchar (horse whinnies).

"That NYT story from 2019 said:

Most of those interviewed for this article—describing memories that span from shortly after her election in 2006 to the much more recent past—discussed their time with Ms. Klobuchar on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal from the senator. These concerns were not idle, they said. Saving potentially damaging emails from Ms. Klobuchar became something of a last-day ritual, the aides said, in case they ever needed evidence of her conduct for their own reputational protection.

She was known to throw office objects in frustration, including binders and phones, in the direction of aides, they said. Low-level employees were asked to perform duties they described as demeaning, like washing her dishes or other cleaning—a possible violation of Senate ethics rules, according to veterans of the chamber. . ..

The Daily Mail reported:

Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, Hemingway says, is among the most beloved by staff.

‘He knows everybody’s name. He doesn’t just know their name. He knows when they’re having a new grandchild or where they grew up. He really, really cares about people,’ Hemingway writes.

Turning to the subject of her book, Justice Alito, Hemingway said that he’s more reserved than people expect, but still ‘very kind to the staff and clerks at the Court.’    

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Michigan's 'Dearborn Dems' preview the future of US politics

 NY Post 

 . . . "Democrats selected Amir Makled as their nominee for a seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents. A Dearborn, Mich., lawyer, Makled represented pro-Hamas student demonstrators, called for the university to divest from Israel and expressed great respect for anti-Israel terrorists in social media posts."

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"Michigan Democrats had to choose between a Hezbollah-sympathizing radical and a perfectly respectable former Barack Obama attorney. 

"Given the drift of their party, it wasn’t a difficult choice — it was the virulently anti-Israel extremist all the way. 

"At their convention over the weekend, Democrats selected Amir Makled as their nominee for a seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents.

"A Dearborn, Mich., lawyer, Makled represented pro-Hamas student demonstrators, called for the university to divest from Israel and expressed great respect for anti-Israel terrorists in social media posts. 

"He reposted X items referring to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as a “martyr” after he was killed in an Israeli strike.

"He gave the same treatment to a Hezbollah official named Abu Ali Khalil, “a martyr on the road to Jerusalem.”

"For his part, Qasem Soleimani got the honorific “Haj” after President Trump eliminated him in a targeted assassination. 

"All the other terrorists killed by the United States or Israel in recent years might wonder why they didn’t rate and get similar Makled-endorsed Hallmark cards. 

"The Michigander has been admirably open-minded when it comes to rancid hatred of Israel.

"He didn’t let his progressivism stop him from retweeting a Candace Owens post calling Israelis “demons” who “lie, steal, cheat, murder, and blackmail.”

"He praised Marjorie Taylor Greene and has endorsed the views of Tucker Carlson and antisemitic goon Dan Bilzerian. 

"Once upon a time, the mere association with such figures would be a deal-breaker in Democratic politics, but we live in the age of the horseshoe." . . .

The Left’s War on Comedy Isn't Funny

 Armando Simon - American Thinker 

"[Babylon Bee];struck back, writing a piece on Snopes wherein people are conned that it is a fact-checking site. But it doesn’t end there. Donnie O’Sullivan, a CNN reporter whose job is “covering disinformation, politics, and technology” had a fit because the Babylon Bee had a satirical article."

"A curious characteristic of totalitarian communist regimes is the dearth, if not the total absence, of comedy. No comedy films were ever made in the Soviet Union or in any of the other communist countries. In fact, cinemas in communist countries were almost always empty, the films being so mind-numbingly abysmal. (One time in Havana, the government allowed American films to be shown in a theater and the lines stretched around the block, whereupon the government arrested the attendees inside the theater.)

"In the Soviet Union, circuses were a major source of popular entertainment, devoid of the usual crude propaganda. The favorite aspect of Soviet circuses were the clowns, when the otherwise unsmiling Russians could let loose with belly laughs.

"Yoani Sánchez stated that one of the things that first helped her to break through the indoctrination received at school of the cult of personality of Fidel Castro was her observation that Castro never joked, highly unusual for a Cuban.

"We are in the midst of a Marxist upheaval going full throttle towards turning America into a Communist utopia. The symptoms are all there: self-censorship, censorship (aka “cancel culture”), political indoctrination of the military, indoctrination in the schools, network news deliberately becoming propaganda outlets, Balkanizing the population, etc.

"Another symptom is the slow strangulation of comics and comedy.

"Comedians are complaining of the toxic air that is stifling comedy. “Cancel culture” is being waged by insufferable, self-righteous fanatics always lurking in the background, ready to pounce on the slightest transgression. Cancel culture has gone after comics because of the hypersensibility of the chronically offended -- in other words, the leftists. It is a type of censorship. Some of the people who partake of the cancel culture also do so for the sheer exercise of power at ruining other people’s lives and livelihood, amazed that it is so easy to do nowadays. The range of punishment varies. Just ask Andrew Dice Clay and Dave Chapelle.

"Incidentally, it all began with the feminists decades ago, who would, at the drop of a hat, mob and shriek at the offender making a joke at their expense -- and feminism is the mother lode for comedy, for anyone who has the brass to go down that route, as did Milo Yiannopoulos." . . .  More...  Other conservative satire sites:  Babylon Bee | Fake News You Can Trust;  Seriously. Shareable. Satire. • Genesius Times; The Glorious American - YouTube

Maria Bartiromo Unloads on Far-Left Rep. Ro Khanna for Absurd Claim Obama 'Delivered' on Iran: 'He Sent Pallets of Cash!'

 America's allies and other nations must love it when today's democrats replace Republicans in our government. Surely nations must be in awe at the silliness - yes, I mean silliness - of those who likely then represent our nation. We can only hope this silliness does not pervade the culture of conservatives. The Tunnel Dweller

The Gateway Pundit  

"Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman recently revealed that President Obama gave Iran $150 billion while he was in office, and the regime did not even build a single street with that money."

"Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo embarrassed Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and his absurd claim that Barack Obama ‘delivered’ on Iran.

"Bartiromo asked Khanna, “Are you suggesting that Obama’s leadership on Iran was better?”

“ 'Because under President Obama, there were 14 wire transfers to a— hold on, hold on. There were 14 wire transfers to a Swiss account linked to Hezbollah between 2014 and 2016. That was a total of $1.7 billion.”

“ 'This was after he left office. So, you know, he— it was almost like a shadow government. He also sent pallets of cash in a plane to Iran.”

“ 'Now, why would you send money to Iran knowing that they are building a nuclear weapon and they are the leading sponsor of terrorism?”

"Unable to dispute a single example of Obama’s support of the brutal Iranian regime,  Khanna replied, “Barack Obama was a great statesman who left America much safer. I wouldn’t put Donald Trump in the same paragraph.” . . .

🚨 BREAKING: Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden have been EXPOSED for putting the entire world at risk due to propping up Iran
KAYLEIGH MCENANY: "A $400 million cash transfer was FLOWN out to Iran...400 million was just the tip of the iceberg. One month later, the Wall Street… pic.twitter.com/ewk5RZwklL

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 14, 2026

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The Democrats Are Becoming More Extreme; And the new radical extremes are only the beginning.

 They have degraded education; journalism; entertainment; even TV channels as a whole. TD

Frontpage Mag  

"But Mamdani wasn’t elected by New Yorkers, but a minority coalition between urban leftists and Muslim occupants, while native New Yorkers mostly sat out the election."

"A recent poll showed current Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who had worked in Cuba with the Marxist Venceremos Brigade trailing Councilwoman Nithya Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Only 24% of Los Angeles residents approve of the job that Bass is doing, which included the worst wildfires in the city’s history, while 47% disapprove.

"If disappointed voters replace Bass with an even more extreme version, that will be in line with what happened in New York City where a widely despised former Mayor Bill de Blasio was, after a one term break to make room for former Mayor Eric Adams, swapped out for Zohran Mamdani, who described him as a role model. Even only 100 days into his term, usually the political ‘honeymoon’ period, Mamdani’s approval rating is at only 43%. And the majority of New Yorkers believe that the city is headed in the wrong direction.

"In Chicago, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, widely hated by voters, was replaced with Mayor Brandon Johnson, who made Lightfoot seem responsible, civil and moderate. Johnson’s approval ratings have recently been in the twenties, but the extremist teachers’ union hack may well be replaced by someone even worse. Possibilities include Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez who spoke in front of a burned American flag at a pro-terrorist rally, and would move the city even further leftward.

"Democrats are in a downward spiral towards further extremes even as their poll ratings sink.

"In Maine, Democrats may well find themselves stuck with Graham Platner, a rich kid pretending to be a fisherman, who boasted of being a Communist, had a Nazi tattoo and praised a Hamas attack. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim who called for abolishing ICE and ‘choking out’ political opponents, who claimed that many in Dearborn mourned Iran’s Jihadist leader, and who has been campaigning with Hasan Piker, a social media influencer who celebrated Hamas and mourned the fall of the USSR, is running neck and neck in the Democrat primary." . . .

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.

Video with Overweight Female NYPD Officer Trying to Help Restrain Punk Shows Exactly Why Mamdani's NYC Is Doomed 

. . . "This is especially true of female cops, who’ve been hired en masse due to the Democrats’ DEI fetish, which has slashed standards amid leftist complaints that the fitness tests prevented women from being hired.This dangerous trend has metastasized nationwide and around the world, making a laughingstock of the police"  .  Watch:.