Is Bari Weiss Bringing Respectability
Back to the Legacy Media?
Posted By: Mercedes44, 10/8/2025 7:17:56 AM
Some of us are old (and gray) enough to remember when the "media" was on paper, backed up by three television networks - if you were lucky enough to live in an area where you could get all three from your roof-mounted television aerial. Those days are long gone, what with the rise of the internet and the alternative media, a sample of which you are reading right now. But the big three television networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, are still around. They are now part of what some of us call the "legacy media," but may also be quite honestly called the "liberal media," for their long-term, well-established leftist slant.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul retains just a five percentage point lead against potential 2026 Republican challenger Elise Stefanik — and loses that advantage when likely voters first hear about both candidates’ records, according to a new internal poll.
Stefanik trails behind Hochul, 48% to 43%, on an initial ballot but narrowly beats the incumbent Democrat, 46.4% to 45.9%, when voters leaning toward voting in the 2026 race hear about the governor endorsing New York City mayoral frontrunner and socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, the poll found, among other issues.
Authorities are investigating a claim by a Maine resident who said she found 250 unmarked absentee ballots in an Amazon package delivered to her home last week, ahead of the state’s November 4 elections.
“To any bad actor involved, you will be caught, and you will be punished,” Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows declared during a press conference Monday.Bellows added that law enforcement in Maine and the FBI are investigating the incident.
“We have received regular updates on the progress of the investigation,” Bellows said. “I have full confidence that law enforcement will determine who is responsible, and any bad actor will be held accountable.”
California’s Largest School District
Bucks Dems, Adopts Ban on Trans Athletes
in Girls’ Sports 8 replies
Bucks Dems, Adopts Ban on Trans Athletes
in Girls’ Sports 8 replies
The Kern High School District, which serves approximately 40,000 students in Bakersfield, voted 3-2 in favor of a resolution that would bring the district into compliance with the Trump administration’s Title IX rules, which ban males who identify as females from participating in girls’ sports.But the resolution also puts the district at odds with the state’s far-left Democrat-led legislature and radical Governor Gavin Newsom.
Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education President Sonja Shaw wrote the resolution.
“I authored this resolution to be the voice of our communities — to stand with our girls and protect the truth that should’ve never been silenced. Boys are boys.
The White House on Tuesday warned that federal bureaucrats who have been forced not to work, due to the Democrat shutdown, are not guaranteed to receive back pay.If the White House were to move on the legal analysis, it would up the ante on Senate Democrats to end the weeklong shutdown by denying back pay to as many as 750,000 federal workers after the shutdown.A memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget argued that the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act (GEFTA), a bill Trump signed during his first term in office,
The entire world knew Joe Biden was corrupt and conflicted.
Now, finally, those in the know are beginning to speak out.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev told reporters former US President Joe Biden “provoked the war in Ukraine to cover up his family’s corruption.”
Kirill added, “The truth is coming out and justice must follow.”Kirill Dmitriev is the chief of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund since 2011, was appointed in February as Putin’s special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation.
Some of us are old (and gray) enough to remember when the "media" was on paper, backed up by three television networks - if you were lucky enough to live in an area where you could get all three from your roof-mounted television aerial. Those days are long gone, what with the rise of the internet and the alternative media, a sample of which you are reading right now.
But the big three television networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, are still around. They are now part of what some of us call the "legacy media," but may also be quite honestly called the "liberal media," for their long-term, well-established leftist slant.
On a lovely Sunday afternoon, I traveled to see for myself what was going on in the streets of Portland at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building that has been under siege by Antifa and its comrades-in-arms for five months now. I actually had an unprecedented experience there. Shocking, really.The entire phalanx of elected officials in Portland announced mere days ago that there was "only" one block of protester activity. They were downplaying the violence that had taken place there. Like robots, they announced to their citizens that visuals from the ICE facility were years old or unrepresentative of the current situation. What was the truth?
French President Emmanuel Macron is running out of wiggle room. The abrupt resignation of his prime minister Monday — Macron’s fourth in more than a year of almost ceaseless political upheaval — puts the French leader in a bind.
None of the options now look appealing for Macron, from his perspective at least. And for France, the road ahead promises more of the political uncertainty that is eroding investor confidence in the European Union’s second-largest economy and is frustrating efforts to rein in France’s damaging state deficit and debts.
Domestic turmoil also risks diverting Macron’s focus from pressing international issues — wars in Gaza and Ukraine, security threats from Russia,
A food aid program that helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, forcing states to use their own money to keep it afloat or risk it shutting down, experts say.
The $8 billion Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, also known as WIC, provides vouchers to buy infant formula as well as fresh fruits and vegetables, low-fat milk and other healthy staples that are often out of financial reach for low-income households.
The shutdown, which began Wednesday, coincided with the beginning of a new fiscal year, meaning programs like WIC,
Pope Leo XIV continues to make thinly veiled jibes against the Trump administration’s stance against illegal immigration.
Speaking in front of thousands of pilgrims at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo warned that migrants must not be treated with “the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination.”
Without singling out any country in particular, Leo said that Catholics should “open our arms and hearts to them, welcoming them as brothers and sisters, and being for them a presence of consolation and hope.”
Leo explained that the church was living through a “new missionary age” that tasked its members with providing “hospitality and welcome, compassion and solidarity” to migrants coming to the West.
President Trump is deploying 400 Texas National Guard troops to Illinois, Oregon, and other states as swarms of anti-ICE protesters continue to clash with federal agents, Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday night.
The Illinois Democrat blasted Trump’s “invasion” hours after the president mobilized 300 California National Guard members to Portland, where unrest has raged for over 100 consecutive days outside an immigration detention center — a scene that has been playing out in Chicago since September.
Pritzker said the plan defies his wishes, adding that federal officials haven’t reached out to coordinate or discuss the deployment.
Fusion energy skeptics consistently scoff at the notion that the technology required to create unlimited pollution-free power by superheating hydrogen atoms in a pressurized containment vessel is always "ten years away."
There is no question that the requirements to create a sustained fusion reaction are daunting – and expensive. Yet the nation that solves the challenge will have access to infinite power that will allow it to dominate the globe, and apply it cleanly and limitlessly to literally everything and anything that requires electricity.
The fusion skeptics are not only short-sighted but may also be absent an appreciation of how successful, strategic investments are made.
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Pritzker: Trump’s Goal Is Use Military
to Confiscate Ballot Boxes to Steal 2026 Elections 34 replies
to Confiscate Ballot Boxes to Steal 2026 Elections 34 replies
On Monday, during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said that the Trump administration was normalizing the presence of the military in cities, allowing them to use these forces to confiscate ballot boxes and recount votes to alter unfavorable results of the 2026 midterm elections.
Pritzker said, “The broader goal, I believe, is the militarization of major American cities before the 2026 elections. Let me be clear about what’s going on on the streets of Chicago. They have dressed ICE and CBP in fatigues, put them in military gear, including with automatic weapons, and had them marching up
Attorney General Pam Bondi got into a heated exchange with Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), accusing him of “lying” about his military record when asked about the lobbying activities of her former firm, Ballard Partners.
The back-and-forth took place during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing with Bondi on Tuesday.(snip)That prompted an indignant response from Bondi, who immediately pivoted to accusing Blumenthal of lying about his military record.
“Sen. Blumenthal, I cannot believe that you would accuse me of impropriety when you lied about your military service. You lied, you admitted you lied to be elected a U.S. senator,” she said, speaking over Blumenthal.
Every Senate Democrat Stands By Jay Jones
After He Fantasized About Assassinating Republican 24 replies
After He Fantasized About Assassinating Republican 24 replies
In response to a Federalist inquiry, not a single Democrat U.S. Senator called for the Virginia Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones to drop out of the race in light of his text messages fantasizing about assassinating Republican Todd Gilbert.
“Put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time,” Jones wrote, after running a hypothetical about how to allocate two bullets among Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. The 2022 text messages were first reported by National Review on Friday. According to a source cited by the outlet, Jones also “suggested he wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her own child die-
As RedState’s Susie Moore reported Monday, the FBI revealed bombshell information that former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team spied on nearly a dozen GOP senators as part of the "Arctic Frost" investigation into January 6th and the 2020 election. According to documents released by Director Kash Patel, Smith and his gang allegedly tracked the phone calls of GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
The entire world knew Joe Biden was corrupt and conflicted.
Now, finally, those in the know are beginning to speak out.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev told reporters former US President Joe Biden “provoked the war in Ukraine to cover up his family’s corruption.”
Kirill added, “The truth is coming out and justice must follow.”Kirill Dmitriev is the chief of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund since 2011, was appointed in February as Putin’s special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation.
China is actively preparing for war against the United States. The signs are obvious and ominous.
During the Biden regime, we saw the first signs of it. The Chinese began a campaign of "elite capture" in the Western Pacific, quietly buying legislators until they controlled the parliaments of at least eight nations and then negotiating defense agreements, that, in the case of the Solomon Islands, gives China the right to deploy troops there to put down civil unrest; see China Seeks to Buy Eight Pacific Island Nations While Joe Biden and His State Department Are Comatose – RedState. Part of this was undoubtedly due to Joe being afraid to upset Xi
Virginia Fraternal Order of Police demands
‘unfit’ Jay Jones drop out of AG race immediately 19 replies
‘unfit’ Jay Jones drop out of AG race immediately 19 replies
The Virginia Fraternal Order of Police is demanding that embattled Democratic attorney general hopeful Jay Jones exit the race “immediately” in light of the recently surfaced text messages showing him fantasizing about the former state House speaker getting shot in the head.
Jones’ disturbing text messages in 2022 had surfaced late last week in a bombshell story, but the AG hopeful has remained in the race and local Democrats have stood by him.
“This conduct has no place in our society or democracy, especially from an elected official who is running to be the top prosecutor in Virginia,” the Old Dominion State’s FOP wrote in a letter to Jones on Monday.
Federally funded researchers bury results
on COVID vaccine effect on liver, kidney
risks in youth 19 replies
on COVID vaccine effect on liver, kidney
risks in youth 19 replies
The Trump administration's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the nail in the coffin of one-size-fits-all COVID-19 vaccine recommendations Monday, updating its children and adult vaccination schedules to encourage physicians, nurses and pharmacists to discuss harms and benefits from vaccination specific to each patient before they get jabbed.
Parents may get an incomplete picture from healthcare providers who don't look too closely at federally funded research that promotes indiscriminate COVID jabs for kids, though.
A research consortium buried a startling finding in its peer-reviewed study on biologically elusive "long COVID" and reinfection in patients under 21, published in a prestigious U.K. journal:
Students at Auburn University taking "Crime and Justice in America" are learning queer criminology, which includes lessons on radical gender ideology that contradict Alabama's definition of sex, critical race theory —the notion that the Black Lives Matter movement has been a positive influence on the nation and other progressive theories on race and racism. Of the course material reviewed, 100% were progressive with ideological talking points.
Joe Biden’s presidency was a multi-trillion dollar criminal conspiracy that shred every “norm,” violated nearly every right, and abused any power it could to punish its political opponents. The Trump administration’s prosecutions of Team Biden’s abuses of power may be the healthiest development for the rule of law since the end of Jim Crow.
This is a story Republicans should tell with pride — and must tell incessantly, or the next Democrat administration will make Biden’s four years look like Camelot under Arthur.
The country is healing: A company that
provided car loans to illegals just went
belly up… 17 replies
provided car loans to illegals just went
belly up… 17 replies
A Dallas-based auto lender built on giving car loans to illegals has just gone belly up, and it’s dragging Wall Street down with it. Tricolor Holdings was once hailed by the US Treasury as a “community development” success story. Now, they’ve just filed for bankruptcy as fraud allegations and a full-blown federal investigation overtake them. The company, which sold overpriced used cars to illegals and wrapped the scheme in a feel-good “social lending” label, is leaving major US banks like JPMorgan, Barclays, and Fifth Third staring at massive losses.
Biden FBI spied on eight GOP senators,
damning new doc claims: ‘Arguably worse
than Watergate’ 17 replies
damning new doc claims: ‘Arguably worse
than Watergate’ 17 replies
The FBI secretly obtained the phone records of nine Republican members of Congress, including eight sitting senators, under the Biden administration as part of its “Arctic Frost” investigation of 2020 election meddling, a bombshell document revealed.
Specific reasons for the FBI’s espionage of the sitting lawmakers are not clear. The document revealing the spy effort was recently turned over to lawmakers and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released it to the public on Monday.
“Based on the evidence to-date, Arctic Frost and related weaponization by federal law enforcement under Biden was arguably worse than Watergate,” Grassley said in a statement.