Deputy AG Todd Blanche Annihilates Stephanopoulos
Over Don Lemon
Posted By: Mercedes44, 2/1/2026 9:02:22 PM
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche just destroyed ABC's George Stephanopoulos during a contentious exchange on This Week, calling out the network for what he characterized as biased coverage protecting former CNN anchor Don Lemon following his arrest for involvement in storming a church service in St. Paul.It all started when Stephanopoulos asked when Blanche believed Lemon had crossed the line from journalism into criminal activity. Rather than taking the bait, Blanche immediately went on the offensive, pointing out a glaring omission in ABC's coverage. "Conveniently missing from what you just showed, George,
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Left-Wing Bias in Education
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Left-wing bias in education. It has been following my son through every school he has attended and has once again raised its ugly head at his current college in Bedfordshire. My son is currently studying three A-level subjects there, having joined in September last year. One of those subjects is A-level law – evidence-based, focusing on factual information without fear, favour or prejudice, right? Not quite, it seems.
Although he has been at the college for less than a year, he (and we as parents) have noticed extreme Left-wing agendas and beliefs being pushed onto the students. Many, if not most, of the students either swallow it unthinkingly –
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche just destroyed ABC's George Stephanopoulos during a contentious exchange on This Week, calling out the network for what he characterized as biased coverage protecting former CNN anchor Don Lemon following his arrest for involvement in storming a church service in St. Paul.It all started when Stephanopoulos asked when Blanche believed Lemon had crossed the line from journalism into criminal activity. Rather than taking the bait, Blanche immediately went on the offensive, pointing out a glaring omission in ABC's coverage.
"Conveniently missing from what you just showed, George,
RNC Nears $100 Million War Chest Ahead
of Midterms as Democrats Sink $3.5 Million
Into the Red 5 replies
of Midterms as Democrats Sink $3.5 Million
Into the Red 5 replies
The Republican National Committee (RNC) enters the 2026 midterms in strong financial shape.
The same cannot be said for the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
According to a report from The New York Times, the DNC currently has $14 million on hand but is carrying $17.5 million in debt, leaving the party roughly $3.5 million in the red.
Party leaders are said to be “privately alarmed” by the state of the finances.By contrast, the RNC is sitting on a $95.1 million war chest and reports no debt.
Their report states:
Without a president to headline events, the party that does not hold the White House often struggles to raise money in its main national committee.
Tech titans unite
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Tech titans have mobilized against California’s proposed 5% billionaire tax —- and no wonder, as the tax could strip some of the state’s richest inventors of controlling interests in the companies they founded.
The moguls’ effort, dubbed Building a Better California, points anew to state government’s failure to prioritize the public good over gluttonous special interests.
It also affirms the need for Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators — and their voracious public union allies — to stop chasing wealth, jobs and people from the once-Golden State.
Already, the proposed billionaire tax, led by SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, has caused a wealth and talent drain as Larry Page,
Somehow, the entertainment media has become even more hateful, bigoted, bubbled, elitist, dishonest, and useless than the corporate political media.
Case in point…
As of this writing, Melania, a documentary about First Lady Melania Trump, which has already taken the box office crown for the best documentary opening weekend in a decade, has a six percent rotten score over at Rotten Tomatoes.
The Normal People score, however, sits at 98 percent fresh.
That’s a 92 percent gap between Normal People and Corrupt Critics.
It’s Saturday, and I got TV to watch, so I’m not going to do the research, but my memory tells me that is the biggest gap in the history of Rotten Tomatoes.
A US judge delivered a blow Saturday to Minnesota’s bid to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement to suspend its sweeping detention and deportation operation in the state that has left two US citizens dead and fueled massive protests.But while the federal court denied the state’s bid to immediately halt the operation, a judge in a separate case delivered a stinging rebuke of the government and ordered authorities to release a five-year-old Minnesota boy and his father who were detained during the immigration crackdown.The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently—
Disgraced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz claimed this week that he would “never again” run for office but did not share if he had ruled out stepping into Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) seat should she win the governor’s race and appoint him to replace her.In the weeks before Klobuchar announced her gubernatorial bid on Thursday, Townhall’s Dustin Grage reported that sources who helped predict Walz’s rise to becoming former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 running mate indicated that “the plan is to clear the way for Amy Klobuchar, so she can appoint him to the U.S. Senate.”
Sacramento is pervaded by a culture of corruption.
Fake non-profit organizations that win public grants. So-called “infrastructure” projects that never get built, but always get funded.
Public corruption charges tied to the governor’s inner circle. “Behested payments” to politicians’ pet causes and to charities run by their families.
A recent and troubling example involves lobbyist Greg Campbell, who pleaded guilty to federal charges last December, and, allegedly, Dana Williamson, Governor Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff. Both Campbell and Williamson were publicly celebrated for their political skills before their respective falls from grace.
‘Melania’ Humiliates Media, Exceeds
Expectations with Best Documentary Box
Office Opening in Decade 10 replies
Expectations with Best Documentary Box
Office Opening in Decade 10 replies
The legacy media are eating crow once more now that Melania has scored the best box office opening for a documentary in a decade. Over and over, Trump supporters were taunted by the corporate media about empty theaters, an imminent box office humiliation, and zero advance ticket sales.
Well, reality has once again debunked these serial liars.
The far-left Deadline reports that Melania will close the weekend box office in third place with an $8 million opening, a “result that would mark the best start for a docu in the last decade.”
It’s now been over a year since the catastrophic wildfires that burned down entire neighborhoods in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas of Los Angeles. The planning for such an eventuality and the Keystone Cops response to it have drawn blistering criticism from everyone from Donald Trump to billionaire developer Rick Caruso to actor Spencer Pratt, who lost his house in the conflagration and is now running to replace Karen Bass as LA mayor. Some of the harshest words, however, came Wednesday from someone who presumably knows a thing or two about fires: Redondo Beach Fire Chief Patrick Butler.
This week, Will Norman, London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, was photographed trying “the excellent new cycle lanes on Lambeth Bridge”. He was joined by two cycling groups, the London Cycling Campaign and Cycle Sisters UK. In this piece I am going to delve into the latter as an example of how ridiculous identity politics has become, so much so that there are now exercise charities only open to minorities.
Case in point: Cycle Sisters UK describes itself as “award-winning charity which creates accessible and empowering spaces for Muslim and ethnically diverse women to cycle and become more healthy, confident and connected”.
The Senate on Friday evening voted 71-29 to pass a revised $1.2 trillion funding package that will partially fund the government until September 30.
The bill will now head to the House.
The House is in recess until Monday, so the government will partially shut down over the weekend.
The Democrats and President Trump will have two weeks to negotiate the Homeland Security appropriations bill. The Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday to pass a major funding package consisting of five regular appropriations bills and a two-week stopgap measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but the legislation won’t become law before parts of the government shut down at midnight.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Wednesday said the country needs a national conversation about immigrants lacking permanent legal status who “obey the law,” as public opinion sours on the Trump administration’s deportation sweeps. (snip) “On the other hand, people do not want to give them citizenship. So there should be some middle ground here on long-term goals,” he added.
Gingrich’s comments coincide with Fox News host Sean Hannity speaking out against workplace raids during immigration enforcement crackdowns nationwide.
I'm a business owner in Minneapolis working
16-hour shifts so my staff can stay home
to avoid ICE 37 replies
16-hour shifts so my staff can stay home
to avoid ICE 37 replies
I run a fast casual chicken restaurant in Richfield, Minnesota, a suburb just south of Minneapolis. With ICE agents in the area, I don't know when — or if — staff will be able to come to work. We all have pretty set schedules, and we're tight-knit. There are only six of us operating this place, seven days a week. And I have concerns: Are my employees going to get stopped on their way to work? Are they going to be hassled or detained? Are they going to come back? It's a day-by-day thing. Over the past couple of weeks, we've adjusted
Super Bowl LX is almost here, and the NFL is making fandom a whole lot kinder. In an exclusive shared with The Hollywood Reporter, NFL executives announced that YouTube sensation Dhar Mann, 41, has been named the league’s first-ever Chief Kindness Officer. Mann also serves as the league’s “Creator of the Week” leading up to the big game. (snip) As part of the lead-up to Super Bowl LX, Dhar Mann has been tapped to partner with the NFL to help deliver the league’s “Be Nice to Your Rival” campaign.
The United Nations is going broke and needs member nations to stump up cash. Lots of it. That is the plea from Secretary-General António Guterres who fears the globalist body is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to member states not paying their fees.
The former leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party said Friday the U.N. faces a financial crisis which was “deepening, threatening programme delivery” and money could run out as soon as July leaving the unaccountable globalist cabal destitute.
Such is the financial drama unfolding at U.N. headquarters in Geneva, signs warning of the situation have reportedly been put up everywhere.
Tennessee family threatened by HOA for
using generator after ice storm cut off
power, heat 26 replies
using generator after ice storm cut off
power, heat 26 replies
A Tennessee family was allegedly threatened with fines by their homeowners’ association to remove the generator that was heating their house, as the neighborhood was plunged into darkness during below-freezing temperatures.
Talia Caravello said she was told that her generator didn’t comply with the aesthetic code of her townhouse in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood of Nashville when she lost electricity during a brutal ice storm on Sunday, according to WSMV.
Caravello purchased a $1,500 generator, extension cords and space heaters to keep her family warm as indoor temperatures dropped to 30 degrees following the storm that left four people dead.
California drivers and Republican legislators are furious over a Democrat-led proposal that could see motorists taxed for each mile they drive.
With the state staring down a budget deficit in the billions and more Californians switching to electric vehicles, Democratic lawmakers are searching for new ways to shore up declining gas tax revenue.
Californians pay the second-highest gas price in the nation behind only Hawaii. In January, the average price was $4.23 per gallon, according to the American Automobile Association. On Thursday, state legislators advanced Democrat Lori Wilson’s bill, AB 1421, which would direct the California Transportation Commission and the state Transportation Agency to continue studying options for a mileage-based tax,
California’s 66th Assembly District (AD-66).
AD-66 is home to Chevron’s El Segundo refinery and PBF Energy’s Torrance refinery. And until the end of last year, it was also home to Phillips 66’s Los Angeles refinery, which has now stopped producing transportation fuel entirely. Three major refineries in one Assembly district. One is already offline. Two remain, operating under growing regulatory and economic pressure.
That did not happen by chance.
Over the last four decades, California has steadily reduced its in-state refining footprint through a mix of regulatory pressure, capital flight, and policy uncertainty.
Disgraced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz claimed this week that he would “never again” run for office but did not share if he had ruled out stepping into Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) seat should she win the governor’s race and appoint him to replace her.In the weeks before Klobuchar announced her gubernatorial bid on Thursday, Townhall’s Dustin Grage reported that sources who helped predict Walz’s rise to becoming former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 running mate indicated that “the plan is to clear the way for Amy Klobuchar, so she can appoint him to the U.S. Senate.”
Few things better exemplify the inability of the left to tolerate contrary viewpoints than the recent struggle session framed as an "Internal Town Hall" when CNN CEO Mark Thompson was confronted by leftist staffers who claimed they were offended by the existence on their network of conservative commentator Scott Jennings.
It seems they agreed with recent NewsNight guest Cameron Kasky, who arrogantly declared to Jennings that he was somehow not permitted to use the term "illegal alien" despite the fact it is a legal term written into immigration law. The left-leaning Daily Beast went into further detail about the CNN town hall/struggle session/confrontation on Friday
A federal judge on Friday struck down key portions of President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at tightening citizenship verification for voter registration and absentee ballot applications, ruling the White House overstepped its constitutional authority.U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the Constitution gives states and Congress, not the president, the power to set rules for federal elections. Kollar-Kotelly blocked provisions in the executive order that would have required documentary proof of American citizenship on federal voter registration and absentee ballot forms.
‘I Will Not Be Silenced’
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Don Lemon has been released without bail after appearing in a Los Angeles court Friday on federal charges relating to his coverage of anti-ICE protests at a church in Minneapolis earlier this month.The 59 year-old newsman - sporting a white suit and cream sweater - is accused of conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers.During his 20 minute appearance Lemon didn't enter a formal plea but his lawyer Marilyn Bednarski told the court that he was pleading not guilty.[snip] Judge Donahue rejected federal prosecutors' request for $100,000 bail and released Lemon on his own recognizance.
A Detroit judge is facing federal charges, along with three Detroiters, in connection with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from vulnerable people.
Judge Andrea Bradley-Baskin, 46, of the 36th District Court, Nancy Williams, 59, Avery Bradley, 72, and Dwight Rashad, 69, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced on Jan. 30, 2026. Bradley faces additional charges of wire fraud, several counts of money laundering and making a false statement to a federal law enforcement agent.