Let That Sink In
Media Matters, a nonprofit group that has played a key role in liberal politics, is struggling to withstand months of legal assaults by President Trump’s allies, offering a glimpse of what might be in store for even well-funded targets of his retribution campaigns.
The organization, which is funded by some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors, has racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months to defend itself against lawsuits by Elon Musk, in addition to investigations by Mr. Trump’s Federal Trade Commission and Republican state attorneys general.
The group has slashed the size of its staff and scrambled to raise more cash from skittish donors, according to documents and interviews with 11 people familiar with the organization’s fight to survive.
That might not be enough. Media Matters tried to settle with Mr. Musk by offering concessions, but the sides were far apart and talks fizzled. Even when the group has triumphed in court, Mr. Musk has appealed or filed new cases elsewhere. As a last resort, it has considered shuttering, according to interviews and an internal document.
Publicly, the group has said that it has no plans to close, and that it is committed to defending itself as a matter of principle.
They should have read the new rules.
For Your Weekend Entertainment
Sweet dreams are made of @CovKyPD as they swiftly clear rioters illegally blocking roads and a bridge. Cross the line from "peaceful protest" to criminal acts, and you’ve earned your time behind bars. Great work, Covington PD! pic.twitter.com/2pBDDuZiwJ
— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) July 18, 2025
47: No WHO For You
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just announced the defeat of authoritarian World Health Organization amendments that tended toward an anti-freedom, unhealthful, unscientific dystopia.
Kennedy joined with Secretary of State Marco Rubio to formally reject the amendments. Critics have long warned these modifications would essentially have given the WHO total control to dictate the United States’ national response to anything it arbitrarily labeled a pandemic.
“The proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations open the door to the kind of narrative management, propaganda, and censorship that we saw during the COVID pandemic,” Kennedy said in a Friday press release. “The United States can cooperate with other nations without jeopardizing our civil liberties, without undermining our Constitution, and without ceding away America’s treasured sovereignty.”
Quoi?
Wonders Of The Modern World
Specifically:
Amplified shoes and artistic buttocks; some post-election coping strategies for extremely progressive feminists; the intersectional pecking order; and when your ten-year-old daughter discovers it’s his ladies’ changing room now.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
University: Meet the Dartmouth College students and faculty arrested at Hamas-endorsed protest
“What Real Economic Policy Looks Like”
Dan Knight- Work Hard, Keep More, What Canada Can Learn from America’s Overtime Tax Break
Say what you will about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and to be clear, we do not approve of mortgaging the future with more reckless federal spending. But credit where it is due this bill includes one of the smartest, most grounded policies we’ve seen from Washington in years.
It rewards people who want to work.
“We’re gonna teach them how to run… away from an alligator.”
“Alejandro Orellana is charged with Conspiracy to Aid and Abet.”
Sorry Alex, but you should have read the new rules. Federal grand jury indicts LA man who went viral for dropping off truck-load of face shields on Live TV for protestors to use in demonstrations against law enforcement amid LA riots/protests.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Get spanked.
.@SecDef slams the FAKE news:
"What is really happening is you are undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots, and incredible F-35 pilots, and incredible refuelers, and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission." pic.twitter.com/WTOJuOmX0V
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 26, 2025
New Rules
Another OMG sting: A U.S. State Department official responsible for reviewing visa applications has been caught on hidden camera making alarming admissions, both about his work and his biases.
“I do say it to cab drivers that are from, like, Hispanic descent, I’m like, ‘don’t talk to the police.’ Don’t admit the truth… If you want a loophole, keep your mouth shut,” said Arslan Akhtar, A U.S. State Department employee responsible for reviewing visa applications, speaking to an undercover OMG journalist. Akhtar has been caught on hidden camera admitting to helping illegal immigrants evade deportation and expressing virulent antisemitic, anti-American, and anti-Israel views, all while holding an influential role in U.S. immigration decisions.
I know you were comfortable with the old rules Arslan, but the rules have changed.
“Benny’s chain of command has been notified.”
Sorry Benny, but these are the new rules.
Maryland Man
He’s being tried in Tennessee.
Last Friday, the Trump administration announced the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, While Democrats and the mainstream media may want to put out a particular narrative about this “Maryland man” or even “Maryland father,” the truth is he’s being brought back to face some pretty serious charges. […]
“But if he’s found guilty, he’s going to spend a long time in prison complaining about his ideological, radical lawyers who made a hero out of him and tried to get him back to the United States, when that was not in his own self interest,” Dershowitz still further stressed. “So, lawyers made the most fundamental mistake a lawyer can make: putting ideology before the best interests of the client.”
FAFO
New Rules
The wife and children of Boulder, Colorado, terrorism suspect Mohamed Soliman are in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the family is being processed for expedited removal, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
“We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it,” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Tuesday. “I am continuing to pray for the victims of this attack and their families. Justice will be served.”
Soliman — who was arrested after allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails in an “act of terrorism” during a pro-Israel demonstration on Sunday — has been in the U.S. on an expired tourist visa, officials said.
More from NYPost.
“Have you ever witnessed verbal dynamite being detonated?”
On May 19, Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General issued a memorandum announcing that the administration would begin employing the False Claims Act to investigate those “who defraud the United States by taking its money while knowingly violating civil rights laws… and falsely [certifying] compliance with such laws.”
New Rules
BREAKING: In a letter sent today, @AGPamBondi informed the American Bar Association that they will no longer enjoy “special access to judicial nominees.” The ABA will no longer be granted waivers allowing the ABA access to non-public information, and judicial nominees will no longer respond to questionnaires by the ABA or sit for interviews with the ABA.
Bondi explained: “…the ABA no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications, and its ratings invariably and demonstrably favor nominees put forth by Democratic administrations.”
New Rules
Universities and colleges across the country can thank Harvard for this latest development. If federal courts won’t allow the Department of Homeland Security to deal directly with Harvard on compliance for the Student Education Visa Program (SEVP), the administration can simply make it more difficult for everyone instead.
That seems to be the case today, although this may have accelerated a project that would have started soon anyway. After a federal court issued a stay that allows Harvard to continue enrolling foreign students, the Trump administration paused the entire program. Embassies and consulates have been ordered to stop conducting necessary interviews to process those applications until new vetting standards are put into place…
The Art Of Diplomacy
🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just DIRECTLY confronted the President of South Africa with videos of his government calling for WHITE GENOCIDE
"Turn the lights down and roll the video!"
"These are burial sites — crosses marking murdered White farmers"
The President of SA looks… pic.twitter.com/WHr5zxDVO3
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 21, 2025
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