Everybody’s tabbing at me – can’t hear a link they’re clicking …
It is insane that illegal aliens with deportation orders can hold press conferences denouncing the US govt and apparently nothing happens. https://t.co/cGTyWx9yg4
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 12, 2025
Ed: There is a lot of idiocy surrounding Maryland Man. This is actually the least offensive, perhaps because we’ve gotten used to a lot worse over the last few years in terms of anarcho-nihilist rhetoric. I prefer my vintage to be of more domestic varieties, to be sure, but at least this one is less acidic than most others.
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Shipwreckedcrew’s Port-O-Call: One of two things is true — either Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland understands the issue and is being intellectually dishonest, or she is trapped into the mindset of an Article III District Judge and can’t navigate her way through the statutes and case law of the Immigration and Nationality Act that she’s barred by Congress from interpreting.
Her Order dated October 11, requiring the Government to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ICE custody on the finding that there is no lawful basis to hold him reflects a basic misunderstanding of the terminology and nomenclature of Immigration law and Immigration courts.
She is the walking embodiment of the reason Congress divested District Judges of jurisdiction to involve themselves in individual immigration cases where their biases simply bring the process to a halt. This one district judge has now held up the lawful removal of an illegal alien for nearly six months because of a long and continuing fit of pique over what she sees as unfair treatment that began with an administrative error.
Ed: To quote my friend Glenn Reynolds, never discount the healing power of “and.” Xinis can be both an idiot and an activist. The older I get, the more it becomes apparent that they are not mutually exclusive. Be sure to read it all, though. Ship doesn’t get around to Xinis’ misapplication of Zandyvdas, but only because Ship has a plethora of material to plumb here.
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EXCLUSIVE: Luxury cars, private villas and overseas wire transfers: CBS News obtained dozens of files and photos that reveal how Minnesota fraudsters blew through hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars as part of one of the biggest COVID-era fraud schemes.… pic.twitter.com/6falojnlNP
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) December 11, 2025
Ed: Scott Johnson actually endorsed this CBS News report, albeit with a tweak at the network for its claims to be “exclusive.”
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The Spectator: 146 days. That’s how long Kamala Harris’s book tour will be when combining the fall leg of the tour and the additional spring dates she announced on Wednesday. That eclipses the 107 days she spent on the campaign trail.
Her speaking tour complaining will now exceed the time she spent campaigning. Perhaps that’s appropriate for Harris. It’s symbolic of the fact that she will be remembered much more for losing than for anything she accomplished in office.
Ed: Yes, but how difficult would that be? What did she “accomplish” in office, other than set a new standard for gobbledygook? I’m serious about that question. Other than get elected, name me a single accomplishment Harris had in either the Senate or as VP.
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ALERT: Holiday shopping turns violent at Macy’s in Midtown New York as a woman is stabbed inside a fitting room. SNC’s @DianteMarigny has the details. pic.twitter.com/y7PweWZdp8
— Salem News Channel (@WatchSalemNews) December 12, 2025
Ed: This is what happens when you let crazies wander the streets rather than keep them locked up.
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Free Beacon: Left-wing congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) holds an 8-point advantage over state representative James Talarico in Texas’s Democratic Senate primary, according to the first poll released since Crockett entered the race.
The survey of likely Democratic voters, released on Friday by Texas Southern University, found Crockett with a comfortable margin at 51 percent and Talarico trailing at 43 percent. Six percent of voters were unsure. The poll is the first to come out since Crockett entered the race, a move that caused one primary rival, Colin Allred, to drop out.
Some Democrats are upset that Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee failed to keep Crockett out of the race. “They have a ton of tools they could’ve used and they didn’t use them,” one operative involved in the race told Politico. “They don’t have the political power they once had … but it’s evident how weak they are institutionally.”
Ed: I’m not surprised that Talarico falls that far back from Crockett, who has a much higher profile statewide and nationally. Although Talarico has gotten some mention as a potential up-and-comer, he’s still just a member of the state legislature and far less known than Crockett. The DSCC needed to either push Allred or convince Beto O’Rourke to try again, but then again, both of them have lost statewide races before too. I’m not sure that the DSCC could have recruited someone who had a chance to win statewide, except maybe for Henry Cuellar, and the Left would have roasted the DSCC had they tried.
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Woman who’s been following ICE agents in Minnesota claims they following her as well,
“I seen them driving, specifically following me.”pic.twitter.com/12EjPpIoTv
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) December 12, 2025
Ed: I’m not sure if this is paranoia, projection, or a little bit of both. Let’s jsust remind everyone that ICE agents are looking for illegal alien absconders, so if you’re not among that group, you don’t need to “be careful.” Unless and until you obstruct their operations, that is.
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Politico: “I think there’s a broad understanding her credibility has been shredded and the idea of her as a reliable narrator in telling any story, even hers, not many readers are going to believe that,” said a publishing industry insider granted anonymity to speak candidly. The person called it a “publishing debacle of epic proportions” and said that given Nuzzi’s earlier reputation — she was a star magazine writer who was given glowing treatment in a Times profile last month — the sales expectation would be at least 5,000 hardcover copies in its first week. …
Since Nuzzi started promoting the book, her former fiancé, journalist Ryan Lizza, has published a series of Substack posts describing her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and alleged ethical breaches. Lizza, a former POLITICO staffer, issued his fifth installment on Wednesday night. Nuzzi has called Lizza’s writings “harmful revenge porn”; he says she can’t handle the truth and so is blaming him for her failings.
“Heads should roll over the disaster, whether it’s crisis PR consultants involved or editors,” the publishing industry insider added. “It’s a disaster from start to finish.”
Ed: That’s true both of the book itself and of its reception, apparently. There really is no excuse here, given the nature of Nuzzi’s ethical violations and the quality of her prose otherwise.
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“I went to Minnesota expecting to find anger over billions of dollars stolen from kids, but I can only find what I find, and what I found was an attitude that graft, by the right people, is almost viewed as an acceptable form of reparations.” https://t.co/8K4El9UC1u
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) December 12, 2025
Ed: H.L. Mencken’s description of democracy comes to mind.
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Matt Taibbi: In oral arguments this week for Trump v. Slaughter, the high-impact Supreme Court case argued this week over the right of the president to fire the Federal Trade Commissioner, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the quiet part out loud. …
Hoo, boy. There is a view — increasingly popular under Trump — that The People are too dumb to rule and need an educated vanguard class to save them from their racist, nationalist, idiot selves. In the Twitter Files and subsequent public debates about online content, it was frequently said that speech can be free, sure, but only with “guardrails.” Who’d set those “guardrails”? Experts, preferably “independent” ones. Brown Jackson’s voice creaked with impatience this week when she articulated the idea that Smart People must never be subordinate to the Dumb:
Having a president come in and fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the Ph.Ds and replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States… These issues should not be in presidential control. …
The clash in the Supreme Court this week illustrated the “voters versus experts” divide as clearly as you’ll ever see it. The fuse to this cultural bomb was set almost 150 years ago, and is only now going off[.]
Ed: This is an excellent essay, well worth reading in full. And yes, Jackson’s comment was akin to the techocratic authoritarians taking off their “quasi”-constitutional masks fully and without apology.
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After a ton of community pressure in May, the city of Los Angeles cleared a homeless encampment that was set up between two schools.
I hope you’re sitting down, but the homeless encampment is back between the schools and it’s worse than ever. pic.twitter.com/JXXKUHTwvD
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) December 12, 2025
Ed: Angelenos refuse to vote for responsible governance. If they want this cleaned up, then they had better vote for mayors, city councils, and county supervisors who will commit to enforcing the laws they pass. Start arresting people for vagrancy and using involuntary commitment for the mentally ill, and this problem will disappear.
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WATCH: Stephen Moore makes it clear that “almost every single indicator on the economy is really strong.”
“We have all this capital coming to the US. The economy, in my opinion, as an economist, is really set up for a booming year in 2026.”pic.twitter.com/sdEMb6sxME
— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) December 12, 2025
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JUST IN: Matt Walsh asks Candace Owens to stop attacking Erika Kirk.
“We have a moral obligation as children of our heavenly father to be charitable and kind towards suffering widows.”
“Especially the widow of a man that all of us on the right say that we respected and… pic.twitter.com/Vht3TzBm75
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 12, 2025
… and admired.”
Ed: When the grift stops being profitable, the grifters will stop grifting.
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Tim Pool tells @piersmorgan about the real problem with Candace Owens. “She is burning down everything Charlie Kirk built and now has the gall to go after his grieving widow.”
Massive credit to Piers for giving a mainstream platform to sane voices to hammer Candace. pic.twitter.com/7T5dnlDroM
— Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) December 12, 2025
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