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It’s amazing watching a story I broke over a month ago get re-reported now by other outlets and then go viral. https://t.co/zbVlcnEUyh @Heminator @LeeSmithDC @instapundit @daveweigel @maxwelltani @AceofSpadesHQ @MZHemingway @BrentScher @timerice1 @TimJGraham @thedailybeast
— Mark Judge (@markgjudge) May 27, 2025
Ed: Actually, it's closer to two months ago. Here's the link. Mark pinged me on this a little while ago, and my reaction was, "I thought this sounded familiar!"
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As Democrats cast about for a strategy to thwart President Donald Trump’s agenda, rebrand their party and take back power, Sen. Elissa Slotkin recently offered one intriguing idea: Build a shadow Cabinet.
The shadow Cabinet, as envisioned by the Michigan Democrat in an interview with POLITICO, could be composed of the ranking members of congressional committees who could then take the lead in challenging the Trump administration. It’s a common feature of opposition politics abroad and could be a way for Democrats to flood the media zone and deliver a coordinated response to Trump’s most wild maneuvers. But … ranking members?
Ranking members have their uses. They’re good at reclaiming their time and making motions to recommit. But they are not the fresh faces who can give the Democratic Party a sleek new look.
Ed: Democrats really refuse to face reality. They are not out of power because of a cyclical change; voters detest them because the party has run to the fringe. They don't need a "shadow cabinet," especially after spending the last four years conspiring to foist a shadow presidency on the American electorate. When they stop clinging to their radical ideology and the 20% of the electorate it attracts, they won't need a "shadow cabinet" to vie for power.
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I've said for years now that if Democrats want to understand the electorate, get out of DC/NYC/LA and go to a live country music concert and a live WWE event. You don't need to commission a $20 million study. Just go do what us normal folk do every weekend FFS. https://t.co/dJkyFa0KNJ
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) May 26, 2025
This attitude right here is just as bad as the perceived problem with Democrats. I don’t find WWE events “normal” in the least. And while I’m no fan of country music, it may be “normal” but I’ve never known anyone who listens to it. You don’t get to define “normal.”
— David Badash (@DavidBadash) May 25, 2025
Ed: The problem in a nutshell ... where it belongs. It's as if the Left has suddenly adopted Pauline Kael as their leading light.
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A growing number of states are rolling out subsidies for satellite connectivity in rural areas, a change that could be a boon to Elon Musk’s Starlink and another nascent service from Amazon.
From Maine to Nevada, states are starting to help some of the 24 million Americans who lack reliable broadband pay for satellite internet, rather than focusing such aid primarily on fiber connectivity as they have in the past.
Ed: Here's another reason that voters soured on Democrats. Biden got $40 billion to expand rural broadband as part of the "Inflation Reduction Act," and connected exactly zero homes with it. We all remarked at the time, as well as when the results finally emerged, that the money appropriated for the purpose could have signed up every rural home in America to Starlink. Democrats instead used it as a slush fund for their activist allies.
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Not enough people are talking about the fact that we can defeat THREE democrat Supreme Court Justices in Pennsylvania this November.
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) May 27, 2025
If you post something negative about Pam Bondi or Kash Patel, it goes viral.
But posts about flipping the PA Supreme Court 🟦🔜🟥 aren’t “sexy.”
Ed: It's on the radar screen now. Given just how much interference the judiciary has created at the beginning of Trump's new term in office, I imagine it will hit the radar screen hard in Pennsylvania. That election is this year, not next year in the midterms, so turnout will be tricky.
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The entire video desk, the copy desk, and the sports copy desks were also offered buyout packages, which Murray stressed were voluntary. Staffers will have until July to make a decision. The opinion desk was told the buyouts were meant to let staffers “make a clear-eyed decision on whether they want to be part of the new direction for Post Opinion,” according to The New York Times, after Bezos announced his plans to lean into the traditionally conservative values of “free markets and personal liberties.” The Post did not respond to an immediate request for comment.
Ed: David will write more about this tomorrow, but I'll chime in by pointing out that Bezos isn't just paring down the opinion-section staff. That's part of this, but the overall effort appears to go beyond the idea that Bezos wants to "lean into the traditionally conservative values of free markets and personal liberties." It looks more like Bezos is cutting deadwood in an attempt to stanch the bleeding red ink from the Post's balance sheet. It's not like Bezos hasn't warned everyone about that, either.
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"The President of the University of Virginia was justifying the marginalization of students on Grounds—and doing nothing about it. At that moment, I knew that man should not be sitting behind the desk in Madison Hall."
— The Jefferson Council (@TheJeffersonC) May 26, 2025
The Jefferson Council’s president, Joel Gardner, doesn’t… pic.twitter.com/qHtL5RPVJh
The Jefferson Council’s president, Joel Gardner, doesn’t hold back. In this must-watch thread, he exposes 15 years of decline at UVA—from scandal after scandal with no accountability, to bloated DEI bureaucracies, to the targeting of dissenting students and faculty—and Joel makes a powerful call for bold, urgent reform to restore the University’s core values.
This is your crash course in everything going wrong at UVA.
Ed: Worth watching in full. Perhaps there is some hope for Academia yet, but we need to see a lot more of this before we let the pressure subside.
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He refused to name which towns or clan elders were already whispering with him, citing the start-up rule that you “build outside the system and invite the system in only when the prototype runs.” But anyone who spends an afternoon in the industrial zones of Binyamin hears the same arithmetic Barkat hears: Gulf money is flowing everywhere except here; PA fees bleed local manufacturers; Israeli checkpoints, however resented, at least keep the road open.
LATER, BEHIND the scenes, Barkat showed me clear evidence – many local Palestinian leaders would consider signing the Abraham Accords.
Ed: I'd love to believe this. It makes a lot of sense, but "local Palestinian leaders" have done exactly squat in the last six decades or more to deflect the PLO, their successor Fatah, or Hamas from their grip on power. The only way this happens is to have the IDF completely destroy Hamas in Gaza and then make it clear that Fatah is next unless serious changes are made.
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Victor Davis Hanson: DEI Enthusiasts Allowed the Free Palestine Movement to Get This Far
— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) May 27, 2025
Last week’s killings of two Israeli embassy employees in the name of “Free Palestine” is just another sad example of how the Left has lowered the bar for the justification of political… pic.twitter.com/TC1hN2L2Es
Ed: This is precisely correct. And it's not just aimed at targets inside the US.
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A Colorado man allegedly tried to firebomb a US Embassy office in Israel — and threatened to kill President Trump and Elon Musk, federal prosecutors revealed on Sunday.
Joseph Neumeyer, 28, a US-German dual citizen, was charged with attempting to destroy the US Embassy branch in Tel Aviv during his appearance at the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Neumeyer was deported from Israel on Saturday and was detained pending trial, according to a press release of the complaint sent out on Sunday.
Ed: This guy put out so many red flags that it's amazing it took this long for the US and Israel to act.
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🚨 @townhallcom's @guybenson, "in private... in secret, a small group of unelected people running the executive branch. That is not allowed under the Constituiton and that is a genuine, serious scandal."pic.twitter.com/E3UV3sp0yC
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 27, 2025
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