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🚨BRUTAL: Joe Scarborough stumbles through trying to explain away how he covered up for Joe Biden's mental decline. pic.twitter.com/LjWfycMrEY
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 28, 2025
Ed: Come on, man. Don't keep trying to explain the inexplicable. If you're explaining, you're losing.
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"Because that hatred for him that led people to compromise their own professional principles just to ensure that he didn't win the presidency — well, if you were willing to do that, then all of a sudden, does it not buffer his arguments about lawfare being exercised against him?" Smith said, referring to the multiple legal battles Trump faced while running for president. "Does it not buffer his arguments about fake news, fake news, fake news? Does it not buffer the credibility that comes to his arguments that it was a witch hunt?”
Ed: Smith is no fan of Trump either. Be sure to watch the whole thing.
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President Donald Trump’s executive orders on nuclear power could lead to the deployment of small modular reactors in the U.S. by late 2030, GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik said Wednesday.
Trump on Friday ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to decide on applications to construct and operate new nuclear plants within 18 months. The order also calls for the NRC to “adopt shorter deadlines tailored to particular reactor types.” The nuclear industry has long complained that the NRC’s approval process takes too long.
Trump’s order could result in approvals to start building small modular reactors in the U.S. by 2027, Strazik told the research firm Bernstein in an interview. This would create a “credible shot” of adding these reactors to the U.S. nuclear fleet in late 2030 or 2031, the CEO said.
Ed: This would be a huge step forward in scalable "clean" energy. This is exactly what we need to incentivize manufacturing in the US, as well as expanded capital investment in all sectors of our economy. Right now we don't generate enough scalable electricity to deal with peak demands on the grid as it stands today, and the needs will only grow in the future. Especially if we want to transfer personal vehicles to the grid.
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Polling consistently shows that voters hate earmarks. Yet some political scientists argue that pork-barrel spending is an important tool for making Congress work.
— Kite & Key Media (@kiteandkeymedia) May 28, 2025
Who’s right? Our new video considers the arguments. pic.twitter.com/OGkblv1Lcy
Ed: I was a part of the original Porkbusters back in 2011, the bloggers who worked to end earmarks. I'm aware of the arguments for earmarking as a constitutional obligation, but the problem is that it made Congress more corrupt, and the true practical argument put forward for it is that a little corruption is good for us. We really shouldn't have to accept that, and Congress refuses to police itself in this regard.
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The Biden administration allegedly discriminated against white farmers in loan forgiveness, according to a whistleblower — a repeat of the Pigford scandal of 2010, with Tom Vilsack again in charge of USDA. ...
The anonymous whistleblower described the program to NewsNation: “It was to pay off anyone who wasn’t a white male’s loan. That was the only qualification for this loan forgiveness.”
Farmer James Dunlap said: “To me, it was just combating racism with more racism. I couldn’t believe it was happening in today’s age.”
Ed: I can believe it. Especially since it involves some of the same personnel. Ironically, this only rates as a minor scandal in the Biden administration, comparatively speaking.
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Calling Gal Gadot a “baby killer” isn’t about her army service. It’s about her being Jewish and Israeli.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 28, 2025
The antisemitism isn’t subtle — it’s blatant.
Also, mocking her for “changing her name”? Learn some history:
Her family’s original name, Greenstein, ends in “-stein” — a… pic.twitter.com/0g1lkp1nmQ
Her family’s original name, Greenstein, ends in “-stein” — a Yiddish suffix. Yiddish = Hebrew + German. Ashkenazi Jews were forced to take German-sounding names to survive. Spoiler: it didn’t save them. So her parents reclaimed their identity. They Hebraized their name — back to their roots, their language, their culture. Gal Gadot didn’t erase anything. She restored it. And if you’re going to come for a Jewish woman, at least spell her name right.
This isn’t activism. It’s pathetic. And we see right through it.
Ed: Rachel Zegler is unavailable for comment, presumably.
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First Lady Melania Trump issued a rare public rebuttal Tuesday to swat down a conspiracy theory that her son, Barron Trump, was rejected by Harvard – a claim that, some suggested, motivated President Donald Trump’s escalating campaign against the Ivy League university.
A spokesperson for the first lady told The Palm Beach Post: “Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false.”
Ed: Man, this is a dumb rumor.
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Quick update from @politico https://t.co/zaou0SKIuK pic.twitter.com/q9eV1z8qLL
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) May 28, 2025
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“I would imagine that [Sedgwick] is post-menopausal. In a very direct and literal sense it can’t affect her,” he said of the 59-year-old star, adding that the Left’s “bodily autonomy” argument is a fallacy even if she was of child-bearing years.
“This is the stuff I so often talk about when I discuss parasitized minds as being the most dangerous force of nature,” he said. “This is a functioning human being who supposedly does not suffer from a mental illness, although one could argue that baffling imbecility could be a form of cognitive impairment.”
The evolutionary behavioral scientist wrapped by noting a more realistic threat, “an intrusion of a religion in the United States, if not in the West, that might have a much more direct and real causal connection to her as a woman being more threatened” than she realizes.
Ed: I put this at the same intellectual level as "Queers for Palestine."
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Over the weekend, someone defaced my Tesla.
— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) May 28, 2025
I talked about why making EVERYTHING political is dumb -- and why it's driving us further and further apart. pic.twitter.com/qoBZdwcsuJ
Ed: When the Left is getting too radical for Chris Cillizza ... Actually, that's mainly a joke. I'm glad he shared this, and he's correct. Good for him for making this point.
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Sherri Papini is a bad wife, an abusive mom and a drain on society. In short, she’s a very troubled woman. That’s what Lifetime movie Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini (2023), Hulu documentary series Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini (2024), Oxygen documentary Sherri Papini: Lies, Lies and More Lies (2022) and pretty much all of the news media that covered her 2016 disappearance and reemergence (and her 2022 arrest, subsequent trial and prison sentence) will tell you.
The story goes like this: Papini, a wife and mother of two, faked her own kidnapping, stayed at an ex-boyfriend’s house for 22 days and made him beat her up and brand her with an iron. She “escaped” and made her way home on Thanksgiving morning. The motive was said to be a mix of narcissism and a cry for attention from her husband, Keith Papini. But in a new docuseries, Sherri Papini has a very different story to share — and she shares it firsthand with filmmaker Nicole Rittenmeyer.
Ed: I watched the whole thing, and came away more convinced than ever that she engineered the whole thing. She couldn't even keep her stories straight *in the documentary*, which to the credit of the producers they point out. When it became clear at the end that she wasn't making the sale, Papini got visibly angry and wondered aloud whether this did her more harm than good. Did any of you watch it? If you did, what did you conclude?
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