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Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of a UnitedHealthcare CEO, hoped to "normalize" violence, including July's deadly attack on the NFL headquarters in Manhattan, federal prosecutors said in a court filing. https://t.co/3oxMLmqH0c
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 30, 2025
Ed: I'd say he succeeded, except that the Left has been normalizing violence for years. Mangione acted within that acculturation -- he didn't pioneer it. We have seen it normalized in the streets of American cities in 2020, on college campuses since October 2023, and now aimed at religious communities over the last couple of years as well.
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Free Press: As an FBI agent for nearly 20 years, Pat McMonigle investigated national security crimes, was a hostage negotiator and Joint Terrorism Task Force coordinator, trained dozens of other special agents, and was deployed three times to war zones overseas. But it was his investigation of an online cult fueled by an insidious, unspeakably evil ideology that led to the end of his law enforcement career.
That ideology is called 764, an online neo-Nazi group grounded in a nihilism and a perverse form of social Darwinism which encourages vulnerable young kids to release sexually explicit material, hurt themselves, and even die by suicide. And it is that ideology that the shooter at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Robin Westman, appears to have subscribed to based on the killer’s writings and activity online.
Westman appears to have supported the Order of Nine Angles, a Satanic right-wing group with ties to 764, though authorities haven’t yet confirmed this connection.
Ed: We've talked a lot about nihilism and organized evil. The Annunciation shooting will likely take us down a dark rabbit hole, which will be an ugly but necessary journey to crush this evil. At least we have a DoJ that seems willing to expose it rather than excuse or ignore it for political purposes.
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This appears to be the same Olivia Wilkins of Thomaston, Maine. pic.twitter.com/BL4or7ZpRw
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 29, 2025
Ed: Anyone see a pattern here?
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NY Post: Attorney General Pam Bondi fired another Department of Justice paralegal Friday — after the environmental division employee flipped off a National Guard member on her way to work.
Elizabeth Baxter works in the same building as fellow fired paralegal Sean Charles Dunn, who allegedly threw a salami Subway sandwich at a Border Protection officer.
Baxter arrived for work at the DOJ’s “4CON” building in the NoMa district of Washington, DC, at 8.21 a.m. on Aug. 18, and boasted to a DOJ security guard that she had just made the obscene gesture to a guardsman at Metro Center Metro Stop and said, “F–k the National Guard,” according to Bondi.
Ed: At least Baxter wasn't stupid enough to physically attack the guard. We can also be grateful that a handful of the extremist carbuncles at the DoJ are willing to self-identify as such. Too bad the others will learn from these examples and keep their heads down after Bondi makes examples of them.
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Jonathan Turley: Baxter’s desire to repeat the protest to a security officer at the DOJ moved the matter into the workplace. Not only did security footage capture her flipping off the National Guardsman and exclaiming, “F–k you!” but she is also seen demonstrating to a department security guard how she held up her middle finger. She boasted to the security guard that she hated the National Guard and that she told them to “F–k off!”
The conduct inside the Justice Department could be cited as sufficient grounds for termination. The repetition of the protest to the DOJ security could be seen as disrespecting their positions and interjecting her political views into the workplace.
Baxter could, within 30 days, file with the Merit Systems Protection Board to challenge the action. I expect that she is likely to do so. She can claim that she was not insulting the security officer or making a political statement in the building’s lobby. However, she elected to repeat the political expression inside the federal building to at least one other federal employee during office hours. As such, she destroyed much of the constitutional protection afforded to her earlier statements and demonstration.
Ed: I suspect this was not her first time of "interjecting her political views into the workplace." The difference is that the people running the workplace aren't putting up with it anymore.
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Is she so undercover that she put it on her byeline in The Atlantic?
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 30, 2025
I guess she’s counting on no one reading that site anyways… pic.twitter.com/B0HvQMjyaS
Ed: I'm thinking that either Gurganus was very bad at the covert part of her job, or that the covert status was a ploy to protect her from accountability. I heavily suspect the latter.
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Jerusalem Post: Houthi Prime Minister Ghalib al-Rahawi was killed in the IAF strike in Sanaa on Thursday, the terror group claimed Saturday, along with several ministers the group did not name.
The Houthis further announced that several other ministers who were present were seriously and moderately injured in the strike and are receiving medical treatment. ...
Arab media reported that there were around 10 attacks in Sanaa. KAN, citing Yemeni media, reported that several Houthi government leaders were killed in an attack inside the presidential palace.
Ed: Play stupid war games, win stupid war prizes. The Houthis just got the Hezbollah treatment. Now left to be seen: whether the Houthis rethink their war on Israel, and whether Israel once again decides to go after the head of the snake if they don't.
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CNN now agrees about Lisa Cook! pic.twitter.com/LcIDnlpvZB
— Pulte (@pulte) August 30, 2025
Ed: I don't think this is "CNN," as much as it is Elie Honig. Honig usually plays legal matters straight down the line. He also raises the point that "just cause" in the statute governing presidential authority for termination is not well defined or limited otherwise. Evidence of fraud may well be enough for a judge to defer, as Honig says, although I'd bet that Lowell's going to win in district court first....
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Wow. The Washington Post 👇 pic.twitter.com/Vh79cG951q
— Pulte (@pulte) August 30, 2025
Ed: ... or maybe not. Hmmm.
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Zero Hedge: Bhattacharya did not hesitate to call out what he experienced during the pandemic years:
“It wasn't just ZeroHedge that got subject to this censorship. I did too. I was on the Twitter blacklist. It was all true information that was just found inconvenient. That's what you guys were sharing. That's what I was sharing. And it was a gross violation of the American First Amendment.”
The Stanford professor—blacklisted for co-authoring the Great Barrington Declaration—was among those exposed in the Twitter Files as a target of covert suppression. He says the NIH under his leadership will chart a different course:
“We're no longer in the misinformation detection business. We're no longer in the censorship business.”
Ed: Appointing Bhattacharya to run the NIH was perhaps the most satisfying of all of Donald Trump's appointments in this term. This is exactly the kind of accountability we need in the corrupted medical-science establishment in Washington DC. Be sure to read the whole interview.
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What these Democrat mayors fear is exactly what Mayor Bowser in DC is going through -- the Trump Admin is going to show that POLICING crime has a positive impact on the community.
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) August 30, 2025
The Admin is going to show that removing illegal aliens as a general proposition, and those… https://t.co/LHhCJtgbWe
The Admin is going to show that removing illegal aliens as a general proposition, and those committing crimes in particular, makes neighborhoods safer.
The Admin is going to show the residents that voting for liberal progressive mayors and DAs who tolerate and excuse criminal activity is what has turned their neighborhoods into lawless war zones.
Mayor Bowser is now in a position in DC where she is being forced to admit that the DC Metro PD is having a positive effect in some of the most troubled neighborhoods in DC when given the support and resources of the civilians controlling their work.
It can be done.
They mayors hate that they are going to be exposed and humiliated.
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Hollywood Reporter: Disney is not moving forward with Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson‘s live-action adaptation of The Aristocats, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. ...
The news of the Aristocats movie’s tabling comes roughly a few months after a live-action remake of Tangled was put on pause. Notably, Disney’s live-action adaptations have received mixed receptions. While Snow White was subject to controversy earlier this year, Lilo & Stitch was a box office hit, becoming the first movie of 2025 to cross $1 billion globally. Because of its success, development on a sequel is already underway.
Ed: Did Disney learn a lesson? Maybe. 'Lilo & Stitch' was already in the pipeline when 'Snow White' bombed, so it wasn't at risk of getting shut down. But that was a one-off for Disney, whose live-action remakes have grown less profitable and less impressive over the years even without the Rachel Zegler Experience. Thompson chalked up the turnaround status to "administration shuffles" at Disney, so apparently the Mouse House bounced the execs that pushed that strategy. Maybe they'll try coming up with fresh ideas now.
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For the love of God, can you just do your job?
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) August 30, 2025
Can you attend to the city of Los Angeles?
What are you doing on national news shows?
Unless you're running for President, we don't see the purpose. Use your time instead to fill our potholes, deal with the city's crime, get the… https://t.co/eNOKaHyZxP
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