June 13, 2025
DISPATCHES FROM THE STAR WARS CANTINA: The Week in Woke.
HOPING FOR RAIN: Tim Walz Compares the U.S. Army’s DC Parade Prep to Something Out of North Korea.
Tim Walz compares DC on Saturday to “Pyong-yong” and hopes the military runs into bad weather at the parade.
“This may get me in trouble or whatever." pic.twitter.com/8WQGhLCArG
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 13, 2025
Nahh — if it were comparable to North Korea, CNN would be in full approval of the idea.
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THEY’RE A BIT LOST WITHOUT IT: How The L.A. Riots Demonstrate Democrat-Media Complex’s Loss Of Narrative Control. “It’s politics all the way down. When you have an entire political movement willing to blur the line between rioting and ‘a cry of hope,’ the unfortunate implication here is that the violence might be tolerable if the politics were different.”
THIS IS CNN? Even CNN Couldn’t Defend Padilla’s Phony Stunt.
THEY ARE NOT THE SAME:
Obvious, but not always said: Israel is unmistakably striking military targets in Iran. Iran, as usual, is aiming at civilian targets. Yes there will be civilians killed in the Israeli strikes, but they are not the targets. They are Iran's. https://t.co/UMFXypflkg
— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 13, 2025
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BURIED LEDE: NORTH KOREA HAS MONEY? Chinese Illegal Pleads Guilty to Using North Korean Money to Buy a Houston Gun Store and Shipping Arms to Pyongyang.
I know some people are so broken they will never be able to muster a compliment for Trump, but the level of misdirection and coordination with Israel on this Iran attack was brilliant. Trump used his public platforms to lull Iran into complacency while privately coordinating with Israel. Trump and Netanyahu went so far as to meet privately this week to finalize things while publicly both leaking that Trump was urging restraint.
The problem here for the press corps is that so many of them hate Trump so much, they cannot nuance the cleverness of this. They must either approach it as Trump is a failure who even Israel does not respect or Trump is a liar who lied to everyone to get Iran.
The reality is everyone honest knows Iran has always been the liar, claiming it had no nuclear ambitions even as it plotted a bomb. The Obama/Biden policies helped Iran, which embedded agents within the Biden Administration. And Trump has turned the tables on it all, including probably taking advantage of Iran’s embedded agents to amplify his misdirection.
And now Iran has been set back significantly and the world is safer today.
But scream about Orange Man Bad if you must. The press corps that does not deal with the truth of what happened is just going to further discredit itself. They couldn’t detect Biden’s decline and cannot accept Trump’s calculated misdirection.
It’s amazing what allies can accomplish when they actually act like allies.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Called 911 After Trying to Pay for WHAT? “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn when not to call 911, how not to dine and dash, and all about California Man’s weird smuggling operation.”
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DATA REPUBLICAN FOLLOWS THE MONEY SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO:
🚨 JUST RELEASED: Follow the Money Behind the No Kings Rally 🚨
DataRepublican has launched an interactive, open-source map showing how your tax dollars flow to organizations involved in the No Kings rally.
🔍 I tracked funding from federal sources to final recipients,… pic.twitter.com/UWdYH3DVYO
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 12, 2025
Full text:
🔍 I tracked funding from federal sources to final recipients, prioritizing direct paths (not via DAFs) whenever possible.
👉 IMPORTANT: most paths still went through Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs)—the black box of the nonprofit world. Unfortunately, it’s a common and opaque funding structure that deserves scrutiny.
💥 Explore it for yourself:
Click on “Federal Grant Flow” for any NoKings organization to open any visual flowchart, tracing dollars from origin to destination.
🖼️ Also, you can save any graph as an SVG and take it wherever you need.📌 I’ll keep updating the database as more EINs come in. Got a group to investigate? Send it my email address with an EIN.
🧠 Let’s shine a light on influence laundering.
Here’s the link to her full report.
NEWS YOU CAN USE:
SUGAR IS BAD FOR YOU, ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS MAY BE WORSE: Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function, posing potential stroke risk.
THAT’S WHAT XI SAID!
Tim Walz on Israel striking Iran: “Who is the voice in the world that can negotiate some type of agreement and hold the moral authority? It might be the Chinese.” pic.twitter.com/tLQFgOj0xL
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) June 13, 2025
That’s right on-brand for the Manchurian Candidate:
Tim Walz honeymooned in China after intentionally marrying on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. “He wanted a date he’ll always remember,” his wife said.
If Tiananmen Tim celebrates the slaughter of innocents fighting for freedom in China, imagine his plan for us! pic.twitter.com/G5NNYsXvot
— Tudor Dixon (@TudorDixon) August 7, 2024
America — literally and figuratively — dodged quite a bullet last year.
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ LA Riot Edition, Where All Californians Ask, ‘Senator Who?’
WHEN YOU’RE PUTTING A PRODUCT OUT THERE WITH THE LIKELIHOOD OF DOING HARM . . . Large Libel Models: Small Business Sues Google, Claiming AI Overview in Searches Hallucinated Attorney General Lawsuit.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IS SETTLING ALL THE FAMILY BUSINESS: Iran’s Quds Force Commander Esmail Qaani killed in Israeli strike, reports say. Who was he?
