When wealthy women take food intended for low income families, one has to ask, where's the stigma? My latest at @WSJopinion. wsj.com/articles/government-…

I don’t think most people in Alexandria VA realize how bad it has gotten. A 2 grade level drop in reading scores in 10 years.

Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared. I decided to speak with the protesters in the hopes that I could trade a few minutes of conversation for them leaving my toddler alone. (Nearly all of them agreed.) It was a mostly respectful conversation, but if you’re chasing a 3-year-old as part of a political protest, you’re a shit person.

If you want to read the details of this particular defendant’s case… She stole $5.7 million. The Minnesota government gave her an award.

🚨 Hey Ohio! Day 1 into our Columbus, Ohio fraud investigation. Nothing to see here except me being attacked.

Wow

This girl definitely still uses her parents’ Netflix code.

Preliminary INTEL Assessment on US Venezuela op: 😎 #Trump #madurocaptured #VenezuelaCrisis #Putin #Russia #China #Greenland 1. Maduro likely agreed to be "extracted" by US forces. 2. Maduro likely made a deal with Trump to give up all the secrets involving 2020 US election fraud (incl. US persons, entities) in exchange for freedom, being allowed to be exiled to Russia or China. 3. Russia/Putin probably were aware of the operation, may have even agreed to it, or at minimum saw something coming. Not China however. 4. Putin may have made a deal with Trump to trade Ukraine for Venezuela, to achieve a peace deal in Ukraine; i.e. Russia would remove its military presence from Venezuela and US/NATO will remove its presence from Ukraine, honoring US Monroe Doctrine and Russia's analogue. 5. Trump's likely goals for the op: - prove that 2020 election was stolen from him, jail involved Deep State operatives; - remove Russia, China, Iran's presence from Venezuela and Western hemisphere; - install a new regime in Venezuela, more cooperative with the US, more conducive for US business; - establish access to/control over 303 billion barrels of Venezuela's oil - drive down oil prices and Russia's revenues to compel Putin to play ball on Ukraine; and to undercut China's capacity to invade Taiwan; - increase US leverage to establish control over Greenland; - end the drug flow into the US 6. Venezuela will probably defend into chaos, at least initially, requiring longer US involvement "running" the country, making it difficult to extricate ourselves from. But economics (given massive oil reserves) and long-term benefits would probably outweigh risks.

Is this the Democratic Party platform now?

Cea Weaver disabled her X account but @PetePanuccio snagged some greatest hits. Good luck New York.

"We wish you the best in the future" is what symphony CEOs say as they collude to keep you out of the industry because you have the wrong views on DEI. I don't wish them the best, I want them ousted from the symphony industry so they can never touch the levers of power again.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The attack on @VP Vance's home should cause some deep reflection within the @SecretService, the administration, and Congress on how and why the attacker was allowed to approach the Cincinnati home and hammer its windows. 👉👉👉Many Secret Service rank-and-file were angry over the last several days because the agent who tried to smuggle his wife on the Secret Service carplane to Scotland for Trump's trip there in late July was recently reinstated, cleared of any wrongdoing, and assigned to protect @VP Vance's trip to Florida this weekend, sources told @RCPolitics. The USSS faces such a dire agent shortage that this particular agent, who was the butt of numerous jokes and memes over the attempted wife smuggling, was temporarily assigned to augment Vance's detail this weekend. The VP detail is extremely overtaxed even though the agents assigned to it are some of the hardest-working. There are far fewer of them than the presidential team, and Vance's travel schedule far outpaces Kamala Harris's. The agents assigned to Vance's Cicinnatti home are likely rehired annuitants (agents who have retired or previously left the agency and decided to return for bonuses) and some junior agents out of the Cincinnati field office. Several questions still remain about how did this crazy person nearly broke into Vance's home?? (See linked post below.) STILL - this incident should refocus USSS leaders and other decision makers on the bigger picture - that JD Vance's USSS team is stretched way too thin -- so much so that it's jeopardizing the vice president's and his family's security, Secret Service sources have repeatedly told me over the last few months. This agent who tried to have his wife accompany him to Scotland was cleared of all wrongdoing because, even though a Secret Service supervisor stopped him from taking his Air Force wife on the Scotland trip AFTER she listened to the USSS briefing about it, the USSS determined that as long as the Air Force supervisors at Joint Base Andrews were allowing her on the Air Force carplane, then the agent did nothing wrong, knowledgeable sources tell @RCPolitics. Spouses are allowed to attend presidential and vice presidential security trips -- but they usually must take and pay for their own travel arrangements. They can share hotel rooms with their spouse agents while on these trips despite some high-level security demands -- a policy some in the Secret Service community have questioned. Still others say it's a well-deserved perk because agents' travel schedules take them away from their spouses so often.

Rachel, we have questions.

Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly — and five other members of Congress — released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice. And the Department of War — and the American people — expect justice. Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret). The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay. To ensure this action, the Secretary of War has also issued a formal Letter of Censure, which outlines the totality of Captain (for now) Kelly’s reckless misconduct. This Censure is a necessary process step, and will be placed in Captain Kelly’s official and permanent military personnel file. Captain Kelly has been provided notice of the basis for this action and has thirty days to submit a response. The retirement grade determination process directed by Secretary Hegseth will be completed within forty five days. Captain Kelly’s status as a sitting United States Senator does not exempt him from accountability, and further violations could result in further action. These actions are based on Captain Kelly's public statements from June through December 2025 in which he characterized lawful military operations as illegal and counseled members of the Armed Forces to refuse lawful orders. This conduct was seditious in nature and violated Articles 133 and 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, to which Captain Kelly remains subject as a retired officer receiving pay.

BLACKLISTED: In September the Knoxville Symphony invited me to their blind audition for Principal Clarinet, which I won by unanimous vote. Two days later their CEO called and refused to hire me, citing my ousting from the Nashville Symphony six years ago for resisting DEI as the reason, and instead gave the job to my runner-up, an obvious DEI hire who’s still in college. In response I sued the Knoxville Symphony two weeks ago for a year’s salary plus $25k for the 100 hours I spent practicing for the audition. This isn’t just about money though, it’s also about pushing back against these symphony CEOs who continue to put race and politics above merit and skill. Someone has to save our symphonies from being sacrificed on the altar of “diversity” and no one is better positioned to do it than me. Wish I didn’t have to do it but I’m doing it anyway. I was excited to take the stage with the Knoxville Symphony but instead I’ll see them in court. If Knoxville thought I’d walk away from this they were sorely mistaken.

This is Rachel Ford, the Knoxville Symphony CEO who denied me the Principal Clarinet job after I won the blind audition unanimously. Rachel, why did you invite me to the audition after reviewing my resume if you had no intention of hiring me? Why have me waste my time?

Ok, I legit cried. 💛💙❤️

Pakistan gave his family generational poverty. Australia gave his family generational wealth. & Khawaja chose to call himself a proud pakistani in his retirement speech while bringing down Australia & Australians😂. No sense of gratefulness & gratitude.

Australia captain Pat Cummins tells players to put away champagne bottles so that Usman Khawaja could celebrate with them. 1.5 years later, Khawaja takes retirement & call his teammates, fans & australians racist as they are of no use to him anymore🤡

The most dangerous demographic in Western Civilization. The White Liberal Woman. Property ownership is “White Supremacy”. Good luck NY and the West.

Meet Cea Weaver. She is Zohran Mamdani’s new NYC tenant advocate. She wants to seize private property. And branded home ownership as “white supremacy”. Of course.