THE SHOW NOTES: "Deadly Force", Progressive Backlash, & Surging Daily Marijuana Usage
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OUTRAGE: FBI was authorized to use ‘deadly force’ in classified docs search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, court filings reveal - NY Post
NEW: Lawyers found classified docs in Trump’s bedroom 4 months after Mar-a-Lago search - Politico
GOOD: Transgender teen booed after winning girls’ track race at state championship - USA Today
BUBBLE: MSNBC learned yesterday that Hamas steals humanitarian aid.
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Progressive Backlash
Progressive candidates lost a number of high-profile primary races last night to moderate Democratic challengers.
Oregon - 3: The sister of Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal lost to a moderate state legislator who is a staunch supporter of Israel in Oregon’s third congressional district last night.
Oregon - 5: A moderate candidate backed by the leading Democratic Israeli group defeated a well-funded progressive activist in a congressional seat that is widely deemed to be a tossup in November.
Portland DA: Portland’s progressive District Attorney is currently behind a challenger who only campaigned on being tough on crime.
Democracy Dies In Darkness
The Washington Post is embroiled in controversy over keeping readers in the dark over two recent stories:
A senior editor at the paper instructed writers to downplay a story on a growing controversy regarding the paper’s new CEO Will Lewis. When Lewis was an executive at News Corp, credible allegations surfaced that he was part of a phone hacking scheme and attempted to cover it up by deleting emails.
The Washington Post alleged that a group of wealthy Jewish donors influenced NYC Mayor Eric Adams to send the NYPD to Columbia University to break up the antisemitic encampments. A furious Eric Adams said “I think that article was antisemitic in its core… I think the mere fact that some article is saying some clandestine group came together to pressure us, it’s a lie.”
NEW - Illegal Immigration Surges In California
‘Are You Better Off?’ Asking Reagan’s Question in Xi’s China
China’s economic miracle is ending, leaving President Xi Jinping with a challenge none of his predecessors faced: how to govern after the boom.
For four decades, China’s 1.4 billion population experienced unparalleled gains in income and wealth. But recently the blows have just kept coming. Real estate collapse, trade war with the US, a crackdown on entrepreneurs, and extended Covid lockdowns have stalled the prosperity engine.Chinese incomes are still rising, but under Xi gains have been the slowest since the late 1980s. The property crisis is hammering household wealth. And the cautious opening-up of China’s society has gone into reverse too. For many people across the country, it feels like a different world.
Full story at Bloomberg (paywall).
Trending news:
Graceland auction halted after Elvis Presley granddaughter's push for injunction - Fox News
NYC Mayor Eric Adams accuses WaPo of antisemitism over Jewish donor influence story - JI
Capitol Hill shaken by vials of blood found at RNC - Axios
Norway, Ireland and Spain say they will recognize a Palestinian state, deepening Israel's isolation - Yahoo
Russia begins nuclear drills in an apparent warning to West over Ukraine - AP
Along Georgia's coast, a call to Biden from the Gullah Geechee: Return part of our ancestral land - GPB
New Jersey, nonprofit group battling over Sunday beach access in Jersey Shore town - CBS
Biden administration announces additional $7.7 billion in student debt relief - CNN
Behar admits she holds back criticism of Biden, Maher tells her that's how ‘you lose all credibility’ - Fox News
Scoop: Top comms staffer for Mike Johnson to leave Capitol Hill - Axios
A Group Chat Involving Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, And Other Golfers Changed Their Group Chat Picture To Scottie's Mugshot - Barstool
The IRS Money Hole Gets Deeper - WSJ (paywall)
Market snapshot:
Those three countries have rewarded Hamas' actions: raping, torturing, killing, and kidnapping Israeli Jews, Bedouin, and foreign workers working for Israelis will apparently get yourself a state. The PA has had to do zero reforms to attain this change in status. There haven't been elections in either territory for over 10 years; the PA rewards killing Jews, too, by giving money to the family of terrorists; corruption is off the charts; neither territory can offer basic services without Israel's assistance. There's not even a governing coalition between the two territories, since Hamas killed PA officials the last time there was an election. Abbas rules by executive authority, maybe with some type of council, but nothing democratic.
By this action, they've bolstered Hamas' resolve, further endangering Israelis AND the Arabs in Gaza, as well as weakening the PA in the eyes of its own population: the PA could never get such actions with its "moderate" stance, but within 7 months Hamas has. To be blunt: these people are just amazingly stupid.
This is a dangerous and absolutely ludicrous decision by these governments and Israel should withdraw Her ambassadors along with any other punitive measures the Knesset can devise.
Erick,
Have been listening for a couple of years and today I have something that I disagree with. I hear you referring to the Trump raid as just “pro forma”, and lazy.
As an attorney, can you point me to the place in Fed law where being a lazy moron is a mitigating factor in any assault?
Lazy wasn’t an option on the form.
You can’t tell us with a straight face that the Feds weren’t all amped up as they loaded their AR’s and entered. They all knew they could use deadly force, otherwise they would have been instructed so.
And just because Trump wasn't there didn't lessen the personal risk to the rest of the staff.
It's not good enough that they claim now to have coordinated with the Secret Service to make sure Trump wasn’t there. They are liars and this is just more crapola.
Saddens me that there is nothing we can do about this rogue government.
This was a very bad thing and I wish you would not be giving them cover.