If things ultimately turn out well for Western civilization, people will look back and see Donald Trump as the man responsible for saving it. In The Emperor’s New Clothes, a false reality is maintained because no one is willing to challenge it, except in our case that dynamic spread far beyond a small elite into a broad social norm under wokeness. Entire topics became subject to a kind of enforced silence, even when the underlying facts could not be disputed. Trump broke that taboo, and what the haters dismiss as crudeness is in truth a reintroduction of plainspoken, reality-based debate into a space that had become performative nonsense.
Major news outlets, tech cos, nonprofits & agencies have relied on SPLC’s fraudulent "hate group" reports to label organizations, individuals or content as hate groups, extremists, dangerous, racist or biased. They should all apologize for having pretended it was a proper source.
R to @tlowdon: The SPLC’s Intelligence Project publishes an annual “Year in Hate & Extremism” report and an interactive Hate Map tracking what it calls hate groups and antigovernment extremists. These resources are widely referenced, though they have faced significant criticism for alleged bias, overbreadth (e.g., labeling mainstream conservative or religious organizations), and lack of objective criteria. Here are the primary examples based on public records and reporting:
News Publications and Media Outlets:
CNN: Has directly published and mapped SPLC hate group data, presenting the SPLC tally as the “widely accepted” source on groups like neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
ProPublica: Explicitly relied on the SPLC’s active hate groups list (along with the Anti-Defamation League) to identify extremist websites and investigate tech companies’ support for them.
Other major outlets (e.g., NBC News, ABC News, Washington Post) routinely report on SPLC’s annual counts and designations as authoritative data on hate and extremism trends.
Journalists, scholars, and advocacy groups have long treated the SPLC’s data as a primary reference, with the Intelligence Report cited in academic and media contexts.
Tech Companies and Platforms:
Amazon: Has used the SPLC’s hate group list as a key filter (along with U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control data) to determine eligibility for its AmazonSmile charity program. Groups labeled by the SPLC as hate organizations are excluded from receiving donations (e.g., Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council, and certain churches/ministries). Jeff Bezos publicly called this “an imperfect system” during congressional questioning.
PayPal (and some other payment processors): Has deplatformed or restricted accounts tied to groups SPLC identifies as hate/extremist, especially after events like Charlottesville 2017. While not always a direct “recommendation” partnership, SPLC pressure and lists have influenced policies against “hate, violence, or intolerance.”
Broader tech sector (Facebook/Meta, Google, etc.): Post-2017, several platforms accelerated content moderation and bans on white supremacist or far-right groups, often consulting or citing extremism trackers including SPLC. Investigations (e.g., by ProPublica) have examined how these companies interact with SPLC-identified sites.
Nonprofit/Charity Databases:
GuideStar (now part of Candid): In 2017, briefly added SPLC “hate group” flags to the profiles of dozens of organizations on its nonprofit database. It reversed the decision after backlash and lawsuits but still made the designations available upon request.
Government and Law Enforcement (Historical Use):
FBI and federal agencies: For years, the FBI and other law enforcement entities used SPLC data, training materials, and the Hate Map for hate crime analysis, domestic extremism intelligence, and briefings. The SPLC has shared information with the FBI and provided training (e.g., to DOJ prosecutors). However, in October 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel severed all ties, calling the SPLC a “partisan smear machine” whose Hate Map defames mainstream Americans.
Other examples include National Security Council meetings with SPLC staff and influence on federal employee resources or school-related extremism assessments.
Important Context on Usage and Controversy: The SPLC’s designations have real-world effects (e.g., deplatforming, charity exclusions, or reputational harm), but they are not universally accepted. Critics—including targeted groups like the Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, Moms for Liberty, and Turning Point USA—argue the SPLC applies the “hate” label subjectively to traditional conservative, pro-life, or religious viewpoints on issues like immigration, LGBTQ+ issues, or parental rights.
A federal judge has described the process as “an entirely subjective inquiry.”
If EVERYONE will be able to afford private chefs & maids, then who will we get to do the cooking and cleaning?
The atheist biologist Richard Dawkins: "The universe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, nothing but pitiless indifference.” To which the mathematician John Lennox, the chemist James Tour, and the philosopher of science Stephen Meyer reply, "Oh, yeah?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW9gcjpt89o
"Cruel" = it works.
"Anti" = it works.
"…would force them" = it works.
"…involuntary" = it works.
This is all code for "it works."
"In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college."
— Joseph Sobran
Not only are education research papers that use statistics failing to replicate at extremely high rates, many education papers don't use statistics at all and consist of the author simply conveying their own "lived experience" (autoethnography).
The field must be burned down and rebuilt from scratch.
If WaPo thinks that Shakespeare and grammar are conservative, that’s on them
What a disappointing article
Years ago, I was asked to endorse a bond measure in our town for school funding. I asked the proponents how much we were currently spending on schools & why more was needed. No one could tell me. It was as if hadn't occurred to them. All they could say was, "It's for education."
'Anchor babies' reach nearly 10% of all US births: new data https://trib.al/M3ewcMl
Emanuel tries to frame Dem demands to remove Lincoln's name from schools, use "Latinx," defund the police & open the borders as merely having "lost the plot," as if these are aberrations from their true nobility. He's misleading though. They despise normalcy & this is their core platform now.
He's also wrong when he claims, "We used to be really great about education." The only thing they were great about was teachers' unions. They were never actually concerned with academic performance.
Gavin Newsom's Health Secretary, Mark Ghaly, knew there was no empirical evidence to justify lockdowns, but thought the public needed to be taught a lesson anyway.
Also, Hampshire College has announced it will permanently close after the fall 2026 semester. The Board of Trustees cited insurmountable financial challenges.
I love the way even Mamdani’s most basic pet project highlights on a micro level how much more effective markets are compared to government-run entities. Hang it in the Louvre.
ICE ARREST DETAINER DENIED.
On April 14, ICE requested the NYCDOC not release this monster from jail back into American communities.
However, because of New York’s sanctuary politicians, the NYCDOC told ICE that they will REFUSE to cooperate.
Her father was a war lord who perpetrated a genocide.
She didn’t “survive war.” Her family was the cause of it.
Energy security is national security, and we will not self-sabotage our critical industries with a cascade of costly lawsuits and extreme penalties that jeopardize American drilling.
I introduced the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 to protect American energy from leftist legal crusades punishing lawful activity.
https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-hageman-introduces-bill-shield-american-energy-producers-leftist-climate
The SEIU Local 500, which covers Montgomery County Public Schools employees, has removed its entire Board web page after its vice president for media & technology was arrested for allegedly using his skills to film girls changing. James Mulhern was here:
Clemente vs Lolich full at-bat with Munson catching during the 1971 All-Star Game at Tiger Stadium. Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek on the call 🍿
Imagine how much less government expenditure there'd be without all the fraud. It's easy if you try.
Wow. Ciaramella used the old form, the one that did not allow hearsay. That means the entire impeachment was void ab initio, meaning it was legally dead on arrival. The fact that Atkinson then secretly changed the form and backdated it makes it all exponentially worse.
Back in 2019, we knew that Atkinson had changed the form, but we didn't KNOW whether Ciaramella had used the new form or the old form. It turns out that he had used the old form - the form which required first hand knowledge. The copy of Ciaramella form made public excluded the first two instruction pages in which the firsthand requirement was stated. While Atkinson subsequently changed the form, it was the earlier form that was submitted (sans the two instruction pages.)
Atkinson's position was that Ciaramella had first hand knowledge of some things. However, the things that he had first hand knowledge of do not appear to have been especially relevant.
Atkinson cited Grassley as authority that secondhand information should be permitted for a whistleblower report. But Atkinson glossed over difference between a non-urgent concern and an urgent concern. This doesn't seem to have been focussed on in discussion. The requirement for firsthand knowledge was reasonable enough for an "urgent" concern.
Another point that hasn't been discussed much. In the Solomon articles in March-April 2019 which led into these discussions, there was discussion of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. Trump's contiguous discussion of the CrowdStrike server supports the possibility that Trump was seeking investigation of 2016 election interference - an entirely proper request - as opposed to anticipatory interference in the 2020 election. One of the major misunderstandings of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 is that the interference was initiated by Biden cadres (especially at the Jan 2016 meeting with Ukrainiain prosecutors and Biden cadres while Biden was a leading candidate for nomination) and resulted in the Black Ledger operation that decapitated Paul Manafort as campaign chair in August 2016. The role of Biden cadres in this interference has been clouded by incorrect pointing at Clinton campaign.
There was obviously no way that any of Ciaramella, Wilde or Atkinson could have reasonably been sure that the issues raised by Trump weren't related to past 2016 events, as opposed to still distant 2020 events where Biden's nomination was far from guaranteed.
The issue of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election surfaced from time to time in the 2019 impeachment hearings, but was ridiculed and shouted down by State Department officials. None of the Republicans or their staff appear to have been well enough informed to focus on the valid issues.
Friends, purchase the book TODAY so that you can have it when it comes out on TUESDAY!! I'm so excited that this look at Justice Alito and his jurisprudence -- and the behind the scenes story of his Dobbs decision is finally being told.
I stopped writing about Johnson because he's just so inconceivably terrible that it felt like my readers would grow bored with any sort of proper accounting. But rest assured, scenes like this are a weekly occurrence.
"I'm taking a bold statement, here!" It's like he knows the rhythm of what a sentence should sound like, but not the correct words that belong in one.
There hasn't been an absurd moral panic that Tom Steyer hasn't embraced wholeheartedly. He's always fully on board with whatever the latest manufactured crisis is: climate hysteria, trans rights/men in women's spaces, COVID lockdowns & vaccine mandates, DEI/white supremacy.
The same people who did this are telling you that @RobertKennedyJr is anti-science.
Never forget what they did.
Me all day: "I'm so tired"
Also me, at 2am, taking a quiz to find out what kind of cheese I am:
Zucman was one of the economists who signed the letter warning that Milei would sink the Argentinian economy. These people aren't social scientists, they're marxist activists with credentials.
The top 1% of New Yorkers already pay for 46% of all income taxes collected...
The bottom 50%, pay absolutely nothing.
Yale has issued a new report on declining public trust in higher education.
The New York Times has a great headline summing it up:
This is so refreshing. The first step is admitting the problem.
Riders of the Golden Sky
Oil on Linen
Mark Maggiori.
California continues to try to do everything wrong.
Man whose main job is to be "tough on crime," says he doesn't need to be "tough on crime."
For the past seven years, I generally took the view that the Ukraine impeachment hoax was an opportunistic hit job. A group of deep state operatives listened in on Trump’s call, they heard him mention Biden, and then falsely spun the whole thing into a narrative to hang him with. But the new documents suggest something far more sinister, namely a coordinated effort involving Schiff, Atkinson, Ciaramella, NSC figures like Vindman and others, deliberately planned in advance, both as a shield to deflect scrutiny from Biden’s Ukraine corruption and as a sword to impeach Trump.
NEW: CA gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (D) releases an immigration platform that is radically left of Gov. Newsom. It includes:
- Abolish ICE
- Put ICE agents in jail & “treat them like the mob”.
- Bring those “kidnapped & detained by ICE back home.”
- Give CA AG power to imprison ICE agents & their leadership.
- Taxpayer funded legal representation & support for illegal aliens.
- Ignore a SCOTUS ruling that allows ICE to utilize to use race, language, job, and location to contribute to “reasonable suspicion” for immigration arrests, and instead, “California should take matters into our own hands and extend legal protections to its residents, despite the federal governments failure.”
“This is about our right as a state to protect our residents,” Steyer says.
Easily the most pernicious and mendacious aspect of the Ukraine impeachment episode was the full court press to keep the so-called “whistleblower’s” name from becoming public. It was framed as a privacy issue, but in practice it served a single purpose, to prevent the public from understanding who he actually was.
Eric Ciaramella was not some random staffer. He was an anti-Trump operative who had already been identified years earlier as a leaker and saboteur. He had been in contact with Adam Schiff’s office, where a close friend of his had just been hired. Most importantly, he was personally involved in the events surrounding the removal of the Ukrainian prosecutor, the thing President Trump wanted examined, and which formed the basis of the impeachment itself.
He was not a whistleblower but a deeply compromised actor, with a strong incentive to cover up his own role in the removal of the prosecutor. Under normal circumstances, even if none of us had ever found out Ciaramella’s name, it would have been the responsibility of the Inspector General to act as a neutral gatekeeper and stop a fraudulent complaint from advancing. But as the newly released documents prove, that safeguard failed because the Inspector General was part of the plot.
With internal checks compromised, public scrutiny became the last line of defense. Unfortunately, that scrutiny was shut down by coordinated media blackout, which ensured the truth never reached the public. That cover up cleared the path for a fundamentally fraudulent scheme to take hold, turning a chain of lies into an impeachment that should never have happened.
‘The Timing Is Suspicious’: Intel IG Admitted Under Oath He Changed Whistleblower Rules For Anti-Trump Ukraine Op In 2019
https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/14/the-timing-is-suspicious-intel-ig-admitted-under-oath-he-changed-whistleblower-rules-for-anti-trump-ukraine-op-in-2019/