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Open thread 5/27/2025 — 11 Comments

  1. It is things like this which give me hope that Western Civilization may yet survive.

  2. So, NPR is suing to keep their taxpayer funding. I have been searching, but cannot find, whether the big beautiful bill includes funding for them. Has anyone seen whether the bill has it?

    Accoring to the google ai

    “No Explicit Mention in the Bill:
    The reconciliation bill itself does not include provisions to directly fund or defund NPR and PBS. “

  3. For government-funded agencies or NGOs to file lawuits demanding continued funding reminds me of those AI models that engage in sneaky behavior to keep themselves from being shut down or replaced.

  4. the way I see it, its a struggle between the apparat, broadly speaking and the republic, it is akin to that ridiculous gaia hypothesis, that says that humanity is a virus, and natural disasters are the antibody, except in this case its true, the former feeds off the latter, so the combined media ngo corporate bureaucratic education leviathan, doesn’t think of one mind but it has certain orientations, in the last four years, the apparat took over the Republic and many didn’t notice, that is the real scandal, of the figurehead Biden presidents, that steered us on the rocks, and threatened to cut out the rudder, by proscribing the opposition candidate,

    the apparat, one might call it the sysgy, takes many forms generally if debauches the currency, it weakens the civic spirit, except against some nameless domestic foe and some foreign ones, in Western Europe it pushes to replace the citizenry, and pushes for some foolish European conflict, which it can’t win for lack of willpower as well as resource deprivation,

    in Israel they continued to block Netanyahu, because of the notion that
    surrendering territory is a solution, even October 7th has not
    extinguished that fantasy among some cirles,

  5. at home they work with real domestic enemies like so called antifa and the Brotherhood, which merge in the case of Elias Rodriguez and Caila Walsh as one example, see her ties to Red Squaw Warren, to Chinese and Cuban apparats on the other, the various mobs triads, bratvas et al,

    the lawfare as ccarried out by judges in the soft end, the harder edge well we saw that last June and July,

    of course to respond just prompts that French proverb ‘what a wicked animal, when attacked it defends itself even when you have an external variable like Elon and dodge, it must try to destroy it, or weaken it’s effect,

    tell me where i’m wrong about this,

  6. It seems that some rare individuals ARE trying to save the soul of the Democratic Party…

    (Talk about uphill battles. Well, good luck to ‘em…)

    “Ritchie Torres: ‘Globalize the Intifada is a pathology’;
    “Democratic Congressman reacts to popular TikTokker who praised the murder of 2 Israeli embassy staffers last week and supported Hamas.”—
    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409066

  7. You have to know how to ask the question. Funding for NPR and PBS goes through the corporation for public broadcasting CPB and here’s what the AI says

    “ The reconciliation bill, as described in the provided search results, does include a provision to potentially reduce funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Specifically, it is expected that President Trump will request Congress to make rescissions, which are cuts to current spending, and this could include eliminating funding for the CPB. This action would impact local public media stations, as well as NPR and PBS. ”

    The NPR lawsuit is about the president’s May 2 executive order

    .
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ends-the-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/?utm_source=wh_social_share_button

  8. Not certain that Bill Ackman truly understands what’s going on at Harvard…if he thinks it’s fixable (that is, if he believes that Harvard, and other “elite” schools, truly want to repair, correct, stamp out or disavow what they actually believe is NOT an execrable, disgusting bug but an enlightened, humanistic feature).

    Short version:
    Trump thinks that viral Anti-Semitism is bad, does he?
    That can ONLY mean that viral Anti-Semitism is good;
    besides, supporting the cause of destroying the Jewish is NOT Anti-Semitic;
    besides, who CARES what anyone who stands against the global intifada thinks, anyway….

    https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1926871423789781233
    H/T Powerline blog.

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