Roundup
(1) Scott Johnson of Powerline fisks the mendacious local coverage of the Somali fraud cases.
(2) Today SCOTUS heard oral arguments in Trump v Slaugher, a case that bears on the question of whether “a president should be able to have full control over government agencies, even those set up by Congress to be shielded from presidential interference.”
In the 90-year-old ruling known as Humphrey’s Executor, the court found that, while the president has the ability to remove executive officers without cause, such a power does not apply to agencies like the FTC that are “neither political nor executive, but predominantly quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative”.
During oral arguments on Monday, the four conservative justices on the court appeared to disagree with Ms Slaughter’s lawyers’ arguments that this would be an unacceptable expansion of Trump’s powers.
Arguing for the Trump administration, US Solicitor General John Sauer called the Humphrey’s rule an “indefensible outlier” and “decaying husk” of a Supreme Court decision that should be overturned.
(3) Quite a few Republican House members will be retiring, but at least they seem to be coming from so-called “safe seats.” I keep reading anxiety-provoking articles about the House in the 2026 midterms, though.
(4) Homan says that the Trump administration has saved about 62,000 “migrant” children whom the Biden administration had lost.
(5) What are they teaching the kids of San Jose, California? Then again, this was probably inspired by TikTok or other social media; it was shared on Instagram:
Eight San Jose high school students formed a human swastika on their school’s football field in a horrifying display of antisemitism that has sent shockwaves through the Silicon Valley community.
The disturbing scene was photographed and shared in a since-deleted Wednesday social media post that featured an antisemitic 1939 quote from Adolf Hitler.
“If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe,” read what appeared to be an Instagram caption.
Everything old is new again.
41% foreign born
Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley)https://datausa.io/profile/geo/santa-clara-county-ca/.
(5) “No, Donny, these (boys) are nihilists. There’s nothing to be afraid of.”
Tangential to 3: Jazzy Crocket announces her Senate run. If Texas elects her we are truly screwed.
It may be Springtime for Hitler in Germany but Do You Know the Way to San Jose? He’s got lots of fans in San Jose.
That’s where all the young fascists want to be.
“I keep reading anxiety-provoking articles about the House in the 2026 midterms, though.”
If I had to bet hard, I’d say the Rs will lose at least the House and likely the Senate as well. The last two years of DJT will be filled with impeachment filings.
The gangrene runs deeper than anyone expected and no one will implement the only cure.
There is no cure for gas gangreen, didn’t used to be, now it’s just really,really, really bad.
It seems to me any part of the executive branch set up to limit the control of POTUS is un-constitutional and also un-democratic.
Well, Don. There is the Legislative power in Congress where spending bills must originate in the House.
One question: how little or how much must the Executive faithfully perform that authorized spending?
physicsguy, I think a Crockett nomination for Senate would be disastrous for the Texas Dems. She is not the kind of candidate who would attract any Republican or Independent votes in Texas.
“(3) Quite a few Republican House members will be retiring, but at least they seem to be coming from so-called “safe seats.” I keep reading anxiety-provoking articles about the House in the 2026 midterms, though.”
Jesse Kelly has pointed out that Republicans don’t care about primaries and off-presidential elections. Democrats do and the GOP hasn’t done $hit about election fraud or voter fraud – yet.
The Courts just punt on fraud and say no one has “standing.” The Jews cared about the 1932 and 1933 elections that put the 3rd Reich in place. Did they have “standing” or doesn’t it ever matter who is elected anywhere. Ask the folks today in Venezuela too or the 30% of the country that has fled.
Inflation Update – Gas UNDER $3 a gallon in 37 states // Under $2 a gallon in 4 states!!
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/12/inflation-update-gas-under-3-gallon-in.html
Neo, regarding #3, are you familiar with Seth Keshel’s substack, Capt K’s Corner? On deciphering these issues I believe it’s the best on the internet.
Just a quibble (but a day-long one)…
“Slaugher” is a typo…
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As for #5…it’s global, Jake….
“Al Jazeera sponsors press freedom event – and receives award;
“A celebration of press freedom that honours its true enemies…”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419038
+ Bonus (utter virtue-signaling stupidity…except it’s not stupidity: it’s intentional, ideology-driven regional sabotage by Spain’s governing Socialist arsonists…but then, Morocco must be punished…so what else is new?)
“How Spain’s Anti-Israel decree fractures the Maghreb Security Consensus;
“Spain’s anti-Isrrael embargo is not a symbolic slap on the wrist; it is an attack on the logistical and technological integrity of the southern security front.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419036
Read the Powerline article, other than fraud is baked into every handout program don’t know what to add.
“Homan says that the Trump administration has saved about 62,000 “migrant” children whom the Biden administration had lost.”
Can someone please explain to me where these children come from.
Are they runaways ?
Are they children that were kidnapped from their homes?
Are they sold by their parents to smugglers and pimps?
And off topic, but still puzzling to me.
Those homeless folks we see in tent cities in LA, etc,, many / most being drug addicts; where do they get the money to buy the drugs and needles??
Where do they get the money to buy food??
Any response will be appreciated.
Something I never thought of has been pointed out by one of our regulars in another forum. If Congress has the power by statute to strip the president of the authority to remove members of regulatory commissions, it could logically do so in regard to any component of the executive branch. Imagine a lame duck Congress dominated by Democrats doing this and having some husk like Biden sign it.
Slaughter reminded me of this about Auburn, WA:
Before the first European arrived in the Green River Valley in the 1850s, the area was home to the Muckleshoot people, who were temporarily driven out by Indian wars later that decade. Several settler families arrived in the 1860s, including Levi Ballard, who set up a homestead between the Green and White rivers.[8] Ballard filed for a plat to establish a town in February 1886, naming it Slaughter for an officer slain during the Indian wars in 1855.[9][10]
Slaughter was incorporated on June 13, 1891, but its name was changed two years later to Auburn on February 21, 1893, by an action of the state legislature. Newer residents had disliked the name and its connection to the word “slaughter”, especially after the town’s hotel was named the Slaughter House.[9][10] The name Auburn was chosen in honor of Auburn, New York, for the areas’ shared reliance on hops farming.[11]