CBS/60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley raged at Trump in angry, unhinged commencement address at Wake Forest:

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"In this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack. 

Journalism is under attack.
Universities are under attack.
Freedom of speech is under attack.
And insidious fear is reaching through our schools. 

Our businesses, our homes and into our private thoughts. 

The fear to speak in America!

As he speaks openly and freely in America.
This self-important, sermonizing propagandist is what passes for a legacy media “journalist."

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 29

History for May 29 - On-This-Day.com 

Patrick Henry 1736 - Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

• 1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses.
• 1849 - A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln.
• 1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
• 1990 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
• 2015 - The Obama administration removed Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist. The two countries had severed diplomatic relations in January of 1961.
• 2018 - Starbucks closed thousands of stores for part of the day for a training session on unconscious bias.

Must Read: Stephen Miller Obliterates 3 Gigantic Lies About the Big Beautiful Bill

Must Read: Stephen Miller Obliterates 3 Gigantic Lies About the Big Beautiful Bill: 

Miller then made it clear that the “Big Beautiful Bill” could best be summarized in two simple parts: cutting taxes and spending.

You can see the entire post below:

The way we were-----1950s Playground

John gets 'fact checked'

Seems a reasonable request since they get SOOOO much US money!-----Trump says Harvard should reveal names and home countries of its international students | Just The News

"We want those names and countries. Harvard has $52,000,000, use it, and stop asking for the Federal Government to continue GRANTING money to you!" Trump wrote. By Nicholas Ballasy 

• "Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor do they ever intend to," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Nobody told us that!"

Trump said Harvard should reveal who its foreign students are, calling it a "reasonable request" since the university has received "billions of dollars" from the federal government.

"We want those names and countries. Harvard has $52,000,000, use it, and stop asking for the Federal Government to continue GRANTING money to you!" Trump wrote...

For those that don't understand what President Trump is doing.....

.In Dec 2023 there was a decision by the World Court, that gave water above land shelves to those countries and ruled they were not international water.  - Michael Craig Powell 

• The renaming of the Gulf of America isn't renaming the whole gulf. 
• It is renaming the area above our land shelves as our territory. 

You can't exactly put signs or border walls in the middle of the ocean. 

So for legal reasons, we need to identify these new changes on the map, so that new borders are made clear to maritime traffic. 

Those new maps will set the latitude and longitudes of where our border begins, or the Gulf of America. So all maritime traffic knows when they are leaving international waters. 

This is where knowing what is happening in the world, will help you filter out drama, and help you understand the legalities in your own country. 

• This had nothing to do with Trump's ego, he is strengthening our borders and making sure all maritime traffic understands the changes that happened in 2023....

Daniel Jupp - When Trump started using tariffs the free trade... | Facebook

Daniel Jupp - When Trump started using tariffs the free trade... | Facebook - Daniel Jupp 

When Trump started using tariffs the free trade fetish conservatives howled as loudly as the Democrats.

• “Look at the stock markets! He’s mad, free trade is a conservative principle!”...

People who pay attention were far less concerned and hysterical. 

• Trump uses tariffs as a weapon. 

It’s not a permanent position unless others make it so.
And of course then a line of nations, including China, begged for a deal...

DHS Takes Vicious Parting Shot at ACLU After Its Immigration Lawsuit 'Fails Spectacularly'

DHS Takes Vicious Parting Shot at ACLU After Its Immigration Lawsuit 'Fails Spectacularly': 

The release explained the ACLU’s “latest attempt to wage lawfare against the Department was dropped. This lawsuit tried to prevent DHS from removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens from the country.”

“We are glad to see the ACLU’s meritless, frivolous, and frankly dangerous lawsuit fall apart,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

Chicago Broke

‘MI is part of MISO grid!-----How does this happen?’ Power outages hit blue city on holiday weekend after months of warnings - Audrey Streb

New Orleans was plunged into darkness on Sunday afternoon when the region’s grid operator cut off power to reduce usage, a “last resort” measure to prevent a large-scale blackout

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), a major electrical grid operator, directed the energy company Entergy to reduce power with only three minutes’ notice to prevent a blackout, affecting nearly 100,000 customers...

...President Donald Trump’s administration, energy policy experts and multiple North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) reports have signaled that MISO is at an elevated risk for blackouts due in part to phasing out coal-fired power plants...

• “How does this happen?” New Orleans City Council member Joe Giarrusso told Nola.com. “There are lots of questions that need answering.”...

Lunch video-----"This Is WAY Bigger Than I Thought… | Victor Davis Hanson"

Noon-toon

 

'Beneath the radar': How India using job platforms and corporate alliances to shaft U.S. workers * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta

'Beneath the radar': How India using job platforms and corporate alliances to shaft U.S. workers * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta: 

The case brings into focus a much deeper issue: how artificial intelligence, job platforms, and corporate partnerships have quietly reengineered America's hiring infrastructure. Through algorithmic filters and foreign-aligned job pipelines, U.S. workers are being screened out, systematically replaced by a workforce handpicked and trained to bypass them entirely. And it's happening beneath the radar, through the very technology Americans are told is designed to be "fair."

The ONLY way to stop them short of war!

 

Second Term Plan Was To Have Biden Show "Proof Of Life" Occasionally While Aides Ran The Show

‘He just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years.  -  Ian Schwartz

"FOX News Sunday" host Shannon Bream interviews journalist and author Alex Thompson and asks about a passage from his new book "Original Sin," where he was told the plan for a second term was to have aides run the show while President Biden occasionally made appearances for "proof of life."

It's not like they didn't warn everyone!

DOGE’s Unfinished Business

Our Review of DOGE’s Work Shows It's Up to Congress to Enact Savings - OpenTheBooks

Elon Musk...while speaking to the Qatar Economic Forum, he made his office’s limitations clear to Bloomberg reporter Mishal Husain: 

“DOGE is an advisory group; we are doing the best we can as an advisory group.”
“We do not make the laws, nor do we control the judiciary, nor do we control the Executive Branch,” Musk elaborated. “We are simply advisors. In that context, we are doing very well. We cannot take action beyond that because we are not some sort of imperial dictator of the government. There are three branches of government that are, to some degree, opposed to that level of cost savings.”

The Trump administration has claimed DOGE has saved taxpayers $160 billion so far. 

Critics, including some on the right, said DOGE hasn’t achieved that level of savings. 

So, who is right? 

And how can the average person see the data and decide for themselves?

• At Open the Books we take these questions seriously and have tried to bring some transparency to the question in the analysis below...

#1 This day 1974-----Ray Stevens - "The Streak" (Music Video)

Buying off the real science??!!-----Who is bankrolling the anti-MAHA movement? | Blaze Media

A deep dive into Big Ag's push against the MAHA movement - Rebeka Zeljko

• The MAHA report's findings suggested that exposure to agricultural chemicals like pesticides and insecticides are one of the many root causes that have contributed to chronic diseases and health epidemics afflicting American children...

American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said the MAHA report "sows seeds of doubt and fear" and called the White House's endorsement of the report "deeply troubling." 

• Notably, Blaze News found that multiple local chapters of the Farm Bureau have collectively received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from Monsanto, a subsidiary of Bayer Global, which manufactures agricultural chemicals and GMO technologies.
• Some of this money has been allocated for various disaster relief programs, while some has gone toward political action committees. 
• For instance, the Oregon Farm Bureau PAC has received over $130,000 from Monsanto from 2007 to 2017, much of which was "raised during an annual golf tournament" hosted by the Oregon Farm Bureau to "raise money for its political activities."...

They still hate us!

 

'Snooping around': Government officials under fire for bypassing state constitution * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Snooping around': Government officials under fire for bypassing state constitution * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

A court is being asked to act against state officials who bypass the requirements of their own state constitution. The situation is that while the Alabama Constitution "makes it clear that if the government wants to come searching on your property, they need a warrant based on probable cause," agents from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources simply cite a statute to ignore that requirement.

Shyham Sankar: When's The Last Time You Saw A Movie With China As The Villain? | Video | RealClearPolitics

Shyham Sankar: When's The Last Time You Saw A Movie With China As The Villain? | Video | - RealClearPolitics - Tim

• SHAWN RYAN: How worried do we need to be about China?
• SHYAM SANKAR: Very worried:
• SHAWN RYAN: It seems like they just have us in all these different areas—manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, it seems like our whole supply chain comes from there. Then there’s the involvement with drug trafficking coming out of Mexico.
• SHYAM SANKAR: Yeah, the Reverse Opium War, as I call it.
• SHAWN RYAN: They’re buying up all our land, investing in our country. Where are they? How far are we behind China?...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 28

History for May 28 - On-This-Day.com

Ian Fleming 1908 - Author, journalist, created character of James Bond

• 1863 - The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War.
• 1928 - Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.
• 1959 - The U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight. Both primates survived the trip.
• 1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988.
• 1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.
• 2002 - Russia became a limited partner in NATO with the creation of the NATO-Russia Council.

FBI Breaks Pakistani Migrant Smuggling Network in Texas

FBI Breaks Pakistani Migrant Smuggling Network in Texas: 

The FBI arrested two Pakistani immigration lawyers in Texas, exposing a smuggling network that imported Pakistani migrants via several forms of white-collar fraud.

The FBI investigation and the arrest follow promises by President Donald Trump’s deputies to separate investigations into white-collar mignation crime.  The Justice Department reported:

The way we were-----The White House Kamikaze

The History of South Africa That Nobody Told You | Ernst Roets

Instapundit - ICYMI: YOU WON’T BE WRONG IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE ENTIRE POST-WWII POLITICAL ORDER AS A BIPARTISAN EFFORT TO MAKE SURE THE VOTERS DON’T GET WHAT THEY WANT:

Instapundit -  Glenn Reynolds

• ICYMI: YOU WON’T BE WRONG IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE ENTIRE POST-WWII POLITICAL ORDER AS A BIPARTISAN EFFORT TO MAKE SURE THE VOTERS DON’T GET WHAT THEY WANT: - Glenn Reynolds