Thursday, April 16, 2026
Note to Ldotters:
Please remember, no duplicates, no blog posting
unless you have permission from staff, no local crimes and
no posting just to elicit nasty reactions.
Any post with three lines or fewer will be deleted.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Lucianne.com Ad-Free Subscription
Learn More or Enter Code
Latest Posts
A sheriff in Wisconsin is taking legal action against a U.S. citizen who is accused of lying about being in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention for 40 hours.
Following a lengthy investigation, Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt said officials were suing Sundas Naqvi of Skokie, Illinois, who claimed she was held by federal authorities in Illinois and Wisconsin, Fox News reported Wednesday.
In a social media post on Friday, the sheriff’s office said it was refuting the false detention claims and presented a timeline and evidence.
“After a thorough review of all available records, evidence, and timelines,
Six so-called “Republicans” voted Wednesday alongside Democrats to advance legislation that would extend Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants despite the Trump administration’s efforts to end the widely exploited program.
Republican Reps. Don Bacon (Neb.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Carlos Gimenez (Fla.) and Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.) voted alongside Democrats to pass Democrat Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s discharge petition that would extend TPS for Haitians until April of 2029.Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) told Newsweek she voted to extend TPS for Haitians because she thinks of America as an economic opportunity zone.
Ukraine impeachment was continuation of
failed Russia collusion plot to take down
Trump, docs show replies
failed Russia collusion plot to take down
Trump, docs show replies
The Democrat-led Ukraine impeachment effort of 2019 was linked to and a continuation of the Russiagate saga and of the failed effort by special counsel Robert Mueller to unearth criminality by President Donald Trump, newly-declassified documents and testimony indicate.
Memos declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and released by Just the News on Sunday were written by investigators for intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who first handled the CIA analyst's complaint. Gabbard also declassified long-secret transcribed interviews from the watchdog, and these, combined with the memos, provide further evidence that the Ukraine impeachment saga was a continuation of the Russiagate saga which had flamed out.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is accustomed to unrelenting personal attacks from the left that began with his nomination to the Court. This week, however, the ad hominem insults came not from cable programs but a colleague. Justice Sonia Sotomayor used an appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law to level a personal dig at Kavanaugh as an out-of-touch elitist.
I have long criticized the growing number of public statements by justices on controversial subjects and cases, including Justice Sotomayor. However, this appearance represented a new low in lashing out at a colleague as effectively blinded by his own privilege.
In her comments, Sotomayor raised Kavanaugh’s concurrence in
Trump Takes Our Advice On Taxes
replies
On Monday, we posted an editorial reflecting our most recent I&I/TIPP poll, which found that by a 4-to-1 margin, Americans think their taxes have gone up, despite the seven major tax cuts contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“Our poll findings should be a red flag for President Donald Trump,” we wrote, and went on to say:
He needs to do a much better job of telling the public the truth about the tax cuts he signed into law.
[snip]
Well, Thursday morning, we came across this headline in Newsmax: “Trump to Promote Tax Breaks in Las Vegas.”
Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, appears for an interview with Katie Pavlich to outline the importance of bringing all of the information about the Intelligence Community targeting of President Trump to the public.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and We the People want to see accountability for the Machiavellian conduct. The intelligence community targeted President Trump and people within the CIA ran an operation to remove him. These people have names and titles that have remained hidden, DNI Tulsi Gabbard is putting those names, specific names into the public psyche so we can have a full understanding of what took place.
Now, for many here this may seem like
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is widely known as a liberal jurist who can reliably be expected to vote with her leftist colleagues, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, on virtually every issue, as the three mostly march in lockstep. Ketanji Brown Jackson, in particular, seems to decide cases based on her own personal opinion, not relying too much on that pesky old Constitution.
But now Sotomayor can add a new adjective to her profile: “obnoxious.”
The Obama-appointed jurist took the unusual step of making a personal attack on a fellow justice, Brett Kavanaugh, at an appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law on April 7.
It’s no secret that John Cornyn is in grave danger of having the good people of Texas dislodge him from the senatorial sinecure he’s occupied without distinction for four endless terms. He seeks a fifth term for no apparent reason other than he loves having lackeys address him as “Your Senatorness.” And that’s all he does – his opponent, Kenny Paxton, lays waste while John Cornyn lays around. He is, as one might say in the otherwise awesome Lone Star State, as useless as mammaries on a bull.
Today, Cornyn is a non-player timeserver; it’s tomorrow that we need to worry about.
WWI + WWII = WWIII?
replies
Britain’s civilizational collapse bothers me. As much as we Americans enjoy defining ourselves by the whooping our ancestors gave to the Crown, Brits and Yanks share a common language, enjoy similar beliefs, and broadly relate to one another. Rebelling against the British Empire is one thing. Watching foreign peoples conquer what’s left of that empire in another thing altogether. Every day the United Kingdom becomes less united and more likely to collapse upon itself.
The U.K.’s media Establishment used popular actor Idris Elba to promote a documentary last year entitled, “Our Knife Crime Crisis.”
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife Cerina Fairfax before turning the gun on himself in their Annandale home, police say Thursday.
Officers responded to the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive shortly after midnight. When they arrived, police found a man and a woman dead inside the Annandale home.
“Former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, shot and killed his wife inside of their home and then shot and killed himself,” Fairfax Police Chief Kevin Davis told reporters at a briefing.
According to Davis, Fairfax shot his wife several times in the basement in the home, killing her. He then ran upstairs to the primary bedroom and killed himself
It Seems Ro Khanna Might Be the Next Dem
Rep to Get Torched...the Wheels Are Still
in Motion replies
Rep to Get Torched...the Wheels Are Still
in Motion replies
There’s a MeToo reckoning happening on the Hill, and it’s going to shake up both parties, honestly. For now, Democrats are left taking it on the chin as former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) steps back from public life in disgrace. The California liberal, who was leading in California’s gubernatorial race, saw his career destroyed in less than 72 hours after multiple sexual misconduct and rape allegations derailed his campaign. He withdrew from the governor’s race and later resigned. His resignation came hours after another accuser claimed the former congressman had violently raped her in 2018. This follows a previous allegation by a former staffer in 2019.
Former pharmaceutical executive
Homeless services vary greatly in California, as Christopher Rufo and Jonathan Choe revealed for City Journal. They received a tip that the state was providing homeless illegal aliens with access to transgender surgeries. I’m not joking. They visited these encampments, spoke with some of the people there, and discovered that the Golden State has gone off the rails in providing basic needs for them.
Many can accept their taxpayer dollars funding homeless shelters for beds, blankets, food, and clothing—but a sex change is something entirely different. This is insane:
We're not sure why CNN tapped David Hogg to appear on a program to discuss Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, but they did. Unfortunately for Hogg, Scott Jennings was also on the panel, and Jennings was ready to teach the Harvard graduate a thing or two about debate and foreign policy. (X) "Anybody with an elementary school understanding of foreign policy could have told you that the Strait of Hormuz was going to get shut down," Hogg said. "That is exactly what happened."
"And who controls it right now?" Jennings asked.
Instead of answering the question, Hogg deflected.
"Why are gas prices so high then?"
"Why were they high during Biden's administration?
When West Lake, Ohio police got a call for a welfare check on a 91-year-old grandmother, they feared the worst. Both the family and the authorities tried to call the woman but were unable to reach her. The woman was part of the city's 'Are You Okay?' program, where participants agree to get a daily welfare check call, and she wasn't answering those, either.
Police showed up at her house to find her garage partially open and her car in the garage. When they entered the home, however, they found a plot twist they did not expect.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has, since her election as a “moderate” Democrat last fall, quickly proved that she’s neither a moderate nor even remotely intelligent. If she were, she’d never have agreed to sign Virginia onto the left’s unconstitutional scheme to bypass the Electoral College.
With Spanberger’s signature this week, Virginia became the 18th state to join the “National Popular Vote Compact.” States that do so agree that, regardless of how their state votes for president, their Electoral College votes will go to the winner of the national popular vote.
If states
Political Ethics
replies
An influential Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says the bombshell evidence disclosed this week challenging the credibility and bias of a CIA analyst who prompted the Ukraine influence scandal seven years ago is so powerful that it warrants Congress expunging the 2019 impeachment vote against President Donald Trump.
"I think it is time that we expunge this impeachment and get rid of it," Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Wednesday night. "...Historically, we need to show that we're going to stand up for the rule of law, for truth and justice. And this was unfairly done to President Trump."
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday referred the 2019 Ukraine impeachment whistleblower against Donald Trump, as well as the former intelligence community inspector general, for criminal investigation by the Justice Department, officials told Just The News.
The criminal referrals were sent to the Justice Department just four days after Gabbard declassified intelligence that the CIA analyst who filed against Trump that prompted the impeachment had misled the investigators who first received his whistle-blower complaint and that then-inspector general Michael Atkinson kept evidence of the whistleblowers' bias from the impeachment proceedings.
leading Republican hoping to replace the retiring Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., who led an investigation of the House Jan. 6 Committee, ironically has an apparent social media history of criticizing President Donald Trump over the incident.
Dr. John Cowan is running for Congress in Georgia’s 11th District, hoping to succeed Loudermilk, who opted against seeking another term. The neurosurgeon's website makes no mention of Trump whatsoever, but campaign materials shared with Just the News have asserted that the district “needs a proven conservative who knows what it means to have a backbone and fight alongside President Trump.”
Ukraine impeachment was continuation of
failed Russia collusion plot to take down
Trump, docs show replies
failed Russia collusion plot to take down
Trump, docs show replies
The Democrat-led Ukraine impeachment effort of 2019 was linked to and a continuation of the Russiagate saga and of the failed effort by special counsel Robert Mueller to unearth criminality by President Donald Trump, newly-declassified documents and testimony indicate.
Memos declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and released by Just the News on Sunday were written by investigators for intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who first handled the CIA analyst's complaint. Gabbard also declassified long-secret transcribed interviews from the watchdog, and these, combined with the memos, provide further evidence that the Ukraine impeachment saga was a continuation of the Russiagate saga which had flamed out.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is handing out $500 vouchers to migrants so they can enjoy haircuts, massages and other self-care benefits, despite the city's budget plunging nearly $50 million short.
Applicants who are 'low-income, isolated queer and trans migrants, asylum seekers and refugees' are prioritized for the 'wellness allowance.'
The initiative, called 'Boston Matters', was created by OUTnewcomers, a nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ+ migrants in Boston alongside the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement, Mass Daily News reported.
Applicants get $250 to $500 toward 'non-clinical care' completely funded by the city agency, which is run by the Democrat's administration.
Disgraced ex-Congressman Eric Swalwell and now-Senator Ruben Gallego both spent campaign funds at Puerto Rican resorts during the same weekend as Gallego's wedding, Federal Election Commission records show.
Gallego has scurried to distance himself from Swalwell, his former close friend)snip)
But the true intimacy of their relationship is beginning to unravel, the Daily Mail can reveal.Swalwell's political operation made a pair of expenditures at the Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico, totaling $1,522.11 on June 7th, 2021.
An Instagram post by a wedding guest, reviewed by the Daily Mail, tagged that hotel as the location of Gallego's wedding on that same date.
If you want to get a feel for where the Democrats are without having to pay the New York Times, there's probably no better source than the Huffington Post — and HuffPo just slipped former Vice President Kamala Harris the shiv.
It didn't mess around, either. HuffPo's Kevin Robillard wrote the report, but whoever wrote the headline put the hit job well above the byline and in great big letters: Kamala Harris 2028? Democratic Operatives And Donors Hope Not.
Harris is like this drunk buddy of mine from way back when, and not because of the drunk part. Well, not entirely because of the drunk part.
Hippos typically live exclusively in the wetlands, lakes, and rivers of sub-Saharan Africa... unless an infamous drug lord imported them to South America in the early 1980s, was fatally shot about a decade later, and the ones he kept as pets escaped, adapted to the region, and created their own colony.
You may or may not recall that at the time Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993, he owned hundreds of exotic animals, including four hippopotamuses that he reportedly imported from a wildlife center in Texas, which were kept at his Hacienda Nápoles estate. After his death, the Colombian government deemed them impossible to seize, so they were just left there,
Frequently, wise-sounding aphorisms get misattributed to Albert Einstein. Our favorite genius was genuinely wise in important ways; his later reflections on ethics, pacifism, and the danger of “compromising with the Devil” show real moral depth. But when we think of Einstein, we don’t think, “so wise.” We think, “he was brilliant,” intelligent, supergenius. Over and over, quoters upgrade any clever observation by slapping “Einstein” on it because, in today’s world, intelligence carries far more prestige than wisdom.