The woman who wants to eat the rich and lectures us on privilege, literally has an umbrella holder pic.twitter.com/SB383RNsxD
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 30, 2026
Sunday, May 03, 2026
AOC's Servant
Saturday, May 02, 2026
Is The SPLC Involved In Bank Fraud?
Extremely detailed, high-quality post about the SPLC fraud case. Explains why the SPLC is almost certainly in deep trouble, but even more importantly, it describes at length how the SPLC became a de facto bank regulator, exercising quasi-governmental power over who was given… https://t.co/8gGRxWQhVW
— Blake Neff (@BlakeSNeff) May 2, 2026
A textbook prosecution of bank fraud in many respects
On April 21st, 2026, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment of the SPLC for bank fraud.
The SPLC is a storied civil rights organization. Like many non-profits, it runs a portfolio of what are sometimes called “programs” under a single roof. One of those programs is producing a data product listing individuals and entities that it considers to be involved in hate and anti-government activities.
That data product is important financial infrastructure, and we will return to it in a moment.
The SPLC runs a private intelligence service to produce it. The SPLC has in the past paid informants, who it describes as “field sources.” Those informants are generally members of what it describes as domestic terror organizations. The existence of this program has been public knowledge for decades.
It is unlikely that any magistrate in the United States would approve a warrant to search the bluest-of-blue-chip civil rights organization's papers on the suspicion that they have created a fictitious CIA to launder money to the wife of an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. Are you not aware, officer, that the reason this organization is in high school history texts is they developed a novel civil litigation strategy to bankrupt the Ku Klux Klan? You will not get your warrant. You would be lucky to escape court without a citation for contempt or an order for psychiatric commitment.
Well, good thing nobody ever had to ask for that warrant.
Banks don’t need warrants to become quite alarmed when they discover that they have created an account for the Center Investigative Agency and several other sole proprietorships for the same person… and those businesses don’t receive revenue, run payroll, buy office supplies on their debit card, or rent office space. No, the only thing they do is take large deposits then transfer out hundreds of thousands of dollars directly to, Great Scott, the worst people imaginable.
Substantially every employee of the financial industry, CEO or teller or product marketing manager that they may be, is obligated to attend a yearly training on their BSA compliance responsibilities. That training customarily requires you to pass a test. If that test stipulated this scenario and then asked what the financial institution must do next, there is only one correct answer: Conduct an investigation, close the accounts at issue with very high probability, and file a Suspicious Activity Report.
We return from this flight of fancy to the indictment. Excerpting verbatim:
Starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of informants who were either associated with violent extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC's direction.
If one does not closely follow this community of practice, one could be forgiven doubting whether prosecutors are being candid here. This claim does sound farfetched. The indictment, in this paragraph, is neutrally recounting the truth. The SPLC is proud of that program, which it ran for decades. NPR’s gloss:
The indictment came shortly after the SPLC revealed the existence of a criminal investigation into its disbanded informant program to gather intelligence on extremist group activities.
Well, OK, they ran an intelligence agency. One can construct a narrative by which that makes some tactical sense. Sure.
How did they get a bank to go along with making payments to people who the SPLC has spent decades attempting to make it impossible to pay. Did they perhaps… lie to a bank?
Indictment:
To secretly funnel donated money to the Fs, individuals at the SPLC, including a person who would become the Chief Financial Officer ("Employee-1") and a person who would become the Director of the Intelligence Project ("Employee-2"), among others, opened a series of bank accounts at Bank-1 and Bank-2 in the name of various fictitious entities, including, but not limited to, the following: Center Investigative Agency ("CIA"), Fox Photography, North West Technologies ("North West Tech"), Tech Writers Group ("Tech Writers"), and Rare Books Warehouse ("Rare Books").
Oh dear, SPLC! It would be extremely bad for you if you had in fact opened accounts for businesses which do not actually exist, then used them to move funds! Perhaps you can just pray that the feds never find out? … The bank is quite likely going to find out, though. Some bank accounts have red flags. These red flags have bank accounts.
SPAIN: Lleida pushes fines of up to 750 euros for wearing the burka in public spaces under a civic conduct and security ordinance
Lleida pushes fines of up to 750 euros for wearing the burka in public spaces under a civic conduct and security ordinance
The debate over the use of the burka in public spaces has once again moved to the center of political discussion in Spain. The City Council of Lleida, governed by the Party of the Socialists of Catalonia (PSC), has proposed a civic conduct and coexistence ordinance that includes a ban on fully covering the face in public spaces and in municipal buildings. If approved, the measure would include financial penalties of up to 750 euros.
The proposal does not exclusively mention the burka, but in practice it targets any garment that prevents the identification of a person. According to the city council, the objective is to strengthen public safety and ensure coexistence, considering it essential that authorities be able to identify those moving through public spaces.
This type of initiative is not new in Europe; countries such as France and Belgium have already approved similar legislation in the past decade, citing reasons of security, social integration, and the defense of democratic values.
In Spain, however, the approach has been more fragmented, with local attempts that have at times clashed with higher courts over issues related to fundamental rights.
In the case of Lleida, the central argument revolves around identification. Municipal authorities maintain that it is not a religious issue, but one of public order.
However, critics of the measure warn that, although the rule is general, its application will primarily affect Muslim women who wear the burka or the niqab.
The debate also extends to the social sphere; some citizens believe that wearing garments that completely cover the face hinders coexistence and generates distrust, while others defend individual and religious freedom as fundamental pillars of a democratic society.
THE WAR IN IRAN IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT: Navigating US Law Appears More Difficult Than Navigating The Straits of Hormuz
FIRST THERE'S THIS:
Trump Declares Hostilities with Iran ‘Terminated’
President Donald Trump told Congress on Friday that any effort to use the War Powers Act to rein in the strikes against Iran is irrelevant because he has declared that the conflict is over.
The 1973 War Powers Resolution says that a president is supposed to seek congressional authorization for a war if the conflict lasts longer than 60 days, according to NBC News.
The U.S. attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Trump notified Congress on March 2, which started the 60-day time period.
On Friday, Trump formally told Congress he does not need to submit anything for approval.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
Trump "not satisfied" with new peace deal offered by Iran
What to know about the Iran war today:President Trump said he was "not satisfied" with a new Iranian deal to end the war sent to the U.S., through Pakistani mediators, on Friday. The new offer came as a senior Iranian commander warns any new U.S. attacks will draw "sustained, wide-ranging, and painful retaliation." Mr. Trump argued again Friday that the U.S. has "already won" the war. But as he considers his next move in the costly nine-week conflict, he said he wants to "win by a bigger margin" and ensure Iran can never attain a nuclear weapon.Mr. Trump on Friday told congressional leaders that "hostilities" with Iran have "terminated," addressing a critical 60-day deadline under a decades-old law meant to limit the use of military force without authorization from Congress. Trump admin bypasses Congress for about $9 billion in weapons sold to Israel, Middle East allies
The U.S. has sold a new tranche of about $9 billion in weapons to Israel and several Middle East allies, the Trump administration announced late Friday.
While the State Department notified Congress of the deals, it bypassed traditional congressional review. The administration has repeatedly dispensed with congressional review in recent weapons deals, citing an emergency that necessitated immediate sales.
ALL THAT BEING SAID:
SWEDEN JOINS FORCES WITH THE US:The Iran war is a complete win, possibly becoming the most comprehensive victory of most of our lifetimes. I say this as someone who leaned toward diplomacy before it began.
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) May 1, 2026
Do not believe analysts whose only horizon is a 24-hour news cycle and who would be delighted by defeat. https://t.co/IXtp8KJnQ7
And it begins https://t.co/U60PVzcO6A
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 2, 2026
Friday, May 01, 2026
Victor Davis Hanson: Iran Is Breaking Down, and the Ripple Effects Are Just Beginning
Iran will soon have to stop pumping oil. When productive oil wells are shut down, internal pressure builds up, which often results in environmental issues. shutdowns can lead to wax/asphaltene clogging, equipment corrosion, water infiltration, and damage to the reservoir, making it difficult or too expensive to restart.
Reopening a well after a long shutdown is risky, expensive, and sometimes impossible, as the pressure changes can make the well unproductive.
Judicial Watch Lawsuit Compels Oregon, Against Its Will, to Remove 800,000 Ineligible Voters from Its Voter Rolls -- Nearly One Quarter of All Eligible Voters In the State
The Sprit of Oregon Manifest
Don't look now, but that thing that never happens is happening again.
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_BREAKING: Settlement of a Judicial Watch lawsuit has forced the review and removal of some 800,000 ineligible voters from Oregon voter rolls
Judicial Watch is deservedly crowing:
Judicial Watch announced a settlement in its federal lawsuit against Oregon election officials, which confirms 800,000 ineligible voter names are slated for review and removal from voter registration lists. The settlement requires state officials to produce detailed data and enforce federal voter roll clean-up procedures under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
I should say that of the 800,000 ineligible names, only 160,000 are being scrubbed now; the other 640,000 will be reviewed and scrubbed from the lists later.
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in October 2024, alleging Oregon failed to remove ineligible voters and seeking to enforce Section 8 of the NVRA after identifying widespread voter roll maintenance failures across dozens of counties (Judicial Watch, et al. v. The State of Oregon et al. (No. 6:24-cv-01783)).In its complaint, Judicial Watch argued that Oregon's voter rolls contain large numbers of old, inactive registrations; and that 29 of Oregon's 36 counties removed few or no registrations as required by federal election law. Judicial Watch asserted that Oregon and 35 of its counties had overall registration rates exceeding 100%; and that Oregon had the highest known inactive registration rate of any state in the nation. In combination, all of these facts showed that Oregon was failing to remove inactive registrations as required by federal law.
In August 2025, a federal court in Oregon denied a motion to dismiss by Oregon and ruled the lawsuit could proceed.
In response to the lawsuit, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read announced earlier this year that Oregon has about 800,000 inactive registrations, which are kept separately from the active voter rolls and do not receive ballots. Of those, roughly 160,000 already meet federal and state criteria for removal--having received confirmation notices, failed to respond, and not voted in two federal elections--and are slated for cancellation. The remaining approximately 640,000 inactive records do not yet qualify for removal and will be processed through future list maintenance efforts.
In its press release, Oregon acknowledged that routine removal of outdated records effectively stalled in 2017, leaving a large pool of long-dormant registrations on the rolls without being fully processed for removal. The scale of the backlog underscores a gap in routine list maintenance that is only now being addressed. "These directives are about cleaning up old data that's no longer in use so Oregonians can be confident that our voter records are up to date," said Read.
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The settlement with Oregon remains in effect for more than five years, with a federal court retaining jurisdiction to enforce its terms. While the settlement resolves the litigation, it explicitly allows future legal action if Oregon fails to comply with voter list clean-up requirements going forward.
The settlement requires Oregon to open its voter roll maintenance processes to unprecedented scrutiny. ...
...Colorado recently removed 372,000 ineligible voter names thanks to a Judicial Watch lawsuit and settlement addressing the state's compliance with federal voter list maintenance requirements.
In Kentucky, state election board officials reported that "roughly 735,000 ineligible voter registrations" have been removed from voter rolls, as part of a 2018 consent decree settling a Judicial Watch lawsuit.
As part of its 2022 settlement, New York City alone has removed 918,139 ineligible names from its rolls: data show 477,056 removals between March 2023 and February 2025, which is in addition to the 441,083 previously reported removals.
In Los Angeles, county officials confirmed the removal of more than 1.2 million names from voter rolls as part of a settlement. Judicial Watch legal pressure also resulted in election roll clean-ups in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Ohio.
HEGSETH!!!
The thing to understand is that the Obama/Biden regimes were successful in training many senior generals and admirals that DEI is a core competency of the US military, and in many cases THE core competency of the military, over and above readiness and warfighting.
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 30, 2026
Thus, when… https://t.co/OKu2ZCTsAA
Biden-Appointed Judge Orders Release of Dominican Illegal Alien Wanted for Murder by Interpol Red Notice Fugitive Now Roaming Free After ICE Arrest!
NEW: I’m told by federal sources that a Dominican illegal alien with a deportation order & an Interpol Red Notice arrest warrant for murder in his home county was ordered released from ICE custody on Tuesday by Rhode Island federal judge Melissa DuBose (Biden appointee). I’m told… pic.twitter.com/ndHma0Mu2Z
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 30, 2026
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