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… after videos appear to show him surrounded by anti-ICE protesters. It’s unclear what exactly happened, we are working on getting in touch with him once he is released from custody. 

We had seen Nick get surrounded and verbally threatened by protesters the previous night. He posted on X that he felt Portland PD would arrest him if he tried to defend himself.

Ed: Via Twitchy. Yes, this is for real. See the next entry.

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Fox News: “This was as big of a surprise to me as it was to everybody else. All of a sudden, you know, I’m being jumped by Antifa thugs,” Sortor told Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin following his release. “I get back up, I stumble away and go back toward cops where I think, you know, at least, all right, well, maybe that’ll be a safer place for me to go… never suspected that I was going to be the target of the arrest, that they were coming in to me.” 

“And when they put me into handcuffs, the first thing that went to my mind wasn’t, ‘Oh, you’re being arrested.’ It’s, ‘Oh, they’re trying to help you and get you out of here and make it look like they’re doing something.’ Because they weren’t telling me what they were doing. They weren’t telling me I was under arrest. They weren’t telling me what I was being charged with. And it took over an hour for me to find out what I was charged with,” Sortor claimed.

Ed: This is what happens in Portlandia. The local law enforcement is used to support the radicals. Sortor had been charged with criminal mischief, but based on this report, it’s not clear whether those charges got dropped.





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@AGPamBondi  personally called me to deliver this news, and I’m incredibly grateful to her for doing so.

The Trump DOJ WILL NOT allow Portland Police to continue to do the bidding of Antifa.

Ed: FAFO, indeed. Lawsuits and consent decrees involving local police departments were a favorite tactic of the Obama and Biden administrations. Let’s see how progressives and radicals like it when the Trump/Bondi DoJ use the same tactics to force changes in urban centers regarding law enforcement and prosecutions. 

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NY Post: CNN’s fact-checker plays down this provision, noting: “Less than 1% of total Medicaid spending went toward emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants in fiscal year 2023.”

Yet this exception has quickly become a significant loophole.

From 2023 to 2024, Medicaid spending on “Emergency Services for Undocumented Aliens” suddenly soared from $3.8 billion to $9.1 billion.

This wasn’t due to the economy or changes in healthcare costs. In 49 states, in fact, emergency Medicaid spending declined.

The surge in this expenditure was entirely due to the state of California, where spending suddenly leaped from $1.6 billion to $6.4 billion.





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Ed: Interesting, but not surprising. Netflix is fully part of the Hollywood elite clique. They do business in Hollywood, they engage with the progressive limousine liberals, and their financial model depends on integrating into that culture as much as possible. Even after getting slapped down over Dave Chappelle. the Netflix workforce is still entirely within that culture. 

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Daily Wire: The FBI has confirmed that it severed all ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left activist group that puts conservatives and Christians on a “hate map” along with Ku Klux Klan chapters. The “hate map” has inspired at least one terrorist attack against a conservative organization.

“The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” FBI Director Kash Patel told The Daily Signal in a statement Friday. “Their so-called hate map has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence.”

“That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership,” Patel added.

Ed: Good to see this kind of housecleaning. I don’t think this is a change in the sense that the FBI and DoJ had continued the partnerships with the SPLC and the ADL after Joe Biden left office. This may be a more formal declaration of what had already become the new normal under Patel and Pam Bondi. 

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Ed: Canada is warning their citizens that the US recognizes basic human biology. Oh no! Anyway …

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Cam Edwards at Bearing Arms: The Supreme Court will hear at least one Second Amendment case this term. On Friday, the Court granted cert to Wolford v. Lopez, which is a challenge to the state of Hawaii’s prohibition on lawful concealed carry on all private property unless the property owner gives explicit permission to gun carriers. …

As you can imagine, the gun control lobby is already flipping out over the Court’s decision to grant cert, calling Hawaii’s law “common sense”, even though it’s an anomaly in the history of our right to keep and bear arms. 

The “vampire rule” was adopted by multiple Democrat-controlled states after Bruen as a way to curtail the right to carry, but as Beck and O’Grady note, multiple appellate courts have found that the law violates the Second Amendment. This will be the first time that SCOTUS has taken up the issue of “sensitive places” since handing down the Bruen decision, and though the justices will only explicitly be looking at this particular statute, its decision in Wolford will hopefully have a positive impact on the ongoing challenges to other “sensitive places” as well. 

Ed: This may be a bigger deal than I first thought. Be sure to read it all, but this could go another way. For the most part, states acknowledge a right to carry on private property unless the owner explicitly bars it. Hawaii has this flipped around. I’m hoping that the court makes sure to prohibit that approach. It’s also unusual for this court to take up 2A cases, so I’m more nervous than perhaps I should be. 





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Ed: Uh … go on …

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Ed: He’s never been on an emergency naked bicycle race either, but I’d bet Pete has an idea about how that would fit in with military discipline. 

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CNN: The US military carried out another strike on a boat operating in the Caribbean officials deemed to be a “narco-trafficking vessel” on Friday morning, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced in a social media post. The strike killed all four people who were on board, Hegseth said.

The attack marks at least the fourth known US military strike in the Caribbean since the beginning of September, all of which have targeted boats the administration claims are “affiliated” with drug cartels that the US has designated as terrorist organizations in recent months.

Ed: But is Hegseth not qualified to order this strike because he’s never been a Venezuelan drug runner? 

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Ed: You’re welcome!

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