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Of course she did. She's a Centralized Control Freak.

LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban trib.al/7BMBIBf

The Making of an Institutionolist Brilliant! Kudos yet again, Grey. Your TM combo of rigor, readability, erudition, flare, precision & savagery are unparalleled. This latest essay addresses a core #MAGA concern. Of all the turncoats, ACB is more troublesome than even Tucker.

I have just published what may be the most unflinching autopsy yet performed on one of the most bitterly disappointing appointments to the United States Supreme Court in the modern conservative era. In the essay below, titled “Amy Coney Barrett: The Most Disappointing Appointment to the Supreme Court in American History,” I dissect, with forensic precision and without mercy, the transformation of Justice Barrett from Scalia’s chosen protégé and conservative icon into the Court’s most reliable stealth ally of the three liberal justices. From her early promise as the fulfillment of the originalist revolution to her repeated alignments with Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson in cases that blunt conservative victories, empower the administrative leviathan, and prioritize institutional comity over constitutional command, the piece lays bare a jurisprudence rooted not in textual fidelity but in the pathology of elite collegiality...where law dissolves into pragmatic moderation, history is selectively invoked, and the revolutionary promise of originalism is quietly sacrificed on the altar of the Court’s “legitimacy.” This is no mere partisan lament. It is a philosophical and constitutional indictment of the quiet subversion that has hollowed out the conservative legal movement from within. The stakes could not be higher. When a justice installed to deliver bold restoration instead becomes the swing vote that preserves the status quo, the entire Federalist Society project and the American constitutional order itself suffer a profound wound. The full essay is long, detailed, ruthless, and unsparing...exactly as this betrayal demands. I wrote it with lethal clarity: not merely to criticize, but to expose the institutional capture and psychological forces that turned promise into pathology. And because this truth must reach every corner of the Republic, the entire piece is free for all readers...subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Read it. Share it. Confront it. The future of originalism may well depend on whether conservatives still possess the courage to name this institutionalist pathology for what it is. The truth about trusted icons, when delivered without anesthesia, cuts deepest of all. open.substack.com/pub/lhgrey78/p…

@netanyahu Godspeed! I thought @nytimes hit rock bottom with the Walter Duranty scandal. Stalin starved to death millions of Ukrainians. The Times got a Pulitzer for lying about it. This is worse, an obvious, stupid lie that flouts basic journalism. link.bnation.us/GarethJones

Today I instructed my legal advisers to consider the harshest legal action against The New York Times and Nicholas Kristof. They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and Israel’s valiant soldiers. Under my leadership, Israel will not be silent. We will fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. Truth will prevail.

@TastyBrew1776 @jchristenson_ @lawler4ny @reesejgorman What's your Dad say, @RandPaul? What's your Granddad say? Given that your Father, the man who raised you, is a US Senator, he owes it to the nation to speak about the scourge of antisemitism that is dogging America, now that it has reached into his own family. #MAGA

Last night, I had too much to drink and said some things that don’t represent who I really am. I’m sorry and today I am seeking help for my drinking problem. @jchristenson_ @lawler4ny @reesejgorman

@spencerpratt Where'd it go?

@spencerpratt Another banger! You are Mr. #MicDrop, Spencer. Revolutionary in the best way possible. Keep on keeping on.

I thought @nytimes hit rock bottom with the Walter Duranty scandal. Stalin starved to death 7.5 million Ukrainians. The Times got a Pulitzer for lying about it. This is worse, an obvious lie, a stupid one that flouts basic journalism. Murder will result. link.bnation.us/GarethJones

@yaelbt @neontaster I thought @nytimes hit rock bottom with the Walter Duranty scandal. Stalin starved to death 7.5 million Ukrainians. The Times got a Pulitzer for lying about it. This is worse, an obvious lie, stupid at that, that flouts basic journalism. People will die. link.bnation.us/GarethJones

Shut down the internet for the day, we have a winner @neontaster

@SocioNames Almost. They were also on their knees.

They are reenacting how they got their jobs in the first place.

@koshercockney The Vatican has fallen.

Pope Leo has awarded the Iranian Regime’s Mohammed Hossein Mokhtari the highest ranking honour the Vatican can bestow on someone. The Knight Grand Cross order of Pope Pius IX. It is the highest honour currently conferred by the Holy See. What on earth.

@ChadBianco @itsJohnRocker You should sell handcuffs as campaign swag.

@itsJohnRocker Just give me a few days in office. I’ll bring the handcuffs.

California needs to be taken over by the Federal Government and Newsom needs to be placed in a holding cell until all of the Chinese Government spies are identified and incarcerated.

@GizmoMemes Woulda rather seen Rubio & Bessent spinning.

Trump feeling the vibe with Marco Rubio and Maduro on the turntables 😎🤣

@BillMelugin_ He basically winked at her. That's the Dem-Politico relationship personified.

This is so cringe.

@Hotshot_Movie How many other candidates have world class, fan-made ads? Zero, zilch, nada. @spencerpratt is more than a candidate. He's a movement, not to mention LA's next mayor.

All of Spencer’s actual ads are shot IRL on REDs with pro-mists. Those AI videos are fan-made. The campaign produces man-made spots. Cry harder, though.

@spencerpratt I see what you did there. Brilliant!

Karen Bass got FOMO. These AI attack ads are crazy desperate.

@spencerpratt Yes you are. Monterey County is rooting for you.

We don’t have to imagine Bass as mayor. We are living that disaster. That’s why I’m taking her job.

@KatTimpf Dear Kat, may his memory be a blessing.

My seemingly healthy, strong father Daniel “Dad Timpf” Timpf died very unexpectedly on the evening of May 7 at just 69 years old.   It does not seem like enough to simply call him my father, because he was so much more than that. He was my rock, my hero and my best friend. He was loyal, funny, kind, selfless, hard-working, and so devoted to his children that it was impossible to be near him and not find yourself inspired. He was a writer, a painter, a sailor, and somehow knowledgeable on every subject from world history to literature to accounting. He was the most dependable person anyone has ever met. I always felt like, as long as I had his phone number, there was not a problem I could not solve. I needed him here with me; I am not okay, and I am far from the only person who feels this.   The birth of my son in February 2025, his first grandchild, was supposed to be a happy new beginning for our family. A family that had been already once devastated by an untimely loss: the loss of my mother Anne Marie to a rare disease in 2014 just a matter of weeks after her diagnosis.   The joy of my son’s birth was, of course, complicated by my also very unexpected breast cancer diagnosis just a matter of hours before going into labor with him. During this time, my dad did what he did best, which was to save the day. As soon as he heard about my diagnosis, he simply got into the car and started driving to New York -- making it through the tunnel just as my  son was born…on the day that happened to be his own birthday, as well.   In the tumultuous time of a simultaneous new cancer diagnosis and new baby, my dad was the sole reason for our stability, rushing in to help care for our son, and returning to do so again for my double mastectomy, reconstructive surgery, and any time that we ever needed him. It was an awful, awful year… but I found so much joy and hope throughout it by watching the beauty of a very special relationship form between my son and my father. This horrible thing that was happening was creating such a very special bond between the two of them -- almost making the terrible thing worth it -- and I was so excited to see how that bond would grow.   The bond was of top priority for my father, who visited from Michigan often. I saw him last on the Monday before he died, and my son was so proud to help his grandfather push his suitcase down to the car as he left. The goodbyes were quick. Why wouldn’t they be? We would all see each other again at the beginning of June, when we would all head to Texas for my shows and to see my grandpa. We wanted to make sure that my son could spend as much time as he could with his great-grandfather. He is, after all, 93.   I was certainly not over the trauma of my cancer or having to amputate the breasts I so badly wanted to feed my son with, but the one thing I could always count on to get me through my worst moments was seeing my son’s and my father’s faces light up when they saw each other, be it during the visits or our routine morning and bedtime FaceTime calls.   That is, at least, until I had to hear over the phone from a doctor I had never met in an emergency room in the same town up north that I’d previously announced to my father that I was pregnant that my dad was dead; I would never see him again, and neither would my son. It would turn out that last year was not the hard one, after all. Rather, it was the one I would now do anything to relive. I would amputate my breasts every year just to be able to speak with him one more time, even for five minutes.   I am currently living an unimaginable horror. For many people, this is a tragic story. For me, it’s my life. I do not know how I will recover from it. I only know that I have to for the sake of what is left of my family.

@marklevinshow Pakistan PM Sharif & Field Marshal Munir got some splaining to do. The Boss, aka @DonaldTrump, threw them a big bone. He must be big mad at their perfidy in response. Look out above...

Lindsey is right

@DailyMail This soul-searing article documents the genocide of Jews by Muslims on October 7. May their memories be a blessing. link.bnation.us/genocide-not-g…

Full depravity of Hamas during October 7 revealed for the first time: New report details how terrorists performed almost unimaginable horrors upon Israeli families trib.al/olj7tnv

@5149jamesli Way to self-own, James. Your list of @spencerpratt bullet points reads like a list of superhero statements, nearly Truth, Justice & the American Way. Ironically, you intended them as an indictment. Wrong. The recent LA Union attack-ad did the same thing. Thanks to you both!

🚨 Spencer Pratt, in a private DM: - called antisemitism a "mind virus" - accused current leaders of playing "far too cute" with antisemitic tropes - promises more LAPD presence around Chabad centers - says DOJ should more aggressively prosecute antisemites