Justice Department Thugs

/

"The 57-year-old previously served as New York’s director of the Office of Homeland Security, ran the FBI’s National Threat Assessment Center and the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force."

Mayor Adams may or may not be guilty of corruption, but Merrick Garland and his Black Shirt enforcers treatment of a completely uninvolved individual, formerly one of their own, just to throw a scare into Adams, shows that the FBI remains the same tool of the State as it has been during its entire existence; the only difference is that it’s gotten worse with each passing year, and Garland has accelerated the process.

Feds’ raid of interim NYPD commissioner for ‘old documents’ just days after he took job suggests ‘it’s open season on Adams”

A raid on the home of the Big Apple’s interim police commissioner has raised eyebrows – coming just days after he took the job and as investigations swirl around Adams administration officials, The Post has learned.

Interim commissioner Thomas Donlon said in a Saturday night statement that federal authorities had taken from him “materials that came into my possession 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department” — one week after his predecessor stepped down over a seemingly unrelated raid.

Sources told The Post that agents had been searching for classified documents Donlon may have brought home during his years with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security — but that explanation has left a lot of law enforcement officers scratching their heads.

“The same federal agencies that ‘recommended’ Donlon to Adams also executed the warrant — less than a week after Donlon’s appointment — to search his house for 20-year-old documents,” one source said, adding that Southern District of New York head Damian Williams actually backed Mayor Eric Adams’ commish choice before he announced it.

“I can hear the agents laughing while they’re torturing the mayor,” the source continued. “It’s open season on Adams at the SDNY and FBI.”

The same source said Donlon “clearly pissed off the wrong people at the FBI,” which led the investigators to throw “another grenade in Adams’ lap and pull the [pin].”

“Donlon was collateral damage,” the source said.

Adams tapped Donlon, an NYPD outsider, to take over as the city’s interim commissioner on Sept. 12 — the same day former commissioner Edward Caban abruptly resigned because of a federal investigation that has focused on him, his brother and several other close allies and top lieutenants of the embattled mayor.

The Bee or Not the Bee?

/

unprecedented adjective

  1. ​that has never happened, been done or been known before

Parady or real: two choices:

This one, posted yesterday?

HOLMES BEACH, FL — Climate experts noted today that hurricane Helene, which is currently forming in hurricane alley during the peak of hurricane season, is undeniable proof of climate change.

"This situation is completely unprecedented," said global warming expert and local dog groomer Rodney Carlson. "I've never seen a hurricane of this magnitude forming in hurricane alley during the hurricane season, and my records go back over 75 days! Clearly, this can only be explained by global warming."

Local resident Sarah Smith said she was also completely shocked by the coming storm. "I was just going to Hurricane Hank's to pick up some of their hurricane meatloaf for dinner, when all of a sudden the town hurricane alarms started going off," Smith noted. "You hear about these things happening in other places, but you never expect them to happen in your town."

"I guess this is the price we pay for destroying the planet with our dangerous CO2 emissions," Smith continued. "Still, I never thought I'd live to see the day that a hurricane hit Florida. Gee, I hope this won't affect this weekend's Miami Hurricanes game!"

At publishing time, climate experts warned that climate change was also expected to cause freezing weather and heavy snow in the Canadian Rockies this winter, followed by high temperatures across Texas next July.

Or this one?

Wake Forest and the National Endowment for the Humanities join together to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre, because that is who they are, that is what they do

/

David Bernstein: It’s not surprising at this point that some moral imbeciles at a prominent university would invite a supporter of Palestinian terrorists to speak on the anniversary of the October 7 atrocities. It’s not even surprising that it would happen at a relatively conservative campus like Wake Forest. It is surprising, and outrageous, that the event would be sponsored by several academic departments, giving the event an official university imprimatur. Academic departments are agents of the university administration, and Wake needs to put a stop to this. Note the university’s name on the bottom of the flyer, suggesting official endorsement. And what is the National Endowment for the Humanities doing providing funding for this?

And speaking of affordable housing ....

/

Well, perhaps we no longer are. Either way, 25 Lockwood Avenue, Old Greenwich, has hit the market tagged at $5.495 million. The owners bought it new in 2019 for $4.150.

Dutch refugee and Listing Agent Daphne Lamsvelt-Pol, having quickly adapted to her new country’s literary habits, has been careful to remove all bookshelves from the premises, as well as any evidence that a book was ever brought across the threshold; smart girl, that Daphne.

polo field, old greenwich version

Palmer Hill contract

/

334 Palmer Hill Road, a 1900 structure with, if desired, an accessory apartment (per zoning, owner must live in one of the two units) has a contract 13 days after opening at $1.095 million. Checking the MLS record, the ground floor unit was rented for $1.995 back in 2019, and the rent has probably increased since. Whether that income will be enough to save this property from a developer is questionable, but from an “affordable” housing perspective, I hope it is.

No, of course I didn't watch the

/

There’s a nice round-up of reactions on Twitchy.

If you missed the interview, congratulations. However, if you want to see the kinds of gems that Harris served up, it immediately becomes clear why her campaign won't let her sit down with anybody who will press her on the issues: 

There’s more on Free Beacon.

Kamala Harris sat down last night for her first solo network interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle. She "recited familiar talking points and dished out indecipherable word salads," the Free Beacon's Andrew Stiles writes. It was "her second interview this month with a media figure who openly supports her campaign."

If you missed it, we've got the highlights here—and some of the best quotes below: 

  • "Well, if you are hardworking, if you have, uh, the dreams and the ambitions and the aspirations of what I believe you do, um, you're in my plan."

  • "One must be serious, and have a plan, and a real plan that's not just about some talking point ending in an exclamation at a political rally." 

  • "Some of the work is gonna be through what we do in terms of giving benefits and assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars, and looking holistically at the connection between that and housing, and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in [a] holistic manner that includes prioritizing affordable housing."

  • "I did fries."

Harris had her pick of sympathetic interviewers in the mainstream media, but even by that standard, Ruhle had managed to distinguish herself, Stiles and Thaleigha Rampersad report. 

"Earlier this month, at the MSNBC Live Democracy 2024 gathering in Brooklyn, Ruhle praised the Biden-Harris administration for saving the economy and scolded Americans for failing to appreciate those efforts. 'It has been a great recovery,' she said. 'The problem is when you're at ShopRite buying London Broil and it's $15, you don't think, 'It would be $22 if I was in Portugal.'

"Ruhle scolded the media as well for their unfair coverage of the vice president's policy agenda. '[Harris's] plan is more pro-business, is more centrist than President Biden's, but what's truly twisted is that people aren't taking the time to see that,' she told MSNBC nepo baby Luke Russert. 'And when people say, "Oh, she's super-progressive," what they're really saying is "She's a black woman."' Days earlier, Ruhle went on MSNBC to praise Harris's qualifications, as well as her 'optimism and light' and 'vision for the country,' compared with Trump's 'darkness and fear.'"

They're here to stay — permanently

/

The news cycle is focused right now on the newcomers from Venezuela that our Border Czar has invited in, but the real story is that none of the 11 - 33 million illegal aliens that have crossed our border and settled here will ever be deported; our laws might allow it, but our courts and the liberal law groups funded by Soros and every billionaire’s child’s — including his own* — will make sure that these people are ours forever.

Even Tren de Aragua gang members will remain, because their home country won’t accept deportees, and U.S. law forbids deportations of illegals to countries that won’t take them. In fact, a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court decision means that these people can’t even be held for indefinite periods and must be released to roam about the country, to prey upon the rest of us.

If dissolving our borders isn’t being done in order to dissolve our country itself, what other explanation is there?

  • And here’s an irony: despite opposing walls on our borders, the NYT has placed this story behind its own cash wall:

https://www.nytimes.com › 2024 › 09 › 23 › nyregion › a-venezuelan-gang-reaches-new-york.html

A Venezuelan Gang Reaches New York - The New York Times

3 days agoThe Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — a feared criminal organization that concentrates on sex trafficking, human smuggling and drug dealing — has emerged in New York City amid