Instapundit on Europe (Updated)

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Oh, what will we do, what will we DO?!

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Sadly, there’s no beach in Huntsville – you’d think J. Edgar would have known that, and dressed appropriately

Kash Patel Orders 1,500 FBI Agents and Staff Out of the Building on Day One

“FBI Director Kash Patel followed up a fiery introductory speech on Friday with equally fiery action. He ordered 1,500 staff and agents to be transferred from its Washington, DC, headquarters to various locations across the nation. Some 1,000 agents and staff will be reassigned to cities the Trump administration has designated higher crime locations where they can fight crime rather than engage in political shenanigans. Another 500 staff will be reassigned to Huntsville, Alabama, which is the DC equivalent of exile to Siberia.

“This is Director Patel's first step, and it shouldn't come as a shock. He told us it was going to happen.”

During his confirmation hearing last month, Patel was asked about his previous comments suggesting he wanted the FBI’s headquarters emptied out and shuttered. His responses did not directly address whether he would actually shut the building down or seek to transform it into a museum, but suggested that he believes the FBI’s workforce in Washington should go out into the country.

“A third of the workforce for the FBI works in Washington, D.C.,” Patel said. “I am fully committed to having that workforce go out into the interior of the country, where I live west of the Mississippi, and work with sheriff’s departments and local officers.”

Streiff: “Some of those agents are on temporary duty to DC and will return to their home offices. You can also bet that a non-trivial number of those ordered out of the building will retire rather than move. That would be sad, and we'd be filled with regret over the loss of their talent, but we shall have to somehow soldier on.”

NYT's designated ABM strikes out, leaves the field to join his fellow losers

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Teammates blowhard and the word of god have parted ways

Charles Blow, the official Angry Black Man mascot of the New York Times, has quit. Sniff.

The List of Libs Writers Quitting Has Become a Butcher's Bill

From three years before:

(It’s a quibble, yes, but thunder doesn’t strike the earth, lightning does; unfortunately, it rarely strikes NYT columnists.)

Back for more abuse

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Pulled off the market last June after no buyer had appeared at $2.9 million, 979 Lake Avenue has resurfaced, now asking $2.875. These owners have done some nice renovation since they bought the place, but it’s still essentially the same house the Mickster and I trekked up to in 2017 to give a price opinion for its former owners, who’d been trying, and failing to get $1.995 million. I forget what we suggested, but it was far less than what another agent proposed; so we didn’t get the listing, it was put back on the market at $1.450, and finally sold to these owners in 2021 for $910,000.

So it goes.

An interesting video, but I was struck by another thought: this is a former senator speaking for a full 2 minutes clearly and intelligibly; can you imagine former senator Kamala Harris trying that?

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And without notes or teleprompter.

Ah, such fond memories

Good: let's make Minnesota a reservation for all the nation’s whack jobs, the better to keep a watchful eye on them

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They need a place where they can rest and recuperate and feel safe; California’s burning, Oregpn’s too wet, so why not sunny Minnesota?

land thief

Tim Walz Could End Up Facing Off Against An Even More Radical Version Of Himself In Senate Race

Gizhiiwewidamoonkwe Flanagan declares for Senate — hooray!

In her announcement, Flanagan touted her Native American ancestry, writing, “in Ojibwe, my name means ‘speaks in a loud and clear voice woman.'” Flanagan similarly shared her Native American name while speaking at the Democratic National Convention in 2024.

“My name in the Ojibwe language is Gizhiiwewidamoonkwe, or in English, ‘speaks with a clear and loud voice woman,’” she told the audience in August. “I’m a member of the White Earth Nation and my family is the Wolf Clan.”

In July 2020, Flanagan claimed that Minnesota’s government was “created” to “eliminate” indigenous people. 

“When I walk in the door of the state capitol, I take two breaths … the second breath is a breath of protection, because I know that I am walking into a building that was not created by us, for us or with us. But in too many instances, [it] was created to eliminate, erase and silence us. And by ‘us,’ I mean people of color and indigenous folks,” Flanagan said in 2020.

“At the center of all her work is making progress for children, working families, communities of color and indigenous communities, and Minnesotans who have historically been underserved and underrepresented,” according to Flanagan’s website.

Fun Fact: The lady is living on land stolen from the Sioux by her ancestors.

Miss Red Cheek’s Ojibwe ancestors were pushed into Minnesota from the east in the late 1600s-early 1700s and in turn shoved the Sioux out onto the Great Plains in the mid-1700s, where they frolicked among the buffalo for all of 100 years before the Battle of Little Big Horn signaled the end of their stay (yes, they “won” that battle, but it was a pyrrhic victory, marking the apex of their stay on the plains, and they’d be rounded up and permanently removed within 10 years)

Search Labs | AI Overview (Answering the question, “when did the Sioux move onto the Great Plains?”

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The Sioux began migrating westward onto the Great Plains in the mid-17th century, primarily pushed by the Ojibwe tribe who were moving into their territory in Minnesota, and attracted by the abundant bison herds of the plains and the spread of horses from the south; by the early 18th century, they were established as a major presence on the Northern Plains. 

Key points about the Sioux migration:

  • Pressure from other tribes:

    The primary force driving the Sioux westward was pressure from the Ojibwe (also known as the Chippewa) who were expanding from the Great Lakes region. 

  • Horse culture:

    The arrival of horses from the south significantly facilitated the Sioux's movement onto the plains, allowing them to hunt bison more effectively. 

  • Region of settlement:

    The Sioux primarily settled in the northern Great Plains, encompassing present-day North and South Dakota, Montana, and Nebraska.