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Tabbing it up, oh yeah, Friday night …





Ed: Finally. Thune should have had the Senate in session every day since the shutdown began. I doubt if the Senate Dems will pass the CR this weekend, but they should have had no days off while federal employees were going unpaid. 

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Axios: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Friday that Democrats would vote to end the shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring ACA tax credits, multiple sources told Axios.

Why it matters: Democrats, emboldened by sweeping election victories this week, are adamant that Republicans must make concessions on health care before opening the government.

Ed: This is a climbdown from Schumer’s original demand to restore Medicaid funding to illegal immigrants, which is clearly a non-starter. This might get some interest from Senate Republicans. Donald Trump has suggested that he’d back an extension of ACA credits, in exchange for other cost-saving tradeoffs, however. House Republicans will not go along with this, though, and Mike Johnson insists that he won’t bring the House back into session until the CR passes. Will Schumer be satisfied with just a Senate vote on ACA credits, as a face-saving measure? Hmmmm.

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Ed: If Kaine and Rosen are “centrist,” I’m Gary Hart. Ossoff isn’t a centrist either, but he represents a red state and it’s his turn next on the midterm hot seat. When Dems cave, Ossoff will lead the flip. 





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Batya Ungar-Sargon at The Free Press: The fight roiling the right isn’t about young people turning on Israel. It’s a turf war between conservatives and content creators, between those who want votes and those who want views. And you have to choose. The online right has been pushing the Vance view that the real enemy is the left, and there should be “no enemies to my right.” But the racist poison being allowed in through the backdoor by the online right’s thirst for engagement is incompatible with the multiracial coalition built by President Donald Trump.

Over the last decade, the left tarred everyone to the right of Joe Manchin as a fascist, a Nazi, a racist. It was always a canard, yet now, far-right content creators have decided to try and prove that the left was correct by widening the Overton window to include the airing of Fuentes’s views in an uncritical manner. …

But contrary to what those sanitizing Fuentes want you to believe, the brouhaha isn’t “splitting the right.” It’s splitting the political and cultural right from the content creators who make their money off global, online audiences. Those creators have found that their online audiences crave anti-Israel content, and as a result, they have tried to frame the dustup as being about Israel and free speech.

Ed: Batya nails it here. It’s the difference between thinkers and activists on one side, and grifters on the other. We do not need to engage or protect the grifters. Just the opposite. 

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Ed: Yes, this is an absurd argument from CNN, but it does at least demonstrate the secondary and tertiary effects of the Schumer Shutdown. Cutting paychecks to federal employees and contractors creates a primary impact on those families, but their lack of spending power in their communities ripples outward in commerce, too. That includes small businesses that generally cannot adapt to demand shocks like these if they last more than a month or so, and yes, eyebrow weavers are small businesses, with lease and payroll pressures of their own. Taxpayer dollars don’t go directly to them, but the people who draw salaries from government spend that money in such businesses. 

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William Otis at Ringside: At the start of his speech, Cruz outlined the rise of antisemitism on the American left, arguing that “there is a real and cognizable pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party.” But, he added, antisemitism does not end there.

“When that happened on the left, those of us on the right were quite comfortable standing up and denouncing it. In some ways, that’s easy. But now it’s happening on the right,” said Cruz. “In the last six months, I’ve seen more antisemitism on the right than I have at any time in my life. It is growing. It is metastasizing.”

Cruz invoked Ronald Reagan’s famous 1964 speech, “A Time for Choosing,” as he implored conservatives to speak strongly and loudly against antisemitism.

Ed: Anti-Semitism and fascists have always existed on the fringes of American politics. Democrats have mainstreamed it over the last several years. Republicans need to vigorously push back against that as a matter of political hygiene, as William F. Buckley did sixty years ago. 





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Ed: And shamelessly, too, as long as it supports The Narrative™. Speaking of which …

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Dan Diamond: How did I know this? I did some rapid reporting: I talked to people with direct knowledge of the White House event and learned who was invited. I got the name of the man who collapsed. (Which, yes, begins with “Gordon,” but doesn’t end with “Findlay.”) I saw photos of him in normal life that clearly matched the man at the White House.

So I posted on X and Bluesky that, no, the man was not “Gordon Findlay” nor a Novo Nordisk executive but an Eli Lilly patient. I noticed a few other reporters soon working to correct the record, especially after Novo Nordisk said that “Gordon Findlay” wasn’t in attendance. Several hours later, Eli Lilly confirmed that the man who collapsed had been their guest (though didn’t share further details).

I thought that would be the end of the story, as accurate information slowly trickled out and supplanted the misleading claims.

What I wasn’t expecting — the sheer number of people who continued to argue with me, convinced that “Gordon Findlay of Novo Nordisk” had collapsed at the White House, based on their comparison of a few photos. 

 Ed: Diamond reports for the Washington Post. This case is less about a politically didactive narrative as it is about the persistence of bad information circulating in social-media environments, based on speculative assumptions. It’s worth reading, because it demonstrates how easily bad information can be propagated and manipulated, and how even having the truth “get its boots on” may not counter it. 





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She has an EAD (work permit) which migrants can apply for 150 days after an asylum claim is made. An EAD does not grant the recipient legal status, it is simply temporary authorization to work in the U.S. while the underlying asylum case plays out. An EAD is not a path to citizenship or permanent residency, and it does not shield the recipient from deportation.

Ed: See above. The woman in question fled the traffic stop and ran into the school, but police caught her in the vestibule rather than in a classroom. She did not work there, and ICE did not raid the day care. 

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NBC News: Cornell University said Friday that it reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funds the government cut earlier this year.

The university will directly pay the federal government $30 million over three years “as a condition for ending pending claims that have been brought against the university,” Cornell President Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a letter to students and faculty. Cornell will also invest $30 million over three years in “research to strengthen U.S. agriculture” and benefit U.S. farmers, he said.

Ed: Trump had cut off $250 million in funding. The push to get Academia to reform continues, even if it generally doesn’t make headlines as often. 





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Ed: Indeed it is. He fought for liberty, and the generations that followed since have pissed it away. 

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Hollywood in Toto: And then there’s “Anniversary.”

The dystopian thriller follows a tight-knit family navigating a totalitarian takeover of the U.S. The film stars Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler, and it made an embarrassingly small amount over the weekend.

Think $260,000 in roughly 800 theaters/screens. Even by modern flop standards, that’s a low figure. So what happened?

The far-Left TheWrap.com pins the blame on, you guessed it, President Donald Trump.

Ed: They may have a point, although not the one they think. Hollywood keeps churning out didactic crap to assuage its own butt-hurt over Trump’s win in November, believing that the rest of the country must be thirsting for their freak-out porn. Imagine their surprise when no one cares. Christian and I talked about this film a couple of weeks ago, and you can bet we’ll be talking about the flop on Tuesday’s Off the Beaten Path.  

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Ed: I love it, too. Sweeney is unbelievably poised and wise. And the people who keep coming at her over an ad campaign for jeans are sooooooo dumb. 





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Ed: RHIP!

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