TODAY'S NEWS, May 23-24, 2025
- Larry Schweikart
- 11 hours ago
- 5 min read
Updated: 2 minutes ago
The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow
IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) President Trump is sick of Harvard's anti-American fungal-ridden curriculum. He has blocked Harvard from bringing in any foreign students. Whiny Harvard says it will sue, except even if it wins the suit, the Executive branch determines visas, so none of these chowdermonkeys will get into the country anyway. So this temporary restraining order is meaningless. As Mike Benz points out, every single center or institute at Harvard has been weaponized against Trump. I'm so sick of that useless steaming pile of fecal prunes that I'd love to see bulldozers come in and flatten it in the name of humanity.
2) The GOP Senate actually did something, blocking Kollyfornia's "green" EV mandate. As David Blackmon says, "Smells like victory." Apparently someone wants to get reelected in 2026.
3) President Trump said he will set a 50% tariff on the EU on June 1 if they don't act like adults.
4) The Supes voted 4-4 with Amy Coney Barrett recusing to let stand an Oklahoma Supreme Court block on the state funding religious schools. As Zen Master notes, this only applies to Oklahoma, and as I note, this is a good decision. People think, "Oh, they are biased against Christians." Nope. The group that would take the most advantage of taxpayer-funded religious schools are the Muslims. I don't think you want to use taxpayer funds for madrasas. Meanwhile, in another big ruling for President Trump, the Supes 6-3 ruled that he indeed can fire members of the labor board. In essence, this clears the way for him to be able to fire almost anyone.
5) The Great Social Security Cleanup continues, with 12.3 million recipients marked as "deceased."
6) This AI is moving to "snitch" mode when it thinks you aren't behaving appropriately. "I can't let you do that, Dave." This AI threatened to blackmail its creator. As Jeff Childers notes in his "Coffee and Covid on Friday, AI is already out of the bag and no one will control it. It is already writing new, unprogrammed stuff. He wonders whether we can even catch up to figure out how to even try to control it. But one thing is certain: AI eats energy like Galactus eats planets, and Trump is already using a new state of emergency to keep the US ahead in the AI wars by building nukes. This was Civil War #3 I predicted for the DemoKKKrat Party, and it appears they've already lost this one. AI techhies are fully on-board with nukes and unlimited power. As Childers points out, relatively speaking we have been in an invention "deep freeze" for 25 years, and that is about to change in a big way.
7) Trump's team has already raised $600 million for the midterms, essentially rendering the NRCC irrelevant.
8) DOJ Attorney Ed Martin, in charge of the "government weaponization" task force, has found that among others, Ron Klain and Anita Dunn---Rutabaga's two main gatekeepers---were the Custodians of the Autopen.
9) The mayor of Denver announced furloughs and hiring freezes as the city is $250 million in debt. Ya, but keep spending money on illegal boatpoachers, ya charcoal-brained mushpuppet.
10) When you lie as much as the New York Slimes does, after a while you end up sliming Brazilian jungle tribes as "porn addicts."
11) RFK says that Health and Human Services has replaced the 453-page "dietary guidelines" with a 4-page document.
13) Stephen Soukup, one of the few conservatives I read, has an interesting piece in American Greatness on yet a different piece in the Washington Compost by Megan McArdle on, basically, "Oh my, what will DemoKKKrats do after the Rutabaga-is-a-potted-plant-with-cancer" revelations. Forget for a moment that he rightly says, "Not much." That's another column, and I've discussed it at length. No, he unfortunately descends into the lamentations of John McTurd, more or less, complaining that we have reached the point of total war. (I really think he wants an excuse to attack Trump, but can't find one). Anyway, yes we have, and while this may be bloody and dirty, it's what happens in a Republic when your institutions simply refuse to solve problems. The people do, either by electing someone who is ruthless in solving problems (like Trump) or in violent revolution. And the people do not relent til the problem is solved. See my longer discussion here.
14) Trump delivered a commencement address to West Point: "We're a merit based country."
15) The White House has placed over 100 NSA staffers on leave as Muy Macho Marco begins a major downsizing and restructuring of the NSC.
16) Louisiana has become the first state to use a DOGE-based voter maintenance database. This is a historic first, as now states have a federal tool that coordinates citizenship and mortality statistics and combs them out of the voter base. Ohhhh, noooo, Mr. Bill. Safe and secure elections! What will the DemoKKKrats do? Well, disappear if the voter registration stats in NC are any measure, as Rs picked up another net 400 in May, meaning after leading by 175,000 in 2020, DemoKKKrats have a paltry 83,000 lead today. (And Trump won three NC elections when DemoKKKrats had a 175,000 lead).
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
17) FBI Dallas shut down a major immigration fraud ring run by Muslims.
18) Numerous countries have reached or are considering deportment deals with the U.S.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
19) President Trump reminded Apple's Tim Cook that he said he would get out of Chy-na some time ago. Now Trump says Apple will be hit with a 25% tariff if it doesn't build iPhones in America.
21) With a week left, customs duties in May reached a record $22.3 billion.
22) Trump approved a new steel deal with Nippon Steel and USX/U.S. Steel that will keep the company here and create 70,000 new jobs.
23) Yesterday Trump signed new executive orders unleashing the U.S. nuclear industry for AI. Ten new nuke reactors by 2030! Again, politically, this is a dagger to the heart of the DemoKKKrats.
24) Oh, and the EPA will erase "greenhouse gas" limits on power plants. MO POWER! LOWER BILLS!
25) After a sales collapse, Nike is going back to Amazon.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
26) Ruh roh. Employee protests in Chy-na as factories close, tariffs take effect.
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
27) Billy Joel announced he will cease touring after brain disease diagnosis. (Dementia="like" but reversible). He admitted he has been forgetting song lyrics for at least a decade. In 2010, I spent over an hour in a phone convo with Joel. Among other things, he said his inspiration was jazz payers such as Dave Brubeck, not the Beatles. He was only the second out of nearly 100 who didn't cite the Beatles.
28) Zach Levi plans to build a $100 million movie studio in Texas. Ah, Zach, there already are two good ones: Capernaum and Glenn Beck's studio. Why not partner with one of them and improve and expand?
29) Congrats to Lizzo on losing weight, and no, you do NOT have a "bikini body" now.
IN CHINA VIRUS NEWS
30) RFK, Jr.'s MAHA report on the health of the nation got everything right except that it stopped short of calling the China Virus vaxxes deadly. However, Catherine Herridge found that the Rutabaga administration was labeling opponents of forced vaxxes "Domestic Violent Extremists." Folks, the Rutabaga administration was very, very close to being the Fourth Reich. A hair away.
AND FINALLY . . .
31) In Florida a man who cannot swim due to seizures used a drone to lower a life preserver to a girl in danger of drowning after being caught in a rip tide. He operated the lifesaver from the beach.
Larry Schweikart (@LarrySchwe94560)
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