After It Lied About Israel, New York Times’ Verification Badge Removed By X [More]
Everybody knows where the “D” in “DSM” comes from, right?
[Via Michael G]
Notes from the Resistance
Rep. Eric Swalwell Mocks ‘Detective’ James Comer & Dismisses Latest Biden Money Trail Evidence [More]
I only have one question.
[Via Michael G]
A former investigator with the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is accused of trafficking weapons to Mexico while he was an employee of the bureau in 2017, according to a letter sent to the ATF Director this week by US Senator Charles Grassley. [More]
Jeez, another letter…?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
I went to Grassley’s “News Releases” page and didn’t see the letter. I asked him for a copy:

Anybody have a link?
I started an AmmoLand article on this but then found another writer was working on it. I’ll wait for that one to see if there’s anything substantive I can add.
[Via gbob]
“We get everything from an agency saying, ‘Hey, we have one gun that we need to destroy,’ to a client in Michigan—Michigan State Police—which requires thousands of guns to be destroyed a month,” Scott Reed, president of GunBusters, said. [More]
There’s a word for such public/private partnerships, Scott.
[Via bondmen]
The inmate was in handcuffs when he was beaten at the Pinckneyville Illinois Correctional Center in April of last year. [More]
It says something about “Authorized Journalism” when a story of compelling public interest is given literally 1/6 the words of the link that appears in the middle of it:

[Via bondmen]
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida announced Thursday that it charged 17 employees of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office with wire fraud after they allegedly tried to defraud the government in pandemic relief loans. [More]
Hey, they gotta do something when they’re not holding back letting schoolchildren be slaughtered…
[Via Jess]
Millions in PPP, other COVID-19 relief funds went to gangs, fueled Chicago’s illegal gun market [More]
Hey, everybody: Let’s disarm the ones the kleptocrats steal from to bribe this constituency!
It’s hard to tell if incompetence or corruption outweighs the other in this absolute f***ing Democrat clown world…
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chi-Town.
[Via Jess]
Well, that didn’t take long. After less than 12 hours, Google has taken down the site with public information about which student groups endorse Hamas terrorism. [More]
Related UPDATE
You can’t absolve yourself, either. I wonder how many are here on student visas, and how it helps “secure the Blessings of Liberty” to allow terrorist sympathizers to exist among us.
[Via Michael G]
Video shows Ga. commissioner who claimed to be drugged had 5 drinks at metro Atlanta bar, police say [More]
Let me guess: Budweiser? (NSFW nasty joke warning)
Video– another reason I don’t go to bars.
I wanted to come up with a link to her position on guns but got sidetracked by a report claim:
A Clayton officer on Monday, responding to a call from a gas station clerk that teens were playing with a gun, pulled out his revolver while talking to the group of boys.
Do those look like revolvers or are the “real reporter” and his editor just typical examples of “Authorized Journalists? And hey, this oughta work…
[Via Steve T]
Small-town police sued for planting drugs on drivers in north Alabama [More]
Seeing as how he’s all about violating the rights of his countrymen under force of arms, wearing orange seems apt. And to paraphrase Dr. Seuss, it won’t be his heart that grows three sizes…
[Via CP]
Former Illinois police chief caught shoplifting from Florida Walmart [More]
So is it due to privilege that he gets prosecuted when so many do not…?
Dashcam footage released by the Los Angeles Police Department captured two former police officers ignoring a robbery call to play Pokémon Go. Officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were fired in 2018 after an internal investigation and disciplinary review panel ruled they violated department policy by failing to respond in 2017 to multiple backup calls for a robbery, “despite being parked directly across the street.” The officers then lied about playing the popular mobile phone game… [More]
What took so long to release it?
From the department that enforces disarmament laws against you…
Meanwhile, their shameless lawyer complains “The right to privacy of the officers is really what was at issue here.”
A sex abuse victim is fighting Mint Hill police for $69,000 she says is owed to her. A WCNC Charlotte ‘Where’s the Money?’ investigation tracked down what the money was used for. [More]
For whatever reason, the story link provided results in “404 The page you are looking for can’t be found.”
Wayback Machine to the rescue!
Now 17, the high school senior is waiting for the Mint Hill Police Department to comply with a court order and turn over the $69,130 officers seized from her abuser. The department refuses.
Hey, “Always Think Forfeiture,” right?
If they’re going to keep the money, the least they could do is pay for the coffee, although with the way comments are going, it may be prudent to cancel future community social meets…
[Via Michael G]
Hunter Biden attorney withdraws from federal gun charge case [More]
Hey, replacing that bag left in the White House was expensive. Besides, he was counting on the Big Guy’s college loan “forgiveness” to go through…
[Via Jess]