SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he’s sending new teams of state police to major California cities —contrasting the effort with Donald Trump’s unilateral deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles and Washington.

The California Highway Patrol troopers will target crimes like auto theft and drug dealing in Los Angeles, San Diego, inland regions and the San Francisco Bay Area. Trump recently threatened to send Guard members to San Francisco, saying he would “clean up” the city.

Newsom insisted he was “not reacting and responding to anything” relating to Trump and emphasized the state’s deployment, unlike the president’s, was not being done over the objections of local governments.

“As it relates to the president in particular, he’s doing things to people, not with people, and it’s a point of profound, consequential contrast. He’s de facto militarizing American cities,” Newsom told reporters.

The announcement is Newsom’s latest attempt to take the lead in offering a competing Democratic vision of governance to Republican Washington ahead of a likely 2028 presidential run. The governor has laced into the Trump administration for its law enforcement tactics, on Wednesday telling POLITICO that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents work as the president’s “private police force.” White House border czar Tom Homan said the governor was an “embarrassment” in response.

“If he had an ounce of integrity he’d be calling President Trump and thanking him for making LA safer,” Homan said.

Newsom’s move comes ahead of a ruling in a lawsuit California filed against the federal government over its deployment of troops to Los Angeles. The governor said the state’s attorneys have deposed members of the Trump administration, Border Patrol and the military and that he was preparing for a decision from the Northern District Court of California “any hour, any day.” The ruling is slated to have sweeping implications for Trump’s plans to send troops to more blue cities across the U.S.

“I think its consequences will be profound,” Newsom said.

California has also sent state police to Bakersfield, San Bernardino and Oakland. The expanded forces will work with local law enforcement, sharing intelligence and placing more patrol cars on the street to deter crime, the governor said.

Blake Jones, Politico

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) denounced criticism of the transgender community … after FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed the Minneapolis Catholic school shooter had insisted that people should treat him as a “transgender woman.”

“Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity,” Frey said. “We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone. We should be operating from a place of love for our kids. Kids died today.”

Frey claimed that he had “heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at” the transgender community.

Frey’s comments come after Patel confirmed on Monday that two people were left dead, and 17 others were injured. Patel also confirmed that the gunman was Robin Westman, “a male born as Robert Westman.” [from Breitbart News, 8-27-25]

Funny. He denounces all who criticize anyone who pretends to be the opposite of their actual gender. But he doesn’t have a word to say against violent sociopaths who shoot up a school full of little kids.

We still live in morally inverted times.

Minnesota’s Lt. Governor was pictured (before the shooting) wearing a shirt that advocates using violence to “protect” trans kids.

Will there be ANY accountability? Even verbally? No way. They’ll nominate her for Vice President.

Leftist lunatics: “Transgenders” get a free pass for shooting school children. Sick.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Joseph Vazquez

August 27th, 2025 2:36 PM

President Donald Trump appears to have finally drawn a line in the sand against the radical leftist, anti-American political chaos machine that George Soros has fueled with his ungodly billions over the years.

Trump took to Truth Social August 27 to publicly lambast the leftist billionaire and called for criminal charges to be filed against: “George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son [Alex], should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America.”

The president continued: “We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to “BREATHE,” and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country!” Trump then issued a warning to Soros and his cohorts: “Be careful, we’re watching you!” 

Trump’s allegations against Soros are not without basis. It was discovered that Soros had fueled at least $7,610,000 into the unhinged Indivisible Project, which was responsible for organizing the infamous “No Kings Protests” along with other leftist orgs where some had devolved into violence. In addition, MRC Business also documented the Soros connection to the Tesla fires that occurred earlier this year as a result of violent protestors running amok in its April 22 report Eco-Kingpins: How the Soros Empire Funds and Steers the Global Climate Change Agenda. The events involved activists vandalizing Tesla vehicles and attacking dealerships and charging stations.  Tesla CEO Elon Musk had identified the Soros-funded Indivisible Project as one of the groups responsible for the Tesla protests.

Soros was also reported to have funneled at least $12.6 million into two unhinged left-wing groups that were behind a string of radical “Free DC” protests across Washington, D.C. to stifle Trump’s efforts to deploy the National Guard and federalize the city’s police department to crack down on widespread crime in the nation’s capital in August. 

As the New York Post summarized, “‘Do not obey in advance’ and ‘Take up space’ are among Free DC’s ‘guiding principles,’ and the group urges supporters to ‘go outside at 8:00 PM and bang pots and pans, sing, chant, or make noise for five minutes’ every night of this occupation.’”

The Open Society Foundations, true to form, claimed deniability for the actions or initiatives of its grantees responsible for the protests. OSF retorted against Trump’s accusations in an X post: “The Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros and chaired by Alex Soros, do not support or fund violent protests. Allegations to the contrary are false, and the threats against our founder and chair are outrageous. Our mission is to advance human rights, justice, and democratic principles in the United States and around the world.”

Soros was also reported to have funneled at least $12.6 million into two unhinged left-wing groups that were behind a string of radical “Free DC” protests across Washington, D.C. to stifle Trump’s efforts to deploy the National Guard and federalize the city’s police department to crack down on widespread crime in the nation’s capital in August. 

As the New York Post summarized, “‘Do not obey in advance’ and ‘Take up space’ are among Free DC’s ‘guiding principles,’ and the group urges supporters to ‘go outside at 8:00 PM and bang pots and pans, sing, chant, or make noise for five minutes’ every night of this occupation.’”

This, however, is OSF’s modus operandi: Give money to extremists, then look the other way and deflect responsibility when the funding directly or indirectly supports nefarious actions perpetrated by its grantees. As Bongino Report content manager and Soros researcher Matt Palumbo put it, “You can’t give money to an arsonist and then feign surprise when he uses it to fund fires.” 

OSF’s latest obfuscation echoes similar deflections OSF gave when MRC Business previously exposed how the Soros machine had been funding pro-Hamas groups for years, including  those that directly celebrated the barbaric carnage Hamas unleashed on Israeli citizens October 7, 2023.  

At the very least, the Soros machine’s connections to the protests warrant investigation, given the enormous anti-American, pro-criminal network it oversees. If any explicit criminal activity is in fact discovered — well — as the lefty media repeatedly reminded conservatives: “No one is above the law.” 

According to a military and security analyst, Russia’s summer offensive in Ukraine has utterly collapsed. Julian Röpcke, a journalist for the German news outlet Bild, has been closely following the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.

In a recent column, he outlined four primary reasons why he believes Putin’s summer campaign in Ukraine has crumbled. One of Russia’s main objectives in the east was to capture the city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region – a crucial logistical hub for Ukraine’s army.

Despite positioning troops at the city’s gates since January, Röpcke contends that all attempts to storm it or sever its supply have been unsuccessful so far.

Earlier in August, several hundred Russian saboteurs managed to infiltrate Pokrovsk, sparking fears of a significant breakthrough for the Kremlin’s forces.

However, within three weeks, all the Russians in Pokrovsk had either been killed or captured, with a Ukrainian officer telling BILD: “We are holding the city and have prepared a few surprises for the Russians. The military situation is better than it appears on maps.”

After Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk and subsequent withdrawal in March, Putin instructed his army to establish a 600-kilometer “buffer zone” within the Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions.

Yet, Röpcke points out that Moscow currently controls less than 70 kilometers along the Ukraine – Russia border. “Here, too, Putin’s military failed completely,” he penned. The military analyst has described Russia’s situation in southern Ukraine as “even more devastating” noting that despite the annexation in 2022, the front lines in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson have remained largely unchanged.

Although annexed in 2022, the front line here [Zaporizhzhia and Kherson] has remained largely stable since then,” he observed.

Röpcke also suggests that Russia‘s air defenses are faltering, with Ukraine increasingly capable of executing long-range drone strikes that wreak havoc on Russian energy facilities.

John Varga and John O’Sullivan

Written in Rishikesh, ‘Dear Prudence’ has transcended its original inspiration to become one of The Beatles’ best-loved songs.

Over the end of the Esher demo of “Dear Prudence,” John Lennon can be heard explaining the origin of the song: “No one was to know that sooner or later she was to go completely berserk under the care of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. All the people around her were very worried about the girl because she was going insane. So we sang to her.” The girl in question was Prudence Farrow, the 19-year-old sister of American actress Mia Farrow. During the stay, Prudence had locked herself away in her hut at the ashram in Rishikesh, India, where she and her sister were studying Transcendental Meditation alongside The Beatles, Donovan, The Beach Boys’ Mike Love, and others. She was meditating far longer than anybody else, and the others were beginning to worry about her state of mind.

“Prudence Farrow got an attack of the horrors, paranoia, what you’d call these days an identity crisis, and wouldn’t come out,” Paul McCartney recalled. “We all got a bit worried about her so we went up there and knocked. ‘Hi, Prudence, we all love you. You’re wonderful!’ But nobody could persuade her out. So John wrote ‘Dear Prudence, won’t you come out and play…’.”

John told Playboy magazine, “Mia Farrow’s sister, who seemed to go slightly balmy, meditating too long, wouldn’t come out of the little hut we were living in. They selected me and George to try and bring her out because she would trust us. She went completely mental. If she’d been in the West they would have put her away. We got her out of the house. She’d been locked in for three weeks and wouldn’t come out, trying to reach God quicker than anybody else.”

For “Dear Prudence,” John deployed a fingerpicking style he’d learned in India under instruction from Donovan, a skilled folk musician who had studied under the likes of Bert Jansch and Davey Graham. Donovan recalled that John was a diligent student: “It’s a difficult style that requires perseverance. When John had it down he was so pleased to find a whole new way of songwriting emerge. That’s what happens to a natural songwriter when you get a new set of performing skills. He immediately wrote ‘Dear Prudence’ and ‘Julia’.”

Back in England, The Beatles (minus Ringo, who was in self-imposed exile on Peter Sellers’ yacht in the Mediterranean) moved to Trident Studios in London’s Soho, where they had already recorded the master version of “Hey Jude,” and it was here that they assembled “Dear Prudence” across August 28-30, 1968.

‘It was a beautiful thing to have done’

Though the final version was labeled “Take 1”, that is a rather misleading name, as the initial backing of John and George on guitars and Paul on drums was recorded many times, but, unlike at Abbey Road where everything was kept, at Trident, it would appear that the trio simply recorded a new take over the previous one.

Once the backing – John and George on guitars, Paul on drums – was complete, a number of extra tracks were overdubbed, as they enjoyed the luxury afforded by Trident’s eight-track facility. Paul added bass guitar and piano, while John laid down double-tracked vocals. John, Paul, and George were assisted in a track of vocals, handclaps, and tambourines by roadie Mal Evans, Apple Records recording artist Jackie Lomax, and John McCartney, Paul’s visiting cousin, who also sang on the backing track. Paul even threw in a few notes on the flugelhorn for good measure, drawing on the experience of his brief teenage dalliance with the trumpet. The completed track would become one of the most memorable moments on “The White Album”, much imitated but never bettered.

As for the song’s inspiration, Prudence herself claimed to have no memory of hearing it during her time in India: “George was the one who told me about it. At the end of the course, just as they were leaving, he mentioned that they had written a song about me but I didn’t hear it until it came out on the album. I was flattered. It was a beautiful thing to have done.”

McGuinness

by Cristina Laila 

Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton transmitted classified emails over a private server system and they were intercepted by a hostile foreign country’s spy service, according to a leak to The New York Times.

As reported last week, John Bolton is reportedly under investigation for violating the Espionage Act, according to The New York Times.

“The investigation into whether John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser, mishandled classified information is trying to determine if he violated certain sections of the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to illegally retain or transmit national defense information, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the case,” The New York Times reported.

The FBI raided the home of Trump’s former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, last Friday morning.

The Biden Administration halted the investigation into Bolton, but FBI Director Kash Patel revived it and ordered the raid on the former NatSec Advisor’s home.

John Bolton has not been arrested or charged with any crimes (yet).

The New York Times on Wednesday reported that the US Government actually discovered John Bolton’s classified emails while gathering information from an “adversarial country’s spy service.”

The New York Times reported:

The investigation into President Trump’s former national security advisor, John R. Bolton, began to pick up momentum during the Biden administration, when U.S. intelligence officials collected information that appeared to show that he had mishandled classified information, according to people familiar with the inquiry.

The United States gathered data from an adversarial country’s spy service, including emails with sensitive information that Mr. Bolton, while still working in the first Trump administration, appeared to have sent to people close to him on an unclassified system, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive case that remains open.

The investigation of Mr. Bolton, who has become an ardent critic of the president, burst back into public view last week when federal agents searched his Maryland home and Washington office.

While those searches have raised fresh questions about the extent to which Mr. Trump may be using the Justice Department and F.B.I. to try to punish those he dislikes, the new details of the case present a more complex chain of events. The disclosures suggest that a long-running investigation into Mr. Bolton’s activities changed over time, with some of the issues echoing past inquiries into the handling of national security secrets.

The emails in question, according to the people, were sent by Mr. Bolton and included information that appeared to derive from classified documents he had seen while he was national security adviser Mr. Bolton apparently sent the messages to people close to him who were helping him gather material that he would ultimately use his 2020 memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”

Biden Administration halted the investigation into Bolton, but FBI Director Kash Patel revived it and ordered the raid on the former NatSec Advisor’s home.

John Bolton has not been arrested or charged with any crimes (yet).

The New York Times on Wednesday reported that the US Government actually discovered John Bolton’s classified emails while gathering information from an “adversarial country’s spy service.”

The New York Times reported:

The investigation into President Trump’s former national security advisor, John R. Bolton, began to pick up momentum during the Biden administration, when U.S. intelligence officials collected information that appeared to show that he had mishandled classified information, according to people familiar with the inquiry.

The United States gathered data from an adversarial country’s spy service, including emails with sensitive information that Mr. Bolton, while still working in the first Trump administration, appeared to have sent to people close to him on an unclassified system, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive case that remains open.

The investigation of Mr. Bolton, who has become an ardent critic of the president, burst back into public view last week when federal agents searched his Maryland home and Washington office.

While those searches have raised fresh questions about the extent to which Mr. Trump may be using the Justice Department and F.B.I. to try to punish those he dislikes, the new details of the case present a more complex chain of events. The disclosures suggest that a long-running investigation into Mr. Bolton’s activities changed over time, with some of the issues echoing past inquiries into the handling of national security secrets.

The emails in question, according to the people, were sent by Mr. Bolton and included information that appeared to derive from classified documents he had seen while he was national security adviser Mr. Bolton apparently sent the messages to people close to him who were helping him gather material that he would ultimately use his 2020 memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”

By Howard J. Warner

A few days ago, Vice President J.D. Vance in an interview was asked why the Democrats are getting behind criminals and blocking prosecutions and police protection.  He responded (to be kind) that the politicians have lost touch with their constituents.  But although this might be true of some, he did not get to the real reason.

When Barack Obama was elected president, he indicated that he wanted to fundamentally change America.  To that end, he fundamentally changed our health care system, in which many now acknowledge a lack of personal care, as our doctors have become employees of hospitals and large medical groups.  Office visits are often to nurse practitioners, as physicians are generally engaged in procedures that generate greater renumeration than office visits.  The visits are generally faster, and the provider spends much of the time on the computer.  Government influence over our health care system has increased for sixty years (since Medicare and Medicaid), but the Affordable Care Act accelerated this trend.  Gaining control over health care was just the beginning to fundamentally changing America from the Enlightenment to Marxism.

As Mark Levin has brilliantly detailed in his book American Marxism, our country did not accept classical class-warfare Marxism, since our creed is to become rich by accumulating wealth through property.  But the Frankfurt School version of Critical Theory provides the opportunity to identify oppressed groups aside from the proletariat and bourgeoisie.  Democrats have decided to separate the population via race and ethnicity and this has succeeded.  For this approach to work there must be a dependent group which appears disadvantaged.

Obama is an intelligent person who morphed Saul Alinsky, Marx, Critical Theory, and anarchy into a legitimate political movement.  Although it was successful in his personal ascension to power, this approach has not generally gained ground nationally.  (It is well received in the large urban cities with large minority populations.)  The movement toward radicalism includes a reduction in policing and punishment for crimes.  This results in chaos which threatens the local poor and minority population most giving them a sense of hopelessness and desperation.  This is critical to the theory.  Hence, these political leaders will resist any attempt to make our streets safer.

Democrats defend crime and defunding the police because this keeps them in power.  If people are threatened, they are more willing to distrust those who fall into the “oppressor” groups.  The impetus to change paradigms does not come easily when “free” stuff is offered to those with little resources.  Hence socialist Mamdani is leading for NYC mayor in a city with a large immigrant population.  Crime is the chaos that Critical Theory has ordered.  Lowering the crime rate in Washington, D.C. by the Trump initiative is a threat to the Democratic leadership.  Of course, the opposition to Trump labels this effort as racism, since Critical Race Theory is one element of this Marxist approach.

Cleaning up Chicago’s southside and west will be of great benefit to the citizens.  It will demonstrate Democrat failure.  But fixing the problem removes the chaos and might hurt the radicals’ power base.

American Thinker

In a strongly worded post, President Trump calls for RICO charges against George Soros and his son, citing their alleged ties to violent protests.

President Donald Trump issued a scathing statement on Wednesday, calling for legal action against billionaire George Soros and his son, Alexander, citing their alleged role in supporting violent protests across the United States.

“George Soros, and his wonderful radical left son, should be charged with RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) because of their support of violent protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America,” Trump wrote in a social media post. He accused Soros and his associates of contributing to national unrest, saying, “Soros and his group of psychopaths have caused great damage to our country!”

The President’s remarks reflect longstanding concerns among conservative groups regarding Soros’s financial influence through the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which has directed significant resources toward progressive causes in the United States. OSF’s funding portfolio includes numerous NGOs and advocacy groups involved in issues such as criminal justice reform, immigration policy, and campus activism.

Several watchdog organizations have drawn attention to OSF’s financial support for groups accused of anti-Israel activity. According to NGO Monitor, recipients of Soros-linked grants have included organizations supportive of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and other groups active in Judea and Samaria. Critics argue that some of these NGOs have undermined Israel’s legitimacy on the international stage and maintained affiliations with entities hostile to the Jewish state.

Public records and investigative reporting have also highlighted OSF funding ties to J Street, a Washington-based advocacy group that has faced criticism in the Israeli political sphere for its policy stances. In the realm of campus activism, Soros-funded entities have been linked to student groups engaged in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, some of which have drawn scrutiny for their rhetoric and tactics.

President Trump also issued a warning to Soros’s “crazy, West Coast friends,” stating, “Be careful, we’re watching you!” He concluded the message by emphasizing that the American public would no longer tolerate efforts to destabilize the nation: “We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to ‘breathe,’ and be free.”

Neither George Soros nor representatives of the Open Society Foundations have responded publicly to the President’s comments as of publication.

Israel National News

Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Two men were publicly flogged 76 times each in Indonesia’s conservative province of Aceh on Tuesday after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law.

Gay sex is outlawed in Aceh, which imposes a version of sharia, the Islamic legal code, but it is not illegal elsewhere in the world’s most populous Muslim majority country.

The men were part of a group of 10 who were flogged Tuesday at a park in the provincial capital Banda Aceh for a range of alleged crimes.

The pair were flogged separately with a rattan stick as a small crowd watched, according to an AFP journalist present.

Their initial sentences of 80 lashes each were reduced by four for four months spent in detention.

In April local sharia police found the two men together at a public toilet in the same park where they were later flogged, said Roslina A. Djalil, head of Banda Aceh sharia police’s law enforcement.

“A member of the public saw suspicious people and reported it,” Roslina said.

Amnesty International condemned the punishment.

“The criminalisation of same-sex conduct… has no place in a just and humane society,” Amnesty’s regional research director Montse Ferrer said in a statement.

Three women and five men were also flogged Tuesday after being found guilty of sex outside marriage, being in close proximity to members of the opposite sex, and online gambling.

Caning retains strong support among Aceh’s population as a common punishment for offences including drinking alcohol and adultery.

The region started using religious law after it was granted special autonomy in 2001 as Jakarta tried to quell a long-running separatist insurgency.

After his first arrest for sex crimes, Jeffrey Epstein tried to get into a new line of work: surveillance. In 2015, he partnered with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to invest in a security tech startup called Reporty Homeland Security, now known as Carbyne. Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s circle.

After he was first caught sexually exploiting teenage girls, Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution in 2008; he served a little over a year in detention. Meanwhile, he invested his wealth in bizarre projects, including a ranch to breed women with his DNA and “efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you,” according to The New York Times.

The leaked emails show that Epstein was also interested in more mundane means of spying on and manipulating people, which overlapped with the technologies governments often pursue. This interest crossed borders.

Jeffrey Epstein engaged in security tech by investing his vast fortune in, and building connections with, surveillance and security-related companies, particularly after his 2008 conviction. Leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak revealed Epstein’s efforts to get involved in the surveillance industry and his connections with powerful figures in tech and intelligence.

Epstein’s Security and surveillance investments

Carbyne (formerly Reporty): In 2015, Epstein partnered with Ehud Barak to invest in Reporty, a startup that aimed to overhaul 911 emergency dispatch technology. Epstein actively used Barak to build connections in the surveillance industry to seek new opportunities. The investment was structured to conceal Epstein’s involvement.

Epstein used his connections to arrange meetings between Ehud Barak and Peter Thiel, the co-founder of the surveillance contractor Palantir. Epstein later invested $40 million into Valar Ventures, a venture capital firm co-founded by Thiel, and reportedly pitched Carbyne to the fund in 2016.

Levitection: In 2016, Barak also asked Epstein to invest in Levitection, an electromagnetic imaging startup whose staff were veterans of an Israeli weapons company. The company later won a contract with the US Department of Homeland Security.

Pursuit of a “military-like” tech perspective
Leaked emails show Epstein was highly interested in security-related technology and surveillance. In one email, he wrote that he was “AMAZED by the rate of which technology has moved into the private sector” and that many companies were “looking for a new military like perspective on mgmt”. This reflected his interest in positioning himself at the intersection of private money and public surveillance.

Fifth Dimension: In 2015, Barak consulted Epstein about an intelligence company called Fifth Dimension, which was backed by a Russian businessman allied with Vladimir Putin. The company’s pitch included using AI to transform data into intelligence, along with maps tracking individuals.

Broader tech and science connections: Beyond security, Epstein also cultivated relationships with many prominent figures in the broader tech and science worlds, funding research and attending exclusive gatherings. He had deep connections to the MIT Media Lab, where he funded research and leveraged his connections to solicit donations from others, including Bill Gates. Some of Epstein’s ventures were tied to transhumanism and genetic engineering, including an ambition to “seed the human race with his DNA”.

Reason Magazine, Matthew Petti