FLORIDA, MAN: Virtue Signaling or Fence Sitting? Florida Mayor Refuses to Sign — or Veto — Immigration Bill. “Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan refused to sign it on Wednesday. She also refused to veto it. That means it will still go into effect.”
April 3, 2025
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CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE (COLORADO EDITION): Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of Prop KK guns and ammunition tax.
Proposition KK — passed in November with 54 percent of the vote — will add a 6.5 percent excise tax on the manufacture and sale of firearms and ammunition. It will be imposed on firearms dealers, manufacturers and ammunition vendors, with the exception of those selling less than $20,000 per year as well as law enforcement agencies and active-duty military.
The lawsuit was filed on the basis that the tax is unconstitutional because it does not pass a “means-end” test handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2022 Bruen decision. That historical case ruled that gun rights restrictions must be consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulations.< “The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held in various contexts that the exercise of a constitutional right cannot be singled out for special taxation,” says the complaint in part, filed on March 31. “Federal legislation to prevent this sort of tax was introduced just days ago in both the House and Senate,” SAF Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb said. “They’re calling it the Freedom from Unfair Gun Taxes Act, and greedy, anti-gun lawmakers in Colorado are probably at least partly responsible for such a bill on Capitol Hill. You simply cannot tax the exercise of a constitutionally-protected fundamental right.”
Developing…
OH, DARN: Signs ‘threatening’ deportation of Harvard pro-Hamas students put up, students ‘distressed.’ I mean it’s not like they say “kill the Jews” or something unobjectionable like that.
TRILLION-DOLLAR WHACK-A-MOLE: Useless Government Program to Be Eliminated, Just As It Was to Be in 2017.
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Wisconsin University Professor Suspended After Overturning College Republican’s Table.
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PUTTING A PRICE ON BIGOTRY AND HATE: Trump admin freezes $210M to Princeton over anti-Semitism after Title VI complaint from Campus Reform’s Zachary Marschall.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Project Kuiper readies long-awaited operational satellite launch.
United Launch Alliance is set to loft the first 27 satellites of the more than 3,200 planned for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband constellation April 9, roughly a year behind schedule as the company races to meet deployment deadlines.
Amazon said April 2 it is preparing to launch its first batch of satellites to low Earth orbit on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, as part of a mission dubbed KA-01 (Kuiper Atlas 1).
The satellites feature significant upgrades over two prototypes ULA launched on an Atlas V in 2023, according to Amazon, including improved phased array antennas, processors, solar arrays, propulsion and optical inter-satellite links.
Successful in-orbit prototype tests had given Amazon confidence it could start deploying operational satellites, built at a facility in Kirkland, Washington, in the first half of 2024, enabling beta trials with potential customers such as Verizon and Vodafone later that year.
The company has not commented on what caused a delay that pushed potential beta services into 2025.
Well, space is hard and most everybody runs late.
THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT HAS MADE CLEAR THAT IT APPROVES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST ITS OPPONENTS: Tesla Vandals Keep Getting Caught, Democrats Keep Staying Silent.
LOL:
The rule of thumb for a recession has been “two back-to-back quarters at -1.5”. That happened under Biden, but they changed the definition knowing his entire base would be none the wiser. Y’all have no idea what I said even means as the economically retarded.
— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) April 3, 2025
Changing definitions has become a major democrat tool. Change the definition of recession, change reporting criteria for crime, change reporting data for sex, etc.
They keep changing so they become the experts and can claim that you don’t know what is really going on because…
— Valkyries for women🇺🇸 (@valkyriesrwomen) April 3, 2025
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Musk and DOGE Are Fun, but Tom Homan Is My Early Trump 47 MVP. “In addition to the radical shift away from open borders lunacy, the ‘new sheriff in town’ swagger and vibe that Tom Homan brings to this effort is essential. Republicans of yesteryear were easily drowned out by the constantly caterwauling Dem sanctuary politicians and the media hacks who abet them.”
ACTUALLY, IF YOU LOOK UP KRUGMAN’S WRITINGS ON TRADE FROM THE 1980S YOU CAN DO KRUGMAN VS. KRUGMAN: Krugman vs. Trump on tariffs. Krugman was pretty protectionist by comparison with many mainstream economists then, which won him the admiration of a whole school of anti-deindustrialization “industrial policy” Democrats who espoused policies that looked somewhat Trumpian. But that makes sense, when you remember that Trump is more or less a 1970s Rust Belt Democrat.
THEY’VE BEEN ROBBING AMERICA BLIND FOR DECADES:
Democrats would prefer that we ask, “Who needs to pay more in taxes?”
The American people want us to ask, “What the hell happened to the money?” pic.twitter.com/MWQpMuEIQY
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) April 1, 2025
MIDDLE EAST: Israeli operation in Gaza expanding to seize ‘large areas,’ defense minister says. “Israeli leaders have consistently expressed their intention to fully destroy Hamas and remove the Palestinian militant group from power in Gaza. Israel intends to retain security control over the territory as part of any post-war settlement, Netanyahu, Katz and other top officials have said.”
Well, what else are they supposed to do?
YES: The NGO Complex Is Irredeemably Corrupt. We need a deep legislative cleanup.
I THINK WE SHOULD ELIMINATE NONPROFITS ENTIRELY: Bill Gates Foundation, Other Nonprofits Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Over Anti-White Discrimination.
“DEMOCRACY” MEANS WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO MEAN: “When Biden was President, ‘democracy’ meant gracefully accepting the result of the election and working on winning the next election. But with Trump as President, ‘democracy’ means stopping the duly elected President from doing what voters heard him promise he’d do.”
CDR SALAMANDER: What Europe Should, Could, and Would do in a Great Pacific War.
The Anglo-French SSN fleet numbers 13 boats. Using the optimistic “it takes three to make one” formula, that gives you four operational boats.
Assuming a Great Pacific War will require the USA to pull almost all its operational forces from Europe to the Pacific, there will be a significant—and smart—argument in Europe that they need to keep their forces at home to cover any threat from their east should it arise, and to secure the Atlantic that has largely been abandoned by the Americans.
As such, any fight in the Pacific would be lucky to get 50% of available operational units. That gives us… two SSN.
Not nothing, but a rounding error in a Great Pacific War. I would give it 2/3 odds that the national caveats would limit them to operations south of Singapore and east of Guam.
So, in the end, with the Great Pacific War, we should not count on much from Europe for this fight. Perhaps some security for Australian airspace and territorial seas, but that would be about it.
It gets lonely out there real fast.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY IN GAVIN NEWSOM’S HOME STATE: SoCal Job Creation Drops 33%.
MARK JUDGE: The Stasi Left. “Nazi metaphors have become far too overused. To the Left, everything to the right of Chairman Mao Zedong is fascism. Such overuse of Nazi imagery is disrespectful to the unique evil of the Holocaust. It should stop. Still, a more modern and exact analogy can be applied to the modern American Left. It is the Stasi, the feared German secret police that terrorized East Germany from 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a compelling new book, A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance, scholar Alison Lewis reveals that while dictators such as Hitler or Stalin sought to crush writers and other artists because they feared the freedom they represented, the German Stasi saw them as allies. While the Nazis and their counterparts, the Stalinists, attacked a wide range of artists as ‘degenerate,’ the Stasi worked with and supported entertainers and writers. The German communists had their own versions of people like Michael Moore, Stephen Colbert, the publishing industry, and Hollywood — useful idiots who echo whatever the leaders of the party tell them.”
We have Kimmel, Colbert, etc.
