August 2025, two months after the Israel lessons, was the first time Gillibrand publicly acknowledged attending Drollinger's Bible studies, although she didn't name him, just his organization, Capitol Ministries. She called his lessons "rigorous."

Drollinger even elaborated on it in his publicly posted video accompanying that lesson.

In June 2025, Capitol Ministries leader Ralph Drollinger taught his Senate Bible study that Israel, the Jews, killed Jesus. The smear of deicide is the historic basis for antisemitism. Drollinger's statement wasn't a one-off impulsive remark. It was published in the pamphlet for that lesson.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who heads the DSCC, has kept her support for Stevens quiet. This was July of 2025. One month after the antisemitic Bible study.

Trump now trying to, er, muddy the waters and walk back his story. He now says the "major" damage was caused by vandals.

But on June 11, an internal National Park Service email shared with DOI had said that the lining was peeling on its own. This was a week before David Hearn's arrest and almost a month before Burgum lied on CNN:

Pirro writes that the Interior Department -- which includes Park Police and National Park Service -- withheld information from prosecutors. Namely, the information that the peeling was due to botched work and Trump's short timeline:

Never seen “a sort of macabre” used to mean “an awesome.”

When you forget to have in-house counsel vet your murder confession.

thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/lindsey-gr...

Me and Sen. @schiff.senate.gov this morning…

Final paragraphs of the NY Post story on the NYC map of immigrant enclaves.

Here’s the initial and edited versions of Schumer’s false post, as they appear in Facebook’s edit history:

Graham Platner and the DNC...

2017

Here's the full statement from @ffrfaction.bsky.social President @annielauriegaylor.bsky.social:

Here's the full statement from @americansunited.bsky.social Pres. and CEO @rachellaser.bsky.social:

I asked for comment from Public Citizen, which hilariously used to be headquartered in the building, now known as C Street. Public Citizen ethics lobbyist Craig Holman told me there are ethical and maybe legal issues with the $800/month rent: Here's his full statement:

I asked Suozzi's primary rival, @votewelch.bsky.social to respond. "Disqualifying," she said. Here's her full statement, explaining why:

$300 billion is apparently almost exactly Iran's annual gross domestic product. Trump and Vance are giving Iran a year's worth of Iran.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) gave me the following statement calling on Freedom 250 to correct the record:

Islam is virtually absent, as far as I saw poring through photos of the displays and exhibits. Except in Muhammad Ali's bio... ...which says, “After converting to Islam, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali though he later disavowed the religion.” Ali died in 2016 and never disavowed Islam.

This is the number-two story on the Washington Post homepage tonight. It's about people who force trees to grow into chair shapes and the people who buy them for $90,000. Democracy Dies in the Shade of a Tree that's a Chair.

The bizarre NYT implication that this isn't cause for celebration in the streets...

Also:

I didn't find anything tying the next DNI to any Family figures. But the younger Pulte argued in a forgotten lawsuit that he was extraordinarily close with his grandfather... ...who was extraordinarily close with Doug Coe.

From left to right, the three red-circled men are Doug Coe, who ran The Fellowship Foundation (aka The Family) for decades. Then there's Larry Ross, whose best known work is probably Mike Lindell. Then there's the first Bill Pulte, grandfather of our next director of national intelligence...

OMG there's more. Te article includes a paragrap on ow people keep sticking an 'h' in "Nicolas Cage." Ceck out the URL.

One of my hobbies is tracking the death throes of late-stage journalism by spotting things that never would have survived the golden age of proofreading and copyediting. Behold, the word "as" missing from the very first sentence of an article in... :::shudder::: ...Vanity Fair.

Google's AI informs me that Adam Smith lived to be 267 years old. I feel like his output slowed in his later years.