AS DEMOCRATS HOLD DHS FUNDING HOSTAGE, EVEN SOME DEMOCRATS ARE WORRIED: Former DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson: We can’t tie policy disagreements to keeping the government funded.
March 13, 2026
SALENA ZITO ON THE MEDIA’S LOBSTER LIES: Our civilian-military bond is cracked.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: After 152% spike, NYPD changes how it reports hate crimes.
In January, the NYPD reported 58 bias crimes across the city, up from 23 in January 2025 — a jump the department said was driven largely by a spike in reports of anti-Jewish hate crimes. But by the time police reported the figures for February of this year, they had changed their criteria for reporting hate crimes.
Previously, the department reported hate crimes that were being reviewed. Now it only reports hate crimes that have been investigated and confirmed. Under the new method, the NYPD reported 38 hate crimes for the month. It did not provide a comparison to the same period last year.
The NYPD says only reporting confirmed hate crimes will more accurately show what’s happening in the city. But two scholars who study hate-crime reporting cautioned that it’s likely not that simple. They said the new method could make it look like hate crimes are dropping when they’re not.
I wonder what changed in January to make people think they could get away with more hate crimes in NYC.
GOODER AND HARDER, NEW YORK:
🚨NYC Mayor socialist Zohran Mamdani has proposed lowering the exemption on the death tax (estate tax) from $7.1 million down to only $750,000.
He would also increase the death tax from 16% to 50%.
No other jurisdiction in the USA confiscates wealth at death from people with… pic.twitter.com/FMEXCxFyVG
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) March 13, 2026
Elect a socialist, get socialism — go figure.
WHEN YOU’RE A LEFTIST WHO’S LOST VARIETY…:
Colbert’s removal from the air, when it was announced last July, was legitimately seismic news, for the industry and for an audience who saw him as a crucial voice for the anti-Trump Resistance since the 2016 election. The timing of the news, though, meant that Colbert had an entire final season to play out with all parties, from writers and producers to host to guests, knowing that the end was in sight. (This differentiates it from the brief period when “Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien’s job was in limbo during the O’Brien-Jay Leno succession crisis — then, the precariousness and uncertainty of the situation gave the show incredible tension and voltage.)
What has ended up making it to air has been an increasingly puffy tribute to the show’s own host. The endless bouquets being tossed Colbert’s way have started to make the studio smell a bit cloying.
Granted, these are Colbert’s guests having an emotional response to a host they liked being removed from air, and in what seems to be an unfair way, to prove new Paramount CEO David Ellison’s Trumpist bona fides amidst the Skydance-Paramount merger. It reminds one of how many other institutions are caving right now — universities, law firms, to say nothing of corporations across the entertainment industry. But the show’s focus on its own host’s misfortune has become outsized and a bit dramatic, especially because so many other institutions are in crisis: With everything else going on in the world, we have to go through a monthslong celebration-of-life for a comedian whose job is coming to an end?
Related: Sykes Urges Colbert, Pope Leo To ‘Burn This B**** Down:’
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed comedian Wanda Sykes to Thursday’s taping of The Late Show for a conversation that was as ridiculous as it was wide-ranging. In the span of just a few minutes, Sykes urged Colbert to team up with Pope Leo and “burn this bitch down” on the night of his final show, demanded that TSA agents be paid while omitting that the reason they go unpaid is because of a Democrat shutdown, and helped Colbert resurrect a wildly misleading talking point about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s food spending.
Sykes implored, “So, the last show what you going to do? You’ve got to go the hell off the last show, like, burn this bitch down. You got to—I mean—”
She also quipped, “I heard they turning it into a Walmart, so don’t worry about it. So, yeah—I mean, you always bring the fire every night. But that last show has to be like, like destruction. Like, yeah.”
Colbert destroys CBS on the way out? Wanda, your terms are definitely acceptable.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: U.S. Treasury Sanctions Hamas ‘Charities,’ North Korean Scammers.
Anyone else notice a big uptick in scam texts over the last week? I normally get close to zero, but that’s now up to two or three a day.
A BRUTAL AND NECESSARY REMINDER OF WHO TOM NICHOLS IS. READ IT:
Hello Professor Nichols,
You spent twenty-five years at the Naval War College. You taught the officers who would go on to run America's wars. Famously, you never served in any of them.
In February 2003, you were at your desk in Newport when you wrote this, about Colin Powell’s… pic.twitter.com/1e2I2l1jEP
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) March 13, 2026
BE PREPARED: FBI trained Michigan Jewish temple’s staff how to handle active shooters weeks before attack.
The FBI posted about the active shooter seminar Jan. 30, which was designed to help clergy and staff at the temple learn how to respond to an active shooter situation amid a rise in antisemitism.
“FBI Detroit led an Active Shooter Attack Prevention and Preparedness training for the clergy and staff of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield,” the field office posted on X. “The FBI course combines lessons learned from years of research and employs scenario-based exercises to help participants practice the decision-making process of the Run, Hide, Fight principles and take necessary actions for survival. We appreciate them for having us.”
The field office said it has also trained other organizations in the state who are trying to protect schools, houses of worship, medical facilities, government facilities and other public gathering sites and communities.
Don’t be a soft target.
THE LEFT KNOWS WHO ITS ENEMIES ARE AND BEHAVES ACCORDINGLY:
100% chance this goober is going to prosecute the ROTC cadet who stopped the shooter.
Bank on it. https://t.co/UeB77Msi5X
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) March 12, 2026
THE ENEMY WITHIN (LATIN AMERICA EDITION): FBI Opens Office in Ecuador Amid Warnings of Hamas, Hezbollah, and IRGC Presence.
Ergonomic Long Handle Toenail Clippers with Catcher. #CommissionEarned
PRIORITIES: Food stamp recipients sue Agriculture Department over restrictions on sugary drinks, candy.
The suit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., by a private firm and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, which advocates for low-income people, on behalf of five plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs argue the restrictions “destabilize food access” for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAPS, in the states in which the USDA has approved the “food restriction” waivers, according to Reuters.
The plaintiffs live in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia, and said that either they or family members rely on the restricted foods to manage health conditions such as diabetes and allergies, or to obtain energy boosts to conduct their daily lives.
According to the lawsuit, the waivers cause confusion at the checkout line and irreparable harm by forcing the plaintiffs to choose between spending cash on restricted items or forgoing spending money on rent and transportation.
End SNAP. Make soup kitchens great again.
DECLINE IS A CHOICE:
NEW – German Chancellor Merz: "German federal governments had previously decided to phase out nuclear energy. The decision is irreversible. I regret that, but that's how it is."pic.twitter.com/LGI6AMttu8
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 12, 2026
But as CDR Salamander added, “It is not irreversible. You just refuse to do it because if you did, your coalition partners would abandon you, force a snap election, and the AfD would have good chance of being a majority party.”
They’d rather condemn Germany to a Morgenthau existence than let AfD win.
YOU CAN TELL BY HOW THEY ACT: Yes, They Think We’re Stupid.
UNIVERSITIES FUNCTION AS MONEY LAUNDRIES FOR THE LEFT: Duke employees spent over $1.6M in Democrat-aligned political donations.
WHEN HE’S RIGHT, HE’S RIGHT: Sen. John Fetterman says Israel should kill Iran’s new supreme leader.
Fetterman also said the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas need to be killed too.
“I mean, I’m always going to support that,” he said, according to The Hill newspaper.
“I think it’s a good thing to continue to eliminate leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian, too.”
He did say that his red line for this war was boots on the ground. He also wanted to know why his Democratic colleagues weren’t as supportive of U.S. action in Iran.
“I would just like to remind everybody watching that every single Democratic presidential candidate always identified that Iran is a top, top security issue,” Fetterman said.
And when he’s wrong, he’s wrong — none of those candidates had any intention of doing anything about it.
WHAT SHE SAID:
Fighting them over there so we don't fight them over here only works if we don't bring them over here when we're done fighting them over there https://t.co/ZF62nmrf86
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) March 13, 2026
Fighting “over there” has been the American way for more than a century, but the Islamists — and their enablers on the Left — figured out ways around that.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Another Day, Another Couple of Islamic Psychopaths in the News. “My mom was born and raised in Dearborn, and I spent time there as a kid and a young adult. I am still stunned by how radically it has changed. The change happened in a relatively short period of time, too. It’s an Americanized version of what has been happening in the United Kingdom, Germany, and other parts of Europe.”
MAKE THEM PAY: Ted Frank’s turnaround: Driving a class action for motorists ‘imprisoned’ by a protest. “Frank and his team brought the case in 2024 on behalf of drivers stuck for hours in a traffic jam while pro-Palestinian protesters blocked a highway near Chicago’s O’Hare airport. On its website, opens new tab, Hamilton Lincoln says they sued to hold the activists accountable and ‘prevent further politically-motivated attacks in the future.’ The filing made the novel argument that the motorists were falsely imprisoned in their cars and sought $36 million in damages for thousands of drivers.”
I approve. That said, beyond the intentional tort of false imprisonment, when you perform an illegal action, you should be responsible for the foreseeable consequences — missed flights, etc. It is not simply a “traffic jam” but deliberate infliction of harm on third parties for political reasons.
THE WAVE HAS BACKERS. THEY ARE WAGING WAR ON US. THEY SHOULD BE KILLED. The Synagogue Attack Isn’t About ‘Rising Antisemitism.’ It’s Part of a Wave of Anti-American Islamic Terrorism Sweeping the Nation.
DEVELOPING…:
🇺🇸🇨🇺 | URGENTE — El dictador cubano Díaz Canel anuncia en cadena nacional que el régimen ha comenzado negociaciones con Estados Unidos.
Admite el inicio de “un proceso sensible” para la dictadura. pic.twitter.com/YIVVX6122P
— Agustín Antonetti (@agusantonetti) March 13, 2026
