Fourty years ago somebody like this with this platform wouldn’t have a chance to be mayor of Minneapolis

Today he could very well win. Not that it matters. Minneapolis has been declined for a while anyways

Thanks for the Monday Toons, Pookie!  The Argus Extras were great!!!

My pleasure, as ever, CL!

How long until the cameras quit and she is 'found'?

(Although I'd think she has a 'deadman switch' that will dump the data if something happens to her).

If she has the leverage, what's she doing in jail?

The GOP’s Audacious Midterm Strategy
by David Catron


It is no longer debatable that President Trump’s second term is remarkable for its historic and rapid accomplishments. During the first six months of 2025, he has secured the southern border, brought prices down on energy and food, begun deporting violent illegal immigrants, used tariffs to produce the first monthly budget surplus the nation has seen in years, made his 2017 tax cut permanent by signing the “Big Beautiful Bill” into law, ad infinitum. There’s little reason to expect this momentum to slow down in the rest of Trump’s term unless the Democrats win the House of Representatives in 2026.

Unfortunately, despite the ongoing turmoil within “the Party of Jefferson and Jackson,” it is quite possible that they can net enough seats in the midterms to overcome the tiny majority by which the GOP now holds on to power. If the Democrats are successful they will not merely obstruct the President’s agenda, they are all but certain to find some pretext to impeach Trump for a third time. In order to prevent that, the Republicans will need to defy history. The President’s party almost always loses House seats in the midterms. Consequently, the Republicans have a bold strategy that includes redistricting two states before the midterms.

Both Texas and Ohio will attempt to reconfigure their congressional maps in ways that will very likely increase each state’s Republican House delegation. In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbot has called a special session of the state’s legislature to address measures related to the disastrous Kerr County flood, but he has also included items on the agenda that are all but certain to result in changes to the district map. The special session is scheduled to begin on July 21.The current House delegation for Texas includes 25 Republican and 12 Democrats. The usual media suspects have inevitably implied skulduggery. CNN offered the following take:

    It is rare for states to undertake a mid-decade redistricting without a court order to do so. But Texas is one of two states where Republicans are pushing to change congressional districts this year in the hopes of ousting several longtime Democratic lawmakers. Some Republicans are hoping new maps in Texas could result in the GOP picking up as many as five additional seats to shore up their chances of retaining the House majority … Targets for Republicans are expected to include Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, who represent border communities.

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https://spectator.org/the-gops-audacious-midterm-strategy/

Biden chief of staff reportedly gave approval for autopen pardons on final day in office
'I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons,' Biden's chief of staff Jeff Zients wrote in an email
By Diana Stancy Fox News
Published July 14, 2025 10:39am EDT | Updated July 14, 2025 11:03am EDT

Former President Joe Biden’s chief of staff issued final approval for multiple high-profile preemptive pardons during Biden’s final days in office, according to a new report.

Biden’s alleged use of the autopen has become a sticking point for months, as President Donald Trump has said thousands of pardons Biden signed were void and claimed that the former president did not know what documents he was signing through the automated device.

Biden issued a series of preemptive pardons on his final day to officials including former Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Anthony Fauci, and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley in an attempt to safeguard them from retribution from Trump.

In an article intended to be his defense for the autopen issue, it emerged that, although Biden reportedly made the decision in a meeting, Biden’s Chief of Staff Jeff Zients is the one who gave final approval for the use of the autopen, at least in the case of Fauci and Milley, the New York Times reported.

On Biden’s final day as president, Jan. 19, Biden had a meeting with his aides until nearly 10 p.m. to talk about various preemptive pardons, the Times reports. Emails obtained by the Times show that an aide sent a summary draft of the decisions formalized during that meeting to Zient’s assistant at 10:03 p.m.

The assistant sent the email to Zients and others present in the meeting, requesting approval from Zients and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed at 10:28 p.m., the Times reported. Zients replied all to the email three minutes later, the outlet said.

"I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons," Zients said in the email, according to the Times.

Zients could not be immediately reached for comment by Fox News Digital.

Additionally, the Times report said that Biden did not personally approve each name included in the broad, categorical pardons.

"Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence," the Times reported.

In response, the White House said that the report shed light on Biden’s trustworthiness, and accused the Biden administration of engaging in a cover-up scheme.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-chief-staff-reportedly-gave-approval-autopen-pardons-final-day-office