Grammy Night Becomes Anti-ICE Rally. More Epstein Docs and Pix. Will Greedy Trial Lawyers Put an End to Child Mutilation? Melania Makes Box. And More
As Americans wait to find out how long the partial government shutdown will continue, the Grammys held forth last night. Much of the evening was an anti-ICE rally:
“Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say, ‘ICE out,’” the singer [Bad Bunny] exclaimed. The crowd erupted, giving the singer a standing ovation.
He went on to say immigrants “are not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens — we are humans, and we are Americans.” He urged fans and fellow artists to confront fear and division with love and compassion, a message that seemingly resonated with the crowd.
Justin and Hailey Bieber also made their thoughts known on the issue. The two appeared in coordinating black ensembles with tiny pins affixed to their couture with the words “ICE OUT.”
The pins aren’t a new jewelry trend — they’re part of a growing protest movement by Hollywood elites at major award shows this season aimed at calling attention to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Three high-end intellectuals debated “Bad Bunny’s High-Risk Choice” at the Grammys in the New York Times this morning. I kid you not. The New York Times also has the “best and worst” moments at the Grammys. The New York Post’s “Page Six” gave us everything we missed [mercifully?] from the Grammys. Axios has a photo spread of stars sporting their “ICE Out” pins. Also during the Emmys, Trevor Noah accused President Trump of having visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island; President Trump promptly threatened to sue. Bombshell New Theory: Epstein was working for Vladimir Putin.
Speaking of Epstein, a massive trove of three million documents and photographs has been released by the Department of Justice. The emblematic photo (at least for Ms. Must) is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on all fours above a woman. Trafficking details are included in the cache. The goal for the Left is to catch President Trump in the Epstein spider web. The New York Times reports plenty of references to the president, but so far, he has eluded their grasp. The documents reveal contacts with other VIPs, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
In a column headlined “Kevin Warsh, Jeffrey Epstein, Inequality and the ‘Mob’,” the Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley explains why so many people can’t get enough of the Epstein scandal. “Especially at times like this, the multitudes enjoy seeing wealthy people dragged through the mud,” Finley argues. Warsh is not in the files—Finley simply notes that Epstein mania eclipsed his nomination as Fed Chairman. Indeed, Warsh is characterized as “just what the central bank needs,” by Allison Schrager at City Journal.
Will greedy trial lawyers help end child mutilation?
National Review’s Wesley J. Smith writes:
The first gender “detransitioner” medical-malpractice case to go to trial resulted in a $2 million dollar verdict against the medical professionals who approved a double mastectomy for the plaintiff, Fox Varian, in 2019 when she was only 16.
This verdict is an important development in the great cause of protecting gender-confused minors from being subjected to irreversible procedures from which they can never be made whole. Why? Trial lawyers! I know this community well. Hell, I was one! Most are liberal politically, but if they smell money in the water, they will sue the “gender-affirming” care industry into the ground just as they do other business sectors with deep pockets.
This verdict is an important development in the great cause of protecting gender-confused minors from being subjected to irreversible procedures from which they can never be made whole. Why? Trial lawyers! I know this community well. Hell, I was one! Most are liberal politically, but if they smell money in the water, they will sue the “gender-affirming” care industry into the ground just as they do other business sectors with deep pockets.
A story at The Free Press calls the verdict “a legal first that could change gender medicine.” Unherd’s Lisa Selin Davis says this verdict is only the beginning. Trans-lunacy, meanwhile, is still thriving in New York. New York AG Letitia James fired a staff member who wasn’t onboard with the trans issue.
The City That Never Sweeps. The New York Post elucidates:
Mayor Mamdani’s New York has become the city that never sweeps.
Eight-foot-high piles of rat-infested trash are choking the streets around Gracie Mansion — while Hizzoner’s new home has gotten the white-glove shoveling treatment.
Mamdani has meanwhile crowed that he can’t “imagine how it could get better’’ in the city, even as more and more New Yorkers are blasting the lack of “collectivism” in the Big Apple.
The mayor’s Upper East Side neighbors are being forced to trudge through garbage-plagued streets, roaming rodents and mounds of snow tainted with dog pee a full week after Winter Storm Fern.
Some people are more equal than others. ….
Icy weather can’t stop anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis. We’ve all noticed the outsized role women are playing in the mob action in Minneapolis. In “White Liberal Feminists Are Full of S—” Bridget Phantasy takes note of this phenomenon in Spiked Online:
I think most normal people look at these aggressively anti-ICE, liberal white women and think, what are you doing? How entitled do you have to be to think that by muscling your way into this situation, you aren’t in danger? If you really believe that you’re up against a similar force to the SS, you would assume that you might get killed every time you interact with them. At the very least, you would be wary of some very harsh consequences. But these women don’t see it like that. They will provoke law enforcement in ways that make you question which reality it is they believe. I don’t think there were many people going around provoking Hitler’s thugs back in the 1930s.
“I’ve Seen Insurgencies Up Close — And Anti-ICE Actions Look Eerily Familiar” is the headline over a New York Post story.
As a career FBI official who specialized in detecting and countering nefarious networks both at home and abroad, it’s all eerily familiar.
When I deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, I saw similar spotter tactics employed by any number of guerilla groups who communicated via handheld radios to initiate IEDs on roadways traveled by American troops.
The organized crime outfits and narco-traffickers I pursued during my 25-year FBI career sought to protect themselves with tactics much like those of “Community of Service,” operating in separate cells so that compromising one wouldn’t expose the rest.
In a similar vein, a Federalist piece headlined “A Nation That Won’t Enforce Immigration Laws Isn’t A Nation At All” suggests this:
It may be that the next few years will decide whether America remains a sovereign nation or succumbs to subversion from within.
More Decadent West: “This Ayatollah Ffanclub Heaps Shame on London” is Brendan O’Neill’s latest. “As Iranians fight for freedom, people in London praise their theocratic murderers.”
“Dear Jeff:” Washington Post employees write a letter to WaPo owner Jeff Bezos that reminds us how “arrogant, entitled and graceless” the legacy media is.
The New York Post’s Miranda Devine writes that the Melania movie has made box office—and how:
In a big blow to the Trump-deranged community, Melania Trump’s eponymous movie knocked the lights out on its opening weekend. It came in at No. 3 overall, and its $7 million box office take in three days is almost unheard of for a documentary.
“Melania” is crushing it on Rotten Tomatoes, too, with a 99% audience score on the “popcornometer” easily besting the sneering critics’ 10% on the Tomatometer ratings.
It was advertised as a sort of mini-shutdown with a sell-by date. But it looks like (here and here) we may be in for something else.
I leave you with my favorite story of recent days—the Kentucky farm family that welcomed a freezing calf into their home. Please don’t miss the sweet pix. How much fun for the children.
