Young Rethugs Unmasked As Nazi Wannabes. Politico(?!) breaks the story:
NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n–ga” and “n–guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”
“I’m going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers,” he continued.
“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno, who previously identified himself as the general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans, wrote back.
“I’m ready to watch people burn now,” Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committee member, said.The exchange is part of a trove of Telegram chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than seven months of messages among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.
The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August, chronicle their campaign to seize control of the national Young Republican organization on a hardline pro-Donald Trump platform. Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.
Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders.
There’s more. Much more. Parse every syllable of this story. Gee, wonder if DOJ will go after any of these perps for being anti-semitic. Just kidding.
I’m not a body-shaming guy. (I mean, just look at my body, but not too closely.) But one thing these sub-humans have in common appears to be that nobody would ever dream of dating them.
United States Government Continues Attack On Chicago. Don’t tell me this isn’t Fascism:
Federal agents deployed tear gas on Chicago residents and more than a dozen police officers on Tuesday, the latest clash in the nation’s third-largest city as the Trump administration has carried out its immigration crackdown.
The clash began on Tuesday morning when federal agents were seen chasing a car through a working-class, heavily Latino neighborhood on the city’s far South Side, witnesses said. An S.U.V. driven by the federal agents collided with the car they were pursuing, the Chicago Police Department said, sending that car into another vehicle that was parked nearby.
After the crash, dozens of additional immigration agents in masks arrived and residents emerged from their houses, gathering on streets and sidewalks, throwing objects at agents and shouting, “ICE go home!”
As the agents left, they released tear gas, apparently without warning, sending people coughing and running for cover. Among those affected by the gas were 13 Chicago Police Department officers, the police department said, and at least one officer was seen rinsing his eyes out with water from a neighbor’s garden hose.
The agents repeatedly have been observed releasing smoke bombs, tear gas and pepper balls to disperse residents who gather or capture videos on cellphones, including when the agents were making arrests in densely populated neighborhoods. Chicago police officers, who have been called to the scenes of some clashes, have been exposed to tear gas from federal agents twice in the last two weeks.
Earlier this month, people gathered in protest in the Brighton Park neighborhood. (NYTimes)
We need to stand up for the people standing up to tyranny. ‘No Kings’ this Saturday.
A Solid Analysis Of The Mideast ‘Peace’ Deal:
The easiest way is perhaps to say there are two things going on here.
One is really consequential. The Palestinians in Gaza are not being starved, bombed, displaced, and killed today. The 20 remaining living Israelis being reunited with their families. The fact that Palestinian prisoners were released. The fact that—although Israel is still now, it seems, trying to make it difficult—aid is getting in through the UN agencies that know how to do this in a humanitarian fashion. All of that is really important.
It is also being claimed that we have a historic peace deal. That is absolutely fictitious. There has been a lot of bombast in the claims of President Trump related to the second thing. There is no plan. There is no paper. There’s no reference to the West Bank.
If you wanted to be generous to the ceremonial circus in Egypt, and in the Israeli Knesset, you would acknowledge that many of the leaders who were there were on the treadmill of ingratiating themselves with Trump. If you want to be more generous, you could say: The more elaborate this was, the more difficult it makes it to break the ceasefire. And I think that’s true.
I think one of the sticking points for Hamas in these negotiations was: What is the guarantee? In the context of American realities, the guarantee was: Look what a big deal Trump is making of it; how committed he is to it. Therefore, the bar for Netanyahu to go back to the kind of killing that has been credibly described and documented by a UN Commission of Inquiry and others as a genocide, that bar becomes quite high. And that’s where we are. But there’s no actual plan for getting any further. Israel is still occupying about 50 percent of Gaza.
I highly recommend the entire interview. It provided me with some context, might do the same for you.
Don’t You Dare Say ‘Climate Change’. It’s not as if you can trust anything ‘scientists’ say:
Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world.
Scientists are worried that the natural land and ocean “sinks” that remove CO2 from the air are weakening as a result of global heating, which could form a vicious circle and drive temperatures up even faster.
Several factors contributed to the leap in CO2, including another year of unrelenting fossil fuel burning despite a pledge by the world’s countries in 2023 to “transition away” from coal, oil and gas. Another factor was an upsurge in wildfires in conditions made hotter and drier by global heating. Wildfire emissions in the Americas reached historic levels in 2024, which was the hottest year yet recorded.
I Like This Idea For Proposed Data Center:
A proposed “large load tariff” could be a way to stop big users of electricity such as data centers from shifting costs to other ratepayers.
Governor Matt Meyer and Delaware Public Advocate Jameson Tweedie are proposing that the Delaware Public Service Commission establishes a large load tariff for facilities that use more than 25-megawatts of power. Tweedie said this would ensure that data centers pay their fair share, and it could address concerns about reliability.
“We know that AI is shaping the future of the world, and the First State is ready to help lead. But it needs to be done sustainably,” Meyer said. “That’s why we’re requiring big data centers to pay their fair share when they plug into our power grid. We’re making sure Delaware families don’t foot the bill for the economy of the future, while also reducing negative impacts on air quality, water, and other precious natural resources.”
While this may address concerns about rate increases, it doesn’t, as far as I can tell, address the environmental issues associated with these projects:
Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone more than 450 acres in the Indianapolis suburb, and residents weren’t having it.
Many were concerned the facility would consume huge amounts of water and electricity while delivering few local benefits. When a lawyer representing Google confirmed at a September public meeting that the company was pulling its data center proposal, cheers erupted from sign-waving residents.
Our PAL Val In Even Deeper Doo-Doo? Sure looks like it:
Two months after former-House Speaker Valerie Longhurst quietly resigned from the Police Athletic League of Delaware, two county police officers are overseeing the cash-strapped and taxpayer-funded organization through a budding financial crisis.
In a presentation Tuesday to the New Castle County Council, those officers laid out the challenging path ahead for the community center organization as it faces a criminal investigation, and an audit that could force it to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars it likely does not have.
In 2024, the PAL of Delaware received a record-high $5 million from taxpayers, as well as hundreds of thousands more in 2025. The money included $1.5 million from the federal government that then-Gov. John Carney’s office had distributed to the PAL of Delaware as part of his office’s COVID relief efforts.
Now, the nonprofit could be forced to pay back as much as $700,000, Leonard told the New Castle County Council.
$700,000. Taxpayers’ money. Gone. PAL has ‘cash-flow’ problems. If there’s any justice (I remain skeptical), Longhurst’s name will resurface eventually, and not in a way that reflects favorably upon her.
Now, if someone would simply audit the entirety of the finances of the Underwater City At Ft. DuPont, Longhurst may not be the only legislator whose name surfaces in an investigation…
What do you want to talk about?