BREAKING: Federal authorities raid a Beverly Hills mansion in connection with an investigation involving former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, Fox News has learned.
The search comes after the FBI searched Swalwell's Washington, D.C., home in August and seized his electronic devices at San Francisco International Airport.
Swalwell resigned from Congress and dropped his California gubernatorial bid following multiple sexual misconduct allegations, including accusations from a former staffer.
The latest raid follows another development involving newly declassified FBI records about Swalwell's relationship with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.
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EXC: Obama campaign veterans are recruiting lawyers to help get election posts TAKEN DOWN before the midterms.
The organization is Voter Protection Corps. Its recruitment notice spells out the attorneys’ role:
“lending legal credibility to formal removal requests.”
Volunteers flag election content. Attorneys review it and help prepare requests for platforms to remove it.
They already tested the process.
VPC’s report describes a 2025 operation with platform-specific removal templates and an attorney available to “add his name to post removal requests.”
Now the group wants social-media monitoring treated as:
“core election infrastructure.”
Alongside it: permanent networks of trusted messengers and “prebunking” campaigns designed to reach voters BEFORE they encounter claims the organization expects to challenge.
The people behind the operation include founder Quentin Palfrey, who led voter-protection work for Obama’s 2008 Ohio campaign, and strategist Tim Karpoff, an Obama campaign and administration veteran.
Recruitment partners include Lawyers for Good Government and We The Action. The latter operates within Civic Nation, whose board is chaired by Valerie Jarrett.
The money trail includes a $341,000 grant from Sixteen Thirty Fund to VPC’s advocacy arm in 2020 and a separate $50,000 grant from New Venture Fund to its foundation in 2024. Those filings do not identify the current monitoring program as the grants’ purpose.
VPC calls its voter-protection work nonpartisan. Its documents nevertheless establish a concrete operation to monitor election speech, organize responses and enlist lawyers in seeking removals.
And the plan extends beyond November: year-round monitoring capacity, with preparations for 2028 beginning after the 2026 results.
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L'immense écrivain russe érigé en apôtre de la vertu et de la bonté chrétienne a fait vivre un enfer domestique à son épouse avant de l'écarter en secret de son héritage littéraire.
Dans l'histoire de la littérature mondiale, Léon Tolstoï est le géant de Guerre et Paix et d'Anna Karénine.
À la fin de sa vie, l'auteur s'est imposé comme une conscience morale planétaire, prêchant la pureté, la chasteté et le renoncement aux biens matériels.
Mais derrière la barbe du vieux sage vénéré se cachait un mari d'une cruauté psychologique redoutable.
Tout commence la veille même de ses noces en 1862, lorsqu'il a trente-quatre ans et que sa fiancée, Sofia Behrs, n'en a que dix-huit.
Au nom d'une prétendue franchise morale, Tolstoï oblige la jeune fille à lire l'intégralité de ses carnets intimes de jeunesse.
Sofia y découvre avec horreur les récits détaillés de ses débauches et des abus sexuels commis sur les paysannes serves de son domaine de Iasnaïa Poliana, notamment une jeune femme de chambre nommée Gacha.
Pendant quarante-huit ans de mariage, Sofia sacrifie absolument tout au génie de son mari.
Elle met au monde treize enfants, dont cinq meurent en bas âge, tout en gérant seule l'immense domaine agricole, les comptes et les éditeurs.
C'est elle qui travaille la nuit à la lueur d'une bougie pour déchiffrer les brouillons illisibles de l'écrivain. Elle recopie notamment à la main le manuscrit monumental de Guerre et Paix à sept reprises.
Pourtant, pendant qu'il prêche la continence sexuelle dans ses livres comme La Sonate à Kreutzer, Tolstoï continue d'imposer ses désirs à sa femme épuisée par les grossesses, avant de lui reprocher dans ses carnets d'être un obstacle à son élévation spirituelle.
Cette hypocrisie est documentée par les journaux intimes croisés des deux époux, intégralement conservés et publiés.
Tout au long de ses carnets, Sofia Tolstoïa dénonce avec désespoir le double visage de son mari, soulignant le contraste permanent entre la bonté universelle qu'il affiche dans ses livres et la froideur impitoyable qu'il réserve à sa propre famille.
À la fin de sa vie, sous l'influence de son disciple Vladimir Tchertkov, Tolstoï souhaite faire tomber l'ensemble de son œuvre dans le domaine public, au nom de son idéal de pauvreté.
Pour contourner sa femme qui s'y oppose afin de protéger l'avenir matériel de leurs enfants, l'écrivain rédige en cachette un testament en juillet 1910, dissimulé au cœur de la forêt.
Il y désigne leur fille cadette Alexandra comme unique héritière légale de ses droits littéraires, avec pour mission de libérer ses textes de toute exclusivité, privant ainsi Sofia du fruit de quarante-huit années de labeur acharné.
Poussée à bout par ces manœuvres secrètes et la présence constante des disciples qui la traitent en ennemie dans sa propre maison, Sofia sombre dans le désespoir et tente à plusieurs reprises de mettre fin à ses jours.
En octobre 1910, Tolstoï s'enfuit définitivement de chez lui en pleine nuit. En apprenant son départ au matin, Sofia tente de se noyer dans l'étang du domaine avant d'être repêchée par ses proches.
Lorsque l'écrivain agonise quelques jours plus tard dans la petite gare d'Astapovo, ses disciples interdisent à son épouse d'entrer dans la chambre. Elle n'est autorisée à l'approcher que lorsqu'il a déjà perdu connaissance.
L'homme qui voulait aimer l'humanité entière a méthodiquement broyé la seule personne qui avait sacrifié sa vie pour lui permettre d'écrire ses chefs-d'œuvre.
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Defending trans ideology makes smart people stupid, scrupulous people unscrupulous, and honest people into liars. Once you see it, you can never unsee it -- and you will never not see it, because it is always, without exception, what happens.
It cannot be otherwise because defending the most self-evident bullshit ever enshrined into law is beyond the capacities of even the most brilliant person, and there is no way to persist in it without recourse to sophistry and lies. When you tell someone deeply invested in their own goodness that membership in the sorority of the good requires them to defend the worst nonsense of the age, the result is always a scandal of some dimension.
This is the most comically picayune of all such scandals, but it shares in common many key aspect of the great ongoing scandals that has left thousands of confused children sexually dysfunctional, sterilized, and on a medical leash for life (in addition to being explicitly aimed at the propagation of that scandal.)
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Absolutely delightful anecdote here. Idealism is a second hand marketplace
This is very good from, IMO, the most interesting modern political philosopher Joseph Heath.
josephheath.substack.com/p/r…
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Fani Willis is throwing herself a multi-day 55th birthday festival in Atlanta. The “Double Nickel Sneaker Gala” venue is still a mystery. Just follow the odor of mendacity and listen for the jingling coins.
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Frank Gagliano was a college quarterback.
After his career, he was hired to start a football team at a high school. While waiting, he coached track. They never started the football team.
Gags went on to become one of the greatest American distance coaches in history: 15 Olympians, 140 All-Americans, 43 sub-4 milers.
He passed away this week.
We often think that you've got to have done it or experienced it to coach it. Gags was never a runner. He just wanted to coach, the true essence of the word, helping people out.
“I don’t have golf clubs. I have a stopwatch." And like the best 'old school' coaches, he'd help whoever showed up.
I was a former high school phenom, struggling in college. Then I got a call from an unknown number.
"Steve. We've never met. It's Gags with the Farm Team. I just wanted you to know that you're great. Talent doesn't go away. Stick with it. You've got people who believe in you. If I can ever help, let me know."
He called a struggling 19-year-old out of nowhere, while running the best professional team in the country.
In an era where training got really complicated, Gags kept it simple. His philosophy was strength + speed, consistently for a long freaking time.
“Everyone has to be patient in development. Everyone has to enjoy the sport, have a lot of fun, and work really hard.”
More than the workouts, his real secret was the one every great coach shares. Relationships. His son Ralph put it best:
“As a track coach, you have very large teams, many participants, and he carried over the years very special relationships — not only with the great ones, but even with the ordinary athlete.”
He was still coaching into his late 80s.
“As long as my mind is in the sport for workouts, so I don’t deprive the men and women that I’m coaching, I’ll keep coaching.”
And this summer, at 89, when they named a national championship race after him, “I’m not a cocky man. I’m the guy that just coaches, and the athletes mean everything to me, everything.”
He was a coach’s coach. Someone who lost his first meet 112 to 15, and then went on to become an all-time great...despite never having run.
Because the point was to help people....even those he didn't coach.
RIP Gags.
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there aren't any details in Comey charge other than the date of October 5, 2016. This date matches the events described in an article that I wrote last year: stephenmcintyre.substack.com…
One of the articles in the Tropic Vertex leak investigation was an Oct 2016 NYT article which walkafyre identified as an October 5, 2016 article by Charlie Savage and Nicole Perlroth entitled “Yahoo Said to Have Aided U.S. Email Surveillance by Adapting Spam Filter” archive.ph/bQWWE
See my article for a chronology of investigations.
Comey suggests in new Substack post that he’s facing yet another case of some kind, this time in DC. Details unclear so far: jamescomey.substack.com/p/ye…
That right there is an inherently dangerous and defective design.
Sweden is officially ditching mRNA vaccines, and they are not hiding their reasons for doing so.
artsencollectief.nl/zweden-k…
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A former CIA officer coauthored a report urging social media companies to reduce your account’s reach based on your connections to OTHER accounts.
Yaël Eisenstat, who also ran Facebook’s elections integrity operations for political ads, coauthored the June 2026 report recommending:
“Penalizing the distribution of accounts connected to users or pages which repeatedly share violative or borderline content”
The next line specifically singles out election and civic content.
The proposed penalty extends to connected accounts—without specifying that those accounts must themselves have broken a rule.
Who helped develop this blueprint?
UNC professor Daniel Kreiss and former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer are listed as contributors.
There’s also a recommendation to slow posts spreading beyond an account’s network until they can be reviewed.
Ahead of the 2026 midterms: throttle viral posts, penalize connected accounts, and extend enforcement to content platforms consider “borderline.”
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"Now in those days, the Yankee dugout was behind third base;
Not first base as it is now and as I'm passing Ty Cobb on the way in, he says to me:
"You get in my way again, you fresh gusher, and I'll step on your face."
I hadn't said a word to Cobb, and I still didn't.
Hell, this is Ty Cobb.
But Ruth, who was coming in from left field, wanted to know what Cobb had said.
"Well kid," Ruth said, he called everybody kid:
"The next time he come to bat call him a penny pincher."
I'd never heard that word before, but just from the way everybody on the bench started to laugh I had a pretty good idea what it meant.
What I didn't know was that Cobb had a reputation for being a very tight man with a dollar and had been ready to fight at the drop of a "Penny pincher" for years.
Well naturally I can't wait for him to get up again so I can go to work on him and holy cow, he turns in the batter's box, pointing his finger, and the umpire has to restrain him.
Now the game is over and the umpires don't have a care any more.
Both clubs have to use the third-base dugout to get to the locker room, and Ty Cobb races over to cut me off.
He's out to kill me, and I'm looking for a place to run because I am not about to tangle with Mr. Cobb.
Finally, Babe came running in and put his arm around Cobb and he's kind of grinning at him and settling him down.
"Now what are you going to do Ty?
You don't want to hit the kid, do you?"
And while Babe has his attention - boom - I'm up the stairs like a halfback and into the locker room."
"Nice Guys Finish Last."
Leo Durocher.
Leo Durocher was a shortstop on two of the most famous World Series winners in history: The "Murderers’ Row" Yankees of 1928 and the "Gashouse Gang" Cardinals of 1934.
Leo did not get along with Yankee great Babe Ruth.
By the time Leo Durocher had broken into baseball, he was skilled at cheating in cards, hustling people and collecting debts. In 1925 he was playing in the minors with the Hartford A league club when Hartford Manager Paddy O’Connor caught him red handed with marked bills that he suspected his young shortstop would steal.
Reports of missing money from other ball players pointed towards their young and brash shortstop.
With his teammates wanting to beat him to a pulp, O’Connor insisted the Durocher remain with the club until the pennant race was over, with the promise that he’d get rid of him once the season ended.
Hartford won and O’Connor kept his word, selling off Durocher to the Yankee organization for $12,000.
Leo hated and humiliated Ruth and called him a dummy.
Ruth claimed that Leo stole his watch, and bench jockeys for years would harass Leo by asking what time it was.
"Jesus Christ why would I take a few bucks from him.
If I was gonna steal from the fat guy, I would have stolen his Packard."
Leo Durocher.
Ruth called the good-field/no-hit Durocher the “All-American Out” and suggested that Leo become a switch hitter so he could bat .400, two hundred from each side of the plate.
"Losing Leo Durocher was like losing either an old friend or an old enemy.
You could take your pick."
Bob Broeg at the time of Durocher’s death in 1991.
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Kangaroo Courts: Hijacking Bar Association Disciplinary Proceedings for Partisan Politics
@CletaMitchell, @DrJohnEastman, @HarryMacD, @Rach_IC, and Kurt Hilbert
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NEARLY 1 OUT OF 3 (60,000 EMPLOYEES) AT MICROSOFT BEING OFFERED VOLUNTARY TERMINATION
Emails should be going out any minute to those receiving the offer.
Absolutely insane.
$MSFT offers 60,000 employees a voluntary exit.
60K Y’all!!
First time this has ever been offered at Microsoft and it will affect employees in India, The United States, Canada, and the UK at level 70 or below…
Employees find out in a few hours if they are being targeted for this.
This just makes me think that H127 layoffs sound intense. Is this a pre-layoff round?
Also makes me wonder if they changed some scheduled layoffs due to be called out by @VP. Peace offering? 🤔 Timing is just interesting.
More to come.
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The Libertarian Party candidate for North Carolina state senate is currently in the midst of an armed chase and shoot-out with the cops, keeping us posted with live tweets:
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The Left needs to stop minting supposed legal geniuses like Andrew Weissmann and the promoting the heck out of them as if their brains fill rooms.
Here he is on the "Illegal News" podcast (part of The Bulwark network of people pretending to be members of a political party they are not members of), saying he didn't know Trump as sitting President could not be indicted as a result of the Mueller Probe.
But that had been DOJ's internal legal policy for the entire federal government since the year 2000, 16-17 years before Trump even became President.
(And it was authored by then-Assistant Attorney General Randolph Moss, currently a federal Judge sitting in D.C. Judge Moss is not a Republican.)
justice.gov/sites/default/fi…
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And here's Andrew Weissmann excusifying for former Attorney General Eric Holder boldly proclaiming he was President Obama's "wing man."
The basic defense is that Holder didn't really mean it. He just spoke inartfully. Holder supposedly didn't actually act when he was AG in that way, claims Weissmann.
Keep this in mind as the MSM attacks @AGToddBlanche for his insistence that he is not constitutionally independent of President Trump.
It's always a double standard with these people.
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