"Free DC!": Screamfest During House Hearing As Tlaib Accuses Trump Admin Of 'Fascist Takeover'
"Free DC!": Screamfest During House Hearing As Tlaib Accuses Trump Admin Of 'Fascist Takeover'
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) described the Trump administration’s crackdown on crime in Washington D.C. as a “fascist takeover” during an unhinged diatribe in the House of Representatives Thursday, prompting a Republican member to call her “radical” and “insane.”
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing titled 
to discuss President Trump’s recent efforts to improve public safety in the nation’s capital.
Witnesses included D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, and gun control advocate Gregory Jackson, Jr.
Tlaib made clear in her remarks that she was not a fan of 
to mobilize the national guard and take control of the Metropolitan Police Department to combat the rampant crime and homelessness plaguing D.C.
“We can’t be passive right now. It’s really important that we stand up against this fascist takeover,” Tlaib said.
She added defensively, “that’s not a bad word! It’s a fact here in D.C. and across the country.”
The congresswoman went on to suggest that any mention of the city’s crime issues was insincere and off-base.
“It is so incredibly important Mr. Chair that this committee does not allow rhetoric that defames or paints Washington D.C. in a way that you all really haven’t seen, she said. “You’re just reading it or something of off …”
At this point Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) interjected to ask Tlaib to yield to answer a question.
“No, I don’t yield, I don’t even have time,” the congresswoman shot back.
“Your time’s expired,” Donalds informed her.
But Tlaib continued her rant.
“You all live here and you’re not telling people the beautiful parts that we do see in our nation’s capital,” she said.
Donald’s broke in again to say he objected to Tlaib referring to him and his colleagues as if they were from “the Third Reich.”
“This is insane!” he exclaimed. “Do I look like a member of the Third Reich to you Miss Tlaib?” he asked.
The congresswoman raised her voice, shrilly screaming in response: “You’re the one who … No! … That’s unethical!”
As the Michigan Democrat continued to fulminate, Donalds spoke over her, saying “I think it’s radical and I think it’s insane and I don’t respect anything that you said. To say something like that about myself and my colleagues is way out of line!”
“You hold yourself accountable before you talk about Washington D.C.!” Tlaib bellowed in response.
“Hold your own self accountable, how about that?” Donalds shot back. “Hold your own self accountable.”
“Free D.C., Free D.C.!” Tlaib chanted, echoing
the capital to protest Trump’s crackdown on crime.
Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) finally took control and gave the floor to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).
In 
Comer credited the president with setting “a strong example of how smart-on-crime policies protect communities.”
The chairman noted that the Committee recently
fourteen key pieces of legislation aimed at restoring public safety, and urged his colleagues to continue building on the progress already achieved in D.C.
Comer said that “since Trump mobilized the national guard and took control of the Metropolitan Police Department, violent crime has decreased 39 percent, robberies are down 57 percent, and car jackings are down 75 percent.”
Over 2,300 people have been arrested. Nearly 950 illegal aliens have been detained by ICE, including 20 gang members from violent foreign terrorist organizations.
Sex offenders have been taken off the streets.
Major drug trafficking operations have been foiled.
Authorities thwarted a planned school shooting, cleared 50 illegal tent encampments, and rescued seven missing children.
And D.C. went without a homicide for 13 days.
Prior to Trump’s crackdown on crime, Washington, D.C. was suffering from soaring crime rates, as high as the violent 1990s, Comer said.
“President Trump’s operation was a resounding success and a shining example of how smart-on-crime policies can keep the residents of and visitors to our nation’s capital safe,” the chairman declared.
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Certainly a great question, given that the far-left activists running Baltimore City have pushed a decade of failed criminal justice reforms that backfired and fueled a violent crime wave. The result is unmistakable: a 
... in other words, the largest population exodus in a generation. The city could lose its "major city" status if the population hemorrhage continues.
Why the Planks poured tens of millions - if not more - into Baltimore seems like another troubling bet. Perhaps the explanation lies in their origin story, which began in the metro area, where they sold UA tees out of a car at youth lacrosse games and through the retail chain Lax World.
UA's Turnaround plan sputtering:
The Woke-Jacobin Left broke into a happy-dance when they heard the news, and I bet 90-percent of them didn’t even know what Charlie was about, except that their minders had painted a bullseye on him and somebody hit it. They have forgotten what their country is about, too. They have unwittingly acted-out Biblical-grade wickedness. Jimmy Kimmel didn’t just tell a bad joke about the president — “This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish" — he made a Judas of himself. He demonstrated exactly what it means to betray whatever remains of goodness in this land.
You are at a loss to understand how bad it got, years of officially enforced insanity, absurdities jammed down your craw, treasonous mischief, vile abuses under color-of-law (Tina Peters still rots in jail in Colorado!), and, lately, gunning down whoever stands in their way. You look at an old, established political party and you begin to see actual demons. You understand that destroying the country might not be enough for them.
At this point, nothing will save the Democratic Party from itself. It will not fade quietly into irrelevance like the Whigs did in the 1850s. No, you are witnessing something more like spontaneous combustion, a conflagration of the vicious and unholy.
If you happened to watch Kash Patel in the Senate Judiciary Committee the other day going at Adam Schiff, what you saw was an actual exorcism.
Mr. Patel said, “You are the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate. You are a disgrace to this institution and an utter coward. You continue to lie from your perch and put on a show so you can go raise money for your charades. You are a political buffoon at best! I challenge you to say anything credible to the truth. Go ahead and run to the cameras where you wanna go now!"
He might as well have just said: "I cast you out, unclean spirit, along with every satanic power of the enemy, every specter from hell, and all your fell companions. . . .” In the process, Mr. Patel reminded Senator Schiff that he is Director of the FBI now and, well. . . things have changed. Perhaps other Senators who have trafficked in sedition and malicious perfidy — say, Mark Warner on the Intel Committee — viewed these goings-on with a twinge of dread for what is coming.
Notice that no one on the Judiciary Committee dared move to hold Mr. Patel in contempt, because what he said is self-evidently true, and they all know it. Senator Schiff is, of course, already under investigation for mortgage fraud, which is inconvenient enough, but before long he will have to answer graver charges for offenses against the nation, along with many co-conspirators in and out of office. His over-speaking the witness (Mr. Patel) in committee the other day was the sort of climactic mummery you see in movies when the iniquitous are brought low in an official proceeding — think the babbling Bryan character in Inherit the Wind or Captain Queeg in the Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Schiff knows he is cooked and Mr. Patel just flambéed him.
If Mr. Trump had any qualms about turning the full force of the law on this party and its demonic confederates in government and the old news media, then you can safely assume that after Charlie Kirk’s murder every lever of power will be used to get them all into courtrooms under fair and correct proceedings with the basic aim of laying out the truth of what has happened to our country, so that everyone can see what it was.
By the way, and in case you missed it, Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed Martin, on or about September 5, visited Tina Peters in her cell in the Colorado State Prison at Pueblo. Peters (who turns 70 today), the former Mesa County Clerk convicted in 2024 of nine felony counts related to a security breach of voting equipment (stemming from efforts to "prove" 2020 election fraud claims), was sentenced to nine years in prison. The DOJ has filed a “review” of her conviction in federal court. I wouldn’t want to be Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State, who spearheaded Tina Peter’s prosecution for daring to voice concern over election fraud.
Then, just this week, the same Ed Martin paid a call to the Fulton County, GA, election headquarters to initiate federal grand jury proceedings to access 148,000 ballots held under seal and unexamined in a county warehouse since the 2020 election. The ballots have long been suspected of irregularities and possible fraud. “Joe Biden” won the state by 11,799 votes out of 5,017,000 cast (a 0.23% plurality), and thus the national election — as did both of Georgia’s Democratic senators, Jon Ossof and Raphael Warnock.
The post Charlie Kirk America is a new reality. Prepare accordingly.
On top of that, two policymakers dissented from the decision to leave the policy rate unchanged today. They preferred to hike to 0.75% already, which puts a rate hike in October squarely on the table.
The shock announcement made for a bit of a rollercoaster ride for Japanese equities. The Nikkei 225 opened the trading day about one percent higher; tumbled 2.5% from those levels on the Bank’s announcement; and finally recovered some of those declines to end up 0.6% below yesterday’s close.
But there’s, perhaps, another interesting element to this decision: the central bank decided to reduce its ETF holdings, rather than speeding up its exit from the sovereign bond market – that is, more than the tapering of JGB purchases it had announced in June. Both programmes will need to be right-sized as part of policy normalisation, but perhaps the recent pressure on global long-term bond yields –and particularly JGBs– was a consideration as well. Either way, the Japanese curve is twist flattening on the hawkish decision.
The UK monetary policy decision made less waves. Yesterday, the Bank of England decided to keep its policy rate unchanged at 4.00%, with a familiar split vote. The usual two suspects voted in favour of another 25bp cut. That, along with the policy statement, affirms our view that there is still a bias toward easing in the monetary policy committee, even though the bar for further rate cuts is rising. Policymakers are looking to cut further, but only when they get clearer evidence that the disinflationary process is continuing.
Yet, UK inflation data suggest that the disinflationary momentum is waning, and various metrics of underlying inflation remain sticky, and we don’t believe that the October inflation report will provide a very different picture. Therefore, 
The ministry quickly summoned Russian chargé d'affaires "to lodge a protest" - and simultaneously EU diplomat Kaja Kallas, who hails from the Baltic country and was the first female prime minister, blasted the incursion as "an extremely dangerous provocation".
Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna went further to call it "unprecedentedly brazen" saying that--
"Russia's increasingly extensive testing of boundaries and growing aggressiveness must be met with a swift increase in political and economic pressure."
Reports in Estonian media claim that the jets turned off their transponders and 'went dark' during the incident, so as to not be tracked easily on radar.
This apparently isn't a first, as Russia has allegedly violated Estonia's airspace four times in 2025. Moscow likely isn't too 'concerned' over moments its military might breach the airspace of this tiny former Soviet satellite state in the Baltics.
But European leaders are using these increasing instances to push for an 'eastern flank' aerial defense shield protecting NATO.
Just last week the two largest eastern members of NATO said that Russian drones breached their airspace.
The Polish instance was the most serious, given Warsaw accused Russia of intentionally sending a 'wave' of drones - up to 19 - which resulted in its military urgently scrambling jets to track them.
Russia in response insisted that there was nothing deliberate about the drone breach, which it turns out involved 'decoy' drones commonly used over Ukraine to draw away air defense missiles.
The Kremlin says there are "no plans" to target Polish or NATO soil. But one of the drones may have made it as much as 40 miles into Polish territory, which is significant.
Romania also sent jets to track an apparently errant Russian drone's movements, and chose not to shoot it down, before it went back into Ukraine.
The Senate vote was 44 in favor and 48 against, short of the 60 votes required. Notably, Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) were the only Republicans to vote against the measure, while Democrat Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) voted for it. Several Republicans were absent from the vote.
The short-term stopgap (aka mini can kick) was pitched by Republicans as a temporary solution to buy time while they sort out comprehensive spending legislation for the fiscal year which begins Oct. 1, a common strategy on both sides of the aisle. The measure includes security funding for lawmakers and federal officials following the assassination of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The GOP measure would extend government funding at current levels through Nov. 21. It would provide $88 million in additional funds for the security of lawmakers, the executive branch and the judiciary, reflecting heightened anxiety about political violence following Kirk’s killing last week. It would allow the District of Columbia to spend its own taxpayer-provided funds after a March spending law blocked the city from spending about $1 billion of its own money.
If no deal is reached, funding would lapse after Sept. 30, prompting a partial government shutdown. -
U.S. Deputy Middle East Envoy Morgan Ortagus 
Even with the upgraded quarterly delivery estimates, Delaney's team maintains a "Neutral" rating on the stock. However, they raised their 12-month price target to $395 from $300. Here's the explanation:
We remain Neutral rated on the stock. Longer term, we expect Tesla to grow its EPS driven in part by larger contributions from autonomy and robotics, although our base case expectation for profits in these areas is more measured than the company is targeting. As we detail in this note, we estimate that its 2030 EPS could be ~$2-3 to ~$20 (although we acknowledge there are outcomes beyond these ranges), and what we consider to be a middle of the road type scenario implies ~$7-$9 of EPS in 2030 and an EPS CAGR of ~40-50%. Given the move higher in market multiples more generally, as well as the growth rate we believe the business can support over the longer term, plus the increases we make to our forward EPS estimates, we raise our 12-month price target to $395 from $300. If Tesla can have outsized share in areas such as humanoid robotics and autonomy, then there could be upside to our price target, although if competition limits profits (as is happening with the ADAS market in China) or Tesla does not execute well, then there could be downside.
New consumer survey data from HundredX and Morning Consult, which tracks net purchase intent and net buzz around the vehicle brand, shows sentiment improving. Earlier this year, Democratic Party–aligned dark-money-funded NGOs waged an informational war against Tesla over Musk's involvement with DOGE, but with that propaganda campaign subsiding many months ago, consumers appear to be returning to the brand.
App downloads are also showing a promising inflection point for the brand.
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The CDC should recommend only the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine, and not the measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (MMRV) vaccine—which also prevents chicken pox—for children ages younger than 4, ACIP said.
The vote was 8 to 3. Dr. Robert Malone recused himself because he 
Additionally, the advisors voted to postpone a vote on delaying the first dose of a hepatitis B vaccine, which is currently recommended for newborns within hours of birth.
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) members in an 11–1 vote tabled a motion that would have advised the CDC to recommend pushing the first dose back to a minimum of 1 month of age.
Some members said they favored tabling the motion because of concerns that the CDC misrepresented the safety of the hepatitis B vaccine.
In a presentation on Thursday, Adam Langer of the CDC