Rachel Morin’s mother describes the animalistic, brutal torture that her daughter endured at the hands of a so-called “Maryland Man” — much like the one Democrats like Senator Chris Van Hollen and the media have been bending over backwards to defend.
“This person took my daughter…so gruesomely.”
“These are the kinds of criminals President Trump wants to remove from our country.”
“To have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge my daughter and the brutal death she endured…I don’t understand this.”
“Everyone of these “principles” was completely ignored by Jim and his colleagues 15 minutes ago. Illegal gang members deserve process, but peaceful J6ers wrongly given terrorism charges don’t. Biden punishing schools to impose radical gender ideology? OK. Trump punishing Harvard for clear discrimination? Outrage! Legal pressure groups threatening the license of lawyers who represent Trump? Just fine with that.
I’m not saying there aren’t very valid criticisms of the Trump admin here, but the legacy media have put *zero* thought into how they enabled this by only caring about principles when it cut against their personal politics.”
Some here are not in favor of due process for suspected gang members being deported. What we have to remember is that due process is not to protect the guilty, but to protect the not guilty. In these kinds of things, innocent people are often caught in the dragnet or misidentified or charged with something they did not do. Due process is to try to mitigate that.
Kind of related, here is a story of a Connecticut woman, a U.S. citizen born in Pennsylvania, who has received word that she is to be deported:
Why fertility is the wrong goal post for family policy.
As a millennial mother and policy researcher, I’ve been waiting a long time for Republicans to take up the mantle of dependable pro-family policies. The traditionally conservative, free-market philosophy of a rising tide lifting all boats by reducing regulation and taxes didn’t always work in the latter part of the last century: Families were breaking apart in historic proportions, wages for low-income workers stalled, nearly half of mothers lacked any type of job protection (let alone pay) after birth, and public schools showed cracks. Reagan-era conservatives such as myself knew we didn’t like what the Democrats offered: massive new entitlements and spending. But our laissez-faire alternative wasn’t working either.
To be sure, Republicans are talking more about family policy these days than I can remember in my lifetime, but what we’re seeing and hearing from the new right in Washington is not what I had in mind. Instead of fiscal responsibility and a focus on family values, we’re seeing fiscal profligacy, policy decisions that could destabilize families, and political figures displaying a disregard for norms and decency in their personal lives. MAGA leaders have lost the vision on what “good” even looks like for families, and operate their lives out of a different value set. …
There have been wins, of course. Abortion has been rolled back in red states—a win for pro-life, pro-family conservatives—since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. But not enough has been done to ensure that the most vulnerable women and children receive better care in its wake.
Meanwhile, prominent MAGA leaders are acting out anything but traditional family values in their personal lives: During the interregnum between his two presidential terms, Donald Trump was found liable for sexual abuse, and he was convicted on charges stemming from hush money payments to a porn actress. His defense secretary has been accused of sexual assault. His nominee for attorney general withdrew from consideration amid accusations of sex with minors. Others seem to operate on a whole different value system. As the Wall Street Journal just laid out in painstaking detail, Elon Musk—Trump’s top donor and head of the Department of Government Efficiency—has fathered at least 14 children with four women. …
… We’re not electing pastors to political leadership, I get that. But in some ways, the machismo, sexualized bro culture of the new right feels as obsessed with gender and identity as the left they are fighting against—leaving those of us in the trenches of parenthood and actually raising children without an advocate. … ~
“BREAKING: The Trump Administration has overhauled the COVID.gov website into a massive lab leak data center displaying scientific proof that COVID was man-made in Wuhan, China.
The official site now names Dr. Fauci as the criminal who covered-up COVID origins:”
Yes, and accordingly, illegal invaders do not get the same due process rights as citizens.
The man had 3 appearances in front of 2 different judges, and they marked him for removal. He got the court process he was entitled to. That’s his due process, and it’s all he’s due.
Also, Trump has the authority to use his powers to remove him.
~ The Supreme Court said it will hear oral arguments next month on whether the Trump administration can take steps to enforce its contentious proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship while litigation continues. ~
“I see these pictures, and I think, boy, the party of women is really covering itself in glory. I don’t understand why the American left falls in love with the worst people. You’ve got a gang banging, human trafficking, wife beating illegal alien, and a U.S. senator in a ludicrous display of energy is in El Salvador having Mai Tais and Yahtzee? I do not get it.”
“An illegal alien came here in 2011 and somehow in 2025, he’s still here? After having been through the court system, after having been arrested with lots of people in his car, after having all this evidence.”
They ask “Why didn’t Donald Trump deport him?”
JENNINGS: “He just did, and now everybody’s mad about it!”
For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cast doubt on the safety of vaccines and given credence to the contention that they might cause autism. That’s despite research thoroughly debunking the idea (and links to other, non-vaccine-related factors such as a father’s age). And despite decades of research and the difficulty in finding definitive answers, he’s now promising, as director of Health and Human Services under Trump, to unearth the true cause of autism by September — a timeline many experts find dubious. … ~ NPR
~ He’s also contradicting his own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said this week that part of the increase in the number of children found to have autism is likely because of increased diagnoses and better diagnostic tools.
“One of the things I think we need to move away from today is this ideology that this diagnosis, rather the relentless increases, are simply artifacts of better diagnoses, better recognition,” Kennedy said. He also said: “Doctors and therapists in the past weren’t stupid; they weren’t missing all these cases. The epidemic is real. External factors, environmental exposures, that’s where we’re going to find the answer.”
There’s an irony in RFK Jr. claiming that “ideology” is contributing to the CDC’s conclusions when he is saying definitively that “environmental exposures” is “where we’re going to find the answer” and appointed someone who promoted the discredited vaccine link to autism to lead HHS’ effort to identify a cause.
Could there be environmental causes (other than vaccines)? That’s Kennedy’s theory. But science is about dispassionately letting evidence dictate answers, not letting preconceived answers dictate science. ~
~ Corey Lewandowski has used his close relationship with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to wield power at the agency. Though he has no formal role at DHS, President Trump’s former campaign manager has acted as a gatekeeper for Noem—advising her during foreign travels and on personnel moves and DHS contracts, according to administration officials, agency staff and Trump allies.
Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are on a historic collision course—with no easy offramp in sight. Two problems have emerged since Trump lashed out at Powell on Thursday: It isn’t clear the president has the legal authority to dismiss Powell before his term ends next year and Trump’s trade war has made rate cuts more difficult because the Fed fears acting to shore up the economy could worsen inflation. ~
My comment about due process was a general one, not necessarily related to the ongoing controversy about one person.
Again, due process is not to protect the guilty, but to protect the not guilty who accidentally get swept up in arrests. Innocent people are mistakenly arrested quite often. That’s why we have due process.
hmmm… NPR didn’t seem to have a problem with the “guy” in RFK’s position under Biden. But of course “ he” fit their narrative perfectly. What is a woman!!? Nj
Wandering Views 
This is hard to watch, but so powerful.
Rachel Morin’s mother describes the animalistic, brutal torture that her daughter endured at the hands of a so-called “Maryland Man” — much like the one Democrats like Senator Chris Van Hollen and the media have been bending over backwards to defend.
“This person took my daughter…so gruesomely.”
“These are the kinds of criminals President Trump wants to remove from our country.”
“To have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge my daughter and the brutal death she endured…I don’t understand this.”
https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1912614093774864873?t=Mfy2nsj4fYk5c3DdB6qlng&s=19
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So pathetic.
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1913016823160996326?t=vHumhWLJLX90mbilVbMbAw&s=19
“Senator Thom Tillis reads out deportation numbers in the millions
A Democrat Policy Director on immigration is outraged and says it would completely disrupt everything in America
He’s told these are Barack Obama’s deportation numbers
No more outrage….”
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“Everyone of these “principles” was completely ignored by Jim and his colleagues 15 minutes ago. Illegal gang members deserve process, but peaceful J6ers wrongly given terrorism charges don’t. Biden punishing schools to impose radical gender ideology? OK. Trump punishing Harvard for clear discrimination? Outrage! Legal pressure groups threatening the license of lawyers who represent Trump? Just fine with that.
I’m not saying there aren’t very valid criticisms of the Trump admin here, but the legacy media have put *zero* thought into how they enabled this by only caring about principles when it cut against their personal politics.”
https://x.com/Heminator/status/1913214398249730408?t=Hk0hAEOdH_6tNsg6ptqIUg&s=19
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“On January 6, a million Americans showed up to defend democracy—and over 1,500 of them were crucified for it
My friend @BrandonStraka and I were two of them—and what we’ve suffered from a corrupted government is shocking.”
https://x.com/JohnStrandUSA/status/1912976623428591635?t=_qwbalKgpEHQLTX5ZTIz6g&s=19
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“A brave 17-year-old girl breaks down in tears telling her CA school board about a male athlete watching girls change in the locker room.
Hear her cry. Hear her story.
California is failing our daughters.
Girls deserve better. This is why we fight.”
https://x.com/SophiaSLorey/status/1912985773831492031?t=PiTA4Yy64y8krpo1m2rNvg&s=19
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I did not get the video on that link to work on the last post, AJ.
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Some here are not in favor of due process for suspected gang members being deported. What we have to remember is that due process is not to protect the guilty, but to protect the not guilty. In these kinds of things, innocent people are often caught in the dragnet or misidentified or charged with something they did not do. Due process is to try to mitigate that.
Kind of related, here is a story of a Connecticut woman, a U.S. citizen born in Pennsylvania, who has received word that she is to be deported:
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/ct-woman-gets-homeland-security-email-leave-country-despite-being-us-citizen/3545821/
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Why on earth should we extend “due process” to people here illegally?? Nj
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~ These Aren’t the Family Values I Remember
Why fertility is the wrong goal post for family policy.
As a millennial mother and policy researcher, I’ve been waiting a long time for Republicans to take up the mantle of dependable pro-family policies. The traditionally conservative, free-market philosophy of a rising tide lifting all boats by reducing regulation and taxes didn’t always work in the latter part of the last century: Families were breaking apart in historic proportions, wages for low-income workers stalled, nearly half of mothers lacked any type of job protection (let alone pay) after birth, and public schools showed cracks. Reagan-era conservatives such as myself knew we didn’t like what the Democrats offered: massive new entitlements and spending. But our laissez-faire alternative wasn’t working either.
To be sure, Republicans are talking more about family policy these days than I can remember in my lifetime, but what we’re seeing and hearing from the new right in Washington is not what I had in mind. Instead of fiscal responsibility and a focus on family values, we’re seeing fiscal profligacy, policy decisions that could destabilize families, and political figures displaying a disregard for norms and decency in their personal lives. MAGA leaders have lost the vision on what “good” even looks like for families, and operate their lives out of a different value set. …
There have been wins, of course. Abortion has been rolled back in red states—a win for pro-life, pro-family conservatives—since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. But not enough has been done to ensure that the most vulnerable women and children receive better care in its wake.
Meanwhile, prominent MAGA leaders are acting out anything but traditional family values in their personal lives: During the interregnum between his two presidential terms, Donald Trump was found liable for sexual abuse, and he was convicted on charges stemming from hush money payments to a porn actress. His defense secretary has been accused of sexual assault. His nominee for attorney general withdrew from consideration amid accusations of sex with minors. Others seem to operate on a whole different value system. As the Wall Street Journal just laid out in painstaking detail, Elon Musk—Trump’s top donor and head of the Department of Government Efficiency—has fathered at least 14 children with four women. …
… We’re not electing pastors to political leadership, I get that. But in some ways, the machismo, sexualized bro culture of the new right feels as obsessed with gender and identity as the left they are fighting against—leaving those of us in the trenches of parenthood and actually raising children without an advocate. … ~
https://thedispatch.com/article/family-values-conservative-republican-party-trump/
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@11:21 — Because this is still America.
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https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1913232811084890235?t=zalgsLBaTeTuFw5AZhcwHw&s=19
“BREAKING: The Trump Administration has overhauled the COVID.gov website into a massive lab leak data center displaying scientific proof that COVID was man-made in Wuhan, China.
The official site now names Dr. Fauci as the criminal who covered-up COVID origins:”
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Yes, and accordingly, illegal invaders do not get the same due process rights as citizens.
The man had 3 appearances in front of 2 different judges, and they marked him for removal. He got the court process he was entitled to. That’s his due process, and it’s all he’s due.
Also, Trump has the authority to use his powers to remove him.
So stop with this canard about due process.
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Pretty much.
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1912925328722346432?t=SRFmA4ClUEF4qW8IOkD_5A&s=19
“Democrats Call For An Individual Court Hearing For Everyone On Earth To Prove They Aren’t American Citizens”
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~ Get Out by Good Friday, Feds Say to Afghan Christians
The Department of Homeland Security has revoked immigration status of some Afghans who fled to the U.S. ~
https://thedispatch.com/article/afghanistan-christians-good-friday-trump-administration/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=From%20Tariffs%20to%20Tehran&utm_campaign=The%20Morning%20Dispatch_TMD%20Paid%20Subscribers%20Only_From%20Tariffs%20to%20Tehran
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Now some will tell you illegals are entitled to the same rights as citizens, but that’s only true to a point.
As a citizen, the govt can’t simply remove you from America.
An illegal invaders has no such right. If after a judicial decision they are ordered removed, that’s where their due process ends.
He had appeals, the evidence of gang activity and crimes shown to the judges, and he was deemed a risk, as he should have been.
Well risk removed.
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illegal=against the law of our land….what other country is stupid enough to give illegal invaders the same rights as their citizens? None! Nj
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~ The Supreme Court said it will hear oral arguments next month on whether the Trump administration can take steps to enforce its contentious proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship while litigation continues. ~
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It’s gross, as are those perpetrating it.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1913198734076268588?t=s0zgOZ2S_QuC2nXtyNRVeg&s=19
“I see these pictures, and I think, boy, the party of women is really covering itself in glory. I don’t understand why the American left falls in love with the worst people. You’ve got a gang banging, human trafficking, wife beating illegal alien, and a U.S. senator in a ludicrous display of energy is in El Salvador having Mai Tais and Yahtzee? I do not get it.”
“An illegal alien came here in 2011 and somehow in 2025, he’s still here? After having been through the court system, after having been arrested with lots of people in his car, after having all this evidence.”
They ask “Why didn’t Donald Trump deport him?”
JENNINGS: “He just did, and now everybody’s mad about it!”
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Correct!
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1913155654090391720?t=sjfyj9CggeJX4guMlDD2lA&s=19
“Call me crazy but if you got two hearings and a valid deportation order then you shouldn’t be in the United States.”
—-
He had all the process he was due.
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~ Answers in search of science
For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cast doubt on the safety of vaccines and given credence to the contention that they might cause autism. That’s despite research thoroughly debunking the idea (and links to other, non-vaccine-related factors such as a father’s age). And despite decades of research and the difficulty in finding definitive answers, he’s now promising, as director of Health and Human Services under Trump, to unearth the true cause of autism by September — a timeline many experts find dubious. … ~ NPR
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(cont’d)
~ He’s also contradicting his own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said this week that part of the increase in the number of children found to have autism is likely because of increased diagnoses and better diagnostic tools.
“One of the things I think we need to move away from today is this ideology that this diagnosis, rather the relentless increases, are simply artifacts of better diagnoses, better recognition,” Kennedy said. He also said: “Doctors and therapists in the past weren’t stupid; they weren’t missing all these cases. The epidemic is real. External factors, environmental exposures, that’s where we’re going to find the answer.”
There’s an irony in RFK Jr. claiming that “ideology” is contributing to the CDC’s conclusions when he is saying definitively that “environmental exposures” is “where we’re going to find the answer” and appointed someone who promoted the discredited vaccine link to autism to lead HHS’ effort to identify a cause.
Could there be environmental causes (other than vaccines)? That’s Kennedy’s theory. But science is about dispassionately letting evidence dictate answers, not letting preconceived answers dictate science. ~
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In WSJ today:
~ Corey Lewandowski has used his close relationship with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to wield power at the agency. Though he has no formal role at DHS, President Trump’s former campaign manager has acted as a gatekeeper for Noem—advising her during foreign travels and on personnel moves and DHS contracts, according to administration officials, agency staff and Trump allies.
Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are on a historic collision course—with no easy offramp in sight. Two problems have emerged since Trump lashed out at Powell on Thursday: It isn’t clear the president has the legal authority to dismiss Powell before his term ends next year and Trump’s trade war has made rate cuts more difficult because the Fed fears acting to shore up the economy could worsen inflation. ~
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That’s all. Too much coffee.
And I’m off the rest of the day (are those cheers I hear going up lol?)
Be nice to each other.
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My comment about due process was a general one, not necessarily related to the ongoing controversy about one person.
Again, due process is not to protect the guilty, but to protect the not guilty who accidentally get swept up in arrests. Innocent people are mistakenly arrested quite often. That’s why we have due process.
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hmmm… NPR didn’t seem to have a problem with the “guy” in RFK’s position under Biden. But of course “ he” fit their narrative perfectly. What is a woman!!? Nj
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/presidential-message-on-holy-week-2025/
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Thanks for posting this Tychicus…❣️ Nj
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