Deporting — er, CLOSING — the tabs …
I seldom respond to nasty headlines because I don’t like giving trash credibility, however, being that there is allegedly a book coming out with me named and attacking @POTUS , his marriage, our first lady, and frankly implying something distasteful about me, I am responding.… https://t.co/D1QyG0eYde
— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) March 17, 2025
I was very pregnant and at the time experiencing pre-eclampsia symptoms, but was not diagnosed. As soon as @realDonaldTrump boarded the plane, being the gentleman and good person that he is, said if I did not feel well, I could use the back room. He did this in a respectful way and in front of my husband, of which we thanked him. He also assured me that they had a medical team on board in case anything happened and they were aware of how pregnant I was.
This was the most compassionate thing that could’ve been done at the time. I find it disgusting that the author fails to recognize that. A few weeks later, I was induced because I did have pre-eclampsia . The author of this book never reached out to me for comment. Which means that this book is likely going to be a shit hit piece. If people in POTUS orbit are talking to this author, they need to be cut off immediately. This is gross.
Ed: Wow. Just … wow. This smells like an actual-malice situation if Rep. Luna decides to pursue legal action against the author and publisher of the book as well as The Daily Beast — and I hope she does. John has even more here.
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The Ivy League institution is $30 million poorer after the Trump administration on Friday slashed additional grants to the university from the Department of Health and Human Services, Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson reports.
The cuts hit, among others, Jeanine D’Armiento, the chairwoman of the University Senate Executive Committee who has played a leading role in protecting students involved in the disruption of university life. D’Armiento urged former Columbia president Minouche Shafik to include them in crafting disciplinary rules, and at a university senate meeting held last year, she shut off the microphone of a colleague who said there were “groups who are supporting terrorists” on campus. Grants supporting her work account for roughly $2 million of the cuts.
Ed: Columbia receives billions in federal funds. This is just the beginning of the defunding process. Trump’s team is likely taking its time and making sure that all the Ts are crossed and Is are dotted.
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President Trump told reporters Monday that over 80,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of JFK will be released on Tuesday, adding, “I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything.”
Follow live updates: https://t.co/ZGqZXNREI8 pic.twitter.com/SOkncsy1Qv
— ABC News (@ABC) March 17, 2025
Ed: We’ll keep a close eye on this, but I’m not really expecting bombshells from this release. This has been the subject of so much speculation and theorizing over the last 62 years that the truth is likely to be fairly banal. And probably already mostly revealed through other sources.
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Senate Democrats spent a lot of time last week agonizing over how to handle the government funding fight in closed-door meetings; some became so heated that senators could be heard shouting in the Capitol hallways. Schumer gave his colleagues room to air their grievances, which included complaints about the lack of a clear strategy. But he also encouraged them to not outwardly lean into a shutdown threat in the lead-up to the House vote that he hoped would fail.
Many Democratic senators were frank in the final days before the vote that they were barreling toward a lose-lose situation. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) called the two choices Democrats faced — supporting the House GOP bill or driving the government into a shutdown — “full of despair.”
Ed: I call BS. If Schumer was REALLY cautioning his caucus not to commit to a shutdown before House Republicans united to pass the CR, why did Schumer threaten one after the bill passed in the House? This smells like an attempt to rewrite history to salvage Schumer’s reputation … a very lousy attempt.
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You keep Gutfeld’s name out of your mouth- we will continue to laugh at you! @greggutfeld pic.twitter.com/9PeGUDaiAJ
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) March 17, 2025
Ed: Oh, FFS. Conservatives have been the sole target of late-night comics for years, maybe decades. The Left hails them as brave truth-tellers through comedy. The moment people on the Left hear satire and ridicule coming in their direction from ONE source, they want to shut down all comedy. There’s a better word for this, but ‘pusillanimous’ comes close.
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Since 2018 I have been caught between two impulses. The first is to be glad I survived and let the past go. The second impulse is to not let the Stasi media off the hook for what they did. In a paradox, many of the same conservatives telling me to get over 2018, will in the next breath complain that the media gets away with everything and people should hold them to account. In other words, forget the past while holding the bastards to account. It doesn’t and it cannot work that way.
In working on the second part of that equation—holding the bastards to account—I received an apology from David Enrich, a story that went viral and changed the dialogue around Enrich’s new anti-Trump and pro-media book. I also dug important information about a woman named Monica McLean, an FBI agent who was central to the false accusations against Kavanaugh.
The work of revealing media corruption can take years. Yet as more and more media outlets face up to their crimes and pay settlements, real change becomes possible. It’s possible to move forward on a personal level while not giving up on exposing the old crimes of the media—crimes that they love to cover up. At some point, Marty Baron may actually apologize to me.
Ed: Be sure to read all of this from Mark Judge. We need a reckoning with a politicized American media industry that went full Pravda years ago even before they became an arm of the American Stasi.
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Harvard University has announced that tuition will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less starting in the 2025-2026 academic year.
Read more: https://t.co/8UEdKzJY2b pic.twitter.com/Et2bdByoUE
— ABC News (@ABC) March 17, 2025
Ed: Still not worth it.
