Originally published at: Don’t You Just Hate Seeing Aileen Cannon in a Pickle?
A Funhouse Mirror of Corruption Let’s end the week with an intriguing — and even amusing — new development in the bogus investigation out of south Florida into the “grand conspiracy” against Donald Trump. As part of the probe, we learned yesterday, DOJ has subpoenaed a group of current and former FBI agents from the…
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Yikes! First.
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Cannon’s dilemma reminds me of the title of William Goldman’s memoir of his career as a screenwriter in Hollywood: “Which Lie Did I Tell?”
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In the news.
ICE just swept the meatpacking towns of southwest Kansas, and the next morning 120 kids were missing from a single elementary school.
Agents started detaining people around 5 a.m. Tuesday in Liberal, Kansas, working out of unmarked vans parked along the roads to the beef plants and stopping workers heading in and out of shifts. Liberal, Garden City and Dodge City are home to four big beef packing plants employing over 10,000 people.
Dodge City Public Schools sent families a message asking them to update their emergency contacts and to say who could pick up a child if a parent couldn’t.
“We may have students whose family members have been detained,” it read, “please help us keep our students safe and cared for.” The district also asked people to tell them if children now had no one at all to care for them.
The National Beef plant in Liberal told employees their start times had changed.
Frank Duran and his 20-year-old daughter, Guadalupe Navarrete, were driving home from work Tuesday when a black truck with sirens pulled them over, as Calen Moore first reported in Kansas News Service.
Navarrete asked the officer if he had a warrant and why she’d been stopped. She said he didn’t answer. Both are U.S. citizens who have lived in Kansas their whole lives. He works at the Cargill plant in Dodge City, she works at National Beef. When they got home she was shaking and crying.
“She’s like, ‘We’re both born here in Kansas. We’re legal citizens, Dad,’” Duran said. “They profiled us.”
ICE says its officers “are out every day enforcing federal immigration law passed by Congress,” and when asked about the operation it emailed a list of people with criminal records deported near Kansas City.
Immigrant rights advocate Kathleen Alonso, who followed up with families of the detained in Liberal, said those families told her their relatives had no criminal records.
Liberal Vice Mayor Janeth Vazquez says dozens have been detained. ICE has not told local officials how many.
Businesses closed for the week. Neighbors are offering to buy groceries for people too afraid to leave home, and to drive kids to school.
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It’s an all or none thing for the pool so. Not lifted “mostly”, not lifted. CNN was blocked at the White House last night again. I wish they had started this when he banned the AP for “Gulf of Mexico”
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/09/24/tiffany-campaign-blocks-milwaukee-journal-sentinel-reporter-from-event/
He had previously stated he would never ban media. He let the photographer in. Said the reporter was “too liberal.” Yeah, she works for the Journal Sentinel out of Madison.f
The level of snark in this interview was unbelievable
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Yep - I saw that yesterday. He’ll still get a whole lot of votes out of Wisconsin. Don’t know if he’ll win, but the Dem candidate isn’t front and center decrying this yet.
Shades of Barnes.
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And now, this:
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV/Gray News) - Two leaders of a fraternity chapter were arrested after police in Wisconsin said officers broke up an unlawful hazing event Wednesday.
Madison police responded to the house of Alpha Epsilon Pi, which is not recognized by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, on Langdon Street around 8:20 p.m. Wednesday after receiving an anonymous tip about a possible hazing event.
“Inside the basement of the residence, officers found around 30 partially clothed males covered in food, condiments and other liquids,” Madison police Capt. Kipp Hartman said.
Most of the men were 18 years old. Police said several had visible injuries consistent with being physically assaulted.
“Something fresh, potentially like a strike to the body, not an old injury,” Hartman said.
The thermostat was set to 81 degrees, creating what police described as a hot and humid environment.
Officers determined the event was unlawful and escorted everyone outside. Police checked the pledges for injuries or incapacitation, and said no one was taken for medical treatment.
Fraternity president Brayden Klein and vice president Samuel Vane, both 20, were arrested on suspicion of hazing and disorderly conduct. Both offenses are misdemeanors, according to Hartman.
Klein and Vane were booked into the Dane County Jail. The Dane County District Attorney’s Office will review the case before deciding whether to file formal charges.
Hartman said police collected statements from everyone inside, but some of the accounts conflicted.
“Some statements also did not align with what everybody else’s statements were, so there were some concerns with what was being said,” Hartman said. “I would say we had limited cooperation.”
Dozens of students near the house were asked Thursday about what happened, but many declined; some who would speak only off-camera said they were afraid of retaliation.
Police are also monitoring what they believe is misinformation spreading on social media. Hartman encouraged anyone with firsthand information to speak with investigators.
“I think anybody that came forward with additional information may not be prosecuted given the level of cooperation that they could provide,” Hartman said.
The incident happened during rush week at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“With it being rush week right now, we know that there are various ways that fraternities and sororities conduct these things,” Hartman said. “Our thing is always going to be on student safety.”
Hartman said Madison police regularly work with fraternities and sororities to help keep their events safe and legal.
“Our concern is when things are going too far and people’s either life and-or physical harm is at stake, that is definitely when we are going to be stepping in,” Hartman said.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison terminated Alpha Epsilon Pi’s status with the college in 2015. The chapter is not recognized or accredited by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, but Alpha Epsilon Pi’s national organization continues to recognize it.
“Since this chapter continues to be recognized by its national organization, it is legally allowed to operate as a fraternity chapter unaffiliated with the university,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison said in a statement.
University officials met with national Alpha Epsilon Pi leaders Thursday to review the incident and discuss possible next steps. The University of Wisconsin–Madison said the national organization is cooperating.
Hartman said the fraternity continues to control the Langdon Street house.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison said its Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards will investigate any students implicated in the incident. Students found to have violated the law, university regulations or university policy could face a written reprimand, probation, suspension, expulsion or educational sanctions.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison said it shares information about unrecognized and terminated student organizations with students, parents and families at the start of each academic year.
The Office of Student Assistance and Support and University Health Services are providing support as needed.
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oral arguments have been scheduled and then rescheduled a half a dozen times. This week they were tentatively rescheduled yet again, for January.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
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Approximately 42% of US citizens do not have a passport.
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Heather, Paul & Tim:
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Crowley was interviewed about it yesterday when it happened - by all of the outlets. I saw it in the local CBS/NBC/ABC stations. I’m sure his response can be found online as well.
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Kavanaugh stops, more than just an inconvenience.
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Maybe I am delusional but I think there are going to be quite a few Kansas voters who aren’t happy about this… and some just may be Trump voters.
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Yes, there is a movement to take away women’s right to vote – Baptist News Global+
Women’s suffrage supporters demonstrate with signs reading, ‘Wilson Against Women,’ in Chicago on October 20, 1916. Wilson withheld his support for Votes of Women until 1918. (Shutterstock)
A century after the U.S. passed the 19th Amendment allowing women to vote, Dale Partridge and some other pastors say that was a mistake and are calling for its repeal.
“If we can repeal Roe v. Wade, then I think we can overturn the 19th Amendment,” said Partridge, pastor at King’s Way Church in Prescott, Ariz. “We will repeal the 19th Amendment within 10 years,” he said in a February Instagram post that argued bad things happen when women are permitted to vote:
- “Women vote with emotions”
- “National policy is feminized”
- “Immigrants flood in”
- “Sexual immorality is legalized”
- “Multiculturalism is celebrated”
- “Feelings become the arbiter of morality”
- “Justice is labeled as ‘harsh’”
- “Western nations collapse”
- “Women blame men”
i Partridge is not alone in these sentiments. As BNG previously reported, Doug Wilson, a controversial pastor based in Moscow, Idaho, and co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, agrees with Partridge, saying the 19th Amendment was passed because Americans embraced “the lie of individualism” that hurts families.
Wilson is the head of a network of churches that includes U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as a member.
Northern Baptists largely supported the right of women to vote, while Southern Baptists largely opposed it.
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Trump’s response to startingthe Iran War: In the end we all die anyway.
Trump doesn’t care if we all die!
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