One of my absolute favorite things about New Orleans. #FrenchQuarterGreatness.

I can't believe I am saying this, but I have to defend LSU and Lane Kiffin here. I don't enjoy it. Strip away the pearl-clutching and read the SEC's own complaint and Sankey's declaration. The conference seems intent on doing something regardless. Complaint ¶ 94 and Sankey ¶ 44: the CEOs will proceed "whether LSU renounces its intention to roster and play professional players on its football team, or not." Paragraph 81 goes further, saying the same thing whether or not LSU ever rosters anyone at all. That language was drafted to survive precisely what happened Tuesday night when LSU filled its roster to 105 and left no room for the pros. I get that it may succeed procedurally. It fails catastrophically as persuasion because it concedes that the expulsion has nothing to do with the conduct the lawsuit is about. So look at what is actually left. Kiffin's press conferences, his obnoxious halftime remark, his GameDay appearance, and LSU's supposed alignment with the Baton Rouge plaintiffs who hold that wacky, overbroad injunction. Compl. ¶¶ 77, 89-92. That is the gravamen. If the SEC disciplines LSU on that record, and asks a federal court to bless it, what it is really punishing is a public employee's speech about a matter of public concern. That is a First Amendment case. It just isn't the SEC's. It's Kiffin's. Fifteen of the sixteen members are public universities, and the conference is governed by their presidents, who are themselves state actors. Brentwood Academy v. TSSAA, 531 US 288 (2001), held that a private athletic association can be a state actor through pervasive entwinement with the public institutions that constitute it. Whether the SEC clears that bar is a serious question, and I wouldn't call it a foregone conclusion. But the irony writes itself. The SEC's entire theory depends on LSU officials being state actors, and the SEC pleads at ¶ 96, citing West v. Atkins, that Kiffin is one. Ironically, if not shockingly, that supplies the predicate for Kiffin's claim against it. Kiffin is a public employee criticizing his governing body's policy, which puts him on the side of Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 US 563 (1968) (teacher fired for a letter to the paper criticizing how his school board spent money, where the Court held a public employee does not surrender the right to speak as a citizen on matters of public concern, and courts must weigh that interest against the employer's interest in running its operation). If Kiffin pleads retaliation as a counterclaim, it will be a much, much better First Amendment claim than the one the SEC is asserting in its complaint. To be clear, I think LSU and Kiffin instigated this mess, and I think conferences can write product-defining eligibility rules. Alston did not bless such rules, but it did not condemn them either. Justice Gorsuch's opinion for the Court was careful to decide only what was in front of it — education-related benefits — and it left undisturbed the finding that some restraints preserving the line between college and professional sports can be procompetitive. The SEC has a real defense there, subject to the rule of reason like anyone else. I am on Team SEC. But the conference is missing a lot. It meets today to consider punishing LSU and Kiffin. It can punish a violation of its rules. What it cannot do is punish speech alone. After Tuesday night, speech is all that is left. LSU filled its roster to 105. No professional will play a down. The harm the SEC went to federal court to prevent never happened. LSU and Kiffin just talked about it.

Can everybody that is going to sue LSU do so by 10am tomorrow so I can write an open for the pregame? Also, all sanctimonious essays about Lane Kiffin destroying college football are also due by that time. Thanks for your consideration in this time sensitive matter…

Thoughts leaving @LSUfootball practice today!

No one cares about truth, because the LIES are more entertaining. #LSUVSEVERYBODY

“I supported this…why is he doing this to me?” Useful idiots. NEVER help a communist.

After Fauci Debacle, Our Idiot Press Circles the Wagons open.substack.com/pub/taibbi…

Oh, look how beautifully the system works when the right person dies. An ICE officer fires a shot and within hours the entire apparatus of public morality springs to life. Candles materialize. Signs get printed. Politicians discover their vocal cords. Reporters dig deep for “context.” Crowds fill the street chanting about justice and accountability. It’s almost impressive how fast they can mobilize when the story fits the approved script. Then a two-year-old girl is allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant. Suddenly everyone develops selective hearing loss. Three men die in a hit-and-run allegedly caused by another illegal who had already been in ICE custody and was released. The same people who were just weeping on camera about human dignity somehow can’t find the energy to light a single candle or demand a single answer. Fascinating. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastián Guerrero got the full production: marches, memorials, elected officials, national coverage. David Garcia-Obrajero, Homero Pineda Delgado, Esteban Salazar Hernandez, and that little girl got the budget version ... a quiet local report and a collective institutional shrug. The outrage class isn’t missing the story. They’re just very good at knowing which deaths are useful and which ones are inconvenient. The ones that can be aimed at ICE get the full theatrical treatment. The ones that complicate the narrative get filed under “regrettable but not our problem.” It’s not that they lack compassion. It’s that their compassion has a political filter, and the filter is working exactly as designed. (article below)

For years, Anthony Fauci funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, then lied about it. Declassified documents show he didn't just fund it, he personally shaped what the intelligence community told the American people about COVID's origins. 18 agencies relied on his guidance. On July 29th at 10 am, he will testify publicly before my Committee because the American people deserve the truth once and for all.

Democrats fully vetted Graham Platner, happily signed off on his incredibly disturbing history to win a Senate seat, and are only pretending to be shocked now because they can no longer rationalize the hypocrisy.

Don’t you dare lecture us about sacrifice, you damn Islamo-Communist floppingaces.net/2026/07/05/…

RT @RealJamesWoods: We need to bring billy clubs back.

Communists will tell you to give up beef while they eat Wagyu at the French Laundry. Communists will tell you to bike or ride the bus while they’re chauffeured around in a Suburban. Communists will tell you to cram into economy while they fly private. Communists will tell you to endure the sweltering heat while they spend the day in air-conditioned government offices. Communists will tell you to welcome third-world criminals into your neighborhood while they retreat behind the gates of their own mansions. Communists will tell you to pay higher taxes to bankroll their favorite NGOs while sheltering their own wealth in golf courses held in tax-advantaged trusts for their children. Ignore their edicts.

Obama treated America like a defendant standing before the world, waiting for sentencing. Every stop felt like another apology, another lecture, another reminder that the country was supposedly too flawed, too guilty, too backward, too embarrassing to celebrate without first begging forgiveness from people who never built anything like it. Trump looks at America’s 250th birthday and sees something completely different. He sees a country that deserves a party. Not a sterile government brochure. Not a globalist seminar on “reckoning.” Not some sad little bureaucratic picnic where the ruling class mumbles about complexity while hiding the flags behind beige curtains. A real birthday party. Flags. Monuments. Sports. Crowds. Restored landmarks. Cleaned-up civic spaces. The capital looking like the capital of the greatest nation on earth. A president who understands that America 250 does not need another apologizer. It needs a builder. That is what drives the usual suspects insane. They think patriotism is optics because they never understood morale. They think ceremony is vanity because they never understood national memory. They think Trump showing up at games, restoring Washington, and turning America 250 into a spectacle is just branding. Wrong. A nation beaten down by apology politics and managed decline needs more than policy wins. It needs pride returned to public life. It needs someone willing to say America is not guilty for existing. Obama apologized for the house. Trump is hanging the flags, cleaning the front steps, lighting the grill, and throwing the 250th birthday party the country deserves. (article below)

World Cup 2026 has been exactly what the US needed, a patriotic infusion heading into our 250th Celebration! “It was going to flop. Nobody would come. They’ll be giving tickets away. Everybody hates Trump.” In reality, America, this is the US.💪🇺🇸🔥

We are reaping the results of teaching our kids what an awful country we live in! The Republicans fell asleep and allowed Democrats to dominate the teachers unions and education. The under 30 something's expect instant success, if not they transfer or blame American capitalism!

I hate to say this but please hear me out. For decades, I have made a daily Herculean effort to warn people about the dangers facing the West. My goal was to ensure that any auto-corrective process meant to address the problems would be a peaceful one. I fear that this window has closed. Prepare for astounding violence. It may not come tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year. But it is coming. Save this post.

Liberty brings peace, peace brings love, but to get liberty sometimes you have to kill a lot of assholes.

@HillaryClinton Ma’am, I was the Air Force Lt. Colonel who carried the nuclear football for your husband inside that “people’s house” you’re suddenly so precious about. I saw it all up close for two years. While Bill was getting blow jobs in the Oval Office from an intern and groping female Air Force enlisted crew on Air Force One, you and your staff treated the military with open disdain, like we were the help, not the men and women sworn to protect this nation. The disrespect for anything non-Clinton was palpable. You lecture about “respect for the institution” while your husband lost the nuclear codes and shrugged it off. And when you finally slinked out in 2001? You and your crew trashed the place—vandalism, theft, glue in drawers, obscene messages, stolen property, and filth left behind for the next administration. The GAO confirmed it. Classy exit from the “people’s house.” The White House belongs to the American people, not your grifting dynasty. They just elected a fighter who actually respects the military and the office. Keep ripping off poor kids in Haiti, selling your merch and clutching pearls. Sit down, bitch. The adults are back in charge.

Nothing about this should be remotely controversial. Pass the Save America Act!