Tex's Place

By Matt Margolis The drama between Kristi Noem and her husband, Bryon Noem, 56, just got darker. Much darker. It’s quite disturbing, actually, and, I’m sorry to say, quite humiliating for the former DHS Secretary, whose husband was recently outed as a cross-dresser. If that weren’t bad enough, the Daily Mail  obtained  dozens of recordings and messages revealing that Bryon Noem had had a secret nine-year online relationship with a left-wing dominatrix named Shy Sotomayor, who works under the name Raelynn Riley. Bryon operated under the alias "Jason Jackson," paying through an account tied to the email "Chrystalballz666." The relationship reportedly started on Twitter back in 2016, before moving to Skype and a platform called Streammate, where Bryon paid $15 a minute for sessions with Sotomayor in tight latex and leather. I apologize in advance for the details being shared. Apparently, contact went quiet around 2020, right after Kristi became South Dakota's g...

JAVIER MILEI took a chainsaw to Argentina's entrenched socialist government immediately after his 2023 election. The result was explosive economic growth and a dramatic reduction in poverty. (Euronews/AP) By David Harsanyi In fall 2023, over a hundred leading economists from around the world, including progressive darling Thomas Piketty, signed a letter warning that “far-right” Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei’s policies, which were “rooted in laissez-faire economics,” would cause “devastation,” spike inflation, expand poverty, and unemployment. Celebrated economists had never penned any open letters warning about Peronists or Kirchnerists, whose perverse blend of fascism, socialism, and unionism drove Argentina, once one of the world’s wealthiest nations, into destitution, unemployment, soaring inflation, and bankruptcy. But that’s how it always goes. Political scientist Ian Bremmer warned, “Economic collapse is coming imminently.” Felix Salmon, then-chief fina...

By Ward Clark Pretty much the entire developed world faces the problem of streams of "asylum seekers" and "migrants," which are the polite terms that the left applies to invading hordes from the Third World. President Donald Trump was elected to his second term in no small part to address this crisis, and he has.  Most American politicians, though, will at least pay lip service to immigration enforcement and guarding our borders. They may not mean it (see the recent, unlamented Biden administration), but they try to make appeasing noises about it, like insisting the border is closed, even when it plainly is not. Across the Atlantic, though, the British Green Party makes no such appeasing noises. They are for a world without borders, and they are for extending Britain's generous social welfare benefits to everyone who cares to flood into the British Isles. In a recent piece at The Telegraph, columnist Brendan O'Neill has those details, and they are shocki...

By Shawn Fleetwood While Kagan tries to find ways to limit originalist outcomes, her fellow leftists are needlessly making reaching her objective more challenging. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been receiving a great deal of attention lately — and the reason has likely got fellow Justice Elena Kagan banging her head against the wall. Sotomayor is raising eyebrows with remarks she gave at a University of Kansas School of Law event earlier this week. While it’s not uncommon for the justices to appear at such venues to speak to the public, what  is  uncommon is for the justices to use them as forums to levy personal attacks against their Supreme Court colleagues. Which is exactly what Sotomayor reportedly did. According to  Bloomberg Law , the Obama appointee took a veiled shot at Justice Brett Kavanaugh over a concurrence he authored in a case before the court’s emergency or “interim” docket last year. In a 6-3  decision  along ideological lines, ...

By Tyler Durden Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times  (emphasis ours), One of the main organizations behind the recent protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations is encouraging children to walk out of class en masse next month  to help promote its agenda, which includes achieving what it said are “Eco-socialism, [a] multi-racial democracy, and Green New Deal legislation,” according to a April 8 report by representatives of parent group Defending Education. The Sunrise Movement , during its March 17 online membership meeting, called on schools to “train up” employees and students to disrupt the federal government ahead of planned May 1 “May Day” protests as part of an ongoing “political revolution” to “structurally change the foundations of this country,” according to slides Defending Education, a nonprofit opposing indoctrination in classrooms,  obtained  from a tipster who attended the meeting. The Sunrise Movement, according ...

By Nick Arama Iran doesn't have a lot of cards to play in the fight with the United States.  One of the few is that they seem to have folks on the left attacking everything President Donald Trump says or does in regard to Operation Epic Fury. That may give them thoughts. If they just hang in there, the Democrats' attacks on Trump may force him to pull back.  However, in another way, the Democratic reactions may have helped Trump and convinced the Iranians that Trump was going to drop "hell" on them as he promised. He had already been pounding them as it was. But you had people like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-11) calling on the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment because of Trump's  "civilization will die"  comment about Iran.  The Democrats' freak-out over some of Trump's language may have accidentally served his purpose of forcing Iran to the negotiating table. The regime put people out on their bridges - clearly, they thought Tr...

By Bonchie After 21 hours of negotiation with whatever is left of the Iranian regime, Vice President JD Vance emerged from the meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, with a somber update: The talks have failed.  While speaking to the press, Vance explained that the Iranians were not willing to make the necessary commitments not to pursue nuclear weapons in the future, even as he noted their current capacity to do so had been destroyed during Operation Epic Fury. He and the rest of the American delegation will now leave Pakistan, having given the regime a final offer, they show no signs of accepting. BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance says, after 21 hours of negotiations, the U.S. and Iran have NOT reached any sort of agreement "We have been at it now for 21 hours. And, we've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That's the good news. The bad news is that… pic.twitter.com/DRFieUUH5m — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 12, 2026 VANCE: We have been at it no...

By Becca Lower In a bizarre incident on Saturday morning, a man wielding a machete reportedly attacked people at the famed Grand Central subway station in New York City. That's when police engaged the man, shooting and killing him,  according to  authorities. At last report, the injured people were in stable condition at a hospital and are expected to survive. The episode, on the platform of the 7 train and then uptown 4, 5 and 6 trains, began just after 9:30 a.m. when the man, who had been seen acting erratically on a subway train, exited at the Grand Central-42 Street Station and slashed three people on the two platforms, according to the police. Officers responding to the scene repeatedly ordered the man to drop the machete, but he refused to comply, the police said. One of the officers then shot the man, they said. Emergency medical workers took the three stabbing victims to Bellevue Hospital, where they were in stable condition and expected to survive, the police said...

By Streiff A representative of the Iranian negotiating delegation claimed that the U.S. is  unfreezing $5 billion in frozen assets , reprising Barack Hussein Obama's 2016 transfer of pallets of unmarked, non-sequential, small denomination bills to Iran. The source, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter, told Reuters that unfreezing the assets was "directly linked to ensuring ⁠safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz", which is expected to be a key issue in the talks. The senior source did not give a value for the assets that Washington had agreed to unfreeze. A second Iranian source said the United States had agreed to release $6 billion of frozen Iranian funds held by Qatar. U.S. officials have denied this to multiple outlets. NEWS: The U.S. has NOT agreed to release any Iranian frozen assets, a senior U.S. official told CBS News. A Reuters report that cited a senior Iranian source was not accurate. Meetings with Iran have not started yet, so...