Better in their words…

JEFF CHILDERS. MAR 29, 2026

The Chicago Mayor who named a snowplow “Abolish ICE” days after a college freshman was murdered by a catch-and-release Venezuelan. I mean, really, a vigil for a murdered WHITE WOMAN? What will MAGA think of next? The NYT grudgingly admits the Iran war is producing a US energy “windfall.” Gavin Newsom’s defends “I’m like you, I can’t read,” insists dyslexia is his “superpower.” mrossol

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On Wednesday afternoon, Loyola freshman Sheridan Gorman, 18, was buried. She was murdered in an ambush on a Chicago public pier the week before. The ski-masked killer, Jose Medina-Medina, was a Venezuelan catch-and-release, zero-bond criminal originally escorted into the country by the Biden team in 2023. He has also had active tuberculosis since at least 2023. Jose, masked and dressed in all black, leapt from cover and shot Sheridan in the back when she tried to flee. Yesterday, two days after Sheridan was buried, the Chicago Sun Times reported, “Mayor Johnson unveils ‘Abolish ICE’ snowplow.”

Socialist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson —who increasingly resembles Simpsons villain Fat Tony running a real city— won a low-turnout jungle primary in February 2023. Since no candidate got a majority, Johnson and moderate Democrat Paul Vallas (who ran on a ‘tough-on-crime platform’) went to a runoff. Johnson enjoyed the support of the Chicago Teachers’ Union and the black community, and still only won by about 16,000 votes.

Yesterday, he “unveiled” a contest snowplow with the name “Abolish ICE” painted across it, in classic middle-school liberal humor. Chicago has about 300 snowplows. The city runs an annual “You Name A Plow” contest, where the public submits names, votes on finalists, and six ‘winners’ get their names pasted on plows. This year’s contest had a record 13,000 submissions— 9,200 of which were “Abolish ICE.”

Mayor Johnson only “unveiled” the plow named “Abolish ICE.” The five other ‘winners’ went unmentioned.

“This name,” Johnson announced, “derives from our city’s legacy of standing up for justice, dignity and the rights of all people, no matter where they come from,” especially illegal alien TB carriers. When he said that, reporters uneasily glanced at each other, confused. A ‘legacy’ of standing up for justice, dignity, and the rights of all people? Was he talking about Chicago? Were they in the right press conference?

Chicago holds the title of the most segregated city in America. For twenty years until 1991, its chief of police ran a torture ring where electric shocks, suffocation, and beatings were used to extract confessions from at least 100 black men. (The city paid out $210M+ in settlements.) As recently as 2015, the Guardian exposed a different secret police department ‘black site,’ where arrested detainees —U.S. citizens, over 7,000 of them in total, most of them black— were held without access to attorneys, shackled, and beaten senseless.

Until extremely recently, Chicago routinely led the nation in unsolved homicides. There was no “justice and dignity” for the victims. So … what on Earth was Johnson babbling about? There is no “legacy” of “justice and dignity” in Chicago. Rubbish.

An NBC Chicago article quoted the grieving Gorman family as they pondered Chicago’s legacy of justice and dignity. “We sat in a courtroom and listened as the person accused of taking Sheridan’s life was described through the lens of his background, his circumstances, and his struggles,” a family member wrote. “But we cannot lose sight of the simple, devastating truth: Sheridan had a life too.”

As the snowplow-naming event pulled itself back together after Johnson’s embarrassing “legacy” gaffe, it became obvious he wasn’t going to mention Sheridan Gorman’s killing. So a reporter asked the Mayor if he’d considered maybe rescheduling the event, given that a young woman had literally just been killed by someone ICE would have deported. Brandon Johnson said no. In fact, he said, “this tragedy is not going to deter us from our work.”

What work? Plowing snow? Abolishing ICE? Ignoring murders?

A heckler in the crowd interrupted him, shouting angrily, “You’re making a joke out of Sheridan Gorman. Shame on you.” The heckler added, “ICE would have saved Sheridan Gorman. She would still be alive.” It was all true, of course, but Johnson just ignored him and kept gassing on. In a later interview, Democrat Alderman Raymond Lopez said, “this tragedy was 100% avoidable.”

Experts have long debated the most effective way to fight violent crime: more police, community investment, economic opportunity — you name it, the same themes, endlessly recycled. But Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has come up with a novel strategy no criminal justice expert ever thought of: He named a snowplow.

The Mayor apparently believes that pushing frozen water around city streets in a truck with an anti-ICE slogan will somehow prevent the next Sheridan Gorman.

Mayor Johnson is confident his retarded plan will work. Good luck, Chicago.

🔥 Related: Last month, Racket News reported “Based on Nominations, Minnesota Should Have an ‘ABOLISH ICE’ Snowplow. Here’s Why We Don’t.” Adults in Minnesota’s government ignored snowplow-naming votes for ‘Abolish ICE’— even though that state was ground-zero for the 2026 ICE controversy and Don Lemon’s dramatic church invasion. But not Chicago.

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I always wonder whether it’s a good use of C&C space to mention whenever corporate media confirms one of the pillars of our big theories, but I’ll do it this morning since this is a bonus post and I just laid out the theory yesterday. You guys will appreciate this. Yesterday, the Times —in a totally unrelated article— admitted that the Iran war is, in fact, positioning the US at the top of a global energy pig-pile. Headline:

See that? The U.S. and other exporters are poised for a windfall. What’s a windfall? Apple’s dictionary defined it like this: “unexpected good fortune involving receiving a large amount of money.” A windfall is like hitting the slots, winning the lotto, or getting one of those “unclaimed funds” notices in the mail reminding you of an account you opened on a wasted summer you spent in Sedona in 1993 that now has $23,000 in it.

After a solid month of “chaos” and “doom” commentary about the shutting of the Strait, now the Times calls it a windfall for the U.S.— snuck into an article about how bad the Western Europeans are getting it in the shorts.

Next, behold, the story’s first two paragraphs:

Get that? The United States will almost certainly benefit from this upheaval. So … not doom? Not financial collapse? Not cratered markets? Instead … a certain benefit?

Where’s the correction? Where’s the apology? How awful is corporate media? Never mind, don’t answer that. We’re still waiting for the Times to apologize for years of describing Stalin’s forced starvation plan as a heroic public works project. I wouldn’t even use the Times for toilet paper. You could catch rectal tuberculosis.

Here are facts. The US went from zero LNG exports to world leader in only 10 years. Our very first LNG cargo shipped from Sabine Pass in February, 2016— and Trump 1.0 accelerated it. Fortune projected our export capacity will double again by 2030. (“U.S. natural gas exporters literally answer Asia’s calls for ‘help’ from the Iran war, but aid can’t come ‘overnight.’”) Reuters reported that Europe “has instead become heavily dependent on the U.S., which supplied nearly 60% of the bloc’s LNG in 2025.”

Last week, the Washington Post admitted the same dynamic, causing Asian and European markets to drop “sharply”:

The same week that the NYT conceded it would be a “windfall,” Reuters reported Europe is scaling back “climate goals” to handle the energy crisis. Chickens, meet roost. The countries that bet on windmills over pipelines are now the ones desperately buying American gas at premium prices. They funded their own green transition with cheap Persian Gulf gas—and now that it’s gone, they’re funding America’s windfall instead. The only thing that changed was the address for payment.

The windfall isn’t a blip. Even in the rosiest scenario —a ceasefire next week, and the Strait reopens— the damage to Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility alone guarantees years of elevated demand for US gas. And the long-term contracts Europe and Asia are signing right now with US exporters will lock in that money flow well beyond the war. Thank you for your patronage.

🔥 This is the Coffee & Covid magic, our secret sauce, the fruits of our combined efforts these last six years. I ran that theory yesterday morning. By noon, other influencers were running similar stories. By evening, the Times threw in the towel on its favorite war narrative.

See? We slew the media’s “chaos/doom” narrative. And now the corporate media is grudgingly admitting that the war will produce a “windfall” for the United States. That might not morally justify the war, but it does modify the calculation a bit, right?

The story also admitted that Western Europe and East Asia are frantically “scouring the globe” for gas. In other words, the windmill-loving countries most opposing de-globalization are panicked, distracted, and definitely notenjoying any windfalls. Globalist energy policy meant outsourcing their energy supply to the cheapest foreign producer, instead of developing their own— which worked great right up until somebody closed the Strait their gas ships pass through.

In fact —this is the most important point, which the Times studiously ignored— is that the globalist countries are the same ones funding the United States’windfall. Their frantic efforts to find gas inevitably force them to queue up at the pickup window of Uncle Sam’s Discount Energy Warehouse. And their energy dependency arose directly from their own globalist policies. They have no one to blame but themselves. As President Trump tried to warn themduring Trump 1.0.

That giant sucking sound is money flowing from Europe directly to the United States— right as the AI datacenter revolution kicks off with gusto. All thanks to Trump attacking Iran and its predictably “closing” the Strait of Hormuz. And now the Times has been forced to resentfully admit it isn’t a doom loop for the US, but a windfall.

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Meanwhile, a new doom loop appeared in US domestic politics, in the form of the nation’s most oleaginous Governor, Gavin Newsom, who departs Sacramento this November as his term expires. (We can’t wait.) Early last week, the BBC reported, “Trump says presidents ‘should not have learning disabilities’ as he mocks Newsom’s dyslexia.” Well? Is he wrong? Or is the presidency just another position that should be available to specially-abled, neurodivergent people? What if future president Newsom reads the nuclear codes backwards?

CLIP: Trump says “look, I don’t want a low-IQ person with a mental disability to be president, okay?” (0:52).

It all began on a book tour. (Did you know Governor Newsom wrote a book? Me neither.) He left the French Laundry to do an appearance with Atlanta’s Mayor Andre Dickens. Speaking to a predominantly black audience, he recalled his lifelong struggle with dyslexia, and then made it a thousand timesworse. Addressing the mostly black audience directly, he quipped, “I’m like you. You’ve never seen me read a speech, because I cannot read a speech.”

KAPOW. It was possible the most horrifying sentence ever uttered by a sitting governor. It was like he’d just downed two Old Fashioneds chased with a vodka-and-Red-Bull right before going live. Staff members were already on LinkedIn updating their resumes. In a few short words, he admitted both that he can’t read, and also that he thinks black people can’t read either. What else does, “I’m like you” mean?

Corporate media studiously ignored the gaffe, which would have ended any Republican’s career. Conservative media had a fun time with it. But when it comes to his least-favorite governor who also plans a 2028 presidential run, well, that kind of self-inflicted injury was pure catnip to President Trump.

In a March 11th rally in Kentucky, President Trump told attendees that Newsom “admitted he has mental problems” and said a person with learning disabilities shouldn’t be president. He called Newsom “a low-IQ person” and a racist. About a week later, in an Oval Office interview, he doubled down. “Honestly,” the President said, “I’m all for people with learning disabilities, but not for president.”

Governor Hairdo, who’d been busily ignoring the scandal (aided by compliant trad-media reporters), couldn’t take it anymore. He finally responded —which was his second mistake— shooting back, “I spoke about my dyslexia, I know that’s hard for a brain-dead moron who bombs children and protects pedophiles to understand.”

Engaging with Trump was the dumbest thing Newsom could’ve done, which promptly proved Trump’s point.

This week, at Thursday’s live-streamed cabinet meeting, in a rambling answer to a totally unrelated question, Trump meandered back to Governor Newsom. “He said he’s mentally incompetent,” the President patiently explained. “He can’t read a speech. He said things about his brain. This was the worst interview for a professional politician I’ve ever seen.” Trump wasn’t even close to done. “He admits that he suffers from mental disability. And I think it’s fine. I just don’t want it in a president. We have enough problems. We just had that, by the way.”

That allowed Trump to segue into the various mental deficiencies of Sleepy Joe Biden, Kooky Kamala, and even Barack H. Obama. “The Democrats have gone crazy,” he concluded. “We can’t take any more of that.”

It was classic Trump. In three quick rounds, he escalated Newsom’s dyslexia to “mental problems,” then “mental disability,” then “mentally incompetent”— a la Biden 2.0.

The 2028 campaign ads write themselves.

🔥 Corporate media rushed to defend poor little Gavin from the President’s mean tweets. The narrative was, “Trump meanly attacks disabled people.” Podcaster Anderson Cooper called it “just about the cruelest thing” he’d ever seen. Think of that. To Anderson, it was even crueller than the senseless murder of a defenseless 18-year-old girl on a Chicago pier. The slimy New York Times platformed quotes insisting that “dyslexia is Gavin Newsom’s superpower.” The LA Times harped that Trump’s attack “proves the president’s incompetence.”

But hang on a minute. Just two years ago, in May, 2024, while Democrat Robert F. Kennedy was running as a third-party presidential candidate, the New York Times breathlessly broke an exclusive story. It reported that, in a twelve-year-old divorce deposition from 2012, Kennedy had explained a prior medical incident where a “worm got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

That Times exclusive metastasized into a flock of media vultures pecking at “Kennedy’s Brain Worm.” Wall-to-wall stories demanded, “Is he fit for office?” Late-night ‘comedians’ ran with it for weeks. The NYT, WaPo, and CNN all questioned his cognitive fitness. It was framed as conclusive evidence that Kennedy was unqualified to be the nation’s chief executive officer.

Nobody said, “how dare you mock someone’s private medical condition.” Nobody called it cruel. Nobody called the brain worm “Kennedy’s superpower.”

Now compare how gracefully Robert Kennedy reacted to that tsunami of spiteful vermiform coverage, against how clumsily Gavin Newsom handled Trump’s teasing last week. Instead of calling anyone names, Kennedy made a self-deprecating joke about it, immediately disarming his alleged disability. “I offer to eat five more brain worms,” he tweeted, “and still beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate.”

Well, the worm has now turned for Gavin Newsom, and he’s already failing the challenge, even with a compliant media baiting his hooks for him.

I’ll make an early prediction. This might not seem like much, but barring a political miracle, Gavin Newsom is finished. There will be no 2028 run. Just like that.

Have a blessed Sunday! Thank you, as ever, for your continuing loyal support, which is helping us win the war against fake narratives and false psyops. Tune back in tomorrow morning, when we’ll unravel a whole new roundup of essential news and commentary.