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Injustice beat: Pardon \u2018Arctic Frost\u2019 Scapegoats<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Biden administration presided over an unimaginably aggressive political witch hunt,\u201d notes Cleta Mitchell at The Federalist<\/a>, and turned the FBI into \u201cthe Stasi of the Democratic Party\u201d to \u201cvanquish their political opponents, not at the ballot box, but through lawyers, courts, and jail cells.\u201d Operation Arctic Frost \u201cwas initiated to criminalize the Trump 2020 presidential electors\u2019 actions in signing elector certificates for President Trump,\u201d at the state level, though the \u201cstate proceedings are simply proxies\u201d for federal action. \u201cThe state law violations\u201d are \u201cwholly fabricated by the Biden administration\u201d to \u201cpunish and prosecute President Trump and his electors, lawyers, and supporters.\u201d Thus, \u201cPresident Trump should immediately pardon every person indicted\u201d in this effort to \u201ccriminally charge\u201d political loyalists.<\/p>\n Libertarian: Cuomo Deserved<\/em> Humiliation<\/strong><\/p>\n Andrew Cuomo was never \u201cable to get beyond the idea that all he had to do to win was point at the other candidates and say, \u2018you\u2019re really going to vote for them?,\u2019 \u201d smirks Reason\u2019s Christian Britschgi<\/a>. Cuomo couldn\u2019t \u201cemphasize\u201d his \u201cown record of achievement and administrative acumen,\u201d partly because he spent the latter part of his governorship \u201cstumbling from one incompetence scandal after another.\u201d He had \u201cseemingly no positive agenda for New York City,\u201d and his \u201chousing policy platform was a bunch of AI-generated pablum.\u201d He fell back on \u201caristocratic entitlement.\u201d Ultimately \u201cIt\u2019s not good to see Mamdani win. But, as a consolation prize, it is good to see Cuomo lose.\u201d<\/p>\n Putin beat: Kremlin Out To Con Conservatives<\/strong><\/p>\n Vladmir Putin\u2019s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev \u201cis trying to do an end-run around Team Trump to court his conservative base,\u201d warn Mark Toth & Jonathan Sweet at The Hill<\/a>. After Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov\u2019s \u201cmaximalist negotiating approach with Team Trump failed,\u201d Dmitriev\u2019s job \u201cis to find a way back in from the cold\u201d by pretending to care about America\u2019s culture war. He recently \u201cfalsely claimed that Putin upholds \u2018traditional [conservative] values\u2019\u200a\u201d on Lara Logan\u2019s podcast. And after Zohran Mamdani\u2019s victory, he snarked \u201cGood Morning, NYC Comrades!\u201d Toth & Sweet note: \u201cOne way to bond with the American right is to warn about communists. Another is to make false claims about Russian conservative and religious values.\u201d Yet Dmitriev\u2019s \u201csole aim is to undermine U.S. support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\u201d<\/p>\n