‘I am more than grateful:’ Millions of Americans over 50 may benefit from Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan (CNN)

Border Patrol issues warning following 9 migrant deaths, asks migrants to ‘please avoid crossing illegally’  Well, then, problem solved!

Parents struggling with inflation: ‘I left that $25 backpack for my preschooler at the checkout.’ (CNN)

Over 50 Biden Administration Employees, 12 US Agencies Involved In Social Media Censorship Push: Documents

Watch: Drone Captures Images Of Mexican Drug Cartel Camp

Biden Hits New Low for Offshore, Federal Land Drilling Permits

Student Debt Relief: Reparations for Rich White People  He’s got the black vote, he needs to buy the white vote, somehow.

Lib Prof on MSNBC: Biden’s Speech Was Too ‘1776,’ Excluded Blacks and Native Americans

Biden Keeps a Promise—To Screw American Motorists

Biden Explains We Can Only Come Together As A Nation By Exterminating The Republican Half (Babylon Bee)

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Government institutions are in the business of making things worse in order to collect more money to make them better. We declared war on poverty and impoverished ourselves. After promising to fix homelessness, the streets are covered in needles and human waste.

Nowhere is this truer than in education.

Education results are inversely proportional to the amount of money spent on them. New York has the highest per pupil spending at $25,645 and the second lowest literacy rate in the country. Utah has the lowest per pupil spending in the nation and a 90% literacy rate.

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This Labor Day, you may see headlines about a supposed “boom” in union organizing, and while high-profile union campaigns against well-known companies like Starbucks and Amazon have generated buzz, Department of Labor numbers showed unions lost 241,000 members last year.

Less likely to make headlines is a trend Big Labor’s cheerleaders wish to ignore: the significant increase in efforts by workers seeking to remove long-entrenched unions from their workplaces.

Employees across the country have submitted a wave of petitions to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), asking the federal agency to schedule votes to remove unpopular unions, a process known as “decertification.”

In fact, according to the NLRB’s own data on petitions for elections to either install or remove a union, a unionized private-sector worker is more than twice as likely to be involved in a decertification effort as a similar nonunion worker is to be involved in efforts to unionize his or her employer.

American labor law is founded on three assumptions: (1) All employers want to oppress their workers to the extent that they can get away with it; (2) The only way workers can resist such oppression is to join a union, which naturally they all want to do; and (3) it’s the government’s job to favor unions (the Good Guys) and hinder employers (the Bad Guys). (The Marxist origin of this attitude is readily apparent.) As a result, American labor law is designed to favor unions, shackle companies, and entrench unions (once in place) so that they can never be removed.

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If a politician from Florida decides to run for president in 2024, his (or her) home state will be short two votes in the Electoral College, and when the new session of the U.S. House of Representatives convenes in January 2023, Florida will be missing two congressional seats to which it is entitled.

Why? Because according to a post-2020 census survey, the U.S. Census Bureau significantly undercounted the population of Florida, as well as Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. At the same time, it overcounted the population of eight states, all but one of which is a blue state.

Why Biden’s speech was among ‘the most disgusting speeches’ ever: Ron DeSantis

Think Biden’s student loan write-offs are unfair? Just take a look at the fine print

Judge sides with Biden in narrow ruling over oil lease pause in Wyoming (The Hill)

Why Pennsylvania is so personally, politically important to ‘Scranton Joe’ (The Hill)

The Overreach Of The Biden Administration Has Led To The Dropping Of The Executive Mask

Biden attempts an Emily Litella for the entire thrust of his MAGA threat speech

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Elizabeth Warren must be a fool. That, or she thinks the rest of us are fools.

The Senator recently took to CNN to publicly fret over the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes. She’s worried they will tip the economy into recession.

What’s Warren afraid of? Her fears have already come true.

The U.S. economy already is in a recession. GDP data alone shows the economy contracted in both the first and second quarter of 2022.

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and her multimillionaire husband, Paul Pelosi, saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling their shares in Nvidia about one month before the U.S. government placed restrictions on the tech company, causing its stock price to plummet.

My, wasn’t she lucky. Maybe she could give Hillary some advice on cattle futures.

Republicans are readying lawsuits to block Biden’s student debt plan (Washington Post)

FEMA To Cover El Paso Costs Of Busing Illegal Immigrants To New York, Official Says

Student Debt Relief — Reparations for Rich White People

Biden is disgracing the institution of the prime-time presidential address (Washington Post)

3 Biden Lies About His Student Debt Bailout Scheme

Divider-in-Chief? Biden Warns Trump Loyalists Are Taking US ‘Backwards’

Time to name names: Joe Biden campaigned in 2020 against opening schools

Called It: EVEN White House Reporters Were Unsold Biden Speech Wouldn’t Be ‘Political’

IRS Official in Charge of 87,000 New Agents Played Key Role in Obama-Era Targeting Scandal

50 House Dems, Republicans Demand Iran Nuke Deal Transparency From Biden

House Republicans Ask Zuckerberg for Documents Related to FBI and Suppressed Hunter Biden Story

CNN Touts Bidens ‘Full Frontal Attack’ on GOP, ‘Reclaiming Patriotism’

Biden Condemns Fascism In Speech While Also Debuting Attractive New Mustache  (Babylon Bee)

Biden’s Hateful Rhetoric Against Americans Presents GOP With A Sterling Opportunity

‘Chutzpah!’ Bloomberg Propagandist Claim Biden Econ Has ‘Best Growth Record Since Bill Clinton’  I think not.

MAGA Republicans are seething with rage because Biden hit his target (Washington P0st) I guess his target was Nuremburg.

Biden’s Policies Fueling Illegal Immigration Crisis, Border Patrol Chief Says in Deposition

Presidential Hocus-Pocus Saves Planet. Reality Check Begs to Differ.

Group Says Michigan Sec. of State Paid Election Officials With Zuckerberg Cash

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A T-shirt that was popular with veterans for much of America’s nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan showed a helicopter in flight with the caption We Were Winning When I Left. U.S. generals seem to be the only ones who didn’t get the joke. On the first anniversary of our botched withdrawal, the military leaders most responsible for America’s disastrous outcome in Afghanistan have continued to loudly insist that the war was winnable when they were in charge, and that responsibility for the debacle must lie with someone else.

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There are 1,271 counterterrorist, homeland security, and intelligence organizations; 1,931 private sector analogues; 10,000 locations of these organizations; and ~854,000 people with top-secret security clearances as of 2010. To make matters worse, the line between private and public is obscure in this industry.

This massive effort requires massive tax collection. Since government endeavors do not compete and do not participate in reciprocal exchanges, then they have no profit-and-loss test to determine if their efforts are worth the money taken from citizens. Additionally, since only the free market can determine prices, government endeavors must continually disseminate propaganda to convince citizens that the endeavor is useful.

Minnesota bail fund promoted by Kamala Harris freed convict now charged with murder

Border Patrol agents slam Karine Jean-Pierre’s ‘ignorant’ claim that illegal immigrants not ‘walking’ across

Pompeo: Karine Jean-Pierre’s border claim ‘was nothing short of a lie’

White House Doubles Down on ‘Semi-fascism’ Comments

Video Report: New Top IRS Official Targeted Conservatives

Biden to Award Troops Involved in Afghanistan Withdrawal  Unit citations are traditionally awarded to troops who have been fucked over in some way. It’s cheaper than money–or doing the right thing.

“Worse Than Couple Years Ago:” Food Bank Demand Spikes As Inflation Wrecks Households

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Favors More Energy Costs for All

IRS Sent Over $1 Billion In Stimulus Checks To Locked Up Criminals, Including Murderers

Fed Paper Admits Central Bank Can’t Control Inflation; Finger-Points At Federal Government

White House to Encourage COVID Boosters, Flu Shot This Fall  This is news?

Prisoners Got at Least $1.3B in COVID-19 Stimulus Checks: IRS

Continuing Jobless Claims Hit 5-Month-Highs

IRS Demands Woman Pay $2 Million Over Money From Father Who Fled Nazis

Biden Claims He Will Combat Climate Change, Fight Inflation, And Pay Off All Your Debts Using This Packet Of Magic Beans  (Babylon Bee)

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The gall of Joe “Antifa” Biden, wrapping himself in the blue, after the anti-cop violence and defund-police movement he slyly egged on during the 2020 BLM/antifa riots. The breakdown of law and order in our cities is the consequence.

Now he’s back to posing as a big champion of cops, an anti “semi-fascist” (AntiSeFa?) attempting to turn the tables on the party of law and order with wildly dishonest rhetoric that is as frightening as it is absurd.

It would be easy to laugh it off as the blathering of a spiteful, increasingly incoherent, angry old man.

But what Biden and the pup­peteers who guide him are doing is very sinister. They appear to be preparing the ground for an even harsher crackdown on his political opponents by the security state, which has become, to all appearances, his secret police.

China shuts down counter-drug talks with U.S., fueling fears of more overdose deaths

Working-class Latinos are bailing out the wealthy with Biden’s student-loan payoff

DOJ says Trump team likely ‘concealed and removed’ classified docs at Mar-a-Lago (NBC)

Justice Department says classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were likely ‘concealed and removed’ to block investigation (CNN) At least, that’s the Narrative.

Credentialist Privilege and Snobbery, and Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’

White House claimed people aren’t illegally ‘walking’ across border, footage shows the opposite

“Two US officials” now saying Thibault wasn’t fired

Kamala’s Word-Salad-Shooter Strikes Again

Taliban Celebrate Anniversary of Foreign Troop Withdrawal  “Thanks for all the weapons! We really appreciate it!”

Baby Wipes Used To Smuggle $12 Million In Cocaine Across Border

Allegations of political bias, widespread misconduct prompt FBI agents to call for Wray to step down

The Media Avoid Every Biden Policy Fiasco

Feds Pinpoint Nearly 30K Mexican Passport Holders With Middle Eastern Names in Fraud Investigation

DOJ Alleges ‘Obstructive Conduct’ Occurred At Mar-A-Lago, Opposes Special Master

The Media Avoids Every Biden Fiasco

U.S. Government Vows To Find Out Who Is Responsible For Giving Out All Of These Predatory U.S. Government Loans  (Babylon Bee)

US Diesel Prices Are Back Above $5

CBS’s Biden Propaganda Streak Drags on to Tout GOP Giving ‘Biden an Opening’ on Crime

4 More Reasons to Be Mad About Biden’s Student Loan Debt Amnesty

Taliban Parades US Military Gear in Celebration of Afghanistan Withdrawal Anniversary

5 Reasons Biden’s Student Loan Scheme Is Terrible, Corrupt Idea

Johns Hopkins Economist WARNS of Coming ‘Whopper’ Recession, Despite Lib Media Downplaying

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People cry at airports all the time. So when Jai Cooper heard sobbing from the back of the security line, it didn’t really faze her. As an officer of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), she had gotten used to the strange behavior of passengers. Her job was to check people’s travel documents, not their emotional well-being.

But this particular group of tearful passengers presented her with a problem. One of them was in a wheelchair, bent over with her head between her knees, completely unresponsive. “Is she okay? Can she sit up?” Cooper asked, taking their boarding passes and IDs to check. “I need to see her face to identify her.”

“She can’t, she can’t, she can’t,” said the passenger who was pushing the wheelchair.

Soon, Cooper was joined at her station by a supervisor, followed by an assortment of EMTs and airport police officers. The passenger was dead. She and her family had arrived several hours prior, per the airport’s guidance for international flights, but she died sometime after check-in. Since they had her boarding pass in hand, the distraught family figured that they would still try to get her on the flight. Better that than leave her in a foreign country’s medical system, they figured.

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I’m in.

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be subject to an Article 32 Hearing under the provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for his conduct and statements as memorialized in the Bob Woodward book “Peril,” and the Aug. 8, 2022, New Yorker magazine excerpt of a forthcoming book by Susan B. Glasser and Peter Baker.

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Gen. Milley called his communist Chinese military counterpart in October 2020 and January 2021 with unauthorized promises and assurances of advanced warnings of U.S. military intentions and actions. America learned of these contacts through the book “Peril,” authored by Mr. Woodward and Robert Costa. In the book, Gen. Milley is quoted as saying, “General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be OK. We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.” And then, reportedly, Gen. Milley said this: “General Li, you and I have known each other for five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”

Gen. Milley admitted to making the calls. A spokesman for Gen. Milley stated that Gen. Milley acted within his authority as the senior military adviser to the president and the secretary of defense, yet Gen. Milley failed to consult any civilian authority, a fact confirmed by Christopher Miller, the former acting secretary of defense, and by former President Donald Trump.

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As the Biden administration continues its attempts to consolidate power within the federal government and among its leftist allies, there’s a familiar face being tapped to lead Biden’s effort to surge power, resources, and agents to the IRS — and she has quite the track record of working to target conservative groups and organizations.

One of Lois Lerner’s lackeys from the Obama-era IRS scandal — one that saw the agency target conservative and tea party affiliated groups as a political arm of the Obama-Biden administration — will be leading the Biden administration’s expansion of the IRS and stated goal of hiring 87,000 new agents.

Nikole Flax, who most recently served as the deputy commissioner in charge of the IRS’ Large Business & International Division, has been with the IRS since 2008. According to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, Flax will be leading “the creation of a new, centralized office for implementation of all IRS-related provisions” outlined in the boondoggle falsely named the “Inflation Reduction Act.” There’s little Democrats love more than a chance to work on “centralized” anything within the federal government.

Oh boy.

Boebert Says Biden Robbing Americans to Fund ‘Lesbian Dance Theory’ Degrees (Newsweek)

U.S. energy secretary urges refiners not to increase fuel exports (Reuters) Yeah, we can’t help out the Europeans, our allies, who have explicitly asked for help.

Jesse Watters: This is why the DOJ didn’t want to release the Mar-a-Lago affidavit

‘Isn’t Biden the Greatest?’ Slobbers MSNBC Analyst, Says Judge ‘Pandering’ to Trump!

The madness of slow Joe, Iran edition

CHAOS: One Year of the Networks Hiding Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster

DOJ: Some Seized Trump Docs Covered by Attorney-Client Privilege

Ex-FBI Intel Chief Says DOJ Has “No Case” Against Trump

FBI Said it ‘Routinely’ Works with Social Media Companies to Censor ‘Threat Info’: Report

Meet the Conspiracy Theorist Advising Joe Biden on the Intelligence Community

Joe Biden picks Hunter laptop denier for presidential intelligence board

Will Joe Biden’s gamble on big oil pay off in leveling gas prices? (The Guardian) When the price goes up, suppliers produce more. That the effect of the market. Nothing Biden did had any beneficial effect.

Falling Military Recruitment Is Another Sign Of Waning Faith In The Regime

Florida Dem Dodges CNN Anchor’s Question About Biden

Low Fuel Inventories Cause Special Concern in US Northeast

Sharpie Scores Huge Endorsement Deal With FBI (Babylon Bee)

Karine Jean-Pierre clashes with CNN’s Don Lemon on Biden’s ‘semi-fascism’ jab against GOP

Why the U.S. military faces a growing recruiting crisis (CNBC) Vaccine mandates, wokeness, bias in favor of females and minorities–it’s a puzzler, alright.

Biden Energy Secretary Quietly Bullies US Refiners To Reduce European Fuel Exports

Morning Joe Surprisingly Skeptical Of Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

Retired FBI boss disassembles Trump search warrant: Feds ‘going to regret this’

Biden just used the f-word — and he’s correct (Washington Post) Dana Milbank loses his shit.

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In case you want to take a look.

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It has been evident that the Biden Justice Department is out to get James O’Keefe and Project Veritas since O’Keefe et al. were raided last year under federal search warrants procured by the FBI. Although O’Keefe was instructed to remain mum, the authorities promptly leaked news of the raid to the New York Times. All this in the matter of Ashley Biden’s diary. We have followed the story in more than 25 posts accessible here.

The national security establishment has treated Ashley Biden’s diary as a federal case. They have leaked confidential information to Times reporters including Adam Goldman and Michael Schmidt, both of whom promoted Russia hoax stories that won Pulitzer Prizes. Ashley Biden’s diary is now subject to the Russia hoax treatment, both within the Biden Department of Justice and at its Times public relations arm.

Biden’s Illegal Boondoggle Giveaway

Protect the Biden diary, suppress the Biden laptop

Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness is Wrong. Here’s How to Handle College Debt Instead. (Politico)

DHS issues new DACA rule (The Hill)

Biden administration moves to formalize DACA and shield it from legal challenges

Biden Evades Fairness Query on Debt Forgiveness, Swipes at Trump Tax Cuts

Nets Hype Biden Student Loan Bailout, Omit Pelosi’s Criticism

4.9 Million Illegal Aliens Crossed US Border In 18 Months Since Biden Took Office: Report

Thanks to Biden, Americans Who Never Attended College Still Have to Pay for It

Biden’s student loan announcement is a regressive, expensive mistake (Washington Post)

Netanyahu: Emerging Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Terrible,” Even Worse Than Under Obama

Democrats Hesitant to be Seen With Biden

Q2 GDP Revised Higher To -0.6%, As Price Index Soars To Highest Since March 1981

Obama’s Chief Economic Advisor Blasts Biden’s “Reckless” Student Debt Bailout

Pelosi Changes Tune on Biden’s Ability to Forgive Student Loan Debt

Doocy, CBS Reporter Battle Stammering Jean-Pierre on Student Loan Wipeout

“Does It Even Matter If The Fed Hikes 50 Or 75bps? It Won’t Prevent The Multiple Trainwrecks Coming Our Way”

Biden, Democrats Received Millions From Education Sector

DHS Axes Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board After MRC Exposed Soros Link

CNN Admits Canceling Student Debt Is Legally Dubious, Increases Inflation

FBI Agents Were Told Not to Look Into Hunter Biden’s Laptop, Whistleblowers Say

Video Report: Biden Admin. to Face Stiff Legal Challenges Over Student Loan Bailout  Don’t go spending that money just yet, kiddies.

Man Recalls Harrowing Moment When Government Agents Forced Him To Sign $100K Loan At Gunpoint  (Babylon Bee)

Rasmussen Poll: Majority of Voters Think DOJ Politicized

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President Biden today announced a set of changes to student loans – including cancellation of up to $20,000 for some borrowers – that will cost between $440 billion and $600 billion over the next ten years, with a central estimate of roughly $500 billion. Combined with today’s announcement, the federal government’s actions on student loans since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have cost roughly $800 billion. Of that amount, roughly $750 billion is due to executive action and regulatory changes made by the Biden Administration.

 

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Student debt forgiveness is personal for the Biden administration. About one in five of the White House aides required to file a financial disclosure, as Bloomberg News previously noted, reported owing student debt. Collectively, those 30 senior White House staffers owe as much as $4.7 million. Those personal finances are not unusual in the nation’s capital.

There is more outstanding student debt in Washington than in any other city in the country. The average debtor in D.C., according to a 2021 breakdown by the small business analyst, AdvisorSmith, owes $54,982 in unpaid student loans. This includes many political staffers at the Department of Education, senior advisors as well as junior aides who moved to that agency from the Biden campaign.

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In 2021, the U.S. government spent $6.8 trillion on various expenditures and government-aided programs. Where was this money spent, and how much was covered by taxpayers’ dollars?

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For years, the McConnell and Chao families have cultivated a relationship that enriches the couple and grants status to the Chaos’ shipping company.

Joe Biden expected to announce $10,000 student loan forgiveness program Wednesday: report  Buying votes ahead of the mid-terms with YOUR money.

Thomas Kahn: Why canceling so many student loans is a mistake (Chicago Tribune)

Six reasons Biden should not cancel student debt (The Hill)

Biden Has Released 250,000 Unaccompanied Illegal Immigrant Children Into The US

Constitutional Lawyers Argue Mar-a-Lago Warrant Had No Legal Basis

The Numbers Don’t Lie; The Fed Won’t Win This Inflation Fight  Not while they keep printing money.

Growing Number Of Economists Anticipate Recession Will Hit By Middle Of Next Year: Survey

DeSantis: Florida Not Busing Because Biden Won’t Send Migrants

Watch: Biden Announces Student Loan Relief Which Will Mostly Benefit Top Earners

New FBI whistleblower claims bureau leadership slow-walked Hunter Biden investigation

Must Defend Big Brother: NYT, WashPost, Politico Whore Themselves Out to IRS

Highway Robbery: Biden Administration Uses Infrastructure Spending for Partisan Political Benefit  My, what a surprise.

Kelly D Johnston: Why Are Working-Class Americans Paying For Your Student Loan “Forgiveness?”

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Most of the money from President Joe Biden’s massive infrastructure bill is being handed out this summer and fall, nearly a year after passage, just in time for a campaign season he hopes will keep his fellow Democrats in power. But his team’s task is getting people to pay attention — and give them credit for what they did.

So it had more to do with buying votes for Democrats with taxpayer dollars than any of its stated purposes.

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We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long-lasting effects on that child’s outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 birthdate cutoff for U.S. child-related tax benefits, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of life. For the average low-income single-child family in our sample this difference amounts to roughly $1,300, or 10 percent of income. Using the universe of administrative federal tax data in selected years, we show that this transfer in infancy increases young adult earnings by at least 1 to 2 percent, with larger effects for males. These effects show up at earlier ages in terms of improved math and reading test scores and a higher likelihood of high school graduation. The observed effects on shorter-run parental outcomes suggest that additional liquidity during the critical window following the birth of a first child leads to persistent increases in family income that likely contribute to the downstream effects on children’s outcomes. The longer-term effects on child earnings alone are large enough that the transfer pays for itself through subsequent increases in federal income tax revenue.

Note that the ‘cash transfer’ in question is a refund, the government graciously giving back money that had been withheld from the parents’ income during the year.

Ex-FBI Agent Pleads Guilty To Destroying Evidence

Biden Misled Public On Afghanistan; New GOP Report Finds

As the FBI comes under threat, its leader tries to stay out of fray (Washington Post)

Report: Nearly 5M Migrants Have Crossed Southern Border During Biden Tenure  And New York and Chicago are losing their shit because Texas shipped them 8,000.

Dan Crenshaw: ‘I Support’ Abbott’s Busing of Migrants to NYC

Sen. Blackburn: FBI Mar-A-Lago Raid Has Americans Worrying ‘They Can Do it to Me’ Yup, they sure can.

The Return Of Peter Strzok: How A Fired FBI Official Is Making The Case Against Himself

Watch: Border Patrol Unlocking Gates For Illegals; Rand Paul Says Time For “Zero Tolerance Policy”

CNN Spins Decline in Sky High Gas Prices as “$100-a-Month Raise” for Americans

And let’s not forget the Iran deal

Polls: FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago Has Amped Up GOP Voters for Midterms

ABC & CBS Rediscover Biden Border Crisis, NBC Ignores

Mexican Authorities Stop Tractor-Trailer Carrying 150 People

‘Biden’s Gestapo’? Trump Raid Hurts Voter Trust in FBI

Revolving Door: Jill Biden Reportedly Looking to Hire NBC Exec, Partner of State Dept Spox  In Britain, this is called ‘Jobs For The Boys’.

How The US Made Inflation Worse

The Tragic Betrayal of Afghan Women a Year After Biden’s Botched Troop Withdrawal

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 7

Rep. Arrington to Newsmax: Biden Ceding Southern Border to ‘Narco-Terrorist Cartels’

The Border Goes North, and Blue City Mayors Melt Down

Border Patrol opens gate locked by Texas National Guard to allow illegal immigrants to enter

Texas rancher moves family to Louisiana after migrant incidents, says Biden has ‘destabilized the border’

NPR/IPSOS Poll: Majority Believes Border Invasion Underway

How America’s Unsecured Border Contributes to Fentanyl Crisis, Deaths

Report: Texas Funeral Home Will No Longer Accept Bodies of Migrants

Daily Mail.

America’s wealthiest, including Tom Brady, Khloe Kardashian, Reese Witherspoon, Kanye and Nancy Pelosi’s husband took millions in PPP loans – and nearly all have been forgiven.

Let’s see: I don’t know about Tom Brady, but I’m pretty Khloe Kardashian, Reese Witherspoon, Kanye, and Nancy Pelosi’s husband are Democrats….

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The same Florida magistrate who approved the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home will decide on Thursday if we can see why he approved it. We’d like to check his work, you understand. Because it looks like the FBI is up to its old tricks again. Indeed, the FBI’s supposed “leaker” who complained about Trump’s document cache seems to have obliterated the excuses we’ve heard for the raid and laid bare the sole reason behind it: get Trump.

Meet the GOP’s future king of Biden investigations (Politico)

CIA Director Employed Chinese Communist Party Members While Heading Elite Think Tank: Report

FBI and DHS warn of increased threats to law enforcement and government officials after Mar-a-Lago search  (CBS) Gee, I wonder why?

The KHive Retreats as Kamala Harris’ Popularity Vanishes (Daily Beast)

Joe Who? ABC Avoids Biden’s Name in Report on ‘Sad,’ ‘Hungry’ Afghanistan

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son is the second largest investor in a Chinese tech company whose senior executive was arrested in a fraud investigation, according to DailyMail.com, raising questions about his secretive visit to Taiwan with his mother.

You thought it was all about politics, didn’t you? Foolish mortal. Follow the money.

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That costly, boxy bin is among six trash cans hitting San Francisco’s streets this summer in the city’s long saga in search of the perfect can. Overflowing trash cans are a common sight in the Northern California city, along with piles of used clothes, shoes, furniture and other items strewn about on sometimes-impassable sidewalks.

City officials hired a Bay Area industrial firm to custom-design the pricey trash can along with two other prototypes that cost taxpayers $19,000 and $11,000 each. This summer, residents have the opportunity to evaluate them along with three off-the-shelf options added to the pilot program after officials faced criticism.

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How Democrats’ insistence on ‘treating the cabinet as an identity-politics Rubik’s cube’ got us an incompetent-yet-unfireable HHS secretary.

Hunter Biden spotted enjoying beach vacation with family amid questions over business dealings, taxes

Colbert says he loves Biden, waves at him to camera in fawning interview with Karine Jean-Pierre

Marjorie Taylor Greene files articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland It’s about time somebody did.

Arizona won’t wait for feds, starts filling border wall gaps (Associated Press)

The madness of slow Joe, Iran edition

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 6

Mar-A-Lago Search Warrant Claims Trump Had Acquired All Six Infinity Stones (Babylon Bee)

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A Congressional Budget Office report found that the Internal Revenue Service will collect billions of dollars from auditing low- and middle-income Americans under the White House-backed “Inflation Reduction Act,” contradicting Biden administration claims, according to Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee.

Fox News confirmed the report, finding the CBO informed congressional Republicans that, under the act, audits of taxpayers making under $400,000 will account for about $20 billion in additional revenue.

Victor Davis Hanson.

The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Coordination among the authorities and the mainstream media operatives is so blatant one might conclude is so blatant as to be laughable. We miss Rush Limbaugh’s recurring demonstration of the phenomenon. The FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence is only the latest in a long line of examples. Word came down that what was once a “raid” is now a “search.”

The conformity of the talking heads is mind-boggling. The element of high-mindedness they add to their conformity is comical. Those falling into line can’t help but add a large, large dose of self-love to their humiliating compliance.

Ann Coulter.

Let’s hope Merrick Garland’s search of Mar-a-Lago is based on more evidence than his indictment of the Louisville, Kentucky, police officers involved in the raid on Breonna Taylor’s house.

That passive construction I just used — “involved in the raid on,” instead of “who raided” — is not sloppy writing: It’s the facts. The officers who actually shot Taylor have not been charged, apparently on the flimsy grounds that they were being shot at when they fired.

Instead, our lunatic attorney general has indicted officers who prepared the affidavit used to obtain the warrant to search Taylor’s home. In the words of the indictment, the affidavit “contained information that was false, misleading and out-of-date … and the officers lacked probable cause for the search.”

I am thankful that we didn’t have to suffer him being a Supreme Court Justice.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James is purporting to investigate Donald Trump’s businesses. James is obsessed with Trump, and her supposed investigation is an obvious piece of political grandstanding. She scheduled Trump for a deposition today. In Trump’s eyes, the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid was the last straw, and he announced today that he is invoking the Fifth Amendment and has declined to submit to a deposition.

Trump released a statement that is lengthy, but worth reading in its entirety:

When the government is doing a witch-hunt, anything you say can land you in jail, as Martha Stewart found out.

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Unless scores of witnesses saw Donald Trump stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone, the FBI’s raid of his Mar-a-Lago home represents an unforgivable politicization of our justice system. The proof rests in the peaceful, undisturbed abodes of Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, James Comey, Stefan Halper, Rodney Joffe and every other partisan the FBI investigated without violating the sanctuary of their homes.

On Monday, news broke that the FBI had raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Conservatives justifiably doubt that probable cause supported the search, but an even broader swath of America should see the Bureau’s raid as an affront to equal justice under the law and the weaponization of the Justice Department against its political enemies.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

What do we know? Law enforcement leaks and confirmation from the Trump side indicate that the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence indicate that the search was focused on presidential records and the possible violation of the Presidential Records Act. In her inside account of the raid, Miranda Devine puts it this way: “The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.”

The scope of the seized documents, however, may have extended well beyond the terms of the warrant. It appears that the FBI scooped up just about every document at the residence. I take it that the authorities are out to get Trump.

That seems a reasonable assumption.

The Attorney General and the FBI are not talking in public. You see, they are involved in an ongoing investigation. Confidentiality is sacred.

“[M]ultiple people familiar with the investigation” nevertheless spoke with the three New York Times reporters who wrote up the raid. Funny how that works.

Read it.

FBI agents scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe and spent several hours combing through Donald Trump’s private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers when they raided the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida Monday morning.

The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.

A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff” because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.

Appalling.