‘Dangerous power grab’: top Democrats decry USPS system that could thwart mail-in voting – live (Dani Anguiano/The Guardian)

White House prepares for Democratic investigations (Politico)

Bad Manner: CNN’s Cornish Stacks The Deck Against Hegseth

MAGA-Curious CBS Boss Hit With Furious Staff Backlash (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast) “MAGA-curious”? (You can’t make this shit up….)

Governor Hochul Calls on the Trump Administration to Stop Defunding the Police and Deliver the $87 Million in Federal Counterterrorism Funds Still Owed to New York (Governor Kathy Hochul)  Because, as we all know, funding local police is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal governmnt—and the Federal taxpayer.

Mamdani, Hochul accuse Trump of defunding the police (Joe Anuta/Politico)  And they say it with a straight face.

Nikki Haley demands Vance ‘choose a side’ between Israel and its critics (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  Binary thinking is the first refuge of the dimwit.

‘A Shit Show’: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns That New Project Will Sow Chaos in Election (John Light/Talking Points Memo)  Certainly among Democrats trying to steal elections.

New Emails Show Greg Bovino Was Under Investigation Prior to His Retirement (Angie Orellana Hernandez/NOTUS)  The harpies of the Left will pursue you even unto the grave.

Mainstream Media Runs Spin Campaign As Deportations To Haiti Increase

Republicans aren’t exactly flocking to Trump’s midterm convention (Politico)  Because, as we all know, unless Republicans ‘flock’ to something then it’s a total repudiation.

Trump begs SCOTUS to let him unleash midterm chaos (Liz Dye/Public Notice)  Bias? What bias?

Trump aides, fearing a midterm rout, push to keep Iran war ‘quiet’ for now (Reuters)  The mind-readers at Reuters are on the case!

Trump’s boat strikes are illegal. Does it matter? (Jeffrey Stein/The Hill)  Apparently not.

“Like pissing in the wind”: Local concerns bulldozed by Trump’s border wall plan (Brittany Gibson/Axios)  I give up—since when does Axios care about ‘local concerns’?

What JD Vance’s Eruption of Rage over Usha and El-Sayed Really Reveals (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Mike Johnson, Wet Noodle (The Bulwark)

The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders” (Nick Turse/The Intercept)

Trump approves disaster relief funds for 7 red states, after denying aid to blue states (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Because they just steal it. Witness California diverting money intended for rebuilding fire-damaged homes to rent relieve for fashionable minorities. (Almost 90 percent of Americans say there is widespread corruption in government (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico))

How the Supreme Court Helps Trump Run Out the Clock (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

Trump’s Speed on the White House Ballroom Threatens to Outpace the Courts (Adam Liptak/New York Times)  OH NOES!

Tur Whines About Vance Going After El-Sayed, Ignore His Attack on VP’s Wife

Trump floats renaming Strait of Hormuz the ‘Trump Strait’ (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

‘Pitiful’: experts condemn initial US aid contribution for Nepal flood victims (Robert Tait/The Guardian)  Because, as we all know, relief for flood victims in Nepal is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power” (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)

The New Neo.

One of the drawbacks of being a Boss Babe Just Like A Man is that it makes you a target for Leftists kooks. (Be careful what you wish for….)

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I guess they’d rather you just shoot people.

But the Department of Homeland Security said it would not comply with the legislation, calling it “unconstitutional.”

“Sanctuary politicians attempting to ban our federal law enforcement from any safety equipment is despicable and a deliberate attempt to undermine and endanger our officers,” DHS said in a statement.

“To be crystal clear: we will not abide by unconstitutional bans,” DHS added.

 

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A watchdog group is pressing New York to act against the lawyer for E. Jean Carroll for allegedly failing to disclose that Democrat donor Reid Hoffman bankrolled the defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump.

In July, the National Legal and Policy Center filed a bar complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee against Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, alleging that she was not transparent about the role of Democrat megadonor Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, in bankrolling Carroll’s lawsuit.

By August, the committee dismissed the complaint without addressing the question directly.

“The dismissal was made without conducting any investigation, let alone a ‘thorough investigation’ that this committee promises to undertake for misconduct complaints,” the appeal filed by Paul Kamenar, chief counsel for the National Legal and Policy Center, says.

The appeal said the essence of the original complaint was that “Kaplan waited almost six months after the deposition of her client, E. Jean Carroll, until the eve of trial to correct Ms. Carroll’s false statement in an October 2022 deposition that she was not receiving any outside funding for her defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump.”

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Britain’s largest local authority has gone to the High Court to stop people hanging the Union Flag and the St George’s Cross from lampposts, with campaigners warning that a breach could mean up to two years behind bars.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

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Polish prosecutors are now investigating a “White Lives Matter” graffiti as a hate crime in the city of Rzeszów, with the suspects facing up to three years in prison if they are apprehended and convicted.

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A major fissure within the LGBTQ+ movement burst into public view last week when Log Cabin Republicans abandoned transgender advocacy and the Human Rights Campaign condemned the move.

Log Cabin Republicans, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, voted to remove the “T” from its advocacy. Ross Hemminger, the group’s president, announced the move in a Townhall op-ed last week.

Hemminger noted that Log Cabin Republicans added the “T” to its mission in 2015, but he attacked the transgender movement for focusing “nearly all of their efforts” on minors, rather than consenting adults.

“They push schools to teach radical gender ideology; they want biological men in women’s sports regardless of the consequences; perhaps most offensively, they support gender reassignment treatments for minors, often without the knowledge or consent of the parents, knowing full well these treatments are mostly irreversible,” he added.

“That is why, after significant discussion with our membership, our Board of Directors voted to refine Log Cabin Republicans’ national advocacy focus to concentrate specifically on issues of sexual orientation and conservative values—in other words, we are an LGB advocacy organization, as our founders envisioned and as our moral center calls us to be,” Hemminger announced.

He said the decision does not mean Log Cabin Republicans will exclude members who identify as transgender, but that the organization will focus on “issues of sexual orientation.”

Taking bets: How many of these ‘log cabin Republicans’ have ever actually voted for a Republican?

House Dems Plan Trump Probes If They Retake Control

House Democrat leaders have prepared a lengthy list of investigations they plan to launch against President Donald Trump, his family, and his administration if they regain control of the House in November, Politico reported Friday.

No doubt they have.

The Foundry.

Republican voters who see ads attacking South Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Ralph Norman as insufficiently MAGA might be surprised to learn about the major donor behind those messages.

“Ralph Norman: MAGA Traitor,” reads one ad from the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC. “Ralph Norman betrayed President [Donald] Trump by endorsing against him in 2024. … Ralph Norman is a MAGA traitor.”

So, what is the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC?

According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, the PAC received more than 88% of its funding—$6 million out of $6.78 million—from one man, Chris Larsen.

So, is Larsen a Trump donor? Far from it. He contributed $1 million worth of cryptocurrency to Future Forward, a PAC supporting then-Vice President Kamala Harris, in 2024. In May, he told Politico he was “a big believer in Gavin” Newsom for the 2028 Democrat presidential primary, and he plans to boost California’s Democrat governor “any way we can.”

Larsen in May called the PAC’s advocacy “political warfare,” according to Politico. “The worst that you want in a political fight is for your opponents to think you’re weak,” he said.

He is not the only green energy advocate backing the PAC. Mark McCall, who led the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office under President Barack Obama, contributed $200,000. Jigar Shah, who directed the same office under President Joe Biden, contributed $50,000. Michael Brune, former executive director of the Sierra Club, co-founded the PAC.

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Tim Pool explains what is going on.

Just as the old Soviet Union didn’t bother to follow its own laws and constitution, Minnesota Democrats appear to think that they can ignore the law and constitution whenever it benefits a Magic Negro.

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The Endangerment Finding (EF) is the completely absurd piece of regulatory overreach by which the Obama EPA in December 2009 purported to determine that the trace atmospheric gas carbon dioxide was a “danger to human health and welfare.” That action may have been absurd, but it was by no means benign. CO2 is a principal product of all combustion of fossil fuels. Following on the EF, EPA and other government agencies in the Obama and then Biden Administrations set out to use the EF as the basis to transform our entire energy economy — suppressing drilling, blocking pipelines, forcing closure of power plants, outlawing combustion cars and gas heat and stoves, and much, much more.

In Trump’s first term, EPA never chose to take on the EF; but in Trump’s second term the agency got right to work on the job of rescission, and issued the final rule rescinding the first part of the EF (as to motor vehicle emissions) on February 13, 2026. By February 18, progressive NGOs were already in court (D.C. Circuit) seeking to block the rescission.

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I see Jew hatred as the one unifying force in America today, and it’s growing. I think people are fed up with tolerating every aberration of human behavior and law — the trans movement, multi-culturalism, tattoos. nose rings, pink hair, gay marriage, abortion rights, birthright citizenship — and long to openly display some good old fashioned, widely and historically acceptable form of hate.

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On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, between coverage of the previous night’s primary elections, the show decided to dedicate a segment to bash the Patriot Games youth sports event and complained that the event seemed like a “MAGA Olympics.” Host Audie Cornish cited a CNN article that complained about the event, and said “many” youth participants “attend private Christian schools” and “appear to be overwhelmingly white.”

Apparently being white is a grievous moral failing. (MAGA is the Noo Jooz.)

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The evening news showed a segment of a skeptical reporter and doctor reporting on the new childhood vaccine changes. These changes affect children’s vaccine requirements before going back to school, and show a reduction or spaced injections. The changes require the usual vaccines against, measles, mumps, and other diseases as well as the modern day protections. I suspect he is following Robert Kennedy’s format, who is a specialist in this field. His extensive background in childhood vaccines and other treatments goes back a long time. The reporter and doctor kept saying “Let’s look at the science”.

However, Kennedy has been looking at the science for some time. He has also spanned a long career looking to environmental and other causes for poor health and disease, and has been an advocate for change to improve these conditions, with children being his main concern. Many of his common sense approaches are already mandatory in Europe, including push for less toxicity in our food, air and water, and less processed foods.

Kennedy is not against any vaccination program. He however, began looking into increases in not only autism in our country, but possible links to the many shots that are given to children and babies all at once. This I believe, is why President Trump is recommending spacing out the vaccine program for children. The reporter and doctor’s poor assessment that parents will have to make more than one doctor visit to complete the vaccines is ridiculous. There are common sense reasons for not loading a child’s immune system with shots that contain multiple vaxxes, anymore than it makes sense to combine, flu, Covid and other vaccines into one shot for adults.

If there is an allergic reaction to one vaccine, how do they determine which, if injected with several, in a one-stop shop vaccine? In my youth, I had to get a TB shot, and one for polio, and other diseases for school. I had a scar on my arm for one, and had to drink a pink concoction from a small cup for another. Today, babies and children receive up to 72 plus vaccines from birth to age 18.

Newsbusters.

It’s summer, which means it is time for actor Anthony Anderson to guest host ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and call Republicans racists. On Monday, Anderson welcomed Rep. Jasmine Crockett to the show to help him continue his ignoble tradition.

Anderson introduced Crockett by playing a montage of what he considered to be her greatest hits, “Our next guest continues to distinguish herself as one of the most outspoken and plainspoken members of the U.S. Congress.”

Yet Another Crooked Ugly Racist Black Female Democrat Politician.

House Democrats Plot Trump Probes if They Win  Of course they do. Trump might even notice, if they come up with something new, which they rarely do.

How everyday Americans are forced to fund Trump’s corruption (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)

Senate Confirms Todd Blanche As Attorney General Despite All His Corruption (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

CNN Rants: Trump’s ‘Department of Grievance’ Will Wrongly Prosecute Fauci  That’s what he was elected to do (among other things).

In Confirming Blanche, Senators Endorse a Justice Dept. Under Trump’s Sway (Glenn Thrush/New York Times)  God forbid that the Justice Department be under the ‘sway’ of the President. I guess people have forgotten about Eric Holder and Merrick Garland.

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In the heart of the Oxford Union, a supposed bastion of open debate, a single brown paper envelope triggered pure panic.

Commentator Laurence Fox stood to argue that the West is right to be suspicious of Islam. He held up the envelope and indicated it contained a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad. The chamber erupted in frantic attempts to stop him opening it. Rules were suddenly invoked. Relevance was questioned. Respect was demanded.

The Muslim president of the Union interjected that her very presence should have been enough to persuade Fox that Muslims believe in free speech.

“My wife asked me not to show this for fear of repercussions for my family,” Fox said. “But I told her that if I did not, I would have submitted to Islam.” He continued that the West should resist Islam “in the strongest terms on free-speech grounds alone.”

Fox opened the envelope and revealed a cartoon of Rees-Mogg. Laughter and applause followed. The fear that had gripped the room evaporated the instant it became clear the image did not depict Muhammad.

In that moment the argument was settled more effectively than any speech could manage.

Trump Has Called Warsh Repeatedly Since He Became Fed Chair (Wall Street Journal)

Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Trump’s Economy Speech Veers Into an Extended Riff on Communism (Ben T.N. Mause/NOTUS)  According to the Narrative, of course, this talk about communism is totally irrelevant.

Trump Wants To Steal the Midterms – But the Dems Actually Have A Plan To Fight Back (Zeteo) Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of planning to do what they are planning to do.

Trump Is Losing the Battle With Public Opinion on Data Centers (Mara Hoplamazian/NOTUS)  As measured by the Narrative Media, of course.

At Trump’s DOJ, watchdogs gutted as misconduct complaints soar (Reuters)  Watchdog-guts all over the highway….

MS NOW Fearmongers About Trump DOJ Election Monitors  As they do.

Anti-Trump GOP Governors Plot To Undermine President’s Immigration Crackdown With Work-Visa Scheme  Democrats never forget which side they’re on. Republicans are often their own worst enemies. (New book from Tillis dubs Miller, Hegseth as ‘MAGATS’)

Our Chaos Agent President Has Another Big Card to Play (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  And the pink mind-readers  at The Bullshitwark are just the guys to spill the beans.

Trump Administration Has Repeatedly Confessed in Court to Withholding Money From Blue States (Talking Points Memo)  ‘Confessed’? Say rather ‘boasted’.

Under Trump, 90% of ambassador nominations have gone to political supporters (Washington Post)  As of the Democrats never did that.

Did MAGA Infiltrate the Green Party in Michigan? (The Bulwark)  Apparently the Michigan ‘Green Party’ is becoming so unhinged that even the pinks at The Bullshitwark are suspecting a false flag operation.

How Donald Trump Made the World Safe for Kleptocrats (Casey Michel/New Republic)  Most of whom are to be found in the Democrat party.

CBS, NBC Whine Over Trump Birth Tourism Executive Order  As they do.

Behind the Curtain: Trump’s quicksand (Axios)  Come and git yer Narrative, right here.

How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington (New York Times)  In the sense that every time he attempts to give us something good, proglodytes come along and pee all over it.

Lying Liars Lie to Each Other Too (Paul Krugman)  Case in point: Paul Krugman, the Most Wrong Man in the World.

Iran’s Hormuz deal with Oman has Trump poised for the big surrender (Nicholas Grossman/MS NOW)  The mind-readers at the former MSNBC get it wrong, as usual.

Transcript: Angry Trump Unravels as Humiliating New Iran Leaks Hit (New Republic)

O’Donnell Continues Baseless Fearmongering Over Election Monitors  As he does.

Crypto bill ethics counteroffer includes divestment requirement for Trump (Jasper Goodman/Politico)  How about a divestment requirement for Sanders, Warren, and Mamdani?

Elitist Media to MAGA: We Are Scared of You Flag-Waving, Crazy Christian Nazis

Trump Snapping Up America’s Means Of Production While He Labels Everyone Else A Communist (S.V. Date/HuffPost)  Which, compared to him, most of them are.

Team Trump uses taxpayer money to scuttle yet another renewable energy project (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  As he was elected to do.

Donald Trump Won The Iran War (James Jay Carafano/19FortyFive)

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A Liberal Democrat council has secured a High Court injunction that effectively bans the unauthorised display of the St George’s Cross and Union Flag on lampposts and public highways across an entire English county.

What began as a grassroots campaign to raise the colours of the nation has been declared a threat to community safety, with the full force of the courts now deployed against it.

Oxfordshire County Council, run by the Liberal Democrats, won its landmark case after months of legal action against the Raise the Colours campaign.

If you can’t fly your country’s flag, it isn’t your country any more.

Democrats would love to do the same in America, I have no doubt.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

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New data exposes the purest form of Trump Derangement Syndrome yet: young Americans so thoroughly programmed that they will abandon church itself rather than sit in a pew next to someone who supports the president.

A survey from the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Research Institute found that nearly half of Gen Z adults – 48 percent – say Christians’ support for Donald Trump has made them less likely to attend church.

Among strong Democrats the figure hits 76 percent. Atheists clock in at 72 percent. Even 30 to 44 percent of young people who still call themselves Christian claim the association turns them off.

I suspect that’s just a case of correlation, not causation. A lot of people call themselves Christian who aren’t, in any meaningful sense, much like the ‘trans community’.

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Hee hee hee.,…

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In January 2005, at a private conference hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard President Lawrence Summers violated a central taboo of liberal discourse. In a discussion of why men were overrepresented in tenured science and engineering positions at top universities, he suggested that one possible cause was genetic differences between the sexes.

Summers offered this as one hypothesis among others, including bias against women, the different socialisation of the sexes, and women’s lesser willingness to trade off parental care for time-consuming jobs. His point was that we must understand the causes of unequal representation before trying to change it.

But Summers’s even-handed approach was ignored in the feeding frenzy that followed. The mere suggestion that sex differences in aptitude might be innate—based on genes—was a red line crossed: Summers had raised the spectre of “genetic determinism”. Innate sex differences in aptitude or preference, according to liberal logic, will inevitably produce bias, bigotry, and discrimination—in this case against women—finally yielding inequity: unequal representation of the sexes in valued jobs.

Foolish mortal. He ought to have known better—after all, he dealt with these rabid Wokerati every day.

The Telegraph (UK).

Zack Polanski has been referred to the Metropolitan Police by Nigel Farage for sharing a post that appeared to threaten the Reform leader.

The Green Party leader posted an image of a man wearing a T-shirt with a guillotine graphic alongside the caption: “We’re only making plans for Nigel.”

Mr Polanski shared the photograph with his 700,000 Instagram followers as part of a series of images from a Green Party rally in Bristol on July 26.

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has voted to dismiss its chief prosecutor for alleged sexual misconduct.

British lawyer Karim Khan, elected in 2021, was facing serious allegations of sexual misconduct. Members—the 125-state Special Session of the Assembly of States Parties—cast 82 votes in favour of removing him, based on findings in June that he had committed a “serious breach of duty and serious misconduct,” prompting his suspension.

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The WNBA only has two real stars with any meaningful popular following – Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham. Both of them built reputations as underdogs in a sport traditionally dominated by minority players espousing far-left politics. Both of them have been mistreated in the past by a league that tends to play nursemaid to those same players.

The WNBA has long been a cultural joke, not just because its reputation for low standards of athleticism, but because they are constantly whining about “equal pay”, “social justice” and LGBT issues. The league spends so much energy on activism that they’ve forgotten about the game and the fans. No one likes a bunch of crybabies making demands.

The national interest in Caitlin Clark transcends politics; people like her because she takes the game seriously and plays at a level far above most of her peers. Her mere presence on the court now often brings in double or even triple the normal WNBA viewership.

On the other hand, Sophie Cunningham has gained a reputation as an enforcer. While Caitlin Clark is being persistently battered with flagrant fouls disguised as “accidents”, Cunningham has decided to dish out some fouls in return. The Martial Arts trained player has decided to “sweep the leg” on the league and she’s no longer letting the abuse slide.

ATQUE: USA TODAY Sports Activists Faceplant with Fake News on Caitlin Clark

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The Southern Poverty Law Center’s descent from its once-vaunted role as a sentinel against extremism has been precipitous and ironic. An organization whose “hate map” promiscuously equates parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty with neo-Nazi organizations now stands indicted by the Department of Justice on charges of wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Federal prosecutors allege that, between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled millions of donor dollars—more than $4 million by some accounts—to individuals associated with the very groups it professed to combat, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist outfits. Prepaid credit cards and shell accounts, it is said, facilitated this curious philanthropy.

To the disinterested observer, such revelations ought to suffice as a final discreditation. Yet portions of Corporate America remain stubbornly unpersuaded. Many large firms continue to rely on Benevity, a Canadian “corporate social responsibility” software provider, for employee charitable matching and donation programs.

Benevity’s platform has deployed the SPLC’s tendentious diagnostic tools—including its notorious hate map—to screen and redirect contributions away from conservative and religious nonprofits.

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The organizers of the American Diabetes Association meeting had a group of researchers removed from the event for sharing an editorial about negative impacts of policy changes to research funding.

Note that it was the ADA organizers who had the scientists removed, apparently for CrimeThink.

Quillette.

In the early 1930s, the Australian government lost a war against emus, and its present war, this time on tobacco, is heading the same way. Excessive taxation in the name of public health has backfired in extraordinary fashion, helping create a massive black market in tobacco products. This has led to an effective transfer to criminal gangs of billions of dollars of revenue previously earned by the legal tobacco industry, and a corresponding significant drop in excise tax revenue collected by the government, unprecedented violence between those gangs as they scrap over money and territory, and, to top it all off, an increase in the consumption of tobacco and nicotine..

Exhibit A. Politicians are both stupid and ignorant.

The Telegraph (UK).

Jameela Jamil has claimed British people are “the most evil in history”.

The former BBC presenter, who was born in London and is of Pakistani and Indian descent, went on to say that Britain owed “43 trillion” to India.

Hey, you could always move back….

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Irish teacher Enoch Burke has been ordered by the High Court to pay over €200,000 in fines following his refusal to comply with a request to use a student’s preferred pronouns and new name, in a case that has become one of Ireland’s most controversial legal battles over free speech and religious freedom. The controversy began in 2021, when Burke refused to comply with the directive of the principal of Wilson’s Hospital School that said teachers were “expected” to refer to a biologically female who had decided to ‘transition’ as “they.”

A good time not to be living in Ireland.

Quillette.

It is not a pretty sight.

Earlier this year, a human rights tribunal ordered a former school trustee in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Barry Neufeld, to pay a C$750,000 penalty. Tribunal officials concluded that certain statements Neufeld had made, protesting the inclusion of LGBT-related content in the school curriculum, had exhibited “hallmarks of hate.”

“Transpeople are, by definition, people ‘whose gender identity does not align with the sex assigned to them at birth,’” the tribunal declared. “If a person elects not to ‘believe’ that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, then they do not ‘believe’ in transpeople. This is a form of existential denial.”

The Foundry.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Britain used to be a Christian country, but apparently not any more.

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Calls for violence against journalists from the German right-wing news outlets Apollo News and Nius have intensified following attacks on reporters during protests against the Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) party congress in Erfurt.

On Wednesday, July 8th, an anonymous post published on the left-wing extremist platform de.indymedia.org urged supporters to take action against journalists from both publications, as well as against the AfD.

The post, attributed to a group calling itself the ‘Kreuzberg Anarchists,’ described the arrival of “right-wing institutions” in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district as a “declaration of war” and called on local activists to make it impossible for them to operate.

The message included the business addresses of Apollo News and Nius, as well as details about the AfD’s planned federal headquarters.

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At the protests against the Alternativ für Deutschland’s (AfD) party conference in Erfurt last weekend, a reporter for Apollo News was chased through the crowd and kicked in the head. He suffered a bloody wound. The next day, representatives of the anti-AfD alliance ‘Widersetzen’ were asked repeatedly if they condemned the attack. Initially they refused. Eventually, one activist replied: “Fascists with a press pass are still fascists.”

This was not any old Antifa gathering. Tens of thousands of people had come to oppose the AfD, with varying degrees of direct and indirect state funding. The German Trade Union Confederation (the DGB) mobilised, alongside a broad network of unions and civil society groups. An official Bundestag response to the event listed more organisations involved in the mobilisation, documenting substantial federal grants to several of them, albeit for other work. For example, MOBIT (Mobile Beratung in Thüringen e.V.)—a prominent German civil society NGO fighting right-wing extremism, racism, and antisemitism—received about €1.1 million across the listed period; NaturFreunde Thüringen more than €2 million across several programmes. The government denies funding Widersetzen’s Erfurt campaign. Nevertheless, the point is not that Berlin paid for a journalist to be kicked in the head; it is that the respectable anti-AfD movement rests on an ecosystem of unions, NGOs, and campaign groups, parts of which are publicly funded.

Political thugs are nothing new. What is new in this case is the social context and justifications of their thuggery. Anti-fascism in Germany has changed from a militant fringe concern into the moral common sense of its educated middle classes. One consequence of this is that the label ‘fascist’ now makes violence less objectionable.

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As Marine Le Pen enters the presidential race, her party is in the eye of the storm. The French press is reporting on the ongoing difficulties faced by Rassemblement National (RN) MPs with banks: despite their status as members of the National Assembly, they have found that banks have no qualms about arbitrarily closing their accounts, for reasons that are not officially stated—that is to say, ideological ones. The phenomenon of banking censorship targeting political opponents of the national Right extends far beyond France’s borders.

According to the public broadcaster France Inter, several RN MPs were dropped by their banks shortly after their election. And these are not minor figures, as they include Jean-Philippe Tanguy, one of the party’s leading figures, and Frank Allisio, a close associate of Marine Le Pen and the RN’s former candidate in the Marseille mayoral elections.

The modus operandi is always the same. A business relationship that has often lasted for years—sometimes more than a decade—and then, one fine day, a terse message with no justification whatsoever. “We no longer see fit to maintain our business relationship,” was the message sent to Thomas Ménagé, MP for the Loiret, who was asked to find another bank. The information is only now being made public, but the termination took place immediately after his election to the National Assembly in 2022.

Under French law, upon becoming MPs, these elected representatives also become ‘PPEs,’ or Politically Exposed Persons, to use banking jargon. According to the Banque de France’s website, such individuals require special attention as they are considered “exposed to higher risks of money laundering.” Banks may therefore choose to rid themselves of these potentially troublesome clients.

Not the Bee.

Remind me: Which side are the fascists?

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Hint: ‘Hostile architecture’ consists of features that make it inconvenient for bums and derelicts to Occupy Your Property (which apparently they have an inalienable right to do).

The author is, of course, an extremely hirstute (but opinionated!) foreigner.

Trump threatens America’s World Cup goodwill with one phone call (Herb Scribner/Axios) Trump’s superpower.

The View: White Supremacists on Train Is ‘Defining Image of Modern America’ No matter what happens, it’s Trump’s fault.

‘Excited but Shocked’: U.S. Soccer Fans Struggle With Trump’s FIFA Call (Billy Witz/New York Times) Because, as we all know, Trump is not allowed to use the phone without Narrative Media supervision.

He was Trump’s boyhood friend. Now he’s pushing Trump to declare a ‘national emergency’ and seize control of the midterms (CNN) Funny how Trumps is constantly being castigated for ‘seizing control’ but he never seems to wind up with control.

Trump Passports Debut, Delighting Some and Dismaying Others (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)

Trump’s call to Infantino and plot to ‘free’ Balogun that sparked a huge World Cup controversy (The Athletic)  Mostly among the chattering class.

The Joy of the World Cup Just Collided With Trump (Alex Shephard/New Republic)

Key Health Care Panel Is Again Blocked From Meeting (Maggie Astor/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, if a government body doesn’t do something, nothing ever gets done.

Trump’s Intervention in Balogun’s World Cup Suspension Adds to Conflict With Europe (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, without Trump there wouldn’t be any conflict with Europe.

FIFA Is a Cautionary Tale for Trump (David A. Graham/The Atlantic) Funny, it strikes me as a cautionary tale for FIFA.

Inside Trump’s Ideological Fight With the Smithsonian (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, it can’t possibly be the case that the Smithsonian has an ideological fight with America.

MS NOW Calls Trump a ‘Fascist,’ Denies There Are Communist DSA Candidates  If Trump actually were a fascist, they would all be in jail.

This Is What Trump’s Crazed Posts Are Really About: Political Guru (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)  Because, as we all know, the mind-readers at the Daily Beast know more about what Trump is thinking than he does.

Trump’s Iran grudge hangs over NATO summit (Axios)  Because, as we all know, Iran is just minding its own business and would be perfectly fine if it weren’t for Trump’s Grudge.

Top Senate Democrats push Trump-affiliated companies for answers about IRS settlement (Jacob Rosen/CBS News

Iranian Strikes on Ships Test Cease-Fire and Threaten Energy Flows in Gulf (New York Times)  There’s that Trump Grudge again.

‘Trump management’: Everyone else has a plan to keep NATO summit on the rails (Politico)

Italy’s Meloni Refuses to Fuel Trump Feud

As NATO Summit Braces For Trump, Ambassador Warns Allies: ‘We’re Not Going Away, Just Doing Less’

Trump and the Fifa debacle (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Trump’s Chief Design Officer Just Boosted the John Birch Society (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

Trump vs. algae is the feud we deserve (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Trump’s attacks on Democrats as ‘communists’ only show he’s out of touch (Zeeshan Aleem/MS NOW)  But not as out-of-touch as writers for MS-NOW.

Haddish Claims Red Card Was First Time Trump ‘Defended a Black Person  I guess he’s never seen Trump and Justice Thomas.

The unpatriotic left won’t cheer for Team USA because Trump helped right a World Cup wrong (Isaac Schorr/New York Post)

Trump claims credit for Walmart price cuts, retailer silent on White House role (Scripps News)

Trump’s AG Pick Hit With Massive Revolt of DOJ Veterans (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  When you’re getting flak, you know you’re over the target.

Trump’s Vile New Birthright Stance Is So Toxic, Even Fox Admits It (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Trump renews Greenland threats at NATO summit, says U.S. could remove troops from Europe (CNBC)

Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent Gun Violence, Suppressing Reports (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)  And those reports had a lot of guts.

Not the Bee.

This is your average pro-LGBT Democrat right here. Nothing going on upstairs. Just repeat the line.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A growing number of Jewish, Democratic and LGBTQ figures are condemning the harassment of Jewish congressional candidate Scott Wiener by anti-Zionists at the San Francisco Trans March on Friday.

And the proglodite Coalistion of the Fringes gets fringier and fringier every day.

Wiener had been filmed at the march while several activists, including the man filming him, surrounded him and yelled at him about Gaza and Israel; he ultimately left the scene. The incident followed another at which Wiener was accused of supporting genocide while at a sports bar, and preceded a filmed anti-Zionist harassment of another local Jewish LGBTQ politician at a San Francisco Pride march.

There is absolutely no evidence that these people aren’t a dyed-in-the-wool progs; it’s just because they’re Jewish. Of course, under Identity Politics, Who You Are inflexibly determines What You Think, whether that matches Actual Reality or not, so this was entirely predictable and entirely unpreventable.

CCOS: If I were named Scott Wiener. I would be unable to resist the impulse to start a podcast or newsletter called The Wiener Report. (You can imagine what it would cover … or uncover, as the case may be.)

ATQUE: Scott Wiener Learns Why The Left Is Violent

John C. Wright.

In addition to the Russian Collusion Hoax, and the Wu Han Wet Market Origin Hoax, please do not forget these. Years passed. To date, not one newsman, social media oligarch, pundit, nor politician has printed correction, retraction, nor apology.

The Bloodbath Hoax
The Find Votes Hoax
The Fine People Hoax
The Drinking Bleach Hoax
The Dictator from Day One Hoax
The J6 Insurrection Hoax
The Trump Overfed Koi Fish Hoax
The Trump Mocked A Disabled Person Hoax
The Border Patrol Agents Whipped Migrants Hoax
The Threat to Democracy Hoax
The January 6 Protesters Killed Police Hoax
The Presidential Immunity Hoax
The Muslim Ban Hoax
The Suckers and Losers Hoax
The Grabbed Steering Wheel Hoax
The Hunter’s Laptop is Russian Misinformation Hoax

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They want your face. It will be called safety. Verification. Age assurance. A small step to protect children. But strip the language away and the demand is plain: before you may speak, post, or read, you must first prove who you are. And the only way they’ve figured out how to do it is with your government ID, or with your face held up to a camera that decides whether you are old enough to be trusted. This is the deal now being written into law on three continents, and you are meant to accept it quietly. Don’t.

Read it.

I asked grok (AI) to write a table of translations of insults commonly used by leftists against the right, and this is what it came up with:

Read it.

German director Uwe Boll’s latest film about a man who turns to vigilantism after becoming frustrated by rising street crime has been effectively barred from release in Germany. According to Boll, the ban is linked to the film’s portrayal of migrants as perpetrators of serious crimes.

Citizen Vigilante, starring former Hollywood actor Armie Hammer, has been in effect barred from release in Germany after the country’s film classification board refused to grant it any age rating.

The action thriller, due to debut in North America on June 19, stars Hammer as Sanders, a man whose violent campaign against criminals transforms him into a social media sensation.

Thank God we have the First Amendment—unlike fascist Europe.

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French activist and online commentator Thaïs d’Escufon says she could face prison for saying immigration is the number one threat to French women. In an X video posted on her page, she argues that her case demonstrates the shrinking space for free expression in France.

The case stems from statements she made on BFM TV in 2023, during a discussion about a rape involving an illegal immigrant. d’Escufon, who was herself the victim of a home invasion and sexual assault two years earlier at the hands of a Tunisian migrant, said during the segment that “The main danger for women is immigrant men, Africans, blacks, and Arabs.”

DILCRAH (the Interministerial Delegation to Fight Against Racism, Antisemitism, and Anti-LGBT Hate) filed a complaint after that TV appearance, leading to prosecution.

The Telegraph (UK).

A biographer of Winston Churchill has accused the National Portrait Gallery of a “barefaced lie” over its claim that the wartime prime minister deliberately starved Indians.

Lord Roberts of Belgravia wrote to the gallery’s board on Monday to demand an explanation after The Telegraph exposed its claims that Churchill “wilfully” inflicted mass starvation on India during the Bengal famine of 1943.

The taxpayer-funded attraction recently installed a 40-minute-long film by Helen Cammock, an artist, whose voice-over narration claims that Churchill used mass starvation as a weapon of war.

The letter, signed by more than 50 peers, including Churchill’s grandson Lord Soames, has described the film as an “ideologically motivated rant”.

Proglodytes lie. It’s what they do.

The Telegraph (UK).

A National Portrait Gallery display has claimed Winston Churchill deliberately starved Indians to death.

Helen Cammock’s video installation was recently placed among the portraits of significant figures in British history.

Meet Helen Cammock:

The voiceover of the 40-minute film criticises a number of national figures depicted in the taxpayer-funded gallery, and incorrectly claims that Churchill “wilfully” inflicted mass starvation on Indians.

The accusation relates to the Bengal famine of 1943, a lethal food shortage caused by natural disasters and exacerbated by local mismanagement and wartime supply problems.

Some authors and activists have attempted to pin the blame directly on Churchill, who was prime minister. However, he took action to alleviate the famine, and his Cabinet sent supplies to the subcontinent after he declared that “something must be done”.

While India was under British rule at the time, and fighting against the Japanese, the installation at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) suggests that Churchill used mass starvation as a weapon of war.

Needless to say, he did no such thing. But he’s a Dead White Male, and so must be hurled into the void by the Wokerati.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly paid at least three people who wanted to leave the white supremacist movement not to do so, according to the Justice Department’s superseding indictment handed down Tuesday.

A federal grand jury in April had indicted the SPLC on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. The SPLC has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

While the organization “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press conference that “the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”

The charges revolve around the SPLC’s program paying “field sources” inside white supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups. The organization has maintained that it paid these informants in order to alert law enforcement to extremist violence before it happened, and some of the informants’ information did lead to prosecutions.

However, the indictment claims some of the SPLC money actually went to prop up the organizations—and the superseding indictment reveals more details of the allegations.

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Reading the list of performers who have pulled out of our U.S. 250th birthday party is a joke. These people insist that they thought they were signing up for a non-partisan celebration, but have now decided (without any evidence) that it is a partisan program.

Give me a break.

What’s really going on is that these performers are Lefties, and decided they wanted to stick it to Donald Trump, who initiated the event, by making up false excuses to bow out. They were probably getting flak from those people on the Left who don’t want anything to take place that is remotely connected to Donald Trump. They are all an embarrassment to this country.

What was the event supposed to entail? Here is a partial list of the activities that will take place. Here is another description of the events. There is nothing in these words that suggest partisan influence.

My biggest concern is that Leftist organizations may be determined to wreak havoc on the activities in June and July. They hate this country and would embrace any opportunity to denigrate it, our Founders and our legacy. I don’t know how far they would go in their disruption, but I expect huge crowds will be drawn to the grounds of the White House.

Let’s all hope and pray that people will rely on their patriotic conscience and honor this country for these events. It is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion.

The Other McCain.

When I wrote about Trump Derangement Syndrome over the weekend, it was while following the discourse over the latest scandalous Graham Platner revelations. These are certainly not the first such revelations, nor will they be the last, as GOP operatives reportedly have a vast pile of opposition research on Mr. Nazi Tattoo they’re waiting to unload when the time is right. But the reaction from liberals to what came out over the weekend was to double-down, to dig their entrenchments deeper, to rationalize the necessity of defending Platner at all costs, no matter what.