The Hill.

Oh, yeah, the terrorists will get right on that. Can’t disappoint Creepy Joe.

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The problem Democrats have is that criminals are a large part of their base.

Pick a prison: Are the inhabitants Democrats or Republicans?

Pick some illegal immigrants: Are they going to vote Democrat or Republican? (Don’t pretend that none of them vote.)

Pick some convicted felons: Are they going to vote Democrat or Republican?

Pick some Latin American drug traffickers: Democrat or Republican?

Pick some in-the-‘hood gang bangers: Democrat or Republican?

The questions answer themselves.

CNBC.

As if anybody will pay any attention. The Federal Trade Commission vies with the Federal Election Commission as being the single most useless government agency.

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Criminals just love the COVID face-diaper.

CNN.

I guess they don’t like the competition.

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Economists are easily shocked. They think of their field as a ‘science’, whereas it’s just as much witch-doctory as psychiatry, only with computers.

Paul Krugman is living proof that one can be a Nobel Laureate in Economics while being wrong about pretty much everything.

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Anti-Israel, pro-Palestine protesters arrived at Columbus Circle in front of the historic train station after first marching to the nearby U.S. Capitol. They were supposed to demonstrate peacefully and then disperse.

They didn’t do that.

In defiance of a permit granted to the ANSWER Coalition and obtained by the Washington Examiner, the protesters defaced the Columbus Fountain and other property and burned American flags shortly after arriving at Columbus Circle about 2:30 p.m. July 24.

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Apparently not much.

Complaint is made that the Gates foundation is accountable only to the Gates (duh) and that ‘family offices are unregulated entities’. The statism is strong in this one.

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Researchers assessed many thousands of different molecules in people from age 25 to 75, as well as their microbiomes—the bacteria, viruses and fungi that live inside us and on our skin—and found that the abundance of most molecules and microbes do not shift in a gradual, chronological fashion. Rather, we undergo two periods of rapid change during our life span, averaging around age 44 and age 60. A paper describing these findings appears in Nature Aging.

“We’re not just changing gradually over time; there are some really dramatic changes,” said Michael Snyder, Ph.D., chair of genetics and the study’s senior author. “It turns out the mid-40s is a time of dramatic change, as is the early 60s. And that’s true no matter what class of molecules you look at.”

Xiaotao Shen, Ph.D., a former Stanford Medicine postdoctoral scholar, was the first author of the study. Shen is now an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

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Well, maybe to the people who are easily terrified. *yawn*

So young, and already a Democrat….

NYT: By Golly, Hunter Did Try to Sell Influence – And White House Covered It Up! (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)

The K-Hive Media Are Trying to Make Walz’s Stolen Valor Scandal Go Away

The big question touching a nerve this election: “Can my husband find out who I am voting for?” (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

ABC’s Biden Propaganda on Cancer Moonshot Is Stuff Putin, Xi Could Only Dream of

Reid Warns GOP Is Trying To Rig The Election… In Wyoming

Va. Lt. Gov., a Marine, Rips Walz on Combat Claim

Harris Campaign Busted Spoofing News Outlets In Headline-Altering Ad Scheme

Biden: Harris Is Not Progressive

In Pennsylvania, Harris can’t shake her anti-fracking past (Evan Halper/Washington Post)

The DNC Is Coming To Chicago, The Nation’s Homicide Capital 13 Years Running  Perhaps nature will take its course. Think of it as evolution in action.

Dan Schneider Rips ‘Soros Machine’ After MRC Exposes Criminal Justice Scheme

Hunter Biden Lied About Lobbying for Foreign Agent to Protect His Father, Prosecutor Says

Muslim Dem Delegate Says Harris Can’t Win Without Appeasing Anti-Israel Voters with Arms Embargo  I don’t know of any Muslim Republicans. Do you?

Harris campaign’s Google ads rewrite news headlines (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sheriffs Decry Biden, Harris for Letting Gangs into US

Colbert’s Own Audience Laughs At Him Seriously Stating CNN Is “Objective”

Teamsters’ Black caucus defies leadership with Harris endorsement (Brittany Gibson/Politico)

Goldman Sachs says voters are shifting to Kamala Harris–and the odds of a blue wave are swelling (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)

Here’s What Scares Republicans Most About a Harris Win (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Kamala Harris’ Record on 3 Big Issues Women Care About

Team Trump Fumes After Trainwreck Elon Musk Interview (The New Republic)

CNN fact-checks Trump’s conversation with Musk (CNN) Never Harris, just Trump.

UAW Files Charges Against Trump, Musk For ‘Strike’ Comments During X Conversation

Top Republicans call on Trump to stop insulting Harris, refocus on policy (Rebecca Picciotto/CNBC)

MELTDOWN: ABC Loses Its Noodle Over Elon Musk’s Donald Trump Interview

After Trump’s Disastrous Musk Interview, Harris Mocks ‘Rich Guys’ Who Can’t Run a Livestream (Rolling Stone)

So Donald chatted with Elon, and here’s the future as they see it – losers win, incompetence rules (Marina Hyde/The Guardian) Narrative ‘journalists’ spread smears. Same old shit.

Why newsrooms haven’t published leaked Trump campaign documents (Washington Post)

MAGA Election Official Immediately Spews Conspiracies After Conviction (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

NPR Proves They Despise Trump 162 Times

How Trump’s infatuation with a racist conspiracy theorist is impacting the campaign (Popular Information)

Morning Hate Speech: David Frum Compares Trump To Mass Murderer Charles Manson

J.D. Vance Is Bombing His Audition As Trump Heir Apparent (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)

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As of June, the Dallas Area not-so-Rapid Transit (DART) was carrying 80 percent of pre-pandemic riders, a little more than the national average of 75 percent. The decrease in ridership has minimal effect on its budget, since in 2019 fares covered less than 12 percent of operating costs. Still, officials of several cities in the region whose taxpayers are supporting DART are beginning to wonder why they are spending so much money and getting so little.

DART is basically a jobs program for Dallas county black people.

DART is primarily funded out of a 1 percent sales tax levied on residents of 13 cities served by the agency. Since early July, the city councils of six of those cities have voted to reduce the sales tax going to DART by 25 percent, and the city councils of Dallas and at least one other city are considering similar resolutions. The tax is levied by DART, not the cities, so the votes are more symbolic of general dissatisfaction with how DART is run. To actually reduce the tax, the DART board would have to put a measure on the ballot and residents of each of the 13 cities would decide.

The councillors who voted to reduce DART subsidies are “not against public transportation,” says the mayor of one of those cities. Instead, they want ” efficient system that does not over-rely on taxpayer dollars to service approximately 4% of individuals in DFW.”

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Thank you,  Joe Biden.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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The sentence handed out to David Spring is the latest shocking example of how low the bar has now been set in terms of free speech in response to rioting that occurred after the murder of three girls in Southport last month.

Spring attended a demonstration of around 700 people in London on July 31 which turned disorderly.

Police bodycam footage that was played in court showed Spring calling police officers “cunts,” making “hostile gestures” and joining in with chants of “who the fuck is Allah” and “you’re not English anymore.”

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Rep. Susan Wild (D., Pa.), considered one of the most vulnerable House incumbents running for reelection, personally raised money for a “social justice” group that wants to defund police and abolish immigration agencies. It has also expressed support for “decriminalizing Hamas.”

And that’s just the beginning of the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) far-left activism. The Philadelphia-based group blamed Israel for the “root cause” that it said prompted Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack. In the 2000s, AFSC organized a series of controversial “dialogue” events with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president who has denied the Holocaust. And decades earlier, AFSC officials defended Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime, which murdered 1 million Cambodians in a genocide.

It’s a group whose “mission means a lot to me,” Wild wrote in a June 2020 Facebook post obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “For my birthday this year, I’m asking for donations to American Friends Service Committee.”

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A conservative college professor has agreed to settle his lawsuit against a California community college district for $2.4 million after arguing that school officials retaliated against him and a colleague.

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With Monday night’s unfiltered discussion between Donald Trump and Elon Muskgenerating a reported billion views, it’s no wonder the left collectively freaked out.

Not only did the Washington Post ask the White House if there was anything they could do to stop the conversation from taking place…

Losing Makes Trump Crazier, and Being Crazy Makes Him Lose (New York Magazine)

Donald Trump’s ego cannot handle being trounced by Kamala Harris (The Guardian)

‘AI’ crowds and unskewed polls: Trump prepares to reject another loss (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Harris Campaign Said Walz ‘Chaired Veterans Affairs’… He Did Not

Desperate Trump Returns to X as Poll Numbers Keep Tanking (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)

JD Vance’s false claim that ‘green energy scam’ ships jobs to China (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)

Why Donald Trump Can’t Let Go of Joe Biden (Jeet Heer/The Nation)

Second Photo Alleged to Show JD Vance in Drag Posted Online (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)

Trump Can’t Deal With Harris’s Success (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

EU’s Breton warns Musk on hate speech ahead of Trump interview; receives profane response (Seb Starcevic/Politico)

The First Amendment is in grave danger if Trump wins (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  And the Second if Harris wins.

Trump spent the weekend flying around America on a plane previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein (Business Insider)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Broadcast news and major papers failed to cover report of possible Egyptian bribery involving Trump (Tyler Monroe/Media Matters for America)  Sure, I believe that.

Donald Trump’s Campaign Admits It Rented Jeffrey’s Epstein’s Jet (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Tim Walz Clarifies That He Is Not Stealing Valor, Just Redistributing It Babylon Bee

‘I Will Fix Things If You Vote Me Into Office,’ Says Woman Currently In Office Babylon Bee.

‘Worse Than Biden’: Border Patrol Agents Say Four Years of Harris Would Prolong the ‘Nightmare’

ABC Carries Water for Biden-Harris Administration Policy to Sway Votes

Tim Walz Touted Endorsement From Kremlin Propagandist Who Called 9/11 a ‘False Flag’

After Weeks Promoting Kamala, Media Celebrate Her ‘Amazing’ ‘Momentum’

Tim Walz Pushed a 70 Percent Gas Tax Hike—Then Called For a Federal Gas Tax Pause

‘They Set Her Up To Fail’: Dems Blame Biden for Harris’s Dismal Approval Ratings as VP  Sorry, she earned those all by herself.

House GOP Hardliners Threaten Government Shutdown Over Baseless Illegal Voters Bill (Jonathan Nicholson/HuffPost)

Make-Believe Moderates: Here’s Why Harris, Walz Makeovers Won’t Fly

Fmr Commander Rips Walz Over Rank ‘He Did Not Earn’

Kamala Harris is going on the offensive on border security. It could keep Arizona blue and cut off Trump’s path to victory. (John L. Dorman/Business Insider) Don’t hold your breath.

Kamala ‘Unequivocally’ Supported Cutting the US Defense Budget. She Won’t Say Where She Stands Now.

WATCH: KJP Says a Harris Administration Will Be No Different Than Biden’s

RUNNING SCARED: Nets Skip Vance Beatdowns, Cheer Kamala-mentum

WaPo Journo Asks How Biden-Harris Admin Can Quash Trump-Musk Interview

ZMan is not optimistic.

At the dawn of the information age, it was assumed that everyone having the sum of human knowledge at their fingertips would unleash human potential in ways that had never been imagined. Instead of vast swaths of information being cloistered in the books of specialists, it would be available to everyone. The democratization of information would not only raise all of humanity but unleash the potential of people who would otherwise be denied access to the information.

A couple generations into it and this has clearly not been the case. Creative output, for example, has grounded to a halt. New movies and television shows are, at best, technically superior, but creatively inferior, remakes of past works. The traditional arts, like painting and sculpture, have been made ridiculous in an attempt to find novelty rather than genuine cultural expression. The creative side of Western culture has reached a nadir as technology has reached its zenith.

The public space, of course, has become so narrow that comparisons to the Soviet era are becoming trite. In the UK, men are being sent to dungeons for the crime of mentioning that foreigners are murdering British school children. In the United States, the secret police is everywhere looking for dissidents to harass. The great democratization of information and the public square has led to a dark age of authoritarian violence and suppression.

Other than that, how was your week?

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“Spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect.” — Harry Hopkins (Democrat)

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In March 2023, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) put out an article asserting that the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) — comprised of the CIP, the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) — was not a “government cut-out” controlled by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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Yes, really.

The former chief medical advisor to the president, who became the face of the COVID vaccination drive from late 2020 onwards, reacted to catching COVID-19 yet again by thanking the vaccine.

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In Coney Island on Sunday, a woman allegedly was raped at knifepoint and her boyfriend was assaulted when he tried to intervene, law enforcement sources told the New York Post, and the two suspects charged in the attack are migrants.

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There are literal oceans’ worth of liquid water hiding out on Mars. There’s just one big problem. That water is actually in Mars, at depths that are too far below the surface for us to access.

That’s according to new analysis of seismic data collected by the Mars InSight lander, for which huge reservoirs of liquid water are the best explanation. And, although that water is out of reach, it is an important piece of the strange puzzle of the aquatic history of our dry, desiccated, dusty neighbor.

“Understanding the Martian water cycle is critical for understanding the evolution of the climate, surface and interior,” says geophysicist Vashan Wright of the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

The Economist.

What America’s two political tribes want from business is not always the same. When it comes to the environment and diversity, they are at loggerheads. That helps explain why chief executives’ enthusiasm for esg, which Republicans deride as woke capitalism, has proved so brittle. But both Democrats and Republicans are eager for corporate America to churn out middle-class jobs while remaining one step ahead of China in the race for technological supremacy. Calls for corporate purpose may have quietened. Those for corporate patriotism are getting louder.

Although there has “always been the proverbial military-industrial complex”, says Curtis Milhaupt of Stanford Law School, “the number of firms wrapped up in national-security policy is much larger today.” Trade for some industries has become fraught. Companies dealing in areas of cutting-edge technology must now keep one eye fixed on the expanding list of Chinese firms they cannot do business with. Carmakers are bracing for rules prohibiting the use of Chinese software in autonomous vehicles. Some fret that Mr Trump, if he is re-elected in November, could expand export restrictions—though he may also lean harder on allies to match America’s measures on China, lessening their impact on American businesses, notes Jeremy Zucker of Dechert, a law firm.

CNN Panel EXPLODES When Frum Says Vance Is Claiming Tim Walz ‘Is a Sexual Deviant’

Donald Trump Is Freaked Out in Ways He Never Imagined Were Possible (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

Trump spreads false conspiracy theory about Harris’ Detroit crowd size (Eric Bradner/CNN)

Democrats continue to joke about false JD Vance rumor after years of criticizing Trump for spreading misinformation (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

Republicans can’t replace their old man nominee, so they’re pretending JD Vance is the GOP candidate (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

George Conway: Sociopath Trump Like Hitler in The Bunker, Family Should Have Him Committed

‘A different level than 2020’: Trump’s plan to steal election is taking shape (Sam Levine/The Guardian)

The 2024 campaign will now turn on whether Trump can blunt Harris’ soaring start (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

Desperate times: Trumpers launch Swiftboating 2.0 (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

Trump reportedly used a slur against Harris in private conversations (Associated Press)  Ah, yes, the famous ‘reportedly’. Next it will be ‘sources say’.

The most expensive political ad of all time (Popular Information)

Trump’s Private Anger Over Kamala’s Poll Surge Takes an Ominous Turn (The New Republic)

‘Maybe I’ve gotten worse’: Trump’s attempt at discipline unravels (The Guardian)

Behind the Curtain: Inside Trump’s slump (Axios)

‘Grandpa Donald’ is ‘not capable of being president’: Rick Wilson (MSNBC) Why anybody listens to Rick Wilson is a puzzle.

COORDINATION? ABC, CBS Ask JD Vance The Same Weird White Supremacy Question

To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris (David French/New York Times)  David French is one of the most infamous faux-conservatives alive today. Of course he’s voting for Harris.

Trump falsely accuses Harris campaign of fabricated AI crowd photos (Ariana Eunjung Cha/Washington Post)

JD Vance’s Campaign Won’t Deny That’s Him in Viral Drag Photo (Lily Mae Lazarus/The Daily Beast)

Trump Falsely Claims That the Crowds Seen at Harris Rallies Are Fake (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)

Will Trump End Elections? Anatomy of a Failed Hoax

Big Question: How Are Ukraine Stakeholders, CIA, & The US Intel Community Going To Stop Donald Trump?

Trump Is a Threat Whether He Wins or Loses, Biden Says (Julianne McShane/Mother Jones)

Harris is beating Trump by transcending him (E.J. Dionne Jr/Washington Post)

Harris is pushing joy. Trump paints a darker picture. Will mismatched moods matter? (Associated Press)

Poll: Democratic attacks on JD Vance are working (Kadia Goba/Semafor)

ABC News Debate Exec Is Major Harris Donor  My, what a surprise.

Obama secretly running Kamala Harris campaign: ex-Speaker McCarthy (Carl Campanile/New York Post)

Walz’s candidacy is making kindness great again (Na Eng/The Hill)

Fox News Highlights Deadly Results of Kamala Harris Being Soft on Crime

Jerusalem Post Editor: Harris Poses Existential Threat to Israel

NPR Links Questions on Walz’s Service to ‘False’ 2004 Swift Boat Accusations Except, of course, that they were true.

White House launches broad new regulatory effort, as Harris prepares to unveil economic plan (Josephine Rozzelle/CNBC)

15 States Sue To Block Federal Government From Expanding Obamacare To Cover Illegal Immigrants

FOOD Section Bias: Washington Post Fawns Over Kamala’s ‘Cooking Wisdom’

Theater Of The Absurd, Harris-Walz Edition

Playbook: The unwritten Harris agenda (Politico)

The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris (Charlotte Alter/TIME)

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Stomach doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital were forced to attend a racially segregated diversity training that included lessons on “critical race theory,” claimed black people are “systematically targeted for demise,” and pressed white doctors to “tap into their repressed racial memories” to develop a white “race-consciousness,” according to slides from the training obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Held in August 2022, the training was mandatory for the gastroenterology department and divided participants into three “racial caucuses”—a white caucus, a black caucus, and a “Non-Black POC Caucus”—to “minimize harm to our black learners and facilitator.”

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Khymani James made national headlines when video surfaced of him telling Columbia University officials that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” With that, James became the most infamous anti-Semitic student protester in the country.

Columbia said in April that it was banning James, who told his social media followers to be “grateful” that he was not “murdering Zionists,” from its Morningside Heights campus. It announced an “interim suspension” and indicated disciplinary proceedings are underway.

“We initiated disciplinary proceedings which encompass this and additional potential violations of university policies,” a Columbia spokesman said in April.

The Foundry.

Do you want a perspective other than the stifling woke orthodoxy being imposed on society through classrooms, TV shows, and corporate boardrooms? Tired of seeing “LGBTQ” this and “BIPOC” or “AAPI” that? Do you want a discussion of ideas without constant identity politics?

You just might be a white supremacist.

The Guardian.

Far-left marches, on the other hand, have clear sailing.

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Not that they’ll do anything.  They only target people on the right.

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Now that the rioting seems to have passed, one wonders what was the point of it all. It has created no tangible change. The ‘no-go’ areas in Britain remain – not the kind of places one would go out of one’s way to send a postcard from, rather than places one cannot enter. The motive of the perverted Southport child murderer is no clearer. Appallingly, more boats full of illegal immigrants continue to land on British beaches. The threat of extreme Islamism across Europe via recent immigrants and their offspring persists, as the Swift concert arrests in Austria have so clearly demonstrated.

Some other truths have emerged or been confirmed during the recent chaos:

Firstly, two-tier policing is undeniably real. It’s still one rule for ‘Asian’ minorities and another for British blacks and whites, despite the government’s and police’s denial and the repeated lessons of places like Rotherham and Telford. It was good to eventually see some of the Muslim knife-carriers arrested, charged, and sentenced. For a while, it seemed they had once again escaped justice.

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The anti-Semitic attorney who helped lift anti-Israel Columbia University students’ suspensions has a history of representing terrorists and recently mourned the death of his “friend,” top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Besides the Columbia students, attorney Stanley Cohen’s clients have included a Hamas cofounder and Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law. Cohen has also repeatedly posed for pictures with Hamas honchos and defended the terrorist group’s violence.

“Hamas is not a person. It is not a movement. It is not an ideology,” Cohen wrote while mourning Haniyeh’s July 31 assassination. “It is the winds of freedom, justice and equality that can never be stolen from the hearts and souls of millions.”

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Susan Wild, the Democratic Pennsylvania congresswoman in one of the country’s tightest House races, has privately and repeatedly trashed working-class conservative voters in her district as bigots who “drank the Trump Kool-Aid.” But in public, the Pennsylvania Democrat has drastically moderated her positions on hot-button issues as she seeks reelection in her battleground district.

Earlier this year, Wild was caught on a private conference call saying she was “dismayed” that her eastern Pennsylvania district was redrawn in 2022 to include Carbon County, which she lamented had transformed from a “working class blue district” to a “red county.” And on her personal Facebook page this year, Wild smeared a military veteran constituent, suggesting the man was homophobic because he refused to shake her hand at a Memorial Day event. These were not the first times she was caught lamenting new constituents she viewed as backward and uneducated.

Wild has been on the defensive since redistricting changed the complexion of her Lehigh Valley district, adding Carbon County’s overwhelmingly white, lower-income voters to a constituency that also comprises the majority Hispanic city of Allentown. Wild has since been caught in a series of gaffes denigrating her new constituents as backward yokels she needs to “school.”

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“Essentially, what’s happening is, the VA was caught moving processors from the VA to support [Immigration and Customs Enforcement Health Services Corps] processing detainee medicals,” he says.

“We’re talking over 1.1 million people,” said Carver, who currently serves as a graduate fellow in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation.

“We’re talking hundreds of thousands of initial medical exams, with follow-up exams, hundreds of thousands of prescriptions being filled, dental appointments, vision appointments,” he added. “I mean, the care that the detainees are getting is better than a lot of what the veterans are getting and without … the hoops to jump through, because they just have access to this once they’re detained.”

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The Middle East is approaching two weeks since the Israeli killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran but the expected major Iranian retaliation still has not come. Things have ratcheted somewhat on Israel’s northern border amid the daily titi-for-tat with Hezbollah, but Iran’s ballistic missile launchers have remained silent.

Amid the waiting game, Jordan has reportedly informed Israel and Arab countries that it will not allow warring parties to use its airspace and is ready to confront any Iranian projectile that breaches its skies, as it did on April 13.

Sunni Jordan has very little affection for Shi’a Iran.

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If the doctors in Texas who want to perform abortions all move out — well, mission accomplished.

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A new audit by the New York City Comptroller’s Office found the city overpaid upstate hotels and other subcontractors by millions to shelter illegal immigrants last spring.

The audit also finds sizable undue commission payments to DocGo, a main city contractor responsible for running temporary shelters in the metro area at an annual cost of $432 million.

DocGo was one of a few city contractors tasked with developing upstate hotels-turned-shelters last May, a novel city practice that auditors deem “unusual,” and has met with strong opposition from several upstate counties, including Rockland and Orange.

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We have previously discussed controversial sentences handed down in cases involving rioters on January 6th, including sentencing orders that, in my view, violate First Amendment rights. That included the case of Daniel Goodwyn, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. That crime would ordinarily not involve any jail time for a first offender.

However, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia decided that he would use the case to regulate what Goodwyn was reading and communicating with a chilling probation order. After the case was sent back by the D.C. Circuit, Walton doubled down on his extraordinary order. Now the D.C. Circuit has refused to hear an emergency appeal.

UnHerd.

When I first moved to Texas in 2006, I spent several months living with my in-laws in Georgetown, a quiet town of about 46,000 people located 30 miles north of Austin. There was a giant house in their neighbourhood that looked different from all the others; apparently the owner had sold a much smaller property in California and built this dream home with the proceeds. Large-scale migration from California to Texas had not yet begun so nobody thought this was a harbinger of social and political change. The concern, rather, was that too many of these “McMansions” would increase property taxes.

But internal migration to Texas did kick in, and then some. Newly released census data shows that between 2020 and 2023, nine of the 10 fastest growing cities in the US with a population of 20,000 or more were in Texas, and Georgetown was on the list having grown by 40.1% during that period. Today, census data puts the population at 93,612. Other towns grew at an even faster clip: Celina — outside Dallas — by 143.2% and Fulshear — outside Houston — by 142.7%. Now the possibility of social and political change seems very real — a popular T-shirt/bumper sticker reads “Don’t Californicate my Texas”. The country singer Creed Fisher (whose oeuvre includes such classics as “Girls with Big Titties”), released a song about the same anxiety: that exiles from the sunshine state will vote for the very same policies that caused the conditions they fled from, changing Texas forever.

Trump Reportedly Refers To Harris As A ‘Bitch’ In Private (Sebastian Murdock/HuffPost)

Donald Trump Privately Rants That Kamala Harris Is a ‘B***h’ as His Polls Plunge (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s 270-Page Dossier of JD Vance’s ‘Vulnerabilities’ Hacked by Iran (Owen Lavine/The Daily Beast)

Russiagate Continues To Survive Like A Sci-Fi Monster Resilient To Bullets

Trump’s Crucial Power Has Been Neutralized (Jeff Greenfield/Politico)

Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular (James Risen/The Intercept)

162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact checks former President Trump (Domenico Montanaro/NPR)  Gether Narrative, right here!

JD Vance Has Right-Wing Friends in High Places (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times) I certainly hope so.

Behind the Curtain: Inside Trump’s slump (Axios)

Vibes matter: Trump can hardly restrain his jealousy over the Harris campaign’s joy (Sabrina Haake/Salon)

Trump’s Anger Out of Control as Poll Numbers Keep Cratering (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)

Kid Rock Threw the Party. MAGA Faithful Brought the Joy, Rage and Smirnoff Ice. (Richard Fausset/New York Times)

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A federal appeals court in North Dakota has found that a rule issued by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that restricts ownership of pistol attachments known as stabilizing braces is “arbitrary and capricious,” ordering a lower court to re-consider a motion that would block enforcement of the brace ban.