Victor Davis Hanson.

We’ve been in disagreements on trade and other issues about the border with both of them recently. But here’s what’s happened. Given all this contention, you would think that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Prime Minister Mark Carney in Canada would want to cool passion. But that’s not what happened.

Recently, Canada decided that they were going to enforce the digital services tax. That was something that was passed but not enforced yet. And what it was is a 3% tax on our tech companies—Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google—by anybody in Canada who uses their service.

You buy something online, you buy an ad, you pay a fee to any of these and you’re Canadian, then you’re going to pay 3%—you’re going to have to have a 3% tax for the use of Canadian consumers. And they don’t even have to be in Canada. They can be in the United States. So, they’re going to charge them 3%.

And this is the killer. They’re going to enforce the law all the way back to 2022. So, all of a sudden next month, our tech companies—not that I worry about their financial situation. There’s $9 trillion of market capitalization in Silicon Valley. But the idea that they’re going to be gouged for $2 or $3 billion right in the middle of these heated discussions.

And what are those heated discussions? Canada has $63 billion in trade surpluses with us. That’s one backdrop. They have an unenforced border. As we close the southern border, some of the influxes of drugs and illegal aliens started to come northward. And of course, they pay 1.37% of gross domestic product in NATO contributions.

So, given that all those are contentious issues, why would the Canadians now create a new tax? I know they passed it a while back, but why would they start enforcing it right now and try to rub our noses in it? It makes no sense.

The same thing is true of Mexico. There’s about $1.5 trillion of total trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. And if you look at it, most of that growth and wealth is in the United States.

Trump Ushers In A Bleak Future For Our National Parks (Dave Jamieson/HuffPost)  Because, as we all know, parks are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump says there will be ‘temporary pass’ for migrant farm, hotel workers (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Trump says the administration is working on a ‘temporary pass’ for immigrants in certain industries (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)

Justices need to own the consequences of their injunction ruling (Washington Post)

Playbook: Can the GOP megabill hold together? (Zack Stanton/Politico)

Leaked Iran Call Further Shreds Trump’s Narrative: Report (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal (Washington Post)  Becauser, as we all know, children in Sudan are TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.

Leftists Insist Trump’s Children Be Deported After President’s Win On Birthright Citizenship  Then I insist that leftists be deported.

Canada Rescinds Tech Tax; Talks With US Back On  Trump wins again.

Canada will rescind a digital services tax to restart US trade talks (Luciana Lopez/CNN)

Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance broader trade negotiations with the United States (Government of Canada)

Canada rescinds Digital Services Tax after Trump cuts off U.S. trade talks (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)

Bovard: Trump’s Iran Bombing Is The Latest In Presidential Absolutism  If there were such a thing as ‘Trump absolutism’, Bovard would be in jail.

How the reconciliation bill would change America (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

Why We Couldn’t Sell America on U.S.A.I.D. (William Herkewitz/New York Times)

The real reason Republicans are rushing to pass the Trump megabill (James Downie/MSNBC) Only MSNBC has the necessary mind-reading skills to know the Real Reason.

How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, ‘the nation’s health’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Thom Tillis’s retirement is an ominous sign for the GOP (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Certainly ominous for the RINOs.

This DOJ lawsuit against Maryland judges sends an ominous message (Andrew Warren/MSNBC)  Lots of ominous going around thes days.

“Mind-Boggling”: Trump Voters Shocked at How Badly He’s Screwing Them (New Republic)  At least, that’s what they want you to believe.

This is what ICE is doing with the tax dollars you already provide it (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  Philip Bump loses his shit.

Kathy Griffin Back With Severed Heads Video  Desperately seeking attention.

E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)  As compared to…:

The worst bill in modern history (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

US-funded Radio Free Asia halts Cantonese service in face of Trump’s funding cuts (Hans Tse/Hong Kong Free Press HKFP)  Becaise. as we all know, Cantonese radio is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

‘Completely Disrupted’: Fear Upends Life for Latinos in L.A. (New York Times)  Totally missing: The word ‘illegal’.

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship (NPR)

Iran attack could be the death knell for nuclear non-proliferation (Ankit Panda/Financial Times)  Let’s see if I’ve got that right: Bombing a country that is trying to develop nuclear weapons in order to destroy another country is somehow the ‘death knell for nuclear non-proliferation’. That’s like saying shooting people who are making guns is the ‘death knell’ for preventing the spreading of guns. Welcome to the upside-down world of the Woke.

Trump sent ‘explicit’ threat to cut funds from University of Virginia, senator says (Marina Dunbar/The Guardian)  Another win for Trump.

Exclusive: White House Bible Study Teaches that Jews Killed Jesus (Jonathan Larsen/Jonathan Larsen’s …)  Oh, I’m sure there were some Jews involved in the killing of Jesus, if you just READ THE DOCUMENTS.

Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for civil offenses (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)  And abouit fargin time. We have clasped these vipers to our bosom long enough.

Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans (Robert Reich/The Guardian)  Robert Reich loses his shit.

7 things everyone should know about Trump’s megabill (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  Step right up and get your Narrative, right here!

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Major Campaign Finance Challenge (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)  And the hits just keep on comin’.

How Trump Family Profits From President’s Scorched-Earth Civil War Fallout (Lauren Lewis/The Daily Beast)  At least, that’s what they want you to believe.

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk (Reuters)  This is God telling you not to break the law.

MSNBC Latina Contributor: Trump A Threat To The ‘Undocumented Community’  That he certainly is, just like law enforcement is a threat to the criminal community.

Senate Republicans Wound Filibuster To Pass Debt Bomb (Igor Bobic/HuffPost)  OH NOES THE SKY IS FALLING!

CNN Data Chief Hits Trump With Some ‘Terrible, Terrible, Terrible’ New Numbers (Ed Mazza/HuffPost)

Kristi Noem Secretly Pocketed Cash From Dark Money Group: Report (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  Report! That proves it!

The End Is Nigh: Liberal Justices Predict “Chaos” & The Demise Of Public Education Without Mandatory LGBTQ Material

How Trump’s big bill could leave states scrambling to cover federal funding cuts (David A. Lieb/Associated Press)  The gravy train is pulling into the station.

Trump administration sues Los Angeles over sanctuary city immigration policies (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

US revokes visas for musicians after band leads chants against Israeli military (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  Saw that coming.

This July Fourth, my patriotism looks like two middle fingers – and that’s OK (Rex Huppke/USA Today)  Sounds like a prime candidate to have his visa revoked.

Appeals Court Allows Trump Administration To Fire USIP Board Members

Trump Fires Back at Dem Senator: ‘I Am Not Offering Iran Anything, Unlike Obama’

State Department Yanks Visas From Rap Group That Called for Murder of IDF Soldiers

‘A Constituency of Anti-Semitism’: North Carolina Democrats Pass Resolution Demanding Arms Embargo on Israel

Trump DOJ Sues LA Over Migrant Sanctuary Policies

Trump Administration Weighs Eliminating Funds for Hospitals Offering Gender Care to Minors (Liz Essley Whyte/Wall Street Journal)

Report: Driven by Tariffs, US Customs Revenue Exceeds $100B

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trend of district court judges siding with leftist activists to block President Donald Trump’s policies through nationwide preliminary injunctions.

The court’s decision rightly struck down the judicial insurrection’s number one strategy, but that doesn’t mean rogue judges won’t find ways to block Trump’s attempt to keep his promises to the American people.

“Traditionally, courts issued injunctions prohibiting executive officials from enforcing a challenged law or policy only against the plaintiffs in the lawsuit,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the court’s 6-3 majority. Yet nationwide or “universal” injunctions aim to block policies from impacting anyone.

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New York Democrats have chosen the far-left Zohran Mamdani as their candidate for Mayor. His extremist views are coming out, one after another. What I want to reflect on here is his lawlessness. Mamdani says that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits New York, he will have him arrested.

The obvious question is, arrested for what? The NYPD has the power to arrest those who violate New York State law. What New York law has Netanyahu violated? Has he mugged someone, like so many who face no consequences in New York City? Has he jumped a turnstile? What New York law has he violated?

Obviously, none. Zohran Mamdani says that he will arrest those, like Netanyahu, who don’t align with his “values.” This is sheer lawlessness, the perspective of a tyrant. That man disagrees with me? Arrest him!

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The number of illegal migrants arriving on British shores in 2025 is now on track to be nearly 50% higher than at the same point last year, according to new estimates.

In 2024, some 13,272 were known to have crossed by the end of June. GB News, which deploys spotters at coastal ‘rescue’ sites to conduct headcounts in advance of the official figures being released, stated:

at this rate, we could hit the 20,000 mark by Tuesday.

As the report went out, around 200 individuals were spotted leaving the first wave of incoming boats onto the Kent coast. The previous ‘Red Day’—a day when the good weather permits more boat crossings than usual—saw nearly 600 migrants making the illegal crossing.

Partly in response, UK prime minister Keir Starmer has proposed a new deal on deportations with France, which he hopes can be signed during a state visit next week.

Given the entirely predictable character of such movements, Labour’s abject failure to control the problem looks more and more like a political choice.

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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday, June 26th, ruled against France in a ‘racial profiling’ case following complaints from individuals who felt they had been targeted on the basis of racial criteria during police checks.

The ECHR decision that confirmed police ‘discrimination’ for the first time in France brings the issue of ethnic statistics back to the forefront: although banned in France, recording ethnicity would in fact help to set the record straight. If police officers ‘target’ certain populations during routine checks, it is because they are overrepresented among fraudsters and offenders.

The lawsuit was based on the case of a certain Karim Touil, who was stopped nearly 15 years ago and who believes he was the victim of police harassment because of his ethnic origin. Five other cases were also heard by the Court, but were dismissed.

The Foundry.

Activists in the revolutionary ecosystem that organize street mayhem are veering sharply from anti-deportation actions to pro-Iran ones. They may have to swap in flags of the Islamic Republic for the Mexican ones they’ve been waving in Los Angeles, or the Hamas ones they waved earlier, but so be it.

Unless, that is, the ceasefire that President Donald Trump announced late Monday sticks. In that case, the organizations in the ecosystem will move on to the next crisis, manufactured or not, that offers an opportunity to tear down society.

Who are these organizations lining up behind Iran’s theocracy? Some are committed to the anti-Israel cause, sort of a raison d’être for the Tehran regime at this point. But many others are secular, Marxist organizations that just want the destruction of the West in general.

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The Greek island of Lesbos has all but stopped illegal migrant landings, thanks to Greece’s hardline policy of maritime “pushbacks”—a strategy condemned by activists but backed by locals who say it saved their island.

Once the epicentre of Europe’s migrant crisis, Lesbos saw more than 3,000 people arriving daily at the peak in 2015. Now, the total for 2025 stands at just 1,700. British newspaper The Sun reports that not a single boat landed last week, despite calm seas across the Mytilini Strait.

Locals credit the turnaround to a policy introduced by the centre-right New Democracy government in 2019: intercepting migrant boats at sea and returning them to Turkish waters, now designated a “safe third country.” The strategy has seen a dramatic fall in both arrivals and deaths—more than 75% fewer fatalities compared to 2015.

Newsbusters.

Why not? The Soviets had them. Just look for the line for bread. Watch the film MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON for details.

UPDATE: Want Soviet Bread Lines? Vote for Zohran Mamdani (John Catsimatidis/Wall Street Journal)

UPDATE: Dems’ NYC Socialist Nominee Ducks and Weaves When Asked to Condemn Term Calling for Killing Jews

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The Supreme Court on Monday threw out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in four states following the justices’ recent decision upholding a Tennessee ban on certain medical treatment for transgender youths.

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After underage girls were sexually assaulted in the Barbarossabad swimming pool in Gelnhausen, the CDU mayor of the area pointed out that “hot weather” makes tempers “fray.”

However, local Mayor Christian Litzinge (CDU) appeared to allude that the weather is at least partly to blame for the incident.

In a statement to Welt, he said: “Of course, it’s always high temperatures, and sometimes tempers are frayed.”

In a separate interview with Bild, he said, “We have zero tolerance for that.”

As Remix News previously reported, the first group of girls were groped and molested by the group of Syrians, but when they complained to a lifeguard, he took no action.

“Since we couldn’t see exactly what had happened, we sent the girls back into the water,” pool manager Nils Tischer explained to Hessischer Rundfunk.

It was only after more girls made a complaint from separate groups that the police were called.

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As they do. Time for all good Muslims to get their jihad panties on.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Well, they always say ‘write what you know’, and for a lot of ‘minorities’, race is all they know.

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The United States’ B-2 stealth bomber strike on Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment facility was the culmination of more than 15 years of study and planning, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine.

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their own food supply chain—planting backyard gardens and sourcing meat, eggs, dairy, and pantry staples directly from local markets and farms. The trend, which is gaining momentum under the “Make America Healthy Again” movement—and even noted by Goldman—reflects a broader push for food independence and a return to community-based sourcing.

Not everyone is on board with MAHA — especially not the feminist journalists at SELF (owned by the corporate media company Condé Nast), who recently penned an article that reads like a hit piece against MAHA.

Erica Sloan’s critique of MAHA is that food independence is unrealistic and burdensome for women in the modern progressive world.

Let the victim-signaling begin!

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Nor will the bombing.

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Under the Biden-Harris regime, and with backing from rogue sanctuary states, thousands—if not tens of thousands—of non-English-speaking migrants have been granted non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs), a decision now under intense scrutiny following a series of deadly crashes involving 80,000-pound big rigs, including a horrific incident in Austin, Texas, that left five Americans dead.

On Friday, the US Department of Transportation (DoT) released a statement about DoT Sec. Duffy is preparing to launch a nationwide audit into states issuing non-domiciled CDLs, more specifically examining the potential for unqualified individuals obtaining these licenses to operate big rigs on America’s highways.

“This action responds directly to a key directive from President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order on Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America’s Truck Drivers and is part of Secretary Duffy’s commitment to safety,” a statement read from DoT.

DoT Sec. Duffy stated, “The open borders policies of the last administration allowed millions to flood our country – leading to serious allegations that the trucking licensing system is being exploited.”

Oh, ya think?

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He’s foreign! He’s rich! He’s socialist! TRIFECTA!

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system (NPR)  They say that like it was a bad thing. And to them, it is: Any tool that makes it easier to determine whether an individual is a citizen is a finger in the eye for those who want to obfuscate that knowledge and make it easier for illegal immigrants to travel ‘under the radar’.

NPR Champions ‘Joyful Blowout’ of Drag Queens for Climate Activism  NPR’s mission appears to be to promote degeneracy wherever they find it.

Political Violence Is Part of the American Story. It Is Also Changing. (Shaila Dewan/New York Times)  But it’s always Trump’s fault.

To fight Trump’s funding freezes, states try a new gambit: Withholding federal payments (Adam Edelman/NBC News)  Works for me. Starve the beast.

CNN’s Stelter Argues CNN Questioning Trump’s Success In Iran Bombing Is Uber-Patriotic  The Seinfeld character speaks.

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data (NPR)  Because, as we all know, the U.S. Defense Department is TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE for providing weather data, and NOBODY ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD can do so.

A $1 Trillion Medicaid Cut Is THIS Close to Happening. Here’s What It’d Look Like. (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  God forbid that anybody who has ever received money from the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer–should be forced to get by on less.

Trump goes scorched earth on Thom Tillis over “big, beautiful bill” (Justin Green/Axios)

The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)

Axios Explains: Inside ICE’s superpowers (Russell Contreras/Axios)

Appeals Court to Consider Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act (Alan Feuer/New York Times)

Cross the Courts Off the List (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)

“When is cancer political?” Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin’s layoffs, budget cuts (Ted Koppel/CBS News)  When it serves as an excuse to spend YOUR money.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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Socialists always rise to power in the midst of failed liberal leadership. The assumption being that liberal policies accomplish nothing because they “don’t go far enough” to push the collectivist values of wealth redistribution and equity-based cultural engineering. If only the political left asserted more control over people’s lives and property, all the ailments of American society would magically disappear.

In most cases socialism also fails to make people’s lives better. Though one could argue that it does eventually achieve its goals of equal wealth – Socialism makes everyone equally poor. In countries where socialism actually finds “success” a couple of factors are always present: A small population that avoids multiculturalism and mixed demographics, and access to abundant natural resources.

Wherever socialism in introduced into an otherwise prosperous economy, the standard of living automatically degrades. When socialism is used as a bandage to stop the financial bleeding of a depressed market wounded by liberal management, it always makes things far worse.

Time to leave.

UPDATE: How Zohran Mamdani Brought New Voters to the Polls (New York Times) Vote for me and get free stuff!

UPDATE: Mamdani says he doesn’t believe ‘that we should have billionaires’ (Tara Suter/The Hill)  The cornerstone of socialism it theft. Then,  when you run out of other people’s money, every one is equally miserable. See Venezuela.

UPDATE: Zohran Mamdani doubles down on plan to target ‘whiter neighborhoods’ with higher taxes — and says billionaires shouldn’t exist (New York Post)

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This is a post just to share a thought and guard against wishful thinking. The recent NYC primary election of privileged radical Zohran Mamdani has reminded me again of evidence of an often repeated folly of libertarians: the delusion that when once the public has experienced failed Leftist policies, they will all of a sudden be struck with self reflective insight, soon recanting past support of the failed policies, and then, finally, the newly enlightened public will support libertarian principles. An odd result of this line of thinking frequently suggests that it’s good if the others win because their failure will become a future victory. This thinking rests on the big assumption of effective and accurate feedback within a well-functioning process.

Now I’d like to state for full disclosure that I have sympathy with libertarian ideas and principles, and have been influenced by them throughout my life. However, the older I get, the more conservative I have become, and the less tolerance I find myself having with overly idealistic libertarians who are not fully plugged into reality and the way the world actually works. I think to be conservative, you must base your views, as best you can, on concrete truths and observed history and lessons learned from tradition. In this regard, libertarians fail. Soft Republicans also keep the libertarians company on this point more often than I’d like.

Case in point, the election of Zohran Mamdani. The WSJ has a new opinion article that describes the failures of the Democrat Party in NY, leading to the rise of Zohran Mamdani. So an even bigger progressive radical is required to fix the problems that the more mild progressive policies created. Yeah, right. Now, a conservative will look at the situation in NY, especially NYC, and think that it is becoming lost. To mitigate the downward spiral of NYC, a practical conservative would throw weight behind the besieged Mayor Adams (running as an independent) to fend off the truly fanatical Zohran Mamdani. From there, efforts could be made to help recover some conservative influence in governance. Or at least mitigate the awful. On the other hand, you get the libertarian types who want to see Zohran Mamdani because it will be so, so awful that it will inevitably lead to a libertarian utopia. The odds are slim to none, I say.

The essential libertarian mistake is in presuming that all adults are rational and both know and pursue their own interests.

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The blood of murdered mother of two Larisha Thompson, 40, is on the hands of former President Joe Biden, his open borders administration, and Democrats defending those, according to Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C.

The Wall Street Journal, unfortunately now a Voice of the Crust.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for New York mayor emerged from a world of privilege with radical politics and charm to spare.

One of the most persuasive arguments against ‘wealth inequality’ is that we need to take steps to prevent rich families producing such Children of the Crust, whose goal in life seems to (a) be fools and (b) make it worse for everybody else.

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It comes as little surprise that yet another grandiose techno-utopian vision has ended not with a triumphant march toward Net Zero, but with a flick of the off-switch. Last week, Britain’s energy secretary quietly announced that the government “has pulled the plug on a £24 billion plan to bring Moroccan wind and solar power to Britain via the world’s longest subsea electricity cable, citing concerns over security and costs” .

In other words, after years of hype, headline-grabbing simulations and talk of “reliable clean power for 19 hours a day,” the reality of risk and expense finally intruded – and the dream of Sahara sun for all has been consigned to the scrapheap.

The Sunday Times (UK).

Describing a middle-aged white woman as a “Karen” is borderline unlawful, a judge has said amid a bitter row at a mental health charity.

The slang term, used increasingly since the pandemic, refers to middle-aged white women who angrily rebuke those they view as socially inferior. Sitting in an employment tribunal, a judge has now said that the term is pejorative because it implies the woman is excessively and unreasonably demanding.

Use of the term started as an internet meme. It is also associated with excessive use of Facebook, opposition to vaccinations and having a blonde bob haircut.

Judge George Alliott made his remarks in a ruling on a claim brought by Sylvia Constance, a 74-year-old black charity worker who has accused bosses of targeting her because of her race and age. In what was described at a tribunal hearing in Watford as a “trenchant” complaint, female managers at Mencap were accused of acting “like the stereotypical Karen” by having “weaponised their privilege and more powerful position” against Constance.

“There is also something very sordid about the way in which white, female management have facilitated racism … [and given] a misogynistic, racist view of the black complainant,” the grievance said.

Alliott said the tribunal noted that Karen was “a pejorative and borderline racist, sexist and ageist term”.

Battle of the Victims! Place your bets, everybody!

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Wangen is a city in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg. When police went to execute an arrest warrant on an Afghan culture-enricher in Wangen, he attacked them with a knife. The unfortunate youngster did not survive his encounter with law enforcement.

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A new study from JAMA Pediatrics should stop us in our tracks: early adolescents who report addictive use of screens—not just frequent use—are more than twice as likely to consider suicide within two years.

And I would encourage them to do so. Think of it as evolution in action.

One of the most defective aspects of modern society, especially modern technological society, is its commitment to promoting the continued existence of people whom Natural Selection would otherwise be attempting to subtract from the gene pool.

The whole Cult of Self-Worth toward which everything in modern life seems to be pointed is just making the world worse for all of us.

Trump Lies Matter (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Sam Alito’s “Pride Puppy” Ruling Brings Disgrace Upon the Supreme Court (Slate)

The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a 5-Alarm Catastrophe (Elie Mystal/The Nation)  For the Left.

Appeals Court Puts Peace Institute Back in Trump Admin Hands

Trump adversaries see silver linings in his ‘monumental’ Supreme Court win (Politico)

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness (Matt Watkins/Slate)

DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billions (Washington Post)

Senate Blocks War Powers Resolution to Limit Trump’s Ability to Strike Iran Again (Robert Jimison/New York Times)

Sotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship Ruling (Robert McCoy/New Republic)  Funny, I feel pretty safe.

Judge Strikes Down Trump Order Targeting Another Top Law Firm (Zach Montague/New York Times)

UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA–and They Forced Him Out Anyway (Siva Vaidhyanathan/New Republic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

With Supreme Court Ruling, Another Check on Trump’s Power Fades (Charlie Savage/New York Times)  My heart breaks for you.

PBS Claims Reaction To Socialist Mamdani’s Win Has Been ‘Hateful’  Socialists, ‘democratic’ or not, deserve all the hate they can get.

Trump Runs Up Supreme Court Winning Streak, Amassing More Power (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)

The MAGA mind virus (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Attacks on Muslims flood mainstream after Mamdani win (Russell Contreras/Axios) Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion with which no co-existence is possible. In a righteous world, they would be treated the way proglodytes treat Nazis.

‘Where’s our money?’ CDC grant funding is moving so slowly layoffs are happening (Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR)

Ignoring Substance, SCOTUS Permits Lawlessness (Jim Swift/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew has gone full Woke, including the lies.

The Supreme Court Just Made America a Dangerous Place (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  Chicken Little is alive and well in the Kristol Krew.

Home discomforts send Trump rushing to project image of global patriarch (David Smith/The Guardian)  High-school ‘journalism’ finds a home at The Guardian.

The Supreme Court’s Ban on Universal Injunctions Will Kneecap Americans Fighting for their Rights (Anthony Sanders/The UnPopulist)

Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles (Karen Garcia/Los Angeles Times)

The Corporate Court: How the Supreme Court Just Declared Open Season on Your Rights (Dina Doll/Meidas+)

2 Lawmakers Nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

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Using the term very loosely.

For most citizens, the release of Supreme Court opinions is about as exciting as watching paint dry, particularly in a case dealing with the limits of district courts in issuing universal injunctions.

Yet Friday’s Trump v. CASA case included a virtual slugfest between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The decision was one of the biggest of the term. The Court moved to free the Administration from an onslaught of orders from district judges seeking to block the President in areas ranging from the downsizing of government to immigration.

However, it was the departure of the normally staid court analysis that attracted the most attention.

The tenor of Jackson’s language shocked not just many court watchers, but her colleagues.

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Rules are for thee but not for me.

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Michael Barone.

Zohran Mamdani’s lead in first choices in New York City’s ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when second, third, fourth, and fifth choices of trailing candidates are allocated to candidates voters ranked lower, mean that he’ll be the Democrat nominee for mayor of the nation’s largest city and the likely winner of the general election in November.

Mamdani, 33, is a three-term state assemblyman who calls himself a democratic socialist. He has backed a rent freeze, city-run grocery stores, free buses, putting homeless service centers in the subways, a $30 minimum wage, defunding the police, and replacing police with “community safety” officers.

His tweeting history includes: “NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD,” “Queer liberation means defund the police,” and “Defunding the police is a feminist issue.”

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Welcome to 1934.

Time to leave.

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I reported last month on a Syrian culture-enricher who went on a rampage with a knife in front of a nightclub in the German city of Bielefeld, wounding four people (or five, according to some accounts). The attacker admitted that he had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

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A culture-enriching “French” youngster has been arrested for plotting an attack on synagogues, sex shops, and other dens of infidel infamy on behalf of the Islamic State.

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A local journalist at Fox Baltimore is starting to dive into the same rabbit hole we’ve explored for years—tracing the dark money networks funneling cash into left-wing nonprofits tied to the Democratic Party machine. Whether it’s funding anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles or quietly backing political campaigns, the funding network is vast, coordinated, and often concealed behind leftist law firms that create a web of pop-up nonprofit organizations.

Gary Collins of Fox Baltimore and the Baltimore Sun recently flagged a mysterious multi-week propaganda blitz—radio ads flooding the airwaves across the Baltimore metro area with praise for far-left Gov. Wes Moore’s supposedly ‘stellar’ economy. Collins noted that the campaign is now expanding to television.

The commercial, funded by America Works USA—a dark money-funded nonprofit affiliated with the Democratic Governors Association (DGA)—promotes Moore’s potentially misleading claims of economic growth, job creation, and a budget surplus.

Newsbusters.

The stock market continues to go gangbusters, so MRC Business thought it would be worth revisiting one of CNN’s dumbest End-of-the-World predictions about the Trump presidency to date.

The Wall Street Journal reported June 27 that the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes both hit record highs after the open on June 27. The newspaper summarized that “investors increasingly discounted the economic threat posed by the trade war and Middle East instability.

The gains mark a historic rebound from April’s tariff-driven turmoil.” Specifically, the S&P 500 added 0.6 percent to 6,177.14 while the Nasdaq spiked 0.5 percent to approximately 20,218, as CNBC noted, which called the S&P 500 rebound from its April lows “remarkable.”

The timing is certainly remarkable, given that it was on April 22 when CNN Business Executive Editor David Goldman went on an unhinged rant about the supposed destruction President  Donald Trump was supposedly unleashing on the stock market. “Trump’s stock market is throwing off some jaw-dropping statistics. How extraordinary? We’re now making comparisons to the Great Depression,” Goldman spewed, channeling CNBC Mad Money host and “Prophet of Oops” Jim Cramer.

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I remember the original Datahand, but they were extraordinarily expensive, and by the time I was in a position to buy it, the company had gone out of business.

Each finer can trigger five switched by moving only millimeters, while the rest of the hand remains still. No possibility of RSI or arm fatigue.

Victor Davis Hanson

The Democrats, under kind of a volatile and unhinged Rep. Al Green, introduced articles of impeachment in an effort to impeach President Donald Trump for a third time.

Remember, there were two successful impeachments. But of course, they failed to get a conviction in the Senate during Trump’s first term.

And this one was strange because 128 Democrats of the House caucus voted against it. And so, Reps. Al Green and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and all of these people that were affiliates for “the squad” and the radical fringe couldn’t even get a majority of Democrats.

And you know why that was? Think about it for a reason. One of them was that Sen. Chuck Schumer in the Senate and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who’s not speaker but she still has the influence on Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the speaker who voted against the resolution, said, “Wait a minute. You got to remember that if we do this, we’re going to get killed by clips every day during the midterms.”

And those clips are going to show President Barack Obama, in the single year 2016, he dropped 26,000 bombs. And it wasn’t just in Syria. It wasn’t just in Iraq. It wasn’t just in Afghanistan. He dropped them in Libya. He dropped them in Somalia. He dropped them in Yemen.

Trump Threatens to Sue The Times and CNN Over Iran Reporting (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)

Tulsi Gabbard Chooses Loyalty to Trump (The Atlantic)  This, of course, comes as a surprise to The Atlantic.

Trump Team Launches SuperPAC Focused Solely On Ousting Massie  “Judge, he needed killin’.”

ABC Shows Footage of ICE Arrest, Omits Clip Showing Attack on Agents

Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro disbarred in New York (Ella Lee/The Hill)  The hunt for heretics and sinners.

‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration (Wired) High-school ‘journalism’ comes to WIRED.

Inside the Mind of a Never Trump War Hawk (Isaac Chotiner/New Yorker)

Scoop: Pro-Trump group unleashes first TV ad against Massie (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)

PolitiFact Rushes In to Flag Trump (and Others) for Calling Mamdani a ‘Communist’  Which he is; that’s all ‘democratic socialist’ means.

Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census  One of the reasons that Democrats welcome the flood of illegals is that it boosts their census numbers for representation.

MAGA Rage Suddenly Takes Unnerving Turn as Trump Plummets in New Polls (New Republic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump administration eliminating warning period for fining those in the US illegally: Exclusive (Luke Barr/ABC News)

Trump’s secret police are terrorizing American streets (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)  How secret are they? They’re so secret, even some hole-in-the-wall prog web site knows about them.

U.S. uninsured rates could resurge if Trump’s budget bill passes (NPR)  Gee, they may have to pay for their own insurance. The horror!

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months (Nikole Hannah-Jones/New York Times)

On a Quiet Southern Border, Empty Farms and Frightened Workers (Edgar Sandoval/New York Times)  Sometimes the system works.

Trump Says He Would Bomb Iran Again ‘Without Question’ & Not Looking To Drop Sanctions Anymore.

A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  ‘Journalism’ is easy these days. Come up with a new name for Trump and get paid. Rinse, repeat.

Harvey Milk’s Name Is Stripped From U.S. Navy Vessel (Christine Hauser/New York Times)  Stripped!

Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening (Marina Dunbar/The Guardian)  The word they always leave out is ‘illegally’.

How Trump Lives With the Threat of Iranian Assassination (The Atlantic)  If Iran assassinated Trump, Vance would leave it a radioactive parking lot.

ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution (Andy Olsen/Christianity Today)  the word they always leave out is ‘illegal’.

Soboroff Omits Pepper Sprayed Man Threatened ICE With a Weed Whacker

Supreme Court Grants RFK Jr. Unprecedented Power of Key HHS Panel (Oriana Gonzlez/NOTUS)

RFK Jr. Axes All Funding For Bill Gates’ Global ‘Vaccine Alliance’  Let Bill pay for it himself. It’s not as if he’s going to leave that money to his kid.

Group suing over Trump’s birthright order seeks to convert case to a class action lawsuit (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure (Jack Rakove/Washington Monthly)  Only because the Wokerati are losing.

The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship reasoning reveals a startlingly myopic view (MSNBC)  Proglodyte Projection: Progs always accuse their enemies of what they are doing (or want to do).

Biden-Appointed Judge Orders Trump To Keep Throwing Money at EV Chargers

How voters in Trump districts helped Mamdani win the Democratic primary

In Powerful Dissent, Ketanji Brown Jackson Simply Writes ‘Wakanda Forever’  The life of an affirmative-action hire.

A Conservative’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

ACLU, Servant of Fashionable Victims Everywhere and especially Where White People Live.

Immigrants rights’ advocates today filed a new nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The lawsuit is in response to today’s Supreme Court ruling that potentially opens the door for partial enforcement of the executive order.

This new case was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of New Hampshire, ACLU of Maine, ACLU of Massachusetts, Legal Defense Fund, Asian Law Caucus, and Democracy Defenders Fund on behalf of a proposed class of babies subject to the executive order, and their parents.

The same group of organizations filed a similar suit in January 2025 in the same court, on behalf of groups with members whose babies born on U.S. soil will be denied citizenship under the order, including New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and Make the Road New York. The court issued a ruling protecting members of those organizations, and that case is pending at the First Circuit Court of Appeals, with oral argument set for August 1.

New York Post.

Friday with a blunt takedown of liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “extreme” dissent in the landmark birthright citizenship case in which the Supreme Court curtailed lower court use of universal injunctions.

“We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself,” wrote Barrett, the court’s second-newest justice, in a jaw-dropping rebuke of her colleague, the newest justice.

“We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”

Ron White: “You cain’t fix stupid.”

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A class action lawsuit was filed Thursday against Walmart for firing Black workers with criminal records. The suit follows years of accusations by progressive organizations claiming that Walmart has “shown a pattern of firing qualified Black workers” because of past involvement with the legal system – a practice they say perpetuates “racial and economic inequality”.

Maybe they just don’t want to hire criminals. Can’t say that I blame them.

“Having a record does not define you or your character,” said Marcos Ceniceros, with Warehouse Workers for Justice.

No. It illustrates the character you have. Or lack of it.

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An Argentine federal judge Thursday ordered that the 10 Iranian and Lebanese suspects accused in the deadly 1994 AMIA bombing be tried in absentia, allowing the case to move forward after decades of legal stagnation.

The complaint, filed by the families of the victims of the bombing, asked Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas to apply Argentina’s new “trial in absentia” law in the AMIA case, an attack on a Jewish community center that left 85 people dead and 300 injured in what remains the deadliest terrorist attack on Argentine soil.

The request was submitted by attorney Tomás Farini Duggan on behalf of the families of victims Luis Czyzewski and Mario Averbuch.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.