Read it.

We don’t mind that–it’s just that they always keep coming back….

Read it.

Cory Bowman, the half-brother of Vice President J.D. Vance and also running for mayor of Cincinnati, ignited outrage on X after exposing a disturbing social media post by Cincinnati Council Member Victoria Parks, who said the Whites “begged for that beat down” in downtown Cincinnati last weekend. This comes on the heels of Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge’s absurd attempt to downplay the Black mob assault, raising very serious concerns about the city’s woke leadership.

“They begged for that beat down! I am grateful for the whole story,” Parks wrote on what appears to be a Facebook post. Bowman took a screenshot of the post and reposted it on X.

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ underage victim Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa leading to feud (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

Trump: Epstein “stole” young woman from Mar-a-Lago spa (Ben Johansen/Politico)

Some Democrats warn that Epstein is a ‘distraction’ from Trump’s unpopular big bill (NBC News)  Guess it’s not getting as much traction as expected, so they’re trying to ‘pivot’.

Trump says Jeffrey Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from him when she worked at Mar-a-Lago spa (Minyvonne Burke/NBC News)

Rep. Burchett Injured by Horse, Keeps Up Epstein Push

Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago? (emptywheel)

Trump jolts Epstein scandal with new comments about Virginia Giuffre and Mar-a-Lago spa (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre, a heartless and revealing admission (Rex Huppke/USA Today)

White House officials say storm over Epstein has calmed (Natalie Allison/Washington Post)

GOP House committee chair yet to issue a subpoena for Epstein files (Kadia Goba/Washington Post)

Senate Democrats Try to Force Release of Epstein Files With Little-Known Law (Michael Gold/New York Times)

White House Officials Fear Epstein Fallout Will Slash Trump’s Crowd Sizes (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)  Or at least the Daily Beaet hopes it will.

Read it.

New video shared on social media shows Hamas looting an aid truck in Gaza, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

“Footage from just 4 days ago shows Hamas terrorists looting an aid truck, this is the same organization spreading false claims about a deliberate starvation campaign in Gaza. Make it make sense,” the IDF wrote above the black-and-white 18-second video clip.

Read it.

Public anger is intensifying over the level of benefits being provided to asylum seekers in Britain, after new footage and council data revealed a two-tier system favouring migrants over taxpayers.

A viral video filmed at a hotel in West Sussex shows migrants living in comfort, with access to buffet-style breakfasts, four-poster beds, PlayStations, jewellery, and even music lessons.

One room appears to contain evidence of alcohol and drug consumption.

Read it.

A Syrian migrant has reportedly bitten off part of an Israeli tourist’s ear in Athens, shouting ‘Free Palestine.’

The alleged victim of the attack, Stav Ben Shoshan, was with his wife at a local beach when assaulted by a group of Syrian migrants. He lost part of his ear to a man shouting “I am Hamas!” who overheard the couple talking to two elderly Israelis in Hebrew.

A representative of Israel’s foreign ministry told journalists that the “attacker is under arrest. We are in contact with him and with the authorities.”

Migrants shouting “To hell with Israel” fit in with a pattern of antisemitic violence seen in Europe this summer. Earlier in July, a group of Israeli teenagers were attacked outside a nightclub in Rhodes, Cyprus.

Read it.

The suspicion that many analysts and British citizens have harboured for months has now been confirmed: the Online Safety Act, introduced as a pioneering piece of legislation to protect minors from harmful content on the internet, in reality serves a much more anti-democratic purpose. Labour MP Barry Gardiner acknowledged on Monday, July 28th, in an interview with GB News that the law also aims to identify and restrict content deemed “harmful,” including expressions of “sentiments contrary to immigration.”

This admission marks a turning point in the debate over freedom of expression in the United Kingdom. Until now, the Labour government had avoided explicitly confirming that the law had an ideological and repressive component, hiding behind the rhetoric of child safety. But Gardiner’s statements have removed any ambiguity.

Read it.

A Syrian man, identified as Wassim Al?M., has been formally charged with attempted murder, dangerous bodily harm, and attempted membership in a foreign terrorist organisation over a stabbing attack that severely injured a Spanish tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial in February.

The victim, a 30-year-old man from the Basque Country of northern Spain, sustained life-threatening neck injuries.

Prosecutors allege Wassim carried out the stabbing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe with the explicit aim of killing Jews, motivated by extremist Islamist and antisemitic views.

The suspect “shares the ideology of the foreign terrorist organisation Islamic State,” federal prosecutors said in a statement.

Read it.

Say what you will about Democrats, they sure can spend some money.

Read it.

A vast network of anti-Israel groups has found “alternative fiscal sponsorships” after a main backer, the Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC), was exposed in a number of lawsuits as the financial powerhouse underwriting the nationwide campus protest movement, a new watchdog report shows.

WESPAC, a nonprofit headquartered in the affluent New York suburb White Plains, served until recently as the official “fiscal sponsor” for many of the organizations orchestrating violent and often anti-Semitic demonstrations on college campuses across the country. With WESPAC now embroiled in nationwide lawsuits, its partner organizations have been forced to find new benefactors and alternate fundraising channels.

WESPAC’s financial relationships with numerous pro-terror groups allowed it to accept tax-deductible donations on behalf of many organizations “directly responsible for targeting Jews with antisemitic rhetoric and creating a hostile environment across the United States,” according to a new report by NGO Monitor, which tracks anti-Israel funding networks. Those organizations include National Students for Justice in Palestine, Within Our Lifetime, the Palestinian Youth Movement, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the Palestinian Feminist Collective, and Adalah-NY.

Been there, done that.

Newsbusters.

This week, major news outlets like ABC and MSNBC have been up in arms over a recent instance of a model doing her job, which was of course, modeling. Calls of “white supremacist dog whistles” and “Nazi propaganda” were the topics of legacy media over a recent American Eagle ad involving actress Sydney Sweeney and her “great jeans genes” play on words.

MSNBC producer/opinion writer Hannah Holland wrote an opinion piece on the “issue” on Monday. Holland, who found herself seemingly suffering from some severe apophenia, had written articles such as “The world of ‘The Hunger Games’ feels disturbingly familiar in Trump’s America,” and “The message behind Melania Trump’s hat.”

The latter claimed that because Melania wore a dark blue hat compared to a light blue hat at Trump’s first inauguration, she was showing undertones that “the next four years are going to be as dire as they seem.”

Holland viewed the American Eagle shift from woke, obese models as an offensive attack of non-inclusivity that promoted “Nazi propaganda.” She even went as far as to say Sweeney’s willingness to participate in the ad was “obviously damaging — and, depending on who you ask, even dangerous.”

Read it.

In a recent op-ed, radio host Jason Rantz argues that Seattle Democrats outraged by President Donald Trump’s new homelessness executive order are ignoring their own responsibility for the crisis.

Trump’s order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” dismantles “Housing First” and “Harm Reduction” strategies, which Rantz calls failed progressive experiments that worsened addiction, street crime, and homelessness. He says local leaders in cities like Seattle and Spokane are “predictably outraged” because the policy is “a direct rebuke to the failed progressive experiments that have crippled Seattle, Spokane, and other left-wing cities.”

Rantz writes that Washington Governor Bob Ferguson called the order “misguided and harmful,” while Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said it was impractical. Rantz counters that their criticisms are hypocritical, as these leaders presided over a surge in encampments, crime, and drug use.

The Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

Because, as we all know, suffering and starvation in Gaza are TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer–and Trump is somehow letting down the side by not at least pretending to be a normal Uniparty President.

Read it.

Jasmine Crockett, the trash-talking Democratic congresswoman from Texas, has become a genuine celebrity among the handful of troubled souls who still watch MSNBC and think Stephen Colbert is actually funny. They love her because she’s loud and obnoxious, but rather than disrupting their peaceful Sunday brunch with the girls, Crockett is disrupting a Democratic establishment that is too polite and insufficiently committed to the anti-Trump resistance. She talks like a deranged MSNBC fan—minus the affected “sassy black woman” accent—venting their outrage in a “Liberal Lushes” group chat.

Crockett, 44, has no real accomplishments to speak of, apart from some meaningless awards (and a diploma from an esteemed private high school in St. Louis). She was named “advocate of the year” at the 2025 Webby Awards for using her online platform to amplify her “commitment to social justice.” (She went viral after calling her Republican colleague, Nancy Mace, a “child” during a civil rights hearing.) Crockett is also the star of numerous YouTube videos with “CLAPS BACK” in the title, so there’s that. Whether she’s denouncing Hispanic Trump voters for having a “slave mentality,” or deriding the “white tears” of her critics, Crockett knows how to get attention.

It was only a matter of time before the mainstream media offered to help Crockett burnish her reputation by writing a glowing profile of the potty-mouthed Democrat who fights. On Sunday, the Atlantic published an article that might have accomplished this goal. Alas, even the liberal journalist was repulsed by Crockett’s toxic narcissism. As a sign of how poorly it went, the congresswoman called the Atlantic reporter, Elaine Godfrey, days before the story came out to complain that the journalist had been contacting her colleagues in the House “without telling her first,” and proclaimed that she was “shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions,” which isn’t a thing.

Read it,

The rise of socialist New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has highlighted a fundamental truth that I learned as a former Democratic elected official: the Democratic Party never learns.

Sure, Democrats occasionally pay lip service to law and order and economic opportunity. But before I announced two years ago that I was officially renouncing my Democratic ties and becoming the only Republican mayor to lead a top 10 American city, I saw over and over again that when given the choice between effective, common-sense growth-focused governance or the fever dreams of radicals – high taxes, burdensome regulations, and hostility toward law enforcement – the Democratic Party will consistently run to the left and jump off the deep end.

In the end, Democrats are content to make cities unaffordable, unlivable, and untenable for businesses – driving out the very people who make cities vibrant. America’s cities deserve better leadership that is grounded in public safety, fiscal responsibility, and a respect for their taxpayers.

Rolling Stone, toilet reading for the Woke.

Yet, somehow, even in an era of presidential meme coins and library fund shakedowns, voters in the critical congressional districts see Democrats as the corrupt ones.

I guess you’re not buying the Narrative Media lies any more.

BuzzFeed.

Try to figure out how many of these are written by women. My count is about 2/3.

The Times (UK)

Letting in a lot of Turd World migrants will do that to you.

UPDATE: Migrant avoids deportation by showing he met his partner in a gay club

UPDATE: Revealed: London’s worst streets for knife crime

Watch it.

Chris Williamson and Rory Sutherland have a fascinating talk about life in Texas.

Their discussion regarding the way that driving helps to socialize people is first-rate.

The distinction between ‘air fryer girlfriends’ and ‘sleeping bag girlfriends’ is worth watching the whole things.

Read it.

In the wake of a mass shooting in New York City that killed four people, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said “idiot control” is needed rather than gun control.

Barring young black males from possessing any kind of weapon would be a step in the right direction.

Hot Air.

It is tempting to believe that the worst people in America are the AWFLS–affluent white liberal females–but perhaps there is an even more dangerous cohort we need to worry about.

The Lumpencommentariate is a larger and growing class of political actors who provide the ground troops and the numbers for the woke mob.

It’s actually AWFULs–Affluent White Female Urban Libeals.

Read it.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Maine arrested an illegally present Jamaican offender after he unlawfully attempted to purchase a firearm. Officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston in partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested Jon Luke Evans July 25 in Biddeford.

At the time of his arrest, Evans was employed as a reserve police officer with the Old Orchard Beach Police Department.

Read it.

Perhaps the greatest example that good policymaking intentions go awry is the minimum wage. Proponents of increasing the minimum wage argue that doing so will help the poor.

If we could snap our fingers and make the poor suddenly rich, there would be no reason to object. Unfortunately, in a world of scarce resources, this is not a possibility. The minimum wage actually tends to make many poor workers worse off and increases unemployment. A recent study on California minimum wage increases demonstrates that fact (yet again).

Professors Jeffrey Clemens, Jonathan Meer, and Olivia Edwards recently put out a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) that demonstrates some adverse effects of minimum wage laws.

The paper covers California’s 2023 law, which enacted a $20 minimum wage for restaurants that had at least 60 locations in the US.

 

Read it.

New York, California, and a host of other Democrat-run states are suing the Trump administration over its efforts to weed noncitizens off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program.

A coalition of 20 attorneys general, led by New York AG Letitia James and California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the lawsuit Monday, arguing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s demand that states turn over personal information about SNAP recipients dating back five years, violates privacy laws.

“We need thta money to pay our underclass peons! These mobs don’t assemble for free, you know!”

Read it.

Anything that celebrates traditional masculine skills must be banned.

The Blue Angels, America’s elite military aviation stunt team now in its 79th year, may have met its match; a Seattle cat lady who says in a new lawsuit the military jets traumatized her ailing cat to death..

It’s not just the cat lady either, Seattle climate activists took out a billboard in Seattle this week declaring, “Say No to Blue Angels.” The billboard depicts two black people covering their ears, a Muslim granny shaking her fist, a white guy with a bullhorn, and a dog who can’t even.

Obama Official Files Bombshell Demand for Epstein Files and Secret Trump Messages (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

Trump Says He Declined Epstein’s Invitation to Visit His Island: ‘I Never Had the Privilege of Going’ (Chris Cameron/New York Times)

We texted nearly 1,100 Americans about Trump and the Epstein files. Here’s what they said. (Washington Post)

Trump Explains Why He Kicked Epstein Out Of Mar-a-Lago; Turned Down Invite To Pedo Island

Been there, done that.

Read it.

A leaked email has further shown how UK state broadcaster the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has misled audiences on events in Gaza since the October 7th pogrom.

Writing in The Spectator on July 28th, broadcaster Jonathan Sacerdoti details how an internal memo entitled “Covering the food crisis in Gaza,” acts as “a top-down editorial diktat that discards impartiality.” Sent to BBC staff on Friday, July 25th, it opens with the assertion that “the argument over how much aid has crossed into Gaza is irrelevant.” Instead, “we [staff] should say” that the current distribution system “doesn’t work.”

Such criticism is directed at the recently created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), not the United Nations’ Hamas-riddled UNWRA NGO. The BBC is instructing journalists to blame the GHF for the failure of aid to get through, rather than, say, the involvement of Hamas terrorists in attacking and looting aid shipments. As Sacerdoti argues,

The closer the GHF and Israeli army get to finally defeating the terrorists, the more shrill the BBC’s insistence that the Jewish state is deliberately starving children.

This now includes a memorandum designed to control the narrative by instructing journalists to ignore any evidence to the contrary. The email even declares that it is ‘indisputable’ that Israel is the occupying power in Gaza, despite disengaging from there in 2005. Israel presents its current action as a temporary one to defeat Hamas and its allies, and not an attempt to acquire territory.

Should they wish to watch live television, British citizens are forced to fund the BBC, on pain of a criminal record. As ‘Auntie’ lurches from one antisemitism row to another, the national broadcaster’s credibility is slumping lower and lower.

Read it.

On Saturday, July 26th, pro-Palestinian activists disrupted Mass at La Madeleine, one of the largest churches in Paris, by bursting in during Mass to chant their slogans.

Five people entered the building while Mass was being celebrated. They shouted “Long live Palestine!” while waving Palestinian keffiyehs. The words “Gaza” and “genocide” rang out in the church, along with the question, “What is the Church doing about this?” They read aloud a text calling for an end to attacks on Palestinian civilians and for respect for international humanitarian law.

Several worshippers, disturbed in their prayers, asked them to leave. Among them were two police officers, who contained the troublemakers and called for reinforcements. The police arrived on the scene and evacuated them. During questioning on the steps of the church, the protesters explained that they had planned similar actions during Sunday morning Masses in other Parisian churches. However, no further attacks were reported.

The priest of La Madeleine, Msgr. Patrick Chauvet, former rector of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, decided to file a complaint. “This is a real blasphemy in the middle of the distribution of the Eucharist. They seemed to be mocking this central moment for Christians,” he told the press, obviously shocked.

The priest tried to engage in discussion with the protesters but was met with a wall of resistance. “I asked them to show some respect for the place and for Holy Communion. For us Christians, this is the most important thing. It is a treasure. They were desecrating that treasure. But the response was chilling: ‘That’s the way it is. The genocide in Gaza is more important,’” he told journalists from Tribune chrétienne. “No, genocide is not more important than the Eucharist,” he replied in his defence.

Read it.

With the reviews and interviews in for a new book, British newspaper readers are getting an insight into how politics now works. Fascist Yoga, by the arts provocateur Stewart Home, is being trailed heavily as showing how historically what he calls ‘modern postural practice’ was attractive to 20th century fascists. He means actual fascists, not figures on the contemporary centre right.

Home’s serious point—he “wanted to do a headstand. However, after some cursory research, he realised something troubling: so did the Waffen-SS,” according to the struggling Observer news site—is providing the hook for headlines that scream yoga is fascist, secretly fascist, a breeding ground for fascists or ‘merely’ racist in nature.

As europeanconservative.com has pointed out before, the hyperbole reflects a tendency to present anyone to the right of Ursula von der Leyen, or even Keir Starmer, as ‘far right’ or worse. Even the English countryside is now ‘racist.’ Now satirists are beginning to wake up to the way that such labelling has gotten out of control—while this publication advises readers to take heart from the allegation.

The Other McCain.

Today is a glorious day of celebration, and if you want to know why I call Glenn Kessler a “dishonest partisan propaganda merchant,” this Breitbart thread on X is a good place to begin, although of course it could never contain every bullshit “fact check” in Kessler’s long and odious career of bullshit fact-checking. When future historians examine how the mainstream media lost all credibility, Glenn Kessler’s career at the Washington Post will certainly deserve its own chapter. The man is to media credibility what Gavrilo Princip was to the empires of Europe.

Of course, the Usual Suspects in the Narrative Media are all wringing their hands and Telling Tales of Woe at this loss of one of the leading champions of Wokery in D.C.

The Foundry.

For decades, American education reformers have promised that technocratic accountability systems would transform our schools. We’ve spent billions implementing standardized tests, creating elaborate school-rating systems, and demanding “data-driven” improvements. Yet two new reports reveal an uncomfortable truth: These government accountability systems aren’t just ineffective—they’re actively misleading parents and policymakers while failing the students they claim to serve.

Read it.

Wild judicial activism has become the norm in the age of Trump, but the latest decision from a federal court on Monday to block Congress’ defunding of Planned Parenthood is the most egregious example yet.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani appears to be on a crusade to ensure that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortion, receives funding from taxpayers today, tomorrow, and forever, no matter how the people’s representatives vote.

The Massachusetts judge ruled that Planned Parenthood clinics around the country must continue to be reimbursed by Medicaid even though Congress just voted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to pull the funding.

What was her justification for blocking an act of Congress?

“Patients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,” Talwani wrote in her Monday order, according to The Associated Press. “In particular, restricting Members’ ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives, and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated STIs.”

I’m not a lawyer, but that doesn’t sound like a legal argument. It’s a policy argument, like the ones debated and voted on in Congress. You know, that governing body intended to make laws for the United States under the Constitution.

Read it.

Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old New York State Assembly member and self-described democratic socialist, stunned political insiders by clinching the June primary over establishment figures like Andrew Cuomo. His platform is unapologetically bold:

An immediate freeze on rent for nearly two million rent-stabilized units

A jump to a $30 minimum wage by 2030

Publicly owned grocery stores in every borough

Free city buses

Sharply higher taxes on millionaires and corporations

Mamdani has also courted controversy, refusing to denounce the phrase “globalize the Intifada” (he calls it a “human-rights slogan”) and later insisting he “oppose[s] any incitement to violence.”

He’s promised to use city power to enforce the International Criminal Court warrant and, in a May forum, labeled India’s Prime Minister Modi a “war criminal” over the Gujarat riots.

Here’s what I want you to notice: This is not policy tinkering. Rather, it’s a strategic escalation.

Read it.

A major strike is looming at Boeing’s St. Louis defense hub after unionized factory workers rejected a contract offer on Sunday. A seven-day “cooling-off” period is now underway, offering a narrow window to revive negotiations. If no deal is reached, the labor action could disrupt critical supply chains for fighter jets and other critical military aircraft, at a time when global conflict is escalating, inventories for weapons are running low, and defense preparedness has been a top priority across Western nations.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 837, which represents 3,200 Boeing defense workers in Missouri and Illinois and is affiliated with the AFL–CIO/CLC trade union, said its members overwhelmingly voted down a new labor contract with Boeing on Sunday.

“IAM Union members delivered a clear message: the proposal from Boeing Defense fell short of addressing the priorities and sacrifices of the skilled IAM Union workforce,” IAM Local 837 wrote in a statement on its website.

“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.” — Calvin Coolidge.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

The Justice Department filed a formal complaint on Monday, accusing U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of misconduct and demanding that he be removed from a high-profile deportation case and face reprimand.

Boasberg has long faced the ire of President Trump, who at one point called for Boasberg’s impeachment over his handling of the case. But Monday’s letter escalates tensions with Trump’s Justice Department, which newly demands Boasberg be investigated and referred for appropriate discipline.

“Judge Boasberg’s actions have harmed the integrity and public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary,” Justice Department Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle wrote in the five-page complaint, which was obtained by The Hill.

Read it.

Last week, Cincinnati, OH made the national news after video footage went viral of crowds exiting a “black culture” jazz music festival. Marauding groups of the fatigue subset (the usual suspects) attacked at least three unsuspecting white victims as they walked along the bustling business district. One victim was an older man who was stomped and punched repeatedly into the road by multiple assailants. Another victim was a woman who was beaten unconscious.

Why did they do it? Because those people were convenient targets, it would seem. Or, perhaps simply because they were the most convenient white targets. It’s hard to say, but one can make an educated guess according to the evidence and common sense.

Newsbusters.

On Monday’s CBS Mornings Plus, co-hosts Vladimir Duthiers and Adriana Diaz brought on Doctors Without Borders U.S. CEO Avril Benoit to promulgate some absurd theories on the war in Gaza.. Discussing the situation of humanitarian aid in the area, all the blame was on Israel as they ignored Hamas’s role in confiscating the aid for themselves, and the correction the Doctors Without Borders head suggested? Countries without borders.

…

While there was truth to the claim that resources in Gaza were limited, and that there was indeed need for humanitarian aid, to place the blame solely on Israel’s restrictions in the war-torn region was a gross misrepresentation of the facts.

Of course, the segment did not so much as mention Hamas even once while discussing the humanitarian crisis, such as their confiscation of aid shipments at gun point.

Federal News Network, a Voice of the You Know Who.

Since the start of the Trump administration, federal workers across the country have experienced mass layoffs as part of a broader effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce and cut spending.

In the last six months, the Trump administration has employed a range of tactics to dismantle portions of the federal government. First, agencies laid off thousands of probationary employees. In February, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent an email to more than 2 million civilian employees offering them to voluntarily leave their jobs in exchange for eight months of pay — some federal agencies later offered another chance to voluntarily resign before they finalized their reduction-in-force (RIF) plans. Entire offices and some agencies have been shut down as a result of these workforce cuts.

Amid a wave of changes and constant fear of potential job loss as layoffs loom, many federal workers found themselves struggling with high levels of anxiety, seeking therapy and medication for the first time in their lives, experiencing chronic insomnia, depression, aggressive outbursts, isolation and even self-harming thoughts, Federal News Network found in a new online survey.

Read it.

A Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) investigation has revealed that disgraced Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appointed two Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked bankers, Dominic Ng (CEO, East West Bank) and Simon Pang (co-founder, Royal Business Bank), to her mayoral transition advisory team in 2022. The investigation found that the two bankers and their institutions funneled over $1 million to Bass’ campaign and the mayor’s nonprofit, which she advises.

The report, titled “Karen Bass Raked In Cash From Chinese Intel-Tied Bankers Before Hiring Them,” noted that it’s unclear what roles Ng and Pang played on Bass’ mayoral transition advisory team, but what’s undeniable is that both have held positions within an influence and intelligence service of the CCP called the United Front Work Department (UFWD).

Read it.

American Eagle Outfitters’ marketing pivot from the toxic ‘woke’ era, which originated from cultural Marxism, to actress Sydney Sweeney’s ‘assets’ appears to be the correct move for the clothing company, given that the Overton Window has shifted center-right, with mainstream Americans cheering the ‘end of woke’. But the woke mob isn’t taking it well; some unhinged liberals are now comparing Sweeney’s denim ads to Nazi propaganda.

Let’s jump right in. One leftist activist on TikTok, with an LGBTQIA plus whatever other letters come next, flag, claimed: “American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this…”

Another unhappy white liberal woman then claimed that American Eagle exactly knew what it was doing with this ad “to revive the Third Reich.”

And all of these complainants are fugly, and I’m not talking about their looks.

Modern feminism is a cope whereby unattractive women can delude themselves into thinking that they matter. All it takes is a truly attractive (and competent) woman (by traditional criteria) to reveal the lie for what it is, which is why they Usual Suspects are having such a meltdown.

In this, Sidney Sweeney has done us all a great service.

UPDATE: Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad slammed as ‘Nazi propaganda’ by crazed woke mob over jeans/genes pun (Chris Nesi/New York Post)

The Telegraph (UK)

A toddler in India bit a venomous cobra so hard that he killed it.

Two-year-old Govinda Kumar was playing in his home in Bankatwa, a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, when he spotted the three-foot long snake and grabbed it.

The cobra lunged at the child and coiled itself around his tiny hands during the incident on Friday, his relatives said.
But instead of screaming, Govinda put the snake’s head in its mouth and clenched his jaw, Mateshwari Devi, the boy’s grandmother, recounted.

He quickly lost consciousness after ingesting some of the deadly venom, but was treated in hospital and has since been discharged.

The snake died on the spot.

A future Avenger.

Read it.

President Trump has told Sir Keir Starmer he must cut taxes and stop small boat crossings if he is to defeat Nigel Farage and win the next election.

The US president said “politics is pretty simple” as he offered Starmer some unsolicited advice during an hour-long press conference at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland on Monday.

He told Starmer that to defeat Farage, he needs to prove he is the “toughest” on immigration and is a “tax cutter”. Trump described those who cross the English Channel on small boats as “bad people”.

Keep the good people, reject the bad people. Obvious common sense advice that Starmer can’t do because it would basically reverse everything Labour had tried to do since 1956.

“How can I get the people to vote for he and the economy to prosper?”
“Stop being a socialist.”
“But I am a socialist.”
“And that’s your problem.”

The Times (UK)

The abiding image of Charles Darwin is of the naturalist in his later years, bearded and with a face etched by time, sitting in his garden at Down House in Kent. But he was a youthful 22-year-old when he embarked on what would be one of the most consequential expeditions in human history: his five-year journey onboard HMS Beagle, beginning in 1831, which gave rise to the theory of evolution by natural selection.

Two centuries on, a magnificent Dutch three-masted topsail schooner — the Oosterschelde — has docked in the shadow of Tower Bridge after a two-year conservation expedition retracing Darwin’s steps, having stopped at big ports where the Beagle made landfall. But whereas Darwin’s voyage forced humanity to reconsider its past, this project looks to the future.

The Darwin200 initiative was spearheaded by the British naturalist and geographer Stewart McPherson, 43, who sought to harness the naturalist’s legacy to inspire and train a new generation of scientific thinkers.

Trump fumes as Epstein scandal dominates headlines, overshadows agenda (Washington Post)

Exclusive: Private Probe of Alleged Epstein–Mossad Links (Jeff Stein/SpyTalk)

NPR Plays Up Bias! Trump ‘Endlessly Linked In Story After Story’ to Epstein

Johnson Blasts Massie and Khanna’s ‘Reckless’ Epstein File Discharge Petition

On Epstein, Democrats have Mike Johnson running scared (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Washington Post Admits: ‘No Evidence’ Trump Tied to Epstein Scandal

Trump in Rage Mode as Epstein Storm Refuses to Die Down (Josephine Harvey/The Daily Beast)

What to know about the metastasizing Jeffrey Epstein controversy (Amber Phillips/Washington Post)

The Epstein Scandal Is a Democrat One: Here’s the Big Names

Trump Said He Threw Epstein Out of Mar-a-Lago

You Must Read ‘Epstein Scandal Is a Democrat One: We Name the Big Names’

Trump Seeks Swift Deposition of Murdoch in Epstein Defamation Case

Trump asks for swift deposition of Murdoch in Epstein defamation case (Luc Cohen/Reuters)

PROPAGANDA: NBC Implies EU Deal Was Done as a Distraction from Epstein

Ghislaine Maxwell files Supreme Court brief appealing Epstein conviction (Marc Caputo/Axios)

Targeting Epstein’s ‘sweetheart’ deal, Senate Republican forgets who was president in 2008 (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump says he turned down visit to Epstein’s island (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Trump: Name May Have Been Planted in Epstein Files by Dems

Trump seeks quick deposition of Rupert Murdoch in Jeffrey Epstein letter defamation case (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

Trump Reveals Why He Fell Out With Jeffrey Epstein

‘We’re not shielding anything,’ Vance says of Epstein files (Hannah Demissie/ABC News)

Trump Gives Totally Different Answer Than White House For Epstein Split (Ryan Grenoble/HuffPost)

Trump Takes Break From $10 Million Golf Vacation To Put Forward New Jeffrey Epstein Explanation (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Read it.

Left wing comedian Bill Maher admitted on Monday that he was dead wrong about the effect of President Trump’s tariffs – saying in an episode of his “Club Random”podcast that while many economists predicted tat Trump’s tariffs would immediately lead to inflation, he was among the doomsayers who were wrong.

Read it.

A large portion of the conversation on the Middle East currently revolves around reports of starvation in Gaza—indeed, this is supposed to be part of the reason France’s Emmanuel Macron is preparing to officially recognise a Palestinian state.

Yet Hamas’ opposition to a humanitarian foundation, which says it has distributed almost 100 million meals in Gaza since late May, appears to have gone largely underreported.

The Wall Street Journal reported late last week that the terror group had the shutting down of this U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) as the “no. 2 item” on its “list of demands in ceasefire negotiations on Thursday.” The paper also quoted an American official who said the GHF has “caused Hamas more fear than anything else has in the past two years.”

Human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky explained that this was because the foundation “works.”

Hamas wants all aid to flow through them, so as to support their iron grip on ‘Palestinians’.

Read it.

Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

Read it.

Passengers onboard a short flight from London Luton to Glasgow were forced to deal with an imposing man who “pushed” female flight attendants and said “I’m going to bomb the plane” on Sunday morning.

In footage shared online, the man can be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) three times before being tackled by others on the flight.