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The Department of Justice removed the newly appointed U.S. attorney for New Jersey on July 22, accusing a panel of federal judges in the state of refusing, for political motives, to permanently appoint President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, as the top federal prosecutor.

Judges on the U.S. District Court in New Jersey named Desiree Leigh Grace, the second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. attorney’s office, to replace Habba on July 22 after her 120-day interim term ended.

Just hours later, in a statement on X, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Grace had been removed from the position.

People in the Deep State need to wake up and smell the smoke: You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

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Spanish officials have spent the months since one of the worst power outages in European history publicly blaming everything but their overreliance on renewables. But their actions behind the scenes show they know this to have been the true cause.

Most tellingly, the nation’s gas consumption for electricity generation soared by an impressive 41% in the first half of the year. Bloomberg reports that this heavier-than-normal reliance on fossil fuel was intended to “stabilise the country’s power network in the wake of a nationwide blackout in April.”

Spanish energy boss Arturo Gonzalo is also quoted in the paper saying “gas played a decisive role in restoring normality in Spain after the April 28th blackout, ensuring supply to all consumers,” adding that combined-cycle plants went from supplying about 5% of the electricity produced in Spain to 49% “during hours that were critical for the country.”

The Foundry.

Countless Americans see the United States as the land of opportunity. This belief is vividly demonstrated through the relentless pursuit of the American dream. According to the Small Business Administration, there are over 30 million small businesses across America.

For each one of the individuals behind these businesses, opportunity is not just an ideal, it is a reality. Small business owners sacrifice their time, savings, sweat, and tears for the chance at providing meaningful services and jobs for their communities, all while pursuing their own American dream.

For a small business, customers and employees are more often viewed as an extension of family and community. Yet, for the last decade, Democrats in Washington, D.C., and unelected bureaucrats—people who have never started a business or created a job in their communities—have worked to advance costly, burdensome regulations, pretending that they know what is best for small businesses and their employees.

Those that can, do. Those that can’t do, teach. Those that can’t teach, get a government job.

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French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has decided to implement his threats against the Algerian government and is going on the offensive: forty Algerian dignitaries are to have privileges they have enjoyed for many years withdrawn. The French government intends to show its anger at the Algerian authorities’ deadlock on the issue of deportations and the case of writer Boualem Sansal.

Discussions between Paris and Algiers have stalled, and no improvement is in sight.

In the space of a month, Algiers has refused to accept no fewer than four Algerian nationals deported from France. Le Journal du Dimanche revealed that one of them, known for Islamist radicalisation, was deported to Algeria on July 17th, but the authorities cited the lack of a consular pass and refused him entry into the country. However, he had a valid passport that should have allowed him to return to Algeria without difficulty. Despite this, the individual returned to France on the same day, dealing a blow to the minister of the interior, whose deportation orders ultimately prove ineffective. Three other men have experienced the same scenario and are now crowding administrative detention centres on French soil.

Power Line.

President Trump has completed an epic six months, with accomplishments that dwarf those of almost any of his predecessors in the same time period. But liberals aren’t giving up hope: they remain convinced that the roof is going to fall in, at any moment.

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The Democrats hope for a deus ex machina in which Epstein’s ghost will somehow relieve them of their Trump nightmare. Which strikes me as delusional. As I keep reminding people, Epstein was a Democrat. His contacts were principally among Democrats, including Democrats in academia. The only politician–I emphasize, the only politician–known to have had a significant relationship with Epstein was Bill Clinton. (Someday, maybe we will learn what the blue dress and high heels were all about.) Donald Trump knew Epstein casually because of the Palm Beach connection, but Trump’s most notable act was kicking Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago. Maybe he caught on to Epstein’s corruption before any of the Democrats did.

In any event, there is little chance that any new investigation into the dead Epstein’s affairs will have any perceptible impact on Trump’s standing with the public. And the fact that the Democrats couldn’t care less about the fact that such an investigation is more likely to bring Bill Clinton into further disrepute (and possibly Hillary) shows how far that party has come.

Finally, what is the other reason why Times opinion writers think Trump had a “very bad week”? A “stinging SCOTUS dissent.” But wait! If it was a dissent, that means Trump won the case. In fact, he won the Department of Education issue in the Supreme Court on an 8-1 vote, with no other justices joining Ketanji Jackson’s “stinging dissent.”

This is how deep Democrats have to dig in their search for good news.

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The highest crime rate of any German city is Bremen, and it just so happens that this city state also has the highest share of residents with an immigration background, at least compared to other states.

Used to be that the only thing you had to worry about in Germany was German criminals. Now they’re importing them.

UPDATE: Migrants Significantly Overrepresented in Berlin Knife Attacks

UPDATE: Unregistered Anti-Israel Demonstration Calls for Violence in Berlin

Newsbusters.

Status newsletter founder and former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy interviewed NPR chief executive Katherine Maher on Sunday about the awfulness of what she saw (at least through Darcy’s paraphrasing) as a decision that was “politically motivated, structurally damaging, and devastating to rural communities where public broadcasting is often the last reliable source of local journalism….”

In journo-speak, of course, ‘Reliable’ means ‘pushes the Narrative’ and ‘Devastating to rural communities’ means ‘devastating to Cloud People influence among the Dirt People’.

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Colorado’s Democrat attorney general on Tuesday sued a sheriff’s deputy for allegedly helping federal immigration agents find and arrest a college student who had an expired visa.

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A man accused of deliberately driving his car into a crowd of pedestrians outside a Los Angeles nightclub over the weekend, injuring dozens of people, some critically, was charged on Tuesday with 37 counts of attempted murder, prosecutors said.The suspect, Fernando Ramirez,…

Well. There it is.

The Telegraph (UK).

A four-star hotel in Canary Wharf is being earmarked by the Home Office to house migrants.

Protesters gathered outside the Britannia International Hotel on Tuesday night after incorrect reports claiming asylum seekers were being transferred from Epping to London’s financial district.

The Home Office later clarified this was not the case.

However, according to Tower Hamlets Council, Labour intends to repurpose the London hotel as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers.

On Wednesday morning, workers were pictured wheeling beds and mattresses into the hotel.

UPDATE: Police take pro-migrant protesters to asylum hotel

UPDATE: Unmasked: The men masterminding the Channel migrant crossings

ScienceAlert.

In a bid to better understand fear and how it works, a team led by neurobiologist Hui-Quan Li of the University of California San Diego has mapped the changes in brain chemistry and neural signaling in mice receiving hefty frights – and, even better, figured out how to stop it.

“Our results provide important insights into the mechanisms involved in fear generalization,” says neurobiologist Nicholas Spitzer of UC San Diego.

“The benefit of understanding these processes at this level of molecular detail – what is going on and where it’s going on – allows an intervention that is specific to the mechanism that drives related disorders.”

The study was conducted in mice genetically modified to express a specific transporter of the important neurotransmitter glutamate in the brain, as well as a fluorescent protein in the nuclei of their brain cells, to allow the team to track the changes in the brain.

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Sunday marked six months to the day since President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, but the epidemic of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” shows no signs of abating.

To the contrary, this pernicious affliction, which has ravaged the mental health of hundreds of thousands on the Left, appears to be worsening with each new public policy pronouncement of the Trump administration—most recently, the defunding of PBS and NPR.

Still, no one has yet suggested “stopping the spread” of Trump Derangement Syndrome—TDS, for short—through mandatory masking or six feet of social distancing.

That would seem to be advisable, given the monthly nationwide outbreak of “No Kings,” “50505,” and “Good Trouble” anti-Trump rallies.

These astroturf (i.e., not grassroots) uprisings are superspreaders for the TDS virus, intended for transmission to otherwise normal, mentally stable individuals.

There’s no known treatment, much less a cure, for this contagion.

Short of that, Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, has introduced the Trump Derangement Syndrome Research Act of 2025.

Victor Davis Hanson.

This week in the news, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, made a discovery that she has documents, under her purview, that are pertinent to the so-called Russian collusion hoax of 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Remember what that was? During the campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016, there were allegations that Donald Trump was enlisting Russian President Vladimir Putin to disparage or hurt Hillary Clinton for his benefit.

That charge was never substantiated. Special counsel Robert Mueller—after Donald Trump was elected—spent 22 months and $40 million and found no evidence that Donald Trump was directly involved in any Russian escapade to throw the election.

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German police union GdP has issued a stark warning about the city’s rising gang violence, with spokesman Benjamin Jendro describing the situation as a permanent state of street fights involving machetes, knives, and firearms “practically every weekend.”

“It is a big problem,” he said, adding that rival gangs are battling over “drug trafficking, prostitution, and protection rackets.”

Jendro further expressed concern about the growing visibility of these violent clashes, saying rival networks, including Arab, African, and Chechen clans, are all seeking their share: “They want a piece of this big cake.”

Another police union, the DPolG union, recently branded the capital’s streets “Wild West,” following a violent clash in Neukölln involving stone-throwing and stab wounds.

The union’s Berlin state chair Bodo Pfalzgraf stated bluntly: “The state’s authority is eroding, because the police are not taken seriously.” He urged the government to enact swift and firm justice.

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Nearly 99% of serious terrorism cases in Germany during the first half of 2025 involved foreign nationals or Islamist extremists, according to newly released federal data. Of the 146 proceedings launched by the Federal Prosecutor General between January and June, 84 were linked to Islamist terrorism and 60 to other forms of foreign-related extremism.

Only two cases involved right-wing extremism, and none were tied to left-wing groups. The figures—published in response to a parliamentary inquiry—raise questions about Germany’s current security priorities and whether public debate is focused on the most pressing threats.

The Federal Prosecutor General’s office, which handles serious national security offenses including terrorism and espionage, released the figures in response to a parliamentary inquiry. The data reflects ongoing challenges associated with global extremist networks and highlights the complexity of ensuring internal security in a diverse and open society.

Member of Parliament Martin Hess, of the right-wing AfD, said the figures should serve as a wake-up call, urging a more honest and balanced public debate on extremism. He argued that the data clearly point to the growing threat of imported radicalisation and called for it to be taken far more seriously. He also called for stricter migration and security measures, including enhanced deportation policies for foreign nationals involved in extremist activity.

While public and political debate in Germany often centers on the threat of right-wing extremism, these findings show where the real problem lies. The figures also show a notable increase in cases compared to the same period in 2024, reflecting ongoing security challenges both domestically and internationally.

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The southern French city of Nîmes, home to over 150,000 people, has decided to implement a nightly curfew for minors under the age of 16 as a desperate attempt to curb the spread of gang violence largely linked to drug trafficking in the city’s migrant-heavy neighborhoods.

The curfew runs between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., and came into effect on the night of Monday, July 21st, for an initial two-week period that can be renewed every 15 days.

According to local authorities, the radical measure is needed because of “a succession of shootings, score-settling, and gang tensions” that have been gripping the city for the past weeks.

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

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

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My man….

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Dillard’s Inc., one of the largest department store chains in the United States, has filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeking shareholder approval to relocate its corporate domicile from Delaware to Texas.

The board’s decision, disclosed in a recent regulatory filing, marks a significant step in a growing trend of companies abandoning Delaware as their state of incorporation due to increasing concerns over shareholder litigation and court rulings unfavorable to corporate leadership.

Dillard’s, which operates about 270 stores in 30 states, employs around 40,000 workers and generates over $7 billion in annual revenue. The company has long been a staple in American retail, offering fashion apparel, cosmetics, and home furnishings.

According to the SEC filing, the company cited “certain high-profile litigation outcomes in Delaware that involved companies with controlling stockholders” as a primary reason for the proposed move.

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They were hoping for tenure but had to get a Real Job (well, a Government Job) instead.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday called for a “fundamental reset” of financial regulations to ensure they are aligned with the nation’s domestic and international priorities.

reforms” in bank regulation, noting that the system has been marked by “regulation by reflex,” where bank regulators tend to introduce new rules after issues have already occurred.

“Rather than preempting crises, regulators all too often react to them after the fact. They play the role of a hazmat cleanup team instead of preventing dangerous spillovers in the first place,” Bessent said.

“Rather than reflexively regulate anything that hits the headlines, we need to instead be more explicit about our vision for the financial system,” he added.

As Aldgra Fredly reports for The Epoch Times, Bessent said the Treasury will reinforce reform efforts by working to “break through policy inertia, settle turf battles, drive consensus, and motivate action to ensure no single regulator holds up reform.”

Government has a tendency to ignore a situation until it blows up, and then run around in circles and jump up and down in order to look like they’re Doing Something (even if it’s wrong). This was FDR’s entire political program.

As MAGA world focuses on Epstein, Trump seeks focus on anything else (Cleve R. Wootson Jr/Washington Post)

A QAnon-affiliated figure has hosted Trump’s VA secretary and at least four GOP members of Congress since May (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America)  “QAnon-affiliated” is when they want to say MAGA but they can’t even pretend.

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Rory Sutherland is one of the most entertaining thinkers I’ve ever seen.

I think you’ll agree.

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In a classic case of central planning, lawmakers in Los Angeles passed a bill in May to bring the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 by 2028, while also imposing a new $8.25 per hour mandatory health care contribution. Implementation of that bill is currently on hold as the city clerk reviews the signatures of a referendum petition that would bring the bill to a public vote in June 2026.

Los Angeles’ sector-specific wage hike follows on the heels of California’s statewide $20 minimum wage mandate for fast-food workers that went into effect in April 2024.

The consequences of that wage hike on the fast-food industry should be a warning sign to Los Angeles, especially as it prepares to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Crucial to the success of those Olympic games will be the capability of the city’s hotels and its Los Angeles International Airport to serve an estimated 15 million visitors.

According to a new study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research, California’s 25% increase in the minimum wage (from $16 to $20) for fast-food workers led to a 3.2% decline in fast food employment, which translated to 18,000 lost jobs.

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Starting with a meme and a joke on social media, the ‘Nicolas’ movement—named after a common first name that now symbolises the frustration of young working people in France—has become a mass phenomenon in just a few weeks. It speaks to workers who feel they are financing a bloated state that has nothing to offer them in return. Meanwhile, other French people are rallying under the banner of the ‘Gueux’ (beggars) and making their discontent heard. Could the government now be facing a new wave of unrest similar to the Yellow Vest movement, which paralysed the country in 2018?

Two informal social revolt movements have been stirring France for several months.

Washington Monthly, yet another fatuous Voice of the Crust.

Yeah? With what? What lever of power do the Democrats have in their hands, that they can ignore ‘negotiate’ and jump to ‘get tough’?

In late summer of a typical year, both parties in Congress are drafting bipartisan appropriations legislation that won’t get filibustered in the Senate and will keep the federal government open when the next fiscal year starts on October 1.

Yeah, both arms of the Uniparty get together to divvy up the swag.

This year is not typical.

Thank you, Donald Trump.

Congressional Republicans, at President Donald Trump’s behest, have unapologetically broken faith in the appropriations process by undermining a bipartisan agreement struck just four months ago.

As Democrats have done every time they could get away with it so long as I’ve been alive.

That deal kept the government open through the current fiscal year. Since Democrats can no longer trust Republicans to keep their word, they should abandon negotiations over Fiscal Year 2026 spending and let the Republican majority figure out how to keep the government open.

Democrats are fine ones to bitch about others not ‘keeping their word’. And, unlike Democrats, Republicans aren’t focused on keeping the government open; a lot of them would much rather shut it down.

Proglodytes have this annoying habit of talking as if they have power even when they don’t. I suspect that’s because, in their own minds, they still do; them not having power is no part of the fantasy world that they habitually inhabit.

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The United States will leave the United Nations’ culture and education agency UNESCO as President Donald Trump continues to pull his country out of international institutions he has long criticized, two European diplomats said.

I remember as a child being forced by my school to go door to door and beg for pennies for UNICEF. I root my hatred for the U.N. and all its works in that experience.

UPDATE: Trump to pull US out of UNESCO over DEI policies, pro-Palestinian, pro-China tilt (Diana Nerozzi/New York Post)

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There are plenty of comments about the death of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. These tend to appear when the dollar index declines. However, these “dollar death” reports are greatly exaggerated and fail to answer a simple question: What is the alternative?

If you want to bet on the euro as a global reserve currency ahead of the imposition of the digital euro, which will obliterate all limits to central bank surveillance and excess, be my guest.

Furthermore, the enormous military spending and public expenditure plans that have been announced in 2025 add to the giant committed unfunded liabilities of member states, moving from 350% in the case of Germany to 500% of GDP in the case of Spain.

The Chinese yuan is only used in 4.5% of global transactions. With capital controls, exchange rate fixing and significant legal and investor insecurity due to government control of institutions, it is difficult to believe that China’s yuan will be an alternative to the US dollar. Additionally, I do not believe that the Chinese government wants to eliminate those barriers and, as such, has no desire to be a world reserve currency. This is a similar problem with the currency of Brazil, Russia, India, or South Africa. Would you accept your salary and savings in a currency issued by countries with capital controls as well as significant legal and investor security challenges?

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operations during one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in Italian history, prompting a furious backlash from government officials who say the smugglers are to blame, not the rescuers.

More than 90 people were killed by the 2023 disaster near the town of Cutro, including at least 30 children. Many others were injured.

Reports on those being sent to trial—for negligent shipwreck and multiple manslaughter—have somehow failed to mention that joint efforts of the Italian Coast Guard and Frontex, the European border agency, resulted in more than 80 people on the ship being rescued. That was thanks to the deployment of many motorboats, vessels, and a helicopter.

Frontex said in a statement shortly after the event that those who lost their lives did so “due to the actions of unscrupulous people smugglers who crammed people on board in bad weather conditions.”

Responding to the news of these trials, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini—currently being pursued himself in a separate migrant case—said he had “one single word: SHAME.”

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Don’t blame them a bit. Go where you’re treated best.

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An 18-year-old man with Macedonian roots has been arrested in Austria on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks against “Western institutions.” The radicalized youth, reportedly born and raised in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district of Upper Styria, was apprehended on Sunday, July 20th, upon entering Austria, following a tip from a foreign intelligence agency.

According to the Austrian authorities, the suspect had been researching bomb-making and attack methods online and is believed to support a foreign Islamist terrorist organization. The Styrian State Office for State Security and Combating Extremism launched an investigation into his activities, and the Leoben Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered his immediate arrest. Although the suspect denied planning any attacks during questioning, a request for pre-trial detention has been submitted.

This is not the first time Austria has faced terrorism-related incidents involving radicalized youth. In Vienna, a 15-year-old is currently on trial for allegedly planning an ISIS-inspired attack at the city’s Westbahnhof station, after pledging allegiance to the terrorist group and researching weapons and explosives. In a separate case in Germany, a Syrian teenager is being prosecuted for his role in a planned bombing targeting a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, where he allegedly translated bomb-making instructions and supported the main suspect.

These cases highlight a disturbing pattern of extremist plots emerging across the region.

All  Muslims are ‘Islamists’. Some are just to lazy to do anything about it.

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Matt’s wife is from Eastern Europe. She loves England as much as he does, which is why she wanted to come here over a decade ago. But, he says, neither he nor his wife feel like they live in England anymore. “Everywhere is overrun with Muslims,” he says. Luton—a town not very far away—has over 26 official mosques. Crime is up. Anti-social behaviour is up. Meanwhile, Matt’s mortgage, monthly bills, grocery shop, insurance, and general cost of living are crippling him and his family. He feels crushed and alienated from his own land.

As a self-employed worker, every six months, he sees the taxman come knocking and fleecing him of everything he has managed to save. At the same time, he increasingly feels that his tax money is put to poor use. He complains to me of illegal immigrants being housed in hotels throughout the country, the NHS collapsing and yet focusing its efforts on so-called ‘transgender re-alignment surgeries,’ or as Matt calls them, “chopping nobs off.”

Eventually, the conversation goes where it so often does nowadays: the rape-and-torture Muslim gangs, and the imprisonment of politically incorrect Tweeters like Lucy Connolly. “Why am I ‘far-right’ for being annoyed about all these Muslims raping kids?” Matt rhetorically asks me.

Over half the self-employed labourers Matt knows have already left the country. Some have gone to Australia, others to Poland, one to Hungary. “There isn’t so much LGBTLMNOP rubbish over there—it’s better for the kids,” he says.

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A CNN doctor who painted a dark picture of President Donald Trump’s health appears not to have practiced medicine since her residency, instead spending her career as a diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist. She is also an “apostle” of a church whose leader describes Trump as the “antichrist.”

Chris Pernell, a frequent television doctor on CNN and other news stations, warned last week that President Trump’s broadly unremarkable diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency could be more than it seemed.

In any case, it’s Trump’s problem, not ours.

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The Department of Defense (DOD) is looking to restructure current promotion systems to ensure that personnel directly engaged in military and combat operations get top positions, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in an announcement posted to X on July 20.

“America’s sons and daughters who serve in our military deserve the best leaders commanding them, which is why we need to reform the promotion system at DOD, how we get those leaders,” Hegseth said.

Stuart Scheller, senior adviser to the DOD undersecretary in personnel and readiness, who joined Hegseth in the announcement, has been tasked with “looking at the entirety of the selection and retention process for our military’s officer corps,” Hegseth said.

Well, we used to do that….

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America’s representative system relies on voters trusting that their legal ballots will be counted, but the Left’s push for Big Labor unions in every aspect of American society threatens to erode that firm foundation.

How can American voters trust the integrity of the system if the election workers who manage it join a hyper-partisan union that endorses, bankrolls, and helps elect Democrats?

Yet that is exactly what election workers in Chicago are attempting to do.

Employees at the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners sought to unionize and join the Service Employees International Union Local 73 in July 2024. The SEIU local said the union would include between 80 and 90 election workers, including clerks, polling place investigators, equipment specialists, and others.

The board argued that the state’s election code bars employees from engaging in “political activity,” and therefore the employees cannot join the union. The board noted in an August filing that SEIU 73 lobbies legislatively, endorses candidates, and makes political contributions.

“Plainly, these ‘political matters’ are precisely the type of activity in which the Union and its members regularly and effectively engage,” the filing reads, according to the Chicago Tribune. Board workers “strictly cannot, under any circumstances” engage in those activities, the board argued.

An administrative law judge ruled the other way, however, the Tribune more recently reported.

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srael has refused to renew the visa for Jonathan Whittall, the senior U.N. aid official for the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Sunday, reports The New York Times.

Saar cited “biased and hostile conduct against Israel” by Whittall as the reason.

Eri Kaneko, spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said visas for U.N. staff were recently renewed for shorter periods than usual and access requests to Gaza were denied for multiple agencies.

How Trump Deflected MAGA’s Wrath Over Epstein, at Least for Now (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

QAnon world roiled by Trump opposing releasing the Epstein files (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America)  I guess they got tired of typing ‘MAGA’.

MAGA-Geddon: It’s Been One Month Since Donald Trump Started ‘World War III’ by Bombing Iran

Newsbusters.

Here’s a rule of thumb: Anybody who thinks that the Federal Reserve isn’t innately a political entity should have his head examined. But the collective of prefrontal cortex-challenged geniuses on The Washington Post editorial board are acting as if this politicization only started when President Donald Trump started putting pressure on Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.

This gives new meaning to the term “headcase.”

The Post’s July 15 editorial was about as clear an attempt to drum up cheap scare porn as it gets. “Trump’s attacks on the Fed are worse than you think,” the editorial board cried. With Trump, it’s always “worse than you think.”

“Politicizing the Federal Reserve could unmoor inflation expectations and drive up borrowing costs.” “Unmoor inflation?” Really? And who exactly does the newspaper think was largely responsible for unmooring the 40-year high inflation crisis by arbitrarily overloading the money supply in the first place?

John C. Wright.

Leftism is a process of removing all good things from Christian life until nothing is left by the mocking void of Hell.

The process consists of four steps. We will use the Sexual Revolution as the example.

DEMORALIZATION. the first step is to remove common sense rules and restrictions, traditions and guidelines by calling them “taboos.” Those who uphold traditional Christian virtues are scorned and demoralized. Teaching virtue stops. Anarchy results.

DESTABILIZATION: The next step is to demand equality and nonjudgmentalism between healthy versus unhealthy expressions of the sexual anarchy. This is done by stigmatizing virginity as uncool, while stigmatizing marriage as an oppression against women. Sexual roles are abolished. Young women, naturally, fall prey to the unchecked lust of men of all ages, and young women become the especially enemy of old women.

Family life is stigmatized. Fatherhood is demeaned. Boys are drugged and conditioned to act like girls. Contraception is legalized. Abortion is renamed “reproductive health” in a perfect Orwellian word-reversal.

CRISIS: Third, morality is inverted. Whores become aspirational culture heroes, boasting of how many men couple with them. Ugliness, such as tattoos and nose rings, replaces lipstick and high heels, which are now the particular province of cross dressers. Chivalry is anathematized as “white knighting.” The ME TOO movement now redefines all sexual activity (except for fetishism and perversion) as rape culture. All male attention is the “male gaze” and Playboy magazine, at one time the foremost advocate of sexual liberation, is now the enemy of women. Chastity becomes perversion and perversion becomes the norm. The abomination of sodomy becomes a sacrament of marriage.

NORMALIZATION: Public institutions enforce the new inverted morality. This requires strict censorship of all press, media, entertainment, and, in the Internet Age, social media and private thought. Silent prayer near abortion mills is outlawed. Idols to Satan are erected in public spaces, while Christian decorations and monuments are banished.

In order for men to be women and women to be men, fact and reason are outlawed. Honest discussion of scientific matters is outlawed. Honest reporting in the news is outlawed.

Gaslighting — lies too outrageous ever to be believed — becomes the norm in all discussions and thought. Reason stops. The gift of speech, in effect, is removed from the Sons of Adam.

And women kill more children in the womb than all the wars of all men of all time combined.

Hell reigns.

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Back at our church in L.A., I used to hang out with some of Hollywood’s top stunt people, like Phil, who floated down across the fountain of the Bellagio into the back of a moving convertible in one of the “Hangover” movies. Or Terri, who would smash through car windows and jump jet-skis world record distances. As amazing as Phil and Terri’s stunts were, they have nothing on congressional Democrats.

In recent days, their stunt work has been sublime. They’ve made Tom Cruise’s stunts in the “Mission Impossible” movies look as tame as driving Miss Daisy.

Take New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., who’s become such a drama queen you’re more likely to see him on “Inside Actors Studio” than C-SPAN. His latest stunt? Leading his Democratic colleagues in storming out of a vote over one of Trump’s judicial nominees.

The Democrats don’t like Emil Bove. Fine. I don’t like progressive judges who think they’re president, act like God, and wipe their hind parts with the Constitution. But rather than state their case, vote “no,” and take the loss like adults, Booker went all Mommy Dearest. His chewing of the scenery did more damage to the Senate hearing room than anything done on Jan. 6.

Dramacrats indeed.

unHerd.

I wish I didn’t know who Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot are. As you no doubt know by now, the Astronomer CEO and his firm’s HR chief were caught on the jumbotron at a Coldplay concert. He tried to sneak away, while she covered her face, but it was too late. Someone posted the footage online. A pile-up ensued. And their lives were turned upside down.

As I say, I wish I didn’t know who they are. And that’s because any of us might, for any particular reason, become Andy Byron or Kristin Cabot: flawed people in the wrong place at the wrong time. Anybody can make a bad-but-irrelevant-to-the-rest-of-us mistake on camera and face personal destruction. What such episodes reveal is a pathology in the social body, and the desperate need for a new ethic of privacy.

The “Coldplay-concert-couple” story is fundamentally irrelevant and effectively contentless, telling us nothing about the world, about ourselves; it isn’t particularly funny or tragic or profound. There is no pathos, no insight. True, the current culture on X and other social-media apps is perhaps less immediately destructive than it was during peak woke (circa 2017 to 2021). Still, the viral potential of these kinds of stories is a warning sign that our culture is obsessed with shame, surveillance, and control. An obsession with other people’s private lives is a sickness.

Yeah, well, in the modern world, there’s a lot of sickness going around. Other people aren’t seen as actual, you know, people, but rather as prey.

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Multiple leftist media outlets attacked Swedish pastor Håkan Persson, the parish priest of Markaryd, after a recent social media post in which he criticized the new rainbow-colored, LGBT-friendly vestments designed to be the symbol of the progressivism of the Church of Sweden.

In his Facebook post, Persson stated that the rainbow-colored chasuble and stole, designed at the initiative of the Västerås diocese, “will not enter Markaryd’s church as long as I am vicar.”

While the media paints him as acting from “a hidden minority-intolerant agenda” and accuses him of discriminating against the LGBT community in his parish, the priest insists he merely follows the liturgical rules of the church, and his doors remain open to anyone, but not to momentary political trends and sexual advertising.

“In the Church of Sweden, we have liturgical vestments that follow the church year. We actually have rules for that,” Persson explained. Anything other than white, red, green, and purple, depending on the liturgical season, is inconsistent with the Church’s official guidelines, he said.

Doesn’t stop some people.

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Until the big beautiful bill passed, the federal government was not able to review Medicaid data to determine whether beneficiaries were claiming benefits in more than one state. Amazing, but apparently true. The Unleash Prosperity Hotline explains:

Acting on new authority from the One Big Beautiful Bill, CMS has scanned the Medicaid rolls, and found that an astonishing 2.8 million people were enrolled in either Medicaid programs in multiple states or both Medicaid and an Obamacare exchange plan. Ending this double-dipping alone will save an estimated $14 billion per year.

Estimates of Medicare fraud run as high as $120 billion per year, and Medicaid fraud is, in all likelihood, even worse. Double dipping in two states is the barest tip of the iceberg.

Here in Minnesota, we have essentially no eligibility checks on Medicaid benefits. We don’t even know whether recipients of Medicaid live in Minnesota, so, among other things, we make it easy to claim benefits in two or more states. This is so stupid that even Minnesotans don’t like it. The polling that we have unveiled on our Minnesota DOGE tour and in the current issue of Thinking Minnesota, just now dropping in mailboxes, finds that 75% of respondents want Medicaid recipients to have their eligibility reviewed annually–remarkably, we don’t do that–and 89% favor requiring all Minnesota Medicaid recipients to live in Minnesota. One can only wonder about the remaining 11%.

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The French high authority for health, which has been working on transgender issues since 2022, has published its recommendations, which exclude minors—a victory for those who work tirelessly to protect children from transgender madness.

Three years ago, the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), an independent public authority responsible for advising the state on health issues based on scientific recommendations, launched a working group on the “medical transition pathway for transgender people.” There was every reason for concern, as Le Figaro had pointed out that the group in question was overwhelmingly composed of trans people, members of trans activist associations, or health professionals closely aligned with the trans lobby, to the exclusion of other organisations that could have provided a different and more measured perspective.

On Friday, July 18th, the HSA published a document outlining its initial recommendations for adults—while excluding minors “due to a lack of consensus.”

No matter how bad we have it in the U.S., other countries have it worse.

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Taxpayer money is being funnelled through the health ministry in Baden-Württemberg—a state in southwest Germany—to a drag workshop for children. And all this under the guise of “child and youth protection.”

The local administration’s official website for the event—one of many “protection action days” listed for the coming months—says it is targeted specifically at “queer youth” who will be enabled to “creatively explore gender identity, gender expression and social role expectations.”

Through makeup, costume styling, and performance, the young people develop their own looks and stage performances, which they work on together with experienced drag artists.

Apollo News states that the event is aimed at 14- to 27-year-olds who will be taught dances by drag artists. It is unclear how much money has been handed to its organisation.

The stated aim of this event, which is set to be held in the evening on July 27th, is to protect queer youth “from experiences of discrimination by allowing them to express themselves in a protected and valued manner.” It has received some backlash on social media, but has gone largely unreported.

News of the class comes less than a month after a Christian Social Union (CSU) member in Bavaria was threatened with expulsion from the party for protesting against a separate drag event for children.

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A fast-food hamburger chain long associated with California is moving its headquarters out of the Democrat-led state, according to its owner.

In-N-Out owner Lynsi Snyder said she was moving the company to the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee, with plans for southeastern expansion.

“There’s a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business is not easy here,” Snyder told Allie Beth Stuckey on the “Relatable” podcast released Friday.

Time to leave.

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Earlier this month, Massachusetts reported a “troubling” 20.5% increase in antisemitic hate crimes in 2024 in the state amid an overall decline in hate crimes. Chicago stated on Friday hate crimes in the city “fell by 25% in 2024, with substantial declines across nearly every category.” One of the categories that didn’t see a decline is anti-Jewish hate crimes, which Chicago said was “of particular alarm” and which “surged” by 58% and accounts for 37.6% of all reported hate crimes in the city.

“This is part of a national increase in anti-Jewish hate crimes but is especially troubling given that Jewish residents represent just 3% of Chicago’s population,” according to the office of Brandon Johnson, the city mayor.

The mayor’s office also said that hate crimes against gay men were up, but the press release didn’t say how much.

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A New York Democrat, running to be Nassau County’s district attorney of all things, is making a call out for convicts to join her campaign as communications director.

“People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply,” the Indeed.com job posting for District Attorney candidate Nicole Aloise’s campaign read, as the New York Post first reported Sunday.

It is a well-paying job with a salary range of $6,000-$7,000 per month.