DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is trying to strongarm several smaller member states into changing their commissioner nominations to women so that she can have the gender-balanced cabinet she vowed to set up. But disregarding countries’ sovereign choice for a PR stunt might not only affect her relationship with the capitals but also hurt any women in her administration, whose rightful place in Brussels could be questioned from now on.

The deadline for nominating members to the second von der Leyen Commission is just days away, and all but five countries have submitted nominations. However, many have chosen to ignore von der Leyen’s request to put forward two names this year—a man and a woman—so that she could come up with a mix of candidates that is at least 50% female.

Out of the 21 nominations so far, 16 are men. There is nothing to be outraged about: there is not a single clause in the treaties that would demand gender parity in the Commission, unlike those that guarantee member states’ right to nominate whoever they see most fit for the job.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

The Democratic National Convention really is living up to the “convention” part of the title, in the ancient Aristotelian sense of “convention” (nomos) superseding nature (physis). On the one hand, Democrats talk about families and children and whatnot, but ostentatiously display mobile abortion and vasectomy trucks outside the convention grounds, which are apparently fully booked. Democrats are hostile to nothing so much as human nature.

Now, whenever I hear a leftist say they don’t want to bring children into this evil racist climate-destroying nation, I heartily approve. These are indeed the very people I do not want to reproduce. They are doing humanity and great favor, and likely improving the gene pool, by deciding not to reproduce.

Hear, hear.

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“Wildfire rolls through a community, and you essentially lose everything all the way down to the foundation,” says Cavanaugh, who has former senior-level experience serving in the Department of Homeland Security, at the White House, and at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “Now, you think once you’ve lost everything down to the foundation, start the rebuild process, but, everything as it burns leaves chemicals and other items on the ground. You’ve got to pick up the personal effects that are salvageable. [There are] a lot of environmental regulations involved with wildfire, so that all takes time.”

Emphasis added to underscore the fact of modern life that government makes everything harder and slower and more expensive.

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The word capitalism has no stable definition and should probably be permanently retired. That won’t happen, however, because too many people are invested in its use and abuse.

Indeed. The widespread use of ‘capitalism’ is based on Marx’s discussion of ‘the capitalist means of production’ in the beginning of Das Kapital, but really boils down to ‘buying machines run by workers in order to produce stuff’–the most accurate term for which is industrialism, because it’s used in all modern forms of production (including those used by socialists and communists).

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Investigative journalist Chris Papst of Fox45 News’ Project Baltimore has spent years exposing grade scandals and corruption within Baltimore City Schools. His reporting has undoubtedly drawn the ire of the head of the school system, who, in a recent interview, jokingly said her husband hasn’t “punched out” the reporter.

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The Biden-Harris administration finalized a decision to block oil and gas development across 28 million acres of public lands in Alaska, reversing a slate of actions taken in the final days of the Trump administration.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland released a statement Tuesday, confirming that she would formally revoke five public land orders that the agency’s then-secretary David Bernhardt signed in January 2021. Those orders removed decades-old restrictions on the massive area, instead returning it to federal multiple-use status and, as a result, allowing the government to open the land up for uses such as recreation, grazing, timber harvesting, mining, and energy development.

The restrictions ultimately preserved in the Interior Department’s announcement date back to the 1970s and lock the land up for the foreseeable future. Because the Trump administration’s January 2021 actions would have reopened the land, Haaland’s actions effectively serve as a land withdrawal and are part of the current administration’s broader climate agenda cracking down on oil and gas development.

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Last December, Liz Magill, then president of my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, resigned. This was the result of a public relations nightmare for the school, brought on by a rise in antisemitism on campus, widespread protests, and, of course, her disastrous performance in front of the House Education and Workforce Committee. While the right celebrated, I wrote a cautionary tale about their excitement. Now, as Ivy League presidents keep dropping like flies, the latest victim being Columbia’s chief administrator, Minouche Shafik, we should all remember that new management doesn’t fix a broken business model.

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The U.S. military for the first time in decades has no aircraft carrier strike groups in the Indo-Pacific region, despite mounting tensions with China over disputed South China Sea islands, the Taiwan Strait, and a recent Chinese air incursion near Japan.

The Pentagon recently ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln to speed up its deployment from the Pacific to the Middle East to be ready for a potential conflict with Iran. Earlier the USS Theodore Roosevelt, like the Lincoln based in San Diego, was sent to the Middle East.

Both warships are currently in the Gulf of Oman, USNI reported Monday.

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Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday submitted a court filing against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the Georgia Court of Appeals, arguing that she should be removed from the case for committing a “severe violation” of the state’s legal guidelines.

She was elected on a platform of witch-hunting Trump. How has she lasted this long?

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Anti-woke crusader Robby Starbuck is making headlines again, this time taking credit for Lowe’s scaling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Starbuck, known for his relentless campaign against far-left white-collar activists infiltration of corporate America’s management teams and corporate boardrooms, argues that companies like Lowe’s should focus on selling products instead of being woke activists.

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The Biden-Harris administration is facing pressure to crack down on car advertisements that misleadingly characterize electric vehicles as “zero-emission” vehicles, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

In a letter sent Wednesday to Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, four lawmakers led by Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) urged her to develop guidelines “to limit untruthful claims of zero-emission vehicles.” Ernst—alongside Sens. Mike Crapo (R., Idaho), Kevin Cramer (R., N.D.), and Pete Ricketts (R., Neb.)—noted the British Advertising Standards Authority requires auto companies to make clear in ads that EVs are only zero-emission when being driven.

The lawmakers’ letter further noted that EVs consume a large amount of energy, much of which is powered by fossil fuel sources like natural gas and coal. And they added that mining process for critical minerals required in EV batteries is even more carbon-intensive.

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The Biden-Harris administration has deployed a little-known hiring mechanism to staff key divisions of the Department of Justice ahead of the 2024 election, according to documents provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation by Protect the Public’s Trust.

Hundreds of people, primarily lawyers and judges, have been appointed to the Environmental and Natural Resources, Antitrust, and Immigration Review divisions of the DOJ using its “Schedule A” hiring authority since President Joe Biden took office, documents shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation by Protect the Public’s Trust show.

Schedule A hiring does not require appointments to be made on the basis of merit and appointments do not expire at the end of the current president’s term, meaning these bureaucrats will stick around even if former President Donald Trump takes office in 2025, according to the Office of Budget and Management.

Jerry Pournelle was fond of saying that the purpose of government was to hire and pay government workers.

New York Post.

Moran Stella Yanai, 41, who was among those snatched from the Nova Music Festival during the Oct. 7 bloodshed, told the Israeli N12 network that her kidnappers also promised to release her sooner if she converted.

“Almost daily one of them would enter the room, saying, ‘Would be better for you to be a Muslim woman,’ and once the terrorist sent one of his comrades to get a head covering to put on me, and show me what it means to be a Muslim woman,” Yanai said.

“As a woman, my biggest fear is being sold. That someone would forcefully marry me and that I will have to convert to Islam.”

Where are the ‘feminists’? Melting down about Trump.

The New Neo.

If you’re of a certain age, like I am, you probably remember those bumper stickers that exhorted us all to Question Authority. It was the mark of a thinking person not to take everything at face value, in particular the words of the government or government agencies.

I remember once going to an SDS meeting when I was in college. I was never a leftist but I suppose I was toying with it a bit at the time (this was during the Vietnam War). But what I saw and heard at that meeting repelled me on a gut level and I never went back. That one meeting cured me of any interest in taking the left as an authority on anything, except their angry, ranting, incoherent, narcissistic selves.

I wish I could remember what was said, but I don’t. I only remember the sense I had of dangerous people who were also stupid, and yet very very arrogant. That just about summed it up.

Anti-Trump PAC Continues to Shuffle Millions of Donor Dollars to Firms Owned by Insiders

Trump Says We ‘Gotta’ Restrict the First Amendment (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

How will team Trump tell him he should be muted during his debate with Harris? (Robert Reich)

Taunting Trump: Harris campaign’s sneer tactics (Mike Allen/Axios)

The Conservatives Who Sold Their Souls for Trump (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

First look: Latinos warned Project 2025 would hit them hard (Astrid Galván/Axios)

MAGA attacks on Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter threaten to backfire on Donald Trump (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

How The Hell Was Trump Allowed To Use Arlington National Cemetery As A Campaign Prop? (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)

Biden, Harris push scrutiny of police. Trump would halt such efforts. (Washington Post)

MAGA Is So ‘Desperate’ They’ve Now Gone After Tim Walz’s Dog (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast) MAGA is the New Nigger.

How Democrats View Kennedy and Trump: ‘A Weirdo Campaign Just Got Weirder’ (Nicholas Nehamas/New York Times)

Trump’s Evangelical Supporters Just Lost Their Best Excuse (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

Crockett: Trump will ‘get his butt handed to him’ if he debates Harris (Cheyanne M. Daniels/The Hill)

Sen. Warren: Trump ‘Really Afraid’ of Kamala Harris  In her dreams.

Confederate Voter Intimidation 2.0: The GOP’s Dark Strategy for Winning (Thom Hartmann/The Hartmann Report)  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH…..

California Dems want to help undocumented immigrants buy homes – during presidential race (Eric He/Politico)  But ‘undocumented’ immigrants won’t be allowed to vote, perish the thought.

More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney alums endorse Harris for president, criticize Trump (Joey Garrison/USA Today)  RINOs assemble! (The Great Sort continues.)

First to ABC: Retired 4-star general, 200 former GOP staffers endorse Harris (Selina Wang/ABC News)

More than 200 Former Bush, Romney, McCain Staffers Endorse Harris

More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney aides endorse Harris (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Former Aides to Bush, Romney and McCain Back Harris Over Trump (Chris Cameron/New York Times)

Tulsi Gabbard, who ran for 2020 Democratic nomination, endorses Trump against former foe Harris (Associated Press)

Another Pete Buttigieg Failure? Merchant Marine Manpower Deficit Sidelines 17 Support Ships For Wartime  Of course not. In order to ‘fail’, you have to try to do something.

Al Sharpton Decries Capitalism: ‘As Outdated as Bell-Bottom Pants’ And Sharpton is as outdated as the former Soviet Union.

Harris is the ‘Only Person’ Foreign Adversaries ‘Fear Less Than Biden,’ Mike Johnson Says  Well, that’s something.

Biden-Harris Equity Commission Wants To Spend $20 Million To Disarm Traffic Cops

Biden and Harris ‘Never Once Reached Out’ to Relatives of Soldiers Killed in Bungled Afghanistan Withdrawal, Families Say

AP Wonders: Golly, How Is Kamala Getting Away With ‘New Way Forward’? (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)

In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content

BOMBSHELL: The Regime Media SUPPRESS Facebook’s Censorship Admission

Biden-Harris Admin Sued for Stonewalling Gazan Aid Probe

PolitiFact Pleases PBS: Hands Down, Democrat Convention Much More Factual Than RNC

If Everything Is So Great, Why Are Millions Of Americans Sleeping In Their Vehicles?

Prime Examples of California Policies Destroying Towns

An Anatomy of a Harris Campaign Stop Shows There Is No There, There

Goodbye, JFK Democrats

Three Quarters Of Democrat Voters Don’t Know What Any Of Kamala Harris’ Policies Are  As long as she’s Not Trump, they don’t care. Same as with Biden.

EXCLUSIVE: Economist Slams Leftist Media for Mindlessly Propping Up ‘Anemic’ Biden-Harris Job Market

Spokesman Says Walz’s Lies Make Him Authentic

Harris Team in Conflict Over First Interview Plans

Harris flip-flops on building the border wall (Axios)

Jennings Upsets CNN Panel By Not Being Wiling to ‘Give Up’ Values To Vote Harris

STUDY: Google Fuels Harris-Media Honeymoon, Favors Leftist Media Nearly 10 Times More

The thread connecting Robert Kennedy Jr., chemtrails and Project 2025 (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Harris, Who Once Called Trump’s Border Wall ‘Un-American,’ Now Pledges To Continue Building It

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The Democrat-held California Legislature passed a first-of-its-kind bill that will require public universities in the Golden State to hire undocumented students who do not have work permits, forcing Gov. Gavin Newsom to weigh in on the measure during an election year.

Time to leave.

New York Times.

Good. Now maybe they can get some education done.

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China is planning to restrict exports of a key mineral needed to make weapons while a U.S. company that could be reducing America’s reliance on foreign suppliers is languishing in red tape, energy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Chinese government announced on Aug. 15 that it will restrict exports of antimony, a critical mineral that dominates the production of weapons globally and is essential for producing equipment like munitions, night-vision goggles and bullets that are essential to national security, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Perpetua Resources, an American mining company, has been navigating red tape for years to develop a mine in Valley County, Idaho, that could decrease reliance on the Chinese supply of antimony, but the slow permitting process is getting in the way, energy experts told the DCNF.

The Hill.

Oh, ya think?

Fani Willis doesn’t take a breath without playing the race card.

UPDATE: Trump Lawyers: Willis ‘Disqualified’ by Race Rhetoric

Bolts.

The Nebraska Voting Rights Restoration Coalition was ready for July 19. A new state law, Legislative Bill 20, would take effect that day, instantly granting voting rights to some 7,000 people with past felony convictions. Because the law requires state officials to do very little to notify people of their newfound eligibility, let alone to automatically register them, the work of contacting and assisting those affected would largely fall to community groups.

And so the coalition reserved ad space on print, digital, and radio platforms. It organized registration drives in Omaha and Lincoln, each to be held in the first days of the law’s enactment. Those events were to kick off a statewide campaign that would touch many more towns and cities, and go through late October, when Nebraska cuts off new voter registration ahead of the general election.

But the ads never ran. No one was registered at the events in Lincoln and Omaha. More than a month after its planned launch, the campaign has yet to begin.

That’s because two Republican elected officials in Nebraska—Attorney General Mike Hilgers and Secretary of State Bob Evnen—halted implementation of the new law, shutting down new registrations for people with past felonies and throwing into question the voting rights of tens of thousands of other Nebraskans who, until last month, were legally, unambiguously eligible to vote.

Vote Democrat, that is.

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

A new trend in the world of internet politics is a reboot of an old trend in actual politics and that is the abortion issue. Abortion was good politics for both parties since Roe because it let them posture without having to do anything. The Democrats promised to defend abortion and Republicans promised to end it. Meanwhile the issue languished in the courts until the Trump court overturned Roe. Since then, both sides of the abortion battle have been trying to revive their money maker.

To some degree, they have been successful. The people we call the left have convinced themselves that the election will turn on abortion. They generate fake polls and fake news stories to goose the online influencer community. Of course, the most gullible of that bunch, the right-wing influencers, take the bait. There is no group less politically astute than the right-wing influencers. The media then uses online chatter to talk about the abortion issue as if everyone cares.

The truth is, no one cares. Just two percent of people list abortion as a major concern going onto the election. As always, economics is what matters. The people who care about abortion are the most predictable voting bloc in America. The pro-abortion people vote Democrat and the anti-abortion people vote Republican. It is why both parties took these voters for granted for fifty years. They knew that these voters would never alter their behavior.

From an evolutionary standpoint, abortion (like homosexuality) is a self-correcting problem–although, admittedly, on a geologic scale.

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More accurately, it’s the Arabs’ kippah.

Politico.

When Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested late Saturday at an airport outside Paris, accused of complicity in illegal online behavior and refusing to disclose information to authorities, right-leaning American political figures leapt to his defense, including Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor-Greene.

Left-leaning civil liberties groups also took Telegram’s side — to a point.

The arrest is casting a spotlight on the messy global status of a messaging app whose sprawling reach and commitment to free speech have earned it a rotating cast of friends and enemies in the political arena, and whose multinational structure raises tough questions about enforcing digital rules in the age of social media.

USA Today.

U.S. Army Private Travis King, who last year ran into North Korea and was taken into custody there, will plead guilty to five charges, including desertion, while taking responsibility for his conduct, his lawyer said in a statement on Monday.

The U.S. Army charged King with crimes ranging from desertion for running into North Korea in July to assault against fellow soldiers and solicitation of child pornography, Reuters reported late last year. He was charged by the Army with 14 offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, after his release from North Korean custody in September.

His release followed weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations that led the Swedish government to retrieve King in North Korea and bring him across the border into China for a handoff to the U.S. ambassador.

“He will plead guilty to five of those (14 offenses), including desertion, three counts of disobeying an officer, and assault on a noncommissioned officer,” his lawyer said. “He will plead not guilty to the remaining offenses, which the Army will withdraw and dismiss.”

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People who have been following international news closely in recent years might have noticed that Qatar keeps appearing in the headlines and clearly punches well above its weight in world affairs for a country with only 300,000 citizens.

Lately, Qatar has been in the spotlight for housing the Hamas leadership while at the same time playing the role of the main negotiator, together with Egypt, for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Qatar also served as a safe haven for the Taliban for many years, and in 2020, facilitated a peace agreement between the United States and the Islamist group.

In between, Doha has also managed to organize the World Cup in football and was behind the largest corruption scandal in the history of the European Parliament, known as “Qatargate.”

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A massive coordinated terror attack on several locations in southwestern Pakistan has left at least 70 dead over a 24-hour period of terror which started Sunday night.

The attacks were the work of a separatist group called the Baluch Liberation Army (BLA), which claimed responsibility. It started with bombings and gunfire targeting a national military camp in Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province, which left at least one soldier dead.

In the same area, gunmen stormed four police stations, setting vehicles on fire. By morning, a key bridge in the area was also attacked and destroyed. But the situation escalated when militants attacked a major highway in a town called Bela. They intercepted traffic and then proceeded to execute people, reports say.

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On-campus anti-Israel vandalism began as the fall semester began Monday at many colleges across the country.

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Hey, it’s not as if they had anything better to do with their time.

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Los Angeles Realtor to the stars John Woodward says squatters have taken over a multi-million dollar mansion across the street from LeBron James.

Soon after listing the property at 1316 Beverly Grove Place in Beverly Hills, Woodward got a call from the pool boy letting him know that someone had shown up with a U-Haul to move in. Given that he hadn’t sold the house yet, he drove down to see what was going on – and ended up calling the police to report an active crime; these people were breaking into the house.

According to the Daily Caller, when the police showed up, the squatters produced a fake lease, which the cops of course accepted as proof, and told Woodword to pound sand – forcing him to pursue justice through the backlogged and ideologically biased LA court system.

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A small group of protesters gathered outside Baruch College in New York called for “war” in the United States and targeted the college’s Hillel Jewish student club, a further sign of escalating rhetoric on campus just ahead of the semester beginning on Wednesday.

On Saturday, the demonstrators held a banner that said “Bring the war home” alongside an image of an assault rifle, and a sign that said, “Let the intifada pave the way for people’s war.”

In an Instagram post about the protest, Baruch’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine called for the “construction of militant resistance to imperialism in all its manifestations.” The post about the protest was shared widely by other pro-Palestinian groups on campuses across the City University of New York public college system.

Lara Trump on DNC: ‘They’re attempting to run on hating Donald Trump’ (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)  Well, yeah.

Trump Whines About Fox News as Poll Numbers Keep Dropping (Lily Mae Lazarus/The Daily Beast)

Gen. McMaster’s blistering account of the Trump White House (Peter Bergen/CNN)

FLASHBACK: Jorge Ramos ‘Produced’ 2015 Iowa Heckling of Donald Trump

They Served With Trump and Saw the Crazy. They Should Endorse Harris. (Tim Miller/The Bulwark)

Finally, the Democrats Have Found Trump’s Achilles Heel: Ridicule Him (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

“He’s now terrified of debating her”: Trump’s debate flip-flop is a sign Harris has him figured out (Charles R. Davis/Salon)

McMaster: Trump’s Foreign Policy Judgment ‘Clouded’

‘Laugh-out-loud funny’: Experts guffaw as Times op-ed asserts Trump can win ‘on character’ (Kathleen Culliton/Raw Story)

Donald Trump is not exactly Nostradamus (Aaron Blake/Washington Post)

Kudlow: RFK Endorsement Killed Harris Convention Bounce

Harris Plays Coy on Child Gender Transitions, But Far-Left Groups Endorsing Child Sex Changes Have Her Back

Gov. Tim Walz Called Out for Another Past Embellishment

Rep. Donalds: Harris Can’t Distance Herself From Biden  Down the Memory Hole!

Kennedy Family Comes Out Swinging Against ‘Obscene’ RFK Jr. After Trump Defection (Zachary Folk/The Daily Beast)

DNC Attendees Test Positive for COVID-19  Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Vote For Harris If You Want Radical Racial Indoctrination Of Your Kids

Biden-Harris Admin Warns Kindergartners Climate Change Will Leave Entire US Cities Underwater  They keep promising and promising and it just never happens. I want to see Manhattan under water.

Trump is expected to tie Harris to chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal in speech to National Guard (Adriana Gomez Licon/Associated Press)

Cornell University To Offer Course On “Ecological Justice” Focused On “Feminist, Queer, And Trans Perspectives”

MODERATING? Jake Tapper Lets Cory Booker Use KILL-MAGA Metaphor Without Objection

Food Stamp Costs Soar Under Biden-Harris

UCLA Medical School Hired Students To Write Course Curriculum Emphasizing “Structural Racism And Health Equity”

Voting against your own interests: Why do the wealthy support Harris? (Gene Marks/The Hill)

The right’s killjoy politics only fuel Harris’s momentum (Svante Myrick/The Hill)

Ethics Complaints Pile Up Against Eugene Vindman Over ‘Illegal’ Super PAC Coordination

Attorney General Reminds Americans That Questioning The 2024 Election Is Illegal Unless Trump Wins  Babylon Bee.

Under attack from Trump, Harris says Biden was right to withdraw from Afghanistan (Francesca Chambers/USA Today)

What Harris’ Voters Don’t Know About Her Could Hurt America

‘Masterful shapeshifter’ Walz gets pointed message from Minnesota voters at state fair booth (Emma Colton/Fox News)

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Many on the Left suggest that concerns about illegal aliens casting votes in a presidential election are unfounded. After all, illegal aliens can’t legally vote. Yet a new poll suggests that most Americans expect that illegals will be allowed to vote in the Nov. 5 election.

When asked, “How likely is it that a large number of illegal immigrants will be allowed to vote in this year’s elections?” more than half of respondents (56%) said it is “very likely” (27%) or “somewhat likely” (27%). About a third (36%) said it is “somewhat likely” (17%) or “not very likely” (19%), while one in 10 said they weren’t sure.

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As President Joe Biden vacationed at his Delaware beach house, Republican nominee Donald Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery Monday morning to honor the 13 American service members who were killed three years ago during Biden’s botched military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Trump attended a wreath-laying ceremony along with family members of the 13 soldiers who died in a suicide bombing at Abbey Gate outside of Kabul Airport. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris released statements marking the third anniversary but neither has announced any events to publicly pay their respects. The president and first lady Jill Biden are vacationing at their home near Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, while Harris holds private meetings with her staff in Washington.

“This is the third anniversary of the BOTCHED Afghanistan withdrawal, the most EMBARRASSING moment in the history of our Country,” Trump wrote Monday morning on Truth Social. “Gross Incompetence—13 DEAD American soldiers, hundreds of people wounded and dead, AMERICANS and BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT LEFT BEHIND.”

UPDATE: Mornings Networks REFUSE to Cover Three-Year Anniversary of Afghan Terror Attack

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In an apparent pre-election bid to push leftist narratives, the George Soros-funded Poynter Institute is looking to censor information shared among black Americans.

Full of condescension and patronizing elitism, International Fact-Checking Network’s (IFCN) Poynter announced in a Tuesday press release that its PolitiFact and news organization Capital B “will collaborate this election season on fact-checks and analyses of issues that are important to Black Americans.” But Soros has poured money into groups suppressing election-related free speech, as MRC Free Speech America research showed, and Poynter is one such group.

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A Pennsylvania teacher who was fired for allegedly attending the U.S. Capitol “insurrection” on January 6, 2021, has won a wrongful termination lawsuit after a two-week trial.

Jason Moorehead, a 17-year veteran social studies instructor in the Allentown School District, had always maintained he was “at all times over a mile away” at the Washington Monument when the riot occurred.

But on Jan. 7, the district issued a news release stating a district employee “was involved in the electoral college protest.” In it, Superintendent Thomas Parker did note the district “has an obligation to respect the First Amendment rights of our staff.”

District Solicitor John Freund also had said “only after knowing all the facts” could the district act in a manner that “balances First Amendment rights with the higher standards set for public school teachers.”

These standards include “teachers’ duty not to participate in or advocate un-American or subversive doctrines.”

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Robin DiAngelo, the best-selling author of White Fragility, is a big believer in citing minorities.

In an “accountability” statement on her website, which makes repeated reference to her Ph.D., DiAngelo, 67, tells “fellow white people” that they should “always cite and give credit to the work of BIPOC people who have informed your thinking.”

It doesn’t matter if their contribution is just a few words. “When you use a phrase or idea you got from a BIPOC person,” DiAngelo says, referring to black, indigenous, and other people of color, “credit them.”

But the white diversity trainer has not always taken her own advice. According to a complaint filed last week with the University of Washington, where DiAngelo received her Ph.D. in multicultural education, she plagiarized several scholars—including two minorities—in her doctoral thesis.

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Former Trump administration press secretary Stephanie Grisham caused a bit of a stir last week at the Democratic National Convention.

Grisham, who resigned on Jan. 6, 2021, in a supposed protest against President Donald Trump for his alleged inaction when demonstrators invaded the U.S. Capitol, endorsed Kamala Harris and claimed that from her personal knowledge Trump has “no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth.”

But wait a minute.

How did Grisham become an arbiter of morals and a purveyor of “fidelity to the truth”?

After all, Grisham worked for Trump and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, for six years, starting as a campaign worker in August 2015 and then working as press secretary to both the first lady and the president after Trump’s election in 2016.

You have to ask yourself how Grisham had worked for the Trumps for six years without managing to notice that they were rotten scum. One is supposed to believe that she only figured out that Trump was a bad person two weeks before he left office when she resigned in protest. But if she knew Trump as well as she claims, and he was as horrible as she says now, then she should have quit years before.

Don’t think of it as selling out–think of it as buying in.

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In an email, UNL Chancellor Rodney Bennett said to the campus community on Tuesday that the Office of Diversity and Inclusion will be closing, according to the Lincoln Journal-Star.

The change also means the university’s vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion position, held by Marco Barker, will be eliminated come December. Including benefits, Barker’s salary is almost $320,000.

$750,000 will also go back into the university’s overall budget, which was previously allocated for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

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A conservative college in Michigan called out Facebook for censorship after having its page taken down for launching a new course that is critical of communist and Marxist ideology.

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The Navy will reportedly sideline 17 vessels due to a manpower shortage that makes it difficult to properly crew and operate ships across the fleet.

There just aren’t enough Merchant Marines to keep all the ships going at once, according to Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation for the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, told Fox News Digital. Merchant Marines operate the many support vessels needed to keep the Navy running.

“The problem, of course, is the ships are at sea, away from home port 12 months of the year,” Montgomery said. “So you need two crews … we’re desperately short of the number of people.”

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Hezbollah on Sunday threatened further aggression in its war on Israel, leaving U.S. officials scrambling to contain the fallout of a weekend strike on the Jewish state that saw the Iran-backed terror group fire hundreds of missiles and drones.

At least one Israeli was killed over the weekend when Hezbollah bombarded the country with advanced missiles and suicide drones as payback for the assassination last month of senior commander Fuad Shukr. Israel successfully fended off the strike, which was focused on civilian centers and military facilities, including those near Tel Aviv. It preemptively destroyed Hezbollah rocket launchers aimed at Tel Aviv and set to fire Sunday morning, limiting damage.

Hezbollah threatened further escalation, with its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, saying Sunday that “if the result” of the current strike “is not enough, then we retain the right to respond another time.” Israel also said it is prepared for further action and will not back down from the threats posed by Iran’s terror proxies. “This is not the end of the story,” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanuyahu warned over the weekend after his military blasted more than 40 Hezbollah-controlled sites across Lebanon.

“If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud

• Strong and invincible
• Poor pitiful victim

You don’t know which one you’ll get until you open the box.

Donald Trump Accused of New Federal Crime as He Cozies Up to RFK Jr. (Newsweek)

Brownstein: Why RFK Jr.’s endorsement could be a problem for Trump (CNN)

Ignore my brother Bobby, Max Kennedy says (L.A. Times)

What polling shows about Americans’ views of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Associated Press)

GOP strategist cautions Trump on joining forces with RFK Jr: ‘He’s kind of a looney tune’ (Filip Timotija/The Hill)

Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters Slam Trump for Using Hit Song at Rally (Lily Mae Lazarus/The Daily Beast)

A Manufactured Fight over Incumbency Hides Trump’s Fascism (emptywheel)

Foo Fighters Say Trump Didn’t Have Permission to Use ‘My Hero’ at Arizona Rally (Daniel Kreps/Rolling Stone)  He doesn’t need it, as long as he pays the proper ASCAP/BMI royalties.

Trump allies try to energize him as he struggles to adapt to Harris (Washington Post)

How Tim Walz’s dumb taco joke broke MAGA brains (Anthony L. Fisher/MSNBC)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Audience signs and chants at the DNC were all about America. At the RNC, it was the Trump show. (Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert/Business …)

Rutgers Prof Who Said She Hoped Trump Shooting Would “Inspire Others” Will Teach This Fall

Trump event at wall Obama built highlights an unkept promise (Washington Post)

Trump aides alarmed he’s ‘just golfing all day and stewing’ as election slips away: WaPo (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)  They just make this shit up.

Be Careful What Trump’s Lawyers Wish For, Superseding Indictment Edition (emptywheel)

Why Were Justice Dept. Officials Scared to Talk to This Book’s Author? (David Greenberg/New York Times)

Cotton: Republicans at DNC Had ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’

The reality of Kamala Harris’ plan to tax unrealized capital gains (Axios)

Kamala Harris Golf Tax and Unrealized Gains? What You Really Need to Know (Kiplinger)

Silicon Valley is losing it over a tax plan some say will kill startups (San Francisco Standard)

Kamala Harris Tax Plans: What Could Happen (Newsweek)

It Hasn’t Worked Once, So Why Would A Politician Go All-In On Price Controls Now?  Because it gets the votes of stupid people (Democrat natural base).

Gat Summer: 22 Shot, 6 Dead In Chicago During First 3 Days Of DNC

For Tim Walz, a Pattern of Prevarications Stretches Back Almost Two Decades

Harris’s DNC was a master class in coalition building (E.J. Dionne Jr/Washington Post)  Too bad she’s just a sock puppet who had nothing to do with it.

Why Would Harris Duck a Press Corps That Asks Questions Like These?

How Democrats Make Republicans: RFK Should Be A Wake Up Call For The Party

Dems Scramble To Walk Back Harris’ Price Control Scheme

PBS Confesses: Dems Now Say ‘Reproductive Rights,’ Not ‘Abortion’ – And So Do We

U Of Tampa RA Training Includes Scenario Of Student Feeling “Threatened” By Conservative Roommate With MAGA Flag

RFK Jr.: ’16 Months of Censorship’ Led to Suspending Race

How I’ve been convincing Christians they don’t have to vote Republican (MSNBC)

FALSE! MSNBC Commentator Tara Setmayer Claims Republicans Don’t Chant ‘USA’??

Read it.

Leftists in the U.K. and Europe are doubling down on censorship, calling for the arrest of X owner Elon Musk and the cancellation of the X social media platform to silence opposing views, former White House and Pentagon official Douglas MacKinnon warned Sunday.

Off-Guardian.

Now in this third article in the series, I want to link this back to what we started out discussing. How our closed and controlled Social Media services are now processing every post with an LLM.
My point today is not to prove linkages and corruption of the narrative being fed to the masses via Social Media. Such an investigation could be the subject of an entire book in itself.
Rather today, I would like to plant a seed.
Many reading this will already be in agreement with my belief we are entered into and age of Fascism 2.0. But if you are not yet aware, if you haven’t yet recognised the pervasive and consistent propaganda, my hope is you will start to notice.
My hope is that you will start to see our newspapers only carry the stories which support narratives furthering the globalist desire to fix policy-driven markets. Never the stories that contradict them. And Social Media (less so X now) similarly down regulate posts when they are critical of the policies sought. But for good measure, let me give two examples of recent news suppression matching this pattern.