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Inside JD Vance’s Blogger Days (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Colbert Gushes Over ‘Truly Patriotic’ Biden, Urges The Spread Of Fake News About Vance

In his attacks on the ‘childless’ left, JD Vance once hyped a plan to give parents more votes (Ja’han Jones/MSNBC)

Baby Bust – On J.D. Vance and ‘childless cat ladies.’ – I have more in common with J.D. Vance than I’d like to admit. (Nick Catoggio/The Dispatch)

Democrat Scrambles Amid Calls to Boot Him From Committee Investigating Trump Assassination Attempt

Trump campaign plays defense amid Harris honeymoon (Zachary Basu/Axios)

NYU Prof: Trump, Like Hitler, Will Use Assassination Attempt For ‘Authoritarian’ Goals

Donald Trump Gets No Black Votes vs. Kamala Harris in New Michigan Poll (Khaleda Rahman/Newsweek)

The Unnerving Changeability of JD Vance (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

Seller On Amazon Sold Merch Reading “The Only Good Trump Is A Dead One”

Tenn. Man Accused of Saying Trump ‘Needs to Die’

Vance defends ‘sarcastic’ ‘childless cat ladies’ remarks amid blowback (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Fact-Check: Liberal Media Have a Field Day LYING About JD Vance’s Parenthood Comments

Secret Service: We don’t need no steenking drones

Harris Campaign Trolls ’78-Year-Old Criminal’ Donald Trump After Fox News Appearance (Dan Ladden-Hall/The Daily Beast)

Harris Campaign Calls JD Vance ‘Weird and Creepy’ Like being called ugly by a frog.

Panicking Trump Loses It Over FBI Director’s Bullet Injury Testimony (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

How Trump and Vance went from a ‘threat to democracy’ to ‘weird’ (Politico)

Doctor Familiar With Trump’s Wound Disputes FBI Director’s Questioning of Whether Bullet Caused It

Manhattan DA Argues Trump Case Not Affected By Supreme Court Immunity Ruling

J.D. Vance Said QAnon Shaman Would Be a ‘Fun Guy to Have a Beer With’ (Owen Lavine/The Daily Beast)  And he probably would.

Republicans are already souring on JD Vance (Politico)

JD Vance called for ‘federal response’ to block women from traveling for abortions (Carter Sherman/The Guardian)

Trump Cryptically Declares, ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins Second Term (Michael Luciano/Mediaite)

Trump calls Harris a ‘bum,’ complains about Biden’s withdrawal (Washington Post)

Why won’t the AP tell the truth about J.D. Vance and the couch?

Usha Vance told friends Trump appalled her. Now she’s working to elect him. (Washington Post)

Trump urges Christians to vote: ‘You won’t have to do it’ in four years (Ian Swanson/The Hill)

CNN’s Tapper Show Hypes Attacks on J.D. Vance by Taylor Swift Fans, Jennifer Aniston  Whose political expertise is bottomless….

Republicans Keep Trying to Copy Trump’s Humor – And Voters Keep Cringing (Calder McHugh/Politico)

ABC Claims Trump Is ‘Turning Personal,’ While Dems Look For ‘Moderate’ VP

As GOP Attacks Harris On ‘Defund The Police,’ It Defends A Criminal Who Honors Cop-Beaters (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Playbook: The JD Vance remorse parade (Politico)

Trump Tells Christians They Won’t Have to Vote in Future: ‘We’ll Have It Fixed’ (Charisma Madarang/Rolling Stone)

‘Doctor Strange’ Director Compares Trump to Hitler, Stalin, Mao

Dems Go All-In on Blasting Trump and MAGA as ‘Sick Freaks Who Everyone Hates’ (Rolling Stone)

Trump tells supporters they won’t have to vote in the future: ‘It’ll be fixed!’ (Ramon Antonio Vargas/The Guardian)

Trump Says Americans ‘Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins (Brian Klaas/The Atlantic)

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A rocket attack on a soccer field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 11 people including children on Saturday, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah and vowing to respond against the Iran-backed Lebanese group.

UPDATE: Hezbollah rocket causes carnage at Druze soccer game in the Golan Heights

Bloomberg.

I would hardly call Vance a ‘reactionary’ — although he might be one from the perspective of a professor at Harvard Law.

The Other McCain.

One of the things every liberal must believe is Progress, a quasi-religious faith which G.K. Chesterton mocked as “people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.” The apostles of Progress would have us believe that 1959 — the year I was born — was a nightmare dystopia, despite those snazy new Chevy station wagons, and that if Donald Trump gets elected in November, we are all going back to 1959.

I remember 1959. I prefer it to now.

Well, sonny, lemme tell you, it was plenty rough. Back in those days, people had to pay their own bills, so they worked what were called “full-time jobs,” instead of hustling as DoorDash drivers or peddling naked selfies on OnlyFans. Yes, I remember when gas was less than $3 a gallon and interest on the national debt was less than a trillion dollars a year . . .

Sometimes the old ways are best.

The Guardian.

In the Narrative Media, ‘mysogyny’ means ‘saying something disagreeable to some woman somewhere’.

Steve Graham.

A while back, I noted that demonic–meaning “caused by demons”–insanity had afflicted many people on Earth, and I said that in order to keep track of the progress of increasing insanity, it could be useful to watch Keith Olbermann, fired ESPN and MSNBC personality and dispenser of absurd theories that conflict with commonly-known facts. Not long ago, he claimed no one should believe Representative Dr. Ronny Jackson, MD, the former White House physician who is now Donald Trump’s primary care provider. Jackson described Trump’s bullet wound, and Olbermann made up two weird claims. He said Jackson was not a medical doctor, and then he said he had no license. Both libels originated either in hell or in Olbermann’s own disrupted psyche.

Olbermann has proven to be a pretty good barometer of lunacy. Recently, some baseball players mimicked Trump’s “Fight! Fight! Fight!” shooting response, and Olbermann said they should be banned from baseball and their stadium should be razed. He also said the franchise should be confiscated.

Nothing crazy there. Nope. And definitely nothing that would inspire arson or murder.

Leftists love confiscation. It’s like a fetish with them. Money. Guns. Land. You name it.

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Who did Amanpour & Co. invite on to discuss the supposed “Christian Nationalism” running rampant within Project 2025, the feared, loathed, seldom read presidential blueprint issued by the Heritage Foundation? Nobody but Kristin Kobes Du Mez, the author of something called Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.

Bianna Golodryga was the fill-in host on Christiane Amanpour’s political talk show (whose episodes run on tax-funded PBS after first airing on CNN International) and set up the interview between liberal author Kristin Kobes Du Mez and liberal journalist Michel Martin by borrowing Du Mez’s subtitle: “Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez tells Michel Martin how white evangelicals how white evangelicals have corrupted a faith and fractured a nation.”

Golodryga justified the show’s paranoid liberal focus on Project 2025 by noting “the contributors of the conservative playbook include some of [Trump’s closest political advisers, as well as organizations with Christian nationalist leanings.”

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If it’s one thing that Eurocrats can agree on, it’s to leave no fortune nnplundered nor any pocket unpicked.

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Once it was decided that Kamala Harris almost certainly would become the Democrats’ nominee in 2024, it’s been sadly amusing to see the MSM and the Democrats themselves fall in line. It’s not an easy job, because Harris has a great deal of history, involving baggage that requires heavy lifting. But the left is up to it.

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But you knew that.

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With the Paris Olympics set to begin on Friday, PBS’s Amanpour and Company devoted their entire show to the games on Thursday, including a wild history lesson on the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness and the Making of Modern Sports author Michael Waters tried to tie Nazism with opposition to transgender ideology.

As part of his history lesson, Waters touched on the Czech runner, Zdenek Koubek. Koubek was a champion female runner who would later identify as a man. It should be noted that Koubek was intersex, not transgender.

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Big Lots said in a June filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it plans to open three stores nationwide this year and close 35 to 40.

Prior to the announcement, Big Lots had 1,392 stores throughout the United States.

In its SEC filing, the Columbus, Ohio-headquartered company said the planned closures follow “macroeconomic challenges” within the U.S. economy, such as inflation, that had “adversely impacted” the buying power of its customers.

The retailer also warned in its SEC filing that, based on current cash and liquidity projections, it has “substantial doubts” about its ability to continue. It also cited a “significant likelihood” that Big Lots won’t meet the terms of a 2022 credit agreement.

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It’s been almost two months since an Afghan failed asylum seeker killed 29-year-old police officer Rouven Laur in Mannheim, Germany. The Islamist attacker—Sulaiman Ataee, 25—also stabbed and seriously injured five other people, including 59-year-old activist Michael Stürzenberger, who was scheduled to speak at the May 31st anti-Islamism event.

The GOP’s Secret Weapon for 2024? Bogus Lawsuits. (Abby Vesoulis/Mother Jones)  Like the ones against Trump?

Even as Biden Is Forced Out, Dishonest ‘Doonesbury’ Still Prefers to Ridicule Trump

Amazon Quickly Yanks Tee: ‘Only Good Trump Is a Dead One’

Trump botches Kamala Harris’s first name, again and again and again (Meryl Kornfield/Washington Post)

The Associated Press removes a fact-check claiming JD Vance has not had sex with a couch (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Finally Word from the FBI -About The Trump Story The Press Has Refused To Question (Talking Points Memo)

Republicans Really Wish Trump Hadn’t Picked J.D. Vance (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Yeah, a writer for New Republic really knows what Republicans wish.

How the press helped Trump sell himself as a strongman (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)  Aaron Rupar is the guy who lent his name to the trick of selectively editing video to remove the parts that didn’t agree with proglodyte narratives.

J.D. Vance didn’t have sex with a couch. But he’s still extremely weird. (Rebecca Jennings/Vox)  Weirder than Vox? Can’t see how.

Trump’s second-term agenda plans a purge of the federal workforce (Joe Davidson/Washington Post)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Speculation Swirls About What Hit Trump. An Analysis Suggests It was a Bullet (New York Times)  These guys are pretty sharp.

J. D. Vance’s Sad, Strange Politics of Family (Jessica Winter/New Yorker)

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Lufkin believes lifestyle is key to preventing chronic disease and writes about his advice in the new book, “Lies I Taught in Medical School: How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life.”

He doesn’t believe they’re intentional lies since medical knowledge is always evolving and doctors have to constantly re-evaluate things they thought were true. But he’s critical of what he calls the “currently accepted dogma” in medical school, which is often presented without any alternative theories, he notes.

Lufkin says these are three of the “lies” he taught in medical school. TODAY.com also reached out to medical specialists in each field for their take on his views. The interviews were edited and condensed for clarity:

Yeah, I’ll rush right out to buy a book by somebody who admits to teaching lies in medical school.

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I was unsure what to do for a show this week. The nonstop firehose of craziness from the political class has fried my brain a bit. That and the events of the last week have broken the gauge on my clown meter. The absurdity of the Kamala Harris campaign on the heels of Nursing Home Joe getting bumped off in a midnight coup highlights the utter fakeness of our politics.

Instead of trying to make any sense of it, I just turned the mic on and started talking for an hour in a drug fueled stream of consciousness. Okay, there were no drugs involved, even though drugs would make it easier to follow the election. Instead, I meandered around from one topic to another, all revolving around the fact that our politics have been fake and gay for a long time.

In fact, I was going to call the show “Fake & Gay” but that ran into problems with the platforms I post this to, so I went with something less salty. That is, however, the prevailing sentiment of the show. It is not just that things are fake now, but they have been fake for a long time. What we are seeing now is the approach to peak fakeness, which most likely comes just before collapse.

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A recently arrived Algerian culture-enricher has engaged in a variety of less than salubrious activities in the German city of Freiburg, culminating in the alleged murder of a 77-year-old pensioner. The confused youth is now in the process of being extradited from Switzerland, whence he had fled.

It’s remarkable how busy this industrious New German has been since his arrival in Germany less than three months ago.

I’m certain that if the people who have been in Germany for a longer time had not been so racist towards him, this mixed-up youngster would never have engaged in all that ruthless criminal activity.

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Saboteurs struck France’s TGV high-speed train network in a series of pre-dawn attacks that caused chaos on the country’s busiest rail lines ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.

UPDATE: “Coordinated Sabotage” Paralyzes France’s Rail Network As Olympics Begin 

UPDATE: “Massive Attack” on French Railways Night Before Olympic Opening Ceremony

Reuters.

At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door to North America. Reuters purchased enough to make 3 million pills. Such deals are astonishingly easy – and reveal how drug traffickers are eluding efforts to halt the deadly trade behind the fentanyl crisis.

UPDATE: Markets in Everything: Fentanyl Precursors (Tyler Cowen)

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Earlier this week as I found myself scrolling through Instagram, I was bombarded by colorful compilations of Vice President Harris’ most absurd remarks. As I watched one of them, I assumed it must have been an attack ad from the GOP. But to my surprise, the clip was from the women’s media company “Betches” and was captioned “A woman in a high powered job laughing?? Groundbreaking really.”

As Democrats have mobilized to support President Joe Biden’s pick for a successor in Kamala Harris following his announcement last weekend that he would not seek reelection, the Internet would seem to show that influencers have decided to embrace Harris’ eclectic and often unserious persona. “Kamala is brat” was tweeted by singer Charli XCX and has been a meme embraced by the campaign. This is likely in a desire to galvanize young people, a coalition that had been decisively unenthused by Joe Biden’s campaign, to come out to vote for Harris. However, the cost may be swing voters.

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Drag entertainers have established a new PAC to “educate, invigorate, and motivate the LGBTQ voter base,” emphasizing support for Democratic candidates like Vice President Kamala Harris, Breitbart reported.

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Princeton University is on the verge of promoting a professor who participated in the occupation of a campus building that disrupted university operations and led to more than a dozen arrests, according to an email reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

The university has recommended that the classics scholar Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who along with 13 anti-Israel student protesters stormed Princeton’s historic Clio Hall in April, be promoted from associate to full professor, pending the approval of the university’s board of trustees. Peralta already has tenure, but the promotion would make him eligible for university leadership roles, including deanships.

“I’m sure you will want to join me in congratulating Dan-el on his promotion to a full professorship,” the chair of the classics department, Barbara Graziosi, wrote to her colleagues on July 18. “This is still ‘unofficial’ news, because the Board of Trustees will have to rubber stamp the recommendation made by the committee that oversees promotions, but I was told I am allowed to share the news internally and do so with glee.”

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One of the most damaging impacts of Illinois’ people loss to other states is the destruction of Illinois’ tax base. When people leave in a given year, they take their incomes (adjusted gross incomes, or AGI) with them, and that means the state’s tax base suffers.

A smaller tax base, everything else equal, means less tax revenues for safety, education, road repair and every other core government service – or, as is typically the case in Illinois, more debts and more tax hikes.

Unfortunately, Illinois’ out-migration problem is much bigger than just a one year loss: the state has lost people and AGI every single year since at least 2000, the first year of Wirepoints’ out-migration analysis. The AGI losses pile up on top of each other year after year, slashing Illinois’ tax revenue growth and destroying Illinois’ overall prosperity.

Time to leave.

Victor Davis Hanson

unison withdrew from the presidential race, ceding the nomination to Joe Biden.

Yet Biden had lost the first three races in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada—and only won his first victory in South Carolina.

Suddenly, on the eve of the Super Tuesday mega-primaries, the candidacies of front-runner Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and others simply evaporated.

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The Biden-Harris administration is facing pressure from a top Republican lawmaker and the head of a federal law enforcement union, who accused it of looking the other way in response to a pro-Hamas protest on federal property in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

Rep. Bruce Westerman (R., Ark.), the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, fired off a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland late Wednesday saying that Park Police requested additional manpower prior to the protest, but that the Interior Department denied those requests. In his letter to Haaland, he said the brazen attacks on federal property are correlated to the failure of Interior’s leadership to provide support.

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A North Korean military intelligence operative has been indicted in a conspiracy to hack into American health care providers, NASA, U.S. military bases and international entities, stealing sensitive information and installing ransomware to fund more attacks, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

The indictment of Rim Jong Hyok by a grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas, accuses him of laundering the money through a Chinese bank and then using it to buy computer servers and fund more cyberattacks on defense, technology and government entities around the world.

The hacks on American hospitals and other health care providers disrupted the treatment of patients, officials said. He’s accused of targeting of 17 entities across 11 U.S. states, including NASA and U.S. military bases, as well as defense and energy companies in China, Taiwan and South Korea.

Could Republicans get buyer’s remorse with J.D. Vance? (Aaron Blake/Washington Post)

Posts spread baseless rumors about GOP vice presidential pick JD Vance having sex with a couch (Melissa Goldin/Associated Press)

Trump’s Nephew Reveals Racist Comments From Former President In New Book (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)  It’s all about the book deal.

Trump allies crush misinformation research despite Supreme Court loss (Washington Post)

Trump and His Allies Adapt to a New Role: Fighting for Attention (New York Times)

Some Republicans express buyer’s remorse over Vance VP pick (Axios)  They were never ‘buyers’.

Beshear becomes Harris’s top attack dog against Vance (Julia Mueller/The Hill)

Beware the Mump – Speaking in Charlotte, North Carolina, yesterday, at his first campaign … (Robert Reich)

FBI Is Not Fully Convinced Trump Was Struck by a Bullet (Zachary Folk/The Daily Beast)

Critics Flag 1 Huge Flaw In Trump’s Claim About Kamala Harris And Jewish People (Josephine Harvey/HuffPost)

Harris campaign hits Trump over Fox News interview: ‘This guy shouldn’t be president ever again’ (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

‘Trump Is Old And Quite Weird’: Kamala Harris Camp Hits Back At ’78-Year-Old Criminal’ Trump’s Fox News Interview (Tommy Christopher/Mediaite)

J.D. Vance Endorsed Book That Calls Progressives “Unhumans” and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters (David Corn/Mother Jones)

Hawley Whistleblower: USSS Refused Drones Before Trump Shooting

JD Vance Wrote Book Blurb For Jack Posobiec, Far-Right Influencer Of Pizzagate Fame (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

Back during the great interregnum, when issues like race, affirmative action, and demographics could be discussed, it was obvious that the main failure of affirmative action programs was not that they did not result in more blacks in the targeted area, but that the blacks themselves often resented it. Everyone just assumed that these people got where they were through affirmative action, rather than merit, so those who thought they earned it hated the stigma that came with affirmative action.

It is an important and overlooked part of race politics. The white saviors who create and implement these race programs are not counting heads looking for the correct number of brown people. They are looking for salvation. That comes, they assume, when the black recipients of their programs are grateful to the people behind them. The “failure” of affirmative action was that it created black resentment, the exact opposite of what the white saviors were expecting.

That aside, there were second and third order effects that no one thought to consider, and they also contained an internal contradiction that could not be covered up with moral language. You cannot have a meritocratic, egalitarian society and at the same time have special rights for certain people based on dubious claims about the suffering of their ancestors. Good intentions and righteous indignation could not obscure this reality nor stop people from acting on it.

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The drive between Butler, Pennsylvania, and the Ohio village of East Palestine is less than 42 miles long. In between are the villages and boroughs of Lyndora, Connoquenessing, and Evans City on the Pennsylvania side before you cross the state line directly into the village of East Palestine.

It is a stretch of geography that includes bucolic rolling pastures, the gentle slopes of the Appalachian Mountains, traces of what once was powerful Steel Valley between New Castle, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio, and a mix of decay of what once was and a rebuilding of what may be.

It is what is often referenced to by coastal elites who have never driven through this very Americana scenery as “flyover country” or “the middle of nowhere.”

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A campaign official for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris acknowledged Wednesday that the vice president is deliberately misleading voters about Project 2025.

CNN first reported the stunning admission as part of a fact-check article accusing Harris of making false claims about Project 2025 and former President Donald Trump’s stance on Social Security. CNN’s Daniel Dale revealed:

A Harris campaign official said the campaign has “made a deliberate decision to brand all of Trump’s policies” as “Project 2025,” since they believe “it has stuck with voters.”

Since entering the presidential race Sunday, Harris and her campaign have repeatedly tried to link Project 2025 to Trump, despite the former president’s pushback.

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We previously discussed the free speech lawsuit of Portland State University Professor Bruce Gilley who was blocked from the Twitter account of the University of Oregon’s Division of Equity and Inclusion after tweeting “All men are created equal.”

The court just granted a preliminary injunction holding that there was a substantial likelihood that he would prevail on the merits against the University of Oregon.

Time to leave.

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Israeli forces recovered Wednesday the bodies of five hostages killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and held in Gaza since, the Israeli military said.

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Alameda County, home to Oakland, ranked No. 1 in homicides in the state per capita in 2023, according to a report released earlier this month, by the California Attorney General’s office.

Meanwhile, Merced County – in the central region of the state – which topped the list in 2022, showed a sharp decrease in homicides and fell out of the state’s top five.

Los Angeles County, despite accounting for more than one-third of homicides in the state, also was not on the top five list.

Statewide, 1,892 homicide cases were reported in 2023 – a nearly 16 percent decrease compared to 2022. This is the first time the number of homicides has dropped below 2,000 since 2020.

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Pro-Palestinian Supporters at Union Station in Washington, D.C., took down and burned an American flag before replacing it with the Palestinian flag, according to media reports.

UPDATE: Iran is Funding the Pro-Hamas Protests

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Maharrey began with personal anecdotes to illustrate the unpredictability of life. He shared stories of a day disrupted by a flat tire and an unexpected plumbing issue during a home renovation, underscoring the theme that “you don’t know what you don’t know.” This unpredictability, he argued, is a fundamental flaw in central economic planning.

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Recently, a number of peer-reviewed papers have come to light, exposing just how pervasive and damaging the use of nudges was during COVID-19. They also reveal how nudging, including fear nudging, is being used to control individuals and populations on matters such as health, climate change, meat-eating, tobacco use, alcohol use, weight control, electoral candidates, political campaigns, and more.

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Francis Fukuyama saw liberal democracy as the optimal political system because it allowed all to satisfy their “desire for recognition” but, he warned, absent an external threat, such a society could become moribund, the levelling of recognition dissuading any from pursuing it through the achievement of great deeds. “It would have little art or literature, music or intellectual life. It would be incompetently governed, for few people of quality would choose a life of public service. It would not have much in the way of economic dynamism; its crafts and industries would be pedestrian and unchanging; its technology second rate.” Look around and say it is not so.

Was Donald Trump The Victim Of White Privilege? A Democratic Member Wants To Know You can’t make this shit up.

Harris hits Trump’s scandals in presidential campaign debut (Politico)

A Reader’s Guide To MAGA’s Racist And Misogynistic Attacks On Kamala Harris (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)  Gitcher Narrative, right here!

Clip resurfaces of Vance criticizing Harris for being ‘childless,’ testing Trump’s new running mate (Adriana Gomez Licon/Associated Press)

Secret Service encourages Trump campaign to stop outdoor rallies (Josh Dawsey/Washington Post)

Michigan man kills himself after running over 80-year-old Trump supporter (Erum Salam/The Guardian)

PBS Balance: Amanpour & Co. Buffs Biden Up With One Guest, Trashes Trump With The Next

The simple reason why Kamala Harris has Donald Trump running scared (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  I’m thinking cooties.

Kamala Harris Grins as Crowd Chants ‘Lock Him Up’ on Campaign Debut (Mary Ann Akers/The Daily Beast)

Trump is back to insulting his opponents despite reported transformation (Adam Wren/Politico)

Trump Repeatedly Used N-Word, Says His Own Nephew (Dan Ladden-Hall/The Daily Beast)  So does Dave Chapelle. What’s your point?

Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump do the one thing he fears most: Get up and get out (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  You can’t make this shit up.

Trump’s Favorite Lies, Puffery and Flights of Fancy, Up Against the Data (New York Times) The paper of record … if the record is broken.

Yes, the Assassination Attempt Changed Trump. It Made Him Even Worse (Michael Ian Black/The Daily Beast)

How Kamala Harris Beats Trump (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)  Whisper it: Vote fraud.

It’s time to talk about Donald Trump’s age (Max Burns/The Hill) Anything to keep from talking about his ideas.

Trump said to be ‘freaking out’ as he’s ‘caught in a no-win situation’ against Harris (Brad Reed/Raw Story)  ‘Said to be’ means ‘I just made this up’.

Trump Said Some Disabled People “Should Just Die,” According to His Nephew (Julia Métraux/Mother Jones)

My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’ (Fred C. Trump III/TIME)

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At least four Texas nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating on the U.S. southern border have come under scrutiny from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for their role in aiding illegal immigrants in recent months.

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Environmental groups represented on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s own environmental justice council are among the largest beneficiaries of the president’s environmental programs, collectively receiving hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a database of federal grants reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

In total, four leading environmental justice organizations—WE ACT for Environmental Justice, the Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice at Texas Southern University, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, and Kean University’s Center for the Urban Environment—have been awarded a staggering $229 million in Environmental Protection Agency grants and have been named as partners to grantees awarded another $200 million.

Leaders of those groups serve on the White House’s so-called Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which is formally housed at EPA, the same agency doling out the grants. The council provides the administration with “independent advice and recommendations on how to address current and historic environmental injustice,” the White House description notes.

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We are now quite deep into the propaganda portion of the transition from Biden to Harris. How deep? NBC News is basically running youth commercials as “reports”.

Watch, as we wonder whether Antonia Hylton’s report qualifies as an in-kind donation to the Harris campaign.

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A new study reveals what common sense could have predicted – giving Americans $1,000 per month disincentivizes them from working, causing them to work less – and earn less, over time.

Why is this a surprise? You get more of what you pay for, and if you pay people not to work, they won’t work. A six-year-old can tell you that.

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Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday for high crimes and misdemeanors over her refusal to “uphold Federal immigration laws” and misleading the public about Biden’s “physical and cognitive well-being.”

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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has peddled a series of hoaxes as a U.S. senator and vice president, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found.

Here are the seven most egregious hoaxes pushed by Harris, author of the memoir The Truths We Hold.