Flotsam and Jetsam - Smoke on the Water

A view from the beach on 7/17/26

It's Sunday, so the news is a bit sparse and somewhat off the wall. From Sundance at CTH, Canadian Prime Minister Blames U.S. Climate and Energy Policy for Canada Wildfires "President Trump pointed out Canada’s forestry mismanagement and their failure to follow through with previous promises of investment that have led to catastrophic wildfires now producing smoke streams making U.S. Northern cities and states live under dangerous conditions. Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about the U.S. government position, and he immediately hit back by saying the cause of Canada’s wildfires is ‘climate change’ and President Trump’s unwillingness to support the Paris Climate Treaty has created the problem that Canada is now dealing with." Tim Sheehy @TimSheehyMT, "As a former waterbomber pilot who used to lead an aerial firefighting fleet, I can tell you “send help” is an extremely dishonest framing by the Canadian government. The Canadian government routinely blocks U.S. firefighting companies from attacking fires in Canada, while aggressively sending their government-subsidized aircraft to the U.S. to earn commercial rates from the U.S. taxpayer. It’s big business for them and they run it like a Chinese protectionist racket." The smoke was thickest here on Friday. You could smell it easily. Last evening a thunderstorm and a cold front came and blew it away.

Misty Severi at JTN reports Democratic strategist James Carville blasts major news networks for not carrying Trump speech, "Mainstream media networks, ABC, CNN and NBC, all declined to show the speech on its news programs and opted to stream it online and show clips of it with commentary during their regular live programming." Nick Arama at RedState sees the White House Crushes CNN's New Claims About Its Failure to Cover Trump Speech. Amy Curtis at TownHall shows just how CBS News' 'Fact-Checks' of Trump's Address Ignore the Facts. PJM's Scott Pinsker explains The Secret Reason Why Fox News Is So Silent About Trump’s Election Fraud Speech. "The producer sent me a one-sentence reply: “I like it - but We don’t touch election fraud in any capacity.” Nothing else needed to be said. Unless you’re a total moron (or CNN’s “chief media analyst”), you could read between the lines: One of the longterm consequences of Fox News settling its lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million is that FNC programming will avoid discussing voter fraud." .... "UPDATE: Fox has just published a major story on Trump's speech and his revelations about election meddling: READ THE DOCUMENTS: White House releases election integrity files after Trump speech." The Reactionary Techno Fog looks at Michigan Voter Fraud and Chinese Influence Ops: Declassified. From Twitchy, Elissa Slotkin's 'Quiet Part Out Loud' Slip Makes the Rounds After She Says Election Fraud Doesn't Exist. Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@StephenM: "We've reached a point in society where access to fettuccine at Olive Garden is vastly more secure than deciding who is Commander-in-Chief of the country." PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!"

I&I finds By 3-To-2 Margin, Americans Believe U.S. Is Turning Into A ‘Socialist State’. New York Post @nypost, "DSA member says she has no problem supporting 'secret Nazis' under one condition https://trib.al/IwxwHrg" Handre @Handre, "The Nazi economy was socialism in a better-tailored uniform. Strip away the parades and you find exactly what Mises diagnosed in 1940 as Zwangswirtschaft: private ownership on paper, total state control in practice. You held the title to your factory. Göring's ministries told you what to produce, what to charge, whom to hire, and where your profits went. That is ownership the way a prisoner owns his cell..." From Breitbart, Polis: Socialism ‘a Tool to Further Exploit People’. TownHall's Matt Vespa likes how Kathy Hochul Got Grilled on Why Everyone Is Leaving NY. Pretty soon, you run out of other people's money, especially when the other people run out on you. 

At the Crimson Hub, Nirav Shah, In The Maine Senate Race, Says He's an 'Outsider,' And He Sure Is. At Althouse, "Many of these candidates claim to espouse progressive beliefs that are similar to Graham. The thing is, it was never about the bullet points..." ""... but rather the way he was willing to speak to any issue directly and honestly that made voters love and trust him." Said Spencer Toth, who was Graham Platner’s organizing director, quoted in "Without Platner, Maine Democrats Scramble to Keep Grassroots Energy Alive/Graham Platner’s campaign for Senate imploded last week. The activists who backed him are seeking a candidate to carry his populist message in the race against Republican Susan Collins" (NYT)." Platner was mostly about wearing flannel well and spouting socialist cant in a deep manly voice. 

Following the insaner side of US politics, Stacy McCain has Knife-Wielding Psycho-Tranny Is Former Arizona Democratic Party Official and Communism, the Palestinian Death Cult and the Pro-Terrorism Red-Green Axis. At News Wax, the intersection, Mamdani Still Mulling Netanyahu Arrest During UN Meet.

The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox, "RFK Jr. says HHS loses $100,000,000,000 a year to theft. He found some thieves would bribe poor people with flat screen TVs to get their patient numbers and enroll them in hospice. Then they would proceed to bill Medicaid "$6,000 a month FOREVER." RFK JR: "We shut down 800 hospices. You know what a hospice is? Where you're going to die. Typically, if you go to a hospice, you leave within 18 days because your dying is terminal." "We started looking at these hospices in Los Angeles, and the people never died. Two or three years later they were there, and we're paying $6,000 a month." "We found a hotel room with 29 hospices in it. I mean a hotel, every room was a hospice, and none of them had any patients. They were just addresses." "The guys who own them, they were Estonians and Armenians and people from Eastern Europe who were getting the patient numbers. They were stealing them from doctors' offices."..." At Da Caller, $225,000,000 In ‘Hideous’ Fraud Schemes Found Across US Schools, Report Alleges.

Ken Timmerman at Am Great explains The Trump Trap, "Trump's MOU set a trap. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fell into it." Joe Chalfant at TownHall claims Iran Just Killed the Memorandum of Understanding. At News Wax, Iran Suspending Commitments to Interim Deal With US. They just stopped pretending to abide. And, US-Iran Fighting Escalates With Infrastructure Targeted. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " JUST IN: Iran is REELING after President Trump ordered CENTCOM to begin targeting infrastructure targets, causing power outages and destruction of bridges "The war planners [are] bombing ROADS AND BRIDGES around Bandar Abbas!" The IRGC is getting CUT OFF from key supply lines to Bandar Abbas, key to Strait of Hormuz control The REAL bridge and power plant day is still coming up. Iran will be forced into compliance!" Bandar Abbas is a major key to control of the Strait of Hormuz. At Althouse, "In the days before the sentence was carried out, she had tried to keep living as if nothing was about to happen... She showered and wore thick felt-like clothes..." "From "I danced until 2am… then it was off to my flogging/An Iranian rapper and critic of regime was determined to show no suffering as a woman in a black chador put down her Quran and picked up her whip" (London Times)."

Clown World ™ @ClownWorld, "The Boston Globe’s headline: “She came to Boston for a Noah Kahan concert. Now she’s in ICE custody” The actual story: she missed a 2017 immigration court hearing, which triggered an outstanding removal order years ago The concert isn’t why she’s in custody. The removal order is." From NYPo, DHS issues scathing update on future of ‘maple leaf menace’ accused of slapping patriotic teen. "“This illegal alien who assaulted a teenager has no business being in our country,” DHS wrote in a statement on X, dubbing her a “maple leaf menace.” “She is now in [ICE] custody pending REMOVAL from our nation,” the agency’s statement concludes." Too easy. Drop her off in Nicaragua. At News Wax, DHS Warns TPS Holders to Take Exit Offer and Sen. Blackburn Revives Ban Birth Tourism Act. From NYPo, Trump administration weighs imposing $100K bonds on green card applicants. Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog says Fuck You, Tim Walz, for pardoning a child molester to protect him from deportation. Anyway it didn't work. Marco Rubio deported him anyway. Alex West Q @RealAlexWest_Q, " HOLY CRAP! Sec. Marco Rubio just got a MASSIVE standing ovation in Germany after he told Europe we need to move back toward Christianity and against 3rd world migration Marco is CRUSHING it and the whole world sees it! We LOVE MARCO."

NIOH Berg @NiohBerg, "Meet Andy Burnham, Britain's soon to be new PM. • Nobody voted for him • Nobody asked for him • He is haunted by allegations over his handling of the rape gangs • His main concern seems to be that Starmer wasn't enough of a tyrant • He will make everything worse • He will make Britain suffer even more." RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa, "In Europe there is a strange phenomenon where churches burn and mosques do not."

From Campus Reform, Brown taps hallucinogen researcher to lead 'merit' seminar "Brown University has selected anthropology and linguistics professor Paja Faudree, whose recent scholarship focuses on Indigenous use of hallucinogenic plants, to lead the 2026-27 Pembroke Seminar." At NewsWeek, US Universities Got Over $300M From Sanctioned China Entities. Gee, I wonder why China gives money to US schools; it's not altruism. 

NYPo claims New numbers reveal the child sex-change mania is worse than we knew "Recently released court documents show that Children’s Hospital Colorado, affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, prescribed puberty blockers to more than 250 patients and cross-sex hormones to nearly 550 patients in a single year, 2025."

Palm Sunday

With Emily Feld.

Another man-eating palm tree foiled, 12 News, Arizona, Tree trimmer rescued after being stranded 40 feet up a palm tree.

Is the Bay Ready for The Thrilla from Manila

 At the Baltimore Sun, Could a popular delicacy yet invasive shellfish come to Chesapeake Bay? "Manila clams make up of one of the most heavily cultivated and commercially valuable species in the world."

Manila clams, a popular global delicacy known to also be invasive, could come to the Chesapeake Bay — but might not necessarily harm the ecosystem, experts say.

The exotic species originally from Asia was recently discovered near the northwestern Atlantic coastline off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, one of the last places in the northern hemisphere to remain free of the mollusk, a collaborative team of marine biologists found.

Manila clams make up one of the most heavily cultivated and commercially valuable species in the world. The shellfish, however, can become invasive through its rapid breeding and overtaking native ecosystems, marine ecologist Aly Putnam, who was the paper’s lead author, told The Baltimore Sun.
Matt Gray, a professor in the ecophysiology of bivalves at University of Maryland, told The Sun the saltwater clams would be more likely to populate in the south of the Chesapeake, near Virginia, rather than Maryland because of the saltiness and depth of the water.

 OK, so not here. That's something.

“We’ve got all the right habitat, enough food and it’s warm enough to support their reproduction and for them to do well down there,” Gray said.

Experts said the mollusks would have to push against gulf streams to eventually land in the Chesapeake, but could accidentally get moved through ships, both commercial and recreational.

Although the clam is invasive in other ecosystems, until they’re physically in the Chesapeake, it’s unknown whether they would initially cause harm, experts said.

Putnam said the clams can end up being a food resource for different animals in different ecosystems, which is a positive.

I'm sure Blue Crabs, Cow Nose Rays and Drum will learn to eat them.

Changes in climate, water temperatures and salinity levels make it harder to predict if a species will adapt or impact existing ecosystems, said Julie Luecke, Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Maryland coastal resource scientist, in a statement to The Sun.

Luecke pointed to a nonnative species such as zebra mussels in the Chesapeake directly harming or outcompeting native freshwater mussels.

An exotic species like Manila clams would generally take away resources that would be put into growing native species and their ecosystem services, Gray said.

“I think it’s bad because we’ve got enough problems with our own clams and oysters that we don’t need additional competitors,” Gray said. “But I just want to say that, if it shows up here, it doesn’t necessarily mean it would be invasive.”

I find it amusing that they're worried about a new clam could take away phytoplankton from other filterfeeders, like oysters and native clams. In Chesapeake Bay, for years our main concern has been too much phytoplankton fueling anoxia. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Voting Speech Reactions Day 2

President Trump's address to the nation largely on the problems with our voting system are the talk of the town. Even though, most of this was at least hinted at before, it's useful to have a re-airing of grievances. Matt Margolis at PJM, Democrats Don't Want You to See This Video of Biden on Election Interference. TheFOO @PolitiBunny, "It’s wild how hard Schumer is trying to stop our elections from being secured. lol." Quote Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer "Not now. Not ever. The SAVE Act is dead on arrival in the United States Senate. x.com/atrupar/status…" Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll, "Once Upon A Time ... A crazy man claimed that voter data for every American was in China, and the CCP had used secret illegal U.S. election computer access to switch votes in 2020. And the crazy man was mocked & sued. But times changed, and new information came to light ..." Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy. Ace, Trump: We Recovered Documents From the CIA About Their Scheme to Hide All Intelligence from Me That Could Help Me in My 2020 Re-Election Campaign and Trump: There Is Evidence of a Massive Chinese Effort to Compromise America's Voting Rolls -- But the Deep State Covered It Up, "This is treason. And the death penalty should be on the table." Hat Hair's Dave Strom cites CNN and Blinken in 2024: Yes, China Was Interfering in U.S. Elections. Victory Girls say Yes Virginia, There Were Election Integrity Issues And Data Was Stolen. Ezra A. Cohen @EzraACohen, "Just wait till the American people get the full story on the concerted effort across multiple IC agencies to suppress information related to CCP interference in the election to Biden’s benefit. Who was the ring leader? Several of us stood up to it at the time." Quote Christopher Porter @DrPorter "CIA and ODNI senior leadership harassed and drove me from the building when I said China had interfered in 2020. So thankful that @FBIDirectorKash is standing up for the truth senior Intelligence Community leaders conspired to hide."

Mary Chastain at LI cites Mullin: ‘We’ve Identified 250,000 Noncitizens Registered to Vote’ in Four States, “We also worked with proactive states to identify 28,000 non-citizens on their voter rolls, plus 400,000 individuals that are still registered to vote that are deceased.” Sundance at CTH, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin Outlines 250,000 Illegal Aliens Registered to Vote in Four States. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, NEW: DHS Announces New Election-Security Measures After Trump Release of Intel.

 According to PJM's Vicky Taft, NBC, ABC, and CNN Blacked Out the President's Speech, So Aunt Mary and Uncle John Deleted THEM. ConfirmBias @Fulcrumbs44, "My guess is that the networks thought that President Trump would be speaking about Fulton County last night. They likely had all of their talking points set. Instead he threw them a curveball, and spoke about the fact that our media had been compromised by foreign entities. While he was revealing they were compromised, they were kind enough to suppress his address....and prove his point!" Cernovich @Cernovich, "Last night the entire media establishment was spooked. Selfie videos and posts from Dems including Kamala. That says it all." Quote 2WAY @2waytvapp, “When I hear complaints from Democrats that, ‘we can’t air false election claims because that will discourage the voters,’ … I say, ladies and gentlemen, the media aired false election claims about ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ for the entirety of the Trump presidency,” says @MarkHalperin about TV news networks refusing to air Donald Trump’s primetime address. “So get off your frigging fainting couches and don’t tell me that we cannot listen to political leaders making false accusations about an election.” Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Exactly correct. Still waiting for our shitbag media to do the Pulitzer-winning takedown on that. (They won't. No Pulitzer up that alley)." Quote Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "I don't know if any of these claims are true, but what did happen in 2020 was a global pandemic that originated in a Chinese laboratory and was partially funded by USAID and facilitated by Ecohealth Alliance, which, in fact, ended up affecting the election later that year." Ace, The Same Media That Pushed Hillary's Fake Opposition Research About Russia Collusion For Six Years Can't Believe Trump Is Alleging Election Irregularities. "Hillary's oppo fictions were worth reporting -- but an actual scandal with actual documentation doesn't."

At No Pasaran! The Economist Weekly Reveals Its Frustration: Why Won't Donald Trump Let the SAVE Act Go? wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat, "It's not necessary to believe in a specific instance of US voter fraud or system corruption to realize that the current system falls far short of the standard one required of any professional database. Essentially there should be an indexed table of voters with primary keys and a transaction log of their votes related by foreign key to elections. The fact that this is so hard to implement suggests there is great pressure not to make it secure. Creating a technically secure voting system is not the hard part. Wanting one is." Teri Christoph at RedState sees how Olive Garden Just Accidentally – and Hilariously! – Made the Case for Voter ID. You need a picture ID to use their Never-Ending Pasta Pass.

I&I reminds us Hey, Republicans, Spending Is Still Out Of Control. Yep.

From Insty, ALIVE OR DEAD? HE’S SCHRODINGER’S SENATOR: Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "BREAKING: Kentucky Politicians Want to Know If Mitch McConnell is 'Dead’ Multiple Kentucky politicians demand that Mitch McConnell’s office provide convincing proof that the senator is still alive. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he received multiple calls suggesting McConnell may have died while he was hospitalized. Speaking with Katie Couric, Beshear said two separate calls from government agencies raised alarms and he sought reassurance about McConnell's condition. "I got two calls from agencies suggesting that Sen. McConnell had passed away," Beshear said...." I suspect he's alive, but that he'll never see the Senate floor again.

John Sexton thinks it's remarkable that Ukraine's Drone Attacks Work on a Free Market System. Pay for play.

Ace thinks the Maine Democrats' Debate to Replace Graham Platner Sparks Question, "Say, Why Did We Get Rid of Graham Platner?" "Maine Democrats staged a Candidate Cattle Call last night." Hat Hair's Beege Welborn observes Maine Dems Dump Rape-y Nazi and Get a Freak Parade (Pick the tranny!) and John Sexton hears Things Not Going Well for Guys Who Recruited Platner. Jeff Charles at TownHall, This Is What's Happening to the Consultants Who Made Graham Platner. From NYPo, Maine socialists try again — with another he-man fake to sub for Graham Platner. Crimson Hub says Maine Senate Candidate Troy Jackson Wants Higher Taxes But Had His Own Tax Issues.

End Wokeness on X: "Mamdani housing event features a lady in a mask ranting about her landlord, declaring "eviction = violence"." Mary Chastain, New York City Mayor Mamdani Continues His War on Landlords "Mamdani might achieve his collectivism goal sooner than expected." If you thing housing is bad now, just wait. TownHall's Dmitri Bolt thinks Marco Rubio Just Delivered the Most Devastating Case Against Communism Yet. Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate, "No one is prepared for how stupid things are about to get." Quote 𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 @atlanticesque "Young democrats being +22 on “Free market economy” and -31 on “Capitalism” is both funny and bleak x.com/averyfjames/st…" I don't like the word 'capitalism' which derives from Marx, and much prefer "free market" economy. It's about more that capital. Sensurround @ShamashAran, "Democrats, Please Get Your Act Together..." From Twitchy, Socialists and the City: Cynthia Nixon Scores a Sweet NY Gig After Staying at a Holiday Inn Express "Recently, we reported on the miraculous tale of Christine Marinoni, who managed to land a $200,000-a-year job as the chief of mass engagement (whatever that is) in New York's Department of Education. How did she get the job? Oh, did we forget to mention that she is married to actress, far-left nutjob, and trans activist Cynthia Nixon, who—purely by coincidence, we're sure—had held a huge fundraiser for Zohran Mamdani before he was elected mayor?" Capitalism or socialism, one constant in government is graft. Amy Curtis at TownHall observes Colorado Governor Jared Polis Jumps on the Anti-Socialist Bandwagon and Abdul El-Sayed's Latest Appeal to Voters Backfires. From the Free Bacon, ‘The Doctor … Thinks of You as a Half Citizen’: Abdul El-Sayed Said Doctors Who Don't Accept Medicaid 'Discriminate' Against Black People. His Psychiatrist Wife Doesn't Participate in the Program. "'Because of the nature of structural racism,' doctors think of a Medicaid patient as a 'half citizen,' El-Sayed said." So she works for free like a good communist?

Mary Chastain again, Dem Rep. Adam Smith Voted Against Israel in Part Due to Threats Against Family, "But Smith attempts to appease those leftists even more by railing against Israel in his statement." William A. Jacobson @wajacobson, "A year or two from now when the stories surface that U.S. jobs have been lost b/c Israel is producing it's own munitions and systems for itself and int'l markets, remember it was forced to do so by the psychopathic isolationist right and DSA-controlled Dems." Quote Yonah Jeremy Bob @jeremybob1, "EXCLUSIVE: Israel to produce its own JDAMs (precision bombs) within 2 years. It's already been locally producing other bombs for 2 years. It also quadrupled Arrow production for ISRAELI USE thanks to 2 Germany Arrow deals." I like how the perfesser misused "it's." Nobody's perfect. 

Dave Strom at Hat Hair, This Is Bat-Guano Insane, California, but it's not too insane for California. At Twitchy, Jennifer Newsom Stumbles and Stammers When Confronted With the Fact the DOJ Probe Started Under Biden. Capt. Ed, Walz: Hey, Let He Who Has Not Molested a Kid Throw the First Stone, Amirite? Amy Curtis again, Democrat Bob Brooks’ Financial History Raises Serious Questions in Key PA House Race. A Democrat with poor money handling skill? Whoda thunk? Matt Margolis swears Democrats Are Panicking and Scrambling to Hide Something Big, with an NDA "before a private meeting on the party's finances."

Ace, As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat. "Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe." Lee Smith at Table wants to know Is Trump Ready to Win Yet? "After suddenly collapsing the foundations of America’s security architecture in the Middle East, President Donald Trump now recalls that Iran is run by crazy liars—and that the point of fighting wars is winning. But is the administration’s new line just more talk?" wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat, ""We are in an essential and existential war with America," [Iran's] Qalibaf said. My comment: His surprise is understandable. The Europeans believed the Israelis would retaliate "proportionately" for Oct 7. Bomb a few symbolic targets in Gaza but stop short of invasion, negotiate with Sinwar. Nor did anyone think the Ukraine war would last longer than WW2. Judging by the British defense budget, they counted on it ending back in 2024 or 2025. As for Iran the French and British fleets (if you can use the term) were going to de-mine the straits just as soon as the war ended, and that should have been some time ago. Instead to Qalibaf's (and everyone's) surprise they unaccountably turned into *real* wars. The kind played for keeps, that end with a last man standing, the sort where the losers, like Hamas, will be hunted down long after they are old and grey, with old Jihadis being shot in their beds by the grandsons of those who perished on that day. "We are in an essential and existential war with America," [Iran's] Qalibaf said. Who pulled a switcheroo on them? After decades of "Death to America" ain't that a surprise." John Sexton hears Iran Places Billboard in Tehran Showing Trump in a Coffin. Trump ought to bomb it just to show we can.

Sarah Anderson at PJM says Dang! Bessent Has a Personal Message for the Fake News About His Assassination Attempt. Driscoll at Insty sees how the THE NEW REPUBLIC DEESCALATES: Scott Bessent: A Deranged Leftist Attempted to Assassinate Me Shortly After I Became Secretary of the Treasury. The New Republic: Don’t You Understand You’re Forcing Us Lefties to Murder You? Ace, Scott Bessent: A Deranged Leftist Attempted to Assassinate Me Shortly After I Became Secretary of the Treasury. The New Republic: Don't You Understand You're Forcing Us Lefties to Murder You? Vance/Rubio or Rubio/Vance?

Cannot be overstated how good this is. https://t.co/88ioa9Jw2p

— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) July 17, 2026

Cam at Bearing Arms has a sigh of relief as Third Circuit Says Ban on 'Assault Weapons' and 'Large Capacity' Magazines Is Unconstitutional.

At Da Wire, ‘I’m Happy’: Agents Celebrate After Trump Reverses Controversial ICE Order, "Not sure how they don't consult Trump about this before they send out guidance to every field office." Beege Welborn, That Thing That Never Happens Seems to Be Happening Again, illegals on welfare. From Campus Reform, DHS to begin placing stricter time limits on student visas. "The Department of Homeland Security will begin limiting student visas to a period of no more than four years, though visa holders can apply for extensions."

RCP reports Democrat State Attorneys Sue to Keep CNN as Partisan as Possible. Trying to block Bari Weiss from being put in charge. Beege Welborn declares The All Bull Corporation News Is Battin' 1000 With Their Reporting.

Rich Penkoski @WFCPreacher, "BREAKING: Virginia State Senator Saddam Azlan Salim (D-Fairfax) has introduced Senate Bill 624, legislation that would define "Islamophobia" within Virginia's assault and battery laws while requiring law enforcement to track crimes allegedly motivated by anti-Islam bias..." RCW looks Inside the Mind of an Online Extremist and retains enough sanity to tell about it.

From da College Fix, Court sides with U. Pittsburgh professor demoted for criticizing affirmative action. 

NYPo claims New numbers reveal the child sex-change mania is worse than we knew.

Rule 5 Saturday - Emily Feld

This week's Rule 5 exemplar is another honey from Australia's Gold Coast: EmilyFeld, April 17, 2005, a

Burgeoning fashion model who has gained fame as a face for Michael Murchie Photography. Signed with Que Models, she has earned more than 1.3 million Instagram followers sharing her modeling photos. 

In September 2016, she posted her first photo to Instagram captioned "Always be yourself because yourself is always wonderful.

She has a self-titled YouTube channel where she has posted facts, behind the scenes videos, and the occasional tumbling video. 

She was born and raised in the Gold Coast Hinterland in Queensland. She is the youngest of 4 children; she has 2 brothers and a sister. 

She posed alongside Taya Brooks for a picture on her Instagram account in April 2019.