Flotsam and Jetsam - The BBB Trundles Along

Sundance at CTH hosts National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett Outlines Importance of Big Beautiful Bill. Ace, "Big Beautiful (?) Bill" Passes Cloture Vote, Now In "Vote-a-Rama" Phase for Amendments, "The Democrats are proposing dozens and dozens of amendments just to delay the final vote." From Da Caller, Senate GOP Slashes Spending In ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill As Fiscal Hawks Push For More Cuts. At Hat Hair, Inside the OBBB: AFP's Kent Strang Breaks Down Senate Drama and Fiscal Showdowns. Cam at BA heartened, Senate Language Zeroing Out Taxes on Suppressors, Short-Barrels Passes Byrd Bath. Hat Hair's Duane Patterson thinks the media and Democrats are being Willfully Obtuse about the BBB. Matt Vespa at TownHall hears Fetterman say I Want to Go Home. Sundance says I told you so, Elon Musk Pledges to Launch Third Party if Big Beautiful Bill Passes Congress. CNN just reported Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ awaits final Senate vote. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.30.25, EBL: Chuck Schumer Melts Down Over The Big Beautiful Bill, Victory Girls: About Time: Green New Deal Energy Subsidies Booted From Trump’s Bill, also, Vote-a-rama: The Last Scene Is Being Played Out In The Senate.

At Hat Capt. Ed Hair reads the WSJ: Say, Remember the Great Stock Market Crash of 2025? Well "... neither does anyone else" and Larry has a video, Dems Melt Down Over Trump Wins! CNN Can't Handle Scott Jennings! Dmitri Bolt at TownHall, Thanks to President Trump, America Enjoys the Lowest Summer Gas Prices Since 2021. Ace, #Winning: Inflation Rises More Slowly, Gas Prices Fall, and the Markets Hit All-Time Records, A European Economist Admits: "Maybe Trump Has Outsmarted All of Us" "The markets soared to record highs on Friday, despite the "predictions" (or partisan rooting interest) of the liberal establishment. Part of the rally is due to falling, get this, inflation." Matt Vespa at TownHall sees a Dem Strategist Loses It After She Cannot Deny America Is Better Off With Trump. Matt Margolis at PJM thinks Elie Mystal’s MSNBC Meltdown Over Trump Is One for the Ages. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.30.25, American Thinker, ‘A Very Consequential Two Weeks’ and Transterrestrial Musings, Trump’s Past Two Weeks.

ABC reports Iran crackdown deepens with speedy executions and arrests, "Three Iranians were executed for alleged spying, Iran's judiciary said." Hat Hair's Dave Strom hears Iranian Women Take to Streets to Offer Babies Up for Martyrdom. Dan Chaitin at Da Wire, Trump Predicts More Nations Will Join Abraham Accords After Iran Strikes. Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Jeffries Slams Trump for Abandoning Obama's Iran Strategy, That Included Sending Tehran Pallets of Cash. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.30.25, American Thinker: Yes, the U.S. ‘Obliterated’ Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities, BattleSwarm: Hegseth Slams Lying Media, Trump To Iran Last Week: We Can Remove Sanctions On You Now. Trump This Week: Or We Could Have, If You Hadn’t Been Such Colossal Dicks. At NYPo, Where’s Tulsi Gabbard? Intelligence director missing from key moments as insiders call her ‘wrong on the big stuff.’

Don Surber, Trump celebrates Canada Day, "TACO becomes POCA—President’s Opponents Cave Again." Politico whines Canada drops digital tax that angered Trump to resume US trade talks, "The move comes as Washington pressures multiple trade partners — including the EU — to ease digital rules targeting American tech firms." Liz Stauffer at LI, says Canada Capitulates: Will Scrap Digital Services Tax, Restart Trade Talks “So revenues collapsed in Canada during his [Trudeau’s] 10-year reign, and now [Prime Minister Mark] Carney has no income. … So, he’s trying to find any way he can to make income.”  Ace, Canada Surrenders to Daddy Trump on Tax on Tech Services "Canada decided to join the EU in punishing US tech firms because they're mad that Elon Musk allows free speech."

From sundance, HHS Secretary RFK Jr Tells Tucker Carlson all the Terrible Stuff HHS is Doing.

From Sarah Anderson at PJM, a puff piece on the second lady, Usha Vance Gets Personal, and It's a Breath of Fresh Air.From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.30.25,   Shark Tank: DeSantis Confirms Trump Will Join Him At “Alligator Alcatraz” Opening.

Matt Vespa sees a Whitewash: Watch CNN Pull a 'Kamala Harris' on Zohran Mamdani's Views. At Hat Hair Dave Strom notes the Pravda Media is Covering for Mamdani and a Michele Tafoya video, Congressman Mike Lawler Knows Zohran Mamdani. Driscoll at Insty, OLD AND BUSTED: ‘I’m Not A Witch,’ Republican Candidate Christine O’Donnell Tells Delaware Voters. "—NPR, October 5th, 2010. The New Hotness?" MAZE @mazemoore "This is not terrible AI, it's a real message from the current frontrunner for NYC Mayor to his socialist comrades. "The end goal of seizing the means of production." I can't believe this is actually happening." Chicago Boyz, observe Enablers of Mamdani: America’s Universities. Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC, "Mao, Che, Pol Pot, on and on it goes. Communist leaders are almost always rich kids with a god complex who pretend to be of the peasant class to gain power. Almost every time." Quote End Wokeness @EndWokeness "Zohran says his worldview is inspired by the 3rd world while eating rice with his hands" Renu Mukherjee @RenuMukherjee1, "Mamdani’s mother is a world-famous, Academy Award-nominated Bollywood director worth tens of millions of dollars. His father is a chaired professor at Columbia. He is, in effect, a perpetual theatre kid who’s pretending to be “Third World.” It’s all so, so performative + stupid." Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "What you have to realize about the communist class in America is that they are all bored, privileged theater kids with nothing better to do than destroy Western civilization. None of them actually grew up hard knocks," Quote "Breaking911 @Breaking911 "Despite her ‘Bronx girl’ claims, AOC graduated from suburban Yorktown High School in 2007 as “Sandy Cortez”. You mean she's been lying? What a shocker." Dana Loesch @DLoesch, "Nepo baby who never worked and only became a citizen a few years ago hates the country in which he wants to impose his authority," Quote R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts "BREAKING: Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who is running for New York City mayor, said he doesn't think we should have billionaires." Insty, DEMOCRATS IN A NUTSHELL: Maud Maron @MaudMaron, "He says he “grew up in the third world” but he was living in the United States attending private school since he was 7 years old—that’s not “code switching,” that’s lying. He is a spoiled, privileged young man playing today’s most popular parlor game “Look how oppressed I am.”: The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Mamdani Clarifies He Is Not A Communist, He Merely Wants To Seize The Means Of Production And Put All The Capitalists In Gulags https://buff.ly/4Ob4CoD."

John Kass predicts Democrat Anguish Will Only Get Worse. Buck Sexton @BuckSexton "The Right takes pride in being American. The Left takes pride in believing they’re better than America. More true now than ever." Quote FischerKing @FischerKing64 "Gallup poll results that will surprise absolutely no one. While Republicans overwhelmingly are proud to be American, Democrats are not - and the number keeps falling." At Althouse, "Pride among Democrats tumbles, while independents also hit new low, more than offsetting increase among Republicans." "According to a new Gallup poll, reported at "American Pride Slips to New Low.""

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.30.25, This Ain’t Hell, Jasmine Crockett questions Melania Trump’s visa, Hunter Biden Coughs Up Law License. 

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.30.25, Don Surber: SCOTUS saves the judiciary. Randy Barnett @RandyEBarnett "“It just can’t be right….” This is what makes Justice Kagan’s vote in this particular case so disappointing. The least she should have done is to write her own dissenting opinion to justify this change of mind from 2022, The Federalist: We Still Have An Imperial Judiciary, Yet Trump Continues To Exercise Extreme Restraint, Lawsuit Claims Nevada Elections Chief Is Hiding Records On Alleged Illegal Voter, America Deserves Better Than Amnesty For The Politically Connected." PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks Dem Reactions to SCOTUS Kneecapping Activist Judges Are Delicious and Matt Margolis explains why Justice Jackson Is Even Worse Than We Thought. Tim Carney @TPCarney "Your reminder that every media figure in the past 10 years who posed as the defender of democracy just meant “I want libs to win elections and court cases,”" Quote Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky, "It's not an exaggeration to say that the Supreme Court today put the final nail in the coffin of our constitutional republic by anointing a king." Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, hears Biden’s Lone SCOTUS Pick Wonders What Aliens Would Think Of The Court’s Latest Decision. "'A Martian arriving here from another planet would see these circumstances and surely wonder: 'what good is the Constitution, then?'' Andy Paquette at Zark, Justice Jackson and the AI law professor "For fun, I uploaded the documents to Claude.ai and asked it to grade them from the perspective of a Harvard law school professor, on quality of argument and understanding of law. . . . Grade: F. This work demonstrates such fundamental misunderstanding of judicial role and legal methodology that I would recommend you seriously reconsider whether law is the right field for you.”" The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "KBJ Issues Savage Dissent In Form Of TikTok Dance." At the Babylon Bee, District Court Issues Nationwide Injunction Against Supreme Court Ruling: "This nationwide injunction holds that the Supreme Court's ruling against our nationwide injunctions is unconstitutional," Boasberg said in his ruling. "The United States Supreme Court, despite holding ultimate legal authority over all other courts in the country, simply holds no authority over any other court in the country. I hereby decree that any ruling that declares our injunction unconstitutional is unconstitutional. Checkmate, Supreme Court."

John Sexton at Hat Hair, Investigation Uncovers Massive Medicare Fraud. Kaelen Deese at WaEx, DOJ charges hundreds of people in $14.6 billion healthcare fraud takedown. Dave Strom, $42 Billion in Two Days: Bidenistas Went on Green Spending Binge in January.

At Hat Hair, Beege Welborn is scandalized that CNN is Helpfully Explaining the Latest in ICE Tracking Apps in Case You, Like, Need to Know. Sundance reports CNN Promotes ICE App an Alert System to Help Illegal Aliens Avoid Capture. Driscoll at Insty,  IT’S 2025, TRUMP’S BACK IN OFFICE, AND CNN IS BACK TO DOXXING AMERICANS: "CNN Helpfully Explaining the Latest in ICE Tracking Apps in Case You, Like, Need to Know." Jonathan Turley is also upset "ICE, ICE Baby: Denver City Council Ends Car Theft Tracking System to Protect Illegal Immigrants." 

Da Wire reports the State Department Looks To Revoke Visa For British Rappers Who Chanted ‘Death To The IDF’, "State Department official: "The U.S. government will not issue visas to any foreigner who supports terrorists." Matt Vespa, Whatever This Is, It's Being Called a Nazi Rally. Here's Why. Capt. Ed, Rubio to Drop a Beat on Anti-Semitic Brit Rappers? UPDATE: BBC Says ... Oops, Our Bad; UPDATE: Revoked! From the Victory Girls, Bob Vylan Rappers Who Led Antisemitic Chants At Glastonbury, Banned From U.S. Driscoll cites MELANIE PHILLIPS: Nuremberg at Glastonbury. "Apparently the British government is shocked that the Bob Vylan spot was live-streamed on the BBC. The Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy — the former chair of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East — has asked the BBC Director-General Tim Davie for an “urgent explanation” about what due diligence it carried out into Bob Vylan. . ." From Da Mail, Tourist who claimed he was banned entry to US because of a JD Vance meme on his phone was actually denied for a different reason, Homeland reveal.

Matt Vespa says BOOM: Harvard Violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, Could Lose ALL Federal Funding and Capt. Ed echoes Boom: DoJ Formally Finds Harvard Violated Civil-Rights Laws. From the Free Bacon, Harvard Begs Major Corporations for Cash Amid Trump's Funding Cuts. At the College Fix, Georgetown professor walks back statement that Iran should perform 'symbolic' strike on U.S. base. "Georgetown Professor Jonathan Brown said in a viral X post that he hopes Iran strikes a United States military base. Brown has since deleted the post and made his X account private." Well, they took his advice, and it was ineffective (by design). At his substack Professor Insty wonders What is College Good For?

Althouse finds "I am a philosopher, not a physician... Philosophers prize clear language and love unravelling muddled arguments, and the writings of pediatric gender specialists..." "... serve up plenty of obscurity and confusion.... The review describes how the medicalized 'gender affirming care' approach to treating pediatric gender distress, endorsed by the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, rests on very weak evidence.... [N]o reliable research indicates that these treatments are beneficial to minors’ mental health.... Writes MIT philosophy professor Alex Byrne, in "I co-wrote the anonymous HHS report on pediatric gender medicine/The hostile reaction to our work shows why we needed to do it in the first place" (WaPo)(free-access link). " Katie Jerkovich at Red State reports JK Rowling Gets the Final Word After Trans-Activist Attacker Ends Up Behind Bars For Child Rape. At TownHall, Jeff Charles wonders Do We Really Need to Trans Shakespeare? "An academic in the United Kingdom claims all of the main characters in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” were gender-fluid. The play is a tragedy about a Scottish nobleman who resorts to skulduggery to seize the kingdom with the help of his wife, Lady Macbeth." The test of a true academic is whether they can believe 7 outrageously stupid ideas before lunch.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Surf’s Up and FMJRA 2.0: Not Long Before The End up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.