So sorry for missing yesterday mornings news dump, but I had a good excuse.
I did think Bongino was a bit of an odd choice in the FBI; he's way too straight forward. From Da Wire, BONDI OR BONGINO: Bongino Won’t Remain At FBI If Bondi Keeps Job, Source Says, "Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi have sparred over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files." At PJM, Matt Margolis reports BONDI OR BONGINO: Bongino Won’t Remain At FBI If Bondi Keeps Job, Source Says, "Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi have sparred over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files" and Both Bongino and Patel May Resign If Pam Bondi Stays As Attorney General while Vodka Pundit writes the Thursday Essay: How the Trump Team Lost the Epstein Narrative. Althouse find the NYT taking Bondi's side, "Ms. Bondi and her allies believe that Mr. Bongino, who parlayed a he-man image and promotion of conspiracies into a top law enforcement job, planted stories..." ""... in the conservative news media blaming Ms. Bondi for the backlash after an announcement earlier this week that the Epstein case would be closed, according to officials close to the situation.... It escalated into an angry face-to-face confrontation at the White House on Wednesday, when an irate Ms. Bondi accused Mr. Bongino of leaking information to the news media in the presence of the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, the White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and one of her deputies, Taylor Budowich. Mr. Bongino denied it, they said."" Hat Hair's Dave Strom cites WIRED: Epstein Prison Tape Released by FBI Was Likely Manipulated. Matt Margolis also reports Dershowitz Makes Explosive Claim About the Elusive Epstein Client List . "“Hand to God, I know the names of the people whose files are being suppressed in order to protect them, and that’s wrong,” he declared, indicating that the suppression isn’t just bureaucratic inertia; it’s a conscious effort to protect the powerful." My own suspicion is that Epstein was being used by several western intelligence agencies to gather information and blackmail material. When the shit the fan, they scurried around and destroyed most of the evidence, leaving just enough to warrant keeping Ghislaine in jail, and from talking.
Julie Kelly@julie_kelly2 "WashPo reporting fabulous news out of DOJ as employee purge continues. “Widespread, abrupt terminations have left Justice Department and FBI employees wondering if they will be next, people familiar with the matter say.” This makes me especially happy: “Patricia Hartman, a veteran spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C., was notified Monday that she was fired.” Hartman routinely refused to answer any of my media inquiries as she ran cover for Matt Graves and J6 prosecutors. . . " Paul Sperry at RCI, CIA Contradicts Obama Officials’ Sworn Denials About Russiagate Report.
From NewsBusters, Morning Joe Flip Out: ICE Arrests Are ‘Racial Profiling,’ ‘Kidnapping’. At Insty, WHEN EVEN THE ECONOMIST IS ADMITTING THAT IT DOESN’T WORK: The Economist @TheEconomist "The asylum system is not working. It cannot cope with a world of proliferating conflict, cheap travel and huge wage disparities. A more pragmatic approach starts by helping refugees find shelter closer to home." Nick Arama, Pure Gold: MSNBC Sadly Admits How Bad Biden Was on Immigration, Trump Was Right. Cathy Salgado at PJM hears Kennedy’s HHS Bans Illegal Alien Beneficiaries. Meanwhile at Hat Hair, Beege Welborn hears Bass Unveils 'Pay to Stay Home' Plan for LA's Illegals because they're too afraid to go to work and get deported.
Inez Stepman @InezFeltscher "It’s not the working class or even the middle class that’s boosting Zohran, it’s the activist upper middle class. Not the guys making 400k+, they also didn’t go for him. It’s the second tier Ivy League “best and brightest” who committed to being part of the activist “movement” in the NGO complex for the good but not outrageous salaries of about $100-200k and can’t accept the tradeoff of their classmates who did the “bad thing” of going into finance or big law being able to afford a 2 bd in the west village with nice light for $7000/month." Quote The American Mind@theammind, "On the latest episode of The Roundtable, special guest and New York resident @InezFeltscher dives into how class resentment fueled Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in the Democratic mayoral primary." Dmitri Bolt at TownHall hears Communist NYC Mayoral Candidate Called to Redistribute Luxury Homes to the Homeless. Driscoll, VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT, NEW YORKERS: Zohran Mamdani’s Father’s Remark About Suicide Bombers Comes Under Scrutiny. "Mahmood Mamdani, the father of New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, is facing scrutiny online over his alleged statement in a 2004 book that suicide bombing as a tactic shouldn’t be “stigmatized as a mark of barbarism.”" tedfrank @tedfrank "We need a federal commission to investigate how people so opposed to American values obtain citizenship, and make recommendations as to what needs to change so that it doesn’t keep happening." Quote Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby "“Suicide bombing needs to be understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized.” These are the words of Zohran Mamdani’s father, a current professor at Columbia." Matt Margolis hears the DNC Chair: The Democratic Party Welcomes Those Who Want to Kill Jews. Matt Vespa at TownHall, DNC Chair Makes the Position Clear: The Dems Won't Condemn Those Who Want to Kill Jews, how could they; it's half their base. PJM's Stephen Kruiser, The Loony Left Would Be Protesting Something Even If Kamala Had Won, of course.
Twitchy, Chris Cillizza Thread on Biden's Decline PROVES Public Is Better at Journalism Than He and His Colleagues, not a high bar. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Former White House Doctor Denies Ever Knowing A "Joe Biden" https://buff.ly/JV4bodO"
Sister Toldja at RedState notices CNN Finally Stumbles Upon the Truth in Latest Report on Texas Flooding Tragedy. Nicholas Fondacaro @NickFondacaro "CNN admits that President Trump and Governor Abbott are not responsible for the flood deaths in Texas. Shimon Prokupecz admits that the federal government issued the proper warnings before hand and the state government moved the resources into the area before hand, and it was the local government under the microscope now: "And that's what this is about at this point. It's about the local officials. What did they do? Not the state, not the federal government, because on July 2nd, on July 2nd, two days before this, the state is already sending out press releases saying, be careful, you've got this weather storm, you've got this storm coming through, raising the alarm bells. The alarm bells are starting on July 2nd, and the Texas Department of Emergency Management is moving in resources. They're moving the resources in saying to the locals, we have things available for you. We have emergency response available for you. So get prepared. And this was a warning....What efforts did the locals make? At this point, it doesn't appear to be that they were making any efforts."" At NewsMax, Noem says FEMA Should Be 'Eliminated as It Exists Today.'
Matt Margolis reports Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship for Illegals. To spite the Supreme Court. Matt Vespa, CA Judge to ICE: You Can't Enforce Immigration Law in the Greater Los Angeles Area. But, from TAG, Federal Judge Strikes Down California’s Law Banning Carry Permits For Non Residents.
At LI, Herr Professor Jacobson is amused Sotomayor Had To Explain The Law To KBJ Like She Was A 5th Grader, "In recent case in which eight Justices voted to grant a stay of a lower court injunction, and KBJ wrote another fiery dissent, Justice Sotomayor wrote a separate concuring opinion directed at KBJ and “explained it to her like she was a fifth grader, in very simple terms that apparently Justice Jackson to the end was unable to grasp.”" WaPoo write a puff piece Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she fears for U.S. democracy "The justice has emerged as one of the court’s sharpest critics, issuing more dissents than any colleague during the Supreme Court term that ended last month."
From Ace, Trump Sues California For Violating Title IX's Purpose of Reserving Female Sports for Females. "Remember when Transin' Newsom pretended he thought it was "unfair" to make women compete against men? That's now been exposed as the toe-in-the-water first attempt at political reinvention that it was. He's a Trans Crusader and always will be. Pam Bondi even quoted Transin' Newsom's statement that it's "deeply unfair" to force women to compete with men to support the lawsuit." Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok "NEW: The DoD just withdrew the nomination of Admiral Michael Donnelly for vice admiral and commander of the 7th Fleet after discovering he permitted drag shows on board the USS Ronald Reagan" At Althouse, "The Defense Department is withdrawing the nomination of Rear Adm. Michael 'Buzz' Donnelly... under whose command drag performances took place on board the USS Ronald Reagan." "The Daily Wire reports. Donnelly served as commanding officer of the aircraft carrier from April 2016 to September 2018, during which time Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley performed as a drag queen under the name “Harpy Daniels” at a department-sanctioned “Morale, Welfare, and Recreation” event on the aircraft carrier. Harpy Daniels? Is that like Stormy Daniels? Was it political commentary? Political commentary of the anti-Trump kind? I don't know but drag in the Navy was right there in "South Pacific," the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical based on a James A. Michener's 1947 book "Tales of the South Pacific."" UPI reports DOJ subpoenas more than 20 gender-affirming care doctors, clinics.
I left Lots of links at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.10.25 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 07.10.25 (Evening Edition), In The Mailbox: 07.11.25 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 07.11.25 (Evening Edition). Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links.
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