Flotsam and Jetsam - Big Balls Beaten Badly, Trump Threatens DC Takeover

John Sexton at Hat Hair reports Trump Threatens to Take Over DC After 'Big Balls' Lives Up to His Name, "The incident in question happened early Sunday morning. A woman in a car was approached by some teenagers who demanded she hand over her car. A bystander saw what was happening and got involved. He wound up being beaten bloody by a group of teens but stopped the carjacking attempt. This afternoon, President Trump highlighted this case on Truth Social saying crime in the city is out of control because teens aren't held accountable. His post also included a photo of the man who was beaten up. . . And shortly after that one of the man's friend's posted that he'd taken the photo. He identified the DOGE employee was Edward Coristine, aka "Big Balls" who made a lot of news when he was with DOGE. He describes the group Coristine fought with as "8 thugs." Ben Whedon at JTN, Trump threatens to federalize D.C. over lax approach to minors committing crimes. ""If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" he concluded." Sean Davis @seanmdav "End home rule and re-federalize D.C. immediately. It is long overdue, as D.C. is clearly incapable of governing itself. The days of D.C. holding the government and the country hostage need to be over." Quote Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke, "Judging by how Trump 2.0 has approached things, this isn’t a warning to clean up. It’s a warning that D.C. will be federalized. No one seriously believes the people who wrecked it are now going to fix it. This is just Trump laying the groundwork for what’s coming. x.com/RapidResponse4…" From PM, Elon Musk backs Trump over federalization of Washington, DC after DOGE staffer brutally beaten: Elon Musk @elonmusk "A few days ago, a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in DC. A @Doge team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her and was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her. It is time to federalize DC." Matt Margolis at PJM, Elon Musk Proved Democrats Never Cared About the Environment or crime. OTP reports Trump Cancels Musk’s Federal Employee Achievement Program, you know, telling the boss what you actually accomplished.

Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks Democrats' Sudden Freakout Over Gerrymandering Is Starting to Make Sense... and a CNN Guest Made a Keen Observation That Nuked the Dems' Narrative Over Texas Gerrymandering  “These new five potential GOP-controlled districts are all majority Hispanic. The Republicans are leaning into the victories that Trump had with Hispanic voters in 2024 and saying, ‘Hey, we're going to bet on ourselves,’” Ungar-Sargon said. “It's amazing to me that the Democrats are just kind of running away,” she added." Also,  This Is How You Know Texas Dems Are Losing the Gerrymandering Messaging War. Paul A. Szypula @Bubblebathgirl "Pritzker 2025: Says redistricting is evil. Pritzker 2022: Redistricts Illinois." DC_Draino @DC_Draino "Blue states with ZERO Republican House seats: Massachusetts Rhode Island Vermont New Hampshire Hawaii New Mexico Connecticut Delaware. Blue states with ONE Republican House seat: Maryland Oregon Maine. Blue states with 2-5 Republican House seats: Colorado Minnesota Illinois Virginia New Jersey. After that, you only have California & New York The reason Democrats are screaming for Texas to stop redistricting is because Democrats have almost nothing left to gerrymander They already rigged the map years ago and hate to see Republicans actually fighting back." They feel entitled to win the 2026 midterms. Sister Toldja at RedState enjoys watching  a Texas Democrat Gets Lit Up by Reporter Over Leaving Flood Legislation in Limbo. Misty Severi at JTN reports Abbott asks Texas Supreme Court to remove state House Democratic Caucus chair from office. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.05.25 (Morning Edition), EBL: Governor Abbott Warns Texas Dems To Return, Or Else, Louder With Crowder, Texas Democrats run away (again) to block redistricting, causing Texas Governor to make MASSIVE threat.

Breitbart Bus explores The MADness of the Jobs Revisions. This is worth a good read, especially if you have a statistical background. "This isn’t just “these things happen.” These things don’t happen. And when they do, they are the signal, not the noise."  The recent revisions to the jobs reports are way outside the norms. Regardless of what you think of the people involved, the system is broken. Natalia Mittelstadt at JTN, Trump says Bessent will not be considered for Federal Reserve chairman "“I love Scott, but he wants to stay where he is,” President Trump said." Sundance at CTH hosts CNBC Questioning President Trump About Banking Discrimination – Trump Leaves Them Speechless. Streif at RedState hears Trump Faces Senate Mutiny Over Ending the Wind and Solar Power Grift Congress Wants to Fund. Matt Vespa thinks There Is No Better Entertainment Than Watching a Top Trump Official Destroy CNN. "Yesterday, CNN host Kasie Hunt pitched the question to Lee Zeldin and instantly regretted it. The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) noted that nothing broadcast before he was allowed to speak was remotely accurate to what the EPA is rescinding this week." 

John Sexton at Hat Hair notes Trump Says India will Pay 'Substantial' New Tariffs. From Da Wire,  Russia Responds After Trump Dispatches Submarines: There Can Be No Winner In A Nuclear War, "... we believe everyone should be very careful about nuclear rhetoric."

NewsMax cites Trump: VP Vance 'Most Likely' Heir to MAGA Movement, with a nod to Rubio too. Don Surber, notes August begins. Lies and TDS continue. At Am Great, The Great Victor Davis Hanson explores Trump’s Unknown Frontiers, "Trump is rewriting the rules of politics, economics, and culture—and no one, not even the experts, knows what happens when the old orthodoxy finally breaks."

Sundance at CTH hosts DNI Tulsi Gabbard Providing an Update on Current Russiagate Declassification and Investigation and MAKES SENSE – Devin Nunes: The Raid on Mar-a-Lago Was to Retrieve Declassified HPSCI Report That Deconstructed Obama/Brennan ICA. Maybe. Somebody knows the answer, and we need to get it out. From Drew Berquist, DNI Tulsi Gabbard Targets Long-Running CIA Propaganda Operation "Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has called for a full dismantling of what she identifies as remnants of the CIA’s Cold War-era Operation Mockingbird, an alleged propaganda network that she claims continues to influence media coverage and public perception, particularly in matters involving President Donald Trump." From Ace, Pam Bondi Convenes Grand Jury to Investigate RussiaGate Coup, "As Guy Who Always Thinks Things Are Beginning says: And so it begins. A grand jury, of course, is empowered to indict people for crimes. It also has great powers to demand testimony and subpoena documents." Dave Strom at Hat Hair astonished Bondi's Russiagate Grand Jury to Be Empaneled in Florida? "If true, this changes things quite a bit. We all know that if a Grand Jury were empaneled in New York or Washington, D.C., no prosecutor could indict even a Democrat ham sandwich for a felony caught on tape and broadcast live on CNN." At Twitchy, Aww, WASSAMATTA?! LOL! WATCH Nicolle Wallace's Pinched Face As She Reports on Russia Collusion Grand Jury. OTP, Scarborough Says Bondi Ordering Probe Of Obama Administration ‘Extraordinarily Stupid.’ From Comm Def, James Clapper Gets Nervous, Lawyered Up After Gabbard’s Criminal Referrals [WATCH]. A Driscolly post at Insy, DNC-MSM DOESN’T WANT ITS MODIFIED LIMITED HANGOUT INVESTIGATED: Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi, "A significant part of Russiagate as a cultural phenomenon has been the shunning of anyone who questioned it, from Princeton professor Stephen Cohen to @ggreenwald to @aaronjmate to @raymcgovern and many others - including @TulsiGabbard and @FBIDirectorKash." Quote Dan D @DanielCDolmar, "Replying to @mtaibbi What's with all of the comments below every single one of Matt's linked pieces saying "Dude you've lost it..." or "Is this a wise use of your time"? It's been years of the same boring thing, trying so hard to be DIScouraging, that it must be ENcouraging by now." Jerry Dunleavy at JTN, Hunter Biden laptop letter author helped Clinton tie Trump to Putin in 2016 Mike Morell is perhaps best known now as the driving force behind the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter in 2020. "But the former acting CIA director played an eerily similar, albeit less successful, role in Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 bid." Michael Shellenberger, claims Rogue Spy Agencies are Behind a Global War On Democracy "House arrest of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro echoes attempts to incarcerate Trump and presidential candidates in France and Romania."

Rusty Weiss at RedState is happy to report Bill and Hillary Clinton Just Got Slapped With Subpoenas for Testimony Regarding Jeffrey Epstein. Sundance, James Comer Issues House Subpoenas for Epstein Files and Witnesses. PJM's Stephen Kruiser notes This Ain't Bill and Hillary Clinton's First Subpoena Rodeo. Prepare for evasions, and careful parsing of words. From NewsMax, Trump DOJ Considering Release of Ghislaine Maxwell Interview. Ben Whedon at JTN hears Ghislaine Maxwell opposes release of grand jury transcripts in her trial "Maxwell, however, is in the process of appealing her conviction for sex-trafficking and has argued that she should have been shielded from prosecution by an agreement that Epstein made with federal prosecutors." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair calls it Too Fun to Check: Did Ghislaine Drop a Dime On the Clintons? 

Misty Severi, Prosecutors accuse Smartmatic executive of bribing Venezuelan election official with luxury home "The transfer was allegedly completed between April and July 2019, after the company supposedly ended its business in Venezeula." Cathy Salgado at PJM reports Lawsuits Proceed Against Two Blue States’ Corrupted Voter Rolls. From the College Fix, ‘I wasn’t supposed to vote’: UMich illegal voting scandal reveals fraud risks in same-day registration. 

Greg Piper at JTN reports a First federal court permanently blocks ban on 'abortion pill reversal,' in culture-war Colorado, "Colorado medical board's own expert contradicted its "conclusory assertion" that "research supports" other off-label uses of natural pregnancy hormone progesterone, which the state promotes for medicalized gender transitions."   ET sees Trump Accumulates Wins on Supreme Court’s Emergency Docket—Key Takeaways, "The justices have halted lower court blocks on multiple aspects of the president’s agenda." John Sexton, Prosecutors reports Judge Dugan Knew She Exceeded Her Authority. At LifeZette, Supreme Court Signals Interest in Major Voting Rights Case That Could Reshape House Control. Christian Heiens @ChristianHeiens, "I cannot stress to you enough how earth-shattering it would be for the Supreme Court to strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The electoral cornerstone of the Postwar Liberal Consensus would be gone overnight, and with it, the Democratic Party's ability to contest the House of Representatives as we know it. Between this and the potential mid-decade redistricting in a few other GOP-controlled states, Democrats would not be able to flip back the House of Representatives even if they ruthlessly gerrymandered every Republican out of California." John Hinderacker at Power Line finds a judge apparently used AI to write an opinion, that turned out to be full of "hallucinated" facts and references, Our Artificially Intelligent Judges. Steve Hayward at Political Questions, Should We Replace Judges with AI? "It isn't just college students and journalists that AI is making lazy and stupid, but the problem may be even worse than you think."

PJM's Matt Margolis has Bombshell Memos that Show DHS and FBI Had HUGE Concerns About Tim Walz Last Year. Bill Ackman @BillAckman "Whoever writes the headlines at the @nypost is a genius." Quote "New York Post @nypost "Today's cover: Far left Sen. Warren gushes over NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — as other high-profile Dems stay silent" Dave Strom, Elizabeth Warren: Mamdani Is the Democrats' Standard Bearer. From Da Fetched, “Spouse” or Not? AOC Under Fire for Alleged Misuse of Congressional Perks. Twitchy, Well, Well, What Do We Have HERE? Ethics Committee RIPS AOC for 'Spouse' Shenanigans and HOOBOY *Thread*. Capt. Ed cites Politico: Newsom Forced to Suck Up to Big Oil As Refineries Close. Dave Strom calls it Newsom's Slip and Flip on Oil.

From Fox, House Dem declares she is a 'proud Guatemalan' before American at Progressive International conference "Progressive Caucus members, including Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, attended a summit organized by radical left-wing group." Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon "It turns out, illegal migrants were taking American jobs. And now Americans are getting those jobs back, thanks to Donald Trump." Quote Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon, "In the last 4 months, 1.8 million native-born Americans got a job and 1.5 million foreign-born workers lost a job—most of them illegal. It's a huge win for President Trump, a true America First agenda. Enough with the myth of "jobs Americans won't do." Wont do for those wages." OTP, Arsonist Attacks Washington State ICE Office, Throws Rock Through Window. At LifeZette a report from Alligator Alcatraz: Illegal Aliens Launch Hunger Strike, Demand Respect in Florida.

John Sexton finds Terry Moran admit Yeah, ABC News Was Biased Against Trump, "Were we biased? Yes. Almost inadvertently, I’d say. ABC News has the same problem so many leading cultural institutions do in America: A lack of viewpoint diversity." Ace hears CBS's New Management Doesn't Know What to Do With Woke Ratings-Disaster Gayle King, "So close to Pride Month, CBS?"

Reagan Reese at Da Caller, Trump Admin Freezes $339 Million From UCLA Over Civil Rights Violations. From Campus Reform, University of Iowa official secretly filmed admitting DEI survives law, board directives "A University of Iowa official was caught in a video published on Wednesday admitting that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) essentially still remains at the institution." At Althouse, "Because schools are funded on a per-pupil basis, the loss of 3,000 of the district’s 200,000 students could amount to a $28 million funding decrease." ""The district... has... hired Caissa K12 to help it recruit back families tempted by other options.... In mid-May, Caissa’s team of paid canvassers fanned out across Orange County, looking for parents. . . . From "Public Schools Try to Sell Themselves as More Students Use Vouchers/A decline in the number of children and rise in the number of choices has created a crisis for public schools. Some are trying new strategies to recruit students" (NYT)."

ET reports US Restricts Certain Visas for Transgender Athletes. "The new policy alert means that transgender athletes will not be considered aliens of ‘extraordinary ability’ for status to compete in the United States." Legal Line, Lawsuit against trans athletes fails as Pa. Dems fight changes. From the College Fix, UPenn student paper: School caving to Trump admin. over men in women’s sports is ‘fascism’, but then, everything they don't like is ‘fascism.’ From Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD, The Daily Beast fabricated scientific findings to pathologize "homophobia" "They even called people "diseased."" John Trent at Fandom Pulse hears J.K. Rowling Predict Women On The Gender Identity Bandwagon Will Pretend They Were Always TERFs In 10 Years.

Which brings us to the all important matter of Sydney Sweeney's jeans/genes. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.05.25 (Morning Edition), Louder With Crowder, Sydney Sweeney OUTED as a registered Republican, while both Trump and JD Vance have thoughts on the matter At Insty, DON’T LEAVE OUT THE ATTRACTIVE WOMEN: Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan "It sucks that Twitter became a far right echo chamber. Now my timeline is filled with extremists urging me to lift weights, eat healthy, have children, and read Shakespeare." TrashPanda reports American Eagle Stock Surges 20% After President Trump Praises Sydney Sweeney Ad. Katya Sedgwick at The Everyman Commentary notices Something About Sydney (Sells Jeans). "When it comes to American Eagle's Sydney Sweeney ad, using sex, race or DEI to sell products is just part of modern marketing. But adding "controversy" to the mix is what makes it effective." From Twitchy, 'Work on It, Sweetheart': Megyn Kelly DROPS Sarah Longwell Over Beyoncé's Knock-Off Jeans Ad

Beyoncé stars in new ad campaign for Levi’s.

The singer appears with blonde curly hair in new photos released by the jeans brand.

It comes amid Sydney Sweeney’s new American Eagle ad being criticized by liberal activists who have claimed it is ‘racist.’ pic.twitter.com/4moBzBPhoP

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) August 5, 2025

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