Flotsam and Jetsam - Hot Summer Day

And the country is getting ready for its 250th birthday tomorrow. The Victory Girls say Dear Democrats: Our National Party is Still On — Shut Up and STAY HOME and note Independence Day Gone Woke In San Diego County, California. Sounds like a blast! Beege Welborn at Hat Hair notes Anti-Trump States Wouldn't Fix Up Booths for the Fair - PA AMERICANs Took Matters Into Their Own Hands. Sore losers. Dr. Suneel Dhand's Newsletter gives 10 Reasons I'm PROUD to Be an American, "I left Britain and have been a citizen for over 10 years. Best thing I've ever done. An honest reflection this special July 4th." OTH, Hat Hair's John Sexton reports Man Charged with Felony for Damaging Reflecting Pool. "David Hearn, 67, of Maryland faces one felony count of destruction of property tied to a June 19 incident in which National Park Service employees say they caught him trying to rip a portion of sealant from the pool’s bottom. The charge carries a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison." It's DC, he won't be convicted. And at WaEx, Airman arrested during Capitol Hill protest urging Trump and Vance’s impeachment. "A Capitol Police spokesperson confirmed Watson’s arrest, noting that there are spots on Capitol Grounds where demonstrating is permitted, but “it is generally against the law for the public to demonstrate on the House Steps unless they are with a Member of Congress.” “Yesterday afternoon, a man was escorted to the House Steps by a Member of Congress,” the spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “When the Member of Congress left the area, our officers gave the man lawful orders to stop the illegal demonstration or he would be arrested. The man refused our lawful orders. Jason Watson was then arrested for 22-1307 Crowding, Obstructing, and Incommoding.”" So he wasn't arrested for his speech denouncing Trump, he was arrested for unlawful conduct at the Capital, like the J6ers. I'm sure Pete Hegseth has plenty of grounds to toss him out of the Air Force, though. A Larry vid at Hat Hair says This Was All Trump Needed. They're Gonna Regret It.

At the Buckeye Firearms Assoc, Trump reiterates support for national right-to-carry reciprocity. As a fairly liberal New Yorker, I suspect Trump personally doesn't fell strongly pro-gun, but he knows his coalition. Mary Chastain is pleased to report the Energy Dept. is Moving to Drop ‘Green New Scam’ Appliance Mandates. "Thank you. THANK YOU. Make it happen!"

Hat Hair's Capt. Ed is worried that the US Adds Only 57,000 Jobs in June As Workforce Deflates. I gave up trying to make sense out of job numbers a while ago. The methodology is shitty, and manipulative. I also wonder how much of this is due to the ongoing self-deportation of illegals. The Wall Street Journal thinks it is.

Jenna’s Side is America Doesn't Have a Socialist Problem—We Have an Apathy Problem. "And apathy is how tiny, terrifying, highly motivated minorities end up running cities." At Hat Hair Dave Strom thinks Socialism in the West is Ignorance, Unearned Wealth, and Resentment,  Yes, The DSA Is a Communist Organization and Beege Welborn adds Commie Mamdani's Pied-à-Terre Billionaire Tax Attack Began Yesterday. Althouse notes "The DSA, in fact, seems to despise the Democratic Party. Darializa Avila Chevalier has called Joe Biden a 'rapist' and wrote 'Fuck Kamala Harris'...", ""... on social media. She proceeded to be nominated for a House race in New York last week by Democratic voters who presumably do not all share those feelings."  At Reason Kennedy recalls New York's Socialist Experiment Already Failed Once "Will Mamdani break New York City?" Leslie Eastman at LI hears NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Recommendation for ’78 Degrees’ Met with Frosty Reception. "The responses to his “78 degrees” suggestion included references to France and New York’s embrace of “Green Energy”." Capt. Ed hears from Fetterman: The One Thing That Would Force Me Out Of My Party Is ... being anti-Israel. Aren't we there already? Dave Strom thinks it might be AOC vs Vance?

Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "Every time. It’s never organic." Quote AG @AGHamilton29, "This is a major red flag. The CCP is funding/aiding left-wing groups and activism to try to push policies that discourage us developing energy independence."

From DataRepublican’s Substack, The 400,000 USAID Deaths That Nicholas Kristof Will Not Tell You About. "How USAID Built the South Sudan, Watched It Collapse, and Then Allowed China to Take Over."

Eric at Security and Cigars, explains Why Wolford Should Worry Big Gov Fans More Than Slaughter. "SCOTUS has now made clear that states and cities cannot simply designate broad categories of private property as “sensitive” and thereby ban the exercise of constitutional rights there. This has obvious and immediate implications for the Second Amendment, but it also reaches into First Amendment territory like speech, religion, and assembly. As well as many other rights protected by the Constitution." Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke, "Impressive ignorance. The unitary executive theory is about personnel; it confers no substantive powers on the executive branch that haven’t been delegated by Congress. The whole column is a bizarre non sequitur." Quote Dana Milbank @Milbank, "My latest column looks at how Democrats are drafting plans to to use the all-powerful, unitary executive that Trump has established (and the Roberts Court has blessed) to launch a new Progressive Era, in which a Democratic president imposes by executive fiat government-run health." At Da Caller, Clarence Thomas Laughs As MS NOW Reporter Barrages Him With Questions. Althouse says I don't believe Nina Totenberg's explanation for why she reported that Justice Alito was retiring. "I'm reading "'I am so, so sorry': NPR reporter explains SCOTUS retirement error" (CNN): "Say what really happened, " and "Democrats stopped talking about trans politics long before the court’s ruling this week." ""In June, which is L.G.B.T.Q. Pride month, no Democratic candidate mentioned the word 'transgender' in their TV ads, according to data from AdImpact, a media tracking firm. Their silence may be an attempt to deprive Republicans of campaign-trail ammunition.... A New York Times/Ipsos poll conducted in January 2025 showed that nearly 80 percent of Americans opposed allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s sports...." At substact Insty recommends Ditching the Seventeenth. "Taking the Senate back to the Framers' Intent." Let State Legislators pick Senators? We could do worse, and have.

Gina Milan @ginamilan_ "Ruh Rho" Quote Paul Sperry @paulsperry_, "BREAKING: Here's the just-filed NLPC bar complaint against NY attorney Roberta Ann Kaplan. The basis for the complaint is that Kaplan failed to inform Trump’s lawyers + the court when she knew her client E. Jean Carroll provided false testimony by denying outside funding for her."

TownHall's Amy Curtis reports More Antifa Terrorists Were Just Sentenced in Texas "Antifa and their Leftist allies in the Democratic Party were not happy about these sentences. They really believed they were above the law, and are threatening the federal judges who put their comrades behind bars." Bob Spencer at PJM says Bravo: DeSantis Officially Calls Antifa and CAIR What They Really Are, terrorists. 

Dave Strom takes a look at The Immigrants Who Hate America. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "BREAKING: The Somali flag flying over Buffalo City Hall has been reportedly STOLEN just hours after it was raised. Buffalo's Democrat Mayor Sean Ryan, claims that individuals cut the cable in the middle of the night and took the flag down. He then goes on a rant about "diversity." Police are currently investigating, and no charges have been filed." At NYPo, Andy Arthur opines ABC’s ‘3% delusion’ on criminal migrants turns the law on its head "ABC’s statistic is real — of the 438,537 illegal immigrants detained in the administration’s first 14 months, 13,018 of them had been convicted of a crime like homicide or sexual assault in the US. Yet its conclusion is utterly wrong, ignoring the impact of the most significant immigration law Congress has enacted in years: the Laken Riley Act.  Americans should remember why Congress passed that law. Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was murdered in February 2024 by an illegal immigrant who had been apprehended for committing lesser offenses and released into the United States. Her vicious killing sparked outrage over a system that repeatedly ignored warning signs — until an innocent American paid the ultimate price." Dave Strom, Yes, The Activists Want to Protect Paedos From Deportation. Gov. Walz helped pardon a child rapist so he couldn't be deported. The feds may yet find a way. Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "BREAKING British authorities have released the ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang, Shabir Ahmed, from prison The Pakistani man was sentenced to 22 years for 30 child rape charges involving girls as young as 12. He was released after serving just 13 years & won’t be deported." Beege Welborn, Merz Scolds German Serfs Over Sick Day Slacking When There Are Immigrant Bennies to Support.

At Twitchy, Heavily Armed Would-Be Trans Terrorist Arrested for Planning Mass Shooting; Check out This Hardware. Shooting News Week, Cops Bust Would Be Casino Mass Shooter With An Actual Cache (This Time) of Weapons. Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck, "There needs to be a deep investigation into how this weirdo was able to afford this. Well over $100k of guns listed. Seems unlikely for a mentally ill trans activist to come up with that on their own." Quote New York Post @nypost "Trans gunman caught in alleged casino terror plot with huge cache of weapons - as cops release chilling footage." Capt. Ed reports a WI Activist Declares 'Trans Jihad': 'Kill Your Local Republican.' Dustin Grage @GrageDustin, "WOW: Wisconsin Democrat staffer, Teha Delaruelle is calling on activists to "K*LL YOUR LOCAL REPUBLICAN." “We’re going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin” WTF!?" They should be careful; Republicans tend to be better armed.

More at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.02.26.

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Flotsam and Jetsam - The Heat is On

96 F in the shade. I saw 103 on the road this afternoon.

Don Surber is reveling in what he considers Trump’s Supreme victory, "Justices helped the president Slaughter the deep state's hold on the republic." And Girls sports for girls only. "5 middle school girls helped convince the Supreme Court to stop the transgender madness." Jonathan Turley at NYPo, Supreme Court allows Trump to say ‘You’re fired’ to meddling bureaucrats TownHall's Dmitri Bolt thinks Justice Kavanaugh May Have Handed the United States a Roadmap to Fix Birthright Citizenship. "Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress could amend §1401(a) or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country," he added. "But Congress has not yet done so." At Da Signal, ‘MEDIEVAL’: Justices Thomas, Alito Argue ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Ruling Reverses the Declaration of Independence on Its 250th Anniversary. Da Wire, Trump Plans Assault On Birth Tourism After Letdown At SCOTUS. "Birth tourism schemes exploit our immigration system and violate criminal law." Matt Margolis at PJM sees The DOJ Goes to War on Birth Tourism After Losing at SCOTUS. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn wonders Will 'Pregnant' Become a Disqualifying Category for Foreign Entry? WSJ whines Supreme Court Gives Trump New Tools to Accelerate Deportations. Althouse reads the NYT, "The justices did find unanimity 45 percent of the time, up two points from last term. They joined together, for instance..." ""... to say a Texas man could not be prosecuted for violating a law banning drug users from gun possession merely because he frequently used marijuana, and they agreed that a New Jersey anti-abortion group could bring a challenge in federal court to government efforts to seek its donor list ... From "Despite Some Losses for Trump, Supreme Court Delivers Enduring Conservative Wins/The justices pushed back on some of President Trump’s signature moves, but they also expanded presidential power and supplied victories on long-sought conservative goals.""

NRO's Jim Geraghty notices Nina Totenberg and the Gerontocracy Strike Again. Mike Coté @ratlpolicy, "Nina Totenberg is a partisan hack masquerading as a neutral journalist. That she made such a profound error - targeting a conservative justice, no less - is entirely predictable. The media phalanx you folks have erected around her in response is similarly unsurprising." Quote Peter Baker @peterbakernyt, "No one is more mortified by a mistake than a journalist committed to factual reporting. The best own up to it, correct it and apologize for it, as @NinaTotenberg has done. It's worth remembering a long career dedicated to getting it right. x.com/brianstelter/s…" TownHall's Matt Vespa thinks NPR's Fiasco With Their Samuel Alito Story Just Got Worse. Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive, "So, to recap: NPR published an erroneous story about Samuel Alito retiring from the Supreme Court, then published an erroneous blog post about how the erroneous story was published in the first place. Can't make this up."

CBS is already whining about the next term, Supreme Court takes up challenges to AR-15 bans.

Sundance at CTH covers “New FBI Documents” in Russiagate Review? Several people have inquired about a Paul Sperry article [SEE HERE]...What Sperry’s sources seem to be outlining based on description, likely pertains to the FBI contractor issue from 2015 and 2016 where access to the NSA database was defensively investigated after the NSA compliance officer raised flags about unauthorized use." From News Wax, Trump: Acting DNI Can Declassify Records, Including on 2020 Election.

Andy Ngo at Ngo Comment BREAKING: North Texas Antifa Members Who Turned on Their Comrades Receive Years in Federal Prison, "Ahead of sentencing, one of the convicts tried to kill herself."

News Max, Report: Iranian Clerics Urge Trump, Netanyahu Assassinations. Aren't they just reiterating their old urgings? Peel another 5 layers off their leadership.

Sundance follows up his Canada posts, USTR Jamieson Greer Makes It Official: “The USMCA is not renewed”. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn thinks Canada's Carney About to Find Out When You Play Chicken, It's Best to Be Foghorn Leghorn. At Am Con, The Trump–Meloni Dust-Up Was Pure ‘Euroslopulism’ "As the Ukraine war rages on, European elites look as unserious as ever."

Ace says We Need Proof of Life of Mitch McConnell, "This isn't Russia -- we are entitled to know which of our "representatives" are living and capable of working." But of course this nation increasingly resembles Russia. Two weeks after deliberately vague reports about McConnell being "rushed" to the hospital, it is only due to a leak of EMS radio traffic that we now find out he was discovered "unconscious" and in need of "advanced life support." So where is he now? Is he conscious? Our Soviet officials won't tell us."

John A. Mapp, Jr. @mapp_john14664, "Recognize the motte and bailey tactic, and who is running cover for the “DSA” communists. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, DemSoc Goes National: Socialists Boot Progressive Dem in Colorado. At Althouse, "Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist... unseats a 15-term incumbent and further propels the insurgent coalition..." "... that swept a series of congressional contests last week in New York." Ace, Democrat Socialists Take Another Scalp As a Gen Z Ethiopian Immigrant Defeats a 15-Term Congresswoman. "I'm glad, at least, to see Democrats suffering from their own DEI agenda themselves for once." Fusilli Spock @awstar11, "Never forget that even before this wave of DSA, communists were elected, 48 Democrat Senators voted to nuke the filibuster and promised to expand the Supreme Court. The difference between radical communist Democrats and mainstream Democrats is mostly tone." Quote RNC Research @RNCResearch, "MS NOW: If Democrats regain the majority, do you think that expanding the court or setting term limits for the court should be on the table? SHAPIRO: I think everything needs to be on the table. I think we need radical reform…" Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch, "I get what you mean here, but saying "the socialists" will have the "new ideas" is like saying "the Shakers have all the fresh thinking." Socialism is not new. The label is about 2 centuries old, give or take. The idea is thousands of years old. There's not a single major idea proposed by the DSA crowd that wasn't an old idea before I was born. From price controls and rent-freezes, to wealth taxes, or shunning Jews. It's all old, old hat. You can agree with it. Or admire it's newfound energy or something. But the ideas are old, tried, and failed." Quote Jim VandeHei @JimVandeHei "If you had to bet who’ll have the energy, organization, new ideas and star power for 28 Dems, it’s not close: socialists. The Sanders-Mamdani-AOC wing is swarming the Dem party, and Dem leaders will gradually than quickly do what establishment Rs did w Trump: acquiesce." RNC Research @RNCResearc, "Democrats can gaslight Americans all they want, but history is a great teacher. How to Spot a Communist, 2026..." Ace, People Are Starting to Notice That the Alleged "Working Class Populist Socialist" Uprising on the Left Is Made Up Exclusively of College-Educted Rich Leisure-Class Nepo Babies and NGO Sucklers. "The Claim: Democrats are electing "working class populists" who just happen to be socialists. The Reality: Democrats are electing rich-bitch children of privilege who are socialists because they've never done a day of work in their lives." Abe Greenwald at Commentary, Respectability for Radicals. At Hat Hair, John Sexton sees Ro Khanna Making a Play for the Socialist Revolutionaries and Trans March Organizers Defend Treatment of Scott Wiener, Capt. Ed reads Axios: House Dems Shocked, Shocked to Find DemSoc In Their Casino and Dave Strom thinks Even Degenerate Child Predators Deserve Representation Too, You Know. C3 @C_3C_3, "Photo 1: A man claiming he’s fighting the Oligarchy. Photo 2: The Oligarchy." Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "I’m going to add one qualification to Hen’s grim observation here. All these targets are Democratic Jews. Republican Jews are no less hated, but are inclined to stand up for themselves, and are led and surrounded by colleagues who unite to reject antisemitism and Israel-haters." Quote Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig, "Governor Josh Shapiro’s house was burnt down. Congressional candidate Scott Weiner was harassed until he left a Pride March." Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "It’s only the most prosperous society that has ever existed in the history of human civilization, built by the sacrifices of our parents and grandparents, but let’s find a reason to be resentful." Quote Acyn @Acyn, "AOC: I think young people overall feel a tremendous amount of betrayal about the world that we’ve been left with." Matt Margolis at PJM, Jesse Watters Just Predicted Exactly How the Democrat Party Tears Itself Apart. Dan McCarthy at RCP on Why Bill Maher Finds Himself Siding With the Right.

Mike LaChance @MikeLaChance33, "Isn't this the goal of the villain in almost every Batman movie?" Quote Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor, "We just took another major step toward finally closing Rikers Island. By permanently closing a jail and transferring three properties to DCAS, we're moving closer to closing Rikers for good." From Twitchy, Zohran Mamdani's Air Conditioning Guidance Officially Ushers in NYC's 'Warmth of Collectivism' Era. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor, "New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool. Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can. Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment. A stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved. Let's ease demand — and get through the heat — together." Driscoll at Insty says MAMDANI WASN’T KIDDING ABOUT HIS “WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM” SHTICK: Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy, "Reminder that the reason that New York City is struggling to power its air conditioners is a Democratic Party crusade against the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant that finally led to its shutdown in 2020, which led to a massive rise in fossil fuel usage to power the city." Insty, GET THE FEELING THIS MIGHT BE THE START OF A PERMANENT TEMPORARY SUSPENSION?
Washington Examiner @dcexaminer, "New York City to suspend evictions for two days due to heat dome." Da Caller sees David Axelrod Gets Brutal Lesson In Blue City Governance After Finding Man Passed Out In Chicago Heat.

PJM's VodkaPundit wonders Is This Gavin Newsom's Biggest Lie Ever? It's a high bar. Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy, "The Skid Row Express (also known as the D line expansion) is set to open in LA soon. Skid row junkies will soon be able to travel from their homeless camps downtown to new homeless camps in Westwood, with convenient stops at Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills for naps, open air masturbation, and public defecation. It's like Manifest Destiny, but for fentanyl addicts. Go West!"

FischerKing @FischerKing64, "The thing about Buttigieg is that he structured his entire life around becoming an acceptable white male Democrat candidate for POTUS. Ivy League, non combat military, homosexual, gay marriage - then he deliberately adopted black children. This is so weird it’s disqualifying." Quote MAZE @mazemoore, "Buttigieg claims are ridiculous. Pete Buttigieg claims that he was separated from his children, that his children had to go stay with their grandparents, and that it was the worst 24 hours ever (implying he couldn't see his kids for a day)." TownHall's Joe Abraham asks about The Hierarchy of Compassion: Who Counts?

Mediaite hears Tucker Carlson Is Building a New Political Party After Ditching the Republicans.

From NYPo, ‘State sanctioned’ Russian mob ran $1B Medicare scam out of New York, compromised 1M medical records: Feds. Carlo Carrasco, Illegal Alien In America Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison Over $89 Million Fraudulent Payroll Scheme. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "You are not gonna believe this… Ayanle Siad Barre, the son of former Somali genocidal dictator, Mohamed Siad Barre, operates a taxpayer-funded home healthcare company in Columbus, Ohio He was his father’s national security advisor. It just never ends." Raised by Germans, "Foreign-born political actors. "The story about AOC's casting to run for congress is way too real to be ignored."

At Twitchy, Scott Jennings Explains the ‘Patriotism Gap’ Between Republicans and Democrats to CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Man Genuinely Upset That Trump Has Ruined America’s 250th Birthday for Him.

Ace notices a Gang of Foreign Invaders Randomly Beat a 17-Year-Old French Boy to Death, Videotape It to Share Their Tribal Murder-Coup Online. "Everyone's so surprised this keeps happening. We're all like, "no way."" Sister Toldja at RedState reports DHS Puts Walz on Blast for Pardoning Criminal Illegal Who Sexually Assaulted a 10-Year-Old Girl. Sundance issues a New Euphemism Alert: “Tanned European” "Girl, 16, raped in Glasgow park by ‘tanned, European’ man as cops issue fresh update."

Dave Strom, Now That It No Longer Matters, The Committee to Protect Journalists Revises Its Defense of Hamas. Nick Matau @nick_matau, "BBC had to release, on average, TWO CORRECTIONS PER WEEK for TWO STRAIGHT YEARS due to lying about Israel so much... and these people still somehow think BBC is pro Israek." Ace hears MSNOW Cancels Weekend Live Programming; Will Run Cheap Leftwing Podcasts From Earlier In the Week Instead "Canceling 2/7ths of the weekly original programming is always a sign of strength and profitability."

Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo, "Air conditioning has reduced heat deaths in the US by three quarters since the 1970s. https://x.com/sdkassis/statu." Leslie Eastman at LI sees the European Commission Adopts Feudal Approach to Air Conditioning Distribution, "LET THEM EAT ICE: The elite bureaucrats on the upper floors allowed to enjoy cool air, while staff on lower floors are encouraged to enjoy more traditional options." Campus Reform opines Campus climate activism is the gateway drug to the radical left.

At Insty, FREDDY’S DEAD: "America’s favorite World Cup tourist deactivates X account after woke snowflakes dig up his old tweets. Well, Freddy is from Germany, where it is quite literally illegal to offend certain groups of people. Even though he remained anonymous in all his posts, he still decided to deactivate his X account after wokescolds discovered he was mildly critical of the woke theory that only white people can be racist." Joanne Jacobs hears Neutrality is racist, say woke librarians. From Da Wire, YMCA Scrubs ‘Gender Identity’ Pledge After Daily Wire Report, “Parents deserve the truth, not deletions.” i/o@ avidseries "Let us now dedicate this graph and the entirely unsurprising information contained on it to all the scumbags who sit atop the admissions committees at elite universities who accused Amy Wax of being a liar (or worse) for claiming that there are few if any blacks graduating near the top of the class at Penn's law school, and also to Wax's employer, which, rather than releasing its admissions data to refute Wax's claim, chose instead to investigate her and remove her from teaching duties..." 

Amy Wax got in trouble for remarking that she'd not seen a Black student in the top quarter of a Penn Law class.

Thanks to hacked Columbia data, we can see that she was...

Probably right!

In the decade before her statement, there were just two top-25% Black students. pic.twitter.com/3fbCrKQTH2

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) June 30, 2026

Still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.01.26 (Afternoon Edition). The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Waiting Until August up in star-spangled glory at the Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Humpday Hash

A truly themeless day, so let's just start with miscellaneous Trumpiania. Joe Chalfant at TownHall thinks it's disgusting that Deranged Vandals Force Authorities to Implement New Security Measures Around Reflecting Pool. It's a reflection on liberals. Althouse finds "When asked if Trump was the 79-year-old man in question, White House spokesperson Kush Desai did not say no...." Eli Lilly Approved Obesity Drug for Mystery 79-Year-Old Patient and "He was much less stoked to be assigned by Tina Brown, then editor of The New Yorker, to profile Mr. Trump in 1997,"I'm sorry to hear that Mark Singer has died. You can click on my tag "Mark Singer" to see how he's come up here over the years. What a distinction to have Trump's "YOU ARE A TOTAL LOSER" in your NYT obituary. To continue the all-caps — RIP." Reason complains Trump Says His Task Force Is Fighting a Foreign 'Invasion.' It's Busting Americans for Drugs Instead. At CTH, sundance has Primary Elections in New York, Utah, Maryland and South Carolina – Results and Open Discussion.

In the Iran conflict, sundance hosts Secretary Rubio Holding an Impromptu Presser Upon Arrival in Abu Dhabi, UAE. News Wax claims Trump says Iran Has 'Fully Agreed' to Nuclear Inspections. If so, they're lying. NYPo goes Inside the insurance racket Iran wants to run in the Strait of Hormuz — and how it will devastate Western shipping. Oil Price.com sees the Hormuz Crisis Sparks a Middle East Pipeline Boom. Makes sense. I suppose they're allowed to build such things still. Don Surber addresses the question Where’s the regime change? "It is in Iran because killing the ayatollah created a power vacuum." I think we need to peel back three or four more layers of the onion.

Matt Margolis at PJM says Stick a Fork in James Talarico. He's Done after a video comes to light of him admitting "I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right?" At Hat Hair, Dave Strom thinks If The Texas Senate Race Isn't Safe, Then We Might as Well Pack It in and Move to Canada for MAiD and Capt. Ed notices Whoa: Crockett, Allred Snub Talarico and Texas Dem Convention.

Driscoll at Insty does COFFEE AND CLICHES: Lefty owner of anti-Israel NYC coffee shop calls US ally ‘Nazi Germany of our time’ in hateful online outburst. "The radical leftist owner of a woke Brooklyn coffee shop that boasts about discriminating against pro-Israel Jewish customers on social media has a history of deranged anti-Israel LinkedIn posts — including accusing the Jewish state of genocide and comparing it to Nazi Germany." Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley, "Some of us almost spit out our coffee this morning on Dan Goldman going on CNN to denounce the lack of civility in politics. This stems from the refusal of a barista to sell him a coffee. Goldman, who is viewed by many as the face of rage for his party in attacking anyone with..." Steve Eisner @DoTheRightWing, "Classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. They spend all their time hurling the most vicious insults against the Right never even thinking to protect their flank as they get eaten by their own on the Left." Michael Birzin @bigbee383, "He's found out too late that he isn't communist or antisemitic enough for the DSA. After today the Democratic party should officially change it's logo. The communist left has taken over." Jon Levine @LevineJonathan, "NEW from me The owner of the coffee shop which refused Dan Goldman's "AIPAC" money: 1. Owes NY almost $400,000 in taxes 2. Accused Israel of doing 9/11 3. Donated to Graham Platner (naturally) 4. Been repeatedly cited by NYC health inspectors." Charles Murray @charlesmurray, "My daughter's friend in grad school, upon being asked by a member of her dissertation committee why she didn't include a Marxist perspective. "I grew up in the Soviet Union. I don't practice recreational Marxism." Quote Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum, "I don't care what communism is in theory because I know what it is in practice. x.com/ilektramerc/st…"

Amy Curtis at TownHall, Josh Shapiro Actually Said This About the Democratic Party. Defiant L’s @DefiantLs, "Josh Shapiro: "I think Democrats are the party of real freedom. Real freedom that... allows parents like me and my wife Lori to make decisions over what vaccines our kids are gonna be able to get." You're free to bake the cake, or else. From the Victory Girls, Chicago’s Latest Emergency Is A Word Nobody Can Define: Transfemicide Beege Welborn at Hat Hair asks Excuse Me, Chicago - Could You Point Me to Where the 'Transfemicide' Is Happening? TheBlaze @theblaze, "Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says he has declared a “Transfemicide State of Emergency.” "You know how many PEOPLE of all colors, but mostly black, have been killed in Chicago in the same past ten years? FIVE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED With 197 already this year." Ace, So Close to Pride Month? As Chicago Recovers From Bloody "Juneteenth" Violence Leaving Eight Dead and Thirty-Nine Shot, BlacKKK Mayor Brandon Johnson Changes the Topic and Babbles About Anti-Trans Violence That Barely Exists. "It was another weekend of slaughter in the Lightworker's supposed home city." Nick Matau @nick_matau, "The terrorist group (PFLP - who started modern terrorism) Sama Safi belongs to has killed over 20 U.S. citizens." Quote Rep. Derek Tran @RepDerekTranCA, "I am deeply alarmed by the detention of Sama Safi in an Israeli prison. Sama, a 20-year-old Palestinian American student, was taken from her home in the middle of the night and continues to be held without charges. This is part of a disturbing pattern of the Israeli government." 

George MF Washington @GMFWashington, "I do an early morning bike ride on weekends just as all the addicts are “coming to”… if you really want to see the horrors Newsom and Bass turn a blind eye to, that’s the time to do it, before they wisely move back into the shadows before the normies start their day." Quote New York Post @nypost, "Iconic Santa Monica beach turns into 'sleeping bag city' at sunrise - as locals erupt https://trib.al/9T5XZRi." I went to Santa Monica beach many times growing up. Beege Welborn hears Newsom to CA State Employees: Okay, Everybody Back in the Pool! You can stop cowering from Covid now. Ace cites Politico: Senator Reuben Gallego (Who Fancies Himself a Candidate for President or VP in 2028) Shared a Joint Back Account With His F***buddy Eric Swalwell, Used His Campaign Kitty to Pay for Personal Expenses, "I can't believe that this slob believes he can be President or VP. He thinks he has an in because he's Hispanic and Democrats are nothing but racial panderers." Bob Hoge at RedState reports Former LAFD Chief Hits Karen Bass With Blistering Defamation Suit Alleging Mayor Lied Through Her Teeth.

Matt Vespa at TownHall says Get Over It, Lady. Hillary Clinton's Latest Remarks on the Electoral College Are Not Surprising. Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy, "It’s only calls for an anti-Democratic insurrection when it’s a right wing candidate calling for it, when it’s a left wing candidate doing it he’s bravely calling on his supporters to rise up as freedom fighters in defense of Democracy" Quote Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork, "Left-wing Peruvian presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez, who is currently projected to lose, has announced at a press conference that he does not recognize the election, alleging that there "has been a manipulation of the vote," asking his supporters to take to the streets."

From Althouse, "Schlossberg’s Defeat Dampens Dream of a Renewed Camelot." "That's one of the NYT's front-page headlines about yesterday's primaries. Dream of a Renewed Camelot... Who was still dreaming that dream?" and The London Times stresses the Texan in Elon Musk as it reports the news/"news" that he's not a trillionaire at this precise moment. You mean stocks go up and down? Who knew? Twitchy is shocked Popehat Banned from Bluesky Over Bizarre Musk Assassination Missive.

Streif at RedState is gratified Antifa Terrorist Gang Gets Nearly a Half Millenium in Prison for ICE Facility Attack. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "JUST IN: A group of Antifa terrorists were just SENTENCED to HUNDREDS OF YEARS in prison after a violent attack on the ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas FAFO, LOCK THEM UP! I voted for the law and order! The group's RINGLEADER, Benjamin Song, got 100 years. The others got as many as 70 years and 50 years. BIG WIN." Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_, "This reporter describes the Antifa attack on a TX ICE facility as a “noise demo”, during which they showed up in all black, armed, threw fireworks as a distraction, and then shot an Alvarado, TX police officer in the neck as he responded to the scene." Quote Sam Russek @samrussek "Update: 8 Texas protesters were sentenced today, following a July 4 noise demo outside an ICE detention center. The maj. were sentenced to 50 years in prison." You don't hate the media enough. Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "Ah, democrats in congress are publicly expressing support for a group of domestic terrorists who tried to assassinate a cop to free illegal aliens. But remember, you’re a dangerous extremist if you get loud at a school board meeting," Quote Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida "These sentences are a travesty and totally unjustified, but that's the point. Americans hate the fascist Trump regime, so the only way they can try to cling to power is brute force. NSPM-7 is a grave threat to all of us and more bullshit "terrorism" charges like these are coming." From Ace, Two More Leftwing Incels Charged In Planned UFC Mass Casualty Attack; Another Incel Kills Two People in Montreal, "Maybe young working-age men shouldn't spend all day on the internet jacking off with a robotic vagina. Maybe that's not the way God or biology (or both) designed men to live their lives. Maybe it does something insidious to your brain."

Jake Scullum at Reason hears Clarence Thomas Explain Why the Commerce Clause Cannot Justify Federal Bans on Gun Possession, "Even under the Supreme Court's highly elastic understanding of that clause, Thomas says, such laws do not qualify as regulation of interstate commerce." Shooting News Week, AP Poll Shows Dems Not As Worried About Threat to Gun Rights They Don’t Value FischerKing @FischerKing64, "Suspect SCOTUS is dropping some pro-administration rulings on immigration because at the very end of the term they're going to drop a 6-3 bomb ruling in favor of birthright citizenship - and then they're all going to disappear for their vacations and paid seminars/speeches" and "I could be wrong and would like to be. I was genuinely surprised when they overturned Roe v. Wade. I thought their careerist instincts would override any fidelity to the law - that they would uphold it 5-4 thinking it would avoid court packing discussions." At Da Caller, Judge Shuts Down Trump Admin Database Used To Remove Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls. Twitchy, Judge BLOCKS Trump Administration From Restricting SNAP Benefits for Soda and Candy.

Beege Welborn says it's Soundin' Like Acting DNI Bill Pulte Swept In With a Broom to Sweep Out. Sundance elaborates Acting DNI Pulte Removes 51 from Agency – Six Fired and 45 “sent back to their home agencies.” "I’m not sure if that represents 45 from across all the desks, or the complete elimination of some overstaffed liaison desks. That said, given the nature of the leaking was recently to CNN (State Dept leaks to CNN), I am somewhat confident the State Dept liaison office inside the DNI is now empty office space." At Coffee and Covid, "Mere days after former DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified 1,600 pages of secret intelligence community emails and work product from the first months after the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci has had a sudden, but sincere, change of heart. Yesterday, SFG Media reported, “Anthony Fauci Refuses to Testify Voluntarily Before Congress on COVID-19.” It’s ironic. Having run the world’s premier allergy agency, Fauci has suddenly become allergic to testifying."

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2, "Chief Sund was Pelosi's (and others) scapegoat. She forced him to resign on Jan 7. Sund was just months away from retirement eligibility and deprived of a job he loved--all so Pelosi could place the blame on his shoulders. Congress should right this wrong." Quote, "Chief Steven Sund @ChiefSund, "Before any investigation, Pelosi and her staff were already plotting my removal. On Jan 6, Pelosi admitted on camera that she was responsible for the security failures at the Capitol. Yet, within 24-hours, she publicly blamed me for Jan 6..."

FedWire, DHS and CBP announce 13 consecutive months of zero releases at the border. Amy Curtis at TownHall, Illegal Immigrant Busted After Using Uber Gig to Kidnap, Assault Passenger.

Not surprisingly, Nigel Farage thinks Britain is broken, we need an election. Steve Soukup at Am Great wonders “Is There No England Now?” "Whether Keir Starmer has resigned or not, Britain’s turmoil over immigration, speech, and identity signals a ruling consensus fracturing under public backlash." At TCW, Delusional to the end: Starmer’s resignation speech proved why he had to go. Sarah at Insty snorts BUT HE’LL ‘FIX’ THE PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT BECOMING MINORITIES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY: "Open borders Burnham won’t fix broken Britain." At the Babylon Bee, Visitors From Europe Tell Us Their 13 Most Surprising Discoveries In America. "4. The police won't raid your house if you share a meme: Go ahead and be funny, Europeans." Benjamin Domenech @bdomenech, ""Hot Swedish women like America, here's why that's bad." - @TheAtlantic" Quote Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "Oh, you all are enjoying the posts from the hot Swedish influencer? Well, she's a whore. x.com/bdomenech/stat…"

From the College Fix, ASU professor docked for ‘Christian bias’ after asking students about ‘highest good’ and Roughly one-third of UC Berkeley law students claim ‘psychological’ disabilities. To be fair, it's probably a low estimate. Joanne Jacobs sees Liberals see promise in tax-credit scholarships; conservatives see dangers.

Ace, Under Threat of Anti-Trust Action, Un-American MLB Walks Back Threat to Discipline Players for Daring to Include Biblical References on Their Forced Gay Cosplay Hats. "As you know, the San Francisco Giants forced players to wear pRiDe rainbow caps. Some players objected to being forced to wear this antibiblical message, so they put little strips of cloth on the caps noting a specific Biblical passage that mentions the rainbow as God's promise to never flood the world again." NYPo, Woman who emptied Knicks trashcan on street — then stole it — is fired from JPMorgan Chase, was DEI exec. Althouse asks "What's "experiential content" and why am I "experiencing" that as bullshit?" From State of the Day, the State of Monday: ALPHABET PRIDE'S DISASTER MONTH "Something tells me it’s going to get worse before it gets better."

And more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.23.26 The Wombat has and FMJRA 2.0: Meanwhile, Somewhere In The Great Basin a bit late, but within reason.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Still More Reflections from the Reflection Pool

Magills@magills

Jen O'Connell at RedState sees The Insane Obsession With Sabotaging the D.C. Reflecting Pool Results in an Arrest. John Sexton at Hat Hair explores the question Did Vandals Target the Reflecting Pool? For sure, yes, some one carved 86 47 in the liner. As to the algae bloom, the pool was re-filled with city water, which would not have enough nutrients (chiefly nitrogen and phosphorus) to support a quick bloom like that. I strongly suspect someone dumped a bag of lawn fertilizer or similar nutrients into it. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "On the other hand, the algae obsession confirms they really have no legitimate gripe. They have been reduced to protesting a biological phenomenon. (Though given the trans thing, it is not entirely uncharted territory.)" Quote MAZE @mazemoore, "On one side of the Reflecting Pool there’s the MSM claiming that the algae is still there, on another side leftists are protesting to bring the algae back, and on another side leftists are trying to vandalize the pool. TDS needs to be officially classified as a mental disorder." At Althouse, The Mystery of the Paint Peel and "I was just a curious, concerned citizen. I guess I was there at the wrong place, wrong time." "Said David Carter Hearn, 67, "a cyclist and three-time Olympian as a canoeist who says he stopped at the [Reflecting Pool] on Friday just to have a look, then reached down to touch a strip of peeling blue paint mixed with the algae. The U.S. Park Police arrested Mr. Hearn shortly after, accusing him of destroying government property, a crime that can carry up to a 10-year prison sentence." I'm reading "Trump, Claiming Vandalism, Says Reflecting Pool Will Likely Need to Be Drained/The pool has taken on clouds of algae after a hasty renovation. A three-time Olympian was charged with destroying government property after he says he touched one of the strands of blue paint peeling off the pool’s bottom" (NYT). Didn't do nuffin'! Althouse also comments "I don't know if the claims of vandalism are true, but the temptation to vandalize was obvious and strong even before Trump started talking about vandals. Now, it's unavoidable, and I think we will never have our pool back where it belongs in the American psyche. It's a mess, a bone of contention, a symbol of everything and anything people don't like about Trump. The pool never worked as it was intended, and now its essential badness is glaring at us, and it will never calm back down into the serene murky swamp it once was." It's true making the pool work is harder than it sounds, but her solution seems to be to cede the pool to the leftist destroyers. Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5, "Leftists are getting angry because around 10-15 million Leftists are paid to do cushy high-paid fake jobs, based on credentials and a claim to unique technical authority. If Trump and Chuds can fix problems considered impossible, it threatens the entire managerial caste." Quote Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "So I'm supposed to believe people are genuinely OUTRAGED by a $14m no bid contract to fix the reflecting pool? If this level of fiscal irresponsibility is what you object to, man, what happens under Democrat governance is truly going to blow your mind." I think project should be measured in "Quality Learing Center" units, or QLCs.

Begoña Gómez - not too shabby
but Melania is still hotter

Some news from abroad via sundance at CTH, Trump -v- Meloni "The core of the issue centers on Italy’s refusal to allow the U.S. military to conduct flight operations for the conflict against Iran from U.S. airbases in Italy. President Trump, Vice-President Vance, Secretary of State Rubio and Secretary Hegseth have all remarked on their disappointment with Italy and Spain that has led to a full review of U.S. NATO operations in Europe. The issue became personal at the G7 when President Trump ignored Meloni’s repeated attempts to repair the friction. President Trump was no longer tolerating the two-faced approach. Actions speak louder than words." And Wife of Socialist Spanish Prime Minister Now Facing Corruption Charges, Influence Peddling, Embezzlement – Passport Surrendered. "Investigative judge Juan Carlos Peinado issued the ruling, arguing that Begoña Gómez represented a flight risk. In addition to surrendering her passport, she must also appear before a court every two weeks. A trial date hasn’t been set."

Hat Hair's Steve Moore has a proposal for The Great Escape: Let Young Workers Out of Social Security. I certainly wish our SS had been left in my wife's hands to invest. 

Stacy McCain looks at The Terrorist ‘Dreamer’ and says End DACA Immediately, and Deport Them All.

Dave Strom at Hat Hair hears Iran Announces Closure of Strait of Hormuz Again. Joe Cunningham at RedState, Iran Shuts Down the Strait of Hormuz Again, Says the U.S. Breached the Islamabad Deal, by "letting" Israel retaliate for Hezbollah attacks in Israel and Lebanon. Jeff Charles at TownHall sees Trump Just Slapped Down This Iranian Scheme for Strait of Hormuz, trying to charge tolls in the form of "insurance." Does Joe Chalfant really wonder Why Are the Iranians Lying About Closing the Strait of Hormuz? "The Islamic Republic of Iran has announced that they have closed the Strait of Hormuz. The reality on the ground shows that ships continue to travel through the waterway unimpeded, with U.S. naval assets in the region confirming that the Strait is completely open." But this way, WaPoo and NYT can cite the Iranians.

Twitchy says She's Back, Baby! Kamala, Goddess of Gibberish, Drops a HUMDINGER of a Word Salad on Don Lemon. Sen. Marsha Blackburn @MarshaBlackburn, "Democrats are fine with requiring photo ID to enter the Obama Presidential Center, but not to vote in U.S. elections. You can’t make this up."

Jonathan Turley is outraged by Gay Power: California Certifies LGBTQ Companies for Preferential Treatment in Energy Contracts. But will it survive a challenge up to the Supreme Court? Vicky Taft at PJM has one of her West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Fleeing Taxpayers Find Out 'Hotel California' Is Real. You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave, for tax purposes. 

Erick Florack at PJM sees Keith Ellison Is Feeling the Heat and Doesn't Like It. Parker Thayer at Da Fed reports ActBlue Refuses To Answer Congress’s Questions About Its Foreign Donation Pipeline. At NYPo, Controversial Mamdani-backed NY-13 candidate doles out seemingly illegal freebies, from ice cream to World Cup tix. At least giving away giving away free stuff is consistent with socialist principles. 

VodkaPundit at Insty, NAILED IT: "Is there anyone — aside maybe from Trump — who looks like he’s having more fun than Musk?" I&I notes how Musk’s SpaceX Wealth Launches A Trillion Tax Lies. Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith, "They don’t want Elon Musk to give his trillion to the poor. They want Elon Musk to give his trillion to them so they can take their cut, split it with their comrades and causes, then look virtuous by throwing to the poor whatever scraps remain." From RCM, The Question Democratic Socialists Never Seem to Ask. Who will want to make the wealth they intend to redistribute? Jax Ryan @JaxRyan, "Perfect explanation of how the natural order of co-existing and co-operating within a shared commons has been usurped by self-interest and power grabs of the powerful against the weak." Quote Power to the People ☭ @ProudSocialist. "Clara Mattei brilliantly debunks a century of capitalist propaganda by explaining how capitalism is unnatural, has existed for only 0.1% of human history, took control of the world through violence, and is maintained by coercion and the superficial facade of liberal democracy." Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "Do you genuinely believe “co-existing and co-operating within a shared commons” is the “natural order”? Because that is totally ahistorical and insane. Slavery and constant warfare are the natural order without rule of law and markets." Jason Robertson @JRobFromMN, "This is a problem many on the Right don't want to accept The Left is no longer "just like us they just want to have more welfare" The left is abandoning Capitalism, Christianity and all of the values we used to hold as a Country,(and the right still does) This isn't a "difference of opinion on tax policy", the left wants a full scale reimagining of our country into a Socialist/Communist Utopia they think could exist if we "just did it right this time""

KTVU @KTVU whines "A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses." Bastiat's Window, indeed.

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "BREAKING - The "conservative" protest against AI data centers has an anti-ICE NGO organizer, a DSA member, Facebook money. Other than that, totally grassroots. Axios ran an "exclusive" Wednesday about a "conservative group" called Humans First planning a nationwide day of protest against AI data centers on July 18. Amy Kremer is chairing it and invoking the Tea Party. Axios didn't mention that Humans First was incubated by the Center for AI Safety, an organization funded with millions from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Or that its original staff included a Sunrise Movement organizer who sat in at Pelosi's office with AOC and a DSA member who organized for Kamala Harris. NBC News described CAIS as having founded Humans First "to be a sort of Trojan horse to make AI safety issues more palatable to a conservative political audience." @ParkerThayer exposed the Action Network backend." Cam at Bearing Arms reports Spanberger Boots Anti-Gun Lawmakers From Ceremonial Bill Signing Over Data Center Feud. Ben Tribbett @notlarrysabato, "WOW. Governor is signing gun bills today (ceremonial only) and just had
@thedrmikejones and @RussetPerry walked out of the room to be told that she would NOT be signing their bills today because they participated in @SenLouiseLucas data center tour!!" Ben Tribbett @notlarrysabato, "They were allowed back in to get their stuff and staff and told they could stay to watch other peoples bills get signed if they wanted. Both left instead."

Leslie Eastman at LI, Declassified Files Ignite New Scrutiny of Fauci, COVID Origins, and Alleged Intelligence Suppression "Outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard: “It’s time you know the truth.”" Another conspiracy theory becomes fact. Sundance looks at Pulte Factor – Quick Reference Guide to Media Leaks. Scott McLallen at TownHall likes how the Justice Department Backs Catholic Nuns Against New York's Gender Ideology Law. Bake the damn cake! "The lawsuit challenges a state law that requires housing biological men with women in the Sisters’ residential hospice care program." Also at LI, Ben Smith sees a 'Hawaiian' Judge Frees Mosque Leader Tied to Hamas Claims, “Federal officials argued that he poses a foreign policy concern. DHS also alleges that he obtained his green card after providing false information.” "Salah Sarsour is suspected of funding terrorist organizations and was convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Israeli armed forces. This illegal alien also LIED on his green card application to fraudulently gain legal status in the U.S. under the Clinton Administration.”"

Vicky Taft is amused that a 'Tough Guy' Minnesota Antifa Dude Feds Rolled up Loves to Be a Little Girl in Flouncy Dresses. WaPoo sings the praises of Antifa in They say they tracked ICE in Minneapolis. Now they’re accused of an antifa plot. "Defendants in a Minneapolis case say the Trump administration labeled them “antifa” to criminalize dissent." The Proud Boys smirk.

Matt Vespa at TownHall, New Footage of Karmelo Anthony Was Just Released. Did You Catch What He Said As He's Being Arrested? “I’m not alleged, I did it,” he says as he’s apprehended by police (via NY Post): "He put his hands on me. I told him not to" while sobbing. Poor, stupid kid fucked up his whole life over a little shoving match. At the Chronic, The Media’s Mission in Anthony Case is to Increase Racial Animosity. Mission accomplished. Campus Reform wants you to Meet the professor who blamed slain teen Austin Metcalf's father for his son's fatal stabbing.

Matt Vespa hears Oh, Things Got Testy on 'The View'...and It Was Because of JD Vance? How dare he contradict the ladies 'settled truths.' At Twitchy, The New Yorker's Review of JD Vance's New Book Is a 'Distasteful' Blend of Illiteracy and Anti-theism. Aramis L. Perez @AramisLPerez, "Dear
@NewYorker, did you mean "disdainful of?" Also, have you considered hiring me as an editor? Or someone else who knows how to use words?" Quote The New Yorker @NewYorker "J. D. Vance’s second memoir, “Communion,” tells the story of his decision to become Catholic, but it’s strangely distasteful of the faith he has joined."

A free speech packed screed by Greg Lukianoff at the Eternally Radical Idea, Gov’t hits kill switch on Anthropic! Satanologist stress-tests the First Amendment! Saul Goodman wishes America a happy 250th! & more!

Reuters has a Report that UK PM Starmer ready to quit, but source says he is still focused on the job. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, BREAKING: Keir Starmer Reported to Have Resigned - Announcement on Monday MORE. Spiked says Nigel Farage is right about two-tier Britain "Identity politics has run amok in the British state." Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav, "Rotherham where white young girls were gang raped by Pakistani men with impunity. The police (also of Pakistani ethnicity) in Rotherham were complicit and joined in the rapes according to the victims." Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "This is literally insane Muslim man in the UK is interviewed and says that their goal is to take over the UK He says they’re working to vote in Muslims to keep replacing European Leaders, pass Sharia Law once they have the political power and then implement harsh punishments like stoning women to death for crimes like adultly What the heck is the UK doing??? They are literally telling you there are working on a political takeover and to pass Sharia Law We need to mass deport Islam from America before this happens to us too." The British Patriot @TheBritLad, "BREAKING: MASSIVE crowds of British patriots have flooded the streets of Birmingham to call for remigration. Britain’s second-largest city now has over 340,000 Muslims. They want them all gone." Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno, "Anti-Muslim hatred has been systematically whipped up by politicians and media outlets. This was always where it would lead. Solidarity with our Muslim siblings." Quote Politics UK @PolitlcsUK, " BREAKING: A 36-year-old white Scottish man is being investigated by Counter Terrorism Police after five people were stabbed in Edinburgh He said after his arrest: "I'm protecting the country from these fucking Muslim bastards raping our young daughters" Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol, "“People hate the Muslim migrants not because they gang raped A QUARTER OF A MILLION White girls in the UK… …people hate the Muslim migrants because PEOPLE DARED TO TELL THEM about the Muslim migrants gang raping a QUARTER OF A MILLION White girls in the UK.” Fuck you, Owen." Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra, "Now it's my fault that a random Scottish man apparently attacked some Muslims? He literally said in the clip why he was angry, and allegedly he attacked 5 people? And his reasoning was about abhorrent crimes committed by your community, nothing to do with me or Rupert." Quote Cllr Mohammed Shafiq @mshafiquk, "This is on you. x.com/trobinsonnewer…" InfantryDort @infantrydort, "I love how the media can spot five victims from orbit but somehow misses 250k when the narrative gets inconvenient." Quote New York Post @nypost "5 injured in bloody machete rampage by maniac allegedly targeting Muslims in Scotland."

From the College Fix, The 2025-26 campus hate crime hoaxes: A complete roundup. But 26 is only about half way done.

At State of the Day, State of Friday: NO HOMO, "No one is proud about pride anymore." Because it's shoved down our throats whether or not we care. Nothing makes something less fun than making it mandatory. Twitchy notes First Transgender State Legislator Sentenced to 33 Years for Child Porn, Claimed Retardation. Deviants gonna deviate.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Redness and FMJRA 2.0: Meanwhile, Somewhere In The Great Basin a bit late, but within reason.