Flotsam and Jetsam - Platner Bails Out - Iran War Back On

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Flotsam and Jetsam - All Platner All the Time

It seems. Jim Geraghty at NRO says The Nazi Tattoo Guy Is Exactly Who You Thought He Was. Batya Ungar Sargon thinks The Nazi Tattoo Should Have Been Enough. Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke, "It’s quite funny that the case for Platner, up until about 15 hours ago, was, “well, yes, he has a Nazi tattoo and a history of saying terrible things and treats women abominably, but on the other hand he’s a communist.”" Ace, Breaking: Graham Platner Covered Up His Death Head Tattoo With a Rape Head Tattoo, "Okay that's probably not true but it caught your attention and Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson have taught me that's all that matters. Here's some catch-up on the Nazi Rapist." As I've said before, the tattoo doesn't bother me that much. Young soldiers do stupid things. What bothers me is a nepo baby turning communist. At NYPo, Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriend alleges Maine Dem would sneakily pull off condoms during sex. Hat Hair's Dave Strom, Who Could Have Guessed That Graham Platner Was a Bad Guy? At PJM Steven Kruiser thinks Der Platnerfürher Might Finally Be Too Creepy for the Dems. But maybe not. Ace, LOL: Narcissist Psychopath Graham Platner Is Refusing to Drop Out of Race Unless He, the Nazi Rapist, Gets to Pick His Successor "Who wouldn't want to be known as the candidate hand-picked by the Nazi Rapist Stalker?" Hat Hair's Capt. Ed asks Say, What Happens If Platner ... Stays? "If he holds on, however, Democrats will be stuck with him after next week. Given how negative partisanship works, the left-wing tilt of the state, and the control of the Senate at stake, it’s easy to see Democratic voters talking themselves into the idea that they have to suck it up and support Platner." At Politico, Bernie Sanders says he told Graham Platner to ‘step aside.’ At Althouse, "You said: He's your kind of man." Resist the Mainstream @ResisttheMS, "CNBC host calls out Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Host: "You campaigned with Graham Platner… you said, 'He's your kind of man.' … This is a guy who had a chest tattoo with a N*zi symbol… It's a guy that reportedly wrote 'people concerned about r*pe should take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f*cked up that they end up having s*x with someone they don't mean to.' … I'm just curious why you think he's your kind of man?" Warren: "He has apologized… I'm there to stand with him and to help in that fight."" Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla, "Elizabeth Warren wants to retract her endorsement of Graham Platner but she doesn’t want to look like an Indian giver." Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich, "Chris Murphy is one of the worst and he’s running for president in 2028," Quote Bad Hombre @Badhombre, "JUST IN: Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has scrubbed his X account of all mentions of Graham Platner in hopes no one will remember he was a diehard early supporter. Legal Phil @Legal_Fil, "Not only will they pretend that they never supported Platner, they’ll demand credit for his being forced to drop out. And they’ll hold up Platner’s dropping out as an example of what makes their side morally better than the side that didn’t nominate a woman-abusing Nazi." Quote Erick Erickson @EWErickson "I've seen this movie before. The Nazi drops out after everyone has admitted he's a Nazi and the people who supported the Nazi pretend they never supported him." Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer, "Former Gov. Ralph Northam was appointed to a college board by Gov. Abigail Spanberger this year after refusing to resign in 2019 in the face of party-wide demands in the wake of a blackface/Klan hood picture scandal and another admitted blackface incident. Everyone just shut up and he served a full term. ... So, maybe Ds in Maine can find someone besides Platner who doesn't have a racist pic or tattoo and/or violent history with women, but their record thus far not great, and the Virginia Dems don't offer a template for that. Quote Sunny @sunnyright, "If Platner refuses to drop out, Democrats are suddenly going to go quiet with the demands for him to go and will start re-embracing him and re-funding him as "well whatever it takes to beat Susan Collins". He almost certainly knows that."

At Twitchy, Ditching Democracy: Scott Jennings Reminds CNN Hosts Dems Picking Power Over People to Replace Platner, Totally Hitlarious: Chris Murphy Worries About Dem Party’s Credibility If Platner Isn’t Properly Replaced and Politico Correspondent Clarifies How Graham Platner Is Not ‘DSA-Backed.’ Hat Hair VIP's John Sexton sees Dems Propose a Platner Replacement...Wait, Never Mind. Wesley Yang @wesyang, "So yeah, about that DSA-endorsed candidate that folx want to replace Platner: "As Maine Senate President in a state senate caucus meeting several years ago, Troy Jackson in a heated disagreement struck a female colleague with a bottle he threw at her." Biff LaTourette @BiffLaTourette, "Democrats and their media cohorts have relied for decades on this tried and true technique since Hillary's laughable keep lying/stonewall strategy failed in the wake of l'affaire Lewinsky. They created a slogan that spawned a PAC, http://MoveOn.org. Both remain everyday tools of the Party's preference to pound the prevarications, however ineffective, until they must beg to "move on," with lame mea culpas.

The "I'm a dirtbag" speech. They definitely have a template ready to go when needed.

Who did it better? 🤣 pic.twitter.com/UfF97z2a5q

— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 6, 2026

PJM's Matt Margolis sees The Left Has a New Narrative About Graham Platner, and Scott Jennings Just Nuked It. "On CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, Alyssa Farah Griffin claimed that "Democrats did not do their due diligence in vetting this man and now their path to the Senate looks significantly bleaker because they went all-in on this one." Seriously?" Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "Democrats fully vetted Graham Platner, happily signed off on his incredibly disturbing history to win a Senate seat, and are only pretending to be shocked now because they can no longer rationalize the hypocrisy." From Ace, The New York Times Knew All About Graham Platner's Rape Allegation But Deliberately Buried It. Update: North American Man-Boy Lincoln Association Grifter Rick Wilson Weighs In. Sunny @sunnyright, "MSNOW is attacking a media outlet for publishing corroborated rape allegations because it’s hurting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo who has previously been accused of hurting women." Quote Tom Elliott @tomselliott "Morning Joe spends 5 minutes grilling Politico’s @adamwren for running a story on Platner’s ex accusing him of rape. “Given the very high standards Politico has before they write something like this and publish it, what aspects of this story brought it to the level of publishable?”" Matt Vespa, An MS Now Host Did Not Just Say *That* About the Rape Allegation Against Platner "What is the actual – is there evidence between her and him, evidence of a crime?" Hat Hair's Dave Strom sees More Narrative™ Shaping by The New York Times. John Ondrasik @johnondrasik, "The reason the @nytimes can practice gross journalist malpractice, like they did to Lyndsey, is because they know there will be no consequences, from their company, from their media peers, and from their subscribers. In fact, protecting Democrats is how you climb the ladder." Quote Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield "I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now. It was by design." Neeraja Deshpande @neerajadeshp, "Here's @jodikantor, one of the NYT journos who broke the Weinstein story, naturally, an avid early proponent of MeToo, even had a movie made about her and Megan Twohey breaking the story—here she is writing off @lyndseyfifield for essentially partisan reasons. How's this aged?" Quote Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck, "WATCH: New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor – who wrote many of the #MeToo stories – DEFENDS Graham Platner and DISMISSES the allegations against him by @LyndseyFifield and other ex-girlfriends because they were not “abuse” and women saying they just “did not like what” they saw." From Althouse, "While I’m assigning blame, I shouldn’t leave out myself. Last October, when stories about Platner’s tattoo and Reddit posts first broke...", ""... I went to Maine to write about him. I tried to convey what I saw: a campaign that was electrifying angry Maine voters. But I deeply regret that, impressed by Platner’s political charisma, I wrote that he was 'nothing like the edgelord caricature I encountered online.' If anything, he seems to be significantly worse...." Writes Michelle Goldberg, in "Lessons From the Graham Platner Disaster." Sensurround @ShamashAran, "I have now read this highlighted sentence seventeen times because I assumed I wan't actually reading what was written. Surely my eyes didn't actually read this. Maybe someone accidentally pasted in dialogue from "The Onion." back when it was funny. But no. She is saying that she delayed reporting a rape because she agreed with the accused, politically. This is one of those moments where, if your IQ is over 85, your brain quietly excuses itself from the room..."

Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "What Republican has faced credible rape allegations? Because it’s not Trump or Kavanaugh." Quote Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic, "The one good thing I can say about this entire Platner shitshow is that most Democrats are calling for him to drop out, which is not how Republicans have acted when their favored candidates have faced credible rape allegations. The parties are still different: Democrats see credible rape allegations as disqualifying; Republicans continue to have a nearly unlimited tolerance for abusing women. Call them "Dem HR lady politics" if you want, but I'm actually glad we haven't fully rejected them." PoIiMath @politicalmath, "Here are things that the Platner story has that the Kavanaugh allegations did not have: 1) proof of contact between the accuser and the accused 2) documented allegations from the accuser naming the accused to others *before* the accused rose to the national stage 3) multiple accusers with documented proof of contact and long-standing recognition of abuse Liberals who are saying "this is just like Kavanaugh" are just reminding everyone of how flimsy the Kavanaugh accusations were …" quote Sarcastic Cupcake @SarcasticCupcak, "Hilarious to see right wingers try to pump up this story that reads like Kavanaugh allegations." Ron Coleman @RonColeman, "I don't have the patience or the stomach to line up all the established rapey stuff associated with Democrats and large percentages of people from certain countries, but it is notable how obsessed they are in their messaging with accusing non-rapey people - and canines - with rape despite the lack of what earthlings regard as evidence and at a certain point you have to step back and ask yourself who are these people and what are they trying to do to both our society and the people in it?" Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch, "LOLOLOLOL. So because we don’t know about hypothetical rapey legislators we should forgive the ones we do know about." Quote Stephen King @StephenKing "Tell you what--if you knew the whole truth about everyone in the Senate and House of Reps, those chambers would be dead empty. Jesus said, "Let him without sin cast the first stone."" Logic is not a thing in horror stories. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en, "They told me if I supported Trump we’d end up with neo-Nazi rapists as Senate candidates, and they were right."

Rick Moran at PJM, Platner Is the Democrat Camel Whose Back Couldn't Be Broken, No Matter How Much Straw Was Piled On. Capt. Ed cites Politico: The Biggest Loser in PlatnerGate Is ... "In the blast radius from the sexual assault allegations against Graham Platner, few politicians are taking a harder hit than Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna." Twitchy, The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Democrats and Graham Platner The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline, "@SarahLongwell25 calls for Graham Platner to drop out: "I want to win. I want Democrats to win the Senate and to win the House…Platner is in an incredibly weak position to do that now, and I think as a moral matter, when someone is accused of rape, that's game over." Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty, "Going forward, every reference to The Bulwark should state, "The Bulwark, who had a columnist who argued Graham Platner should be the Democratic nominee in 2028..."" PJM's Scott Pinsker, My Platner Prediction Just Came True. Here’s What’s Next — Including the Death of the Dems' Brand. Capt. Ed cites the WSJ: Dems May Have a Bigger Problem Than Platner and Dem Senate Disaster Intensifies. No, The Other One, Texas. 

Insty at his substack sees Socialists prey on Americans’ apathy — even in places you’d never expect. Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker, "The great secret of the last hundred years is that Progressivism is an elitist, technocratic ideology crafted by academia. It has NO working-class foundations at all. This desperate search for a believable marionette is hopeless." Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630, "Is the DSA running every single minority member they have for office? DSA is 89% white; their candidates look like the United Colors of Benneton." Quote DSA Watch @DSA_Watch, "Francesca Hong, leading Democratic Socialist in the Wisconsin governor’s race: “Police exist to uphold white supremacy.” Mike LaChance at LI sees the Liberal Media is Dishonestly Painting DSA Radicals as Gentle Reformers. "Over on MSNOW, contributor Molly Jong-Fast recently talked about how they want free child care. What’s so radical about that?" John Sexton thinks Sen. Murphy Has a Terrible New Idea. Just one? $25 per hour minimum wage. Paul MaCrae at Am Spec calls them The New Brownshirts? "Antisemitic rhetoric on the far left increasingly echoes the propaganda of Nazi Germany." Dave Strom, Democrats Have Gone Down the Antisemitism Rathole This Far. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "I hear all the time about how Gen Z is turning socialist because they have no economic hope and how I just don’t understand that we need to do more socialist stuff so they’ll still vote for us. Well…. I’ve spent quite a bit of time as a Silicon Valley startup/VC lawyer, and there is no quicker way to turn a young leftist into a junior Milton Friedman than starting their own business. ..." VodkaPundit at PJM hears New Yorkers Are Already Mad at Mamdani, and He's Just Getting Started. Dmitri Bolt at TownHall, Socialists Say Zohran Mamdani Delivered Record-Low Murders in NYC. There's Just One Problem. "People forget that, despite Zohran Mamdani’s generally hostile stance toward law enforcement and his preference for a more social worker-oriented approach to reducing crime, he has spent almost none of his time in office focusing on crime and nearly all of his energy on affordability. As a result, New York City has retained NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who was appointed under Mayor Eric Adams and has presided over steadily declining murder rates since 2023. The city has also maintained its existing policing strategy, which has clearly proven effective." Kevin Downey at PJM says Release the Clowns! Desperate Dems Send in the Odd Squad, Hilarity Ensues.

Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, has Another Sad, Cautionary Tale of Failed Democratic Candidates - Andrew Gillum Ring a Bell? DC_Draino @DC_Draino, "People forget that Gov DeSantis beat this guy in 2018 by less than 0.5%. He would’ve been our Governor during Covid, kept us locked down, and the country would’ve never been the same. The reason he almost won was b/c deep blue Broward County kept “finding” votes weeks after the election. The vote fraud was stopped, DeSantis cleaned up our elections, and he won by almost 20% in 2022. It’s amazing what happens when election fraud is cleaned up." Quote Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello, "ARRESTED: Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who narrowly lost to Ron DeSantis in 2018, was arrested last week in Alabama on drug charges. at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.07.26 (Afternoon Edition) Twitchy: “Florida Dodged A Bullet.” I&I has A Tale Of Two Governors, Newsom vs DeSantis. Leslie Eastman at LI notices Newsom-Backed Deal Transfers Iconic California Beach to Indigenous-Led Nonprofit, "The 136-acre property, encompassing Blues Beach and surrounding coastal bluffs, will be transferred to Kai Poma, an NGO representing 3 tribes," for a favor to be named later. 

Hat Hair's Dave Strom observes Iran Has Struck Three Ships in Strait of Hormuz in Last 24 Hours but then John Sexton sees U.S. Resumes Strikes Against Iran. And at News Wax, US Revoking License That Authorized Iranian Oil Sales, Official Says. I think the MOU is pretty much a dead issue. The Victory Girls note Iran Throws a Funeral For Late Ayatollah, New Ayatollah No-Shows and Vijeta Uniyal at LI reports U.S. ‘Influencers’ Jackson Hinkle, Max Blumenthal Support Regime at Khamenei Funeral
Jackson Hinkle led the chants of “Down with the USA.” The Free Bacon, GOP Primary Voters Remain Deeply Supportive of Israel, Poll Finds "A Washington Free Beacon survey found that likely Republican primary voters favor a close U.S.-Israel relationship and military action against Iran."

Beege Welborn thinks it's a tad late, Well, Huh: MSM Suddenly Interested in Playing 'Where's Mitch-O?' Atop Da Hill, McConnell’s health emergency sparks questions on whether he will return to Senate. Dave Manney at PJM, If McConnell Is Gravely Ill, Kentucky Deserves Clarity. Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble, "I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He's so sharp. Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed silently for awhile and had a staring contest. Just like always, he beat me. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible." Not a great endorsement. A corpse could do all of that. Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible."

Teri Christoph at RedState sees Trump Kicks Off NATO Summit With F-35 Bombshell and a Reality Check for Europe. Sundance at CTH has President Trump Arrives in Ankara, Turkey for NATO Summit – Brilliant Videos, President Trump Holds a Bilateral Meeting with President Erdogan in Ankara, Turkey, CNN Suddenly Very Worried About Israel During Trump Visit to Turkey and Mark Carney and Volodymyr Zelenskyy Announce Creation of New Canadian Bank for NATO/Climate Money Laundering, with $900 Million Seed Money from Canadian Taxpayers. CNN whines OPEC is in a struggle for its survival. It could mean $40 oil. John Sexton like the fact that the Russian Shadow Fleet is in Flames

Beege Welborn in best Bugs Bunny voice, Of Course, You Realize This Means War: Marine Le Pen Cleared to Run for French President. Ace, French Court Lifts Ban on Le Pen Standing for Next Presidential -- But Slaps Her With House Arrest That Will Prevent Her from Campaiging Outside Her Home, NIGEL FARAGE RESIGNS HIS SEAT IN PARLIAMENT.

Jeff Charles at TownHall sees This Defense Attorney Thinks Charlie Kirk's Assassin Won't Go to Trial. "When asked whether Robinson’s team will choose to go to trial, he responded, “If they can avoid it, hell no.” He further stated that Robinson’s attorneys will “run to the nearest sporting goods store, they get the thickest knee pads, they fall to their knees in front of the prosecutors, and they beg them to take death off the table.”"

Matt Vespa sees the New Fed Report that Shows How Joe Biden's Illegal Alien Invasion Brutalized Our Economy. James Blair @JamesBlairUSA, "Democrat politicians cause virtually every problem you face, and they have no real solutions for anything. Aside from being woke, weak, and way too liberal, they are incompetent." Quote New York Post @nypost, "Biden's illegal immigration surge triggered 30% rise in home prices, $ 20% in rents, Fed paper finds https://trib.al/c3M9oC6." Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC, "Most of my friend circle has children ranging from late high school to recent college grad. All I hear are HORROR stories about the jobs market. Can’t get a call back. Can’t get an interview. The political elite in this country better be VERY careful with their language. Very." Quote Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5, "I was starting to get suspicious for a while because I keep hearing stories like this about smart college graduates with STEM degrees putting out 800-3,000 job applications, even to grocery stores, and not getting hired for low-paid entry-level jobs. x.com/cccfounder/sta…" Bill Marshal @aethelamerican, "It's the H1Bs and immigrants and we all know this. Whether talking inflated costs for housing, healthcare and schooling, or a brutal entry and mid level job market is because of them. And as far as I know, not a single 2028 candidate has committed to ending the H1B program." Ben Smith at RedState reports Trump Just Bought the ICE Facilities Newsom’s California Tried to Run Out of Town.

C3 @C_3C_3, "Sitting down? Legacy Media increased the term “white supremacy” by 5,296% from 2009-2020. Violent crimes 2009-2020: Black on White: 1,162 per 100K Blacks. White on Black: 38 per 100K Whites. 30X more likely! Dangers of “white supremacy” narrative is pure propaganda. Facts." Ace hears from YouTuber Joshua Carr: Pudgy Nazi Pussy Tucker Carlson Has Hired a Company to Copyright-Strike Any Channel Using His Clips to Critique Him.

Amy Curtis at TownHall says The LGBTQ Movement Just Found Out How Islamic Nations Actually Feel About Them. CTV News @CTVNews, "Türkiye blocks American LGBTQ2S+ cruise from docking, citing ‘moral standards.’" The College Fix finds out a Professor gets NIH grant to study ‘rural gender diverse youth.’

And still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.07.26 (Afternoon Edition). The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Slowly I Turn up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - A Funny Thing Happened in DC

Streiff at RedState observes Hundreds of Patriot Front Demonstrators Hit DC's July 4 Celebration and Minds Are Blown "Allegedly, Patriot Front is a Texas-based White nationalist group classified as such by the ADL and SPLC. It was created in the run-up to the infamous 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A teenager named Thomas Ryan Rousseau executed a coup d’etat inside the “Vanguard America” organization by seizing its website and Discord server and declaring himself the Obergruppenführer, or whatever. After the rally, which we now know was organized and subsidized by the “anti-hate” group Southern Poverty Law Center (see SPLC Funneled $270K Cash to Charlottesville Hoax Rally Planner — ‘Manufacturing Racism’ – RedState), Rousseau rebranded the group as the “Patriot Front.” Here at RedState, we have noticed some peculiarities about this organization." RazörFist @RazorFist, "Reminder: Patriot Front were one of many "right-wing" organizations we recrntly learned the Southern Policy Law Center had funded. You guys can ditch the faggy gimp mask and buy a second outfit now." Quote Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas "White nationalists are marching down the streets of Washington, D.C. on America's 250th." John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNC, "It’s simple logic… In the same we know the moon landing was real because of it weren’t, the Russians would’ve said so, if these were actual right wingers, the corporate media would have doxxed them by now." Quote Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee, "Patriot Front: Brought to you by leftists who don’t know that patriots don’t wear masks." Seattle Extremist @SeattleIndepen1, "How do you know Patriot Front is fake? If they were legit, the media would be in a feeding frenzy to find out who is funding them, there would be endless efforts to infiltrate with hidden cameras to capture compromising and embarrassing conversations, relentless efforts to dox members. There isn’t. Which means it’s a protected psyop." PoIiMath @politicalmath, "Patriot Front is a funny organization b/c left-wingers are like "these are the racists you support" & the right-wingers I know are like "go ahead and arrest them all"" Quote Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran, "1/10 Want to know how they quickly got 400 makes extremists in DC? It's because many of them are Republican staffers." Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "This black lady must feel extremely safe surrounded by dozens of federal agents." Quote Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas, "This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital. This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr."

Noticed they paid the fare instead of jumping the turnstile https://t.co/Pl1LHpf6Ro

— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeaceful) July 5, 2026

To be fair, one of them did duck under the turnstyle. I'd really like to know who they really are, and who is paying, besides the SPLC.

PJM's Sarah Anderson notices The World Lights Up for America’s 250th, While the American Left Opts to Whine About It. At Twitchy, Lefties Melt Down Over US Men's World Cup Boost: Beg Balogun to Voluntarily Sit Out So Belgium Won't Cry. "Earlier, we told you the red card against the American men's World Cup Soccer team was rescinded. It's alleged President Trump intervened. The unhinged America haters (that makes them xenophobic) are falling apart over it."

Sundance at CTH hosts Sunday Talks: Secretary Burgum -vs- Dana Bash, Ambassador Hoekstra Interview Highlights How Canadian Govt Controls Canadian Media, A Shift Begins? Canadian Media Start Discussing Six-Month USMCA Termination Possible and President Trump and Russian Federation President Putin Held an 85-Minute Phone Call.

From Fox, Trump pardons 9 people convicted of tampering with emission controls on diesel engines "Alaska veteran Mac Spurlock was among those freed after armed EPA agents raided his shop over engine modifications." I believe he also revoked the regulations under which they were arrested.

Betsy McCaughey at Hat Hair, Mamdani's Rent Freeze Threatens Everyone Who Owns Anything. Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate, "Yeah, I don’t know that Mamdani is even worth responding to seriously because DSA rhetoric is just an incoherent pastiche of ideological slop that last had real salience more than 50 years ago. A meta-criticism pointing out that retarded theater kids have commandeered a major political party yet lack the requisite cognitive capacity to form a coherent ideological narrative for what they’re doing is probably closer to the target than responding to his midwit provocations in earnest." Quote Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi, "This Mamdani-style anti-American chic that gets gushing reviews from self-hating upper class neurotics is just a revived late-sixties/early 70s fad that was boring and stupid then, and still is now x.com/bobbyness11/st…" Vicky Taft at PJM features an Explosive Spencer Pratt Video which Dismantles Mamdani and Communism Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "The communist always must destroy your history. History is what attaches you to something. Memories make a home. The communist attacks your history to unmoor you from your home, so you won’t fight him when he demolishes it and renovates it in his image." Quote CSPAN @cspan "NYC Mayor Mamdani on American exceptionalism: "We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else... The truth, my friends is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place."" Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "“If I’m being honest I have a much easier time connecting with baristas, nonprofit workers, grad students…” Uh, we know." Quote Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby, "R/Socialism: Men that build and maintain the things I think are basic human rights make me sick." Hat Hair's Larry Elder asks When Will Obama Say, 'What's Happened to My Party?'. My guess is never. Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "Obama invited the terrorist Ayers to his presidential library opening last month, after years of denying they had a relationship." Quote Stu Smith @thestustustudio, "Bill Ayers and Princeton’s Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Mark July 4th With No Patriotism, No Borders, and “Fuck the USA” As you celebrate Independence Day, remember that there is an entire class of activists, including many embedded in higher education, who spend their days trying to dismantle the country..." Jonathan Turley seems to be losing hope, “You Cannot Kill the Beast Until You Name it”: Democratic Politician Denounces the Declaration of Independence. "Pennsylvania state and socialist Chris Rabb, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, has joined the growing chorus of Democrats denouncing the founding documents and core institutions in the country on our 250th anniversary. The Democratic socialist is running unopposed for Congress and will almost certainly be a member of Congress after November."

From Da Caller, Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Sues Trump Admin Over Probe Into Russiagate, "claiming he is being “vindictively singled out for investigation and prosecution” by officials, according to court documents." As an architect of Russiagate, he knows a vindictive, partisan prosecution when he sees it.

NYPo finds Biden’s illegal immigration surge triggered 30% rise in home prices, $ 20% in rents, Fed paper finds. It's pretty simple economics, increase the demand without increasing the supply and prices rise. From CIS, DOJ Vows to Crack Down on Birth Tourism in Response to ‘Birthright’ Opinion. We'll see. Hat Hair's Josh Hammer claims Congress Can Still Ban Birthright Citizenship. Here's How.

Greg Lukianoff at the Eternally Radical Idea all about America turns 250! A full-on Frederick Douglassfest! Matt salutes Tom Paine! & more! "Bringing you the latest free speech news (7/5/26)" From the Chicago Boyz, Musings on the Declaration of Independence "The Constitution is the means of government; it is the Declaration that announces the ends of government. – Justice Clarence Thomas, Remarks on the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Apr 20, 2026." ((Aaron Walker))) @AaronWorthing, "Yes, but you can’t speak freely in that pub" Quote No Context Brits @NoContextBrits, "America is 250 years old. This pub is 1,466 years old."

From the Campus Reform, Those who agree with Charlie Kirk ‘deserve to go out like him,’ anonymous student says, "An anonymous student posted a message on an app called ‘Fizz’ implying that people who agree with assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk should be murdered as well." At the College Fix, Massachusetts principal apologizes to Arab students after lesson on Holocaust. In a slightly more hopeful sign, NYPo finds America’s medical schools tiptoe away from DEI — for now.

The Wombat has  FMJRA 2.0: Slowly I Turn up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Iran Ceasefire MOU Under Fire

The ink wasn't dry on the signatures on the MOU the Trump administration signed with Iran nominally ending hostilities between us, and opening the Strait of Hormuz before the professional whiners in the chattering class began complaining. We can safely ignore the whinging from Democrats; Trump could cure cancer, end poverty, clear the national debt, and colonize Mars and they would still fault him. However we should at least consider arguments from the right. Insty, THERE’S A LOT OF CHATTER ABOUT THE IRAN AGREEMENT, BUT I DON’T HAVE A LOT TO SAY. IT WILL FAIL. "At least, Iran will break it, and Trump will start bombing again. I think Trump knows this. The Iranians probably do too. At best it’s Peace Of Amiens II and I doubt it will last that long." At PJM VodkaPundit notes The Iran War Was Easy. The Peace Is the Problem and Rick Moran cites Israeli Pundits that Slam Iran Deal. At Hat Hair, Dave Strom think The 'Deal' Is a Disaster, But It May Save the Midterms but the presents The Counterargument to My Pessimism on Iran. Doug Ross at Director Blue has The Iran Panican Explainer. "A Comic Showing Americans How Not to Get Played." My own thoughts? Barring a total war campaign against Iran to produce an unconditional surrender like Germany and Japan in WWII, some negotiated settlement is necessary, which will require some concessions to Iran. In Germany, boots on the ground went into Berlin; in Japan, the two first nuclear weapons ended the war only after boots on the islands reached near Japanese shores. Who proposes to do it that way?

At Am Think, Joe Cotto thinks Trump's Helping The Economy, But 63% Of Americans Disagree, "The Republican PR machine is failing" as usual. Trump faces two headwinds on the economy, the Press, which with the exception of Fox, and some minor newspapers, will never say anything good about the economy, and inertia, it takes a long time to convince voters that the economy is looking better.

Twitchy thinks JD Vance Calling Out the Absolute COWARDICE in the Senate Over the SAVE Act Is a BEAUTIFUL Thing (Watch). Dave Manney at PJM, Thune Keeps Counting Votes Instead of Finding Them. Ace hears Thune: Some "Republican" Senators Hate Trump Too Much to Protect the Integrity of Federal Elections and Do What Their Constituents Elected Them to Do. "Thune admitted during a closed-door GOP lunch on Wednesday that some Republican senators oppose President Donald Trump so strongly that they will never vote for the SAVE America Act, regardless of the legislation's merits, according to several sources familiar with the matter...Still, the Majority Leader's office denies the admission. "This is a baseless claim, and it is unequivocally untrue," a spokesperson for Thune told the Daily Caller."

Stephen Kruiser at PJM briefs us, Trump Chips Away at the Department of Education, but Will It Be Enough? I'd like to see the whole thing gone, but that's not likely; too much graft in the game.

ABC claims Ukraine strikes Moscow oil refinery in large-scale drone attack, with Zelenskyy saying it's 'time the war ended'. Ace, Russia Sets Blaze to a 1000-Year-Old Ukrainian Monestary with a Missile, So Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Attack at... Moscow. "That escalated quickly. That really took a jump. CBS:" Ukraine has changed the face of modern warfare with its drone technology. Skynet smiles.

RNC Research @RNCResearch, "The Obama center opening opens with a land acknowledgement: “We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi Nations.”" If they really believed it, they'd give it back. VodkaPundit at Insty hears Obama Presidential Center subcontractors claim they’re owed millions and facing financial ruin ahead of grand opening, "
Several [contractors] also described what they viewed as a wall of silence surrounding the project, with some declining to speak publicly or requesting anonymity because of confidentiality agreements or fears of professional retaliation." Althouse consults the NYT, "You did it all with such grace and class and cool that you made the hardest job in the world look like a walk in this beautiful park." "Said Michelle Obama, as "Mr. Obama looked down and wiped away tears." She's quoted in "Presidents Line Up for Obama’s Long-Awaited Center in Chicago/Thursday’s opening drew four former presidents, as well as Bruce Springsteen, Bono and Jennifer Hudson. Chicago has seen years of planning and legal fights" (NYT). Biden was there too, bearing with unbearable sorrow..." Sorry he didn't get a second term as zombie president. Ace, Obama Officially Opens the Ozymandias Presidential Center As Subcontractors Complain That He Didn't Pay Them and Left Them With Millions in Worthless IOUs. Da Mail laughs at Tom Hanks' brutal insult to MS NOW reporter in shocking on-air outburst at Obama library opening.

From the PM, California seeks to allow kids to 'divorce' their parents without cause "The bill allows any minor residing in any residential facility to file a legal application against their parents, without cause or evidence of harm." At TownHall, the Great Victor Davis Hanson wonders Is California Reaching Critical Mass? There's a great deal of ruin in California.

From Fox, Gavin Newsom, Biden, Harris took millions from China military firms. From the Free Bacon, ‘Not a Close Call’: Left-Wing Group Declines To Endorse Socialist in Tight House Race Over ‘Point-Blank’ Refusal To Condemn Hamas "Broadway Democrats has a long history of supporting candidates endorsed by the Working Families Party and socialist groups." Keisha For Georgia@KeishaForGA, This election is about building a better future for the people of Georgia. Rick Jackson's top priority is pleasing Donald Trump. Georgians deserve better. #gapol #gagov" Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock, "Aren’t you the lady who let Atlanta burn down?" From RCP, D.C. Escalating Response to Teen Takeover Chaos. From Shooting NewsWeek, SAF Backing Former Virginia AG’s Challenge to State’s New ‘Assault Firearms’ Ban. At BA, Tom Knighton is concerned by Democratic Socialists Building 'Red Rabbit' Militias. Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "It's not enough to classify Antifa as a terror org and go after them -- we have to go after the DSA as well, because a lot of evidence is emerging they materially support and enable this violence." Quote Kyle Shideler @ShidelerK, "Indictment notes that conspirators' met at the office of the Democratic Socialists of America, and briefed members of the DSA on their activities. (pg.29). Defendant welcomes arrival of an anarchist from CA,vetted by a comrade in "Black Rose Anarchist Federation." (pg.36) x.com/ShidelerK/stat…" Vicky Taft at PJM, Feds Reveal Violent Antifa Conspirators Coordinated With a Major Labor Union to Fight ICE in Minneapolis.

Matt Lamb at LI hears DoorDash Drops Southern Poverty Law Center as ‘Gatekeeper’ of Employee Donations. "The Southern Poverty Law Center continues to lose credibility." I never gave them any. Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog, "If someone doesn’t turn this story into a romantic comedy screenplay, I’ll have to do it myself." Quote New York Post @nypost "SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group - pair even had joint bank account https://trib.al/7wnuofS" 

At Substack, Tom Knighton at says A trillion here, a trillion there... Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee, "1/5 Americans can’t afford the price increases that would inevitably follow from a massive influx of federal childcare funding. We’ve seen this movie before. It ends with even higher prices." Quote Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren, "If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire wealth tax, we could pay for child care for all three and four year olds in America."

Ace, Democrats, Migrants and Other Criminals Continue Looting America Blind. "But fortunately, the Trump Administration is busting them. A Pakistani "community leader" feted by communist jihadi Theater Kid Zohran Mamdani stole $38 million of our money in an "adult day care" scam. The first hint it was a scam should have been that it was an "adult day care." This was another Democrat agenda item, and of course they insisted there be practically no verification whatsoever for billing American taxpayers for services not rendered."

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair VIP regales SCOTUS: One Toke's Not Over the Line, Sweet #2A. Steve Presser at the Chronic looks at Amy Coney Barrett and the Court of Disappointed Hopes.

Sarah Anderson at PJM, says Well, Well, Well... Look What the Coast Guard Dragged In "Only 25 Chinese nationals who were, apparently, attempting to enter the United States illegally. The reason why they were trying to get into the United States — because you never know with the Chinese — is under investigation." Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog reports an Illegal Alien Theft Ring Skimming Credit Cards, Stealing Fuel.

 Ace reports the European Parliament Votes By Almost 2/3rds Majority, 418 to 218, to Make It Easier to Deport Migrants; Hall Explodes Into Chant of "Send Them Back! Send Them Back!" "The joke leftist newspaper The Guardian is very sad about this, and wants you to know that after the "Send them back!" chant, some shrill voices counter-chanted "shame on you." Oh no, we've never heard squeaky communists hissing "shame" at us." Flopping Aces @FloppingAces, "Europe just experienced one of the fastest religious conversions in political history. For years they called basic border enforcement “fascism.” They called deportation “cruel.” They called any suggestion of returning people who had no right to be there “far-right extremism.” NGOs and center-left politicians treated the very idea of stopping the invasion like it was a moral crime. They cashed the checks, ran the programs, and lectured the rest of us about compassion while the flow continued. Then something changed. Voters started punishing them. The American money tap (that sweet USAID slush fund) got turned off. And suddenly the same people who spent a decade calling enforcement racist are passing the strictest migration law in EU history ... complete with return hubs in third countries, expanded detention powers, and home raids without warrants. The same ministers who once clutched their pearls are now hugging each other on the parliament floor while chanting “send them back.” It’s almost like none of it was ever about principle...." InfantryDort @infantrydort, "The British Isles are beginning to remember what every civilization eventually remembers: A government that cannot protect its people eventually loses the moral authority to govern them. Everything that follows is just the timetable." Roger Kimball at Am Great, The Face of Modern Britain: Jihad’s Triumph. "Britain’s leaders celebrate multiculturalism even as the ideology reshaping the nation grows increasingly hostile to the civilization that welcomed it." LHGrey @grey4626, "England did not fail its daughters. It betrayed them with surgical coldness…with the precise, bureaucratic efficiency of institutions that had already decided which children were expendable and which narratives were sacred. The piece that follows is not another recounting of horror for horror’s sake..." PeterSweden @PeterSweden7 "Maybe the real reason for the social media ban for children in Britain is to stop girls from speaking out and telling their story about the grooming gangs?" Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol, "Correct. They will let Mulsim migrants gang rape the girls, block everyone in the government from helping them, and finally block them from sharing their stories publicly. It's vast evil. And it's deliberate." Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith, "The Left: “Believe All Women!” British Women: “250,000+ of us were systematically raped and tortured by mostly Pakistani men from the 1950s to now with help from our police, social workers, NHS staff and politicians.” The Left: “Yea, not you.”" Jamie Wilson at PJM, The Banality of Keir Starmer: Chestless Bureaucrats and the Betrayal of Britain’s Daughters. Connor Tomlinson lays out My Contributions to the Independent Rape Gang Inquiry "Evidence submissions for Rupert Lowe's Rape Gang Inquiry Report on the Biraderi clans, anti-white racism, and institutional capture responsible for the grooming gangs scandal." Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "A French woman who was sexually assaulted by a Tunisian migrant could be sentenced to prison today for ‘incitement to racial hatred.’ During a TV discussion, she said that “the main danger for women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.” She was initially given a six-month suspended prison sentence and a €3,000 fine, but she appealed the sentence, with the new verdict expected later today. Her attacker is still at large."

Beege Welborn is suspicious of the identity of the committer of the Cambridgeshire Horror: 3 Year-Old Boy Rescued After Being Thrown Into Crocodile Pit by 'Unhinged Man'. "I see the BBC is already using government-approved, non-inflammatory code words as opposed to describing how a tiny child actually wound up fifteen feet below where he had been, and in a pen full of crocodiles." Autism Capital @AutismCapital, "The United Kingdom is going to announce additional restrictions in July on VPN usage. This is ON TOP OF the social media restrictions and mandated online identity verifications.
It's over, UK. You sold out your own society. Absolute tragedy. Very sad." DogeDesigner @cb_doge, "𝕏 is the #1 news app in the UK. This is exactly why the BBC, The Telegraph and other UK legacy media keep pushing negative fake attacks on Elon Musk. They are getting destroyed in the rankings. The British public has rejected them. Legacy media is finished. They are lashing out in pure panic because they lost control. 𝕏 is winning because it gave people what they actually wanted - truth." Or if not the truth, at least the opportunity to look for it. 

Matt Taibbi at Racke writes To an Ivy League Professor, Who Doesn't Understand "Equality". "A Columbia professor writes a dumb column, in anticipation of what will likely be humorously bad book." From the College Fix, Trump’s UFC fight a lot like 19th century lynching, Boston College historian says.

Driscoll at Insty hears ACTRESS AMANDA SEYFRIED PAINTS HERSELF THE VICTIM, CLAIMS SHE NEEDED A BODYGUARD AFTER ATTACKING CHARLIE KIRK: "In a classic move of a leftist turning the tables to paint themselves the victim after an attack against a conservative, actress Amanda Seyfried claims she had to get a bodyguard due to the backlash she received for bashing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk after his assassination. Sunny @sunnyright, "Gee it must suck to be the target of violence for expressing unpopular opinions. Now imagine actually being murdered for doing so and having some spoiled Hollywood brat trash you and then whine how unfair she’s been treated." Quote Variety @Variety "Amanda Seyfried had to use a bodyguard amid MAGA outrage over calling Charlie Kirk "hateful" after his death. “A, I’m allowed to f*cking voice my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not unkind necessarily. But there’s just an outsized fear and hatred and impulse to..."

Ace calls it Huge: The Federal Trade Commission Sues the Main Transgenderism-for-Children Organization, WPATH, Citing False Claims About Transgender Surgery Reducing Suicide Risks. "Big! WPATH is largely funded by J.B. Pritzker's transgender brother, Lt. Colonel "Jennifer" Pritzker, retired." VodkaPundit at Insty, THIS SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO: NBC News @NBCNews, "Minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania cancels Pride Night game after players refuse to wear jerseys with rainbow sleeves." At Insty, NOT AS GOOD AS “HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR,” BUT FIRST CLASS WORK: Jon Root @JonnyRoot_, "This is one of the best newspaper front pages I've ever seen. Well done, @californiapost." 

Polymarket @Polymarket, "NEW: TSA warns World Cup visitors not to pack oversized bottles of ranch dressing in their carry-ons, as ranch mania spreads among foreign fans."

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Obligatory World Cup Post and FMJRA 2.0: Checking Out The Free Agents up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.