Flotsam and Jetsam - Fauci Files Freed

Rand Paul, who as a fellow Dr., has had it in for Anthony Fauci for quite a while for lying to Congress about the origin and seriousness of Covid, got his hands on Fauci's private diary somehow (he probably kept it at work), and it revealed the either Fauci was lying to Congress and the public or himself, was a double-dealing little glory hound weasel while also being the most highly paid government employee ever, while leading the effort to fight the disease. Fox, Fauci's newly released COVID diaries reveal bizarre fixation on fame as pandemic deaths mounted. "Fauci wrote that his "national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable" and that it was "not hyperbole" to say he was "the most famous and talked about person in the country."" Hat Hair's Dave Strom hopes Will Fauci Fall Finally? From Breitbart, Fauci, CNN Condemned ‘Small Household Gatherings’ Week Before Fauci-Tapper Dinner. From Sundance at CTH, Ahead of Anthony Fauci Testimony to Senate, Rand Paul Releases Files Outlining Serious Manipulation of COVID-19 Information. At Ace's they're charged up, Rand Paul Publishes Anthony Fauci's Private Diaries, In Which He Confesses He Knows Covid Didn't Come from "The Wet Market" and Has a Lethality of Only 0.2-0.3%; "The Media Refuses to Cover. And they won't cover it because the diaries also expose this deranged dwarfish narcissist as being their dinner-guest and "friendship building" pal." And THE MORNING RANT: As Bombshell Fauci Docs Drop, Faux-Conservative Media Indignantly Covers Story It Suppressed in 2020. Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_, "NEW: On page 302 of the new personal records of Dr. Fauci released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Fauci complains that in 2013, HHS didn't let him do a CNN television interview because of "pure jealousy", adding that it was because he's a "rockstar" who was "stealing their thunder."" C3 @C_3C_3, "Photo 1: A man who claimed Covid had a mortality rate of a flu in his diary. Photo 2: A man who claimed Covid had a mortality rate 10X of a flu under oath in front of Congress." Tara Servatius @TaraServatius, "DAMN. In early 2020, Fauci recorded in his diary how much he was able to make the stock market drop with his lie that covid was 10x more deadly than the flu. At the same time, in the same diary, he wrote that covid wasn't any more deadly than the seasonal flu. While he was going on TV saying the opposite to terrify the public into shutting down the economy. It was all a lie designed to take out Trump's most formidable weapon for reelection: his booming economy." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Fauci claimed he didn’t shut down schools. Then bragged in his diary that California and New York shut down schools based on his recommendations." Quote, "Tom Elliott @tomselliott, "Dear Diary, Today I shut down NYC and all California. Tony." KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat, "Fauci’s own diary just dropped. Feb 1, 2020. The secret call that produced "Proximal Origin." 12 scientists on the line. Only 2 thought the virus was natural. The other 10 — per Fauci's own notes — "felt that deliberate insertion was possible." They flagged Shi Zhengli's gain-of-function work on coronaviruses in Wuhan by name. 8 days later, Fauci went on Newt Gingrich's podcast: "I've heard these conspiracy theories. And like all conspiracy theories, Newt, they're just conspiracy theories." Then Facebook and Twitter banned you for saying the same thing his own scientists were telling him privately." Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke, "It is a new week, but I still do not think it has sunk in for most people, and perhaps it never will, that the event that upended our lives and changed the world was man-made. Some of us understood that from the beginning. Rand Paul’s recent document releases have now put the case beyond any doubt. The Wuhan lab created Covid and unleashed it on the world. And it could not have done so without Fauci’s help. Those are the facts. So what happens now? When does accountability begin? ..." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "From the Russia! Russia! Russia! conspiracy, through Covid, through the 2020 election fraud and the suppression of Hunter Biden's laptop, through Joe Biden's cognitive decline, they've learned that simply ignoring massive scandals works." Quote Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore, "What is most amazing is not that we have the black-and-white evidence of Fauci being a criminal lying fraud maniac mad scientist who operated on fear and lies. But the fact that the people who worshiped him in the first place are not going to take in any of this information nor going to take in any of this information nor get angry or upset. Their worship of Fauci, and all the lies, he told about: -masks, -the infection fatality rate of the virus, -the vaccines stopping transmission, stopping contraction, -the toxic side effects that are off the chart, -the excess deaths caused by the vaccine, -the damage to children’s hearts, kidneys, neurological disorders from the vaccine, -the lies about NOT inventing the virus in the first place. Will still be ignored by the people who most ardently enforced the Fauci Covid narrative because to admit to themselves, all these lies, would mean that they were monsters acting in an evil way and poisoning themselves and their own children, and they just can’t live with that..." The Great Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson, "Dr Fauci and Mr. Science The Fauci files reveal not just a sociopathic narcissist, but also a pathological schizophrenic. For years, Fauci was assuring the public of Covid narratives that he either knew were untrue, or knew little about. He posed as a non-partisan, even as he collaborated with the leftwing cable news grandees and liberal columnists to hound his enemies and magnify his godhead. From the virus’s origins and effects of the lockdowns, to the efficacy of the mRNA vaccinations to the always changing 0/1/2 masks wearing protocols, Fauci used his massive government agency, and sycophantic media, to promote his always fluid narratives by punishing enemies and rewarding friends—on the basis of their loyalty to Dr. “I represent science”. He seemed to be obsessed with firing White House Covid advisor Scott Atlas, and demonizing Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff—for the crimes of questioning the Fauci party line..."

And a bit more recent Covid news, From Fox, Alleged $32M COVID-19 fraud fugitive captured in Jamaica and returned to US, FBI says, "Elaine Angene Escoe was charged in a $32M COVID-19 pandemic relief fraud scheme allegedly involving wire fraud, money laundering." Matt Vespa at TownHall, There Was a Huge Win for Those Screwed Over by the COVID Vaccine Mandate. Appeals court rules a woman was wrongfully terminated for refusing the vaccine for religious reasons.

PJM's Stephen Kruiser argues John Thune Is the Most Effective Democrat in Congress Right Now. To be fair, he has poor material to work with. Rep. James Comer to Newsmax: Senate Stalling Trump's Agenda. Ace, Thune Schemes to Put the Senate Into Recess Until Late August, Ending Any Chance of Passing SAVE Before the Elections. In a Hat Hair vid Johnson Delivers House Wins as Pompeo Warns: Iran Still a Threat. Politico crows about the power of propaganda, Poll: Republicans’ gas price problem is even worse than it seems. "Three in five Americans believe gas prices in their area have risen by more than they actually have, according to a POLITICO analysis." But Dave Strom sees Americans Sour on Trump, Still Trust Him More Than Democrats.

ABC whines that Alaska sends 3,000 letters asking voters to verify their citizenship ahead of this year's elections.

Kyle Becker at RedState reports U.S. Ambassador Storms Out of U.N. Meeting After France Says Unthinkable About Trump Administration. France ONU Genève @FranceONUGeneve, "The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it." But they sure want our money, and help when the chips are down.

Jen Van Laar at RedState reveals, Biden Ghostwriter Tapes, Transcripts Are Out - and They're Already Raising Big Questions. He openly bragged about telling his ghostwriter classified information, and revealed he knew about the classified files in the garage. Matt Vespa, The Biden Ghostwriter Tapes Are Out...and They Confirm What We've Known for a While.

The Democratic National Committee Is Imploding says PJM's Matt Margolis, hopefully. "According to a New York Times report, the Democratic National Committee can't pay its bills and Chairman Ken Martin is paranoid and unhinged. In other words, the committee is drowning in internal chaos."

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair cites the DSA Co-Chair: You're Darned Right We'll Order the Code Red on America! RNC Research @RNCResearch, "DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer confirms their platform includes: - Abolishing the Senate, presidency, & Supreme Court - Abolishing ICE, borders, & prisons - Defunding the Pentagon - Mass amnesty for illegals." VodkaPundit at PJM puts it this way, DSA's Solemn Vow: We Win an Election, You Lose a Country. Steve Cook at RCD, From Ration Stamps to DoorDash: How Comfort and Socialism Are Disarming America. Dave Strom, For Some Strange Reason, Utopian Ideas Keep Failing. PJM's Eric Florack, Six Times the Bodies, Half the Outrage: Communism's Missing Reckoning. Joe at The View From North Central Idaho says They Never Stop Lying.

RedState's Rusty Weiss outraged, What in the Actual? Mamdani Doxxes NYC’s Wealthy by Publishing Their Names and Addresses. "How? By publishing a searchable database of properties that could fall under the new pied-à-terre tax, complete with the owners’ full names and addresses." Capt. Ed thinks it's Too Dumb to Check: Did Maine Dems Anoint an Ineligible Jackson to Replace Platner? Eric W. @EWess92, "Maine has a "sore loser" law that says a candidate that runs for one office and loses cannot run for another office in the same cycle. After Graham Platner dropped out, Maine Dems are poised to nominate Troy Jackson. But Jackson ran for Governor (and lost the primary). Eligible?" Quote Kat @katagious2, "GOP Rep. James White (Maine) points out that Troy Jackson may not legally be eligible to be the nominee for Senate." "However, as we saw in the Robert Torricelli switcheroo, any ambiguity in these statutes will provide the excuse needed for Bellows and state courts to refuse to enforce those standards. That's especially true given today's deadline for ballot changes in the general election. Enforcing these statutes properly, as White demands in his challenge to Bellows, would leave the Democrats without a challenger to incumbent Republican Susan Collins. Even if the statutes had no ambiguity, the courts would moan about robbing the voters of a choice in the general election, even though Maine Democrats actually robbed those same voters of their choice by pushing Platner out in the first place." 

From Da Caller, Karen Bass Blames Trump Administration For Increasing Homelessness In LA Ahead Of New Count. Amy Curtis @RantyAmyCurtis, "It's adorable you think people are stealing because they're hungry. They're stealing because they're feral and don't care about civilized society." Quote Ashton Forbes @AshtonForbes, "Downtown St. Paul Whole Foods closed last year. Too much crime. It's heart breaking watching people steal food because they're hungry. Cities can't even keep them open with subsidies."

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "33 counties in Illinois have already voted to separate themselves from Illinois 7 more counties just approved to add the referendum onto the ballot JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson are total failures!" They're a little far away to join Greater Idaho, but perhaps they can get together with Ohio to make a Grander Ohio!

At 1945, Trump Has Already Won the Iran War, a Twenty-Five-Year Army Veteran Argues — ‘the Enemy Gets a Vote’, "In a new analysis, national security expert James Jay Carafano argues President Trump has already achieved America’s key objectives against Iran and is de-risking rather than escalating — stripping Iranian assets with every exchange, discounting the midterms, and fighting the rest of the war on what he calls Trump Time." CDR Salamander is Squinting at the Iran Decision Brief. Reason whines about Waltz: Interceptor Shortage Is Biden's Fault, Fake News, and Illegal To Discuss, "The Trump administration official contradicted himself as he tried to explain away bad news from the Iran war."

At RCW, Eastern Mediterranean Gateway Act Is a Win-Win-Win. Aust BC, Israeli air strike kills top Hamas official in Gaza, Wael El-Ledawi. Another Dorito gone from the bowl.

From Althouse, "Critics say T.P.S. is a problem because it’s not really temporary. Look at the Salvadorans, they say." "They first became eligible for T.P.S. in 1990 because of the violent civil war in their country. Another wave came after two devastating earthquakes in 2001. Decades on, there are about 190,000 of them here, living and working legally. (At least for now — their protected status is slated to end in September.)" From "Protected No More" (NYT gift link)."

Don Surber on Journalism 2026, "Any time President Trump gives a speech, it must be described as rambling." To be fair, it usually is, but he knows where he's going.

At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed says Quelle Surprise: Berlin Terror Perp Killed; Known Wolf With Long Track Record while Beege Welborn has Some Last Minute Updates and Thoughts on the Islamic Attack in Germany Yesterday and Dave Strom notes on the Berlin Pride Attack: Organizers Worry About Islamophobia, Blame White Men. At Althouse, "[A]nti-queer' crimes more than tripled in [Berlin] between 2016 and 2025. Violent anti-queer crimes rose by half." "Some people at the memorial on Sunday said German leaders had contributed to a sense of insecurity. They singled out the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has climbed in national polls with a platform that defines a family as a man and a woman with children. Others criticized Friedrich Merz, the chancellor, who defended a decision not to fly a Pride flag over the federal parliament building last year by saying Parliament was 'not a circus tent.'..." The New Reform Club notices the BBC’s Passive Voice, ‘A van drove into a crowd ....’ Gad Saad @GadSaad, "Ahmad attacks people at a Pride Parade because Islam. White liberal woman with aposematic hair coloring concludes white men are to blame. Suicidal Empathy is a fatal disease of the human spirit." Quote American AF @iAnonPatriot, "OMG. Liberal women are blaming “white men” for the Islamic extremist who ran over people at an LGBTQ parade in Berlin. “You’re not going to scapegoat the Muslim community like they’re the violent ones, when it’s actually you (white men).”" Ace sees another Maryland Man Goes on Stabbing Spree in Paris, Saying Allah Sent Him to Kill Women, "The police say that you should ignore his self-stated motive. It doesn't matter that he says Allah sent him to kill women. The man, you see, is "crazy."" "The suspect, Lebanese-heritage Abdul Ballut, 21, was shot and killed by police on Sunday after a 20-hour manhunt in the German capital." So, not really a Maryland Man, rather a "Maryland Man."

At the College Fix, Left-wing activist turns out to be professor. Insty at his NYPo gig notes Even the left is now flagging the gross bias at America’s universities. Beege Welborn notes In the Pantheon of Worthless Degrees to Waste Money on, This Is Up There "Arizona State launches degree on becoming an influencer — exactly the career more than half of Gen Z adults dream of." It helps to have big tits. Dave Strom calls the University of Minnesota: Taxpayer-Funded Groomers. VodkaPundit at Insty, WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…: End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "This is who's calling you an extremist on the internet."

From ZeroHedge, Activists Target WNBA Player After She Takes Stand Against Trans Agenda. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Smoke on the Water

A view from the beach on 7/17/26

It's Sunday, so the news is a bit sparse and somewhat off the wall. From Sundance at CTH, Canadian Prime Minister Blames U.S. Climate and Energy Policy for Canada Wildfires "President Trump pointed out Canada’s forestry mismanagement and their failure to follow through with previous promises of investment that have led to catastrophic wildfires now producing smoke streams making U.S. Northern cities and states live under dangerous conditions. Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about the U.S. government position, and he immediately hit back by saying the cause of Canada’s wildfires is ‘climate change’ and President Trump’s unwillingness to support the Paris Climate Treaty has created the problem that Canada is now dealing with." Tim Sheehy @TimSheehyMT, "As a former waterbomber pilot who used to lead an aerial firefighting fleet, I can tell you “send help” is an extremely dishonest framing by the Canadian government. The Canadian government routinely blocks U.S. firefighting companies from attacking fires in Canada, while aggressively sending their government-subsidized aircraft to the U.S. to earn commercial rates from the U.S. taxpayer. It’s big business for them and they run it like a Chinese protectionist racket." The smoke was thickest here on Friday. You could smell it easily. Last evening a thunderstorm and a cold front came and blew it away.

Misty Severi at JTN reports Democratic strategist James Carville blasts major news networks for not carrying Trump speech, "Mainstream media networks, ABC, CNN and NBC, all declined to show the speech on its news programs and opted to stream it online and show clips of it with commentary during their regular live programming." Nick Arama at RedState sees the White House Crushes CNN's New Claims About Its Failure to Cover Trump Speech. Amy Curtis at TownHall shows just how CBS News' 'Fact-Checks' of Trump's Address Ignore the Facts. PJM's Scott Pinsker explains The Secret Reason Why Fox News Is So Silent About Trump’s Election Fraud Speech. "The producer sent me a one-sentence reply: “I like it - but We don’t touch election fraud in any capacity.” Nothing else needed to be said. Unless you’re a total moron (or CNN’s “chief media analyst”), you could read between the lines: One of the longterm consequences of Fox News settling its lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million is that FNC programming will avoid discussing voter fraud." .... "UPDATE: Fox has just published a major story on Trump's speech and his revelations about election meddling: READ THE DOCUMENTS: White House releases election integrity files after Trump speech." The Reactionary Techno Fog looks at Michigan Voter Fraud and Chinese Influence Ops: Declassified. From Twitchy, Elissa Slotkin's 'Quiet Part Out Loud' Slip Makes the Rounds After She Says Election Fraud Doesn't Exist. Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@StephenM: "We've reached a point in society where access to fettuccine at Olive Garden is vastly more secure than deciding who is Commander-in-Chief of the country." PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!"

I&I finds By 3-To-2 Margin, Americans Believe U.S. Is Turning Into A ‘Socialist State’. New York Post @nypost, "DSA member says she has no problem supporting 'secret Nazis' under one condition https://trib.al/IwxwHrg" Handre @Handre, "The Nazi economy was socialism in a better-tailored uniform. Strip away the parades and you find exactly what Mises diagnosed in 1940 as Zwangswirtschaft: private ownership on paper, total state control in practice. You held the title to your factory. Göring's ministries told you what to produce, what to charge, whom to hire, and where your profits went. That is ownership the way a prisoner owns his cell..." From Breitbart, Polis: Socialism ‘a Tool to Further Exploit People’. TownHall's Matt Vespa likes how Kathy Hochul Got Grilled on Why Everyone Is Leaving NY. Pretty soon, you run out of other people's money, especially when the other people run out on you. 

At the Crimson Hub, Nirav Shah, In The Maine Senate Race, Says He's an 'Outsider,' And He Sure Is. At Althouse, "Many of these candidates claim to espouse progressive beliefs that are similar to Graham. The thing is, it was never about the bullet points..." ""... but rather the way he was willing to speak to any issue directly and honestly that made voters love and trust him." Said Spencer Toth, who was Graham Platner’s organizing director, quoted in "Without Platner, Maine Democrats Scramble to Keep Grassroots Energy Alive/Graham Platner’s campaign for Senate imploded last week. The activists who backed him are seeking a candidate to carry his populist message in the race against Republican Susan Collins" (NYT)." Platner was mostly about wearing flannel well and spouting socialist cant in a deep manly voice. 

Following the insaner side of US politics, Stacy McCain has Knife-Wielding Psycho-Tranny Is Former Arizona Democratic Party Official and Communism, the Palestinian Death Cult and the Pro-Terrorism Red-Green Axis. At News Wax, the intersection, Mamdani Still Mulling Netanyahu Arrest During UN Meet.

The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox, "RFK Jr. says HHS loses $100,000,000,000 a year to theft. He found some thieves would bribe poor people with flat screen TVs to get their patient numbers and enroll them in hospice. Then they would proceed to bill Medicaid "$6,000 a month FOREVER." RFK JR: "We shut down 800 hospices. You know what a hospice is? Where you're going to die. Typically, if you go to a hospice, you leave within 18 days because your dying is terminal." "We started looking at these hospices in Los Angeles, and the people never died. Two or three years later they were there, and we're paying $6,000 a month." "We found a hotel room with 29 hospices in it. I mean a hotel, every room was a hospice, and none of them had any patients. They were just addresses." "The guys who own them, they were Estonians and Armenians and people from Eastern Europe who were getting the patient numbers. They were stealing them from doctors' offices."..." At Da Caller, $225,000,000 In ‘Hideous’ Fraud Schemes Found Across US Schools, Report Alleges.

Ken Timmerman at Am Great explains The Trump Trap, "Trump's MOU set a trap. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fell into it." Joe Chalfant at TownHall claims Iran Just Killed the Memorandum of Understanding. At News Wax, Iran Suspending Commitments to Interim Deal With US. They just stopped pretending to abide. And, US-Iran Fighting Escalates With Infrastructure Targeted. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " JUST IN: Iran is REELING after President Trump ordered CENTCOM to begin targeting infrastructure targets, causing power outages and destruction of bridges "The war planners [are] bombing ROADS AND BRIDGES around Bandar Abbas!" The IRGC is getting CUT OFF from key supply lines to Bandar Abbas, key to Strait of Hormuz control The REAL bridge and power plant day is still coming up. Iran will be forced into compliance!" Bandar Abbas is a major key to control of the Strait of Hormuz. At Althouse, "In the days before the sentence was carried out, she had tried to keep living as if nothing was about to happen... She showered and wore thick felt-like clothes..." "From "I danced until 2am… then it was off to my flogging/An Iranian rapper and critic of regime was determined to show no suffering as a woman in a black chador put down her Quran and picked up her whip" (London Times)."

Clown World ™ @ClownWorld, "The Boston Globe’s headline: “She came to Boston for a Noah Kahan concert. Now she’s in ICE custody” The actual story: she missed a 2017 immigration court hearing, which triggered an outstanding removal order years ago The concert isn’t why she’s in custody. The removal order is." From NYPo, DHS issues scathing update on future of ‘maple leaf menace’ accused of slapping patriotic teen. "“This illegal alien who assaulted a teenager has no business being in our country,” DHS wrote in a statement on X, dubbing her a “maple leaf menace.” “She is now in [ICE] custody pending REMOVAL from our nation,” the agency’s statement concludes." Too easy. Drop her off in Nicaragua. At News Wax, DHS Warns TPS Holders to Take Exit Offer and Sen. Blackburn Revives Ban Birth Tourism Act. From NYPo, Trump administration weighs imposing $100K bonds on green card applicants. Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog says Fuck You, Tim Walz, for pardoning a child molester to protect him from deportation. Anyway it didn't work. Marco Rubio deported him anyway. Alex West Q @RealAlexWest_Q, " HOLY CRAP! Sec. Marco Rubio just got a MASSIVE standing ovation in Germany after he told Europe we need to move back toward Christianity and against 3rd world migration Marco is CRUSHING it and the whole world sees it! We LOVE MARCO."

NIOH Berg @NiohBerg, "Meet Andy Burnham, Britain's soon to be new PM. • Nobody voted for him • Nobody asked for him • He is haunted by allegations over his handling of the rape gangs • His main concern seems to be that Starmer wasn't enough of a tyrant • He will make everything worse • He will make Britain suffer even more." RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa, "In Europe there is a strange phenomenon where churches burn and mosques do not."

From Campus Reform, Brown taps hallucinogen researcher to lead 'merit' seminar "Brown University has selected anthropology and linguistics professor Paja Faudree, whose recent scholarship focuses on Indigenous use of hallucinogenic plants, to lead the 2026-27 Pembroke Seminar." At NewsWeek, US Universities Got Over $300M From Sanctioned China Entities. Gee, I wonder why China gives money to US schools; it's not altruism. 

NYPo claims New numbers reveal the child sex-change mania is worse than we knew "Recently released court documents show that Children’s Hospital Colorado, affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, prescribed puberty blockers to more than 250 patients and cross-sex hormones to nearly 550 patients in a single year, 2025."

Flotsam and Jetsam - Platner Signs Off

Erstwhile Democrat candidate for Susan Collin's Maine senate sea abruptly sent his resignation letter to Maine's Secretary of State yesterday, after having stated he would do so on Monday the 13th, the last possible day he could do it without being on the ballot, spurring rumors he might just "miss" the deadline to withdraw. Matt Margolis at PJM, Platner Drops Out. Althouse, "F*ck ICE. Free Palestine. Up the Hearts. Solidarity forever." "So writes Graham Platner, closing his letter formally withdrawing as a Senate candidate. He says he "seek[s] to further the movement we have built together." The movement is better without him. But why? There's nothing in his letter expressing penitence or regret for anything he's done. "Up the Hearts" — which struck me as a possible euphemism for an obscenity — is a rallying cry for the Portland Maine soccer team, the Hearts of Pine. He stomps off — "F*ck ICE. Free Palestine. Up the Hearts. Solidarity forever." And "Cory Upton-Cosulich sat in a parked car by a hiking trail in Maine this week, fuming over the implosion of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign." "Her anger wasn’t directed at him. It was aimed at the powerful people far away from her working-class harbor town who, one after the next, had rescinded their endorsements of a candidate she supported in the Democratic primary last month. The feeling was familiar — watching people in Washington decide who should represent her. She said she believed the woman who had accused Mr. Platner.... She decided to support him anyway ... From "Why Some Women in Maine Are Mourning the End of Graham Platner’s Campaign/They believe the accuser, but they also grieve the demise of a campaign that promised that politics could be different — and they blame those who failed to find a less flawed candidate" Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson, "Hahaha @nytimes doubles down." At PJM Stephen Kruiser says QUELLE SURPRISE! New York Times Blames Platner on — You Guessed It — President Trump and Vicky Taft, Hold On — Was There a Dirty Quid Quo Bro for Graham Platner? Did Democrats threaten to prosecute the rape if he didn't withdraw ASAP? He might tell us after a couple of drinks. Salem News Channel @WatchSalemNews, ""They called him and said, 'Hey, you could be facing charges...' And all of a sudden, we get a reversal." Jon Fetherston drops a massive investigative bombshell on the Scott @JenningsShow regarding why Maine progressive candidate Graham Platner suddenly aborted his Senate campaign." Chris @Chris_1791, "CBS News anchor tells viewers Democrats dropped Platner because he was looking 'like a loser.'" Campus Reform asks, Did employees at your university donate to Graham Platner? Check out our map. "Campaign finance records reviewed by Campus Reform show that donors listing colleges, universities, and higher-education affiliates as their employers made political contributions to Democrat Graham Platner’s campaign. Donations totaled over $100,000 and came from over 100 different institutions."

I do have a little sympathy for poor Platner. The black-sheep son of a wealthy family, he suffered through boarding school, enlisted in the military, and didn't enjoy the strictures of military life and got a stupid tattoo, while drunk. After returning he got a disability based on possibly made-up PTSD, developed a drinking problem, and got into odd jobs, while largely still sponging off mom and dad. He's only rapey when he's blind drunk, and he claims to be reformed. His politics drifted off to the envy driven left, and based on some wild, likely drunken Reddit posts, he was lifted from obscurity by some Democratic Socialist activists who managed to elevate him to the lead Democrat candidate for the Senate seat. However, when his poll numbers began to flag below Collins' the Democrats revealed the dirt they had on him all along, in a desperate bid to find someone else to carry the day. He was never really in charge.

Note they skipped Little Italy

At Da Signal, The Great Victor Davis Hanson: Mamdani Is the Real Racist Polluting This Country. CJ reports A Top Mamdani Official Tried to Meet with Iran, "Ana Maria Archila, Commissioner for International Affairs, almost took a meeting with the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to the U.N."

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "WOAH, My jaw literally dropped listening to this The Los Angeles Police Department came and tried to clean up Skid Row and in a response a nonprofit working with Mayor Karen Bass SUED THEM and stopped police from EVEN BEING ALLOWED TO ENTER “LA CAN, which is another organization (an NGO), they get very, very upset and they sue the LAPD when they come and do street cleaning down here. And they're basically saying that their encampments are their Private property. Police can't enter, and they sued the police more than any other organization” Translation: They are suing to keep the homeless population right where they are so the NGO homeless money laundering industrial complex keeps running This same NGO has also launched protests to stop Skid Row from being cleaned up Pure insanity. It’s criminal."

From WCVB, Sen. Markey pledges final term following debate with Rep. Moulton in western Massachusetts.

At Space.com, 'Reckless' space-based data centers lack environmental review, drawing criticism. "Allowing a million orbiting data centers with no environmental review isn’t just irresponsible — it’s reckless," Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees Unalterably Opposed to Elon Musk for Environmental Responsibility, said in a statement on Wednesday (July 8).

Sundance at CTH reports President Trump Will Not Sign Section 8 Expanding Housing Bill – Auto Effect Midnight Tonight. "I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, which is polling at 97% with the Republican Party, and very high with the non-politician Dumocrats." But he did not veto it, so it goes into effect without his signiture. Jeff Crouere at Am Spec examines The GOP’s Self-Inflicted Midterm Crisis, "With narrow majorities and little to show beyond one major bill, congressional Republicans risk demoralizing their own voters — and handing Congress back to Democrats."

Don Surber sees the Globalists pit NATO against Trump. "The last thing they want is nationalism—except in North Korea, Red China and Iran." Insty says WHAT WUSSES: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented engraved revolvers – with bullets – to his guests in Ankara, causing security concerns. “The question asked over and over again: why such a gift? While it is very common for heads of state to exchange various gifts during meetings or summits, such exchanges rarely require these kinds of precautions.” Plus: “An unnamed NATO official told Agence France-Presse the gift triggered “insane” responses behind the scenes from some of the delegations’ security teams.” Gifts of firearms were a traditional thing between leaders until the feminization of the West. You can bet Teddy Roosevelt wouldn’t have panicked. Or LBJ. Or even GWB." Shooting News Week, NATO Leaders Flummoxed by Turkish Python Clone Revolvers Given to Them After Ankara Summit.

1945 insists Taiwan Can Be Defended Against China. The Price Is the Real Problem. "Cheap drones can make a Chinese assault on Taiwan bloodier and a quick victory less likely — but they don’t repeal geography or remove the risk of escalation. CSIS wargames suggest the U.S. and its allies could defeat an invasion while losing dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft, and thousands of troops."

The NYPo ed board worries The rule of law can’t survive if judges like Hannah Dugan can obstruct justice. "Adelman said Dugan was “an otherwise good person” who “made a bad decision in the moment” because she was “upset by immigrant enforcement.” Sorry: Good people who do bad things deserve serious punishment, especially judges who put their private views above their oaths of impartiality to frustrate completely legitimate law enforcement." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears Rubio and DHS Deported Child Molester Walz Tried to Keep In US, via pardon. 

Cernovich @Cernovich, "Anthropic is giving left wing NGO’s free access to its tools to target conservatives and MAGA. This company is completely out of control and is now waging war against every Trump voter." 

At NYPo, Michael Goodwin: America 250 showed the pride and joy this country has to offer. RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa, "Another white Christian preacher has been arrested by British police because his prayers caused anxiety to some people. This happens in Islamic caliphates."

The College Fix has a Report that Only 1 in 10 Ivy League trustees is Republican, Yale has none. I'm shocked, shocked. 

Gateway Pundit hears a REPORT: So Many Transgender People Are Moving to Socialist-Run Seattle That it’s Overwhelming the City’s Nonprofits. Bummer, dude. Althouse finds "Any sport where the man is wearing panties is not a sport." "Said Riley Gaines's father, when college recruiters were interested in Riley both for both swimming and for softball. Quoted in "Riley Gaines: If JK Rowling agrees with me, I’m doing the right thing/America’s most famous opponent of transgender athletes in women’s sports is celebrating a Supreme Court win. She is ‘vindicated’ — and emboldened by her British husband" (London Times)." Who is also a swimmer, and therefore "wears panties."

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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.