Flotsam and Jetsam - From Gamers to Air Traffic Controllers

 A dog day in summer, not all that much of significance happening. From Althouse, "If you can merge gaming with aviation, why not?". Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle, " 2,000+ Gamers Hired for AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL @SecDuffy : “They multitask. They have to think on their feet. They work with their hands and their eyes, and they’re making great controllers… We had 14,000 applicants, 8,000 qualified. We were getting the best and the brightest.”" Sundance at CTH contributes Trade Court Rules U.S. President Can Set De Minimis Rules/Rates and Foreign Nations Cannot Interfere, Canadian Trade Officials Threaten to Leave USMCA Trade Talks if Trump Triggers 50 Percent Tariffs and The Southern Murkowski Wins SC Primary – Heads into Runoff Against Ralph Norman. I've nothing bad about Darlene Graham, but I'm generally against nepotism. If she was a good politician, she'd already be one. Peter Navarro to Newsmax: China Dodging US Tariffs. If they can, they will. Another from Althouse, "The right-wing De la Espriella, who was inaugurated last week, pledged during his campaign to bring the 'wrath of God' against drug traffickers and other armed groups to 'end them like cockroaches, like rats.'" "From "Colombia’s new president asks Trump to bring militarized antidrug campaign to the country/The South American nation is the world’s largest producer of cocaine" (WaPo)." Yeah, but you have to put in the effort, too. A day late, Ace notices Karoline Leavitt Will Leave Her Job as WH Spokeswoman at the End of the Month, "She says she wants to mother her new baby, and for once I believe the "spend more time with my family" line." TownHall's Kurt Schlichter opines The Doomers Can’t Deny Trump’s Big Wins "don’t spaz out like a teenage girl whose parents just read her diary about what President Donald Trump has accomplished so far." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair hears Trump Backing Another Fracking Attack in California. Make them contribute to the national energy supply. At RCE, Trump Is Right to Make Defense Contractors More Accountable.

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Good on Trump for Being 'Stubborn' With Iran, Says ... Joe Scarborough? "Get ready for an avalanche of hate directed at Joe Scarborough for his sensible take this morning on the predicament Trump faces with Iran." From News Wax, Bessent to Newsmax: US to Hit Iran With Unprecedented Economic Isolation and Vance: Low Oil Prices Are Top US Goal in Iran Conflict. I thought it was no nukes. 

Capt. Ed parodies Pollsters in WI, MI: It Wasn't Us – It Was the One-Armed Voter! "So what actually happened? Axios attempts to pass along a series of excuses in a "here's why" piece, but it reads more like a litany of blame-shifting for an industry that has consistently failed to predict outcomes. Or even come close, for that matter." Dave Strom at Hat Hair thinks that This Isn't Suspicious: MI SOS Requires Deletion of Election Records One Week After Certification, despite a federal law require votes in a federal election to be held 22 months. Kevin Kijewski @KevinKijewski, "PICK A CRIME: That's the choice Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson handed my client, a township clerk. A new state rule Benson made orders my client to DELETE the electronic poll book records of the August 4 primary within 7 days of certification. What’s the problem? Federal law orders her to KEEP those same records for 22 months, into 2028. Delete them? Face up to 1 year of imprisonment under federal law. Refuse? Up to 90 days imprisonment under Michigan law. Every path carries a penalty aimed at my client personally. For trying to follow the law..."

John Sexton sees Mamdani's Rent Freeze Is Going As Well As Expected. Scott Pinsker at PJM opens The Gentleman’s Guide to Destroying the DSA, Humiliating El-Sayed, and Saving America! "But now that we know El-Sayed can’t resist taking the bait and flushing his happy-happy-joy-joy image down the toilet when the alternative is appearing weak or “different,” the GOP ought to make a beeline in that direction. That’s our PR sweet spot — and Abdul El-Sayed’s biggest vulnerability." Dave Strom, Oh, Joy! 'Diverse' Somali Child Care Owner Wins Democrat Primary for State House Seat in Rural MN. At least the sign was spelled right. Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "The most dangerous thing Republicans can do is underestimate candidates like AOC in 2028. We need to focus on addressing the issues that are attracting voters to them instead of dismissing their concerns. Time to get serious." Quote Polymarket @Polymarket, "BREAKING: AOC overtakes Marco Rubio in the 2028 presidential odds for the first time this year, moving into second place. 13% chance AOC wins the White House." James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames, "I once again see socialism being caused by the perception of downward mobility among privileged children of relatively wealthy people."

From Breitbart, Democrat CA Gov. Nominee Xavier Becerra Blinks, Calls for Paramount-Warner Settlement, as Paramount threatens to leave the state. Beege Welborn thinks she detects Some of the Bloom Coming Off That Faded Becerra Rose. "Becerra now has the support of 55% of likely voters, down from 61% in last month, according to a Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies/Los Angeles Times poll. Hilton, meanwhile, has edged up one point, from 36% to 37%, shrinking Becerra’s once-commanding 25-point lead to 18 points." I'd like to believe California can better itself, but it's hard. Justine Bateman @JustineBateman, "LOL. Your comparison between these two cities is very significant. Detroit's main industry of automotive production was destroyed and left the town hollowed out. The same thing is happening with Los Angeles. The entertainment business has been steadily drained from this place for at least a decade. LA will soon be hollowed out just like Detroit. It is becoming just sprawling city with no central industry at all." Quote Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom, "Detroit and Los Angeles have a lot in common — cities defined by resilience, reinvention, and generations of Black and Brown leadership. And both have been targeted by Donald Trump because of it. Grateful to sit down with Black leaders to talk about building economic power..."

VodkaPundit at Insty, NOT FLORIDA WOMAN: "Tacoma Democrat arrested in five-car DUI crash one week after winning House primary. “Though she was recognized as a House candidate, a source tells The Jason Rantz Show that she did not seek any special treatment, nor did she identify herself as a candidate.” That’s actually refreshing."

Capt. Ed explains The NGO Racket: How Durban 2001 Led to 'Rape Dogs', SPLC Corruption, and More

Kamala Harris Issues Dire Warning That SAVE America Act Could Result In America Being Saved https://t.co/dyXgRavq4g

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 13, 2026

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "It might be too late already. The dynamics of demographics and basic givingAF are such, western civilization may already have hit the tipping point. To be determined. Spain was occupied for 800 years, drove them out. The Balkans were occupied for 500 years. But were left with a wretched legacy of divided populations. ..." Quote Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan, "I had to write this because too few Americans understand the stages by which Islamists pursue power and where America may be today. We should learn to recognize the pattern before it is too late.…" David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein, "Commie anti-Israel fanatic Owen Jones: "I support a one-state solution with Arab majority rule after a right of return is exercised. Don't worry, the Jews will be fine." His X audience, as in the tweet below: "How dare you as a Westerner tell Palestinians that they can't murder and expel the Jews!", Quote Ashish Prashar @Ash_Prashar, "People in the west cannot be allowed to set the terms of liberation. No one should dare ask the occupied who are victims of a genocide to live side by side with the very terrorists committing those crimes. Colonizers do not belong on that land whether they are British or Israeli." Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "A New York town is facing a federal lawsuit after officials refused to allow a Christian Nativity display in a public square while permitting Islamic religious displays..."

Stacy McCain enjoys his schadenfreude as The Feds Put the Cuffs on Heidi "Grudge, you say? Why would I have a grudge against Heidi Beirich, who did so much to make me famous as a “neo-Confederate white supremacist”? Probably the SPLC has removed her bylines from the various articles she wrote about me, decades ago, when her transparent purpose was to get me fired from The Washington Times." Sundance, SPLC Chief Financial Officer Arrested for Paying Hate Groups and Nazis – Wire Fraud, Conspiracy, False Statements. TheFOO @PolitiBunny, "America wasn't a racist country. Americans as a whole aren't racist. So SPLC tried to make it happen so they had a reason to take people's money. Evil." Quote Twitchy Team @TwitchyTeam, "What an absolutely horrific woman. Gets WORSE: Techno Fog Shares Most DAMNING Receipts yet of Former SPLC CFO's Neo-Nazi Relationship." Ace, Grossly Ugly SPLC AWFL Who Funneled Money to Her KKK Boyfriend So He Would Give Her a Pity Nazi-Bang Arrested for Money Laundering, "Sad!"

PJM's Matt Margolis thinks The Russiagate Hoax Looks Even Worse After These FBI Revelations "The White House Government Transparency Task Force released a trove of intelligence community records on Wednesday, including a recovered FBI spreadsheet. It cataloged more than six dozen prominent Americans, foreigners, and organizations tied to the Biden-Ukraine scandal and Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment. Democrats, including the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and George Soros, were labeled "targets" of Russian disinformation. Conservatives investigating the Bidens, including Fox News, One America News, Michael Caputo, and Rudy Giuliani, were branded "conduits" spreading it. It gets worse. The FBI also tagged Trump's own Cabinet officials, Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo, along with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), as disinformation "conduits." For what? Investigating whether the Biden corruption allegations were true. The FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force signed off on every single assessment."

Kyle Becker at RedState says Boom: Judges Give Americans a Pair of Election Integrity Wins "Judge Andrew Oldham, writing for a unanimous panel, concluded that the challengers lacked standing to attack Texas's mail-ballot ID requirements because they failed to demonstrate that their members faced a substantial risk of future harm." Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket, "BREAKING: In a loss for voters, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld a state law requiring absentee ballots to include a witness signature. As a result, absentee voters must continue to: mark the ballot in the presence of a witness and sign a certificate stating all voter eligibility requirements are met."

At Althouse, "The Ivy League graduate had briefly planned to pursue an ‘extreme emotional disturbance’ defence after pleading not guilty to murder of healthcare boss.", "I'm reading "Luigi Mangione expected to discuss 'plea deal on Friday'" in the London Times. You can tell the publication is British and not just by the spelling of "defence." It's the forefronting of "Ivy League graduate" rather than his being considered especially cute, which is what counts in America." Ace hears The Left's Dreamboat Assassin Luigi Mangione Close to Pleading Guilty In Execution of United Healthcare CEO and Father Brian Thompson "These are federal charges, so they plea deal is being negotiated by "Trump's" DOJ. But we all know about the Southern District of NY, where Comey's foul daughter worked. If this is a sweetheart deal -- if it's anything less than life in prison without parole -- then every single corporation should immediately evacuate New York City, as this communist shithole has been determined to be a place where a jury won't convict a leftwing killer. And if Trump doesn't like the deal, he should overrule "his" lawyers and yank it off the table. I fear that's exactly the plan."

Sundance approves that DOJ Announces Charges Against 11 Defendants in Chinese “Fake Marriage” Fraud Scheme. Beege Welborn is irate, Hola, Yanquis! 37 Illegal Years in US, Speaks Nary a Word of English, and Demanding Citizenship. Breitbart News @BreitbartNews, "Margarita Cielo Balbuena, a woman who has been in the U.S. since 1989 and cannot speak a WORD of English, demands amnesty at a Democrat presser about Delaney Hall: "We need a path to citizenship for those of us that have been present at least 7 years in this country."" Mike Bales @MikeBales, "If white South Africans still don’t “belong” in South Africa after four centuries, explain how a Somali who arrived in Minnesota last month is already American." Littlekelley @Little1kelley, "The white South Africans don’t (as far as we know) vote for the Democratic Party."

Dave Strom hears Pedro Sánchez Wants People to Think Ceuta Is Over; It's Worse Than Before.

Dave Strom sees The Lynchings That Aren't. Sean Davis @seanmdav, "Her black boyfriend was arrested. You don’t hate CNN enough." Quote The Lead CNN @TheLeadCNN, "Police investigating after a Black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi."

Timur Kuran @timurkuran, "Universities across the Anglosphere are stocked with Jason Ardays. None match his colorful résumé, yet the faculty and administrators who hired them under DEI rules have faced zero accountability. Cambridge is just the latest chapter in the same story." Quote Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien, "Still no one in Cambridge has resigned - and there has been no accountability for this misuse of taxpayers' money." Ward Churchill just died.

Capt. Ed, Woke Will Eat Itself, Chapter MCLXII: WNBA Meets to Discover Definition of 'Woman', And ... can't. 

At Althouse, "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released a report Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine'..." "... a commissioned report examining insurance coding practices, perverse financial incentives, and the provision of sex-rejecting procedures for minors. Drawing on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Guidance, Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations, peer-reviewed scientific literature, hospital records, whistleblower testimony, nationwide insurance claims analyses, and interviews with patients and parents, the report presents HHS’ findings and recommendations about the industry pushing and profiting off so-called “gender medicine.” A shortform documentary illustrating the report’s findings and highlighting the stories of victims of predatory gender medical practices was also released in conjunction with the report...." Wesley Yang @wesyang, "The chances are quite high that virtually every gender clinic and doctor in America already has a long backlog of criminal acts that will be trivially easy to discover — and that now will be found and prosecuted." Quote Eithan Haim MD @EithanDHaimMD, "The critical detail to understand about the HHS Report, especially the section on healthcare fraud, is that the "signals" are remarkably easy to identify. The list of fraudulent diagnoses are widely advertised by gender activists, easily detectable through publicly available."

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Another Rough Start up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - The Wisconsin Autopsy Continues

We're still digesting the results of Tuesday's primaries. Teri Christoph at RedState hears Voter Data Was Missing From 5 Milwaukee USB Sticks — Then WI's Election Night Got Even Weirder. So, were the polls wrong, and Hong wasn't as popular as believed, or did the DNC-E step in and rig the results? Kurt Schlichter at TownHall VIP says Ignore the Poll Dancers. Ben Shapiro @benshapiro, "We're watching an enormous misread of the results from Wisconsin. The dumb take is that the DSA has reached its ceiling, and the establishment is fighting back. That's totally wrong. The normie Dems are simply negotiating the terms of their surrender. Those terms are obvious: the Democratic Party will ingest and mirror the key precepts of the DSA, and they won't go whole hog against DSA candidates who don't totally say the quiet part out loud. This is why Slotkin didn't endorse Stevens against El-Sayed in Michigan. It's why Schumer and Jeffries didn't endorse Cuomo against Mamdani in NYC. In return, the DSA's most important figures will refrain from endorsing the very worst candidates. This is why Bernie and AOC didn't endorse Hong. If they had, she would have won. The goal of the pact is obvious: candidates who are DSA in all but name, who receive unified Democratic support after the primaries, and who still have a shot at winning a general election. So don't be fooled: the DSA is driving the car, choosing the direction. The normie Dems are just negotiating over the speed." PJM's Rick Moran on Why the Wisconsin Governors' Race Will Define the Midterms for Republicans. Buck Sexton @BuckSexton, "You can get away with saying lots of crazy things in America today, but "let's cancel Thanksgiving" isn't one of them." Quote The Wall Street Journal @WSJ, "David Crowley narrowly won the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor, delivering a significant blow to the insurgent far-left in a nail-biter race." Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "This keeps happening in places with fiercely contested Democrat primaries because you have two lavishly funded ballot harvesting machines battling each other. We can all see this. We know what’s happening here. And we’re doing nothing about it." Quote Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT @Peoples_Pundit, "Wisconsin Democrats are CRUSHING Republicans in turnout." MD Kittle at Da Fed reports the Notorious Wisconsin Election Official At Center Of Zuckbucks Scandal Resigns. Hmmm. 

At PJM, VodkaPundit looks at Mamdani and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week (and It’s Only Wednesday). From NYPo, Manhattan rents reach all-time high of $6,655/month amid Mamdani’s rent freeze and pied-a-terre tax threat. Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon, "Who could have predicted that stupid ideas cooked up by rich squatting nepo babies would backfire and hurt struggling working class New Yorkers."

The Patriarch Tree @PatriarchTree, "The Party of College Educated White Folks Craving Swarthy Foreign Guys — it’s not really about health care policy or “affordability” or whatever. @TheDemocrats are now a BDSM cult organized around some kind of weird masochistic Mandingo fetish." Quote Kyle Smith @rkylesmith, "Don't underestimate the value of looks. El-Sayed won in part because he's good-looking. Mamdani won in large part because he's cute. if Francesca Hong looked as good as AOC she would have won. Easily." Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "Hasan Piker: “I don't give a f*** what Black people care about.” “Let's go back to a better time, when lynchings were happening.”" Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "This is how all DSA people speak in private. Every single one. Communists want to destroy your entire way of life, and they will lie to you and pretend like they're not violent psychopaths. Don't let socialists anywhere near power." At TownHall Matt Vespa notes Not Even Joe Scarborough Could Believe What the DSA Co-Chair Said About Hamas and October 7. At Insty, VodkaPundit adds MAYBE A FEW YEARS HARD LABOR: "No Repentance = No Grace For Woke Bullshit. “There was no ‘Woke 1.0,’ just a continuous racialist, anti-Western Civilization, anti-rational, anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, anti-Republican movement whose roots stretch back into the Comintern, Gramsci and the Frankfurt School, carried forward into the Port Huron Statement, the Weather Underground, the campus radicals of the 1960s and their long march through academia and other western institutions... PJM's Vicky Taft hears The Left Is Coming for Your County Sheriff.

From Ace, The FBI and "Intelligence" Agencies Had Intel From 14 Different Sources About the Biden Family's Corruption. Wray Covered It Up and Claimed It Was All "Disinformation" "Christopher Wray was recommended to Trump by Super-Republican Chris Christie. So you know he's a straight shooter." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair has a fainting spell at Pelosi: Biden Declining? Someone Shoulda Said Something! From Tierney's Real News, Laundering Our Tax Dollars. Matt Vespa again, The Initiative That This Top House Republican Said 'There's No Excuse for Delay', fraud. Democrats don't see it as fraud, they see it as constituent services.

From Fortune, Google cofounder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses.

Sarah Anderson at PJM has the sads as Karoline Leavitt Resigns as White House Press Secretary, to be with her family. No, really! From Da Signal, Trump Confirms Karoline Leavitt’s White House Departure. It's too bad, I really enjoyed her "no quarters" attitude with the White House press corpse. 

Nick Arama at RedState enjoys how Marco Rubio's Hilarious Interaction With His Wife Prompts RFK Jr. to Cap It Off With Perfect Reply. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn is Totally Into the Way the Trump Cabinet Dogs Each Other, Even Over Cats MORE. Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson, "This is hysterical. Marco disses RFK for his diet. He’s a Pop- Tart guy. I love this Cabinet! @katiemillerpod RUBIO: “No! This is a CRAZY diet. This is a diet that consists of eating sauerkraut and meat. Now you understand like this is not a sustainable thing. He has to travel with coolers of sauerkraut!” “I'm not going to travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut. It's ridiculous. I can't do it!” Q: Are you MAHA? RUBIO: “I'm in favor of MAHA. Like I think people should be healthy.” JEANETTE: No, he's not. Q: What's he eat? JEANETTE: Pop-Tarts! RUBIO: The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world.”

From Breitbart Bus Dig, The Vibecession Comes for MAGA, "The American right’s views of the U.S. economy deteriorated significantly over the past month." Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "There are two really amazing facts about today's CPI report. 1. Blue (Democrat) metros have MUCH higher inflation than Red (Republican) metros. 2. Prescription drug prices have fallen for 7 months -- longest such decline since 1947. Did you hear that? Media ignored it. (1/3)."

John Sexton reports Ukraine Carries Out Major Strike on Russian Grain Terminal.

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "Cenk Uygur: “Everybody knows it’s just Israel falsifying documents to make it look like Iran is trying to kill Trump.” Amir Hajizadeh, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Aerospace Forces: “We aim to kill Trump.”"

Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal,  Former SPLC CFO Arrested, AG Blanche Confirms "The SPLC faces federal charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering related to its alleged payments to members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other groups. While the center claims it was paying informants in order to combat extremism, the Justice Department claims it was propping up the extremism that it claims it exists to oppose. The Justice Department also claims the SPLC opened bank accounts for fictitious entities to funnel cash to the extremists."

At NYPo, the Divine Ms. Devine sees The walls — and evidence — are slowly building around Dr. Anthony Fauci. From the Right Time's Kathy Gyngell, Anthony Fauci: What He Knew, When He Knew It - His AIDS Fearmongering All Over Again, "Fauci's diaries confirm the warnings his critics were demonised and cancelled for raising. But Covid was not the first time this dangerously arrogant doctor had used scaremongering tactics to raise huge amounts of money to fund questionable vaccines."

Shipwreckedcrew lawsplains The Lawfare Over New Postal Rules For Mail-In Ballots Is More Complicated That Most Understand -- You Need A Scorecard To Keep Up. "There are three other cases with District Judges trying to block the Administration but one has gone to the D.C. Circuit where the Administration received a favorable decision." CIS  reports Trump Issues Two New ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Orders, "... inviting challenges the White House will likely relish. Cry ‘Havoc’ and let slip the dogs of law."

At Althouse, "ICE is planning to buy up to $20 million worth of electric gloves designed to allow agents to deliver painful shocks to detainees." "I'm reading "ICE’s new weapon: painful electric shock gloves/The glove is manufactured by a firm called Compliant Technologies" (London Times). The Glove — Generated Low-Output Voltage Emitter — "is not effective through clothing or hair and can be degraded on individuals and animals that are extremely hairy." So what body parts do you grab with your electrified hands? I was able to find what I think is Compliant's manual. My search for "face" only turned up a couple instance of "surface": "Periodic cleaning of the outside surface area of the G.L.O.V.E. SHALL only be done with 'My-Shield' wipes or surface cleaner in order to maintain the warranty on the G.L.O.V.E.""

Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm, "The Jason Arday case 'is an aberration' says Cambridge. Actually it is just the most visible manifestation of a diversity-industrial complex. My @HeterodoxCentre report into UKRI grant funding shows that DEI keywords are up 24 times since 2000 and have doubled since 2020." Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63, "Does anyone believe they don't think they are getting something for their money? Direct interference and propaganda investment are one thing, but this is the longer influence game." Quote Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "Qatar has become the largest overall donor of U.S. colleges and universities since 1986, with $6.3 billion as of late 2025. Over $2 billion of it flowed from Qatar to the U.S. between 2021 and 2024 alone." Hat Hair's John Sexton hears a Northern Virginia High School Has a Major Antisemitism Problem, Yorktown High. "One male Jewish student reported being repeatedly targeted because he wore a kippah, which a female classmate tried to pull off his head. After a male student called him an antisemitic slur, he began covering his kippah with a baseball cap. A female Jewish student said that she was chased because she was Jewish, and other Jewish students described seeing Nazi salutes, hearing Holocaust jokes, and being told that they belonged in a gas chamber or that “Hitler should have finished the job.” 

Amy Curtis hears Sophie Cunningham Has a New Unexpected Ally Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie, "Strange this whole broigus should happen in professional basketball, where 99.9% of the world are, effectively, ‘women’. Per Pablo Torre of Sports Illustrated, if you’re an American man between 20 and 40 years of age and 7 feet tall or more, there’s a 17% chance you’re already in the NBA."

And more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.12.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 08.12.26 (Evening Edition). The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Another Rough Start up on time and under budget 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.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Iran 'Kinetic Action' Reheating

For lack of anything else new and exciting, the revived Iran conflict gets top billing. Ace, After Iran Downs Apache Helicopter, Trump Threatens New Round of Airstrikes "Is he serious this time or is it more, you know, twitter bullshit?" At Althouse, "If we need to negotiate with bombs, we’ll negotiate with bombs. And we’re very good at it. Nobody better in the world." "Said Pete Hegseth, quoted in "Iran War Live Updates: U.S. Will Strike Iran Again Tonight, Hegseth Says/The secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, said a new American attack would be launched on Wednesday night. Earlier, President Trump said more attacks were coming, a day after he predicted peace" (NYT)." And Trump posts a "West Wing" clip decrying the notion of a "proportional response." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears Trump say to Iran: Bridge and Power Day May Be Back, Baby; UPDATE: On Like Donkey Kong? Airstrikes starting against radar and other air defense type sites, like they're getting ready for a big air operation. From the Scuttlebutt, Pardon, Your Bias is Showing. How the media always stops the chain of causation on the US, particularly if they can blame Trump.

Sundance at CTH reports President Trump Signs the Secure America Act. Ace, Trump Signs Bill to Fund DHS and ICE Throughout the Rest of His Term, "The 80-day long (IIRC) Democrat shutdown resulted in chaos and disruption but ultimately failed. They're the party of chaos and disruption, riots and "teen takeovers," subway knife attacks and women having their throats slashed open by infinitely-indulged homeless maniacs." Sundance also notes President Trump Delivers Shocking Response to Question About USMCA Renewal "President Donald Trump responded to a question about the current status of the USMCA trade agreement, or what Canada calls CUSMA. Watch and listen to how President Trump points out that he has no intention of renewing the USMCA." unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "Like Tillis, this idiot admits he lied to voters for the last 10 years." Quote The Calvin Coolidge Project @TheCalvinCooli1, "New: Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn tells CNN’s Manu Raju that he has much more freedom to go against President Trump now: “Are you kidding? Of course. Absolutely. My liberation day: May 26.”" At Insty, NANCY MACE IS OUT, ENDORSES OPPONENT FOR S.C. GOVERNOR. "“Buried the hatchet.” She started out promising but has been kind of erratic." Hat Hair's Beege Welborn says it Looks Like Daffy Kathy Done Broke 'the Deal' on a pipeline she had agreed to as part of the price for an ocean wind farm. Starve NY of power. See if I care. WaEx introduces The man leading Trump’s nuclear renaissance.

Hat Hair's Capt. Ed Gulps: Consumer Price Index Inflation Soars to 4.2%, Core to 2.9%. At CNBC, Social Security retirement trust fund may be depleted in 2032, new trustees report finds.

Twitchy laughs at the notion that Americans Will Be So Triggered When the Whole Planet Cheers Every Goal Against Them at the World Cup. Elijah the Middleborne @TheMiddleborne, "My brother in Christ, Americans barely know we even have a team." RedStates Jen O'Connell finds a group of Europeans who Fall in Love With America While Touring the Country; Americans Need to Take Lessons. "Thank goodness a German X user named Freddy, and several other European visitors touring the U.S. ahead of the World Cup events, are paying no attention to the Debbie Downers at NPR and on the left." Right over Left Everytime @RightSide_Uk, "Elon Musk just exposed the EU’s biggest lie. Ursula von der Leyen was lecturing about “democracy” when Musk hit her with the truth: “If democracy is the foundation of freedom, surely your position as leader of the EU should be elected directly by the people?” The EU is run by unelected bureaucrats who impose mass migration, net zero madness and speech controls on 450 million people — with zero accountability. This isn’t democracy. It’s a dictatorship in slow motion. The people are waking up. The EU’s days are numbered."

TownHall's Scott McLallen hears a Democrat Calls Republicans Fascists, Wishes He Could 'Run Over' Trump at Congressional Baseball Game. At Althouse a Great catch, by U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt. Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt, "Left it all on the field. Republicans win 11-2 Honored to be named MVP."

Hat Hair's John Sexton notices Politico's Senior Political Columnist is Clueless. Jonathan Martin @jmart, "The most interesting part about this is not the actual rehab, which is fine and in some cases needed, it’s the impulse to be for whatever Trump is for. His passion is renovation and buildings and grounds? OK that’s what we’re into, also" Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest, "It’s undeniable: President Trump improved the Reflecting Pool ahead of America’s 250th by light-years. Anyone who denies that fact has an incurable case of TDS." "So the story here is not that people adopt whatever Trump likes. The story is that the media automatically attacks whatever he does. But Martin can't see it." At Althouse, Can we not all love the new pool? Howard Lutnick @howardlutnick, "I stopped by the new Reflecting Pool. It is simply glorious. There were a thousand people, everywhere, taking pictures and just enjoying its beauty. Thank you President Trump for restoring our city’s national treasure." No, we must hate it, because Trump!

Much hay is still being made over Nazi adjacent, woman beating communist Graham Platner's run for the Maine Senate seat currently occupied by RINO Susan Collins. Capt. Ed hears DSCC Chair Gillibrand: Oysterführer Uber Alles, or Tomorrow Belongs to Dems and Free Press: Dem Response to Platner Astonishing After #MeToo Posturing. Jonathan Turley notes On the Kavanaugh Anniversary, Democratic Leaders Swap Me Too for Maine. Batya Ungar-Sargon claims The Democrats Have Officially Ceded the Moral High Ground "In electing Graham Platner, they have chosen winning over being the party of "Believe All Women" and "Fight Fascism."" At Twitchy, The View's Sunny Hostin Declares Days of Dems Taking the Moral High Ground OVER. PJM's Rick Moran has a Poll: Democrats Willing to Throw Black Voters Under the Bus to Gain Power. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "Consider the possibility that the DNC saw Graham Platner’s Nazi affiliation to be a PLUS. Maine is a swing state and Collins is practically a Democrat. They can’t run to the left of Collins, not really. So maybe they want to run to the RIGHT of Collins, and since these idiots ACTUALLY BELIEVE we are all actual Nazis, maybe they saw Platner as the ideal candidate. Because they are stupidly brainwashed. Just a theory…" Nick Arama at RedState thinks Platner's Reply When Asked If More Might Be Coming Should Worry Dems. At Fox, Platner’s ‘living on the sea’ claim dismantled by critics as financial docs paint a different picture. "Platner's disclosures show he earned little from oyster farming and harbor duties versus $4,800 monthly in disability." Twitchy, 'Scum Attracts Scum': Data Republican Delivers a Truth Bomb Ratio to Graham Platner. DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "Hello Mr. Platner, Ratio. That's it. That's the whole rebuttal. You are someone who, by the virtue of his Reddit posts, manages to be simultaneously a filthy-literal-Communist and anti-Semite. That in itself is an egregious sin, because literal, card-carrying Communists are fundamentally at odds with America's norms. But if that weren't enough, you have voluminous Reddit posts defending the Nazi Totenkopf symbol. You clearly knew the tattoo you got and you defended it publicly. There's no either/or way about it. Scum attracts scum. Which is why you can comfortably swim in both literal-Communist and literal-antisemitic far-right circles. I am no fan of Sue Collins. But the fact you are running against her, that you have even the smallest chance of defeating her --..." PJM's Matt Margolis hears Democrats Are Literally Blaming Trump for Their Support of Graham Platner. Don Surber observes Democrats don’t vet, "Woman who called Epstein “Uncle Jeffrey” screened Obama’s Cabinet appointees." Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar, "Klain is a former U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum board member..." Quote Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar, "BREAKING @jewishinsider via @marcrod97: "Ex-Biden chief Ron Klain defends Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo" Klain: "The tattoo was a skull and crossbones to remember his fallen comrades from his service in Afghanistan"" Drew Holden @DrewHolden360, "Thread: A quick side by side of things legacy media outlets will describe as Nazi-adjacent when they’re about Trump vs. how these outlets talk about Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo, which an ex-gf of his confirmed to the NYT was deliberate." At SpliceToday, Mark Judge want to know Will NPR Reported David Folkenflik Do His Job on Platner? Not very likely. Nick Arama likes Trump's Surprising, Hilarious Endorsement of Maine Senate Candidate ""She does because she's a sane woman. She's not my best friend at all," Trump said. "But she's a sane person. She's a person that's never missed a vote in many years. I mean, she's like 10,000 votes. She had 10,000 votes. She never missed a vote. Unfortunately, because sometimes she voted against me! "You know, look, she's a sane woman, and she's a respected person. Maybe a little different ideology than me. "But this guy is a thug. He's a fake thug. He's a phony. I made a lot of money picking out phonies. He's a real phony. He's a bad person."

From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, California Election Fraud Update For June 9, 2026. Dave Strom at Hat Hair hears from Homeless Addicts in L.A.: They Paid Us to Vote. Ace, Surprise! Democrat "Ballot Harvesters" Were Illegally Paying Skid Row Homeless Drug Addicts $5 to "Vote" for Nithya Raman. "Isn't odd that these meth-addicted morons knew, in advance, that it was Nithya Raman who would need the bulk of their "votes" and not the current communist mayor? It's almost as if most of these votes were cast after Election Day, with Democrat "ballot harversters" knowing they needed many more votes for Nithya Raman to eliminate the one person they needed out of the race, Spencer Pratt." From Da Caller, ‘They’re Crooked’: Spencer Pratt’s Bruising Mayoral Loss Raises Election Integrity Concerns. Dmitri Bolt sees Spencer Pratt Responds to His Crushing Defeat in LA With a Mysterious Image. PJM's Stephen Kruiser has a Friendly Reminder That California Is the DNC's Testing Ground. 

From the Free Bacon, 'Weak Link' Gavin Newsom Took $50K From Chinese EV Exec of Now-Blacklisted 'Chinese Military Company,' According to New Pentagon Classification, 'The Department of War has blacklisted BYD for a reason,' a former US ambassador says.
 'It means that there is a threat to the national security of the United States.' Chris Rufo et al at CJ observes Gavin Newsom Broke His Promise About California’s Fire Management Work. "Starting last year, the governor “fast-tracked” land, now totaling nearly 100,000 acres, for fire management. So far, state-approved groups have completed projects covering less than 1 percent."

Ace, Trump Orders the Postal Service to Not Deliver Mail-In Ballots to States That Refuse to Turn Over Their Voter Lists. "CNN is so mad. States' rights! States' rights! States' rights!" The News and Observer has news and observes a Judge rules voters known as ‘never residents’ can’t participate in any NC election. 

Dave Strom sees The Insanity of Karmelo Anthony's Defenders. From Ace, Jasmine Ratchett: "Black Women Live in Agony" Daily that Murdered Athlate Austin Metcalf "Never Lived Through" (Except The Day He Was Murdered by a Jasmine Ratchet Supporter) "Was she ever murdered? No? So Austen Metcalf did actually experience agony of a kind that this fat donut disposal unit and sloppy whore can only imagine. She also blacksplains that the knife used to lethally stab him through the heart is not really a deadly weapon at all. She says that in her opinion as a Real DEI Lawyer, she would have argued that the knife was not a deadly weapon, thus sparing Karmelo Anthony the death penalty, even though the knife is a weapon which was used to inflict an almost-instantly deadly wound. She's a good lawyer, she really earned that J.D." TMZ @TMZ, "Exclusive: Austin Metcalf's family is receiving death threats after the Karmelo Anthony verdict. Read more: https://tmz.me/43rnK6w"

At PJM Sarah Anderson thinks This Classy Clapback From Alveda King to Jasmine Crockett Is a Must-Watch. Matt Margolis sees Jesse Watters Make a Fool Out of Jessica Tarlov Over the SPLC Case. "Watters then made that point with a comparison aimed squarely at Tarlov: "Say Turning Point was funding Antifa … that we thought was going to young conservatives and they were sending it to people to buy all black and they were busing them to Portland to commit crimes. And then they were raising money off this crazy Antifa stuff." Believe me, the camera caught Tarlov's face, and it was priceless."

Sundance reports President Trump Navigates Speaker Mike Johnson on FISA Reauthorization and sees Interesting Names Being Floated for Permanent DNI Role.

CNBC whines White House border czar Tom Homan blames New York Gov. Hochul for promised ICE surge. Beege Welborn says When ICE Visits Your Plant and Your Employees Drop From 100 to 24? That's All on You. QThestorm @17QStorm, "BREAKING: Marco Rubio just said the quiet part out loud. Americans work 40+ years… Pay taxes. Follow the rules. Build the country. Then retire on $800, $900, maybe $1,000 a month. Meanwhile, new arrivals can allegedly receive more support from the same system they never paid into. Read that again. The people who built America are being pushed to the back of the line. This is not compassion. This is a government priority problem. America First was never just a slogan. It was a warning. Who comes first? The taxpayer… or the system?" Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Somalis stomp on the American Flag while holding a photo of the referee who was denied entry to the U.S. for alleged ties to a terrorist organization at a protest in Somalia."

And Another Thing, Press martyrdom and the state of legacy media. "Between the constant leaks, backbiting, and endless meetings, does anyone at CBS News do any work?" Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer, "Having lost a job and lost a spouse in my lifetime, they are very, very, so much not the same." Quote Townhall.com @townhallcom "NYTimes: I can hear how much this has hurt you. Scott Pelley: Yes. It's like your spouse being murdered." PJM's VodkaPundit has hopes that Bari Weiss Prepares to Do to CNN What She's Doing to '60 Minutes'. "But here's why you should absolutely positively get your hopes up that somebody at CNN is about to Pelley themselves into irrelevancy, courtesy of the New York Post. The paper reported late Tuesday that "CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved.""

At Spiked! The barbarism in Belfast. Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews, "It has now been revealed that the Belfast man who was nearly beheaded by an African migrant, Stephen Ogilvie, was helping the same man who attacked him move in as a next door neighbor just four days before the attack." A Driscoll post at Insty, WHEN THE LAW OF THE LAW OF MERITED IMPOSSIBILITY REBOUNDS TO EUROPE: Here Come the Riots. GB News @GBNEWS, "'There's a genuine feeling that what happened last night would not have happened if everything was in place to stop people like the alleged perpetrator getting in here.' Night Editor at Belfast Telegraph, John Laverty conveys the anger of Belfast locals over the knife attack." Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs, "You seem more upset over the protest than you do the beheading that took place." Quote Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer, "The scenes in Belfast last night were shocking and completely unacceptable. There is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere." Ace, After Single Night of Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests, Two-Tier Keir Starmer, Who Did Not Mention Henry Nowak Until the Video of His Police-Assisted Murder Was Released, Is Johnny-on-the-Spot in Condemning Riots. "Belfast experienced some rioting last night. The riots were, as the US media described the BLM riots, "fiery but mostly peaceful." There was disorder, Some People Set Fire to Some Vehicles, a house was burned, but they were "mostly peaceful," meaning no one was killed." Sundance thinks The Irish, Scots and English are at The End of the “first follower” phase in Cultural Survival. From the Independent UK, As I watch Belfast burn in violent protests, I think of the far right in England and the US spreading poison. "People who know nothing of my city and have probably never been here are using what’s happening to their own advantage, writes Amanda Ferguson in Belfast." Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou, "BREAKING NEWS: Australia's public broadcaster ABC News just accused @elonmusk of ''inciting racial tension'' in Belfast because he did not censor footage showing a Sudanese refugee attempting to behead someone. They're angrier at Elon than at the stabber." EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince, "Amazing how these were never used against Floyd protestors." Quote BRITAIN IS BROKEN @BROKENBRITAIN0, "BREAKING: Police are now using WATER CANNONS against protesters in Belfast Footage shows a group of protesters using a wheelie bin as cover against the water cannons as widespread unrest continues to break out ..."

Dave Strom hears the Feds Uncover a Michigan Conspiracy to Attack U of Michigan Officials to Force Cutting Ties to Israel. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "BREAKING UPDATE: The @okstate administrator who threatened a Conservative student for honoring Charlie Kirk in a speech was REMOVED from her position." Quote Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "EXCLUSIVE: @JoshuaW4145, a conservative Oklahoma State University student, spoke with us after he was reprimanded by his university for giving a speech honoring the death of Charlie Kirk and promoting free speech. A faculty member allegedly told him that his speech was "triggering" and "partisan," and that his year was going to be "difficult" for him. He encourages others to stand up for their rights in order to "spark the flames of positive change on your campus and community that will never be put out."" At Campus Reform, Princeton ends 133-year anti-proctoring tradition amid AI cheating fears. "Princeton University will require instructors to supervise all in-person examinations beginning July 1 to respond to growing concerns about AI-assisted cheating and academic integrity violations."

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