Flotsam and Jetsam - Jason Arday Dead

Jason Arday, of course, being the young Black Cambridge don found to have been massive plagiarist and all around fabulist At the Telegraph, Jason Arday found dead, apparently by suicide, although it doesn't say so in the piece. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair calls it Ghastly - Jason Arday Is Dead. At Althouse, "Jason Arday obituary: youngest ever black Cambridge professor/Sociology of education academic who made history before his career unravelled after accusations of plagiarism dies aged 41." "An obituary in the London Times. ... We talked about Arday a few days ago, here. He was accused of plagiarism and various lies that made him a laughingstock. Now, apparently, he has killed himself. Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense." Indeed. Hat Hair's Dave Strom hears 'We Lied About Jason Arday to Prevent Racists From Winning.' Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff, "I think what happened to Jason Arday is tragic and heartbreaking, but this counterfactual did actually take place in the United States, involving a professor and right-wing jokester who I became friends with over the years of having to defend his free speech rights. Mike Adams was mobbed and cancelled in 2020, and he killed himself shortly thereafter, and the American press largely treated it like he had it coming. ..." Quote Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana, "If Jason Arday were a white middle-class academic, he would not have been hounded by the British press in the way he was. My thoughts are with his loved ones. May he rest in peace." Razib Khan @razibkhan, "to observe the obvious: no non-black academic would have gotten away with such fraud. if there was a white academic that claimed to have run 30 marathons in 35 days it would have been mocked too." Quote Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan, "I'm devastated for the family and friends of Jason Arday. He faced an unacceptable public hounding and campaign of abuse. I know many Londoners will be angry and upset this evening." RBe @RBPundit, "“Mistakes” Bitch, this is exactly why this happened. They weren’t mistakes. They were lies. Lies that would have stopped ANYONE who wasn’t a DEI poster boy from advancing this high in academia. YOU did this. YOU." Quote Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra, "I’m saddened by this beyond words. I’m also disgusted by white supremacist colonialists who deliberately amplify the mistakes of a black man whilst ignoring the systemic structural racism that’s the much bigger issue that supersedes by orders of magnitude the injustice of x.com/bbcbreaking/st…" Roger Kimball @rogerkimball, "What Tunku said." Quote Tunku Varadarajan @tunkuv, "Let's not sanctify poor Jason Arday in death the way he was overhyped by his cherishers in life. This is a tragic end to a tawdry and disgraceful story. The worst actors here were his enablers. He was a charlatan, not a criminal. His enablers were moral and ideological scum. Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD, "I'm going to try to write something about this later on today or tomorrow. But this should never have happened for six different overlapping reasons, the most obvious being that it never should have been allowed to get this far." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Yeah. But guess who they will blame. The handwringing, sanctimonious, accusatory op-eds are being penned as we speak. Poor lad was hounded to death by the far right. But yeah. His blood is on the hands of the woke crowd that fell for his blatant, absurd lies. I wish he had hung in. Could have made a great comedian. Clearly talented in the Bullshit Arts. He could have made a pile lighting up the woke folx he scammed." Quote Christopher F. Rufo @christopherrufo "The DEI regime killed Jason Arday. Cambridge liberals were so desperate for a racial fairy tale, they elevated a man who could only meet the standards through fraud, then abandoned him when they started feeling embarrassed. Sad, predictable end to a story with only villains. RIP." I will only observe that if you get away with academic fraud, the temptation to repeat it is overwhelming. Once you realize almost no one is reading the stuff anyway, all bets are off.

Am Great new staff issues Morning Greatness: White House Launches Interactive Map Tracking Billions in Suspected Fraud. At the New Reform Club, The Better Way To Think About emoluments. Ace wakes up to find Trump Signed Executive Order Calling for Reforms in Child Vaccination Schedules; Pete Hegseth Wants a High-T Armed Forces. Breaking911 @Breaking911, "BREAKING: 15 Democratic Attorneys General are attempting to block Trump’s FERC energy reforms that would streamline infrastructure approvals and lower electricity costs, even as the states they represent have seen prices rise between 20% and 73% since 2020 due to left-wing green energy policies." 

RedState's Teri Christoph sees Biden’s Former Press Secretary Calls Karoline Leavitt a Liar—Then Gets Hit With a Brutal Fact Check. Insty, QUESTION ASKED: Who could replace White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt? "AND ANSWERED:" Not a bad choice at all considering her previous responses to woke criticism. 

At NYPo, Scott Bessent says the US will hit Iran economically in ways ‘that have never been seen’ next week: ‘One-two punch.’ The Great Victor Davis Hanson at Da Signal discusses Iran’s Dangerous Midterm Strategy. ResponseState worries How the Egypt-Ethiopia feud could upend Trump's plans in Africa, "The US has no plan for dealing with the complex rivalries that threaten its strategy in the region." I'll bet they have plans; they just haven't told you. PJM's Sarah Anderson reports There's Been a Major Development Regarding Political Prisoners in Venezuela, more released. Buck Throckmorton at Ace's MORNING RANT thinks Alberta Independence Is a Necessary Bulwark Against Canada’s Capitulation to the Enemies of Western Civilization.

Matt Margolis at PJM sees More Signs the Dem Establishment Stole the Election From Hong? "According to Bayatpour, this marks the third consecutive election cycle in which Milwaukee's central count operation has run into trouble. How does this happen three times in a row? Remember, Florida cleaned up its act after the 2000 recount fiasco and has since become the gold standard for election administration in America. They count elections quickly and accurately. Milwaukee has had three chances to do the same and has blown every one of them. A system that keeps breaking the same way, in the same city, in favor of the same political machine, and never gets fixed, is functioning exactly as its overseers want it to." From WJ, Watch: NBC Broadcasts Dead Air - Twice - As Literally Speechless Election Analyst Learns Results Are Missing from 5 of 9 USB Drives in Blue City. Shipwreckedcrew lawsplains The Democrat Fear Behind The Lawfare Being Waged Against The Trump Administration's Proposed Changes To Mail-In Voting. "Take a few minutes to understand what the controversy is about -- it might apply in 2026, and it will definitely apply in 2028." Insty comments IT’S AS IF THEY CAN’T WIN IF THEY CAN’T CHEAT: House Freedom Caucus @freedomcaucus, "There's a bill sitting in the Senate that would address this problem." Quote James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII, "CAUGHT INSIDE MINNEAPOLIS POLLING BOOTHS: Minnesota Poll Workers Tell O’Keefe, Dressed in Muslim Garb, & @camhigby, in a Burka, That They Can Vouch for Eight Unregistered Voters Without ID, Allowing Them to Vote in Minnesota Primary Election."

From the Free Bacon, Revealed: El-Sayed Proclaimed 'Obligation' To Follow Sharia Law Until the Day He Dies. Beege Welborn calls him Detroit's Dr. Dead Dogs? and Dave Strom sees Abdul El-Sayed Trails Mike Rogers, but AWFLs Love Him. Byron York @ByronYork, "From the Fox poll, Rogers vs. el Sayed in Michigan: White men, no college degree: Rogers 63 el Sayed 37 White men, college degree: Rogers 55 el Sayed 43 White women, no college degree: Rogers 60 el Sayed 38 White women, college degree: Rogers 37 el Sayed 60." End Wokeness @EndWokeness, ""White women, college: +23 El-Sayed" SNL predicted this back in 2015."

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair calls it Too Bad to Check: Maine Dems' Featured Labor Day Speaker Will Be ... Der Oysterführer? Matt Vespa at TownHall sees Graham Platner Rolls Out Like the Panzers in the Ardennes, and Dems Are Not Happy. At Am Mind, Jacob Howland looks at Mamdani’s Scapegoats.

Larry, in a Hat Hair vid sees Chris Matthews Loses It on 'Morning Joe' As Democrat Party Starts Fracturing. WSJ opines on Democrats’ ‘Woke 1’ Hangover. "Why should voters buy your ideological transformation?" PJM's Rick Moran predicts 'Woke 2.0' Will Be More Radical, More Antisemitic, and Even Less Tolerant. WaT, Democrats cannot escape their overeducated socialist wing, "Voters remain wary of a party increasingly shaped by entitled collectivists."

PJM's Vicky Taft has another West Coast, Messed Coast™—Is It the End of the Line for Gavin 2028? PJM's Stephen Kruiser, Dear Gavin Newsom — When You've Lost Ann Arbor… At NYPo, Jason Miyares explains how Virginia’s Democrats show us how to wreck a state in 5 easy steps. "Step 1: Drive businesses away... Step 2: Impose an energy tax... Step 3: Prioritize offenders over victims and tie law enforcement’s hands... Step 4: Undermine workers’ rights and force unions on local governments... Step 5: Push partisan politics in defiance of the state constitution."

Ashe Short at JTN, Two federal agencies routed taxpayer dollars to terror-linked charities, new reports find. At Da Caller, Bill Gates’ Daughter Phoebe Faces Jail Time After Being Accused Of Profiting From Sales She Didn’t Drive. Wanna bet?

Capt. Ed reports BREAKING: Mangione Pleads Guilty in Federal Court. Althouse, finds"The shooter did not miss his intended target and did not chamber another round, leaving the spent cartridge in the rifle." "Wrote the lawyers for Tyler Robinson, quoted in "Charlie Kirk Suspect Fights Death Penalty, Says No Others Were in Danger/Prosecutors say they can seek the death penalty against Tyler Robinson because he also endangered people near Charlie Kirk, who was shot in the throat last year. Mr. Robinson’s lawyers note that the gunman struck only his target" (NYT gift link)." Trying to dodge the death penalty. From Ace, FBI: We Arrested 4,000 Nasty Criminals In the Last Two Months. "Kash Patel said he would reorient the FBI away from the Democrat/Wray model of unending election interference on behalf of the communists towards arresting criminals. These arrests are proof his word is good."

Althouse finds "Over the past 21 terms, the closest any member of the court got to Justice Jackson’s loquaciousness was Justice Stephen G. Breyer..." and opines "Jackson's outsized role at oral argument is so extreme, and so much attention has been paid to it. Clearly, she's choosing it, in spite of the criticism and even disdain and ridicule. She must believe she's doing exactly the right thing. Perhaps she views her contribution as proportionate if you measure not by the number of Justices but by the weight and power of the ideas they represent."

Beege Welborn sees Sean Duffy Is on the CDL Warpath. From CIS, If Sanctuary Politicos Believe ‘Violent Criminals’ Don’t Belong, They Should Open Their Jails to ICE, "If not, welcome to the world of politics, where partisanship often allows no space for common sense." Aaron Hanscom at PJM asks if you Forgot About Ceuta? These Latest Videos Look Pretty Third World.

Breitbart News @BreitbartNews, "Chelsea Handler warns that if Todd Blanche is confirmed as U.S. Attorney General, "he's gonna overturn Roe v. Wade." (Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022)." Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd, "Fmr. ABC News’ Terry Moran Says Fauci Shut Down Their COVID Lab Leak Story. “The day that it's supposed to air, it gets reviewed and it comes back to me — it is incomprehensible … I was told ‘Fauci’ … There was an organized campaign … to say there's no way there's a lab leak.”"

Leo Knight @primetimecrime, "A civil war seems imminent in the UK." Quote Dr. Maalouf @realMaalouf, "In the UK, Muslims were very angry and tried to have a Christian preacher arrested for ‘hate speech’ for preaching in ‘their’ area. “This is a Muslim area!”" From the Euro Con, Quo Vadis, Europe: A New Dark Age or the Next Renaissance? Ace reports the Daily Wire to Release Film About ISIS Taking Over an American College Campus; Islamist Propagandists Say Criticism of ISIS is Islamophobic; Tuq'r Qarlson Says That Ben Shapiro Is a Sleeper Agent Created by Israel.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "MASSIVE SCANDAL UNFOLDING AT NASHVILLE, TN SCHOOLS ANOTHER teacher says she was ordered to FABRICATE grades to give a passing grade to failing students The school then SUSPENDED her after she REFUSED to skew the numbers. What is going in
@MetroSchools?!" From the College Fix, First-year classes this fall range from Wonder Woman to ‘queer’ art to the occult.

PM reports JD Vance refers medical child sex change providers to DOJ for prosecution over fraud. "We must sent a clear message that any hospitals and providers that have participated in these practices will face justice." Dave Strom, Insurance Fraud Enabled 'Gender-Affirming Care.' From Ace, Hospitals Defraud the Federal Government, Disguising Costs of "Gender Affirming Care" as Something Else, Claiming It's For Something Else; Hospitals Referred to DOJ for Prosecution, ""They should go to prison," JD Vance writes. This may shock you, but Planned Parenthood may be at the heart of the fraudulent billing. Which is a nice way to say "theft."" From Althouse, "This is no different from what the Heritage Foundation wants for women in the US. Except maybe instead of burqas..." ""... they want us in milk maid dresses, heavy hideous makeup, plastic surgery and naked. And it's actually worse when I think about their plans for society as a whole with illiteracy, poisoned food, toxic 'health' care, etc. Separation of religion and state must happen to even attempt a free society. This is why this concept exists." A highly rated contribution to the comments section for "Afghan Women Erased From Public Life in Five Years of Taliban Rule/Decrees restricting the rights of women and girls to study, work, travel and act independently now threaten to damage Afghanistan permanently, experts say" (NYT gift link)." Milk maid dresses and naked, got it.

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "I never expected to be as enthused as I am now about this whole trans thing.
Quote Brock Pierson @brockpierson, "OFFICIAL PRACTICE REPORT The newly self declared WNBA roster of Enes Kanter Freedom, Royce White, Brock “Briana” Pierson, and Will “Willamina” Van Booraem completed our first closed door practice session this morning." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Well put. Bad news, they’ll never acknowledge it." Quote The Heretical Liberal @Rob_ThaBuilder, "Its quite interesting how the Far Left is all of a sudden very concerned about the possible ulterior motives of men who claim to be women, as if they've only realized now that men might lie in order to prey on vulnerable women. The trans activists are showing FAR more interest." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Kentucky Derby Convenes Committee To Determine What Is A Horse."

And more! At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.14.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 08.14.26 (Evening Edition). Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Anti-ICE Activist Bombs Federal Building

Capt. Ed, Manhattan Federal Building Hit with Molotov Cocktail; Anti-ICE Activist Arrested. Gina Milan @ginamilan_, "43-year-old Army veteran Andrew Arrabaca, an anti-American, anti-ICE, anti-government radical who was arrested today after detonating an incendiary device outside ICE offices in New York City, told agents he didn’t care how many federal workers or civilians he killed. Color me shocked. Spend years demonizing ICE, calling agents Nazis and Gestapo, and eventually some looney tune answers the call. Well done, leftists. Your poster boy delivered." Daily Wire @realDailyWire, "The only civilian injured in today's attack outside NYC's federal immigration building by a suspect seen pushing a cart that read "ICE off our streets" was an immigrant who was there for a hearing. "That's quite unfortunate and quite ironic at the same time."" Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "This is an armed revolution against lawful authority, openly led and encouraged by Democrats. At what point will our nation figure out that we are in the midst of a violent insurrection that threatens our national existence, and treat it as such?" DC_Draino @DC_Draino, "This is how you know a Leftist committed the terrorism. Mainstream media calls it “fireworks” instead of an attempted bombing. Just like when Trump was shot in Butler and they called it “popping sounds”." Quote End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "Terrorist tries to blow up ICE HQ in NYC NBC:" Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "OK, they've advanced to the incendiary device and gun phase. Largely ineffective, some flammable liquid, fireworks and a pellet gun, as the guy espousing an idiotic cause appears to be an idiot. It won't always be that way." Quote Fox News @FoxNews, "NEW: The FBI says the suspect who deployed an incendiary device outside a federal building in New York City has been taken into custody. The suspect poured an unknown liquid on the ground, placed fireworks on top of it and ignited them, causing a small fire, according to the FBI. The suspect was also armed with a pellet gun. Two people — a federal employee and a civilian — suffered minor injuries and were treated and released."

From AMAC a reminder, Trump Delivers Shocking New Election Integrity Disclosures in Primetime Address. I didn't find them all that shocking, but seeing more evidence is disquieting. A Larry video at Hat Hair advances the argument that Mark Warner Confirms Trump Was Right About 2020 Election Interference. Tim O'Brien at PJM explores How China Made and Shipped Fake Driver’s Licenses to Tamper With the 2020 Election. Tara Servatius @TaraServatius, "Serious question: Was the FBI working to further the interests of China? -hid Hunter Biden's laptop, censored journalists online who told the truth about it, briefed congress (with lies) that it was a Russian disinformation op. -hid intel about Chinese board of elections hacking and manufacture of fake licenses for use in absentee ballot fraud to elect Joe Biden from congress and president Trump. Allowed those activities to continue. Even ran a "shadow government" to cover it up. -Tried to bury Chinese biolabs operating illegally in America and containing deadly pathogens when they were accidentally discovered -Framed Trump for Russia collusion." Quote Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ "BREAKING: @SenRandPaul, the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has just released internal federal documents which he says show that the FBI intervened and stopped CBP from searching and questioning Peter Daszak upon his return to the US from China at JFK airport." I think they accidentally found themselves on the same side as China, and had to cover that up. The SCIF @TheSCIF, "Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold should be in prison. She leaked a spreadsheet online with all the state's voting machine passwords on it from 2020, and after she got caught, claimed that it "wasn't a security threat." It gets worse. Her office also sent out mail to 30,000 noncitizens, inviting them to register to vote, when they aren't even legally aloud to vote, and told election workers to give ballots to people who show noncitizen IDs. On top of all of that, that same year, her office used Colorado's ballot-tracking system to send messages to specific Coloradans encouraging them to vote, when in fact, they all had already voted, causing massive confusion that had to be cleaned up." But sure, the 2020 election was the fairest ever!

Harold Hutchinson at Da Caller reports Vice President JD Vance Announces Birth Of Newest Son. "Vice President JD Vance announced Sunday that second lady Usha Vance gave birth to the couple’s fourth child...“We are excited to announce that our baby boy, Alec Neel Vance, was born this morning,” the second family said in a statement posted Sunday evening to X. “Usha and the baby are happy and healthy and out kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother.”" Hat Hair's Beege Welborn notices the WSJ Decides to Play Outrage 'Where's Waldo?' With New Father J.D. Vance. So how long was Pete Buttigieg's "paternity" leave?

Fred Fleitz at Am Great looks at Secretary Rubio’s Campaign to Dismantle the ICC: Defending American Sovereignty at Last. "Rubio made clear that the United States will no longer tolerate this rogue court." PJM's Sarah Anderson on Marco’s Moment: What Happens Next in Venezuela Could Define Rubio’s Legacy and Cathy Salgado sees U.S. Imposes 50% Tariffs on Some Canadian Goods Over ‘Discriminatory’ Actions.

John Sexton at Hat Hair, Wildberries: Ukraine Expands Strikes to Include Russia's Version of Amazon. "The primary rationale for striking Wildberries' warehouses is to disrupt Russian logistics and the supply of dual-use goods, critical electronics, sanctioned goods and the like to the Russian army and Russian arms manufacturers," he said. "The collateral damage from such strikes could also have a serious impact on the Russian economy, as well as a psychological effect on Russian society and, likely, on continued support for the war."

From Ace, Dead Body Found at Home Belonging to Criminal Husband of Bald-Headed Freak Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley "Black Uncle Fester's thug husband:" Apple Lamps @lamps_apple, "Can you imagine if a dead teen with a gunshot wound were found in a house owned by the spouse of a Republican who happened to be a convicted felon and had just received a $2 billion contract from the state? When it’s a Democrat, it’s complete silence." Quote Boston 25 News @boston25, "Family identifies teen found dead inside Mattapan home owned by husband of Rep. Ayanna Pressley https://ebx.sh/3qYHt3" "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy." I'm going to guess that's not even enough anymore.

Hat Hair's Dave Strom has hopes, Democrats Not Doing So Well in Generic Pre-Midterm Polls and explains Republicans Must Tie Democrats to DSA. PJM's Matt Margolis explains Here's How the Democrats Are Blowing the Midterms. "On the generic congressional ballot, Republicans are either tied with Democrats or ahead by three to four points, nowhere near the margin Democrats need to flip the House. A recent Washington Post/Ipsos poll put Democrats up just 48% to 45% on that same generic ballot question. Asked which party they agree with more on the issues that matter to them, voters split 41% Republican to 40% Democrat. Asked which party they trust more to handle the economy, the gap widened: 39% for Republicans to 35% for Democrats." Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas, "Democrats don’t have enough children to be a viable party in 20 years… That’s why they insist on: 1. Lax voting laws (Cheating) 2. Mass immigration (Replacement) 3. Gov control of education (Indoctrination)."

From Ace, Former DSA Member: We Started This Moderate, Wholesome Socialist Group But It Got Taken Over by Extremist Communists, Somehow, "Really? I'm so surprised. Leftwing movements are never taken over by some kind of, oh, let's say "Bolshevik Faction."" Dave Strom cites Van Jones: DSA Are Turds in the Democratic Party Punchbowl. Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "They’ll praise a lunatic who murdered tens of millions of people, and in the same breath, claim they care deeply about a non-existent genocide in Gaza. No one should ever take these people seriously." Quote DSA Watch @DSA_Watch, "Hasan Piker: Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "There's a tendency to see them as evil liars, but you also have to consider the possibility that he actually is this stupid." Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Mao killed more people than Hitler. If Hasan Piker had dressed like a Nazi, we'd have an appropriate outrage. But because commies have infiltrated all our institutions & lied about how evil they are, we don't get the National Socialists were no worse than all other socialists." Quote Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Hasan Piker dressed as Mao, brainwashing your kids at college. They’re communists. This was always communism." Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "Serious issues aside, it remains funny to me the amount of costumery required to be a Leftist in good standing." Quote DSA Watch @DSA_Watch, "Hasan Piker delivers Hitler-style rant in a Mao Zedong suit."

At Hat Hair Beege Welborn , Fetterman to Bernie: Yo, Loser - Get Over Yourself, John Sexton, Meet Platner's Replacement: Shouty McShoutface and Three Cheers for (Checks Notes) Pardoning Guys Who Rape Kids.

Among all the other things at Ace's Quick Hits, Kamala Harris is running for president. She claims she "should have won" in 2024. Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "It's going to be something watching her take extreme positions in 2020 that made her unelectable, only to walk them all back in 2024, only to re-embrace them again in 2028 because her electorate has slid even further into crazy town." Quote Alex Thompson @AlexThomp, "Many Democratic leaders are in denial about Kamala’s popularity with the base. Following her in New Orleans, Jackson, and Memphis earlier this year, she was a rock star."

At Mediaite, Death Toll Rises As Remains of Missing US Service Member Recovered in Jordan. Siaxares @siaxares, "Pete Hegseth just dropped a raw truth: "If you kill Americans, we will hunt you down, find you, and kill you."" America is great precisely because its enemies must fear it. But let's be real — picking off a few IRGC thugs as revenge for dead American soldiers is short-sighted tit-for-tat. Hunt the regime itself. Topple the mullahs. A free Iran under real leadership will never kill another American. Preventive victory beats endless vengeance. What do you think — regime change now, or more half-measures?" QUANTUM GUARD @QuantumGuard17, "BOOM! Pete Hegseth just CALLED OUT the media: "These cameras have a choice. You either inform the American people of the truth or your are not." "Here is a fact you don't hear on the networks that we know." "Many of the Iranian military factories and bases that we are destroying were paid for by the pallets of American cash that Barack Obama flew into the Tehran under the Iran deal. You might call it an inconvenient truth...!" Ace, US Pounds Iran Military Sites for Ninth Straight Night; Trump Announces Next Big Target? "On Hugh Hewitt, Trump confirmed that he is considering a ground-penetrating bomb strike on Pickaxe Mountain, where Iran is reportedly attempting to reboot their nuclear program." At Hat Hair, John Sexton, Houthis Announce Blockade of Saudi Ships and Capt. Ed cites the WSJ: Qatar's Still Trying to Get the MOU Band Back Together.

NYPo's Ari Hoffman opines Jack Smith’s snooping through texts between congressmen may have violated the Constitution’s most important principles "The rub, though, is that the Constitution gives ironclad protection to lawmakers — the Framers had seen all they needed to see about what happens when executive power runs amok. The Speech or Debate Clause promises Senators and Representatives that “for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.” It is as absolute a protection — and as strict a command — as can be found in the Constitution."

From News Wax, ICE Officers to Wear Body Cameras During Vehicle Stops, Border Czar Says “They exonerate more ​law enforcement than they convict, and I want officers to wear body cameras because I want the American people to see what the officers saw when ⁠they took that action.” From Da Signal, Court Was Right to End Texas Dream Act, Block In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens, Policy Experts Say.

Christian Heiens @ChristianHeiens, "The Nixon revival is entirely attributable to the fact that he understood the problem decades before anyone else in the GOP did." Buck Sexton @BuckSexton, "Never forget that just a few years ago, Lemon was CNN's top rated host, paid millions of dollars a year to be an ignorant, petty fool at a "news network." Quote, "New York Post @nypost "Don Lemon outrageously compares MAGA to Nazis in latest anti-Trump rant: 'Without the Holocaust and all that stuff' https://trib.al/oZwayTM."

My jaw literally dropped checking this out

If you go to New Jersey inmates mugshots and filter by race “White” you’re mind is gong to be blown

Almost all mugshots are of minorities being booked as “White.” (Proof in video)

THIS IS INSANE. You should be furious. I go through… pic.twitter.com/PGsBNpr63w

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) July 19, 2026

And plenty more like all this at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.20.26. Linked at The Right Way in Top of the News.

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 - Hot Summer Day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Flotsam and Jetsam - Terms of Iran MOU Released

From Cameron Arcand at TownHall, We Now Know What's Inside the Iran Agreement. “We’re not going to be taking their word for anything,” a senior U.S. official said when asked about “compliance” for Iran’s adherence to the deal, particularly when it comes to nuclear development, adding that the U.S. will “work very closely with the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA].” Driscoll at Insty, IRAN: It All Boils Down to Trusting Trump; UPDATED: MOU Released, "It seems, from what Trump and Vance are saying, as well as from what administration officials have leaked to news outlets, that the deal’s guarantee boils down to Trump’s willingness to continue bullying Iran into cutting a further deal within the next 60 days. Or more, since the deadline can be extended indefinitely at the agreement of both parties." At Althouse, "But they have a new group of leaders that I think is, uh, actually I think they're smarter. I think they're very smart. I think they're far less radicalized," says Trump at a news conference, and "This way, if it works, I take the credit. If not, I blame JD! You better be careful, JD!"

Hat Hair's John Sexton thinks Trump Was Playing Nice with Ukraine at the G7. At Althouse, "I think they think I was right. I’m sort of always right, you know, when you get down to it." ""They think I was right. They feel good. Now all of a sudden they all want to be involved." Said — it's so obvious (who talks like that?) — Trump. Quoted in "G-7 ends without rupture as allies praise Trump for ending Iran war/For the other leaders of the Group of Seven nations, success was defined as avoiding a public fight with the U.S. president" (WaPo)."

Matt Vespa at TownHall, No Way CNN Did This Regarding the Algae in the Reflecting Pool?! At Althouse, They had to know this would happen: "Trump’s $14m 'American flag blue' reflecting pool turns green with algae." "I'm reading the news in The London Times." There is some suspicion that saboteurs dumped a pile of nutrients in it to restart the algae bloom. The pool is a natural site for algae; shallow and sunlite, receiving nutrients from rain and duck shit; without heavy treatment or filtration it will always grow lots of algae. One natural solution might be to stock it with algae filtering mussels and fish, but I suspect that would require a lot of management.

Also at Althouse, "The storm comes and splits at the White House and goes around the White House and the Ellipse. The President believes that… it was divine intervention." Matt Vespa, Trump Faces Another Lawsuit From a Bunch of DC Losers Over Planned Garden of Heroes Project “It is beyond comprehension why anyone would sue over an exhibition that celebrates American greatness by highlighting some of the most pivotal figures in our nation’s history,” Katie Martin, an Interior Department spokeswoman, said in a statement. “Either these people hate America or are suffering from a severe case of [Trump Derangement Syndrome].” From Twitchy, Rumors Squashed: Knicks Confirm White House Visit as Libs Melt Down. At NYPo, Jeffrey Epstein was obsessed with trying to take down Trump before suicide, report says, just another thing shared by Epstein and the Democrat leaders. 

Althouse finds "But, without Mamaw around to guide him, JD lost his faith in God. 'With her gone, no one really cared about my faith, and soon I stopped caring too.'" "From "God, guns and 'Mamaw' — JD Vance’s memoir is part rant, part sermon/In Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, the US vice-president explains why the liberal elite pushed him into the arms of the Church — and Donald Trump" (London Times)."

Driscoll calls for POPCORN! Watch Hillary Clinton Absolutely SQUIRM When Pressed to Comment About Graham Platner. Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "Hillary zigs and zags when asked about Graham Platner: “He’s had some bumps on the road." Ok, but if you were a Mainer, would you vote for him? “I’m not a Mainer. I’m a New Yorker." **Changes subject** The Dem elite's squirming and deflecting on this guy is something else." Matt Vespa wonders Did Hakeem Jeffries Think He Was Safe on This Show? He Got Bulldozed, "watch Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) get caught completely off guard as he attempts to criticize the Trump administration for the high cost of living on Good Day New York. He wasn’t expecting this at all (via Fox News):" From the Free Bacon, Texas’s James Talarico, 37, Shares His Only Checking Account With His Mom "Talarico’s mother and adoptive father contributed $1,437.84 to his 2021 campaign to cover 'moving expenses' when he was 32." Joe Chalfant at TownHall reports James Talarico Got Paid Tens of Thousands of Dollars by a Firm That Teaches Your Kids That They're Racist. Jonathan Turley is outraged by a Candidate Struck from Alaska Ballot Over Alleged Democratic Dirty Trick: “By Any Means Necessary.” Joe Weber at JTN reports a Democrat socialist candidate had wide lead in bid to become DC's next mayor, after Tuesday balloting. "In the District of Columbia's other big primary race, D.C. Council member Robert White won the Democratic nomination for D.C. delegate to Congress." Jon Levine @LevineJonathan, "DSA is essentially a wealthy, white, highly educated movement which very carefully selects candidates from their 0.00001% members of color to try and sell the ideas to black and brown people who are historically extremely averse to socialism." Tironianae Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae, "JUST IN: Governor Abigail Spanberger officially signs a bill handing over Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes across the whole country… even if Virginians vote the other way. Insane. They rushed it through with mostly Democrat votes. The plan has 222 votes. It needs 270 to actually start working. Once it does, your vote in Virginia doesn’t matter anymore. The Founders made the Electoral College so a few big cities don’t boss the whole country. This is a sneaky Democrat power grab to cheat that. “Every vote counts the same”? Lies. Virginians are pissed off, and they should be. They got played."

VodkaPundit at PJM, How Deep Are the Newsoms in It? THIS Deep. "TL;DR: Siebel Newsom produced unwatchable propaganda videos for children, for which Democrat-dominated schools then paid her handsomely. Or as MacDonald summed it up, "Over the past decade, Siebel Newsom has collected over $3.7 million in combined personal salary and LLC payouts funded by the nonprofit."" Jeff Charles at TownHall, explains Why Trump's Labor Secretary Is Threatening to Withholding Unemployment Funds to Blue States. John Sexton examines The Costs of Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick Ruling Against Elon Musk. Corporate flight. David Pivtorak @TheDavidPiv, "I love how every article like this is like, "Hi, I'm a disabled, transgender anchor baby whose family's existence was drain on American taxpayers. I hate children and my sexual fetish is watching homeless drug addicts writhing in their own feces on the sidewalk so I love the status quo here in LA. Anyway, please vote for the candidate that will allow me to keep pleasuring myself to the sight of living corpses on our streets."" Quote Los Angeles Times@latimes, ""Pratt’s loudest fans fundamentally loathe modern-day L.A., and that should chill all other Angelenos," writes The Times' columnist Gustavo Arellano. Read his latest column."

Dahlia ダリア @kuchisakeonnax, "The left: “he was a socialist folk hero who used political violence to take it to the man.” Luigi: “I’m retarded.”" Quote CNN @CNN, "Luigi Mangione's attorneys will present a psychiatric defense at trial, arguing he killed UnitedHealthcare's CEO while experiencing an extreme emotional disturbance." Dilan Esper @dilanesper, "oh wow, it turns out the guy who supposedly was expressing society's rage at health care execs was actually crazy and didn't know right from wrong. ok." Quote The Associated Press @AP "BREAKING: Luigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, judge says."

Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley, "“If they do this, they might as well rename the damn thing the Anti-MAGA Task Force.” Those words from internal memos shed new light on not just the targeting of parents at school board meetings as possible terrorists, but the legacy of Merrick Garland..." From Ace, Federal Judge Upholds Conviction of Judge Who Illegally Aided Criminal Illegal Aliens to Escape ICE, "This is a bad day for high-calorie Karens. But that's just a day ending in a -day." And Soros DA Larry Krasner of Philadelphia Is Brutally Taken Down by (Democrat) Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Which Accuses Him of Bad-Faith and Lying In Order to Set Convicted Murderers Free with No Legal Justification.

Beege Welborn at Hat Hair reports the Ringleader of Plot to Blow Up UFC 250 Fight Is 'NOT a Citizen.'

Jimmy G @jimmygards, "They just can’t help themselves. Thousands of Europeans are seeing more of America this summer than many New York Times staffers ever will."

From NYPo, Jeff Bezos told Trump the Washington Post was his worst investment before slashing staff: ‘People there are terrible’

Insty, ICYMI: HERE’S THE LINK TO RUPERT LOWE’S HORRIFYING BRITISH RAPE GANG REPORT. Jamie Bambrick @j_bambrick, "Here are eight essential quotes from @RupertLowe10's Rape Gang Inquiry. 1) This was a nationwide, not merely local, phenomenon. "...that this was never a series of isolated local failures. It was a coordinated, nationwide pattern of organised child sexual exploitation that repeated in town after town, city after city, from the far north to the south coast." 2) The scale was enormous, more than anyone dared to think. "The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma. The true number is probably higher." 3) As has been reported, the vast majority of perpetrators were Pakistani Muslims. " In court records and official inquiries, around 87% of those convicted in these group-based child sexual exploitation (‘CSE’) cases bore distinctively Muslim names... Dr. Taj Hargey, an imam with the Oxford Islamic Congregation, believes the true proportion of gang members who are Muslims to be around 95%." 4) Vulnerable girls were targeted using a consistent method. "Organised networks of perpetrators built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men." 5) The police, and other institutions, knew what was happening and ignored it...." 

Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho, "One of the UK Rape Gang Victims publicly spoke about her life shattering ordeal - and then British Police arrested her for it within 30 minutes and sent her to prison. It’s actually beyond comprehension." Mish @Mish_K_, ""At the police station, Kate was taken into the interview room. Before the interview began, and without Kate’s mother present, Kate was told that this was her “last chance” to say that her report was untrue. She was warned that if any part of her account could not be supported by evidence, she could and would be arrested. For an extended period of time, both officers repeatedly told her how much trouble she would be in if any detail of her statement was disproved, and that she could withdraw the allegation before the interview started with no further consequences. They also suggested that her parents would be relieved if she said the incident had not happened."" 

Lozzy B𝕏 @TruthFairy131, "The ‘Stand up to Racism’ pro-migration group in the UK has used a picture of a little White girl with a Pakistani migrant in their campaign. This is after hundreds of thousands of little White girls have been groomed, terrorised, tortured, gang raped & killed by Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs. This isn’t just cruel, sick, deranged & twisted, it is EVIL. I’m so done with this shit. They are literally mocking & tormenting rape gang child victims now." S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk, "This morning, I appeared on Good Morning Britain in a live interview about the grooming gangs. Before I went on air, I was told not to mention the race of the perpetrators. I, of course, didn’t listen. I have now received an apology from the editor. My interview is below:" Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith, "The Left: “Silence is violence!” The Left about the Rape Gang Inquiry Report: *silence*." Go see Ace's Quick Hits. Sarah at Insty AFTER ALL THEY WERE ONLY BIASED BECAUSE IT’S SUPPORTERS WERE SUCH TERRIBLE PEOPLE, THE SORT WHO OBJECT TO MUSLIM MEN RAPING THEIR DAUGHTERS: BBC admits Brexit bias — then attacks the critics who exposed it. Inevitable West @Inevitablewest, "Dallas, USA, has been covered in St. Georges flags for the World Cup. Unlike in Britain, they won't be removed!" The Undercurrent @NotTheirScript, "A civilization can survive disagreement. It cannot survive a ruling class that is more afraid of bad headlines than harmed children."

At Hollywood in Toto, Nick Searcy Reveals Ugly Truth Behind Sean Penn’s Jan. 6 Project "'Justified' alum details stark differences in Hollywood for liberals, conservatives."

From the Free Bacon, Harvard Students Are Twice as Mentally Ill as the General Population Amid Ivy Psychological Meltdown. "Young and left-wing are part of 'emerging mental health political identity'" 

Christopher F. Rufo @christopherrufo, "SCOOP: California is pressuring public utilities to award $633 million in special contracts to "LGBT-owned" firms. To qualify, residents must go through the state's official gay-certification program—and face up to a year in jail if they're not gay enough." 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, and "PRIDE" Goeth for Its Long-Awaited Fall.

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