Flotsam and Jetsam - Manic Monday

Just another.  Steve Richards at JTN reports Memos reveal FBI faced roadblocks to prosecute possible 2020 Michigan voter registration fraud. "The FBI collected witness interviews alleging voter registration fraud in Michigan in 2020. Newly-disclosed documents show the case was delayed, and ultimately “killed” by the Biden administration." Tim O'Brien at PJM, Did Former FBI Agent Nikki Floris Run a ‘Shadow Government' During the 2020 Election? Teri Christoph at RedState astonished ABC News Just Caught Democrat Senator Mark Warner Telling a Massive Lie About Voter ID. Not astonished that Warner told a lie, but astonished that ABC called them on it. Victory Girls note Democrats saying “Mad King” Trump Should Be Impeached For Nuclear Election Speech. Speech is free for everybody but Trump.

Eric Florack at PJM has suspicions Is Trump Grooming Marco Rubio As His Successor?. Rubio/Vance, or Vance/Rubio. Leslie Eastman at LI sees Science Over Climate Narrative: Dr. Matthew Wielicki to Lead America’s Climate Research. "Dr. Matthew Wielicki’s appointment signals a course correction toward true scientific rigor and away from narrative-driven climate alarmism." About time. 

At Althouse, "I was in a bad position, and they preyed on me, bro. They were chasing the money." "Said Boosie BadAzz, quoted in "Boosie Lobbied for a Trump Pardon. It Never Came. He Wants a Refund. The Southern rapper paid $600,000 to two right-wing operatives. Now, they’re in a dispute over a contract the rapper believes entitles him to at least half his money back" (NYT)." I didn't think lobbying came with guarantees.  

From Flopping Aces, China Doesn’t Have to Beat Us at AI … We’re Busy Handing Them the Win by Letting Doomers Panic Over Power Lines and Cornfields. Ars Technica examines the question Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang. “We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like constellation.”

TownHall's Derek Hunter worries we have Half a Nation of Traitors. Sundance at CTH hosts Sunday Talks – Martha MacCallum Interviews DSA Co-Chairman Gustavo Gordillo About Using Vehicle of Democrat Party to Install Communist Government. "Gordillo explains the immediate DSA demand to control housing (govt), control food distribution (grocery stores), give free daycare for children, and create affordability for lower income citizens/aliens by taking the wealth from the high-income earners and giving the wealth to the lower income group." Amy Curtis at TownHall notes One of the DSA's Biggest Influencers Wants to Shred the Declaration of Independence, Too Milli Sands at Am Think thinks Communism Hasn't Been Done Right. (Yeah, That’s The Ticket.) "The current crop of young Democrat/DSA politicians is testing the leftist theory that communism will work if you just put the right people in charge." At Da Signal Victor Davis Hanson scoffs at The Left’s Search for a Working-Class Candidate. Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "They really thought they could just walk into the Democrat Party because muh Trump and tame the dragon." Quote Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25, "At some point Dems are going to have to grapple with the reality that in the face of all of Trump and Republicans’ manifest horribleness and incompetence, people aren’t rushing toward the Democrats. If you think the DSA stuff is helping, you’ve never talked to a swing voter." Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell, "Sarah Longwell has come to the end of her TDS journey only to realize that Trump is the better choice. She’s now trashing Democrats." Fusilli Spock @awstar11, "Correct. This is what they want." Quote Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke, "The fun thing about this is that, per Article V, the Senate can’t be abolished without the consent of all 50 states, so this is functionally indistinguishable from a call to abolish the Constitution. x.com/cspanwj/status…" Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "I am really getting sick and tired of "moderate" Democrats (as if such a thing actually exists) shouting that the DSA is some sort of new, existential threat to their party and to America. In reality, the DSA is the entirely logical and foreseeable outcome of the way Democrats have been pandering to the most extreme and perverse elements of our society for the past 40 years. Logical. Foreseeable. Stop acting surprised. You are what you are, you get what you deserve." Quote Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl, "I am a lifelong Democrat. I served on President Clinton’s National Security Council and in the State Department under Madeleine Albright. I am also a lifelong human rights and civil rights advocate. But every Democrat and every American should recognize that the DSA." The Patriarch Tree @PatriarchTree, "“Supporting Hamas is not progressive.” — @VanJones68 DSA going to lynch him for that." Quote Van Jones @VanJones68, "I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas. I'm a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I'm rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life. But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE..." Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald, "I'll admit to having struggled to find coherence or consistency in liberal rules of identity politics. But even given this "complexity,", I will never understand why AOC has license to use a fake black preacher accent when speaking to black audiences:" At Althouse, That could be taken 2 ways. ""We’re well on our way to getting the government that we fuckin' deserve." Says Troy Jackson, in this video posted by his campaign. That's linked to in the NYT article "Maine Democrats Take Step Toward New Senate Pick, With Jolt of Momentum for Jackson/Troy Jackson, a progressive former State Senate president, showed signs of significant strength, as half the state’s counties picked delegates to a convention where they will choose Graham Platner’s replacement." Reminds me of that old political joke: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.""

At Da Signal, Victor Davis Hanson on Why Mamdani Wants to Erase Europeans From New York’s Immigration History. At NYPo, Critics slam Mamdani for threatening to arrest Netanyahu in NYC: ‘Delusional’ and ‘reckless’. From Fox, Controversial program paying drug users for used syringes becomes permanent in NYC. Instead of paying for treatment, they pay to keep people using. Betsey McCaughey at Hat Hair, Tolerating Homeless Encampments Violates the Rights of Everyone Else.

Driscoll at Insty, GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Your tax dollars are now subsidizing illegal food carts while 100 legitimate restaurants go out of business every year in LA. We live in a cuckoo clock. Are they gonna give restaurants free stoves, too? Or is this only for people who violate all the rules and pay no fees?" At NYPo, Supermarket takes drastic action to prevent meat theft: ‘Welcome to California’.

Larry Elder at Hair Hair claims On the Iran War, NATO Chief Agrees With Trump -- The Media Buried the Lede. At Da Signal Victor Davis Hanson warns Trump Has Just Weeks Left to Finish the Iran Conflict.

Hat Hair's Josh Hammer has hopes As AG, Todd Blanche Will Finally Seek Justice for Dems' Dirty Lawfare.

CTH hosts Sunday Talks – Border Czar Tom Homan Discusses Value of ICE Body Cameras Showing Insanity of Criminal Aliens and Leftist Agitators. CBD at Ace's Physical Deportation Is The First Step, And Cutting Illegals Off From Our Society Is The Next Step! Debanking. Hey, liberals did it to conservatives so it must be legal, am I right? Alex Muse at The Enterprise, Careful What You Gavel For: How Boasberg's Lecture Became Trump's Weapon, "Thanks, Your Honor: Trump Activates the Court Boasberg Told Him About." Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen, "If you ever wonder why migrant rapists get slaps on the wrist while white people go to jail in Europe - It's because the majority of their judges are female." Quote Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert. "A majority of judges are women in all EU countries except Ireland." I'd like to see that by state in the US.

Greg Lukianoff at The Eternally Radical Idea reports FIRE weighs in on Oversight Board AI report, Canadian free speech up in smoke, Colleges settle Kirk comment cases, & more! Joe Chalfant at TownHall, hears This Law Means That Praying at a Northern Ireland Hospital Could Land You in Trouble With the Police.

Jonathan Turley cites Gallup: Higher Education Hits Another Low in Public Trust as the Public Rejects Institutional Bias. "According to the latest Gallup poll, only 38% of U.S. adults have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education." Campus Reform reports Northeastern Illinois gender studies major enrolls just 4 students. Eliminate the department.

From NYPo, Historian says it’s racist to question her — after book about slavery pulled from shelves over inaccuracies. From Twitchy, Cops Tried to Edit THIS Part Out of Sunny Hostin's DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM Incident With Her Son and WOW.

At NYPo, a Chaotic bodycam video shows trans Florida student freak out on cop for ‘misgendering’ him — before being cuffed. From State of the Day, State of Friday: ELLEN PAGE'S MANFACE "She is the reality they always imagined. ... No matter how hard they try, Ellen Page is not going to explain masculinity to me." Liberty Unyielding reports a Transgender neo-Nazi assigned to women’s prison, despite wearing a mustache and being biologically male, in Germany.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Platner Signs Off

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

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

Note they skipped Little Italy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.10.26. Linked at The Pirates Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Slowly I Turn up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Bolton to Plead Guilty, More Platner Problems

Ben Whedon at JTN reports John Bolton to plead guilty to retaining classified information: reports, "The FBI searched Bolton's home in August of last year. The investigation began during the Biden administration." From Ace, John Bolton Reaches Deal to Plead Guilty to Mishandling Classified Documents, "But wait I thought Trump was "weaponizing the DOJ to punish his enemies"? No? Or is it more like, as Bolton said many times, "No one is above the law"?" Greg Price @greg_price11, "When John Bolton was indicted last October, he compared Trump to Stalin and said he was the "latest target in weaponizing the DOJ to charge those he deems his enemies." Today, he plead guilty." They clearly had him dead to rights with classified files at home well after he was out of the administration. I assume the deal will require little or no jail time. That's OK. After Trump was charged, a host of others, including Joe Biden and Mike Pence were found to have been more than a little careless with classified information, and managed to skate free. It must be a strong temptation to hold onto it once you have it in your grasp. I once admired Bolton, but apparently when he found he wasn't allowed to call the shots under Trump, he reverted to childish anti-Trump antics.

First, Ace reports Keith Edwards, a Democrat Podcaster and Political Strategist Who Got Advance Word of the Eric Swalwell Sexual Assault Accusations, Now Says the NYT and WaPo Are Racing to Report That Graham Platner Sexually Assaulted "Multiple" Women. Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_, "NYT just dropped a new Platner story." "A couple takeaways...Platner allegedly referred to women as "hatchet wounds" (crude remark re: their physical anatomy) and allegedly said if anyone ever broke into his home he would rape them to assert dominance, but "not in a gay way". Platner campaign doesn't dispute the remarks." Ace, NYT: Ex GF of Platner Says He Knew All About "My Totenkopf," Used Physical Force Against Her, Bragged That He Would Rape His Male Enemies, "Not in a Gay Way," But to Show "I'm Dominant" "Coming soon: Claire McCaskill demsplains that fantasizing about homosexual rape of your enemies to prove your dominance is not psychopathic, but rather "authentic" and "blue collar." Well this is definitely not the sexual assault exposé I was expecting, or that I got you amped for, but... eh, maybe for now, it's enough." At Althouse, "Lyndsey Fifield, 40... recalled [Graham Platner] as 'cavalierly contemptuous of women’s emotions, of our "weakness."'" ""Ms. Fifield, who dated Mr. Platner from roughly 2013 to 2015, said that his offensive online posts 'reminded me of just how much he hated women.' Jenny Racicot, 41... who said she dated him casually off and on between 2019 and 2021, said the posts deepened her belief that he did not respect women. 'When I saw the old comments that he made online,' she said, 'I recognized a version of him that I had experiences with.'... Ms. Racicot also said that in 2021 he arrived at her house drunk, after she had asked him not to come over. She declined to elaborate, but said she cut off contact soon after that episode and found his behavior 'reckless' and 'unsettling.'" Amber Duke @ambermarieduke, "NEW from @dailycaller on the NYT's catch and kill operation: - A source tells @wupton that the NYT had two women prepared to make sexual assault allegations against Platner. - Those details were revealed to Fifield, presumably to make her feel more comfortable coming forward - They never made it into the story, allegedly being removed at the behest of NYT editors and Platner's lawyers. - The Platner campaign was originally only given two hours to respond, but that stretched into 24 hours, contrary to what interview subjects were told." Will Upton at Da Caller, Graham Platner’s Alleged Victims Came Forward. The New York Times Fed Them To The Wolves. "Let me be clear: the New York Times story was not journalism. It was a soft catch-and-kill operation. It was a favor to Platner’s campaign, a disservice to readers, and an insult to the women who say they were hurt by him." Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "This is going just great for Sanders and Warren." Quote Mike Berg @MikeKBerg "Platner campaign admitting he said he would rape men, but “not in a gay way.”"

TownHall's Matt Vespa thinks you should Watch These Two Guests on CNN Absolutely Cook Dems Over Their Support for Graham Platner. Jim Geraghty at NRO wonders Do Senate Democrats Really Buy Graham Platner’s Assurances? Comfortably Smug @ComfortablySmug, "My prediction is that the Democrats remain predictable: Platner doesn't drop out. Senate Democrats continue to support him. They don't "believe all women" or believe in anything, actually, other than power If that means backing the Nazi tattoo guy who abuses women they will." From NYPo, Mamdani guru reportedly working with Graham Platner wanted to put his penis in creepy ‘puberty guide’ for 10-year-olds "Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign guru Morris Katz wanted to feature his penis in a “puberty book” for “curious boys” as young as 10-years-old, but decided against it at the behest of his publisher." Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar, "Democratic strategist, to NY Mag: "Are we going to see pictures of Graham Platner’s penis before this is all over? I think we almost certainly will.""

Then there's the other current Democrat male heartthrob, James Talerico. Chris Queen at PJM thinks The Left’s New Favorite Christian Politician Has a Theology Problem. TownHall's Amy Curtis notices James Talarico Compares Unborn Children to Parasites.

Hat Hair's Dave Strom is suspicious Are They Stealing the Los Angeles Primary? As the late, mail-in vote is counted, it leans improbably Democrat. MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra, "Red flag… 39.3% vote in… Karen Bass had 117,579 Spencer Pratt had 86,323 42.4% vote in… Karen Bass 130,429 Spencer Pratt 86,323 Virtually every candidate received votes except for Spencer Pratt. Impossible." Ace, Claim: The Man Stealing the California Mayoral Election Previously Stole the 2004 Washington Gubernatorial Election, "The fear is that this guy is either going to "discover" votes that put Basura over 50%, or "discover" votes to put Nithya Raman ahead of Spencer Pratt. This article says he's done it before. He's very, very good at "discovering" votes in the 5th Quarter of an election, where Democrats really shine." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, ""Without evidence" were the buzz words in every single news report about suspicions of voter fraud in the 20/20 election. The words were in fact inserted without evidence. Claims or suspicions of malfeasance were dismissed without being examined. It was a novel news tactic, outright dismissal rather simply reporting that a claim had been made by parties with standing in the matter. Part of the broader lefty strategy we see from American elections to British murders. There are three basic responses to any crisis that reflects poorly on the left. 1) Shut up. You can't say that. Accusations of racism fall under this category. 2) Denial and dismissal. "Without evidence." 3) Utterly ignore or actively censor. Combinations of those tactics may be applied in any given situation. Actually examining or addressing the claims is not part of the playbook. But when you see any of those tactics at play, as in the Hunter Biden laptop case, you know you're on to something." Quote, "ABC7 Eyewitness News@ABC7, "President Donald Trump, without evidence, is accusing Democrats of trying to "steal" the California gubernatorial and Los Angeles mayoral primaries. He first called out the use of mail-in ballots in a post on Truth Social. In a follow-up post, he accused Democrats of holding up."

From Fox, I'm Ohio's state auditor — Medicaid fraud is not just a Washington problem. "Audits found payments to dead people, prison inmates and residents enrolled in multiple states." At Da Caller, Obamacare Enrollment Fraud May Cost Taxpayers Billions In 2026, New Study Shows. It's a feature, not a bug. Amy Curtis observes Francesca Hong Wants to Control Wisconsin's Budget, but Can't Seem to Manage Her Own Finances. "Francesca Hong wants to be the next Governor of Wisconsin, but it turns out Hong was just sued for more than $30,000 in credit card debt." PJM's Rick Moran wonders Is He Nuts? Sen. Sanders Wants to Take 50% of AI Profits to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund. I'm surprised he didn't demand it all.

At News Wax, Trump Confirms Mass Rally, Scrapping US 250th Concerts and Trump Unveils Plan to Add 'Trump Promenade' to Lincoln Memorial. "Trump said the walkway would link the huge marble monument, built to commemorate Civil War-era president Abraham Lincoln, to the nearby Potomac River. "They want to call it the Trump Promenade," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office as he unveiled the project for the first time. "I don't know if I want to do that, but it's going to be beautiful." Reuters whines Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers. "The order, released by the White House and the Office of Personnel Management, strips job protections from a mostly senior group of federal workers earning up ​to almost $200,000 a year and who are deemed to be "influencing" government policy." James Thorne at RCP discourses on Bessent and the Hamilton Standard. "Like Hamilton before him, Bessent has stepped into an economy weakened by a long period of policies that, however well-intentioned, failed to serve the enduring interests of the American domestic economy."

PJM's Sarah Anderson approves, The President Endorses the Tiger, in Columbia. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair reads the WSJ: Putin's Losing His Oligarchs And Hawks Over Ukraine. Becky Noble at RedState records that Trump Admin Goes Over the Ayatollahs’ Heads With New Message to Iranians. "a new video put out by the State Department goes over the heads of Iranian dictators and speaks directly to the Iranian people, saying to them, "The Iranian people are not the problem. A leadership that fears openness and chooses confrontation over opportunity is the problem.""

Dave Strom says It Sure Looks Like SPLC Is Cooked, Sliced, Diced, and Served Up on a Platter. Sounds unappetizing, but I know what he means.

Josh Blackmun at the Volokh Conspiracy asks If Judge Ross's "Improper Sexual Activity" "Greatly Damage[s] [Her] Credibility as a Judge," Does That Satisfy the Standard for Impeachment? There are standards for impeachment? I thought it was whatever you could get away with.

From Ace, Black Jurors Struck from Karmelo Anthony Murder Trial Because They Admit They Don't Want to Send a "Brother," Even a Murderer, to Jail "So are we all just now interested in nothing more than advancing the interests of our particular race? Are you sure you want to do that? Because this current situation in which every race except whites gets to act ruthlessly and selfishly in its own tribal interests is unstable and will not last much longer."

The Annapolis Cap Gazette reports ICE barred from using Anne Arundel County-owned facilities. I hope Homan responds appropriately. Campus Reform hears NJ spends $8.2M to defend illegals from deportation, including through university law clinics.

Stephen Kruiser says Bari Weiss Came to Chew Gum and Shake Up CBS News and She Is SO Out of Gum. At Am Spec, Scott McKay sees 60 Minutes Is Burning. Bring Marshmallows. "The establishment journalists who once ruled CBS are suddenly learning what accountability feels like." At his substack Insty notes Scott Pelley Is Out. So What? "The demise of the news anchor as someone who matters." VodkaPundit at Insty responds YOU DON’T HAVE TO SELL ME ON IT, I ALREADY WANTED HIM GONE: Media Reporter: Pelley Firing May Trigger ’60 Minutes’ Exodus.

At Twitchy, Do NOT Forget This. EVER: Seb Gorka Comes Out Swinging at the Woke Right and It's a BEAUTIFUL Thing. Sebastian Gorka DrG @SebGorka, "The Truth about @megynkelly and @ShawnRyan762. They want to “unite” with those who hate America and call MAGA fascists. Do not forget this. Ever." Quote Britta | NoSoup4Knowles @nosoup4knowles, ""The line between LEFT and RIGHT is merging, there's something rising out of the MIDDLE of that" MEGYN KELLY loves Ana Kasparian and says there can be common ground between "the leftists who are not trying to cut off the body parts of our children and people on the right who are willing not to make 'you must fight with me to stop it'" a condition for unity."

Dave Strom sees As More Details Come Out About Nowak Murder, It Only Gets Worse; UPDATE—Konstantin Kisin Explains How Konstantin Kisin shares his thoughts on Youtube. Francis Turner compares The Martyrdom of Henry Nowak And the parallels with St George of Fentanyl. Sarah Hoyt at Insty notes MEANWHILE IN FORMERLY GREAT BRITAIN: "The Hampshire police have bravely decided to hide their entire website for foreigners. This includes the “Race Action PLan 2024-2026” which seems to have some bearing on the Henry Nowak case. Fortunately A FRIEND saved a copy yesterday that lost all the formatting but otherwise contains everything relevant. Click here to read the PDF and shine a light on these “brave” people." Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho, "People are accusing the UK Police Force of being infected by Woke ideology. There were signs." Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "You want to know why UK police mocked, arrested, and left to die an innocent student while they treated his murderer’s false claims of “racism” as the highest priority? Because this is the system setup for policing in the UK." John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad, "“Elon Musk is interfering with our politics and inciting division.” I don’t think he is mate." Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Member of Parliament Shabana Mahmood when it’s a black criminal who died of a drug overdose vs an innocent white guy George Floyd: “Regarding protests across the U.S… I share their anger at this unspeakable outrage.” Henry Nowak: “The scenes this evening are completely unacceptable. Those responsible can expect to face the full force of the law.” Unreal."

Herr Professor Jacobson at LI, on DEI discrimination: “trying to get it out is like trying to get soap out of a sponge” “… every time you squeeze it, you find more and more. At the Equal Protection Project, we’re trying to squeeze discrimination out of the system.” Aaron Hanscom at PJM, ‘Jews Eat Children’: Deranged Outburst or Growing Threat? Embrace the healing power of "and." The Chi Trib whines Some Republican governors are rebranding June with conservative alternatives to Pride.

Still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.04.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 06.04.26 (Evening Edition). The Wombat has and FMJRA 2.0: To The Winter Meetings up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - SPLC Paid For Cross-Burning, Charlottesville Buses

Apparently, there isn't enough racism and right-wing violence in America anymore, so the SPLC had to subsidize it. Tyler O'Neil @Tyler2ONeil, "READ IT The Justice Department just secured a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and it reveals some new bombshells" "F-30 wasn't the only one. F-31 & F-32, KKK members, wanted out in 2010. The SPLC bribed them to stay in the movement. These Fs used the $ to attend extremist rallies and to gain a leadership role. SPLC reimbursed them for cross-burning materials." "F-37, a member of the leadership chat for the Charlottesville rally in 2017, made racist posts under an SPLC employee's supervision and arranged transport for others to attend the rally. SPLC paid this person $300K." From NYPo, Far-left Southern Poverty Law Center reimbursed Klan members for cross-burnings: feds. Techno Fog, Sordid Southern Poverty Law Center paid for cross burnings, "And - SPLC employee in a romantic relationship with "hate group extremist". Hat Hair's Beege Welborn, The SPLC Turns Out to Have Been an Equal Opportunity KKKind of Place. TownHall's Matt Vespa notices So, the Premise Behind Biden's 2020 Run Was Built on a Lie Paid for By the SPLC? How much did Biden's handlers know, and when did they know it?

The DOJ recently announced that it would hold hold NGO's funding violent protests responsible for the consequences. Will this mean the SPLC will be charged in the death of the one person killed at Charlottesville? I hope so. At Data Republican's Substack, Which NGOs Are Organizing the Newark Protests, and How "How a six-word Signal message shut down a thousand-person protest." "What happened between Sunday morning and Sunday night was a single message in an encrypted Signal group, as discovered by @bitchuneedsoap. A Cosecha NJ communicator posted a six-line announcement: “Cosecha is NOT mobilizing to Delaney Hall tonight. We are talking to strikers and their families to regroup.” No negotiation, no vote, no gradual loss of enthusiasm. Some switch had been flipped off ... On May 28, six days into the hunger strike and four days before the stand-down, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the White House press room that a joint IRS-FBI investigation into protest funding networks had made “substantial progress.” Then he added the line that mattered: “If a grant recipient is violent, if they are suppressing people’s rights, then YOU are responsible for that.”

Homeland Security @DHSgov, "Last week, the state of New Jersey’s health inspectors went to Delaney Hall and didn’t find one SINGLE violation. Compare this to the “DEPLORABLE” conditions of the New Jersey state prison system. See for yourself" NBC New York, NJ prison inmate was beaten to death in his cell. Officers didn't check on him for 2 days. "Warning: Some of the details of the case are disturbing." In other words, he started to smell. Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "One of our reporters, who got locked up in a New Jersey jail while documenting the chaos outside Delaney Hall a few nights ago, asked for toilet paper after being in a holding cell for 18 hours. They told him to use his hand. Wanna condemn that, @GovSherrillNJ?" At Twitchy, Chef José Andrés Shown the Dinner Menu at ICE Detention Facility Where Hunger Strike Is Alleged. Homeland Security @DHSgov, "Chef, Chicken Fried Steak was on the menu for dinner last night." Gina Milan @ginamilan_, "You wanna hear something funny? Lemme tell y’all what Rep. LaMonica McIver just said to Secretary Mullin during the hearing. Paraphrasing but you get the gist… “You wanna talk about racism and everything… tell me why every person locked up in Delaney Hall is a foreigner?” Who’s gonna tell her that ICE facilities ONLY house illegal aliens? GOOD LORD! Democrats are truly the stupidest breed out there." Insty at his NYPo gig, From Delaney Hall to ‘Freedom 250,’ lefty violence is what real insurrection looks like. No Pasaran! Doxxing & Double Standards: In Case You Are Wondering, Here Is the Real Reason Why ICE Officers Are Masked. The Manhattan Contrarian explores What Percent Of U.S. Households Headed By Illegal Immigrants Receive Welfare Benefits? SightBringer @_The_Prophet__, "Trump is using Treasury and financial institutions to target illegal immigration, cartel finance, fraud, and access to the U.S. financial system. This is the domestic financial-border regime starting to appear. The physical border is only the visible layer. The deeper border is access to banking, payments, welfare flows, payroll, credit cards, remittances, debit cards, prepaid cards, and identity-linked financial rails. That is what this is really about..." Trump understands that money talks. 

Twitchy, OUCH! Dem Senator Did NOT Like Scott Bessent Spotlighting the Reason He's Slandering Treasury. Greg Price @greg_price11, "BESSENT: "Sen. Wyden has slandered the Treasury building to cover up his son having an investment with Jeffrey Epstein." WYDEN: "Nobody is interested in the rambling of a capo in the most corrupt regime in American history." BESSENT: "Your son's largest investment position was Rick's Cabaret. Did your son and Epstein talk about poll dancing?" Jen O'Connell at RedState, With the Quickness: Scott Bessent Easily Divests Ron Wyden and Thom Tillis' Half-Baked Questions. Driscoll has a Driscolly post on it at Insty, OLD AND BUSTED: "Gambling Going On in Rick’s Café. The New Hotness? Ron Wydon’s son investing in Rick’s Cabaret!" Sarah Anderson at PJM, Day 2: Rubio Enters a Hostile Clown Show, and... Well, You Just Have to See This. Nick Arama at RedState, Absolute Killer: More Rubio Jabs at Hearing As He Leaves Dems Fuming, but the Rest of Us in Stitches.

At Althouse, "President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term putting his personal stamp — and in many cases his image — on American institutions. Now his eponymous impulses ..." "... have expanded to the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. Trump’s face will be stamped on a celebratory gold coin marking the semiquincentennial. His stern visage will peer from commemorative passports. Administration officials are pushing for a $250 bill featuring the president’s portrait. On Trump’s 80th birthday, June 14, the White House lawn will transform into a ring for a 'Freedom 250' UFC fight.... Whines Writes Cleve R. Wootson Jr., in "America’s 250th birthday celebration increasingly centers on Trump/From a $250 bill to special passports to a presidential rally, many Independence Day commemorations will revolve around the president" (WaPo).

Nick Arama sees John Cornyn's New Post About TX Senate Race Is Raising Eyebrows: What the Heck?. He may tepidly 'support' Paxton, but he's not above 'I told you so.'

Hat Hair's John Sexton reports Drones Hit St. Petersburg as Putin's Annual Economic Forum Opens, It's not like he has the standing to complain.

From NYPo, Trump predicts meeting with Iran’s probably gay Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei: ‘Getting along quite well.’ Sundance hosts President Trump Gives Extensive Interview on Iran Issues – Confirms Testy Conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu, with the Divine Ms. Devine.

On the California primary elections, Vicky Taft at PJM, Not So Fast, Karen, Spencer Pratt Isn't Done With You Yet. At Ace, California Primary Results. "Although California will take days or weeks to full tabulate the " " " votes " " ", it appears that Karen Bass will take about 35% of the vote, Spencer Pratt will take 30%, and communist carpetbagger foreigner Nithya Raman 22%. That means that Bass and Pratt will go on to the general election, which will be held on November 3rd. Unless Karen Bass's fraudulent vote elves can print up enough fake votes to get her over 50%, in which case she wins immediately. But I think that's too big a lift even for the Democrat fraudsters of the Home of "Ballot Harvesting," California." Dave Strom, California's Elections Are a Bad Joke; UPDATE: Suddenly Raman Is Ahead of Pratt in the Odds. At Althouse, "Obviously, God wanted 5 more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor, so it's going to be a fun ride. I hope she's ready!" "Now, I have 5 months to get deep into every community that hasn't heard my message to make them safe. So I'm actually very excited because I felt very rushed. It's a big city and I was not able to talk to as many people as I look forward to talking to. This is the first time since 2005 an incumbent is going to a runoff." Sundance, Steve Hilton Gives Speech in California as AP Reminds Everyone Votes Change for Days/Weeks Depending on Democrat Tally Requirements. In a Hat Hair vid, Larry notes MSNow Slips up and Reveals California Mail-in-Ballot Scheme. Matt Vespa sees Oh, Here We Go Again: Those Damn Mail-in Ballots Have Severely Cut Into GOP Vote Totals in CA.

John Sexton hears In Private, Dems Asked Platner If There Would Be More Allegations to Come. Michael Trujillo @mikehtrujillo, "Umm yeah, not trying to disclose everything I do, but YES there is more on Platner and anyone saying there isn’t is 100% gaslighting you." Quote Politics & Poll Tracker @PollTracker2024, "WSJ: Senators Privately Ask Graham Platner Whether New Allegations Will Emerge Maine Senate candidate tells Democratic lawmakers, "The worst of the rumors we’ve all heard are not true" and denied credible allegations of assault are forthcoming." Ace, Erick Erickson: "Alarming" Rumors Swirl About Graham Platner's Ejection from Elite Boarding School; More Is Coming About His "Behavior" with Women. From the Free Bacon, 'What a Cool Pic': Totenkopf-Tattooed Graham Platner Admired 'German Helmets' in WW2 Photo of Nazi-Allied Troops, Deleted Post Shows, "Platner has spent the last six months trying to explain his Totenkopf, or Death's Head, Nazi tattoo, which he wore for 18 years before having it covered up last October." Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer, "I do continue to crack up at this idea that Democrat politician moral fiber was so high at some point. When I started working, the Senate Democratic caucus was home to Sen. Killed That Girl in Chappaquiddick, Sen. Waitress Sandwich, and Sen. Klan Member." Quote Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "My favorite interview genre right now is watching Democrats attempt to run on superior morals and higher standards of conduct, then get asked about Platner. The immediate switch to dodge and deflection mode is hysterical." AMAC discusses James Talarico and the Myth of the Moderate Democrat. Dave Strom hears Democrats in Washington So Excited About Talarico's Chances That They Expect Coattails! But Texas isn't inside the Beltway.

Hat Hair's Capt. Ed calls it Too Fun to Check: Jeffries Balks At Wasserman Schultz Endorsement For Majority-Minority Seat.

Stacy McCain finds Democrats Electing Jew-Haters, While Losers Blame … THE JOOZ! Jerry Dunleavy at JTN reports Michigan Democrat Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed a protégé of firebrand Muslim activist Linda Sarsour. "Abdul El-Sayed, who is currently front-running the Democratic Party primaries has been backed up by Bernie Sanders surrogate and controversial Muslim activist Linda Sarsour for nearly a decade." Ace, Democrats Nominate Al Qaeda and Hamas-Linked Advocate for the WTC Bombing Mastermind for Congress "January 6th protesters stole a chair and a coat-rack so MAGA must be purged. Meanwhile, Democrats are electing actual Al Qaeda terrorists. This cannot go on. And the good/bad news is-- it will not.Via David Strom"
At PJM, Bob Spencer calls it the Embarrassment of the Week: ‘Islamophobic’ Killer Is Named… Yeah, You Guessed It, Mohamed Rage.

Matt Margolis reports Joe Biden Crashed Jill's Book Event, and It Was an Absolute Train Wreck. Whoopie! Ace, Joe Biden's Childhood Stutter Crashes Doctor Jill's Book Promotion to Ask Her How Much She Loves Him, "The childhood stutter flares up from time to time, resulting in dementia."

Jennica Pounds at Am Mind, on Feeding the Fraudsters, "The largest COVID fraud case yet reveals systemic blind spots."

Cam at BA rejoices Virginia Judge Delivers Win for Gun Owners, Smacks Down AG and Governor on Background Checks.

TownHall's Jeff Charles Trump Just Confirmed What We Already Knew About J6. Fedsurrection.

Sundance hosts Senate Intelligence Vice-Chair Mark Warner Reduced to Quivering Rage Over Bill Pulte Appointment – Video and Pulte Panic Reaches Fever Pitch – Democrats Threatening to Block FISA 702 Reauthorization.

Ace hears of a Virginia Judge: It's Unconstititional To Ban That a Repeat Convicted Child Sex Offender from Loitering Outside a Children's Swimming Pool. "The judge is so determined to set the pedophile free to molest children that he's decided that it's "unconstitutional" to mandate that a repeat sex offender who has admitted he gets off on exposing himself to children can't, well, go into the YWMC lockers when little girls are present and expose himself. He insists that the pedophile maintains that right, and that anyone attempting to restrict him via the sex offender registry is violating the Constitution." Dave Strom, Judge: Paedo Sex Offenders May Use Girls' Locker Room. From the Free Bacon, Harvard Divinity School Launches Journal Devoted to ‘Queerness,’ ‘Palestinian Liberation’, "'We are not scholars,' the editors write in volume one, with 'support' from dean’s office." Virginia Kruta at Da Wire thinks Conservatives Are Winning War Against LGBT Ideology, Major Poll Shows.

At Althouse "Race and partisanship have closely tracked each other for decades. But the justices said that under their new standard..." "... courts must disentangle the two and could step in only if race, not politics, was at play. Analysts who cheered as well as those who criticized the ruling agreed that the justices were signaling that from now on lawmakers — not the courts — should be in the driver’s seat of redistricting." From "In Alabama Ruling, Supreme Court Signals Limited Role for Federal Courts in Redistricting Fights/In an emergency ruling on Tuesday night, the court’s conservative majority gave a first glimpse into congressional district battles under a weakened Voting Rights Act" (NYT)."

PJM's Stephen Kruiser is happy CBS Fires Professional Prevaricator Scott Pelley. At NRO, Charles Cooke thinks Scott Pelley Is Ridiculous in All the Usual Ways. Brad Slager at RedState thinks Some of Scott Pelley’s Comments Explain the Type of Man He Is and Explain How Journalism Was Not Attacked. State of the Day's, State of Tuesday: THE TRUTH BEHIND SCOTT PELLEY'S EPIC CBS MELTDOWN. At Althouse "Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt... a performative display of hostility...." ""Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you." Said Nick Bilton, "60 Minutes" executive producer, quoted in "Scott Pelley fired from ‘60 Minutes’ after confrontation with new boss/The termination marks the latest shake-up during a tumultuous period for the iconic newsmagazine" (WaPo)." Ace says Scorned Woman Pelley Shrieks Out. Driscoll's take REASON’S MICHAEL MOYNIHAN AND MATT WELCH ON SCOTT PELLEY’S CRASH AND BURN: The Fifth Column @wethefifth, "Pompous ass @ScottPelley deserved to be fired from 60 Minutes. From our new episode." T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams, "The CBS tantrums are even funnier when you remember they’re not in reaction to some fringe right-winger, but a lesbian Obama-Democrat." Quote Neera Tanden @neeratanden, "Decades from now @BariWeiss will be best known as a destroyer of greatness."

Dave Strom, Shock! (NOT): Henry Nowak's Killer Was a 'Known Wolf'. Stole knives from the Sikh temple! Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs, "Weird, because that excuse was rejected by BLM when George Floyd overdosed." Quote Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "Hampshire police claim that Henry Nowak would have died anyway, regardless of whether he was handcuffed or not. The Hampshire police have issued an official defense for the actions taken by the officers who handcuffed 18-year-old Henry Nowak as he was pleading for help. The medical examiner has testified that Vickrum Digwa’s 21 cm blade had caused a catastrophic wound directly to Henry's heart. Because the blade penetrated so deeply, the blood was pooling inside his chest cavity rather than soaking his clothes immediately. According to the pathologist, the trauma to his heart was unsurvivable from the moment it occurred, arguing that it didn't matter who was handcuffed at the scene first. The Deputy Chief Constable has publicly stated that "the pathologist who spoke in court was clear: there was nothing officers could have done that day to save Henry. His wound was deep and internal, the bleeding extensive but internal." Henry's father, Mark Nowak, stressed that while the wound was fatal, the police's mishandling denied his son the right to die with dignity, care, or peace. Essentially, the British police shifted their narrative on Henry Nowak from "we did nothing wrong" to "he would have died anyway, so the delay doesn't matter."" Beege Welborn hears Nigel Farage Is the Bad Guy for Being Angry: Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey, "Nigel Farage is trying to exploit Henry Nowak’s murder to divide people – exactly what Henry’s father asked us not to do. We need a different kind of politics that brings people together to stop knife crime." leilani dowding @LeilaniDowding, "This is just 1 police force! Look at the amount of our tax money going on ridiculous jobs."

John Sexton wonders What is the Point of Education If Everyone is Cheating? Pretty soon, education will be come a matter of teaching how to ask AI the right questions (and how to detect AI hallucinations.)

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: To The Winter Meetings up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - England Has a 'George Floyd' Problem and It Was Primary Day in Cali

I mentioned it in passing yesterday morning but it blew up later in the day. It seems quite some time ago, a young British lad, Henry Nowak either got in a spat with a Sikh, Vickrum Digwam, 23 and was stabbed 4 time with the 21 cm (8 inch) Sikh 'ceremonial' knife. Sikhs are legally allowed to carry knives that ordinary British citizens are not, due to a religious requirement that Sikhs always carry a knife. Digwam's family called Police and accused Nowak of racism, and they put Nowak in handcuffs and chatted with and released Digwam. Meanwhile, Digwam's mother was called to the scene and took the dagger away, cleaned it and hid it. Nowak bled out on the street while the police ignored his pleas. The police actions were recorded on body cams, the footage of which was released two days ago, leading to riots. British police have apparently been explicitly trained to take minorities sided in racial incidents. After investigation, Digwam was charged with murder, and his mother with being an accessory. TCW, The sickening footage of dying Henry Nowak that shows how twisted the police have become. At Insty they are all over it, BRITAIN’S GEORGE FLOYD MOMENT, Driscoll cites BRENDAN O’NEILL: The merciless mistreatment of Henry Nowak, BUT THEY WERE LECTURING PEOPLE ABOUT BEING “DIVISIVE” TODAY and KONSTANTIN KISIN: How America’s Racial Politics Poisoned Britain. and VodkaPundit, INDEED: George Alexopoulos @GPrime85, "There's no more accurate a metaphor for the West than slowly bleeding to death by the hand of barbarians while corrupt authorities tie our hands behind our back." Leslie Eastman at LI, Henry Nowak Killing Highlights Two-Tier Standard on Identity, Policing, and Justice in Britain, "Stabbing death of the 18-year-old at the hands of a Sikh falsely claiming racism, and Nowak’s subsequent handcuffing by the police as he lay dying, only received attention once Elon Musk began sharing the news on social media." Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Henry Nowak's Death Proves Two-Tier Policing Is the Result of 'Antiracism' UPDATE: One Officer Resigns. Guido Hawkes, Guardian Published 26 Articles on George Floyd in a Month Compared to Three on Henry Nowak. From Ace, One Officer Resigns in Henry Nowak Police-Assisted Murder Scandal Update: Protests Turn Mostly Peaceful, "I heard this hours ago but could not find the story about it. But now it's confirmed." Protesters in Southampton Demand Police Take a Knee For Henry Nowak, The Man They Murdered, "Things are getting Mostly Peaceful," and Is the UK in a State of Civil War Yet? If Not, Why Not? Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "In America, when people rioted, burned things, looted, attacked police stations and courthouses because a crackhead career criminal had a heart attack while violently resisting arrest, our elites called it "social justice." What will your elites call it, these expressions of outrage over a boy being cuffed and left to bleed out because his killer cried racism? When the police who lied about it remain on the job, the murderer received the mildest of sentences, and those who aided and abetted haven't even been charged. When the commanders, governing boards, politicians and party that advanced a two-tier racism form of law enforcement remain not only unrepentant, but still in their positions?" Quote R A W S G L B A L@RawsGlobal, "#BREAKING: Full-scale riots have erupted in Southampton UK as hundreds of protesters clash with riot police throwing Glass bottles, bricks, and wheelie bins at officers as tensions continue to escalate throughout the area. Demonstrators are demanding justice for Henry Nowak." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Hometown newspaper gets the story." Quote Southampton Times @sotontimes "“I don’t think you have mate” The British public showed tonight in Southampton they will not accept the death of Henry Nowak. This is a turning point for change."

Sauron's Eye reports White House Correspondents' Dinner rescheduled for July 24 after shooting disrupted initial event, "Mr. Trump said he has accepted an invitation to speak at the dinner next month, calling it a "'HOT' ticket!"" Location as yet unspecified. At NYPo, Vandals sabotage Trump’s Freedom 250 event on National Mall — contaminating underground water with fuel: spokeswoman. I'm sure their mothers are proud. Also, a Nantucket church cancels Fourth of July celebration in ‘political protest’ because of its ‘own whiteness.’ Sasha Stone notes Donald Trump is the Counterculture "The reason the fringe artists originally planned for America’s 250th celebration backed out is that they were told it was a partisan event for Trump and MAGA and not “bipartisan,” as though the word still exists in practice. It doesn’t." 

Mark Tapscott at Insy wonders IS BESSENT KILLING CHINA’S CURRENCY? "The backstory of why Scott Bessent was President Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary begins with the fact Bessent’s early career included time in 1992 with the Soros Fund Management team that broke the Bank of England. The ever-observant Rod Martin sees the huge significance of that otherwise little-noted fact in the context of U.S.-China relations."

Sundance at CTH has Secretary of State Marco Rubio Testimony to Senate Foreign Relations Committee, DNI Tulsi Gabbard's Husband, Abraham Williams, Begins Surgical Treatment for Bone Cancer and Senators Thune and Cotton React to Pulte as Acting ODNI.

Jeff Charles at TownHall sees Marco Rubio Just Threw Down the Gauntlet With Iran. Cathy Salgado at PJM, Iran Ends Negotiations With U.S., Doubling Down on Terrorism - Trump Responds. Beege Welborn hears Iran is Poking the Eagle: IRGC Says It's 'Targeting' US Bases Tonight.

Yesterday was primary day in many places yesterday, including the much commented on races for Mayor of Los Angeles and Governor of California. At PJM Stephen Kruiser notes It's Primary Day in California — Raise a Glass to the Underdogs and Vicky Taft, Decision Day: Will Californians Choose to Save Their State and Vote for Steve Hilton? At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed has LIVE PRIMARY RESULTS: We Love LA … And CA, IA, MT, NJ, NM, And SD. At RedState, Susie Moore has LIVE: Election Results - California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota. Currently Steve Hilton leading in CA, and Spencer Pratt is second to Bass in LA. Of course, it's CA, so they vote is nowhere near counted. Jarvis @jarvis_best, "I try not to contradict Nate very often but there’s a perfectly valid reason why it takes so long to count votes in California. Here is a typical timeline: Election Day: everyone votes Week 1: mail in ballots, absentee ballots, military ballots, overseas ballots, ballots accidentally issued to people’s pets, and ballots harvested from Skid Row start trickling in. Week 2: As the ballots pile up, Officials consider appointing a Committee to Count Ballots. Week 3: Committee to Count Ballots is appointed and commences discussion on electing a chairman. Week 4: deadline for ballots from illegal immigrants. Week 5: Committee decides that “chairman” is an outdated term and will be replaced by a term to be decided later once the Committee to Count Ballots Diversity Consultants finishes their report. Week 6: fraudulent ballots from the Chinese Communist Party arrive. Week 7: The Committee elects as Chairzerxon a nonbinary disabled child to count the ballots. Week 8: it is discovered that the Chairzerxon does not actually know how to count. Week 9: the ballots are thrown away and the Committee announces election results that are entirely made up." Quote Nate Silver @NateSilver538, "The fact that California elections often can't be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world." Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks We Knew the LA Mayor's Results Wouldn't Be Called, but These Drunk Pratt Supporters Were Hilarious. Jim Geraghty at NRO calls it Spencer Pratt’s First Big Test. Cathy Salgado looks at Spencer Pratt’s Excellent Economic Plan and Final Bid to Voters. At Althouse, Bill Maher lay in wait for Spencer Pratt, then suddenly sprang the trap: "Your wife... look I hate to put it this way, but what I remember about this story was huge tits....", " "What is the state of the tits? They're not what you would call huge but they were at one point. At one time they were okay. So what happened there?"" From Da Wire, Democrats Made A Living Hell Out Of The City Of Angels, "The glamourous city depicted in Entourage no longer exists." NYPo, Karen Bass pulls funds for iconic Valley July 4 parade — leaving community devastated. Driscoll at Insty sees HOPENCHANGE IS BARACK IN CALIFORNIA! "‘Barack Obama’ Is Running for California Governor, but There’s a Catch. Hailing from the sunny streets of Alameda, Barack D. Obama Shaw has entered his not-so-unique name in California’s upcoming gubernatorial election against 61 other candidates."

Am Spec's Dave Catron wonders, How Long Will Democrats Keep Defending Platner? "Their defense of this creepy character reveals how much control the far left has over the party." John Sexton at Hat Hair thinks Platner's Redemption Arc Blew Up but Democrats Don't Care. Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer, "I don’t want to hear a word by the Democrats about the Epstein files when they’re running a guy for the Senate in Maine who took a picture of himself wrapped in a towel for use on an app targeted to teens. Platner is Epstein without the island." From Twitchy, Wanna See Just How WARPED Democrats Really Are? Check Out This Thread of Graham Platner Supporters. At Althouse "Democrats really, really like Platner in Maine but the Republicans f***ing love him … if Maine wants an asshole with a Nazi tattoo on his chest, they get him." "Said John Fetterman, quoted in "Graham Platner 'sexted women.' Senior Democrats fear voters won’t care/Sexually explicit texts have piled pressure on the candidate for Maine. Long-serving party insiders say it’s a test of the tolerance for scandal" (London Times)." From Ace, Democrats Meet With Nazi Feces-Fetishist Graham Platner To Ask If It's Just the Nazi Tattooo /Communism/Mockery of a Purple Heart Hero/Racism/Obsessive Sexting, Or If There's a Real Scandal Coming, "Spoiler: They're sticking with the Communist Nazi serial adulterer welfare layabout aroused by the smell of human waste," and The Very Perceptive Ladies of The View: Gee This Graham Platner Guy Seems Like a Hot S.S. Mess Doesn't He? "These subnormal-IQ chickenhead* women just don't miss a trick do they?" From the Free Bacon, Graham Platner Says He 'Serves' as His Maine Town's Harbormaster. He Held the Largely 'Clerical' Role for 18 Months Before Quitting To Campaign. "'We don't really have any working waterfront,' Sullivan's town manager said, adding that Platner's role was 'not like a regular employee.'"

PJM's Matt Margolis sees Talarico Revealed His Girlfriend and Accidentally Exposed a Couple of Scandals, Too. Don Surber says Democrats don’t know American men, "They believe we are Nazis who eat barbecue with a napkin and use tampons." Stephen Green @VodkaPundit, "So the first step is to incentivize neglect via rent control. A few steps later, you "transfer ownership" to your cronies. And then you're just a couple more steps away from "some animals are more equal than others." Quote End Wokeness @EndWokeness "IT BEGINS… NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveils plan to "transfer ownership" from landlords to "the community"" Ramin Ekhtiar @raminrealtalk, "Everyone’s yelling “communism” about Mamdani’s housing plan. They’re missing the actual trick. His own plan says the city will “engage lenders to trigger foreclosure” on landlords. I’ve done real estate 20 years. Here’s what that means: they let the building go distressed, force the bank to eat the loan, then hand it off with NO mortgage. A building with no loan is a money printer. And they pick who holds it. That’s not a housing plan. It’s a wealth transfer with a loyalty program attached. New York’s the test kitchen. California’s next. Follow me — I’ll show you the part nobody else is reading." Fusilli Spock @awstar11, "If Democrats told you what they really believed, they’d never get elected." Quote Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE "NEW: Mamdani-backed congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier deleted posts and reposts calling for abolishing police, prisons and borders, seizing private property, nationalizing industries, and one declaring, “Israel doesn’t exist!”" At Shooting News Week, More Virginia Counties Announce They Won’t Enforce Spanberger’s ‘Assault Firearms’ Ban. The Victory Girls at amused at Unserious Democrat Females Demanding Paid Time Off For Menstruation.

NYPo, Hakeem Jeffries’ re-election bid boosted by ‘sick’ NYC Dems running ‘beloved’ dead community leader on same ticket: critics. It worked with Biden. Sara at Insty, HUNTER ISN’T GETTING THOSE LUCRATIVE BOARD MEMBERSHIPS, SOMEBODY HAS TO MONETIZE THE FAMILY NAME: So, That’s Why Jill Biden’s Book Is Coming Out Now.

Ben Whedon at JTN reports RFK Jr. announces largest autism fraud bust in history, "Investigators uncovered brazen schemes that billed taxpayers for nonexistent services, fraudulent diagnoses, and fake care while criminals enriched themselves at public expense." From WaT, HHS probes complaint of racial preferences in Biden-era healthcare training grants.

NYT whines the Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Map in Alabama. Bob Graboyes at Bastiat's Window, looks at the Extraordinary Popular Vote Delusions and the Madness of NPVIC "The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is dangerous for America and perhaps even more so for its Democratic fan base."

RedState's Bog Hoge sees Jack Smith's Ghost Haunts DOJ As Burn‑Bag Document Trove Surfaces.

New York Post @nypost, "Anti-ICE agitator who allegedly bit officers during Delaney Hall protest was previously accused of distributing child porn https://trib.al/bybS5PF." Ace, White House: Rioters Outside of NJ ICE Facility Will be Prosecuted to the Fullest Extent of the Law, NGO Admits It's Giving the Orders to Riot, "It's time to start getting rough with the terrorists." DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "Read this again. A single NGO can call these protests on and off at a moment's notice." Quote bitchuneedsoap @bitchuneedsoap, "Cosecha New Jersey just announced they will not be mobilizing to Delaney Hall tonight. They’re “talking to strikers and their families to regroup.” 

Dave Manney at PJM notes ICE Keeps Finding the Criminals Democrats Pretend Don’t Exist. Jum @JesterJum "How do I know the media is brainwashing people? Obama's ICE Chief received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service for removing over 900,000 illegal aliens. Trump's ICE Chief is called a Nazi. It is the same person.....Tom Homan.... The only difference? The narrative. Matt Lamb at LI finds an Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Faking Homosexuality To Get Asylum, "Illegal immigrant reportedly fakes being gay in order to get asylum and then gets caught after marrying a woman." CIS reports Texas Nabs Six Camo-Clad Chinese on Border Ranch. "The border is now so secure that their apprehension is ‘newsworthy’ — unlike under the last administration."

Driscoll, 60 MINUTES IS BURNING. BRING MARSHMALLOWS: "Scott Pelley knows he’s on borrowed time and has been for quite a while. He’s making himself a pain in the ass so that he can claim to be a victim of “censorship” when he’s let go for a completely different reason — namely, that he’s a leftist hack whose journalistic product is middling at best, that he makes far too much money for the volume of content he produces and the number of eyes it draws, and that his undisciplined and irritating public outbursts are bad for the CBS News brand." Beege Welborn, Bari-O-Meter, Pegged: Scott Pelley Has a Major 'Hold My Beer, Alfonsi' Moment UPDATE Adios, Pelley. Noam Blum @neontaster, "It’s probably what he wanted with that tantrum." Quote Dylan Byers @DylanByers, "#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract." Read the letter.

Ace hears Jimmy Kimmel Cries That His Show Will End the Way Colbert's Did (And for the Same Reason). "God save us from effeminate, histrionic men. Yes, Jimmy, you will go the way that Colbert went, because you both are anti-talents losing the shareholders tens of millions per year."

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Canada going boldly forward with coercive state-facilitated death as a cost-saving measure is among the many developments of the 21st century I did not see coming. Combined with ruinous economic policy and strategic choices, plus replacement migration, it's like Canada is striving to outdo Britain and Europe in the international self-destruction race. Eager to stand out." Quote “Sudden And Unexpected” @toobaffled, "“Canada Modelling Non-Voluntary Euthanasia to Save Trillions?” A new academic study is calculating how much money the government could save by dramatically expanding euthanasia .. including “non-voluntary” scenarios for vulnerable people."

The Wombat hasd FMJRA 2.0: To The Winter Meetings up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.