Flotsam and Jetsam - Monday, Monday, Can't Trust that Day

Barely any news made it through the weekend, but here it goes anyway. From News Wax, CENTCOM Commander Cooper: USS Lincoln Visit 'Awe-Inspiring' after CNN voiced concerns that the food was boring after 240 days without making port. Sundance reports President Trump Makes a Surprise Announcement on U.S. Military Support to South Korea "Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful. Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises! While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, “No thanks!” Thank you for your attention to this matter.” Unrelated my ass! He also hosts Sunday Talks: AG Todd Blanche -vs- DSA Advocate Kristen Welker. She needs to get her thyroid checked. Commonplace recommends Trump Slam The USMCA Back Door, "For the trade agreement to survive, it must keep China out of North America." TownHall's Joe Chalfant likes how Trump Is Opening the Financial Floodgates to Keep Republicans in Office. At the Atlantic Council, Iran is draining its leverage in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump’s best move is to let it happen. At USA Today, Nicole Russell writes Karoline Leavitt exposed Democrats' double standard on women.

RedState's Nick Arama sees El-Sayed Tries to Attack Rogers in Michigan Senate Race, but It Boomerangs on Him. At Hat Hair Larry Elder hears Obama to Tell 'the Brothers' to Vote for El-Sayed and Josh Hammer asserts The Electoral Integrity Issue Isn't Israel -- It's Islam. Catturd ™ @catturd2, "This is why Democrats have to cheat in every election." Quote Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "The room is PACKED to hear Rockstar Democrat Senator Mark Kelly at the Nation’s LARGEST progressive youth conference. We have NEVER seen ENTHUSIASM like this." A nearly empty room. The Great Victor Davis Hanson, at the Blade of Perseus explores Who’s Been Destroying Norms? Joe Chalfant hears Democrat Ro Khanna Thinks That Racist America Needs a 'Multi-Racial New Deal', like the old one didn't do enough damage. Twitchy calls it the 'Biggest F**k You in HISTORY:' Mark Cuban ENDS Ro Khanna in HEATED Back and Forth About Wealth Tax.

Althouse is concerned about Socialists in shorts, "I'm reading the NYT article "Is the Democratic Party Facing Its Own Tea Party Moment? A string of primary wins by progressive candidates has revealed the strength of a high-energy insurgent movement but also its potential limitations," which you can read for yourself at that gift link," and bemused by "Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is being sued in North Carolina under the state's 'homewrecker' law." "Sinema admitted in a deposition to having a sexual relationship with her then-married former bodyguard. Sinema argues the affair did not happen in North Carolina, so she shouldn't be sued in that state. The lawsuit was filed by Heather Ammel, the ex-wife of Sinema's former bodyguard Matthew Ammel...." I'm reading "'We went inside and had sex.' Sinema details affair with bodyguard" (The Arizona Republic)."

Jonathan Turley worries about Rage Politics: Hakeem Jeffries Will Take a Baseball Bat to the Supreme Court. I think Trump and the Republicans should make an attempt to pack the court ASAP, just to get the Democrats on record that it's a bad idea.

Sundance hosts Sunday Talks: Jim Jordan Discusses Recent Revelations and Declassifications About FBI Misconduct, a topic dear to his heart.

Civitas Institute discourses on The Fall of Fauci. Tom Knighton at TAW says It's not just Fauci, "It’s not just Fauci who is the problem. It’s damn near everyone involved in the system itself."

Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby, "This story gets crazier. The Mayor of Lawrence, left court today in a Dodge Charger and rammed into another car and left the scene. Same Mayor that can't speak English, and stole $1.5M in covid money." The Vigilant Fox @vigilantfox, "RFK Jr. reveals what HHS found when they went looking for the 375,000 migrant kids Biden lost. "It's a huge, huge tragedy." "One guy pretended to be the parent of 42 children. We have no idea what happened to those kids." "We're now finding them. We found about 137,000 of them, but a lot of them you just can't find. There was about 60 kids who were sent to one address. When we looked at that address, it was a container, a steel container in the middle of a parking lot." "A lot of them were sent to work at slaughterhouses and picking fruits in the fields. They were slaves."..."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair, sees it's Out in the Open: Antisemites Not Even Trying to Hide It Anymore. Katya Sedgwick @KatyaSedgwick, "Why are we bringing foreigners to our country to break our civil rights laws?" Quote StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites, "Fatana Karimi, owner of Karimi Brows in Alexandria VA, kicks out a Jewish client over her Israeli ethnicity. Attorneys - our DM’s are open, we’re happy to connect you with the victim!" Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "A New York town is facing a federal lawsuit after officials refused to allow a Christian Nativity display in a public square while permitting Islamic religious displays. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has sued the town of Brighton, New York, accusing officials of violating the First Amendment through viewpoint discrimination. According to the complaint, a local physician repeatedly asked for more than two years to place a life-size Nativity scene in the Twelve Corners public square during the Christmas season. Those requests were not approved even though the town had allowed other private religious displays, including a large Ramadan banner." Mazelit Airaksinen hears a Nurse Fired for Calling Jews “Vermin” Claims To Have Been With Luigi Mangione on Night of Murder, "He couldn’t have done it. He was with me at the laundromat all night” claimed Hart."

Another Driscoll post about Jason Ardray at Insty starts with ROGER KIMBALL: The Unmaking of Jason Arday. From the Right Times with Kathy Gyngell, My Week In Review: Leftism Killed Jason Arday, Just As It Has Corrupted Us All, "Jason Arday, Rod Liddle, and a fortnight that exposed who the real gatekeepers of 'acceptable' opinion are." At Richard Hanania's Newsletter They're the Ones Who Told Us to Pay Attention to Jason Arday. "Don't let academia forget this story."

Matt Margolis is impressed that Sophie Cunningham Just Gave Leftists Another Reason to Hate Her. "She climbed onto the bar at Clayton's Country Bar in Indianapolis and led the crowd in Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue." Video of the moment spread across social media within hours, and the crowd sang every word right along with her." RedState's Ward Clark hears Caitlyn Jenner Has a Simple Answer to the WNBA's Transgender Player Problem "Cathy, XX, you’re in. XY you’re out. It’s that simple." It is that simple, but it will never satisfy the trans grievance community.

Flotsam and Jetsam - The Wisconsin Autopsy Continues

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flotsam and Jetsam - A Saturday Morning Salad

A whole lot of little bits all mixed together. Beege Wellborn at Hat Hair thinks this is Awkward: DC Circuit Tells Trump Not to Knock Down East Wing of the White House. Have they looked recently? Ethan Savka @eesavka, "This case shouldn't even be in court. The so-called injury that gives the plaintiff standing is laughable. They get to go to court because the White House isn't pretty anymore? Give me a break. This is a manufactured case that is surviving off of judicial activism alone." Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew, "It would not shock me at all to see SCOTUS enter a summary order granting relief to the Administration in the ridiculous ballroom case, and remand the matter to the D.C. Circuit for further consideration, citing favorably Judge Rao's dissent, Sec. II(A) -- a lack of standing by the plaintiff -- and be done with it." At Althouse, "The White House is the People’s House, and under the Constitution’s Property Clause, Congress exercises plenary control over the building and its surrounding land." "I'm reading National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States v. National Park Service, the new decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. ... Trump's reaction, at Truth Social: "Two Judges, one appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, the other by Sleepy Joe Biden, said in a ruling on the desperately needed SECURE Ballroom/Military Complex, including a major DronePort on the roof, that 'Each President is a temporary tenant…of the White House.' We are not tenants, who pay rent and do all other things that a tenant must do, we are PRESIDENTS, elected by the people of the United States of America, and have many rights, including the right to fix, renovate, secure, protect, and beautify the White House grounds, which has been built and rebuilt, renovated and rerenovated, repaired and, simply, MADE BETTER, many times since 1792, and never needing the permission of Congress, or anyone else, to do so. This decision, made after much of the work has been done and paid for, is a National Security Threat at the highest level. It is also a National Disgrace. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP""

Also at Althouse, "This whole thing has been really surreal and absurd... it’s a relief, but there’s a detachment to that relief of extreme concern for other people and for our country." "Said David Hearn, "the Olympian," quoted in "Judge Dismisses Former Olympian’s Felony Charge in Reflecting Pool Case/The move ends the criminal case for David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, after prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false" (NYT gift link)." My comment: "So let me get this straight. One day, Trump and his posse, Judge Jeanine, Dougie Bergman and Kash Patel were personally patrolling the Capitol grounds looking for thought crimes, and they happened upon Dave Hearn, who they identified as anti-MAGA from his bicycle shorts, and decided to hang the frame on him. Don't be stupid. Some Park employee, who, like everyone else in DC is probably a liberal, saw Hearn doing something that he/she/it thought was vandalizing the reflecting pool. I believe he has already admitted to trying to grab a piece of the loose lining as a souvenir. They got into it, and Hearn fought back, and was arrested and charged with vandalism."

At Hat Hair, Larry says a Bombshell Trump Interview Confirm Trump Understands Everything About 2026.

From Stars and Stripes, Ukraine delivers first batch of drones to United States. CDR Salamander thinks It's OK to say Japan is rearming. It is, "Let's normalize plain speaking."

Interesting Engineering reports the US hits jackpot after finding multi-million-ton critical mineral reserve in Nevada, "The deposit holds 1.78 million tons of inferred tungsten." More material for the "Rod from God!"

Mitch McConnell's Staff Says He Was Dropped Off At A Farm In The Country Where He'll Be Happier And Have More Room To Run Around https://t.co/gwJtM54UqU

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 7, 2026

Hat Hair's Dave Strom says sarcastically That Abdul Guy Has Turned Out to Be a Great Candidate Choice, Guys. That remains to be seen. Marina Medvin @MarinaMedvin, "I’m becoming increasingly concerned about radicalization in Dearborn." Quote Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "Mosque imams in Dearborn, Michigan: “Oh Allah, kill every Jew, Christian, and American.” Dearborn, home to the largest Arab-American community in the United States, was one of the strongest bases of support for Abdul El-Sayed, the newly elected Democratic nominee for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat, who won the city's vote by a wide margin." Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow, "How about this one? Is the Democrat Party ok with this?" Quote TECTONE@Tectone, "OLD HASAN CLIP HAS RESURFACED: “We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna fuck your sisters and then your daughters.” At Twitchy, Former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg Says There's No Room for Moderates in Democrat Party's 'Big Tent' and Democracy Dimwit: DSA Co-Chair Cannot Explain What ‘Taxing the Hell Out of Millionaires’ Means. PJM's Stephen Kruiser notes Dems Will Never Think Their Party Is So Broken That It Needs Fixing. Hollywood in Toto thinks Blame Hollywood for Rise of DSA, Socialism in America. "Film industry did far more than just ignore nation's 250th birthday." NYPo, Democratic strategist James Carville says he could become a Republican under one major condition. Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN, "South America is moving away from socialism, after having tried it. North America is moving toward socialism, having never tried it. We shouldn’t have to learn this lesson the hard way." Quote UHN Plus @UHN_Plus "Translated from Spanish, Gustavo Petro leaves the Presidential House of Nariño after four years of socialism, increased crime, and a fiscal crisis in Colombia."

At AMAC, NYC Mayor Mamdani Demands ID for Groceries But Not Voting. "NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has become the latest Democrat earning widespread mockery for his hypocritical stance on requiring an ID to buy groceries but not to vote." Jen Rust at PJM reports A Bot Army for Mamdani Linked to Gotham's City Hall. Joe Chalfant at TownHall, Watch a Talarico Staffer Shut Off Event Attendee's Camera When Asked About Voter Fraud Scandal. NYPo explains how Eric Swalwell leveraged past relationship with Katie Miller to hide embarrassing files on honeypot Chinese spy. Town Hall's John Sexton wonders Is This Why We Never Got the Full Story on Swalwell and Fang Fang? End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "Senator Klobuchar says she is strong on US border security The crowd laughs out loud in her face."

SarahLee @sarailola, "This is a big part of that affordability crisis everyone's talking about." Quote Stephen Moore @StephenMoore, "Americans now pay more in taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and shelter combined. Think about that." ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena, "All of us depend on data centers throughout our day. Every time we use our smartphones, computers, stream, navigate, etc we rely on a data center somewhere. In the same way we rely on products made possible by hydraulic fracturing (fuel, electricity, plastics, medical goods etc)." Quote Scott Paterno, Shabbos Goy @ScottPaterno, "Data Centers are the new Fracking. People will oppose them aggressively while depending daily on them to do...for some of these people, everything."

From Ace, New Evidence Suggests That "The Most Secure Election in Earth History" Wasn't So Much. "You mean that incompetents and hyperpartisans in position of authority over their superiors have been lying to us? I'm gonna need a minute on this one. My programming needs a big update."

At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed, calls it BREAKING (From February): Nepo Babytollah May Not Be Alive! and Daune Patterson notes Oil Isn't the Only Commodity Not Flowing in Iran. gCaptain believes Dozens of Idling Iranian Oil Tankers Show US Blockade Is Working. NYPo sees Iran’s economy nears breaking point, citizens reportedly stealing basic groceries to get by: expert. Sarah Hoyt explains Why Iran? Why Now?

Ian Maile at JTN reports Blackburn says Senate has the votes to confirm Blanche, more evidence on Jack Smith has emerged. "The Tennessee senator spoke at roughly the same time Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins said she would vote "no" on Blanche, narrowing his path to confirmation." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair VIP, Sen. Bill Cassidy a 'Yes' on Blanche AG Confirmation. Update: Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "BREAKING: The U.S. Senate has CONFIRMED Todd Blanche to lead the DOJ as Attorney General after beating a razor-thin 50-49 vote. Every Republican Senator should have voted for him. The American people voted to enact Trump’s agenda. Get it done."

Jay Town at Da Fed explains Why Fauci’s Refusal To Answer Congress Puts His Pardon In Jeopardy. PJM's Matt Margolis thinks Kayleigh McEnany’s Inside Story With Fauci Will Leave You Furious. Phil Magness @PhilWMagness, For the first time ever in his life, Fauci doesn't like cameras." Quote New York Post @nypost, "Fauci's fed-up wife flips the bird as ex-top doc miserably takes out trash hours after contempt vote" Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul, "Is that how you plead the fifth in sign language?" Vince Langman @LangmanVince, "How it started versus how it's going!" From No Pasaran! "Thank You for Your Service," Dr Fauci — Appropriating Greetings to U.S. Warriors Is in the Direct Lineage of Leftist Cosplays of Valorous Combat Heroics.

Matt Vespa at TownHall hears Samuel Alito Just Made a Huge Announcement About His Potential Retirement. Not gonna happen.

Beege Welborn is happy that the Trump DOJ Has Fired Over 100 Immigration Judges So Far, and the system works better as a result. Athena Thorne at PJM has The Super-Simple Solution to Masked ICE Agents — and Why It Will Never Satisfy the Left. From Twitchy, a Marriage on ICE: ‘Lifelong Republican’ Shocked to Learn Immigration Laws Apply to His Foreign Fiancé. She forgot to do the paperwork. 

Dave Strom says I Hope This Is My Last Post on Jason Arday, but It Needs Saying. At Althouse, "Setting aside the plagiarism and fabrication allegations, I’m struck by just how … bad Arday’s work is." ""It makes me cringe to watch video of Professor Hilary Cremin, head of Cambridge’s faculty of education, fawning over him: 'We’re so lucky to have you. You’re the best in the world in terms of the research you do.' I’m gobsmacked that she didn’t think it might be worth trying to read the book he’d claimed to have written before offering him a plum academic job." Writes Sonia Sodha, in "Jason Arday is the product of academia’s soft bigotry/Universities risk undermining genuine equality of opportunity when they reward identity over merit and sideline proper scrutiny" (London Times)." At Ace's Of Course: Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir," Which Was, Of Course, Ghostwritten by a White Woman; Comparing His Initial Proposal and the Book Itself, The Atlantic Finds More Cases of Fabulism and Lying. GSL1776 @gsl1776, "Eve Claxton only concerns herself with the world’s best." It was a pretty good con. At the Telegraph, Arday’s students think Cambridge failed them. Now they want their grades reviewed.

From Campus Reform, Kansas school confirms four-year policy of using 'they/them' pronouns for all students in yearbook "Spring Hill High School recently drew criticism over its decision to identify all students with ‘they/them’ pronouns in its yearbook." At the College Fix, Saying ‘just get it done’ is ‘hostile’ language: CU Boulder bias report. Guy Benson @guypbenson, "Decline is a choice." Quote Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold, "Oh wow. University of Michigan will HIDE first-semester grades on transcripts for students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts." John Sexton cites DOJ: Duke Law Discriminated Based on Race.

RedState's Sister Toldja has another of her Hot Takes: Hilarity Ensues After Former NBA Player Enes Kanter Declares for the WNBA and Kyle Becker delights in a Former ESPN Show Host Melting Down After Former NBA Player Declares for WNBA Draft. Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "Girl, get some." Quote Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom, "After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect. If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA." From Fox, Former NBA player Royce White says he is declaring for next WNBA Draft after Enes Kanter announcement. "The former NBA player and Republican Senate candidate joins Enes Kanter Freedom in challenging the league." Matt Vespa had a good laugh when Piers Morgan Asked a Dem Strategist This Simple Question About Transgenders in Sports...and Hoo Boy.

More at Ace's The Week In Woke and at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.07.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 08.07.26 (Evening Edition). The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Another Rough Start up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - The Second Stab at the Nerd Prom

They kind of caught me by surprise with the rescheduled White House Correspondents Dinner. I guess I wasn't paying attention, again. Any, it was held last night at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington DC. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair heard Trump to Recognize Secret Service Officer Shot at First WHCA Dinner at Nerd Prom, Take 2. Seems reasonable. As you might remember, the Secret Service agent Victor Gonzales survived the close range shotgun blast thanks to his vest. He also runs down the list of administration attendees, which notably does not include JD Vance and Marco Rubio. RedState's Jen O'Connell has Hot Takes: Media's Reaction to Redo of the White House Correspondents' Dinner Was As Expected. Aw, he was mean to the poor babies. Althouse host's Trump's routine (I hesitate to call it a speech) and offers her opinions of some of it in "Is this supposed to be fun? Am I supposed to be serious? Am I supposed to be a comedian?" "Trump finally gets his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech. ... And here's the joke I thought was the best: "Under my administration, a once-feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled. Their former leaders have been removed and they're now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions. But I for one wish Bari Weiss all the best at CBS News. She's a wonderful woman."

Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson, "President Trump is leading a political "counter-revolution," seeking to reverse decades of progressive policies on immigration, education, energy, and American history, doing more than any other Republican president." At Althouse, "His detractors have adopted the 'Never Vance' slogan and flooded social media, especially over the past week, with attacks..." ""... including claims that Vance is 'unfit' to be vice president due to his efforts to negotiate a peace deal with Iran. They have asserted, without evidence, that Vance is making policy decisions not supported by President Donald Trump. They have likened him to former president Barack Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)...." I'm reading "Knives are out for Vance in the GOP. His allies say it’s a coordinated ‘op.’ The vice president has faced a barrage of attacks recently that are unusual for their intensity and how early in the political calendar they are taking place" (WaPo)(gift link)." PJM's Matt Margolis, Is This the Reason Your Leftist Relatives Are Cutting You Off? and Sarah Anderson reports a Black-Owned Atlanta Restaurant Faces Boycott Calls for Serving a Republican.

RCD looks at Hegseth’s Herculean Task.

PJM's Cathy Salgado notes One Pennsylvania County Has 3,500 Noncitizens on Non-Juror List, Potentially Voting and Bob Spencer wonders Is Dem Fundraising Powerhouse ActBlue a Massive Money Laundering Machine? Yes, the example he provides is stunning. A Larry video at Hat Hair, Trump DOJ Confirms Investigation Into New Jersey Voter Rolls.

Karol Markowicz at NYPo thinks Democrats are completely blind to the DSA’s brazen party coup — so the rest of us must step up. RCP cites James Carville: DSA Are "Paternalistic, Over-Educated Little White Turds" Who "Think They Know Better Than You" Yep. Rainer Zitelmann at Reason explains How Capitalism Beat Communism in Vietnam. "It only took a generation to go from ration cards to exporting electronics." At Da Signal, How Cuba Became the Nerve Center of the Anti-American Left. Dave Strom at Hat Hair opines Shamelessness Is, You Must Admit, a Huge Political Advantage, featuring a picture of Dan Goldman. I think it's an essential, at least on the Democrat side. 

Hat Hair's John Sexton hears from Morris Katz: We May Have Missed a Few Red Lines with Platner. Just a few. Seth Mandel at Commentary calls AOC’s Latest Dual-Loyalty Hoax a Doozy. At the Crimson Hub, AOC, Her Brother, and the Property Taxes Billed To Their Mother. Luke Rosiak at Da Wire reports Ilhan Omar’s Sister Linked To Central Figures In Minnesota’s Fraud Scandal. "Records tie company founded by "Squad" member's sister to largest public theft scandal in Minnesota history." Jon Tobin at JNS claims The lies behind Mamdani’s Netanyahu stunt are the real threat. "New York’s mayor isn’t going to arrest Israel’s prime minister. But the widespread belief in the “genocide” blood libel illustrates how toxic ideologies, AI and social media are defeating facts." At Althouse, "You want voters to believe you posted to this account but all of the bad things came from someone else, including a friend who is dead?" Matt Smith @mattsmith_news, "When asked today if he was 100% certain he didn't write any of the offensive posts on the 'Dirt McGirk' Twitter account, David Crowley said, "Look, we would have to go through all of these different posts, but the ones that I've seen that were printed, I did not write those."" "And the pig got up and slowly walked away."

RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9, "Amazing we're just never going to hear anything about this ever again, including the fact the killer said he was paid by Tim Walz to do it." Quote Nick Sortor @nicksortor, " JUST IN: Tim Walz appointee Vance Boelter has been sentenced to TWO LIFE SENTENCES plus 40 years for the murder of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman Boelter’s vehicle was found with “NO KINGS” flyers on the seat, and kiIIed Hortman and her husband soon after she voted against healthcare for illegals. Will Walz pardon this guy too?"

Beege Welborn at Hat Hair observes Chicago West and South Side Save A Lot Stores Closing, Blame New EBT Rules and likes Steve Hilton Debuting Wild New Campaign Ads: Enough Is Enough!

Steve Hilton puts out devastating ad exposing communist California’s mindless, Godless leftist machine! https://t.co/tfIJvVdv05

— The Chris Salcedo Show (@CSalcedoShow) July 24, 2026

John Sexton sees the California Wealth Tax Battle Continues. PJM's Vicky Taft has another West Coast, Messed Coast™ – Climate Lie Implodes but Greens Already Spent Taxpayers' Billions.

wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat, "Current operations in Iran are no longer starting from the original position. Iran’s missile attack volume was substantially higher in March 2026 than in July 2026 going from as many as hundreds per day then to mere dozens now. It's retaliatory power, while still existent, has clearly diminished..." Peter Orem @PeterMOrem, "I think we're still operating within war-gamed scenarios."

From Althouse, Why Madison police don't have body cameras. Molly Beck @MollyBeck, "Former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s perspective on why Madison police don’t have body cameras (Soglin was mayor until 2019):"

The Guardian whines about a British-born man living in US since age of nine held by ICE under threat of deportation, "Connor Read, who is married and has two children, was detained in June during residency permit interview." Also, an extensive, but pretty petty criminal record. But just for kicks, he should claim asylum based on England's censorship policies.

Curt at Flopping Aces sees The Press Tried to Shame Elon. He Put the Entire Media Class on Trial. Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav, "This was basically the interview." Ace, Elon Musk Demolishes Snarky Superior Editor of The Economist, "The extremist didn't like being told that she's the actual extremist." From Twitchy, Ben Shapiro Schools Piers Morgan: Free Speech Means I Don't Have to Feed Your Clickbait Show. Dave Strom takes The Curious Case of the Woman Who Was Baited Into Saying the 'N' Word.

EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince, "Let’s be honest about why this article was written & published… It’s was a shot across the bow to any white woman that even thinks about complaining about abuse by anyone not white. It was a threat to shut up lest be called a white supremacist. A murderer of Emmitt Till. A klan member." Quote Michael McCarthy @MMcCarthyREV, "UPDATE: A top USA TODAY executive stood by Nancy Armour's explosive column linking some Caitlin Clark fans to white nationalists. "Her column is clearly labeled Opinion," she tells @FOS." At Mazelite Airaksinen, NYC Doc Claims Orthodox Jews Smell and "Criminally, Fraudulently and Illegally" Live in USA, "Dr. Robert Guarino is a pathologist in the West Village of NYC and Staten Island." John Sexton was really shocked by a NYT Opinion: 'Land Acknowledgements Are Infuriating.' "If you mean it, give it back, the conservatives said. They are not asking in good faith, but they are asking for the right thing. It names the gap between the words and anything the institution is willing to surrender."

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Maryland, My Maryland - We're #2!

But not in a good way. At the Balmer Sun, Poll ranks Maryland economy 2nd worst in the US, "State is ranked 4th in the country for residents moving to other states."

Marylanders frustrated by rising costs and a growing list of taxes and fees are organizing around a new effort they say aims to make the state more affordable, as a new poll ranks Maryland’s economy near the bottom nationally.

A new CNBC poll ranks Maryland’s economy as the second worst in the country. The report comes as residents cite a “litany of new taxes and fees over the past three years,” including title fees, registration fees, vendor taxes and rental car fees, and say the added costs are pushing people to leave the state. “I’m just at my wits’ end; it’s like, when do we get a break?” one resident said.

Gov. Wes Moore said, “We were going to be sure we bring costs down for Marylanders.”

Randy Altschula, an entrepreneur and founder of the newly formed Maryland Affordability Project, said the state’s cost of living compared with neighboring states is driving people away. “We’re two and a half times more expensive than Delaware. We’re three times more expensive than Pennsylvania, and we’re four times more expensive than Virginia,” Altschula said. He said Maryland should be doing far better economically. “We should be one of the most prosperous states in the country, not the second worst,” Altschula said.

Altschula said he plans to crisscross the state to educate residents about policies he believes are affecting their bottom lines, including rising energy bills and housing costs. Maryland is ranked fourth in the country for residents moving to other states, according to the report. “So many Marylanders are moving out, and that leaves the rest of us carrying the heavy burden of these state governor expenditures. Meanwhile, few of us have jobs,” another resident said.

Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that this is a solid blue state? 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Time for Escape from New York?

This post inadvertently left in draft until this morning; I thought I'd just put it out there anyway.

In the wake of the Marxist's victories in NYC, Derek Hunter says Let New York Suffer. That's pretty much my take too. NYC has gone through these cycles before, electing wreckers before waking up and electing somebody to clean up. If they fail to do the latter this time, oh well. We don't really need it as a thriving financial hub anymore, it's all being done on the internet. Just don't force us to pay the bill. The Manhattan Contrarian notices In New York, The Democrats Go Completely Crazy. Nate Silver @NateSilver538, "Depending on the definition, maybe 3-5% of the US population is smart but seriously mentally unstable. That group heavily selects into politics, though. So maybe you're getting more like 10-15% among certain political types. That's enough to have a real influence on movements." Insty quips HONESTLY, THAT’S A LOWBALL NUMBER I THINK. Twitchy hears No Money for Schools? Mary Katharine Ham Schools the Commie on NYC's $40K-Per-Student Disaster Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer, "“No money for schools.” NYC has a $43 billion dollar school system whose funding has gone up as enrollment has gone down. It has the highest per-student expenditure in the nation of up to $40K a year. 28-29% of students test proficient in math and reading (NAEP)." Quote Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_ "Darializa Avila Chevalier: “What we need is a mentality of people over profit. You can’t tell me there is no money for schools, there’s no money to address childhood poverty, there’s no money to address this housing crisis, while voting time and time again to send billions to a war machine to a country that’s currently enacting a genocide”"

Erick Florack calls Joe Biden The Perfect Symbol of Today's Democrat Party. Hat Hair's John Sexton manages some faux tears over Scott Wiener's Struggle Sessions. Shipwreckedcrew says The Supreme Court Produced No High Profile Decisions Last Week -- So Lets Look At "Dead Man Walking" Graham Platner in Maine. "Lets consider the "Bernie Bro" communist running in a state with the oldest electorate and where the number of "Independent" voters who decide elections is the largest." Scott McKay at Am Spec, Where Are the Bill Kristols and Michael Steeles on the Democrat Side Today? "Democrats and Republicans are not flip sides of the same coin." At Shooting News Week, Oops: Dems Concede Gun Control Isn’t Top Issue For Them Any More.

Caleb Howe at Howe It Is, 'Just The Latest Blow': White House Rips Newsom Over New Burden On Families — EXCLUSIVE. "He's all about punishing Americans. Citizens and journalists, anyway." "His scheme, a monthly per-enrollee tax on Medicaid, ObamaCare, and health plans at work, is going to see higher premiums across the board for working residents in the state. Genius!! No wait, that other thing. Terrible! That’s it." Mark Tapscott at Insty, WHEN REALITY BITES … NEWSOM: "He mocked Justice Alito’s majority opinion in the Supreme Court’s Hawaii decision on individuals carrying firearms in public. The Chief Executive of the state with the highest poverty rate and the most tax-paying citizens fleeing to Texas, Florida, Arizona, etc. etc. ought to know better." Hat Hair cites Kaitlyn Schallhorn from Orange County Register "(I Dunno - Top Chef?) What’s Next for Katie Porter After Ca Gov Loss?" She's so well known for her "special" mashed potatoes. Cathy Salgado at PJM hears Hilton: Audio Seems to Capture Becerra Detailing an 'Assembly Line' for Migrant Children. Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "Leaked recording of Xavier Becerra at HHS under Biden saying he was putting illegal migrant children “in an assembly line” He clearly says the American people will be upset knowing how much Democrats were spending on children who shouldn’t even be here in America, and he’s instructing his staff to place them as quickly as they can without doing the proper checks How is this guy not rotting in prison “This is not the way you do an assembly line” “We need to get discharges up — Every time we have to go to the Hill and explain why we're spending so much money when most people are struggling to spend a little bit of money for their kids on a daily basis, we try to explain how we're spending more than $1,000 a day for kids who may not even have the legal right to be here” This is your reminder he was also called out in official testimony for placing children with sponsors using strip clubs as addresses Arrest him." Jen O'Connell at RedState sees Karen Bass Blames Environmental Racism For Boyle Heights, Spencer Pratt Nails Her to the Wall. Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt "Toxic soil, 6,000 homes destroyed, 12 people burned alive, 400+ excess deaths from toxic smoke exposure…but that was in the Palisades, so who cares about us, right? No, THIS is a turning point. This one structure fire. What a soulless goblin Karen is." Quote Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA "People who are familiar with Boyle Heights know this fire did not happen in a vacuum. Environmental hazards have too often fallen on communities like this one. This moment must be a turning point. We will hold those responsible..."

Wokal Distance @wokal_distance, "Leftists claimed Elon Musk could end world hunger for only 6 Billion dollars, and then Mackenzie Scott spent 4 times that amount and it didn't do anything to solve world hunger." Quote Pubity @pubity, "Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott has given over $26,300,000,000 to charity, making her one of the biggest individual donors in history. She wants to spend the majority of her Bezos fortune on helping others and making the world a better place." Driscoll at Insty, WAIT, I THOUGHT NET NEUTRALITY AND GLOBAL COOLING, WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHAOS HAD KILLED EVERYONE ALREADY: Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630, "We pointed this out with global mortality data a weeks ago - but this is better and more region/state specific." Quote arctotherium @arctotherium42, "Did Elon Musk kill millions of people by cutting USAID? We now have preliminary 2025 mortality data from several African countries, and the answer may shock you: no. There is no detectable mortality signal at all. x.com/AldenWhitfeld/…" USAID was welfare for the credentialed class.

AMAC thinks President Trump’s Approval Rating Roars Back as Oil Prices Plummet. Sundance at CTH looks at USMCA Status – Canada in Recession, Mexico GDP Grows Double Expectations "Canada is combative. Mexico is collaborating." I&I says CAFE Kills, And Trump Is Doing Something About It.

MD Kittle at Da Fed thinks the Senate GOP Should Know Better Than To Ignore Trump’s Political Instincts On The SAVE Act. Jen O'Connell has another of her Hot Takes: John Cornyn Casts Shade at Americans Supporting the SAVE America Act—and It Boomerangs on Him. At RCM, Grassley and Klobuchar Have Created a Monster That Won't Die "The “monster” is the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), which the two senators have recently reintroduced. AICOA would terrorize leading American technology businesses, as well as workers and consumers." Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "I AM MAD BECAUSE THE PROBLEMS DECADES IN THE MAKING THAT REALLY TROUBLED ME HAVE NOT BEEN INSTANTLY SOLVED BY DECREE DESPITE THE RESISTENCE OF THE LEFT SO I’M GOING TO GIVE UP AND ALLOW THE LEFT TO WIN." Quote Native Patriot @LaNativePatriot, "There’s been a sentiment not just from myself, but from many on the conservative side of “checking out” politically. I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out what that could be, and I believe it’s been the results of the Trump Presidency so far..." At Twitchy, 'Hello, Mr. French': DataRepublican Turns Her Attention to David French and HOOBOY, YIKES, and HAAAAA.

Driscoll calls it ENDER’S GAME, WITH UKRAINIAN SUBTITLES: Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv, "A whole new level.. Russians complaining that Ukrainian Forces are now outsourcing drone operations to gamers all over the world by connecting hundreds of drones to a virtual server and inviting skilled drone operators to take out battalions, with cash prizes awarded for each." "If you ever get a war without any gore, well, I'll be the first to go" John Cleese @JohnCleese, "Is there one particular window that they are all falling out of, or it just any old window that happens to be large enough." Quote Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza, "The first one’s gone. In Moscow, Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylaš, commander of the Russian Air Force, accidentally fell out of a window."

Sundance at CTH has Ohio Governor with Deep Personal Ties to “Shithole Country”, Says It’s More Important to Protect Haitians Than Americans and on Sunday Talks – Jake Tapper Laments Deportation for Haitian and Syrian Migrants. Cathy Salgado likes how Brandon Gill Shows How Dems Used Temporary Protected Status to Change Red States. Steve Cortes @CortesSteve, "Exactly correct — the hordes of Third World “temporary” migrants did not settle in tony Ruling Class enclaves. They were sent to working class communities like Charleroi, PA, which I profiled as the town struggled to deal with the influx…" Quote Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill, "By the way, many of the Haitians who were given TPS under Joe Biden did not come from Haiti. They were living in nations like Brazil and Chile and came here to take advantage of Biden's open border. They were sent, not to Martha's Vineyard or Sherman Oaks, but to blue collar, midwestern towns like Springfield, Ohio. And the people there were called racist for objecting to the culture of the town they built being fundamentally changed overnight."

D_Hartley @DH_1997_, "The irony in a Muslim saying this is fucking insane" Quote Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan, "Maybe the Europeans should have thought about all that back when they were colonizing Africa in the 19th century. x.com/jasonlawlor100…" Twitchy finds a Woke CA Teacher who Brags About Marrying Gaza Resident Online for Green Card — 'It's for Palestinian Rights' "The odd couple tied the knot April 5 in Utah, which allows marriages to be conducted via Zoom, according to records posted online by the Utah County Clerk and obtained by Israeli nonprofit NGO Monitor."

Greg Lukianoff at the Eternally Radical Idea says the FCC won’t let ABC be, Gwar draws Secret Service ire, Battle for Your Brain wins Ashurbanipal award, & more! "Bringing you the latest free speech news (6/28/26)."

Hat Hair's Josh Hammer sees World Cup Tourists See What Too Many Americans Have Forgotten. J. @PresentWitness_, "We’re building frontier AI and catching reusable rockets while Europe is debating whether or not air conditioners are safe."

From the College Fix, ‘Fully substantiated’: Report says Biden leaders pushed ‘gender’ rule on schools despite court order. Jared Whitley at Am Spec want you to Meet the Secret Proponent of ‘Transing’ the Kids: Big Pharma, "The transgender ‘rights’ and ‘acceptance’ movements are the only civil rights movements in history where the primary driver has been corporate greed." There's plenty good money to be made, supplying the groomers with the tools of the trade.

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