The Morning Report — 7/ 1 /25

Good morning kids. Evidently some severe thunderstorms really fouled up air travel at key airports up and down the east coast yesterday, well into the evening.

So, given the spate of air incidents earlier this year on top of what I imagine standard operating procedures for air traffic control in the event of severe weather might be, I can see how the dominoes can cascade. But still, after how many decades of global air travel, you'd think we'd have a handle on this by now, so that the impact would've been kept to a minimum. Or given the volume of air traffic today, perhaps what happened yesterday was the minimum.

For some reason, one of the better websites AmericanGreatness dot com which features such notable authors as Victor Davis Hanson as well as Larry Sand who covers the education beat, is down. If anyone has a line to the editors there, see if you can suss out what's going on and shoot me an e-mail. Hopefully they'll be back up soon.

Meanwhile, as I wrote about yesterday and had suspected would be the case, we still have no definitive explanation for why this maniac set a wildfire and then gunned down two firefighters in cold blood who responded to the scene. Somewhere, there is a Venn diagram perhaps with Transexual, Muslim, Climate Change stooge, Anti-Ice/open borders terrorist, Trump-hater, or bog-standard off-the-shelf Pyromaniac. And so the convergence point is the biggest question mark of all.

It happens every time there's a high-profile crime. Law enforcement officials, in collusion with social media companies, surreptitiously disable the social media profiles of suspects, leaving Americans in the dark about their motives and political leanings. 

The question is why. And who benefits?

The most recent example is Wess Roley, 20, who is accused of starting a fire in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on Sunday so he could ambush first responders. Two firefighters died in the attack, and a third was critically wounded. Roley was later found dead on Canfield Mountain. It's not clear whether his gunshot wound was self-inflicted or the result of a firefight with police. The Kootenai Sheriff's office, as per usual when these things happen, has not released a motive in the shooting. 

Also, as per usual, his social media profiles have been scrubbed. The gatekeepers have decided that the public will not see his posts unless and until they decide to release them. Most likely, that won't happen until they are forced to release the files as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. That could take months, or even years. 

Frankly, all things considered as to what's been happening in this nation since the 2020 summer of love mostly peaceful rioting and incineration of American cities and towns, law enforcement had best figure out whether they're with us or with the terrorists. Because things are on a knife edge.

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons says left-wing activists are targeting ICE agents, with some going after agents’ families, including their children.

In a video posted to X on Monday, Lyons revealed that ICE and the United States Secret Service tracked down one particular activist who had been targeting the children of ICE agents online.

“Wouldn’t you wear a mask if it kept your family safe, if it kept your kids safe? We ran an operation with the Secret Service,” Lyons said. “We arrested someone who was going online, taking [ICE agents’] photos, posting their families, their kids’ Instagrams, their kids’ Facebooks, and targeting them. So let me ask, is that the issue here that anyone is upset with masks, or is anyone upset that an ICE officer’s families were labeled terrorists?”

Given the past 10 years of blood-libeling President Trump as literally Hitler, and the MAGA movement as the Nazi party, and of Trump-supporters as white supremacist racists wherein ICE will soon be rounding up anyone and everyone to not only deport illegal aliens but actual citizens for being of the wrong political persuasion. That rhetoric comes not just from the fringe lunatic base but from the highest echelons of the Democrat Party, it's propagandists in the legacy media and in schools and universities across the country, is it any wonder that police, ICE and random citizens who march in support of Israel have been the targets of not merely verbal abuse but of physical violence. The latter, an 81 year-old Holocaust survivor succumbed after being severely burned by an Egyptian illegal alien who hurled a molotov cocktail at her and other Jews in Boulder CO.

Putting the Islam element aside for a moment, Leftists have the same moral conviction that they are the defenders of freedom and righteousness and are being targeted by the forces of darkness and evil, and so have the right an indeed moral obligation to use deadly force to defend themselves and defend their perverse worldview by any means necessary.

All that said, this is how the civil society collapses and how things like political death squads appear. From there, the road to civil war and worse, Rwanda and Pol Pot, is clear.

Unless the funders, and the organizers of such groups as Antifa, La Raza, BLM, CAIR and all the rest are crushed by every legal means at our disposal, we are in for a world of hurt that will make 2020 and what's been happening in LA and elsewhere over the past few weeks back look like a picnic.

All we need is for an ICE agent(s) to get the notion to dox a few of these miscreants and "Take Care of Business" beforehand and Bingo. Not that I am encouraging that or wishing for it, because the aftermath is too horrific to contemplate. But if these guys think their kids are in the crosshairs, they'll either retire and move (which in and of itself was what the BLM defund the police movement sought to do as a means to dismantle law enforcement without necessarily firing a shot, by disincentivizing being a cop as a profession in the first place) . . or they will take matters into their own hands if they feel they do not have the backing of their political leadership. And in far too many places, the blue shithole cities and states, this is certainly the case.

And look what is likely on the horizon for NYC. an Anti-American Islamic terror cheerleader/supporter, anti-law enforcement Communist as the likely next mayor.

While the Democrat party mayoral primary in New York is stealing the headlines, those who have watched Marxist-Hegelian hybrid ideology overtake the party since the 1960s could have predicted this outcome.

Democrat voters in New York City have chosen Zohran Mamdani as their mayoral candidate. He is an avowed socialist Islamist who has never held a real job, gratuitously tosses around promises of giving away almost everything for free, has publicly stated his determination to defund the police, campaigned on tax-payer funding of “gender-affirming care,” and who vociferously defends all illegal immigrants, including those convicted of heinous crimes, from deportation.

Mamdani wants to empty the jails in New York, claiming that violence is an artificial construction. His commitment to socialist ideals is informed by his Islamic faith, which includes his refusal to retract or apologize for trafficking in incendiary antisemitic language such as “globalize the intifada” for over a decade in a city with two million Jews, second only to Tel Aviv.

Of course, Mamdani won't abolish the NYPD. Meh, maybe he'll do just that?! But you can just imagine the kind of individuals who will make up their ranks once the sane ones have fled or are forced out. Worse, those who remain and will "just follow orders" to preserve protect and defend their pensions.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• The thunderstorm stops had a domino effect, beginning with delays at Philadelphia International Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport before spreading to others, trailing up and down the East Coast.
  Ground stops at JFK, LGA and Newark cause thousands of flight delays at airports up and down the East Coast

• “Wouldn’t you wear a mask if it kept your family safe, if it kept your kids safe? We ran an operation with the Secret Service,” Lyons said. “We arrested someone who was going online, taking [ICE agents’] photos, posting their families, their kids’ Instagrams, their kids’ Facebooks, and targeting them. So let me ask, is that the issue here that anyone is upset with masks, or is anyone upset that an ICE officer’s families were labeled terrorists?”
  ICE Chief Says Left-Wing Activists Are Targeting the Children of ICE Agents

ISRAEL AND USA vs IRAN
• The White House celebration will also include a flyover by B-2 Spirit bombers.
  Pilots Who Bombed Iran Will Come To White House On Fourth Of July
  
• The diaspora should follow.
  Israel Paves a Path

  
  "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• President Donald J. Trump will join Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday to tour a new illegal immigrant detention center at the Miami-Dade Collier Training Facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
  Trump and DeSantis Are Going on a Trip Together. Here’s Where, and Why…
  
• If the second Trump administration fails to win court approval of its expected effort to exclude illegal migrants from the census, this time around, it will have backup. 
  Trump’s Effort To Remove Noncitizens From Census Would Affect Elections
  
• Oscar Omar Hernandez, a 13-year-old boy from Sun Valley, California, was allegedly murdered by his soccer coach, Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. Hernandez’s body was discovered on April 2, 2025, in Ventura County, days after his family reported him missing. The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the cause of death late last week to be acute alcohol poisoning.
  This Illegal Immigrant Soccer Coach Is Accused of Pedophilia and Killing a Teen Boy.

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Margot Cleveland: What the judges have yet to appreciate is that their own lawlessness is destroying the reputation of the courts.
  We Still Have An Imperial Judiciary, Yet Trump Continues To Exercise Extreme Restraint

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Nationwide universal injunctions can no longer undermine Trump’s mandate.
  SCOTUS Curbs Abuse of Power by Activist District Court Judges

• It seems obvious, but you don’t check the Executive branch by crowning the judiciary supreme.
  Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Thunderclap Heard Around the Republic

• Daniel Greenfield: Over $1 Billion in COVID testing fraud alone.
  $2.5B in Muslim Health Care Fraud Busted

• "’Over the last 7 days, agencies have terminated 312 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2.8B and savings of $470M, including a DoD $286k professional and management development contract for an 'entrepreneurship course at Harvard University', and a $485k USAID contract for a ‘senior general development advisor at USAID Madagascar,’’ the post states.”
  After Musk Departure, DOGE Continue Eliminating Nearly $500M In Absurd Waste (Meh, not quite a rounding error, but okay - jjs)

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Senate Democrats moved to overrule the presiding chair’s ruling that Senate Republicans can use a contentious accounting tactic to score a permanent tax cut extension as deficit-neutral and thus not add to the price tag of the president’s sweeping tax and immigration bill. GOP senators cast Democrats’ decision to appeal the presiding officer’s rulings as part of Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer’s attempts to undermine Senate rules and weaken the 60-vote legislative filibuster, which Democrats have suggested they could eliminate the next time they take the majority.
  Senate Dems Deploy ‘Nuclear Option’ In Fruitless Effort To Tank Trump’s Bill
  
• The process might come down to a Friday showdown on the House floor — if the legislation passes the Senate.
  Down To The Wire: Can Congress Meet Trump’s July 4 Deadline For The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill?’
  
• "He’s really convinced me to returning to a reasonable pre-pandemic spending…"
  SEN RON JOHNSON op-ed: President Trump wants to return to 'reasonable pre-pandemic spending'

• “So revenues collapsed in Canada during his [Trudeau’s] 10-year reign, and now [Prime Minister Mark] Carney has no income. … So, he’s trying to find any way he can to make income.”
  Canada Capitulates: Will Scrap Digital Services Tax, Restart Trade Talks
  
• This year’s total cookout cost is down 30 cents from the record high $71.22 bill calculated in 2024 under Biden.
  For The First Time In Four Years, Americans Aren’t Paying More For Their July 4 Cookouts

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• “Investigators say Soliman told them he intended to kill the roughly 20 participants at the weekly demonstration on Boulder’s Pearl Street pedestrian mall.”
  Now It’s Murder: First Victim of Illegal Immigrant’s Molotov Attack on Jewish Group Dies

  ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"

• 'Today’s actions mark the beginning of a new chapter for the people of Syria.'
  Trump Lifts Sanctions On Syria In Sweeping Policy Shift

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• We must be careful not to succumb to magical thinking.
  The West Still Doesn’t Get Islam

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• The fate of TikTok in the United States has been uncertain since the passage of a law in 2024 that aimed to ban the platform unless its Chinese owner, ByteDance, divested from it. The legislation was motivated by concerns over the Chinese government’s potential ability to manipulate content and access sensitive data from American users — transforming the popular social media platform into a psychological weapon for the hostile country.
  President Trump: Group of ‘Very Wealthy People’ Are Ready to Buy China’s TikTok
  
• The Free Speech Coalition decision reflects a pragmatic recognition of the Internet’s contemporary dangers for children.
  The Supreme Court Is Right to Age-Gate Porn

  
  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• The letter, signed by 278 employees—174 of whom used their full names—criticized the administration’s approach to deregulation, alleging that it is harmful and dismissive of supposed scientific expertise. “Today, we stand together in dissent against the current administration’s focus on harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions, and disregard for scientific expertise,” the group stated.
  Deep Staters at the EPA Are in Open Rebellion Against Trump.
  
• Carbon dioxide -- the gas branded as public enemy number one -- is not destroying the planet. It’s enhancing life on it.
  CO2 Sustains Greenhouse Farming Revolution
  
• Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy brings first such department-wide reform to his agency in nearly four decades
  Trump Overhauls Eco Permitting to Fast Track New Roads, Bridges
  
• The Geothermal Energy Opportunity (GEO) Act has recently been introduced in congress to help clear the regulatory burdens hindering the development of this potentially important resource.
  The Energy Trifecta: Nuclear, Fossil Fuels…and Geothermal Energy

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• It happens every time there's a high-profile crime. Law enforcement officials, in collusion with social media companies, surreptitiously disable the social media profiles of suspects, leaving Americans in the dark about their motives and political leanings. 
  Why Are Authorities STILL Hiding Social Media Profiles After High-Profile Crimes?
  
• The family of Idaho sniper Wess Roley – who shot dead two firefighters after apparently luring them to the woods with a brushfire Sunday — has broken their silence, saying they “do not understand” how his heinous crime happened.
  Family of Idaho sniper Wess Roley breaks silence after he ambushed, shot firefighters dead

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Memo offers a snapshot of how personal statements can be used to skirt affirmative action ban
  Duke Law Journal Sent a Secret Memo to Minority Applicants Telling Them They’d Get Extra Points for Writing About Their Race
  
• “Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government.”
  Trump Admin Finds Harvard Violated Jewish, Israeli Students’ Civil Rights
  
• Farah Jasmine Griffin has signed several petitions demanding the Ivy League school divest from Israel
  Columbia Bestows ‘Highest Academic Distinction’ Upon BDS-Supporting Professor

  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• The suit, filed against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, seeks to fight against a law allowing “any United States citizen who has never resided in the United States and whose parent is a United States citizen who is registered to vote” to vote in federal elections in Arizona using mail-in ballots.
  RNC Slaps Arizona With Lawsuit To Clean Up Voter Rolls
  
• ‘[T]he SOS continues to withhold various documents and has improperly redacted information related to [my] request.’
  Lawsuit: Nevada Elections Chief Is Hiding Records On Alleged Illegal Voter
  
• The scheme highlights still unaddressed vulnerabilities in the voting process that leave elections ripe for fraud.
  Three Pennsylvania Officials Who Cheated In Election Get Prison Time — One Is Still In Office

  POLITICS

• Trump's Derangement Syndrome so consumes the Left that they oppose everything he does, no matter how sensible.
  Trump takes the right side on all issues and the Left can't stand it
  
• Trump also has solid support among key voting blocs, outside of parties.
  Trump Clings To Solid Ratings For Leadership, Despite Dems’ Ongoing Negative Views: I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• Those who have watched Marxist-Hegelian hybrid ideology overtake the party since the 1960s could have predicted this outcome.
  Zohran Mamdani Represents The Democrat Party’s Inevitable Drift Left
  
• Robert Spencer: NYC, the politics of Socialism and Zohran Mamdani .
  It’s Not Pride Month, It’s Envy Month
  
• Daniel Greenfield: A new low. (one look at Schumer and you can understand how anti-semitism exists the past 1500 years of Islam notwithstanding - jjs)
  Schumer More Unpopular Among Jews Than Any Other Religious Group

• Many younger Democrats reportedly believe gun control activist David Hogg’s ouster from his role with the Democrat National Convention (DNC) is a positive thing for the future of a party that lacks clear leadership.
  Report: Young Democrats Believe Activist David Hogg Is Gaining Power Outside DNC
  
• Sean Spiller, the president of the NJEA, placed fifth in the state’s Democratic primary election, garnering only 10% of the June 10 vote despite the union spending the most on a single candidate of any special interest group in the state’s history, according to Politico.
  New Jersey Teachers Union’s $40,000,000 Spending Spree On Dem Gubernatorial Race Falls Flat
  
• Brown, who also served as President Donald Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa during his first term, called out Democrat candidate Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) for voting against the Republican-led reconciliation budget while portraying himself as an ally of the working class:
  Exclusive — Sen. Scott Brown Blasts Chris Pappas: ‘Makes AOC Look Like Rush Limbaugh’

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Russia’s war with Ukraine appears to be picking up pace in recent weeks, with Russia hammering parts of Ukraine with missiles and drones and appearing to be mounting a new offensive in the Sumy region. Reports indicate that as many as 50,000 Russian troops are active in the Sumy region, which neighbors Russia’s Kursk region, vastly outnumbering Ukrainian defenders.
  We’re Over 1,200 Days Into the Ukraine War. Here’s Where It Stands:

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• While state-run newspaper Global Times celebrated the data as proof that the Party is “continuing to improve” and “growing stronger,” Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post observed that, compared to past year, the Party grew more slowly while seeing its number of seniors grow significantly. The Chinese Communist Party’s Organization Department typically publishes these numbers in late June every year in anticipation of the anniversary of the founding of the Party in 1921.
  China’s Communist Party Gets Older, Grows More Slowly as Youth Disenchantment Spreads
  
• Trump isn't given the credit he deserves.
  Trump’s Path to World Peace: American Strength and Economic Partnership

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.: In plain English, a physician explains the prior authorization issue and what the Trump administration is doing to fix it.
  Can RFK Jr. Break the Prior Authorization Bottleneck?

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The photo however was not taken to study the clouds, but these baby stars, located in one of the closest star forming regions of the Milky Way.
  Baby stars illuminating the dust that surrounds them
  
• My heart be still. Blue Origin yesterday successfully flew another New Shepard suborbital tourist flight, sending six passengers on a ten minute flight to the edge of space.
  Blue Origin completes another New Shepard suborbital flight

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• “Happy Pride, Illinois! We will always fight for your right to love openly and without fear,” he continued, sharing photos from the event. One photo featured the governor holding a baby, who was in attendance at the event.
  J.B. Pritzker Holds Baby at Chicago Pride March; Many Children Present at Event
  
• Watch what happens when a mother and a group of independent journalists arrive at the zoo to ask management why they believe their behavior is appropriate for minors.
  Toronto Zoo Hires Drag Queen Who Posts Naked Photos Online To Read To Kids
  
• “Still, I found myself watching the crowd as it moved past us: women walking in pairs or alone, dressed with care. At table after table at the nearby restaurants, there was a noticeable absence of men.”
  The New York Times Discovers Female Loneliness

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Far-Left entertainment site hides ghoulish essay behind paywall
  The Wrap Compares ICE Raids to Anne Frank’s Plight

• Members of the Bob Vylan band no longer can travel to the U.S. “in light of their hateful tirade … including leading the crowd in death chants” at a Saturday music festival in the U.K., Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said in a Monday X post. The State Department’s action aligns with the Trump administration’s policy of renewed scrutiny of foreigners’ visas over alleged hostility toward American values or national security.
  Rap Group That Chanted ‘Death To The IDF’ Gets Surprise From Trump State Department

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