The Morning Report — 7/28/25

Good morning kids. Let's start off with a bit of good news that broke late yesterday.

President Donald Trump announced a sweeping trade agreement with the European Union (EU) on Sunday, setting a baseline 15 percent tariff on European imports — including automobiles — while keeping existing 50 percent duties on steel and aluminum in place. As part of the deal, the EU committed to purchasing $750 billion in U.S. energy products. Trump announced the agreement during a press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after a private meeting at Trump Turnberry in Scotland. . .

. . . “We don’t know what that number is,” he said, but went on to note that the purchase of military equipment would be in the “hundreds of billions of dollars.” 

Moreover, the EU will pay a 15 percent tariff rate to import products into the U.S., ranging from automobiles to other goods. 

“So we have a tariff of 15% we have the opening up of all of the European countries, which I think I could say were essentially closed,” Trump said. “I mean, you weren’t exactly taking our orders, you weren’t exactly taking our agriculture, and then you would have smaller things, but for the most part, it was closed, and now it’s open.” 

This is kind of a pretty big Effin' deal, and we'll know how big in the short term by how the propaganda media distorts and/or totally ignores it as it continues to push Epstein-Epstein nonstop while also ignoring Obamagate or painting it as a Trump witch hunt/persecution of the Dog-eating commie. Of course the markets will no doubt have their own reaction to the news of this deal reflecting sentiment over the long term.

As Trump 2.0 demolishes much of the insanity of the regulatory state, this item, along with the renewed commitment to take full advantage of America's vast fossil fuel resources while we and much of the world come to our senses and abandon the green energy/climate change madness is most welcome indeed.

Car Lovers Rejoice! After 50 Miserable Years, CAFE Standards Are Dead

. . . One of the most important provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill has gone completely unnoticed, but promises to make the auto industry great again.

For 50 years, the federal government has been forcing fuel economy standards on auto companies. If the average fuel economy of the cars sold in a year exceeded a federal standard, the companies had to cough up enormous penalties.

Passed in 1975 as a way to deal with an energy crisis (that was caused by government price controls), “corporate average fuel economy” (CAFE) standards – required the fleet of cars sold by an automaker to achieve an arbitrary miles-per-gallon goal. If they missed the goal, they paid hefty annual fines.

CAFE standards along with many other onerous regulations did much to strangle American dominance of the automobile industry. So hallelujah to this news and it comes after General Motors announced last week it's expansion of manufacturing of gasoline-powered trucks and SUVs.

Shifting gears completely, there was a mass-stabbing attack at a Michigan Walmart over the weekend and despite the carnage, a hero citizen with a gun managed to stop the maniac cold.

Dramatic video shows a heroic Walmart shopper armed with a gun confronting a knife-wielding maniac moments after he allegedly stabbed 11 people inside the Michigan store on Saturday night.

In wild cellphone footage shared on X, the brave man, identified by family members as Marine veteran Derrick Perry, is seen yelling at the suspected attacker to drop the weapon in the parking lot of the superstore in Traverse City, about 255 miles northwest of Detroit.

Perry is being praised for his actions, with some even suggesting he should be nominated for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “Give this man the recognition his actions deserve,” one commenter said. “Good men who are armed save lives.”

. . .On Sunday, authorities identified the suspect as Bradford James Gille, 42. He faces charges of terrorism and 11 counts of assault with intent to murder following the shocking stabbing spree in Traverse City — a popular Michigan tourist destination. His victims range in age from 29 to 85, with six of them over 60, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea said. They are all expected to survive. Shea revealed that Gille has a history of arrests for drug offenses and vandalism.

All things considered, Michigan, the situation in the Middle East, open borders and my first thought was that the perp was a Religion-of-Peace Peacenik. Surely something set this psycho off and if all we hear is radio silence in the coming days, you can be sure this sicko is somehow Democrat/Leftist inspired or otherwise motivated.

Funny how we haven't heard any calls from the usual quarters for common sense knife control! Pfft.

And this leads in to my shot/chaser segment of the day. First up the shot from annoyingly and dangerously clueless dolt Adam Milstein

On one hand, the Islamo-left alliance, a coalition between far-left ideologues, anarchists, and Islamists, is working to dismantle America from within. On the other end of the political spectrum, white supremacists, while a fringe movement, still have the capacity to take weapons into their hands and kill Americans.

In addition, a dangerous new ideology is taking root on the American right. What began as a sensible “America First” doctrine to prioritize American interests has, in some circles, morphed into an “America Only” worldview that seeks to isolate the United States from the outside world and abandon its global responsibilities as leader and ally of free nations.

These groups may seem to have little in common, but all of them advance ideologies that are deeply hostile to America’s founding principles and its international interests. They aim to reshape the very fabric of our society. Alarmingly, through years of strategic planning, infiltration and coordinated efforts, they appear to be making real progress.

What an abject asshole. While there are for sure dozens if not hundreds of examples of Islamic, Leftist and Islamo-Leftist violence that have spilled rivers if not oceans of blood over the past few centuries, especially going back 1500 years to the founding of Islam itself.

I defy Milstein or anyone to point to any mass organized "FAR RIGHT" movement or organization that has perpetrated any acts of mass or singular political terrorism. And please define for me the political manifesto of this so-called "Far Right" Sorry, Isolationism and some nebulous bullshit about defying our founding principles is just that. So because I reject the insanity of America as the world's policeman and endless wars all over the world purely for the growth of the political class' stock portfolios makes me into some sort of extremist, eh Milstein?

Shame on FrontPage Mag for publishing this idiot's essay that does nothing to advance the cause of warning the public about the real dangers we face and instead muddies the waters and creates phantasms for us to chase.

"On the other end of the political spectrum, white supremacists, while a fringe movement, still have the capacity to take weapons into their hands and kill Americans." And yet it has yet to happen, certainly to even the tiniest fraction of what happened during the summer of 2020. Funny, what about black supremacists? I guess he never heard of BLM or the Black Panthers, or Black Liberation Army. All Milstein is attempting and failing to do is to take a swipe at President Trump and normal sane America who reject Milstein and his ilk.

Now the chaser:

Law enforcement has grappled with a wave of alleged or confirmed arsons, shootings, threats against government officials and mass rioting stemming from outrage at Trump’s policies or U.S. support for Israel. In the months following Trump’s reelection, media outlets and “experts” quoted in their articles predicted that America might see a resurgence of mostly right-wing or white supremacist violence on his watch. (RELATED: Outfit Behind Slanted ‘Terrorism’ Studies Pleads For Private Donors After Trump Funding Cuts) “That analysis never made any sense, but was always the a priori assumption of research conducted by left-leaning academics incentivized to tell the government the narrative it wanted to hear, in order to receive more government ‘countering violent extremism’ funding,” Kyle Shideler, senior analyst at the Center for Security Policy, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “No matter how many attacks were organized by jihadist terrorists or committed anarchists or communists, ‘Extremism’ was a problem to be found only on the political right, and specifically was the fault of their main political opponent’s rhetoric.”

“Whether Donald Trump won or lost, either result was taken as evidence for an increase in ‘Far Right’ extremism,” Shideler, who has a history of briefing law enforcement officials, told the DCNF.  “Even a decrease in ‘hate groups’ could be identified as evidence of their growing power. Heads we win, tails you lose,” Shideler added, referencing media coverage of a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) report which claimed that extremist groups decreased in 2024 as their views “entered the mainstream.”

Meanwhile, an April study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that more than half of self-identified “left of center” Americans believe murdering Trump — who was nearly assassinated ahead of the 2024 election — is at least somewhat justified. Nearly 40% of respondents also said “it is at least somewhat acceptable (or more) to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest” of Musk, according to the researchers.

“These attitudes are not fringe — they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse,” the study said.

Oh give me a break, Milstein! I'm sure his next column will paint the Michigan mass-stabber as a Far-Right terrorist!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Roger Kimball: From Reims to the Rio Grande, history repeats—but in Trump’s America, the border holds, and the ghosts of appeasement find no sanctuary.
  History’s Hard Lessons and America’s New Resolve
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Progressive overreach alienated the middle class, replacing working-class roots with elite dogmas—and now the Democrats are reaping the whirlwind they sowed.
  The Graveyard of Progressive Misadventures
  
• One of the most important provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill has gone completely unnoticed, but promises to make the auto industry great again.
  Car Lovers Rejoice! After 50 Miserable Years, CAFE Standards Are Dead

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
• Let’s extend another grace period now that the FY-2026 budget proposal is on the table.
  It’s Time for the Administration To Start Creatively Downsizing The Federal Workforce Again
  
• Boeing’s deep ties to U.S. trade deals boost its stock despite safety failures, DEI quotas, and poor performance—proof that corporatism, not capitalism, is flying the plane.
  Boeing: Corporatism, American-Style
  
• Judith Miller: Outgoing mayor Mike Duggan has pulled the city back from the brink—but whether its revival can continue without him remains to be seen.
  Detroit—Back from the Dead?

  
  "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS

• In a letter sent to Congress, the ERLC claimed that the recently re-introduced DIGNITY Act is “necessary reform” to “protect our communities.” The DIGNITY Act would provide mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens who broke the law by placing them in a twilight-legal status after they’ve paid a certain fee.
  Rogue ERLC Bands With Soros-Tied Group To Push Amnesty Bill
  
• Thad McCotter: Democrats demonize ICE agents while ignoring the child trafficking and border chaos their own open-border policies have unleashed—punishing those fixing the crisis they caused.
  Democrats Are Endangering ICE Agents to Support Open Borders
  
• Trump’s bill puts blue cities to the test: follow federal immigration law or forfeit millions in crime-fighting funds.
  Federal Funds for Local Obedience: Immigration Clause Puts Dems in Bind
  
• Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the measure as part of his 2025 budget, emphasizing in his Feb. 7 signed note to the state Senate that no taxpayer money in the budget should support “immigration-related legal services for noncitizens convicted of serious or violent felonies.” The change is set to take effect starting in 2026 and will be the first change regarding who is eligible for California’s Equal Access Fund since the program’s creation in 1999, The Latin Times reported. (RELATED: Newsom Eyes Ripping Up GOP Districts To Pad House Dems’ Ranks In Name Of "Democracy"
  Leftist Outrage Erupts At California Plan To Stop Paying Criminal Illegals’ Legal Bills
  
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has revealed details of a nationwide operation conducted Thursday in which illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes were arrested. Notable arrests include Jacobo Argueta-Fuentes, a 33-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador, convicted of multiple sex crimes against children in New York; Rafael Manriquez-Mancia, a 45-year-old from Mexico, convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Texas; and Abraham Eladio Pineda-Rocha, a 33-year-old from Mexico, convicted of alien smuggling in Texas.Other arrests include Alfonso Lopez-Cabrera, a 48-year-old from Mexico, convicted of lewd acts with a child under 14 in California, and Wahota Allassane Ouattara, a 38-year-old from the Ivory Coast, convicted of arson in New York City.
  Nationwide ICE Op Catches Arsonists, Pedophiles, Human Traffickers.
  
• Judge Lindsay Jenkins of the Northern District of Illinois, appointed to the bench by former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden, dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit against Chicago, Cook County and Illinois, according to court documents. The Trump administration was seeking to block policies that prohibited cooperation between local government officials and federal immigration authorities.
  Biden-Appointed Hack-in-Black Tosses Lawsuit Against Sanctuary City Chicago
  
• It's been well documented that anti-ICE protests across the United States have been consistently violent and have involved many known criminals. But what the liberal media probably won’t mention is that some of those arrested in Texas have had past criminal history directly related to protests. One of the members, Ines Soto, resisted arrest and detention at a protest in 2016 and was released on a $10,000 bond, according to K-Hou 11. 
  Violent Anti-ICE Protestors Arrested in Alvarado Have Extensive Criminal Histories
  
• Speaking at a judicial conference in California on Thursday, the Obama appointee discussed the “threats to personal safety” and an “endangerment of judges.” She specifically referenced the (leftist-led) threats and demonstrations that came about following the leak of the high court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
  Three Years Too Late, Kagan Condemns Leftist Threats Against SCOTUS
  
• The arrest was on charges of child sexual abuse material, Fox News reported. HSI is a division of the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and has helped lead many of the immigration raids and arrests since President Trump began rolling out a mass crackdown on illegal immigrants.
  Delta Airlines pilot arrested by ICE agents moments after landing plane at San Francisco airport

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

• Michael Gann of Long Island, New York, is accused of building several homemade bombs with the help of AI, an endeavor he claims was “easier than buying gun powder,” according to court documents obtained by NBC News. . . Court documents reportedly reveal that Gann, who is accused of planning to combine the shotgun shells with one or more of the bombs, told authorities that he had used two household compounds he ordered online to make the improvised explosives.
  Police: New York Man Uses AI to Build Bombs He Planned to Detonate in Manhattan
  
• The attack highlights a disturbing rise in ambushes targeting law enforcement, with at least 50 officers shot in such attacks this year.
  Policeman Shot Dead Amid Surge in ‘Ambush Attacks’ on Law Enforcement.
  
• Whether it’s facts or morals, we’re a nation making it up as we go along, and it’s tearing us apart.
  How Abandoning Knowledge And Truth Destroys Nations
  
• Democrats lied about the Minnesota shootings to vilify Trump-supporters.
  Will Democrats Exterminate America’s ‘MAGAts’?
  
• Enemies within.
  SHOT: Islamo-Left Alliance and Far-Rightists ("Far-Rightists?! Adam Milstein is a schmuck - jjs)
  
• Law enforcement has grappled with a wave of alleged or confirmed arsons, shootings, threats against government officials and mass rioting stemming from outrage at Trump’s policies or U.S. support for Israel. In the months following Trump’s reelection, media outlets and “experts” quoted in their articles predicted that America might see a resurgence of mostly right-wing or white supremacist violence on his watch. (RELATED: Outfit Behind Slanted ‘Terrorism’ Studies Pleads For Private Donors After Trump Funding Cuts)
  CHASER: Political Violence Surging Under Trump Isn’t Exactly ‘Far-Right’ After All

  
  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Brennan’s purported intelligence was so flimsy and comically absurd that it only further exposes the fraudulent nature of the assessment.
  John Brennan’s 5 Lies That Set Russiagate In Motion
  
• Guilty until proven innocent.
  Russiagater: We Can’t Prove Russians Didn’t Aid Trump Without Interrogating Every Trump Voter
  
• That a previous president and a group of nameable, documentable co-conspirators could plan and carry out an attempt to unseat a duly elected president is a bigger,  even more urgent issue than anything involving Epstein.
  Who’s on First?
  
• What we now know is already damning: the phony Steele Dossier wasn’t just opposition research—it was weaponized disinformation, deliberately shoved into the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment under orders from Barack Obama himself. Senior analysts warned it was unverified and unreliable, but those concerns were bulldozed in the name of politics.
  The John Bolton Connection to the Steele Dossier
  
• Indicting or otherwise prosecuting Obama or any of his top cabalists is fraught with significant risk.
  All the Lightbringer’s Obamabots
  
• The mask has been taken off many twisted faces of the administrative state.
  What does justice look like now that the Democrats' corruption has been exposed?

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The EU will purchase three-quarters of a trillion dollars in U.S. energy, while also investing $600 billion into America on top of existing investments. Additionally, EU countries will be setting tariffs on U.S. goods at zero percent, and Europe agreed “to purchase a vast amount of military equipment,” Trump said.  “We don’t know what that number is,” he said, but went on to note that the purchase of military equipment would be in the “hundreds of billions of dollars.” 
  Trump Reaches Historic Trade Deal with EU: Europe to Buy $750 Billion in U.S. Energy
  
• “Bitcoin decentralization is more myth than reality. . . Bitcoin mining is more costly than ever for new entrants.”
  Money by Vile Means
  
  
• A new analysis from my organization, Unleash Prosperity, of the latest census and income tax data finds these two states have lost more residents over the past decade than any other state not named California.
  The great Northeast exodus — how high taxes are driving away billions

  ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al

• Robert Spencer: The latest attempt to demonize Israel.
  The Gaza Starvation Lie
• Daniel Greenfield: They keep flooding the zone during a crucial negotiation.
  There’s a Pattern to the Gaza Famine Hoaxes
  
• Adam Chamseddine has written or contributed to more than three dozen WSJ reports since last year
  WSJ’s Hezbollah Coverage Led by Reporter Who Praises Terrorist Group’s Leaders and Fumes Against ‘The Israeli Enemy’

• Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders delivered a fierce rebuke to French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, sarcastically suggesting that southern France could become the new Palestinian state while declaring “Good luck Emmanuel Macron and France! Happy suicide!” in a provocative social media post that gained massive international attention.
  Wilders to Macron: Create New Palestinian State in Southern France — ‘Happy Suicide!’

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

• “I’m not dumb. The Jews did something there.”
  Popular Podcast Revels in the Genocide of Jews

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The rise of Mamdani along with Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib indicate the growth of political Islam here in America. 
  Zohran Mamdani and Islamic immigration
  
• Daniel Greenfield: You'll never guess what happened next.
  US Embassy in Norway Hired Guard Named Mohammed
  
• Amid spiralling “lawlessness” in London, with shoplifting soaring in the increasingly multicultural city and knife crime continuing to rise, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage challenged Mayor Khan to a televised debate on the issue. Mr Farage argued that Khan has “failed Londoners” in failing to confront the crime wave.
  ‘Coward’ Sadiq Khan Refuses to Debate Nigel Farage on London Crime Wave
  
• For centuries, Middle East Christians have ingratiated themselves with their rulers, who were usually Muslim. This survival strategy, which was logical for a minority in a dangerous neighborhood, disgusted the early American missionaries. But the attempts by well-meaning Americans to empower these communities, such as the Armenians, provoked Ottoman suspicion and eventually genocidal levels of death and destruction.
  Middle East Christians Face a Threat. No, It’s Not Israel.
  
• Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, told The Associated Press (AP) that the attackers, armed with guns and machetes, stormed the church in Komanda town at around 1 a.m.
  Islamic State-Backed Militant Group Attacks Catholic Church in Congo, Nearly Three Dozen Dead

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

• With legal fees reaching approximately $15 million over the past 20 months, Media Matters has been forced to cut staff and seek additional funding from its donors. Despite these efforts, the group has been unable to reach a settlement with Musk, who accuses them of having “knowingly and maliciously fabricated side-by-side images” of major advertisers on his X (formerly Twitter) platform next to extremist content as part of a boycott campaign. He also brought cases in Singapore and Ireland.Media Matters President Angelo Carusone has said he intends to fight this and other legal battles the organization is facing, stating, “Unlike some major media entities that have recently caved to pressure, we understand that this battle is larger than us.” However, the internal atmosphere at Media Matters is tense, with discussions about potential bankruptcy and strategic shifts to manage its ongoing legal challenges.
  Soros-Backed Media Matters Is Facing Financial Ruin.
  
• The New York Times defends revenge porn.
  Hulk Hogan’s Lawsuit Exposed an Evil Media

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

• Too many electrical vehicles are catching fire during transport, taking commercial cargo ships to the bottom of the ocean.
  Major Shipping Line Matson Closes the Hatch on Transport of Electrical Vehicles
  
• They are ruining their already useless reputations.
  Congratulations Musk-Haters: You Are Killing The EV Market
  
• "We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They're killing us."
  Trump Trashes Windmills In Meeting With Green-Loving EU Head: ‘Killing The Beauty Of Our Scenery’

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• One suspect is in custody.
  More Than 10 People Wounded In Michigan Walmart Attack
  
• Dramatic video shows a heroic Walmart shopper armed with a gun confronting a knife-wielding maniac moments after he allegedly stabbed 11 people inside the Michigan store on Saturday night.
  Armed hero, Marine veteran Derrick Perry praised for confronting Michigan Walmart mass stabbing suspect in dramatic showdown
  
• In a state already reeling from crime, fentanyl deaths, and a collapsing trust in public safety, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has decided that the real threat is a sheriff’s deputy who pulled someone over for tailgating.
  Colorado’s top cop just declared war on cops
  
• Blue, and to a lesser degree red, states get the politicians and police they deserve.
  The NYPD sinks itself
  
• 'The numbers don't lie,' said Maryland Public Policy Institute fellow Sean Kennedy
  Violent Crime Began Plummeting in Baltimore Just After Voters Fired Their Soros-Backed Prosecutor. Experts Say That's No Coincidence.

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Mediocrity would be a drastic improvement over today’s educational reality.
  At Last -- Real Educational Reform

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Were they wise, they’d remember: sic transit gloria mundi--the glory of man is fleeting.
  Colorado challenges the Second Amendment

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

• Voter ID is one, but there are even more important ones.
  The Most Needed Election Reforms to Save Our Country

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• Miranda Devine: In the same week that Hunter Biden burst back onto the public stage to play the victim and lash out at Democrats, we also heard from his one-time protector turned reluctant nemesis, Special Counsel David Weiss, with similarly self-serving and disingenuous testimony to Congress.
  How the Hunter Biden cover-up continues to this day

  L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN

• Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking charges, having been convicted for her role in procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to exploit and abuse.
  Ghislaine Maxwell’s Lawyers Say She Discussed ‘About 100 Different People’ With DOJ.

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Sure, they’re upset now, but it wasn’t a problem when they were doing it (and they were doing it a lot).
  We learned gerrymandering from Democrats
  
• Isaiah Martin, 27, a candidate for Houston’s 18th Congressional District, ignored repeated requests to yield his time as he accused Republicans of distorting Texas redistricting to meet the wishes of President Donald Trump.
  VIDEO: Democrat Candidate Throws a Fit, Is Removed, Arrested in Texas Hearing
  
• Bass appointed Dominic Ng, CEO of East West Bank, and Simon Pang, co-founder of Royal Business Bank, to her mayoral transition advisory team in December 2022, according to the City of Los Angeles. In total, Ng, East West Bank and Pang have donated upwards of $1 million to Bass’ mayoral campaign and the Mayor’s Fund For Los Angeles, where Bass serves as an advisor to the board of directors, according to the nonprofit.
  EXCLUSIVE: Karen Bass-tard Raked In Cash From Chinese Intel-Tied Bankers Before Hiring Them
  
• As we’ve learned, Democrats in power have grown quite fond of the soft coup, while warning of ‘threats to democracy.’
  A Year After Pushing Biden Aside, The Fallout From Dems’ Soft Coup Continues

  POLITICS

• Even among voters who disapprove of Trump’s approach to certain policies, the GOP is still favored to lead. For example, voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of inflation by 11 points, yet trust Republicans over Democrats on inflation by 10. The pattern repeats across multiple issues, with voters essentially signaling: We may not love Trump, but we trust his party to govern.
  Poll: Democrat Favorability Hits 35-Year Low as GOP Gains Trust on Key Issues
  
• "I think JD Vance would be a great nominee."
  Rubio Names A ‘Close Friend’ When Pressed About Potential 2028 Presidential Run
  
• The problem isn’t that the world is in more dire shape than ever before or that they’re more “sensitive.” Instead, the “emo” attitude is destroying them.
  Today’s Democrats: Progressive, Prosperous, and Deeply Unhappy

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• War in Ukraine has become a trillion-dollar business, enriching defense giants, oligarchs, and tech firms—proof that in modern conflict, profit often trumps peace.
  The Hidden Winners of War: Who Profits from the Russia–Ukraine Conflict?

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The fighting first flared Thursday after a land mine explosion along the border wounded five Thai soldiers. Both sides blamed each other for starting the clashes. Both countries recalled their ambassadors and Thailand closed its border crossings with Cambodia.
  Thailand and Cambodia agree to ceasefire talks after Trump steps in, but border clashes persist
  
• Daniel Greenfield: No consequences. (But bitter Truths - jjs)
  Pilot Who Kicked Jewish Kids Off Plane Also Trained 9/11 Hijackers
  
• Why is Trump’s envoy sounding like a Biden bureaucrat?
  Tom Barrack’s Dangerous Drift

• The British government has reportedly tasked a specialist police unit to surveil social media for anti-mass migration opinions as it braces for another potential summer of unrest. Rather than address the concerns of the public, such as removing the mostly young male illegal migrants from the taxpayer-funded hotel accommodations in communities across the country, the UK Home Office has formed the National Internet Intelligence Investigations to “maximise social media intelligence” about anti-mass migration sentiment on social media, according to The Telegraph.
  UK Gov’t Forms Police Taskforce to Monitor Anti-Migration Sentiment on Social Media: Report

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Christina Marie Chapman, a 50-year-old Arizona resident, has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for her role in a scheme that allowed North Korean spies to infiltrate 309 U.S. companies using false identities as IT workers.
  Arizona Woman Sentenced to 8 Years for Helping North Korean Spies to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Kennedy's HHS has been moving at lightning speed to implement the MAHA agenda
  RFK Jr. Targets Ultra-Processed Foods In Latest Move To MAHA
  
• The reality that, since 2000 alone, 750 new medicines have been developed, demonstrating that these acts are achieving their stated purpose. The pharmaceutical industry’s investments in R&D relative to other industries also demonstrate the efficacy of the Hatch-Waxman/BPCIA approach.
  The U.S. Drug System Strikes A Reasonable Balance Between Incentivizing Innovation And Promoting Competition

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• A controversial study has suggested that an intergalactic object, 3I/ATLAS, might be a hostile alien spacecraft potentially slated to attack Earth.
  Study Reveals Potential Hostile Alien Threat in Mysterious Interstellar Object.
  
• In what can only be seen by anyone with any objectivity as a political payoff that has no chance of ever producing anything worthwhile, the Texas Space Commission (TSC) has given the Midland International Air and Space Port a $5 million grant to develop its proposed spaceport for vertical rockets in the middle of west Texas.
  Texas Space Commission hands $5 million to proposed spaceport in the middle of Texas
  
• During the commissioning process, the team made routine adjustments to the power subsystem on both vehicles. While the adjustments achieved the desired results on one satellite, the other satellite requires further investigation by the team. Commissioning operations are temporarily paused while the team analyzes the situation and determines the appropriate response.
  One of NASA’s two Tracers satellites just launched has an issue

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

• Phoenix Children’s Hospital has stopped providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors. Stanford Medicine has ended sex-change surgeries for minors, while Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has closed its “Center for Transyouth Health and Development and Gender-Affirming Care.”
  Trump Order Shuts Down ‘Child Sexual Mutilation’ Center.
  
• Obama's absent father and his lack of experience with raising a young man in the modern era have left him vulnerable to being emotionally controlled by anyone who possesses a moderately different story than his.
  No, Obama, young men don't need gay male mentors in their lives
  
• Beyond the open grooming, the state guidance effectively barred adoptive parents from serious religious adherence by disallowing religious activity that is ‘openly hostile or unsupportive’ of children who claim to be LGBT.
  9th Circuit Rules Oregon Law Forcing Adoptive Parents Into Gender Ideology Violates First Amendment
  
• While it hangs those opposed to leftist orthodoxy.
  UPenn Ditches Trans Athletes for Federal Money
  
• The pro-family movement is surging back, aiming not just to stop transgenderism—but to roll back the entire LGBT agenda and restore a culture rooted in biology, truth, and tradition.
  The True Roots of Transgenderism

  
  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• The path forward isn’t paved with more slogans, more division, or more social experiments — it’s built on the foundation of family. (Hat-tip to commenter OrangeENT - jjs)
  Nike’s Scottie Scheffler Dad Ad Signals A Serious Cultural Vibe Shift
  
• The WNBA-NBA case offers a stark lesson in how markets determine compensation based on real economic value, not egalitarian ideology.
  The Market vs. the WNBA

• Daniel Greenfield: The U.S. fertility rate dropped to an all-time low to 1.6 children per woman in 2024 ( No worries! Open borders and Muslim fecundity will be our salvation! or Slave-ation - jjs)
  US Fertility Rate Now Approaching Europe’s
  
• Not only is the U.S. failing to create enough new Americans through birth — it is also failing to turn immigrants into Americans in any meaningful sense.
  American Birth Rates Rates Drop To Levels Of Civilizational Suicide

• It’s time for all morally decent people to “get it,” because the world’s oldest hatred is back again with a vengeance.
  Antisemitism? I Just Don’t Get It!
  
• The 75-year-old reflected on his time as a successful host of The Tonight Show for over two decades and why his loyal audience always stuck around and came back for more while contemporary hosts just seem keen on alienating half the country.
  Jay Leno Rips Late Night Hosts for Alienating Half the Country
  
• Francona, who now manages the Cincinnati Reds, was the skipper for the Guardians from 2013 until 2023, guiding them to a World Series appearance in 2016. He was also the manager when the team pivoted from the Indians nickname, and he said before a game on Wednesday that he approved of Cleveland owner Paul Dolan’s decision to make the change.
  MLB Manager Terry Francona Bashes Trump, White People For Wanting Cleveland 'Guardians' To Become 'Indians' Again
  
• Thanks to Hulk Hogan, Americans were presented with the choice before them in the starkest possible terms.
  RAW EGG NATIONALIST: A Real American: Rest in Peace, Hulk Hogan
  
• Christian Toto: Award-winning playwright's fame, conservatism yield violent fantasies
  New Progressive Play Castrates, Murders David Mamet

  HITHER & YON

• “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.”
  An 18th Century Scottish Historian Foretold America’s Trajectory
  
• The battle for Objective Peach—a forgotten yet flawless feat of combined arms—opened the road to Baghdad and offers vital lessons for tomorrow’s wars.
  The Bridget at Objective Peach: An Overlooked Masterpiece of the Iraq War

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