The Morning Report — 7/ 7 /26

Good morning kids. So a couple of big stories are shaking up the domestic political scene this morning. First and least surprising are the latest in a series of revelations about Democrat Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner:

Jenny Racicot, 41, told Politico that while she and Platner had been involved in an “on-and-off relationship,” in 2021 he allegedly “entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night” while intoxicated. Platner allegedly “forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop.” “I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” Racicot explained to the outlet. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.'”

So, a Nazi-loving Jew-hating rapist. As America's 250th birthday gradually recedes in the distance, I can honestly say I can't think of a more ideal presidential candidate . . . for the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Khamenei Funeral: Loyalists Call for Killing of Trump, Vance, and Conservative Influencers “As they passed under a bridge, mourners hurled stones at a billboard hung from above showing U.S. President Donald Trump with a bullet aimed at his head.”

If you didn't have the context, you'd swear that was a typical social media post from almost any leftist pol, media personality or average lefty wine mom.

Meh, Graham cracka Platner is just another cardboard cutout Democrat Socialist, er Socialite. Shove his ass in a Cutlass Supreme and sink it off off the coast of Chappaquidick to see if he floats.

I guess I'm kind of shocked that the Democrats are not circling the wagons, given their propensity to reflexively do so every time one of their own are caught up in this kind of scandal, and sadly 99% of the time come out mostly unscathed.

“Graham Platner needs to immediately withdraw as the Democrat nominee for Senate and allow Maine Democrats the opportunity to choose a new candidate who can defeat Susan Collins,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Chair Sen. Kristin Gillibrand of New York said in a statement. “The DSCC will not invest in the Maine Senate race if Platner remains on the ballot.” Democrat Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren also joined the pile-on, saying in a statement that “the best path forward is for Graham Platner to step aside,” while Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wrote on X that Platner “must drop out” and that the party “should continue to stand with all survivors of sexual assault.”

Given this story and the rise of the DSA to preeminence in the Dem party, I can't understand how they are now seeing Platner as toxic waste.

A new YouGov survey found Democrats are more likely to view the Black Lives Matter flag positively than the American flag, with 74 percent expressing a very or somewhat positive opinion of the BLM flag compared with 72 percent for the U.S. flag. The poll also found ten percent of Democrats held a negative view of the American flag. Among Republicans, just ten percent said they viewed the BLM flag positively. The survey also measured reactions to other flags and symbols, finding only three percent of Democrats had a positive view of flags associated with President Donald J. Trump, while nine percent viewed the Confederate flag positively and 27 percent viewed the Palestinian flag favorably. The findings were released shortly after a Marist poll reported that fewer than half of Democrats said they were proud to be Americans, compared with 93 percent of Republicans. A 2025 Gallup poll similarly found a sharp partisan divide in national pride. YouGov surveyed 1,088 U.S. adults online between June 30 and July 2.

Elsewhere we have news that Mitch McConnell is unwell, or perhaps fast approaching room temperature.

Before politics enters the room, prayers should. I can't read about a possible heart crisis or stroke without thinking of my father, who lived through a heart attack, suffered a stroke, and endured hard months before he died. Families live inside those hours; they're not campaign props. But McConnell isn't only a husband, father, and grandfather. He is Kentucky's senior senator, holding one of 100 seats in a chamber where every vote cast decides war powers, judges, spending, taxes, and the president's agenda. If he's recovering, Kentucky deserves to know enough to trust that recovery. If he's gravely ill, Kentucky deserves honesty without cruelty. Conservative activist Laura Loomer and journalist Desiree Townsend claimed Monday that McConnell has been declared “brain dead,” citing unnamed sources. McConnell's office hasn't confirmed or denied that claim.

Mitch McConnell's record has to say the least been spotty at best when it comes to advancing an America first constitutional agenda and opposing the Democrat traitors who have run wild especially since the coming of Obama and well before that. McConnell and all the other elderly doddering career politicians on both sides of the aisle who enrich themselves via elective office are why we desperately need term limits, as well as the severest of penalties for graft. Public flogging perhaps.

As if to underscore that, we have McConnell's wife.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao traveled to Beijing just three days after her husband, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), was rushed to the hospital following an apparent heart attack that required CPR.

Nope, not a smidgen of a hint of corruption at all, eh? This would be the same China that's doing this... Between Chao, Swalwell, the late Feinstein whose lifelong chauffeur was a Chi-Com spy and how many others nationally and locally who are the same, as well as all the spies in our academic institutions and the private sector, it's a race o see who finishes us off first, them or the Muslims...

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has tracked Chinese nuclear and missile proliferation concerns across multiple decades and report iterations. The six editions examined here span the period from May 2021 through May 2026. Taken together, they reveal a consistent underlying pattern—Chinese government-level transfers have largely ended, but a persistent, arguably worsening problem of Chinese entity-level proliferation continues unabated—while the diplomatic and rhetorical framing around that problem has shifted considerably over time.

These transfers undermine the official Chinese position—namely, that China firmly opposes the proliferation of nuclear weapons, missiles, and related technologies/means of delivery and commits to rigorous export controls while balancing nonproliferation with the peaceful uses of dual-use technologies, especially for developing countries (see “China's Non-Proliferation Policy and Measures").

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• “I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” Racicot explained to the outlet. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.'” (Dear Iran, I think we've found your ideal next president! - JJS)
  Report: Graham Platner Accused of Breaking into Woman's House, Sexually Assaulting Her
  

• Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is 84, hospitalized, and surrounded by more rumor than fact.  
  If McConnell Is Gravely Ill, Kentucky Deserves Clarity

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
• Our ‘theater-kid occupied government’ routinely attains to new heights of absurdity, as shown in Ketanji Brown Jackson’s antiracist screed.
  KBJ’s Critical-Theory Defense Of Magic-Dirt Citizenship Erases Legitimacy Of Judicial Supremacy

  THE IRAN CONFLICT, "PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

• The elder Khamenei, who brutalized his citizens for decades as dictator, was eliminated in an American military action on February 28, as announced by President Donald Trump. The Iranian terror regime waited until the weekend of July 4, which marked the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, to organize massive nationwide events of forced mourning for the bloodthirsty ruler.
  Iran ‘Supreme Leader’ Skips His Dad Ayatollah Khamenei’s Funeral
  
• “As they passed under a bridge, mourners hurled stones at a billboard hung from above showing U.S. President Donald Trump with a bullet aimed at his head.”
  Khamenei Funeral: Loyalists Call for Killing of Trump, Vance, and Conservative Influencers

• Can the Islamic Republic of Iran be trusted to abide by any deal it makes?
  ‘He Who Has No Taqiyya Has No Religion’

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY

• Can you guess who's lying?
  There Never Was ‘Starvation’ in Gaza

  The UNITED STATES of AMERICA AT 250

• Victor Davis Hanson: Mamdani’s Independence Day message says more about his own politics than the country that gave his family extraordinary opportunity.
  Mamdani’s Embittered Fourth of July Rant to America
  
• It matters what story we tell each other about ourselves and our nation.
  A tale of two speeches: Trump's America at 250 v Mamdani's

  CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• “Paying reparations is an admission of the crime. But it’s not an admission of the crime of a handful of bad apples or a few years of bad policy. It is the crime of the entire existence of the United States,” Hannah-Jones said.
  1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘Entire Existence of the United States’ Is a ‘Crime’
  
• The findings underscore the growing cultural and political divides in the U.S., particularly as the Democratic Party faces an internal transformation, with far-left socialist candidates gaining traction. The poll also coincides with broader trends showing declining patriotism among Democrats, as highlighted by a Marist survey indicating less than half of Democrats are proud to be Americans.
  Poll: Democrats Say BLM Flag Better Than USA.
  
• The nation's largest teachers union has unveiled their wish list of new business items
  Teachers Union Calls For Trump’s Removal, Reparations, And ICE ‘Red Cards’

• The Left's ferocious hatred of women who marry conservative men.
  The Feminist Fashionistas Uncork Ugliness Against Usha

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• In one ruling, SCOTUS affirmed the president’s power to fire independent agency officials. On the same day, it invented a fourth branch of government to protect the Fed.
  John Roberts Again Undermines SCOTUS Legitimacy With Irreconcilable Slaughter And Cook Opinions
  
• Congress should pass it. Trump’s already bailed farmers out once since December 2025. He shouldn’t have to do it again just because Congress can’t get a tax bill across the finish line. Give farmers a customer instead of a check, feed America with American grown agriculture and create a whole new incentive structure that allows American family farms to thrive year after year.
  There’s a Bill in Congress That Could End the Farm Bailout Cycle.
  
• Or at least that's the impression I got from a Monday morning New York Post exclusive detailing the showdown between Gracie Mansion and local retailers threatened by Mamdani's campaign promise to build and operate city-run grocery stores.
  New York Bodega Owners to City: Drop Dead!
  
• Inspector General says 96 percent of audited transactions should not have been approved
  Audit of Minority Business Development Agency Finds Mass Oversight Failure

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Police say Sheikh Haque, 33, of Buffalo, burst into the Muslim Center of New York
  Mosque Scare Turns Political Firestorm After Dems Leave Out One Key Detail
  
• On July 3, French Jews visiting Barcelona, Spain, left a synagogue after Shabbat services and dinner, identifiable by the kippahs on their heads. I recently wrote about a video showing passersby unleashing rage on a journalist holding an Israeli flag on the streets of Barcelona. What happened to two of the French Jews on their walk back to their hotel shows that the kippah can trigger similar unhinged responses.
  Barcelona Horror: Mob Chases French Jews Through City Streets
  
• Now why, oh why, would he want to do that?
  Muslim Police Officer in UK Wants to End Use of ‘Jihadist’ and ‘Islamist’ (Just say Muslim - jjs)

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• It never had their backs in the first place.
  The Democrat Party Didn’t Abandon the Jews
  
• The political question on the Left has quickly become whether to be an active driver of antisemitism or a passive enabler.
  Antisemitism Is Not A Fringe Position In The Democrat Party
  
• Janeese Lewis George made the comments as she courted an endorsement from the Democratic Socialists of America
  Socialist Poised To Be DC's Next Mayor Says She Now Regrets Backing Resolution Condemning Antisemitism, Unearthed DSA Recording Shows

  J-6 FBI/PELOSI-ENGINEERED FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH,

• The release of this footage is expected to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the events of January 6, potentially influencing public opinion and ongoing legal proceedings.
  BREAKING: Over 1000 More Hours of J6 Body Cam Footage Have Been Released.

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

• Solar-powered black boxes have been installed in communities across the U.S. under the
  guise of “public safety.” Yet, in true American
  fashion, resistance is rising against what can only be described as the arrival of a full-fledged
  surveillance state.
  Flock Safety cameras, the most prominent brand in this AI surveillance space, are automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that
  capture high-resolution images of every
  passing vehicle. Flock and similar systems
  now operate in thousands of communities,
  with over 110,000 cameras mapped
  nationwide, according to DeFlock, an
  open-source project mapping license plate
  readers.
  Surveillance State Has Arrived, And Masked Heroes Are Already Fighting Back
  
• America can't win the AI race, rebuild manufacturing, or strengthen national security without abundant, reliable nuclear power—and SMRs offer the fastest path forward.
  Act Now to Solve the Data Center Power Problem

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• “Pro-worker conservatives need not listen to corporate America and its media allies’ lectures.”
  Restoring the American Worker’s Agency
  
• Multimillionaire politicians denounce billionaires as the source of all evil, to the applause of college graduates pretending to be working class. It’s a dangerous farce.
  Trillionaires Like Elon Musk Aren’t A Problem For America, Envious Leftists Are

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

• My forecast calls for sensible precautions and a healthy dose of skepticism toward overheated rhetoric.
  Separating Weather from Hysteria: The ‘Double Heat Dome’ Story

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of these people living and sh*tting on our streets, and you probably are too. It’s going to take some harsh measures to deal with the problem, but it’s a problem that has a solution, if only we had the political will to implement it.
  Outlaw Homelessness and Make Workhouses & Asylums Great Again

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Facing declining public school enrollment, the unions are litigating against SUNY to block a charter school.
  New York Teachers’ Unions Latest Lawsuit to Limit School Choice
  
• In 503 schools, majority of students failed both math and reading
  Close to Half of New York City Schools Are Failing, New Report Says
  
• Now the American government will have no part in propping up degree programs that may not even lead to a livable wage. A provision of the Big Beautiful Bill cuts them off from federal aid access if they can’t break the non-grad salary baseline.
  The government is pulling student loan money from worthless college degree programs — and it’s about time

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• The right of self-defense shouldn't stop at the border, especially for Americans who have already proven themselves to be law-abiding.
  Crossing a State Line Shouldn’t Cost You Your Right to Self-Defense

  THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Johnson announced his plan to include the SAVE America Act in a budget reconciliation package alongside $350 billion for the Pentagon and other spending priorities. This move would be difficult to achieve since it would aim to bypass the Senate filibuster and require support from House Republican holdouts.
  Mike Johnson Has Plan To Pass Save America Act, But It Will Face Several Tripwires Along The Way

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
  
  

• Democrats who had previously pledged support for Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner have begun pulling their endorsements of the candidate following a new report of sexual assault from Politico.
  Democrats Stick The Knife In Graham Platner
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• https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2026/07/06/photo-democrat-senator-mark-kelly-torched-for-wearing-mexico-jersey-to-watch-world-cup-fking-clown/
  PHOTO — Democrat Senator Mark Kelly Torched for Wearing Mexico Jersey to Watch World Cup: ‘F**king Clown’
  
• Chao, a former transportation secretary, met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on June 17. There are images published by Chinese outlets showing the two seated together during talks ostensibly focused on relations between Washington and Beijing.
  McConnell’s China-Connected Wife Met with China’s VP in Beijing 3 Days After Her Husband Was Rushed to Hospital
  
• The House passed Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s resolution on June 30 that directed the OCWR and House Ethics Committee to release a list of congressional members subject to sexual misconduct investigations and disclose cases that resulted in taxpayer-funded monetary settlements.
  Congressional Office Silent For Now On Taxpayer Funds Doled Out For Lawmakers’ Sexual Misconduct Settlements

  POLITICS

• UPDATE: In response to the claims, a spokesperson for McConnell said the senator continues to improve in the hospital and is working closely with his staff on “Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session.”
  Laura Loomer, Reporter Claim Hospitalized Mitch McConnell Is ‘Brain Dead’

• Democratic Socialists are their Marxist intentions.
  The Taqiyya Communists
  
• Today's socialists aren't reviving Marx—they're replacing faith with politics and promising comfort instead of freedom.
  The New Socialists and What They Say about America
  
• Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow’s abrupt exit from the race is being portrayed as a move by establishment Democrats to block El-Sayed from winning the primary.
  Democrat Drops Out of Michigan Senate Primary in Bid to Stop Abdul El-Sayed
  
• Glenn H. Reynolds: Kiros benefited from the DSA’s strategy of targeting low-turnout primary and local races to pick up seats using a disciplined voter-engagement machine. 
  Socialists prey on Americans’ apathy — even in places you’d never expect

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Two explosions were reported Tuesday in Syria’s capital, Damascus, near a hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron was staying as part of his visit to the war-torn country. 
  Explosions heard in Damascus during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit: reports (early Bastille Day festivities? - jjs)
  
• The verdict will have significant implications for France’s political landscape, as the RN under either Le Pen or Bardella is currently leading French presidential polling by a significant margin. The attempt to ban Le Pen from standing is widely viewed as an attempt to prevent her from winning via legalistic rather than democratic means, similar to the efforts to bar Donald J. Trump from ballots or imprison him prior to the 2024 election in the U.S., and growing efforts to penalize Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage for a range of supposed administrative missteps in the United Kingdom.
  French Courts Set to Rule on Le Pen’s Appeal Against Election Ban.
  
• “You lost!"
  French Far-Left Celebrates the Demographic Decline of the Indigenous French

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• For five years, Congressional reports have documented a troubling reality: Chinese entities continue supplying America's most dangerous adversaries.
  Chinese Nuclear and Missile Proliferation

• Sebastian Gorka unveils the threats facing America - and what the U.S. is doing about them.
  PragerU Video: US Counterterrorism Strategy

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Healthcare costs, including premiums, out-of-pocket costs, and drug prices, remain high, giving many far-left Democrats more reason to rally behind single-payer health care.
  Socialist Democrat Surge Breathes Life into Medicare for All

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Euclid is exactly the kind of space telescope the astronomy community should be building, in huge numbers, rather than whining about those satellite constellations blocking its big ground-based telescopes.
  Europe’s Euclid optical space telescope discovers 31 new quasars in the very early universe
  
• Or to put it even more bluntly, no matter how much lipstick the solar scientist community has tried to put on this pig, it remains a pig.
  Sunspot update: The ramp down to solar minimum continued to stall in June

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

• Kimberly Polk’s lawyers say the school district is making her mouth wrong-sex pronouns and hide from parents that their children are transitioning genders in school—in violation of her free exercise and free speech rights.
  Maryland Teacher Takes Gender Policy Challenge to Supreme Court
  
• When leftist delusions meet harsh realities.
  Patti LuPone ‘Shocked’ That LGBTQ+ Cruise She Was Set to Perform on Was Banned From Traveling Through Turkey

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Late Rob Reiner stars in skit attacking President Trump with Fake News
  Larry David’s ‘Life’ Shows Trump Derangement’s Cruel Side
  
• Everything Obama Touches Turns to shit!
  Director Jeff Schaffer Says Rob Reiner’s Final Role as George Washington in Larry David’s Obama-Produced HBO Show Is Reiner’s ‘Last Laugh’ Against Trump
  
• “This ideological capture has moved the Museum’s mission away from straightforward historical education and scholarship toward an extreme political activism that seeks to transform our country,” the report states.
  Smithsonian Leadership is ‘Extremist’ Says White House.
  
• “Warning: The exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don’t want you to love your country.” That’s a disclaimer every entrance to the National Museum of American History ought to display, according to a new White House report excoriating the Smithsonian Institution and its flagship museum.
  Free the Smithsonian — and our history — from America-hating elites
  
• Let’s stop letting perpetually miserable people define the moral terms of our lives. It’s time to make generational ambition honorable again.
  Democratic Socialists Who Failed At Life Are Weaponizing Envy To Destroy American Families

  HITHER & YON

• An Independence Day movie depicts a young man learning to carry the weight of destiny.
  ‘Young Washington’: The Forging of a Hero

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