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Gen Z was supposed to be the first fully digital generation.
They grew up with smartphones in their hot little hands, social media accounts before they were old enough to swim, and an entire childhood recorded, uploaded, ranked, liked, shared, and permanently part of every algorithm on the planet.They were supposed to love every second of it… but that didn’t happen.
A growing number of them are now trying to escape the tech lifestyle they were born into.
Young Americans are deleting apps, cutting back on screen time, getting rid of social media, and trading expensive smartphones for “dumb phones” that make calls, send texts, give directions, and play music.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent continues on two domestic financial approaches to block banking services for illegal aliens and simultaneously target use of the financial system by those engaged in fraud of the U.S. government.Secretary Bessent has extended the Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) within Minnesota that covers two counties, Hennepin and Ramsey.
All financial transactions over a $3,000 limit are subject to increased reporting requirements and scrutiny from the U.S. treasury. {citation}
Peter Stein, the so-called “Boss of the Beach,” now collecting a $570,000 pension after careers with the Department of Education and Parks Department, is just the poster boy for corrupt abuse of New York public-employees benefits — and union leaders’ complete lack of shame at these absurdities is damning.
And that it’s (mostly) completely legal doesn’t make it any less corrupt.[snip] He’s one of 62 new retirees who scored pensions of at least $200,000 last year, per data on the Empire Center’s SeeThroughNY website; 490 got six-figure payouts.
And the total pension payout to retired city workers was about $6.2 billion — including more than $52.7 million in “back pay.”
Cambridge University is England’s second-best university, but it’s now bottom of the class. As the case of Jason Arday confirms, no one does dumb like the smart people.
In 2023, Cambridge made Arday a professor. He became the professorial chair of sociology and education. These fields produce politicized gibberish and call it scientific research. [snip] Enter Jason Arday. The son of Ghanaian immigrants. An autist, epileptic and dyslexic. Arday could not read or write until he was 18. But in 2021 he was already teaching at Glasgow University. His specialty was detecting bat squeaks of racism in education policy.
Justice Samuel Alito said he will be staying on the Supreme Court “for another term,” after a news bulletin weeks ago falsely reported his imminent retirement.
“Obviously I’m here for another term,” the 76-year-old justice said in an exclusive interview that The Wall Street Journal published on Aug. 7.
Alito was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006 to fill the seat vacated by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. He previously served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
This Week in Pictures
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Anthony Fauci is shaping up as the Choosin’ Texas of meme subjects–holding down the #1 spot week after week. He was our prime meme target again this week. Apart from Fauci, the WNBA was on the receiving end of a lot of ridicule, and something happened with regard to burritos, I don’t know what. But you will see some burrito memes. And unfortunately, anti-Communism is once again necessary. Who would have predicted that, circa 1991?
The Department of War on Friday revoked former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall’s eligibility for access to classified intel after he leaked classified information about Air Force One to the media. The Biden-era Air Force Secretary leaked sensitive information about President Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet to The New York Times. Full statement from Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell: Effective immediately, the Department of War has REVOKED former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall’s eligibility for access to classified information and his ability to hold any sensitive position.
When I call an investment firm or a doctor’s office to speak with a person, it’s bad enough that I have to listen to a voice mail that gives me six options, none of which includes speaking with a person.
But there’s something else that bugs me. It’s “Press 2 for Spanish.” That part of the recording is often in Spanish.
That Spanish part is usually preceded by “Press 1 for English.”
But wait a minute. I already have the recording in English. Now I have to press 1 for some more?
federal judge on Friday denied the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) bid to dismiss the Department of Justice's indictment of the organization and further declined to grant discovery into the DOJ's motives.
The DOJ announced charges against the organization, bringing six counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements to a bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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The SPLC had argued that the case was politically motivated, but the judge rejected that argument, saying the SPLC's filings were "heavy on heated rhetoric, better suited for cable news, or a podcast."
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is the only governor in America currently under investigation for a “pay-to-play” scheme, but that investigation will likely conclude just prior to the November election.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes – a fellow Democrat – is conducting the investigation and recently told reporters that the investigation is “near the end” and results would come prior to the November election, KTAR News reported.
“I feel confident that we’re going to get the information that we need to conclude the investigation,” Mayes told reporters earlier this week.
The investigation involves Hobbs’ connection to an Arizona group home,
A new Forgotten History documentary compilation revisits the controversies that followed Bill and Hillary Clinton from Arkansas to the White House and beyond.
Written and hosted by Colin D. Heaton, “The Clintons: Scandal After Scandal” traces former President Bill Clinton’s political rise, Whitewater, the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, sexual misconduct allegations, Monica Lewinsky and the impeachment fight.
From Whitewater To Benghazi
The feature-length episode then turns to the Clinton Foundation, Haiti relief, foreign donations, Hillary Clinton’s private email server, the 2012 Benghazi attack and recent congressional scrutiny.
Coca-Cola faces renewed backlash from Christian consumers after viral videos claimed its online personalized can feature allowed messages such as “I love Satan” and “Satan is King” while rejecting phrases including “I love Jesus” and “Jesus is King.”
The claims circulated widely on social media platforms, including a post by Sachin Jose on X that referenced the reported discrepancy. Social media users shared screen recordings of tests on the Coca-Cola Store website’s customization tool. The demonstrations prompted calls for boycotts of the company’s products.
The day of the transition of power in Colombia has finally arrived. Four years of its first left-wing president in modern history have come to an end, and the voters have replaced the former guerrilla and all-around clown, Gustavo Petro, with a much better option. It's a great day for that country and a great day for our entire hemisphere. Just to recap, Colombia held elections for president in May, with run-offs in June, and Abelardo de la Espriella, aka "El Tigre" or "The Tiger," won against Petro's hand-picked left-wing candidate, Ivan Cepeda. El Tigre is a lawyer —
President Donald Trump got handed an ugly jobs headline Friday. The economy lost 23,000 payroll jobs in July, and revisions erased another 103,000 jobs from May and June. That can't be dressed up; a weak jobs report is a weak jobs report.
But buried one line deeper is a number worth noticing. Private employers added 30,000 jobs in July while government payrolls fell by 53,000. If government employment had simply remained flat, the headline number would've been a gain of 30,000 jobs.
Statistics can tell very different stories depending on where somebody stops reading. The easiest headline is "23,000 jobs lost."
It's accurate, but so is "private employers added 30,000 jobs."
It's been ten years since Hillary Clinton lost her race to be president, her hopes dashed by the guy she thought she could easily beat, and who has now gone on to another term.
Yet, she still seems fully obsessed with him. So he not only beat her in that race, but he's beaten her ever since, if she has him constantly living rent-free in her mind.
Clinton appeared on Kara Swisher's Pivot podcast, and she spoke about what Democrats should do if they were able to take back the White House in the future. Talk about projection.
But think about what Clinton is saying there —
Jason Arday, the sociologist who made history as Cambridge University's youngest Black professor, has resigned from the university after weeks of mounting accusations of plagiarism and fabrications in his biography.
Arday, who joined Cambridge in 2023 at the age of 37, became one of Britain's most high-profile academics after sharing an extraordinary life story. He has said he is autistic and dyslexic, and that he did not speak until he was 11 and could not read or write until he was 18.
But following the accusations and scrutiny, Arday resigned from his position on Wednesday.
"The relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound
President Donald Trump committed to slashing foreign aid to save American taxpayers money, cut foreign waste, and remove funding from programs that do not extend American values in his second term, resulting in the lowest level of foreign aid flowing out of the country in over two decades.
The Pew Research Center’s analysis of federal trends released July 21 reveals that foreign aid plummeted in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2025, to the lowest level since 2004. The U.S. still funneled out $47.3 billion in foreign aid according to data from ForeignAssistance.gov. But when adjusted for inflation,
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic Senate nominee, grew up in an affluent suburb of Detroit.
The median household income in his hometown of Rochester Hills, named after Revolutionary War hero Nathaniel Rochester, is roughly $120,000. Not bad.
By the time El-Sayed graduated from the local high school, well over 95% of his classmates were also headed to college.
At the University of Michigan, an institution co-founded by the Catholic priest Gabriel Richard and Presbyterian minister John Monteith, El-Sayed excelled, graduated with high honors, and delivered his class's commencement speech.
A Republican lawmaker is seeking a special session to pass a voter ID proposal after New Jersey’s Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill supported the general policy.
Republican state Sen. Michael Testa Jr. is calling for the Legislature to reconvene and pass a bill that he co-sponsored requiring voters to present photo ID at polling places, in light of revelations that at least 6,600 noncitizens were registered to vote in the Garden State.
“I think it’s necessary, if not possible,” Testa told the Daily Signal of a special session to pass the bill, noting the Legislature’s Democrat majority is not likely to support it.
After a hacker exfiltrated the data of 633,000 Maricopa County, Arizona, voter records in 2020, zero prosecutors at any level of government would prosecute despite urging from the FBI.
Documents released Thursday morning by the White House Government Transparency Task Force detail the massive data breach, an investigation by the FBI, a suspect who admitted to the crime, and a years-long attempt by the FBI to get someone to prosecute, only to close the case due to a lack of prosecutor interest.
Here we go again.
Coca-Cola is facing a new wave of backlash after viral videos appeared to show the company’s online personalization tool immediately rejecting positive Christian messages, while references to Allah, Satan, and even degrading attacks on Jesus advanced to the preview stage.
Conservative commentator Isabel Brown tested the customizer on camera after receiving a tip from a friend. In the video, phrases including “Allah is good,” “Muhammad is good,” and “Satan is good” appeared to generate can previews. But when Brown entered “Jesus is good,” the site returned a rejection message: “The name or phrase you’ve submitted is not permitted.”
El-Sayed Drops the Mask
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The Democrat Party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, and his surrogates are ready to condemn you for “Islamophobia” if you dare to bring up the money he received from the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) or his defense of a jihad terror attack on a Jewish preschool.El-Sayed, his backers would have you believe, is a manifestation of America’s glorious “diversity,” a sign of how marvelously multicultural our nation has become, and that, they tell us, should be a cause for celebration for all people except racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.” A recent El-Sayed speech, however,
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court blocked further construction of President Trump’s planned White House ballroom Friday, ruling that the massive project must first receive congressional approval.
A divided panel of DC circuit judges determined that “Congress has exclusive authority to regulate the construction and demolition of White House structures.”
“We are aware of no instance in American history in which a President unilaterally and using privately collected funds demolished substantial portions of the White House that Congress authorized to be built and American taxpayers paid for. Until now,” wrote judges Patricia Millet and Bradley Garcia in their majority opinion. “The Constitution’s Property Clause vests Congress with plenary control
Disappointing Job Numbers?
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It was reported this morning that the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. That was considered disappointing, and appropriately so. However: in reality, this is part of an excellent long-term trend, as the Committee to Unleash Prosperity explains:
The bad news: the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. The good news: 53,000 of them were in government. The private sector gained 30,000 jobs.
We’d call this right-sizing the economy.