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Who are the so-called Democratic Socialists of America and their fellow travelers?
While it is difficult to generalize, many current and would-be socialist officeholders share several common traits.
Most of them represent a relatively small slice of American life. Almost all are urban, with little knowledge of small-town or rural existence.
Their world is subways, buses, high-rises, Uber, taxis, and proximity to corporate, academic, and financial institutions—yet often with little understanding of where their food, fuel, water, or everyday goods originate, or where their waste and sewage ultimately go.
Their worldview is shaped more by consumption than production, as though goods simply arrive in and depart from cities on autopilot.
The FBI just put hundreds of people on a question much of Washington has spent five years trying to shame out of existence. If Georgia's 2020 presidential election was clean, a full review should prove it. If something went wrong, America needs to know that, too. The bureau has directed 260 investigative analysts and staff operations specialists from field offices across the country to help review records tied to the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga.
Each is expected to check about 708 records by July 17, and the work has been described inside the FBI as a “priority investigation.” From the Associated Press:
President Trump brushed off questions about the money he’s made while in office, saying his sons run his businesses and that he didn’t know about the lucrative crypto investments that netted him over a billion dollars.
“I’ve always made money,” he told CNBC, pointing to his past career. “I’m a business person. I’m a really good business person. I made money. I made a tremendous amount of money.”
Others invest his income, and he doesn’t know who they are, he noted. “I let people invest it. I don’t even speak to – I don’t even know who they are,” he said. “My son Eric handles it.
Man Nabbed While Targeting a NC Church
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On Sunday, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in High Point, North Carolina, could have become a part of an expanding group: churches targeted for violent attack, vandalism and protests. Thanks to an observant and quick-thinking individual and an off-duty cop, this attack was thwarted.
What in the world?! What mayhem did Milliken have planned? Was he targeting someone specific or did he just want to cause as much destruction as possible? From what was found on him after the arrest (see below), that last inquiry is a good supposition.
A little over a week ago, several Antifa terrorists were sentenced to a collective 450 years in prison. One of them, the convicted ringleader of the 2025 ambush of an ICE detention facility that saw a law enforcement officer get shot, received a century behind bars. The shortest sentence was 30 years. Antifa and their Leftist allies in the Democratic Party were not happy about these sentences. They really believed they were above the law, and are threatening the federal judges who put their comrades behind bars.
More Antifa terrorists were sentenced today. Andy Ngo,
Ethiopian-born socialist Melat Kiros unseated Democrat incumbent Diana DeGette in a race for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District on Tuesday, her victory coming on the heels of a socialist sweep of a series of congressional primaries in New York.
The string of socialist victories across the country shows that the ideas many thought were once confined to the fringe of the Democrat Party are no longer fringe. Rather than rejecting candidates who openly embrace socialist and communist ideas, Democrat voters and party members are elevating them. In choosing socialists over “mainstream” Democrats, Democrats are proving that Third-World communism is the party now, writ large.
A Tale Of Two Governors
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom can’t help himself when it comes to bragging about the performance of the state while he’s been in charge. Often it means saying things that are wildly untrue.
Take his latest attempt at self-congratulation.
In a post on X, Newsom claimed, “Since 2019, California has grown about 40% in its economy — no other jurisdiction in the United States has come close. We have no peers.”
That might be accurate if what Newsom meant was that California has no peers when it comes to how badly the state’s economy has been performing since 2019.
Newsom’s 40% growth rate is in nominal terms. In real terms,
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) shared that he would reintroduce former Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) “exact bill” that would not only eliminate birthright citizenship for the children of illegal migrants, but also clarify who can receive birthright citizenship. In a post on X, Moreno responded to another post from Fox News’s Bill Melugin, who shared that in 1993, Reid had introduced the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993. Moreno also shared the Immigration Act would focus on making cuts to legal immigration limits, capping annual refugee admissions, make changes to legal immigration limits by restructuring family-based visas and setting employment-based immigrant visas to zero,”
On Wednesday night, Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, vetoed House Bill 472, which in its final form included provisions requiring a photo ID for mail-in ballots. The fight for voter integrity does not appear to be over in the Buckeye State, however. In vetoing the bill, DeWine released a statement noting that “the bill “would not discourage fraud, would not add any real security, and would create an additional and significant burden for Ohioans.” The bill “is all burden for so little benefit. Therefore, this veto is in the public interest,”. DeWine’s concerns included verifying the photo ID and costs incurred in maintaining a portal and the Board of Elections.
Appeals court rules in favor of Trump
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A federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s order that required the National Park Service (NPS) to restore exhibits and signs that had been removed by the Trump administration.
The lower court ruling would have restored the signs and exhibits that the Trump administration had ordered removed because it viewed them as having disparaged Americans, according to The Hill. (snip) The order by the Trump administration was for the NPS to review all public-facing content not only for messaging that disparages Americans, but also for messages that “emphasizes matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance, or grandeur” of natural features, according to the outlet.
Second-class citizens': Angel Families
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President Donald Trump has made fighting illegal immigration the centerpiece of his second administration, but for too many families across the country, finding justice has been elusive.
Many illegal immigrants who have committed crimes have escaped justice under the Biden administration, while the families of the victims faced ineffective investigations, protracted legal cases, and, in some cases, saw the perpetrators receive light prison sentences.
“These people are shown so many privileges in this country and American citizens are really considered, in my opinion, second-class citizens when it comes to crimes committed against them by illegals,”
The Trump Administration is making a big mistake by engaging in negotiations with Hamas — as well as Iran.
Instead of weakening the Iran-backed terrorist group and its sponsors, these negotiations legitimize them as political actors and, for Hamas, only strengthen their standing among Palestinians; and for Iran's rulers, among countries that might have been hoping to move toward the West.
Discussions have reportedly stalled over disputes concerning which weapons the terrorist group Hamas would be permitted to retain. Instead of debating whether Hamas should disarm, negotiators now appear to be debating how much of its military capability it should be allowed to keep.
It’s a sign of what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the rest of us are up against that the Miami area’s PBS station, WLRN, headlined its story about Florida’s new designation of Antifa and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as terrorist groups this way: “DeSantis: Florida set to label Muslim civil rights nonprofit a terrorist group under new law.”
The obvious intent of that headline is to give WLRN’s remaining handful of readers, who are no doubt all already hardcore leftists, the impression that DeSantis, drunk on “Islamophobia” and right-wing “hate,” is gratuitously naming an innocent, and indeed, noble, civil rights organization a terrorist group just because it’s non-Christian
A Washington, D.C. Superior Court grand jury has indicted former Olympian David Hearn on a second-degree felony charge of “Destruction of property $1,000 or more.”
Hearn “ripped a piece of recently installed sealant,” Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said in a press conference Thursday announcing the indictment. “[Hearn] willfully destroyed property at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.”
Pirro stated that National Park Service (NPS) employees who were on scene claim to have observed Hearn reaching and pulling up the liner with both hands. Pirro alleges that Hearn caused damage to at least two square feet of the Reflecting Pool, citing the multi-million-dollar cost of the recent renovations
Deep blue Massachusetts Democrats are mulling a bill that would give illegal aliens the power to sue immigration agents personally for daring to arrest them for breaking immigration laws.
Despite the blatant unconstitutionality of the proposal, Bay State liberals are attempting to give illegals a path to attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in their personal lives merely for doing their constitutionally approved job.
The state’s Democrat-dominated legislature is currently working to reconcile the PROTECT Act, which would further hamstring state law enforcement from working with immigration officials. The bill also contains the provision to sue ICE agents personally, the Washington Examiner reports.
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Presumptive Democratic congresswoman and Zohran Mamdani-backed socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, is dating Mamdani's chief legal counsel, 48-year-old Ramzi Kassem, who is best known for defending al Qaeda terrorists, including a "close associate" of Osama bin Laden.
Chevalier confirmed the relationship in a statement shared with City & State. "Ramzi Kassem and I met outside an ICE detention facility, both working to free someone unjustly held," she said. "Over the years, as we collaborated on different projects, our professional acquaintance became a friendship, which grew into a romantic relationship. I'm deeply grateful for such a loving, supportive partner – he's been a refuge these past few years."
The Trump administration is set to unveil a sweeping overhaul of federal appliance efficiency rules that officials say will end "Green New Scam" appliance mandates, restore consumer choice, and block future federal crackdowns on gas stoves, fluorescent lightbulbs, HVAC systems, and other household appliances.
"In America, you should be able to choose between a drying machine that takes multiple cycles to dry your clothes and one that does it on the first try — unfortunately, past administrations thought otherwise," Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News Digital.
The Department of Energy is expected to propose a sweeping rewrite of federal appliance regulations that would change how energy-efficiency standards are written,
Today, when I enter a public building or a store where the lighting is dim, I am immediately transported to the depressing life we lived under communist rule. The immediate reaction is to exit the building.
My entire childhood, grandma’s house, six miles from the biggest refinery in the south, was illuminated by an anemic oil lamp. Years later, their village finally got electricity. A 40 W bulb was dangling from the ceiling, too weak and inefficient to even light up grandma’s small bedroom. Things and people inside looked yellow and sickly.
The six-mile road from the city to the village remained a gravel road until the communists were dethroned.
For all its B-movie trappings, Citizen Vigilante is the first of its kind: a film that sees the migrant crisis in Europe as a crisis for Europeans. It is politically incorrect in the most provocative sense, and as such, was probably destined to be made by two people (director Uwe Boll and actor Armie Hammer) who have been routinely dragged through the mud and probably feel like they have nothing left to lose. If the oft-ridiculed Boll and the scandal-plagued Hammer are both at a point where they have stopped caring what people think of them, then the strident tone of Citizen Vigilante reflects a growing outrage many people
“Democrat” means it’s easy to get
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There’s an expression that I won’t use in a title to a piece, but I’ll use it in the body. The expression is, “You get a socialist with an election, you get rid of them with a gun.”
Socialists have a pattern. They won’t go away. It’s a one-way ratchet. They get elected, and then they refuse to get un-elected. So, we get more and more of them. They’re like houseflies – just as parasitic, just as bothersome, and just as unhealthy.
Bernie Sanders is a good example. He has been in politics for most of his 84-year life.
Who are the so-called Democratic Socialists of America and their fellow travelers?
While it is difficult to generalize, many current and would-be socialist officeholders share several common traits.
Most of them represent a relatively small slice of American life. Almost all are urban, with little knowledge of small-town or rural existence.
Their world is subways, buses, high-rises, Uber, taxis, and proximity to corporate, academic, and financial institutions—yet often with little understanding of where their food, fuel, water, or everyday goods originate, or where their waste and sewage ultimately go.
Their worldview is shaped more by consumption than production, as though goods simply arrive in and depart from cities on autopilot.
Mitch McConnell is dead. You might not have heard about this and that’s not an accident. They may have him hooked up to machines so they can claim he isn’t dead, but the guy is dead. He might be even deader than Moqtaba Khameini, whom the Iranians still won’t show us. Actually, more than being dead, he’s a metaphor for the Bush Republican establishment which pretends that the Democrats are the same people they were when Bill Clinton was president and that it’s Trump who’s a threat to the status quo. And the Mitch McConnell Dead Republicans hang on and hang on, past the point where they
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he plans to help build a third political party, claiming the country’s leaders have stopped focusing on the needs of ordinary Americans.
Speaking with the Columbia Journalism Review, Carlson said he believes there should be a “good-faith effort” to create a political movement centered on improving life for Americans rather than fighting over foreign conflicts.
“I’m going to help build a third party. There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country,” Carlson said. “I mean, if you make $60,000 a year, you’re degraded. Your life expectancy has gone down, and the promise of your children’s
Rules for Polemicists
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Rael Jean Isaac, a wide-ranging polemicist who took on topics as diverse as global warming, radical left groups, Israel and its neighbors, and homelessness, passed away on June 25th. Apart from several books, her writings appeared in National Review, American Spectator, Commentary, and other journals of the time. Rather than summarize, I will list here some techniques those writings demonstrate about the fun side of investigative writing, which Isaac used to skewer left wing movements.
Lesson 1: Show examples of an argument taken to absurd lengths.
In her book on the Global Warming movement “Roosters of the Apocalypse”, Rael can’t resist telling you this story: