More Antifa Terrorists Sentenced, From 22 Months to 50 Years

Most of these reached plea bargains involving testifying against their fellow terrorists.

Except the one who got 50 years.

BREAKING: North Texas Antifa Members Who Turned on Their Comrades Receive Years in Federal Prison

Ahead of sentencing, one of the convicts tried to kill herself.

I'm not sure if that's one of the many trans terrorists, once again playing the "do what I want or I'll kill myself" card.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Seven more convicted members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell were sentenced Wednesday in federal court, less than two weeks after one of the convicts allegedly attempted to kill herself while in custody.

U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman and Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor handed down the sentences in Fort Worth following last week's 450-year prison sentence, a historic punishment of the Antifa group's first batch of trial defendants.

With the exception of Ines Soto, all of Wednesday's defendants had accepted plea agreements before trial. They received the following sentences in federal prison:

Ines Houston Soto -- 50 years

John Philip Thomas -- 9 years

Rebecca Deyalyn Morgan -- 15 years

Nathan Josiah Baumann -- 22 months

Lynette Read Sharp -- 9 years

Joy Abigail Gibson (trans nonbinary female who goes by "Rowan") -- 15 years

Seth Edison Sikes -- six years and 10 months

Other than Nathan Baumann, all of them will also have two years of supervised release after serving their sentences. Baumann will have one year of supervised release.

Susan Elaine Kent was supposed to be sentenced, but her court date was moved to next week.

Ahead of sentencing, Ngo Comment can exclusively report that Rebecca Morgan had allegedly attempted to harm or kill herself while in custody in Wichita County, Texas. According to a source not authorized to speak on record, Morgan had consumed pills. It's unclear how she was able to obtain the pills. Wichita County officials told Ngo Comment they had no records or information to provide.

Joy Gibson is the female romantic partner of the cell's ringleader, Benjamin Hanil "Champagne" Song. They both identify as trans nonbinary. At least a quarter of the 16 convicts identify as trans. They are all being housed in the facility matching their biological sex.

In front of Judge Pittman, Baumann's attorney told the court that his client fears violent reprisal for cooperating with the prosecution. This journalist's reporting was cited. Many Antifa-aligned accounts on social media have been threatening violence against some of the defendants for months for testifying at trial.

Baumann cried and apologized in his statement to the court. It is assumed that he received the lightest prison sentence, only 22 months, because of his strong cooperation in providing extensive evidence of the conspiracy to the prosecution.

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Ines Soto was convicted at trial in March of providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use and carry an explosive, using and carrying an explosive and rioting. He is the spouse of Elizabeth Soto, who was also sentenced to 50 years in prison last week.

The other six each pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists, admitting in signed factual stipulations that they organized behind an Antifa ideology and participated in supporting the July 4, 2025 attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.

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Tim Walz Pardons an Illegal Alien for Raping a 10-Year-Old Girl to Attempt to Defeat Trump's Effort to Deport Him

Absolute demons.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_

NEW: DHS is accusing MN Gov. Tim Walz of trying to shield a Laotian illegal alien pedophile from being deported after Walz pardoned him for a 2006 conviction in which he repeatedly raped a 10-year-old girl in MN. DHS says Tou Lue Vang was issued a deportation order immediately after that conviction and was set to be imminently deported, but the pardon has now removed his deportable offenses and given him a clean record, which may thwart his removal and give him an avenue to fight deportation.

WARNING GRAPHIC DETAILS BELOW:

According to Vang's conviction documents from the state of Minnesota, in 2004, he repeatedly had penetrative sex with the 10-year-old girl on multiple occasions and forced oral sex upon her in which he ejaculated into her mouth. He told police "I made a mistake, but this is a minor thing...it's a cultural thing to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12." He also said the child should be arrested and she was also at fault.

Vang ultimately took a plea deal to plead guilty to the offense of first degree criminal sexual conduct. NYT reports he served no prison time as part of the deal.

Vang was pardoned for the offense last month by the Minnesota Board of Pardons, which is made up of the MN Governor, MN Attorney General, and Chief Justice of the MN Supreme Court. All pardons must be approved by the MN Governor.

DHS is now blasting the decision:

"Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting," said Acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. "These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting. Tou Lue Vang lost his legal status following his conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. Following the conviction, he was placed in removal proceedings and issued a final order of removal by a judge. This pardon will take away this child rapist's qualifying convictions that made him removable from the United States."

Washington Examiner:

Vang was set to be deported to Laos, according to the DHS. However, his pardon was issued on June 10, 2026, a week before he was supposed to be deported. Now, the pardon could reportedly "thwart his removal from the United States."

"Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting," said acting assistant DHS Secretary Lauren Bis. "These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting."

Vang entered the country in 1994 and was "granted legal status" by the Clinton administration, according to DHS. Court records revealed that he "repeatedly sexually assaulted a girl between 2002 and 2004. He also offered the girl he abused "$10 to keep quiet about the sexual assaults." During interviews with law enforcement at the time, Vang shifted blame of the abuse on his culture, claiming it was permissible to "marry and have sex with girls as young as 12." The DHS also claimed Vang said the girl he abused was equally as guilty as him and "should be arrested too."

Court records show that Vang pleaded guilty to "penetration or contact with a person under 13 years old by an actor more than 36 months older" on October 31, 2005, and was sentenced in February 2006 to 12 years, "with the sentence stayed." He was also issued 30 years of supervised probation. His legal status was revoked after his conviction, and he was issued a final order of removal in 2006.

"The Minnesota Board of Pardons made a unanimous decision to grant Tou Vang this pardon after an exhaustive process which included a statement of support for the pardon from the victim, a recommendation to grant the pardon from the Clemency Review Commission, and a large number of community support letters," Ellison's office said in a statement to the New York Times.

More cultural enrichment:

An illegal alien has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for his involvement in an $89 million fraudulent payroll scheme that saw illegal alien construction workers and their employers evade taxes.

"Today, we held an illegal alien from Honduras accountable for a brazen scheme that stole more than $38 million from American taxpayers to facilitate the employment of illegal aliens," Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said.

"This case exposes how unchecked illegal immigration fuels widespread payroll tax fraud and underground economies that harm American workers and taxpayers," McDonald said. "This sentence sends a strong message: Those who exploit our open borders, cheat the U.S. Treasury, and violate federal laws will face justice."

The mother of the Loyola student murdered by an illegal in Chicago attempted to testify about the actual cost of sanctuary policies. Democrats murder-splained to the mother that gosh they sure were sorry that her daughter was shot in the back of the head by an illegal alien criminal who should have been deported years ago, buttt she needs to understand all the Good Things that illegal alien criminals bring to this country, and she'll just have to remind herself not to be so selfish.

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The Morning Rant

The 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution is a very interesting thing. Many people misinterpret it, in particular the so-called "Establishment Clause," which prevents the establishment of a state religion, rather than the more popular assumption that it prevents all government involvement.

The third clause, "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech," is perhaps even more widely confused with a blanket prohibition against penalizing speech in any context by any person or organization. And that is simply wrong.

The government cannot control my speech. That is clear. But there are many circumstances that allow government interference with speech, including threats of violence, incitement to violence, slander and libel (tough to prove though), and others. And one of those circumstances is in the military, which has a broad prohibition against political speech when service members are in uniform. That is a very good thing, because the bright line between the military and politics is one of the bulwarks against tyranny that our republic has developed over the years. The military should be...must be...apolitical. It is axiomatic in a free society, and the many examples in world history of militaries being political tools for one party, or the ruling power, rarely ended well.

US Air Force Officer Calls for Trump Impeachment, Demands JD Vance's Removal Before Arrest

Air Force Maj. Jason Watson joined a protest organized by the Removal Coalition and was taken into custody by Capitol Police for demonstrating in a restricted area.

The arrest followed a press conference where Watson, in uniform, accused the administration of multiple constitutional violations.

“Our Constitution binds us all together as Americans,” Watson said. “Like countless veterans before me, military members serving now, I’ve devoted my life in service to our Democratic Republic.”

First of all, Major Watson is a dumbass, because we do not live in a "Democratic Republic." If he doesn't understand the structure of our government, then maybe he doesn't deserve his rank. Second, this turd must know exactly what he is doing...there is no plea of ignorance in this issue. He wore his uniform while being overtly political, in public, making very serious charges against his commander in chief. The repercussions should be swift and significant, and completely unsurprising.

Long-time commenter and contributor "Diogenes" had some thoughts...

Violation of the following:
Article 88: Contempt toward officials
Article 94: Mutiny or sedition
Article 133: Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman
Article 134: General article.

94 may be a stretch, but in my opinion, not impossible. It is important because it carries the death penalty.

I wonder if any of his fellow officers knew he was going to do this, particularly his immediate commander?

A very good question, and one that I hope is answered during Major Watson's Court-Martial.

This is an example of the post-modern conceit that everyone's opinion is valuable, and should be widely disseminated without any responsibility. I am fully supportive of Major Watson's freedom to say anything he wants about our government, its conduct, and its officials, as long as he does it as a private citizen. If he were so exercised by the President, then perhaps he should have done the honorable thing and resigned his commission, and then spoken out about what he saw as unacceptable.

By acting in such a disrespectful manner, he dishonored his uniform, he dishonored the armed forces, and he dishonored the Constitution.

It is incumbent upon his superiors to take his actions seriously, both to maintain the rule of law within the armed forces, and even more important, to maintain the independence of the armed forces from political involvement!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Stag Hunt of Elector Frederick the Wise
Lucas der Ältere Cranach

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The Morning Report — 7/ 2 /26

Good morning kids. Even in the wake of the end of the Vietnam War, Watergate and the turbulence of the countercultural revolution, the American Bicentennial, at least as I can recall it now 50 years on through the lens of a 16-year-old kid from Brooklyn, everyone was united in their pride to be an American. The commies, hippies and crackpots for sure did not disappear. but were for the most part marginalized and ignored. As my dear mother of blessed memory always warned me, evil never rests. here we are on the eve of our semisesquentennial, and all I can do is just shake my head and wonder what the hell happened?!

Here's a chicken and egg example to illustrate the pickle we're in...

Julie had told police that Allison was allegedly making threats, including “suicide by cop,” and claimed Allison had stolen her car. She also “alleged that Howlett would frequently put on body armor, grab a rifle, and tell her partner to take her to a homeless shelter, alluding to the idea of shooting homeless people.”

And now the other part of my parable...

A Wisconsin transgender activist has released a run of videos telling people to “kill your local Republican” and vowing a “trans jihad” against MAGA.

Conservative commentator Dustin Grage posted the footage to X on July 1. In one clip, Teha Delaruelle speaks against a background displaying the words “Kill Your Local Republican,” then points to the message. “We’re going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin,” Delaruelle says, giving followers a one-month window to act.

Is it hormones gone crazy or do they just want us dead? Yeah, they want us dead.

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. . . In sum, Democratic socialism is a top-down movement run by insulated elites who have little understanding of—or genuine interest in—the lives of millions of ordinary Americans living outside the walls of their parochial cloisters.

The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been waiting and preparing for this for a long time. It’s easy to be a Communist -- All you have to do is say, “I’ll give you everything,” but that means you’re taking it away from others that have earned it. Over thousands of years, that Ideology has not worked once. The game is on. Enjoy watching! President DONALD J. TRUMP I disagree with the president in one respect. This isn’t a spectator sport. We all have skin in the game. Our mission is to rally voters and contain and defeat yet another run at turning America into a socialist “paradise.”

And we're going to have to do something and fast lest our skin be turned into lampshades, like what was done 80 years ago by Democrat role models from the National SOCIALISTS of Germany. That or be gunned down by some transexual Frankenstein monster with an AR-15

It really is us or them, so happy 250th America!

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• A Wisconsin transgender activist has released a run of videos telling people to “kill your local Republican” and vowing a “trans jihad” against MAGA.
  Transgender Democrat Activist Urges Followers To ‘Kill Your Local Republican’

• Victor Davis Hanson: The new socialist movement claims to speak for ordinary Americans, but its leaders often come from the very elite institutions they criticize.
  Who Really Are These New Democratic Socialists and Their Fellow Travelers?
  
• Robert Spencer: Which is a sign of the health of the union as the big day draws near.
  As America’s 250th Anniversary Approaches, Columbus, Ohio Celebrates… Somalia
  

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Daily Tech News 2 July 2026

Top Story

• Sony has announced it will stop releasing PlayStation games on disc in 2028. (BBC)
  
  But that's okay. Sony doesn't have a habit of abruptly cancelling access to content you've already bought and refusing to offer refunds.
  
  Oh.

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Wednesday Night ONT - July 1, 2026 [Magna Carta]

Greetings Horde!

Hi! I am the Magna Carta. You might remember me from such classics as "The Devil Went down to Runnymede" and "King John is a Big Fat Poopyhead." Thanks for letting me guest post for tonight's ONT!

While the July 4th holiday (rightly) focuses on the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, the American story traces some of its roots back to me. You're welcome!

Let's learn more...

[Top photo: Magna Carta memorial, Runnymede, England, National Trust Images/James Dobson]

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Semiquintennial Cafe

Fascinating History
@Fascinate_Hist

Meriden, CT has some fascinating history. (Shout out to @melindacapecod
for sharing her hometown with us!) 🏰

By the late 19th century, Meriden produced roughly 70% of the silverware in the US. But its biggest mystery sits high on the cliffs of East Peak: Castle Craig.

Built in 1900 by kerosene tycoon Walter Hubbard, this 32-foot stone tower completely baffles historians. No one knows what inspired it.

Is it a clone of a Norman watchtower on the Rhine? A 12th-century Turkish tower on the Danube? Or a replica of a medieval ruin in Craigellachie, Scotland?

Hubbard took the secret to his grave. Which theory do you believe?

Dog wants to be involved in his owner's pregnancy.

Rescuing a sweet boy used for dog-fighting.

Guys on an oil rig find a dog trying to stay alive in the ocean 135 miles from shore.

Rescuing a husky neglected by his owner and left outside in the yard without attention or even food. (Helpful neighbors fed him through the fence.)

Raising an orphaned polar bear cub until she's the size of a monster.

Parrot flies in the draft of a ship.

Turning nothing into something.

Hand-raising a little baby bear.

Running Galileo's experiment to prove that a ball of feathers falls just as quickly as a bowling ball -- in a vacuum, that is. Et voila, it's true.

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Quick Hits

The DOJ is now investigating Eric Swalwell's best pal and fellow sex tourist Rueben Gallego for misappropriating donor funds for personal use.

DOJ investigating Dem Sen. Ruben Gallego after records revealed he blew campaign cash on Super Bowl tickets, Disney trips

The Justice Department has launched an investigation into Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) related to luxury outings and family trips paid for with campaign donations, The Post confirmed.

The DOJ probe into possible campaign finance violations by the potential 2028 Democratic presidential, first reported by Axios, stems from a whistleblower complaint out of Southern California.

News of the investigation surfaced just hours after the Senate Ethics Committee rejected a complaint filed against the Arizona Democrat accusing him of campaign finance violations and sexual misconduct.

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Last week, Politico reported that Gallego tapped into a joint campaign account with his ex-buddy, disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), to attend Super Bowl LVII in Arizona with his wife in 2023.

The "Swallego Victory Fund," which both Gallego and Swalwell set up in October 2022, held a fundraiser at the big game and spent over $37,000 between tickets and meals.

Federal Election Commission records also show Gallego has spent $18,000 from his political action committee and campaign coffers on child care since 2019, including a $400 payment to his mother-in-law for babysitting.

Gallego also took his family on trips to Disney World and Disneyland, where he participated in PAC retreats. Records show the Disneyland excursion cost close to $1,500 for accommodations, not including flights.

Mark Halperin suggested that when Gallego wanted to take the family to Disney World, he would direct a campaign staffer to organize a bullshit ten minute "rally" in Orlando. Then he'd say "the law allows me to bring my family on political trips."

Gallego just happened to arrange a lot of "political meetings" at major tourist locations.

The investigation focuses on Gallego's usage of campaign funds since 2019 for family trips, according to a source familiar with the probe. Federal Election Commission records show that Gallego has billed his campaign accounts for trips to Puerto Rico, Nantucket, Miami and other places.

Federal records also show that in 2023, a political action committee set up by Gallego and former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California spent over $37,000 on tickets and meals for the Super Bowl. According to records, the committee has since been terminated.

Swalwell resigned from Congress in April and ended his bid for California governor after several women accused him of sexual misconduct. Swalwell has denied the allegations.

Halperin also suggested -- possibly in jest, but I think maybe "kidding on the square," that is, saying it in jest but kind of meaning it -- that the "southern California whistleblower" might be none other than Eric Swalwell himself, who would know about how the pair misused their PAC money as they formed the PAC together. The motive, Halperin said, would be vengeance, for Eric Swalwell's old Adultery Trip partner turning on him when Swalwell had his fall.

Democrats desperately need a leader with gravitas who can warn them against the perils of communism -- but all they've got is the Race Hustling Communist Obama, writes Miranda Devine.

But he's too busy setting himself up for Generational Wealth at the Ozymandias Presidential Center.

Miranda Devine: Dems are in desperate need of a new leader as Communists overrun their party -- but all they got is Obama

Just as his party is overrun by Communist revolutionaries, former President Barack Obama has decided to take center stage in a frenetic public relations campaign, ostensibly to promote his so-called library.

He's here, there and everywhere, silkily opining about everything under the sun, except the only thing that matters: the disintegration of his party. Like Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned, Obama is curiously detached from the disaster he helped create.

Democrats desperately need a leader to rally around, but all they have is Obama.

He is the only former Democratic president who is still sharp, charismatic and dynamic enough to take up the mantle.

Former President Bill Clinton, while reasonably well-liked and not crazy, despite his wife, has significant health problems and is in no shape to do more than make the occasional token appearance and help raise money.

Clearly, Joe Biden, the only other living former Democratic president, can barely function in public, as was evident in his Saturday night performance at a fundraiser for the Maryland Democratic Party.

Quite why he -- or Dr. Jill -- would want to mark the second anniversary of his disastrous final debate humiliation against Donald Trump by fumbling through his first keynote address in a casino at a boxing-themed "Fight Back & Win" gala is a mystery.

Maybe it's because he can't rest unless he is exorcising the Trump monster still living in his head.

"He even hired his old pool guy to fix the Reflecting Pool. Whoa, what a loser," Biden said of his predecessor-turned-successor.

The audience clapped like seals because all the establishment wing of the party has, by way of policies or aspiration, is Trump derangement.

So all eyes turn to Obama, a lithe and relatively youthful 64, whose God-given gifts still shine brightly, as the savior who will lead them out of the wilderness of "Democratic socialism," open borders and rigged elections, and back to the promised land of common-sense policies and voter enthusiasm.

But he has nothing.

He is out and about promoting his $850 million Obama Presidential Center that squats menacingly on the shores of Lake Michigan on 19 acres of public parkland gifted to Obama by the City of Chicago when his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was mayor. But what he's really promoting is himself.

The granite-clad building's grim, brutalist design is an unwitting symbol of his benighted presidency, despoiling its beautiful surroundings and offering nothing uplifting or ennobling to the chumps who pay $30 to go inside.

Dubbed "The Obamination," it's been likened to a Klingon prison, a megalith, a toilet and a trash can.

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We Need Proof of Life of Mitch McConnell

This isn't Russia -- we are entitled to know which of our "representatives" are living and capable of working.

But of course this nation increasingly resembles Russia.

Two weeks after deliberately vague reports about McConnell being "rushed" to the hospital, it is only due to a leak of EMS radio traffic that we now find out he was discovered "unconscious" and in need of "advanced life support."

So where is he now? Is he conscious?

Our Soviet officials won't tell us.

It has been over two weeks since Senator Mitch McConnell was hospitalized. EMS radio traffic now reveals that the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican was found "unconscious" at his Washington, D.C., home before being hospitalized on June 14.

Punchbowl News reported, "Just before 9 a.m. on June 14, the dispatcher directed an ALS (Advanced Life Support) ambulance to the address of the former Senate GOP leader's home. Audio of the EMS dispatch was circulating online earlier this week and was posted by journalist Desiree Townsend."

Later on the same day, McConnell spokesperson David Popp said the senator was hospitalized and "receiving excellent care." On June 22, Popp said that McConnell was "working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery."

No update has been provided on whether the senator remains hospitalized. According to several GOP senators, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, they have spoken with McConnell. Thune is "dialed in" on Senate happenings.

Uh-huh.

Note that this follows several prominent congressmen who were later shown to be non compos mentis or too sickly to actually attend Congress. And I don't just mean Joe Biden. Diane Feinstein was mentally incapable of doing her job for years, with her staff unconstitutionally assuming senatorial power to decide how to vote on the nation's bills.

Biden's cartoonishly unhealthy Secretary of Defense just completely skipped class for months, undergoing secret hospital procedures that Racist Americans just weren't allowed to know about.

The revelation that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had prostate cancer surgery and was later hospitalized in intensive care due to complications from that operation without President Joe Biden, Cabinet members or even his deputy knowing has put an intense spotlight on what staff knew when and why they did not inform government or military leaders or the public.

Austin has since returned to work, but was hospitalized again Feb. 11 "for symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue." While his doctors have said his prognosis is excellent, Austin's mobility has been noticeably affected, sometimes using a cane or motorized cart to get around the Pentagon.

Austin finally addressed questions surrounding his hospitalization in a press conference earlier this month where he said he never told anyone on his staff to keep his hospitalization a secret. That has left unanswered questions as to why some members of his staff chose not to inform Biden or the public about it.

Department of Transportation head Pete Butigieg secretly took two months of maternity leave to bond with his adopted gaybies, instructing his staff to pretend he was in the office the whole time.

Since Buttigieg and his husband Chasten adopted newborn twins in 2021, the Democrat and his family have been repeatedly criticized and mocked by Republicans, including former Vice President Mike Pence. Most recently, Pence made what the White House described as a "homophobic joke" about Buttigieg taking parental leave.

"When Pete's two children were born, he took two months' maternity leave whereupon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, and airplanes nearly collided on our runways," Pence reportedly said at the annual Gridiron Dinner for journalists and politicians in Washington, D.C., on March 11. "Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression."

Federica Wilson, a Democrat DEI goofball, was absent from Congress for a month without telling anyone why. Only in May did she announce an official absence, saying she needed eye surgery. Okay -- what about the month before that?

Tom Kean Jr., a Nepo baby, was absent from Congress for four months without leave. He now says he was diagnosed with depression.

During his absence from Congress, Kean missed more than 100 votes. He was seen near his House office on Tuesday and finally spoke publicly about his prolonged absence, saying that after medical testing, he was diagnosed with depression.

"I did not believe this would result in a long-term stay," he said.

"Depression is so much more than that. It is physical, it is emotional, and until you experience it yourself, it is difficult to fully understand it," Kean said. "I am a private person by nature. Talking about myself has never come naturally. If sharing my story encourages even one person to seek help, then this moment will have been worthwhile."

Kean continued collecting his congressional salary during his absence. He was scheduled to hold a conference call with Republican officials later on Tuesday.

The mystery over Kean's absence carries potential political implications, given the competitive district he represents and the Republican Party's narrow control of the House.

Obviously no one wishes further ill upon the ailing -- but these are our employees. They are not allowed to skip out of work for weeks or months at a time while having their taxpayer-paid staffs lie to taxpayers about their absences.

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Noted Manly Men Will Wheaton and George Takei Attack Dwayne Johnson As a "Coward" For Not Endorsing Their Far-Left Imbecilic Identity Politics

Variety
@Variety

Dwayne Johnson Slammed as a 'Coward' for Staying Quiet on Politics; 'Star Trek' Icon George Takei Fires Back: 'Silence Is Complicity'

Variety
@Variety

Dwayne Johnson is facing backlash for staying quiet on politics, with "Star Trek" icon George Takei telling him that "silence is complicity" and "Stand By Me" actor Wil Wheaton adding: "So disappointing to find out he is such a coward."

Johnson told Fox News in 2024 that he regretted endorsing Joe Biden for president in 2020 because it caused division amongst his fans, adding at the time: "My goal is to bring this country together. I believe in that. There will be no endorsement. At this level of influence, I will keep my politics to myself. It is between me and the ballot box."

The blockbuster actor expanded on his newfound aversion to political talk by telling Esquire this month: "What I have learned through experience is that I need to keep -- need, not want -- the main thing. And the main thing for me, the thing that in the morning I swing my legs out of bed and I run towards, is creating. It's art. It's storytelling. I've learned I'm going to keep my politics to myself. There are moments when, hey, there's nothing we can't talk about. If I'm wrong, I'll tell you I'm wrong. Or if I feel like I got a leg up and this is the right way to go, I'll share it with you. Politics is omnipresent and it's forever. I don't like it. I hate it at times. I hate the slinging. I hate all the bullshit that comes with it."

The NY Post with more:

Wil Wheaton has blasted Dwayne Johnson over the actor's decision to stay out of politics.

The "Stand By Me" star and President Trump critic branded Johnson a "coward" after the wrestler-turned-actor said he plans to keep his political views private.

"So disappointing to find out he is such a coward," Wheaton wrote Monday on Threads, in response to a post from George Takei highlighting Johnson's recent comments to Esquire.

Johnson, 53, explained in the interview that he no longer wants to publicly weigh in on politics because he doesn't want it to overshadow his work.

"What I have learned through experience is that I need to keep -- need, not want -- the main thing the main thing," Johnson said.

"The main thing for me, the thing that in the morning I swing my legs out of bed and I run towards, is creating. It's art. It's storytelling."

"I've learned I'm going to keep my politics to myself," he continued. "There are moments when, hey, there's nothing we can't talk about.

"If I'm wrong, I'll tell you I'm wrong. Or if I feel like I got a leg up and this is the right way to go, I'll share it with you."

Johnson, who identifies as an Independent, also said he believes people with opposing political views should talk to one another instead of publicly attacking each other, adding, "I hate the slinging. I hate all the bulls-- that comes with it."

Wheaton has long been outspoken about his political views and campaigned for Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election.

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Johnson condemned the July 2024 assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania, saying political violence has "no room" in America.

"Whether you love Donald, don't love Donald, it doesn't matter. They tried to assassinate him. There's no room for that," Johnson said at The Value Conference in September 2024.

"Despite it being who we were in that moment, I still believe in my core that is not who we are as a country.

"So him standing up at that moment, we wanted to see that."

That's considered an aggressive "right wing political" take by the pro-murder left.

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People Are Starting to Notice That the Alleged "Working Class Populist Socialist" Uprising on the Left Is Made Up Exclusively of College-Educted Rich Leisure-Class Nepo Babies and NGO Sucklers

The Claim: Democrats are electing "working class populists" who just happen to be socialists

The Reality: Democrats are electing rich-bitch children of privilege who are socialists because they've never done a day of work in their lives.

Batya Sargon-Unger:

Progressives want you to believe socialism is on the march because working-class people have had enough. They want you to believe they are "fighting the oligarchy!" and they are taking on the billionaires and the "Epstein class" and bringing back an agenda focused on labor. But it's all nonsense.

You know how I know?

Because it's rich people who vote for them, and working people voting for their opponents.

This was wildly apparent in the New York elections last week, in which rich, over-credentialed gentrifiers voted out candidates preferred by working-class New Yorkers, as I explained in a piece called "Stop Calling Them 'Socialists.' They're Over-Credentialed White Gentrifiers Driven by Resentment Ousting Working-Class Candidates."

But the latest evidence of progressives and socialists pretending to fight for the little guy while actually winning with the credentialed caste at the expense of the desires of working-class voters comes out of Maine.

Platner is polling ahead of Republican incumber Susan Collins by two points. But he has absolutely cratered with working-class voters.

Susan Collins has a 21 point lead against Platner with working-class voters.

Shane Goldmacher
@ShaneGoldmacher

Graham Platner is ahead of Collins by 2 points in new NYT poll.

One of the most intriguing details: She has a 21-point lead among non-college voters as Platner has made centering the working class the center of his campaign.

So how is Platner winning?

With college educated voters!

Platner is demolishing Collins with college-educated voters--by 34 points.

51% of working-class white voters say that Platner is "too far to the Left"--while 61% of working-class white voters say that Collins is "not too fair either way."

Platner is also cleaning Collins' clock with women, leading her by eight points.

So much for solidarity! College-educated women, those very HR ladies the pundits were delighted had been vanquished, looked at Graham Platner, who shoved and manhandled his ex girlfriend and locked her in a room, according to the New York Times, and thought, "Me, too."

Platner's handlers and supporters sold him as a working-class hero, an "oysterman" and veteran with rough edges who has tattoos and wasn't developed "in a vat." This, like all their socialist frippery, turned out to be cosplay: The oyster farm is fake, a vanity hobby that makes no money apart from $6,000 Platner's mom gives him to sell the oysters at her restaurant. His VA loan turned out to be fake; his dad bought him his house for $200,000. He went to a fancy prep school. His farm is on a private island owned by a friend.

This working-class cosplay was just enough to convince college-educated women that he was a real man--though not, it seems, good enough to convince working-class men, who can smell a faker a mile away. As my friend Ryan Girdursky aptly put it, "Graham is what a college educated person thinks a working-class person is supposed to act like and working-class people can see he's a fraud."

Even old lefty Thomas Edsall at the communist New York Times notices that the new "Workers Party" of the left contains almost no actual workers, writes John Sexton.

Thomas Edsall takes a break today from attacking President Trump and instead turns his attention to the extreme left-wing of his own party. Like all good Marxists, the Democratic Socialists of America present themselves as a party for the working class. But it turns out there are almost no working class people in the party.

Candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America are surging to victory on the claim that they are proponents of "a government by, for and of the working class" that will wrest power from both "far-right Republicans and corporate Democrats."

Here's the problem. Most of the leadership of the D.S.A. and a majority of voters who back its candidates are in no way working class. Instead, an elite made up of well-educated professionals dominates this insurgency...

In 2021 the D.S.A. surveyed its members and found that 85 percent were non-Hispanic white (far more than the national population, which was 57.8 percent white in 2020, according to the census)...

Four percent of the members held blue-collar jobs, according to the survey, the most recent publicly available...

More than 80 percent of members who were 25 years old or older had college degrees (just more than double the percentage for the United States as a whole), and 35 percent had a master's degree, a doctorate or a professional degree (again, more than double the American average). Sixty percent identified as agnostic or atheist (with the American average, taken at its most generous, at less than half that).

The DSA isn't the party of the people, it's the party of the white, atheist college grads almost none of whom hold blue collar jobs. When asked about this, the DSA communications person said the group's policies were working class even if their members aren't. But that's not true either. For instance, the DSA is hard left on trans rights while America in general and working class people in particular are not.

...the D.S.A.'s March 31 declaration, "We Will Not Be Erased," would be met with some skepticism if not hostility by working-class voters disdainful of the D.S.A.'s commitment of support for "bodily autonomy, for moving past arbitrary restrictions and conservative norms around gender and family and for the right of all to obtain medical care."

The same is true of the DSA's stand on immigration. It's not the position held by actual working class people.

See the link for that.

The left is trying to claim that the Democrat Socialists are sick of woke politics, too, that's why they focus laser-like on breadbasket issues like health care and rent.

But that's all bullshit-- what they focus on is open borders and transing children. Just like all other lefties, only more dogmatic and authoritarian about it.

People are sick of Leisure Class Leftists telling the rest of us that we have to waste our money on their sick priorities:

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:

*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.

We have to fucking fuel up the ambulances in Liberia?!

Coddled Affluent Professional
@feelsdesperate

I'm supportive of international public health aid when it comes to cheap interventions like dispensing HIV and TB and malaria meds. (I am a lib 🤷‍♂️ .)

However, Kristof is just making everything worse.

First, you can't hysterically crybully Americans into supporting these programs and trying to do so instead of making a calm, measured case just makes people reactive and oppositional because it's so obviously a cynical, manipulative tactic.

Second, it's not our responsibility to fill up anyone's gas tank. All of these initiatives have to be completely reconsidered and our obligations need to be clearly defined. That Kristof can't intuit that Americans would oppose filling foreign gas tanks demonstrates just how out of touch he is and that he's bound to do more harm than good in attempting to propagandize on behalf of international public health.

Third, none of these vignettes meet even the most basic evidentiary standards to support his assertions. Furthermore, this isn't how it's done - big programs need to be supported by population level data and Kristof is obviously trying to be emotionally manipulative with anecdotes rather than addressing the policy questions in the right way with the right type of data.

Fourth, it's lazy and cynical to try to lay this all on Musk. Maybe you shouldn't have billion dollar 'managed democracy' and leftist NGO dark money sinkholes wearing the skin suit of true humanitarian programs. Maybe the people who designed these programs as such deserve a little more (or a lot more) of the blame for intentionally putting them in proximity to legitimate political targets.

Every time I read a half-informed journo trying to do advocacy for foreign health aid I cringe because it's clear they don't know what they're talking about and are making lazy, motivated assertions that are bound to backfire and make things worse. If journos really cared about these issues and weren't just scrounging for cheap partisan artillery they'd be a lot more carful, thoughtful, and reserved in what they're arguing.

Update: Ro Khanna, the guy who got rich by knocking up an heiress, wants to end capitalism all of a sudden.

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MSNOW Cancels Weekend Live Programming; Will Run Cheap Leftwing Podcasts From Earlier In the Week Instead

Canceling 2/7ths of the weekly original programming is always a sign of strength and profitability.

MS NOW is canceling the evening news program The Weekend: Primetime, as it focuses on re-airing its video podcasts as well as its Crooked on MS NOW offerings.

Beginning Sunday, June 28, at 6 p.m. ET, MS NOW's weekend-night offerings will be a taped affair as it will air episodes from Crooked Media's video podcasts, including Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Strict Scrutiny, Lovett or Leave It, Runaway Country with Alex Wagner, Hysteria, Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams, Offline with Jon Favreau, and What A Day.

It will also air episodes from its own video podcasting unit, including The Best People with Nicolle Wallace and Why Is This Happening with Chris Hayes.

In a memo to employees obtained by TVNewser, MS NOW president Rebecca Kutler said the network's Crooked on MS NOW block has brought new viewers. Kutler added that there will be jobs impacted by this transition, but the network will continue to be staffed during those hours and overnight in the event of breaking news, and has nearly 40 open roles across the network.

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Meanwhile, the network announced that Alex Witt will be departing sometime in the summer. Witt has been with MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) since 1999 and has anchored more hours than any other anchor at the network.

Firing the network's longest-serving anchor is likewise a show of corporate strength.

MS NOW is overhauling its weekend lineup by leaning harder into podcasts, taped programming and outside partnerships -- a shakeup that will also mark the end of longtime anchor Alex Witt's nearly three-decade run at the network.

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Among the biggest moves is the departure of Witt, one of the network's longest-serving anchors, who plans to leave later this year after nearly three decades with the company. News of Witt's departure was reported by Variety.

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"After nearly three decades, Alex Witt has shared with us her plans to conclude her tenure with the company later this year, following an extraordinary career," Kutler wrote in a memo to staff.

Kutler praised Witt as "a beloved longtime member of our MS NOW family" who "anchored more hours on MS NOW than any other anchor in our network's history."

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Kutler also said the network plans to announce additional outside content partnerships in the coming weeks and months, building on its existing relationship with Crooked Media.

The move to just airing old podcasts also shows that people, including retards on the far left, just don't care for the overproduced, underconsidered Corporate Fake News Product any longer.

Via WDW_Pro.

Bonus: Yesterday I linked a NY Post story about Jill Biden's books being bought up by Biden-affiliated PACs to contrive a spot on the NYT bestseller list (which is hardly necessary, as they just make up whatever results they like).

I missed this: Gavin Newsom used his PAC's money to buy up $1.5 million of copies of "his" "book," which he gave to donors as a thank you. (Gee whiz Gavin, this will take a place of honor in my garbage can.)

That $1.5 million in copies, bought by Newsom himself, made up 2/3rds of all "sales" of "his" "book."

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Gang of Foreign Invaders Randomly Beat a 17-Year-Old French Boy to Death, Videotape It to Share Their Tribal Murder-Coup Online

Everyone's so surprised this keeps happening. We're all like, "no way."

Louis Murder: Hundreds Rally in Narbonne After Brutal Murder of 17-Year-Old Boy

The fatal beating of a French teenager, filmed and shared online by the alleged attackers, has renewed concern over immigrant youth violence.

Around 1,000 people marched through the southern French city of Narbonne on Sunday, June 28th, following the death of 17-year-old Louis, who was lynched by a gang of youths.

The march, organised under the slogan 'Justice for All,' was promoted on social media by several identitarian groups. Louis's family declined to take part, saying they wished to avoid any political exploitation of their son's death.

Of course. They were told to say that by France's own globalist "Nudge Unit."

The demonstration reflects growing public concern over youth violence in France.

Louis was attacked ten days ago after allegedly being lured to a construction site in Narbonne by a group of boys--aged between 16 and 19--he knew through child welfare services. He was discovered unconscious the following day by a worker and died in hospital four days later.

In an emotional interview, his mother called for those responsible to be tried as adults, saying she hoped her son's death would be "the last."

So she's not as chill about it as the Nudge Unit, French Branch would like her to be.

The five "youths," unidentified except by first name, went straight to the old well and claimed they planned this ambush murder because of Muh Fake Racism.

During questioning, some of the suspects claimed the assault was motivated by revenge for alleged incidents dating back several years, including accusations of bullying by Louis, and violence suffered by the sister of one of the suspects. These claims remain unsubstantiated.

The wolf pack had stalked its prey several times before finally bringing him down -- and authorities did nothing about the violent wolves.

Authorities have also confirmed that Louis had previously reported being assaulted on two separate occasions in the weeks before his death.

While many social media users have linked the rise in violence to the growing number of migrants in France, prosecutors have stated that there is no evidence the killing was racially motivated.

Sure. But my noticing it is racially motivated, I'm pretty certain.

The family is also calling for a march for the murdered boy -- and justice for the invaders.

The family of Louis, the 17-year-old boy beaten to death at a construction site in Narbonne, France, have spoken publicly about the impact of the attack, with his aunt describing the footage of the incident as "unspeakable."

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Marteau described the video as extremely distressing and said the family struggled to understand the level of violence shown in the footage.

She added that those responsible appeared to show no remorse during the assault. "They are laughing, they beat him, they leave him no way out," she said, describing the footage as showing the attack being recorded alongside "snickering and selfies."

Louis' mother told Le Journal du Dimanche "This is not the time for mourning; it is the time for war," demanding that the accused be tried as adults. She said France's juvenile justice laws needed to be revised, and recalled that she had repeatedly warned social services that her son was in danger.

They held a march on the 28th and are holding another one Sunday, July 5th.

This murder came a month before an 11-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a known sex criminal whom the police repeatedly failed to open an investigation into the killer, even after he was accused by the mother of a 10-year-old girl of repeatedly raping her.

He had also been accused of raping a 17-year-old girl, but police dropped that investigation too after the girl said she had "consented" to sex with the man.

Thousands of mourners have turned out for a silent march for a 11-year-old schoolgirl whose murder prompted widespread outrage when it emerged police had failed to question the suspected killer about previous child sexual abuse allegations.

The parents of the girl, who has been named only as Lyhanna, led the cortege on Sunday in the south-western village of Fleurance behind a banner reading "Never again". Most of those who marched, including children, wore white shirts or T-shirts, many bearing a smiling portrait of the young victim.

Grief has been mixed with profound shock and anger. The killing has sparked a heated national debate over the delays and failings of France's justice system after it emerged that the man being held in connection with Lyhanna's disappearance and murder had been on the police's radar since 2017.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, acknowledged there had been an "unacceptable" failure in the legal system.

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Lyhanna was last spotted getting into a grey car, identified as belonging to Jérôme Barella, a father of two and school cleaner, in Fleurance in the Gers département on 29 May. Her body was found seven days later in a disused grain silo 15km from where she went missing. Barella has denied killing her, telling police he had dropped her off at the local swimming pool.

After his arrest, it was discovered that, last August, the mother of a 10-year-old girl had gone to the police to allege that he had raped her daughter on several occasions. The preliminary investigation, containing interviews with the victim, psychological and medical reports confirming the child had injuries consistent with sexual abuse, and details of previous accusations against Barella, was sent by police in nearby Toulouse to the prosecutor's office at Auch in January with an instruction to question him.

However, the prosecutor's office reportedly failed to open the file for several weeks, then took a further six weeks to assign officers to the case. Barella had still not been contacted or summoned for questioning in the three months before Lyhanna was abducted and killed.

Other allegations have also emerged. In December 2017, a mother reported that her 17-year-old daughter had been in a relationship with Barella, but the case was dropped in 2018 after the girl said she had consented.

In 2021, the suspect was fired from a cleaning job at another school for alleged inappropriate behaviour with a female student online. It is not know if this was reported to police at the time.

In January 2022, he was accused of raping a seven-year-old child at his home in south-western France. The case was transferred to the local prosecutor but dismissed in 2024 owing to lack of evidence. The public prosecutor in the Gers town of Auch, Clémence Meyer, said inquiries, both medical and psychological, had not allowed police to verify the allegation.

French President Macron has refused to utter the name of Louis, but he is gallavanting around to praise the abolition of the death penalty -- even as many call for its return.

Leftwing French paper LeMonde:

Emmanuel Macron at the 9^th World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Paris, June 30, 2026.

Forced to watch the French presidential campaign unfold without him, President Emmanuel Macron does not intend to disappear from the national conversation. On Tuesday, June 30, he attended the 9th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, held in Paris, to warn against calls to restore capital punishment, 45 years after its abolition. "Even in this old country that is France, nothing is ever guaranteed, and these struggles must always be fought again," Macron warned, keeping his aviator glasses on in the dimly lit Studio 104 at the Maison de la Radio.

"The battle for abolition (...) is decidedly contemporary, because today, in our societies, this debate is resurfacing," he declared before a cosmopolitan audience. The murders of Lyhanna, age 11, who was raped then killed in the Gers, and of Louis, a 17-year-old beaten to death in Narbonne, have in recent days reignited arguments in favor of the death penalty on social media and certain television panels. CNews, Europe 1 and Le Journal du dimanche, all owned by the billionaire Vincent Bolloré, even published a survey on the topic.

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Democrat Socialists Take Another Scalp As a Gen Z Ethiopian Immigrant Defeats a 15-Term Congresswoman

I'm glad, at least, to see Democrats suffering from their own DEI agenda themselves for once.

They tend to legally and corporate-ishly insulate themselves from DEI replacement, usually.

Gay-ass NPR:

Political newcomer and democratic socialist Melat Kiros is poised to become the first Gen Z woman elected to Congress after defeating 15-term incumbent Democrat Diana DeGette in a primary race for Colorado's 1st Congressional District, according to a race call by the Associated Press.

The win in the solidly blue district that makes up most of Denver means that Kiros, a 29-year-old Ph.D. student and lawyer, is all but likely headed to Washington, D.C., next year. She would replace DeGette, 68, who has held office since 1997, the same year Kiros was born.

It's an upset that comes amid a broader intraparty fight taking place among Democrats as prominent incumbents face pressure to pass the baton to a slate of more left-leaning and younger candidates pledging to reject longtime political norms and practices.

Kiros, an Ethiopian immigrant, is part of that movement, backing economic populist policies including universal healthcare and childcare, and more politically polarizing issues like abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ending U.S. military aid to Israel.

By the way: She got here, she says, due to the Visa "Diversity" Lottery championed by Ted Kennedy.

This Communist-Islamist invader also believes that 9/11 was the "inevitable consequence of American foreign policy" and that we made the terrorists believe that another act of violence was their only choice.

See, the US "destabilized" the Middle East.

No, we destabilized it after 9/11.

Nice blame shifting, though, terrorist.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

Think Big

Whenever the Supreme Court has one of its fairly rare good rulings - and especially when that ruling isn't part of an obvious horse trade behind the scenes (e.g., "we'll give you your Title IX reforms in exchange for birthright citizenship") - the Left never hesitates to propose "packing the Court" and adding a couple of more communist justices to the bench so that such unusual defeats become impossible. The threat has also worked when it's been credible. The "switch in time that saved nine" cleared the decks for Roosevelt's New Deal after he legitimately threatened to pack the court. Once exclusively the domain of the Left, non-Leftists also sometimes call for packing the Court because of how beholden the Court is to the Leftist powers that be and ensuring that they never become the powers that were.

The non-Left increasingly see the same tactic as viable: add a couple of non-communist justices to the bench so that the non-left more often gets what it wants out of the Court. This is a flawed strategy. If there were a way for the non-Left to so pack the Court, it would play into the Left's hands. How many "good" - on paper, anyway - justices have been seated in the past 25 years, only for them to be more or less immediately exposed as wolves in sheep's clothing? Without being able to guarantee that the extra two or three justices would be Clarence Thomases, the risk outweighs the reward. That style of Court packing is likely to backfire.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Horses in a Meadow
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas

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The Morning Report — 7/ 1 /26

Good morning kids. Of course the top story is the utterly devastating if not sadly unsurprising SCOTUS decision upholding the complete bastardization of the 14th Amendment. If I want to be charitable I'd say that Roberts' and Barrett's lives were directly threatened by the usual Democrat/Leftist terrorists. Either that or they were paid off from the same funders of the aforementioned terrorists. But screw that as their duty is to uphold and defend the Constitution, same as it always has been throughout their careers as jurists. It may just be that they made a purely political decision to not rock the boat and let the cancerous rot that has been destroying this nation and its institutions for much of its history, including the very institution that they are a part of. When President Trump first announced that he was issuing an executive order banning birthright citizenship I had a feeling of dread that it would not survive the ultimate challenge at SCOTUS, and foolishly as time went on, I still held out hope that sanity would prevail. So much for that delusion, The great Clarence Thomas' brilliant dissent notwithstanding.

“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President’s Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens,” Thomas writes:
In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support. Because many potential applications of the President’s Order are consistent with the original public meaning of the Citizenship Clause, I respectfully dissent. [Emphasis added]

Of course, one does not have to be one of if not America's greatest jurists and legal minds ever to serve in any court to know how completely insane this decision was. All one has to do is know the most rudimentary facts about how and why the 14th Amendment was enacted as well as to be able, and willing, to read and understand plain English What happened yesterday was yet another jackboot to the head of America as founded, as it lays prostrate on the ground after decades of curb-stomping by the Democrats and those whose complicity and inaction allow them to get away with it.

And the President nailed it with this observation:

“I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!” Trump declared via his Truth Social platform.

The court’s decision protects, for now, the practice of “birth tourism,” which is used by many wealthy Chinese nationals who travel to the United States to give birth to their children.

And if I still want to engage in delusion, there are a few Pollyannas out there as well:

Vice President JD Vance argued Tuesday that there is a “big silver lining” in the divided Supreme Court ruling striking down President Trump’s executive order outlawing birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants and tourists.
“I know a lot of conservatives, Laura, certainly the people that I’m talking to, that you’re talking to, are extremely disappointed in this, but I do actually think there’s a really big silver lining here, and that’s the simple fact that a lot of legal experts expected this case to go the wrong direction by seven to two, or even eight to one,” Vance said in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“The fact that this case was a 5-to-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment, that concept is hanging by a thread,” the vice president argued during his appearance on “The Ingraham Angle.”
. . . “What I take from [the ruling] is, yes, we’ve got to fix the immigration system even more, we have to be even more aware of who’s coming into our country to make sure that they’re not benefiting from this atrocious Supreme Court ruling,” Vance said, adding, “but it also means that we have to keep fighting … because we actually have an opportunity to reverse this decision.”
The vice president further argued that the high court’s “major, major mistake” might invite pregnant foreign nationals “to come here quite literally on a vacation, give birth, and then all of a sudden the child and their family have the full benefits of American citizenship.”
“It’s just a preposterous ruling, and the absurdity of that outcome suggests why the Supreme Court should have went the other way.”

Yeah, we have an opportunity to reverse this? I'm sure future POTUS Titty Caca Ocasio Cortez will get right on that by packing the court with 19 or more Maoists! 250 years was a good run, I guess. If we make it to 500 or even 1,000 we'll probably be where England is, the irony of course is that that is the nation we rebelled against in the first place.

So, at what point do we take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
Or do we doom ourselvelves forever to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune unto death?

Have a good day,

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Daily Tech News 1 July 2026

Top Story

• South Korea's national and regional governments and major industrial groups have jointly committed to $1 trillion in investment to expand production of chips and bots. (Ars Technica)
  
  $585 billion to increase chip production, with a particular focus on doubling memory production within five years.
  
  $357 billion to construct new datacenters to, uh, use up all that extra memory.
  
  And still more billions to expand production of robots and build 8 gigawatts of new generating capacity to power it all.
  
  
  

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 30, 2026 [Doof]

Photo credit - RedMindBlueState

The Tuesday night ONT has arrived. The waning hours of June 2026. So glad you could be here. Open thread, as always. Got anything interesting on your mind tonight?

[Top photo: The Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Greece]

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