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🚨 President Trump stuns America by saying what America’s GREATEST Threat is since 9/11:
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) June 28, 2026
“Communism is the Greatest Threat”
HE IS RIGHT 💯 pic.twitter.com/Lvdhx60AT6
Extremely troubling https://t.co/Q1oycsMAL6
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 29, 2026
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump announces he will 100% BLOCK the incoming communist mayor of Washington DC from destroying the city with her policies
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 28, 2026
GOOD! War on communism!
“Janeese Lewis George, the Communist who is almost certainly going to be elected Mayor of Washington, D.C.,… pic.twitter.com/7dWqyNgLIY
Warren Buffet: "I can end the deficit in five minutes. You juts pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection." pic.twitter.com/xloXyu0KAK
— Teddy – PolyBackTest.com (@Bitcoin_Teddy) June 28, 2026
🚨 JUST IN: Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed that after he finalizes the new budget, the red state of Florida will have SLASHED SPENDING for 4 YEARS STRAIGHT…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 28, 2026
…Florida will have a budget less than HALF the size of New York, despite being similar in population
…and the state rainy… pic.twitter.com/WJENrZRGlH
Trump doesn’t want to restart the bombing. Iran knowa it. And uses it.
• Iran Foreign Ministry Contradicts Trump: No Talks will be Held (ZH)
Earlier Monday a White House official said the Witkoff-Kushner delegation was en route to Qatar for Iran talks, but it’s looking like Tehran will give the US a cold shoulder. Iran state Tasnim is citing Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, who says: “We will not hold any negotiation meetings at any level with the American side in the coming days,” directly contradicting prior reports coming out of Washington. Bloomberg is also confirming the new statement out of the Iranian side. President Trump himself early Monday morning stated on Truth Social: “Iran has requested a meeting. It will take place tomorrow in Doha.” Also Fars has separately stated within the last hours:Read more …
“No nuclear negotiations have been held with the US so far, and there will be no negotiations on nuclear issues until Iran’s conditions are met.”More latest: “IRAN SAYS DELEGATION WILL VISIT QATAR BUT RULES OUT US TALKS” So it seems Witkoff and Kushner will merely meet with Qatari and Pakistani mediators? It remains an open question whether the Iranians will be present in Doha at all. It could be Tehran is issuing the contradictory messaging in order to keep leverage and pressure up, or else to try and humiliate the White House. The Islamic Republic has been warning that more US military action against Iranian territory and in the Hormuz Strait could result in Iran walking away from the negotiating process altogether.
Witkoff-Kushner Delegation En Route to Qatar, Iran Mum
Bloomberg reports Monday that Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will meet with Qatar’s prime minister on Tuesday to discuss the talks with Iran, also citing Axios which spoke to a White House official. Will the Iranians actually be there? On Wednesday US and Iranian technical teams will meet separately with Qatari and Pakistani mediators, Axios says Witkoff and Kushner will travel to Doha today: Axios. So it seems the US delegation is in motion, even as Tehran has as yet offered no concrete public confirmation that an Iranian high level team is in route.
The Supremes are largely in favor of Trump, but they let some nasty pieces slip. The mail-in ballot scene is not tenable. And neither is E. Jean Carroll.
SCOTUS acts as if it not part of what it regulates. Wrong.
• SCOTUS: The Chief Executive Is, You Know, the Chief Executive (Green)
“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America,” read the very first sentence of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution defining the executive branch of the United States government. “And it means what it says,” the Supreme Court basically ruled Monday morning in a little case called Trump v. Slaughter. Let me set the stage for today’s momentous decision as briefly as possible. I might even have a little fun with it.Read more …
Early in his second term, President Donald Trump fired two Democrat commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter. The 1914 Progressive-era law establishing the FTC says commissioners can only be fired for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” Trump — much to his credit, but stick a pin in that thought — made no such claim against either Bedoya or Slaughter. He fired them because he didn’t want them working for him any longer. Slaughter, whose resumé consists of legal and government positions having apparently nothing to do with trade, sued.“The President illegally fired me from my position as a Federal Trade Commissioner, violating the plain language of a statute and clear Supreme Court precedent,” she claimed.The precedent Slaughter referred to is the 1935 case, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, upholding Congress’s authority to protect certain executive branch roles — like FTC commissioners — from getting the presidential heave-ho without cause.
So the way I see it, two things were at stake in Trump v. Slaughter. The first is the separation of powers issue concerning Article II, Section 1. Is executive power vested in the President of the United States of America, or can Congress create an executive branch position only partly within the executive power? The second was the precedent set by Humphrey’s Executor v. United States involving just the FTC almost a century ago.
And Another Thing: Sorry-not-sorry about the headline, but the decision in Trump v. Slaughter was just so gobsmackingly obvious to anyone but the most dedicated progressive that it amused me to sum it up in dated Valley Girl-speak. By firing Bedoya and Slaughter at-will instead of for cause, Trump launched a frontal attack on Humphrey’s — and succeeded.
Today, in a six-to-three decision, the Supreme Court upheld the notion that the president is the master of his domain, and effectively obliterated Humphrey’s. You can guess which six and which three, I’m sure. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, and the last lines read, “Subordinates who exercise the President’s power are subject to removal by him. Then, and only then, can they remain accountable to the President, and the President to the people.” That right there is the crux of the issue. This is from my former colleague, Tyler O’Neil: Well said.
The whole notion of “independent agencies” is, in this amateur’s opinion, anathema to the Constitution. If there’s a legal foundation propping up the progressive administrative state existing outside the will of the voters, it’s the idea that there can be administrators immune to public pressure expressed by the only nationally elected official in the entire U.S. government — the President of the United States. Today, SCOTUS potentially blew apart that foundation, which very well might have been the White House’s goal from the start.
“Election Day used to mean something. After Monday, it doesn’t.”
• The Supreme Court Just Californicated Our Elections (Matt Margolis)
For most of us, Election Day is supposed to mean Election Day. Not Election Week. Not Election Month. On Monday, the Supreme Court decided that it no longer matters. In a 5-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee, the Court ruled that federal election-day statutes do not stop Mississippi from counting mail-in ballots: “The federal election-day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by election day but received up to five days thereafter; nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots to be received by election day.” Mississippi passed that five-day grace period back in 2020 as a COVID-19 emergency measure.Read more …
Yet six years later, the “emergency” is still here for some reason, and now it has the Supreme Court’s blessing. Federal law has set a single, uniform Election Day since 1845, with Congress extending the same rule to congressional races in 1872. The Republican National Committee, the Mississippi Republican Party, the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, a Mississippi voter, and a county election official all sued, arguing that a state can’t quietly turn one day into a week just because counting mail-in ballots is inconvenient. A three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit agreed with them. The full Fifth Circuit declined to revisit that ruling, over a five-judge dissent, and Mississippi ran to the Supreme Court instead.Mississippi’s lawyer, Solicitor General Scott Stewart, told the justices that states have broad authority over how elections are run and that none of this matters because voters make their final decision by Election Day anyway. Paul Clement, representing the challengers, made the obvious point that when Congress created Election Day, casting a ballot and the government actually receiving it were “so inextricably intertwined” that “no one would have thought of one without the other.” In other words, a vote doesn’t count until officials have it in hand. That used to be common sense, but it got lost on a majority of the court.
It was widely expected that this ruling would go the other way. During oral arguments, which lasted more than two hours, a majority of the justices sounded as if they agreed with Clement. Then the actual ruling came down, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court’s liberal wing to hand Mississippi the win anyway. Justice Samuel Alito dissented, joined by Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, with Brett Kavanaugh signing on in part. They were right, and it didn’t matter.
Here’s what makes this ruling so infuriating: We’ve already seen what this kind of system produces. Look at the recent Los Angeles mayoral race, where Spencer Pratt held a comfortable second-place finish, putting him on track for a November runoff against Karen Bass. Then the mail-in ballots kept trickling in, Nithya Raman posted a mathematically improbable surge, Pratt’s lead evaporated, and two Democrats walked into the runoff instead. That’s not an accident. That’s what happens when “Election Day” becomes a suggestion instead of a deadline.
More than a dozen other states have laws just like Mississippi’s, which means this ruling isn’t a one-state curiosity. It’s a green light. Expect more late-arriving ballot drops, more “improbable surges,” and more races that get decided long after voters went home thinking it was over. This case may have started in Mississippi, but it is going to make elections in America look a lot like California’s. Election Day used to mean something. After Monday, it doesn’t.
“..more opportunity for fraud and more uncertainty injected directly into the system Americans are supposed to trust..”
• Alito Warns Supreme Court Opened Pandora’s Box for Election Fraud (Margolis)
The Supreme Court just made it a lot easier for late-arriving mail-in ballots to count, and Justice Samuel Alito wants you to know exactly what that means for the integrity of your vote. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that federal law permits states to count non-military mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, authored the majority opinion. Alito wrote the dissent, and he wasted no time laying out why the ruling should worry every American who still believes in free and fair elections.Read more …
Alito then argued that the decision “leaves open opportunities for voter fraud that may further undermine Americans’ faith in the integrity of this country’s elections.” We all know he’s right. We’ve been covering the problems with mail-in ballots for years, and Alito also backed up his claim with receipts. Alito pointed to a bipartisan commission from 2005, co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, that concluded absentee voting was “the largest source of potential voter fraud” in American elections. Alito noted that “diverse sources have recognized that mail-in ballots increase the potential for fraud.”Alito’s dissent goes beyond merely citing an old commission report. He laid out, in detail, why mail voting is inherently riskier than voting in person. “When someone votes by mail, it is harder for officials to verify the identity of the person requesting and completing the ballot,” he wrote. “Mail voting also presents a greater opportunity for voter manipulation, a more vulnerable chain of ballot custody, and a diminished ability to detect improprieties in real time.”
Alito warned that letting absentee ballots “pour in over the days and weeks after election day,” while preliminary results are already public, “creates greater opportunity for fraud and risks further undermining the public’s confidence in election integrity.” He even quoted Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s warning that when “thousands of absentee ballots flow in after election day and potentially flip the result of an election,” then “charges of a rigged election can explode.”
Alito also flagged a mess of unresolved legal questions the ruling raises, including whether ballot-recall services and the Postal Service’s or FedEx’s recall policies now violate Election Day statutes as applied to absentee ballots. He concluded that the majority’s decision “opens Pandora’s box” for state legislatures trying to figure out what the law actually permits going forward.= Republicans didn’t waste time reacting. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) called the ruling “a shockingly wrong” decision. Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.) called it “disastrous,” warning that the decision “guarantees we’ll keep drifting away from” Election Day “as our sacred elections get bogged down by endless mail-in ballots and never-ending counts.”
The Democrat Party will tell you this ruling is about expanding voting access. That’s a total crock. Alito’s dissent makes clear what it’s really about: more opportunity for fraud and more uncertainty injected directly into the system Americans are supposed to trust. Pandora’s box is open now, and the worst part is, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett helped make it happen.
“… the court ruled 5-4 in favor of allowing Mississippi to count ballots received up to five days after Election Day ..”
• Supreme Court Decides Crucial Mail-in Ballot Case (Salgado)
The U.S. Supreme Court has finally handed down a ruling on a vitally important mail-in ballot counting deadline case. The decision comes amid controversy over election results altered by alleged mail-in ballots in California.Read more …
Unfortunately, the court ruled 5-4 in favor of allowing Mississippi to count ballots received up to five days after Election Day. This is a disaster, obviously a huge opportunity for fraud, an encouragement not to count expeditiously, approval for ballots not mailed in time and possibly harvested, and also indirectly ensures other states like California will count until they get the results authorities want. It was a very disappointing decision from SCOTUS, especially given our supposed conservative majority.
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules 5-4 that federal law does NOT require mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 29, 2026
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberal justices pic.twitter.com/ynr2E9X9sXWatson v. Republican National Committee addressed whether federal election-day statutes in 2 and 3 U.S. Code preempt state laws that permit election officials to count ballots allegedly cast by election day but received afterward. Michael Watson, Mississippi’s secretary of state, was the petitioner. Democrats — who love to railroad states on parental rights and free speech — are shrieking “states’ rights” in this case. Republicans, in contrast, are pointing out that counting ballots received after election day has nothing to do with constitutionality or lawful state election systems, but rather is an excuse for facilitating fraud.
The case’s importance came into focus with the early July elections in California. A week of Democrats “counting” and miraculously discovering more of a few million ballots in California finally put Democrat Xavier Becerra ahead of Republican Steve Hilton in the gubernatorial race. Meanwhile, distant third socialist Nithya Raman suddenly shot ahead of registered Republican Spencer Pratt for the Los Angeles mayoral runoff, days after Election Day.
DDHQ did confirm at last that Hilton would still be advancing to the general election, but a sudden series of statistically improbable drops managed to shove Pratt out of his second-place slot against Democrat Mayor Karen Bass. And yet, California still went on “counting.” The state accepts ballots that arrive after Election Day. Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, called the state a “fraudsters’ paradise.”As legal expert Jonathan Turley said, “As the Supreme Court readies its decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee (on whether to require votes by ‘election day’ in federal elections), the dysfunctional system in California is not helping those who want states to have the final say on such deadlines.”
“If we want fair and secure elections, Election Day should mean exactly what it says, which is why this decision makes it even more imperative that Congress pass the SAVE America Act,” said RNC Chairman Joe Gruters. “Democrats are inviting chaos at the ballot box by allowing elections to drag on for days and weeks after voters cast their ballots. Republicans are not going to be deterred by this decision, and the RNC will keep fighting to have elections end on Election Day as Americans want.”
When the original states ratified the Constitution, there was one Election Day. The whole process we have now of voting for months and using mail-in ballots and such nonsense would have absolutely horrified the Founders. They would also have understood what Democrats deny now, that such a system is all about creating a lot of opportunities for fraud.
SAVE!
• Supreme Court Mail-In Ballot Decision Leaves Trump With a Simple Message (Arcand)
President Donald Trump called the Republican National Committee’s Supreme Court loss on Monday “tremendous,” and he used it as an opportunity to push for the SAVE America Act once again. bThe court ruled that states are allowed to count mail-in ballots that were obtained after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked before that day. Specifically, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the majority opinion of the court’s 5-4 decision that “federal election-day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by election day but received up to five days thereafter; nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots to be received by election day.”Read more …
The president wrote on Truth Social that “it is more important than ever to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” which includes documentary proof of citizenship at the time of voter registration and limits for mail-in ballots, with workarounds if somebody is disabled, ill, traveling, or deployed. “The House of Representatives has approved this vital Act, THREE TIMES,” Trump added, before saying that the Senate “seems unable to do so.” “In a time when there is a powerful Communist Movement taking place in our Country, one more dangerous than World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or September 11th, all Dumocrats, and our five Republican Senate Hold Outs, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy, and Mitch McConnell must vote to SAVE OUR COUNTRY. There can be no more excuses,” he wrote.Collins has been supportive of the federal elections proposal; however, she voted against a push to attempt to attach to the “Secure America Act” reconciliation bill earlier this month, according to Fox News. Meanwhile, Cassidy has also been supportive of the bill, but he recently expressed skepticism about its ability to pass. “There are not the votes,” the Louisiana Republican told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on CBS News on Sunday. In response to Trump’s post on Saturday, Cassidy, will not be returning to the upper chamber after losing his primary, said it’s “it’s irresponsible to postpone signing the Housing bill due to the SAVE Act.”
Mr. President, I don’t know which version of the SAVE America Act you’re referring to, but I am a cosponsor and support the latest version. I don’t know which staffer misled you, but thank you for your attention to this matter!!
— U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) June 29, 2026
Btw, it’s irresponsible to postpone signing the… https://t.co/NY3G62paNjSome Republicans, like Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), have stressed the need to attach the bill to whatever legislation they possibly can. “Let’s add SAVE to the Housing bill. Let’s add SAVE to FISA Reauthorization,” Banks posted to X. “Let’s add SAVE to a new Reconciliation bill. We must pass the SAVE America Act.” “We must secure our elections once & for all,” he added.
Only US citizens should be voting in US elections.
— Senator Jim Banks (@SenatorBanks) June 29, 2026
Let’s add SAVE to the Housing bill.
Let’s add SAVE to FISA Reauthorization.
Let's add SAVE to a new Reconciliation bill.
We must pass the SAVE America Act.
We must secure our elections once & for all.https://t.co/jwFq8uU6u3
“Carroll claims, without any evidence, that Trump sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store ..”
• SCOTUS Just Let a Rigged Verdict Against President Trump Stand (Margolis)
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it won’t touch a 2023 jury verdict ordering President Donald Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million for sexually abusing and defaming her. While the court has handed Trump several key wins on challenges to his presidential actions, the refusal stings precisely because it’s the first time since he returned to office that he’s asked the justices to step into a personal legal fight, and they walked away from it. Carroll claims, without any evidence, that Trump sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store back in 1996.Read more …
She didn’t go public until 2019, and when she did, she didn’t go to the police; she put it in a book. Trump has always said the story was fabricated to sell that book, and everything she’s done since has just given credence to the accusations that she’s just a grifter. Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to step in, warning that it’s “deeply damaging to the fabric of our Republic for President Trump, in the midst of a historic presidency, to have to take his focus away from his singular and unique duties as Chief Executive to continue fighting against decades-old, false allegations and the myriad wrongs throughout this baseless case.” They added, “This mistreatment of a President cannot be allowed to stand.”Trump’s legal team also argued Carroll sat on her “implausible, unsubstantiated assertions” for more than two decades to “maximize political injury to him and profit for herself.” They went further, pointing out that her account “precisely matches the plotline from an episode of one of admittedly her favorite TV shows, ‘Law & Order.'” A story that lines up that neatly with a television script deserved more scrutiny than it got, and that’s before you even get to the rest of Carroll’s track record, including a paid walking tour that conveniently started at the exact spot she claims Trump attacked her.
But the key part of Trump’s case wasn’t about Carroll’s lack of credibility. It was about what the jury never should have heard in the first place. His lawyers argued that jurors were wrongly allowed to hear testimony from two other women accusing Trump of assault, along with the 2005 Access Hollywood recording of Trump bragging about grabbing women. None of that evidence belonged anywhere near a trial about a specific 1996 allegation, and letting it in front of a jury all but guaranteed the outcome before the case even started.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals waved off those objections in 2024, ruling that “taking the record as a whole and considering the strength of Ms. Carroll’s case, we are not persuaded that any claimed error or combination of errors in the district court’s evidentiary rulings affected Mr. Trump’s substantial rights.” Now the Supreme Court has let that ruling stand without explanation.
This isn’t even Trump’s only Carroll headache. A separate 2024 jury ordered him to pay her $83.3 million over public statements disputing her account, a verdict that survived three separate appeals. His lawyers are now drafting a Supreme Court appeal in that case too, which was made possible by a special New York law that opened a limited window for sexual abuse survivors to sue over decades-old claims, a law tailor-made for exactly this kind of lawsuit, which Carroll helped make happen.
Carroll built an entire financial windfall on what was clearly a fiction, and the courts have signed off on every dollar of it. The Supreme Court had a chance to ask hard questions about evidence that should never have reached a jury. It chose not to, and Carroll cashes the check anyway.
A TV show. It shows justice as non-existent.
• Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Appeal E. Jean Carroll Verdict (CNBC)
The Supreme Court on Monday said it would not hear an appeal by President Donald Trump of a New York federal court jury’s verdict awarding the writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million for having been sexually abused and defamed by Trump. Trump separately was found civilly liable by another Manhattan federal court jury for having defamed Carroll. She was awarded $83.3 million in that case, which Trump is appealing at a lower federal appeals court.Read more …
The Supreme Court did not explain why it rejected Trump’s request that it hear his appeal of the $5 million verdict from the 2023 trial, as is typical for such orders. None of the justices, three of whom were appointed to the high court by Trump, issued a written dissent to the decision. Trump’s lawyers said the trial judge in the case improperly allowed testimony from two other women who said they were targets of sexual misconduct by Trump.Carroll, in a 2019 New York magazine article, first publicly alleged that Trump had raped her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. She later filed a civil lawsuit alleging rape and that he had defamed her when he denied her claims. A judge in May 2023 found that Trump had sexually abused Carroll and defamed her. CNBC has requested comment from Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, as well as from the White House and Trump’s attorney in the Supreme Court appeal, Michael Martinich-Sauter.
“Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.”
• ‘You’re Next!’: Democrats Discover the Mob has a Mind of its Own (Turley)
“You’re next!” This chant, at the victory celebration of the Democratic Socialists this week, was a message not for the oligarchs or the billionaires, but for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and the Democratic establishment. They were threatening that Jeffries would be the next to lose his House seat to a socialist candidate. It was a scene that has recurred throughout history, as establishment leaders are overtaken by the very mobs they sought to use for their own purposes.Read more …
For years, Jeffries has joined other Democrats in fueling the rage on the left in the hopes of becoming the next House Speaker. Whether calling for supporters to “fight in the streets,” denouncing the Supreme Court as “illegitimate” or posting an image of himself brandishing a baseball bat, Jeffries sought to portray himself as a class warrior worthy of the mob’s support. Other Democratic leaders followed suit — especially Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. It was Schumer who yelled threats at conservative Supreme Court justices in front of the court. A deranged man triggered by such rhetoric in the media later attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Schumer and others portrayed their opponents as Nazis who threaten the very existence of democracy, and they stoked class conflict to inspire resentment for the wealthy.Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison — now Minnesota’s attorney general — celebrated that Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump and his supporters. Figures like Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) (who is reportedly worth half a billion dollars due to his wife’s inherited fortune) have attempted to ride the rage wave by advocating a billionaire’s tax that is presumptively unconstitutional. By the time these establishment figures realized their armchair-revolutionary rhetoric would not convince the mob, it was too late.
Jeffries and figures like former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had endorsed candidates such as Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who perhaps more than anyone else personified the problem. He was the attack dog of the establishment, fueling rage and promising a spate of impeachments. But what the left saw was a trust-fund baby who had inherited a fortune, owns three houses, and has publicly pledged to use his inheritance to fund his reelection. He came across as the Democratic Richie Rich, and he lost on Tuesday by more than 30 points.
In my book Rage and the Republic, I discuss how these Democratic leaders are following the same self-destructive pattern of prior establishment figures in history who thought that they could use mobs against their opponents while hoping that they would be overlooked.
The American and French Revolutions were contemporary movements based on Enlightenment principles. But whereas our Revolution went on to become the world’s oldest and most stable republic, the French Revolution became the blood-soaked Terror. The French Revolution was not some spontaneous uprising of the proletariat or underclass. It was led by relatively affluent figures on the left, from aristocrats to journalists to lawyers. Maximilien Robespierre, who would later declare terror a virtue, was a lawyer who helped organize the revolutionary Jacobins.
These educated and affluent figures turned to working-class radicals as their muscle to terrorize their opponents. And not long after executing aristocrats and clergy, the radicals turned on the Jacobins themselves. “Moderates” were sent to the guillotine by Robespierre and his henchmen as they clung to power. But eventually, the mob came for them, too. After the Terror, French writer Jacques Mallet du Pan wrote, “Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.”
After candidates endorsed by socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani easily swept aside the establishment candidates in Jeffries and Schumer’s backyard, politicians and pundits began to panic. They never imagined the mob would turn on them. Even liberal media figures such as Ezra Klein and pandering academic figures have become targets of the left. Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who has called for the effective trashing of the U.S. Constitution, had law students staging protests in his own home.
Others have sought to stay at the front of the mob. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) denounced the lengthy sentences handed down to nine violent Antifa figures in Texas for their roles in the ambush and attempted murder of a police officer who had responded to the disturbance they were creating at an ICE facility. The officer, Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross, barely survived a bullet to the neck.
“.. government-imposed multiculturalism that is a far greater threat to white existence than the threats posed by previous wars of conquest…”
• The Most Engangered Species of All is White People (Paul Craig Roberts)
Hanne Herland, the executive director of the highly regarded European News Service based in Norway, The Herland Report, reports that the BBC and the rest of the anti-white British presstitute media have yet to report the week-old Lowe Report’s findings that for 30 years British governments covered up multiple repeated gang rapes of a quarter of a million pre-teen white British girls, and then had them sodomized by dogs. The police would not act, and the parents were helpless.Read more …
If the parents made too much of a fuss, the parents, not the rapists, would be investigated for racist hate speech for accusing oppressed black people. The whore British media protected the criminals that corrupt British governmenrts permitted to walk unopposed into Britain by refusing to report the gang rapes. Now the whore British media refuses to report the Lowe Report. The British people know about it, but government and media denial deprive the facts of official status.The death toll for white ethnicities came from decades of indoctrination that established the belief that there is no guilt in the entire world but white racist guilt and gentile anti-semitic guilt. White people are more demonized than Jews were by Nazis. One might have thought that hundreds of thousands of British fathers and mothers would have armed themselves with whatever weapons they could find and hunted down and killed the rape gangs. And also the whore media. The parents could have killed the police who protect the rape gangs, taken their weapons, and shot down the immigrant-invaders in the streets. They might have cleaned out the BBC and the rest of the scum British media as well.
But they didn’t. The ethnic British, like white ethnics everywhere, have been demonized for so many decades that white ethnics have lost the self-confidence necessary if one is to protect oneself, one’s children, and one’s family. This undeniable fact is why I recently wrote “The 21st Century is the Last Era of White People.” People with no will to survive will not survive. The white liberals’s demonizations of white people for decades have destroyed the self-belief of white ethnicities and broken their will to survive. Exampes abound. The ethnic French people are afraid to elect Marine Le Pen, who speaks for them, because they believe they would be electing a racist.
What we are witnessing in Britain, indeed all over the tiny part of the world that is white ethnic, is a threat to existence of white ethnicities by government-imposed multiculturalism that is a far greater threat to white existence than the threats posed by previous wars of conquest. And there is silence. No warnings have been heeded. Not Enoch Powell’s warning to the British, not Jean Raspail’s warning to the French, not Wilmot Robertson’s warning to Americans. All efforts to wake up white ethnics whose insouciance is dooming them to extermination have been unsuccessful.
The white ethnicities are too busy scrolling their cell phones. Moreover, they lack the will to recognize their danger. They have been too indoctrinated against themselves to confront an existential threat. Not even liberal progressive white people get a pass. They also “perpetuate racial harm” to people of color Robin Diangelo, a professor of education at the University of Washington and a “facilitator for a quarter of a century on issues of racial and social jusice,” assures us in Nice Racism. As racism is regarded by white liberals as the worst of all possible crimes and as aversive racism is allegedly inhernt in white genes, the only way to end racism is to end white people. It implies a holocaust on a wider scale than the one attributed to Hitler.
Their danger is illiustrated to white ethnicities daily, but they turn away from reality and find comfort in false reality. Essentially, white ethnicities lack the self-belief and the moral strength to save themselves and are actively engaged in turning power over to immigrant-invaders. They are too weak and full of indoctrinated guilt to survive. “Massive Racism against Whites: UK Rape Gang Inquiry Report shows 250,000 British girls raped but the Media deems it Not Newsworthy” https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/massive-racism-against-whites-uk-rape-gang-inquiry-report/
I have been writing about the inability of white ethnics to defend themselves for many years. I have never had a response to my columns reporting mass rapes of Scandanivian and British females, and sometimes little boys. No white liberal has written: “This is awful. What can we do?”
No feminist has written: “What can we do to protect women and pre-teen girls from gang-rapes?”
No white liberal has written: “Out multicultural ideology was a mistake. How do we recover?”
No American conservative, no “white supremist” has asked what do we do to save ourselves.
Not a word. The weak-minded, weak-willed white ethnics hide their heads in the sand. When I speak it is like speaking to an empty room. This is why I have concluded that white ethnics are doomed. They have been too indoctrinated against themselves by their enemies to survive. Their demonization is institutionalized in the educational system and is finding its way into criminal justice systems. There are more British citizens in prison for complaining about the rape of their children than there are immigrant-invaders who raped the children.
The attack on white ethnicity is two-pronged. Not only can you be imprisoned for racism, but also for anti-semitism. The “privilege” that white ethnicity has is to be prosecuted for being white gentiles. The lack of organized resistence suggests that white ethnicities have accepted their fate. The immigrant-invaders see this and grow bolder. Meanwhile white ethnicities prepare their final war against themselves as the US and Europe prepare for war against Russia.
By year’s end.
• Scott Bessent Bullish on Trump Economy, Predicts 3% Growth, 2% Inflation (JTN)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is confident the United States will weather the Iran conflict and a temporary spike in gas prices and finish 2026 with economic growth above 3% while hitting the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target. Bessent told Just the News that the recent revision upwards of the Gross Domestic Product is one of many signs the economy is still strong.”The president rightly believed that Iran was an existential danger, and had to be dealt with. It was a 90-day intervention there, but the economy, our economy, did the best in the world in terms of any major economy that pushed back on the naysayers, and first quarter, just got revised up to 2.1%,” Bessent said during an interview Friday on the Just the News No Noise TV program.Read more …
“I think that we are going to print more than 3% growth for the year, and importantly, the energy-generated inflation, crude oil prices today are lower than they were on February 27,” he added. For comparison, real GDP growth in 2025 was 2.1%, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Bessent also predicted that gasoline prices would “continue coming down” for the summer driving season. “We will be back towards the Fed’s 2% inflation target, and the message is job growth has been substantial. Moving into April, until April, we had seen real wage growth for working Americans,” he said.“We’re going to get back on that track to try to help the American people recoup some of their big affordability losses under the Biden administration, where it was the worst inflation in 48 years,” he added.
Add that to Europe’s perils: no AI.
• Anthropic’s Exit a Wake-Up Call for Europe’s AI Ambitions (Lyman)
After months of debate in Europe on how to limit AI, Anthropic’s limits on its highest level systems is shining a light on Europe’s lack of large AI companies. Anthropic’s decision to shut off access to its most advanced artificial intelligence models raised alarm bells for European leaders already worried about over-dependence on foreign partners. In recent years, the EU has sounded alarms about too much dependence on Russian energy and Chinese manufacturing. Now, the decision by U.S. artificial intelligence leader Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 systems has leaders worried about overreliance on U.S. technologies.Read more …
Earlier this month, the White House ordered Anthropic — owner of artificial intelligence assistant Claude — to cut off access to its highest level systems for “any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, over security issues. Anthropic responded by cutting off access to the models for everyone. Fable 5 is the consumer version of Anthropic’s AI agent, while Mythos 5, known for its ability to detect cybersecurity vulnerabilities, is the version that was accessible only to a select network of digital infrastructure companies.Worries that Trump could “pull the plug”
The development comes after high-level worries that President Donald Trump could “pull the plug” on large swaths of the Internet in Europe. “It is no longer reasonable to assume that we can totally rely on our American partner,” Matthias Ecke, a German member of the European Parliament said last year. It also comes amid debate within Europe over the landmark AI Act designed to regulate artificial intelligence. Even Pope Leo XIV has entered the debate, issuing his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity) in May, calling for artificial intelligence to be reined in to assure that it “serves humanity.” The sprawling document was unveiled last month by the pontiff alongside Christoper Olah, Anthropic’s co-founder.“Preventing AI from dominating humanity,” Vatican says
“Artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logic that turns it into an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death,” Leo said. “To disarm does not mean rejecting technology but preventing it from dominating humanity.” But European tech startups and their advocates have called for the implementation of the AI Act to be delayed or for the act itself to be weakened, arguing that it makes it too hard for them to compete against rivals in the U.S. and China.“The EU’s AI Act risks creating a fragmented, unpredictable regulatory environment that will undermine innovation, discourage investment, and ultimately leave Europe behind in the global AI race,” read a 2025 letter signed by dozens of European AI founders and investors. Rules are necessary, the letter said, “but don’t regulate us into the ground.” Now, those voices are expected to be taken more seriously. The AI Act now appears almost certain to be “watered down” and Europe’s lack of competitiveness in the sector is now set to become a central priority at the Group of Seven (G-7) leaders’ summit set to get underway in France on Monday.
But experts say the AI sector in Europe will continue to suffer from insufficient investment, high energy cost, a complex regulatory environment, and the absence of national champions. A new fictionalized scenario called Europe 2031 earning headlines in European media points to a future where “over-regulation and a lack of ambition” mean that Europe is “left powerless as AI denominates defense, cybersecurity, and geopolitics.”
“. . . there is no saving the Left. Whatever happens to them, it will have to happen without people like you or me trying to get them to return to any place of sanity.” — Sasha Stone on Substack
• It’s All They’ve Got Now (James Howard Kunstler)
And the Lord made Sophie Cunningham of the Indiana Fever A punishing heat-dome creeps over the eastern half of the country just in time for the gala Fourth of July week. The days are brutal, but anything and everything crawls out of the woodwork when that blazing sun goes down and the moon comes out. Everyone’s on edge, but the edge of what? I will tell you.Read more …
First, could there be a richer (or more obvious) target for bloody mischief than this year’s national holiday, the 250th birthday of a nation that millions lucky enough to live here have been trained-up to hate on? Even the sons and daughters (including pretend “daughters”) of millionaires have gone mad-dog on America, the poster-boy being Marxist-jihadi New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the Left’s new avatar-general.Since no one is more hated than the, ahem, Celebrator-in-Chief, you might want to steer clear of conspicuous public celebrations this week. Antifa and even worse gangs are out there right now, making plans and laying traps. Maybe not so much in places like Texas, where eight Antifas were just sentenced collectively to 450 years in the slammer for shooting up the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado. . . but here in the Empire State and other Blue-ish jurisdictions, all bets are off. Be careful ‘out there’ among the smokin’ ribs, the fireworks shows, and big music venues.
You can see how this summer, and the nauseating slide down to the midterm elections, are shaping up. The party of “Our Democracy” is desperate to an extreme now, all disfigured by a communist leprosy eating away at its public face (and a cancer of fraud metastasizing through its innards). It has become such an obvious monster, raging with its hair lit-up, that anyone with half a functioning brain is shying away, stealing off into the gloaming. The party has nothing left but chaos and, in the weeks ahead, anything that might be disrupted probably will be.
The objective is to create so much havoc and distress throughout the country — especially the big cities — that Mr. Trump will have to invoke the Insurrection Act, and by doing so, the Lefty-left hope to create conditions so adverse that an orderly Election Day cannot happen. The Insurrection Act would be the Left’s cue to declare Mr. Trump the very “king” whose coronation they have busily rehearsed all year, and then, voila, you get a new French-style American Revolution 2.0, complete with guillotine and transgender Jacobins turning the country upside-down.
You might consider the theory that the nation actually needs to suffer a genuine nightmare to wake up from. The Revolution 1.0 we celebrate this week was, after all, a nightmarish struggle rife with hardship and loss. Nine signers of the Declaration of Independence died from war-related tribulations. Five were imprisoned and tortured. Twelve had homes ransacked and burned. And then, of course, the military action itself, including travails such as the winter at Valley Forge, the disastrous New York Campaign, and the never-ending logistics crisis, no food, no clothing, no munitions.
In the present summer of travail we face, you can expect at least some major wake-up calls issued by the bloc in the country that has not gone insane — which happens to include many in Mr. Trump’s executive branch. I’m serenely confident that real evidence of 2020 election fraud will finally emerge, coincidental with indictments. Do you think that the Fulton County, GA, election records were seized last winter for no reason? Say goodbye to that old “baseless” talking point.
There are, of course, a whole lot of other seditious and treasonous Beltway villains nervously awaiting administration of the law. You know their names. It appears that the new supervising US Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, Joseph DiGenova, is reorganizing the so-called “grand conspiracy” case against this large cadre of coupsters into a folio of discrete cases — RussiaGate, Fake Impeachment #1, the Mar-a-Lago raid, etc. — to make them more manageable and move them more speedily forward. Don’t be surprised if one or more of these cases happens to drop before the midterms. (Democratic Party true-blue loyalists could be surprised, even shocked to their socks, since these indictments will refute everything that has become essential to their identities as the good and righteous people of this land.)
“The newspaper claimed the outgoing UK prime minister is considering becoming the military bloc’s chief in 2028:”:
Last week the guy was chased out of no. 10 with tar and feathers. Now this. You tell me.
He’s an utter failure.
Who wants a bigger job.
Because of it.
• Starmer Eyeing Top NATO Position – Observer (RT)
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is stepping down following a revolt within his own party, is interested in becoming the next secretary general of NATO, The Observer reported on Sunday. Starmer teared up last week when he announced that he would resign as prime minister and Labour Party leader in response to mounting pressure. Several ministers left his cabinet, and more than 80 Labour MPs urged him to step down after the party lost nearly 1,500 local council seats in last month’s elections. Former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, who won the Makerfield by-election on June 18, is widely seen as Starmer’s successor.Read more …
According to The Observer, Starmer is interested in becoming NATO secretary general once Mark Rutte’s term expires in 2028, unless it is extended. The newspaper added that Starmer would require “some sustained government backing” for a successful bid. It said Starmer’s supporters point to his close relationship with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, claiming that the two sometimes “pocket dial” each other by accident, as well as his ties with other European leaders.The NATO secretary general, usually a former head of government or senior diplomat, is selected through consultations among member states, with the final appointment requiring the unanimous backing of all 32 members.
Starmer led Labour to a landslide victory in the 2024 general election, vowing to bring stability after a string of short-lived Conservative prime ministers. However, his premiership quickly became associated with tax increases, welfare cuts, political scandals, and an increasingly controversial foreign policy agenda. He made support for Kiev a central pillar of his premiership while Britain grappled with defense funding shortages, procurement setbacks, and growing concerns over military readiness.
According to The Telegraph, Starmer was also criticized for spending too much time on international affairs and not enough on domestic issues, having traveled “more and further than any other British leader in official history.” The newspaper said he spent around two and a half months abroad during his first 17 months in office. Starmer’s relationship with US President Donald Trump also soured over his refusal to back the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Trump said Starmer was “no Winston Churchill” and criticized his record on migration and energy policy. By contrast, Trump repeatedly praised Rutte as both a friend and an effective leader, even while criticizing NATO as a whole.
..Will Embarrass Himself for money..
• Biden’s Own Party Heckled Him During a Speech (Margolis)
It’s been two years since Joe Biden’s catastrophic debate against President Donald Trump, which ultimately made his party realize they could no longer pretend he was fit for office and forced him out of the race. Two years later, Biden is still proving how unfit he was, this time stumbling through a combative speech in front of the very people who used to cheer him on.Read more …
Biden showed up Saturday night at the Maryland Democrat Party’s Fight Back & Win Summit at Live! Casino & Hotel in Hanover, Md., to deliver a teleprompter-fed attack against Trump. The crowd was full of party activists, the kind of room that should have been the easiest audience of his career. Instead, hecklers interrupted him mid-speech, and by the time it was over, he struggled just to make his way off the stage. If Biden wanted to use the event to prove that he still has some fight in him, what he delivered instead was a reminder of exactly why the Democrat establishment forced him out of the race two years ago.Of course, Biden put on a show with his usual attack lines. He accused the president of wrecking America’s alliances, enriching himself in office, and tanking the country’s standing both at home and abroad, calling it “corruption on a scale never seen before.” This is from the guy who literally tried to put Trump, his political rival, in prison. Then came the line that should embarrass every Democrat in that room. “Have you noticed that Americans are saying the economy under the Biden administration is a hell of a lot better than under Trump?” Biden asked, and the crowd actually applauded.
It’s not, of course. Rampant inflation under Biden crushed American families and handed Trump the White House back in the first place. Trump has since gotten inflation under control, something Biden apparently can’t bring himself to acknowledge even now. Biden kept swinging anyway. “It’s simply stunning to me,” he said of Trump’s conduct. “He has no shame, and frankly it’s embarrassing for the country. But Trump? Trump could care less.” He also went after what he called Trump’s “vanity projects,” ticking off a list.
“It’s not just his vanity projects — tearing down the East Wing of the White House making room for his ballroom. Putting his name on the Kennedy Center. Building an arch in his own honor. Even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool,” Biden said, before adding, “Whoa — what a loser.” And then he got lost trying to exit the stage. Two years after that debate stage exposed him to the entire country that was pretending everything was okay, Biden refuses to go away, embarrassing himself repeatedly for speaking fees because now that he’s out of power (or at least his autopen is), he has no other way to make money
“A Culture of Instant Gratification Raised on Singular Views of Victimhood.”
• Raising Children in the 21st Century (CTH)
Katharine Birbalsingh, argues that the West’s moral crisis began with the values we taught our children. She explores how schools, culture, and social media have shaped a generation to see the world through the lens of oppressor and oppressed—and why restoring duty, responsibility, and moral character is essential to the future of Western civilization. As I watched this remarkable speech, I realized what Birbalsingh describes is what does not exist in Russia. When you talk to a person in Russia about DEI, victim mindset or the various equities of personage emphasized in the modern, cultural ‘west’; a Russian person has absolutely no reference point to engage in the conversation. Chapters: 00:00 A Moral Crisis in the West 02:04 How White Guilt Changed a Generation 03:47 The Values We Took for Granted 06:09 Teaching Children to See Oppressors and Victims 08:22 Why Young People No Longer Love Their Country 10:30 This Is a Civilizational Failure 11:35 Save Our Children, Save the WestRead more …
ELON MUSK:
— Vivek Sen (@Vivek4real_) June 29, 2026
“THERE ARE NO LORDS AND PEASANTS AT TESLA. EVERYONE EATS AT THE SAME TABLE.”
“I ACTUALLY KNOW THE PEOPLE ON THE LINE, BECAUSE I WORKED ON THE LINE, I WALKED THE LINE, I SLEPT IN THE FACTORY, AND I WORKED BESIDE THEM. SO, I'M NO STRANGER TO THEM.
THERE ARE MANY… pic.twitter.com/gva31AQtpi
Jensen Huang says the next internet is not for humans. It is for agents.
— Karl Mehta (@karlmehta) June 28, 2026
"AI has become agentic, meaning that it can actually do work by itself."
"One agent can communicate with another agent and say, 'I have some work to do. Let's team up together and let's do some work.'"… pic.twitter.com/bcCnZRusdx
This is seriously so powerful.
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) June 28, 2026
President Trump is not perfect by any means but he is leading this country back to christ.
You can get mad all you want in the comment section if you dislike and hate Trump. That's just the devil speaking to you.
Video credit: Gregs… pic.twitter.com/jzfL6zZzn2
Monet's pond is a true oasis in Japan that looks like a painting come to life pic.twitter.com/OwxvOYj012
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 29, 2026
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