FOR THEIR NEXT TRICK THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE PEOPLE STARING AT TRAIN WRECKS: LA City Council Votes to Stop ‘Disaster Tourism’ through Pacific Palisades Area.
July 9, 2025
NOT REALLY. HE’S GOING OUT OF HIS WAY TO LOOK FOR THE OFFENSE: Director Warns His ‘Superman’ Reboot May Offend Some Viewers — He’s Right.
This tells me he expects the film to bomb and wants an excuse.
LOOK, WHEN SOTOMAYOR REBUKES A LEFTIST… SCOTUS Grants Trump Another Stay, KBJ Issues Another Fiery Solo Dissent, Drawing Rebuke Even From Sotomayor.
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THAT FEELING YOU’VE SEEN THIS SH*T BEFORE: Deja Poo.
CHINA NEEDS TO BE TOLD WHERE TO PUT IT: China tells EU it can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine, official says.
AND WHERE TO PUT IT IS NOT TAIWAN: NATO Chief Predicts China’s Plan For Taiwan.
OPEN THREAD: It’s a groovy Tuesday.
JIM TREACHER: DC-Area Schoolkids Taught to Harass Jews and Admire Hitler.
That infamous alt-right rally in Charlottesville — you know, the idiots with tiki torches chanting, “Jews will not replace us” — was in August 2017. Almost eight years ago. Yet the Dems can’t shut up about it.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Virginia, children at a prestigious DC-area private school are being taught to harass Jews and admire Hitler. And if our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters on the left stay true to form, they’ll turn a blind eye to it.
Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon:
The prestigious Nysmith School in Northern Virginia received a civil rights complaint Tuesday for allegedly expelling three Jewish students who faced anti-Semitic harassment and whom the school’s headmaster told to “toughen up” after they reported the conduct.
The Nysmith School, known as one of the top 10 institutions in the country for students between kindergarten and eighth grade, allegedly expelled Brian Vazquez and Ashok Roy’s three Jewish children in March, after the parents complained about its “unwillingness to respond to anti-Semitic harassment of their 11-year-old daughter…”
The school “allowed anti-Semitism to take root in her class” over the course of several months, including with a social studies project that saw students promote Adolf Hitler as a “strong historical leader.” That project “was shared with the entire school community” and contributed to “a pattern of persistent and severe anti-Semitic harassment,” the complaint alleges.
Seriously.
Before the NEA declares that President Trump is a “fascist,” perhaps they should look into why a North Virginia school is doing fascist-y things, and praising the man with the tiny toothbrush moustache. Just a thought.
WHAT A CONTRAST! Between the Right’s most determined conservatives in the House of Representatives responding to a big legislative setback and how Democrats did so. Can you guess which of the two parties’ responses would be cheered by the Federalist Papers authors?
ROGER SIMON: Separated at Birth: Musk, Tucker and TikTok ‘Influencers.’
It might seem unfair to link such mega-celebrities as Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson with young women hawking skimpy bikinis on TikTok, but they all share a desperate need for attention. It’s kind of a modern, online egomania—”Attention Seekers Unite!”
In fact, as recent events have shown, Musk and Carlson are right up there on that “attention must be paid” scale, putting most TikTok ‘influencers’ to shame.
Elon has announced a new political party for the unrepresented masses of our country, presumably led by him, with the not terribly original name “America.” (Ironically, the late Abbie Hoffman named his son “America.”) Such luminaries as Mark Cuban and Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci have not surprisingly signed on. Musk sent out a tweet (can we still call it that?) asking his followers to choose a location for their first rendezvous, Mars not yet being available. That would come year three on Musk Time.
Meanwhile, the supposedly intrepid Tucker has interviewed the president of Iran. . He’s keeping us apprised of the truth about our enemies, with the not so subtle undertone that we may be in error. Vladimir Putin was not enough
Neither of these men are about to go off in the woods and meditate for a year—no matter what they tell us or pretences they may have. They are about as “in your face” as one can get—media critters.
Exit quote: “Whether Tucker will return to his senses is a question I cannot answer. I hope he does.”
Once you’ve gone full-on into “Churchill was ackshully the bad guy of WWII” territory, it’s very tough to return to anywhere near the vicinity of reality.
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DEVELOPING: FBI launches criminal investigations of John Brennan, James Comey: DOJ sources.
Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing related to the Trump–Russia probe, including allegedly making false statements to Congress, Justice Department sources told Fox News Digital.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred evidence of wrongdoing by Brennan to FBI Director Kash Patel for potential prosecution, DOJ sources told Fox News Digital.
The sources said that the referral was received and told Fox News Digital that a criminal investigation into Brennan was opened and is underway. DOJ sources declined to provide further details. It is unclear, at this point, if the investigation spans beyond his alleged false statements to Congress.
As for Comey, DOJ sources told Fox News Digital that an investigation into the former director is underway, but could not share details of what specifically is being probed.
Hopefully this will go better than some of the Trump administration other recent investigations:
Bondi Explains She Was Going To Release The Epstein Files But Then Some Pedophiles Asked Her Not To https://t.co/UrrVsBPpbi pic.twitter.com/aEH9RsWaep
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 8, 2025
CHRISTOPHER RUFO: The Identity Thieves.
Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—two of America’s most prominent socialist politicians—have committed identity theft. No, they did not pilfer a Social Security number or swipe the digits of someone else’s credit card. They have done something more subtle: stealing the image of the oppressed for personal and political gain.
It’s an old trick. Just as Elizabeth Warren claimed Native American heritage as she ascended the ranks of academia, Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez adopted the identities of the poor and downtrodden as they ascended the ranks of politics. Both built their political personas on a small kernel of truth: Mamdani claimed on his college application to be black because he was born in Uganda, despite being the son of two famous, affluent, and educated Indians; Ocasio-Cortez claimed to be a “Bronx girl” because she lived in the borough until age five, when she moved to a tony corner of Westchester County. Both have structured their identities around grand narratives of oppressor and oppressed, which they hope to convert into power and prestige.
The truth is that both Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez belong to groups—Indians and Latinos, respectively—that do not fit neatly into America’s deepest historical binary, that between white and black, colonist and slave. Though both could doubtlessly point toward some personal slight or past injustice against their ethnic group, neither Mamdani nor Ocasio-Cortez can lay a real claim to historical oppression. Indian Americans are among the most educated and affluent groups in America, and the vast majority of Latinos arrived in the United States after desegregation and the Civil Rights Act. The very fact that millions of people uprooted themselves from India and Latin America to try their luck in this country indicates that they considered America a land of opportunity, rather than injustice.
For Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez, however, the myth of post-Civil Rights Act discrimination must be maintained at all costs. Both use their privilege—Mamdani, graduate of Bowdoin and son of a professor; Ocasio-Cortez, graduate of Boston University and daughter of an architect—to advance their narrative of oppression.
They do it because it works.
Read the whole thing.
I SUSPECT THE INVESTIGATIONS HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR A WHILE: FBI launches criminal investigations of John Brennan, James Comey over Trump-Russia probe: DOJ sources.
THEY’RE SMART, AND TRYING TO JOIN THE WINNING TEAM: Killer Whales Are Giving Fish to Humans Worldwide – What’s Going on?
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THEY HATE YOU AND WANT YOUR LIFE TO BE WORSE.
This is not just a minor quirk. This is the manifestation of their hatred for normal people and a desire to cause them harm. We see it. https://t.co/iRJr6bQjuv
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 7, 2025
ANOTHER WIN FOR TRUMP, AND CONFUSION TO HIS ENEMIES:
🚨 OMG: Now a LIBERAL Supreme Court justice is trying to teach Justice Ketanji Jackson how this whole "judicial" thing works…
Jackson is the ONLY dissent. Sotomayor has to remind Jackson, for some reason, that the case before them is NOT about what Jackson thought it was.
My… https://t.co/XC1BkhrMs3 pic.twitter.com/FFGFz41Ous
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 8, 2025
I don’t know what happened behind closed doors in the Supreme Court over the last month, but it seems like everyone has had more than enough of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nonsense. https://t.co/h21mylbCc0
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 8, 2025
Though the enemies seem to have supplied the confusion themselves.
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Gen Z Isn’t Just Online — They’re Living in Parallel Realities.
There was a time, not long ago, when Americans — regardless of region, class, or politics — shared a common cultural foundation. From the Saturday morning cartoons children watched to the nightly news programs adults relied on, mainstream culture was both a mirror and a glue: it reflected our values while keeping us tethered to the same national experience. That era is over.
We have entered the Age of Alternative Culture, an era defined by fragmentation, algorithmic echo chambers, and cultural isolation masquerading as global connection.
The culprit is not a single villain but a confluence of forces, chief among them the rise of the Internet and the omnipresence of algorithmically curated content. Social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram don’t just reflect our preferences; they shape them, refining our tastes and beliefs into niche categories optimized for engagement. Every scroll reinforces what the algorithm thinks you want, narrowing your worldview under the guise of preference.
We are becoming numbers on a screen in an illusion of mass connectivity, our eyes more valuable than our minds. The consequence is a culture atomized into digital micro-nations, where people live in parallel realities consuming different music, news, humor, and values. There is no longer a mainstream — there are now only streams, and each of us is drowning in our own.
This is the downside to the end of mass media. It united us, but it also made us vulnerable to whatever the elites’ obsession du jour was. The original television networks still do everything they can to keep the idea going: that’s why with the exception of Greg Gutfeld, all late comedians lean hard to the left; and why the news media circled the wagons to protect Biden from 2020 to the summer of 2024, until they all circled the wagons to protect Harris until November. That’s why Silicon Valley tried to replace the Blogosphere with the walled gardens of Twitter and Facebook. While I wish we still had a shared pop culture, I’m not at all sure I’d want it to be what was left of it by the mid-1990s, when the World Wide Web began to become ubiquitous, eventually supplanted by the smartphone.
MARK JUDGE: The Real America: Instapundit, Nancy in Nebraska—and Rick the Bartender.
I recently wrote that I’m going to be leaving journalism soon. I want to thank people who’ve helped me survive and produce work the last few years. One of them is Glenn Reynolds, otherwise known as Instapundit. Instapundit is a conservative American political blog created by Glenn Reynolds, a law professor. It launched in August 2001 and is now one of the biggest and best sites in the world.
It’s also the place that helped me finish my book. In the summer of 2020 I was about halfway through my book The Devil’s Triangle when the small advance I received ran out. I didn’t mind going back to work at Home Depot fulltime, but there was no way I was ever going to finish the book. Instapundit came to the rescue. He put out an appeal to readers, who boosted the crowdfunding site I was using for donations. People even sent checks to my UPS box. Because of them I was able to finish the book. I won’t forget that.
There are people like Instapundit, who aren’t elites, who’ll offer support when all other options have run out. That was the position I found myself in in 2020. I’d been the target of a nasty attempted political hit in 2018 when a woman named Christine Blasey Ford claimed that Brett Kavanaugh, nominee for the Supreme Court, had sexually assaulted her in 1982. Ford claimed that I was in the room where the assault allegedly took place. It was a set-up, an opposition research hit that invoked criminal activity. It was also traumatizing.
Exit quote: “Then a [Washington] Post reporter made the mistake of showing up at Rick’s home, the rural Virginia house where he lives with his wife and dogs. Rick was bartending at the time, but a neighbor tipped him off to some loser with a notebook and a ponytail who was snooping around. Rick told the neighbor to feel free to arm himself. Rick’s phone rang. It was the Post reporter. ‘I just have two things to say to you,’ Rick said. ‘Everybody on my street hates the media, and everybody on my street owns a gun.’ At that point the reporter saw the neighbor approaching, locked and loaded. The reporter fled.”
Needless to say, read the whole thing.
