HOW IT STARTED: Next mayor wants NYC to be even more of a ‘sanctuary’ for illegal immigrants.

Every single one of the eight Democrats running for mayor vowed to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, solidifying the Big Apple’s often infamous status as a “sanctuary city.”

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Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the son of legal Taiwanese immigrants, said, “I appreciate anyone who comes to this country or New York City for a better life.”

And Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said migrants were his neighbors growing up in Queens.

“My mother worked two jobs to provide for the six of us and we had a group of undocumented residents that lived in our community,” Adams said.

The other candidates — city comptroller Scott Stringer, former Obama housing secretary Shaun Donovan and nonprofit leader Dianne Morales — also voiced their support for the Big Apple as a sanctuary city.

—The New York Post, June 2nd, 2021.

How it’s going:

These people were fine with open borders when it was Texas having to deal with it. https://t.co/g5OR6cD89Y

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) July 29, 2024

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Aurora Alert: Strong Solar Flares Could Spark Northern Lights at Mid-Latitudes, July 30-August 1.

MARK FELTON: Did A German General ‘Save’ Paris? The True Story of the 1944 Liberation (Video).

Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record: D-Day Soldier Blissfully Unaware France Will One Day Open Olympics With Naked Blue Smurf Demon.

WE CAN HOPE:

If the military supports the will of the people, it is over for Maduro https://t.co/xp885EFuVt

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 30, 2024

Meanwhile, now that Maduro has declared war on Elon, can Elon send troops?

El burro sabe mas que Maduro https://t.co/9fe6JWOatM

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2024

Just kidding, he won’t be able to deliver troops by Starship for at least 5 years, and the powered armor won’t be done before then either.

YES.

I think the risk of this is very real https://t.co/aCb3NNO3mp

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2024

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot:

● Chaser: The 2000 Campaign: The Texas Governor; Bush Calls Himself Reformer; the Record Shows the Label May Be a Stretch.

—The New York Times, March 20^th, 2000.

● Hangover: Romney Accused of Prep School Bullying.

—The New York Times, May 10^th, 2012.

● The D.T.s: One New York Times Columnist Just Can’t Stop Writing About The Dog Romney Once Put On His Car Roof.

—Business Insider, March 8^th, 2012.

FASTER, PLEASE: 100 Million Times More Difficult: Revolutionary Dual Action Antibiotic Makes Bacterial Resistance Nearly Impossible.

“HE IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL:” Joe Biden Seemingly Threatens the Life of Speaker Johnson in a Very Strange Shouted Response.

We are ruled by people who are crazy, inept, and possess murderous instincts.

CAN YOU BLAME THEM? Behind hoopla, Democrats anxious about Harris.

HMM: Cheap Daily Supplement Seems to Boost Brain Function in Older People.

AND, JUST LIKE THAT, IT WAS OKAY TO QUESTION ELECTION RESULTS AGAIN: US, allies demand Maduro show his election receipts in Venezuela.

The U.S. and other democracies in the hemisphere are facing a high-stakes test on how they’ll respond to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s claim of reelection victory amid widespread accusations of fraud. The Biden administration is so far keeping its powder dry but has expressed serious concerns that the published results do not accurately reflect the will of the Venezuelan people. . . .

Neither the CNE nor Maduro have produced the receipts, but opposition observers claim to have the records from at least 40 percent of stations.

Those records show opposition candidate Edmundo González with about a 70-30 lead over Maduro.

“It’s simply not mathematically possible that Maduro can prevail in an election with González having won 7 in 10 votes in the 40 percent of voting tabulations to which the opposition had access,” said Jason Marczak, vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center.

Well, whatcha gonna do about it?

Related: Venezuela Illustrates the Perils of “Democratic Socialism:” The Venezuelan experience shows that democracy cannot cure the evils of socialism, and that a democratic socialist system is unlikely to remain democratic for long.

SHOCKING: 2 Children Dead, 9 Injured in Mass Stabbing at UK Taylor Swift-Themed Event. “A 17-year-old male from Banks in Lancashire, who is originally from Cardiff, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder and has been taken to a police station where he will be interviewed by detectives.”

Update: There seems to be some confusion about whether the suspect, Ali Al-Shakati, was an immigrant or not.

I WAS AT THE GUN STORE RECENTLY AND THEY HAD A WHOLE WALL OF LEVER-ACTION RIFLES. EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN? First Look: Smith & Wesson 1854 Rifle in .45 Colt.

SOME OF THESE ARE QUITE GOOD: Beege’s Moment of Zen Where We Chill Out and…Watch Some Donald Trump Ads. “I really do think they’re stunning. And what a relief from all the yelling. I know these are meant to be digital, but they’d do great on a national scale, especially at the 15-second length.”

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden says Speaker Johnson is ‘dead on arrival’ in confusing exchange with reporter.

President Biden on Monday declared House Speaker Mike Johnson “dead on arrival” when asked how he planned to get his new rules for the Supreme Court through a Republican-run Congress.

Shortly after arriving in Austin, Texas, where Mr. Biden is scheduled to speak about his plan to overhaul the court, he took a few questions when the odd exchange took place.

Mr. Johnson, Louisiana Republican, said on social media Mr. Biden’s proposed reforms would be “dead on arrival” in the House.

When asked about the speaker’s comments, Mr. Biden responded, “That’s what he is.”

The confused reporter, seeking clarification, said, “He is?”

“He is dead on arrival,” Mr. Biden responded.

Of course, the DNC-MSM would have be pulling all of the fire alarms if President Trump said that, but as usual with the (p)resident, what James Lileks once accurately dubbed “the soft bigotry of Joe expectations” strikes again.

WTF??? @SpeakerJohnson https://t.co/OfhcXsq9f8

— 🌡Mercury 🇺🇸 (@RealestMercury) July 29, 2024

THEY’RE BOTH HANDSOME, BUT THE MASERATI LOOKS MUCH BETTER IN MY OPINION: 2024 Mercedes-AMG GT63 vs. Maserati MC20 Cielo: Duel for Grand Tourer Supremacy!

But I don’t even have to be tempted, because the Insta-Wife doesn’t like riding in small cars, and there’s no point having a sports car if you’re not going to have a hot chick in the passenger seat. I do think it’s funny that the Maserati’s interior is much more low-key than the Mercedes.

CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: Wagner Group Column Mangled In Mali. “Remember Africa’s League of Assholes, the three Sahel nations (Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso) run by military regimes backed by Moscow mentioned in a LinkSwarm a week back? Yeah, Wagner’s fighting for them. And in Mali, a column of them using the same naked convoy tactics that have gotten so many Russians killed in Ukraine just got a bunch of them killed in Mali.”

FUN GIFT FOR KIDS: Fossils for Kids: A Junior Scientist’s Guide to Dinosaur Bones, Ancient Animals, and Prehistoric Life on Earth. #CommissionEarned

LAST WEEK’S NETANYAHU CAPITOL PROTESTS JUST A WARMUP? Former New Left mob tactics trainer Richard Pollock observes in his latest column that “the latest violence in Washington has been part of a slow, but escalating set of acts.  The Palestinian who wrote on D.C.’s Christopher Columbus monument that ‘Hamas is Coming’ wasn’t an idle threat.  Palestinians are seeking to up the ante.”

Pollock also talked Ryan Mauro of the Capital Research Center (CRC), another guy who is an expert on who is funding, organizing and strategizing for the pro-Hamas/pro-Palestinian mobs. Mauro sees a new and disturbing characteristic in the D.C. mob violence around the U.S. Capitol:

“These aren’t just critics of Israel They’re not Republicans or Democrats. They’re not liberals. We really have to think of these groups as a new paradigm because they’re communists, anarchists, radical Islamicists and anti-Americans. It really sets them apart from the categories of people that we’re used to dealing with people like liberals and those demonstrating for women’s rights. No, this is separate. This is an eco-system that is against both political parties, against liberals and conservatives.”

Liberals, are you listening?

BECAUSE THEY WANT YOU DISARMED AND PLIABLE: Why America’s Corporate Media Loves Harris’ Anti-Gun Agenda.

READER FAVORITE: Two Way Radios Long Range Walkie Talkies for Adults. #CommissionEarned

GREAT MOMENTS IN FACT-CHECKING:

Election Interference by Meta’s “Independent Fact Checkers”

The entire “Fact Checking” program at Facebook and Instagram needs to be dissolved pic.twitter.com/RuC1msJYd8

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) July 29, 2024

Update: “Meta has now removed the label and says it was a ‘false positive’ in their system.”

The false positives only seem to go in one direction and get corrected only after the damage is done.

More: “Unlike Community Notes on 𝕏, Meta’s ‘Fact Checkers’ are a small group of hand selected corporate media journalists, labels dramatically reduce the distribution of content and having them applied to your posts can destroy your entire page.”

Advantage: Elon Musk’s X.

THOUSANDS OF TAX CHEATS WORK FOR IRS: New report from the Treasury Department’s IRS watchdog says more than 5,800 agency employees and contractors have nearly $50 million in unpaid taxes.

HMM: Bongino Claims That Trump Assassination Bombshells Are Coming Soon.

BIDENOMICS IS WORKING: In more than 200 U.S. cities, $1 million only gets you a starter home.

A typical entry-level home in the U.S. costs roughly $200,000. But in a growing number of cities, that would only cover the down payment.

With housing in short supply around the country and the stiffest mortgage rates in years, you need at least $1 million to buy a starter home in 237 cities, according to a Zillow analysis. That’s a hefty sum for a place to live that’s defined in the report as being in the lowest third of home values in a given region. The new data marks a significant rise from five years ago, when only 84 U.S. cities had starter homes that cost seven figures.

How did we get here?

The pandemic exacerbated an existing housing shortage in cities across the U.S., which is most pronounced in Boston; Portland, Oregon, and Sacramento, California, according to Zillow. Despite robust residential home construction in 2023, the 1.4 million homes that were built do not sufficiently close the gap between available units and the number of home seekers in the U.S.

Normally, this kind of market distortion would work itself out as supply catches up to demand. But California in particular is hostile to new home construction.