TO BE FAIR, THEY HATE THE MIDDLE CLASS:
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July 2, 2025
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HMM: Foxconn mysteriously tells Chinese workers to quit India and return to China.
Citing unspecified sources said to be familiar with the matter, the report claims that Foxconn has been telling Chinese workers to return, for about the last two months. So far over 300 Chinese workers have left, and one source claimed that most people remaining are support staff from Taiwan.
Neither Foxconn nor Apple have commented on the move.
It’s not known why Foxconn has done this, nor is it clear whether workers have been laid off or redeployed to the company’s facilities in China. The move, though, does follow Beijing officials reportedly working to prevent firms moving away from China.
Those officials are said to have been verbally encouraging China’s local governments and regulatory bodies to curb exports of equipment or technologies to India and Southeast Asia.
Overall, China has been making it harder for skilled labor to leave the country.
Looks like they’re making it more difficult for skilled labor to remain abroad, too.
IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MATH: Mamdani’s government grocery stores plan is based on an accounting error.
Here are the hard numbers: All in all, the city has given up about $30 million in tax revenue through this program. In the last six years, since FRESH got into full swing, the program has reduced revenue by about $20 million total, according to the city’s estimates. That is, it costs an average of $3.3 million per year. So, this program would take 42 years to cost the city the $140 million that Mamdani says “the city is set to spend” on it.
So why does Mamdani use that $140 million number?
He misread the city’s webpage.
The city’s Economic Development Corporation estimates that grocery stores have invested $140 million of their own money thanks to the FRESH program. Mamdani is counting the $140 million in private spending as government spending.
Was it over when the Germans bombed the 54th Street D’Agostino’s? Forget it, he’s rolling.
Related: From Glenn in the New York Post: Mamdani’s grocery scheme is foolish — but there’s method to the madness.
BOB VYLAN ARE A PRODUCT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT:
On the title track of their latest album, Vylan tells us:
Black man shine
Completing my goals on black man time
No blacks, no dogs, but the Irish are fine
This is a reference to the “No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish” signs which, as everybody knows, haunted Britain in the 50s and 60s. But they didn’t. It’s a myth. “Got a message to the thieves in the palace,” Vylan snaps on “Reign”, “We want our jewels back.” Repatriation is of course the cringing obsession of British museums — and there is no doubt that some artifacts were seized from British colonies. But the Crown Jewels, as a collection, have existed for the best part of 1000 years. Many more recent objects were legitimately acquired. Why Mr Vylan has a greater right to the Cullinan Diamond than Thomas Cullinan, who extracted and sold it, is unclear.
Onstage at Glastonbury, meanwhile, Vylan performed in front of the slogan “This country was built on the backs of immigrants”. This is an obvious reference to the “You called … and we came” Windrush narrative, most recently promoted by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But, again, it is a myth. Non-European immigration played a small part in the post-war reconstruction of Britain. As Ed West writes, the prominence of HMT Empire Windrush in the national imagination can be boiled down to “well-intentioned inclusive myth-making”.
The Vylans are the angry product of a cultural orthodoxy which has confused reflexive oikophobia with deep and radical thought. Unlike self-flattering commentators, critics and curators, though, they have taken this thought to its emotional conclusions — being patted on the back by taste-makers as they do so. To prosecute them would be wrong on its own terms — but it would also be to affirm their radical delusions. Finally, it would be proof of revolutionary credentials.
Iowahawk notes that while they’re officially dropped, they could always drop in on a music festival:
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: So I Installed That ICEBlock App on My Phone…
JOIN THE LA ‘PAYWATCH’ LIFEGUARDS AND MAKE A FORTUNE: Open the Books updates its 2021 report on the highly lucrative work of lifeguards working the beaches of Los Angeles County. The update today shows things just keep getting worse. It’s my latest PJ Media column.
I’VE CALLED FOR HARDENING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR OVER 20 YEARS, BUT . . . US critical infrastructure exposed as feds warn of possible attacks from Iran.
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Save Us From The Male Gaze!
DIDDY FOUND GUILTY ON TWO PROSTITUTION CHARGES, NOT GUILTY ON EVERYTHING ELSE. I haven’t been following the case, but the press made it sound like a slam dunk. Maybe the evidence wasn’t really there? I dunno.
It’s certainly a defeat for whatever remains of of the #MeToo movement, though, and the “believe all women” claim. Clearly the jury didn’t.
SO MUCH GOOD PRESS FOR THESE DRUGS: Ozempic-like drug significantly reduces frequency of chronic migraines in pilot study.
WAIT, I THOUGHT EVERYBODY DIED ALREADY FROM NET NEUTRALITY ENDING AND GLOBAL COOLING WARMING:
WINNING: Waffle House Proves That Trump’s Policies Are Egg-cellent. “The egg surcharge is officially off the menu. Thanks for understanding!”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Mamdani’s grocery scheme is foolish — but there’s method to the madness.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX rocket sets reuse record on 500th Falcon 9 launch.
SpaceX launched its 500th Falcon 9 rocket on early this morning (July 2) and broke its own reuse record in the process.
The milestone mission lifted off with 27 Starlink satellites at 2:28 a.m. EDT (0628 GMT) on Wednesday from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket entered space about nine minutes after leaving the ground and deployed the new units for SpaceX’s broadband internet network 55 minutes later.
On the way to orbit, the Falcon 9’s most-flown first stage, Booster 1067, separated from its upper stage and flew back to a landing on the drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the 29th successful recovery for this stage, three more than any other in SpaceX’s fleet.
Impressive. Now, if they can just work the gremlins out of Starship…
DNC-MSM FINALLY DISCOVERS A TAX IT HATES: Taxing remittances is a big risk for very little reward.
A proposal to tax remittances sent by individuals without Social Security numbers has passed the House and is now before the Senate. At 3.5%, the levy was initially expected to raise $26 billion over the next decade.
Changes made by the Senate on Saturday greatly narrowed the scope, so the tax would be 1%, and the yield only $10 billion over the next decade. However, the goals have remained the same: deter undocumented migration and recoup funds from those working outside legal status who send money to their families back home.
It might seem like easy money to tax migrants, but that doesn’t make it smart policy. The proposed tax risks undermining both financial transparency and national security. The policy would push billions of dollars into unregulated channels such as cryptocurrency exchanges, make law enforcement’s job harder and ultimately hurt the very communities the United States seeks to stabilize abroad for geopolitical reasons.
The U.S. is the world’s largest source of remittances, and Mexico has the highest dependency on them; 97% of the money Mexican expats send back home comes from the States ($64.75 billion in 2024). A 1% tax on remittances to Mexico alone could take much-needed funds away from migrants and their families and divert it to the state. While this might sound like a straightforward revenue win, the real-world impacts are more complicated and the slippery slope of allowing for remittance tax can have unintended negative consequences for everyone.
COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Race-Based Organ Transplants in Biden Era Flipped DEI to DIE.
TRUMP SCORES $16M PAYOUT FROM PARAMOUNT AFTER EXPOSING DECEPTIVELY EDITED KAMALA INTERVIEW:
Former CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge posted on X, “As Trump campaign calls on @60Minutes to release ‘full, unedited transcript’ of Kamala Harris interview … There is precedent. When I interviewed then President Trump in July 2020 @CBSNews we posted the interview transcript.” Herridge noted that the left-wing network did the same thing for its 2019 interview with then-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr. “Full transcript = journalistic transparency,” she added.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) told The Daily Wire: “If the Harris campaign stands by all of the vice president’s comments, then I’m not sure why they wouldn’t support releasing the full interview. In fact, their refusal to join these calls only raises more questions.”
Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) also called on “60 Minutes” to release the full interview. “CBS has proven its bias,” Barrasso told The Daily Wire. “A news organization should never selectively edit a candidate’s words. The American people deserve full transparency and the full transcript.”
“Trump will receive $16 million upfront,” Fox News reported. “This will cover legal fees, costs of the case, and contributions to his future presidential library or charitable causes, to be determined at Trump’s discretion. There is an anticipation that there will be another allocation in the mid-eight figures set aside for advertisements, public service announcements, or other similar transmissions, in support of conservative causes by the network in the future. … Going forward, the network will promptly release full, unedited transcripts of future presidential candidates’ interviews.”
Without accompanying video, how do we know how accurate the transcript is? As Glenn has written, bring your own camera when being interviewed. Because otherwise:
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: California moves to allow non-related adults to consent to medical care for minors, enroll them in school to support immigrant families.
A bill working its way through the California State Legislature would allow individuals not related to a child in the state to consent to medical care for a minor, potentially without informing the child’s legal guardians.
The bill, AB495, passed the Assembly on June 3 in a 62 to 7 vote. It is now in the state Senate, where hearings are set for July 1 and 7. Celeste Rodriguez introduced the legislation in the Assembly.
The bill amends existing law, which allows a caregiver 18 years of age or older who is related to the minor to sign a “caregiver’s authorization affidavit” and enroll the minor in school, as well as consent to medical care. Under the amendment, those persons who are authorized to sign a caregiver’s authorization affidavit are expanded to include a “nonrelative extended family member.”
More:
Over 300,OO0 children are unaccounted for after migrating to the US and California’s answer is to permit anyone 18 or older to fill out a one page affidavit to claim guardianship of the child. Schools cannot call CPS. No proof of kinship needed. Relative by marriage 5 times removed or a friend, neighbor (or trafficker) is just fine. Just swear that you tried to find the parents but couldn’t. And the kid is yours. No questions asked. No proof. No blood test. No paperwork. Just an affidavit. No wonder California is home to the most sex- trafficking kids. AB495 will pass, because Democrats place politics above children.
Is this a child trafficking legalization bill? Advanced grooming for “trans” kids? Both?
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