OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: 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.

He’ll certainly try to make it into government spending.

COLLUSION: House subpoenas Brown, UPenn over alleged tuition price fixing.

MAYBE OUR BEST SECSTATE SINCE GEORGE SCHULTZ — AND HE’S STILL NEW IN THE JOB: Rubio: ‘Americans Should Not Pay Taxes to Fund Failed Governments In Faraway Lands.’

WELL, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO FIND IT IN THEM: I found real intellectual diversity far away from elite colleges.

IT’S PROBABLY PAST TIME FOR ANOTHER CUT: Fed rate cut bets rise after Powell doesn’t rule out July. “Short-term interest-rate futures pointed to about a one-in-four chance of a rate cut by the Fed’s July 29-30 meeting after the comments at a central banking conference in Sintra, Portugal, up from less than one-in-five from earlier. A rate cut by September is seen as virtually certain, with two more rate cuts expected by yearend, based on market pricing.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: A Big Step Towards Getting Boys Out of Girls’ Locker Rooms. “The individuals who orchestrated the obliteration of so many young women’s dreams will never be held accountable, but this is still an important correction. The University of Pennsylvania put itself in the center of this controversy, no doubt hoping that the institution would forever be given a place of honor in whatever leftist Utopia that they thought the Biden Commie Cabal was leading them towards. It’s good that the school has to take its lumps, even if the mea culpa is a faceless one.”

#JOURNALISM:

Bingo. https://t.co/f8y2S5e39r

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 2, 2025

This happened because 60 minutes refused to release an unedited transcript.

Now ask why. https://t.co/7XcQEo5sWm

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 2, 2025

The fact that they are just now figuring out that chemically castrating children doesn’t lower suicide rates is a pretty big indictment of the press. https://t.co/JvU8MoJHDh

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 2, 2025

THAT WOULD BE NICE: Operation Midnight Hammer—Can’t We All Just Be Proud Americans?

As a military aviator and veteran of more contingencies than I care to remember, I watched with bated breath and prayers in my heart on the evening of June 21st as Operation Midnight Hammer was unfolding on live TV. A 37 hour long mission, cramped cockpits, strapped to ejection seats, radio silence, with only a tiny toilet to take care of nature’s calls and a small cot to try and catch some shut eye, were just some of my thoughts.

But I went to sleep that night so proud to have been an American aviator—and an American citizen—proud of my nearly four decades of military service. Knowing what it takes to plan and flawlessly execute a mission of such scale and scope, at extreme ranges, over enemy territory, with incredible skill, precision, and courage, I saluted my fellow pilots and stood a bit taller, as a proud American Airman. What those Airmen, Guardians, Sailors, and Soldiers pulled off was nothing short of miraculous. No other country on planet earth could have done this—without a single casualty or mishap.

Yet waking up that next morning I found myself in a parallel universe. Rather than praise and pride, the airwaves were filled with bellyaching naysayers, all looking for a cloud in the silver lining….

I’m old enough to remember when Democrats like Tip O’Neil largely stood behind Ronald Reagan’s bombing of Libyan terror camps in 1986 — which makes me feel pretty old.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Chinese Nationals Arrested Over Plot To Recruit American Military Personnel.

CHANGE: Trump sets tariff revenue record: CBO says tariffs can offset spending by $3 trillion over the next decade.

THEN THERE IS THE INFORMATION ENIGMA: Atoms/Electrons/Neutrons/Photons are not the most foundational units of the universe, it’s the preceding information that defines and shapes them that is the starting point.

So where does that information come from, how does it “happen”? Check out “The Information Enigma” on HillFaith. It’s a 21 minute exploration of the possible answers to that question, as produced by the Discovery Institute, with superb production quality, probing questions and engaging graphics. And not a speck of preaching.

Yes, it’s a bit long, but I promise you it will spark some serious reflection and challenging conversation as you, your family and friends lounge on the beach, cast your lines into the lake or stream, fire up the grill and enjoy the fireworks as we collectively celebrate the 249th year of the greatest nation on God’s green Earth.

IT’S EVEN WORSE IN IRAN THAN YOU THINK: The essence of totalitarianism is its unquestionable claim to direct every aspect of every individual’s life. That is exactly the nature of the radical Islamic regime in Iran, which demands and enforces loyalty from the day of birth of every Iranian.

But, as Marziyeh Amirizadeh explained earlier this week on The Washington Stand’s “Outstanding” podcoast, hope is dawning for a new day in Iran. A major factor in the growing underground of resistance to the Mullahs is the remarkable and largely unreported upsurge in Christian converts in this Shia Muslim nation.

And, just as the Nazis built concentration camps for Jews and everybody else who dissented from National Socialism, the Soviet’s sent millions of dissidents against communism to the Gulag and Mao’s Cultural Revolution targeted the Four Olds for destruction, the Mullahs employ intimidation, torture, and extreme brutality against brave people like Marzi. The Washington Stand’s Casey Harper reports.

INSTAPUNDIT READERS ARE THE BEST: My thanks to Drew Foerster in the LA area and multiple others for pointing out that I incorrectly described Iran’s regime as Sunni Muslim when in fact it is of the Shia brand. And the Best Correction Award goes to TeaPartyLee, for noting that at least I didn’t refer to them as Subaru Muslims!

And BTW, check out that 1966 Charlton Heston movie in which he portrayed the Brit General Gordon of Khartoum. I think (but am not sure) that the Madhi in that one was thought by his followers to be the Shia savior.  

ICYMI: Forget ‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ — Jaguar Went Stupid Instead.

WHAT RACISM LOOKS LIKE: Columbia President Claire Shipman Privately Said School Needed To Add an ‘Arab’ Board Member—and Remove a Jewish One.

PRIME EXCLUSIVE DEAL: Amazon Echo Show 8 (newest model). #CommissionEarned

CONRAD BLACK: Democrats, Animated by Loathing of Trump, Are Driving Their Party to Self-Destruction.

As Mr. Trump refused to vanish like a dreadful meteor as had been predicted, and retained the support of scores of millions of Americans, the Democrats resorted to the final assault on the integrity of the system and deluged him with four ludicrous political criminal indictments. The perfidy of the prosecutors combined with the skepticism of the public; Mr. Trump was effectively acquitted by 78 million of his fellow citizens in a close but decisive election, despite a partisan stonewall in the national political media and a large Democratic advantage in fundraising.

Mr. Trump returned to office much more knowledgeable about Washington and how to adopt his comprehensive program to end the massive illegal invasion by mainly destitute and frequently criminal migrants, to strengthen the market economy, roll back the green terror, and define America’s national interests in the world and credibly provide for the defense of them.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s acceptance of sharp increases in defense spending and the American and Israeli destruction of the military and terrorism-supporting potential of Iran and moves to eliminate America’s trade deficit of over $1 trillion are important accomplishments. Last week’s rejection by the Supreme Court of the Democrats’ latest obstructionist wheeze of judge-shopping to notoriously liberal federal district judges and inducing them to purport to injunct federal policies, is another Trump victory.

The great Democratic party of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and even up to a point Clinton, has given way to an unfeasible ragtag of superannuated tyros, influence peddlers, decayed servitors, and now completely unacceptable extremists personified by the likely nominee to be mayor of New York City, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, an economic Marxist who does not accept the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state and expresses sympathy for calls to globalize the intifada.

Yet even a onetime DLC-style moderate like Clinton bent the knee for Mamdani.

ALWAYS: Glastonbury: It Was Not a Mistake, It Was a Co-Ordinated Act of Provocation.

IT’S 2025, TRUMP’S BACK IN OFFICE, AND CNN IS BACK TO DOXXING AMERICANS: CNN Helpfully Explaining the Latest in ICE Tracking Apps in Case You, Like, Need to Know.

It’s not like we don’t all know that CNN despises Trump and that CNN anchors and personalities think every illegal alien is another Maryland man just waiting to be free so he can buy a little home in the burbs.

CNN’s mission is to do their level best to make sure those illegals get their share of the American pie, even if it means taking your slice.

In order to do that, they have to mount a stealth mission against the forces of evil – the Trump administration – through all means fair or foul, mostly foul. That includes the nightly diatribes on the various roundtables when Trump policies and enforcement news of the day is loudly decried as inhuman, inhumane, unconstitutional, or all of the above. Even if it means taking repeated corrective ass whuppins from Scott Jennings, they stick like progressive glue to the message no matter what kind of lie they made up to spew.

The ‘reporters’ and ‘news’ anchors have to be a little cagier getting the subversive message across so as not to shred what little credibility they have left, and cause the rest of the six folks in their viewing audience to finally flush the channel from their remote’s station memory.

This was a particularly wicked example of CNN’s creative reporting last night.

Oh, my gosh! The ingenue-like, innocently wide-eyed ‘news’ anchor says to the CNN reporter.’ I heard there’s some chill-axe kind of ICE tracking app people are using. Sounds neat. What exactly is it and HOW DOES IT WORK?

Um…OKAY.

So she shows him.

TRACK REAL-TIME ICE MOVEMENTS JUST LIKE THIS ON THIS APP YOU COULD GET IF YOU WANT RIGHT HERE

🚨Is CNN pushing an app that helps DOXX ICE agents in real time?!

The app “ICEBLOCK” tracks the movements of federal agents and has the potential to put their lives at risk, and CNN is running a “story,” on it.

Will Apple and Google keep this in their app stores?

Will… pic.twitter.com/U340Q8RXz7

— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) June 30, 2025

During Trump’s first term, we frequently referred to CNN as the Doxxing Network, so it’s not at all surprising to see them quickly reverting to form once again.

UPDATE: This is the way:

🚨BREAKING: Trump supporters, including myself, are hijacking the “ICEBlock” app meant to warn illegals of ICE agents by flooding it with fake reports.

Illegals are fleeing in panic.🤣👏

The Left’s app just became our secret weapon. It’s never been more peaceful.

— Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) July 1, 2025

EXACTLY RIGHT:

Democrats have become the party of the haves envious of the have mores pretending to speak on behalf of the have nots.

— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) July 1, 2025

TRUE: Freedom of Expression Does Not Include the Right to Trespass.

GOOD LORD: 5th Grade Murder Plot Uncovered. “According to the police report, four students, who probably had been watching way too much ‘CSI’ rather than buckling down and studying their graphic novels, were accused of plotting to fatally stab a fellow fifth-grade student in the school’s bathroom.”

A NUMBER OF DMV EMPLOYEES ARE REGRETTING NOT HOLDING OUT FOR BIGGER BRIBES:  NYC driving school rigged driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants — even if they couldn’t drive: DA.

FOR SOME REASON, LEFTISTS FEEL COMPELLED TO FAKE THEIR BIOS:

Gavin Newsom's dad was administrator of the Getty family trust. His father ran a senate campaign the year after he was born. His family had money. What the hell is he talking about. https://t.co/272yvUkBJL

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 1, 2025

UPPITY PLEBES THINK THEIR VOTES SHOULD COUNT:  Poland bickers over poll result – sound familiar? 

HAS IT BECOME DAVOS FOR RICH HIPPIES AND HYPOCRITES OSTENTATIOUSLY BENDING THE KNEE TO THE FASHION?  Glastonbury has become a festival of terrorism. Ban it.