WAIT, THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR:
Yes, we provide security for nearly all of the developed world, give more significantly more foreign aid than any other country, and supply most of the technological innovation. But other than that, we're total freeloaders. https://t.co/qKG5eo4Pxk
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 28, 2025
Ah, yes:
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LIFE MOVES PRETTY FAST…:
Oh My!
A Ukrainian all aspect stealth OWA drone?
The cat is well and truly among the Western defense procurement bureaucracy pigeons. https://t.co/uDDJIrA8QX
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) July 24, 2025
NOT A VERY TASTY MORSEL, BUT BREAKFAST NONETHELESS:
'Trump Ate von der Leyen for Breakfast,' Says Hungary's Orban on US-EU Trade Deal
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban didn’t hold back in his reaction to the new U.S.–EU trade agreement announced by Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen. Orban said Trump "ate Von der Leyen… pic.twitter.com/RPXqb3WLOV
— Camus (@newstart_2024) July 28, 2025
UPDATE: Heh.
Remember when we had a President who actually got shit done? pic.twitter.com/0iR9ZIFAUd
— Protect Kamala Harris ✊ (@DisavowTrump20) July 27, 2025
TYLER O’NEIL: The Ghost of Eric Holder Haunts Trump’s Justice Department.
A lawyer who worked closely with Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder now works in President Donald Trump’s administration as an ostensibly nonpolitical staffer at the Justice Department.
While presidents appoint more than 3,000 people for political positions, the federal government directly employs roughly 2.3 million people, most of whom serve in purportedly nonpolitical, career positions. The Office of Personnel Management tracks when political appointees transition to career positions—a process often referred to as “burrowing in” to the bureaucracy—and Tina Thomas did so in August 2024.
Biden appointed Thomas as a political appointee in September 2021 to serve as senior counsel in the Office of Legal Policy at the Justice Department. She transitioned to a career role as assistant U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., also in the Justice Department. OPM approved the transition on Aug. 11. Thomas went from an annual salary of $110,460 to $121,435.
Still a lot of swamp draining to go.
GENOCIDE, STRAIGHT UP: Deadly Persecution of Christians Continues in Africa and Asia.
GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE:
● Why Speaking English May Spread More Coronavirus Than Some Other Languages.
—Forbes, September 8th, 2020.
To be fair, Forbes wasn’t alone in exploring this topic in 2020 and early 2021:
● The German dialect [may] promote the coronavirus. Immunologist Beda Stadler believes that guttural sounds in the dialect are at increased risk of contamination.
—Firefox translation of a April 3rd 2020 Swiss-French Tribune de Genève headline.
● Say ‘vous’ not ‘tu’ in French to limit virus spread. French speakers should say ‘vous’ to each other rather than ‘tu’ and avoid colourful French insults, to avoid spraying out spit droplets that could contain the Covid-19 virus, linguists say.
—The Connexion, “French News in English Since 2002,” June 4th, 2020.
● Does Speaking Japanese Lower The Risk of Spreading Coronavirus?
—Vice, June 9th, 2020.
● Research finds singing in some languages could spread COVID-19 more easily than others.
—CBS News, January 28th, 2021.
THIS IS STRAIGHT OUT OF KAFKA: Australia Wants To Jail Man For Holding Blank Sign.
“NO” IS SENATE DEMS PLAN FOR TRUMP NOMINEES: Even if it means forcing the Senate to forego some or all of its traditional August recess, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his Democratic colleagues have just one word for every nomination President Donald Trump sends to the Senate for confirmation.
I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS A WARMONGER BENT ON GETTING US INTO WWIII: Trump Declares ‘Peace’ Between Cambodia and Thailand.
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OBAMA APPOINTEE: Judge Orders Federal Government to Continue Funding Planned Parenthood For Now.
Related:
It's horribly misleading and dishonest for AP to run this headline. This wasn't "the Trump administration's efforts" — this is a judge trying to overrule a law passed by Congress, which they have absolutely no constitutional authority to do. https://t.co/ztgvv3S8Vs
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 28, 2025
WELL, YES: Scuba diving tourism dollars flow into ocean protection and local communities worldwide.
I’ve been pointing that out for quite a while.
THERE ARE NO EASY ANSWERS, BUT THERE ARE SIMPLE ANSWERS:
Here’s the thing:
Dealing with illegal immigration is very easy. It’s not hard for a nation to secure its borders.
Whenever you see borders unsecured, it’s because the leaders of that country did it on purpose.
It’s not a lack of know-how. https://t.co/X7vuLkYTbl
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) July 28, 2025
GOOD, I HATE THOSE DAMNED THINGS: Trump Doesn’t Tilt at Windmills — He Tears Them Down.
I THINK I’D STILL BANK SOME SPERM IF I WENT ON IT: Birth control pill for men that temporarily stops sperm — without hormones — passes safety trial. “Unlike traditional birth control pills that disrupt hormones, this experimental pill from YourChoice Therapeutics temporarily halts sperm production without affecting testosterone levels. It works by blocking a protein called retinoic acid receptor alpha, which plays a key role in the sperm making process. The best part: Early evidence suggests it’s totally reversible.”
WELL, GOOD: Brain peptide ODN reduces hunger and boosts glucose regulation in rat study.
At this rate, obesity will soon be entirely voluntary.
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ROGER KIMBALL: Cambridge University should be ashamed of itself for honoring Angela Davis.
Remember Angela Davis? Few people under fifty do. Was Cambridge University counting on that historical ignorance when it decided to honor Angela Davis with an honorary degree?
In case you, Dear Reader, are a little fuzzy about Davis, I note for the record that the former Black Panther and two-time vice-presidential candidate on the Communist Party ticket with Gus Hall is the recipient of many honors, including the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize.
Cambridge University, of course, has long demonstrated a certain fondness for Commies, as the names “Kim Philby,” “Guy Burgess” and “Anthony Blunt” remind us. But as far as I have been able to discover, Angela Davis is the first person who appeared on the FBI’s 10 most-wanted list to have been honored by Cambridge.
As David Harsanyi wrote in 2019: Angela Davis, Women’s March Honoree And Champion Of Terror, Prisons, And Tyranny.
It was “human rights activist Angela Davis,” as NPR astonishingly described the woman in an article this week, who bought the shotgun that was used in a 1970 Marin County court room kidnapping and shootout that ended up killing a superior court judge and three others. The subsequent manhunt and trial of Davis, a proud lifelong communist, would be a very big deal in Soviet nations.
In 1971, in fact, the CIA noted that Davis’s case had become “a Soviet manipulated international anti-US campaign reminiscent of the orchestrated by Communist propaganda efforts made on behalf of atomic spies, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.” The CIA estimated that at least 5 percent of the entire Soviet Russian propaganda budget had been aimed at propping up Davis. To put that in context, that’s more than was being spent on propaganda directly about the Vietnam War. All schoolchildren in East Germany were ordered to collect flowers and stamps for Davis.
Davis soon traveled to many of these nations to stand with leaders who, collectively, had jailed hundreds of thousands of political dissidents. She visited East Germany, and effusively praised Erich Honecker while the Stasi were torturing political prisoners and his border police were summarily executing those who tried to escape.
As Richard Brookhiser tweeted last year, “Reagan asked Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. Angela Davis appeared at a ceremony honoring the guards who shot people trying to escape over it.”
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