Archive for 2025
July 11, 2025
I MEAN, THIS ONE IS PRETTY MUCH TRUE:
Gavin Newsom Declares California A Sanctuary State For Child Slavery https://t.co/TbdwDPXdOo pic.twitter.com/tNZRwozu8s
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 11, 2025
IT ALWAYS HELPS TO HAVE F.U. MONEY: Is Dan Bongino Quitting Over the Epstein Client List Debacle?
My guess is that Trump will have a chat with them all this weekend, but we’ll see.
I MISSED THIS STORY ON MONDAY, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY LIKE IT THAT I GUESS IT GOT LOST IN THE SHUFFLE: J.K. Rowling Critic Faces Hefty Sentence for Crimes Against Children.
PRIME DAY DEAL: Keurig K-Elite Single Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker. #CommissionEarned
SURPRISE! Y’All Got Took: There Was Never Going to Be Any ‘Rebuilt’ Pacific Palisades.
Even as you watched those first flames take the first houses and then leap up through the canyons and down through the hillsides, through the breaks, even jumping PCH to gobble up the houses tucked next to the highway itself – those uniquely SoCal structures sandwiched between the asphalt and that big, blue Pacific surf…you knew.
You knew would never see it again, for all the gargoyle grin assurances of the mayor who couldn’t be bothered to be there when the flames broke out. For all the slickster, huckstering, faux promises of a governor faking phone calls as he skittered like a cockroach from angry, heartbroken residents who only wanted answers.
You knew.
Never let a crisis go to waste, another Democrat advised.
BEN DOMENECH: Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow?
This movie absolutely, totally sucks. The CGI sucks. The writing sucks. The cast, which is for the most part much higher quality than the material, sucks. There’s a blatant anti-Semitic trope figure who Hawkgirl just straight up murders without compunction. There’s a bunch of quippy Nathan Fillion dialogue which generated more murmurs than laughs. There’s a computer generated baby who becomes a pivotal plot point who creates no stakes. Lex spouts action moves like a spastic competitive gamer and his overall giant plan makes no sense. His media manipulation conspiracy is pointless. He literally employs monkeys writing tweets. People stand around looking at Kaiju and falling buildings and behaving as if they’re just NPCs in a bad video game. The main political plot point is a war that seems to take place on a battlefield the size of a minor college football stadium. The flight sequences look like crap. Alan Tudyk, having portrayed one of the most moving androids in recent memory, inspires no emotions whatsoever as a key robot here. The chemistry with Rachel Brosnahan is nonexistent — Jimmy Olsen gets a better relationship. And of course the suit just looks terrible, especially in daylight.
I’ve seen a lot of superhero movies, and this one — given the level of investment involved, the promotional push, the iconic nature of the character and the importance to the future of DC and Warner Bros. — is by far the worst. I would have left the theater if I hadn’t gone with a friend. There are minor Marvel entries with more to their credit than this. It doesn’t even manage to be fun.
Fortunately, there’s a readily-available alternative that actually is fun: Why Christopher Reeve’s Superman Still Matters.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The Great Train Hijacking. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to hijack a train, how not to hitchhike with UPS, and the surprising way a freezer can be used as a weapon.”
UP IN SMOKE:
Leftists: “These are the hardworking immigrants that keep food on our shelves!”
Reality: this is a weed farm full of illegals. https://t.co/hqlxkEU3i5
— Michael Seifert (@realmichaelseif) July 11, 2025
I think it’s really cool that the Dems are violently defending illegal immigrant child labor on weed farms https://t.co/6I98SDd0ni
— Magills (@magills_) July 11, 2025
See, this is what happens when your industry isn’t unionized…
UPDATE: America’s Newspaper of Record once again doing straight-up reportage:
Gavin Newsom Declares California A Sanctuary State For Child Slavery https://t.co/TbdwDPXdOo pic.twitter.com/tNZRwozu8s
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 11, 2025
Gavin did not have the best of nights yesterday: Popcorn! Libs of TikTok Completely Broke Gavin Newsom Last Night and We All Got to Watch.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Investors appear to like a company with big space manufacturing ambitions.
HIS PATIENCE DOES SEEM TO BE WEARING THIN:
[Q]: Mr. President, Russian drones hit a maternity hospital in Ukraine overnight.
"You'll be seeing things happening," Trump's remark on Russian drone attacks in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/CddyloRcnJ
— Polymarket Intel (@PolymarketIntel) July 11, 2025
MORNING JOE FLIPS OUT: ICE Arrests Are ‘Racial Profiling,’ ‘Kidnapping.’
The left-wing media’s hysteria revolving around the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s arrests and deportations nationwide had cranked up to the next level. On Thursday’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend Symone Sanders-Townsend claimed people will see “racial profiling” as ICE continued to uphold the law. Meanwhile, another claimed ICE was “kidnapping” people.
Co-anchor Jonathan Lemire framed the segment around fear of “high profile clashes” in “Democratic controlled cities” in the country, where ICE was focusing their efforts.
It’s worth noting that cities like Los Angeles, with Democrat leadership, were places that supported illegal immigration via their so-called sanctuary city polices. It’s no wonder why ICE was in those places.
At the beginning of the year, Morning Joe had a rare moment of honesty: Pure Gold: MSNBC Sadly Admits How Bad Biden Was on Immigration, Trump Was Right.
But they did run a segment on “Morning Joe” where they surprisingly did something I don’t think I’ve ever seen before: admit that Trump was right and illegal immigration did in fact shoot up under Biden. The funniest thing was how regretful host Joe Scarborough seemed about having to say it.
“The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly. You can see what happened here. And Trump is not wrong when he talks about how border crossings work quite low. They’re running about 74,000 a month when he left office and they, in fact, did shoot up. Some of it was some things Biden said and some ways that they put a moratorium, for example, on deportations. But in fact, we did get up here almost to 300,000 a month.”
He noted it’s come down some, but it’s still more than it was under Trump. In the meantime, it was “pretty costly.”
My, my. Imagine ever hearing those words on MSNBC and in particular “Morning Joe.”
This was a bit of a hot take: “Some of it was some things Biden said.” Oh, you think? No, some of it was Biden purposely ending the things that worked under Trump immediately when Biden came to office. It isn’t just that it “got worse” — it was directly because of the policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. But I suppose if MSNBC went that far into truth, their heads would explode. The fact that they’re admitting this at all shows how rocked they have been by their narrative.
“The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly,” when in a way, it was, from a leftist’s point of view:
● Jared Bernstein, member of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors: “One thing we learned in the 1990s was that a surefire way to reconnect the fortunes of working people at all skill levels, immigrant and native-born alike, to the growing economy is to let the job market tighten up. A tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers to get and keep the workers they need. One equally surefire way to sort-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group’s wages go up.”
● Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller in February of 2021: Biden’s Immigration Plan Would “Erase America’s Nationhood.”
● “Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser. Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a ‘truly multicultural’ country, a former Government adviser has revealed.”
● Tom Cotton’s Response to Kamala Harris’ Border Failures Should Be the Default for All Republicans: “‘You know, Laura, Kamala Harris didn’t have to go all the way to Guatemala and Mexico to find the root causes of this border crisis because they’re not there,’ Cotton told Fox News host Laura Ingraham [in June of 2021]. ‘The root causes are in the White House.’ He further explained that it ‘happened on January 20th when Joe Biden took office, and he essentially opened our borders, reversing very effective policies that had our borders under control.’”
Also at the beginning of the year, even The Economist knew that a course-correction was soon to arrive:
How did the brain trust at MSNBC think that would play out?
VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT, NEW YORKERS: Zohran Mamdani’s Father’s Remark About Suicide Bombers Comes Under Scrutiny.
Mahmood Mamdani, the father of New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, is facing scrutiny online over his alleged statement in a 2004 book that suicide bombing as a tactic shouldn’t be “stigmatized as a mark of barbarism.”
Newsweek contacted Mahmood Mamdani and Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral election campaign for comment on Friday via email outside regular office hours.
Why It Matters
In June, Zohran Mamdani defeated former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic mayoral primary. The self-styled democratic socialist’s victory was a major shock among Republicans, with some urging the Trump administration to revoke his citizenship and deport him. Supporters of Mamdani, an American citizen who was born in Uganda, have dismissed the calls as bigoted and Islamophobic.
The New York assemblyman is likely to face further scrutiny over his father’s alleged comments.
Well, one would hope so:
We need a federal commission to investigate how people so opposed to American values obtain citizenship, and make recommendations as to what needs to change so that it doesn’t keep happening. https://t.co/DS1VsY4OlY
— tedfrank (@tedfrank) July 11, 2025
Far worse though, is this development:
We will never apologize for exposing the truth: Journalists and editors at the New York Times have spent the last few days frantically justifying and apologizing for the publication’s decision to report information that reflects poorly on a Democratic candidate. The Times revealed last week that New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani had falsely identified as “Black or African American” on his application to Columbia.
The Gray Lady’s handwringing was instantly overshadowed by a bombshell Free Beacon report on Mamdani’s deplorable affection for the so-called sport of soccer, a revelation even more alarming than his love of communism and Hamas. Soccer is often a “gateway drug” that poisons the minds of impressionable teens, causing them to experiment with other evil enterprises. We do not apologize for bringing this information to the public’s attention.
Okay, now I’m convinced that he’s a Commie:
PRIORITIES: You Can Get a Job in This Senator’s Office, Unless… “This is a perfect opportunity for a young person who is interested in politics to gain valuable experience and insight into the inner workings of our political process, so apply now! — unless, of course, you’re of the wrong race, gender, or sexual orientation.”
WELL, THEY’RE NOT WRONG. Pew: Most adults say health insurers overly influence health policy.
HE SEEMS NICE: Minnesota HR director now on leave after saying ‘white folk’ are ‘morally bankrupt’ and ‘liars.’ “Minnesota Pollution Control Agency HR Director Vonnie Phillips then called an Alpha News reporter a ‘f-cking rotten b-tch’ from his official state email.”
WHEN EVEN THE ECONOMIST IS ADMITTING THAT IT DOESN’T WORK:
"oops" https://t.co/FwbA7CSHBv pic.twitter.com/2yPsBs5o1b
— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) July 10, 2025
THEY’VE BEEN ANGRY ABOUT THIS SINCE 1865, AT LEAST:
Weird how @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom tolerated minor slave labor on pot farms then got angry because @realDonaldTrump freed the enslaved children.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 11, 2025
YES, BUT THEY OFFER INSUFFUCIENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT TO APPEAL TO THE POLITICAL CLASS:
I’m beginning to suspect that markets work. https://t.co/c4XdFRuAYY
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 10, 2025
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Hamas Co-Founder’s Son Warns That Muslims Will Make Europe ‘Rubble.’
HOW IT STARTED:
Many of the CBS News technicians and producers thought that Cronkite was going a little gaga with his “Can the World Be Saved?” obsession. Whenever Cronkite ran an ecology story, the “Earthrise” graphic would appear behind him, with Bonn’s hand holding the planet. CBS Evening News director Ritchie Mutchler would regularly bark to his assistant, “We’ll need the hand job tonight!” To CBS News correspondent Bob Schieffer, it was akin to “Quiet on the set!” Feeling that he was being mocked, Cronkite, usually unflappable, called Mutchler aside. “Uhmm, could we call that thing something else?” he asked. “Every time I hear you call it that, my mind sort of wanders.”
At Cronkite’s insistence, CBS News played a major role in publicizing the first Earth Day observed across the United States, on April 22, 1970 (it also happened to be his son Chip’s birthday). Not only did Cronkite build up Earth Day on his nightly broadcast, but he anchored a CBS News Special Report from 10:00 to 11:00 p.m. EST on that historic day when twenty million Americans launched the Green movement. He began “Earth Day: A Question of Survival” with [Barry] Commoner, a Washington University biology professor who in February had been dubbed “the Paul Revere of Ecology” by Time magazine.
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CBS Evening News won an Emmy Award for its “Can the World Be Saved?” segments. After that, all CBS reporters were anxious for environmental assignments; the airing of occasional “Can the World Be Saved?” segments lasted until 1980. By the twenty-first century, Earth Day had grown into an unofficial calendar holiday almost like Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day. To commemorate its twentieth anniversary, the René Dubos Center for Human Environment presented Cronkite with its prestigious Only One Earth Award; his citation touted his promotion of environmental literacy. It was an honor he treasured. At the New York Hilton gala, more than one thousand environmentally minded citizens stood up to toast the man who helped put Earth Day and the New Environmentalism on the TV media map.
—Douglas Brinkley, Cronkite, 2012.
How It’s Going: Watch this CNN analyst discover how little we all care about climate change.
🚨SHOCK POLL: CNN admits that the American people AREN'T CONCERNED about climate change — Radical activists FAILED to scare citizens.
"Americans AREN'T afraid of climate change!"
"Climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people!" pic.twitter.com/47u9IzQ8IF
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 10, 2025
—Not the Bee, today.
SPAIN IS PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939 AGAIN: Spanish Prime Minister Compares Netanyahu to Putin as National Court Opens ‘War Crimes’ Investigation Into Israeli Officials.
Spanish Prime Minister Assails Israel: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez unleashed a tirade against Israel during a speech to parliament, accusing the country of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and calling on the European Union to suspend its cooperation agreement with the Jewish state. “No one that tramples on the EU’s founding principles — or that uses hunger and war to annihilate a legitimate state — can be a partner of the European Union,” he said on July 10. Sanchez also compared the actions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
Spanish Court Investigates Israeli Officials: Sanchez’s statements came days after Spain’s national court launched a criminal investigation into Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, and several other senior Israeli military officials, over the IDF’s June 9 interdiction of the sailboat, the Madleen. The 12 activists on board, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and French Palestinian activist Rima Hassan, attempted to breach the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, whose purpose, according to Katz, is primarily to “prevent the transfer of weapons to Hamas.” The case, which was filed by Spanish citizen Sergio Toribio and the Committee for Solidarity with the Arab Cause, alleged that the interception and brief detention of the activists constituted “war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
Israel was so cruel to St. Greta that they gave her a challah sandwich and a plane ride home.
In contrast, Spain is simply reverting to form: Far from helping Jews, Franco’s regime was implacably hostile.