OR ELSE WHAT? Hersh suggests that Harris continues to be under Obama’s control, and “she had better perform.” She’s not the nominee yet. “Hersh also writes that Kamala Harris “often showed little interest” in ‘the President’s Daily Brief, a highly classified summary of current intelligence that is prepared overnight by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and delivered by hand to the most vital offices in Washington, including the vice president’s.’ Hersh says that Harris even ‘asked the agency to stop delivering it to her.'”

She’s always seemed more interested in holding the position than in doing the job.

I WANT TAX COMPETITION, NOT TAX COOPERATION: G20 Celebrates Historic International Tax Cooperation, Punts Proposed 2% Billionaire Tax.

BRYAN CAPLAN: What I Told the Chronicle About GMU. “Prudentially speaking, my best response to Walters was ‘no comment,’ but I’m trying to use my tenure nobly by loudly saying what every reasonable person in academia is quietly thinking.”

Plus: “The correct story, in my view, is that far-left faculty feel ‘threatened’ by anything short of 100% control of the university.”

HOW DARE THEY HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT SHE SAID SHE BELIEVES: NYT: Dastardly Republicans Are ‘Weaponizing’ Kamala’s 2020 Positions.

UPDATE (From Ed):

MAKE THEM PAY: Conservative professor disciplined for criticizing DEI gets $2.4 million to settle lawsuit against college.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Unhinged anti-Israel group at UWM threatens Jewish students, calling them ‘genocidal extremists.’

I’M BEGINNING TO LOSE TRUST IN OUR GOVERNMENT: Another Secret Service Lapse for Trump in Nashville. Well, this was only vaguely a lapse, really. But: “Speaking of the previous debacle on July 13, the Pennsylvania shooting story only gets worse. Newly revealed text messages indicate that Thomas Crooks had been on authorities’ radar for a full ninety minutes before the shooting. The communications were provided by both local and federal authorities.”

Related: Biden Calls Speaker Johnson “Dead on Arrival.” Twice.

STOP THE STEAL: Anti-Maduro protests spread as Venezuelan opposition says he stole vote.

SO WHY ARE THEY TREATING HER LIKE SHE’S “ACTING PRESIDENT?” Kamala Says Joe Is Fit for Office.

There’s a process for making her the acting president. https://t.co/mCiKevACVv

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) July 29, 2024

The staff and the press can’t just decide that she’s in charge. And for her to be in charge, Joe has to go.

UPDATE: A friend texts:

Remind me already who died and made Kamala Harris the Dem frontrunner. How’s that work? Dementia Patient in Chief trots her out, and that’s that?

Look, I don’t want to be a dick about it, but I’m trying to find the democracy they are saving in this.

It’s in the same place they always keep it.

DUMB BUT FUN: NBC faces FCC complaint over airing ‘obscene’ Olympics Last Supper parody.

DON SURBER: Media Pushes to Elect A Coconut.

SOCIALISTS STICK TOGETHER: Border Czar Kamala Harris Embraced Socialist Honduran Leader Who’s Now Endorsing Maduro’s Stolen Election.

IS ANYONE SURPRISED? Kamala Harris the ‘soul-destroying bully’: Former staff expose shock details of degrading tirades, decades-long ‘toxic’ behavior that left people in TEARS – and saw them quit at unprecedented levels.

BIDEN’S LATEST DEMENTED ACTION: The lamest lame duck executive seeks to meddle with the judicial branch. “These are familiar proposals. Are we to discuss them anew because they are proposed by our greatly diminished President? There is no prospect of passing these amendments. We are simply being assigned a topic by a very foolish fond old man.”

UPDATE:

“Now that I have honorably limited my government service to just 51 years, I think the proper limit for a position that is supposed to be lifetime should be 18 years. Rules start NOW!” https://t.co/lt5ENXgE0H

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) July 29, 2024

WELL, OF COURSE THEY’D PREFER HARRIS: Iran Is Working to Undercut Trump in Presidential Election, U.S. Spy Agencies Say: Tehran’s preference is rooted in concerns about a Trump presidency fanning tensions with U.S.

“Fanning tensions.”

#JOURNALISM:

They should mix up the propaganda more. This is way too obvious.

Just like when they were parroting before the debate that Biden was “sharp as a tack” 🤣 https://t.co/UZRUVM0Q7z

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 30, 2024

Related:

White dudes for Harris pic.twitter.com/ppksU8Veub

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 29, 2024

BECAUSE THE NARRATIVE ABOUT “ESCALATION” IS CONTROLLED BY PEOPLE WHO HATE ISRAEL: Why is it only ‘escalation’ when Israel retaliates? Israel has every right to respond to Hezbollah’s cruel slaughter of 12 Druze kids.

Let me just also ask, what’s wrong with escalation? D-Day was an escalation. So were the Doolittle Raid and Hiroshima. Escalation ends wars. A “peace process,” on the other hand, keeps them going forever. Which serves the interests of some, sure enough.

TONI AIRAKSINEN: Lawyer: Autistic Students Disadvantaged By Biden’s Title IX’s Kangaroo Courts. “Normal autistic behaviors may be misinterpreted by Title IX administrators. In fact, most of Title IX training involves attributing ‘negative connotations to behaviors which are quite common to autistic people,’ explains Tucker. Examples of this include failure to make eye contact, delay in providing answers during questioning, lack of emotion, and defensiveness or anger if the student feels they are being challenged. The training of campus Title IX administrators often makes no concession for those on the autism spectrum, despite that anywhere from 10-20% of men are on it.”

Report these Title IX administrators to the ADA administrators.

TROUBLE: Harris VP Short-Lister Comes Loaded with Baggage. “On the menu today: A new report contends that Minnesota governor Tim Walz is on the short list to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate. This is almost laughable when you look at Walz’s record running the state government, which somehow manages to combine the honesty of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, the competence of former Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco, and the sharp-eyed ethical-watchdog instincts of soon-to-be-former New Jersey senator Bob Menendez.”

Add that to Josh Shapiro’s sexual harassment issues and Mark Kelly’s Chinese spy balloon interests, and it’s narrowing the field a bit.

THREAD:

For Iran it was the Obama nuclear deal, for Venezuela it was the deal last year to lift sanctions on energy if Maduro would allow a free and fair election. Biden-Harris need that product on the market to keep prices down since they don’t want to increase domestic production.…

— Victoria Coates (@VictoriaCoates) July 29, 2024

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: J.D. Vance, the New York Times, and Decency.

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MARY KATHARINE HAM EXPLAINS KAMALA’S NEW RACE-BASED CAMPAIGN GROUPS IN LANGUAGE A KAMALA SUPPORTER CAN UNDERSTAND:

Gentle parenting people confused by your white-people meetings. https://t.co/gdtgurLV5O pic.twitter.com/lw3UZuetyq

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) July 30, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Now blast off. I said, blast off.

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

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.