‘CAUS OF COURSE THEY DO:  It’s Summer Again, So Media Tees-Up Another Round of ‘Heat Dome’ Mania.

WON’T WORK IF YOU REMEMBER:  The media’s current strategy with this wave of enforcement is simple: treat every development as its own isolated headline so the larger pattern stays invisible.

OKAY, THAT’S FUNNY:  After he was done beating the absolute brakes off the guy who allegedly threatened to rape his wife & grandkids, Pastor Spell told his church: “I fulfilled scripture, I laid hands on the sick.”

UPSETTING JAPAN IS A BAD IDEA:  Fake USB Sticks Spread China-Linked Virus in Japan’s Army.

YOU CAN ONLY SOLVE IT FOR YOURSELF:  How Do We Get Back to a Sense of Place?  The teams competing in the World Cup soccer games are filled with free agents who follow their fortunes rather than remain in one place. This reality is an apt metaphor for the modern American.

For reasons both public and private I no longer live in Colorado, but Colorado will always be home.

I’M NOT IN THIS ONE, BUT SOME FRIENDS ARE:  The Based Book Romance Sale!  Now Through June 30.

CRONYISM IS ONLY BAD WHEN REPUBLICANS DO IT:  LAUSD replaces Carvalho after he disgracefully resigned amid school system’s looming financial crisis and education shortcomings.

THEIR REGISTRATIONS LIST AN OFFICE AS RESIDENCE?  Leaked list of Hollywood megastars drags them into shocking LA voting debacle.

ARE THEY CLAIMING A SOCIALIST LIED? I’M SO SHOCKED!  Dad of Mamdani-backed NY primary winner Aber Kawass, who downplayed 9/11, was deported for property fraud — not ‘cruel’ immigration as she claimed.

WE NEED HIGHER NUMBERS:  ICE has arrested 10,000 migrant gang members so far in Trump’s second term, DHS reveals.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TIKTOK AND SEWAGE?*  Sickening TikTokkers are doing the ‘Austin Boppers’ dance and reenacting teen’s murder by Karmelo Anthony.

*Sewage can be used as fertilizer.

YES, MINISTER PROVED PROPHETIC! THE SIR HUMPHREYS FOUGHT TO ENSURE THE WRONG PEOPLE DIDN’T GAIN POWER:   Brexit ten years on: The elites who went to war with the people.

TED LIEU ISN’T HAPPY ABOUT THE FRAUD DISCOVERIES:  Ted Lieu Vows Lawfare Against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

SHE THOUGHT THERE WERE NO ENEMIES TO HER LEFT:  Letitia James Isn’t Happy With Zohran Mamdani and His Merry Band of Socialists.

B-BUT OBAMACARE: AAG McDonald Told the Nation Just How Much of Our Money Was Stolen by Healthcare Fraudsters.

I’VE HEARD THIS BEFORE:  Laye: “The Dollar Is No Longer Alone in America’s Financial Domination” of the Planet.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Al Jazeera ‘Journalist’ Mourned by Mamdani was Hamas Terrorist, IDF Reveals.

THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS:  Judge Blocks Trump From Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote.

GOOD:  U.S.-Congo Cobalt Deal Puts New Pressure on China’s Minerals Empire.

G-D FORGIVE THEM:  Netherlands euthanizes child under 12 in first case since major law change.

CHINA CAN SAY WHATEVER IT WANTS. IT DON’T MAKE IT SO:  China says it has a right to target people overseas with new ethnic unity law.

IT MEANS “NO PLACE”:  Utopia.

FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter.

Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

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