Posts on Monday, July 7, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing increasing calls for her resignation or firing as a leaked Department of Justice memo has indicated the agency found no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein engaged in large-scale blackmail and that no master list of his clients existed.
Conservative activist Liz Wheeler ranked among the most vocal in her calls for Bondi's ouster, saying ""If I'm President Trump, I would not tolerate this behavior anymore. She has become a LIABILITY to his administration."
Wheeler further referenced Bondi's past orchestration of a botched public release of information to MAGA influencers in binders.
President Trump said Monday his administration would send Ukraine additional weapons after his administration imposed a pause on some shipments to Kyiv.
“We’re going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves. They’re getting hit very hard now,” Trump told reporters during a dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Defensive weapons, primarily, but they’re getting hit very, very hard. So many people are dying in that mess,” he added.
The Pentagon last week confirmed a decision to halt the delivery of some air defense missiles and munitions to Ukraine, citing concerns about U.S. military stockpiles being depleted.
Rescue teams in central Texas scoured storm-ravaged terrain Monday for signs of life as the death toll from last week's catastrophic flooding rose to at least 104 and bouts of heavy rain battered hard-hit areas. (Snip) Among the dead were at least 27 children and counselors from Camp Mystic, a beloved all-girls summer camp in Kerr County, where the worst of the flooding broke out. At least 10 girls and one counselor remain missing, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said at a news conference Monday. "Texas is grieving right now. The pain, the shock of what has transpired these last
Politics Judge blocks Trump from cutting
off Planned Parenthood funding under "big,
beautiful bill" replies
off Planned Parenthood funding under "big,
beautiful bill" replies
A judge on Monday barred the Trump administration from revoking Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, partially freezing a provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act just days after President Trump signed it into law.
The temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani lasts 14 days and directs the Department of Health and Human Services to "take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed" to Planned Parenthood. The ruling, which came after a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood, doesn't apply to any other health care providers.
The lawsuit takes aim at a portion of Mr. Trump's signature domestic policy bill that would cut off
As RedState previously documented, California Democrats have been throwing tantrums since the immigration sweeps in Los Angeles started, with Gov. Gavin Newsom using the issue to try and elevate his profile ahead of an anticipated 2028 presidential run and Mayor Karen Bass and other Democrats coddling rioters and gaslighting about "peaceful protests."
More recently, Bass announced that she refused to meet with ICE, nor would she work with them, with Fox News reporting at the time that "Bass said the only deal is for ICE to go home, and she gave no indication she would be willing to meet w/ the agency."
ICE told her fine, but they weren't going anywhere,
A few months ago I needed to send an email. But when I opened Microsoft Outlook something had changed. Microsoft asked me to use Copilot to write my email. Copilot is my AI companion. (snip.) Hey I don't want a companion -- especially not a fake AI buddy. And what about the people receiving my emails? They don't want this either. (snip.) This is how AI gets introduced to the marketplace -- by force-feeding the public. (snip.) Most people won't pay for AI voluntarily -- just 8% according to a recent survey.
Flyers warning immigrants to "self-deport" are being distributed to immigrants at immigration courts including those in Phoenix.
The flyers are generated by the U.S. Department of Justice, which oversees the nation's immigration court system, including immigration judges.
The flyers, written in English and Spanish, are part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to pressure undocumented immigrants to self-deport amid recent ICE arrests at immigration courts and an expanding immigration crackdown and mass deportation agenda. Immigrant advocates say the flyers, titled "Message to Illegal Aliens: A Warning to Self-Deport," contain misleading information
The Trump administration is terminating temporary protected status (TPS) for Honduran and Nicaraguan migrants residing in the United States.
The move is part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to curb illegal immigration and remove those already in the country. "It is clear that the Government of Honduras has taken all of the necessary steps to overcome the impacts of Hurricane Mitch, almost 27 years ago,” Noem added.
The secretary explained that “Honduran citizens can safely return home, and DHS is here to help facilitate their voluntary return.”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised a heroic United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer who saved 165 flood victims in Texas.
“United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer and Petty Officer Scott Ruskin, directly saved an astonishing 165 victims in the devastating flooding in central Texas,” she wrote on X. “This was the first rescue mission of his career and he was the only triage coordinator at the scene. Scott Ruskin is an American hero. His selfless courage embodies the spirit and mission of the @USCG." [Tweets]
Ruskin explained to "Fox & Friends" how they focused on Camp Mystic.
Performative Political Theater
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The Democrats have chosen form over substance. The president gets things done while his opponents opt for dramatic arts.
Two Democratic leaders have spoken longer than my verbose college roommate. Corey Booker spoke in the Senate for 25 hours. Hakeem Jeffries last week added nearly another 9 hours of Democratic talking, talking, talking. That Senator Spartacus and Congressman Magic Minute could talk for a day and a half is certainly impressive.Did their rhetorical tour-de-force performances actually accomplish anything? The answer is a solid no. Nothing changed on the ground—but that was never expected. They just wanted to go through the motions.
The Democrat crowing about how the Big Beautiful Bill is going to be the doom of the Republicans is about as convincing as Zohran Mamdami’s college app claim that he’s a black guy; in his defense, he is more Indian than Elizabeth Warren, in a manner of speaking. Though their social media doofuses and regime media toe-sucks are hooting about how Hakeem Jeffries set a record for running his fool mouth and how voters will totally be angry with the GOP for killing eleventy million people – the BBB is even deadlier than net neutrality, climate change,
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz believes President Trump’s mass deportation operation is an effort to “bleach America.”
The Florida Democrat has been making the case in interviews and on social media that the administration wants to “round up as many brown people as they can, and they are focused on making sure that they can get rid of immigrants to this country who helped make our country great.”
Speaking to MSNBC, Wasserman Schultz took issue with the fact that not all those who have been detained are among “the worst of the worst.” While the administration did emphasize deporting the worst criminal aliens first,
Bottom line: Competition works in free markets. And that's why the Protection Racket Media tried very hard to kill off their competition through tendentious 'fact checks' and cheerleading for government censorship. Even with their grip on information markets, their narrative labs have to compete -- and that led the New York Times to get a scoop over the weekend.
This revelation from Semafor leads to an interesting "what if," though:
The afternoon before a long holiday weekend isn’t always the best time to drop a major scoop. But the New York Times did not want to wait to publish its story about Zohran Mamdani’s application to Columbia University in 2009
n a development that should send chills down the spine of every American who still believes in the rule of law, Axios has reported a disturbing new reality inside the Democratic Party. According to the article, Democratic members of Congress are facing a tidal wave of pressure from their own base — not to legislate, not to persuade, but to abandon all pretense of civility and embrace outright violence and lawlessness in their battle against Donald Trump and his allies.
Democratic lawmakers are being bombarded with demands to “fight dirty,” to disregard
There's been another attack on Border Patrol agents, this time in McAllen, Texas. Fox News' Bill Melugin reports,
Three federal & TX law enforcement sources tell me an active shooter with a rifle & tactical gear ambushed Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, TX this morning. Local police and federal agents returned fire, killing him.
Melugin added, "I’m told this was a purposeful ambush/attack against federal agents and a press conference is planned for later this morning."
While no Border Patrol agents were injured, there are reports that a police officer was shot in the firefight. He is said to be in stable condition.
Democratic lawmakers say their voters are enraged at the lack of ability to counter President Donald Trump's agenda, with some saying they could resort to "violence," Axios reported Monday.
The outlet says it spoke to over two dozen House Democrats to measure the temperature of the Democratic base. What it found was red-hot anger and a burgeoning desire to circumvent the rule of law, where explanations that Democrats simply don't hold enough power in Washington fall on deaf ears.
"We've got people who are desperately wanting us to do something... no matter what we say, they want [more]," Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., told the outlet.
Texas pediatrician's flood post claiming
MAGA 'got what they voted for' backfires spectacularly replies
MAGA 'got what they voted for' backfires spectacularly replies
A Texas pediatrician has been fired after claiming that Trump supporters got what they voted for following the tragic floods in the state.
Dr Christina Propst sparked massive backlash after she took to Facebook to share a now-deleted message where she appeared to take glee in the floods that have left 82 dead, including at least 28 children. 'May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,' the post read. 'Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.'
In a dissent of a Supreme Court ruling, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said: "Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."
Justice Sotomayor made this statement in her dissent from the ruling allowing for migrants to be deported to countries they are not from.
In her dissent, which she wrote with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, she said that this would result in the government "deporting noncitizens to potentially dangerous countries without notice or the opportunity to assert a fear of torture."Those
As Matt reported earlier, the Department of Justice and FBI have concluded there’s no evidence Jeffrey Epstein kept a “client list,” blackmailed powerful individuals, or was murdered, according to a memo obtained by Axios. The latest update has infuriated those on the Right seeking new information about the Epstein case, particularly after a disappointing document drop in February from the DOJ that contained files already available to the public.
A former Houston mayoral appointee raged at a Texas girls camp for being “white-only’’ — hours after deadly flooding ripped through the facility, killing at least five young campers and leaving 11 more missing.
“I know I’m going to get cancelled for this, but Camp Mystic is a white-only girls’ Christian camp. They don’t even have a token Asian. They don’t have a token Black person. It’s an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp,” Sade Perkins said in a widely condemned video on her private TikTok account.
“If you ain’t white you ain’t right, you ain’t gettin’ in, you ain’t goin’. Period,” Perkins said —
Bye bye, Jews
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It didn't start with the nomination of Zohran Mandami last Tuesday, but his victory continued the trend. The Dems and the Jews are not one anymore. Let's check this out from Gregory Lyakhov: "The Democratic Party, once a political home for Jewish Americans, has now become a party that excuses, enables, and empowers antisemitism. Jewish Americans committed to their faith, safety, and democratic values must recognize that political loyalty cannot be unconditional. The time for denial has passed."
A pediatrician has been fired over a vile post suggesting that the more than 80 killed in the horrific Texas floods — including dozens of kids — were President Trump supporters who got “what they voted for.”
Dr. Christina B. Propst drew widespread scorn following the disparaging, since-deleted post under her old Facebook username, Chris Tina, according to Mediaite.“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” Probst wrote in the now-viral post. “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”
A United Nation’s report issued last month calls for the criminalization of spreading “disinformation and misinformation” about global warming. Is it the desperate act of a dying crusade – or business as usual for the climate fanatics?
While our hope is the former, it’s more likely the latter.
According to Elisa Morgera, the U.N. special rapporteur on climate change, governments should “criminalize misinformation and misrepresentation (greenwashing) by the fossil fuel industry” as well as “criminalize media and advertising firms for amplifying disinformation and misinformation by fossil fuel companies.”
A federal bench trial begins Monday over a lawsuit that challenges a Trump administration campaign of arresting and deporting faculty and students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations and other political activities.
The lawsuit, filed by several university associations against President Donald Trump and members of his administration, would be one of the first to go to trial. Plaintiffs want U.S. District Judge William Young to rule the policy violates the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act, a law governs the process by which federal agencies develop and issue regulations.
Ex-CIA chief John Brennan
may have opened himself up to perjury
charges over Trump-Russia hoax replies
may have opened himself up to perjury
charges over Trump-Russia hoax replies
John Brennan, the disgraced former Obama CIA Director, may have opened himself up to perjury charges after a new email was uncovered in a scathing internal review by CIA career professionals into the agency’s 2016 Trump-Russia collusion assessment.
Brennan is understood to be under renewed scrutiny by authorities over discrepancies between his sworn testimony to federal investigations and his written orders to underlings conducting the Intelligence Community Assessment commissioned by then-president Barack Obama in December 2016 that found Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that countries will see their respective tariff rates “boomerang back” on Aug. 1 to the higher levels announced three months ago, if they don’t strike a deal with the U.S. sooner.
In Sunday show interviews, Bessent doubled down on President Trump’s comments Friday, in which the president told reporters that the “reciprocal” tariffs — first announced on April 2 and then paused for 90 days a week later — would officially take effect on Aug. 1, not July 9, when the 90-day pause is set to expire.
Before boarding his flight to Washington, DC, on Sunday for a meeting with President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel stands at a historic turning point — ready to “expand the circle of peace far beyond what we could have imagined.”On the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport, Netanyahu described the trip as both strategic and symbolic, aimed at solidifying Israel’s recent battlefield victories and accelerating a new diplomatic momentum. “We have already transformed the Middle East beyond recognition, and we now have a chance to bring a great future to the state of Israel, the people of Israel and the entire Middle East,” he said.
One of the fascinating things about following leftists on social media is that they are lemmings. The order goes out that all must put up a specific meme and, suddenly, all do. That’s why my long-ago high school classmates (99% of whom are leftists), suddenly started posting a variation of a meme insisting that Leviticus—a part of the Bible that is so dear to conservative hearts—mandates accepting illegal aliens. Naturally, these leftists, who wouldn’t recognize the Bible if it bit them, are completely wrong.
The most popular version of this meme, the one with almost 6 million views, came from Devin Duke:
Pathetic Democrats are falling over themselves
and in line with the dangerous Zohran Mamdani replies
and in line with the dangerous Zohran Mamdani replies
Forgive us for finding real comedy in how Zohran Mamdani’s rise is making the Democratic establishment squirm.
Onetime “New Democrat” Bill Clinton, who won the White House by breaking with the party’s left, now has had to lead the parade of folks congratulating Mamdani on winning the Democratic primary — without actually endorsing him.
Oh, and there’s Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand popping up the other week to insist Mamdani denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada” — only to soon feel compelled to turn tail and apologize to him for saying in a radio interview that the anti-Zionist supports “global jihad” and Hamas.
A Manhattan courthouse became a crime scene last month when a man with multiple open criminal cases slashed two law enforcement officers in the neck and face — inside the very building where justice is supposed to be enforced.
Not on the subway. Not in the street. In the courthouse itself.
It’s hard to imagine a clearer sign of how broken our justice system has become under Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The place where consequences are supposed to be delivered has now become one more place where criminals act without fear.
In any other city, this would be shocking. In New York, it feels familiar.
Zohran Mamdani may be a lightweight in his own right, but as mayor he’d bring an entire extremist movement along with him to City Hall, with dire consequences for the city.
Mamdani can hedge and haw all he likes, but he’s the face of a truly radical movement, the Democratic Socialists of America — which boasts of being truly anti-capitalist and indeed looking to “seize the means of production,” which is as Marxist as anyone could ask.
Zohran himself just a few years ago lectured about how socialists needed to be honest about these goals; that he’s changed his tune merely means he’s now more interested in winning elections.
President Trump on Sunday issued a lengthy Truth Social post attacking former ally Elon Musk after the Tesla mogul announced he was launching a third party over opposition to Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
“I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks,” Trump wrote Sunday afternoon.He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States – The System seems not designed for them,” he added. “The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS,
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers railed against President Trump’s massive tax and spending bill, saying no objective economist would characterize the legislation as a boon to the economy.
“There is no economist anywhere, without a strong political agenda, who is saying that this bill is a positive for the economy. And the overwhelming view is that it is probably going to make the economy worse,” Summers told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos in a Sunday interview on “This Week.”“Think about it this way,” he continued. “How long can the world’s greatest debtor remain the world’s greatest power?
Former CIA Director John Brennan may be exposed to perjury problems after current CIA Director John Ratcliffe released an internal review of the agency’s Russia hoax materials, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.Last week, Ratcliffe declassified and publicly released an internal CIA review of what is known as the “Intelligence Community Assessment,” or simply ICA, of the claims that Russia tried to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.President Donald Trump] has trusted me with helping to end weaponization of US intelligence,” Ratcliffe posted on X when releasing the review.
President Trump threatened to impose an additional 10 percent tariff on countries “aligning” themselves with the BRICS bloc of developing nations. “Any Country aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS, will be charged an ADDITIONAL 10% Tariff. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Sunday evening. The threat comes after members of the BRICS group issued a declaration on Sunday condemning the U.S. increase in tariffs, as well as the strikes on Iran — all without mentioning Trump by name.
When Elon Musk started bellyaching about the “One Big Beautiful Bill” he revealed why his influence on the Trump administration was destined to be short-lived. Like most billionaires, he is accustomed to getting what he wants when and how he wants it. He has no patience with the excruciating political process and the necessary compromises that must be endured to produce a piece of legislation like the bill Trump signed into law on July 4. In this regard he has much in common with the late Ross Perot, whose destructive foray into national politics proved so disastrous for the Republican Party and the nation at large.