Washington Times (DC),
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Sean Salai
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A Stanford University-led study estimates that COVID-19 vaccinations saved 2.5 million lives from 2020 to 2024, about 17 million fewer than earlier reports suggested, primarily among older adults.
That’s the equivalent of one death averted for every 5,400 vaccine doses administered worldwide during the period, according to the findings published Friday in JAMA Health Forum. Official estimates say 7 million people died from the virus worldwide in those years.
Led by three Stanford researchers, the study noted that 90% of the lives saved were among people 60 or older, and 82% stemmed from vaccinations administered before they tested positive for COVID.
PJ Media,
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Scott Pinsker
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7/26/2025 3:31:43 PM
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Pinsker Law of PR #83: “Intensity” and “popularity” aren’t the same thing, but if you spend most of your time online, intensity and popularity become utterly indistinguishable.
As such, you miss the forest for the trees.
Most political reporters aren’t pounding the pavement anymore, knocking on doors and buying dinner for on-the-fence sources in seedy dive bars. That era of journalism is deader than the dodo. Nowadays, reporters live, breathe, and work online; their “sources” are the voices, texts, and emails popping up on their phones.
New York Post,
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Ryan King
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7/26/2025 3:29:11 PM
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Democrats’ approval rating with registered voters has plunged to a 35-year low, while Republicans maintain an edge on most of the top issues Americans care about, a new poll found.
A whopping 63% of registered voters view Democrats unfavorably, dramatically eclipsing the 33% who had a positive impression, marking the lowest rating they scored since 1990, according to a Wall Street Journal survey.
That abysmal rating for Democrats comes against the backdrop of lackluster figures for President Trump and Republicans. Trump’s approval rating sits at 46%, with 52% who disapprove of the commander in chief. The figure is higher than this point during his first term, which was 40%.
Breitbart,
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AWR Hawkins
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7/26/2025 3:21:40 PM
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Pro 2 Customs, a holster and firearm finish/accessory company, announced Friday that it will no longer make holsters or “[provide] custom services” for Sig Sauer P320 pistols.
They made clear their decision also includes the M17 and M18 models of the P320, both of which are designed for military issue. Pro 2 Customs’ announcement came just days after the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) made clear all AFGSC personnel are to pause use of Sig Sauer’s M18 pistol.
Military.com reported the AFGSC’s pause on use of the M18 pistol came after 20-year-old Airman Brayden Lovan was killed by a “firearm discharge” Sunday at F.E. Warren Air Force Base. No details
Red State,
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Nick Arama
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7/26/2025 2:38:50 AM
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President Donald Trump has truly flipped the script on the Democrat/media narrative that tariffs were going to hike inflation and kill the economy
Instead, inflation is under control and running lower than expectations, the stock market has hit record highs, and we have a surplus from the money coming in from tariffs.
We went from the economic mess that Joe Biden was to economic competence. Listen as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explains what they have been able to achieve in just a short six months. He said so far they've taken in nearly $100 billion, and he thinks they may take in $300 billion by the end of the year.
National Review,
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Editorial
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7/26/2025 2:34:55 AM
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On Wednesday, during his appearance at the “Winning the AI Race” summit in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump launched the White House’s AI Action Plan. Per the executive orders that were signed during the event, the president’s project contains three major planks. First, it establishes a set of procurement rules that prohibit the federal government from purchasing any AI product that, in Trump’s words, “has been infused with partisan bias or ideological agendas.” Second, it seeks to “expedite
PJ Media,
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Paula Bolyard
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7/25/2025 7:43:07 PM
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You can almost hear the death rattle emanating from Media Matters for America (MMFA), the unofficial (wink-wink) media arm of the Democrat Party, which unironically calls itself the "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
From the New York Times:
The organization, which is funded by some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors, has racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months to defend itself against lawsuits by Elon Musk, in addition to investigations by Mr. Trump’s Federal Trade Commission and Republican state attorneys general.
Breitbart,
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Jasmyn Jordan
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7/25/2025 4:10:23 PM
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A bipartisan poll shows a dramatic shift in public opinion on the state of the U.S. economy, with a net 23-point swing toward optimism since April, an uptick that parallels renewed economic momentum under President Donald Trump’s policies, according to officials and market data.
The Wall Street Journal survey, conducted by Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio and Democrat partner firm Impact Research, found that 47 percent of Americans now rate the economy as “excellent” or “good,” up from just 36 percent in April. Meanwhile, those saying the economy is “not so good” or “poor” dropped from 63 percent to 51 percent.
The swing in public opinion
Hot Air,
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John Sexton
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7/25/2025 3:53:23 PM
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It's striking how similar NPR's situation is to that of Planned Parenthood. Both organizations have an affiliate model and both just had a lot of federal money cut from their budgets. That means both are now hoping to find new sources of funding to keep the doors open. The NY Times reports there has been an increase in donations to PBS and NPR but so far the amount isn't nearly enough to offset the cuts.
Over the last three months, as the prospect of the cuts intensified, roughly 120,000 new donors have contributed an estimated $20 million in annual value,
Hot Air,
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Ed Morrissey
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7/25/2025 3:45:06 PM
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Should we be surprised that alleged Joe Biden Regency 'politburo' member Ron Klain decided to cooperate with the House Oversight Committee? Fellow senior advisers such as Annie Tomasini and Anthony Bernal took the Fifth when asked to testify about Biden's cognitive incapacity while President and who really ran the White House. Even Biden's doctor, Kevin O'Connor, took Five rather than rely on HIPAA.
Biden's former chief of staff, however, decided to cooperate, getting praise for his willingness to testify from committee members of both parties. And while Klain doesn't flat-out declare Biden incompetent during his tenure as president, Klain told the committee that his decline
Hot Air,
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David Strom
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7/25/2025 3:15:58 PM
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I suspected that this was the case, and even said so in a recent radio interview.
But I have been very reluctant to write about it because I am not a lawyer, so I can only use my common sense and layman's understanding of the law in what must be a very, very complex question.
But Trump, who certainly has access to excellent legal advice, has just said that Obama has immunity from prosecution for any crimes he may have committed in conspiring to use falsified intelligence to undermine Trump's presidency, set up a phony impeachment, and perhaps put Trump in jail.
Red State,
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Nick Arama
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7/25/2025 2:59:14 PM
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I wrote earlier about how Democrats tripped all over themselves with a marvelous mistake that is a perfect example of how they don't understand the economy. They posted a graph about a rise in prices, captioning it "Trump's America."
The problem? The graph showed that the rise in prices came under Joe Biden, and that it had previously been flat during President Donald Trump's first term (and has flattened again in his second). What a self-own that was.
If they can't even read a graph intelligently, how can they deal with the economy? Of course, that's just one problem with the Democrats, and it's one of those bread-and-butter issues