Posts on Friday, July 31, 2026

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson isn’t exactly known for her neutrality — quite the opposite, actually. She’s infamous for using emotional arguments in her decisions and for her long-winded, loaded questions. As our Sister Toldjah reported in 2025, she often gets under the skin of even the other justices. “We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself,” Barrett wrote about Jackson’s musings regarding a birthright citizen case.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) pushed back Thursday on claims made by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) following the latest pounding by U.S. air power against Iranian targets on Wednesday. CENTCOM used social media to respond to the latest three unsupportable claims by the IRGC. “FIRST CLAIM: The IRGC (again) claims free and open routes through the Strait of Hormuz are dangerous for commercial vessels. “FACT: The immediate dangers posed to commercial vessels and their civilian crews are the IRGC’s verbal threats and attempted attacks. “SECOND CLAIM:

Last year President Donald Trump warned his Ukrainian counterpart that he “had no cards” to play when seeking American aid against Russia’s invasion. Then Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky drew an ace: Ukraine’s remarkable development, from scratch, of military drones that are now dominating the eastern European battlefield. Now, the United States wants in on Ukraine’s drone industry and manufacturing know-how to equip its own military for future conflicts. The United States’ own difficulties dealing with Iran’s use of one-way attack drones in the ongoing Middle East conflict has added urgency to the Pentagon-led effort to equip its own forces with the technology.

Steve Hilton is turning Xavier Becerra’s record as health and human services secretary into one of his biggest lines of attack—accusing his Democrat opponent of weakening the screening process for adults taking custody of unaccompanied migrant children and overseeing a system that Hilton says left more than 319,000 children unaccounted for. Becerra served as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under former President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025, overseeing the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the agency responsible for caring for unaccompanied migrant children before placing them with sponsors in the United States.

One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other words, people who identify as radical Muslims, often in their alliance, include people who are traditional Western Marxists, and it doesn’t seem possible for a variety of ways. There’s a lot of antitheses. Do we really believe that these upscale people in blue enclaves in the United States who declare themselves socialist and are voting for people like Zohran Mamdani, or Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib, who are proud, and active, and often fervent Muslims, tolerate gays?

Following Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) missile attacks on U.S. bases in Kuwait and Jordan, President Donald Trump is now signaling readiness for full-scale military action that could shatter the cycle of tit-for-tat exchanges and accelerate an end to the conflict, opening the door for a full-on revolution for the Persian nation. "We're going to beat the f****** s*** out of them [...] We'll be hitting them hard. They're going to get a beating," Trump said on Wednesday. If the Iranian regime collapsed under external pressure and internal strain, the power vacuum could empower ordinary Iranians, who have long protested theocratic rule, to seize control of their country’s future.

Pop culture can linger longer than many news headlines. Take the 1981 TV movie Skokie. Danny Kaye starred as a Jewish Holocaust survivor protesting a planned Nazi march in his Chicago suburb. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) played a central role in the fact-based drama, defending the Nazis’ free speech rights despite their abhorrent views. That’s what the American Civil Liberties Union did for decades—stand tall for the First Amendment. That Kaye drama made it crystal clear, even to those who never read a story tied to the civil rights group. That ACLU, bold and unrelenting in its quest to preserve free speech, is mostly missing these days.

You know when the lefties have received their anti-Trump talking points because they all emerge at the same time, guns ablazing, to pile onto the president about something no one else cares about (or maybe even supports). Even if what they're told to be mad about actually happened weeks ago. Of course, no one ever accused the left of being quick on the uptake. This is what seems to be happening this week with the issue of "DEI bike lanes." That's a phrase used by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy back on July 7 when announcing a new Department of Transportation project to redirect—

Cleese posted July 30 in response to an X poll about his possible motives, “I'm not a racist. I'm a culturalist[.] I believe some cultures are superior to others.” He went on, “For example, I prefer cultures that do not encourage wife beating, paedophilia, clitorectomies, stoning and constant inflation of the male ego[.] I am also aware of the difference between Islamoscepticism and Islamophobia.” He ended with a point that he has probably had to make many times to his former friends and colleagues: “Notice that hate does not come into this. Only moral preferences.” Unfortunately, most Western celebrities have become incapable of moral distinctions.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman vowed to undo Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “oppressive” and “reckless” pied-à-terre tax if elected – as it was revealed the Big Apple plans to hire dozens of employees just to process the new fee. Blakeman, who’s currently serving as the elected Nassau County executive, issued a dire warning Thursday saying state Democratic Party policies will drive more New Yorkers out of the city, which already carries a 12.5% local tax burden, the third highest in the country. “This reckless tax will drive even more families, jobs, and investment out of our state, and middle-class New Yorkers will pay the price,” Blakeman said.

Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America's botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except Fauci actually didn't testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-era "Faucism," the mad doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times. It's an unprecedented defiance of congressional will for a man who has already received a sweeping presidential pardon. Congress would do well to vote to hold Fauci in contempt. Wednesday's intense senatorial standoff followed Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) earlier release of damning excerpts of Fauci's diary.

With the rise of the Mamdani-style communists has come a widespread narrative that the sudden rise of more openly radical politicians means the Democrats of the last few years or decades are somehow moderate. Depending on who’s telling the story, it’s a harrowing tale about Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries trying to stave off the DSA Marxists; or the “far left” floundering because it doesn’t have its own Fox News; or the party needing a storybook journey home to the moderation of Joe Biden and Barack Obama. These are all tall tales, of course. Schumer and Jeffries are engaged in a power struggle, but it’s an intramural contest among fellow radicals.

Elon Musk, the mercurial trillionaire, is planning another massive cash binge on behalf of the GOP's midterm campaign that might just be enough to keep the Republicans in power in the House and Senate. In 2024, Musk dropped a cool $260 million to help elect Donald Trump. No word on exactly how much Musk is willing to shell out this election cycle, but it will only add to the Republicans' massive cash advantage over the Democrats for the November contests. "GOP super PACs and committees have a $300 million-plus advantage over their Democratic counterparts — and that doesn't include the $400 million sitting in Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC," reports Axios.