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Mollie Hemingway Federalist Editor-in-Chief:  “And so I think a lot of people in Washington, if they were to be honest, would admit that the FBI and the Department of Justice have a very big problem. But, they also know that if they were to tackle that it would, admittedly, help Donald Trump. That’s one of his big cases, and they are not willing to do that. And so they are allowing the FBI and the Department of Justice to be weaponized and to be politicized rather than to tackle this huge problem.”

Brian C. Joondeph contributor to American Thinker: In less than a decade, we may be eating bugs instead of meat and wearing uniforms rather than fashion if the World Economic Forum has its way, which it may with another four years of Democrat rule. What happens when a central digital currency wipes away your assets or the ability to conduct commerce due to your “incorrect ideas or thoughts”? Nigel Farage claims this happened to him recently in the U.K. Canadian trucker protesters’ assets were frozen by the Canadian authorities. We are living in a totalitarian state, but most of us don’t yet realize or acknowledge this. When we do, it will be too late.

Julio Rosas contributor to TownHall.com: Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee (D-TX)  comes to George Soros’ defense after a Republican criticized the pro-criminal DAs he has supported: “A contributing American and jeopardize his life for always throwing his name out..Soros does not deserve that. He is an American and a patriot.”

Kiri Jorgenson is a book publisher and contributor to The Federalist: The entire children’s book publishing industry — from authors to publishers to librarians — believes it should have the power to control your kids’ minds.

Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Being a cis white male is the worst possible thing. A white cis female is the second worst possible thing. Cis is a sexual identity politics slur which means normal.

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0)  ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Sundance: Artificial Intelligence Positioned to Define Terms of Reality

There has been a great deal of increased discussion surrounding the issues of automated Artificial Intelligence, colloquially called “AI.”

At the central core of the AI issues in communication; you inevitably enter a discussion on the issue of definitions and terms.  Who is determining the definitions of what constitutes valid information? Who is determining what types of information are not valid, not approved for communication networks and how are their definitions being applied? A solid and short-read thread on the assembly of people, groups and institutions surrounding the issue of AI in communication and media is presented HERE. The topic of AI in general is a very large conversation.  The topic of AI specific to communication is equally large and perhaps even more significant.

Read more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/12/artificial-intelligence-positioned-to-define-terms-of-reality/

War Room: Joe Allen Warns The World’s Leading Transhumanist Minds Have Brought Transhumanism To Today

atch the 7:11 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2yv0jg-joe-allen-warns-the-worlds-leading-transhumanist-minds-have-brought-transhu.html

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES & THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS

Cleveland: Top 10 Takeaways From FBI Director Christopher Wray’s House Judiciary Testimony

Here’s everything you need to know from the hearing. 1. Wray Indicates Foreign Intel Agencies Worked with Big Tech to Silence Speech  The FBI director faced fierce questioning from Republican committee members on the FBI’s efforts to induce Big Tech to censor American speech. Several representatives specifically challenged Wray to justify the FBI passing along requests from the Ukrainian intelligence agency, SBU, to social media companies. The FBI’s role as a conduit for SBU was just revealed on Monday in a report from the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. That report revealed that following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, .  . .

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/13/top-10-takeaways-from-fbi-director-christopher-wrays-house-judiciary-testimony/

FORBES BREAKING NEWS: Thomas Massie Confronts FBI’s Wray With Shocking Video Relating To Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb

Watch the 3:39 minute hearing exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaL5RM-ZYt0

Representative Matt Gaetz Has Fiery Exchange with FBI Director Chris Wray Asking, “Are You Protecting the Bidens?”

Watch the 5:18 minute hearing exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNO1Y8RmbX4

Gateway Pundit: Watch Rep Harriett Hagemon Humiliate Dirty Chris Wray for Illegally Censoring Free Speech in America

Watch the 2:17 minute hearing exchange: https://rumble.com/v2zsm2q-watch-rep-harriett-hagemon-humiliate-dirty-chris-wray-for-illegally-censori.html

The Absolute Truth with @EmeraldRobinson Tweet: FBI whistleblower George Hill sounded the alarm after Bank of America handed over their customer’s personal banking information to the bureau. Hill calls FBI Director Christopher Wray out for allegedly lying.

Watch the 3:38 minute hearing exchange: https://twitter.com/AbsoluteWithE/status/1679544569803730944

Revolver.news: More January 6 dots are connected and a radical woman named Fatima Goss Graves has emerged…

The D.C. Swamp is quite the scene. It’s like an elusive country club filled with “lizard people” where decent, regular folks like us are not welcomed. Not that we’re missing out on much. It’s an unappetizing cocktail of the swampiest dregs of humanity who are masquerading as the “good guys. The DC elites have a knack for putting on a show, posing as virtuous saviors, when they’re actually undermining the very foundations our country was built upon. They throw around the word “democracy” like they actually know what it means. A perfect example of this members only lizard club is a woman named Fatima Goss Graves who has one of the worst Valley Girl vocal fries we’ve ever heard. Chances are you’ve never heard of her, but she’s actually a pretty big player in the D.C. swamp. She’s a hardcore radical left-wing feminist, a CNN contributor, an activist who runs a $100 million dollar progressive nonprofit, and she just so happens to be the wife of Matthew Graves, the D.C. U.S. attorney who is on a feverish witch hunt to imprison American citizens who attended the January 6th rally.

Read more: https://www.revolver.news/2023/07/more-january-6-dots-are-connected-and-a-radical-woman-named-fatima-goss-graves-has-emerged/

Cheney & Gerstein: Justice Department appeals Jan. 6 prison sentences for Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in prison — the harshest sentence for any Jan. 6 defendant — reflecting his leadership of what Mehta characterized as a dangerous criminal conspiracy aimed at violently derailing the transfer of presidential power. Nevertheless, the sentence for the Yale Law School graduate and disbarred attorney was seven years shorter than the 25-year prison term prosecutors recommended and four years below an agreed-upon “guidelines range” based upon Rhodes’ conduct.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/12/doj-appeals-oath-keepers-sentences-00106040

Bradbury:  How to Fix the FBI

The FBI’s chilling record of politicized abuses and the executive branch’s continuing misuse of federal intelligence authorities to target the exercise of free speech and other constitutional rights of Americans gives Congress clear and compelling grounds for enacting forceful reforms, starting with the FBI. In fact, the time is ripe for Congress to consider a complete reconstruction of the FBI, defining the scope of its jurisdiction, refocusing its mission on traditional law enforcement, and putting it under effective control. Short of that comprehensive reform, Congress must, at the very least, put in place the minimum set of proposed reforms outlined in this paper, and reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702 offers a perfect vehicle for doing so. The liberty of the American people is under threat from politicized national security agencies, exemplified by the abuses of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Congress must act to restrain and reform the FBI and mitigate this threat to our cherished freedoms. There is good reason to rethink the entire idea of the FBI at a fundamental level—to start over from scratch and reconstruct the Bureau in a new form, one refocused on its core law enforcement responsibilities, brought under effective control and oversight, and subject to the structural restraints needed to protect the constitutional rights of Americans. […] The following outline describes in general terms the major elements we believe ought to be considered in putting together a plan for a complete makeover of the FBI.   

Element No. 1: Consider restricting the new Bureau’s jurisdiction and eliminating redundancies with other federal law enforcement agencies. Congress should decide whether the newly constituted Bureau41 To emphasize the clear demarcation from the past abuses of the FBI and the launching of a newly constituted entity in a form more aligned with the principles of federalism and our constitutional values, Congress could give the entity a new name. We refer to it here as simply the “Bureau” or “new Bureau.”  must continue to exercise general authority to investigate all federal crimes or whether it would be more appropriate to limit the scope of the Bureau’s investigatory jurisdiction. […] Element No. 2: Consider moving the intelligence function elsewhere and establishing by law distinct components within the Bureau, each focused on clear federal law enforcement priorities.

Read more: https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/report/how-fix-the-fbi

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Moran: Supreme Court Considering a Case That Might Upend Hundreds of January 6 Prosecutions

Prosecutorial overreach is not uncommon in high-profile cases. The prosecutors pile on the charges to frighten defendants with the prospect of long prison terms so they plead out. The state also hopes to throw enough charges against the wall to see what sticks. But the danger of overreach is that a judge may want to smack a prosecutor down for bringing unnecessary charges. Such is the case in the January 6 prosecutions. One of the rioters, Edward Lang, is facing 11 charges and pleaded not guilty to all of them. But a district court judge threw out the charges relating to “obstruction of an official proceeding” concerning Lang and two others accused of violence at the Capitol. The law in question . . .

Read more: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2023/07/13/supreme-court-considering-a-case-that-might-upend-hundreds-of-january-6-prosecutions-n1710263

U.S. HOUSE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY

Kasperowicz: House votes to ban Pentagon from displaying non-approved flags after Pride month controversy

In a 218-213 vote, the House approved an amendment from Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., that would only allow members of the armed forces to display the American flags and other approved flags. The amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) says only approved flags can be displayed in the workplace, common access areas or other areas of the Defense Department. Approved flags also include state flags, military service flags and others.

Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-votes-ban-pentagon-displaying-non-approved-flags-pride-month

Sundance: Twitter Court Filing Cites Alarming FTC Conduct Pressuring Consent Decree Arbiter to Target Elon Musk and Company

Prior to Elon Musk taking control of Twitter, the social media company entered a consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission putting a neutral arbiter from Ernst & Young in an oversight position for the company’s privacy, data collection and information security protocols.  Given what we know about DHS and FBI control and influence over Twitter content, there is a certain irony in the prior position of the FTC regarding user privacy. That said, Twitter’s new parent company X Corp filed a court motion Thursday [PDF HERE] asking a federal court overseeing the settlement to either throw out the consent decree entirely, or put it on hold until the FTC turns over documents to Twitter showing historic bias against the company. Twitter is also seeking to bar the FTC from deposing CEO Elon Musk over issues that preceded his arrival. Within the filing, Twitter presents some alarming information as shared by Ernst and Young about the FTC pressure applied to them.

Read more/Watch the 5:29 minute hearing exchange: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/13/twitter-court-filing-cites-alarming-ftc-conduct-pressuring-consent-decree-arbiter-to-target-elon-musk-and-company/

U.S. SENATE DEMOCRAT MAJORITY

Allen: Religious Freedom Coalition Urges Senate to Reject Judge Nominee, Citing Her ‘Opposition’ to First Amendment Protections

The Senate will vote soon on the controversial nomination of D.C. Judge Loren AliKhan to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 entirely along party lines Thursday to advance AliKhan’s nomination to a full Senate floor vote, despite a coalition of more than a dozen legal and policy organizations urging senators to vote against her confirmation. “During her short 11 years as a litigator, she has developed a remarkably long record of advocacy against religious freedom,” reads a coalition letter sent to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and to Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., the panel’s ranking member. All of the Democrats on the committee voted in AliKhan’s favor, while all the Republicans opposed her confirmation. […] “As a litigator, Loren AliKhan repeatedly took extreme positions in opposition to the First Amendment’s [protections] for religious organizations, houses of worships, and citizens,” Hiram Sasser, executive general counsel for the First Liberty Institute, said in an email to The Daily Signal. “She poses a grave threat to the religious liberty rights of all Americans. The Senate should reject her nomination.”

Read more: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/13/religious-freedom-coalition-urges-senate-to-reject-judge-nominee-citing-her-opposition-to-first-amendment-protections/

2024 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CANDIDATES

The National Pulse: DeSantis Hits All-Time Low in Delegate Forecast, Holds Crisis Talks With Donors.

DeSantis was predicted to receive around 1,413 delegates as late as February 25 this year, leading former President Donald Trump by almost 400. Since then, support for DeSantis has dropped precipitously, with the Governor now forecasted to receive only 405 delegate votes, down from 834 on May 25 – the day after his “historic screw-up” presidential campaign launch on Twitter spaces.

Read more: https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/desantis-hits-all-time-low-in-delegate-forecast-holds-crisis-talks-with-donors/

Wauck: More Thoughts On Trump As The Peace Candidate

Obviously, how this plays out will depend on Trump. However, from my point of view there are multiple advantages for Trump by positioning himself as the peace candidate—both looking to the past as well as looking forward. First of all, by staking out his position on the high ground as the Republican peace candidate Trump not only distinguishes himself from Zhou and the midgets, he also distances himself from the unfolding foreign policy and economic disaster for America that is now unfolding. Only RFK is a credible peace candidate, and he won’t be allowed anywhere near the nomination if the DNC has anything to say about it. The effect on candidates of both parties should end up being similar. Consider. […] Again, on the GOP side, which of the midgets will join Trump as peace candidates? That would make them the “me, too, midgets.” DeSantis has terminally screwed this issue up. Hey, not his fault. He tried to do what his handlers told him to do. Big mistake. His first instinct was more right than wrong, from the standpoint of American politics.

Read more: https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/more-thoughts-on-trump-as-the-peace?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

Goldenberg & Allison: Top donors, souring on DeSantis, start looking at Tim Scott

Billionaire businessman Ronald Lauder, the Estée Lauder makeup heir who supported Trump in 2020, recently flew to South Carolina to meet with Scott, the state’s junior senator and longshot presidential candidate, according to three people aware of the late June meeting. The meeting comes amid widespread angst among wealthy GOP backers about the emerging 2024 field, and DeSantis’ bumpy start in particular. Many high-dollar donors in Trump’s native New York City have tired of the former president and worry about his general election chances. But they say their faith in the Florida governor has been shaken by early campaign missteps and his hardline positions on abortion, transgender rights and other culture-war issues. They fear time is running out for anyone else to break through.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/13/top-donors-tim-scott-00106062

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

War Room: Xi’s Psychological Operation | Col. John Mills Breaks Down Xi’s Army Preparedness Speech

Watch the 3:38 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2yv0ze-xis-psychological-operation-col.-john-mills-breaks-down-xis-army-preparedne.html

Reuters & WFB Staff: Chinese Hackers Reportedly Had Access to Senior Biden Officials’ Emails

Chinese state-linked hackers since May have secretly accessed email accounts at around 25 organizations, including at least two U.S. government agencies, Microsoft and U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The United States detected a breach of federal government accounts “fairly rapidly” and managed to prevent further breaches, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America program. The U.S. State and Commerce Departments were among the affected agencies, and hackers gained access to the email accounts of Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and State Department officials, the Washington Post reported, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The hackers reportedly had access to the government emails for about a month before officials caught on to the breach.

Read more: https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/chinese-hackers-reportedly-had-access-to-senior-biden-officials-emails/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

(A must watch video)  Blumentahl: ‘Why are we tempting nuclear annihilation?’ Watch Max Blumenthal address UN Security Council

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal addressed the UN Security Council on the role of US military aid to Ukraine in escalating the conflict with Russia and the real motives behind Washington’s support for Kiev’s proxy war. {Note: Max Blumenthal is a registered Democrat.]

Read the transcript or watch the 14 minute video: https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/29/nuclear-annihilation-max-blumenthal-security-council/

Walker: RFK Jr. Claims U.S. Pressured Zelensky Not To Make Peace With Russia

“Well, it gets harder and harder but, you know, we have to remember that Putin twice agreed to sign to treaties that would have given us essentially everything,” RFK said. “What Putin wanted in both these treaties, in the Minsk Accords and the April 2022 treaty, was that the Donbas got to stay part of Ukraine, but it would be able to protect its ethnic Russian population from violence by the government, which was a U.S.-installed government, that NATO stay out of Ukraine and that they de-Nazify the government. So, all those things seem really reasonable. Both Zelenskyy and Putin agreed in April 2022 to sign that agreement, and then Russians acted in good faith by beginning to withdraw their troops from the Ukraine.”

Read more: https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/12/rfk-jr-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-pressured-zelenskyy/

Wauck: I Asked, Trump Answered

When the Zhou regime announced that it was dangerously close to running out of conventional munitions and so would send cluster munitions to Ukraine for use in America’s war on Russia, I asked: Where is Trump? Trump has responded. This could turn out to be a huge story—not just for today but for the 2024 campaign. President Trump has denounced Zhou for sending cluster munitions to Ukraine. Implicitly, this is also a condemnation of the bipartisan War Party and its corrupt alliance with the Military Industrial Complex (MIC). This sets the stage for a War and Peace election. Further, if the Ruling Class finds the nerve to bail out of Ukraine, Trump retains the ability to turn the election into a referendum on the Big Screwup that the War on Russia is. I believe this is a winning strategy that will energize the conservative base as well as reach out to elements of the Dem base. It could amount to a Third Party run, without a Third Party. Here, courtesy of CTH, is Trump’s statement: . . .

Read more: https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/i-asked-trump-answered?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

Wauck: Is A Day Of Reckoning Approaching–At Home And Abroad?

I have all sorts of things to get done today, so I’ll quickly point toward two thought provoking articles that dovetail with each other. They seem especially relevant at this juncture. First I turn to Alastair Crooke’s latest, which is timed for the NATO summit in Vilnius: Indecision Haunts the West: Events on the Ukraine Front Sends It Reeling As I read Crooke, what he’s basically saying is the moment of indecision amounts to this: There’s no going back—the collective West followed the Neocon/Globalist cabal over the cliff like a herd of lemmings, and there’s no clawing their way back up. There will be no soft landing. Now, Crooke places this, initially, in the context of the . . . […] James Kunstler starts with Crooke’s piece, but moves on to the home front: Summer 2023 Is The “Fulcrum For A Great Public Attitude Adjustment” He’s suggesting that the war on Russia is about to bring about a reckoning that will come home—the price to be paid to the piper will not be confined to foreign policy. The American public will also demand its pound of flesh from its corrupt ruling class—May it be! Kunstler, as I said, begins with Crooke: . . . […] So first Kunstler lays out the military dilemma—there is no way out: . . .

Read more: https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/is-a-day-of-reckoning-approaching?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Boehlke: 10 Abnormal Things Biden’s ‘Return To Normalcy’ Brought Americans

As they worked tirelessly to oust Donald Trump from the White House in 2020, a chorus of corporate media, Never Trumpers, establishment Democrats, and Joe Biden himself promised Americans a Biden presidency would usher in a “return to normalcy.” Two and a half years later, normalcy has yet to appear. Biden’s tenure has cemented a new “normal” of men pretending to be women, a march toward global conflict, and synthetic drugs in the White House. Decency and decorum? Not exactly. As the 2024 election season heats up, now is as good a time as ever to take stock of our cultural and political status quo and remind ourselves that the self-proclaimed unifier-in-chief and his administration’s lackeys have done everything in their power to upend our norms, not return to them. Here are 10 examples. 1. Obscene LGBT Activism In exchange for Trump’s mean tweets, Biden’s normal includes men showing off their prosthetic breasts on the White House lawn. As LGBT extremists enforced pride month on the rest of the country, the Biden family saw fit to host a pride party at the symbolic residence. Three of their guests proudly stripped off their tops to flaunt their mutilated “true” selves.

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/13/10-abnormal-things-bidens-return-to-normalcy-brought-americans/

Zimmerman: Librarian-In-Chief Joe Biden Dreams Up Illegal Federal Library Code For Public Schools

It’s his latest in a string of moves meant to bully parents and other concerned citizens into silence when it comes to what kids learn in public schools and, in this case, when they should be exposed to sexually explicit material. But the notion that the federal government has any authority to veto a school district’s decision to protect students from pornographic content belongs in the library’s fantasy section. The Biden administration’s latest assault on parental rights began with an investigation of Forsyth County Public Schools (FCPS), outside of Atlanta, over the district’s review of school libraries to flag age-inappropriate sexual material for removal. The school district expressly and categorically limited the scope of this review to books containing “obviously sexually explicit or pornographic content.” No one who reads the relevant excerpts of these books can seriously dispute that their graphic descriptions of nudity, oral sex, sexual assault, and other sexual behavior meet the district’s reasonable standard of content that is inappropriate for school-age children. […]  Biden’s scheme to impose a school library code on the nation suffers from at least one major flaw: He has no legal authority to pursue it. Federal civil rights law doesn’t forbid school districts from deciding not to offer graphic sexual content on their library shelves. In fact, as my organization pointed out in a recent letter to OCR, the law that established the department in 1979 specifically prohibits OCR from policing such decisions, denying the federal agency any authority “over the selection or content of library resources.”

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/14/librarian-in-chief-joe-biden-dreams-up-illegal-federal-library-code-for-public-schools/

(Cocaine cover-up?) Ballasy: Boebert says after Secret Service briefing drugs discovered three times at White House since 2022

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert said after the Secret Service briefing Thursday on cocaine found July 2 at the White House that drugs have been found two other times since last year in the building. The Colorado lawmaker also confirmed that Secret Service officials said at the briefing the agency likely won’t find a suspect in connection to the cocaine discovery and that the probe will conclude Friday. “There’s a list of more than 500 individuals that they looked into their backgrounds for prior drug records or use, and nothing was determined from from their analysis,” she said. “And the Secret Service is very eager to close this within the next couple of days.”

Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/rep-mace-after-secret-service-briefing-cocaine-caper-will-be-concluded-without

(H/T DG) Mackinnon: Anti-child-trafficker whose story is told in ‘Sound of Freedom’ explains that the trans agenda and Biden administration’s border policies benefit pedophiles

According to Ballard, the so-called pedophile network doctrines — not strictly specific to the PNVD — are: “Separate children from parents because parents are a bad influence”; “The state knows best“; “Sexualize kids — let them see pornography“; “Take God out of education because that just gets in the way”.

“Children can consent to anything — at 12-years-old they should be able to vote, they should do anything.” “Now, what am I seeing here?” said Ballard. “My stomach is getting sick as I’m reading this. I read this every day. It’s the woke left agenda.” The child liberator clarified that he wasn’t alleging that trans activists and the PNVD or other such pedophiles were “colluding or talking,” but that “it doesn’t matter. It’s the same dark source. … Pedophiles are sitting back right now, going, ‘We’ve been pushing this agenda for decades and now we don’t have to push any more because the left are taking care of it for us in America.’ In America!” […] The Daily Signal highlighted how, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, over 150,000 unaccompanied minors were encountered crossing the U.S.-Mexico border last fiscal year and over 91,000 have been intercepted crossing the border so far this fiscal year. “Thousands of them … are under 5 years old,” said Ballard. “Why is a 3-year-old showing up at the border? … Well, I can tell you why, because they show up with a name — the name of the sponsor that they’re given by the trafficker.”

Read more/Watch the 18:15 minute interview: https://www.theblaze.com/news/tim-ballard-explains-that-trans-agenda-is-straight-out-of-the-pedophile-playboo

Revolver.news: Alabama senators call Biden’s bluff and just defunded all Air Force spending…

In a move that’s not too surprising, the Biden administration is once again attempting to pressure red states and drain them of resources. This is nothing new; we’ve seen this regime use every unethical and unfair political tool in their arsenal to desperately maintain power. The silver lining is that this time, their strategy has backfired. The Biden administration thought that they had a sure-fire plan to squeeze red states financially by revoking a contract to build the Space Force HQ in Alabama. The decision was supposedly made because of  Alabama’s stringent abortion laws. But, in a briliant countermove, Alabama’s U.S. legislators, specifically Senator Tuberville from the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Mike Rogers, the head of the House Armed Services Committee, have cut all funding for the Air Force.

Read more: https://www.revolver.news/2023/07/alabama-senators-call-bidens-bluff-and-just-defunded-all-air-force-spending/

(Published 10/2022) Intelligent.com: NEARLY HALF OF STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS RECIPIENTS WILL USE RELIEF TO GO ON VACATION

To find how recipients would use the extra money they would have each month, in October, Intelligent.com surveyed 1,250 individuals who have applied or plan to apply for Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. Key findings:

  • 73% of applicants say they are likely to spend their extra money on non-essentials, including vacations, smartphone, drugs/alcohol
  • Men more likely than women to spend the money on non-essentials (84% vs 65%)
  • 2x as many Democrats than Republicans say it’s acceptable to spend the money on non-essentials
  • 77% of applicants say they could use money more wisely
  • 4 in 10 say student loans haven’t negatively affected their lives

Read more: https://www.intelligent.com/nearly-half-of-student-loan-forgiveness-recipients-will-use-relief-to-go-on-vacation/

Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch Sues DHS for Records on Grant from U.S. Biological Defense Program to EcoHealth Alliance

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records and communications between DHS component offices and the U.S. Biological Defense Program regarding a $2 million grant awarded by the DHS’s Ground Truth Network to EcoHealth Alliance (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:23-cv-01855)). EcoHealth Alliance is implicated in using tax dollars for “gain-of-function” coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute for Virology and elsewhere in China. […] Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after DHS failed to respond to a February 17, 2023, FOIA request for: Records and communications of the National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC), Office of Health Affairs, DHS of the following current or former employees (1) Heather Poindexter, (2) LCDR Reajul Mojumder, (3) Teresa Quitugua, regarding: . . .

Read more: https://www.judicialwatch.org/ecohealth-alliance/

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY

McCann: Pre-Emptive Presidential Pardons for Joe and Hunter Biden

As the revelations of potential bribery, bank fraud and tax evasion swirl around Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, both men, who are increasingly appearing together, seem extraordinary calm and unconcerned in public as Joe flashes his signature supercilious and mocking smirk whenever he is asked about the various investigation into his and his son’s activities over the past 12 years.  Thanks to pre-emptive presidential pardons, Joe knows that he, Hunter, and the family will never have to answer for any of their alleged egregious criminality. The Supreme Court has ruled that a president can issue a pardon before charges have been filed.  That pardon power: . . .

Read more at American Thinker.

Charlie Kirk Tweet: NEW: House Oversight member, Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, has confirmed that the “unnamed” foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden with $10 million, was none other than Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky.  The now infamous FBI FD-1023 form provide by Wray had redacted Zlochevsky’s name but detailed a $10 million bribe to the Bidens with someone connected to Burisma.  Putting it all together…

Read more: https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1679688653562597376

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CHILDREN ARE THE TARGET OF THE DARKNESS AFFECTING OUR NATION

Glazov: HHS Whistleblower Exposes Child Trafficking at the Border

“What we have is government sponsored taxpayer funded child trafficking.”

Watch the 37:13 minute interview: https://www.frontpagemag.com/dhfc_videos/hhs-whistleblower-exposes-child-trafficking-at-the-border/

Jorgenson: A Woke Children’s Literature Cabal Is Conditioning Your Kid To Be An Obedient Leftist

Children’s books are one of the most powerful tools parents have to help teach their kids how to be good humans. From picture books being read at bedtime to novels being read by flashlight under blankets, kids flourish in the safety of stories as they develop their belief systems. Resilience, empathy, respect, and many other noble traits are portrayed and experienced vicariously through books. What a powerful tool! Having been a part of the children’s book publishing industry for several decades, and as a passionate participant, I have watched in growing dismay as the children’s literature, or “kidlit,” world has shifted and changed, and most recently taken a drastic plummet. Parents need to understand the destructive path this industry has taken, or they will discover too late as the damage hits home.

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/13/a-woke-childrens-literature-cabal-is-conditioning-your-kid-to-be-an-obedient-leftist/

Luthi: California Democrats Block Bill To Lock Up Repeat Child Sex Traffickers: Prison Is Not the Answer

The legislation, Senate Bill 14, would classify trafficking of children and teenagers younger than 18 years old as a serious felony on par with murder, arson, and rape, which would bring longer prison terms and potential life sentences without a chance for a plea bargain. The six Democrats on the Assembly Public Safety Committee abstained from voting on the bill, preventing its advance for a vote by the full chamber. Both Republicans voted yes. […] The Democrats’ downvote came even as local leaders and anti-trafficking activists across California have warned that sex trafficking is surging since the state in January decriminalized loitering with the intent to commit prostitution in the name of transgender rights. The Public Safety Committee has killed a number of proposals this session meant to address rising crime—including a previous bill to sharpen penalties for sex trafficking. Progressive members of the panel have for years worked to ease punishments for criminals and reduce prison populations.

Read more: https://freebeacon.com/california/california-child-sex-trafficking-bill/

Kornick: California approves new math guidelines that encourage ‘teaching toward social justice’

California will officially adopt a new “equity” and “social justice” based mathematics framework for its K-12 schools after a vote from the State Board of Education on Wednesday. After multiple revisions and years of development, the board unanimously passed the 2023 Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools which seeks to renew the state’s “commitment to ensuring equity and excellence in math learning for all students.” […] The 1000-page document, which has seen three revisions and two public hearings, aims to “structure the teaching of the state’s math standards around ‘big ideas’ that integrate rather than isolate math concepts,” “allow students to ‘see themselves’ in curriculum and in math-related careers by making math instruction culturally relevant and empowering” and “instill confidence in learners by dispelling myths about who can and cannot learn math.” […]  “Subjecting the children of our largest state to such an experiment is the height of irresponsibility,” . . .

Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-approves-new-math-guidelines-encourage-teaching-toward-social-justice

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: IDENTITY POLITICS

Queen: Woke Doctor Suggests Body Cams for Physicians Because of the Rampant Racism She Claims to See

The editorial by a doctor named Amanda Joy Calhoun comes with the headline, “What if doctors wore body cameras?” The subheadline is even more provocative: “Black people face racism and worse health outcomes in hospitals. It’s time to document it.” Calhoun’s bio says that she is “an adult/child psychiatry resident at Yale School of Medicine/Yale Child Study Center. She is an expert in the mental health effects of anti-Black racism, with a focus on medical racism.” And you’d better believe she focuses on whatever “medical racism” is. The good doctor and “expert” claims to have seen egregious examples of racism with her own eyes, and she shares these extreme examples of racist behavior among her colleagues: . . .[…] “If hospitals and medical institutions want to make good on those anti-racism statements made in 2020, prove it: Have health care professionals wear body cameras,” Calhoun concludes. “As a patient, I would feel far more comfortable if they did. And as a doctor, I will volunteer to wear one first.” Oh, Dr. Calhoun, you’re so brave to agree to be the first doctor to wear a body camera. But I can’t help but think you need to do better to prove your point than with some stories. If the medical establishment is as rife with racism as you claim, you prove it. Then others might listen.

Read more: https://pjmedia.com/columns/chris-queen/2023/07/08/woke-doctor-suggests-body-cams-for-physicians-because-of-the-rampant-racism-she-claims-to-see-n1709109

THE MEDICAL CARTEL CANCELLED THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

(As goes California so goes the nation) Hughes, M.D.: American Medical Association’s Silence on Transgenderism Betrays Their Malign Intent

The AMA clearly is an active and outspoken influencer of government and public opinion when doing so suits the political appetite of its leadership. Its silence regarding the following two California bills, however, is concerning as it indicates it is likely trying to have it both ways: get the outcome it wants without having to have its opinion captured on public record. California Bill AB957 – the law has passed the California House and is now being debated in the Senate. It includes language that would add a parent’s denial of their child’s gender expression to the list of offenses deemed child abuse and therefore included in child custody considerations. […]  California Bill AB2098 – this was signed into law in September 2022 but is currently in a legal injunction pending legal challenges. This law forbids physicians from providing informed consent or anything negative or ‘misinformation’ about the covid vaccine. As a law, it provides professional and legal consequences for offending physicians.

Read more at American Thinker

War Room: Dr. Risch: Medical Journals Blindly Believe Government Findings While Ignore Independent Reports

Watch the 11:01 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2yqzoe-dr.-risch-medical-journals-blindly-believe-government-findings-while-ignore.html

Bohler: Low-Risk Medical School Students Are Being Forced To Get The Covid Booster

The Covid-19 bivalent booster is being forced on low-risk medical students, while CDC and hospital workers are not mandated to receive it. […]  The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the leading governing body for medical education in the United States, recently added the Covid-19 bivalent booster to its standardized immunization form, a list of recommended vaccines used to guide medical schools on required vaccinations for students. Although the adoption of this form by medical schools is optional, this document is highly influential as some schools use the form as school policy for the vaccinations required of incoming medical students. Students may have the option to request a waiver for the Covid shot, but at some universities, the only exceptions permitted must be medical and comply with CDC guidance on what is considered a contraindication. […] The risks, however, are clear. We know that this vaccine has the potential to cause harm to young, healthy individuals, especially men who receive boosters of the Covid vaccine. Considering half of all medical students are young men, why have the AAMC and medical schools decided to put this age group at risk for the known side effects of this treatment? […] This type of decision-making at the AAMC and the schools that enforce its guidelines should be of great concern to both physicians and the public. If we do not require the institutions responsible for the training of future physicians to implement evidence-based decision-making, how can we expect the physicians trained under these organizations to use evidence-based medicine when treating patients?

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/13/low-risk-medical-school-students-are-being-forced-to-get-the-covid-booster/

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Murray: Controversial Hit ‘Sound Of Freedom’ Crosses $50 Million At U.S. Box Office, Report Says

The Sound of Freedom had grossed about $53.4 million as of Wednesday, Deadline reported, taking second place in that day’s box office totals behind Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning — Part One’s $16 million opening day. After opening in theaters July 4, Sound of Freedom became an unexpected box office hit, more than tripling its $14.5 million budget so far. In its opening weekend, The Sound of Freedom placed third behind Insidious: The Red Door and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The film places among the top 25 biggest releases of 2023 at the domestic box office, ahead of star-studded movies like Jennifer Lawrence’s No Hard Feelings80 for Brady and Magic Mike’s Last Dance.

Read more at Forbes.

VDH: Ten Reasons Why Affirmative Action Died

The end of affirmative action was inevitable. The only surprise was that such intentions gone terribly wrong lasted so long. First, supporters of racial preferences always pushed back the goal posts for the program’s success. Was institutionalized reverse bias to last 20 years, 60 years, or ad infinitum? Parity became defined as an absolute equality of result. If “equity” was not obtained, then only institutionalized “racism” explained disparities. And only reverse racism was deemed the cure. Second, affirmative action was imposed on the back end in adult hiring and college admissions. However, to achieve parity, remediation early at the K-12 school level would have been the only solution. Yet such intervention was made impossible by teachers’ unions, the rise of identity politics and government entitlements. All were opposed to school choice, self-help programs, critiques of cultural impediments, or restrictions on those blanket entitlements, Third, . . .

Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2023/07/12/ten-reasons-why-affirmative-action-died/

Boomerang: Democrats get fact-checked after claiming FBI whistleblowers received $250,000 to testify

While two of the whistleblowers, Garrett O’Boyle and Steve Friend, did get charitable checks to help support their families because their FBI paychecks had ended, there is no evidence in the public record that the checks came in exchange for testimony. In fact, the charities have said there is no connection between the financial aid and the testimonies. But the Democrat attacks took a more significant blow when lawyers for a third whistleblower, Marcus Allen, revealed he never accepted the money as alleged by a congresswoman. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) alleged during FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee that FBI whistleblowers O’Boyle and Allen were given donations by fellow whistleblower Kyle Seraphin after testifying before congress.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/hold-democrats-get-fact-checked-after-claiming-fbi-whistleblowers-were-paid

Douraghy: Tucker Carlson tells Russell Brand he was fired from Fox News right before revealing Jan 6 riot was ‘filled’ with feds

American journalist Tim Pool discussed the revelation on Friday’s episode of Timcast IRL, noting that Carlson conducted an interview with former US Capitol Police Steven Sund, who was fired by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just after the Capitol riots. […]  He then stated that when interviewing Sund, the former US Capitol police chief said “that crap was filled with federal agents.” “He would know of course, because he was in charge of security at the site,” Carlson observed.

Read more/Watch the 4:15 minute Tim Poole video: https://thepostmillennial.com/tucker-carlson-tells-russell-brand-the-crowd-outside-capitol-on-j6-was-filled-with-undercover-feds

Hubbard: Omar says there’s ‘no way in hell’ she will attend Israeli president’s congressional address

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Omar are the first Muslim women elected to Congress and they are both vocal critics of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. They were scheduled to visit the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 2019, but the Israeli government under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked them from coming on the grounds that they have called to boycott Israel. One day after issuing the ban, Israel said Tlaib could visit her family in the West Bank on humanitarian grounds, but she said she still would not go.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/omar-says-theres-no-way-hell-she-will-attend-israeli-presidents-congressional

LaBarbera: ‘Insulting’: Disney+ invents person’s homosexuality in famous true story

How far will Hollywood “progressives” go to advance their agenda of celebrating all things LGBT? Evidently, as far as taking a real historical figure and making him homosexual – with zero evidence – as a tool to inject “queer” history into the storyline.

Read more: https://www.wnd.com/2023/07/insulting-disney-invents-persons-homosexuality-famous-true-story/

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