I Was in the DSA. Here’s What They Really Believe.

The Free Press

The socialist candidates being swept into power want to dismantle American life. It’s all right there in their new platform.

"Candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) keep racking up primary victories, and skeptics and fans alike are struggling to determine what the organization actually believes. President Donald Trump says they are “communists.” One prominent DSA member, Jacobin publisher Bhaskar Sunkara, says they are a “milquetoast organization” seeking Scandinavian social democracy, with no interest in violent revolution.

"I was a member of the DSA from the 2010s until 2022. During that time, I witnessed a rise in extremism, ranging from an eagerness to collaborate with Leninist groups to a growing animosity toward the U.S. and the West. My final departure was prompted by a DSA statement that attributed Russia’s aggression against Ukraine to American “imperialist expansionism.”

"So what does the DSA stand for? An answer to that question arrived last week in the form of a new platform. Among the DSA’s core aims are ending the presidency and Supreme Court. Abolishing prisons. Universal free housing. The elimination of all debt. Closing all U.S. military bases overseas. Lifting all sanctions from Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran." . . . 

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Van Jones: Dems Went 'Quiet' After Mamdani Betrayed One of His Backers for Someone Who Celebrated October 7

Breitbart  

Dems are finally speaking up on Mamdani's antisemitism — while New York's leaders remain silent

"On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” CNN Senior Political Commentator Van Jones said that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) “stabbed in the back” outgoing Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) for “Chevalier, who has no credentials, except she’s known for having celebrated October 7 murders of Israelis on October 8, and never apologized. … And then no one says anything. Everybody’s quiet.”

"Jones said, “I am happy that the young people are fighting for affordability, Medicare for all, all the good things. I’ve been waiting my whole life to see a youth movement do what it’s doing. But it’s being hijacked by people who are putting in nutty ideas, supporting terrorists, nutty ideas saying we don’t need cops and prisons, we can’t deport anybody, even if they rape somebody. Who said this? Chevalier.”

"He added, “I just want to say that there was a shockwave through this party when Mamdani, who everybody’s excited about, stabbed in the back, Espaillat, who…was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, beloved by everybody, who backed Mamdani. Mamdani said, I will back you. Then he turns around, stabs him in the back. And backed Chevalier, who has no credentials, except she’s known for having celebrated October 7 murders of Israelis on October 8, and never apologized. This sent a shockwave through the party. People said, hold on a second, why, of all the people in New York City, would Mamdani pick this person to betray someone? And then no one says anything. Everybody’s quiet.”  More...

The pols’ refusal to speak up also reflects how an anti-Israel movement has become a powerful force in their party.  . . . "In reality, the phrase is widely understood as a call to commit violence against Jews anywhere and everywhere. It is often paired by college radicals with another hateful phrase, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.”

"That one is a clear call for the elimination of Israel and the mass murder of the 7 million Jews who live there." . . .

Game Over: Boy Trying to Play on Girls' Soccer Team Quits After Female Players Stand Their Ground

 Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

"Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., holding that states may reserve girls' and women's sports teams for biological females without violating Title IX or the Constitution, New Hampshire parents of transgender teenagers have dropped their lawsuits to allow their sons to play on the women's sports teams. One of the confused youth chose to stop playing on his soccer team because it was no longer fun. As our sister site Twitchy said, "That's as good as self-deporting."

Exactly.

Two transgender girls who were the first to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” have withdrawn their lawsuit in New Hampshire based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld state bans on transgender athletes in girls’ sports and their own personal hardships, their lawyer said.

“This case was always about two courageous young girls who simply wanted the same opportunities as their peers to participate in school life,” their lawyer, Chris Erchull of GLAD Law, said in a statement Thursday. “Their willingness to stand up to extraordinary hostility made clear the human cost of laws that target transgender youth.”

"This GLAD Law attorney has it twisted. It was the girls on the sports teams that were targeted, which is why President Trump signed the executive order and the New Hampshire legislature codified it into law.

The teenagers, Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle, took on Trump’s executive order last year, amending their 2024 complaint against New Hampshire’s law on banning transgender girls from school sports. A federal judge had granted a court order allowing them to play as the case proceeded.

For Tirrell, it meant being able to keep playing on her high school girls’ soccer team. For Turmelle, it was having a chance to try out for different sports.

"'Iris" Turmelle's case was unofficially DOA when his family moved out of state so that he could cosplay in a state that doesn't put any restrictions on what some would describe as a mental illness. Parker Tirrell is the boy who left his soccer team over the lack of joy. New Hampshire's version of NPR interviewed Sara Tirrell, Parker's mother, about it." . . . More...

Jennifer Oliver O'Connell (As the Girl Turns) is a contributor at Redstate and other publications. Jennifer writes on Politics, Pop Culture, and the American story, with occasional detours into Reinvention, Yoga, and Food. You can read more about Jennifer's world at her As the Girl Turns website. 

NYTimes Media Columnist Demolishes the Left's Arguments on Gaza With a Little Reality

Nick Arama – RedState   

"Of course, it isn't about the facts when it comes to the left. It never is. In this case, it's also feeding their anti-Israel bent. If they cared about the people in Gaza, they should care about how Hamas oppresses them. But they don't." 

"We hear it constantly from the left, and it's one of their huge talking points this election season: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. 

"Yet they never seem to think about the logic of what they are saying, and why that's complete poppycock. Of course, because like everything else with the left, it isn't about whether there's any logic or reality to the latest "outrage" they are protesting - it's always and only about moving things further to the left. 

Act angry, honey!

"But it's something when a New York Times columnist lays down a little reality to blow up the left's arguments, as our sister site Townhall reported. Bret Stephens wrecked the left on the Fifth Column podcast. 

. . . "Stephens pointed out how Israel was a nuclear power, with which they could simply wipe everyone out. If they were trying to commit genocide, why did they distribute polio vaccines, why do they distribute food, why do they drop leaflets warning people to get out of an area when they are going to take on Hamas there? 

"Stephens drew the comparison to other wars, and how other wars were not treated in the same way as Israel's war in response to being attacked on October 7 has been. Hamas killed more than 1,000 people, raped people, then took more than 200 hostages. It was a brutal attack. It's one thing to talk about whether a tactic or action is justifiable or might be excessive in response. But equating it with "genocide," i.e., the targeted effort to wipe out a people, is nonsensical. A war isn't "genocide" because people die; otherwise, every war is a genocide. 

"Then there's the comparison to what Iran did to its protesters in January, massacring somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000 people. The regime killed those people deliberately to terrorize the population, to stop them from raising their voices. Where are the calls of "genocide" over that?" . . . More...

Phantom Nation Obliterates the ‘Free Palestine’ Hoax

 

"The charge of “Palestinian genocide” actually encompasses two bold, baseless lies. 

Bruce W. Davidson   

" . . .Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, among others, became party to a great deception, since the PLO never gave up its official, explicitly stated goal of Israel’s annihilation. Though they are equally violent, at least Hamas is more explicit about its destructive agenda.". . . 

"The charge of “Palestinian genocide” actually encompasses two bold, baseless lies. One is the assertion that there exists a distinct Arab Palestinian people group with significant historical roots in Palestine. The other is the claim that these people are deliberately being targeted for extermination by Israeli Jews. Shai ben-Tekoa’s Phantom Nation: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace thoroughly debunks the first lie and chronicles how it was constructed, developed, and subsequently spread around the world, especially by left-leaning mainstream journalists. It argues convincingly that real peace becomes a possibility only “when the world sees through the essentially antisemitic myth of this phantom nation.”

"When I lived and studied in Israel in 1976, people usually referred to the fighting between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East as “the Arab-Israeli conflict,” recognizing it as a broader issue than just Israelis versus certain people living in refugee camps. The Yom Kippur War had happened only three years previously, and in 1976 much of the world marveled at the dramatic rescue by Israeli commandos of Jewish hostages held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by Arab and German leftist hijackers. I remember well a lecture by a professor from Hebrew University that explained the essentially religious nature of the conflict. In the 1990s I taught a course about the conflict at a junior college in Osaka, but I downplayed its religious character to my students.

Since that time, the prominence of terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezb’allah has made the Muslim character of hostility to Israel difficult to ignore. What I did not understand fully during the 90s is that it has always been that way, just as the Hebrew University professor told us. The historical facts are clear and plentiful, but many leftists, including even Jewish and Israeli leftists, have stubbornly refused to come to grips with them." . . .More...

Bruce W. Davidson is a professor emeritus of the school of humanities at Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo, Japan. From 1990 to 1995 he taught “The Arab-Israeli Conflict” at a junior college in Osaka. He studied in Jerusalem, Israel at the American Institute of Holy Land Studies in 1976

Venezuela earthquake response shows losing USAID was no big deal

Don Surber    

"Oh and there’s one last difference between Haiti and Venezuela. This time our Secretary of State does NOT have a fake charity to launder foreign donations in the name of earthquake relief.

"On June 24, 2026, two earthquakes hit Venezuela back-to-back. They registered 7.2 and 7.5, numbers that are pretty high on the Richter scale. The military sent in the Marines (and other branches). The State Department worked with charities such as Samaritan’s Purse, World Vision and Catholic Relief Services to avoid the confusion that occurred in the successful response to the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti.

"Trump put Marco Rubio in charge. He initially pledged $100 million in support. That’s since been upped to $386 million.

"On July 2, the military’s Southern Command reported:

Marking the first visit by a U.S. Navy vessel to Venezuela in decades, Fort Lauderdale safely arrived pierside in La Guaira on the evening of June 28. The historic port call, executed at the direct request of the Venezuelan government, was preceded by U.S. Sailors and Marines delivering critically needed disaster relief supplies to the port via landing craft.

“Being directed at a moment’s notice to transit into Venezuela presented a vast number of unknowns, but the one absolute certainty was the unmatched professionalism and work ethic of the Fort Lauderdale team,” said Capt. Jiwan Mack, commanding officer of USS Fort Lauderdale. “We were able to safely arrive pierside and deliver immediate assistance to the Venezuelan people because of the incredible dedication of our crew.”

The presence of embarked Sailors and Marines is strictly humanitarian. As a highly capable and self-sustaining platform designed for extended expeditionary operations, Fort Lauderdale requires minimal local security, logistical support or port resources while pierside. This minimal footprint ensures that all local Venezuelan assets can remain entirely focused on domestic recovery efforts.

. . . " So ending USAID did not lead to catastrophe.  Instead, the disaster response proved that ending USAID had no effect on the world. Well, except for the grifters going penniless." . . .More...

Arrest New York Mayor Mamdani If He Arrests Netanyahu?

Arrest New York Mayor Mamdani If He Arrests Netanyahu? 

The American Spectator   

"And the fact that he shows no awareness of his call to arrest the prime minister and the consequences that can flow from that says everything about the mayor’s distinct lack of leadership ability."

"The headline in The Times of Israel summed it up. It read: “Mamdani: Netanyahu should be arrested if he visits NYC; I’m discussing it but won’t rewrite laws,” with the subtitle, “New York mayor says he’s having ‘an active conversation’ with city’s legal department to see what steps he could take should the PM attend UN General Assembly in September.”

"Well now. One might answer the mayor of New York who is saying this by suggesting he just might want to be careful if, in fact, he tried to do this.

"To start, a look back at the wisdom of President Harry Truman (a Democrat!) about the creation of the United Nations might be in order. Truman, of course, was president following the death of Franklin Roosevelt at the end of World War II. The war had been the worst in world history. And there was overwhelming sentiment around the globe to ensure a world war never happened again.

"Said Truman, to the group of those representing the signers of the U.N. Charter at the signing ceremony creating the U.N.: “The Charter of the United Nations, which you have just signed is a solid structure upon which we can build a better world. History will honor you for it.

"One can suspect that if Mayor Mamdani tries to arrest the prime minister of Israel when he visits New York for a speech at the United Nations, history will not be honoring the mayor.

"It is also safe to say any attempt to arrest the mayor for an attempt to arrest the Israeli prime minister would ignite a firestorm. Doubtless the mayor would have some angry supporters on his side. That they would be antisemitic and anti-Israel would not be in much doubt. (RELATED: Mamdani Peddles the Myths Fueling Democrats’ Antisemitism)

"But it is safe to say that there would also be a lot of nodding heads around New York and the rest of the country who would believe that if there was a move to arrest the mayor himself for his attempt to arrest the prime minister, he would just be getting equal treatment for his utter fascist-style attempt to arrest not just a head of state paying a professional visit to the United Nations but for attempting to arrest the prime minister of the world’s lone Jewish nation." . . .

Terror-Sympathizing ‘Journalist’ Caught Cozying Up With Mamdani As Mayor Plots to Arrest Bibi   

"When he's not palling around with like-minded, terror-adjacent extremists "journalists", Mamdani is busy fantasizing incessantly about his completely fictional authority to arrest Netanyahu." 

MAGA War Vet SHUTS UP Dem Clown Hakeem Jeffries HYPOCRISY

Before seeing this video, you need to know about Rep. Brian Mast  . . . "Mast later joined the 28th Ordnance Company,^[10] a special operations explosive ordnance disposal unit that works alongside personnel of the 75th Ranger Regiment. He served in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. On September 19, 2010, while clearing a path for United States Army Rangers in Kandahar, Mast stepped on an IED along the road. The explosion resulted in the amputation of both his legs and losing his left index finger.^[8][11] Mast received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his actions." . . .

Rep Mast: so similar to Fox news' Johnny Joey Jones

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. . . "While Jeffries was strutting about U.S.-Iran war costs, Mast dropped one simple question about our fallen heroes. "Result? Total silence. "No comeback. No spin. No words. "Just a brutal mic-drop moment. "When real accountability shows up, the flashy showboat has nothing left." . . .

Nancy Guthrie investigators get urgent call to action to find her body from ex-FBI agent

 Mirror, US   

"Authorities suspect she was taken during the early morning hours of February 1, and the probe has stayed active ever since. The investigation is being conducted collaboratively by the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI."

"Fresh optimism may be emerging in the hunt for Nancy Guthrie.

"The investigation into the 84-year-old's whereabouts has shifted direction after retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer advocated for renewed search efforts in the case. In a post on X, Jennifer challenged investigators' choice to halt the search for the missing mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, referencing another cold case that was ultimately cracked.

"Nancy vanished from her multi-million dollar Catalina Foothills residence near Tucson, Arizona, on January 31. The Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI continue to probe the case, with no suspect yet named. This development after viewers gush over 'handsome' new weatherman Ryan Chandler.

"Jennifer expressed her perspective in a July 17 post on X, drawing parallels between Nancy's disappearance and the case of Thelma Gaston, whose remains were discovered decades following her disappearance, reports the Express US." . . .More...

Minnesota Democratic governor again questions deportation of convicted sex offender

What on Earth could be this man's motives if not the Somali vote?  "The Minnesota Star Tribune is cheering on Tim Walz protecting an illegal alien monster who raped a 10 year old girl. No one should read this depraved rag. They are sick," said House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., on X".

Just The News

“This monster repeatedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl. Tim Walz pardoned this sex criminal in an attempt to allow him to remain in our country. These are the criminal illegal aliens he and sanctuary politicians are protecting."

Tim Walz's clemency for child sex offender

"Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is once again defending a criminal illegal immigrant who was deported by the Trump administration.

"In a press conference earlier this week, Walz said the deportation of Tou Lue Vang did not make Americans safer – despite recognizing he committed “horrific crimes.”

“'Did that make us any safer? Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable,” Walz asked. “Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?”

"This comes after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Vang last week, despite an effort by Minnesota’s Board of Pardons to prevent his removal.

"Walz’ comments have received national attention, with many conservatives calling for the Democrat to face impeachment or recall.

“Raping a child is not a ‘bad day.’ It is a horrific crime that should always carry the heaviest consequences,” said conservative radio host Glenn Beck.

"Vang’s deportation was confirmed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, who criticized the board for issuing a pardon for Tou Lue Vang on June 10.

“ICE deported Tou Vang, an illegal alien convicted child rapist,” said Lauren Bis, the interim assistant secretary. “This monster repeatedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl. Tim Walz pardoned this sex criminal in an attempt to allow him to remain in our country. These are the criminal illegal aliens he and sanctuary politicians are protecting. We will always put the safety of the American people first.” . . .  More...

Beyond Fraud: Citizen Journalists Unmask Crazy Government Waste

 Issues & Insights

"Nick Shirley, the young man who has been putting “professional” journalists to shame with his on-site reporting on rampant Medicaid fraud, released another video exposing schemes in New York, these involving senior centers for elderly Koreans and Chinese.

"One that he visited, an adult day care in Flushing, claims to have nearly 8,000 members, for which it bills Medicaid $1,600 each. But even an employee admits that the number is wildly inflated. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz joined Shirley. 

“We uncovered over $190,000,000 in fraud,” Shirley says, “through adult and personal home care scams in NYC. Your tax dollars are paying for elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong and do tai chi, while the fraudsters give $ kickbacks to those who enroll.”

The mainstream media has pooh-poohed Shirley’s work (no doubt while lounging at their desks), but he continues to show them up with the kind of shoe-leather, public-service reporting that journalists used to do.

While Shirley’s work is important, he’s looking at only part of the problem. There is no question that outright fraud against federal entitlement programs is rampant. And we hope the fraudsters face swift and sure judgment and that laws are changed to stop fraud at the source. (See “The Fraud Industry Is Thriving, And Guess Who’s Happy About It.”)

But not all government fraud is illegal. In fact, we’d say that legal fraud is an even bigger scam than what Shirley is uncovering.

This fraud involves lawmakers opening the spending floodgates for projects that line the pockets of unions and politically connected businesses, while doing nothing to improve the lives of the taxpayers who foot the bill. And this is a decidedly bipartisan scam. And it needs just as much attention as the schemes Shirley is documenting.

For example, Bess Byers, a digital marketing specialist at Reason magazine, took viewers to a slab of sidewalk that taxpayers spent just under $1 million to repave — in the name of climate change." . . .

Los Angeles’s School District Went From Morally To Financially Bankrupt

  American Thinker    

"She lamented all the woke nonsense being shoved down her throat. She was tired of hearing all the race nonsense. She was tired of learning about the LGBT agenda and sitting through all the sexual diversity displays." . . . 

"Los Angeles Unified School District is having a hard time paying the bills necessary to teach the kids, so it’s struggling to keep its doors open. Clearly, the administrators, bureaucrats, and the elected Board of Trustees don’t handle addition and subtraction all that well. The district is failing basic math, and not just for the students.

"According to ABC News Los Angeles, LAUSD is on the brink of bankruptcy:

"The Los Angeles Unified School District could run out of money within about a year and is showing severe signs of financial distress, according to county education authorities.

"The nation’s second-largest school district, which serves more than half a million students, faces possible insolvency, prompting the Los Angeles County Office of Education to take action.

"The district’s last student population estimate listed 497,105 enrollees. That’s LESS than half a million. Even ABC News is having number troubles.

"What happened, and what could happen if the district doesn’t get its act together?

"Officials cited massive union contracts estimated to cost more than $1 billion annually, along with declining enrollment and reduced state funding, as factors contributing to a growing deficit and the possibility of state oversight.

“Worst case scenario is the state takes over, and this goes under receivership under the state, and that takes a long time to get out of, and it is really hard to maintain any control over curriculum, over class size,” Bacall said.

"I am shocked—SHOCKED (not!)—that the school district is going belly up, and the parents are taking their students out. The warning signs had been blaring for years." . . . More...