"There has always been radicalism on the American left. But Democrats didn’t invite the Black Panthers or the Weather Underground into their party in the 1970s.In the 2020s, though, Democrats invited communists into their tent. Now the communists are taking over."
Friday, July 3, 2026
Dems’ ‘big tent’ excuse will lead to their doom — and maybe the country’s too
Democratic reality check: Left in denial as California’s blue model crumbles
"At the state level, Shapiro has taken the neoliberal lead by espousing policies such as reducing the state corporate tax rate; restarting Three Mile Island; converting former coal-fired power plants into natural gas facilities; streamlining the process of businesses obtaining permits, licenses, and certifications; and offering taxpayer-funded school vouchers."
"Fareed Zakaria’s recent op-ed in the Washington Post takes the Democrats to task for spending the past quarter-century mismanaging California’s public sector and economy. He cites multiple governance failures: a ballooning but unproductive government sector, a regulatory system that creates sky high housing costs by not allowing for the issuance of an adequate number of new housing permits, an expensive public education system that does not deliver for its students, declining private sector employment, and net negative immigration as the high cost of living drives its residents out of the state, among others.
"This is not news, but what is new is his observation that the state’s voters are finally starting to take notice and are not happy with the results. If so, this should be a reality check for Democrats who believe that they can easily take back control of our nation’s federal, state, and local governments by making President Donald Trump the sole issue in the November elections or advocating the government-interventionist and anti-capitalist policies of the Democratic Socialists of America. Regarding the latter, these policies may energize the Democratic base in New York City, but the rest of the country, especially those who live outside deep-blue areas, will not be so aroused.
"Zakaria does not provide an explanation for the Democratic Party’s governance failures in California. Here, it is argued that it is the result of Democrats becoming ossified in their thinking about how government should work. " . . . More...
Yes, They’re Communists, and Yes, They’re Lying About It. For Now.
The label promises reform. The ideology points toward something far more radical.
"Who is Chevalier? She’s a 32-year-old democratic socialist and community organizer backed by New York’s Muslim communist mayor Zohran Mamdani and the DSA. What qualifies Chevalier for Congress? What achievements has she managed in her 32 years?"
. . . "Because the Democrats and Republicans are not flip sides of the same coin. They haven’t been for a long time. "And the Democrats aren’t political adversaries anymore. They’re now enemy agents. And they’re not quiet about it. Act accordingly, and vote these bastards down as best you can, because your country is at stake."
Watch Pollster's Face as He Realizes How Much Worse It Just Got for Democrats "Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" shares a DM clip of CNN's Harry Enten sharing new polling data that should scare the Democratic establishment and Chuck Schumer as even more incumbent Democrats face potential losses in their primaries to Democratic Socialists."
California man pleads guilty to sending fake ransom note in Nancy Guthrie case
"A California man pleaded guilty on Thursday to sending a fake ransom note to the family of Nancy Guthrie, who went missing just over five months ago.
"Derrick Callella, 42, faces two felony charges related to transmitting a demand for ransom in interstate commerce and utilizing a telecommunications device with intent to abuse, threaten, or harass a person. He entered a guilty plea on both counts.
"The defendant allegedly texted two members of the Guthrie family in February shortly after the 84-year-old woman disappeared. She is believed to have been abducted due to the existence of ransom notes, though authorities are starting to believe they're fake.
"'Did you get the bitcoin were waiting on our end for the transaction," Callella allegedly texted to Guthrie's oldest daughter, Annie, and her son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni.
"The suspect sent the message after the Guthrie family released the first video message pleading with the alleged kidnappers and offering to pay for their relative's release, according to investigators.
"Callella is set to be sentenced on Sept. 10, after which he will start serving 10 years of probation for the crimes.
"The case has resulted in very few substantive leads since Guthrie went missing at her Arizona home on Feb. 1." . . .
Thursday, July 2, 2026
Dred SCOTUS -
"It’s one thing for Roberts to forget the Civil War. Liberals do that all the time, quickly turning the 14th Amendment into an instrument for the advancement of gays, immigrants, lesbians, the disabled, etc. —wait, what were you saying about slavery?"
"Black slaves and freedmen alike, Thomas writes, “were unambiguously Americans. They were not foreigners. They were not aliens. They owed no foreign allegiance.” He quotes Frederick Douglass’s plea for the citizenship of blacks: “We address you not as aliens nor as exiles … We are Americans.'”
SCOTUS Citizenship Decision Demands Legal System Overhaul
That a court with six Republican-appointed justices could hand down such a patently un-American decision is an indictment of America’s rogue legal system.
. . . "This nation has tens of millions of anchor babies and their descendants, up to one-quarter of the next generation. Millions more could be created tomorrow given how many foreigners are here illegally and legally. Under birthplace citizenship, all fraudulently obtain not just lifetime welfare but also voting abilities. That’s well more than enough to tip elections not just into the future but going back decades.
"Those in leadership positions who are not ready to defend the country in response to this reality should resign, or be forced to.". . .
Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist and the researcher and host for The Federalist's forthcoming lawfare podcast series, "Overruled." Her latest book with Regnery is "False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America."
Ben Shapiro Blames ‘Useless White People’ for Socialism
"In last year’s mayoral election, the moderate Gov. Andrew Cuomo won a majority of whites, yet the Ugandan-born, Indian-American DSA candidate Zohran Mamdani dominated the election thanks to overwhelming support from foreign-born residents, who make up around 37 percent of the city’s population."
Andrew Day is the senior editor of The American Conservative. He has a PhD in political science from Northwestern University.
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Jordanian Immigrant Gets One Year in Jail For Killing a Jewish Man at Pro-Hamas Protest
"Judge Derek Malan Should be removed from office and disbarred as an attorney of law. A gross miscarriage of justice. Federal hate crime charges should be upgraded." Comment to the post.
"Remember the 2023 incident in which a 69-year-old Jewish man holding an Israeli flag at a counter-protest was hit in the head with a bullhorn and died the next day from blunt-force trauma? Jordanian immigrant Loay Alnaji last month pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and battery. The attack wasn't prosecuted as a hate crime, and Alnaji faced up to one whole year in jail. You'll be glad to know he got the maximum sentence of one year in county jail."
Judge Derek Malan Should be removed from office and disbarred as an attorney of law. A gross miscarriage of justice. Federal hate crime charges should be upgraded. pic.twitter.com/L8AM5lTG92
"Not only that — he was a Moorpark College professor.
"He gets probation."....More...
Not just NYC: Anti-Christian AG, socialist barista who got fired from lawyer job because she loves Hamas win CO Dem primaries
"Elect the third world, become the third world" Siraj Hashmi |
"If you think idiotic Democratic socialism is going to stop within the confines of the five boroughs of New York City, Tuesday should have offered you a wake-up call.
"In Colorado, two major upsets in the Democratic primaries again put rabid revolutionary candidates at the top of the ballot in November.
"In the gubernatorial race, Attorney General Phil Weiser -- known for aggressively pursuing Christian individuals and organizations that maintain that marriage is between one man and one woman, among other non-woke faux pas he believes constitute legally actionable issues -- beat out the more moderate candidate, Sen. Michael Bennet, who has represented the state in the upper chamber since 2009 and ran for president in 2020.
"Current Democrat Gov. Jared Polis was term-limited and ineligible to serve again.
"Meanwhile, in the state's First Congressional District, socialist barista Melat Kiros, who was fired from her job as a lawyer in New York City after writing an anti-Israel, pro-terrorist screed that whitewashed the history of the Israel-Gaza conflict in terms that made the Palestinian Authority look like veritable angels -- just one month after the atrocities committed by Hamas and its associated terror groups against thousands of innocent Jewish people who were slaughtered, raped, or kidnapped -- beat longtime U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, who has served the Denver-based district for almost 30 years." . . . more...
Dave Portnoy says 'welcome to communism' as Zohran Mamdani makes urgent NYC heatwave plea . . . "Portnoy, the Barstool boss, has been a loud opponent of New York City's mayor, often taking the time to send jabs the 34-year-old's way. In particular, the 49-year-old Portnoy has taken offense to many of Mamdani's policies, believing the mayor has enacted directives detrimental to New York.
Now, Portnoy posted a message on X in an attempt to take down Mamdani, seemingly equating his plea to save energy to "communism" - months after blasting the mayor as a "moron."
"78 degrees??? Welcome to communism people! Hope you enjoy!" Portnoy wrote on X in response to a post on Mamdani's account on the social media platform.
From sly slurnalism to the big lie
"The Times never treated the news of the Holocaust as important — or at least as important as, say, informing motorists to visit the Office of Price Administration if they did not have their automobile registration number and state written on their gasoline ration coupons."
| Buried by the "newspaper of record" |
"Even those who've developed an immunity to Timesspeak had to be shocked by the recent article in The New York Times alleging Israeli abuse of Palestinian prisoners.
The article slid from sly slurnalism to the big lie.
(That's a lie so outrageous that it becomes believable because it must be true, otherwise nobody could say such a thing.) If you don't know what article I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky.
Neil Postman, who headed the department of "Media Ecology" at NYU, gave his students rules to live by to preserve their sanity. One was, "Do not watch TV news shows or read any tabloid newspapers." They're too jarring.
But it's important to have some historical perspective. So, let me tell you about three little-known stories from the Holocaust. All three were kept secret. The first indirectly involves The New York Times.
You're probably too young to remember Nipper. He was the dog on RCA Victor record labels, staring into the speaker of a crank-up phonograph, listening to "his master's voice."
In 1986, Nipper got a new master. RCA Records was sold to a German media behemoth, the Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG).
That same year, Bertelsmann acquired American book publisher Doubleday; a year later, it created the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. Next, in 1998, it acquired Random House, which was launched in 1927 with the mission to publish "a few books, on the side, at random."
By 2020, Bertelsmann took 100% control of Penguin Random House, making it sole owner of the world's largest publishing group.
OK, I'm not in the habit of business bashing. Business today is more global than national.
(Still, it rankles me that Tnuva, the largest manufacturer of dairy products in Israel, became Chinese food. In 2014, the state-owned Bright Food Group of China bought 56% of Tnuva, over the protests of many of the farms that supply the milk. It's enough to curdle your milk and honey.)
If you'll forgive me for repeating myself, you may remember what I told a car rental agency in Israel when they offered me a free upgrade from a Hyundai to an Opel: "I don't want a German car. It smells from gas."
But this is more than garden variety Germanphobia. Bertelsmann spent 50 years hiding its active collaboration with Nazi Germany and claiming to be a victim. But facts began to surface, especially its support of the Schutzstaffel — the special police force known as the SS, notorious for their inhumanity.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Debunking the American Left’s Favorite Lie
"The American Left does so because charging others with their own crimes leads to moral relativism, which serves to absolve them of their wrongs. By charging everyone with the Left’s own crimes, then all are guilty."
"The American Left’s most favorite lie is that Nazis and Fascists were conservatives. They were not; instead, they were cut from the same socialist cloth that America’s Left idolizes and increasingly personifies. The reason for the Left’s false equation of Nazis and Fascists with conservatism is that America’s Left needs it to advance their ends — and, as in the case of Democrats’ Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo, they want America to ignore the obvious.
"It is difficult to single out one lie from the American Left’s myriad. The one proclaiming that this time they can make socialism work — despite it failing in every other attempt and in every time in every other place — is certainly useful. The one promising that giving all power to the state will somehow make people freer comes in handy, too.
"However, the lie America’s Left tells with the most relish and gusto is that Nazis and Fascists come from the Right of the political spectrum rather than from within the Left’s own ranks. They say this because, in addition to needing it to be true, America’s Left so want it to be true. Of course, as with the rest of the American Left’s myriad of lies, it is not only not true but demonstrably false.
"It is a historical fact that Nazis and Fascists were socialists. In the case of “Nazi,” simply look at its etymological root. It is short for “Nationalsozialist,” itself short for the Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeitpartei (NSDAP), which translates to National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
"However, the connection is much stronger than the name alone. The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises writes in his 20th-century monograph, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis: “Marxism and National-Socialism agree in … rejecting the capitalist social order. Both desire a socialist order of society. The only difference in their programme (sic) lies in slight variations in their respective pictures of the future socialist State.” Continuing: “It is important to realize that Fascism and Nazism were socialist dictatorships.” . . .
J.T. Young is the author of the recent book, Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left, from RealClear Publishing.
Ex-Yankee Mark Teixeira unloads on MLB for trying to 'silence' Christian faith
"Some players have spoken about their decision to include Bible verses, including starting pitcher Landen Roupp, who said the message was intended to represent "God’s covenant," not hatred toward anyone."
"Former New York Yankees star and Texas congressional candidate Mark Teixeira called Major League Baseball’s handling of a Pride Night dispute a "total disaster" aimed at silencing Christian athletes.
"Speaking on the "Fox News Rundown" podcast, the 2009 World Series champion and current congressional candidate argued that sports should not cross the line into being political.
"'We live in a Christian culture where people are trying to silence us," Teixeira told Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich. "And we're not [going to] let the San Francisco Giants or any outside group, silence our faith."
"The controversy stemmed from the Giants’ annual "Pride Night" celebration earlier this month. Several players protested the event by writing Bible verses onto the rainbow-colored Pride caps or declining to wear the caps altogether.
"In a statement reported by The Athletic, an MLB spokesperson said, "The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations."
"Teixeira argued that requiring players to wear the hats would force them to support something they may not believe in, calling the situation a "PR disaster." . . . More...
CODEPINK makes progress to bring antisemitic politics into K–12 classrooms - American Thinker . . . "CODEPINK’s campaign is dangerous because it targets children before they are old enough to understand the complexity of what they are being taught."If these ideas take root in elementary and high schools, they will not stop there. They will follow students onto college campuses, into student organizations, into protests, and into public life.
"Parents, school boards, and education leaders should take this seriously before CODEPINK’s agenda spreads any further."
Zohran, the Magnificent
Zohran, the Magnificent - American Thinker
"Those in his party, the Democratic Socialists of America, lead similarly cloistered lives. Over the last few decades, universities have produced a bumper crop of these people—graduates of disciplines in which they are trained to identify systems of oppression but not much else."
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Trying to Think Wise Thoughts after DSA Tuesday
. . . "Labor unions? A rigid system giving above-market wages to organized workers for a season.
Government education? A rigid system of teaching the official narrative to kids bored out of their minds.
Business regulation? A way of forcing businesses to pay tribute to politicians and regulators.
Universities? A way of getting the young generation buried in debt and young women spouting woke ideology." . . .

