DAILYCALLER (Amber Duke) - DUKE: This Is How They Treated White Girls Raped By Brown Men
Direct testimony from the rape gang victims
WASHINGTONPOST (Jonathan O'Connell, Riley Beggin, Jarrell Dillard, Sarah Blaskey) - Budget office redirects $352M in Secret Service funds to White House security
The unusually large shift comes amid revelations that the president’s ballroom project will rely more on taxpayer money than the administration acknowledged.
AXIOS (Avery Lotz) - Gas dips below $4 a gallon after months of pump pain
The U.S. national average gas price has dropped back below $4 a gallon, per AAA , a sign of Americans' pain at the pump easing after months of war in Iran . The big picture: Iran's squeeze on oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz battered the global economy. But crude prices in June fell to their lowest levels in over three months on news of an extended ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran. - The agreement is designed to restore shipping through the strait, but even with a full reopening, U.S. pump prices will likely remain higher than pre-war levels for some time. Driving the news: The national average is now $3.9990 a gallon, per AAA. - A year ago, the average was $3.1880. - Diesel prices remain over $5 per gallon,…
AMERICANTHINKER - A Stranger In The Modern Age
Photo Credit:Colen Campbell (1676–1729), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Evelyn Waugh, known for his biting satire, was in reality a stranger in his own time, deeply conservative and disillusioned with modernity.
AMERICANTHINKER - From Soft Justice To Generational Welfare: Why America’s Moral Collapse Can Only Be Fixed With Brutal Common Sense
ChatGPT Movements start out with ideas, even if they take a while.
AMERICANTHINKER - Monty Python's 'Loretta': Then and Now
Eduardo Unza-Sanzana In recent years, much has been made of the classic Monty Python “Loretta” scene from the 1979 film Life of Brian.
AMERICANTHINKER - Democrats Lose if the Iran Accord Succeeds
AT via Magic Studio Last weekend, President Trump announced that an interim peace deal was finally struck with the Iranians.
AMERICANTHINKER - Two Americas: Black Rednecks and Karmelo Anthony — and Civilization
pixabay picryl Simply put, society-wide disgust with ghetto culture and its values must intensify.
AXIOS (Ashley Gold) - Trump's shadow AI policy
The Trump administration entered office promising to get government out of the AI industry's way. It hasn't worked out that way. Why it matters: The White House says AI shouldn't be regulated, but it's shaping the industry through case-by-case interventions without clear rules, creating major uncertainty. - What has emerged is a shadow AI policy, one that shapes the AI industry's future without ever spelling out the rules. The big picture: The Trump administration has made opposition to AI regulation a cornerstone of its AI agenda, rescinding Biden-era requirements and arguing that excessive rules would slow innovation. - Yet its light-touch, hands-off vision for AI has given way to an ad hoc system of company-specific interventions…
AXIOS (Mike Zapler) - Trump's SAVE Act obsession ties Senate in knots
President Trump won't let go of the SAVE America Act voting bill, no matter how many times Senate Republicans make it known it's never going to happen. Why it matters: Trump's refusal to relent on his voter ID/proof of citizenship plan shows how far removed he is from the vote-counting realities of Congress — and how that disconnect is starting to carry real consequences. Driving the news: Trump dropped a bombshell Truth Social post early Wednesday declaring he wouldn't allow the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to be renewed until the SAVE America Act passes as well. - It came as the Senate was moving to fast-track a plan to revive the lapsed federal surveillance powers. - The move means that Bill Pulte , a Trump…