Joshua Monnington

Editor @FDRLST

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

Alex Karp is right. There is a deep nihilism among European elites to an extent European citizens would find shocking.

The shopkeeper, the farmer, and the car mechanic think there will be an England or a Poland in 2100; the university professor, journalist, and prime minister does not.

[Brooke Taylor @Brooketaylortv]

NEW: A Texas hospital confirms to Fox News its behind billboards at the U.S.-Mexico border advertising childbirth services and encouraging expectant mothers to give birth in Texas. The Spanish-language billboards directed people to go to “https://t.co/qGlLfOex0o.”

The billboards put up by Mission Regional Medical Center featured a pregnant woman and promoted “Birth Packages in South Texas,” with deliveries starting at $3,950 for a natural birth and $5,525 for a C-section.

A spokesperson for the hospital said they had two billboards within five miles of the hospital near the border crossing but removed them Monday, along with the website, due to the “potential for unintended misunderstanding.”

The decision to take down the campaign follows backlash on social media after pictures of the billboard started to circulate.

The spokesperson also told me the campaign was initiated in 2021 but said it is unclear when the actual billboards were put up. 

Official statement: 

“Mission Regional Medical Center is committed to providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare and expanding access to care for the communities we serve. Like hospitals across the country and throughout the region, we share information about the healthcare services we provide. We do not support or facilitate any unlawful activity and work to comply with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations. The marketing materials regarding maternity services are no longer in use due to any unintended misunderstanding. We intend to work cooperatively and transparently with local and state officials. Our focus remains on delivering safe, high-quality care to every patient who seeks our services."

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

🚨Zohran Mamdani wants to abolish ICE. In Feb he signed an exec order barring ICE from entering city property without a judicial warrant.
The results?
Nearly 7,000 criminal illegal aliens — including dozens convicted of homicide, sexual assault and armed robbery — have been released back into New York. Ask @NYCMayor how he would explain his ‘end ICE’ policy to the victims’ families.

[Joshua Monnington @JTMonnington]

Axios offers this sweeping conclusion based on quotes from leftists on Threads and Bluesky, without citing a single visiting fan: "The controversy likely marks the end of a love affair between World Cup tourists and American culture ..." So they're all going to start hating on Buc-ees, air-conditioning, and American hospitality because of a Trump phone call. Uh-huh, sure.

[Axios @axios]

Trump's FIFA call sours World Cup visitors' goodwill https://t.co/rszFfGyUkz

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Belgium’s appeal has been DENIED! Flo Balogun is cleared to play vs Belgium!

[Breccan F. Thies @BreccanFThies]

Court is in a brief recess after Officer Bagley described his experience responding to shots fired at UVU.

He described seeing Charlie Kirk’s body fall to the left, students screaming and running, and immediately trying to preserve the scene for evidence after being told a shooter was in custody.

ROBINSON’s attorneys have objected to every exhibit presented by the STATE claiming Bagley has no first-hand knowledge of those pictures themselves being taken.

Bagley, however, has a first-hand account of everything he’s been asked about that day, and Judge Graf has overruled every objection from the defense. @FDRLST

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Actual LOL

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

The biggest fireworks show in U.S. history has officially begun!

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

“Communism is the enemy of free people everywhere. It is the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it is the enemy of July 4, 1776.” - President Donald J. Trump

[Joshua Monnington @JTMonnington]

Happy Independence Day 250! Keep your republic, patriots! If you don't, no one will.

[Joshua Monnington @JTMonnington]

Comrade Mamdani berates fellow immigrant @elonmusk for being the hardest working man on the planet instead of just milking the system.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.

How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. 

At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest. But time and again-including 250 years ago-those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.

And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted-but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum.

As we mark 250 years, what do we see? 

We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world— one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands —those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone —and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

Believing these absolutely idiotic conspiracy theories peddled by people who make tons of money off of taking people’s attention away from the lethal violence of the left is an IQ test many are failing. Be smarter. I am embarrassed and disgusted at the idiocy on display and how it harms Kirk’s legacy.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Just realized that the grown children of those very yuppies are the leaders of this round.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

Not just friends but key co-conspirators in the Russia hoax that caused such damage to the country!

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

😂The people who claim we can run our ultra-high-energy civilization on such garbage are lying. Their goal has been, since Malthus and then Heidegger, to dismantle our high-energy civilization, not "sustain" it.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Consider the generational impact one can have through the simple decision to not be a coward

[Joshua Monnington @JTMonnington]

@DSA_Watch "Folks, you shouldn't worry about these new communists because AOC is so awesome!" isn't exactly compelling.

[Joshua Monnington @JTMonnington]

Then they find it "amusing" when you're not gleeful about it.

[Joshua Monnington @JTMonnington]

Classic: Dems institute seismic, catastrophic change (like ushering in millions of illegal aliens every year under Biden). Dems then selectively laud upholding "century-old precedent" that helps neuter any solution there might be for the catastrophic problem they caused.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

I’m amused by the MAGA meltdown over a constitutional amendment ratified in 1868, and their asinine argument that affirming a century-old precedent is a shocking betrayal that will somehow destroy America. How stupid do they think their followers are?

[Joshua Monnington @JTMonnington]

@AuronMacintyre Even the most talented politician of our time (and perhaps all time) took that latter route rather than try to set up his own party.