Rich Marsh

Book Editor with Tidewater Productions. I delight in turning Writers into First-Time Authors! I also help Job Seekers learn how to find new positions.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

THIS IS HUGE

The Federal Trade Commission, along with Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas, is SUING the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (@wpath) for deceptively claiming that radical trans medical procedures for CHILDREN are "medically necessary" and "safe."

The lawsuit details how the organization promoted the genital mutilation and chemical castration of CHILDREN while failing to disclose detrimental, life-altering side effects.

This is one of the largest medical scandals in modern history! So many people belong in prison for this!

[reason @reason]

Cops pulled over Katie Thomas in Palm Beach County, Florida, and accused her of using her phone with her right hand while driving. But there’s a problem. Katie doesn’t have a right hand.

[Spotlight on China @spotlightoncn]

Last October, Beijing expanded its economic statecraft into aggressive new territory by introducing a tight restrictions regime on rare earth metal exports.

The move temporarily cut off America’s supply of material components vital for electric vehicles and fighter jets, causing the U.S. auto industry to panic and prompting the Trump administration to walk back its most extreme tariff threats.

Eight months later, analysts believe Beijing may have overplayed its hand, effectively forcing the United States to accelerate the construction of its own independent supply chain.

Last week, the U.S. House Select Committee on China introduced new bipartisan legislation designed to aggressively spur the growth of America’s domestic magnet industry.

Cosponsored by Representatives John Moolenaar and Ro Khanna, the bill introduces robust financial incentives along the entire magnet supply chain, spanning from rare earth oxide production to advanced military-grade magnet manufacturing.

The legislation provides a 15% tax credit for American motor manufacturers who source magnets domestically, limiting the eligibility to inputs from NATO allies and key regional partners like Japan, Australia, and South Korea.

China spent decades building its dominance in the extraction and processing of rare earth metals, and it currently controls over 90% of the global supply chain, including 99% of heavy rare earths needed for F-35 fighter jet engines.

The supply crisis has pushed the Trump administration to adopt a highly interventionist approach, including acquiring a 15% stake in MP Materials, which operates America’s only active rare earth mine in California.

Washington has also taken strategic stakes in mining and smelting projects in Alaska and Tennessee, and is actively negotiating to acquire roughly 8% of Critical Minerals, which owns a massive rare earth site in Greenland.

While the administration predicted the U.S. would secure self-sufficiency within a year and a half, independent experts warn that building the necessary infrastructure will take five to ten years, which aligns with the bill's tax credits extending until 2039.

Following a recent summit, the White House stated that China would address U.S. concerns regarding rare earth shortages, though Beijing's official readout of the meeting omitted any mention of critical minerals.

Meanwhile, Beijing has maintained its economic pressure, imposing strict rare earth export restrictions on Japan as part of a broader diplomatic spat over Taiwan, which the U.S. has unsuccessfully asked China to lift.

Both Japan and Taiwan remain central to Pax Silica, a U.S.-led multilateral framework launched last December to cooperate with democratic partners on chips and critical mineral supply chains.

The reshoring of technology manufacturing jobs remains a rare point of strong bipartisan agreement in a divided Congress, successfully bridging the gap between conservative China hawks and progressive lawmakers.
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[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

WATCH: A large tornado was spotted moving near Effingham, Illinois.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Being 37 years old and sharing a checking account with your mom is super weird for any adult man that age, but doing that while running for the senate is disqualifying. You can’t even manage your own finances and you want to manage the government’s? No way.

[Quartz @qz]

What went wrong: 20 tech failures and the specific mistakes behind them: From Kodak's refusal to embrace digital to Theranos's fabricated science, tech history is full of companies that had resources, talent, and timing — and still collapsed. Here's what… https://t.co/RsUvmtoMnC

[The Federalist @FDRLST]

Dems Show Just How Low They Can Go In Latest Ballot Schemes
https://t.co/ay85iQtqY6

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Well, there it is: Cushing at tank bottoms

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

Are you paying attention yet?

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

The victim testimony of Chloe from the rape gang inquiry is horrific

- Abducted by a Muslim abuser
- Raped her at 12 years old in a graveyard
- Raped her with a whiskey bottle which broke off in her vagina
- NHS removed the pieces but asked NO questions
- Plied with drugs and drink
- Told police she was having sex with adults but was dismissed as a child prostitute
- Passed between men daily for years
- Police found her with abusers but released men after no investigation
- Chlamydia in throat/vagina, gonorrhea, warts, PID at age 13, clinic said NOTHING
- A social worker suggested she audition for a TV role as a grooming victim instead of helping.

As she got older:
- Gang invaded her home, orally raped her on her sofa in front of others.
- Raped with objects (cans, keys, baseball bat)
- Forced to house and witness abuse of other children.
- Spiked with heroin, leading to addiction and anorexia (weighed 5 stone/~70 lbs at 18).
- Coerced into Islamic conversion and "marriage" to an illegal migrant abuser who beat her daily
- gave birth to a child with health issues from her damaged body.

This all happened in Britain
In our country
To our girls

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

Paco De Lucia - a real masterpiece, the best guitar in history!!!

[Daily Mail US @Daily_MailUS]

Jeremy Clarkson reveals he has cancer: Tearful presenter shares devastating diagnosis while filming for Clarkson's Farm https://t.co/eA0ro5aQVn

[Overton @overton_news]

Scott Jennings just humiliated Robert De Niro for saying he can’t love a country led by “tyrant” Trump.

Jennings pointed out that only loving your country when your team wins the last election is becoming the majority ethos among Democrats.

JENNINGS: “I think you have to love your country whether or not you lost the last election.”

“I love America and, you know, according to some polling that came out this week, and most Republicans love America, 90% are very proud to be Americans.”

“They’re proud of living in this country.”

“Unfortunately, I think Mr. De Niro’s comments are pretty indicative of a majority of Democrats who can’t seem to find that attitude...inside them.”

“To love your country, even though you lost the last election.”

“And, you know, loving America, being a patriot for America, feeling good about America shouldn’t be dictated by whether you won or lost.”

“When I hear De Niro, I hear him saying, I can only love America if we win every election from here on out.”

“That’s a rather fascist statement.”

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

* including how this investigation started under the Biden-Harris Justice Department?

** and your chief of staff got charged with several federal felonies?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

All Asians are descendants of ninjas. 🥷

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

The left decided to counter the 250th celebration by doing this. I don’t think the right will ever recover.

[Among the Wildflowers @deaflibertarian]

I'm from Texas. Here are some helpful tips for Knicks Fans: What You Should Know Before Visiting San Antonio:
1. It's not cheese dip. It's queso.
2. Sweet tea isn't a beverage. It's the official wine of the South.
3. "Bless your heart" is not always a compliment. Context matters. A lot.
4. If someone says they're "fixin' to" do something, no repairs are involved.
5. A breakfast taco is a perfectly acceptable breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late-night snack. Get one asap.
6. The speed limit is merely a suggestion to the pickup truck behind you.
7. "Y'all" is singular. "All y'all" is plural.
8. No, you cannot survive June by "just walking a few blocks."
9. The Alamo is smaller than you imagined. Don't say it out loud.
10. If a local says, "It's not that hot today," and it's 96 degrees, they mean it.
11. Guacamole is considered a vegetable.
12. The phrase "Texas-sized" is not marketing. It's a warning.
13. You may develop strong opinions about salsa before the weekend is over.
14. When someone waves from another vehicle, they're being friendly. Wave back.
15. Chili does not contain beans. This is not a debate.
16. If you ask for "just a little spicy," the outcome is entirely at the restaurant's discretion.
17. Texans put hot sauce on things that already contain hot sauce.
18. Cowboys exist, but most Texans commute by pickup, not horseback.
19. A 20-minute drive can somehow be 35 miles away.
20. If someone offers homemade brisket, cancel your other plans immediately.
21. H-E-B is not a grocery store. It is a way of life.
22. The stars at night are big and bright...!!! Yes, people will expect you to know what comes next.
23. "A little outside town" can mean 45 minutes away.
24. If you hear, "Well, that's interesting," it may mean the exact opposite.

By the end of your trip, you'll be saying "y'all," ordering queso, and arguing about barbecue like you've lived in Texas your whole life. Welcome to Texas - stay safe and enjoy the game!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Yellowstone. I met a warrior of two thousand pounds, and I was the only one who bowed.

He stood in the meadow like a hill that had decided to grow fur. The bison. Horned. Ancient. Wearing winter on his shoulders in the middle of June.

The visitors adore him. "Look at the fluffy cow!" said a woman, with real love in her voice. Fluffy cow. They speak of him the way one speaks of a beloved dog. I understand the affection. I cannot share the familiarity.

Because I have read the sign. The sign says he runs three times faster than a man. The sign says stay back twenty-five yards. That is not a warning. That is a herald, announcing a lord.

"In my land," I told the park ranger, "we would not call him fluffy. We would give him a name with thirteen syllables and build him a small shrine."

"Twenty-five yards works too," she said.

So I paid my respects from twenty-five yards. I planted my feet. I bowed — the full bow, the one for generals. The bison chewed, and watched me, and chewed.

My heart was not calm. The sign also says he can charge without warning. I bowed efficiently. Dignity has gears.

"He acknowledged you," said the ranger.

"He did not."

"No, he did not," she agreed. "But you did the right thing anyway."

That is the whole art, is it not. He owes me nothing. He fought wolves and winters and centuries, and won, and he does not need my bow. The bow was never for him to accept. It was for me to give.

Respect does not need to touch. It bows from twenty-five yards, and the meadow understands.

I will return every year. Same meadow. Same distance. He will not remember me.

That changes nothing. One does not bow to be remembered.