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[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Rep. Brandon Gill completely stumps Smithsonian Museum of American History director Anthea Hartig before asking her if Mickey Mouse is racist.

Gill: “Are you promoting a white supremacy culture at the Smithsonian?”

Hartig: …

Gill: “Ma'am, is this a difficult question?”

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Rep Gill: "Is it important to be polite?"

Smithsonian Director Anthea Hartig: "Yes, sir."

Rep Gill: "Your organization says 'politeness' is White Supremacy culture... are you a white supremacist?"

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

BREAKING

WE WERE RIGHT!

Governor Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) just confirmed that illegal aliens ARE registered AND voting in New Jersey.

The thing that never happens is happening.

If it weren’t for the Department of Homeland Security sharing that 250,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in CA, NJ, NV, & PA,

they would have never admitted that illegal aliens are voting.

It feels so good to be vindicated.

Pass the SAVE America Act!

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

An unethical doctor named May Lau who medically transitioned children in Texas was sued by the state Attorney General and surrendered her medical license.

She moved to Portland, Ore. where she was hired as an associate professor of pediatrics at OHSU.

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

No, I’m not Jewish. I was raised as an Irish Catholic. You don’t need to be Jewish to support Israel against Islamic jihad. You just need a moral compass.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill says a software glitch in the state's motor vehicle system mistakenly registered about 6,600 non-U.S. citizens to vote when they applied for driver's licenses or state ID cards.

According to Sherrill, the applicants correctly indicated they were not U.S. citizens, but the system incorrectly recorded them as citizens.

She said the error occurred under the previous administration of Gov. Phil Murphy and that some of those mistakenly registered cast ballots.

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

Portugal's right-wing leader André Ventura said it clearly:

"If you want to wear a burqa? It's really simple! Pack your stuff, catch a flight, and go. Go to Pakistan, go to Saudi Arabia, go to Morocco... Go wherever the hell you want. Just not here!"

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

HOLY CRAP

The illegal alien who Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal and other Democrat officials rallied to support after he was detained by ICE…

IS REGISTERED TO VOTE IN CT despite not being a citizen!

Sead Cecunjanin registered to vote in 2018 after obtaining a driver’s license by falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen.

His voter card was obtained through a FOIA request by the West Hartford Republican Town Committee

But Democrats say this never happens?!

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

The problem is not JD Vance’s position on Israel. The problem is that he is a postliberal, and his treatment of Israel reflects the postliberal way of understanding politics, power, the West, and the American constitutional order.

People have to stop reducing this to an “Israel issue.” Israel is not the underlying issue. It is a diagnostic. It reveals the framework through which he sees the world.

The real question is what he believes about the liberal constitutional order in the United States. Does he believe government exists within fixed moral and constitutional limits, with rights that precede the state and a conscience the state may not command? Or does he believe political power should be reorganized around a substantive vision of the common good, administered by leaders who believe they are entitled to decide what social outcomes must be produced?

That is the postliberal question.

His arguments about Israel matter because they are not isolated foreign-policy opinions. They reveal how he thinks about alliances, national interest, inherited obligations, institutional restraint, moral persuasion, and the use of state power. They are expressions of a broader political philosophy.

This is why the conversation keeps going nowhere. Everyone is staring at Israel while missing the worldview that determines how Israel is being discussed. They are arguing over one branch while refusing to examine the root.

The concern is not that he holds one unacceptable opinion about a foreign country. The concern is that his views reflect a movement that has lost confidence in the American founding itself and increasingly regards constitutional restraints, individual rights, religious liberty, and freedom of conscience as obstacles to achieving its preferred conception of the common good.

That is the real argument.

It is not principally about Israel. It is about America. It is about whether the constitutional order is something to be preserved, or something to be displaced by a postliberal political project.

And the problem is that almost nobody is actually making that argument. The debate has become so consumed by tribalism over Israel that people cannot see what the issue represents. Supporters and critics alike keep treating Israel as the whole controversy, when it is only the place where a much larger political vision has become visible.

And this is why Israel is the ideal issue for every single enemy of the United States to use at the same time to clobber us over the head with.

Until people can get past the tribalism surrounding Israel, they will continue to miss the real conflict. They will mistake the symptom for the disease, the battleground for the war, and a foreign-policy dispute for what is ultimately a struggle over the future of the American constitutional order.

I can’t believe how many people cannot grasp that fact. Still.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Two lawyers fuming at the Court’s birthright decision are Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito.  Their dissenting opinions are brilliant, brutal, and 5-alarm warnings.

By the way, I keep reading birthright citizenship was the law for 150 years. No it wasn’t.  It’s not even certain when the practice began in earnest.

The decision yesterday was not 5-4. It was 6-3. Kavanaugh voted with the majority against upholding the president’s executive order. He argued it violated a federal statute.  It was an odd opinion.

[Chad Mizelle @chad_mizelle]

Justice Thomas could not be more correct:

“The Citizenship Clause added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship. Today’s opinion devalues that citizenship.”

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Sheridan Gorman's angel mom just dropped this raw truth nuke straight to Democrat members of Congress

"I don't understand why it's only the REPUBLICAN side that cares about our American children!"

"Basically what you just did, what you said was, 'I'm so sorry for your loss. I have a daughter too. I have a son. I feel your pain...'"

"You DON'T feel my pain. Because the next words out of your mouth were, 'BUT.'"

"There's no 'BUT' when your child is in a coffin!"

"And I need you to understand that. And if you ever want to talk about it, I'm here, I'm going to buy you a bench. I'm going to buy. You can put that on the record. I'm going to buy Congress the bench. And they can come and sit and hold my hand and look me in the eye and explain to me why illegal immigrants are more important than my daughter. I really want to know what because I don't understand!"

[Jeanne Ives @JeanneIves]

Governor DeSantis and Governor Pritzker each just signed their 8th state budgets. The contrast couldn't be starker. And the lesson is that who you elect matters. Change out the politicians and you get different policies.
For reference, Florida is 1.8x more populous than IL, 23.37m people compared to 12.71m people. Now consider these points:
1. FL general revenue budget is $52B, IL is $56B. Because state's have different ways of budgeting, lookimg at the total FY27 budgets, FL =$117B, IL=$130B. This doesn't make sense.
2. Pritzker advocated for and signed the largest budget in state history this year and in previous years. DeSantis has lowered the amount spent every year for the last four years and vetoed over $10B in spending during his time in office. Pritzker's budget is up $16B since he took office.
3. Pritzker brags about his credit upgrades, but IL has the worst state credit rating, FL has the best credit rating.
4. FL has a rainy day fund of $18B. IL rainy day fund is $2B.
5. FL is pushing $78B in road programs and moving planned projects ahead 5-15 years. IL can't even get projects planned, permitted and built in a timely manner, so many projects are left undone and money sits in an account collecting interest. And now that surplus interest is being sent to the CTA to bail them out.
6. DeSantis has given back over $9B in taxes. Pritzker has raised taxes every year for a total of over $77B according to IPI.
9. FL is giving $5,000 signing bonuses for police officers. IL politicians want to defund the police.
10. FL is on the cusp of eliminating property taxes for 60% of home owners and they have no state income tax. IL has the highest property taxes, plus individial income and estate taxes, high corporate taxes, and there's been no attempt to meaningfully lower property taxes.
Yes, elections have consequences. But, it can all ve reversed. DeSantis barely got elected 8 years ago. Your vote matters.

[Tom Fitton @TomFitton]

The 5-4 Supreme Court majority is WRONG on birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and birth tourists! Do you agree!

[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

Clarence Thomas Torches SCOTUS Decision On Birthright Citizenship

https://t.co/kbiPHfiT1B

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

We have two conservative justices on the court. Sometimes three. I have researched birthright citizenship enough to know this was a decision made out of cowardice. And the country will suffer as a result. Sorry. Not sorry.

[JpChimpo @Jp43044087]

@AffordAnything Wasn’t Mandami himself in subsidized housing while running for office?

He was personally gaming the system then! 140k salary? wtf

Rules for thee not for me!

[Paula Pant @AffordAnything]

What happens to the NYC housing system after you distort the math?

1) Random people who got lucky end up benefiting at the expense of everyone else.

Rent stabilization is not means tested. There's no upper income limit. You can make $250,000 and live in a rent-stabilized home. Plenty do.

30 percent of rent-stabilized tenants earn six figures.

2) The risk of developing new housing increases. This means lenders are less willing to lend. Investors are less willing to invest. Capital flows to other states, where the risk-adjusted returns are better.

3) The lowest income tenants are likely to live in declining conditions because maintenance is the first to get cut.

4) Tenants get locked in place because a valuable, stabilized unit is too attractive to give up. This means that when the family size grows or shrinks, they can't adjust their housing accordingly.

5) Market rate rents increase -- which means the city becomes even more expensive.

This means the political pressure to rent-stabilize even more units increases, until you have an increasingly smaller and smaller pool of market-rate tenants who are subsidizing everyone else.

And remember, because there's no means testing, plenty of low-income people pay market rate, while many high-income people are rent stabilized.

6) Newcomers get locked out because they don't have the connections to score a rent-stabilized place, and they can't shell out for market rate.

Fewer young people can move to the city to try to start their career.

The wealthy kids with family support will still come here. The low-income kids will lack that mobility, because of this market distortion.

7) Politicians keep themselves in power by giving away other people's money for "free."

The result is declining conditions and an increasingly expensive city.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

MOSSADIL COMMENTARY:
“GENOCIDE” — BUT THEY’RE BEGGING TO WORK FOR ISRAELIS

Since October 7th, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian workers have been restricted from entering Israeli communities for work.

Before the war, many of them earned full wages, benefits, and salaries far higher than what they could make under the Palestinian Authority.

Now the economic pressure is exploding.

Families are unemployed. Bills are piling up. Entire communities are facing financial disaster. And many Palestinians are openly calling on Israel to let them return to work.

That is the irony no one wants to talk about:
The same Israelis being accused of “genocide” are the ones Palestinians are asking to employ them.

If this were really genocide, why would the alleged victims be begging to work in the homes, businesses, farms, and communities of the people supposedly committing it?

The truth is simple:
Israel gave them jobs.