Trump's lead soars in post-debate polls, now up in New Hampshire

SCOTUS Opinions Indicate The Death Of The Administrative State Is Just Beginning
Last week’s court decisions foretell a coming decade in which the judicial branch will dismantle the abusive power seized by federal agencies.

15 Secretaries Blow Off Congressional Subpoenas While Subpoena Refusal Lands Trump Adviser In Jail
Bannon surrendered at a Connecticut federal prison to begin serving his time on contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena.

Jeffrey Epstein document dump: Prosecutors told financier raped girls as young as 14, cut deal anyway
Florida Circuit Judge Luis Delgado, who released the pages on Monday, warned that the transcript would likely outrage anyone who read them.

Pro-Life Father Of 11 Targeted By Biden Awaits Sentencing Over Pro-Life Protest
Paul Vaughn was targeted by the Biden administration after he participated in a peaceful protest at an abortion facility in Tennessee in 2021. He will be sentenced on Tuesday and faces up to 10.5 years in prison.

Feds: Business owner funneled illegal donations to Oakland mayor through brothel
Andy Duong, an Oakland recycling contractor, is accused of using a karaoke-bar-turned-brothel to funnel campaign donations to Mayor Sheng Thao and other city officials, resulting in arrests and ongoing investigations.

Joe Biden Trashes Supreme Court, Ignores All Questions From Media Following Disastrous Debate
Critics noticed that Biden, who only managed to read off a teleprompter for about four minutes before having to call it quits, came to the press looking orange after he appeared a pasty white color during last week’s debate.

NY Times: Ruling Slows Trump Election Case but Opens Door to Airing of Evidence
The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling may allow prosecutors to detail much of their evidence against Trump in front of a federal judge and the public.

Justice Thomas wants to know if Jack Smith is constitutionally appointed
Thomas wrote that Smith was not a Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney, which could undermine Smith’s prosecutions.

Trump moves to reverse verdict in New York case after historic Supreme Court ruling
The letter asked for permission to file the motion and laid out a timetable for trying to resolve the issues before the court.

WaPo: Justice Sotomayor says ‘the President is now a king above the law’
If you thought "threat to democracy" would be in the story — give yourself a Keksi Cookie.

Biden’s deputy campaign manager ‘scared as s***’ after Trump immunity ruling
“This decision will give Donald Trump cover to do exactly what he’s been saying that he wants to do for months, which is enact revenge or retribution against his political enemies,” Fulks whined.

AOC threatens to impeach all six conservative Supreme Court Justices after Trump immunity ruling
The former cocktail waitress posted on X, "The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control. Today's ruling represents an assault on American democracy."

Joy Reid outraged at SCOTUS ruling, 'This is DEFCON 1'
Shockingly, she got the reference correct — I'd have bet money she would have said "DEFCON 5" thinking that was the worst.

Jill Biden’s Vogue cover proves how painfully out of touch the president’s family is
Jill Biden told Vogue in a last-minute, post-debate comment that her husband “will always do what’s best for the country.” Except step down, of course.

Hunter Biden Alleges ‘Severe Emotional Distress, Humiliation, And Mental Anguish’ In Lawsuit Against Fox News
The lawsuit was filed in New York.

Senior Biden Adviser Used Racial Slurs, Smoked Crack in Strip Club, Called Dr. Jill 'Entitled C***'
Ten shocking details about "one of the strongest voices" urging Joe Biden to stay in the race.

Bedford: Reality check — you can’t just switch candidates
Even if the Biden oligarchy wanted to surrender its power and its money, that money can’t just be switched over to a new candidate, not without torpedoing the campaign’s entire media strategy.

NY Times: In a Staring Contest With Democratic Voters, Joe Biden Hasn’t Blinked
Around Biden, a siege mentality has set in post-debate, one at odds with the persistent concerns of voters who view him as too old to be effective.
- Related: Here's 28 seconds of Biden not blinking

WaPo: Biden team courts skittish Democrats as path to replace him narrows
The president and his aides signal their intent to push ahead as the party anxiously awaits the post-debate polls.

NY Post: Democratic donors give Biden a two-week grace period for polls to fall after debate
The Democratic National Finance Committee tamped down speculation that Biden could end his re-election bid during an hour-plus-long Zoom call intended to put top donors at ease. “They got rid of any speculation he will drop out," the source said.

Dems circle wagons after Biden debate disaster by telling lies new and same-old
In what Mediaite termed “a 15-minute Biden campaign commercial,” Mika Brzezinski of "Morning Joe" called him “a man slowed down by a cold,” while hint-asking: “Does there need to be changes” in “managing him?” “Changes to his schedule?”

Poll finds support for Trump is soaring after devastating debate for Biden
The post-debate Harvard CAPS Harris poll now has Trump at 47% and Biden at 41%. The same poll shows more than half of people say their personal financial situation is getting worse — the first time it's been over 50% since March 2023.

Poll shows Trump winning in New Hampshire
In the post-debate poll, 44% said they support Trump, compared to 42% who said Biden was their choice. The last state poll in December had Biden up by 10.

Republican on powerful House committee says GOP has the votes to hold Garland in inherent contempt
The contempt charges stem from Garland's refusal to comply with a Congressional subpoena to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

Historian who accurately predicted 9 of last 10 elections urges Democrats not to dump Biden
“They all said Trump was finished after ‘Access Hollywood.’ And they are so often wrong.”

Whitmer now says Michigan is winnable for Biden, denies report she said otherwise
Politico reported that Whitmer called Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon on Friday and said her state is "no longer winnable for Biden."

Whitmer book to drop July 9
Whitmer inked a seven-figure book deal with Simon & Schuster.

Kamala Harris Gets Fact-Checked After Lying About Trump’s Abortion Stance
Harris tweeted, "Donald Trump would ban abortion nationwide."

DNC denies early convention roll call linked to calls to replace Biden
Both Biden campaign and DNC spokespeople were quick to clarify that the roll call, which will be held weeks before the Democratic National Convention next month in Chicago, was previously scheduled.

By ‘Democracy,’ Democrats Mean A Shadow Government Of Unelected Biden Aides
Joe Biden’s backers care not a whit about voters beyond whether they can manipulate them enough to retain power.

GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz charged with weapons violation at Dulles Airport
A spokesperson for the Indiana Republican said she "accidentally carried an empty handgun in her suitcase with no magazine or bullets."

Americans Hit With Record-High July 4 Cookout Costs Thanks To Biden’s Rampant Inflation
A new report from the American Farm Bureau Federation found that a 10-person cookout would run up a $71.22 bill. This marks a 5% increase from last year and an almost 30% increase from five years ago.

Echoes of dotcom bubble haunt AI-driven US stock market
The tech-heavy Nasdaq has gained over 70% since the end of 2022. The concern is that the AI-driven surge will end the same way as the dot-com boom — with an epic crash.

Biden admin allowed more than 100,000 migrants into US in June, despite ‘crackdown’ on asylum
The stunning figure includes 30,000 illegal border crossers who were allowed in — more than one-third of all migrants caught at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Biden Admin Flying Migrants Deported by Trump Back Into the US
Biden admin alarms immigration officials by reversing deportations of some Cameroonians.

Illegal aliens no longer allowed to sleep at Logan Airport, Massachusetts governor says
The new policy comes days after the sanctuary state governor sent representatives to the southern border in Texas to spread the word that Massachusetts shelters are full, so don't come.

Poll: Over 1 in 10 US Jews feel mistreated, 60% uncomfortable being openly Jewish
Gallup surveys verify feelings of insecurity experienced by many American Jews, including rising number who believe anti-Semitism to be "very serious problem."

US Holocaust museum slams anti-Semitic vandalism in Seattle
Seattle police determined that pro-Palestinian graffiti at a local Holocaust museum didn’t qualify as a hate crime.

Anarchist mob allegedly beats three pro-Israel activists in North Carolina
Police said on Monday that they were still investigating the alleged assault in Asheville.

'Middle Eastern men' beat up lesbian couple
A video shows the moment a mob of men brutally beat a lesbian couple who were out celebrating one of their birthdays. One of the victims described the assailants as "Middle Eastern men, believed to be from Syria."

NBC: Far right 'at the gates of power' after historic France election result
The ruling centrists and the country’s left were scrambling to thwart the National Rally in the decisive second round and prevent France’s first far-right government since the Nazi occupation in World War II.

Macron’s implicit endorsement of ‘antisemitic,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ far left shocks French Jews
Macron “just endorsed a party controlled by pro-Hamas” forces, Yohann Taieb, a French-Jewish journalist, wrote on X on Monday. The Jewish groups that endorsed him were “being taken for a ride,” Taieb added.

WaPo: Biden ought to see Macron’s drubbing in France as a danger sign
Like the 2016 Brexit vote in the U.K., the victory of the hard-right National Rally in Sunday’s French elections could portend trouble for Democrats in the U.S.

NY Times' Krugman: France’s Far Right Is Bad. MAGA Is Worse.
So yes, the French right is bad, and its rise is alarming. But the MAGA movement is worse, because it combines the European right’s ugliness with stunning hypocrisy and contempt for its supporters.

Female Suicide Bombers: A Terrorist Group’s Hidden Weapon
A woman held a baby as she detonated a bomb over the weekend in northern Nigeria, killing them both and at least half a dozen others. She was joined by two other female suicide bombers who killed at least 32 and wounded dozens more in a series of bombings.

OJ Simpson Featured During 'In Memoriam' Segment at BET Awards
Simpson was honored at the BET ceremony on Sunday night.

Eddie Murphy says David Spade hurt his feelings in 1995 with 'racist' joke
"One movie, 'Vampire in Brooklyn.' It came came out, and it flopped, he showed a picture of me up on the news, and he said, 'Hey everybody, catch a falling star!' ... Really? A joke about my career?!' So, yeah I thought that was a cheap shot, and it was kind of racist."

Trump-Appointed Judge Lifts Biden’s Pause On New Natural Gas Exports
The liquefied natural gas pause stands as one of Biden’s most aggressive climate decisions through his first term in office.

The latest problem with EV charging stations: Power supply
To keep the supposedly green solution viable, many developers are installing diesel or gas generators on-site.

Major Pediatric Medical Org Brainstormed Ways To ‘Circumvent’ Child Sex Change Bans, Emails Show
Members of America’s leading pediatric medical association discussed possible ways to “circumvent” red states’ bans on sex change procedures and drugs for children.

How end of Chevron deference could hurt Biden Title IX overhaul
With the overturn of Chevron, the Biden administration may have lost the only way it could have defended the highly controversial rules governing the civil rights law.

Man says he was tricked into getting a sex change
Indian police are investigating the case of a man who was allegedly tricked into getting a sex change — only so that another man could marry him and inherit his land.

Satanic Temple member found guilty of possession of 'very disturbing' child pornography in Idaho: Police
Here's an honest question — if you're a member of the Satanic Temple and you're caught with kiddie porn, do they disown you, or do you get a promotion for doing the work of the devil?

NYC taxi driver decapitates baby Jesus statue with shoe
Hitting people with the underside of a shoe is considered a grave insult in the Middle East, though it is unclear whether that was the suspect’s intent.

MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI
“When a human sees an AI system perform a task, they immediately generalize it to things that are similar and make an estimate of the competence of the AI system; not just the performance on that, but the competence around that. And they’re usually very over-optimistic.”

The TikTok Ban Is a Blueprint for More Social Media Censorship
China's free speech record is bad, but the federal government's isn't so great either.