Firing the tabs …
The Supreme Court just greenlit Trump’s plan to gut the federal workforce. Without Congress. Without oversight. Without care for the chaos it’ll cause.
We’re talking about real people, real jobs, and the services folks count on every day.
This is their playbook: cut, gut, and… https://t.co/tf1tMADYPG
— Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@RepJasmine) July 8, 2025
Ed: The plan is to make actual cuts, rather than just promise them, and to roll back the regulatory state. Crockett’s plan is to keep it in place, and to reap support from the public-employee unions that control those regulatory bodies. Fortunately, we have elections to decide whose plan gets implemented.
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On April 30, HSI Buffalo personnel learned that an X account, believed to be operated by White, was engaged in publicly posting threats to federal immigration agents and administrators employed by the Department of Homeland Security.
On June 4, White voluntarily spoke with investigators and allowed them to extract and copy the contents of his phone. Investigators recovered a number of threatening posts on X, including:
- On April 18, White posted, “Kill them all, ICE is the new age gestapo, stop them.”
- On April 29, White shared a video clip of Border Czar Tom Homan posted by an X user “America,” and commented, “Then understand that if your ICE agents don’t show proof of identity and a signed warrant, we will kill them.”
- In late April, White posted multiple threatening and violent public comments in response to coverage of several ICE arrest operations, including an ICE arrest operation inside a Virginia courthouse that occurred in April 2025. White posted, “I can’t wait to put a bullet into this guy’s brain, but first his children.”
Ed: Fortunately, Matthew White will have to wait a very long time to do anything other than prepare for trial. The federal magistrate judge allowed White out on bail, but I presume White will be too busy attempting to stay out of prison to do any more social-media venting. On the other hand, White didn’t end up in this position by being intelligent, so …
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Sec. Brooke Rollins says the USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan will “ban the purchase of American farmland by Chinese nationals and other foreign adversaries.”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 8, 2025
Ed: I seem to recall a concern about this in the 1980s with Japan, but I could be mistaken about that. I get the sense that the issue with the land being bought by China is not JUST that it’s active farmland, but that a lot of it is located near or adjacent to some sensitive military installations.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that the Transportation Safety Administration’s nearly two-decade mandate for passengers to remove their shoes at screening is over.
“Many, many people will be on airlines traveling in and out of our airports and it’s important we find ways to keep people safe, but also streamline and make the process much more enjoyable for every single person,” Noem said.
Ed: ‘More enjoyable’ is a promise no one can keep, but we can make it less miserable, at least. I’m unclear as to the reasons behind the change. Do the scanners we use pick up on any adulterations in footwear? Or do we think it’s just not an issue any longer?
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President Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy RIP the failed CA high-speed rail project:
California wasted nearly 7 BILLION DOLLARS on it, which was supposed to be completed in 2020.
It’s 2025, and not a single high-speed track has been laid, and it hasn’t transported… pic.twitter.com/3AA8lGymqs
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 8, 2025
It’s 2025, and not a single high-speed track has been laid, and it hasn’t transported a single passenger.
Ed: Worst boondoggle ever. We have been writing about it at least since 2011, and the project has been underway since 2008, when voters issued $10 billion in state bonds to build it. This project has produced nothing at all for the massive amount of federal and state dollars that got poured into it, and serves no purpose anyway, since there are plenty of direct flights between LA and San Francisco already. It’s a program to shelter morons and feed crooks.
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New York City mayor Eric Adams said there is only one thing left for former New York governor Andrew Cuomo to do after losing the Democratic primary for mayor: “Get out of the race.”
“That’s the right thing to do for the city of New York,” Adams said in an exclusive interview with Coleman Hughes, host of The Free Press’s Conversations with Coleman podcast. Again and again, Adams made it clear that he still sees Cuomo as his chief rival in the general election campaign, despite the emergence of Zohran Mamdani as the front-runner.
And that makes sense, given that Adams and Cuomo are running in the same lane right now: as independents. If they both remain in the race, they will likely split the votes of moderates, especially with Republican Curtis Sliwa still running. If that happens, it will be hard for anyone to stop Mamdani, 33, from becoming New York City’s first socialist mayor.
Ed: Cuomo should have gotten out of politics altogether. Adams won’t be able to shame him out of this race.
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Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) says—despite its appeal—Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialist platform will harm New York City:
“I’ve been to Cuba, I’ve been to Venezuela… I saw the empty shelves… When you give stuff for free, someone is paying for it.” pic.twitter.com/P6DaF04F8Q
— Conversations with Coleman (@ConvoswColeman) July 8, 2025
Ed: I’ve become a fan of Coleman Hughes at the Free Press. This is a good exchange, and I’m glad to see Adams pushing back. I do wish that New Yorkers had a better alternative in this election, though.
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Four former high-ranking police officers are suing Mayor Eric Adams of New York, accusing him of enabling corruption in the Police Department, an agency where they said anyone who spoke out faced retaliation and humiliation.
The separate lawsuits filed on Monday in New York Supreme Court come as Mr. Adams, a former police captain, is running for re-election and using falling crime numbers to bolster his campaign. But the allegations from the former officers, who each spent decades in the department and helped lead bureaus like Internal Affairs and Professional Standards, could revive accusations that he presided over a law enforcement agency where chaos and cronyism reigned.
Ed: As I said above, New Yorkers need to rethink all of their choices of late. Still, this smells funny, given Adams’ recent re-entry into the electoral process. I’ve heard of coincidences, but have never been a big believer in them when it comes to politics.
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“It’s Not Genocide – It’s What Hamas Want!”
In this clip, combat veteran @NickJFreitas breaks down why labelling Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide” is misleading. Drawing from firsthand experience, he explains the harsh realities of urban warfare and how Hamas strategically… pic.twitter.com/stBR1bb5Za
— TRIGGERnometry (@triggerpod) July 8, 2025
Ed: Great job by Nick Freitas here, but it’s amazing to me that this needs to be explained at all. Hamas has used this strategy since taking control of Gaza in 2006-7, and their subterranean systems are explicitly designed to use the civilian population as shields against IDF action. Hamas attacked civilians to start this war on October 7 and then pulled back to the urban areas, and even more, they used urban areas to launch rockets at Israeli civilian centers nearly every day for the last 19 years. Anyone accusing Israel of “genocide” for responding to terrorism is either a terrorist sympathizer or an idiot, full stop.
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[Tery] Gilliam may be mad about his project’s plight, but he seems happy that President Donald Trump made it safe to laugh again stateside. That revelation came through in a surreal Hollywood Reporter interview with the 84-year-old legend.
Gilliam, pressed on the current state of humor, took the conversation in an unlikely direction (at least for the far-Left THR).
I think Trump has changed things considerably. He’s turned the world upside down. I don’t know if people are going to be laughing more, but they’re probably less frightened to laugh [emphasis added]. There have been woke activists with a very narrow, self-righteous point of view. That’s frightened so many people, and so many people have been very timid about telling jokes, making fun of things, because if you tell a joke, these people say you’re punching down at somebody. No, you’re finding humor in humanity!
Ed: I’m surprised that Terry Gilliam has anything nice to say about Donald Trump. The Python gang are pretty famously liberal — but also contrarian. Kudos for his honesty.
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As the mayor of Los Angeles is a moron and does not use critical thinking… legs do an experiment.
Why, Karen ( perfect name) Bass.. are ICE agents hitting MacArthur park?
A, Could it be to arrest illegal gang members who roam there?
B, Because they want to harass kids… https://t.co/HbHM79xF0f
— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) July 8, 2025