Month: July 2026



Families of 9/11 victims are urging organizers of the 25th‑anniversary Ground Zero memorial to bar New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani from attending, saying his presence would dishonor the dead. Their campaign has taken the form of an online petition that has drawn tens of thousands of signatures in recent weeks, including support from hundreds of relatives of people killed in the attacks.

The petition asks the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and city officials to “carefully consider” whether Mamdani’s participation aligns with the ceremony’s focus on remembrance, unity and rejecting extremism, citing concerns about his public positions and associations.

Organizers and family members describe the anniversary at Ground Zero as a “sacred” and deeply personal event, not a political platform, and say the mayor would be an “unwelcome guest” at a ceremony meant to honor nearly 3,000 dead.

Petition founder Giovanni Galante, whose wife was killed on 9/11, has called Mamdani’s presence “a slap in the face” and argued that someone who has associated with figures who suggest America “deserved” the attacks should not attend.

The petition cites Mamdani’s past refusal to clearly denounce slogans such as “globalize the intifada,” his praise for Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj, and his ties to commentator Hasan Piker, whose remarks about 9/11 have drawn backlash.

Commenters on the petition, including first responders who were on the scene on September 11, say allowing Mamdani to attend would insult the memories of fallen firefighters and other victims.

Asked at a press briefing about survivors and families calling on him not to attend the memorial, Mamdani replied, “I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders forever impacted … by standing alongside them at this year’s 9/11 commemoration.”

He added that the day is a “solemn” one felt by everyone who calls New York City and the United States home, and his office has confirmed he intends to attend despite the petition demanding he stay away.

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Since President Trump signed changes to SNAP, Democratic lawmakers and sympathetic media outlets have repeated a familiar script: the President “took food away” from millions of Americans. To evoke an emotional response and frame the issue as a moral, even theological, question, headlines repeatedly focus on the number of children affected.

“Mean old trillionaire Elon Musk and evil Grinch Trump stole food from children” is easier to sell than saying, “Able-bodied adults now have to work part-time to receive government benefits, and the administration is requiring parents to take responsibility for feeding their own children.”

What that framing leaves out is the foundation of the American system itself. The United States is not a socialist country, and no citizen has an unconditional claim on the labor of others simply by virtue of need. SNAP is, technically, a legal entitlement, but only for those who meet the eligibility rules that Congress writes and rewrites. No one has a permanent claim to a particular income threshold or set of conditions. Congress can, and just did, raise the bar.

America operates on personal responsibility, paired with a generous safety net for those who genuinely cannot provide for themselves: the disabled, the elderly, and the temporarily unemployed. That safety net was never intended to become a permanent way of life. Yet mandatory spending, the budget category covering Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and similar programs, has grown from roughly 40 percent of the federal budget in the early 1970s to about 60 percent today.

Heritage Foundation researcher Robert Rector has documented that “multiple generations have grown up dependent on government transfers” and that “half of aid goes to individuals who have received food stamps for 8.5 years or more.” Evidence of multigenerational dependency is supported by the data.

Households in the bottom income quintile have higher teen births than higher-income households, and more than 60 percent of young, unmarried mothers already live in poverty, with most entering public assistance within a year of the child’s birth. With each generation spanning roughly two decades, the nearly six decades since the launch of the modern welfare state have provided more than enough time for families in the bottom quintile to cycle through three or four generations of dependency.

Media coverage of the changes has centered on CBO’s estimate that 2.4 million people will lose participation in an average month over the next decade, framed as a government simply cutting food from the mouths of children. An estimated 8.8 million people became newly subject to the requirement, meaning the 2.4 million figure largely consists of people who voluntarily choose not to meet the new work, volunteer, or study requirements.

To deflect the argument that losing benefits is a matter of personal choice and responsibility, two arguments are commonly made. First, some people will lose benefits due to paperwork glitches. But that argument is true of every benefit program that has ever existed and is not unique to a requirement that people work to receive benefits. The second argument is structural: people doing gig work may find it difficult to prove they are working to comply with the rules. While that may be true, nothing is preventing them from obtaining a qualifying part-time job in addition to their gig work. This would give them a job, gig income, and government benefits, improving their standard of living.

The underlying rule requires able-bodied adults ages 18 to 54 without dependents to work 80 hours a month, about 20 hours a week, to keep benefits beyond three months in a three-year period. The requirement is not limited to paid employment. Volunteering also counts, as do education or training through an approved program. That base rule already existed; the new law raised the age ceiling to 65 and narrowed the parental exemption.

The media has also criticized the administration’s termination of required funding for SNAP-Ed, the nutrition education grant program, even as the federal government has launched broader nutrition education and public health initiatives. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins released updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the federal nutrition standard that shapes school meals, military food, and public dietary guidance.

Kennedy and Rollins have also pushed states to restrict SNAP purchases of foods deemed unhealthy, secured voluntary industry commitments to remove artificial dyes, and redirected $1.8 billion annually toward combating childhood chronic disease. Democrats oppose the program, arguing that people receiving benefits should be allowed to make their own food choices, and some articles have claimed that Kennedy is preventing poor children from having birthday cakes.

However, the restriction only applies to SNAP purchases. Parents are free to buy a birthday cake, beer, liquor, or cigarettes with cash. The liberal counterargument is that they can’t afford a birthday cake. However, as an economist, this author would like to point out that the average birthday cake in the United States costs about $35. If parents set aside about $3 per month, they could pay for their child’s birthday cake without relying on SNAP.

Kennedy also relaunched the Presidential Fitness Test for public schoolchildren under a 2025 executive order, launched a medical school nutrition education partnership to train future physicians, and established the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program to fund rural hospitals and MAHA-aligned state policies. This was again opposed by the same people who supported vaccine mandates, lockdowns, and mandatory gym closures during COVID and who generally favor expensive medications over health advice encouraging people to lose weight and exercise.

Data from HHS and the CDC confirm that lower-income groups have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. A lower family income-to-poverty ratio is also independently associated with higher odds of diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, and all-cause mortality. Many of these risks could be mitigated through proper diet and exercise.

The left’s accusations that the Trump administration is evil for not feeding children ignore the fact that the responsibility of parents to care for their children is clearly established in U.S. law, science, Christianity, and Judaism.

American law imposes an enforceable duty on parents to support their children through every state’s child support statutes. The behavioral sciences recognize parental sacrifice for offspring survival as one of the most consistent patterns across species. And the major religions agree on this point despite their many differences.

Christianity teaches that a man who fails to provide for his household “has denied the faith” and is worse than an unbeliever. Judaism’s Talmud treats feeding one’s own children as a father’s binding moral duty. Islam’s concept of nafaqah obligates a father to provide his children’s food and clothing, a duty rooted directly in the Quran. Law, science, and faith converge on the same point: children are the responsibility of their parents.

The one ideology that has historically argued otherwise is communism/socialism/Marxism. Marx and Engels wrote openly in the Communist Manifesto of wanting to “rescue education” from the family and replace it with a collective one, a vision in which the state, not the parent, becomes the final authority over a child’s upbringing.

It is frightening that this entire SNAP debate hinges on Democrats and liberals opposing the Republican positions of personal responsibility; requiring able-bodied adults to work or study; parental responsibility for children; and encouraging the bottom 20 percent of income earners to exercise, work, eat a healthy diet, and lose weight so they can live longer.

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Woke Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is now proposing a ballot referendum that would seek financial compensation and “reparations” for communities impacted by recent ICE immigration raids in the city. The referendum, overwhelmingly approved by the City Council, asks voters whether Chicago should pursue “all lawful means” to recover money from the federal government for economic harms caused by the Trump administration’s militarized ICE operation known as “Operation Midway Blitz.”

During a recent council meeting and press remarks, Johnson said he believes “the most relevant ballot referendum question” is about receiving reparations for communities that “experienced that hardship,” citing examples including a Black man placed in “an illegal chokehold” and “long guns being stuck into the faces of women and children, zip‑tied and thrown into vehicles.” He described residents in affected neighborhoods as having been “kidnapped, shot at” and subjected to tear gas and other aggressive tactics, arguing that his updated policy is intended to create “a pathway to accountability” consistent with earlier executive orders protecting illegal alien communities and so-called protesters.

Johnson has previously condemned ICE enforcement tactics in Chicago as deceptive and abusive, accusing the Trump administration of “attempting to get us to surrender our humanity” and vowing that “in Chicago, we will not comply” with such operations. Under the proposed referendum, Johnson says Chicago would seek compensation for costs such as lost tax revenue, public safety responses and services provided to residents and families affected by ICE raids, while exploring localized reparations for those directly impacted.

Johnson’s broader reparations agenda has also drawn fierce backlash online, with MAGA‑aligned users previously denouncing his separate slavery‑related reparations task force as “outright racism” and “illegal,” suggesting his latest proposal tied to ICE raids will face similarly intense opposition by Americans that are fed up with illegal immigration.

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Explosive day on Capitol Hill, as Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for four decades, testified at the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. You can watch the hearing here.

The Committee Chairman, Senator Rand Paul, R-KY, subpoenaed Fauci to come testify late last month.

Paul is one of Fauci’s most well-known critics and has consistently blasted him during the COVID-19 pandemic and the years following it.

For years, Fauci was believed to be an insider on COVID-19’s origins and kept secrets from the American people about it, lying to millions upon millions.

This is not the first time Fauci has been under scrutiny during and after a major outbreak. In the 1980’s he was widely criticized for his handling of the HIV epidemic and his handling still in debate to this day.

Fauci’s pandemic-era diary was leaked, which raised a lot of questions and reignited speculations that Fauci was one of the key figures behind the pandemic after all.

The day before the hearing, legal expert John Yoo confirmed that Fauci could be prosecuted for his role in the pandemic, despite Fauci receiving a blanket pardon from President Joe Biden. The pardon does not cover any future lie that Fauci tells Congress under oath.

Fauci decided to invoke the Fifth Amendment throughout the hearing and refused to answer any questions.

Senator Josh Hawley, R-MO, asked Fauci basic questions during the testimony, so basic that even a child could answer them. Fauci decided to remain stubborn and kept pleading the fifth:

I asked Fauci basic questions: What day of the week is it today? What color tie are you wearing? What color is the carpet in front of you?

He pled the Fifth and refused to answer every time pic.twitter.com/fg41ZF1PqX

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 29, 2026

Hawley then left the hearing and went scorched earth on Fauci to the press.

“Privilege is a right against self-incrimination leading to prosecution. He has received a full pardon that covers years. It is more sweeping than Hunter Biden’s par-pardons. It’s outrageous,” Hawley told TGP.

“The reason he’s not answering questions is he knows that he did wrong. He knows that he violated federal law by soliciting cash prizes using federal instrumentalities, federal employees, federal resources on federal time.”

Hawley also pointed out that Fauci received “over a million dollars in cash prizes during the pandemic.”

 

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Senator Ron Johnson, R-WI, a vocal critic of COVID-19, said anyone suggesting this hearing is a perjury against Fauci is just an “excuse.”

“He simply cannot afford to tell the truth regarding his actions in our miserably failed attempt at COVID. He, he can’t. And what’s happening right now is ’cause we’re finally starting to get documents,” Johnson told TGP.

LindellTV’s Alison Steinberg then pressed Johnson on Fauci’s refusal to answer questions at the hearing and the blanket pardon he received from President Biden. Could Fauci still be held accountable despite these factors?

“Accountability starts with exposing the truth. We’re finally getting documents for the American people to see. I mean, I think Chairman Paul did an excellent job laying out in his opening statement literally how incriminating Fauci’s actions are, and again we’ve known this for years,” Johnson told TGP and Steinberg.

You can keep up with Steinberg’s work on Instagram and TikTok.

Senator Bernie Moreno, R-OH, exploded on Fauci during the hearing by asking him, “Who the f*ck do you think you were for doing that?”

After Moreno left the hearing he was asked by the Gateway Pundit’s Alicia Powe why Fauci was invoking the Fifth throughout the hearing and Moreno responded with “because he’s a piece of sh*t.”

Sen. Bernie Moreno didn’t hold back when @gatewaypundit asked why Fauci is suddenly taking the Fifth after testifying 200+ times:
“Because he’s a piece of shit.” pic.twitter.com/L5HuD27FHA

— Alicia Powe (@aliciapoweshow) July 29, 2026

Senator Joni Ernst, R-IA, did not hold back when it was her turn to confront Fauci during the hearing.

Ernst would award Fauci her signature “squeal award,” as a way to mock him and refer to him as a pig.

Hours after the hearing, TMZ’s Charlie Cotton cornered chairman Paul at an elevator and asked him what he has to say to people that believe the hearing was just a “witch hunt” against Fauci.

Cotton then said that people on online platforms were saying that Paul was just looking for “any minor inaccuracy to trip him up and audit him.”

“I wouldn’t call fifteen million people dying minor,” Paul told TGP and Cotton.

WATCH: @TMZ‘s @hicharliecotton asked @SenRandPaul what he has to say to saying Paul “wanted to look for any minor inaccuracy to trip him up and audit him (Fauci).”

Paul’s response: “I wouldn’t call fifteen million people dying minor.” pic.twitter.com/f3goJFG3Fp

— Myles Morell (@MorellMedia) July 29, 2026

You can keep up with Cotton’s work on Instagram and X.

Today’s hearing demonstrated that Dr. Anthony Fauci still refuses to tell the American people the truth of the COVID-19 pandemic and his role in it.

The hearing went nowhere and the public still does not have answers. After years of frustrating lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and a virus whose origins are still unclear, it’s no wonder why lawmakers exploded on Fauci at today’s hearing.

Will the truth finally come out one day? Will Fauci be held accountable? After today, these things remain unclear.

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MCR Special Teams and the Mike Cox law firm served Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson with Southern Poverty Law Center-related court papers on Wednesday evening.

Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox recently dropped his bid for the Republican candidate for governor. The highly unpopular Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is the likely Democratic candidate running for governor after being term-limited as Secretary of State.

Jocelyn Benson, who the Gateway Pundit frequently refers to as “America’s most dishonest Secretary of State,” is familiar with lawsuits. Benson has been involved in 69 election-related lawsuits during her time as Secretary of State. That is more than the combined total of the previous four Secretaries of State.

In addition to fighting an onslaught of election integrity-related lawsuits during her corrupt reign as Michigan’s top election official, it looks like she is about to be defending herself in yet another lawsuit. This time, Benson will potentially have to explain her role as a board member of the Southern Poverty Law Center during the same time the group has been accused in a federal lawsuit of paying hate groups like the KKK.

According to a federal indictment unsealed in April 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, false statements, and related offenses.

Prosecutors allege the following:

Between roughly 2014 and 2023, the SPLC paid more than $3 million (later described in some reports as over $4 million) in donor funds to individuals associated with extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, and others.

These payments went to informants the SPLC used to infiltrate or gather information on the groups.

The indictment claims some of the money was used by the recipients for group-related activities, including (according to prosecutors) recruiting members and purchasing materials such as Klan robes and items used in cross-burning ceremonies.
Prosecutors further allege the SPLC did not disclose these payments to donors and instead raised money on the premise that it was working to dismantle the very groups it was funding through informants.

On August 12, 2017, the nation was shocked to witness the unexpected violence that erupted at the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA.  The rally was billed as a call for Americans to come together and defend against the destruction of historic statues by the Obama regime.

Sadly, the “Unite the Right” rally ( the SPLC was allegedly secretly paying an informant to organize) resulted in the death of Heather Heyer, a counter-protester who was allegedly standing against the “hateful” protesters who were fighting to stop the destruction of historic statues in America.

Curiously, Jocelyn Benson, who is also America’s most crooked secretary of state, was a SPLC board member in 2017 at the time of the violent Unite the Right rally.

In 2018, the far-left Democrat operative Jocelyn Benson was elected as Michigan’s Secretary of State after losing her first Soros-funded bid in 2014. Curiously, prior to the 2018 election, Benson’s online profile appeared to be scrubbed, removing any evidence of her ties to the radical SPLC hate group.

Former Michigan AG Mike Cox wants to force Jocelyn Benson to answer to the public about her role in the payments to hate groups like the KKK while sitting on the board at the SPLC hate group.

Cox posted a warning to Benson on X:

“Jocelyn Benson – you can run, but you can’t hide.” He warned. “You’ve been served,” he added.

Cox explains, “You served on the board of the SPLC that is now federally indicted for funding hate groups like the KKK while also serving as Michigan’s Secretary of State.

Michigan deserves the truth about what she knew, how involved she was, and I will not rest until voters get that transparency.”

.@JocelynBenson you can run, but you can’t hide. You’ve been served.

You served on the board of the SPLC that is now federally indicted for funding hate groups like the KKK while also serving as Michigan’s Secretary of State.

Michigan deserves the truth about what she knew,… pic.twitter.com/2FkvYBzgjD

— Mike Cox (@Mike_Cox) July 29, 2026

In the video below, a young man can be seen approaching Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson with a stack of papers in his hand as she walks with two men toward what appears to be a campaign event.

“You’ve been served,” the young man can be heard saying as he hands her the legal documents.

“Oh cool!” Benson responds, adding, “Thank you so much!” Benson can be seen smiling as she attempts to walk away from the videotaped interaction, with a forced smile on her face.

The young man holds out another sheet of paper as he walks toward Benson, who is attempting to walk away, and asks, “Would you like to sign this?”

Benson continues to walk away, mumbling, “Ah, you can send it over…[inaudible]” as she walks away.

MCR Special Teams and the Mike Cox law firm served Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson with SPLC-related court papers today. See you in court Jocelyn pic.twitter.com/3H4EToWUiW

— Michigan College Republicans (@MichiganCRs) July 29, 2026

Benson has a history of being accused of mistreating black people

In addition to her potential role in SPLC’s payment to hate groups, Benson is currently in the midst of her second discrimination lawsuit in two years.

In August 2025, Benson’s office reached a separation agreement with her former black, female employee Angela Harness that included a payment of $775,000.

Harness was a department director (Director of Quality and Customer Experience) at the Michigan Department of State.
She filed a notice of intent to sue the department, alleging a racially hostile work environment and related discrimination/retaliation issues.

In January 2026, four Black employees of the Michigan Department of State (three current and one former) filed a civil lawsuit in Wayne County Circuit Court against MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the Michigan Department of State
the State of Michigan and several senior staff members.

The suit alleges racial discrimination, retaliation for complaining about unfair treatment, a racially hostile workplace, and violations of Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. The plaintiffs claim a pattern of preferential treatment for white employees and other discriminatory practices.

The brave plaintiffs

The brave plaintiffs consist of three current Black staffers – David Murray, Elvine Vanbolden, and Mychael Foster – plus former high-ranking Nirva Civilus, who has been with the state for over 21 years.

They’re calling out Benson’s crew for a “widespread” pattern of retaliation against black employees who dare speak up about discrimination. “Defendants have no effective system in place to track, correct, or prevent this unlawful discriminatory conduct,” the complaint explains.

The fireworks don’t stop with the testimony of these 3 individuals- the lawsuit includes an affidavit from former Assistant Secretary of State Heaster Wheeler – a Black powerhouse who cited rampant racial discrimination as a top reason for ditching the sinking ship. Wheeler isn’t even a plaintiff, but his testimony is pure dynamite, pulling no punches on the department’s failures.

As usual, whenever her back is against the wall, whether it’s being caught committing voter fraud or making it easier for voter fraud to be committed in Michigan, Benson’s office is in full denial mode. They are labeling the claims against Benson as “absolutely false” and trotting out supposed “clear” policies on vehicle use and hiring. Spokeswoman Angela Benander parroted the party line: “The secretary and department leadership do not tolerate any harassment, discrimination, or retaliation.” Tell that to the black employees who felt targeted while working for her.

 

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Indiana Fever guard and rising WNBA star Sophie Cunningham broke her silence Wednesday night after Seattle Storm minority co-owner Celeste Keaton allegedly berated two teenage girls for supporting Cunningham’s courageous defense of women’s sports.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the girls attended Tuesday’s Fever-Storm game wearing XX-XY Athletics shirts and carrying signs thanking Cunningham for standing up for female athletes.

One sign read, “Thank You Sophie for speaking up for girls!”

According to independent journalist Brandi Kruse, who interviewed the teens, Keaton approached them, called them “f***ing insane,” and launched into a profanity-laced tirade, leaving at least one of the girls in tears.

One of the teens, Ahnaleigh Wilson of Wenatchee, has previously spoken out after losing to a biological male identifying as female in a Washington state track meet as an eighth-grader. These are not radical activists. These are high school girls standing up for fairness in women’s sports.

WATCH:

Last night, @seattlestorm co-owner Celeste Keaton cursed out two teen girls for wearing @xx_xyathletics shirts, calling them “f*cking insane.” One of them was left in tears. I tried to get security involved and was told I should email the front office. pic.twitter.com/Qi8TcfRtYB

— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) July 29, 2026

The alleged abuse did not stop there. Kruse said Seattle players gave the girls thumbs-down gestures while other hostile fans booed and mocked them. Video also captured a grown man demanding that arena employees “take the trash out” while referring to the young Cunningham supporters.

Remember: Their supposed crime was peacefully supporting biological women in women’s sports.

Footage obtained by @FoxNews shows the young Sophie Cunningham fans also face a confrontation with a grown man and a woman with him. The man shouted “take the trash out” to arena staff, in reference to the girls and the other supporters with them. https://t.co/0jaSjUmMbn pic.twitter.com/MjwfUyHmb4

— Jackson Thompson (@JackThompsonFOX) July 29, 2026

Cunningham responded to the controversy in a post on X:

“I truly believe there is a safe space and love for EVERYBODY. Biological girls, biological boys, trans women, and trans men. Everyone is welcome at my table! You can disagree and still be kind.

“Bravo to those girls for standing up for what they believe. You’ll be hearing from me soon — yay for gifts.

“Truly embarrassing of the co-owner. Unfortunately shows the type of leader she is.”

I truly believe there is a safe space and love for EVERYBODY. Biological girls, biological boys, trans women, and trans men. Everyone is welcome at my table! You can disagree and still be kind.

Bravo to those girls for standing up for what they believe. You’ll be hearing from… https://t.co/gIVWhEHi3Q

— Sophie Cunningham (@sophaller) July 30, 2026

The WNBA has since fined Keaton and suspended her from attending the Storm’s next five home games, the league confirmed to Fox News Digital.

Seattle Storm majority owner Ginny Gilder also released an apology:

“We are aware one of our co-owners made comments to two fans in attendance at last night’s game. We apologize that this happened. Everyone who attends a Storm game deserves to feel welcome, and we remain committed to creating an inclusive environment where every fan is treated with respect.”

Of course, the so-called party of “tolerance” once again showed how quickly its supposed compassion disappears when young women dare to challenge the radical transgender agenda.

Cunningham, however, refuses to be intimidated.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Cunningham doubled down after left-wing activists attacked her for saying young girls should not be forced to compete against biological males.

“I said what I said,” Cunningham told reporters. “I think it’s kind of common sense.”

Cunningham has repeatedly made clear that she harbors no hatred toward transgender individuals. Her position is simply that female sports and locker rooms should remain protected for biological women and girls.

The public appears to agree. Cunningham’s newly released Adidas shoes sold out within hours after she refused to back down to the woke mob.

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During a recent episode of The Five on FOX News, Greg Gutfeld talked about one of the central truths of socialism. It requires enforcement.

Gutfeld points out that capitalism does not require this, and that capitalism doesn’t need a ‘movement’ to get people interested in it.

He also notes how socialist candidates like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan are starting to back wawy from the socialist label, suggestig that it’s not as popular as the left seems to think.

PJ Media has details:

Greg Gutfeld nailed the pattern Tuesday night on The Five. When co-host Jessica Tarlov protested that she isn’t one of the “nutbags,” Gutfeld pointed out that liberals almost always feel the need to say that. “It’s because you kind of innately know that leftism is loony and out of step with mainstream thinking that you have to go, yeah, I’m a little nutty, but I’m not that nutty,” Gutfeld said. “You guys call us Nazis, but we get rid of our Nazis; we don’t push them into the Senate and hope they win.”

Gutfeld then gave the DSA credit for something El-Sayed clearly can’t manage: honesty. “Right now, what I find is that the DSA is saying exactly what they are to everyone, and they may be the most honest leftists about what they want,” he said. “They’re saying what they want to take over, they’re saying what they want to tax, they’re saying what they want to ban.”

That candor, Gutfeld argued, exposes the whole racket.

“It reveals an essential truth about socialism, and I would say the slower socialism called Democrats, is that it’s all top-down social engineering,” he said. “And it cannot exist unless you enforce it aggressively, which means it is antithetical to human nature. If this stuff was so innate, why do you have to force it down our throats?”

Watch the segment below:

GREG GUTFELD just said it PERFECTLY:

“It reveals an essential truth about socialism…it cannot exist unless you enforce it aggressively, which means it is antithetical to human nature! If this stuff is so INNATE, WHY do you have to FORCE it down our throats?!”

“CAPITALISM… pic.twitter.com/TUPRBefDAh

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 29, 2026

Have you noticed that people don’t seem to flee from America to socialist countries that already exist?

Do people on the left realize this?

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Evan Barker is a young woman who used to be an activist and fundraiser for the Democrat Party, but she left the left after the 2024 election.

Because she had raised a lot of money for the party over the years, she had a chance to rub elbows with some of the most powerful people on the left.

A few years ago, she was at an event at the home of liberal billionaire Tom Steyer where he was announcing that he was pumping tens of millions into the midterm efforts of the Democrats and his wife explained their plan to the assembled crowd.

Barker was stunned to learn that there was absolutely no plan to even try to win back the voters that the Democrats had lost to Trump, mainly working class voters.

This was the moment when she began to realize that she was done with the left.

The New York Post recently published an excerpt to her new book on the topic:

On a cold evening in late March of 2022, I realized the weight of what progressives had become was unbearable. This was my last straw.

“We won’t be getting those voters; they’re not coming back — the ones who left and switched to Donald Trump — the future is young people of color!” Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez roared into the microphone.

That’s a great way to get Donald Trump re-elected, I thought to myself, feeling annoyed as I looked around at a primarily white and extremely rich crowd, who were clapping at her every word like drunken seals.

I was standing in front of Tom Steyer’s mansion in one of the most elite and exclusive neighborhoods of San Francisco. Tom is a billionaire and Democratic mega-donor. He also ran for president in 2020.

I was seven months pregnant, nearing the end of my pregnancy.

Cristina, whom I had worked for on her US Senate race in Texas, was now the executive director of Tom Steyer’s organization NextGen America, the most important liberal youth organization in the country. NextGen was the Left’s rival to Turning Point USA. They hoped to turn out millions of young people to vote, and they had deep pockets to make that happen.

The view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Tom’s front yard was breathtaking. Waiters holding silver trays of delicious hors d’oeuvres moved delicately around the small gathering, whose champagne and wine glasses clinked together.

She goes on to describe how the Democrats lost working class voters in her family to Trump and how Democrats seem to think they can make up the difference with a new coalition built on young people of color. They think this is the key to flipping Texas blue.

Watch this clip:

It was on the lawn of Tom Steyer’s mansion when it all hit me: the democrats were doomed. My book is the inside story of what happened pic.twitter.com/u1xIu92iXh

— Evan Barker (@evanwch) July 29, 2026

Evan recently appeared on a podcast and spoke about the consequences of living in a blue city during the ‘Defund the Police’ craziness.

One of the moments that turned @evanwch away from the far-left was moving to San Francisco and seeing the results of the Defund the Police movement pic.twitter.com/TKWzGiDrTI

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) July 29, 2026

As the old saying goes, a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

Good for Evan for coming to her senses.

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The Princess Diaries of Anthony Fauci

Fauci’s writings reveal a man obsessed with the fame and fortune he received during the pandemic.

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I thought of various clever-seeming ways to organize this cornucopia of quotes from the diary of the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci. But that would mean cutting some of these gems. So here they are, in ascending order of embarrassing awfulness.

1. Anthony Fauci on Anthony Fauci:

— “Apparently, a lot of people at the Pentagon admire me very much …”

— “The nurses went absolutely wild to see me, they were squealing and laughing and clapping. It was something to behold.”

— “Did I mention he’s easy on the eyes?” — Fauci, quoting “The Anthony Fauci Fan Club” Twitter account (which he does at length).

2. If the Real Housewives had a baby with George Santos, it would be Anthony Fauci.

— “A Gala event was held tonight… It was the highest level of AAA list you could imagine in Washington DC.”

— “One person said that Tyra [Banks] was sexy, but I was even more sexy than she was. She [said] ‘that is true and my mother is in love with you.’”

— “I am such a valued spokesperson and a good communicator…”

— “Wonderful brunch… the typical Washington A list was there.”

3. His obvious humble brags. All this adoration is ridiculous!

— “The ridiculous attention to me continues; fan clubs, Swags, am constantly on TV; countless profiles of me.”

— “Many print profiles and features on me. Ridiculous—too numerous to count!” (Kind of like those myocarditis deaths.)

— “A photographer from across the landscape shot me and focused on my polkadot socks. It got tweeted around the country. ‘Birx has her scarfs and Fauci has his socks.’ Geeeez.” (It must be very exciting to be tweeted all around the country.)

— “The ‘swag’ around me is getting really ridiculous. You can buy Fauci T-shirts, mugs, donuts, sweat shirts, candles, pillows, etc. Geeeez!! I do not like this one bit.”

— “Continued crazy stuff: Petition to name me ‘Sexiest Man Alive’; video games named after me; Fauci Bobblehead; dishes in restaurants named after me, and on and on.”

(If you’re going for merch, how about autographed Anthony Fauci coffins?)

4. He’s disturbingly impressed with celebrities.

— “[Julia Roberts] embarrassed me somewhat when… she put her hands in front of her mouth and said ‘Oh my God. It’s Dr. Fauci, he is here.’ Then she went on to say that I was her personal hero…”

— “Joan Baez texted me tonight asking me about what she should wear for the State Department dinner…”

— “There was a wonderful series of testimonials to me from an amazing group of people: Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Francis Ford Coppola … Marisa Tomei…”

— “Noteworthy is the fact that I had an extraordinary podcast interview for one hour with famous actor Alec Baldwin.”

— “It was a star-studded evening and I had pleasant conversations with people some of whom I had met before such as Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Matt Damon, Mike Ferrone, among many others.”

5. He was more interested in Fauci bobbleheads and Fauci donuts than the number of elderly people dying alone in hospitals.

— “Bobblehead raising money: Fauci bobblehead raises $100,000 for American Hospital Association.”

— “Bobbleheads of me being made in massive quantities in China.”

— “Fauci Bobblehead Raises $200k for Healthcare Workers”

— “Spoke with Robyn Ross of the Washington Post Magazine. She is writing a piece on my Bobblehead” (And get this: they’re all made by pangolins!)

The Fauci donuts are mentioned eight times in his diary—which is eight times more than he mentioned Sweden. (From the beginning of the pandemic, Sweden imposed no lockdowns, advised citizens against wearing masks and had less excess mortality than the U.S.)

6. He’s obsessed with how famous he is, boasting about his fame dozens of times.

— “I was beset by a horde of at least 20 paparazzi who followed me … walking backwards surrounding me and flashing lights that blinded me.”

— “The problem is that now I am one of the most recognizable and well-known people in the world.”

— “The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable person in the world.”

— “Multiple TV cameras and hundreds of camera clicks followed me out of the Rayburn Building as I had a car waiting for me to take me to the Oval Office.”

7. Fauci’s amazing adventure! (While you were quarantining at home.)

— “Amazing night at NATS Stadium where I threw out the first pitch to open the 2020 Baseball season … Unfortunately, I threw a bouncer to the right of the plate. I felt really badly but the overwhelming public reaction to it was sympathetic and positive. … I signed a Nats Jersey that will hang on the wall in Nats stadium next to a similar shirt signed by President Obama.”

— “After the gala we were invited to another gala at the Cafe Milano….”

— “I went to a book party last night for Jonathan Karl’s new book about Trump. It took place at the Cafe Milano….”

— “I was totally swamped all night by people wanting to say hello, shake my hands, and take pictures with me.”

— “Last night I received another humbling honor associated with the honorary doctorate in science that I received from Rockefeller University in New York City…. The audience at the celebratory dinner was giving me a standing ovation…. This will have been my 58th honorary doctorate.”

8. With all the time he spent being photographed for magazine covers, it’s no wonder that Fauci lacked basic knowledge of COVID, such as the fact that the survival rate for people under the age of 70 was 99.95 percent.

— “Did major photo shoot with People magazine.”

— “Nature magazine picked me as one of Nature’s 10—people who shaped science in 2020.”

— “[White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows] did not like the fact that I did an InStyle piece and did not want any more profiles of me.”

— “Over the past three weeks I have been on the cover of Time magazine X2, once as one of the 100 most influential people in the world again as the ‘guardian of the year.’ Also, on the cover of People magazine.”

9. He has remarkably thin skin.

— “It’s no secret that I have been clearly targeted by rather radical elements who just keep attacking me every day, all day—Fox News, Breitbart—all those other crazies.”

— “The onslaught against me by the radical right continues….Some of the valid press such as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and others are calling out the lies of the far right.”

— “General Mark Milley came up to me put his arms around my shoulder and said ‘the only person who was getting his balls kicked more than me in Washington is you.’ I responded by saying ‘no shit.’”

10. He is thrilled to be asked for selfies.

— “I got completely surrounded by ‘well-wishers’ who wanted selfies and/or to shake my hands.”

— “Every young intern as well as seasoned veteran in the WH coming over to me congratulating me and thanking me for my work and even asking for selfies.”

— “I was totally mobbed for selfies.”

— “Several women civilian employees as well as military officers came over to me wanting selfies… More than one of them actually broke into tears.”

— “I took the time to visit them and there was the usual selfies galore.”

— “The people at the Abyssinian church or extremely kind to me… And all of them wanting to take selfies with me.”

— “Went to do PSAs with the White House digital Comms team. They all wanted selfies with me.”

— “I was totally mobbed by my colleagues wanting selfies. I must have done at least 100 (no exaggerating!)”

— “As soon as people recognized me there was a wave of applause and squealing and screaming and clapping and thanking me with multiple people coming and asking for selfies.”

I’d end it there, but his next sentence was this: “It was a little bit embarrassing, but it was just a manifestation of how people need a symbol of integrity and truth.”

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Washington’s Unseemly Celebration of Lindsey Graham

The late senator supported foreign policy catastrophes that harmed America.

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If Washington is good at anything, it is self-celebration. Those who dominate the city constantly remind the public, especially those who live in the great beyond, the “flyover country” between the coasts, of the eternal wisdom, dedication, genius, and goodness of those who have successfully climbed the capital’s well-greased pole of political rule.

Never is the shameless hypocrisy on greater display than during the funerals of those who did the most to sacrifice the interests of the Americans who lack genuine representation in Washington. Such was Tuesday’s commemoration of the passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Graham was a storied member of the Washington elite, a political animal guaranteed public attention irrespective of the foolishness of his positions, hypocrisies of his claims, and failures of his policies. He was one of the many influential denizens of the nation’s capital, a class whose members typically spend their days mulcting the public, enriching political backers, wallowing in self-congratulation, and otherwise enjoying the pleasures of power. 

However, he was much more than that. Like many others involved in making foreign policy—members of the notorious “Blob,” Ben Rhodes’s famous label for the self-righteous, well-insulated establishment—he constantly sacrificed American interests to win the favor of an unsavory mix of foreign agents, democratic hacks, clever manipulators, and brutal dictators. Unfortunately, he was an unusually effective warmonger. After the death of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in 2018, Graham succeeded him as the informal leader of Washington’s notorious bipartisan war party, ever ready to send Americans overseas to fight wars for special interests and other nations.

Indeed, Graham was never happier than when plotting another crusade for Americans to fight. His bloodlust was on constant display. He was most ebullient when palling around with foreign leaders responsible for the deaths of thousands, or better yet, tens of thousands of foreigners, usually civilians. He almost cried tears of joy when President Donald Trump attacked Iran, rather than tears of sadness when Americans were killed in that unnecessary war. A onetime Air Force JAG officer who never came close to combat, he evidently craved service as a celebrated general or grand marshal, secure in America’s Imperial City while directing vast military campaigns and ordering devastating battlefield assaults.

His preferred home court was a press conference, any press conference, where he inflicted his aggressive nostrums upon the American people. He was as skillful at malicious manipulation as he was at self-promotion, acting as a “Trump whisperer,” filling the president with aggressive fantasies of achieving political greatness by bathing the world in death and destruction. 

Perhaps only Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio more dramatically mutated from harsh critics to sycophants in the Trumpian policy universe. From his beginnings as a brutal Trump scourge, Graham smoothly shifted to permanent groveling—intentionally, knowingly, convincingly, shamelessly—once Trump took power. As Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times put it:

Graham could see the obvious truth that Trump was a malign and corrosive force in American politics—a destructive figure whose demagoguery threatened our democracy. But that was when Graham thought Trump would lose. The calculation changed when Trump unexpectedly won.

However, Graham’s militarism preceded his slavish flattery. Of course, Graham favored the disastrous decision to invade Iraq. “I fully understand why President Bush had to resort to the use of force to disarm Saddam Hussein,” he explained. “It has been readily apparent for many months that Saddam would not voluntarily part with his weapons of mass destruction.” Graham continued to stand by the war, based on a series of lies, despite the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, whose lives evidently meant nothing to him.

He backed endless conflict in Afghanistan, another unnecessary American military debacle, in which the Afghan people suffered the most, strongly opposing the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan. Indeed, the conditions Graham set for peace would have required a permanent U.S. occupation. He declared in 2019, “Any Afghan peace agreement must allow a continued U.S. presence to protect our homeland, honor the rights of Afghan women, and uphold the current Afghan constitution.” 

That is, after sacrificing so many young Americans to bring “democracy” to Central Asia, Graham wanted to turn even more of them into permanent colonial overseers. After President Joe Biden withdrew U.S. forces and the Afghan government collapsed, Graham urged Washington to revive the war, calling on the administration to recognize ousted officials “as the legitimate government representatives of Afghanistan” and “publicly support Congressional efforts to stand with our friends in the Panjshir Valley who will serve as a bulwark against regional terror.” For him, even two decades of purposeless killing was not enough.

He visited Libya, where he supped with dictator Moammar Gaddafi, discussing the possibility of providing aid to the longtime U.S. antagonist after he gave up his missile and nuclear programs. However, less than two years later, when civil war erupted, Graham seized his chance to fuel another endless war, enthusiastically pushing the U.S. to intervene and opposing any effort by Congress to exercise its constitutional responsibility to vote on the conflict. President Barack Obama “needs to step up his game with Libya but Congress should sort of shut up and not empower Gaddafi,” said the ever-belligerent solon.

The result? The cost in lives and wealth to America of the endless conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan were obvious. Not so much in Libya. However, even there his militaristic passions ill-served America. The results were even worse for the Libyan people. Observed the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy:

Libya now stands as a treacherous precedent that a president may unilaterally take us to war, in consultation with the Arab League’s Islamist regimes, under circumstances in which not only are there no vital American interests to be served but our intervention actually disserves our interests by empowering America’s enemies.

Graham was an even more fervent advocate of aiding Israel, regardless of its conduct—even in its brutal occupation policy and forever war to establish regional hegemony, which have killed tens of thousands of civilians. For him, Palestinians evidently did not even count as human beings. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appreciated having a leading U.S. legislator, whom he called “a beloved friend,” as a predictably loyal shill.

Despite his pretense of supporting democracy and human rights abroad, Graham backed the Saudi leader MbS’s horrid war in Yemen, murderous aggression launched to turn that nation into a de facto royal colony. Graham resisted efforts to end U.S. arms sales to the kingdom. “We can’t ask our Middle East allies to fight harder and do more and not provide them with the weaponry to do it,” he said, calling Saudi Arabia, which helped underwrite Al Qaeda and was the home of 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers, “a valuable partner in the war on terror.”

MbS’s grotesque murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi turned Graham into a temporary critic, but he eventually reclaimed his membership in the MbS fan club. Yet earlier this year, Graham, ever the warrior wannabe, got angry when MbS refused to join Trump’s assault on Iran. The late lawmaker always put war first, anywhere and anytime. He joyously celebrated the resulting death and destruction. 

In contrast to most of his militarist cheerleading, Graham’s backing for Ukraine, the victim of Russian aggression, at least had a moral component. However, he was a member of the malignant chorus that pushed Moscow to war, demanding Kiev’s inclusion in NATO. That understandably played badly in Russia. Just imagine how Graham and his congressional colleagues would have responded, with hysterical calls to initiate Armageddon, to a comparable Soviet campaign to bring Mexico into the Warsaw Pact.

Moreover, Graham’s enthusiasm for an active proxy war, in which Washington continues to help kill thousands of Russian soldiers, risked a confrontation with a nuclear-armed great power. Indeed, Moscow apparently is providing intelligence to Iran to help it target American military assets in the Mideast, something that even Trump admits is likely payback for U.S. policy in Ukraine.

However, Graham’s most malign role, in a career filled with foolish and callous calls for war, may have been pushing Trump’s ostentatiously reckless aggression against Tehran. “Graham had spent weeks arguing that war with Iran was not only justified but necessary, shuttling between Israel and the White House to help Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government press its argument for war,” reported Vivian Salama of The Atlantic. “Arab officials had repeatedly warned Graham of the perilous consequences war could unleash. Graham remained unmoved.” Alas, he always seemed to enjoy the carnage that his preferred policies generated, unmoved by the human cost.

Such a legacy. His last major foreign policy initiative was to push an illegal, immoral war of aggression. Some consequences: Americans killed, U.S. bases devastated, American wealth wasted, Gulf partners damaged, oil markets wrecked, and a shaken global economy. For all that trouble, Iran’s power over the energy trade has been enhanced and its need for nuclear weapons has been made plain. Heckuva job, Lindsey!

No doubt, Graham had some personal virtues, such as caring for his younger sister after their parents’ deaths. However, his role as a “public servant” was highly negative—an unending campaign to drag America into endless wars around the globe that served little more than his militaristic fantasies. Other members of the Blob, who share his determination to rule over nations and peoples everywhere, celebrated that role at his DC funeral yesterday.

However, while his passing is a personal tragedy, his departure from the halls of power should be welcomed. His death has made America and the world a safer place. Indeed, freed from Graham’s stream of malign and belligerent whispers, perhaps President Trump will return to his campaign commitment to put America first and end Washington’s string of reckless and endless wars.

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