Trumps Big Beautiful Bill has passed
U.S. added 147,000 jobs in June, unemployment drops to 4.1%Trumps Big Beautiful Bill has passed
U.S. added 147,000 jobs in June, unemployment drops to 4.1%
A-1 Top Headlines
- 'Strong' Jobs Report: U.S. added 147,000 jobs in June, unemployment drops to 4.1%: 'For job seekers outside of healthcare & social assistance, local government, and public education, the gains will likely ring hollow' [nbcnews]
- US freezes air defense and precision weapons shipment to Ukraine [abcnews] (can we PLEASE do Israel next??)
- NICK FUENTES vs. DINESH D'SOUZA on US involvement in Iran-Israel conflict [rumble]
- Paramount agrees to settle Trump lawsuit for $16 million after deceptively edited 60 Minutes interview with Kambala [axios]
- Senate passes Trump’s agenda bill after marathon voting session [cnn]
- Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) to leave Congress after clash with Trump over BBB [bbc]
- Ambush in Idaho: sniper started fire before killing two firefighters; killer ID'd as Wess Roley
Big Government
- Trump and Elon still beefing after Musk calls GOP the PORKY PIG PARTY: 'Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa' [politico]
- Senate passes Trump’s agenda bill after marathon voting session [cnn]
- ‘Big Balls’ is now at the social security administration: placement at SSA comes after a White House official said the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government [wired]
- Pentagon removes Colonel Nathan McCormack from his position at the Joint Chiefs of Staff for being too based: refers to 'Netanyahu and his Judeo-supremacist cronies', says pro-Israel activists in the U.S. priotize 'support for Israel over our actual foreign interests' [jns]
- And Now A Word From Our Sponsors: Trump admin discussing 'policies that would make it harder and more expensive for pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to patients' [zerohedge]
- RFK Jr. ousts every member of CDC vaccine advisory committee, all 17 members: 'A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science.' [nypost]
- Lindsey Graham and Dick Blumenthal spent HOW MUCH (on coke and little boys) in Kiev?? 'On June 1, 2025, two staggering transactions surfaced: one for a mind-blowing $403,172 and another for an eye-popping $411,634'
Crime/Justice/Lawfare
- Paramount agrees to settle Trump lawsuit for $16 million after deceptively edited 60 Minutes interview with Kambala [axios]
- Washington Post editor, Thomas Pham LeGro, charged with possessing child pornography on his WaPo work computer, Post has placed employee on leave [wapo]
- SCOTUS allows law requiring age checks for porn sites: Pornhub was among the plaintiffs challenging a Texas law that requires users of adult sites to submit personal information proving they are 18 or older [wapo]
- SCOTUS Deals Deathblow to Activist Lower Courts: 'nationwide injunctions issued by lower court judges “likely exceed” the judicial branch’s constitutional authority' [nypost]
- Video evidence shown to journalists reveals there was no apparent physical altercation before Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf to death at a school track meet [infowars]
- Amy Coney Barrett Fatigue is Real: 'in Trump-related disputes, she is the member of the supermajority who has sided with him the least.', 'she has become the Republican-appointed justice most likely to be in the majority in decisions that reach a liberal outcome' [nytimes]
- I'm a Democrat Activist, ése? Don't You Know I'm Loco? Leftist activist and 2019 appointee of Gov. Tim Walz , Vance Luther Boelter, dresses up as cop to assassinate Minnesota democrat who blocked health care for illegals [zerohedge]
Culture
- Yuppies Vs. Yuccies There’s a stark divide among the young urban bourgeoisie [scottgreer]
- Jared Taylor: Trump Doesn’t Speak for Us We’ll speak for ourselves. [unzreview]
- The Great Cousin Decline: 'a cousin might be one of the few people who understand your relatives’ eccentricities, virtues, and role within the clan' [theatlantic]
- The cultural normalization of left-wing violence: 'a willingness to cut off and excise, by physical force if necessary, those who are deemed offensive or intolerant' [spectator]
- Tr00n News: Penn finally accepts that Lia Thomas is a biological man, Thomas will be stripped of title, bans trans women from women's sports
- Bob Vylan dropped by United Talent Agency after Glastonbury set critical of Israel, nationalism [independent]
- Zohran does interview while eating 3rd world slop with his fingers (but is it the same hand he wipes with?)
Finance - Stock Market - Crypto - Tech
- AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios: Under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic's latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair [fortune]
- 'Strong' Jobs Report: U.S. added 147,000 jobs in June, unemployment drops to 4.1%: 'For job seekers outside of healthcare & social assistance, local government, and public education, the gains will likely ring hollow' [nbcnews]
- Musk has changed focus from EVs to autonomous vehicles and robots (vehicle sales delivery dropped 13% in both 1st and 2nd quarter) [wsj]
- AI is absolutely coming for white-collar jobs: 'it’s going to destroy way more jobs than the average person thinks' [wsj]
- MAYBE LEARN A TRADE: 'Learn AI' Is 'Learn to Code' all over again, stop telling workers that people who know how to use AI will replace them', 'just like Learn To Code created a workforce of terrible coders, who are now easy targets to be replaced by AI slop coder' [inc]
- Risk expert says 'Learn to Code' is now worse advice than 'get a face tattoo': 'You can't do worse than learn to code.' [futurism]
- the death of the computer science major: is AI making it a waste of time to learn to code? [atlantic]
Immigration/Deportation/ The Border
- More ICE-raids sob stories, this time from the WSJ: 'I’m kind of like, I should just leave' (uh, yeah, that's the point, please self-deport your ass back to beaner-ville)
- WINNING: Latino 'swap meet' market shuts down after 50 years fearing ICE raid [nbcnews] (good, the place looks like a dump)
- Pregnant illegal aliens -- who broke the law to enter this country -- suing Trump's end of birthright citizenship, worried the U.S. will deport them and their newborns in defiance of 'the Constitution': 'That’s what a democratic country does — it goes by the rights in the Constitution' [nbcnews]
- ICEBlock, app to give a heads-up to illegals on the whereabouts of ICE agents, being flooded with false reports
- YOUR COUNTRY IS BETTER, YOU CAN GO BACK NOW: Trump ends temporary protected status for Haitians; more than a half-million people now face deportation [miamiherald]
- They're Going Back: Supreme Court eases rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties [politico]
- Anti-ICE activists help migrant child rapist flee feds in Colorado [nypost]
International
- US freezes air defense and precision weapons shipment to Ukraine [abcnews] (can we PLEASE do Israel next??)
- NICK FUENTES vs. DINESH D'SOUZA on US involvement in Iran-Israel conflict [rumble]
- Trump announces trade deal with Vietnam [cnbc]
- Fuentes post-mortem on Israel-Iran and Trump
- Trump says Israel-Iran ceasefire is 'unlimited' and will last 'forever', dubs it the '12 day war [dailybeast]
- TRUMP: CONGRATULATIONS WORLD, IT'S TIME FOR PEACE - Trump thanks Iran for ‘early notice’ on attacks [businessstandard]
- Trumps says Israel and Iran have agreed to ceasefire: Neither Nation Confirms Deal [politico]
Memes/Funny pages
- Sam Hyde has wide-ranging discussion with boomer
- Bernie Sanders wants to fight the oligarchy vs The actual oligarchy
- June 29th reminder from Travis Bickle
- Zohran being alerted to life-changing news, will it affect his candidacy?
- Trump in theory vs. Trump in reality [x]
- Sam Hyde: Black Conspiracies
- Islam -- not the best, but it has some good qualities.... [Ben Bankas]
National
- Columbia University Applicants’ Personal Data Stolen by Hacker: leak of the data could prove problematic for Columbia if it fuels concerns about diversity in admissions [bloomberg]
- Trump to visit Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention facility in FL [reuters]
- Ambush in Idaho: sniper started fire before killing two firefighters; killer ID'd as Wess Roley
- RFK Jr. is making it more difficult to get Obamacare: 'The Trump administration projects as many as 1.8 million people, including many DACA recipients, could lose coverage' [politico]
- Three Chinese nationals charged with with conspiracy, visa fraud, and smuggling for bringing into the U.S Fusarium graminearum, a fungus that can destroy crops and cause health issues, including reproductive damage [campusreform]
- FBI Gives Congress Intel On Alleged Chinese Plot To Create Fake Mail-In Ballots In 2020: China had mass-produced fake U.S. driver's licenses to carry out a scheme to hijack the 2020 election with fake mail-in ballots for Democrat Joe Biden [zerohedge]
- 2 people shot, including suspect in custody, during ‘No Kings’ protest in Salt Lake City, Utah
Politics
- Zohran identified as Asian AND African American on college application to Columbia [nytimes]
- Trump talks about deporting Mamdani on the grounds that he may have concealed his support for “terrorism” during the naturalization process
- Elon talkin bout how he gunna start a new political party [cbsnews]
- Dem PR rebranding now involves a policy agenda think-tank group called Project 2029: Democrats still don't know if the 'root of the party’s problems is its ideas or its difficulty in persuading people to embrace them' [nytimes]
- Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) to leave Congress after clash with Trump over BBB [bbc]
- Zohran was propelled to victory by useless college kids from out of town worried about cost of living (if you can't afford to live there, then maybe you need to move back to Kansas and live with mom and dad. NYC isn't for every small-town loser trying to make it big) [wsj]
- Don't Mess with the Fiddy: Zohran mentions 50 cent in tax discussion, Fiddy responds: 'Where did he come from? Whose friend is this? I’m not feeling this plan. No. I will give him $258,750 and a first class one-way ticket away from NY' [nypost]
Random
- And just like that.... Another profile involving DC's MAGA restaurant [spectator]
- Zohran talks about objectives of socialist politicians in the U.S.: 'The end goal of seizing the means of production.'
- Massie and Theo Vonn do some noticing
- Amaze your friends by learning how missile defense works [nytimes]
- Inside the B-2 bomber: 'B-2 bomber pilots had toilet, microwave and a cooler for snacks on their 37-hour Fordow bombing raid' [nypost]
- How a Formula 1 Pit Stop Works [neo]
- Can Info on Your Old Computer Really Get Deleted? Not as simple as pressing ‘delete’ and emptying the Trash. Step-by-step guide. [wsj]
Z - Good Reads
- In Case You Care: Some long article in the Times about DC's Butterworth restaurant and the high profile MAGA people who eat there (we didn't read it because it looks boring) [nytimes]
- Spy vs Spy: Politico article on an espionage mystery - How were Soviets able to sabotage so many US spy operations during the 80s? Was there a 'fourth man'?
- NY Times is saying Russia had been using Brazil as an incubator for their deep cover spies, (it's probably an anti-Russia propaganda story, but still an interesting read) [nytimes]
- How Trump Defeated Columbia: The inside story of an unconditional surrender [nymag]
- Crypto Heist of a Lifetime: They stole a quarter Bill in a month but they never had the makings of a varsity athlete [nytimes]
- Story of the Small Town Crypto Scam in Elkhard, Kansas [nytimes]
- 'The Most American Picture I’ve Ever Seen': Inside Trump’s hospital room after Butler assassination attempt [vanityfair]