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Trump posted last night a 10-second AI clip of Kharg Island “being blown to smithereens!!!” Even if AI had existed in 1944, I can’t imagine Churchill or Roosevelt posting CGI of Allied forces flattening the Third Reich. They just did it. War isn’t Call of Duty. Stop the trailer. Execute or don’t.

Trump posted last night a 10-second AI clip of Kharg Island “being blown to smithereens!!!” Even if AI had existed in 1944, I can’t imagine Churchill or Roosevelt posting CGI of Allied forces flattening the Third Reich. They just did it. War isn’t Call of Duty. Stop the trailer. Execute or don’t.

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Iran’s foreign minister just handed America a masterclass in diplomatic sleight of hand. The Iranians aren’t chastened — they’re already three moves ahead. Hezbollah is Tehran’s attack dog. Iran can unleash it on Israel anytime, watch Israel respond, then declare the deal dead — citing an “Israeli violation” they engineered. Israel was not even invited to the negotiating table but they are central to a trip wire that Iran has built and holds exclusively.

Iran’s foreign minister just handed America a masterclass in diplomatic sleight of hand. The Iranians aren’t chastened — they’re already three moves ahead. Hezbollah is Tehran’s attack dog. Iran can unleash it on Israel anytime, watch Israel respond, then declare the deal dead — citing an “Israeli violation” they engineered. Israel was not even invited to the negotiating table but they are central to a trip wire that Iran has built and holds exclusively.

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President Trump sold the Iran war as making certain Tehran never got a nuclear weapon. Tonight JD Vance told Fox the top goal is to “keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country”—and ensuring no Iranian nuke is goal #2. The reordering took seconds. The statement is already circulating on international media. The message to Tehran is clear: midterm gas prices now rank first. That is leverage the Iranians did not previously possess in quite such explicit form.

President Trump sold the Iran war as making certain Tehran never got a nuclear weapon. Tonight JD Vance told Fox the top goal is to “keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country”—and ensuring no Iranian nuke is goal #2. The reordering took seconds. The statement is already circulating on international media. The message to Tehran is clear: midterm gas prices now rank first. That is leverage the Iranians did not previously possess in quite such explicit form.

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This is what dissent looks like when the stakes are life and death. In the West, we’re used to protest as performance. In Iran, it can be a death sentence. Do not underestimate the courage it takes for an uncovered woman, on camera, to do this.

This is what dissent looks like when the stakes are life and death. In the West, we’re used to protest as performance. In Iran, it can be a death sentence. Do not underestimate the courage it takes for an uncovered woman, on camera, to do this.

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Five days from the Wisconsin primary and Bernie Sanders will NOT endorse the DSA’s Francesca Hong for governor. “I don’t think so… she seems very, very nice, but again, this is a race I just am not that familiar with.” One of the most obvious sidesteps you’ll see. Bernie has opinions on everything and routinely backs DSA/far-left candidates in state races. Suddenly with Hong it’s “nice” + “not that familiar.” Watch the full dodge.👇

Five days from the Wisconsin primary and Bernie Sanders will NOT endorse the DSA’s Francesca Hong for governor. “I don’t think so… she seems very, very nice, but again, this is a race I just am not that familiar with.” One of the most obvious sidesteps you’ll see. Bernie has opinions on everything and routinely backs DSA/far-left candidates in state races. Suddenly with Hong it’s “nice” + “not that familiar.” Watch the full dodge.👇

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Mamdani clearly missed Trump’s message: Netanyahu should not be arrested if he visits New York. In this answer to a reporter he’s openly pushing to honor an ICC warrant for “international war crimes” — knowing full well that even attempting it would make him a hero in the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine movement. But Netanyahu has some of the world’s best personal armed security. A standoff between his team and NYPD would not end well. Maybe that is what Mamdani wants?

Mamdani clearly missed Trump’s message: Netanyahu should not be arrested if he visits New York. In this answer to a reporter he’s openly pushing to honor an ICC warrant for “international war crimes” — knowing full well that even attempting it would make him a hero in the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine movement. But Netanyahu has some of the world’s best personal armed security. A standoff between his team and NYPD would not end well. Maybe that is what Mamdani wants?

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“Not a great look for Israel”? No—it’s not a great look for U.S. policy on jihadists. The mullahs in Tehran must be loving American conservative media & VP Vance complaining more about Israel than Hezbollah or Iran.

“Not a great look for Israel”? No—it’s not a great look for U.S. policy on jihadists. The mullahs in Tehran must be loving American conservative media & VP Vance complaining more about Israel than Hezbollah or Iran.

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Why is Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal — chair of the Democratic Party's Progressive Caucus — peddling a false narrative about Cuban healthcare being better than the U.S.? From my research on my book PHARMA, I know what she says is WRONG. But she keeps repeating it and I am sure many progressives believe it. No legacy journalist is calling her out so let me do the job. Most recently, she stood at a Capitol Hill press conference on July 1 — flanked by Reps. Delia Ramírez, Jonathan Jackson, and Ro Khanna, under a banner reading "Demanding an End to the Blockade Against Cuba and International Medical Solidarity" — and told the crowd that Cuba, despite all its difficulties, had done admirable work preventing “maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and cancer,”in her words, "areas in which we in the United States are still struggling to make progress." It wasn't an ad-lib. It was a return engagement. In an April interview after her own delegation trip to Havana, Jayapal said Cuba has "the lowest infant mortality, maternal mortality — sort of the opposite of what the United States has." When the reporter mentioned Cuba's higher life expectancy, she agreed with that too. The Washington Post's editorial board flagged it then as a flawed diagnosis. She said it again in front of National Nurses United two months later. So it's worth actually running the numbers, one at a time. Maternal mortality. The U.S. rate was 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023, and it fell further to 17.9 in 2024. Cuba's own Ministry of Public Health reported its maternal mortality rate at 40.6 per 100,000 in 2024 and rising to 44.1 in 2025 — better than two-and-a-half times the American rate, and climbing. There is no version of the current data where Cuba is "the opposite" of the U.S. on this metric. It's far worse. Neonatal/infant mortality. Cuba's official infant mortality rate did fall to a low of 4.0 per 1,000 live births in 2018 — a genuinely low number, and one Cuba has kept touting. But two things complicate that figure. First, a peer-reviewed study in Health Policy and Planning found evidence that Cuban physicians have been pressured to reclassify early neonatal deaths as late fetal deaths (effectively, miscarriages) to hit government mortality targets — a known method of statistical manipulation, flagged by demographers going back to the 1990s. Corrected for that, researchers put Cuba's real infant mortality rate somewhere between 7.45 and 11.16 per 1,000, not the sub-5 figure the government published. Second, and more damning for Jayapal's live claim: Cuba's own current numbers show infant mortality at 9.9 per 1,000 as of the end of 2025 — up 148% from that 2018 low, and now well above the U.S. rate. Havana's maternity wards are reporting sewage leaks in neonatal units and adolescent pregnancy rates spiking past 20% in some provinces. Whatever Cuba was doing right in 2018, it isn't doing now, and the 2018 number itself was likely inflated by data manipulation to begin with. Cancer. This is the claim with the least data behind it and the most against it. The most recent regional analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean, using 2022 GLOBOCAN figures, found Cuba has the highest age-standardized cancer mortality rate in the entire region — 136.6 per 100,000 for men, 91.6 per 100,000 for women — ahead of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. There is no dataset I could find, from PAHO, WHO, or IARC, showing Cuban cancer outcomes outperforming the United States. Cuba's president, Díaz-Canel, touring a Havana maternity hospital the same week Jayapal spoke, said the healthcare system currently can't get lifesaving treatment to more than 100,000 cancer patients, including 1,200 children, due to shortages. That's not a system beating American oncology. That's a system in collapse, by the Cuban government's own telling. The bigger problem with the claim. During my reporting for PHARMA I learned that Cuba's low mortality figures have functioned as propaganda for an authoritarian government for over 30 years — repeated uncritically by public health researchers, NGOs, and now members of Congress, because the story fits a preferred narrative about what a "resource-poor" country can accomplish with universal healthcare. But the country producing those numbers has no free press, no independent statistical audit, and a documented history of reclassifying deaths to hit targets. That's not a minor asterisk. It's the whole ballgame if you're going to hold a press conference built on the premise that Cuba is quietly outperforming America. Does Pramila Jayapal know she is selling a disproven story or does she not care so long as it fits her narrative that a communist universal healthcare system is better than the one in America?

Why is Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal — chair of the Democratic Party's Progressive Caucus — peddling a false narrative about Cuban healthcare being better than the U.S.? From my research on my book PHARMA, I know what she says is WRONG. But she keeps repeating it and I am sure many progressives believe it. No legacy journalist is calling her out so let me do the job. Most recently, she stood at a Capitol Hill press conference on July 1 — flanked by Reps. Delia Ramírez, Jonathan Jackson, and Ro Khanna, under a banner reading "Demanding an End to the Blockade Against Cuba and International Medical Solidarity" — and told the crowd that Cuba, despite all its difficulties, had done admirable work preventing “maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and cancer,”in her words, "areas in which we in the United States are still struggling to make progress." It wasn't an ad-lib. It was a return engagement. In an April interview after her own delegation trip to Havana, Jayapal said Cuba has "the lowest infant mortality, maternal mortality — sort of the opposite of what the United States has." When the reporter mentioned Cuba's higher life expectancy, she agreed with that too. The Washington Post's editorial board flagged it then as a flawed diagnosis. She said it again in front of National Nurses United two months later. So it's worth actually running the numbers, one at a time. Maternal mortality. The U.S. rate was 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023, and it fell further to 17.9 in 2024. Cuba's own Ministry of Public Health reported its maternal mortality rate at 40.6 per 100,000 in 2024 and rising to 44.1 in 2025 — better than two-and-a-half times the American rate, and climbing. There is no version of the current data where Cuba is "the opposite" of the U.S. on this metric. It's far worse. Neonatal/infant mortality. Cuba's official infant mortality rate did fall to a low of 4.0 per 1,000 live births in 2018 — a genuinely low number, and one Cuba has kept touting. But two things complicate that figure. First, a peer-reviewed study in Health Policy and Planning found evidence that Cuban physicians have been pressured to reclassify early neonatal deaths as late fetal deaths (effectively, miscarriages) to hit government mortality targets — a known method of statistical manipulation, flagged by demographers going back to the 1990s. Corrected for that, researchers put Cuba's real infant mortality rate somewhere between 7.45 and 11.16 per 1,000, not the sub-5 figure the government published. Second, and more damning for Jayapal's live claim: Cuba's own current numbers show infant mortality at 9.9 per 1,000 as of the end of 2025 — up 148% from that 2018 low, and now well above the U.S. rate. Havana's maternity wards are reporting sewage leaks in neonatal units and adolescent pregnancy rates spiking past 20% in some provinces. Whatever Cuba was doing right in 2018, it isn't doing now, and the 2018 number itself was likely inflated by data manipulation to begin with. Cancer. This is the claim with the least data behind it and the most against it. The most recent regional analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean, using 2022 GLOBOCAN figures, found Cuba has the highest age-standardized cancer mortality rate in the entire region — 136.6 per 100,000 for men, 91.6 per 100,000 for women — ahead of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. There is no dataset I could find, from PAHO, WHO, or IARC, showing Cuban cancer outcomes outperforming the United States. Cuba's president, Díaz-Canel, touring a Havana maternity hospital the same week Jayapal spoke, said the healthcare system currently can't get lifesaving treatment to more than 100,000 cancer patients, including 1,200 children, due to shortages. That's not a system beating American oncology. That's a system in collapse, by the Cuban government's own telling. The bigger problem with the claim. During my reporting for PHARMA I learned that Cuba's low mortality figures have functioned as propaganda for an authoritarian government for over 30 years — repeated uncritically by public health researchers, NGOs, and now members of Congress, because the story fits a preferred narrative about what a "resource-poor" country can accomplish with universal healthcare. But the country producing those numbers has no free press, no independent statistical audit, and a documented history of reclassifying deaths to hit targets. That's not a minor asterisk. It's the whole ballgame if you're going to hold a press conference built on the premise that Cuba is quietly outperforming America. Does Pramila Jayapal know she is selling a disproven story or does she not care so long as it fits her narrative that a communist universal healthcare system is better than the one in America?

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The single fact that most shocked the Oxford Union when I debated there last June was this: Americans are just 5% of the world’s population… …but we pay for 75% of Big Pharma’s entire global profits. That’s why our drug prices are insane. Secretary Kennedy do something

The single fact that most shocked the Oxford Union when I debated there last June was this: Americans are just 5% of the world’s population… …but we pay for 75% of Big Pharma’s entire global profits. That’s why our drug prices are insane. Secretary Kennedy do something

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I think almost everyone agrees that the MOU with Iran is not unconditional surrender. Put aside how you feel about President Trump — that’s not a factual claim, it’s a marketing one. Asked by Axios today why he abandoned his early demand for “unconditional surrender,” he said, “Well, it really probably is unconditional surrender…I think so.” Unconditional surrender looks like Germany and Japan in 1945: occupation, war crimes tribunals, the imposed rebuilding of a democratic society. Iran’s Islamic government is intact. The IRGC is in control. This is Trump’s oldest habit — the successful builder and showman who’s always selling the bigger version of the deal. It served him very well in real estate and reality TV. It doesn’t serve the facts here. Overselling the deal with Iran only sets unrealistic expectations for what will emerge from 60 days of upcoming tough negotiations.

I think almost everyone agrees that the MOU with Iran is not unconditional surrender. Put aside how you feel about President Trump — that’s not a factual claim, it’s a marketing one. Asked by Axios today why he abandoned his early demand for “unconditional surrender,” he said, “Well, it really probably is unconditional surrender…I think so.” Unconditional surrender looks like Germany and Japan in 1945: occupation, war crimes tribunals, the imposed rebuilding of a democratic society. Iran’s Islamic government is intact. The IRGC is in control. This is Trump’s oldest habit — the successful builder and showman who’s always selling the bigger version of the deal. It served him very well in real estate and reality TV. It doesn’t serve the facts here. Overselling the deal with Iran only sets unrealistic expectations for what will emerge from 60 days of upcoming tough negotiations.

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Wow. When I heard Press Sec Karoline Leavitt say that DOGE/OMB had cancelled $50 million in condoms for Gaza, I thought it was just about crazy govt spending. Then I learned in Jerusalem Post that Hamas uses condoms and balloons to make improvised IEDs and flammable aerial bombs

Wow. When I heard Press Sec Karoline Leavitt say that DOGE/OMB had cancelled $50 million in condoms for Gaza, I thought it was just about crazy govt spending. Then I learned in Jerusalem Post that Hamas uses condoms and balloons to make improvised IEDs and flammable aerial bombs

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Since I try to call balls and strikes instead of echoing only one side, I notice when a cable host breaks the party line. Hard to find a CNN anchor who gives Trump credit for anything. Just as hard to find a Fox host who criticizes him. That’s why Rachel Campos-Duffy’s comments this morning stood out. Married to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, she said she might have been “a little too naive,” having assumed the point of removing Maduro was ending “a communist dictator” and liberating Venezuelans. Instead the U.S. cut an oil deal with Delcy Rodríguez — “part of the old regime” — with no talk of elections. “In Venezuela the reviews on this are very mixed, mostly negative,” she admitted. “The will of the people is still not in place… the Venezuelan people very much want an election.” Until that happens, Campos-Duffy said, there will be "a lot of questions about motivations here and whether the interests of the Venezuelan people are actually at hand." As for what would happen if elections were held today? “María Corina Machado would be in charge.” Viewers are better off when they hear more than one note from the same network. Both CNN and Fox do too little of that.

Since I try to call balls and strikes instead of echoing only one side, I notice when a cable host breaks the party line. Hard to find a CNN anchor who gives Trump credit for anything. Just as hard to find a Fox host who criticizes him. That’s why Rachel Campos-Duffy’s comments this morning stood out. Married to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, she said she might have been “a little too naive,” having assumed the point of removing Maduro was ending “a communist dictator” and liberating Venezuelans. Instead the U.S. cut an oil deal with Delcy Rodríguez — “part of the old regime” — with no talk of elections. “In Venezuela the reviews on this are very mixed, mostly negative,” she admitted. “The will of the people is still not in place… the Venezuelan people very much want an election.” Until that happens, Campos-Duffy said, there will be "a lot of questions about motivations here and whether the interests of the Venezuelan people are actually at hand." As for what would happen if elections were held today? “María Corina Machado would be in charge.” Viewers are better off when they hear more than one note from the same network. Both CNN and Fox do too little of that.

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Gen. Jack Keane just dropped a truth bomb this morning on FOX: Our intelligence services know the Pakistani and Qatari mediators “are compromised because they favor Iran at the expense of the United States.” They have misled the Trump administration about Tehran’s real intentions. Then Keane went after Saudi Arabia. He cited four instances of Saudi influence pulling the president back from wider military action. When the U.S. was ready to open the Strait forcibly, the Saudis denied us their airbase and airspace and actively discouraged the operation — even though they "knew nothing about the details of that operation, nor are they qualified to make that kind of an assumption." Keane's blunt assessment? They "are not willing to sacrifice" (causalities and damage to their oil reserves) "to rid the Middle East region of Iran's aggression. . . . They're willing for us to make that sacrifice for sure. They're willing for Israel to make that sacrifice for sure." This is the thanks America gets for putting the Kingdom under a nuclear and security umbrella since World War II. Keane’s bottom line: “I think it is shameful that they lack the spine to stand up for their people and the region.” Full 3+ minute clip. Must watch.👇

Gen. Jack Keane just dropped a truth bomb this morning on FOX: Our intelligence services know the Pakistani and Qatari mediators “are compromised because they favor Iran at the expense of the United States.” They have misled the Trump administration about Tehran’s real intentions. Then Keane went after Saudi Arabia. He cited four instances of Saudi influence pulling the president back from wider military action. When the U.S. was ready to open the Strait forcibly, the Saudis denied us their airbase and airspace and actively discouraged the operation — even though they "knew nothing about the details of that operation, nor are they qualified to make that kind of an assumption." Keane's blunt assessment? They "are not willing to sacrifice" (causalities and damage to their oil reserves) "to rid the Middle East region of Iran's aggression. . . . They're willing for us to make that sacrifice for sure. They're willing for Israel to make that sacrifice for sure." This is the thanks America gets for putting the Kingdom under a nuclear and security umbrella since World War II. Keane’s bottom line: “I think it is shameful that they lack the spine to stand up for their people and the region.” Full 3+ minute clip. Must watch.👇

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Gen. Jack Keane with a blunt wake-up call this morning: we keep judging the pain threshold on Iran through our Western lens — the blockade’s daily economic damage, the collapsing currency and runaway inflation. We assume at some point they will fold their hand. Wrong. This is an Islamic regime that doesn't care what its people suffer. "They have an ideology that they're holding to. They absolutely believe right now that they have the upper hand." Even if they signed concessions, "we already have evidence that they won't comply with it." And the part that should concentrate every mind: "They're going to get more violent because as we get closer to the midterms, they want to create a volatile situation that demonstrates that the administration is not managing the war properly." A win for Iran is damaging the White House at the ballot box. They have always been finely tuned to American political resolve. Keane is clear-eyed about the reality we face. Wish he had an inside seat in this administration to focus the response instead of watching us get played by the Iranians. This 2:30 clip is a must-watch. 👇

Gen. Jack Keane with a blunt wake-up call this morning: we keep judging the pain threshold on Iran through our Western lens — the blockade’s daily economic damage, the collapsing currency and runaway inflation. We assume at some point they will fold their hand. Wrong. This is an Islamic regime that doesn't care what its people suffer. "They have an ideology that they're holding to. They absolutely believe right now that they have the upper hand." Even if they signed concessions, "we already have evidence that they won't comply with it." And the part that should concentrate every mind: "They're going to get more violent because as we get closer to the midterms, they want to create a volatile situation that demonstrates that the administration is not managing the war properly." A win for Iran is damaging the White House at the ballot box. They have always been finely tuned to American political resolve. Keane is clear-eyed about the reality we face. Wish he had an inside seat in this administration to focus the response instead of watching us get played by the Iranians. This 2:30 clip is a must-watch. 👇

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Gen. Jack Keane with a blunt analysis this morning: Tehran believes the Strait of Hormuz gives Iran "more leverage than development and growth of a nuclear weapon." Iran has concluded "this is their prize they've got as a result of the war. . .They're not easily going to give it up, even through negotiations." Keane’s key point: Tehran is dialed into American politics. They believe the U.S. priority is keeping oil and gas prices down ahead of the midterms, and that the closer we get to November the less likely this administration is to use major military force. That calculation, in their minds, increases their leverage and "as we get closer to the elections, they will get more aggressive." He also notes they already blew up the previous MOU on the Straits in a matter of days. So even if a new deal is signed, "we know they won't comply with the deal." Bottom line from Keane: go into any talks clear-eyed — try diplomacy, "but if the Iranians don't cooperate here, then we have to go back to major combat operations." This 2 min clip is a must watch👇

Gen. Jack Keane with a blunt analysis this morning: Tehran believes the Strait of Hormuz gives Iran "more leverage than development and growth of a nuclear weapon." Iran has concluded "this is their prize they've got as a result of the war. . .They're not easily going to give it up, even through negotiations." Keane’s key point: Tehran is dialed into American politics. They believe the U.S. priority is keeping oil and gas prices down ahead of the midterms, and that the closer we get to November the less likely this administration is to use major military force. That calculation, in their minds, increases their leverage and "as we get closer to the elections, they will get more aggressive." He also notes they already blew up the previous MOU on the Straits in a matter of days. So even if a new deal is signed, "we know they won't comply with the deal." Bottom line from Keane: go into any talks clear-eyed — try diplomacy, "but if the Iranians don't cooperate here, then we have to go back to major combat operations." This 2 min clip is a must watch👇

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Look closely at this clip. The DSA’s purple-state test just got real. Rep. Francesca Hong — DSA member, currently leading the Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin — just reaffirmed on Fox the remarkable string of “yes” answers she gave Hasan Piker in early July on every one of the DSA’s planks. Then came the carefully scripted pivot engineered to sound more moderate than radical. Her delivery: flat, practiced, almost AI robotic. What makes this a remarkable moment is that Hong is ahead in a presidential battleground with a Republican legislature. Trump won this state. The August 11 primary, as I wrote earlier this month in my Just the Facts “The Democrats’ Tea Party Moment,” is the clearest test yet of whether the DSA can rebrand itself enough to win more than just deep blue districts. If Hong wins, “DSA can’t win outside Brooklyn” dies as a theory. Judge for yourself.

Look closely at this clip. The DSA’s purple-state test just got real. Rep. Francesca Hong — DSA member, currently leading the Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin — just reaffirmed on Fox the remarkable string of “yes” answers she gave Hasan Piker in early July on every one of the DSA’s planks. Then came the carefully scripted pivot engineered to sound more moderate than radical. Her delivery: flat, practiced, almost AI robotic. What makes this a remarkable moment is that Hong is ahead in a presidential battleground with a Republican legislature. Trump won this state. The August 11 primary, as I wrote earlier this month in my Just the Facts “The Democrats’ Tea Party Moment,” is the clearest test yet of whether the DSA can rebrand itself enough to win more than just deep blue districts. If Hong wins, “DSA can’t win outside Brooklyn” dies as a theory. Judge for yourself.

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To every Democratic politician touting DSA primary wins as proof the party is a 'big tent': listen closely to antisemitic Twitch influencer Hasan Piker at this weekend's College Democrats of America convention. He is not 'energizing the base' —he's declaring war on any Democrats who "compromise, who conciliate, and who betray" the revolution by funding ICE, supporting Israel, or working with "fascists." "We don't need those Democrats anymore." The new left doesn't want accommodation or coalition. They want to purge you, take over, and run it themselves. Piker is telling you exactly what comes next. "We are coming. We are unbossed. We're unbought. We're unbound. And we will become undeniable." Believe him. (And yes — that does appear to be a Mao Zedong-inspired jacket. History rhymes.)

To every Democratic politician touting DSA primary wins as proof the party is a 'big tent': listen closely to antisemitic Twitch influencer Hasan Piker at this weekend's College Democrats of America convention. He is not 'energizing the base' —he's declaring war on any Democrats who "compromise, who conciliate, and who betray" the revolution by funding ICE, supporting Israel, or working with "fascists." "We don't need those Democrats anymore." The new left doesn't want accommodation or coalition. They want to purge you, take over, and run it themselves. Piker is telling you exactly what comes next. "We are coming. We are unbossed. We're unbought. We're unbound. And we will become undeniable." Believe him. (And yes — that does appear to be a Mao Zedong-inspired jacket. History rhymes.)

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Former Secretaries of State are usually diplomatic. Not Mike Pompeo this morning regarding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s boast about arresting Israel’s Prime Minister: “This is a communist, antisemitic mayor, trying to make news for his own audience… There’s no chance he’s going to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu.” His follow-up landed even harder: Mamdani never named Putin, who’s abducted tens of thousands of Ukrainian children — or Iran’s leaders, accused of mass war crimes. Just the one Jewish state’s leader.

Former Secretaries of State are usually diplomatic. Not Mike Pompeo this morning regarding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s boast about arresting Israel’s Prime Minister: “This is a communist, antisemitic mayor, trying to make news for his own audience… There’s no chance he’s going to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu.” His follow-up landed even harder: Mamdani never named Putin, who’s abducted tens of thousands of Ukrainian children — or Iran’s leaders, accused of mass war crimes. Just the one Jewish state’s leader.

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Want to know how upside down the world of women’s sports is in Washington state? A 15-year-old girl refused to play against an 18-year-old male in a JV basketball game. The result? She’s charged w/ bullying, harassment, and intimidation for MISGENDERING. Crazy. #savewomenssports

Want to know how upside down the world of women’s sports is in Washington state? A 15-year-old girl refused to play against an 18-year-old male in a JV basketball game. The result? She’s charged w/ bullying, harassment, and intimidation for MISGENDERING. Crazy. #savewomenssports

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I hope Vance, Witkoff and Kushner were watching Secretary Rubio in Bahrain this morning. He just told reporters that confronting Iranian proxies Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis is "critical and important" and says "ultimately you're not going to have peace and stability in this region as long as there are non-state actors operating within the boundaries and borders of sovereign countries and being funded by Iran" Funny, the MOU the three of you negotiated doesn't say that.

I hope Vance, Witkoff and Kushner were watching Secretary Rubio in Bahrain this morning. He just told reporters that confronting Iranian proxies Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis is "critical and important" and says "ultimately you're not going to have peace and stability in this region as long as there are non-state actors operating within the boundaries and borders of sovereign countries and being funded by Iran" Funny, the MOU the three of you negotiated doesn't say that.

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30 second truth bomb from veteran FOX News host Brian Kilmeade: “I wish [JD Vance] would be as tough on Iran” as he was on Israel yesterday. “If you want [Israel] to go along with the plan, you should tell them what’s in the plan. They were not even in the talks. All of a sudden they are roped into it.” “It’s up to Iran to tell Hezbollah, who does whatever you tell them, to knock it off, and then Israel will knock it off.” Listen:

30 second truth bomb from veteran FOX News host Brian Kilmeade: “I wish [JD Vance] would be as tough on Iran” as he was on Israel yesterday. “If you want [Israel] to go along with the plan, you should tell them what’s in the plan. They were not even in the talks. All of a sudden they are roped into it.” “It’s up to Iran to tell Hezbollah, who does whatever you tell them, to knock it off, and then Israel will knock it off.” Listen:

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In 60 seconds, Mike Pompeo cuts through all the noise on Iran. The former CIA Director and Secretary of State pulls no punches: On negotiations: “The Iranians are not yet willing to give up because, not because they’re not good business people, but because they’re not business people, because they are terrorist thugs who want to destroy Israel and the United States of America… the blockade will have to continue, not to put pressure on the Iranian people, but to put pressure on the regime itself.” And on the Strait of Hormuz: “It’s not free commercial travel there today… I think it’s going to take more than just economic pressure. I think it’s going to take more continued military efforts as well, and I think the president will come to that same conclusion.”

In 60 seconds, Mike Pompeo cuts through all the noise on Iran. The former CIA Director and Secretary of State pulls no punches: On negotiations: “The Iranians are not yet willing to give up because, not because they’re not good business people, but because they’re not business people, because they are terrorist thugs who want to destroy Israel and the United States of America… the blockade will have to continue, not to put pressure on the Iranian people, but to put pressure on the regime itself.” And on the Strait of Hormuz: “It’s not free commercial travel there today… I think it’s going to take more than just economic pressure. I think it’s going to take more continued military efforts as well, and I think the president will come to that same conclusion.”

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Gen. Jack Keane delivers a hard reality check on the expired MOU window and Iranian compliance: “Even if Iran makes a deal, they’re not going to comply with it, and that’s the evidence we have to date.” What about ratcheting up the economic pressure on Tehran? “Think they can withstand it. Even if their people rebel again, they will mow them down in the streets.” Keane notes that Iran’s new threat about going “on the offensive” is not all bluster; it has “some substance to it…it’s likely we may see something here going forward.” Why? They’re watching the midterms and want to show the war is poorly managed — hoping it costs Trump and the GOP. His final analysis: History says they underestimate this president at their peril.

Gen. Jack Keane delivers a hard reality check on the expired MOU window and Iranian compliance: “Even if Iran makes a deal, they’re not going to comply with it, and that’s the evidence we have to date.” What about ratcheting up the economic pressure on Tehran? “Think they can withstand it. Even if their people rebel again, they will mow them down in the streets.” Keane notes that Iran’s new threat about going “on the offensive” is not all bluster; it has “some substance to it…it’s likely we may see something here going forward.” Why? They’re watching the midterms and want to show the war is poorly managed — hoping it costs Trump and the GOP. His final analysis: History says they underestimate this president at their peril.

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Journalist Miranda Devine drops the hard truth this morning on FOX: Zohran Mamdani’s searchable database of New Yorkers hit by his second-home tax isn’t policy theater—it’s a public doxxing list. Mamdani’s Dept. of Finance just published a searchable database of names and addresses for about 960,000 NYC properties tied to his new “wealth tax” on second homes — nearly 30x the 31,000 homes it was supposed to cover. It’s already drawn “dangerous precedent” criticism from business leaders and City Council members. Addresses and names of people—as Miranda Devine points out—whose only “crime” is owning a NYC pied-à-terre, handed to “professional squatters… or worse case, Luigi Mangione wannabes” who already romanticize violence against “capitalists.” Devine calls it out as classic Mamdani. He poses as a “principled defender of human-rights while doing his Israel and capitalist bashing, but really he is a Marxist Islamist revolutionary.” He’s driven by grievance and destruction and that’s why 9/11 families don’t want him at Ground Zero. Watch the full 1.20 clip about why this latest Mamdani policy isn’t governance but rather incitement with a government logo on it.

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A possible next Senator from Michigan just compared cutting off children’s sex organs to circumcision, asked Jesse Watters if he was circumcised, and talked about “ding-a-lings” on live TV. In this clip, El-Sayed’s answer on pediatric gender surgery? It’s a private choice between parent, doctor, and kid. The entire interview between Jesse Watters and Abdul El-Sayed was more cable food fight than real debate — both talked over each other, dodges followed a pre-planned script — but a few moments of real substance broke through. El-Sayed defended Sharia law as an expression of his Muslim faith and said restricting it would be no different than restricting Christian canon law — a comparison Watters didn’t push on, though the compatibility of Sharia with Western jurisprudence is exactly the debate worth having. El-Sayed didn’t know the size of the federal budget, notable for someone pushing big-ticket programs like universal healthcare. On reparations, his answer was that “there should be a discussion about it” — a placeholder, not a position. This is a long way from serious political discourse — it’s all gotcha moments now. For El-Sayed’s base, he probably walks away looking like a fighter. That’s the whole game in politics in this era although anyone listening carefully should alarmed that he is capable often of covering his radical politics under the cloak of “affordability.”

A possible next Senator from Michigan just compared cutting off children’s sex organs to circumcision, asked Jesse Watters if he was circumcised, and talked about “ding-a-lings” on live TV. In this clip, El-Sayed’s answer on pediatric gender surgery? It’s a private choice between parent, doctor, and kid. The entire interview between Jesse Watters and Abdul El-Sayed was more cable food fight than real debate — both talked over each other, dodges followed a pre-planned script — but a few moments of real substance broke through. El-Sayed defended Sharia law as an expression of his Muslim faith and said restricting it would be no different than restricting Christian canon law — a comparison Watters didn’t push on, though the compatibility of Sharia with Western jurisprudence is exactly the debate worth having. El-Sayed didn’t know the size of the federal budget, notable for someone pushing big-ticket programs like universal healthcare. On reparations, his answer was that “there should be a discussion about it” — a placeholder, not a position. This is a long way from serious political discourse — it’s all gotcha moments now. For El-Sayed’s base, he probably walks away looking like a fighter. That’s the whole game in politics in this era although anyone listening carefully should alarmed that he is capable often of covering his radical politics under the cloak of “affordability.”

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Nikki Haley just dropped some tough-love advice on Iran for the Trump administration: "If you started it, you have to finish it... Finish the job, bring Iran to their knees, stop with the release of the frozen assets, stop with the sanction waivers, and finish what you started. We had them at the weakest they had ever been — and then we caved. That can't happen." She's right. Iran walking away stronger than before the war — still threatening the Strait of Hormuz, still funding its proxies, still chasing a bomb — isn not an acceptable outcome. This administration needs to hear her unfiltered analysis.

Nikki Haley just dropped some tough-love advice on Iran for the Trump administration: "If you started it, you have to finish it... Finish the job, bring Iran to their knees, stop with the release of the frozen assets, stop with the sanction waivers, and finish what you started. We had them at the weakest they had ever been — and then we caved. That can't happen." She's right. Iran walking away stronger than before the war — still threatening the Strait of Hormuz, still funding its proxies, still chasing a bomb — isn not an acceptable outcome. This administration needs to hear her unfiltered analysis.

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The New York DSA co-chair says his parents fled Peru to escape what he calls “the imposition of capitalism and American imperialism.” Their solution? They moved to America. This sounds like the level of illogic that was the hallmark of my freshman year political science classes at UC Berkeley. He doesn’t realize he is not making a talking point as much as giving an example that collapses his entire argument.

The New York DSA co-chair says his parents fled Peru to escape what he calls “the imposition of capitalism and American imperialism.” Their solution? They moved to America. This sounds like the level of illogic that was the hallmark of my freshman year political science classes at UC Berkeley. He doesn’t realize he is not making a talking point as much as giving an example that collapses his entire argument.

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Gen. Jack Keane's blunt prediction: Iran is about to get more aggressive, not less. 1) It can interfere with — not control — traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. “They don’t control that, but neither do we totally control it either. What they do have is influence over it as a result of their ability to disrupt it.” 2) Gulf oil states have gone to Trump several times and persuaded him to stand down from renewed military operations after Iranian attacks on regional allies. “That is impactful in their minds.” "My gut feel is that they're likely gonna get more aggressive," Keane said — because Tehran doesn't think Trump will act before the midterms. His warning to the Islamic regime: "They have miscalculated with him time and time again... We have more capability in the region now than we had on February 28th, and it all is ready." As for the President, "he is totally capable of shutting them down once and for all and crushing them...the decision is his."

Gen. Jack Keane's blunt prediction: Iran is about to get more aggressive, not less. 1) It can interfere with — not control — traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. “They don’t control that, but neither do we totally control it either. What they do have is influence over it as a result of their ability to disrupt it.” 2) Gulf oil states have gone to Trump several times and persuaded him to stand down from renewed military operations after Iranian attacks on regional allies. “That is impactful in their minds.” "My gut feel is that they're likely gonna get more aggressive," Keane said — because Tehran doesn't think Trump will act before the midterms. His warning to the Islamic regime: "They have miscalculated with him time and time again... We have more capability in the region now than we had on February 28th, and it all is ready." As for the President, "he is totally capable of shutting them down once and for all and crushing them...the decision is his."

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Zohran Mamdani just doubled down live this morning. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani finally called Oct 7 a “horrific war crime” — but only as setup for the inevitable “both sides” pivot: Netanyahu “orchestrated this genocide” and is a war criminal. To pretend he is “balanced,” Mamdani demands the ICC arrest warrant for dead terrorist Yahya Sinwar (Oct 7 mastermind) be honored alongside Netanyahu AND he has added now to his arrest list “a few other members of the Israeli government.” Sweating, spotlight-hungry, and Israel-obsessed. Classic DSA both-sidesism that treats a massacre and a nation’s self-defense as moral equivalents. When will mainstream Democrats call out this dangerous talk? Why are the 2028 hopefuls and today's party leaders all silent?

Zohran Mamdani just doubled down live this morning. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani finally called Oct 7 a “horrific war crime” — but only as setup for the inevitable “both sides” pivot: Netanyahu “orchestrated this genocide” and is a war criminal. To pretend he is “balanced,” Mamdani demands the ICC arrest warrant for dead terrorist Yahya Sinwar (Oct 7 mastermind) be honored alongside Netanyahu AND he has added now to his arrest list “a few other members of the Israeli government.” Sweating, spotlight-hungry, and Israel-obsessed. Classic DSA both-sidesism that treats a massacre and a nation’s self-defense as moral equivalents. When will mainstream Democrats call out this dangerous talk? Why are the 2028 hopefuls and today's party leaders all silent?

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Before any Iran deal celebration — Jack Keane's reality check this morning: The Islamic regime's goal is to "survive, recover and rebuild," then reverse whatever they sign. "That is who they are." That does not change with any agreement.

Before any Iran deal celebration — Jack Keane's reality check this morning: The Islamic regime's goal is to "survive, recover and rebuild," then reverse whatever they sign. "That is who they are." That does not change with any agreement.

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This 3-minute Michael Smerconish about America might be the best “feel good” clip you’ll watch this 4th of July. Over a million foreign World Cup fans arrived expecting the tense, angry, divided America their screens had shown them. Then they met us and found the friendly, generous, welcoming country we were promised growing up. The polls measure Washington. The visitors measured us. The gap between the two might be the most American story of all. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸

This 3-minute Michael Smerconish about America might be the best “feel good” clip you’ll watch this 4th of July. Over a million foreign World Cup fans arrived expecting the tense, angry, divided America their screens had shown them. Then they met us and found the friendly, generous, welcoming country we were promised growing up. The polls measure Washington. The visitors measured us. The gap between the two might be the most American story of all. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸

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