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Calling for deaths of Jews is now a brand strategy for unknown acts looking for a career boost.
What is infinitely more sick and cowardly is the non-condemnation of iconic musicians and bands who have lectured us for decades on civil and human rights. @springsteen @U2… https://t.co/mtpTKJq6ft
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) June 30, 2025
Ed: I’d like that even better than their visa cancellations. I’ll take what I can get, though.
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The episode points to two trends happening at the same time: The rise in antisemitism since the start of the Gaza war, and growing pro-Palestinian support in Europe as the war continues, especially among the young.
Support for Israel is evaporating quickly in Europe, reaching its lowest level in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, according to YouGov, a pollster that has tracked the data since 2016. Surveys by YouGov found 63-70% of people in those countries holding an unfavorable view of Israel.
A new report by the Counter Extremism Group, a London think tank, said the war in Gaza had instilled a “disturbing” level of hatred against Jews in the U.K.
Ed: Don’t buy that for a second. The Jew-hatred has always existed in the UK and in Europe. The war — started by Hamas’ atrocities on October 7 — only gave them an opening to express it. They’re angry that the Jews fought back against those who intend to annihilate them, and that annihilation is what these people actually want.
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I was hungry and you demanded higher taxes for Romans to give me food. I was sick and you lobbied for Caesarcare. I was in prison and you did a TikTok dance. I was a stranger and you set a chariot on fire… https://t.co/0tBecMxG1v
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) June 30, 2025
Ed: Hey, isn’t socialism just “stuff we do together”? That’s what Governor JazzHands McSnitchLine told me, anyway. And charity isn’t setting confiscatory and redistributive policies involving other people’s money, either. The word proceeds from ‘caritas,’ the Latin term for self-sacrificing love of others. With heavy emphasis on “self.”
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This, naturally is great news for the Times‘s readers — who will now have confirmation of what they had suspected all along: That when Democratic presidents try to spend half a trillion dollars without legislative approval, or decree changes to immigration law that they had previously insisted that they were unable to make, or illegally order vaccine mandates and eviction moratoria in defiance of statute, or use the EPA to achieve aims that they could not get through Congress, or go into Libya without permission, that’s different, and it should under no circumstances be considered as part of a problematic structural change that was created by both parties, in pursuit of all manner of ideological aims, and that has been cheered on by legislators whose politics span the political spectrum.
Ed: Presidents and Congresses of both parties have created an imperial presidency. The New York Times only notices it during Republican administrations, however, and it’s true of all the Protection Racket Media. The worst two presidents in establishing the imperial presidency were both Democrats: Woodrow Wilson and FDR. Although Barack Obama at least deserves an honorable mention for the federal power grab known as ObamaCare.
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.@MaryMargOlohan given the 500% increase in assaults against ICE agents, I wanted to see if you could comment on CNN promoting that?
“Certainly, it is unacceptable that a major network would promote an app that is encouraging violence against law enforcement officers.” pic.twitter.com/zmEF5ymBf8
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 30, 2025
Ed: Beege covered this earlier. As for why CNN would be promoting this app, well … it’s yet another reason to support independent voices and platforms such as ours to make sure we can avoid their narrative laboratories by joining our VIP Membership program! Choose VIP to support Hot Air and access our premium content, VIP Gold to extend your access to all Townhall Media platforms and participate in this show, or VIP Platinum to get access to even more content and discounts on merchandise. Use the promo code FIGHT to join or to upgrade your existing membership level today, and get 60% off!
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The Supreme Court on Monday took up a new challenge to campaign finance restrictions in a case brought by Republicans seeking to overturn limits on party committees spending money in coordination with individual candidates. …
The challenge was brought by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the campaigns of two candidates in the 2022 elections: now-Vice President JD Vance, who was running as a Republican candidate for Senate in Ohio, and former Rep. Steve Chabot, a Republican congressman from the same state who lost his re-election bid.
The Federal Election Commission, under the direction of the Trump administration, has sided with the challengers, saying it agrees the restrictions violate the Constitution’s First Amendment.
Ed: As NBC News notes, the Supreme Court actually upheld this restriction in 2001. However, it’s bad law and Congress should void it. I suspect that the court took this up because they recognize that it really does infringe on speech and political action, and perhaps recognizing that the limits have forced money into much more shadowy organizations to get around these restrictions. At least political parties have some electoral accountability, which the various tax-exempt orgs now involved do not have.
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One thing I reported on was the transformation of the Democratic Party toward wealthy, college-educated districts, where goofiest woke ideas flourish and Zohran did best. If you don’t think taxing “whiter neighborhoods” is woke politics, not sure what to tell you.… https://t.co/V1aqmNJPQx
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) June 30, 2025
Ed: Not to mention “seizing the means of production,” which Mamdani and the media are now trying to redefine as something other than the explicitly Marxist/communist ambition that it is.
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Everything Mr. Mamdani is suggesting was already done by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Fidel Castro in Cuba. Both nationalized their food-distribution systems in the name of “equity” and “access.” What followed was poverty, rationing and hunger. Grocery-store shelves were stripped bare. Citizens stood in lines for hours to get a loaf of bread or a bag of rice—if there was any food left at all.
Mr. Mamdani wants to replace supermarkets with state-run food stores. That’s not progressive, it’s oppressive. He wants bureaucrats to decide what you eat, when you eat, and where you get it. He wants to rip away the livelihoods of hardworking grocers—many of them immigrants, like my parents.
Supermarkets operate on thin margins, complex logistics and decades of supply-chain expertise. We coordinate daily with hundreds of vendors, farmers, manufacturers and local producers to bring fresh, affordable food to millions. Mr. Mamdani would disrupt that infrastructure, destroying small businesses and jobs. And who’s going to manage these public grocery stores? The same government that can’t fix the subways or public housing?
Ed: When governments can successfully manage the monopolies they already have, then maybe we can discuss adding more. And we haven’t even begun to discuss the disaster that is public education, in NYC and pretty much everywhere else.
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Mamdani Clarifies He Is Not A Communist, He Merely Wants To Seize The Means Of Production And Put All The Capitalists In Gulags pic.twitter.com/HgHDI7gtLD
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 30, 2025
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BREAKING: A federal judge just DELAYED the pretrial release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia due to fears of him being deported. pic.twitter.com/ETHkXQeUnd
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 30, 2025
Ed: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t …
