Saturday Travels And A Few Stories

Today I drove to eastern Ohio, and have settled in at a temporary undisclosed location, on my way to a place in the northern part of the state.  Now that I have a bit of time, here are a few things going on:

From The Jerusalem Post, Hezbollah stages a parade in Beirut, which Lebanese citizens don't appreciate.

From Gatestone Institute, the Iranian terrorist regime is not dead, but wounded.

From The American Conservative, the rappers known as Bobby Vylan kneecap the BBC.  (Can the American musician Bob Dylan sue them for some kind of trademark infringement or something like that?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. Labour Party's fear of rural areas.

From National Review, the New England Journal of Medicine claims that deporting illegal aliens would harm the U.S. healthcare system.

From Townhall, one pundit thinks that a future president could deport current First Lady Melania Trump.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how to prevent another military fiasco in the Far East.

From American Thinker, even if President Trump uses the word "shylock", he's not an antisemite.

From The Daily Wire, two American veterans working to distribute humanitarian aid is Gaza are injured when grenades thrown by Hamas terrorists explode near them.

And from the Daily Caller, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson announces an interview with newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

Friday Phenomena For The Fourth Of July

As the warm and sunny weather continues on America's Independence Day, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Independence Day a year before America's sesquicentennial.

From FrontpageMag, making Independence Day great again.

From Townhall, former illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia's sob story about his stay in an El Salvadorian prison is quickly debunked.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump's "big beautiful bill" is an achievement for the Republicans.

From The Federalist, diner owners along U.S. Route 66 share what they love about the nostalgic road trip on that highway.

From American Thinker, the fire behind the Declaration of Independence.

From NewsBusters, Democrats unleash their crazy talk about the aforementioned "big beautiful bill".

From TeleSUR, the Cuban musical style cha-cha-chá has conquered the world.

From TCW Defending Freedom, in the U.K., a coronavirus whistleblower is treated more harshly than a pedophile.

From EuroNews, Dutch and German agencies claim that Russia is using chemical weapons in Ukraine.

From Free West Media, the pledge by NATO countries to spend five percent of their GDP on defense is "utterly preposterous".

From ReMix, Polish President Andrzej Duda tells opposition politicians to respect the results of their country's presidential election, won by Karol Nawrocki.  (Apparently, election denial was wrong after the U.S. election of 2020, but is OK when a conservative candidate wins an election in Europe.)

From Balkan Insight, protesters keep blocking roads in Serbia, and get arrested for it.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI congratulates U.S. President Trump on U.S. Independence Day.  (Since Morocco was the first country to recognize the newly independent U.S., I'd say that the king is continuing a very old tradition.)

From The New Arab, what the new Syrian national emblem says about Syria's post-Assad era.

From AMU, the Taliban ban all political discourse on radio and television.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From Arutz Sheva, Iran goes crazy looking for spies.

From Gatestone Institute, is Trump abandoning the people of Iran and thus guaranteeing more war?

From Radio Free Asia, the soon-to-be-90-years-old Dalai Lama charts an uncertain future.

From The Stream, some fun mathematical facts about July 4th.

From The Daily Signal, technology is advancing but your standard of living is not, thanks to the government.

From The American Conservative, the pro-war right strikes back.

From The Western Journal, five challenging times when American presidents have appealed to the Declaration of Independence.

From The Daily Wire, a guide to the Fourth of July for everyday Americans.

From the Daily Caller, Trump proved the media wrong about the twice aforementioned "big beautiful bill".

From the New York Times, Trumps prepares to roll out the tariffs.

From Breitbart, as American celebrates Independence Day, here are 18 big beautiful victories for Trump.

From Newsmax, France and the U.K. hope that their plan to deal with "taxi boats" will slow illegal migrant crossings of the English Channel.

And from Fox News, a woman from Tampa, Florida whips up a red, white and blue summertime drink.  (via the New York Post)

Thursday Tidbits

On a very warm and sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former President Biden comes back, to lament that his accomplishments are being undone.

From FrontpageMag, Israel somehow keeps killing 81 people over 24 hours in Gaza.

From Townhall, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) is at it again.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the EPA places 144 officials on leave for signing a letter trashing the current administration's policies.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrats cry wolf over alleged cuts to Medicaid.

From The Federalist, after the University of Pennsylvania, nine more schools should apologize over their trans policies or lose their funding.

From American Thinker, the problem with New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is not socialism.

From MRCTV, job growth and unemployment in June do better than expected, and job growth in April and May is revised upward.

From NewsBusters, actor George Takei tries to equate President Trump's deportations with President Franklin Roosevelt's internment of Japanese American citizens during World War II.

From Canada Free Press, what "true freedom" means.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President Lula da Silva visits former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez at her home in Buenos Aires.

From TCW Defending Freedom, two years on, the U.K.'s investigation of the coronavirus is still avoiding the truth.

From EuroNews, a Syrian man injures four fellow passengers on an ICE train in Germany.  (In this case, "ICE" stands for "InterCity Express" and should not be confused with the American agency ICE.)

From Free West Media, despite sanctions, Iran is producing more oil than ever since the 1979 revolution.

From ReMix, for the first time in 15 years, Austria deports Syrians.

From Balkan Insight, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić pardons four members of the governing Serbian Progressive Party being prosecuted for attacking protesters in the city of Novi Sad.

From The North Africa Post, a unified power grid for Africa moves slowly toward becoming a reality.

From The New Arab, the execution of a 14-year-old boy by a member of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Raqqa, Syria sparks outrage.

From RAIR Foundation USA, an imam in Texas admits membership in the Hamas-connected International Union of Muslim Scholars.

From the Daily Mail, according to Swiss intelligence, Iran many have assassinated two Swiss diplomats who were in the country.

From Gatestone Institute, a salute to America's firefighters and police, who put their live on the line to protect us every day.

From Radio Free Asia, a censor-defying dissident shows shows how Chinese students are getting overworked.

From The Stream, an Iranian Ayatollah who praised Pope Francis issues a fatwa against U.S. President Trump.

From The Daily Signal, the House passes the "big beautiful bill".

From The American Conservative, don't bet on a ceasefire in Gaza.

From The Western Journal, while the aforementioned jobs report is good, it conceals something even better.

From BizPac Review, a threat to boycott the platform Etsy over "Alligator Alcatraz" merchandise fails spectacularly.

From The Daily Wire, federal authorities investigate an alleged China-tied baby selling operation in California.

From the Daily Caller, some left-wingers want the Democrats to become even more weird and gross.

From Breitbart, Danish women get a dose of real equality.

From Newsmax, leaked documents show why the aforementioned Pope Francis limited access to the Latin Mass.

And from the New York Post, actress Bryce Dallas Howard has never watched the TV sitcom Happy Day, even though it starred her father Ron Howard.

Wednesday Wanderings

On a warm and partly cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) finally recognizes the harms done by excessive environmental regulation.

From FrontpageMag, the biggest miscalculations by the Iranian mullahs.

From Townhall, under then-President Biden, the FBI shut down an investigation into alleged Chinese efforts to interfere with the 2020 election, for a reason that will infuriate you.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Congressional Black Caucus threatens to boycott the chain store Target after it stops donating to their foundation.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrat congresscritters line up to oppose the "Big Beautiful Bill", recently passed by the Senate.

From The Federalist, we can't celebrate what happened in 1776 while ignoring the invasion that's happening now.

From American Thinker, this time around, President Trump is doing less "speak softly" and more "carry a big stick".

From MRCTV, the University of Pennsylvania agrees to strip Lia Thomas of "her" swimming records and apologizes to its real female athletes.

From NewsBusters, an NBC reporter frets over possible "injuries" to detainees held at "Alligator Alcatraz".  (She should.  Alligators or other nasty critters injuring any detainee who tries to escape is the whole idea.)

From Canada Free Press, Trump was within his constitutional powers when he bombed Iran.

From TeleSUR, China demands that the U.S. lifts its "blockade" of Cuba.  (In reality, the U.S. embargos and sanctions Cuba, but does not impose a blockade.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, the wonky data behind messages about global warming.

From Snouts in the Trough, a look at disability rates and benefits in various European countries.

From EuroNews, France and Switzerland shut down their nuclear power plants due to a heatwave.

From ReMix, visiting the Czech Republic might soon cost ya more, pilgrim.  (If you read Czech, read the story at Echo24.)

From Balkan Insight, buying things in Romania will soon cost ya more, pilgrim.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco shares its intermittent renewable energy expertise with other African countries.

From The New Arab, an Egyptian driver whose truck ran into a minivan, killing 19 people, goes to trial for involuntary manslaughter.

From The Jerusalem Post, two Muslim men allegedly plant explosives at tourist hotspots in Thailand.

From Gatestone Institute, Trump's worst idea ever for Gaza.

From Radio Free Asia, the Dalai Lama affirms that his successor will not be chosen by China.

From The Stream, can we now acknowledge that Trump was right to bomb Iran's nuclear sites?

From The Daily Signal, Border Czar Tom Homan credits the "Trump effect" for the low number of illegal alien encounters during June.

From The American Conservative, the "Big Beautiful" product of realignment.

From The Western Journal, leftists come up with an ugly alternative name for "Alligator Alcatraz".

From BizPac Review, Paramount agrees to give Trump a $16 million settlement in a lawsuit over deceptive editing of an interview with then-Vice President Harris on 60 Minutes.

From The Daily Wire, Trump announces a trade agreement with Vietnam.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) gets a primary challenger for the 2026 election.

From the New York Post, Sean "Diddy" Combs's criminal trial is over with, but he still faces 66 civil suits.

From Breitbart, more about Combs's criminal trial and its verdicts.

From Newsmax, Microsoft again lays off thousands of its employees.

And from SFGate, fireworks at a warehouse in Esparto, California undergo premature detonation.

Tuesday Things For The Start Of July

We've reached the first day of the second half of the year.  On a warm and partly sunny Tuesday, which then became rainy, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former congresscritter Colin Allred (D-TX) is running for Senator against incumbent John Cornyn (R-TX) after losing to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in 2024.

From FrontpageMag, the West still doesn't understand traditional orthodox Islam.

From Townhall, President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" narrowly passes in the Senate.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a prestigious school in northern Virginia is hit with a civil rights complaint for allegedly having an environment "hostile to Jews".

From the Washington Examiner, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dr. Anthony Fauci is likely liable for the coronavirus pandemic.

From The Federalist, Republicans in Arizona challenge a state law that allows nonresidents to register to vote.

From American Thinker, carbon dioxide is not destroying the planet but enhancing the life on it.

From MRCTV, in a video posted on TikTok, "comedian" Kathy Griffin quadruples down on her severed head meme.

From NewsBusters, political guests on late night comedy shows this year have been 99 percent left-wing.

From Canada Free Press, thanks to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canadians have nothing to celebrate on their county's 155th birthday.

From CBC News, Carney emphasizes Canadian unity as Canada Day celebrations get under way.

From Global News, a woman from Victoria, British Columbia is organizing a nationwide singalong of O Canada for Canada's birthday.

From CTV News, 20 foods that represent Canada's size and diversity.  (Because it's Canada's birthday, I had to bring out my Canadian sources.)

From TeleSUR, "civil rights" advocates urge FIFA to keep ICE agents out of soccer stadiums in the U.S. ahead of the World Cup.  (I use "civil rights" in quotes because entering or being present in a country in a manner that violates its laws is not a real civil right, although some people seem to think otherwise.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, a disturbing pattern in electoral politics is repeated, this time in Poland.

From EuroNews, a man who allegedly spied on the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany for Iran is arrested in Aarhus, Denmark.

From Free West Media and the "I've got a bridge to sell you" department, to meet its NATO spending target, Italy plans to build a €13.5 billion bridge to Sicily and define it as a military expenditure.

From ReMix, illegal migrants fly into Germany instead crossing borders on land, much to the consternation of the police union and the party AfD.  (If such migration is caused by poverty, as some believe, how to they afford airline tickets?  Or is someone else paying for them?)

From Balkan Insight, Romania imposes austerity measures to curb its increasing budget deficit.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan archaeological site Oued Beht wins the 2025 Antiquity Prize.

From The New Arab, Lebanese authorities arrest seven Syrians for allegedly planning an attack during the Shiite observation of Ashura or for collaborating with Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post, Gazans testify that Hamas deliberately shoots people at humanitarian aid sites.

From News(dot)com(dot)au, Australia's Federal Court finds that a Muslim preacher violated the country's racial discrimination law in a series of speeches in which he called Jews "vile" and "treacherous".

From Albia Newspapers, clashes break out in İstanbul, Turkey over a cartoon allegedly showing the Islamic prophet Mohammed.

From Gatestone Institute, removing Sudanese General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan would improve stability and oppose extremism.

From The Stream, the Senate refuses Trump's call to cut Medicaid for illegal aliens.

From The Daily Signal, the Trump administration urges governors to remove rainbow crosswalks from their state's roads for safety reasons.

From The American Conservative, a visit to a village in Greenland shows its American spirit.

From The Western Journal, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, her department is working with the Department of Justice toward possibly prosecuting CNN over its anti-ICE app.

From BizPac Review, The Washington Post takes Iran's side against Trump regarding the damage from the recent bombing of its nuclear sites.

From The Daily Wire, why it might be impossible for illegal aliens to escape the detention center in Florida known as "Alligator Alcatraz".

From the Daily Caller, hunters, fisherman, outdoorsmen and conservationists all rejoice as Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) withdraws his proposal for the government to sell public lands.

From the New York Post, while touring the aforementioned "Alligator Alcatraz", Trump states that it is where then-President "son of a [bleep]" Biden wanted to put him.

From Breitbart, job openings in the U.S. rose more than expected during May.

From Newsmax, under the aforementioned "Big Beautiful Bill", most social security recipients will not pay a tax on their benefits.

And from the Genesius Times, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) delivers a fiery audition speech for CNN.

Monday Stuff For The End Of June

Yes, it's the last day of the first half of 2025, falling on a hot and sunny Monday, so here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites has inflicted "a very serious level of damage" on Iran's nuclear program.

From FrontpageMag, 12 surprises from the 12-day war.

From Townhall, CNN pushes an app that helps illegal aliens evade ICE, which puts its agents at risk.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the U.S. State Department revokes the visas issued to the British rap group Bob Vylan after they called for the murder of IDF soldiers.  (As with any story involving rap, the label "music" is used loosely.)

From the Washington Examiner, the Department of Justice announces charges for 324 people in the largest healthcare fraud takedown ever.

From The Federalist, several law enforcement agencies went Sergeant Schultz about threats against Trump voters in Pennsylvania.

From American Thinker, Mexico has no right to any territory in the U.S.

From MRCTV, a TikTok user claims that Abraham Lincoln was gay and musician Kurt Cobain was trans.

From NewsBusters, CNN defends New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's (D) proposal for city-owned grocery stores.

From Canada Free Press, "the Democratic Socialist party".

From TeleSUR, Peronist candidates win big in the Argentine province of Formosa and the city of Rosario.

From TCW Defending Freedom, one coronavirus narrative collapses under the slightest scrutiny.

From EuroNews, the E.U. and Ukraine make a not too ambitious but "realistic" trade deal.

From Free West Media, the FDA allegedly approves hundreds of drugs without proof that they work.

From ReMix, according to Hungarian official Balázs Orbán, polls show that most Hungarian people support their government's ban on Pride parades.

From Balkan Insight, according to a report, six Balkan countries are "failing to enforce freedom of information laws".

From The North Africa Post, the group Polisario's recent targeting of civilians vindicates its designation as a terrorist organization.

From The New Arab, according to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, Israel wants relations with Lebanon and Syria, but will not discuss the Golan Heights.

From News18, an Iranian Shiite cleric issues a fatwa declaring U.S. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu "enemies of God".

From The Times Of Israel, an 82-year-old woman dies from injuries suffered in a Molotov cocktail attack while attending a rally for Israeli hostage in Boulder, Colorado.

From Sp!ked, the U.K.'s Labour Party wants to ban criticism of Islam.

From Gatestone Institute, "obliterating" Iran's nuclear facilities is insufficient.

From Radio Free Asia, the Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday.

From The Stream, has Trump's policy toward Syria been unveiled?

From The Daily Signal, the web of activist groups who support Hamas, Iran, and riots against ICE.

From The American Conservative, a review of the book British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony.

From The Western Journal, according to an op-ed column, Trump has earned the Nobel Peace Prize.

From ABC News, a man believed to have shot several firefights in Idaho, killing two of them, is identified and found dead.  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, a man jumps in to save his young daughter after she falls overboard on a Disney Dream cruise.

From The Daily Wire, the American medical establishment's stubborn refusal to reconsider transgender procedures for minors.

From the Daily Caller, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany brings her third child into the world.

From the New York Post, please use bear spray only on bears.

From Breitbart, PolitiFact claims that the aforementioned Zohran Mamdani is not a communist, but he disagrees.

From Newsmax, the Supreme Court rejects ExxonMobil's appeal of a $14.25 million civil penalty imposed over the air pollution from its refinery in Baytown, Texas.

And from The Babylon Bee, San Francisco's Pride parade is followed closely by a Disinfectant parade.

A Returning Sasquatch's Sunday Dozen

Now that I've returned from my most recent undisclosed location on a sunny a very warm and sunny Sunday, here are 12 things going on:

From The Jerusalem Post, a pro-HamasPalestinian group screams "Hamas are coming" at a fundraiser attended by Israeli former hostage Noa Argamani.

From Fox News, three facts about the Iranian regime's obsession with acquiring nuclear weapons.

From Gatestone Institute, when a ceasefire prolongs a war.

From The Stream, when Christians took back the Spanish city of Córdoba.

From The Daily Signal, is the title of the movie The War on Children literally true?

From The American Conservative, everything decays and entropy wins.

From TeleSUR, the Colombian House of Representatives passes President Gustavo Petro's proposed pension reforms.

From TCW Defending Freedom, there's a hostile country in the middle of England.

From American Thinker, current threats to freedom show the genius of America's Founding Fathers.

From Townhall, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) comes out against the existence of billionaires.

From FrontpageMag, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wonders what good is the U.S. Constitution.

And from The Washington Free Beacon, the ballad of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Saturday Stuff

On a very warm and sunny Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a coalition of Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim parents in Maryland wins at the Supreme Court.

From FrontpageMag, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) visits the mosque where an imam had prayed that Allah would "guide the shooting" by Hamas.

From Townhall, former Vice President Harris loses some support for the 2028 Democratic nomination.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump updates the Nixon Doctrine.

From American Thinker, the strike against Iran worked, which is precisely the left's problem.

From NewsBusters, The New York Times cites poor polling for Trump on Iran, but made excuses for then-President Obama on Libya.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a registered nurse recounts being subjected to a "four-year inquisition" for writing the truth about coronavirus vaccine data.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the U.K. having a heat wave or just different thermometers?

From AMU, the Taliban ban photography and videography on the campus of Kandahar University.

From The Times Of India, several Muslim groups in India come out against Zumba dance in schools, after which Kerala state Education Minister R Bindu points out that "we're not in the Middle Ages".

From Gatestone Institute, bravo to U.S. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for doing what the world failed to do.

From The Stream, when the Crusaders won the Battle of Antioch, perhaps miraculously.

From The Daily Signal, Trump has three major foreign policy wins in a week.

From The American Conservative, the race for New York City mayor is wide open.

From The Western Journal, an Egyptian traveler is kicked out of the U.S. after kicking a Customs and Border Protection beagle who smelled prohibited cargo in his luggage.

From BizPac Review, Trump reminds Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei that he saved him from a "very ugly" death.

From The Daily Wire, GE Appliances decides to move its washing machine production from China to Kentucky.

From the Daily Caller, Trump decides to go after government leakers.

From Breitbart, three crewmembers who worked on the production of the movie Rust settle their lawsuit against its producers and actor Alec Baldwin.

And from the New York Post, New York City plans to deploy anti-drone drones.

Friday Fuss

On a warm (but less hot than recently) and cloudy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Supreme Court provides some welcome restraint on nationwide injunctions from district courts.

From FrontpageMag, the allegedly "genocidal" Israelis save the life of a Syrian girl.

From Townhall, almost 200 Democrat congresscritters refuse to condemn anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to columnist Masha Gessen of The New York Times, attacks on Jews in Boulder, Colorado and Washington, D.C. were "political", not anti-Semitic.

From the Washington Examiner, former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and three other former aides to then-President Biden are swept in the House Oversight Committee's autopen inquiry.  (When I went to the WE yesterday, its articles were behind a paywall, but I could freely access at least this one today.  Why this has happened, I have no idea.)

From The Federalist, University of Virginia President Jim Ryan, allegedly a big DEI supporter, resigns.

From American Thinker, why American left-wingers are in big trouble.

From MRCTV, the World Health Organization redefines "healthcare" to include abortion.

From NewsBusters, where's the new "Great Depression" that the media were griping about this past April?

From Canada Free Press, more on the aforementioned Supreme Court ruling against nationwide injunctions.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the mainstream media can't stop demonizing coronavirus vaccine skeptics.

From EuroNews, according to President Vladimir Putin, Russia is ready for a new round of peace talks with Ukraine.

From Free West Media, Israeli soldiers in Gaza tell the media outlet Haaretz that they were ordered to fire on Gazans near aid distribution sites.

From ReMix, the German Bundestag suspends family reunification for some migrants, but according to AfD party co-leader Alice Weidel, very little will change.

From Balkan Insight, the state court of Bosnia and Herzegovina jails a man for planning a terror attack on a mosque in the city of Zenica.

From The North Africa Post, the U.S imposes sanctions on Sudan for allegedly attacking civilians with chemical weapons.

From The New Arab, a woman reportedly kills her two children and then dives into the Nile in Giza, Egypt.

From Arutz Sheva, Iranian security forces raid the homes of Jews in the cities of Tehran, Shiraz, and Isfahan.

From Gatestone Institute, how globalists wage war on the planet.

From Radio Free Asia, a pro-democracy party in Hong Kong disbands due to pressure from the Chinese government.

From The Stream, according to the U.N., noticing Muslim attacks on Christians is "Islamophobic".

From The Daily Signal, 128 Democrat congresscritters reject the latest effort to impeach President Trump.

From The American Conservative, the freakout over New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D).

From The Western Journal, Mamdani calls for shifting more of New York's tax burden onto "white neighborhoods".

From BizPac Review, a world renowned economist changes his tune about Trump's tariffs.

From The Daily Wire, climate activists come out against having dogs.

From the Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, Democrats can't get themselves to admit the obvious about former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

From the New York Post, before an investigation by the Trump administration, the University of California system required DEI training including the idea that "equality isn't actually fair".

From Breitbart, stocks reach record highs and inflation "stays cool".

From Newsmax, Trump calls for Iran to allow international inspection to make sure that it doesn't restart its nuclear program.

And from SFGate, a pho restaurant in Menlo Park, California is added to the Michelin Guide's bib gourmand list.  (If you're wondering what pho is, go here.)

Thursday Tidings

On a hot and sunny Thursday, both at home and here at my undisclosed locations, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Supreme Court upholds South Carolina's right to defund Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood in its state Medicaid programs.  (Since PAOP is a private organization, it has no right to receive even one red cent of taxpayer money.)

From FrontpageMag, an anti-Israel socialist wins the Democratic primary for New York City mayor.

From Townhall, President Trump's triumphs.  (Come to think of it, you need "trump" to spell "triumph".)

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, Israel and the U.S. are monitoring Iran and are ready to renew strikes against it if necessary.  (Yes, his name and his country's name are both "Israel".)

From The Federalist, Republican congresscritters subpoena a former aide to then-President Joe Biden and then-First Lady Jill Biden.

From American Thinker, the Chicago version of illegal immigration.

From MRCTV, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exposes how the Biden administration sent migrant children to abusers and traffickers.

From NewsBusters, the media go Sergeant Schultz over the far left while panicking over the "far right".  (I'd still like someone to explain the difference between "right" and "far right" on any given issue.)

From Canada Free Press, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is all but lost in U.S. President Trump's shadow at the NATO summit.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. should quit the European Court of Human Rights.

From Snouts in the Trough, China's "tofu construction" problem.

From EuroNews, the International Space Station receives its first astronauts from Poland, Hungary and India.

From Free West Media, did Iran win the twelve-day war against Israel and the U.S.?

From ReMix, an Afghan illegal alien asylum seeker in Wangen, Germany stabs a police officer, thus making his last mistake.

From Balkan Insight, according to U.N. Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor, human rights activists are "demonized" in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From The North Africa Post, Libya's National Oil Cooperation and Turkey's state-run energy company sign a memorandum of understanding.

From The New Arab, survivors of torture inflicted under the regime of President Bashar al-Assad seek justice and medical care.

From Gatestone Institute, is Europe heading toward jihadist pogroms?

From Radio Free Asia, thanks to a secret deal between the Laotian government and a U.K. tobacco company, Laos has some of the world's least expensive cigarettes.

From The Stream, how Hamas's grip on power stalls humanitarian aid and imperils Gazans.

From The Daily Signal, what then-President Jefferson did about hostile judges.

From The American Conservative, the right has a golden opportunity due to radical judges.

From The Western Journal, left-wing commentator and former Mr. Bill advisor James Carville warns his fellow Democrats not to cheer just yet after Zohran Mamdani wins New York City's mayoral primary election.

From BizPac Review, New York state Assemblyman Matt Slater (R) dismantles congresscritter AOC's (D-NY) "Bronx girl" act with one yearbook photo.

From The Daily Wire, more about the Supreme Court's ruling against Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood.

From the Daily Caller, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee seeks to oust congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY).

From the New York Post, anti-Jeff Bezos protesters unfurl a large banner as guests to his wedding start arriving in Venice, Italy.

From Breitbart, U.K. police explain to illegal aliens asylum seekers that they should not sexually abuse women.

From Newsmax, the Department of Justice investigates the University of California for its DEI hiring.

And from The Babylon Bee, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth promises that the military will not discriminate against chicks, broads, or dames.  (The military has welcomed dames for a long time.)