By Brian C. Joondeph

Once seen as a taboo word in American politics, socialism has experienced a notable resurgence, especially among young voters. Polls show that more than half of millennials and Gen Zers now view socialism favorably. Politicians like Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have transformed what was once a fringe ideology into a highly popular political movement.

Even more troubling, they’ve achieved this not through real policy solutions but by promoting a utopian fantasy rooted in grievance, entitlement, and historical ignorance.

Socialism is a system of “governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.” No truly socialist society has achieved a level of plenty or freedom comparable to America.

A Cato/YouGov survey conducted in March found that “62 percent of American adults under 30 say they hold favorable views of socialism.” Rasmussen Reports observed a similar sentiment this past May, with 50% of voters under 30 indicating they want a democratic socialist to win the next presidential election.

Why are so many young Americans falling for it?

To be clear, this movement isn’t rooted in careful study of history or economics. It’s fueled by emotion rather than reason. It thrives because too many young people have been raised to believe that discomfort equals injustice and that government is the answer to every problem.

Today’s young adults have grown up in a culture that promotes victimhood instead of resilience. From K-12 schools to college campuses, they have been taught that life is unfair, that capitalism is oppressive, and others—corporations, the wealthy, or “the system”—cause their struggles.

They’re told that if they can’t afford a house, it’s due to capitalism. If they have student debt, it’s because they’ve been “exploited.” If they feel anxious or unfulfilled, it must be because of inequality or climate change. In this worldview, personal responsibility is an afterthought, and government redistribution is viewed as the ultimate solution.

Enter socialism, stage left.

It’s no coincidence that today’s youth know more about TikTok trends than about the gulags of the Soviet Union or the starvation in Mao’s China. Schools have stopped teaching the harsh truths about socialism’s brutal legacy. Instead, they focus on sanitized stories about “equity,” “social justice,” and “collective good,” often blending them with moral superiority and “safe spaces” for those who are easily offended.

This isn’t just a failure of the education system; it’s a deliberate ideological project. Young people aren’t truly being educated. Instead, they’re being indoctrinated to believe that capitalism is the problem, not the answer.

Critics often point out economic issues like increasing student debt, rising housing costs, and stagnant wages as failures of capitalism. However, the irony is that many of these problems are actually made worse by government interference, not market forces.

A few generations ago, few, if any, students graduated with significant educational debt. A middle-class family lived in a home, had two cars, a stay-at-home mom, and could pay the bills as well as save.

The federal government subsidized student loans and drove up tuition costs. Local governments limit housing through zoning and regulations. Inflation? Blame the government’s focus on spending and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies.

Capitalism didn’t fail. It was undermined by bureaucrats, regulators, and central planners. Now, the same group that caused the problems claims they will fix them by increasing their own power. That’s not progress; it’s a power grab.

As we see with Big Pharma, the government creates the problem and then sells the cure, except that the solution is often worse than the original problem.

One of the left’s favorite tactics is pointing to countries like Sweden and Denmark as “proof” that socialism works. However, these countries are not socialist. They have capitalist economies with high taxes and generous welfare systems, supported by a strong work ethic, homogeneous populations, and increasingly strict immigration controls, factors the American left would never endorse.

In Denmark, the top marginal income tax rate is 55%. Additionally, there is a 25% VAT on nearly all goods and services. The high taxes on income and spending support generous welfare benefits, maternity leave, subsidized housing, and more.

Try replicating that model here, with our open borders, declining labor participation, and cultural fragmentation, and you’ll end up with Venezuela or Cuba, not Stockholm or Helsinki.

What’s most concerning is that socialism is no longer viewed as a radical idea. It has been rebranded and marketed to young people as kind, fair, and compassionate. But socialism, even in its “democratic” form, is fundamentally coercive. It expands government power, limits economic freedom, and suppresses dissent. History shows where it ultimately leads – shortages, stagnation, and government surveillance.

New York City could soon resemble Havana if residents elect Democrat socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor. Mamdani campaigned on a platform that included a “$30 minimum wage, tax hikes on businesses and the rich, and other policies like creating city-owned grocery stores and imposing a rent freeze for stabilized tenants.”

The left isn’t giving young people independence. It’s offering dependence with a smile—a life where the government pays your bills but also controls your future. Or as the World Economic Forum promises, “you will own nothing and you will be happy.”

The solution isn’t to shout, “communism bad” and walk away. It’s to engage, educate, and expose the lie. Conservatives must explain, clearly and confidently, why capitalism is the most moral and effective system ever devised. It rewards merit, encourages innovation, and protects freedom.

We also need to stop surrendering the culture war. This involves reforming education, fighting ideological bias in the media and universities, and encouraging young Americans to see themselves not as victims of the system, but as capable individuals responsible for their own future.

America’s future is at risk. Only 36% of Democrats feel extremely or very proud to be American, down from 80% a decade ago. Among young Americans, the Gen Zers, only 24% are proud to be American, compared to 32% who have little or no pride.

In contrast, 92% of Republicans are proud to be American, a number slightly higher than it was ten years ago.

Nature abhors a vacuum. When half the country hates America, they will gladly embrace something very un-American, namely, socialism.

Socialism flourishes when honesty is absent. Our duty is to speak the truth openly and confidently. Because if we don’t, we could soon live in a country where freedom isn’t the norm but the exception.

Brian C Joondeph, MD, is a physician and writer.

Trump says he’s considering revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship, reigniting decadeslong feud

By Donald Judd, CNN

 2 minute read 

Updated 4:18 PM EDT, Sat July 12, 2025

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President Donald Trump reignited a decadeslong feud with comedian Rosie O’Donnell on Saturday, taking to his Truth Social platform to write he was considering revoking her citizenship.

“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown Law, said Saturday that Trump’s threat of “coercive expatriation” was “patently unconstitutional.”

“For good reasons, it is difficult to denaturalize a U.S. citizen and even harder to expatriate one,” Vladeck wrote in April. “Congress has provided for only a handful of circumstances in which the executive branch is empowered to pursue such a move; and the Supreme Court has recognized meaningful constitutional limits (and an entitlement to meaningful judicial review) even in those cases.”

CNN has reached out to the White House about what prompted the president’s threat — but O’Donnell drew attention last weekend after she posted a video to TikTok slamming the Trump administration’s response to the Texas floods, claiming the president “gut all of the early warning systems and the weathering‑forecast abilities of the government,” stymying the federal response.

O’Donell moved to Ireland shortly before Trump’s inauguration in January, telling CNN in April that Trump’s reelection prompted the move.

“I knew after reading Project 2025 that if Trump got in, it was time for me and my nonbinary child to leave the country,” she told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown. “I have no regrets. Not a day has gone by that I thought it was the wrong decision. I was welcomed with open arms.”

Responding to the president’s post Saturday, O’Donnell wrote on Instagram, “you want to revoke my citizenship? go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. i’m not yours to silence. i never was.”

Trump and O’Donnell have clashed since at least 2006, after O’Donell — then a co-host of “The View” — called Trump a “snake-oil salesman on Little House On The Prairie,” and said he went bankrupt, which Trump denied.

For his part, Trump has called O’Donnell “a real loser,” “crude, rude, obnoxious, and dumb,” and “a pig” over the years

Progressive politics may promise empowerment, but for many liberal women, the result appears to be rising misery and isolation.

A growing body of data points to a clear trend: liberal women are statistically the most dissatisfied and mentally unwell demographic in the country, and experts say it may have more to do with worldview than circumstance.

According to a 2024 survey from the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), just 12% of liberal women aged 18-40 report being “completely satisfied” with their lives.

In contrast, 37% of conservative women in the same age group report full satisfaction, a difference that speaks volumes.

The findings come from the 2024 American Family Survey, which also shows that liberal women are two to three times more likely to say they are “not satisfied” with their lives.

Marriage and faith, two traditional anchors of community and stability, may play a key role in the satisfaction divide.

56% of conservative women in the study are married, while only 37% of liberal women are.

Church attendance reflects a similar gap: 53% of conservative women attend religious services weekly, compared to just 12% of liberal women.

That detachment from relational and spiritual communities may be fueling widespread loneliness.

Nearly 30% of liberal women report frequent loneliness, while only 11% of conservatives say the same.

“These women are lacking key support systems that help weather life’s inevitable challenges,” said Brad Wilcox, a senior fellow at IFS.

“We’ve seen in the research that conservative women tend to be more likely to embrace a sense of agency and to have the sense that they are not, in any way, the victim of larger structural realities or forces.

“They’re also less likely to catastrophize about public events and concerns and more likely to think of themselves as captains of their own fate.”

This isn’t a new development. A 2020 Pew Research study found that 56% of young liberal white women had been diagnosed with a mental health condition, compared to fewer than 30% of moderate or conservative women.

Cognitive psychologist Jonathan Haidt traces the issue to a culture of “catastrophizing,” a mental habit of exaggerating negative outcomes, often amplified by social media and activist narratives.

“Once you equate words with guns, you’re closer to hell than salvation,” Haidt warned.

Journalist Matt Yglesias also noted the link between heavy social media use and negative cognitive patterns that mimic clinical depression:

“Mentally processing ambiguous events with a negative spin mirrors depression,” he explained.

That tendency toward pessimism has implications for electoral politics as well.

Political analyst Nate Silver argued that the Democratic Party’s messaging, shaped by its increasingly anxious, predominantly female base, may be turning off male voters.

“I think an underrated factor in the ‘how can Democrats win back young men’ debate is the effects of personality, which differ especially among younger voters,” Silver noted.

A cultural rejection of traditional roles may also be contributing to the crisis.

A 2024 analysis by Evie Magazine argued that dismissing marriage and motherhood as “oppressive” leaves many progressive women isolated from relationships that offer meaning, support, and long-term joy.

Haidt has argued that modern feminism’s emphasis on systemic oppression may backfire, trapping women in a cycle of resentment and helplessness.

Feminism’s focus on systemic oppression can backfire,” he said.

“It may create a generation trapped in a cycle of entitlement and empathy deficits.”

The broader shift among Gen Z toward an external locus of control.

The belief that one’s life is controlled by outside forces has also been tied to rising anxiety and depression.

This has especially been the case since the explosion of social media in the early 2010s.

Progressive campus policies may only worsen the trend.

Greg Lukianoff, co-author with Haidt of The Coddling of the American Mind, has warned that safe spaces, trigger warnings, and ideological echo chambers act as “reverse cognitive behavioral therapy,” validating fear and fragility instead of fostering strength and resilience.

For liberal women, the data suggests that politics may be part of the problem, not the solution.

David Lindfield, Slay

Deja Foxx celebrated her April birthday in a way most 25-year-olds don’t. The extra candle meant she was now eligible to represent Arizona in Congress, and Foxx marked the occasion with a fundraiser.

She’s part of a wide-ranging group of young Democratic candidates, many running to replace older incumbents, who have grown restless waiting for their turn to lead their party back to power.

After a crushing 2024 election loss, they say the party desperately needs a rebranding — and young leaders should steer it.

In southern Arizona on Tuesday, Foxx is one of several Democrats hoping to step into a deep blue seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Raúl Grijalva, a longtime political power broker in Tucson. He had become one of the most senior lawmakers on Capitol Hill over two decades in Congress. Grijalva’s daughter, Adelita, is one of the contenders, and three Republicans are vying in the GOP primary.

But the push for younger leaders won’t end there. In next year’s midterm elections, primary challengers have already begun to emerge in states like California and Indiana that will give Democratic voters choices between longtime lawmakers and younger candidates.

In Georgia, for example, 80-year-old Democratic Rep. David Scott’s decades-long legacy could end with a primary he’s expected to join. This has drawn challengers fed up with his refusal to step aside despite years of concern about his declining health and rare public appearances. The primary got crowded almost a year after former President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 election race amid similar scrutiny over his age.

Challenging well-connected candidates can be daunting, but progressive leaders say the moment calls for urgency.

“Passing of the torch implies the leaders are handing it off,” said Amanda Litman, head of a group called Run for Something that bolsters progressive young candidates. “What we’re seeing right now is, the new generation is taking the torch. They’re not waiting for it to be passed.”

Many Boomer and Gen Z candidates alike have largely abandoned the traditional playbook of spending millions on TV ads in favor of TikTok and social media. But it’s a pivot that older political hands would recognize from an older playbook: meeting voters where they are.

Foxx, a digital strategist, led influencer strategy for Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign bid. On TikTok, she speaks to nearly 400,000 followers, saying she’d be the first woman of “our” generation elected to Congress. In 2022, Florida voters elected the generation’s first congressman — Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost. The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC, which Frost co-chairs, has endorsed Adelita Grijalva.

Foxx has leaned into popular Gen Z internet slang in branding her district tour “Crashout or Congress.”

“Does the news make you feel like you’re about to crash out? Be honest,” Foxx posted.

Foxx said her campaign turned a corner after a primary debate in late May, when some clips of her performance drew the eyes of millions and helped spark a fundraising boost.

If Scott seeks another term in his suburban Atlanta district, he’ll face several candidates in the Democratic primary next May: microbiologist and state Rep. Jasmine Clark, 42; state Sen. Emanuel Jones, 66; and 33-year-old Everton Blair, former chair of the state’s largest school district. Scott’s campaign did not respond to requests for an interview.

Clark racked up 7,000 TikTok followers after a popular influencer reposted her. She occasionally pops in with solutions to people’s problems on NextDoor and is sometimes recognized as a podcast host instead of a state representative. She says Republicans have done a better job at saturating social media with their messaging.

“Instead of looking at Republicans and wagging our fingers at them, we could take some lessons from them,” she said.

Voters have been crushed by high living costs, Clark said, but Republicans, not Democrats, have been the ones to tell people their pain is real — even though Democrats have better ideas for fixing things.

Blair agreed that Democrats have better policy prescriptions for addressing voters’ economic concerns, but he said too many longtime lawmakers have stifled the party’s ability to get that message across. He said President Donald Trump is fattening the wallets of billionaires but cheating low- and middle-income voters “out of the American dream.”

“We have an incumbent who is just not doing the job, and we need a better fighter,” Blair said. “The stakes are just too high.”

Young people have grown up in a political climate dominated by algorithms, said 21-year-old Akbar Ali, first vice chair of the Democratic Party in Gwinnett County, home to some of Scott’s district. That gives them a built-in understanding of how information spreads today, he said, but doesn’t replace on-the-ground outreach to voters of all ages.

He said Scott’s physical absence is palpable, both in the community and as a voice in Congress.

“A lot of people are upset on a national level because we can’t hit back with enough vigor.” he said.

Adelita Grijalva carries a household name in Tucson and is regarded as the frontrunner. To Foxx, Grijalva benefits from her “legacy” last name.

Grijalva, who has received several endorsements, including from Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, has pushed back. She said she brings her own credentials to the table. Her father was progressive and antiestablishment, and she said she is, too.

But Foxx, who benefited personally from some government programs the Trump administration has slashed or is looking to slash, said Democrats need to do more to reach new voters.

“We are bringing people into this party, into this democracy, who have felt left out — by and large young people and working-class folks,” Foxx said.

In New York City, 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani recently won the mayor’s race with an upbeat campaign that leaned heavily on TikTok and emphasized finding new ways to make city life more affordable.

In an era where so many young people doubt they’ll ever be better off than their parents, they’re increasingly willing to ditch pragmatism for bold policy platforms, said David Hogg.

Hogg was removed from his leadership role with the Democratic National Committee, which said his election broke party rules. His decision not to run again followed his push to oust long-serving Democrats in safe congressional seats. He has not backed away from his vow to primary “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats with fresher faces.

People of all ages want a fighter who understands what’s at stake as Trump cuts Medicaid and other programs that millions of Americans rely on, Hogg said. That’s why his political action committee, Leaders We Deserve, endorsed Foxx.

Young voters were key to Democratic wins in recent years, but some swung to the right as Trump made gains in 2024. Hogg said he’s looking for candidates to “win them back” by talking about how change happens.

Older candidates can do that too, he said, but for better or worse, young people aren’t yet “jaded” by politics.

“In this dark moment, we need people who can provide us a general sense of hope, as crazy that can feel sometimes,” Hogg said. “To believe that maybe things won’t be as screwed up as they are now forever.”

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon raised eyebrows this week with comments he made Friday regarding Democrats and their ability to navigate the “real world.”

“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed,” Dimon said during a foreign ministry event in Dublin, Ireland.

Dimon has long supported Democrats but the leftward lurch of the party on social issues such as diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts has forced him to speak out. “We all were devoted to reaching out to the Black community, Hispanic, the LGBT community, the disabled — we do all of that. But the extent, they gotta stop it. And they gotta go back to being more practical. They’re very ideological,” he said.

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A registered Democrat, Dimon has been comfortable supporting President Donald Trump’s policies even if they go against the majority in his party. The president’s on-again, off-again stance on tariffs has some in the financial world coin the phrase “TACO,” or “Trump Always Chickens Out.” Dimon has said he doesn’t support the pejorative and has insisted the president has been correct in reversing course on tariffs in some cases.

The separation between Dimon and his fellow Democrats extends well beyond DEI and Trump. The JPMorgan Chase CEO often took issue with the Biden administration and their “lack of knowledge” regarding fundamental business strategy. When far-left socialist Zohran Mamdani secured the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, Dimon described his policies as being “the same ideological mush that means nothing in the real world.”

Dimon has performed an ideological balancing act over the years having given campaign contributions to both Republicans and Democrats. His recent remarks echo his own self critique in 2019 when said, “My heart is Democratic but my brain is kind of Republican,” expressing a desire to blend social liberalism with fiscal conservatism.

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Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Penn., told Newsmax on Friday that legislators should continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump that occurred almost one year ago.

On July 13, 2024, a gunman fired at Trump from a rooftop while the then-former president was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooter was quickly killed by the Secret Service, which recently suspended six agency for failures related to the incident.

Reschenthaler, speaking to “Wake Up America” just a few days before the one-year anniversary of the incident, said, “in retrospect, it’s amazing how fast the media moved off the assassination attempt.”

He added “We still don’t know too much about Matthew Thomas Crooks at all. How did a [20]-year-old kid have the wherewithal to do this? Why did he not have any social media profile at all? Anybody that knows a teenage kid now, they live on social media. What’s going on with that?”

The congressman also questioned the Secret Service’s comments about the situation, specifically the claim by the agency that they were unable to place a person on top of the roof where Crooks fired the shots because the steepness presented a safety concern.

“That building in particular has a sloped roof, at its highest point,” former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said in an interview that aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in July of last year. “And so, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”

Reschenthaler said, “Why are we told that that roof was too steep to put Secret Service on … when we know it wasn’t that steep, because when Crooks was shot, his body didn’t roll off the roof, it stayed on the roof. So how steep could it have been?”

He added that there are “tons of questions. We need to look more into it.”

The congressman also criticized the Biden administration for not conducting proper oversight of the Secret Service after the incident, saying, “You don’t have any other consequences until now.”

“I feel like there was very little oversight by the Biden administration on what went wrong that day,” he said.

Certainly it does raise a red flag when you don’t have anybody except Cheatle” leave the agency.

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JP Morgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon on Thursday blasted the Democrat Party for being too devoted to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed,” Dimon said.

The JP Morgan chief executive has said that too many American companies focused too much time and energy with DEI and that the banking company he led would pull back its focus on these topics.

“They overdid DEI,” Dimon said, noting that he refers to himself as “barely a Democrat.”

He added, “We all were devoted to reaching out to the Black community, Hispanic, the LGBT community, the disabled — we do all of that. But the extent, they gotta stop it. And they gotta go back to being more practical. They’re very ideological.”

Dimon said that former President Joe Biden “didn’t have one business person” advising him and that he was “speechless about the lack of knowledge” in the administration.

Bloomberg continued:

The JPMorgan CEO’s criticism of the Democratic Party extended to the mayoral race in New York, where his bank is based. Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old assemblyman and democratic socialist, won the Democratic primary after vowing to freeze rents, make city buses free and create city-owned grocery stores.

“This guy just got elected — he’s more of a Marxist than a socialist, and now you see these Democrats falling all over themselves saying, ‘Well, he’s pointing out some real problems, affordable housing and grocery prices.’ OK, maybe,” Dimon continued. “There’s the same ideological mush that means nothing in the real world.”

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Tyrants like Obama-Hillary Deep State henchman John Brennan love to talk about “democracy.” In their sociopathic lexicon, “democracy” is code for “What I want.” They actually rather like democracy. As totalitarian elitists with media and schools uncritically behind them, they’re confident they can get a lot of stupid people on their side in order for them to acquire the unearned wealth, power and attention they so crave.

When they’re unsuccessful at doing so, as in the elections of 2016 and 2024, they’re confident in their ability to sustain or recover power through deception and rigging the outcomes, as they have managed in most other elections (most notably 2020 and 2022). That’s why it’s important to try, convict and thoroughly punish these loathsome enemies of individual liberty. Because unless we the people stop them, they will keep doing it.

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“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” — Hannah Arendt

We live in an era of global socialism, self-conscious woke “sensitivity” and all the rest of the crap … and never have we witnessed less empathy. She nailed it.

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Jewish Democrat lawmakers on Capitol Hill are sounding the alarm on Democratic Socialist New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, pointing to his refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” or recognize Israel as a Jewish state, especially at a time when antisemitism is on the rise in the United States.

Jihad, bread lines, terrorist drag queens and three-families-to-an-apartment social worker enforcement teams are on the verge of taking over New York City…and now Jewish Establishment Democrats are starting to panic.

Too late, leftists. These are your comrades. And you brought it all on yourselves.

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I want to add my $.02 to the excellent piece Ed wrote this morning about the farm raid in California that so exorcised the Democrats. 

You know, the one where a violent “protester” shot at law enforcement, risking everybody around him in the process. 

Democrats were livid at…ICE…apparently for provoking a well-justified armed response from a good citizen who rightly wanted to ensure that the pot farm he was protecting could continue to employ children to harvest the crop. 

Unaccompanied migrant children are doing what amounts to slave labor, and the Democrats are incensed that their pot supply might become more expensive or even be reduced a bit by the federal government rescuing children from abuse. They need a steady supply of illegal aliens to keep their precious industry healthy and productive. 

NEW MEDIA SPIN JUST DROPPED

“ICE forcefully raided a California farm and arrested farmers.”

REALITY: It was a WEED farm exploiting child labor, and ICE agents had rocks thrown and a gun fired at them

You don’t hate the media enough.

Democrats seem obsessed with ensuring that industries that rely on cheap and slave labor thrive. Child slaves in the Congo are reportedly mining with their bare hands the cobalt used in EV batteries, and apparently, pot farms thrive when they use underage, often unaccompanied minors in their fields.

Yes, potheads will attack federal law enforcement to protect their right to cheap cannabis farmed by children

The moral bankruptcy of drug legalizers has never been clearer.

Without the slaves, who will pick the pot? We might have to actually pay people!

From Ed:

The scene left Gavin Newsom outraged. He wasn’t outraged by the shooter, nor the mob that showed up to obstruct federal agents enforcing immigration law. Newsom saved his ire for Trump and his adviser Stephen Miller for taking someone’s “mother” from the “fields”:

“Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields,” the governor wrote in a post accompanied by a video showing people running to avoid tear gas deployed by authorities. “Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum.” …

“Instead of supporting the businesses and workers that drive our economy and way of life, Stephen Miller’s tactics evoke chaos, fear and terror within our communities at every turn,” he wrote. “At Miller’s direction, Trump’s agents continue to detain U.S. citizens and racially profile Americans, ripping families apart and disappearing parents and workers into cruel federal detention centers to meet their self-imposed arrest quotas.”

Ahem. In the first place, despite some uninformed commentary on social media, these were not Strawberry Fields Forever. This was a cannabis farm, which in itself is still technically illegal under federal law. Furthermore, the state of California routinely separates mothers from children when mothers commit crimes, and sometimes violently and in front of those children. It’s called getting arrested, which happens when mommies and daddies violate the law. That also “rips families apart” and puts parents into “detention centers.” How is that any different, except that Newsom doesn’t like the federal laws in question?

Speaking of children, though …

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott responded to Newsom’s post.

“Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility – all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It’s now under investigation for child labor violations,” Scott wrote.

Newsom was fine with the shooting, apparently. It was entirely justified since ICE was trying to enforce a law he happens to find inconvenient. California needs those children to pick the crops, you know. And what about the gardeners, and the people who we need to wipe our a$$es?

BREAKING 🚨 Trump said “300,000 children went MISSING under Joe Biden” and They have already saved 10,000 of them

“We’re getting them back by the THOUSANDS”

AMEN 🙏

pic.twitter.com/heou5LKp8j— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) July 11, 2025

As I have written several times this week, the Democrats are calling for blood. Literally, as Axios reported–they are calling for gunfire and what amounts to revolution–and politicians like Newsom are egging them on. Any bad thing that happens is Trump’s fault, you see. 

🚨 BREAKING: The weed farm that was raided by ICE agents yesterday is a donor for Gavin Newsom.

It’s now officially under investigation for child labor violations.

Hakeem Jeffries smirked when asked about fellow Democrats declaring open season on Republicans and Trump–after all, their anger is totally justified because Trump is Orange. 

NEW: The President of Glasshouse Farms, which had two cannabis farms raided by ICE & Border Patrol in Camarillo yesterday, has donated thousands of dollars to Democrats in California, including $10,000 to Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2018.
Story:

@cameron_arcand https://t.co/tl3LH6j6EJ— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 11, 2025

Democrats are the party of Luigi Mangione and Antifa. 

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The federal government posted an unexpected budget surplus in June, fueled by a sharp rise in tariff revenues and higher-than-anticipated tax receipts, marking a notable vindication for President Donald Trump’s economic strategy.

The $27 billion surplus reported Friday by the Treasury Department stood in stark contrast to forecasts for a $50 billion deficit, representing one of the largest upside surprises in recent budget data.

Monthly surpluses typically occur in April, when many Americans file their taxes. Surpluses are also common in January and September. A June surplus is highly unusual.

Much of the improvement stemmed from a 301 percent increase in tariff collections compared to June of last year. Customs duties totaled $27 billion in June, up from $23 billion in May and more than quadruple the $6.7 billion collected a year earlier. For the fiscal year to date, tariff revenues have reached $113 billion, an 86% increase over the same period in 2024.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that he expects tariffs to bring in as much as $300 billion in revenues this year.

The surge follows Mr. Trump’s sweeping 10 percent universal tariff on imports implemented in April, as well as a growing array of reciprocal duties aimed at specific trading partners. Administration officials have pointed to the June surplus as evidence that the new trade regime is strengthening federal finances without imposing the widespread inflationary pressure critics once warned about.

Receipts overall rose 13 percent from the prior year, driven in part by quarterly corporate tax payments. At the same time, federal outlays fell 7 percent, contributing to the favorable monthly balance. The June surplus followed a $316 billion deficit in May.

Through the first nine months of the fiscal year that started on October 1, the federal deficit stands at $1.34 trillion, up 5 percent from the prior year. But the Treasury noted that, after accounting for calendar shifts, the adjusted deficit is down 1 percent year-over-year—a notable development at a time when interest payments are consuming a larger share of federal spending.

In June alone, net interest payments on the $36 trillion national debt totaled $84 billion, second only to Social Security outlays. Cumulative interest costs for the year have reached $749 billion, with full-year totals projected to top $1.2 trillion. President Trump has criticized the Fed for holding interest rates too high, adding to the cost of debt service.

John Carney, Breitbart