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GOVERNMENT-SUBSIDIZED GETAWAYS

The nation’s capital has a remarkable talent for creating problems and then racing to clean up the consequences.

The latest example comes courtesy of Lime, the bright green electric scooter and bike company that have become as ubiquitous on the D.C. streets as the unruly teens who ride them.

In recent months, the scooters have been used as getaway vehicles in a string of robberies and assaults, as teenage suspects use them in service of their shenanigans.

Of course, the same city that can’t get its youth crime problem under control is also subsidizing these vehicles.

Now we’re supposed to applaud Lime for apparently using Artificial Intelligence to crack down on the issue.

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THE DEMOCRACY REPLACEMENT PROJECT

The Democratic Socialists of America have a few ideas for saving American democracy.

Get rid of the Senate. Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the presidency and Supreme Court with institutions subordinate to Congress.

And while we’re at it, write a new Constitution.

These aren’t accusations of a right-wing conspiracy. They’re proposals from the DSA’s own political program.

The insanity doesn’t stop there. Independent researcher Jennica Pounds, better known as , has spent the past several days releasing what she calls The Democracy Files, an investigation into a network of activists, former federal officials and nonprofit organizations allegedly preparing to challenge the legitimacy of the federal government.

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THANKS, BUT WE’LL TAKE IT FROM HERE

Our tech overlords have an incredible business model:

1. Invent a product that promises to revolutionize human life.

2. Discover—or acknowledge—that the revolution could come with disastrous consequences.

3. Keep developing and selling the product anyway.

4. Graciously offer to help humanity clean up the mess.

Apparently, the solution to every problem created by technology is more technology. And when that doesn’t work, there’s always philanthropy.

Consider two revealing developments from the tech world this week.

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THE FUTURE IS CUCKED

Apple has unveiled its vision for the future of the American family and it’s … very, very bleak.

In an advertisement for the HomeView, Apple’s new $299 smart home device, the tech giant introduces us to a family of helpless suburban liberals who can’t cook breakfast, find their car keys, or organize rides to school without the help of a robot.

The chaotic, anxiety-inducing three minute spot is the Big Tech equivalent of Uncut Gems or Marty Supreme. No one watches those films and wants to be the main character. In fact, they leave the theater exceptionally grateful to be literally anybody else.

And yet Apple seems to think we’ll watch three minutes of an insufferable family careening toward a collective nervous breakdown and say, “Gee, I wish that were my life.”

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GOD SAVE THE GRAVY TRAIN

If I knew tennis elbow could qualify you for a new car every three years, I might have considered moving across the pond.

Minnesota, it turns out, doesn’t have a monopoly on absurd welfare scams.

According to a new Wall Street Journal investigation, Britain’s government-backed disability programs have grown so expansive that people with wheat intolerance and dyslexia are qualifying for taxpayer-subsidized car leases, while one woman who claimed debilitating anxiety collected monthly checks and went ziplining in Cancún.

The total cost of these programs has ballooned to the point that Britain now spends roughly a third more on sickness and disability benefits than it does on national defense.

And politicians can’t figure out how to put the genie back in the bottle.

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DON’T BE MEAN TO CLANKERS

Our tech overlords have moved on from the systematic destruction of humanity to a new crisis: people being mean to their chatbots.

Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has updated its usage policy to prohibit “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its AI models.

The new policy apparently only applies to people who repeatedly abuse their models for no discernible reason. Normal frustration with your chatbot is still allowed. For now, at least.

The move to protect the chatbots’ feelings comes at a time when Anthropic is openly debating whether or not its AI models are sentient. A recent report revealed that one of the company’s founders privately pressed Pope Leo to soften his encyclical stating that AI is not conscious.

“[W]e don’t know if A.I. models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain,” Chris Olah told the New York Times. “The thing that I care about is that we get to the right answer, whatever it is.”

So the company actively warning that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity without appropriate regulation has already moved on to providing safe spaces for its models.

Very reassuring.

And while Anthropic holds prayer circles to determine if they’ve actually created some kind of higher power, one of the tech industry’s most influential figures is flogging humans who express concerns about where this all is headed.

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WHERE DID ALL THE KIDS GO?

Portland Public Schools told the community this week they’re planning on closing up to 14 schools due to declining enrollment, prompting backlash from parents and students who are furious about the disruption and displacement.

But looking at the numbers, it seems Portland doesn’t have much of a choice.

The school system has lost 6,000 students since 2018, and they expect another 3,400 or so to disappear by 2031.

Portland isn’t the only school district confronting this problem. The Washington Post reports that public schools are closing around the country, partially due to declining birth rates.

Portland is a bit more unique, though, in why enrollment is declining so rapidly.

The city is suffering from a problem of its own creation: families are fleeing, and the ones who stay are pulling their kids out of the public school system.

In other words, families aren’t keen to stay in a city that has become the national poster child for crime, disorder, and progressive governance gone too far.

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THE SHRINKS NEED A SHRINK

The American Psychological Association has elected its next president and her resume offers a pretty good explanation for why more Americans are viewing therapists as political activists with chaise lounges.

Dr. Candice Hargons, a tenured Emory University professor and licensed psychologist, was elected Monday to lead the APA, the country’s largest professional organization for psychologists. She will serve as president-elect in 2027 before taking over as president in 2028.

The announcement video describes Hargon’s work as “advancing liberation-oriented approaches to research, practice and community care.”

If you’re confused about what that means, her academic work offers a helpful instruction manual.

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THE DEATH OF THE GOOD GUEST

Hosting used to be a normal part of American social life. Now it’s becoming a lost art.

In 1975, 42% of Americans said they hosted friends or family in their homes at least once a month. Today, that number is just 12%, according to data cited by The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson.

Thompson offers a handful of explanations for “why Americans stopped hosting dinner parties”: people are busier, more women are in the workforce, parents spend more time with their kids, friendship networks are shrinking, and screens have made staying home alone easier and more entertaining than ever.

All of that is probably true.

But there’s another reason people are hosting less that I think Thompson is missing.

A lot of people have forgotten how to be good guests.

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THE PRICE OF DANGER

Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay $8.25 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of discriminating against residents of two predominantly black neighborhoods in Washington, DC.

The discrimination? Amazon reportedly thought the neighborhoods were too dangerous to send drivers out on deliveries.

But the lawsuit raises a much bigger question about how D.C. officials are serving the very residents they claim Amazon mistreated:

Why did one of the biggest companies in America decide these neighborhoods were too dangerous for its drivers in the first place?

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THE QUESTION NOBODY ASKED

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Tim Scott spent about 30 minutes Wednesday walking reporters through the Senate map and explaining how Republicans intend to hold their majority this November.

He talked about Kansas. Maine. Michigan. Iowa. Texas. Nebraska. Ohio. North Carolina. Ken Paxton. Donald Trump’s popularity. The One Big Beautiful Bill.

He even addressed affordability, calling 2026 “the year of affordability” and arguing that Republicans have an advantage on pocketbook issues like ratepayer protection pledges for data centers and taxes.

But during the Q&A portion of the call, one issue was notably absent from reporters’ question lists: the Iran War.

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A GOP senator went full Leroy Jenkins. Never go full Leroy Jenkins.

SNATCHING DEFEAT

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley dropped several bombs Tuesday on Jack Smith, the special prosecutor under Biden’s DOJ who led the classified documents case against President Donald Trump.

First, documents obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller undercut Smith’s stated pretext for investigating Trump’s retention of classified documents.

Smith originally claimed that after the National Archives’s internal watchdog discovered the documents were at Mar-a-Lago, they sent a criminal referral to the DOJ. However, the new documents show that the National Archives did not consider its notice to the DOJ to be a criminal referral.

Even more stunning, though, was another reveal from Grassley: in the course of his investigation, Smith subpoenaed the checks of nearly 5,000 Trump supporters, including many who gave small-dollar donations to the president.

What exactly was Smith doing with thousands of Trump supporters’ donation checks? Was he perhaps trying to build some kind of sprawling conspiracy or RICO case against the president and his supporters?

Those seem like fairly important questions.

Unfortunately, one GOP senator made such an ass out of himself during the hearing that he managed to pull everyone’s attention away from what actually mattered.

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Are we watching the next campus rape hoax unfold in real time?

DEJA VU

A new college sexual assault scandal has gripped the national consciousness.

It’s a familiar story: a woman files suit alleging a horrific gang rape, accuses her university of failing to protect her and punish her alleged attackers, the media races to amplify the claims, and celebrities and politicians line up to condemn America’s “rape culture.”

I’ve seen this pattern enough times to know it’s worth digging a little deeper.

This case feels oddly similar to other campus rape scandals — the Duke lacrosse case, Rolling Stone’s “UVA rape” story and Columbia’s “Mattress Girl” controversy — where the public narrative raced far ahead of what could actually be established.

Frat bro-esque villains.

A David-v.-Goliath battle between a student and powerful campus administrators and police.

Admittedly fragmented memories of the alleged assault.

A story that changes over time.

And a heckuva lot of money involved.

The Cornell University “gang rape” story checks all of those boxes.

I can’t say with any certainty whether the alleged victim, Jane Doe, is telling the truth about what happened. Nobody outside that room can. But there are already enough contradictions and unanswered questions to make the rush to judgment look incredibly reckless.

So let me walk you through them.

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EVIDENCE OPTIONAL

The racial grievance industrial complex thought it finally had proof of something it has spent years warning black Americans about: being surrounded by white people can get you killed.

Then the evidence came in.

It’s a crazy thing to write but it’s true. After decades of condemning segregation, modern race hustlers increasingly advocate for self-segregation as a form of self-preservation.

Black-only dorms on college campuses. Black-only social groups. Warnings that being the only black person in a room with white people can put you in danger. The idea that Americans need to learn to live together has given way to the more toxic idea that maybe we are better off apart, after all.

That was the premise underlying much of the response to the disappearance of 18-year-old Nolan Wells over Fourth of July weekend.

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FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH

Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico’s spiritual mentor is very mad online.

Jim Rigby has spent the past week popping off on Facebook about the spate of undercover videos of him and other leaders at his church, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian, making some rather extraordinary claims about Christianity.

“Visitors and congregants coming to our first service Sunday had to drive past protestors claiming we aren’t a real church,” Rigby wrote in a post titled “STRANGE TIMES.” “Our services are now visited by rightwing spies with hidden recorders pretending to be visitors.”

Rigby then accused an undercover journalist of deceptively editing his videos to make himself and other leaders in the church “sound heretical.”

What’s amazing, though, is that Rigby then spent the next several days voluntarily offering up even more bizarre statements about his beliefs.

No editing required!

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WOKE 1 AIN’T DEAD YET

When Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez admitted in a recent interview that “Woke 1 was crazy,” it implied that the cancellation-laden, politically correct, #MeToo era of left wing politics was over.

A new article in the Boston Globe reveals just how wrong that assumption was.

Democratic politicians may have mostly learned their lesson on the toxicity of woke after President Donald Trump won over independent young people in the 2024 election. But a not insignificant amount of progressive activists around the country are clinging to Woke 1 for dear life.

Take the Last Ditch Bar & Arts Venue, a “lesbian” bar in Western Massachusetts.

Read on and you’ll understand why “lesbian” is in quotes.

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WHO ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR?

“Sometimes I wish instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me. I never really got the education I wanted.”

That’s the brutal indictment handed down by New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones’s own daughter.

Hannah-Jones, the author of the 1619 Project, admits in her latest article that she deliberately put her daughter in a poorly performing, black-majority public school in service of a larger political cause.

She believed, according to the rather stunning piece, that her influence, wealth and connections could help improve the failing school. Rather than leave poor black children to languish in a broken system, Hannah-Jones reasoned, families like hers had an obligation to stay, invest and help lift the school up with them. Fleeing to a better — but whiter — school would amount to abandoning the people she believed she was fighting for.

Ten years after the start of the experiment, Hannah-Jones realized her daughter was the one who was betrayed.

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Sydney Sweeney is in trouble again!

SEX ISN’T WHAT’S RUINING SPORTS

Sydney Sweeney, the well-endowed actress of Euphoria fame, is catching heat again. This time, people are angry that she posed nude for an ad for Novig, a sports betting platform, with nothing but sports equipment covering her private bits.

Several female athletes publicly blasted the ad.

Olympic swimmer Ariarne Titmus questioned why society is still “monetising a woman’s body,” — the weird spelling is because she’s Australian — while sprinter Amy Hunt argued women’s sports should be about “muscles, hard work, sweat, blood, tears.”

They’re obviously entitled to not like the ad. But they’re actually mad about the wrong thing.

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I was out last week recovering from oral surgery, but I’m back just in time for the Trump administration’s new crackdown on labor discrimination.

WILL AMERICA FIRST APPLY TO BIG TECH?

Disney became emblematic of the dangers of the H1-B program when, in 2015, it laid off hundreds of American tech workers and forced some of them to train their foreign replacements.

A decade later, the Trump administration is finally promising to punish employers who discriminate against Americans in favor of foreign labor — and give workers on the receiving end a way to fight back.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a public service announcement Monday urging Americans who were discriminated against by their employers to contact them.

“That’s national origin discrimination. It’s illegal, and the EEOC is fighting back to protect workers of ALL races who are American,” the EEOC’s X post said.

Vice President JD Vance was even more forceful: “The Trump Administration will hold every corporation accountable for replacing American workers with cheap foreign labor.”

This is the kind of employer-side enforcement I’ve been arguing is essential if an “America First” immigration and labor policy is actually going to mean anything.

But I’m only cautiously optimistic.

Here’s why.

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