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IN TODAY’S DIGEST
- Executive News Summary
- Featured Analysis: The Deadly ‘Trans’ Assault in Minneapolis
- More Analysis
- Reader Comments
- Best of Right Opinion
- Podcast
- Best of Videos
- Short Cuts
- Memes
EXECUTIVE NEWS SUMMARY
The Editors
- CDC director fired after tiff with RFK: Susan Monarez, the recently confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been fired. Monarez refused Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s request for her resignation over vaccine policy disagreements. Monarez’s lawyers released a statement saying the firing was due to her refusal to “rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives.” Several other CDC officials resigned on Wednesday following Monarez’s firing. One of the resignees, Demetre Daskalakis — the head of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases — posted a fiery resignation letter to X, accusing HHS of ignoring the “gold standard” of science at the CDC … before signing off with his pronouns.
- Judge blocks Garcia deportation until October: We wrote earlier this week about activist Judge Paula Xinis’s decision to “absolutely forbid” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation for now. Xinis’s intent is to keep deportations of even wife-beating MS-13 gangsters from ever happening. That much is revealed by the delayed hearing date of October 6, which is set to allow Garcia to plead fear of deportation. Garcia’s lawyer announced yesterday that Garcia will once again be seeking asylum in the U.S. and has requested that an immigration judge reopen the proceedings. Garcia has previously been denied asylum.
- California’s two-state solution: “Gavin, let my people go.” So says the top GOP California assemblyman after the state easily passed a new redistricting map that reduces the nine GOP-held House seats to just four out of the 52 total California House seats. Assemblyman James Gallagher is now pushing to split California into two states, with 35 inland counties splitting from the coastal areas to pursue a more representative government. At a press conference, Gallagher stated that the two-state solution would be a long, locally driven process. Democrats, including Senator Alex Padilla and a spokesman for Gavin Newsom, dismissed the proposal as unrealistic and an indication that Gallagher is unfit for office.
- COVID jab EUA rescinded: On Wednesday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced: “I promised 4 things: 1. to end covid vaccine mandates. 2. to keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially the vulnerable. 3. to demand placebo-controlled trials from companies. 4. to end the emergency.” He then noted that all those goals have now been met, therefore “the emergency use authorizations for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded.” Kennedy added that the FDA has issued market authorization for COVID vaccines for the three major providers (Moderna, Pfizer, and Novavax). These will be “available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors,” he said. “The American people demanded science, safety, and common sense. This framework delivers all three.”
- Air Force reverses, grants military funeral for Ashli Babbitt: The only person actually killed during the January 6 Capitol riot was 35-year-old Air Force and National Guard veteran Ashli Babbitt. She was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd as he sought to prevent the unarmed Babbitt from climbing through a smashed window. Under the Biden administration, the Air Force refused to allow Babbitt a military funeral. That has now changed. In a letter sent to Babbitt’s husband and mother, Undersecretary of the Air Force Matthew L. Lohmeier wrote, “After reviewing the circumstances of Ashli’s death, and considering the information that has come forward since then, I am persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect.” The Air Force will now provide full military funeral honors for Babbitt. This also comes following the Babbitt family getting a $5 million wrongful death settlement from the U.S. government.
- Russians kill 15 Ukrainians: The Russian military launched another massive overnight ballistic missile and drone attack against the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv last night, killing 15 Ukrainian civilians, including four children. It’s a continuation of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to have his military target civilian populations in his ongoing war against Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that Putin has chosen “ballistics over the negotiating table,” as Donald Trump’s efforts to get Putin to seriously negotiate a peace deal are proving fruitless. Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia “maintains its interest in continuing the negotiation process.” Recent Gallup polling finds that roughly two-thirds of Americans don’t believe that a peace deal can be struck.
- Offshore wind opponents frustrated by Trump: In April, the Interior Department hit the brakes on a massive offshore wind farm project in New York and New Jersey. Donald Trump has been critical of green energy technology, even signing an executive order blocking new wind farm projects. Yet the Trump administration lifted its block on the Empire Wind project in May, and construction of 54 offshore wind turbines has been given the green light, angering a coalition of opponents comprising fishermen, residents, business owners, and local government officials. “It was just jaw-droppingly surprising to see the about-face that happened a month later,” Protect Our Coast NJ President Robin Shaffer stated. The Trump administration struck a deal with New York Governor Kathy Hochul to halt her opposition to the completion of a major natural gas pipeline project. A Trump administration official argued that the Empire Wind project was still under review.
- Fake college websites built with AI scam students: “Southeastern Michigan University,” “Baltimore Metropolitan University,” and “California Lake University” don’t exist, but they’ve scammed cash-strapped students out of an unknown amount of money. Inside Higher Ed recently released the results of an investigation that found 40 of these fake universities with AI-built websites. The poor, new arrivals to the U.S., and international students are the targets of these fake universities that offer too-good-to-be-true bachelor’s degrees that cost as little as $31,680 and can be completed in just two years. The scams are well-built with social media presence and links to fake accreditations from fake organizations. Experts warn that AI has accelerated these scams, allowing a single individual to build a convincing website with chatbots and social media advertising almost instantly.
Headlines
- DC mayor concedes Trump takeover has reduced crime (Daily Signal)
- Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook sues Trump (Fox Business)
- Biden admin advanced Bolton probe over foreign-intercepted emails (Newsweek)
- Southwest Airlines ripped over controversial new plus-size passenger policy (NY Post)
- Humor: Genius Trump enacts plan to dumb down Chinese population by inviting them to attend American universities (Babylon Bee)
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FEATURED ANALYSIS
The Deadly ‘Trans’ Assault in Minneapolis
Nate Jackson
As school has begun across the country, there have been numerous hoax calls about active shooters on campus. That’s a sick way to get entertainment, but sicker still is when the shooting is real, as it was yesterday morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Tragically, two children — ages eight and 10 — lost their lives when the assailant opened fire through church windows as the students were assembled for mass and prayer. Seventeen others, mostly students, were wounded, some critically.
After his assault, the murderer took his own life. And, like the murderous psychopath at The Covenant School in Nashville two years ago, this killer identified as “transgender.”
For the media outlets that use feminine or “they/them” pronouns or the “trans woman” moniker for this 23-year-old man, shame on you for indulging his twisted fantasy even after he inflicted demonic horror upon young students, teachers, and families.
Given that the assault occurred while the victims were praying, prayer became a big part of this story. “Please lift up these families and these children in prayer and surround them and each other with your love during this difficult time,” read a statement from the Church of the Annunciation. Countless others offered prayers via social media posts.
For Democrats whose only solution to such crimes is to put up worthless “gun-free zone” signs and infringe on the Second Amendment rights of the law-abiding, however, prayers were not only not enough but also offensive.
“Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,” railed Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey at a press conference at the school. “These kids were literally praying.” Clearly, he’s a man who doesn’t understand prayer. It’s not a magic incantation or body armor, but to frame prayer as worthless is a heartless attack on the victims.
Former Joe Biden press secretary and now MSNBC host Jen Psaki expressed similar contempt for the faithful. “Prayer is not freaking enough,” she posted. “Prayers [sic] does not end school shootings. prayers [sic] do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.”
Besides being anti-Christian, this attack is a straw man. Conservatives have never said prayers are the only thing that can be done, but Democrats don’t like solutions such as armed guards or teachers.
Worse, these rants against prayer sound eerily similar to the message on the killer’s gun: “Where is your God?”
The assailant just met Him, and people like Frey and Psaki might want to reconsider their own lives before their just and loving Creator.
Predictably, several Democrats made their usual perfunctory calls for “sensible gun control.” According to Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, we have to “grapple with the fact that we have too many guns out there right now.”
Well, what has the state’s governor, erstwhile vice presidential candidate Tim “Stolen Valor” Walz, done about guns? His state was ground zero for the George Floyd riots and ensuing violent crime wave in 2020, and it has been the site of other political violence since then.
First, Walz deceives about firearm capabilities by claiming “weapons of war” have no business in the hands of civilians, and, as a National Guard veteran, he ought to know. Indeed, he should know that select-fire weapons carried by the military are functionally different from semiautomatic rifles owned by private individuals. Calling it an “assault weapon” because it has a pistol grip, barrel shroud, or collapsible stock is a lie.
As governor, Walz signed “historic” gun control legislation that implemented universal background checks and red flag orders. The Minneapolis assailant wasn’t stopped by either. Meanwhile, Walz ignored pleas from independent and Catholic schools for security funding.
Walz did, however, bizarrely say last year, “I’ve become friends with school shooters.”
Walz also made Minnesota a “trans refuge” state — a “sanctuary” of sorts for kids to undergo gender mutilation. Earlier this week at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meetings, he bragged, “Minnesota ranks the highest per-capita for being a safe haven for transgender individuals.” His policies were deadly for Catholic kids, and they currently sacrifice other children on the altar of the Left’s sex cult.
In fact, though the Leftmedia is largely still searching for a motive, the “trans” killer was very explicit about his goals in journals and a “manifesto” video.
He graduated from eighth grade at the Annunciation Catholic School in 2017, and his mother worked there until 2021. Resentment was clearly a factor, as he declared that killing “children of innocent civilians” would bring him “the most joy.” He idolized other school shooters, ranted about his own mental anguish, and expressed hatred for Christians, “filthy Zionist Jews,” and Donald Trump. He had a gun target bearing the face of Jesus.
“Extra Thicc Jew Gas,” “Burn Israel,” and “6 Million Wasn’t Enough” were scrawled on his guns and magazines. ABC News reported that “the name of President Trump” was also written on his gun — except the reporter was referring to the phrase “Kill Donald Trump.” It’s despicable disinformation to deliberately leave out the word “kill,” as if to imply the murderer liked Trump.
Appropriately, FBI Director Kash Patel noted, “The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics.”
The killer, with his mother’s help because he was a minor at the time, legally changed his name in 2019. This man should have failed any background check based on his obvious mental illness. Frankly, the same is true of any man who thinks he’s a woman, or a woman who thinks she’s a man. But Democrats detest such honesty.
Instead of forthrightly grappling with the problem, Mayor Frey accused his opponents of bigotry: “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity.” I’m not villainizing people suffering from gender pathology to accurately point to the sex of their birth, or to argue that saying otherwise is a terrible and dehumanizing lie.
The killer was all over the map on this anyway. “I don’t want to dress girly all the time but I guess sometimes I really like it,” he wrote not long ago. “I know I am not a woman but I definitely don’t feel like a man.”
It’s a horrifically deadly development that so-called “trans” individuals are increasingly becoming violent. There will be other copycats after this because when people are sucked into the deranged sex cult, terrible things happen. Men and women made in the image of God should not be so misled or mistreated. We should all pray and work against such a deadly ideology.
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MORE ANALYSIS
- Thomas Gallatin: Is the UK Collapsing Into a Civil War? — Following another example of UK authorities punishing the victim rather than the perpetrator, many are wondering how much longer the native British population will tolerate this injustice.
- Emmy Griffin: Trump’s Tax Cuts Help Everyone Except Dems and Their Narrative — Democrats disingenuously claim that tax cuts will make the rich richer and the poor poorer, when in reality, it only doesn’t help those who don’t pay taxes.
- Samantha Koch: The Truth About Abortion and Mental Health — Terminating the life of a child in the womb is not a harmless “choice” for the baby or the mother, as evidenced by new studies comparing mental health after abortion or childbirth.
- Patrick Hampton: Let’s Talk Leadership: Wes Moore vs. JD Vance — In recent years, support for candidates has become less about race and more about who’s got real plans and real results.
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SHORT CUTS
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste
“We cannot even make it through the first week of school without mass shootings. And the GOP will continue to do absolutely nothing while our kids are being gunned down.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom
Dezinformatsiya
“These things can shoot dozens of bullets in just one trigger pull.” —CNN’s Evan Perez discussing a semiautomatic rifle
Non Compos Mentis
“When kids are getting shot in their pews at a catholic school mass and your crime plan is to have national guard put mulch down around DC maybe rethink your strategy.” —MSNBC’s Jen Psaki
“Anybody that is gonna use this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community … has lost touch with a common humanity.” —Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey
“Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.” —Mayor Jacob Frey (“This guy knelt before George Floyd’s golden casket but tells us that our prayers for Catholic school children mean nothing.” —Greg Price)
“Forget about thoughts and prayers. These kids were literally praying when they were murdered through a church window.” —CNN’s Dana Bash
Re: The Left
“Little children are murdered by a psycho in a Catholic school and the first thing leftists think to attack is praying. So unhinged.” —David Harsanyi
“I’m sick of people pretending the answer is ‘fewer guns.’ The real issue is a culture that affirms mental derangement at every turn.” —Riley Gaines
“‘If you don’t give trans people hormones, they’ll shoot themselves!’ Well, if you do give them hormones, they’ll shoot young Christian children.” —Will Chamberlain
“Transgenderism is an inherently radicalizing, demonic ideology that always leads to chaos, and often violence. It’s an obvious danger at every level and must be opposed in every way possible.” —Allie Beth Stuckey
“What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere. They’re like, ‘She had a baby — with another woman.’ Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie, is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’” —Snoop Dogg on going to see Pixar’s “Lightyear”
Demagogue
“ICE is beyond reform and should be abolished.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar
A Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut
“We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city.” —DC Mayor Muriel Bowser showing appreciation for the DC crime crackdown
For the Record
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Belly Laughs of the Day
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“This thing about people getting married on Saturdays during college football season is a scourge, Mr. President. It’s dividing families. I don’t know if we can have an executive order on this. … There’s seven other months of the year when people can get married.” —Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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TODAY’S MEME
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