Wednesday's child is full of tabs ...
Recognizing reality is a basic step toward moral clarity.
— Itai Biran (@ItaiBiran) August 6, 2025
This is Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official.
In his words, one of the “fruits” of the Oct 7th massacre is momentum toward recognizing a Palestinian state.
Mass murder, he believes, is paying off.
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Ed: It's not a belief. He's right. Thanks to moral cowards like Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer, the October 7 massacres are paying off for Hamas ... if Israel ends up bowing to the feckless West. Let's not pretend that it's limited to Israel either. If they can't fight terrorists to their death, then we lack the will to do so too, and that means Hamas and other terrorists will launch October 7s and 9/11s until we capitulate too.
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Fox News: Social media users went into a frenzy as singer Beyoncé Knowles dropped her own new jeans ad following the release of actress Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle (AE) ad.
The singer-songwriter and Levi’s jeans unveiled their latest fashion collaboration on social media Tuesday, featuring a blonde Knowles wearing a rhinestone-encrusted denim suit. The image sent shockwaves across social media, which had just been roiling over Sweeney’s ad that some media outlets accused of promoting "Whiteness."
"So Beyoncé can pose in Levi jeans and it’s art… But when a White woman does it, it’s a national crisis?" one user wrote, suggesting a double standard in how both women were being treated for their ads.
Ed: Naah, let's not do that. Beyoncé has good genes too. Let's just celebrate beauty in all its legit forms. I've got 99 problems, but a beautiful woman in a jeans ad ain't one of them.
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What if I said Sydney Sweeney has good genes, Beyoncé has good genes, and flipping out about either is stupid?
— Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) August 5, 2025
Move on from these inane discussions. Good lord. https://t.co/0se7OHWMoh
Ed: Amen, sister. And I can actually afford Levi's ... occasionally, anyway. This plays right into Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" theme, too.
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The Free Press: Hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis and factory jobs moving overseas, the UAW was forced to look to other industries to stay alive. Now, less than a third of its current members are autoworkers, aerospace engineers or agricultural workers, the union’s blue-collar base. They are far outnumbered by a hodgepodge of white-collar defense attorneys, librarians, roughly 100,000 people working in higher education, and more.
The diversity strategy worked for a while. Now, though, under UAW president Shawn Fain, there is a chasm between the union’s traditional autoworkers, who are moving toward the political right, and its newcomers, who are less likely to have worked a factory shift and more likely to have been involved in campus activism and the message boards of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Ed: As the saying goes, the Left moves into institutions, guts them, and then wears their skin while pursuing their Long March strategy. The UAW made a deal with the devil in that sense, and now the union for auto workers doesn't represent auto worker interests except by accident on occasion.
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Massachusetts says they have "no choice" but to redistrict in response to Texas... but they have no Republican seats to eliminate. pic.twitter.com/DiRDhK1dwT
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 6, 2025
Ed: David wrote about this earlier, but I wanted to make sure we included this clueless posturing in this post too. How did they do this with straight faces? How did reporters cover it without laughing out loud? Maybe they'll create them in one map, and then redistrict again just to spite the GOP. In the meantime, thanks for making our point for us.
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NY Post: Legendary radio host Howard Stern faces an uncertain future at SiriusXM as his five-year, $500 million contract winds down, according reports.
The 71-year-old shock jock would be open to a short-term contract if the price is right, but he’s also considering calling it quits with SiriusXM, as first reported by the Sun.
“He may do a one- to two-year contract if they can meet him where he wants financially. He doesn’t want to pull the plug on his employees like this,” one source told the Daily Mail.
Ed: I saw a lot of commentary about this as a cancellation of Stern's show, but that doesn't appear accurate. SiriusXM seems willing to negotiate an extension at a significantly lower rate, a result of a substantial falloff in listeners. That may be why Stern is wondering if he wants to stick around, find some other new platform, or maybe just retire at the end of his contract. I've never been a Stern fan, but this just looks like a business discussion to me rather than a cancellation or rift with SiriusXM.
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Used to be big Howard Stern fan. He brought credibility to Sirius which is why they paid him all that $. He has outlived his usefulness though. Now that Sirius is established, no need to pay him all that $. Ironic he turned into Imus.
— The Masked Attorney (@MaskedAttorney) August 6, 2025
Ed: Ouch, baby, very ouch. But yes, he basically turned into an X-rated Imus.
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CNBC: Conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch will give President Donald Trump regular updates on his health as part of an agreement to postpone Murdoch’s deposition in Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against him over a Wall Street Journal article about late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The unusual stipulation in Miami federal court comes a week after Trump’s lawyers sought a deposition from Murdoch within 15 days. Their motion had implied that Murdoch might be either dead or too sick to testify in person by the time the case went to trial.
“Murdoch is 94 years old, has suffered from multiple health issues throughout his life, is believed to have suffered recent significant health scares, and is presumed to live in New York, New York,” Trump’s lawyers said in their filing last week.
Ed: Why do that rather than just get the deposition out of the way? Sounds like they want time to negotiate an exit.
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🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) August 6, 2025
A Brazilian woman facing 25 years in prison for “misgendering” a politician has just been granted refugee status in Europe.
Isabella Cêpa is the first person to be recognized as a victim of state persecution for criticizing gender ideology.https://t.co/wlJTgmZvRe
Ed: Er ... does Doña Cêpa know the direction Europe has taken on free-speech matters? She'd be better off coming to the US if she wants to continue to speak out against the trans cult. Ironically, the heroic J.K. Rowling RTd this tweet, and she knows better than most what Cêpa can expect in the UK and on the Continent.
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Jonathan Turley: A working paper with the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that UBI recipients did indeed spend more money, including a 13 percent increase on child-related expenses. There was also a slight increase in parental supervision of children.
However, there was no improved school performance and a slight increase in reported developmental and stress-related problems with children.
Stanford’s Basic Income Lab is tracking more than 160 UBI projects in the U.S..
So far, the results are at best mixed. One study in Compton showed that many recipients of the $500 monthly payment quit working part-time jobs.
Likewise, reports indicate that “a $400 monthly payment in Chelsea, Massachusetts, increased food spending and did not measurably reduce work, but it failed to produce results for the research team’s “primary downstream outcomes”—namely self-reported health and child school attendance.”
Ed: Oh look, another socialist program for redistribution has been proven worthless. Will politicians learn any lessons from it? Yes -- the lesson will be not to release the data. Too bad Bernie Sanders' staff didn't figure that out before this morning ...
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How does this get made, approved, and posted? Is there anyone in Sanders' office with any understanding of economic data at all? https://t.co/IyffzymrHk
— Eric Boehm (@EricBoehm87) August 6, 2025
Ed: Good Lord, why don't we have more people earning $100,000 a week???? Democrats are very bad at charting economic data, and for some reason, they insist on publishing the evidence of their economic illiteracy. You might be able to do a comparison between median house prices and ANNUAL income, but I suspect that would show a lot more correlation than the idiot Marxists on Sanders' staff want to admit.
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🚨Just Now: President Trump makes a new statement on Elon Musk:
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) August 6, 2025
“I think Elon Musk is a good person. I think he had a bad moment. But he's a good person, I believe that.”
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