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AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Illegal Immigrants Removed From Census, Leaving California With Population Of 12 https://t.co/z8kELp7Djb pic.twitter.com/YolyOYwhPV — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 1, 2025

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Chinese spacecraft begin rendezvous and proximity operations in geostationary orbit. To be fair, the U.S. military was doing this sort of thing in the 1960s.

FINALLY, THE LONG-AWAITED MIAMI VICE MEETS LOONEY TUNES CROSSOVER EPISODE: Florida beachgoer finds nearly half a million dollars of cocaine wrapped in “Yosemite Sam” packaging. A major storm has yet to hit Florida this hurricane season but that hasn’t…

DANA CARVEY LOOKS BACK AT PLAYING THE (P)RESIDENT: Interesting to listen to Dana Carvey speak about playing the character of the character that was Joe Biden…. pic.twitter.com/tx8iQn00Pw — Joe Rambo (@BrainStorm_Joe) July 1, 2025 So the comedians all knew…

THE PRIDE SLIDE: In his Commentary newsletter today, Abe Greenwald writes: As we discussed on the podcast today, a new Gallup poll finds that 58 percent of U.S. adults are “very” or “extremely” proud to be an American. This is a record low. For…

THESE DRUGS ARE COMING FAST AND FURIOUS: Ozempic Alternative Ditches The Needle And One Major Side Effect. Will fatness one day be a niche lifestyle choice? But I’d want a lot more clinical trials, and a few years of mass market use, before I’d take a…

IT SEEMS TO BE THAT WAY A LOT: Shock: Alphabet Activist/Pride Organizer Is a Paedo.

BUT WOULD YOU WANT TO KNOW? This MRI Reads Your Brain’s Hidden Clock and Predicts Dementia Decades Ahead.

BACK TO THE FUTURE: Zohran’s Mamdani’s Communist Solution to Create Affordable Housing in NYC? Bring Back ‘The Projects.’ Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to be the landlord for all of the Big Apple. He wants to bring back a failed…

CHUCK SCHUMER, CLOSET LIBERTARIAN! Schumer: "Today, it's USAID. Next it might be the IRS or the intelligence agencies" pic.twitter.com/hSnfSzAPb7 — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 1, 2025 Yes, that would be a good start. Flashback:

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WELL, GOOD: Most kids don’t need overnight care after allergic reactions.

HMM: New Apple CarPlay Ultra iPhone Integration Proving Controversial With Automakers: Leery of handing over their cars’ dashboards entirely to Apple, some automakers are walking away from Ultra. Doesn’t sound unreasonable. But: “Aston Martin is the only…

CROSSINGS ARE ALREADY SO LOW THAT THIS ALMOST SEEM LIKE OVERKILL: DoD Declares Rio Grande Defense Zone. Then again, I’m a big fan of overkill.

CHANGE: BREAKING: @Penn to APOLOGIZE for allowing male swimmer Lia Thomas to invade the women's team. The University will also be adopting definitions for male and female consistent with biological sex, strip all records/titles from Thomas and return them to…

GREAT NAME: Trump Excited to Open ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’

READER FAVORITE: Apple 2025 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop with M4 chip: Built for Apple Intelligence. #CommissionEarned

SELF DEFENSE: Essential Practice: Malfunction Drills. Because if something can go wrong, it will, and usually at the worst possible time.

HE’S AN OLD-SCHOOL MARXIST: Mamdani and ‘fact checkers’ deny he is a Communist, but his own words say otherwise. Seriously old school.

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CHANGE: 🚨 BREAKING: USAID has OFFICIALLY ceased operations, Secretary Rubio announces This was a TOP priority of @ElonMusk while he was at DOGE, even calling it a “CRIMINAL organization.” The Democrat slush fund for kickbacks and corruption is no more.…

CHRIS QUEEN: Scripture in Service of the State? Warnock’s Misguided Theology.

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THIS TIME IT’LL WORK FOR SURE: Too Fun to Check: The Ayatollah’s Secret Revenge Weapon Is… An Adult-Film Star.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: What is College Good For?

JOEL KOTKIN: Why we need to talk about black anti-Semitism. Like the tragic children of Gaza, minority children are being groomed to hate Israel – as well as the people who predominate there. In Oakland a teacher held an unauthorized teach-in, reports the…

HMM: Early birds get the burn: Early bedtimes are associated with more physical activity.

TEST AUDIENCES UNEXPECTEDLY TERRIFIED OF DISNEY GROOMING THEIR KIDS: Inside Elio’s “Catastrophic” Path: America Ferrera’s Exit, Director Change and Erasure of Queer Themes. Those who worked at Pixar while its latest film release, Elio, was in…

HE WASN’T KIDDING: Don’t Look So Surprised, LA. Trump TOLD YOU He’d Sue You for Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policies.