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#1 - Elon Decimates Mamdani's America 250 Speech With 1 Simple Fact - Then DeSantis Drops in Off the Top Rope — by Nick Arama
The swipe against Musk was particularly nasty, saying children go hungry while the world's first trillionaire (Musk) "hungers for more."
In that you can see the evil of the radical left - to demonize the people who are actually achieving and whipping up envy and class warfare.
But Elon Musk responded, decimating Mamdani with one simple fact.
Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 3, 2026"Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker," Musk declared.
#2 - 'They're Scum'—Furious Trump Explodes, Declares Iran Ceasefire Over — by Rusty Weiss
Trump's acrimonious comments come after the U.S. carried out airstrikes on more than 80 Iranian targets in retaliation for attacks on commercial ships in the region.
Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Turkey, the President made little effort to hold back his thoughts on the people he has been dealing with in the rogue nation. He was prompted by a reporter who asked, "Is the ceasefire done? Is the MOU dead?"
"To me, I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them anymore, but they’re scum. You know what scum is? They’re scum, they’re sick people, they’re led by sick people, and they’re vicious, violent people," he responded. "And if they had a nuclear weapon, they’d use it."
"As far as I’m concerned, it’s over."
#3 - Hundreds of Patriot Front Demonstrators Hit DC's July 4 Celebration and Minds Are Blown — by streiff
Allegedly, Patriot Front is a Texas-based White nationalist group classified as such by the ADL and SPLC. It was created in the run-up to the infamous 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A teenager named Thomas Ryan Rousseau executed a coup d’etat inside the “Vanguard America” organization by seizing its website and Discord server and declaring himself the Obergruppenführer, or whatever. After the rally, which we now know was organized and subsidized by the “anti-hate” group Southern Poverty Law Center (see SPLC Funneled $270K Cash to Charlottesville Hoax Rally Planner — ‘Manufacturing Racism’ – RedState), Rousseau rebranded the group as the “Patriot Front.” Here at RedState, we have noticed some peculiarities about this organization.
Anyway, on Saturday, Patriot Front, festooned in their distinctive uniform of blue shirts, khaki pants, tan caps, and white face coverings/sunglasses for anonymity, hopped various Metro stations in the D.C. area and headed downtown, because everyone knows that White supremacists use public transportation to avoid attention and possible conflicts, plus it's environmentally sensitive.
#4 - Bill Clinton's July 4th Post Proves the Democratic Party Is Truly Done — by Nick Arama
Clinton didn't just attack President Donald Trump and the administration; he also attacked the Supreme Court and Congress.
"With the help of lifetime appointees to the Supreme Court and a compliant Congress, they have weaponized government to settle personal scores, prosecute enemies, stamp out free speech and made the federal government a new profit center for themselves and their allies," he added.
Why would you drop that on July 4th? He (or whoever constructed that for him) couldn't leave this special day alone. They always have to attack America.
Imagine this guy having the temerity to talk about misuse of government, with everything from Monica Lewinsky to what his wife's campaign did with the dossier and Russia collusion. Not to mention "profit center for themselves."
#5 - Newsom Lawyers Up As Missing Tax Returns Fuel More Questions About Federal Probe — by Jennifer Van Laar
Why would he say "new" tax returns? What we're seeking are tax returns from the years 2021 through 2025, which should be easily produced by his accountant.
As we've documented here at RedState, despite promising to release his full tax returns every year as governor, Newsom only released full tax returns for the 2017 through 2020 tax years, and only did that because he was required to in order to appear on the 2022 primary ballot for his re-elect. That law requires gubernatorial candidates to release their five most recent tax returns, but since he had filed for an extension on his 2021 taxes he only produced four years worth of returns. (That man will find a loophole in anything, won't he?)
Over the intervening years California journalists have repeatedly asked Newsom's office when additional returns would be released, and have been stonewalled.
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