A combination of court rulings, congressional hearings, public opinion and, not least, President Donald Trump’s commendable pressure have sparked some small but notable changes.
Declassified: Obama Admin Manufactured Intelligence to Push Fake Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative
The Obama administration’s top officials committed a “treasonous conspiracy” by manufacturing and politicizing intelligence to create the false narrative that led to the years-long Trump-Russia collusion probe, according to newly-declassified documents released by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard.
The post Declassified: Obama Admin Manufactured Intelligence to Push Fake Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative appeared first on Breitbart.
Athletics’ Brent Rooker responds to ESPN star’s list of preferred swing-off participants
VDH: The World Woke Up
VDH: The World Woke Up
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson,
In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down.
There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo.
The unthinkable has become the banal.
Take illegal immigration—remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under Biden?
Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”—a euphemism for mass amnesties.
Now, there is no such thing as daily new illegal immigration.
It simply disappeared with common-sense enforcement of existing immigration laws—and a new president.
How about the 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment?
Remember all the causes that the generals cited for their inability to enlist soldiers: generational gangs, obesity, drugs, and stiff competition with private industry?
And now?
In just six months, recruitment targets are already met; the issue is mostly moot.
Why? The new Pentagon flipped the old, canceling its racist DEI programs and assuring the rural, middle-class Americans—especially white males—that they were not systemically racist after all.
Instead, they were reinvited to enlist as the critical combat cohort who died at twice their demographic share in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How about the “end of the NATO crisis,” supposedly brought on by a bullying U.S.?
Now the vast majority of NATO members have met their pledges to spend two percent of GDP on defense, which will soon increase to five percent.
Iconic neutrals like Sweden and Finland have become frontline NATO nations, arming to the teeth. The smiling NATO Secretary-General even called Trump the “daddy” of the alliance.
What about indomitable, all-powerful, theocratic Iran, the scourge of the Middle East for nearly fifty years?
Although it had never won a war in the last half-century, its terrorist surrogates—Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis—were supposedly too dangerous to provoke.
Now?
Most of their expeditionary terrorists are neutered, and their leaders are in hiding or dead.
Iran has no air force, no real navy, no air defenses, and no active nuclear weapons program.
Its safety apparently depends only on the mood of the U.S. or Israel on any given day, not to fly into its airspace and take out its missiles, nuclear sites, generals, or theocrats at will.
What happened to the supposedly inevitable recession, hyperinflation, stock market collapse, unemployment spikes, and global trade war that last spring economists assured us would hit by summer?
Job growth is strong, and April’s inflation rate is the lowest in four years. GDP is still steady. The stock market hit a record high. Trade partners are renegotiating their surpluses with the U.S.
It turns out that staying in the U.S. consumer market is the top priority of our trading partners.
It seems their preexisting and mostly undisclosed profits were large enough to afford reasonable U.S. symmetrical tariffs.
For now, news of tax cuts, deregulation, ‘drill baby, drill’ energy policies displacing Green New Deal strangulation, and $8–10 trillion in potential foreign investment has encouraged—rather than deterred—business.
Then there were our marquee elite universities, whose prestige, riches, and powerful alumni made them answerable to no one.
And now, after the executive and congressional crackdown on their decades of hubris?
Supposedly brilliant university presidents have resigned in shame.
The public has caught on to their grant surcharge gouging.
Campuses have backed off their arrogant defiance of the Supreme Court’s civil rights rulings.
They are panicked about the public exposure of their systemic anti-Semitism.
They are scrambling to explain away their institutionalized ideological bias and their tawdry profit-making schemes and mass recruitment of wealthy foreign students from illiberal regimes.
So, the mighty Ivy League powerhouses are now humbling themselves to cut a deal to save their financial hides and hopefully return to their proper mission of disinterested education.
What happened to the trans juggernaut of sex as a social construct and its bookend gospel that biological men could dominate women’s sports?
People woke up. They were no longer afraid to state that sex is binary and biologically determined. And biological men who dominate women’s sports are bullies, not heroes.
Where are the millionaire scamming architects of BLM now?
Where is the “DEI now, tomorrow, and forever” conventional wisdom?
Where are Professor Kendi and his $30,000 Zoom lessons on how to fight racism by being racist?
They have all been exposed as the race hustlers they always were.
Their creed that it is okay for supposed victims to be racist victimizers themselves was exposed as an absurd con.
So, what flipped everything?
We were living in an “emperor has no clothes” make-believe world for the last few years.
The people knew establishment narratives were absurd, and our supposed experts were even more ridiculous.
But few—until now—had the guts to scream “the emperor is naked” to dispel the fantasies.
When they finally did, reality returned.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 07/18/2025 – 18:25
NY prisons’ staffing woes helped drive overtime spending up to massive $445M: report
According to a new report from the state comptroller’s office, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, DOCCS, spent the most on overtime in 2024 – $445 million, a nearly 21% increase over the year prior.
Matt Freese ready to build off ‘new foundation’ set with USMNT at stellar Gold Cup
New York City FC goalkeeper Matt Freese joked that he doesn’t consider himself the smartest guy in the world, even though he graduated from Harvard with a degree in economics. And no, there’s no special formula he’s been using to explain the success he’s been having this season. Freese had already been having a good…
Dem House leader Hakeem Jeffries still withholds endorsement after meeting with Zohran Mamdani
Jon Stewart admits he doesn’t know future at Comedy Central as merger looms
Journalism, Ladies and Gents! NBC News Defends Corn Syrup In Coke (Because Trump!)
Kamala Harris Worked at McDonald’s For… Two Weeks, New Book Asserts Without Evidence
While a Washington Free Beacon investigation found no evidence that Kamala Harris worked at McDonald’s, an alleged summer job that the failed presidential nominee tried to make a centerpiece of her campaign biography, a new book from a trio of mainstream media reporters has concluded that Harris toiled under the golden arches for “two or three weeks.”
The Free Beacon report led Trump to raise questions on the campaign trail about whether Harris was embellishing her biography. “She never worked at McDonald’s but it was a big part of her résumé,” Trump said at a campaign rally in September.
The ordeal sent the Harris campaign into a tailspin, according to 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf, who omit any mention of the Free Beacon.
Harris’s aides “debated for weeks whether they should respond to Trump’s attacks about McDonald’s,” they write, and “spent weeks agonizing” about the decision.
Trump eventually orchestrated a made-for-TV appearance at a Philadelphia-area McDonald’s, where he manned the fryer and greeted supporters from the drive-thru window. The Harris campaign was dissuaded from pushing back because “the facts were not especially favorable.” The book’s authors assert without evidence that Harris worked at an Alameda, Calif., McDonald’s in the summer of 1983 for “two or three weeks.”
Harris’s allegedly short stint on the job meant “most advisers didn’t want to lean into her time at McDonald’s, but it polled well,” so Harris did it anyway. When questions emerged, the campaign considered deploying Harris’s sister “for a feature story with a lifestyle magazine, but others viewed the story as too risky.”
At one point, the campaign caught wind “that at least one major mainstream news outlet was investigating” Harris’s McDonald’s employment, according to the book. The revelation caused “alarm inside the campaign,” which “agreed on a statement rehashing her past comments about her time at McDonald’s.”
When the New York Times covered the brouhaha in October, noting that the Free Beacon’s report “seems to have propelled” Trump to “claim [Harris] made up the job,” they compared the Free Beacon report to birtherism.
CNN’s Brian Stelter characterized the fracas this way: “Harris shared this and then a pro-Trump website started to talk about, ‘Hey, is there evidence, is there proof she worked at McDonald’s, there’s no records, there’s no receipts.'” He concluded, “I find that bewildering.”
Stelter’s remarks came after Harris touted the job during an April 2024 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, saying, “I did the fries. And then I did the cashier.”
When Trump himself “did the fries,” Harris watched a video of her rival’s campaign stop and “told aides he was doing it wrong,” the book reveals. “An aide suggested she could point that out in an interview, but she never did.” The campaign also turned down an invitation to visit an Atlanta-area McDonald’s because “aides didn’t want her to visit a restaurant and look like she was copycatting.”
Days before the election, the Daily Mail released a poll showing that nearly 60 percent of Americans held some doubt that Harris really worked at McDonald’s. Trump’s short stint as a fry cook, meanwhile, became the most known story of the election cycle, an Echelon Insights poll found.
The post Kamala Harris Worked at McDonald’s For… Two Weeks, New Book Asserts Without Evidence appeared first on .