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Tuesday’s Final Word – HotAir

Goodbye, tabby Tuesday, who could hang a meme on you





Ed: Behn is talking about abortion pills, not wire hangers, but it’s nonetheless unhinged. Those pills can kill when taken at the wrong stage of pregnancy, and at least two deaths in the last couple of years has demonstrated those risks. Unfortunately, Behn’s position is no longer extreme in the Democrat Party, which has become unhinged in several different ways. 

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Fox News: Iowa Democrat Christina Bohannan has built her campaign for Congress around the image of a hard-working, middle-class advocate who understands what it’s like “to struggle to put food on the table.” 

However, her real estate portfolio and financial disclosures paint a very different picture — one of expensive homes, a Florida waterfront condo and lucrative stock investments that place Bohannan among the wealthy elite she claims to want to fight against in Congress. …

However, Bohannan’s own financial disclosures and local real estate records paint a picture that clashes with her alleged working-class image. In June, Bohannan purchased University of Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery’s $1.55 million mansion in Iowa City, while for years she has also owned a waterfront condo inside a gated community in Sarasota, Florida. The gated community sells homes ranging from as little as $300,000 to over $1 million, plus requires thousands in annual homeowner’s fees.

Meanwhile, according to Bohannan’s financial disclosures, her Sarasota condo has also helped her net as much as $50,000 in rental income annually.





Ed: Democrats really love their hardscrabble narratives, but only when promulgated by the landed elite. 

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Ed: It’s sheer demagoguery, and veterans and active-duty members see that most clearly. 

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Free Beacon: New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team has a new “community safety” adviser: Alex Vitale, an outspoken supporter of defunding or abolishing virtually every facet of law enforcement from the local to the federal level, including police, prisons, Border Patrol, ICE, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the FBI, among others.

Alex Vitale is the author of The End of Policing, described as the “bestselling bible of the movement to defund the police.” He has panned police officers as “violence workers” and “the natural enemy of the working class.” He has also called to “abolish prisons,” “abolish the Border Patrol,” “Abolish the FBI,” “Abolish the DEA,” “Abolish the Texas Rangers,” and implement “open borders.”

Ed: Both John and David wrote about this today, but allow me to add a few thoughts. Vitale is exactly the kind of appointment we can expect to see in a Democratic Socialist administration in New York City. People seemed to think that Mamdani would moderate his approach after winning his election, but why would he do that? He won on the DSA platform. New York voters will get exactly what they voted for. It’s already started. 





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I read the headline to the President and he laughed. He said: “What? That’s totally false. Come on Kash, let’s take a picture to show them you’re doing a great job!”

Do not believe the Fake News!

Ed: The most surprising part of this story is that people took M-SNOW seriously in the first place. The premise alone is silly. To the extent that ‘unflattering headlines’ might be bothering Trump, it’s the Department of Justice that’s been creating them, not the FBI. Bondi should be more worried than Patel. 

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Fox 9: FOX 9 has not been able to confirm whether the operation was related to immigration enforcement or simply a criminal investigation. FOX 9 has reached out to St. Paul police, the City of St. Paul, and the Department of Homeland Security for more information on the incident.

Agents at the scene did tell FOX 9’s Corin Hoggard they were in the area looking for two people, one of whom ran away and went into a house.

Ed: Federal agents have jurisdiction everywhere in the US. They do not need to coordinate with local law enforcement, although they usually do just to make sure no mistakes are made. If they are not coordinating with the mayor or the governor, that may reflect a lack of cooperative spirit from those officials.





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Ed: No, Walz is NOT always willing to work with federal law enforcement, especially on immigration. He’s just beginning to realize that coordination is a courtesy, not a pre-requisite for operations. Welcome to the Supremacy Clause, Governor JazzHands McSnitchLine. 

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Barak Ravid at Axios: The meeting between President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) last week got heated when they discussed the possibility of Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations with Israel, two U.S. officials and one source with knowledge of the situation told Axios.

Why it matters: With the war in Gaza over, Trump hoped his meeting with MBS would lead to a breakthrough toward Saudi-Israeli normalization.

Both praised each other publicly and didn’t show any daylight between them, but parts of their closed meeting were tense. Trump was disappointed to hear the pushback from MBS, officials say.

Ed: This talk is premature. MBS wants to be the final player in the pact, but he won’t act until the Gaza situation is fully resolved. Hamas won’t disarm, which means the ceasefire agreement will remain stuck on Phase 1. Israel will have to forcibly disarm Hamas to end the war, and Trump should encourage Israel to get it over with so that the Abraham Accords can proceed. 





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Walsh warns that this is part of a coordinated foreign push to infiltrate U.S. politics by posing as American voices and stirring divisions inside the right.

He adds that a new narrative is spreading online in which anyone who prioritizes American interests first, and does not fixate on Israel every minute of the day, is suddenly branded as “not America First.”

Ed: Elon needs to make location data permanently transparent from now on. It doesn’t need precision, but each tweet should have country of origin as well as VPN data attached to it. The brief availability of this data has been quite enlightening. 

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Mediaite: Joy Reid believes Vice President JD Vance has a problem: Because President Donald Trump’s supporters are “fundamentally racist,” that means they “can’t have the successor be the guy with the brown Hindu wife.”

And the ex-MSNBC host, during an appearance on Jennifer Welch’s I’ve Had It podcast on Tuesday, also fantasized about a bizarre solution: Vance could ditch his wife, Usha Vance, for Erika Kirk.

“Wouldn’t it be the most perfect MAGA fairytale if he finally sees the light that he needs a white queen, instead of this brown Hindu?” Reid said. “I’m not saying that’s happening, or maybe that Usha’s not even in on it, but that’s one entrant.”





The idea came to Reid a moment after Welch said Vance had been playing “slap and tickle” with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s widow. Her comment comes a month after some people on social media said Kirk and Vance had an unusually intimate hug before a Turning Point USA event.

Ed: Worst. Fanfic. Ever. What in the world is wrong with Joy Reid, anyway? 

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Human Events: Human Events has obtained text messages sent by Sen. Reuben Gallego (D-AZ) in which he criticizes members of his own party and mocked the appearance of Democratic men and women. …

In the exchange, Gallego responds to encouragement that he could rise within his party amid ongoing political infighting. “Oh man have you met my party? I have been yelling at them this whole time,” he wrote. He would also describe the Democrats as the “not fun party,” accusing them of constantly correcting people and losing the cultural energy they used to project. “We used to be the party of sex, drugs and rock and roll,” he said.

Gallego mocked the appearance of Democrats and saying that the men look like women and vice versa writing, “Dem women look like Dem men and Dem men look like women.”

Ed: Oh, I don’t know. Aftyn Behn looks like she’d be a lot of fun at parties, although getting her to leave one might require several people to accomplish. IYKYK.





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Ed: Res ipsa loquitur.

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