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IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) As bad as the Republicans' performance in Congress has been, it is becoming clear that, well, at least they don't want to kill you as the DemoKKKrats do. Hence, the GOP generic approval is at 52%, a 10-point lead over the Party of Evil. And in the wake of Trump's successful Middle East Peace and Prosperity for All tour, his approval now is back to 55%, an 11 point lead.

2) The House passed the "Big Beautiful Reconciliation Bill" that killed wind and solar subsidies, eliminated the tax on tips by a single vote with several Rs being obstructionist and 3 DemoKKKrats dead, made other tax cuts permanent, and no, did not eliminate the tax on Social Security. One step at a time. By the way, the margin of victory was that of three dead DemoKKKrats who have yet to be replaced. Seth Keshel provides a good analysis of the bill here.

2) Phil Collins sang there is "something in the air tonight. Oh Lord!" Well I have little real evidence---mostly a Spidey sense tingle---but it seems like we're on the cusp of major DOJ moves against the Cabal. First, cleaning up some old garbage, a former contractor to USAID was extradited to the U.S. and convicted and sentenced for conspiracy to commit fraud. Then DemoKKKrat Congresswoman LaMonica McIver was charged by N.J. Federal Prosecutor Alina Habba for assaulting law enforcement officers and arrested. However, , the mayor of Newark, who entered the ICE facility with McIver, was released, presumably because there was not assault charge. Then Pam Bondi's DOJ announced an investigation of Chicago Mayor "Let's Go" Brandon Johnson for racial hiring.. Then Bondi announced a reconsideration of a Rutabaga-era rule that prohibited the DOJ from investigating corrupt congressmen, then followed that up by (allegedly) rescinding another Rutabaga-era rule that would allow investigators to search reporters' phone records to find leakers. Of all the things that this DOJ has done---and it's MANY---it appears that clamping down on leakers is near the top. Then Bondi announced an investigation of Andrew (Nipplepin Venthoarder) Cuomo for nursing home deaths during Covid. Step by step.

3) Meanwhile in D.C., newly-appointed Judge Jeanine Piro notched her first win with the successful sentencing of fo