And so I'm back in tabbing space, you just walked in to find that look upon my face ...
Hey, Wiener guy! Remember when you called me a "McBigot"? How does it feel now that the Frankenstein you created is coming for you? Every stupid communist learns this history lesson the hard way. Enjoy! https://t.co/BYhKjn9URC pic.twitter.com/cCCr2u2PBp
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) June 27, 2026
Ed: I'm back from my mini-vacation, and so is the Final Word. It appears that Scott Weiner is learning the First Rule of Leftist Revolution, which is that it's always an ouroboros. Always. Robespierre learned that lesson the hard way, and so has every other socialist revolutionary who followed later.
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CA Post Editorial Board: But Wiener's colleagues in the State Senate avoided the obvious. They simply called the "hatred and violence" toward Wiener "unacceptable," and cited his record on LGBTQ+ issues.
They did not condemn the antisemitism on display. They cannot, because antisemitism is rising rapidly in the Democratic Party, just as it is on the extreme right.
Some critics blamed Wiener himself, noting that he has often used aggressive language to target those with whom he disagrees.
When Charlie Kirk was assassinated last year, for example, Wiener — who had argued with Kirk online — said that while his murder should be "condemned," Kirk was also a "vile bigot who did immeasurable harm to so many people."
Wiener is now being treated the way he treated others.
Ed: Cowards all the way down. The only real man in Democrat national politics is John Fetterman.
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Sounding The Alarm!
— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) June 28, 2026
Sen. John Fetterman warns liberals - and America - against the rise of socialism in the Democrat Party:
"There's a significant part of our Party that's getting taken over with these extreme views." pic.twitter.com/XZOy0roiEu
Ed: Fetterman speaks out against the DSA and its pernicious ideology. Where are the other Democrats?
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Issues and Insights Editorial Board: As the City Journal’s Stu Smith reported, the DSA has adopted a new platform that is, incredibly enough, even more radical than its previous one. Although it still hasn’t been published on its website, an advance version, which Smith obtained, is straight-up Marxism, declaring “the entire global system of capital” as its enemy and promising to “build a new society from the ground up.”
We doubt that many Democrats – much less the general public – have a clue what the DSA actually stands for. As Smith notes, “The DSA has largely avoided scrutiny, despite its increasingly extreme rhetoric and practices.”
But ignorance is no excuse. Because, as our I&I/TIPP Poll found, nearly half of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism. Because DSA members are the rising stars in the party, its driving force. Because leaders in the party are bending over backward to appease their socialist comrades. (House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries congratulated the latest socialist primary winners, and when pressed on CNBC “to reject those things,” blurted out, “Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America. Are you kidding me?”)
Ed: Jeffries is ready and willing to sell out his party and his country because of his fury over Trump winning an election. Jeffries doesn't understand that he'd be one of the first up against the wall come the revolution. Or maybe he does ... and just wants to curry favor with the Berias and Guevaras to come.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: "It's not Socialism—it's really Communism. They use the words 'Social Democrat' because it sounds so nice, but it's really Communism you're talking about. I think it's the biggest threat to our nation there is, maybe since our founding." pic.twitter.com/08Y11DRAmx
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 29, 2026
Ed: I wrote about this earlier. These are not just Bernie Bros. These are outright revolutionaries ready to overthrow the US, by their own public statements.
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John Podhoretz at The Free Press: But it wasn’t just socialism that was being cultivated these past 40 years. It was also antipathy toward Israel and Zionism.
Consider the case of Brad Lander, who defeated incumbent Daniel Goldman. Lander isn’t a member of the DSA. He’s a longtime Democratic hack in New York City notable for his charmlessness. Meanwhile, Goldman is a relatively fresh face in Congress who became famous as the lawyer who served as the lead counsel for the House majority during the 2019 impeachment of Donald Trump. One would have thought his anti-Trump credentials would have been enough to gift him a long career in the House. But Lander absolutely trounced Goldman in a campaign that was almost entirely dedicated to trumpeting Lander’s own anti-Zionism in contrast to Goldman’s position as a “proud Zionist”—who is, natch, also a fierce critic of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
How on earth did we get to a point where a congressman in New York—still the most populous Jewish city in the world—can get ousted for supporting Israel by Democratic Party voters?
We can begin the story in 1984, when the firebrand political / cultural / religious figure Jesse Jackson ran for president—staging the first serious candidacy for the high office by an African American. Jackson electrified his fellow African Americans and the Democratic left, who were uninspired by the race between the dullard Walter Mondale and the very, very, very Kennedy-lite Gary Hart. Jackson won five primaries and caucuses and received an aggregate of 21 percent of the overall national Democratic vote.
And he was an out-and-out antisemite.
Ed: Many readers may not recall that Jackson allied with Louis Farrakhan for years, but John certainly remembers. He connects a lot of dots in this essay, so be sure to read it all. This isn't just about Jackson and Farrakhan, but also Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and a host of others who paved the way for anti-Semitism to enter the mainstream of the Democrat Party.
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Chris Murphy when asked about Democrat Socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier:
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 28, 2026
NBC: If you're saying the Democrat party needs a bigger tent, does that include someone who called a former Democratic President a "rapist?"
MURPHY: "I’m not super familiar with that race…” pic.twitter.com/ecZC0vekRH
Ed: Why should that preclude answering the question? Murphy is a coward, or he's a collaborator in the DSA takeover of his party. Possibly both at the same time.
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Andrea Peyser at the New York Post: The New York Times has cracked the code. It’s Pulitzer time, baby!
In an investigation masquerading as a style piece, the Paper of Record published an unglued commentary, researched with the self-seriousness of Watergate, revealing that a whopping three women connected to the White House are preggers.
At the same time! ...
In it, Times chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman writes: “That three such prominent women in the MAGA movement were pregnant at pretty much the same time was, indubitably, a coincidence.”
Or maybe not.
“But” — there’s always a “but” — “for an administration that has such an intuitive and strategic understanding of the power of aesthetics that an unspoken dress code in which men outfit themselves in the image of the president has developed, it has also become a telling one,” Friedman froths.
Ed: Socialism and the Left operate on shortage principles, where anyone else's happiness must come at the expense of someone else's. That's the only way to understand why married women in the White House becoming pregnant is a crisis rather than cause for celebration.
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A hybrid Trans/Palestinian flag. Like it's a thing. https://t.co/zhPJvdxRpC
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) June 28, 2026
Ed: It's only a thing in countries that protect these idiots from coming under the rule of Islamists. This is where the DSA combines up with the Queer Movement to push revolution by aligning with terror movements aimed at Western governments. The Soviets used to foment these movements, including the Palestinians via the PLO, when Fatah was oriented on socialism more than Islamism. The Baath parties in various Arab states had similar origins, and similar ethics, especially in Iraq and Syria.
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Glenn Reynolds: As for our professional, independent civil service — it is to laugh. The civil service isn’t independent: It happily does the bidding of Democratic presidents. It’s just partisan, in that it does its best to stall and undermine the work of Republican presidents. (By now we’ve all seen the emails.)
But more importantly, the proof of the pudding is in the eating: We’ve run America with and without a “professional, independent civil service,” and there was more trust in government — and better execution of policy — before the creation of the civil service than after, and particularly before the now-overturned case of Humphrey’s Executor, which protected “independent agencies” from presidential supervision.
But the ramifications of this new decision suggest that the Pendleton Act itself might be at risk, and it should be.
Ed: Glenn got this out shortly after the SCOTUS decision on Slaughter, about which I wrote this afternoon. He's right about the pitfalls of the so-called independent civil service. Partisan accountability might be messy, but at least it's accountability in some form. Read it all.
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We gathered five people from every Congressional District to create a Declaration of American Ideals for the 21st century.
— Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) June 29, 2026
The result, presented @AmPhilSociety in Philadelphia, is both inspiring and reassuring. The American people still embrace our nation's founding ideals, even… https://t.co/czquXpzOgF
The American people still embrace our nation's founding ideals, even if their political and government leaders do not.
Ed: One reason for that disconnect is the vast bureaucracy and its unaccountable nature that does most of the governing. Let's hope the Slaughter decision works to break down that unelected governance by ideological bureaucrats.
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Jonathan Turley: This morning, I discussed the upcoming Supreme Court decisions from the temporary Fox studio on the Mall, surrounded by the state pavilions. I was buoyed by the enthusiasm of the young National Guard members from Puerto Rico and Alaska. They are thrilled to be part of our 250th celebration. The only disappointment was the decision of 10 states—Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Pennsylvania—to decline to participate. Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro, refused, but the state’s two senators stepped in to ensure their representation. It is an utter disgrace for these states and another manifestation of our age of rage.
All of these states cited transparent excuses over the cost of participating in our anniversary despite their lavish spending in other areas.
Massachusetts is a particular insult. The home of John Adams and other colonial leaders elected to sit out the celebrations. Recently, we discussed how a Massachusetts church ended the long-standing celebration of the Fourth of July to focus on the “on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness.”
Ed: Utterly shameful.
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It wasn't just McCormick & Fetterman who rallied to get PA's booth built it was volunteer firefighters, small businesses, farmers & everyday Pennsylvanians who stepped up & pulled together to make this booth better than it was ever going to be #America250 https://t.co/MnDgDzO68d
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) June 29, 2026
Ed: Good for them. Josh Shapiro should still be ashamed of himself.
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Jim Geraghty at NRO: Republicans were unlikely to buy it, and neither were Democrats. Even former Biden staffers were left fuming, contending the book “is rewriting history, unhelpful to the Democratic Party and tone-deaf.”
The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list in its first week of release, but dropped off the chart entirely in the second week; Nate Silver observes, “It debuted at #1 on the NYT due to astroturfed bulk orders (not my opinion it got the infamous † indicating this) and is now *completely* off the list 2 weeks later. Very rare for a ‘#1’ to fall that fast. Virtually no one except political reporters are actually reading it.”
Ed: That explains why Joe is on the trail again ...
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Joe Biden just got the Dan Goldman and Scott Wiener treatment in Maryland tonight, getting absolutely berated by activists while mid speech.
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) June 28, 2026
Just let him retire already. This is just sad. pic.twitter.com/OZKfEGcG85
Ed: The heckling is stupid but harmless. The sad part is how the Bidens keep pushing Joe out on stage to keep Biden Inc in business.
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The Hollywood Reporter: Toy Story 5 continued to soar at the box office, while Supergirl experienced some turbulence in its weekend debut with $38 million domestically and $68 million globally. ...
Ahead of its release, Warner Bros.‘ Supergirl had been eyeing a start of around $50 million before coming down to earth a bit over the weekend. Milly Alcock leads director Craig Gillespie’s superhero feature that marks the second big-screen project for the planned slate from DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran, arriving a year after Superman picked up $618 million globally. Supergirl received a B- CinemaScore from audiences, whereas Superman scored an A-.
Ed: You know how I knew this film would be a disaster? Even ahead of the reviews, Alcock had pre-emptively attacked criticism as sexist and began declaring her ally-ship with the LGBTQ+ community. That's the desperation move on films that will end up stinking.
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Supergirl is a total bust and will lose several hundred million dollars. The “star” attacking Christians and dads helped tank it. Studios have to protect themselves from these moron actors and actresses giving woke interviews and tanking the movies. Crazy this keeps happening.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 27, 2026
Ed: It might just be a bad movie, though. Alcock was just baiting critics in an attempt to distract from the real problem, which is that it's just not good at all. Even Variety understands it!
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Variety: The issues with “Supergirl” extend far beyond that one song, of course. As Variety critic Owen Gleiberman wrote in his review of the film, it’s “a comic-book movie with the worst script I can remember” that’s “full of action yet numbingly flat”; it received a B- Cinemascore among opening-night audiences, the lowest of any DC Comics movie adaptation other than “Joker Folie à Deux”; and grossed a meager $38 million in its opening weekend against a $170 million budget (plus worldwide marketing expenses). “Supergirl” is just the latest in a long line of disappointing movies — or, in the worrying case of “Batgirl,” axed projects — centering a female superhero since Patty Jenkins’ impressive “Wonder Woman” back in 2017.
Why can’t Hollywood get it right?
Ed: The first clue would be hiring someone who's literally never written a full-length film to write a $270 million superhero film. And maybe stop writing female leads as Mary Sues and/or "boss b*****s."
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Supergirl's audience was 59% male.
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) June 29, 2026
If it's only flopping because people hate women, why aren't more women actually going to see it? https://t.co/3dJJSCpwkK
Ed: Even women are tired of the Mary Sue Syndrome. Or the color brown. Or both!
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Wednesday's lyric: "You're The Best Around" by Joe Esposito. Full disclosure: This was an earworm I had last week from the Midas commercial featuring William Zabka, who played Johnny in The Karate Kid.
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