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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Trump Campaign Responds to Biden’s Plan for Border Security: “Amnesty”

Townhall: The Trump campaign on Tuesday lashed out at President Biden over an executive order on immigration he’ll reportedly sign this week, claiming it’s about amnesty, not border security. Biden is expected to announce a measure that would shut down the border to illegal border crossers seeking asylum if the average number of daily encounters reaches 2,500. The border would only reopen once that number drops to 1,500 or below (Townhall). Senior Advisor to Donald Trump Stephen Miller: IT’S AN AMNESTY AND MASS MIGRATION ORDER THAT CEMENTS THE INVASION. Illegals get a phone app for fast-pass entry, get escorted to the ports for admission, get paroled into the country with work permits and deportation immunity (X). Trump Press Secretary Karolina Leavitt: Our Statement on Crooked Joe Biden’s Mass Amnesty to Destroy America (X).

Trump’s Campaign Donations Shatters Records: $200 Million-Plus in Three Days

Hugh Hewitt: If you aren’t stunned by the $70 million+ in “small dollar” campaign contributions to the campaign of former President Donald Trump that were made in the first 72 hours after the verdicts in his Manhattan trial, then you don’t know much about politics, because nothing like this sort of fundraising weekend has ever happened before. According to Eric Trump, the record-setting flood of small dollar donations was accompanied by big donations which, when included with the small donors, totaled over $200 million in donations to the Trump campaign in the three days following the verdicts. What that mountain of new money tells us is that the verdicts constituted a “last straw” for hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters, old and new. Enormous numbers of ordinary Americans were disgusted enough with the verdicts to send Trump money to press forward with his campaign (Fox News).

Scholastic Book Publisher Offers “Pride Guide” to Educators During “Read With Pride” Campaign

National Review: Book publisher Scholastic announced a “Read with Pride” campaign, providing educators a list of “LGBTQIA+ stories” for “kids and teens” and vowed to use company resources to fight efforts by local school districts and parents to determine what content is appropriate for students. In its section on “why it’s essential to support LGBTQIA+ youth,” Scholastic states that almost 10 percent of teens in the United States are “lesbian, gay, bi, or trans,” that “about half (52%)” of all Americans who fall under the “LGBTQIA+” umbrella are “people of color,” and that a quarter of children and teens who fit that description “identify outside of the gender binary” (National Review). LGBTQNation: The guide comes eight months after the company was widely criticized for allowing schools to opt out of offering “diverse” books on racial and LGBTQ+ issues at its school book fairs. Though Scholastic introduced the policy to help educators adhere to state legislation and district policies banning queer content and “critical race theory” in schools, it reversed the opt-out policy after authors and educators blamed the company for complying to book banning rather than challenging such bans (LGBTQNation).

BMW Answers Why They Do Not Market Pride Month in the Middle East

Daily Wire: BMW’s official corporate account on X said the quiet part out loud when someone dared to ask why the car company’s Middle East-facing logo had not been subjected to the same Pride-Month-rainbow-flag treatment as the logo seen in the United States: it wouldn’t be culturally acceptable there. Libs of TikTok shared a series of screenshots showing several companies — including Cisco and BMW — that had adopted pride or rainbow-themed versions of their logos to display in the U.S. but had left their Middle East-facing logos alone (Daily Wire). Libs of TikTok: Every. Single. Year. This will never not be funny (X). BMW: This is an established practice at the BMW Group, which also takes into consideration market-specific legal regulations and country-specific cultural aspects (4/4) (X).

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Scraps DEI Statement as Condition of Employment

Biden: “There is every reason” to Conclude Netanyahu is Extending the War for Political Benefit

Hill: President Biden said it was reasonable for people to conclude that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prolonging the war in Gaza for his political benefit. “I’m not going to comment on that,” Biden told Time magazine. “There is every reason for people to draw that conclusion.” Biden said his major disagreement with Netanyahu over the war is about what would happen when it ends. Biden has supported a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, but Netanyahu has opposed such an idea (Hill). NBC: The president has faced growing opposition from the far left of the Democratic Party over U.S. policy toward Israel in its efforts to help its close ally. Asked last week by Time if Israeli forces have committed war crimes in Gaza, Biden said. “The answer is it’s uncertain and has been investigated by the Israelis themselves. The ICC is something that we don’t, we don’t recognize,” he added, referring to the International Criminal Court, whose chief prosecutor sought arrest warrants last month against Israeli leaders, including Netanyahu, for alleged war crimes (NBC).

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Mexican Mayor Killed by Gunmen

CBS: …. barely 24 hours after Claudia Sheinbaum was elected the Latin American country’s first woman president. Officials said the mayor’s bodyguard was also killed in the attack. The Michoacan state government condemned “the murder of the municipal president (mayor) of Cotija, Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa,” the regional interior ministry said in a post on social media. The murder of the woman mayor comes after Sheinbaum’s landslide victory injected hope for change in a country riven by rampant gender-based violence. Sanchez, who was elected mayor in 2021 elections, was gunned down on a public road, according to local media, with one outlet reporting she was shot 19 times outside of a gym (CBS). BBC: She was the first woman to be elected to the post. Widespread violence against politicians has overshadowed Mexico’s general election. Her bodyguard was also killed in the gun battle. No arrests have been made so far in connection with the attack but it is widely thought that the gunmen belonged to an organized crime group. Ms Sánchez had reported receiving death threats after taking up office in September 2021. She was held for three days by armed men who had seized her at gunpoint during a visit to the neighboring state of Jalisco in 2023. The politician said that her kidnappers had made “demands” and inflicted “psychological terror” before releasing her (BBC).

Washington Post in Dire Straits After Losing Half Their Readers Since 2020

HotAir: As I wrote yesterday, the Post has fired its editor Sally Buzbee and is hiring a new team to right the ship—if righting the ship is even possible. The publisher met with the newsroom and was quite blunt about why the former editor departed and announced the changes he was making. “Reporters” didn’t like the changes.” Buzbee, you see, was the first female editor of the Post, and like Kamala Harris too valuable as a symbol to have mere competence be a determining factor evaluating the job she was doing. Did I mention that the Post is bleeding money and losing audience faster than the movie “Cats? did” (HotAir). Dylan Byers: I’d argue the worst sign for WaPo is that they’ve lost *half* their audience since 2020 and *$77 million* last year…. and the fact that they have someone trying to get them out of that rut who isn’t overly sensitive to their anxieties (or to P.R.-approved diction) is a net win (X).

Nigel Farage Declares Candidacy in General Election as Reform UK Candidate

BBC: Nigel Farage has announced he will stand in the general election for Reform UK and is taking over as the party’s leader. He will be Reform’s candidate in Clacton, after previously saying he would not stand in July’s general election. The former UKIP and Brexit Party leader said he had changed his mind after spending time on the campaign trail, adding he did not want to let his supporters down (BBC).

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Bar in Idaho to Celebrate “Heterosexual Awesomeness” in June

National Review: In an irreverent departure from the usual “Pride” celebrations, an Idaho bar is celebrating “Heterosexual Awesomeness” this June. On the Old State Saloon Facebook page, the organizers’ message read: “Come join us all month to celebrate heterosexuals, for without them, none of us would be here!” The discounts include “Hetero Male Monday”— a free draft beer to “any heterosexual male dressed like a heterosexual male.” On Wednesdays, it’s “Duo Deal,” where each heterosexual couple will get a 15 percent deduction on their check. On Thursdays, straight women can enjoy a happy hour on drinks in an offer known as “Her Hetero Happy Hour.” If the gay-rights movement was about equality, then mission accomplished! But “Pride month” and all the corporate power it wields is a reminder that, for some LGBTQ activists, the objective isn’t equality but total dominance. Good for the Old State Saloon for having the audacity to puncture this inflated sacred cow (National Review).