KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Friendly Reminder that California Is the DNC’s Testing Ground. “The reason that Gavin Newsom thinks that he is the most popular boy at the Democratic National Committee dance and should be the party’s nominee for president in 2028 is that California is where the Democrats test out all of their insanity. Election fraud. Gun control. Unhinged welfare schemes for illegals. The Dems try it all out in the Golden State in the hopes of exporting everything nationwide.”

OOF:

NANCY MACE IS OUT, ENDORSES OPPONENT FOR S.C. GOVERNOR. “Buried the hatchet.” She started out promising but has been kind of erratic.

THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT THINGS CAN BE DIFFERENT:

UNNATURAL:

Alternate Insta-headline: Leave them kids alone.

WELL, YEAH: White House border czar Tom Homan blames New York Gov. Hochul for promised ICE surge.

White House border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday blamed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for a promised surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to New York City.

But Homan would not say when he expected that surge of ICE agents to happen, when questioned by reporters at the White House.

“You can expect more ICE agents to go to New York because Gov. [Kathy] Hochul signed legislation that ended our … agreements” that allowed the agency to delegate state and local law enforcement officers to perform immigration enforcement functions under ICE oversight, he said.

The agreements under ICE’s 287(g) program were used to identify and process removable immigrants who were in jail after being arrested by local authorities on unrelated charges.

“We’re going to surge resources in New York,” he said. “We have to.”

Don’t like ICE in your cities? Then stop electing pols who flout immigration laws.

REVOLUTION IS BREWING IN EUROPE, AND IT’S ABOUT TIME:

TWO-TIER KEIR:

Related: Belfast burns after knife attack protests.

Footage on Sky News showed infants being carried out of neighbouring homes as flames crackled inside the houses, while a pastor told the BBC people were being forced out of their homes “because they’re black”.

Protesters also attempted to set the Sham Supermarket, a Middle Eastern shop, alight on Donegal Road, just south of the city centre.

Several vehicles, including a police vehicle and a Glider bus on the Newtownards Road, were set on fire in the east of the city earlier in the evening.

The violence was widely condemned across the political spectrum.

Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein First Minister, said the burning of homes amounted to “outright thuggery” while Arlene Foster, her DUP predecessor, said she watched the unfolding scenes “with great sadness”.

For O’Neill, some riots are far more acceptable than others:

THIS IS HARDLY SHOCKING: Germany, France scrap joint fighter jet program.

The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, launched in 2017, aimed to build a next-generation fighter to replace Eurofighters and Rafales by around 2040.

The move to scrap one of Europe’s largest defense projects comes as Western military officials warn of a mounting threat from Russia and the United States intensifies pressure on Europe to take care of its own defense.

The more than €100 billion ($115 billion) project, launched in 2017, was once billed as a symbol of Franco-German military unity.

But it has been plagued by years of political and industrial disputes.

French arms giant Dassault Aviation has demanded significantly more control over the project than its industry partner, European consortium Airbus Defence and Space.

The two companies clashed over control of the project’s next phase, access to intellectual property and, above all, differing requirements for the aircraft.

Why can’t Germany and France just get along like they used to in the olden days?

FROM C. CHANCY:  The Words of the Night (Colors of Another Sky Book 1).

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It’s 1618. Do you know where your historian is?

Retirement wasn’t supposed to have dragons….

Historian Jason Finn crossed the planet to escape the Black Dog of depression – and almost got there. Over the mountains of Korea, a monster out of nightmares tore his plane from the sky… and into another world.

Hunting down ravenous shapeshifting pirates, Night Magistrate Lee Cheong found survivors from elsewhere. Survivors who say pirates are not the only threat. Over twenty years ago Hanyang burned in dragon flames… and that monster still lives.

Now the young magistrate must lead demon-hunters on a desperate chase, aided by a bandit sharpshooter, a seafolk medic, a Heavenly cultivator on the run for her life… and a time-lost historian.

Jason’s willing to help, but he’s cursed, fighting to survive, and struggling to understand a land of magic and monsters. All the while doing his best to keep a teenage girl alive.

Upside? Jason’s definitely not depressed….

ON SCOTT PELLEY: Would someone please arrange somehow to re-introduce the former CBS News “60 Minutes” star to his former CBS News colleague Bernard Goldberg. And if that’s not possible for whatever reason, give him a copy of “Bias: A CBS Insider Reveals How the Media Distort the News.” It will be a journey of self-discovery if Pelley reads it. Check it out on The Washington Stand today.

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