CRONYISM IS ONLY BAD WHEN REPUBLICANS DO IT:  LAUSD replaces Carvalho after he disgracefully resigned amid school system’s looming financial crisis and education shortcomings.

THEIR REGISTRATIONS LIST AN OFFICE AS RESIDENCE?  Leaked list of Hollywood megastars drags them into shocking LA voting debacle.

ARE THEY CLAIMING A SOCIALIST LIED? I’M SO SHOCKED!  Dad of Mamdani-backed NY primary winner Aber Kawass, who downplayed 9/11, was deported for property fraud — not ‘cruel’ immigration as she claimed.

WE NEED HIGHER NUMBERS:  ICE has arrested 10,000 migrant gang members so far in Trump’s second term, DHS reveals.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TIKTOK AND SEWAGE?*  Sickening TikTokkers are doing the ‘Austin Boppers’ dance and reenacting teen’s murder by Karmelo Anthony.

*Sewage can be used as fertilizer.

YES, MINISTER PROVED PROPHETIC! THE SIR HUMPHREYS FOUGHT TO ENSURE THE WRONG PEOPLE DIDN’T GAIN POWER:   Brexit ten years on: The elites who went to war with the people.

TED LIEU ISN’T HAPPY ABOUT THE FRAUD DISCOVERIES:  Ted Lieu Vows Lawfare Against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

SHE THOUGHT THERE WERE NO ENEMIES TO HER LEFT:  Letitia James Isn’t Happy With Zohran Mamdani and His Merry Band of Socialists.

B-BUT OBAMACARE: AAG McDonald Told the Nation Just How Much of Our Money Was Stolen by Healthcare Fraudsters.

I’VE HEARD THIS BEFORE:  Laye: “The Dollar Is No Longer Alone in America’s Financial Domination” of the Planet.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Al Jazeera ‘Journalist’ Mourned by Mamdani was Hamas Terrorist, IDF Reveals.

THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS:  Judge Blocks Trump From Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote.

GOOD:  U.S.-Congo Cobalt Deal Puts New Pressure on China’s Minerals Empire.

G-D FORGIVE THEM:  Netherlands euthanizes child under 12 in first case since major law change.

CHINA CAN SAY WHATEVER IT WANTS. IT DON’T MAKE IT SO:  China says it has a right to target people overseas with new ethnic unity law.

IT MEANS “NO PLACE”:  Utopia.

AMERICA IS THE ANTITHESIS OF LEFTISM, SO LEFTISM MUST ALWAYS END IN HATING AMERICA:

It’s the omnicause reaching final fruition. Not that far a leap from thinking everything in America is structurally racist, sexist, and otherwise unjust according to the latest intersectional matrix and just thinking America needs to be ended. https://t.co/jXyHExCO5C

— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) June 24, 2026

CLASS: Brits visiting US for first time during World Cup are apologizing to Americans: ‘We were wrong’. I think — and I believe I first heard this from John Ringo’s wife Miriam, who’s super-smart — that the difference between the attitudes toward flyover America from the World Cup crowd and from the European laptop class is class. The soccer fans aren’t as posh as the ones who come for the Olympics, and they are seeing parts of America that are — like them — middle- and working-class and they’re thinking that wow, it’s a lot better to be middle- and working-class in America than in Britain or Europe. Whereas for the laptop class, not so much.

OPEN THREAD: It’s perfection and grace. It’s the smile on my face.

IN THE FEDERALIST A REVIEW OF LARRY CORREIA’S NEW BOOK, AMERICAN PALADIN: A High Octane Thriller For Men Asks Why Men Become Vigilantes.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

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— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 24, 2026

Don’t worry, I’m sure it will all end well:

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— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 24, 2026

NO IT DOESN’T: NASA wants to dump the ISS in the sea. Experts say the plan ‘raises serious concerns for ocean health.’

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: John Fetterman blasts Larry David for being embarrassed to be an American after the White House UFC fight.

Look, I get that you might not like that there was an awesome UFC fight at the White House. But a “travesty” that made you “embarrassed to be an American”?

The smartest Democrat had thoughts:

😬 John Fetterman rips Larry David for being embarrassed by White House UFC event.

🎥: @jacob_wass pic.twitter.com/VgEWirsU36

— TMZ (@TMZ) June 24, 2026

The TMZ reporter not getting the reference to Warren Oates’ legendary line in Stripes? As Ben “Hamas” Rhodes, the failed novelist turned Obama’s Middle Eastern policy “expert” (in)famously told the New York Times a decade ago, “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”

STRONG MAGNITUDE 7.1 EARTHQUAKE SHOOK VENEZUELA AND WAS FELT IN COLOMBIA:

An earthquake that particularly shook Caracas occurred this Wednesday, June 24, and was also felt in several cities in Colombia such as Bogota and Bucaramanga. In the Venezuelan capital, scenes of panic unfolded, and social media was flooded with videos of the destruction caused by the seismic movement.

As of Wednesday evening, Venezuelan authorities had not provided an assessment of the damage or the possible victims left by the earthquake. In some videos, collapsed buildings can be seen in Caracas, along with witnesses claiming that people are trapped. Chaos took hold of the city.

One of the locations affected was Maiquetia International Airport, where people were running to reach safety. A tsunami alert was also declared for some Caribbean islands.

As the caption to the video from the aforementioned airport reads in English, “They’ve sent me this video of Maiquetia Airport. My God…:”

Me han pasado este vídeo del Aeropuerto de Maiquetia. dios mío… pic.twitter.com/sSH0yboQVP

— Said Rahal (@srahalh) June 24, 2026

UPDATE: Venezuela rocked by strongest earthquakes in over a century, as USGS fears up to 100K deaths.