EVERYONE’S A BILLIONAIRE:

Iran is doing so well that it won’t be long before everyone’s a trillionaire.

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: The Dems’ newest phrase in raging at the GOP is to go ‘Kill yourself.’

In almost any other era, the hostile exchange between EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) would have been an instant embarrassment on Capitol Hill.

But at a time when political violence is becoming frighteningly common and widely accepted, DeLauro’s nasty suggestion that Zeldin drink a glass of weed killer marked just another day in the trenches.

Dripping with bitterness, the 83-year-old, purple-haired DeLauro is often an embarrassment to Connecticut and more sober-minded Democrats with her nutty bluster.

She outdid herself Monday, and certainly wasn’t interested in Zeldin’s factual and workmanlike testimony, saying it sounded “like a climate change denier’s manifesto.”

When he countered by citing court rulings in the EPA’s favor, she was ignorant of the cases, but in no mood to learn.

“I don’t have to listen to this BS!” she raged.

Writing later on X, Zeldin said she “apparently believes that when you don’t have anything good to say, you should instruct the person you are debating to kill themself.”

In 1987’s The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom wrote, “We have here the peculiarly American way digesting Continental despair. It is nihilism with a happy ending,” adding that “the new American life-style has become a Disneyland version of the Weimar Republic for the whole family.” That Weimar-style nihilism has taken a far darker turn over the past decade:

The establishment left accepting such a dark worldview is what leads to headlines such as this:

HE’S RIGHT, OF COURSE:

CHANGE: Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana’s Congressional Map in Major Voting Rights Ruling.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais, finding that the state’s second majority-Black district violated the Equal Protection Clause.

In the 6-3 decision, Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. The court held that the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to draw a second majority-minority district. Without that requirement, the state had no compelling reason to use race in drawing its lines.

SB8, enacted in 2024, created a District 6 stretching roughly 250 miles from Shreveport through Alexandria and Lafayette to Baton Rouge. Louisiana drew the district after a federal judge in Robinson v. Ardoin found the previous map likely violated Section 2.

Related: Virginia Supreme Court Denies Dem AG’s Attempt To Ram Through Gerrymander Vote Certification.

A BLOW AGAINST RACISM AND DIVISION:

MEMORY HOLED:

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH:

WHAT A JOKE: Iran selected for a vice presidency post at UN’s nuclear non-proliferation confab.

The United States and Iran clashed at the United Nations on Monday over Tehran’s nuclear program and the latter’s selection to be one of dozens of vice presidents at a month-long conference to review the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The 11th conference to review implementation of the NPT, which came into force in 1970, began on Monday at the United Nations in New York. Different groups nominated 34 conference vice presidents, and the conference chair, Vietnam’s UN ambassador Do Hung Viet, said Iran was picked by “the group of non-aligned and other states.”

Christopher Yeaw, assistant secretary for the US Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation, told the conference that Iran’s selection was an “affront” to the NPT.

The only non-proliferation the Islamic Republic understands is bunker-busters delivered by B-2.

TRUTH:

Exit quote: “Let’s be honest, Jimmy: when you hate Donald Trump as much as you do, that doesn’t sound like a joke. It sounds like how you really feel. They always say there is truth in comedy.”