YES:

“You have to step back and ask yourself who are these people and what are they trying to do to both our society and the people in it?”

MARK JUDGE: The Trial: A Rare Documentary Reveals the Hell of a Communist Show Trial.

It is a stroke of genius that in The Divine Comedy Dante depicts Satan as trapped in a giant bedrock of ice. Hell isn’t necessarily flames, which can be beautiful and life-sustaining, but ice – cold, non-generative, deadly.

A cold Moscow winter in 1930 is the setting for The Trial, a rarely seen but vitally important 2019 documentary by Ukrainian filmmaker  Sergei Loznitsa. The Trial – which should not be confused with Trial, the great 1955 anti-communist drama starring Glenn Ford – is constructed of restored black-and-white footage from one of Joseph Stalin’s first show trials, recorded in 1930 in Moscow. Stalin had falsely accused a political rival of seeking to sabotage the USSR at the behest of French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré and other Western leaders. In shocking footage, the accused, all innocent, confess to crimes they never actually committed.

Read the whole thing.

HMM: Hamas dismantles government to allow Board of Peace-approved panel to take over. “Anonymous officials from the Gaza-based terrorist group announced the dissolution to AFP on Monday after preliminary reports swirled late Sunday evening. The officials confirmed that the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, created by President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, would fill the power vacuum in the Gaza Strip.”

It isn’t so much who serves on the Board of Peace now, but who gets slipped in once our attention is elsewhere.

CALIFORNIA MAGA STRONGHOLD ERUPTS AFTER SHOCK RULING ON CONSERVATIVE PARADISE: ‘They’re coming after us.’

Huntington Beach has erupted after a judge ordered the city to adopt ranked-choice voting for council members — amid fears it could destroy the Republican supermajority.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig Griffin ruled late June that the MAGA enclave needs to move away from its at-large system after a years-long court battle.

A wave of Southern California municipalities have been forced to change the way they vote in recent years as courts found at-large is unfavorable to minority voters under the California Voting Rights.

The push is being led by Malibu’s activist Democratic lawyer Kevin Shenkman, who has spent decades suing and threatening cities across the region to stop at-large voting.

It comes as Huntington Beach led the West Coast for its show of patriotism on Fourth of July, with an insane fireworks extravaganza that drew about 500,000 to its famous shores.

But the patriotic paradise could be under threat as locals claimed to the California Post the voting change is a desperate Democrat attempt to turn the town blue.

Gooder and harder, California.

MY FANS DO THE STRANGEST (AND MOST WONDERFUL) THINGS:  USAian-inspired.

THE ELITE CAPTURE OF THE INSTITUTIONS WAS NOT THE PUBLIC’S CHOICE:

Flashback: Our campuses are corrupt — and higher education is due for its comeuppance.

WE SHOULD AT LEAST CELEBRATE ROBERT A. HEINLEIN’S BIRTHDAY, WHICH IS ALSO TODAY:  Tanabata Star Festival in Japan Explained.

Happy birthday R.A.H. the world in general and my life in particular would be very different without you!

THIS IS NOT JUST A RANT ABOUT GROKPEDIA (BUT IT IS THAT TOO!):  Just-So Stories.