REDNECK NATION: NY Times Defends Organizer of ‘Muslims Only’ Swim Party.

Happy 4th everyone. I’m celebrating like everyone else with family, friends and fireworks. However, I wanted to say something about this story from the NY Times which bends over backwards to defend Aminah Knight, the woman to posted a flyer for a “Muslims only” swim event in Texas.

Ms. Knight, a former public-school teacher from New York City, was determined. She wanted something for families — and especially for young women and girls who, like her, enjoyed swimming but disliked the attention that full-body swimwear, common in the Middle East, often drew at American pools.

“We swim too,” Ms. Knight thought. She refused to settle for another bounce house party.
She traveled from mosque to mosque across North Texas’ booming Muslim community, talking up her event. She made her own website and flyer. And her efforts worked. Hundreds attended.

That was the first year. She held the event again last year and it was even more popular. This year she planned to host it again but things didn’t go as planned.

She had a flyer ready, which she shared widely on social media last year, when more than 500 people turned out. She changed a few words, adding that the event would be “family-friendly.”

And she kept the part that said: “Muslims Only.”

She didn’t think twice about it. After all, the event celebrated a Muslim holiday. There would be halal meat, Islamic music, a private prayer area and a dress code of modest swimwear.

She wanted observant families to feel comfortable. She never thought anyone would mind.

But this year people noticed the flyer and in particular the part that read “Muslims only.” First it attracted the attention of a local podcaster and then the NY Post. Eventually she removed that wording from the flyer but it was too late. The governor stepped in.

Read the whole thing. I guess as long as the event was separate, but entirely equal to other pool parties, the Gray Lady would be fine with it. Straight out of Redneck Nation, and more recently, Ryan Long’s “When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything” video:

And speaking of Redneck Nation:

Amazing. https://t.co/NfmBzFAecY

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 4, 2026

Earlier: Darializa Avila Chevalier’s Hostility to Interracial Romances and ‘Ugly Colonizer Women’ Earns Praise From Ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke.

IT WAS BETTER BEFORE BENCH SEATS WENT OUT, THOUGH YOU’D BE SURPRISED WHAT YOU CAN DO IN A 1969 VW BEETLE: America’s Love Affair with Sex in Cars.

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Native Americans corralled Spanish horses decades before Europeans arrived.

There’s just one problem here:

The second paragraph devours the headline like a snake eating its tail. https://t.co/TuwgtQC8ho pic.twitter.com/N7tpOvoyAp

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 4, 2026

Perhaps a geographical issue:

Finally, scientific backing to my long held belief that the Spanish aren’t real Europeans https://t.co/6tnsHxewoD

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) July 4, 2026

TRIM YOUR NAILS: Ergonomic Long Handle Toenail Clippers with Catcher. #CommissionEarned

IT’S A SOUTHERN POVERTY SESQUICENTENNIAL!

Happy 4th of July, SPLC. https://t.co/PMavUzov8f

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 4, 2026

When Reuters sent out their photographer to shoot this clearly staged photo, couldn’t they have also dispatched a reporter to write up a story as well?

I’m not gonna speculate as to who these guys are, although the fact that some intrepid journalist hasn’t tracked that down by this point leaves certain implications

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) July 4, 2026

Exit quote:

Can’t wait to find out which left wing NGO is footing the bill for this nonsense. https://t.co/2UDJcJgfs2

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 4, 2026

Do the Patriot Front guys do anything besides marching around in suspiciously clean khakis, masks and baseball caps?  Is there any burning, looting, statue toppling or podium stealing? They seem very much like the Monty Python sketch about would-be bank robbers afraid of breaking the law:

UPDATE:

I just think it’s funny that the “Patriot Front” jabroneys are too embarrassed to show their faces carrying the American flag. Not very patriotic.

Likewise, it’s funny that people who call themselves American patriots carry flags for a cause that sought to destroy America.… https://t.co/2g83ipuK2I

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 4, 2026

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Gun Owners Have Even More Than Usual to Celebrate This Independence Day.

SPECIAL FOR TODAY: ‘We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident’

GREAT VACUUM: Dyson V8™ Cordless Vacuum. #CommissionEarned We have one of these and it works well.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: 1 private spacecraft intercepts another on Space Force’s groundbreaking ‘Victus Haze’ mission.

ISN’T THIS HOW THE MOVIE STARTS? Scientists Have Created a Cell from Scratch and Researchers Say ‘We Can Engineer It:’ The lab-made cell can grow, copy its DNA, and divide but cannot survive independently or be considered fully alive, researchers said.

OLD AND BUSTED: Moscow on the Hudson.

The New Coldness? Siberia at Gracie Mansion!

Turns out like all communists, Zohran lies and demands the people sacrifice while he is blasting the A/C in his office

Via @nypost https://t.co/Ek3bR6Wmom pic.twitter.com/z8facfY84H

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) July 3, 2026

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Taylor Swift was right about sourdough bread.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

pic.twitter.com/chHBmI2zUH

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 3, 2026

QUESTION ASKED:

“The U.S. Air Force is playing Guns N’ Roses at Mt. Rushmore on the eve of #America250 , and you’re blackpilling???” pic.twitter.com/JFWfkvWNgm

— Dillon I. Ivy 🇺🇸 (@DillonIIvy1) July 4, 2026

That’s great, but it’s not as great as Steve Gadd, who went on to play with just about everybody, playing drums in 1970 in the US Army band to provide the backbone of a surprisingly funky “Cissy Strut:”

THE LIE’S NAME IS HOWARD ZINN: 1976 and the Lie That Broke Our National Unity.

Related:

Compare Calvin Coolidge on America’s 150th anniversary:

“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore… https://t.co/yTbh1DK6jm

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) July 3, 2026

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Sophia and the Fourth.

KEEP YOUR DISHWASHER CLEAN: Affresh Dishwasher Cleaner. #CommissionEarned We use this and it works well!

GOOD: Civics education expands ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.

I’m on the board of UT’s Institute of American Civics at the Baker School, which among other things has been pushing out course content to high schools across the state.

WELL, NO, BUT WHAT THE HELL: Need Another Reason to Loathe Michelle Obama?

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Communism isn't popular. Never has been.

Hence all Communist revolutions are spearheaded by a small number of academic elites, while the underlings—the ones who invariably perish in such a revolt—must be manipulated into participating with some other pet issue. https://t.co/dkGniT3Q1u

— RazörFist (@RazorFist) July 4, 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Virginia, Ohio explore three-year bachelor’s degrees amid debate over college costs.

This has more implications than just lowering tuition. With fewer “general ed” requirements, humanities courses will lose demand, which means losing funding and faculty slots.

THIS ISN’T JUST A BURN, IT’S DEEP-FRYING THE HUFFPO:

A special Happy 4th of July shout out to the patriots at @JimmysSeafood who expanded their business this year by telling anti-American trash to go fuck themselves.

This was one of my favorite X moments ever… 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/IoYZ2ElJZQ

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) July 4, 2026

HISTORY!

Ben Franklin didn’t plow through dozens and dozens of French whores so that you could abide by fireworks ordinances

— Ingenuous Firebrand 🐆🇺🇸 (@ING2Firebrand) July 4, 2024

ALL OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS TURN OUT TO BE LEFTIST FRONT GROUPS: Committee to Protect Journalists in Turmoil After 17-1 Vote Upholding Tangled Definition of ‘Journalist’ for Gaza List: Fox News Is Sole ’No’ Vote.

Farragut, Tennessee. Happy Fourth of July!