TODAY'S NEWS, July 4-6, 2026

Larry Schweikart
1 hour ago
6 min read

HEADLINES: America's 250th was raucous; ICE arrests 100,000 in five days; Ds want to lower the threshold for the wealth tax

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IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) President Trump, in his Fourth of July ceremonies, gave a rousing speech at Mount Rushmore that denounced communism. Amazing Zohran, are you listening, little spoogie? After a thunderstorm delay, he gave another speech in D.C. celebrating the enduring victory of the American spirit. In 1994, Newt Gingrich nationalized the House races through the Contract with America. Trump is doing the same thing by reframing the 2026 midterms as a vote on patriotism. Some communications specialist should contrast Trump's speeches, filled with words such as "victory," "greatness," "liberty," "growth" and so on to someone like Rutabaga, who promised crackdowns, arrests, hate, and overall dimplespooge. Seth Keshel, who has become one of the best political prognosticators, says the shift to the DemoKKKrat Fascists of America only portends more GOP victories and a consolidation/increase in Hispanic support, the GOP retaking some of the suburbs, further erosion of DemoKKKrat urban strength, and a kind of Overton Window shift to the right for major conservative/MAGA principles. Seth joins many other observers who said the DemoKKKrat establishment has only itself to blame for rigging the elections against Dinobernie and creating the "superdelegate" status that curtails grass-roots participation.

2) Any so-called "wealth tax" will not stop at billionaires. Now Row-Row-Row-Your-Khanna wants it to drop to $50 million. Soon it will be $5 million, then $500,000. Any discrepancies in wealth will eventually be punished, even if at $50,000 because, you see, in the minds of the DemoKKKrat Terror Party, "You didn't build that." "You didn't earn that."

3) After taking one reporting week off to let the NC DemoKKKrats manage to net 300 more voter registrations than Rs, the GOP is back in front with a net of 205 and a total lead of 10,600, with an active voter lead of 117,000. Nevada Ds regained the state lead by 7,000 after the DemoKKKrats had a competitive primary and the GOP did not. Meanwhile, in MI, a far-left candidate and "rising star" dropped out of the Senate primary, which means that an even further left Muslim will win the DemoKKKrat primary there.

4) This analysis correctly argues that the DemoKKKrats bet on the wrong horse with Zero over Cankles in 2008 and that they have never really recovered. Former DemoKKKat senator Joe Manchi-on-a-Hill said DemoKKKrats are reaping what they sewed. Yea, but you, ya slimy toejam sandwich, were too cowardly to leave the DemoKKKrats when you were in office.

5) President Trump pardoned the diesel mechanics that Rutababa's EPA went after.

6) Last week while MAGA correctly raged against the Birthright Citizenship case, the Supes quietly overturned the "Humphrey's Executor" rule in the Slaughter case, allowing President Trump to expand the number of federal employees eligible for being fired. Not a big deal, the Hoax News told us. Just a few people in a few agencies. Today? "Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F" meaning outside Civil Service protections.

7) Wonderful news, as acting DNI head Bill Pulte fired dozens of Deep State operatives. Personally, I'm good with firing them all and starting from scratch. No specific reasons were given but the New York Slimes said it was because the administration thought these fungalrockets were slow-walking evidence on the Russia Hoax. No sooner did the New York Slimes assure us the brave and patriotic intel agencies would never do that (Mr. Kennedy? Ah, Mr. Kennedy? Sorry. he's unavailable for comment), Cankles said the intel agencies should slow walk evidence on Russia.. Can't make this up.

8) DemoKKKrats struggle to contain the Amazing Moron Zohran's communism within their party. Why? I thought commie-ism was just fantastic. Meanwhile both he and his wife continue to step on a rake, as she abandoned the America 250th celebration for some Muslim retreat. This guy will be poison to ordinary Americans.

IN AI NEWS

9) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to give the U.S. government a 5% stake in his company . . . but only if competitors do the same.

10) Major companies are starting to limit AI access as costs escalate.

11) Samsung prepares for a 20% memory chip hike.

IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS

12) President Trump has reduced the number of refugees to a record low, just a cap of 7,500 permitted compared to Rutabaga's 125,000.

13) The Rutabaga sponsored illegal criminal invasion was almost entirely responsible for rising home prices and higher rents says a new Federal Reserve paper.

14) Another Amish migrant truck driver, looking at his phone, ran down one person then sped off.

15) Wait, I thought after Greg Bovino left ICE stood down? Looks like ICE arrested 100,000 nationwide in just 5 days. Goooooood.

IN CULTURAL NEWS

16) Here are 10 amazing interactive charts showing how America has changed over the past 250 years.

17) Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were finally married. Good. Now we can get on with the divorce.

18) Trump voters have more kids.

19) Nearly 10% of all college students can only do math at a 4th grade level. Actually, I'm surprised it's that high.

20) Americans of all ages are spending less time socializing. Like Sen. John Kennedy says, "I get up with love in my heart for all men and by 11:00 I want to kill 'em all."

22) An appeals court cleared the way for the administration to begin revising the woke info panels about slavery at the President's House in Philadelphia.

IN ECONOMIC NEWS

23) The car brands with the best maintenance records are Buick (!), Hyunda, Lincoln, and Toyota, Cadillac is toward the bottom. Here is my Cadillac story: a few years after my wife and I were married, my mother had to go into assisted living & could no longer drive so she gave us her big boat Cadillac. Not my kind of vehicle, but it was free---so I thought. First, we flew my brother in law to AZ to pick it up and drive it to OH (he had time & loved to drive). He literally got out of the assisted living lot and was hit. A month later, we flew him out again. This time, the repaired Caddy got home, but it was one problem after another. Once my computer broke, and when I got it to the shop, the guys said, "Hey, your car's on fire." And so it went. Most expensive "free" car I ever had.

24) Cue Roy Orbison singing "It's over." Trump just ended 35 years of wind and solar subsidies.

IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS

25) The American system rejects Europe's economic suicide. We said "Nein, nyet!"

26) Where does wealth go internationally? Usually places where the law looks the other way and which are just not all that desirable to invade because a foreign nation could take them in 30 seconds, such as Singapore or the Caymans. The U.S., Russia, Chy-na, and India are all in the same cohort.

27) Funny. Germany's version of fascist so-called antifa tried to block the German conservative party, AfD, from meeting---but AfD tricked the little Hun morons and arrived an hour and a half earlier secretly, held their elections, then left. AfD is gaining major ground precisely because of stories such as this: a migrant mass shooting suspect in Germany who killed six escaped from a Turkish prison and reportedly raped his own daughter.

28) A U.S. led coalition seized 20,000 pounds of cocaine, or, about one good weekend for Hunter Biteme.

29) The Swedes are finally starting to get tough on migrants. Too late?

30) Japanese bankruptcies rise as the result of a plunging yen.

31) President Trump is turning NATO into a business that benefits the USA. Good. We benefitted NATO for 50 years.

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

32) "Young Washington" is a must see, and see it in the theater to support this kind of filmmaking. Brilliant, moving, patriotic. Here is my review. After its first weekend, "Young Washington," made on a budget of $20 million, has exceeded $20 million at the box office, suggesting in one more week it will break even---way ahead of the huge budget "Supergirl" bomb, which suffered a 73% drop from opening week. Also, "Pressure," with Brendan Frasier as Dwight Eisenhower, is very good---though not on the same level as "Young Washington." Still, it captures the struggle to predict the weather for D-Day and the consequences if the meteorologists---and Ike---were wrong. Finally, apparently Christopher Nolan's new woke remake of the "Odyssey" is so bad the studio is canceling screenings.

33) Former star NFL running back Chris Johnson (39) has been diagnosed with ALS.

34) So who woulda guessed soccer would really be a thing? Now the U.S. star striker, who was given a one-game suspension, has been reinstated----apparently with some pressure from Pres. Trump---and the Belgians are all twisty.