✪ THE BIG FRIDAY SOOPER THREAD

CALIFORNIA MAYORS URGE POLICE & GANGS TO FIGHT ICE

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n Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass signed an ‘executive declaration’ ordering every municipal department to be in compliance with the “sanctuary city ordinance” and to create a “preparedness plan” to block federal immigration enforcement. She could have just called it a declaration of insurrection.

California was already infamous for its sanctuary city status, but Gov. Newsom and local officials like Mayor Bass are doubling down on ordering government employees, including local law enforcement, to protect illegal alien criminals and to confront federal law enforcement.

That can’t end well.

“I will never accept these unlawful and chaotic raids,” the Long Angeles mayor vowed and promised to “deploy every resource and tool available within the city” to protect illegal aliens and stop federal law enforcement from enforcing immigration law. Her ‘executive declaration’ also requests the “Police Commission, in collaboration with the Chief of Police, to incorporate, where appropriate, the community feedback and provide additional guidance to police officers on how to respond to situations involving federal immigration enforcement. “

Over a dozen local mayors had joined Bass at an event calling for an end to immigration enforcement. The attendees included Mayor Arturo Flores who had berated Marines deployed in Los Angeles and who had urged local police to stop ICE from arresting illegal aliens.

Mayor Flores of Huntington Park put out a statement targeting ICE and “urging law enforcement to investigate and intervene in any unauthorized operations that place public safety or civil liberties at risk.”

Flores and the rest of the city government passed a resolution ‘ordering’ ICE personnel to reveal their names. Huntington Park rolled out a HP With You program to aid illegal aliens and obstruct immigration enforcement.

Ventura Mayor Jeannette Sanchez-Palacios, another attendee at the Bass anti-immigration enforcement event, put out a letter urging residents to “report and document” ICE activities and referred them to the Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP). MICOP is a member of the ‘ICE Out of VC’ coalition alongside the local SEIU chapter, the Latinx Bar Association and pro-Hamas group CAIR. A key ‘ICE Out of VC’ activist urged local police to “stand up to protect our communities if ICE violates the law.”

When California politicians aren’t pressuring police officers to fight ICE, they’re turning to criminals to aid them in ending federal immigration enforcement.

Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez of Cudahy, who was also at the Bass event, went even further by appearing to rally violent street gangs to fight ICE:

“You guys are all about territory, you tag everything up, and this is 18th Street and this is Florencia and now that your hood’s being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you.”

“I want to know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles – 18th Street, Florencia. Where’s the leadership at?” she demanded of the two street gangs. The 18th Street gang has an estimated 30,000 members and is responsible for trafficking meth and cocaine, and numerous murders. The Florencia 13 gang is nearly as deadly and has been known to traffic in fentanyl.

“So don’t be trying to claim no block, no nothing if you’re not showing up right now trying to, like, help out and organize. I don’t want to hear a peep out of you once they’re gone, trying to claim that this is my block. This was not your block. You weren’t even here helping out. So whoever is the leadership over there just f***ing get your members in order,” the vice mayor demanded of two gangs that had already carried out the murders of police officers.

California elected officials have also taken to alerting illegal aliens of ICE operations.

“The City of Perris has received reports of ongoing ICE operations within the area. We urge all residents to remain calm, stay indoors when possible, and know your rights,” Mayor Michael Vargas posted on Facebook.

Other Southern California mayors remain committed to rejecting federal law enforcement.

“We made the determination as a city that we cannot have armed masked men who are not identifying themselves — who the federal government is refusing to confirm are federal agents —  running around and conducting this type of activity that is dangerous and volatile,” Pasadena Mayor Victor M. Gordo complained.

“ICE has no place in Long Beach,” Mayor Rex Richardson declared and then wondered. “How do you defend your residents from your government?”

He blasted Long Beach Transit for a memo telling employees not to interfere with ICE operations. “That’s unacceptable,” he claimed. “Fear has no place on our transit system.” Federal funds of course do.

What actually has no place in the Long Beach Transit system or anywhere in the country is the rejection of the law and the obstruction of federal law enforcement by local elected officials.

California Democrat politicians are moving toward the same kind of illegal conduct, aiding and abetting crimes, and obstructing law enforcement, that already led to the arrests of judges. Worse still, mayors like Bass and Flores, appear to be pushing city employees, including law enforcement, into confrontations with ICE, while others, like Sanchez-Palacios, are even recruiting criminals to fight ICE. This is not a difference of opinion, it’s an insurrection.

When signing her insurrection declaration, Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said, “I just want to repeat the irony that I am going to sign an executive directive to help the city family understand how to protect the workforce and Angelenos from our federal government.”

Bass doesn’t seem to understand the definition of irony or of the United States of America.

Signing a declaration ordering all branches of the city government to block federal law enforcement isn’t irony: it’s insurrection. ✪

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: THE WORLD WOKE UP

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n less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo. The unthinkable has become the banal.

Take illegal immigration—remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under Biden? Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”—a euphemism for mass amnesties. Now, there is no such thing as daily new illegal immigration. It simply disappeared with common-sense enforcement of existing immigration laws—and a new president.

How about the 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment? Remember all the causes that the generals cited for their inability to enlist soldiers: generational gangs, obesity, drugs, and stiff competition with private industry?

And now? In just six months, recruitment targets are already met; the issue is mostly moot.

Why? The new Pentagon flipped the old, canceling its racist DEI programs and assuring the rural, middle-class Americans—especially white males—that they were not systemically racist after all.

Instead, they were reinvited to enlist as the critical combat cohort who died at twice their demographic share in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How about the “end of the NATO crisis,” supposedly brought on by a bullying U.S.? Now the vast majority of NATO members have met their pledges to spend two percent of GDP on defense, which will soon increase to five percent. Iconic neutrals like Sweden and Finland have become frontline NATO nations, arming to the teeth. The smiling NATO Secretary-General even called Trump the “daddy” of the alliance.

What about indomitable, all-powerful, theocratic Iran, the scourge of the Middle East for nearly fifty years?

Although it had never won a war in the last half-century, its terrorist surrogates—Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis—were supposedly too dangerous to provoke.

Now? Most of their expeditionary terrorists are neutered, and their leaders are in hiding or dead.

Iran has no air force, no real navy, no air defenses, and no active nuclear weapons program. Its safety apparently depends only on the mood of the U.S. or Israel on any given day, not to fly into its airspace and take out its missiles, nuclear sites, generals, or theocrats at will.

What happened to the supposedly inevitable recession, hyperinflation, stock market collapse, unemployment spikes, and global trade war that last spring economists assured us would hit by summer?

Job growth is strong, and April’s inflation rate is the lowest in four years. GDP is still steady. The stock market hit a record high. Trade partners are renegotiating their surpluses with the U.S.

It turns out that staying in the U.S. consumer market is the top priority of our trading partners. It seems their preexisting and mostly undisclosed profits were large enough to afford reasonable U.S. symmetrical tariffs.

For now, news of tax cuts, deregulation, ‘drill baby, drill’ energy policies displacing Green New Deal strangulation, and $8–10 trillion in potential foreign investment has encouraged—rather than deterred—business.

Then there were our marquee elite universities, whose prestige, riches, and powerful alumni made them answerable to no one.

And now, after the executive and congressional crackdown on their decades of hubris? Supposedly brilliant university presidents have resigned in shame.

The public has caught on to their grant surcharge gouging. Campuses have backed off their arrogant defiance of the Supreme Court’s civil rights rulings. They are panicked about the public exposure of their systemic anti-Semitism.

They are scrambling to explain away their institutionalized ideological bias and their tawdry profit-making schemes and mass recruitment of wealthy foreign students from illiberal regimes.

So, the mighty Ivy League powerhouses are now humbling themselves to cut a deal to save their financial hides and hopefully return to their proper mission of disinterested education.

What happened to the trans juggernaut of sex as a social construct and its bookend gospel that biological men could dominate women’s sports?

People woke up. They were no longer afraid to state that sex is binary and biologically determined. And biological men who dominate women’s sports are bullies, not heroes.

Where are the millionaire scamming architects of BLM now? Where is the “DEI now, tomorrow, and forever” conventional wisdom? Where are Professor Kendi and his $30,000 Zoom lessons on how to fight racism by being racist?

They have all been exposed as the race hustlers they always were. Their creed that it is okay for supposed victims to be racist victimizers themselves was exposed as an absurd con. So, what flipped everything?

We were living in an “emperor has no clothes” make-believe world for the last few years. The people knew establishment narratives were absurd, and our supposed experts were even more ridiculous. But few—until now—had the guts to scream “the emperor is naked” to dispel the fantasies.

When they finally did, reality returned. In half a year, the impossible became obvious: borders closed, recruits returned, Iran retreated, and elites were exposed—all because people finally said, “Enough.” ✪

THE EPSTEIN STORY BEGINS & ENDS WITH THE CLINTONS

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aniel Greenfield: I was writing about Jeffrey Epstein long before the current pack of grifters fastened on to the story and well before his arrest, when the Democrats suddenly decided to care about Epstein, largely to undermine Trump’s nomination of Alex Acosta who had overseen the federal case against him. Before that, I reported on Epstein as part of a long list of sex predators tied to the Clintons.

That arrest lifted Epstein’s magical curtain of immunity and led directly to his death in federal custody.

Who else could have protected Epstein across three states and shut down a federal investigation?

When Epstein died, I predicted that the truth would never be known. Throughout the years, after all the promises that were made to finally reveal the truth, I predicted it would never happen. And I was right.

There will be no client list. No explanation for Epstein’s death beyond the one we already got from AG Barr. No final answer.

The Epstein story passed long ago out of the realm of crime reporting and into the realm of grifters pushing conspiracy theories and weaponizing it for their own agendas. Currently Tucker Carlson, who has developed close ties to Muslim terrorist states, including Qatar, has been exploiting it for anti-Israel propaganda. Democrats are cheering him on and then using the Epstein story to target Trump.

What is really revealing is that both slants decouple Epstein from the Clintons who were the only ones who could have protected him across three states, including New York and Florida, shut down a federal investigation of him, and managed to reach into a federal prison.

Politically, the Clintons are old news and the grifters have moved on to fresh angles. And the truth will never be known. ✪

CAN TRUMP FIRE FED CHAIRMAN POWELL?

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ill President Donald Trump soon fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, as is now hotly rumored? And do you care? If not, maybe you should. Because at this moment, the Fed chief seems to think he has to re-fight the inflation battle he lost three years ago. And his refusal to cut rates is starting to choke our economy.

Make no mistake: Having lost the confidence of the president who appointed him, Powell should resign. As a matter of practical stewardship of the nation’s central bank, Powell’s effectiveness as a financial leader has been called into question. Time to go.

But Powell’s defenders bizarrely argue that Fed chairmen can’t be fired. In fact, they can be fired “for cause,” which is vague enough to cover a whole host of sins, major and minor.

His backers also argue that Fed chiefs have independence, and that Trump letting him go would shatter that. However, that’s also not entirely true.

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As John Tamny, RealClearMarkets editor, economist and author of books on the Fed, recently noted: “Fed officials are appointed by politicians. To presume that they didn’t politic to be in that position in the first place … is laughable.”

At issue currently is whether a politicized Fed has now become hostile to the admittedly mercurial Trump, who feels the Fed’s tight interest-rate policy is holding the economy back.

It is. Take one very important sector, which desperately needs lower interest rates: housing. Annual sales rates for existing homes fell to 3.67 million in May of this year, only slightly above the 3.45 million level at the depths of the financial crisis in 2010.

Why? With average mortgage rates at about 6.83%, buyers can’t afford payments. But as a Morgan Stanley survey in March noted:

“91% of people considering buying a home in the next six months would be likely to do so if mortgage rates were to fall to 5.5%. Based on the survey, Millennials and Gen Z are likely to lead the next wave of homebuying.”

Yet, despite a continuing decline in inflation, the Fed won’t cut rates. Funny, when the Democrat Congress and President Joe Biden locked down the economy and spent nearly $6 trillion on COVID, setting off an inflationary spiral, the Fed did little to stop them.

In fact, the Fed began pouring money into an already super-stimulated economy. By doing so, and raising interest rates far too late, the Fed enabled the five-year 25% U.S. inflation surge that decimated real wages for workers, caused U.S. spending and debt to soar, and killed off thousands of businesses. And we’re still digging out of that mess today.

As we noted above, a Fed chief can be fired for cause. To us, the last five years of Fed incompetence is cause enough. Powell has made too many mistakes, and squandered whatever goodwill he once had with his boss (that’s Trump, the man who appointed him, by the way) and average Americans.

As for Trump “not politicizing” the Fed, please. “Federal Reserve employees donated 92% of their $700k in political contributions to Democrats during the 2024 cycle,” noted our friend economist Stephen Moore of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. “Does that sound ‘nonpartisan’ to you?”

No, it doesn’t. DEI has hit the Fed hard, just as it has every other major institution in America. The central bank is no different.

“I think what we need is regime change at the Fed,” former Fed governor Kevin Warsh told Maria Bartiromo on Fox’s Sunday Morning:

“And that’s not just about the chairman, it’s about a whole range of people, it’s about changing their mindset and their models, and frankly it’s about breaking some heads, because the way they’ve been doing business is not working.”

Warsh is on Trump’s short list of possible successors for Powell. As is Kevin Hassett, Trump’s director of the National Economic Council, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. They’re all highly qualified.

“The Fed is in need of perestroika,” writes economist Larry Kudlow, a top Trump economic adviser during his first term in office.

“The Fed has to be cleansed of its Deep State dislike of all things Donald Trump, and frankly its Deep State bureaucratic groupthink of deadwood economists with models that haven’t worked in 50 years — who are now advising Chairman Jay Powell to fight Mr. Trump and his economic growth agenda.”

Why bring this up? This week, The New York Times reported that “The president waved a copy of a draft letter firing Jerome H. Powell at a meeting in the Oval Office with House Republicans.” Responding, Trump says he’s “not planning” to fire Powell now, but doesn’t say he won’t.

If he does, we won’t shed a tear for Powell, whose latest foible was renovating the Fed building into a financial Taj Mahal at a cool $2.5 billion price tag. That alone is “cause” for firing.

We’ve all been warned that markets will “melt down” if Powell goes, with Deutsche Bank shrieking that “both the currency and the bond market can collapse.”

Maybe so. Maybe not. Markets have a way of confounding the predictions of even the smartest people. But even if true, it would still be better for Powell to go quietly than to bitterly fight to stay where he’s no longer wanted and clearly at odds with an elected president’s policies. ✪

MILLIONS OF US TAX DOLLARS FUNDING OVERSEAS SEX WORK

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undreds of millions in federal taxpayer dollars have been given to organizations around the world that likely facilitate prostitution and the sex industry, a watchdog group has found.

Through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program, the U.S. Government has doled out roughly $385 million to foreign organizations suspected of violating U.S. policy on sex work and prostitution advocacy, according to a complaint filed by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA). In addition to the grants that have already been spent, CASA uncovered another $480 million in obligated funds to the same groups.

CASA is calling on the State Department’s Office of Inspector General to conduct a comprehensive audit of the PEPFAR program.

“The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2020 that foreign organizations receiving federal money must have policies opposing prostitution and sex trafficking,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick stated:

“Our team at CASA has uncovered organizations receiving PEPFAR funds who not only do not have policies opposing, but are actively promoting, the sex work industry. Now is the perfect time for a full audit of the PEPFAR program given our alarming findings.”

The George W. Bush Administration created PEPFAR in 2003 with the stated pledge of $15 billion over five years to help turn the tide against the AIDS pandemic in the hardest-hit countries in Africa and the Caribbean, according to CASA. The U.S. has committed around $110 billion through the program since its creation.

Despite the exorbitant amount of money committed to the program, its funding does come with some constraints. A Supreme Court ruling in 2020 — Agency for International Development et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc. — found that foreign organizations can be required to have policies explicitly opposing sex trafficking and prostitution to receive funding from the U.S. government. 

Despite this condition, CASA says it uncovered a litany of PEPFAR funding recipients that actively promote the industry.

PEPFAR has awarded roughly $28 million and has over $4 million in outstanding obligations to LVCT Health in Kenya, according to the watchdog. However, one of the groups LVCT Health allegedly works with is Bar Hostess, a group that bills itself as an organization “for and by all women working in bars and sex workers in Kenya” and other social media activity suggests it’s a group tailored for sex workers.

Youth Net and Counseling, a group based in the African country of Malawi, has been awarded $2.7 million in PEPFAR contracts, according to CASA. The organization has allegedly partnered with the “Female Sex Workers Association of Malawi,” which is led by female sex workers who make their income from prostitution.

A Jamaican organization, the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition, is slated to receive $2.5 million in federal government contracts, according to CASA. However, the group bills itself as a “coalition of community leaders and nongovernmental agencies that are advocates and service providers. These groups include men who have sex with men, persons of trans experience, sex workers, people who use drugs” and others.

CASA has highlighted other international organizations likely violating U.S. policy on PEPFAR funding. CASA wrote in its complaint to the State Department:

“Like many government programs, while PEPFAR was well intended and had some success, it has become a vessel for waste and the Left’s progressive social agenda. Based on our research detailed above, and the potential for other possible illegal spending in the program, we are urging the Department to conduct a full financial and performance audit of PEPFAR.”

Representatives for LVCT Health, Youth Net and Counseling and the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ✪

THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRINITY TEST

The 80th anniversary of the end of World War II is coming soon. On September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japanese officials signed an instrument of unconditional surrender.

Yet along the path to that rendezvous with anniversary come important milestones such as the first detonation of an atomic bomb on July 16, 1945.  

Most observers agree it was the A-bomb that finally forced Japan to surrender, shortening WorldWar Two in the Pacific by several years.  

Indeed, until the atomic attacks, the Japanese were full of fight. On April 1, 1945, U.S. forces landed on Okinawa, 400 miles south of Japan’s home islands. More than 100,000 defenders, including women and children, put up a fierce fight. Over the 11-week campaign, some 94,000 of those defenders died, inflicting more than 50,000 casualties on Americans. 

According to the U.S. Naval Institute, “Okinawa’s death toll horrified U.S. political leaders,” leading military planners to anticipate that the looming assault on Japan could cause half a million American casualties; just to capture Kyushu, one of four main Japanese home islands (there are more than 14,000 islands, total). Said the diehard defenders: “We will fight till we eat stones.”

However, nobody in Japan; and precious few in the U.S., knew about the atom bomb, which the U.S. had been working on since Albert Einstein wrote a fateful letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 2, 1939. Sketching the rudiments of atomic power to the commander-in-chief, Einstein asserted, “A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory.” 

Einstein’s letter got attention, even if the bomb-building effort didn’t begin in earnest until the Manhattan Project was launched in mid-1942. It was a massive undertaking, employing 600,000 Americans, from machinists to typists to physicists. 

And because it hired so many people, it had its share of quirky human moments. In his prize-winning 1986 history, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes captured the epic sweep of the mission, including its weirdness. He quoted J. Robert Oppenheimer, lead scientist at the bomb-assembly site that that sprang up amidst the dusty alkaloid badlands of New Mexico: 

People at Los Alamos were naturally in a state of some tension.  I remember one morning when almost the whole project was out of doors staring at a bright object in the sky through glasses, binoculars and whatever else they could find; and nearby Kirtland Field reported to us that they had no interceptors which had enabled them to come within range of the object.  Our director of personnel was an astronomer and a man of some human wisdom; and he finally came to my office and asked whether we would stop trying to shoot down Venus. I tell this story only to indicate that even a group of scientists is not proof against the errors of suggestion and hysteria.

As an aside, this anecdote, humorous in retrospect, reminds us that scientists can be great at what they do and still need supervision on everything else.  

Yet because Oppenheimer’s eccentrics were good at nuclear physics, the first atomic bomb, code-named Trinity, was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945. Surely one of the most dramatic moments in human history, it was recorded in real time.

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Historian Rhodes cites one eyewitness: An “ominous cloud hanging over us. It just seemed to hang there forever . . . It was so brilliant purple, with all the radioactive glowing.” Somewhat unnecessarily, he added, “It was very terrifying.” 

As it happened, July 16, 1945 was the day that President Harry Truman had arrived in Potsdam, Germany. Two months earlier, the Nazis had surrendered, and now the 33rd president—himself just in office for just three months, since FDR’s death in April—was joining a summit conference to settle the future of Europe, alongside British leader Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin.  

Truman, always suspicious of communists, was guarded in his conversations with the Red Tsar, saying only that the U.S. had just developed “a new weapon of unusual destructive force.” For his part, Stalin reacted with impassivity; he already knew about the bomb—Soviet spies having tipped him off. 

Within the U.S., there was some hesitation about using the A-bomb. Was it right to wield a weapon so deadly? To set a new precedent for mass destruction? In particular, leftists were concerned that if the U.S. had the A-bomb and the Soviets did not—having the plans was not the same as actually making one, it took the Russians until 1949—then the capitalists would have more strength than the communists.  

Yet Truman himself never had any hesitation about the bomb. He wanted the war to end with a U.S. victory as quickly as possible.  

The mission was getting A-bomb number two, dubbed “Little Boy,” into position.    The commander of strategic booming in the Pacific, Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, was blunt: “I’ll tell you what war is about, you’ve got to kill people, and when you’ve killed enough they stop fighting.” LeMay’s weapon of choice: The B-29 Superfortress.  

The commander of the atomic mission was Col. Paul Tibbets, who named his plane after his mother, Enola Gay. 

Tibbets’ 12-hour mission to Hiroshima and back was a success That day, Truman issued a tough statement: 

The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold. And the end is not yet. With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces. In their present form these bombs are now in production and even more powerful forms are in development.

Yet even after an estimated 70,000 to 140,000 had died at Hiroshima, the Japanese government did not surrender. On August 9, Truman ordered the dropping of a second A-bomb, this one on Nagasaki, which killed an estimated 39,000 to 70,000.

Seeing the absolute annihilation of his nation in prospect, Emperor Hirohito was finally surrendered, which he did on August 15. 

The A-bomb ended the war sooner, potentially saving more lives than those lost in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

However, when Oppenheimer met Truman in the Oval Office, he gave vent his misgivings about the whole effort: “Mr. President, I feel I have blood on my hands.” Truman dismissed him, saying to aides later, “I never want to see that crybaby again.” 

A different take on the bomb came from another American, Paul Fussell. As a young man, Fussell had served as a 2nd Lt.. in the 103rd Infantry Division, fighting against Hitler, where he saw plenty of his comrades die. His unit had been slated to fight next in Japan, but happily for Fussell and millions of other GIs, those plans were cancelled after Japan surrender. Decades later, Fussell, by now a well-regarded professor at Princeton, summed up his feelings in a bluntly titled tome, Thank God for the Atom Bomb.

Today, on a limited basis, the Trinity Site is open to the public. So, all Americans can visit the place where the atomic age began. ✪

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