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| | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | 💣 Several troops were injured following an attack on a US base. At least five American troops are wounded after a military base in Iraq was hit with rocket strikes by an Iranian-funded militia group. One of the American servicemen is said to be "seriously injured," as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant agreed that the attack was "a dangerous escalation" with Iran. | 🤐 Kamala Harris has still not had a major interview. In over two weeks since becoming the likely Democratic nominee and, as of yesterday, the official nominee, she has not yet sat down for a major interview. With just over two months until early voting begins, the vice president appears to be avoiding the press to minimize attention to herself and prevent potential gaffes. | 🏛 Google search was found to be a monopoly. A DC district court judge ruled that Google search violates American antitrust law and that the company "has acted as one to maintain its monopoly." Google was found to have abused its dominance by securing default placements on cell phones and computers, unfairly blocking competitors like Bing and DuckDuckGo. | 📉 The stock market tanked as fears of a recession rose. On Monday, the Dow Jones dropped over 1,000 points, giving the US stock market its worst single day in two years. Tech stocks were hit the hardest, with the selloff occurring after a disappointing jobs report prompted the Federal Reserve to signal a potential rate cut, leading investors to fear an imminent recession. |
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| | | WHAT WE'RE HEARING | Kamala Harris has reportedly narrowed her running mate pick to Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA). Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) claimed that Secret Service agents are "scared to death" that another assassination attempt will happen. Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is refusing to call Hamas a terrorist organization.
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| | | IN THE LOOP | The Supreme Court blocked Missouri's attempt to prevent New York from sentencing Trump in his hush-money case. RFK Jr. could face charges for dumping a bear carcass in Central Park nearly 10 years ago. The EU joined the US in refusing to recognize Maduro as having won Venezuela's election. Several Israelis were injured after suicide drones were launched from Lebanon into Israel. Kamala Harris is self-segregating, as she descends deeper into identity politics. (Member-only) The most clicked link in our last newsletter was for Sen. Tim Scott's wedding.
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| | | MY THOUGHTS | What's Bidenomics? | Good morning. The economy has been tough on Americans for the past four years, with polls and prices reflecting the struggle. The media has tried to ignore the issue—until yesterday. | The global economy and America's job market took a huge hit as the Kamala-Biden status quo inched toward chaos in the Middle East. When asked about "Bidenomics," Kamala's campaign claimed they'd never heard of it. | Despite their momentum since Biden stepped down, Democrats will soon have to face real-life problems. This means dealing with the economy they shaped and the reality that voters trust Trump more on this issue. | |
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| | | GEOPOLITICS | The UK explodes in fury against mass migration | | Mass protests across the UK and Northern Ireland were spurred by the vicious murder of children at the hands of a second-generation Rwandan man Many protests devolved into violent riots, with attacks on police, homes, and stores Decades of mass migration policy and insufficient assimilation contributed to protester anger
| The story | From Southern England to Northern Ireland, thousands of protesters erupted into the streets to vent their anger at recent heinous crimes committed by migrants. The crime that broke the camel's back involved a 17-year-old male, born in the UK to Rwandan parents, who went on a stabbing spree at a children's dance class, killing three young girls and injuring eleven — five critically. | Many UK protests spiraled into riots as protesters clashed with police officers; some burned cars, broke windows, and looted stores. A veritable race war seemingly began, pitting the nation's sizable Muslim population against the self-described white working class. | Videos show crowds of Muslim men shouting "Allahu Akbar" and taking to the streets to fight back against protesters — while groups of white Britons patrol streets and break windows of suspected Muslim homes in a show of intimidation. South Yorkshire protesters were seen breaking into hotels used to house migrants. | Immediately following the riots, the media came out in near-unanimity to denounce the far-right and "misinformation" that sparked their outrage. Following the attack on the dance school, rumors circulated online that the attacker was Muslim. In fact, he was not Muslim but a second-generation Rwandan and a natural-born UK citizen. | While the media concentrates on the riots, protester anger stems from decades of migration policy implemented by both state and non-state actors, which fostered a society resistant to unified British culture — instead promoting multiple distinct cultures that inevitably clash. | The politics | In response to the disorder sweeping the nation, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced "right-wing thuggery," Nazi salutes in the streets, attacks on the police, and "wanton violence alongside racist rhetoric." | Home Secretary Yvette Cooper used the word Islamophobia to describe the riots, following calls of various Labour Party members of Parliament (MPs) to condemn the prime minister for not quickly labeling them as such. | MPs and other critics of the protests point to an attack on a mosque in the town where the murders occurred as evidence that the movement harbors more sinister motives beyond expressing outrage at the gruesome murders. | Conservative Party member and Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zadhawi, expressed that warning signs leading up to the protests have been present for years. "Too many from outside these shores refuse to integrate upon arrival, to learn the language, and to learn the ways of this place." | Zadhawi, who was born in Iraq and migrated to the UK at age nine, voices the concerns of many in the UK — and in the West more broadly — that multiculturalism cannot be a mechanism by which a country integrates its newcomers. He suggests that migrants' failure to conform to British culture "led to ghettoization and resentment between natives and recent arrivals." | What the media ignores | Although a gruesome crime sparked the protests, anger has been building for years over the UK's liberal migration policies. In 2023 alone, 1.2 million people migrated and, recently, thousands of migrants arrived by boat on the island's southern shores. | In less than a month, since the new Labour government took power, an additional 3,000 migrants entered Britain illegally on small boats, bringing total small-boat crossings to 120,000 since 2018. These migrants are predominantly young males from Afghanistan, Sudan, Syria, and Eritrea. | In 2016, British voters opted to leave the European Union in the famous "Brexit" vote — largely because they wanted greater sovereignty over their borders. During Prime Minister Tony Blair's 1997-2007 reign, legal migration into the UK increased fivefold. By the time Blair left office, annual migration totaled around 273,000 but, in recent years, the number skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. | Advocates of drastically increasing UK migration argue — in similar fashion to advocates in the US — that because the natural-born population isn't having enough children, migrants must be imported to prevent the economy from collapsing, by filling jobs openings which would otherwise remain vacant. | In addition to uncontrolled migration fueling native unrest, much disorder in the UK is incited by policy that turns a blind eye to vicious crimes committed by Muslim migrants in particular. One such case was the "grooming gangs" scandal which involved UK police ignoring Pakistani men coercing young white working-class English girls into sex slavery because they didn't want to be labeled racist. | While a majority of Brits want reduced migration — but cannot freely speak about the problems associated with it — many agree that pent up frustration and anger had to boil over into violent riots. | Why it matters | Chaos unfolding in Great Britain is the result of years of frustration with governance which allowed large-scale migration without sufficient assimilation, compounded by a media too fearful to openly address the issue. | Around 150 protesters were arrested to date, and dozens of police were injured. While the protests signal immense public discontent, particularly with Muslim migration, the accompanying violence and widespread chaos hinder the movement's chances of achieving any political success. | As already demonstrated, the issue has become suppressing white working-class violence rather than addressing mass migration. And with the left-wing Labour Party controlling government, the likelihood of reaching a political compromise with protesters appears out of the question. | |
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| | | Interview: Oren Cass on the New Right Economic Consensus | | Oren Cass is the founder and chief economist of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. He can be found on X @oren_cass, at Substack Understanding America, and at his website americancompass.org. | On the mission of American Compass, "To summarize as simply as possible," says Cass. "We want economics and the market to serve families instead of propagating a system where families are expected to serve the market." | A mistaken economic consensus: "A very unhealthy idea that the market itself would deliver the best outcome" had formed. "Consumer welfare was the end-all-be-all. As long as there was enough GDP growth, we could redistribute as much wealth as necessary, and everyone would be happy." | The effects of embracing the free market: "We got exactly what we wanted: lots of trade, efficiency, booming stock markets, and high profits." But Cass notes, "We did not get strong, stable communities, rising wages, or domestic industry — the building blocks of a nation." | On conservatism vs. the Republican Party, "Sending our jobs overseas and sending our children off to die perfectly encapsulates this — two policy approaches that are not conservative, popular, or wise." | Why the working class is leaving the Democrat coalition: Democrats are becoming more radical on cultural issues and less responsive on economic issues. Cass notes, "The border crisis and insisting on uncontrolled immigration, its green climate policies, and forgiving student debt are not working-class interests." | |
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| | | OUR QUESTION TO YOU | 📊 Do you think the UK protests will influence any policy change?Poll results will be in tomorrow's newsletter. | | | POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY | Do you support cryptocurrencies becoming a more mainstream use of exchange? | 🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ 👍 Yes (180) | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 👎 No (382) | 🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤔 Other (108) | 👍 Yes: "I don't completely understand it, but from what I've heard I like the idea of the government not being able to create more and therefore cause inflation." — Sara 👎 No: "Keep cash. All digital currency can be switched off." — Quinn 👎 No: "It's a money laundering scheme only the rich can afford to be reckless with." — Anonymous 🤔 Other: "Crypto is fine as long as it is not a central bank. The block chain could easily be used for governments to track every single purchase." — Mark | | | | 670 votes |
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| Today's newsletter was written by Brandon Goldman and Ari David. | |
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