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Editors note: Many thanks to reader J for this share!

As a medical scientist, I wonder about the transmission of disease spread through mosquitoes?

After all, HIV is one of the blood-borne diseases, and mosquitoes when they bite, draw your blood after injecting their slight toxin into your blood . Just sayin…

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• Google-owned Debug has proposed releasing 32 million Wolbachia-infected male mosquitoes in California and Florida to suppress populations of Aedes aegypti, the invasive mosquito that spreads dengue fever, yellow fever, and Zika virus
• The released males don’t bite humans and are designed to mate with wild females whose eggs then fail to hatch, preventing more than 100 offspring from being produced from a single mating
• Public concern centers on the possibility of unintended environmental consequences, the difficulty of reversing large-scale biological releases and questions about the role of private corporations in ecosystem management
• Researchers reviewing Wolbachia-based mosquito-control programs found that they can reduce disease transmission, but success depends heavily on local conditions and often requires ongoing releases, specialized infrastructure and long-term monitoring
• Regardless of whether the proposal moves forward, you can reduce your exposure to mosquito-borne diseases by eliminating standing water around your home, using physical barriers such as screens and reducing mosquito breeding sites in your community

Releasing millions of laboratory-raised insects into populated neighborhoods, on purpose, sounds like the premise of a science-fiction film. It is instead a real proposal from a company owned by Google, now sitting before federal regulators, and the response it has drawn says as much about public trust as about public health.

The target is Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that spreads dengue fever, yellow fever, and Zika virus. Dengue alone can cause high fever, severe headaches, muscle and joint pain, nausea, and, in its most severe form, life-threatening bleeding and shock. As these diseases reach regions that once rarely encountered them, the tactics used to fight them have grown more aggressive and more contested.

What sets this plan apart is that it sidesteps the chemical spraying many people associate with mosquito control. Instead, it enlists a quiet ally already found in nature, turning the insects’ own biology against them. To some, that represents an elegant alternative to dousing whole communities in insecticide. To others, it raises an uneasy question about handing a private corporation the power to alter a local ecosystem at all.

That tension sits at the heart of the debate. To understand why the proposal has stirred both enthusiasm and alarm, it helps to look closely at how the strategy actually works, what researchers expect it to accomplish, and where it could fall short.

Why Google’s Mosquito Plan Faces Resistance

Google-owned Debug is seeking approval to release 32 million Wolbachia-infected male mosquitoes across parts of California and Florida as part of an effort to suppress populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The company plans to release millions of male mosquitoes infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia.

These males mate with wild female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, but the eggs don’t hatch because the Wolbachia bacteria create reproductive incompatibility between infected males and uninfected females.

Because female mosquitoes typically mate only once in their lives, a single mating with one of Debug’s males means the more than 100 eggs she would otherwise lay never hatch. Because only males are released, the program doesn’t increase the number of biting mosquitoes. The goal is to shrink the invasive Aedes aegypti population generation after generation by preventing new mosquitoes from being born rather than killing existing ones with insecticides.¹

However, a June 2026 report published by Futurism highlighted the growing public backlash surrounding the idea of a technology company carrying out a large-scale environmental intervention.² Many residents expressed concern about allowing a private corporation to release millions of insects into open ecosystems, especially when the long-term consequences remain uncertain.

• Public concern extends beyond mosquitoes themselves — One of the strongest themes in the report involved questions about corporate influence. Futurism highlighted comments submitted during the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) public review process, where citizens questioned who ultimately benefits from the project. One commenter asked, “Ask yourself who is to benefit most from this, and why is it being done?” while another argued that “we are not experimental rats.”

These responses reveal a deeper concern that goes far beyond insect control. For many people, the issue is trust. If you live in an area targeted for release, you’re not simply evaluating a mosquito-control program; you’re evaluating whether you feel comfortable with a private company making changes to your local environment.

• The biggest fear involves unintended consequences — Futurism pointed to a separate mosquito-control project conducted in Brazil in 2019 that produced unexpected results. In that case, genetically modified mosquitoes introduce laboratory DNA into wild mosquito populations after some reproduction still occurred.³ Debug’s approach is different because it relies on Wolbachia rather than genetic modification.

Even so, the Brazil experience serves as a reminder that biological interventions don’t always unfold exactly as planned. Once millions of insects are released into the wild reversing course becomes difficult or impossible. That reality helps explain why many residents remain cautious despite the stated public-health goals.

reversing course becomes difficult or impossible. That reality helps explain why many residents remain cautious despite the stated public-health goals.

Researchers Warn the Risks Extend Beyond Mosquito Control

Beyond the public’s concerns, the peer-reviewed literature raises its own cautions. A review published in Acta Tropica examined Wolbachia-based mosquito-control programs deployed around the world and compared them with other mosquito-control strategies.⁴

While the researchers found evidence that these programs can reduce disease transmission, they also emphasized that large-scale mosquito releases introduce environmental and logistical uncertainties that are difficult to fully predict in advance. The review identified concerns ranging from the possibility of unintended genetic effects in the environment to the substantial resources and long-term oversight required to keep such programs functioning as intended.

Success depends heavily on local conditions — Results from one city or country don’t automatically translate to another. According to the researchers, disease transmission depends on factors such as climate, rainfall, temperature, human movement patterns, and mosquito behavior. If you hear that a mosquito-control program worked in one region, that doesn’t guarantee identical results where you live.

The researchers emphasized that dengue outbreaks

fluctuate dramatically from year to year because environmental conditions constantly change.

• These programs require a long-term commitment — Conventional mosquito-control campaigns often focus on immediate population reduction through spraying or other rapid interventions. In contrast, the Acta Tropica review found that Wolbachia-based suppression programs frequently require repeated releases and continuous maintenance.

The researchers described them as “much more complex and cost-intensive operations” that demand substantial infrastructure, trained personnel, coordination between agencies, and strong community participation. For taxpayers and local communities, that means success depends on sustained effort rather than a quick fix.

• Researchers identified environmental questions that deserve attention —Researchers noted evidence that Wolbachia genetic material appears to move between species more often than previously believed. As a result, they concluded that releases carry a “moderate potential risk of spreading potentially dangerous genes in the environment.” The review didn’t describe this outcome as inevitable, but it did identify it as an issue that requires continued monitoring as programs expand.

• The biological effects extend beyond reproduction — The review also examined a separate Wolbachia strategy, population replacement, in which infected females are released so the bacterium spreads through the population. This approach works through a different mechanism: Wolbachia interferes with viruses inside the mosquito itself.

According to the researchers, the bacterium disrupts the internal structures viruses use to reproduce. It also alters fat metabolism inside mosquito cells, making important materials less available for viral replication. The mosquito becomes a less efficient carrier of disease. Researchers also reported that Wolbachia stimulates parts of the mosquito’s natural immune defenses, creating additional barriers that limit viral growth.

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Progressives lawfared into circuit split; humble barcode may beat the SAVE Act; Canada tariffed at maximum legal volume, hockey sticks included; Richard Nixon finally reaches teen-idol status; more.

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Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Your Weekend Edition roundup includes: the story of how progressives sued the mail-ballot Executive Order in two different courts at once and accidentally lawfared themselves into a circuit split, delivering the real voting fight to the Supreme Court while everybody stood around watching the SAVE Act; why a humble barcode may accomplish what sixty Senate votes never will; the Canada tariff war everyone assumed was over, back at the maximum legal setting, with a hit list — wine, cement, hockey sticks — that reads like the receipt from a Winnipeg bachelor party, with an exemption list shaped suspiciously like the only two provinces that still like us; Alberta’s independence referendum landing later this year, entirely by coincidence, I’m sure; and young conservatives rehabilitating Richard Nixon on a strict regimen of rap edits and merch, a comeback going considerably better than anything the man managed while he was alive.

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It’s the Goldilocks problem! Sometimes, lawfare fails. Sometimes it works. Other times, too much lawfare itself can be a bad thing. This mainly affects progressives, who never saw a lawsuit they didn’t like, so long as it can be written down, and so long as it hurts, slows, or somehow confounds the conservative agenda. While everyone’s eyes are riveted to the SAVE Act, the real fight over voting-by-mail just reached the Supreme Court. On Thursday, ScotusBlog reported, “Trump administration, states urge justices to allow full implementation of executive order on mail-in voting.”

Meet Judge Indira Talwani, appointed in 2013 by Barack Obama— the nation’s first female federal judge with Indian-American parents. I realize that slices the diversity cake a little thinly, but that’s where we are these days. Anyway, Judge Talwani presides in the deep blue district of Massachusetts, one of the preferred destinations for the steady stream of lawsuits complaining about the latest Trump outrage.

Last month, Judge Talwani froze President Trump’s Executive Order directing the Postal Service to create a scheme for step-by-step tracking of mailed ballots. Twenty-three blue states plus the District of Columbia had sued, arguing that the ballot-tracking plan was terrible, horrible, and simply no good. Judge Talwani completely agreed, finding the executive order created confusion, disenfranchised voters, and on top of that, was unconstitutional.

“The Constitution does not grant the president any specific powers over elections,” the first female, Indian-American judge wrote in her order.

Trump’s lawyers appealed. But the First Circuit —the appellate court that hears cases from Massachusetts— upheld Judge Talwani’s injunction, and said the Executive Order may not move forward. Apparently, the Constitution requires that mailed ballots remain enigmatic ciphers swirling in dark areas of the postal system right up until blue states get around to counting them, when they can be finally and dramatically revealed. Ta-da!

Judge Talwani said no further action could be taken toward implementing the Executive Order in the 23 states and the District of Columbia. Full stop.

⚖️ So far, so good for Team Blue. But then a wrinkle appeared. Unsatisfied with only suing in Massachusetts, a bunch of blue NGOs had also sued separately in DC itself, and even friendlier jurisdiction for Trump lawfare. Defying all predictions, the DC judge found the exact opposite from Judge Talwani. And last week, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals agreed. That court —knowing the Talwani decision was out there— held that it was too soon to sue, since the USPS plan wasn’t final yet, and the harm would actually be to the Administration, since if it can’t move forward, the rules won’t be final in time for the midterms.

That decision produced an immediate and uncomfortable tension between the First Circuit, which had said the USPS cannotmove forward in DC, and the DC Circuit, which said that it could. That is what lawyers call a “circuit split,” and it opens the door for immediate Supreme Court review. The Supreme Court got the case on Monday and immediately ordered insta-briefs to be filed in one week, due by this coming Monday, August 3rd.

The smart money is on SCOTUS siding with the DC Circuit, finding the rules aren’t “ripe” for review yet, and letting the USPS move ahead for now. Come back when you know what to actually complain about. The complication is that the 23 states are crying about having to completely “rebuild” their systems less than three months from a federal election— even though 15 red states filed briefs saying it would be no problem at all.

So SCOTUS could find that we are just too close now to the midterms and it’s better to keep the status quo for now— which they often say in election-related cases. That’s what makes this so hard to handicap.

“We want to have honest voting in our country,” President Trump said when he signed the Executive Order in March, “because if you don’t have honest voting, you can’t really have a nation.”

Unsurprisingly, Democrats really disagreed.

“Trump’s USPS is threatening to withhold mail ballots unless states turn over voter rolls,” Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker complained, adding, “we’re going to fight it like hell.” The ACLU officiously declared, “Attempts to end voting by mail are part of the Trump administration’s larger strategy to undermine elections and subvert the will of the people.”

Antique Senate Minority Leader Chuck “Iceburger” Schumer promised “to fight in courts to ensure every voter can cast their ballot this November.”

Never mind that you haven’t heard much about it. This is the real fight, folks. Forget about the SAVE Act.

⚖️ If I had to pick, I would take the USPS ballot-tracking and gating scheme in Trump’s March 2026 executive order every day over the SAVE Act. The postal plan offers conservatives a more durable, lower-friction, and politically resilient win than the SAVE Act. It embeds federal control and auditability right into the mail-ballot pipeline via existing postal authority and technology, instead of a politically thermonuclear congressional war over brand new requirements for registration documents.

The SAVE Act requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship (a passport, birth certificate, or equivalent) to register or update voter registration for federal elections. It offers nothing for existing registrations. As you know, it has passed the House multiple times (throughout 2025–2026), but it is bogged down in the Senate over the filibuster.

Implementation of SAVE would force the states to overhaul their registration systems and handle provisional ballots for voters claiming they can’t pay $10 for a replacement birth certificate. You can imagine all the stories about goofy ‘disenfranchised’ voters we’d see in the news.

Meanwhile, the USPS plan is already quietly working for states that voluntarily opted in. It short-circuits Congress entirely, running through USPS rulemaking under existing statutory authority and executive direction. No 60-vote Senate hurdle, no reconciliation gimmicks.

It is also much simpler politically. Barcodes, tracking, and “Official Election Mail” logos sound like package-delivery confirmation and chain-of-custody tools— which everyone already accepts and enjoys from everyday package delivery services like Amazon, Fedex, and UPS. It is much harder for opponents to paint unique identifiers and real-time visibility as racist or disenfranchising compared to the demand that every voter dig up a birth certificate. The White House language emphasizes “auditable mechanisms” and “reducing the risk of fraud”— without “unduly burdening” eligible voters.

Conservatives’ core distrust centers on unsupervised mail ballots. The Trump plan lets the federal government gate who receives a ballot (via existing citizenship lists) and track every ballot through the mailstream, creating near-real-time data, anomaly detection, and most importantly, forensic evidence for DOJ prosecutions. ‘Accidents’ like mass disappearances of mailed ballots from red counties would become as obvious as another black eye on a celebrity.

SAVE, on the other hand, only polices the front end of registration. There are no black eyes to stick out. Once registered, mail ballots still flow into the inky darkness with zero federal visibility.

Once USPS requirements, design reviews, and participation-list systems go live, they become sticky operational reality. Unwinding them later would require new rulemaking or legislation. Citizenship lists can be improved, refined, or expanded over time. And all the work is done by the federal government. But SAVE’s burdens fall right on voters and local clerks, every cycle, and would surely generate endless ‘as-applied’ litigation and provisional-ballot chaos.

Best of all, the USPS system generates the data conservatives have long pined for— proof of delivery only to verified citizens, chain-of-custody logs, timelines for each ballot, and political ammo justifying future reforms and enforcement. Even imperfect citizenship lists coupled with mandatory tracking would advance the ball more than a pure registration statute that may never clear the Senate.

Think about it. The SAVE Act lacks anytransparency mechanism.

In short, the USPS barcode-and-list regime will turn the postal service into a federal election-integrity checkpoint with real-time surveillance and audit capabilities. It delivers concrete control over the mail-ballot stream using administrative devices that are harder to demonize, easier to lock in, and free from the Senate’s arcane arithmetic— making it the higher-value, longer-term conservative victory even if SAVE eventually passes.

Everyone (including me) has demanded the Senate pull the plug on the so-called ‘silent filibuster,’ which makes sense in today’s fractious political climate. But, to be fair, we haven’t spent much time considering the cost for conservatives when a future Democrat Congress tries to ram some unpopular law through. In short, it might come back to bite us in the cushiony parts, a tradeoff that seems justified now, but could look horribly short-sighted in hindsight.

The USPS solution avoids all that unknown peril. For better or worse, the filibuster can stay. The postal plan is simpler and arguably better in every way than the SAVE Act. Everyone —corporate media included— has been distracted by the high-profile SAVE Act controversy. But now the realsolution has finally landed in the Supreme Court.

Frankly, and I hate to say this in print, if the USPS program survives —even if it misses the midterm target— we’ll still be vastly better off in 2028 and after. Yet, for now, we are still in the game for November. And who knows? We could still get both.

Briefs are due Monday. Stand by. The fireworks show will begin shortly.

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Remember Castro lookalike Justin Trudeau? Me neither. It seems like ages ago that the dapper lockdown queen was swanking around bragging about debanking Canadian truckers. Now the WEF Young Leader, international darling, and Black-Eye Club member (just saying) is busy canoodling with celebrities, his lost political career having settled to the bottom of the global septic tank. Meanwhile, Canada’s problems are only beginning. On Wednesday, the Guardian UK ran an op-ed headlined, “Trump has singled out us Canadians for special treatment in his tariff war – there is no choice but to get nasty.”

The jokes write themselves. Get nasty? Canadians? Will they subject us to a harsh stare? Annex Vermont? Cut us off from back bacon?

Justin may have ridden off into the political sunset, replaced by bankster Prime Minister Mark Carney, but the tariffs stayed behind to clean up. Canada originally escaped the worst of the Trump Tariffs last year, shielded in large part by the USMCA trade deal. That deal expired, and this month, the US declined to extend it, which means it is now subject to annual renegotiation.

Then, last week, the White House announced tariffs as high as 50% on a selection of Canadian products including, for the first time, items previously protected by the trade agreement. “The tariffs will hit a wide range of products,” the Guardian said, “including wine, hockey sticks and cement.” (Who drinks Canadian wine?) Headline, July 21:

The Supreme Court shot down Trump’s easiest tariff tool late last year, including the 10% tariffs Canada then faced, and progressives celebrated too soon. As I pointed out at the time, SCOTUS ratified other ways of imposing tariffs, which might be slower, but ultimately would be stronger. Well— behold!

Last week, President Trump signed threenew tariff declarations against Canada. He imposed the maximum allowable tariff —50%— under the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act (which, frankly, is fun to say over and over). It’s another first. To do it, the Administration was required to conduct an investigation and publish findings, which took a few months, but is now complete.

The Canadian journalist who published the outraged op-ed conceded that Trump might have a point. “The US has some legitimate gripes with us,” he generously allowed, “including trade barriers and Canada’s chronic underinvestment in defence. It’s reasonable to be angry about those things.”

It hurts— a lot. “An unfriendly, potentially even hostile US is a staggeringly consequential change,” he said. “It’s hard to overestimate how huge a shock this has been.” You’d think it would make bigger news here in the US, but the news cycle is, as they say, a target-rich environment.

If you’re wondering about the odd selection of tariffed products, all I can say is that coincidentally, they hit the three most anti-US provinces hardest. They exclude energy products, fish, and critical minerals— which are most economically important to pro-US provinces. (They were also the strongest anti-mandate provinces during the pandemic.) “The economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan were relatively spared,” the author noted.

Also coincidentally, Alberta is holding an independence referendum later this year. Headline from the Canadian Gauntlet, yesterday:

What can we say about this sudden reinvigoration of Trump’s tariff dashboard? About the fact that the battle with Canada —which critics crowed the Canucks had won— is still indisputably raging, even if it has faded into media’s background noise?

Let’s be honest. We don’t know the plan. (Nor should we.) But we do know that the plan continues. Canada can replace their lockdown-loving WEF Young Leader with a Prime Minister whose main qualification seems to be a bad case of fulminant TDS. SCOTUS can tear the biggest button off the tariff dashboard and make Trump refund hundreds of billions in taxes. They can file lawsuit after lawsuit.

Think of it. One major legal setback would have caused previous Republican administrations to give it up as a lost cause. Not this administration. When the Court slams the door, the Trump Team climbs out the window.

Against all odds, the plan of re-imagining the Western Hemisphere keeps humming down the tracks. The tariff threat is bigger and more conspicuous than ever. We should keep our eyes on the ball— and not on corporate media’s hairy, transgender cheerleaders.

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Prepare yourselves for the most unexpected story, perhaps, of all time. About two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported, “Young Conservatives Have an Unlikely New Icon: Richard Nixon.” The subheadline explained, “‘Nixonmaxxing’ swag and TikTok videos have helped trigger a rethinking of the former president’s legacy among some conservatives.” It’s not a blip. Two days ago, the Free Press reported, “‘Nixonmaxxing’ Is More than a Meme.”

“The kids,” the Journal began, “are Nixonmaxxing.”

Apparently, more than half a century after the Watergate scandal that corporate media still won’t shut up about, young conservatives are discovering the “aesthetic and attitude” of our 37th president. Videos featuring archival footage of Nixon set to rap music are going viral on Instagram and YouTube. Influencers are wearing hats that say “Nixon Now More Than Ever” and carrying swag announcing “Pretty Girls for Nixon.”

The Journal quotes one bewildered commenter asking: “Is Nixon pulling off the greatest posthumous political comeback in history?”

Yes. Yes, he is.

And the corporate media is absolutely terrified. Why? Because if there’s one thing the establishment possibly hates more than Donald Trump, it’s Richard Nixon. They spent fifty years building the narrative that Nixon was the ultimate political villain. They taught it in schools, they made movies about it, they carved it into stone. They wouldn’t shut up about it. Nixon was the actual boogeyman.

But here’s the buried lede: the kids aren’t just wearing fanny packs ironically. They’re actually looking at Nixon’s record. They’re seeing the man who went after Alger Hiss. They’re seeing the relentless anti-communist crusader who actually understood the threat of Marxism before it was again fashionable to talk about it.

The irony is delicious. When young progressives wear Chairman Mao t-shirts, the media calls it “youthful idealism.” But when young conservatives start making TikToks about the guy who literally created the EPA, ended the draft, went to China, and forced the Soviet Union to the negotiating table? Break out the smelling salts. It’s panic in the streets.

Can you see it? This is the ultimate Boomerang story. The left spent decadestrying to convince young people that allRepublican presidents are basically Richard Nixon in disguise. And now the kids are looking around, seeing the absolute state of the country, and saying, “You know what? A little more Nixon sounds pretty good right now.”

As young conservative intellectual Christopher Rufo pointed out in his terrific 2023 City Journal piece defending Nixon, the left’s destruction of Nixon was essentially a bureaucratic coup. (Rufo platformed the concept of “counter-revolution,” which long-time readers will recall we’d been discussing since 2021 at least.)

Democrats weaponized his mistakes —difficult-to-describe peccadillos that the modern deep state makes look like he misplaced his cell phone— as a lever to remove a president who threatened the deep state’s authority. Conservatives weren’t prepared for that type of combat. It should sound painfully familiar by now. I’m not sure they really even understand it yet. Here’s Chris Rufo’s tweet reacting to the WSJ piece:

Nixon’s policy legacy is a mixed bag. The EPA, for instance, was downright disastrous. His ‘aesthetic’ is downright unique, all right, like when he wore a full suit and dress shoes on the beach.

But more than anything —and this is the real reason I think Nixon is becoming a hero our time desperately needs— Richard Milhous Nixon was a notorious anticommunist.

Before Nixon was the Watergate villain the corporate media spent fifty years teaching your kids about, he was something far more dangerous to the left: he was right. As a young congressman from California in the late 1940s, “Red Scare” Nixon sat on the House Un-American Activities Committee and did what the entire Georgetown establishment called boorish, paranoid, and beneath a serious man — he went after Alger Hiss, a senior State Department official and darling of the foreign policy elite, and refused to let go.

Late in the 1990s, the declassified Soviet Venona intercepts confirmed Nixon was right. Hiss was a communist spy, passing secrets to Moscow while hobnobbing with the progressive elites who ran American foreign policy. Nixon was right, and they never forgave him for it. That early battle defined his entire career— he understood, viscerally and early, that the Soviet threat was not a dinner party topic but an existential war being fought inside American institutions, and he fought it accordingly.

Nixon negotiated the first serious nuclear arms control treaties with Moscow from a position of strength, drove a strategic wedge between the USSR and China by opening Beijing before anyone else dared, and spent his entire career treating communism not as an abstraction but as the enemy it actually was. The left hated him for all of it. Which, if you think about it, is the highest possible character reference.

The Democrats did such a complete job of assassinating Nixon’s character that they forced him to become the only American president to resign and from there built an edifice of slander and defamation higher than the Obama Presidential Library. Nixon wasn’t perfect, not by any measure, but he won in a 49-state landslide because Americans hated communists, and so did he.

So Alice, we’ve gone all the way down the rabbit hole and come out the other side. The generation that grew up watching the establishment try to destroy Donald Trump is suddenly very skeptical of the establishment’s narrative about Richard Nixon. They see the parallels. They see the same media playbook, the same bureaucratic maneuvering, the same coordinated outrage.

And the kids aren’t buying it.

“Nixon hype edit was not something I knew I needed,” one young fan wrote. Well, maybe this is exactly the healing that the country needs. A reminder that before you can negotiate from a position of strength, you have to actually have strength. A reminder that fighting communism isn’t a cocktail party— it’s a down-and-dirty street fight.

So ladies, grab your “Pretty Girls for Nixon” hat and enjoy the show. If it continues, the media’s collective meltdown over this will be spectacular.

Have a wonderful weekend! C&C will return on Monday, bright and early, with another delicious and intellectually nutritious roundup of essential news and caffeinated commentary.

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Gaza Disarms, Baghdad Watches

By Reset Intelligence | @EXIT_FIAT

Trump’s Board of Peace just ordered the complete disarmament of Hamas in Gaza. Read it as a Gaza story and you miss it.

We read it as the first move in a regional disarmament that reaches Baghdad’s militias next, and it changes the order Iraq’s reset has to run in.

One Order, Three Capitals

On July 30 the White House announced a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and every armed group in Gaza, brokered by Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, with an international stabilization force and a new Palestinian police to hold the ground. The same instruction is already sitting on Baghdad. A senior commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces went on record refusing it, asking out loud, “Who is going to take our weapons?” He was answering a federal disarmament deadline of September 30, and Washington wrote that deadline into the money.

The Money Is Moving Too

• Gaza deal – complete Hamas disarmament, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey mediated, announced July 30

• PMF deadline – September 30 federal cutoff to disarm; the US defense bill ties half of Iraq’s security funding to real disarmament steps

• Iraqi banks – 35 of Iraq’s 72 banks lost dollar access; 7 cleared July 19 to resume correspondent banking; the rest pushed to meet Federal Reserve compliance

• CLARITY Act – White House signed off on the ethics rule; Senate floor vote targeted for the first week of August

• Camp David – Trump decides today whether Iran stays at the punishment level or escalates

Why It Matters For The Dinar

The rate does not move first. Interior and Defence get settled, a seated cabinet writes a budget, and only then does the dinar move. The disarmament fight is the lock that has to turn before any of that is on the table. That is the short version.

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Source: Ascension with Sierra | By Sierra

July 30, 2026

Ascension Thoughts Update

I was in the library today. There was a woman wearing a surgical mask. I had an overwhelming urge to approach her and say, ‘Excuse me. Do you realize that mask doesn’t stop you from getting viruses? It states it on the box…’ I came SO close to doing it, then backed out at the last minute.

Why did I feel such a desperate need to talk to Mask Lady…? Usually I discreetly roll my eyes and walk on by. This time I wanted to test the waters. So much time has passed since the P—demic – could I safely have that conversation with someone who is clearly living in ignorance…?

Why did I choose not to, right at the last minute..? I am not sure. Maybe I didn’t want to offend or upset her. And that, right there, is why we Light Warriors are not running around dropping TRUTH bombs on people. We sincerely have no idea how they will land.

Speaking of TRUTH bombs, the Baby Trump videos have taken an interesting turn. Mr P—demic Man features in the two latest videos. I am posting the most recent one.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N-3KHeQ2zOI

Why is the A—–ce featuring such a controversial figure in those videos..? I believe they are seeding the general public. What will be their reaction to P—demic Man..? A bit like my desire to test the waters with Mask Lady.

Seeing that man’s face again after all these years makes me ANGRY. Millions of lives and relationships were destroyed. 

My Light Warrior friend Ged knows someone who lost his cherished career, his home and his family – all because he refused to get the deadly j-b. I heard that same story many times when I was involved with the amazing NZ support group ‘Voices For Freedom.’

Great meme, Maria. That is exactly what I am talking about.

Finally, I haven’t discussed Ascension ‘symptoms’ for a while, mainly because they haven’t changed. Lack of interest in 3D activities…bizarre dreams…random headaches…occasional heart palpitations…changing food preferences…major disorientation episodes every day.

The GOOD news, my psychic abilities are definitely getting sharper. I receive daily messages from my guides that are usually accurate and extremely reassuring. Thanks, guys..!

Hang in there, lovely Light Warriors. Out there in the world, billions of people are symbolically snoozing their lives away. Be very proud that YOU are not one of them.

WE’VE GOT THIS.

Where We Go One We Go All

Love and Light
Sierra

I am Sierra. I am an ambassador for the Galactic Federation of Light. There are many Galactic Federation representatives on Earth right now. We came to help humanity ascend to the Fifth Dimension. Beloved Gaia is already well on her way in her Ascension. I will share with you my personal Ascension journey and my thoughts on global events. Welcome. Where We Go One We Go All!

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