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Former President Barack Obama posted on X in response to the attempted shooting of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The post began with a familiar formula: “Although we don’t yet have all the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting…” And yet—almost instantly—the moral framing is already in place. It’s a bit like a disciplined defense in football—the Left defends every blade of grass. Nothing is conceded. No ground is given—not even in the first moments, when facts are still emerging. Every inch of interpretation is contested immediately.

It never fails to end this way. Masquerading as left-wing populist socialists, they deny they are communists as they demand economic equality. Adored and abetted by a fawning media, their avowed anti-Americanism ensures their status as the left’s latest cause célèbre. As is said about a bankruptcy: it happened slowly, then suddenly. Having acquired a measure of power, incrementally they accumulate more by ever-escalating and amoral tactics, all rationalized as benefiting the “people” by hastening them into the warm embrace of the collective that is the aim of the revolution. Ever so slowly, democracy and civil liberties erode . . . The mask is ripped off. The communist totalitarian state reigns.

Donald Trump said Thursday that he is readying "a massive attack" on Iran, but the most consequential battle this week was on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, the Pentagon's top civilian and military leaders, Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, spoke to the Senate Appropriations Committee about a bill to offset the costs of the Iran conflict. The House passed a defense act including those funds the next day, but the Senate package remains in limbo. Senators on both sides of the aisle raised questions not just about the funding itself, but also about the strategy for dealing with Iran and for some of Hegseth's unrelated but controversial decisions.

Adding a course taught by a professor who accuses Israel of genocide. Hiring another professor who describes his own work as "counter-Zionist." Launching a student journal of erotic poetry and "support for Palestinian Liberation." Appointing another scholar to a visiting professorship that already existed and has been refilled annually for nearly a decade. Adding a course on antisemitism taught by a professor who backs a definition of antisemitism embraced by boycott-Israel advocates. Harvard and ten of the nation’s biggest-name appellate lawyers are brazenly trying to pass all these steps off to federal judges as proof that the university is moving to—

Approximately $650 billion to $700 billion of Elon Musk’s net worth has evaporated over a five-week period as both Tesla and SpaceX stock prices experienced significant declines. 24/7 Wall Street reports that six weeks ago, Elon Musk held the distinction of being the wealthiest person in recorded history. On June 16, shortly after SpaceX completed its IPO, the aerospace company reached a market capitalization of $2.64 trillion, pushing Musk’s wealth on paper to approximately $1.45 trillion. However, by the close of trading on July 23, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index valued his holdings at roughly $738 billion, representing a loss of between $650 billion and $700 billion in just five weeks.