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Tucker Carlson: Who Will Replace Biden When He Drops Out Of The 2024 Race? . . . In real life, nobody likes Kamala Harris. That's not an attack on her. In fact, it's possible to feel pity for someone who's so universally reviled. It is instead an observation of unchanging physical reality, like gravity or photosynthesis. Nobody wants Kamala Harris to be president, no one will benefit if she becomes president. So logic suggests there's going to be a change. It's going to have to be somebody else. Whoever that person is is going to have to enter the race soon, before the election after Biden drops out. RealClearPolitics

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Trump looks to reinforce ties to religious right . . . Former President Donald Trump’s legal problems off the campaign trail and aversion to directly addressing the issue of abortion appear to have done little to damage his support among the religious right. Trump’s appearance at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference last weekend was a reminder to his challengers of his significant strength with the voting bloc, which will be critical for any Republican who wants to win the primary and general election. The Hill

2024 GOP Field Split On Ending Birthright Citizenship . . . Republican presidential candidates are at odds about whether to end birthright citizenship, but several of those polling at the top, including former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, have all said they oppose automatic citizenship for those who enter the country illegally.

The 14th amendment grants citizenship to those “born or naturalized in the United States.” Some Republicans argue that the language of the amendment is unclear on whether it applies to those who enter the country illegally, and point to the rates of birthright to illegal immigrants in the United States. Proponents of birthright say it would require a constitutional amendment to alter current laws. Daily Caller

Proponents of affirmative action have a habit of talking about it in theory rather than in practice. Perhaps understandably, they think of affirmative action as a program designed to increase employment and educational opportunities for blacks, particularly in government programs and college admissions. Lost in the debate over affirmative action is whether the program works. Newsweek

Grassley, Johnson demand answers after FBI said Hunter Biden probe advanced Russian disinformation . . . Grassley says the FBI has yet to explain the circumstances surrounding its briefing. Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson are raising new questions about a 2020 FBI briefing in which the agency said the senators' investigation into Hunter Biden was advancing Russian disinformation at a time the FBI was looking into some of the same allegations. "The more we learn about what the FBI was up to in the summer of 2020, the more questions we have about what was done with information related to the Hunter Biden investigation," Grassley, R-Iowa, told Fox News Digital this week. He called the briefing "totally unnecessary" and said it was a "clear effort to discredit our oversight." Fox News

Russia’s attempted assassination of CIA asset in Florida is straight out of Putin’s 'Wet Deeds' playbook . . . By Rebekah Koffler. Treason is the biggest crime on Earth, and traitors must be punished," said Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Financial Times in June 2019, commenting on the poisoning of a former GRU officer and double agent who spied for Western intelligence Sergei Skripal and his daughter. "I am not saying that it’s necessary to punish in [the] way that was done in Salisbury, added Putin, "not at all. But, nevertheless, traitors must be punished." Last week, before the airwaves got hit with the whirlwind of bizarre reports of a failed coup in Russia, news broke out about another failed Russian plot, taking place in 2020. The Russians ran a clandestine operation to kill a high-ranking Russian intelligence official, Aleksandr Poteyev, who was living in Miami, Florida, under the protection by the U.S. government as part of a highly secretive program that is designed to keep former spies safe. Poteyev defected here, having given up the names of 11 deep-cover Russian agents who operated in the U.S. and collected valuable intelligence for the Kremlin while posing as regular Americans. Fox News

Russia has targeted American citizens, foreign nationals on US soil.

Portable US Weapon to Jam Chinese, Russian Satellites Is Running Two Years Late . . . A portable US weapon that would temporarily jam Chinese and Russian communications satellites early in a conflict is running two years late for its first deliveries.

The first of a potential 30 of the Meadowlands systems produced by L3 Harris Technologies Inc. was originally to be delivered in 2022 but now is expected by October 2024, according to US Space Force officials. Bloomberg

Passengers react to FAA joking on Twitter amid widespread flight cancellations: ‘FAA, get your act together' . . . With thousands of flights canceled or delayed around the U.S. ahead of the July Fourth holiday weekend, a joke from the Federal Aviation Administration about unruly passengers left some stranded travelers frustrated. "It’s disappointing to me to hear that the FAA is tweeting jokes about unruly passengers," Corinne told Fox News at the Denver International Airport. "They’re tweeting while people are losing money, losing wages." Fox Business

Now think about what Russia, China or other bad actors with formidable cyber hacking tools can do using Twitter and other social media platforms. The Russians hacked CENTCOM's twitter account in 2015, posing as ISIS. Of course, just like with the fake Russia coup, USG thought it was ISIS, not Russia. See here:

US military Twitter account hacked

  Israeli security sources warn Netanyahu against China visit . . .Former AMAN chief Ge. Tamir Haiman added his voice to the security circles warning PM Binyamin Netanyahu that his planned Beijing visit would be a “tactical error” at this time. They argue that the unprecedented military cooperation Israel enjoys with the United States (in contrast to  rocky diplomatic ties) may be at stake if the PM goes through with a visit to America’s primary international rival. DEBKAFile

Letter threatening PM found on grave of his brother, Yoni Netanyahu . . . A letter threatening harm to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was found on the grave of his brother Yoni Netanyahu in Jerusalem’s Mt. Herzl military ceremony on Friday, police said. Police said that the Shin Bet security agency was also involved in the probe and investigators were using a variety of methods to find the person who placed the letter on the grave. No suspects have been detained so far. The incident came amid stepped-up protests against Netanyahu and his government after it decided to push ahead with the controversial judicial overhaul legislation, and amid heightened political rhetoric that has seen threats made against leaders on both sides of the dispute. Times of Israel

China’s military set-up is designed to foil any would-be Prigozhin . . . Whatever Yevgeny Prigozhin was plotting in Russia last week — mutiny, insurrection, civil war — this level of military insurrection would never have been possible in China. The Chinese Communist party exerts tight control over its military forces. The People’s Liberation Army is the party’s army and not a national army. The idea that anyone outside the PLA and the People’s Armed Police might have the right to bear arms is anathema. Such heresies were scotched as early as 1929, just two years after the PLA was established. The army served the party, not the state. Financial Times

Cyberattack knocks out satellite communications for Russian military . . . A satellite communications system serving the Russian military was knocked offline by a cyberattack late Wednesday and remained mostly down on Thursday, in an incident reminiscent of an attack on a similar system used by Ukraine at the start of the war between the countries.  Dozor-Teleport, the satellite system’s operator, switched some users to terrestrial networks during the outage. Washington Post

‘Space Armageddon’ and Putin’s Threats to Ukraine . . . Analysis by Rebekah Koffler. How could Russia win a war against a much stronger adversary, such as the United States? That's where Russia's space weapon and Putin’s Space Armageddon strategy come in. Russian strategists have observed American war fighters’ tactics in conflict zones for nearly a quarter-century—in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. They learned that America’s superior space capability is its Achilles’ heel because of the U.S. military’s near-total dependence on it. Wall Street Journal

Putin was Never Under Attack . . . Most of the news accounts of recent events in Russia have described Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, as having mounted a "failed rebellion," implying that he recklessly and repeatedly put his life at risk. Things look very different to those of us in the cyber-security community who have been following the actions of Prigozhin and the Wagner Group since its founding in 2014. It is likely that Prigozhin thought he was loyally defending Vladimir Putin at every juncture, even when marching on Moscow. What's more, it is likely that Prigozhin thought his life was already at risk and was taking steps to save it. The biggest problem with many popular accounts is that they require one to believe that Prigozhin was essentially suicidal. Newsweek

VIDEO: Yevgeny Prigozhin is not a idiot. He would have to be suicidal  to think he could march all the way to Moscow : Rebekah Koffler

Mossad foils hit squad looking to kill Israelis, captures terror chief in Iran . . . Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency revealed the thrilling raid on Iranian soil and arrest of a man who led a terrorist cell in Cyprus that aimed to kill Israelis on the island. "We will reach whoever foments terrorism against Jews and Israelis around the world, including on Iranian soil," a senior Mossad official said in a statement released Thursday along with a video confession from Yusef Shahabazi Abbasalilu, the head of the Iranian cell. Abbasalilu reportedly received detailed instructions and weapons from senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members in Iran before traveling to Cyprus, where he and his operatives planned to kill Israeli businesspeople.  Fox News

French Riots Escalate as Macron Struggles to Respond . . . Rioters take to streets for third consecutive night, burning buildings and buses Riots over the shooting of a teenager by police escalated with looting in the French capital, plunging President Emmanuel Macron’s government into what has become a nightly confrontation with youths from France’s working-class suburbs. For the third consecutive night since the killing of a 17-year-old identified as Nahel M., rioters burned municipal buildings and faced off with police in the towns around the French capital, with clashes as far away as Marseille, Reims and Lyon. A dozen buses were burned at a depot north of Paris, the French transportation minister said. Inside the city, video footage showed masked people breaking the windows of a major shopping mall. Wall Street Journal

Money

America’s Economy on the Edge . . . Most major economies are flirting with, or tipping into, recession. While Canada and Sweden appear to have just pulled themselves back from the brink, Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is already in a technical recession, following two consecutive quarters of negative growth. In China – the world’s second-largest economy, and a major source of global growth in the years before the pandemic – the post-COVID rebound has already fizzled, leading the government to roll out a new stimulus plan. And while the US economy appears to have avoided a recession so far, many forecasters still expect a mild one in the coming months, with the Conference Board’s index of leading economic indicators continuing its 14-month decline. Project Syndicate

EU announces deal with Pfizer, others to reserve vaccines for future pandemic . . . The European Commission has contracted Pfizer (PFE.N) and several European companies to reserve capacity to make up to 325 million vaccines per year in case of a future global health emergency, it said on Friday.

The agreement, first reported by Reuters earlier in the day, covers mRNA, vector-based and protein-based vaccines and does not relate to existing COVID-19 vaccine agreements between the EU and vaccine makers including Pfizer. Reuters

San Francisco residents earning $100,000 considered 'low income' . . . A government agency in California is classifying a $100,000 salary as a "low income" in San Francisco.

According to a June 6 memorandum prepared by the California Department of Housing and Community Development, a single person making $104,400 is classified as "low income" in San Francisco County, as defined by Public Housing and Section 8 Income Limits. The government agency classifies a $65,250 salary for a single person as a "very low income" in San Francisco County, with the "moderate income" being $147,000.

By comparison, in Los Angeles County, a "low income" is $70,650, with the "moderate income" being $82,500 for a single person. Fox Business

Florida businesses brace for DeSantis illegal immigration crackdown on July 1 . . . Florida businesses and the Florida agriculture industry are bracing for a new major labor law to take effect this weekend that could strip an unknown number of illegal immigrants from the workforce and create chaos for employers.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed a sweeping anti-illegal immigration bill into law in May that is scheduled for implementation Saturday. The GOP-majority Florida legislature moved swiftly this spring to rein in the benefits it had previously bestowed upon illegal immigrants in an effort to make the state less attractive to noncitizens without permission to be in the country. Washington Examiner

Teamsters give UPS ultimatum, demanding best contract offer by Friday or risk 'imminent' strike . . . Teamsters leader blasts UPS executives for being another 'corporation that wants to keep all the money at the top'. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said Wednesday that a nationwide UPS strike "is imminent," after walking away from the national bargaining table and demanding the package delivery service company to provide its best and final offer by Friday. UPS and the Teamsters — the union that represents over 340,000 UPS workers — have been in negotiations over a new contract since April, following complaints from many UPS employees over the 2018 contract, and the company’s working conditions. Fox Business

Culture

Confronting Evil . . . By Newt Gingrich. The time has come for those of us who believe in our civilization to meet the haters and the destroyers with equally firm, clear language. When I learned that a group of activists at New York City’s annual drag queen parade were chanting “we’re coming for your children,” it was the final straw. This calls for a blunt, straightforward repudiation of those who would destroy our children and civilization. The audacity of the perverse minds who have been undermining, insulting, and attempting to destroy American civilization’s core values is infuriating. Gingrich360

Harvard Hints It Will Use Personal Essays To Circumvent Court Ruling . . . While the Court rejected affirmative action, Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow noted that it also "ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions ‘an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.’"
"We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision," Bacow and other Harvard administrators wrote in a Thursday statement. Free Beacon

Geraldo Rivera leaves Fox News after 23 years . . . Longtime correspondent Geraldo Rivera announced Thursday that he is leaving Fox News after working there for more than two decades.

Rivera said he was canned from his co-hosting gig on the network’s political panel talk show “The Five” and made the decision to leave the network as a result. “I’ve been fired from ‘The Five’ and as a result of that, I quit Fox,” he said in a video taken from his boat and posted to Twitter Thursday. Rivera, 79, added that he will appear on “Fox & Friends” Friday morning to discuss more details of his departure from the network he has worked at since 2001 — when he was hired as a war correspondent. NY Post

Florida deputy found not guilty over Parkland high school shooting response . . . Scot Peterson, a former Florida deputy charged with felony child neglect for failing to stop a 2018 school shooting, was found not guilty on Thursday. The former deputy was found not guilty of the 11 charges he faced, which included felony child neglect, culpable negligence, and perjury. Peterson, 60, was seen sobbing as the unanimous verdicts were read out in court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to the BBC. Washington Examiner

East Palestine area residents demand more transparency, chemical testing . . . Almost five months after the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, locals say there's still a lack of transparency from state and federal officials — and not enough testing inside homes. To pressure state officials to do more, residents of both sides of the Ohio-Pennsylvania border have formed the Unity Council for the East Palestine Train Derailment Community. Just the News

Video | Biden get up and leaves before the camera stops

Joe is not OK.