Dates: July 1 – July 31, 2026
By STAFF
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Our Situation Reports are an attempt to capture the most essential bellwethers of a covered period. This one covers the month of July 2026.
Our reports begin with our bellwether story of the month. Our bellwether of the month is Zohran Mamdani as he implements Islamist Socialist rule in America’s largest city. He symbolizes the rise of the Muslim Progressive State.
We have also selected two bellwether trends in U.S. Politics, World, Culture, and Sci-Tech news.
We provide a summary of each bellwether, along with a summary of each major category.
We provide a summary of the major market indicators of the month
We are adding a new section to this report called “Agit Prop,” which will feature 4 bellwether examples of Progressive State Agit Prop in the media this month.
We conclude the report with an Assessment.
TOP BELLWETHER OF MONTH:
Zohran Mamdani’s reign over New York City encapsulates a number of top trending stories this month, including Progressive Socialism, Progressive Islam, and the rise of the Progressive State.
In our quarterly bellwether, we identified the rise of the Progressive State as the top trending story of this past quarter. Actions by Mamdani this month alone help keep the rise of the fully progressive (no longer American) movement the Democratic Party knowingly cultivated and enabled.
Hawaii’s high court might be the bellwether of the rise of the Progressive State, with its declaration that the U.S. Supreme Court is not legitimate because it is white supremacist; but Mamdani is demonstrating the real consequences of a naked progressive reign that goes far beyond what Hawaii has attempted, so far (sans the complete invalidation of American Rule of Law).
Zohran Mamdani began the month by declaring on July 4 that the best thing about America is that you can change it. He reflected none of the values of American liberty. He reflected the values of progressives, who view the state and the corporation, working in cooperation with the state, as facilitators of moral excellence defined by the political class he aspires to lead.
One of Mamdani’s interns said the secret parts out loud when she declared that electing Mamdani was part of a “Holy War” and Jihad against America. She declared, “This is all jihad, this is all ibadah, this is all counted by Allah. How committed am I to this? What am I willing to sacrifice for this noble cause?”
She is now part of his administration.
MS Now’s Joe Scarborough is now openly welcoming socialists into the American political process, declaring in a segment aimed at chastising Democrats’ opposition to the rise of the Mamdani Islamist Socialists, “Why can’t we all just get along? I don’t understand it: this is a time Democrats should be coming together, and yet, every opinion piece I see, every social media post, it’s like about a division in the Democratic party that doesn’t even have to be….
“I will say, as a former Republican, now an independent, who is for pro-democracy forces, my attitude has always been, we’re Baptists. We will play 16 hymns of ‘Just as I Am’, if that’s what it takes to bring new converts down. We will wait. And when those new converts come in, we hug them.”
An apparent attempt by the Mamdani administration to allegedly illegally meet with Iranian regime officials at the UN was quashed by the State Department, but so far no one has been prosecuted. Mamdani thinks he’s the King of the sovereign progressive state of New York, which is why he threatened to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu after the ICC put an arrest warrant out for him.
He chose a foreign court over American rule of law, and believes international law trumps American law. This is not America. This is the Progressive State.
When asked about reparations, Mamdani claimed New York City was complicit in enabling slavery in America, so therefore, in order for New Yorkers to “acknowledge what history truly was” the citizens may need to pay the descendants of slaves.
This is generational sin being applied to a race of people. This is a white tax. This is not America; this is the Progressive State.
He is now implementing his state grocery stores, promising “affordability” through government control. The project, which has been given $70 million, will run 5 grocery stores that offer products at 30% reduced cost through government subsidization. A legal immigrant-led business alliance is suing Mamdani, claiming the project effectively uses the state to price private businesses out of the marketplace.
This is not America; This is the Progressive State.
The last example I leave you with comes from our Bellwether report:
The Marxist-Islamist Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has just released what appears to be a de facto proscription list for his foreign-paid street fighters to target. He released a list of property owners, including their names and addresses, who own another home outside the city.
While the information is public, the signal is clear; Attack these people.
Mamdani ally and national Democrat Socialists of America co-chair Megan Romer made that clear when she said on Fox News “We will win by making conditions so intolerable to the ruling class that they would rather give in to our demands than live with the disturbance we cause.”
Disturbance is a dog whistle for violence. Ruling Class is a dog whistle for white people.
Watch the consequences of the progressive state unfold over the coming months as Mamdani attempts to convert New York City to an Islamist Soviet stronghold for a new nation, one that no longer needs to call itself America anymore.
U.S. POLITICS
The story of U.S. politics is really the rise of the overt Socialists and Islamists, all relying on the vehicle of power that is the Democratic Party to implement their stated goals. Their stated goals are to convert America to a socialist-Islamist state. This past month has only seen both trends accelerate, as Democratic Primary voters are choosing Islamists and Socialists to represent them.
Yet, this unholy alliance of socialism and Islam is leading to civil wars, with Michigan’s primary offering the bellwether of that battle. White Democrats are voting for the socialists while non-white Democrats are voting for the Islamists. None of the Democrats are voting for Americans anymore.
The POC part of the coalition never wanted socialism or America, they simply wanted revenge. Islamists simply offer more permission to murder their neighbors than the Progressive State might allow. This should concern you, for these Democrat Socialists openly endorse political violence, including threatening guillotines for the dissenters.
Islamists united around Allah and against the white devil might end up becoming the new face of the Democratic Party.
Perhaps in response to these rising threats, Elon Musk has announced his commitment to spend over $100 million to assure Socialists and Islamists don’t win in November.
- 2026 ELECTIONS – The month began with two major SCOTUS rulings, one legitimizing mass mailer elections while also allowing votes to be counted after election day, and one unshackling limitations on party spending for individual candidates. Both rulings empowered corruption, one in counting votes and one in counting dollars for influence.
The polls are mostly mixed, but show the Democrats are losing ground. Hope of a slam-dunk blue wave in the House is dimming as Democrat incumbents have far more competitive races than Republicans do.
On the Senate side, the Democrats faced a major setback when their Maine candidate had to be hastily replaced with someone who might have as much baggage as the man he replaced.
As in the House, Democrat incumbents face more competitive races than Republican incumbents do.
Among Republicans, despite the controversies around the Epstein Files and the Iran War, President Trump has reached record approval numbers. His overall approval rating is trending upward, but still in negative territory.
The DNC itself is in debt, while the GOP has hundreds of millions of dollars of cash on hand. Their chairman, Ken Martin, is under pressure to resign after he allegedly threw a cell phone at a female staffer. A scam artist posing as Martin was able to get $29,000 from the DNC, adding to calls by Martin to resign a post he does not appear competent enough to handle.
- JUDGEFARE – The House Oversight Committee has announced plans to investigate the accusations that the American Bar Association has become a progressive weapon of political war.
Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) said a task force investigating them will “analyze how the American Bar Association (ABA) has weaponized its accreditation authority to promote DEI policies that are contrary to federal civil rights law and the negative consequences in the legal profession that result from these harmful policies. Members will also explore how Congress can help permanently eliminate DEI policies within American institutions, including the legal profession and academy.”
They might consider doing a similar investigation of the judges, from the lowest to the highest level, who continue to vote as though this were a progressive, and not an American nation. Here are some key rulings this month, along with an immediate consequence of one of its unconstitutional rulings from the month before.
In light of SCOTUS’ unconstitutional decision to allow birthright citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of the legal status of their parents, the DOJ is announcing plans to crack down on birth tourism, while Republicans claim they will pass laws to protect America from pregnancy invasion by her foreign enemies.
Shortly after their ruling, a Texas hospital near the border of Mexico began advertising birth tourism. The administration let the window to appeal the ruling lapse. The deadline was July 27, 2026.
Laws banning biological males presenting as females from female sports are constitutional, SCOTUS ruled by a 6-3 majority. This means 3 justices thought it was “unconstitutional” to prevent males from playing sports with females if they present as “woman.”.
An appeals court struck down a lower court ruling stopping President Trump from ending anti-American displays in government institutions like the President’s House in Philadelphia.
Just days after SCOTUS ruled the President can fire administration employees however he sees fit, the fourth circuit blocked his firing of 19 DEI CIA agents, claiming he can only fire them for “workplace misconduct” or “performance concerns,” a standard not iterated by the SCOTUS ruling.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 that a Christian teacher in a public school cannot show students any material that contradicts the school’s supremacist LGBTQ plus ideology. This ideology compels forced acceptance of belief, including gender fluidity and transitioning children. This is an existential challenge to American Rule of Law, where no entity, government or private, can compel belief or speech.
GEOPOLITICS
The Iran War continues to be the bellwether geopolitical event to watch, with Ukraine, the UK, and the overall shifting geopolitical realities of Africa following close behind. A sense of AI alliances is starting to emerge, though nothing so clear we can report on it just yet. Africa looks to be in the crosshairs of those potential alliances.
Spain’s current overflow of foreign “migrants” after the government promised amnesty to them is fast becoming a bellwether of the planvasion phenomenon worldwide. Expect to see more about this in coming issues.
We are keeping an eye on the growing Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict, as well as the ongoing efforts of the Myanmar junta to consolidate power.
We chose to concentrate on the Iran War and the situation in the UK. Iran is the proving ground of emerging defensive tech, and the first war triggered by AI geopolitics, if we are correct in our analysis.
The UK is the speedrun version of the Progressive woke ideology whose power is derived from the claim the white devil invented evil. Yes, readers, it really is that cartoonishly simple, the root of progressive power is and has been, since the 1960s, the fear of the white devil.
- IRAN WAR – The war began the month in a ceasefire, exited it, entered it again, and is currently mostly out of it. The Iranian regime was able to hold a funeral, where they called on the American government to be assassinated, and an American progressive attending gleefully agreed.
While the U.S. has failed to remove the regime from power, as a fighting force, the regime is essentially done. Even Iran’s latest attempt to fight back, a surprise missile attack, failed to make any impact whatsoever.
The response to the surprise attack was twelve straight days of the most intense bombing of the war so far, as infrastructure was targeted, including bridges.
Internally, there are signs of dissenting action, but the regime’s murderous response has prevented any meaningful resistance from forming.
The Strait of Hormuz is still not secure, and now the Houthis are attempting to shut down the Red Sea. The hope is that shutting down two major shipping lanes, the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, will cripple the global economy.
The President toyed with the idea of setting up a toll in the Strait, but he quickly walked that back.
Cuba, Russia, and China have all been accused of materially aiding the Iranian regime in the war. Cuba’s contribution is allegedly through social influence in America, where they are allegedly spreading an anti-American narrative, a signal the progressive state is sure to boost.
Perhaps most telling is recent signals from the Trump administration that regime change may be back on the table as Trump might be running out of patience with the regime. Iran’s response was to double down on its insistence it will have a nuclear weapon.
- UK WATCH – The UK began the month with a defense wish list they realize they cannot fund. Like many other militaries, the UK is banking on AI integration, drone technology, and high technology in general to create the new military of the 21st century.
Nigel Farage was hit by a political scandal when it came out he had received millions of pounds from a wealthy donor as a “gift.” He did not receive the gift while in office, but efforts to charge him with a crime for not reporting what the gift was for have nonetheless commenced.
Keir Starmer would spend his last days as Prime Minister, leaving office July 20, 2026. Andy Burnham has taken the helm, promising to right the ship Starmer crashed (or so the narrative goes).
From our Bellwether Report:
On Monday, July 20, 2026, Andy Burnham inherited the UK as its new Prime Minister. He was appointed by the Labour Party through unanimous consent after winning a special MP election in Makerfield. Burnham has already announced plans for a massive tax hike.
He inherits a divided Kingdom, having just witnessed what increasingly appears to be a political murder of a former MP, Anne Widdecombe, in her home. Widdecombe is reported to have been beaten to death by a progressive activist. He drove three hours to her home to do it. He used a poled object to kill her.
Anne Widdecombe’s murder was originally cast as a random act of violence, a robbery gone wrong. Any suggestion it was otherwise was condemned by the Prime Minister and the Progressive State Press as being potentially violence-inciting. A couple of days later, the story changed.
The UK Police finally confessed, “We now have new information and evidence that means Counter Terrorism Policing is now leading the investigation. We are pursuing multiple lines of inquiry to establish the motivation for this attack.”
The UK is currently considering a bill that would punish parents for trying to persuade their child not to be homosexual, transgendered, or non-binary. They are also trying once again to pass a bill that legalizes physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia.
First under Starmer, and now under Burnham, the UK is pushing YouTube to knock its own independent YouTube creators out of the search algorithms in favor of state-approved media like the BBC (de facto progressive state press, such as we have in America through ABC, CBS, etc.).
As the UK police appear to be doubling down on their anti-white racist policies, the last words of Henry Nowak, the boy killed by a Sikh that accused the boy of being racist, have been revealed. His last words were “I’m not racist.” The Sikh had stabbed Nowak in what appears now to be a psychotic attack.
To cover up the crime, he called the police and accused Nowak of being racist. The police automatically took the Sikh’s side, allowing Nowak to die handcuffed, falsely accused, bleeding out from stab wounds, while he found himself being declared guilty by the police of being white.
While Labour has recently taken the lead in the polls, the Burnham bump has not pushed the party up decisively. It appears to have given them a 4-point bump. The polls, however, still largely fail to prompt for Restore Britain as a party choice.
Britian appears to be continuing to divide along nativist and colonist lines, with the progressives taking the side of the colonists they imported on the nativists’ dime.
CULTURE
In the western world, including America, Islamist culture is growing, with the approval and aid of the progressive state, wherever it has power, from America to Germany.
Partnering with Islamist culture is progressive “woke” culture. These two cultures have united against a common enemy, American culture. But now, they are finding themselves fighting over the same power. Their rise in power, though, can be seen in our Bellwether of the month, Zohran Mamdani, and our U.S. Politics section.
The progressive state is international in scope. The rise of the Islamist “progressive” could complicate two of the vehicles of power progressives have long championed, abortion and euthanasia.
Wherever progressives control the culture signal, abortion and euthanasia are always championed. The more power they have, the more extreme versions of both will be allowed. We can see progressive state power worldwide by tracking the continued advancement of both.
- ABORTION – In America, Little Sisters of the Poor is fighting the Trump administration over a mandate that requires it to provide the abortion pill to their clients.
Since Ireland legalized abortion in 2019, abortions have doubled yearly. Ireland has just passed a law that removes the 3-day waiting period for abortion.
From our Bellwether Report:
An unborn child with a cleft lip faced abortion in Canada if a gay couple had their way. The child was living in the womb of a surrogate mother, who refused to abort the child despite the gay couple’s demands. The lawsuit was filed in Ontario, Canada Superior Court.
The gay couple wrote the surrogate mother, “Considering that medical tests indicate that the fetus has, or is likely to have, a genetic, chromosomal or other abnormality or defect, and in accordance with article 8.5 (a) of our surrogacy agreement … we want to inform you of our wish that the pregnancy be terminated. Although very difficult, this decision is free and informed.”
The Netherlands will allow abortions up to 24 weeks, which is up from the 22 weeks it was before.
In Scotland, a Catholic history teacher was fired for telling her class, when asked, that she was against abortion. She was fired for saying “I am a faithful Roman Catholic, and I am against it.”
In America, a Michigan pro-life group is no longer required to hire abortionists after winning a successful lawsuit.
Planned Parenthood has had its funding restored thanks to GOP subversives. They are now receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to murder unborn children. That money belongs to us, not the murderers building 401ks as career Assassins of the Unborn, womb invaders.
In the name of defending abortion for underage girls, the progressive state of Virginia is aiming to pass a bill that would effectively end the age of consent for pregnant underage girls seeking abortion.
Virginia’s “Reproductive Freedom Act” would decriminalize statutory rape by giving girls under 18 the de facto legal “right” to consent to sex with adults.
Josh Hetzler, one of the challenging attorneys to the bill, said “Among other wild consequences, it will eliminate statutory rape laws for consenting minors, since the amendment provides an unqualified ‘fundamental right to reproductive freedom’ to every ‘individual,’ without any limitation on age. This is wrong and extremely dangerous for Virginia.”
A Pro-Abortion group saw no problem in selling onesies for babies that celebrate the abortion pill, a favorite of male sexual predators who are increasingly giving the pill to their victim without their consent. The pill destroys the evidence within the womb, which is also a human life.
- EUTHANASIA WATCH – Doctors in the Netherlands are reporting that they are being pressured to euthanize their patients. Euthanized deaths in 2025 represented 6% of all deaths in the country.
Canada’s euthanasia deaths in 2025 accounted for 5.6% of all deaths, which is another record. The rate is a 7.3% increase from last year. The list of eligible euthanasia victims is only expanding. This seems to be a developing pattern wherever euthanasia is legalized.
A group of medical professionals are now calling for patients to be “euthanized” so their organs can be donated to save the lives of more productive citizens. They united under an article “Contextualizing the Dead Donor Rule in an Era of Voluntary Euthanasia.”
France has officially joined a growing list of nations that have legalized euthanasia. Britain hopes to join them.
In America, Catholic nuns are fighting New York State’s euthanasia laws, mandating that even religious hospitals be forced to assist their patience who choose to commit suicide.
SCI-TECH
AI is either taking over every technology and science institution, or at least becoming the rock on which they are being built. Tying AI to these institutions so quickly is sure to produce unintended costs as breakthroughs in AI risk rendering your old AI build obsolete and in need of redesign and replacement.
We see the rush to build data centers quickly as a gamble by nations they will find the AI motherload that makes the massive, expensive, politically unpopular builds worthwhile. If you wait, you risk being left behind by a competitor that hits the AI zenith. If you move too fast, you risk being left behind after your system is rendered obsolete by leaner, less expensive AI machines.
Social media is now, more than ever, a signal that must be controlled by more “liberal” states if they are to be able to compete with authoritarian states to rapidly develop AI.
States have been trying to claw back the social media signal ever since they realized it had social power that could topple governments. The AI wars make that necessity all the more urgent.
The push to control social media comes through the same vehicle of power that state control often comes from, an appeal to the safety and wellbeing of the children.
- AI – The Data Centers are becoming a political liability wherever the state lacks totalitarian power. In America, the data center push continues, but increasing numbers of jurisdictions are moving to either outright ban or restrict data center development. New York State has already banned them.
AI Geopolitics is dominated by two players, the U.S. and China, with Europe attempting to form its own block. The competition is on to provide the most powerful AI resource to allies as the U.S. and China begin the process of discovering AI geopolitics.
China’s recent move to limit Rare Earth Import controls follows the U.S.’s ban on AI bots from foreign countries, though the target was China.
The war in Iran could go a long way towards determining if the U.S. can position itself to put hurdles before China, such as cutting it off from the cheap source of energy Iran once provided for them. Yet, even without regime change, China’s efforts to restore a broken Iran will also set it back in its AI development, just a little.
In AI U.S. Politics, the Democrats have managed to position their fundraisers to control AI’s congressional lobbying access operation. This means their legislation will be passed, legislation that will define the parameters of AI for us all. From readsludge.com:
“Democratic fundraising consultants working for Senate campaigns, including those of Sen. Jacky Rosen and Rep. Haley Stevens, also run a nonprofit backed in part by Google and Amazon that has become one of the AI industry’s primary channels for cultivating relationships with the congressional staff overseeing federal AI legislation.
“The Innovative Future Collective (IFC), founded by Democratic fundraising consultants Ashley Kennedy and Tonya Fulkerson, has spent the past year flying congressional aides on industry-guided tours of Google, Meta, Amazon, Palantir, Anduril, and other companies at the center of the AI industry’s campaign to shape federal AI policy, including its push to preempt state AI regulation. The nonprofit describes the trips, built around briefings from company policy executives for committee counsels and chiefs of staff overseeing AI legislation, as ‘educational,’ and told Sludge in March that it ‘does not engage in advocacy.’”
This action underlies a growing battlefield in the AI wars, the war to control AI governance. Here, the Democrats are ahead of the Republicans.
- SOCIAL MEDIA WATCH – The assault on an open worldwide social media is well underway. This month, those efforts have only expanded. The favorite tools of control are digital taxation, the levying of fines, requirements to monitor misinformation, “hate speech,” and digital ID to keep children off the internet. The UK looks to force midnight digital curfews on teens from 16-17, with sweeping bans for children under 16.
The push to ban children from social media is a trojan horse almost everyone sees is about censorship and control of internet access by the state. In the name of saving the children, the state will require regular digital ID verification of every user on the internet, not matter their age, to assure they’re not really under 16.
Canada, South Korea, the UAE, and France have joined a growing list of nations using child social media bans to smuggle in social media state control and monitoring.
So far, we haven’t seen a great push by countries to build their own national-serving social media platforms (such as China has done long ago), but the pressure on global social media companies will soon drive them out of more aggressive states.
The UK hopes to be one of those states, with X in its crosshairs above all others.
The UK’s attempt to push YouTube to bury independent creators in favor of state-corporate media threatens to further accelerate the potential death, or at least effective neutering, of the global internet.
President Trump is testing the bounds of the Presidency as a social media commodity.
From our Bellwether report:
President Trump’s Truth Social announced plans to offer corporations the opportunity to see the most influential Truth Social posters’ posts a few seconds before everyone else does. The offer is available only for institutional clients, specifically banks, hedge funds, and high-frequency traders. You pay for a few seconds of insider trading.
The ethicality of the decision is being questioned across the political sphere, never mind the legality of it. The question is, is this not simply selling Presidential influence? The product is the Presidential power, not Trump’s wisdom.
The interim CEO, Kevin McGurn, said, “Markets are already reacting to Truth Social posts. The Truth API will provide direct, licensed access to the platform’s most market-moving content, while allowing us to monetize our own assets.”
AGIT PROP
This section will analyze four agit prop headlines from the Progressive State Press.
- Trump threatens survival of American democracy with election rigging efforts – The Hill – The progressive state media’s constant mantra of democracy is a subliminal rewiring of the American mind from the checks and balances processes of republics to generic claims of having the will of the people. Here, the Hill couples that rewiring strategy with a demonization of President Trump intended to incite more violence against the President.
The Hill is claiming the President’s questioning of mass mailer elections is tantamount to treason. This gives those inclined to rescue the democracy by any means all the justification they need to continue to use violence as a means of political persuasion.
- How Republicans paved the way for white nationalists to invade DC – Daily Kos – The primary justification for reducing their political opponents to executable targets is the white devil myth.
Here we see one of the greatest purveyors of this terrorist-inspiring narrative, the Daily Kos, which is once again engaging in violence-inciting polemics. The readers of this headline will continue to feel emboldened to take violent, coercive action against anyone they perceive as supporting the white devil republicans.
- Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’– The Guardian – While this is not an “American” publication, the Guardian is part of the Global Progressive State. It does its part to slander the British people, but it also does heavy lifting in spreading anti-American agit prop.
Here, the Guardian wants you to believe “communism” isn’t a real threat, and that the rise of the Democrat Socialists of America isn’t a thing.
Trope is a dog whistle for progressives that almost always implies white supremacism (or white-supremacist-protecting patriarchy). This is the only real power the progressive state has, the myth of the white devil. Like the Daily Kos, The Guardian is one of the most aggressive anti-white agit prop content marketers of the progressive state media machine.
- Trump administration seizes on New Jersey voting error to demand noncitizen data – The Straits Times – The Straits Times’ headline reads like many other progressive state headlines that covered this story. The tactic here is to treat the Democrats’ actions, the registering of illegal aliens to vote, in the most favorable light
This communicates that biased perspective as plain factuality.
The Straits Times is presupposing the Democrats’ narrative that the action was purely accidental, while putting the President’s actions in the most unfavorable light as possible. Again, they present this as plain factuality.
The Democrats’ placement of illegals on voting rolls is not even an accident, it’s a bureaucratic sanitized “error.” It’s converting evil, treason, to innocuous banality.
The President’s action gets called “demand” and illegal aliens get sanitized to “noncitizen data.” They don’t even dare hyphen the word non-citizen. They run it together to blur the “non” part of that statement, to make it a sanitized meaninglessness, innocuous evil.
The heuristic of this headline creates the illusion the President is violating the privacy rights of its citizens by demanding the non-citizen “voters” be exposed and removed from the rolls.
MARKET
Nonfarm payrolls showed 57K jobs added, which is a slow down from what has been in recent months. It is the lowest net gain of jobs in four months. While new jobs opportunities are slowing, layoffs are at all-time lows. Initial unemployment claims fell to 187,000. That number has not been seen since September 6, 1969. The figure also beat the expert’s predicted number for unemployment filings, which was 222,000 people.
An unexpected drop in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of 0.4% is leading some economists to revise their expectations of a flat economic outlook for this quarter. The price drop is the biggest since April 2020, just before Biden took office.
The Core CPI shows an ease in inflation as well, but not by as much as the CPI. The Core CPI tracks energy and food prices.
The Federal Reserve’s Sticky Core Inflation, the Core PCE Price Index, did not drop below the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, meaning rate hikes are unlikely in the coming months. This reveals underlying inflation pressures, while declining, persist.
The U.S. Real GPD is approaching 3%, showing a still strong domestic market.
U.S. retail sales are also up, driven by gas station sales and core household expenditures, which both showed marked increases in spending.
ASSESSMENT
“It is better to lose with the truth than to win with the lie.” – Paul Gordon Collier
We continue to view the world through two lenses, with one being much easier to see than the other.
The first lens is the reality of power of the world that was, the post WWII era that became the post-Soviet era. The second lens is the reality of power AI’s entry into our physical world is forming.
We understand the narratives very well in that first lens, but that second lens has no clear view possible, as the emerging reality of power created by AI’s entrance into this world is hardly fully formed, and the directions it takes, we believe (even for AI itself), is not wholly predictable.
Progressive-aligned Islam and Democratic Socialism are two vehicles of power that serve an old paradigm, but neither, we predict, will be relevant to the discourse to come. Right now, in America, their power has never been greater, and that might ultimately be their undoing.
When they both were barely visible to the average American, they could exist either as a minor threat or an innocuous irrelevancy. But now, through Mamdani, through Virgina, through California, Americans are now plainly seeing theory become blood and bone consequence.
When theory takes your job away, or worse, your kids, then theory becomes a blood and bone existential threat. This is what both these schools of thought are becoming to most Americans, as the consequences of their actions become harder and harder to ignore, despite the best efforts by the progressive state press to hide the real consequences from their viewers.
For decades, Americans have been saying the Democratic Party is attempting to subvert American rule of law to convert us to a socialist-communist state. For decades, Americans have been saying the Democratic Party wants to replace the white population with non-whites who have no intention of adopting our American ways.
The Democratic Party was accused of being an ethno-internationalist supremacist project who derived its power solely from the claim the white devil needs to be stopped from murdering the good people of the world, the non-whites.
These same accusations were levelled worldwide at progressive political powers. Wherever progressives ruled white-dominant nations, the white natives were vilified, their non-white neighbors were celebrated, and non-whites colonists were paid to move into the land. That payment came mostly from tax-paying whites.
For decades, these accusations seemed rooted in crypto-white supremacism, Nazism even.
For decades, any attempt to have these conversations about the worldwide trend of progressive power favoring the non-white foreigner over the white citizen were shot down with brutal cancellations of those who spoke up. They were reduced to fringe places where everyday citizens hardly saw them.
For decades, men and women around the world were economically, and sometimes directly, assassinated for daring to question the progressive tendency to hate white citizens.
For decades, the average citizen said such accusations were dog whistles of white supremacism.
But now, worldwide, as the progressives have amassed great power since the start of the 20th century, the actions by these haters of white citizens are finally being felt existentially by the average citizen, including the non-whites who never agreed to join a progressive POC ethnostate styled after the Soviet Union.
Now, the progressives are desperate, as the consequences of their violent anti-white actions are increasingly being felt by “normies.”
Worldwide, they are making great efforts to cut citizens off from “noticing” the violent crimes they continue to commit against humanity, and the violent crimes they’ve committed for decades, protected by de facto state presses, from ABC to the Guardian, from being “noticed” by their intended victims, their own citizens.
Yet, even as they seek to stop citizens from noticing the violence being inflicted upon them, because they built their empire appealing to the murderous nature in humanity, they now have a murder mob that will not let them pragmatically do what they’ve done for decades, strategically retreat.
When the people noticed, when the yolk got too burdensome, the progressives would retreat; then they would prepare for the next opportunity to close the noose tighter around the neck of liberty.
Now, the pragmatics are gone in the progressive world, and the more robust versions of progressivism, Islamist progressivism and Democratic Socialism, are taking the lead, for both offer greater opportunities to murder your neighbors than the progressives of Chuck Schumer’s time even did.
Yet, this battle comes from a dead world. It no longer reflects the reality of power forming beneath its feet. We are looking at the last gasp of the arguments of the enlightenment age, and we are uncertain about what’s coming next.
Iran is the best place to look to figure out what might be coming next.
The justification for power has been “the will of the people,” popular sovereignty. This is what emerged from the enlightenment. But old justifications have crept in.
Through Islam, justification for power based on sacred standing is coming back, and it’s mixing with the progressive justification for power, the creation of “good people” by the state and the elimination of “bad people” by the state. For them, power is justified by its ability to mete out “justice,” which is no justification at all.
The progressive has largely been living off the justification of power from its host nation. Here in America, the progressive rules through that justification even as he is existentially opposed to it. Silence is violence is effectively telling you that authority is justified by its moral correction, but the progressive in an American institution (a corpse infected with progressives) carries that implication of American justification of power by simply using the same names Americans used.
After they took over Harvard, they kept the name; they even live in its bones like parasites. The progressives still call their progressive agitator indoctrination center “Harvard” to receive the American prestige and implied justification for power, the state’s demonstrated recognition of the self-stewardship rights of its citizens, granted to them by a creator outside its own authority.
Were the progressive to attempt to justify power by the claim it is justified by meting out justice, they would be rightly accused of saying nothing at all. A state that is justified by justice is a state that is self-defining, and a self-defining state kills popular sovereignty. Their state is a war to define the good through the state, who can then use that definition to justify violence against its citizens.
The moment the progressive said yes to “punch a Nazi,” they made it clear their justification of power was not American. Their justification of power is violence. Their means are murder and incarceration. A state justified by justice is a tyrant defining your thoughts for you at the end of a gun pointed directly at your child’s skull.
The Islamist wants a state that defines God, a state that will absolutely have to murder to protect that lie. The Progressive wants a state that IS GOD, their personal god avatar through which every progressive hopes to force everyone else to be like them or die. The ‘be like them or die” part is what brings the Socialist and the Islamist together, but after they’ve killed us, they’ll have to kill each other as well.
Neither ideology is ideal for developing AI, though both ideologies offer short-term advantages in AI development. Authoritarian states are significantly less restrained by their citizens than non-authoritarian states are. But long term, the state that chokes truth falls behind the state that does not.
Truth-telling is a plumbline for development that is even more critical when we are talking about something as dangerous as AI. Short-term development without truth telling could easily lead to unexpected disasters as AI is rolled out through these authoritarian nations in a rush to beat other nations to the power.
China is a truth-choking state that has benefited greatly from American technology. Without American technology, China as a nation would still be far behind the west. Were America to fall as a truth telling nation, the whole world would feel the consequence of the death of truth telling plumblines.
The Islamist-Socialist alliance that has wreaked havoc on the world is becoming naked for the average citizen to see. What remains to be seen is if there are enough citizens left who reject the ideology of a god-defining, or god-being state. If there aren’t enough of us left, AI will be our final judge, jury, and executioner.
