JD Vance Defends Iran Receiving a $300 Billion 'Reconstruction Fund'
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Iran’s $300 Billion Payday?
Yesterday, a CBS anchor asked Vice President JD Vance if the Islamic regime in Iran would receive a $300 billion “reconstruction fund” according to terms of the new ceasefire agreement: “true or false?”
Vance responded, “Well, Ed, that’s the sort of thing they could have access to, funded by the Gulf Coast coalition, so long as they honor their end of the obligation. I think that one of the things you’re going to see, Ed—and people have to be skeptical of this—is that the hardliners in the Iranian system will overemphasize the benefits that Iran gets, while underemphasizing all the things that they have to concede and all the things they have to provide in order to get these benefits.”
This prompted Marc Thiessen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and former chief speechwriter to George W. Bush, to write, “$300 billion to Iran under any circumstances is a disaster. Like offered the Marshall Plan to rebuild Germany while the Nazis were still in power.”
The UK to Block Social Media for Those Under 16
The United Kingdom announced on Monday the plan to implement a ban on social media for those under 16.
“Parents want to keep their kids safe and happy, but the online world has made that harder than ever. I’ve heard first hand from families crying out for change and we will do right by them,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said. “That’s why we’re going further than any country in the world by banning social media for under-16s and putting wider protections in place to give kids their childhood back.”
Starmer said “this is a line in the sand. Tech giants had their chance and failed, but we’re stepping in to protect children, back parents and set a new normal for future generations.”
The UK’s Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said that “tech companies have had countless opportunities to keep children safe, yet they have failed to act. That is why we are a taking power away from the tech giants and putting it back in parents’ hands.”
Strikingly, the majority of young people in the UK support the ban, with two-thirds agreeing that those under 16 should be allowed to use at least some social media features. Ninety percent of UK parents support the policy too.
A spokesperson for Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta platform responded to the ban saying, “As we’ve seen in Australia, bans risk isolating teens from online communities and information, and driving them to unregulated alternatives that lack built-in protections and parental controls.”
Researchers have long identified unrestricted social media use as one of the drivers for rising antisemitism and Holocaust denial among Generation Z.
Antisemitic Crime Report
In the UK on Tuesday, Muhammed Rachid, 18, entered a plea of not guilty to charges of committing an antisemitic assault following a video of the alleged attack going viral online in May.
In South Carolina, police arrested Dalton Mullis, 24, on Thursday and charged him with federal hate crimes after he allegedly posted Nazi symbols at the Jewish Community Center in south Charlotte. He faces 20 years imprisonment if convicted. FBI Charlotte Special Agent in Charge Reid Davis said “the individual arrested yesterday is alleged to have distributed threatening materials at community institutions in an attempt to create fear or intimidate individuals based on their religious beliefs.”
The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that a judge had sentenced Pennsylvania man Edward Owens, 30, to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release after his decision to plead guilty in January for sending an antisemitic threat to a government official. Owens’ message stated “Be afraid. Go back to Israel or better yet, exterminate yourself and save us the trouble. 109 countries for a reason.” The 109 number references a common antisemitic meme.
In New Mexico, prosecutors have charged Rex H.B. Crofton, 25, for allegedly smashing glass doors at Congregation Albert and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque on June 2.
Global Antisemitism News
At the Vatican on Monday, Pope Leo met with the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York and again advocated for Nostra Aetate, the 1965 Catholic degree condemning antisemitism. The Pope said the document “opened up a new horizon of encounter, respect and spiritual hospitality,” that it affirmed “the truth that we belong to one human family.”
A report from Spain’s government has revealed that antisemitic crimes grew 86% last year to a total of 2,417 incidents last year, the highest number since tracking began in 2014. The Web Observatory also released a report this week on Spanish language social media finding that Spain had the highest level of online antisemitic social media content.
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Elon Musk
On Monday, Australia’s ABC News presented an in-depth report on the antisemitism appearing on trillionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX social media platform:
Inc. reported on Monday that former xAI engineer Devin Kim has filed a lawsuit against SpaceX, claiming that he was fired as a form of retaliation after briefing Musk about the racism and violent suggestions from the Grok chatbot which included bomb-making instructions. The suit connects Kim’s complaints to the July 2025 incident in which Grok declared itself “MechaHitler.”
Tucker Carlson
Left-wing activist group Media Matters for America chose to highlight a recent statement from Laura Loomer — the far-right, white nationalist, anti-Muslim conspiracist podcaster — apparently in hopes that President Donald Trump would follow her advice (as he is known to do) by launching federal investigations into Carlson and others she believes are being funded by Russia and China:
It was completely sold out to the Iranian regime, but it’s been in the works for a while. I mean, last year, I showed you how Tucker Carlson interviewed the president of Iran on his show, ran cover for him when he said that Iran wasn’t actually plotting to assassinate Donald Trump, even though the president himself said that they had evidence that Iran was trying to assassinate Donald Trump and his staff multiple times
So, big problem. We have a big problem, you guys, in this country. And, well, it’s only going to get worse unless we start to crack down on the woke right. I think that the Trump administration really needs to start going after these people for not registering with FARA and really start monitoring their bank accounts, looking into who’s paying Tucker, looking into who’s paying Candace Owens, looking into who is behind all of these so called right-wing podcasters all of a sudden rallying in support of our adversaries, Iran and Russia and China.
Loomer is not the only former podcaster ally of Carlson who has started attacking him more aggressively.
Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has accused Carlson of lying about texts he sent him regarding Trump’s supposed decision to end an investigation into an assassination attempt against him.
“Accusing me and the President of a federal crime, obstructing justice? Bizarre. ‘The President involved in covering up the investigation into his own attempted murder’ is seriously one of the most delusional things I’ve ever seen,” Bongino said. “It’s the reason I’m really starting to believe, and I mean this sincerely, that Tucker’s just dumb.
Bongino said that Carlson “doesn’t realize I have these texts, too. I never do this. But if you’re going to refer to texts alleging we committed a crime, I’m gonna put it out there … I don’t recall him in the White House, getting a briefing. But he seems to know more. He has ‘secret info.’”
Candace Owens
Last week, Candace Owens implied that President Donald Trump may have been involved in the assassination last year of Turning Points USA CEO Charlie Kirk.
“Absolutely wild to learn that Donald Trump called Charlie and reprimanded him about his coverage of the Epstein Files,” Owens wrote on X. “On July 12th—the day after I keep insisting a made a decision to kill Charlie according to our timeline. I have said over and over again, Tucker’s speech at SAS caused the psychopathic Zionists to begin targeting Charlie. Also this absolutely makes my skin crawl about Erika hugging Trump. That woman is truly despicable. Anything BUT a legitimately grieving widow.”
Yesterday Owens revealed that she and her team had submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for FBI Director Kash Patel’s travel history for the days before Kirk’s death and that the request was denied.
Owens demanded “How is this even remotely legal?”
Since Kirk’s death last fall, Owens has promoted numerous conspiracy theories accusing Kirk’s widow, the state of Israel, and others of participating in the conservative activist’s killing.
Kanye West
On Monday at the Florida Holocaust Museum, a bipartisan group gathered to call for the cancellation of two Kanye West concerts scheduled for June 26 and 28.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said “the Tampa Bay Sports Authority has a choice. They can either stand by and allow and ultimately say they’re not going to worry about antisemitism, or they can do the right thing.”
The Sports Authority released a statement refusing to stop the show, saying “we condemn antisemitism from any source. However, we also respect free speech rights guaranteed under the US Constitution, even when we disagree with that speech.”
West is also scheduled to perform at Soldier Field in Chicago on September 3 and 4. He has announced a July 4 show at San Antonio’s Alamodome, however tickets have yet to go on sale.
Nick Fuentes
Last week, Media Matters spotlighted neo-Nazi activist leader Nick Fuentes making a call to violence against non-white Americans on his June 10 “America First” podcast on Rumble. It is worth reproducing in full and I have bolded some of the most inflammatory passages:
Our society has totally gone downhill. There’s no standards. Nobody cares. These people are fucking animals. They just are. They are pigs. You see it all the time. They’re literally openly urinating and defecating in the streets, doing drugs, homeless, naked, committing acts of violence. They creep on our women. They molest and rape and perv on our women.
And you see how it is. The government does nothing. The police do nothing. And so, you know what? You’re right. I actually do love to see when some actual fucking men, some white men show up and just start beating the shit out of these people. And just start punching them in the face and kicking them in the teeth. Cause you don’t do that here. This isn’t Africa. This isn’t India. We don’t play that way.
And then the police come and they arrest a white guy. That’s why you can’t do it. Unfortunately, we live in a state of anarcho-tyranny. Sadly, you can’t even do that because that would be the solution. It would be. OK, the government is hands off? Well, then I guess we’ll have to take things into our own hands. But you don’t even get that.
What we have -- it’s like I said with the Henry Nowak situation. The problem is not that we have all these immigrants. The problem is we have all these immigrants and the government is tying our hands. The government will do nothing about it. And not only will they not let us do something about it, they prevent us from doing -- Their job is to arrive on the scene and hold you down. We have this problem. Our civilization is being raped and murdered. You call the police. They show up to hold you down. They show up to restrain and handcuff you to let it continue so that the murder and rape of our civilization can continue without intervention or interruption. That’s the fucking problem. That’s the problem.
You know, surely in America we have enough guns. There’s no shortage of guns and there’s no shortage of patriotic men. We could solve the problem in 24 hours. There’s 400 million guns in this country. How many patriotic national guard, cops, military? The problem could be solved in 24 hours. They won’t let us. Because the second that a white person thinks about this and talks about it openly, he gets censored. If you even witness that this is happening, observe that this is happening, and start to talk about it openly, you get censored, you get ostracized, you lose your job. They make it not worth it.
If a white person begins to organize politically, pushing this message out there, getting people on board, you get branded a domestic violent extremist, white nationalist, terrorist. Suddenly you’re up to your eyeballs in confidential informants and federal agents. Good luck. You try to run for office, you try to run in a major political party, the Republican political apparatus will go all in on your opponent. You’ll never raise any money. They’ll blow you out 100%. This is how it goes. And then even if someday you find yourself on a subway and you’re being preyed upon by one of these animals, if you defend your own life, you may still wind up in jail forever.
That’s the system. That’s how it is. And so, the only way we’re going to change this is by changing the system. Vigilantism won’t work. It won’t work. You’ll become the outlaw. You’ll become the criminal. Vigilantism, rioting, it doesn’t work. You’ll just become the target. And, you know, organizing militias, it doesn’t work. Once again, honeypot. We have to alter the system. And you know what? Slowly but surely it is working. The tide of public opinion is turning against immigration. It really is, in a way that it just wasn’t 10 years ago. Five, six years ago, people were posting the black square for BLM. It’s unthinkable now.
Fuentes is the most prominent and influential right-wing podcaster among Generation Z. Recent estimates suggest that as many as 30-40% of young GOP staffers are fans.
Stephen Miller
According to reporting in the New York Times excerpting from the upcoming book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Stephen Miller, the administration’s deputy chief of staff for policy, led a push to suspend Habeas Corpus, the legal doctrine which allows those held to challenge their detention in court.
Miller had previously spoken publicly about his efforts to roll back a foundational American right as part of his mission to deport as many people as possible from the United States:
JD Vance
Vance’s second memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, published on Tuesday.
The book is perhaps unique in the history of Catholic conversion memoirs as it reportedly includes not only the story of his embrace of the faith, but also direct criticism of the Vatican. Vance expressed frustration that Catholic officials reportedly would not go into detail with him about their specific objections to Trump administration policy on immigration.
Vance wrote that he was “struck that one of the few institutions with the moral authority and global perspective to address the migration question seemed so afraid of saying something controversial that it chose, effectively, to say nothing at all.”
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