New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu will not seek reelection

He previously dispelled rumors of a presidential run in 2024.

New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu announced on Wednesday that he would not seek reelection in 2024.

Sununu first entered the governor's mansion in 2016 and has served continuously since then. The state holds gubernatorial contests every two years, though he has managed to triumph in each successive election and is currently serving his fourth term.

"After much consideration, I have decided not to run for another term as Governor in 2024," he tweeted. "Be assured we will keep working and that the Granite State will continue to be our priority for the next 18 months."

"Public service should never be a career, and the time is right for another Republican to lead our great state," he went on. "This was no easy decision as I truly love serving as Governor."

He previously dispelled rumors of a presidential run in 2024, saying "[w]e’ve taken the last six months to really kind of look at things, where everything is. And I’ve made the decision not to run for president on the Republican ticket in 2024."

The battleground state has generally trended Democratic in the past several presidential elections and currently has two Democratic senators.

Neither senator faces reelection in 2024.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/new-hampshire-gov-chris-sununu-will-not-seek-reelection

Rioters reportedly storm Swedish embassy in Iraq and light it on fire in protest of Koran being burned in Stockholm

Rioters reportedly stormed the Swedish embassy in Iraq and lit it on fire in protest against the burning of a Koran in Stockholm weeks ago.

Videos on social media show demonstrators protesting outside the embassy, and later videos appear to show fires at the embassy in Baghdad after the protest turned into rioting.

Riot police had been sent to restore order, and smoke was seen rising out of the embassy, according to a report from an AFP News Agency journalist at the scene.

Reuters reported that no embassy staff members had been harmed.

Protesters chanted, "Yes, yes to the Koran!"

The violent demonstration was organized by supporters of Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, according to posts on social media.

Muslims have focused their ire at Sweden ever since an incident during which authorities allowed the Koran was to be burned in June in front of a mosque by an Iraqi immigrant.

Two men were caught on news camera ripping the pages out of the Koran, wiping their shoes with them, and sprinkling pig's blood on the book before lighting it on fire.

The incident complicated Sweden's bid to join NATO while Ukraine is still defending itself against an invasion by Russia. It also led to two previous major demonstrations against Sweden at its embassy in Iraq, including one during which the facility was breached by rioters.

Sweden needs the approval of Turkey to enter NATO, but the Islamic country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, cited the Koran-burning when he announced that he would oppose its entry into the organization.

"We will eventually teach the arrogant Westerners that insulting Muslims is not freedom of thought," Erdogan said.

The U.S. State Department called the incident "disrespectful and hurtful."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/muslims-riot-embassy-koran-burning

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https://www.theblaze.com/news/muslims-riot-embassy-koran-burning

Congressional Testimony: Biden’s HHS ‘Deliberately’ Ignoring Trafficking of Migrant Kids Across U.S.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is “deliberately” ignoring the trafficking of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) after they have been released into the United States, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan says.

During a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, Vaughan detailed how UACs under the Biden administration are ending up in a labor trafficking pipeline, as well as in sex trafficking, domestic abuse, and gang membership.

“It’s a lot of, frankly, ‘hear no evil, see no evil, there must not be any,’ really deliberately kind of looking the other way at what is happening,” Vaughan said.

UACs arrive at the border in the hands of Mexican drug cartel smugglers. From there, they are briefly taken into Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custody before eventually being sent to HHS custody. Then, HHS places the UACs with adult sponsors throughout the U.S.

“There are a number of instances where, for example, girls have been placed with older men in what is clearly an exploitative situation. There are kids who have been turned over to labor traffickers. There are kids who get turned over to gang members. There are kids who get placed into domestic servitude and other forms of abuse. It’s really quite horrific,” Vaughan told the committee:

Since Biden took office, HHS officials have lost contact with at least 85,000 UACs after releasing them into the U.S. interior to adult sponsors — the overwhelming majority of whom are not their biological parents.

Vaughan said HHS officials are failing to adequately keep in touch with UACs:

There’s almost no supervision or follow-up that goes on. These standards that they have for not only placement but post-placement services are way, way inferior to the policies that almost every state in the union uses for foster care placements for example. [Emphasis added]

It’s been said that it is harder to adopt a cat than it is to sponsor an unaccompanied minor because there are rarely background checks done, almost never home studies, no financial assessments. The Biden administration has stopped doing background checks on other people in the households to make sure that the placements are safe. This is something that would simply not be tolerated in our foster care system. [Emphasis added]

Reports indicate that top Biden officials such as HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and former Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice have ignored warnings that UACs are ending up in a widespread labor trafficking pipeline as well as sex trafficking and general abuse at the hands of their adult sponsors.

As Breitbart News has detailed, Biden has tripled the inflow of UACs to the U.S., coinciding with the explosion in child migrant labor trafficking. In Biden’s first two years, close to 300,000 UACs arrived at the border and were released into the U.S. interior with adult sponsors.

In April, a whistleblower told Congress that the federal government is operating a “multi-billion-dollar child trafficking operation” under the guise of helping UACs.

“I thought I was going to help place children in loving homes. Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network,” the whistleblower said:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/19/congressional-testimony-bidens-hhs-deliberately-ignoring-trafficking-of-migrant-kids-across-u-s/

ANOTHER LEAK: Dirty Jack Smith to Charge Trump with Civil War Era Civil Rights Violation – Bastardizing the Law to Jail Biden Regime’s Political Opponents

Special Counsel Jack Smith leaked another report to The New York Times on Wednesday night.

This comes after the House Oversight Committee produced $17 million in bank receipts and witness testimony in the Biden Family bribery, corruption, and influence peddling schemes with foreign regimes.

Jack Smith is likely to use the same Civil War Civil Rights Violation that Merrick Garland and the DOJ has been using to send January 6 protesters to prison for years for non-violent crimes.

Again, this leak was reported Wednesday night after the damning testimony from this afternoon.

Federal prosecutors have introduced a new twist into the Jan. 6 investigation by suggesting in a target letter that they could charge former President Donald J. Trump with violating a civil rights statute that dates back to the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The letter to Mr. Trump from the special counsel, Jack Smith, referred to three criminal statutes as part of the grand jury investigation into Mr. Trump’s efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss, according to two people with knowledge of its contents. Two of the statutes were familiar from the criminal referral by the House Jan. 6 committee and months of discussion by legal experts: conspiracy to defraud the government and obstruction of an official proceeding.

But the third criminal law cited in the letter was a surprise: Section 241 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which makes it a crime for people to “conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person” in the “free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”

Congress enacted that statute after the Civil War to provide a tool for federal agents to go after Southern whites, including Ku Klux Klan members, who engaged in terrorism to prevent formerly enslaved African Americans from voting. But in the modern era, it has been used more broadly, including in cases of voting fraud conspiracies.

The Gateway Pundit spoke with DC Attorney Marina Medvin in April 2023. Marina represents several J6 defendants. Medvin described the unusual use of this Civil War Era law to use on protesters on January 6. It is unprecedented.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/another-leak-dirty-jack-smith-charge-trump-civil/

Chris Rufo's American Cultural Revolution

How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“The ambition of this book is to reveal the inner history of America’s cultural revolution, tracing the arc of its development from its origin point to the present day.” Christopher Rufo, America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.

Christopher Rufo may have been setting out the ambition of his new book, America’s Cultural Revolution, but there is no mistake that this work itself is ambitious, given the scale of material (the cultural revolution and pre-revolutionary ideas, and the creation and progression of that movement, for starters) and the connection from leftist thought leaders of the mid-20th century to the absurdities and very real cultural and political dangers we see today.

But his task is also necessary, as the proper answer to the question of “where we are” – one of disagreement even among conservatives, some of whom deny we are in a revolutionary age – requires an exploration of how we got here and the ideas that led us to this point. The revolutionary lineage from the 1960s (and before) carries on to this day – albeit in an arguably stronger form. What was radical is now the orthodoxy. Those calling for sexual liberation in 1955, for example, would no doubt be shocked – and proud – at the evolution and success of that idea. We add that political liberation and sexual liberation are indeed intertwined, as they both can lead to spiritual bondage.

Rufo, to his credit, achieves that ambitious goal. America’s Cultural Revolution is divided into four parts: Revolution, Race, Education, and Power, with each including a biography of the prophets of the cultural revolution. There is an exacting focus on the prophets’ writings (supported by hundreds of footnotes) concerning “liberation”, political violence, anti-racism, and the destruction of institutions – many of which we see regurgitated, exercised, and acted upon to this day.

Your humble author is especially thankful for Rufo’s deep dive into the history of the revolutionaries, which helps to give a biography of the movement. We often see the ridiculous (the shop teacher with z-cups) and the concerning (statues toppled) and the evil (public school teacher-led gender transitions), but we’re left without an understanding of where all this originated and how it came to be.

https://technofog.substack.com/p/review-chris-rufos-american-cultural