THE SHOW NOTES: Blatant Media Bias, Don't Call The Shooter Trans, & The Booming US Economy

Welcome! The Secret Service claims the White House cocaine culprit is unlikely to be found.

HUGE: Private sector companies added 497,000 jobs in June, more than double expectations. - CNBC

NEW: A $300,000 electric flying car with a 110-mile range in the air just got FAA approval.

OUCH: The US has the fastest growth rate of any G7 country and Americans are still unhappy. - Twitter

WATCH: A women’s health expert on CBS repeatedly used the term “menstruators” instead of “women.”

EVIL: CNN is complaining that strict abortion laws in Texas allowed 10,000 births that should not have happened.

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Bias Bias Bias

The New York Times is blatantly misreporting basic facts on a federal judge who ruled yesterday that Biden administration officials may not communicate with social media companies.

What happened: Judge Doughty ruled in favor of two GOP Attorneys General who brought a case claiming the Biden administration was pressuring social media companies to delete or devalue posts it deemed offensive or inaccurate. The Times said that Doughty, “expressed little skepticism about debunked claims from vaccine skeptics. In one previous case, Judge Doughty accepted as fact the claim that ‘Covid-19 vaccines do not prevent transmission of the disease.’”

Doughty’s statement is factually accurate. A plethora of studies confirm that Covid-19 vaccines do not prevent transmission of the disease but instead protect the person vaccinated.

Why the ruling matters: The Washington Post (paywall) confirms that multiple Biden administration agencies had standing meetings with Facebook and other social media companies ahead of the 2024 election. According to insiders, all meetings have been postponed until further notice.

Trans Shooter

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is furious that conservatives have labeled a male murder suspect who regularly dressed in women’s clothing as trans. The suspect is in custody after killing five and injuring two children earlier this week.

Context: In a story that appears more appropriate for The Babylon Bee, the DA office’s LGBTQ advisory committee condemned the “violent” language from the “conservative press” about the shooter’s gender identity. Multiple social media posts confirm the shooter wore women’s clothing and was a devout Black Lives Matter activist.

Threads

Meta’s Twitter competitor launched last night and reportedly acquired 10 million users in its first seven hours. The service is a simple microblogging platform that allows users to share short snippets of text and is built off of the Instagram platform.

Details: While Threads is a barebones app at the moment and does not offer as many tools as Twitter, Meta plans on incorporating upgraded features in the near future.

The final straw: Twitter users were incensed over the weekend when a “rate limit” was imposed that throttled the number of posts one could view in a day to 600. Many viewed this as the “final straw” and has longtime Twitter users looking for a viable alternative.

Ignore Your 401(k)

As of this writing, the Dow is down almost 500 points off of… good news? Bond prices surged and major stock indices fell after it was reported this morning that the private sector added 497K jobs to the economy in June. This was roughly twice the number that experts expected.

Why this matters: The strong labor market all but guarantees the Federal Reserve will be forced to resume the practice of raising interest rates in order to stifle a sizzling economy that’s produced record inflation. Following a rate-hiking hiatus at its last meeting, markets boomed on the hope that rate hikes would be nearing an end.

🔥 Trending news:

• Bypassing Biden: Democrats Think of What Could Have Been - Politico

• Prigozhin in Russia, not Belarus - CNN

• The new power couple taking on Wall Street: J.D. Vance and Elizabeth Warren - Politico

• Climate hysteria: The planet saw its hottest day on record this week. It’s a record that will be broken again and again - CNN

• US Navy says it prevented Iran from seizing tankers in Gulf of Oman - Reuters

• When firework plans go bad - Twitter

• Tourist apologises for Colosseum defacement, saying he ‘had no idea it was so ancient’ - SMH

• Severed human leg found hanging from bridge, other body parts strewn across city in Mexico with messages signed by cartel - CBS

• Don’t Sell Edibles That Look Like Doritos, Federal Officials Tell Companies - WSJ (paywall)

• From Banks to BBQ, Brands Targeting Conservatives Fuel a Parallel Economy - Bloomberg (paywall)

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