[Breitbart] Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum demanded that the U.S. government show proof after the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned multiple cartel businesses that allegedly funded political campaigns in Mexico.
During one of her morning news conferences this week, Sheinbaum lashed out at the U.S. Department of the Treasury for jumping the gun, claiming that Mexico’s Financial Crimes Unit (UIF) was already investigating those businesses. "Top Men. Top. Men"
Earlier this week, the U.S. Treasury announced that it had sanctioned two Mexican nationals and nine of their businesses in Mexico that had been linked to the smuggling and laundering of stolen fuel on behalf of Cartel Jalisco New Generation. As part of the crackdown, the U.S. Treasury’s financial crimes group FINCEN also issued an alert about the methodology and the red flags over the smuggling and laundering of stolen fuel — a practice that has become one of the largest money makers for drug cartels outside of drug trafficking.
The issue that triggered Sheinbaum was a paragraph in the U.S. Treasury statement that read, “In Mexico, the cartels use their illicit profits from the black market fuel sales to make cash payments to Mexican political campaigns and media outlets to help elect corrupt Mexican politicians willing to assist the cartels control key administrative positions in the government, which facilitates fuel smuggling operations and access to state contracts to launder the illicit profits from these schemes and other criminal activities.”
According to Sheinbaum, she was blindsided by the claim that cartels were funding political campaigns.
“We were never informed of that,” she said, referring to the fact that the U.S. Treasury’s FINCEN had worked in the case with her UIF. “Besides, what proof do they have? Because it’s the same, I mean, they claim something is happening without having any proof.”
[NY Post] Things gettin' jiggy in Sacramento
The FBI had a mole inside Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political orbit before the agency’s corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife, The Post has learned.
Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom’s then-chief of staff, Dana Williamson, 53, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges in May, according to Williamson’s attorney.
The revelation she was wearing a wire as far back as June 2024
…during the Biden Politburo presidency. Give me a moment while I get over my shock and switch to pride for FBI honour during that dark time…
explains why a swath of Sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were stunned to receive FBI letters last fall informing them that their phone calls had been intercepted during the investigation — despite many having little or no connection to Williamson.
"Alexis wore a wire, and Dana did not," said McGregor Scott, Williamson’s lawyer and a former US attorney for the Eastern District of California, which is now investigating the Newsoms.
The disclosure comes as Newsom announced last month that he and his wife — whose nonprofit has been burning through money in recent years — as well as members of the governor’s inner circle are under federal investigation.
Within hours of that announcement, Newsom blasted out an email to raise money for political action committee.
Assemblymember Josh Hoover (R-Folsom) told The Post he was among those who received one of the letters even though he had never spoken with either Williamson or Podesta.
"A lot of people received letters essentially informing us that there were certain periods of time where the FBI was given access to follow phone calls," Hoover said.
"I don’t know how these investigations work, but it sounds like they cast a pretty broad net across the Capitol community to see what they could find."
[Breitbart] As New York baked under another summer heat wave, parts of the Riverdale neighborhood in the Bronx, home to a large Jewish community, lost power after Con Edison shut off electricity to protect its equipment.
Con Edison announced the outages Thursday, saying it temporarily cut power to some customers in Riverdale to reduce strain on the electrical grid and speed up service restoration. The utility directed affected residents to report outages and seek relief at city cooling centers.
The outages left parts of Riverdale sweating without air conditioning during a dangerous citywide heat wave. The timing also puts intense pressure on Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The Democratic Socialist ran on promises to protect ordinary New Yorkers, but a neighborhood-wide shutdown like this directly undercuts that message.
Earlier Friday, Mamdani urged New Yorkers to set their thermostats to 78 degrees, turn off unused lights and electronics, and reduce electricity use as the city faced high demand during the heatwave.
#8
Temps have to be extra low in office buildings because men wear suits with coats and ties. closing off your neck makes you even hotter. Fetterman tried to change the dress code to be more sensible and got crapped on for it.
#9
Most office jobs call for business casual nowadays. In the summer both men and women who wear suits for work will wear summer-weight fabrics, and take off their jackets to work in shirtsleeves and loosened ties while at their desks. No need to chill the building as if they were still wearing winter wool and wool blends, though in Texas, where energy has been cheap, I understand they like to keep things in the mid-60s.
[California Globe] The U.S. Department of Justice, under the Trump administration, filed a Second Amendment lawsuit Wednesday July 1, 2026, against California to block the state’s new "Glock Ban," effective July 1, and challenge its longstanding "Handgun Roster," a list the DOJ says limits the legal firearms individuals may purchase.
"The Civil Rights Division will defend law-abiding citizens from states that seek to disarm them illegally," said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. "This lawsuit is yet another example of this Justice Department enforcing the Second Amendment by protecting citizens against unconstitutional state regulation of firearms."
The DOJ said California’s new law would ban the retail purchase of common handguns manufactured by Glock and guns with similar firing mechanisms. The state’s existing "Handgun Roster" further limits the types of handguns citizens can lawfully purchase in California. The United States Supreme Court recently reaffirmed that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right to carry handguns outside the home for self-defense in Wolford v. Lopez. The Court reiterated that states cannot prevent citizens from using commonly used firearms for self-defense.
California is the first state to enact such a targeted Glock-style ban, with others (e.g., Maryland, Connecticut, New York) considering similar measures, The Reload reported recently.
They Continue:
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon sent a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom (D.) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D.) on Wednesday, asking them to enter pre-suit settlement negotiations over the state’s forthcoming ban on pistols that feature firing mechanisms common to Glocks, as well as its so-called roster of approved handguns. The letter also said that if Dhillon’s negotiation offer is rejected or ignored over the next week, California should expect to see the Justice Department in court.
"Because handguns are the most popular weapon chosen by Americans for self-defense, a prohibition of their use is invalid," Dhillon wrote. "This letter is to inform you that as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, I have authorized the filing of a complaint in Federal district court against the state."
The letter marks the latest instance of the DOJ targeting the gun control laws in Democratic jurisdictions and the second time that California finds itself on the receiving end of that legal scrutiny. Its latest foray against the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on Glocks could determine the constitutionality of the policy just as other states have started to imitate it.
One year ago today, the Globe reported that Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), who calls the Glock, the "DIY Machine Gun Loophole," is the author of Assembly Bill 1127, along with Assembly Members Mike Gipson and Buffy Wicks, and Coauthors Assembly Members Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Marc Berman, Issac Bryan, Damon Connolly, Mark González, Ash Kalra, Liz Ortega, Cottie Petrie-Norris, and Sharon Quirk-Silva.
Democrats call the Glock a "machine gun-convertible pistol."
The bill passed and was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in October 2025.
According to Assemblyman Gabriel, "As parents and lawmakers, we refuse to stand idly by while our schools and communities are being threatened by illegal machine guns. This commonsense legislation will ensure that the gun industry is held accountable and that we are doing everything possible to protect our communities from mass shootings."
Assemblyman Gabriel and fellow gun control supporters are literally redefining semi-automatic pistols as "convertible."
So, it’s about "mass shootings," according to Assemblyman Gabriel. Notably, Assemblyman Gabriel says nothing about the people shooting the guns. By his logic, SUVs kill, knives kill, airplanes kill, even hot air balloons kill — not the people operating them.
"The Glock pistol is America’s Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike," Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun says. "Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time. Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers, armed with standard six-round revolvers, were getting "outgunned" by drug dealers with semi-automatic pistols; they needed a new gun. With its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, the Glock was the gun of the future. You could drop it underwater, toss it from a helicopter, or leave it out in the snow, and it would still fire. It was reliable, accurate, lightweight, and cheaper to produce than Smith and Wesson’s revolver. (This is a marvelous book).
As Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon posted on X today:
SCOTUS’s recent 2A decisions hew to America’s natural law, and the right to self-defense. The @CivilRights Division’s 2A section at @theJusticeDept will continue to aggressively protect Americans’ right to keep and bear arms, and follow the precedent that SCOTUS set.
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@1 "Shouldn't the Cal Politicians be indicted on Federal charges, or at least removed from office for violating their oath of office?" Once can hope, but not until the mid terms are over.
Given the lack of knowledge of the average voter and their tendency to believe the MSM, I do not see any prominent politician being indicted until after the mid term elections are over.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
