Some headlines, issues and news that caught our eye.

Bluff Or Bluster? Iran Acts Like It Wants War

Khamenei’s threat: Iran can hit US Navy so hard it ‘cannot get up again’ — Jerusalem Post

Amid threat of U.S. attack, Iran nuclear talks proceed without breakthrough — Washington Post

Iran says it temporarily closed the Strait of Hormuz as it held more indirect talks with the US — AP

Iran: Hanging on at Any Cost — Amir Taheri, Gatestone Institute

Wannabe Presidents AOC, Newsom: Not Ready For Prime Time?

AOC says ‘We don’t have to wait to impose a wealth tax,’ immediately gets corrected by Argentine politician — Tudor Dixon, X

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Corrected On Huge Geography Error — X

Is Alito On The Way Out? — USA Today

“You Had Me at Hello”: Newsom and AOC Go to Europe to Pitch High Tax, High Regulation Policies — Jonathan Turley

Blue States Want Even More From Their Biggest Taxpayers

Washington state Senate approves tax on personal income over $1M — Washington Standard

Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed — New York Times

Blue States Waging War On Drivers — American Spectator

The Blue States’ Doom Loop — J. Robert Smith, American Thinker

Epstein Scandal Costing Many Former Pals Their Jobs

Epstein files fallout: The high-profile people burned by past dealings with a predator — CNBC

Disgraced L.A. Mayor urges Wasserman to resign as head of 2028 L.A. Olympics due to Epstein tie — ESPN

Hillary Clinton: I never met Jeffrey Epstein, but Bill flew on his plane — X

Will AI Kill Traditional Work?

Microsoft AI CEO predicts ‘most, if not all’ white-collar tasks will be automated by AI within 18 months — Business Insider, via Yahoo Finance

We just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day — The Dor Brothers, X, via Ace Of Spades HQ

AI – Taking Your Job or Your Pension Money? — Francis Turner, OmbreOlivier Substack

Question: Why Hasn’t the Left Declared War on AI? — Christopher Chantrill, American Thinker

Something New: The Journal for AI Generated Papers: “In Curiosity We Trust” — website, via Marginal Revolution

Education’s Ideological Strait-Jacket

Study Finds 88% of College Students Fake Being Leftists to Fit In, Score Better Grades — The National Pulse

Harvard ‘ecofascism’ professor also taught course on ‘aquatic, atmospheric life of Blackness’ — The College Fix

Boston University teaching hospital glossary says ‘biology’ doesn’t define sex — The College Fix

Teachers Are Fomenting Anti-ICE Hysteria — Larry Sand, American Greatness

Britain Now Openly Hostile To Jews

Anti-Israel zealots are now subjecting British Jews to ideological purity tests — Spiked

Leftists Go Jew-Hunting In Britain: Is UK No Longer Safe? — Aaron Hanscom, PJ Media

Miscellaneous, But Very Important, Items . . .

The greatest threat to the West is immigration, not Moscow — Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS

Virtually All Countries Support Voter Photo ID – So Why the Filibuster? — John R. Lott Jr., Real Clear Politics

28 Homes Rebuilt in a Year: Why LA’s Fire Recovery Is Stalled — Julia R. Cartwright, The Daily Economy, American Institute for Economic Research

Any Hope for a European Economic Renaissance? — Dan Mitchell , Center for Freedom and Prosperity

Trump’s Medicaid ‘policies are having good effects’ — White Papers Policy Institute, X

Gen Z Men & Highly Educated Lead Return to Religion — Joel Kotkin & Bheki Mahlobo, Real Clear Investigations

RIP: Jesse Jackson, Civil-Rights Leader and Democratic Presidential Candidate, Dies at 84 — Wall Street Journal