Sales at Walmart’s U.S. stores rose just 2.6% in the latest quarter, while the retailer’s stock plunged more than 9% Thursday, its steepest one-day decline since 2022. The results offer a fresh sign that higher fuel costs and broader economic uncertainty are beginning to weigh on consumers, even as Walmart has benefited from shoppers seeking lower prices.

President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be allowing 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to be imported into the country, lifting tariffs on the product for 90 days.

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THIS WEEK IN GUN RIGHTS!

At GOA, we’ve been hard at work fighting for your Second Amendment rights, here’s a recap of the things you should know…

A federal judge ruled the registration requirements on short, barreled firearms and suppressors are unconstitutional.

DOJ had a week to appeal the stay and let it pass.

On midnight, when the stay expired, two GOA members became the first in the country since 1934 to buy suppressors with no registration.

Congress is moving on two fronts to wipe out the rest of the NFA tax, ATF still won’t answer our letters, and there are limits you need to understand before you act.

Here’s all of it…

WHERE THINGS STAND…

The last two weeks have moved faster than the last two decades.

August 5. The court ruled.

Judge James Wesley Hendrix in the Northern District of Texas, held that the NFA’s registration requirements are unconstitutional as applied to the recently reduced $0 tax items. (SBRs, SBSs, AOWs, Suppressors)

Congress passed the NFA as a tax. With the tax at zero, there is nothing holding the registration scheme up.

The Judge entered a permanent injunction against ATF covering the plaintiffs, the members of the plaintiff organizations, and the customers of the plaintiff companies.

GOA and Gun Owners Foundation are plaintiffs, along with Silencer Shop Foundation, Palmetto State Armory, SilencerCo, B&T USA, FRAC, and 15 states.

August 12. DOJ let the clock run out.

The judge had paused his own order for seven days so the government could run to the Fifth Circuit.

They never went.

The pause expired and the injunction took effect.

August 13. Ninety-two years ended at one minute past midnight.

At Silencer Shop in Leander, Texas, GOA members Brandon Herrera and Wes Virdell legally took possession of unregistered suppressors with just a background check.

Rep. Andrew Clyde and GOA’s Erich Pratt were in the room.

These were the first lawful unregistered transfers since the NFA was enacted on June 26, 1934.

PRESSURE ON TWO FRONTS…

Rep. Clyde is leading a coalition in Congress pushing DOJ and ATF to apply the ruling nationwide instead of to plaintiffs alone.

The group is calling for DOJ & ATF to issue a rule that would formally rescind the challenged regulations, as they apply to untaxed firearms.

Here’s what we currently cannot tell you.

As of the writing of this email, we cannot tell you how the injunction applies to your particular situation.

Neither can ATF right now.

We asked for written guidance for our members and got nothing back, not even an acknowledgment that our letter arrived.

Until that changes, take questions about your own circumstances to a lawyer in your state.

P.S., we’ve partnered with our friends at CANIK to bring you a GOA 50th anniversary METE MC9.

The Mete MC9 Prime boasts an enhanced compensated barrel and slide with an integrated expansion chamber, delivering superior accuracy and reduced muzzle rise.

The design ensures unparalleled control, making follow up shots faster and more precise. Complementing this is the addition of Night sights.

The GOA anniversary addition CANIK METE MC9 includes two magazines and a GOA Challenge Coin.

Proceeds from the sales of this product go to supporting GOA in our mission to fight for the Second Amendment!

If you aren’t already, please consider becoming a GOA member so that we can fight on your behalf! And consider also making it a repeating yearly contribution so that you will always stay covered by our lawsuit injunctions. 

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is stumping for Florida's Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon, who is a member of Democrat Socialists of America.

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Swedish police shot suspected swordsman after an attack on a secondary school on Friday that has left at least two people seriously injured.

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During a hearing before the House Committee on State Affairs, residents, state regulators, and local officials expressed concerns about the potential impacts large data centers could have on the state. 

On Wednesday, the State Affairs Committee heard testimony from hundreds of residents, prompting lawmakers to open two overflow rooms. 

Residents raised concerns about water supplies, noise levels, and electricity demands. 

One resident, Mark Friesenhahn, a pecan farmer in Comal County, spoke to lawmakers about the need to study water usage in addition to the large electricity loads required by data centers. 

Friesenhahn, who holds a professional engineer license, explained that data centers use significant amounts of water, but agriculture also requires substantial water resources. He provided lawmakers with a chart showing that agriculture is at the low end of the scale when it comes to water use and said farmers are struggling as the state faces dwindling water supplies. 

“My request is pretty straightforward. We’re talking with other committees, Sen. [Charles] Perry’s and others, to request that you help support water availability certification for new commercial operations for the life of their operation,” Friesenhahn said.

Another resident, Susan Tatro of Williamson County, also testified, telling lawmakers that a third data center could be approved just 200 feet from her property in her unincorporated community. Tatro raised concerns about the potential impact on her neighbors’ livestock and the noise associated with data centers. 

“Lights, noise, water,” Tatro said. “I have four acres with a tank. I’ve got ducks, I’ve got egrets. I’ve got dogs. I’ve got cats. I’ve got animals. My neighbors have cows. At the end of the day, I’m worried they could affect our springs.” 

Residents were not the only ones to testify before lawmakers. Leon County Precinct 3 Commissioner Kyle Workman also spoke before the committee to raise concerns he has heard from residents he represents. 

“Leon County is experiencing an influx of proposed date center-based projects and solar projects likely due to our rich local resources, proximity to the grid, natural gas resources, and large tracts of agricultural land,” Workman said. 

Workman said residents in his county have major concerns about the large projects but argued that the underlying issue is “a lack of county regulatory authority over unincorporated areas.” 

“The current one-size-fits-all approach is very problematic and leaves local citizens helpless in the face of great threats perceived from the implementation of these projects within their communities,” Workman said. “It is my respectful request that the state of Texas provide an increase to county control and influence over these such projects to ensure our citizens receive representation they expect from their local leaders.” 

State regulators also testified before the committee. Ben Barkley, CEO and public counsel of the Office of Public Utility Counsel, told lawmakers that residents could end up paying more on their electricity bills as a result of data centers. 

“There’s going to be a small portion of population growth that is going to contribute to the need for new transmission, and residential consumers should be paying for that,” Barkley said. “However, if you have a gigawatt data center coming online, and you need to build a significant amount of transmission to serve that data center, 100 percent of those costs should be paid for by that data center.”  

The 90th Texas Legislative Session has not yet convened. Lawmakers are currently receiving input and testimony that will help them draft and file bills addressing Texans’ concerns about the projects. 

Earlier this month, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state regulators to conduct a comprehensive audit of data centers seeking to connect to the Texas grid, effectively pausing future data center projects until the review is complete. 

Under the order, Electric Reliability Council of Texas and Public Utility Commission will collect information from each data center project, including whether facilities are paying their own costs, how they plan to supply power, whether they rely on ERCOT for electricity, whether they provide and reuse their own water, and what measures they will take to reduce impacts on neighboring property owners and communities. 

The 90th Legislative Session will convene Jan. 12, 2027. Lawmakers can begin pre-filing bills Nov. 9. 

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Conservatives may be tempted to laugh at the absurdity of a breastfeeding organization featuring a man attached to breast pumps, but we shouldn’t simply move on—it reveals something important about the effect of transgenderism on America’s institutions.

First, what happened? The Maine State Breastfeeding Coalition, an organization dedicated to advocacy and training on lactation, in a social media post for National Breastfeeding Month featured the image of man attempting to breastfeed. After the conservative X account Libs of TikTok highlighted the image, the coalition apparently deleted it on Facebook but kept it up on Instagram.

The image reads, “Celebrating trans lactation, two-spirit & chestfeeding.” The Instagram post declares, “We’re proud to celebrate and uplift trans lactation, chestfeeding, and Two-Spirit families during National Breastfeeding Month.”

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The post emphasizes “inclusive spaces” and declares that “every family deserves affirming, respectful, and evidence-based care.”

The Daily Signal reached out to the Maine State Breastfeeding Coalition, asking for any scientific studies demonstrating that male lactation can feed babies. The coalition did not provide a response.

Before delving into the incentives behind the post, I’d like to address briefly what happened here.

A state organization that claims to be dedicated to supporting human lactation—the process by which mothers provide infants with life-giving sustenance—promoted the notion of forcing babies to rely on males, who cannot provide enough calories to keep infants alive.

Activists have touted a few instances where men have secreted milk-like substances through their nipples. Yet, as Talia Nava at The Paradox Institute explained, it requires unsafe levels of drugs—which are passed through milk to babies—just to get men to produce a small amount of liquid, far less than babies need.

Most of us intuitively grasp that there is no point in trying to force men’s bodies to do something that women’s bodies are programmed for.

So, if the coalition does not readily have evidence for the effectiveness of male breastfeeding—the phenomenon Orwellianly named “chestfeeding” or “trans lactation”—why, on God’s green earth, did they promote it?

The coalition did not choose this image because male lactation is common or because most breastfeeding families face this issue. The image serves another purpose: signaling allegiance to a broader ideological project.

While the social stigma of opposing transgender ideology has increasingly diminished in recent years, many elite institutions still treat support for it as a marker of social responsibility.

According to transgender ideology, human beings have a gender identity that—on some undefined mystical plane—is somehow more real than our biological sex.

Transgender activists frame their demands to recognize one’s gender identity as a matter of politeness. In reality, these demands represent an attempt to force society to adopt the highly controversial view that our biological sex is interchangeable.

It’s not just that this is false. The ideology’s downstream effects—such as men allowed to enter women’s restrooms, locker rooms, and prisons, just by claiming to “identify” as women—are obvious and dangerous.

Furthermore, the claims are also patently absurd, and few images quite capture the absurdity as well as the man “chestfeeding” in Maine, with a smile on his face and a coffee mug in hand reading, “Milk Makes Families.” To think about that slogan is to realize how inane it is.

This image isn’t going to entice men into attempting lactation. Rather, it reveals how institutional leaders feel compelled to subordinate their core missions to ideological signaling that arguably undermines them.

A breastfeeding coalition should exist to help mothers feed babies. When it starts promoting the daft idea of “trans lactation,” it makes itself a laughing stock. Hopefully, this example will convince more leaders that the costs of kowtowing to this ideology far outweigh the rapidly diminishing benefits.

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Bob Woodward is undoubtedly one of the most famous, yet controversial, “journalists” of the contemporary era.

Some people–mostly those on the political Left–think he’s a hero, a brave and gritty reporter who put it all on the line to bring down a corrupt president.

Others–mostly those of us who adhere a bit closer to reality–think that the word journalist deserves the scare quotes above when used to describe Woodward.

More than anything, Woodward is a “regime scribe,” a tool of the political establishment whose biggest and best-known stories were hand-fed to him by disgruntled government insiders looking to hurt their political opponents. And yes, it all started with Mark Felt and Watergate.

All of that said, Woodward occasionally wrote some pretty good stories. Sure, they were spoon-fed to him, and they were meant to advance the narrative the ruling class wanted advanced. But they were still interesting and instructive.

One such story was Woodward’s description of the early Bill Clinton presidency and pre-presidency, as told in his 1994 book “The Agenda.”

Among other things, Woodward recounted the mugging that Clinton received at the hands of reality in January 1993, a few weeks before assuming office.

A good part of that mugging came courtesy of Robert Rubin, who had been the co-chairman of Goldman Sachs until he left the firm to work in Clinton’s administration, first as the director of the National Economic Council and then as the treasury secretary.

The opening scene features a gathering of the soon-to-be-installed Clinton economic team at the Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock on the morning of Jan. 7, 1993.

Rubin, whom Woodward describes as the “master of ceremonies” of the meeting, begins the conversation by citing some of the more dire predictions about the coming explosion in the budget deficit.

Laura Tyson, who was soon to become the chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors (and then the director of the National Economic Council), follows with some very gloomy remarks about prospects for economic growth, noting the exacerbating impact that ballooning deficits would have.

Next up was Alan Blinder, who joined Tyson at the CEA and later became the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and an economics professor at Princeton. Blinder introduced a theme that would haunt the early days of the Clinton administration.

Blinder’s job was to make the case to the president-elect that his spending plans would be dead on arrival. The effects of excessive spending on the deficits would be economically destructive and further reduce economic growth. As a result, spending would almost certainly threaten the entire platform of the presidency and could very well make Clinton a one-term president. Debt markets, Blinder pointed out, could be remarkably flexible and remarkably accommodating. Until they weren’t. And they were nearing that point.

This enraged Clinton:

At the president-elect’s end of the table, Clinton’s face turned red with anger and disbelief. “You mean to tell me that the success of the program and my reelection hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of f— bond traders?” he responded in a half–whisper.

Nods from his end of the table. Not a dissent.

Later, just three weeks after the inauguration, Clinton and his economic advisers gathered again, this time in the White House’s Roosevelt Room. They were joined by Howard Paster, recently selected by Clinton to be his liaison to Congress. Like the president before him, Paster was flustered and frustrated by the economics team’s insistence that Wall Street would determine the course of the early presidency. In a debate over the proper size of the administration’s deficit-reduction plan, Paster broke:

“How many votes does the f— bond market have?” Paster asked. “We’ve got to win votes on the Hill, not Wall Street. If it looks like Jimmy Carter’s water projects all over again, we’re dead”. . .

Paster was wrong, of course. The bond market had all the votes.

Once the “Bond Vigilantes” determined that spending was too high or that deficit reduction plans were too low, they would be relentless in forcing the matter. They would win, in time, as they always did.

This past Wednesday, the gross national debt topped $40 trillion for the first time. The inimitable Steve Moore and his colleagues at Committee to Unleash Prosperity concede that this is an eye-popping number, but also point out that it’s not quite as bad as it sounds.

The debt-to-GDP ratio is as high as it’s ever been in peacetime, but the debt-to-wealth ratio is significantly lower and suggests that the debt isn’t yet a crisis.

That’s a fair assessment and one worth keeping in mind. Nevertheless, the ultimate judgment on the debt’s importance will be rendered not by economists or political analysts. It will be rendered by the debt markets, just as it was in 1993.

The other day–before the debt officially topped $40 trillion–Ed Yardeni, the long-time Wall Street economist and strategist, warned that the “Bond Vigilantes” were beginning to stir.

He would know, having coined that term more than four decades ago, when he was the chief economist at what was then Prudential-Bache Securities.

You may note that even the debt-to-income ratio was much lower in 1983, when Yardeni needed a term to describe the disciplinary potential of the bond markets.

And while that ratio was slightly higher a decade later, when the Vigilantes ruined Bill Clinton’s Baby Boomer dreams, it was still considerably lower then than it is today. All of which is to say that if the Vigilantes are, indeed, stirring, they have just cause.

According to Yardeni, the Bond Vigilantes have been most active recently in foreign markets, Japan and Great Britain, in particular. As long as the American government’s spending binge continues, however, the risk that they could turn their full attention to our markets continues to grow as well.

President Donald Trump still has more than 60% of his term remaining. If he doesn’t want the bond markets to dictate his agenda, as they did Clinton’s, then he should think about how best to placate the Vigilantes.  

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Thursday on FNC's "Hannity," Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) discussed how the so-called Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) were becoming more mainstream in Democrat Party politics.

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