June 29, 2026

CHRIS QUEEN: What Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Says to America at 250. “That short speech, which historians believe probably took about seven minutes for Lincoln to deliver, packed a theological punch that no presidential speech has seen before or since.”

Posted at 11:09 am by Stephen Green

NY-13’S NEXT CONGRESSCRITTER: Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account had favorable references to communist leaders and Marxism.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.

Avila Chevalier, a sociology PhD student whose victory sent shockwaves throughout the Democratic establishment, has been under fire for a since-deleted Twitter account, previously reported by CNN, that included phrases such as “seize the means of production,” along with calls to abolish police, prisons and borders. Other controversial tweets include one that said Black and Arab men are both “Fetishizing ugly colonizer women” and another that described wiping her dirty hands on the American flag in lieu of a napkin.

As an undergraduate, Avila Chevalier attended Columbia University, where she organized with Students for Justice in Palestine, and after graduation became involved in pro-Palestinian campus protests over Israel’s war in Gaza. She also attended a controversial October 8, 2023, pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square — one day after Hamas’ attack on Israel — that featured speeches and rhetoric praising the attack.

She previously told CNN, “I have grown considerably in the years since these tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community’s future.”

Translation: Still a commie.

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Posted at 10:22 am by Stephen Green

I ORDERED ANOTHER GROSS OF UNEXPECTEDLIES: Murphy backs $25 minimum wage bill.

“I think our party should have bigger ideas. I put one on the table last week, a $25 minimum wage. And I think we do have to have answers for the way in which corporations and billionaires are taking over and corrupting our politics,” Murphy said during an appearance on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”

“So I do think that there is somewhat of a trend that candidates who are confronting concentrated corporate power in a meaningful way are winning. And I think that that is something that the Democratic Party should pay attention to,” he added.

Murphy introduced the Living Wage For All Act on Thursday, which would implement a $25 federal wage floor by 2032, while giving other businesses until 2039 to do so. Pay would increase from $7.25 to $12.00 in the first year.

They should set the minimum wage at one million dollars. Then everyone could put in a couple hours flipping burgers at McDonald’s and retire.

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green

SUICIDAL EMPATHY, “PRIDE” EDITION:

Posted at 9:20 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Good News — Open Borders Loons Had Rough One Last Week. “Brandon Gill is emerging as a powerful voice for the GOP. He is only 32 and has been in office just over 18 months, but he routinely runs circles around his Democratic counterparts. He conducts himself with the poise of someone who’s been in Congress for decades. While the Dems’ youth movement is lurching off a commie cliff, the future of the Republican part is bright indeed with Gill waiting in the wings behind Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

LOL. New York Times Losing Its Mind Because GOP Women Are Having Kids. “In an investigation masquerading as a style piece, the Paper of Record published an unglued commentary, researched with the self-seriousness of Watergate, revealing that a whopping three women connected to the White House are preggers. At the same time!”

Posted at 8:44 am by Glenn Reynolds

HEY, BIG SPENDER:

Soros Family Pours $103 Million Into Midterms.George Soros and his son Alex have steered roughly $102.8 million into the 2026 midterm cycle, the bulk of it routed through the family-controlled Democracy PAC, putting the clan atop The Washington Post’s tally of individual donors and on pace to eclipse the elder Soros’ $128 million record from 2022 with more than four months still to go before November.

The mechanics tell the real story.

Only $793,800 of the cycle’s contributions sit under George Soros’ own name in Federal Election Commission filings.

The rest, about $102 million, ran through Democracy PAC, the super PAC the family launched in 2020 to consolidate its federal political spending.

Of that, $52 million arrived via Geosor, the private corporation in the elder Soros’ name, and $50 million via Fund for Policy Reform, the nonprofit whose tax filings list Alex Soros as director.

Alex Soros added another $140,525 in personal contributions.

That structure is legal but consequential.

One consequence is that Democrats always talk about confiscating billions from Musk, but never Soros.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

YEP:

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

Posted at 8:18 am by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

AND SADLY PREDICTABLE:

From Peter Ingemi in the replies: “50 years ago you could legitimately blame the white minority for people’s state after more than a quarter century in charge it rings a tad hollow.”

Posted at 7:16 am by Stephen Green