WE THE PEOPLE CAN MAKE OURSELVES HEARD AND FEARED:  Manhattan DA Dropping Murder Charge Against Bodega Worker.

VERY AMERICAN:  Place Where Biden Fell Off His Bike is Named ‘Brandon Falls’ on Google Maps.

AS HE SHOULD:  Rep. Massie Tears Apart Buttigieg’s Argument That Electric Cars Would Save Americans Money.

FAR LEFT PHONIES! AOC and Ilhan Omar Pretend to be Handcuffed as They’re Taken Away from Supreme Court by Police.

Naturally, the DNC-MSM are amplifying the two’s performance art:

UPDATE: Heh, indeed:

MORE: America’s Newspaper of Record: AOC Sits In Invisible Police Car Awaiting Transport To Invisible Jail.

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WOW, WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING? Atlantic: Shutting down courts may help explain the spike in crime.

NOW THAT’S “GUN CONTROL:” Update: Eli Dicken stopped the mall shooter in 15 seconds flat, landing 8 out of 10 shots from his 9mm at 40 freaking yards! “Ison explained to WRTV, Dicken’s first shot at the gunman was from 40-50 yards away and it appeared the very first shot hit the gunman. Dicken was able to hit the gunman with additional rounds. On Tuesday, Johnson County Coroner Mike Pruitt said an autopsy found the suspect had eight gunshot wounds and none were self-inflicted.”

400 heavily armed officers in Uvalde waited in a hallway for an hour while a mass shooter gunned down 19 children.

A 22-year-old kid with a pistol in Indiana took down a mass shooter in 15 seconds. https://t.co/7eaCfRo54b

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 19, 2022

OPEN THREAD: Say what you wanna say.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Beer could help you survive a heatwave, doctor says.

SPACEWAR: L3Harris, Northrop Grumman to build 28 missile-tracking satellites for U.S. Space Development Agency.

MARK JUDGE: Ari Fleischer is Wrong — the Media Are, in Fact, Your Enemy. “As I will argue in a forthcoming book, the American media is now the equivalent of the Stasi, the diabolical East German secret police who acted like a violent criminal gang under communism. The Stasi engaged in violence, threats, and lies to make people turn on friends and family members, all in the service of creating some absurd socialist utopia. The American press today is no different.”

HOOVER DAM TRANSFORMER EXPLODES; NO ONE HURT.

THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO DONATED! I’ve sent out thank you emails; if I missed anyone, thanks so much.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH FOLKS HAVE FAILED COMPREHENSIVELY: We’re Living Through The Biggest Drop in Childhood Vaccination Rates in 30 Years. “The pandemic ‘compelled parents and families to pick between putting food on the table and getting their children vaccinated,’ said Kate O’Brien, director of the WHO’s immunization, vaccines and biologicals department.”

The pandemic didn’t do that. The public health response to the pandemic did that.

TIPS FOR JESUS: Pennsylvania waitress gets $3,000 tip on $13 bill.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Sesame Place to undergo bias training after calls of racism.

Why is the Children’s Television Workshop such a cesspit of racism?

https://twitter.com/LeslieMac/status/1548727928476901376

DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVE WITH BYLINE EXPLAINS WHY HE HAS FAILED HIS BOSS: WaPo Columnist Explains Why the Media Is to Blame for Biden’s Downfall.

I realize it’s his job, but it can’t be easy for a reporter to defend a president who loathes them. Even before Biden’s brain decomposed into tapioca, he’s had a notoriously punitive relationship with journalists, despite the vast majority of them being members of his own party:

● Joe Biden Snaps at Another Female Reporter.

● Biden Snaps At Reporter For Asking About Bombshell New York Post Reports, Does Not Deny.

● President Wise Guy: “Joe Biden is playing hard to get. He’s involved in an unrequited love affair: The media adore him, but he hates them.”

● ‘Classy:’ Joe Biden Snaps At Reporter After Being Asked About Hunter’s Paternity Test.

● Bullying Biden Yells at Fox’s Doocy: ‘Ask the Right Questions!’

● Biden Accused of Sexism After Remarks to Female Moderator.

● Biden Explodes When Confronted On Lying About Charlottesville. Video Proves Biden Wrong.

And these classics from the Obama era:

● VP Biden’s Office Apologizes For Locking Reporter In Storage Closet During Fundraiser.

● Vengeance: Biden’s Office Seeks Investigation Into Unfriendly Journalist.

And of course, ground zero, from 1988: Why Joe Biden’s First Campaign for President Collapsed After Just 3 Months.

A WOMAN NEEDS A MAN LIKE A BEE NEEDS A BICYCLE: California Environmentalists: Bees Are Now Fish. New video from Reason TV:

THE TRUEST THING YOU CAN SAY IS THAT THE GREENS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION:

THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Study: Too little salt may worsen outcomes for common type of heart failure.

NO JUSTIFICATION, JUST REPETITION:  We hold these truths to be self-evident: Trump is a lawless authoritarian who tore up the Constitution.

The left really tries to teach us not to think.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: More Airlines Are Losing Luggage. AirTags and Tile Trackers Can Help.

IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF GLORIA GAYNOR, I WILL SURVIVE: Beer could help you survive a heatwave, doctors say.

GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: Sir Oswald Mosley, A Story.

After the War, he sought to return to political life, but found little support, including when he stood for Parliament on separate occasions. In his last political race in 1966, to represent a district in London, he received 4.6% of the vote. He was an early supporter of a strong centralized European government. He saw it an opportunity for his corporate state: economic direction by “experts”, concentration of decision-making, a hedge against democracy—much as the European Union has become. He died in 1980.

What to make of all this?

Much has been written of Mosley, a good deal centered on the theme of “lost promise”. It is said that Mosley would have been prime minister if only he had not been impatient in 1931 and resigned from the Labour Government; if only he had waited his turn; if only he had not succumbed to the attractions of fascism. “Mosley created the British Union of Fascists as a vehicle for his economic vision of Britain as a Keynesian economic state”, writes Rubin. “After a period of initial popularity, his movement eventually became a haven for lunatic anti-Semites and fringe members of society. As Mosley became lost within the monster he created, frequent public violence at his group’s rallies made him a national pariah.”

All true to an extent. Yet, the early Mosley of the left and the Mosley of [the British Union of Fascists] have much in common, the core weaknesses in their policies the same. Both believed in government by “experts” and administrators, and replacing the pluralism of the market and entrepreneurial economy with a corporatist directorate. Both held a distrust of democracy, despite their professed populism. These beliefs continue to be are present in globalization debates—though today they are held mainly by the proponents of globalization, rather than its critics.

It’s not all that surprising that “the early Mosley of the left and the Mosley of BUF have much in common.” Mosley himself said in 1968, “I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the Left and is now in the centre of politics.”

THEY ALWAYS SHOW YOU WHAT THEY’RE AFRAID OF: Wrong Ideas? No Guns for You: It may be coming to your state soon.

YUCK: Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the COVID-19 pandemic. “In this study, we demonstrated the associations between several factors and microbial contaminations of face masks commonly used worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although some of our findings were what we had anticipated, there were several unpredicted findings, which need to be addressed as essential hygiene issues.”