NEWS FROM THE 1960s:  US Homeland Would Be at Risk in Great Power War: Top Military Adviser.

BUT HE’LL VOTE ‘D’ AGAIN … AND AGAIN …   Bill Maher says Democrats are ‘full of s–t’ with disastrous handling of homelessness, migrant crisis.

WATERMELONS. GREEN ON THE OUTSIDE, RED ON THE INSIDE:  ‘Environmental Justice’ Enforcement Becoming EPA’s Dominant Priority Under Biden: Report.

There is no such thing as “environmental justice.” There’s just idiots, drunk on power destroying everything, in the name of imaginary revenge on long dead people who weren’t who the idiots think they were and didn’t do the things idiots think they did. It’s all Noble Savage facilities in pretty clothes.

IF CHINA WEREN’T AN EVEN WORSE MESS, WE’D BE IN REAL TROUBLE:  Wokeness Crippling America’s Tech Fight With China: Scholar.

FRESH FROM THE LAB OF GRATUITOUS STUDIES:  Gun Free Zones Are Favorite Targets of Mass Shooters, Crime Research Group Says.

Next up, water proven to be wet, fire hot, and Democrats Marxists.

NO, UNFORTUNATELY IT DOESN’T MEAN THEY’RE TRYING THE PEOPLE WHO VISITED THE COVIDIOCY UPON US:  US Government Launches ‘Long COVID’ Trials.

They’re hoping when this all comes out, they’ll be dead, like the cowards they are.

THAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING I’VE HEARD SINCE THAT THING ABOUT MILITARY RECRUITING EARLIER TONIGHT:  Steve Bannon Pushes Trump/Kennedy Ticket for 2024.

Kennedy is a democrat. A pretty conventional one, save for telling the truth about the covidiocy. So–

IT’S ABOUT STANDING UP TO TYRANNY:  The Second Amendment.

YES, YES IT DOES:  Does pop culture really matter? [VIDEO]

IF ONLY I BELIEVED HE’D KEEP IT. OR ANY OF THEM WOULD:  DeSantis promise should be a basic GOP position.

HE’S NOT KIDDING ON THE INSANE:  Insane proposal for military recruiting issue: A new draft.

NICE TOUCH: Taylor Swift gives $55M in bonuses to crew.

SCHEDULED FOR 12:15 A.M.: Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launch A Communications Satellite Tonight.

FLASHBACK: Instapundit on Our “Ham Sandwich” Legal System.

UPDATE: Byron York: The Most Political Indictment.

TO BE FAIR, THEY DON’T ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THE LAW: John Hinderaker: Trump Indictment: Sad Story, Lousy Legal Theories.

Related: National Review: This Trump Indictment Shouldn’t Stand. I’m glad to see them taking this entirely correct stand, but if they’d been more realistic about Trump and his opponents earlier, it might not have been necessary.

UPDATE: Funny because it’s true. Also not funny, for the same reason.

OPEN THREAD: It’s the one thread to have, when you’re having more than one.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY IS ON EDUCATION AND THE POLITICS OF YOUTH: Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone! (Bumped).

OH, TO BE ENGLAND: Popular coffee brand outrages consumers with image of post-op trans man: ‘Glorification of breast mutilation.’ The UK chain Costa Coffee promoted an image of a transgender person showing scars after having breasts removed.

Calling for the butchering of women’s bodies whilst talking your hard earned money, is this what you want to see from corporations? #BoycottCostaCoffee and give them the #GoWokeGoBroke treatment like Budlight!
Hitting them in the bank is the only way they’ll learn. 😡 pic.twitter.com/uPtJ110Cns

— Ashlea Simon (@AshleaSimonBF) August 1, 2023

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Voyager Space and Airbus create commercial space station joint venture.

I PAID 30 CENTS MORE A GALLON TODAY THAN I DID LAST WEEK: Inventories down: Oil that is – black gold, Texas tea.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: The problem with hotels for migrants.

For British taxpayers perturbed by their £6 million ($7.7 million) daily bill for housing asylum seekers in hotels, New York City mayor Eric Adams has the solution: handbills. Exasperated by a sudden influx he characterizes as a “disaster,” Adams plans to dispense police-tape yellow flyers both at the city’s 188 sites for housing migrants and at America’s overrun, purely notional southern border. The leaflets warn in English and Spanish: “Since April 2022, over 90,000 migrants have come to New York City. There is no guarantee we will be able to provide shelter and services to new arrivals. Housing in NYC is very expensive. The cost of food, transportation, and other necessities is the highest in the United States. Please consider another city as you make your decision about where to settle in the US.” Well, that’s one colossal headache sorted, then. Why didn’t anyone think of flyers before?

I’m reminded of being paid a pittance to distribute leaflets for a Little Richard concert in Atlanta in 1973 — a thankless task. Most pedestrians wouldn’t accept one. A few politely did, then immediately threw it away unread, often on the sidewalk; this was largely an exercise in secondary littering.

I had no idea that such modest slips of paper would prove the ingenious answer to a municipal crisis fifty years later. Why, now that the Big Apple is falling back on retro advertising tactics, let’s skywrite above the Rio Grande, “Don’t ♥ New York!” Or maybe Adams should try his hand at radio jingles: “Other cities hit the spot. Ninety thousand, that’s a lot. Twice as much for a burger, too. Other cities are the place for you!”

Yet aside from exhibiting a certain, well, ineffectual quality, these leaflets are brandishing the high cost of necessities at a population that doesn’t plan on paying for them.

This isn’t who we are. Adams clearly needs to reread the words on the Statue of Liberty — and his own promise that New York is a sanctuary city.

Mayor Adams' office is actively discouraging asylum-seekers from coming to New York City – releasing these flyers today. pic.twitter.com/xegNfGeacf

— Jeff Coltin (@JCColtin) July 19, 2023

WOKE NEWSPAPER FIRES STAFFER IN ONE OF THE WORST CANCEL CULTURE CASES YET:

Imagine moving your family across the country for a new job just to be fired within weeks for something you didn’t do.

That’s the fate that journalist David Josef Volodzko met after starting a role as a columnist for the Seattle Times. In a new piece for the Free Press, the experienced writer recounts one of the most harrowing and unjust instances of cancel culture I’ve seen yet.

Volodzko is now jobless after being fired by the paper for what critics have called — and unfortunately burned into his Google search results — a tweet “defending Hitler.” There’s just one problem: he never did anything of the sort.

Read the whole thing. Glad to see the Seattle Times really standing up for its writers when they have controversial and/or shocking views — that ought to show everyone else in the newsroom. /Sarcasm mode off.

NORTH AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Trudeau’s Divorce Leaves Nation In Shock That He Was Married To A Woman.

THIS DOES NOT SURPRISE ME: Brain Activity as a Toddler May Predict IQ at Age 18, Decades-Long Study Finds.

THAT’S PRETTY MUCH THE PLAN: At this point, why not bypass the legal niceties and just put Trump in jail?