UNEXPECTEDLY!  California Loses Most Tax Revenue in U.S. as Wealthy Move to Tax-Friendly States.

OH, LOOK, THERE’S MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN:  White House Pressured Facebook to Remove COVID-19 Vaccine Meme, Documents Show.

WHY ISN’T THIS A CLASS ACTION SUIT?  RFK Jr.’s Lawsuit Against Biden Administration Merged With Major Censorship Case.

THERE’S GOING TO BE A LOT MORE OF THIS:  21-Year-Old Sues Doctors and Clinics for More Than $ 1 Million Over Transgender Procedures.

OR AS WE SHOULD CALL IT, THE TRAFFICKING OF MINORS:  Lawmakers Question HHS’ Handling of Unaccompanied Minors.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE. SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  TikTok has been pushing Chinese propaganda to millions of users in Europe: analysis.

COME ON. IT CAN’T GET ANY WORSE:  Disney, Netflix go on AI hiring sprees as strikes drag on.

AND THE KORAN: VIDEO: Xi’s CCP Is Rewriting the Bible.

ACTUALLY A WAR ON SURVIVAL:  The war on life’s simple pleasures.

“JUSTICE” FOR THE NOMENKLATURA: Charges DROPPED Against Dem Megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried.

JUSTICE: San Fran man arrested for assaulting elderly Asian woman had prior hate crime charge dropped.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy your time together.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA, DARPA to launch nuclear rocket to orbit by early 2026.

It’s not my nuclear Orion though. But that’s coming.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Everybody in comments is missing the point on the DARPA program.

NASA isn’t doing this. Neither is DARPA. That’s where the money is coming from.

Lockheed Martin will do the craft, and my company, BWXT, is doing the reactor.

Yes, this is the new streamlined contracting approach.

RIP: Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles, dead at 77.

MAKES SENSE TO ME: Bizarre True Story: Physicists Once Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Five public school employees arrested for failing to report sexual assault of a 15-year-old.

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Why Are Wait Times in California Emergency Rooms So Long?

GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-AWARENESS: People pounce after MSNBC-linked Mehdi Hasan suggests imagining ‘if liberals or the Dems had … an actual propaganda arm.’

Democratic Party operatives from CBSNBCABCPBSNPRNYTWAPOCNN could not be reached for comment.

UPDATE:

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HMM: Increased step count linked to better health for people with heart failure.

I’d be the last to discourage people from getting exercise, but I always wonder which way the causal arrow works. Maybe the people who are doing better walk more?

IT WOULD BE FUN TO WATCH:

"Sic him on the FDA, if he'd be willing to serve – or, sic him on the CDC." https://t.co/4MikSPxuCt

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) July 26, 2023