IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN: The Biden administration lost track of an estimated 300,000 Unaccompanied Migrant Children (UMC) who crossed the border into the U.S., but House Democrats asked by The Washington Stand what they are doing about it had nothing to say. Maybe their interest depends on whose children are involved?

SCOTT PINSKER: The Scariest, Creepiest, DARKEST Theory About Jeffrey Epstein Has NOTHING to Do With Blackmail. “What if Epstein’s actions have absolutely nothing to do with blackmail or espionage — and he was simply a sick, twisted monster who hurt little girls for the fun of it?”

READER FAVORITE: Alimens & Gentle Men’s Plaid Button Down Shirts. #CommissionEarned

HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC: Rick Scott bill would cap foreign student visas, prioritize U.S. applicants.

SEDUCTIVE AI: What Would a Real Friendship With A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like Hers. Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn’t — and wound up in a relationship that was strangely, helpfully real.

The photo does not reek of emotional maturity.

RAKE. STEPPED ON. AGAIN. “It seems less a matter of Trump managing to turn things around as the press behaving badly and suffering the predictable consequence.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: CA bill would fine stores for theft of their shopping carts.

The California Senate and now a key Assembly committee have passed a bill that would allow cities to charge businesses up to $650 for returning shopping carts stolen from them.

The measure, Senate Bill 753, was introduced at the urging of the city of San Jose, which faces major homelessness and budget crises.

“[San Jose] Mayor Mahan has a homelessness problem and a budget problem, and his solution to solve both of those is to charge retailers more to get their stolen property back,” said Daniel Conway of the California Grocers Association at the California Assembly Local Government Committee hearing that advanced the bill. “Our property is being stolen and taken offsite.”
…
“This is happening because people are taking the shopping carts off the property, and I do not think it is fair to allow the city to impose something without giving them the opportunity to retrieve what is stolen property.”

Taxes, fees, and penalties will continue to increase until morale improves.

DOESN’T THAT MAKE A CIVIL RIGHTS CONSPIRACY CHARGE VALID? Unconstitutional ABA Accreditation Pressures Force Law Schools To Discriminate Against Faculty And Students.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: GOP Finally Gets the Importance of Nuking Teachers’ Unions. “The leftist indoctrination of American school children (which I wrote about in ‘Don’t Let the Hippies Shower’) is at the root of most of the ills that plague this country. Sexy or not, it is the issue that should get the most attention. You don’t get a Kamala Harris within sniffing distance of the presidency without a sufficiently brainwashed electorate.”

SCIENCE:

Canada is dealing with a surge in thousands of cases of measles, far surpassing the U.S. raw numbers despite having a much smaller population. Canadian liberals have no RFK Jr.-style figure to place all the blame. https://t.co/JPDE6e8NYF pic.twitter.com/wOsWS4r9et

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2025

YEP:

I'm old enough to remember the Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Republican President there is a collective freakout in Europe for six months and it doesn't mean anything. https://t.co/hIWY3wUa72

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) July 21, 2025

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING A SPA DAY:

NEW 🔴

U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent says China is a major buyer of oil from both sanctioned Russia and Iran. pic.twitter.com/w0ziKU8v5U

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 21, 2025

GOOD REMINDER:

Well, Well, Well … What have we here. https://t.co/yNYKnsrUUH

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 20, 2025

YEP, THAT’S RIGHT:  “The Diversity Game Is a Gigantic Con.”

EVERYTHING IS JUST A MONEY LAUNDRY AND JOBS PROGRAM FOR DEM ACTIVISTS UNLESS ACTIVELY SUPERVISED TO PREVENT IT: How Is It That The State Department Grew So Big And Almost No One Knew About It?

“GIVE ME FOUR YEARS TO TEACH THE CHILDREN AND THE SEED I HAVE SOWN WILL NEVER BE UPROOTED”: A Tale of Two Experiments.

In 1973, 221 fifth-grade students in Pirkkala, Finland, became part of a quiet experiment. Their curriculum was rewritten to reflect Marxist-Leninist ideology. Capitalism was depicted as oppression, the Soviet Union as a moral compass, and the free market as a source of inequality.

Researchers compared them to a control group of students who received standard education. They tracked these individuals over decades, analyzing data on taxable income, months worked, job choices, educational attainment, and cognitive ability.

The study found that the students exposed to the special curriculum earned roughly 10% less as adults. This wasn’t due to differences in education or intelligence, but because they made different career choices: public-sector jobs, artistic paths, and professions that aligned with values they had been taught early on—solidarity over self-interest, ideology over income.

A similar pattern emerges from Poland, where a 1954 nationwide reform quietly removed political indoctrination from school curricula. Researchers Costa-Font, García-Hombrados, and Nicińska studied what happened next. Their natural experiment exploited school enrollment cut-off dates to compare students just slightly more or less exposed to the old Stalinist education. This included removing content explicitly praising the importance of obedience to the Soviet regime and adherence to Marxist-Leninist values, along with Stalin-themed recitation competitions.

Students who experienced one fewer year of Marxist-Leninist schooling were more likely to complete high school and college. Decades later, they were also more likely to be employed. When you stop rewarding obedience and start rewarding merit, students begin to believe that their choices matter. Ambition wakes up.

Both studies underscore a basic truth: early education fills students with information and perspectives that shape their values. School is one of the first places where we learn what kind of person is admired. Who the heroes are. What the system rewards.

Read the whole thing.

LOSING THE NEW COLD WAR:

A stark reminder of the problem America faces:

China's largest shipbuilder built more ships by tonnage last year than America has built in total since World War 2. pic.twitter.com/QGPUgGnqdz

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) July 20, 2025

AND ALL THE SINNERS, SAINTS: Criminals Hired as Cops in Major Democrat City.

LOL, TOM NICHOLS:

Is Tom aware that the plot of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is about a massive conspiracy and coverup happening in the highest echelons of British intelligence that ultimately destroys the careers of most of the entrenched bureaucracy of MI6 when it’s brought to light? https://t.co/BRl7hEDFnH pic.twitter.com/cfJ0BlXVoU

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) July 20, 2025

DAVID MANNEY: The Anniversary They Want You to Forget: TWA Flight 800 and the Deep State’s Deadliest Lie. “The people who peddled Russiagate, the Hunter laptop hoax, and the now-laughable myth of President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities are the same types of bureaucrats who sterilized the truth in 1996 to protect their golden boy: President Bill Clinton.”

EVERGREEN:

The biggest problem the Democrats face is their base is completely insane.

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) July 20, 2025

There are a couple of clues as to why though, for the older members of its base:

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BIDEN’S LEGACY: Off-duty CBP officer shot in face during robbery at NYC park by suspect ID’d as illegal migrant, career criminal – who got freed after every bust.

An off-duty US Customs and Border Protection officer was shot in the face after being robbed by a moped-riding illegal immigrant in a New York City park — but he shot back and wounded his attacker, according to sources.

The suspect has been identified as Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, a 21-year-old Dominican national with a lengthy rap sheet in New York according to sources — but he was let go each time he was busted, despite having a deportation order.

Mora entered the US illegally via the southern border under the Biden admin, the Department of Homeland Security said Sunday.

The 42-year-old federal agent and a female companion were sitting on a rock along the Hudson River in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan when they were ambushed by the two men on a moped around 11:50 p.m., according to police sources.

Had he been doxxed?

IT’S NOT A NATURAL PHENOMENON, IT’S A CONTRIVED ONE:

From the other thread – the more I think about this screenshot from International Organization for Migration (IOM), the more it disturbs me. I think the picture we had of migrants, is of desperate people fleeing war-torn countries on foot.

I don't think anyone of us thought of… pic.twitter.com/vGtQb4fTwF

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 20, 2025

A unified project of the managerial/political/academic class. Which, like most of their projects, will be hugely destructive and won’t work out for them either.

JUST HERE TO DO THE BEHEADINGS AMERICANS WON’T DO: ICE Catches Illegal Accused of Beheading Victim.