Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

July 10, 2026

SEN. MARKEY PLEDGES FINAL TERM FOLLOWING DEBATE WITH REP. MOULTON IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS:

Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey pledged this will be his last term if re-elected following a debate with Rep. Seth Moulton on Wednesday.

This was Markey and Moulton’s first debate, which was held in Springfield.

“I need one more term to finish the agenda, this progressive agenda, and then I will step down, but we need to complete the agenda,” Markey said. “We need Medicare for all, we need the Green New Deal, we need to make sure we are fighting for every family who is out there who justifiably feels like they have been left behind.”

Moulton, who is 47, has made Markey’s age, 79, and time in office central to his campaign, saying that it’s time for a new generation of leadership.

Of course this is going to be Markey’s final term; he’s already announced the world will be coming to an end before he completes it:

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 10th, 2026

A GEORGE, DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF, CANNOT STAND! The news feeds have been hijacked by endless memes of George Costanza. Here are the best ones. “I couldn’t possible understand the computing power that was about to be used to replace every record, photo, and person with George Costanza. I could have never predicted it. Everything was fine, and then, like a virus, George was everywhere. EVERYWHERE.”

Here’s the alpha and the omega, but just keep scrolling to see more than a few fistfuls of Costanza:

UPDATE:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 10th, 2026

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 10th, 2026

THIS IS THE WAY: Rubio and DHS Deported Child Molester Walz Tried to Keep In US.

What exactly did Walz, Ellison, and Democrats get out of this? They made it clear that they will let sex offenders on the street as a means to frustrate the enforcement of immigration law. At the same time, Walz also demonstrated his own incompetence to game out this situation more than a single step at a time. In fact, Walz may have made Vang more of a target for DHS and the State Department with his ham-handed abuse of the pardon process. Would DHS have made Vang a priority had Walz not turned him into some bizarre, pedophilic cause celebre?

The end result is that Vang is out of the US and Walz exposed as a radical who will put children at risk to score cheap points on immigration. If Walz could have played this worse, someone will have to explain how. 

Much more like this, please.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 10th, 2026

I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN WIRED WAS A LIBERTARIAN-ORIENTED MAGAZINE: Dimming the Sun Would Help Lower the Risks of El Niño. No, Really.

This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be among the strongest on record, and it’s set to create chaotic weather around the world.

A new study suggests that there could be a way to mitigate some of the impacts of future El Niños and global warming: dimming the sun.

El Niño develops naturally in the tropical Pacific every few years, caused by weakened trade winds that push heat from the ocean toward the coast of South America. This tilts the odds toward higher-than-average global temperatures, as well as droughts in some regions, intense rains and floods in others, and more cyclones in the Pacific. Piled on top of warming driven by burning fossil fuels, a strong El Niño can mean hundreds of billions in economic losses.

The new study argues that deflecting solar energy could cool the ocean and help moderate El Niño events before they become too strong, staving off the worst impacts.

“El Niño is one of these things where something happens in the tropical Pacific, and then it rearranges the way the entire global atmosphere is holding energy that year,” says Katherine Ricke, a coauthor of the study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances and a climate scientist at UC San Diego and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It’s an ultimate pressure point in the climate system.”

Ricke and her coauthors looked at using marine cloud brightening, or MCB, as a way to dim the sun in the Pacific. The technique entails spraying seawater into marine clouds to enhance the clouds’ reflectivity. While some pilot projects and randomized controlled trials have tested the technique’s efficacy, they’ve only been on very small scales.

To boldly go to a place that even Barack Obama thought was too bonkers to implement during any of his three terms:

Still though, why bother with half-measures?

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll on Jul 10th, 2026

WHAT’S WRONG WITH BEING SEXY?

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll on Jul 10th, 2026

#THEMTOO?

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on Jul 10th, 2026

July 9, 2026

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: M-SNOW: Why Mitch McConnell’s extended absence really matters.

In a letter released Wednesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear asked the 81-year-old senator with a history of medical issues to “fully update Kentuckians regarding the current status of your health.” It’s a fair request, particularly since transparency has been notably lacking from other legislators. We’ve seen several lawmakers go missing for months at a time in recent years, including Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, who later turned up in an assisted living facility, and Rep. Tom Kean, who just returned to Capitol Hill after more than three months absent.

We’ve also seen one recent lawmaker mentally go missing for four years, and no one at M-SNOW’s predecessor network seemed to mind at all. Quite the contrary; during the former (p)resident’s last year in office, Joe Scarborough boasted:

“Start your tape right now,” Scarborough continued, “because I’m about to tell you the truth. And eff you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second, and I’ve known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”

—Scarborough Goes Full Nutcase Defending Biden’s Mental Acuity, Matt Margolis, PJ Media.com, March 6th, 2024.

Fortunately, one man is well equipped to crack the case of McConnell’s current situation:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 9th, 2026

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES: Graham Platner’s possible replacement has his own allegations.

The Maine Democrat floated as a possible replacement for scandal-plagued Senate candidate Graham Platner is accused of previously hitting a woman with a water bottle.

Political organizing group Progressive International said Monday it is investigating claims from “contacts on the ground in Maine” that former state Sen. Troy Jackson threw the bottle at the woman on an unspecified date. Jackson, on the same day, declared himself “the best person to replace” Platner, who won the Democratic primary in June but now faces allegations of sexual assault against a woman he previously dated, in addition to a litany of other scandals that had failed to place his candidacy in serious jeopardy.

The Democratic Socialists of America‘s Maine chapter endorsed Jackson for governor before he lost his June primary. Maine DSA initially endorsed Platner for the Senate but backtracked on Monday, calling for him to drop out of the race after Politico published the account of the woman who said Platner broke into her home and sexually assaulted her in 2021.

Jackson’s campaign and Maine DSA did not respond to the Washington Examiner‘s requests for comment.

It’s the Platner Paradox: Why is the left having such difficulties recruiting normal guys to run for office?

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 9th, 2026

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 9th, 2026

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Double Crash And Burn — The Mickey Rourke Story.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 9th, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE BUNKER: Graham Platner and the death of ‘The Resistance.’

I, for one, am shocked that the dude with the Nazi tattoo turned out to be a bad person. Normally blokes who go around with an SS-style cross-and-bones inked on their chests are such lovely people. Not Graham Platner. The Democratic candidate for the Maine Senate, famed sporter of a Nazi-like Totenkopf, appears to be a rotter. There are now allegations that he sexually assaulted an old girlfriend. Who could have seen that coming?

Forgive the sarcasm. The answer is that everyone could have seen it coming. Everyone, that is, whose moral sensibilities have not been turned to mush by their slavish devotion to the flagging cause of the Democrats. To understand the depth of the moral rot at the top of Democrats, to see what a thin, gutless pantomime their ‘Resistance’ always was, look no further than the Platner storm. For it indicts more than one dodgy bloke – it indicts an entire political machine.

Does this mean that the Oystergruppenfuhrer won’t be running for president in 2028?

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Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on Jul 9th, 2026

July 8, 2026

THE ULTIMATE PROJECTION:

Posted at 5:56 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 8th, 2026

GRAHAM PLATNER: The Left’s Caricature of the American Everyman.

This is the basket-of-deplorables strategy in reverse. Progressives have long viewed Middle American men through a lens of condescension, seeing us as racist, sexist, gun-clinging, beer-drinking relics who need saving from their own vices. Rather than engage their real concerns about economic stagnation, cultural displacement or family breakdown, far Left operatives bet on manufacturing a proxy: a flawed but “relatable” everyman who mouths the right policy lines. Platner was elevated as the vessel with veteran credentials for patriotism points, manual labor for blue-collar credibility and veteran struggles with PTSD and alcohol repurposed as humanizing rather than disqualifying. The hope? That this caricature would lure disaffected working-class voters away from populists on the right, delivering Senate seats without conceding ground on core cultural issues.

Flashback:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 8th, 2026

UNEXPECTEDLY:

Posted at 10:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Jul 8th, 2026
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