TRANSLATION: CORRECT.

"As long as I am Governor, you will not be able to have a job unless you pay your dues to the unions that then give me millions of dollars every year." https://t.co/R83AD1Culp

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 9, 2026

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Tinder activity surges by 34% in NYC, NJ during World Cup — and most lovebirds are international.

STACY MCCAIN: The Politics of Unquestioned Assumptions: Democrats made the wrong bet with Graham Platner, and can’t understand why. “Did everyone really make mistakes about Platner? Or by that sweeping categorical statement, did Litman mean just the Democratic campaign operative class of which she is a member? Because I am pretty sure there weren’t many Republicans who were mistaken about what a complete dirtbag Platner is. Certainly I was not.”

SUICIDAL EMPATHY:

Why do Israelis always do this? It has never helped them in the long run — ever. They save the enemy and the enemy tries to destroy them. Their enemies aren’t normal people who feel a sense of gratitude yet they keep pretending. Leftism is dangerous. https://t.co/eIQH0ocJiE

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) July 8, 2026

ADHERING TO OUR ENEMIES, GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT:

This is treason and they should be dealt with accordingly. https://t.co/IfqYfxSo6i

— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) July 8, 2026

WEIRDLY, THIS COINCIDES PERFECTLY WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT’S PRIORITIES: “AI Is the Democratic Party’s Next Villain:” “We analyze roughly 280,000 candidate fundraising emails to trace the rise of anti-billionaire populism in the Democratic party and see how it is slowly merging with a new kind of anti-AI populism.”

COMMIE REVOLUTIONS ARE GARBAGE MOVEMENTS LED BY GARBAGE PEOPLE.

Franco was right. https://t.co/pcTOLido2c

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 7, 2026

OPEN THREAD: You go back, Jack, comment again.

I WOULD HAVE NAMED IT BASIDIUM: Did you know Earth has a ‘minimoon’? It’s known as asteroid 2016HO3, or Kamoʻoalewa.

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Scientists Thought Royal Jelly Made Queen Bees. They Were Wrong.

I’VE BECOME SUSPICIOUS OF HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL: Not all birth controls are equal, some are linked to higher risk of brain tumors, study finds. Though, as is often the case with these studies, the increase in risk isn’t huge.

SOUNDS CONFUSING: Here’s How Many Ways You Can Open the Rear Doors of the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class.

AN EXCELLENT QUESTION: Why is Gun Rights the Only Civil Right With a Federal Bureaucracy Purpose-Built to Regulate Its Exercise?

And a good reason to abolish the ATF.

RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE. YET. Are we being assimilated?

HMM: Could Creatine Boost More Than Muscles? It May Also Help Depression.

It’s found in red meat, and it’s hard to get depressed with a big steak in front of you. . . .

WE’D BETTER HOPE THERE’S NOT ANOTHER PANDEMIC ANY TIME SOON: The Terrifying New AI Map Exposing the True Roots of the Next Pandemic. The public health establishment demonstrated itself to be incompetent and untrustworthy. Hardly anyone will listen next time.

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: 13,000-year-old bones found near SoCal coast could rewrite human history. “Evidence found on the Channel Islands suggests humans could have arrived via boat instead of crossing an inland ice corridor. If true, it would overturn the conventional thinking that Americans crossed a land bridge from modern-day Siberia and traveled south.”

I SURE HOPE SO: Why Heavy Lifting Is the Best Anti-Aging Medicine You Can Use.

SENDING FEWER PEOPLE TO COLLEGE MIGHT HELP: College sex imbalance is hurting family formation, expert says.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Syracuse chancellor launches task force in wake of enrollment declines and financial deficit.

Instapundit readers may be able to think of some reasons why Syracuse is in trouble.

CORN, POPPED:

OK, rift between DSA and Dems. This keeps getting better https://t.co/JSiPfUrZMV

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 8, 2026

But watch them turn on a dime again if they can’t threaten him into quitting:

At which point the resanitization begins. Again. Consider it like the routine pumping out of a portapotty. https://t.co/ffFnjUI0NE

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 8, 2026

PROCUREMENT IS A MESS: Pentagon’s top new weapons programs are 12 years behind schedule: Watchdog.

ADHERING TO OUR ENEMIES: ‘Hearty Congratulations’: Abdul El-Sayed Hailed Mosque Opening Alongside Holocaust-Denier and Imam Who Asked Allah ‘To Grant Victory to Our Brothers in Iran.’

BYRON YORK: Trump’s anti-communist manifesto. “Trump’s move wasn’t a complete surprise. After the June 23 Democratic primaries in New York — the one in which socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani emerged as a kingmaker by backing far-left candidates who upset progressive Democratic House incumbents — Trump quickly branded those far-left candidates as ‘communists,’ and not as socialists, as they styled themselves.”

To be fair, that’s because they are communists, and not socialists, as they style themselves.

THIS:

It’s quite funny that the case for Platner, up until about 15 hours ago, was, “well, yes, he has a Nazi tattoo and a history of saying terrible things and treats women abominably, but on the other hand he’s a communist.”

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 7, 2026