JUDGING BY THE ACCOMPANYING PHOTO, IT’S NOT WORKING: Jon Ossoff Spends Thousands on ‘Makeup Services’ From Artist Who Worked on Hollywood Blockbusters Like ‘The Notebook.’

BLACKPILLERS BE REMINDED:

By far Trump’s biggest accomplishment…

He closed the border in 48 hours and it still isn’t being discussed enough. After 4 straight years of record-breaking illegal immigration, we now have the fewest illegal crossings in 50+ years. pic.twitter.com/VdCvNIpVjn

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) July 23, 2026

GOOD ADVICE: Roger Simon: The Jews Should Leave New York: Exit the city to save it… and yourselves.

JOEL KOTKIN: Socialism for the elites. America’s left-wing insurgency relies on billionaire donors and a highly credentialed voter base.

LIFE AMONG THE BLUE TRIBE: Donors Make Democrats Crazy: A former operative recounts her time in the world of left-wing political consulting.

The value in Ms. Barker’s memoir—other than the laughs—lies in its depiction of her party’s biggest and least acknowledged problem: its guilt-ridden donors and the web of cash-flush activist groups, anticapitalist nonprofits and issue-oriented super PACs they sustain. Her book abounds with busybody advocacy groups, donor advisory networks and consultancies run by know-nothing 20-somethings.

One donor Ms. Barker solicits lives alone in a fancy Manhattan apartment, goes out only to get one meal a day (a bowl of soup), and spends all his time answering phone calls from left-wing candidates and their fundraisers. The voicemail message on another donor’s phone announces: “If you are not a woman of color, please do not bother leaving a voicemail. I won’t donate to you.” Still another, an heiress to an oil fortune, lavishes money on left-wing groups, Ms. Barker reasonably surmises, “to try to right her family’s wrongs.” . . .

Apart from Ms. Barker’s family back in Missouri, nobody in her account creates any good or provides any service another person might find sufficiently useful to spend his own money on. Money flows, people “work” long hours, but no one produces anything of intrinsic value. The private sector exists somewhere out there—the source of all that money—but its customs are foreign to the weirdo revolutionaries who populate the world Ms. Barker once made her career in. Paid to get Democrats elected, they’re better at achieving the opposite.

Plus:

Ms. Barker’s chronicle teems with people I would gently describe as not normal. One fellow consultant hires a “resistance artist” to paint a mural of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s face on the roof of his Washington condominium. Ms. Barker’s associates, including white men, vilify whiteness and maleness as a kind of daily religious ritual.

“Most men in progressive circles participated in the bashing,” Ms. Barker writes. “They’d virtue-signal their disdain for their own gender by saying things like I want to elect more people who look like you, and less people who look like me!” The self-flagellation served mainly as self-protection. “People would confide in me, ‘I employ a lot of annoying m— f—’ and ‘No wonder the establishment thinks we are insane,’ ” Ms. Barker recalls, “right before hopping on a Zoom meeting to say their pronouns and bash white men.”

No wonder, indeed.

YES, A NAME ON SHIRT JOB IS FINE, AND MAY WELL PAY BETTER, AND BE MORE SOCIALLY VALUABLE, THAN NAME ON DOOR:

Yes, name on shirt vs name on door is intensely stupid and actually classist which is why I used it when quoting a tweet about how girls, in particular, are told you can be anything you want as long as what you want is a flashy career.

That is also stupid to tell people. https://t.co/4g9FC8pF7r

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) July 23, 2026

HAHA:

Woke white lady: "Some people loathe you… Do you think what you're doing is helpful for Western democracy?"@ElonMusk: "Maybe some people do loathe me. That's probably true. I don't care. I think a lot more people hate you and the media than you realize."

Damn that's cold. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/mOjkA00UDG

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 23, 2026

A man who can do this:

A SpaceX intern once described eating lunch next to Elon Musk in the company cafeteria.

The intern said Elon sat down at a regular table with a regular tray of food. No entourage. No reserved section. He sat next to two junior engineers who were clearly terrified. One of them…

— Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) July 21, 2026

Doesn’t care much about the feelings of media midwits.

Flashback:

Vinod, you’re not just such a pompous asshole that you tried to stop the public from using a public beach near your house, you’ve also gone full retard.

My partner, Shivon, is half Indian and my eldest son with her is named in honor of the great Indian physicist Chandrasekhar.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 27, 2026

Related:

HAHA:

Couple things here 🔽

1) what a fantastic ad for @outkick 😍
2) Jemele Hill has a real disdain for white people but she doesn’t seem to mind appropriating blonde hair 🤔 pic.twitter.com/6qlrl8j3kv

— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) July 22, 2026

HOW THINGS WORK:

Funny. In Europe you have pro-Iran demonstrations without a single Iranian in them and anti-Iran demonstrations composed almost entirely of Iranians.

— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) July 24, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

THAT COLUMN WAS NOT KIMBERLEY’S BEST WORK, AND NEITHER IS THIS RESPONSE TO HER CRITICS:

The audacity of calling anyone else a “sensitive bunny” while spending an entire column about how people criticized you online. My word.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 24, 2026

I should note that he was “AWOL” while his wife gave birth.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s record-breaking Gravity-1 rocket launches 9 satellites from a ship at sea.

THIS ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER BROUGHT TO YOU BY COMMUNISM: The Aral Sea Has Been Drying Up For 60 Years. New Research Shows It’s Also Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon.

WELL, GOOD: New Tool Supercharges Immunotherapy Against Prostate Cancer.

HAHA:

It's okay ma'am, I guess it's hard for some people to write a national newspaper sports column that doesn't read like a mass shooter's last manifesto https://t.co/8ncTINGvlG

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 23, 2026

Related:

The proper historical analogy is not

Emmett Till = all of the WNBA's black lesbian players.

The proper historical analogy is

Jackie Robinson = Caitlin Clark.

And if you think that analogy is overkill, compare the targeted physical abuse Caitlin Clark has received since first… https://t.co/eNpLXSu9k6

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) July 23, 2026

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Magnesium vs. melatonin: Which is better for sleep?

A CLASSIC: The Nissan Altima Deserves Better Than A Quiet Goodbye.

DON’T DSA MY USA: Just Say No to Commies.

ABOUT TIME: We May Finally Have a Vaccine Against The Plague, With Two New Vaccines Showing 100% Effectiveness in Mice.

THANKS A LOT, STUPID INTERFERING GREENS: Heatwaves caused by fall in pollution.

TELL ME ABOUT IT — I HAD TO BRIBE THE BOUNCER TO GET IN: Invasive Burmese Pythons Have Formed a New Snake Hotspot Outside the Florida Everglades, Experts Say.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Manage GERD to Protect Your Airways.

TO THE LEFT, NORMALITY IS A HATE CRIME:

This is the position of 70+% of Americans. It’s also common sense.

The fact that so many in the press and associated institutions treat it as something morally abhorrent and feel the need to grill a female athlete for voicing it shows how disconnected they are from reality. https://t.co/Xfb4geW3xU

— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 23, 2026

YEP: Atlantic: ‘The DSA Is a Parasite’ and Someone Should Say So.

Richard Fernandez was on this years ago.

JOHN LUCAS: Of Commies and Skin Suits.