GOOD: How California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Recent Major Court Losses Have Him Scrambling.

21ST CENTURY PRICE DISCRIMINATION: Delta denies using AI to come up with inflated, personalized prices.

DATA COMPRESSION: Scientists shrink the genetic code of E. coli to contain only 57 of its usual 64 codons.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Bacteria in the digestive system may work to maintain balance both directly and indirectly.

BETTER THAT THAN SOME OTHER PARTS, I SUPPOSE: Your heart could be aging faster than you are.

OBVIOUS, BASIC STUFF WORKS:

Amazing chart, Venezuela used to be wealthier than Poland. Poland introduced capitalism & free market principles, Venezuela followed socialism.

Capitalism makes people wealthier, socialism always ends in bitter poverty and misery. Why are young people so fascinated by socialism? pic.twitter.com/2V5MpvDrSv

— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) August 1, 2025

The Gods of the Copybook Headings nod, approvingly.

UM, EVERYBODY? Who Could Have Guessed that the Nantucket Wind Farm Would Be a Disaster?

LOL, GRIFTERS GONNA GRIFT: No evidence Ibram Kendi has started new think tank at Howard University.

APPARENTLY DONALD TRUMP WAS THE ONLY ONE NOT COLLUDING WITH FOREIGNERS: UMich accepted over $270M in foreign funds, Campus Reform audit finds; feds launch probe.

THIS WOULD BE OBVIOUS TO NORMAL PEOPLE, BUT NOT TO ACADEMICS AND ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATORS: Department Of Justice Provides Guidance For Universities (And Law Schools) On What DEI Activities Are Illegal.

THE LEFT DOUBLES DOWN ON CRAZY: If Salon Is Any Indication, 2026 Is Going To Be Lit.

ROLL OUT THE PRIVATEERS: Secret Transfers: China’s ‘Dark Fleet’ Helps Iran Sneak Oil Past U.S. Sanctions: “This trade generated as much as $70 billion for Iran, propping up the regime and its nuclear weapons program.”

No, seriously.

HE SHOULD’VE BEEN CANNED AS AN EXAMPLE TO OTHERS: George Mason Rolls Back DEI Policies But Keeps the President Who Implemented Them.

SOME KIND OF WEIRD LEFTY GODDESS CULT: Why Do Statues of Fat Black Women Keep Popping Up? “No, I am not talking about statues celebrating the likes of Letitia James or Stacey Abrams. At least you could understand why the left would want to celebrate these women and try to make them icons. Rather, I am talking about a truly mysterious trend of Blue cities erecting statues of anonymous women whose only discernible reason for being is the celebration of obese black women as a class of people.”

Personally, I want statues of Sydney Sweeney.

SPOILER: THEY’RE NOT SCREWING UP, THEY’RE LYING. Matt Taibbi: The New York Times Can’t Stop Sucking. How many times can one newspaper screw up a story?

YOUTHQUAKE:

Breaking 🚨🚨 | Milei’s Libertarian Party Dominates Youth Vote 4-to-1 Over Socialists pic.twitter.com/qc7bFXeCC0

— ShellBanger (@Bangershell11) August 1, 2025

THIS CALLS FOR, DARE I SAY IT, REPARATIONS:

The anti-white bias in faculty hiring is pervasive.

I spent way too much time in academia, and ended up getting to know many tenured professors who were grandfathered in long before the DEI madness.

Many were serving on hiring committees where their job was to interview… https://t.co/APGLKXwQeN

— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) August 1, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s iSpace returns to flight with successful orbital solid rocket launch.

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: ‘World’s Oldest Baby’ Born From 30-Year-Old Frozen Embryo. “The latest record-breaking adoption was completed by a fertility clinic in Tennessee, run by reproductive endocrinologist John Gordon, who believes every embryo has a chance at life because of his religion. . . . In the US, however, embryos can be frozen indefinitely. What’s more, many go unclaimed, which raises ethical concerns, and which legally means they cannot be donated for reproductive use or research. By some estimates, there are currently as many as 1.5 million embryos frozen in the US.”

I’ve driven past the National Embryo Donation Center out in far west Knoxville.

A REMINDER THAT WE DODGED A BULLET: “Last night Joe Biden spoke before an event sponsored by a black lawyers’ association in Chicago. You can see him in the clip below. In terms of content, it was typical Biden: hateful and fact-free. Just one anti-Trump smear after another, “without evidence” as the papers like to say. But content aside, he was hardly able to read the teleprompter. He is feeble and barely functional. If he had been re-elected in 2024, he would now be just six months into a four-year term that he couldn’t possibly complete.”

Honestly, he didn’t really complete his actual term. The Autopen did that for him.

ARTICLE III SELF-DESTRUCTS:

“When a lower court’s order attempting to limit the executive is also an act of mutiny against the Supreme Court, the issue is not conflict between branches, but the legitimate hierarchy of authority within the judicial branch….” https://t.co/fGhTZpiCwj

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) August 1, 2025

GOOD REASON:

🚨BREAKING: Jeremy Clarkson:

"I actually hate very few people – Keir Starmer is one of them." 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/1l32rAfyIx

— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) August 1, 2025

I LIKE GRAPES, BUT I ENJOY THEM BEST IN LIQUID FORM: New Study Reveals This Popular Fruit Is Actually a “Superfood.”

TRUMP IS PRESIDENT AND NATURE IS HEALING: NOAA says Gulf of Mexico dead zone is smaller this year.