DEI TRIUMPHS: Colorado Reappoints Law School Dean Despite Faculty Vote Of No Confidence. At least it’s hard to imagine this renewal happening with a white male dean who paid out six figures on a race discrimination lawsuit.

DON SURBER: How Sydney Sweeney Got the Job.

THIS:

Once you stop trying to understand this stuff as ideology, but properly understand it as resentment, it all makes sense. https://t.co/q7qVEkdlII

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) July 29, 2025

But the jealous annoying people don’t actually matter unless you let them:

Backfire – 😂😂😂 https://t.co/LIvU4GRTBM

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 29, 2025

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Find 2 Existing Drugs Can Reverse Alzheimer’s Brain Damage in Mice.

MORE ROTTEN FRUIT FROM OUR “EXPERT” CLASS: Covid Lockdowns Devastated an Entire Generation of Children.

EVERYTHING SEEMS TO GO BACK TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Bombshell Study Reveals Real Reason Behind Surge in Homelessness. “Using direct estimates from local government sources and indirect methods based on demographic changes, we estimate that asylum seekers accounted for about 60 percent of the two year rise in sheltered homelessness during this period, challenging media and policy narratives that primarily attribute this rise to local economic conditions and housing affordability.”

DAVID STROM: The Cincinnati Shame. “So what changed my mind about writing about the incident? It’s simple: Cincinnati Police Chief Terri Theetge’s comments on the incident, which appeared to suggest that there is any context in which a crowd of teens could attack a couple on the street and not be 100% in the wrong.”

TRUE:

The most important thing to remember in urban planning is that everyone is a childless 32 year old tech industry drone who works at a downtown highrise office

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 29, 2025

OVERPRODUCTION OF ELITES: The Most Dangerous Class in America? High Education/Low Income Voters. “The Lumpencommentariate is a larger and growing class of political actors who provide the ground troops and the numbers for the woke mob. . . . AWFLs are an easy target for critics of woke because they are highly performative and have the resources to showcase their supposed virtue in ways that break through culturally. They have The View, Race2Dinner, and move in social circles that amplify and influence culturally elite institutions. They are also similar enough in class to be recognizable to most people as overlapping with their own bourgeois aspirations, while at the same time loudly rejecting the comforts of bourgeois life, while enjoying them. In other words, they are grossly hypocritical and easy to mock. The Lumpencommentariate is a distinct breed, typically younger. They share the same education and, if anything, even more radical politics born of resentment rather than vague guilt born out of unearned wealth. This is the base of support for truly radical politics. Highly-educated but low-income voters who feel betrayed by society.”

Kenneth Anderson had some thoughts on this quite a while ago:

In social theory, OWS is best understood not as a populist movement against the bankers, but instead as the breakdown of the New Class into its two increasingly disconnected parts. The upper tier, the bankers-government bankers-super credentialed elites. But also the lower tier, those who saw themselves entitled to a white collar job in the Virtue Industries of government and non-profits — the helping professions, the culture industry, the virtueocracies, the industries of therapeutic social control, as Christopher Lasch pointed out in his final book, The Revolt of the Elites. The two tiers of the New Class have always had different sources of rents, however. . . . The OWS protestors are a revolt — a shrill, cri-de-coeur wail at the betrayal of class solidarity — of the lower tier New Class against the upper tier New Class. It was, after all, the upper tier New Class, the private-public finance consortium, that created the student loan business and inflated the bubble in which these lower tier would-be professionals borrowed the money. It’s a securitization machine, not so very different from the subprime mortgage machine. The asset bubble pops, but the upper tier New Class, having insulated itself and, as with subprime, having taken its cut upfront and passed the risk along, is still doing pretty well. It’s not populism versus the bankers so much as internecine warfare between two tiers of elites. The downward mobility is real, however, in both income and status. The Cal graduate started out wanting to do ‘sustainable conservation.’ She is now engaged in something closer to subsistence farming.

It’s easy to have a comfortable life now, but people have been raised to crave distinction.

TED BALAKER: How the Monoculture Made Zohran Mamdani: The young socialist who will likely be New York’s next mayor was raised in a series of far-left echo chambers.

As were his supporters.

THIS EXPLAINS A LOT OF WHAT’S WRONG IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, EVEN DOWN TO DATING PROBLEMS.

"the elites being overproduced are increasingly women. And the people occupying these new 'diversity and inclusion'-oriented positions are overwhelmingly women. These positions are serving as new sinecures almost entirely for female aspirations" https://t.co/hiBejHhUQC pic.twitter.com/JUTx8zPIqv

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) July 28, 2025

THEY’VE MADE GENERATIONAL ENEMIES: Democrats Turned Their Backs on Men and Men Returned the Favor.

WHY, INDEED?

Why do liberal white women hate white people so much?

— MORGONN (@morgonnm) July 29, 2025

Related:

Federal Judge Orders Sydney Sweeney To Gain 100 Pounds And Get One Of Those Butch Haircuts https://t.co/idkx973KCo pic.twitter.com/dVTzmfXVLI

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 29, 2025

FIRST THE COLOSSUS AI FACILITY IN MEMPHIS, NOW THIS IN NASHVILLE:

Announcing Music City Loop! The Boring Company is coming to the State of Tennessee.

Las Vegas Loop has already moved more than 3M passengers, and growing.  Next stop, Nashville!

Thanks to the Tennessee Department of Transportation @myTDOT, Governor Bill Lee @GovBillLee, The… pic.twitter.com/6BMjFynnF1

— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) July 28, 2025

Elon’s marching in my direction! Come on over to Knoxville, Elon, we’ll do lunch. We can talk about my next book, on “seductive AI.”

STILL NOT TIRED OF THE WINNING:

You know what you call someone who’s confirmed to the bench by just one vote? Your Honor https://t.co/zZfQ1cNV1w

— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) July 30, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: U.S. military X-37B spaceplane prepares for eighth mission: OTV-8 will test technologies for GPS-denied navigation and space network integration.

RISE OF THE MACHINES: AI’s Third Phase Is Here. Here’s How ‘Agents’ May Impact Our Lives.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why Experts Say You Should Be Taking Creatine – Even if You Don’t Work Out. I take it.

STUPIDEST SO FAR:

Excuse me while I blitzkrieg Poland … https://t.co/yJfik6vaQg pic.twitter.com/YXwENcfgFZ

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) July 26, 2025

#JOURNALISM:

This is a really strange way of saying "We ran a front page blood libel claiming Israel is starving a baby to death, but it's not true and we actually knew it wasn't true at the time, but it promoted hatred of Jews so we ran it anyway" https://t.co/TyNEh8mRx4

— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) July 29, 2025

IN THE WORDS OF CURTIS LEMAY, IF YOU KILL ENOUGH OF THEM, THE REST STOP FIGHTING. It worked for Germany and Japan, and it will work for Gaza.

He also recognized that when you are dealing with murderous fanatics, you must kill them before they kill you. 2/ pic.twitter.com/YIoqTUKWnD

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) July 29, 2025

MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut microbe byproducts may help restore hormone cells lost in obesity.

CHANGE: Elon Musk says xAI’s Colossus 2 supercomputer in Memphis close to coming online.

I DON’T NEED ONE BUT I KINDA WANT ONE: Full-Auto Rated Suppressors: What That Really Means (And Do You Need One?)