NEWS YOU CAN USE: Carrying For An Older Generation: There is not “opt out” for crime due to age.

IT BEGINS: ‘They Won’ — Roma Inhabitants Flee Northern Irish Town After Anti-Migration Riots.

THIS SHOULD BE ACTIONABLE: Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update.

NEWS I HOPE YOU CAN USE: The difference between palliative care and hospice.

UGH: Southern China hit by outbreak of mosquito-borne infection chikungunya.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: U. Pittsburgh teaches high school students, teachers to be ‘social justice’ activists.

MAKE THEM PAY: America First Legal files civil rights complaint over DEI at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “The complaint, filed on July 16, says that the Baltimore school uses DEI principles such as ‘inclusive excellence’ and ‘health equity’ to discriminate on the basis of race and sex in violation of federal civil rights law.”

JOSH HAMMER: Grading the Second Trump Presidency, Six Months In.

IT’S OBVIOUSLY RFK, JR.’S FAULT: Move over Texas, Canada Is Now the New North American Measles Hot Spot: Unable to blame RFK Jr., journalists have turned their attention to the Mennonite population in Ontario. But it turns out the area is also a hotspot for immigration from regions where measles is more prevalent.

When you import a big chunk of the bloody third world, the measles just come with the scenery.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE:

starting ketamine and blow today

— Bryan Johnson (@bryan_johnson) July 24, 2025

IN THIS ADMINISTRATION, “Manifest Destiny” is a pretty picture, not an ugly phrase.

DEPOPULATE WASHINGTON, D.C.: Farm Living Is the Life for Dept of Agriculture Employees or It Will Be.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will move most of its Washington, D.C., employees out of the capital and closer to farmers, ranchers, and producers.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins made the announcement on Thursday, which noted that the USDA's workforce increased by 8% pic.twitter.com/0p8HTrWhLc

— DL (@DonLancaster8) July 25, 2025

GUESS I WON’T BE WATCHING IT:

Ugh. The new Billy Joel documentary on HBO emphatically and explicitly repeats the the “very fine people” lie, replete with out of context Trump footage. Otherwise, it’s pretty good…

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 26, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Do it on the weekend/and it’ll beeee allll right.

READER BOOK PLUG: Reader Jamie Wilson sends a link to 1775 by Keith Korman. “It’s a relatively gritty little novel focused on the events in Boston around Paul Revere’s ride and the Shot Heard ‘Round the World. It seems particularly apropos in our leadup to the sesquicentennial. And Adam Bellow was kind enough to write a marketing blurb for it, which is included on both our back cover and in the Amazon description.”

THEY SHOW YOU WHAT THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT:

And it’s not prepubescent English girls being raped by foreigners.

THAT WOULD BE SORT OF COOL, BUT IT WOULD ALSO VIOLATE PHYSICS AND GEOMETRY: A viral claim says the world will go dark on Aug. 2. It won’t — but a record-breaking solar eclipse is coming in 2027.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Vitamin D During Pregnancy Linked to Cognitive Boost in Children.

SO MANY OF OUR INSTITUTIONS CARE MORE ABOUT DIVERSITY THAN ABOUT DOING THEIR ACTUAL JOBS: Leading Medical Journals Care More About DEI Than Major Diseases. “These findings reflect a broader leftward shift in medical research—one that has contributed to the scientific establishment’s erosion of rigor and objectivity. This shift threatens the foundations of the profession, the integrity of research, and the quality of medical education.”

Related: You had one job, CDC.

WHEN THE MADNESS HAS PASSED:

Chateaubriand observes somewhere that when the peak fever of the Revolution had passed, most people simply didn’t talk about it. The human mind couldn’t process the scale of the madness and violence that had overtaken the world. I think the same will be true as we exit from the…

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) July 26, 2025

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Revenge or Justice?

THE NEW LOYALTY OATHS: Diversity Statements and the First Amendment. “Policies that merely serve to reinforce political orthodoxies on college campuses are constitutionally unjustifiable. Taking such principles seriously casts a substantial constitutional shadow over the practice of using diversity statements to exclude from state university faculties individuals with disfavored beliefs and opinions about matters of political and social controversy.”

WE WARNED THEM ABOUT THE NEW RULES:

Those new rules really rock.

— Mark O. Van Wagoner (@VanWagoner) July 25, 2025

THE NEW PRICE DISCRIMINATION: Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say. Lawmakers want to prevent companies from using AI to increase prices or lower wages.

Sorry, had “price fixing” before but I think price discrimination is more accurate.

CAN WE JUST CALL IT THE KETANJI? First Look: Taurus Reintroduces The Raging Judge.