WELL, GOOD: SpaceX Redesigns to Stop Starship Failures.

IT DID. Republicans’ righteous win on the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ saved the party’s future.

TYLER COWEN: Why Won’t Socialism Die?

I don’t think that it’s just free stuff. I think that people who know that their chief skills consist of sucking up, kicking down, and knuckling under favor a political/economic system in which those skills are valued above all others.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China is practicing orbital warfare to win in space.

WELL:

🚨BREAKING: Six Secret Service agents suspended over the Butler, PA assassination attempt on President Trump. pic.twitter.com/TJNZr3z6qJ

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 10, 2025

Related: At Last: John Brennan and James Comey Under Criminal Investigation for Russiagate.

A UNIVERSE-SHATTERING KABOOM: Sound of The Big Bang Suggests Our Galaxy Floats Inside a Void.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Harvard Scientists Grow Algae in Mars-Like Conditions, Paving Way for Space Habitats.

ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME IT WAS NATURAL AND HARMLESS: Even low doses of CBD may cause harm to the liver, FDA study finds.

CHANGE: Recent updates mean you can now drive certain Nissan and Infiniti models on mapped roads without using the steering wheel.

STANDING UP FOR FREEDOM: Ken Paxton Warns Austin: Drop WEX Bank or Face Lawsuit Over Gun Industry Ban.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China jumps ahead in the race to achieve a new kind of reuse in space: The SJ-21 and SJ-25 satellites “merged” on July 2 and have remained together since then.

Big Deal. We achieved that with V’ger back in the 1970s.

INSERT THERANOS REFERENCE HERE: From COVID to cancer, new at-home test spots disease with startling accuracy.

WHERE DID I PUT THAT BLACK-MARKET DDT? Chagas disease transmission: Kissing bugs readily invade human dwellings to feed on humans and companion animals.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Excess weight hikes risk of health double-whammy among older women.

TRUMP IN THE CROSSHAIRS: A review of Salena Zito’s Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland.

THIS IS PRETTY MUCH AN ADMISSION THAT BIDEN’S ENTIRE PRESIDENCY WAS A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY:

JUST IN – Biden’s White House doctor pleads the Fifth Amendment, refuses to testify at a closed-door House hearing on Biden’s mental health — Politico

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 9, 2025

Biden’s mental state over the course of his 4 years as president is a significantly larger scandal than Watergate ever was, this was a massive coverup at every level of government and by the entire Democratic Party and media apparatus (but I repeat myself) https://t.co/tNMklJU7Tl

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) July 9, 2025

MARK JUDGE: Exposing the Palo Alto Deep State Cabal.

WE’VE SEEN MULTIPLE CASES LIKE THIS. I PREDICT THAT IF YOU HANG A FEW, THE WORD THAT RAPING CHILDREN IS WRONG WILL GET AROUND.

ENGLAND: In Bradford, Muhammad from Pakistan attempted to rape a 13-year-old British girl.

His wife intervened to defend him: "He didn’t know it was illegal. Please, I promise he will never do this again."

What kind of culture is this, where even the wife thinks it’s normal?! pic.twitter.com/51HHoGzv4p

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) July 8, 2025

And well-attended public hangings are an old British tradition.

YEP: Leftist Fury Boils Over as Democrats Lose Power, Seek Confrontation. “The Left’s base doesn’t want anything like the ‘triangulation’ of Democrats in the 1990s who co-opted some of the Right’s Reaganite message and held onto power in a more conservative era. It wants maximum confrontation. It wants to revive the feeling of revolution, of being on the right side of history. So, it is embracing almost cartoonish post-colonial socialists like New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a young millennial who proudly embraces virtually every bad leftist idea since the French Revolution. It is rallying behind a peak member of the Howard Zinn generation.”

Almost cartoonish?

TERRORISM: Pro-Palestinian activists spray paint UW regents’ homes, accuse them of ‘genocide.’

IF A RIGHT-WINGER HAD DONE THIS UNDER BIDEN OR OBAMA, THEY’D HAVE BEEN JAILED POSTHASTE WITH CHEERS FROM THE PRESS: Ex-NYU prof’s website exposes ICE agents with facial recognition as assaults on officers surge 700%.

OUT YESTERDAY: Salena Zito: Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland.

DISMANTLING HIGHER EDUCATION WOULD SEEM MORE LIKELY TO PRESERVE CIVILIZATION: Macalester Prof Calls For “Dismantling” America, Israel, in Favor of “Decolonialization:” “The US is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed…There is real hope that Palestine offers us.”

DON SURBER: Democrats blew it: The most popular place in America today is Alligator Alcatraz.

Mass immigration has never been popular with voters, only with elites. This is true across the West, and it’s odd that it’s happened everywhere anyway. The blowback we’re seeing so far is a mild response.