THIS WAS THE MOMENT FOR MANY PEOPLE:
“What radicalized you?”
Me: pic.twitter.com/GTOOLt9CI6
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) July 30, 2026
Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 30, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Regrettably, Anthony Fauci Slept Very Well Last Night.
Also from Kruiser: Sure, Roasting Fauci Is Fun, but There’s No Do-Over for the Biden Years
NOT A BAD PAYDAY FOR THE WORST (AND OBVIOUSLY WRONG-HEADED) REBRAND SINCE BUD LIGHT: Cracker Barrel to pay for outgoing CEO’s security, $4.6M severance after failed rebrand.
Cracker Barrel is set to pay outgoing CEO Julie Masino several million dollars in severance pay after her departure from the company, while also covering security costs for a period of time.
The restaurant chain announced on Monday that Masino would step down as CEO on Aug. 10 and will remain with the company in an advisory role until Oct. 9. David Deno will replace her as CEO.
The company disclosed in a transition agreement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that Masino will receive $4.63 million over the two years following the end of her employment at Cracker Barrel.
The filing also indicated that Cracker Barrel will continue to pay for Masino’s protective services for a “reasonable period of time” after the end of her advisory role with the company.
What’s her advice, “Don’t do what I did?”
HAS THE RE-RECONQUISTA BEGUN?
Portugal is banning burqas and niqabs in public places, with fines up to 4,000 euros.
Muslim men who force their wives or female relatives to wear one will also face 3 years in prison.
Burqas were described as a ‘symbol of women’s oppression and a threat to public safety.’ pic.twitter.com/1FGFJSswJh
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) July 28, 2026
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: This Is the Fauci Legacy. “It all started so innocently, with the young new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) denying experimental treatments to the victims of a brand-new infectious disease with a virtually 100% mortality rate. It ended with an aging multimillionaire bureaucrat pleading the Fifth when asked to testify before Congress what day of the week it was.”
LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE: Dept of Education opens investigation into Minnesota over plan to target young children with gender-swapping trans dolls. “We are deeply grateful the Education Department is taking immediate action to protect Minnesota students from being subject to UMN’s appalling ‘My Gender Dolls,’” said Defending Education Founder and President Nicole Neily in a statement. “It is deeply perverse – and biologically false – to impress upon children that genitalia can be swapped out like Mr. Potato Head parts, with no lasting damage. And for the state to wrest control of these conversations from parents (while using their tax dollars to do so, no less) is truly insult to injury.”
YES, PLEASE:
They should also haul Deborah Birx before committees. She does not have pardon immunity, and she was arguably equally as destructive as Fauci.
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) July 29, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE RED ZONES: Florida Announces Investigation Into Fauci Since His Pardon Isn’t for State Charges.
July 29, 2026
CHECKS OUT:
If there was another Covid-style pandemic, it would probably be because scientists were carelessly researching deadly novel viruses in large urban centers https://t.co/njF7R0SiYx
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) July 29, 2026
JENNIFER RUST: South Carolinians Say Goodbye to Lindsey Graham.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Mitch McConnell Honors Late Friend Lindsey Graham With 47-Day Moment Of Silence https://t.co/Kv8h1n8TiU
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 28, 2026
REQUIRED READING:
Confession: I’m not as hardcore angry as some people are over COVID. Or I wasn’t anyways, for a while.
To me it was always this weird thing that came out of nowhere and judging peoples’ reactions to it or, worse, assuming their motives, struck me as slightly disingenuous.
The…
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) July 29, 2026
“It is amazing, yet not surprising, that for all the left’s protestations about ‘injustice’ they purposely overlook, even celebrate, the most egregious abuse of power in my lifetime.”
GOOD NAME: U.S. military tests Hammer of the Gods in new sea trial. “Hammer of the Gods is not a weapon in the traditional sense of something that fires a projectile. It is an emitter, a piece of hardware that broadcasts electromagnetic signals, built to deliver an expanded suite of command-and-control capabilities alongside a wider set of electronic warfare functions from a highly deployable, low-signature platform. Electronic warfare covers the broad category of military operations that use the electromagnetic spectrum, the invisible range of radio waves, radar, and satellite signals that modern militaries depend on, either to disrupt an adversary’s systems or to protect friendly ones from being disrupted in turn. Because Hammer of the Gods keeps a low electromagnetic signature, meaning it does not broadcast in a way that makes it easy for an enemy to detect and target, it can push forward into contested areas and deliver what the Army describes as multi-domain effects at the forward edge of operations, essentially projecting electronic warfare capability into the thick of a fight rather than staying safely in the rear.”
FAUCI MADE FAUCI MORE MOCKABLE THAN EVER:
The Fifth Amendment is protection from the Govt.
It is not protection from damage to your reputation that comes from invoking it. https://t.co/x1eYHFN3LY
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) July 29, 2026
I’ll have much more on Fauci’s mockability in tomorrow’s Thursday Essay.
HEH:
Talarico’s Fauci doll has a “Removable mask!” but only when he’s playing with the Jake Tapper doll https://t.co/MYA92BX3Jp
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 29, 2026
Alternate headline: Leftism as a Cult, Exhibit #1,000,006.
SPACE: NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch. Here’s why it’s so cool.
After more than a decade in development, the Roman Space Telescope will launch at 7:20 a.m. on Aug. 30 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida — eight months ahead of schedule. Its mission? To study how the universe began, what it’s made of and how it has evolved over time — while (hopefully) helping scientists solve some of modern astronomy’s biggest mysteries in the process.
NASA will preview that mission at a virtual news conference today at 2 p.m. ET.
“We’re going to find one-in-a-million things over and over and over again,” Jeremy Perkins, a Roman Telescope scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, recently predicted.
What kinds of things? Habitable planets in our own galaxy, perhaps. And dark energy. And primordial black holes.
Bring ’em on.
SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY? Fauci’s Disastrous Senate Hearing Signals That It’s Time to Put the Autopen on Trial Through Him.
JUST THINK OF IT AS A SPECIES OF REPARATIONS:
It's not plagiarism when a Person of Color does it because slavery and reparations. https://t.co/QUoAMYOyY4
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) July 29, 2026
MAYBE THEY JUST NEEDED SOME MORE GUN CONTROL: Seattle’s Inept, Anti-Gun Woke Circus Helps Turn a Food Festival into a Gang Shooting Gallery.
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE “NEVER AGAIN” MOMENTS:
Never forget what they did in the name of Covid.
Fauci did this then lied through his teeth under oath.
Fauci belongs in prison for a very long time. pic.twitter.com/2o6bbb8Q25
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 28, 2026
CAN SCIENCE DO THAT?
Science Pleads The 5thhttps://t.co/3Ry6yTqSve
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 29, 2026
As always, America’s Newspaper of Record™ nails it.
And something a little more serious on the subject from John Nolte:
This also states it well…
The pardon put Fauci in a position where he could either testify truthfully and face no prosecution, or invoke the Fifth and face a contempt charge.
Obviously, Fauci decided telling the truth was more dangerous (even with no fear of prosecution)… https://t.co/lW4gQoVA5J
— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) July 29, 2026
I suppose nobody understands the risks to Fauci better than Fauci, and he decided accordingly.
LOL, CHRIS CILLIZZA:
It's hilarious that you think he's leaving the party and that the party is not leaving him.
You continue to be the absolute king of misreading the situation. https://t.co/b2Xs0Iv6mB
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 29, 2026
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): To be fair, that’s what they pay him for.
UPDATE (FROM STEVE VIA GLENN):
Keep them coming https://t.co/OeHShHekkP
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) July 29, 2026
And he’s been a willing (and well-paid) servant for a long time.
SOCIALISM IN ONE SENTENCE: Austin’s Secret Amazon Land Grab. “All Austin City Council members are lefty Democrats these days, and nothing says ‘service to the downtrodden’ like bulldozing some peon’s house to satisfy an international megacorporation.”