BY ANY MEANS FAIR OR FOUL: Nebraska Dem’s Hot Mic Revelation: A Dem Plan Boosting ‘Independent’ Senate Candidate.

COLOR ME DUBIOUS: Is Alpha School for real? “Alpha School claims that students can master academics in two AI-powered hours a day, equaling the achievement at elite schools, writes Robert Pondiscio. He wants it to be the ‘educational breakthrough’ we need. But he wonders: Is Alpha School for real?”

ICYMI: GENERATION IRON RICE BOWL: China’s Best and Brightest Bet on Beijing, Not Business.

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: The Woman Who Wasn’t There. “Lots of women evidently like looking at middle-aged Instagram/TikTok/YouTube ‘influencers’ who have managed to stay young and trim. One influencer’s secret? Not existing.”

What really stood out is how Instagram chooses to deal with the problem of AI-generated influencers: “Every time their algorithm suggested some ‘popular influencer’ for my feed I merely blocked them. After a few weeks Instagram killed my account because it said I was ‘violating site rules’ or something.”

SCOTT PINSKER: The Great MAGA Reversal on Ukraine: How Helping Zelensky Became ‘America First.’

SAD, BUT TRUE:

From the Russia! Russia! Russia! conspiracy, through Covid, through the 2020 election fraud and the suppression of Hunter Biden's laptop, through Joe Biden's cognitive decline, they've learned that simply ignoring massive scandals works. https://t.co/bgHgNrMiDx

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 27, 2026

And here’s the meaty part of what Northern Barbarian replied to:

But the fact that the people who worshiped him in the first place are not going to take in any of this information nor get angry or upset.

Their worship of Fauci, and all the lies, he told about:
-masks,
-the infection fatality rate of the virus,
-the vaccines stopping transmission, stopping contraction,
-the toxic side effects that are off the chart,
-the excess deaths caused by the vaccine,
-the damage to children’s hearts, kidneys, neurological disorders from the vaccine,
-the lies about NOT inventing the virus in the first place

Will still be ignored by the people who most ardently enforced the Fauci Covid narrative because to admit to themselves, all these lies, would mean that they were monsters acting in an evil way and poisoning themselves and their own children, and they just can’t live with that.

Yes.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: U. Florida ‘early childhood education’ professor scrubs ‘anti-racist’ readings after inquiry.

A University of Florida professor scrubbed optional readings on “anti-racist” and “anti-bias” education from her syllabus after receiving inquiries from The College Fix.

In this class, “students develop and/or implement instructional strategies consistent with their personal philosophies of early childhood education,” according to the course description.

The original version of the “Early Childhood Curriculum” syllabus, available in early July, offered students two different writing options.

Option A would require students to read articles such as “Creating anti-racist early childhood spaces” and “An Inclusive, Anti-Bias Framework for Teaching and Learning about Race with Young Children. Young Exceptional Children.”

The latter reading states that because picture books feature white characters, “a trip to the public library may implicitly communicate to young children that ‘whiteness’ is superior.”

To be fair, even the Smithsonian says that the “written tradition” is part of icky “white culture.”

DSA’S SOLEMN VOW: We Win an Election, You Lose a Country. “The Democratic Socialists of America mean to end the United States — and if you don’t believe me, take a look at what DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer had to say about it this weekend.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: The money train: Colorado’s Front Range rail a looming debacle.

Early this week, Colorado’s Front Range Passenger Rail District released its Plan for Colorado Connector – CoCo, the name it has given to a proposed passenger train between Fort Collins and Denver.

The plan calls for spending $332 million in phase 1 (three trains a day each way), $1.7 billion for phase 2 (extending trains to Pueblo), and $2.7 billion for phase 3 (increasing frequencies to up to 10 daily roundtrips).

My first thought is that, as someone who actually went to planning school for a year or so before becoming disillusioned by the profession, I resent it when government agencies call documents like this “plans.” A real plan considers a wide range of alternatives, carefully evaluates the benefits and costs of each alternative, and then, as a part of implementation, sets up targets and a monitoring process so that it can change or cancel the plan if it fails.

This document contains none of that. Instead, it simply proposes to spend a lot of money, after which it would spend a lot more money, and then spend even more money. No alternatives are considered and there is no suggestion that if the first step in the project fails in some way they will modify or abandon later steps.

In short, this is not a plan; it is a sales brochure designed to convince legislators and the public to pay for expensive train service that few people will use.

Democrats couldn’t figure out how justify California-style high-speed rail in Colorado, so we’ll get the smaller scale “CoCo” grift machine, instead.

ERIC FLORACK: Six Times the Bodies, Half the Outrage: Communism’s Missing Reckoning.

RECOIL THERAPY: The New York Times Crosses the Hudson and Discovers Guntry Clubs. “It’s a meditative thing for me,” said Kenneally, who at an earlier point in his movie industry career also worked part-time as a Los Angeles County reserve sheriff’s deputy. “It’s just always been a way to sort of blow the cobwebs out after a day of work.”

GENERATION IRON RICE BOWL: China’s Best and Brightest Bet on Beijing, Not Business.

CHANGE: Cyclospora outbreak has many changing eating habits, CBS News poll finds.

Most Americans are following news about the outbreak of cyclospora at least somewhat closely and four in 10 say they are now buying or eating less produce because of it.

Women are a bit more likely than men to be doing that, and older people more so than younger.

This outbreak is grabbing Americans’ attention. Nearly as many are following news about the cyclospora parasite as they are the conflict with Iran.

People paying very close attention to news about cyclospora are especially likely to be buying or eating less produce now.

Another good reason to eat less produce is meat.

SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

It is a new week, but I still do not think it has sunk in for most people, and perhaps it never will, that the event that upended our lives and changed the world was man-made. Some of us understood that from the beginning. Rand Paul’s recent document releases have now put the…

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) July 27, 2026

“He can deny it. He can dodge. He can hide behind definitions and bureaucratic language. But someone must finally say it to his face, in public, and put the truth on the record.”

DON’T GET COCKY: The Democratic National Committee Is Imploding.

DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES: Families of 9/11 victims want to ban Mamdani from sacred 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero: ‘unwelcome guest.’

“Our objection is based on his public record — his failure to meaningfully acknowledge the horror of that day, and his employment of, support for, or association with individuals who have minimized 9/11, defended terrorists, or even suggested America ‘deserved’ the attacks,” said Giovanni Galante – whose 29-year-old wife Grace Catherine Galante was among 2,977 innocents killed by al-Qaeda terrorists.

Galante, 55, is one of the organizers of a petition drive that has collected over 1,100 signatures in a little over a week, including from at least 300 victims’ families.

“This day is sacred to us,” said the Brooklyn-born real estate agent who now lives in Florida.

“It is not political, and it is not a platform for those connected to such views. His presence would be deeply hurtful and inappropriate — like an unwelcome guest at a deeply personal ceremony.”

Previously: Zohran Mamdani: Muslims are the real victims of 9/11.

IN THE US, POVERTY IS A LEADING INDICATOR OF OBESITY:

It's adorable you think people are stealing because they're hungry.

They're stealing because they're feral and don't care about civilized society. https://t.co/wh4GuUvIda

— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) July 27, 2026

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Gunmen Kill Priest Who Baptized 175; Jihadis Abduct Pastor’s Family.

FAUCI LIED, KIDS PAID THE PRICE:

Fauci claimed he didn’t shut down schools. Then bragged in his diary that California and New York shut down schools based on his recommendations. https://t.co/rasjG2MloV

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 26, 2026

NICE WORK, FELLAS: Israeli air strike kills top Hamas official in Gaza, Wael El-Ledawi. “Colonel Wael El-Ledawi, head of the service in central Gaza, and Major Ramez Abu Zraiq were both killed in the attack as they travelled in a vehicle through Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza.”

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

This is who's calling you an extremist on the internet pic.twitter.com/VMlXtGdWp1

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 26, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: John Thune Is the Most Effective Democrat in Congress Right Now. “Unfortunately, whenever the Democrats aren’t providing much in the way of competition, the Republicans are always willing to step up and get in their own way. In fact, the GOP has long been the GOP’s most difficult foe.”

TYLER DURDEN: Activists Target WNBA Player After She Takes Stand Against Trans Agenda.

Rule #1 when dealing with the political left: Never apologize to the political left. It won’t shut them up. They will smell blood in the water and attack even more aggressively. Cunningham seems to understand this rule well.

In response, the media has gone on the attack, admonishing Cunningham for her comments. Leftists on social media are calling for her to booted from the league. Some are burning her jersey in an effort to inspire a boycott of her merchandise.

However, as usual, whenever leftist try to boycott someone it ends up backfiring. If a bunch of mentally ill gender fluid weirdos want to buy her jerseys just to burn them, Cunningham will be happy to take their money. Beyond that, her willingness to go against the progressive agenda of the WNBA has also earned her a lot of respect.

Almost overnight, Sophie Cunningham merchandise has sold out online, including her exclusive basketball shoes in women and men’s sizes.

“Put Money in Your Rival’s Pocket” might be the sweetest variation on the Streisand Effect.

YES:

Those of us who said starting in 2020 that Fauci was a maniacal media whore who cared much more about being adored by tv journos than saving any actual lives from Covid apparently understated the case against him

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) July 26, 2026

Many forgot to mention “Colossally evil sociopath,” for example:

Biggest mistake he ever made was letting the federal government do its job re covid.

We're only now starting to plumb the depths of what the federal government's job was.

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 27, 2026

ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: If Mamdani’s Rhetoric Endangers Jews, What Exactly Does the Left’s Non-Stop Trump Hate Do?