ONE MAN CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE…:

This is so cool!!! The power of social media🇺🇸🇩🇪 pic.twitter.com/cHRokpozPm

— Freddy🇩🇪 (@FreddyLA7) July 16, 2026

…but it helps if he’s as cool as Freddy.

CATASTROPHE: The Whole World Is (NOT) on Fire. “Record-low levels, where are the screaming headlines for that?”

BOOKMARK THIS FOR LATER TONIGHT, WHEN YOU’LL HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR WOMEN:

Tragically, no matter what evidence he presents, it will be disputed, dismissed and/or ignored by people who will shriek dictatorship and election-rigging when he moves to address the corruption.

Tragically, because confidence in election outcomes is now a partisan issue.

For… https://t.co/7CkXaFVsJd

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 16, 2026

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Reducing Violent Crime Isn’t Complicated, You Just Have to Want to Do It. “Nor is it a coincidence that the record influx of illegal immigrants during the Biden administration coincided with a sharp increase in violent crime. It is equally unsurprising that crime has fallen as deportations have increased. Deportation records show that 70 percent of illegal immigrants deported during the Trump administration had either criminal convictions or pending criminal charges in the United States. Even those who avoid arrest understand that any contact with law enforcement could lead to deportation, giving them a strong incentive to stay off the police’s radar and avoid committing additional crimes.”

CONFORM, THEY EXPLAINED:

They’re virtue signaling because they’re all afraid of each other, in the same way Chancellor Hawgood is afraid to say men can’t have babies. That’s all being in progressive media is – trying to avoid being dogpiled by your “friends.” https://t.co/QFA2A4Zj0q

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) July 16, 2026

I’m so old, I remember when lefties at least pretended to be freethinkers.

DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats Got Some Devastating News About the Midterms. “New data show Democrats are not gaining momentum this summer. Some of it suggests they’re losing ground, and losing it fast.”

Seriously, vote as though your life, liberty, and property depend upon it. And bring friends.

I DON’T REMEMBER ANYONE TELLING ME THAT, BUT THE MATCHES HAVE BEEN MORE FUN TO WATCH THAN I EXPECTED:

They told us this World Cup showed the intrinsic superiority of African athletes. The teams that loaded up on Africans lost.

They told us this World Cup showed the benefits of diversity. The diverse teams lost to the homogenous teams.

Facts. 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/v2KghLbzLM

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) July 15, 2026

But “BOW TO YOUR BRONZED OVERLORDS” is a keeper for sure.

ROUTINE BUT NEVER BORING: SpaceX launches flight-proven rocket for 600th time, sending Starlink satellites to orbit.

And later today, hopefully: Here’s What’s Riding on Thursday’s Starship Flight Test.

SMART:

.@POTUS announces that any American veteran who has driven a heavy truck for our military will soon be eligible for a Commercial Driver's License 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Qen6VIk94Z

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 15, 2026

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: NY Times Attempts to Cheerlead Freakshow Dems Back to Semi-Normalcy.

WELL SAID:

Trump is the most dynamic and effective president I’ve seen in over 40 years of watching politics. And even if I agreed with you, I’d still rather have the GOP in power at cocktail parties than demonic Democrats opening the border and butchering kids.

I’m fine with complaining… https://t.co/vtBpUCeykD

— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) July 15, 2026

“I’m fine with complaining about the GOP, even Trump. But this ‘why should we vote for them’ approach is suicide-by-killing-the-good-in-pursuit-of-perfect.”

WELL, YEAH: Critics cast doubt on Biden’s claims he personally wrote upcoming memoir.

Conservatives and other critics raised doubts about Biden’s claim that he’d written the book, which is called “Promise Me, America.”

Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said that Biden couldn’t write his own name, so he’s not writing books, referring to Biden’s reported use of the autopen to sign documents.

“Politicians write books to launder money. Nobody wants to read this, but the corrupt NGOs he provided for as President will buy up 100K copies and burn ’em to hold up their end of the bribes,” Pratt said on X.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., also chimed in, asking, “How many chapters are about your time hiding in the basement while someone else ran the White House?”

Conservative commentator Steve Guest said, “The first lie of Joe Biden’s book launch: ‘I’ve written a book.'”

Most of these things are ghost-written, but Biden’s memoir might be the first to be ghost-remembered.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Los Angeles International Airport railway is now $1 billion over budget and years delayed

The contractor is now SUING the city for blaming them for the delays and claims the delays were actually the city’s fault

Another Newscum failure reeking of corruption pic.twitter.com/qmKzvo5bpg

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 15, 2026

Only one billion over budget? No wonder it’s years behind schedule — they need extra time for the grift.

A WELL-TRAINED PRACTITIONER OF TAQIYYA: Mamdani Is Enraged Over Shocking ICE Murder, but of Course He’s Lying Again.

THE EV BUBBLE DENIES DEFLATION RUMORS: Lucid dismisses report that it is weighing filing for bankruptcy or going private after shares plunge.

A site focused on electric vehicles called EV reported Tuesday Lucid was considering going private or filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. According to the site, the company asked AlixPartners to review those options and deliver its findings to Lucid’s board before its next meeting.

The report from EV also said AlixPartners had encouraged the board to further restructure in the U.S. and Europe and to focus on the Gravity SUV.

AlixPartners said it had no comment on the report. Lucid said in a statement that “the rumors are completely false.”

I guess we’ll see. But unlike Tesla or even Rivian, I never see any Lucid vehicles in EV-friendly Colorado.

THE MARKET HAS SPOKEN:

Hearing from tradesmen that one of their main job criteria is bureaucracy.

Employers will hire them away from other employers with the promise of same money, but not having to deal with all the app shit.

The compliance/app regime is getting that bad, even out in the field.

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) July 16, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Commie Call Is Coming From Inside the Democrats’ House. “Until President Trump upended the political tradition apple cart in 2016, the Democrats used to be better at playing a more subtle long game in politics. Since then, they’ve been singularly focused on being consumed by hatred for the man who denied their alcoholic Ice Queen the presidency that they felt she was entitled to.”

CHANGE: Warren Buffett stops Gates Foundation donations, will give $6 billion to family foundations. “Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett said Tuesday that he stopped donating money to the Gates Foundation after revelations about interactions between the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”

For a guy who spent a lifetime picking winners and dumping losers, he sure held on to Gates for a long time.

SHE’S SERVED HER PURPOSE, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, SHE KNOWS IT:

Notice how Nithya Raman just completely disappeared after they blocked us out of the general election?

She's not campaigning at all. Like a pickpocket disappearing into the crowd. Just a ghost. I told you her campaign was a scam. Colluding with Bass from the start.

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) July 15, 2026

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Our Love/Meh Relationship With AI.

“People wanted more than just text,” former CEO Eric Schmidt later said of the company’s moonshot effort to design, build, and launch the first image search engine as quickly as humanly possible. “Google Image Search was born” on July 12, 2001, Schmidt later recalled.

Google Image Search immediately became one of the company’s most-loved and most-used tools, and constant refinements over the last 25 years helped keep it that way. I moved on from Google years ago — mostly because I despise the company’s business practices — but when the copycats fail, I find myself back on GIS.

Then this week — on Image Search’s 25th birthday — Google just had to go and ruin it.

Say it with me now: “By adding AI nobody asked for.”

But this isn’t really about Google, Image Search, or even AI. It’s about tools.

Much more at the link.

CCP TOOL: Trump blasts Hochul over data center moratorium.

Hochul imposed a one-year moratorium on new data centers this month as national backlash to their explosive growth has increased in recent months. Trump, for his part, expressed support for data centers and encouraged states to embrace them.

“One of the biggest Driving Forces in the Future for Jobs, are Data Centers. They are big, strong, bold, and Money Machines for the State in which they are built. Governor Kathy Hochul, for political reasons, has terminated all Data Centers being built, or to be built, in New York State,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“These Companies are now being sought in Alabama, Florida, Texas, Arizona, and many other States. Both the Taxes and the Jobs amount to LIQUID GOLD!” he added. “New York State has made a terrible decision. All of this Income, and other Benefits, will be going to Red States, and some Blue, where Data Centers are sought as Cash Cows, with Lower Taxes and Record Setting Jobs.”

“They must pay for their own Water and Power, and any leftover goes back to the State and local Community. Data Centers are tremendous WINS for the States and Communities that are lucky enough to get them,” he added. “New York should change its Policy, IMMEDIATELY.”

But what would Comrade Xi say?

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN:

Things are going so well that even anti-gun publications are basically being forced to write headlines that come across as pro-gun.

The data is so undeniable that even they are struggling to spin it as a negative. pic.twitter.com/bLUZmEtCKA

— National Association for Gun Rights (@gunrights) July 15, 2026

SCOTT PINSKER: The Political Castration of Chuck Schumer — and the Rise of GOP Superman Brandon Gill.

FASTER, PLEASE: 5 Cases This ATF Needs to Make Right… Right Now.

Joe Biden’s ATF didn’t care about the law. They didn’t care about right or wrong. They didn’t care about evidence or proper procedure or telling the truth while asking the court for a search warrant while under oath. They didn’t even care about what was legal. All they cared about was terrifying gun owners, splashy headlines and making arrests regardless of the law.

Guns are bad, Joe Biden’s ATF believed. This untruth was reinforced by a team of anti-gunners working inside the White House and by others whom they collaborated with outside of the public eye.

While Biden napped, his ATF hit hard. They lied, kicked down doors, seized personal property for no legitimate reason, and they even took an innocent man’s life. In other words, they killed a man solely because of their own piss-poor planning.

ATF’s new director Rob Cekada is a good man who tells the truth and understands guns and gun owners, but the task in front of him is massive. He will certainly need help to fix the horrors Biden’s ATF left on his plate. If he can make the fixes, he will become a hero. If he ignores them, he will become just another in a long line of milquetoast ATF leaders who weren’t up to the job.

Here’s where he should start.

Full details at the link.

VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT: DDHQ forecasts Democratic House, 50-50 Senate in November.

And bring friends.