Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 8, 2026
July 7, 2026
AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:
Former Gov. Ralph Northam was appointed to a college board by Gov. Abigail Spanberger this year after refusing to resign in 2019 in the face of party-wide demands in the wake of a blackface/Klan hood picture scandal and another admitted blackface incident. Everyone just shut up… https://t.co/mdaB963vpQ
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) July 7, 2026
More:
Everyone just shut up and he served a full term. Now, one of the reasons they didn’t force him out is bc their next two in the line of succession were an AG, who also had a blackface scandal, and a Lt. Gov. named Justin Fairfax who had faced sexual assault allegations and fast-forward, just recently murdered his wife. So, maybe Ds in Maine can find someone besides Platner who doesn’t have a racist pic or tattoo and/or violent history with women, but their record thus far not great, and the Virginia Dems don’t offer a template for that.
But Virginia Dems do offer a template of a cushy life after politics, no matter the offense.
FORGET IT, MARK — SHE’S ROLLING:
What Republican has faced credible rape allegations? Because it’s not Trump or Kavanaugh. https://t.co/LZfQrPq00K
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 7, 2026
HE’S CERTAINLY LEAVING ON A HIGH NOTE: Artemis II crew member Jeremy Hansen says he’s stepping down from astronaut role.
OOF:
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He's so sharp. Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed…
— Rep. Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) July 7, 2026
MAYBE THE YOUTH VOTE NEEDS TO, YOU KNOW, GET OUT AND VOTE:
It's the H1Bs and immigrants and we all know this. Whether talking inflated costs for housing, healthcare and schooling, or a brutal entry and mid level job market is because of them.
And as far as I know, not a single 2028 candidate has committed to ending the H1B program
— Bill Marshal (@aethelamerican) July 7, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Drugged Transients Overrun Austin Library. “She brings up how the Austin City Council under Mayor Adler repealed the ‘camping’ ordinance, in effect telling drug addicted transients to come party in Austin. And come they did.”
FACTS ARE RACIST OR SOMETHING:
Sitting down?
Legacy Media increased the term “white supremacy” by 5,296% from 2009-2020.
Violent crimes 2009-2020:
Black on White: 1,162 per 100K Blacks.
White on Black: 38 per 100K Whites.30X more likely!
Dangers of “white supremacy” narrative is pure propaganda.
Facts.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) July 7, 2026
WELL, HE STILL HAS A WEEK TO MILK THIS BEFORE THE BALLOT DEADLINE: Platner Is the Democrat Camel Whose Back Couldn’t Be Broken, No Matter How Much Straw Was Piled On.
THIS KEEPS HAPPENING:
They told me if I supported Trump we’d end up with neo-Nazi rapists as Senate candidates, and they were right.
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) July 7, 2026
SPACE: ‘Once-in-a-millennium’ asteroid flyby will be visible to much of the world in 2029.
Three years before the skyscraper-size asteroid Apophis makes its very close (but safe) flyby of Earth, scientists have already begun charting exactly when and where billions of people can watch it sweep across the sky.
Speaking at an “Apophis T-3 Years” workshop held earlier this month at the University of Padua in Italy, retired cartographer Michael Zeiler and astronomer Rick Fienberg shared detailed visibility maps charting the asteroid’s passage across Earth’s skies.
According to their calculations, roughly 90% of the world’s population — about 7.6 billion people — lives in regions where Apophis could, in principle, be seen with the naked eye on April 13, 2029. The actual viewing success will depend more on earthly considerations, however, including cloud cover and the extent of light pollution.
Known formally as 99942 Apophis, the space rock will not resemble a blazing meteor tearing through the sky. Instead, scientists say it will appear as a point-like speck of light gliding steadily across, which, at its closest approach, will appear to move by about the apparent width of the full moon every minute.
Maybe we should try taking a once-in-a-millennium opportunity to practice diverting a large asteroid.
SPOILER: IT DID NOT AGE WELL.
Here's @jodikantor, one of the NYT journos who broke the Weinstein story, naturally, an avid early proponent of MeToo, even had a movie made about her and Megan Twohey breaking the story—here she is writing off @lyndseyfifield for essentially partisan reasons. How's this aged? https://t.co/glPxae0bYF
— Neeraja Deshpande (@neerajadeshp) July 6, 2026
Plus this from Stephen L. Miller: “If journalists actually cared about their reputations and credibility, Jodie Kantor would be fired and out of a job this morning.”
Another spoiler: The only thing they care about is their diminishing ability to establish and maintain lefty narratives.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
The great secret of the last hundred years is that Progressivism is an elitist, technocratic ideology crafted by academia. It has NO working-class foundations at all. This desperate search for a believable marionette is hopeless. https://t.co/67jlMdrSEr pic.twitter.com/jtKhtMxUDV
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) July 7, 2026
THE LEFT’S NAZI PROBLEM IS MUCH BIGGER THAN PLATNER: The New Brownshirts? “Antisemitic rhetoric on the far left increasingly echoes the propaganda of Nazi Germany.”
OOF:
Elizabeth Warren wants to retract her endorsement of Graham Platner but she doesn’t want to look like an Indian giver.
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) July 7, 2026
MAKE AMERICA FLORIDA FOR ONCE, AND PASS THE SAVE ACT:
People forget that Gov DeSantis beat this guy in 2018 by less than 0.5%.
He would’ve been our Governor during Covid, kept us locked down, and the country would’ve never been the same.
The reason he almost won was b/c deep blue Broward County kept “finding” votes weeks after… https://t.co/uHs9v8QBOP
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 7, 2026
“The vote fraud was stopped, DeSantis cleaned up our elections, and he won by almost 20% in 2022.”
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: OPEC is in a struggle for its survival. It could mean $40 oil.
OPEC countries with major operations in the Persian Gulf mostly struggled to get their crude out to their customers. Iran’s closure and America’s subsequent blockade of the Strait of Hormuz locked in a fifth of the world’s oil supply.
Several OPEC members – namely Iran, Iraq and Kuwait – had no choice but to shut in their crude production and wait.
Now that traffic in the strait has started to ramp up again, the jockeying for production quotas has begun. Iraq, the bloc’s second-largest oil producer, is reportedly the next shoe to drop – the country’s oil minister told Bloomberg that Iraq would have to decide whether or not to remain with OPEC if production targets don’t dramatically increase.
Iraq’s production was the hardest hit by the war, dropping by 75% to just over 1 million barrels a day in April and May – down from more than 4.5 million a day in January and February. Iraq wants permission to produce a record 5 million barrels a day coming out of the war, with a long-term aim of getting production up to 7 million barrels a day, Bloomberg reported.
At first I thought the OPEC nations were looking to take market share from Iran while they could. If they’re jockeying against one another, even better.
THEY’LL EVEN GASLIGHT YOU ON THE DAILY TEMPS:
powerful moments in bar chart technology pic.twitter.com/Wnje4hJR2q
— richard (@richard_normal) July 6, 2026
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: New Yorkers Are Already Pissed at Mamdani, and He’s Just Getting Started.
REUTERS FORGOT TO INCLUDE “AGAIN” IN THE HEADLINE: Cuba begins to restore power to Havana following nationwide blackout.
SALENA ZITO: Young Washington: History’s ultimate gritty origin story.
The crushed stone along the quiet pathways here at the “Great Meadow” where Fort Necessity sits has always held wonder to me. Here is where 22-year-old George Washington, a brash, sometimes headstrong, but always ambitious young man trying to figure out his fate, suffered the first and only military surrender of his lifetime.
On the big screen, I’ve always imagined that the series of events that led to this moment, beginning with his run-in with the French Captain Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre in present day Erie, to being shot point blank in Butler, to accidentally starting the French and Indian War in Jumonville Glen, would look vivid and stark — that they would show a man on his way to greatness despite failures along the way.
But after seeing the new film, Young Washington, and standing on the hollowed grounds of a meadow tucked away in the dense, green ridges of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, it is difficult to comprehend why it took so long for this story to be told.
It’s Salena, so of course, read the whole thing.