HARDBALL: GOP hardliners vow to blockade must-pass bills unless voter ID demands met. “We should be doing everything to pass SAVE America. Add it to reconciliation. Add it to NDAA. Add it to FISA. Add it to every must pass bill.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 3, 2026
MUH DEMOCRACY™ IN ACTION:
This is exactly why Californians don’t think their votes count…because they literally don’t. This isn’t an unusual type of move in our tyrant ridden state.
— James (@RouteJamsey6) July 3, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s America 250 Party Time, Patriots! “We deserve the fireworks every year.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Reliability report flashes warning signal for Colorado energy.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) 2026 State of Reliability report contains lessons for Colorado’s electricity sector. While the grid as a whole “continues to deliver reliable electric service,” challenges are mounting thanks in part to the “declining availability of aging combustion generation.”
NERC’s report finds that power plants failed more in 2025, with the fleet-wide forced outage rate climbing to 9.2 percent against “historical norms rarely exceeding” 8 percent. Coal-fired plants saw their forced outage rate rise from 11.2% in 2024 to 14.1% in 2025.
NERC surveyed owners of generators that saw substantial increases in outages from 2024 to 2025 and found that of the 26 responses from generators, 16 units “experienced equipment destruction extensive enough to significantly prolong their 2025 outage(s),” another eight experienced supply chain constraints, and six indicated turbine blade release or vibration that needed addressing. NERC also points out that regulatory reasons for outages were the “most consistently increasing” cause of outages between 2017 and 2025, though those “did not indicate any alignment with a particular policy objective.”
I hope to be elsewhere before the state-mandated brownouts.
DEMOCRATS INSISTED ON SHUTTERING THE INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PREMATURELY AND WITHOUT A REPLACEMENT, AND HERE THEY ARE NOW:
This isn’t so much “third world” as just plainly irrational. A high-capacity public escalator uses about the same energy in 24 hours as that needed to cool 1,500 square feet of living space for 24 hours.
What can’t be ignored though is our *energy infrastructure* has been far… https://t.co/pl7m7gxjX7
— Allan 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇬🇱 (@UnrealAllan) July 3, 2026
ASHLEY MCCULLY: 250 Years of Fighting for Liberty.
ABIGAIL SPANBERGER, FIREARMS SALESMAN OF THE YEAR: Virginia Jumps Up the National Sales Rankings Thanks to Looming Gun Ban.
How many times have we said it? No one — and we mean no one — sells more guns than anti-gun politicians. As the extent of the attack on gun rights being waged in Richmond after the election of a moderate (LOL) Democrat governor and full Dem control of the Virginia legislature become more apparent, Virginians drained their piggy banks and fired up their credit cards in anticipation of what they could see coming down the hoplophobic road.
Yesterday, Virginia’s “assault firearms” ban law took effect. And despite a couple of state court injunctions and a freshly minted lawsuit challenging the ban filed yesterday by the DOJ, Virginia’s embarrassingly violent attorney general claims that the ban is in place.
As a result of all of the above, Virginia’s been moving up the NSSF’s NICS check hit parade. They were almost totally absent in December. By March, they made an appearance in the handgun NICS check list and had jumped to number two in long guns (guess what kind of long guns they were mostly buying).
Finally, in June, as the 7/1 gun ban loomed, the state trailed only Texas (which has almost three times the population) in terms of long guns and had moved up to the third spot in both handguns and overall adjusted NICS checks.
Boating accidents to follow.
FAIL, BRITANNIA:
BREAKING
British authorities have released the ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang, Shabir Ahmed, from prison
The Pakistani man was sentenced to 22 years for 30 child rape charges involving girls as young as 12. He was released after serving just 13 years & won’t be deported pic.twitter.com/22UW16GpRq
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 2, 2026
A LOVELY VIP-ONLY PIECE FROM JENNIFER RUST: Remembering My Childhood Love of ‘1776’: the Musical and the Movie.
July 2, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
Starship 60-second static fire ahead of the thirteenth flight test pic.twitter.com/HKZkaXo7WN
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 2, 2026
That’s just the second stage, and it almost looks like it could take off itself.
ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:
Every time.
It’s never organic. https://t.co/b6lYZg9CXw
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 2, 2026
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING OVERREGULATION: The average car price just topped $50,000 — here are the most affordable buys made in the USA.
I STILL LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: DeSantis Officially Calls Antifa and CAIR What They Really Are.
LOL, DANA MILBANK:
Impressive ignorance. The unitary executive theory is about personnel; it confers no substantive powers on the executive branch that haven’t been delegated by Congress. The whole column is a bizarre non sequitur. https://t.co/mQbglJvTUP
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 2, 2026
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Dana, as serious as ever:
SPACE: NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure.
Before the accident, Blue Origin had been hoping to launch its first Mk. 1 mission, named Endurance, later this year for a cargo landing on the Moon. Additionally, the company is developing a test version of the Mk. 2 lander for launch as part of the Artemis III mission, which NASA hopes to fly during the second half of next year.
Blue Origin officials, including chief executive Dave Limp, have said the company is working toward rebuilding Launch Complex 36A, completing the anomaly investigation, and launching New Glenn on a return-to-flight mission before the end of this year. Privately, some NASA officials have expressed skepticism about this timeline. Most independent observers have suggested that a 12- to 18-month timeline is probably the most realistic for New Glenn’s return to flight.
Isaacman stressed this week that NASA’s preferred option is for the Endurance mission, which will carry two NASA science and technology payloads to the lunar surface, to launch on New Glenn.
“They’re making great progress,” Isaacman said of Blue Origin. “So plan A is very much still to launch the Mk. 1 on New Glenn. They are very committed to getting back in the business of launching New Glenn before the end of the year. And Plan A is looking a lot better today than it was weeks ago, just based on the progress that the Blue Origin team is making.”
I’d say, “Faster, please,” but this time it looks like Blue Origin might be moving as quickly as possible.
CRIME: Cops Bust Would Be Casino Mass Shooter With An Actual Cache (This Time) of Weapons. “How many times have you seen a blaring headline that reads something like this? MAD KILLER WITH HUGE CACHE OF WEAPONS AND AMMO ARRESTED BY POLICE. You give in and click on the link, only to find that the HUGE CACHE consisted of a beat-up Charter Arms snubby, a Yeet Cannon with a missing front sight, and a sawed-off 870 along with five 50-round boxes of Monarch 9mm ammo and eight loose rounds birdshot.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
There needs to be a deep investigation into how this weirdo was able to afford this. Well over $100k of guns listed. Seems unlikely for a mentally ill trans activist to come up with that on their own. https://t.co/GQBZqadMgv
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 2, 2026
NICE WORK, FELLAS: ICE Arrests 10,000 Illegal Aliens in Five Days.
BATTLESWARM: RAM Cartel? I Seriously Doubt It. “Manufacturers switching production from a less profitable product to a more profitable product isn’t some nefarious conspiracy, it’s how the market works. If they’re getting premium pricing for HBM memory that sells out instantly for the AI bubble, that’s what they’re going to produce. A whole lot of tech companies depended on the spot market for RAM because it gave them more flexibility and costs savings, but now it’s biting them in the ass. Their lack of foresight does not indicate a conspiracy or market failure.”
WOW:
That's one way of putting it.
Actually profoundAF. https://t.co/yED7xER1lE
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 2, 2026
NAILED IT, INDEED:
Nailed it.. pic.twitter.com/tW6iHj5mMV
— Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) July 2, 2026
And from the replies: “The Bible also says that if a man doesn’t work, he doesn’t eat. So, there is that.”
KAROL MARKOWICZ: Elon Musk is in the rabid left’s crosshairs — but he’s not the true target. “What’s happening to Musk is straight from the pages of Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ playbook, specifically Rule No. 13: ‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.'”
Plus:
The entire "Elon did a genocide" is a set up for the next democrat president and DOJ to prosecute him. It's all this is. https://t.co/hFWELgz6Lc
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 2, 2026
THE 1.9% SOLUTION:
USAID could demonstrate 1.9% of its total spend went directly to food and healthcare programs. Everything else went to left-wing NGOs that paid the salaries of democrat donor children with useless degrees. It was one big slush fund that recycled into left-wing causes globally.… https://t.co/FBfFEfYuVA
— Stacey (@ScotsFyre) July 2, 2026
Lefties get mad when you take the other people’s money away.
CHANGE (IT BACK): Idaho Brings the Firing Squad Back to Center Stage. “The state has now made the firing squad its primary method of execution. Lethal injection remains available as a backup, but Idaho has moved the rifle ahead of the needle because the old system has become slow, fragile, and legally tangled.”