THIS WOULD BE BIGGER NEWS WITH AN (R) AFTER HER NAME: Murdered Teen Found in Ayanna Pressley’s Hubbie’s Property Identified.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 31, 2026
SPACE: Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year. “An official confirmed to Ars that this is indeed the case, that the primary factor now for when Starliner launches is port availability on the space station. It is therefore possible that Starliner launches this year. If this cargo test flight goes well, and modifications to Starliner address the vehicle’s propulsion concerns, a crewed mission is possible in late 2027.”
THIS LEVEL OF STUPIDITY MUST BE ON PURPOSE, RIGHT? RIGHT???
🚨 New York Democrats introduce bill requiring 10% discounts on all items at self-checkout. pic.twitter.com/VsPn8Sp9L9
— Democrats Deliver (@DemzDeliver) July 31, 2026
NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Democrat Mandela Barnes drops out of Winconsin governor’s race.
He said in a video posted on X that the decision was the result of a “difficult conversation” with his staff.
“We’re incredibly proud of all the things that we’ve accomplished and all the resources that we have raised to spread our message. But it’s become very clear who our nominee is going to be,” Barnes said.
The statement is likely a reference to Rep. Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, whose lead in the poll has widened ahead of the August primary, NBC News reported.
“Gooder and harder” posts inbound for 2027.
DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES:
Yes. We don’t have a pied-a-terre and are wrongly on that list and have wasted way too much time on their crappy website trying to figure out how to get removed, gathering all kinds of documents to do so
Not really sure how this helps make a better NYC for anyone?! https://t.co/8EMA4LL0ZS
— Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (@nataliapetrzela) July 30, 2026
The socialists just proved they can make people jump through a whole new set of hoops for no good reason.
Get used to it.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Dems Are a Trainwreck Swirling Down a Toilet in a Clown Car. “Their biggest problem right now is that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have brought the Dems’ deep-rooted commie leanings out in the open. The party elders would like to put the hammer and sickle cat back in the bag before the midterms and pretend that none of this ever happened, but the pesky nouveau Stalin kids in the DSA are just getting louder.”
BEEGE WELBORN: The European Forest Fires.
It’s a really ghastly situation.
What makes it more unspeakably horrible is that so much of it didn’t have to happen.
In France, there have already been over 160 arrests for arson. Yesterday, the French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said nine out of ten fires were caused by humans.
The conditions have simply allowed arson or ‘carelessness’ to take off to devastating effect.
Like starting a campfire in a bone-dry clearing in the woods.
Funny, the campers don’t look French.
There’s plenty of blame to go around for Europe’s current situation, but if the video Beege posted is anything to go by, the “migrants” aren’t helping.
ASKING (AND ANSWERING) THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Hormuz Is Disrupted, Saudi Oil Is Under Attack. So Why Is Oil Still Below $100?
The reason is not that the disruption has been minor. It is that several emergency measures have replaced enough lost supply to prevent a full scale supply shock from reaching the market.
The most important factor has been the U.S. military operation inside the Strait of Hormuz.
According to U.S. Central Command, American forces have helped approximately 1,000 vessels carrying 500 million barrels of crude transit the Strait since early May under Operation Project Freedom. Spread across approximately 86 days, that equals an average of about 5.8 million barrels of crude per day continuing to reach global markets under U.S. protection.
Before the conflict, roughly 15 million barrels of crude and condensate passed through Hormuz every day, while total petroleum flows approached 21 million barrels daily. The volume protected by CENTCOM therefore represents almost 40% of prewar crude flows through the Strait.
That does not mean Hormuz is operating normally. Independent shipping trackers continue to report substantially lower tanker traffic than before the war, and some vessels are likely transiting with AIS transponders turned off. Even so, millions of barrels continue reaching customers instead of remaining trapped inside the Gulf, preventing an even larger disruption.
Despite efforts by Iran and its proxies to close Hormuz and now the Red Sea, too, disruptions are much less severe than they were the last time around in March and April.
GOOD LORD:
SHOCKING new whistleblower testimony: 200 migrant kids sent to the same container park.
Xavier Becerra KNEW and covered it up. Employees who objected were FIRED.
“She got terminated. Becerra was aware.” pic.twitter.com/9egvWRXcBh
— Steve Hilton (@SteveHiltonx) July 30, 2026
July 30, 2026
THIS SEEMS LIKE A NO-BRAINER: White House eyes reopening oil refineries amid high gasoline prices.
The Trump administration is looking to reopen closed oil refineries, including an embattled one in the Virgin Islands, amid high gasoline prices spurred by the Iran war.
A White House official confirmed to The Hill in an email Thursday that the Trump administration “would like to see refineries across the country reopen, especially the St. Croix refinery.”The official said this refinery is of particular interest because it was built to refine Venezuelan oil and because of its “strategic” location.
Cool. Then do California.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONE: Agitators in Madison Use Boards With Nails to Defend Their BLM Encampment, and the City Is Helping.
Well, now Madison, Wisconsin, has CRAZ: the Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone. In case you missed it, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other communists are trying to make Ruiz the next George Floyd. Ruiz was shot and killed by Madison police after he pulled a knife and stabbed an officer while being apprehended. As we’ve reported, activists have set up bicycle barricades around the intersection of Williamson Street (Willy Street) and South Baldwin Street, where Ruiz, a career criminal with a long rap sheet, was shot.
Laura Schulte, a reporter with The Journal Sentinel, has been on the scene and notes that agitators have now placed boards with nails in them around the intersection where a memorial site has been set up. Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong set down a candle herself the night of Ruiz’s shooting, declaring it an “execution.”
Worse yet, Schulte reports that the city itself, which is as woke as it gets, has lent its assistance in setting up barriers.
If that isn’t insurrection, what is it?
CHECKS OUT:
Libs when you ask them to explain why it was okay to burn down Minneapolis but illegal to attend your grandmother’s funeral pic.twitter.com/KUt4sfUXP3
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) July 30, 2026
I WAS HOPING FOR THE PILLORY, BUT APPARENTLY NOT: What’s Next for Fauci?
“MIGRANTS”:
All fighting age men.
Curious. https://t.co/BLuXAwEs8z— 𝓐𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓡𝓪𝔂 (@2CynicAl65) July 30, 2026
TONY WOODLIEF: ‘Restorative Justice’ Brings Violent Schools.
The Education Department will no longer count racial disparities in K-12 school suspension rates as proof of discrimination, it announced on July 23. This is a welcome change, but it won’t automatically restore order in the thousands of schools pressured by the Obama and Biden administrations into adopting “alternative discipline” methods whose chief objective is race equity. Many such programs have come at the cost of student safety and education.
These methods go by many names, like “restorative practices,” “social-emotional learning” and, most telling, “restorative justice.” In lieu of suspensions, administrators invite offenders to reflect in a soothing place on the feelings and trauma that led them, say, to hit another student or disobey a teacher. Students may also be invited into a “restorative circle” with school staff and other students, where they can share their feelings, and others in the circle can talk with them about how peace in the community might be restored.
Reality often falls short of this vision. Concerns about restorative justice emerged soon after the Obama administration began pushing it. Public schools in Philadelphia that implemented it experienced “skyrocketing truancy, serious misbehavior, and declining achievement,” Manhattan Institute researchers observed in 2017. Other cities experienced similar results.
Read the whole thing.
IT USED TO BE MY FAVORITE, MUST-READ MAGAZINE…:
The late 90's / early 2000's were the golden age of magazines.
The Economist was one of the best. Its "anon" articles allowed it to shape public opinion without the author getting in the way.
Let's check in with them today pic.twitter.com/MHF1Y0ifgf
— Jeff 🇺🇸 (@NavyInnovator) July 30, 2026
…but that was 20 years ago or longer.
DECLINE IS A CHOICE: California’s Impending Energy Disaster Nobody Talks About. “When and if the world’s fourth-largest economy implodes, you’ll be able to say, ‘I told you so,’ thanks to a chilling report today from two experts in oil refining and energy production.”
FLASHBACK:
A new poll finds 40% of respondents believe in a baseless conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was created in a lab in China.
There is zero evidence for this. Scientists say the virus was transmitted to humans from another species.https://t.co/GDTo2geUng
— NPR (@NPR) December 31, 2020
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Gets $1.6 Billion US Space Force Order for 18 Falcon 9 Launches.
The 18 missions were assigned to SpaceX across two task orders under the U.S. Space Force’s flagship launch procurement program, in which SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and other U.S. launch firms inducted into the program jockey for lucrative mission assignments.
SpaceX has bagged at least $7 billion worth of Pentagon contracts this year as the Trump administration has laid groundwork for its Golden Dome missile defense shield, a roughly $185 billion multi-year endeavor heavily featuring Elon Musk’s launch and satellite company.
SpaceX in May won $6.5 billion worth of satellite contracts from the U.S. Space Force. That included $4.16 billion for a network of airborne moving target indicator satellites and $2.29 billion three days later for communications satellites that can pass data between missile warning and tracking sensors to interceptors in near real time.
The SpaceX award announced on Wednesday was part of an “unprecedented two-month acquisition timeline,” Space Force acquisition official Eric Zarybnisky said in a news release. For years, the service has sought to ramp up the pace with which it buys spacecraft and rocket launches from the private sector.
For perspective, that’s a little under $90 million per launch — which sits at the low end for military launches, and well below typical ULA or Blue Origin prices.
And 18 launches is only six or seven weeks worth of Falcon 9 launches at the current cadence.
Incredible.
SCENES FROM THE COUNTER-RECONQUISTA:
🇲🇦🇪🇸 One of the Moroccan migrants who illegally crossed the Spanish border today fled Morocco because he is accused of murder.
“I have problems with people, with a colleague who died. I can’t stay there because they say things that are not good for me. A person can die, and I am… pic.twitter.com/yXSxahmQfW
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2026
Portugal is doing much better, but it also isn’t governed by socialists.