BRING IT ON HOME: AstraZeneca plans to invest $50 billion in America for medicines manufacturing and R&D.

AstraZeneca today announces $50 billion of investment in the United States by 2030, building on America’s global leadership in medicines manufacturing and R&D. This investment is expected to create tens of thousands of new, highly skilled direct and indirect jobs across the country powering growth and delivering next generation medicines for patients in America and worldwide.

The cornerstone of this landmark investment is a new multi-billion dollar US manufacturing facility that will produce drug substances for the Company’s innovative weight management and metabolic portfolio, including oral GLP-1, baxdrostat, oral PCSK9 and combination small molecule products. The new state-of-the-art centre will produce small molecules, peptides and oligonucleotides. This multi-billion dollar capital investment is in addition to the $3.5 billion announced in November 2024.

Offshoring pharmaceutical production was always stupid.

CARING: LA Mayor Says She’s Not Worried About Harm to Doxxed ICE Agents. Are You Listening to Yourself, Karen?

FREEDOM WORKS:

Breaking 🚨 | Extreme Poverty Drops 18.2% YoY to 7.4%, Driven by Real Wage Growth Outpacing Inflation for First Time Since 2020 pic.twitter.com/ZKa7cEcDWc

— ShellBanger (@Bangershell11) July 20, 2025

The world’s congenitally wrong credentialed class hardest hit.

SARAH ANDERSON: The Truth About Tariffs, Tomatoes, and America’s Farmers.

ALMOST NOTHING FOR SURE: Here’s Everything We Know About the F-47 Program.

QUESTION ASKED: Are Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and Qatar Running an Anti-Israel ‘Epstein’ Conspiracy?

COMMIES ARE LIARS BUT THEY SURE ARE PERSISTENT WITH THEIR NONSENSE:

No actually I hate working Monday and Tuesday and part of Wednesday every week without pay so that poors and foreigners and communist grifters can have free money https://t.co/TCuZhbNW6I

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) July 21, 2025

UGH: Did Microsoft Outsource DoD Data To China? “Why was the arrangement ‘critical’ to Microsoft winning the contract? Because they work cheaper than Americans? ‘We hire Chinese spies and pass the savings on to you!'”

DRONE WARS: Russia and Ukraine Race Toward a New Normal.

HOW TO RUIN A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR FRANCHISE WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK: Marvel’s President Kevin Feige Proves He’s Learned Nothing From Failures, Will Continue Pushing Wokeness.

DIS shares continue to badly underperform the market, down roughly 40% from the company’s 2021 high.

THE MEDIA LIES: The Latest ‘Government Assessment’ of Damage at Iran Nuke Sites Is ‘Hyped-Up Nonsense’ Says Expert.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

BREAKING: Calla Walsh, a proud member of Democratic Socialists of America, flew to the Islamic Republic of Iran and declares:

“Glory to all the martyrs, glory to the axis of resistance. May we see victory within our lifetimes. Death to America!”

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— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 21, 2025

HEH: California Assemblyman Trolls Gavin Newsom Over How Hard it is to Accept the Gun Shawn Ryan Gave Him.

KRUISER: Trump Didn’t Get Colbert Axed, but I’m Having a Blast Watching Lefties Think He Did.

DON’T GET COCKY, BUT DO ENJOY THESE NUMBERS:

Cash on hand as of June 30:

Republican National Committee: $80.8 million

Democratic National Committee: $15.2 million

— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) July 21, 2025

VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: Billionaire In-N-Out heiress Lynsi Snyder and family leaving California for Tennessee.

“We’re building an office in Franklin [Tennessee,] so I’m actually moving out there,” Snyder said on an episode of the podcast Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey that aired on Friday, per Fox 11.

“There’s a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here,” Snyder said. “Doing business is not easy here now.”

Last year, the company closed a location in Oakland that had been operating for 18 years, citing crime issues that impacted customers and employees. It was the only location to have closed in its 77-year history. It currently operates more than 400 locations.

“I mean, there was a lot,” Lynsi Snyder told the PragerU video network in December, SFGate reported. “There was actually — gunshots went through the store, there was a stabbing, there was a lot.”

“For the safety of our associates, we just felt like, this is not OK,” she added.

It really isn’t.

IT’S TIME FOR SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS THAN CUTE SOCIAL MEDIA SHARES: Trump Shared Hysterical AI Video of Obama in Jail But I’m Not Laughing.

I’M NOT SAYING THAT EVERYTHING ABOUT LEFTISM COMES DOWN TO EUGENICS, BUT PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ABOUT LEFTISM COMES DOWN TO EUGENICS:

The Left is working very hard to normalize their final position: existence itself is bad https://t.co/j8Q4U8tBcJ

— Sulla (@gaulicsmith) July 20, 2025

It isn’t all bad, of course. People who hate people taking themselves out of the gene pool is likely a net benefit to the gene pool.

THEY COULD DO WORSE — AND PROBABLY WILL: Will the 2028 Democratic nominee be ‘none of the above’?

In a recent poll from a company called Echelon Insights — which describes itself as “erasing old industry lines that separate the process of conducting research from the tools to act on it” — Harris was leading the Democratic field with 26 percent of the primary vote, followed by Buttigieg at 11 percent, Newsom at 10 percent, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) at 7 percent and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at 6 percent.

I have spoken with numerous Democrats in or around the business of politics over the last few months. Not one believes that Harris will — or should be — the nominee. Similarly, none believe the other four names topping the poll will be the standard-bearer come November 2028.

As has been stated many times in the past, a good lawyer can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. The same holds true for polling. Depending on where you poll and how you shade the questions, a poll can bolster the views and desires of one partisan entity over the other, be they Democrats or Republicans.
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Not only has the party not done so, but it has doubled and tripled down on “woke” and “DEI” rhetoric while still loudly pushing its main “policy” plank from 2024: “We hate Trump.”

The ’28 Dem primaries promise to be a wild ride, but the most fun might be watching party elders try to rig the process for their version of a winning candidate.

SCOTT PINSKER: The Scariest, Creepiest, DARKEST Theory About Jeffrey Epstein Has NOTHING to Do With Blackmail. “What if Epstein’s actions have absolutely nothing to do with blackmail or espionage — and he was simply a sick, twisted monster who hurt little girls for the fun of it?”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: CA bill would fine stores for theft of their shopping carts.

The California Senate and now a key Assembly committee have passed a bill that would allow cities to charge businesses up to $650 for returning shopping carts stolen from them.

The measure, Senate Bill 753, was introduced at the urging of the city of San Jose, which faces major homelessness and budget crises.

“[San Jose] Mayor Mahan has a homelessness problem and a budget problem, and his solution to solve both of those is to charge retailers more to get their stolen property back,” said Daniel Conway of the California Grocers Association at the California Assembly Local Government Committee hearing that advanced the bill. “Our property is being stolen and taken offsite.”
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“This is happening because people are taking the shopping carts off the property, and I do not think it is fair to allow the city to impose something without giving them the opportunity to retrieve what is stolen property.”

Taxes, fees, and penalties will continue to increase until morale improves.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: GOP Finally Gets the Importance of Nuking Teachers’ Unions. “The leftist indoctrination of American school children (which I wrote about in ‘Don’t Let the Hippies Shower’) is at the root of most of the ills that plague this country. Sexy or not, it is the issue that should get the most attention. You don’t get a Kamala Harris within sniffing distance of the presidency without a sufficiently brainwashed electorate.”

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING A SPA DAY:

NEW 🔴

U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent says China is a major buyer of oil from both sanctioned Russia and Iran. pic.twitter.com/w0ziKU8v5U

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 21, 2025

“GIVE ME FOUR YEARS TO TEACH THE CHILDREN AND THE SEED I HAVE SOWN WILL NEVER BE UPROOTED”: A Tale of Two Experiments.

In 1973, 221 fifth-grade students in Pirkkala, Finland, became part of a quiet experiment. Their curriculum was rewritten to reflect Marxist-Leninist ideology. Capitalism was depicted as oppression, the Soviet Union as a moral compass, and the free market as a source of inequality.

Researchers compared them to a control group of students who received standard education. They tracked these individuals over decades, analyzing data on taxable income, months worked, job choices, educational attainment, and cognitive ability.

The study found that the students exposed to the special curriculum earned roughly 10% less as adults. This wasn’t due to differences in education or intelligence, but because they made different career choices: public-sector jobs, artistic paths, and professions that aligned with values they had been taught early on—solidarity over self-interest, ideology over income.

A similar pattern emerges from Poland, where a 1954 nationwide reform quietly removed political indoctrination from school curricula. Researchers Costa-Font, García-Hombrados, and Nicińska studied what happened next. Their natural experiment exploited school enrollment cut-off dates to compare students just slightly more or less exposed to the old Stalinist education. This included removing content explicitly praising the importance of obedience to the Soviet regime and adherence to Marxist-Leninist values, along with Stalin-themed recitation competitions.

Students who experienced one fewer year of Marxist-Leninist schooling were more likely to complete high school and college. Decades later, they were also more likely to be employed. When you stop rewarding obedience and start rewarding merit, students begin to believe that their choices matter. Ambition wakes up.

Both studies underscore a basic truth: early education fills students with information and perspectives that shape their values. School is one of the first places where we learn what kind of person is admired. Who the heroes are. What the system rewards.

Read the whole thing.

DAVID MANNEY: The Anniversary They Want You to Forget: TWA Flight 800 and the Deep State’s Deadliest Lie. “The people who peddled Russiagate, the Hunter laptop hoax, and the now-laughable myth of President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities are the same types of bureaucrats who sterilized the truth in 1996 to protect their golden boy: President Bill Clinton.”