IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
Socialists realizing the working class isn't with them is something special. pic.twitter.com/hCmVGK0mSL
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) August 3, 2026
UPDATE (From Ed):
EVERGREEN WISDOM pic.twitter.com/ZbAjGpho61
— Sour Patch Mom ن (@sourpatchlyds) August 3, 2026
WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS?
Another great example of man-made global warming … placing thermometers next to heat-generating solar panels. https://t.co/i1rxv7NAXs
— John Shewchuk (@_ClimateCraze) August 3, 2026
A RESCUE MISSION FOR A RESCUE MISSION: Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission.
YOU DON’T SAY: Dr. Ashish Jha on COVID-19: ‘It probably was a lab leak.’ “Former Biden White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, tells Dana Bash, ‘When I went into the White House, my view was this was almost surely a natural outbreak, maybe a lab leak. Based on information I learned and based on information I’ve seen, I have come to conclude that it is more likely to have been a lab leak.'”
I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Javier Milei Just Proposed a Great Idea. Every Government Should Follow His Lead. “Essentially, if the Argentine national government runs a fiscal deficit for several months in a row, the Congress receives a warning that it has a matter of weeks to fix it. If it doesn’t hit the deadline, the ‘shackle’ activates automatically, and the political class will be the ones impacted.”
PODCAST: Hefty enrollment drop clashes with Colorado school funding.
Colorado public schools are projected to lose roughly 16,000 students heading into the 2026-27 school year, part of a continuing enrollment decline that has significant implications for how state education dollars are distributed.
In a recent episode of Independence Institute’s* Learning Curve podast, hosts Erin Brantley and Ross Izard lay out the enrollment decline in the context of Colorado’s school finance system.
Because state funding is closely tied to the number of students attending schools, declining enrollment ultimately means fewer dollars for affected districts.
The decline comes as Colorado is working through major changes to school funding. Lawmakers rewrote a decades-old funding formula in 2024, and made additional adjustments through the 2026 School Finance Act. The new system remains a work in progress, further complicating funding calculations.
What I wasn’t able to find out is whether the enrollment decline is due to remigration, homeschooling, or whether Colorado has gone so far left that we’re not having enough kids anymore.
COMMUNITY NOTES FOR THE WIN:
The inconvenient truth. pic.twitter.com/P8QmsX5GcA
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) August 3, 2026
If you’re on mobile — or like me, you sometimes forget your reading glasses — the Note reads, “The monument in this image is located in Zanzibar and depicts one of the country’s last slave markets, which was run by the Arabs and closed by the British in 1873.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN PHOTO ID: Mamdani’s Grocery Stores Expose the Democrats’ Biggest Voter ID Lie.
SUICIDAL EMPATHY: Taxpayer-Funded Islamic Commission Raises ‘Preferential Treatment’ Concerns.
Massachusetts lawmakers are taking steps toward using taxpayer dollars to prioritize the hiring of American Muslims for state government positions through a permanent so-called Islamic commission, sparking concerns that the Left is prioritizing a religion that contradicts its own political agenda.
If enacted, Bill S.2134, “An Act promoting the civil rights and inclusion of American Muslims in the commonwealth,” would create a “permanent” commission to help recommend Americans who practice Islam for appointed government positions in the New England state.
The commission, as stated in the bill, would consist of a panel of 11 Muslims appointed by Democrat Gov. Maura Healey and other state officials to represent the Islamic faith on issues such as business, the economy, health care, and other concerns.
It’s exactly the sort of move you’d expect from a collaborationist government.
WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS?
We're told climate disasters are getting worse.
According to the world's leading disaster database, climate-related disasters show no trend since 2000.
And climate-related deaths have collapsed by over 98% since 1920, with deaths dropping from nearly 500,000 per year to under… pic.twitter.com/uDBokJVTnW
— Electroverse (@Electroversenet) August 2, 2026
A GOOD START: DHS Deported 1.46 Million Aliens in the Last 12 Months.
I MEAN, THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO…: The Four Rules of Gun Safety Can’t Keep You From Shooting Yourself in Your Femoral Artery.
CLAY TRAVIS DOUBLES DOWN:
I am not kidding about this. I am prepared to buy a @wnba expansion franchise and locate them in Nashville. I pledge to have a 100% trans team, all men who identify as women. I will also employ a 100% trans coaching staff. Most inclusive team in history! https://t.co/qKfQshJHQ3
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 3, 2026
More just a few items down.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: A ‘Transgender’ Funeral Director, Organ Buckets, and Millions in Theft.
On July 27, 2026, the U.S. Navy guided-missile submarine USS Georgia (SSGN-729) returned to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, to begin its official inactivation process after 42 years of active service. The arrival marks the beginning of the phased retirement of all four Ohio-class SSGN conversions, which will remove the largest single concentration of conventionally armed undersea missile payload from the active fleet. This operational drawdown precedes the full fielding of Virginia-class Block V submarines equipped with the Virginia Payload Module, creating an interim undersea strike capacity reduction for the U.S. Navy.
The four converted Ohio-class SSGNs provided the U.S. Navy with a collective theoretical capacity of 616 BGM-109 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles and dedicated facilities for up to 264 special operations personnel. Following USS Georgia’s retirement, starting on July 31, 2026, the subsequent inactivations of USS Ohio, USS Florida, and USS Michigan through FY2029 will require 22 Virginia Payload Module-equipped attack submarines to fully restore the lost vertical launch cell count.
We need more subs, destroyers, cruisers… well, more everything but admirals.
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: COVID-19: Fauci’s Holocaust.
#RESIST: NYC to unveil new Columbus statue as group sidesteps Mamdani’s middle finger.
A new nonprofit is planning to unveil a Christopher Columbus statue in Brooklyn this October — dodging Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other haters who’d rather cancel the Italian-born explorer.
The Preserving Italian Heritage Coalition, brought together by Chinese-American state Assemblyman Lester Chang (R-Brooklyn), is planning to house the statue at the John Hughes Club in Dyker Heights, private property that keeps it out of the clutches of city officials.
“I’m Chinese, but this is my community, too,” said Chang, who was born on Eldridge Street in Manhattan and today represents Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights. The coalition is now looking to raise $100,000 to cover construction and maintenance costs.
Chang traces the idea to last November’s election and to President Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation weeks earlier, which vowed to reclaim the explorer from “left-wing arsonists.” He wrote the committee’s first check himself, before there was a bank account to put it in.
Now that’s what I call assimilation.
WELL, BYE: Carville rips Piker: ‘If he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I’m out of here.’
“To talk about the larger Democratic Party, post the election in Michigan going forward, I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker,” Carville said on Fox News’s “The Sunday Briefing,” referring to the Michigan Senate race between Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.).
“I have no intention of ever being in the same political party with that guy. Now, I think that a majority –– overwhelming majority of Democrats agree with me, but this idea that we’re going to seize the means of production and this –– just go look at the DSA platform,” he continued, referring to the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA).
Carville came to prominence more than three decades ago, representing a wing of the party that already got shoved aside by Obama’s red diaper cohort almost two decades ago.
And now the Obama wing isn’t far left enough for the up-and-coming DSA types.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Iran War Continues to Be Whatever Anyone Wants It to Be. “Nobody who is sane wants wars to go on forever, but it’s patently absurd to think that we’re into another Vietnam because there hasn’t been a neat and clean resolution after five months. What’s really disturbing is that I heard some people who I know to be supporters of President Trump leaning this way.”
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: Democratic discontent with Mamdani mounts in New York City’s outer boroughs.
When Queens Borough President Donovan Richards accused the Democratic Socialists of America of perpetuating “white supremacy” earlier this month, it marked a rare instance of a well-known local Democrat taking direct, withering aim at the group that propelled Mayor Zohran Mamdani into City Hall.
Since Mamdani’s ascension there, local elected Democrats have been hard pressed to publicly blast him and his hard-left base. The mayor’s approval ratings remain strong and the DSA has emerged as a serious political force in the city. So Richards’ X post — which was referencing the DSA’s majority white membership nationally — hinted at a potential turning point.
His attack also points to a more broadly felt symptom: Growing discontent with Mamdani from Democratic politicians in the city’s outer boroughs.
Days after Richards’ online lament, more anti-Mamdani sentiment erupted in the Bronx, where City Councilmember Oswald Feliz accused the mayor of giving his community “crumbs” by not pairing a bus lane project in his district with enough infrastructure upgrades in surrounding areas. Like Richards, Feliz made a reference to race, albeit a more subtle one.
“Is this community not trendy enough to justify the kind of improvements that other communities receive, even without asking?” Feliz said in a statement last week. “If this was a wealthier neighborhood, I have no doubt that a more ambitious proposal would have been on the table. Minority communities are important, and deserve better.”
Too white, doesn’t spend enough other people’s money — you gotta love it.
ROBERT SPENCER: In Mamdani’s New York, It’s 1933 All Over Again. “What’s next? Maybe organized boycotts of Jewish-owned businesses. The BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement announced a week after Mamdani took office that it welcomed Mamdani’s ‘revocation of the anti-BDS Executive Order issued last month by the previous mayor.’ The executive order that Mamdani revoked ‘prevented any mayoral agencies or appointees from doing business with vendors and organizations complying with international law by holding genocidal Israel accountable.’ That is, the city was prevented from doing business with entities that boycotted Israel, but no longer.”
DECOUPLING: The True Cost of Decoupling from China.
The EY study tallies the costs of Western investment in manufacturing, infrastructure, and research and development at $23.6 trillion—a large headline number. But let’s add some context. Using simple assumptions of 2% U.S. GDP growth through 2050 and 1.5% GDP growth for Europe and the United Kingdom, total economic output from the West will reach more than $1.7 quadrillion in nominal dollars. In that case, $23.6 trillion turns out to be less than 1.5% of total GDP.
For further comparison, the U.S. will spend about 3% of its GDP on defense this year, while the European Union, where defense expenditures are rising, will spend more than 2%. If China remains America’s preeminent strategic competitor over the next several decades—a view that most U.S. foreign policy and elected officials share—spending about half of what we spend on defense in order to decouple from the Chinese Communist Party is not an unreasonable proposition.
Even that comparison is likely too generous. Most of what EY counts as the cost of decoupling is actually investment to produce goods needed to do so, such as mines, processing facilities, and electrical grid equipment. These investments would not only create resilience against China but would employ millions of our own people in construction and production.
Weighed against those potential costs, meanwhile, are the costs of not decoupling and instead maintaining today’s strategic dependencies.
Indeed.
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