BFR:

Wow! Sweet human for scale perspective there @_MaxQ_ . 🤯 https://t.co/KQv8PGEcMH pic.twitter.com/n1UVmNdazB

— Marcus House (@MarcusHouse) July 23, 2026

Classical reference in the headline, although somehow Space News managed not to go into what BFR might stand for.

THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS: What Will Trump Say About This Billion-Dollar EU Fine?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX will launch Starship, the world’s largest rocket, on critical Flight 13 test today. Here’s what to expect.

MIDDLE EAST: Trump Says Houthis and Tehran Masters Face ‘Major Military Punishment.’

THAT SEEMS LIKE A NO-BRAINER: Fifth Circuit Rules Illegal Aliens Do Not Have Constitutional Right To Roam Free In US.

ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:

A group calling itself a "conservative social movement" against AI data centers enlisted Green Party figures, a transgender congressional candidate, a Democratic state legislative candidate and progressive activist organizations to run its nationwide protests — all while… pic.twitter.com/CVG8nUm5Av

— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) July 23, 2026

Full story:

A group calling itself a “conservative social movement” against AI data centers enlisted Green Party figures, a transgender congressional candidate, a Democratic state legislative candidate and progressive activist organizations to run its nationwide protests — all while positioning itself as a grassroots right-wing uprising against Trump’s AI buildout.

Humans First, chaired by Tea Party co-founder and Jan. 6 rally organizer Amy Kremer, claimed to rally conservatives on July 18 with 142 protests across 42 states. But a Fox News Digital review of the group’s own protest pages found organizers including an Illinois Green Party chapter that supports impeaching Trump, a Georgia group founded to resist Trump’s agenda and protect “diversity, equity & justice,” and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation as a featured speaker.

The group’s startup capital came via a loan from the Center for AI Safety, a San Francisco nonprofit whose staffers appear on Humans First’s incorporation documents.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find CCP money in there, too.

KRUISER: Rudderless Dems Keep Sending Gift Horses for GOP to Look in the Mouth.

CONSERVATIVE PUNDITS HARDEST HIT: Harris 2028 White House bid ‘not going to happen’: Former Biden aide.

During an interview on Fox News’s “America Reports,” Michael LaRosa, former first lady Jill Biden’s press secretary, told host Gillian Turner that voters “are not going to give Kamala Harris a third at-bat.”

The conversation started because of a New York Magazine article, which identified Harris as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028.

Minyon Moore, a Democratic strategist, said to the outlet, “She’s been listening to the American people and really trying to figure out what’s impacting them and how she can be of service to them.”

For starters, she could run again and make my job so much easier.

What’s genuinely funny though is the idea that voters ever gave Harris two at-bats. She didn’t even make it to Iowa during the 2020 primaries, and didn’t even face a mini-primary in 2024.

SMART:

BREAKING: Trump says the civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia is subject to Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords. pic.twitter.com/xyLKH92SJC

— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) July 23, 2026

Five years ago, Jen Psaki dismissed the Abraham Accords as “tactics of the prior administration.” But now they’re the prior administration, and the Accords are back.

GEORGIA: Jon Ossoff Voted Against Giving Georgia’s Kids a Stake in the American Dream.

SHUT IT DOWN:

I’m sorry, but how is ActBlue still allowed to operate? It’s been enabling this kind of fraud for years. https://t.co/PncpHSHhi1

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 23, 2026

From the replies: “I have no idea why the Trump admin hasn’t nuked it from orbit, legally speaking.”

Or literally.

THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS…: New Jersey Dems Did Nothing For Years After Warnings About Noncitizens On Voter Rolls.

Local election officials and watchdogs have for years warned the Democrats who control New Jersey government that lax voting laws would lead to noncitizens popping up on the voter rolls. Still, the Associated Press carried water for a fellow Democrat traveler trying to hold on to a rapidly collapsing narrative.

“The revelation comes as President Donald Trump and other Republicans continue to assert that voting by noncitizens is rampant in U.S. elections, even though it’s rare and, when caught, can be punished as a felony that can lead to deportation,” useful idiot Geoff Mulvhill wrote in his coverage of the scandal.

When caught? Such crimes are rarely caught due to lack of interest by many election and law enforcement officers on the front and back ends of the system. Democrat policymakers have bent over backwards to be “inclusive” and “equitable” in voter rights legislation, at the expense of election security.

Former two-term Gov. Phil Murphy in 2018 signed into law a measure that automatically registers New Jerseyans to vote when they apply for an ID or a driver’s license. A year later, the Democrat signed into law a bill allowing illegal aliens to obtain a driver’s license. What could possibly go wrong?

Everything that went wrong was by design.

YES:

Communism is a bourgeois luxury belief that got out of hand and murdered 100+ million people. https://t.co/VhqtOwEGbR

— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) July 22, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Rally Trump Is Still My Favorite Trump. “Trust the process, that’s what athletes say. Trump’s process is all about winning. Sure, that’s a new focus for the GOP, but the president has been able to convert a lot of the party to the winning mindset.”

I WENT LONG ON POPCORN YEARS AGO, WHEN BERNIE SANDERS WENT BIG:

A terrifying yet exciting moment has arrived in the trainwreck called the Democratic Party. https://t.co/kI64Z0UDuC

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 23, 2026

DOG BITES MAN: Gun Banners Lie Through Their Teeth About Wolford and Property Rights.

THEY’RE DOING THE MEME:

Step 1: “Voter fraud doesn’t happen,” CNN

Step 2: “Fine, voter fraud happened,” CNN

Step 3: “Voter fraud happening doesn’t mean what you think it means,” CNN pic.twitter.com/aqLjjhqzYj

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 22, 2026

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: We Need to Talk About ‘The Odyssey.’

We need to talk about The Odyssey, which now looks like it’s going to be writer-director Christopher Nolan’s second billion-dollar picture in a row.

This isn’t really a movie review. It’s more of a look at how a celebrated writer-director, tasked with turning a 3,000-year-old epic poem into a modern Hollywood blockbuster, tried and partly failed to thread that needle.

I did not hate The Odyssey. I do not love it.

Mostly, I’m perplexed.

Much more at the link.

DAVID HARSANYI: America needs a new Red Scare.

Even a few years ago, accusing a Democrat of Marxist leanings would have sparked great indignation. Today? Democrats campaign with Piker. Once-respected institutions invite him to pontificate on history. Leading progressive media outlets such as Pod Save America and The Bulwark treat him as a normal political operative, never grilling him on his support for an ideology that’s put tens of millions of people into the ground.

Many more elected Democrats have welcomed Hasan-style “democratic socialists” — the preferred euphemism of modern communists — into their “big tent” than criticized them.

They do so because polls find young people increasingly prefer the red-green alliance of Islamist and communists to anything resembling traditional American political coalitions. Theoretically, at least, they prefer collectivism to markets. They prefer protest and “action” to debate and governing. They prefer violent theocratic regimes such as Hamas to free capitalistic nations such as Israel. The Overton Window is in warp drive.

When President Donald Trump stood at Mount Rushmore on the eve of the nation’s 250th anniversary, delivering an unapologetically patriotic speech, he threw in a few words to denounce this rise of communism as “a mortal threat to American liberty.”

This greatly offended many in the media.

Of course it did — the media largely agrees with the commies.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

"I have no clue what you're talking about, Mr. Gill." https://t.co/Kws1TuPSjH pic.twitter.com/HVciOjtBwL

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 22, 2026

GET’EM SKEWERED AND KEEP THE SKEWER IN’EM, TO MANGLE A QUOTE: The Adults in the Room Skewer Boy Mayor Mamdani After He Admits He Can’t Fulfill Major Promise/

HARD TO BELIEVE THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ONCE RULED A QUARTER OF THE GLOBE:

Show us on the doll where the 78 degree summer day touched you. https://t.co/EyrJdNfAy1

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 22, 2026

Related (From Ed): Heatwaves caused by fall in pollution.

Temperatures in Europe have warmed twice as much as the rest of the world since the 1980s, figures show, with the continent now 2.3C warmer than it was in the pre-industrial era. In the same period, the global average is 1.3C.

The steep temperature rise in western Europe has outstripped expectations and has left experts puzzled as to their cause and concerned about the increase in deadly heatwaves.

Now Spanish researchers and the Met Office have concluded that most of the extra heat experienced in Britain and Europe is linked to the fall in particle emissions in recent decades.

The signing of the Montreal Protocol in 1987, which was championed by Margaret Thatcher, was designed to protect the Earth’s ozone layer and led to a general reduction in aerosols and particulates being emitted into the atmosphere.

Scientists now believe the reduction in some pollutants allows more of the Sun’s heat to reach the Earth’s surface and also changes how air circulates globally to increase the chance of prolonged hot weather in Europe.

Where have you gone John Holdren? Old Blighty turns its lonely eyes to you:

Or course, there may be an even faster solution:

GRUMPY OLD MAN: Is ‘Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness’ Another Anti-Trump Screed?

Larry David doesn’t know when to quit.

And that isn’t such a bad thing, at least on paper.

The 79-year-old funny man said, ‘goodbye’ to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in 2024 after 12 mostly solid seasons. He’s fabulously wealthy thanks to that program, plus all those “Seinfeld” residuals.

David co-created the iconic NBC show.

He doesn’t need the money, and his cranky alter ego suggests the “fame” part of celebrity isn’t a top priority.

David still felt the need to star in a new show for HBO Max, one that examines American history through a very Larry David-style lens.

“Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.”

The show, co-produced by the Obamas, debuted to tepid critical reviews. The finished product, to be blunt, is bad.

Pretty, pretty bad, at least from the sketches this critic has endured.

“Co-produced by the Obamas” is never a good sign.

ICYMI: Buddy, Can You Spare 1.5 Trillion Rubles?

CHINA’S GHOST CHIP FABS: CMXT: Memory Giant, Or Smoke And Mirrors?