I HAVE NO CORK TO POP FOR THESE THINGS: Don’t pop the cork yet on Colorado’s renewables ‘milestone.’

The trouble is that this jubilant announcement of a “majority” renewables power grid owes more to a stark drop in coal-fired generation than the wind and solar that was added. Percentages rely on both the numerator — how much wind, solar, and hydropower was generated — as well as the denominator, or how much total generation there was.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Electric Power Monthly net generation by state data, released June 25, demonstrates this. Renewables’ utility-scale generation rose 15.8 percent year-over-year between the first quarters of 2025 (5,934 Gigawatt hours, or GWh) and 2026 (6,872 GWh). However, coal generation dropped by 62% between over that same period, from 4,342 to 1,643 GWh.

Overall, Colorado’s total in-state generation actually dropped by 922 GWh in Q1 2026 compared with Q1 2025.

The state produces less energy, and more of what we do produce is higher-cost — which explains my electric rates.

NICE WORK, INEZ:

Once again I am tasked with reminding Democrats that it’s illegal to discriminate on the basis of race even if you do it to white people https://t.co/Umr1uA30OY

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) July 14, 2026

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Turns Out, Big Brother Is Actually a Matronly Euro-Scold. “We need to set the age at which they can, the children can, legally access social media,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said this week, which translates into American (via bad Japanese translation) as “All your screen are belong to us.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES:

!!! NYC Department of Buildings rejects plan to save a 174-year-old church in Bushwick that burned via arson

Demolition is set to begin in August

Ahmed Tigani leads the agency pic.twitter.com/KbIwgu1vux

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 14, 2026

Dhimmis are forbidden from repairing old churches and synagogues, and from building new ones.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX targets July 16 for Starship Flight 13, reveals what went wrong on previous launch.

According to a new SpaceX analysis, a sequence change in Ship’s engines, which ignite before the two rocket halves physically detach in a maneuver known as “hot staging,” led to a 90-degree error in Super Heavy’s orientation after separation. Super Heavy’s boostback burn was also cut short when five of its 33 engines failed to relight. SpaceX says it has introduced a modified startup sequence for Ship and hardware updates to Super Heavy to address the orientation anomaly and ignition issues, respectively, “along with updates to engine alarms and aborts to match the conditions seen in the multi-engine flight environment.”

Ship ran into a bit of trouble during Flight 12 but also managed to pull off some firsts. One of the spacecraft’s three vacuum-optimized Raptors was lost 40 seconds after stage separation, but it still reached its designated suborbital trajectory, demonstrating its “engine out” capabilities, according to the SpaceX update. The loss did, however, prevent Ship’s in-space engine relight attempt. SpaceX traced the failure to “interconnected causes” and has introduced a number of fixes for the upcoming Flight 13, “with additional reliability improvements planned in upcoming versions of the Raptor engine.”

Godspeed, Flight 13.

YOU DON’T SAY:

Instead of what, her long division skills?

— The Judgmental Dog (@the_addressor) July 13, 2026

Bless the New York Post for never running out of lame excuses to run photos of attractive women.

MAINE: Ditch the Candidate, Keep the Crazy Still Isn’t Going to Work.

AMY CURTIS: With Extreme Poverty at All-Time Lows, Democratic Socialists Hope to Reverse the Trend.

Capitalism is the world’s great equalizer, and it has done more to raise people out of poverty than any other economic system on the planet. That, of course, is why the communists and their socialist cousins hate it. Under the ideal communist regime, there are only two classes: the wealthy, which consists of the politicians and those who are adequate bootlickers, and the poor.

Communism has to be that way. A robust middle class negates the need for centralized planning and massive government control over every aspect of our lives, from the cradle to the mass grave. That’s why the commies have to destroy anything and everything that builds up the middle class: culture, religion, and especially the nuclear family.

Socialism isn’t just about “the equal sharing of miseries.” It’s also about creating misery where there isn’t any — about the only thing it creates in abundance.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Muslims steal battery from church, burn down home of Christian who questioned a Muslim about the theft.

SPOILER: NO ONE AT NETFLIX READ THE SOURCE MATERIAL. OR AT LEAST CARED:

But "men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence" doesn't describe Little House on the Prairie at all!

Did she read the books? Does anyone at Netflix read the source material? https://t.co/B0JsAsad5f

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) July 14, 2026

Not sure anyone is looking forward to The Vampire Diariafication of Little House.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Bike Lanes and the Road to Serfdom.

AGREED:

I believe what the senator said is right. I believe we're not a divided country. We're a center right country with a massive amount of fraud. https://t.co/5rYozYr4pv

— Sarah A. Hoyt (@SarahAHoyt) July 14, 2026

UNEXPECTEDLY! Khanna reveals the billionaire tax is just the beginning.

Last week, Khanna confirmed that the “billionaire tax” is just the start and that they will go on to target the wealth of other citizens as an untapped resource of new revenue.

For years, some of us have warned that the billionaire tax was a ruse. Sponsors like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Khanna were using billionaires as an easy political target, but they were unlikely to stop there.
…
That is precisely what Khanna finally admitted last week in a Substack post, arguing that “the tax should not stop at billionaires; it must reach centimillionaires. The tax has to reach all fortunes $50 million and up.”
…
If they can pack the Court and greenlight a billionaire tax, there would be no limit to then moving the threshold wealth level downward. Once that Rubicon is crossed, Democrats would suddenly be able to tax trillions in the property and possessions of citizens.

And then it’s all over. Nobody owns anything, except by someone else’s favor.

Vote as though your life, liberty, and property depend upon it — because they do.

VIKINGS:

Whoever made this

Take a fecking bow

This is class pic.twitter.com/odR454lv2E

— Ben 🚜 (@2022BenjiC) July 12, 2026

THIS IS WHAT WE’RE SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE?

“Women not having sex, husbands, or giving birth is a good thing actually” pretty much validates every critic of abortion and feminism and they’re too self-absorbed to even notice. https://t.co/gsdqRdbqhX

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 14, 2026

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: NY sees dramatic exodus of millionaires — causing nearly $11B loss in tax revenue.

New York’s share of US millionaires dramatically declined in recent years, causing a nearly $11 billion loss in much-needed tax revenue in just one year, according to a bombshell new analysis.

The study released Monday by the Citizen Budget Commission showed the Empire State’s share of the nation’s millionaires dipped from 12.7% to 8.7% between 2010 and 2022 – the largest decline of any state.

“New York’s declining share of high-income taxpayers has meaningful consequences,” the analysis states.

“Had New York maintained its share of the nation’s millionaires over the past decade, personal income tax collections would have been substantially higher – roughly $10.7 billion more in tax year 2022.”

The study comes amid fears that Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to “tax the rich” will drive even more wealthy out of New York City – and provides an at-times disquieting snapshot of stagnation gripping the Empire State for years before the young socialist took office.

I had been assured that Other People’s Money was an unlimited resource.

Since the trend predates Mamdani, it makes you wonder how bad things will get once he really gets the city on the path to True Communism.

YES:

Pretty fucking amazing that the Dems are just admitting that requiring proof of citizenship will cost them elections for years to come and we are all just sitting around like it’s no big deal and letting them get away with it.

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) July 13, 2026

HEH: CNBC’s Woke ‘Worst States’ List Accidentally Makes Red America Look Great. “Other than crime rates, which most often occur in red-state cities, which are the bluest areas of said states, the criteria for ‘quality of life’ that CNBC uses are woke as a joke. Environmentalism, free healthcare, unions, and prioritizing the rainbow are what CNBC looked at.”

I miss living in a red state — and I didn’t even move.

WHERE’D SHE GET THE BOOKS FOR HER BANNED BOOKS LIBRARY?

Dropping this again to remind people that literally 0 shitlib books are banned. https://t.co/3O0bppvv0y pic.twitter.com/2E7QsRm1vC

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) July 13, 2026

IT BOGGLES THE MIND THAT THEY EVER COULD BORROW MONEY: Trump regulators move to curtail lending to undocumented immigrants.

In new guidance, regulators said that undocumented immigrants may present an “elevated credit risk” and warned banks to account for the risk that they may lose their job or be deported as they underwrite new loans.

Financial institutions, the guidance says, should take into account that a customer’s status as an unauthorized immigrant may pose a risk to their ability to repay credit cards, mortgages, auto loans or other loans.

The guidance also says that financial institutions “might consider” requiring customers to provide “evidence of continuing work authorization,” among other documentation, as part of their assessment of a customer’s ability to repay a loan.

How about, “You aren’t here legally, no money.”

THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE:

Democrats went from “Believe all women”

to

“Depends on what you define as ‘rape’, really”

in record time. https://t.co/F3dfH4iEP0

— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) July 13, 2026

I guess Whoopi’s distinction between “rape” and “rape-rape” is out of favor. Until it’s needed again, of course.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Mamdani Bum-Rushes NYC Voters Into Their ‘FO’ Phase. “A commie infused with and fueled by ignorant youthful zeal is the worst kind of commie. Zohran Mamdani is the worst kind of commie. He’s not keeping it a secret, either. There are days that I swear he’s determined to prove that conservatives were right about him as quickly as he can.”

THE PEOPLE BLATHERING ABOUT “MUH DEMOCRACY” ARE THE SAME ONES CREATING UNWANTED LITTLE SOMALIAS ALL OVER THE PLACE:

At some point were Americans asked, would you like to turn the most prosperous, most secure, freest society humanity has ever known into an oppressive third world shithole?

I mean, technically, every two to four years, that's exactly what Americans are being asked. Just not in… https://t.co/VeUFkeOP9V

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 14, 2026

THESE GUYS SAY A LOT OF THINGS: Former Iranian commander says Tehran could target Trump inside the White House.

A former senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued an unusual direct threat against US President Donald Trump, saying the Islamic Republic is capable of harming him even inside the White House.

Hossein Kanani Moghaddam, a former IRGC commander, told the Iranian news website Fararu: “If the goal is to assassinate Trump, the Islamic Republic can easily do so in the White House. Whenever necessary, we are capable of doing that.”

Alongside the threat, Kanani Moghaddam also commented on talks between Tehran and Washington, saying that, from Iran’s perspective, the negotiations are not aimed at reaching a peace agreement.

You’d think they’d have done it by now.

And nobody has seen or heard Emergency Backup Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in public since the fighting began on Feb. 28.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

OPINION: Washington sees 48% more retail theft than you’d expect from a state our size. That’s the Forbes Advisor analysis that ranked us worst in the country.

Worst. Ahead of every other state.https://t.co/PDlKMBLsMF

— MyNorthwest (@Mynorthwest) July 13, 2026

From the article:

Shame has worked for as long as people have lived next to each other. The neighbor who saw you do it and told your mother. The coach who sat you on the bench in front of the whole team. The look on your mom’s face when the store manager walked you back to the register. It wasn’t the jail cell that kept most people honest. It was the idea that the people around you would know, and that knowing would cost you something you couldn’t buy back.

We decided that was cruel, at least in Washington. And now we lead the nation in shoplifting.

But a 33-officer police department in Bonney Lake decided to stop just accepting it. What they’re doing costs nothing, it’s working, and almost nobody else in the state is bothering.

It isn’t as though what works is any great mystery.