FASTER, PLEASE: Vance announces investigation into alleged H-1B visa fraud.

ANTISEMITISM FOR FUN AND PROFIT:

Rama Duwaji, wife of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is co-hosting an expensive spiritual retreat in Corsica, honoring Jesus' mother Mary as a "Palestinian woman giving birth under occupation".

Tickets range from around $3,000 to $5,000 for a trip of prayer, lectures, and food, all to… pic.twitter.com/Wfr6rVwUI3

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) July 8, 2026

CLICKS. THEY DID IT FOR THE CLICKS: Why Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson Took the Strange Road.

And related thoughts from Victoria Taft: Here’s the Real Reason Behind Candace Owens’ Combative Publicity Tour Right Now.

EVERGREEN HEADLINES: Democrats: Addicted To Scumbags.

UPDATE:

One of the defining qualities of post-2010 elite media, culture, and academia is a crippling incapacity for basic social and psychological recognition.

Part of the reason for this is that elites come from a narrow, oversocialized milieu. Another big reason is that elite culture… https://t.co/Dae14iwPMr

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) July 8, 2026

“Another big reason is that elite culture (novels, films, etc) used to be brutally and unsparingly honest in its psychological depictions, and you could learn a lot from that and recognize all sorts of personalities you would encounter in real life. Post-2010 the purpose of culture has been to propagandize, lie, confuse, and dissemble on behalf of all sorts of inconvenient truths and now as a result elites tasked with sense making are poorly ‘educated’ to an unprecedented degree and don’t stand a chance in engineering the outcomes that they desire.”

FINGERS CROSSED: SCOTUS’s AR-15 Ruling Could Open a Broader Range of Questions the Gun Control Industry Doesn’t Want Answered.

KEEPING HIS CITY AFLOAT… FOR NOW: Mamdani Crows About Socialism’s ‘Success,’ but It’s Capitalism That’s Keeping His City Afloat.

RESHORING: Apple to invest $30 billion in US chip manufacturing. “The investment, in partnership with Broadcom, is set to produce 15 billion chips, creating hundreds of U.S. jobs. Broadcom’s facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, is expanding its capabilities to produce the chips.”

ICYMI: The Funniest Senate Campaign Meltdown Just Got Funnier.

NICE TO HAVE YOU ON BOARD, MR. PRESIDENT:

In which Trump finalizes the point before the whole world, which didn't believe it a month ago yet: the IRGC is too reckless and lunatic to be dealt with reasonably. Upper hand fully regained. https://t.co/IutxLiETTs

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 8, 2026

THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE: Democrats Already Vetted Graham Platner, Why Bail On Him Now?

He was vetted. People knew all these things and a whole bunch of Democrats in Maine showed up and voted for him anyway. And a bunch of from around the country sent him money anyway. I agree with Alyssa’s question. What changed? Why are you bailing on Graham Platner now? You already signed off on Nazi tattoo, a self-described communist somebody who’s had rape fantasies, somebody who has been on a social media platform known as a playground for predators, and on, and on, and on, and on and on.

And the difference between this accuser and the previous one is simply this, she’s a liberal. It’s okay, I guess, for Democrats that their candidates assault conservatives. But he broke into someone’s house. And apparently, according to her, raped her. And because her politics are correct, they can now believe it.

But they still can’t force him off the ticket if he doesn’t want to go — and the clock is ticking.

YES IT DOES:

The system takes care of its own https://t.co/txBX4cPfL7

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) July 8, 2026

On the flip side, Rob Province added this: “She lost her law license. Cant ever be a judge again. Has a felony. I’ll take it.”

Not everything you might have wanted, but more than you might have expected.

YES: America’s Factory Floor Is Still Its Greatest Superpower.

THEY ALWAYS HAVE BIG PLANS; THEY’RE JUST MORE OPEN ABOUT THEM NOW: Democratic socialists have big plans for 2028.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

Worth noting that conservative outlets like the Free Beacon exposed his sham blue collar image long ago. Those facts were largely ignored by legacy media. Now that’s changed. A cynic might say it’s because he’s now seen as a threat to their partisan tribe’s power quest. https://t.co/7h7Xf48mhI

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) July 8, 2026

Well, I guess that makes me a cynic.

VICTORIA TAFT: Charlie Kirk Conspiracy Theories Suddenly Disappear With This One Amazing Trick.

“RIGHT NOW,” MEGAN, REALLY? PROGRESSIVISM FROM THE START WAS A TOP-DOWN IDEOLOGY OF EXPERTS TELLING THE MASSES WHAT TO DO:

Platner is a private school screwup, of a type familiar to people who went to private school. The fact that he was cast as a man of the people by elites, while the working class rejected him, seems kind of emblematic of the whole progressive project right now. https://t.co/7CygguIiNh

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 8, 2026

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Amazon Floats $25 Billion Debt Sale to Fund AI.

Amazon is preparing to borrow $25 billion or more in the U.S. bond market, adding to a wave of jumbo debt financing as the world’s largest technology companies race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, Bloomberg reports.

The e-commerce and cloud computing giant has already raised more than $82 billion in investment-grade bonds across several currencies since the start of 2025.

The deal would lift Big Tech’s global AI-related debt issuance to about $335 billion in 2026, more than double the amount issued in 2025, according to Bloomberg data.

Amazon is expected to invest nearly $200 billion this year, largely to expand data centers and computing capacity for its AI operations and Amazon Web Services customers.

Amazon last tapped the U.S. dollar debt markets in March, when it raised $37 billion. That was the fourth-largest U.S. corporate bond sale on record.

There are some very smart people arguing we aren’t necessarily in a bubble, but that’s an awful lot of spending and debt in pursuit of profits that have yet to materialize.

If they do come, great. But even then, expect a vicious shakeout along the way.

SUICIDAL EMPATHY, INDEED:

Despite living in Ireland for 20 years, Parnell stabber Riad Bouchaker still had such bad English that he needed an Arabic interpreter in court. He also uttered anti-Irish slurs and said Ireland was "shit". Despite this, he was given citizenship.

Asked by @Ben_Scallan whether… pic.twitter.com/9YLgAzcFy0

— gript (@griptmedia) July 8, 2026

More:

Asked by @Ben_Scallan whether there should be culture and language requirements to gain citizenship, Social Protection Minister Dara Calleary rejected the idea, saying “Don’t isolate one case, Ben – don’t do that”, arguing that “citizenship is a much broader thing than just language” and that “contribution to the economy” mattered as well.

I wasn’t aware that stabbings contributed to the economy. Good to know.

BELMONT CLUB: The Utility of Civilization. “By and large, the world needs the skills of the developed world. The vaccine example illustrates that, in the grand scheme of things, the West, despite the hatred directed at it by progressives, is the workshop of the global south. It invents medicine, cell phones, computers, airplanes, high-yielding crops, transportation, long shelf-life food, etc., that even the pirates use, and without which the lives of people in the Third World could not be lengthened to historically unheard-of heights. Life expectancy at birth in Africa has risen to approximately 64.2 years, marking an increase of almost two decades since the 1970s. Lifespan on the continent has improved dramatically from historic lows of 26 to 37 years in the mid-20th century, driven largely by successful public health measures. Absent these underpinnings, the stage collapses.”

THOSE AIRFRAMES ARE OLDER THAN I AM: Poor B-52 Readiness Creating Testing Challenges For New AGM-181A Nuclear Cruise Missile.

ISLAMIFICATION:

Austria's ruling party just published a 29-page strategy document on the Muslim Brotherhood.

It names exactly where the infiltration is happening.

Political parties. State-sponsored NGOs. Schools. Childcare facilities. Associations. Umbrella organisations. Educational…

— Ihsan Horani (@neutralground90) July 8, 2026

More:

Political parties. State-sponsored NGOs. Schools. Childcare facilities. Associations. Umbrella organisations. Educational institutions. Not mosques. Political structures.

The document is precise about the method:

“Islamization from below.” Train individuals ideologically. Insert them into civic life. Let them work their way into the institutions that shape how a society thinks and governs itself.

Austria’s parliament has simultaneously submitted a formal question asking whether intelligence chiefs were ordered by ministers to suppress surveillance results on political Islam.

Read that again. MPs are asking whether the government was told to look away.

Austria is further ahead than any other European country in naming this. It has banned Brotherhood symbols, closed radical mosques, expelled imams and now published a comprehensive counter-strategy naming specific institutional targets.

The EU designation question has been sitting unanswered since January.

Brussels knows what’s coming yet refuses to act.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Release the Clowns! Desperate Dems Send in the Odd Squad, Hilarity Ensues. “It appears that, just when you think you’ve seen the grand finale of progressive flunkies, the Democrats throw us an unsettling encore.”

CEASEFIRE UPDATE: US revokes Iran oil waiver after Hormuz attacks.

YEP, THAT ABOUT SUMS IT UP:

The state of white men in the Democrat party:

Guy who dresses like a hobo recovering from a stroke tells a pretend socialist with multiple homes to stop promoting a rapey guy with a Nazi tattoo. https://t.co/cjKUYwqQak

— FischerKing (@FischerKing64) July 8, 2026