LISTEN UP, SCOTUS: DOJ Sues to Stop California’s GLOCK Ban and End Its State-Approved Handgun Roster.

My contact at Shooting News Weekly forwarded me this report along with, “I may need a cigarette.”

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, but I know exactly what he means.

ED MORRISSEY: DemSoc Goes National: Socialists Boot Progressive Dem in Colorado.

If you loved IngSoc and Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984, you’re gonna love DemSoc in 2026 America. It won’t be confined to just New York City and the oyster farms of Maine. And in fact, it has only ever been confined to Academia, but last night’s primary in Colorado shows that “Democratic Socialism” has broken out of the lab and may start a pandemic.

House Democrat Diana DeGette served 15 terms in Congress, belonged to the Congressional Progressive Caucus and even got its endorsement, and helped Colorado shift left over the last 20 years. DeGette got repaid by having DemSoc paint her as a stooge of the establishment, and DeGette’s constituents dumped her for the new flavor of anti-Semitic Communism.
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The Wall Street Journal notes that the results in New York had already frightened “centrists” in the Democrat Party. DeGette wasn’t a centrist, the report later acknowledges, and it never quantifies how many “centrists” still remain within the ranks of party leadership.

Enough to keep feeding the crocodile, apparently, hoping to be eaten last.

UPDATE (From Ed): Fresh new faces, pushing very old and clapped out ideas: Mamdani Is Ignoring 40 Centuries of Economic Lessons.

I get what you mean here, but saying "the socialists" will have the "new ideas" is like saying "the Shakers have all the fresh thinking." Socialism is not new. The label is about 2 centuries old, give or take. The idea is thousands of years old. There's not a single major idea… https://t.co/e3tqtK9PQP

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 1, 2026

Jonah’s tweet concludes, “There’s not a single major idea proposed by the DSA crowd that wasn’t an old idea before I was born. From price controls and rent-freezes, to wealth taxes, or shunning Jews. It’s all old, old hat. You can agree with it. Or admire it’s newfound energy or something. But the ideas are old, tried, and failed.”

MORE (From Ed):

Wobblies tossing bombs at Pinkertons, Pullman Car workers singing Woody Guthrie tunes, wildcat strikes at waistcoat factories…

Yeah, that century-old Industrial Age Utopianism is filled with “new ideas.” https://t.co/CXURg7A1vr

— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) July 1, 2026

NOTED:

Never forget that even before this wave of DSA, communists were elected, 48 Democrat Senators voted to nuke the filibuster and promised to expand the Supreme Court. The difference between radical communist Democrats and mainstream Democrats is mostly tone. https://t.co/MC1aUsCEUW

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) July 1, 2026

NIFTY: U.S. Pacific Air Forces Flex B-2 Stealth Bomber LRASM Capability. “LRASM, originally conceived under a broader program to active a variety of maritime strike missiles over a decade ago, has become the most capable air-launched ship-sinking capability known to be deployed by American forces. With a range of over 200 nautical miles and a warhead of 1000 pounds, the Lockheed Martin missile is derived from the stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile. Its low-observable capabilities and use of modern technologies represents a marked leap from the Cold War-era Harpoon missiles.”

Stealth antiship missiles carried by stealth bombers with global reach is exactly the 21st Century you knew America could do.

ICYMI: Is This Gavin Newsom’s Biggest Lie Ever? “California Gov. Gavin Newsom, perhaps best described as ‘seven lying serpents in a skinsuit,’ just told a lie so big that even my jaded self had to sit back, take a sip of coffee, and admire the handiwork of whoever steam-cleaned the soul out of his body.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

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— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 1, 2026

FAST RESPONSE: The DOJ Goes to War on Birth Tourism After Losing at SCOTUS.

GET THE FEELING THIS MIGHT BE THE START OF A PERMANENT TEMPORARY SUSPENSION?

New York City to suspend evictions for two days due to heat dome https://t.co/t8uTiUUD4I

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) July 1, 2026

THE DUMBEST STORY OF THE WEEK… SO FAR: Dumbest Story of the Week Reveals Liberal Bullying 101. “It’s not meant for Johnson, though. It’s a warning to stars without the actor’s fame, wealth and celebrity cache. Think like us, or you’re next.”

CONCLUSION: EUROPE WANTS BURDENSOME OLD PEOPLE TO DIE.

Air conditioning has reduced heat deaths in the US by three quarters since the 1970s. https://t.co/oMmrKiOeml

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 1, 2026

HMM: Newly Caught Fraudster Emailed Co-Conspirator About ‘Ilhan’s Office.’ “American authorities now have custody of a Somali fraudster who emailed his Minnesota co-conspirator cryptic messages implicating Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).”

DON’T MISTAKE SIMPLE LUST FOR POWER WITH RESENTMENT — RESENTMENT IS JUST THE SALES PITCH:

It’s only the most prosperous society that has ever existed in the history of human civilization, built by the sacrifices of our parents and grandparents, but let’s find a reason to be resentful https://t.co/kyZiiFRtPP

— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) July 1, 2026

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: Neutrality is racist, say woke librarians.

Critical race theory scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw was the keynote speaker for the American Library Association’s annual Conference and Exhibition, she writes. Sessions reflected “a mishmash of critical theory argle-bargle,” including “Charting Queer Visibility,” “Read Trans Books,” “Queer Kidlit Joy,” “Decolonizing the Stacks,” and “Cultivating Radical Empathy.”

The ALA has enormous influence over K-12 libraries through its school library division, which sets standards, guidance, and so-called “best practices,” Sanzi writes. It “shapes what books are purchased, displayed, and promoted,” and fights “efforts to place age-appropriate limits on sexually explicit or heavily ideological materials.”

The ALA explicitly rejected viewpoint neutrality in 2021, she writes. A resolution claims libraries have contributed to white supremacy and fascism through a “misplaced emphasis on neutrality.”

Neutrality is supremacy, silence is violence… whatever.

RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: The War at Home “Judaism teaches that to save one life is to save an entire world (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5). Similarly, to kill a life is to destroy an entire world. Destruction must be met with retribution for there to be justice. But sadly, the exact opposite has just happened in our own neighborhood in Thousand Oaks, Calif.”

IT SHOULD: Will ‘Pregnant’ Become a Disqualifying Category for Foreign Entry? “As to birth tourism, the Assistant Attorney General just a few minutes ago released a memorandum on fighting and prosecuting the fraud. Throwing down the gauntlet, if you will.”

CHECKS OUT:

Photo 1: A man claiming he’s fighting the Oligarchy.

Photo 2: The Oligarchy. pic.twitter.com/IUcrZ6GYwy

— C3 (@C_3C_3) July 1, 2026

USE IT: Trump Just Gave Republicans a Midterm Megaphone.

ONCE YOU RECOGNIZE THE PATTERN…:

Recognize the motte and bailey tactic, and who is running cover for the “DSA” communists. pic.twitter.com/o19G8uUNvb

— John A. Mapp, Jr. (@mapp_john14664) July 1, 2026

…you’ll never unsee it. Or stop seeing it repeated.

IT IS UNWISE TO ASK UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS, COMRADE: How Many Lives Could Barack Obama’s Library Have Saved?

In the city of Chicago, which is about 90 minutes south of me, roughly 17 percent of the city’s residents live in poverty. That’s about 448,000 people, and of those, more than 160,000 were in ‘deep poverty,’ below 50 percent of the poverty threshold. That works out to about $21 per person per day. The majority of Chicago residents are Black or Hispanic, and about 29 percent of Black and 15 percent of Hispanic Chicagoans live in poverty.

It’s estimated that 25 percent of Chicagoans face food insecurity and persistent hunger.

For the 2025-2026 school year, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) face a $734 million deficit, driven by the end of federal pandemic aid and pension obligations. On top of that, students in CPS test well below the national average in math and reading, with just 31 percent proficient in reading and 18 percent proficient in math.

Chicago is also one of the most violent cities in the United States, with 416 homicides and 1,471 shootings in 2025. For the start of 2026, homicides are up roughly six percent and shootings are up slightly, too.

Despite these deplorable statistics, Democrats celebrated the Barack Obama Presidential Library, which opened about two weeks ago. The brutalist building, which looks like something straight out of the Empire in Star Wars, cost roughly $850 million.

To be fair, Barack didn’t build his library with his own money, either.

DON’T BE A SOFT TARGET:

I’m going to add one qualification to Hen’s grim observation here.

All these targets are Democratic Jews.

Republican Jews are no less hated, but are inclined to stand up for themselves, and are led and surrounded by colleagues who unite to reject antisemitism and Israel-haters. https://t.co/0JivOOCkCQ

— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) July 1, 2026

And I liked this from the replies: “There’s no denying it. You need to be armed to the teeth to enter the big welcoming blue tent.”

IT’S MEASURED IN TRILLIONS OF BIDENFLATION DOLLARS: Is This Gavin Newsom’s Biggest Lie Ever? “California Governor Gavin Newsom, perhaps best described as ‘seven lying serpents in a skinsuit,’ just told a lie so big that even my jaded self had to sit back, take a sip of coffee, and admire the handiwork of whoever steam-cleaned the soul out of his body.”

ONCE AGAIN, IT’S THOMAS FOR THE WIN:

"The century of progressivism did not go well. The European system that Wilson and the progressives scolded Americans for not adopting—which he called nearly perfect—led to the governments that caused the most awful century that the world has ever seen. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini… pic.twitter.com/EqBQJUkI3t

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) April 22, 2026

CEASEFIRE UPDATE: Iranian Clerics Urge Trump, Netanyahu Assassinations. “According to The Telegraph, the statement said killing ‘the criminal American president’ and ‘the wicked prime minister of the Zionist regime’ was a religious duty and that anyone who had the opportunity to do so ‘must not’ neglect it.”

SHE DARED TO NOTICE AND SPEAK THE TRUTH:

Yes. Penn’s treatment of Amy Wax was disgraceful. They knew she was right. Knew it. And still went after her https://t.co/51JnzfTGnV

— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) July 1, 2026

Murray was responding to this:

Let us now dedicate this graph and the entirely unsurprising information contained on it to all the scumbags who sit atop the admissions committees at elite universities who accused Amy Wax of being a liar (or worse) for claiming that there are few if any blacks graduating near… https://t.co/GeFEPHNnN4

— i/o (@avidseries) July 1, 2026

Which came from this: “Amy Wax got in trouble for remarking that she’d not seen a Black student in the top quarter of a Penn Law class. Thanks to hacked Columbia data, we can see that she was… Probably right!”

THAT’S PRETTY MUCH HER ENTIRE SCHTICK: Tlaib’s Lebanon Resolution Failed, but Her Anger Still Has a Seat.