CHANGE (IT BACK): Idaho Brings the Firing Squad Back to Center Stage. “The state has now made the firing squad its primary method of execution. Lethal injection remains available as a backup, but Idaho has moved the rifle ahead of the needle because the old system has become slow, fragile, and legally tangled.”
July 2, 2026
BE PREPARED: Prepared Hero Emergency Fire Blanket. #CommissionEarned
NICK KRISTOF, DOG-RAPE ENTHUSIAST:
You know you're never getting over the dog rape thing, right? Trying to pull the dog rape shtick on @elonmusk, USAID and Africa, it's still dog rape. All the way down. https://t.co/hVN9ZJYGeV
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 2, 2026
SPACE: ‘PROMISE’ me the moon? NASA wants to send spare nuclear-powered Mars rover to the lunar surface.
Isaacman also announced the potential repurposing of an engineering development model built to mirror the agency’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers on Mars. “There is another,” Isaacman said, quoting Yoda’s line from “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.”
That test rover is called PROMISE, short for “Polar Rover for Observation, Mapping, and In-Situ Exploration” (though it was formerly known as Optimism). PROMISE was developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, where it has been used as a test platform for fixes or commands that engineers want to try on the ground before permanently sending them to Perseverance and Curiosity. Now, NASA wants to send PROMISE on a mission of its own.
Though sending PROMISE to the moon would leave Perseverance and Curiosity — both of which remain active on Mars — without an Earth-based testbed, Isaacman thinks it would be worth it.
“We’ve had years now of experience operating the two rovers on the surface of Mars, and we’ve got this hardware that the taxpayers have invested a lot in,” he said. “So the question was posed: ‘What if we send it to the moon?'”
Beats the hell out of staying in California.
THE MICROCOSM WITH A MICRO AUDIENCE:
It's almost like WNBA is a microcosm that represents everything that is totally fucked up and everything that is right, re race relations in America.
I'd add there are women in WNBA who appear to have bigger balls than most of the men in professional sports. https://t.co/owiDpiXTee
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 2, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Massachusetts colleges gain approval for three-year degrees as schools battle enrollment decline.
THE CHAIN OF COMMAND, HOW DOES IT WORK?
This is the very cancer Trump and Hegseth are purging from our military.
I appreciate this nitwit self-identifying. It makes things so much easier. https://t.co/ru0rFgaYqn
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) July 2, 2026
Of course, we know how the Left works:
A left wing tax exempt entity will make sure this guy gets a steady paycheck because the communists understand how to incentivize behavior.
Remember Spenser Rapone? He’s part of the University of Chicago history department now. https://t.co/1qvq8sQgcC
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) July 2, 2026
Change the incentives, change behavior.
TNSTAAFL:
Biden allowed you to make smaller student loan payments, but guess what! You were still accruing interest!
So he basically found a way to get MORE money out of student borrowers long-term, and progressives actually cheered him on for it
lol
lmao, even pic.twitter.com/mqxIMGnXry
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) July 1, 2026
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Do Democrats Still Believe in Israel’s Right to Exist?
KEEP YOUR DISHWASHER CLEAN: Affresh Dishwasher Cleaner, Helps Power Away Odor Causing Residues & Grime Inside Pump. #CommissionEarned We use this, seems to work really well.
KEMI BADENOCH: “DEFENSE OF THE REALM IS THE FIRST DUTY OF GOVERNMENT.”
As usual, a thumping and strong #PMQs from Kemi Badenoch.
Kemi is the prime minister we need. She’s strong, determined, and knows what the country needs to succeed.
She’s taking the Conservatives in the right direction. pic.twitter.com/CyLSg1tLcD
— Kevin Edger (@KEdge23) July 1, 2026
JUST STEP BACK AND LET BIBI DO HIS THING: Netanyahu touts Israel’s strength, commits to ‘take care of what is left of the Iranian axis.’
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE — WHEN IT’S NOT BOGUS, WHICH IS SELDOM, APPARENTLY:
The editors of the world's most prestigious medical journals are sounding the alarm, and nobody is listening.
"We have peer reviewed, high impact editors in most of the journals that are the most high impact, saying that they don't believe what is being published in those… pic.twitter.com/YxwpgSKKH4
— MAHA Action (@MAHA_Action) July 1, 2026
Flashback: We’re told to ‘follow the science’ — yet some of it is just plain wrong.
EVOLUTION WITHIN EVOLUTION ABOUT EVOLUTION: Things are getting really interesting in the long-running Intelligent Design/Neo Darwinian Materialism debate on the origins and development of life.
There are recent discussions among some advocates of the latter perspective on whether it’s time to concede the conventional evolutionary wisdom is in need of a tune-up. It’s on HillFaith where you can check out conservative media voice Michael Knowles interviewing Dr. Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute and “Return of the God Hypothesis.”
GOODER AND HARDER, NEW YORK:
Socialism
Scarcity
Rationing <— you are here
Coercion
Authoritarianism https://t.co/pneAdRwxB1— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) July 2, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I’m Rather Enjoying the Democrats’ ’50 Shades of Commie’ Fight. “The reason that establishment Dems don’t call out the freaky fringe is that they don’t disagree with them. Any of them, no matter how whacked-out they are. The wilder commie youth have been the Democrats’ useful idiots in the streets since the 1960s. What’s happening now is that the useful idiots want an elected seat at the table. And they are not fans of the elected officials who have been using them.”
UNEXPECTEDLIES STILL PLENTIFUL: Minimum wages rise in Chicago, Cook County.
Minimum wages have gone up for workers in Chicago and Cook County, but efforts to raise state and federal minimums remain on hold.
As of July 1, Chicago’s minimum wage is $17.05 per hour for employers with four workers or more, up from $16.60 the day before.
The $12.96 minimum for tipped workers remains in effect after the city council moved in May to pause a scheduled increase.
Cook County’s minimum wage increased from $15 to $15.40 on Wednesday, and the tipped minimum rose from $9 to $9.25.
National Federation of Independent Business Illinois State Director Noah Finley said minimum wage hikes impact small businesses’ ability to grow.
“Small businesses often have smaller margins, and raising the cost of labor puts additional pressure on them,” Finley said.
For the well-connected (and well-heeled) who push these measures, that’s the whole point.
LEADERSHIP MATTERS:
The U.S. Navy just hit its recruiting goal of 45,000 Sailors – 3 months ahead of schedule. Even more impressive: they raised their goal by 10% and still exceeded expectations.
This is what happens when strong leadership under President Trump, high standards, a return to… pic.twitter.com/nlpr5TsHPo
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) July 1, 2026
FASTER, PLEASE:
DEPORT https://t.co/9c0O1qEMlz
— Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 (@RobSchneider) July 1, 2026
Besides, Conan tells me that Haiti is a much nicer place than Massachusetts:
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: So Who’s Winning the Air War? “Back in January, I wrote a Thursday Essay headlined, “So How’s That Russo-Ukraine Oil War Going?” I won’t drag you through the whole thing, but my conclusion back then could be fairly summed up as, ‘Not very well because Kyiv remains too obsessed with Crimea to wage an effective, systematic campaign on Russia’s energy infrastructure.’ Well, times change.”
THE “WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM” WILL ALSO BE “WARM TO POLITICAL VIOLENCE:”
Woke 2.0 is coming. It's starting already.
Rather than foregrounding identity politics, it will push:
1) Affordability (Marxist materialism);
2) Anti-corruption (ironic but an excuse to go after Trump);
3) Anti-Israel (pro-Palestine).It will be warm to political violence.
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 2, 2026
