THEY’RE NOT ANTI-ICE, THAT’S JUST THEIR COVER: INSURRECTION: Anti-ICE Mob Tries to Break Into Susan Collins’ Maine Office.
July 14, 2026
UNDER-QUALIFIED JUDGES? WHO’D APPOINT THEM? How under-qualified judges punish good parents.
IT’S THEIR PARTY, THEY CAN CRY IF THEY WANT TO: Dems Are Getting Really Tired of Bernie Sanders’ Political Schtick.
NO MATTER – IT PLAYS WELL WITH THE DEMOCRAT ANTIZIONIST BASE: Israeli Ambassador Just Nuked Ro Khanna’s West Bank Stunt.
THERE ARE FORCES IN THIS WORLD DEDICATED TO SEEING WE DON’T GET WHAT WE DESERVE: Americans aren’t the only ones who deserve a proper medical watchdog.
IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING: A Chat with Eric S. Raymond! Where the Open Source Movement Goes from Here. (Video.)
YOU HAVE TO BE VERY RICH TO BE THAT STUPID: The luxury of self-destruction.
WHICH IS WHY THE GOVERNMENT IGNORED THEIR REPORTING: Migration Watch, the think tank that has never taken its eye off the ball.
IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS HE’LL COME THE REST OF THE WAY OVER, MENTALLY: And then he’ll find he’s not really German, anymore. “A Culture of Courage”: A German Celebrates American Freedom.
Now from there to REALLY being American takes work. And even more courage.
I VOTED FOR THIS: Trump administration launches aggressive H-1B visa fraud crackdown.
THERE’S NEVER TOO MANY LIBERAL TEARS: “Assault Weapon” Bans Falling Will Result in a Surplus of Liberal Tears.
AND YET YOU SHOULD MOST DEFINITELY READ IT: Warning: this article is about abortion.
THEY’RE PULLING ALL THE STOPS TO ELIMINATE FARAGE: The Battle of Clacton – Farage versus Binface, innuendo and rumours.
IT’S PROBABLY NOTHING: Hinges.
July 13, 2026
OPEN THREAD: They say the times are changing, but I just don’t know.
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Hunter Biden, Nick Fuentes Interview Nearly Turns Physical, Report Says.
CAPITALISM, THE UNKNOWN IDEAL: Capitalism Gets a Bum Rap.
Capitalism has been getting a bad rap. According to one 2025 Gallup poll, only 54% of Americans have a positive view of capitalism. More Democrats think highly of socialism than capitalism. Another survey, from 2019, found that younger Americans were the least likely to have positive feelings about capitalism.
Why is this happening? One underrated factor may be that many Americans don’t have a strictly economic definition of capitalism. When I hear “capitalism,” I think of an economic system where goods are distributed by markets rather than governments. That, I’ve now realized when talking about economics online and in person, is an unusual perspective.
As Matthew Yglesias argued recently, when many people say “capitalism,” they mean “the status quo,” even if that status quo involves a lot of problems caused not by free markets, but by government regulation and cronyist intervention. The housing market, he notes, is the most obvious example of this: “Younger people’s lived experience of ‘capitalism’ is of central planning and massive shortages of the single most important item they consume.”
The result is that anything that seems to be going wrong in American life, no matter how large or small, no matter how unrelated to free markets, will pretty reliably be blamed on capitalism.
“Which brings me to a vintage refrigerator:”
So so so well done. https://t.co/IzBuHv8R2t
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 13, 2026
As James Lileks asked in 2023: What Are We Nostalgic For? “There’s a lot that’s grand about our current age. People will, one day, have nostalgia for 2023. The reasons may vary. I hope it’s because the seeds of a better world—more or less, overall, all things considered—are growing today, and we don’t notice them for all the brambles and thistles. I fear the nostalgia may be due to how free and prosperous our era seems in retrospect. They might wonder if we knew how good we had it. Ice machines, gas stoves, private cars, home ownership, no social credit, hot showers without timers, actual hamburgers made from meat instead of crickets…A golden age!”
WHEN A STUDIO LOSES THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Should Disney Exit the Streaming Business?
The Wells Fargo analyst that, if Sony is getting $1 billion annually from Netflix for its pay-1 movie output deal, Disney could be in line for nearly $4 billion. When pay-2 and Disney’s unmatched library is factored in, licensing revenues could hit $15 billion.
“We don’t think the box office, Experiences, or brand value would suffer if the library were on a competing global streamer,” Cahall writes. “Investors would benefit from a de-risked biz model w/ DIS focused purely on content vs. distribution. Josh D’Amaro may be considering all options.”
The report was making waves Monday, with Disney stock rising by 1.75 percent in early trading.
Of course, such a move would be a stark reversal in strategy, especially given Disney’s relative success compared to its peers. But with tech giants like Amazon, Google and Netflix all secure in their space (though Netflix may be seeing pressure, as we’ve seen recently) and with a potential combined Paramount-Warner Bros. on the horizon, the competitive pressure may only ratchet up, potentially making Disney’s content more valuable as a licensed product than a streaming one.
Probably won’t happen, but Disney will likely look for ways to bilk additional fees out of their subscriber base:
Jim is right – it's not going to happen. However, it's only a matter of time before Disney starts charging to watch a show/movie on Disney+… https://t.co/gvhZwsImyx
— Movieconomics (@movieconomics) July 13, 2026
41 YEARS AGO TODAY: ‘Greatest Concert in Rock History’ Was Held.
Monday marked a historic day in music history, as what many consider the greatest concert of all time took place exactly 41 years ago.
On July 13, 1985, Live Aid took place simultaneously at both Wembley Stadium (London) and JFK Stadium (Philadelphia). The 16-hour benefit concert, which featured over 70 of the world’s biggest artists, was created to raise funds and awareness for the devastating famine in Ethiopia at the time.
And the concert was a massive success, drawing more than 1 billion viewers across 110 countries, reaching over 40% of the world’s population. Live Aid also raised approximately $125 million for hunger relief in the African country.
Well, it raised that money, yes: What Nobody Tells You About the African Famine that Led to the Most-Watched Concert in History.
If the cause of the Ethiopian famine had been a right-wing regime, it would probably be in every school curriculum alongside Live Aid.
The famine that produced the most-watched concert in history was caused by forced collectivization, forced grain seizures, and a deliberate policy of using hunger as a weapon against civilians. Four decades later, that half of the story still does not appear in most accounts of Live Aid.
Read the whole thing.
IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Coffee May Protect the Liver in More Ways Than Scientists Realized.
