OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

SPACE: Space Force orders 36 more Golden Dome missile-tracking satellites, for $1.75 billion.

I’M NOT EATING THOSE CHIPS: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Has Been Recreated on a Chip, And Scientists Could Finally Figure Out Its Cause.

DOES MOSS DREAM OF FUZZY GREEN SHEEP? Moss Is Generating Electrical Waves That Look Startlingly Like a Neural Network.

TALK ABOUT YOUR EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon.

THEY’RE AROUND, YOU JUST CAN’T SEE THEM BECAUSE THEY BLEND: Scientists Discover Four Chameleons Found Nowhere Else on Earth.

FATNESS IS BECOMING OBSOLETE: GLP-1 use rising rapidly among US adolescents and young adults, study finds.

REVIEW: I Drove The Volvo EX30: It Feels Like The Right Ideas In The Wrong Car.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Third Circuit’s Message to Other Gun Ban States: Your Time is Coming.

I’M TROUBLED BY THE THOUGHT: What would happen if the Moon suddenly disappeared?

DIFFERENT TAKES:

DAVID STROM: How’s It Going in Hungary? “They are coming down like a ton of bricks on Orbán and his political party, following the now-familiar EU plan to subvert elections by canceling them if their candidates aren’t likely to win, banning political parties, disqualifying candidates, and rigging the rules.”

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Is squatting bad for your knees?

SHOT: You Should Probably Be Eating More Vegetables—These 15 Nutritionist-Approved Picks Are the Healthiest.

CHASER: Are you reading all these instructions about assiduously overwashing fruits and vegetables and thinking, I’ll just indulge my longterm desire not to eat fruits and vegetables?

HEH:

Please think of the Goths! pic.twitter.com/9VADB6bSZG

— Dr. Mauser (@Dr_Mauser) July 20, 2026

DEFUNDING UNDERPERFORMING MAJORS: The Great Academic Purge. “At this point, I feel the need to remind everyone involved that there was a time in which colleges and universities and benefactors could not rely on the federal government to pay for kids to learn art history. Federal financial aid for the arts wasn’t even a thing until about 50 or so years ago. Before then, universities themselves and even some self interested, wealthy alumni would help make ends meet for arts and humanities departments. They also didn’t have a 4:1 administrator to professor ratio back then either.”

Given that those underperforming majors promote civil unrest, it’s just sound government to chop them.

REALITY IS RIGID: Yale scholar says patriarchy creates ‘rigid,’ ‘mythological’ categories of ‘Man, Woman.’

FASCISM BESTRIDES OUR CAMPUSES: Denver SDS says TPUSA ‘needs to be smashed’ amid university investigation: Denver Students for a Democratic Society, a left-wing student group, says it ‘will not tolerate’ TPUSA’s presence on campus.

18 USC 241.

CDR SALAMANDER: Cuba Libre: The Department of State’s Cuba Report.

Nice to see our foreign policy apparatus standing up to commies instead of supporting them.

Related:

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USAID more than doubled its spending on Brazil as soon as Bolsonaro won the 2018 election. This wasn’t because Brazil suddenly needed twice the aid; the money was spent on operations aimed at overthrowing the Brazilian government.

The 2022 Brazilian election… pic.twitter.com/FKXkeTvWwJ

— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) July 20, 2026

YES. THEY’RE THE MOST OBNOXIOUS AND DESTRUCTIVE OF ALL THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS: Teachers’ Unions Must Be Banned.

DON SURBER: The Boasberg boomerang: He inadvertently led Trump to a court that may expedite deportations.

CONTRADICTIONS OF SOCIALIST PRISON ABOLITIONISM: Many “democratic socialists” want to abolish prisons. But this is in conflict with their objective of making many more activities illegal.

CDR SALAMANDER: Do You Know Why the PRC Has a Polar Strategy? Do We?

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

One of the many explosive revelations in this new State Department report is that the Venceremos Brigade—which has brought 10,000+ American left-wing activists to Cuba, including high-profile Democratic politicians like LA Mayor Karen Bass—was built and run by actual Cuban spies. https://t.co/6X7evXNifT pic.twitter.com/piW0lK2w6b

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) July 20, 2026

BLUE STATE UPDATE: California city chief arrested on a yacht just three weeks after taking over top job. “According to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, Forbes initially told deputies the yacht belonged to her. Investigators later contacted the vessel’s owner, who said Forbes was not authorized to be aboard. Forbes was booked into the Marin County Jail on suspicion of felony burglary.”