NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Manage GERD to Protect Your Airways.

TO THE LEFT, NORMALITY IS A HATE CRIME:

This is the position of 70+% of Americans. It’s also common sense.

The fact that so many in the press and associated institutions treat it as something morally abhorrent and feel the need to grill a female athlete for voicing it shows how disconnected they are from reality. https://t.co/Xfb4geW3xU

— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 23, 2026

YEP: Atlantic: ‘The DSA Is a Parasite’ and Someone Should Say So.

Richard Fernandez was on this years ago.

JOHN LUCAS: Of Commies and Skin Suits.

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: DOJ: UCSD med school favored black, Hispanic applicants over more qualified white, Asian ones.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Penn State hikes tuition while raising president’s pay and spending millions on DEI. “Despite facing $79 million in lost tuition revenue and the impending closure of seven satellite campuses, President Bendapudi previously authorized over $2 million per year expenditures on DEI.”

CDR SALAMANDER: The Next War Will Come Home. “The larger issue is that we are reaching the point that the concept of ‘the rear’ is rapidly decreasing.”

The Germans learned it by 1943; the Japanese by 1944. Having fought our major wars on the other sides of big oceans, the United States hasn’t really caught on. But we need to.

Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack gives a taste for this, but doesn’t really account for the swarms of inexpensive ship-launched drones that are likely to play a major role in the next war.

GOODER AND HARDER: Rolling Blackouts Hit New York.

NAILED:

The American Bar Association’s own website says, “All of us have implicit biases.” I asked its president which groups she holds bias against. pic.twitter.com/Pebduv8lVL

— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) July 22, 2026

LAWFARE: ‘The court has to intervene now’: Indigenous groups and conservationists condemn SpaceX’s South Texas land swap.

IT’S AN ALIEN MIND VIRUS: Don Surber: DSA is not in America’s DNA: Democrats are in trouble and they don’t know how to get out.

FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE.”

0 percent of education papers were replicated https://t.co/ME99O0W9fN

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) July 22, 2026

ONLY BARELY A JOKE:

"I have no clue what you're talking about, Mr. Gill." https://t.co/Kws1TuPSjH pic.twitter.com/HVciOjtBwL

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 22, 2026

AT A FIRST APPROXIMATION, THEY HATE EVERYTHING WORTHWHILE: Why do progressive leftists of all people hate nuclear energy so much? And they’re against anything that would make the West stronger, richer, and freer.

ALL FRAUD ALL THE TIME:

In one notable example, an 88 year old woman who lives in a trailer and has no computer is listed as having donated over $150K to Dem campaigns. Including 47 times to @AbdulElSayed ‘s Senate campaign.

Where is this money really coming from?

Needs to be investigated. https://t.co/JRP6ZLGwSX pic.twitter.com/KxsbsyCcsY

— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 22, 2026

R.I.P. JOHN DVORAK.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Academia: We don't hire conservatives because they are flat earthers, reject evolution, etc.

Also academia: We are happy to announce we hired our 10,000th Leninist professor who believes men can get pregnant, math is white supremacy, overthrowing capitalism ends poverty, etc.

— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) July 22, 2026

Honestly, if academics truly believe this about themselves, just shut the whole thing down. No public funding for university academics. It was a fun experiment but taxpayers should no longer pay for people to professionally hate them. https://t.co/MKkQyCWztD

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) July 22, 2026

THE ECONOMIST: America should stop making it so hard to have fun.

Thriving nightlife is good for both economic and social reasons. Economically, livelier streets tend to make cities better places to live, helping create productive clusters of skilled young workers who wish to socialise as well as build careers. As a side-benefit, the extra foot traffic can make streets safer.
A bustling late-night economy also makes for good social policy. Bars, music venues and nightclubs are the sorts of places where young people can have fun together, regardless of whether alcohol is involved. Official data show that, between 2003 and 2023, the average amount of time 18- to 30-year-old Americans spent socialising each day fell by 38%. According to one survey, roughly one-third of single people aged 22 to 35 say they have not been out on a date in the past year. Dancing is, according to our fact-checked analysis, a far superior activity to doomscrolling.

American cities should make it easier to create places for people to gather and have fun. Many of those places will be open late into the night and involve alcohol. That means speeding up permits so that applications do not languish as business owners rack up costs; simplifying licensing rules that only a specialist can navigate; and getting rid of arbitrarily low quotas on liquor licences. Cities should also invest more in measures that actually improve safety. Better late-night public transport would be a good start. More police resources would help, too.

The good news is that more American cities are now taking an enlightened view of the night. In New York City, red tape that limits dancing in bars has been cut. San Francisco has begun simplifying its permit process for entertainment venues. The debate over Boston’s later closing hours was prompted by hordes of good-natured Scottish football fans who descended on the city for the World Cup in June. The Scots may not be that good at football but they did show the city how wonderful the wee hours can be. Even before then, Boston had increased its supply of liquor licences.

Keeping up this momentum is good economics and even better social policy. And if that sounds a little dry, there’s a simpler argument: a night out is a lot of fun. More American cities should embrace it.

As Edward Slingerland discusses in his excellent book, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization (which I discuss here) alcohol consumption has upsides and downsides, but we only drive policy with the downsides.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

IT’S A LARGE WORLD AFTER ALL: Alien life likely can’t survive on exoplanets smaller than Mars, scientists say.

I LOVE SALISBURY STEAK: Why Did Salisbury Steak Go Out of Fashion? Dr. Salisbury had your best interests at heart.

GOOD: New ATF Rule May Finally Stop NY and NJ From Harassing Law-Abiding Travelers With Guns.

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

NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT? OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering ‘unprecedented’ breach at startup.

DON’T TRUST MEDICAL ADVICE FROM TIKTOK: Oral ‘Sunscreen Pills’ Are Taking Over TikTok—But Do They Actually Work?