NOT SURPRISING: 2026 Porsche Macan Electric RWD First Test: Anything but Base: The least expensive Macan EV turns out to be one of the most engaging to drive.

CHANGE: Breaking News: Suppressor Sales Are Booming in 2026.

GOOD: U.S. Navy’s Perfectly Named Corsair Takes Out Iranian Submarine.

More:

Yesterday, using multiple one-way attack surface drones, CENTCOM forces successfully struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility in Iran. Three Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit the port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base, marking the first time American forces have employed sea… pic.twitter.com/bOM2kmgRxz

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 13, 2026

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The dos and don’ts of removing a tick: Don’t wait to act. And don’t pull out a match.

“SCIENCE,” HOWEVER, ISN’T JUST ANYTHING DONE — OR SAID — BY SCIENTISTS: Supporting Science Is An Act Of Patriotism.

ALSO GOOD: The Only Toll In the Strait of Hormuz Is Being Paid By the Iranian Regime.

WELL, GOOD: What’s Burning in Russia Today? Lots of Things.

GOOD: EPA Wants To Remove Limp Mode For Diesel Trucks With Broken DEF Systems.

WE WERE A PROPER COUNTRY, ONCE: 80 years ago, the military tested nukes on a fleet.

THIS:

People can laugh but don’t underestimate these people. In only a few years, these weirdos seized control of the city where this photo was taken (Denver). They mostly don’t have kids. Socialism and communism are their child and they’ll die for it like we’d die for our actual kids.… https://t.co/wsDnYxL9M6

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 13, 2026

IT’S WRONG, BUT ONLY A DEMOCRAT WOULD THINK “WELL REGULATED” MEANS “REGULATED INTO OBLIVION.” Talarico Pushes ‘Well Regulated’ Myth. Jonathan Turley Takes it to Woodshed.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Bizarre new dating method takes California colleges by storm as it wipes out ‘primitive’ Tinder.

PRIORITIES: Texas public university won’t fund professor’s travel to DEI-forward event: University of North Texas says event organizer supports deferential treatment of ‘people on the basis of race, color or ethnicity.‘ Why should taxpayer money support open racism, especially when doing so is illegal.

HIGHER EDUCATION AS TOXIC INDUSTRY: Schools promote socialist ideology as DSA voters usher in a new age of radicalism.

JUSTICE:

The biggest beneficiaries of government spending on law and order in the US are African Americans, who are overwhelmingly the highest per capita victims of crime.

— Emre (@emre_mayo) July 12, 2026

ALIENS: Ex-Pentagon UFO honcho claims photos show monolith-like structures on moon.

ALEX BERENSON: A gonorrhea vaccine fails – and reveals a much bigger problem with the studies health bureaucrats use to push flu and Covid jabs.

Though not fatal, gonorrhea is unpleasant and increases risk for HIV. Like other sexually transmitted diseases, it is far more common in gay men. English authorities offered the vaccine, originally designed for meningitis, after studies showed it cut infections by about 40 percent. The shot could have a “huge impact,” England’s top vaccine regulator told the BBC.

Or not.

Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published results from a trial of the vaccine in gay men in Australia. It failed to prevent gonorrhea — and some men who received it reported serious side effects.

The media has buried the trial’s results. Not one mainstream American news outlet reported the vaccine’s failure. And, after giving over 30,000 men the jab, English authorities are so far still recommending it despite the new results.

Keep this up and people will stop trusting the public health establishment.

WE SHOULD DOMINATE ALL OF CHINA: America can dominate Shenzhen. A call for factory abundance. “Shenzhen was a fishing village in 1980. Today it ships more electronics than the entire United States. You can go from CAD file to injection molded prototype in 48 hours there. In America that takes 6 weeks and 4 vendors. That is not because Chinese engineers are smarter. It is not because their labor is cheaper anymore either. Shenzhen wins because of density, speed, and a culture that treats building physical things as the highest-status work you can do. Every one of those is copyable.”

TODAY’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY:

Communist calls for destruction of the United States of America. https://t.co/Ya3wSB8o9S

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) July 12, 2026

Related:

DSA: "We're democratic socialists. That's different from communists."

Also DSA website: "Marx Marx Marx Marx Marx Engels Marxism Marx Marx!!!!" pic.twitter.com/UA8Bk9EHH0

— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) July 12, 2026

SECURITY & CIGARS: It Is the Government Itself Attacking Our Rights. “The entire point of the Constitution is that certain foundational laws, processes, and protections of individual rights are taken off the table.”

IT’S THE SITAR LINE THAT BRIAN JONES IMPROVISED ON A SITAR, HAVING NEVER PLAYED ONE BEFORE: Why is “Paint It Black” the most-played Rolling Stones song on Spotify?

BUT THEY GIVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE A GLOW OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS: ‘Luxury Beliefs’ Are Killing People.

OPEN THREAD: They heard the call and they comment on the wall, and you and me we understood.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX ignites all 33 powerful engines on Starship booster ahead of Flight 13 launch. “The successful completion of Booster 20’s static test fire paves the way for Starship’s upcoming test launch, Flight 13. That could launch as early as Wednesday (July 15), according to a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW (CONT’D): Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Improves Depression in Just 10 Days — Trial.