TRUST THE SCIENCE: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial kept secret: Report. “A 6-year-old Chinese girl died last year after receiving an experimental gene therapy to correct a non-life-threatening condition, according to an investigation by Science and Retraction Watch.”

SORRY, I’M BUSY: NASCAR’s Best Team May Suddenly Have an Open Seat.

THIS IS COOL: SpaceX’s Starship megarocket makes the ‘softest splashdown’ ever after launching next-gen Starlink satellites in Flight 13 test (video).

THE LEFT ALWAYS PRETENDS THAT ITS EXTREMIST MINORITY VIEWS ARE ACTUALLY THE NORM:

Cunningham is articulating a view that 70-80 percent of Americans share, that reflects the law in many states, and that has been adopted by the IOC and the NCAA. https://t.co/AKHNIU3Gbc

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 24, 2026

THE PRESS MELTS DOWN A LOT: Congress Moving to Block Gun Purchase Tracking Causes a Major Media Meltdown.

WELL, WHERE’S THE FUN IN THAT? No, cruise ships aren’t floating petri dishes: But don’t go licking the railings.

TRUMP’S SUCCESS and AI’s Bias. “The apology is welcome, but it would be better if AI programs didn’t regurgitate liberal talking points in the first place.”

NO PROBLEM, RECYCLING IS A SCAM: It’s the cocktail taking young drinkers by storm – but the packaging is ‘unrecyclable.’

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Tanning Addiction Is Real—Here’s Why It Happens.

PROGRESS:

SpaceX in 2002 v/s SpaceX in 2026 pic.twitter.com/AL5aVDyWZV

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) July 25, 2026

The SpaceX team chants “USA! USA! USA!” after the successful Starship Flight 13. 🇺🇸🚀 pic.twitter.com/YaRaQ7FpLS

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) July 25, 2026

Time-lapse of today’s Starship flight, from liftoff to splashdown, in just 150 seconds. 🚀 pic.twitter.com/1jGFPK4CYV

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) July 25, 2026

BRIAN WANG: SpaceX Starship Flight 13 Had a Miracle. “SpaceX Starship flight 13 had a miracle happen. The landing of Starship was so soft that the fires did not cause an explosion. Starship stayed intact. It did not explode. Every prior Starship was destroyed and exploded when they went into the ocean. The wealth of information from an intact 18000 tile heat shield and the pattern and amount of damage is going to help SpaceX learn a lot. This massively increases the likelihood that flight 14 will be completely successful for catching both the booster AND the Starship. Certainly flight 15 or 16 will be completely successful and we will enter an age of fully and rapidly reusable Starship by the end 2026.”

THIS SEEMS A WORTHWHILE SUBJECT, ACTUALLY: U. Arkansas grant funds professor’s talk at ‘Love and Sex with Robots’ conference.

I mean, you know.

CHANGE: Kansas agrees to halt in-state tuition law for illegal immigrants in DOJ settlement.

LET’S HOPE: SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM IS THE ANGEL OF DEATH FOR CANCEL CULTURE. The subtext was clear to her aspirant cancelers: I hear you, I see you, and I don’t care. This is 2026, not 2016.

Related:

🔥 WOW! Sophie Cunningham's shoes sell out in 1 HOUR after she went viral for saying "no men in women's sports, I said what I said"

"It sells out in ALL SIZES"

"She had the guts to stand up and say, males do not belong in women's sports! She stood by it." 👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/7I5E0zKsal

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 25, 2026

CONSEQUENCES: Conservative Commentator Robby Starbuck’s Lawsuit Alleging Google AI Had Defamed Him Can Go Forward.

COLOR ME UNPERSUADED: Harvard Touts ‘Counter-Zionist’ Professor, Palestinian Liberation Erotic Poetry Journal as Evidence of Progress Against Jew-Hate.

ICYMI: NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

Amazing we're just never going to hear anything about this ever again, including the fact the killer said he was paid by Tim Walz to do it. https://t.co/Pg0Yog2gEW

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) July 23, 2026

ENSHITTIFICATION IS REAL:

The degradation of basic Google Search is *really* alarming. I can't think of any web tool I've been using longer — three decades at this point? You can paste in a unique string of text, in quotes, and it will sometimes still fail to find what you're looking for.

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) July 24, 2026

WHEN I WROTE FOR USA TODAY THEY PRIDED THEMSELVES ON FAIRNESS AND FACT-CHECKING. Of course they gave up on both, which is why I left.

I see USA Today is really committed to embarrassing themselves while taking bogus shots at Caitlin Clark… pic.twitter.com/L1lHcGWDMA

— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 24, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

ULA HAS BEEN UNDERPERFORMING; FALCON HAS NOT. Vulcan Centaur swapped out again: NASA goes with SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for launch of space weather mission.

“THE POLICE WANT IT, THEREFORE WE SAY NO.”

Former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s perspective on why Madison police don’t have body cameras (Soglin was mayor until 2019): pic.twitter.com/IOg8IzpblU

— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) July 24, 2026

LIFE NOT UNENDING: Ultimate Limit of The Human Lifespan May Be Identified, Study Suggests. “new study suggests immortal life may be scientifically impossible, even if we somehow found the perfect anti-aging medicine. If scientists managed to overcome every other aspect of aging, humans still couldn’t live forever, the new research shows. Random DNA mutations would continue accumulating in our cells until the body could no longer function. Simulations conducted by a team at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia suggest this process could impose a fundamental limit on human lifespan, with most people living no longer than about 150 to 190 years under this optimistic scenario.”

TODAY’S STARSHIP LAUNCH WORKED:

ALAS, I HAVE NO STORED STEM CELLS: Could Young Stem Cells Be the Key to Healthier Aging?