COMMIES AND ENEMIES: Darializa Avila Chevalier Dating Mamdani Lawyer Who Repped Al Qaeda Terrorists, Including ‘Close Associate’ of Bin Laden.

FLASHBACK: Disinformation starts at the top — with America’s elites.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Ditching the Seventeenth Amendment: Taking the Senate back to the Framers’ Intent.

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DIVERSITY PROBLEM:

80% of DSA members have a college degree.
60% work professional jobs.
Just 4% are blue-collar.
85% are white.
This isn't a working-class movement but an elite one, for whom "Free Palestine" and "Abolish ICE" operate as a smokescreen for class privilege—just like climate and trans… https://t.co/ZgmwTn92bO

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) July 2, 2026

WELL, IT’S NINA TOTENBERG, SO: I don’t believe Nina Totenberg’s explanation for why she reported that Justice Alito was retiring.

STEVE GILL ON JOHN ROSE VS. MARSHA BLACKBURN: Can An Incumbent Senator With Huge Name Id And Big Lead In Polls Get Defeated By An Underdog Challenger In A Governor’s Race?

OPEN THREAD: Make it special.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare and Earth-bound CME that could spark northern lights for July 4 weekend.

BEWARE THE INK: Tattoos Affect Your Immune System in Ways Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand.

BETTER THAN A STILLSUIT: New Water-Harvesting Jacket Pulls up to 30 Ounces of Drinking Water From the Air Daily.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Psychedelics not yet ready for clinical use in ADHD treatment, study finds.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Ditching the Seventeenth Amendment: Taking the Senate back to the Framers’ Intent.

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#RESISTANCE:

BREAKING: The Somali flag flying over Buffalo City Hall has been reportedly STOLEN just hours after it was raised.

Buffalo's Democrat Mayor Sean Ryan, claims that individuals cut the cable in the middle of the night and took the flag down. He then goes on a rant about… https://t.co/G6ok4GYVJc pic.twitter.com/CpA5Pdyewq

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 2, 2026

ZOOMY AND EXPENSIVE: 2026 Mercedes-AMG SL63 S E Performance Test: Sound and Fury.

IT’S ALL LIES AND HYSTERIA: Evidence-Free: How the Gun Control Industry Justifies Red Flag Gun Confiscations.

BIG DEAL, UNDER BIDEN WE HAD IT IN THE WHITE HOUSE: Yes, there really is cocaine in the Library of Congress.

KEYTRUDA WAS DEVELOPED IN OUTER SPACE: The FDA Just Approved a KEYTRUDA Combination That Could Become the Standard First-Line Treatment for Aggressive Breast Cancer.

THE RECKONING BEGINS:

Ruh Rho 😬 https://t.co/0VonzRU97q

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) July 2, 2026

SAD: Why So Many Women Are Rethinking Motherhood in 2026—and It’s Not Just About Money. “Of course, there’s nothing wrong with deciding not to have kids, says Merle Bombardieri, MSW, LICSW, a parenthood decision-making coach who has specialized in this topic for 40 years. But some women are held prisoner by their anxiety and information overload, opting out of motherhood not because they don’t want kids but because they’re too afraid and overwhelmed.”

There are whole industries devoted to encouraging that anxiety and information overload.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Massachusetts colleges gain approval for three-year degrees as schools battle enrollment decline.

COLLABORATORS: Georgetown funds joint research project with its Qatar campus on combating ‘far-right populism’ in Europe.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE — WHEN IT’S NOT BOGUS, WHICH IS SELDOM, APPARENTLY:

The editors of the world's most prestigious medical journals are sounding the alarm, and nobody is listening.

"We have peer reviewed, high impact editors in most of the journals that are the most high impact, saying that they don't believe what is being published in those… pic.twitter.com/YxwpgSKKH4

— MAHA Action (@MAHA_Action) July 1, 2026

Flashback: We’re told to ‘follow the science’ — yet some of it is just plain wrong.

WELL, YEAH: CNN’s Legal Eagles Act More Like Clucking Hens: The network’s coverage of the Supreme Court is by and large dismal.

“SOURCE:” Key Source for Kristof’s New York Times Gaza ‘Rape’ Column Now Claims Palestinian ‘Journalists’ Can Also Be Terrorists: Times Won’t Comment: ‘Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor,’ which Kristof called ‘a Geneva-based advocacy group,’ has close ties to Hamas.

EVEN THE NY TIMES ISN’T BUYING ANTI-AC HYSTERIA: It’s Actually Okay to Run the AC All Day (Even If You’re Not Home). “To our surprise, all three apartments ended up using more energy when the AC was turned off than when we left it running all day. The first-floor unit, with the 18,000-BTU heat pump, used 7 kWh of energy on the day we turned off the AC, and it used only 4 kWh when we left it running.”