CONSTITUENT SERVICE: Mamdani’s rent freeze affects 1 million apts—nearly 50% are occupied by foreigners. “According to the 2023 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey, the latest data available, 44 percent of all homes that are rent-stabilized in the city were occupied by people born outside of the US, which would translate to approximately 440,000 residences.”

Bumped and updated with important context from Eugene Volokh:

1. “People born outside of the US” (such as me) isn’t the same as “foreigners.”

2. About 38% of New Yorkers are foreign-born. They are thus slightly overrepresented in “rent stabilized” housing, but also slightly underrepresented (by the same 6%) in public housing, and at about their share of the population in market rental and rent-controlled housing (according to the table on which the cited article relies). So it sounds like the native-born and non-native-born New Yorkers are on balance very similar to each other in their use of these particular kinds of benefits. Or am I missing something?

Looks like he didn’t miss much at all, but that PM (and Yours Truly) did.

SHOT:

I do not, in fact, think a feminist matriarchy would institute institutional affirmative action for men. https://t.co/I6Yk0YJnul

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) July 3, 2026

Chaser:

Turn it back on 'em, boys! #lb https://t.co/s7vjshUc8i

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) July 3, 2026

I don’t see conservative American men treating women like the photo on the left. And the photo on the right is just cosplaying by neurotic lefty women with questionable literally tastes.

TIM O’BRIEN: At 250, the American Dream Is Alive and Well.

I PROBABLY SHOULDN’T HAVE LAUGHED, GIVEN THE WAY COLORADO IS GOING:

Attn: New York Liberals

If you don’t like getting told what temperature to set your thermostat, you probably won’t like socialism 🤷🏻‍♀️

— Alexis Wilkins (@AlexisWilkins) July 3, 2026

PAY ANY PRICE, BEAR ANY BURDEN: Americans are paying record prices for steak. Here’s why demand isn’t cracking.

“We are seeing customer demand for steaks remain quite high, with a shift towards more premium and organic options,” a Kroger spokesperson told CNBC. “We’ve also seen beef continue to be a preferred choice during recent holidays, including Easter and Memorial Day.″

Beef has generated the largest dollar growth of any food category ahead of Independence Day, with sales rising roughly $352 million compared to last year, according to data from NielsenIQ.

“Consumers are entering the holiday with discipline, making more trips but with clear intent behind each one,” the consumer research firm said in a June report.

Ribeye needs no excuse.

KRUISER: Dear Europoors: I’m Setting My Thermostat to 1776 for Independence Day.

CHECK YOUR HEART: KardiaMobile 1-Lead EKG Monitor, Medical-Grade FDA-Cleared. #CommissionEarned

FLORIDA MAN: DeSantis announces plans to use new state law to target dozens of alleged terrorist groups.

HB 1471 was signed into law earlier this year and went into effect on Wednesday.

The governor said the state plans to implement its new statutory authority to “identify, designate, and combat terrorist organizations operating in Florida” in the first use of powers established under the legislation.

Florida officials plan to designate more than 90 groups as terrorist organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations the Muslim Brotherhood and Antifa, though the proposed designations must be approved by the governor and Cabinet before they are finalized under the statute.

Even CAIR? Excellent.

“SCIENCE:” UMass center focuses on ‘heart-centered’ science, connections with ‘inanimate’ beings.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE:

Europoors: if we stop using AC we will solve climate change

China: 1M sq ft indoor ski resort that has 10 MW of refrigeration running 365 days a year pic.twitter.com/SMx9tvESBd

— Max (@minordissent) July 3, 2026

AMERICA 250: What If We Celebrated the Second of July?

TIME FOR REHAB FOR BOTH DEMS, GOP: Tomorrow is a great day, the 250th commemoration of the proclamation on July 4, 1776, of America’s Declaration of Independence. But on July 5, 2026, we better get honest with each other and our leaders about the approaching fiscal calamity. Read all about it here with my latest Substack column.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Virginia, Ohio explore three-year bachelor’s degrees amid debate over college costs.

HARDBALL: GOP hardliners vow to blockade must-pass bills unless voter ID demands met. “We should be doing everything to pass SAVE America. Add it to reconciliation. Add it to NDAA. Add it to FISA. Add it to every must pass bill.”

JOSH SHAPIRO SHUNNED IT, AND NOW IT’S A SUCCESS:

Line to get into the Pennsylvania booth at the Great American State Fair out the door!
Pavilion is filled with displays from businesses all across the state.

PLACE matters–that's what drove people & businesses to step up with pride; no way were they going to let this go empty. pic.twitter.com/b6F6nZF0bn

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) July 3, 2026

UPDATE: Anti-Trump States Wouldn’t Fix Up Booths for the Fair – PA AMERICANs Took Matters Into Their Own Hands.

MUH DEMOCRACY™ IN ACTION:

This is exactly why Californians don’t think their votes count…because they literally don’t. This isn’t an unusual type of move in our tyrant ridden state.

— James (@RouteJamsey6) July 3, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s America 250 Party Time, Patriots! “We deserve the fireworks every year.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Reliability report flashes warning signal for Colorado energy.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) 2026 State of Reliability report contains lessons for Colorado’s electricity sector. While the grid as a whole “continues to deliver reliable electric service,” challenges are mounting thanks in part to the “declining availability of aging combustion generation.”

NERC’s report finds that power plants failed more in 2025, with the fleet-wide forced outage rate climbing to 9.2 percent against “historical norms rarely exceeding” 8 percent. Coal-fired plants saw their forced outage rate rise from 11.2% in 2024 to 14.1% in 2025.

NERC surveyed owners of generators that saw substantial increases in outages from 2024 to 2025 and found that of the 26 responses from generators, 16 units “experienced equipment destruction extensive enough to significantly prolong their 2025 outage(s),” another eight experienced supply chain constraints, and six indicated turbine blade release or vibration that needed addressing. NERC also points out that regulatory reasons for outages were the “most consistently increasing” cause of outages between 2017 and 2025, though those “did not indicate any alignment with a particular policy objective.”

I hope to be elsewhere before the state-mandated brownouts.

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

DEMOCRATS INSISTED ON SHUTTERING THE INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PREMATURELY AND WITHOUT A REPLACEMENT, AND HERE THEY ARE NOW:

This isn’t so much “third world” as just plainly irrational. A high-capacity public escalator uses about the same energy in 24 hours as that needed to cool 1,500 square feet of living space for 24 hours.

What can’t be ignored though is our *energy infrastructure* has been far… https://t.co/pl7m7gxjX7

— Allan 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇬🇱 (@UnrealAllan) July 3, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Bose QuietComfort Headphones. #CommissionEarned

ASHLEY MCCULLY: 250 Years of Fighting for Liberty.

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

ABIGAIL SPANBERGER, FIREARMS SALESMAN OF THE YEAR: Virginia Jumps Up the National Sales Rankings Thanks to Looming Gun Ban.

How many times have we said it? No one — and we mean no one — sells more guns than anti-gun politicians. As the extent of the attack on gun rights being waged in Richmond after the election of a moderate (LOL) Democrat governor and full Dem control of the Virginia legislature become more apparent, Virginians drained their piggy banks and fired up their credit cards in anticipation of what they could see coming down the hoplophobic road.

Yesterday, Virginia’s “assault firearms” ban law took effect. And despite a couple of state court injunctions and a freshly minted lawsuit challenging the ban filed yesterday by the DOJ, Virginia’s embarrassingly violent attorney general claims that the ban is in place.

As a result of all of the above, Virginia’s been moving up the NSSF’s NICS check hit parade. They were almost totally absent in December. By March, they made an appearance in the handgun NICS check list and had jumped to number two in long guns (guess what kind of long guns they were mostly buying).

Finally, in June, as the 7/1 gun ban loomed, the state trailed only Texas (which has almost three times the population) in terms of long guns and had moved up to the third spot in both handguns and overall adjusted NICS checks.

Boating accidents to follow.

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

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