July 3, 2026

CHECKS OUT:

https://twiter.com/TheAliceSmith/status/2072967737626730674

Posted at 12:58 pm by Stephen Green

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.

Posted at 12:46 pm by Stephen Green

SHOT:

Chaser:

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.

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green

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

Posted at 12:06 pm by Stephen Green

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.

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green

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.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

DECLINE IS A CHOICE:

Posted at 10:26 am by Stephen Green

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.

Posted at 10:07 am by Mark Tapscott

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

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

Posted at 9:32 am by Glenn Reynolds

MUH DEMOCRACY™ IN ACTION:

Posted at 9:24 am by Stephen Green

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.

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green

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

Posted at 8:22 am by Stephen Green