July 3, 2026

“PROGRESSIVE” LEFT GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE: Did a CNN Anchor Really Just Say This About Jewish Democrats?

[Pennsylvania Gov. Josh] Shapiro — who would have been a much better pick than Tim Walz — was rejected because he’s Jewish. That’s a good indicator of where the Democratic Party, which is being taken over by pro-Palestinian Islamist socialists, is heading.

And now CNN anchor Elex Michaelson made the issue even more clear. Check out what he had to say about Shapiro and Senator Jon Ossoff, who is also Jewish.

“On the Jewish thing,” the panelist began, “he is Jewish. He might be the Democrat that can thread the needle. Because even though he’s Jewish, he’s very critical of the Israeli government, very critical of Benjamin Netanyahu. He has credibility on that issue. So it’s possible that I think he could be … fill that lane in between the two extremes of the Democratic Party.”

“Ask Scott Wiener how that’s working out for him,” the other panelist remarked. She’s not wrong.

Michaelson then chimed in. “As a Jew, some people read a little more Jewish than other people. And Jon Ossoff may not read as Jewish as Josh Shapiro does, for whatever that’s worth.”

Yikes.

Now imagine substituting ‘gay’ or ‘Muslim’ for ‘Jewish’ and watch the Left’s heads explode.

Absolutely canceled. In a heartbeat.

Elsewhere in the Wide, Wide, World of DemSocs: Darializa Avila Chevalier’s Hostility to Interracial Romances and ‘Ugly Colonizer Women’ Earns Praise From Ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke.

The former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard turned Louisiana lawmaker said he agreed with her desire to keep the bloodlines pure.

“Well, I think that people have the right to preserve their particular heritage,” Duke told the Washington Free Beacon after being reached by phone. “And if she’s concerned about preserving her heritage if it’s Somali, or whatever she is, she’s certainly got the right to do that.”

Chevalier’s position on interracial relationships stems from a now-deleted social media post from September 2019 in which she criticized black and Arab men for “fetishizing ugly colonizer women.” Chevalier, who describes herself as “Afro-Latina” and has said she operates “within the black queer feminist lens,” is not Somali.

Duke and Chevalier have more in common than may meet the eye. Duke’s insurgent 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial campaign—where he was effectively the GOP nominee—caused an uproar in the national Republican Party, which ultimately supported the Democrat (the famously corrupt Edwin Edwards, who won). Chevalier’s extreme left-wing views, including those on race, are today causing similar ferment and embarrassment among Democrats, but so far, the national party has yet to disavow her.

The political journalist Mark Halperin on Monday quoted an unnamed “Democratic Party stalwart” fretting that, “Chevalier is our David Duke. She is poisoning the possibility of a Democratic majority.”

Sometimes the left hand doesn’t know what the far left hand is up to – but they know it’s going to end very badly, one way or another: Party Panic: Donny Deutsch Says GOP Will Paint ALL Dems as Socialists and Anti-Semites for Embracing DSA.

Tweet continues:

“This is ridiculous… let’s abolish ICE, let’s abolish prisons, let’s abolish everything, let’s abolish the police. It’s INSANE.”

“Republicans are going to TAR them with this… every Republican strategist is salivating on what these people have said in the past, and they’re going to wallpaper it with it.”

“Democrats are going down a bad path. They’re electing these Democratic socialists. It’s a disaster. No matter what you think of it, wherever your politics are, it’s bad strategy.”

In 2018, Deutsch shouted on MSNBC:

“Our democracy is under siege. People need to start taking to the streets. This is a dictator. This is not something to analyze anymore.”

Host Nicolle Wallace said, “Yeah” as Deutsch was speaking, and he went on to say Trump should frighten anyone “if you are an American.”

“This is frightening stuff. If you are an American, if you’re somebody who is 80 years old and sitting at home and you’ve watched the greatness of this country, you should be terrified, and if you’re a 12-year-old and the future is in front of you, this is terrifying. This is not time to analyze and pundit. People, we need a revolution at this point,” he said.

Over the past decade, a whole lot of people took Deutsch at his word. As they say at Faber College:

Finally, VDH writes: The new socialists — Elite, ungrateful, and toxic as ever.

Socialists and communists have no confidence in winning over the majority of the American people, at least outside blue-city and blue-state districts. Hence, their efforts to change balloting laws, destroy the border, import angry, poor, new constituents, stage violent street confrontations, and either celebrate or contextualize assassinations from the attempts on Trump to the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Sane Democrats would reexamine 2024 and conclude the party was far too left-wing and the antidote was a return to the winning formulas of Bill Clinton. But unhinged socialists and communists would claim that 2024 was lost because they were not far-left enough. So we are to believe that Americans scared of Harris’s poorly disguised radicalism can be won over by scaring them even further? A communist in 2028 can win over America when a socialist in 2024 could not?

Don’t get cocky, to coin an Insta-phrase. But do take note, as Scott Pinsker writes: Memo to MAGA: Stop Being Idiots — The Dems Are TELLING US How to Destroy Them!

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHECKS OUT:

Update: Embed was bad before — sorry! Should work now.

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