THE ORTHODOX AND THE AMISH (OR EVEN THOSE WACKY EPISCOPALS WITH THEIR NO CONTRACT BRIDGE RITUALS) DON’T TEND TO EXPLODE:  Getting It Right.

And my people? We just genuflect, genuflect, genuflect. (Yes, it’s the song.)

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Hamas attacks Gaza aid sites, holds Palestinians ransom for expended ammunition expenses – report. One source also said that Hamas had been smuggling various goods inside trucks belonging to aid organizations, as well as commercial ones, in order to generate funds.

THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO GET OFF THE LOAN BUSINESS:  As defaults on student loans surge, millions are trying to get their lives back on track.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

SPACE: Space Force orders 36 more Golden Dome missile-tracking satellites, for $1.75 billion.

I’M NOT EATING THOSE CHIPS: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Has Been Recreated on a Chip, And Scientists Could Finally Figure Out Its Cause.

DOES MOSS DREAM OF FUZZY GREEN SHEEP? Moss Is Generating Electrical Waves That Look Startlingly Like a Neural Network.

TALK ABOUT YOUR EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon.

THEY’RE AROUND, YOU JUST CAN’T SEE THEM BECAUSE THEY BLEND: Scientists Discover Four Chameleons Found Nowhere Else on Earth.

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FATNESS IS BECOMING OBSOLETE: GLP-1 use rising rapidly among US adolescents and young adults, study finds.

IT ISN’T THE PEARL-CLUTCHING THAT’S WORRISOME — IT’S THE ENABLING: The Great American Demographic Shift. “Import the third world’s populations without assimilation, and you import the third world’s problems along with them. Nobody should clutch his or her pearls over this.”

REVIEW: I Drove The Volvo EX30: It Feels Like The Right Ideas In The Wrong Car.

YES: Doug Burgum to Newsmax: ‘Geopolitics of Energy Have Changed Forever.’

“President Trump, when we take a look at the global factors that are going on here, and whether it’s the conflict in the Middle East, whether it’s diplomatically, we’ve got alignment now with Arab countries that for forever were our adversaries,” he said.

Burgum said that will turn into new markets and business partners for the U.S.

“Now, they’re aligned, moving ahead with Abraham Accords, other things that are there. Great partnerships,” he said.

“Countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE [United Arab Emirates] … UAE has taken over 3,000 attacks from the Iranians,” Burgum continued.

“So the diplomacy in the Middle East has changed forever. The geopolitics of energy have changed forever,” he said.

American energy dominance plays a huge role, too, freeing up policy options that were previously unthinkable.

Turns out, we could drill our way out of several problems.

NOT THE END OF THE WORLD — THE SUEZ WAS COMPLETELY CLOSED FROM 1967-1975:

BREAKING: At least 8 oil tankers have aborted transit through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait following the Houthi naval blockade against Saudi Arabia, including 3 Chinese VLCCs carrying Saudi crude.

Three tankers loaded with Saudi crude bound for China and one for India have made… pic.twitter.com/enyAb3CYgy

— The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) July 21, 2026

Alternate take:

So let me get this straight…

China, who is an ally of Iran, has decided to participate in a magic show by not sending boats through a corridor that Iran and its ragtag psycho pals in Yemen say is closed

From this I am to infer the ragtag psychos closed it? https://t.co/KJ4nCNzmIr

— IQ 594 | Cody Penn-Dent | Effluencer (@codypd) July 21, 2026

More: “It isn’t closed and those claiming it’s closed are retarded.”

ICYMI: ‘Smithers, Release the Biden Tapes!’

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WELL:

A B-61 variable yield nuclear bunker buster detonated at 5 KT, and 30-foot subsurface, would wipe Pickaxe Mountain off the map and have minimal fallout.

Iran is either a nuclear threat, or it's not. If Iran is, POTUS maintains 1st-strike option.

Enough games already. pic.twitter.com/9jp9B81oBN

— Matt Tardio (@angertab) July 21, 2026

All things considered, I think I’d rather keep that genie in the bottle where it’s been since 1945.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Third Circuit’s Message to Other Gun Ban States: Your Time is Coming.

EVERYONE NEEDS A HOBBY: Conservative think tank wants Supreme Court to legalize home whiskey distilleries.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled recently that the federal ban against home whiskey distilleries is unconstitutional. However, the 6th Circuit upheld the federal ban.

The federal government said the law is constitutional because it was enacted to prevent tax evasion and that it would be easier for a distiller working out of their home to conceal the business and therefore avoid paying taxes.

On Monday, the Buckeye Institute filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to decide between the two conflicting appeals-court rulings.

“Two courts of appeals considered the same provisions, against the same constitutional challenge, on mater-ally identical facts, within 11 days of each other, and issued opposite judgments,” Buckeye’s Monday petition to the Supreme Court states.

Legalized home-brewing revolutionized the beer industry, and could do the same for distilled spirits.

Besides, who the hell is Washington to tell us what legal products we can make in our own homes?

THE SYSTEM THEY DO SUPPORT WAS RIGGED TO RIP THEM OFF:

This is important. The far left in this country is mostly made up of people who spent a ton on their degrees and can’t make back what they spent. As a result, they hate capitalism. https://t.co/uxunm7kn6g

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 21, 2026

KEEP CALLING THEM OUT, MR. PRESIDENT: Trump Calls Out Dems for Helping Iran ‘Savages,’ Punishing U.S. Citizens.

THE LEFT LOOKS AFTER ITS OWN:

An unethical doctor named May Lau who medically transitioned children in Texas was sued by the state Attorney General and surrendered her medical license.

She moved to Portland, Ore. where she was hired as an associate professor of pediatrics at OHSU. pic.twitter.com/21KqfNj6bO

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2026

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SETH MANDEL: The Normalizing of Mamdani’s Creepy Bibi Obsession.

Mamdani should say that, were he an official of an ICC member country’s national government, he would support arresting a foreign politician he disagrees with. But as he’s the mayor of a city in a non-ICC country, he is about several dimensions removed from being able to make this threat without coming off like someone more deserving of a restraining order.

As so often happens, Democratic Sen. John Fetterman had the right response, which was to mock the mayor as a fake “tough guy” who is all talk. The key to this discussion, as far as I’m concerned, is to resist the temptation to pamper Mamdani’s fragile ego by pretending there is a real-world debate over arresting Netanyahu.

The serious question at hand isn’t whether Mamdani will arrest Netanyahu but whether we should be concerned by the insanity of the mayor’s behavior. Do foreign officials need police protection from the mayor of New York City? Does Mamdani have a list of global politicians he openly fantasizes about assaulting? Or is it just the guy governing the world’s only Jewish state?

We should be concerned about the baleful effects of normalizing this kind of nuttiness.

“The goal is always to denormalize normal things, and normalize abnormal things,” as Glenn just noted yesterday in a different context.