July 27, 2026

SAD, BUT TRUE:

And here’s the meaty part of what Northern Barbarian replied to:

But the fact that the people who worshiped him in the first place are not going to take in any of this information nor get angry or upset.

Their worship of Fauci, and all the lies, he told about:
-masks,
-the infection fatality rate of the virus,
-the vaccines stopping transmission, stopping contraction,
-the toxic side effects that are off the chart,
-the excess deaths caused by the vaccine,
-the damage to children’s hearts, kidneys, neurological disorders from the vaccine,
-the lies about NOT inventing the virus in the first place

Will still be ignored by the people who most ardently enforced the Fauci Covid narrative because to admit to themselves, all these lies, would mean that they were monsters acting in an evil way and poisoning themselves and their own children, and they just can’t live with that.

Yes.

Posted at 2:54 pm by Stephen Green

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: U. Florida ‘early childhood education’ professor scrubs ‘anti-racist’ readings after inquiry.

A University of Florida professor scrubbed optional readings on “anti-racist” and “anti-bias” education from her syllabus after receiving inquiries from The College Fix.

In this class, “students develop and/or implement instructional strategies consistent with their personal philosophies of early childhood education,” according to the course description.

The original version of the “Early Childhood Curriculum” syllabus, available in early July, offered students two different writing options.

Option A would require students to read articles such as “Creating anti-racist early childhood spaces” and “An Inclusive, Anti-Bias Framework for Teaching and Learning about Race with Young Children. Young Exceptional Children.”

The latter reading states that because picture books feature white characters, “a trip to the public library may implicitly communicate to young children that ‘whiteness’ is superior.”

To be fair, even the Smithsonian says that the “written tradition” is part of icky “white culture.”

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

TWO FAUCIS IN ONE, PART DEUX:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

DSA’S SOLEMN VOW: We Win an Election, You Lose a Country. “The Democratic Socialists of America mean to end the United States — and if you don’t believe me, take a look at what DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer had to say about it this weekend.”

Posted at 2:15 pm by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: The money train: Colorado’s Front Range rail a looming debacle.

Early this week, Colorado’s Front Range Passenger Rail District released its Plan for Colorado Connector – CoCo, the name it has given to a proposed passenger train between Fort Collins and Denver.

The plan calls for spending $332 million in phase 1 (three trains a day each way), $1.7 billion for phase 2 (extending trains to Pueblo), and $2.7 billion for phase 3 (increasing frequencies to up to 10 daily roundtrips).

My first thought is that, as someone who actually went to planning school for a year or so before becoming disillusioned by the profession, I resent it when government agencies call documents like this “plans.” A real plan considers a wide range of alternatives, carefully evaluates the benefits and costs of each alternative, and then, as a part of implementation, sets up targets and a monitoring process so that it can change or cancel the plan if it fails.

This document contains none of that. Instead, it simply proposes to spend a lot of money, after which it would spend a lot more money, and then spend even more money. No alternatives are considered and there is no suggestion that if the first step in the project fails in some way they will modify or abandon later steps.

In short, this is not a plan; it is a sales brochure designed to convince legislators and the public to pay for expensive train service that few people will use.

Democrats couldn’t figure out how justify California-style high-speed rail in Colorado, so we’ll get the smaller scale “CoCo” grift machine, instead.

Posted at 1:44 pm by Stephen Green

TWO FAUCIS IN ONE! Fauci, CNN Condemned ‘Small Household Gatherings’ Week Before Fauci-Tapper Dinner.

Related:

Tweet concludes, “While he was going on TV saying the opposite to terrify the public into shutting down the economy. It was all a lie designed to take out Trump’s most formidable weapon for reelection: his booming economy.”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

HEH: Bring Back the Hollywood Asshole!

And that is the ultimate lesson here. We do not need a new Coppola. We need a new Robert Evans. We need a studio head constructed out of parties and vice, with infinite taste and style. Someone artists feared and loved, who may not have had a soul, but had the genius to find the people who did.

So this is what we need you to do with your elite MBAs and high SAT scores: Get back to being a meritocracy. Drop the affectations. Best, most profitable idea wins. Hire crews and staff based on excellence, not what your favorite Harvard admissions counselor would love. Build movie stars. Learn what the poors want — people in flyover states who make less than $300,000 a year. Make sure those movie stars do not offend those poors by insulting Jesus or Tom Brady.

You are part of a great legacy. The Movies. You know: the great American cultural export created by Jewish Eastern European garment tradesmen. Honor them by wearing expensive clothes, making expensive movies, entertaining as many people as possible and selling millions of electric Hulk toothbrushes.

The executive’s job is to be the brilliant, greedy, tasteful money animal who funds the dream, and pretending otherwise is what broke the business. The business forgot it is supposed to be a hit-driven, star-driven, spectacle-driven machine, not a lifestyle brand for coastal creatives.

They have been calling you a suit like it is an insult.

It isn’t.

It’s the job.

Wear the suit. Be a suit.

Beginning in 2010, Hollywood rejected lucrative DVD and Blu-Ray sales for streaming, ending the ability for movies that didn’t make at the box office to earn a second chance in home distribution. From 2017 to 2019, powerful Hollywood execs were routinely #metoo-ed into oblivion. In 2020, Hollywood shutdown the movie business to curry favor with Fauci and Birx. In 2022, L.A.’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures tossed the Jewish founders of Hollywood right down the memory hole.  Then in 2023, the Writers Guild went on strike. The product became increasingly weird and woke. Going to movies went from being a near-weekly experience to something families did once or twice year to see event movies such as Top Gun: Maverick, “Barbenheimer,” and The Odyssey. No matter how big of a schmuck he is, the Hollywood asshole has his work cut out for him to turn the industry around.

UPDATE: The movie industry is broken. “Last year, just three studios – Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney and Universal – accounted for nearly 70 percent of domestic box office takings. Hollywood’s share of what Americans actually watch is around 95 percent plus in theaters (by revenue) and 85 to 95 percent in streaming viewing time. They own your butt and your eyeballs and that’s not changing anytime soon. But behind the rosy headlines and inside the plush boardrooms in Beverly Hills and Century City and Burbank, the hope of 2026 looks more like cope. A lot is going wrong all at once, and a huge transition is not-so-quietly under way. The agent did not mince words. ‘Streaming has ruined the business. It’s the reason Shari Redstone sold Paramount for peanuts. It’s why Warner Bros. was forced to sell. It’s why Comcast is looking to exit streaming.’”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

AND WE WONDER WHY SO MUCH FRAUD: New GAO report examines 20 of the biggest federal benefit programs that rely on state administration and finds only five have solid anti-theft procedures in place.

Posted at 12:57 pm by Mark Tapscott

RECOIL THERAPY: The New York Times Crosses the Hudson and Discovers Guntry Clubs. “It’s a meditative thing for me,” said Kenneally, who at an earlier point in his movie industry career also worked part-time as a Los Angeles County reserve sheriff’s deputy. “It’s just always been a way to sort of blow the cobwebs out after a day of work.”

Posted at 12:42 pm by Stephen Green

STATE SECESSION:

See my paper from a decade ago on the growth of state secession movements, including Illinois’.

Posted at 12:34 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FAUCI’S NEWLY RELEASED COVID DIARIES REVEAL BIZARRE FIXATION ON FAME AS PANDEMIC DEATHS MOUNTED:

Newly released diary entries reveal that as COVID-19 deaths mounted around the world, former White House COVID advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci became increasingly fixated on his newfound celebrity.

Released by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., the journals chronicle Fauci’s day-to-day role during the COVID-19 crisis through conversations with President Donald Trump, governors and world leaders, media appearances, and his personal observations as the pandemic unfolded.

Paul, a longtime Fauci critic who frequently clashed with Fauci over the federal response and the origins of the virus, made the diaries public as part of the committee’s ongoing oversight investigation. The release comes days before Fauci is scheduled to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee after being subpoenaed by Paul.

A surprising recurring theme throughout the diaries is Fauci’s growing awareness of his own public profile during the most intense months of the pandemic, which ultimately claimed more than 7 million officially reported lives worldwide, including roughly 1.2 million in the United States.

On April 7, 2020, after recording the latest pandemic developments, Fauci wrote: “Press still hot and heavy about me. Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me.”

On April 23rd, Fauci wrote:

That was only three days after Trump berated Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp for reopening his state:

In April 2020, businesses in Georgia were shuttered by government decree as in most of the rest of the country. Mr. Kemp was hearing from desperate entrepreneurs: “ ‘Look man, we’re losing everything we’ve got. We can’t keep doing this.’ And I really felt like there was a lot of people fixin’ to revolt against the government.”

The Trump administration “had that damn graph or matrix or whatever that you had to fit into to be able to do certain things,” Mr. Kemp recalls. “Your cases had to be going down and whatever. Well, we felt like we met the matrix, and so I decided to move forward and open up.” He alerted Vice President Mike Pence, who headed the White House’s coronavirus task force, before publicly announcing his intentions on April 20.

That afternoon Mr. Trump called Mr. Kemp, “and he was furious.” Mr. Kemp recounts the conversation as follows:

“Look, the national media’s all over me about letting you do this,” Mr. Trump said. “And they’re saying you don’t meet whatever.”

Mr. Kemp replied: “Well, Mr. President, we sent your team everything, and they knew what we were doing. You’ve been saying the whole pandemic you trust the governors because we’re closest to the people. Just tell them you may not like what I’m doing, but you’re trusting me because I’m the governor of Georgia and leave it at that. I’ll take the heat.”

“Well, see what you can do,” the president said. “Hair salons aren’t essential and bowling alleys, tattoo parlors aren’t essential.”

“With all due respect, those are our people,” Mr. Kemp said. “They’re the people that elected us. They’re the people that are wondering who’s fighting for them. We’re fixin’ to lose them over this, because they’re about to lose everything. They are not going to sit in their basement and lose everything they got over a virus.”

Mr. Trump publicly attacked Mr. Kemp: “He went on the news at 5 o’clock and just absolutely trashed me. . . . Then the local media’s all over me—it was brutal.” The president was still holding daily press briefings on Covid. “After running over me with the bus on Monday, he backed over me on Tuesday,” Mr. Kemp says. “I could either back down and look weak and lose all respect with the legislators and get hammered in the media, or I could just say, ‘You know what? Screw it, we’re holding the line. We’re going to do what’s right.’ ” He chose the latter course. “Then on Wednesday, him and [Anthony] Fauci did it again, but at that point it didn’t really matter. The damage had already been done there, for me anyway.”

The damage healed quickly once businesses began reopening on Friday, April 24. Mr. Kemp quotes a state lawmaker who said in a phone call: “I went and got my hair cut, and the lady that cuts my hair wanted me to tell you—and she started crying when she told me this story—she said, ‘You tell the governor I appreciate him reopening, to allow me to make a choice, because . . . if I’d have stayed closed, I had a 95% chance of losing everything I’ve ever worked for. But if I open, I only had a 5% chance of getting Covid. And so I decided to open, and the governor gave me that choice.’”

At that point, Florida was still shut down. Mr. DeSantis issued his first reopening order on April 29, nine days after Mr. Kemp’s. On April 28, the Florida governor had visited the White House, where, as CNN reported, “he made sure to compliment the President and his handling of the crisis, praise Trump returned in spades.”

Also on April 29th, this response to Kemp opening up Georgia from Amanda Mull of the Atlantic:

That’s an “unexpected” headline from a magazine that was concurrently depicting Fauci as a totally cool and dreamy “heartthrob:”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

SALLY QUINN and the Establishment Blues. “Ms. Quinn’s column epitomizes that sense of Washington’s permanent power brokers that they are somehow, in their world of power elites, deserving of their place and have a right to be running the rest of the country and telling everybody else what to do. Whether the rest of the country likes it or not. . . . Make no mistake. The real source of Ms. Quinn’s resentment and Establishment blues is nothing more or less than one example of the resentment of Washington insiders at the arrival in the capital of America’s outlanders.”

Posted at 12:01 pm by Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE: Cyclospora outbreak has many changing eating habits, CBS News poll finds.

Most Americans are following news about the outbreak of cyclospora at least somewhat closely and four in 10 say they are now buying or eating less produce because of it.

Women are a bit more likely than men to be doing that, and older people more so than younger.

This outbreak is grabbing Americans’ attention. Nearly as many are following news about the cyclospora parasite as they are the conflict with Iran.

People paying very close attention to news about cyclospora are especially likely to be buying or eating less produce now.

Another good reason to eat less produce is meat.

Posted at 11:40 am by Stephen Green

SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

“He can deny it. He can dodge. He can hide behind definitions and bureaucratic language. But someone must finally say it to his face, in public, and put the truth on the record.”

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green