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July 9, 2026
FASCINATING:
Consistent with the simulation hypothesis.
Like a video game, objects are randomly generated, with positional certainty only when observed. pic.twitter.com/8SUIqjJ8oC
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 9, 2026
THEY’RE NOT JUST NONCITIZENS, THEY’RE ILLEGAL, ILLITERATE, AND UNQUALIFIED: More Deaths on American Highways at Hands of Noncitizen Truck Drivers.
OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH LITTLE ITALY: Mamdani Accused of ‘Cultural Erasure’ — Sparks Outrage for Scrubbing Little Italy From NYC Map.
PROFILES IN COURAGE: So NOW Jon Ossoff Wants to Denounce Graham Platner — Kinda Sorta.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Revolutionary rocket engine company Venus Aerospace raises $91 million to scale design. “RDREs differ from conventional rocket engines in the way they ignite and expel their propellants. Typical engines burn fuel as part of a controlled process inside a combustion chamber, which is directed through the engine nozzle and bell. RDREs use a ring-shaped combustion chamber and feature a continuously circulating detonation wave, which produces higher pressure and increased thrust while burning less fuel, in theory.”
Last year’s test flight impressed.
Update: Not sure why the X embed didn’t work, other than that just happens sometimes. But now there’s a link.
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Double Crash And Burn — The Mickey Rourke Story.
WELL, I’M CONVINCED:
Marco Rubio confirmed he’s also spoken with Senator Mitch McConnell this morning. 😆 pic.twitter.com/fPF3keYnja
— Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 (@MikeBales) July 9, 2026
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Morgan Stanley Agrees SpaceX Can Deploy 8 Gigawatts of AI Data Center by 2028.
THIS IS CNN: Spoof of Life: CNN Mistakes Online Parody Account for Real GOP Politician in Mitch McConnell Health Story.
CNN’s extreme leftwing bias exposed pic.twitter.com/5YEbGToOA7
— Rep. Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) July 8, 2026
“As we mentioned, ‘Rep. Jack Kimble’ is a parody account of an elected Republican who represents California’s imaginary 54th congressional district. Don’t tell CNN.”
THEIR SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES: Hate studies experts won’t comment on allegations Southern Poverty Law Center funded KKK.
Experts on “hate” and “extremism” have ignored numerous requests to comment on allegations that the Southern Poverty Law Center funded informants who used money to buy Ku Klux Klan hoods and cross-burning materials.
A federal indictment alleges that more than $4 million in donor funds went to pay confidential informants within extremist groups. The latest indictment alleges some money was used for “recruiting new members and purchasing materials for cross burnings and Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods,” according to CBS News.
The College Fix contacted seven university centers that study hate and extremism and asked for a reaction to the indictment, the ethics of funding Klan materials, and best practices for monitoring extremism.
None of the groups responded to emails and phone calls in the past several weeks.
If we’re being honest, their expertise is in creating hate and extremism where there was none.
THE FIRST HALF IS ON-TARGET, BUT I’M LESS SURE ABOUT THE SECOND:
Just like socialists think they can reject capitalism but still keep the fruits of capitalism, so immigrants think they can reject Christendom but still keep the benefits of Christendom.
Both are vastly mistaken.
— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) July 9, 2026
SHOCK REPORT: The New York Times Almost Has Standards. “When is a mea culpa not a mea culpa? Probably when the New York Times does it mostly in secret.”
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JOEL KOTKIN: Can Los Angeles be saved?
LA is currently hosting the World Cup, and two years from now, it will host the Olympics. The city should be ready for its closeup — but it isn’t.
This is a painful change for anyone who, like me, came to the City of Angels 50 years ago and embraced its eclectic mix of cultures and businesses. In the 1980s, LA was what the conservative historian Fred Siegel called “the entrepreneurial dynamo.” Unlike New York or the Bay Area, where academic pedigree and family ties were the keys to success, LA was an everyman city, a place where you could afford to start a business and live in a house like Galicia’s, all within the perimeter of a great metropolis.
Aesthetes long preferred New York or San Francisco, but the masses headed to LA. Between 1900 and 1940, the city’s population surged to 1.5 million from barely 100,000. After the war, LA expanded again, enriched by its huge oil and defense sectors, and by 2020, hit its peak population of 3.8 million, with another 6 million living in surrounding Los Angeles County. These areas once domiciled 13 Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Northrop Grumman, Security Pacific Bank, First Interstate, Union Oil, Getty Oil, and Arco, and a long list of successful growing businesses, as well.
Since then, the Fortune 500 locals have dwindled to seven, with just one, Farmers Insurance, inside city limits, and that just barely, on the furthest fringes of the San Fernando Valley. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times, once a critical part of the city establishment, has abandoned Downtown for El Segundo, amid severe financial strains and a paid circulation that’s a fraction of its once vast readership.
Most critically, Los Angeles County now suffers the highest poverty rates in the state, and among the worst in the country.
Read the whole thing. It left me wondering, alongside the recent election, whether Los Angeles even wants to be saved.
Related (From Ed): Perhaps they don’t. As L.A. and San Francisco slowly morph into Detroit, it’s worth remembering what Jay Nordlinger once wrote about the collapsed Motor City: “If people are voting a certain way — maybe it’s because they want to. Maybe they know full well what they’re doing. Sometimes you have to take no — such as ‘no to Republicanism’ — for an answer.”
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 6, 2026
HE’S RIGHT:
The Times won’t tell you this but I will: Yale Law has been violating federal law in its admissions policies well before SFFA, literally for decades. Despite Dean Rodriguez’s remonstrations, the law school is in no position to resist a settlement with the government. pic.twitter.com/xvRL3Wo0Qt
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) July 8, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Brown University professor bans take-home exams after mass cheating.
SAME ONE AS USUAL:
Platner drops out. Now Maine is going to let 600 Democrat party insiders pick the new candidate, replacing the guy that 156,000 people voted for. Just like the party kicked Biden to the curb and replaced him with Kamala. Tell me again which party is a threat to democracy.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 9, 2026
When European voters don’t do as they’re told, Europe keeps holding votes until they get it right. When Democrat primary voters pick the wrong candidate, Democrat insiders are happy to pick a new one for them.
Either way, that’s Muh Democracy™.
PEOPLE HAVE FIGURED OUT THAT IT MAKES YOU UNEMPLOYABLE OUTSIDE THE BLOB: North Carolina university gender studies minor sees enrollment decline.
