DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats Got Some Devastating News About the Midterms. “New data show Democrats are not gaining momentum this summer. Some of it suggests they’re losing ground, and losing it fast.”

Seriously, vote as though your life, liberty, and property depend upon it. And bring friends.

R.I.P., JERRY: Things have really turned around since this interview, thank God. And thank Elon.

I DON’T REMEMBER ANYONE TELLING ME THAT, BUT THE MATCHES HAVE BEEN MORE FUN TO WATCH THAN I EXPECTED:

They told us this World Cup showed the intrinsic superiority of African athletes. The teams that loaded up on Africans lost.

They told us this World Cup showed the benefits of diversity. The diverse teams lost to the homogenous teams.

Facts. 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/v2KghLbzLM

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) July 15, 2026

But “BOW TO YOUR BRONZED OVERLORDS” is a keeper for sure.

ROUTINE BUT NEVER BORING: SpaceX launches flight-proven rocket for 600th time, sending Starlink satellites to orbit.

And later today, hopefully: Here’s What’s Riding on Thursday’s Starship Flight Test.

SMART:

.@POTUS announces that any American veteran who has driven a heavy truck for our military will soon be eligible for a Commercial Driver's License 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Qen6VIk94Z

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 15, 2026

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: NY Times Attempts to Cheerlead Freakshow Dems Back to Semi-Normalcy.

GET YOUR VITAMINS: Ensure Max Protein Shake | Milk Chocolate. #CommissionEarned

WELL SAID:

Trump is the most dynamic and effective president I’ve seen in over 40 years of watching politics. And even if I agreed with you, I’d still rather have the GOP in power at cocktail parties than demonic Democrats opening the border and butchering kids.

I’m fine with complaining… https://t.co/vtBpUCeykD

— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) July 15, 2026

“I’m fine with complaining about the GOP, even Trump. But this ‘why should we vote for them’ approach is suicide-by-killing-the-good-in-pursuit-of-perfect.”

WELL, YEAH: Critics cast doubt on Biden’s claims he personally wrote upcoming memoir.

Conservatives and other critics raised doubts about Biden’s claim that he’d written the book, which is called “Promise Me, America.”

Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said that Biden couldn’t write his own name, so he’s not writing books, referring to Biden’s reported use of the autopen to sign documents.

“Politicians write books to launder money. Nobody wants to read this, but the corrupt NGOs he provided for as President will buy up 100K copies and burn ’em to hold up their end of the bribes,” Pratt said on X.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., also chimed in, asking, “How many chapters are about your time hiding in the basement while someone else ran the White House?”

Conservative commentator Steve Guest said, “The first lie of Joe Biden’s book launch: ‘I’ve written a book.'”

Most of these things are ghost-written, but Biden’s memoir might be the first to be ghost-remembered.

IT’S NOT THE TAXPAYERS’ BUSINESS HOW THEIR MONEY IS BEING SPENT: No answer from Temple U. Center for Anti-Racism on how it’s using taxpayers’ $1.3 million.

Shut up and pay up, citizen.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Los Angeles International Airport railway is now $1 billion over budget and years delayed

The contractor is now SUING the city for blaming them for the delays and claims the delays were actually the city’s fault

Another Newscum failure reeking of corruption pic.twitter.com/qmKzvo5bpg

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 15, 2026

Only one billion over budget? No wonder it’s years behind schedule — they need extra time for the grift.

“IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LIBERAL NEWSPAPER? OF COURSE IT IS:”

Daily "bruh." https://t.co/IX9lZVVesV

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) July 15, 2026

A WELL-TRAINED PRACTITIONER OF TAQIYYA: Mamdani Is Enraged Over Shocking ICE Murder, but of Course He’s Lying Again.

GREAT CLEANER: Affresh Washing Machine Cleaner. #CommissionEarned I use this between washes and it keeps the washer from getting stale.

GOOD: LSU fires former DEI official earning nearly $330K amid spending cuts.

THE EV BUBBLE DENIES DEFLATION RUMORS: Lucid dismisses report that it is weighing filing for bankruptcy or going private after shares plunge.

A site focused on electric vehicles called EV reported Tuesday Lucid was considering going private or filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. According to the site, the company asked AlixPartners to review those options and deliver its findings to Lucid’s board before its next meeting.

The report from EV also said AlixPartners had encouraged the board to further restructure in the U.S. and Europe and to focus on the Gravity SUV.

AlixPartners said it had no comment on the report. Lucid said in a statement that “the rumors are completely false.”

I guess we’ll see. But unlike Tesla or even Rivian, I never see any Lucid vehicles in EV-friendly Colorado.

THE MARKET HAS SPOKEN:

Hearing from tradesmen that one of their main job criteria is bureaucracy.

Employers will hire them away from other employers with the promise of same money, but not having to deal with all the app shit.

The compliance/app regime is getting that bad, even out in the field.

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) July 16, 2026

PRINCIPLES GET EXPENSIVE WHEN YOUR SIDE IS IN POWER. Real nonpartisanship means criticizing allies, crediting opponents, resisting ideological drift, and defending free speech without checking the speaker’s party registration first.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Commie Call Is Coming From Inside the Democrats’ House. “Until President Trump upended the political tradition apple cart in 2016, the Democrats used to be better at playing a more subtle long game in politics. Since then, they’ve been singularly focused on being consumed by hatred for the man who denied their alcoholic Ice Queen the presidency that they felt she was entitled to.”

CHANGE: Warren Buffett stops Gates Foundation donations, will give $6 billion to family foundations. “Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett said Tuesday that he stopped donating money to the Gates Foundation after revelations about interactions between the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”

For a guy who spent a lifetime picking winners and dumping losers, he sure held on to Gates for a long time.

SHE’S SERVED HER PURPOSE, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, SHE KNOWS IT:

Notice how Nithya Raman just completely disappeared after they blocked us out of the general election?

She's not campaigning at all. Like a pickpocket disappearing into the crowd. Just a ghost. I told you her campaign was a scam. Colluding with Bass from the start.

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) July 15, 2026

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Seizing the Day: Will Trump invoke the Guarantee Clause to impose election integrity? A prediction.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN:

#BREAKING @PaulSperry_ reports: The "really big news" President Trump plans to announce in Thursday's primetime address, according to an administration source who's read a draft of his speech, includes bombshell evidence China interfered in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden…

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 16, 2026

READ THE WHOLE THING:

How the FIFA tournament matters more than you realize:

Earlier this week I spoke with someone close to senior European defense officials.

He tried lecturing me. My response?

The greatest gift FIFA gave America is not soccer. We don’t care about soccer. It’s sharing pints with… https://t.co/fW9ecogeEr

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) July 15, 2026

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Our Love/Meh Relationship With AI.

“People wanted more than just text,” former CEO Eric Schmidt later said of the company’s moonshot effort to design, build, and launch the first image search engine as quickly as humanly possible. “Google Image Search was born” on July 12, 2001, Schmidt later recalled.

Google Image Search immediately became one of the company’s most-loved and most-used tools, and constant refinements over the last 25 years helped keep it that way. I moved on from Google years ago — mostly because I despise the company’s business practices — but when the copycats fail, I find myself back on GIS.

Then this week — on Image Search’s 25th birthday — Google just had to go and ruin it.

Say it with me now: “By adding AI nobody asked for.”

But this isn’t really about Google, Image Search, or even AI. It’s about tools.

Much more at the link.