June 30, 2026
IT’S DEJA DINKINS ALL OVER AGAIN: ‘No New Cops!’ Mamdani Ally Brags NYC Won’t End Up Hiring More Police, Despite Previous Reports.
One of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) main political allies bragged that The Big Apple will not have more cops on patrol after the new budget was agreed to on Tuesday — despite NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announcing in June that more police would be hired.
City Council Member Tiffany Cabán shared her glee on X, with a Canva-style graphic celebrating “No New Cops.”
Cabán noted there would be no increase to NYPD’s headcount, and that the city would instead be focused on “housing, mental health care, substance use treatment, and economic stability.” She said those are “the proven policies that actually keep our communities healthy and safe.”
The council member — who identifies as a queer abolitionist on her X account — took an obvious shot at the tough-on-crime policies of ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Caban (or whoever wrote her tweet) claims, “This budget is an important check on the failed policy of broken windows policing.” That policy was such a failure that it quickly transformed New York when it was implemented under then-Mayor Guiliani and Bill Bratton, his police chief in the mid-1990s, and largely kept in place by Mike Bloomberg until Bill de Blasio took office at the beginning of 2014.
As Kevin Williamson told me in late 2013, “the thing about Bloomberg is, he’s a busy body and a nanny and self-regarding and sanctimonious and unbearable, and Jesus, are we going to miss him when he’s gone, because Bloomberg, for all of this faults and his weird little psychosis about bacon and salt and soft drinks and sugar and all the rest of it, and smoking, especially, basically kept what was best about the Giuliani administration.”
Good and hard, Fun City, as Caban yearns for the bad old days: NYC, July 1993.
NO NEW COPS pic.twitter.com/hxFdcACO2K
— Tiffany Cabán (@tiffany_caban) June 30, 2026
BEST SELLER: Carhartt Men’s Iconic K87 Pocket T-Shirt. #CommissionEarned
KURT SCHLICHTER: Cheer Up! The Birthright Citizenship Case Moves Us Toward Inevitable Victory.
Would I have loved Justice Barrett or Chief Justice Roberts to have defied their natural judicial conservatism—in the non-political sense—and embraced the new thinking today? Yeah, that would’ve been great, but it wasn’t in the cards. Instead, we got two votes that I frankly didn’t expect. And those two votes position us for victory. If one of those five majority justices goes away and President Donald Trump appoints the replacement, it’s very likely we will have a 6–3 majority that supports limiting the current idea of effectively unlimited birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
Let me put it in sportsball terms. We didn’t score a touchdown today, but we moved the ball down the field and put ourselves in position for a field goal or maybe even a touchdown in the next couple of plays.
So don’t freak out, don’t cry, don’t scream and yell. There’s no reason to. This result was better than we had any right to expect at this juncture in the process of changing the way the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause is viewed under the law. And this is why keeping the Senate in 2026 is more important than ever.
Cheer up. Don’t doom. We did better than we had any right to expect, and in the end we’re going to win.
Read the whole thing.
Related: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Uses … (Wait for It) … TikTok Slang in Concurring Opinion.
She previously dropped a "wait for it."
It is only a matter of time before she uses a gif. https://t.co/hV91GW789z pic.twitter.com/Z9XT33Oje8
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) June 30, 2026
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Comcast Split Shows Bigger Is No Longer Seen As Better In The Media Business. “Things have been trending this way for a while, with AT&T’s ill-starred $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner helping to cement the idea that it was possible to be too diversified. Long gone are the days of Redstone or Murdoch empire-building, or GE’s Six Sigma spell-casting.”
Disney was supposed to be too big to fail after buying out every studio it could, but look at what’s become of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Marvel under its stewardship.
SPIT TAKE, INDEED:
I just spit out my iced coffee 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/UkaLB1SEM1
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) June 30, 2026
YOU MIGHT HAVE TO SQUINT TO SEE IT: The Political Upside of Losing the Birthright Citizenship Case.
GET YOUR VITAMINS: Pure Encapsulations Magnesium (Glycinate). #CommissionEarned
THE UN IS CORRUPT AT EVERY LEVEL: ‘Journalist or terrorist’: Israeli envoy accuses UN of amplifying Hamas ‘lies’ on world stage.
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Supergirl — The Most Predictable Of Disasters.
WOEING:
New NASA Inspector General report on the Commercial Crew Program, which is mostly about Starliner.https://t.co/4RhTIN9YXj
Snip: pic.twitter.com/nvUNRJqy4V— Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) June 30, 2026
Exit quote: “We question $127.9 million in payments to Boeing, in addition to the $43 million we questioned in a prior 2019 CCP-related report, for a mission that is far from certain.”
SCREWFLY SOLUTION: USDA opens sterile fly plant to fight screwworm as case grow in Texas.
SPACE: This Scrappy Little Rocket Company Just Made a Big Play Against Elon Musk. “Maybe you’ve heard of Rocket Lab, the scrappy New Zealand-based launch company whose innovative Electron small-lift rocket quickly became one of the most popular in U.S. service, thanks to its high success rate and rapid launch cadence. Except for nerds like me paying close attention to the launch industry, Rocket Lab gets a little lost in SpaceX’s shadow. But that might be about to change with the company’s multibillion-dollar acquisition.”
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK (CONT’D): A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica is found tucked away in a drawer.
CHANGE: Cornerstone University launches ‘100%’ smartphone business degree.
Cornerstone University, located in Grand Rapids, is offering an associate’s degree and bachelor’s degree in strategic business management along with a master’s in organizational leadership through its new program.
Students pay a fixed rate of $2,400 per four-month term or $3,750 for the graduate level work. The intended audience is working adults.
According to the program’s website, SOAR aims to remove the financial barriers of traditional higher education by providing an affordable tuition structure where students “pay at least 50% less than other private online colleges.”
To achieve this, the platform prioritizes providing a “flexible schedule” driven by “engaging microlearning” through original podcasts, videos, audiobooks, and presentations developed by Cornerstone faculty. The goal is “to help students soar in all aspects of career and life.”
It remains to be seen whether smartphone degrees are worthwhile. But at a time when private schools are under tremendous financial pressure, adding tuition-paying students at basically zero marginal cost to the school seems smart.
WANT AIR CONDITIONING IN FRANCE? EASIEST WAY TO GET IT IS A TRIP TO THE MORGUE:
So far, somewhere over a thousand French people—older folks, mainly—have died in the heat wave that hit Europe in recent days.
That’s a preliminary number, and it’s in addition to the “normal” number of unnecessary deaths that occur every summer due to a lack of air conditioning. That’s just how many more people than you would expect in a normal summer week or two to die from excess heat. Because air conditioning is unusual in France and other European countries, more people die every year from heat-related causes than die of gunshot wounds in the United States.
You could say that in Europe, the most prolific murderers are the bureaucrats who make A/C difficult to get.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose:
There's a deep strain of elite French concern for the people being voiced here. "Let them eat cake," as Marie Antoinette put it. https://t.co/c9tLlCcRWD
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 30, 2026
Like France, England has imported just the chaps to send you to the morgue:
Meanwhile the UK government pic.twitter.com/vTIMEBpNrZ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 28, 2026
And MI6 has assigned their best spy to the case:
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 29, 2026
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Are there 14 million more insect species than previously thought?
SUPREME COURT DELIVERS LANDMARK TITLE IX WIN FOR WOMEN’S SPORTS: “With today’s decision, the Supreme Court, putting it broadly, appears to have affirmed that girls’ and women’s sports may be restricted to girls and women.”
BACK FROM LIBERTY CON, AND SHARING THE LATE PROMO POST, LATE: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
There’s also a fun vignette challenge. (Every Sunday, normally.)
MOST OF IT COMES FROM CHINA AND THE “GLOBAL SOUTH:” One Of The Biggest Sources Of Mercury In Fish Isn’t What You’d Think. Although “China has been the world’s largest emitter of anthropogenic Hg since 1971. . . . Hg emission hotspots have significantly shifted toward the Global South (Fig. 3b), with Latin America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia experiencing rapid increases (Fig. 3a). In 2021, despite representing only one-fifth of the global economy59, the Global South (excluding China) constituted two-thirds of global emissions.”
No doubt some dumbass deputy mayor in France will blame the U.S. though.
WHOSE CAR IS IT, ANYWAY? Trump signs presidential memo that gives Americans more options to fix their cars. “The memorandum allows consumers to fix their own cars with aftermarket or third-party parts, directs the Environmental Protection Agency to issue guidance clarifying what actions individuals may take to fix their vehicles’ emissions systems, and expedites ways for consumers to acquire aftermarket auto parts.”
Cool. Now kill the kill switch.
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP IN MAJOR BLOW TO TRUMP:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, finding that the order violates the 14th Amendment.
Trump’s order declared that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
Writing on behalf of the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts says children born to parents who are in the United States unlawfully or temporarily are “born in the United States” and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
“Under the Constitution, they are citizens at birth,” he wrote.
On to Plan B:
Apparently more border controls will be needed to thwart anchor baby tourism.
Pregnancy tests for all foreign women of birthing age seeking to enter the United States. OK.
Targeted deportations of foreign women of birthing age within US borders who lack resident alien status.… https://t.co/gRcZpwLApn
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 30, 2026
CRY HARDER, MURDERERS AND RAPISTS: Insanity: Palestinians Now Complaining That They Can’t Cross Into Israel for Jobs.. Commit atrocities, then play victim. It’s their standard deal.
