July 7, 2026

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Flashback: Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw Defend Dan Rather, Who Sees Effort to “Smear” Him.

Evergreen:

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

DOWN THE DEMSOC MEMORY HOLE:

Posted at 8:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

”A PEOPLE BUILDING TOWARD THE STARS HAS NO TIME TO BECOME BIG BROTHER:”

We are living through a civilizational tipping point, and almost no one is naming it properly. So I will.

Where we come from, where we’re headed, and why a chunk of the PayPal Mafia is changing the world for the better in the most literal sense of the term.

Where we come from.

World War II birthed the Europeanist then globalist project, with an originally noble intent: never again. But that project was eaten away from within by a deeply anti-civilizational matrix—the dissolution of nations, cultures, concrete attachments in favor of an abstract, interchangeable, desk-manageable man.

And to make it go down easy, it leaned on ideological vehicles: a wokism that functions as a substitute religion for a West that’s learned to be ashamed of itself. Not necessarily a coordinated conspiracy—more a convergence of forces that all hate the same thing: the free, rooted, self-proud nation.

The result: half a century of managed decadence, packaged as progress.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:

More:

Everyone just shut up and he served a full term. Now, one of the reasons they didn’t force him out is bc their next two in the line of succession were an AG, who also had a blackface scandal, and a Lt. Gov. named Justin Fairfax who had faced sexual assault allegations and fast-forward, just recently murdered his wife. So, maybe Ds in Maine can find someone besides Platner who doesn’t have a racist pic or tattoo and/or violent history with women, but their record thus far not great, and the Virginia Dems don’t offer a template for that.

But Virginia Dems do offer a template of a cushy life after politics, no matter the offense.

Posted at 5:52 pm by Stephen Green

FORGET IT, MARK — SHE’S ROLLING:

Posted at 5:06 pm by Stephen Green

OOF:

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green

MAYBE THE YOUTH VOTE NEEDS TO, YOU KNOW, GET OUT AND VOTE:

Posted at 4:04 pm by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Drugged Transients Overrun Austin Library. “She brings up how the Austin City Council under Mayor Adler repealed the ‘camping’ ordinance, in effect telling drug addicted transients to come party in Austin. And come they did.”

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green

FACTS ARE RACIST OR SOMETHING:

Posted at 3:34 pm by Stephen Green

THIS KEEPS HAPPENING:

Posted at 3:02 pm by Stephen Green

SPACE: ‘Once-in-a-millennium’ asteroid flyby will be visible to much of the world in 2029.

Three years before the skyscraper-size asteroid Apophis makes its very close (but safe) flyby of Earth, scientists have already begun charting exactly when and where billions of people can watch it sweep across the sky.

Speaking at an “Apophis T-3 Years” workshop held earlier this month at the University of Padua in Italy, retired cartographer Michael Zeiler and astronomer Rick Fienberg shared detailed visibility maps charting the asteroid’s passage across Earth’s skies.

According to their calculations, roughly 90% of the world’s population — about 7.6 billion people — lives in regions where Apophis could, in principle, be seen with the naked eye on April 13, 2029. The actual viewing success will depend more on earthly considerations, however, including cloud cover and the extent of light pollution.

Known formally as 99942 Apophis, the space rock will not resemble a blazing meteor tearing through the sky. Instead, scientists say it will appear as a point-like speck of light gliding steadily across, which, at its closest approach, will appear to move by about the apparent width of the full moon every minute.

Maybe we should try taking a once-in-a-millennium opportunity to practice diverting a large asteroid.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE GIULIANI WENT 30 YEARS AGO: Viral Video Shows Woman Learning the Hard Way That BART’s New Fare Gates Are a Real Pain in the Butt.

No, if and or butts: you have to pay the fare, according to San Francisco authorities who are taking a rare logical step in trying to slow the radical decline that has befallen the City by the Bay. It all went down last Wednesday, according to the local outlet SFist:

A woman who was clearly attempting to evade paying a fare became stuck under a BART entry gate at a San Francisco station last week, and a BART agent took some video of the situation that has since gone viral.

“This is terrible,” says the woman filming what is now a viral video clip, who it seems is a BART employee.

“We can’t even open it without harming you [now],” she adds.

Another agent can be heard telling the woman, “You could have just asked us,” suggesting they might have taken pity on her and let her through if she didn’t have money for the fare.

What a bum trip.

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Who would have thunk?

Well, actually, the folks who came up with the “Broken Windows” theory, which asserts that overlooking small crimes inevitably leads to lawlessness. The concept was used successfully to tackle crime in New York City in the 1990s under then-Police Commissioner William Bratton, who served under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, but California lawmakers have found it to be too big a pain in the butt to apply in the Golden State.

Although this lady’s plans may have gotten rear-ended, she also just proved that San Francisco may just be making sense for once.

Why did it take California leftists three decades to stumble onto the idea that stopping fare jumpers will lower the crime rates on your subways?

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

SPOILER: IT DID NOT AGE WELL.

Plus this from Stephen L. Miller: “If journalists actually cared about their reputations and credibility, Jodie Kantor would be fired and out of a job this morning.”

Another spoiler: The only thing they care about is their diminishing ability to establish and maintain lefty narratives.

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green