June 29, 2026

WORK ON THE FIRST ONE, AND THE REST TEND TO FALL INTO PLACE: Gen Z is afraid to drink, date, marry or have kids.

Not-so-rebellious teenagers are not experimenting with alcohol, reports Monitoring the Future, which has been tracking trends for decades. “In the mid-1970s, 92 percent of 12th graders had tried at least a sip of alcohol; by 2025, that proportion had fallen almost by half, to 47 percent,” writes Brooks.

Anxious young people prefer digital messaging to face-to-face interaction, writes Brooks. Most say that strangers are untrustworthy.

Teens and young adults are less likely to say they hope to marry some day, he writes. “In 1980, 90 percent of 35-year-old men were married; today, the rate is 60 percent and falling fast.”

Maybe it’s too safe: “The world is safer than it used to be, writes Brooks. But young people don’t see it that way.”

Posted at 12:42 pm by Stephen Green

THE CHANGE YOU VOTED FOR:

Posted at 12:26 pm by Stephen Green

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 12:01 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SOMEWHERE, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT SMILES.

Posted at 11:54 am by Glenn Reynolds

IN WHICH I GET A LITTLE MEAN:

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But its just more Kristof bullshit anyway.

Posted at 11:50 am by Glenn Reynolds

THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS HAPPENED AGAIN IN COLORADO: RNC sues Jena Griswold over ‘never-resident’ overseas voters.

The Republican National Committee on Friday filed suit in Denver District state court against Secretary of State Jena Griswold, challenging her office’s policy of allowing overseas voters who have never set foot in Colorado to cast ballots in state elections.

Filed just four days before Colorado’s primary election, the suit argues Griswold’s implementation of the state’s overseas voter law runs headlong into the Colorado Constitution’s residency requirement.

Griswold is also a candidate for Colorado attorney general in the June 30 Democrat primary.

“Residency is not inherited and cannot be established by proxy,” the complaint reads. “An individual who has never personally made Colorado his or her home has not ‘resided in this state’ within the meaning of Article VII of the Colorado Constitution.”

Griswold’s office claims that “if you are a United States citizen who has never lived in the United States, you can register to vote in Colorado if your parent, legal guardian, spouse, or domestic partner was a resident of Colorado before leaving the United States.”

The complaint argues that allowing residency for voting to pass by proxy through a parent or spouse is unconstitutional, regardless of what the legislature or the secretary of state says.

Exit quote: The numbers at stake aren’t trivial. Plaintiffs cite U.S. Election Assistance Commission numbers showing Colorado counted 32,072 overseas ballots in the 2020 election, of which ‘only 27.5%’ were for uniformed service members.”

Of the partisan party hacks serving as secretaries of state around the country, Griswold is among the worst of the worst. So of course she’s running for attorney general in tomorrow’s primary.

Posted at 11:40 am by Stephen Green

THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE:

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

Posted at 11:24 am by Stephen Green

CHRIS QUEEN: What Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Says to America at 250. “That short speech, which historians believe probably took about seven minutes for Lincoln to deliver, packed a theological punch that no presidential speech has seen before or since.”

Posted at 11:09 am by Stephen Green

NY-13’S NEXT CONGRESSCRITTER: Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account had favorable references to communist leaders and Marxism.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.

Avila Chevalier, a sociology PhD student whose victory sent shockwaves throughout the Democratic establishment, has been under fire for a since-deleted Twitter account, previously reported by CNN, that included phrases such as “seize the means of production,” along with calls to abolish police, prisons and borders. Other controversial tweets include one that said Black and Arab men are both “Fetishizing ugly colonizer women” and another that described wiping her dirty hands on the American flag in lieu of a napkin.

As an undergraduate, Avila Chevalier attended Columbia University, where she organized with Students for Justice in Palestine, and after graduation became involved in pro-Palestinian campus protests over Israel’s war in Gaza. She also attended a controversial October 8, 2023, pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square — one day after Hamas’ attack on Israel — that featured speeches and rhetoric praising the attack.

She previously told CNN, “I have grown considerably in the years since these tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community’s future.”

Translation: Still a commie.

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

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I ORDERED ANOTHER GROSS OF UNEXPECTEDLIES: Murphy backs $25 minimum wage bill.

“I think our party should have bigger ideas. I put one on the table last week, a $25 minimum wage. And I think we do have to have answers for the way in which corporations and billionaires are taking over and corrupting our politics,” Murphy said during an appearance on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”

“So I do think that there is somewhat of a trend that candidates who are confronting concentrated corporate power in a meaningful way are winning. And I think that that is something that the Democratic Party should pay attention to,” he added.

Murphy introduced the Living Wage For All Act on Thursday, which would implement a $25 federal wage floor by 2032, while giving other businesses until 2039 to do so. Pay would increase from $7.25 to $12.00 in the first year.

They should set the minimum wage at one million dollars. Then everyone could put in a couple hours flipping burgers at McDonald’s and retire.

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green

SUICIDAL EMPATHY, “PRIDE” EDITION:

Posted at 9:20 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Good News — Open Borders Loons Had Rough One Last Week. “Brandon Gill is emerging as a powerful voice for the GOP. He is only 32 and has been in office just over 18 months, but he routinely runs circles around his Democratic counterparts. He conducts himself with the poise of someone who’s been in Congress for decades. While the Dems’ youth movement is lurching off a commie cliff, the future of the Republican part is bright indeed with Gill waiting in the wings behind Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

LOL. New York Times Losing Its Mind Because GOP Women Are Having Kids. “In an investigation masquerading as a style piece, the Paper of Record published an unglued commentary, researched with the self-seriousness of Watergate, revealing that a whopping three women connected to the White House are preggers. At the same time!”

Posted at 8:44 am by Glenn Reynolds