FISCAL LAB ON CAPITOL HILL: This new economic research and analysis team founded by former Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Director Bill Beach is up and running, cranking out hard-hitting, data-driven examinations of key issues facing the nation. The latest is from the Lab’s Matthew Dickerson, Senior Fellow in Budgetary Analysis, who examines the economic impacts of the Trump administration’s working families tax cuts.
July 4, 2026
UPDATE ON DEMS, GOP LIES ON SPENDING, DEFICITS, DEBT: Two new charts added to yesterday’s Substack column — “Democrats and Republicans MUST Stop Lying About Their Deficit Spending and Debt, Beginning July 5, 2026, if America is to Survive” — illustrate in cold, hard data the reality of this crisis. Even if you read the column yesterday, it’s worth re-reading now in light of these charts. And Happy 4th of July, may the Republic go on another 250 years of liberty and prosperity.
THEY LEARNED YOU CAN FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME: Secret pandemic plan that proves nothing was learned from covid.
I HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE ANALOGY OF CAMELOT BUT… Camelot’s Restoration – What Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame Should Have Been. There are two major errors in Infinity War and Endgame. For the 250th Anniversary, let us consider how the MCU’s Infinity Saga should have renewed Camelot rather than destroyed it.
Yes, because of the crazy left in the sixties, but also because Camelot was an illusion. We’re not. but that’s not what it means in her symbolism.
THEY’VE BURNED THEIR CREDIBILITY IN A DUMPSTER FIRE: The climate scaremongers: Junk sites behind the Met Office’s so-called heat records.
WOULDN’T THAT ELIMINATE A LARGE NUMBER OF BUREAUCRATIC JOBS? This Republican Has a Wild Idea for Fixing Housing Prices: Let the Market Actually Work.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT OF SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO DESTROY US: Mamdani Trashes America, Trump in Speech Marking Country’s 250th Birthday.
YES, BUT THERE’S OTHER WAYS AROUND IT: Supreme Court’s awful ruling encourages China’s Hunan Horse to invade America.
THE “AMERICA BAD” MESSAGING IS A ‘UNIFIED’ INFORMATION OPERATION (WHETHER OR NOT IT IS FORMALLY DIRECTED BY MALIGN ACTORS). Reality is the antidote: This is why the Scots Are More Excited About America Than You.
LET FREEDOM RING: Bell Ringing Guidelines for America’s 250th,
TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO PICK THE BEST MEMES TO SHARE: Starting the Fireworks Early!
July 3, 2026
OPEN THREAD: You know I’m not to blame, you know my reputation for playing a good clean game.
CHECKS OUT:
The UK is what happens when career public sector middle-managers get into power.
— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) July 3, 2026
Update: Embed was bad before — sorry! Should work now.
NICE!
Last time there were fireworks over Tokyo having anything to do with the United States … never mind, bygones! Thank you, Japan. Glad to have you onside. https://t.co/z3cew4iBXL
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 3, 2026
A LONGSTANDING TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY:
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 3, 2026
THAT’S WHAT LEFTISTS MEAN BY “ELOQUENT.”
Eloquent?
He trashed the country and then insisted it belongs to non-Americans while making a mockery of George Washington. https://t.co/Hc3cbxVqbT
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 3, 2026
UPDATE:
In fairness, he doesn't know how free markets, capitalism, socialism, communism and New York City work, so I'd have to say the desk is either the least of everyone's concerns. Or a tell. https://t.co/g5vxSlc53X
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 4, 2026
Donald Trump got in more real world work experience in one afternoon at McDonald's than Mamdani ever has.
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 4, 2026
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: We’ve Got the Gayest Parliament.
Happy pride! The outgoing prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, was celebrating the end of Pride Month and, looking out at the crowd, said what I’m awarding Quote of the Week: “I’m really proud that we’ve got the gayest parliament, I don’t think just of all time—anywhere in the world. I don’t think there’s any parliament that is gayer than this one.”
Considering this is a country where everyone in the government wears wigs and dresses to do their jobs, I suppose being the gayest parliament is somewhat of an accomplishment.
I’ll add that there is likely no media company gayer than this one, not even close. Except maybe Out magazine. But a lot of good that does me! In a just world I would have been the grand marshal of the parade, but it seems that all Pride Month marches have been entirely rebranded as political, and they are not wavin’ my banner. There are barely even vestigial references to the original concept. Here’s the new Dyke March motto: “We’re here! We’re queer! Free Palestine is our demand!” It doesn’t even rhyme, folx.
America’s Newspaper of Record informs that that particular style of intersectionality isn’t going to end well:
Hamas Announces Pride Month Kick-Off Party On Roof Of Very Tall Hotel https://t.co/NRqmqEhkaU pic.twitter.com/lVlKPeRYPN
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2024
Related:
This is hilarious. Dude, we’ve been telling you. They hate the gays. Like really hate. Not like in a fun way. https://t.co/aBYv2oLV7Y
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) July 3, 2026
COMMUNIST DROPS MASK:
He’s been trained by his political handlers to smile almost incessantly. It’s an obvious forced smile to make his odious policies seem reasonable and safe.
Here, he’s lost the smile. The result? He and his message convey their inherent hostility. pic.twitter.com/6QesVnKp1w
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) July 3, 2026
Curiously though, for the very first time, a socialist bureaucrat doesn’t know how a desk works:
Are we as offended by Mamdani using George Washington's desk to make a speech once we realize he doesn't even know how a desk works? pic.twitter.com/7PGw4tsLvU
— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) July 3, 2026
UPDATE: Mamdani’s staffers, or whoever these human props are, certainly don’t look thrilled to be celebrating America’s Semiquincentennial:
JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani used America’s 250th anniversary to sharply criticize the country, accusing the U.S. of allowing children to go hungry while billionaires and “oligarchs” gain more power.
He said America’s wealth was built by working people with “calloused,… pic.twitter.com/p7Ayuza5je
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 3, 2026
I have never once made any of these faces on the Fourth of July. pic.twitter.com/ZYzqB0K4f3
— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) July 3, 2026
