July 23, 2026
FREE HELICOPTER RIDES? Communism-Socialism, Islam: How to Meet the Threats?
HEH: Federal Judge To Hood County: No You Can’t Have Immunity For Arresting Someone For A Meme. Not Yours. “The first meme on the page is making fun of James Talarico, so I’m already inclined to like them. They also have some anti-Flock camera posts.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Mississippi Professor Goes Viral After Hidden ‘Madagascar’ Trick Exposes Students Who Used AI: ‘Yeah We’re Doomed.’
Give this man immediate full tenure and all the endowed chair you've got https://t.co/Ofeg6B0Se9
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 23, 2026
BFR:
Wow! Sweet human for scale perspective there @_MaxQ_ . 🤯 https://t.co/KQv8PGEcMH pic.twitter.com/n1UVmNdazB
— Marcus House (@MarcusHouse) July 23, 2026
Classical reference in the headline, although somehow Space News managed not to go into what BFR might stand for.
TELL ME ABOUT IT — I HAD TO BRIBE THE BOUNCER TO GET IN: Invasive Burmese Pythons Have Formed a New Snake Hotspot Outside the Florida Everglades, Experts Say.
I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Rep. Brandon Gill Grills Head of American Bar Association About DEI, Future of Law Schools.
“Have you reflected on your implicit biases?”
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) July 23, 2026
This is the way. Alinsky Rule 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." https://t.co/qVz57CEeha
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) July 22, 2026
More here, from Bethany Mandel: Brandon Gill’s Socratic method.
“If I wanted to yell at liberals,” he said, “I could sit behind my desk and make a video yelling at liberals.”
A congressional hearing, in his mind, serves an entirely different purpose.
“The whole West’s intellectual edifice is based on the Socratic method,” he continued. “It’s based on asking probing questions and coming to truth by asking probing and enlightening questions. A committee hearing is the perfect place to do that.”
That one sentence explains almost every viral moment Gill has had since arriving in Washington. Take the abortion hearing that made him a household name in conservative circles. The exchange wasn’t built around a rehearsed one-liner — it was built around a simple premise. If someone has dedicated decades of her professional life to defending abortion rights, shouldn’t she be willing to describe, plainly and without euphemism, the procedure she is defending?
“If you’re going to dedicate your life to defending this,” Gill recalled thinking, “tell me your favorite method.”
The question wasn’t designed simply to shock. It forced the witness to abandon abstractions and confront the concrete reality of what she was advocating. When she refused to answer, that refusal proved more revealing than any prepared statement could have.
Listening to Gill describe the exchange, it became obvious that he doesn’t think of hearings the way most members of Congress do. Many lawmakers view their five minutes as an opportunity to deliver a speech that happens to include a witness. Gill treats the witness as the point of the exercise. The hearing is valuable precisely because the person sitting across from him is under oath, the cameras are rolling, and millions of people can watch ideas tested in real time.
And they just can’t do it:
Evergreen:
THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS: What Will Trump Say About This Billion-Dollar EU Fine?
GRILL TO PERFECTION: MEATER Plus: Smart Bluetooth Wireless Meat Thermometer Digital. #CommissionEarned
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Manage GERD to Protect Your Airways.
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: The Odyssey — A Disastrous Triumph. “For me, The Odyssey was an impressive, thought-provoking movie with an incredible cast made by one of the most successful directors of his age, and it’ll probably go on to rake in a lot of money and awards just like we all knew it would. But ultimately, it’s a movie I’ll probably never watch or even think about again. And that really is the most damning indictment of all.”
TO THE LEFT, NORMALITY IS A HATE CRIME:
This is the position of 70+% of Americans. It’s also common sense.
The fact that so many in the press and associated institutions treat it as something morally abhorrent and feel the need to grill a female athlete for voicing it shows how disconnected they are from reality. https://t.co/Xfb4geW3xU
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 23, 2026
THE AP MORPHED INTO THE BABYLON BEE SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED:
In impoverished Nepal, where a conservative culture leaves openly transgender people with few legal job options, the impact on aid workers’ lives was particularly crushing. Starving and scared, around 100 LGBTQ+ aid workers left jobless by the funding cuts have turned to sex work… pic.twitter.com/yukURpfxle
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 23, 2026
Hey, let’s pick our battles here. I’m still worried about this issue: How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers.
THAT SEEMS LIKE A NO-BRAINER: Fifth Circuit Rules Illegal Aliens Do Not Have Constitutional Right To Roam Free In US.
ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:
A group calling itself a "conservative social movement" against AI data centers enlisted Green Party figures, a transgender congressional candidate, a Democratic state legislative candidate and progressive activist organizations to run its nationwide protests — all while… pic.twitter.com/CVG8nUm5Av
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) July 23, 2026
Full story:
A group calling itself a “conservative social movement” against AI data centers enlisted Green Party figures, a transgender congressional candidate, a Democratic state legislative candidate and progressive activist organizations to run its nationwide protests — all while positioning itself as a grassroots right-wing uprising against Trump’s AI buildout.
Humans First, chaired by Tea Party co-founder and Jan. 6 rally organizer Amy Kremer, claimed to rally conservatives on July 18 with 142 protests across 42 states. But a Fox News Digital review of the group’s own protest pages found organizers including an Illinois Green Party chapter that supports impeaching Trump, a Georgia group founded to resist Trump’s agenda and protect “diversity, equity & justice,” and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation as a featured speaker.
The group’s startup capital came via a loan from the Center for AI Safety, a San Francisco nonprofit whose staffers appear on Humans First’s incorporation documents.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find CCP money in there, too.
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YEP: Atlantic: ‘The DSA Is a Parasite’ and Someone Should Say So.
Richard Fernandez was on this years ago.
JOHN LUCAS: Of Commies and Skin Suits.
CONSERVATIVE PUNDITS HARDEST HIT: Harris 2028 White House bid ‘not going to happen’: Former Biden aide.
During an interview on Fox News’s “America Reports,” Michael LaRosa, former first lady Jill Biden’s press secretary, told host Gillian Turner that voters “are not going to give Kamala Harris a third at-bat.”
The conversation started because of a New York Magazine article, which identified Harris as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028.
Minyon Moore, a Democratic strategist, said to the outlet, “She’s been listening to the American people and really trying to figure out what’s impacting them and how she can be of service to them.”
For starters, she could run again and make my job so much easier.
What’s genuinely funny though is the idea that voters ever gave Harris two at-bats. She didn’t even make it to Iowa during the 2020 primaries, and didn’t even face a mini-primary in 2024.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 22, 2026
SMART:
BREAKING: Trump says the civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia is subject to Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords. pic.twitter.com/xyLKH92SJC
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) July 23, 2026
Five years ago, Jen Psaki dismissed the Abraham Accords as “tactics of the prior administration.” But now they’re the prior administration, and the Accords are back.
