THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING AT BANE’S GROCERY: NYC: Begun, the Class War Has.
July 28, 2026
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Even the left is now flagging the gross bias at America’s universities.
LOW-COST PROBLEMS REQUIRE LOW-COST SOLUTIONS: Marines Just Added AI That Turns M240 Machine Guns Into Drone Killers. “The move pairs the AI-powered robotic mount with the M240 machine gun already familiar to Marines, giving the service’s most expeditionary counter-drone platform a kinetic option that can detect, track and engage Group 1 through Group 3 unmanned aircraft systems at a fraction of the cost of missile interceptors.”
IT’S LIKE A WHO’S WHO OF EVERYBODY YOU FIGURED WAS ON THE CCP DOLE:
Ezra Klein as the first name on the list is one of those chef’s kiss moments. And as Miranda Devine added, “Note nobody from the New York Post, Fox or WSJ.”
Full thread with all the names here.
TIM O’BRIEN: The DSA and Its Revolution of Nihilism.
WELL, HE’S RIGHT: Trump takes aim at DSA, says ‘this is a serious threat,’ warns socialism leads to living in squalor.
Trump said Democrats aligned with the DSA were moving past socialism and toward communism, arguing that their policies would damage the American economy and institutions. “But they’re siding with the radical left communists taking over the party,” Trump said. “They want, in other words, the normal socialists who can destroy a country too. They’re not going fast enough. Do you remember, like, in one of my State of the Union speeches, I said, we will never be a socialist country. But I was right. We’re going to be a communist country,” he continued. “That’s what they want. They skipped socialism.”
Trump called communism “the greatest threat to our country in history,” comparing it to World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11. “This is a serious threat because they’re going to give, promise all sorts of things,” Trump said. “In one year, the country will be absolutely bankrupt. You’ll live in squalor. You’ll live in fear. You won’t have police. You won’t have firemen. You won’t have anybody.”
Trump’s comments come as the DSA has gained influence within Democratic politics, with a number of candidates backed by the organization defeating more establishment Democrats in recent primary elections.
For once, I’d argue Trump was being too kind.
COMING SOON TO A REMAINDER BIN NEAR YOU:
Countdown to Jake Tapper writing another book, this time on how he was totally fooled by Fauci.
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) July 27, 2026
CUBA FALLING: A Lot Happened Last Week. Let’s Talk About It.
CLEAN YOUR HOUSE: roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow SpiraFlow Real-Time Self-Cleaning Roller Mop. #CommissionEarned
TAPPER TO GO VETCON ONE?
It was well-demonstrated that US and EU elites who imposed strict lockdowns during COVID deemed themselves fully exempt.
Countless examples, including Gavin Newsom having a nice maskless dinner with lobbyists, and Pelosi in the hair salon. But @JakeTapper should explain this: https://t.co/d347sPfh0x
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 27, 2026
UPDATE:
Jake Tapper, 2025: "I'm not on the left."
This ridiculous act can just be dropped at any time now, Jake. https://t.co/2T7JR9vwBg pic.twitter.com/NkauHzTB13
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 27, 2026
FILL’ER UP: Oil prices plunge after US pauses attacks on Iran. “Global prices fell 9% on Monday, crossing below $90 a barrel and landing at about $88. The decline reversed a days-long run up in crude prices as fighting threatened to worsen a historic global oil shock.”
DESANTIS WAS EFFECTIVE AND HONEST, WHILE FAUCI WAS… FAUCI:
Badge of honor!
Proud to have blocked local governments from enforcing Faucian edicts on their citizens. https://t.co/qXFPtzMxTv
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) July 27, 2026
THERE HE GOES AGAIN: Rubio’s Genius Move: Venezuela Quits the ICC. Another Country Follows.
LIGHTNING DEAL: BEACOOL Polarized Sports Sunglasses for Men Women. #CommissionEarned
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Towson spends $870K on Women’s and Gender Studies department with just 11 majors.
REAGAN BACKSTORY ON TRUMP ANTI-FRAUD PUSH: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says his department is now computer-matching proposed expenditures with the Death Master File (DMF) to ensure tax dollars stop going to dead people. But one of President Ronald Reagan’s “junkyard dogs” did the same thing beginning in 1981, so why did it take 45 years for Treasury to catch up?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LEFT AND RIGHT READ THE SAME CONSTITUTION AND REACH VERY DIFFERENT CONCLUSIONS? Jed Shugerman and Ilan Wurman debate birthright citizenship and presidential removal power in two of the Supreme Court’s biggest cases this term. Bring popcorn.
IT’S A DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN DONATION LAUNDERING OPERATION: ActBlue faces scrutiny over Michigan woman’s $100K+ in donations.
The story caught national attention after Michigan Enjoyer reporter Charlie LeDuff posted a video interviewing Elizabeth Waffle of Milan, Michigan.
“I doubt it,” Waffle said when asked by LeDuff if she’s made 14,696 donations totaling more than $150,000 in the past five years, which are the totals reported by Michigan Enjoyer.
Living in a trailer, Waffle said she didn’t think it was possible she’d donated that much.
“I don’t have that kind of money,” she said. “I can’t believe it.”
ActBlue is an online platform used nationally by Democratic candidates and progressive organizations to raise funds.
According to Federal Election Commission records pulled by The Center Square, Waffle’s name shows $100,295 in contributions processed through ActBlue across the 2021-2022, 2023-2024 and the 2025-2026 election cycles. That is a total of 12,900 donations ranging from $0.24 to $107.50.
Seems legit.
DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES:
This should horrify every American
A man tries to walk through Minneapolis with an American Flag
He immediately gets harassed, threatened with physical violence. Shortly after a car pulls up quickly and a man gets out to rush him to cause harm. He has to run and yell he’s… pic.twitter.com/21ZasvhhDg
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) July 27, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Turns Out Fauci Is an Even Bigger Donkey’s Derrière Than We Thought. “Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another edition of, ‘Gosh, We Were Right Again.’ While it’s true that American conservatives have been able to say that all along, we’ve really been on a roll since the Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu Pandemic and Tyranny Festival of 2020.”
A MINI SAVE ACT: House Administration Committee chairman doesn’t rule out mail-in ballot restrictions in third party-line bill. “The House Administration Committee was allotted $10 billion in the House’s budget resolution for election law reforms, as the committee has oversight authority of federal elections. House GOP leadership has previously said they hope to include as much of the SAVE America Act, Republicans’ voter ID and proof of citizenship bill, into the budget bill ‘as possible’ with the committee’s portion of the legislation.”
SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES: Back to the ’70s in Burnham’s Britain?
He has talked positively about introducing a land value tax (LVT) to replace the local government council tax, which is levied on an outdated valuation of real estate, and stamp duty on house sales. But LVT would create losers as well as winners. It would also be complicated and costly to administer and might raise little in the short term.
Britain’s fundamental problem, everyone agrees, is the lack of economic growth. Increasing GDP is the only way to pay for better public services, reduce welfare dependency and increase remuneration for those in work. But we have yet to discover where this wealth creation is to come from under Burnham’s not-so-new deal. The public sector is maxed out and the private sector is flatlining, thanks to the recent increases in corporate taxes, the national minimum wage, and employers’ National Insurance.
Meanwhile, the cost of servicing Britain’s £3 trillion of public debt remains an immense burden. Commentators on the right say that Burnham is taking Britain back to the 1970s, when a previous Labour government had to go cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund to manage a sovereign debt crisis. We are not quite there yet. But keen observers of fashion trends may have noticed that flared trousers and wide lapels are coming back.
In his recent appearance on the Triggernometry podcast, Peter Hitchens, age 74, had this exchange with his much younger hosts:
HITCHENS: Predictions are easy in general, but they’re hard in terms of how it’s going to take.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: What I’m getting at something else, which is my hope, and I only express it as a hope, not as a belief about what’s likely to happen, is that the inevitable cataclysm can produce the conditions for recovery. Not necessarily recovery, but the conditions from which recovery is possible.
HITCHENS: That’s very Marxist.
KISIN: Tell me more.
HITCHENS: All my comrades in the late 60s and early 70s were rather hoping for a collapse out of which might arise the longed-for revolution with the leading role of the party and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. That was the theory. It was all going to go wrong. And I have to say, Ted Heath in the early 70s made it look very much as if we were right. Kept trying to shut the country down, pick huge fights with industrial unions and so nothing worked. Blackouts? Fantastic! He was great; I remember that the recruits pouring into the international socialists in the early 70s about that time. Ted Heath was a great recruiter for Marxism and Leninism, but in the end, he let us all down, by losing an election.
KISIN: I mean, I am not hoping for [this].
HITCHENS: No, no, no, I know. I’m just telling you, this is the formula. I don’t myself believe that the catastrophe is justifiable, Or desirable or even, or even, conscionable. I think you have to say, if it looks as there’s going to be a catastrophe, do whatever you can to prevent it and warn against it.
KISIN: But Peter, you and I have to be honest, we have all been making these arguments. We’ve been trying to say, we’re heading towards a cliff. No one wants to listen because they’re much more comfortable spending money we don’t have. So they’re not going to listen to us — we are going off the cliff.
HITCHENS: I very much doubt whether catastrophe will produce at the end of it by some kind of baptism of a fire a better world than the one that was before.
Speaking of which, just as leftist New Yorkers yearned for the bad old days of Fun City in the 1970s during the reforms of Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg (and thus, hizzoner Mamdani), leftist Brits like Andy Burnham want to take their entire nation back to its postwar nadir in the 1970s. True socialism has never been tried before!
