CALIFORNIA DESERVES TO BURN; OR AT LEAST ITS POLITICIANS DO: California’s War on Goats Could Worsen the Wildfire Crisis. Standard minimum wage and overtime laws now apply to the state’s goat herders, whose animals clear brush and reduce fire danger. The costs are unsustainable.
July 29, 2026
OF COURSE IT DOES: Trash “Art” Exhibit Trashes Martin Luther King’s Dream with Racial Agitprop.
July 28, 2026
THE “CONSPIRACY THEORISTS” KEEP BEING VINDICATED:
We were… right.
– Social distancing was a hoax
– Masks were a joke
– Lockdowns were worthless
– mRNA jabs were dangerous
– Case fatality rate was low
– Ivermectin worked
– Hydroxychloroquine also worked
– Remdesivir was a killer
– COVID came from the Wuhan lab
– Fauci funded it…— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) July 27, 2026
BORE EAGLE:
Auburn University(@AuburnU) in Alabama has a mission statement for its athletics program focused on DEI.
"The Department of Athletics, in keeping with the mission of the University, and in a spirit of inclusion, encouraging diversity and equitable treatment for all…"
This is… pic.twitter.com/5B6nIOLWuo
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 28, 2026
It’s not 2020 anymore guys, get with the times.
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT:
Residents in the Palisades put up Mad Max barricades because construction site theft is so rampant since Karen Bass directed LAPD to remove police patrols from the neighborhood. As if the fire victims haven't dealt with enough…the vile communist is punishing us further. pic.twitter.com/hiiQ5fydNl
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) July 28, 2026
As Glenn has written, “the breakdown of law and order won’t go as [leftists] hope. Ultimately, the police are there to protect criminals from the populace, not the other way around. Get rid of the police, and armed vigilantism is what you’ll get. And what you’ll deserve.”
Back in 2013, Reason TV released a video about private security forces in otherwise lawless Detroit. It looks like the Pacific Palisades is adopting a similar idea as well.
RICK MCGINNIS: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three: New York Goes Down.
When The Taking of Pelham One Two Three came out in the fall of 1974, New York City was building up to a fiscal crisis and a year away from president Gerald Ford’s statement that he would refuse to give the city a bailout, which led to the famous New York Daily News headline “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD”.
The exodus of jobs and residents that was underway by the late ’60s shrank the city’s tax base while a budget deficit that began with mayor Robert F. Wagner’s administration in the early ’60s was compounded by Wagner’s successor, John Lindsay, borrowing heavily to improve city services. New York was funding free tuition at the City University of New York and keeping transit fares low while relying on federal aid to make it from year to year.
Meanwhile in the movie theatres the “New York as shithole” genre had come into focus with Midnight Cowboy in 1969, followed by Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Shaft, The French Connection and The Panic in Needle Park in 1971, Super Fly and Across 110th Street in 1972 and Badge 373, The Seven-Ups, Mean Streets, Black Caesar, Willie Dynamite, Gordon’s War, Hell up in Harlem and Serpico in 1973.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three shared screens in 1974 with Claudine, Three the Hard Way, Crazy Joe and Death Wish and, as the city’s fiscal crisis became global headlines, was followed by Dog Day Afternoon and Report to the Commissioner in 1975 before the cinematic capstones to the subgenre: Taxi Driver (1976) and The Warriors (1979).
Perhaps this genre will be making a cinematic return in a few years: NYC: Begun, the Class War Has.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Fauci Asks China To Engineer New Virus That Just Kills Rand Paul https://t.co/zfEbTtqybi
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 28, 2026
IT’S NEWS WHEN A NETWORK COVERS THE NEWS NOWADAYS:
Hats off to @bariweiss and CBS
This is news
And yet it doesn’t read like it was sanitized by the DNC https://t.co/CcrfVYHVW2
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) July 28, 2026
Related:
Perhaps surprisingly, both the New York Times and the Washington Post have now published articles on the Fauci diaries. Unsurprisingly, both are complete whitewashes. They sanitize his record and reduce the criticism to the suggestion that he may have been a little too…
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) July 28, 2026
Plus:
If Anthony Fauci comes before my committee tomorrow and perjures himself, his preemptive pardon from Joe Biden will not protect him. https://t.co/RxR3SrDNsQ
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 28, 2026
And:
ACTUALLY, I’M PRETTY SURE WE ARE:
Just a psa: You came here screaming “they’ll kill me if I go back!” Ok. You can stay and seek asylum.
The asylum ends the second you send cash back, wave their flag, or book a vacation to the “death trap”you escaped.
Pick a lane. We’re not running a hotel for frauds.
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) July 22, 2026
TREAT DRY EYES: Complete Preservative Free Dry Eye Drops, 0.33 Fl Oz, 2 Pack. #CommissionEarned I use this when my eyes get dry from using the computer after my eye doc recommended it. It works well.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Signs of depression in men that don’t look like depression, according to a therapist. “When most people envision what depression looks like, they may tell you about someone who can’t get out of bed or who is bursting into tears all the time. Mallon noted that this is one of the most stubborn myths out there. In his experience, men’s depression frequently looks like the opposite of falling apart. He has supported men who never cried, never stayed in bed, and never once called themselves depressed. They held down demanding jobs and showed up for everyone around them, all while struggling underneath.”
I DON’T CARE FOR THE NEW STYLES IN DOOR HANDLES: NHTSA Is Looking Into New Regulations Around Door Handle Safety: After several crashes where doors couldn’t be opened, U.S. regulators are assessing whether further rules are needed. I want mechanical door handles, not something at the mercy of a single fuse.
I WAS IN FAIRBANKS THIS TIME OF YEAR AND IT WAS IN THE 80s: Winter Weather Warning Issued as Up to 6 Inches of Snow, 11-Degree Wind Chills Hit in July.
I CAN IMAGINE QUITE A BIT… BUT NOT THAT MUCH: Imagine Thinking More Gun Control is the Answer to California’s Crime Problem.
Tragically, a murderer opened fire at a Fourth of July weekend block party in Compton, California earlier this month, killing 37-year-old Eric Washington and 19-year-old Meah Bordenave-Jenkins and wounding three others. The victims and their loved ones deserve justice. Police arrested one suspect, 54 year-old Antoine Jones, two weeks later and charged him with murder in Bordenave-Jenkins’ death. He deserves prosecution and punishment to the fullest extent of the law. The suspect in Washington’s death is still at large.
California state Democratic Assemblymember Mike Gipson, however, quickly used this latest tragedy to call for…stronger state and federal gun control laws. He cited background checks, age restrictions and so-called “red flag” laws as “basics” that would reduce criminal violence.
The problem with Assemblyman Gipson’s demands, though, is that California already has all three.
Yes, but the next law, fee, tax, restriction, or requirement will work for sure.
DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES:
Last week, my mom got a "pied-a-terre" tax notice. She has lived full-time in her townhouse FOR 30 YEARS (she and my dad bought it for under $1 million). She has no other residence.
Is NYC not bothering with basic checking of its own tax lists?
She's 81 and has three weeks to… pic.twitter.com/aS9Nam5Htf
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 27, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Plagiarism or jealousy? Youngest black professor in Cambridge history set to publish extraordinary life story — including how he couldn’t speak, read or write during childhood — as he’s now accused of copying others’ work.
Academia managed to rid itself of Claudine Gay but Arday was already on the rise.
The individual cases and names don’t really matter — the production of the proverbial, eternal Arday is the true reason for which the rest of it exists.
What did y’all think “inclusive… https://t.co/MM7Y72n4F9
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) July 28, 2026
Spy magazine used to call this “Logrolling in Our Time” back in the late ‘80s.
THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING AT BANE GROCERS: Begun, the Class War Has.
KEEP YOUR CLOTHES FRESH: Dr. Killigan’s Premium Clothing Moth Traps with Pheromones. #CommissionEarned
NEW MICHAEL CRICHTON NOVEL JUST DROPPED:
I had a dream last night that Michael Crichton was still alive and he wrote a book called “Two Weeks to Stop the Spread.”
The book’s main character was a megalomaniacal, narcissistic senior US health official who was using NIH funds to work with China to engineer a virus…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) July 28, 2026
ISRAELI DEATHS THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU ABOUT: Few Americans have any idea of what it means to live in a place where the possibility of violent death is a daily reality. But that’s what it’s like living in Israel. Consider this graf from Richard Pollock’s latest column, “the ignored history of Palestinian terrorist attacks against unarmed Israelis” just during the present year:
“The sadness among Israeli families has been deep and ongoing. In 2026 alone, there were 59,583 bereaved Israeli family members: 8,420 bereaved parents, 4,872 widows, 14,430 orphans, and 31,814 siblings, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.”
