BOOKS FOR BOYS:  What is a “Wobblegong?”

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THE OLD GODS WALK AMONG US: Mystery Deepens After 2,700-Year-Old Bronze Sword Emerges Standing Upright.

CONSEQUENCES: DHS issues scathing update on future of ‘maple leaf menace’ accused of slapping patriotic teen.

FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter.

Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

THERAPISTS NOW ASSURE CHEATING SPOUSES THAT ‘NOBODY EXPECTS FAITHFULNESS.’:  The step-by-step murder of marriage.

SURE SEEMS LIKE IT:  Deliberately Dumbing Down.

THEY’RE CHECKING THOSE FACTS THE WAY A HOCKEY DEFENDER CHECKS A WINGER:  CBS News’ ‘Fact-Checks’ of Trump’s Address Ignore the Facts.

I DON’T BELIEVE SHE WAS ‘GLUED’ TO BEGIN WITH:  Randi Weingarten’s AFT Speech Shows She’s Really Come Unglued.

YEAH. IT SURE IS A MYSTERY:  Kathy Hochul Got Grilled on Why Everyone Is Leaving NY.

AH, THERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  RFK Jr. says HHS loses $100,000,000,000 a year to theft. He found some thieves would bribe poor people with flat screen TVs to get their patient numbers and enroll them in hospice. Then they would proceed to bill Medicaid “$6,000 a month FOREVER.“

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AND YET THIS AUTHORITARIAN SHITSTAIN THREW IN WITH THEM WHEN HE FIRST RAN:  Polis: Socialism ‘a Tool to Further Exploit People’.

But he sure can sniff the air and knows which way the wind is blowing.

OH, PLEASE, DO:  California State Auditor Urged to Probe Newsom-Linked No-Bid Diaper Deal.

I MEAN IT! GIVE BACK MY SHOCKED FACE:  As a former waterbomber pilot who used to lead an aerial firefighting fleet, I can tell you “send help” is an extremely dishonest framing by the Canadian government. The Canadian government routinely blocks U.S. firefighting companies from attacking fires in Canada, while aggressively sending their government-subsidized aircraft to the U.S. to earn commercial rates from the U.S. taxpayer. It’s big business for them and they run it like a Chinese protectionist racket.

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OH, HECK, JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING IS:   Olive Garden becomes unlikely face of voter ID fight after restaurant’s policy goes viral.  Conservatives from Trump to senators argue the restaurant’s photo ID policy is stricter than some voting laws.

THIS MONEY SHOULD BE CONFISCATED AND STUDENT LOANS FORGIVEN: These entities deserve no money:  US Universities Got Over $300M From Sanctioned China Entities.

WHICH OF YOU REPROBATES BORROWED THE SHOCKED FACE? Give it back. I have need of it:  $225,000,000 In ‘Hideous’ Fraud Schemes Found Across US Schools, Report Alleges.

WELL, THAT WILL STOP FRIVOLOUS H1B VISAS:  Trump administration weighs imposing $100K bonds on green card applicants.

IF YOU’RE NOT HAVING RAGE ISSUES, YOU’RE NOT FOLLOWING THE NEWS:  Fuck You, Tim Walz.

CANADA’S SPEECH RULES DESERVE A BORDER INSPECTION. America should be very careful about importing any system that lets officials convert “reasonable limits” into permission slips for dissent.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Are we underestimating the threat of solar storms? A ‘once-in-a-thousand-year’ disaster is worth considering, scientists say.

SEEMS LIKE THEY’RE TRYING A PROVOCATION TO BLOODY REVOLUTION:

Today, the President of Hungary released a dramatic video message announcing that the democratic rule of law in Hungary has come to an end because he was unlawfully removed from office. Nothing like this has happened in modern European history.

A puppet will now be installed in… pic.twitter.com/87azw1DROb

— Balázs Orbán (@BalazsOrban_HU) July 18, 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION AS TOXIC INDUSTRY:

US universities have yet to pay for the grievous wrongs they have done the society that supports them.

Starting with the failure to educate, having substituted indoctrination.

Driving up costs and putting ruinous burdens on young Americans by adding layer upon layer of… https://t.co/gQ5GPx96lw

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 18, 2026

Seems like an easy start.

It's a twofer. You're hitting the PRC and you're hitting the universities.

Both will notice.

The only reason the PRC has been able to take advantage of us is because we have let them.

The only reason the universities have been able to subvert us is… https://t.co/UwUFWbgBb9

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 19, 2026

57 YEARS AGO TODAY:

A US senator killed a 28 year old woman, left her to drown, spent zero days in jail, and then served 40 more years in the Senate. 57 years ago tonight. Almost nobody remembers her name.

57 years ago tonight, July 18 1969, on a tiny island called Chappaquiddick that most… pic.twitter.com/2zRi3Hdjxt

— Echoes of War (@EchoesofWarYT) July 18, 2026

Obligatory: “If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

—Charles Pierce, the Boston Globe, January 5, 2003.