June 29, 2026

I ORDERED ANOTHER GROSS OF UNEXPECTEDLIES: Murphy backs $25 minimum wage bill.

“I think our party should have bigger ideas. I put one on the table last week, a $25 minimum wage. And I think we do have to have answers for the way in which corporations and billionaires are taking over and corrupting our politics,” Murphy said during an appearance on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”

“So I do think that there is somewhat of a trend that candidates who are confronting concentrated corporate power in a meaningful way are winning. And I think that that is something that the Democratic Party should pay attention to,” he added.

Murphy introduced the Living Wage For All Act on Thursday, which would implement a $25 federal wage floor by 2032, while giving other businesses until 2039 to do so. Pay would increase from $7.25 to $12.00 in the first year.

They should set the minimum wage at one million dollars. Then everyone could put in a couple hours flipping burgers at McDonald’s and retire.

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green

SUICIDAL EMPATHY, “PRIDE” EDITION:

Posted at 9:20 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Good News — Open Borders Loons Had Rough One Last Week. “Brandon Gill is emerging as a powerful voice for the GOP. He is only 32 and has been in office just over 18 months, but he routinely runs circles around his Democratic counterparts. He conducts himself with the poise of someone who’s been in Congress for decades. While the Dems’ youth movement is lurching off a commie cliff, the future of the Republican part is bright indeed with Gill waiting in the wings behind Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

LOL. New York Times Losing Its Mind Because GOP Women Are Having Kids. “In an investigation masquerading as a style piece, the Paper of Record published an unglued commentary, researched with the self-seriousness of Watergate, revealing that a whopping three women connected to the White House are preggers. At the same time!”

Posted at 8:44 am by Glenn Reynolds

HEY, BIG SPENDER:

Soros Family Pours $103 Million Into Midterms.George Soros and his son Alex have steered roughly $102.8 million into the 2026 midterm cycle, the bulk of it routed through the family-controlled Democracy PAC, putting the clan atop The Washington Post’s tally of individual donors and on pace to eclipse the elder Soros’ $128 million record from 2022 with more than four months still to go before November.

The mechanics tell the real story.

Only $793,800 of the cycle’s contributions sit under George Soros’ own name in Federal Election Commission filings.

The rest, about $102 million, ran through Democracy PAC, the super PAC the family launched in 2020 to consolidate its federal political spending.

Of that, $52 million arrived via Geosor, the private corporation in the elder Soros’ name, and $50 million via Fund for Policy Reform, the nonprofit whose tax filings list Alex Soros as director.

Alex Soros added another $140,525 in personal contributions.

That structure is legal but consequential.

One consequence is that Democrats always talk about confiscating billions from Musk, but never Soros.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

YEP:

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

Posted at 8:18 am by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

AND SADLY PREDICTABLE:

From Peter Ingemi in the replies: “50 years ago you could legitimately blame the white minority for people’s state after more than a quarter century in charge it rings a tad hollow.”

Posted at 7:16 am by Stephen Green

WAIT, I THOUGHT NET NEUTRALITY AND GLOBAL COOLING, WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHAOS HAD KILLED EVERYONE ALREADY:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

HE’S RIGHT:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds