FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: To Combat Academic Fraud, Scholars Confront Hallowed Tradition.
July 7, 2026
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP COMING: Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriend alleges Maine Dem would sneakily pull off condoms during sex.
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AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:
Former Gov. Ralph Northam was appointed to a college board by Gov. Abigail Spanberger this year after refusing to resign in 2019 in the face of party-wide demands in the wake of a blackface/Klan hood picture scandal and another admitted blackface incident. Everyone just shut up… https://t.co/mdaB963vpQ
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) July 7, 2026
More:
Everyone just shut up and he served a full term. Now, one of the reasons they didn’t force him out is bc their next two in the line of succession were an AG, who also had a blackface scandal, and a Lt. Gov. named Justin Fairfax who had faced sexual assault allegations and fast-forward, just recently murdered his wife. So, maybe Ds in Maine can find someone besides Platner who doesn’t have a racist pic or tattoo and/or violent history with women, but their record thus far not great, and the Virginia Dems don’t offer a template for that.
But Virginia Dems do offer a template of a cushy life after politics, no matter the offense.
FORGET IT, MARK — SHE’S ROLLING:
What Republican has faced credible rape allegations? Because it’s not Trump or Kavanaugh. https://t.co/LZfQrPq00K
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 7, 2026
WHY IS THIS A SURPRISE, EXACTLY? Can the 2026 Honda Civic Hatchback Hybrid Handle Family Duty? Surprisingly, Yes.
HE’S CERTAINLY LEAVING ON A HIGH NOTE: Artemis II crew member Jeremy Hansen says he’s stepping down from astronaut role.
OOF:
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He's so sharp. Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed…
— Rep. Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) July 7, 2026
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MAYBE THE YOUTH VOTE NEEDS TO, YOU KNOW, GET OUT AND VOTE:
It's the H1Bs and immigrants and we all know this. Whether talking inflated costs for housing, healthcare and schooling, or a brutal entry and mid level job market is because of them.
And as far as I know, not a single 2028 candidate has committed to ending the H1B program
— Bill Marshal (@aethelamerican) July 7, 2026
TO BE FAIR, THE NYT WAS TRAUMATIZED BY THE FOURTH OF JULY: NYT Sounds The Alarm on the ‘Drastic Retrenchment’ Going On at ATF.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Drugged Transients Overrun Austin Library. “She brings up how the Austin City Council under Mayor Adler repealed the ‘camping’ ordinance, in effect telling drug addicted transients to come party in Austin. And come they did.”
HE SHOULD RETIRE, BUT WON’T. McConnell’s health emergency sparks questions on whether he will return to Senate. Honestly, not sure he has the mental capacity to do so.
FACTS ARE RACIST OR SOMETHING:
Sitting down?
Legacy Media increased the term “white supremacy” by 5,296% from 2009-2020.
Violent crimes 2009-2020:
Black on White: 1,162 per 100K Blacks.
White on Black: 38 per 100K Whites.30X more likely!
Dangers of “white supremacy” narrative is pure propaganda.
Facts.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) July 7, 2026
WELL, HE STILL HAS A WEEK TO MILK THIS BEFORE THE BALLOT DEADLINE: Platner Is the Democrat Camel Whose Back Couldn’t Be Broken, No Matter How Much Straw Was Piled On.
THIS KEEPS HAPPENING:
They told me if I supported Trump we’d end up with neo-Nazi rapists as Senate candidates, and they were right.
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) July 7, 2026
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SPACE: ‘Once-in-a-millennium’ asteroid flyby will be visible to much of the world in 2029.
Three years before the skyscraper-size asteroid Apophis makes its very close (but safe) flyby of Earth, scientists have already begun charting exactly when and where billions of people can watch it sweep across the sky.
Speaking at an “Apophis T-3 Years” workshop held earlier this month at the University of Padua in Italy, retired cartographer Michael Zeiler and astronomer Rick Fienberg shared detailed visibility maps charting the asteroid’s passage across Earth’s skies.
According to their calculations, roughly 90% of the world’s population — about 7.6 billion people — lives in regions where Apophis could, in principle, be seen with the naked eye on April 13, 2029. The actual viewing success will depend more on earthly considerations, however, including cloud cover and the extent of light pollution.
Known formally as 99942 Apophis, the space rock will not resemble a blazing meteor tearing through the sky. Instead, scientists say it will appear as a point-like speck of light gliding steadily across, which, at its closest approach, will appear to move by about the apparent width of the full moon every minute.
Maybe we should try taking a once-in-a-millennium opportunity to practice diverting a large asteroid.
TO BOLDLY GO WHERE GIULIANI WENT 30 YEARS AGO: Viral Video Shows Woman Learning the Hard Way That BART’s New Fare Gates Are a Real Pain in the Butt.
No, if and or butts: you have to pay the fare, according to San Francisco authorities who are taking a rare logical step in trying to slow the radical decline that has befallen the City by the Bay. It all went down last Wednesday, according to the local outlet SFist:
A woman who was clearly attempting to evade paying a fare became stuck under a BART entry gate at a San Francisco station last week, and a BART agent took some video of the situation that has since gone viral.
“This is terrible,” says the woman filming what is now a viral video clip, who it seems is a BART employee.
“We can’t even open it without harming you [now],” she adds.
Another agent can be heard telling the woman, “You could have just asked us,” suggesting they might have taken pity on her and let her through if she didn’t have money for the fare.
What a bum trip.
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Who would have thunk?
Well, actually, the folks who came up with the “Broken Windows” theory, which asserts that overlooking small crimes inevitably leads to lawlessness. The concept was used successfully to tackle crime in New York City in the 1990s under then-Police Commissioner William Bratton, who served under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, but California lawmakers have found it to be too big a pain in the butt to apply in the Golden State.
Although this lady’s plans may have gotten rear-ended, she also just proved that San Francisco may just be making sense for once.
Why did it take California leftists three decades to stumble onto the idea that stopping fare jumpers will lower the crime rates on your subways?
SPOILER: IT DID NOT AGE WELL.
Here's @jodikantor, one of the NYT journos who broke the Weinstein story, naturally, an avid early proponent of MeToo, even had a movie made about her and Megan Twohey breaking the story—here she is writing off @lyndseyfifield for essentially partisan reasons. How's this aged? https://t.co/glPxae0bYF
— Neeraja Deshpande (@neerajadeshp) July 6, 2026
Plus this from Stephen L. Miller: “If journalists actually cared about their reputations and credibility, Jodie Kantor would be fired and out of a job this morning.”
Another spoiler: The only thing they care about is their diminishing ability to establish and maintain lefty narratives.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: NASA just found a planet ‘hiding’ in TESS spacecraft data, all thanks to Einstein.
DISPATCHES FROM M-SNOW:
MSNOW is attacking a media outlet for publishing corroborated rape allegations because it’s hurting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo who has previously been accused of hurting women. https://t.co/Jue3r7i5TG
— Sunny (@sunnyright) July 7, 2026
Morning Joe, huh?
“Start your tape right now,” [MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough] continued, “because I’m about to tell you the truth. And eff you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second, and I’ve known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”
—Scarborough Goes Full Nutcase Defending Biden’s Mental Acuity, Matt Margolis, PJ Media.com, March 6th, 2024.
