July 30, 2026

THIS:

Torches and pitchforks.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

July 29, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IS SOCIALISM A FAD OR FULL-ON THREAT? Are the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) just a passing fad or a real, long-term threat to the Democratic Party and ultimately America? That’s the question discussed on the latest edition of the Outstanding podcast by host Casey Harper, The Washington Stand’s Managing Editor for Broadcast, Matt Carpener, chief of Family Research Council (FRC) Action, and yours truly.

Posted at 9:08 pm by Mark Tapscott

HAHA:

Not as good as Tony Soprano’s version in general, but it fits this setting perfectly.

Posted at 8:55 pm by Glenn Reynolds

CHECKS OUT:

Posted at 6:40 pm by Stephen Green

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Posted at 5:38 pm by Stephen Green

REQUIRED READING:

“It is amazing, yet not surprising, that for all the left’s protestations about ‘injustice’ they purposely overlook, even celebrate, the most egregious abuse of power in my lifetime.”

Posted at 5:23 pm by Stephen Green

SPINAL TAP WAS NOT INTENDED AS A HOW-TO GUIDE: Katy Perry got stuck in a giant plastic bottle at her concert and the crowd wouldn’t roll her back toward the stage. “This was at the Isle of MTV Malta festival on the 22nd, and apparently she thought the best way to start the show was to hop inside a giant inflatable water bottle and crowd surf in it:”

Derek Smalls did it so much better, many decades ago:

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

GOOD NAME: U.S. military tests Hammer of the Gods in new sea trial. “Hammer of the Gods is not a weapon in the traditional sense of something that fires a projectile. It is an emitter, a piece of hardware that broadcasts electromagnetic signals, built to deliver an expanded suite of command-and-control capabilities alongside a wider set of electronic warfare functions from a highly deployable, low-signature platform. Electronic warfare covers the broad category of military operations that use the electromagnetic spectrum, the invisible range of radio waves, radar, and satellite signals that modern militaries depend on, either to disrupt an adversary’s systems or to protect friendly ones from being disrupted in turn. Because Hammer of the Gods keeps a low electromagnetic signature, meaning it does not broadcast in a way that makes it easy for an enemy to detect and target, it can push forward into contested areas and deliver what the Army describes as multi-domain effects at the forward edge of operations, essentially projecting electronic warfare capability into the thick of a fight rather than staying safely in the rear.”

Posted at 4:52 pm by Stephen Green

FAUCI MADE FAUCI MORE MOCKABLE THAN EVER:

I’ll have much more on Fauci’s mockability in tomorrow’s Thursday Essay.

Posted at 4:36 pm by Stephen Green

HEH:

Alternate headline: Leftism as a Cult, Exhibit #1,000,006.

Posted at 4:05 pm by Stephen Green

SPACE: NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch. Here’s why it’s so cool.

After more than a decade in development, the Roman Space Telescope will launch at 7:20 a.m. on Aug. 30 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida — eight months ahead of schedule. Its mission? To study how the universe began, what it’s made of and how it has evolved over time — while (hopefully) helping scientists solve some of modern astronomy’s biggest mysteries in the process.

NASA will preview that mission at a virtual news conference today at 2 p.m. ET.

“We’re going to find one-in-a-million things over and over and over again,” Jeremy Perkins, a Roman Telescope scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, recently predicted.

What kinds of things? Habitable planets in our own galaxy, perhaps. And dark energy. And primordial black holes.

Bring ’em on.

Posted at 3:50 pm by Stephen Green

JUST THINK OF IT AS A SPECIES OF REPARATIONS:

Posted at 3:03 pm by Stephen Green