FLASHBACK:
“War” 🫳🏼🎤 pic.twitter.com/wtBWjA5Mxw
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 30, 2026
June 30, 2026
SALENA ZITO: The spirit of ’76 lives on as Pennsylvania rallies for America’s birthday.
Two days ago, Beth Ann Bossio woke up to the news that Pennsylvania would not have a booth at the Great American State Fair, the Fourth of July celebration underway on the National Mall in Washington.
The decision was made by Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), who told the New Republic he would not send a delegation to the fair in honor of America 250 after his administration said it canvassed opinions among Pennsylvania businesses and told the reporter, “None of them were interested.”
Shapiro said their disinterest “reflects the sad state of affairs that we find ourselves in that the president politicized this to a degree that businesses don’t want to participate.”
Spoilsport.
More:
Her reaction wasn’t alone. Sens. David McCormick (R-PA) and John Fetterman (D-PA) were on the phone at the crack of dawn Saturday as soon as the New Republic Shapiro interview became public.
Within hours, McCormick and Fetterman were working the phones, reaching out to the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce, PennAg, and scores of businesses, urging them to step up. Most Pennsylvania businesses answered the call.
So far, Crayola, the Pennsylvania Coal Alliance, Core Natural Resources, Quandel Construction, Schlouch Construction, Utz, Orvis Hill Country, GNC, MSA, The Safety Company, Vitro Glass, the Marcellus Shale Coalition, the Neighbor Helping Neighbor Food Bank, and Camp Susque are all donating displays, manpower, carpentry expertise, or donations.
Volunteer firefighters from across the state offered to staff the booth. So did the owner of a pest control company in Montgomery County. They are just a few examples of the people, small-business owners, and large companies now clamoring to make Pennsylvania’s booth reflect the state’s cultural and economic influence, past and present.
So much more at the link. And if anyone “politicized this,” it was Shapiro.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!
One would think that the the idiocy of the left wouldn't surprise me anymore but this whole thing where Europeans actually think not using AC will make the weather cooler in their lifetimes is absolutely bananas.
— RBe (@RBPundit) June 30, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: We Regret to Inform You That Election Integrity Won’t Be Returning.“It was Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett who decided to aid and abet the Democrats in their election fraud efforts. I can complain all I want about activist libs in the judiciary, but they never, ever waver on this issues that are most important to the Democrats.”
MOBSTERS SHOULD PREEMPTIVELY DESTROY BOLSHEVIKS, BUT THEY NEVER SEEM TO: The Democratic Civil War: the Organized Crime Democrats are Losing to the Bolsheviks.
NOW ON SUBSTACK, MY THOUGHTS ON THE SUPREME COURT’S SLAUGHTER OPINION: Bringing Back the ‘Spoils System?’ Yes, Please. A better name would be an “accountability system.” And it’s just the beginning.
DON SURBER: Obama’s red revolution: Communists take credit for the works of capitalism. “The thin-skinned Obama was the first communist president. No one cared that he was black. What mattered was he was red.”
WAR IS HELL: Lack of Gasoline Getting to Russians, Part Two.
SOCIALISM: The construction failures and risky geography behind Venezuela’s quake tragedy.
When late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez built this coastal housing development bearing his name as part of his socialist revolution, residents found a fresh start after deadly floods had decimated the area more than a decade earlier.
But after two back‑to‑back earthquakes flattened parts of the 1,100-unit complex on Wednesday, engineers are urging the Venezuelan government to swiftly audit similar public housing that is still standing.
“I lost my whole apartment,” said Yelsa Rojas, who since 2015 has lived on the second floor of the building colloquially known as ‘Los Cocos’, for its proximity to a beach of the same name.
“We think everyone on the second floor is dead,” she said. The only reason she’s alive is because she was at a medical appointment when the quakes hit, she added.
While engineers and construction specialists said it was too soon to declare exactly why individual buildings collapsed, decades of neglect, a lack of enforcement of building codes and shoddy licensing practices under Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, likely exacerbated the disaster’s human cost.
So many broken eggs, and still not a single omelette.
21ST CENTURY WARFARE:
The 84.7 km range of this Wovkulaka Spitfire FPV interceptor is going to give every Western surface to air missile and helicopter defense contractor a heart attack.
"Usable drone air superiority" has arrived.
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) June 29, 2026
Learn these lessons now, while it’s cheap to do so.
THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE THE DATA:
Why would anyone use prediction models when we can use real mortality data?
Answer: Because you can't make bodies appear out of thin air, but you can make fake projections appear out of thin air.
When we look at mortality data what do we see? All cause mortality went down. HIV… https://t.co/ZGntngt8xf pic.twitter.com/h5VqM2tTnk
— Aesthetica (@Anc_Aesthetics) June 30, 2026
“As predicted, USAID was just a Democrat slush fund they used to pay their activists, journalists and NGO workers.”
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Tipsy Elves Patriotic Shirts for Men. #CommissionEarned
OWN GOAL: The Left Asked for This, It Got It, and I Can’t Stop Gloating. “Ironically, leftist insistence that Americans drop their predilection for brutish, uncouth sports like football and baseball and embrace a cultured, international sport like soccer brought this about.”
I GUESS THEY COULD STILL SURPRISE US, BUT…:
Signs we lost birthright citizenship:
No leaks to the press on the decision
No fencing around the Supreme Court
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 30, 2026
IT’S COME TO THIS:
Chinese people are trolling Europeans by posting videos on social media showing that even their pigs have air conditioning, while many Europeans can’t because of government rules. pic.twitter.com/k4yNJKRArc
— Saffron Sniper (@Saffron_Sniper1) June 28, 2026
BRITTANY SHEEHAN ON SOME RECENT(ISH) SCOTUS HISTORY, AND WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN: How Did We End Up With ACB Instead of Barbara Lagoa on the Supreme Court? I Have Thoughts.
According to CNN’s reporting based on nearly a dozen sources, White House officials had begun making plans for Trump to meet with Lagoa in person. Then that idea got scrapped.
Barrett’s supporters inside the White House — including White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Vice President Mike Pence — moved quickly to lock in their pick before Trump could change his mind. They ran out the clock.
On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had already told Trump that senators felt comfortable with Barrett and that anything complicating the confirmation timeline needed to be avoided at all costs.
Trump never sat down with Lagoa. He nominated Amy Coney Barrett on September 26th.
The evening before announcing Barrett, Trump was still polling guests at a fundraiser about whom he should pick.
When someone suggested Lagoa, he said:
“Let her know she’s going to have her chance.”
Read the whole thing.
ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL UNWILLING TO VOTE FOR SECURE ELECTIONS SHOULD MAKE YOU WONDER HOW THEY GOT ELECTED:
The Senate is on vacation for the next two weeks.
Sorry folks, no SAVE America Act right now…
It’s mind boggling that having secure elections is not the #1 priority pic.twitter.com/chgtiCjtJv
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 29, 2026
I’VE BEEN POINTING THIS OUT FOR A WHILE: America Didn’t Lose Its Tradesmen by Accident.
SCOTT PINSKER: Something Is Very, Very Strange About the Media’s Fixation on Pete Buttigieg’s CPS Swatting Story. “The mainstream media’s reaction is fascinating. Over the past few years, a shocking number of conservatives, Republican politicians, Trump cabinet officials, and MAGA personalities have been victimized by politically motivated swatting attacks, and until now, the media’s silence has been deafening.”
Hiring for new college graduates is pretty grim. And, adding insult to injury, not only are their applications screened by AI, but now the initial interviews are conducted by AI. Sometimes it’s even an AI avatar. That can be demoralizing:
Even though it’s a video interview, I’m still keen to impress.
When I log on, my interviewer, whose name I didn’t catch, looks relaxed and friendly.
He asks carefully articulated questions, listens intently, and even asks follow ups regarding particular examples I mention.
But then, strange things start happening.
He takes a while to process what I’m saying, and his facial expression remains unchanged. Then, halfway through asking me to explain a particular work scenario, he disappears without another word. He’s an AI – and he’s crashed.
Bad vibes there for sure.
VANCE-RUBIO SPLIT ON IRAN: Richard Pollock, writing on Substack, sees substantial evidence that Vice-President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are pursuing widely different paths in the unfolding Iran drama. Could be a significant prelude to the 2028 GOP presidential nomination battle?
June 29, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
SONY DELETES 551 STUDIOCANAL MOVIES PLAYSTATION OWNERS PAID FOR:
The titles all come from StudioCanal, the distributor behind Terminator 2, Total Recall, Rambo: First Blood, The Deer Hunter, Bridget Jones’s Diary, From Dusk Till Dawn, and Cliffhanger.
Anyone who hit “buy” on one of them will open their library that morning and find a hole where it used to be. PlayStation’s notice states it without apology: “You will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content from Studio Canal, and it will be removed from your video library.”
The justification Sony offers runs to six words, “due to our content licensing agreements.”
A licensing deal between Sony and StudioCanal expired or shifted, and the people who paid are the ones losing their films over it. None of them signed that contract and none gets a vote in it.
X user somatyk surfaced the news on June 25, posting the notification they’d received. The message signed off with, “Click here for a full list of affected titles that will no longer be supported. Thank you.” Sony has since reproduced the same warning, and the full roster of 551 titles, on the PlayStation website.
Nobody rented these movies. The store put a “buy” button next to them, charged the purchase price, and dropped them into a library it called yours. Sony can empty that library the moment a contract somewhere upstream changes, and the terms of service you scrolled past on first boot already say you agreed to this.
If the movie case feels abstract, the games industry just made the same point with its biggest release in over a decade. GTA 6 arrives November 19, and the boxed copy you can buy at Walmart or GameStop contains no disc. Take-Two confirmed it in a press release: “The physical version of Grand Theft Auto VI, containing a download code inside the box, will be available starting November 12, 2026 to support pre-loading.”
As Steve would say, “Buy. Physical. Media.”
NOW ON SUBSTACK, MY THOUGHTS ON THE SUPREME COURT’S SLAUGHTER OPINION: Bringing Back the ‘Spoils System?’ Yes, Please. A better name would be an “accountability system.” And it’s just the beginning.
