BETTERIDGE’S LAW OF HEADLINES REMAINS UNDEFEATED: Are the British the most evil people in history?

If you have not spent a great deal of time on the internet, you will probably know the British actress Jameela Jamil for her starring role in the popular comedy series The Good Place, or alternatively from her appearance in the Marvel miniseries She Hulk: Attorney at Law. 

However, for the terminally online, Jamil is either a savior who is unafraid to say controversial things that her peers would shy away from, or someone whose batshit crazy utterances are given far too much attention given her modest celebrity status.

The latest of her pronouncements is on Brexit, ten years on, along with sundry instances of racism and horror in her home country. Jamil declared that “Britain is fucked. It doesn’t feel as though I’m going back to some haven. There’s literally a race war happening now.. Brexit paved the way for American chaos.”

For good measure, she also declared in the Yestergays podcast with Justin Sylvester,“I had to make [her Good Place] character Tahani more of a bitch. Americans think British people are so sweet, which is crazy because British people are truly the most evil people in history.”

Jamil went on to declare that Britain owed £43 trillion in reparations to India, as well as saying that “We colonized the world. Rich British people are not likable to anyone. They are horrible.”

Could be much worse through — back in 2005, Glenn quoted an Insta-reader who noted that “Harry Turtledove had an excellent short story, ‘The Last Article,’ about how Gandhi would have fared in a Nazi occupied India. It’s a short story. Both in context and content.” As Glenn replied, “Yes, I read that. Some of the Nazis feel slightly guilty about killing him and his followers.”

ALL FRAUD ALL THE TIME:

In one notable example, an 88 year old woman who lives in a trailer and has no computer is listed as having donated over $150K to Dem campaigns. Including 47 times to @AbdulElSayed ‘s Senate campaign.

Where is this money really coming from?

Needs to be investigated. https://t.co/JRP6ZLGwSX pic.twitter.com/KxsbsyCcsY

— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 22, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: C CUSHION LAB Deep Sleep Pillow. #CommissionEarned

DAVID HARSANYI: America needs a new Red Scare.

Even a few years ago, accusing a Democrat of Marxist leanings would have sparked great indignation. Today? Democrats campaign with Piker. Once-respected institutions invite him to pontificate on history. Leading progressive media outlets such as Pod Save America and The Bulwark treat him as a normal political operative, never grilling him on his support for an ideology that’s put tens of millions of people into the ground.

Many more elected Democrats have welcomed Hasan-style “democratic socialists” — the preferred euphemism of modern communists — into their “big tent” than criticized them.

They do so because polls find young people increasingly prefer the red-green alliance of Islamist and communists to anything resembling traditional American political coalitions. Theoretically, at least, they prefer collectivism to markets. They prefer protest and “action” to debate and governing. They prefer violent theocratic regimes such as Hamas to free capitalistic nations such as Israel. The Overton Window is in warp drive.

When President Donald Trump stood at Mount Rushmore on the eve of the nation’s 250th anniversary, delivering an unapologetically patriotic speech, he threw in a few words to denounce this rise of communism as “a mortal threat to American liberty.”

This greatly offended many in the media.

Of course it did — the media largely agrees with the commies.

R.I.P. JOHN DVORAK.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

"I have no clue what you're talking about, Mr. Gill." https://t.co/Kws1TuPSjH pic.twitter.com/HVciOjtBwL

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 22, 2026

TRUMP, OCASIO-CORTEZ SPAR OVER COMMUNISM LABEL AS DSA’S INFLUENCE GROWS IN DEMOCRATIC PARTY:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed back Wednesday on GOP accusations that her fellow democratic socialists will drive into Congress a communist agenda, saying Republicans “are seeking to usher in a new McCarthyism for this era.”

“Their only way in a time of deep unpopularity is to try to stoke fear and new conspiracies. And so they’re trying to inject conversations about communism to scare people,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat said, before ticking off DSA policies she supports, including Medicare for all, raising the minimum wage and stronger unions.

“If a Republican wants to call a stronger union ’communist,’ they’re more than welcome to do that. I’m not going to be deterred,” she said.

That’s what frightens the rest of us — we remember your “ban all the things” Green Nude Eel phase in 2019, and believe you still very much want to implement every bit of it.

Exit question:

The communist question for political office is brutally simple:

How can someone swear to support and defend the Constitution while openly seeking to destroy the constitutional order it created?

Believing vile things is protected. Advocating lawful constitutional change is… https://t.co/GWP4pdm8gH

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) July 22, 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Academia: We don't hire conservatives because they are flat earthers, reject evolution, etc.

Also academia: We are happy to announce we hired our 10,000th Leninist professor who believes men can get pregnant, math is white supremacy, overthrowing capitalism ends poverty, etc.

— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) July 22, 2026

Honestly, if academics truly believe this about themselves, just shut the whole thing down. No public funding for university academics. It was a fun experiment but taxpayers should no longer pay for people to professionally hate them. https://t.co/MKkQyCWztD

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) July 22, 2026

GET’EM SKEWERED AND KEEP THE SKEWER IN’EM, TO MANGLE A QUOTE: The Adults in the Room Skewer Boy Mayor Mamdani After He Admits He Can’t Fulfill Major Promise/

THE ECONOMIST: America should stop making it so hard to have fun.

Thriving nightlife is good for both economic and social reasons. Economically, livelier streets tend to make cities better places to live, helping create productive clusters of skilled young workers who wish to socialise as well as build careers. As a side-benefit, the extra foot traffic can make streets safer.
A bustling late-night economy also makes for good social policy. Bars, music venues and nightclubs are the sorts of places where young people can have fun together, regardless of whether alcohol is involved. Official data show that, between 2003 and 2023, the average amount of time 18- to 30-year-old Americans spent socialising each day fell by 38%. According to one survey, roughly one-third of single people aged 22 to 35 say they have not been out on a date in the past year. Dancing is, according to our fact-checked analysis, a far superior activity to doomscrolling.

American cities should make it easier to create places for people to gather and have fun. Many of those places will be open late into the night and involve alcohol. That means speeding up permits so that applications do not languish as business owners rack up costs; simplifying licensing rules that only a specialist can navigate; and getting rid of arbitrarily low quotas on liquor licences. Cities should also invest more in measures that actually improve safety. Better late-night public transport would be a good start. More police resources would help, too.

The good news is that more American cities are now taking an enlightened view of the night. In New York City, red tape that limits dancing in bars has been cut. San Francisco has begun simplifying its permit process for entertainment venues. The debate over Boston’s later closing hours was prompted by hordes of good-natured Scottish football fans who descended on the city for the World Cup in June. The Scots may not be that good at football but they did show the city how wonderful the wee hours can be. Even before then, Boston had increased its supply of liquor licences.

Keeping up this momentum is good economics and even better social policy. And if that sounds a little dry, there’s a simpler argument: a night out is a lot of fun. More American cities should embrace it.

As Edward Slingerland discusses in his excellent book, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization (which I discuss here) alcohol consumption has upsides and downsides, but we only drive policy with the downsides.

FROM JEFF DUNTEMANN:  Morning Man.

When Wisconsin farmer Nelson Threader inherits his late father’s estate, he dreams of being a DJ and buys the nearby town’s little two-DJ dawn-to-dusk AM radio station from its retiring owner. He then buys an AI DJ as a spare to allow the human DJs to take time off. The bottom-of-the-line AI appliance comes with just one voice personality, and can “wear” only one voice at a time. When WXQJ’s beloved morning man leaves on a long-overdue vacation, AI DJ Mike Noon quickly gets on the town’s nerves, especially the station’s advertisers. Nelson realizes he can either run his voice ragged DJing full 16-hour summer days or go broke. The AI offers to help him, but Nelson is definitely of two minds about the help he gets.

TUESDAY’S PRIMARY RESULTS:  Trump-backed candidates, including ex-Giants, Jets kicker Jay Feely, easily win Arizona primaries — socialist House hopeful gets smoked.

WELL, DON LEMON …  Watch Don Lemon Immediately Undercut His Own Talking Point in the Same Sentence.

HE’S PROGRESSIVE, HE’S JEWISH, HE ISN’T HAPPY WITH  THE PARTY’S NEW, SOCIALIST, ANTISEMITIC LEADERSHIP:  There’s Another Reason Why This Dem Rep Won’t Seek Re-Election, but, of Course, CNN Buried It.

ABOUT TIME:  Elite universities face federal cash squeeze over millions tied to China-linked entities. Donors include firms tied to the Chinese military and a Beijing research institute appearing on two government watchlists.

I LIKE IT:  Business idea – socialist-themed holiday camp.

OKAY, THAT’S NEW. IT USED TO BE PEOPLE JUST HAD NO IDEA THEY’D VOTED…  Long Island town slapped with subpoenas after granny, 83, claimed she ‘had no idea’ she was a candidate.

I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE, AND HOW MUCH OF THIS IS JUST THE MEDIA AND THE INSTITUTIONS:  Why is anyone taking these people seriously?

I DON’T TRUST ANY NUMBERS THESE DAYS. HOW MANY OF THESE ARE ON THE GIG ECONOMY?  Shocking 105 million Americans are not working – more than during COVID or the Great Recession.

They’d probably count me in this.

AS I SAID:  Investigation: Hamas planned massive October 7th attacks across Europe. Swiss newspaper reports Hamas had a years-long plot to carry out an October 7-style wave of coordinated terrorist attacks across Europe, targeting Israeli, Jewish, and Western institutions.

IT’S STUPID. LET’S NOT:  The DSA’s Plan to Remake America. In light of recent victories in New York by Democratic Socialists, it is important to appreciate how they are not shy about wanting to eradicate and remake our current government institutions.

OH, GOOD. I’VE BEEN HOPING NEWS WOULD START GOING THAT WAY:  Local, Without National Drama: A philosophy of News.

YEAH. HERE TOO:  Just One Damned Thing After Another.

THIS IS QUITE THE STORY:  CBP Flagged Peter Daszak at the Border. The FBI Told Them to Stand Down.  Newly released documents show Customs built a terrorism-response inspection for Daszak’s Feb 2021 return from the WHO’s Wuhan mission — then the FBI’s New York office told them not to stop him.

WHAT A LONG STRANGE ROAD IT’S BEEN. SO I FINISHED THE SOUND TRACK:  The End of the Sound Track.

Perhaps my first try and getting stuck on writing the sound track for a building shouldn’t have been for my longest book!