ALWAYS: Pro-Palestinian ‘sham’ charity partnered with Ivy League schools: reports.

WOKENESS MUST BE SHOT WITH A SILVER BULLET, HAVE A STAKE DRIVEN THROUGH ITS HEART, THE ANCIENT SPELL GIVING IT ETERNAL LIFE UNDONE, SET ABLAZE, AND ITS ASHES CAST INTO THE WINDS: ‘Sexual Minorities’ and ‘Lavender Orientation’: Universities Double Down on Wokeness.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Survey shows nearly one in four Gen Z workers regret college, with men most likely to question its value.

DIG, BABY, DIG: Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build Tesla tunnels under Nashville.

The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging company, and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee have announced a plan to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect Nashville’s downtown and its convention center to the area’s airport.

The project will be privately funded by The Boring Company “and its private partners,” according to the Governor’s press release, though those partners are not named. The Boring Company and local officials will now begin a “public process to evaluate potential routes, engage community stakeholders, and finalize plans for the project’s initial 10-mile phase.”

Construction won’t begin until the project clears the approvals process. But the governor’s office said the first segment of the loop could be operational as “early as fall of 2026.”

If that happens, Nashville would become the second city where The Boring Company has opened such a system, with the first being Las Vegas. The company has spent the last few years in Sin City digging and opening tunnels around the Las Vegas Convention Center, and claims to have given 3 million rides in Teslas to date.

All this tunneling is just well-paid practice for Mars.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Now Playing in a Congress Near You — Dem Kabuki Crazy Theater. “Today we’re looking at Sen. Cory ‘Hey, a Camera!’ Booker — aka New Jersey’s lousiest performance artist. Not one to let assigned gender roles slow him down, Booker is determined to crack the Prosecco Ceiling and become one of the Democratic Party’s mean girls.”

DEI TRIUMPHS: Colorado Reappoints Law School Dean Despite Faculty Vote Of No Confidence. At least it’s hard to imagine this happening with a white male who paid out six figures on a race discrimination lawsuit.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public.

A team of researchers in California drew notoriety last year with an aborted experiment on a retired aircraft carrier that sought to test a machine for creating clouds.  

But behind the scenes, they were planning a much larger and potentially riskier study of salt-water-spraying equipment that could eventually be used to dim the sun’s rays — a multimillion-dollar project aimed at producing clouds over a stretch of ocean larger than Puerto Rico.

The details outlined in funding requests, emails, texts and other records obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News raise new questions about a secretive billionaire-backed initiative that oversaw last year’s brief solar geoengineering experiment on the San Francisco Bay.

They also offer a rare glimpse into the vast scope of research aimed at finding ways to counter the Earth’s warming, work that has often occurred outside public view.

Same people always blathering on about “saving our democracy” from Trump, right?

DON SURBER: How Sydney Sweeney Got the Job.

THIS:

Once you stop trying to understand this stuff as ideology, but properly understand it as resentment, it all makes sense. https://t.co/q7qVEkdlII

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) July 29, 2025

But the jealous annoying people don’t actually matter unless you let them:

Backfire – 😂😂😂 https://t.co/LIvU4GRTBM

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 29, 2025

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Find 2 Existing Drugs Can Reverse Alzheimer’s Brain Damage in Mice.

MORE ROTTEN FRUIT FROM OUR “EXPERT” CLASS: Covid Lockdowns Devastated an Entire Generation of Children.

EVERYTHING SEEMS TO GO BACK TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Bombshell Study Reveals Real Reason Behind Surge in Homelessness. “Using direct estimates from local government sources and indirect methods based on demographic changes, we estimate that asylum seekers accounted for about 60 percent of the two year rise in sheltered homelessness during this period, challenging media and policy narratives that primarily attribute this rise to local economic conditions and housing affordability.”

DAVID STROM: The Cincinnati Shame. “So what changed my mind about writing about the incident? It’s simple: Cincinnati Police Chief Terri Theetge’s comments on the incident, which appeared to suggest that there is any context in which a crowd of teens could attack a couple on the street and not be 100% in the wrong.”

ICYMI: Israel Might Annex Gaza… All Because of France?

TRUE:

The most important thing to remember in urban planning is that everyone is a childless 32 year old tech industry drone who works at a downtown highrise office

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 29, 2025

LIGHTNING DEAL: SHOKZ OpenRun Pro – Open-Ear Bluetooth Bone Conduction Sport Headphones. #CommissionEarned

WELL, GOOD: Huckabee says there’s ‘no break’ between US and Israel following Trump Gaza comments.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee pushed back on the idea that President Donald Trump has broken with Israel’s government in calling out the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on Tuesday, adding that he remains close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Let me assure you that there is no break between the prime minister of Israel and the president,” Huckabee said in a Tuesday interview with Fox News. “Their relationship, I think, [is] stronger than it’s ever been, and I think the relationship between the U.S. and Israel is as strong as it’s ever been.”

The comments come after Trump said Monday that there is “real starvation” in Gaza, contradicting Netanyahu’s denial of a hunger crisis in the war-torn region. A United Nations-backed report warned this week that a “worst-case scenario of famine” is playing out in Gaza.

Earlier this month, Netanyahu said there was “no daylight” between his government and the Trump administration, praising Trump for the recent U.S. military’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites.

Trump and Netanyahu are doing what must be done to restore some semblance of peace to the Middle East, while politically correct fools in London and Paris work to undo to it by recognizing Palestine.

OVERPRODUCTION OF ELITES: The Most Dangerous Class in America? High Education/Low Income Voters. “The Lumpencommentariate is a larger and growing class of political actors who provide the ground troops and the numbers for the woke mob. . . . AWFLs are an easy target for critics of woke because they are highly performative and have the resources to showcase their supposed virtue in ways that break through culturally. They have The View, Race2Dinner, and move in social circles that amplify and influence culturally elite institutions. They are also similar enough in class to be recognizable to most people as overlapping with their own bourgeois aspirations, while at the same time loudly rejecting the comforts of bourgeois life, while enjoying them. In other words, they are grossly hypocritical and easy to mock. The Lumpencommentariate is a distinct breed, typically younger. They share the same education and, if anything, even more radical politics born of resentment rather than vague guilt born out of unearned wealth. This is the base of support for truly radical politics. Highly-educated but low-income voters who feel betrayed by society.”

Kenneth Anderson had some thoughts on this quite a while ago:

In social theory, OWS is best understood not as a populist movement against the bankers, but instead as the breakdown of the New Class into its two increasingly disconnected parts. The upper tier, the bankers-government bankers-super credentialed elites. But also the lower tier, those who saw themselves entitled to a white collar job in the Virtue Industries of government and non-profits — the helping professions, the culture industry, the virtueocracies, the industries of therapeutic social control, as Christopher Lasch pointed out in his final book, The Revolt of the Elites. The two tiers of the New Class have always had different sources of rents, however. . . . The OWS protestors are a revolt — a shrill, cri-de-coeur wail at the betrayal of class solidarity — of the lower tier New Class against the upper tier New Class. It was, after all, the upper tier New Class, the private-public finance consortium, that created the student loan business and inflated the bubble in which these lower tier would-be professionals borrowed the money. It’s a securitization machine, not so very different from the subprime mortgage machine. The asset bubble pops, but the upper tier New Class, having insulated itself and, as with subprime, having taken its cut upfront and passed the risk along, is still doing pretty well. It’s not populism versus the bankers so much as internecine warfare between two tiers of elites. The downward mobility is real, however, in both income and status. The Cal graduate started out wanting to do ‘sustainable conservation.’ She is now engaged in something closer to subsistence farming.

It’s easy to have a comfortable life now, but people have been raised to crave distinction.

TED BALAKER: How the Monoculture Made Zohran Mamdani: The young socialist who will likely be New York’s next mayor was raised in a series of far-left echo chambers.

As were his supporters.

DAVID MANNEY: You Can’t Cancel Me for Being White. “I’m just a short, butt-ugly man who looks like the people I see in old black-and-white photos.”

MY STRUCTURAL EDITOR IS APPARENTLY BLOGGING:  Deej Explains Structural Editing. …and might just do a little dancing about architecture…

Did he tell me he was doing that? Did he? Aw, come on. No one tells me anything!

THIS EXPLAINS A LOT OF WHAT’S WRONG IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, EVEN DOWN TO DATING PROBLEMS.

"the elites being overproduced are increasingly women. And the people occupying these new 'diversity and inclusion'-oriented positions are overwhelmingly women. These positions are serving as new sinecures almost entirely for female aspirations" https://t.co/hiBejHhUQC pic.twitter.com/JUTx8zPIqv

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) July 28, 2025

IT WILL GIVE YOU SHIVERS:  Common Sense, Uncommon Courage.

MARTYRS ARE BLESSED, BUT OUR HEARTS BREAK ALL THE SAME:  ISIS-Affiliated Group Slaughtered Over 40 Catholics in Congo.

THIS IS ONE OF THE MESSES THAT OPEN BORDERS CAUSES:  ICE arrests illegal alien hired as police officer in Maine after he attempted to buy gun.

Guys! What even?