It's 1979. You flip on the TV and happen to catch the end of this masterpiece.

.@Glinner I just noticed after 30 years that when Ted wants to impress a woman, he leaves out Crime&Punishment, War&Peace, The Odyssey... and Roddy Doyle's The Commitments! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Besides a Palestinian you’ll find half a dozen split rubbers, a grapefruit and a dead gerbil.

Harry H Corbett & Fenella Fielding shine in this moment from Carry On Screaming (1966)

Hey @TheEconomist I think I just figured out why you do not like @nayibbukele

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth drains 9 out of 10 three-point shots after a workout. Hegseth played basketball for Princeton University from 1999-2003. In high school, he set the school record for most career three-point shots. Impressive.

October 3, 1993. Mogadishu. Two Delta snipers looked down from a Black Hawk at a crash site the city was already closing on. Super Six-Four was down. The crew was wounded. Ground forces could not reach them in time. Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart asked to be put on the ground. Denied. They asked again. Denied. Two men could not hold that ground, and everyone on the radio knew it. They asked a third time. This time the answer was yes. They fast-roped in with sniper rifles, sidearms, and not enough ammunition. They pulled Chief Warrant Officer Michael Durant from the wreck and set a perimeter they already knew they could not keep. Shughart was killed. Gordon ran dry, handed Durant a rifle and the last rounds, said “good luck,” and went back in with his pistol. He was killed minutes later. Durant lived. He later said he owed his life to those two men. They were the first Medals of Honor awarded since Vietnam. Awarded posthumously, May 23, 1994. They did not go down because they thought they would win. They went down because the men on the ground were still alive. Never forget MSG Gary I. Gordon and SFC Randall D. Shughart.

Just ratioed a sitting Governor!

Someone was kidnapped by ICE in my neighborhood today, they got him by luring him to a giant X with tacos and modelos in the middle. When he got there, ICE dropped a giant piano on top of him. I’m told he’s being sent to Uganda and has piano keys as teeth now. Just tragic.

Hislop has ruined Private Eye. We see him week after week on HIGNFY trotting out the establishment views then we are supposed to believe that Private Eye holds truth to power.

“ Si un État ne parvient pas à vaincre la criminalité, c’est parce que l’État est complice, ou parce que certaines parties de l’État le sont. Une fois que l’État se libère de cette complicité et agit avec force contre les criminels, il les vainc.” - Nayib Bukele

Are you listening @TheEconomist ?

Yeah!

If there were no political interest in it, would Illinois still be so “benevolent” toward illegal immigration using taxpayer money? That question is just the beginning. Illinois says public safety is a priority. But look beyond the rhetoric and into the spending, the policies, the exceptions and the enforcement of the law. Because when government decides some laws are inconvenient, someone else eventually pays the price. I know that because my daughter Katie did. Her death in Sanctuary Urbana, Illinois exposed how many links in the chain can fail before a tragedy ever reaches an intersection. This isn't about legal immigration. My family immigrated legally. It is about illegal immigration, selective enforcement, accountability, and what happens when the people making consequential decisions aren't the ones who bear the consequences. They don't pay the price. We do. That's the story I tell in this piece. angeldadjoeabraham.substack.… This photo was taken at the June 12, 2025 Oversight Committee hearing, less than five months after Katie’s violent, tragic and preventable death. I sat feet away from the Illinois Governor for more than eight hours. He turned his back on us. Not a glance. Not a word. Not an utterance as Katie’s circumstances were being told. Compassion? Humanity? Humility? Empathy? Accountability? Or just arrogance?

St. Paul, Minnesota — Masked federal agent pepper-sprays protesters directly in the face at point-blank range FOLLOW @mr_pool4

Shocking I know 🙄 But this is Illinois. So, unfortunately, that’s par for the course. Katie's case? Not a word from Illinois’ one-party system. They create the policies, Katie pays the price, and then I’m told, “Don’t make it political.”

The Two Ronnies (2nd October 1976). The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town continues his reign of terror.

I never wanted to become an advocate. I wanted to be Katie’s dad. Politics was never my wheelhouse. I wasn’t politically active, wasn’t on social media, and never imagined I would spend my life questioning immigration policy, government decisions and accountability. Then Katie was killed. Grief forced me to ask questions. What I found led me from the stoplight where Katie died to decisions made long before that night, by people far removed from our family and the consequences of their choices. For years, I knew Illinois had problems. I was resigned to them. Katie broke that resignation. I now see government differently: not just by its intentions, but by its outcomes; not just by who it intends to help, but by who bears the consequences. Katie is on the other side of that ledger. I never chose this fight. I was forced into it. And I don’t want anyone else to become me. Reflections on Katie: The Advocate I Never Planned to Become substack.com/@angeldadjoeabr…

18 years ago, only one Duke student went on mainstream media to defend the Duke lacrosse players His name is Stephen Miller

‘BBC Dad’ shares new photos of his kids 9 years later ‘Some BBC Dad content, it’s been awhile’ [via/ X Robert_E_Kelly]

Suck on this, @TheEconomist