Holtzie

Lucky husband and father of 2 great kids/Proud 🐊/Bad 🏌️/Rock & roller/Seeker of the eternal buzz and something to do when I grow up/My dog will eat your cat.

[Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland]

Erick’s point another way. Key shared characteristic of Biden & Platner situations: No truly “new” allegations that prompted switcheroo. Everyone already knew Biden not mentally there b/f debate & that Platner was abusive scumbag b/f latest. Only thing “new” was polling information which, in the world we live in, is enough to permit Dems to override the will of the voters. That’s the story.  And it’s a story that will have lasting significance long beyond 2026.

[Sean Spicer @seanspicer]

Graham Platner didnt "end" his campaign -- DC Democrats forced him out

They knew he was a Nazi sympathizer
They knew he disparaged Black Americans
They knew he disparged veterans
They knew he disparaged women who dealt with sexual assault
They knew he was credibly charged w sexual assault

They finally realized he could not win

This has ALWAYS been about POWER

He was elected the nominee of the Democrat party knowing ALL of this

This is RIGGED

[Sean Spicer @seanspicer]

Platner drops out hours before the deadline for DC Democrat party leaders can replace him with their unelected choice

Seen this movie before?

Who is the party of Kings and Dictators?

Congrats Comrade Chuck

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

From Biden to Platner, it’s been astounding to discover how many officials within the self-appointed ‘Party of Democracy’ view their own *elections* as mere exhibition games — which don’t really count & can simply be nullified once outcomes become politically inconvenient.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Platner drops out. Now Maine is going to let 600 Democrat party insiders pick the new candidate, replacing the guy that 156,000 people voted for. Just like the party kicked Biden to the curb and replaced him with Kamala. Tell me again which party is a threat to democracy.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Notice the pattern between Biden and Platner, because it is the whole story. In both cases, the primary voters made a choice. In both cases, the party decided, after the fact, that the voters had chosen wrong. And in both cases, the same institution that lectures America about authoritarianism and “threats to democracy” moved heaven and earth to override the expressed will of its own electorate the moment that will became inconvenient. The people who cannot stop saying democracy is on the ballot keep discovering, at the decisive moment, that they trust themselves more than the demos.

https://t.co/q0XAVCnGq0

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

On today's date in 1901, over half of the U.S. was at or above 90°F and nearly 9% of the land area was at least 100°F. The same weather occurring this week occurred exactly 125 years ago, but according to most climate alarmists, it was just weather in 1901, but this week's three-day event is undeniable proof that we are facing a climate catastrophe.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

bets still on the table America, yet.

[Holtzie @Holtzie2]

@LloydCanfield @David_Ornstein My son went to the match. He was very disappointed in the English fans. You could hear a pin drop in the stadium for most of the match because England was losing. Why don’t you encourage your team when they’re down? Sitting on your hands in silence is no way to help your team.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

...The Democratic establishment is like a ship being pursued by pirates and tossing valuables in the hope of ostensibly keeping the ship. Instead, they are only feeding an insatiable appetite on the left for revolutionary change of our Republic.

[Rick Jackson @RickJacksonGA]

You don’t have to imagine what Keisha would be like as governor.

Just look at her record as Atlanta’s mayor.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

The hidden premise of Kristof's logic is that African leaders are so inept—and corrupt—that they couldn't fill an ambulance with gasoline or find $25 to pay for AIDS medicine. If they don't care about their own people, it's impossible to help. It's why all of this money vanishes.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

White people are terrified of being seen as racist.

If white guilt permeates the online world and our schools, then our adults will feel guilty too.

This helps neither whites nor ethnics.

My ARC speech:

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

People who dismiss the rise of open Communists within the Democrat party don't understand Bolshevik tactics or history

Of course, Democrats nationally will say the commies are few. Their whole game is pretending the vanguard is just a fringe.

But once in power, who calls the shots? What policies do we get?

They put the oldest, most boring white man in Democrat politics- Joe Biden- in office, with dementia, because they could pretend he was non-threatening politically and a "unifier"

What did the Biden White House do?

Intentionally, systematically throw open our border to 10+ million foreigners, an abject betrayal of this nation we may never recover from

Which is *exactly* what Chevalier of the 13th congressional district says she wants to do, again, and more

Wake up, everyone. Communism is here. It just hasn't won yet. And they plan to keep lying about it until it's too late.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Good stuff

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

A major heatwave will begin next week across the central and eastern U.S.

High temperatures in the 90s and 100s are likely as far north as Southeastern Pennsylvania. So, summer basically lol.

Undoubtedly, there’ll be plenty climate hysteria to go around.

But neither the number of hot days nor heatwaves have increased in the U.S. since 1895.

The chart on the left shows the average annual number of days reaching 95°F (35°C), 100°F (37.8°C) and 105°F (40.6°C) per station at 657 United States NOAA GHCNd stations (area weighted) with at least 100 years of daily data and 90% daily completeness from 1895 to 2025.

The long-term trend is down. ⬇️

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰/ 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐓𝐦𝐚𝐱 ≥𝟗𝟓°𝐅:

1️⃣ 1936
2️⃣ 1934
3️⃣ 1954
4️⃣ 1931
5️⃣ 1933
6️⃣ 1913
7️⃣ 1925
8️⃣ 1980 (most recent)
9️⃣ 1930
🔟 1911

Interestingly, only one of top 15 has been in the last 70 years, and only two in the 21st century made the top 20 (2011 and 2012, which rank 17th and 19th place, respectively).

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰/ 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐓𝐦𝐚𝐱 ≥𝟏𝟎𝟎°𝐅:

1️⃣ 1936
2️⃣ 1934
3️⃣ 1954
4️⃣ 1930
5️⃣ 1901
6️⃣ 1913
7️⃣ 1980 (most recent)
8️⃣ 1931
9️⃣ 1925
🔟 1918

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰/ 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐓𝐦𝐚𝐱 ≥𝟏𝟎𝟓°𝐅:

1️⃣ 1936
2️⃣ 1934
3️⃣ 1954
4️⃣ 1930
5️⃣ 1901
6️⃣ 1980
7️⃣ 1913
8️⃣ 2023 (most recent)
9️⃣ 1918
🔟 1933

The heatwave in Texas and Oklahoma in 2023 bumped it up to 8th place.

But a more robust metric to assess time-dependent changes in extreme heat events would be to look at the area-weighted average number of heatwaves per station per year.

The chart on the right shows that.

Heatwaves are defined here as a ≥3 consecutive day period where the daily maximum temperature is ≥90th percentile (against 1991-2020 averages) for that date for that station and for the months May-September.

Once again, the trend is down. ⬇️

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰/ 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬:

1️⃣ 1936: 5.77
2️⃣ 1934: 5.39
3️⃣ 1933: 5.15
4️⃣ 1931: 4.90
5️⃣ 1911: 4.85
6️⃣ 1954: 4.71
7️⃣ 1925: 4.59
8️⃣ 1930: 4.41
9️⃣ 1913: 4.35
🔟 1952 / 1939: 4.34

None of the top 20 have been in the 21st century. The most recent summer with the greatest number of heatwaves per U.S. station occurred in 1988. All other 19 occurred 70+ years ago. It is also worth mentioning that whether or not you consider the 1930s to be an outlier, 2012 is the most recent entry at #30.

Most of the warming that we measure is in overnight low temperatures, not daytime highs, and a significant amount of that could be due to urbanization.

So, if it reaches 100°F at your house next week, it’s just summer.

Carry on! 🏖️ 🌴

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

The World Cup is at our shores, and all these people are doing us a great service. They are reminding Americans that this place is kind of awesome.