Nik Berardi

[Republican Leader Ed Ra @EdwardRa19]

Albany has a bad habit of allowing executive orders, moratoriums & “temporary” programs extend long past their end dates.

NY's hyper-regulatory environment bogs down business development with lengthy delays & added costs. It makes the state is less competitive.
https://t.co/6eYlPSectz

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

My latest with the amazing team at @TheFP

NY and Gov. Hochul made a terribly unwise call

[Adam Thierer @AdamThierer]

@NYGovPress here's a breakdown of why New York's data center ban is bad for the state and the nation:

https://t.co/9cGu5Gygte

[Advancing American Freedom @AmericanFreedom]

🇺🇸 The Founding Fathers never intended for Americans to elect their own senators.

➡️ AAF’s @marcwheat and @MitchBahnsen argue that conservatives should support returning the selection of U.S. Senators to the State legislatures.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Op-Ed from @SecRubio: Why We’re Dismantling the ICC
https://t.co/T4J5COuqUQ

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

https://t.co/g4XFtu2T2K

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

So good, from Kevin Williamson: https://t.co/XTosVZtVJc

[Will Poff-Webster @willpoffwebster]

The first major federal housing package in 30 years is now law. It combines over 50 bills, and puts the federal government on the side of legalizing housing:

1. Cuts some federal funding from expensive places that don't allow housing and gives it to places that do. The first federal carrots and sticks tied to housing results!

2. Removes the requirement for a metal chassis from manufactured housing, saving ~$5-10K per home and making multifamily manufactured housing possible

3. Rewards zoning reform with grants to support schools, sewers, and other needs

4. Rewards cities that create preapproved building plans so builders can build without delay

5. Federal guidelines for single-stair buildings (!)

6. Federal guidelines for zoning reform

7. Exempts infill and other low-impact housing from environmental review

8. Makes it easier for HUD to get money out the door after disasters without months of rulemaking

9. Ends duplicate inspections for housing funded by multiple federal programs

10. Updates the HOME program to remove blockers for federally-funded affordable housing

11. Creates grants to repair old housing stock

12. Allows banks to invest in more affordable housing

13. Streamlines rehab of old public housing buildings and adding mixed-income homes

14. Encourages financing changes to enable modular housing that lowers construction costs

15. Requires databases of local publicly-owned land that could be used for housing

16. Preserves build-to-rent homebuilding

...plus 42 other sections, most a labor of love from a staffer and their boss trying to tackle the largest cost Americans face each month

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Example of why the Founding Fathers rejected a government-by-plebiscite in favor of a republic in which representatives are supposed to “refine and enlarge” the public’s views.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Rent control is a stunning policy.

The literature, the experts, and the repeated experience of reality all stand undivided in saying it's bad.

But the public loves it. It's insanely popular. It's basically a 75:25 issue and voters want more of it.

[Megan Cassella @mmcassella]

The U.S.-Iran MOU, signed three weeks ago, centered on 1) a ceasefire, 2) Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz and 3) the U.S. lifting oil sanctions in exchange. All three of those terms now appear to no longer be in place.

[Carolyn D. Gorman @CarolynGorman_]

Ivy League schools have the highest rates of disabilities and community colleges have the lowest.

The percentage of students with disabilities is inversely related to how elite the higher education setting is.

Obviously something is wrong with what’s happening here.

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

Lots of liberals rushing to embrace DSA while knowing little or nothing about the crazy people who lead it and the crazy views they hold

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

To love only what your country might ideally become, in aspiration, is not to love your real country at all, but only an ideological abstraction.

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

The last best hope of Earth.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

Obituary of Thomas Jefferson, who, like John Adams, died on July 4, 1826.

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

Socialists have built out a disciplined political infrastructure that appears poised to continue its gradual capture of the Democratic Party.

To beat back the Islamist-sympathizing, Communist-adjacent Left, opponents should begin thinking seriously about how to build, mobilize, and sustain an anti-socialist coalition of Democratic, independent, and Republican normies united around an affirmative, optimistic agenda centered on public safety, economic growth, housing production, functional public services, civic pluralism, upward mobility, and institutional competence.

Drawing on insights from @reihan, @baseballot, @PatrickRuffini, and @continetti, my @ManhattanInst colleague @Sean_Speer and I wrote for @CityJournal about why the far Left is ascending in cobalt blue strongholds, how that could create problems for Democrats nationally, and what non-socialists should do in response.

https://t.co/2kLsyY5xLu

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

And here’s the full stat pack https://t.co/6BjVa9TtCX

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

Learn how Democrats view elected officials who identify as democratic socialists: https://t.co/VqmRl2I4H5