This happened in Richmond, VA and I am sure is coming to a town/city near you. You ok with this America?
— Michelle Maxwell ™ (@MichelleMaxwell) July 5, 2026
“While our employees were off celebrating America's 250th, some clown decided to write "Death to America" on Texas Inn Richmond's patio wall, during an Anti-4th "fundraiser"… pic.twitter.com/7X3lnp8Q19
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Roadside Islamic Rallies Coming to a Town Near You
Muslims of different nationalities living in the United States gather to perform Eid al-Fitr prayer, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan at the Dar Alnoor Islamic Community Center in Prince William County, Virginia. Photo rendered in style of Mughal Indian art by Grok. by Pedro Rodriguez
The town of Woodbridge, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., was recently home to a public roadside march of Islamic supporters who chanted sayings in a foreign language, beat their chests, and flew flags written in Arabic.
The scene was captured in a video posted on X.
Amy Mek, founder of the Rise, Align, Ignite, Reclaim Foundation, described the march on social media as an organized event from the Mohammadia Center of Virginia, a group that describes itself as “a cornerstone for the Shia Muslim community in the Washington metropolitan area.”
The Mohammadia Center of Virginia did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.
“Another show of force in the Old Dominion. Democrats are celebrating their demographic conquest,” Mek wrote. “Shia Muslims marched through the streets of Woodbridge yesterday in a full Ashura Juloos – flags flying, chants echoing, the whole imported ritual on public roads.”
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PJM Probably Reached Record Demand Thursday
by Steve Haner
A proprietary energy industry newsletter shared with Bacon’s Rebellion reports that the PJM Interconnection regional electricity grid probably set a summer record for demand on Thursday, July 2. The old peak of 165,563 megawatts in the 13-state region was seen in 2006.
The system maintained its service by activating demand reduction programs forcing big users to shed about 6,000 megawatts of load but never issued an order for the large data centers to turn on their backup generators. With the demand reduction efforts, Thursday’s (and the weekend’s) peak was about 162,700 but if you add the shed load back in the old peak was passed.
A “deploy all resources” order was issued to Dominion and two other Mid Atlantic load serving entities for the first time since that was added to the emergency toolbox a decade ago.
This new peak claim is one observer’s conclusion and not an official PJM pronouncement. That will come later. Dominion Energy may have set a new summer peak. But the numbers cited match observations I made during the five-day hot spell, constantly opening the PJM Markets and Operations website to watch for a new peak. PJM was posting emergency directives not seen since last winter’s bitter cold spell.
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No Queens: Stop Tyranny in Virginia
From pot to pork, the Democrats’ budget will cost every Virginia adult an extra $3,880.
by Victoria Mannning
Virginia’s state motto, “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” or “Thus Always to Tyrants,” declares that virtue and just governance always defeat tyranny. Yet Virginia Democrat leaders have become the tyrants.
Led by Gov. Abigail Spanberger, they ignore the Constitution and use the budget to pass sweeping marijuana laws, give themselves a hefty raise, and waste hard-earned taxpayer dollars on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) pork.
On July 1, some of the most extreme legislation in Virginia’s history takes effect. Democrats have solidified their long-standing goal of disarming law-abiding citizens by adopting broad anti-Second Amendment laws to tighten control over Virginians. They also used budget negotiations to implement dangerous marijuana laws that failed to pass in the regular legislative session.
The final pork-laden biennial budget totals $207 billion, a staggering $24 billion increase from 2024. With roughly 6.7 million people aged 18 and older in the state, that amounts to $3,880 more per adult compared to former Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s budget.
Thomas Jefferson must be turning over in his grave.
Senator Louise Lucas’ pot shops
For weeks, Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair Louise Lucas claimed she wouldn’t approve the budget unless it included an elimination of tax breaks for data centers. Lucas even went on a “data center listening tour” across the state, referring to Spanberger as a “data center diva.” Yet when the final, agreed-upon bill was released, the tax exemption remained—alongside 149 new pages of legislation authorizing retail marijuana.
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The Left Tinkles on America’s Birthday Party
by Kerry Dougherty
Did anyone else’s spidey senses go off the minute they saw this Reuter’s photo that the corporate media labels “chilling”?
Lemme get this straight: These white supremacists took the metro to a downtown D.C. march this weekend and a freelance photographer just happened to be in the same rail car where a lone black woman was also riding? Oh, and this is the only metro car in the world with no ads or signage?
Sorry. This looks staged. Prove me wrong.Reuters published the photo and the left engaged in the usual theatrics.
Anyone else remember the last time the media told us to be frightened because the Patriot Front was out and about? Continue reading.
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Jeanine’s Memes
See more memes at The Bull Elephant.
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A Birthday Letter to America
by Chap Petersen
Image credit: Grok A long time ago, I was a freshman at an elite New England college, just graduated from Fairfax High School. (“F-A-I-R-F-A-X-R-E! B-E-L-S, Oh yes! Those Rebels are best!”).
On a gorgeous fall morning in 1987, I was taking a class in Colonial American history, when the topic turned to the American Revolution. The professor asked the class whether it was truly a “revolution” or merely a reordering of the pre-Marxist power structure.
Of course, I fell for the bait. The American Revolution was different, I opined. It changed the world by basing government on democracy, not aristocracy.
The professor laughed and pulled a nickel out of his pocket. This is the home of Thomas Jefferson, he declaimed, the author of American liberty. He then passed it around the class, so everyone could examine Jefferson’s modest abode.
The point was clear: Jefferson was not a “democrat” in any modern sense. He was a gentleman planter, a slaveowner. The Revolution he spawned was a myth.
In the past five years, as I’ve done research for my upcoming book, I’ve confirmed what I had suspected that morning:
My learned Marxist professor was not just wrong — he was spectacularly wrong.
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Three Founders. One Day. One Destiny.
by David Botkins
On July 4, 1826, Americans gathered across a still‑young republic to celebrate a milestone some believed we’d never reach: the fiftieth anniversary of independence. Church bells rang. Cannons fired. Citizens reflected on how far the country had come since that audacious summer in 1776.
Then the news spread. Thomas Jefferson was dead. Hours later came another report. John Adams was dead as well.
Two architects of the American experiment, gone on the same day the nation marked its birth. Five years later, on July 4, 1831, James Monroe — another president, another founder — also died.
Three Founders. Three presidents. One date.
Whether one sees coincidence, providence, or simply one of history’s remarkable convergences, the symbolism is hard to ignore. The timing reads like a passing of the torch from the founding generation to the nation they helped create.
Jefferson gave America its language of liberty. Adams gave the cause its fierce defense. Monroe guided the republic through its formative years and left a foreign‑policy doctrine that shaped American statecraft for generations. Their personalities clashed. Their visions diverged. Yet each devoted himself to an unprecedented experiment in self‑government.
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Happy 4th!
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Virginia as California — but with 98% Humidity
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Golf, Data Centers and the Water Crisis
From Rod D. Martin on X:
US golf courses use 531 billion gallons of water per year. That’s down from 759 billion gallons per year in 2005 and is 0.5% of total annual water withdrawals in this country. And somehow, the country manages to not look like the Sahara Desert.
Meanwhile, data centers – the things actually powering the future instead of your uncle’s 18th hole mulligan – use somewhere between 17 and 70 billion gallons annually. That’s 0.017% to 0.070% of total withdrawals.
Or, for the math-challenged among us, roughly 3-14% of what the golf courses are using.
Sure, plopping a massive data center in the middle of nowhere without proper planning and infrastructure can stress local water systems. That’s called “basic engineering,” folks, not some apocalyptic thirst apocalypse.
But these lurid headlines screaming that AI is going to suck the rivers dry and leave us fighting over the last drop like Mad Max at a Buc-ee’s? Read the whole post.
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Catch and Release
Footnote: The X post should describe Arevalo as an alleged rapist.
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No, Virginia, Heat Waves are Not More Common
A bit of hard data as the Virginia and national media go into hysterics over a very typical Virginia heat wave and repeat endlessly the claim that this is becoming more frequent. Uh, no, no it’s not. From the CO2 Coalition’s recent updated compilation on “climate stability” in Virginia, worth reading and sharing. While you are staying out of this heat, obviously. (Everything I know about heat safety I learned in kindergarten, at Edwards AFB in the Mohave). — SDH
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ICE Thwarted in Its Effort to Protect Us from Dangerous Criminal Immigrants
by Dick Hall-Sizemore
Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja, arrested and detained by ICE It is so heartening to see ICE protecting the United States from the dangerous violent immigrants in our midst.
One of the latest of these violent individuals apprehended and detained was Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja, a Catholic nun from Nigeria, as she was walking to Mass on Sunday in McAllen, Tex. According to her diocese, she had been working as a nurse in Texas hospitals for the last decade, after entering the U.S. legally.
Of course, ICE knows what it is doing and knows who the violent illegal immigrants are. The diocese must be mistaken.
Unfortunately for the safety of the residents of McAllen, Sister Ugboaja was released only a few hours later following protests to the Dept. of Homeland Security by both a Democrat and Republican member of the House of Representatives.
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Data Centers Should Pay Their Own Way
