Happy July 4, America. Our accents are better, your beer’s too cold, it’s football not soccer & cricket’s more exciting than baseball..but you’re the second-best country in the world and I love our Special Relationship, not least because you’re all historically British. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami. The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue. The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price. Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over. Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides. Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores. I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality. People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving. This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it. If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”

Whether it was Charlie Kirk or someone else, something very important in this media/social media landscape: It is always fair to criticize. But be sure to do it because of what they actually said. Not because of what someone else said they said. Those two are often not the same.

Say what you want about certain decisions, but the WVU baseball program would’ve never sniffed a Super Regional without Randy Mazey. He resurrected a floundering program, put it on the national map, sent players to MLB, won a Big 12 title and an NCAA Regional. Impossible for Mountaineer Nation do anything but appreciate what the Mazey era has been.

Thank you @HerdBaseball for your kindness in recognizing @CoachMazey. Appreciate your class & will always wish your program the best. 💚

The Frazier play on that final drive was like Shaun Alston picking up Stedman at USF. Frazier literally forced Clement past the first down line to gain, which saved 10-15 seconds. He then got himself off the field under his own power (again saving a 10 second run off). Beast!

Finally got our hands on the hardware today! 🏆 #HailWV

You: Actually, this business of inflation is all very complicated. We’re doing our best to figure out how to stop it, but it’s not like there’s some simple solution. Milton Friedman: