A View from the Beach

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Jason Arday is Still Dead

Hey, it was funny when it was about Francisco Franco, am I right? At Insty, IT RARELY ENDS WELL FOR A MASCOT OF THE ANOINTED: “The real [Arday] story is of an elite academic world that was so excited by a compelling narrative that they rushed a clearly mentally unbalanced man with no real qualifications to the heights of academia because he ticked so many useful boxes.” Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy, "The story that will be spun about Jason Arday will be that his death lies at the feet of the people who called out his serial fabulations for being what they so transparently were, but the real story is of an elite academic world that was so excited by a compelling narrative that they rushed a clearly mentally unbalanced man with no real qualifications to the heights of academia because he ticked so many useful boxes. If anybody had stopped to drill into his story BEFORE we got to the point that he was a notable enough figure for others to begin to drill into it none of this would have happened." Driscoll has a typical tweet filled post DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Jason Arday Should Never Have Been Allowed High Enough to Fall as He Did. Melissa Chen @MsMelChen, "It’s tragic but truthfully, there was life on the other side for Jason Arday, the Ana Delvey of academia. He could have rode that infamy, written another book about the reality of his real life including a tell-all that exposes his experiences with the DEI bureaucracy and just spin it into a movie. Netflix would pick it up. He could’ve gone on to live a normal productive life. I feel so sorry for his kids who are now left fatherless." Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate, "That's right. Similarly, NY Times fabulist Jayson Blair wrote a memoir (the aptly titled 'Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life') after he was outed. American culture is wild, irrepressible, and exuberant and full of hucksters always coming up with new ways to reinvent themselves. There's a shamelessness to Americans that Europeans perhaps look down upon but that is a great source of creativity and excitement. This sort of possibility is actually one of the best parts of our culture and is responsible for possibilities that aren't available in milieus that are more staid and fatalistic. It's probably a healthy corrective for people like Arday to go out and transparently advertise their exploits (and shame the institutions responsible) rather than commit seppuku because they've tarnished the institutions and themselves been humiliated." Quote FischerKing @FischerKing64, "When Stephen Glass was outed as a fabulist whose journalism was largely fabricated, he didn’t kill himself. He actually wrote a ‘novel’ called The Fabulist basically telling the story. That’s how you handle this kind of situation. That’s real commitment to the con." Quillette @Quillette, "Compare the two cases and a pattern emerges. Cofnas cleared every formal bar that Cambridge erected—a competitive fellowship, a strong publication record, an eventual ruling that he’d broken no law and no policy—but he was punished anyway, and his position quietly expired while the university dithered. Arday did not clear the bars his professoriate peers had to clear, he was defended anyway, and he was propped up by administrators who failed to do due diligence. One scholar was punished for an opinion; the other was protected despite misconduct that objective methods could verify. Two different treatments, one shared instinct: expedience trumps evidence." More at Quillette, Institutional Failures in the Garden of Great Intellects. Razib Khan @razibkhan,"if academia is silly and standards don't matter there's no rationale for why the public should be funding such trivialities do you ppl bother to think beyond the latest controversy before your face?" Gilligan, at Da Spec wonders, rhetorically, Why is Cambridge platforming Islamic creationism? Another of Driscoll's DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development. WhateverTF that is, new one on me but I’m kinda getting it from the title and her expressed interests. Part of the School of Grievance Studies. Identifies as queer Muslim. Which means she has spent a good deal of her adult life in a bizarre fantasy land utterly divorced from reality. Let her keep talking. Let her represent the University of Chicago. Colossal embarrassing academic frauds are not all as absurd as Jason Arday, but they’re all in contention and doing their damndest. You don’t want to interrupt them. https://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/eman-abdelhadi" Quote Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch, "She’s an American citizen so I disagree with the deportation thing. But I don’t know why anyone would want their kid to be taught by this woman, why U Chicago employs her, or why she wants to stay in a country she so clearly detests (at least performatively)." Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith, "Things that are now rightwing: Investigative journalism Academic rigour Scientific dissent Nature Facts Biology Politeness Punctuality Normality Free speech Individual rights Rationality Objectivity Self-reliance Emotional restraint Delayed gratification."

The summer news drought continues. At 1945, Donald Trump Already Won the Iran War. Ending It Is Tehran’s Problem Now. "Iran’s strategy is to drag the war out. James Jay Carafano argues that protraction is the only card the IRGC holds, and that Trump has handed it to them deliberately." "Trump has basically said, “Okay, you get to decide when the war ends. When you are serious about just accepting defeat, call me.” In the meanwhile, the Iranian regime can continue to suffer all the uncomfortable results of a protracted struggle with America and its allies, debilitating punishment that has demolished Iran’s threat as the bully-in-chief of the region." MSN, Iran responds after Trump says Strait of Hormuz will be US territory 'soon'.

Bob Hoge at RedState likes how Wounded Vet Joey Jones Gives Tongue Lashing for the Ages to USS Lincoln Sailors Complaining to CNN about tuna and noodles.

From News Wax, Ukraine Launches One of Its Largest Aerial Attacks of the War, Killing at Least 6 People in Russia. While I don't condone the killing of civilians, it's not like Russia can complain.

RedState's Teri Christoph thinks Marco Rubio Just Made the Anti-Trump Ballroom Crowd Look Like Absolute Lunatics. "Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “In my work with heads of state and foreign ministers, I am frequently hosted in reception facilities that are visually impressive and reflective of the wealth and beauty of the nations I am visiting. In the United States, by contrast, we currently lack the ability to hold large events of a similar magnitude on White House grounds for those same heads of state and foreign dignitaries. Instead, we must currently host such visits in plastic or canvas tents on the South Lawn with unsafe and unsanitary portable bathrooms and accommodations unbecoming of our national stature…Our foreign counterparts offer premier security arrangements for United States officials. It is imperative that we not only offer the same level of elite security services, but offer the world’s leading capabilities in an efficient manner on grounds over which we exert permanent control…We must obviously seek every reasonable means to mitigate both the more predictable risks, including weather and physical incursions, but also emerging threats…The East Wing Project is essential to that defensive security posture. The Project is absolutely critical not only for the physical safety of guests, but also for advancing our diplomatic relations and the interests and standing of the United States in the world.”"

cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander, "The British ruling class hates their own nation." Quote Diana Alastair @sappholives83, "This is the little village of Linton-On-Ouse, population 644. They’re about to receive an influx of 1200 immigrants: all of them men, all of them Muslim, and none of them legal. This comes just days after the arrival in tiny Piddington (pop 350) of 1250 illegal immigrants." At WaEx, Netanyahu mocks UK as ‘Islamic Republic of Britain.’ Mazelit Airaksinen reports a NYC Doctor Apologizes for Remarks About Hasidic Jews, Blames "Addiction to Negativity" ""I will get this Facebook addiction under control" says Dr. Robert Guarino."

John Davidson at Da Fed argues The Problem With DSA Democrats Isn’t Socialism, It’s Third-Worldism. It can be both, and more. Hat Hair's Mark Judge (remember him?) explores The Ecstasy of the Young Communists. Atop Da Hill Jonathan Turley opines The worse it gets, the better it is: American leftism is thriving on its own failures. More money made it worse? Give us more and we'll fix that! Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "It's not that hard. The left lets institutions and communities break down to a point of total degradation to prove why more government and non profits are the answer. The goal is to purposely not solve problems and make life and safety worse. See the entire defund the police movement and homelessness nonprofits in California. Gavin Newson promised to end homelessness and instead it ballooned on purpose..." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "In fairness, starting with the socialism, you already know you’re dealing mostly with low intelligence, low historical or geopolitical literacy, and basically bumper sticker levels of logic and reasoning. So there’s that. At the higher levels, simple manipulative deception, but that tends to blither and blunder less." Quote Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian, "DSA Members Can’t Bring Themselves to Admit Cuba is a Dictatorship – Immediately Try to BUT TRUMP! | Mike LaChance, The Gateway Pundit During a recent conversation with Latino journalist Jorge Ramos, high ranking members of the DSA turned into a stuttering mess when they were asked a simple question about whether or not Cuba is a dictatorship. HINT – It is. They immediately try to make the issue about Trump and the blockade on Cuba, because they cannot answer this question honestly..." Robert Chernin calls Woke 2.0 New Label, Same Bullshit, "The people, beliefs and goals have not changed. They simply discovered that Americans were listening and overwhelmingly rejected them." Rod Dreher @roddreher, "This is astonishingly blunt." Quote Dr. Maalouf @realMaalouf, "Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the biggest far-left party in France, explains why the alliance between progressives and Muslims is necessary. “If you’re counting on white Christian workers to bring about socialism in France, it won’t happen. But our Muslim brothers and sisters will.” This is the same playbook being used by the left in all Western countries."

News Wax hears Trump Predicts AOC Presidential Run. PJM's Matt Margolis thinks This Might Be the Most Brutal Diagnosis of AOC You'll Ever Hear "AOC stands for Always On Camera," Conway said. "She is a performer, not a reformer. She went to Washington to legislate; that's her job. She's a pontificator, not a legislator." From the Free Bacon, Abdul El-Sayed To Headline Islamic Event Alongside Pakistani Cleric Who Forced His 13-Year-Old Niece Into Marriage, Was Denounced for ‘Pedophilic Rhetoric’, "Tariq Masood urged his congregants to marry off their own female children and invoked Sharia law on the question of women’s education." Scott McKay at Am Spec worries about Poor Francesca Hong, a Victim of Milwaukee’s Missing Election Results "Five USB sticks were missing results, Steve Kornacki was left speechless, and David Crowley emerged with a remarkably narrow victory." It does look fishy.

An old refrain of Stacy McCain, Crazy People Are Dangerous: Weirdo Charged With Defacing WWII Memorial. Old School Eddie @Old_SchoolEddie, "Did you notice? Summer is typically riot season. However, since USAID was defunded, SPLC indicted, and ActBIue being investigated, things have been pretty calm this summer. Just saying..." Sunny @sunnyright, "A notable number of AWFLs want their political opponents dead. Not defeated. Not rejected. Dead. They think you’ve forfeited your right to live by not giving them what they want. Come to terms with that reality." Quote, "New York Post @nypost, "Luigi Mangione supporter calls murder of CEO a 'revolutionary act of protest.'" Matt Margolis, Oh, So This Is Why Luigi Mangione Pleaded Guilty. "Turley described the plea as "something of a Hail Mary throw," suggesting Mangione is hoping a judge eventually reduces his sentence enough to allow release at an advanced age rather than locking him away for life without parole. The real target, Turley explained, is the state murder case itself. The defense wants it dismissed entirely on double jeopardy grounds, and New York's double jeopardy standard is easier for a defense to clear than in most other jurisdictions. "The odds are in his favor, if you look at past cases, that that may in fact be dismissed," Turley said."

From Director Blue, The Day They Manufactured Russiagate: A Graphic Novel "How Obama's Inner Circle Framed a President." A sample.

Leslie Eastman at LI reports Fifth Circuit Completely Roasts Biden DOE’s Stove and Oven Efficiency Rules. "The court voids the rules after determining that Biden’s Energy Department improperly tried to fast-track the measure as a “direct final rule”, which is usually reserved for noncontroversial matters."

From Campus Reform, Trump DOJ intensifies push to stop tuition discounts for illegal aliens, keep Harvard accountable for campus anti-Semitism. At Twitchy, Nick Shirley Exposes WHY Kathy Hochul Is So Proud of Spending Taxpayer Money on Illegal Aliens. Nick shirley @nickshirleyy, " Your tax dollars have become the new money-laundering scheme for these corrupt politicians. Governor Hochul has been taking donations from these daycare fraudsters in NYC who receive millions of your taxpayer dollars to operate “adult daycares.” When I exposed the fraud in NYC, Governor Hochul and Mayor Mamdani went completely silent… maybe they didn’t want to offend their donors?" At NYPo, Bill Maher thinks immigrants must assimilate, accept American values and principles to be in US: ‘Not negotiable.’ Ian Miller @ianmSC, "Well that should just about cement Bill Maher’s excommunication from the Democratic Party." Moreover, from Matt Vespa, Bill Maher's Take on Trump's Secret Turkey Flight Will Not Please the Lib Press Corps "The media is mad they weren’t told. Get over it—your lives will never be above that of the president of the United States. The White House’s credibility is not on the line; can we please move on? No one cares except the press corps."

Gina Milan @ginamilan_, "Only Sophie Cunningham could go from playing a Fever game to randomly showing up at a bar and singing “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” with the fans. She’s truly the freaking best." THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Sophie’s Choice Edition.

Palm Sunday

With Sarah Tolley:

Chron, What happened to Houston's beloved River Oaks palm trees? "They took away our fake Miami," one commenter wrote.

Maryland Counties Come Together to Demand Conowingo Danegeld

The Conowingo Dam (Photo by Christine
Condon/Maryland Matters)

At Maryland Matters, New collaboration unveiled on Conowingo Dam, as Maryland awaits federal OK on settlement

When it comes to the Conowingo Dam, tensions have cooled between leaders in rural Maryland counties and state officials, as well as dam owner Constellation Energy.

That fact was on display Thursday at the Maryland Association of Counties summer conference in Ocean City, when leaders from all three camps convened — this time to discuss a settlement agreement through which Constellation will pay $340 million for various environmental projects over the next several decades, in exchange for a crucial water quality certification from the state.

Initially, Republican officials in several rural Maryland jurisdictions, under the banner of the Clean Chesapeake Coalition, challenged that deal, as they were long aggrieved by sediment overflow events from the at-capacity dam, which is located in Cecil County. But state environmental officials persuaded them to drop their challenge.

Now, the Clean Chesapeake Coalition is no more, replaced by an advisory group with a far more collaborative tone, Cecil County Administrator Dan Schneckenburger said Thursday.
“We pivoted to: Let’s try to work together,” Schneckenburger said. “We’ve always been on different sides of this issue — maybe not addressing it the way we wanted to see it addressed. So we ultimately said, ‘Let’s put together an advisory group, and we can work on implementation of the settlement.’”

But there’s still a possibility that a wrench could be thrown into Maryland’s plans.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission still must decide whether to sign off on Maryland’s certification, and whether to issue a new 50-year license for the dam to continue operating.

And in January, President Donald Trump’s (R) Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule change, setting new limits on state water quality certifications, known as Clean Water Act Section 401 certifications.

State officials believe that their water quality certification —and the millions of dollars worth of accompanying environmental projects — is not in jeopardy, since they filed the license application with FERC last fall, well before the new draft rule was issued, said Adam Ortiz, deputy secretary at the Maryland Department of the Environment, which negotiated the settlement with Constellation and local riverkeepers. The state is expecting FERC approval next year, Ortiz told the audience.

“We’ve been checking in: ‘How’s it going over there? Are we ready to proceed?’ And there’s no indication that there’s going to be a problem,” Ortiz said during Thursday’s meeting. “That doesn’t mean that there’s not a possibility that is a problem.”

The new rule, if it moves forward, would limit states’ abilities to object to “non-point” pollution sources, focusing instead on “point sources” such as industrial sites that discharge wastewater directly into the environment, Ortiz said.

The dam is considered a non-point pollution source, since it does not generate pollution of its own but instead acts as a pass-through for contaminants flowing down the Susquehanna River, including farm fertilizers from upstream, and into the Chesapeake Bay.

Federal officials believe that the new rule would protect “water quality while eliminating regulatory overreach that has imposed unnecessary burden on critical infrastructure projects,” according to documents released about the alteration.

Conowingo Dam, by intercepting sediments that would otherwise end up in the Chesapeake Bay has been protecting the Bay from excess mud for nearly a century, mud that, except for Conowingo Dams existence, would have ended up in the Bay. But it's sediment holding capacity is now exhausted, as was inevitable. Forcing Constellation to pony up for poorly defined "environmental projects" as the price for continued licensing is simple extortion, and will only result in higher electricity prices in the mid-Atlantic region, already some of the nations highest.

"Once you have paid him the Danegeld/ You never get rid of the Dane."

The Great Barrier Reef is Doing Just Fine, Thanks

At WUWT, Mainstream Media Shock as Coral on the Great Barrier Reef Records Five Years of Record Growth

It might be wondered why climate catastrophising clots bother with coral and in particular the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). For years as GBR coral cover hit new record highs, it let them down all the time. A bout of temporary natural ‘bleaching’ in 2024 gave a little Armageddon hope with the Guardian reporting last year that GBR coral may reach a “tipping point” where it cannot recover fast enough between “major catastrophic events”. But it’s back to disappointment this year with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) observing in its latest 2025–26 report that hard coral cover remained stable or increased across much of the GBR, “demonstrating the capacity of many reefs to withstand and recover from disturbances when stress is limited and conditions are favourable”.

It’s called Nature. Who knew that corals that have been around for hundreds of millions of years can survive slight changes in water temperature, surface storms and attack from other creatures in the sea. Apparently not King Klot himself, George Monbiot of the Guardian, who told us in June 1999 that: “The imminent total destruction of the world’s coral reefs is not a scare story but a fact”.

The dramatic bleaching that has always affected coral is a classic ‘look out of the window’ trope. These days it seems to be the only argument left for Net Zero promoting fanatics to explain natural events, weather and complex atmospheric science. It is of course anti-scientific junk, easily debunked, and reliant for its effect on emotional, gullible and politically motivated messengers. It is the poster explanation for the ‘post-truth’ world of settled climate science. Who cares about understanding detailed science about underwater coral, when children and adults need scaring about upcoming ecological collapse. Carry on munching meat and flying to Fuengirola and the polar bears, bees, penguins, moths, coral get it (all other soon-to-be-extinct species are available if required).

It doesn’t help when the scientists clamber on board the Net Zero gravy train. Last year, Dr Mike Emslie, who leads long-term reef monitoring at AIMS, told the Guardian that: “It has been a pretty sobering year of surveys with the biggest impacts I have seen in the 30-plus years I have been doing this… This volatility is very likely a sign of an unstable system”. Who knows what depths of despair the estimable Emslie would have plunged if he was not commenting on 2024–25 figures that showed coral was at its fourth highest level since detailed observations began in the 1980s.

The AIMS no longer compiles a graphic representation of overall coral growth for the entire GBR, a gap filled by the reef scientist Dr Peter Ridd, as shown below.

As can be seen, 2025–26 coral cover remained at remarkably healthy levels with an upward tick resuming the growth path of recent times. Headline you are unlikely to see in mainstream media: ‘Five years of record coral levels on Great Barrier Reef points to robust healthy ecosystem’.

The AIMS divides the Reef into three separate zones: northern, central and southern. In the north, the region-wide average hard coral cover increased from 30% last year to 35.1%. The AIMS notes that this is a rise of 16.7% relative to 2022–25 and coral cover is said to remain above the long-term average of 27%. In the central area, coral cover was boosted from 28.6% to 31.6%, well above the long-term average of 20%. In the cooler waters of the south, where growth is often more constrained, the hard coral cover was stable within the margin of error, although the current level of 26.4% remains below the long-term average of 29.3%. Despite 2025–26 summer sea surface temperatures remaining 0.7°C – 1.1°C above average across the Reef, numerous surveys showed low levels of bleaching across the entire area.

Net Zero activists blame coral bleaching on spikes in seawater surface temperature – ‘marine heatwaves’ is the common term – that are caused as humans release carbon dioxide by using hydrocarbons. Of course, there is no proof of a direct connection since it is impossible to measure and attribute a cause to such micro natural variations that occur all the time. In fact, supposed human-induced changes in water temperature are a particularly unconvincing argument for ecosystem collapse since tropical coral grows happily in waters between 24°C and 32°C. It hardly helps the argument that coral growth is often more vigorous in the warmer waters around the equator.

Natural bleaching is not rare at the GBR, with events occurring in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025. Needless to say, alarmist Monbiot-inspired column inches show upward spikes at the same time. Writing in the Australian last year, Peter Ridd noted that the Reef was still doing fine despite suffering six allegedly cataclysmic coral bleaching events in the last decade. “There should be no coral at all if those reports were true”, he added.

Just add it to the long list of failed global warming predictions. Corals grow in the warmest places on earth for a reason.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Jason Arday Dead

Jason Arday, of course, being the young Black Cambridge don found to have been massive plagiarist and all around fabulist At the Telegraph, Jason Arday found dead, apparently by suicide, although it doesn't say so in the piece. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair calls it Ghastly - Jason Arday Is Dead. At Althouse, "Jason Arday obituary: youngest ever black Cambridge professor/Sociology of education academic who made history before his career unravelled after accusations of plagiarism dies aged 41." "An obituary in the London Times. ... We talked about Arday a few days ago, here. He was accused of plagiarism and various lies that made him a laughingstock. Now, apparently, he has killed himself. Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense." Indeed. Hat Hair's Dave Strom hears 'We Lied About Jason Arday to Prevent Racists From Winning.' Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff, "I think what happened to Jason Arday is tragic and heartbreaking, but this counterfactual did actually take place in the United States, involving a professor and right-wing jokester who I became friends with over the years of having to defend his free speech rights. Mike Adams was mobbed and cancelled in 2020, and he killed himself shortly thereafter, and the American press largely treated it like he had it coming. ..." Quote Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana, "If Jason Arday were a white middle-class academic, he would not have been hounded by the British press in the way he was. My thoughts are with his loved ones. May he rest in peace." Razib Khan @razibkhan, "to observe the obvious: no non-black academic would have gotten away with such fraud. if there was a white academic that claimed to have run 30 marathons in 35 days it would have been mocked too." Quote Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan, "I'm devastated for the family and friends of Jason Arday. He faced an unacceptable public hounding and campaign of abuse. I know many Londoners will be angry and upset this evening." RBe @RBPundit, "“Mistakes” Bitch, this is exactly why this happened. They weren’t mistakes. They were lies. Lies that would have stopped ANYONE who wasn’t a DEI poster boy from advancing this high in academia. YOU did this. YOU." Quote Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra, "I’m saddened by this beyond words. I’m also disgusted by white supremacist colonialists who deliberately amplify the mistakes of a black man whilst ignoring the systemic structural racism that’s the much bigger issue that supersedes by orders of magnitude the injustice of x.com/bbcbreaking/st…" Roger Kimball @rogerkimball, "What Tunku said." Quote Tunku Varadarajan @tunkuv, "Let's not sanctify poor Jason Arday in death the way he was overhyped by his cherishers in life. This is a tragic end to a tawdry and disgraceful story. The worst actors here were his enablers. He was a charlatan, not a criminal. His enablers were moral and ideological scum. Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD, "I'm going to try to write something about this later on today or tomorrow. But this should never have happened for six different overlapping reasons, the most obvious being that it never should have been allowed to get this far." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Yeah. But guess who they will blame. The handwringing, sanctimonious, accusatory op-eds are being penned as we speak. Poor lad was hounded to death by the far right. But yeah. His blood is on the hands of the woke crowd that fell for his blatant, absurd lies. I wish he had hung in. Could have made a great comedian. Clearly talented in the Bullshit Arts. He could have made a pile lighting up the woke folx he scammed." Quote Christopher F. Rufo @christopherrufo "The DEI regime killed Jason Arday. Cambridge liberals were so desperate for a racial fairy tale, they elevated a man who could only meet the standards through fraud, then abandoned him when they started feeling embarrassed. Sad, predictable end to a story with only villains. RIP." I will only observe that if you get away with academic fraud, the temptation to repeat it is overwhelming. Once you realize almost no one is reading the stuff anyway, all bets are off.

Am Great new staff issues Morning Greatness: White House Launches Interactive Map Tracking Billions in Suspected Fraud. At the New Reform Club, The Better Way To Think About emoluments. Ace wakes up to find Trump Signed Executive Order Calling for Reforms in Child Vaccination Schedules; Pete Hegseth Wants a High-T Armed Forces. Breaking911 @Breaking911, "BREAKING: 15 Democratic Attorneys General are attempting to block Trump’s FERC energy reforms that would streamline infrastructure approvals and lower electricity costs, even as the states they represent have seen prices rise between 20% and 73% since 2020 due to left-wing green energy policies."

RedState's Teri Christoph sees Biden’s Former Press Secretary Calls Karoline Leavitt a Liar—Then Gets Hit With a Brutal Fact Check. Insty, QUESTION ASKED: Who could replace White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt? "AND ANSWERED:" Not a bad choice at all considering her previous responses to woke criticism.

At NYPo, Scott Bessent says the US will hit Iran economically in ways ‘that have never been seen’ next week: ‘One-two punch.’ The Great Victor Davis Hanson at Da Signal discusses Iran’s Dangerous Midterm Strategy. ResponseState worries How the Egypt-Ethiopia feud could upend Trump's plans in Africa, "The US has no plan for dealing with the complex rivalries that threaten its strategy in the region." I'll bet they have plans; they just haven't told you. PJM's Sarah Anderson reports There's Been a Major Development Regarding Political Prisoners in Venezuela, more released. Buck Throckmorton at Ace's MORNING RANT thinks Alberta Independence Is a Necessary Bulwark Against Canada’s Capitulation to the Enemies of Western Civilization.

Matt Margolis at PJM sees More Signs the Dem Establishment Stole the Election From Hong? "According to Bayatpour, this marks the third consecutive election cycle in which Milwaukee's central count operation has run into trouble. How does this happen three times in a row? Remember, Florida cleaned up its act after the 2000 recount fiasco and has since become the gold standard for election administration in America. They count elections quickly and accurately. Milwaukee has had three chances to do the same and has blown every one of them. A system that keeps breaking the same way, in the same city, in favor of the same political machine, and never gets fixed, is functioning exactly as its overseers want it to." From WJ, Watch: NBC Broadcasts Dead Air - Twice - As Literally Speechless Election Analyst Learns Results Are Missing from 5 of 9 USB Drives in Blue City. Shipwreckedcrew lawsplains The Democrat Fear Behind The Lawfare Being Waged Against The Trump Administration's Proposed Changes To Mail-In Voting. "Take a few minutes to understand what the controversy is about -- it might apply in 2026, and it will definitely apply in 2028." Insty comments IT’S AS IF THEY CAN’T WIN IF THEY CAN’T CHEAT: House Freedom Caucus @freedomcaucus, "There's a bill sitting in the Senate that would address this problem." Quote James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII, "CAUGHT INSIDE MINNEAPOLIS POLLING BOOTHS: Minnesota Poll Workers Tell O’Keefe, Dressed in Muslim Garb, & @camhigby, in a Burka, That They Can Vouch for Eight Unregistered Voters Without ID, Allowing Them to Vote in Minnesota Primary Election."

From the Free Bacon, Revealed: El-Sayed Proclaimed 'Obligation' To Follow Sharia Law Until the Day He Dies. Beege Welborn calls him Detroit's Dr. Dead Dogs? and Dave Strom sees Abdul El-Sayed Trails Mike Rogers, but AWFLs Love Him. Byron York @ByronYork, "From the Fox poll, Rogers vs. el Sayed in Michigan: White men, no college degree: Rogers 63 el Sayed 37 White men, college degree: Rogers 55 el Sayed 43 White women, no college degree: Rogers 60 el Sayed 38 White women, college degree: Rogers 37 el Sayed 60." End Wokeness @EndWokeness, ""White women, college: +23 El-Sayed" SNL predicted this back in 2015."

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair calls it Too Bad to Check: Maine Dems' Featured Labor Day Speaker Will Be ... Der Oysterführer? Matt Vespa at TownHall sees Graham Platner Rolls Out Like the Panzers in the Ardennes, and Dems Are Not Happy. At Am Mind, Jacob Howland looks at Mamdani’s Scapegoats.

Larry, in a Hat Hair vid sees Chris Matthews Loses It on 'Morning Joe' As Democrat Party Starts Fracturing. WSJ opines on Democrats’ ‘Woke 1’ Hangover. "Why should voters buy your ideological transformation?" PJM's Rick Moran predicts 'Woke 2.0' Will Be More Radical, More Antisemitic, and Even Less Tolerant. WaT, Democrats cannot escape their overeducated socialist wing, "Voters remain wary of a party increasingly shaped by entitled collectivists."

PJM's Vicky Taft has another West Coast, Messed Coast™—Is It the End of the Line for Gavin 2028? PJM's Stephen Kruiser, Dear Gavin Newsom — When You've Lost Ann Arbor… At NYPo, Jason Miyares explains how Virginia’s Democrats show us how to wreck a state in 5 easy steps. "Step 1: Drive businesses away... Step 2: Impose an energy tax... Step 3: Prioritize offenders over victims and tie law enforcement’s hands... Step 4: Undermine workers’ rights and force unions on local governments... Step 5: Push partisan politics in defiance of the state constitution."

Ashe Short at JTN, Two federal agencies routed taxpayer dollars to terror-linked charities, new reports find. At Da Caller, Bill Gates’ Daughter Phoebe Faces Jail Time After Being Accused Of Profiting From Sales She Didn’t Drive. Wanna bet?

Capt. Ed reports BREAKING: Mangione Pleads Guilty in Federal Court. Althouse, finds"The shooter did not miss his intended target and did not chamber another round, leaving the spent cartridge in the rifle." "Wrote the lawyers for Tyler Robinson, quoted in "Charlie Kirk Suspect Fights Death Penalty, Says No Others Were in Danger/Prosecutors say they can seek the death penalty against Tyler Robinson because he also endangered people near Charlie Kirk, who was shot in the throat last year. Mr. Robinson’s lawyers note that the gunman struck only his target" (NYT gift link)." Trying to dodge the death penalty. From Ace, FBI: We Arrested 4,000 Nasty Criminals In the Last Two Months. "Kash Patel said he would reorient the FBI away from the Democrat/Wray model of unending election interference on behalf of the communists towards arresting criminals. These arrests are proof his word is good."

Althouse finds "Over the past 21 terms, the closest any member of the court got to Justice Jackson’s loquaciousness was Justice Stephen G. Breyer..." and opines "Jackson's outsized role at oral argument is so extreme, and so much attention has been paid to it. Clearly, she's choosing it, in spite of the criticism and even disdain and ridicule. She must believe she's doing exactly the right thing. Perhaps she views her contribution as proportionate if you measure not by the number of Justices but by the weight and power of the ideas they represent."

Beege Welborn sees Sean Duffy Is on the CDL Warpath. From CIS, If Sanctuary Politicos Believe ‘Violent Criminals’ Don’t Belong, They Should Open Their Jails to ICE, "If not, welcome to the world of politics, where partisanship often allows no space for common sense." Aaron Hanscom at PJM asks if you Forgot About Ceuta? These Latest Videos Look Pretty Third World.

Breitbart News @BreitbartNews, "Chelsea Handler warns that if Todd Blanche is confirmed as U.S. Attorney General, "he's gonna overturn Roe v. Wade." (Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022)." Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd, "Fmr. ABC News’ Terry Moran Says Fauci Shut Down Their COVID Lab Leak Story. “The day that it's supposed to air, it gets reviewed and it comes back to me — it is incomprehensible … I was told ‘Fauci’ … There was an organized campaign … to say there's no way there's a lab leak.”"

Leo Knight @primetimecrime, "A civil war seems imminent in the UK." Quote Dr. Maalouf @realMaalouf, "In the UK, Muslims were very angry and tried to have a Christian preacher arrested for ‘hate speech’ for preaching in ‘their’ area. “This is a Muslim area!”" From the Euro Con, Quo Vadis, Europe: A New Dark Age or the Next Renaissance? Ace reports the Daily Wire to Release Film About ISIS Taking Over an American College Campus; Islamist Propagandists Say Criticism of ISIS is Islamophobic; Tuq'r Qarlson Says That Ben Shapiro Is a Sleeper Agent Created by Israel.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "MASSIVE SCANDAL UNFOLDING AT NASHVILLE, TN SCHOOLS ANOTHER teacher says she was ordered to FABRICATE grades to give a passing grade to failing students The school then SUSPENDED her after she REFUSED to skew the numbers. What is going in
@MetroSchools?!" From the College Fix, First-year classes this fall range from Wonder Woman to ‘queer’ art to the occult.

PM reports JD Vance refers medical child sex change providers to DOJ for prosecution over fraud. "We must sent a clear message that any hospitals and providers that have participated in these practices will face justice." Dave Strom, Insurance Fraud Enabled 'Gender-Affirming Care.' From Ace, Hospitals Defraud the Federal Government, Disguising Costs of "Gender Affirming Care" as Something Else, Claiming It's For Something Else; Hospitals Referred to DOJ for Prosecution, ""They should go to prison," JD Vance writes. This may shock you, but Planned Parenthood may be at the heart of the fraudulent billing. Which is a nice way to say "theft."" From Althouse, "This is no different from what the Heritage Foundation wants for women in the US. Except maybe instead of burqas..." ""... they want us in milk maid dresses, heavy hideous makeup, plastic surgery and naked. And it's actually worse when I think about their plans for society as a whole with illiteracy, poisoned food, toxic 'health' care, etc. Separation of religion and state must happen to even attempt a free society. This is why this concept exists." A highly rated contribution to the comments section for "Afghan Women Erased From Public Life in Five Years of Taliban Rule/Decrees restricting the rights of women and girls to study, work, travel and act independently now threaten to damage Afghanistan permanently, experts say" (NYT gift link)." Milk maid dresses and naked, got it.