Flotsam and Jetsam - Terrorist Attack on US Military Assets in UK Thwarted, Terrorists Get Bail?

There's something very strange going on in England, where 5 "British citizen" of Muslim extraction were arrested outside of a joint UK/US airbase that serves the mid-east in several vans, after being reported by a local farmer. After the arrest, they were released on bond. Ace, Five Middle Eastern "UK Nationals" Arrested In Plot to Bomb Fairfield, UK Air Force Base Used by B-1 Bombers, "Five Middle Eastern and, for some reason, shirtless men were spotted by farmers acting suspiciously near the Fairfield, UK air force base." Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys, "Major update from counter terror police about RAF Fairford arrests - all UK nationals: Male, 24, Resident of Borough of Camden Male, 24, Borough of Westminster Male, 25, Borough of Westminster Male, 23, Borough of Westminster Male, 24, Borough of Willesden," Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta, "The former Hamas bodyguard also was a "British National". It's meaningless now." Hat Hair's Beege Welborn, RAF Fairford Plot, Day 2: Public Demanding Answers - Officials, Media Channel Norm MacDonald UPDATE. The Telegraph reports RAF base terror suspects released on bail. Sundance at CTH, British Justice System – Five Terrorists Detained at RAF Fairford Base Released on Bail. PJM's Cathy Salgado hears the UK Farmer Who Exposed Terror Plot Near U.S. Operations Speaks Out. Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra, "The farmer who called 999 over the suspects near RAF Fairford says she is "100% certain" she saw 8-10 men, not just the 5 that were arrested. She says she is surprised the police haven't contacted her to ask what she saw. She also revealed the message she sent to the village WhatsApp group after encountering the men." Darren Grimes @darrengrimes, "The farmer who called in the RAF Fairford incident has spoken. And she's not having Wes Streeting's spin. There were "definitely more than five," she says. Eight to ten. Faces covered. All dressed the same, "almost you'd have thought perhaps it was what they'd been told to wear." Five were arrested. All five are now out on bail. Streeting went on the telly to say she only had a "partial picture." Her reply? Nobody in any official capacity has even been in touch with her. So: a declared major incident. The one witness from that night says more men were there than were ever arrested. Not one official has picked up the phone to her. But the Defence Secretary found time to go on the BBC and mark down her account. Something doesn't add up." A practice run? Were they infiltrated and give dud explosives?

From NYPo, Trump’s Iran strategy is working — the ayatollah suffers as oil flows again. Beege Welborn reports Middle East Crude Running at 80 Percent of Pre-War Levels. Still, 20% is a big gap to cover with something as important as oil. Frack, baby, frack! VodkaPundit at Insty, LAST WEEK, THE WHITE HOUSE SQUASHED THIS RUMOR: Trump ‘very seriously’ considering diesel export ban as global supply crunch worsens. “The idea of the world’s largest diesel exporter implementing an outright ban has prompted firm pushback from the U.S. energy industry, while analysts have warned that the move could backfire and exacerbate the global fuel crisis.” The CO2 Coalition fears California Is Falling Into An Unrecoverable Deficit Of Refineries. I would say they cut off their nose to spite their face, but their nose is long gone. At the Auto Blog, Trump Approves Fuel Economy Rollback That Gives Gas Cars More Room. "The U.S. president said the decision will make cars more affordable and bring back jobs."

Don Surber explains how he thinks How Trump befriended and owned Xi. "Peace through strength. Trump’s the strength." Tom Kolbe at Am Spec, sees the Clash of the Money Giants: China Lays the Groundwork to Rival the Dollar "China builds a dollar killer — with one fatal flaw ...Yet a problem shimmers through in the background: there is a lack of trust in the  political integrity of the dictatorship in Beijing." Sundance hears Europe Asks China to Voluntarily Limit EV Exports. Yeah, that'll work. 

Sundance, Last Call – Imported Canadian Alcohol Ban Starts Tomorrow "Tomorrow, September 29th, the U.S. ban on most Canadian alcohol imports begins. [XO Link]" I guess I have to give up Canadian Whiskey. Oh, that's right, I don't drink Canadian whiskey. I don't have anything against it, I just don't have anything for it either. "The Crown Royal brand of Canadian Whiskey will not be impacted as it is shipped in bulk raw liquid to the U.S. where it is bottled, packaged and distributed." 

Brian  Kennedy and Joe Schmitz on Bosnia and Herzegovina: What Is the American People’s Interest? Other than the history that world wars tend to start in the neighborhood?

Leslie Eastman at LI, sees Data Centers Face Fines, Permit Delays as States Weigh AI Growth Against Local Impacts. "AI development should not be allowed to suffer death by 1,000 permits and 10,000 regulations….especially as the Chinese are linked so closely to environmental lawfare in this country." Beege Welborn hears Senate Democrats Seem Determined to Protect Data Centers and Everyone Should Know It. Kacee Allen @KaceeRAllen, "The House just voted 417-3 to stop making families eat the electric bill for giant AI data centers. The Ratepayer Protection Act tells states to consider forcing those 100-megawatt server farms to cover the full extra cost of the new plants and power lines they need, instead of passing it onto households. Both parties piled on because people are tired of watching their rates climb so a computer warehouse can sit next to a suburb. It still has to get through the Senate, and states can refuse the standard." Senate Republicans @SenateGOP, "Senator Schumer says the Ratepayer Protection Act is “a fraud.” Last week, Democrats blocked this bipartisan bill that would shield Americans from higher costs related to data centers. Democrats are standing in the way of lower prices." They prefer having an issue to having a solution. Sundance sees President Trump is Looking for an AI Czar – Then This Happens: Breanna Morello @Breanna Morello, "Tulsi Gabbard is visiting the White House today! Please bring her back!!!!" Superman @thesupermannx, "Researchers proved AI has deleted every reason universities exist. Harvard University ran a controlled experiment pitting a custom AI against their own top-tier classrooms. And the results are going to collapse the higher education bubble. They took 194 undergraduates and split them up. One group learned physics in one of Harvard’s best hands-on, active-learning physical classrooms. Group work. Instructor support. The premium university experience. The other group went home and learned the exact same material with an AI tutor. The AI didn't just win. It embarrassed the institution. Students using the AI learned more than twice as much as the students in the elite Harvard classroom. They scored 30% higher on the final assessment. And they did it in less time. Let that sink in..." Look for the teacher and faculty unions to lean even harder into their anti-AI stances. Hat Hair's Dave Strom call it the Same Narrative™: Selling Doom and Selling Stock Are Complementary.

Insty at his NYPo gig writes Media manipulates economic gloom — and it’s all about the midterms. They would downsell the economy during any Republican administration, but the fact that it's Trump and the midterms are looming certainly adds some fervor to their weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Eric Matheny @ericmmatheny, "We have an obligation to hold GOP Congress members accountable, and when they fall short, we need to primary the living hell out of them. But to sit out the midterm? You’ve already seen how Democrat power works. Did you not live through the Biden administration?" Sundance, President Trump Announces Largest Steel Plant in U.S. History Being Built in Iowa. Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling, "what Elon Musk has done to make my life better: - electric cars - satellite internet - saved free speech what Jeff Bezos has done to make my life better: - nationwide next-day delivery - architecture that powers the internet what Larry Page and Sergey Brin have done to make my life better: - made the internet searchable - online email and documents platform what Mark Zuckerberg has done to make my life better: - social media to keep me connected to friends - online ads platform what Larry Ellison has done to make my life better: - database software for my businesses - data centers for AI and cloud computing what Jensen Huang has done to make my life better - hardware that powers the AI revolution what Bernie Sanders has done to make my life better Absolutely Nothing."

From State of the Day, State of Friday: AMERICANISM ISN'T BAD. IT'S SIMPLY REPUBLICAN."

At Hat Hair a Larry vid, AOC's Political Future Crumbling? Democrats Warn Her To ‘Stay Away.' and Mitch Berg, Minnesota Senate Candidate: "She's Just Like Us!" and John Sexton, Some Dems Take a Different Approach to Trans Issues This Year. I have no doubt they doublecross their voters once in office. Matt Vespa at TownHall hears a Liberal Podcaster Had the Lamest Excuse for the Alaska Dem Who Called Her Staffers F****ts. "There's not a gay guy from Austin to underneath the docks in Provincetown who wouldn't be happily called a c*m guzzling f*g to have a Democratic Senate. Just a mincing butt munching pirate. You may call us whatever the f*ck you want if you win this seat." To be fair, they almost certainly are faggots, being Democrats. At NYPo, How Kathy Hochul’s admin handed firm a $1B Medicaid contract without competitive bidding. Sister Toldja at RedState reports A Nasty Incident at Susan Collins' Maine Office Has People Pointing Fingers at Troy Jackson. Chris Queen at PJM hears Virginia Pastors Sound the Alarm Over Ballot Amendments on Abortion and Marriage. Virginia DEQ, DEQ RELEASES UPDATED DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THE PERMITTING PROCESS GUIDANCE

Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.28.26, Doug Ross has the  Top Ten Reasons To Vote Democrat in November, and a whole lot more. 

Unleash Prosperity says This Is What Happens When the Government Runs Health Care. Steve Forbes @SteveForbesCEO, "760,000 ObamaCare enrollees had no Social Security or immigration numbers, paid no premiums and filed no medical claims. Yet taxpayers were footing their bills. ObamaCare has a fraud problem, not a coverage problem. Glad to see the Trump administration cleaning up the mess."  The View From North Central Idaho thinks Democrats can be Unintentionally Hilarious Sometimes. "Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) reposted a chart on X Tuesday claiming housing prices are “the most unaffordable in history,” and that it was Trump’s fault. There was just one huge problem. The chart Newsom shared showed that the housing affordability gap actually widened during Joe Biden’s presidency, and X users noticed almost instantly, flooding his replies with screenshots of the very data he’d just posted as though it helped his argument. It didn’t take long for the pile-on to turn Newsom’s own post into a meme about his reading comprehension. But the funny thing about it is that Democrats keep doing this."

John Sexton looks at Portland's Long-Running Experiment With Homeless Autonomous Zones.

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo, Quote Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias, "DC crime has fallen enough that the CVS by my house has stopped locking the locks on the cases they installed during Peak Shoplifting and it’s such a quality of life upgrade." Elvon @_Elvon_, "He admits his mistake. I think that’s admirable." But he won't credit Trump. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Batman Unable To Keep Up With Rising Crime As Gotham City Elects Another Democrat."

John Sexton hears Justice Alito Recuses Himself From Climate Change Case "Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito will no longer participate in a major climate change case after facing calls that he recuse himself because of his stock holdings in oil companies. ... Presumably, they wouldn't be doing this without a game plan, so it's a good bet they have some reason to hope a tie is possible. Again, I don't see how or have any idea which conservative justice they see as the weak link but maybe we'll get more on that in the coming days." The Indomitable Margot Cleveland at Da Fed asserts Everything About The Catherine Herridge Contempt Case Stinks, "presiding over the case is a federal judge whose wife represented (or represents) multiple high-profile subjects whose misconduct Herridge exposed in her reporting, such as Lisa Page and Joe Biden."

Dave Manney at PJM thinks Your SEO Guy Should Probably Not Be Fabricating Federal Court Orders, Google. PJM's Vicky Taft predicts The Pressure on Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Is About to Go Nuclear. "The attorney for Lindsay Clancy, whose triple murder trial ended recently in a mistrial, wants the holdout juror to be investigated for some kind of crime. He doesn't know what crime, but that hardly matters. This is still a public relations gambit and not a search for truth. That ideal left the building a long time ago."

At Hat Hair, Beege Welborn wonders Is Donald Trump Finally Tired of Maria Salazar?, Dave Strom cites a Saint Louis NGO: Let's Become 'Little Kabul' and asks Why Would Anybody in a Swing District Say This? RNC Research @RNCResearch, "INSANE Democrat Tom Suozzi says his biggest goal in politics is mass amnesty for criminal illegals: "My biggest goal of what I want to accomplish in politics right now is I want to legalize 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 million people in our country."" From Restoration News, the Violent History of Criminal Illegal Aliens in Jersey is Ignored by Democrats and News Media. Shipwreckedcrew writes the Democrat Priority Is Keeping Illegal Aliens In The Country And Out Of Jail -- Even If Pardons Are Necessary, "NY. Gov. Hochul pardons a violent illegal alien felon rather than risk the Supreme Court ruling that such illegal aliens do not have a “due process” right to a bail hearing." Christopher C. Cuomo @ChrisCuomo, "No accountability...just "they are worse"...this guy is going to have a lot to answer for when he flees maga." Quote Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "As you struggle to pay your own bills, are you prepared to pay the bills for millions of non-citizens, too? That’s what Democrats are proposing - and every GOP campaign ought to be all over it."

At the Hahvahd J of Law and Pubic Policy, The Supreme Court’s Error in Trump v. Barbara: Citizenship, Consent, and the Self-Governing Republic.

Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10, "1,000+ military-age men broke into Britain last week… Only one person got arrested…the man who tried to stop it… Today, the Prime Minister went on TV and called him a racist…"

Ace cites Liberal Media Hack Terry Moran: I Tried to Report on Biden's Mental Decline, Which I Saw First-Hand, but the Disney Groomer Network "Shut Down Very Hard" My Pitch, "This is a six-day old story but I don't know if I covered it. Moran got fired from the Disney Groomer Network last year. He's now free to tell tales out of school."

From Twitchy, CBC News 'Is Well on Its Way to Becoming a Judenfrei (Jew-Free) Broadcaster', O Canada! Dave Strom notes BBC Suddenly Discovers That It Has Been Pushing Hamas Propaganda and Is 'Shocked.'

U.S. Department of Education @usedgov, "Fixed it for you." Quote The Hill @thehill, "Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students " Michael Tracey @mtracey, "This is how Cornell University is getting the figure that 35% of undergraduate women experienced "nonconsensual sexual contact" in 2025. Or in other words, that over a third of all undergraduate women were "raped," to use popular parlance" PJM's Eric Florack is amused by The Last Ditch: Cancel Culture Comes for the Bar It Built.

YNet reports Sydney Sweeney converting to Judaism? Rosh Hashanah outing fuels rumors "Rumors intensified after the ‘Euphoria’ star attended Rosh Hashanah services with Scooter Braun, as reports say their relationship is becoming increasingly serious." Ace asks Hollywood: Shit or Garbage? Why not both? TownHall's Amy Curtis wants to know if you can Guess Who New York Magazine Featured in Its Men's Style Issue,"Elliot" Page. Isabel Brown @theisabelb, "So just so I understand this… New York Magazine releases its first ever issue on men’s style, and features a woman pretending to be a man on the cover. What message does this send?" No picture needed.

Joanne Jacobs sees Teach for America veered left and lost its way: Can it refocus on achievement? It's doubtful. "Applications for TFA slots peaked in 2013, then began a long slide as mission creep set in, he writes. The size of the teaching corps declined. And, Chu writes, TFA’s “public messaging began weighing in more directly on policing, structural racism, gender, and identity.”" VodkaPundit at Insty says Went Woke, going broke. Steven Crowder @scrowder, "Steven Crowder asks Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy directly if he would have signed Harvard's DEI pledge to get tenure. Watch him try to answer." NYPo, Nikole Hannah-Jones ignores who failed her daughter — the teachers union. From Da Blaze, BBC gets CRUSHED over woke article claiming new fingernail trend is white supremacist 'erasure'.

From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog says A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Caliphate… Dearbornistan sued for discriminating against Christians and Jews. NYPo, hears Masked vigilantes are raiding neighborhoods in England because the government has become so spineless. Ace, Three Years After a Gang of Immigrants Stabbed Innocent People While Declaring "We Are Here to Stab White People," French Judges Finally Charge the Killers with Murder -- and Anti-White Racism. "The attack occurred three years ago. I do not know why the decision to finally charge them with murder comes three years after the crime."

Tuesday Tanlines

Corporate Target, From the Dance Floor to Target Beauty Studio: Peta Murgatroyd Brings Self-Tanning (and Confidence) to Guests.

Target Beauty Studio is all about helping guests discover innovative beauty brands that deliver real results. The elevated, discovery-led beauty destination features dedicated Beauty Advisors, rotating product features and an expertly curated assortment of more than 1,600 products from 90 prestige, emerging and global brands — most new to Target. Through our ongoing work with founders, Target helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses while bringing fresh ideas, trends and innovation to guests. One of the new additions is Peta Jane Beauty, the self-tanning brand founded by professional dancer, entrepreneur and Dancing with the Stars champion Peta Murgatroyd. Born from years of backstage trial and error, Peta Jane Beauty was created to solve the frustrations Peta experienced with traditional self-tanners, from streaky color and unpleasant scents to sticky formulas and uneven fading. Now, with Peta Jane Beauty at Target Beauty Studio, guests can shop the brand’s range of self-tanning products in stores, on Target.com and in the Target app.

I wonder if anyone has ever used masking tape to create tanlines?

Maryland, My Maryland

 From the Bay Journal, Maryland governor opts for new data center standards over moratorium

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) issued an executive order Sept. 23 establishing a state task force that will compel data center developers to stop closed-door dealings and minimize their projects’ adverse impacts on local communities, ecosystems and energy infrastructure.  Moore also promised to roll back state tax incentives for data centers but stopped short of pausing new data center development, much to the dismay of Maryland environmental groups.

His order comes as states across the Chesapeake Bay watershed adopt stricter policies that either pause new data center development, such as New York, or require developers to meet stringent requirements, as established by Virginia and Pennsylvania. It also backtracks on the comments Moore made less than a week before the signing, when he told a reporter with Punchbowl News that he’d approve a statewide data center moratorium if presented with one.

During a press conference after the signing Moore instead took aim at the tax incentives passed by the General Assembly in 2020, saying the policy has contributed to the industry’s heavy influence over state data center regulations. “Before I was elected governor… the data centers were calling the shots,” Moore said. “The data centers and corporations were the ones writing the rules. And today, that ends.”

Under Moore’s policy, the state task force will review data center proposals with over 25 megawatts in peak energy demand and hold them to a variety of standards. Those include requirements that such a facility either generate its own electricity or offset the costs of harnessing power from the public grid, and that developers prioritize hiring Maryland residents .

The task force is also charged with maintaining a public dashboard with concise details on each data center’s parent company, energy demand, water use, and employment numbers. Any developer that refuses to cooperate or follow state standards will be labeled as “not aligned,” according to the order, and miss out on a coordinated review process by state regulators.

A little intrusive, but not as bad as an outright moratorium.  

Widgeon Oysters?

 Am I missing something? At Virginia Living, Meet the Widgeon Oyster, Grown in Virginia’s Carter’s Creek

Will Smiley never set out to grow oysters anyone would order off a menu. For years, the resident ecologist at The Tides Inn worked Carter’s Creek in Irvington with a different aim entirely—using oysters as machinery rather than food, seeding them reef by reef to strain the water and coax a tired stretch of the Chesapeake back to life.

The turnaround was years in the making. After a teaching career at Christ Church School, where he developed a marine science curriculum and was the sustainability coordinator, he joined The Tides Inn and took on the resort’s 2021 Shoreline Restoration Project—a Tang family vision he helped steward—which has turned the creek into a genuine comeback story. The proof shows up in the water itself: Widgeon grass reappeared, and a creek that was once mud and stillness now runs clear.

Smiley is quick to explain why that matters so much. When European colonists arrived in the 1600s, the Chesapeake held somewhere between tens and hundreds of billions of oysters, piled into reefs so vast they broke the surface and menaced passing ships—Capt. John Smith described navigational hazards where there should have been open water. At that density, the oysters filtered the Bay’s entire volume in roughly three days. Then came the reckoning: Centuries of mechanical dredging, overfishing, disease like Dermo and MSX, and fouling water pulled the population down to something under one to three percent of its pre-colonial abundance. The great multilayered reefs are mostly gone, and the oysters that remain need far longer to do the same work.

The Widgeon Oyster is a bit smaller than a typical oyster

 on the half shell.  The crop served at The Tides Inn

 is about 2 years old. Photo courtesy of The Tides Inn

 

Clean water is exactly what made oysters in Carter’s Creek possible, specifically the inn’s own varietal: the Widgeon Oyster. It’s the first batch Smiley has grown to be eaten rather than deployed—raised at a site near the mouth of the creek and shucked to order only at Salt & Meadow, the resort’s waterfront restaurant.

For Managing Director Edward Villafane, the oyster is the moment two separate missions finally land on a single plate. “Our Shoreline Restoration Project was never just about restoring our waterfront, but also about honoring the legacy of the Chesapeake Bay and the local watermen who have sustained it for generations,” Villafane says. “With the Widgeon Oyster, we are thrilled to offer our guests a truly unique, hyper-local culinary experience where every bite directly connects to our ongoing mission of ecological restoration and regenerative hospitality.”

What sets the Widgeon apart was never the species. The eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is a single animal that ranges the length of the Atlantic seaboard—biologically identical whether it’s pulled off Maine, the Chesapeake, or the Gulf beyond Florida. What changes is the water. Oyster people borrow a term from wine and call it merroir: the way a particular patch of bottom writes itself into the flavor. A saltier reach of the Bay turns a shell sharply briny, while the same animal farther north can come up sweet; grow one beside a marsh and it picks up an earthy note, raise it off a rocky shoreline and the finish leans mineral. It’s why the Bay’s hundreds of aquaculture farms each bottle a different place—from Shooting Points to Pleasure House and now the Widgeon—and why the Widgeon tastes the way it does: There is nowhere else it could have come from.

So, no, I didn't miss anything. The "Widgeon" Oyster is just a plain old Eastern Oyster grown by aquaculture in a particular creek, and harvested and consumed smaller than the law requires wild harvested oysters to be, a rule that was instituted to protect the oysters (some), back in the bad old days of oyster mining. Do oysters from different areas taste and smell different? Probably, but I don't claim a trained palate to discern the difference. As with beer, my favorite oysters are free. I used to be able to get them occasionally as a perk of my job. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Suddenly Monday

Tedford Tyler at Am Con thinks this week's visit show Trump Has Learned How to Deal With China. "The president’s engagement with Xi is delivering results." We'll see. At Hat Hair, Josh Hammer notes  Trump's Greenland Agreement Is the 'Art of the Deal' in Action. Ask for the moon and stars, and settle for just the moon. 

Georgia took this picture in McKinleyville CA this week

Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent declares the U.S. economy has entered “the acceleration phase.”" From the Chronic, Republicans Cannot Blame Any Midterm Losses on Trump’s Economy. Except for gas prices, things are going great, which is why the Democrats and media (but I redund) keep talking about gas prices. Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash, "Good morning X! Did you know: Of the top 5 states with the most expensive gas, only one has a Republican governor? (Nevada) Of the bottom five states with the cheapest gas, all are GOP-led states. On rent: The top five states with the most expensive rent prices are ALL democrat-run states. The bottom five are all GOP-run states. If your motivating factor this election is affordability, then democrats are not a good choice."  Breitbart Bus Dig is Raising ‘a Fuss and a Holler’ About the Labor Market, "Young American men had a hot, hot, hot summer in the labor market—as long as you count working as a hot summer." Ben Smith at LI, Trump Cancels $810M for Illegal Immigrants, Race-Based Programs. "Trump spending cuts target $810 million for illegal immigrant services, race-focused programs and other federal spending." 

TMZ @TMZ, "Nicki Minaj is jumping into the upcoming midterm elections, insisting that all young voters must do one thing -- vote Republican."Don Surber on Midterms diplomacy, "Iran is waiting for Democrats to take back Congress." And Democrats are encouraging them. The inimitable Kurt Schlichter at TownHall says We Are So Tired of the Loudmouth Quitters, and names a few. "Every election cycle we hear the same stupid spiel from a certain band of pseudo-conservative quitters: “Oh no, I’m not getting my way. I’ve got no reason to vote. I’m not going to vote. The Republicans aren’t conservative enough, so I’m just going to let the communist pervert Democrats win. Waa, waa, waa.”" Roger Kimball at Am Great examines the many Varieties of Trump Derangement Syndrome, "The effort to normalize various pathologies seems to be, as we have been taught to say, trending." The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub, "I was there. Overwhelming applause and cheers. This is dumb, even for People magazine."

Bob Graboyes at Bastiat's Window, discourses on  AI, Internet, and Rapid Advances in the Technology of Fraud. "AI and global connectivity have made the production, refinement, and dissemination of fraudulent information far easier than could have imagined a generation or two ago." The answer to most of AI's potential downfalls is to task AI with preventing them. At Common Place, Oren Cass explains How to Worry About AI, "Lessons from climate catastrophism for the cataclysm du jour,"

Kyle Becker at RedState hears AOC Gets Brutal News As She Test-Runs Senate Bid: She Is 'Rejected'. If she's too radical for New York State, she's not going to become preznit. At Althouse, Fetterman knows how to play viral media. I say he did this — deadpan — on purpose. "Well played, Senator!" That stroke clearly killed something in the left side of his brain. Tom Knighton at BA asks and answers What Did Newsom Do on Gun Bills? Now We Know. 

From Law and Liberty, The Slippery Constitutionality of Open Primaries. If Republicans want to get rid of them, they need to abuse them to the disadvantage of the Democrats.

PJM's Bob Spencer notices The Latest Attempt to Impeach Trump Criminalizes Not Being a Leftist. "Prof. Jonathan Turley remarked drily that Cohen “appears to believe that the problem with past impeachments has been brevity. His 26 articles of impeachment include everything short of ripping a label off a mattress, including the new impeachable offense of ‘self-aggrandizement.’” 

From Twitchy, Trump Intervenes After Overnight ICE Order Sparks Base Revolt: ‘No One Is Off the Table’ "Last night, panic spread across social media as reporters claimed the Trump Administration had decided to only arrest illegals who had criminal charges pending or convictions. That was a big change from 'anyone here illegally needs to go home'." Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_, "I’ve spoken on the phone with President Trump and nine ICE & DHS sources about this today. Here’s what I’ve learned. Yes, this verbal guidance did go out to ICE offices across the country last night. I’ve spoken with ICE agents who received it & were shocked & frustrated by it. It’s unclear who it started with. However, I’m told it’s erroneous, was some type of “miscommunication” during conversations about prioritizing “worst first”, and there is no change in immigration enforcement policy. President Trump tells me anyone in the country illegally remains “on the table” for ICE arrest & deportation. I’m also told new guidance went out to ICE field offices tonight to reaffirm this and that yes, arrests of illegal aliens and “collaterals” without additional criminal history will continue. ICE sources confirm to me they received the new guidance. I’m not really sure what happened here - but everyone is on the same page, including President Trump, in telling me that his immigration enforcement agenda isn’t scaling back." Quote Jennie Taer @JennieSTaer "SCOOP: ICE officers across the country were told this weekend to stop arresting non-criminals, agency sources tell @realDailyWire Now, ICE may only arrest illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges for the time being, said the sources." From FreightWaves, ICE launches tip line to report CDL fraud as crackdown widens. "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hot line follows shutdown of 110 truck driving schools and investigations spanning 23 states." The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial, "These people obviously can’t get in. Who is funding this op and why?" Quote Anthony Aguero Live @AnthonyAguero, "Over 400 aliens predominantly from Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday, ready to make their way to the US southern border… Here’s footage of the caravan. Someone is incentivizing this movement, this is not organic." Obviously a midterm op. Insty calls it A REMINDER OF WHAT IS AT STAKE IN NOVEMBER. Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital, "As we enter the age of AI, robotics and widespread automation there is zero reason for more mass immigration of low-skilled labor… Immigration at this point in American history should be extremely restrictive." Quote Starship Gazer @StarshipGazer, "Big drone cleaning the Starbase launch control room windows for clear views of Starship flight 14 on launch day."

Leslie Eastman at LI reports Ceuta Confirms First Monkeypox Case After Summer Border Surge from Morocco "Meanwhile, Kasai province in the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a mpox epidemic." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "When they pissed off this guy, they pissed off someone who has fought insurgencies, in Northern Ireland and Afghanistan, knows how to run one, and knows the British counterinsurgency game from the inside. They’ve succeeded in pissing off other British vets who know the same things. What they don’t have is guns." Quote Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox, "This story has broken me. It has unleashed a rage so strong I can barely express it, but allow me to try. Above all, I am angry with the decades-long malevolent incompetence of the British state: politicians of all parties, the judiciary, the civil service. Their collective uselessness has shattered the social contract and made us all poorer and less safe. In just 25 years, they have led us from an affluent, high-trust society to a broken, low-trust one..." Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT @lone_rides, "I have an idea for a book. “Hit me” A patriarchal society, women have no rights. They’re forced to dress appropriately. “Like it so far.” This society then starts to fifth column other countries. And people welcome it! “That’s slightly unrealistic but keep going.” Then when the group from this patriarchal society is big enough, they take over the host country. There is some pushback but many people in the host country join with the society in crushing it. “Nope. The plot won’t work. It’s unbelievable.” That’s what I thought but this is a history book about the spread of Islam through immigration." Quote Be Thinkful @BThinkful, "Now what if I told you the people most sympathetic to the invasion were women?"

Larry Elder at Hat Hair hears Trump Bans Media from the White House -- This Is Why He's Angry "The better question is: What took so long?" Nick Arama at RedState laughs as CNN Hilariously Begs Mike Waltz for Trump to Let Them Back in the Pool - His Answer Is Gold Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "LMAO!! CNN's Jake Tapper just BEGGED Ambassador Mike Waltz on national TV to ask President Trump to "let CNN back in the pool" for Air Force One and event coverage "Yesterday, the White House barred CNN from pool...I'd ask if you can convey to President Trump to let CNN back in the pool." Waltz did not promise to do so. ..." Sundance at CTH sees Media Aghast at Not Controlling White House Press Coverage, hosts AG Todd Blanche -VS- ABC Martha Raddatz. "There’s still obviously litigation going on, but the important thing, Martha, is to know that that being in the White House is a privilege. It’s not a — it’s not a right." unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "Pretty much most the reasons people state for why they are upset about Trump is based on some fake news they read or were exposed to, whether that person is a dem or republican."

From the College Fix, Elementary school staff presented with ‘anti-oppressive’ pledges to dismantle the system. O Canada! Monica Showalter thinks Nikole Hannah-Jones has just written a new version of 'The Jungle'?  "Sinclair, recall, was a progressive-era muckraker who wrote 'The Jungle' in 1906, with the express aim of converting America to socialism. His book described the filthy meat-packing plants of Chicago and the terrible labor conditions experienced by America's Lithuanian and other immigrant workers in a wrenching, emotionally engaging book that became a massive bestseller. But much to his surprise, he didn't convert anyone to socialism. People read about those filthy meat-packing plants where chemicals and spoilage were present, and absolutely shuddered at the thought that they were eating from them. That prompted major legislation to reform food sanitation practices, including the Meat Inspection Act, and the Pure Food and Drug Act by Congress." Garry Kasparov@Kasparov63, "I wish it was a bad joke," Quote Seattle Extremist @SeattleIndepen1, "This book is real. So is the award. In “A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint” the author argues that white paint isn’t neutral—it carries associations with purity, cleanliness, and power that tie into systems of exclusion and racism. This from the university that gave us Mortimer J Adler and the Great Books movement."

Rob Henderson @robkhenderson, "One of Sweeney’s sins is that she entertains men without first assuring women that their approval disgusts her. Contrast this with Sabrina Carpenter...Her sexual presentation comes with a clear assurance of female allegiance." Bill Costello at Realities Last Stand looks at The Science of Why Women Hate Sydney Sweeney, "Intrasexual competition, guy’s gals, and the vulnerable young men the controversy overlooks." "Evidence suggests women are more supportive than men of egalitarian outcomes and equity over merit-based hierarchies. Beauty is a particularly visible inequality, and its rewards are hardly distributed fairly."

At NYPo, Paranoid owner of woke Mass. lesbian bar puts big restrictions on mask-free Saturday over ‘infiltrator’ fear. Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma, "the reason this lesbian bar story went so viral is that basically every left wing person in America has personally experienced some version of this story in their life over the course of the last decade and is really goddam sick of it." Quote Max Tani @maxwelltani, "Per a note to Boston Globe staff today, the lesbian bar story generated 1,000 subscriptions to the paper yesterday. The Globe’s managing editor said it was “by far our best performing story of the year,” and appears to be “on pace to shatter all sorts of Globe records.”"

The Monday Morning Stimulus

 With Moe Stuck, who likes her coffee:

Fox, Iced coffee at job interviews sparks viral debate among Gen Z applicants. If your going to bring coffee, bring enough for everyone.