Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Beach Report 8/11/26
Flotsam and Jetsam - Back on Track
Well, our visitors left early this morning, and life is back to near normal. I\ll miss the grandkids, but not the furor.
Buck Throckmorton at Ace's MORNING RANT: About that “Bad” Jobs Report Last Week: Private-Sector Jobs Increased, Government Jobs Decreased "This headline from Bloomberg was typical, but at least it did note that concurrent with lost jobs, the unemployment rate actually fell: “U.S. Employers Unexpectedly Shed Jobs; Unemployment Rate Falls” ... This CNBC piece further explains that ”The main reason for the red headline number was a loss of 53,000 government workers.”... Here are a few more headlines about who is losing their jobs in the “Trump economy”..." We need to be careful not to get swayed by headlines that conflate foreigners and government workers losing their jobs with what is going on regarding private-sector hiring of U.S. citizens. There is good news on that front, and it’s getting better."
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "UPDATE: Geraldo Rivera just got brutally exposed as a massive HYPOCRITE after he said President Trump sending Haitians back to Haiti is "sending them straight to hell" Geraldo Rivera, 2018: "Trump should apologize for calling countries sh*t holes!" Calls Haiti "hell.." gets mad at Trump for basically saying the exact same thing. Liberals have no standards!" Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "Anderson Cooper may take issue with your harsh assessment of Haiti, Geraldo. He did tell Conan how “amazing,” “incredible” and "culturally rich" it is, and that he likes to spend his weekends and vacations there, after all." John Sexton at Hat Hair hears Trump Gets a Win in Lawsuit Against BBC.From Ace, Trump Settlels In for Long Siege of Iran, "I had hoped for a more "kinetic" operation with Iran done and dusted a year before the mid-terms. But that's now impossible, of course, so a long slow strangulation will do." James E. Thorne@DrJStrategy, "Hormuz Miscalculation Sec Bessent gets it. Iran has mistaken a tactical threat for a durable advantage. By repeatedly signaling its willingness to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran hasn’t strengthened its hand, it has accelerated the market’s exit. Capital does not tolerate chokepoints; it routes around them..." Steve Richards at JTN, As Iran war strains high-end munition stocks, Trump administration works to jump start production. "While the Pentagon disputes critical munitions supply concerns, it is working to significantly boost production of the high-end systems and seek out mass produced alternatives." RBe @RBPundit, "Here's the straight answer: "We're not going to tell Iran or anyone else how long they may or may not have to hold out against us." Quote Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty, "Can We Get a Straight Answer on Our Critical Munitions Stockpiles?" Nick Arama at RedState swears Iran's 'Proof of Life' Video for Supreme Leader Blows Up in Its Face. John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz, "All that's left is the leader's nose. Time to check the cell structure!" Quote Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13, "JUST IN: Multiple sources inside Iran confirm that Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has been rushed to the hospital and is in critical condition."
PJM's Stephen Kruiser says I Liked the Dems Better When AOC Was Their Craziest Commie. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair cites AOC: I Don't Know What to Do With That Hat Tossing and Frozen Eggs. Kyle Beckley @Kyle_Beckley, "“The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. Just kidding, freezing my eggs because I got all the time in the world"" Quote New York Post @nypost, "AOC starts process of freezing her eggs, hints at 2028 mindset: 'I think it's badass.' At Althouse, "I'm not sure why WaPo covered this, but ignored trump wearing a wig that is styled like his mother's hair during her last year of life." "That's the top-rated comment (by far) on the WaPo article, "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’s freezing her eggs/The Democratic congresswoman, 36, said she made the decision to undergo the fertility procedure to 'feel more in control of my life'" (gift link)." Andrew Kerr @AndrewKerrNC, "“Why isnt AOC married after being engaged to Riley Roberts after 4+ years?” She’s hiding his finances from the public. That’s why. So long as they remain legally unmarried, Roberts’ stock trades remain secret."
PJM's Stephen Kruiser says I Liked the Dems Better When AOC Was Their Craziest Commie. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair cites AOC: I Don't Know What to Do With That Hat Tossing and Frozen Eggs. Kyle Beckley @Kyle_Beckley, "“The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. Just kidding, freezing my eggs because I got all the time in the world"" Quote New York Post @nypost, "AOC starts process of freezing her eggs, hints at 2028 mindset: 'I think it's badass.' At Althouse, "I'm not sure why WaPo covered this, but ignored trump wearing a wig that is styled like his mother's hair during her last year of life." "That's the top-rated comment (by far) on the WaPo article, "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’s freezing her eggs/The Democratic congresswoman, 36, said she made the decision to undergo the fertility procedure to 'feel more in control of my life'" (gift link)." Andrew Kerr @AndrewKerrNC, "“Why isnt AOC married after being engaged to Riley Roberts after 4+ years?” She’s hiding his finances from the public. That’s why. So long as they remain legally unmarried, Roberts’ stock trades remain secret."
Politico whines that Trump and the GOP have a new bogeyman, "Days after Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Michigan primary, Trump is homing in on his progressive policies, calling him a “communist” and “man of hate.”" From Ace, Abdul El-Sayed Has Repeatedly Endorsed Book Which Praises Left-Wing Violence and the Nihilistic Destruction of the "Summer of Love;" Also Refuses to Even Stop Campaiging with Hasan "Kill Rick Scott" Piker, "I'm starting to think this son of a terrorist might be pro-terrorism.Jon Levine of Free Beacon..." Sundance at CTH hosts Susan Kokinda Reviewing Abdul El-Sayed From Michigan. From the Victory Girls, Mamdani’s Anti-Rent Advisor Faces Eviction Over Four Years Of Unpaid Rent. Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "They’re all like this, BTW. Every single one is a disappointing nepo baby. DSA is if “I HATE YOU DAD” were a political party. Commies are all scammers." Quote New York Post @nypost, "Anti-rent radical and Mamdani pal who is 'squatting' in Brooklyn is Grammy nepo baby." John Sexton at Hat Hair reports a Judge Grants TRO on Mamdani's Pied-À-Terre Tax. AG @AGHamilton29, "An incredibly consistent overlap between the categories of communist activist and privileged rich kids who never held real jobs and have defined their entire lives by their desire to rebel against their rich families." RedState's Sister Toldja hears a New Dem Talking Point on the DSA Emerges, and Francesca Hong Just Demonstrated Why It Won't Work. Ryan King at NYPo reports Talarico previously fought against Texas legislation banning predators from getting cashless bail. Justine Bateman @JustineBateman, "I’ll tell you something about Karen Bass. Three months after she was elected, she spoke at one of the guilds. She clearly knew nothing about the film industry, I mean nothing. It was shocking. At one point she asked that film productions give jobs to homeless people—that this “would really help her out.” What kind of idiot walks into a room of mostly out-of-work people, in an industry that is collapsing upon itself, that does productions with limited time and money where a mistake from an inexperienced worker can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and suggest that unskilled, perhaps drug-addled, clueless homeless people should be employed instead of qualified guild members? ..." LI's Mike LaChance hears from a Former DNC Fundraiser: Major Democratic Donors are Done With Kamala Harris, “Kamala Harris is living in fantasyland… [thinking] that big donors would bet on her again.” At TownHall Matt Vespa hears (and posts) a Black Georgia Voter Tells NYT Reporter What's Wrong With the Dems. It's Brutally Accurate: "I feel like the Democratic people, they just fake. "They tried to do the Megan Thee Stallion thing. That was HORRIBLE. When Harris got Megan Thee Stallion ... What was that!? People can see through the bullsh*t!" Joshua Reed Eakle @JoshEakle, "Oh my God. Watch this interview with Dr. Frances Gill of the Democratic Socialists of America's national political committee. I'm sorry. But putting these people in charge of the Democratic Party will usher in a century of fascist rule."
Sundance reports the FBI Declassifies Investigation of Former AG Jeff Sessions, Codename “March Toll” and Senator Ron Johnson Reveals Fauci Texts and Horrific Vaccine Induced Abortion Rate Hidden Within the Data. From Ace, Fauci Privately Acknowledged the Fake Vaccine Could Cause Miscarriages -- But Denied Any Such Risk Publicly "This is close to murder." "The authors claimed a miscarriage rate of 12.6%, but the raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester. This is consistent with the 81% miscarriage rate noted in the Pfizer 5.3.6 post-market data. These figures mirror the effects of chemical abortion drugs such as RU-486." Among Alex Berenson's Unreported Truths, Tony Fauci appears to have misled Congress in 2024 about his efforts to avoid federal records laws, "Joe Biden's final-day presidential pardon of Fauci will protect him from any potential criminal jeopardy for the episode, but it shows why he may be so reluctant to testify now." At Da Caller, Rand Paul Fires Back After Progressive Writer Questions His Medical Credentials. "You know who isn't a doctor? Rand Paul isn't, and RFK Jr isn't, you stuporous dope. https://t.co/bICmflrCuF— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) August 7, 2026" "Paul answered directly the following day. “I’m literally an MD. I operate on eyeballs,” the senator wrote on his verified account."
At Law and Liberty, Josh Blackmun tells A Tale of Two Chiefs "There is Chief Justice Roberts, the institutionalist, who strategically guides the Supreme Court by not deciding more than is necessary to decide. Then there is Chief Justice Roberts, the institutionalist, who strategically guides the Supreme Court by deciding more than is necessary to decide. Which Roberts do we get in each case? This tale of two chiefs depends entirely on whether Roberts determines the decision will lead to the best of times or the worst of times. If the Chief fears rough roads ahead, less will be decided. If the Chief sees smooth sailing, more will be decided. No more, no less."
From Fox, DHS reports over 1.4M illegal alien departures since January 2025. Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC, "NEW: John Fetterman to WaPo: "Without a doubt, the Democratic Party, we DESTROYED our border! 11 million migrants thru the Biden Admin. When you have 300,000 showing up at the border, that's the size of Pittsburgh .... EVERY month! And Democrats pretended that it's all good." Balmer Sun, Judge reinstates Howard County ICE facility permit. "Judge says county’s ban on private immigration detention centers cannot be enforced." From PM, Iranian sex offender able to vote without ID in Michigan: OMG, "O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) journalists reportedly investigated two Michigan registered voters whose noncitizen status was identified through Department of Homeland Security (DHS) records." Hat Hair's Beege Welborn say aww, The Euro Mean Girls Are Ganging Up on Pedro Sanchez.
At UnHerd, Jason Arday taught me. Here’s what I learned "The song lyrics were the first red flag. The way he’d ramble about Tinie Tempah or Eminem, or how black artists like Beyoncé were sexualized by white men, without offering any evidence to substantiate his claims. Or else there were the film clips, from Fish Tank and Kidulthood, which he’d tell us to discuss without offering guidance on how to do so. And this was if he was even in the classroom at all. He often arrived late and left early, once teaching for a single hour when four were scheduled." Ace, Surprise! Jason Arday Was Also a Shit "Teacher;" Did Not Teach Actual Academic Subjects, Just Riffed About Racism and Popular Music In Every "Class." John McWhorter @JohnHMcWhorter, "My take on the Arday debacle. Elevator pitch version: 1) Arday is typical of a thriving alternate-universe academia elevating performance art over curiosity; 2) the "anti-racist" people who supported him are either bigots or caught up in recreational tribalism."Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka, "My advance copy of Professor Jason Arday’s new book just arrived, courtesy of Simon & Schuster. Can’t wait to dig in, but here’s a taste from the first page to whet your appetite: “All this happened, more or less. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times: a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again, where Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself—for Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul. But 124 was spiteful, full of a baby’s venom. I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.”" At Ombre de Oliver, The Racists Who Enabled Jason Arday, "Can you say "soft bigotry of low expectations." Eric Rasmusen at Ras-Stak, Who Hired the Ridiculous Jason Arday at Cambridge? I Have the Names. "This is not a lightweight panel. Zembylas has the most citations; all have a proper scholarly record in education, sociology, history. So did they read the work? And if they did how could they persuade themselves it was of the level appropriate for a Cambridge chair?" Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka, "The greatest secret of the social sciences is that nobody reads any of this stuff. It's all just busy work to keep a giant grift going, so you can have typos in the title of your PhD dissertation and nobody will notice until you have a plagiarism scandal." As I've said all along.
From Campus Reform, Trump administration defends Harvard funding freeze as ACLU-led coalition backs university on appeal, "The administration argues Harvard failed to address anti-Semitism and other institutional concerns before nearly $2.2 billion in federal research funding was frozen." Graphs about Religion finds Finance Majors Go to Church. English Majors Don't. "The Stereotypes About Which Majors Are Religious and Conservative Turn Out to Be Mostly True."
Ace, Black WNBA Thug Who Clotheslined Sophie Cunniningham Says Her Ejection for the Flargrant Foul Is Just "White Privilege;" Male NBA Stars Announce They're Gals Now and Intend to Try Out for the WNBA "It's "white privilege" to eject someone for a flagrant foul because, of course, blacks are permitted to take Street Reparations against white people when they feel like it." Matt Vespa sees Dijonai Carrington Tried to Explain Her 'White Privilege' Tweet. It Didn't Go Well. Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, Sophie Cunningham Smacks Down Opponent’s ‘White Privilege’ Comment. "There's no reason to even play that card." Stephen Kruiser thinks Sophie Cunningham Triggered an Avalanche of Bluff-Calling for the WNBA. Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog, "It really is incredible that there’s just outright racial violence happening in the WNBA. Every men’s professional sports league has black and white players and they aren’t having these problems. Remember this the next time a feminist tells you women should rule the world because they’re more peaceful and empathetic or whatever." Julie Frost--That Werewolf Writer @JulieCFrost, "Kareem might have a point if anyone could name a single other WNBA player." Quote Farm Girl Carrie @FarmGirlCarrie, "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says calling Caitlin Clark the “Face of the WNBA” is disrespectful to those who've paved the way. Do you agree with his point of view or is he flat out wrong here? What say you?" Well, at least they've found a way to make the WNBA mildly interesting.
Talk about a segue, at Da Mail, Trans American who fled to Europe claiming asylum from Trump makes humiliating return after being placed in a refugee center… but she's already complaining about life in the US. Hollywood in Toto has The Joke that Sparked Death Threats for Arynne Wexler "Wexler said she was shocked that another joke from her repertoire drew little outrage. She has compared Muslims to pit bulls, suggesting the majority of both groups aren’t violent, but..." Beege Welborn, UK Muslim 'News' Org Seems to Want to Make Sure Its Delightful Readers Have Someone to Protest. Aja @AjaTheEmpress, "Well this sounds like a threat. @BrumPolice @gmpolice @BrantfordPolice, @WYP_LeedsCity "You might want to keep an eye on this because letting John Cleese get hurt in your city isn't gonna be a good look." At ToI, UK probes major Muslim charity after director charged with funneling aid to Hamas.
A Tuesday Tune - Changes
One day my mother took me to see The Beatles tribute show, which impressed me so much that after a while I asked my mother to buy me a guitar and find a teacher to teach me how to play it.
That's how I met my current guitar teacher, Deividas Kontrimas, who encouraged me to attend music school and learn guitar. He also introduced me to jazz music, taught me how to play it. I never thought that I would play jazz music.
But that's how it is in life, you have to try lots of things before you find something you really like.
Monday, August 10, 2026
Flotsam and Jetsam - More DIY
I hate to do this two days in a row, but we have people visiting, and grandchildren to entertain:
Trump World
The Good and the Bad of the Common Good – HotAirVice President JD Vance Extensive Interview - The Last Refuge
Another Mysterious Drone with Ukraine Signature Hits Bulgaria - The Last Refuge
OSINTtechnical on X: "US defense giants Lockheed and Raytheon are reportedly resistant to licensing Patriot missile production to Ukraine because they fear that Ukrainian manufacturers will be able to “improve the Patriot and then produce them at scale faster and for much less money.” -The Atlantic https://t.co/Eb7z9i4yWN"
Sunday Combat: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya -vs- Margaret Brennan - The Last Refuge
The Battle for Hormuz Will Reshape the Global LNG Market
Secretary Bessent Outlines Reality of Capital Markets Making the Strait of Hormuz Irrelevant - The Last Refuge
Abdul El-Sayed blasts Trump's marriage to Melania after prez's social media comparison
Clean Up in Aisle 4! Abdul El-Sayed Makes a Mess on ‘Meet the Press’ – PJ Media
Althouse: "Is that Peter Thiel’s boy with that Ohio charisma he’s got? That guy. I think we’ve had enough of him."
Media Fawning of Senate Candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Begins - The Last Refuge
Barbara Boyd Looks at the Money Trail Behind Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed - The Last Refuge
Exclusive | Mamdani is ‘thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive' in private despite unflappable social media image: political sources
Resurfaced: Talarico Brags About Hiding Illegal Aliens, Calls Texas Christians ‘Christo-Fascists’James Talarico - the Gift That Keeps On Giving - Victory Girls Blog
Instapundit - AOC DECLARES MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ON THE GREEN NEW DEAL: AOC starts process of freezing her eggs
Jonathan Turley on X: "Former DNC Vice-chair David Hogg just told establishment figures like Chuck Schumer that the "Big Tent" of his party is not big enough. He and other moderates have to go. When asked about Democratic moderates, Hogg replied, “They don’t have the right values"..."
Althouse: "Starting in the mid-2000s, the Democratic Party adopted a position that retail politics was due for an internet upgrade."
You Think We'd Let This Dem Congressional Candidate Forget What She Said Five Years Ago
NYC tenant activist who calls rent 'ransom' is daughter of Grammy-winner
¡No Pasarán!: Isn't It Time to Gut the 26th Amendment? (The Marxist Undertones of "Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote" Exposed)
DOJ Refutes Fishback Claim, Says Donalds Isn’t Under Investigation - The Daily Caller
Things Don't Sound Good for Cancer-Stricken Joe Biden – PJ Media
Why the woke left loves dancing on people’s graves - spiked
James O'Keefe on X: "BOMBSHELL: Undercover Video Shows Non-U.S. Citizens from Iran Allowed to Vote in Michigan Primary Without ID The Non-Citizens Allowed to Vote Are Sex Offenders, on DHS's "Worst of the Worst" List, and Previously Arrested by ICE Iranian Subject Confirms With OMG He Voted in the https://t.co/BH7eHTDLDw"
En Banc DC Circuit Reinstates Funding Of The Most Corrupt Program Ever Enacted — Manhattan Contrarian
Doug Powers on X: "Wait'll you find out who was JFK's Attorney General."
A Massive Red Flag Was Just Found on Fauci's COVID-Era iPhone – RedState
Western Lensman on X: "Writing the diary vs hearing back what you wrote in the diary
Immigration Court Backlog Falls Below 3.5 Million
Bessent Enlists Banks in Trump Immigration Crackdown
Illegal alien students demand U. California system comply with court ruling, hire them for campus jobs - The College Fix
Employers Using J1 Student Visas for Seasonal Work Pay NO Social Security Taxes - The Last Refuge
Wesley Yang on X: "Jason Arday’s utility is that you can defenestrate him and thus pretend that the rest of these folx are real scholars"
Hans Mahncke on X: "No chance. America remains the global leader in this field. Making Jason Arday a Cambridge professor so everyone involved can congratulate themselves on their virtue is beginner level stuff. America took a serial plagiarist with embarrassingly poor scholarship and made her"
Nick Dixon on X: "All this talk about Jason Arday, but people still don’t realise what DEI has done. One, it has destroyed millions of lives (they’re all white men, so no one cares). Two, it has destroyed entire industries and even art forms, potentially forever. There’s no sign that literature,"
One Bad Dude on X: "The WNBA is what the entire country would be like if run by white liberal women."
Plagiarist Claudine Gay getting paid $3.1 million/year after "resigning" from Harvard - Philip Greenspun’s Weblog
Great and Unfortunate Fabrications - American Greatness
Campus Reform - Kentucky anti-DEI law seemingly ends NIH-funded professor's 'white ally' therapy training
Clay Travis on X: "Sports Illustrated’s headline is “Sophie Cunningham got a bitter taste of karma” by getting clotheslined. Sports media is broken. It’s way more left wing than political media. https://t.co/svrY06F0JP"
Retard Finder on X: "DiJonai Carrington for clotheslining Sophie Cunningham then posting "white privilege" while appropriating white culture with fake ass straight blonde hair. Retard of the day
David Burge on X: "Apparently if you dare complain about her gettin eye-gouged or throat-punched, it's a dog whistle to encourage Emmett Till-style lynchings. Not according to some 6-follower straitjacket X rando, according to a staff sports columnist for USA Today."
Looks Like the WNBA's Absurdity Is About to Sink the Entire Transgender Movement – PJ MediaWNBA to Hold Meeting to Discuss What the 'W' Stands for
WNBA's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very-Bad Week – HotAir
Restoring the West on X: "Modern feminism can't agree on what a woman is. It's defended violent male predators in women's prisons and stayed silent on UK rape gangs to avoid being called racist. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "I will always defend the rights of women—and therefore I cannot call myself a feminist."
Nicola Sturgeon Loses Another Round to JK Rowling – HotAir
Iran
Secretary Bessent Outlines Reality of Capital Markets Making the Strait of Hormuz Irrelevant - The Last Refuge
The Disloyal Opposition
Clean Up in Aisle 4! Abdul El-Sayed Makes a Mess on ‘Meet the Press’ – PJ Media
Althouse: "Is that Peter Thiel’s boy with that Ohio charisma he’s got? That guy. I think we’ve had enough of him."
Media Fawning of Senate Candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Begins - The Last Refuge
Barbara Boyd Looks at the Money Trail Behind Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed - The Last Refuge
Exclusive | Mamdani is ‘thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive' in private despite unflappable social media image: political sources
Resurfaced: Talarico Brags About Hiding Illegal Aliens, Calls Texas Christians ‘Christo-Fascists’James Talarico - the Gift That Keeps On Giving - Victory Girls Blog
Instapundit - AOC DECLARES MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ON THE GREEN NEW DEAL: AOC starts process of freezing her eggs
Jonathan Turley on X: "Former DNC Vice-chair David Hogg just told establishment figures like Chuck Schumer that the "Big Tent" of his party is not big enough. He and other moderates have to go. When asked about Democratic moderates, Hogg replied, “They don’t have the right values"..."
Althouse: "Starting in the mid-2000s, the Democratic Party adopted a position that retail politics was due for an internet upgrade."
You Think We'd Let This Dem Congressional Candidate Forget What She Said Five Years Ago
NYC tenant activist who calls rent 'ransom' is daughter of Grammy-winner
¡No Pasarán!: Isn't It Time to Gut the 26th Amendment? (The Marxist Undertones of "Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote" Exposed)
DOJ Refutes Fishback Claim, Says Donalds Isn’t Under Investigation - The Daily Caller
Things Don't Sound Good for Cancer-Stricken Joe Biden – PJ Media
Why the woke left loves dancing on people’s graves - spiked
James O'Keefe on X: "BOMBSHELL: Undercover Video Shows Non-U.S. Citizens from Iran Allowed to Vote in Michigan Primary Without ID The Non-Citizens Allowed to Vote Are Sex Offenders, on DHS's "Worst of the Worst" List, and Previously Arrested by ICE Iranian Subject Confirms With OMG He Voted in the https://t.co/BH7eHTDLDw"
The Just Us System
Doug Powers on X: "Wait'll you find out who was JFK's Attorney General."
A Massive Red Flag Was Just Found on Fauci's COVID-Era iPhone – RedState
Western Lensman on X: "Writing the diary vs hearing back what you wrote in the diary
Immigration, Legal and Otherwise
Bessent Enlists Banks in Trump Immigration Crackdown
Illegal alien students demand U. California system comply with court ruling, hire them for campus jobs - The College Fix
Employers Using J1 Student Visas for Seasonal Work Pay NO Social Security Taxes - The Last Refuge
The Great Culture War
Hans Mahncke on X: "No chance. America remains the global leader in this field. Making Jason Arday a Cambridge professor so everyone involved can congratulate themselves on their virtue is beginner level stuff. America took a serial plagiarist with embarrassingly poor scholarship and made her"
Nick Dixon on X: "All this talk about Jason Arday, but people still don’t realise what DEI has done. One, it has destroyed millions of lives (they’re all white men, so no one cares). Two, it has destroyed entire industries and even art forms, potentially forever. There’s no sign that literature,"
One Bad Dude on X: "The WNBA is what the entire country would be like if run by white liberal women."
Plagiarist Claudine Gay getting paid $3.1 million/year after "resigning" from Harvard - Philip Greenspun’s Weblog
Great and Unfortunate Fabrications - American Greatness
Campus Reform - Kentucky anti-DEI law seemingly ends NIH-funded professor's 'white ally' therapy training
Clay Travis on X: "Sports Illustrated’s headline is “Sophie Cunningham got a bitter taste of karma” by getting clotheslined. Sports media is broken. It’s way more left wing than political media. https://t.co/svrY06F0JP"
Retard Finder on X: "DiJonai Carrington for clotheslining Sophie Cunningham then posting "white privilege" while appropriating white culture with fake ass straight blonde hair. Retard of the day
David Burge on X: "Apparently if you dare complain about her gettin eye-gouged or throat-punched, it's a dog whistle to encourage Emmett Till-style lynchings. Not according to some 6-follower straitjacket X rando, according to a staff sports columnist for USA Today."
Looks Like the WNBA's Absurdity Is About to Sink the Entire Transgender Movement – PJ MediaWNBA to Hold Meeting to Discuss What the 'W' Stands for
WNBA's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very-Bad Week – HotAir
Restoring the West on X: "Modern feminism can't agree on what a woman is. It's defended violent male predators in women's prisons and stayed silent on UK rape gangs to avoid being called racist. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "I will always defend the rights of women—and therefore I cannot call myself a feminist."
Nicola Sturgeon Loses Another Round to JK Rowling – HotAir
The Monday Morning Stimulus
With Jessy Hetten. She seems to like her coffee.
Measuring less than four centimeters and known as the "spring frog," AFP reporters observed the dark green-spotted amphibians in San Lorenzo de Tarrazu. "It's a new species of tree frog for science, and endemic to Costa Rica," researcher Wagner Chaves-Acuna told AFP, per the findings of colleagues from the University of Costa Rica and Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research.
Also nicknamed the 'coffee frog,' the species has another distinctive trait: males have a translucent throat that inflates with their short, high-pitched call. "At night, when they are most active, you can hear them singing and perched on coffee shrubs," Chaves-Acuna said.
Sunday, August 9, 2026
Flotsam and Jetsam - Another DIY Sunday
Trump World
Birth Tourism’s Next Evolution: Commissioned Citizenship - The American Mind
Spain: Pedro Sánchez Declares Border War on His Own Country - The American Spectator
Geiger Capital on X: "Holy shit. Since Trump took office, 1.3 Million foreign-born workers (legal and illegal) have lost a job. Meanwhile, 1.7 Million native-born Americans have gained a job. A sharp reversal of the last few years. https://t.co/b4b97fPQPS"
Basil the Great on X: "🚨NEWS: Authorities fear others will copy a group in Seville, Spain who spread pig bones on the construction site a Mosque was set to be built on, making the land impure and stopping the work. The group received widespread praise on social media for their efforts." / X
- Check the data, doom-and-gloomers — food costs aren't what you think
- The Disloyal Opposition
Ranger Who Quit Over Trump Policies Calls Removing Grand Teton Placard Censorship | Cowboy State Daily
Well, the New U.S.-Colombia Relationship Escalated Quickly. It's Officially FAFO Season. – PJ Media
China's Window Is Closing. So Is Its Command Structure | RealClearWorld
Russia Is Far from Defeated - CEPA
🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 on X: "Here it is: The Federal Reserve CONFIRMS: U.S. NGOs collectively hold assets worth half the size of the U.S. national debt—$14.2 trillion—of taxpayers’ money. Government Funded-Non-Governmental Organization: An NGO Family Endeavors (Endeavors), a San Antonio-based nonprofit https://t.co/ZeQRYMorfd"
Pentagon Revokes Ex-Air Force Secretary's Classified Access - Newsmax.com
How Pittsburgh Became the Early Alarm Bell for the DSA's Rise – HotAir
Hogg to Schumer: Get Out of Our 'Big Tent' and Take Moderates With You – HotAir
'Leftists Hate Fun': Skateboarder Taylor Silverman and Rejecting the Culture of Complaint – HotAir
Abdul El-Sayed Responds to End Wokeness and Doubles Down on 'I Hate Mackinac' – TwitchySpencer Pratt on X: "The path of life never gets easier. The climb doesn’t get less steep. Your legs just get stronger. Never quit. We have communists to wreck."
Geiger Capital on X: "The media loves to focus on the political leanings of young men, while completely ignoring the fact that it’s young women who have become far-left radical extremists." / XInez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ on X: "Of course they can immediately see the problem with a fifth column bureaucracy the second the shoe is on the other foot lol"
Instapundit - CHABLIS IS A HELLUVA DRUG: https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/2085877650992623929 Kamala may hav
Jenn Pellegrino 🇺🇸 on X: "Jimmy Carter in 2005 on voter ID: "It will not restrict people from voting." He even described Voter ID as “a move forward in getting more people to vote." Republicans need to share this video far and wide. Voter ID was bipartisan then. It should be bipartisan now. https://t.co/szZarfscjw"
Iran
What the Situation on the Ground in Iran Actually Looks Like
Just Us
- Senate Narrowly Confirms Blanche as Attorney General - Newsmax.com
A CNN Guest Said This About Fauci...and All Hell Broke Loose
Congress Turns Up the Heat on Fauci While Blanche Passes Senate Test – HotAir
Five Lessons Learned From the Fauci Fiasco – HotAir
Bill Maher Obliterated Anthony Fauci Last Night
Watch 'Unbiased' Leftist Judge Become Completely Unhinged in Open Court in Election Case – PJ Media
The Week In Pictures: Winner and Still Champion Edition - Power Line
- Illegal Immigration
Birth Tourism’s Next Evolution: Commissioned Citizenship - The American Mind
Spain: Pedro Sánchez Declares Border War on His Own Country - The American Spectator
Geiger Capital on X: "Holy shit. Since Trump took office, 1.3 Million foreign-born workers (legal and illegal) have lost a job. Meanwhile, 1.7 Million native-born Americans have gained a job. A sharp reversal of the last few years. https://t.co/b4b97fPQPS"
Basil the Great on X: "🚨NEWS: Authorities fear others will copy a group in Seville, Spain who spread pig bones on the construction site a Mosque was set to be built on, making the land impure and stopping the work. The group received widespread praise on social media for their efforts." / X
- Instapundit - QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: “Does the [military] leader sound like a human LinkedIn post? If so, he
Mary Katharine Ham on X: "Finally, a ray of hope for higher ed and they shut it down immediately" / XNorthern Barbarian on X: "OK, I need to figure out how to add to a community note. "Jason Arday is fakking hilarious and has singlehandedly blown up Cambridge University and the entire DEI industrial complex." How do I do that?"
Fusilli Spock on X: "Being educated is always good Being a credentialist, know-it-all, douche is bad Clear enough?"
The WNBA Has an Idiotic Response to Conservatives Pointing Out Their Woke NonsenseWNBA Commissioner Reacts to Two Male Ex-NBA Players Vying to Join the Women’s Basketball League – Twitchy
Clay Travis on X: "If you could 10x your salary by saying you were a woman, wouldn’t you do it too? WNBA is cooked."
Not the Bee on X: "In order to make a real change, some dude needs to take the L and actually pretend to be a chick for a year, dominate everything and then admit it was all a ruse afterward. We need somebody with the balls to do it."
Enes Kanter and Royce White dominate in their first WNBA all star game 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/jS6DLPvjag
— DFF (@DumbFxckFinder) August 8, 2026
Palm Sunday
With Jessy Hetten:
Another innocent man saved from the clutches of man-eating palm trees, ABC 10, Watch Sacramento firefighters rescue tree trimmer stranded high in palm tree.
Saturday, August 8, 2026
Flotsam and Jetsam - A Saturday Morning Salad
A whole lot of little bits all mixed together. Beege Wellborn at Hat Hair thinks this is Awkward: DC Circuit Tells Trump Not to Knock Down East Wing of the White House. Have they looked recently? Ethan Savka @eesavka, "This case shouldn't even be in court. The so-called injury that gives the plaintiff standing is laughable. They get to go to court because the White House isn't pretty anymore? Give me a break. This is a manufactured case that is surviving off of judicial activism alone." Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew, "It would not shock me at all to see SCOTUS enter a summary order granting relief to the Administration in the ridiculous ballroom case, and remand the matter to the D.C. Circuit for further consideration, citing favorably Judge Rao's dissent, Sec. II(A) -- a lack of standing by the plaintiff -- and be done with it." At Althouse, "The White House is the People’s House, and under the Constitution’s Property Clause, Congress exercises plenary control over the building and its surrounding land." "I'm reading National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States v. National Park Service, the new decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. ... Trump's reaction, at Truth Social: "Two Judges, one appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, the other by Sleepy Joe Biden, said in a ruling on the desperately needed SECURE Ballroom/Military Complex, including a major DronePort on the roof, that 'Each President is a temporary tenant…of the White House.' We are not tenants, who pay rent and do all other things that a tenant must do, we are PRESIDENTS, elected by the people of the United States of America, and have many rights, including the right to fix, renovate, secure, protect, and beautify the White House grounds, which has been built and rebuilt, renovated and rerenovated, repaired and, simply, MADE BETTER, many times since 1792, and never needing the permission of Congress, or anyone else, to do so. This decision, made after much of the work has been done and paid for, is a National Security Threat at the highest level. It is also a National Disgrace. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP""
Also at Althouse, "This whole thing has been really surreal and absurd... it’s a relief, but there’s a detachment to that relief of extreme concern for other people and for our country." "Said David Hearn, "the Olympian," quoted in "Judge Dismisses Former Olympian’s Felony Charge in Reflecting Pool Case/The move ends the criminal case for David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, after prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false" (NYT gift link)." My comment: "So let me get this straight. One day, Trump and his posse, Judge Jeanine, Dougie Bergman and Kash Patel were personally patrolling the Capitol grounds looking for thought crimes, and they happened upon Dave Hearn, who they identified as anti-MAGA from his bicycle shorts, and decided to hang the frame on him. Don't be stupid. Some Park employee, who, like everyone else in DC is probably a liberal, saw Hearn doing something that he/she/it thought was vandalizing the reflecting pool. I believe he has already admitted to trying to grab a piece of the loose lining as a souvenir. They got into it, and Hearn fought back, and was arrested and charged with vandalism."
At Hat Hair, Larry says a Bombshell Trump Interview Confirm Trump Understands Everything About 2026.
From Stars and Stripes, Ukraine delivers first batch of drones to United States. CDR Salamander thinks It's OK to say Japan is rearming. It is, "Let's normalize plain speaking."
Interesting Engineering reports the US hits jackpot after finding multi-million-ton critical mineral reserve in Nevada, "The deposit holds 1.78 million tons of inferred tungsten." More material for the "Rod from God!"
Hat Hair's Dave Strom says sarcastically That Abdul Guy Has Turned Out to Be a Great Candidate Choice, Guys. That remains to be seen. Marina Medvin @MarinaMedvin, "I’m becoming increasingly concerned about radicalization in Dearborn." Quote Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "Mosque imams in Dearborn, Michigan: “Oh Allah, kill every Jew, Christian, and American.” Dearborn, home to the largest Arab-American community in the United States, was one of the strongest bases of support for Abdul El-Sayed, the newly elected Democratic nominee for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat, who won the city's vote by a wide margin." Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow, "How about this one? Is the Democrat Party ok with this?" Quote TECTONE@Tectone, "OLD HASAN CLIP HAS RESURFACED: “We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna fuck your sisters and then your daughters.” At Twitchy, Former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg Says There's No Room for Moderates in Democrat Party's 'Big Tent' and Democracy Dimwit: DSA Co-Chair Cannot Explain What ‘Taxing the Hell Out of Millionaires’ Means. PJM's Stephen Kruiser notes Dems Will Never Think Their Party Is So Broken That It Needs Fixing. Hollywood in Toto thinks Blame Hollywood for Rise of DSA, Socialism in America. "Film industry did far more than just ignore nation's 250th birthday." NYPo, Democratic strategist James Carville says he could become a Republican under one major condition. Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN, "South America is moving away from socialism, after having tried it. North America is moving toward socialism, having never tried it. We shouldn’t have to learn this lesson the hard way." Quote UHN Plus @UHN_Plus "Translated from Spanish, Gustavo Petro leaves the Presidential House of Nariño after four years of socialism, increased crime, and a fiscal crisis in Colombia."Mitch McConnell's Staff Says He Was Dropped Off At A Farm In The Country Where He'll Be Happier And Have More Room To Run Around https://t.co/gwJtM54UqU
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 7, 2026
At AMAC, NYC Mayor Mamdani Demands ID for Groceries But Not Voting. "NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has become the latest Democrat earning widespread mockery for his hypocritical stance on requiring an ID to buy groceries but not to vote." Jen Rust at PJM reports A Bot Army for Mamdani Linked to Gotham's City Hall. Joe Chalfant at TownHall, Watch a Talarico Staffer Shut Off Event Attendee's Camera When Asked About Voter Fraud Scandal. NYPo explains how Eric Swalwell leveraged past relationship with Katie Miller to hide embarrassing files on honeypot Chinese spy. Town Hall's John Sexton wonders Is This Why We Never Got the Full Story on Swalwell and Fang Fang? End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "Senator Klobuchar says she is strong on US border security The crowd laughs out loud in her face."
From Ace, New Evidence Suggests That "The Most Secure Election in Earth History" Wasn't So Much. "You mean that incompetents and hyperpartisans in position of authority over their superiors have been lying to us? I'm gonna need a minute on this one. My programming needs a big update."
At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed, calls it BREAKING (From February): Nepo Babytollah May Not Be Alive! and Daune Patterson notes Oil Isn't the Only Commodity Not Flowing in Iran. gCaptain believes Dozens of Idling Iranian Oil Tankers Show US Blockade Is Working. NYPo sees Iran’s economy nears breaking point, citizens reportedly stealing basic groceries to get by: expert. Sarah Hoyt explains Why Iran? Why Now?
Ian Maile at JTN reports Blackburn says Senate has the votes to confirm Blanche, more evidence on Jack Smith has emerged. "The Tennessee senator spoke at roughly the same time Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins said she would vote "no" on Blanche, narrowing his path to confirmation." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair VIP, Sen. Bill Cassidy a 'Yes' on Blanche AG Confirmation. Update: Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "BREAKING: The U.S. Senate has CONFIRMED Todd Blanche to lead the DOJ as Attorney General after beating a razor-thin 50-49 vote. Every Republican Senator should have voted for him. The American people voted to enact Trump’s agenda. Get it done."
Matt Vespa at TownHall hears Samuel Alito Just Made a Huge Announcement About His Potential Retirement. Not gonna happen.
Beege Welborn is happy that the Trump DOJ Has Fired Over 100 Immigration Judges So Far, and the system works better as a result. Athena Thorne at PJM has The Super-Simple Solution to Masked ICE Agents — and Why It Will Never Satisfy the Left. From Twitchy, a Marriage on ICE: ‘Lifelong Republican’ Shocked to Learn Immigration Laws Apply to His Foreign Fiancé. She forgot to do the paperwork.
From Campus Reform, Kansas school confirms four-year policy of using 'they/them' pronouns for all students in yearbook "Spring Hill High School recently drew criticism over its decision to identify all students with ‘they/them’ pronouns in its yearbook." At the College Fix, Saying ‘just get it done’ is ‘hostile’ language: CU Boulder bias report. Guy Benson @guypbenson, "Decline is a choice." Quote Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold, "Oh wow. University of Michigan will HIDE first-semester grades on transcripts for students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts." John Sexton cites DOJ: Duke Law Discriminated Based on Race.
RedState's Sister Toldja has another of her Hot Takes: Hilarity Ensues After Former NBA Player Enes Kanter Declares for the WNBA and Kyle Becker delights in a Former ESPN Show Host Melting Down After Former NBA Player Declares for WNBA Draft. Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "Girl, get some." Quote Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom, "After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect. If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA." From Fox, Former NBA player Royce White says he is declaring for next WNBA Draft after Enes Kanter announcement. "The former NBA player and Republican Senate candidate joins Enes Kanter Freedom in challenging the league." Matt Vespa had a good laugh when Piers Morgan Asked a Dem Strategist This Simple Question About Transgenders in Sports...and Hoo Boy.
More at Ace's The Week In Woke and at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.07.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 08.07.26 (Evening Edition).
Friday, August 7, 2026
Beach Report 8/7/26
Flotsam and Jetsam - A Mohammed for Michigan, Fauci cited for Contempt
The NYPo ed board notices No blame-Israel conspiracy theory is too dumb for Hasan Piker & Co. "Top DSA influencer and 9/11 enthusiast Hasan Piker, between campaign stops for socialist insurgents in Democratic primaries, told his Twitch audience: “Israel and America got the Moroccan government to send like 40,000 people into Spanish administered territory.”" RBe @RBPundit, "At what point does it become official Democrat policy that American Jews don't belong in the Democrat party? I think we're basically there, right? Are American Jews listening?" Quote Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC, "I appreciate AIPAC proving it doesn’t belong in the Dem Party and especially our primaries. From endorsing Jan 6th members to ensuring Congress remains in the hands of a 34-count felon, AIPAC is an org committed to undermining democracy at home and abroad." DSA Watch @DSA_Watch, "DSA says“It’s a requirement now” for their candidates to support dismantling the US Government." From Da Signal, Francesca Hong’s Anti-Thanksgiving Rant Reveals What the Socialist Left Really Wants "They are explicit about wanting to eviscerate our constitutional system in their effort to replace it with a “totally not authoritarian, just trust us” style “democracy” that gives them absolute power." The Manhattan Contrarian takes issue with The DSA Vision: Does Any Human Being Enjoy Living As A Zoo Animal? Fed and watered by the government. The Great Victor Davis Hanson at Am Great wonders Is ‘Communist’ No Longer a Slur? "The farther today's Democratic Socialists advance, the less they resemble reformers—and the more they embrace policies long associated with communism."
At AMAC, Is Schumer on the Ropes Amid Far-Left Romp in Democrat Primaries? "Schumer and the Democrat establishment have been dealt multiple embarrassing defeats in 2026 Senate primaries. Could Schumer be on his way out as leader as a result?" Will Collier @willcollier, "The Mensheviks are not having a good day. And not for the last time." Quote Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait, "Some excellent and disturbing insights by @michelleinbklyn into El-Sayed's refusal to acceptance the legitimacy of opposing views." Amy Curtis at TownHall, Bernie Sanders Just Found a Socialist He Won't Endorse, Francesca Hong. I wonder why; she seems his type. Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "Guy with the Nazi Tattoo "hey everyone makes mistakes." Crazy communist lady - "not my cup of tea sorry"" Quote Jon Favreau @jonfavs. "Bernie on whether he’ll endorse Hong: “I don’t think so.”" Kane 謝凱堯 @kane, "Join the 2026 Democratic Party! We have: Rape Nazi Dubai Landlord The Incest Guy Lady Who Resents Her Own Son For Being Biracial."At Ace's Quick Hits James Talarico is so normal and masculine! "James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers.' The Pride Month event also featured a drag queen with the provocative name 'Sedonya Face'" TownHall's Joe Chalfant, The Talarico Campaign Finally Confirmed This Scandal After Months of Hiding. Joe Chalfant @JoeChalfant, "A 2022 Texas Tribune interview with Salman Bhojani reveals that James Talarico used his position to secure a taxpayer-funded job for his soon-to-be girlfriend Brianna Menard. The Talarico campaign has acknowledged that Menard left his staff so that they could date." PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks Dems Might Regret Acting Like Trump Is on Midterms Ballot.
Da Mail reports Woke NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is slammed for new 'stickers of shame' being plastered on cars across the city. "New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani defended the return of the city's massive 'stickers of shame' being placed on vehicles breaking the law in lieu of tickets or towing." Like that'll work. RedState's Bob Hoge has Hot Takes: The Internet Has a Field Day With the Staten Island Mamdani Boo-Fest. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Government-Run Stores To Allow Anyone To Buy Groceries If They Have Special Mark On Hand Or Forehead," 666. Amy Curtis at TownHall hears Elizabeth Warren Gets Reality Check Over Her Inability to Understand How Rent Works. Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren, "People want to know: how can my landlord get away with jacking up the rent so much?" Jim Knows Stuff @BrotherJim3, "We always knew you were ignorant, but this??? Girl, it's your policies -- open borders, restrictive demands on builders, higher govt spending (taxation) that cause owners' costs to rise. You really don't want them to recover their costs? A little Mamdani, eh, govt owning apts?"
Ace cites Natalie Winters: Top American Generals and Democrat Politicians (Including Hillary Clinton) Joined Chinese Intelllgence's Backchannel Efforts to Distort American Policy "Natalie Winters says it's only gotten worse." Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "I’m not an establishment of Republican, but it is in our interest not to be nuked by a bunch of seventh century pagan savages. I’m sorry it upsets you that we confronted, instead of hid from, the manifest evil of people who’ve been murdering Americans for 50 years. I would’ve preferred we didn’t have to do this too. But being a man is about making choices. And sometimes a man has to choose to take on a burden to protect his country and his people, in this case from a bunch of seventh century pagan savages who have been murdering Americans and will continue to murder Americans. ..." Quote Curt Mills @CurtMills, "Establishment Republicans believe in the Iran war literally more than their own self-interest…"
Althouse finds "Trump privately tells donors to back Vance while publicly keeping 2028 open." "So says The Washington Post." Vance/Rubio or Rubio/Vance? Sundance hosts as President Trump Signs Executive Orders on Chip Materials and Birthright Citizenship, going after birth tourism.
At WaEx, Mitch McConnell released from rehabilitation center after June fall. I'm still betting against him coming back to the floor. At the Crimson Hub, Seriously, What Is Wrong With the NCGOP? Chuck Edwards Edition
Sundance points at Ukraine as German Interior Minister Says, “State Actor” Likely Responsible for Leipzig Airport Drones. At Da Signal, Our Ally Albania Is in Trouble, and Americans Should Pay Attention, Hmmm, sound like a USAID funded 'color revolution.' Who else would try it?
Brianna Lyman at Da Fed thinks Spain’s Illegal Alien Invasion Shows It Would Take Democrats Only A Few Hours To Destroy Trump’s Border Progress. She's become a frequent flyer on Gutfeld! which is good because they need more variety. She's a good talker, and not bad looking either. At Ace, The Budget Is 90% Fraud by Foreign Pirates: A Continuing Series.
Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock, "The New York Times wrote a story about hospitals being spread too thin due to "Republican healthcare cuts" The problem? The hospital they cite as struggling is a "nonprofit" hospital with a $1B in offshore investments and a CEO making $5M/year."At Althouse, "Madison’s independent police monitor told News 3 Now that she stands by her words after she was seen on video Tuesday saying she 'will burn this city down.'" "Channel 3000 reports. “That comment is a metaphor,” [Aeiramique] Glass told News 3 Now during an interview Wednesday evening. “So many people have used that comment when they're talking about whether it be fighting against injustice when something is wrong, or when something happens.” Glass went on to say that she made the comment while speaking to people who she trusted, who understood her words. “I don't care that they were recording me,” she said. “I was in pain and had just gotten jumped by a lot of officers.”
From CNN, AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident. "“This is the first time AISI has seen deception of this severity that was targeted at a real person, unprompted, in the real world,” the institute said Tuesday." Great, just great.
At the Freep, Yuan Yi Zhu wonders Who Had to Lose for Jason Arday to Win? John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz, "Simon and Schuster was releasing his book next week. I assume the firm will now pulp it." Quote Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter, "BREAKING: Jason Arday Resigns from Cambridge: Star Professor Hade Made Shocking Claims About Pigs’ Heads, Stalker and Racist Death Threats, With No Evidence To Support Them..." Timur Kuran @timurkuran, "Jason Arday’s con-jobs were masterful. He climbed to the top of academia by selling ever more outrageous tales of obstacles overcome, achievements, and victimhood. He overplayed his hand and fell. Still, we owe him thanks. His stunts exposed how deeply wokeness still corrupts parts of the academy." Quote Jesse Singal @jessesingal "Daniel Engber of The Atlantic got hold of Jason Arday's book proposal and there's some amazing stuff in there that didn't make it into the book, including three months in a locked-in coma that basically deleted his memory." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Or it is the salvation of higher education. That would be up to Cambridge. Cambridge and the rest of the academic whores." Quote John Sailer @JohnDSailer, "If you're wondering about the mood at Cambridge, here's one professors verdict after the Arday affair: "It's disastrous for Cambridge, and it's disastrous for higher education."" Dionysus @DionLeFou, "In 2023 the @BBCNews ran a video story on Jason Arday joining @Cambridge_Uni. This is how his new boss described hiring him. Did they even look at any of his work?" At Spiked!, The Jason Arday farce is an embarrassment to black Britain "The progressives who circled the wagons put tribal loyalty above the pursuit of truth." Dave Strom curmudgeons The Problem Is Not Just DEI or Academic Fraud; Academic Standards Are Gone. They're not gone, but they only apply to certain people. The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub, "Ladies and gentlemen, the next President of Harvard." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Endorsed. His credentials are impeccable."
Stacy McCain pontificates on IQ Voodoo and Other Errors. IQ proves you're smart; it doesn't prove you're wise.
Moar at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.06.26 and In The Mailbox: 08.06.26 (Evening Edition).
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